Into the Void
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter Two: Mastering the Void
Naruto's first year of training had started. They met in the forest and set up a large tree house Kakashi made using a large quantity of clones. The tree house actually looked like a large castle. Once that was done, Kakashi came walking in with several scrolls and soon the house was fully furnished, had a weight room, an entertainment room and a dojo. "First things first Naruto," said Kakashi once the clones disappeared. "I'm going to teach you the Clone Jutsu, a basic Academy jutsu."
Naruto put all his efforts into learning the Clone Jutsu, but Kakashi soon realized Naruto, even at such a young age, had way too much chakra for such a jutsu. "I can't get it Kakashi-sensei." he said miserably.
"Don't worry Naruto, I'll just teach you a better version you should have a bit more luck with." helping him form a seal, Kakashi explained the effects of the jutsu and what that would be used for.
"Oh, that's so cool!" he yelled and he made the seal, letting his chakra flow from his body. From a cloud of smoke, nine perfect copies and one sickly looking clone stared a Naruto.
"This, Naruto, is the clones you will be using to train your chakra control." said Kakashi as he grabbed two clones and put them by a tree then two more he gave a leaf, had two more meditate, gave two more a shuriken, and two more kunai. He then stabbed the sick clone and put the real Naruto on a workout bench.
"Now what are we doing?" Kakashi smirked and put several forty-five pound weights on either side of the bar, forcing Naruto to pick it up and some how manage to do twenty lifts.
(One Month Later)
Naruto finished his five hundredth lift on two forty-five weights and racked the bar. Sitting up, he gazed at the muscles glistening in sweat. Then he looked at the clones working on chakra exercises and chakra building. He was now able to make thirty clones to help him whiel Kakashi watched. He whistled and the clones stopped what they were doing and dispelled. Their information shot to his head which he briefly grasped as memories and skills flashed into him. "Okay Naruto, time for some Ninjutsu training!" yelled Kakashi from a tree branch.
He tossed a bundle of scrolls down and Naruto carefully untied the string holding them down. There were fifteen of them, all E-rank Genin jutsu, three of each element. "Just E-rank jutsus?" he asked, a little disappointed.
"Those are jutsu every ANBU can do in two hand seals. I want you to practice them until you can do it with no hand seals." Naruto gaped at him while the older ANBU laughed and pulled out an orange book. "I'll supervise whiel I read this new series. I hear it's really good." Naruto brought out the eighty clones he could make and assigned scrolls to each group, taking one for himself. He opened it up and read aloud the title.
"Water Style: Water Bullet Jutsu." memorizing the hand signs he performed them one hundred times before using chakra, pelting Kakashi's book with the giant glob of water. "It's a success Kakashi!" he said, holding in his snickers as Kakashi cried, making the book even wetter and more tattered. Naruto continued to do the jutsu until he had done it one thousand times and only needed half the seals.
"Naruto, dismiss your current clones and remake them." ordered Kakashi two hours later, a new copy of the ruined book in hand. Naruto simply waved his hand while forming the seal and summoned up one-hundred-and-forty clones, ten for each scroll. He then tried using less seals until all he needed was one seal, even if it did take him two days.
"You almost mastered them Naruto." Kakashi jumped down from a tree as Naruto whipped around, shooting three blasts in quick succession with no seals, straight at the one eyed ANBU. Kakashi bent backwards to dodge them, making sure not to get his book wet, and bent back to his original position to glare at Naruto.
"Sorry, I thought you were going to attack me." Kakashi glared at the sheepish blonde and pulled a sword in a black sheath from behind him.
"I came to give you this. It's an ANBU regulation sword, but as you go, you can add seals to it, depending on what mask you are given." Naruto took the blade and studied it, moving it in his hands to test the weight. A small leather cord came from right below the guard that could be tied to his back or waist. The handle was black with silver diamonds going down it, and the handle was a simple black circle that would, when he got his mask, become the head of the animal he was assigned.
Pulling the sword out, he saw a place where the kanji for his code name would sit. The blade was silver and double edged to be more dangerous. Sheathing it, he strapped it to his back and thanked Kakashi. "Can we start my Void training now?" Kakashi chuckled to himself, just low enough for Naruto not to hear, and pulled out a single, red scroll.
"This is your inheritance from your mother. It has the techniques for the Void, the Taijutsu and Sword styles, and supposedly, there is a summoning contract for a legendary beast." greedily, Naruto swiped away the scroll, getting a paper cut that dripped blood on the blood seal, and tore it open, gobbling up the material inside. Rolling it up, a shit-eating grin spread over Naruto's face as he held a fist in the air. When noting happened, he tried the other arm. After two minutes, eight small black lines ran up his fist, formed around it in a tight ball and formed a shield of black material.
"Void Defensive: First Position: Void Shield." giddily, he dismissed the clones and made twice the amount as before to practice the jutsu.
(Two Years Later)
Naruto, now eight years old, looked at Kakashi, who stared at hundreds of white masks on racks, next to several kinds of different weapons, next to cages of animals of all kinds and shapes. Naruto was looking at a huge battle ax on the wall next to heavy duty armor with lightening seals on it (very expensive!). After a few more minutes of waiting, an old man came out and measured Naruto's head. "What kind of mask do you want?"
"One for my face?" the old man laughed at the response before straightening up his back, making a few popping sounds.
"No, I mean what kind of animal do you want the mask to be, do you want a face mask, a full head mask, want any seals in it, etc." Naruto nodded his head in understanding and began to speak, but stopped as Kakashi edged closer. Leaning forward and motioning for the man to come down to his level, he whispered into the man's ear. "Oh, that's kinda complicated don't you think?"
"Yeah, but I think it would be cool!" the old man shook his head with a smile on his face and started to measure Naruto's body length too.
"I'll need you sword and what kind of seals you want on your clothes and it, plus any extra weapons you want, which I can seal into your gloves." he handed Naruto a pad and pen and wrote down something on an official looking form. He tied the form to a messenger bird and threw the birds out the window. Naruto waited ten minutes before the bird came back and the man pulled off a slip of paper. The man laughed and gave it to Naruto.
It was a chibi drawing of Sarutobi making two thumbs-ups. "Can I see your form now Naruto?" ripping the paper from the pad, the old man, a smile slowing growing on his face, slipped the small note into his pocket.
"How long will we have to wait Michiru?" asked Kakashi. The old man, Michiru, shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, I'd say a week at most. I'll send you a bird when I'm done." so Naruto and Kakashi left. Naruto opened up his scroll of Void techniques and looked at the third skill in it. The first, Void Shield, was completely mastered at this point, to the point he could do it on instinct, and he had mastered all of the sixty three E-ranked Jutsu Kakashi gave him to the point he could do them with no hand seals. The second Void technique was an attack technique, one he would have learned long ago if he had a clan.
Using an image from the wielder's mind, it forges a weapon that the wielder can either hold, like a sword or an ax, or fire hundreds of from a void, like kunai and shuriken. The next one was a defense move.
"Void Defense: Second Position: Void Wall- This defense jutsu is performed by the user slamming his/her palms to the ground and releasing several of the smaller void holes that then merge into a single rectangle to form a giant wall that absorbs and fires back any attack below C-rank. For more advanced versions, see Void Defense: Thirteenth Position: Void Half shield, Void Defense: Position Twenty-Three: Rashomon."
"Sounds interesting Naruto." interjected Kakashi. "Have your clones do that and you increase your speed by running around the campsite three hundred times or until you can become a blur, with no chakra." Naruto groaned as Kakashi walked to the library and headed towards the Genin-Chuunin section. He waved to the kind Librarian, an ex-ANBU who was nice to him, and ran after Kakashi. He found him taking several Jutsu scrolls, catching a few titles like, Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu, Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu, and Earth Style: Mud Wall, as well as Seals for Intermediates, Home Made Assassination Jutsu, and A History of Hokage Techniques: Lord Nidaime Version.
"Do I have to read all those?" Kakashi eye smiled and nodded. Naruto cried all the way back home.
A week past quickly for Naruto, He easily got the Mud Wall jutsu, since he had a secondary Earth affinity, only slightly below his Lightning affinity. He liked the one on the Nidaime, since it detailed his techniques, even revealing some hand signs. He managed to get the Void Wall down to three second cast using several clones, but no where near where he should be. Three seconds could end your life in a battle.
Kakashi forced him to wear weights that increased every time he got back to normal speed with them, while holding a boulder over his head. He was on the last chapter of Home Made Assassination Jutsu when the messenger bird arrived. Naruto and Kakashi went to ANBU head quarters at a brisk run and went to see Michiru in the equipment department. "I got your equipment Naruto." he handed Naruto two huge boxes which he promptly dropped, much to Kakashi's amusement.
"Woops, those are the thousand pound weights we just got in." Michiru grabbed each box with one hand and set them aside, much to Naruto's amazement. He went behind the desk and brought out a bundle of clothes, a box which contained Naruto's mask, and his sword, which he gave to Naruto to go try on.
When Naruto came back out, he truly looked like an ANBU. He wore the standard issue black pants, a dark grey ANBU vest, and had his sword on his side belt loop. His mask shocked Kakashi though, since he hadn't seen one like it ever before. It was a full head mask of a lion, except this one looked royal, proud, fierce and all around amazing. Horn jutted from the temples and bent back over Naruto's head. They also came from the side, bending toward him most of the way, and finally out away.
"It's a Chimera." spoke the blonde, seeing the confused look on Kakashi's face through the golden eyes of the mask, which held one way transparency seals so he could see. He wore black gloves with melt guards on them and storage seals on the palms, and he saw the light weight seals on what he now realized was heavy duty armor. He showed Kakashi the blade after walking over from dressing room.
The original guard had been replaced by the same elegant looking beast that made Naruto's mask, horns and all, except in a roar. The kanji for Chimera were engraved into the sword as well as a blood seal so only Naruto could use it. Naruto strapped the sword to his back, bowed to the man, and left, running for some reason as fast as possible. Kakashi pondered why this was until the man gave him the bill for the modifications. Once he paid the HUGE bill, he dashed after Naruto, chasing him for several hours.
(One Year Later)
Naruto looked at the twentieth attack position in the scroll, the one he had just mastered. He rolled up the scroll and bowed to Sarutobi. "I have mastered the low Jounin level skills and all the others are out of my league at the moment. I have one last technique to perform before I can call my self an Advanced Void Fist user. May I Lord Hokage?"
"Yes Naruto, you may?" Naruto bowed once more before beginning a long chain of hand seals, ending on a hand seal where he formed a tiger and half-ram seal on either hand, together, and breathed into the space. The clear breath turned into black smog that floated in front of Naruto before expanding into a void, where a roar of pride echoed through darkness.
"Ultimate Void Technique: Summoning: Lords of the Void." as he ended the name of the jutsu, a beast stepped from the void. It had the body of a lion, with the head of one, with the same type of horns as Naruto's mask, except longer and pointier, had black fur, dark wings sprouted from his back, and its tail was a black mambo snake. It stood as tall as Kakashi and yet it bowed to Naruto.
"Void Walker," it began, "I am Chisetsu of the Chimera clan. Why have I been called?"
"I simply performed the technique to call you forth." answered Naruto. "My intention was to test a new jutsu." the beast let out a noise that resembled a laugh before pushing a paw through its chest!
"Then let me tell you." he ripped his paw out with a scroll inside it. Rolling it to Naruto, he explained. "My clan has served the Uzumaki ever sine they sent us to the Void and saved our race. This is our summoning contract, and you must now wield it. You may summon the many types of Chimera to you aid once you sign it." Naruto had read how to sign the contract so he easily filled the first empty slot he saw.
"Thank you for the gift, Lord Chisetsu." Naruto rolled up the scroll and gave it to the beast, who put it in his chest and disappeared.
"The pleasure was all my Void Walker."
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Well, I've finished another chapter. Naruto is now ten, has mastered all the Chuunin/Low Jounin moves at his disposal, and go the summoning contract for his family. And while this may seem like a super Naruto story it isn't. Oh, and sorry about all the time skips, I jus suck at writing out long lengths of time.