Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic. Is a Naruto story. I don't own any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of SEVENTEEN are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. Non-constructive critics, flames with harsh words and just saying that the story suck won't be accepted or replied. You might voice your discontentment in seeing your favorite character suffering on the story as long you keep civil and understand that his is only a story and the suffering is a main part of the story plotline.
It won't be changed by requests of readers; I won't spare one of the characters because the readers are telling me to. I write this story. If you don't like it please don't read it. Some characters might be out of character and acting in ways that they wouldn't act, that is because what happen on the story.
If you dislike seeing OOC stop reading because it will appear a lot. There will be original characters and self inserted characters on the story if you dislike them stop reading here and go look for another writer because I ALWAYS write SELF-INSERTED fics. If you do read the story being against something that I wrote above I just tell you this:
"You have been warned."
For those who have read everything that I said before and want to continue to read this story I hope that you enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura.
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Chapter ten: Lucky, Lucky!
Benji mixes himself on the crowd of the city that he is in, unlike Jiraya and Naruto Benji already know where he will find Tsunade so all that he needs to do is to get there and wait for her to appear, luckily for him Benji already knows how Tsunade looks like. "Tanzaku-gai…and a huge castle…" Benji mutters looking around.
Benji it doesn't take too long for Benji find the location that he was seeking, Benji moves to a tree where he has a good view of the castle and the streets near it. Benji climbs on the trees and waits to see if Tsunade will appear, since he doesn't know the exact day of the meeting he will have to wait during the entire day for days until it happens. More than ever Benji wanted to have Haruka around so they could take turns in the stake out.
And the day seems to drags itself like a slug with weights for Benji who had watched a reasonable amount of people passing on the streets near the castle, even a frisky couple that got a quickie in one of the surrounding walls of the castle. When the night fall Benji moves away, he knows that the meeting will only happen during the day and he won't need to stake out during the night. With pleasure he stretches and moves his numb limbs, Benji picks his belongings and moves to the gambling area of the city, the certain location of Tsunade.
Using some of the annual funding money that he gained for the group that he will create and a drawing of Tsunade Benji begins to look for her in casinos and other gambling houses. Tired of the unfruitful hours of search Benji decides to gamble a little, of course cheating if possible with the help of his newly acquired Kekkei genkai. After half hour gambling and more than eighty percent of the times that he betted he won Benji have not only recovered the amount of money that he expended on the search but triplicate the amount and to toss off the people that might suspect of cheating Benji betted low every time that he decided to lose.
Benji trades his chips for money and leaves the gambling house; he needs to get some rest to continue the stake out on the next day. Because of the late hour there isn't many people on the streets, most of them are gambling, partying on the pubs and bars or sleeping. Benji notices movement in a far end of the street, a large group of suspicious males are surrounding a pair of women, one of them seems to be very drunk and is being carried by the other. Benji can guess what will happen to the two if those guys are left alone, Benji quickly and in silent moves to the group and sees one of the men with a knife moving to the two women.
Benji tosses a stone on the man head. "That is really low, a bunch of armed men against a pair of women. You guys are lower than a worm." Benji says to the group holding another stone with his left hand. "Besides a bunch of cowards that need to pack against women because they aren't able to get any won't be able to be up to the job." The strike against their manhood makes all the group charge against Benji.
In less than one minute is all over, all the attackers are on the ground unconscious or nursing broken limbs. Benji removes a knife from his chest, a lucky strike from one of the attackers that managed to give him a long slash before the blade got stuck on Benji's hardened flesh. "This is a very good knife." Benji commented pocketing it, a knife that was able to slash a two centimeters deep cut on twenty centimeters of his chest after the Bakusai Tenketsu is really a masterpiece.
"You two are hurt? They did anything?" Benji asks to the two women walking to them. "We are unhurt." The one carrying the drunk one answered, she has short black hair. "Thank you for your aid." "Don't worry about it. Those scumbags deserved that." Benji answered, and then he sees the face of both of them. 'And they say that doing the good without looking to who doesn't pay out…' he thinks looking at Tsunade and Shizune. "If you want I can escort you two to the hotel where you two are staying. It is better not risk a second time." Benji offers to Shizune. "I think that I will take your offer." She replied with a small smile. "I could use some help to carry my friend." Benji nods and helps Shizune with Tsunade, Tonton follows them closely.
A short while later they arrive in a hotel and Shizune makes the check in for herself and Tsunade. Benji takes Tsunade to the room where she will sleep. "Let me take a look at your wound." Shizune says to Benji. "You don't have to worry about it, is just a scratch." Benji replied. "I am a training doctor and scratches don't bleed like that." Shizune replied pointing to his soaked shirt. Benji nods and takes out his shirt not wanting to seem suspicious declining treatment.
Shizune carefully cleans his chest and only finds a very shallow cut on his chest. "It is impossible…something this shallow shouldn't bleed like that…" she commented looking at the cut, actually running her finger on the cut. "I told you that weren't serious." Benji commented. Shizune nods and begins to clean the cut and dress it. "There you go, just change the bandages daily and you will be fine." She tells him with a smile.
"Thank you, sorry for troubling you." Benji replied. "You don't have thank me. I should be thanking you for helping me and my friend earlier, tending your wounds is the very least that I could to do repay you." Shizune tells him. "Don't worry about I just did what I thought that needed to be done." Benji replied. "Now if you excuse me I will be leaving. It won't be proper that I stay here any longer." Benji puts on a clean shirt and leaves taking his bloody shirt with him. Shizune watches him off, then moves to check on Tsunade and make her more comfortable.
On the reception desk Benji books a room for himself and moves to get some rest. "I got lucky." Benji mutters tossing his shirt in a trash can. "Now that I have found them it will be easier to track him." Benji lies on the bed and gets some deserved sleep, he traveled most of the morning and expended the rest of the day guarding a castle he was dead tired.
On the next day Benji decided to keep a silent watch on the Legendary Loser and her lieutenant, knowing that he can't actually get too close of follow both of them the entire time because both of them are high ranked ninjas Benji tried something new on the early hours of the morning, the result is a small summoning of a small fairy based on images, personality traits and other details extracted directly from Benji's imagination, with the cost of much energy and one liter of blood and more ingredients.
Benji is content with his handiwork; the fairy is perfect she even fly with out need for wings. The small fairy is playing around Benji's room learning to use her own set of powers. Benji is thinking how to get clothes to her. He can't just let her fly around naked; it would call even more attention. He decides to shop for some clothes for dolls after all the fairy is only twenty centimeters tall, the size of a doll.
After a quick shopping with the excuse of buying accessories for a sister doll Benji returns with clothes for the fairy, it was a bit troublesome to explain to her the need of clothes but in the end she obeys him and dress up in a rather loose shinobi clothes. From then until Tsunade and Shizune leave to gamble Benji expend teaching the fairy how to talk and to watch the target unseen by the target. When they leave the fairy flies after them keeping distance and sneaking around.
Benji follows the fairy from distance still surprise with the amount of crazy ideas that worked so well on that world, it was acceptable that moves and techniques from Ranma worked there, but something like creating a fairy sounded really extreme even for him. 'This world has overpowered ninjas, demons and god knows what else, damn I am an evil spirit myself I guess that using my own blood and half of all my energy to create a fairy isn't all that impossible.' Benji thinks strolling on the path that Tsunade took. 'I wonder what else I can do here.'
The day moves calmly with Tsunade losing the entire day, the fairy watches the two women and a pig the entire day bored with her job, not so far from them Benji is watching the group too also gambling a bit and using his abilities to win almost every time just losing once and a while and really small amount when comparing to the amount that he is winning.
When the night falls the fairy moves to Benji feeling hungry, Benji follows Tsunade and Shizune to a pub and sits in a table far from the duo but able to see them an orders some food for himself and the hungry fairy, she worked hard and deserved a reward and Benji rewarded her with chocolate, a large bar of it. The sheer happiness on the fairy face was more than worth the price of the chocolate.
Benji eats in silence while inside his jacket the fairy is humming happily licking a small piece of the chocolate savoring every lick. After the dinner Benji stays on the pub drinking some sake watching Tsunade getting drunk to forget her permanent losing streak, the fairy is sleeping on Benji's pocket after drinking a small sip of sake and the day tiredness. Much later they move back to the hotel to sleep. Benji moves to his room and carefully places the fairy on a pillow and covers her with a handkerchief before changing to his sleeping clothes and getting to bed.
The routine repeats itself for one week until Tsunade won in a slot machine; Benji knew that it was a sign of the meeting. Van his fairy is ordered to return to the hotel and stay in there until Benji returned, she complains but obey. Benji moves to the castle and waits, by the noon Tsunade and Shizune appeared to look at the castle. Benji pulls the pistol that he gained from the Third Hokage, he isn't sure if shooting Orochimaru would kill the snake summoner but Benji would try.
And it happens Orochimaru appears destroying the castle to Shizune's shock. Benji waits Orochimaru to get closer of Tsunade and Shizune attacking him so Kabuto wouldn't be able to block the bullet. When Benji was going to shoot he is attacked and falls from the tree. Looking down to Benji who is bleeding from many cuts is a sound kunoichi with long purple hair.
"Orochimaru-sama was right the assassin spirit of Konoha was following Tsunade after all." She says moving closer to his corpse. "He was so easy to kill. The poor guy should know that he shouldn't have angered Orochimaru-sama." She bends to pick Benji's pistol from his hands as a token of the kill. "You should know that as a fish a human dies because of his mouth."
Benji grabs the kunoichi face covering her mouth. "You should know that too." he hisses to her while driving his right hand on her gut, because his Bakusai Tenketsu training Benji easily stabs her with his fingers. She struggles and tries to escape but his grip is much stronger than her. "Since you took away my chance to kill Orochimaru I guess that I have to interrogate you." Benji hisses to her again before knocking her out.
The girl falls on top of him, Benji sighs with his wounds healing. He pushes the girl to the ground and sits up. He can hear Naruto from the distance and he knows that Tsunade fled with Shizune. Benji removes the girl's Sound village forehead protector and destroys it before taking out his now ragged shirt and changing to a clean one from his backpack. Benji takes her to the hotel and ties her well preventing her from even moving her fingers.
After explaining to Van what happened Benji proceeds to extract information from the girl leaving his body and entering on hers, then he begins to question her on the dreamscape where he will have time to extract the information from her with out worrying about someone hearing her screaming.
Benji is flying around a very disturbing dreamscape. "This is horrible, what could have done this to her…" Benji whispered looking at his surroundings. After years as a spirit and entering on a handful of people Benji guessed that those terrifying land that covers the dreamscape is some severe trauma or something that corrupted the kunoichi mind. Since she is an underling from Orochimaru Benji could guess that she could be under influence of jutsus or even worse things.
For his own safety Benji keeps flying far from the horrid landscape bellow, he doesn't want to risk himself while looking for the information that he wants and need. After a long time Benji finds a kind of building on the middle of the thorns, ruins, rivers of poison and stones. A familiar voice calls him; Benji looks back and sees Van flying to him. "What you are doing here?" Benji asks surprised with the fairy presence there. "I came to help." Van replied. Benji nods and let Van sit on his shoulder, the presence of his familiar makes him get a little relaxed.
"You stay put on my shoulder and hold tight on my clothes." Benji tells her, Van nods and grabs some of the fabric with her little hands. Benji lands on the construction and carefully walks inside looking at the walls and floor. "It is so dark in here." Van whispers in a scared voice, the only source of light on the dreamscape is Benji and Van, everything else is darkness.
Benji comforts Van with few words while moving slowly on that unholy temple, on the walls there is many drawings of snakes and Orochimaru. Benji slowly descends on the temple knowing that whatever that temple guards is sealed deeply under it. Marking his path Benji leaves glowing kunais nailed on the ground marking the way back. Benji feels the air heavy with stillness and evil, it only gets stronger while he moves down, Van is holding his shirt so hard that her little knuckles are white, it is her first time experiencing such evil and she is very scared.
After a long time Benji reaches the very bottom of the temple, he is now in a very large room with the same carvings on the walls. He hears something in the most distant wall of the room and summoning a sword of energy Benji moves to the source of the sound. Benji tosses an energy stick as far as he can, it hits a wall and falls on the ground, but the sound of the two collisions and the light made the source of the original sound let out scared cries.
Van gasps shocked in seeing a younger version of the girl that they possess naked, hurt and chained a couple meters away from the glowing stick. The little girl have her eyes closed shut because of the light, the paleness of her skin made clear that she was there for many years. Benji hides his feeling seeing the girl chained with a spiked chain that wounds her when she moves, it is clear that Orochimaru did something to her and that something appears to them seeing that the host is exposed.
A tall half snake half human creature attacks Benji. The spirit easily dodges the attack of the humanoid snake. "So Orochimaru trapped that girl and sealed a spirit inside her body." Benji says intensifying the sword, making it look more solid and glow even stronger. "A spirit that is loyal to him and that would do anything that he orders, this must be how his seals look like from inside."
The creature hisses and charges Benji. Benji easily sidesteps the creature while with a swift motion slashing the creature arms and legs off, Benji nails the creature on the ground using a second sword. Benji moves to the little girl that curls in a fetal position and tries to cover herself from him. "I won't hurt you." Benji gently whispers to her. "I will release you." She doesn't respond, Benji cuts the chains after changing the sword to an axe and carefully removes the thorns from the girl flesh.
Benji let the girl stay sited where she is recovering. "Van stay near her." He tells to the fairy. "But stay far from her reach we don't know what she can do." Van nods and floats around the girl. Benji moves to the crippled creature. "Now we have to talk, if you give me all the answers that I want I kill you fast and painlessly if you don't tell me what I want I will torture you until I find what I want." Benji tells to the creature. "Which way you prefer?" There isn't an answer and Benji stabs the creature on the long tail, he does that many times before asking again.
Uncountable hours pass with Benji extracting information from the creature while Van is comforting the girl and discovering more about her. After many more hours the creature finally met its limit and tells everything that it knows to Benji, when sure of what he found is everything that the creature knows Benji kills it. The temple begins to vanish and soon the dreamscape returns to its original form of blankness. Benji makes the girl take the control of her body before he leaves with Van.
On the real world less than five minutes had passed and the girl appearance changed, she looked like a nineteen years old and now she looks like a thirteen years old. "Orochimaru's seals did more than just control her, it altered her body no wonder her dreamscape was so deformed." Benji whispers untying the girl, she is no longer a threat.
The girl takes hours to adjust to her body after being trapped inside her mind for so long. While she was recovering Benji noticed that the wound that he gave her was gone, he wonders what had happened to them. Benji calls Haruka from the hotel, he can't keep that girl on his room now that the fight with Orochimaru is approaching.
Haruka arrive before the nightfall, the girl is hungrily eating some take out that Benji ordered. "Okay what you did this time?" Haruka asks to Benji, she is hiding very well her shock of seeing the girl and a twenty centimeters tall fairy, after being assigned to be Benji's underling she had passed through a lot of things that others wouldn't believe.
"It is kind of a long story." Benji replied with a small smile. "After those two are sleeping I tell you." Haruka nods while dumping her backpack in a chair. It doesn't take long to the girl and the fairy fall in sleep after eating, both had used lots of energy. "Let's talk about this outside; I know you and you most likely scream." Benji tells her while picking up his jacket. Haruka nods and picks a jacket for herself. "And leave that Konoha headband here, what have I told you about keeping your identity as a ninja secret?" Haruka places her forehead protector on her pack and chases after Benji.
Benji takes Haruka to the pub where Tsunade usually goes, after ordering Benji tells to Haruka how he got Van. "Let me see if I got this straight, you summoned her using one liter of your blood, a large amount of energy and images that you had on your memories?" Haruka asks to Benji. "That is right." Benji replied before sipping some soda. "And she is not only alive but she can't be unsummoned?" Haruka continued. "Exactly." Benji answered.
Haruka sighs before downing some sake, once again Benji made her life take an odd turn. "And the girl?" she asks. Benji explained to her everything that happened. "Poor child…" Haruka whispered after hearing the explanation. "Her name is Momiji. She doesn't recall or was never given a last name. She was from the hidden Mist village; I still don't know how Orochimaru got her." Benji tells to Haruka.
"You want me to take her to the Leaf and place her under protection?" Haruka asked. Benji nods confirming. "Yes, she needs time to recover from being sealed and wounded so much inside her mind, not to mention that she might help us in the future." He tells to Haruka. She nods understanding. "Tomorrow you return to the Leaf taking Momiji and Van with you. I know that might be a bit too much to ask but stay on my apartment with them until I get back and we can decide in a more permanent location for her." Haruka nodded. "Understood sir." She replied.
Haruka spots Tsunade entering and is about to react to her, Benji covers her mouth preventing Haruka from shouting. "She doesn't know about us and she must not know that." Benji mouths to her with a severe expression on his face. "I have a plan on motion so you won't interact with them." Haruka nods meekly, there was few times when Benji was that serious and when he was that serious it because the situation was very serious.
Later Jiraya and Naruto arrived; once again Benji had to shut Haruka to not react to them. Benji watched the conversation, Haruka does the same and soon the group leaves because Naruto provoked Tsunade. Benji and Haruka move to the hotel, Benji already know what will happen.
On the passing week Benji occasionally checked how Naruto was doing, after being with the blonde ninja Benji couldn't just leave him by his own luck. Benji also noticed that Shizune and Tsunade occasionally peeked on Naruto too, Shizune more often than Tsunade.
On the eve of the great sannin match Benji is watching at Naruto who is fallen on the destroyed grounds of his selected training area, he can see that Naruto is still conscious but unable to walk. "You know this is quite pathetic." Benji says walking closer of Naruto on the direction of his head. "I didn't raise and trained you to be like this."
The sheer shock on Naruto's face is priceless and Benji has to hold back his will to laugh at it, on that moment he has to be a serious, stoic and menacing figure. "But I guess that I went wrong sometime on the way since you always seem to be expecting things to be handed over for you chewed in a silver platter."
"You are just something that I created." Naruto said looking at him. "You don't exist." Benji chuckles in an amused way. "You didn't thought like that when I was always around you." Benji commented. "Was just I leave you to live, train and fight by yourself and you begin to think like this. You want to be the Hokage but in the past you thought that just by doing few missions the Third would give you the title, you wanted to pass on the academy but didn't want to study and always made me study for you and later teach you in an easy way that you could understand."
Naruto mumbles something that Benji can't understand. "You pestered Jiraya to teach you the Rasengan in an easy way that you could understand even thought he was already teaching you an A-class technique and during the training you saw what costed you never paying attention to the classes and you lack of concentration." Benji said while crouching besides Naruto. "It was me who defeated that Cloud kunoichi and used the Hiryu Shoten Ha, you didn't create it, but if you were saying that I was just your imagination it means that you think that you created it."
Benji lets his words sink on Naruto's mind. "Let me show you how real I am." Benji said standing up and grabbing Naruto's collar and lifting him. "Real enough for you?" Benji asked once again seeing the raw shock on Naruto's face.
"How is that possible?" Naruto asks shocked. "I was caught on the seal of the Kyubi by accident and sealed with it inside you. "Until recently I was unable to leave your body or the area surrounding you, but with the help of the third I could get my body back, and he helped me because he knew that soon you would like not having a human spirit inside you not giving you privacy, not to mention that you was beginning to rely too much on me again, if you want to be a Hokage you have to create the path by yourself not having someone else opening the path for you, because if you do that, the person that opened the path will be the Hokage not you."
With those words Benji puts Naruto down. "Our paths aren't the same anymore but they might get crossed, use your hands and strength to carve your path as I will do to mine." Benji said walking away. "You no longer need an invisible spirit friend to comfort you." Benji turns to Naruto and looks at him with a more gentle expression. "Because now as I said to you on the past, that you would have many friends, you no longer need me."
Naruto watches the spirit walk away and vanish in the darkness as mysteriously as he had appeared to him; with a new resolution after being scolded like that Naruto begins to train even harder.
On the next morning, the day of the confrontation arrived, Shizune was knocked out by Tsunade who also poisoned Jiraya, Naruto is moving to the city after training all night. Benji is waiting for Tsunade on the meeting point, well on another hiding spot near it with a good view of the location. 'What the hell?' Benji thinks seeing Orochimaru, Kabuto and two more people on the street, the other two are wearing cloaks and Japanese straw hats. "This isn't right." He mutters seeing Tsunade appearing.
End of the chapter ten:
Benji: With the little that he remembers and know about the events surrounding Tsunade's first appearances as well the events of her nomination as Hokage, Benji attempts to be there when the meeting happens and getting rid of Orochimaru, but the devil (as well me the writer) don't want that, so Benji was once again stopped of killing.
The fairy's creation was loosely based in a summoning jutsu mixed up with magic ritual and a pinch or two of alchemy (Full Metal Alchemist), Van is literally part of Benji and Benji's life, even thought she is mostly independent as creature, she is a familiar (magic servant that serves a wizard or other kind of magic possessing person) and is bound to Benji and Benji's life. Well this is enough about her for now, more details about her later.
The success of the technique is a mystery, another one to the list of 'unnatural and impossible things of Naruto's world'. It might be explained later.
Momiji A.K.A. Sound Village girl: Based in what I saw about the cursed seal. I want to point out that I stopped watching Naruto sometime after Sasuke left Konoha, and red the manga until Naruto returned to Konoha few years older, and I am purposely not getting more information about what is happening to not influence the events of the story, so revelations about the cursed seal that happened after those two points are unknown to me.
Back to the explanation, based in what I saw about Orochimaru's cursed seal, I made few alterations on it, as if Orochimaru was testing other versions of the seal for different purposes. The one used here is to control a body of a ninja, creating a creature loyal to Orochimaru that traps the real personality inside the spirit; the new personality is a corrupted version fully loyal to Orochimaru.
However this seal have certain drawbacks, since it controls the mind of the victim, there is a limit of growth for the subject, this is a more 'cannon' fodder seal to produce expendable genins and chunins to be used in any mission, the seal changes the body, instead of becoming 'demon' like as in the original seal, in this seal the body becomes older (it is easier to subdue a child's mind than an adult's, besides Orochimaru is the Mic+el Jac+on of Naruto's world, so it will be always kids).
The seal also stops the aging of the victim, allowing them to be used for a longer period of time, at least as long they live and survive the missions.