People talking, "Hello everyone."
People thinking, 'I finished chapter 16 in one morning!'
Demon/beast/other talking, "I will eat you."
Demon/beast/other thinking, 'donuts.'
Jutsu/Unknown names, "Suiton: Mizudeppō no Jutsu."
'Document'
Italics can be used for certain kinds of emphasis or snide comments.
Bold can be used for forceful yelling/shouting/screaming.
Chapter Ten: Possessed Sand
Sunagakure
The Kazekage growled in anger, slamming his desk violently and scaring off the secretary in the room. It had been 5 days since Baki was supposed to report his progress and he could only assume he and his 2 children were now dead.
'I suppose I should contribute to the Bingo book now…' Rasa lamented. The council had wanted to contribute to Naruto's entry much sooner, but he'd refused in hopes that Naruto could be caught and returned to his forces. Not wanting to give valuable information about what could be his weapon.
Rasa sighed in defeat as he picked up a Bingo book, flipping through the pages until he came to the page on the Shiroi Oni.
'Basic Information:
Name: Shiroi Oni
Age: Estimated around 10 years old
Recognizable Traits: The boy has continuously been seen in white clothing. No one has ever seen his face clearly and lived, its always been obscured by a white hood and lower face mask. It is known that the boy has pale white eyes and clipped eyebrows.
Village: None Known
Biography: First made a name for himself in the Land of Rain where he was seen traveling with the 5-tailed Bijuu and a red-haired boy suspected to be from Suna. The Amekage attempted to detain the boy and lost over 100 men to the Shiroi Oni's devastating attack, which is now known as the Bloody Rain Massacre. He has also seen in several major villages. He emerged in Kumo where he kidnapped the two tail jinchuriki. He was then spotted fighting an unknown missing-nin from Konoha in Kiri, where he then left with the 3 tailed jinchuriki. After that, it was confirmed that he broke into Konoha and stole two powerful unnamed items from a secure vault. Since then the Shiroi Oni has not been spotted.
Personal data:
Registration ID: Unknown
Date of Birth: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Height: 4'5"
Weight: Unknown
Bloodline: Byakugan, Mokuton, and an unnamed chakra type bloodline
Missions completed:
N/A
Advanced Data:
N/A
Criminal Data:'
At this point, the Kazekage's eyes widened in shock, 'He's already an S-rank Nin!?' The Kazekage thought in astonishment.
'Criminal Rank: S
Status: Active
Organization: Unknown, but seen traveling with several Jinchuriki.
Alliances: Unknown
Wanted For: Massacre in the Land of Rain, kidnapping of the Nibi Jinchuriki in Kumo, kidnapping of the Sanbi Jinchuriki and destruction of parts of Kiri, wanted for thievery in Konoha.
Bounties:
Amegakure: 1 million ren
Konoha: 1.2 million ren
Kumo: 2 million ren
Kiri: 500,000 ren
Other Known Information:
Known Chakra Natures: Earth, Water, Wind
Notable Tools or Weapons: None known
Signature Technique: Is able to change his body into two rotating strands of black and white chakra that allows him to move at high speeds
Special abilities: Has ultimate control over plants. Is able to change into a cloud of smoke, able to see extreme distances.'
The Kazekage sighed deeply, Naruto had made quite a ruckus in the Elemental Nations since leaving Suna. 'Why didn't I lock them both up and brainwash them… Naruto contains so much power.'
Rasa sighed again before reaching for a quill and Bingo entry form. He needed to add information about Naruto to his Bingo book entry since obviously, he wouldn't be getting Naruto back into his village and under his control.
Mother Island
Naruto looked sadly at the blank sleeping face of his brother, upset that this had occurred. He hadn't even noticed Gengo somehow entering Gaara's body, but it would explain why he hadn't gotten any chakra when he tried to rip Gengo's from him. He'd been so distracted he hadn't thought about it.
Kazumi was sitting on a stool next to the bed, inspecting the seals that were slowly breaking. Naruto sighed deeply before walking to the head of the bed. He had sent Hanabi with Yugito who was carrying Yukimi as a necklace, Kai, Temari, and Kankuro to get something to eat.
"Are you ready to begin Kazumi-sensei?" Naruto inquired, Kazumi double checked the seals once more before answering.
"Hai, once you are inside I will remove the seal on his head and break open the seal holding Shukaku," Kazumi said, getting a nod from the horned boy. She watched as Naruto's body slowly lost all its features as he dissolved into chakra and flowed into Gaara's body. 'Didn't expect him to do it that way but that works.' Kazumi mused as she went about removing the seal on Gaara's head and began breaking the containment seal.
Within Gaara
Naruto opened his eyes as his body finished forming together within Gaara. The first thing he saw was the sandstone walls, weak torches lining them and lighting up the intricate carvings covering the walls. The hall the Ōtsutsuki found himself in was very dark, sand covering the floor.
"It's like a sand temple," Kaguya said in Naruto's mind as she watched in extreme interest. The forms people's mindscape would take always interested her as it was usually related to a person's characteristics.
Naruto walked closer to the wall and looked at a design on the wall. Carved into the sand and colored was a drawing of a younger Gaara holding a teddy bear and staring out at him. Sand swirled around the younger redhead as two dead Suna Jounin laid on the ground, bleeding out.
'His memories are carved into these walls.' Naruto mused, turning away from the depiction and walking down the sandy halls, he took a few turns, trying to reach Gaara's mental avatar that he could feel, though it was faint.
Naruto rounded a corner and came upon another depiction lit up by two weak torches. It was young Gaara again, staring in shock at a light brown haired Suna Jounin who lay against a nearby wall, bleeding. Naruto frowned before turning away and continuing through the passageways.
A moment later the Egyptian like mindscape started to shake violently. Naruto crouched to not fall over from the violent shaking, sand falling from the ceiling.
"Naruto-kun, Gaara is completely losing control over his body and Gengo is taking over, you have to stop him from taking complete control," Kaguya spoke, realizing what was happening since she had a lot of experience with mindscapes. 'How do I do that Kaa-san?' Naruto questioned.
"I know you don't have much experience with the Mangekyo, but you have to use it to fight Gengo's control. It won't be as efficient since Gengo is already mostly in control, but you can halt his advance." Kaguya explained, the next instant Naruto's eyes pulsed and evolved into the Sharingan before quickly whirling into the Mangekyo.
Naruto focused chakra to his eyes and projected his will upon Gaara's body, his Sharingan Genjutsu flowing through Gaara's body. A moment later the shaking stopped as Naruto took control of what little Gengo's Genjutsu had not. He immediately felt Gengo straining against his command and poured more Chakra into his Genjutsu, halting Gengo's advancements though he was unable to push him back.
oOoOoOo
Kazumi was severely startled as the redhead thrashed around suddenly. Scared that the boy was waking up she was about to apply another sleeping seal when the boy stopped, his eyes opening and she saw a red swirl in his eyes before they closed.
'Naruto's trying to take control of Gaara's body with his Mangekyo, smart.' Kazumi thought, returning to breaking the seal on the sand boy's stomach. She was also slowly writing a new seal on a sheet of paper on the nearby nightstand as she studied the current seal restraining Shukaku.
oOoOoOo
Naruto walked through the halls, his Mangekyo darting from side to side, wary of traps or a sudden attack by Gengo as he got closer to Gaara's mind. Naruto was unable to deactivate his Mangekyo as he had to continually push a portion of his chakra into the Genjutsu, so he was unable to use his Byakugan.
Naruto's eyes saw a wooden bamboo spike shoot out of the wall in slow motion directly at his head. Unwilling to test if he would be damaged by the attack Naruto leaned out of the way of the sharpened bamboo as it pierced the opposite wall.
Naruto righted himself and continued on, concocting a strategy to fight Gengo. 'A front on assault is suicide, Gengo will have all the control in here. I don't have a way to severely damage Gengo without potentially harming Gaara. I will have to get into a battle of will with Gengo unless I can get Gaara to help me. It's his mind after all… but he'll most likely be trapped or under Gengo's control…" Naruto groaned in frustration.
'Not only do I have to beat Gengo, but I may have to potentially fight Gaara in a place where he has complete control over what happens.' Naruto rounded another corner, seeing another vivid and bloody memory of his brother's carved into the wall, though in this one Gaara was older.
"Hold on Gaara; I will fix this." Naruto's voice echoed off the sandstone walls of the mindscape as Naruto darted down the passageway. Kicking up sand clouds behind him.
In the village
Kankuro and Temari ate at a subdued pace, sitting a little ways off from Yugito, Kai, and Hanabi with Yukimi sitting as a ball on the counter. Hanabi was babbling about having met her aunt who was Naruto's mother and was really nice and pretty and had horns just like dad.
"…And then she gave me tea, and it was really good! Also I got to sit in her lap and she told me about my eyes." Hanabi said excitedly.
Kai sighed, barely able to understand the girl as she somehow managed to speak and eat all at the same time without apparently breathing. Since waking up this morning, she had been continuously talking about having met her aunt last night. Apparently, when her father was asleep, his mother had pulled Hanabi into Naruto's mindscape, and they had talked for a while. That was the extent of what Kai could understand.
"Yukimi-chan, you got to meet her sometime. She can do this really funny thing another red eye opens on her head!" She said, drawing a raised eyebrow from everyone present, except for the pink smoke that was Yukimi, since she didn't have eyebrows at the moment.
"What did you say her name was again Hanabi?" Yugito inquired as the girl downed yet another bowl of ramen, 'honestly, where is she putting all that stuff?'
"Aunt Kaguya O-Otutski… she said she made all chakra!" Hanabi declared, getting a surprised look from everyone, as they hadn't known this. Hanabi sighed happily as she grabbed yet another bowl and began eating it. There was a comfortable pause in the conversation before Yugito changed the subject.
"When we get back, we are playing another round of Poker, I swear you were cheating somehow Kai," Yugito grumbled, getting a semi-amused looked from Kai who just nonchalantly turned toward the Kazekage siblings.
"Would you two be interested in playing Poker? I believe it would do you good as a distraction. Focusing and stressing too much over your brother is not a good thing, I trust Naruto-sama is doing his best for Gaara." Kai said, getting a surprised look from Yugito at the fact that he was trying to comfort someone. Kai completely ignored her.
"Hai," Came the reply from the two of them and not long later they left, having to drag Hanabi away who wanted to eat yet another bowl of ramen.
With Naruto
Naruto grunted as he dodged and flipped over several spike traps and flying bamboo spikes. The sandstone walls had become black after a while, and he'd run into more traps. Naruto got frustrated by the seemingly infinite dispenser of the bamboo spikes and blasted it too kingdom come.
'Finally…' Naruto grumbled, continuing forward through the dark passageways. The torches had long since stopped appearing, and he had to resort to creating a ball of floating light from his chakra above his head. He'd found that no matter how much chakra he poured into the orb, it would only penetrate so far into the murky darkness.
'Hold on Gaara… I'm coming.' Naruto thought as he jumped over a sudden drop that had spikes at the bottom. Naruto's eyes widened as a giant boulder dropped out of the ceiling behind him and began rolling after him through the passageway, Naruto exploded into smoke and kept ahead of the ever rolling rock.
A couple of minutes later Naruto got annoyed with the boulder that never stopped no matter how many sharp corners he turned.
"Ōkina bakuhatsu!" Naruto yelled, throwing condensed chakra at the boulder, which exploded a moment later, obliterating the large rock. Naruto was surprised to suddenly feel blood trickling down his cheek. Lifting his hand to his face, he pulled it away to see green blood on his hand. 'So I can be hurt here…'
Naruto grimaced before turning and continuing down the dark sandstone halls. A couple of minutes later he had to quickly jump out of the way as sharpened clumps of sand fell from the ceiling, almost impaling him.
'The closer I get the more frequent the black sand attacks. Gengo is trying to prevent me from reaching Gaara-nii.' Naruto had to immediately leap away from the sandy spot he'd been standing in as a black sand spike shot out from underneath. 'That just proves it.'
"Father give me strength…" Naruto muttered as another boulder, this one covered in spikes appeared and began rolling after him at a faster speed then the last one.
oOoOoOo
"3 of a kind, I win," Kai said flatly, collecting the pot from the center of the table. Rei groaned before leaning back against the front of a nearby chair.
"I am convinced you're cheating, but I can't figure out how." Rei groaned, getting a murmured agreement from Yugito.
"Let's go again, I'll beat you yet." Yugito declared as Kankuro distributed the cards this time.
"Check," Kai said calmly, placing the starting chips on the table like everyone else. There was a resounding chorus of 'check' from those present.
Kankuro picked up the deck and laid down the next cards. Yugito fought the urge to narrow her eyes, having finally noticed how Kai would subtly watch everyone almost at the same time while keeping his face completely blank.
"I'd say raise just slightly, you have a 1/4 chance that the next card will be a four of hearts. The odds of someone having another 7 are 1/14." Isobu said from within Kai's mind, getting a mental nod in return.
"I raise."
"Check."
"Check."
"I raise."
"I fold," Kankuro said, laying down his cards and picking up the deck before waiting for everyone else to raise to the amount Yugito had put in.
'She's confident, odds are she has another seven, there is a 1/37 chance that she has two sevens. I'd usually suspect bluffing, but I do not believe she understands the concept.' Kai mused, watching Yugito closely as Kankuro dealt out the next set of cards.
oOoOoOo
"I'd say this place has seen better days, but thinking about Gaara-nii's childhood, I'm not sure." Naruto reflected out loud, looking around the vast desert that he had just entered.
It was night time, and there was a large full red moon in the sky. The sand of the desert was entirely black, and it was hard to see ahead with the sandstorm that blew across the desert. As Naruto stepped away from the exit, it sealed itself up behind him.
"Creepy, it's like one of those horror and adventure movies the humans make," Kaguya said in Naruto's mind, he groaned as he heard the distinct sound of popcorn being chewed through the link. The white-haired boy shook his head before walking forward. He didn't make it very far before spikes of sand shot out of the ground toward him, Naruto's powerful Mangekyo saw them coming, and he burst into smoke as the spikes stopped right where he had been standing and would have impaled him.
Naruto reformed a small distance away, "That would have been uncomfortable." Naruto said sarcastically, observing the razor-sharp spikes of sand. Naruto turned and began walking once more.
'I need to find Gaara…' Naruto thought, extending his senses around the desert in an attempt to find Gaara's mental avatar. Naruto's red eyes widened as he turned and barely ducked a slash from the said redhead.
Naruto backflipped away from his brother, Gaara had a completely blank look on his face, his right arm covered in sand that sharpened into a long sharp point.
"Stop trying to fight, give up… listen… to him." Gaara said in a monotone before rushing Naruto again, Naruto attempted to make eye contact with Gaara but was forced to burst into smoke again. 'I usually don't have to worry about physical attacks, but I can't risk getting hurt in here, I might not heal at all…'
Naruto's eyes widened right after they formed, 'I was forced to return to my normal body! This isn't good!' The Ōtsutsuki immediately had to dodge another slash from the mind-controlled redhead.
"Gaara, look at me!" Naruto yelled, which resulted in Gaara not doing that, only rushing him again. "Well, it was worth a shot."
He attempted to form plants out of the ground, but nothing happened. 'My father has no influence inside here…' Naruto realized, his eyes tracking Gaara's swing, where it was, where it was going to be. Naruto dodged out of the way once more.
"Enough of this," Naruto formed a simple katana in his hand out of his chakra before locking 'blades' with the blank-faced boy. Finally able to look directly into his brother's glassy eyes as they fought against each other in a contest of strength, which Gaara was winning.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!" Naruto said in some relief, forcing more chakra through his eyes as he enforced his will upon his brother. He immediately reached resistance, slamming his chakra into Gengo's barriers he broke through them with his strong Yin chakra.
A moment later his brother stopped pushing against him, slumping over. When he looked up his eyes contained the Sharingan as he stared at the red-eyed Kaminoki in front of him.
"Sorry to do this to you Nii-san."
Somewhere (I don't know how to describe it…)
A girl with green hair panted heavily as she pushed her way through the underbrush. Panic and hysteria setting in as she thought she heard her pursuer in every sound, every shift of the leaves.
'I have to escape! I've got to lose him!' The amber-eyed girl panicked as she kept running even though she was exhausted. "Keep going this way, there is someone who can help you." The girl heard a voice in her mind as she stumbled and barely caught herself, no she wasn't going insane… okay maybe.
oOoOoOo
Kazumi watched the comatose son of the Kazekage with interest, seeing his face twitch before settling into a more peaceful expression. He'd had a completely blank look on his face even while asleep after being possessed by Gengo; this was a good sign that things were at least going better.
oOoOoOo
Naruto whirled suddenly as he heard an echoing laugher across the desert, he wasn't able to see where it was coming from without his Byakugan as the raging sandstorm blocked his vision.
Naruto narrowed his eyes, the still slumped form of Gaara next to him. Naruto wanted to release Gaara and return him to his own willpower but he knew as soon as he did Gengo would just retake control of him.
As his eyes darted across the dark desert, Kaguya watched her son from inside the mindscape. 'Seems like I might need to teach him the mind split technique sooner than I had planned too.' Kaguya mused, watching Naruto strain to multitask several things at once. Her poor son was trying to stop Gengo's attempts to fully control Gaara's body, keep control of Gaara's mental avatar, and be on guard against Gengo inside the desert mindscape. 'I believe in you musuko, come on, you can do it.' Kaguya encouraged.
"You are powerless here! I control the Ichibi and therefore control his host!" Gengo's voice rang powerfully across the desert. The next moment the sandstorm faded away and the Ōtsutsuki narrowed his swirling red eyes at the giant form of the sand raccoon.
He looked almost the same as he usually did, except for the fact that he was entirely black, his typically blue markings were purple, and his eyes glowed blue. The possessed Shukaku was also slightly taller than usual.
"Naruto Ōtsutsuki-Kaminoki. I have to admit when I went through Gaara's memories I was surprised. Quite the powerful parents you have don't you?" The possessed Shukaku said tauntingly, a giant grin on its face. Naruto grimaced. 'Gengo cannot leave here alive, he will endanger everyone… Including Hanabi. I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT' Naruto's eyes whirled with power and the next instant a white spectral rib cage formed around him.
"Oh ho ho, so that was the Susanoo as well. This will be interesting!" Gengo yelled, a large blade of sand forming in Shukaku's hands. Naruto scowled as his eyes glowed, the spectral form expanding and the upper part of a skeleton forming.
Poker game
"Oh, my Kami! Please tell me you did not just win again!" Yugito said in exasperation as Kai smirked.
"No, I lost this round." Kai deadpanned, shocking everyone as he laid down his hand, and indeed it was true, Rei had won with 2 Aces.
"Yes! I finally won!" Rei shouted, pumping her hands into the air.
"Course the pipsqueak would win before I do…" Yugito grumbled, getting a glare from Rei and chuckles from Temari, Kankuro, and Yukimi.
"Come on, again. I still have chips, and I'm going to win at least one round." Yugito declared, getting a nod from Rei who began to distribute the cards. Yugito looked at her hand, 7 of spades and queen of hearts. 'Not the best hand but it could work out.' Yugito mused.
"I raise."
"Check."
"Raise."
Everyone checked besides Yukimi surprisingly who folded. Honestly, they had come up with an ingenious way for Yukimi to play, Naruto had made it where the shape of the glass could be shifted by applying chakra too it. So they'd changed it to a half dome, Yukimi sitting on the floor inside and they'd slide her cards under the glass to her. Rei moving her chips in the pot for her when she wished.
Rei picked up the cards and distributed the next round of them. Yugito tried to keep a straight face as a queen was placed in the middle of the table, but she knew at least Rei had seen her reaction 'Damn it! Why am I so bad at keeping a poker face?' Yugito fumed.
"I fold," Kai said, having run the odds he knew it was highly unlikely that he would come out on top this round and was cutting his losses.
Yugito glanced around the table, only her, Rei, Kankuro and Temari were still in.
"Raise," Temari said, placing a couple chips in the table. Yugito caught Kankuro's side glance at his sister as he tried to decide whether to continue.
"Check."
"Check."
"Check."
"Check," Rei said, distributing the next cards. Temari immediately folded upon seeing what she received. Getting a surprised look from Yugito, too which she shrugged. The pot was now 94 ren, and Yugito was determined to have it. She had three queens, and while there was an ace on the table, she was confident that no one had two aces or a better hand than her.
"Raise," Kankuro said, placing more chips equaling 10 ren on the table. Yugito raised an eyebrow, trying to tell if he was bluffing, but Kankuro's painted face was the epitome of a perfect poker face.
"Check," Came Rei's nonchalant reply, placing the equal to Kankuro's raise on the table. The pot was now 114 ren, and Yugito really wanted it, she was already very low on money, but if she could win this, she'd be back in safety.
"All in!" Yugito declared, pushing all her remaining chips into the center of the table. This move drew a raised eyebrow from all currently in the game or watching.
Rei checked her cards before shrugging like it wasn't any big deal and pushing her decent amount of chips to the center. No one besides Kai had all that many chips remaining and to win this pot now would definitely give them the advantage to take some of the geniuses money.
"All in," Kankuro said, pushing his chips in and surprising Yugito who had been sure Kankuro would fold. Yugito narrowed her heterochromia eyes at the table as Rei placed the final cards.
A moment later they all showed their hands. Yugito had 3 of a kind in the end, three queens. Yugito's eyes widened in indignation as she saw Rei's hand, which was three aces.
Rei smirked at her, but that backfired as they saw the smirking Kankuro.
"Dang it!" Rei shouted, and Yugito agreed. Kankuro had a royal flush, the first one of the entire game. The grin on Kankuro's face was massive as he raked in his winnings, now not far behind the enormous number of chips Kai possessed.
"Erg! I give up!" Yugito cried as she sank back against a couch dramatically. Rei surprisingly got up and went to buy more poker chips.
Inside Gaara's Mindscape
There was a resounding boom as Naruto's white astral Susanoo fist impacted with the side of Shukaku's sand sword. Naruto wasn't making much progress, but he had unquestionably prevented Gengo from making any either. Naruto had bit by bit steadily distracted the man, allowing him to now release his control on Gaara and have him join the fight.
Said redhead blinked as he felt his brother's control over him fade away. He immediately knew what to do, having talked with Naruto about mindscapes before, having wanted to know more about how such a thing was possible.
Gaara forced his will upon the environment of his mind, upon Shukaku, upon Gengo. The next moment large tendrils of tan sand burst from the black desert, pulling Shukaku to the ground and beginning to drain Gengo's chakra and Shukaku's yōkai away from the sand raccoon.
Naruto slammed his white skeleton fist into the sand claw holding the large sand sword that had been very hard to deal with during the fight. Gengo was apparently quite proficient with the giant sword and even while possessing the large raccoon he had damaged the Susanoo with it.
"No! NO NO!" Gengo yelled, and Naruto saw out of the corner of his eye as Gaara collapsed to his knees as Gengo enforced his control over Gaara. Growling Naruto punched the distracted sand creature directly through the head with his skeletal Susanoo fist. Naruto grimaced from the pain from using the spectral projection for so long, it only being his second time.
With Naruto's fist directly inside of Shukaku, he was finally able to latch on to the Bijuu's yōkai and the chakra that was Gengo inside of him.
"Enough of you!" Naruto yelled, his Susanoo fist clenching tightly as he pulled hard. It became a battle of tug o' war as Naruto tried to pull what he realized was Gengo's soul out of Shukaku. The glowing blue man solely focused on not being pulled out and thus lost control over Gaara.
"Get out of my mind!" Gaara growled, tan sand once more bursting out of the black desert and latching on too the blue form that was part way out of the Ichibi's deformed head.
It took a couple of moments in which the black Shukaku shrieked loudly and attempted to knock the sand off of him. Gaara and Naruto pulled hard, Naruto's eyes narrowing as he put even more power into his Susanoo, muscles forming across the skeleton and a moment later the glowing blue Gengo was ripped out of the raccoon and sent flying across the desert where he impacted heavily.
"He's not defeated yet, we have to kill him, or he will just merge back with Shukaku," Gaara said calmly in his usual monotone, gesturing to the tanuki who was breathing heavily as the blackness covering it faded away. The Ichibi's head slowly reforming from its sandy body.
"His soul is actually in here, I don't have a way to kill a soul…" Naruto trailed off, watching Gengo get to his feet in the distance on the black desert ground.
"Can we seal him?" Gaara inquired to Naruto who dispelled his taxing astral form, his eyes finally able to return to their usual pale.
"I've no idea…" Naruto said uncertainly, the next moment he had to dodge as Gengo soared at him, Gengo tried to reach Shukaku, but sand latched onto his foot before flinging him back in front of Gaara and Naruto.
Gengo growled, anger clear on his face at being stopped, this wasn't supposed to happen. Deciding he needed to cut his losses and return to his body, which was probably still laying on the forest floor, he attempted to leave the brat's body.
"What have you done! Why can't I leave?!" Gengo shouted in anger at the demonic duo as he found himself unable to leave Gaara's body.
'Kazumi most likely has sealed your body…' Gaara heard Naruto's voice within his head, sending back a mental nod.
'Mother, do you have any suggestions on what to do?' Naruto asked as he watched Gengo warily who was now dodging and slicing through several tendrils of sand with his giant sword.
"Yes in fact I do, but I wanted to see if you could figure out something else," Kaguya replied, immediately feeling Naruto wince. "Don't worry Naruto, I haven't taught you much about your powers and stopping a soul is not an easy thing," Kaguya reassured her son, realizing he'd taken that the wrong way.
'What should I do?' Naruto asked, "Open your Rinne-Sharingan." The next moment Naruto did so, the hidden eyelids on his forehead opened horizontally in a blast of chakra. His red third rippled eye spun before settling, now containing 4 tomoe inside it. Naruto had long since absorbed his mothers 'rent' from Nibi and Sanbi.
The next moment Naruto felt a rush of memories, it was a technique he realized. Turning to Gaara, he noticed him looking interestedly at his third eye. Naruto's three eyes blinked together as the Ōtsutsuki tried to once more get used to the weird sensation of 3 points of vision.
"I'll explain later, I have a way to deal with him. But you need to restrain him as I'm doing this for the first time." Naruto said, getting a nod from Gaara who extended his hand toward Gengo. The next moment a significant amount of sand burst from the ground around the man in waves from all sides.
It took a couple moments in which Gengo tried several techniques to try to escape, but Gaara eventually caught him. The black haired oily man was doomed from the start, this was the red head's mind, a place he had absolute control.
"Shinigami no handan: Jigoku no bun! (Judgement of the Shinigami: Hell Sentence)" Naruto yelled. His third eye spinning before a beam of crimson darted toward the trapped Gengo, who looked on in horror.
"NOOOO!" Gengo yelled right as the beam hit him, his blue form quickly becoming red before he slowly started to dissolve.
"He's gone," Gaara stated after a few moments, no longer able to feel the man anywhere within his mind.
"What did you just do?" The redhead inquired in confusion, turning to the heavily panting Naruto, and watching as his third eye closed.
"I essentially just asked the God of Death whether he thinks Gengo should go to hell for the crimes he has committed in his life," Naruto said through heavy breathes, the redhead raised an eyebrow.
"The Shinigami will go through the target's life, and if he believes they should go to hell, he will immediately take them. Only my mother and I can do this technique, anyone else who might obtain a Rinne-Sharingan somehow and tried it would find themselves in hell instead." Naruto explained, straightening as he regained his composure.
"And why is that?" Gaara inquired, seeing Shukaku stand to his feet behind them, having fully returned to normal and the desert all around them slowly turning back to brown, the sun coming out over the desert.
"My father apparently, I've no idea why but the Shinigami owes the Kaminoki favors, and the Rinne-Sharingan is a gift to my mother and me from Tou-san." Naruto shrugged, turning toward Shukaku as the desert returned to how it usually was. 'I'm not going to go into the dangers of this technique, and if I weren't sure Gengo was a terrible person I wouldn't have used it…'
"Thank you Naruto-sama, I owe you my life," Shukaku said respectfully, getting wide eyes from Gaara at actually seeing the crazy raccoon bow to someone.
"The one you should be thanking is Gaara, I wouldn't have been able to separate you from Gengo without his help." Naruto replied, "Also, I've asked Kazumi-sensei to upgrade your seal Shukaku-oigo, so hopefully your stay inside of Gaara-nii is better, and this won't happen again."
Shukaku and Gaara nodded, the next moment Naruto waved before disappearing.
Inside the hotel room
Kazumi's eyes widened as black and white chakra flowed out of Gaara's closed eyes, followed by a brown hue covering the redhead. A moment later the chakra formed into a semi-human form, Naruto was back.
"Everything is okay now sensei, you can reseal Shukaku-oigo," Naruto said, his pale eyes scanning the walls.
"Hai," Kazumi considered telling him that most of the group was downstairs, but she realized he probably already knew that. Naruto sighed deeply before blowing away into smoke and filtering under the crack at the bottom of the door. (Really, imagine a black and white version of the Death Eaters from Harry Potter, it's really cool :D)
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"You did not just win again." Kankuro groaned, dropping his head on the table and making the chips jump. Kai only smirked lightly as he pulled in the pot, making his pile even larger.
Everyone jumped as Naruto appeared at a vacant spot at the table in a swirl of smoke.
"Deal me in." The sound of a significant amount of chips being dropped on the table followed, Naruto grinned.
Kai's face paled as he distributed the cards, realizing he was about to lose all his winnings…
Next day
Everyone had packed up the things they had left in their rooms. The group following their horned leader through the town, heading toward the compound Naruto had built.
At the front was Naruto and Gaara leading the way. Gaara had recovered quickly after his ordeal and with a nights sleep was back to normal. Well… as normal as he usually was…
"Giddy up Dad!" Hanabi cried from atop Naruto's shoulders, holding on to his horns as she tried to make him go faster. Naruto shook his head lightly, making Hanabi scream in terror as she came close to falling off.
"Keep doing that I might drop you." Naruto teased, getting a fearful nod from his daughter. Naruto smiled at her expression before turning his attention to their surroundings. The villagers around them on the streets moved out of the group's way as they left the village, watching with large eyes as they all disappeared into the forest.
A couple minutes of walking later they all entered the large clearing, and there were several wow's of amazement and awed looks.
"It's so beautiful!" Rei murmured, staring at the admittedly stunning compound and surrounding terrain. The waterfall cascaded off the cliff into the lake below, the picturesque clearing had plenty of space for activities and training.
"Go on inside and get set up, everyone has their own room," Naruto spoke kindly, getting several squeals of happiness as the girls raced toward their new home, which among other decorations had large vines crawling up one section, with large exquisite flowers coming from the vines.
Naruto set the squirming Hanabi down and watched with a smile as she raced after her friends, disappearing behind the large doors.
"You've made a beautiful place Naruto," Kazumi said, watching as the Gobi came out of a large cave in the side of the cliff face that Naruto had cleared out for him when he was building and setting up the area.
"Yes, I plan for us to stay here for some time until I find my brother," Naruto said, then his voice slipped into a more concerned tone. "This place is hidden, and I've done my best to cover our travel here, but it's not entirely safe."
"This will not be where we build the village Sensei." This drew a raised eyebrow from the white-haired lady. "I thought you planned to build it here?"
"Hai, originally I did." Naruto said, "Even had a unique idea for it though I don't know how feasible the idea is. But my mother told me something she had been waiting for my brother Zetsu to show up and tell me."
Kazumi waited for to him to continue, seeing Naruto smile as Hanabi appeared in a third-floor window and waved at them. Gaara was also standing to Naruto's left, intently listening even though Naruto had told him some of this.
"There are still living Ōtsutsuki alive today." Kazumi gasped in surprise, Gaara only raising an eyebrow.
"Where on earth are they?"
"That's the thing, they aren't on earth. They are living on the moon." This prompted both Gaara's and Kazumi's eyes to widen majorly.
"I don't know all the details, which is why I need to find my brother. If this somehow doesn't work out, I will fall to my first plan, which still requires me to go out and collect something to power my idea." Kazumi nodded in understanding.
"Kazumi-sensei, I need you to set up seals around this glade." Kazumi nodded again before walking off too set up the seals immediately.
"You're going to stay for a while before leaving?" Gaara inquired after some time of comfortable silence.
"Hai"
"Everyone needs to train, they have potential."
"Yes, Kaa-san and I have started some plans to help everyone grow stronger, but they won't be ready for some time."
The redhead nodded before they began walking toward the new compound, entering inside into a large hall that was decorated extravagantly, though anything that was not wood or stone was made out of Naruto's chakra.
Large banners and paintings that were made from his memories hung on the walls, images of Kumo from above, Kiri from a far distance, Konoha from the atop the wall, and Suna from the top of the Kazekage Mansion. There was also one of Hanabi tearing through bowls of ramen.
"This place is so cool!" Naruto heard, a moment later seeing Hanabi and Rei tear across the carpeted floor on the second level balcony that looked over the main hall before they disappeared again.
"Look at this Rei-chan! It's like an office!"
"It must be Naruto's office then! It's so cool!"
Naruto chuckled as the girl's screams of excitement faded as they got farther within the building.
"OH MY GOD IS THIS A SPA!" A voice that was definitely Temari's cried out over the house. Both Gaara and Naruto watched in amusement as all the girls converged, Yugito in specific as she vaulted the railing at the 3rd-floor balcony and dropped to the ground in front of them before shooting toward where Temari had yelled.
"It is a spa! Thank Kami-sama!" Yugito's relieved voice could be heard from a hall down one of the first-floor corridors.
"I think you mean thank Naruto-sama." Yukimi's teasing voice could be heard, and a round of laughter followed.
"Seems like they like the house," Kazumi said amused, having walked through the large doors a few moments ago.
"Indeed," Gaara replied, before walking toward the broad stairs and toward his room. Naruto had themed the rooms after what he knew each person liked. On top of that, he'd requested Kazumi to create a seal that stopped any sort of wind current from entering the compound so that Yukimi could be free inside until they found a solution to her bloodline.
"Your room is on the second floor Kazumi-sensei, over there." The Ōtsutsuki pointed toward a door on the second floor, Kazumi smiled and thanked him before walking up the stairs toward it.
Naruto was about to whisk away into smoke to go to his room when Hanabi, followed by several girls shot out of a hallway and crashed into him. Naruto only managing to make his body solid a moment before Hanabi collided with him and sent him tumbling to the floor.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" Hanabi cried, hugging him tightly.
"You're welcome hime, but what are you thanking me for?" Naruto inquired as he sat up holding the excitable brown haired girl.
"It's all so cool, and you built it, just for us!" Hanabi yelled, she didn't fully understand how Naruto had built the whole massive building. But Hanabi knew that such a thing was not easy, and she was grateful for a place to stay and call home.
"You're welcome," Naruto said again, seeing the smiles on everyone's faces.
"Now… have you seen the kitchen?" This made all the girls eyes widen before they shot off down the hall Naruto had gestured in. Naruto chuckled as he watched Yukimi burst into pink smoke and quickly pull away from them all.
"Hey, no fair!" Rei yelled after her.
Still Unknown Location
"Kyū-sama, I can confirm. Ichi is dead." The red-haired woman named Hachi said nonchalantly, clearly uncaring.
"Do we know why?"
"No, but I suspect he found his target, which has been known to be traveling with the Shiroi Oni." She didn't continue, her point was clear. With the new information that had come out from Suna about the boy in the Bingo book. He was very dangerous even at around 8 years old.
"Shichi has reported moving on the Shichibi, I expect him too easily gain his target. Apparently, the Bijuu's host was a well-hidden secret of Takigakure." Kyū-sama said, standing once more at the glass of the meeting room, watching the rain fall on the lake.
"We are going to need a new Ichi." The woman commented lazily.
"Hai, but first we are going to need to eliminate the Shiroi Oni, he is becoming quite the thorn in my side. I want you to send a message to Shichi, tell him the boy is his next target."
"Hai, Kyū-sama"
'Where did you come from Naruto? How did you get all this power at such a young age?' Kyū thought, his gradient red eyes narrowing.
2 months later
Naruto was currently in his office that he had created, studying a scroll on seals that Kazumi had given him. He sighed as he leaned back in his chair, taking a break from the reading he'd been doing. His red eyes fading back to his Byakugan.
Naruto smiled as he looked at a family picture on the wall of his office, which he'd created from his memories. Thankfully, over the last 2 months, there hadn't been any attacks or appearances of the scarf group. The only people that did come to the island were often family of those already living here.
He pushed back his chair and stood, walking out of his office and down the well-lit hallways, pink flower bulbs hanging upside down from the ceiling. Reaching and exiting out onto the second-floor balcony which ran across the front of the house he looked out at the vast training ground. Over the last few months, the group had done odd jobs around the village to get money for supplies, food mostly being grown by Naruto's plants.
Currently, a purple-haired girl named Isaribi and Yukimi were sparring. Kazumi having figured out a way to prevent Yukimi's bloodline from working at all, but it was not a permanent solution to the weakness of it.
The new girl, Isaribi, had been found by several of the group when they'd gone exploring. It was also the day that Naruto learned much about Orochimaru and killed a man named Amachi. His face crinkled in disgust, Amachi was a terrible man and had wholly deserved to die.
Flashback
Hanabi, Kankuro, Temari, Kai, and Yugito were out exploring the together around the island after having asked for Naruto's permission.
Kai blankly observed the group of wannabe explorers; Hanabi specifically, who was jumping around like a ping-pong ball as she tried to look at all the animals, which kept running away from her. Kai turned to the Kazekage siblings, who were smiling as they looked around the forest they were walking through. Most likely happy to be doing this instead of training.
'Overall the group is in pretty high spirits about exploring' Kai thought, while the island was interesting, he'd seen most of it before so… he was bored.
As they walked Temari tried to talk to Hanabi as she kept pointing at things and yelling, running in circles around the group. The words coming out of her mouth so fast that Kai didn't even begin to try to understand them. Yugito was next to him, and he clapped his hands together loudly.
"You three, listen up. We will only say this once and only once. I don't want anything bad to happen on this exploration, so that means that we go as a group and stay as a group, no one goes anywhere by themselves." Kai leveled a particular look at Hanabi who looked sheepish.
"Naruto has allowed us to explore the whole island as well," Kai added, and then Yugito spoke up. "I've brought some food for our little adventure as well. However, we are going to try to be back before the sun sets, we don't want anyone to worry about us. I've asked the locals for interesting finds, and there are some. Personally, I want to go to the beach over there." Yugito said, pointing off toward where the ocean could be seen through the trees.
"Let's go there!" Hanabi shouted, "You haven't heard the other places though?" Yugito said confused, but Hanabi was already running toward the ocean.
"Come on Yugito!" Temari yelled, and Yugito realized they had all already followed after Hanabi, shrugging she ran after them.
The group reached the beach, and not long after, Hanabi began to build a sand castle with Temari's help. Yugito was laying on the sand and enjoying the sun like a cat, Kai had gotten a book from somewhere and was leaning against a rock on the sandy beach as he read. Kankuro was combing the beach for anything interesting, not wearing his catsuit since he was no longer a Suna nin he didn't see a need too.
The group played in the sand for an hour, Kai making considerable progress through his book. He looked up though as he caught something out of his eye, far down on the beach, someone was coming out of the water.
He narrowed his eyes. It was a girl, she had purple hair and was wrapped in bandages in many places, and she wore a sleeveless tunic-blouse with brown shorts.
"Look over there," Kai said, getting everyone's attention. They all turned to where he was pointing and saw the girl slowly approaching the village, though it hadn't looked like she'd seen them yet.
"Let's go say hi!" Hanabi said, getting to her feet and brushing the sand off her clothes. They all agreed though Kai was reluctant, he had to admit the large number of bandages intrigued him though. The way they were wrapped seemed to indicate hiding something, not protecting against infection and for healing.
"Hello!" Hanabi shouted as they got closer to the girl, said girl jumped and looked at them with wide black eyes before calming.
"What do you want?" She snapped, making Hanabi step back at her tone.
"She was just wanting to say hi, we are living on this island now and are trying to meet people living here," Temari said, confused by the annoyed tone and anger the girl seemed to have.
"Well, leave me alone." The purple haired girl turned and stalked off into the village. Temari shrugged before they turned and began walking back to the beach.
"What was her problem?" Kankuro wondered out loud, it was only after they'd walked some distance did they realize that Kai was still staring after the girl as she entered the village.
"Uhhh…. Kai?" Yugito prompted, causing Kai to turn and look at her.
"Go back to the beach, I need to test a hypothesis," Kai said before running toward the village which the girl had disappeared into.
"Okay…" Yugito shrugged before turning back to the group.
Temari snickered, "I bet he likes that girl." This caused everyone except Hanabi to laugh since she didn't understand what was funny.
"Come on, let's go back and head home soon," Yugito said.
With Kai
Kai was currently watching from the rooftop of a building on the opposite side of the street of who he was following. Kai had suspected immediately that the girl was hiding something, her attitude and the entire interaction led Kai to several deductions.
'She doesn't live near the village, she didn't expect anyone to talk to her, she's afraid of being rejected, so she rejects first, she's hiding something under the bandages. Perhaps some sort of deformity,' Kai analyzed. He wanted to see if he was right and had thus subtly tailed the girl. He'd found he was right on all accounts. The girl was definitely not liked and feared by the villagers, often refusing to even buy the fish she was trying to sell, or buying the high-quality goods from her for way less than what they actually were.
Listening to the whispered conversation, Kai gathered that she didn't live here but used too; instead, she lived on the nearby Demon Island. She was the only one to come back from a group of people who were 'spirited' away. And there were a lot of guesses about what was under her bandages.
Kai could tell that these comments hurt the girl, but she did her best to ignore them. Eventually walking out of the village and back toward the ocean. Kai's eyes widened as his impressive sensor skills informed him that there were several unknown signatures by Hanabi and the group at the beach.
Kai abandoned following the girl immediately, launching himself toward the shore. A moment later he arrived and found a strange sight. Kankuro, Temari, and Yugito were standing protectively in front of Hanabi.
In front of them were several large… fish people? They were humanoid and covered in scales and fins, their eyes wholly red. Kai touched down a moment later next to Yugito, prepared to fight.
"Who dares trespass on the land of the great Master of Serpents?" The fore-leading fish person asked, more of them coming out of the ocean, their head fins visible before they walked out of the water.
'Master of serpents…' Kai immediately started thinking about who that could mean. He had been reading a large number of books during the last two months, his mind rushing through information he came to a plausible conclusion. 'Most likely a summoner for snakes, only missing-nin that summons snakes is the Snake Sannin from Konoha. There must be a base of some kind nearby…'
"We're sorry for trespassing, we didn't know. We'll leave immediately." Kai backed up with his arms spread out, everyone behind him slowly backing up the beachfront.
Kai's eyes widened as a kunai was thrown directly at his head, he couldn't dodge it since it would hit someone behind him, so instead, he erected a hasty wall of water which was able to stop it.
"What are you doing! Leave them alone!" The group of wannabe adventures jumped in surprise, turning and seeing the same purple-haired girl from earlier running across the beach toward them.
"What are you doing!?" She yelled, only to get slapped across the face by one of the fish people. "Shut up shrimp! The Master has ordered us to kill anyone of power on these islands." The one who'd slapped the girl spat at her.
"Your lives belong to the master, you are his now!" One of the other fish people declared, his gills wobbling. Kai's eyes narrowed, working out what was going on. There were now around 40 of the fish people on the beach, all beginning to surround them.
"Kai, I called Naruto," Yugito whispered next to him, having broken the glass orb, Kai nodded.
"I cannot guarantee you will all live if you don't let us leave. Our leader is coming, and you will die." Kai said with certainty, making the fish people snarl at him.
Kai immediately made his decision, not knowing if Naruto would deviate between friend or foe, and sensing Naruto rapidly approaching he leaped forward and kicked one of the fish humanoids. The purple haired girl who had been being held to the ground looked in shock as Kai grabbed on to her.
The next instant there was a resounding boom as Naruto landed directly in front of the group. "Leave now…" The white-haired leader of their group said menacingly.
The fish people instead responded by firing several balls of water at him, which did nothing as plants burst from the sand and dispersed the water with ease. Hanabi looked on in awe of her father as he stood in front of them, his white cloak with the beautiful tree on the back fluttering in the sea breeze.
"Very well." The next moment Naruto reached out his hand and was about the pull when he saw Kai holding onto a girl behind a few of the fish people. Naruto removed the girl's chakra from the ones he was holding on too.
"Leave now, or you all die." Naruto's voice was cold as steel, and a squeeze on all their chakra followed his words.
"W-we cannot… our master has ordered us to capture all that trespass on this land!" As one they all leaped forward toward the group.
Naruto didn't hesitate any longer, he ripped all of their chakra from them and into himself. Killing them near instantly. They fell to the ground in heaps of fish humanoid bodies.
"Are you all okay?" Naruto asked as he turned to the group. Getting nods from the group he turned back to Kai, kneeling on the ground next to Kai and the purple haired girl.
"Orochimaru… That monster…" Kai murmured, and Naruto understood what he meant as he looked at the girl. What wasn't covered by clothes was by several rolls of bandages, but it didn't entirely cover all of it, some of it had come loose, and underneath were greenish blue like scales. He could easily see through her bandages as well with his Byakugan.
"Yugito, take them back to the compound. Kai and I are going to talk to this girl." Naruto said over his shoulder, getting a 'hai' in response followed by the sound of them leaving.
Naruto saw the girl cringe as he turned back to her, being helped up to a sitting position by Kai who was now crouched next to her. Naruto shot Kai a glance, saying he could go if he wished. Kai mouthed, 'she's like us' before disappearing.
"Don't be frightened, neither I nor any of us will hurt you. What is your name? I am Naruto." The Ōtsutsuki said, his hood and face mask fading away, the girl's eyes widened as she took in his large brown horns.
"Isaribi, that is what my mother called me before he came and took me away… turning me into this." Isaribi said disdainfully, Naruto caught her glances toward his horns.
"W-what... What happened to you?" Isaribi said meekly like she was afraid of offending him, Naruto smiled.
"I've always been like this, and I'm okay with it." Naruto said, "Were you born here Isaribi?" The purple haired girl nodded, seeming to relax more as they talked.
"He came and took me to a lab, he said that if I was a good girl and did what he said, bringing him new test subjects, then he'd undo what he did to me. But he's never been back since." She said, literally spitting in disgust every time she referred to what Naruto had realized was definitely Orochimaru. He didn't know much about the S-rank missing-nin from Konoha, but the Bingo book spoke of his love for experimenting on people and children.
"Isaribi… I think you know that he was never going to change you back. That's why he's never come back, he just doesn't see a use for you anymore… Just like the others before and probably after you." At the mention of others, she gained a confused and questioning look.
"What do you mean? Others?"
"I don't know much about the Snake Sannin, but you weren't the first child to be used in experiments, he kidnapped hundreds of children in Konohagakure before eventually being found out and escaping. Out of all the experiments he did while in Konoha it's only confirmed that one survived it, who he promptly abandoned." Naruto said, reciting some of the things from Suna's Konoha history books and the Bingo Book. The white-haired boy watched as Isaribi's eyes changed from horror to loathing, to finally settle on confusion.
"Why would he say that then, why would he lie to me?"
"So you would do what he asked willingly, Orochimaru is the kind of person who enjoys making others suffer. A similar thing happened to me where I grew up. So you see, there are others that are feeling just as you do right now." Naruto said, he wasn't trying to make the girl feel bad, but he was putting all the cards on the table, letting her see it with clear eyes. It would be up too her to decide what to do with her life.
Naruto got to his feet and offered his hand to help her up, she accepted, and Naruto pulled her to feet. "It was nice meeting you Isaribi." Naruto said with a small bow, 'I want to offer her a place with us, but she needs to make a decision without my bias, I don't want to take advantage of someone who just had their life turned upside down.' Naruto mused as he turned and began walking down the beach. His long white cloak fluttering in the wind.
"Where are you going?"
Naruto stopped, turning slightly toward her. "Back to my family." The white-haired horned boy immediately saw the look of sadness on her face at the words. Naruto waited too see what she would do, his keen pale eyes seeing the look of longing, of wanting to belong. 'Now that she finally sees the light regarding Orochimaru, she looks lost.' He was fighting himself not to bias her opinions, waiting to see what she would say.
"I-I've… I've been alone for so long…" She stammered, unsure. "I don't want to be alone anymore… Could I come with you?" Isaribi immediately started talking faster, "There is nothing left for me here… I don't want to be alone anymore, please." She pleaded, though if she'd looked at the kind expression on Naruto's face, she would have realized it was unneeded.
Naruto walked over, smiling and extended his hand out to her. Isaribi finally noticed the kind look on the white-haired boy's face and smiled happily in return.
"Welcome to the family Isaribi. You come with us, and I promise you will never be alone again, and I don't break my promises." Isaribi's smile was massive as she took hold of Naruto's hand. The both of them began walking across the beach toward the village.
As they walked through the village, Naruto noticed that the girl cowered from the villager's glares and looks of confusion at seeing him with her. Even though she was trying to hide her reaction.
Naruto growled lowly, and released potent killing intent on all those around, glaring at them. His message was clear, she was to be left alone, under his protection. They all got it immediately.
Before long they left the village and began following a trail through the woods that had been worn down by the group as they walked through the woods back and forth.
"Isaribi, I think you may be interested to know, that in our family many of us are different. I need to know what your opinion of demons is." Naruto stated seriously.
"I've never met a demon, well, I suppose Orochimaru is one. I have nothing against them, why?" Naruto smiled as they walked through the trees, following the winding trail.
"Several of my friends contain within them what many see as demons, though they aren't real demons. It's something the world has come to view them as through fear of their power," Naruto said, carefully watching her expression through the side of his head. "I'm not even partly human, my mother came from another world, and my father is a Kaminoki. Does this change your opinion of me?"
"No, it doesn't, I'm not sure I'm even entirely human myself. Besides, I've been called a demon before, and I know what it's like to be misunderstood." She replied, her voice entirely serious.
The next moment they stepped through the trees into the large glade, Isaribi's eyes widened in amazement at the beauty of the place and the large building there. She watched as she saw several people training and others set up an outdoor lunch, there were also two small girls running around being chased by a girl in a pink dress.
Naruto noticed her fidgeting with her bandages as most of them saw that he was there, calling out in greeting and some of them getting up to come over and see the new person.
"Don't worry Isaribi, with a family like mine you are quite normal." He tried to reassure the girl, it seemed to help a little bit, but she was still nervous. "If you're still uncomfortable, however, I can see what we can do to help you feel more at ease with them," Naruto said, gesturing to everyone in the clearing. Isaribi's eyes widened in amazement as she saw a giant white horse-like creature walk out of a nearby cave before stretching and suddenly disappearing.
She shook her head, "Could you make me normal?" She asked hopefully, though was sad again when the white-haired boy shook his head.
"I can't. But if I can find someone else who can, I will do my best to get them to help you." Naruto reassured, getting a nod of thanks from her. "In the meantime, if you want you can wear this." She was stunned as he placed his hand on her head, the next moment she watched in amazement as clothing formed from thin air over her.
She was now wearing a dark blue over cloak with a hood, donned over her head and concealing her face from view.
"If you wish you can hide your face," Naruto explained, the next moment Hanabi launched herself at her father, but he remained standing this time.
"Hi hime, did you have fun on your adventure?" Naruto asked, getting a nod from her as Gaara, Kai, Yukimi, and Rei walked up.
"We went to the beach and played in the sand and I made a sand castle and then we splashed in the water and Kai read a book purple haired girl came out of the water and I said hi and then we were attacked by fish people!" Hanabi said all in one breath, promptly taking a large gulp of air afterward. Naruto rose an eyebrow at his daughter's antics before setting her down.
"Hanabi I need you to do something for me." The brown haired girl looked up at her father curiously. "This is Isaribi, I want you to be friends with her, show her around the house and find her a room, okay?" Naruto said, gesturing to the cloaked girl who was peering out shyly at everyone, most of whom were looking at her curiously.
"Your name is Isaribi? I'm Hanabi Ots… Otsu… yeah! Let's go find you a room! Rei let's go!" Hanabi cried, grabbing onto the poor girl's sleeve and pulling her off toward the compound. Rei grabbed enthusiastically onto her other sleeve and raced Hanabi toward the large doors.
Naruto chuckled along with Yukimi at the young girl's excitement and poor Isaribi's predicament.
"What is her story?" Gaara intoned.
"I think we ought to let her introduce herself during lunch." Naruto mused out loud, getting a nod from Gaara.
End Flashback
"Dad, you're spacing out again." Naruto felt someone attempt to jab him in his side, but they just phased through him. Turning he saw Hanabi with an exasperated look on her face.
"Sorry, what is it?"
"Kazumi-obaasan wants you in her study," Hanabi said before running off down the balcony and disappearing behind a door. Naruto sighed, enjoying the wind on his face before he exploded into smoke and filtered under a door and inside.
END CHAPTER - 11,048 words
For those of you that are going to leave a, "8 years old is too young for S-rank!" comment. Meh, thats what I decided. He's single handedly "kidnapped" 2 Jinchuriki, broken into a bunch of villages, "survived" several kages. I write the story, you do not :P
I sadly didn't get all that many reviews to answer between now and the last chapter, but then again I did write all of chapter 16 in under 12 hours. Still, all of you, please review.
Answers to reviews:
Dbtiger63: Yep, and it's going to cause issues later on. Time skip is coming, but won't be here for a while, sorry. Keep reading and your wishes will be granted ;)
Zaralann: Your question does not make sense? "Created nagato" What? Nagato doesn't have Rinnegan, never gaining Madara's eyes, as Chariko has them. Zetsu isn't trying to bring Kaguya's body from the moon?
Antex-The Legendary Zoroark: Glad you enjoyed it, hope you enjoyed this one. Black Zetsu is coming, but it will be a bit. I'm not worried about the haters, btw to haters, if you stop reading my story, it will hurt me a lot more than your hate reviews… I promise lol. As you saw, Naruto was able to get Gengo out of Gaara. With a somewhat BS power, that will be explained later on. Everything ties together my friend.
Criamond: Glad you are loving the chapters, I am having a great time developing the MC and all the other characters. Village is coming eventually, but there is more to happen before then.
StrikerTheFallen: Ahh, wondering about the Seijō-ki (Purifiers) ey? Yeah, I ain't telling you nothin, but I promise there is a reason behind it all. (It's totally more reasonable than Peins for the Akatsuki… lol)
Guest.55: First, thank you for at least giving yourself a number after "Guest". (Get an account plz). As too Naruto having a way against being sealed like Bijuu, maybe? But what's the point if Naruto has no weaknesses? Besides, how could I logically explain a way he has against that? (Or maybe I already have one figured out, spoilers). Ummm…. Really? I'm not writing a pairing fic here, or harem fic… Can we please just naturally assume that Naruto has one…?
Thatoneguy1242: Yep, already written it. I keep 6 chapters ahead of everything I post, so this is chapter 10, and I just finished chapter 16 :D
AlphaWolf02: I am going to hopefully write a story for Nakada in this universe that goes from his point of view from being born etc. I'm hoping that I may get to co-write it with another author if someone is interested. If not I will just write it myself, should be interesting.
Guest that didn't get an account: Glad I'm keeping the suspense together well, keep reading, I think it gets quite interesting (No bias at all)
Another Guest account: Yes his village is hidden, (Cause being open is kind of painting a "Nuke here" sign on it.) and no, it's not being named that, sorry.
.puentes: Me alegro de que estés disfrutando la historia, mi traducción de Google no tradujo correctamente tu comentario. Pero me di cuenta de que estás disfrutando la historia, también el verdadero nombre del Kyūbi no es Kurama.
Naruto: Thank you, glad you liked the transformation.
Auf Wiedersehen!
LEAVE. A. REVIEW
IT'S MY LIFE BLOOD!
Writers- all of them, from famous authors to subtle FF writers- ALL depend on the feedback from our readers. Vision Dominican brought up an interesting albeit tragically true idea:
"Lack of reviews is the greatest killer of fanfic writers out there. We at the Institute wish to let the public know of how they can pitch in to save our dying writers.
1) Drop a review every other chapter. It may not seem like much, but reviews are actually what many of us want to see. That, and hits. Hits do make us happy but we don't really know if people like our story or not.
2) Visit our author page. Those kinds of hits really make us happy. It's where we showcase our entourage of friends, beta readers, and stories. Some of us even tidy up with set areas for upcoming story ideas and character bios.
3) Send an email. While normally I'd prefer a review, emails are just as good. Really, it warms my heart to communicate with another reader or writer."
What you call being "too lazy to review" is what we call "a flame to the pages" as the writers. That one minute or two that you felt "too lazy" to review is another minute of creeping discouragement that all writers feel as they begin to think...
"Why am I even here…?"
"What's even the point of continuing?"
"My skills must be terrible…no one cares for my story…"
"I'll never be a good writer...I quit."
These are only a few thoughts that go through every writer's head- that go through MY head- when we put out a chapter/story with all our heart and soul within, and we sit there…and sit…and wait…and not a single person says even a word.
If you're not a writer, you have NO IDEA how much that hurts…
If you ARE a writer, then I'm sure you know just how great it feels when someone is kind enough to leave a heartwarming and encouraging review, and you read it, smiling while thinking…"Wow…fuck...I did it…"
So, why not give fellow writers the same luxury here?
Too many times I've seen epic and utterly beautiful works of literary art fall to pieces before finally being abandoned due to the terrible discouragement that the lack of reviews can cause.
Sometimes, it is so severe that the very writer himself decides to quit, denying the world his skills of writing that I'm it would have deeply enjoyed.
So…
Just one minute, that's all it takes. Just a few gentle taps of the fingers on your keyboard, a few seconds or so of your time, and your words can SAVE a writer from a dark demise.
Do me a favor: Go find a story, ANY story, anywhere here on Fanfiction, and see if you can help it. If it has very little / no reviews at all, just check it out, and say whatever comes to mind.
And enjoy the thought in mind that you could have just SAVED that story, with just a few taps of the keyboard…
If you agree with what I have said then please copy and paste any part of this story you wish onto your profile. Modify it in any way you see fit; there is no need to use my exact words. You make it say what you want it to say.