Hey guys! It's me again! This is another sort of filler chapter I'm sorry, I'm trying to get things moving so they're Genin and things will actually go somewhere exciting. I've realized I've made them seemed really overpowered at a really young age, but the stronger they are, the harder they fall. I'll explain more at the bottom of the chapter but for now just enjoy the chapter :D
The two boys spent a couple days in the children's secton of the hospital recuperating after that fight. Neji came and visited them whenever he had free time, the first time he had visited, he had given both a whack over their heads for being stupid, but they both knew it was because he had been left out of the action. After that, he forced the two to give him a full blow by blow account on the fight, sometimes criticsizing their taijutsu. Undoubtedly, he was way better than either of them at taijutsu, using his Byakugan and Jyuuken or not. And after that, they just sat around playing go or cards, talking about ninjutsu and how to improve jutsu's that they had learne
It was on their second day in the hospital when Neji was at the Academy did Obito, Itachi and Shisui showed up to visit them. The three Uchiha's had been on a mission during the battle and when they had caught wind of the battle that took place, they finished up their mission right away and hurried back home to check on the two. Probably why they were still in their shinobi gear and looked a little tired and worse for wear. They also demanded a full account of the battle, but they didn't criticsize them like Neji had done, instead they played cards with the two while they told their story, and in the end simply gave each a pat on the back or ruffled their hair and told them good job, but don't do something that stupid next time. Shisui and Obito left first, having to give a report on their mission to Kenji, so after they had left, Itachi pulled out a heavily wrapped object from off his back. Tsubasa had been wondering what it was, it was long and covered in bandages and was more than surprised when Itachi handed it to him.
Tsubasa looked up at the Uchiha with questioning eyes, Itachi smiled and nodded, giving him permission to unwrap the object. The bandges came off smoothly, revealing a gleaming sword. Tsubasa reconized it instantly as the sword Danzo had dropped as he fled from the battle. The blade had been repaired to beyond its former glory and a new black sheath had been made for it. The hilt replaced with a sturdy, black, gleaming metal. It felt right in his hands. Although he had no idea how to wield the blade, he gave it a few experimental swings. and that's when he noticed the blade's name engraved on the side of the blade, near the hilt.
"Yanagi...willow..." the blade sort of did remind him of a willow, it was lightweight and quite flexible for something made of metal, seals were etched onto the blade and hilt to make it sharper, stronger and virtually unbreakable. He found that it also absorbed chakra, when he touched it with a chakra charged finger and found the chakra was sucked into the blade.
"They had seal masters examine the blade for any booby traps or anything, then sent it to the blacksmith division to get it repaired. Then the seals were engraved and one of the hunter-nin gave it to me and told me to give it to you, seeing as how you defeated Danzo." Itachi shrugged, before reaching around to grab the large scroll on his back and turning to Naruto. "This one is for you, the IT division found it on Hanzo, and since you defeated his giant Salamander summon, the council deemed it as your spoil of victory."
Naruto took the scroll eagerly and unrolled it, only to find empty boxes all the way down the scroll, except for the top one, if he was right, the red signature in blood said Hanzo. Confused, Naruto looked up at Itachi and offered the scroll, looking for an explanation.
Itachi sighed, at the boy's stupidness, "It's a Summoning Contract, sign your name in blood under Hanzo's name and you'll be able to summon Salamanders to aid you in battle."
"Oh," Naruto replied, a little surprised it was so simple. He broke the skin on his right thumb with his sharp canine and worte his name on the scroll. It was a little shaky and messy unlike the writing above his, but it would do just fine.
"Now the handseals," Itachi slowly went through a set of handseals, making sure Naruto got them all correctly and down by heart before moving on to the next step. "Now wipe some blood on your left palm and slam it on the ground. That's the Kuchiyose no Jutsu." But what he didn't expect was for Naruto to be stupid enough to run the set of handseals, and before anyone could stop him had already completed the jutsu, slamming his hand on the bed in front of him. "Wait! What are you doing Naruto? This is a hospital!" But it was too late, there was a poof of smoke that filled the room and made everyone in the room cough.
In order to clear the room out more efficiently, Itach opened the window and used a small Fuuton: Daitoppa to push the smoke out the window. When they were finally able to see, Naruto had a small red salamander sitting on his bed thankfully. It was about an arm's legnth, from shoulder to the tip of your middle finger. Storming over to Naruto, Itach whacked him over the head with the summoning contract. "You idiot! You could've killed us all with your stupidity! What if you summoned a giant salamander? You would've crushed us all!"
Naruto grinned up at the Uchiha cheekily, "But I didn't did I? I summoned a tiny one!" Naruto pointed at the red salamander on his bed.
The salamander growled in protest, "Who're you calling tiny shrimp?! I"m almost bigger than you!" The salamander bit Naruto's finger that he used to point at him with.
"Ow! What the heck was that for?" Naruto cradled his injured finger while glaring at the summon hatedly.
"You deserved it," Itachi sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Now are you the one who summoned me?" the salamander had turned around and asked Tsubasa this who was sitting on his bed look at the whole scene quite amusedly.
"Sorry, nope it's the goofball behind you who summoned you," Tsubasa pointed at Naruto with Yanagi.
"Damn, you looked smarter than this one here..." the salamander turned around to face the whiskered blonde again. "My name is Habu, and sadly, I'm your personal summon..."
"But you're so tiny!" Naruto exclamed, measuring him with his fingers.
Habu growled again and suddenly grew larger, until he was roughly six or seven feet from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, "I can grow and shrink at will, do not irritate me, or I will eat you, bones and all..."
The threat hung in the air and Naruto gulped before nodding. Habu smiled evilly, seeing as now Naruto would stop annoying him, and shrunk back down to his original size. "Now that we understand each other, I'll take the contract and hand it to the Salamander Clan'ss personal contract bearing salamander." He took up the contract in his jaws and with a flick of his tail, he was gone.
There was a pause as the salamander vanished, finally it was Itachi who broke the silence, "You still deserved it..."
"QUIET!" Kenji roared as he tried to bring the coucil room into order, when the chatter finally died down, did he continue to speak.
"I have called this meeting to decide what we shall do with Amegakure, which is now under our control seeing as Hanzo, their leader has been defeated by one of our own," Kenji couldn't use the word shinobi because well, Tobi and Naruto weren't shiobi yet, merely academy students.
After much debating, two months of meetings about what should they do with Amegakure, now that they had killed Hanzo, basically meaning they had taken over the village. The coucil decided to insert a new Amekage into Ame and form an alliance with Ame. Trade, missions and travel would run freely between the two villages. With much more discussing, Nagato had been assigned to become the Amekage due to him being found there and the old and wise Jinchuuriki, Roushi was sent over with him to become his personal advisor. Many farmers, merchants and other people of different trade went over with Nagato and a large group of Sorauzugakure nin as well, in order to try to establish some form of economy in the war stricken village. Once there, huge amounts of money were spent to rebuild the run down village.
New walls were built from stone, houses, the hospital, the Academy were either repaired or rebuilt. Nagato did much of the work himself, a wise move that built trust and loyalty with the people there. It too a year and a half for them to get the whole village up and running again and suddenly, Amegakure was a must stop village for all merchants, Sorauzugakure goods were always of higher quality than those out on the market. And with Ame as their newest market, they didn't have the need to travel around for a bit trying to sell things when the customers came to them. Now with the pros, there were always cons. Meaning, there were attacks on the village and merchants going in and out of the village. Ame was now known for trade and wealth, not their ninja force, oh how wrong they would be.
In retaliation to such things, Nagato formed the Akatsuki, an elite group of shinobi, the elite of the elite. Only the best of the hunter-nin and truely exceptional Jounin were allowed to be promoted to the Akatsuki. Their uniform was simple, their standard attire with a red cloud sewn to their vest, over their heart or on their mask, if you were a hunter-nin. Yahiko was put in charge of the group and Konan, second in charge. But currently the two were scouring the elemental nations, looking for really powerful nuke-nin and offering them the chance to restart if they took a blood oath and swore loyalty to the village. The blood oath of course would kill you if you tried to betray the village so they weren't too paticularly worried. This left another imported ninja from Sorauzugakure, Itachi in charge while they were gone.
Itachi, Shisui and Obito had long ago switched eyes with each other, gaining the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. It had all been arranged by Madara of course, Obito already had his so all it took was for Itachi and Shisui to stab each other, once reassured everything would be perfectly fine by Madara and to preform the swapping eyes operation. Itachi now had Obito's eyes, Shisui had Itachi's, and Obito had Shisui's. It was rumoured at this point that Obito would become the next Uzukage, Kenji was looking forwards to retirement and sleeping in and Obito had come up on the list of possible candidates. Of course this was rumoured. Shisui remained as a Jounin still, although often he worked in the IT division, making unwilling people talk with his Sharingan. He was waiting for Naruto, Neji and Tsubasa to graduate so he could become their Jounin-sensei.
The three of them, Naruto, Tobi and Neji were all split up. Kushina had decided to give them elemental training, but not normal elemental training, the old fashion way of elemental training, like the way she had trained. Each of them were sent off to certain places in correspondance to their elemental affinity. Kushina's last words to them were, "Don't fail or you'll die.". Neji, who had Earth type affinity was sent to those tunnels that they had discovered earlier by the other two, Tobi spent his time in an underground cavern where magma pooled all around him, Naruto was sent to the top of one of the many mountains surrounding Sorauzugakure. Each of them were given a sleeping bag and a pulley system was rigged to their location, so everyday, someone, most likely Kushina or Hizashi would place enough food and water for the day, a pen and paper and a change of clothes in a basket hooked up to the pulley and sent it up or down, depending on whom the items were going to. If something else was needed, it was written down on the paper and sent back up or down and the item would be placed in the basket the next day.
The three never left their designated areas, ever, nobody knew what they did there and nobody bothered to check, it was a harsh road to find them anyways. Neji sat amongst the rocks, meditating, his hair had grew alot longer and several times, he had to cut it himself with a kunai. Eventually he simply formed a band made of rocks and tied his hair with that instead, to his surprise, it worked!. He didn't know when this first happened, but he could feel the rocks breathing around him, he didn't need his Byakugan to check around the corners for any giant moles, worms or other creatures that lived in the tunnels anymore. He could feel their heartbeat, their footsteps through the earth underneath him. He had long ditched his ninja sandals, prefering to walk barefooted among the rocks, it hurt in the begining, back not anymore, the rocks felt like clouds under his feet, here he was most at home. There was a slight vibration in the ground as the pulley slid the basket down to him, Neji frowned, it wasn't time for his supplies to be delivered yet, so what was this? He walked to the basket and picked up the note inside, there were two simple words scribbled on the paper, "GO HOME,"
Naruto stood on the top of the snow capped mountain, the cold wind blowing through his hair, carrying whispers of conversation to him. Merchants saying the prices in Amegakure going up, farmers wondering if the rain would ever come and water the crops. Naruto smiled, sent out a wave of his chakra. The wind had also brought to him the smell of water, wet concrete and essentially rain. There was a large system of grey clouds carrying rain to the west of them and they were going to completely miss the village, well not if Uzumaki Naruto had anything to do with it. The wave of his chakra quickly became wind and soared through the skies towards the puffy grey clouds. With another pulse of his chakra, he pushed the clouds towards the village, using his chakra to knot one cloud to the next so none of them would drift off the track. Once the clouds were on course, did Naruto pull his chakra back. He collapsed heavily on the ground, huge workings like changing the weather really eat up his chakra stores, no matter how huge they were. He would need to rest a while before he continued on with his training. The sounds of whistling from the bottom of the mountain reached his ears, courtesy of the wind, he knew this would be important because he had trained the winds around him to bring him things that he deemed important, you couldn't tell but winds really had a mind of their own. He reconized it as Hizashi and the creak as the pulley began its long journey up. Unable to wait for the pulley any longer, he sent a wind to go retrieve the basket. The wind complied and returned to him, the basket bobbing up and down in its wake. Naruto smiled and set the wind free, he knew that it would return to him later, like a dog to its master. He unraveled the note inside the basket. "GO HOME"
Tobi sat cross-legged on a tiny piece of land in the midst of all the bubbling magma. His eyes were closed and he sat completely still, not moving a muscle, a drop of perspiration dripping from his hair to his map. Suddenly,a creature in the magma roared, leaping out of the magma, its body glowing red from all the heat. A lava worm, a whole colony lived in the magma down here, they ate rocks, metal and their favorite was flesh. Now, Tobi had no plans in becoming lunch any time soon, and it had taken him a couple trials and errors which gave him a nasty burn across his side to figure out how the worms killed their prey, if there was any. They would just throw themselves out of the magma and towards the prey, the worms had a thick layer of skin that protected them from the magma and absorbed heat as well. The skin was their best line of defence and offense, but once the skin cooled, it didn't take long for the entire worm to cool and then die. The worm flew at him at top speed, Tobi tensed, attempting to absorb all the heat flying at him from the lava worm, if he couldn't, he would be burned to death...the worst way to die. By the time the worm reached him, it had cooled considerably, its once blazing red skin now an ashen gray and only felt warm to touch.
The worm twiched as Tobi opened his eyes, and before Tobi could even kick it back into the magma, was dead. He stared the worm for a while now, he hadn't meant to kill it, but merely test his abilities, but now that he had he felt that its life shouldn't go to waste. Picking up the heavy thing he leapt towards the end of the carvern, using the all the heat from the magma to float over the dangerous liquid below. The arrival of the basket interrupted what ever he was going to do next, and he dropped the body of the worm to go see what it was. Inside the basket lay a note, as he was unrolling the note a crackling sound brought his attention back to the worm. The worm's body suddenly split in two and out wriggled a smaller worm. The little worm's body stretched and suddenly transformed into a little golem like thing. Tobi stared down at the little thing, and guessed that it was trying to imitate his form. He smiled and reached out with his hand towards the worm. The worm returned the smile and leapt up onto the offered arm, and much to Tobi's surprise the worm was hot, not unbearably hot, but like a hot tub kind of hot. The instant it came in contact with his arm, it cooled to his temperature and walked up his arm to sit on his shoulder. "Tobi has decided that Tobi will keep you as a pet! And Tobi shall call you Renji!!" As he said this, he unrolled the note, on it were two words, "GO HOME"
At the moment, the three had only one though on their minds, home, they hadn't been back for five years, each of them were nine or ten and with any luck, they could graduate early and do missions already.
In case you didn't catch the hint, Kushina went through the same training, except for her element so she was well aware of the risks and wouldn't send them into their own demises...I'm not that cruel...am I? Anyways about the whole overpowered thing, they'll have major weaknesses, Naruto's will be Genjutsu, and so forth, it'll be really big weaknesses until further down into the story. And I'm really looking forwards to the next chapter, the story actually starts and not more of their childhood filler chapters. And remember, always remember, click that little green button at the bottom and R&R...I'll give you a cookie...~AnimeClouds~