Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Naruto threw kunai at a post, warping to it before warping back and throwing another kunai.
His teammates were bored as well. Hiruzen spun a Bo lazily in his hands while Biwako half-heartedly practiced slicing invisible enemies with her tanto. This continued for a while until Tobirama appeared in a flash with his usual stern expression.
"Oji-san, where were you?" Naruto asked his fellow Senju.
Tobirama threw Hiruzen a small scroll with the letter C on it. "I got us a mission"
Hiruzen cracked the seal and read the scroll quickly. "Delivering a scroll to the leader of a village? Cool!"
He handed Naruto and Biwako the scroll who read it as well. They were to deliver a scroll to Musashi Miyamoto, the leader of Tetsu no Kuni.
"Sweet! Tetsu no Kuni makes the best swords!" Naruto cheered, a bright grin on his face.
"This is very important" Biwako pointed out with a serious expression. Tetsu no Kuni was a well known land with a military power equal to almost all of the other shinobi villages. Between their chakra enhanced armor, lightweight but powerful weapons and ability to attack a shinobi before he could even finish his hand seals, they were a force to be reckon with.
Tobirama nodded. "Yes which is why we must leave immediately"
All three members of Team 7, noticing the seriousness in their leader's voice, nodded in unison. "Hai!"
Team 7 had traveled for a good 5 or 6 days when they finally reached Tetsu no Kuni and to say there were impressed was an understatement.
The Three Wolves were incredibly large and imposing. Naruto instantly knew that no army would be able to lay siege to them without losing tremendous casualties. After all the temperature was so cold that any invading frost would either die from Hypothermia or be immobilized to the point that a small force could defeat them. Not to mention the lack of food and high, icy, sloped walls of the mountain that made them easy to defend but almost impossible to scale.
They entered the headquarters of the Samurai with caution only to be met by 2 samurai guards. Each wore heavy, segmented plate-armour that covers the shoulders, chest, upper back, lower sides, and thighs. They also wore gauntlets, shin guards, helmets and face masks that Naruto guessed was designed to act like respirators to combat poison regularly used by shinobi.
They were intimidating and Naruto was ready to jumped back and flip through some hand seals at a moment's notice. After all, a twitch from these men and he could have a slice through his stomach...
Tobirama stepped forward. "Stand down, we are here under orders of the Hokage to deliver a message to you general."
The samurai looked at each other for a moment and said something before turning to Team 7 once more. "Miyamoto-dono will see you."
Hidden radios..., Naruto thought to himself as he walked through the long hallways. They were grand, with arched ceilings, wooden walls and tall pillars that reached to the ceiling. On the walls were beautiful paintings, marvelous mounted katanas and delicate calligraphy that all seemed match perfectly.
But the final doorway at the end of the hall was basic, a simple sliding paper door on a plain oak mount. Tobirama hesitantly opened the door to reveal the leader of Tetsu no Kuni in all his glory.
The man sat in seiza in front of a small table with a calligraphy pen in hand. He was tall with long brown hair tied back into a ponytail and brown eyes that twinkled with whimsy. He wore a dark blue kimono with the image of a dancing crane.
He sat dignified but with a slight spring, like there was a hidden child within him.
The man looked at them and smiled. "Welcome."
Tobirama and team bowed to the man before them. "Thank you for letting us into your country Miyamoto-sama."
"No need for formalities, Tobirama-san." Musashi said while gesturing to the seats on the other side of the table. Carefully the 4 members of the team lowered themselves onto the cushions before relaxing slightly due to finally sitting down for the first time in almost a week.
"Who are you, young ones?" Musashi asked the genin.
Biwako bowed her head in respect. "Hello Miyamoto-sama, my name is Biwako Hayashi."
Hiruzen raised a peace sign. "Hiruzen Sarutobi."
Naruto bowed slightly. "Hello, my name is Naruto Senju."
Musashi gave a small chuckle. "Ah, Hashirama's son."
Naruto's jaw dropped in shock. "You know my father?"
"Yes, even us samurai know of the Shinobi no Kami (God of Shinobi)." Musashi said with a smile.
Tobirama reached into his pouch and pulled out a scroll. "Our mission was to give you this scroll Musashi-san."
"Ah your brother wishes for increased shipments of chakra metal to Konohagakure no Sato." Musashi said after reading the scroll quickly. He picked up his calligraphy pen and signed his name elegantly before stamping it with his seal.
He then handed the scroll to Biwako who opened her hands in surprise. "Done."
"Arigato Musashi-sama." She said. Usually trading between lands took a while as the leaders often had to go over the message to make sure there was no secret loopholes.
"I would stay here for another week if I were you, there's a storm coming and anyone exposed will freeze." Musashi advised.
"Thank you." Tobirama said as he stood up. The group was about to walk out when Naruto remembered something.
"Musashi-sama, do you know of a swordsmith that can make me a quality blade?" He asked the greatest samurai in the world.
Musashi paused and placed a hand to his chin in thought before sighing when he realized the answer. "My best friend and maker of my own swords is the greatest swordsmith to ever grace Tetsu no Kuni. He is retired but perhaps..."
"What is his name?" Naruto asked.
"Goro Masamune." Musashi said.
Tobirama's eyes widened in surprise. "Masamune!"
Biwako was just as surprised. "The Masamune? The Toshin (God of the Sword)?"
"Yes. You will find him right outside of the Suiro." Musashi said with a smile although he seemed slightly pained.
"Thank you Musashi-sama, we will leave you now." Naruto said before standing up with his team.
Musashi nodded and gestured to the table before him. "Be sure to stop by sometime and have some tea."
"Of course." Naruto said with a smile before following his team out the door.
Naruto trudged through the snow, activating the heat seals on his armor as well as coating his skin in chakra so he wouldn't freeze. He had been walking through the snow for 20 minutes and couldn't seemed to find the home of Goro Masamune through the sea of white snow.
Suddenly he facepalmed. Oh wait, I'm a sensor!
The Senju closed his eyes and searched for the signatures around him. Behind him he felt a few hundred signatures from the Suiro but a dozen meters to his right, he sensed a single source of chakra.
He focused chakra to his feet and jumped up, landing on top of the snow before dashing toward the source, eager to get out of the cold.
Once he reached the small cabin, he knocked against the thick wood door. The cabin was small and humble but Naruto could tell that the wood was thick and most likely reinforced with steel or something of the like. Behind the cabin however a small forge that looked to be on from the smoke and heat radiating off of it.
There was no response until Naruto heard a sigh. The door opened a crack to reveal a middle aged man with long white hair tied into a ponytail. He wore a simple grey robe and in his hand was a katana that he used as a cane.
"Boy, do you know how cold it is out there?" The man said with a scowl.
Naruto nodded. "Yes sir"
The man said nothing before opening the door more and walking inside. "Come in, Senju-kun"
"How did you know?" Naruto asked as he walked in.
The man gave a small laugh. "Clan symbol on armor"
Naruto scratched his head sheepishly as he took a seat at the small table while the man walked to a small cabinet beside the mantle and pulled out a black bottle.
"Sake or tea?" He asked, gesturing to the bottle then to the tea kettle.
"Whatever you are having" Naruto said politely.
The man smiled and pulled out the bottle and two saucers. "Sake it is"
"So why have you come out in this weather to find little ol' me?" The man asked while taking a sip from his saucer.
Naruto placed his hands on the floor and bowed his head. "I, Naruto Senju humbly request that you make me a fine sword"
The man stopped mid drink and placed his saucer down. "No"
Naruto flinched but nodded when he saw the pained expression on Masamune's face.. "Hai"
The man looked at the boy before him before sighing. "Why do you wish for one of my swords?"
"I wish to one day be strong enough to protect the ones important to me. I want to be able to hold a sword in my hand and stare down the challenges that I will one day face with strength." Naruto said honestly.
"So Masamune-sama, please craft my sword" Naruto pleaded, his head bowed so low it almost touched the floor. Masamune looked straight into Naruto's blue eyes before sighing.
"It will be done"
Naruto's eyes lit up and he was about to thank the man when Masamune raised a hand to stop him. "You don't need to thank your friends. Also, don't call me Masamune-sama, it makes me feel old"
"Whatever you say Goro-san" Naruto said with a shake of his head. It felt weird being so informal with a legend like Goro Masamune.
Masamune poured himself some more sake. "Now tell me about yourself. How is it like to be the son of the Shodaime Hokage?"
Naruto's face darkened for a moment before it returned to its usual joyful radiance. "It's great but my parents are always working, my dad as the Hokage and my mom with her job as the representative from Uzushiogakure. So I'm usually alone, training and sparring with my rival and uncle"
Goro frowned for a moment before sighing. It was a shame Naruto didn't have his parents around that much but Goro could tell he was a good kid and would grow up strong regardless.
Masamune lifted his sake. "Let us drink to a new friendship!"
Naruto grinned as he lifted his own. "Cheers!"
They both downed their drinks and began to laugh. Goro was right, it was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naruto woke up the next day in his bed, his clothes hanging off his body and a splitting headache. He didn't remember much from last night except for Goro walking him back to his inn late in the morning and trying to do the knife game with one of the special kunai Goro made for him.
They were specially made for him, with a heavy kunai blade with 2 prongs. They had a slightly thicker hand in which he planned to write his revised Hiraishin seal. Although if his new seal worked, he may not need the Hiraishin for much longer…
There was a loud knock at the door. "Naruto! Get up!"
Naruto grabbed his head in pain. "Goddamn loud noises…"
"You want loud? I can get LOUD!" Biwako screamed at the top of her lungs before kicking open the door.
Naruto's head felt like someone was hammering a nail into it. "Goddammit Biwako…"
Biwako blushed darker than Naruto's hair. "Um Naruto…"
Naruto groaned before looking down, noticing for the first time his lack of pants and his...morning issue.
"Goddammit" Naruto mumbled, too tired to blush or hide it.
Biwako however was blushing enough for the both of them as she looked him up and down. "I'll leave now"
"Yes you should" Naruto said honestly. Biwako fumbled with the doorknob for a second before quickly exiting the room, going off to take a cold shower.
Naruto sighed before grabbing his armor and new kunais. "Let's get this over with…"
Naruto groaned as he walked into the training room. Tetsu no Kuni had massive training rooms as the brutal weather and incline of the mountains caused training outside to be almost impossible.
"Someone turn off the light" Naruto mumbled as he stood next to Biwako. The white haired girl blushed red and refused to look at him while Hiruzen gave him the "what happened?" look. Naruto shrugged, he didn't know why she was over reacting.
Tobirama grinned sadistically. "That was just what I was planning"
Team 7 knew that whenever Tobirama grinned, they were going to get hurt. "Shit"
Tobirama made a single Tora hand seal and the last thing Naruto would see was his uncle's sadistic smile. "Kokuangyo no jutsu! (Bringer-of-Darkness Technique!)"
Instantly Naruto's eyesight was robbed of him and he was left in the darkness. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain to his stomach and he flew backwards, hitting the wall.
"Dammit" He cursed before standing up. Instantly he was struck in the face, kicked in the stomach and punched in the jewels.
"Not...cool...Oji-san…" Naruto said as he fell to his knees only to be kicked in the head again, resulting in him striking his friend the wall once more.
How do I do this?
He heard his teammates being struck and hitting against walls as well so he knew he wasn't alone. He heard…
That's it! I can enhance my other senses with chakra and use my sensing ability to find where Oji-san is!, Naruto thought as he did just that. Suddenly, it was as if someone turned on the light.
He sensed a boy his age to his left with a chakra pool about half as big as his own which he knew must be Hiruzen. The only genin with pools even close to Naruto's was Kagami and Hiruzen but he outclassed both of them due to his Uzumaki blood.
To his right was a girl with a smaller pool than Sarutobi but Naruto could feel the control she had over her chakra by the way it coursed through her body.
In front of Naruto was a man with a chakra pool the size of a kage. It was almost oppressive but it wasn't even close to Naruto's dad who had incredibly dense chakra just like Naruto.
Naruto felt the man tense and shoot forward to strike Naruto in stomach only for Naruto to parry the strike and bring his elbow up to block the one after it. Naruto parried both strikes and spun around, striking Tobirama in the chest with in open palm strike infused with chakra.
At the last moment, he defused the chakra causing Tobirama to fly backwards with the superhuman hit.
"How did you do that?" He heard Biwako ask as she slid into her fighting stance, ready to defend herself.
"Listen to his footsteps" Naruto hinted as he blurred forward to strike his uncle. He twisted and placed his right leg on the floor, twisting his body so he did a full side somersault and tried to land with his left leg on Tobirama's head only for the kage-level shinobi to no longer be there. Naruto scowled before landing, placing his left hand on the floor, and began swinging his legs in a lightning chakra enhanced whirlwind. His legs sparked with deadly electricity and spun with unbelievable speed due to the lightning chakra stimulating his synapses.
"Looks like you finally understand the basis of nintaijutsu" Tobirama said with a little pride. Nintaijutsu was a style of shinobi combat that not many knew how to use besides the Raikages of Kumogakure. So to see any 13 year old much less his nephew using Nintaijutsu at the age of 13, he was rather impressed.
Naruto said nothing and instead landed in a muay thai stance. "Kazekiri! (Wind Cutter!)"
His legs glowed with chakra as they were coated with wind chakra and Naruto disappeared. If it wasn't for Tobirama's battle hardened instincts, he would be missing a head. Instead Naruto's kick continued until it struck the floor, leaving a 5 foot long slice in the floor.
"How many more skills can that damn Senju have?" Hiruzen mumbled as he felt the shifts in the air and vibrations in the ground from Naruto's onslaught of Tobirama.
"His father is the Shinobi no Kami, the only person besides Madara Uchiha to have mastered every known form of Shinobi Combat. I wouldn't be surprised if one day, Naruto surpassed them" Biwako mused. If Hiruzen could see, he would have saw Biwako blushing at the thought of a grown up Naruto.
Hiruzen was about to ask something when Naruto interrupted him. "Come on you Baka Saru, get in on the action!"
Fire literally ignited on the Sarutobi's body as he leapt into the brawl, eager to defeat his sensei and kick Naruto's ass in the process.
Biwako watched this and just shook her head. "Boys…"
She then placed her hands in the ram sign and focused her chakra. "Kai"
It would take her "genius" teammates another half an hour to realize that they were in a genjutsu. "Genius" in combat, not in common sense…
The next day, Naruto was in one of the Samurai training grounds striking a post. It was early in the morning and the rest of his team was still asleep. Tobirama had went out drinking the night before, Hiruzen had stayed up late the night before so he could "make a technique cooler than that stupid Nintaijutsu" and Biwako had decided to read late into the night.
In Naruto's hand was a gift from Musashi, a simple bokken made of the wood of a thousand year old tree. He had told the man that Masamune was going to make him a sword so the general of Tetsu no Kuni had decided to give Naruto his personal bokken so Naruto could create a style that would fit him.
Naruto didn't want to accept the gift but Musashi had insisted on the grounds that once Naruto became a master swordsmen, he would come back to Tetsu no Kuni to face Musashi in a spar.
Naruto swung the bokken diagonally, striking the post with enough force to dent the dummy before twisting the blade. He sliced, striking the dummy in the ribcage with enough force to crack the wood.
"If you had used a real sword, you would have bisected him"
Naruto turned around to see a familiar face. Goro Masamune stood behind him with a smile and an odd bag on his back.
"Goro-san! You look as old as ever!" Naruto said with a big goofy grin as he gestured at Goro's long white hair with his bokken.
"Ah Naruto-kun, I've never seen a face that has looked more like an elephant's ass" Masamune said with a smile of his own.
"What's up old man?" Naruto asked the man before him.
"I finished your order" Masamune said. He slung off the bag from his back and unzipped it, revealing 3 large objects wrapped in cloth.
"Three?" Naruto asked as he expected only one blade. He hadn't planned to use three weapons but he would incorporate them into the style. A real warrior was not restricted to a single way of battle.
"They are my three greatest works. I began to work yesterday and I poured my heart into the metal, thus 3 blades came out" Masamune said. He reached down and pulled out a sword and unwrapped it.
"Shusui (Clear Autumn Water)" He said. Shusui's blade was black with a distinct red hamon and its tsuba hand-guard has flower-like edges. Its red hamon gave it the appearance of a saw or sharp teeth. It had no accessories on the hilt, being wrapped with black silk. It's Kashira, tsuba and kojiri end cap are golden, and the sheath was black, decorated with dark red circles split in even thirds.
Naruto looked at the blade in awe before collecting himself and sheathing the blade, sliding the blade into his obi (belt).
Masamune pulled out his next creation and unwrapped it to show Naruto.
"Wado Ichimonji" He said. Wado Ichimonji's sheath and hilt was as white as freshly fallen snow but also as dangerous as a blizzard. Naruto drew the katana, revealing a blade so pristine and clear, it was almost see through like a shard of glass.
Shusui and Wado Ichimonji looked like opposites, one was as black and mysterious as the darkest night sky while the other was as bright and vibrant as the sun.
Masamune finally took out the last blade revealing it much larger than both Wado Ichimonji and Shusui as well as taller than both Masamune and Naruto by a few inches.
"And my greatest work, Yoru (Night)" Masamune introduced. As soon as Naruto cast his eyes upon it, he knew Masamune was right. It was a masterpiece.
Yoru is an ornately decorated single-edged long sword with a slight curve at the end of the blade. It was about 6 feet long and heavy for a sword but Naruto could lift it. On the hilt of this blade is a crossguard, though the bars between the blade and the hilt are much longer than average. The blade itself was pitch-black with a very strong sheen, making it look like a mirror that reflected your deepest fears...or your death…
"I don't know what to say…" Naruto mumbled. What can you say after being given three of the greatest blades in existence?
"Thank you would be a good start" Goro said with a big grin.
Naruto bowed to the man. "Thank you Goro-san, I owe you much"
Goro placed a hand on the Senju's shoulder. "You owe me only your friendship Naruto-kun"
"I will leave you here to train, you have much to practice" Goro said as he turned around and walked out of the room.
"Ja ne (See ya)" He said over his shoulder with a wave of his hand.
"Ja ne" Naruto said. He lifted Yoru with both hands and smiled as he charged it with chakra. Time seemed to stop for a moment as he swung the blade as much strength as he could muster, intent on destroying his target.
"Kokuto Issen! (Black Blade Single Flash!)"
A black blade of compressed air flew from the midnight blade before flying and cutting straight through the dummy and the wall behind it.
Naruto looked at Yoru with surprise before grinning. "Naruto Senju-Uzumaki, master of Kenjutsu. It has a ring to it"
Yo! Hey guys what's up! So yeah there's a lot of things that has happened.
So first, Naruto finally got his weapons! I decided to give him Shusui, Wado Ichimonji and Yoru from One Piece because each of them are awesome. He will NOT be using Santoryu but Nitoryu and Mihawk's style.
Second, I was thinking about what some of you guys were saying about Naruto's progress. Naruto is the son of Hashirama Senju, the Shinobi no Kami and Mito Uzumaki, the Greatest Seal Master in Uzumaki Clan history. Not to mention his uncle is the ninja who will become Nidaime Hokage. Thus I'm sure Naruto is very strong for his age and will likely be a prodigy of the likes of Minato Namikaze and Itachi Uchiha. Not to mention his rivals are Hiruzen Sarutobi and Kagami Uchiha so he will be advanced as he needs to compete with the other legends of his generation.
Lastly, the pairing. I am stuck between two options that I both like.
One is a Fem-Sandaime Kazekage who I've named Ai (Love). Just imagine a more flirty, less socially awkward Fem-Gaara with black hair.
The other is a younger Akasha Bloodriver from Rosario Vampire.
So let me know in a review if you want either Ai (Fem-Sandaime Kazekage), Akasha Bloodriver or both because I'm willing to do a three person pairing.
Okay that's it, let me know what you guys think in a review. Ja Ne!