Chapter 5:
Naruto owned a part of Konoha now. The thought made him excited even now. It had been three days since he had made the head of the Nagasaka family into his slave. He got the document signed making him the owner of Neo-Frost lane. Naruto was living the good life.
The word around town was that the people of Yakuza town had enough and couldn't handle it anymore. They all banned together, pooled in their resources and fought tooth and nail against the yakuza. In the end the two parties came to a compromise and it was settled all out of court.
Legally speaking and as far as the rest of the village was concerned, the people of the area owned 60% of it and shared the area with the Nagasaka family. They agreed to work together to ensure their streets become clean once again. So the two groups decided to form the Neo-Frost Lane group and the street was officially renamed.
However the truth was off by just a little. Naruto now owned it all. The area, the allied group and even all the people. The remaining 2000 people that were not in his control before where now, his clones had seen to that.
Right now everyone who lived in Neo-Frost lane was Naruto's slave. The yakuza there was also working for him. Naruto also had every civilian join the Nagasaka family and made the them all work together to restore and build up the area that was the pit stain of Konoha.
The reason for this was simple. Naruto heard how strong the Uchiha was as a clan. He saw one person become strong enough to kill that clan, and he saw the legend they left behind. Naruto knew that he needed a base of operations, like a clan compound. So he went out and enslaved yakuza town making it Neo-Frost lane.
Now with an entire area willing to follow his every order Naruto would give. He also now had several members of the civilian council under his control, the ones that the Nagasaka family had ties with. And this also gave Naruto some leverage on the village, if anyone ever discovered what ha could do, Naruto could use the people to cause a distraction and escape.
The beginning of his plans have already started with Naruto ordering his people to clean up and start improving the local community. Soon the Neo-Frost land would be a beacon for prosperity and Naruto would own it all.
Naruto did at one point wonder why he should just enslave a ninja or two to provide protection for his district, but later decided against it. Because anything which involved going away from ninja's and there by the Hokage, was a good move.
Naruto now stood in the middle of training field 7 as he read out from the taijutsu scroll he got from Urahara. It basically taught him several moves on how to block and how to punch. Naruto walked to the three posts in the middle of the field and summoned a clone and handed the clone the scroll.
Naruto then started to punch one of the posts over and over again as the clone instructed him how to punch reading off the scroll.
Naruto then moved on to kicks and slowly the morning turned to afternoon as Naruto finally took a break. Panting Naruto wondered whether he had done enough that day. Whether punching a post for so long was actually worth it. Naruto sighed, he needed a teacher, he had no idea what he was doing.
Just as Naruto got up and got ready to learn more a figure appeared in front of Naruto. It was Recca, grinning as he walked to Naruto.
"Heya Naruto watcha doing?" Recca asked.
"Oh hey Recca," Naruto said sighing, "I'm training."
"Oye! It's Recca-sense to you brat!" Recca said as he tried to smack Naruto on the head only to have Naruto move away from his hand in the last second.
"Yeah yeah whatever," Naruto said waving Recca off as he simply walked away.
"Hey you are getting pretty good kid," Recca said, "you have the reflexes of a genin."
"Really?" Naruto asked surprised, "thanks, though I don't really know how I did that."
Recca simply grinned, "well maybe I'm wearing off on you kid. NAyway show me some of the moves you are learning."
Naruto nodded as he walked to the pole and showed Recca the punches and kicks he had learned. At the end Recca nodded in interest, "that's pretty good kid, where did you learn that?"
Naruto tossed Recca the scroll and slowly the chunin read off the scroll growing, "where did you get this Naruto?"
"A friend," Naruto said defensively, "why does that matter?"
"This scroll has a lot of advanced material," Recca said, "very advanced. If anything you might not be ready for all of it just yet."
"Oh come on!" Naruto cried out, "I need all the help I can get!"
Recca looked at Naruto and sighed, "fine kid, but if you have any problems or need help you come straight to me okay?"
Naruto quickly nodded as a thought came into his head, "hey Recca could you help me right now?"
Recca looked surprised at that, "sure I'm free, what do you need?"
"Well honestly I need your help in knowing what I am doing. I mean I can read the scroll and do the moves, but I don't know what they are for."
Recca smiled, "well I'm sure I can help you out for that." The chunin then started assisting Naruto as Naruto slowly doubled and then tripled his pace of learning. Soon Naruto knew almost the entirety of scroll by heart as it slowly turned dark. Naruto could now jump kick and use his elbows to attack his enemy. The only few things he couldn't do were the really flexable attacks that needed him to be ridiculously flexible.
Naruto sat down on the ground panting as he got his breath back. "Thanks Recca-sensei."
"Oh so now I am your teacher huh?" Recca asked playfully.
Naruto simply smiled, "yeah, now you are."
Recca nodded as he continued to look at the scroll, "Naruto did you do the stretches mentioned in the front?"
Naruto shook his head, "no, why is that important?"
"Yes, very. Most of the these exercises will help you stretch out and relax. If you do them right you might be able to do the attacks you couldn't do before." Recca explained showing Naruto the exercises he was talking about.
Naruto nodded as he got up rested, "thanks again for today Recca-sensei," Naruto said smiling, "I couldn't have done it without you."
Recca smiled, "good, but Naruto we are not done."
Naruto blinked confused, "what do you mean?"
"Your training is not over," Recca said walking up to Naruto and handing him a pill, "eat this."
"What is it?"
"A soldier pill, it will restore you body. Now eat."
Naruto swallowed the pill without a second thought as it slowly healed him. Soon Naruto felt like he did this morning, Naruto moved his hands and saw the bruises on his knuckles were now then looked at Recca, "this is amazing!"
"It is," Recca nodded, "but to many and there will be some nasty side effects. Now we begin the real training."
"But we just finished training," Naruto said.
"No Naruto we just taught you the techniques, you still haven't used them in a real fight yet."
"So, you want me to fight you?" Naruto asked in wonderment.
Rebecca shook his head, "not me," he then crossed his fingers as 10 shadow clones of Recca appeared, "them."
"But sensei if I hit them once they will disappear, this is not much of a challenge."
"Well if you think you can hit my clones then by all means try," Recca said as he walked away and melted into the shadows that now surrounded the darkened training ground.
Naruto looked at the gathered clones as they took a battle position. Naruto bent down slightly and put one hand in front of the other as he moved forward with a burst of speed towards the first clone. Naruto extended his right arm in a fast punch as it sailed through the air towards the clone. Just as it was about land, the clone moved away and jumped back causing Naruto to stumble forward due to his overreach.
Naruto tried to gain back his center of gravity but before he could the other clones were one him. One kicked him in the stomach so hard it sent him into the air, then Naruto was constantly attacked by several clone while in the air.
Naruto landed down with a heavy thud as the clones walked up to him surrounding his body. Naruto felt so much pain he didn't know what to do. He couldn't focus, suddenly he felt a clone press it's boot on Naruto's hands causing a lot of pain.
"Listen to us very closely," the clones said, "you're in a lot of pain. You can't focus, fight it. Pain is only momentary, fight it Naruto."
"I-I can't," Naruto said as he coughed out. The clone holding down his hand pressed it's boot deeper into the ground breaking Naruto's hand with an audible crack. NAruto screamed loudly as he felt the bones shatter, "AH!"
"Fight it!" the clone said as he stepped off Naruto's hand. Naruto grabbed his hand nursing as he looked at Recca's clones with hate in his eyes.
"You just want to hurt me," Naruto said through the pain as his anger built up, "you're just like everyone else."
The clones looked at him, "no, you are just weak."
Naruto saw red as he pushed himself forward and rush the closest clone with a kunai hidden in the palm of his right arm Naruto punched the clone with the kunai tip sticking out at the end causing the clone to disappear in a cloud of smoke.
Naruto turned to the other clones with a mad look in his eyes, "who's next?"
The clones frowned, "you are only allowed to use taijutsu Naruto. We are going to have to take your weapons away."
Naruto knew he needed his tools, they were the only way he was going to live through this. He rushed into the forest with his full speed catching the clone off gaurd. Naruto ran further and further inside until he lost sight of the Recca clones following him. He turned and saw no one there, but that didn't mean they weren't going to be there waiting for him. They were probably waiting for him to leave, they would be waiting near all exits.
Naruto had only one course of action, survive. Naruto searched his ninja pouches strapped to his legs and saw he had some chakra wire and some material used for making traps. He smiled, he had enough to form a basic trap.
Naruto quickly went to work. He cleared out a large plot of land using a small level earth ninjutsu and then filled the plot with spring loaded kunais all facing up. He tied a thin stand of ninja wire in front of his trap and just in case that didn't work Naruto also made a second trap just incase.
Naruto then waited for a clone to come and find him as he hide in the roots of a tree. Just then he saw a Recca clone come into view as it spotted him. It charged at him and just as it was about to hit the chakra trip wire it jumped over the wire and the pit he made landing right in front of the pit.
"Rookie trap Naruto," the clone said as it took a single step forward before it looked down and saw that it had just triggered a second trip wire. It looked at Naruto and smiled as a hail of Kunai and shuriken fell from the tree branch above right into the clone causing it to disappear.
"Rule one of trapmaking, always make two," Naruto said as he smirked.
"Rule one of shadow clones," came Recca's voice as a clone spread in front of Naruto in a swirl of leaves, "always patrol with two of them."
Naruto looked at the second clone in fear, he raised his working hand up in fear but the clone ignored it. It slipped past Naruto's defences and simply punched him in the gut. Naruto grabbed the hand with his broken arm and held it there as his right hand slipped chakra wire around the clones neck. Naruto then pushed the clone with his left and pulled the wire with his right as he shredded the clones neck causing it to vanish in a puff of smoke.
Naruto knew that Recca and the other clone would now be aware of where he was now. He moved around the forest until the trees cleared out giving way to a large stretch of land. Naruto was back where he came from. Before he could walk back into the forest Recca and his clones appeared in front of Naruto.
"I must say I am impressed with you trap making Naruto," Recca said, "and using chakra string to cut my clones neck was impressive."
"Then you'll let me go?" Naruto asked hopefully as he nursed his injured hand.
"No," Recca said as he crossed his finger bringing the total amount of clones back to 10. Naruto didn't have any tools left. The only thing he had was chakra wire. He needed to think on his feet.
Slowly one clone of Recca stepped forward. Naruto couldn't summon his own clones, his hand was broke, so Naruto did the one thing he could, he slipped into his taijutsu stance and got ready for the beating of his life.
The clone rushed him, quickly Naruto copied what Recca's clones did to him and dodged the the attack in the last second by jumping back. Before the clone could react Naruto sent the chakra wire, that was still wrapped around his right arm like a whip and it wrapped around the clone's neck. Naruto pulled the wire and the clone disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Recess summoned another clone replacing the one defeated, "the goal of this exercise NAruto is to make you defeat each on using only taijutsu, if you do not do so I will simply bring them back."
Naruto panted, he couldn't keep the pain out any more as his left hand started to sting a bit now. He slowly released his grip on the chakra wire letting it slip down. He then looked up as he slowly started to loose focus. Just as his eyes were closing NAruto felt a punch land on his stomach.
Naruto was thrown across the field and slide down the field until he reached the wooden poles standing in the center of training field 7. The Recca clone that punched him walked up to him, "are you going to get up?"
Naruto looked at the clone and spat blood into the clone's face, but the clone didn't respond. It drew back an arm and then thrusted forward punching NAruto again and again. Naruto now couldn't feel anything. He felt numb. He felt….like dying. And just as he was losing consciousness Naruto felt something flow through his views.
Naruto looked up at the clone as his blue eyes turned red. Naruto caught the clone's fist with his broken hand, which was now smoking, it was slowly healing itself. Naruto then moved in a blink of an eye as he pushed himself up and into the clone head butting the thing backwards.
It was not enough power though as the clone was only momentarily confused but before it could move Naruto punched right thru it with enough force that the clone disappeared. As the smoke cleared Recca and his clone could see Naruto's whole body smoking as his wounds from earlier slowly healed.
Naruto charged forward and so did the clones. They meet in the middle of the battle field as Naruto jumped in with a long kick to the side of one clones head. Immediately the thing disappeared and Naruto now stood in the center with the clones surrounding him.
Two jumped forward at Naruto, but the boy was not worried, he was not anything. He was unconscious, his body reacting purely on instinct. He jumped up towards on of the clone and kicked the thing behind the head. The clone disappeared and Naruto landed and jumped forward to the other clone who was still charging him.
Naruto lifted a knee upwards showing his knee right into the clones jaw breaking it before the thing disappeared with a poof. The hit was so strong when Recca and the other clone got the memories of it they had to rub their jaws from the mere memory of the pain.
There were 6 clones remaining, but not for long as Naruto slowly took each and every one out until only he stood in an empty field. Naruto then turned to Recca and charged ahead. The chunin went on the defence blocking and pushing Naruto away from landing a proper hit on him. The boy however still didn't let up.
Recca pushed Naruto right in his face, but the boy didn't stop. Instead Naruto grabbed Reccas hand in a lock and punched it until the arm was snapped sideways making it bend in an unnaturally.
Recca cried out in pain as he held his broken arm. Deciding enough was enough the chunin quickly used his full speed to get behind Naruto and quickly knocked him out with a quick chop to the head.
Naruto fell the floor unconscious as Recca slowly healed himself. The secret ROOT ninja was impressed by Naruto's power and technique, and though Naruto was using the fox's chakra to fight it was still a win for the young boy. Recca smiled as his arm quickly became aright giving him full use of it. Recca picked up Naruto and took him to his home. Once there he tucked Naruto into bed along with his taijutsu scroll. Recca wrote him a note for Naruto to find in the morning and the ROOT ninja quietly left.
Recca arrived in Danzo's private chamber wearing his white dragon mask. The ninja bowed before the head of the ROOT, "my mission in complete sir," Recca said.
"Report," Danzo said in a steely voice.
"Yes sir. I approached Uzumaki training in training grounds 7. While the boy was making progress it was slow. After the boy asked for my help, after I offered my help, I trained him to memories every taijutsu technique he was learning."
"Where was he learning these techniques from?"
"A scroll sir," Recca replied, "I do not from who, but it is very detailed and contain the basics any ninja would have to learn if they wanted to efficient at taijutsu. Some techniques however are...unorthodox to say the least. In essence Naruto's taijutsu looked more like an adaptation of other taijutsu styles."
"An evolving taijutsu style?" Danzo asked surprised.
"Yes sir," Recca repled.
"Then that means the young Uzumaki has just found himself a very powerful way of fighting. And what of your primary objective?"
Recca nodded, "Naruto Uzumaki has successfully unlocked the kyuubi's chakra. I believe while before when it would heal him from time to time, due to the stressful situation I put him in during training he will now be able to consciously use the fox's chakra to a certain limit."
Danzo nodded, "and is he still loyal to the village?"
"He still loves the Hokage and the village master Danzo. He is good friends with the Uchiha boy and recently I believe he like me as well sir. Naruto Uzumaki will never betray this village, unless we give him a reason to."
Danzo nodded and slowly he started making new plans, which mostly involved training Naruto or Sasuke to become weapons. Powerful weapons.
Naruto woke up the next day tired and exhausted, but alive. He looked around and saw he was on the crappy fourth floor apartment he used as s front. Recca must have dropped him off here after Naruto lost consciousness. Naruto looked around and saw his taijutsu scroll and a note on the bedside counter.
Naruto picked it up and read it, 'Naruto, you are something else. Truely a genius in your own way. Never give up. The power you gained yesterday is special secret only you have, do not tell anyone you have it, especially the Hokage. The bad news is Naruto you still have a long way to go. Continue what we did yesterday as a morning exercise while your clones learn from scrolls. If you need to you can even send a clone in your place to the academy, I won't mind as long as you are actually training and not goofing off. Also while you're at it I suggest you not focus on one taijutsu style instead focus on several, take what you think is useful and make your own style of fighting.'
Naruto threw away the note and he walked down to the basement to his real apartment. There he he got ready for the academy when he remembered what Recca suggested, it would give him more free time if he sent a clone in his place instead on him wasting time there. So Naruto made a clone and sent it to the academy instead.
Naruto then spent the rest of the week doing the same. While he sent the clone to class he spent his time at home learning more and more things. Naruto finished the basic academy techniques in a day's time. His Body replacement jutsu was perfect, he was now able to substitute himself with heavy objects like the fridge, although it was a pain in putting it back after training.
Naruto then used the henge jutsu to travel in disguise as a random civilian to neo-frost lane where everything was going great. Naruto got money from the yakuza, well he asked for it but anyway, and with that money decided to buy himself a proper ninja attire after he finished his week long training session.
Naruto hence represent the days inside at home doing what he could while his clone went to the academy while at night Naruto went to the training grounds and fought with hundreds of his clones bringing up his experience in fighting and improving his aijutsu style.
Naruto also began learning his first seals, the exploding tags, though he didn't practise it indoors, he knew the theory behind it. Naruto went out one night and went to the training ground form before. He then spent the night drawing hundreds of seals, until finally one worked, through it then proceeded to explode in Naruto's face. But the boy was still happy, his first really step to gain the power he wanted was coming true.
Soon Naruto had clone working on the second seal, the storage seal as he moved onto to the next step in chakra control, tree walking. But since Naruto wanted to stay out of the villages view for the time being Naruto practised it on his walls instead. After days of hard work and several clones, Naruto could now finally stand upside down on the ceiling.
Then came the Yamanaka ninjutsu techniques that he made Ino get him. His clone from school arrived one day with the scroll and gave to Naruto and then dispelled. From what Naruto learned from his clone it seemed Ino could only write down one technique for Naruto, and that was the body switch jutsu. Naruto sighed, he expected more but he would want to risk Ino or him in order to get more justus. Naruto then spent the rest of the week learning the body switch jutsu while his clones finished learning the storage seal. Then at the end of the week Naruto's clone from the academy informed him that Recca wished for him to arrive at training ground 7 that night for one more training session.
Naruto knew that this was the moment he was training for. He transformed into a civilian and then walked to Neo-Frost Lane and then directly to the Nagasaki compound where he dropped the henge. After being waved through inside by the security Naruto met with the head of the yakuza family in the main hall. There waiting for Naruto was the man and a large box in front of him.
"Do you have what I asked for?" Naruto asked. Naruto has sent a clone during the week with specific instructions to the yakuza head.
"Yes boss," the man said, "everything you asked for right here."
Naruto nodded as he opened the box. He looked inside and smiled. "Good, very good. I have one more request for you."
"Anything boss."
"I need a researcher, a chakra researcher. Someone who knows ninjas and chakra. ANd somebody who won't as questions. If they are a civilian it is best, but I don't mind either way."
The yakuza head nodded, "okay boss, but it's going to take some time, that okay?"
Naruto nodded, "take all the time you need."
Recca stood in the middle of training ground 7 as he waited for Naruto. The sun had already set but the boy still hadn't shown up, something was wrong and Recca knew it. He waited and just as he started to think that something had happened to Naruto several kunai came flying at the man.
Recca dodged them all and landed farther back but he didn't have a moment to breath as suddenly Recca was tackled down by a black blur that tied up his legs. and started punching his back over and over again. Recca managed to pull himself out of the wire tieing him and back kicked the figure, who simply jumped away.
Recca got up and and turned to see Naruto, expect this time his outfit has changed. Naruto wore all black with an armoured black shirt with full sleeves and long legged armored black pants. He had ninja pouches on each of his legs and a belt with several pouches. Naruto now wore a black headband instead of a white one which covered the scar on his head.
"Nice thread Naruto," the chunin said, "they look expensive."
"They were, " Naruto said pointing at the shirt and pants, "they have chainmail underneath and metal plates stitched in." Naruto then pulled on some black full fingered gloves with a metal plates attached to the back, "and they were a gift."
"A gift? From whom?" Recca asked to which Naruto smiled.
"Now now sensei there should be less talking and more fighting," Naruto then formed a seal that Recca recognized as one to be used when activating exploding tags. Recca looked at his back and saw several seals there, "kai!"
There was a huge explosion and out of the dust Recca jumped out without his chunin jacket. He turned to Naruto just in time to see a knee coming for his head. Recca moved just in time and struck back at Naruto to which the boy disappeared in a puff of smoke. 'A clone,' Recca realised as he looked around for the real Naruto.
Just as he was looking around Recca saw several Naruto's attack him. The chunin blocked and dodged most of them as he slowly got rid of them all, but when he was done and finally alone Recca noticed hail storm of kunai come after him.
Recca used his full speed and ran into the forest losing all of the kunai in the forest. Just as Recca stopped he saw three Naruto's come after him each pushing him back deeper into the forest.
Just as Recca moved to offencive one of the clone jumped in front of Recca, and just as he was about to attack it, it suddenly disappeared in smoke. Recca then saw a clone was directly behind the one that had that just disappeared with a kunai heading straight for Recca's neck. The chunin moved just in time to stop the weapon but was forced to stop it by stabbing himself in his hand with the blade.
Recca kicked the clone causing it to disappear and then pulled the kunai out of his palm and threw it at the last clone causing it to disappear. Just as Recca was catching his breath he felt a kunai press against his neck.
"Your lose sensei," Naruto said as the boy pressed the kunai into Recca's throat, just then the chunin disappeared in smoke, replaced by a log, and he appeared behind Naruto and with his one useful hand moved the blade to Naruto's own neck.
"Not today gaki," Recca smirked as suddenly Naruto burst again into smoke and Recca felt three kunai on his throat again, "well I guess it really is my losse."
The three kunai moved from his neck and Recca turned and saw three Naruto's grinning at him. They then all disappeared leaving Recca confused, "so where is the real you?"
Just then Naruto came out of the bushes and walked to a tree far away motioning recca to follow him. He stopped then and began channeling chakra into the tree, Recca focused on the tree and saw what looked like a giant storage seal drawn on the trunk of the tree.
Suddenly another Naruto came out of the tree in a puff of smoke and smirked at Recca, "I win!"
"You sealed yourself into a tree?" Recca asked.
"Yup," Naruto said snapping his fingers ,suddenly several clones of Naruto made themselves known as they stepped in front of Recca's view. Recca sensed them before but seeing so many shadow clones still made Recca surprised as he realised just how much chakra Naruto has.
"Amazing, so you had a back plan for everything didn't you."
"Yup. And if you were winning a clone would unseal me and in a last bitch effort I would have sent several clones all covered in exploding seals at you."
"Damn Naruto you play dirty."
"Well what did you expect? I'm not a bloody hero, I'm a ninja."
Recca smiled, "yes, yes you are."
REVIEWS! Also the guy who was to be my beta didn't want to do it, so I need a Beta still, if anyone wants they job they can have it. Untill then please bare with the mistakes, I am really sorry for them existing. Bad writer bad!