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Naruto slowly opened his eyes. He groaned as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes, 'damn…what happened to me?' Naruto pushed himself up and fully opened his eyes. He was in a ratty room with holes in the walls. The ceiling looked like it had mold growing on it. He looked to find that there was a window…it was cracked, but it was still a window. He walked over to the window and looked at the curtains; they looked like they had been eaten by moths.
Naruto looked around…why the hell was he here? The last thing he remembered was that he was running away from some man who had a corpse in a bag, he accidentally caught the mans attention and…oh shit.
Naruto began to panic as he looked around, praying that he could somehow escape. He ran to the door and grabbed the handle as he turned it…to find that it was locked. He looked at the window and ran to it. He opened it up, sending a few shards of glass in random directions. He stuck his leg through the window and was about to jump out…when he saw how high up he was.
The room was at least on the third floor…no, make that fourth floor.
Naruto went back in the room and looked around, trying to find some way to get out. He looked around…but he stopped in his tracks when he heard the doorknob begin to click…he looked around as the door opened…
Akasuna no Sasori walked through the doorway carrying a black bag the size of a man. He looked around and spoke, "Hmmm, looks like he got away…" He walked and put the bag on the bed, "Or did he?" He slowly stepped around the room, "If he did escape…how did he get away…and if he is still here…where…is…" He snapped his head to the left towards his closet, "HE?!" he twitched his fingers as the closet flew off its hinges, revealing Naruto cowering in the corner. He quickly ran to the window and was about to jump out of it when Sasori quickly Shunshined behind Naruto, grabbing his shirt,
Naruto struggled as he tried to get out of the mans grip, "EGH, let me go…I haven't done anything to you…" Sasori threw Naruto on the bed right next to the bag. Naruto looked up in fear. Sasori walked forward and sat on the side of the bed…
Naruto was confused…why was the man not trying to kill him? Sasori let a dry chuckle escape his lips, "Don't worry child…I have no intention of hurting you…in fact, I brought you here because you seemed to be in bad condition. A good thing too…it was supposed to get pretty cold this evening, and with what you are wearing you won't last long." Naruto looked down and had to agree, all he was wearing was a loose set of rags, a worn out pair of socks, and only had a bag of crackers…he lost the rest of the food when he was jumped by a pair of kids three days ago.
Naruto nervously smiled but let his face fall. Sasori saw this, "I also saw a bit of potential in you boy." Naruto looked up, "You seem to have massive chakra reserves, enough that you will have a severe amount of trouble depleting them…but since you are young, and if taught to control it properly, you could be great." Naruto smiled at the mans praise, "Thus…I wish to take you as my apprentice." Naruto looked up in shock…
"R-really?" Sasori nodded his head, "YATTA…so when do we start…"
In Tanzaku Town
Tsunade and Shizune were carrying a sack of loot…after Tsunade had lost all of their grocery money; Shizune had pushed her out of the way. In less than ten minutes they had managed to get 10,000 ryo…Shizune chose to carry the bag…Tsunade however wanted to continue gambling…
"Come on Shizune, just a thousand ryo…" Shizune turned to her master…
"No."
"500 ryo?"
"No"
"400 ryo"
NO! Tsunade-sama, you need to get out of this gambling habit of yours, we already have debts with several influential individuals, we don't need any more fees we have to pay when we don't even have enough to pay for the debts we have!" Tsunade slumped her shoulders.
The two had been traveling for the last six years, they were both registered as Konoha shinobi, but they chose to leave Konoha. The last time they were in Konoha was six years ago when Minato's child was about to be born. If they had not been there then Kushina would have died in child birth…
After the Kyuubi attacked she watched as the hospital was set ablaze. She ran into the hospital and found that almost everyone was affected by the Kyuubi's malevolent chakra, most of them going into shock.
The next day she fled the village with Shizune when she was told that Kushina and her child was dead.
The two entered their hotel room, "Tsunade Senju" they looked to find a Konoha ANBU standing in the corner. Tsunade immediately got angry…
"What do you want?" The ANBU stood at attention…
"Tsunade Senju…I have an S class message that I must give to you…alone" he turned towards Shizune indicating that she needed to leave the room.
"Shizune" said apprentice turned towards her master, "I'll be fine…go." Shizune turned towards the door and began to walk out…but she turned her head towards the ANBU with a stern glare…
"Anything happens to Tsunade-sama…you die." She walked out of the room and closed the door. Tsunade turned towards the ANBU who was pulling out a scroll.
"So…what does the old goat want?" The ANBU passed her the scroll…she looked at it curiously and began to unroll it…she looked it over, when she finally got through it her eyes widened beyond all possible proportions…
Outside of the room
Shizune was standing outside the door; it was too quiet to be normal. She was about to open the door, "CRASH" when it flew off it's hinges as Tsunade charged out of the room, she turned towards her apprentice, "Shizune, pack your bags, we are heading to Konoha NOW!" she ran towards the lobby as the ANBU walked out of the room.
"What was that about?" the ANBU passed her a scroll labeled to her; she opened it up and read its contents…
Dear Shizune, no doubt you have seen Tsunade's reaction to the scroll she received, the scroll entailed details of a living user of the Mokuton blood limit. His name is Naruto Uzumaki, there is more information concerning him, but all the information is on Tsunade's scroll, and she is not to reveal it until I deem it permittable to do so.
The reason I am telling you this is because no doubt Tsunade will try to use her funds to buy a menagerie of items for a certain reason…I want you to prevent her from doing that…she does not need more debts than she already has.
Sincerely, Hiruzen Sarutobi…
Shizune looked at the scroll for a minute…then it suddenly clicked, "Shit, I have to stop Tsunade from going haywire on the shopping…hold this" she threw the scroll to the ANBU who was now running after her…
Next Day, With Naruto and Sasori
Naruto and Sasori had left that morning. Naruto and him had shared a little bit about their pasts…when Sasori heard about Naruto's past he unleashed a mess of puppet fury on the surrounding trees he was so angry. Most people didn't know, but Sasori had one weakness…children, he could not stand to see a child in pain, could not stand to see them sad, and now he finds a child who was often beaten to within an inch of his life, ridiculed and ostracized, and basically abused in both mental and physical perspective…it severely pissed him off.
After Sasori had vented the two had continued on their trek towards Suna…they were not actually going into Suna since Sasori was a missing-nin, but he needed to greet his contact, Sasori had a massive spy network that was probably the most advanced and intricate in all of the elemental nations, the only one who could possibly have a better one was Jiraiya of the Densetsu no Sannin.
The two arrived in a small town about a mile away from Suna's borders. The two found an abandoned building where they were to meet Sasori's contact.
As the two waited Sasori began to get Naruto to start working on his chakra control, "Sasori-sensei…how is this supposed to help me get stronger?" he indicated to the piece of string in his hand. Sasori sighed as he explained.
"The exercise is to increase your control; you have far too much chakra to suddenly start learning new things, for now I need you to start on the basics. The object of the exercise is to use your chakra to tie the string into a specific knot, and then use chakra to untie it. It is a difficult exercise, but we have no other way to increase you control for now." Sasori began to tinker with a sealing scroll as Naruto began to try and weave the string into a normal bow tie knot.
The two waited in the abandoned building for two hours, finally when Sasori was beginning to lose his patience Naruto yelled out, "YATTA I did it!" Sasori looked to find that Naruto had in fact managed to do it. He was surprised, with chakra stores that were so large he could sense them without even trying, it was a spectacular feat…but then Sasori noticed something, there was a controlled swirl of chakra surrounding his naval…it was narrowing down how much chakra was being used.
Sasori was about to ask Naruto about it when the door opened, Sasori turned his head, "Ah, Yura, you're here…" said Suna shinobi simply kneeled in front of Sasori.
"Sasori-dono...I am ready to make my report…
Konoha, Uchiha compound
Funu was walking towards the Uchiha gates. She had made all preparations for the plan…the one that would bring the Uchiha clan to its knees. Her parents had foolishly left documents around before their deaths, and with her higher than normal IQ of 197, it was child's play for her to understand what the documents meant. She was smart for a seven year old.
Although she had to thank the foolish Uchiha clan, had they not entrusted her idiot parents…parents who viewed themselves with such high reverence because of their bloodline that they became so arrogant that it was child's play to kill them…she would not have found a person who she could test herself against.
Part of the Uchiha clans plan to conquer Konoha involved Naruto. With the Kyuubi inside of him, any offspring he would have would become pseudo Jinchuriki, a type of Jinchuriki that had all a Jinchuriki's strengths, but had less of the weaknesses. After she found out about Naruto having the Kyuubi inside of him she followed him to see if her inborn 'power' would do to him what Madara…her great grandfather, did to the Kyuubi.
But when she found him…beaten and bruised…left near dead…she could not bring herself to do it. She looked him over and found the wounds already healing…but she stayed by his side and did what she could to nurse him back to health. She was only five at the time she found him beaten near death was only five when she began observing him every moment she could…she was only five when she made a vow, 'I will make you mine…and I will be free of this pathetic clan for good.'
And now…she was betrothed to him…now all she had to do was make sure that she was dominant in the group of girls that are lining up to have Naruto. She had no problem sharing, what she had a problem with was being submissive.
Her plan was coming to fruition…it looked like that little tip that she slipped Itachi was successful…now all she needed to do was let the pieces fall into place…and she would be the only Uchiha left alive…and the Sharingan…no…the perfect Sharingan…would belong to the Senju clan, and the Uchiha clan would fade into the pages of history.
She thought about her ancestor, 'Madara…you were a fool…you had the chance to gain a powerful bloodline when the Shodaimes sister offered herself to you, but your arrogance blinded you to the truth…but soon…the gift you passed on to me…will be in the Senju clan.' Funu activated her eyes and spoke, "Ninpo: Shunshin no Jutsu" she disappeared in a swirl of black flames…going to a safe house…while the Uchiha clan was massacred…
Kurama Compound
Yakumo was painting in her room…her father had told her she was to be betrothed to the heir of the Senju clan. She accepted, not caring in the slightest. She was far too depressed to care. A week ago her teacher had sealed up her kekkei genkai…she felt such betrayal, she regressed herself into a shell.
Her parents were worried about her. They asked Kurenai why she sealed up her bloodline. Her only reply was, 'She needs to learn control' her parents tried to get her to explain, but Kurenai left before they could question her further.
Lately Yakumo has been having constant nightmares, nightmares where an Oni takes over her body and uses her to its own ends. This worried her parents, as it was a sign that the darker curse of her bloodline had finally come out.
She only found solace in her paintings. Before she heard of the engagement she painted scenes of darkness and pain…but after the engagement she began to paint happier scenes of weddings, flowers, mountains…
Yakumo was painting furiously, trying to get out what was so intently on her mind…but every time she made a brush stroke she heard that same voice, 'Let me' she tried to shake it off but it kept coming. Finally she began to lose consciousness as she triedtofinish the painting.
When her eyes snapped closed she snored…her eyes opened revealing glowing orbs. She suddenly picked up the brush and with a wicked smile began to paint a picture. She grinned wider with each second…she finally placed the brush down, 'perfect…' Suddenly Yakumo fell back to sleep as the painting was revealed…
It was a painting of a burning Konoha with a silhouette of a wedding in the flames…the male had glowing crimson orbs, with a silhouette behind him…a silhouette of nine tails…
Time skip-Three days later
Naruto was trying to get the string to turn into different knots…so far he had managed to get it into a hangman's knot, a bow tie know, a sailors knot, and a lace knot…but he was still having difficulty with the kunai wrap knot.
Sasori had described that the knot was basically the wrapping around a kunai handle. But since he had to kunai handle he had to make do with his finger. Thus making it more difficult to properly channel the chakra through the fingertips.
Naruto looked over the knot Sasori had made to see what he was missing. He looked it over as he checked to see where he was going wrong. He was channeling chakra through the string like Sasori had told him…but for some reason the knot kept undoing itself after he finished.
Naruto began to wrap the string around his finger again…suddenly he looked his finger over. He remembered in one of his sensei's lectures that there were tenketsu points in the entire body, and the more chakra on had the more chakra points there were…Naruto tried to use his entire finger to make the knot, he smiled when he saw that it was a success.
"YATTA, Sasori sensei I got it!" Sasori looked over to the blond, astonished by his progress…
'Amazing, he has shown such great skill so soon…it's remarkable…I definitely found the right guy to be my apprentice…now to start him on my techniques' Sasori walked over to Naruto, "Very good…come, we have three days to get started on the next point of your training." Sasori began walking towards a tree. He tapped on the tree, shook his head and moved on. He went to another tree…tapped it, shook his head again and moved on. He continued this for a few minutes until he stopped at a tree with a dark red wood. He tapped it…he nodded his head; he circled the tree and tapped it a couple times…finally he smiled.
Sasori pulled out a scroll and suddenly was surrounded in smoke. Naruto covered his eyes as the smoke swept over him. As the smoke cleared he looked to where his sensei was…his eyes widened when he saw another figure with his sensei.
There was…what looked like a humanoid figure. Its arms were like that of a large zanbatou, but were curved like a machete. It had empty eye sockets, but its mouth was filled with saws. The thing was wearing a crimson cloak, with a design of a red scorpion on it.
Sasori was twitching his fingers, the humanoid object began to move, suddenly it looked at the tree and swung its massive blades arms. It then closed its mouth on the tree and began slicing it into wooden logs and planks. It began using its arms and sliced up the logs and planks into smaller bits.
The logs and planks fell to the ground into a neat pile. Sasori pulled out his scroll and suddenly the object vanished. He put away the scroll and walked over to the wood. He began to inspect it, he turned towards the shocked Naruto, "Naruto…come…" He pulled out a scroll and opened it…the wood disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Naruto slowly walked towards his sensei as they headed to a cave…
When they got there Sasori set up a fire using some of the wood that he deemed unfit for usage. Finally when the two sat around the fire Sasori spoke, "Naruto…as you saw my art revolves around puppetry. I will start you off with a simple design to work on, after that you will begin to design your own form of puppet…once you have created a few decent…regular puppets I will introduce you to the pinnacle of my art…" Sasori unconsciously placed his hand over where his heart should be. Naruto was curious about this but chose to ignore it, "For now…I wish you to create a simple battle puppet." Sasori pulled out a scroll and passed it to Naruto. Naruto looked at the scroll and opened it…
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"Um…Sasori sensei…" Sasori looked at his new apprentice.
"Yes…what is it you require?" Naruto looked away, as if he was ashamed of something…
"I…can't read kanji." Sasori's eyes widened at this, for a child at six years old to not know how to read…it was barbaric. Sasori spent the day teaching Naruto how to read the scroll, Naruto finally got the hang of it and began to read it on his own after a while.
The next morning Naruto began to use the wood and began to craft a battle puppet. The design was humanoid, but Naruto shaped the fingers to resemble talons…Naruto also carved in his own insignia. A Tenshiran flower with red slitted eye in the middle of it…he did not know why he put it there.
Naruto worked on the puppet for several days, applying gears and joints to where Sasori indicated. Finally after three days of working on the puppet it was now functional…at least from Naruto's perspective.
The puppet resembled a simple mannequin; its mouth was filled with sharpened teeth. Its shoulders had planks of wood that had a storage seal on each one. The hands were replaced with claws, each nail curved to resemble a talon. The eyes were red and had black slits in them…for some reason Naruto felt the need to place them there.
Sasori inspected the puppet; he began using his chakra strings. He quickly got the handle of it, but he noticed that there were some quirks in the design, but he was not surprised, after all Naruto did not know how to read until a few days ago.
He looked towards his student, "Well done…however, you made the bolts too tight on the left arm, and the neck movements are too loose…but besides that the design is quite good. Now…we will begin the next step…
A week later
Naruto and Sasori were heading towards a village in the land of rivers. Sasori had made a contact in one of the major villages, and he was now awaiting the end part of the bargain.
Naruto's outfit had changed a bit. He was no longer wearing rags. He now wore a long black poncho with tattered edges. The hood shadowed his entire face, as well as provided a way to shade oneself from the sun. Underneath the cloak he wore a wire mesh shirt and a set of black Hakama pants.
The poncho had three pouches, all three contained scrolls. One had his completed battle puppet, and the other two contained his new puppet designs…both were works in progress.
Sasori was now using his Hiruko puppet. Naruto had wanted to know why it looked so much like a human, but Sasori had told him he would find out when he was older. Sasori wanted to wait until Naruto was skilled enough in puppetry before he dropped the bomb of human puppets on him.
The two had entered the town, Naruto was holding a scroll at the ready…Sasori had told him to always be wary of others, and now that he was meeting a strange man that Sasori had told him he had only met through a various series of spy networks, he was extremely edgy.
The two arrived at their intended destination; it was an old cave near a river. The cave was covered by a genjutsu. Sasori placed his palm near the cave entrance and the genjutsu dropped, revealing a beautiful pagoda door. The door opened as the two walked through it. When they entered there was a light in the middle of the room with a man wearing a black cloak with red clouds standing to the side. His face was covered by a straw hat with bells on it…
The man spoke with a stoic voice, "Akasuna no Sasori…I have what you asked for." He reached into his cloak and pulled out a scroll and passed it to Sasori. Said Missing-nin took the scroll and gave it to Naruto, who placed it in a pocket in his Hakama pants, "I must thank you…without your poisons I would not have been able to pull off my feat."
Sasori chuckled a bit, in Hiruko his voice became more gravely and aggravated, "Yes…I hope that you are not cheating me on my prize." The man shook his head…
"No…unfortunately the item was damaged, missing parts of the right side…however; it looked like it had been removed intentionally." Sasori growled to himself.
"Hmm, that means that someone has vital portions…no matter, I shall still find use for it." The man stepped back as Sasori turned to Naruto, "Naruto" no one noticed the mans eyes widen, "Please leave the room for a few moments." Naruto nodded his head and exited the room. Sasori looked back at the man…
"So…by the change in your chakra, and the stance you are in, you must know this boy." Said man looked down.
"Yes…I knew him before…I used to watch out for him on the Sandaime's orders…he was such a nice boy." The man looked down as Sasori pondered.
"Yes…he is a nice boy, and he shows amazing potential in my art, hopefully he will surpass me before I expire." The man nodded his head…
"Well I must be off…also" Itachi reached into his cloak, "I have a message for you…from my organization." Sasori took the scroll, "You do not need to reply now…but it is highly suggested that you do at some point." Sasori nodded his head and put the scroll away…
"Thank you…Itachi Uchiha…" Itachi smiled under his hat…
"No…thank you…Akasuna no Sasori." He disappeared in a swirl of leaves as Sasori turned towards the door…now having a body that his student can create his first human puppet with…the body of Shisui Uchiha…
No one saw that coming did they...of course not, who would suspect a Shisui Uchiha puppet. The next chapter will show Tsunade in Konoha and her reaction to Naruto's situation.
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