Ok so before we go any further into the story I want to just give you guys a glimpse of my thought process for deciding what power Naruto should get. I wanted something which makes him better than his cannon counterpart at that point but doesn't make him too broken.
Since this power is a support type and has no actual attack capacity unless you get really creative which we all know Naruto can be so I thought it would be a good power for him.
With that out of the way we can get back to the story and now onward.
Chapter 3: THE LEGENDARY SUCKER'S RELUCTANCE
"ok guys, first we will have Naruto versus Sakura, and remember Naruto even if you like Sakura don't hold back because this spar will help us figure out where you guys need help." Kakashi said. He was having team spar sessions to try and see where his teams taijutsu was at.
He knew how this match would turn out but he still had to have Sakura eat some humble pie so that she would at least try to catch up with her team mates. They had been a team for a week and he could tell that she did not think highly of Naruto.
Maybe having him defeat her would show her that she is this teams weakest link. Naruto got into the centre and bounced around, he wanted to get this over with so that he could fight Sasuke and show everyone but mostly himself that he had improved.
He eyed Sakura and he could tell that she was a little nervous, she would never admit it but she knew that he was a better fighter.
Sakura took her time to get into the ring while she was thinking about how she was going to beat Naruto so that she would not embarrass herself in front of sasuke, thinking about Sasuke she turned back to see what he was doing and saw that he seemed like he didn't even want to be there which kind of hurt for her.
When Sakura got in front of him Naruto decided to try and boost her spirit a little bit "don't worry Sakura you will do great." He yelled.
Sakura snorted and said "of course I will Naruto I am fighting against you", after she said this Naruto narrowed his eyes a tiny fraction and got into his stance. Sakura didn't see the change in his demeanour but Sasuke and Kakashi did and so Kakashi decided to start the match.
"oh and remember guys this is taijutsu only" said Kakashi and after he said that he started the match.
After which both Sakura and Naruto bowed to each other and both pushed off the ground toward each other at relatively high speed with punches at the ready and they both collided at the centre, Sakura recoiled from the force of the two punches and Naruto used that as his opportunity to deliver a gut punch.
After the punch Sakura wheezed and went down on one knee, seeing her like this Naruto hesitated and Sakura used that opportunity to trip him and go for a punch on the face, but Naruto rolled out of the way and they both got up and engaged in an exchange of kicks and punches.
Kakashi was pretending to be reading his book but was watching very intently and he was surprised to learn that Sakura's taijutsu was a bit better than he had already thought, she couldn't match Naruto's stamina, strength and speed and so was ultimately going to lose but she was not a bad fighter.
It seemed like the only things she really lacked were some jutsus and she needed to spar more so that she could build her stamina and improve her tolerance to pain.
With Naruto he already knew what he was working with after their fight and so he was not really paying that much attention but he could definitely tell that Naruto needed to work on his taijutsu a little bit.
Sasuke was watching the match and had to admit that Sakura was not too bad but she was still weak he decided as Naruto would destroy her if he could use his clones.
Naruto and Sakura had been going at it for about a minute and he could tell that Sakura was starting to get tired and therefore sloppy and so he used that opportunity to grab one of her hands and use it to pull her face into his knee.
After Naruto let go of her hand Sakura was feeling a little dizzy and she could tell that there was something running down her nose, she stumbled around in the ring and almost fell but Naruto caught her and laid her down gently on the ground.
"ok Naruto it seems you may have been a little rough on her and so I am going to take her to the hospital. You and Sasuke can leave or continue training here but don't have your spar until I am available to supervise." Kakashi said as he carried Sakura and took off.
"Too bad Naruto it seems like I don't get to humiliate you today." Said Sasuke as he took off so that he could practice in his families private training ground.
"YEAH FUCK YOU SASUKE." Yelled Naruto as Sasuke took off, he gave Naruto one last dirty look and left.
Sarutobi couldn't believe it, when he had sent Jiraiya on his mission to get Tsunade he had been 90% sure Jiraiya would fail but it seems the man managed to pull of a miracle.
"Ah Tsunade its good to see you." He said as he got up and went towards Tsunade to give her a hug but she immediately stopped him.
"I didn't come her for you or your sentiments old man, now show me where this kid is so that I can get on with my job." She said with a sneer on her face. She was already regretting agreeing to come to this but at the time it had seemed like a good idea.
She looked over to Shizune and Tonton and she could tell that shizune was happy to be back home, this was the first time in a long time she had seen Shizune that happy and she hated herself for the fact that she was going to have to rip that happiness away from her but she just couldn't stay in the leaf.
"ok well before we get to that Jiraiya would you mind telling me how you were able to get her to come back here." Sarutobi asked, he had been curios ever since Jiraiya walked in with Tsunade, there had to be a story to tell there as Tsunade would never come willingly.
Jiraiya scratched the back of his neck and laughed awkwardly as he looked everywhere but the hokage's face "after you told me to find and bring back Tsunade I immediately got my spy network to work on it and they got a lead that led me to tanzaku gai. When I got there I couldn't find her on the first day but I accidentally ran into her in one of the bars on the second day…" he started.
When he entered the bar Jiraiya was pissed, he had been looking for Tsunade the entire day yesterday and he couldn't find her, plus he still had to figure out how he was going to get her to come back with him and in all honesty that was stressing him quite a bit.
After he sat down on the bar he looked around in the place to see if there were any hot woman around and as he was looking around he saw his quarry and decided to pounce. He ordered a drink and had one of the waitstaff deliver it.
After the waitstaff delivered the drink they showed Tsunade where he was and after that he got up and walked over. "Tsunade its been to long, how have you been? You are looking as lovely as ever and you as well Shizune it seems you have grown up rather nicely." He greeted as he sat down
"Greetings to you as well lord Jiraiya." Shizune greeted back.
After they had gotten the drinks and she had seen who sent them she knew that he wanted something from her and so immediately after his little introduction she decided to get straight to it.
"Cut the bullshit and tell us what you want Jiraiya" she demanded. After her little outburst Jiraiya looked intently at her for a little bit and then sighed.
"The third hokage of the village hidden in the leaves has requested that you come back to the village." He said in a formal tone, but he knew that even if he said it in a formal tone she would never agree to it and he was proven correct when she started laughing and slammed her fist on the table.
"well Jiraiya you can tell the third hokage that I am never coming back to his filthy village." She said. After which Jiraiya sighed and rubbed his temple.
'Troublesome woman' he thought as he almost slammed his head on the table in frustration. "You didn't even ask why the hokage wants you back.." he started and she snorted in a way that said that it wouldn't matter "anyway the third hokage would like you to come back to the village for your medical expertise." He finished.
When she didn't say anything he decided to continue "you know Naruto right?" he asked.
Deciding that she might as well answer him and get to the point she said "yeah Minato and Kushina's brat what about him?" she asked with a hint of impatience in her voice.
"he has developed a kekkei genkai." Jiraiya said with a straight look in his face.
After Jiraiya said this both Tsunade and Shizune's eyes grew comically wide. "but how is that possible? neither Minato nor Kushina had a kekkei genkai or is it some kind of gene that skipped a couple of generations?" she asked with a slightly curios look in her eyes.
"No we don't think it skipped a few generations as we have never heard of a kekkei genkai that has the same properties as what Naruto has awakened." He said still looking like he wasn't all that interested but inside he had a big smile as he could see that Tsunade was at least partially interested.
"Really how interesting." She said while thinking about the fact that this kekkei genkai reminded her so much of her grandfather's kekkei genkai where he was the first person to ever unlock it and the only one since, well the only one to unlock it naturally.
"What does this mysterious kekkei genkai do?" she asked while feigning indifference.
"Well to tell you that I have to first tell you the story of its awakening..." He started and proceeded to tell her how Naruto first awakened it and everything they had discovered since.
'WOW' Tsunade screamed in her mind, this was one of the most fascinating kekkei genkai she had ever heard of in her life and the fact that it was so heavily skewed towards the healing arts definitely peaked her interest, there was also the fact that it sounded like a version of her mitotic regeneration.
She definitely wanted a chance to study Naruto, but she didn't want to go to the leaf for that.
Jiraiya could see that she was hesitant and so he decided to sweeten the deal "The village hidden in the leaves will pay of all of your debts and you only have to stay until we know enough about Naruto's new ability to know that it is safe" he added.
That definitely sweetened the deal for her as she didn't have to stay in the village, but she was still hesitant.
"I think we should go lady Tsunade, this would be very helpful as they are paying off all of your debts plus we only have to stay for a couple of weeks." Said Shizune with what sounded like a hint of hope in her voice.
After hearing this Tsunade looked at Shizune from the corner of her eyes and she could see that Shizune didn't even care about the debts but she just wanted to go back home. She always tried to make herself forget how selfish she was being by dragging Shizune all around.
She knew that Shizune at the very least wanted to visit the village once in a while but she had never agreed to that. This time there were so many reasons why she should go including but not limited to helping her grandmother's legacy and the biggest reason of them all as a way to give back to Shizune for all the support she had given her.
"ok fine I will come back but don't think that paying for my bills means you won't have to pay me." She said.
Jiraiya almost fell out of his chair when she agreed, he knew he had been wearing her down but he thought there was still a fifty percent chance she would say no but apparently not which was great.
"And that's how I got her to come back, well more or less" he finished to which the hokage nodded.
"Bear" he said and a man wearing a bear mask appeared in front of him.
"Yes, lord hokage?" he asked.
"Find Naruto Uzumaki and immediately bring him here." He said to which the ANBU saluted and left.
Naruto had been thinking about his fight with Sakura since yesterday and realised that he may have gone a bit overboard and so decided to apologise. When he got to the training ground Sasuke and Sakura were already there and so he went over to her and said "hey Sakura I am sorry about hitting you so hard yesterday."
"no, its fine that was probably my fault for underestimating you and taunting you since I know how much you hate being looked down upon." She said, she had been thinking about the fight all night and she had to admit that she was by far the weakest person in the team.
She had been able to hold her own relatively well but she knew that if Naruto had been able to use his clones she would have been destroyed in the first couple of seconds. When she got here Sasuke had been giving her the stink eye and she thought it was because she had disappointed him by losing to Naruto.
The real reason was because Sasuke was appalled that she couldn't take such a simple hit, he was now more than ever certain that she would weigh them down immensely.
Just as Naruto was about to respond to her the ANBU appeared and gave him the hokage's order and so he had to leave.
When Naruto got to the hokage's office he saw that the old man was not alone and so he decided to just stand in front of the old man and hear what he wanted.
"Naruto, I see you made it, I would like you to meet my students Jiraiya and Tsunade of course also not forgetting Tsunade's apprentice Shizune." He said while pointing to each person as he called them.
Naruto turned around and examined all of the people that were being introduced but something baffled him and so he decided to ask "Hey old man if those two people are your students shouldn't they be the same age?"
"Well they are Naruto." The hokage answered with sweat dripping down his face thinking about Tsunade's temper.
"Oh really? Then what happened did this guy age really badly or is this lady using some kind of jutsu or plastic surgery to keep herself young?" he asked feeling genuinely curios.
"Well that doesn't matter Naruto anyway Tsunade here is the doctor that I told you about, you know the one who will help us figure out more about your powers. She is probably one of the best if not the best doctor in the elemental nations and so you will be in good hands." The hokage said trying to get Naruto away from the topic of ages.
"Oh really? Ok then its nice to meet you I am Naruto Uzumaki future hokage I look forward to working with you." He said with a giant grin on his face.
"Tsunade had been getting more and more pissed with the brat throughout the conversation and so when he mentioned the hokage she snorted and said "Hokage really? Only fools want to be hokage" with a condescending tone.
The smile on Naruto's face dropped and his eyes narrowed "oh really? Well then I guess I will see you around." He said and started heading for the door.
"Where are you going Naruto?" the hokage asked, but he already knew what was going on through Naruto's thought process.
"I am not going to work with some old hag who insulted my dream and worst off all insulted you." He said, after he said this Tsunade almost lunged for him but was stopped by Jiraiya and Shizune.
"I know how you feel Naruto seeing as how I was the one she insulted but as a hokage you are going to have to learn to work with people you don't like or who have differing ideals. So just think of this as practice for when you become hokage plus she may be the only one who can help us figure out the secret of your powers." He said in a pleading tone.
"Fine." Naruto said through gritted teeth.
"Excellent, you will meet her tomorrow after your team practice and missions in rooms 201 of the hospital." He said after which Naruto left and he turned his eyes to Tsunade.
"Well Tsunade I do believe you heard your meeting time with Naruto, so you can be off." He said and turned back to his paperwork
Tsunade could tell that Hiruzen was a little annoyed with what she said to Naruto and so she decided to just leave with Shizune following behind.
"So that was Naruto? Well he certainly looks like an interesting young man." Jiraiya said as he disappeared from the office.
Over the next 3 weeks Naruto met up with Tsunade everyday after his business with his team was completed, and although Naruto started out hating her guts he gradually warmed up to her and even Tsunade was becoming more and more fond of him as he reminded her of Dan and Nawaki.
Tsunade always had Shizune with her so that Shizune could help with any task that involved blood, they did every medical test imaginable to test out his genetics and bloodwork and everything else that remotely had to do with kekkei genkai.
While they were testing that medical stuff they were also testing out how his powers worked and so everyday they performed different tests on him to test out some of the limits of his powers from stabbing him repeatedly with kunai to having him beaten into the ground.
They basically did everything to him that could still be healed with medical ninjutsu if it turned out that his powers couldn't handle it meaning they didn't server any limbs.
During the first week they also decided to test out his ability to heal other people.
They were also working on his transformation and halfway through the second week they were able to have Naruto start being able to transform into the bird form at will and they then tested out the limits of his bird form.
After those three weeks they were ready to present their report to the hokage and so that was why they now had the hokage and everyone else who knew about the power in a conference room ready to deliver their report.
They had asked him why Hinata and Iruka were there and he had explained that it would be a good idea to have any worries they might have about the negative effects the powers might have on Naruto be addressed.
After setting up and getting everything in order Tsunade got in front of everybody and started her presentation.
"ok everybody this will be a presentation on everything that we have uncovered on Naruto's powers, please save your questions until the end.
Naruto can turn into a blue flame covered phoenix or conversely, he can just turn parts of his body into a phoenix's like turning his hands into wings and his feet into claws.
Naruto has named these flames that cover his entire body the flames of revival as they heal any injury he gets but he has to consciously turn them on, so if he is in his human form and he gets hurt he can just summon the flames but if he is in his phoenix or hybrid form the flames immediately heal him.
If he is in his phoenix form piercing attacks look like they are just passing through him but they are hurting him but he just immediately recovers.
His flames cannot be used for offensive purposes. We are going to operate under the assumption that his flames have a limit in how much they can heal him but we haven't seen it yet and trust us we tried to reach it but we couldn't perform tests like severing a limb in case he couldn't heal from that.
We have also determined that he can heal other people but his powers are nowhere near as effective on other people as they generally just bolster the bodies own healing process." She finished.
After the report everyone was amazed by Naruto's powers but Hiruzen still had a question and he needed an answer "Did you determine where these powers come from and why they don't seem to require chakra? He asked.
"We have determined that his cells produce a new kid of energy that is different from his chakra this energy seems to be the reason he can heal. When we saw this energy under a microscope Naruto seemed to recognise it and explained that it looked like a strange type of energy that had invaded his body during that incident.
We are now acting under the impression that the meteor was somehow the cause of this unless further testing proves otherwise." She said.
Hiruzen was stunned, he had forgotten about the meteor but now that he thought about it this made sense as everything on the planet dealt with chakra and so a new energy source would come from out of the planet.
After that they had a few more questions and then everyone went on their way.
Naruto and Hinata left together as they were going the same way and caught up with what has been happening in each other's lives and if being a ninja was what they had thought it would be when they had talked the last time.
Naruto was packing, they had been having those d rank missions for a month now and so he had finally snapped and asked the hokage for a better mission, the hokage had given them a c rank and he was now in his apartment preparing for the mission. He couldn't wait to use his power in front of the others in his team, he knew their reactions would be priceless.
To prepare for the spar between Sakura and Naruto I watched Sakura vs Ino and I have to say her taijutsu was better than I thought it was but seeing as at that point she had already grown quite a bit and had her little hair cutting moment in the forest, I decided at this point she wouldn't be as good as then.
The problem with Naruto is that he has never fought in straight taijutsu with someone close to his level but I am gonna assume he would have more speed, strength and stamina than her at that point.
Anyway please review so that I can know if I am doing things right.
