Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, if I did, I wouldn't have to go through college. Every character belongs to Kishimoto unless they are my own OCs.
"Talk"
"Thoughts"
"Bijuu, summons"
Jutsu
"What did Orochimaru want?" asked Jiraiya.
Tsunade walked slowly to the group, having a limp. That brat would pay for it one day. She would punish him for it when she became Hokage but now they had bigger problems.
"Let's go back to the hotel where we stopped. We'll talk there." She said. It wasn't a bad plan especially since Naruto, Ino and Jiraiya had to find a place to sleep. They went to the hotel and they took two rooms. Tsunade and Shizune were sure it would have been Naruto and Jiraiya in one and Ino in the other. To their astonishment it wasn't as they predicted.
"Naruto are you and Ino a couple?" said Shizune on way to Tsunade and Shizune's room.
"No, not yet. We try to take it easy but since our first real mission we began sleeping together. Don't worry we are fully clothed." He said that to not irk on of the women, kami knew they all hated perverts, and to stop Jiraiya from imagining things. They finally sat down in the room.
"So Hime, what did the snake want from you?"
"He came earlier today and told me he has a potential candidate for a medical breakthrough, but he didn't specify. He said that I would have to work for him and give him the results. As for payment he would… he would bring Dan and Nawaki back." Said Tsunade.
"Tsunade-sama you told me that we would have to only heal someone! Why have you lied to me?!" shouted Shizune in an outburst
"I'm sorry Shizune, I shouldn't have, but the payment was too appealing. I have really stooped low, haven't I?" she asked already knowing the answer.
"I'm disappointed in you Tsunade-sama. If you haven't changed your mind about it, I would have renounced you as my master. I think we must thank Naruto-kun for putting some sense in your head the hard way." Said Shizune huffing at what her master was thinking.
"Tsunade I think I know what he wanted you to do. Orochimaru is trying to gain immortality to learn every jutsu. From what I know he does that by switching bodies every three years. I can guess that he would have you make a fake body for him to take over. It would have been truly a medical breakthrough to make a functional body from scratch." Jiraiya said making Tsunade gasp in shock. Maybe she wouldn't punish the blonde for making her seat awkward from his technique. He just stopped her from doing something stupid.
Meanwhile Naruto was thinking about another thing the older blonde said. "What do you mean by bring them back?"
Tsunade's face became full of sorrow "Nawaki, he… he was my little brother, he was killed during the war by a trap and Dan was my lover who was killed in action." She said on the verge of crying seeing their corpses in her memories.
Naruto on the other side wasn't happy about it, there were only two ways to bring people back "I don't want to break your hopes but there are only two known ways to bring people back. First is to use Edo Tensei, he would summon them from the underworld as his puppets and husks of their old beings. The second is to force the Shinigami into releasing the souls back but they won't have a corporeal body. I don't think that Orochimaru can overpower the Shinigami into doing it so that only leaves option one."
After all, he knew what he was talking about. Even Kami had to strike a deal with the God of Death to let his parents come back for only a relatively short amount of time. Meanwhile Tsunade was trying to hold her tears, maybe she really had this glimmer of hope when Orochimaru proposed that arrangement.
"I'm sorry about being so blunt about it." Naruto said not daring to touch her.
"It's okay, we can all have dreams, some just won't happen." Tsunade said wiping off any tears that threatened to leave her eyes. She promised to become once again worthy of being called a Sannin. She wouldn't let this get to her. She began calculating in her head and something didn't check out in what he was saying.
"Gaki, how can a mere genin like you knows stuff like that? Another way to put my question is: are you really a genin?" Tsunade asked to which Naruto scoffed.
"Who has ever told you that I'm a genin?" he asked. She wanted to answer that but every time she opened her mouth, she closed it already knowing the answers.
"Then what are you? A chunin? It would be plausible at your age. But I haven't fallen enough to be beaten that way by a new chunin, right?" she asked for reassurance. Naruto smiled and revealed his tattoo, she would have known anyway when she came to office.
"I'm in ANBU future-Hokage-sama" he said with a mock bow not sure what to call her since she graduated from being a hag when she wanted to improve. Shizune had eyes larger than the saucers from which Tsunade liked to drink so much.
"Wait, wait you are what thirteen? Fourteen? You would have to graduate at most at six if you are in ANBU." Tsunade said
"And another miss. Because of who I am, I skipped academy at eight, began boot camp at eight and half and became an ANBU at nine, to finish I became a captain at around twelve."
"That's absurd, what kind of circumstances would let a child go on suicide missions before he even tasted sake from his parent's stock." She said and at that moment Jiraiya and Ino felt a pang of sadness.
"I haven't introduced myself, have I? I'm Naruto Uzumaki the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. And well you can say that being in ANBU was a safer route for me than continuing the ninja program in a normal way." He said with another mock bow.
"Shizune bring me some sake, that is too much for my nerves. Since I will know anyway in a few weeks, in what part of the ANBU were you?" said Tsunade with Shizune brining the bottle, she would need a drink as well.
"Do you have a Bingo book on you?" seeing her take it out he continued "Then check page 84 if I'm correct."
She opened it, there was no photo but what she learned soothed the fact that she got her ass kicked or poked to be exact by this brat. "Ushi, S-rank demolisher, early jonin overall except for his ability to destroy everything. A-rank better to face alone than in large groups because of his specialty. Nickname Golden Demon." She read out loud.
"Yup that would sum it up pretty well." He said with a proud face.
"Is she an ANBU as well?" Tsunade said pointing at Ino
"Nope, that's Ino-chan, she's a genin, my teammate and a pseudo apprentice for a month." He said with Tsunade visibly relaxing. Two blonde geniuses in one room was enough for her.
"What do you mean by teammate?"
"It's a long story, I will tell you later as you will need to know that there might be some problems when we go back." He said
"Great… But you still didn't tell me about how you know the methods of returning people back to life especially the Shinigami way." Said Tsunade. Naruto coughed in his hand to get some time before he would start speaking.
"You see this is one of the reasons I was forced into being an ANBU. Get yourselves comfortable because what you will hear will make you think about your life. You see when I was younger people would try to hunt me down on the Memorial Day of the people who have fallen during the Kyuubi incident. One of them was so bad that the Hokage would always take me to his house for a few days around this time. When I was eight someone decided to kill me before Ji-chan would take me to safety. He planted explosives in my house, if not for a simple way to alarm me I would be now in a coffin in multiple parts. Anyway, I was still harmed during the explosion. That's when I met my parents who after releasing Kyuubi to let her heal me. They stored some amount of chakra in the seal and when it faded away the Shinigami came. Not to retrieve their souls but Kami struck a deal with him to let my parents be with me for six months to train me. The deal on my side is to kill Orochimaru and a certain man that caused the Kyuubi incident. That's how I know about this way to bring people back." He said letting them all ingest what he just told. Something he told only a few people.
"Wait, if Minato and Kushina were alive how did nobody see them?" asked Jiraiya getting out of his stupor.
"That's what I told you before, they didn't have bodies, they were inside of my mindscape just like the Kyuubi." Jiraiya nodded showing that he understood but something else was bothering him.
"Did you just say that the Kyuubi's cage is open? How could have your parents let that happen?!" said Jiraiya
"Kaa-san was the one who took off the seal. Remember I told you the Kyuubi wasn't responsible that night. Someone with a Sharingan put her in a genjutsu that made her rampage. She was sealed into me until she has calmed down. If you don't want to believe me, I have a way to let her out for a small amount of time." Naruto didn't wait for an answer seeing that everybody was dazed from everything that was told in this room.
He covered one of his hands in Yang and the other in Yin making them look like thin clawed gloves made of chakra. He did his favorite hand sign for Kage Bunshin and said "Yin Yang Bunshin". The chakra on his hands started flowing on the floor making a puddle that began taking form of a woman. There she stood before them, even then the pressure of her being was so strong that if she told someone to kneel, they would do it.
Without saying a word, she came before Jiraiya and slapped him across the face "That was for leaving a poor child on his own for so long" she said and released the pressure she was making. She went to Tsunade next "Aren't you Mito-chan's granddaughter. You don't look at all like her but still you resemble her so much." She said and ruffled Tsunade's hair. After all she was so old that for her Tsunade was like a child.
"As you can see, she's not a rampaging beast like everyone thinks. She's more human than any of you can imagine. Oh, and she has a name, it's Kurama." Naruto presented his tenant to everybody. Everybody was on the end of the rope. They learned too much tonight. Kurama preferred to go back to her house inside the seal for the night.
"All right let's go to sleep; we have to train me back into shape tomorrow. We have a week until Orochimaru comes back." Said Tsunade
"Speaking about training, can I ask you a favor Tsunade-sama?" asked Naruto settling for Tsunade-sama for the moment.
"What is it Naruto?"
"See Ino-chan learns to become a medic nin. But I can't teach her much more because I can't use iryo ninjutsu. Can you teach her a bit?"
"Consider it done as a payback into beating some sense into my thick skull. I will see what she can do tomorrow." Ino wanted to jump all around seeing that. It wasn't every day that an S rank ninja agreed to train you. Maybe if she was good enough, she would become her apprentice. She was salivating thinking about it.
"Everybody let's meet at this clearing at 7AM" said Jiraiya producing a map of the nearby land.
Next day
Ino woke up not feeling anyone in the bed. She looked everywhere for her source of heat, but he was nowhere to be found. She looked at a table in the room. There was a note that she read out loud "I went with Ero-sennin to train earlier to test something new and destructive. Didn't want to wake you up too early. Truly yours Naruto." On the bottom there was a chibi drawing of her sprawled on the bed.
She has gotten ready and knocked on the door of Tsunade's room checking if she was ready to go. The older blonde quit the room looking like a new person with determination in her eyes. Only Shizune wasn't in a good mood as she drank too much yesterday after everyone left.
They ran to the clearing where Jiraiya told them to meet today and have seen something crazy. Naruto and Jiraiya were sparring in the clearing where justsus and explosions were flying around. They stopped 200 meters away to observe the fight.
Jiraiya ran at Naruto to engage him in taijutsu combat. He limited himself to a point that he was slightly stronger than Naruto. Every punch was evaded, every kick blocked. No one was giving an opening to the other. Naruto decided that it was time to separate them. He created a shadow clone that used Futon: Daitoppa at Jiraiya to blast him away.
Jiraiya had just enough time to flip in the air while doing his own hand seals "Doton: Yomi Numa" he shouted to restrain Naruto's movements. Seeing his opponent struggling he charged two Rasengan in his hands and charged at Naruto.
Naruto prepared himself. He decided to use his new invention, he finally made a jutsu usable in close quarters combat without the necessity to charge it for so long. He spawned compressed balls of Yang over his head. When Jiraiya was in range he opened two of them one side "Yang Volcano!". It was the first step to great future techniques. He made the shell of the balls crack wherever he wanted spewing jets of pure Yang in this direction. Not really long range because the jets were wide, but the knockdown and surprise were great.
Jiraiya was fired away and began asking himself what would transform a young kid into such a monster. He wasn't sure for how long he would be able to hold back at the rate Naruto grew. He knew that Naruto would take this chance to strike him down.
He wasn't wrong, Naruto jumped taking a branch not wanting to use a sword at an ally. Using his kenjutsu style it was already enough. He posed himself in a similar way to fencing and shouted "Eight stance: Dam Breaker!". He thrust the branch faster and faster until it looked like he had a hundred hands all attacking at once. Jiraiya had to use Hari Jizo to block it and still he could feel the bruises from the attack.
When the onslaught finished, he said "Good job Naruto. We need to stop now; we have a gallery."
"Yeah I've sensed them too." He said.
They jumped to the spectating women. "Hello everyone, sorry we didn't see what time it was because of our little spar." Said Naruto
"Jiraiya come here I will heal the bruises." Said Tsunade. She never thought that she would heal his wounds out of her own volition any time soon. He showed her the places, thankfully there was no blood. Finishing she began speaking
"Okay everyone, I told you yesterday that Orochimaru will be coming in six days now. We need to be ready as we don't know what he will do that day. Ino you will come with me and Shizune for your training. Jiraiya I will borrow Naruto to get a sparring partner." Commanded Tsunade. It was her first little step to become worthy of her future position.
Jiraiya was feeling downtrodden, he was now alone since Tsunade took everyone with her. He wouldn't waste this time though. He has seen an onsen and a few fair ladies going inside. Giggling perversely, he ran unsealing his note pad and a spyglass.
At the same time Tsunade was talking to Naruto and Ino "You held back a lot during our spar Naruto."
"Yeah, most of my skills would pretty much obliterate the entire town even with the barrier Ero-sennin made. If I remember right, you held back as well didn't you."
"Yeah well, my punches couldn't destroy the town, but a few buildings would've been downed. No need for such destruction" Naruto wholeheartedly agreed with that. "Now Ino, what have Naruto taught you?"
"Medically wise he taught me Shosen Jutsu, I couldn't learn much more because my chakra reserves and control aren't good enough. That's what he's concentrating on right now." Ino answered
"Good start, what do you do in order to help it?"
"I make one Kage Bunshin and we do Shosen Jutsu and some chakra control exercises, I've just began kunai balancing, until my reserves are depleted. Then Naruto uses his Yang to reinvigorate me and expand my coils a bit." She answered
"Good, you will continue that yourself, you will send the clone with Shizune or myself, we will teach you what you need to know about anatomy and some Iryo jutsus. You can begin now." She said then she turned to Naruto.
"Naruto we'll need that ability of yours to expand coils to help us. We will train as long as we can that way."
"Tsunade-sama, there is one problem with that. Please don't take that badly but you are old." Tsunade wanted to punch the kid into the ground right now "Please listen to me before you do something. What I mean by that is that when people get older their chakra system gets less and less flexible. I can energize Ino about twenty times before it would make irreversible damage. Shizune-san about ten and you maybe five. If we continue that way Ji-chan could take at most one full tank before burning some of his chakra pathways to ash. Do you understand now?"
"This actually makes sense, but you forgot one thing, I might be rusty, but I still am a Kage level ninja. Even five uses should be enough to make me train for forty-eight hours straight." Said Tsunade
"This brings us to another problem; my recharging isn't a miracle. I had to train tirelessly to be able to use Yang as if it was nothing but in reality, it is a taxing source of energy. Every recharge takes a toll on the receiver. For example, Ino-chan can use Shosen Jutsu for over two hours straight, after ten recharges this goes down to one hour, at fifteen she was able to hold it for only fifteen minutes. See the pattern? Instead of forty-eight it comes down to maybe eighteen or sixteen." He said
That wasn't a problem for Tsunade, she didn't plan on doing something this extreme anyway, but she would regain hold of her old chakra reserves in a matter of four days if her math checked out.
"This is great anyway, now come on we should stop wasting the time. I want a snakeskin wallet in a few days. We will start with a spar." She said
Time skip 5 days
Naruto was sparring again with Tsunade for the last time before tomorrow's pause to let everyone be at full power. During this week the training was murderous for everyone, Naruto compared it to the hell week in the ANBU boot camp. At least such tortures brought great improvement. Naruto wasn't able to hold back against Tsunade anymore.
She was weaving punches left and right like when she was twenty years old. This was the true strength of ever becoming a true S-rank ninja. Your experience was so great that even a big hiatus in your ninja career could be reverted in a matter of a few weeks. Adding to that Naruto's revitalizing abilities it was shortened to a few days.
Thinking about the progress of his opponent Naruto had to use what he called Bijuu Arms. A technique from which he derived his claws made of Yang or Yin. Instead of making only gloves for the hands and a part of forearms it made whole sleeves that went all the way up and continued on his pecs. Making it look like he wore two demon arms connected in the middle.
If he wasn't using them, he wouldn't be able to fight on what he now called even grounds. They were far from even, it just meant that for every three super punches from Tsunade he landed about one of his Yang powered ones.
At the same time Shizune was teaching Ino. The girl was ecstatic, Shizune and Tsunade had taught her so much during this week. Most of it was about anatomy and chemistry but she still learned some jutsus from them. Namely two of them, Chakra no Mesu and Dokugiri. At last she was taught chakra control exercises that were made specially for the iryo-nins.
Even if Ino was happy about being a medic she felt she needed to pull more of her weight during fights. She has seen the battling styles of both Tsunade and Shizune and was amazed. Both of them were so different yet so strong.
In her eyes Tsunade was like an older, a tad more mature Naruto. She was an extrovert that could gain this serious mode she has seen in many highly skilled ninjas. She has seen her obliterating boulders with simple punches and make craters with kicks. That was amazing.
On the other side of the spectrum was Shizune. The calm and collected type. She didn't use Tsunade's strength, instead she used her intelligence, fast and beautiful assassination moves to incapacitate the opponent.
Ino thought about it for a long time and decided that she would become like Shizune. Not personality wise but in her battle style. Ino found it way more appealing to her feminine sense of beauty. When she spoke about it, Naruto told her she would become a real femme fatale when she became older making Ino blush.
Two days ago, she began fiddling with the idea to use Chakra no Mesu in an offensive way. From what she learned the technique didn't have to cut everything in its way. It could cut insides of a person without even grazing the skin. After talking a lot about it with the others if she could master it, she would become a true battle medic like the older beauties.
This would become the next step for her to become stronger. She would become the assassin of the team while Naruto was their vanguard. When this situation was over, she told Naruto to expect her more in his house. He quickly understood that she was talking about asking Anko for help with her training.
Shizune and Ino's lesson were cut short when a golden missile was sent their way. Looking at the impact crater they managed to see that it wasn't anyone other than Naruto. Soon after Tsunade jumped out from the forest trying to finish the job.
She was cocking her fist to strike at Naruto while descending. He wasn't sure if he was going to survive it in one piece his only option was to counterattack. Defending against this monster of a woman was particularly stupid. First, he needed to slow her down and break her form.
While getting up he formed the same balls that he used for Yang Volcano. This time they weren't made to crack. He began spinning them as fast as he could, it forced the balls into an oval shape. When she was at the right point he began firing more and more. "Yang Bolts!". This was Naruto's attempt into making himself more 1v1 capable. This way he could always have the balls around him and shoot them anytime.
Tsunade was forced into stopping her attack to evade the missiles coming at her. She has seen what they could do to someone before. Boulders and trees had perfect holes when hit. She landed and sprinted at him in order to strike him.
He did the same still firing the arrows. They both cocked their fists which connected making an explosion like sound. Neither of them was budging. Finally, they relaxed, and their fists fell down with Naruto releasing Bijuu Arms.
"That will be enough for tonight. We were already going over the limits almost trying to kill each other." Said Tsunade
"Yeah, I really thought I would end worse than Ero-sennin when you caught him." Naruto said remembering the lump of meat that Jiraiya has become that time.
After saying sorry for disrupting the other two in their study everybody went to the hotel for the break everybody needed before the battle that would probably happen after tomorrow. Entering the Tsunade's room as in their habit to relax together they have seen Jiraiya with a stern face.
"Jiraiya, you are back." Said Tsunade
"Yes, and with bad news. I went to talk with my spy about anything strange things happening in the place. If I was right Orochimaru would have to be in vicinity in order to come back for you and he apparently is… but not alone. He has an army with him around five to seven hundred men, ranked from chunin to jonin." He replied
Ino was feeling as if she was right back in Wave when they were told about the battle. This time it was probably better than before though, Naruto could go all out from the beginning. The problem was there weren't any natural defenses where they would meet so there was no possibility to take cover or slow them permanently.
Naruto seeing Ino slightly panic about this patted her head with a smile "Like last time, don't worry I will protect you if anything happens." This earned him a grin from everyone else. That was the reality of being in love when so young. At least it relaxed the mood.
"Naruto, if you can get a clean shot how many can you take down as fast as you can?" said Jiraiya already forming plans in his head.
"This depends on many factors. First it will be an open battle on a plain, most of my missions were made so at least the first attack was an ambush. Second you will be with me on the field, if I use something too widespread, I could hit you…" he stopped himself abruptly as if he was having an internal talk. That he did but not with himself but with his tenant.
"Kura-chan, do you think I'm ready to use that?"
"Maybe twice at maximum, if something happens remember what I told you."
"I might have something to take them all out. Not guaranteed to work but it's our best shot to make you fight only Orochimaru." Naruto said cryptically
"What do you mean?" said Tsunade
"The attack draws a lot of force from me. I won't be able to fire it more than twice. Second if something goes wrong everybody will hear about it, controlling this technique is so difficult that if I can't do it, I will destroy far more than wanted." He said.
"Will count on you to control it Naruto" said Jiraiya, maybe it was risky, but this fight needed to be ended soon after it began so they can kill Orochimaru once and for all. "Now listen everybody, besides Orochimaru and his army there is also someone else. His face is veiled so I don't know who is he but he's at least a jonin level ninja."
"Yes, there was someone with him when he came to talk with me last time." Said Tsunade
"Exactly. The plan is simple. Naruto you unleash your cannons at them. When it's over we will use the shock to engage Orochimaru and this other man. Hime, you and I will take Orochimaru. Shizune, you, Ino and Naruto will take the other guy. If you get him fast enough come help us." Said Jiraiya. After that everyone went to bed not wanting to be in a bad shape in less than forty-eight hours.
Time skip day of the battle
Everyone was present at the destined place awaiting Orochimaru. They were prepared and sure that everyone would come back alive from that. Ino was the only one feeling out her place. Everybody around her had this aura of battle mode. It wasn't every day that you could see two S ranks and two A ranks in one place getting ready to fight.
Orochimaru came at last with the veiled man at his right. He smirked and began talking
"Kukuku, I see that you aren't the only one to come Tsunade."
"Yes, and to tell you that I don't accept your deal!" she shouted at him
"You think like you had any choice in this deal Tsunade. You will come with me or you will all die. Kuchiyose no Jutsu" he slammed his hands on the ground and his army appeared behind him. Four people came closer and kneeled. They were looking different from the people in the army. One of them even had two heads.
Naruto didn't waste this moment of pause. It was his time to strike the army and terror in Orochimaru's heart. Everybody positioned themselves on his side like he instructed them before. First his Bijuu Arms appeared. He began producing more and more power until his hair let loose and floated on the chakra. Soon two wings like constructs emerged from his back and planted themselves into the ground.
Everyone was amazed at the power Naruto was showing, it wasn't every day that a teen could do such a thing. He pushed both his arms to the front and began pushing more Yang towards them as it wasn't safe to do it with Yin. Golden concentric rings began appearing around his arms and in front of him. They were glowing brighter and brighter until Naruto finished charging his attack.
The circles all collided together, and all hell broke loose. "Angel of Death!" he shouted. The wings from his back were now like cutters digging deep into the earth, if someone measured how far he could go down to fifty meters. The real art was before him though. He shot a cylindrical beam before him so large and bright that nobody could see anything. Then the glow stopped.
Those who weren't hit could finally see what happened. There was a trench dug so far that nobody could see the end from their position. The army that was supposed to be there was evaporated. Everybody was looking at the huffing Naruto in fear, even his comrades. If he ever wanted to destroy a village himself, he should be able to do so in a few years.
Orochimaru was the most shocked one. If someone told him that all these men would be obliterated by one attack from a thirteen-year-old child, he would first laugh then kill them. Now he was missing a chunk of his army as well as three of his guards. Only Tayuya was living now as she was the only one on his right with the man before.
He finally got over his shock to get into another one when he wanted to use a jutsu only to see his left arm missing at the shoulder. He couldn't regenerate from that, there was no way and his next vessel wouldn't be ready in less than one month. He needed to get out of here.
"Fuck, we are retreating. Fast get me out of here! Tayuya you stay here and cover our retreat." Orochimaru shouted in panic. He couldn't die here. The veiled man took hold of his master and sprinted to the place where the return seal was ready.
Tsunade wanted to stop them from running but Tayuya interfered being able to block one strike from the Sannin only to get knocked out. This one strike was enough to give Orochimaru the time to reverse summon himself to his base.
When everyone else got out from their shock from what they have seen they looked around for Naruto. He was sprawled on the ground breathing heavily. If the attack didn't touch Orochimaru the situation would have been much worse.
Ino ran to him "Help, he can't move!" she shouted using all of her medical expertise to see what is going on with him. Soon Tsunade joined to diagnose him.
"He's going to be all right. He strained his chakra pathways too much and now can't move because of that." She said with a huge relief. She took him on her back to get him back to the hotel to let him heal.
"Jiraiya-sama what should we do about the girl?" asked Shizune
"Take her with you, she seemed to be at least important in Orochimaru's schemes. She may have some valuable info." He said.
Shizune didn't ask any questions and took the girl on her back since she was out. They would have to examine her later. Tsunade still had the not well looking Naruto on her back and was thinking that her early diagnostic was false. She needed to scan him once again when they were in the hotel. It was their first objective for the afternoon.
They ran as fast as they could. Jiraiya didn't waste time as he applied chakra restraining seals on the girl unknowingly saving her life. They opened the doors to Tsunade's room who laid Naruto on her bed. Everyone was still freaking out about what they have seen the kid do. Ino was proven once again that the male blonde wasn't only her teddy bear.
Tsunade was scanning Naruto who was looking worse and worse. "Fuck, I was only half right the first time. He does have a chakra exhaustion, but it was so big that his chakra system is in rebound. He used so much that he went into overdrive to produce enough to hold him alive. We need to get him to stop, Shizune make a cold bath. Ino get as much ice as you can from the hotel."
When Ino ran, Tsunade didn't care for the boy's intimacy. She took off his clothes not even flinching and threw him into the tub that was filling with water. Ino came back with a clone carrying two basins of ice that she threw into the bath and ran for more.
Tsunade scanned him once again "At least the rate isn't growing, or he would have become a real bomb. Shizune help me stabilize the production!" The two medics began working on Naruto's chakra gates seeing that the pressure was slowly forcing them open.
Two hours later Naruto ended this overdrive with the help of Tsunade, Shizune and Ino who worked relentlessly on him. He began shaking and became blue from the ice-cold water, luckily Jiraiya has already prepared a bed for him to warm up to a normal temperature.
When he warmed up, he finally opened his eyes. "What's going on? Where am I?" he asked. He didn't have the time to get his surroundings when someone slapped him across the face to later bring him into a huge hug.
"You scared us so much Naruto-kun! We weren't sure if you were going to make it." She broke down from all those pent-up emotions. Naruto slowly hugged her back.
"I'm sorry Ino-chan, everyone." He fucked up big time, he knew it would happen if tried to tame the technique after it went out of control. Everyone was silent for a moment until Jiraiya asked it was time to get some answers.
"Naruto, what was that thing?! First you destroy an army and take out the snake's hand to then go into a critical state."
"It happens when I go at full power. The jutsu can be a double-edged sword if I lose control and it did happen. I didn't want to worry you all because there were two possible outcomes if I lost control of it. First, I become a bomb, second, I try to tame it with all my strength, and this happens." He said with a low voice ashamed of making everyone scarred for him.
Everyone here wasn't sure what to think about it. He should've said that something like that could happen but then he let them not fight Orochimaru and in the end saved them.
"What was that though?" Jiraiya asked once again
"It was my Angel of Death. It takes the Bijuu Canon to unbelievable levels. Instead of a wave of Yang it fires at once a huge cylinder that erases everything in its path from the heat inside. You can compare it to the Kekkei Tota of the Tsuchikage. The wings you saw aren't here just to support me, they work as radiators for the Yang that is superfluous. Hence the name." he said hoisting himself to his arms in the bed.
"I forbid you from ever using it again before you are older and are sure that you can control it, or you are forced to. I do it as your doctor and friend Naruto." Said Tsunade not ever wanting to deal with such a case ever again.
"I understand."
"Now, since I bet you don't really know what happened after let's do a small briefing. First you evaporated Orochimaru's army and his left arm. You happened to take out some people that he trusted apparently as well. Three out of four exactly as he ditched the last one to make an escape. She's our prisoner now." Said Jiraiya
"Did you get anything out of her?" asked Naruto.
"Nothing, she's still out because of Tsunade's punch and nobody had the time to heal her as you were close to exploding quite literally."
Naruto bowed his head as low as the bed let him "Ino-chan, Shizune-san, Tsunade-sama thank you for saving my life. Even after I said that I would protect yours Ino-chan."
"Baka, you saved our lives first after all." Ino said giving him head pats.
"Thank you." Said Naruto getting closer to Ino.
"Before you kids make out, we need to heal the girl and ask her what she knows." Said Tsunade making the kids separate with a blush at the idea of making out in front of all these people.
Tsunade went to the room next door and brought their new charge. She was a fourteen-year-old, red haired girl with a hard looking face. She was bound by ninja wire and had the chakra blocking seal. Because of that they didn't have any other possibility to wake her up than manually since it blocked chakra from outside as well. That was by giving her a light slap on the face until she woke.
"What the flying fuck? What's going on in here? Unbind me you shitheads!" the girl said with the people around being surprised by her "large" vocabulary.
"What's your name?" asked Jiraiya not giving a shit about what the girl said.
"And why would I tell you, you shitstain?" she said making Jiraiya sigh. He really didn't want to resort to violence after what happened earlier.
"Okay listen, I don't want to hurt you… at least for now. If you answer the questions out of your own will I won't use anything against you." He said. She thought about it for a bit, Orochimaru has already abandoned her and probably thought that she was dead or use the seal on her neck to kill her in a few hours max. It wouldn't hurt to at least get the pedophile back before she was dead.
"I'm Tayuya." She said
"Now we can begin some interactions. Who were you to Orochimaru?"
"We were called Sound Four, we were Orochimaru's guards until the blondie over there decimated them and you took me prisoner." She said looking at Naruto in bed.
"Why are you answering so easily?" Naruto asked feeling something weird about this girl.
"Because why not? I will be dead in a few hours anyway. Orochimaru doesn't let any loose ends, he will use the Curse Seal on my neck to kill me so why not get back at him in the least before I'm dead. I'm asking myself why did he not use it before?" She said being ready to die at any moment.
"That's probably because of the seal I put on you, he may already think you are dead. The seal I put on you blocks any chakra from going in or out so he must see it as you are being dead." Said Jiraiya.
"Hahaha, who would've thought that being taken prisoner would save my life." She laughed dryly "Doesn't matter to me anyway. If you take it off, he will kill me. Or you don't take it off and I finish in a prison anyway…" she said.
"What if I told you that I can take the Curse Seal off?" said Naruto
"What do you mean by take the seal off, Naruto? I couldn't do it and I'm a seal master so how did you do it?!" asked Jiraiya
"By taking it off, I meant quite literally erasing it. Anko-nee had one as well and I erased it from her with a clever use of Yin and Yang when I was eight. It shouldn't be a big problem right now." Said Naruto
"But how do you do it exactly?" asked Jiraiya once again
"The simplest answer to that would be to see it at work. But since I can't do it right now, I will give you the best explanation I can. The Yin can dissolve everything, it's so dangerous that I almost never use it when my allies are near. I use it to dissolve the seal on a chakra level erasing it. The problem is that it would harm the potential target and especially in the neck region it is dangerous. To go around it I make a vessel around the seal with Yang where my Yin can float freely without affecting the target." He said. Jiraiya found it so simple yet so marvelous, a person who can destroy any kind of seal.
Meanwhile Tayuya was listening to the conversation. She wasn't believing what she was hearing. This guy who was younger than her was talking about destroying the seal Orochimaru was so proud of as if he was talking about the weather.
"Blondie don't give me such shit. I don't believe you can do such things." She said outraged
"I would be kinder to someone that proposes to help you, you know. Ero-sennin can you make a seal on paper, something I'm sure not to know. I will give you all a small presentation, a seal on paper should be okay even with my chakra still fluctuating."
Jiraiya nodded and lit a candle. He took out a scroll and used Fuka Hoin to seal the flame of the candle. He gave his godson the scroll wanting to see the seal destroying in action. Naruto put his back against the wall and posed the scroll on his lap. He covered his right hand in Yang and touched the paper. The thin golden outline appeared around every kanji and sign. When he deemed it ready, he poured Yin inside the vessel. The seal began disappearing and soon a blank scroll was left.
"And that's how you do it. It's so much easier now as I have a much better control." He said showing the scroll to everybody.
"Naruto how many people know about it?" Jiraiya asked
"Now? At most Anko-nee, Yugao-nee, Kurenai-nee and Ji-chan. Why?"
"It's better to keep it that way. Your ability could become problematic fast, like real fast. Your ability to open seals could make you a target for everyone even inside the village."
"Like Danzo who wants the Hiraishin?" asked Naruto
"How do you know about it?"
"Simple, I spoke with Ji-chan already. I half violated the oath I've given to my parents to never learn it. I asked Kura-nee to put it in the last mind gate. I am the only source to know the Hiraishin right now as we burned the scroll with Ji-chan. Don't worry, we already thought about the consequences of this ability."
"Naruto, right? What would be the price to take off the seal?" Tayuya asked breaking everyone else from their talks.
"See much better, no need to be vulgar. Let's make a deal, you appeared to be important to Orochimaru, you tell us everything you know, and I take off the seal. I will even present you an olive branch, if you tell us all, and trust me I will know if you do, I will pass a word to the Hokage, so you don't finish in prison." Naruto said with a smile.
For Tayuya it was a no-brainer, she already wanted to tell them everything. The last part was unnerving her "Do you really know the Hokage enough for it to matter?"
"Well do I Hokage-sama?" Naruto asked Tsunade with a grin. Tayuya was gob smacked every time she asked something. This lady was the Hokage?
"I think you do Naruto. After all you know both me and the Sandaime quite well." She answered
"I'll tell you everything. Can you just take off the bindings please? I won't run, not like I have anywhere to run anyway." Jiraiya wanted to protest but Naruto interrupted him.
"Ero-sennin can you do it for me? I can sense she's telling the truth and she even added a please. With her vulgar nature I think it is an exploit."
Jiraiya sighed and did it. The sensing abilities of the blonde were always right, there was no way in hell to trick him. He undid her bindings and the girl massaged her wrists.
"Ino-chan listen closely, as an heir to the Yamanaka clan you will probably end working in the T&I. This will be your first true questioning. You are lucky that the prisoner wants to answer out of her own volition." Said Naruto. Ino nodded and positioned herself on the bed to listen closely and watch the girl for any signs of lying.
"First question: How do you become a guard for Orochimaru" asked Naruto seeing that nobody else was beginning.
"We were prisoners at first. Then he would put us in battle royals until only one survived. The winners would be trained to death and back, then he would brand us with the seal. Those who survived became part of the Sound Five." She answered.
"If you were to gauge your loyalty to Orochimaru before he abandoned you from one to ten?" asked Ino trying to become a part of the interrogation.
"When you work for Orochimaru you are loyal to him by fear and terror. So, when he or his right hand was near it was a ten. Anywhere else I would run away if I could so you can say a one." This was a good sign for everyone.
"What Orochimaru wanted me to work on?" asked Tsunade
"He wanted you to produce a living body for him that he could take over. It was made so he could put as many Kekkei Genkai inside one. The ultimate goal was to put inside the Sharingan. Since it failed, he will probably try to kidnap the Uchiha in your village." She said
The questioning continued for hours and Tayuya answered every question she knew answers for diligently. From the locations of the bases to his new projects and what he will do about his arm. Until they didn't have any more questions, but she told them something else.
"I think you need to learn something else; the snake wants to invade your village. He's going to kill the Kazekage and pose as the man to use both his and Wind's army to attack. Probably during the chunin exams that happen in three months."
The room became silent hearing that. Jiraiya didn't waste any time, he wrote a letter to the Hokage and send it through his toad. They would extend their trip to train as much as they could to make sure that they could defend the village.
"Do you know any specifics?" Naruto asked to which she only shook her head.
"I think this is enough to give her amnesty Hime." Said Jiraiya to which Tsunade nodded. If the redhead didn't say it, they would have been in a lot of trouble. Tsunade nodded making Tayuya smile for the very first time in a long time.
"I'm not Hokage yet but this will be first decree. Tayuya of the Sound, now only Tayuya. You are hereby given amnesty. You will be under constant ANBU watch for the moment though. Ushi you will be charged of that."
Naruto only groaned, pulling so many strings would surly bite him in the ass one day. "Hai Hokage-sama". Tayuya couldn't believe that such a kid could be a part of ANBU, but then she remembered what he has done to Orochimaru before.
"Ero-sennin can you make a room that blocks any chakra from outside? That way we will be sure that when we take the seal off her Orochimaru won't know." asked Naruto
"Yes, it will take one day at least."
"Perfect, we will take off your seal then." He said to Tayuya. Ino was feeling jealous of the girl. Naruto sensed it and taken her in a hug from behind
"Is my Ino-chan jealous of me helping another girl? You know better than that that I will never cheat or exchange you." He said in her ear which made Ino relax.
Time skip 1 month
After receiving the mail from Jiraiya, Hiruzen let them to take a one-month training trip. He wasn't fast enough and Rasa was probably already dead. The village was stable now, first there were outbursts from the civilians about the civilian council. Hiruzen calmed them down by making the papers public about how the civilian council not only stole from the shinobi but also from the civilian themselves.
Everybody grew stronger during this trip. Having two kage level ninjas would do that to everyone. Naruto grew much more proficient with his one versus one skill able to trade one for two punches with Tsunade. His taijutsu and kenjutsu became so much better that new mind gates opened. At last he could use eighteen of thirty-six stances of his kenjutsu.
The biggest improvement was shown in Ino out of everyone else. She became much more proficient in her medical studies but her fighting as well. Her experiment with Chakra no Mesu bear fruits. She was able to make the scalpels from every finger giving her twenty-centimeter claws. She asked Naruto to show her his taijutsu since it would perfectly with this ability which he happily instructed; she was more or less a family now. Her stealth became much better as well since she wanted to become an assassin with help of Naruto and Jiraiya. Gauging her skills she could easily become a chunin now.
Tayuya was surprised when they trained her as well. Weren't they scared of her being an enemy anymore? Oh, right Naruto could sense she wasn't. They didn't have a genjutsu master with them but her taijutsu was upped a few pegs. They managed as well to curb her filthy mouth. Some fucks and shits still escaped her, but she forced herself to at least not insult new people out of the blue.
Her wardrobe changed as well. She couldn't walk around in her Oto clothes anymore. Ino decided to help her new friend in this aspect as she was the fashion queen. She was still jealous of the girl until Tayuya told her that she was thankful, but she had no feelings for the blonde. She as wearing now a yellow battle kimono with flowery patterns with a red obi matching her hair that was now left loose. Ino agreed with Naruto now when he said that he thought that every kunoichi was at least pretty.
The group just entered the village, and everyone was making a tunnel for the newcomers. Naruto felt like the stares he received were fewer and less offensive. Wondering what happened an ANBU descended to them.
"Hokage-sama awaits you in his office at once." He said and Shunshinned the rest didn't wait for long before doing the same. Hiruzen was awaiting everybody with a huge smile. He could at last take his long-awaited retirement.
"Long time no see Sensei." Said Tsunade with a smile
"Indeed Tsunade, indeed. I see that you are much better than before."
"Yeah I had someone knock some sense into me" she said ruffling Naruto's hair
Hiruzen became sterner and turned to the new arrival to his village "I'm guessing you are Tayuya. Normally I would send you to prison for working with the snake…" he paused there making everyone nervous "but you gave us vital information as well Naruto vouched for you. You will stay under ANBU watch, namely Naruto here. I think you have a spare room for her don't you Naruto?" he said smirking a Naruto
"Hai, Hokage-sama" he said with a sigh.
"Tsunade we will talk about your inauguration later, now Tora please let the Team 10 enter." Asuma, Shikamaru and Choji entered the office. They greeted the other people in the room and Hiruzen coughed gathering their attention.
"Team 10, since Sakura isn't a ninja any longer, I have a replacement. As you know the chunin exams will happen in two months as well what may happen. Tayuya here will become a part of your team for this time so you can compete. Tayuya I know you are far from being a genin, but we need them to compete that's why you will be on their team."
"Hai, Hokage-sama." She answered, this wasn't much for her freedom.
"Okay Team 10 we are going out, you need to learn about each other, and we can't waste time." Said Asuma
"Team 7 members you are excused as well. Sasuke has been released this week and is under constant watch of Kakashi and other ANBU. They should be at the training ground 7. You shall go and meet them." Said the remaining Sarutobi. Naruto took Ino's hand and quit the premises of the office.
"Now since all these small matters are done, we shall discuss about you Godaime-dono" Hiruzen said taking a puff from his pipe.
End chapter 6
AN: Thanks for reading