This is my fourth consecutive installment of my new story: Milo, the Genjutsu God.
Sorry that I'm a little slow with the delivery as I am not used to typing 10k+ word chapters.
I hope you enjoy and as always, if you like these stories, like it, maybe even write about it. If you don't, well that's just fine to, but tell me about it, and its reasonable I'll fix it.
"I am talking like this."
'I am thinking like this'
'I am thinking very deep and being very important right now'
'I am so self centered for thinking this importantly'
"I am underlining details like this"
"I am saying something important like this"
"I am saying something really bold so it can stick out from the rest like this"
Tazuna's House
After the battle the group arrived at Tazuna. Said house was a decent shape two story size house that was sitting on a dock just a little over the shore.
As the group walked up to the shack Tazuna banged onto the door, "Tsunami! It's me, open up!"
A quick shifting of feet on the other side could be heard before the door open up to reveal a beautiful woman in her mid to late twenties with dark blue shoulder length hair and brown eyes could be seen by all. She was wearing a pink sweater, and a blue skirt.
Name: Tsunami
Title: Prettiest Mother of the Year
Age: 29
Level: Lvl9 4.5k/9k EXP
HP: 1300 / 1300
CP: 300 / 300
MP:1025 / 1025
STR: 9
VIT: 11
DEX: 15
CKR: 2
CKRC: 4
INT: 31
WIS: 15
Description: She has been described as obliging. She also loves "prettiness". Tsunami also seems to be a very loving mother. Tsunami is a woman of strong will.
"Tou-san!" the woman said in relief as she saw who answered. "Thank goodness you're alright!"
"Of course I'm alright!" he responded joylessly, "And it's all thanks to these brave Ninja who accompanied me."
Tsunami looked over her father's shoulder to find a group with ninja head bands with them, "Thank you very much." She said, going into a deep bow, before noticing an unconscious man being carried by a tall redheaded boy and… triplets, "Oh my… is he alright?"
"Sensei will be fine." The cute pink haired girl with the red dress replied, taking charge of the moment. "Although he does have a bad case of Chakra Exhaustion and needs a place to rest."
"Of course!" the pretty lady said before opening the door for the group to come in and then leading the Uzumaki brothers upstairs, "There's a spare bedroom where you may let your sensei rest."
Both boys nodded their thanks to the matron to the household as they and the other two Genin followed Tsunami up a set of stairs before going into a hallway. She opened the first door on the left and let Milo and the Naruto clones enter.
Walking over to a nearby closet, she opens it to reveal a spare futon and bed spread and laid it on the floor for the man. "Here you go."
"Thanks/Thank you ma'am," Naruto and Milo both said politely as they set Kakashi down. With their job done the two clones dispelled in a puff of smoke right in front of Tsunami, who looked absolutely surprised by the whole ordeal.
"What the… but you… didn't you…" she jumbled her words looking confuse, pointing between the blonde and the empty spaces that once held his clones.
"Kage Bunshin (Shadow clone)" Naruto answered her unspoken question, "They're solidified clones of myself to help me do task like I just did with my brother." He said, panning his hand in the green eyed boy's direction, "To be completely honest, I don't know where I'll be without this Jutsu."
While the woman was mumbling in envy of the boy with whiskers as she imagined all the free time she would have with that kind of power, Kakashi, who woke up during the explanation, spoke up. "It's true, I read your academy records, and it's likely you wouldn't be here without it."
"Kakashi-sensei!" said a relieved sakura as she sat down next to him, "Are you alright sensei?"
"Yeah…" he said in a somewhat strained voice, "I just can't move for a week maybe two, that's all no big deal."
"WHAT!" she cried in shock.
"It's because of your Sharingan, isn't it?" Milo spoke up gaining every bodies attention, especially a curious but also suspicious Sasuke "It truly is an amazing power to possess, only the specially gifted can truly handle it's oppressing power, but you are not one of them aren't you. If you were, you would be able to turn off the Doujutsu and as a consequence the eye is rejecting you by taking great quantities of chakra."
"Milo," said Sasuke, getting the tall boy's attention. "How do you know so much about the Sharingan?"
Looking over to the raven haired boy, Milo shrugs and says, "Actually I don't know all that much of your secret eye Sasuke."
"WHAT… but how? You described the symptoms of a non Uchiha gaining the Sharingan perfectly, so HOW…DO…YOU…KNOW!" Sasuke snapped, poking his finger into the boy's chest for emphases at every word.
"Whoa, easy I'll tell you." Milo said holding his hands up in surrender, by now everyone in the room had the two's undivided attention, "You remember when I said that I see numbers and descriptions for those numbers I see, well they allow me to have a sort of an Omniscient view of things… but only if I'm powerful enough." He said catching himself at the end and shocking all those who didn't know.
"But… but how, your eyes aren't glowing or changing colors. Is it because you have a blood line?" the duck butt asked, first to speak.
"Well no… at least I don't think it is." He said confused.
"Explain."
"Well I don't want to surprise you all… but I am not normal." He said revealing the secret he kept hidden from everyone other than a select few.
"We know." Sakura deadpanned as she, like the rest inside the room, sweat dropped.
"You do?" Milo asks eyes full of hope. When he saw the nods, he visibility brightened up and whipped the imaginary sweat off his brow, "Phew… for a second there I thought you wouldn't like me anymore."
Sasuke just made a dissatisfied grunt and face aimed at the delusional teen that just screamed 'tell me everything you know or die.'
"Well anyhow…" Kakashi said cutting in, "what Milo said was true about my Sharingan."
The group was silent for a little while after that, thinking back from all that's happened so far and what their new plan of action should be.
"Well, at least we defeated that super strong ninja this time," Tazuna said in a relieved filled laugh. "So we should be okay at the time being."
Uhh Tazuna I hate to burst your bubble, but you didn't do anything." Milo replied making the Sake loving man deflate and mumbled something about kids and lack of respect towards the elderly. "Oh! That reminds me, we have to distribute EXP and such!" he says rubbing his hands together.
Doing a few hand gestures, five consecutive widows popped over head allowing all of squad 7 to see. Two, that being Naruto and Milo, took the pop ups in stride, wanting to get more experienced as possible, while the other three… not so great.
"Uhh Sempai, what exactly am I looking at?" the pinkette question, a little freaked out.
"That Sakura-chan, and the rest of team 7, is your cut of the Zabuza pie: 50,000 EXP, 250 AP, and 11,000 RYU." Seeing the questioning look he was getting by most in the room, he explained in more detail. "This is no Genjutsu, believe me I tried. I temporarily allowed your guys to see what I see, mainly to keep track of my teammates health, see…" he pointed to the four names with their current HP CP and MP to the left top corner of her vision. "You can also check your profile by thinking or saying Status, you can also go to your Skills to upgrade your current skills to increase their power or have a chance to learn something new."
Doing that as she already went down the rabbit hole so to speak, what she saw made her jumped in surprise. Tazuna and Tsunami, that was hanging back, didn't quite know what was going on.
Name: Sakura Haruno
Title: Co-President of the Sasuke's fan club
Age: 13
Level: Lvl17 2.8K/17K
HP: 1300
CP: 1500
MP: 1800
STR: 12
VIT: 16
DEX: 16
CKR: 15
CKRC: 41 + 17% = 48
INT: 42
WIS: 22 + 17% = 26
Points: 20
Description: Sakura typically gives the outward impression of being polite to her superiors, considerate of her peers, and confident in her. She has occasional moments of bashfulness around Sasuke Uchiha and competitiveness around Ino Yamanaka, but otherwise appears quite collected. This reservation, though never disingenuous, frequently masks how Sakura really feels: in certain situations she has pronounced feelings of delinquency, jealousy, and anger. Rather than display these emotions to others, she projects them inward, allowing a manifestation of who she truly is - what is labeled "Inner Sakura"
Status effects:
[Haruno Heritage (Passive) LVMAX]
you are an Haruno, things are expected of you
Permanent passive buff(s):
increase CKRC by (1% x level)
increase WIS by (1% x level)
Blushing profusely in embarrassment and trying in a futile attempted to hide her… colorful description from the others, Milo and Kakashi just watched the scene in amusement while Naruto and Sasuke thought that was too much information about their supposed girly teammate for one day. "MILO! Tell me how to turn this off right now or you'll be sorry!" she roared
"But you haven't even assigned any of your points yet." He said innocently.
"MILO!"
"Alright, alright and this is what I get for team bonding…" ignoring the stink eye directed at him, he told his teammates the inner workings of the gamer ability without actually telling them about it. After that fiasco was over a still Sakura asked a question that caught everyone attention, "By the way, who was that masked kid anyways," she had remembered reading something about ninja wearing that kind of mask.
"That's the mask worn by a special unit of hunter-nin in the hidden mist," Kakashi answered, "They are known as 'the body eraser's', their duty is to completely dispose of the body without a trace. A Ninja's body has many secrets that can be discovered with a proper examination for a skilled physician; things like Ninjutsu, different chakra types, herbs and many other secrets revealed about the village the ninja resided in. for example, If I died, even though I have an allergic allergy to dying, the secrets of the Sharingan could be revealed. If you're not careful there's the danger your jutsu might be taken.
A ninja's body can reveal important information," the man continued, "so by killing a disposing of the nuke-nins who have abandoned their village the hunter ninja protects the info from getting out. They are the specialists who guard their village secrets."
"So that Zabuza. The missing ninja, has been chopped up and disposed of?" Sakura asked paling at the thought of being in the same shoes as the dead man, "Scary!"
"Ooh, ooh!" Mil exclaimed while raising his hand like in class.
"Yes Milo, what is it?" Kakashi asked with amusement in his voice.
"I don't think that happened at all," he replied surprising all but the Jonin in the room, "… well unless the hunter is some kind of sadist that is."
"What do you mean sempai?" Sakura questioned with a frightened look on her face. "the masked shinobi killed him, didn't he?"
"Well…" Milo then went into a thinking pose, "if you mean by paralyzing the demon of the mist in a near death like state and taking the body away so he can than inflict one of the most excruciating tortures imaginable of being de limbed to death while you can't do anything to stop it, then yes Sakura-chan the man is dead and let me just say that you my dear have one messed up imagination." What the boy failed to notice that when he was speaking was that some of the more… sensitive of the group almost lost the contents of their stomachs.
"Oh kami kid, just stop," Said Tazuna just barely though as he and his daughter were both rocking the ill faced look.
"What?!" the redhead asked who sounded offended, "Sakura's the one with the dirty mind, I mean did you even looked at her descri-"
"BAKA!" the aforementioned girl screamed out while giving the 14 year old a nice size welt on the top of his head.
"OW… owowowowowow…" Milo cried fake tears as he clutched his poor abused noggin. "Sakura-chan's so mean." He mumbled.
"Well Milo's, and I hate to say this, right about one thing, Zabuza isn't dead." Kakashi said getting everyone back on track, "If our mask ninja friend was truly part of the hunter shinobi unit he would have disposed the body on the spot, i.e. decapitation then burn the body whole, and not leave with said body."
Within the forest just a little ways from where Zabuza had fought, and lost, the copycat ninja, the hunter ninja looked over Zabuza's 'dead' body. Reaching into a pouch on his backside, the hunter took out a medical tool kit and unrolled it on the ground. The masked shinobi than grabbed the pair of clippers and brought them to the downed demon.
"First I'll cut the bandages on his mouth to drain some of the blood." The ninja mumbled, carefully bringing the crude looking clippers near Zabuza's clothed mouth.
Just before he could cut the cloth, Zabuza's hand shot up and grabbed the imposter's arm.
"That's alright, I'll do it myself." The demon said in a slightly groggy voice as he tore at the cloth.
"Oh." the fake hunter said, sounding both surprised and amused. "You've already came back from the dead.
Zabuza grunted and then roughly yanked on the sanbons in his neck. "Ow, damn you sure are rough."
"Oh! you're pretty rough by yourself, pulling them out like that; you really want to die huh?" the hunter said.
Zabuza just grunted at that, "How long are you going to wear that stupid mask?" he asked not really caring.
I like this mask," the feminine boy replied, "it reminds me of the old days." Despite just saying he liked it, the fake hunter pulled it off his face, "Plus it was useful for this act… if I hadn't saved you back there, you would have surely perished."
Zabuza glared at his partner, even though he was right, but did nothing and instead told the boy what he thought about the specific selection of pressure points. "If you were going to put me into a momentary death like state, you didn't have to use my neck... it would be much safer to aim at another point." He complained, "You're annoying as always."
The boy merely smiled and bushed a little, "your right, but I know how you are if I just scar up your beautiful body. The neck doest have much muscle to begin with so it was easier to hit the acupuncture points there."
He then examined Zabuza's vitals to see how much damage was done to him in both the fight and what he did. 'There's a lot more wound than usual, but that was to be expected when going up against the embodiment of a mime.'
"You shouldn't be able to move much for about a week… maybe more, but knowing you, you'll probably be up sooner than that."
Zabuza caught his partner at the corner of his eye and smirked, "You're so pure and clever; that's what I like about you…"
"Of course," smiling his partner talked back, "That's what kids are supposed to be like after all." The fake hunter then stood up, "we should move, the mist has cleared."
Looking down the teenager asked a question to his superior, "Will you be okay… next time I mean?"
The demon narrowed his eyes and growled a menacingly growl, "Next time I will defeat the Sharingan"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN ZABUZA ISN'T DEAD?!" both Sakura and Naruto shouted at the top of their lungs, causing everyone in hearing distance to cover their ears to stop the bleeding.
"Calm yourselves, both of you." Kakashi ordered while raising his voice. Once he saw them a little more relaxed he continued, "Just think about it, the hunter used sanbons, sanbons, to kill Zabuza. Unless you actually hit a vital organ, the probability to manage a guarantee kill is low. The item is generally used for doctors who specialize in acupuncture, the ninja must have had thorough knowledge and understanding about the human body to wield such a tool; so putting the target, like Milo said, in a momentary death like state should be child play for the shinobi."
"So basically what you're saying is that Zabuza is alive and well, and not chopped up by some sadist." Sasuke stated even though it sounded like a question that made the room sweat dropped.
"Although I do admire Sakura's… colorful imagination," he ignored the cry of indignation from said girl while answering the boy's question, "But I don't think that's the case here. First, he carried a much heavier Zabuza off to Kami knows where and second, he used a weapon with a low mortality rate. These two points indicate that his motive was… not to kill, but to save Zabuza."
"Don't you think your over reacting just a tad, I-I like the girl's idea better." Tazuna asked, now worried that a really strong ninja might actually be coming back. "I mean, you know hunter ninja's are supposed to kill missing ninja, that's what you said right?"
"Shinobi rule #47: always prepare for the worst." Kakashi stated, "Even if Zabuza died, Gato will more than likely higher an even stronger shinobi, he has the money."
"Sensei, what do you mean prepare for the worst?" Sakura asked, unsure of what he meant. "You can barely move as is."
"Kuku," Kakashi chuckled as if found the whole thing to be quite amusing, "You guys will be doing some training…"
"Huh? Training!" sakura said in surprise, "Sensei are you kidding me? What's a little training going to do against a powerhouse like Zabuza?"
'CHA! HE'S TRYING TO GET US KILLED OR WORSE… OUR SASUKE!'inner Sakura shouted.
"Ahh, you worry to much," Kakashi stated, eye smiling, "We'll be fine, and if not it's only our lives."
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!" most of everyone in the room was in agreement with the pinkette.
"Why do you guys even bother?"
Everyone turned their attention to the source of the new depressing voice to see an equally deressed looking kid about 6 or 7 years old. He had blue coveralls on over a yellow shirt and a fishing hat on his head.
Name: Inari
Title: President of the HSW, Hopelessness Society of Wave.
Age: 8
Level: Lvl6 2.4K/6K
HP: 400
CP: 700
MP: 400
STR: 5
VIT: 4
DEX: 12
CKR: 7
CKRC: 2
INT: 4
WIS: 1
Description: Outwardly, Inari first appeared to be a very tough individual, though this is just a ruse he put on to hide the loneliness he felt since the brutal murder of is step father, Kaiza, after Gatou had him executed.
'Aw man, now I feel bad' Milo Thought, 'and here I was, planning a witty comeback too…'
'You humans and your inability to let go from the past and become a slave to it, it's kind of sad really to traumatize someone at such a young age.'
"Who the hell are you!" Naruto shouted but then doubled over from being elbowed in the gut.
"Be nice." Milo said, looking down at his little brother.
"Oh! Inari! Where were you? Come give 'yer old grandpa a big ol hug." Tazuna ordered the little kid, holding his arms out as Inari ran up to the old man and proceeded to hug him.
"Welcome back grandpa!" he said happy to see the bridge builder again, before the smile turned into a slight frown as the young boy looked towards the Konoha ninja.
"Inari, say hello to these people," his mother said, placing her hands on her hips after seeing the boy's shyness, "They're the ninja that protected grandpa."
"But mom, why should i? they're just going to die anyway." Everyone looked either surprised or angry at what the kid said. Tazuna and tsunami both sighed as they were used to the boy's nihilism. "There's no way they can beat Gatou and his thugs."
"You little brat, I'll-" Naruto angrily shouted before being cut off by an even angrier Sakura.
she bonked him on the top of his blonde head, "WHY ARE YOU GETTING ANGRY AT A CHILD? IDIOT!"
But that didn't seem to quench the fires raging in the fox boy's stomach if anything, it made him even madder at the boy, "Hey Inari, right? Listen up!" he cried catching the little boy's attention, "I am a super hero that will one day become an incredible shinobi called Hokage. I don't know this Gatou guy, but he's got nothing on me!" he proudly stated.
"What are you stupid?" Inari deadpanned, "There's no such thing as a Hero!"
"What?!" Naruto said, about to pounce. Just before the though, he saw his brother brush passed him.
"Inari, Inari…" said boy flinched as a childish voice rang out attached to a deceptively strong hand that wrapped around the boy's shoulder, looking up he saw the redheaded Konoha shinobi standing over him and smiling down at him. "There's one thing you should know about me, I am a level 7 Warlock half elf… do you know what that means?" the overalls wearing boy nodded his head no as he and the rest was wondering what reality the teenage was actually in. "It means, at level 7 I can conjure up a blast of hellfire instead of normal fire that cause 4d6 points of damage plus my damage modifier as hellfire is not like normal fire." The delusional teen said with a straight face and a 'matter of fact' voice.
"O-okay," Inari said, managing to dislodge for the clearly insane redhead while heading for the door, "A-anyway, if you don't what to die, you should leave."
"Where are you going Inari?" his grandfather asked.
"Huh?" before the small child could make his way out of the room, he turned around to address his grandpa one last time. "I am going to look at the ocean from my room."
When the door slammed shut, both Tazuna and Tsunami had signs of depression, "Sorry about him, he has never able to get over Kaiza's death." Tsunami apologized for her son's behavior.
Seeing the questioning gazes directed at her, see explained that her beloved husband Kaiza had opposed Gatou and had been publicly executed for his troubles and Inari never forgave him for that.
It was a sad and depressing story that was able to get everyone a little emotional, even if they didn't out right show it. After a few moments of silence, Milo stood up and went for the door, an action that did not go unnoticed.
"Onii-chan, where're you going?" his younger brother asked after seeing him at the door.
The cloaked teen didn't out right turned to face them, just looked over his shoulder and with his usual grim he said, "To get some fresh air." Without saying anything else, he promptly left the scene.
Those in the room said nothing as the air was too depressing to speak, thinking Milo was just as effected as them. Then they heard it, a combination of cords being plucked beneath a hollowed out piece of wood. Naruto instantly knew what this beautiful sound was as his older brother used to play something he called a gee-tar whenever he had a nightmare and sing him back to sleep.
(Lean on Me-Bill withers)
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
Tsunami, as she and everyone other than Naruto, was shocked as this being the first time she heard the young man sing as he continued to play that beautiful song, and even though he was outside, because of the thin doors she heard everything un-muffled.
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
"Why does he play such a saddening song, he seems like such a happy boy, albeit a little unorthodox?" she asked confused.
"Oh don't worry about onii-chan." Naruto said with a smile plastered on his face, "Whenever I was feeling down, he would always play this song to make me feel better. He said it was made by someone who lost a lot in life, Milo probably just wants to make your son happy." The fox boy said surprising everyone.
This mad Tsunami burst into tears from the thoughtfulness of the stranger she just met as she continued on listening to the heartfelt music.
Please swallow your pride
If I have faith you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show
Sasuke was unconsciously remembering the traumatic event that gave him nightmares even to this day, and silently shed a tear but quickly whipped it from existence with his hand; though not as quick as he thought, as one pink haired girl saw the whole thing.
'Sasuke' she thought.
You just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
Kakashi thought of his two best friends who died in the last war, one who sacrificed his eye for him to live.
'Obito… Rin, I'm so sorry'
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
Inari, who was in his room clutching a picture of a man we can assume was Kaiza, heard the soft melody of soothing words from the open window that was near the ocean and was sobbing into the framed picture.
"Kah kah… d-dad… w-why did y-you leave me?" He sobbed
You just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
When the song ended, no words were shed as the teen came back but the smiles never left their faces. Tsunami, ever grateful, got up and gave Milo a motherly hug and a kill on the cheek in thanks as she and her father left the ninja alone for the night. After a well earned meal, Kakashi told his Genin that they wouldn't need to keep watch for tonight as he wanted them ready for the training tomorrow.
The next morning when they woke, they were graced with the sight of Milo skinning a couple of rabbits he had hunted a couple nights before, keeping them fresh in is inventory, all the while teaching Tsunami how to do it too as they prepare breakfast together.
When he saw them enter the living room, his grin grew astronomically. "What?" he asked like he didn't know his hands were covered in another entities life essence. "Gatou has a stronghold on the whole island, at least that's what she said…" he quickly pointed to Tsunami who was struggling to rip the skin off a dead dear, "Tsunami here wasn't able to go out and shop at the local grocers for us yet and her rice arms isn't enough to feed all of us. So sharing my food rations was the least I could do for the hospitality she has shown us… Naruto, could you help in cooking some rice for us."
Again, none of them knew what to say to the unusual teen as it didn't even occurred to the shinobi that Tsunami had a food problem, but looking back it did make sense.
Being more than willing to help out, Naruto did as he was ordered to, after that he sat down next to his bro and also helped skin his kill.
Tazuna was nearly in tears at the seemingly selfless act of kindness. "Kid…" he said catching the redhead's attention, "I-I-just thanks."
Milo just smiled kindly and sheepishly said, "Hehe, no problem."
so for the next hour and a half everyone, except for Kakashi and Inari, helped out for the feast. While they were doing so, the Jonin thought about the training plan. He thought it was unwise if while they were out training that nobody was guarding the house or the client, so coming to a decision, as he told his them, he would send clones out to guard the perimeter for today and tomorrow they would start shifts in protecting either the house, including Inari, Tsunami if she were leave said house and Tazuna on the bridge.
After breakfast Naruto, Milo, Sakura, and Sasuke followed Kakashi, who was using crutches to walk, outside in a wooded area to begin their training. As they stood in the clearing Kakashi turned around to look at the four.
"Okay, today we will start the training." The silver haired Jonin said.
"HELL YEAH!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly.
'You know if we only had music, we could get this montage started.' Milo thought… well thoughtfully.
"Okay but before that," the man eye smiled when he saw the deflated expression on the young Uzumaki's face. "I want to talk to you about chakra."
Úmm umm?" Naruto stumbled, 'I know I heard about it somewhere… did Onii-chan ever mentioned it? No, he said something about 'CP', could the C stand for Chakra? no, it can't be... Onii-chan's not that stupid.'
Giving up as he had no clue what the mystical energy was, "What's chakra?"
"YOU'RE A NINJA AND YOU DON'T KNOW THAT?! WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL?!" Sakura snapped while everyone else was picking themselves up after the sheer and utter idiocy that came out of the Uzumaki's mouth.
The blonde nervously rubbed the back of his head and sheepishly replied, "Hehe, I kind of fell asleep during that lesson."
"Don't feel to down Naru-chan…" Milo patted him on the shoulder with a strain face, "I fell asleep in many of Iruka-sensei's lessons."
Though this eased Naruto's emotion, but the same could not be said for the sweat dropping teacher. 'I'm doomed' he muttered silently.
"Fine…Sakura." The Jonin said, handing over the reins of this conversation to the 'smart one.'
"Okay, listen up Naruto because I'm only going t say this once," she says as she brought out a scroll with Kanji symbols on it, "So try and pay attention to this and use that slow brain of yours."
When she had his undivided attention, she went in what she called 'the lecture mode', "Simply put, Chakra is the energy of the shinobi that they need to perform Jutsu. That energy as two parts: the body's energy that is in each of the billons of your cells, and the spiritual energy gained through training and other experiences.
So by bring out and releasing chakra, you can use a jutsu. This is done through performing hand seals you use to manipulate the flow of chakra." She said so simple a toddler could understand.
"Hey, hey," Naruto finally said after a few minutes of absorbing the knowledge given to him. "I didn't understand your complicated explanation Sakura-chan, but isn't that something you use with your body?" as he said that, a low and menacing growl was emanating from the normally polite girl.
"Naruto's right," Sasuke agreed, "We already know how to use jutsus."
"Nope!" Kakashi said in an uncaring manner. "You guys are not doing it right."
"What do you mean sensei?" Milo asked.
"It's just like sakura said earlier," Kakashi stated, "To release your chakra means you must mix the physical and the spiritual chakra in equal quantities to perform Ninjutsu, Taijutsu is more physical and so is Genjutsu with the spiritual side. Even if you are able to release a high amount of chakra, unless you are able to control it properly the jutsu itself will be weakened or not work at all.
And by wasting energy, you won't be able to fight efficiently as these kind of weaknesses will become apparent." He finished wanting them to understand the severity of these real life problems.
"So…" Naruto droned on, not sure how to take what he heard in, "what should we do?"
"Isn't it obvious?" the Cyclops asked rhetorically. "All of you will learn how to control it, through tree climbing that is."
Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto all face planted while Milo just snickered at the snickered at the sight, "you know sensei I love messing with Aniki as the next guy, but I find it kind of strange that a activity for a child will let us have better control over our chakra."
"Well I'm glad you asked Milo," the Jonin said with an eye smile, "This will not be a normal tree climbing exercise, and you'll be climbing without the use of your hands."
[Tree Climbing (Supplemental-Passive) Lvl1 0/15]
A training method to gain more control of your chakra and Mana. This training involves focusing a fixed amount of chakra to walk up a tree.
Generates 15 AP with every step while walking vertically up any solid surface like you would horizontally.
The percentage cost per step depends on the combination of the total Chakra and mana minus (the base CKRC and WIS)(100)
Increase VIT, CKRC and WIS by (skill level)
Increase total CP and MP by (skill level) %
Caps at 10%
Increase the cost efficiency of either Chakra or mana techniques by (5 x skill level) %
cap for cost: 30%
NOTE: the efficiency buff does not count for this skill
'Well, at least I finally know which points to spend on now if it cost about 48% percent of my total energy, 3074 CP and 4226 MP, for every step I take.' Milo thought.
Name: Milo Uzumaki
Title: Gamer, Honorary Uzumaki
Age: 14
Level: Lvl29 6k/29k EXP
HP: (1750 + 1450) = 3200 / 3200
CP: (3500 + 2900) + 1% = 6464 / 6464
MP: (4450 + 4350) + 1% = 8888 / 8888
STR: 24 + 5.5% = 26
VIT: (21 + 1) + 15% = 25
DEX: 47 + 13.5% = 53
CKR: 27 + 30% = 35
CKRC: (32 + 1) + 45% = 48
INT: (35 + 33) + 16% = 79
WIS: (47 + 1) +24% = 60
POINTS: 40
Description: A brilliant method actor who went to school for acting, but he took his passion to far and now the lines of being himself and playing a character that he portrays are blurred.
HP Regen= 32 per hour (1% of Max HP)
CP Regen= 307 per hour (4% of Max CP + CKRC)
MP Regen= 2933 per hour(1% of max MP x 0.5 of WIS) + 10%
He ultimately chose the safest bet and split the unspent points evenly with them going into both CKRC and WIS.
Name: Milo Uzumaki
Title: Gamer, Honorary Uzumaki
Age: 14
Level: Lvl29 6k/29k EXP
HP: (1750 + 1450) = 3200 / 3200
CP: (3500 + 2900) + 1% = 6464 / 6464
MP: (4450 + 4350) + 1% = 8888 / 8888
STR: 25 + 5.5% = 26
VIT: (21 + 1) + 15% = 25
DEX: 47 + 13.5% = 53
CKR: 27 + 30% = 35
CKRC: (52 + 1) + 45% = 76
INT: (35 + 33) + 16% = 79
WIS: (67 + 1) + 24% = 84
POINTS: 0
Description: A brilliant method actor who went to school for acting, but he took his passion to far and now the lines of being himself and playing a character that he portrays are blurred.
HP Regen= 32 per hour (1% of Max HP)
CP Regen= 335 per hour (4% of Max CP + CKRC)
MP Regen= 4106 per hour(1% of max MP x 0.5 of WIS) + 10%
'Now this is what I call results. Gone from a staggering 48% to a measly, more manageable, 21% per step I take.' The redhead approved in his decision. Milo was then brought back to reality by the emo boy.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted, "Sound fun, how are we supposed to do that?" he said in a snarky attitude.
"Like this." Kakashi says as he crutched his way over to one of the trees in the clearing, bringing up a hand sign for focus he channeled chakra to the bottom of his feet. He then put one foot on the tree trunk… then the other. Soon enough he was walking up a tree like the laws of physics do not apply to the man. He stopped when he climbed onto a branch and hung upside down, looking down he saw the either shocked or awe look of his cute little Genin witnessing such a feet while he resisted giving a sigh as 'little' Milo was… watching a lady bug fly by and singing to it, "Hello there Mr. lady-bug. Lady~~ lady bug."
"There are two main reasons for you to use this exercise. Number one, control: your feet are considered the hardest place to channel your chakra, therefore if you can master the tree climbing exercise you can master any Jutsu, theoretically at least." Kakashi explained. "The second thing for you to develop is your increase in stamina needed to control your chakra properly. Depending on the type of jutsu, your level of control is key, and a ninja will most likely be gathering his/her chakra while on the move, so that is another reason to up your stamina and multitask."
[Focus Hand Seal (Active) Lvl MAX]
This seal allows for greater focus and refined precision on where your energy should go, but only for a short while.
Active: next turn allows user to gain -75% chakra and mana consumption for any one skill.
Skill cool down: one hour.
'This will help me significantly, -75% the cost of any skill! Are you serious game?! That skill is so OP! using this skill in twined with Tree Climbing the already okay cost will go down from 21% for each step to 15% for each step. Which means I can go for 6 steps instead of 4 before I risk the chance of dying from chakra lost, and since I can get my spent chakra and mana by using meditate for about an hour.' He rationalized, 'so ultimately I am leveling up two of my supplemental skills.'
"Ohh ohh sensei! Pick me. Pick me sensei." Milo waved his hand in the air in a very childish manner that made everyone in the vicinity sweat dropped at the teen.
"Yes Milo." The silver haired Jonin asked, scratching at the side of his face.
"I know this… whatever you did to your feet already sensei." He said unsure what else to say, causing Sasuke's eyes to narrow, Sakura's to widen, and Naruto looked very hurt and betrayed from keeping such a cool thing like what sensei did not a minute ago.
"Hmmm, you did? Well do you mind telling the rest of the class where you learned it from." He asked kindly.
Milo nodded rapidly and pointed to his teacher, "You sensei. I learned it from watching you." After that, all the Genin toppled over in a face plant as they too learned it from watching him… well not instantly like Milo but you get the picture.
"Sempai," Sakura said in a exasperated tone after collecting herself off the ground, "Why are you so stupid sometimes."
The redhead shrugged, "If I'm not, then who will? Sasuke? No he's got that baddass brood thing going for him."
Not finding a legitimate response to his logic, the pinkette sighed and looked over to her upside down sensei.
"Yes well, here! Use these Kunai to mark your progress." the Jonin said, throwing four identical kunai, one for each genin. "Then use that mark and try to surpass it, so get some momentum and try running up the tree, got it? good."
|Ding|
[Main Quest: make it or break it.]
You are given a task of completing the task of tree climbing.
Finish the task in a timely manner, either the first or just don't be last, use all skills you learned so far at your disposal.
Reward: 5000 EXP, one chakra paper, one Jutsu scroll.
Failure: 500 EXP, one health potion.
Do you accept: [Y] or [N]
'Yes definitely, Focus Hand Seal… Tree Climbing.' Milo thought, idle twisting the kunai in hand from finger to finger before running up to a nearby tree and marked the bark of the wood after the Sixth step.
You increase the level of your tree climbing skill by one
You increase the level of your tree climbing skill by one
You increase the level of your tree climbing skill by one
"I want to try it to, believe it!" Naruto shouted as he, Sasuke and Sakura all joined in, in the exercise; while the fox boy fell flat on his back after the first step, Sasuke fell and did a back flip just after the 4th… not before he marked it with a nice foot indentation on the bark.
Looking at the foot mark Sasuke grunted, 'I didn't think it would be this hard, I'm already out of breath.' He thought while lightly panting. 'Too much Chakra and it cracks the wood, but too little and you don't stick at all and…' he then looked over to his fallen comrade and promptly sweat dropped, '… That happens.'
"hey, this is Pretty easy!" three heads shot up to the sound of a voice only to find Sakura sitting on a tall branch 25 feet in the air, stinking her tongue out playfully feet swinging happily.
'Well… that's certainly different.' Kaka thought slightly amazed at the young Kunoichi.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto, now sporting a large bump on his head, shouted in surprise. "YOU'RE AWSOME, BELIEVE IT!"
"It looks like the best at controlling their chakra right now… is Sakura." Their teacher droned out.
Sakura felt a little down as she thought she could impress her Sasuke with her accomplishments, but it only seem to worsen his attitude towards her. Sasuke gritted his teeth in frustration as he kept on asking himself why he felt so inferior so far. 'at least I'm not last.' He grumbled in his mind, looking at the dobe who tried at going again.
"Don't feel so bad Sasuke, you wouldn't have come to Sakura-chan's level of control anyway." Milo put his two cents in as he was is a sitting position with his eyes closed, slowly regenerating his spent energy so he could try again in an hour's time stronger then the last.
"MILO!" Sakura shouted, "You apologize to Sasuke-kun, right now mister!" she warned.
"But-"
"NOW!"
Milo sighed, "I'm sorry Sasuke," he said looking into those smug eyes of the Uchiha. "I'm sorry that Sakura has way more control than you."
Naruto snickered and Kakashi just sighed while Sakura thought she would die of embarrassment. "MILO!"
"What?" he questioned innocently, still in his sitting down position, "it's true. It's so true that you are generating about 65% of your energy with each step you take. It's because you have so little chakra, that you have greater control."
"Milo's right Sakura," the Jonin said from the tree next to her, "Not only do you know a lot about chakra, but your level of control is quite good and your stamina allows your withstand the high altitude you're at."
He then stared at Naruto, "looks like Sakura is also one step closer to becoming Hokage… unlike a certain someone."
"And I guess the great Uchiha clan isn't worth much either. Hehe."
"SHUT UP, SENSEI!" Sakura cried out, pointing a warning finger at him. 'Aw man now Sasuke-kun going to get even more mad. Stupid sempai, stupid sensei.'
Naruto and Sasuke both nodded to each other and looked at the trees with fierce determination as they got ready to try the exercise again and again if they have to.
'Okay, first I'll defeat the teme. Then I'll… why is Onii-chan just sitting there, doing nothing?' Naruto questioned while the giant fox, who was watching everything play out through the giant plasma screen TV hooked inside his cage, heard his question and rolled his giant eyes before setting down for a nap. 'Oh well, his lost. I just can't wait to look at onii-chan's face when he sees me at the top.'
Kakashi seeing that his reverse psychology had work gave his thought internally, 'Naruto and Sasuke do have the greatest of the four in terms of chakra, but shit control. If this training proves useful then these two will certainly be valuable assets.' The son of the white fang then looked to the only student not doing the exercise, 'And then we have the balanced one who seems to really know what he's doing if the fact that he's waiting for his lost chakra to come back so he can try again; rinse, repeat, victory. It's actually pretty scary in a way that he can be so efficient, but act like a total moron.'
No one besides Milo and Kakashi felt the presence of little Inari linger for a little while before fading in the distance, and back inside the house.
Within their base the hunter ninja watched over the bedridden Zabuza, mixing some f the herbs they had with a mortar and pedestal.
"So you have come back defeated."
The imposter turned his head to see Gatou standing there between his two thugs. One was shirtless with a black hakama, and an eye patch over his right eye. His left shoulder was adorned with a tribal tattoo with a vine pattern while having barbwire like ink along his arm.
The other was wearing a baggy gray jacket littered with pockets, a pair of black shorts and a black beanie on his head.
Both of them were holding there sheath sword that were way to big, trying to look menacing with their poorly excuse cocky sneers.
They looked pathetic to him and they smelled worse.
"It looks like the Kiri ninja are pretty pathetic… or is that just you?" Gatou continued as he move into the room, feeling really confident by the fact that Zabuza was bed ridden. "You can't even avenge your men, how pathetic. And you call yourself a demon?" he said in a know it all voice while his two bodyguards started to laugh.
"…" Zabuza said nothing, causing both the Ronin to start unsheathing their blades.
"Hold on a moment fellas," Gatou held up a hand to stop them and walked to the bed of a down Kiri nuke-nin. "Hey there's no need to stay silent, we're all friends here."
Gatou began to reach out his hands towards Zabuza's throat, but before he could even wrap his stubby little hand around his neck the hunter ninja gabbed hard onto the business man's wrist.
"Don't you dare touch Zabuza-sama with though filthy hands of yours!" the boy snarled, releasing some of his KI while glaring deadly daggers at the fat midget.
"Hey l-let go o-of my arm you fucking cu- ARGH!" Gatou babbled only to scream in pain as the feminine male snapped his arm in twine, tossing him back on his ass.
The two Ronin moved their hands towards their swords, eager to teach this bitch a lesson, however their eyes widen as the black haired boy was between them; delicate but firm hands grasped their own swords and aimed them to the other's throat.
"You shouldn't do that," the hunter said, "I'm really mad now."
Gatou and both his cronies started to sweat in fear.
"One more chance!" Gatou shouted as he stood up and shook his unbroken hand into a fist. "I'm giving you one more chance to finish this! If you fail, I'll make sure every ninja in Kiri know where you are!" with that said, he stormed out to mend his injured arm with his thugs following.
"Haku," Zabuza said, getting his partners attention. "You didn't have to do that. You know that little will never be able to touch me."
"I know," the now named Haku said with a smile who then nodded to the Kunai under his sheets. "But it's too early to kill him. if did however caused the commotion, the hunters will be after us again, better safe than sorry."
The bedridden man sighed, "Damn… I hate when you're right."
"Right about what?" hearing the voice, Haku and Zabuza looked over to see the Akuma brothers limping over each other as they walked in.
Later that night the Konoha ninja were sitting around the table with Tazuna and his family. Naruto and Sasuke were competing to see who could shovel more food into their mouth while Milo had the decency to use his table manners which Tsunami was grateful for; Sakura had her head on the table, sweaty, while every few seconds she let out a painful moan as the nerves contract and released. As for Kakashi, he left his crutches on the wall next to him and read his book right in front of two ire filled women without a care in the world.
"So guys, tell me, how's the training coming along?" the head of the Hatake clan asked as he flipped a page of his book. 'Ohh, this is interesting…'
He would have left since he finished his meal already almost as soon as it appeared, having eaten so fast no one come see him taking his mask off, but it would be considered rude if he left while others were eating.
The only audible sign that came from Naruto was a pouty grumble.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted, still able to make sound despite being a human food storage machine.
"Ugh… m-Milo-sempai… he's so c-cruel." Sakura stated, quietly crying anime tears. Out of all the Genin here, she was convinced that Milo put her through hell.
"Really?" the scare asked with peaked interest , turning to the little sadist who was currently thank their care taker for the meal and asking for a second helping of rice. "So how was your training Milo?"
Milo blinked once… twice, and then gasped in utter joy which made Sakura groaned louder. "Oh sensei, my training going well as one would think. My tree climbing skill is already level 19 and it only took about seven hours with the help of Meditate, which is now is lose to leveling up, and Focus Hand Seal. I am kind of bummed that the cap for control effectiveness is at 30%, but I do suppose it make sense as it is a tier 1 exercise after all."
Everyone who was listening, who still wasn't use to the strange boy's terminology, was really confused while his sensei nodded knowingly.
"When I was at a reasonable level, I thought to myself 'hey I know what I can do. I can say hi to my good friend Sakura, and while I'm at it I can help her out.' as no one wants their skills to be rusty." He said in a matter of fact tone that made Kakashi nod even though he only taught the skill that day. "Oh you should have been there man, me and Sakura-chan had so much fun. At first, she thought she was against the whole training thing, but then I told her that our resident emo over here was looking at the kunoichi more than regular girls, so that changed her mind real quick…"
Said emo boy shot up at the mention of him was glaring daggers at the offending teen all while sporting a tinge of pink on his flawless skin. Sasuke and Sakura both looked at each other and quickly turned away.
Milo then brought out a soggy piece of stripped paper, "Hey Sensei, what's with this weird paper I found when you left. I didn't know what it did before I applied a little chakra through it." he said confused.
The Cyclops eye widen, "Milo, that is called Chakra Paper, designed to tell you your Chakra nature… and you said you found it on the floor?" he asked surprised as Milo nodded his head rapidly.
"Chakra… nature?" Naruto asked, testing out the new word while Sasuke looked on in jealousy and Sakura was just as confused as Naruto as she had no idea what it was.
"Chakra Nature, in essence, is an advanced form of chakra control that entails the molding and defining of one's chakra into an innate kind of chakra nature, altering its properties and characteristics for use in techniques." Kakashi said, once again in his lecture mode. "Nature transformation is one of two necessary components for creating or modifying a technique, the second component being shape transformation. While nature transformation changes the nature of the chakra, shape transformation changes the actual form and movement, altering its abilities.
There're Five Elements Nature Transformations. Each nature is naturally weaker than one nature and stronger than another: Fire Release (Katon) is strong against Wind but weak against water and the paper burns. Wind Release (Futon) is strong against Lightning but weak against fire and the paper get's cut. Lightning Release (Raiton) is strong against Earth but weak against wind, the paper crinkles. Earth Release (Doton) is strong against Water but weak against lightning, the paper turns to dust. Water Release (Suiton) is strong against Fire but weak against earth and the paper gets wet." He finished, watching the thoughtful face his charge was making.
"Soooo, I did something really cool on accident." Milo finally said making every one topple over. truth be told, he never does anything on accident as he was just waiting for the right moment to tell everyone about what he won from the quest.
[Chakra Nature Transformation: Suiton: (Supplemental-Passive) Lvl1 0/10 AP]
One of the basic elemental chakra transformation, performed by liquefying your chakra.
Generates (2 + 1/10 CKRC) AP per minute while activated
Gain one natural affinity point per leveling up this skill
NOTE: natural affinity acts as your elemental resistance.
NOTE: passed 100 affinity points you gain the title: Water Eater
Allow the user to transform his/her chakra into water.
Allow you to telekinetically move and shape water to your liking
Note: level of control depends on skill level and CKRC.
(skill level) % decrease cost in Suiton Jutsus
2(skill level) % increase damage in Suiton Jutsus
[Suiton: Mizu Bunshin (Active) Lvl1 0/100 AP | CP: 1000 x n]
An solidified water clone. Each clone is capable of individual thought and possesses the same stats as the user, unlike Kage bunshin, the users total CP and MP isn't split evenly among the clone and only the experience gained comes back once dispelled.
Every clone gains 10% + (skill level) % of user's total CP and MP
Each clone has (10 + 1/5 VIT + 10(skill level))
Decease cost by 90% if there's a source of water present.
"Hey sensei! Now that I am a fishman, can I learn the hand seals for a water jutsu like the water clone? I always wanted to be made out of water." Milo said dreamingly.
"Hmmm, I don't see why not, but know this I don't play favorites Milo because that would be unethical. How's this, I'll tell you now," he made a quick tiger seal, making sure Milo followed. "And after Sasuke and Naruto master their training… that means you fight on a vertical plane for at least 10 minutes." The silver haired man looked directly at the two while he was saying the last part to make sure they understand what is expected of them. "For a reward if you pass I will give you each a new Jutsu."
Both Naruto and Sasuke stopped eating at the same time, but the backlash made them choke. Spitting out the offending food, they looked to each other and grinned. "I'm going to beat you Sasuke-teme, and get first picks at the super cool jutsu."
Sasuke smirked at his rival, "Hn, you wish dobe."
"What about me sensei?" Sakura asked.
Kakashi smirked under his mask as he found the perfect Taijutsu for someone with excellent chakra control… and who likes to hit things… a lot. "For you Sakura, I will teach you the Chakra enhanced strength, It's a Taijutsu style technique in that you focus your chakra to your hands and feet like so…" Kakashi then showed his only female student to be more badass.
|Ding|
Out of total observation on your part, you learn another Supplemental skill.
[Chakra Enhanced Strength (supplemental-passive) Lvl1 0/50 AP]
Humans who know their limits can surpass them with a little help… that help being chakra by concentrating it in certain body parts. With more mastery, one can acquire incredible strength and speed.
Generate (skill level) AP per hit whether be a chakra enhanced punch or not.
Allows the user to enhance his/her damage output through non armed combat by how much CP you put into each attack.
Higher levels allows you to lower the CP requirement for the same effect.
Passively increase total CP by (skill level) %
Passively increase STR, VIT, DEX, and CKRC by (skill level)
"Well it's settled then. Naruto Sasuke, I want you two to continue your training tomorrow while Sakura and Milo you go with Tazuna to the bridge and I'll guard the house."
"Hai sensei." All four said at the same time then proceeded to finish their meal. Once done, everyone went up to bed with the boy's in one room and Sakura was able to bunk with Tsunami. Just before Milo shut his eyes, he thought of his brother and how was able to make so much shadow clones partly because of the fox in his gullet. Since he now had the Mizu Bunshin he could possible do that as well if he had a sufficient enough pool of water he could conjure then from, the possibilities are endless also if you combine the clones with any of my other skills in his repertoire. With that said, he dumped all of his saved up AP into the water clones making them gone from Lvl1 to Lvl14.
Well there you have it, chapter four. Please like, dislike, read, and reply.
Another thing, for the pairing so far I have:
(boy) Haku-1
(girl) Kin-1
And I'm going to add my own suggestion to see how that pans out:
(boy) Gaara-1
Here me out on this one okay: Gaara's got red hair, Milo's got red hair. Where Gaara is short, Milo is tall. And their both psychotic in their own way.
Name: Milo Uzumaki
Title: Gamer, Honorary Uzumaki
Age: 14
Level: Lvl29 6k/29k EXP
HP: (2850 + 1450) = 4300 / 4300
CP: (3500 + 2900) + 11% = 7175 / 7175
MP: (4450 + 4350) + 10% = 9777 / 9777
STR: (25 + 1) + 5.5% = 27
VIT: (21 + 20) + 15% = 47
DEX: (47 + 1) + 13.5% = 54
CKR: 27 + 30% = 35
CKRC: (52 + 20) + 45% = 104
INT: (35 + 33) + 16% = 79
WIS: (67 + 19) + 24% = 107
POINTS: 0
Wind Affinity: 0
Fire Affinity: 0
Water Affinity: 1
Earth Affinity: 0
Lightning Affinity: 0
Description: A brilliant method actor who went to school for acting, but he took his passion to far and now the lines of being himself and playing a character that he portrays are blurred.
HP Regen= 43 per hour (1% of Max HP)
CP Regen= 391 per hour (4% of Max CP + CKRC)
MP Regen= 5231 per hour(1% of max MP x 0.5 of WIS) + 10%