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Chapter 2: Travels and Wisdom
Naruto POV
Dry, Arid, annoyingly hot, and why were people living in these parched lands? Those were the thoughts that first popped in my mind when I arrived on the Lands of wind country. People would probably have started questioning my sanity right now when it came to my choice of destination if I did dislike my current situation right now when I could have just chosen not to go and travel west right? Well when I was still back on that stupid village and packing my things I did thought I could go to Wave Country to where old man Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari lived to stay and live with them for a while but when I've put some thought into it what I mean really thought about it by spacing out for about five minutes it would be probably a bad idea I would just probably bring my problems along to them and attract some troubles in both from the Leaf and the Akatsuki. The same could be said to the places that I've visited and small hidden village's they would be probably pressured by the both Leaf and the Akatsuki, sigh aren't I just a big magnet of trouble.
The idea of joining and hoping one of the other great villages would let me join their ranks did sit in mind for a while but then I realized it was a totally stupid idea I mean the Rock would just probably kill me if they knew I came from the Leaf thinking I'm some sort of a spy, even if I did not mostly listen back then at the academy I still knew the basics that the Rock and Leaf still did held itself somewhat bad bloods between each other's villages probably due to the past wars I don't know. The Hidden Mist would be probably still in some sort of post-civil war period and where they would probably not allow let any foreign ninjas swore in while they settle in the affairs on their village. The Hidden Cloud was out of the question after all they would probably just extract the ninetails out of me and just seal it into one of their loyal ninjas and the tension between the Leaf and Cloud didn't helped at all.
The only thought that I did have was that I could probably go to the Hidden Sand so I proceeded to go to west but then It was already too late to realization and remembered that the Hidden Sand did had some kind of treaty alliance between the Leaf after that failed invasion fiasco that was orchestrated by that snake bastard, so the leaf could take it as an act of aggression in housing the jinchuriiki of the ninetails in their village walls and plus having two jinchuriikis staying in a one village would be probably paint a screaming huge target for the akatsuki and would just cause for my only friend who can perfectly understand me Gaara some problems and I don't want that to happen. I pressed on with my settled course of direction to west even if can't exactly settle on some permanent place due to my circumstances and bastard tenant I continued my travel, I've already passed the Vast Dessert of Solitude of Wind Country and according to this map I've brought I should be currently somewhere Northwest of Wind Country just near the border between Fang Country and I surely do hope so I mean I really don't want to get lost again now.
A few weeks had already passed since my banishment from my stupid former village and since I've started my journey, I've read about the books and scrolls that I brought along that normally I would just ignore and just train at the training grounds back then and learned the beginnings of sealing itself for as I pass through small towns I would perform small jobs to earn myself some money to buy some supplies I would need and tools I would use just like the sealing kit of brush and inks for learning the arts of sealing and that also brought in some thought in my mind why did there were only a handful of few ninjas practiced fuuinjutsus I mean from what I've read and experienced so far it seems that fuuinjutsu's were only limited to one's imagination and creativity from creating explosions to sealing a freaking tailed inside of a person and the possibilities were almost boundless the reason why nobody practices it is a total mystery for me.
I've changed my clothes for my orange jacket and pants have already wore down as much as I like wearing them for their awesome practicality I can't afford myself to continue journey on in tatter clothes so I've bought some new clothes I've found on the town I passed by so what I am wearing now is khaki brown colored hip length coat that has a dark blue patch on the left side of the upper chest underneath that is a dark blue long sleeved shirt with a dark blue pants with a buckle belt where it had small containers for containing his small weapons and a shin high brown boots, overall I looked like some sort of adventurer ready on to travel the world with the way I am dressed right now what can I do it was the only clothes I could find that were the most practical, durable and I would even dare say have a dashing look even without any orange on. Presently as for now I'm currently sitting under a tree practicing my Fuuinjutsu and Calligraphy while drinking tea that's right drinking tea with a tall goatee bearded old man whom Invited me to drink and accompany him for tea.
*End of POV*
Presently our hero is now practicing his calligraphy and handwriting under the shade of a peach tree he had found in a high rocky near cliff terrain that would overlook the beautiful vast dessert far away, he was already past the vast dessert of wind country and currently decided to take a break and train. Then he heard the nearby bushes shake he quickly discarded his brush, stood and drawn in his kunai to hide at his back as the bush continued to shake he tensed until he saw what came out or what could be said who came out of the bushes was a tall lean hooded goatee bearded old man and based on his appearance his age could be on his mid-fifties. The person is currently wearing a brown colored hooded robe and black feathers adorning above his shoulders and black arm wrappings carrying a branch of leaves in his left hand while on the right hand was a staff that had some sort of bird shaped idol at the top and a satchel kind of bag his side the man spotted him and his turned expression turned into of a surprise before he smiled the type of smile that would remind him of certain old man back at his former village.
"Oh hello there young one I'd never thought I'd see someone here people normally don't really travel along these parts" he said in a calm voice that seemed to ooze wisdom.
"I doubt I'd consider myself normal…." He muttered to himself "I just happen to find this spot a perfect place to train, relax and stop by well what about you ojisan (mister) why are you here?" He asked in a slightly apprehensive tone wanting to questioning the motives of the old man who showed up in front of him.
The man just chuckled good naturedly and removed his hood from his face that showed his raven colored hair that had some streak of whiteness to it before he spoke "Well young one this area happens to be just my favorite spot to drink and make some tea after I gather the leaves of my favorite white dragon tea leaves." He calmly spoke to the blonde.
He was surprised by the man's answer and that he was currently occupying the old man's favorite spot. He just lowered down his kunai weapon hiding it back at his belt and just scratched the back of his neck while he chuckled nervously for thinking and mistaking that the old man would attack him. "Hehe I'm sorry ojisan I just thought this place seemed perfect for training my writing skills I'd never thought the place was already claimed though I'll just be on my way then." He told the man hoping to clear away the apprehension that he caused earlier.
"Nonsense all I did told you was that this was my favorite spot for enjoying tea I never told you this area was mine." He said calmly to the young man
"But you did say that this area was your favorite spot right? And what about enjoying your tea?" He asked confusedly thinking normally people wouldn't let others to stay into their favorite spots.
"I get what your trying to say young man and it's alright, why won't you just stay, continue your training and drink some tea with me after all a good tea is a tea that is enjoyed through company." The old man spoke sagely.
"Arigatou I'll take you up in your offer then ojisan I haven't really practiced my calligraphy for a long time now he he." He then proceeded to sit down back to his spot under tree grateful that the old man didn't just allowed him to stay but also invited him for tea after all it was rare for him to receive such back then and even now so he was very grateful and he was getting a feeling that this old man did held any ill intent and is a good man how he would know that he would never know.
"Good now just wait just a few minutes while I brew us a batch of some of my freshly gathered rare white dragon tea" He replied back to the blonde who he observed continued on to practice his calligraphy skills while he put and leaned down his staff in the side of the peach tree and proceeded to pick the leaves from the branch that he was holding earlier to his ceramic tea pot. The man then broke the branch into several pieces on his fire place under the tea pot but it was next thing he did shocked the blonde youth for when the man extended his right hand towards the wood it suddenly flared blue and created a small blue fire in his palm that turned the wood on fire as it caught the flames from the old man's hand.
Naruto being who he is suddenly forgot his practice on calligraphy and rushed near into the man. "Wow! How did you do that ojisan it was awesome! It suddenly caught in flames neh are you a shinobi!? What kind of technique was that you didn't even made any hand signs!?" He asked the old man with a barrage of questions having been enthralled with the effortless display of the man showed forgetting all the problem he had for once.
"By the statement of those questions and the small blade that I've spotted you used earlier you're a shinobi aren't you? young one" he asked the boy who flushed slightly and chuckled nervously as he scratched the back slightly embarrassed at being found out easily.
The man just chuckled amused by the enthusiasm to learn and antics showed by the youth in front of him before he spoke "That young one was just a simple trick a simple nature transformation of what you will, one you can train and develop even if you don't have an affinity on it and for your second question no I'm not." the man responded while as he answered the question of the blonde he was taking out two ceramic tea cup from his bag.
"Heh~~~ training huh I wish I knew my affinity so I can find out what techniques that would suit me the best..." The youth spoke dejectedly now losing his brightness that he temporarily held. The elderly man just raised one of his eyebrows but he then reached out to his bag and grabbed something inside before he held it into the blonde and it showed was a piece of paper.
"Huh what's that" The boy asked.
"Here hold this paper and channel your energies through it to find out your natural affinity." He responded to the question of the blonde.
"By energies you mean chakra right? And what is this some kind of special paper?"
"Precisely and that item there is an affinity paper a tool that would tell you your affinity depending on the results"
"Ok…." He then proceeded as what he was told to do in order to find out his affinity and what the paper showed is that it suddenly glowed slightly yellow before it spliced in half.
"Interesting..." that man spoke as stroked his bearded chin.
"What was that" the boy asked bewildered by the transformation paper did.
"that young one means you have an affinity to the element of wind a true rare element" he told the blonde who seemed to understand.
"so how do I train my affinity now ojisan." He asked eager to train his nature affinities the man however handed this time a single leaf, a leaf he took from the remaining tea leaves.
"In training your wind transformation all you have to do is to slice this leaf cleanly, fire is to burn, water is drench it, earth is to petrify it, and lastly lightning is to crumple the leaf itself." He said gave the leaf to the blonde who tried to slice the leaf evenly for few moments before he asked.
"My names Naruto what about your name ojisan and what was that yellow glowing thing that it showed?" He asked to the older man who did not answered back but proceeded to pick up the tea who was now done and proceeded to pour the contents into the two cups and gave the other cup to the boy and took a sip of his own cup before he spoke.
"My name and that thing earlier will all be revealed unto you until the time is right young one." He told to the blonde enigmatically and smirked slightly to the boy who seemed to be peeved and groaned at his response before the boy took in his cup and sighed in satisfaction due to the taste.
The man took a long sip on his cup before he suddenly spoke breaking the short air silence that settled in for a while. "Now young one may I ask you what is that you truly want in life? you did ask me for a quite lot of questions for a while earlier." He asked to the young lad in front wo seemed to be thoughtful on his question.
While in the past he would normally yell out that his desire to be Hokage in situations like this but when he did leave the village and started his journey he began to question himself on why did he wanted to be a Hokage in the first place sometimes but now he was given a question to himself on what he truly wanted a question that he avoid until now and it was clear and simple. He looked into the man and smiled a smile a child should not probably have for it was clear smile of pain and sadness before he replied
"I want to be acknowledged, I want a place to belong, I want to be happy and to be finally loved and love those back who would did love me…" he somberly and truthfully spoke as he looked down at looked at the cup that now lay at his hands before he took a sip of the tea that the cup held.
"For someone of your age I think your very wise for seeking happiness and love in your life, usually other people would only want perfection and power in which I would consider is quite foolish I've learned that through the hard way." The man casually spoke before he poured some more tea into his cup proceeded to slowly sip from it once more.
Naruto just looked at the man in shock and surprise he halfheartedly had been expecting that the old man would probably at least mock him for his inner dream that he had never told anyone but old man never did, he supported him and called him wise instead it made him smile before he did the thing that he had lost within him he grinned brightly before he spoke "Well what can I say ojisan I did told you on earlier I doubt I'd considered myself normal ha ha." He said and grinned as he laughed shortly that even if it was only short it was still had been too long since he had a laugh one that was not forced and true.
The man could only smile slightly at the brightness that the blonde was giving off right now. "Then I can only advice you this and that is to never lose hope for if love Is what you need. You must be willing to travel to the ends of the Earth to find it." He said and advised to the blonde
The blonde could only look unto the old man after taking in his words who seemed to be reminiscing through his pasts before a ray of orange light would past through and attract his blue azure eyes into the setting red and orange sun down into the horizon. He then stood up turned to face the old man before he said.
"It has been nice meeting to you ojisan and this was a very good tea but I really should continue on with my travels it's already quite late now."
"Your welcome young one sharing tea with a person you've never met is one of life's truly great mysteries and surprising delights"
The blonde just chuckled at the response at the nice but weird old man before he then proceeded to gather up his things and put them in a bag on his back and turned towards again to say his farewells
"Farewell now ojisan" he said before he remembered to ask something to the mysterious old man. "say if we would meet up again can you tell me your name ojisan?"
"In time young naruto and if that time did come I'd gladly tell you, for now farewell." He spoke to the blonde before he thought
'Its the least I can do for you young Naruto for the future looks grim and I hope you'll never lose your way.'
The yellow haired boy then left and continued on his travels eager to find a perfect a place he could camp on and hunt but if he would have then looked back at the old man before he went out the range of his sight on he could've seen the old man suddenly changed and turned into a black raven in a Billowing puff of green smoke before the bird left and took flight.
It was later on the evening that certain other events would transpire in the elemental nations for there was young boy with black hair was getting himself ready to once again leave his own village walls to gain power along with vengeance for his clan and a certain small village will burn and be destroyed by two men dressed in black robes with red clouds adorning it as its features.
*That's it that's the end of this chapter who can guess who was the man that naruto just met? Currently I can't decide of Naruto's main future weapon so I'm starting a poll and the weapons will be as follows:
Greatsword
Warhammer
Polearms
Runed dagger
Priestly staffs
Axes
Pistols and a Cutlass
Pairings will be later on revealed on the story I'll let you all choose for it could be harem but I preferably prefer single pairings.
Remember always the words of the Number One Hero
"Always go….beyond your limits PLUS ULTRA!"
ALL MIGHT