Blood Lines and Fox Demons
Declaimer: Don't own Naruto.
A/N: R&R please.
"Talking out loud." 'Written things/Reading.' Thinking aloud/Talking to inner demon. Thinking silently/To self. "Demon talking/Demon talking to carrier in real world." Demon thinking. §Clone thinking.§ ¤Telepathic connection between clone and Naruto.¤ ∞Kyuubi talking through link.∞
Chapter 6
The next morning Naruto awoke well rested before dawn. He quickly performed the hand seals for shadow letter before writing the message on his left arm with his index finger and doing the last two seals to send it to his clones. With in minutes one from each of his many groups made a reply, appearing as a shadow on his arm that only made sense to him and anyone who was used to his shadow letter code. There was nothing new so he headed inside and sat down in the kitchen. As the sun started rising the other nins, Tazuna and his daughter came into the kitchen to get breakfast.
They found Naruto sitting there with his chair leaning against a wall, listening to his music with his eyes closed and one foot moving with what ever music he was playing.
Sasuke walked over to him and kicked the back legs of the chair, making it and Naruto fall. He hit the ground unceremoniously and looked around confused. His eyes locked on Sasuke.
"Sasuke what was that for?" He said.
"Not paying attention dobe."
"Don't call me that you brooding bastard!" Naruto replied.
"Both of you down. I can't read my books with you two yelling." Kakashi said with his orange book in hand.
Breakfast started and Inari joined them but kept silent the whole time. Once they finished Kakashi let them out into the forest.
"Ok, today I am going to teach you how to climb trees with out your hands. Unfortunately I can't show you how to do it myself as my body would collapse as soon as I get off the crutches." He says with a smiling eye.
The three genins sweat drop.
"Anyways, what you do is focus chakra into your feet and walk or run up the tree, and use just the right amount to stick to the tree. Too little and you'll fall off. Too much and you'll launch off. Have fun bruising your butts." He said smiling again as he pulled out his book and let off a giggle that made Naruto and Kyuubi want to either shudder or hit him.
The next three days they worked on trying to figure it out. Sakura figured it out in a day and a half and reached the top. She then spent most of the rest of the time guarding Tazuna. Sasuke only was making it half way up by then and Naruto was still only a fourth of the way up every time he tried it.
It actually was harder for him to fail it now than it had been to learn it when he was ten. Of course when you are forced to be able to do it with out conscious thought, it can put a damper in messing it up.
On the fourth day Kakashi was back on his feet and Sasuke finally reached the top. Kakashi sent him to replace Sakura on the bridge. After that he went back to the house to read his porn.
Finally I thought those idiots would never leave. Naruto thought as he quit his acted panting.
He walked over to a tree and sitting down against the trunk. He closed his eyes and entered his mindscape.
"So what kind of jutsu will I be learning this time Kyuubi?"
"Today it'll be a demon jutsu that is similar to the darkness clone. It's called the chakra clone. It takes a chakra store and makes a clone out of it. Only demons who have multiple stores can use it and with me having ten total you could make ten chakra clones. The best part is that because this clone is made of a complete chakra store it is essentially a real clone of you to a point it can even die, heal, and replenish depleted chakra. And an added bonus is that it is mentally link to you. And because of your link to me I would also be linked to the clone. Anything you learn it will learn and vise versa. So let us begin."
Five hours later he came back into the real world.
"Better make sure you have it down now Kit."
Naruto nodded.
Life, Human, Soul, Mind, Space, Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, Ice, Darkness, Light, Demon, Angel, Beast, Star, Planet, Vortex, Comet, Power, Being, Power: Chakra bunshin no jutsu.
He focused on one of Kyuubi's tail stores and felt as it came out of his body in a mass of thick crimson fog that pulsed with his heart beat. It took on a human like form and soon enough there was a clone of him standing before him. They looked at each other.
He looks like me but how do I know it works Kyuubi?
"Sigh Stab him with a chakra blade. Normally it would kill the clone. It should pass right through the chakra clone."
Naruto made a chakra blade and made a slash right down through the clone's chest. There was no sign of damage. He made a shadow clone and did the same. It cut the clone in half before it disappeared.
"Well it works."
"Of course I work." The clone said looking bored.
"I suggest that you not leave them out like this unless you have a real need for them." And with that Naruto dispelled the chakra clone that turned into the same crimson mist and reentered his body.
Anything else that I will be learning today or should I head to the house for dinner?
"It's too loud there. Take a nap here. I'll let you just dream tonight. I need a nap as well."
And so Naruto and Kyuubi fell asleep with five clones watching their position.
The next morning Naruto awoke to the sound of some one approaching. He looked up as he yawned. There was a girl with a basket of herbs looking at him oddly. The wind shifted and he got the persons scent.
Ok, guy that looks like a girl. He's the hunter nin that helped Zabuza. Must be dressed like that to hide better. Naruto thought.
"What are you doing out here? You could catch a cold." The person said.
"I was training and took a nap. And as for getting sick that is as likely as a demon the size of a village being eaten by a dorm mouse. Hi, I'm Naruto. What's yours?" He asked, letting his stupid mask down a little.
"Haku." He answered.
"Well Haku, it was nice meeting you, even if you are cross dressing right now, but I have to go make sure my team doesn't come looking for me. I suggest that you wear a stronger scent cover next time you want to explore life from a girl's perspective. Anyways you should get back to Zabuza too."
"What? You know who I am? But why don't you attack me now?"
"Simple, you still have a person to care for. And from the way you reacted when I said his name I'd say you think of him as a dad or big brother right?"
"Yes, he accepted me for what I am when my own village wanted to kill me." Haku said, looking sad.
"Well go take care of him. I look forward to our fight. I wish we could meet as friends some time, we have similar pasts I guess. Oh and I won't tell the pervert of a teacher of mine about this." Naruto said before he disappeared from view.
I will have to tell Zabuza about this. But Naruto is right; I should get back to him as he is still weak. Haku thought before he left to where he had Zabuza hidden.
Back with Naruto he was just walking into the house when his ears were assaulted by a high pitched screech that was known as Sakura's voice. (A/N: Only when it is some one she doesn't like (Naruto, Ino, Kakashi, etc), Sasuke gets the sweet tones of course.)
"Damn woman, keep your voice down, I just woke up!" Naruto yelled back.
"What the hell were you doing sleeping in the woods then?"
"I got up three fourths of the way up around midnight and fell off… like I said I just woke up." He finished rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish smile.
"You… knocked… your… self… out.… WHAT KIND OF IDIOT ARE YOU?" Sakura yelled out after getting a bigger and bigger sweat drop with each word in her first sentence.
Naruto rubbed his ears trying to undeafen himself. "Yeash this girl yells too much." He mumbled. He promptly was hit over the back of the head by the girl in question.
"What was that for?" He asked rubbing the genjutsu produced injury.
"Talking about me behind my back."
"Your back is that way. I'm in front of you." This was followed by getting hit yet again.
"You're an idiot." Sakura said before she sat down and tried to feed Sasuke. Naruto got up off the floor and sat down at the table.
Breakfast was silent as Naruto was quickly stuffing his face with food that he would barf up again later (part of his disguise is a bottomless stomach so he eats a ton and then throws up what was not needed to be eaten).
After wards Kakashi set up a guard shift for himself, Sasuske, and Sakura while he told Naruto to go get the tree climbing down.
Naruto didn't mind he just went into the woods and trained like he used to back in the ninja village. To make sure that no one got suspicious he left a darkness clone to go up and fall off the trees. When he finished he went through all of his moves that he had learned thus far, which was all of the Eiyaisoi moves and half of the Uzumaki moves. When done doing that on the water as well he pulled out a scroll and cut his palm. Then sliding his blood over the seam of it, he opened it up, laying it across the stone top he was on.
On it were several different symbols with a label underneath it. After the first few, the next five were backpacks labeled weapons, food, meds, camping, clothes, and training. After that there were several scrolls labeled advanced survival guide, ninjutsu, genjutsu, standard taijutsu, kenjutsu, history, villages, nin, bloodlines, animals, human physics, medical, and demons. Next was three of each of his two family signs, first the Uzumaki and then the Eiyaisoi symbols. They were labeled blood limit, taijutsu, and secrets. You could make out that there were more on the rest of the scroll, the one showing looking like part of a house with the visible part of the label saying '-me'. Naruto glanced at the first symbols that looked like him standing up straight. Under them were the labels kamikaze, dead, and darkness.
I'm glad I had Kyuubi's help making this storage scroll when I made it a month ago. And those clones already made are really nice. Just a swipe of blood across the seal and the stating of one of the first ten labels and poof they are there for me. But the best part is that the whole thing needs my blood and chakra, or Kyuubi's, just to open and then it needs it again to get one of the things in here. Not to mention the fact that if I leave it alone for more then five minutes it shuts itself and reappears in the pouch I keep it and is indestructible.
He cut his hand again, as it had healed already naturally, and put a line over the Uzumaki sign labeled taijutsu. With a small puff the scroll shot up gently and he
caught it before rolling up the first scroll and pocketing it. He then opened his family taijutsu scroll to where he left off, having mastered the bit he already knew now.
"Hmm.." Naruto hummed as he read, looking like he was doing nothing but reading. Several hours later he went to check on the clone. He found him faking exhaustion when Kakashi walked into the clearing.
"Hey Naruto, I think that we will all take guard tomorrow, at the same time. You've progressed enough that you can stop doing this exercise."
"YAY!" The clone shouted as he jumped into the air. And with that he rushed off towards the house. Kakashi just shook his head at Naruto's anticts and followed slowly. The real Naruto caught up with his clone and dispersed it before continuing on to the house. He entered and looked around. He spotted Sasuke reading a scroll over in the corner of the living room. Sakura had fallen asleep close by, most likely having fallen asleep watching the brooder Uchiha.
He pulled out his CD player and sat against the wall with an exhausted sigh. It woke Sakura from her sleep. She looked around and saw Naruto being silent while sitting down.
"What's wrong with you Naruto?" She asked.
He looked up at her. "Nothin' I just didn't want to wake up that cry baby. He's asleep upstairs." He closed his eyes and went back to listening to his CD.
Dinner soon started and Inari came down. After a few minutes of Sakura fawning over Sasuke and Naruto asking for multiple servings Inari snapped.
"WHY DO YOU IDIOTS KEEP TRYING? GATOU WILL STILL KILL YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!"
"Shut up kid, I don't know what happened to you, and I don't really care. But crying over it like a baby will get nothing done so shut your trap before I close it with stitches." Naruto yelled back at him.
"I hate you!" Inari screamed before running up stairs crying. Tsunami called after him while Naruto walked outside to cool down.