Of Tree and Frost
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter Two: Prove Your Strength or Die!
Naruto walked into the class room where the other Genin were. He sat down next to Sasuke, much to Ino and Sakura's annoyance. "Hey Naruto, if you let me sit there I'll give you a kiss."
"No." every one turned to him in shock and amazement. He ignored the two girls bickering and began to think about the other night. Iruka finally arrived to find Naruto doing something no one thought he would do. Talking to Sasuke Uchiha! "I finally got tired of her yelling at me and hitting me and realized I only liked her because she liked you. I mean, who would actually like a pink haired girl how yells too much? She shouldn't be a ninja period, since she's a security risk."
"I know what you mean Naruto. Most likely she'll be killed on her first real mission." Naruto nodded and they would have continued had Iruka not interrupted.
"Okay every one, time for Team Assignments. Team one will consist of-"
"I learned some really awesome jutsu the other night as well." whispered Naruto to Sasuke.
"Really, like what?"
"Wood Style jutsus, part of my Kekkai Genkai, Ice Style and Water Style Jutsu and the Shadow Clone jutsu. That one is really useful because if you train with a jutsu with a clone, when it disappears you get the knowledge and experience. It's used for scouting mostly, and can't build up muscle mass."
"Think you could teach me?"
"Maybe, if you buy me all the ramen I can eat at Ichiraku."
"Deal."
"Sasuke, Naruto, quit talking. As I was saying, Team Seven will consist of Sasuke Uchiha, Sai, and Sakura Haruno."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled Sasuke while Naruto fell out of the chair laughing. "Don't put me on a team with the banshee!" Ino was laughing at the crying Sakura now. "She's almost as bad as Ino." now they were both crying.
"I'm sorry Sasuke, but Lord Hokage also said Naruto will eventually be co jointed with your team once he has been trained in the arts of his Kekkai Genkai by his senseis. Naruto, you meet them at training ground eighty-four later."
"Yes sir, Iruka-sensei." he said while climbing back into his seat.
"Team eight is Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame. Team nine is still in process so Team ten is Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka and Choji Akimichi. Your senseis, except for Naruto, will be here soon." Naruto stood up and began to leave but Sasuke called out.
"You still have to teach me that jutsu."
"After you buy me all the ramen I can eat at Ichiraku." he said with a smile when Iruka turned so white the light reflected off his face. Later Naruto walked into a training ground where a man with a sickly face that coughed a lot, a man with a head protector like the Nidaime's, and a woman in a tan trench coat and mini skirt with purple hair and a fish net body suit sat waiting for him. "Are you guys my senseis?" the man with the head protector nodded.
"I am Captain Yamato." he said then he motioned to the sick man. "This is Hayate Gekkou and the woman behind me is Anko Mitarashi." the woman gave him a lecherous smile and he winked at her.
"Don't try your luck kid." she said while he jackets was fluttering in the wind, showing flashes of skin.
"You can't handle me lady. I'd split you in half!" they began a glaring match with a bolt of lightning flying between them. Until Hayate started coughing badly and a huge glob of sticky blood flew out.
'Naruto, I just looked at his chakra network. The three chakra nodes around his left lung are closing at a rapid rate. Get him to a medic!' Naruto made ten Shadow Clones and they grabbed the Jounin, helping him run to the hospital. He burst through the door and turned to the nurse at the desk giving him evil looks.
"The chakra nodes around this man's left lung are closing rapidly. Get a Hyuuga here stat!" the nurse hit a button on the desk and three buff security guards came out to take him away. The real one grabbed Hayate and ran down the hall while his clones beat the shit out of them.
"Kyuubi, what are you-" Naruto dashed passed an elderly man while spinning and cutting his head off. He threw open a door and dragged Hayate into the Hyuuga medical wing.
"Left lungs…nodes closing…HELP HIM!" he yelled between panting breaths. A male doctor wheeled him away on a gurney as he fell back on the floor. He closed his eyes to catch his breathe. Once it returned, he stood up to find his legs wouldn't support him. A make Hyuuga with robes instead of doctor's uniform helped him up and into a chair.
"Are you okay Uzimaki?" the man asked.
"Yes but my legs are REALLY tired. I'm sorry, you know me but I don't know you."
"I am Hiashi Hyuuga, current head of my clan. I am also Hinata's father." Naruto stood up all of a sudden and pointed an accusing finger at him.
"So you're the one she hates and is constantly losing confidence in herself because you put her down all the time?!" Hiashi glared at the young man that came to shoulders. "Do you know how many times she contemplates suicide a day?"
"How do you know all this boy?"
"Well, you see, I…" he suddenly rubbed his head sheepishly. "Me and Kiba Inuzuka snuck into her room for a panty raid and Kiba grabbed her diary and a bra. Still can't get that mental image out of my head." he shuddered and disappeared, leaving the man to contemplate this new information and how to kill Kiba.
(Ichiraku)
"Hello Naruto!" said the owner, Teuchi Ichiraku, in a cheerful voice. "How did meeting your sensei and team go?"
"Awful. I need the usual, but make it a double." the old man yelled to his daughter, Ayame Ichiraku, and motioned for Naruto to continue. "Turns out I have three joint sensei, but only one is semi normal. His name is Captain Yamato. Then there's Anko Mitarashi, she tried to molest me. And Hayate Gekkou is the last one, but he nearly died on spot." he finished four bowls of ramen in a single minute and continued. "I also have no team mates."
"Isn't that good?"
"I guess, but I lose the chance of getting to work with new people and such." Sasuke walked by and he called him in. "You ready to pay yet?"
"I guess. Who ate those six stacks of ramen?" Naruto smirked evilly.
"That's my first half." Sasuke began to tremble as Teuchi brought out four more stacks and Naruto devoured them.
"Pay up time Naruto." the old man punched in hundreds of numbers in a cash register and when Sasuke saw the price, he realized it was about a hundredth of the Uchiha treasury which could buy a small village and outfit it with missing-nin plus train the civilians in weapons and martial arts while building a protective wall and buy guard beasts and then expand to a ninja village if wanted when used fully.
"Mr. Uchiha will be paying." Teuchi's eyes turned into dollar signs when Sasuke handed the money over.
(The Next Day)
Naruto had gotten word that Hayate had been checked out of the hospital and was once more battle ready and he was to be tested in all aspects by his senseis. He walked down the street were Ichiraku was to find all the small buildings gone, Ichiraku being one of them, and a large building was being constructed in their place. He saw Ayame and walked over to her. "Ayame, what's going on here?"
"Well, father has been saving all the money you spent at our bar and using other people's money to buy supplies and such and thanks to the 'kind donation' of Sasuke Uchiha, we had enough to buy the other eateries and build a restaurant with three levels, the first for eating, the second for the kids to play and the final for our living."
"Cool, I'll make sure to be your first customer." he said then began to walk again. He reached the field from yesterday and once again his senseis were waiting. "So am I gonna train with all of you at once or person by person?"
"Person by person." answer Hayate who didn't need to cough no and had dropped the sickness Genjutsu over his skin as he threw a katana to Naruto. "We will be testing your skills in different categories, first being Kenjutsu." Hayate smoothly slipped into his own stance as Naruto searched his mind. He remembered watching his friend Itachi Uchiha using a weird style and quickly cut his finger on the blade while drawing a seal on the blade's flat side.
"Freeze and grow through flames!" he remembered the phrase he heard the ANBU say all the time when practicing and watched as his sword was engulfed in a rectangle of water that tightened to the shape of the blade then froze over.
"Naruto, where did you learn that?" Hayate was looking at the blade closely, trying to figure out how his kid could know a legendary style.
"I saw Itachi Uchiha using it when I was a kid and copied it while practicing the katas with sticks and stuff. No big deal."
"Wrong, major deal." said Anko as she ran over. "That seal is sacred to the Uchiha clan. It combines the best elements into one object but even Itachi's wasn't that powerful." Yamato motioned for Hayate to attack and Naruto instinctively blocked the weapon and the ice ensnarled the metal and moved to Hayate's arm. It slunk to his throat and began to tighten around it, but the element suddenly disappeared and the blade disintegrated, leaving only the handle.
"The blade couldn't handle it." said Hayate as Naruto tucked the handle in his kunai pouch.
"So is there a sword that can handle it other than the one Itachi wielded?"
"Yes, hold on one moment and I'll get a scroll with pictures." said Yamato as he pulled out a scroll that had a seal that exploded into smoke. He struck his hand out and grabbed a scroll. He tossed it to Naruto who placed it on the ground and unrolled it, showing pictures of thirteen different blades. He unrolled it a little more to show a staff that was serrated and in three pieces held together by chains.
"Itachi had this one." he pointed at one with the word 'Harusame: the Spring Blade' that had a blade sheath and a red handle which was actually rapped in a red sash. "It was cool. What is this though?" he pointed at the staff thing and Hayate leaned down to look at it.
"A serrated sanjiegun or bladed three piece staff. This one is a co worker with this sword." he moved his finger to a handle with a seal on it. "That is the Raijin Ken used and created by the Nidaime." Naruto inspected them carefully then rolled it up and gave the scroll back to Yamato, who sealed it again.
"So where is the sanjiegun and Raijin?"
"Well," said Anko. "The Raijin was stolen by a former set of Konoha Genin named Aio and Idate. Idate was incredibly fast and out ran the guards but Aio used him and supposedly killed Idate once he got the blade. The sanjiegun, also referred to as the Three Heavenly Protectors (Don't have the translation), was used to seal Kyuubi. You probably have it, but that is for another day. Time for Taijutsu test!" she yelled out and took a stance.
"I don't know that much Taijutsu but okay." he flew at Anko and jumped up a few feet away from her, still going forward, and spun all the way around at full speed. Anko swayed around the kick and grabbed him then threw him into a tree. Naruto landed in a spring ready position on the tree with his feet and flew back at Anko. He drew his arm back and a huge tree branch shot out and turned into a giant version of his arm, mimicking his movements. "Wood Taijutsu art: Wooden Fist Copy Shotgun!" he threw the punch right at Anko who caught it but flew back when the larger one hit her.
"No Ninjutsu brat!" she yelled, wiping blood from her mouth.
"Not Ninjutsu. Kyuubi told me that move. It opened the first two gates and controls the tree branch, increasing the size and decreasing the wind resistance, while subconsciously increasing the attack strength, by wrapping it in chakra. Its part of my Senju Kekkai Genkai Taijutsu style." he took a stance where his left leg was in front and his right behind him and his arms in reverse with his fingers clawed.
"So you wanna play rough huh?" she did a set of hand signs Naruto realized after cutting her finger and hit the ground with a palm thrust. A huge anaconda hissed at Naruto who gasped in surprise.
"You said no Ninjutsu!"
"Naruto, an enemy ninja will not hesitate to use ninjutsu if you can only use Tai." said Hayate. "Anko, continue your course."
"Gladly, get him!" the snake uncoiled and lunged at the blonde. He went under the reptile and brought both clawed hands over his head.
"And you don't realize I won't hesitate to use the fox's section of my chakra reserves to kill an enemy to get me that far!" tree roots covered the snake instantly and held it up in the air as Naruto concentrated. "Demon Fire Style:" rasped out the Kyuubi's voice. "Fox Fire: Amaterasu!"
"SHIT!" yelled Anko as she jumped off the snake and used Hidden Shadow Snake Hands to swing to a tree branch. The black fire of the Uchiha clan claimed the roots for themselves, devouring them hungrily. When they reached the snake, they incased it then formed an ice block around it.
"I told you. ICE STYLE: ICE BURIAL!" he squeezed his open palm shut and the ice compacted to a cube. It hit the ground and exploded, shooting smoke into the air. "Taijutsu passed I'm guessing?" they nodded and moved on. He did all the jutsu he knew, showed skills with different kinds of weapons and miserably failed the Genjutsu test.
"Let's see here, you need work in weapons, you could stand to learn few tree jutsu, we'll try to get you a suitable weapon and hopefully figure out why you can't use Genjutsu. We'll help you in assassination and speed as well as seals." listed Anko while Yamato wrote these things down.
"I also need to work on an armor and ice jutsu." said Naruto while leaning against a tree and nursing a wound. "Maybe chakra control as well." he reached up and a tree branch pulled him up. He looked around and saw Hayate walking back into the clearing with a long blade.
"This is the sword used by the Fourth, your father. Lord Sandaime found it and said to give it to you. It is on the list you saw." he tossed the sheath weapon to Naruto who caught and examined it. The sheath had a long blue water dragon swirling around it and the end of the handle had a chain that had a seal on each link and a dragon head on the end. Naruto swung the chain over his head and let it fly into the ground. He pulled it back and a tree sprouted out.
"Cool." he swung it over his head and threw it toward the tree he had created but this time focused chakra to it. The left half of the seals glowed and the chain spun and formed a dragon from the water in the air. Naruto moved the chain around the tree and the creature coiled around it while freezing itself into that shape. He focused more chakra and the right half glowed. The dragon leaned its block shaped head towards the tree and spit out a stream of fire.
"Naruto, stop the flow of chakra and pull." said Hayate and the Jinchuuriki did so. He watched as the tree was ripped out of the ground and absorbed into it. He threw the chain into the lake near by and ran over it. He sunk under a few feet away while the chain traveled below. He jumped back on the ground while the water drained.
"Now what do I do?" Hayate shrugged and Naruto sweat dropped. He decided to draw the weapon and pulled on the handle. The chain flew up and into the handle, leaving only the head of the dragon. Naruto swung the sword experimentally and the blade extended on the chain. He pulsed chakra into the chain briefly and a water and tree dragon flew out.
"Naruto, sheath the weapon quickly!" Yamato ordered. Naruto quickly snapped the weapon shut as an ANBU with the Root insignia on it grabbed the weapon. Danzo walked out of the woods with even more members and the one with the sword handed it to Danzo who smirked and tried to draw the weapon. The chain reared up into the dragon and bit Danzo's arm.
"Cursed Demon sword!" he yelled and threw it down while the chain wrapped around the sheath. He pointed at Naruto and snapped. "Kill him now!" Naruto back up. He was out of chakra and his body couldn't handle more Kyuubi chakra. Anko, Hayate and Yamato slid in front of him protectively.
"Naruto, get your chakra back and we'll stall." Naruto nodded and began to meditate, his muscles and mind relaxing while his chakra reserves slowly began to fill again. He heard his senseis using their jutsus and weapons to their advantage. When he opened his eyes he saw a few Root dead and his three sensei surrounded.
'Naruto, don't let them die because you couldn't protect them.' the fox said in his head.
'I'm kinda at a disadvantage here. I have no chakra, the sword is out of reach, and my body can't take any more of your chakra. What do you expect me to do?'
'Fight back of course.'
'With what exactly?' his answer came in the form of a white staff with three pieces of equal length held together by links of small chains andbladed ends forming in his hands. 'Okay, but now what?'
'PROVE YOUR STRENGTH OR DIE!' the words spiked something in Naruto. Before he knew it, the power from the forest coursed into him. He swung the weapon around himself and flew at the attacking people. He landed in the center on one knee and the blade on the piece at the top piercing through two ANBU into another. He pulled the weapon back and got into an attack stance.
"Ignite, Karinmaru, the First Heavenly Protector." the end of the staff currently at the top started to burn blue flames but the wood remained un-scorched as Naruto's eyes became black and red slits. Naruto danced through the crowd of Shinobi. As a loyal ANBU unit arrived, they found Naruto stabbing the last Root in the head with the other end. "Come here Danzo." he said in a blood crazed tone while licking a little blood off his weapon. The old man back away as Naruto pushed each end towards each other with his palm and the staff shrunk to a bracelet. He strapped the sword around his back by using the length of chain not wrapped around the sheath and continued.
"Stay away from me Kyuubi!" Naruto stopped in his tracks. He felt his blood lust increase all of a sudden. He felt an aching pain in his heart as it froze and he grew angry. He felt a frenzy coming over him.
"What did you just call me?"
"You heard me Kyuubi!" Danzo's confidence returned and he grabbed a stray sword and jumped into the air, bringing the sword down in his only arm. As Danzo's feet touched the ground, Naruto looked up. He had stopped the blade between his middle and index finger on his left hand. Danzo pulled it back as Naruto gave in to the blood lust. A red cloak of chakra surrounded his body in the shape of a fox with two tails. Naruto's fangs grew longer and his fingernails became claws. Wind circled him as he let out a crazed laugh.
"Kyu doesn't like you. He said what to do to you." Naruto laughed as the wind down his arms and into the palm of his hand. He held the miniature cyclone orb in his hand then tossed it up whiel raising his leg and kicked with his full strength at Danzo who was too shocked to do any thing. Naruto smiled and took control again when Danzo remained frozen.
BAM!
"Bastard took the hit!" yelled Naruto as the body of the Root ANBU member that had jumped in front of Danzo turned to shreds. Naruto sighed and did five hand signs as about two hundred and fifty Root appeared. The ANBU loyal to Sarutobi began to move but a dog masked one stopped them.
"He has it under control."
"Summoning Jutsu: Hawk Style: Royal Five." Naruto summoned the five birds and began to mold chakra. He fired an orb of his chakra into each of the birds and they doubled in size. "I want these guys dead ten minutes ago. Dismiss yourselves when your done." he said and made clones to help with his sensei.
"Yes sir, Lord Naruto!" they called out. They flew into the air and separated as armor of their elements formed over their bodies. They flew up and ran straight towards each other. When there was no room almost between them, they dived down and touched backs, spinning into a huge whirl wind with all five elements. Bladed feathers charged with different elements flew around the cyclone for extra power.
(Sarutobi)
The aged hokage stopped channeling chakra to his Kage orb when the carnage began. Those five were deadly when they worked together like that. Once he thought the one sided fight was over, he looked again. He saw Naruto approaching Danzo and he had a large bird with green feathers behind him. A single Root jumped him from behind but an energy orb of a green nature formed in the bird's beak and it fired the attack into the man, burning through his body and melting his skeleton. "Poison Burst." he heard Naruto say.
"A poison type bird, huh?" Naruto stepped up to Danzo and drew the long sword. He held it vertically in front of his face with the sharpened edge facing away from him.
"I keep Konoha safe every day I contain Kyuubi, I save Konoha. Now I will do it again!" he switched the blade in his hand so that the sharp edge was in front of his face and brought it in a diagonal slash, cutting the body in half. "Now feed by beast!" he sheathed the weapon and held the sheath with his back to the corpse while the bird ate the body.