Chapter 8
The Valley of the End
It had been half an hour since Minato Namikaze had declared Naruto a nukenin and said defector was currently standing at the Valley of the End pondering his next step.
"Well first I'll escape to Tetsu no Kuni, few will think to look there for a nukenin who will only encounter a cold shoulder and suspicion but a good genjutsu should fool most of the samurai there, I just have to stay away from the elites and Mifune."
Naruto occasionally thought out loud when he deemed the area somewhat safe to talk in and it helped to order his thoughts in a chaotic moment like the past hour had been.
"After that I'll buy or build myself a house on the edge of some small village or town using my Mokuton and concentrate on my research and my techniques. After implanting the Sharingan I can start seeking out the various Jinchuuriki and obtain the chakra of their respective Bijuu."
Having created a rough plan Naruto turned towards the northwest where the land of Iron resides and sped towards the border.
A day into Naruto's journey he detected several presences very close behind him. Startled and alarmed by how close they had gotten without him noticing, Naruto made his way into a clearing nearby.
He automatically catalogued his surroundings as he entered the clearing, noticing the river nearby which he could potentially use for suiton jutsu if necessary as well as how easily he could use the Kawarimi. Of course his opponents would have the same advantages as well.
Having waited patiently for a few seconds, Naruto decided to confront his pursuers, "I know you're there, come out now."
Naruto could sense ten presences surrounding him, out of the ten only five revealed themselves to him.
Each was wearing an ANBU outfit, the standard form fitting outfit revealed nothing of the identity of his stalkers. There was no headband to identify the village these individuals came from, although the masks indicated that they were from Konoha, there were no distinguishing animal features on the masks.
The only sign of any identity was a single mark on the mask, a Ne symbol. Naruto became more alarmed by this, he had no information on such an organisation within Konoha, which made them from dangerous.
One of the blank faced individuals stepped forward from the group of five, "Naruto Uzumaki, our leader extends his regards and a request for you to join his organisation."
Blue eyes narrowed at the presumptuous statement, "Who is this leader and what organisation is this?"
The male in question shook his head at Naruto, "Our leader does not wish for us to divulge his name to you. Irregardless this organisation is called Root and we exist within the shadows of Konoha, taking on missions designed to protect the Leaf, whilst getting no credit or acknowledgement from the village. Our leader recognises your talent and abilities, he wishes for you to join us, perhaps even to become the new leader of this organisation. By doing so you might one day become the Hokage, our leader desires for such a strong person who is willing to do everything that can be done to take the lead within the village, to make it great once more."
Naruto's response to the small speech was to laugh, long and hard, for a minute before he calmed himself down.
"What an obvious ploy, your leader does not want me to know his name so I cannot track him down, clearly he is a paranoid man. In addition this leader asks me to join an organisation without any stipulations, says he will one day make me its head and then promises the position of Hokage? Firstly I would never become Hokage in an organisation which hides within the shadows, who would elect someone into a prominent position if they are relatively unknown? Your leader is a puppet master, who wishes to attach a new set of strings to me, in doing so I will become a puppet leader for him, forced to obey his whims as he gets all the benefits from my hard work. He likely wants access to my seals to strengthen himself so that he can personally deal with me should I become too unruly.
"So no, I shall not accept any position within this 'Root' of yours, it truly provides little benefit to me considering my plans for the future."
The atmosphere in the clearing became stony, Naruto was amazed by the ability of these people to exude such a cold presence when he could feel almost no signs of any emotions within their chakra. Normally when one was feeling emotions they would resonate with the chakra of the individual causing turbulence or chakra spikes, yet Naruto could feel almost nothing from these shinobi, he realised that they must have had extensive emotional conditioning.
"It is a shame you shall not join us, our master has said if you refuse his proposal to give you this message, 'Do not think you have gone unnoticed Naruto Uzumaki, I know you not only contain the Mokuton bloodline, but also the Hyōton and Sunaton bloodlines. I know of your plans to obtain the Sharingan in the future, considering you have taken the blood of Shisui and Sasuke Uchiha and I know you have Hyuuga blood as well.
"Wherever you go I shall find you young Uzumaki, for I had dealings with your ancestors in the past, the 'True Uzumaki' and I know of their abilities. Do not assume that plans are not already in place to deal with you in the future. I present another chance for you to join me, I can make you a truly great shinobi, one who will be remembered for generations, one who will be acknowledged by all, who will surpass his family and leave them straggling in the wind. All that is needed is for you to come to me and pledge yourself to my cause, the protection and strengthening of Konoha.'"
Naruto's eyes had widened throughout the speech as he realised that one man had obtained more information on him than anyone else. Someone had kept very good tabs on him and it alarmed Naruto that he didn't know anything about them.
More importantly is how much they had found out about his plans already. Even worse is that this person had met his ancestors before, so he had at least a working knowledge of his sect of the Uzumaki, who knew what else he had found out over the years?
He knew he had to find out more and his best option were the members of this 'Root' who stood before him. But he was wary, the warning about plans having already been made to deal with him could be a bluff, yet it may also be true. Currently Naruto didn't know anything, so he couldn't take any risks, he would have to retreat and set up a network designed to find out more about this shadowy organisation.
Explosions started to erupt around the clearing even as the Naruto in front of the Root ANBU vanished into smoke.
"Retreat!" Called out the figurehead of the ANBU, all of them fleeing from the trap laden area. In the end four of the ten ANBU died in the explosions and their mission was a failure.
Meanwhile Naruto was fleeing from the area, his mind racing as he attempted to figure out who this person was tracking him and how they had found him so quickly into his escape from Konoha.
It soon became obvious that whoever this man was, they must have ties with Orochimaru, as only the snake would have had any inclination that Naruto intended to flee from Konoha. Hence he was being monitored shortly after the second part of the Chunin Exams, a worrying notion indeed.
It took Naruto a further day before he reached the border of Tetsu no Kuni, where he applied several genjutsu interwoven with each other upon himself and then he enhanced the genjutsu by activating some seals on his body which would prevent any attempts at dispelling the genjutsu placed on himself. On top of this he shrouded the chakra which his genjutsu released, preventing most samurai and shinobi from being able to recognise him. He took so many precautions purposefully in response to the confrontation that occurred yesterday, now more paranoid than ever before.
His new appearance was that of a world travelled middle aged man who wore a straw hat which currently hung on his back as he was wrapped up in some warm fur to stave off the cold.
As he crossed over the border a patrol of samurai quickly encountered him and demanded why he was in the area. Naruto used a pre-prepared story about his desire to see all the sights in the world, taking odds and ends jobs as he travelled in order to make ends meet.
Producing various forged documents (courtesy of his fuuinjutsu and calligraphy skills), Naruto showed the samurai that he had indeed travelled across the world. He appeared to have travelled from the land of Fire to Noodles, to Tea and then through various islands, even going as far as the land of Keys before doubling back on himself and going through the land of Clouds and then Frost, staying in the land of Hot Springs for quite some time before skirting the troubled land of Rice until he arrived here, hoping to go to the land of Snow after spending time amongst the samurai.
After asking a variety of questions about his travels (anyone would be curious about a person who had visited so many foreign lands and the sights they had seen) the samurai gave 'Toshitsugu' a pass which would allow him to travel through their country for the next two weeks. Before that time was up he needed to register himself at a town or the capital to get proper documentation to travel here and work in the land of Iron.
Thanking them for their help, Toshitsugu made his way towards the capital of Tetsu no Kuni at a sedate, civilian pace. After getting out of sight of the samurai Naruto increased his speed exponentially, desiring to get to a particular town southeast of Iron's capital which was located rather close to Rice for his liking. Yet it was a fertile area where he could gain proper documentation (not forged for once) and his story as a traveller seeing the sights of the world but requiring work to feed and fund himself would easily hold up.
A few hours later found Naruto at the small but prosperous town of Senomura where he immediately registered and then made the person who questioned him completely forget he ever existed by placing a seal which made him forget the past hour or so. After he found a small home he could rent out at the outskirts of the town where he would be left in peace away from others and forced the landowner to forget about him, the transaction and even everything to do with the house after placing a seal which his ancestors had derived from the Yamanaka clan on the landowner.
Consequently Naruto made his way to his new home and began layering many seals over the area to disguise the place, force others to avoid it, alert him to intruders and protect the house from them. After placing enough seals to make even an Uzumaki pause, let alone some poor ANBU or Hunter nins or even a Root ANBU, Naruto felt comfortable enough to make the house a home/research base/training ground which he would use for the next few years.
The first thing he did was to set up a training regime for himself, so many events had occurred over recent months that Naruto still hadn't had time to fully adjust and train all of the elemental affinities and bloodlines he had access to. He was likely a low to mid-kage level shinobi at best, the only reason he had held off his parents and the others for so long was because he had constantly surprised them with his abilities, first his strength and speed, then his fuuinjutsu, Hiraishin and the various bloodlines he had acquired.
All in all Naruto needed to seriously increase his training if he wanted to survive the next few years with all the Hunter nin and bounty hunters coming after him.
What was of more concern to Naruto was the likelihood of Akatsuki taking an interest in him once he started going after the chakra of the Biju. He had only just figured out what they wanted by considering the fact that two of their members, Kisame Hoshigaki and Hiruko had both fought Natsumi and Sasuke, two powerful but seemingly inconsequential people.
Sasuke held little of interest other than his eyes, of which there was a whole clan to steal from and Natsumi wasn't of much more interest unless the Akatsuki wanted to kidnap her for a mission or to take the Kyuubi for some reason. Naruto chose option two and thought that the Akatsuki might know something about the Juubi which is why they are trying to collect the Biju. This meant that Naruto was on a timer to try and gather chakra from each of the Biju before the Akatsuki was able to extract them from their respective Jinchuuriki.
The first step to this was finding out what the Akatsuki were doing, seeing as this was all but impossible for someone like Naruto who had no contacts he had instead left a Chishio Bunshin in Konoha that could form Moku Bunshin which would disguise themselves as a family of four and monitor the seals he had left around the village. As well as attempt to investigate this other organisation within Konoha who had been monitoring him for so long, he would take extra precautions when digging around for information on them.
The Chishio Bunshin was an ingenious invention of the True Uzumaki which even they had labelled as a kinjutsu due to its requirements. You had to first give up approximately half the blood in your body and then you were required to pour eighty percent of all the chakra within you inside the sealing arrangement which contained your blood.
The result was a clone which perfectly matched your biological and chakra signature; it had its own chakra replenishing network and could perform all the same techniques as the original. The downsides were that the bunshin could only use up to seventy percent of the original's chakra capacity, it could still be dispelled if damaged enough and it had a maximum life of six months before it would be forcefully dispelled.
Nevertheless the pros outweighed the cons and Naruto now had a family of bunshin living in the village. What made this even more worthwhile is the fact that any bunshin which dispelled in Konoha would transfer their memories not only to the Chishio Bunshin but also to Naruto himself.
With his clones monitoring Konoha Naruto could devote all his time into training himself. He decided to use a similar method as to what he employed in Konoha, his clones could work on his fuuinjutsu, elemental and bloodline training, genjutsu techniques and Iryō ninjutsu while he solely devoted his time to taijutsu training and conditioning his body so it could access more of its newfound power as a result of having the True Senju body.
A month into this regimen and Naruto was shivering in anticipation as he received the memories of some clones who had made the final calculations needed to adjust the sealing formula so that he could absorb the DNA traits of the Uchiha and grant himself the Sharingan.
Naruto's new sealing room far outstripped the old warehouse he had used before, back then he had to worry about someone discovering his handiwork or detecting the chakra which emanated from the lines of sealing script. With no such restrictions Naruto had placed seals which would draw the ambient nature chakra in the surrounding environment and then filter it into its Yin and Yang components. This provided Naruto was a constant supply of Yin and Yang which he could use as he desired, however the seals could only channel so much nature chakra before they overloaded, so Naruto had to limit the amount of chakra he had the seals extract in any given day.
But all of these thoughts were errant distractions as Naruto made his final preparation for his next bloodline. The sealing arrangements were in perfect order and Naruto once more knelt in the middle of the flowing black lines, the blood of Sasuke contained in a small bowl in his hands.
With a cheery "Bottoms up!" to himself Naruto drank the blood of Sasuke and allowed the process to begin.
He was once more thankful for the pain dampening seals which he had developed to work in conjunction with all the seals as Naruto felt a searing pain radiated throughout his being, concentrated in his eyes.
Naruto fought through the pain and began his part in the process in forcing Yin chakra to make what could be, into reality. However it was far harder than normal, the powerful Yin chakra of the Uchiha did not wish to obey his wishes and appeared to be actively fighting against mixing with his own chakra, or more specifically the Yang component of his chakra.
Naruto screamed as the pain within his body intensified, feeling an increasing desire to claw his eyes from out of his head and was forced to remind himself that he would lose what he sought if he gave into his body's demands. If one were looking at the Uzumaki from the outside, they would be shocked by the blood pouring out from behind closed eyelids.
Naruto fought a long battle in subduing Sasuke's potent Yin chakra to obey his desires and forcing it to combine with his own to grant him the power of the Uchiha.
Unknown to Naruto he had been fighting for a week before he succeeded in acquiring the Uchiha bloodline. But Naruto felt it was worth it when he opened his eyes for the first time since falling unconscious and he could already tell that there was a significant difference in his perception without even using the Sharingan.
Naruto shakily got up from the ground and gradually started to push chakra into his eyes as the scrolls left by his ancestors instructed him to. He felt a slight burning sensation before everything around him became clearer. Naruto noted that he could see blue lines everywhere, which he deduced to be the chakra contained within the fuuin surrounding him.
"This is…simply amazing."
Naruto shook himself from his reverie as took out a kunai as final test to see if he had the Sharingan as he looked at his reflection upon the weapon.
"Sugoi…I've done it!" Staring back at Naruto were two red eyes each containing a single tomoe in them.
The next five months proved to be both invigorating and frustrating for the former Konoha Genin. Since Naruto had gained the Sharingan when he was already a powerful shinobi it meant it was far harder for him to make it progress as he was unlikely to encounter a life-threatening situation and his body was already fast enough to keep track of what his new eyes were telling him, therefore the Sharingan initially did not advance past the first tomoe.
Naruto's solution to this after two months of failure was to create three Chishio Bunshin (created over the course of a week) to fight him in lethal circumstances by using everything they had against him. Because both sides had the same skill sets, the Chishio Bunshin were more than able to make up for what they lacked in power through their numbers and the creation of clones, which Naruto didn't do himself to provide a greater challenge.
The result of the next three months of gruelling beat downs courtesy of his own clones forced Naruto's Sharingan to progress to two tomoe in each eye, although he hadn't yet gained the third tomoe Naruto could feel that he was getting closer with each passing day.
What currently disturbed Naruto was the recent information he had received from Konoha through his clones. It had been determined that the due to the Yondaime Mizukage's death and the subsequent dispersion of the Sanbi's chakra, it would likely be another 2 ½ years before the Akatsuki resumed their Biju hunting operation in an attempt to keep themselves hidden.
This interfered with Naruto's own plans as he could no longer collect the Biju in order unless he wanted to play a dangerous game with the Akatsuki, which Naruto wasn't willing to do. Therefore he decided to go for those Jinchuuriki that people either didn't care about or were loaners.
Hence why Naruto had decided to first apprehend the Yonbi and Gobi Jinchuuriki, both of whom he had learnt through his clone network weren't regularly tracked by the Tsuchikage. His next target would be the Rokubi container who didn't keep in touch with Kiri after he had defected during the bloodline purges. Naruto's fourth target would be the Nanabi Jinchuuriki Fuu who was treated as an outcast within her village but would still be fiercely protected by the shinobi there.
This would leave the Nibi, Sanbi and the Hachibi, two of whom would be very well protected whilst the third would be in full Biju form and thus very obvious. This means that it would become a contest as to who found and got to the Sanbi first.
Six months after leaving Konoha and arriving in Senomura saw Naruto ready to move on. Although he would keep this area as a base to return to after gaining each tailed beasts' chakra.
His first target would be the Gobi Jinchuuriki Han, whom he had heard (through his clones in Konoha who had been listening in on conversation between Minato and Jiraiya as they kept track of the lone Jinchuuriki) that he was no longer in Tsuchi no Kuni and had since moved to the vicinity of Yugakure no Sato.
Han was well renowned for his title 'Joki no Jinchuuriki' so Naruto thought it very likely that the man was in one of the famous villages known for their superb hot springs.
The first couple of days were very unnerving as Naruto again skirted the top of Sound in an attempt to avoid Orochimaru and any of his subordinates. He was not cocky enough to believe he could take on Orochimaru's full power, especially if he had backup.
Two days later Naruto was in the country where Han was wondering, however it took Naruto a further two weeks to track the man down to a small, private and expensive hot spring located in the middle of the country where a string of more public hot springs were located.
Naruto believed that subtlety would be of no use here as Han would sense him coming from a mile away. Instead he eliminated any guards surrounding the private area and was about to enter the building when he found Han already waiting for him at the entrance. The man was already dressed in his usual red armour with black ANBU trousers, a mask covering his face and a red hat to complete the getup.
"What do you want?" The man's voice was very deep and it sounded calm, as if nothing could surprise him.
Naruto's reply was short, "Your chakra."
Naruto could see the slightest rise of an eyebrow, "You mean the Gobi's chakra, why?"
"An experiment, I only need a tails worth."
"I refuse."
Naruto smirked at the answer, "I was hoping you'd say that, I have a lot of skills which I'd like to test in combat."
Naruto began the fight with a simple punch that was easily caught in a single hand.
"You are young and very, very stupid."
Han's retaliating punch was enhanced by his Futton which was a side effect of having the Gobi sealed into him and it launched Naruto into a mountain which surrounded the area.
The Naruto that was punched dissolved into water, a clear sign of the Mizu Bunshin. When the real Naruto reappeared he became serious, activating his Sharingan, spotting that Han was running at high speeds using his Jōki Bakushin preparing another Funsuiken.
His Sharingan predicted the attack pattern of Han just in time to move out of the way as the entire hillside moved from the punch which impacted where he was previously.
Naruto unsealed the sand contained in a storage seal painted on his body and formed a spear which was thrown at the imposing man.
"Saikō Zettai Kōgeki: Shukaku no Hoko"
Han deflected the spear instead of facing it head on, allowing it to penetrate several meters into the ground before its momentum was stopped.
"Sunaton, so you're serious then."
"Sunadan no Jutsu"
A series of small sand bullets formed in the air and targeted Han who began to dodge the tiny projectiles which would punch a hole through anything it impacted against.
Han quickly grew tired of the small sand bullets and decided to counter the jutsu with one of his own.
"Futton: Kōmu no Jutsu"
A technique which released an acidic mist which corroded anything it touched, including the sand bullets which couldn't withstand the high pH levels of the mist. In addition the fast diffusion of the mist forced Naruto to cry "Sabakuha!" to form a defensive sand shield which temporarily held the mist at bay so Naruto could form his next attack.
"Hirogari Tei Ihen"
This particular wind technique had no cutting power but was an instrument of brute force which was similar to Fuuton: Atsugai but far stronger, completely blowing the mist back towards Han and then ripping up the earth underneath the Gobi Jinchuuriki, blowing him straight into the hot spring building as said building itself had parts torn up and blown away.
This gave Naruto the time he needed to stage his next technique as he used the sand he had released previously to begin crushing the earth underground to form more sand. Once he had enough sand Naruto paused for a moment to concentrate on what he was about to do.
"Ryūsa Bakuryū"
A tidal wave of sand emerged from the earth and began to engulf everything around it in a sea of sand, changing the very landscape and even washing away what remained of the building which housed the hot springs.
Han was buried underneath the meters of sand which layered on top of each other to imprison him. But Naruto knew it wouldn't hold the man for very long and was about to use a doton jutsu when he quickly shunshined away from his current position as Han burst through the sand, covered in the red chakra of his Biju.
Han closed in once more and began a fierce taijutsu match which Naruto was hard pressed to keep up with, even with his Sharingan. Han's blows were stronger and faster in this new form and Naruto was accumulating damage.
Unable to move fast enough to counter the Biju enhanced man, Naruto felt his internal organs boil slightly as Han scored a direct hit on Naruto's abdomen and launched him back into his own sand, burying him.
Naruto used his current environment to his advantage and solidified the sand so that it protected him from Han for a few moments as he used some Iryō ninjutsu to heal himself.
Naruto realised he was out of time when he felt a building pressure above him which was penetrating his sand shield. Han had used the Futton: Isoi de Kiri Jutsu to launch a concentrated version of the Futton: Kōmu no Jutsu which was aimed at a single point instead of covering an entire area. The high pressure would force the mist through most obstacles and would melt them faster, however it was a fairly easy attack to avoid as it moved in a single direction.
Naruto manipulated the sand to cocoon his body and shift it away from the rapidly approaching mist, he then had the layer of sand which covered the area form into a multitude of spears and shuriken which he launched against Han, who easily batted them aside or dodged them. This gave Naruto the opportunity to recover some more before he propelled himself straight towards Han and began to use his chakra chains against the Jinchuuriki.
At first Han batted away the two chains which approached him until two more swarmed him and bound the arm which was about to punch Naruto. Feeling his chakra sealed where the chains wrapped around him Han became aware of the danger they posed and substituted with a Mizu Bunshin that had clearly been prepared for such an event.
After the bunshin was destroyed by his chains, Naruto avoided another steam enhanced strike before sending more chains to pursue the man, with Naruto following behind and striking Han, who was now on the defensive as he could not keep up against the combined abilities of the Uzumaki chakra chains, Naruto's enhanced body and his Sharingan all at once.
Naruto now firmly held the upper hand as he began to score shallow strikes through Han's tough armour. Each strike seemed to take a little more out of the man as he was worn down by Naruto's attacks. Yet he made sure that he was not wrapped by his chains, constantly shifting or replacing himself with clones so that they couldn't get a hold of any parts of his body.
Eventually Han let his guard down for a moment and Naruto seized the opportunity to strike with a chakra enhanced punch, propelling the scratched and bloody Han away from him. But this is exactly what Han wanted as he began to enter the second stage of his Biju transformation, however before he could Naruto smirked in accomplishment and held a single handseal as he cried:
"Uzumaki Fuuinjutsu: Hokufu Sei Mahi"
All of Han's movement stopped and the red bubbling chakra which had begun to creep up on him vanished, leaving only Han's real body behind.
"I know you can't speak or move so I'll tell you about this technique as I extract the chakra I need."
Naruto confidently approached the motionless Han and drew a special sealing formula which would channel Han's Biju energy into a scroll which Naruto set onto the ground.
"The Hokufu Sei Mahi is a technique which completely halts all body and chakra movement. You see for a Jinchuuriki such as yourself a normal demon suppressing seal won't work as you have enough control to simply burn through the sealing formula, therefore an alternative method has to be found. There are a few methods to go about this, the easiest and brutish method would be to knock you unconscious and then forcefully extract the chakra, however this takes a rather long time. Secondly you can use a sealing array like I have, it keeps you conscious and keeps your chakra active, making it far easier to extract. Finally you could have a bloodline like the Mokuton extract the chakra out for you, a method I will likely use in the future.
"Now you might wonder when I applied this technique, the truth is I used it after you blocked my first punch, hence why you were able to strike me afterwards and why I had prepared a bunshin beforehand to substitute with. It just takes a little while for the seal to slowly and completely infect your chakra network, a particularly tricky task with a Jinchuuriki such as yourself but it nevertheless worked."
Having finished his explanation Naruto devoted all his energies into taking the chakra he needed from Han. A minute later and he was done, so Naruto gave Han a final message, "Now before I go you should know that there is an organisation called the Akatsuki who are intent on completely extracting your Biju from you, which as I'm sure you know will kill you. Before you dismiss them you should know that the Akatsuki is made up of S-rank criminals and they have a tendency to travel in pairs. As to why I am telling you this information, well I'd like it if they were delayed for as long as possible, whatever they want with the Biju, it won't be pretty."
His message given, Naruto placed a series of demon suppressing seals on Han. Since the man could not access his chakra then he could no longer burn through the seals, so when Naruto activated all of them at once, the natural result was Han falling unconscious. Naruto estimated that it would take around one full day before the man woke up again.
Before Naruto left he placed one more seal on Han, it became invisible the moment it was on the target so Han would never notice the black lines which were under his left ear.
The seal in question was paired with a book and would record all the conversations that Han would have in the future. For Naruto had a hunch that Han would inform Roshi of this encounter in the near future in order to prepare the man; if so then Naruto could find out where Roshi currently was and where he would be heading next, allowing Naruto to easily find the man.
His task finished, Naruto picked up the large scroll containing the Gobi's chakra and attached it to his back before leaving the area and Yu no Kuni, again travelling through the top of Oto no Kuni before arriving back in Tetsu no Kuni and his home in Senomura.
As he arrived Naruto made his way into a hidden room which was under the hidden research lab which was in the hidden home. It stood to reason that such a place had so many traps that it would take days for anyone else to even begin to decipher them, if they ever found the place that is seeing as Naruto had used some pretty complex Jikukan Ninjutsu to put this particular room in a dimension which was slightly out of sync with the real world. This meant that unless one had the exact sealing formula to enter the dimension then they would be trapped in a limbo of sorts until they died.
The entire process had cost Naruto more chakra than he'd like to admit, however he believed that it was worth it because inside the room were several scrolls filled with everything Naruto had received from the True Uzumaki. In addition there was a wall at the back of the room which had nine spaces to hold something, two of which had been filled with massive scrolls. One of the scrolls was now empty, having once contained the chakra of the Ichibi Naruto had gained from Gaara, the other scroll still held the chakra of the Kyuubi which Naruto had remaining.
He approached the wall and placed the scroll on his back in the fifth slot before he once more left the room and placed the whole area out of sync with reality once more.
Author's Notes:
I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, special thanks to BloodKingEclipse for pointing out a few issues I had forgotten about (namely Danzo's interest in Naruto, we'll be seeing more of him sometime in the future). Now I wonder who Naruto will go after next?
The map I am basing my view of the Elemental Nations on is not one I can claim credit for. All credit instead goes to Shadow Rebirth who designed and created the map. Said map can be found on Deviant Art through the following link:
xshadowrebirthx .deviantart art/ Elemental-Nations-Geographical-Map- 317422439
Here's a list of the techniques:
Chishio Bunshin – Blood Clone – A unique clone, one that half the blood currently contained within the body. It then requires a further 80% of chakra currently within the person's body. This forms a clone which is exactly the same as the original, barring a decreased chakra capacity. The clone lasts six months and can be dispelled through grievous and fatal wounds. Kinjutsu of the True Uzumaki. Not original, a slightly different spin on an old idea.
Sunadan no Jutsu – Sand Bullet Technique – From the sand multiple small bullets are formed. Despite their small size, the force with which they can impact against opponents will crush ribs or if propelled at high enough speeds, punch holes through a body. B-rank. Not an original technique, just provided a name to an existing technique.
Hirogari Tei Ihen – Spreading Air Disaster – The user hones a great amount of wind chakra within their body, focusing and refining the chakra. As they release it a great blast of wind tears through anything standing in its path, it has no cutting power, just sheer destructive ability. S-rank.
Uzumaki Fuuinjutsu: Hokufu Sei no Mahi – Uzumaki Sealing Technique: Creeping Paralysis – The user first touches their opponent, in doing so they inject a tiny amount of chakra, which is compressed sealing script, into their opponent's body. The script then travels along the chakra network of the opponent, unfolding as it does so into every chakra path and every part of the body, remaining inactive. After a few minutes the script has now fully infested the body of the opponent, the jutsu can then be activated, causing instant paralysis as the sealing script prevents any use of chakra and the body. S-rank.
Until next time, Ja ne!
