Okay I'm sorry everyone for just how long this took me but I just have been having major computer problems lately, I'm simply going to sum it up with two words "Damn microsoft/vista/computers" okay that was technically five words but if you swap them out you only have two so leave me the hell alone. Anyway on with the story, and call of the bloody hit men.
Oh and just because I haven't done this once I figured I probably should. "I don't own Naruto, Kishimoto you are one lucky son of a bitch."
Last chapter
"Sure just lead the way."
Kakashi simply started walking down the street once again.
"Wait a moment I thought we were heading in."
"Geez Naruto and you called me addled that was just a plain old tree with a seal trigger to the defenses; we still need to head to the house."
"You mean to tell me that was all for nothing." Naruto replied with his eyebrow twitching.
Kakashi's visible eye smiled again. "Yep."
Naruto was tired, mentally and physically tired. He had one hell of a good reason to be tired even with his outrageous stamina levels that seemed to never end. First off his graduation exam was today which didn't really matter much at the time considering Hinata had been blackmailing to cancel their date that night if he didn't tell her about his contract. No it didn't end there, just a few hours before the date he was still running around getting everything ready, not even mentioning that he had to summon three squads of the kitsune army he now had at his command no that was outshined by the fear of what would happen to him courtesy of Yuhi Kurenai if he was late. Then there was trying to tell Hinata about the Kyuubi which just happens to live inside his naval while she tried to confess her love for him only to then be dragged off to a battle zone to save the closest thing he has to a father from his own death. Then there was the run from the traitors he had just saved said father figure from while dodging insane amounts of weapons through the woods while protecting said unconscious father figure from getting skewered, hacked, sliced, stabbed or maimed. Thankfully he got about ten minutes of rest while reading through the scroll said traitors were trying to steal for………safety purposes as well as trying to heal said father figure. Of course all the rest Naruto got over the ten minutes was gone in under two during the furious battle that soon ensued, thankfully he got about a minute to recoup while the cocky sound bastard was gloating over his supposedly shattered eardrums. Thankfully the fight soon ended due to the arrival of Hinata and his friends with the jounin following shortly after. No less then an hour later did Naruto get the biggest bombshell dropped on him since he found out about the Kyuubi being sealed inside him, he found out who he really was, Namikaze Naruto son of the yondaime Hokage. And that brings him to his current predicament, trying to reach his own bloody house through its own bloody security system that makes most of the heists he has made for scrolls look like cake walks being accompanied by a person he has just found out was his godfather who is also supposed to be recognized by the security system and NOT ATTACK. In short Naruto has just had one very, VERY long day.
Cursing for the hundredth time as he is forced to dodge yet another Hosenka no jutsu that is intent on making him very tan. "Walk in the trails my ass! This place is a fucking gauntlet of doom!" He thought to himself.
"Pay attention you idiot and duck!" Kyuubi yelled.
Not bothering with the warning right away Naruto turned around to see just what Kyuubi was talking about this time. He quickly dropped to all fours with wide eyes just as a fuuma shuriken passed just over his head. He let out a sigh of relief, that only lasted a few seconds as he noticed a few strands of red and yellow hair floating down by his face.
"Fuck." He looked over at Kakashi. "You're enjoying this aren't you?"
Kakashi replied in a cheerful tone. "Yes I am oh prince of thieves." He even added in a mock bow.
"You know as much as I may enjoy the silence Ill get when I'm dead I really don't feel like being decapitated at the moment. In other words PAY MORE GOD DAMN ATTENTION KIT!"
"Kyuubi……you're bitching again." Naruto replied sarcastically.
"Do you want me to let you fall asleep here hmm? Cause you should remember just who is keeping you awake at the moment gaki. Maybe next time I won't help you at……Move it a Hyoryu is coming up behind you!"
Naruto turned around just in time to notice a dragon made of pure ice roaring at him fangs barred ready to slice him to shreds. He then noticed Kakashi was looking at him in horror as he shouted a warning to late as he moved.
A plan was quickly forming in Naruto's mind as the Hyoryu was almost upon him. In the last few seconds Naruto grasped hold of his blade and began to draw it with a cry of Ryu no Mai. Dark blue, almost black flames danced along the blade as Naruto brought it completely vertical out stretched in front of him while his left hand braced the back of the blade. The Hyoryu impacted with the force of a train, jarring every muscle in Naruto's body while pushing him back. Thankfully as the strong as ice may be its weakness was still heat which allowed the blade to split it down the middle. Unfortunately the cut wasn't even all over leaving multiple pieces of charka strengthened ice to scrape across his sides leaving multiple bloody gashes that appeared just as fast as they were healed.
Eventually Naruto had carved his way out of the belly of the beast panting heavily. He began to collapse but Kakashi just got there in time to catch him before he hit the ground.
"Good to see you made it out of that in one piece Naruto."
"Why the hell didn't you warn me sooner Kakashi?" Naruto asked tiredly as he began to try standing again.
Kakashi looked at him quizzically. "I did just before I moved but you didn't respond."
Naruto sighed. "I really need to find some way around that problem or it's going to be the death of me."
"Hey Kyuubi can you increase the flow, I have a feeling if you don't I'm going to end up dropping off right now."
"I could but on one condition." Kyuubi replied seriously.
"Depends on the terms."
"I want you to promise me one day you find a way to get me to go outside for at least some time, you regulate how much of my power I get when out and only for as long as you want. I may enjoy what you have done with the place in here but still this is nothing compared to the outside." He replied sounding a little down at the end.
"Alright deal now can you hurry it up."
"Ok but you better not go complaining to me about how sore you're going to be in the morning because of this." Kyuubi replied jokingly.
On the outside Kakashi could just make out an increase in the youki that seemed to be trickling out of his naval and into his charka network.
Taking a look at Kakashi's questioning look he decided to answer the unasked question. "Basically I'm tired and Kyuubi's charka in small amounts can be used as sort of an adrenaline substitute to keep me awake and my body functioning at max efficiency. Problem is that my body after awhile will become dependant on the constant supply so as soon as it stops I'll be out like a light. Not to mention the bitch of a migraine ill have when I wake up." Naruto groaned at the ending causing Kakashi to chuckle.
"Well it just means you will be ahead of your age group when it comes to hangover experience. Anyway since that was the Hyorudan seals defense then that means were close now, should be smooth sailing from here on."
"Alright lead on Kakashi."
It seems Kakashi was right because less then five minutes later the pair exited the tree line and arrived on a stone walk way that led to a door. Along the path was what most would consider a completely overgrown garden with a pond, the grass looked like it hadn't been cut in years but remembering just whose house this is he realized that statement was completely true.
The doorway was definitely a work of art to Naruto's eyes. He could tell just at first glance that the amount of work on this alone must have meant the house in its prime was simply gorgeous. In front of the doorway to either side of the path were large stone pillars that were made of some black and white speckled rock. The pillars were supporting a wooden awning that curved in an arch letting anything that fell on it to go just into the garden. The door itself was no less extravagant with carvings swirling in complete symbiosis around the center circle with the kanji for Namikaze carved into it. Other then the main carving there were twelve other carvings that controlled large portions of the door these were the dog, dragon, bird, snake, horse, tiger, ram, boar, monkey, rat, rabbit and the ox, the twelve animals of the hand signs.
At Kakashi's urgings Naruto unlocked the door and opened it, when he stepped inside he couldn't help it, he gasped.
The room they were standing in was very large and even with all the debris strewn across the floor from the Kyuubi attack it still was beautiful, Naruto made a silent vow to get this place to its former glory. On the far side of the room was a large staircase that split off the right and left wings of the house. On the right side of the room was a large tea table with four recliners surrounding it, apparently it had been set up to allow everything to be a quick seating and serve unfortunately parts of the tea set had rumbled of and shattered on the floor. In the very center of the room was a large chandelier or what's left of it at least. It had been shaken loose of its bindings from the high ceiling during the attack leaving it bent and misshapen while most of its glass shards and lights were broken and scattered across the floor. On his left though was something that he could feel piqued the fox's curiosity. It was a stone fireplace made out of the same black and white stone as the pillars outside; above the fireplace itself was a large and ornate painting. It was a picture of a boy with spiky white hair, green eyes; and a sword. What was truly odd about him was that he had what looked like a pair of wings made of ice along with claws on his hands and feet. In the background was a giant dragon made of ice as well with a pair of bright red eyes looking as if it was watching over the boy.
"Hyorinmaru, it has been a long time since I've seen him." Kyuubi said finally speaking up.
"Wait the kid or the dragon?"
"Hyorinmaru is the ice dragon in the background of the picture, the kid is Hitsugaya Toshiro."
"Care to explain how you know them."
"Well I know Hyorinmaru only because he was one of the stronger members of Hachibi's army, think of his position along the lines of a seven or eight tailed of my kinds army."
"But he only has one tail, and you never answered me who the kid is."
"Rankings among the nine armies of the Biju are different for each, the kitsune army goes by the amount of tails the kitsune has which signifies how strong he or she is. Hachibi's army or the Doragon army are governed differently, you see dragons don't grow more tails like we kitsune do they are stuck with as many as they had at birth which for Hyorinmaru was one. They govern by how strong they are with Hachibi being the strongest among them all, the other difference is that dragons cannot use every element like humans and other summons they can only use what they are born with once again which for Hyorinmaru was command over ice. He was regarded as the most powerful of his kind to use ice, with it he could control the weather and could not be killed as long as their was moisture in the air for him to reform himself."
"Huh, you learn something new everyday it seems."
"That's only true on the days when you don't sleep through class with that lazy friend of yours." Kyuubi said sarcastically.
"Oh well it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make when you train as hard we do normally, besides you just fill me in on most of it later anyway." Naruto replied.
"The kid was someone Hyorinmaru took a liking too one day when he came here."
"Wait a moment how did he come here? Aren't our kind only able to come here when summoned by a contract holder or their respective Biju." Naruto interrupted which made Kyuubi laugh.
"Your making the same mistake again, your thinking of the Biju armies along the lines of the summon clans. We Biju are constantly switching back and forward across the dimensions, we require no summoner so how do we do it? The answer is simple, we are strong enough. Any one of our kind that gains enough raw power can force his own way into this dimension at will, Hyorinmaru was one of those. Anyway on one of the days Hyorinmaru was in your world he came across a child who was regarded by your kind to have a soul of ice, naturally this piqued his curiosity. When the two met he child simply looked at him and said absolutely nothing, no screaming, no begging for his life, nothing, Hyorinmaru was impressed. A few days later he returned to our realm where he asked Hachibi about a ritual that all our kind have, the bond."
"Let me guess, he did what you and me did."
"Correct, I found out about this during one of the conclaves we of the nine have every few years to discuss our kinds welfare." At this Kyuubi sighed. "There hasn't been a complete conclave in over seventy years. First Nibi was lost to what you humans call Kumo and Ichibi was lost to Suna. Eventually most of us are locked away, I think Gobi is still around but I'm not sure." He sighed once again. "Hyorinmaru returned to here once again and found the child and told him of the bond to which he agreed simply to gain the strength he needed to protect the girl he considered a sister. He trained for many years into his teens under Hyorinmaru's guidance and eventually became the founder and captain of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shu until he died some 200 years ago." Kyuubi finished his story.
Looking around again Naruto noticed that Kakashi seemed to be in a daze himself while his eye was glossed over.
"Why am I not surprised he's reminiscing, I mean he hasn't been here in over twelve years now and he already mentioned that he was taken in here by my dad when his own father committed suicide. Oh well I'll give him a few more minutes to get himself ready." Naruto thought to himself while continuing to poke around.
"Hey kit."
"Ya fox what do you want."
"Oh nothing I was just going to try teaching you a new jutsu but if you're to busy I completely understand." The Kyuubi said with fake innocence.
"Alright you got me hooked Kyuubi, what do you have for me?" Naruto asked with excitement evident in his voice.
"Figured I would get you started on some of the jutsu on the forbidden scroll considering the first one is easier then anything else I have at the moment, plus your not quite ready for some of the Kitsune jutsu from the scroll considering they need some better chakra control then what you have to make them effective. So I guess I'll start with Kage Bunshin no jutsu."
"Kage Bunshin eh, alright how should I start considering with my chakra levels this room would be filled to the brim on the first try until I get better control over it?"
"No I don't want you doing it out there; I want you to come in here so you can better feel the flow of chakra for this."
"Alright I'll meet you there." And with that said Naruto closed his eyes.
Inside Naruto's mindscape
When he opened his eyes again he found himself on the top of a large plateau with Kyuubi standing in front of him.
"What took you so long?" the fox asked sarcastically.
"Why you." Naruto responded in annoyance with his eyebrow starting to twitch.
Kyuubi simply looked amused. "Alright now can you create a copy of the forbidden scroll to be as exact as you can?"
A look of concentration crossed across Naruto's face as he closed his eyes. When he opened them again his right hand was resting on top of the very same scroll he had a less then a few hours ago. "Done."
"Okay now toss it over I'll fill in any blanks."
Naruto complied and tossed the scroll which the Kyuubi caught using one of his tails. The fox unrolled the scroll and began looking through it quickly. Eventually he got to the end.
"Well I'll be you surprised me with what you remembered I would have thought that it would have only half of the jutsu and formulas in here but you got three quarters of it at least." Kyuubi simply placed both paws on the scroll and transmitted a bit of his youki into it causing the scroll to glow red. When he withdrew from the scroll the red glow stopped and left only blood red kanji where the blanks were. The fox rolled the scroll back up and tossed it at Naruto and began walking away.
"Wait a moment where do you think your going?" Naruto asked angrily.
Kyuubi just snorted at him. "You actually think I'm going to hand everything to you on a silver platter kit? No I'm not, you are going to work to get what you want and besides if I just guide you through it all what will you really learn. What was that human saying for this, ah yes catch a man a fish and he'll eat for a day teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." And with that bit of wisdom imparted the fox bounded off down the hill and back into the forested area before Naruto could reply.
"Stupid lazy ass fox, probably going back to catching rabbits. Oh well I might as well get started, Kakashi will probably jostle my body for a few minutes after he stops reminiscing. That guy really has to pull his head out of the past or he won't be sane much longer." Naruto started laughing when he realized he doesn't have much of a right to talk about sanity considering he talks to a few thousand year old kitsune inside his head.
And so Naruto sat down cross legged while unrolling the scroll again and began to read.
About fifteen minutes later Naruto's wake up call sounded, it definitely wasn't what he was expecting. The same scroll he had been training with mere moments ago in his mindscape was thrown at the back of his head by a very pissed Hokage.
Naruto turned around shakily to face a very angry Sarutobi who was simply radiating killing intent. "He, he uh hey Oji-san." He said hesitantly.
"SEAL…..OFF…..NOW!!!!" Sarutobi said angrily.
Naruto quickly bit his thumb drawing blood and swiped it across the seal. Thankfully for his health the seal popped open fast enough for Sarutobi not to want to strangle him. Faster then Naruto even thought possible the old man had snatched up the scroll, opened it and began cackling like a mad man.
"You lazy bastard Minato, you never finished the work all those times I found you wandering around you simply brushed it off to a clone. Yes no more all-nighters due to ungodly amounts of paperwork. Hell I can just go screw up all of Danzo's little plans just for kicks." When Sarutobi finished his little rant he made the cross hand sign "Kage Bunshin no jutsu." And with that said five equally smug looking kages stood where once there was only one. The one Naruto quickly identified as the real one nodded his head at the other four who each used what looked like a Shunshin to go back to the tower.
"I never realized just how scary that old man could be."
"Agreed."
"Alright now where is Kakashi?" Sarutobi asked cheerfully to no one in particular.
"He's right behind you old man, he really does need to pull his head out of the past or one day it's going to get him killed." Naruto said while shaking his head and sighing.
True to his word when Sarutobi turned around there was Kakashi just as ignorant of his surroundings as before. Sarutobi decided since he was in such a damn good mood right now he would be the one to wake Kakashi up. Unfortunately for Kakashi though his good mood was soon gone as his clones transmitted to him just how much the paperwork had piled up in the twenty minutes he was gone, safe to say if Naruto hadn't told him how to get through it he would probably be on his hands and knees crying at the moment, that or pulling an Itachi either one worked fine in the aging Kages mind.
"Well we can't just leave him here." Naruto said.
"And how do you think we should wake him oh wise Namikaze." Sarutobi said sarcastically letting Naruto simply gape at him.
"Who are you and what the hell have you done with the old man?"
The old man simply sighed in relief. "I have been stuck in that god awful room doing paperwork for the last twelve bloody years and you know what my prayers have been answered I can actually take it easy for once. Now this means I can finally get to go on a vacation, ha ha I haven't felt this young since before that ass Nidaime tricked me into taking the job from him." He then sunk his face into his hands mumbling something along the lines of "how the hell was I expected to pick up ladies if I'm stuck in an office all day?"
Safe to say after all that he has seen in the last few hours regarding the position of Hokage Naruto really started to question why he wanted it so much.
Thankfully this train of thought was cut off quickly as Kakashi had finally regained awareness of his surroundings. "Oh Hokage-sama, when did you get here?" Kakashi deadpanned causing both Naruto and Sarutobi to face vault.
The two had almost equal thoughts at the moment. "How the hell did he get promoted to jounin again/ why the hell did I promote him again."
"Why are you both starring at me like that?" Kakashi asked in a cheerful voice while his visible eye smiled.
Sarutobi simply sighed while Naruto tried to it Kakashi over the head with something heavy, unfortunately he failed, again and again and again.
"As much as I hate to interrupt your um…………. Bonding we do have a tour to continue, right Kakashi." Sarutobi said exasperated.
"Oh, sorry Hokage-sama." Kakashi said sheepishly. "So where should we head first because I'm sure Naruto here wants to see the basement before he has to head off for the genin picture in about oh…" he looked at his watch. "Two hours Hokage-sama."
His question was answered by the roar of a ferocious beast, Naruto's stomach. Kakashi simply looked at him in astonishment at the noise and the Hokage simply looked amused.
"I guess that answers my question, the kitchen it is." Kakashi said with a sigh.
"So do you think there is any ramen in this place?" Naruto asked hastily causing Kakashi to sigh once again.
"If you hadn't made sure it was clear Naruto was indeed Minato-sensei's son that just proved it without a doubt. Yes Naruto sensei always was protective of his ramen to the point where he placed it inside a preservation seal in one of the cupboards for instant access." Kakashi began to chuckle softly. "At one point when sensei had me, Rin, and Obito over we managed to hide his stash for a while, driving him to the point of almost strangling the three of us to find it. After that he made the seal and we learned never to get in between sensei and his ramen obsession."
"Only person I've ever seen who was almost as obsessed about a kind of food wood be Itachi and his bloody pokey addiction, almost killed cat when he was on the ANBU when she tried to take one of his sticks." Sarutobi mentioned while placing is head in his hands.
They were reminded again by Naruto's monster….stomach that they should head to the kitchen.
It had all the regular appliances of a normal kitchen, and the entire room seemed to be bathed in whites and beiges. The countertops were a beige marble, while the floor was a white marble. There was a massive refrigerator on the left of the room, and a large assortment of kitchen appliances on the right, including a huge stove, a microwave oven, convection oven, and deep fryer. After about five minutes of searching Naruto eventually found the seal Kakashi mentioned and heated himself up some ramen.
"Hinata-chan will probably be mad if she found out I'm having ramen again, ah hell what she doesn't know won't hurt her." And with that Naruto began gorging on ramen until Kyuubi overrode a bit of control and forced him to stop at his fifth bowl.
From the kitchen they passed into a rather large dining room that seemed to be made for quite a few people. The table was long and narrow, and was lined on either side by plush chairs that resembled the recliners in the living room. A chandelier hung from the ceiling, once again brightly illuminating the room, and the design was very similar to the living room. The dining room segued into a much less formal living room setting, replete with an entertainment center with a large television and sound system, and a very large, curved and plushy couch that looked as though it was made for quite a few people. The room's décor was much less formal, no fancy paintings or fireplace, but the floor and walls were made of the same wooden combination, and the light in the room came from a very similar chandelier that was still attached to the ceiling.
They then ascended a set of curved, wide stairs to the second story of the house. The stairwell turned into a hallway, with ten doors on either side. One door seemed much further away from the other doors than the rest of them, and Naruto surmised that it was the master bedroom. They passed all of these rooms, and found another staircase, leading to the third floor. When Naruto reached the third floor, he nearly face-faulted as there was nothing there but a small hallway leading to a door. The Hokage strode up to the door, casually opening it, showing Naruto what the third floor really was.
He came out on the roof of the house, which overlooked most of Konoha. On either side of him were various types of patio furniture, along with, of all things, a small garden bed, which seemed to have all sorts of flowers and foliage growing from it. It gave a grand view of Konoha and the rest of the estate, as well. Naruto noticed that the rest of the estate seemed to be rather large…probably close to 20 acres of forested and cleared area. In some of the clearings, there were training dummies and obstacle courses, and in some of the more forested areas, there seemed to be small trails leading through them, almost looking as though there was a large trail covering the entirety of the 'back yard'. He also noticed that closer to the house, there was a second building, with a small steam stack. He assumed that it was a personal onsen.
Naruto looked up once again to watch the sun rising in the distance. "Crap if I'm right it's almost six now, I've only got another half an hour to be on top of the monument, any ideas you two?" He asked to the two beside him.
"Well I could probably make a Kage Bunshin and make it look like you with a Henge." Kakashi mused.
"Won't work Kakashi believe me I've tried. Using a henge or even a gen-jutsu to get around cameras or any recording device of any kind won't work. You can trick a human mind but you can't trick a machine."
"So what now, I can probably get a cameraman who's more likely to keep his mouth shut but I highly doubt it. Well you cant really just knock him out now can you Naruto." Sarutobi just looked over at Naruto and noticed the evil grin on his face and sighed. "You're going to go knock him out aren't you?"
"Would I honestly do something like that old man? I'm shocked and appalled that you would even suggest that I mean cant you see the halo." Naruto replied while pointing above his head.
"Push the horns back in Naruto it's ruining the image." Kakashi said jokingly while the Hokage simply sighed.
"Well I guess that cuts our tour a bit short since Naruto can't make a Bunshin." Sarutobi said but stopped when he noticed Naruto's sheepish grin causing him to sigh again. "You went and learned one of the jutsu from the scroll didn't you Naruto."
"Well I did read the scroll back to front didn't eye." He replied gloatingly. "Oh and you know that just because you put it in the scroll doesn't mean I'm going to stop using that jutsu. For instance." He starts laughing while quickly making the ram hand sign. "Oiroke no Jutsu!" safe to say Sarutobi and Kakashi were out like a light while a pool of blood collected under them.
"Well its better this way at least now the council can only try and crack down on me for this instead of them. I really do need to kill some of those bastards one day or whoever my team is will be sent on a ton of suicide missions simply to off me kami knows their capable of it." Naruto sighed. "Best get to work, now time to see if that little training paid off at all."
"It will, just do what you did in your mindscape and it will work." Kyuubi said.
"Alright fur ball you better be right or I'm going to introduce a few more wolves to get rid of your rabbits."
"You wouldn't!" Kyuubi responded worriedly.
"You'll just have to find out on your own." And with that he cut off the communication.
Slowly he set himself into the cross sign and began to channel his chakra slowly testing if the fox was telling the truth. When he felt that e knew what he was doing and found it felt the exact same as when he did it inside his mindscape he let it all flow once again at a quicker pace. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
And with that said where once there was only one there now stood six.
"Alright you two are going to go head to the photo shoot and know the guy out and take the picture, drop it off directly at the old mans office for good measure." The original said pointing at two of the clones who nodded and bounded off. "Now you two are going to get the preparations set up to place the Seishin Soutei Tanrei, use the spare blood vial I keep at the cave. Also while your there start reading a bit more into the kitsune scroll, I don't want to be stuck again with barely any forces so get to that as soon as you can." With that done two more of the clones bounded off. " lastly I want you to head to the area I'm thinking of and begin the process of leaching the heat, do it slowly we don't need all of Konoha breathing down our necks because you caused some freak snow storm."
"Hey, hey, hey I'm you remember so the only reason I would do something like that is if you would do something like that. On that note I say screw you I'm going to go hang out with Hinata-chan." One clone said sounding annoyed.
The original simply looked stunned just as the other two clones were. "Can he actually do that?" one clone asked the other.
"Well since we are technically exact carbon copies of him that would mean that we would act like him in everyway shape and form." The clone responded.
"Do I really act like that?"
The three clones turned toward him with annoyed looks. "Of course we do dumb ass."
"You do know that in calling me a dumb ass you're all in turn calling yourselves dumb asses if you are copies of me." The original pointed out.
A chorus of "damn he's right" from the clones came next before Naruto bashed the one that acted up in the first place on the head making him disappear in a puff of smoke.
"Now are we going to have any other problems smart asses?"
"No boss." They said dejectedly.
"Good now lets replace the pain who gave me, us this headache in the first place."
And with that said he created the cross sign again. "Kage Bunshin no jutsu." Next to him stood an exact copy of himself which he managed to relay his orders too with little back talk other then a few choice curse words.
"Alright now what the hell are you three still standing around for get moving!" he yelled getting them to jump and hurry off. When the three clones were gone he turned around and looked at the still unconscious forms of Kakashi and the Hokage. A thought suddenly struck him as he went and found a black marker cackling evilly.
Waking up for Kakashi for some reason was painful this morning. It might have been the fact that his legs were lying at an odd angle or that he couldn't feel them but a few seconds later he found that was just because his circulation was cut off. No it wasn't even the fact that he was waking up on a stone patio right next to the Hokage that got him. Hell it wasn't even the fact that they were both lying down in a pool f their own blood, no he felt something well actually two things very precious to him missing. The first one was his little book that he always had right up against him t always know it's there because of its weight. No this was far worse, Kakashi could not feel his mask which could only mean one thing. "Naruto." He sighed groggily while getting up.
Said blond was currently rolling on his sides laughing his ass off at something which he still couldn't understand but then again who does understand him at all. Quickly looking around he found his mask lying beside him on the ground.
"So Naruto got to look at my face I guess I would have ended up showing him eventually though I wonder just what is so funny. Oh well I guess I should wake up the Hokage."
"Naruto if you ever so much as tell anyone as to what is under my mask I will personally make sure you end up helping at the Inuzuka dog kennels for the rest of your life." Kakashi stated seriously getting Naruto to stop and nod before breaking out in laughter again.
When he looked over at the old man he now understood why Naruto was laughing to no end. A few days ago Naruto went a bit overboard and painted the four faces on the Hokage monument, how he did this with out anyone knowing until they saw the sign saying Uzumaki Naruto was here no one knows. What happened to Sarutobi was he now was a complete replica of how his face was on that day. He couldn't help it Kakashi laughed as well.
Sarutobi happened to wake up shortly after to the sound of laughter which would usually make him happy however when it is the laughter of the resident prankster he started to worry. The old man looked up and found Naruto barely breathing while Kakashi was chuckling slightly and looked damn amused.
He sighed. "Kakashi I am only going to ask you this once and you better answer me honestly or I will make sure you are banned from ever reading those books in public again." The old man said dangerously, completely lacking his usual cheer. "What the hell are you both laughing about?"
Kakashi simply put on a relatively innocent look. "Nothing at all Hokage-sama I was just telling Naruto here about a couple of his fathers antics that's all." He lied smoothly (BLASPHMY).
He sighed once again as Naruto managed to calm down enough to start breathing properly again. "Well which one was it to get Naruto into this state?"
Kakashi snickered again. "The time he managed to steal all of Tsunade's liquor and ban her from the bars, blame it on you, then blame it on Jiraya for advising you to do so which in turn ended up with Jiraya getting the shit beaten out of him again by a very pissed off Tsunade, while that happened he took a picture, altered it with a gen-jutsu to look like Tsunade was a fire breathing monster against Jiraya with a sports bet going on underneath it then as a last piece he managed to create a poster in less then five minutes of that same picture and hang in for the monument. Safe to say Tsunade won and Jiraya was in the hospital. That one Hokage-sama I bet you remember that one quite well." He smiled.
Sarutobi chuckled. "Yes, yes I do remember that one. Honestly you would think a man as smart as Minato-kun would know not to go messing with Tsunade's drinking. Though you also have to wonder at times."
"Wonder about what Hokage-sama?"
"Is Jiraya a masochist or just an idiot?"
Kakashi shuddered at the thought. "So you think he enjoys what she does to him when she's mad?
"He's done so since they were genin so yes."
Once again they both inwardly shuddered at the idea of anyone enjoying the pain Tsunade inflicts.
Midway though the pairs talk Naruto had finally come back from the edge of suffocation. "Anyway can we go check out the basement now since I already dealt with the problem we were having?"
"Why not since I already expect to have one of the ANBU find the photographer unconscious and rammed into a gutter somewhere in the next few hours."
And so the trio made their way back through the house and towards the entryway of the house.
"Okay…..What are we dong back here?" Naruto asked sounding confused.
Kakashi did his little eye smile again. "Don't worry you'll see in a moment."
With that said they made their directly in front of the staircase where Kakashi kneeled down and started swiping his hands along the grooves of the wood on the first step. Eventually he stood back with a triumphant look on his face and bit his thumb drawing some blood and bent down once again. He simply held his thumb over a groove, same as every other that Naruto saw in there. That was until a drop of blood fell from his hand and reached the groove; the blood flowed along the ridges of the groove and formed a pattern, the Uzumaki swirl.
"There we go and now just add a little chakra and…" Kakashi finished by placing his hand palm down over the groove of the spiral and channeled some chakra. When he pulled his hand away a low rumblings sounded throughout the room. "And presto, we have entry." Suddenly the entire staircase seemed to invert upon it's self with each step lowering down to form the stairway once again going down towards the basement through a large tunnel.
"Well who's going to be the first to head down the dark tunnel?" Naruto asked.
What are you scared Naruto?" Kakashi asked innocently.
In response to this Naruto simply raised an eyebrow. "We have almost been burned alive, skewered, buried, frozen, shredded, stabbed to death, decapitated, and not to mention all the times we almost were sliced in half due to all of those pressure release traps. So yes I am a bit scared as to what my paranoid father has put to guard his most valuable secrets." He said sarcastically.
Sarutobi once again sighed (He's really doing that a lot these days isn't he.) "I'll go at least then I don t have to deal with any more paperwork if I do get killed." With that said the elder Hokage began to descend the stone steps into its dark depths with Naruto and Kakashi following.
Quickly getting tired of the darkness Kakashi placed his palm on the wall while channeling a small amount of chakra. As soon as he did the entire wall seemed to glow with an ethereal light as the seal array activated. To most though the wall seemed to be alive as it shifted in the light. Eventually the glow died away again and was replaced with pictures of glowing red and white dragons flying across a sky, each giving off light to illuminate the tunnel.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at this. "Pretty, I'm guessing it's another seal array that's powering this." This caused Kakashi to chuckle lightly.
"Naruto the entire picture is the array, every small picture along it is a miniscule part of the array, and every line is made up of different seals." He replied warmly which caused Naruto to gasp at the implications of it then schooled himself into a grin.
"Please tell me there are notes on this in his records on sealing."
"I wouldn't be surprised if there was though we may need to look around a bit for it he was kind of in a rush before the attack." Sarutobi pointed out.
Several minutes later
"Oh for fucks sake just how deep are we actually heading?" Naruto called out exasperated which got a chuckle out of Kakashi.
"Only about a kilometer underground and directly under the backyard, so not that far really." Kakashi replied casually which almost caused Naruto to face vault.
"And just why did my dad build the basement this far down?"
"One of the reasons you already touched on earlier, he was incredibly paranoid when it came to people stealing his jutsu which was a common occurrence with the Uchiha clan still around. The second was that this area was his real training ground so he didn't want any damage to the house when making any jutsu. Lastly he created this place as a safe haven of sorts from any attack that may come from his enemies. Oh and I probably should have mentioned this earlier but the path is sealing itself off as we proceed further down so you can stop looking back every time you here a noise behind us." Kakashi replied.
Naruto sighed. "Damn and here I was hoping that the noise would eventually stop its killer on my ears, stupid echo."
Suddenly he stopped and clutched his head and grimaced. Flashes, images, memories, the all passed by his eyes in the time it would take you to blink. It seemed two of his Kage Bunshins had finished their jobs and been dispelled. Too say the process of recovering their memories was odd would have been an understatement like saying Sasuke was a little stuck up. He saw everything they saw on the way to the photographer twice, he had to say that seeing the same thing at the same time from two different perspectives was weird.
Then he noticed Kakashi was shaking his shoulder looking slightly concerned. "Hey what's wrong?"
Naruto just brushed him off and began walking again. "Nothing really just a headache that caught me off guard, anyway lets keep going I don't want to waste all day walking down a flight of stairs."
Kakashi sighed. "Alright let's keep going then."
Several minutes and one headache later the trio arrived at the base of the stairway. Before them stood the most ordinary door Naruto had seen so far and had face vaulted at the sight of it. After the nearly endless staircase with several blockades protecting it all that's here is a simple bloody door.
He couldn't help it, he was simply too annoyed to care at all at this point, Naruto kicked the door open with enough force to blow it off its hinges and send it skidding into the room.
"And you did that WHY?" Sarutobi asked sounding exasperated.
"Because it made me feel better." Naruto replied in a matter of fact tone of voice that made the other two sigh in defeat while he walked into the room.
He cursed when he wasn't able to see anything beyond the very edges of the doorway; the entire room was pitch black to him even with his increased sight. "So is there some trick to this room as well?" He asked.
In response Kakashi simply created a small flame in the palm of his hand and reached up above the doorway. It was then that Naruto noticed the indent in the wall where Kakashi placed the flame, the results were instantaneous. The flame quickly split into two different paths following the wall, at eight points it traveled towards the center of the room where the paths met, illuminating the entire room.
Naruto was definitely impressed with his father's handiwork once again. The entire room was made out of solid stone without a single seam in the rock too show. The room was a giant dome easily a hundred meters in diameter and at the center the dome stood about fifty feet. All the way around the room were bookcases filled to the brim with scrolls and books about kami only knows what, the cases were even big enough that to reach some of them required the use of a ladder which thankfully their were many of in the room. In the center of the room was a large desk with multiple scrolls strewn across it with one completely open and larger then the rest.
Naruto gave Kakashi a quizzical look after watching the trails of fire. "Let me guess, seals again correct?"
"Hit the nail on the head, ya the entire underground is almost completely off the grid, only a few people in the entire Hi no Kuni know of it. In other words he created his own self sustaining system under here; nothing besides that staircase connects to above ground."
"Interesting, my god if Shikamaru wasn't such a lazy bastard he would have a field day here, same with Shino."
"I would advise you grab all the scrolls and books you want because the seal defenses will reactivate after we vacate the premises." Sarutobi pointed out which made Naruto give him a skeptical look.
"And just how the hell am I supposed to find anything in this place?"
"Simple the entire library is divided into sections such as science, geography, mathematics, shinobi arts, and more. Everything is then classified into sub categories under that section so for science if I remember correctly it splits off into physics, chemistry and biology/anatomy." Kakashi replied in a mater of fact tone.
Naruto sighed while making the cross hand sign. "Screw it this is far easier. Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Suddenly there stood twenty Naruto's and with a nod they were off and each began taking books and scrolls off the cases and depositing them in a pile on the desk in the center f the room.
"When the hell did he get the chance to learn the Kage Bunshin no jutsu? He was on the run the entire time and from what he told me he only read it, besides no one could have learned it in the fifteen minutes the barrier was up." Sarutobi exclaimed to Kakashi.
"Do you think it could have something to do with the Kyuubi?"
"No apparently the Kyuubi is pretty much resigned to his cage and Naruto views him in a way as a brother so I doubt the Kyuubi is influencing him. Well anymore then he already is to give the boy a set of tails."
"FOUND IT!" one of the Naruto's called out and began carrying or at least tried to carry one of the largest books in the library.
"About god damn time." Another one called out.
"Oi boss I think I found something we should definitely take." Another clone called out while throwing a scroll to another Naruto that they could only assume was the original.
Looking at the scroll he noticed it was sealed with the kanji for wind. "So it's a Fuuton jutsu, good cause I really do need to find some more of those. I mean I can't go buy with just the Taka no Mai and the Fuuton: Daitoppa, now let's see what we got." He thought while unrolling the scroll. "Fuuton: Rasenkazeno Jutsu seems pretty basic to me though I could probably give it a whirl." He then groaned inwardly at the pun he just made. "Ok let's see now……that's it for a description? The ability to rotate the winds, what a jip, though still handy. Ah screw it I might as well keep it."
"Keep it kit, trust me I have a good feeling about it."
"Didn't I just say I was going to keep it?" Naruto replied sounding annoyed.
"Your point, you're an idiot and I'm just reminding you."
"Baka-teme."
"Ouch I'm hurt that you would say such things about me." Kyuubi replied mockingly while having his connection severed.
Grumbling under his breath Naruto gave the mental command to his clones to get the last of the stuff. When they all finished he had the clones make a circle around the table while each pulled out a single scroll and flicked it into the air allowing it to unroll and lay on the ground.
"Alright guys you know the plan?"
"Hai!"
"Alright then, me who found the ink containers can you pass them around." The one giving the orders shouted while another one started tossing around ink brushes and brushes. "Now get to work we need places for all of them on the scrolls, and write neatly damn it." And with that said they each began slowly grabbing books from the pile, writing the correct symbols on their scrolls, and finally sealing each book into the scroll.
"Well boys it's time to see if the plan actually worked, you know what to do."
And with that each of the clones nodded in acknowledgement before dispersing them selves while the real Naruto braced himself. This time it wasn't because of the memory overload and reapplication, no it was because he knew that if his idea didn't work then he would probably end up buried under a pile of very heavy books and scrolls. A few more seconds past and since he was still standing he felt the need to check the scroll. When he reached for it and opened it up he nearly fell over in relief, the scroll was completely filed with the seals, and since all the clones used incredibly small seals they were able to get all of them on the single scroll.
When he looked up to where Sarutobi and Kakashi were only moments ago he found nothing but an empty space. "Now where the hell did those two run off too? Meh they probably went upstairs, I mean the old man still has to deal with a ton of paperwork even if he has the clones and god only knows what Kakashi does on his time though considering his choice in reading material I can probably venture a guess. Then again I do hear running water from pipes so I guess the old man finally noticed what I did and is getting it off, pity I didn't take a picture, oh well I might as well start heading up." And with that thought he was off to trudge up the annoyingly long staircase.
At the hokage tower.
Currently all the jounin and special jounin are at the tower conversing openly among themselves as they wait for the hokage to arrive. They were gathered today for one reason, to learn who is getting the chance to become a team leader for the next generation of genin squads. Those present were getting anxious due to the lack of the hokage who is not known to ever leave this room without a major reason; Kakashi being late was another story entirely but everyone's use to it by now. Most had their own opinions on who was going to be placed where and some even had those they wanted over others.
"So who do you think is getting the Uchiha?" one said.
"Kakashi obviously because of the sharingan but who else will be on his team is anyone's guess." Another replied
"Well I don't care as long as I don't get the demon." The first one responded
"Ya I know what you mean."
"I don't know, apparently the Uzumaki has some of the best scores in the class, even knows sealing and has some weird ken-jutsu and tai-jutsu styles." Another offered.
"Ken-jutsu eh Hayate will probably end up with him then."
"Poor guy."
"Alright everyone settle down!" a voice rang out across the room signaling the entrance of the hokage and surprisingly Kakashi who took his place near Asuma and Kurenai.
"Alright as you know it is that time of year again when the genin exams have finished and we have to assign the new genin to their jounin instructors. Now we have just over thirty acceptable genin but as you know only nine will make the cut, remember it is up to you to be fair in the grading of the next generation, now if I call your name now you are to come forward so I can give you your genin squad names and any information you might need. Any questions?"
"Yes hokage-sama what if you happen not to agree with your squad?" one jounin asked.
Sarutobi could only sigh at this jounin because he happened to know exactly which side he was on with the case of Naruto. "If you are referring to whom of you get Naruto I certainly hope you will treat him as a normal human being which he is, if not then be assured you will not be a jounin much longer. Also don't question his loyalties when most of you also break my law surrounding him when you think my back and Naruto's is turned especially when he managed to stop a group of enemy shinobi from making off with the forbidden scroll of sealing and in he process rescue a Konoha shinobi. Do I make myself clear Kyojin?" Sarutobi replied darkly.
"Hai hokage-sama." He replied reluctantly.
"Good, now will Asuma, Kurenai, Hayate, Raiden, Genma, Kakashi, Mizuru, Tensei, Daichi, and Anko step forward." Sarutobi said back in his cheery voice. (Skipping all but the three teams that matter). "Now team seven will be Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Inuzuka Kiba, they're yours Kakashi."
"Wait a moment hokage-sama." Kakashi said.
"What is it Kakashi?"
"Sir I would like to request Nami… I mean Uzumaki Naruto to be on my team instead of Inuzuka Kiba or Haruno Sakura."
"Answer me why I should change it for you and Kakashi why didn't you mention Uchiha Sasuke in the members you wouldn't mind trading."
"Simple hokage-sama I didn't bother asking about Sasuke because I know that either way I'll be denied having him removed from my team and as to why I want Naruto on my team, well he has a lot of potential, enough to manage to get my mask off and well I have some debts I owe him now that I would like to repay." He said honestly.
Sarutobi sighted. "I'm sorry Kakashi but I can't give you him though ill be sure to relay your interests to him when I can."
"Thank you hokage-sama." He said with a slight bow."
"Ok now team eight will be Akamichi Chouji, Aburame Shino, and Yamanaka Ino with you Hayate."
"So we're breaking up the Ino-Shika-Cho formation are we?" Hayate asked.
"Yes I believe it's time for a change, besides the last trio worked so well together because of their teamwork and friendship that carried beyond the academy the current generation of the formation don't work quite well together."
"Alright do you mind if I get the information on them?"
"Not at all, Iruka is the one distributing it you can just ask the names and he will supply you with the current information."
"Now on to team ten because team nine is still in service. Hyuuga Hinata, Nara Shikamaru, and lastly Uzumaki Naruto under Asuma. Any problems?"
"Na just one thing though, um what's his address because well no one knows where he lives and well you know my style when it comes to getting teams there on time." He said sheepishly.
"Don't worry just ask Iruka, he's been there a couple of times, nice place really best view in all of Konoha." Sarutobi replied to his son with a slight grin.
"Alright everyone you now have your squads and it's all up too you on how to proceed, I'm leaving it to your judgment. Dismissed!"
After making his way from the Namikaze residence Naruto began to make his way home while the rest of his clones were experimenting. Where we find Naruto right now is on top of the hokage monument staring down one of his clones. He decided he needed to test the limits of the Kage Bunshin and what better way to do that then fight one of his own. This wasn't going to be a fight to kill it was simply a fight to see just how well the Kage Bunshins reactions, power, and speed measured up to the original.
For the first round it would be strictly tai-jutsu. With a silent nod they were off with them both taking up different stances, the clone using the Rei Ookami form while Naruto was using the Ryugakura Tsume.
The clone began using the increased speed from running on all fours that the style gives to his advantage running circles around Naruto. "Definitely has my speed." He thought grimlyThe clone at odd intervals was throwing shuriken and kunai at the original who easily dodged them all. Seeing that this wasn't working the clone cut off his circle directly behind Naruto and sped right at him. Thankfully his heightened senses picked up the approaching target once again and dropped his body just in time as the clawed hand streaked just over his head. Not giving the clone the needed time to get out of range again he pounced striking out with a kick to the ribs which was blocked but still jarred the clone a moment long enough for him to spin out of his grip and start throwing a barrage of chakra claw strikes aimed for the heart, solar plexus, and eventually the head. Realizing he was at a disadvantage the clone started using the Oni Tate style which managed to break one of Naruto's arms upon impact.
Cursing in frustration Naruto retreated far enough back to allow the Kyuubi to heal his arm. When he was ready they both decided it was time to go all out as they dropped into the Arashi Kitsune stance. As soon as the chakra hit his feet he was off even faster then before, moving at speeds the normal human eye cant track. They went at each other with intense ferocity circling each other neither retreating as they each ducked, dodged, blocked, and struck at each other in every way they could.
At seeing an opening the clone tried to stab him through the chest just as he had the traitor. Naruto just sidestepped it in time towards the outside and tried a spinning back fist towards the clone's head which was blocked and grabbed. The clone pulled back to bring him off balance and knee him in passing but Naruto pulled back slightly and dropped to the ground, managing to sweep out the clones legs. The clone managed to swing its arm out in time to right itself and push away from Naruto who disappeared in the moments it looked away.
" Soudai Hokori Enma!" Naruto called from in the air. He was spinning wildly using the chakra he was expelling from his feet to create a whirling dervish of chakra blades coming directly down on the clone.
"Shit!" the clone cried out while doing a combat roll to his left just dodging the whirlwind of death that just crashed down right where he used to be. As soon as he righted himself the clone unsheathed Kyuubi and sent a horizontal blade of wind into the dust cloud created from the impact. The wind blade was countered by one of Naruto's own which dispersed the cloud revealing a grinning Naruto.
"Ken-jutsu it is then. Let's go wild."
And with that said they both set off again heading straight at each other and meeting in the center. Their blades locked together with neither giving ground they both pushed towards each others sides to go behind each other, flicking their blades as they pass to send another wind strike at each other which was countered as they met in the center.
The clone was the first to recover send a vertical blade at Naruto which he side stepped and attacked with his own diagonal slash. The clone managed to jump over the diagonal and spin sending another blade at Naruto which he ducked under only to lose sight of the clone.
"Fuuton: Nenten Ranmyaku!" The clone called from up above him sending a cyclone of wind directly at him. In quick response Naruto sent his own to counter it causing thousands of miniature blades of wind to scatter everywhere. Before the winds even fully broke his clone came diving through the cloud of chakra and swung his blade down vertically at Naruto's head which he just managed to block in time. Growling in frustration Naruto managed to force the clone back off his guard and away a few feet before it righted itself.
"Two can play that game." Naruto said while switching to a dual handed grip on his handle while creating an incredibly large amount of wind blades around his blade. His clone was spinning the blade around his hand behind his back effectively creating a cutting windmill behind him (think ichigo using bankai during the ichigo vs. hichigo fight). Naruto was the first one to move making four slashes, releasing all the pent up energy in the form of four smaller Nenten Ranmyaku's. the clone not wanting to be out done continued spinning this blade except now directly above his head sending a large blade of wind with each revolution which managed to dispel two of the whirlwinds the clone at the last second before he was about to be overrun by the whirlwinds jumped back to safety, that is until he heard a noise right behind him.
"Nenten Ranmyaku." He said darkly in finality creating a second whirlwind which pushed his clone into one of his earlier ones, shredding him into nothing.
As soon as the clone had fully dispersed its memories came flooding into his mind letting him play over the entire fight from his clone's perspective. He noticed a few things he could have done differently that would have ended the fight sooner. Though he had to frown at the last thought that crossed the clones mind. "Damn…so I lost huh." He frowned because that would have been the exact same thing he would have said in that situation, had his clone actually been trying to kill me?
"Phew, what a workout." Naruto said out loud while wiping the beads of sweat off his forehead and sheathing his blade.
"Might as well go check up on the other clones." He said while walking over to the front of the thirds face on the mountain and heading inside his home.
When he got inside he saw something he definitely wasn't expecting. His clone who was supposed to be only reading the scroll for the information on the squads had actually summoned one of them. These foxes were possibly the oddest of them so far, he barely got a chance to look at them because one second they were there in front of him and the next he was completely surrounded by them. They almost looked transparent like they weren't there but he could here their breath and also their heartbeats which proved they were there.
"Their called the Seken Shouyou." His clone called out. "Calm down guys he's the original and I'm the clone, no need to go all terminal on him."
At hearing that the ten foxes disappeared and reappeared in a row in front of him while dipping their heads slightly in a bow before he could even blink. Now that they stopped moving he was at last able to take a look at them. They had a light grey coat of fur, quite a few shades darker then Yuki's snow white fur. The group consisted of nine three tailed ones and a four tailed one who was obviously the leader. They had the smallest amount of armor that he had seen yet with only a helmet that guarded their faces and a pair of gauntlets on their front paws with claws on each digit that extend out about seven inches. The claw armor was a red color but he could smell dried blood all over them which made him wonder if the red was a dye or something else entirely.
"I express my deepest apologies Naruto-sama on account of myself and my soldier's actions." The four tailed said while still keeping his head bowed.
Naruto sighed. "Apology accepted on one condition…drop the formalities just speak to me as you would an equal, I don't need people who are going to cower or run every time they think they annoy me. Now why don't you first tell me your name." Naruto said with authority at first then finished in a softer tone.
With that said then fox's heads rose slowly to meet Naruto's gaze. "As you wish Naruto-sa…..Naruto. My name is Sentai Reikiba, captain of this squadron of the Seken Shouyou for the Kitsune army." The grey fox said reluctantly without the Sama.
"Good now was that so hard? So did my clone ever get around to telling you why he summoned you here because I'm kind of clueless right now?" Naruto asked.
"No I had only been here a few moments before you walked in so I'm just as curious as you are Naruto." Sentai said doing the fox impression of raising an eyebrow.
Thankfully his clone chose now to interject. "I called you here because I know of your squads abilities unlink the original who hasn't read the scroll yet. Your strengths are in close combat and high speeds due to your unique style of movement. Going from a conclusion I made about your version of the high speed travel you need to have a picture of where you want to go to for any long distance travel, correct?"
"Yes, it is one of the techniques only flaws." Sentai offered.
"Well I figured I would summon you here and allow you all to head off anywhere you want to get a lay of the land which will allow for long distance travel in our world. It's more a less what you had Kokuyouseki do when we first dragged him here boss, I figured that no matter how far they got they would always recognize this place and have it a return point of sorts. Do you see any problems with that?"
"I don't see any problems with it but I don't really know anything about them so I figure Sentai should decide." Naruto said.
"It should work we might have to do a bit of back tracking to earlier locations because of the distance limits I've heard of on the technique. Only thing I want before I commit myself or my men to this is a map."
"Fine by me you know where the maps are I have a few more things to say before they head out." Naruto said.
The clone walked off into one of the side rooms of the cave/house while grumbling to its self.
"Ok now, I have two things I should tell you all about. One, you cannot be seen by any humans unless I'm with you and call you out. This is simply because I'm already not liked here and the village doesn't need to know about you guys yet." He waited until they all nodded before continuing. "Second thing is that I want you to keep an ear out for anything remotely interesting. Especially news of the other containers of the nine, location, gender, personality, looks, it doesn't really matter just listen to it and gather any info possible. Oh and if you here any rumors pertaining to any unsealed bijou or demons in general try and track them down and extend a greeting to them on behalf of the container from the Kyuubi no Kitsune. I have plans that I want to accomplish out side of this village one way or another and to do that I'm going to need the others. Any questions?" he asked which came with a response to a small scroll being thrown at him which he caught from his clone. "Now what was that for?" he asked sweetly before dispelling him and assimilating his memories.
"And you see this is why our kind don't agree with clones, our personalities would have the clones at the originals neck at every possible chance." Sentai said with a snicker while Naruto unrolled the map of the elemental countries.
"Now from what I know from talking with the Kyuubi the Ichibi's and Nibi's containers should be in Suna and Kumo respectively. Now Suna is in Kaze no Kuni to our west somewhere in the rolling desserts, I don't really believe you will be able to locate it in your time constraints but who ever decides to head that way give it your all. Now Kumo on the other hand is hidden in Rai no Kuni and is supposedly on the top of one of its tallest peeks, if this is true or a rumor I have no clue that is up to you to decide. Everyone else pick a country and get ready, if you don't return in one week I'll summon you back just in case."
"Hai!" and with that the entire squad was situated around his window in less time then it would take to blink, then they were gone seemingly warping from rooftop to rooftop across the city.
"So that's the Setsuju Shintai my clone read about, that's impressive, I wonder if I could learn it." Naruto thought.
"Not ever to that extent, the Seken Shouyou are born and only taught to use that type of movement in other words they don't know how to walk without that, but yes to a lesser extent you probably could." Kyuubi offered.
"Hey fur ball its relatively timely for you to wake up now."
"Why?"
"Because I'm taking a leaf out of your book and hitting the hay, I'm beat." He groaned.
"Might as well kit…….you definitely earned if for all the shit that's happened today, which reminds me, you still haven't opened the envelope."
Naruto was already getting undressed and had created a couple of Kage Bunshin to get every thing he was going to do today, done. "Deal with it when I wake up, if I read the letters now I'll not be able to go to sleep and end up very irritable."
"Point made your already annoying enough when you're awake, I don't need you grumpy."
"Ouch I'm hurt that you would even say something like that to me, do you really have that little faith in me?" Naruto asked with mock hurt.
"Insignificant brat when you get to sleep I'm going to be burning ramen shops all night."
With a sigh Naruto just as easily as he would pick a kitten up and put it out side tossed the Kyuubi into that very special room he created for him all those years ago to shut him up, unfortunately it doesn't block out his screams. With those content thoughts in mind as he lay down in his bed he fell into a calm and peaceful slumber.
Authors note
OK people I'm back, I realize it has been awhile since I last posted I'm sorry about that I just have been having quite a few problems lately………damn Microsoft. Anyway I'm back and that's all that matters, hope I haven't lost my touch with my writings though I still believe I'm going to rewrite the Namikaze manor at some point because I honestly don't think I thought that out really well though thanks to thundereaper and his story dichotomy for helping me figure it out somewhat. Anyway before you even ask I am intending to have a couple of instances with unruly clones i.e. arguments, fights, and the odd one that intends to murder Naruto in his sleep. Now next thing I should tell you is that I intend to add a few of my own arcs to this before wave one of the major ones happens to be a Suna arc that introduces Gaara before the chunin exams, please don't think I'm crazy because of it. Also intend for a Kumo arc at some point though not sure how I'm going to get that in, probably after chunin. Anyway next chapter will be the next day as well as genin team assignments and test, don't worry I'll introduce Konohamaru somehow all you fans of him so don't worry. Results of polls are going to be a Haku and Zabuza return, Itachi Kisame not good but not bad, they have their reasons and let's leave it at that
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Oh and before I forget there was a little hint about Haku somewhere in this chapter if you pay attention well enough. Also submit any ideas you have people
Fuuton: Nenten Ranmyaku (wind release: twisting chaos) Naruto must channel more chakra into his sword, forcing it to spin even faster with enough density to cause a small tornado. He then swings his sword downwards releasing the tornado into a strait path destroying anything in its wake. The size of the tornado is dependent upon chakra applied.
Seishin Soutei Tanrei (mind binding grace) a seal Naruto created meant to link the minds of the receivers with chakra. Once the seal is applied the group can send telepathic messages to each other by sending chakra to the seal. When two users put chakra into the link aimed at each other they can carry out conversations without speaking a word.
Setsuju Shintai (interceptor movement): for bleach fans this only needs to be summed up in one word, Shunpo if you don't know what that is deal with it because I don't understand the mechanics of it besides it is a near instantaneous travel.
Seken Shouyou (world walkers): A summon squad that is best suited for high speed combat and recon operations. They where the lightest armor of all the squads for their tail ranking to increase their speed. Raised from birth to move only by the use of Setsuju Shintai though the side effects of this is they cannot move their legs to walk or run. The squad introduced is led by Sentai Reikiba or fleet ghost-fang.
Kage Bunshin no jutsu (Shadow clone jutsu): …..Does this even need an explanation?
Fuuton: Rasenkaze no jutsu (wind release: spiraling wind technique): a wind jutsu that creates high speed rotating winds that the user controls by the direction of chakra. Depending on the amount of chakra used the winds can be used as a shield or can possibly be used in conjunction with weapons. Main groundwork for most wind jutsu as it teaches the user how to properly move the wind.
Soudai Hokori Enma (Grand dust devil) a tai-jutsu attack used by Naruto in his Arashi kitsune style. The technique utilizes the chakra being emitted from the bottom of his feet in an alternating pattern to create a rotation. As each rotation occurs he increases in speed until he becomes a miniature dust devil of chakra blades that can carve through a human body in a matter of seconds.
Ryugakura Tsume (dragons hidden claws) a tai-jutsu style that serves as solely an offensive. It uses heavy blows along the center line to damage the many vital points in the body. The user may also focus chakra into their nails creating piercing claws. The results of fighting this style is very bad for only someone faster then the user rarely has a chance against it. And even then, a single hit has the chance to cripple the opponent. The style had been derived from one of the many legends of the great dragon's strength and speed using its talons and fangs to defeat its enemies.
Oni Tate (demon shield) The Oni Tate style is pure defense. The user only strikes as a counter attack using the least amount of energy while also reinforcing their body to incredible levels the moment before they get hit. The reason for this style was during the great shinobi war every country had been afraid of the legendary strength of Tsunade the slug queen of the Sannin. Her strength had been known to demolish castles and mountainsides with a single punch. Eventually, the Village of Stone had eventually managed to develop the Oni Tate, the only style that allowed a man to take the full power of Tsunade's strength for 1 hour in a pure tai-jutsu battle. Most believed the style wiped out.
Rei Ookami (ghost wolf) a variation of the Inazuka's fighting style when they are in their Shikyaku form, The difference between this style and the Shikyaku form is that instead of the user simply barreling through all opposition it is used for hit and run tactics. The user runs silently on his hands and feet only moving in when an opening presents itself in the enemy's defense. When the opening is seen the user puts the full speed of the form into effect then attacking the enemy at specific points on the body to cripple them to allow the user to move in for the kill, much like how an actual wolf stalks and kills its prey