Chapter 3: Calm Before The Storm
Authors notes: Hey guys its too Long, isn't it? Well I have a lot to justify but write now story comes first, without wasting anymore of your time here comes the story.
Oh wait just forgot to tell you the name will be Nimato for Minato's and Kushina's child. I'll catch you guys at the end. Enjoy!
Kimtio's POV
"Total darkness everywhere is it how it feels to be dead? Wait I could hear someone. The voice seems so familiar and comforting. Where is the voice coming from? I tried to open my eyes but it was only a disappointing attempt, as the bright light shut my eyes again. I gathered myself and reopened my eyes but this time a bit slowly. All I can see is blurry sky. I moved my head to search my surrounding, I think I found a someone, a man with blonde hair is all that I could make out. My vision is still blurry I focused my eyes on that blonde. Gradually as my sight cleared the picture of the man before me refined. The man is tall and has a thin structure, his skin color is fair. He is looking towards the direction of the sky as if he is thinking of something. Wait the man is now looking me. Well his face seem to glow in an instant. Does he know me? If yes then why don't I seem to remember him? A lot of question racing in my mind right now. The man is now looking at me, his cerulean blue eyes reflecting happiness in them. Suddenly my heartbeat increased. The man is saying Kimito. Is it my name? I looked at the man with a questioning look. The man is taken aback by my look. I just want to know who is he?I tried to push my mind to remember this person, until some voice came
"hey Naruto! Is she awake" said a voice.
Wait Naruto! I know this name. This name echoed in my head as the block of memories gushed to my mind and my head became so heavy. I felt dizzy and then I passed out.
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Konohagure
Village of leaf was established by Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha in ray of hope that it will stop the clan wars and it successfully did. Through time the people in the village began to bond and the village became peaceful. But gradually as more and village were formed, then there became a problem that which village is superior. Soon the rivalry between the village escalated enough that it took the shape of first great shinobi war. And as the consequence of war Konoha lost his nidaime hokage. Then Hiruzen Sarutobi was instated the position of hokage and led the village to greater heights. He also trained a team of three sanin who played a major role in the next war. The three were Jiraiya, sanin of the toads, Orochimaru, the snake summoner and Tsunade, the slug princess. They had different skills and all were masters in there field. Tsunade was one of the great medic of all time if not the best and also her superhuman strength was incomparable. On the other hand Orochimaru was a genius when it comes to ninjutsu no one stand a chance against him. He was a prodigy in everything and learnt every jutsu the third had. But he wanted to learn more and more. Jiraiya on the other hand, wasn't a prodigy unlike his friend but with hard work he became strong enough that he was clearly the strongest among the trio but he never ever boasted about it. He also had taken Minato as apprentice, whose part in third shinobi war was well known and which led him to the title of fourth hokage.
Right now, the blond kage was having a tough time with upcoming Kushina's due delivery and all the hokage's work. Also he had to bear Kushina's punishment for sending Naruto on the mission.
Flashback
It was day after Naruto had left for the mission. Minato arrived late at house and had done all chores in quietly to make sure Kushina doesn't wake up, not because he didn't want to broke her up from sleep but because he was too afraid to face Kushina if she asks for Naruto. He finished his work as quietly as possible and lie down on his bed to relax. But to his horror he heard something.
"Minato-koi! when did you come and why didn't you woke me?"asked Kushina at which Minato tensed as he wasn't ready for the question answer round just now.
"Honey! I came just now and didn't want to break your sleep".said Minato with all the sincerity he could.
"Oh!So was your day?"she asked her husband.
"It was tiring and I need to sleep"replied Minato closing his eyes.
"Ok!goodnight but first I have to ask you something"she said.
"honey! can't it wait till tomorrow"he said but after looking at her serious face he said "Ok ask"prepared to face her wrath.
"Koi It has been two days since I heard from Naruto. Usually he came to accompany me daily. Also I told you not to assign him mission as I need company. I don't doubt you but in anyway did you assign him for any mission?"
"well Kushina I won't do anything against your will. Will I? Well the thing is that right now the village is still recovering from the effects of last war and so there is shortage of some ninja so I had no choice but to send Naruto for the mission even if I don't want to. I hope you understand my situation."
Kushina sighed knowing of hokage's duty very well cause there was time when she wanted to be the same. " So on which mission you send him for a C-rank or B-rank mission?"she asked.
"S-rank"he replied in an almost inaudible voice but today isn't definitely his day cause Kushina heard it. And Minato knew very well what it could meant. "Kushina I had no choice in the matter the mission was requested by Fire Damiyo and I couldn't turn him down. Please forgive me"
Kushina was fuming with anger. "you assigned him S- ranked mission. And he didn't care to tell me. Both of the brothers always hid things from me"she said in hurtful tone. Seeing her like this Minato spoke up.
"well it wasn't Naruto's fault. I told him that he had fifteen minutes to get ready for the mission. There was no way he could have met you."spoke Minato before realised that he had dug his own grave and his words have just added fuel to the fire.
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And then Minato as a punishment he has to take Kushina for dinner everyday. Though he liked to spend time with her wife but treating everyday was a bit overkill, but he has no choice. He was in his office dealing all the papers related to clan funding when he heard the knock.
"you called me hokage-sama"asked the dog anbu member. On his arrival the hokage ordered the guard in the room to leave and then placed a silencing seal in the room.
"you can take out you mask Kakashi. So how was your first day in ANBU?"asked the blond kage.
"Its good Sensei"replied the silver-haired ANBU.
"well I am glad to hear that. I'll be out of the village for few days, no one will know except a few. You already know about Kushina's Jinchuriki. The seal to hold the bijuu of jinchuriki is weakest during childbirth for females. So as a preventive measure Kushina's delivery will be somewhere outside and during my absence sandaime will be incharge. Now the real reason I called you out for is what do you know of roots?"Minato
"Roots were initiative started by nidaime hokage it was effective during war. But third hokage disbanded the root because of their inhumane activities."replied Kakashi.
"Okay! Roots were disbanded but instead they are active secretly. Lately their activities has increased. During my absence I believe root will surface out. So I want you to gather all intel on you can on them. But remember be careful if the mission seems too dangerous you should retreat since we don't have any intel on their members and skill. That is all for now you are dismissed"said the Kage as the ahead of him disappeared.' Being hokage is too troublesome. Wait now I sound like Nara.'
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Two hours have passed since Kimito gained conscious and again lost it. Since then a lot of thoughts were going in Naruto's mind. He understood from her reaction that she might be suffering from amnesia but the question is how to deal with it. Maybe he can take her to yamanaka when he reach konoha. He was busy in his thoughts when a voice poked him.
"I thought she woke"said a falcon.
"Zeref! yes she did but again fainted."replied Naruto to the falcon. Just then Kimito woke up seeing her he rushed to her sight and put her head in his lap. She opened her eyes just then.
"Are you alright?"questioned Naruto to Kimito.
"Yes"she replied. Hearing her answer Naruto took a breath of relief maybe her amnesia was just misunderstanding he was cut off by his thoughts by her question.
"who are you?"his fear were seeming to be right. His face dimmed in thoughts just then Kimito again replied "Silly! It was a joke. I got you. Its not good for Konoha's commander to be fooled so easily" she said.
Hearing her Naruto satisfied that she was alright he gave her an amusing smile and replied "how can you fool the one you love? Well jokes aside I want you to promise me that never to jump in danger like that again"
"I can't promise you that. Can't you understand that I love you"said Kimito as she got up and started to run away just then Naruto caught her hand and stop her.
"I understand that is why I am asking you to stay away from danger because I love you too silly"he said as he engulfed her in a hug and then kissed her. Kimito returned the kiss. She was happy but on the other hand she wanted to know what had happened after she passed out but for now she wanted to be with him.
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Somewhere in Land of Fire,root headquaters
"It seems that the insolent brat has suspicious about Roots"said the old warhawk Danzo Shimura.
"then,what is your order Danzo-sama?"asked an expressionless Torune of the Aburame clan.
"For now we have to stay low but I have Info that he will be out of the konoha soon so that time we will begin our recruiting plan."replied Danzo Shimura to which all the members of root nodded to it.
"But what about lord third? In fourth's absence the third will supervise. Wouldn't it still difficult to continue with our plan?"
"Hiruzen is naïve. He didn't have guts to take drastic measures so we don't have reason to worry him"said the old warhawk.
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with Naruto
some time has passed since Kimito woke up though she was has fine mentally but her body hasn't fully recovered from the attack. Though they were able to retrieve the weapon but in the process the Kumo shinobi was able to know that they are from Konoha because of her sharingan and this could prove knew the seriousness of the situation decided to spoke to Naruto.
"Listen Naruto there is something you should know during the confrontation with Kumo shinobi I forgot I forgot to kill the enemy and he saw my sharingan"kimito said looking disappointed with herself. This information shocked Naruto to no end. Their primary mission was to retrieve the sword but in the process maintain their identity a secret.
"how could you be so careless?"asked Naruto angrily. He was terrified of the consequences this could lead to.
"I want to make sure you were safe in that I forgot"she said as tears aroused in her eyes which intimidated Naruto and the reason was simple she was scared for him.
"Hey don't worry I think of something when we are in konoha for now you relax" he said comforting her.
"I want to ask you something where we are now ?"she querried remembering she couldn't recognise this place.
"oh! This place is mountain of Hayabusa. You can all see clouds only because this is the highest mountain in the world."replied Naruto
"but why are we here?"asked Kimito.
"this is mountain is home to the falcons. I haven't told you till not that I am a summoner of the falcons"replied Naruto.
"Hey Naruto won't you introduce me to your mate?"asked Zeref. Both Naruto and Kimito blushed hearing the word mate.
"yes! Kimito this is my personal summon Zeref and Zeref you already know her"replied Naruto.
"Naruto when did you get you summoning? And why didn't you tell me."asked an annoyed Kimito.
"well it is a long story but since we have lot of time...then listen."said Naruto as he rembered how he got his summon contract.
Flashback
The team Sakumo was called in the hokage room to discuss there upcoming their mission. The people who were present in the room were squad leader Sakumo Hatake,one of the strongest ninja in the village who could easily defeat any Sannin with little to no problem. Along with his members Naruto Namikaze, Chao shilte and Shamuro Nara. Chao specializes in Taijutsu and kenjutsu but since his chakra reserves were very low, lacks in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Shamuro Nara was distant cousin of Shikaku Nara and like his clan members, he too have high intelligence and planning skills and also specialises in his clans technique but any other Nara his physical wasn't built for Taijutsu. The team Sakumo was called because of the upcoming tensions arises in land of fire and land of stone border. The ceasefire was invoked repeatedly last few days. So the third hokage called the team Sakumo for a patrolling mission in that area.
"Sakumo, lately there have been many incident of disturbance along shared border we have with land of stone. So your mission is to find the cause and eliminate them if you can, but if you are outmatched do not engage at any cost."said Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Ok hokage-sama"nodded Sakumo understandingly.
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Near the land of stone border
Currently the Team Sakumo was jumping from one tree to another in order to reach the border as soon as possible. But the members of team Sakumo were feeling exhausted from running. Seen this Naruto spoke up to his leader.
"Sensei shouldn't we rest a bit ?"asked Naruto he too was tired.
"Well Sensei I too agree with Naruto. We mustn't exhaust each other like this. If we are ambushed by enemy we might not have the energy to face them"replied the Nara from the group.
Sakumo wasn't a bit tired he could carry on like this for days but not his subordinates. So he decided for a break. "Ok you all can have a two hours break. In the meantime I will go and gather some intel from the informers."said Sakumo as he jumped among the trees and disappeared.
"where are you going Naruto?"asked Chao as Naruto was leaving.
"well I am going to find a nearby lake or river so that I can have a bathe"replied Naruto.
"OK! Just be careful and we will set traps here just in case"said Nara to which Naruto nodded and disappeared.
The forest was green and bushy and it was very hard to see through. Naruto went deep in the forest in search of lake or something. Luckily He came across a lake nearby he went there and bathe. As he was returning to the base site he heard some voice. The voices were of someone strugglings. Naruto rushed to the region from where the noise was coming. When he reached there he was dumbfounded by what he saw. A large Falcon about 20 metres tall struggling with 20 Iwa shinobi's.
"Do not let her near her baby. Also capture her at any cost."ordered the Iwa shinobi with a red badana covering his head. He was a muscular shinobi with a medium height and broad face. He was clearly the leader of the troop.
"let my child go"said the large bird which was trying her best effort to unite with her child.
"I don't think so"said one of the shinobi. Then others members threw the trap on to the bird to capture her. The bird tried to fly high up but it was too late as she fell into the trap. The bird petrifide seeing herself caged as well.
Naruto who was till now observing this now became angry. How can these people be so cruel to capture a mother and child for their own use even if it is a bird. But he was vastly outnumber 20 to 1. He knew that chances of his survival are very slim if he jumped into the fight. But how can he let this brutality go on. So without a second thought he jumped in the battle.
"Let the mother or child go"said Naruto as he landed near the gathtered the shinobis.
"Or else? you are just a mere child"said the leader as he ordered his subordinates "remove this insolent brat away from my eyes"
One of the ninja moved forward so as to remove Naruto from his place but when as he stepped forward and held Naruto from the collar, in that instant Naruto took out his blade and with swing of his blade seperated his hand from the his body.
"Boy! you got some skills? Well now no more playing with you. Boys Kill him"he ordered.
Just then 5 ninjas surrounded, one of them jumped with a kunai in his hand towards Naruto. Naruto jumped backward and took out his sword countering the attack. His partner gazed this opportunity to take out Naruto as he took out his Kunai and pierced Naruto from behind his back. All were satisfied until the real Naruto vanished in poof. The real Naruto appeared from above the tree cutting him into two. Soon the taijutsu and kenjutsu battle turned into Ninjutsu as the remaining out of the 5 ninjas performed the hand seals.
"Earth Release: Split Earth Turn Around Palm"they said as the ground below Naruto teared and began to bury him.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough" said Naruto performing the handseals. As the ferrocious winds leveled some rocks and he successfully escaped the enemies attack.
'shit I can't fight them like this I have to think of a plan fast."he thought.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique" as water damaged emerged killing the remaining shinobi.
Witnessing this angered the leader of the group how an unknown child can kill singlehandedly 5 shinobi so he decided to handle this problem by himself.
" I am going to end this pathetic boy's life by cutting off his head. You fools don't let the bird escape in meantime"ordered the group leader who was wearing an Iwa's headband.
The leader took out his blade and attack him head on head on. But he was fast enough that Naruto was barely able to counter it. As both sword clung each other, the leader punched Naruto in his gut, which made Naruto hit to trees. When Naruto got up, he attacked the leader with a water bullet. Which the leader blocked with a earth wall.
'shit I can't win over him if I attack him head on. He is stronger and faster than me. My only chance to survive is to do that' thought Naruto but in the meantime the leader appeared in front of him and trapped him in his justu and binded Naruto's movement.
"Boy I had the time I would have played with you but now I have to end this"said the leader as he bring out his sword to Naruto. Naruto in response smiled as he said "Clone Great Explosion"as the clone blasted away. The impact was so huge that it levelled the entire area.
Somewhere away from the distance where Naruto was fighting two people were busy preparing the food. They were the other members of team Sakumo.
"don't you think its long enough since Naruto left?"asked Chao.
"hmm. He is troublesome"said the Nara. Just then the two boy heard the explosion sound.
"did you hear it? Could it be Naruto? Should we check?"asked Chao.
"No we can't till the Sensei arrive. Judging from the intensity of explosion there is battle going up and above our calliber. It is an order not indulge in combat if we are outnumbered. We just have to wait for Sensei"said the Nara.
"Ok! I just hope isn't Naruto involved"replied Chao.
With Naruto
The level of explosion was enormous. The entire area was turned into dust. Seeing this the remaining enemy nin shinobi attention turned to their boss fight. In the meantime the bird with her child escaped.
'I almost used all my chakra in that last blast. There is no way he could survive this any way and also the bird and the child has escaped. Well now only one thing left is to scare the remaining nin.' thought Naruto as he appeared in front of the enemies who were looking for there leader.
"Your leader is dead and I don't wish to kill you. Retreat and live or fight or die, choice is yours" said Naruto as he drew his blade out. The ninja stood there for a moment but turned and began to run away. Just then all the Ninja were Killed.
"DIE YOU TRAITORS!"said the leader as he emerged from the dust. Naruto was shocked from seeing the leader.
"But how?"asked Naruto quizzically, he used all his chakra in the last attack there was no way he could have survived.
"you think the great Daisuke of Iwa would be fallen by the hands of a mere child. Though I must appreciate you are very skilled for your age but still you are child who became too cocky. I was observing you from the very beginning. The way you used your clones against my ninjas, I understood you will rely on clones to fight me. When you were hit in the trees that time your clone changed your place with you. I decided to just play on and see what can you do. I thought to play with you a little more but because of you that bird escaped and I have a bird to catch. So be ready."said the leader now identified as Daisuke as he pulled out his sword.
Naruto had heard the name from the man's name. The person had heard his name from the bingo book. This man was low S-rank and had 5 million ryo bounty on his head.' there is no way I could defeat him. Well atleast I saved the bird and her child are free. I can die in peace' he thought.
Daisuke brought his sword and run towards Naruto, within a blink of eyes he was infront of Naruto. Naruto closed his eyes in accepting his fate. Next he felt blood all over him but he didn't felt any pain. He opened his eyes in confusion only to see that the blood on him was not his but of Daisuke. He also saw large falcon, bigger than the mother falcon he saw. The falcon had pierced Daisuke's with his claws. Now the bird was looking towards Naruto with anger maybe the bird misunderstood him as Daisuke's ally. The huge falcon attacked Naruto with his claws but he didn't have enough chakra to counter it but for his rescue the mother falcon came and stood there in between that huge bird.
"why are you hurting this boy?"asked the female falcon.
"Isn't he the one who kidnapped Zeref?"asked the male bird.
"No he isn't the one with them. Infact he came to rescue me"said the female big bird.
"well if that is the case, then boy I am sorry."said Falcon.
"well it's fine"said Naruto as he proceeded to go on his way back to his camp site.
"wait boy!My Name is Ren and this is my wife Ruri and my child Zeref. for what you did here shows that you stand for what is right even if you have to go against you kin. So as the head of the falcon clan I want you to be the first summoner of the falcon clan. Do you accept"said Ren as he got nods from his wife and child.
"It will be my honour if you think so. I accept."said Naruto
"well then I want you to write your name in the scroll with your blood"said Ren as presented him the scoll. Naruto bit his thumb and wrote his name and put some chakra on the scroll.
"Its done now you are the first summoner of falcons. But there are rules you should follow. Most important of them is that you can't tell anyone about us and we don't fight for selfish reasons such as war. Rest of the rule we'll tell you when we summon you"said Ren.
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". . . . .and that is how I got my summon"said Naruto.
"well its cool that you have falcons summon and I have crows. We will make an awesome pair."said Kimito at which Naruto tensed.
"well you see that in order to save you I have to bring you here and according to the rules only those who can know about this place are those who can summon falcons and you have to sign the falcon contract too."said Naruto.
"well I can keep the crow contract too.?couldn't I?"she asked.
"well the moment you sign the contract, it will nullify your other contract and you can't discuss about it also"said Naruto.
Kimito sighed "well then I have no choice then. Ok give me the contract."she said.
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. Meanwhile Somewhere In The Hiding.
"Zetsu your intel is correct?"asked the masked figure.
"yes we gathered information that the Kyuubi jinchuriki is going in the labour soon "said Zetsu.
"exciting! time to initiate the plan."said the masked as the only eye visible from the mask glowed in red. 'Konoha be ready to face the wrath of Madara Uchiha'
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OMAKE:
After giving his team a break, Sakumo Hatake thought it be good if in meantime he could gather some more information about the situation near the border. He decided to head towards the village nearby and talk to the people. When he got there but he saw empty roads, he went inside a shop but still no sign of anyone. He decided to investigate what is going on villages. Every other shop was same with goods but no sign of owner or customer present.
'certainly something is wrong there are goods in the shops that means there were people present here reccently but the question is where are they gone ?'thought Sakumo. He went further inside the village he heard some voices. He headed towards the direction of the voices. As he reached to the source he saw people gathered there.
'first no one shows up and now what is with these commotion?'he thought he went there but he see that an extremely beautiful lady was chased by five muscled goons and the most shocking part was that the whole village was watching ideally, whistling and clapping. 'what type of people these villagers are?' he thought in disgust.
"HELP SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE ME"shouted the woman as the goons captured her.
Without a second thought Sakumo jumped in to save her "You should let the lady go or else"he announced.
"Or else what? If you care for your life just go on or if you want fun with her too you can have her once we are done with her"the goon said to Sakumo which raged him and next instant he was next to them. He punched the goons in their guts, with his single blow the goons fainted. Just then someone from crowd approached Sakumo. The man was extremely handsome and had a well built body.
"why did you save her? She is my girl. I should have saved her."the man spoke to Sakumo which disgusted him to no end and next instant Sakumo landed the punch on the man's face make him lose conscious.
"CUT IT!"shouted someone from the crowd. "hey man who are you what have you done to my actors?" the man said angrily to Sakumo.
"What actors?"asked the confused Hatake.
"Boss we didn't sign up for this? It wasn't supposed to be real punches"said a goon who just gained conscious.
"Are these actors?" he asked as reality struck him hard. He understood why the people were missing from the village and were gathered here "Sorry I thought this was real."
"Sorry?You disturbed my shooting, beat my actors and most of all you disfigured my hero's face. How am I gonna shoot him with his swollen face?"asked the furious director.
Sakumo stood there in shame "It is my fault. I'll do my best to help you any way possible"he said.
"well you got a pretty face too. Ok assistant give him the script and give him the hero's clothes. We will shoot with him"said the director.
"WHATTT?"stuttered Sakumo who was now trapped.
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BINGO ENTRY 3
Name : Minato Namikaze
Age: 25
Known Aliases: Yellow Flash of Konoha
Affliation: Konohagakure
Rank: Kage
skills : S-class
Kenjutsu: high
Taijutsu: expert
Ninjutsu: expert(specialty)
Fuinjutsu: expert(specialty)
Genjutsu: high
Chakra Control:expert
Kekkei Genkei :None
Weapons: Two Pronged Kunai With Seal
Known Affinity: Lightning
Special Ability: Highly Proficient In Fuinjutsu, Flying Thunder God Technique
Bounty: 100 Million Ryo (wanted dead Or Alive) By Iwagakure
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Authors notes: well readers I have been away from writing for so long. Well I am partly to be blamed because from last few months I think I have been cursed with misfortune. I had completed this chapter and next one too, months ago but lost it all as my system crashed. I did make a back-up but lost it too. Then I have been too involved in exams and couldn't fend myself time to write. Now with my exams done, I have a lot of time to dedicate. So I hope I'll update regularly.
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