Legacy of the second Hokage: Raiden

Hey guys! Amaterasu_Blazing here with the next chapter of Legacy.

Again, storm dragon king, thank you for your comments and I will continue with my story, and may be starting a second soon. On your question concerning the inspiration for Fenrirs' name, that is exactly where I got the inspiration for both his design and name. And thank you for the comments on Fenrirs' character development, I am trying to show him as a stoic character, but with a caring personality who works as both the teams' taskmaster, and psychiatrist and finds enjoyment in seeing others push their limits. And finally… I totally agree! I never understood where those damn crutches appeared from in the show so I thought, hey! I've given my central character a scroll that has so much sealed into it, his team literally calls it the armoury, so why not use that to explain the crutches.

So normal disclaimer. I own NOTHING! Enjoy the chapter.

Talking: "Hello."

Thinking: 'I wonder…'

Flashback: "Hello"

Jutsu/techniques: Transformation Jutsu/8 centred whirlpool

Bijuu: "Stupid human."

multiple personality (e.g. Inner Sakura): "Eliminate him."

Point of view/ location switch: Naruto point of view

Reading: (Zabuza Momochi)

Chapter 10: The eyes of speed

Raiden sighed as he rubbed his tired eyes, leaning over a small scroll, continuously going over, drawing and re-drawing seals. Four days had passed since the two teams had arrived in wave. Fenrir hadn't let up on training since they got here, in actuality he had worked them even harder, making it hard to even walk or stand up after training.

Team 7 had continued to work on tree climbing, Sasuke and Naruto taking far longer to master it then anyone on team 6, whilst Sakura, much like Aizen, had mastered it on her first try and had been relegated to sitting and watching Tazuna work on the bridge, 'Guarding' him as they worked.

Days had passed slowly as they waited for Zabuza to attack again, likely with back up, or, at least, that's what Fenrir thought. Each of them had been separated from the others as they trained, only seeing each other at meals as the week passed. It wasn't different from how Fenrir usually trained them, separating them as they learnt new things and then forcing them to re-learn how to work together again in a match against him.

Fenrir had always been a heavy advocate for the idea that one learns how to work with others best in a life or death experience. The only thing that went against his credibility when he explained this to his students, was the fact that his usually stoic and straightforward attitude was barely being held together, badly concealing the absolute joy he had at the chance to push them to their limits.

Raiden himself had been mainly working on learning the body flicker during the week, not forgetting to also practice his other techniques as the time progressed. One of the things that had irritated him the most during the week was how Fenrir had access to a personal scroll of Shisui Uchia, Shisui the teleporter, his pseudo older brother.

This had infuriated him to no end, and the fact he had not gotten a chance to speak to Fenrir about this, as he had barely seen his white and black haired sensei all week, irritated him so much that the only thing that took up more of his conscious thought than it was the note the Shisui had written on the scroll.

The body flicker was a powerful technique and, in the hands of a master, could make a user near untouchable in combat. The problem was that, to be a master, one needed to be able to find a way around the stupid tunnel vision. Shisui himself had used his sharingans' perception enhancing abilities to circumvent this problem.

And this lead to why Raiden was awake at 6 am, working on a seal. Now, this didn't sound at all bad when you think that the young Senjus' usually wake up time was 6:30 in the morning. This is, until you find out that Raiden hadn't even taken a nap for the past two days as he had been constantly training and stressing over this very seal on the floor in front of him.

The young Senju sighed as he turned his head, seeing his sensei leaning over him, a grim look on his face as he gazed down at the sleep deprived genin. "Still awake I see." Said Fenrir as he watched his student turn back and continue to work on the seal. All the man got in response was a small nod from the sluggish youth.

Fenrir sighed as he again spoke. "You're going to be far less useful in a fight like you are now, get some sleep, you're going to need it" Advised Fenrir, his stoic attitude beginning to fade away as a caring tone broke through in the mans' voice. Raiden sighed as he responded to his sensei, not turning away from his project.

"I can't, I need to finish this before I can rest. I just… Can't" Sighed the Senju as he continued to work on the seal, viciously crossing out a seal as he started from scratch. Fenrir frowned as he thought back to the files' he had received on the genin before first meeting the team

Flashback

Fenrir stood before Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third Hokage as he was handed a set of three files by the old man as he spoke. "This is your new team of hopefuls that you'll be meeting tomorrow morning, please read over these as fast as possible" Said Hiruzen, Fenrir nodding in response as he disappeared in a body flicker.

Fenrir reappeared on top of the Hokage monument, taking a seat on the top, high above the faces. Flipping open the first file he began to read over the description of the academy student.

(Name: Raiden Senju

Family: Shinsei Senju(Father), Sukochi Uzumaki(Mother), Kushina Uzumaki(Aunt), Naruto Uzumaki(Cousin)

Academy rating: second in class (Tied with Aizen Hyuuga)

Skills: Uses Kenjutsu over Taijutsu, Fuinjutsu, and ninjutsu

Status/Personality: Raiden is the clan heir of the Senju and is an orphan. Calm: Warm but logical personality. Angry: Cold and detached, quick to act and logical. Seems to develop Obsessive Compulsion Disorder(OCD) when highly stressed or irritated.)

End Flashback

Fenrir finally saw what the file meant when it said he became obsessive when irritated. "What's on your mind?" Questioned Fenrir as Raiden froze. The young Senju began to chuckle as he finally turned around, turning away from the project.

"Am I really that obvious?" Questioned Raiden as he continued to chuckle. Fenrir smiled as he unsealed the same file he read all those months ago, handing it to the boy, indicating that he should read it as he began to explain, the boys' eyes widening further with every word he said.

"Raiden Senju, a highly logical and intelligent academy student that can be highly erratic when angry. Known to develop a severe case of OCD when heavily stressed, or equally irritated. So I ask again, what's on your mind?" said Fenrir in a caring voice as Raiden suddenly stopped laughing, a serious look on his face.

Raiden said a single sentence that sent Fenrir for a loop, surprising him on how such a simple thing like this could cause enough irritation or stress to cause him to stay awake for two days straight. "Why do you have a scroll that has notes made by Shisui Uchia?" Questioned Raiden, a heavy tone of seriousness in his voice.

"Shisui and I were friends, he gave me that scroll not long before he committed suicide. He never explained why he gave it to me, he just did." Explained Fenrir as Raiden nodded in understanding, a slight hint of disappointment on his face. Fenrir didn't notice as he pushed forward as he again spoke. "That couldn't be the only thing that was on your mind, what else are you thinking about?"

Raiden sighed as he grabbed the scroll and placed it between them as he began to speak, point out parts of the seal. "The note that Shisui left talked about increasing the body flicker's combat usability by using his sharingan to bypass the tunnel vision. So it got me thinking, if the sharingan could increase ones' perception to circumvent this, why couldn't seals?" Explained Raiden as Fenrir nodded in understanding as he looked over the seal

The seal had two forms, an unsealed and sealed state. The sealed state looked creepily similar to the markings around the eyes of Orochimaru, just black in colour. The unsealed state though, was an entirely different story. It looked like a set of stylised feathers, meeting in a V beneath his eyes.

Raiden began to explain the problem as he saw the questioning look on Fenrir's face. "The seal works from what I can tell, but it would take too long to activate and the repercussions make it not worth using. The seal increases the speed of the electrical signals across the nervous system, but causes the signals to slow down once the seal is deactivated, stopping a person from moving for just as long as the seal was active. Oh, and it makes you temporarily blind" Explained Raiden as Fenrir narrowed his eyes

Now, Fenrir didn't know much about seals, hell, he couldn't even hold a candle to the kid in front of him, but even he could see the problem. "Your trying to increase the entire the nervous reaction speed, causing the reaction to affect the entire body and causing it to take longer to initiate." Explained Fenrir as Raidens' eyes widened in realization.

"So if I made the eyes specifically enhance optical nerves, it should activate quicker and have the negative effects only effect the eyes'. Although, this still leaves me temporarily blind" muttered Raiden, sounding extremely tired as the hours of staying awake finally caught up to them, his eyes beginning to droop as the compulsion to finish the seal no longer held his exhaustion at bay.

Fenrir point of view

Fenrir caught his student as he fainted, his exhaustion finally overtaking him after days of staying awake. Fenrir placed the young Senju on the bed in the room, placing the scroll on the bedside table as he left the room to meet his other students at breakfast, having noticed that he had been with Raiden for far longer than he thought.

Fenrir walked downstairs, a small smile on his face at successfully getting Raiden to go to sleep. He took a seat at the table, joining the other residents of the house as he dug into the food. Sariah looked around before asking the question on quite a few people's minds. "Fenrir-sensei, where is Raiden" Questioned the Jishaku, a small blush on her face as she spoke,

Naruto, Aizen and Sakura nodded in agreement, also wondering where the Senju was, while Sasuke just shrugged, uncaring of the people around him. "He finally went to sleep, so don't expect to see him today" Explained Fenrir as he finished his breakfast, waiting for the genin to finish so he could explain what was going to happen today.

Once the genin were done, Kakashi began to explain what was happening "Now my cute genin…" Said Kakashi, quickly dodging a spike of silver as he continued. "…you will be doing something slightly differently today. Sasuke, Naruto and Aizen, you are all doing the same as yesterday. Now Sakura, you will be fighting Sariah today instead of guarding Tazuna."

Sakura was surprised as she questioned her sensei's logic. "But Kakashi-sensei, who will be guarding Tazuna, and are you sure it's fair?" Questioned Sakura, believing that, because she was the top kunoichi, she was far stronger than Sariah, the poor, deluded fan girl

Fenrir jumped in for his fellow jonin, answering the girl's question for Kakashi. "I will be protecting Tazuna while Kakashi watches over your fight. And your right Sakura it is unfair, so how about this, Sariah, you are not allowed to move from your starting position, or use the nightingale." Outlined Fenrir.

Sariah nodded in confirmation, a hint of sadistic glee in her single, uncovered golden eye. In contrast, Sakura was gaping at the brown clad man's words. She was the top kunoichi, and yet Sariah had all these restrictions on her to make the match equal. How had her fellow civilian born kunoichi become so powerful?

The ninja quickly broke and headed outside, Fenrir heading towards the bridge with Tazuna while Naruto, Sasuke and Aizen headed into the woods, Aizen splitting off from the other two shinobi just as they entered. Finally, Sariah, Sakura and Kakashi headed in a completely different direction from the other two groups.

They stopped next to a section of river surrounded by trees, standing in the middle of a fairly large clearing. The two kunoichi faced each other before Sariah sat down the lotus position, moving her hair out of her covered eye, allowing the two nin to see both of her golden yellow eyes uncovered, a dark sheen to them as she stared at her opponent as she again pulling up her mesh shirt till it covered her neck and face billow and including her nose.

Kakashi stepped forward, hands raised on both sides, palms facing the combatants as he spoke. "Okay, you both now the rules. If you break them, it's an automatic failure, good luck!" Said Kakashi, eye smiling as he stepped back. The girls sweat dropped before Sakura charged at Sariah as she calmly whispered.

"Magnet release: Silver wall" Whispered the Jishaku as silver flowed forth from her gauntlets at an incredible speed, forming a tall wall of silver that stopped Sakura's charge dead. "Magnet release: Silver Spikes" Whispered Sariah, causing the wall to dissolve into silver that rushed forward as it reformed into spikes.

Sakura barely was able to finish the seal chain, forming a snake seal as she replaced herself with a log, which was swiftly turned to kindling by the hail of spikes. At this action Sariahs' face shifted into an obvious smile, even if her mouth was covered. A clear undertone of enjoyment in her voice as she spoke. "Let the games begin…"

Sariah formed a tiger seal, causing the silver to rise off the ground as a barrage of kunai headed straight towards the bluenet from her left as Sakura re-emerged from the trees. "Magnet release: Silver Shield" spoke Sariah as an oblong shield formed to block the kunai as Sakura continued her obviously futile charge as Sariah again prepared her next move.

"Magnet release: Silver Tornado" whispered Sariah, pulling the silver into the shape of a tornado, spinning at high speeds as it formed around the frozen Haruno. Sakura tried to break through the twisting silver, throwing a barrage of shuriken at the silver. As expected, the shuricken could not break through, instead getting caught up in the tornado's spin.

A small thread of silver connected to Sakura without her noticing, leading back to Sariah. Sariah again spoke before preforming her technique, a faint tone of sadistic glee in her words. "Time for level two…" Whispered Sariah as she began to form a seal chain, ending on a rat seal as she whispered. "Demonic Illusion: False Surroundings"

Sakura point of view

Sakura watched in surprise as the wall of swirling silver in front of her fell apart, seeing Sariah panting from chakra exhaustion. Sakura smirked as she charged forward, a mistake that sealed her fate. The illusion immediately broke as she felt a surge of pain rush through her body.

She was surprised to see that the tornado was still there, and she was now caught in its pull. Sakura was spun around, quickly becoming disorientated and nauseous as they silver left shallow gashes in her body. The tornado continued to rage until it shot out the battered Sakura, causing the girl to crash straight into the trees surrounding the clearing.

Sakura struggled slightly as she attempted to stand up, noticing that, while the wounds may look bad and she was stiff, nothing was broken or life threatening. She looked up to see that she was being circled by scythes of silver with blue lightning surrounding and jumping between the blades as she heard a voice that was barely above a whisper carry across the clearing.

"Lightning Magnet release: Arc Scythes" whispered Sariah as she smirked at Sakura beneath her mask. "Checkmate Sakura…" Whispered Sariah as she still sat unmoving, unwilling to move before Kakashi called the match. Speaking of which, Kakashi finally re-emerged, jumping forward out of the shadows, landing between the two kunoichi.

"Well done you two, nice reaction time with that replacement Sakura, and Sariah, nice planning on how you worked around your limitations. Now drop the scythes, Sariah." Commanded Kakashi as the silver and lightning dispersed, the silver flowing back into her gauntlets as she stood up, allowing her hair to fall back into place over her right eye.

Sariah walked over to the battered form of her opponent as she pulled her mesh shirt back down as she began to speak to the scared kunoichi as her attitude changed from her previous devil may care and happy attitude to a cold and serious expression.

"You were overconfident Sakura. You believed you would win because you received a better ranking back at the academy, not thinking off how much your opponent might have improved. And you would have done better if you simply trained." Stated Sariah, no emotion to her voice as she began to walk out of the clearing, leaving Kakashi nodding sadly in agreement to her words with a now unconscious Sakura who he carried her back to the house.

That Evening

Fenrir point of view

Fenrir sighed as he walked into Tazuna's house, seeing the other team and his students, including Raiden who had woken up at some point during the day and now sported a set of black markings on his eyes with a line over each eye, these lines taking a sharp turn down and went diagonally down his face, stopping just before they met at the bridge of the nose and barely before the end of it, almost exactly like the markings of the rouge sannin.

Dinner was a quiet affair as no one spoke, although everyone was questioning Raidens' new markings or why Sakura was almost mummified in bandages from her fight with Sariah. As the genin headed to bed Kakashi grabbed the jonins' shoulder. Fenrir looked over his shoulder at the silver haired nin, seeing him indicate that he wanted to talk outside.

Fenrir nodded and walked outside, stopping a little way away from the house, soon being joined by Kakashi. "What do you want to talk about?" questioned Fenrir as he looked to his friend, who seemed to be preparing himself for a long talk.

"I am going to ask you one thing. What the hell did you do to those genin?" Questioned Kakashi, a no nonsense tone to his voice as he looked upon his fellow sensei. Fenrir blinked in surprise at the question before responding.

"I trained them just like you should have trained yours." Responded Fenrir in a dismissive tone as he began turn around again before he was again grabbed by Kakashi. He turned back around, seeing a dark look in the other jonins' single eye as Kakashi again began to speak.

"Don't joke around Fenrir, Raiden is almost as fast as Guys' protégé and is a year younger and didn't go through Guys' ridiculous training regimen. While I haven't seen Aizen in combat, I have seen the aftermath of his training and it's the type of thing I'd expect from a near chunin level nin, not a fresh rookie! And don't get me started on Sariah! She has high level control over her magnet release and strategy allowed her to trick someone who became a ninja, mostly, on intelligence alone!" Ranted Kakashi

"Your point?" Growled Raiden, starting to get angry at what Kakashi was insinuating. "Raiden was that fast when I got him, Aizen was trained since he was young and Sariah had that much control when I met her." Growled Fenrir as he looked at the silver haired jonin

Kakashi's gaze softened as he looked to the ground, releasing Fenrir's shoulder. "I'm sorry, I'm overreacting and jumping to conclusions because I'm frustrated that your team seems to be so far ahead of mine." apologised Kakashi as Fenrir just shook his head and smiled.

"It's a fair point, that are a bit advanced but so is Sasuke or Naruto, your main weakness in Sakura, as she is a fangirl, and the fact you only did teamwork exercises instead of training them" Sighed Fenrir as he walked back towards the house. Leaving the conversation as it was.

Two days later, morning.

Raiden point of view

The young Senju shot through the trees in the early morning, searching for Naruto as he had not come back this morning after he left for late night training. He shot from branch to branch, moving silently across the trees at speed as he moved towards the clearing Naruto had been using for training.

He silently entered the clearing by the branches, looking down at the clearing where he saw a sleeping Naruto. The blond was not alone as what looked like a young women stood leaning over him, her pink kimono with black swirl designs fluttering in the wind, a woven basket right next to her kneeling form as she shook the blond awake.

He continued to watch as his little brother finally woke up, looking on as the girl expressed concern for the blondes' actions, switching to interest as Naruto explained that he had been out late practicing. Raiden continued to watch on as the two discussed goals and motivations, Raiden finally becoming interested in the conversation as they began to speak about protecting those you cared for.

Raiden watched the women's facial figures closely, seeing her brown eyes mist over, a small tear falling as she likely remembered something extremely painful memories. He again looked over the girl, now noticing her gentle facial features, framed perfectly by her long, glossy black hair, with two long bangs in front of her ears, as it blew in the wind.

Raiden dropped to the ground just as the now revealed boy left the clearing, walking up behind the stunned Naruto and flicking him in the back of the head. Raiden chuckled as he watched Naruto jump forwards, spinning around mid-air to face him. Naruto dropped his guard, noticing that his supposed attacker was just Raiden.

"So… hungry?" Questioned Raiden, barely stopping himself from breaking into another fit of laughter as he heard Naruto's stomach growl loudly, a slightly embarrassed blush on the Uzumaki's face. Raiden grabbed the large scroll from his back, unsealing a smaller scroll with the blonde's name on it before hooking the larger scroll back into place

He opened up the second scroll and unsealed a dozen cups of instant ramen and a large container of water. He quickly filled up the cups of ramen with water, ignoring Sasuke entering the clearing as he formed a one handed seal chain, ending in a rat seal as he muttered to himself. "Fire release: Ignition Palm" Said Raiden as a layer of fire surrounded his hand, allowing him to heat the cups of Ramen as the two teammates argued not far away.

Raiden replaced the materials used as he stood up, not taking a single step before Naruto had begun guzzling down the ramen. Raiden shook his head, a small smile on her face as he pulled a stick of pocky from the box on his leg, placing it in her mouth as he disappeared back to the tree tops, forming a tiger seal as he shot forward, disappearing mid jump as he body flickered back to Tazuna's house.

Aizen point of view

Aizen sat by the edge of the forest, leaning against a tree as he waited with the rest of his team for Raiden. They didn't have to wait much longer as Raiden appeared next to the sitting Hyuuga. Aizen used some of the low branches to pull himself up as team 6 followed Fenrir to the bridge.

You see, Fenrir had decided to use today to prepare the likely battle field to swing the fight in their favour. In essence, they were turning the bridge into a both a metaphorical and literal mine field. Work had been called off for the day so they could do this, Tazuna staying back at his house with Sakura and Kakashi.

The team soon arrived, waiting for Fenrir to explain what he wanted them to do. "Okay guys, the main thing we need to do is set traps on the bridge to shift the balance in our favour. Aizen, I know you don't use traps much so you'll be using your byakugan to mark the locations once we are finished." Instructed Fenrir as his students nodded in understanding.

Aizen sighed as he activated his byakugan, sitting down and pulling out a scroll from the confines of his jacket. Opening the scroll revealed that it contained a set off highly detailed diagrams of the bridge provided by Tazuna. Aizen looked around, noticing that Raiden was standing on the bottom of the bridge, setting up large groups of his explosive Kunai on the bottom of the bridge.

As Raiden raced along the bottom of the bridge, setting explosives, Sariah was releasing silver from her gauntlets, controlling it to bury itself into the bridge, spreading it around quite thickly so that she didn't need to waste time unsealing silver during a fight. Aizen quickly noted these down, continuing to watch as his teammates shot around the bridge.

Fenrir stood next to his writing student, watching as he furiously annotated the designs in time with the motions of his other two students, glancing up at times when he noticed Raiden appearing on the top side of the bridge, a single grim thought on his mind. 'We are going to end up destroying the bridge if we use half of this.'

In the shadows of the on looking forest crouched a dark figure, a small smirk on their face as he looked on, observing the nin on the bridge, more specifically their actions as they ran around the bridge, setting trap after trap. The figure shifted on the branch that he stood on, causing one of the metal plates on their form to reflect the sunlight.

Fenrir point of view

Fenrir gazed across the bridge, his stormy grey eyes passing over his three students. A small glint of light shined from the edge of his eye as he whipped around, seeing a gleaming light emerging from the dark deps of the forest on the nearby shore. The white haired jonin narrowed his eyes as he discreetly formed a shadow clone.

He carefully body flickered off the bridge, the clone taking his place before his students and, hopefully, the person that was watching them, could notice. He reappeared by the very edge of the forest, just off the entrance to the bridge. He entered the forest, forming a bird seal as he walked into the shadows. "Dark release: Shadow Stalker"

Fenrir seemed to sink into the shadows, his form disappearing as he shot through the forest, little more than a spectre as he moved. He stopped at the edge of the general area were the light had come from. The Tenpura inwardly growled as he noticed that the branches seemed to have been cut away, illuminating the clearing.

Now Fenrirs' suspicions were confirmed, they were being, or at least had been watched as he could not see or sense anyone in the clearing. He took a step into the light, his form seeming to re-solidify as he entered the light, his form switching back from that of a dark spectre to his normal body.

He jumped into the branches as he looked around, seeing nothing. He couldn't find anything until he noticed a ripped piece of cloth on the branches. Fenrir sighed, knowing that something this small would not help him. He turned around, shooting back to his team, not able to shake off the feeling that everything was about to come to a head.

jutsu list:

Magnet release:

Silver Shield: The user forms the silver into the shape of a shield, which provides less protection than the silver wall, but is far more mobile. D rank

Silver Tornado: The user controls silver to form a fast moving tornado that traps an opponent or spin and disorientating someone caught in it whilst shredding them with the fast moving silver before shooting them out. C rank

Lightning Magnet release:

Arc Scythes: These are formed by adding lightning release to silver scythes. These are then used to cut an opponent, the lightning instantly cauterises these wound, scorching the skin around it. C rank

Dark release:

Shadow Stalker: The user melds into the shadows in an area, allowing them to move without being able to be seen as long as the user remains in the shadows. C rank

And that's where I'm ending it! Thanks to those who have already read my store so far, I'm amazed at how many of you there are! Like last I'm asking how was it? Better, worse? Did you like it? hate it? Please comment and note flames will be ignored and fed to the Joutins.