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Chapter Eleven: True Family
The white-haired horned heir of the Ōtsutsuki clan walked down the hall, making his way toward his Sensei's sitting room that he'd made for her.
Naruto stopped as he exited the hallway, waiting politely for Yugito —who had a towel around her neck — to pass by. Yugito smiled and nodded to him, an action he returned.
"Is the lesson with your mother still happening today?" Yugito asked, pausing in front of him.
"Hai, the usual time. Please ask Gaara to come to me beforehand." He requested.
"Hai, Master Naruto," She replied in a teasingly tone, laughing at the annoyed look on his face. Naruto watched her go before continuing on through the halls, taking his time instead of instantly arriving.
Over the last two months he'd been unable to get Kai to stop referring to him as Master Naruto, and with Yugito copying him it had caught on quickly within their large family. Besides Hanabi, Gaara, and Kazumi everyone was referring to him as such.
Naruto shook his head as he walked down the halls, the next moment a ball of water flew at his face, but it phased right through him.
"Dang it! He wasn't solid!" Naruto heard the distinct voice of Rei around a corner.
"I would suggest you run you two." Naruto said in a playfully threatening tone, "Sōzō no geijutsu: Kusuguri wāmu! (Creation Art: Tickling Worms)"
"Oh no, run!" Hanabi's voice could be heard as she recognized what he'd just done. The next moment two sizeable fuzzy worm-like creatures formed in his hands before he let them loose after the two girls. Naruto chuckled as he heard the two girl's screams of fear as the worms rounded the corner, chittering loudly.
"Oh hi, Master Naruto," Yukimi said as she quickly walked by toward her room, having just come from her spar against Isaribi. Naruto nodded in greeting, he arrived in front of his Sensei's study not long later.
"May I come in?"
"Hai," was the muffled reply from the other side of the door. Naruto decided to forgo actually opening the door and instead walked right through it.
"Using the door too below you?" His sensei asked in amusement, Naruto just shrugged. "Hanabi told me you wanted to see me?"
"Yes, sit down." Kazumi waved her hand and on the small table between the two armchairs a game board appeared. Naruto smiled, "Did you call me to play chess?"
"No, but I find that conversations can be easier if there is a small distraction," Kazumi replied, being on the white side she picked up a pawn and moved it forward.
The game board was unique, crafted from Clear Eye solid illusions it wasn't really there. Kazumi had designed the board when she was working to bring herself into shape. The black and white pieces looked like small people. There was a queen in white robes next to her king who looked like a more elderly man. They two of them were holding hands and looking around the board, one could visibly see them breathing.
Naruto nudged a pawn forward on his side, the small man getting the order and taking two giant steps forward, an overly large helmet on his head.
"You are leaving next month correct?" Kazumi inquired as she mentally commanded a knight on a horse to jump the pawn in front of him, scaring the poor pawn.
"Hai, I plan to take Hanabi with me." Kazumi nodded, taking a sip of her coffee on the table next to her.
"I have started work on the seals that you asked for, I finished the one chakra point seal and currently figuring out the mental network seals." Naruto nodded his thanks, his eyes carefully following the pieces on the board, a moment later Kazumi moved a knight to attack his pawn. The tiny knight on a horse rushed forward before his horse reared on its back legs and kicked the pawn, sending him flying and fading out of existence.
"I trust you got my notes for the other idea?" She nodded, "Hai, it's a fascinating concept you and your mother came up with."
"Is it possible?"
"I do believe so, I will be able to tell you upon your return from your travels." Kazumi brought her queen into play, who sadly let go of her husband's hand and walked to the designated place, her long robes trailing after her.
"That leads me to what I wanted to bring up next." Naruto stayed silent, waiting for her to continue. He moved a bishop, who had a sizeable pointy hat on his head out onto the board and away from the protection of the pawns.
The elderly lady sighed, "You may know this, but Rei's and my last name is not Shoiha, the Shoiha is really a made up clan of sorts." His eyes widened at this.
"The Clear Eye is a mutated kekkei genkai of a clan within Konoha." Kazumi didn't look up, but she knew Naruto was surprised and most likely was asking his mother.
"Yes, musuko the Clear Eye is a mutated version of the Byakugan and the Illusions Kekkei Genkai from the Kurama clan," Kaguya answered her son's question. 'Why didn't you tell me this before?'
"It wasn't my right to tell you and wasn't the most important piece of information, which makes me curious as to why your sensei looks so anxious over this." Naruto brought his attention back to the real world to see that Kazumi did indeed look anxious.
"I'm not upset if that's what is bothering you Sensei." He offered, getting a shake of the woman's head in return. She looked rueful as she spoke, "I'll explain what the matter is in a moment."
She took a deep breath before continuing, "I was the first one with the mutation of the Illusion bloodline of the Kurama clan. I decided to form my own clan after marrying my husband, naming it the Shoiha clan. People in Konoha tried to take advantage of me, and I was forced to flee immediately." She paused, seeming to collect herself.
"I had two daughters, one who inherited the Clear Eye and one who didn't. When I was forced to flee for my daughter's life I left Uroko behind in Konoha with the Kurama clan, knowing she could be passed off as a normal member of the clan." Naruto was beginning to understand where this was going but stayed quiet, which Kazumi was thankful for. 'He's always had amazing manners and respect.'
"We escaped to Grass where we were attacked by missing-nin from Iwa. Only I and my just recently born granddaughter survived the attack, and we went into hiding in the village you found us in." Kazumi finally decided to move one of the pieces, her bishop walking calmly across the floor before punching Naruto's fearful looking bishop in the face and dispelling him.
"I bring this up Naruto... because I have a favor to ask you..." She trailed off here, finally looking up and making eye contact with Naruto's kind pale eyes.
"Your other daughter had a child, or multiple didn't she?" Naruto inquired, understanding where this was going.
"H-hai, her name is Yakumo Kurama. I learned this back when I was in Grass." Kazumi began to look extremely upset.
"I should have told you this sooner, and then when you went to Konoha you could have checked on my granddaughter, see if she was okay!" She began to look frantic and stressed, upset and concerned for her granddaughter.
"Sensei, it's okay. Here's what I'm going to do. In 3 days I will go directly to Konoha myself and locate your daughter. If she's in trouble or having a rough life, I will bring her here to you, and you can explain everything to her." Kazumi's eyes widened, and she began crying, holding onto Naruto and thanking him. Naruto realized that she had most likely been holding this in for some time, worrying about her granddaughter's life in Konoha.
"Thank you Naruto, thank you." He smiled, waiting until she calmed down and then going back to his seat.
"Was there anything else that you wished to talk to me about?"
"Yes, I have some questions about how you want to run your village."
2 hours later
Naruto sat cross-legged in a large living room on a pillow, his eyes closed as he heard people walk into the room and take seats on other pillows about the room. Once the sound stopped, he opened his eyes.
Sitting around him in a rough semi-circle was; Gaara, Yugito, Kai, Yukimi, Temari, Kankuro, Hanabi, Isaribi, and Rei. All of them sat cross-legged and looked at him, waiting for the lesson to start.
"Thank you for coming today, Isaribi. I know you've felt conflicted about it, but Kaa-san is happy." Naruto said to the girl, who over time had felt more comfortable around what she now called her family. Instead of always covering herself she stopped wearing the hood regularly and took the bandages off the side of her face, revealing the scales and gill on the left side.
The purple haired girl smiled and nodded, and Naruto nodded in return.
"We shall now begin." The next moment Naruto's body began to change majorly. He got taller, and his horns changed shape. His hair grew to insanely long lengths and spread across the floor. His face became more feminine, and his clothes turned into a white royal robe with black tomoe and purple lining.
"Hello, Kaguya-sensei." They all said together at once, Isaribi just watched as this was her first time in one of these lessons. She had heard many good things about it from the others and had finally been persuaded to meet Naruto's mother.
"Hello children, Isaribi welcome." The calm melodic voice of Kaguya flowed over her and filled her with warmth. Isaribi smiled happily before straightening, 'I like her.'
"Hi, Aunt Kaguya!" Hanabi said happily, but quickly quieted at the look she got from her Aunt.
"Today you will all be meditating," Kaguya said, her pale eyes shifting over everyone present as they moved their hands into the ram seal, with the fish like girl following their example.
Kaguya watched as her students all closed their eyes, taking a cup of tea that Naruto had put before her before they switched and taking a sip.
"Now, I want you to feel your chakra. Do not try to control it, lose yourself within the flow of your chakra." Kaguya said in a mesmerizing tone as she watched them all. She had long since known what all their natural affinities were, but if they did this enough, they could figure them out themselves.
There was a distinct advantage to learning one's elemental chakra affinity or affinities this way. Once they learned what theirs were and attempted techniques with it, they would find it much easier to connect with their elemental chakra. Saving them time and pain when trying to do the exercises for the different types of elemental chakra.
"Wind is strong, biting, sharp, and goes where ever it wishes. Water is soft, flowing, but also powerful and malleable. Earth is firm, deep, hard and full of life. Fire is hot, angry, and forceful, removing any obstruction in its way. Lightning is quick, shocking, piercing and erratic, never sure where it will go next. These are the five Elemental affinities one can have, search for yours, let yourself go in the flow of your chakra, how does it behave, where does it go?" She said softly, her voice washing over the students and relaxing them.
She let herself fall into a meditative state as well, her muscles relaxing. She enjoyed being back in the world and able to feel real air, smells that were different from what she had smelled for thousands of years in the mindscape. 'I suppose you don't notice such things until their gone,' she mused.
She turned her attention inward to the mindscape, checking on her son who was practicing the mind division technique. This unique technique would allow Naruto to divide his mind up and set certain portions of it to a different task while he focused on something else. This was the first step he had to master before he performed the Bodisupuritto (Body splitting).
A black haired pocky lover
A figure cloaked in black hid in the shadows of the trees, undetectable to all but those with the highest skills. The mysterious figure looked out into a long-abandoned clearing. Seeing the large hoof tracks and campfire, his eyes narrowed before disappearing.
Kyūbi
The dripping sewers that this boy called a mindscape disgusted her. Kyuubi growled as she sat on her forepaws, staring at the ceiling as she counted the drops from a leaking pipe.
'If that damn Uzumaki wasn't here I could try to manipulate the boy into freeing me…' Kyuubi thought as she continued to watch the water droplets fall from the ceiling. But no, the bastard Uzumaki had even taught his host how to block his memories from her, leaving her with nothing of the outside world. She was so bored…
'On top of all of that, I am forced to lend my host yōkai whenever he requests it or suffer the wrath of the Ningen with the chains. Why Kaguya-obaasan had to that bloodline, I will never know.' Kyuubi pondered in complete boredom. 'My only hope is my uncle, but I doubt he will find a way to break through this seal. It's a contract with Shinigami-sama itself.' She growled in frustration once more, snorting and creating ripples across the sewer water.
Next day in the Glade
Naruto and Kazumi were currently writing a series of seals across the floor around an alter like stone table that someone could lay on. Kaguya while teaching her lesson yesterday had spent a good deal of time looking inside Yukimi's body. She'd said that she felt terrible for the girl as she'd invented the Iburi bloodline.
It had taken the rest of the time of the lesson, in which she looked through the girl's chakra network and chakra movements before she figured it out. The Iburi clan bloodline had been an entirely new idea when she'd first invented it, and therefore she had nothing to base it off of. Her husband had taken the Iburi clan for some parts of Naruto's bloodline in fact.
After the lesson, she had informed Naruto of her findings, and he had preceded to notify Yukimi. Who'd broken out into tears of happiness at the news.
"That's the last one," Kazumi commented, getting up from her stooping position and sealing away her tools. Naruto nodded before gesturing to Yukimi who was standing with Yugito, Rei, and Hanabi.
Naruto didn't want everyone to be in the room for this, but he'd allowed Yukimi to bring her closer friends with her for support. This was after all an enormous moment in the girl's life.
"Hop up on the table Yukimi and lay down," Naruto said, moving aside for Kazumi who moved to the girl's forehead and removed the seal that usually prevented her from turning into smoke. It had lasted much longer than Kazumi had hoped for, but it was breaking apart now.
"Yukimi-chan, this is going to hurt and feel really weird for a while," Naruto told the obviously scared girl plainly. Her eyes widened in fear, but she calmed as Yugito placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Yukimi-chan, we're right here," Hanabi said, only the top of her head coming over the side of the slab of stone. Yukimi smiled, visibly calming down.
"Thank you, it means a lot to me." She said softly, reaching up and holding Yugito's hand on her shoulder.
"We are going to begin now Yukimi," Naruto said, she took a deep breath as Naruto placed his hands on her chest and stomach before bursting into smoke. Everyone's eyes widened except Kazumi's as the mist flowed into several points across the upper part of Yukimi's body.
"He's inside me!" Yukimi screamed, trying to sit up but finding herself unable too.
"Calm down! You can't move because I placed a seal on your head. You have to stay still for this." Kazumi ordered, gesturing to the girls to comfort her friend as Kazumi kept a close eye on the cursed seal of heaven on Yukimi's shoulder.
She frowned, the seal was incredibly intricate, and while she had spent considerable time studying it, she'd been unable to break it. What she'd deduced, which had been confirmed by Naruto's mother's observations was that the seal was feeding on Yukimi's chakra. The more disturbing part was that there was a piece of Orochimaru's soul inside the seal.
Naruto's disgust when he'd informed her of this had been evident. The boy had regretted not yet having his Rinnegan as he could then just pull Orochimaru out of the seal from the outside, thus breaking it. Since he didn't yet have it, he had to enter into Yukimi's body, similar to how he did to Gaara. After eliminating the part of Orochimaru, he would go and rewrite pieces of Yukimi's bloodline under his mother's guidance.
'Good luck Naruto…' Kazumi thought, watching as the girls tried to comfort their freaking out friend. Who kept saying she could feel Naruto moving around in her chakra. 'Huh, I suppose there is a downside to Kaguya-sama's meditation lessons.' Kazumi mused, one usually wouldn't be able to feel foreign chakra in their system.
With Naruto
He quickly materialized back into his normal body, immediately noticing the complete and utter darkness encasing him. Naruto raised an invisible eyebrow as he looked around at the dark, his eyes pulsed a moment later, and he was able to see where he was.
It was a cave system that looked remarkably close to what a chakra network looked like. It was all rough stone, with stalagmites and stalactites everywhere. Naruto was relieved to find that the influence of the seal was only around Yukimi's neck and not like Gengo's control over Gaara.
'Best to get going, this quite possibly is going to hurt…' He mused as he transformed into two rotating strands of chakra and flew through the tunnels of stone. It took him a few minutes of turning and twisting before he arrived. The cave distinctly changing too smooth walls with designs of snakes and creepy torches lining the walls.
"Kukukuku, you come to kill me?" A voice echoed in the dimly lit hall, Naruto's eyes narrowed as he watched a giant white snake form into the man he recognized as Orochimaru of the Sannin.
He didn't give the man an answer, instead calmly staring at the snake-like human who looked at him with eager yellow slit eyes. "You can't kill me!" The snake Sannin boasted.
Naruto was tempted to immediately open his third eye and hit the man with Shinigami's judgment, utterly confident that he would be sent too hell. "Musuko... you can't do that, it won't work on a small piece of that vile man's soul," Kaguya interjected on his thoughts embarrassedly, making him roll his eyes.
'Now she tells me…' He was in a tight spot now, his Rinne-Sharingan technique was his only current way to deal with souls, and it wasn't going to work on a small part of Orochimaru.
Orochimaru gazed greedily at the horned boy in front of him. He'd learned quite a lot from watching Yukimi's life through her eyes after she joined Naruto. 'Son of the Kaminoki, if I could exploit that power I would truly be immortal. No, more than that… A god,' Orochimaru's eyes widened in excitement.
The next moment Naruto exploded into smoke to dodge the snake with a sword in its mouth that came flying toward him. 'Think think! What else can I do to kill him?' He thought, dodging and throwing an attack back at the man.
"Ōkina bakuhatsu!" He created a massive explosion at the sannin's feet, which only caused him to go flying through the air before landing on the ground unharmed, an enormous grin on his pale face. 'I am starting to really hate mindscape battles.' He thought dryly as a katana formed in his hands, proceeding to hack through a significant number of snakes his opponent had unleashed at him.
"I promised Yukimi-chan I would get this seal off her, and I will do that!" Naruto roared as he shot forward, kicking Orochimaru who blocked with his forearms, unmoving.
"You're kind of weak aren't you?" He narrowed his eyes at the teasing tone, exploding into smoke before forming into a helix and flying at the man. The pale skinned man dodged out of the way of his attack with relative ease.
"You have no power here! This is my domain!" Orochimaru cackled as he once again blew off Naruto's attack with ease. Naruto yelled in anger as he was unable to hurt the man at all, his attacks next to useless in a domain Orochimaru had forced his control over for years.
Naruto glared at the man before he disappeared in a wisp of smoke.
In the sealing room
Everyone was startled as smoke poured out of Yukimi before forming quickly into Naruto. Yugito yelped as Naruto pushed her out of the way frantically and placed his hand on Yukimi's cursed seal that was inflamed and beginning to grow rapidly.
"Sensei, I'm holding it! But you have to seal it now!" Naruto ordered, and Rei got out of the way of her grandmother quickly as she rushed up and placed her hands on the same spot after doing hand seals.
"Fuin! (Seal)" Yukimi's friends watched in confusion and concern as the black marks began to retreat back before the entire curse mark was surrounded by a black ring.
"What the hell happened Naruto?"
"I was unable to beat Orochimaru, my technique that I used on Gengo is ineffective against a split soul," Naruto growled in anger.
"I'm never going to be free!" Yukimi cried, tears pouring out of her eyes, quickly being hugged by Yugito a moment later.
"No! I promised you would be free of that seal and thus you shall. I will be back." The next moment the horned boy exploded into smoke that violently flowed across the room and under the door, gone in a near instant.
"Come on Yukimi-chan, let us get you to a more comfortable place until he comes back." The old lady tried to comfort the girl as she removed the restraining seal, helping the unsteady and crying Iburi heiress to her feet.
"Where is dad going Grandma?" Hanabi asked as she followed them toward the doorway.
"Most likely to get something to help your friend."
They all exited the chamber and began helping the stumbling, crying, and distraught Yukimi to her room.
With Naruto
He was angry. An emotion he didn't have much experience with, but it was pouring out of him in palpable waves as he shot like a speeding bullet across the ocean, his two strands of chakra whirling around each other in a blur.
Kaguya watched quietly from within the mindscape, she should have remembered to tell Naruto that the technique wouldn't work. 'I'm expecting too much from my son, he's still but a boy, and he has so many responsibilities on his shoulders…' She realized, 'I will apologize to him once this is worked out...' That decided she turned back to Naruto's vision, in which she could see the land rapidly approaching.
During the fight Naruto had been going through all his options while she had too, realizing that she'd messed up. Without Naruto's Rinnegan he didn't have a way to deal with Orochimaru and the man was invincible in the mindscape, a place where he was literally a god. She had frantically suggested the Kohaku no Jōhei, a sealing urn that Hagoromo-kun had made.
Naruto zipped through the air. 'The issue is that the urn is in Kumo, under guard.' A couple of minutes later Naruto reached the Land of Lightning, his course set directly toward the Cloud village. He would have that urn, and no one was going to stop him.
oOoOoOo
"Hey Quiro, you see that new show on TV?"
Two Jounin level Kumo shinobi were standing in a guard post overlooking the village, it was midday, and the temperature was high.
"There is a lot of new shows on TV." Quiro deadpanned as he turned toward his partner.
"That one with a princess… Princess Gale, it's been going for a while, but I hear they are pausing it to make a movie."
"That's nice… Why do I give a s- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" He turned sharply to where his partner was pointing and saw a fast moving blur arching above them, then quickly descending toward the middle of the village.
"Sound the alarm!" The next moment there was a massive explosion in the middle of the village, dust rising majorly as the speeding blur connected with the ground.
oOoOoOo
He glared at everything around him, not heeding the frightened out of their minds villagers around him. 'Where is it!'
Naruto quickly located the vault door that he'd sensed his brother's power in before. But this time he didn't care if the Raikage was here, nothing was going to stop him!
The next moment Naruto's body exploded in smoke as a fast moving blue blur slammed into him. He reformed moments later.
"Get out of my way Raikage, you have something that is rightfully mine, and I will have it!" Naruto didn't turn to the sparking man, but then again he didn't need to.
"I don't know what the hell you think you're talking about. But you will come quietly, or I will kill you." Ay threatened, his lightning armor sparking. The villagers in the nearby area were rapidly clearing out, knowing that staying here would result in their deaths.
"YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" The Raikage's eyes widened in shock as Naruto turned toward him, his eyes burning red as a red swirl spun hypnotically in his eyes.
"AMATERASU!" The boy yelled as his eyes began to weep green blood, but the Raikage was already long gone. He knew about the Mangekyo and staying in the direct eyesight of a Sharingan was never a good idea.
The black flames of the Sun Goddess flew through the air and latched onto several buildings, instantly beginning to consume them. Naruto clutched his bleeding eye as he turned and started storming toward the vault.
The next instant Naruto felt the whole middle part of his body get ripped away, reforming a moment later, "Give up! You cannot stop me, let me get what I came for!" The buff man narrowed his eyes, 'He's right, my physical attacks aren't doing anything, time to switch."
This proved to be utterly pointless as after the Raikage released a bolt of lightning toward the hooded white figure it was immediately absorbed and shot back at him, forcing him to dodge.
"What is it you want?!"
"The Sage of Six path's tools. They are rightfully mine!" At this, he burst into two strands of chakra that arched into the air. 'He's heading toward the vaults!'
A moment later he slid to a stop in front of the large metal door, determined to stop the boy at any cost. The Hachibi was inside the urn, and he was not going to lose to a boy!
"Stop trying to resist me, it's futile." The deathly calm voice of the boy rang out before he materialized from a mist in front of the Raikage.
"Raiton: Rariatto!" Ay yelled as he ran at the boy, instantly reaching him and his extended arm slammed right through the boy's chest. He knew it didn't work just by the feel of absolutely nothing on his arm. Stopping on a dime, he turned and unleashed a fury of fists all over the back of the boy's unmoving body.
He stepped back growling in anger as he saw his attacks do absolutely nothing to the Shiroi Oni. The next moment massive amounts of whipping and slashing vines burst out of the ground around the Shiroi Oni. He was forced to move as the vines continued to shoot out of the terrain and endeavor to ensnare him, though he punched through the vines with ease.
"Enough of this! I need that Urn or someone precious to me will die! You will move!" It was at that moment that Ay made a mistake, even knowing that the boy possessed the Sharingan he made the mistake of looking into the boy's eyes as his head shot up.
"Tsukuyomi!"
Minutes later
2 jounin and several platoons of Kumo ANBU touched down on the rocky terrain in front of the vault. Cee immediately noticed his leader face down on the ground.
"Lord Raikage!" He ran over and felt for large man's pulse, sighing in relief when he found it.
"He's alive," Darui sighed in relief next to him.
"Sir! The vault has been broken into and entirely emptied!" One of the ANBU shouted by the vault.
"Raikage-sama is not going to be happy when he wakes up." Darui moaned, getting a nod from Cee.
"Get over here and help me get the Raikage to a hospital," Cee ordered, and 4 ANBU landed next to the Raikage, actually struggling considerably to lift the man.
"It was the Shiroi Oni wasn't it?" Cee nodded in response to Darui's question.
"Hai, and he wanted the tools badly enough to break into Kumo in broad daylight."
With Naruto
"Musuko, you have to calm down. Remember to dispel your Amaterasu, or you'll burn down the entire village." Kaguya said carefully, not wanting to set him off. He was currently flying once more toward The Land of Sea, though at a slightly slower pace than before.
'I'll be fine, I just… I just need some time to myself.' She got his meaning and retracted her presence from his mind. 'I'm sorry musuko, this is my fault.'
'This has to work, it has too.' Naruto thought as he shot through the air. He only had so much time before the restraining seal on Orochimaru broke. The man had absorbed some of his potent chakra during their fight, and the seal would only hold Orochimaru so long as he would be using his chakra like an ax against a wooden door.
'If Orochimaru takes full control of her, Yukimi will die.' Naruto was refusing for the moment to think about his outburst, his raging anger that he was locking up until he'd dealt with the current threat.
Inside the Compound
"I wonder where Master Naruto went," Kai mused out loud, having been caught up too speed by Kazumi. They were currently sitting on the couches of the living room. Yugito, Rei, Hanabi and now Isaribi were doing their best to comfort the understandably freaked out Yukimi.
"My best guess is he needs something to defeat the fraction of Orochimaru's soul."
"I thought Naruto had a technique to defeat souls that he used on Gengo."
She shrugged, taking another gulp of the coffee she'd made. This whole ordeal was stressing her nerves. She hadn't told anyone, but she knew why Naruto left in such a hurry. For some reason, Orochimaru was able to slowly break away at the restraining seal. It would be an hour at the max before he'd break free and take over Yukimi.
"He's back," Kai said moments before Naruto literally phased through the front doors and jumped up to the second-floor balcony toward Yukimi's room. Kazumi's eyes widened, quickly getting up before rushing toward the girl's room as well.
Kai quietly watched, knowing that he wouldn't be of any use in this. He picked up his book on space-time ninjutsu physics theory and continued where he'd left off.
With Naruto
"Yukimi, I need you to listen to me carefully. Slide down your sleeve" Yukimi didn't react frozen in fear, shock, and confusion. Everything was overloading the poor girl, and the excruciating throbbing pain in her shoulder was consuming her.
Yugito understood what was happening and hearing the strain in Naruto's voice grabbed onto the girl's sleeve and pulled it out of the way. Naruto began going through hand seals rapidly.
"Ram, Ox, Snake, Monkey, Monkey, Bird, Dragon. Now unseal the urn and place your hands both on it and her seal." Kaguya ordered, her voice serious.
He did so and began pulling a greenish yellow translucent blob out of Yukimi's shoulder, the urn opened next to him, and one could see the bubbling inky liquid within.
"Fuin!" Naruto pulled hard, ripping what could be seen as Orochimaru with wide eyes by his back out of Yukimi before throwing him into the inky liquid. The lid of the pot slammed shut a moment later.
Naruto fell back on Yukimi's bed, panting in relief. Yukimi was still frozen in shock as Hanabi and Rei comforted her.
"What on earth just happened?!"
Next day
Naruto's eyes fluttered open, groaning at the sunlight streaming in through the large window of his room. He sent his chakra out to the blinds in annoyance and shut them.
He groaned again as he sat up, unsurprised to see that Hanabi wasn't there and had already gotten up. He yawned before phasing through the heavy comforter and getting to his feet. The Ōtsutsuki heir stared at the wall blankly, processing everything that had happened yesterday.
'I lost control, but not as bad as last time,' he thought. The way he'd entered Kumo wouldn't be his first option, but the situation was desperate, and he'd needed the Kohaku no Jōhei.
Naruto lifted his hand and summoned the fan, the Bashōsen according to his mother. Looking at it with his Byakugan he could see 5 different elemental chakra coils swirling around inside of it.
He resealed it into himself a moment later, he had things to do today. Exploding into smoke, he flowed down the halls of the compound before arriving at the breakfast table where he knew Yukimi and Yugito were.
"-you feeling?" Yugito asked her friend.
"I feel much better, the seal is gone now, and I can control my power, though I'm afraid to go outside as smoke…" She replied, and they both jumped slightly when he materialized next to Yukimi.
"I'm glad to hear that, I am sorry for the complications with the procedure yesterday, but you can go out in the wind and not blow away now," Naruto reassured her, getting a stronger nod from the freckled girl.
"Thank you Master Naruto." She said with a small bow, getting giggles from Yugito who burst out laughing at Naruto's exasperated face. 'I'm never going to get this to stop…'
"I don't know why it bothers you so much Naruto, you're going to be our kage eventually," Yugito commented offhandedly.
'She's right I suppose…' He mused, "Do you know where Hanabi is?"
"I believe she's actually training right now with Gaara-san." Naruto nodded before flowing away in smoke. He quickly arrived at the training ground, and indeed his daughter was training.
Gaara was standing in one place impassively, his sand swirling around him as both Rei and Hanabi tried to get as close as they could to him. Naruto watched in amusement as Hanabi got batted away from Gaara once more, only able to get within 30 feet of him before not being able to dodge the sand.
"I'm never gonna get this!" Hanabi bewailed, watching as Rei got considerably closer before also being batted away. Naruto smiled at his daughter, proud of her as she got up and tried once more anyway.
"Musuko…" Naruto heard his mother. They'd talk long into the night and she'd apologized - several times - for not telling him something he'd have had no way of knowing. She explained and apologized for expecting so much from him. Kaguya realized that she'd presumed too much, just assuming that her son could figure out such a complicated issue on his own.
They were on much better terms now, but Kaguya was still sad. Naruto wasn't upset with her after her apology, moving on. It wouldn't be good for either of them to stay stuck on this matter, it worked out in the end.
'Yes, Kaa-san?'
"You need to check if anyone else is in the Amber Pot…" She said, and Naruto's eyes widened, it was the perfect thing to seal a Bijuu in, and Kumo was supposed to have the Hachibi, and he didn't detect or find the Hachibi…
He exploded into smoke before traveling a significant distance away from the glade, stopping on the other side of the massive mountain. He unsealed the urn from within his body and placed his hands on it.
'He's in here, as well as Orochimaru who's quite mad.' Naruto mused, able to detect the being's thoughts. He pulled off the lid before sticking his hands into the inky liquid within. Grabbing onto his nephew's chakra he pulled and Hachibi came easily from out of the black fluid.
The next moment the massive amount of pinkish red yōkai grew into a large ushi-oni with four long horns on its head. The giant creature blinked several times before seeing Naruto on the ground far below.
"Gyūki, it is good to finally meet you nephew," Naruto said, enjoying the look of shock on the large Bijuu's face.
"You're finally here!" The giant octopus ram lowered it's head extremely close to the ground, staring in awe and happiness at Naruto who smiled.
"Yes, I am, and I am working to find, save, and protect all my nephews and nieces. If you would kindly shrink down to a more manageable size, I can explain." The Hachibi nodded and the next moment shrunk majorly, now around 18 feet tall.
"Thank you. To catch you up to speed Gyūki, I have begun collecting all the Bijuu. With me are Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Kokuō, and now you. I also have with me several people of varying backgrounds." Naruto began, getting a happy nod from the ram Bijuu
"I plan to create a village where people and beings who are scorned and hated can live in safety. Come with me, and I shall introduce you."
"I am so happy to see you finally here Naruto-oji, we've waited so long. Am I allowed to stay outside a host?"
"Hai, Gobi hangs around where we live currently, the rest of them are sealed within hosts and have chosen to stay there." Naruto replied as they began 'running' through the forest back toward the compound.
2 hours later
Naruto was looking over a rough tourist map of Konoha, it was the best that he could get but all he needed was to locate the location of the Kurama clan, which was on the clan list for Konoha in the pamphlet.
"How is Gyūki-oigo settling in?" He asked as he heard Kai enter his office.
"Well, he seemed to enjoy talking to Isaribi and Gobi, he's decided to live inside the lake, which I suspected he would," Kai reported, walking in front of Naruto's desk.
"That's good,"
"I have a suggestion," Naruto looked up at Kai, curious as to what the genius had to say.
oOoOoOo
Barely visible in the forest were several blurs, darting with agility and precision through the giant trees of the Land of Fire. Cloaked in black, they headed toward the coast that connected the Land of Fire to the ocean. With near-perfect synchronization they leaped up into the branches, continuing through the limbs of the forest.
The Hyūga Elder Council had finally come to a decision about the Shiroi Oni. It had been confirmed that the demon possessed the All-Seeing Eyes of the Hyūga, as well as having kidnapped the clan head's youngest daughter. The Third Hokage had warned sternly that any attempts to retrieve Hanabi Hyūga would result in death, pointing to the many events credited to the demon in the Bingo book. On top of that, the devil was now ranked as an S-ranked shinobi.
Hiashi was enraged by Sarutobi's lack of cooperation, but the third had been resolute in his decision. Sarutobi had sent Jiraiya as well as several teams of hunter-nin out after the Shiroi to retrieve Hanabi. Hiashi didn't believe that Jiraiya could do the job, and had no faith in hunter-nin. He'd turned to Danzo in an attempt to get "professionals" to retrieve his daughter.
Hiashi didn't want his clan's bloodline secrets to be compromised to the Shiroi Oni, which Riko thought was ridiculous, the ninja had the Byakugan himself. He leaped in time with his 4 companions, all of them the cream of the crop in the Hyūga branch family.
Hiashi had tried to get Danzo to send shinobi out to retrieve his daughter, but Danzo had refused. Hiashi still wouldn't give up, determined to recover his daughter, not wanting his clan to be seen as weak. He'd composed a squad of the best the branch family had to offer at the time.
Riko and his four teammates had been traveling for several days, looking for and listening for any sign of the elusive white demon. Riko grimaced as he remembered Hiashi's order, they were to bring back Hanabi, the price of failure painful death by the Caged Bird Seal.
Afternoon
A white and black helix could be spotted barely shooting across the sky if one had good eyes. Heading toward the Land of Fire and subsequently Konoha, Naruto was on his way to fulfill his promise and check on Yakumo for Kazumi.
"You aren't going to be able to fool the barrier like last time, and they are going to be more prepared for you," Kaguya warned, getting a nod from her son.
'Hai, but I'm not really concerned. I can locate Yakumo from outside the barrier and if she's in danger. The barrier is the last thing on my mind.' Before long the spinning helix touched down on the wall, the setting sun casting him in orange light.
Naruto's pale eyes scanned across the large village, quickly locating the Kurama clan's compound that was smaller than most in Konoha. He heard his mothers warning that several Hyūga had spotted him on the wall, but he ignored it. Instead, focusing all his attention on the scene within the Kurama compound.
The girl he'd identified as Yakumo was backing up across the floor, tears pouring down her face and begging for something. Naruto's eyes narrowed as he saw a woman with long black hair stalking toward her. 'She's in trouble, that answers that problem.'
"HALT! You are under arrest f-" The ANBU was cut off as Naruto exploded into smoke and rapidly blew into the village below.
"All squads, the Shiroi Oni is confirmed. He is rapidly moving into the village as white and black smoke. I repeat the Shiroi Oni is here."
Kurama Clan
Moments before
Kurenai's eyes held regret, but she would complete her orders. Usually, she'd put up resistance to ruining the girl's future profession. Right now though, the Hokage was one screw up away from ending her career entirely. In fact, if she were not the number one Genjutsu specialist in the village, he already would have. He'd made that fact painfully clear.
"Yakumo, I am sorry, but your powers have to be sealed by order of the Hokage."
"No! NO! You can't do that to me!" Yakumo yelled at her, backing away as the woman she'd once called sensei began moving toward her.
Yakumo tripped on a low floor step and fell to the ground. Her eyes wide in fear as Kurenai gained distance. There was a regretful look on the raven-haired woman's face, but she didn't notice or care.
"You're going to ruin my life!" She backed away quickly, but Kurenai kept walking forward, faster now.
"No! Please… Please no." Kurenai fought down her emotions, she didn't want to do this, but the girl's powers were too dangerous and impossible to control. She accidentally killed her parents for kami's sake.
"I have to do this Yakumo, it's for everyone's safety including your own."
"You will not touch the girl." Kurenai twisted toward the voice, pulling a kunai at the same time, but she couldn't see anything in the shadows. Yakumo on the ground was looking around with wide eyes frantically, scared out of her mind.
"She is under my protection." Kurenai's eyes widened as out of the shadows stepped a boy cloaked in white. A hood over his head and a face mask obscuring the bottom part of his face. She immediately dropped into a stance as she saw his pale eyes, realizing who was in front of her.
"Shiroi Oni, how did you even get in here?" She asked, molding her chakra quickly for a Genjutsu.
"Do not bother with Genjutsu. As to your question, your ANBU can never hope to stop me." She didn't let her shock show on her face, the boy knew she was about to make a genjutsu before she even started hand signs.
"I know who you are, Naruto. A boy from Suna with several bloodlines, the one who murdered over a hundred rain ninja in cold blood." Kurenai attempted to stall, hoping that ANBU were coming. Security, as she knew, had been tightened majorly after the boy broke into one of the most secure places in the village.
"So Rasa finally contributed to my entry did he? No matter, yes Naruto is my name." Kurenai had thought she was prepared for any move the boy would make, she was wrong. The next instant vines burst out of the ground and wrapped around her, pulling her to her knees. One wrapped around her mouth, preventing her from talking.
"Kurama Yakumo," She heard the boy say as he walked past her and out of her sight.
"W-what do you want with me! Leave me alone!" She heard her student cry in fear.
"Yakumo, I mean you no harm." Kurenai was shocked at the level of kindness and caring in the voice of the demon. 'He's manipulating her!' She struggled harder, but the vines were unyielding.
"Yakumo, there is much you do not understand. I need you to trust me, I was asked by someone who cares about you deeply to check on you, and if you were in danger to bring you to them." Her eyes widened at this, trying to turn her head to see her students reaction.
"Who? No one cares about me! I killed my parents, everyone is scared of me!"
"You're wrong, people do care for you Yakumo."
Kurenai tried to substitute with something in the room but found herself unable, the vines somehow preventing her from using chakra correctly. The next moment she heard someone slump down on the ground.
"I regret doing that, but now is not the time to explain everything to her." Kurenai glared at the demon as he stepped in front of her, seeing mirth in his pale eyes. The next moment the vine covering her mouth moved away.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!?" She yelled at him, only for him to move what she just noticed was a circular eyebrow up.
"I am taking her to where she belongs, with people who care about her."
"You can't do that! She's dangerous." Kurenai wasn't sure why she was telling the demon that, 'When is the damn ANBU getting here?!'
"So am I." The next moment he was gone, the vines retreating into the ground and she fell to her hands and knees. Quickly getting up she looked toward where Yakumo was, only to find the girl gone.
'This is really not good…' She thought, and the next moment the room was filled by several groups of ANBU.
"He's gone, and he took the Kurama heir with him."
With Naruto
Naruto was flitting from shadow to shadow in the afternoon light. He was carrying the knocked out Kurama heir on his shoulder as he went across back alleyways.
'Ahh here she comes,' he mused as he continued down an abandoned street, heading west out of Konoha.
"Sen'ei Jashu! (Striking Shadow Snakes)" He didn't react as several blackish snakes wrapped around his torso, arms, and legs, constricting him. "Ahh, it seems that I've been found," Naruto remarked in some amusement.
"Shiroi Oni, what are you doing back here? Who is that on your shoulder?" Snapped a purple hair kunoichi. Naruto turned toward her as much as possible in his restrained state.
"I came to collect a friend, which answers the second question." He replied, observing the woman. She had a light brown trench coat on, underneath was a fishnet body suit and miniskirt.
"You aren't going anywhere demon. The ANBU will be here shortly." The kunoichi declared as more snakes wrapped around him. Her jaw dropped in shock when the snakes all suddenly unwrapped from Naruto, all of them bowing to him! 'What the hell!?'
"Mitarashi Anko," She jumped in shock at her name.
"How do you know my name?! What have you done to my snakes?!"
"Nothing at all," Naruto paused for a moment before continuing. "Hmm, it seems that all the summons are loyal to me, the more you know." Naruto's voice clearly showed his interest and amusement at this.
'Wait what the fuck?! All the summons are loyal to him?!' Anko stared in shock as the boy nodded to all her summons, them all disappearing in puffs of smoke. This demon, who was becoming feared around the nations turned to her, seemingly gazing into her with his pale eyes.
"Anyway, I have a proposition for you, Miss Anko." She narrowed his eyes at him, preparing to fight without her snakes.
"You're a very lonely and scared person Anko, but that isn't your fault." She stammered, trying to respond, tell the boy to fuck off or something.
"Orochimaru did the same thing he did to you to someone precious to me. I was able to find a way to remove her seal." Her mouth dropped open, the Hokage and Jiraiya had told her it was impossible to remove the seal. Her hand subconsciously lifted up and touched the cursed seal on her shoulder.
"I know that you are hated in this village for something outside of your control. Anko, I am building a village for those like us, those who are scorned, hated, and despised. You can find happiness Anko." As she stared at him stupefied as his eyes evolved into the Sharingan. Before she could react, he had already made eye contact with her.
She fully expected to be knocked unconscious but instead, the world twisted around her, changing. Children with weird appearances running around a field, playing, laughing. One of the children covered in scales, another lacked any pupils or iris at all, one bursting into pink smoke before flowing across the field. Her eyes widened in shock as she saw Hanabi, the youngest daughter of the Hyūga clan head chase after the blue-haired girl laughing loudly.
She suddenly found herself actually within the memory, able to move and look around.
"This is my family, my friends who I have met in my travels." She jumped as the boy appeared next to her. She immediately noticed that he wasn't wearing his hood. 6 large horns sprouting from the sides of his head as he looked out at the playing children in the field, smiling.
"Where am I?"
"You are within a memory of mine. I wanted to show you that there is a place you can come and not be feared, but loved and cared for." She was about to ask why when she saw the massive building they were standing in front of. Her mouth dropped open in shock as she saw a sizeable horned creature partway out of the lake. Several tentacles moving around the giant beast as it talked with a brown-haired boy.
"What on earth is that!?"
The Shiroi Oni turned, seeing what she was pointing too. "That is Gyūki, the 8-tailed beast, and my nephew." She nearly lost her bottom jaw at that.
"But that isn't important right now, I have implanted in your mind where this is in the world. I trust you not to disclose our location to anyone."
"Why would you trust me with that?" She asked in confusion, tearing her eyes away from the strange sight of a smaller 8 tails talking to someone.
"Because Anko, I know what you are going through here, the hatred many see you with. I am formally extending an invitation for you to join us, I think you will find happiness here if you do." She took another look around, trying to understand what was going on. She saw a red-headed boy with a giant gourd on his back talking to a blonde girl and a brown-haired boy. She saw another blond girl with two different colored eyes holding herself up on her hands in what looked like a training field.
"This is my family, these are people I care about, people I will protect with my life."
Her vision started to fade, darkness crawling in from the corners. "You can be apart of this family Anko." The next moment she fell to the ground in the middle of the street. Naruto was long gone, and the ANBU landed around her a moment later.
"Sir, she's okay but unconscious."
"Take her to the hospital and inform Lord Hokage. Rido can you see him?" An ANBU stepped up next to his captain.
"Yes sir, I followed him out of the village. He was moving much slower than before, almost like he wanted us to know that he'd left." The ANBU reported, getting a nod from his captain.
"Everyone! Move out, we are to follow the Shiroi Oni."
"Hai!" All 7 remaining ANBU launched into the sky after the demon, one staying behind to take Anko to the hospital. The Captain listened carefully to the constant reports from Rido as he tracked the Oni with his Byakugan.
"Sir! He's stopped!" Rido reported.
"Where is the Kurama heiress?"
"On the ground next to him… Sir… He's looking directly into my eyes…" Rido said, his voice holding a small undertone of dread. The Captains scowled, that confirmed the Byakugan then.
"Full frontal attack, he knows we are here. Distract him, and Otonari will grab the heiress." The Captain ordered, getting affirmatives from his men. A few moments later the 7 ANBU landed in the clearing, the boy staring at them from the darkness of his hood.
"Return the Heiress now!"
"So that she can be sealed? Her life ruined?" The Shiroi Oni replied, his tone entertained. The Captain kept a straight face, giving a signal 6 ANBU rushed forward toward the boy.
A second later one attempted to slash the unmoving boy through the chest, nothing happening at all.
"What the hell!"
Rido was creeped out by the smile on the boy's face, able to see through the lower face mask.
'Mother, you said that all the summons are loyal to you and by extension me?' Naruto mused, wanting to test it. "Hai, Musuko. The issue is that summoning requires one to have blood, and I will need to teach you how to form your own blood out of your chakra." Kaguya replied, feeling Naruto's childish disappointment that he wouldn't get to unleash massive creatures on the ANBU.
'Oh well, another day then.' Naruto replied, seeing an ANBU attempting to creep up behind them. Everyone had frozen for a moment as he had his small conversation with his mother, but that was over as an ANBU unleashed a blade of wind toward him.
Naruto's hand shot up, absorbing the chakra out of the attack and dissipating it into nothingness.
"I think this is yours," Naruto remarked in amusement, the next moment the same blade of air was unleashed from his body, multiplied many times as the air around him flew through the air, slicing through trees, leaves flying.
Naruto whirled, grabbing the chakra of the ANBU about to grab Yakumo.
"Nope," The Captain watched in horror as Otonari collapsed to the ground, falling on his masked face.
"I do not have time for this," The Captain growled, his hands going through seals rapidly. Naruto was tired of this fight, the only reason he hadn't killed them all immediately was cause he wanted to test the ability to summon creatures.
He sighed before grabbing all of the ANBU's chakra, immediately ripping it all from them. He shuddered as the powerful shinobi's chakra flowed into him, a second later the thud of 6 bodies falling to the ground sounded out. Naruto picked up Yakumo before leaping off into the trees, he had a long way to go before he made it back to the Land of the Sea. "You could just seal her inside of you…" Kaguya commented, realizing that physically traveling all the way was kind of unneeded.
'I can do that? That won't hurt her?' Naruto asked in surprise, he realized yet again that he was missing a lot of basic shinobi knowledge.
"It'll only work on people who are unconscious, it's not good for conscious people," Kaguya explained. Naruto immediately sealed Yakumo within his arm before shifting into a helix, black and white strands twirling around each other before he vanished.
Late Afternoon
"Kazumi-sensei, can I come in?" There was a muffled 'hai' from the other side of the door. Naruto pushed open the door with his foot, carrying a brown-haired girl in his arms.
"How did the-" Kazumi cut herself off as she saw who he was carrying, rushing over and beginning to inspect the girl for injuries.
"She's okay sensei, I had to bring her here. They were going to seal her." He said, setting the girl down on the couch gently.
"Yakumo…" Naruto heard her murmur, stepping back he turned to his sensei.
"I found her about to be sealed by a jounin, I stopped her but had to knock Yakumo out to bring her here safely. I leave it up to you to explain everything to her, she's quite emotional." He leaned over closer to her at this point, whispering, "According to her she accidentally killed her parents, I can only assume she does not have control of her bloodline."
Kazumi nodded, "I will put a bloodline limiter seal on her for everyone's safety until I've talked to her." He nodded, that was satisfactory. He knew those worked as they had been near perfected for Yukimi.
"Thank you Naruto, thank you." He smiled, "You are welcome Sensei, I am glad to be of help. I will leave you two be." He turned and walked toward the door of the sitting room.
"Do you want me to fetch Rei?" Kazumi shook her head, "Wait till after I have talked to Yakumo." He nodded before vanishing out the doorway. He shut it behind him before exploding into smoke, gliding softly down the halls in search of his daughter. He found her building small structures out of sticks by the lake with Rei.
Near the duo was Yukimi leisurely reading a book, and with his head part way out of the water was Gyūki with Isaribi on his head. Naruto smiled, materializing back into his physical body by Hanabi.
"No, you need to put it here," Hanabi ordered, and very carefully Rei placed a stick on several other sticks, forming the 4th wall of one of their structures.
"Building a town?" Naruto inquired, and made sure to grab both of their hands as they jumped to prevent them from knocking over their small building.
"Yeah! We are building the village you are gonna make!" Hanabi declared, grabbing several sticks in her hands that were piled near her.
"That's impressive, what's that one?" He pointed at a somewhat lopsided building that they'd managed to make 2 floors, barely.
"That one is supposed to be our house, but Rei thinks it should be the hospital," Hanabi said, carefully laying sticks sideways across the new house they'd just made.
"Yeah, and that one is gonna be Gaara-sensei's house," Rei said, pointing toward a rectangular house that was near a patch of sandy ground.
"May I build a house?" He smiled as he got two enthusiastic nods from the small girls. He picked up several sticks and began creating a kage tower. Gyūki watched, his respect for the Ōtsutsuki going up as the boy sat down in the grass and helped his daughter and her friend build a small town out of sticks.
"Hanabi-chan, can you hand me some more sticks?" Hanabi eagerly handed her father another handful of sticks, but she accidentally dropped one, and it fell toward the new structure he'd just made. Hanabi and Rei looked on in horror as the stick dropped on a crash course with it.
Both their eyes widened as the stick was caught in mid-air by a small vine that burst out of the grass. They turned to Naruto in amazement as he carefully took the stick from the vine, not wanting to knock anything over.
"That was so cool!" Rei exclaimed, the vine sliding back into the ground.
"Dad, can you build a house with your powers?" Hanabi asked eagerly, wanting to see her dad use his plant powers again.
"Sure," He smiled, and the next moment four small wooden pillars burst out of the ground, only rising about 7 inches in the air before splitting off toward each other, forming a little box. Wood continued to grow on the small structure before a few moments later there was a small house with a slanted roof sitting on the ground.
Hanabi leaned closer to the structure, seeing a small door and 2 windows on the front. "That's so cool!" Rei exclaimed as she examined the house, Hanabi couldn't help but agree.
"Dad, build a whole town… pretty please?"
END CHAPTER - 10,417 words
Hey look, stuff happened this chapter, isn't that wonderful?
Yeah, this chapter wasn't like a super big advancement of the story. I think the most important part of it was the fact that relationships between a mother and son are not always sunshine and roses. People make mistakes, those mistakes have consequences… there is no such thing as all these perfect relationships you see in fanfictions.
Oh and yeah, Yakumo is here now. I feel like she's a rather forgotten character, the one story I read with her in it, she was still a underdeveloped character despite being the teammate of the MC.
Yukimi is free! Woooot!
Hey, all yall about to review that Naruto made a mistake about Anko.
EXACTLY!
People make mistakes, it might genuinely be one or it might work out. All yall here to see Naruto kick ass and be perfect in the eyes of freaking everyone. Get the hell out, he's 8? Yeah, I think that's his age in this chapter (I'm writing farther ahead in the story) Sure Naruto's all-powerful, but that doesn't mean he's not going to make mistakes.
Hell, even full-grown adults make mistakes. *Points at Sarutobi as a prime example.*
Answers to a lot of reviews:
PhenioxMaster: The 7-tails can be referred to either as Nanabi or Shichibi in Japanese. I am not claiming to be a master at the language (my first and only language is English) but from the research, I did this is what I gathered. On the Naruto wiki, it specifically says that Chōmei can be called the Nanabi or Shichibi. Both Nana and Shichi mean 7 in Japanese apparently according to a website about Japanese numbers. I decided to go with Shichi as I didn't want to call the 7th member of the scarf group "Nana" as that kinda ruined his 'badassness.'
Doomqwer: Thank you for the compliment, I believe you had a question but I didn't understand it. Please rewrite your review, not trying to be offensive, but I can't read that.
Zaralann: Spoilers! Also, Zetsu doesn't have the Rinnegan in this fic? In case you missed in chapter 2, Chariko possesses Madara's eyes, Nagato never got them. How tall is he? I'd say like 4'10"? Meh. It did change in the chapter with his "cool transformation."
Drew86419: I'm wondering too, imagine that :P
Bijuk34: Glad you enjoy the story that much, means a lot to me. As to creating a specific bloodline for Isaribi… maybe? Read on and see why I am unsure.
Mrbiggs132: I love how I've somehow put so much detail into developing characters that people are wanting me to time skip instead of the normal complaints. Which are "You are time skipping too much and we don't have enough time to get to know the characters" lol. Glad you are enjoying the story!
TheOldNick: I agree, Naruto is frickin OP as hell. But he's not a BS character either, Naruto will eventually reach a point where very little on earth will pose a threat to him, and that makes sense. Because everything of any significant power on earth came from the Ōtsutsuki and his father. As too the Hanabi comment, I hadn't thought of that… that's actually a really good idea hmmmmmmm….
Guest (Get an account plz!): Glad you love my story, please leave more dope ass reviews in the future bruh.
Hartman227: Me Gusta too! (What?)
Another Guest: Haha, very funny name.
First off, glad you are enjoying the story.
Second, don't do cocaine, cocaine hurt your brain.
Third, I agree with the hater comment.
I find your description of the "final battle" to be quite entertaining, I will make sure that some character describes it like that in the future lol. As too the Hanabi dying thing, maybe o.O I would really rather not, I'm kind of attached to Hanabi. (I'm an aspiring writer and killing off characters is really hard to do when you care about your story.) As too the pairing comments, patience horny one. First, I'm not writing lemon scenes, I can point you in the direction of them… just type "harem" in the search bar, and switch the filter to M rated. Have fun. There is NOT going to be a harem in this fic, get out if that's what you are here for folks. Additionally, this is NOTa gay fanfic, so also leave if you are here for that…
Solitary Winter: Your comment is uh… contradicting? First off, 90% is a heck of a lot. I think you are deciding you know every possible thing I could write, which is just an insult to human imagination overall. The 3 questions you gave as an example are hilarious because directly following them you say, "I know the source cannon all but gives readers the answers nigh instantly." So me leaving that in the air would have been pointless, as you yourself agreed. So I decided to include the prologue which originally had just been a summary like document to help me keep things straight. Your comment that I killed a fantastic plot line is kind of hurtful, I'm gonna go cry in a corner now…
Solitary Winter Part 2: Ahh, there's a question I've been waiting for. It's explained :D later though. Again eventually Nakada will learn his family background and that will all be explained.
Criamond: It does play a role, but if you missed the small statement before the flashback. Everyone on demon island that was apart of Orochimaru's stuff got utterly annihilated by Naruto when he went over there. Keep reading, it will be quite interesting in regard to your question about the Purifiers. I'm glad you enjoyed the poker game, that was one of my favorite parts of that chapter.
Uchiha Arashi: Request granted! *Godlike boom decree*
Paradox009: Your review is somehow 3 sentences, so I'll answer it directly. Thank you!
Eien no henko: Again with this time skip request, lol. It's coming, I promise… Eventually :D
Icefox: Glad you enjoyed it, I've worked very hard to make sure it is that way. Fun Fact: This story is actually my 5th rewrite of it… if I added up every attempt (some getting 70k words in) It's over 350k words overall. In fact, the character that is now Nakada was the main character in the attempt before this one I finally decided to go with. That's part of why Nakada has such an intricate background for a side character.
Snowbot: 10 ren says you never show up at this story again, see you next year story jumper :P
Guest who is judging my Japanese: Oi, dude… (Scrolls up to earlier answer and copy-pastes) The 7-tails can be referred to either as Nanabi or Shichibi in Japanese. I am not claiming to be a master at the language (my first and only language is English) but from the research, I did this is what I gathered. On the Naruto wiki, it specifically says that Chōmei can be called the Nanabi or Shichibi. Both Nana and Shichi mean 7 in Japanese apparently according to a website about Japanese numbers. I decided to go with Shichi as I didn't want to call the 7th member of the scarf group "Nana" as that kinda ruined his 'badassness.'
Elemental Wolf Sage: Yeah me too! Glad that's not happening in this story :D
helrio uzugaku: Good Kami! Your review is massive! First off, thank you for writing such an in-depth and long review of my story, I really appreciate it! Like really really really do, please leave more of those.
*Takes a deep breath*
Thank you for all of your compliments starting out your review, I really appreciate and enjoy those. I am definitely trying to put another spin on canon concepts, as well as concepts from other video games, and movies in the Naruto universe.
I do not know neonzangetsu but I will go look them up, thank you for the high praise! *Head grows and then get's popped by my beta reader*
Ahh, the Rinne-Sharingan Shinigami technique thingy, you are right. Technically Naruto should be able to use the Rinnegan powers with his Rinne-Sharingan. But I was sticking with the canon on this, no one that gains the Rinne-Sharingan in the show and doesn't have the Rinnegan ever displays the ability to use Rinnegan techniques. (Mostly referring to Kaguya here, If she has the Rinnegan too then Hagoromo really never would have won.) I hope my made up ability doesn't sound to BS, I am working on a backstory for the power.
I like how there aren't pairings either, I really like stories that are based in reality. Where kids under 12 don't suddenly fuck each other because the author is a horny-
Anyway… Still working on what stage 3 is of Naruto's bloodline, so no spoilers. But you've got a generally good guess of how it will work, maybe… unless I change it o.O I agree with you about killing off a character will be good, but I can't really answer it without giving spoilers so… Spoilers
Glad you are loving the story mate, make more awesome reviews like this! I will keep making more chapters in return :D
*Passes out*