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INARI BLESSED
"Descendent of the third
Guardians of the seven
Legacy of a god
Three clans" Naruto whispered quietly. The moon shining above them.
"What?" Yumiko asked confused. Kyoshiro had a look of surprise and confusion.
"Legacy of a god… it means the Sora clan doesn't it? No other clan can be called a legacy. But… what about the other two?"
"Descendents of the third is the Uzumaki clan and Namikaze is the Guardians of the seven."
"What does that mean? Descendent of the third and Guardians of the seven?" Yumiko asked. "And what does sage sight have to do with any of this?"
Naruto sighs, "First tell me what you know of sage sight."
Yumiko and Kyoshiro looked at each other. There had been no scroll on sage sight anywhere, all they knew were rumors. Kyoshiro had been too distant from civilization to actually know any facts on the mythical bloodline.
"Ah, it's said to be a dojutsu with the ability to copy bloodlines?" Yumiko said doubtful of her own words, such a bloodline sounded too good to be true. But in the end, it was fear and greed of the very same bloodline that led to the destruction of Ushio.
"I have heard the same, a bloodline with the ability to replicate and combine other bloodlines."
"Wrong. It is not a bloodline that can 'copy' bloodlines. That rumor was spread first when some shinobi saw an Uzumaki using wood release and sharingan together. But for all the talk about sage sight, it's not even a dojutsu." Naruto spoke earning more surprise.
Naruto started speaking again, "Not many know this, but the sage of the six paths had a daughter as well; a third child."
"How come I've met only two of them then? Even when the sage summoned me to take the role of the ninth biju he never even mentioned any other child than his two sons." Kyoshiro asked confused.
"Descendents of the third…" Yumiko whispered. Naruto had a smile on his face.
"The reason you and the world never knew about the third child was because she died long before the creation of the biju. She was forgotten because she had never had a chance to do historical acts like her brothers."
"How did she die?" Kyoshiro asked.
"In child birth"
That made a lot of sense, so the descendents of the third, were her descendents.
"The sage's daughter died giving birth to her son. Her husband and the child's father wanted the child to grow up with a normal childhood. This was impossible with the two uncles engaged in constant fights. So the sage allowed the father to take the new born child and leave. But before they left the sage had given the man a scroll, a single scroll that amassed all the knowledge the sage had on seals. The both of them went and lived in a distant island and thus created the Uzumaki clan. The son inherited his mother's talent in seals and had learned everything he could from the scroll. The name Uzumaki, it had no specialty really, the father and son need a cover, and they chose a random name. Then it was only a matter of time before the Uzumaki became one of the strongest clans in history even with its low number of clansmen."
"So the Uzumaki clan is a direct descendent of the sage's third child…" Yumiko said in awe.
"And what about the sage sight? What does it do if it doesn't copy bloodlines?" Kyoshiro asked after sometime.
"What it does is actually boost regressive genes."
Kyoshiro looked at Naruto in bafflement, "You mean…"
"Yup. It doesn't give you any power to copy bloodlines, the only thing it does is to boost your gene structure to such levels that even the most regressive genes express themselves. You know how some bloodlines skip generations, right? Well with the sage sight, such a thing won't happen. And since the Uzumaki clan has many branch clans and interbreeding has continued for several generations, when one activates the sage sight possibly all of the bloodlines become active at the same time, sometime even combining to become entirely another bloodline."
Yumiko was staring with her jaw hanging open.
"Well, it certainly explains why the others mistook the ability as copying bloodlines."
"It awesome…. So how many bloodlines do you have?" Kyoshiro asked.
Naruto smirked; "Besides the Namikaze, Uzumaki, and Sora bloodlines; I have ice release, dead bone pulse and a dojutsu."
"Awesome." Yumiko grinned.
"Since the clan adoption, the branch clans and Uzumaki main line have had many marriages between them; by the end there really didn't exist a distinction between Uzumaki pure line and branch clans. My mother's great grandmother or something was a Yuki. I also have some Kaguya blood in me; not enough to give me the dead bone pulse; but enough so that I could change the density of my bones at will. I have the Senju, Uchiha and Hyuga blood in me as well."
"So you have the sharingan or is it the Byakugan?" Kyoshiro asked.
"Do you have the wood release?" Yumiko asked excited.
"No. My Hyuga and Uchiha heritage was very feeble; but when the boost hit, the both combined into an entirely new dojutsu. My Senju heritage was the same, it wasn't enough to manifest the wood release, but instead it advanced my plant manipulation ability from Sora; so I have plant release now."
"You do realize how dangerous this is, don't you?" Kyoshiro asked frowning. When people finds out...
"I do." Naruto said in a grave tone.
Kyoshiro lied on his futon, staring at the ceiling. He was thinking about the conversation they had before they had found Haku and Zabuza. This will help them in the long run, but he couldn't help but worry for Naruto. And then there was the fact that if the council found out, it could prove to be trouble.
He shifted his head to look at Naruto who lied on the futon next to him. He just had come back after healing and putting chakra suppressing seals on Zabuza and Haku, just in case. The security seals were still active.
Naruto and Kyoshiro had decided to share the room in which Zabuza and Haku were placed. Sasuke, Shin and Kakashi took one room and Uzume, Sakura and Yumiko in another room.
There was some clash when they bought in Zabuza and Haku; mostly from Sakura, and Shin was suspiciously compliant.
Namikaze, Uzumaki, Sora three clans bought together in the most miraculous way. The bloodlines, sage sight, everything was too good to be true, like someone out there was doing everything on purpose. Kyoshiro had long ago stopped believing in coincidences; especially once he met the goddess of fate and saw for himself exactly how insane and genius the goddess is; a cocktail for disaster.
Kyoshiro sighed again. No matter what happens he will protect Naruto and Yumiko. They are good children, although Kyoshiro felt it a little unfitting to call Naruto a child after he heard the full affect the sage sight had on him. Once more looking at the innocently sleeping boy next to him, he wondered how he was holding up.
"My father really didn't inherit much of the Namikaze blood. The only thing he got from the Namikaze clan was a talent in space time ninjutsu (though not anywhere near the level of a pure blooded Namikaze) and his blond locks. And maybe perhaps his wind affinity since both Sora and Namikaze clan had wind affinities. That's why he never activated the Namikaze bloodline, had he been able to do that, he would've known ploy behind the story that the Namikaze was nothing but a small merchant clan from Mist. Namikaze was a powerful clan, powerful and smart; smart enough to hide their prowess from the rest of the world to avoid attention.
The Namikaze were masters of space time ninjutsu, they had a few jutsu only members from the clan could use. In fact the jutsu used by that Uchiha we fought kind of remind me of one of the Namikaze clan jutsu. Also most Namikaze has a duel affinity of wind and water; hence the name Namikaze. Blond hair and green eyes are their features in general. There was one more ability.
You know about the Uzumaki knowledge transfer seals, right? Well the seal's idea is actually based on the Namikaze bloodline known a Memory Fusion. What happens is that every Namikaze clan heir receives the knowledge of the previous clan heads. There are no seals, no medium, the knowledge appears in the mind of every clan heir and they would be able to learn the technique. This is also the reason that Namikaze clan doesn't actually have any clan scrolls. The knowledge is directly transferred."
"Neat. Is that what happened to you?" Yumiko asked.
Naruto winced slightly and grimaced holding his head, "Not exactly…"
Kyoshiro didn't really like the somber expression on Naruto's face.
"What happened?"
Naruto looked at them with a sad smile, "The ability of the sage sight and my Sora bloodline kind of messed things up."
"What?!" both Yumiko and Kyoshiro asked worried. Naruto waved off their worries.
"It's not really that harmful." Then he grimaced holding his head again, "Okay, it is a little painful… just a little… but it is a good thing in the end."
This did nothing to ease the worries of his two friends.
"Well you see, you know about the Sora ability of Final Judgment right? It sort of got mixed up with the Memory fusion, by the sage sight's ability of combining and boosting bloodlines. As a result instead of simply acquiring their knowledge, I had to live through their memories; from birth to death."
Yumiko and Kyoshiro looked at Naruto with wide eyes; but Kyoshiro was the only one who could fully comprehend the situation and Kyoshiro was slightly horrified.
"That too memories of ancestors from all three clans…" Naruto finished with a sad smile.
"How are you feeling Naru?" Kyoshiro asked gently and placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder.
Naruto lowered his head so that his hair shadowed his face.
"I…I…" a choked sob escaped Naruto.
Kyoshiro embraced him tightly, Naruto sobbed, burying his face into the juncture or Kyoshiro's neck and shoulder.
"Shhh… it's alright…. Everything will be alright…" 'At least I hope so…'
Naruto cried on Kyoshiro's shoulder releasing all the confusion and frustration he felt.
In duration of barely a day, he had lived through countless lives. The first life he lived through confused him, even as he spend five years(mentally) as Sora Yamiko; he kept reminding himself that he was Naruto; Naruto Uzumaki. But as years passed it had became hard to hold onto his believes.
Even when he knew that it was not real, he felt everything, he loved, he hated, he cherished; he had no choice, because the emotions that came with the memories made it hard for him to believe that it was not his real life. Living as Namikaze Nariko; he found out about the Namikaze bloodline, he understood what was happening, but that didn't make it any easier. Because as far as his mind was concerned he had lived his life as them.
And it hurt. Oh god it hurt. Seeing your precious people die in one life, just to get thrown into another life and make more precious people and see them dying. Life as Uzumaki Takashi was what ultimately broke Naruto's fragile heart. Uzumaki Takashi, the sandaime uzukage, who was forced to witness the destruction of his entire clan.
He felt another pair of arms engulf him. He knew it was Yumiko, but his mind kept supplying parallels, Sanma, his mother when he was Sora Yasu or Minami his lover when he was Uzumaki Kenshin.
He needed to do something before he lost his mind.
For now he will relish in the embrace of Kyoshiro and Yumiko.
Kyoshiro sighed again and turned to his side. Naruto was so close, laying not even an arm's length away from reached out; his pale hand hovering inches from the warm skin of Naruto's cheek.
"What does it mean?" Yumiko asked.
"Huh?"
"The guardians of the seven; what does it mean? Seven what?"
Kyoshiro nodded, "Yeah I was wondering that too. The descendent of the third child of the sage is Uzumaki. The legacy of a god refers to Sora. And the Namikaze is the guardian of the seven… but seven what?"
Naruto smirked; "Contracts. Seven contracts."
"Like summoning contracts?" Yumiko asked wide eyed.
"The forbidden seven… Of course how could I forget? Seven powerful contracts that had been lost to time. I knew the contracts were guarded by a clan; but I didn't know it was the Namikaze. I was thinking it was the Sora or Uzumaki." Kyoshiro was surprised.
"The Namikaze are said to be guardians of the seven contracts; that is the contracts are kept in a place only a Namikaze could enter. And there is the fact that there are no information on the scrolls other than the myths and tales of their power. The Namikaze bloodline of memory fusion makes it easier."
"I see…. If my memory serves me right; the Guardian clan has an approval by all seven summoning contracts, don't they?" Kyoshiro asked.
"You mean you don't need to actually sign the contract to summon them?" Yumiko asked awed looking at Naruto.
"No. Each contract has a specific set of hand seals. I just have to do them and they would come, because I have the Namikaze bloodline; which makes me the clan head."
"What all are they?" Yumiko asked.
"The first is the summoning contract for the bijus. It was created by the sage of six paths. With it one could easily get the biju out of whatever confinement they're under. But it takes a shit load of chakra to summon even the weakest biju.
The next is the summoning contract of the dead. With this we could summon anyone back from the dead to fight alongside us. The time limit of the summon depends on the chakra used, and the stronger the person summoned, the more chakra needed. The summon will appear with the power he/she possessed while he/she was alive; but they won't have any soul; meaning all they can do is obey orders from the summoners.
The third is the summoning contract of the elementals; they are actually spirits with full control of a single element.
The fourth one is the summoning contract for the butterflies. They are master wind users and can create shields that could resist a direct bijudama.
The fifth is the dragon contract. Very prideful creature and tempermental."
Kyoshiro scoffed getting the attention of both Naruto and Yumiko; but he refused to say anything. Naruto was confused, but continued.
"They have elemental affinities, and except the boss summon and non elemental dragons; you can only summon those dragons with the same affinity as yours.
The sixth is a weapons contract. It contains access to weapons that are either fully, or partially sentient. Some of those weapons are said to drive their wielders mad if they're weak willed.
The seventh is the contract of the gate guard; it allows you to open portals to different realms."
"They all sound very powerful." Yumiko said wide eyed.
"But you need more training before you would be able to use them properly." Kyoshiro said.
"It is only a matter of time…"
Gently he placed his hand on the cheek and Naruto nuzzled his hand with a barely visible smile, that was soon interrupted by a grimace; another headache.
Naruto's mind was still trying to accommodate all the information from so many lives. A normal person would've had his mind shattered by now.
His thumb absentmindedly caressed the soft plumb lips. When his mind caught up with what he was doing; he blushed.
He quickly withdrew his hand; and right on time to, because Naruto's eyes flew open the next moment.
Kyoshiro was startled speechless for a moment, hand paused half way from Naruto's face. That's when Kyoshiro felt it a ripple in the security seals, that's what woke Naruto up.
It was no enemy, it was Uzume and Kakashi.
By the time Naruto and Kyoshiro got out of their room, it was to see Yumiko tending to a half conscious Uzume and Kakashi. Naruto was by their side in an instant.
Checking them and healing them.
When Naruto was done both jonin was asleep.
"Severe chakra exhaustion and some bruises. There is no other damage; but this is troubling. They will be fine in two days." Naruto frowned.
"Who would've hurt them like this? It has to be some high profile ninja."
"And since Zabuza and Haku are with us, it has to be someone else. Did Gato hire someone else?"
"Maybe he figured out our ploy."
"We will have to wait till sensei and Kakashi wake up. I'll go and up the security seals, just in case." Naruto said.
"I and Kyoshiro will keep watch tonight. You go sleep Naru, you need it." Yumiko said.
Naruto nodded; if he didn't get some proper sleep, his mind will become more stressed and that is the last thing they need now.
Naruto groaned as he woke up. The sleep had helped a lot; his mind was calmer and ordered now. There were still small bursts of headache, but it was not mind numbing pain like yesterday.
He sat up and looked to the side. Kyoshiro was absent.
The sunlight streamed from the open window. It is somewhere near 10 o'clock he summarized. With a sigh, he looked to the corner; Zabuza and Haku was still subdued and unconscious. The seals keeping them secure.
He walked over to them. He let out a small burst of chakra into both seals, both shinobi groaned as they regained consciousness.
Zabuza opened his eyes and looked at the blond boy sitting beside him. He felt for his chakra, but found that his chakra was suppressed. The blond boy had turned away from Zabuza in order to look at Haku.
Zabuza thinking that they have been captured; pounced on the blond. Naruto, who was a little bit disoriented still, was caught off guard.
"You suppressed my chakra, but you forgot that I am a jonin boy. Do you think I would be harmless just like that?" Zabuza growled out.
"Zabuza sama" Haku cried out as his mentor tackled the boy.
Naruto, who was relatively unharmed, gave Zabuza and unimpressed look.
"Really? Then why don't you try escaping?"
Zabuza growled at the boy's tone.
Zabuza was sitting on top of Naruto and he had both arms of the boy pinned to the floor. Naruto sighed and let out a brief pulse of chakra, the next moment Zabuza felt his whole body going numb. He could no longer move any part of his body.
Naruto frowned as Zabuza slumped on top of him.
"You're heavy dude. Hey Haku, get your master off of me." Naruto spoke.
"What did you do?"
"I have a subduing seal on you Zabuza; I can do this every time you get the big idea of attacking anyone. Now, Haku explains to him how you both got here and I'll release him once he calms down." Naruto felt like massaging his forehead, but it was not possible with Zabuza still on top of him.
Once Haku helped move Zabuza, Naruto looked at the both of them nonchalantly.
"I'll leave you two alone for some time." With that he left the room.
When Naruto reached downstairs, he saw Inari smiling up at him shyly. He smiled back. Tsunami came out of the kitchen and beamed at him.
"Naruto kun, how are you this morning?"
"I am fine Tsunami san." The fact that her son was smiling seem to have lightened the woman's burdens.
Naruto walked further and stopped in front of the room housing the jonin.
Uzume and Kakashi were lying on two futon, in the middle of the room. Yumiko and Kyoshiro sat next to the two jonin with grave faces.
"Ah, Naruto, You're here." Kakashi said.
"How are Zabuza and Haku?" Uzume asked.
"Awake and talking a few things out."
"Do you think it was wise to leave them alone?" Uzume asked.
"It will be fine." Naruto reassured them and sat down. "Now, what happened to you both?"
"Gato's still alive, he seem to have hired another missing nin." Uzume said frowning. "Probably an S rank…. And we walked right into the trap."
"There was chakra draining seals surrounding the hide out." Kakashi said. "Our chakra was gone before we could make any move, had we been a little too late at getting away, we would've died of chakra exhaustion."
"The kind of seals that our anbu use to handle prisoners?" Naruto asked incredulously.
"No, it was advanced than that." Kakashi shook his head.
The three genin looked at each other pensively, that can possibly mean that the enemy is well versed in seals.
"Anything about his fighting styles?" Kyoshiro asked.
"He is at least low kage level in speed and has brute strength that rival's Tsunade's." Uzume said.
"That's not good." Yumiko muttered.
"There's one more thing. On our way out, I saw a seal carved onto the bark of a tree." Kakashi said gaining everyone's attention. "I have seen that particular seal before… on the day that Naruto was attacked six years ago."
well i am almost sure that i have made some stupid mistakes in this chapter, but i was in a hurry, so sorry...
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