Chapter 3
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Kyuubi
Scene change
Training ground 10
"Let see have the seal papers, the balance beams, the scrolls. Am I missing anything?" Naruto wondered out loud.
"Well you're here early Naruto." A senbon chewing jonin said walking up to the former monk.
"Well there's a lot of set up involved for the kind of training you want Genma-san" The jinchuruki answered the implied question.
"Still not your sensei eh?" the bandana wearing jonin said with a crooked smile.
"You have yet to teach me anything." The blond pointed out. Genma nodded showing he acknowledged the point.
"So how does this training work anyway?" The brown haired man asked chewing his senbon.
"Within the Order there are three ways to enlightenment, way of the body, spirit, and mind. In order to truly achieve enlightenment all three ways must be pursued equally to their fullest. Today I will show you the way of the body once you understand that, the ways of the spirit and mind are not too hard to comprehend" The blue eyed boy said seriously
"Way of the body that means physical training." Genma said working it out in his head.
"Right one must learn the three components of the physical: precision, speed and strength. Precision is about understanding both 'where' you are going to move and 'why' you are moving. Speed is the 'when' you are going to move. Strength is the 'how' you are going to move. One must have balance in all three or one will be defeated." The former monk said nodding to himself.
"Hey Naruto, Genma-sensei" The young mind-walker called walking into the training ground.
"Good you're here. Let's get these seals on to you." The blond boy said pulling out five strips of paper.
"What?" The purple clad girl said. Seals? No one said anything about seals right off the bat did they?
"You and Shino are both going to have resistance seals along with a low level gravity seal placed on your bodies. Once you are fully acclimated to both we will add training weights." The Jinchuruki answered.
"Genma-sensei?" The blond girl asked looking at her sensei for help out of this mess.
"Ninjas usually don't study seals in depth enough to make these kinds of seals but they are useful if you can make them. Put them on." The bandana wearing jonin said doing his best to hold in a laugh at Ino's expression.
"Just put the resistance seals on your limbs and the gravity seal on your neck and activate them with chakra. There will be some...adjustments on your part." The former monk said handing the seal papers to her. Ino did as told and promptly fell down.
"Son of a bitch I can barley move!" the young mind-walker said swearing.
"You just put on a 1.5 gravity seal along with 4 resistance seals what did you expect?" Naruto asked shaking his head at Ino's profanity. Ino made no answer.
"What are resistance seals anyway? I've never heard of them before yesterday." The blond girl asked instead of continuing to curse her team mate and sensei.
"Resistance seals basically make it feel like you're moving in water or some other thick substance instead of air this means you have fight harder in order to achieve the same range of motion." Genma answered. He had never used seals but he had a vague notion on how to make them and knew what most of them did.
"Exactly right now you're trying to move in water that's roughly a hundred meters below the surface at the depth the pressure makes it incredibly hard to move add that to the gravity seal and well you get this." The jinchuruki explained to his friend. This was difficult but not the hardest thing he could have given them he did have a couple of 5 gravity seals. 'No better give those to Genma-san. Our bodies wouldn't be able to handle it. Well mine would but I really don't want to explain why.' The former monk thought.
"Not that I'm complaining but why didn't you just use heavier gravity seals?" Ino asked.
"Any heavier and it would permanently damage your skeleton to use heavier seals one must be an adult. However I do have a seal for Genma-san" the former monk said with an enigmatic smile.
"Kid I don't need seals, I fight from the shadows if I can and do the hit and run thing if I can't a seal ain't going to help me" the brown haired jonin said.
"I have no use for them so have one anyway." The blond boy said handing one to his sensei. 'Hmm this does give me a way to payback Raido for leaving me with the bar tab last month. Heh sweet sweet revenge' The jonin thought unaware he was cackling out loud.
"Genma-sensei are you okay?" asks an obviously disturbed Ino. People shouldn't laugh like that, was the thought in both blondes' heads.
"Huh? Oh sure. Thank you for the seal Naruto." The jonin said getting his mind pack on the present.
"Genma-san has a very disturbing laugh" the blue eyed boy said with a shudder.
"Indeed, I hope I am not late." The bug ninja said as he appeared in the group.
"Nope these two just arrived early. Get your seals from Naruto and turn them on." The senbon chewing jonin said with a gesture. Shino walked over to his friend received the seals. After activation the only noise was a grunt. Of course for Shino that was the equivalent of going on a rampage while setting things on fire.
"Sorry Shino should have warned you." The jinchuruki said sheepishly rubbing his neck.
"I will survive." The bug-nin said stoically. 'It is fortunate that my kikai are unharmed by these seals. I would hate to have to hurt my first friend.'
"Alright kids while you two adjust to the seals. I am going to give you the basics of the fine art of infiltration." Genma said with a smile. It felt good to bring others into the crazy world that was a spy's.
The genin nodded seemingly eager to learn.
"Alright to begin with infiltration is hiding in plain sight. You will be given roles and cover stories you're going to have to learn each of those better than your own life. Now this is how to do it....." And so Genma began his first lecture in years.
Hyuuga Compound (Night)
"You can no longer stall, Hiashi-sama. Hinata has proven her worth enough that she will be the heiress. Hanabi will be relegated to the branch house unless you can prove otherwise." One of the elders said.
"You forget yourself Elder, I am the head of this clan not you." Hiashi said trying to figure out a way to save his daughter.
"We mean no disrespect but the laws and traditions of the clan come first." Another elder said, inwardly chuckling to himself. Try to fight the clan would he? They would show Hiashi what happens when you do so.
"Hinata is strong and a worthy heir I will acknowledge that but things happen. She is not a man to make sure there is a viable heir now when she's thirteen." The clan head said glowering at the council.
"So you would go against the traditions of the Clan?"Another elder asked in a sickening tone of voice. Hiashi had to make a choice....There was no choice. 'I will pretend to agree and smuggle Hanabi out of the compound tonight. Hopefully I can get her refuge with one of the other clans' Hiashi thought and sighed and gave the answer he didn't want to give.
"No but I still protest it is too soon to decide." The grim faced man said with a slight tick of his eyes showing his true emotions.
"Hanabi Hyuuga will be sealed and relegated into the branch house tomorrow." The elders intoned.
"Very well" Hiashi said stiffly and got up and left. What none of them had known was that the heiress was listening. Deciding that even if it cost her everything, she would not lose her sister to the seal Hinata ran to her sister's room.
"Nee-chan what's wrong?" Hanabi asked her older sister.
"The council has finally forced father to seal you." The heiress spat with anger.
"You promised they never would!" The younger girl stammered her eyes laced with fear. Her sister had promised that the seal would never be placed on her
"I intend to keep that promise. I have a friend who can provide you safe haven but we need to leave now. Take only what you need." The older girl said firmly. Hanabi rushed packing her clothes and the few keepsakes that she had.
"Ready" Hanabi said doing her best to hide her fear.
"Good, follow me" The heiress said her heart pounding. The sisters made their way silently through the compound avoiding all the people. Both had activated their byakugan a taboo with the compound for most Hyuuga. At the wall Hinata grabbed her sister and ran up it thanking Kami for all of the chakra control exercises she had been forced to do.
Hiashi walked into Hanabi's room preparing his explanation and plan to save his daughter. Only the room was empty and it looked like there had been frantic packing recently. Evidently someone else was going to save his daughter. 'Whoever you are thank you. I could never face my wife if I allowed this to happen' Hiashi thought as he looked out the window.
Naruto's Apartment
*Knock Knock*
"Who could that be at this time of night?" The jinchuruki asked getting up from his meditations. Opening the door he saw his friend and a smaller girl looked like the two were related.
"Hello Hinata-san what brings you here?" the blond asked.
"I'll explain in a bit can we come inside Naruto?" The older girl said.
"Sure make yourselves at home. Want any tea?" Naruto moves aside and motions to them. Both girls go inside and sit at the table.
"I would like some tea, Naruto-san" Hanabi says. Naruto nods and goes to put a kettle on to boil.
"So you two going to explain or do I have to wait a bit longer?" The jinchuruki says with a chuckle.
"You know about the bird cage seal?" The heiress asks. Naruto nods.
"They were going to put on my sister Hanabi tomorrow we need to get her out of Konoha to that monastery of yours" Hinata says.
"As much as I would like to help out they won't accept her at the monastery. After all she is female and accepting her would involve the monastery in politics and Master Wu is an isolationist. I do have one other option it's not really one I want to use but to prevent that seal from being proliferated I will." The former monk says with a solemn air.
"Other option?" The heiress asked cautious
"My father was a man of some standing within the village he has a compound on the outskirts of town, right now I'm the only one who can get in there but I can place Hanabi there for a few weeks until we get a better plan. Worse comes to worse I can formally claim my inheritance and place her under my clan's protection" Naruto says standing up. The blond moves to get some tea and places some in front of all of them.
"Who was your father?" Hanabi asked not understanding.
"Who else do you know that has blond hair and blue eyes like me?" The jinchuruki says with a smile.
"You mean your father is the Yondaime?" The heiress said spewing out her tea as she connected the dots.
"Yes he is but I do not wish to claim that name yet. I am strong but not as strong as I would like to be. And I really don't feel like having Iwa jonins trying to kill me just yet" The blond says without a hint of sarcasm.
"So then you will hide my sister in the Namikaze compound?" The older girl says hoping that she's right.
"Hai, my order created that seal for criminals, not so that a family could enslave itself." The former monk said seriously.
"Hanabi I have to get back to the compound. You can trust Naruto; he's never lied to me or betrayed me." The heiress told her sister.
"But Oneechan—"The younger girl sensed an evil presence around Naruto.
"Hanabi-san I will do everything in my power to keep you safe you have my word as head of the Namikaze and Adept of the Divine Path." The blue eyed boy said.
"But what is that evil inside you then?" The ex-Hyuuga asked still scared.
"So you can sense it? Strange most never awaken their chakra sense to that level so early." The former monk said holding his chin into a thinking pose.
"What is she talking about?" Hinata was confused. Naruto seeing no help for it decided to tell his friend about the demon inside him. 'Hinata-chan always deals with things better when she's curious. Best to ask then answer' The Jinchuruki thought.
"Tell me how does one kill a demon?" Naruto asked.
"What does that have to do with anything?" The heiress said still confused.
"Bear with me. The answer is that one doesn't. The power to kill such things has been lost to humans. The best we can do is to seal or purify them. However demons like the Kyuubi cannot be sealed in mere objects it requires a human. In most cases a newborn child. When the Kyuubi attacked all those years ago my father sealed the demon inside me. That demon is what you sense Hanabi-san. Don't worry it doesn't control me. It and I are enemies at best." The former monk said taking a mental breath and preparing for the worst.
"What? That's what you've been hiding from us why?" The pale eyed girl said shocked at what Naruto held and hurt that her friend hadn't told her the truth earlier.
"There is nothing you can do about it. It is my duty to bear this burden. I didn't want to worry you about it." The blond said quietly
"We will discuss this later for now we need to make sure my sister is safe. I trust you Naruto but if she gets hurt then Kami herself won't be able to stop me from hurting you understand?" The heiress said glowering at her friend. Who possessing the survival instinct of all males nodded furiously.
"Hanabi, stay safe. I will find a way to bring you home again." The blue haired genin said wrapping her arms around her sister. Hanabi hugs her sister as she fights off tears. The older girl breaks the embrace and with a sad smile leaves the apartment.
"I will bring you to my clan's compound tomorrow. Tonight we wait, your family will not let you escape easily Hanabi-san we must be careful." The blond said clearing away the dishes. Hanabi felt what little was left of her resolve crumble at the boy's words. Her family was hunting her in order to imprison her with the seal. Her family that she had always counted on had abandoned her. Naruto returned to see the young girl racked by sobs.
"There, there it's going to be alright" the blond cooed as he held his now adopted sister. The sobs continued long into the night.
The next morning
"Wake up Hanabi-chan. We have lot to do." A soft voice reached the young girls ears. Hanabi woke up briefly confused until she remembered the events of the previous night. Today she was going to the Namikaze compound to hide, even though she didn't know where the compound was.
"Naruto-san where is the Namikaze compound? I've never seen it" The pale eyed girl asked.
"Well my ancestors were a rather paranoid bunch. They actually found a natural underground cave and put the compound in there. That combined with the old man's seal mastery means that no one who doesn't have some Namikaze blood in them can get in without my help. The bigger question is how to get there without you being seen." The former monk said with an air of detachment.
"What do you mean?" Hanabi knew that she could trust the boy in front of her from her sister's words. But she still didn't know him very well.
"Well your former family they won't like the idea of anyone with byakugan not under their control. So they are probably searching for you right now. Discreetly of course wouldn't due for the most powerful family in Konoha to lose face over one of their own." The blond said.
"Former family?" the young former Hyuuga didn't like where this was going at all.
"Until your sister takes control of the Hyuuga it would be best if you didn't think of yourself as one. I know that's hard to accept but...." the blue eyed boy said with a shrug.
Hanabi was a smart girl for her age and mentally knew that her new guardian was right. However the mind and the heart do not always agree.
"I may not use that name, Naruto-san but I am a Hyuuga and always will be." The younger girl said fiercely, causing Naruto to chuckle.
"Training you is going to be fun isn't it?" The former monk said rhetorically.
"Training?" the pale eyed girl said confused. Yes her guardian was a ninja and from the way he acted a former monk so he could train her but why would he?
'For better or worse you have a degree of spiritual awareness not seen for many centuries. In order to protect your mind and soul I will train you how to control that awareness." The blond said seriously.
"What do you mean mind and soul?" Hanabi said a little afraid of the answer.
"There are 'things' for lack of a better term that walk around this world. Normally they cannot affect humans and vice versa. However people like you they can affect. It's the only way for them to affect our world. The fact that they can see but never touch has driven most of them mad you do not want one of them possessing you. So to prevent that you will be trained." The former monk said staring into her eyes as if trying to see something that wasn't there.
"So any benefits from having this 'awareness'?" The young girl asked exasperated.
"Some, you will be able to read the flow of battle better than all but the most seasoned warriors and you can detect other beings with demons inside them. Other then that I can't say...I really don't know enough about yours or Konoha's history to answer." The jinchuruki said holding his hands up in apology. 'I just had to adopt her as a sister...and she doesn't know because the Namikaze oath isn't known outside of the clan' The blond said, although he didn't like his father he did accept that it was for the best and that he should continue the tradition of his family.
"Alright let's get to your compound...I have to get used to this eventually." The young ex-Hyuuga said. Naruto nodded and led her out of the apartment.
"On my back, speed is our best defence" The former monk said kneeling. Hanabi gave a sigh and climbed on.
Flying over the rooftops the jinchuruki was expanding his chakra sense to avoid anyone who might be looking for his charge. Winded Naruto let the girl off at the compound entrance. Pulling a kunai the blond cut his palm and placed it on the entrance seal. As the portal opened two Hyuuga's arrived. Naruto grabbed Hanabi and threw her into the portal before cutting it off.
"You will return the girl to us." The first Hyuuga said.
"I don't think so." The blond retorted lazily setting into a stance.
"You will do so or you will be destroyed peasant." The second Hyuuga snarled.
"Well then let's see what you can do." The former monk said pulling out his collapsible staff and fusing it with chakra.
"You truly think you can stand against the greatest tai-jutsu in Konoha?" The first Hyuuga said incredulous.
"Won't know till I try." Naruto said with a smirk. The two Hyuuga attacked their palms glowing. Naruto dodged the first one's attack and took the second one's attack to the heart. Both Hyuugas stopped confident that their foe was dead. That lasted for about a second before the blond attacked. The first one found his Jaw broken from a kick the other fell down having had his knee destroyed from the staff.
"Guess I can stand against the greatest tai-jutsu. You Hyuuga's rely too much on your bloodline and chakra to say you have the greatest tai-jutsu." The former monk said shaking his head. 'Have to go get groceries for Hanabi-chan. When was I supposed to meet my team again? Oh right about nine o'clock and then missions. Can't believe that d-ranks actually count as training according to Genma' Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by a shouted.
"You will pay for your transgressions against the Hyuuga!" as more clan members attacked.
"Oh for the love of Kami..." the blond said exasperated. The formers monk's staff became a blur as he moved through the crowd of Hyuugas.
Sarutobi was having a good day. Paperwork was taken care of, Danzo wasn't being an ass and the genin teams seemed to be well on their way to success. Walking through the clan district he decided on a whim to go see the entrance to his successor's house. Only to see one Uzumaki Naruto single handily beating half of the Hyuuga branch house with nothing more than a glorified stick. Sighing as he rubbed his head Sarutobi wondered why he always had to jinx it by thinking that he was having a good day.
"All of you stand down!" The aged kage barked.
"As you wish Master Sarutobi" The jinchuruki said retracting his staff.
"Hokage-sama this monster attacked us we demand that you arrest him." One of the Hyuuga's a main branch member shouted.
"I defended myself as allowed by the law. Your men struck the first blow." The former monk returned the accusation levelly. In another world he would be screaming and trying to kill these men. However his training held firm.
"You are hiding a fugitive from the clan." The same man said with a snarl.
"I am hiding one of my own." Naruto said with a 'do not fuck with me' tone.
"You are a commoner" The Hyuuga said not picking up on the subtle hint to drop the issue. The blond sighed...he had always felt that it would come to this just not so soon.
"I am Naruto Namikaze and I have formally inducted Hanabi Namikaze into my clan." The Namikaze heir said doing his best regal impression
"Lies there are no more Namikaze." The same man kept digging his own grave.
"Tell me who else in the village had hair and eyes like my own?" The boy said. 'Now that I think about it he does look like the spitting image of his old man...but how did he find out?' Sarutobi mused waiting to see how this played out.
"That is not real proof Naruto-san merely circumstantial evidence" Another Hyuuga said not really wanting to get the boy angry enough to start fighting again. Decided to try to use a little diplomacy.
"You are right that my looks are not real proof but the fact that I can open the portal to the Namikaze compound is don't you agree Master Sarutobi?" The blond acknowledged the point but sounded the death knell on the idea that he wasn't the master of the Namikaze.
"Naruto is telling the truth about his heritage so by the laws your clan so stringently upholds. Hanabi Hyuuga is no more there is only Hanabi Namikaze and that puts her out your reach. Unless you wish to formally revoke the clan protection charter." The aged Hokage said in a 'Please do it make my day' tone.
"That will not be necessary, forgive us Namikaze-san" The diplomatic Hyuuga said as the rest of them retreated.
"Now Naruto do you mind explaining what in the 9 levels of Hell were you doing!?" The Professor of Konoha asked still calm despite his words.
"I apologize for any difficulties I have caused you Master Sarutobi. Last night a friend of Hanabi's brought her to me. The original plan was for me to get Hanabi to the monastery but Master Wu would never allow it so we came up with the plan of hiding her in my compound. Unfortunately we were caught by the Hyuuga leading to what happened." The blue eyed boy said with a formal bow to show his regret over what happened.
"I see so you have formally inducted her into the clan?" The old man asked, knowing that this was going cause a lot of unwanted paperwork if the boy answered yes.
"I have, although she doesn't know that I have. The way the Namikazes grant clan membership is very old and not used anymore. I was going to explain before I left for team training today" The Namikaze heir said calmly.
"I see. I can't blame you for protecting your friend's sister like that. However try not to be so rash in the future Naruto. Now while I accept that your taijutsu and bo-jutsu are better than anyone, save for a specialist in those things. However you will need a body guard not everyone is like the Hyuuga and focused purely on tai-jutsu and the other villages will move to either kill you or take you as their own." Sarutobi said wishing for his pipe.
"I understand Master Sarutobi, who shall you assign as my guard then?" Naruto was not happy about having a 'guard' but understood that this was non-negotiable.
"A man named Yamato I think he's powerful and capable enough to keep up with you." The Sandaime said after some thought.
"Alright by your leave Master Sarutobi I have to go talk with Hanabi. I threw her in their rather haphazardly" The former monk said with a nervous smile
"Go ahead. I'll go deal with the Hyuuga" Sarutobi said suppressing a groan, he hated dealing with the Hyuuga. Naruto gave another bow and reactivated the portal.
Namikaze compound
"Naruto-san? Where are you?" Hanabi asked. She had found herself in a dark room she couldn't see anything even with her byakugan. Looking around the young girl worried over how she was going to get out of here and whether or not Naruto was still safe. A flash of light appeared behind her as a portal opened.
"Sorry about that Hanabi-chan. Hold on let me find the light seal." The blond said appearing behind her. Waving his hand over a seal on the wall the room became illuminated by glowing runes.
"Call me Hanabi-san please. You may be my new guardian but I don't feel comfortable being called that" The pale eyed girl said.
"I am not calling my sister Hanabi-san. It's either chan or chin your choice." The blue eyed boy said shaking his head.
"Sister?" the ex-Hyuuga stuttered. She had never imagined that this person would bring her into a new clan just to help a friend.
"When I swore that as a Namikaze I would protect you I formally inducted you into my clan by our laws and my views you're my adopted sister. It is the only way to truly protect you. By law any attack of you counts as an attack on the Namikaze and that invokes the defence clause of the charter." The blond said with a formal solemnity.
"I know the charter prevents the Hokage and the rest of the Konoha from directly interfering in the clans but I've never heard of the defence clause. What is it?" Hanabi asked, although losing the position of clan heiress years ago had some training in inter clan politics and was curious about what could stop her family.
"I don't know too much about the charter itself but the defence clause states that any clan that starts a clan war will have every other clan in Konoha declare war on that clan." The jinchuruki said.
"So if my family attacks or tries to kidnap me...." the young girl said working out the implications of that.
"Correct I will invoke the defence clause and the Hyuuga will face every clan in Konoha. Your former clan is strong but not strong enough to face all of us." The blond said fiercely. Hanabi realized that her new brother would go to hell and back to protect her. 'I don't understand. Yes he and my sister are friends but this goes beyond friendship. He's willing to fight my entire clan for me why? What's his reason? The ex Hyuuga had to know. People just don't do things for nothing do they?
"Why? Why are you doing all of this it can't just be because of my sister." The pale eyed girl asked.
"You sister is part of the reason but the bigger part is that it was the right thing to do. I may no longer be a monk but I still walk the path as much as I can. No one should be sealed without consent unless they have proven themselves criminals. You committed no crime besides being born. I will not stand by and see anyone enslaved for something like that." The jinchuruki said seriously.
Hanabi detected no lie in his voice...this person was completely honest. Naruto did do things just because they were right thing to do. Hanabi had lost her sister and father but she had gained a brother who would always stand by her...not a fair trade by any stretch but not the worse one she could have had. The young girl decided to ask one last thing to decide whether or not she would accept being a Namikaze.
"Oh...so then you're my big brother" The new Namikaze said quietly. If Naruto acted like he hated the idea or loved it too much she wouldn't accept it. You had to work to be her new family dammit!
"In a legal sense and hopefully in a family sense as well. I like the idea of having a little sister. But this is all pretty new to you so we'll take it slow, you can call me whatever you like Hanabi-chan. Come on let's get you settled in" Naruto sensed the test and answered it as best he could. Seeing his sister's huge smile he guessed that he had passed.
"Hai Nii-chan" the smiling girl said. And the two went off exploring.
Team Ten training grounds (3 hours later)
"Arrghhh where is he!" A frustrated Ino shouted as she fell of the balance beam again. The two genin had been doing the physical training Naruto had outlined yesterday and it was brutal.
"He had to take care of something from what the messenger bird said. Now calm down and do your katas like you were told to." The senbon chewing jonin said with an exasperated tone.
"We've been doing these damn katas for hours" the young blond girl said.
"Ino-san please control yourself. I am sure Naruto has a good reason for being late." The Aburame said. As and Aburame, Shino believed in logic and controlling your emotions, something that his team mate had trouble doing.
"I do" The jinchuruki said with a smile. Arriving with his staff out and looking like he was expecting an attack.
"Where were you?" The purple clad girl asked, remembering to be calm at the last minute.
"I was getting my new sister settled into her home and claiming my heritage." The blue eyed boy said. His eyes shining with mirth
"Didn't know you had a sister...or a clan" Genma said resisting the urge to rub his temples. He felt a head ache coming on.
"Err; guess I should tell you all everything." The former monk said with a sweat drop. 'Ino already knows about the Kyuubi and so does Genma-san. Shino deserves to know about it and they all should know who my father is. Not like it'll be kept quiet anyway' the blond boy thought with sigh.
"Please do" The bug use said speaking for all of them.
"Well Genma-san and Ino-chan already know about what I really am so in fairness I'll tell you as well. 13 years ago the Kyuubi attacked Konoha, you were told it was killed by Yondaime. That is a lie humans do not have the power to kill one of the great demons outright. Yondaime choose a different path to protect the village he sealed away the Kyuubi inside of me. The reason he choose me is because Yondaime wouldn't ask anyone else to give up a child when he had one himself. I am the Jinchuruki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune and the son of Minato Namikaze" The former monk said with a great deal of formality.
"So that is all?" Shino said without visible reaction.
"That still doesn't explain how you have a sister!" the other member of team Genma said.
"I adopted Hanabi Hyuuga into my clan in order to prevent the use of the caged bird seal on her. In order to make it stick I had to tell people who my father was." The jinchuruki said with regret.
"Great just great you know that now we have to train till we all drop. Iwa and Kumo are not going to be happy and when they aren't happy people tend to die." The senbon chewing jonin said rubbing his forehead. He did not need this bad enough he had the Yamanaka and Aburame heirs now he had the last Namikaze too.
"I agree Genma-san. Ino, Shino there no longer time to prepare you through using styles...you will learn to fight the way I did." Naruto said.
"How was that?" The blond girl said frankly scared by the dead expression on Naruto's face.
"By having Brother Zhou trying to kill me, prepare yourselves I will not hold back." The former monk said.
"What?" Ino got out right before a spinning kick threw her away into a tree. The former monk was relentless as he attacked his team mates again and again. Slowly almost imperceptibly they improved despite the weights and seals working against them their speed, perception and instincts grew.
"Alright that's enough for today" Genma said after several hours. 'Damn what do these teach these monks?' The jonin wondered. Naruto had rather than using the nerve and pressure point strikes he normally did had slipped into a more brutal style focused on external damage it helped the learning process.
"Owwww" came the moan from Ino she had received a lighter assault then Shino but she could still feel the bone jarring hits.
"How hard is it to defeat Naruto? It's near impossible to drain him using my Kikai and beating him in tai-jutsu is out of the question" The bug user said out loud. He had bruises in places that he hadn't thought could bruise.
"Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu" Genma said, trapping the former monk in the ground.
"What the?" The blond boy said looking around he couldn't move. Why had his sensei trapped him like this?
"It isn't too hard to defeat Naruto as long as you don't play to his strengths. Right now your both too specialized to take him on because he naturally counters both of your specialities. Now Naruto do you know why I trapped you in the earth?" The senbon chew jonin said.
"To show why nin-jutsu is useful?" The former monk said nonplussed.
"To teach you humility!" Genma shouted. This kid didn't think normally at all the jonin realized.
"Why didn't you say so?" The jinchuruki said still confused.
"I swear you three will be the death of me." The brown haired jonin said with a sigh.
"Sensei shouldn't we get him out of there?" Ino asked. True Naruto had hurt them both but he was still a team mate and it had been with the best intentions
"Nahh let him figure it out. You two head home. Meet here tomorrow for more training and maybe a mission" The senbon chew jonin said and shushined away. The two non-buried genin looked at each other and with a shrug left the training ground.
"Hey I still have to get food for me and Hanabi-chan!" The former monk shouted struggling to get out of the ground. Unfortunately Genma had reinforced the ground with chakra and there wasn't enough room to move and wiggle his way out. There was barely enough room to breathe.
"Hello Naruto-kun" An unassuming man with brown hair and leaf head band said.
"Hi umm...could you get me out of here?" The blond asked this new man something seemed off about him not in any negative way. Just different from the normal shinobi 'His aura it's like those with bloodlines but it seems...fake somehow. How does one create a fake bloodline?' The blue eyed boy wondered.
"Certainly, I am Yamato by the way." The smiling man said and used a doton jutsu to force Naruto out of the ground.
"So you are the one Master Sarutobi sent?" The jinchuruki said with a questioning look.
"I am here are my orders to prove who I am. If you ever need to have me prove who I am ask me to perform a mokuton jutsu. As far as I know they are completely unique to me and the First Hokage." The tree user said.
"Hai thank you. Now let us get some groceries." Naruto said with a smile. 'That explains it mokuton is one of lost chakra natures not usable outside of a bloodline, but I don't remember the Shodai having any kids strange. Could he have been hidden away like me? No if he is a jonin then he's obviously strong enough to defend himself now...and the village wouldn't throw away a bloodline like that. So the question is how did he obtain the ability to use mokuton? Even monks have trouble using that chakra nature. The blond thought with a frown. The two walked in silence for a while
"You're wondering how I gained the ability to use mokuton."The jonin said with a smile.
"If it's not too much trouble to explain, I have heard that it is possible to learn one of the lost chakra natures, buts it requires a degree of mastery that takes decades to achieve." The jinchuruki asked politely.
"I received my ability thanks to an experiment by Orochimaru I was the only one to survive out of 50 test subjects. Now what do you mean 'lost chakra natures?'" Yamato asked curious. The Hokage had said that the blond was a treasure trove of archaic knowledge and he was always curious about his artificial bloodline.
"When chakra was first discovered there were 4 types for humans: Wind, Water, Fire and Earth. The true genius of the Rikudo Sennin was the ability to combine these 4 natures into 4 new natures Ice, Lightning, Magma and Wood depending on how one combined the natures. He also passed this on to other people. As time went on people developed instinctive use of Lighting so much so that it became the 5th normal chakra however the ability to use magma, ice and wood became more and more restricted to the point that only those with bloodlines could use those chakras effectively. With the destruction of those clans they became the lost chakra natures. Although I have heard that with sufficient mastery one can recreate these chakras" The blond said with a sort of ironic chuckle, he knew all about chakra but couldn't even use 2/3rds of his available chakra. The holy chakra drove him insane and the demonic chakra destroyed his body...and using both at once would kill him.
"How do you know all of this?" The mokuton user asked surprised at the detailed description. It contradicted established knowledge but it did explain some things.
"The monastery has records of many things and to improve our control we learned the history of chakra" The whiskered genin said with a shrug.
"I see, did this monastery explain why mokuton is able to repress the bijuus?" The mokuton user said half jokingly
"Demons are destruction and death incarnate by using mokuton you create life. Life naturally defeats death and creation defeats destruction so..." the blond said allowing his new friend to draw his own conclusions.
"That makes more sense than a lot of theories I've heard" the ex-ANBU said looking up at the sky for a moment.
"I think I'm going to like having you as my guard Yamato" The former monk said.
"I think I'll like being your guard." The man known as Yamato said with a smile.
A/N: That's a wrap...So this is my explanation of chakra in the Naruto verse and part of how monks train. (I am aware of crystal jutsus but I'm going to say that it doesn't exist outside of filler). Any comments or constructive critiques are helpful. I'm still looking for a new beta. Next: Hanabi discovers it's not all fun and games being a Namikaze, Naruto and Co get a c-rank and Hinata deals with the fallout from the elders.