This AN is specially for those of you who believe that I have made Ruto a bit too powerful and did a mistake bringing back the previous Hokage along with Kushina and Mito.
OPness -- They won't seem too OP as they would be putting on resistance seals upon themselves so that their fighting styles won't be recognised or would seem as if they are somewhat proficient with it rather than the masters that they are. They would also put on chakra siphoning seals to limit the amount of chakra they could use as well as to get an additional source of chakra for later on.
Butterfly effect -- Well, Orochimaru usually keeps on changing his hideouts, so they can't really track them. And do you really think he won't send more spies to the village after Kabuto was captured? Then with Kimimaru(or whatever that bone boy's name was), would be really hard to kill. Even with Mokuton, it would be hard to restraint him. They would face problems with Obito due to his Kamui negating all attacks. Then pain and Konan would make them all break a sweat. Then Hidan's partner(the money minded akatsuki) would be an even greater problem along with Deidara(clay explosives one), these two just didn't die whatever you did. And then comes the sword 'Samehada' wielding one, Kisame Hoshigaki the 'Tailless Tailed Beast'. He could grow stronger than his opponent in raw power, and it would push them to the limits to defeat him using only taijutsu. Then there's the fact that none of them would be willing to change the events as the future knowledge would help them with their plans.
The Revived fighting Past Naruto's fights -- They are supposed to be a secret group of ANBU no-one knows about, so they can't interfere in young Naruto's fights as it would expose their group. All they can do is train him and hope for the best. Or hope that all of his teammates fall unconscious.
And they would want the boy to advance, to keep the 'Will of Fire' Burning bright throughout the village.
And I may even add the Otsutsuki's(The aliens who came to 'reap the crop' and took the 9 tailed beast and converted them to the red seed which worked like a chakra pill, the clan which Kaguya belonged to) in this fic just to see atleast someone beating all of their collective asses.
And well I would add Sasu/Saku/Civilian Council/Hyuuga council bashing to it too.
And I would add a few of my own theories about Chakra, which might make a few Assassin's Creed weapons be seen in this story.
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About Pairings -- Many people are asking for Ruto/Kushina or Ruto/Harem. I have a way to bend the plot enough to get the harem. I have added Kushina and Pakura to the pairing as I myself like these pairings. I will be reading the P.M.'s and reviews till the release of chapter 5. After that I would decide whether to change Ruto's pairings or keep with the original. Sorry I don't know how to set up a poll on a phone and net is working a bit too slow nowadays to open the site on my laptop. So review or P.M. your opinion to me on the pairing, and if you choose harem, then choose who all would be members of the said harem and the reason to add them.
The current pairings are : -
Future Naruto(Ruto)/Mei/Kushina/Pakura
Past Naruto/Hinata/Ino/fem. Haku/Temari/Kin/Tayuya/Anko/Yakumo/ Kurama(fem.kyuubi)/Samui/Shion(priestess)/Yugito/ Nibi/Koyuki Kazahana/ a few O.C.'s
Gaara/Matsuri
Shino/Fuu
Shikamaru/O.C.
Lee/Karin
Itachi/Ayame/Shizune
Choji/karui
Kiba/O.C.
Konohamaru/Hanabi
Sasuke/lightning(crispy hot sex scene, electrocuted to death afterwards. I really don't like him and therefore no 'real' pairings for him, Sasuke/Sakura would still be there but in a way not many would expect)
And please no Gay pairings. I cannot write those as I do not want to imagine those scenes. I have got nothing against LGBT, but I am not into it.
And whoever is sending me those messages (won't take name) to add Naruto/Kiba, please stop. I mean seriously. Kiba?
One more thing, I think that the fate Mizuki suffered and the council is in for, is a bit too little for my taste. So I changed the previous chapter a bit and am going to let Naruto have a free run over him. As for the civilian council, they are in for deep shit. You will have a nice laugh seeing them the way they would end up. I got the idea for the civilian council bashing from the story, 'Naruto One Man Team'. I would recommend for others to read this story, the heavy character bashing present in there is pretty funny, although the story only goes on till the Sasuke retrieval arc, it is still pretty good.
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Person Speaking "Hello"
Thoughts or message 'Hello'
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Change of POV '-{]X[}-'
Jutsu "Kage Bunshin"
Biju speak "Bastard"
Long range communication(Radio or seals) "Hello"
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Ghost Squad and an Old Friend
The sun rises every morning and falls every evening. This was something taken for granted. It was what started the normal days and the not-so-normal ones. It was the same in peaceful times and in war.
For most people, they would wake up and go through the regular grind.
For others it would be the day that changed their lives
On a regular day, Naruto would get up, brush his teeth, shower, eat and then head off to the academy. While he was there, he would ask Sakura out on a date, sleep during the classes only to get yelled at by Iruka-sensei for the same. He would also devote the time given for reading texts, to plan new pranks to test his skills against some experienced shinobi.
Or that was how it was supposed to be.
He did not want to even wake up. The bed was just too comfortable for him...Unlike the bed of his apartment.
'I must have died and be in heaven...This bed is just too comfortable to be mine...'
It was that thought that woke him up.
When he woke up, he felt another presence nearby. Turning, he saw a woman in his bed, with her arms around him and holding him close.
He did the only thing he could think about.
He Screamed.
And suddenly he felt himself being dragged into a hug. He struggled thinking that they would hurt him again. But their grip did not slacken. In fact it only grew tighter. Slowly, the strength started leaving him. He started to calm down. As he did, the events of the day before started coming back.
He dared to open his eyes and saw his mother smiling down at him.
His Mother.
She had not abandoned him as the villagers said. The fact that there was someone who loved him, who did not want to hurt him was just too much for the poor boy. He broke down in his mother's arms. Buried in her chest, he cried his heart out. Trying to soak up as much of her as possible before she vanished again, he tightened his arms around her back. Whatever happened, he would not let her go. Not when he just got her back.
That is when he decided. He would protect all his precious people. He would train to be the strong enough to save anyone close to him.
Even if it took his life.
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"Shikamaru!"
Horror twisted his heart as a familiar figure shoved him away, darting in front of the oncoming Chidori.
"Shika, no! Move!"
The Nara glanced back a heartbeat before the attack struck, a smirk playing on the man's lips even as dark brown eyes met cerulean blue. And then blue-white lightning seemed to explode in front of them, engulfing the Jonin Commander as Sasuke's hand thrust clean through Shika's chest. Streaks of lightning spread outward like snakes, wrapping around arms and legs and twisting them to awkward angles.
Through it all, he stayed frozen to the ground, breath frozen in his lungs as the lightning died and a broken body tilted backwards. He barely managed to pull enough brain cells together to catch the deadweight before the pineapple haired man hit the ground.
"S-Shika?"
His eyes drifted to the gaping bloody hole in the Nara's chest, seeing the damning injury and smelling the sickening scent of burnt flesh but not comprehending. This was Shikamaru, his partner in the pranks, his rival in strategy making, his ANBU teammate,his friend, his brother, and this was not supposed to happen.
"T-Troublesome" Shocked blue eyes flickered back up to meet almost lifeless brown, the light inside them fading fast even as the Nara's gaze clung desperately to his. "Don't you dare..." he said in a raspy voice, crimson spilling from his mouth and staining his lips. "Let him win. Naruto."
And then he was gone, brown eyes becoming sightless as the shinigami finally took his soul, last spark of life spluttered and died, his entire body turning slack.
He couldn't breathe, couldn't think, couldn't hear anything as he strained his ears in vain to catch the telltale breaths from the prone figure he was crouching over save for the harsh raucous laughter of the man standing only steps away from them.
"kukuku...Now he's gone too, dobe. Another one you led to his death. Another one you killed. When will you learn your lesson? It is futile to stand against me. This one's last of your pawns too, was he not? Or do you have another one to sacri-"
In the next moment, all he could hear was screaming and he barely registered that the agonized sounds splitting the air were coming from his own throat as he hurtled at the mocking figure with a vengeance, insanity threatening to conquer his mind. Yet still, still he could hear the sound of mad laughter, cutting into him with terrifying accuracy because Orochimaru was right, it was his fault, his fault again, and once more he had lost another of his precious people, lost the last of whom he had sworn to protect-
Ruto woke up, gasping for breath. There was another nightmare. He had been having them ever since Kakashi's death.
Looking at the clock, he found it was 7:30. He had been sleeping for over 6 hours. It was better than he had been having for the past few years. 4-5 hours after he became an ANBU, 2-3 after he was 'training' to become the Hokage(more like Kakashi dumping the paperwork on him) and less than 2 hours of sleep after the Orochimaru incident.
'Better get up. Need to make plans to fuck with the council and then start with Naruto's Training. Will have to oversee the training of others too. Others except Sakura and the Uchiha, that is. Hmm didn't ask about that from jiji yesterday. Well no matter, I have a total of four years for all that anyway. Need to check up on ka-Kushina, will have to remember to address her this way. She must be in shock over what happened in the future...Damn that bastard. I will kill him the first chance I get to do so.'
He got up, brushed his teeth, showered, and got down for breakfast. Almost eagerly so, as he couldn't wait to see Naruto's Face when he came to know that he would be living with three people who were thought to be dead.
A girlish scream informed him that he had missed that chance. Chuckling to himself, he headed towards the dining hall.
It was not as big as most people would think. The clan was practically non-existent at that time. Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki being the last of their clans in Konoha(other Uzumaki's were still out there, but Minato was the last of his clan). It whole compound was a little smaller than Naruto's previous apartment complex. The dining hall itself was a little bigger than Naruto's room.
In the center of the said hall stood Naruto, mouth wide open, rubbing his eyes to clear them to see if it was an illusion. He couldn't believe his eyes, on the dining table sat the first and second hokage, along with a woman who looked a lot like his kaa-chan. He took in their appearances while they sat there with blank faces, doing their work mechanically, almost like a zombie.
After regaining the use of his body, he quickly ran and hid behind Kushina, who had to bite her lip to not outright laugh.
When Naruto began quivering and mumbling 'there are no ghosts, it's only a genjutsu' she couldn't hold it any longer and burst out laughing, as did the others. Seeing that his kaa-chan was comfortable around the 'ghosts', he slowly came out from behind her and went over to Hashirama, pinched him on his legs, and quickly ran back to his former position behind his mother's legs. By this point of time, Hashirama was rolling on the floor laughing, Mito along wih Ruto and Kushina were also laughing, but in a more controlled manner, and even Tobirama's lips had a small smile playing across them (stoic bastard).
Finally getting himself under control, the older Senju wiped a tear off his eye before saying, "We are not ghosts Naruto-kun. We are alive and kicking human beings just like you and your mother. The shinigami owes your uncle quite a few favours and so he let us live. He even brought you your kaa-chan back, does that make her a ghost?"
Naruto looked at Kushina, and seeing her nod, he seemed to visibly relax. After that they all sat down for the breakfast. Kushina made the younger blond sit in her lap and fed him herself. It was a silent affair for the most part, with Naruto trying to absorb as much affection from the redhead as possible.
After breakfast, Ruto decided that it was time. He asked, "So Naruto, tell me...how would you like to be trained by all of us?"
Naruto thought about it a bit. He wanted to get stronger, stronger than the people who would want to hurt his precious people. Strong enough to be able to protect them all. And who better than the previous Hokage's, and his own family? It wasn't even a question of 'if', but 'when'. And so, without any further thought, he almost shouted in excitement, "When can we start?".
"In a few weeks time, Naruto. You do need the time to eat healthy food. and then we need to awaken your Kekkai Genkai's so 5hat we can train you in them too." With this said, Ruto turned to talk to Kushina for a bit, when Naruto suddenly jumped on his back for a jump.
Already having a foot lifted to turn, and not expecting the extra weight on his back, caused Ruto to stumble, and grab anything he could to not fall. Unfortunately for him, his hands fell on Kushina's chest, making her lose her balance too, and both of them fell to the floor just like that.
Ruto landed on top of Kushina with his hands on her bust, causing her to moan. He tried to get up, but ended but adding more weight on his hands and squeezing her boobs, causing her to moan in pleasure. That was when the additional weight of Naruto fell on them, causing Ruto to once again fall forward, but this time their lips met. Both of them had their mouths parted, so their tongues met.
Kushina couldn't help it, she started to kiss him. She knew it was wrong, but couldn't stop herself. It was almost as if there was an outside force pushing them together, as if they were fated to be. She quickly began a cavity search in his mouth with her tongue, memorizing every tiny detail present therein, moaning even more when his hands jerked in surprise, stretching her boobs. It felt just so wonderful.
For Ruto, it was like a dream come true. He had a crush on her from the first time they met in his mindscape. And now she was kissing him. on the mouth. With her tongue. He was having a mental battle with himself. To not betray Hinata or to just give in, like his wife would've wanted him to, to not live in the past like his sensei. To move on in life and be happy. In the end, he decided to just give in and returned the kiss with all hus passion.
However, just like all nice things, this had to come to an end. A cough from above alerted them to their surroundings once more.
Quickly standing up, she adjusted her dress and looked down to see Ruto with a dazed expression on his face, along with Naruto who looked at them in shock, and then gave his signature foxy grin with a thumbs up and said, "I approve".
Her face turned as red as her hair, and then started inventing new colours of red when she saw Mito smiling at her sweetly, a bit too sweetly with an expression that said, 'We're gonna have a long talk'.
As for Ruto, his brain had rebooted after all the emotional mess and was currently beating himself over and over again in his mindscape for 'taking advantage of his Kushi-chan' even after all that had happened to her in his past. He was so busy beating himself black and blue, that he didn't even notice how he called her 'his'.
They were not able to look at each other for the whole week without blushing like mad.
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'Now to get some new equipment for all of us' Ruto thought, while he and the rest of the group was moving towards the shopping district of the village. They had donned the normal attire any ANBU wore while in the village, even the cloaks. They were catching a lot of attention from the populace due to their weird masks. They didn't have any normal animal mask, instead, their masks depicted their speciality.
Hashirama was wearing a mask with a forest engraved on it. It contained everything, from the trees to the animals and even the birds. Mito wore a masks with many seals painted on them, some of which could be identified as durability and genjutsu seals. The genjutsu seals turned her hair from a fiery red to midnight black. Tobirama's mask didn't have anything painted on it, but was blue coloured instead of the regular white. Kushina's mask depicted two crossed blades with an explosion taking place in the background, painting it red with blood. To anyone that knew her, it was a clear indication as to who she was, if her blood red hair were not enough, that is.
As for Ruto, his mask depicted the Shinigami in all his deathly glory. Anyone who was injured during the Kyuubi attack would have recognised the death god. Afterall, he was what took away their beloved Yondaime from them. He had chosen it after much thinking as he was pretty average when compared to the others in Nin, Tai, Ken, and Fuinjutsu. The only other thing he had was the Kyuubi, which he thought would be better suited for Naruto when he joined the ANBU, and his Shinigami summoning contract. The choice was obvious.
They made their way to the shopping district of the village.
They had divided the things to be bought amoung themselves. Mito was to buy the Fuinjutsu material and books, along with clothes for the group, Kushina looked out the swords and bokken, the elder Senju searched out the armour for everyone while Tobirama saw to other Equipment. Ruto was left to gather other essentials. He also keptan eye out for his own clothes. He was never comfortable with letting anyone else getting his things for him.
As he was walking around the village, he saw something which caught his eye instantly. A black coloured armour with a hooded shirt underneath, with the end of the hood looking like an beak of an eagle. There was a V- shape made by white with a red strip in the center going from around the neck to the stomach. The red bandages sort of thing which were wrapped around the stomach area flew behind with the wind. The cloth around the arm and leg region seemed just perfect. Loose enough to not restrict movement and conceal many weapons, and tight enough to not get in the way. Black boots finished off the set.(Yep, I am an Assassin's Creed fan. See profile pic to get an idea of how the dress looked)
He could feel something going down his chin. Removing his mask a bit and bringing up a hand to wipe it away, he saw that his hand was a bit wet.
Was he drooling at the sight of clothes?
Yes. Yes he was.
But in his defence, they looked juat way too good.
Seeing the sign of the shop, he realised that the shop belonged to Tenten's family, the only shop that served him when he was younger.
Making his way inside The Flying Dragon, he quickly sought out her father. Jokuro Higurashi was a big burly man with tanned skin from spending all those hours making those beauties called swords. Finding him near the back of the shop, picking out a bokken for his daughter, who was standing to the side.
"Higurashi-san, may I enquire as to how much the armour standing in the showcase would cost?"
"Oh that, well it would cost you 45,000 Ryo. Will that be all sir?"
"No, I would like to place an order for a weapon, and my teammates would like a few things of their own." Ruto flared his chakra in a pattern they had decided only a few days ago, and his entire squad appeared around him in a few seconds.
"Gather up all that you need, while I show him the design of the new weapon."
As the rest nodded, he moved towards Jokuro and spread out the designs he and Tobirama had made using Naruto's suggestions as a base. A child's imagination is always the best source of inspiration. They be extremely useful to kill a person without using chakra. It was decided that they would try their best to not use chakra as it could warn any shinobi that a person with extremely high chakra reserves was nearby.
"Wow! Who made these designs? These hidden arm-blades(Assassin's Creed-hidden blades) can easily outclass any kunai to the throat. But what's with these crossbows? You can't carry around arrows with you all the time you know"Jokuro said.
"Yes we know. That is why we will be using chakra to form those arrows. Our chakra is extremely dense, to such a degree that it can take physical shape. It also ensures that it can't be used against us if taken away during the heat of the battle." Ruto replied.
"I must say these weapons are the work of a genius. um.. I am sorry, I did not catch your name."
"That's because I never gave one. I am Hakai(meaning destruction or destroy), and these are my teammates Moku(Hashirama), Fuin(Mito), Sui(Tobirama) and Ken(Kushina)."
"You must be new to Konoha, I know every ANBU over here, most of them buy from me actually." Jokuro boasted.
"No. We have been present in the village for a pretty long time. We stayed undercover till now, but Hokage-sama wants to reveal us to the world now. He wants to show the world that we truly are the strongest hidden village in the elemental nations"
"Oh. Well good luck to you in making your name in the world. With these kinds of weapons, it would become pretty easy. These pieces of art-"
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Somewhere near Kaze no Kuni
A person who looked a lot like a teen(but was not) sneezed, and immediately cursed. He was working on his new human puppetand was taking out their heart to preserve their kekkei Genkai's, when he accidentally cut it in half. Then a troubling thought hit him.
'I made myself into a puppet, so how was I able to sneeze?'
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Same Time, Unknown Location
A blond haired man suddenly sneezed for no apparent reason, closing his eyes for a moment. Ehen he opened his eyes again, all he saw was the chunks of flesh and blood littered on the ground.
"Motherfucking bastard! When I find the one who was speaking about me behind my back, I would kill them with my oen bare hands, without even giving them the pleasure of seeing my art, just like they took it from me."
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"-will be completed in around a week or two. You want five pairs of each right?"
"Make that six, we are training a family member to use them as well as we can." He then got out a small pouch he had sealed on his wrist, handed it over to the blacksmith and said, " And make those knifes and any other equipment we order from this metal. It is called Organic Metal, the material our clan used to forge all our weapons from. Provide it with chakra and it will start growing. Please don't use this metal for any other purpose, our clan has kept it secret for a long time and I would like to keep it that way. I trust you Jokuro-san, don't break my trust."
Jokuro nodded and reverently took the piece of metal, holding it with reverance. He knew about organic metal. It was a type of chakra metal which had a lot of seals placed on their ore. He also knew that it belonged to the Uzumaki clan. His father was the one who repaired Kushina's blade afterall.
At the thought of Kushina, another Uzumaki came to his mind. He didn't know whether he should ask the question or not, but then curiosity got the best of him. He asked, "Are you going to take that boy in? He is a nice child you know, just needs a family's love. He won't cause-"
Ruto was touched that someone actually thought nice of him, but he decided to stop him right there.
"Who do you think we were gonna train?"
At that time the rest of them arrived at the counter and showed what all they were buying.
"The total for all that would be 3,53,000. But due to an offer going on in the shop currently, you get 20% off on this, rounding it off to 2,82,400."
"Thank you. We will be visiting again soon." Ruto said as they sealed everything they had bought into the seals they had made on their arms and moved out.
As they moved out, Inu appeared before them in a shunshin.
"Hakai-san, the Hokage has asked you and your squad to be reach him as doon as possible" with that Inu disappeared, once again in a shunshin.
A crowd had gathered around their spot, all eager to get a look at and guess who the new ANBU might be. They all got a pretty impressive show when the shadows around the said ANBU started to rise, wrapping around them almost like the Nara's Kage no Sasu Jutsu(Shadow Strangling Jutsu), only much denser, and it covered their entire body instead of just till the necks. Then it slowly started to deform and sink back to the ground, revealing them to no longer be present over there.
It was the end result of a seal Ruto had tried to make to copy the said jutsu, but ended up with a new version of Shunshin, if you can call it that. It takes a huge amount of chakra, but allows the user to travel within the shadows, the greatest strength of an assassin taken a bit too literally. It was the technique he used to creep up on Sasuke after the other kage's had engaged him in combat to seal away his soul.
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Hokage's Office
A few moments later, the shadows rose up again within the office of the Sandaime, making 5 distinct figures. When they receaded back into the ground, they revealed the newly formed ANBU squad, and the best squad to exist till date, of that they were sure of.
The elderly kage made a hand gesture indicating the hidden ANBU to leave the room. As soon as they did that, he placed a privacy seal after which the group took off their masks.
"Ahh feels so much better. I never liked wearing masks." said Kushina.
"What's the matter Hiruzen? why have you called us here?"asked Tobirama.
"Well about that, there are a few reasons. The most major of them being your official names and ninja registrations. You can't go around with your former names Tobirama-sensei, Hashirama-sensei, Mito-sama. You must choose new names. Here are the registration forms for you. I have filled the rest, you just need to sign your name on it." said the Sarutobi clan head.
"I will call myself Gin Senju, Tobirama can take the name Aizen Senju, about Mito though... she can take the name Rias Uzumaki-Senju" said Hashirama/Gin.
"The next matter is the name of your squad, all ANBU squads have a codename based on what they specialise in. As you all have all your bases covered, what do you think you should be called?"
"Well seeing the fact that all of us are not even supposed to be alive in this timeline, we are all like ghosts. We can call ourselfs the Ghost Squad." Said Ruto.
"Now the most important matter. Ruto, what you had suspected has turned out to be true."
"I thought as much. This makes our job that much harder." Seeing the confused look on others faces, he elaborated, "In the future the balance between the pure and impure world was destroyed. It meant that any dead person's soul could cross over between the two, if his or her will to live was very high. The souls which went to hell and became 'true' demons, could also come out of there and could wreak havoc undetected on the Elemental nations as all the ninja were dead and it would take a long time to train new ones. It seems that even reversing the time was not able to completely heal the damage." Then looking at Hiruzen he asked, "So who was it?"
"Mikoto Uchiha, the Kawarami no Mikoto..."
