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I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER OR THEIR SUCCESSORS IN ANY SHAPE OR CAPACITY. I ONLY OWN MY FICTITIOUS OC'S.

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Upload Schedule: Sundays and Thursdays

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Glossary: Scene breaks will be denoted by a line of X's

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Demonic or summons speech"

'Demonic or summons thoughts'

Jutsus shall be rendered in Japanese or English depending on which they are. For example, I will not be saying Almighty Push, I will be saying Shinra Tensei, or Rasengan instead of Spiraling Sphere. However instead of Raiton: Gian I will be saying Lightning Style: False Darkness

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"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" - Muhammad Ali

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I figured it was time to give the heaviness a break from the last chapter. This will cover the training month, so if you do not like reading about the month of training, I would suggest skipping this chapter. Though do read the final paragraph, it foreshadows the next chapter. Till the epilogue,

~Ardent Chronicler

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Minato smiled as Naruto walked into his hmes office.

"Morning Naruto."

"Good morning Minato."

Naruto sat in the chair next to Minato, pulling the chair to the desk he placed his small knapsack on the desk. He removed the ink bottle, three brushes, and the thick scroll.

"Alight, since this will be your first formal day training, and we have a month, I can go through much more detail than I did during the two weeks. Now, as your teacher I need to ask you, what type of sealing are you interested in? IF I know I can better teach you to follow that schools guidelines."

Naruto closed his yes in thought, all of the schools interested him, but with his Kongo Fusa he had a head start into one of the schools already.

"Barriers, I wish to know more of barriers."

"Is that due to your Kongo Fusa?"

Naruto nodded, and that is how the first day went, theory, calligraphy, and at the end of the day his thick scroll was full of notes and practice seals. The second day however, led to be eventful.

"Oh, I hope you do not mind Naruto, but Kai showed an aptitude to seals and asked if he could join us."

"I do not mind, I find his presence, refreshing." Naruto smiled when he took a seat against the wall and on the floor. The whole day was note taking an a few practice seals while Kai sat in between his legs practicing calligraphy to get his handwriting good enough.

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Minato laid a small scroll in front of Naruto.

"Alright Naruto, you have the basics down of reading seals, so I want you to look at this seal, break it down and tell me what it is meant to do."

Naruto took the scroll in his hands and rolled it out, inside was a large seal, easily the size of Kais body, but it was also meant to be a simple seal. Naruto starred, taking in the whole seal and he noticed a few things, a trigger activation, a manual dispersal seal on the edges, but the most interesting had to be the elemental seal in the middle. It was a mix of wind and fire, and seemed to interconnect to the two. Below it in the design was a simple chakra storage seal, and a repeating flow design.

"Is this, a torch?"

Minato chuckles and patted Narutos shoulder.

"Indeed, it was your mothers first design. It functions as a torch but it emits more light and can be focused. Congratulations Naruto, you are now a novice Barrier seals man."

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Naruto walked from his home and gazed outside and there he was, the Bear ANBU member.

"Come Naruto, we begin tonight."

NAruto walked to the center of the training ground and only saw two mats on the ground.

"Please, sit."

Naruto sat cross legged and he examined the ANBU member, his size and body build eant he was an adult male, the brown hair and thicker hands meant he had fighter in his blood. The man was a large and imposing target, so his fighting style must have been more brawler or ninjutsu expert.

"For the time remaining, call me Yamato." Tenzo removed his mask and sat across from Naruto, he looked the boy up and down and nodded.

"How are you going to help me reign in the Kyuubis chakra Yamato?"

"I am uniquely suited to assist Jinchurikis in training."

"How?"

"Before I show you, I heard you have the Kongo Fusa?"

"You saw me use them."

"Indeed. Alright, well let me show you why I am uniquely suited to fit to your training." Tenzo clapped his hands together into the rat seal and around Naruto two seedlings appeared growing until they stood as tall as Naruto.

"Wood style? I thought it was lost with Hashirama?"

"Like I said, unique. Now, this weeks learning will be on drawing out the chakra. Have you ever channeled his chakra before?"

"No, Minato sealed the chakra shut until he opened it for me last night."

"I see, so our first form of training is meditation, you need to be able to enter your own mind to feel for the chakra. You will see a visual representation, but keep in mind it is all in your head."

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Naruto was growing frustrated, every night for a week after his training with Minato and spending time with family, he had come out here and sat for hours meditating. Nothing was happening and it was beginning to grind on his nerves, until he felt a draw and when he opened his eyes he saw he was in a prison. It was similar to the one he visited with his father, the boiling rock. He looked forward and at the end of the corridor there was a large cage, glowing red. Naruto swiftly made his way there and saw his target, the Kyuubi.

"Hm, so my container decides to visit."

"Not for lack of trying, Minato sealed the gateway shut. I could not come here till last night."

"I see, come closer brat, I wish to see you better."

Naruto gae the Kyuubi a sharp look.

"I was not born yesterday fox."

The kyuubi chuckled, this container was not as naive as his mother.

"Why have you come here brat? What is it you truly desire?"

"I have come to learn how to harness your power."

"Harness not control?"

"No, I wish for us to fight together, as a team. It would be more efficient and would later on become a boon."

"Forget about it. I will never give a mutt my chakra."

Narutos eyes narrowed.

"So you will not assist me?"

"No, I will fight you every curb of the way, tooth and nail."

Naruto sighed as his imagination changed the scenery, a single collar around the Kyuubi becoming his seal and the two stood atop a mountain.

"I tried to work with you, so now you reap what you sow."

Kyuubi thrust his maw forward intent on eating the boy when he heard crushing and the grinding of metal and the Kyuubis heart dropped. His chest, and limbs were pierced by Kongo Fusa and he was sewed to the top of the mountain.

"If you will not assist, and you will fight me, I will simply take what I desire. I am sorry it came to this, I never wanted to hurt you or steal from you but I have no choice. I need your aid whether it is voluntary or not."

Naruto turned and vanished in a swift burst of smoke as the Kyuubi roared his ry of anguish echoing around the mountain top he now resided upon.

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Naruto opened his eyes and saw Yamato standing across from him.

"It is done."

"That is very good, did you two come to an agreement?"

"No, he wanted to oppose me at every curb, so I used my Kongo Fusa, if he will not assist, I will take."

"Very good, now, starting on the new week we will begin to harness the chakra. For now, go and rest."

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Ty Lee sat in the living room holding little Yin in her arms, letting the baby play with her hair. She smiled and started humming a song from her childhood when she heard the door open. Zarehya walked through the living room giving her a grin as she motioned for Ty to follow her.

"Come on Ty, join me in the kitchen I want to talk with you."

Ty stood cradling Yin in the crook of her right arm using the left to tickle the babies chin. She joined Zarehya in the kitchen and gently gave the baby to her mother.

"Thank you for watching her, did she behave?"

"Just a little fussy when she used the restroom, nothing much. She really likes my hair."

"Well you do have a very soft and full head of hair. Naruto likes it for sure." Zarehya giggled seeing Tys blush, she walked over to the girl and kissed her forehead.

"You are part of the family Ty, and I have only two fears in my life. The fall of my country, and the death of my family. Tell me, do you know how to defend yourself?"

"Oh, no ma'am, I was never allowed to learn." Ty shifted uncomfortably, bringing up those times of her life made her depressed.

"I see, well, I'm going to teach you my personal style, ok?" Zarehya watched the girl shift uncomfortably under her gaze, to be honest she wanted to do this a long time ago but she wanted to make sure of the girls convictions.

"I, I guess that'd be ok."

"You guess or you know? I won't take half assed actions."

"I will, I'll do it."

Zarehya smiled and thus began Ty Lees first week of instruction, learning about the body, different pressure points and soft targets on the body.

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The beginning of the second week of training had seen a lot of the same from Minato, sans for him starting to help Naruto with the Kongo Fusa. Though his true growth happened on the fourth night of the second week.

"Alright Naruto, I am ready to suppress you, now, channel the chakra."

Naruto closed his eyes and reached down into the pit of his stomach, he felt the hate and anger and pulled on it bringing it forth. He felt the emotions starting to overwhelm his own, but he did something that shocked Yamato, he wrapped himself in a cocoon of Kongo Fusa. He felt the chakra try to escape but he held on tightly, he felt the wood style wrapping around his cocoon but he paid it no mind. He focused on the chakra and began to suppress it himself, but he noticed something odd, in all of the chakra there was a feeling he wasn't new to but one that he knew he could manipulate. It was fear, Naruto latched onto the fear and brought it forth, grabbing it and made it his own. He was overcome with the fear, it muted the hate, the anger, and he focused on his mental training under Iroh, he breathed and tried to clear his mind. He felt the fear leave, and he felt agitated, but in control. He released the Kongo Fusa and aw the wood style had disappeared.

"Naruto?"

He looked to Yamato and he nodded signaling he was in control.

"It feels, heavy, and hot. Like being stuck under a quilt, but I have control."

Yamato was impressed, he never thought that something that would mute the Kyuubis chakra would be the thing that would also help him channel it.

"You aren't influenced in any way?"

"I feel annoyed, irritated, but I am indeed in control. I can feel everything around us as well, it is strange."

"I see, I will have to talk to Minato can you explain what you did to get the chakra under control?"

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Minato was very happy, nearly every day of the week for the past three weeks he had both of his children in his home. Even if Naruto had his own social barrier between the two Minato never faltered, Naruto was his son. He was filled with pride on Narutos progress, the boy had managed to be able to break down every basic seal given to him. He even learned Minatos signature technique, the ability to stamp seals using chakra alone. Though he had to warn Nauto to never use it on a seal such as the exploding tags, the tag would immediately detonate due to the chakra.

"Naruto, I have something for you, that is only right you have."

Naruto quickly paid attention, he laid down the scroll he had been reading while Kai slept against his body. He watched Minato walk over and kneel down next to Naruto, holding a single small seals scroll, about the size of a bottle of water.

"What is this?"

"Your mothers first true barrier, and one she had ink'd into her skin. These barriers were her main defense in a fight and they only ever failed to overwhelming force. Though it was only due to her ability to channel the Kyuubis energy into them."

Naruto took the scroll and opened it, he was only met with confusion and what felt like the seal being scrambled in his mind.

"It's fine Naruto, the seal is protected and will be your goal to strive for. She placed an area of effect barrier on the scroll, when triggered any person trying to read the scroll would have their ability to read and perceive the seal scrambled, similar to dyslexia."

Naruto rerolled the scroll and smiled to Minato, he would not lie, it was nice bonding with the Hokage, while the man would never be his father, he was turning into a great teacher and good friend.

"I also received the report on how you grasped the Kyuubis chakra, you know that was in genius right?"

"What do you mean?"

"You created a barrier and forced the chakra to focus on itself, and in its moment of conflict you found the weakness. Well done Naruto."

Naruto nodded as the two began to work on a new lessons, the basics of defensive sealing, namely paralysis and chakra restraint seals.

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Naruto was frustrated, he was told that there were more states than just this pseudo state. He would know he drew into them when the chakra would shroud him and he would gain tails made of chakra. He had almost attained the state, he could feel the shroud starting to form, but at the last minute the fear from the chakra hit him and in his mind he saw the Ty Lee from the Genjutsu. HE froze and would have to have Yamato control and suppress the chakra. He was beyond frustrated, he could feel it, it was at his fingertips, but he couldn't grasp it, and it drove him crazy.

"For fucks sake!" Naruto in his anger punched the ground below him and dug a crater nearly two feet deep.

"Naruto, this is the hardest part of Jinchuriki training, trying to draw upon the tailed state. Just have patience, it took Lady Kushina years to reach this power."

Naruto sighed as he calmed himself fighting the visions that plagued him. He thought of his mothers, all three of them. HE had come to see Inora as a step parent, how she treated him, cared for his wounds, he did come to love her. Though not as much as Zarehya or Kushina, he did love her.

"Good, now, I want you to use your Kongo Fusa, maybe the cocoon would help."

"No, I think I know what to do, but it is going to hurt."

Naruto held his right palm skyward and an extremely thin and tiny chain snaked down his body, wrapping his limbs and body in the single small chain. He opened his eyes and nodded.

"If this doesn't work, I may need you to restrain me." Naruto breathed deeply, and he closed his hand around the chain, he felt Kyuubis chakra thrashing beneath the chain and that is when it happened. Naruto cracked one of the chains suppressing Kyuubi in his seal and a torrent of anger, hate, and KI flooded the area. Naruto focused and drew the emotions into himself. He saw images, Mya's dead body, his broken teammate, Ty Lee from the Genjutsu, and her.

'neV od.eNOUGH.al .fault' Naruto suppressed the voice in his head and focused on the fear, he pulled and wrestled with the chakra, and that is when it happened,he felt a dam break and he felt Kyuubis chakra flood him. He opened his eyes and saw Yamato ready to suppress his chara but he noticed something, he could think. He could breathe, think, he could feel other emotions than fear and anger. He had done it.

"Good job Naruto! You are in a full stage one cloak!"

Naruto could feel everything around him, the chakra, it was not burning and stinging like the pseudo form had been.

"That is all I was asked to do, so for the next week and a half we will be working on your ability to draw on the chakra quickly."

"Yes, Master Yamato."

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Naruto stretched his back, Kai once again slept in his lap, but Naruto had a scroll laying on Kais lap. It was a design he was working on, with Minatos assistance he was ready to try it.

"I'm ready."

Minato nodded as he lift Kai from Narutos lap and held Kai on his hip, he smiled at the two, they truly did have a bond, especially after all this time. He watched as Naruto rolled out the scroll, the seal design looked rudimentary but it was efficient and to the point. There was no flair, no color, it was strictly and purely, efficient.

"Alright, if this works, then I won't be able to touch you two."

Minato nodded, he trusted Narutos barriers, the boy was a genius in the field, creating several different forms of barriers, from barriers to protect, to barriers to contain. He had even unwittingly made a barrier that functioned similarly to the Hokages red containment barrier. HE felt the barrier erect, it was clear, only a shimmer from the light and every once in a while a crackle of blue energy showing the lightning affinity it contained.

"Alright, weapons test."

Naruto took a kunai and flung it at the barrier, and as predicted it was repelled, but it was repelled and conducted electricity chcking Naruto as it passed.

"You alright?"

"Yeah, probably just too much energy in the elemental seal. Now, jutsu test."

Naruto focused his chakra and spat a single Water Shot at the seal, and it vaporized from the intense electricity.

"Impressive."

"Now, the physical test."

"Naruto, you don't have to."

"I do Minato, I need to know what will happen." Naruto walked to the barrier and cocked back his fist, he punched the barrier and he felt heat, an intense heat and his body seized. He was stuck for only a moment before he collapsed breathing heavily.

"Naruto!" Minato forced the barrier to disperse and he kneeled by Narutos prone form. He checked over his pulse, breathing rate, lucidity, everything.

"I'm good, it just feels like I got shocked by the Electromagnetic Murder technique again." Naruto grinned and ina moment of childishness he hollard in joy, his creation was a success.

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It's October tenth, Narutos birthday. He was going to turn thirteen, he would no longer be a child by age, but a young adult. He had already invited his team an the Namikazes over for dinner. The table was full and everyone was bustling. He was still perturbed by Ty's bruises, he just couldn't get her to tell him what she did during the day. She would always tell him that it was nothing and she wasn't in danger. Though he knew she had to be training or learning from someone, the soft and slightly pudgy stomach he had held at night became lithe and toned, her legs shaped, her arms more toned, and the way she held herself was with confidence. His mind was drawn from his wondering by a weight on his lap, he smiled to Ty who decided to use Naruto as her chair for the moment.

"Hey Ty."

"Hey Naru, come on, the table is set." Ty took his hand in her own and guided her Naruto to the dining room. The table was full, with only two seats left open, his and Ty's. The conversation had erupted with a new vigor once everyone had come to the room and it was Zarehyas sudden announcement that caught Naruto off guard.

"So, I would like to announce, Ty Lee is now my student. I have been teaching her the past few weeks and she has taken to my form like a fish to water. Her fluidity and her flexibility is even better than mine, she was born for this style."

Narutos eyes widened and he turned to see Ty's blush. He smiled and leaned over kissing her cheek. While everyone was asking Zaehya questions Naruto only said one thing to his girlfriend and it was all that needed to be said between them.

"I'm proud of you, Ty."

Her breath caught in her chest, she thought he would be angry for not telling him about her training. She had been coming home bruised and beaten for weeks and she knew he had to be worried, but she wasn't expecting this type of reaction. She smiled warmly to him her chest soaring and she leaned over capturing his lips into her own. Without the two teens noticing while they kissed the table had grown silent. Ty broke the kiss and nodded to him.

"You better watch out Naru, I'm aiming to stand beside you one day, don't let me surpass you so easily."

Muy's breath hitched, those were the exact words his wife told him the night they had become official in the eyes of the clan. He looked to his wife who was looking to the two with love and pride in her eyes. Muy sighed shaking his head, his wife was doing her favorite past time, playing matchmaker.

Ty, I want to fight you in the morning, before we leave to the exams." Mai just looked at everyone as the crowd quieted down.

"What?"

"You spoke Mai, thy are just surprised." Zuko leaned over and kissed her cheek causing her to uncharacteristically blush.

"I'll spar with you Mai-mai! Just don't complain when I beat your butt!"

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He wiped blood from his mouth, the cancer had been very aggressive with his lung tissue. He snarled and flung the rag against the wall and he looked at the scroll on his desk, five circles that were bound by seals, they one by one lit the darkness with burning red words, success.

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It was night in Kumogakure, and Yugito smiled, she was arm in arm with her fiance Kubo. She loved this man with all of her heart and even had a kitten in her belly by him. Everything was right in the world with her. Then a flash happened, she felt nothing, though she knew she had hit the ground, her head rinigng, her eyes blinded by the light. When her eyes cleared from their spots she had to scream in agony, her nerves reviving from the shock. Her arm was burned severely nd had several large pieces of shrapnel, but what killed her heart, was the hand still clung in her own, the severed hand. She cried in pain, her stomach feeling like fire and she felt her hope turn to dread, she wailed as she looked over the village. There was a crater that stretched over half of the villages width, they had been attacked.

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Mangetsu cursed, he had found some sketchy ninja sneaking around the Kage's tower. He fought of four of them but the remaining two had fought him to a stalemate. He held the needle sword Nuibari in his hand and cursed, then he felt it, heat, insurmountable heat and then nothing more. Kirigakure was completely eliminated, and Yagura the bloody Hokage, had been vaporized with his village. Though the majority of the ninja forces were out on missions, the civilians, the children, the elderly, the Kage. They were all dead, and in through the gates that were broken down, waltzed Mei Terumi.

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Onoki always believed himself to be more of a fence sitter than an aggressor, but he had to follow his kings demand. Iwagakure was officially at war with Konohagakure and the Fire Nation. He could feel something was wrong, he had discovered the Root agents as they prepared their seal, but they had not known what Onoki did to it. He watched the bright flash and instead of an explosion it vanished with a pop. That seals master he hired, Konan, she was worth every copper.

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The Earth kingdom laid in ruins, an explosion had rocked Ba Sing Se from the inside out, the whole entirety of the inner walls dwellings had been eliminated, there was no more city, just small towns ringed around a crater.

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Naruto was laughing at a joke Kai just told when his instincts screamed at him, he pulled his brother and his girlfriend from their chairs and flung them to the ground. A white flash erupted from the center of the village, a wave of dust and heat and a shaking so terrible. Their house was blown away the inhabitants though were protected by Minato whose hands were placed on the ground, having erected a barrier quickly enough.

Minato starred with wide eyes as he looked around, his villages center laid in ruins, a crater where his home had been. Konohagakure had been attacked.

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So this is where I will leave this chapter off for now, I do hope you all enjoyed it and please tell me what you think of the chapter. Till next time,

~Ardent Chronicler