Chapter 7:
Naruto coughed out blood as he slowly pulled himself up from the cold training room floor. He wiped it clean as he looked at the ROOT ninja standing in front of him. This was training, Naruto had to fight the ninja head on with only taijutsu and to make sure he didn't do anything Naruto was made to seal his chakra up and his clothes were taken from him. Right now Naruto stood with only a pair of black shorts in the middle of an open training field that was located deep underground.
Naruto got up again and resumed his fighting position, he observed how his opponent moved, he knew the man favoured his left in order to compensate for the fact he was right handed. The man also focused on slow but heavy strikes which involved straightforward hits.
Naruto rushed him again. He bucked under the first punch and gave a punch of his own directed right at the man's stomach, but before his fist reached the man's left hand caught his punch and he threw Naruto away.
Getting up once again Naruto thought again of what to do. He needed to fight this,,,thing. But of he got to close then the man could easily catch him. His punches and kicks were slow, but if Naruto dodges them then he would be to close and the same thing would happen.
Naruto opened his eyes as a plan started to form. He charged at the man again, this time when the ROOT ninja punched Naruto moved to the side and punched right in the writs,hitting the veins of the outstretched arm. The ninja cried out in pain but Naruto saw his chance and he took it.
The man held his arm as pain flooded him. Naruto jumped up and kneed the man's face sending him backwards. Naruto then grabbed one of the pouched hanging on the man's belt, he pulled out a kunai and held it against the man's throat, "yield," Naruto growled out.
The man looked at Naruto and just as Naruto thought he was about to give up, the man pushed Naruto off him and got up. NAruto held the kunai up but the man didn't defend himself. Naruto cut the man's right amr as it tried to punch him but the man's fist landed on Naruto's chest with a kunai still lodged in the man's forearm.
Naruto held his stomach and rolled over in pain. He heard Danzo's voice, "is this really the child of the fourth hokage?" Naruto growled in frustration as he pushed past the pain and stood up. The ROOT ninja had just pulled the kunai out of his arm when he saw Naruto jump at him.
Naruto punched the unprepared man's face sending him backwards. Then Naruto went on the offensive striking on several kill points, the throat, the groin, the underside of the head, the stomach, the liver and finally the temples which Naruto kicked so hard the man flew a few feet back, unconcious.
Naruto panted as slowly clapping filled the room, "well done Naruto," Danzo said walking to the young boy, "you would have made your father proud."
Naruto grinded his teeth as he kept his mouth shut, "thanks master Danzo," Naruto spat out master like it was a bad taste.
"How has your training coming along? If I recall correctly it has been two months since your training began," Danzo said as he lead Naruto the his room in the underground ROOT base of operations.
"I am sure you get those reports Master," Naruto said, "I fail to see what use me telling what you already know will do."
Danzo's anger grew a little due to Naruto's cheek but he kept it in check, "you still have trouble following orders Naruto. Fix that, or else steps will have to be taken to fix them for you."
Naruto nodded at the threat, he had heard it many times before. Naruto however still didn't know what he mean, ever since he got here it has been like something had been kept from him, something big.
The moment Naruto agreed to join ROOT Recca took him to the underground layer after leaving a clone in Naruto's place that would go to the academy that Naruto dispelled every night and made every morning.
Once here Naruto was greeted by Danzo and several members of the ROOT who all looked like they were waiting for him. Danzo greeted him and then wasted no time in telling NAruto who his father was.
When Naruto heard who the man was he was furious. The fourth Hokage, that was who his father was. The third lied to him, it would be a cold day in hell before Naruto would even believe that the old man didn't know Naruto was the fourth's son. He was then mad at his dad, so sealing the kyuubi into him and he was made at himself for never seeing it, the man looked so much like Naruto that he should have made the connection before!
Naruto lost control then, it took the entirety of ROOT to hold him down until he calmed down enough, in the process however Naruto managed to hurt basically everyone there including Danzo. But as Naruto started to calm down his thought became clear.
His father loved this village, he gave his life for it and then offered his son for it, and they spat his sacrifice in his face. The third Hokage was also no fully to blame, if the man had admitted Naruto was the Fourth's son, then there would be hundreds of attacks on Naruto, more than there are now.
So Naruto's anger slowly left, he forgave his father, the man in the end was just a man. The third however was quickly becoming a man Naruto could no longer trust. And just like that his training at the ROOT started.
The first week was held for Naruto. He was broken and beaten, every bone was broken and then when they healed over night they were broken again. They did this so that when the bones healed thy became stronger and stronger. Since Naruto could heal faster they did not break his bones just once, they did it three times a day. By the end of the week NAruto's bones had become so strong that is was difficult to break them in one hit.
After the week of bone conditioning Naruto's physical aspects were to be trained. His was set on several obstacle courses and made to run for hours on end until he had to fall down due to lack on energy. After getting his reflexes to par Naruto was then subjected to torture, several painful tortures.
Naruto was given a secret word and his assignment was to never say that word. Then then threw him into a room and the torture began. His skin was peeled and salted. His nails cut off and his feet used as a pincushion. Naruto lasted an hour.
The next time they did it he lasted for two. This went on for weeks. On the second week Naruto had been tortured for five days straight, when asked whether he wished to stop he grinned, "bite me bitch."
After that the mental torture began. Naruto was put under several genjutsus at once and he was forced to fight through them all without being told they were genjutsus in the first place. It took Naruto full five days to get out of the genjutsu, but for him it felt like five months.
After that Naruto's real training began. He started learning several taijutsu styles, incorporating each into his own unique style of fighting.
His sealing was now vastly improved. All the time he was being tortured or trained Naruto had his clones practise and learn new ways of sealing, he now had a hundred different types of seals under his belt and quickly Naruto became proficient at seals.
Naruto's genjutsu was non existent but due to his mental torture and his power over the mind Naruto could now instantly detect when a genjutsu was placed on him.
Then last came his ninjutsu which improved so far ahead of everything else Naruto knew enough different techniques to put a chunin to shame. His favorite however was wind jutsu as he had an affinity towards them. For this reason he was taught none other than Danzo himself as the man was a wind unser himself.
Naruto now walked to his room which was empty except for a table, a chair and a bed. On the table were his sealing scrolls along with his clothes. Today was just another normal day for Naruto, being tested in one field or another. Just yesterday he was made to fight three ROOT ninjas using only ninjutsu and being tied to one spot by chains.
Naruto sighed as he slowly peeled off his chakra suppressing seals and sighed in relief as he felt his chakra flow through him, healing him of his bruises. Quickly the Uzumaki put on his black armor and over it he orange shirt and cream pants. Naruto then rested on his bed stretching out. He had the habit of wearing all his clothes when going to bed, just incase they decided to attack him at night.
Naruto made a clone which then transformed into scroll which sat on the table, it would stand watch as Naruto rested, another habit Naruto started. Naruto slept in his bed, but sleep didn't come, he was trained to not sleep for much. So Naruto did what he usually did, he took out the two files Danzo gave him on his parents and read them. He simply looked at the photos and treasured each and every word that was written on the file. He had already memorized each word there, but he didn't care.
Naruto soon got bored however and decided he needed a break. So he closed the file and he snuck out of the ROOT headquarters, the entrance of which is located behind the head of the second Hokage. Naruto quickly ran into the village and went to his favorite place in the whole world, Ichiraku's.
There Naruto snuck in and he saw Ayame there looking bored, it was late at night on a monday, not many people wanted to go out. So Naruto walked in.
"Hey Ayame!" Naruto said grinning, "hows things?"
Ayame's face lite up, "Naruto! It's been a week since you came last, I thought you had gotten sick or something."
"Na, I was just busy training," Naruto said as he took a seat, "I'll have anything Ayame, and make it a double."
The girl smiled as she cooked him two pork ramen and the two slowly talked. It seems Ayame's dad had gotten sick recently, the poor guy. So Ayame now had to take care of things, which while she enjoyed the challenge was tough on her. Naruto offered his help which the girl denied it. Soon Naruto finished his first bowl and was well into his second when someone sat next to him.
Naruto looked up and saw Recca there, "hey sensei."
"Hello Naruto," Recca said as he waved to Ayame, "a pork ramen please." He then turned to Naruto, "you are supposed to be at HQ."
"I needed a break."
"You know what Danzo will do if he finds you out here," it wasn't a question. Naruto had gotten it caught before.
"Been in the torture chamber and done that, what's next? He's going to make me wash his back?"
Recca didn't laugh which made Naruto become serious again, "you can't just abandon your duties Naruto."
"Not even for a bowl of ramen?"
"Not for anyone."
"Bull shit. I would abandon it for you. If it meant saving your life or someone I care about I would do it in a second."
Recca glared at Naruto, "if you would do that then you are no ninja."
"If I don't do that, then I won't be Naruto Uzumaki."
Recca sighed as he let the argument go, as he ramen came Recca and Naruto ate in silence.
"So how was your day?" Naruto asked.
"I taught you and a bunch of kids, how do you think it was?"
"Sounds boring."
"Could be worse."
"How?"
"I could be made to give Danzo a sponge bath," Recca said grinning making NAruto snort the boat out of his nose.
"HAHA!" Naruto laughed out loud as Recca joined him. Soon the two calmed down and Recca spoke up.
"So I did some digging today," Recca said smiling, "guess what I found."
"What?" Naruto asked.
"I said guess idiot!"
"I don't know asshole!"
Recca smiled as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a picture that he showed to Naruto, "something that belongs to you."
There in the picture was Kushina, Naruto's mother with Minato, Naruto's father. there were together, Kushina sitting down and visibly pregnant.
"I-is this-" Naruto couldn't speak up as tears filled his eyes.
"It was difficult for me to find, but I did it. That is the only photo of your dad and mom together, and I suppose technically you are there two."
Naruto was speechless. He had seen pictures of them before. He had seen his mother's shinobi registration photo and his dad had his face carved onto a mountain, but this was the first time he saw them together and smiling.
"I know it's not much but I couldn't find anything else. So, happy birthday Naruto-" Recca just finished when Naruto hugged him with tears in his eyes.
"T-thank you. Thank you Recca," Naruto chanted as he cried into Recca's jacket. Recca simply hugged the child back and smiled and slowly he felt something. He felt love, the very thing that was forced out of him when he joined ROOT.
"It's okay Naruto, it's okay," Recca said as slowly the boy composed himself.
"I don't think you remembered," Naruto said as he rubbed his eyes.
"Don't be stupid, I always remember."
"Even though my birthday is technically tomorrow."
"Yeah well consider it an advanced happy birthday gift kido," Recca said to which Naruto smiled.
"Thank you, I love it," Naruto then held the photo closer. He tucked it inside a secret pocket.
"And for my second present I will look away as you suddenly disappear," Recca said as he looked at his ramen.
"You serious?" Naruto asked, "you're not going to take me back?"
"No, today you get a break," Recca said, "now get lost." Naruto smiled and dashed away full speed into the village while Recca chuckled. Ayame then came forward and spoke up.
"You really care for him don't you?" Ayame asked as she smiled at Recca.
"Yes, he is my student."
"No, you care more than most people do. He isn't just your student, and you aren't just his teacher. I can see it, he looks at you the same way I look at my dad, he looks at you like family."
Recca was taken back by that statement, "no he-"
"Yes, he does," Ayame said, "and if you hurt him I will make sure you die." The girl said threatening Recca putting on what she thought was a scary face, which was actually kind of cute looking for a ninja like Recca.
'Does he though?' Recca asked himself, 'does he really see me as family?' Recca had been trained from a young age to be merciless in battle. He had been trained to be a ROOT ninja. He had no family, but during his training he had only one friend, Kaguya, his sister in all but blood.
The two did everything together, eventually they were ready to become full fledged ROOT members. They were then given their last assignment, kill each other. Recca froze, he didn't want to do that, he didn't want to kill Kaguya. He loved her. But the woman didn't hesitate, she fought him, she hurt him and that made him angry. In his anger he slowly stopped holding back, he attacked her with his full strength. He fought until he landed the killing blow. And then the anger faded, he realised what he did.
Recca had looked into Kaguya's eyes as she smiled at him, "live Recca. Promise me you will live."
"K-Kaguya!I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, please hold on!"
"N-No, this has to happen. This must happen. You have to live."
"No Kaguya, please! Live! I can't live without you! I love you!" Kaguya's eyes watered at his statement as she raised her head up and in her last action kissed Recca. And slowly the woman died in his arms. That was the last time Recca felt anything. The last time he cared for anything.
He was then later trained to be the best infiltrator for the ROOT. He was taught how to use his guilt as a mask. And with that mask he managed to convince Naruto to join the ROOT, but slowly as time moved on, his guilt faded. And now the mask was crumbling, and Recca didn't know what to do. He didn't want to feel pain again, he didn't want to cause Naruto pain.
Recca didn't know what to do anymore as he slowly became more and more human the more and more he spent time with Naruto. Recca paid for his and Naruto's bill, the little bugger jumped the bill on him again, and took a walk intending to clear his mind.
Naruto jumped through the roof tops as he smiled at his freedom. The rush of wind he felt on his face was amazing, he could get addicted to the speed he felt. Ever since he was taught how to free run Naruto had become addicted, maybe being the son of the yellow flash would give him an excuse for being a speed junkie.
Naruto arrived at the Nagasaka main house or as he liked to call it, 'Frost lane HQ.' Naruto had sent clones daily to Frost Lane HQ and the clone helped Prof. Tezuka research more into his powers, today Naruto hoped he could get some proper answers.
Naruto walked to the Professor's basement lab as saw the man work on a computer while writing on several scrolls. "What's up doc?"
The man looked at Naruto and then quickly back at his work, "I am a professor, not a doctor. Please do not insult me Master Naruto."
Naruto smiled, "noted Professor. Now, what do you have for me?"
"A lot sir, a lot," the man said as he moved around the room taking up several charts, "do you remember last time where your clone asked why you could not control powerful ninja's?"
"Yes, I also asked you to figure out how my powers works, which you have failed to do."
"Yes, but as I started to think on the problem, a solution came up!" The man rolled out a chart depicting the human body, only this chart only had chakra points and nothing else. "You see your chakra is like a virus," the man said as he pulled out two marker, red and blue. "The red is the local chakra inside a body." The man then drew lines all over the chakra points, "the blue is your chakra. You see you have a special condition where you always emit chakra through your body, this flows everywhere, but it is minute enough that people will not be able to tell if it is there or not."
"Now, when you command through your voice by gathering chakra," the man drew blue lines now all over the body, "you command your chakra inside the other person's body to do what you ask. I believe the Yamanaka's have a similar technique?"
Naruto nodded, "yes it is call the body possession jutsu, it was very easy for me to master."
"And for good reason. Your powers allow you to control people by inflicting their chakra coils like a virus. The only reason you can't control stronger individuals is because you have now way of consciously controlling your powers. As it is right now you can't control stronger individuals because they have more chakra in their coils then you attack with, meaning your chakra virus is easily wiped out. But if you could somehow focus it, you could theoretically control those stronger than you and maybe even command them without using any words."
Naruto nodded, "This is good Professor, but tell me how long would the effects last?"
"That's the beauty of your power," the mad man said, "your chakra alters their brains, making them do what you tell them. And even when they are not influenced by your chakra they will still obey you, but if you want to give them a new order you will have to use chakra in order to do that."
Naruto nodded and smiled as he now had a clue as to how he could use his mind control powers, "anything else you wish to share professor?"
"Yes, I believe like any other muscles or ninjutsu you powers can be improved upon, I however do not know how. And something else came up when was researching into the Yamanaka's, it seems other than just possess people, one of their clan's greatest techniques is the ability to absorb knowledge sir. I believe that you may, with practise, soon be able to do the same. That and read people's minds, which is also something the Yamanaka's can do."
Naruto nodded as his thought went back to Ino, he had ordered her to forget all about his orders and to not follow them anymore. She was frankly a loose end and Naruto tied her off, he now however wondered whether he should have pushed her into stealing some more of her family teachings.
Naruto soon left Frost Lane HQ and quickly returned back to ROOT base where a very pissed off Danzo was waiting for him.
It was a month more of hard training and more battle strategies that Naruto was finally given his first mission. He would now be allowed into the ROOT for real, all he had to do was complete a final challenge. For the last week however Naruto had not seen Recca anywhere, it was almost like the man was actively avoiding him.
Naruto quickly suited up in his black armor and quickly walked to the main hall of the ROOT HQ. There waiting for him in a balcony high above was Danzo. The man looked down at Naruto as the boy entered the empty room.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you wish to join ROOT yes?" Danzo asked.
"Yes master Danzo," while Naruto still hated calling Danzo 'master', he now managed to say it without spitting it out like poison.
"Then you have one last test before you," Danzo said as he hit his cane as a door opened on the opposite side of the wall and a man with a white dragon mask walked out.
"Your last test is this, kill the man before you," Danzo said, "and you will be a member of the ROOT and a ninja of Konoha."
Naruto nodded and turned to face the mysterious man. Naruto eyes the man up but he couldn't' make out anything due to his black cloak surrounding him. Naruto drew a kunai out and waited for the man to make the first move. Naruto was nervous, he had never killed before. He had killed animals, he was given a rabbit and forced to kill it in order to train him in the art of death by ROOT, but he had never killed a human before.
Naruto waited and so did the figure in black. Minutes passed and just when Naruto thought the man wouldn't move Naruto felt a flare of chakra coming behind him. Naruto looked up and saw a huge fire ball coming straight for him.
Naruto deactivated his weights and speed away with his full speed. He just managed to cross the range of the fireball when it impacted on the ground causing a huge explosion throwing Naruto into the walls of the room.
Before he impacted the walls Naruto spun around and landed on his feet. He quickly channeled chakra into his feet and ran along the walls as he examined the figure who still hadn't moved. Suddenly the man disappeared in a puff of smoke, 'shadow clone' thought Naruto.
Naruto then looked up at the ceiling and there standing upside down was the real ROOT ninja. The man jumped falling downwards as Naruto ran up and jumped to the center. The two meet in the middle as sparks flew.
Naruto landed on the other side of the wall with a minor cut on his arm. The blade that cut him felt hot, it easily went through Naruto's armor like butter. Naruto turned to his kunai that was now cut in half. Naruto turned to see the man who was now standing in the center with a sword made out of fire that grew out of his forearm.
'Fire jutsu specialist,' Naruto thought, 'great, there goes half my arsenal of ninjutsus.'
The two looked at each other again before they disappeared in a burst of speed. Sparks flew everywhere as Naruto was quickly running out of ideas, but he had a plan. On the final confrontation Naruto managed to push the ninja to one of the spots Naruto was a few seconds ago.
The moment the ninja touched the spot, chakra wires moved from the ground and caught his ankle. Naruto grinned as he pulled the wire towards him knocking the ninja of balance. Naruto jumped on the ninja just as the man finished a jutsu, Naruto's eyes widened as the man blew out a great fireball jutsu point black at Naruto.
Quickly Naruto substituted himself and escaped the fire ball just in time. He quickly channeled fire chakra into the wire he was holding setting it on fire. The ninja was to focused on canceling the great fireball safety that he didn't have time remove the wire before it burnt the man's skin causing him to limp away.
'Okay I have him on the run,' Naruto said, 'all I need to do now is finish him off.' Naruto then began to use a special jutsu that he made himself, but before he could even start the ninja had finished his own jutsu.
"Karyu:Homura!" The man extended his hand and a whip made out of fire formed. The man the used the whip and attacked Naruto. The Uzumaki jumped away and ran as far as he could away from the whip, but the fire whip just seemed to keep coming. It grew longer and longer.
Naruto was now walking on the ceiling but en then the fire whip was attacking him like a snake coiling and attacking him. Naruto then got an idea. He took out his sealing ink and as he ran he started to draw an experimental seal on the palm of his left hand.
As soon as he was done Naruto jumped to the center of the room facing the man. The ROOT ninja drew back his hand and swung the whip at Naruto with full force. Instead of moving Naruto caught the fire whip with his left hand making sure only his palm touched it.
On the palm of Naruto's hand was a seal that was a mixture of a fire suppression seal and a chakra absorption seal. This made Naruto's palm temporarily fireproof. With his one free hand Naruto channeled his chakra into a yarn of chakra wire and did the trick he was obsessed with doing ever since he saw the Hokage do it with the wire.
The wire shot out of his right hand and like a bullet it pierced the ROOT ninja's body wiggling under his skin to reach the man's heart. The ninja feeling this canceled his attack and quickly cut the wire and jumped back and landed on his good leg. He looked at Naruto panting.
The ROOT ninja then did several seals and called out, "Karyu:Setsuna!" Naruto however didn't see any fire come out towards him. Naruto waited for something to happen but then thought maybe the jutsu failed. Naruto took a step forward and immediately he felt the area around him heat up as suddenly everything exploded in a 2 feet radius of him.
Naruto was sent flying back, luckily he landed on his feet sticking to the wall, but the fire hurt him, bad. Naruto felt anger course through his veins, but through his ROOT training he suppressed the Kyuubi and simply let the chakra flow through him healing him.
Naruto's burns slowly healed as the boy observed the ninja he had to fight. The man was panting, the last attack must have take a lot out of him. As soon as Naruto was healed the blonde moved. He appeared in front of the still winded ninja and punched him back.
Summing 10 more clones NAruto and his clones all attacked the man handling him like a rag doll and throwing him all over the area with fast and powerful taijutsu strikes. Naruto kicked the man into the air as several clone jumped up and kicked him further upwards until the man landed on the ceiling.
As the man came down Naruto quickly prepared one of the few water jutsus he knew. "Water style:Raging waves!" Naruto then spat out a huge wave of water so fast and with so much pressure it blasted upwards towards the ceiling.
The man was slowly coming down and he quickly performed his own jutsu, "Koryu:Madoka!" Suddenly the man was surrounded by a ball of fire as the ball free falled directly downwards towards Naruto.
Seeing the ball of fire come closer and closer Naruto quickly thought on his feet and changed the direction of his attack, now he he blasted the water to the floor at an angle sending him flying away due to the water pressure like a loose fire hose.
Naruto landed on wall and saw the ball of fire land on the ground evaporating all nearby water. Slowly the fire disappeared and the ROOT ninja was seen panting even harder now.
'Time to end this,' Naruto thought as he started to perform his own special jutsu. Quickly going threw the hand seals NAruto was ready, "String style:Uzumaki chains!"
Suddenly on the back of his black armour nine storage seals appeared and out of them several yards of chakra strings appeared. The strings tied one end around Naruto's waist and the rest of it joined together to form nine chain-like structures.
Ever since Naruto read about what his mother could do, he has tried but failed to make chakra chains. So he went out and made his own jutsu in honor of his mother.
Naruto then stretched his hands outward as the chains moved on their own attacking the ROOT ninja. Naruto moved them on their own as the chains danced like snakes chasing a mouse. Soon one of the chains got him, it quickly wrapped around his previously injured ankle and Naruto started to channel fire chakra into the wires.
Seeing this the Root ninja moved quickly, "Karyu: Saimura!" Suddenly out of the man's arm a fire whip came out with a blade at the end. The man used it to cut himself free and then attacked Naruto with it.
Naruto used his chains to block the attack but several of them were being cut down by the bundles. Naruto then quickly perform complex seals, "Wind Release: Vacuum Spheres!" Naruto burped out several spheres one after another as the whip blade moved to intercept them.
The moment they made contact the whip blade grew bigger, but after the layer of wind was absorbed all that was left was a ball of vacuum, and fire doesn't burn in vacuum. The vacuum sphere collides with the whip and cut it short leaving the two ninjas once again at a stand still.
Naruto was panting, the last attack along with the constant use of the Uzumaki chains were draining on him. He was going to be empty of chakra if he doesn't do something soon.
But before a plan could come to formation the ROOT ninja was already moving. He quickly formed several hand seals, "Karyu:Naaku!" The man then shoot both his hands out and out of his palms several fireballs formed, but instead of flying towards Naruto they hovered on the spot. Then suddenly they glowed brighter and brighter as each fireball then exploded sending a beam of concentrated fire right at Naruto.
The Uzumaki's eyes widened and he moved fast. He quickly performed the necessary hand seals, "Water Style: Water Prison Jutsu!" Naruto then spat out enough water to imprison himself in a sphere of water. Then Naruto moved the remaining of his chains around him sealing himself off.
The blasts of fire hit Naruto like a bomb. Naruto could hear it hit him even from inside the water prison. Slowly his chains were burnt away a bunch at a time and then the water slowly started to evaporate. And just at it seemed Naruto was going to be burnt the fire blasts stopped.
Naruto cancelled the prison jutsu and fell to the ground. The wire around his body slowly came off and his breathing became heavy as he tried to catch his breath. Naruto looked at the ROOT ninja who was panting too.
"Stay down Naruto," the ninja said for the first time, "please."
Naruto however didn't give up. He got to his feet and slowly formed the dragon hand seal. Smirking he said, "this is your only warning. Give up now."
The ROOT ninja shook his head and Naruto smirked. He channeled chakra into his fingers and activated a trap he had laid out in the beginning of the battle, "kai."
Suddenly seals began to glow all over the ROOT ninja's body. They were placed there by the clones and Naruto when they had kicked the man into the roof. Slowly all the chakra wire that was on the floor straightened out and rose up. They pointed to the ROOT ninja and before the man could move every single wire there skewered him like a pin cushion.
Naruto saw the man getting stabbed all over as the cloak he wore was ripped to shreds revealing what the man wore underneath. The man wore a basic chunin gear but had no sleeves and on his right hand was a white arm gaurd with a blue gem in it. Naruto had seen that before.
'No,' Naruto thought, 'no, that's not possible!'
"Hey Recca why do you were that arm guard?" Naruto asked one day when Recca and he were having lunch at Ichiraku's.
"This?" Recca asked pointing to his arm gaurd, "well it's armour silly, why do you think ninja where armor?"
"Yeah but it looks kind of flimsy, you know?" NAruto said, "and that blue gem looks so breakable."
"Haha, yeah I suppose so."
"So why do you wear it?"
"Well Naruto, I lost my parents at a young age due to the Kyuubi attack," hearing that Naruto looked down in shame, "hey now it's not your fault. Now anyway, I lost them then, but before they died my mother handed me this arm gaurd and told me it was a family heirloom. It had been in my clan for generations."
"So you have a clan?"
"Had Naruto, had. Most of them died out."
"Why what happened?"
Recca shrugged, "I don't know. Never cared really."
"What was your clan called?"
Recca grinned, "we were called the Hachikaryu or the 8 fire dragons. But our names later changed to Hanabishi when we lost our previous power."
Naruto now looked remembering that conversation from before. The dragon mask, the fire jutsu's it all made sense. Slowly the mask slipped away revealing the person underneath. Naruto whispered, "brother, no."
Suprise Mother Fuckers! 5 points if you figure out who Recca Hanabishi is and where he got his powers from, his show is the reason I got into Anime in the first place, so cool!
REVIEWS!Please, I'm desperate, I'm like a crack head, only I need reviews instead of meth. Anyway...yeah I'm done. Chances of me writing more any time soon are slim. At most I'm going to update later, in week or so.