Of Tree and Frost
By
Ragnorokrising
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Thanks for all the reviews guys. Now to answer them.
The Dragon Bard: I know that but in this fic he can.
Challenger: I plan on it and i'm starting to consider a pairing
Griffin Blackwood: Thanks for the heads up. I changed the story as soon as you told me that
Kazuki Shikimori: Thank you for telling me that but it is the Tree Style jutsu that are the Keekai Genkai, not the Ice Style
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Chapter Three: A New Mission, Naruto's New Enemy, and Spies Appearance
"Could you please say that again?"
"I said, I'm sorry to say the time has come for you to be put on Kakashi's team. I'm so sorry Naruto, but your senseis and you must be separated. Today is your last day together, so enjoy it." the group of sad people left the tower and decided they would return to the training ground after they went home briefly. So Naruto went home and picked out special gifts for his senseis, so they would remember him.
"Over here Naruto." called Yamato from the clearing and Naruto went over to him, hoping to enjoy the last exchange he would have with these three as a student. Anko was first to go. She pulled out four brown boxes and gave them to Naruto.
"Are these what I think they are Anko-sensei?'
"Just Anko kid, and yeah, they're the scrolls for my snake jutsu." in each box was three stacks of five scrolls each, containing the powerful jutsu within. "Now for your second gift from me." she cut a spiral around her arm and ended it at the center of her palm then with a small blast, a blind snake with black scales hissed and coiled up around them.
"What issss it Anko? Why have I been ssssummoned!?" the outraged and tired sounding snake hissed through fanged lips.
"I have a new candidate for you. His name is Naruto." the snake hissed and lunged at Naruto, who instinctively blocked it with a shield of ice. As the ice fell, the snake seemed to laugh.
"His ice I as cold as Manda himself. Fine, I shall let him sign if the contract accceptssss him." the area where the stomach was inside the snake's skin constricted back and forth as something worked its way all the way up the snake to his mouth where he spit it out to show a large green and black scroll that Anko opened for him to show her name.
"You know what to do Naruto, so just do it." Naruto nodded then, stepping over to the slick paper, cut his finger and wrote his name. Once that was done, he dabbed each of his fingers with blood and pressed his hand print against it. The snake laughed again.
"You have been accepted into the clan of the snakes Naruto, so count yourself lucky." with a blast, the snake and scroll disappeared.
"Thank you Anko-sensei!" said Naruto as he hugged her. She hugged him back, unsure of what to do.
"Naruto, call me Anko."
"PHENSEI, FET FE FO ALFEADY!" he called out and she realized she had pressed his face into her breasts so far his ears were touching the ends.
"Woops, sorry Naruto. I forgot my own strength." she said while Hayate and Yamato mumbled something about lucky bastards. "And I have two more gifts for you as well." from her pocket, she removed a simple black bracelet and placed it on his wrist where the white bracelet was not.
"What is this Anko?"
"Something every one accepted into the clan of snakes receives. Focus chakra to it." he did so and it sprang to life, crawling up and down his arm until he released the flow of chakra and it became a bracelet.
"A snake for combat disguised as a bracelet?"
"You're half right. These kinds of snakes grow depending on the size of the chakra reserves and even gain the element of power you are weakest with. It is very valuable. Mine is with me as well." a purple snake crawled down the sleeve of her arm and fell on the ground, revealing itself to be almost four and a half feet long.
"Awaken and show your true length my child." it hissed out and lifted itself up, breathing on the black snake. It fell to the ground and began to rive and twist, shedding its skin at incredible rates. By the time it was done, Anko had enough snake skin for four pairs of high heels, two purses and a new trench coat. The snake itself, the once four inch long snake, was now almost four foot four. It coiled itself around Naruto's upper arm and became a hardened piece of lifelessness like before.
"Thanks for the gifts Naruto." she said while stashing the skin. "Now for the final gift." she went behind a tree where they couldn't see her. The sound of a zipper going down and fishnet being pulled down skin was heard, then in reverse and Anko came out holding a picture which she gave to Naruto. He stared at it for a moment as a few drops of blood began to come down his nose then put it in his ouch.
"Um, thank you Anko."
"No problem blondie. Just take care of it 'cause you ain't getting another copy. Well maybe if your nice."
"Quit doing that Anko!" he yelled. Then he pulled out three scrolls and handed them to her. "The scrolls for the Shadow Bow Jutsu, the Earth Spike Trap Jutsu and the Raining Fireball Jutsu. I hope you like them Anko. DON'T SHOVE MY FACE IN YOUR BOOBS!" she stopped a foot from him and smirked evilly then kissed him, right on the lips.
"Eat your heart out Naruto." she said and took the scrolls as his face became a deeper red the Kyuubi's fur. As she sat down on a stump, Hayate came over and gave Naruto three scrolls.
"These are the scrolls for the style the Nidaime and Shodaime used for their weapons if they used any, the Dance of the Crescent Moon and Cherry Blossom, and the only dance I ever created, the Dance of the Two Dragon Brothers, though even I can't master it properly."
"Thanks Hayate-sensei."
"Just Hayate kid, just Hayate." Naruto nodded and gave Hayate a scroll with the kanji for butterfly on it.
"This is my gift to you Hayate. Open it up and unseal the thing inside." he said, careful not to give away to much. Hayate unrolled the parchment and pulsed his chakra, forcing out a normal sized sword. The blade was about as long as three thumbs, and was straight for a length, then curved up to a wicked point. The blade was about three feet wide. The cross guard was a butterfly with his wings spread out and the handle was a bright purple hue.
"Naruto, what is this?"
"A very special sword. It has a special ability. Just say float on the clouds of sleep while holding it vertically in front of you." Hayate did as Naruto had said and took a calm breath.
"Float on the clouds of sleep." the Jounin gasped as the blade fluttered apart into silver butterflies and dashed past a training post, making it wither as the dust from their wings fell on it. They came back to form the blade again as Hayate staggered. "Thank you Naruto, this is a most incredible blade." he placed it in a white sheath Naruto gave him and let Yamato come up. Yamato came up next holding a set of two scrolls.
"These scrolls contain the steps for the Taijutsu of the Shodai and my own wood style jutsu. I hope they serve you well." Naruto placed the scrolls inside a sealing scroll with the other items and smiled as he handed Yamato a sword handle.
"Channel chakra into it and picture a weapon, any weapon at all." Yamato closed his eyes as the handle glowed as wood began to shoot from it. A long staff formed out of the handle, a wicked looking curved blade striking from both ends. Yamato gasped as he spun the staff and then sucked the chakra back, turning it into a handle. "You can store chakra in it as well. It took me a huge amount of Shadow Clones and time, not to mention energy and blood and sweat to make those, so care for them as you would my very life." when he saw Anko look at his gift, he said "I mean dangos and sake, treasure them like dango and sake Anko, Hayate, Yamato."
"Yamato-sensei to you."
"What? You're not my sensei any more?"
"Oh right, I forget things sometimes. Just Yamato then, if you please."
"Wait, one last gift from all three of us." said Hayate with a gleam in his eye.
"Are you sure?" asked Anko.
"Yes, if anyone can handle it Naruto can." he said sternly.
"But what if there is no effect?" asked Yamato.
"He can handle it, okay? Let's begin." before Naruto knew what was happening, he was laying on the ground asleep in a huge circle made of seals. The snake carried all of Naruto's belongings out and placed them next to Anko as the sealed became orange. The long blade grew bright and lifted off his back and into the air, spinning wildly as chakra strings cocooned it. The strings became orange and red slowly but steadily until the entire seal was so. As Naruto's single pained scream echoed through the trees, the blade clattered down next to him.
"That is a strange blade." said Yamato as they began to clean up the blood infused with chakra that made the seal. The blade had a wooden handle that reminded them of the Raijin Ken. It was made of blood red dyed wood with an orange square shaped cross guard with lines going all the way out that then curved in on itself in a counter clockwise direction (Like the one on Ichigo's Bankai, for you Bleach fans out there) in a straight line. The handle, having no blade, shook and flew at his bracelet, merging with it and shrinking so it looked like a charm.
"AUGH, what did you guys do? Where's my long sword?"
"We changed it." answered Hayate.
"YOU WHAT!? YOU CHANGED THE ONLY THING I HAD TO REMEMBER MY DAD BY!?"
"Naruto, that sword belongs to you. You're father told Sarutobi to have that ritual done when he thought you were ready and we thought you were ready. The blade is matched to your best elements as well as your personality. Pour as much chakra as you want into the blade." while he was still mad, Naruto poured a huge amount of the blue energy into it, causing a blade to shoot out. It was orange with a white edge. It was two and a half thumbs long and about two feet and ten and a half inches long. A blast of white flames erupted forward while rocks floated in the twisting spiral of water and wind.
"Okay, decrease the flow of chakra." Naruto slowly did this. First to go was the flames, then the rocks, then water and finally the wind. The blade turned white and sunk in length. Naruto saw this and decided to try something. He held the handle in both hands and closed his eyes. The blade shot out at a training log fifty feet away and pierced it, but Naruto immediately noticed the decline in his reserves as all the chakra usage took effect.
"What ritual was that you used?"
"The Ritual of the Soul Sword." answered Yamato. "It requires three Jounin level ninja to perform and they must be close to the person it's used on. Your father actually discovered it and brought it to Konoha. Now, what do you say we go get some dangos and ramen?"
"RAMEN!"
"DANGOS!"
"RAMEN AND DANGOS!" so the group went to the recently opened Ichiraku and as they entered, Ayame and Teuchi where being bombarded with requests. Anko and Naruto pushed every one away and leaned against the counter when they reached the counter.
"Hey old man Ichiraku. I need fifteen bowls of Miso, twenty bowls of pork, and eight bowls of that steak ramen you had me try." ordered Naruto until Anko nudged him. "Oh, and thirty boxes of dango."
"Four bottles of your finest sake as well." ordered Anko with a wide smile. Every one of the other customers gathered around them to watch as Naruto and Anko devoured their food. Yamato and Hayate eventually came over to find forty three empty ramen bowls, thirty empty dango boxes and three empty bottles of sake. Naruto was gulping down the last of the sake while dodging Anko's hand.
"Let's get 'em out of here before they start doing weird shit." said Hayate.
"This isn't weird shit?" asked a random guy next to them.
"You don't want to know what weird sit is man, trust me." they grabbed their team mates and quickly pulled them out. Every one else soon left to the next floor, leaving a white haired old man to pay the bill.
"WHAT!? I don't even know those guys!"
"Well some one has to pay. Should I get the Hokage?"
"Ha, he'll side with me on this." he said, crossing his arms.
"Actually, I agree with Mr. Ichiraku on this Jiraiya." said Sarutobi from behind Jiraiya. "Or should I get Tsunade to make you?" a blast of dust shaped like Jiraiya appeared. Ichiraku looked at his hand and saw four times more money then the bill.
"Thank you Lord Hokage, for the generous donation."
"Any time Teuchi, any time at all."
(Next Day)
Naruto sat cross legged on his bed, looking at the picture of him and the three smiling Jounin. He sighed and placed it on the desk next to his bed. He opened the scroll he was reading last night and walked over to the window where a holder for open scrolls was. "Here goes nothing." he did some quick hand seals and aimed the sleeves of his arm towards a tri-pronged kunai he forgot to get lay stuck in the ground near the garden outside. "Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!" four long black snakes shot out and pulled the kunai out of the ground then returned it to Naruto.
"Naruto, almost to time to go." hissed a voice inside his cloak trench coat sleeve. A black head came out of the sleeve and looked at him.
"I know that Rochi. I was just testing my new jutsu." Naruto went over to the wall and looked in the mirror. A white trench coat like Anko's with silver cloud patterns on it covered up the sleeves of his dark brown shirt that had the outline of a fox head in orange in the center. He wore a black pair of pants with multiple pockets with orange stripes going up the side and steel toed boots. Around his waist was a black belt with several kunai holsters. He placed three more holsters on each leg and made sure his sword handle was in its charm form.
"Ready to go now?" said the impatient snake.
"Yes, let's go." Naruto climbed up the stairs to the roof of the Namikaze mansion, which the set of keys he found in the vault unlocked, and waited for an up draft. Once a strong enough one came, he focused his Wind elemental chakra, which he had managed to complete the fist step to mastering the other night, into his coat, making a diagram of seals to appear in a light blue color. He jumped off the third story roof and let the chakra lift him into the air and glided over the village, using an occasional blast of chakra to push him up or fast.
"Naruto, I can see the training ground." came the voice in his sleeve. Naruto descended slowly and front flipped while folding up the trench coat, landing on the ground in front team seven.
"YOU'RE LATE!"
"WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?" he yelled back at Sakura, embarrassing her.
"I apologize for Sakura." said Sasuke. He stood up and made his way to Naruto. "She yells at Kakashi a lot when he is late."
"Oh…tell me, does Kakashi have gravity defying silver hair, a face mask, wears his head band over his left eye and read 'Icha Icha Paradise'?"
"That's him in a nut shell. Why?"
"I saw him coming out of Sakura's house's side window with a black lace bra and then some kid in green spandex with a bowl cut gave him fifty bucks. He should be here in a second actually. I saw him peeking in the bath house and he got caught. Tsunade was there so most likely-"
BAMMM!
"Ouch!" said Kakashi as he got out of the huge crater he made. "That Tsunade knows how to throw a punch."
"She was the medic-nin, Taijutsu specialist and Genjutsu specialist of the Sannin. Ya think?" Kakashi looked at Naruto strangely until he remembered he would be getting a fourth squad member.
"Well, I presume you four know each other, so let's go get some missions."
(Tsuchikage Tower: Iwagakure)
"You are one of our best ninja. The best in fact. That is why I am sending you on this mission." said the Tsuchikage while finishing his paper work.
"What is the mission description and rank?" asked a set of glowing emerald colored eyes from the wall shadows.
"You are to kill Naruto Uzimaki-Namikaze, son of Konoha's Yellow Flash and Bloody Blade, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzimaki. This is the first ever SS-high-priority mission to go through the village. Be careful."
"He's just some fresh out of the academy Genin. What harm can he do?"
"He can use the Kekkai Genkai of the Shodai Hokage and has the Ice Style abilities of the Nidaime Hokage. He was trained my Hayate Genko, Anko Mitarashi, and Captain Yamato, all Jounins of the Leaf. With these three he was able to slaughter Danzo, the old war hawk. You don't have to kill him. Bring him back if you can, but kill him in things get out of hand."
"Yes sir uncle, I will." said the voice as a figure stepped out. She had a Chinese style outfit colored jade and when the light hit her palm different colored specks of light floated around the room for a moment.
"Be careful, my little niece. You are only fifteen and I don't want to lose you." she nodded with a small smile and sunk into the shadows, disappearing form the tower. The Tsuchikage sighed. "My brother was a fool." he said in anger. "He raised a powerful ninja but she lost her innocence because of his harsh training. Akira, please be okay." he said the last part in a whisper as he felt the chakra of his niece leave the village.
(Village Hidden in the Leaves (Konohagakure))
Naruto snickered as the Fire Lord's wife squeeze the life out the small cat. "Serves it right." he focused a little more chakra to increase his healing rate, causing steam to fizzle off the closing wounds.
"Now, other D-rank missions include baby sitting, helping grocery shop, painting a house-"
"TORA!"
"And catching the cat again."
"NO!" the outburst surprised the other people of squad seven, especially Naruto. Sai dropped the broken paint brush on eth floor. "I'm tired of these stupid D-rank missions! Give us a C-rank mission. NOW!"
"Sai!"
"I agree with Sai." said Naruto, stopping Iruka in his tracks. "Every one on this team except for Sakura, who shouldn't be a ninja period, is ready for a C-rank. I think they deserve it. We'll leave Sakura here and the rest of us will go on the mission."
"Sasuke, Sai, Kakashi, do you agree that Sakura isn't ready for a C-rank and you are?"
"YES!!!" they shouted in unison.
"Then I have to choice but to give you three and Naruto a C-rank. You will be guarding Tazuna the bridge builder. Bring in Mr. Tazuna." the door creaked open and a man with a back pack and a bottle of sake in his hand stumbled in.
"These brats are suppose to protect me? The blonde one looks like he'd run at the first sight of troubles."
"NARUTO, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" roared Sarutobi. Tazuna looked for the blonde and eventually found him. He saw him in the reflection of the window, a kunai held an inch from Tazuna's neck.
"It wouldn't have hurt that all that bad."
"It would've killed him."
"But it wouldn't have hurt."
"Naruto-"
"He insulted me. I killed almost three hundred men in a single night with a staff and he insulted me! I was trained by three of Konoha's best and I don't like being called weak!"
"I know but you can't go around killing the client on a whim." explained Sarutobi. Naruto placed his kunai in one of the holsters and walked around Tazuna with an angry glare.
"If he makes me mad again I won't hesitate to kill him. And I'm not kidding around this time." he withdrew to behind Sasuke who began to talk him down.
"Okay Sai, Sasuke, Naruto, meet me at the gate in an hour. Sakura, go train or something." said Kakashi. He disappeared in a blast of white smoke that drifted out the window as Sai, Sasuke and Naruto left out the window. Sakura...ANBU had to escort the crying banshee out of the tower (Cough threw her out the window cough) while Iruka scolded Sarutobi about giving them a C-rank.
"Iruka! I am the Hokage and I choose what missions go to whom. Do not question me!" Iruka visibly shrank down as the aged Hokage sat back down.
(Naruto's Mansion)
"Rochi, if you would." asked Naruto. The black reptile coiled down on the floor then went into a hole near the bottom of the attic floor. With a few clicking sounds, the door opened.
"This is kinda cool Naruto." said the snake as he went back up the sleeve. Naruto ignored him and unrolled a scroll, placing what he needed inside the seal inside. He also grabbed a second sword incase he lost his weapon. He ran out the door and headed towards the gate while simultaneously activating the defenses on his house. He jumped from roof top to rooftop and landed with a BANG in front of Kakashi. He smiled as he took a bite out of an apple he had stolen from a woman who use to beat him as a child.
"Ready to go sensei? Kakashi, are you okay?" Kakashi had a scared/shocked look on his face as he pointed at the sword Naruto had grabbed for emergency.
"Do you know what that is on your back Naruto?"
"A halberd with an extra long grip?" he nodded his head back toward the large weapon. It was like a zanbato but had a trapezoid shaped hand guard and a pole for a handle that led to a hexagon pummel with a triangle shaped ruby in it. A second handle about ten inches long came down from the bottom of that and ended at a small piece that seemed like it attacked to something. The blade itself was black with a red edge.
"No Naruto that is the Chi-kiri, the blood mist, the sword Kushina Uzimaki, Konoha's Bloody Blade used in combat. It's considered a legendary weapon. One of the Great Thirteen in fact. It has two more pieces that attach to the bottom grip."
"You mean these?" he tapped the seal he had on his kunai pouch and an oval shaded piece of metal with small spike like pierces coming out from the four corners at the center and a long blade with a two foot two inch handle with a snapping piece like the other blade and a black sword with a fierce curved tip fell in his hand. "They were next to the weapon in my attic."
"Those are very powerful Naruto." he said and had Naruto seal all three pieces up. "If you were to combine them the amount of power it would release could level a small village block." Naruto gulped as Sai and Sasuke appeared.
"Before we leave," said Naruto. "I brought a weapon for each of you that Lord Hokage said might work well with you." he pulled out a ring with a long blade on it and handed it to Sasuke, who flicked his wrist and caused it to become a huge shuriken with rune running the length of each blade. "It's infused with fire chakra. Be careful with it."
"Thanks." next Naruto pulled out a long chain with a bludgeon on the end and handed it to Sai.
"An Earth type mixed with poison that depletes chakra and accelerates any blood lose three times."
"Interesting." was his only reply. So Naruto moved on and gave Kakashi a glove with a lightning bolt on the back of it.
"What's special about this?"
"It took me two months to develop. Between the threads is a piece of rubber like metal that is nigh indestructible. It can also channel Lightning chakra." Kakashi's eye widened and he quickly destroyed a near by tree.
"WOW!" he said excitedly. So once Naruto had made twenty clones they walked out of the village at a brisk speed.
"Sasuke, wait for me!" yelled Sakura five blocks away but she went unanswered. She stopped to catch her breath and gritted her teeth. "I'll teach Naruto to say I'm not ready." she waited another twenty minutes and followed.
(With Team Seven)
The group walked along the road in serene silence. That is until Naruto and Kakashi saw a puddle in the road. Usually this isn't that much of a problem. Except it's the middle of the summer and hasn't rained in two weeks. "Kakashi-"
"I know. Wait till we get past and they reveal themselves, then slaughter them." the group walked past the puddle while 'not noticing' the puddle. Two ninja shot into the air and ran towards Kakashi. They wrapped a deadly looking chain around him and sliced him to pieces. The two ninja rushed forward but Sakura landed on the ground with a squeal.
"I finally caught up to you Sasuke!" Sasuke jumped back as the two ninja wrapped their chain around Sakura and chopped her to pieces.
"SAKURA!" yelled Sasuke. He drew his shuriken and threw it at the two, igniting a blue flamed fire that killed one of them while the other jumped away at the last second.
"I need to report to Zabuza quickly." he turned to run until Kakashi slammed an arm into his throat, knocking the wind from his body.
"Tazuna, you have some explaining to do." he said as he turned around towards the bridge. "I'm gonna 'talk' to our friend here. Wait here." Naruto sat cross legged on the ground with one arm on his left leg while he waited.
"You got any sake on you Old Man?"
"Aren't you a little young to drink?"
"Old enough to kill, old enough to drink. And the fact the banshee just died calls for some celebrating, uh, I mean mourning."
"She wasn't liked much was she?"
"Ever heard some one yells so loud three windows broke just because the person they liked hit the training dummy target?"
"Yikes!"
"Try being the one she likes some time." said Sasuke as Kakashi came back.
"Zabuza Momochi is waiting for us up ahead. Sai, seal up Sakura's remains and Naruto, have a clone take them to her parents." the orders were followed and the group started to move again and Tazuna explained.
"A little while ago, a man named Gato came to Wave under the guise of a business project. What he was actually doing was beginning to take over our country. He would buy all the ports and boats. And when you're a small island like us, the shipping industry is your country's blood. He launched us into a spiral of poverty. The worst thing he did was publicly kill the man that was going to be my son-in-law." the group of ninja seemed solemn as Tazuna sighed.
"And if you finish your bridge, people will start returning and Gato will lose his hold. So he's trying to get rid of you." Naruto received a nodded as his answer. They continued in silence, pondering these things. They eventually reached the shore line where a friend of Tazuna's gave them a ride over to Wave.
"I promise you Tazuna," said Naruto out of the blue. "I will see to it Gato dies. And that your bridge is finished."
"EVERY ONE DOWN!" yelled Kakashi as a large cleaving sword came from the woods. Naruto stood still as a hand of tree roots grabbed the blade and gave it to him. He looked it over and tossed it back towards the lake, where a man in a Mist head band with a mark through it and a pair of blue pants wearing tape over his mouth grabbed it.
"Hey blondie, how did you do that?"
"My Kekkai Genkai. I am Naruto Uzimaki-Namikaze, only other surviving member of the Senju clan other then Tsunade. I can also use my great-great-grand uncle's ice abilities. Just watch." he did a long string of hand signs as his team mates snuck Tazuna away. Clouds swarmed around them and came down in a snowy tornado. "Water Style: Ice Cyclone!" large spikes of ice flew from the tornado toward the shocked Zabuza. He heft his sword to block them but an invisible force stopped the spikes.
"Thanks Haku that was a close one."
"No problem at all Master Zabuza." said a feminine voice as a hunter-nin appeared at his side.
"Give up kid, you're outnumbered."
"Really Zabuza, cause I'm not the one that has one hundred ANBU surrounding him." Zabuza and the hunter-nin gulped as one hundred ANBU stepped onto the water. "Give up now, or I kill you."
"NEVER!" they screamed and the lake began to drain as two large dragons made entirely of ice flew upward as the girl wove her hands around while doing one handed seals.
"Dragons, big surprise. Does no one have any imagination?" asked Naruto as he drew his weapons. He spun it around in his palm then blasted chakra into it. "Tensu Ho-Ho!" Naruto held the blade vertically in front of his face where it looked like a single line then switched it and swung at them. A flaming bird flew through the air on a watery chain. Zabuza spun in a large circle while dragging his Zanbato through the water.
"Water Blade Style: Zanbato Wave!" a wave of icy water flew up at the bird and stayed in place, pushing against the bird. The bird suddenly stopped and let itself be put out. "Haku, watch out." Zabuza said as he looked around and saw Naruto floating above them.
"Wind chakra and seals, if you're wondering how I can float up here." Zabuza began a short series of hand signs but a snake bit him on the leg in the water. He brought his sword down towards it but a bolt of electricity flew into the bite. He screamed out in pain as the snake retreated beneath the surface. He growled as Naruto began to laugh.
"What's so funny brat!?"
"My pet, Rochi. That was him. He can manipulate electricity. It's his special ability. I'm laughing thought because he was aiming for your ass." Zabuza paled at that image and shook his head, breaking apart mental cobwebs.
"Come down and fight like a man!"
"Master Zabuza, those are fakes." said Haku. She pointed at the Anbu. "Release!" the ANBU became the annoying blonde brat as Zabuza had named him as the henge disappeared.
"Surprise!" they yelled out in unison. Copies of the snake slithered down their arms and into the water and began to circle Zabuza and Haku, making a small whirlpool. Zabuza and Haku made there chakra go in the opposite direction of the whirlpool until bolts of lightning hit there feet and made them sink in. They floated for a second then a snake bit into them. More snakes started to swarm around them.
'Water Style: Water Cyclone Jutsu' thought Zabuza as he finished his hand signs. The snakes were blown back as well as the clones as a cyclone carried Zabuza in the air with Haku waiting patiently in the water, a sphere of ice protecting her. "Not bad kid. Tell me, how did you get so much power?"
"I'm the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune and holder of the Shodaime and Nidaime spirits. I usually wouldn't tell you this but you're gonna die any ways so I doesn't matter." he dropped the flow of chakra in his blade so only the blade remained and leaned it on his shoulder.
"You sure are confident."
"Well, I have a secret weapon."
"And what is that."
"Ask the guy behind you." Zabuza gulped and turned around. Standing in front of him was the Nidaime Hokage.
"Is this some kind of trick!?" barked Zabuza.
"No, I am the Nidaime. I have taken over the body of a Shadow Clone. NOW DIE YOU SCUM!" he assumed a Taijutsu stance and flew forward over the water as if it was a part of him. He struck out at Zabuza but Haku took the hit. Her arm exploded to show a seal similar to Naruto's on her shoulder. Zabuza grabbed Haku and ran as the blood fell.
"She is a Jinchuuriki." he said in surprise.
"She is the container for the seven tailed dragon. His name is Hyoryu and his not considered a Bijuu. He was considered but the Kaku beat him out for the spot. We lost track on him a few years back. That girl must have had him sealed into her some how." said Kyuubi in Naruto's mind as the clone the Nidaime had possessed exploded. Naruto grunted and walked to the shore where he immediately attached his sword to his bracelet and fell face first on the ground.
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"Will he be okay?"
"Yes but he won't be up for another day or two."
"I can't believe he fought of Zabuza by himself. He really is strong."
"He did learn a Jounin level jutsu in three hours." Naruto listened to the ongoing conversation of Kakashi and Sasuke outside his door as he placed his clothes on. He finished by placing his coat on, where Rochi climbed in.
'Tired Rochi?'
'That's a stupid question. Do you know how fast I had to swim while at the same time making electricity? That ain't easy. Wake me up in a few hours okay?'
'Okay, get some rest.' Naruto shut off the link he and his snake partner shared. He then opened the door to the shock of his team and walked down stairs.
"Naruto, wait, you aren't healthy enough-" began Kakashi but Naruto cut him off.
"I heal a lot faster then most ninja. I think the Old Man said it was one hundred and seventy five point eight percent higher then the average person." Naruto sat down on a chair to eat some food.
"Well then, we're doing the tree walking exercise right now so-" again Naruto cut him off.
"I mastered that and kunai spinning. I can't do water walking though for some reason yet though. Go figure on that one." Naruto said through bites of food. "Could you help me with that?"
"Yeah sure, no problem."
"And teach me some low level Lightning Style Jutsu? I have trouble with Lightning chakra while I have a high affinity to the other four."
"I can't actually teach them to you but I can give you the scrolls and hand signs."
"And we can't you teach me?"
"The Civilian Council said I wasn't suppose to-"
"Kakashi, Civilian Council, not Ninja Council. They have no say in the matter." and so the day went by, leaving Sai and Sasuke to train and Naruto to heal. The next day, Naruto sat on the bridge watching Tazuna argue with a man who wanted to quit.
"I can't believe that dumb ass!" yelled Tazuna as the man left.
"You know, I can whip up one thousand clones to help. They can use fire style jutsus to melt the metal into place and can use absolute control over wood, shortening it or lengthening it at will."
"Could you really do that?"
"Just watch me. Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" one thousand Naruto clones popped into existence on the bridge and began to run around and helping the workers.
"Want some sake?" asked Tazuna as they sat back and watched.
"I got my own. Land of Tea's finest in fact." Naruto pulled the bottle he described out of thin air and began to drink from it. Tazuna's mouth drooled as he looked at the liquid.
"How does it taste?"
"Pretty much perfect. It's sweet yet powerful and the after taste sends a shiver down my spine. And this is the only sake in the world with vitamins and minerals in it."
"Got any extra for an old man?"
"Nope, only bottle I got left. My sensei…" he trailed off and the smile he wore slowly disappeared. "My former sensei, Anko Mitarashi, drank most of it. God she was drunk the next day." Tazuna and Naruto moved out of the puddle the drool had made and began to help them selves. A portion of the clones were under water, building the pillars the bridge stood on. Another portion was helping by moving the bars and wood into place. A final group was melting the bars into shape and placing the cement down. By the end of the day only a few feet were left to complete.
"Thanks for the help Naruto. We couldn't have done it without you."
"No problem." Naruto dismissed his clones and grabbed his head in pain. "Uh, man, I forgot every thing my clones learn returns to me after they disappear. That much information hurt is all." the workers all left to go as dark clouds formed over head.
"Hold on brat." Naruto restrained his instincts, which kept yelling 'IF HE CALLS ME BRAT AGAIN I'LL KILL HIM' as Tazuna stood on a box. "Okay every one, the yearly week long storm has finally reached us so take some time off. We'll come back the day after it stops." the workers all continued home, putting the information away for later as Tazuna was grabbed up by Naruto and flown through the trees to his house.
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"Father, how did things go today?" asked Tsunami as Tazuna and Naruto sat down to eat with everyone else.
"It was incredible. Thanks to Naruto we have only a few feet left on the bridge. Unfortunately the week long storm just arrived. Work will begin the after it stops." everyone was shocked, especially Inari.
'That stupid blonde punk did all that?'
"So how are we gonna train now sensei?" inquired Sai as Naruto dragged the food down his throat at an incredible pace.
"We're gonna go upon the roof and use chakra to keep from falling off. Once you master that we'll see what your elemental affinity is."
"Inari," said Naruto after he placed his latest empty plate on the table. "Would you like to learn some ninja skills? I would gladly teach you the three academy jutsu." Inari's eyes widened and he nodded quickly.
'If this kid can be that good think how great I could be!'
"Great, just come get me when you're ready in the morning." Inari nodded and Tsunami let a warm smile creep on her face. Her son was going to be a ninja. He might even get over Kaiza's death. The group soon separated and went to their bed rooms to sleep.
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Inari knocked on Naruto's door. The wooden rectangle creaked and the blonde stood waiting. He took Inari own to the living room. "First thing you need to do is learn to mold chakra. Use the ram seal and we'll see what happens." Naruto showed Inari the seal and then gave him tips on how to mold the energy. Inari laced his fingers and began to release a large amount of chakra. After two minutes Naruto stopped him.
"What is something wrong?"
"Yeah, a little kid who isn't even a ninja has high Genin to low Chuunin level chakra. That isn't exactly common." Inari smiled as Naruto explained jutsus, hand signs, chakra, ninja ranking and weapons.
"So can I learn a jutsu?" he asked. Naruto tapped his chin and nodded.
"I'll teach you how to do the Clone jutsu."
"Is that the one you used to help grandpa?" 'If I learn that I'll show them I am better then this punk'.
"No, that's the Shadow Clone jutsu. It makes solid clones. The Clone jutsu makes illusion copies, not real one. Shadow Clone is a Jounin level technique." so Naruto showed Inari the clone hand signs and how to make one. "Go ahead and try."
"Clone Jutsu!" twenty clones of Inari filled up the room.
"Very impressive Inari. Not even Sasuke could do that many." Naruto then moved on to the transformation technique.
"Could you show me this one?"
"Well I do have one technique…" Naruto made the hand sign and whispered the name of his technique. In a blast of smoke a wet and naked girl appeared. She had huge boobs and two blonde pigtails. The only thing covering her private areas was two thinning lines of smoke. Inari backed away as she sat down on his lap, right as Tsunami came down the steps.
"Inari! Who is this woman!?"
"I'm the hooker he ordered. He said his mom needed some fun." she said with a twinkle in her eyes and stood up, showing everything to Tsunami, who rocketed up the stairs with a blast of blood. The girl became a laughing Naruto who was rolling on the floor.
"That wasn't very nice Naruto! And what's a hooker?" asked Inari. Naruto looked at him for a second then started to laugh even harder.
"I think that's it for today." for the rest of the week, everything was interesting to say the least. Naruto taught Inari the three academy jutsu while Sasuke and Sai mastered the tree walking exercise. After five days, the rain stopped. Naruto went outside to practice his swords play since he couldn't inside and Sasuke followed him hoping to learn some basic Kenjutsu. They arrived in a small clearing with herbs and flowers growing every where. Naruto tossed a wooden sword to Sasuke and grabbed one himself.
"Let's begin okay? Go into this stance." as Naruto was about to slip into a stance, a card hit the ground in between them. On one side was a picture of a black fire and on the other a red moon.
"Excuse us, could you help us please?" came a female voice. Two girls walked into the clearing. One had long black hair and onyx eyes. The other had bleu skin and gills and short cut black hair.
"Itachi, Kisame, is that you?" asked Naruto. Sasuke's eyes hardened.
"Maybe it is brat." answered the blue skinned one.
"Yeah, that's Kisame." the two girls disappeared to be replaced by Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki.
"Naruto, what's going on here?" snarled Sasuke.
"Relax little brother." said Itachi. "Naruto is part of Lord Jiraiya's spy network. We came to give him our report." he looked at Kisame, who nodded. "Also, we have some information that could destroy Akatsuki if used properly."