Bouseigan
Chapter 8
Oddities of the Uzumaki.
Setsuna arrived at a home better known throughout Konoha as the 'Smoke House'. The smoke house was really just the back room of the Uzumaki primary weapon house. Forging was a tradition started by Uzumaki Mugen and pass down through his only daughter Kodachi, Unfortunately Kodachi-Sama was unable to have children and just happened to adopt a young boy, who later became one of the most powerful shinobi in the world.
"Jiraiya-Sama," Setsuna yelled as he stood outside the main door. "Stop all that damn yelling at my door," Setsuna swirled around. The man behind him was of average height with black hair and dark blue eyes, This man was also one of the most feared shinobi in the world. "The old man is out collecting information for his new book.
"It's been a while since you've had duty," Nagato finished. Setsuna nodded.
"Akane-Sama kept me from being a captive of T&I," He said following after the older man. "I betrayed our family in stupidity," He sighed.
"That's because you're stupid," Nagato told him. "It's because you're a man, all men believe that doing something brash and without thought is courage." With ease he started the forge. He stared into the fire for a few seconds. "But for a ninja we must always think ahead and look further then our own hearts…
"Because what lies in hearts of men is a demon waiting to be unleashed." Setsuna interrupted. Nagato nodded. "Even though I'm not a true Uzumaki, Akane-Sama has always treated me like any other Uzumaki." Setsuna stared at the man. Just like Jaraiya-Sama, Nagato was adopted into the remnants of the Mugen section of the Uzumaki, After it was confirmed that Kodachi--Sama was unable to have children. She adopted a few orphans and raised them as her own children, one of these children grew up to become know as Jiraiya of the Sannin. Jiraiya continued her tradition and adopted several kids when he was on a mission in the hidden village of Rain. "Did you know that when the village discovered my abilities, the council wanted to marry me off to several village girls?" Setsuna cracked a smile and laughed. Nagato even smiled a bit before he continued. "But when they discovered how deep my pain truly was and how low I had sunken into my Doujutsu and Kinjutsu abilities.
"They wanted me executed, Ryuu and Jiraiya tracked me down and defeated me with ease, I don't know if you've ever seen them serious but it was truly fearsome," he continued. "When I awoke I was sitting before the council as they listed my crimes and comparing me to the likes of Orochimaru, even I was disgusted at the thought."
'This was indeed the former ANBU commander known as 'The Six paths of Nagato', Last known inheritor of the Rin'negan.
"Just as they sentenced me too death, she stood and said…
"The Uzumaki will take full responsibility for his actions against Konoha and Amegakure," A feminine voice interrupted them. It was a tall, slender woman with bright blue hair and dark eyes. "You idiots need to lighten up a bit and get back to work," she said flashing them a kind smile.
They both cracked a smile and went about their worked for the day.
*****
Private Training ground
She was there, dressed in a short sleeve, dark blue kimono, a crimson red sash wrapped around her waist kept it all together. Her trademark fan was strap to her back.
A slight smile was on her face. She was just as beautiful as he remembered.
"Temari… Chan."
*****
Uchiha district ~ Training ground
'His Sharingan will be strong.' Fugaku thought as he sparred with his youngest son. Sparring with the Uzumaki boy had giving Sasuke strength. It was experience he needed now.
Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and Genjutsu, could be easily defeated with experience. With experience also came maturity. With a simple move he gained distance from the boy.
His hands flash through seals within the blink of an eye.
"Katon."
"Goukakyuu No Jutsu," a massive ball fire erupted from his mouth it scorched the ground and dug massive trench in its wake.
"Doton, Doryuuheki." Sasuke shouted and a massive wall of rock rose from the ground to block the attack.
Fugaku shook his head as he appeared behind Sasuke with a Kunai against his neck.
"Never devote yourself to every attack, Sasuke you must learn to think beyond the now and think three-to-four steps ahead." Fugaku lectured. 'You already know the technique my son, you just have to use it.'
Once the earth wall crumbled, Fugaku was still standing in his original place.
"Kage Bunshin?" Sasuke mumbled.
The Fugaku behind him exploded into a puff of smoke. "Your still too distracted boy, we will continue tomorrow." he said turning away and heading back towards the large house in the distance.
"What was that woman?"
Fugaku turned slowly, the Sharingan gone from his eyes. "What woman?"
Sasuke turned on him his eyes fierce. "The one that lifted you by the neck and toss you around the council chambers." He snarled. "The Uchiha are supposed to be the elite of all shinobi clans."
Fugaku stared at his only true heir. The boy was right, The Uchiha were suppose to be the strongest clan in Konoha. Their techniques were many and their skill was unparalleled. The Sharingan was without a doubt the strongest Doujutsu in the elemental countries. Even before Konoha the Uchiha were powerful, but the thirst for power was destructive and eventually led to the killing of friends and family. Mangekyou Sharingan without a doubt had no equal in this world. Itachi had proven that with ease. Revenge would be theirs sooner or later, Itachi would come back, after all... he had no other choice.
"She's a demon," He said finally. "A Kitsune capable of taking a human form."
"There are four of them all together, Yukihime, Benihime, Kijinmaru and finally Satsujinmaru."
"The four demons of the Uzumaki Clan." Fugaku once again began walking away. He turned his head slightly and gaze at his son who looked defiant once again. "Is it true that boy was able to summon her to ward off Setsuna?"
Sasuke nodded.
That was troublesome. To summon such a beast at his age, that boy was without a doubt the son of Uzumaki Machiko. "When you fully mature your Sharingan, i will show you the next stage... Mangekyou Sharingan."
For the sake of the Uchiha and their future, His son, Uchiha Sasuke would become strong.
*****
Disagreeing with the council was easy, disagreeing with the Sandaime was difficult. They rarely butted heads on any issue and they were both far too old to hold any grudges. This time his request was simple. Setsuna was without a doubt a master of the Uzumaki Tsurugi Ryuu Makaze. Konoha was sorely lacking with sword styles and specialist.
The boy was getting teaching duty, blacksmith duty and perimeter missions.
"It should keep him busy for awhile at least." She chuckled to herself as she left the Hokage tower.
"Uzumaki-Sama," The yell interrupted her thoughts. She turned quickly just as a girl with long pink hair ran up to her. Wearing a dress of all things. "Uzumaki-Sama," The girl said again. Then Akane recognize her as the lone female member of Cell 7. Akane gave the young girl a bright smile.
"Ah, Haruno-San." She held up her hand to ward off the coming ANBU who no doubt was a Uzumaki. "Walk this old lady home okay? and tell me what i can do for you." Sakura nodded and began following after the much older woman.
The girl was quiet, before she finally found her voice. "I don't feel like i can help them at all," she muttered. "There both much stronger then me and their Doujutsu and Ninjutsu are incredible." She stared at ground. "I want to become stronger so i can support them and force them to stop looking down on me."
Akane nodded. She herself knew the feeling well. "Hmm, I see, well child the first hurdle is knowing that you need to improve yourself."
"Your problem is that both those boys will be Ninjutsu and Doujutsu specialist, and since both their eye techniques are capable of high level illusions, they will have no need of a Genjutsu specialist." She looked over to the girl. "You understand what I'm saying child?"
Sakura nodded. "I have to look at their weaknesses and make that my strength." Her once dull green eyes brightened immediately.
"So what you got left is Taijutsu, Fuinjutsu, Kenjutsu, you can also study to become a medic-nin." She told young girl. "But again unfortunately for you and Naruto, Kakashi is no doubt going to spend much more time with the young Uchiha boy, Naruto can overcome this because we can teach him anything he needs to know."
"So it's hopeless?" Sakura sighed as her eyes darkened.
'It's always refreshing to see someone who shows it all,' Akane chuckled. She grabbed Sakura lightly by the shoulder, as they slowed to a stop. She look up and recognize they were in the forested area before the Uzumaki district.
"Watch closely girl," She bit her finger slightly before her hands slid threw a few seals. "Kuchiyose No Jutsu," she whispered as she press her hands against the ground. The area exploded in a large puff of smoke, the wind blew harshly and revealed a huge male lion.
"Oh my god!" she exclaimed and hid behind the older woman. The lion was enormous, the beast was majestic with a full dark brown mane and beautiful golden fur. One of his eyes was covered by an eye patch with the Uzumaki spiral.
Then she heard it speak.
"It has been some time mistress," It had voice of crushing gravel.
"Come on Sakura," she somehow got behind and push her forward. "This is Byakko, the leader of the Lion tribes." Byakko bowed low to the girl.
"This is a summon?" she ask.
"One of the first i discovered in my youth, the Lion clan doesn't allow a summoner to summon any of the clan, when you sign the contract you get assigned a partner." She ran her hands threw his massive mane. "Byakko and i have been a team for over fifty years now."
Sakura looked stunned. "Why are you telling me this Uzumaki-Sama?"
"The Uzumaki as a family unit only have one summoning contract, But in my youth I traveled this world and gather hundreds of contracts and created many more beyond that," She looked the girl in the eye. "Sakura I'm going to pass on this contract to you, The Lion Tribe has probably grown bored with no action lately huh Byakko?"
The massive beast nodded slightly. "Mistress even if you surrender the contract to another i will always be yours." he nudge her with his head.
"I know Byakko, i know." she grabbed him roughly by the mane and pulled him down to her and planted a kiss between his eyes.
"Come here Sakura." She commanded. "This is just the first step, Byakko still has to approve of you," The girl straightened herself out and came forward masking her fear with some skill.
"Byakko-Sama," She knelled to the bright gold Lion. "I beg of you great lion
"Silence." He roared. "Stand up, look at me." she did.
"A lion never lowers their head and never backs down, even if they know death is coming and even if we know the odds are far against us, only death will cool our passion."
"If we see something we take it, if something blocks our way we destroy it," He stared at her hard. "If we want something we demand it."
"Tell him who you are," Akane whispered at her.
Sakura took a deep breath and hope she was making the right choice. She stilled herself and hardened her resolve, she needed to do this.
"I am Haruno Sakura, Summoner of the Lion Tribe."
Akane smiled at the girl breath she was holding.
"Good," He grumbled as he lumbered towards her. "The seal will be placed directly on your body child, Akane-Sama will give you the original scroll later."
"Give him your arm child." She commanded and Sakura instantly did so with out a hint of fear. "It might hurt just a bit," She smiled. Sakura nodded and stilled herself as the massive lion bit down on her arm his massive K-9s stabbing easily into her flesh.
She felt a rush of energy, and darkness claimed her.
Akane laughed softly as the girl collapse, Byakko caught her before she could hit the ground. "Which one of yours will be hers?"
He let her down easily and turned to the older woman. He grinned slightly showing his teeth.
"Kuromaru." Her eyes widen immediately as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
*****
Sakura woke later the grass beneath her flattened and the sky above her a bright red with clouds so dark they were almost black. The air is suffocating and smell strongly of sulfur. There was something evil here. She had felt something like this on that strange mission, where Naruto summoned the kitsune spirit, But this was far more unsettling.
Suddenly a cave so large that the opening descended into the heavens. The mist cleared and the feeling intensified further. Two large crimson spheres appeared at the opening of the cave.
"WHO DARES TOO INVADE MY DOMAIN?" The voice boom as dark twisted red chakra began bubbling and boiling in front of the cave. It continued until a large beast formed that stared down at her. K-9s easily the size of her arm. Large ears and nine tails that descended into the heavens. "WHO DARES?" The incredible foul stench of its breathe rotted the grass around her as she tried to stand.
"YOU, WHO ARE NOT A UZUMAKI, BUT CARRY THE MARK OF BYAKKO.
"HAVE YOU COME SEEKING GLORY?"
"SEEKING VENGENACE?"
The world darkening around as it became even harder to breath as the beast crept forward slowly. Suddenly she recognize the beast, it the Kyuubi No Youkai.
"HAVE YOU COME SEEKING POWER?"
Her eyes widen as a large grin came over the creatures face.
"TELL ME HUMAN CHILD, TELL ME WHAT YOU WISH FOR." The pressure lessened and she could draw breath.
"I want to become strong." she cried.
The last thing she remembered before darkness claim her again was the slight smile that marred the creatures face.
"Then I will give you power."
*****
She awoke hours or days later, she couldn't tell. The hospital she almost immediately recognized. Her mother sat in a chair next to her sleep.
"Hello Sakura." a voice to her left said. She look up to see the bright blue eyes of Uzumaki Akane.
"Uzumaki-Sama." her father stood next to elderly woman.
"Sakura-Chan." Her mother shouted as she woke and hugged her fiercely.
"What happened to me?"
Akane sighed. Her once brilliant blue eyes began to dull. "What I'm going to tell you is to be considered an S-class secret punishable by death," She look over all of them. "Do you all understand?"
The small family unit nodded.
"It's said that the Yondaime defeated the greatest threat this world has ever seen.
"That threat was the Kyuubi No Youko, but the Kyuubi is absolutely immortal and far too strong to be destroyed by anything less then the destruction of all we know. The only thing we could really manage was to seal the creature within a soul realm."
"Soul Realm?"
Akane nodded. "It's a place created by the sacrificing of a human soul." Several looks of horror dawn on there faces.
"Yondaime-Sama."
Akane nodded. "His sacrifice and the sacrifice of Uzumaki Machiko, created the realm and seal where the Kyuubi No Youko sleeps."
"What does this have to do with my daughter?" The mother asked while hugging her daughter.
"Sakura woke the Kyuubi." she said as she walk over to the girl and pull her gown down slightly revealing a very intricate tattoo of a nine tailed fox. They gasped collectively. "And it seems she likes you."
"What does it do?" Sakura asks as she looks over the mark in the large mirror on the door. "I remember being afraid but not much else."
"It gives you the right to use this." Akane said as handed the girl an ebony colored box. Sakura reached for the box and as soon she touched it her tattoo glowed ominously. Opening the box she saw a beautiful red colored Chokuto styled sword. It was a Wakizashi sword with the same small marking above her breast was engraved on the sword. She grasp the sword and unsheathe it slowly. The blade shined like a full moon and fit her hand perfectly.
"Hello Haruno Sakura," she heard a voice in her mind. The voice was faint and like a whisper. "I shall be your sword." She shook her head as voice disappeared. She looked up in a daze as the older woman stood over her. "Thank you, Uzumaki-Sama."
"Not at all child, before I leave Sakura I would you like to stop by my house so our finest sword smith can examine the sword before you began using it." Sakura nodded and as Akane begin to leave Sakura called out to her again.
"How do you know so much about the Kyuubi?"
Akane smiled at the woman. "Uzumaki Akira tracked down the demon fox and fought it in one-on-one combat many years ago, he lost the battle but the demon spared him. Kyuubi-Sama saw greatness within this man and gave him two gifts, One of them was the contract of the Demon fox clan and the other was…
"Bouseigan…" Sakura said in awe.
Akane nodded. "Remember," she said staring at all of them. "It should be considered an SS-Class secret, What you have been told is a clan secret, Sakura if you betray the trust I have in you." Her hair began to lift in the air and the room darkened. The entire family was almost slammed to the floor under the immense pressure and killing intent. Her eyes glowed darkly and the Bouseigan appeared in its final form the single crimson star spinning rapidly. Suddenly it was all gone and they could breath again. "But I have faith in you child, and I know you will not disappoint me." Then she was gone.
**
Naruto saw as the smile left her face, only to be replaced by an arrogant smirk that he knew well. In a flash of motion her large battle fan was wide open and ready. This form he knew well, his angelic wind goddess had returned.
"C'mon Uzumaki I have a few questions to ask you."
Naruto grinned, His blue eyes morph into the Bouseigan. "And if I don't want to answer." The 'eyes' of his Doujutsu began their spin of madness.
She returned his grin with her own. "Then I might have to be forceful."
(2008 was offically a bad year for me and writing and all my projects are behind schedule. As I said when I posted Ch 7 this Ch 8 was done a long time ago but I can't seem to make Ch 9 work like how I want. But we'll see if I have to force it and just get passed it for good.
Also i'm always trying improve my writing ability as small as it may be I still take pride in always trying to improve so if you have suggestions let me know.)