So we're in the seventh phase of Masked Hero with the Frozen Heart. However, I won't respond to your reviews in a while yet. But, I will tell you readers that there may be a slight NarutoxInoxHinata love triangle in this fic, so the pairing may change. Fear not, Naruto may have a little harem in this fic.
On the plus side, I would have Naruto become an all powerful warrior with no emotions. However, I decided that he needs a little internal conflict within himself. At this point, Naruto is now 14 years old, and already kicking ass.
So, Phase 07 shall be kicked off right now!
Phase Seven: Karite Rinnegan Unleashed
The Yamanaka household was packed with the adult generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio as they discussed a plan with the most unlikely friend, in the form of one Hiashi Hyuga.
"So, what is the Hokage planning now?" Inoichi said as Chouza replied back.
"Well, I just want to see to it that Minato's child is safe and sound." he replied.
"Well, my clan has surveilled him for a long time. Even I admit that there were times when I would join those thugs in beating the stuffing out of the poor boy." Hiashi replied sadly. "The Branch house does owe the boy their lives as well as the Main Branch for changing Hinata and Neji's lives."
Just then, there was a commotion that occured outside. The four adults looked at the source of the commotion to see an injured Sasuke limping with an injured Sakura walking beside him. Shikaku hid his shock well, but the other three adults were not surprised.
"Well, well, well. It looks like the Uchiha heir has his butt handed to him by some unknown person." Chouza replied as Sasuke started to scream with anger.
"I'LL KILL YOU, NARUTO UZUMAKI!" Sasuke yelled as Sakura glared at the sky. Hiashi then expressed his satifaction with the Uchiha's misfortune.
"Well, Minato. It looks like your son is growing more powerful everyday." he said to himself as Inoichi spotted his daughter walking alongside Shikamaru and Chouji.
"Ino-chan, over here." Inoichi said as the younger generation of the said trio came up to them. "Did you guys take the Chunin Exam again?"
"Yeah, this time both Chouji and I passed. Shikamaru is already chunin." Ino replied as Shikaku grinned at his son.
"So, Shikamaru. How's the rank of chunin?" Shikaku asked.
"Troublesome, but I felt even more troubled after Naruto left. It seems that we have no energy and life amongs ourselves without the hyperactive blond." Shikamaru replied. Just then, both Inoichi and Ino had a flash on their minds. (A/N: they're newtypes in the story, and so does Shikaku and Shikamaru.)
"I can't recognize the flash, but I can sense the chakra signature. It's Naruto all right." Inoichi said as Shikaku had the same flash in his mind. "It seems that he and the other shinobi are heading through the forests away from here and heading towards Yuki no Kuni."
"Yuki no Kuni? Man, out of all these places, Naruto had to end up there." Ino replied sadly. "I kinda wished I was there for him when we were genin."
All of a sudden, the Ne ANBU were rushing towards the gate as Danzo followed suit.
"Hunt down that demon brat and kill him." Danzo ordered as the Ne ANBU rushed out.
While traveling through the forests, Naruto's newtype senses clicked in as he sensed an enemy presence. He gritted his teeth as twenty Ne ANBU rushed towards the group, while Mamoru grew worried.
"What is it, Naruto-san?" Mamoru asked as he looked up to see an incoming Ne ANBU with a katana ready to impale the said jonin. He sidestepped the attacker as he stabbed him with a kunai. Naruto then made some handsigns as three more Ne ANBU shinobi raised their katanas.
"Futon: Daitoppa!" he said as a gust of wind blew the three pursuers into the trees. Naruto then responded with a quick stab with his gauntlet as they fell dead. He sensed more of the attackers as the blond jinchuuriki disappeared and reappeared behind them as he raised his gauntlet.
"Demon brat! We will kill you for the preservation of our blue and pure world!" one Ne ANBU yelled as he screamed with pain as Naruto stabbed the yeller with the sai that was equipped in his exosuit.
"Katon: Housenka no Jutsu." Naruto said as ice blue flames bursted out of his mouth. "Suiton: Suiryuudan."
A water dragon soon appeared out of nowhere as Naruto started to gather water around the air. He made the same handsigns as he called out the same attack. Soon, the remaining Ne ANBU were soaked wet to the bone, and Amaya then took this opportunity to stab one of them with her kunai. Shinn then activated his Sharingan as another incoming Ne ANBU attempted to kill him.
"Bastards." Shinn gritted his teeth as he made some handsings. "Raiton: Jibashiri!"
He gathered some electricity as Shinn directed it towards his attacker. The pursuing Ne ANBU then fell to his death, electrocuted. Meanwhile, back in the village, the younger generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho were about to get back to their homes when the rest of the former Rookie Nine plus Team Gai appeared with their senseis.
"I know that Naruto is out there. Otherwise, why would Danzo-sama send his men to chase after him?" Ino asked Shikamaru as Hinata and Neji armed themselves with kunai, and shuriken. "What is it, Neji-san?"
"Naruto is being chased by the Ne ANBU, along with his comrades. I can't tell what is he wearing." Neji replied while activating his Byakugan. "It seems that his tenketsus are being blocked by that chakra armor. Not only that, the chakra armor gave him some strength to kill those men."
"You oughta be kidding." said a voice as the Rookie Nine looked to see Sasuke going out of the village gate. "I'll kill you, Naruto!"
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled as Kakashi grabbed her arm. "We got to stop Sasuke-kun!"
"Sakura, you are to remain here." Kakashi replied as Tsunade soon appeared. "Hokage-sama, Ino said something about Naruto being sensed outside the village."
"Good, because I want you all to capture him and go to Suna for further briefing." the slug sannin said. "All shinobi, this is a mission that requires the target to be captured. All of the other targets are to be neutralized."
"Yeah, a good idea, Tsunade-hime." Danzo spoke up as they loked at him. "The demon brat is being accompanied by Mamoru Hibiki as well as the Asuka brothers."
This time, everyone were shocked at the recent information that was given. Clearly, this mission would be extremely hard, especially with Shinosuke and Shinn Asuka fighting alongside Naruto. Not only that, his new sensei was none other than the infamous shinobi that would rival that of the copy nin interms of skill. Just then, one Ne ANBU shinobi returned to the village with a horrifying news.
"We got more trouble coming up, Danzo-sama." he said as Danzo listened. "Itachi Uchiha is with them as well!"
Again, the crowd were shocked at the news. Clearly, the demon brat was now with the most infamous shinobi that Konoha had ever created in the form of the same man that murdered his own clan. Realizing that Naruto cannot be defeated by a mere squad of Ne ANBU shinobi, the Senju loyalist ANBU soon went out of the village walls to counter the Yuki shinobi. However, little did they knew that they were actually marching towards their deaths at the hands of the feared Hibiki as well as the Asukas.
Sasuke then searched for Naruto as his cursed seal can hold. He then followed the Yuki shinobi that were going back to their village, but he was stopped by the man that he wanted to kill in the first place.
"Itachi. Today is the day that I kill you!" Sasuke yelled as he attempted to punch the elder Uchiha, but Itachi sidestepped and kicked the younger Uchiha in the ribs.
"Foolish otoutou. You can never defeat me." Itachi said as he looked at his brother's eyes. "Mangekyou Sharingan."
Sasuke was once again caught in the nightmare of the Tsukuyomi as he relieved the night of the massacre. He screamed as Itachi kept on torturing him with his eyes. Naruto then kicked Sasuke in the back as he fell to the ground, and he grabbed the elder Uchiha and left.
"I oughta learn about medical ninjutsu after this." Naruto said to himself as Itachi looked up. "Itachi-sempai, I need to learn about medical ninjutsu."
"Well, that can be arranged." Itachi replied as Shinosuke and Amaya came up to them. "Take me with you, Shinosuke. Naruto is going to be fighting more shinobi as they come."
"Well, it would be better if Mamoru-sensei picked you up." Amaya said as Shinosuke went up to Mamoru and asked him something. When he was finished, Mamoru then nodded and took Itachi with him as Shinn and Amaya decided to help NAruto out.
"I'll help out as well." Shinosuke said as the other teams went behind. "Mamoru-sensei, we'll delay them while you take the rest of the shinobi back to our village."
"All right, but be careful." Mamoru replied as he vanished from sight.
Naruto and the other three chunin then prepared for the inevitable conflict as they made some handsigns.
"Ninpou: Kirigakure no Jutsu!"
A mist suddenly rolled in as the pursuing Senju ANBU loyalists found themselves in the mist. Ino and Shikamaru couldn't see their way through and even Hinata and Neji couldn't see with their Byakugan through the mist.
"Dammit, they just had to learn that move." Shikamaru swore as he sighed in fatigue.
"How did they know this move?" Neji asked as he gritted his teeth. "This is even worse than that time I fought that six armed fellow."
"Well, well, well." said a chilling voice that some Konoha shinobi can barely recognize. "I see that you have been pursuing me for vengeance."
"Naruto-kun?" Hinata said to herself as Ino was thinking the same thing. "What is that you're trying to pull?"
"I don't know who you are, but you have to leave us alone." Naruto replied as Kakashi uncovered his Sharingan eye and scanned the area. "It looks like I'll have to take care of you."
Naruto bursted out of the mist as he aimed a kick into one of the Konoha ANBU. Ino replied by aiming a kick at his head, but Shinosuke replied by aiming a roundhouse kick at her head as she fell to the ground. Amaya then made some handsigns as Shikamaru made one handsign.
"Kage mane no jutsu!"
"Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu!"
Shikamaru's Kage mane however, made no contact with Amaya's shadow as she dodged the attack and her chakra armor deflected the attack as well. Shinosuke then replied with creating yet another handsigns.
"Ninpou: Sunagakure no Jutsu." Shinosuke said as a huge gust of sand blew them all over. Naruto then took this opportunity to charge towards the incoming group, but one Ne ANBU secretly snuck behind Amaya and raised his katana over her head. In an instant, Naruto's newtype senses clicked in again and he rushed back towards Amaya as the Ne ANBU was about to behead the said kunoichi.
"AMAYA!!" Naruto yelled as an orange seed had burst, and his masked Rinnegan turned into a blur with three more rings around them. He then stabbed the Ne ANBU that amost killed her and he also created some handsigns.
"Ninpou: Kuchiyose no Jutsu."
A minute later, a white fox appeared as the Konoha shinobi looked at it with horror. They realized that the said jinchuuriki had become even more deadly as ever. He was so distracted by the immense power that he didn't realize that Chouji was charging towards him with a single handsign.
"Baika no Jutsu!"
Chouji then made another handsign as Shinosuke then tried ot counter the attack, and at the same time, Shinn was busy handling Neji and Tenten.
"What the hell are you doing, Naruto?!" Shinn yelled as he struggled to repel the incoming weapons attack and the terrifying Jyuuken. "Dammit."
Shinosuke suddenly found himself bowled over by the Akimichi's attack as he suddenly turned into a bowling ball.
"Nikudan Sensha!"
Amaya found herself shocked as Naruto saved her life, but she came too late to save him as Hinata launched her own Jyuuken at his chest. Naruto's helmet came off as the Konoha shinobi looked at him. They saw a mask like a certain copy nin's mask, but his most terrifying part of his face was the mask that covered his eyes. Naruto then took off his mask and pocketed them as he revealed his Karite Rinnegan to everyone.
"No way."
"That's the lost bloodline?"
"I can't believe it."
They were frightened at the sight of the Rinnegan as Naruto grinned saistically at them. He grew dangerously angry as the Ne counterparts charged at them with the intention to kill, but Naruto responded with a familiar handsign taht was thought to be lost.
"Hiraishin no Jutsu." he said as he sped his way through as many Ne ANBU fell to their deaths in a deadly blitz attack. Now everyone was really afraid of attacking the said blond as they exactly recognized the move. It was the same move that saved Konoha from defeat by Iwa, and now it was actually hurting them. Naruto then made his way forward into the rest of the shinobi as he didn't notice Ino and Hinata running behind him and grabbing his arms. It was then when they did, Naruto started to clutch his head.
"Dammit." Naruto gritted his teeth as Ino and Hinata cried in his arms. "Why did you grab my arms?"
"Naruto-kun, please stop it!" Ino sobbed as Hinata cried as well.
"That's enough!" the Hyuga heiress cried as Shinn charged towards them, but he was suddenly knocked out by Chouji's bowlarama attack.
"Dammit." Shinn yelled weakly as he fainted. Just then, Naruto then grabbed Ino and Hinata and gently laid them to the ground as he made some handsigns.
"Nehan Shouja no Jutsu." Naruto said as feathers fell to the ground and everyone fell asleep. He then created three more Kage Bunshins as each clone gave the other unconscious shinobi a piggy back ride and made the same seals and left in a blur.
When Naruto and his clones reached the village, he rushed straight to the hospital as the clones rushed Shinosuke, Amaya and Shinn into the emergency room. The medics then took charge and he himself also fainted and was rushed into the emergency room with the medics taking off the exosuit and giving it to the technicians. Daisuke and the jonins rushed to the hospital to see the commotion and saw the chunins in their beds.
"Can anyone tell me what's going on?" Daisuke said as Mamoru started to explain.
"We were ambushed by Konoha shinobi as we were traveling back home." Mamoru replied. "Naruto volunteered to stay behind to delay them so that we can get back, but my other team then stayed behind to help him. It seems that Naruto-san lost his helmet on his way, but he grabbed it and left."
"I see. I must inform the Hokage about what happened and see if there's anything that she can do to compensate us." Daisuke replied. "Although I wonder if Naruto-san is going to be okay."
Just then, one of the medics reported to them with some news.
"Yukikage-sama, Naruto-sama is fine, but I saw his eyes dominated by rings and they were all blurry." he replied as Daisuke gasped.
"He just activated the second level of the Rinnegan, didn't he?" the Yukikage asked as Mamoru nodded.
"Sounds like it. But it seems that we have to present the results to you now, don't we, Yukikage-sama?" Mamoru asked.
"Well, I will have to take care of some matters first, such as Mayura's delivery of a defected Konoha kunoichi. Not to mention that Matsuhito's squad having returned from the Outside world in a nation of what is it again? Oh yeah, the Oceania Union." Daisuke replied as he went out of the hospital and into the Yukikage tower with Mamoru following suit. When they arrived at the said tower, there was a familiar Hyuga looking kunoichi as well as an unknown man that looked like he has a scar on his face.
"Well, what brings you here, Matsuhito-san?" Mamoru asked.
"I brought back two people that were representing the PLANTs. However, they were accompanied by two more people." the unknown man replied as they went inside the office and seeing four unfamiliar people, with one of them having a blond mustache.
"Ah, you four must be from the Outside world, yes?" Daisuke asked as the man with a purple clothing with what it looks like an hourglass on his neck.
"Well, we represent the PLANT Supreme Council and we heard from Gilbert Durandal that there was a potential boy that can become a ZAFT soldier." the man replied as he shook the Yukikage's hand. "My name is Patrick Zala, and I am the leader of the ZAFT Defense Committee."
"Ah, the man that has an anti-Natural advocation." Daisuke replied. "Then I'm pretty sure you're familiar wiht the Kazahanas, right?"
"Ah yes, I heard that they became coordinators when Doto and Sosetsu were first born." Patrick replied as the mustached man nodded. "This man here is Siegel Clyne, and his daughter is engaged to my son Athrun."
"Yes, and Naruto Namikaze is engaged to the Daimyo of this country." Daisuke replied again as Patrick looked at him with curiosity. "Ah, the blond man that was mistreated by the Naturals."
"Damnation!" Patrick yelled as Siegel looked at him with a shocked face. "Those Naturals just had to persecute the boy that would have beenof use to them."
"Actually, Naruto-san is a coordinator himself." the Yukikage replied as Siegel spoke up.
"At least it was a known persecution." Siegen said, but Daisuke shook his head. "What is it that we should know?"
"Naruto-san has a demon contained inside him, which is why he was persecuted." he said as the two unknown men raised their eyebrows. "I'm afraid that may impede his chances of joining ZAFT."
"Not at all." one of the unknown men replied back. He had a thick Australian accent and sandy blond hair that was blown back. "My name's Andrew Wedgeback, and this guy right here is Jackson Biggsfront. We're assistants to the two men right there."
"Nice to meet you, mates." Daisuke chuckled as he shook both men's hands. "Well, shall we go and meet Mamoru-san's team and as well as the Namikaze boy?"
"Please do, I want to see if he can be a better person than Athrun." Patrick said as the men went out of the Yukikage tower and back into the hospital. "This is a nice village, considering it's in the middle of the Arctic Circle."
"Of course, but our world's hidden." Mamoru said. "There's a good reason for that."
They reached the hospital only to see Naruto out of bed along with Shinn, Shinosuke and Amaya as well. They bowed to the Yukikage as Naruto looked at the unknown men with interest.
"Ah, this boy right here is Naruto Namikaze." Daisuke said as he pointed at Naruto and he shook Patrick's hands as well as Siegel's hands. "Naruto-san, these men are from the PLANT Supreme Council and the ZAFT Defense Committee. they want to see the four of you so that they may take note of your potential to join the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, or ZAFT for short."
"Nice to meet you, sir." Naruto said as Patrick smiled at him, which was rare for anyone that associated with him.
"I would like to see you excel, and if possible, you can be a mentor to Athrun when he joins you guys as well." Patrick said.
"I had a history fo favoritism in my former home. I wouldn't play with favorites." Naruto said honestly as Siegel clapped his back.
"That's okay, my boy." Siegel said as Andrew nodded. "You should be equal to everyone, no matter what."
The men continued to interact with each other as Natuot felt glad that there were more people that were willing to recognize him as a fellow human being.
Tsunade was massaging his temple when she was hearing the jonins' debate on how they should react. Given the situation that they were in right now, it wasn't good.
"Tsunade-sama, why can't we give our younger kunoichis some medical ninjutsu training?" Kakashi asked.
"We don't have the manpower for anything, Kakashi." Tsunade replied. "Although more losses for Danzo's little army mean more to us."
"So we are going to do nothing while the gaki becomes more dangerous to everyone around himself?" said a familiar voice as Tsunade turned around to see Jiraiya speaking up. "We need to soften up the boy's feelings if we want to recreate the Namikaze clan."
"Yeah, but I heard that he's getting engaged to the Daimyo of Yuki no Kuni." Kakashi replied as Jiraiya shighed in relief. "But I think that he needs a little more motivation, if you know what I mean?"
"If you suggest anything perverted, I'll castrate you." Kurenai warned as Gai chuckled in anticipation.
"Well, it looks like Naruto's got himself a path ahead. It looks like his flames of youth are still strong, although I would see that his falmes of youth had turned black as Amaterasu itself." Gai mused as Jiraiya glared at him.
"Stop talking about the flames of youth, Gai. We get old at one point." Jiraiya replied.
"Well, I have no choice but to train the kunoichis then. I want the gaki to ignite his love for two certain people." Tsunade replied as they chuckled at the same time. It looks like there would be a long journey before Naruto gets hit by cupid's arrows and fall in love. Even if thearrow of love would pierce through the heart like a fortress.
The new army has been trained. they are the elite, and deadly. They are swift and silent, with only one goal: protection of their village and their country. However, the world is about to collide into a stage where a global war would break out.
Next on Masked Hero With the Frozen Heart: The Fruits of Our Labor
Hyakunijuu Shuutai Shotai, charge on forward!