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"Speech"
'Thought'
"Demon speech"
'Demon thought'
Jutsu
Changing Fate Chapter 6
As the massive pink rasengan struck the monk with crushing force blasting him back into the lightening barrier frying the body black, the last of the dark elemental chakras of the dragons poured into Naruto and they faded from existence. The chakra orb also seemed to draw back into the boy with a weak flash of pink. From the places where he had been bitten the dark chakra once again flared and started to spread across his body.
Shion seeing this ran as fast as her six year old body could, trying to get to the boy she felt she had come to love. The lightening barrier dropped just in time to let her through as the silver haired anbu stopped holding the hand sign he was holding upon reading her intent.
As she arrived at his side a red glow that seemed far weaker than the darkness spreading across him burst from his stomach blasting back the loose shirt and vest hanging from his too small revealing a spiraling seal with eight surrounding marks to the seal diagram.
Placing her hands to the red glowing seal Shion said, "Please whoever you are in there, don't let Moryo have Naruto-kun."
Drip drip drip Naruto heard as he became aware. "Damn that hurt," he muttered as he stood to his feet to find himself in the familiar sewer like tunnels of his mindscape.
'Wander what that weird jutsu he used to knock me out was? Just hope we won,' he thought to himself as he began to move down the tunnel towards the fox's cage.
Suddenly a new sound invaded his senses. It was a crackling accompanied by a low rumbling thunder. Judging that the unfamiliar sound to these tunnels was coming from behind he turned to investigate. He saw a bluish white glow coming from one of the tunnels he had passed by.
Curious he was about to head back to investigate when a dragon of lightening burst from the tunnel. Turning it looked at him and roared with a crack of thunder and charged at him. Realizing his danger Naruto turned and burst into a run.
His older mental image was having no trouble staying ahead of the lightening dragon for which he was glad as he didn't want to know what would happen if he was hit by it here in his mind scape. He continued to race when he saw a brown and dark blue glow coming from two tunnels ahead that formed a four way intersection.
Pushing himself to race even faster he burst through the intersection only a moment before a water and earth dragon flew out of the openings. Seeing him they joined the lightening dragon in its chase of him.
"Kuso, what the hell kind of jutsu sends elemental dragons into someone's mind scape?" the boy complained as he ran. He knew he would soon be nearing the fox's cage and didn't know what he would do when he reached that dead end.
Again he saw a four way intersection this time with a red and golden glow coming from the off branches. Knowing what must be coming he pushed himself as fast as he could possibly go feeling the heat and blasts of wind from the fire and wind dragons respectively as the crashed together attempting to catch him before turning and joining the pursuit with the other three.
He had gained a bit of distance on them as they seemed unconcerned as if they knew he was headed for a dead end. He charged into the seal room trying to think of how to handle this. Looking to the fox he asked, "Is there any way you can help me Kyubi? How do I fight these things?"
"Kid if you use any more of my power it would kill you. You have pushed it well past the limit just to get here. I'm sorry but the only thing I can think of is if you removed the seal and let me have your body I could destroy Moryo's essence but that would still be the end of you. Unfortunately if they catch you they will bind your spirit and he will be the one taking over your body," the fox said with a hint of remorse.
"Damn," he grunted in response as he stepped up to the cage. As he reached up to the seal tag he said, "All I ask is that as the guardian of humanity you promise me to protect the people I care for."
"It would be my honor," the fox responded. Hearing this and the roaring approach of the five elemental dragons Naruto began to peel away the seal.
Suddenly a hand stopped him as a voice stated, "I don't think that's the best idea."
Turning to the one obstructing him he saw a golden haired man in standard Konoha ninja attire with a white battle cloak on. His eyes nearly popped out of his head as he stuttered out, "Y-Yondaime-sama?"
Turning as the five elemental dragons roared into the chamber the older blond shinobi said, "Let's take this discussion somewhere a little quieter." In a blink they stood in an endless blank white void.
"Damn, I never thought I would have to deal with something like this when I placed this contingency into the seal. I'm sorry son. Give me a moment to plan how to deal with this situation. I only left myself enough spirit and chakra to fix the seal once," the deceased Hokage said as a look of contemplation crossed his face.
"Son?" Naruto shouted.
"I sorry but I just don't have time to answer your questions. I'm trying to come up with a plan to save your life before my limited chakra and time runs out," Minato said apologetically.
The stood in silence for a couple moments before Minato again turned to Naruto and said, "Okay I think I have something of a plan. I need you to let me control your body for a moment much like when Kyubi influences you when you get angry."
"If it will give me a chance to live and continue to protect my precious people, do whatever you have to do," Naruto responded. Hearing his Minato placed his hands on the boy's shoulders and they both closed their eyes.
Naruto's eyes flashed open and his hands came together in the hand sign for his most used jutsu and he called out, "Kage bushin no jutsu
."
Appearing beside him stood an older man who Shion thought looked much like the boy only without the whisker birth marks. "Sensei?" asked the silver haired anbu.
"No time to talk Kakashi, I've got to save my son," responded the man as he lightly cut his thumb enough to draw blood without dispelling the clone and then flashed through a series of hand signs. Finishing the jutsu he slammed his hand to the ground and a seal spread out from his bloodied hand and he shouted, "Summoning Jutsu."
With a cloud of smoke a scroll appeared with what appeared to be the top and bottom of a toad as end caps. "Minato? How it this possible?" asked the toad in surprise.
"No time to explain Gerotora. I need to give Naruto the seal key now as we are in a bit of a jam," the blond man said as he reached out and unfurled the scroll. Laying it next to the boy he reached down and lifted his hand pressing it against the massive seal inscription on the paper. The seal wreathed and spun as it seemed to flow off the paper onto the boys arm.
"Okay now for the next step," Minato said and with a puff of smoke he disappeared.
Back in the white void Minato opened his eyes and said, "Okay here we go. I will need you to open the seal with the key I just gave you while I distract the hydra demon. Ready?"
"Shure I guess lets go," Naruto responded and again they stood in the chamber of the cage between the five elemental dragons and the fox. Both of them turned and ran in opposite directions, Minato to the enemy and Naruto to the cage.
As Minato did battle with the five dragon heads Naruto peeled away the seal tag and slammed the key into the spiral shaped mark underneath opening the cage with a twist of the key seal. The cage slid wide and everything seemed to fade to white. From the emptiness stepped a beautiful red headed woman.
"Kushina-chan I'm sure your aware of what's going on I need you to bind the two demons together inside the cage while I open a space time portal. We'll then make use of the already existing seal," Minato yelled as he struck out at the earth dragon that tried to go around him to get to the boy.
Chains of pure chakra each link inscribed with seals seemed to burst into existence from the woman's back. "Oh sure make me do all the hard work after you go and screw up by sealing the wrong half of Kyubi-chan into our boy," the red headed woman shouted back. Her anger seemed palpable as her hair seemed to stand on end in nine wavy tails.
The chains lashed out some binding the fox in place and several more coiling around and binding together the five elemental dragons. Slowly the dragons were dragged further into the room towards the cage. As the ends came in to sight they could see all five connected to and controlled by a humanoid figure with wings made of white light.
"No you cannot bind me. Your soul and body are mine. How dare you interfere," screamed Moryo as he was rapidly dragged closer to the fox.
While this was happening Minato had been making numerous hand signs and finally a massive seal array appeared in the air. The center of the array seemed to open and they could now see outside Naruto's body.
"Portal's open. Hurry I don't have much chakra left," the older blond said visibly strained by his technique. With this said four more chains materialized and flew through the portal.
Shion sat worrying over Naruto's still form. Since his father had disappeared the dark chakra had spread until the only place it did not cover was the spiral seal on his stomach. The red glow did not seem to change at all in that time and she was sure that was because the entity sealed in him could not take him over as Moryo was trying to do.
Then she noticed the darkness starting to recede from his extremities. It was almost painfully slow to watch but soon his head and four limbs where completely free of the taint. This process continued until most of his torso lay clear and the darkness had formed a ring around the red chakra.
Suddenly a seal appeared in the air just above his skin and a strange portal opened at its center. Four glowing seal inscribed chains burst from the portal and lashed out each wrapping around one of the four orbs of the Yashiro no Fūin. As soon as they made contact the barrier at the edge of the shrine seal fell but the seal oddly remained intact.
The three ninja and two priestesses looked on in surprise as the chains then began to slowly drag the orbs closer to the boy. As the four of them moved they seemed to grow just a little smaller as well. Correspondingly the shrine seal upon the ground also began to shrink.
Finally the chains dragged the four orbs through the portal and it snapped closed while the shrine seal had shrunk until it only contained the spiral seal upon Naruto's stomach and the red and dark chakras within its boundaries. The seal briefly glowed with the pink holy chakra of the priestess and then settled into place.
Kushina's chains had finally brought Moryo into the cage moments before the four glowing orbs passed into Naruto's mind scape via the portal Minato was holding open. With a sigh of exhaustion from the former Hokage the portal snapped closed and the seal faded.
The chains pulled the demons as close to each other as possible with in the cage and then maneuvered the four orbs to surround them. "Okay Naruto-kun, seal the cage," Kushina said.
He quickly slammed the gate closed and slapped the key into place once again sealing the massive cage. That complete Kushina released her chains. The two demons were freed for only a moment before the Yashiro no Fūin appeared underneath them and the barrier bound them within.
The exhausted boy looked to his equally exhausted parents and asked, "So can you two explain what we just did."
Minato looked up and answered by saying, "The seal holding the Kyubi was only meant to hold one demon. The Yashiro no Fūin of the priestesses though is meant to bind two beings together as one so we just commandeered it to make the two demons one so as to not overly stress the seal. Whichever is stronger will absorb the power of the other, which will likely be Kyubi. Especially after the number you did on Moryo. "
"So now what? Are you two just going to be here in my mind scape now?" the boy asked but then he noticed that their extremities seemed to be fading to white and scattering like dust.
"I'm sorry son but we are out of chakra. Our time is up and we have too…" Kushina started to say but ended in a startled gasp which Minato shared.
AN: How do you like that cliff hanger? ;p Hope you enjoyed the chapter and reviews are always appreciated. Also authors please read my challenges on my profile and pm me if you would like to try any.
Also thanks to raeven. kate (remove the space in the name since it wouldn't let me save it without it) who passed on the tip from ginnyrules27 without which this chapter would have waited untill the site was fixed to be released. Her suggestion to everyone who is getting the error box when they try to updae is to replace the word property in the URL (web address) to content - it worked for me so I hope this helps anyone having the same problems
