Chapter 5

The Next Day…

'Of course, it's so simple now that I have finally achieved it, I wonder why I never saw it before. At last I can look upon the final scrolls of the True Uzumaki, but I shall do that after I graft the abilities of the Nidaime and Sandaime Hokages onto myself.'

Naruto looked at the sky for a moment as he finished absorbing the memories of the kage bunshin who had cracked the secret to using dead matter to gain the abilities of those who had died. It turns out that it just took a simple application of yang chakra to breathe life into previously dead cells, but one had to use the correct amount of yang chakra as too little would do nothing and too much would cause the cells to degrade as they couldn't cope with so much life within them. Ideally you would pour as much yang chakra as the dead person had within them when still alive for optimal results. Yet he had to also balance the Yang chakra with the necessary Yin chakra needed to integrate the bloodline into his body.

The fuuinjutsu genius made his way to the abandoned house once more after obtaining the necessary samples for the grafting, deciding to upgrade the seals and genjutsu that kept the place hidden once he was there.

Naruto drew the familiar seals once more, adding a few new ones which collected the ambient yang chakra in the atmosphere. They would then channel the correct amount into him after a few limiters were drawn to regulate how much yang chakra entered his body during the sealing.

Naruto injected the samples of the two Hokage into himself, having decided to obtain both of their abilities at the same time in order to speed up the process. He was worried about the pain, it would certainly be a difficult procedure, the addition of Sarutobi and more importantly, Senju, blood would certainly cause a change in his own DNA structure. He had been working on pain dampening seals which would limit the amount of pain his body could feel, but they were not yet complete, having only recently ventured into the realm of Iryō ninjutsu.

He screamed out the moment the process began, the all-encompassing pain which consumed his mind. However he endured it and knew that he was successful once he was able to feel the chakra as well as the natures aligned to that chakra of those near him, an ability which was clearly from the Nidaime Hokage. In addition he could feel a humongous increase in his chakra reserves, putting him on par with a kage.

With this confirmation, the still shaking genin got up and made his way back to his 'home' where he had left the many Uzumaki scrolls he had.

The boy did not fear anyone discovering them, this was not only because no one ever entered his room but also because he had hidden the scrolls under layers of genjutsu and seals which would require genjutsu and fuuinjutsu masters to break them.

As Naruto entered the large family home, he groaned internally as he saw that the 'family' was gathered around the table having dinner.

The place fell silent as Naruto entered but they quickly carried on talking as he made his way upstairs, hovering when he heard them talk about Natsumi's training so far.

"So how's Natsumi-chan doing Kushina-chan, Jiraiya-sensei?" This came from Minato, who was unable to train his daughter else it would show favouritism again even if they were related, so he had given the task to his wife and sensei.

"She can use seven Uzumaki chains at once and controls three tails of the fox's chakra dattebane! Our little baby is awesome in everything else!" Kushina positively gushed over her daughter's progress in such an important area as it would allow Natsumi to better protect herself and kick the butt of Mikoto's son.

Everyone else sweat dropped at the very basic report which told no one anything about Natsumi's current level. Minato turned to Jiraiya who responded with a much more in-depth report.

"Heh the gaki is pretty impressive, her taijutsu skills are low Jounin but will probably be a solid Jounin by the time the exams come. Her ninjutsu repertoire is already at a good Jounin level and will probably be at a high Jounin level come the exams, she can use A-rank futon jutsu quite well and has just started using B-rank suiton jutsu. In addition Ma and Pa have expressed some interest in teaching the gaki Senjutsu when she's a bit older and her body can better handle it."

The table gasped slightly at that, even Naruto was surprised at Natsumi learning such a powerful thing so young.

"Really, now that would be something to see, I wonder how much havoc the gaki will cause with sage mode," Tsunade chuckled at the thought as did the rest of the table as Natsumi blushed when the adults talked about how much mischief she could get into with her pranks.

"She's gonna need everything she can get to beat Gaara and Sasuke," this comment came from Kakashi which caused the table to fall silent once more at the Elite Jounin's remark.

"And why is that Kakashi-kun?"

"Well we all saw Gaara's strength but I'm more concerned about how fast Sasuke is progressing, Itachi is being fairly brutal with the boy who has unlocked the third stage of his Sharingan. It looks as though Itachi wants the boy to be able to use it at its fullest potential while also not relying upon it too much. I've been asked by both Itachi and Fugaku to help him improve his usage of the Chidori seeing as how Sasuke has a powerful raiton affinity and has already learnt the basics of the technique, I agreed as he will need the technique to beat Gaara."

"How strong do you think he'll be by the time the exams come then Kakashi?"

"High level Jounin speed and genjutsu, solid Jounin level taijutsu and ninjutsu, I don't know if Itachi will give him the crow contract or not."

Natsumi frowned at how powerful her rival will become the Chunin Exam Finals, "Well then I'll just train even harder, Kaa-chan, Ero-Sennin, you both have to make me train harder and give me awesome skills to beat Sasuke without using the fox's chakra dattebane!"

The table chuckled at the exuberance and Natsumi's verbal tic and continued with their meal, discussing plans for Natsumi's training and how she should counter the abilities of the Uchiha when they would surely meet in the final match of the exams.

"Hey, how is Sakura doing kaa-chan, Kakashi-sensei?"

The innocent question by Natsumi made the other two, who had forgotten their third student, blush in embarrassment, it was here that Tsunade began to chuckle.

"What's so funny Baa-chan!?" A tick mark appeared on Tsunade's brow at Natsumi's affectionate/insulting name for her, but she regained her calm composure.

"Your teammate approached me not long ago asking to learn Iryō ninjutsu in order to 'help my teammates and heal them after their reckless stunts' I believe she said. The girl is weak physically but has perfect chakra control, I think she'll be able to learn everything I can teach her, even my best techniques. So the pink haired brat is my new apprentice."

A pin drop could be heard in the room as Tsunade had once sworn she would never take another apprentice and only continued to teach Shizune because she was related to Dan and had promised to look after her, eventually establishing a very close relationship with the girl. This meant that Sakura had a huge amount of potential if Tsunade was willing to go back on her word as the Sannin had very high standards in order to take anyone on as a full-time apprentice.

"Well we've definitely gotta step up your training now gaki, else Sakura will be punching you to kingdom come if she inherits Tsunade's legendary temper, she might even-" Jiraiya said no more after Tsunade punched her former teammate, knocking him out and cracking the wall in the process. As the drama continued Naruto made his exit.

He smirked at hearing of the progress Team 7 were making, knowing that he himself was going to be at a far higher level considering how he was already at a solid Jounin level, thus by the time the exams came around Naruto intended to be at an Elite Jounin level, only being beaten by S-rank shinobi because of his lack of experience with his new abilities.

By this point he had entered his room, a sparse place because he spent so little time he spent inside it and therefore spent no time in decorating the place.

Naruto made his way to a specific section on the wall which had nothing obstructing it. Dispelling the complex genjutsu and fuuinjutsu seals he had placed upon it revealed a small storage seal which he also dispelled. Now holding a small scroll in his hands, Naruto opened it up and saw the familiar seal which he had first seen as a boy, a seal which was capable of scanning his genetic make-up in order to determine if he was capable of advancing to the next level of fuuinjutsu, an ingenious development of his people.

After a few minutes the scroll had obviously determined that Naruto had the appropriate skills, namely it had detected DNA from a clearly deceased individual which indicated that a True Uzumaki could advance to being a level 8 fuuinjutsu master.

Smoke filled the room as several scrolls were unsealed, as such Naruto created a few kage bunshin to help him sort out and read these scrolls.

He himself picked up a smaller scroll, usually a sign that it was a message as opposed to pure information.

Dear True Uzumaki,

Now that you have achieved this prestigious level that has seldom been reached you are ready to hear our final secrets.

These are dangerous secrets which not only entail all our research on dojutsu and how to implant them into yourself, but also what we have learnt about the Senju, Uchiha and Hyuuga clans. These scrolls detail their history, their origins and speaks of what little we have learnt about their founder, the Rikudou Sennin.

In addition we have theorised as to why Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha were so much stronger than any of their ancestors and what could happen if you grafted their abilities onto yourself.

My final request is this, if you manage to gain the powers of the Rikudou Sennin himself, if you are all but a God in strength I ask that you use these powers to resurrect us from death as hints from our most ancient scrolls have revealed and allow us to get our revenge on the fools who destroyed us.

Good luck

Uzumaki Arashi,

72nd Head of the True Uzumaki branch

Naruto felt somewhat proud that he was given access to such important information and entrusted with the final wishes of the former clan head, the resurrection of his people, the True Uzumaki. Such things as family had little meaning to him, but allies who shared his cause, these people he could connect with.

He was excited as well. Excited at the implications of this, excited at what he would learn over the course of the next few days.

Naruto decided to postpone using Hashirama's cells for now, interested in what his predecessors had to say about the effects of such a thing.

Making up his mind, Naruto read for the rest of the day absorbing the information contained within the scrolls alongside his kage bunshin which dispelled regularly to provide context to other pieces of information as he read.

This would continue for the rest of the week, Naruto had his kage bunshin read as he began to practice his new/enhanced affinities.

This meant Naruto had major affinities for all the elements thus giving him access to a wide range of jutsu which he practiced with to reduce the number of hand seals required.

The blonde Uzumaki had no issues with controlling said affinities or his chakra in general as both the Nidaime and Sandaime were known for having a superb control over everything about themselves, this includes their chakra. This meant he had little to train in the way of chakra control, he was now more focused on mastering his control of each element.

Yet this was only the tip of the iceberg for the knowledge contained within the scrolls left to him was overwhelming.

Research with precise instructions on how to implant dojutsu bloodlines. The collective histories of the Uchiha, Senju and the Hyuuga, whom he had thought little of. This information included how they postulated that there were more advanced forms of the Sharingan and Byakugan which granted more powerful abilities, but they knew not how to unlock them.

Naruto learned of the two brothers who were both sons of the Rikudou Sennin and how the younger who had inherited his body was chosen as his successor. Whilst the elder who had inherited his eyes was seemingly disowned, Naruto found it almost amusing that the Senju-Uchiha rivalry began at their very foundations.

Scrolls which had been copied from the Hyuuga suggested that their family was descended from the younger brother of the Rikudou Sennin therefore making the Hyuuga just as old as the other two great clans of Konoha. It also mentioned that the man was able to use techniques similar to his older brother, which were just as powerful in their destructive abilities making Naruto agree with his ancestors that there had to be a higher level to the Byakugan as the Hyuuga had never shown such techniques before.

The final scroll detailed how his ancestors had pieced together information from all three clans from which they derived three conclusions:

That there had not always been nine Bijuu, at one point there was only one.

The second conclusion was that this one Bijuu was something else, something more, quite possibly related to the Shinju which was detailed in their legends as a primordial God.

The final thing the scrolls put forth was a mere idea, a breathless theory of awe and pure conjecture. The Rikudou Sennin may not have been the first person to wield chakra, for history never stated he was the original wielder of chakra, just the one who spread it throughout the world. In fact one ancient scrap of manuscript suggests that there was someone…greater.

In the back of Naruto's mind a plan began to form, a plan which involved the Bijuu, their chakra and fuuinjutsu.

Yet before Naruto devoted attention to or even considered these fledgling ideas he decided to investigate the effect that the Shodaime's cells may have on his body, using the research of his predecessors with that of his own involving multiple bloodlines.

For the second week after the second part of the Chunin Exams Naruto experimented, specifically with how much yin and yang chakra would be necessary to activate and implant the Mokuton wielder's cells.

The cost would be astronomical, far too much for Naruto to collect normally as he would have to have seals in all of the five great shinobi villages before he had enough yang chakra for the Shodaime's cells to activate.

As a result Naruto was forced to look elsewhere for a solution and he could only find one. To take and separate some of the yin and yang chakra contained within the Kyuubi.

This was a very dangerous idea as Natsumi was constantly monitored and was liable to detect if Naruto was pulling chakra from her prisoner.

But living in the same house had some good benefits, so the blonde genius developed a plan.


The Next Morning…

He waited until the others had left the house, Minato for the Hokage Tower to work, Kushina and Natsumi to train.

Naruto then made his way into Natsumi's room after disabling four different detection seals, three barriers and one failsafe.

The boy blanched at the ostentatious room, the girl's obsession with orange was blatantly unhealthy, chairs, pillows, walls, it even had a picture of ramen for goodness' sake! The disturbed boy quickly placed and hid a Hiraishin seal in Natsumi's room, having more than enough ability to use a single seal, although multiple seals in a combat situation still eluded him. This granted him access that night swiftly and silently. He then placed an additional seal on her bed to force Natsumi into a deep sleep. As he exited Naruto reweaved the fuuinjutsu back into place, placing some extra parts into his seals which imitated chakra, thus making it feel as though Kushina and Minato had placed the seals as opposed to him.

During that night Naruto used the Hiraishin seal to get inside Natsumi's room finding her in a deep sleep. He placed a seal which replicated the effect of a Sharingan genjutsu on Natsumi, preventing her from waking up and slightly subjugating the fox within her.

Naruto used a final seal to draw out and subsequently store the chakra of the Kyuubi. It didn't take long as Natsumi's usage of the Bijuu's chakra in training had loosened her seal meaning it was easily drawn out by others.

After taking a considerable amount of chakra, Naruto removed any evidence of his seals and left using a Hiraishin seal he had inside his own room.

As the next day arrived, it saw Naruto shivering with anticipation as he made his way into the abandoned house under the assumption that this would be the most difficult as well as delicate procedure he had conducted.

Naruto separated the two components of the Kyuubi's chakra, a process which took several hours because of the reluctance of the semi-sentient chakra to be split apart.

Naruto then added many extra seals to the normal array as part of a process to direct the Kyuubi's chakra. In the end he had to use a triangular formation, one part containing the yin chakra, one part the yang and the third had himself within it.

Naruto injected Hashirama's DNA into himself, immediately activating the sealing array. He was glad for the pain inhibitors which he had perfected, without them Naruto would have been driven completely insane.

Each second felt like an hour, an eternity of suffering compacted into every moment. The boy knew not how long he had been there, only that it felt like it had been far too long as a war of chakras was fought inside of his body as each one sought to dominate the others, with only the yin and yang chakras of the Kyuubi holding him together.

Yet after eons of pain the Uzumaki finally felt the potent chakra of the Senju begin to merge with his own. This caused even more pain as said chakra forced his own pathways to open far wider than normal in order to accommodate the sheer amount of chakra that the Shodaime had.

As the final vestiges of pain left his system Naruto fell into a blissful state of unconsciousness. After an unknown amount of time Naruto woke up feeling very weak and had to almost drag himself to make his way back to his 'home'.

At this point the genin could not feel the changes that had occurred. It took Naruto a long time to get to the Yondaime's home because he could not use any chakra to assist, or even run back.

Part way through his trek back to his area of residence Naruto heard the current date and cringed at realising he had been out of it for five days. It was likely that he would be interrogated and punished once he finally entered through the door of the house.

Yet no punishment came. Not for a lack of people as the usual crew of his 'family' plus Jiraiya, Tsunade and Kakashi sat at the table eating ramen once more.

But no comment was made, just the usual silence followed by them ignoring his presence and dismissing the boy inside their heads.

Naruto knew that they didn't care about him, that he was all but a failure in their eyes however he became outraged that he was so underneath them that they didn't even realise he had been missing for the better part of a week.

'How dare they dismiss me so easily, how dare they write me off so much that they don't even acknowledge my existence after nearly a week of not seeing me. If Natsumi had disappeared for even a second a village wide lockdown would be in place with every shinobi searching for the 'princess'. I'll make them pay for this betrayal, for not acknowledging me and the accomplishments I have achieved.'

Naruto was not angry out of some sense of misplaced love or lingering trust in his family that they could redeem themselves. No, he was furious at the fact that they would write him off so easily. He resented how much focus was on Natsumi and her abilities when he was clearly superior to her in every way.

Naruto had no more time to spare on these pathetic people, making his way into his room where he would stay for a further two days in order to recover, doing nothing except eating and sleeping to gain energy.


After the third week from the Chunin preliminaries had passed Naruto made his way into Training Ground 23 for the first time in a week and began to practice his regular exercises before engaging in training.

They were easy, too easy. Even with his gravity seals adding extra weight to his body these exercises shouldn't be so easily completed as he hadn't long ago accessed this level of the gravity seal.

So Naruto deactivated his weights and decided to see how fast and strong he was, he was amazed by what he discovered.

He now had clearly low kage level speed and strength, finding that he could destroy trees with minimal effort from his own body and run around the training ground several times in mere seconds.

This was clearly a side effect of gaining the True Senju body. Instead of having to work his body to a more advanced level with the new potential he had, his body was already leagues ahead of his normal level, allowing his body to progress even further and at a far faster rate than before.

Giddy at this knowledge Naruto began his exercises again, only with the gravity seals far stronger to push his body once more.

Naruto then began to use the kage bunshin but stopped when he felt his reserves, they were HUGE. In fact his reserves now dwarfed every shinobi's in the village, matching even Natsumi's ridiculously advanced reserves. But his reserves had the capacity to increase even more than what they were currently at and it appeared that it came with perfect control as Naruto felt no difficulty in shaping his chakra.

As he used the kage bunshin Naruto was pleased to note that there were fifty before him, Naruto intended to use these clones to enhance his training. Not by having many clones do the same thing, they would just make the same mistakes until they dispelled as they all thought the same way, no he would have them all practice different things, mostly elemental manipulation and techniques. Some would be dispatched to continue his research into fuuinjutsu and were now focused on Bijuu and dojutsu. Others would be used to practice his bloodlines that weren't the Mokuton.

Naruto himself would focus on the Mokuton bloodline, spending most of the day moulding earth and water chakra in order to produce a small sapling.

As he continued to practice throughout the day Naruto began to find that combining the two chakras together became easy.

By the end of the day Naruto could make several saplings rise from the ground at the same time, happy with his progress Naruto had all his kage bunshin dispel for the last time and reviewed what he had learnt in the day, practicing the various techniques he now knew.

He could use A-rank techniques for any of his affinities and had advanced far with the Hyoton bloodline, going so far as to form an ice mirror like Haku had, but only the one for now as he would require more practice before forming multiple mirrors at the same time. Furthermore Naruto now had access to four fairly long Uzumaki chakra chains which were much easier to use with his new chakra reserves, he theorised that soon he could have as many as nine chains around him at all times.

Come the end of the next day and Naruto performed his first wood technique.

"Mokuton: Moku Bunshin"

From the ground a wooden clone formed, soon changing its earthy features to resemble Naruto perfectly. This was quite the accomplishment as not only could wood clones transfer memories just like the kage bunshin but they were far more durable and hence they were superior in his eyes as his clones wouldn't have to be so careful in training. He may even use them as a form of taijutsu training.

So Naruto began to form multiple Moku Bunshin, even if it was individually in order to have them practice various skills, including Mokuton techniques as he tested the limits of his new body during his taijutsu practice.

Before he began his training a thought crossed the Genin's mind, Hashirama Senju was not only known for his prowess on battle but also his ability to heal others. With his now perfect chakra control Naruto could also perform Iryō ninjutsu, it was time to practice it by using a Moku Bunshin and using the scrolls he had copied from Natsumi on Tsunade's teachings about medical chakra and its uses.

By the end of the week Naruto could use Chunin level medical techniques, an astounding rate of progress which just showed the innate talent that the Shodaime had for medical jutsu. He was also able to form strong roots which could restrain someone, nothing as powerful as the legendary Jukai Kotan but perhaps enough to beat a high A-rank borderline S-rank shinobi.


Author's Notes

To all ye who are faithful, the action truly begins next week! Lots of fighting and the plot will start to move much faster. I hope you enjoyed this latest chapter, I also hope my explanation about Yin and Yang chakra and how it all fits into bloodlines makes sense. As far as my understanding of it goes, this fits in well with the story.

So until next time, Ja ne!