Hi no Ishi Chapter 4
"Mokuton Hijutsu: Jukai Kotan! (Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees!)" Hashirama Senju yelled as he formed the last snake seal. Around him sprouted hundreds of trees eager to pierce their victims with their sharpened branches.
Their current victim was a 14 year old boy wearing black Senju armor. He was tall, about as tall as his father and slim although his body held the physical strength the Senju clan was known for. He had spiky red and gold hair that had begun to grow out a bit while his blue eyes glowed with ferocity, genius, insanity and determination.
He wore black ANBU issue pants and black shinobi sandals. At his waist were 2 beautiful katanas, one black as the night sky while the other was whiter than a Hyuga's eyes. They were both dangerous on their own but together, they were a threat of a higher magnitude.
But it was the sword in his hand that was the most interesting. It was large, as tall as the boy was and had a long black blade that curved a bit at the end. The guard was long and decorated with jewels, making the blade look like large black cross.
"I hate you Tou-san!" The boy yelled as he began to slice through the branches but they were coming too fast. The boy scowled before sheathing Yoru and placing a hand on each of his katana and charged each blade with chakra.
"Nitoryu Iai: Rashomon!" He yelled before drawing the blades simultaneously with unbelievable speed. 2 blades of air flew through the air from the rapid Iai draw, slicing through a good 15 trees with ease. However more just took their place as Hashirama kept pushing chakra into the technique, an entertained smirk on the Hokage's face.
Naruto sheathed his sword and placed his hands before him in a triangle formation. A black kanji formed in front of him before glowing bright orange as if it had just be armed.
In less than a second, the floating kanji expanded at least 50 times until it was almost unreadable when it launched forward, attaching itself to the ground in front of the trees. Suddenly the kanji glowed white before exploding with enough force to level the trees
"Senso Fuinjutsu: Bakuhatsu! (War Fuinjutsu: Explosion!)" Naruto yelled. The kanji on the floor glowed red before exploding with a force equivalent to 50 explosive tags.
Naruto charged his body with lightning before disappearing, escaping the blast zone in a Nintaijutsu enhanced burst of speed.
There was silence as Naruto floated over the ruins of the training ground. He had recently created a seal that reversed the flow of gravity by taking in the force and vectors of gravitational pull and pushed in out in a form that was either equal to or greater than the push of gravity. Thus floating and flying was now a reality for the young Senju.
It was reasons like this that the Uzumaki Clan was one of the three most feared clans in the world.
Everything was peaceful for a moment when suddenly a single tree sprouted from the ground. Then another. Then another. Suddenly another forest began to shoot from the ground in the place of the first one, causing Naruto to have to fly upwards until he was a good 20 feet above the forest.
"Why won't these things die..." Naruto mumbled under his breath as he flipped through some of his favorite hand signs, a seal hidden in his body glowing bright white at the same time.
"Kuton: Goka Mekkyaku! (Hell Release: Great Fire Annihilation!)" He yelled before blowing out a tidal wave of white flames that washed over the entire training ground. It blanketed everything, baptizing the earth with the flames of hell that burned so bright, there was a sense of beauty and sacredness that was beyond anything that had even been seen. Anything in its path was destroyed, leaving the training ground bare and burnt in a condition that no trees would grow...for a long time.
After a moment, Hashirama appeared from the ground as he had hid using the Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu (Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole) and rubbed the sweat from his forehead. Even underground, those flames were hot.
"That's the fourth training ground this month. Kinda amazing" Hashirama pointed out with a hint of awe in his voice. That was the kind of destruction only Madara and Izuna could do with Katon jutsu and now Naruto could replicate it at 13? That's a bit incredible even for someone of the likes of Hashirama.
Naruto shook his head as he stared at the blackened training ground. "Fuinjutsu is thing that's amazing. Not me or the Kuton"
6 months ago, Naruto was sitting at his desk in his room. His room wasn't big and was made almost entirely out of wood. The entire compound was in fact made of wood as his father had made all 100 rooms using the versatile power of Mokuton.
Naruto's desk was cluttered with crumpled up pieces of paper and spilled ink while Naruto's chin rested upon his folded hands.
Why was Naruto in such a slump? In his latest spar with Kagami Uchiha, his rival had shown him the power of Mangekyo Sharingan or at least the power he had unlocked.
Yes, at 13 years old Kagami Uchiha had unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan when he was forced to watch the death of his family over and over when caught in his uncle's Tsukiyomi.
Ergo when Naruto and Kagami fought, Kagami showed him the power of Amaterasu. As such, Naruto's ass was thoroughly kicked by the Uchiha. Thus he sat at his desk trying to come up with a way to retake his title as the stronger of the two of them
The Fuka Hoin (Fire Sealing Method) worked but it wasn't very practical. The only thing he had that was faster than Amaterasu was the Hiraishin and...and his special project. There was nothing Naruto had that could block the black flames and water couldn't put them out. He couldn't wait for the flames to snuff themselves out as the flames could burn for 7 days and 7 nights without requiring sustenance.
The only thing the young Senju could think of was to fight fire with fire but he didn't have fire strong enough to compete with Amaterasu.
"Hey Naruto-kun, whatcha up to?"
Naruto turned around to see his mother in the doorway. His mother looked as young as ever due to her Uzumaki genes and her blue eyes kept moving around, almost hyperactively until she looked at what was on his desk.
"Whatcha working on?" She asked, her Uzumaki verbal tic prominent. For some reason, it seemed to have skipped Naruto but it was better than screaming Dattebayo or something stupid like that at the end of every sentence.
Naruto lifted the paper he was working on to show her. "I'm trying to find a way to combat Amaterasu, the Mangekyo technique"
"Your father had this same problem til he realized that Mokuton wood reinforced with nature chakra was unburnable" Mito said. Naruto nodded in understanding but sadly, he had neither Mokuton or Senjutsu.
"Whatcha have so far?" She said as she looked over his ideas with a critical eye. This wasn't Mito the mother anymore. No this was Mito Uzumaki, the only female Level 10 seal master and woman who sealed the Kyuubi into herself to save her village and husband.
"I can only dodge it with the Hiraishin but it's hard if I don't have any close seals, I can't block it like Tou-san and sealing it isn't practical in the middle of a fast paced battle, even for me" Naruto explained with a sigh.
"So whatcha thinking?" Mito asked as she corrected some of his mistakes. Naruto may be her equal in sealing but even he made careless errors every now and then.
Naruto took out another piece of paper before drawing something very careful. "What if I could somehow compress my Katon chakra so it could become hot enough to combat Amaterasu?"
Mito scratched her chin for a moment. "But if you compress your flames they will become smaller meaning you will need to add more chakra"
"What if I add an amplifying seal on it?" Naruto asked as he added a few seals to the design including an amplifying seal and a compression seal.
"That could work…" Mito mumbled. She pulled out her own brush and added a few kanji to the design.
After about an hour of work and a lot of effort from mother and son, the seal was done. It looked very much like the kanji for "Fire" but was in fact made of hundreds of smaller seals drawn carefully by the two seal masters. It was designed to pushed chakra expelled for a Katon technique through its dozens of compression seals like water going through narrower and narrower tubes until it was pressurized before it was increased by another few dozen amplifying seals. Once you added a few fireproof seals, safeguards so it didn't explode and finally a reentry point so the chakra went back into his system, you've suddenly got a Level 10 combat seal.
Naruto placed it on his shoulder and pushed chakra into the piece of paper. The paper glowed red and Naruto winced in pain as the design tattoo itself onto his skin as well as began affecting his chakra system.
Naruto lifted his palm and focused. A small ball of fire burst to life in his palm but this time it was different. This time, the ball of flame was as white as the sun. If he didn't know better, Naruto would have thought they were the flames of the sun.
"Incredible…" Mito mumbled under her breath. With fuinjutsu alone, they were able augment normal ninjutsu to the point it would compete with one of the ultimate techniques of one of the strongest Kekkai Genkai in the world.
"What are you going to call it?" Mito asked her son as he stared at the flame almost hypnotically.
Naruto grinned, his eyes glowing in the white flame's light, "If Amaterasu is the flames of heaven, then this will be Kuton, the flames of hell"
"Yo Oji-san!" Naruto yelled as he appeared using his uncle's favorite jutsu, the Hiraishin.
Team 7 hadn't changed much in appearance over the past year but in personality and skill, they were almost a different team.
Biwako had begun to see the world differently, seeing less black and white and more varying shades of grey. A majority of this spawned after she got her first kill when the team went on a mission to Nami no Kuni to destroy a few bandit camps 2 months ago.
Hiruzen had grown up as well, maturing past his hyperactive stage and becoming more collected after Emna took him to see the Grand Monkey Sage. Naruto didn't know what about but it had made Hiruzen less of an annoying little monkey so it was good for him.
Although the two powerhouses of the team would never admit it, Naruto and Hiruzen had become friends and rivals. In fact Naruto, Kagami and Hiruzen had begun to be called different names by the villagers after the village watched a huge spar between the three prodigies of the era.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, Son of Sarutobi Sasuke and the Kojin no Konoha (Fire God of Konoha).
Kagami Uchiha, son of Madara Uchiha, nephew of Izuna Uchiha and Mei-O (Dark King).
Naruto Senju-Uzumaki, son of Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki, nephew of Tobirama Senju and the Izanagi (Shinto God of Heaven/Creation).
But the biggest change in Team 7 was that Biwako and Hiruzen had begun to date. After a little push from Naruto of course…
Naruto was sitting on top of his father's head. The village had carved his father's head in the mountain behind Konohagakure no Sato and Naruto had discovered it had one of the best views in the village.
He had begun to spend vast amounts of time up here, reading, making seals, practicing kenjutsu katas and just thinking about the world and his future.
No one knew where he went as he always left by Hiraishin and was unable to be tracked. Eventually the only way to alert him to come home was for Mito to activate one of the seals she and her son shared that glowed when one user pushed chakra into it.
Naruto closed his eyes, feeling the signatures of every person in Konoha. Over the last 6 months his uncle had been training him in his Sensor ability to the point he didn't even need to place a finger on the floor to sense people within the range of 5 miles.
The hundreds of civilians below had barely noticable chakra pools, much of which was used to run the body. He felt the signatures of his family, his father's bijuu sized pool, his uncle's high-kage sized pool, his mother's jonin level pool with added bijuu, etc. He felt his fellow genin's pool,
Kirifuda's buzzed with buzzed with life due to the lifeforms living in his body while Shika's was almost lethargic. Chocho and Inoshishi's were happy as they were most likely eating chips and arranging flowers respectively. Gekko's was nervous, like something big was happening in his life.
Kagami's pool was fluctuating, he was most likely trying to work on Tsukuyomi or Susanoo in the Uchiha Training Ground. Biwako's chakra was interesting, it was happy as she usually was but also unsure, as if she was debating with herself over something.
Naruto frowned, there was someone not the village below. Naruto placed a finger to the ground to focus his ability, searching for one of his closest friends even though he would admit it.
His eyes opened in shock. "How did you find me?"
"By checking just about everywhere else and crossing them off the list" Hiruzen said. He was in his off duty clothes similar to Naruto and he had his arms behind his head.
"Then perhaps the better question is why are you here?" Naruto asked, a little suspicious.
Hiruzen gave a big sigh and looked up at the night sky. "I need to talk to you about something"
Naruto paused before moving over a bit, leaving a good spot next to him. "Take a seat"
"Nice view" Hiruzen commented as he sat down.
Naruto grinned. "Why do you think I stay up here?"
"So what's up?" Naruto asked his friend. Hiruzen sighed and leaned back, staring at Konoha with a conflicted look his face.
"It's about Biwako"
Naruto tensed, ready to take action. "What's wrong? Is she okay?"
Hiruzen nodded. "Yeah, she's fine...that's sort of the problem…"
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "You want to hurt her?"
"No…" Hiruzen said before sighing once more.
"I think I'm in love with her…" He admitted.
Naruto's blue eyes lit up. "That's awesome! You have to ask her out!"
"But-" Hiruzen began but Naruto cut him off.
"Saru, we're Shinobi. There might not be a tomorrow for us so you shouldn't have regrets. Don't push it off and say 'What if?'! No, if you love her, tell her!" Naruto said. Hiruzen growled before grabbing his head as if he was in pain.
"I can't! She's in love with you!" He yelled.
Everything stopped for a second before Naruto gave the most intelligent response he could think of. "What?"
Hiruzen sighed for the 4th time. "Haven't you noticed how she always looks at you? How she blushes whenever you catch her?"
Naruto paused before he started giggling. Then laughing. Then laughing so hard tears began to fall from his eyes and his sides began to hurt.
"Why are you laughing? I'm serious!" Hiruzen yelled, frustrated with his friend's antics.
"The reason Biwako blushes when she looks at me was because of what happened at Tetsu no Kuni" Naruto said when he stopped.
He then went on to tell Hiruzen what happened. How he had passed out at Goro Masamune's house and how he woke up the next day with the biggest hangover ever. How Biwako began to slam on his door because Tobirama wanted them for practice. How Naruto told her to go away because of his headache and finally how she broke down his door, revealing him in his underwear with a little someone awake.
"So the reason she blushes when she looks at you is because she saw your kunai?" Hiruzen said, his jaw dropped at the sheer unbelievability of the situation.
Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Yep pretty much"
Hiruzen sighed and shook his head. "That is the funniest and stupidest thing I've ever heard"
"So yeah you should ask her out. I'm not stopping you" Naruto encouraged.
Hiruzen paused before nodding. "I think I will"
Naruto grinned mischievously. "Maybe to get me out her mind, you should show her your kunai"
Hiruzen swung at him with a kunai in hand but Naruto had already disappeared in a Hiraishin.
"Get back here you damn Senju!"
"So Oji-san what's the plan for today?" Naruto asked his uncle.
Tobirama clapped his hands. "You will all be getting summoning contracts"
Biwako and Naruto high five in happiness. "Yes!"
Hiruzen was a little less excited. "Uh Tobirama-sensei, I already have a summoning contract"
Tobirama nodded. "I know, which is why you and I will be working on Suiton jutsu"
"So what do we do? We don't have contracts" Naruto asked.
"All you have to do is bite your thumb, form these hand seals and then slam your hand on the floor. Since you don't have contracts, the technique will teleport you to whatever animal you have an affinity to" Tobirama explained before forming 5 hand seals very slowly so that Naruto and Biwako could memorize them.
"What's your summoning animal, Tobirama-sensei?" Biwako asked.
Tobirama rolled up his sleeve to show a tattoo he had of a coiled dragon. "I hold the sea monster summoning contract and I was gifted a summoning tattoo instead."
"Cool" Naruto whispered under his breath. Naruto bit his thumb causing it to bleed before doing the hand seals he saw.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu! (Summoning Technique!)" Naruto yelled as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Where the hell am I…" Naruto mumbled as he looked around in a daze. Once the smoke cleared, it was obvious he wasn't in Konoha anymore. He was surrounded by lush greenery, the sound of waterfalls and odd spires jutting out from what appeared to be a mountain.
"Who are you?"
Naruto whipped around to see 2 odd figures. One was a small toad with maroon skin and red markings. He had a scar over one of his eyes and was wearing a dark blue happi coat with the kanji for "shrimp" on the back. The other was a green toad with white hair styled in a mohawk. He wore a simple cloak and had a staff carried over his shoulder like a club. But the thing most noticeable about this toad was the fact he was walking on two legs!
"Who are you?" Naruto asked with confusion.
The toad with the scar scowled. "That's my question, squirt!"
If Naruto wasn't enraged, he would been surprised the toad could talk. "Squirt? You're a foot tall!"
The toad reached behind him and pulled out a tanto. "Why I oughta-"
The other toad put a hand up to block his friend. "How did you get here?"
"I tried the summoning jutsu and I ended up here" Naruto explained while gesturing around him.
The two toads looked shocked before looking at each other. Although they said nothing, Naruto could tell a conversation was going on.
"The sage is gonna want to met him" The toad with the knife said.
The toad with a mohawk nodded and began walking. "Follow us"
Naruto hesitated before following behind the small toads. "Can I ask one thing?"
"You just did" The green toad said without turning around.
Naruto frowned. "Can I ask another?"
"You just did" The toad said although this time with a smile on his face.
Naruto rolled his eyes and decided to just ask his question. "Where am I?"
The green toad turned to him. "Welcome to Myobokuzan, the Mountain of Bewilderment and home of the Toads"
After walking through the jungle for a while, the group of 3 finally reached the home of Gamamaru, the Great Toad Sage.
Only for him to be asleep…
"Wake up you old geezer!" Fukasaku yelled. Gamamaru was huge, many times bigger than Gamabunta and Fukasaku. and had wrinkled brown skin. His eyes were shut and he was wearing a professor's hat with tassels and an orb on top of it. He also wore a necklace with the toad's village symbol for "oil" on it.
"He's old" Naruto said to Gamabunta who nodded.
"Really old..." The toad said as they watch Fukasaku try to wake the old toad by poking him with his stick.
Finally, the toad awoke. "What?"
"Ojiji-sama (Great Honorable Geezer), a boy summoned himself here" Fukasaku said.
The old toad looked at Naruto although it was hard to tell since his eyes were squinted. "Oh, what's his name?"
Naruto stepped forward and bowed. "Hello Ogama Sennin (Great Toad Sage), my name is Naruto Senju"
Gamamaru's eyes briefly widened. "Senju...interesting"
The Toad Sage stopped and scratched his chin. "He may sign the contract"
"Really?/Really?/You serious?" Naruto, Fukasaku and Gamabunta said at the same time, eyes widened in surprise.
"What's such a big deal about it?" Naruto asked the smaller toads. The other clans had summoners so what was the fuss about?
"We've never had a summoner before so you'll be the first Toad Summoner ever" Fukasaku explained.
"Perhaps when he's older, we'll teach him Senjutsu" Gamamaru explained while stroking his chin. Fukasaku raised an eyebrow in surprise which Naruto caught.
"What's that?" Naruto asked the toad.
"Senjutsu is the process in which you combine your chakra with nature energy, making a new kind of chakra that is much stronger" Fukasaku explained. Naruto's eyes widened at the offer before facing the Great Toad Sage once more.
"Thank you for the offer Ogama Sennin" He said with a bow.
Gamamaru chuckled. "Please, call me Ojiji, everyone else does"
"Fukasaku and Gamabunta will be your personal summons so unless you wish to summon someone else, these two will be the ones that appear" The sage explained to Naruto who bowed once more.
"Thank you Ojiji-sama" He said. The Great Toad Sage yawned widely before closing his eyes.
"Goodnight"
Instantly the old toad was asleep, snoring so loudly that the ground shook slightly.
Fukasaku sighed. "That old toad can never stay awake"
Naruto turned to his partners. "I guess we're stuck together"
"Whatever" Gamabunta grunted.
"I summon you guys if I need any help" Naruto said.
"Goodbye Naruto" Fukasaku said.
"See ya squirt" Gamabunta said with a wave of his webbed hand.
"Ja ne" Naruto said to his two new friends before disappearing in a flash.
"Weird kid" Fukasaku said as they watched their newest summoner disappear.
"Yeah but he's okay" Gamabunta pointed out as the two toads walked away to go eat dinner at Fukasaku's house. Shima was cooking and every toad knew, Shima was the best cook on the mountain.
WHAT'S UP DUDES AND DUDETTES! So yeah, I'm back with a new chapter of Hi no Ishi or in english, the Will of Fire. So a lot of background work went on in this chapter and 2 of Naruto's abilities have been revealed. Kuton or Hell Release is not a real Kekkai Genkai but just a compression of normal Katon to a temperature equal to Amaterasu's flames. Naruto's summoning contract was revealed as well and I have decided to stick to canon and give Naruto the Toad Summoning Contract. Some of you guys will be mad at me but whatever, I feel like it adds something to my story and I've never read a story where Gamabunta and Fukasaku are Naruto's personal summons. Ok that's it for now...OH I FORGOT ABOUT THE PAIRING!
Ok, I've decided that I will go with a triple pairing between Naruto/Ai/Akasha. HOWEVER! I do not plan to introduce Akasha til later in the series so until chapter 18 or so, you won't be seeing the pink haired vampire.
Sorry guys but that's what I decided. That's it for now. Shadow out, peace!