What if Naruto had a hidden power that came to be when he fought Mizuki, a bloodline he never knew of? Then he would be known as the Kaze no Arashi, the Wind Storm!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
Kaze no Arashi
Chapter 7:
The Scroll of the Uzumaki!
Naruto awoke, putting on his orange jacket and pants as he yawned. He adjusted his headband on his forehead, smiled at his reflection in the mirror as he raced out the door, now grinning.
"Alright, it's time to train," Naruto cheered as he raced to the training grounds, moving like the wind, swift and elegant.
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"So, that's how the mission went," the Third Hokage asked Kakashi, who nodded. The Third Hokage adopted a serious face and looked deeply at Kakashi. "How is Naruto doing?"
"Ah, he's doing alright. He just had to go see what remained of Uzushiogakure and he ended up breaking down and crying. The bridge builder then decided to rebuild Uzushiogakure for Naruto's service to Nami no Kuni. He found a scroll and gave it right to Naruto for him to keep."
The Hokage sighed and smiled lightly in thought, "Alright, Kakashi. You may leave."
"Very well, Hokage-sama." Kakashi said before disappearing from the office.
The Third sighed and looked out to the village as he smiled, "It looks like the Chunin Exams are coming soon, in about a month. I hope with all my heart that you show everyone everything you've got Naruto."
He took a smoke of his pipe and let the smoke out into the room, "After all, it may be your last chance to be alive."
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Naruto reached the training grounds as the scroll he got from Tazuna seemed to drop onto the grass with a light and soft plop. Naruto looked and his eyes widened when he saw the scroll on the ground and handled the scroll. He touched it, looking at the intricate swirl patterns all along the scroll's exterior and hesitated in picking at the top of the scroll where he could open it up.
The scroll may have been of little height, but it was very wide and probably full of earlier jutsu or history of the Uzumaki Clan. It made Naruto grin and shake in anticipation. It just made him so excited, but he'd have to be careful. This scroll looked decently old, at least fifty or sixty years old, but still in excellent condition for a scroll of its age. He fingered the tiny corner sticking out, teasing him to rip it and look into the scroll, but Naruto knew he had to be focused, not giving into temptation.
He picked at it with curiosity and began to peel the scroll very delicately. If anyone saw Naruto doing this, they would have their jaws to the floor in shock. They wouldn't believe the hyperactive ninja of the academy was actually not eagerly opening a scroll that could contain secrets to his family or jutsu that he could learn with practice.
He was still trying to get it open only having part of the huge yet short scroll unraveled until he decided to look at it bit by bit and learn as he went. The first thing that appeared was a sealing technique as Naruto scratched his head at it. He knew he heard Kakashi say that the Uzumaki were specialized in fuinjutsu so this must be a scroll of sealing techniques. This first one was the Dead Demon Consuming Seal though as he read, he figured out that the technique couldn't be used by Jinchuriki. The scroll never said why though which confused Naruto.
He wouldn't try that jutsu so he moved the scroll's flap over to see what was next. The next thing was actually a jutsu called Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique. Naruto read the description of the technique; his eyes widening at the fact that the Third Hokage made this technique.
Then, why was a scroll from Uzushiogakure holding it and its abilities? Naruto thought, but remember that Uzushiogakure was an ally of Konohagakure so sharing jutsu and scrolls could have happened often. Though knowing the Third, why would he just give away everything about a jutsu he invented and mastered even if it was to an ally? After all, an ally could have easily turned into an enemy at the flick of a wrist.
Nevertheless, Naruto shrugged his shoulders and decided to practice the jutsu as he made the handsigns in order. Ram to rat, rat to bird, bird to boar, and from boar to tiger. He then threw a shuriken only for nothing to happen at all. This made Naruto angry and frustrated. He then decided to throw the shuriken and do the handsigns afterward.
Naruto snatched a single throwing star from his shuriken hoister and threw it toward a set of trees. Naruto flipped through the handsigns, ram to tiger, before staring intently at the shuriken that he threw. Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!
With the exceedingly large amount of chakra took into the technique like he always did, he had thousands of shuriken appear beside the one, stabbing the entire forest of trees. The shuriken continued to bite at the trees which made Naruto widen his eyes in surprise and grin in triumph at completing a jutsu. After all, that's what everyone does when they accomplish a jutsu. Well, what happened next to Naruto didn't always happen to those who completed a jutsu.
He fell to the ground, exhausted and huffing out air. He still had a goofy smile on his face as he clenched a fist with the hand he held in front of his face. He decided to relax and look through the scroll to see what other jutsu he could learn after recovering his chakra from that last one.
Next was another seal in the shape of a spiral that looked interesting, but Naruto couldn't understand it at all. He would have to ask Kakashi or the Third if they know any masters of Fuinjutsu or even a little on seals to tell him about these seals. More seals kept popping up in the hefty scroll, frustrating the blonde genin that he couldn't learn these seals. Some of them looked like paper seals that could be attached to kunai knives or even shuriken while others looked complicated and made Naruto's brain throb at the complex symbols.
Maybe if Naruto learned about seals, he could learn more about the seal on his stomach that contained the Kyuubi in order to use its powers to his advantage. Another jutsu that surprised Naruto was one he thought he heard of before, the Flying Thunder God Technique, a jutsu that involved a seal wrapped around a kunai in order to teleport instantly to that spot.
Ah! Naruto thought as he reached an epiphany on whose technique this was. This was the Fourth's signature jutsu! My father's…
This confused Naruto even more. Why would a scroll containing a jutsu crafted by the Third and one of the Fourth's signature moves be in Uzushiogakure!
He read on nonetheless and looked at a technique that an Uzumaki was able to do with their chakra. It interested Naruto with how cool it was. It was the ability to make their chakra into chains that were able to attack and defend. He wondered if he could do that at some point since he was an Uzumaki. The other jutsu were some Wind Release jutsu like how it can be used on kunai knives, shuriken and blades to make them even deadlier then before and one called Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.
It made Naruto just want to dig into it and learn these jutsu until he spotted Sasuke and Sakura approach him. He quickly sealed up the scroll and stashed it into one of his pouches as he got up and ran to his teammates.
"Hey!" he yelled as he waved and then stopped in front of them. "Why are you guys here? I thought we had the day off."
"Kakashi called us down here and we couldn't find you anywhere when he told us to get you." Sasuke replied to which Sakura nodded.
"That is correct."
Everybody turned at the voice as they saw an eye-smiling Kakashi who just closed his Make-Out Paradise book and stashed it into his pocket. He pulled out three slips of paper, handing them out to each of his students.
"What is this Kaka-sensei?" Naruto said, looking at the paper and scratching the back of his head.
"Well, it just so happens that the Chunin Exams are coming up and I just allowed you guys to enter them. Those are just consent forms to make sure that you will go to the exam." Kakashi said and his eyes widened as a blur of orange rushed at him and hugged him tightly.
"I love you, Kaka-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed as Kakashi sweatdropped at his student's action.
"Naruto," Kakashi said fiercely as Naruto looked up at him, smiling.
"What, Kaka-sensei?"
"Get off me before I unleash the Thousand Years of Death upon you again." A dark look from Kakashi pierced Naruto. "I'm pretty sure you would not like that very much."
Naruto quickly got off him, shivering in fear of that technique.
"Oh and Naruto," Kakashi said which got Naruto's attention back onto him. "The Third would like to see you at his office. He wants to talk about that scroll and its contents. Knowing you, you've looked through that scroll like it was a bowl of ramen to gorge through."
Naruto nodded as Kakashi disappeared and Sasuke went on his way, smirking in thought of the exams, while Sakura moved slower, unknowing of her abilities.
Naruto noticed this and went to her. "Sakura!" Sakura turned quickly to look at the whiskered face of her teammate. "What's up? You look down."
Sakura sighed. "I'm not strong like you and Sasuke-kun. I don't know any really useful jutsu besides the academy and the exam happens in a week. I feel like I'm going to drag the team down…"
"Sakura, you have really good chakra control and if you really focus, you can decipher genjutsu easily. If you find some genjutsu and stuff that involves great chakra control, it might help you." Naruto said, scratching the back of his head. He heard Kakashi say this before so he thought he should tell Sakura that to bring her spirits up and help her improve.
Sakura's eyes widen and she smiled with joy as she ran and hugged Naruto on impulse, causing Naruto to blush. "Thanks, Naruto!" She quickly let go and ran to the library, waving goodbye to Naruto. "See ya!"
"Yeah! See ya!" Naruto yelled, waving back until Sakura vanished from his sight. That's when Naruto decided to run to the Third Hokage and tell him about the scroll.
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The Third Hokage sighed. Oh, how I hate you, paperwork… He glared at the papers on his desk as he signed the mission reports including the one from Kakashi and his team.
He perked up a little when he heard knocking at the door. Hopefully, it's Naruto-kun. "Come in."
The door opened and the person behind the door was revealed to be the very person he hoped it would be, Naruto. "Ah, Naruto-kun, how are you doing? It seems you been busy with your missions and training."
"Ojii-san!" Naruto exclaimed and proceeded to tell the tale of the Wave mission, only in his point of view. That meant plenty of Sasuke being weak and worshipping Naruto, Sakura exclaiming how cool Naruto was on the mission and proceeding to make out with the boy and Kakashi claiming sadly that he no longer had anything to teach him. He also claimed that all of Nami no Kuni bowed and worshipped him like he was Kami himself.
The Third Hokage chuckled at Naruto's imaginative interpretation of the mission and smiled at the boy. Once the boy was done, the Hokage set his pipe down, smoke no longer coming out of it. "So, Naruto, tell me of this scroll you acquired that was in the remains of Uzushiogakure."
Naruto pulled the wide scroll from his back pouch and set it in front of the elderly Hokage, on the desk that held the paperwork the Hokage had just completed, to the Hokage's joy. The Hokage took the flap in the scroll and began unraveling the scroll, looking at the jutsu and secrets it held on its insides. The first one was the seal used by the Fourth Hokage to seal part of the Kyuubi inside himself. The Third knew and could use the technique since the Fourth told him how to do it and talked of the Shinigami, the Death God that only the user and the person being sealed can see.
The Third knew the technique would be a last resort to any shinobi, but it was a great technique to catch one off guard and seal away even the most powerful of enemies. It would cost your life as well though. The technique wasn't well-known at all, so it wouldn't be anticipated at all. He flipped to the next page of the scroll and looked at the next technique only for his eyes to widen in shock.
Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique! The Sarutobi thought in shock that his jutsu was in an Uzumaki scroll. How could this be inside this scroll? Unless…
He decided to look only to see different seals like a spiral seal, a bunch of ones that could be attached to ninja weapons and he continued to look. He was once again shocked when another jutsu reared its head at the Hokage. It was the Flying Thunder God Technique, one of the Fourth's signature jutsus up there with the Rasengan. There was also information on the Chakra Chains that Kushina used and a detailed description of an attack a Biju, a tailed beat, could do the one attack the Rasengan was modeled after, the Tailed Beast Bomb.
The Third then saw some more fuinjutsu like the Four Symbols Seal that was on Naruto, the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique, the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, and the Five Elements Seal. He knew that Orochimaru knew of the Five Elements Seal just as Jiraiya knew the seal and how to unseal it. He wondered if Naruto would excel in fuinjutsu like Jiraiya, Minato, Kushina and most of the member s of the Uzumaki Clan had.
The Sarutobi himself knew quite a bit about fuinjutsu, not as much as Jiraiya or Minato granted, but he could definitely figure out and create different seals and how they reacted. He knew he would have to have somebody help Naruto with seals since it looked like the boy was interested in everything in this scroll. It was like it was the will of his parents to learn everything from this scroll.
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked and even saw the concept of this Rasenshuriken jutsu, modeled after the Rasengan Minato created in that it now held a Wind Release property. There was also the smaller Wind Release: Rasengan right beside the Rasenshuriken. This looked incomplete however, so he hoped Naruto could eventually learn them for his father's sake. He looked at Naruto, who was sitting and actually snoring and sleeping, making the Hokage chuckle.
He must have been working on the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique and used too much chakra for the technique. He knew the boy couldn't do fuinjutsu yet so the most logical thing was that the boy practiced that jutsu.
The Third continued to look at the scroll wondering about what else it could contain. He found the Space-Time Barrier and Contract Seal Minato could use. It seemed the scroll mostly held techniques of Naruto's parents and some fuinjutsu the Uzumaki used. Then, he saw a familiar name on the last page, the man who recorded the jutsu in the scroll. His eyes widened when he saw the name was Namikaze Minato. He remembered the trip the Fourth and Kushina took to Nami no Kuni and how the Fourth felt like he dropped a scroll or something. It was luck that Naruto had brought this scroll here and that another village didn't discover the secrets of the Yellow Flash.
The Third looked at the picture of the Fourth, looking seriously back at him. He sighed, rolled the scroll up until it was sealed closed and walked toward Naruto as he gentle put his hand onto Naruto's shoulder.
"Naruto, wake up," he said as he gently shook the genin up and gave him the scroll when he opened his eyes.
"You figure out everything about the scroll," Naruto asked as the Hokage smiled kindly and nodded, rubbing Naruto's hair with his hand. Naruto put the scroll into his back pouch as he got up and looked at the smiling Hokage. "Ojii-san, do you know someone who knows fuinjutsu? Do you? I really want to know how to craft those seals since they may be my family's only remaining scroll of jutsu other than what's buried beneath the pillars."
The Third knew exactly who could teach Naruto before the Chunin Exams and help afterward as well. He just needed to find him, which wouldn't be hard if he was in the village. "I have somebody in mind, Naruto-kun, but while I find him, go to waterway right by the hot springs on the edge of the village and do the Water Surface Walking Practice." He wrote notes of what to do on a piece of paper. "Here are the details of the exercise: to channel a constant stream of chakra out of your feet and uses repellent force to walk across the water's surface. It is harder than the tree-walking exercise, but you may be able to master it quicker since your chakra control has excelled."
Naruto smiled at the praise and rubbed the back of his head, chuckling as he was embarrassed a little. "Alright, ojii-san! See ya later!"
Naruto rushed out the door and ran to the waterway where he could practice as the Third chuckled and put on his hat. He wore a new serious expression. Time to go find that perverted student of mine…
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Naruto was wet, completely wet. The water soaked his jacket, pants and shirt as he decided to take them off. Luckily, he decided to take his pouches off before doing the exorcise on the water. He decided to do it again, this time finally being able to master the water-walking technique right after he tried it a few times. He whopped and hollered in achievement before he kept on doing it to the point where he could do it automatically without channeling chakra.
As Naruto was trying this, a perverted chuckle could be hear a while away, coming from a tall man with long spikey white hair flowing down his back. His forehead protected said oil as it was horned. The Third approached the man, sighing at what the man was doing.
"So, how have you been, Jiraiya?" The Third asked, smoking his pipe as the man rose to his feet and looked behind him to see his former sensei.
"Sarutobi-sensei," Jiraiya said with a surprised voice, "I didn't think you would search me out here in the village. Is something up that you wanted to talk about?"
"It's about Naruto…" When these words flowed out of the old Hokage's mouth, Jiraiya grew a serious look.
"What happened?"
"He has unlocked the Namikaze bloodline and has found a scroll that Minato wrote in the remains of Uzushiogakure."
Jiraiya was shocked at what he heard from his sensei's mouth, "When did Naruto go to the remains of Uzushiogakure?"
"He was on a C-Rank to A-Rank mission in Nami no Kuni. It was an escort mission that Naruto and his team went on to guard this bridge builder. It turned out that Gato wasn't wanting the bridge to be built and sent enemy ninja to kill Tazuna and stop the building of the bridge, the Great Naruto Bridge is what it is called now. One such ninja was Momochi Zabuza of the Hidden Mist." This made Jiraiya's eyes widen a bit. "Naruto's team was able to defeat Zabuza and his accomplice Haku, who was of the Yuki Clan."
"Who is Naruto's team and sensei?" Jiraiya asked, wondering who was able to defeat an elite shinobi like the Demon of the Hidden Mist.
"His sensei is Hatake Kakashi and his teammates are Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura. They're a lot like Kakashi's and your teams." Jiraiya's eyes widened at this.
"It's as if fate loves to tear people apart." Jiraiya chuckled sadly. After all, both of those teams were tore apart. Kakashi's was torn by the death of Uchiha Obito while Jiraiya's was torn by the defection of Orochimaru.
"It seems this team got along better when Naruto revealed about the Kyuubi and his heritage." Jiraiya was shocked when his sensei told him this.
"He knows?" Sarutobi only nodded as Jiraiya sighed. "Does he know anything about me teaching Minato and being his godfather?"
The Hokage shook his head. "I thought it would be best for you to come and tell him yourself."
Jiraiya looked at his sensei in thanks. "Thank you, sensei. Where is he now?"
"He's actually training not far from here. It seems he was more of Minato's genius then I thought. He just doesn't know how to control his chakra as well as most shinobi do. If he masters chakra control and learns to control the Kyuubi's chakra like Minato wished, then he could become the strongest shinobi that ever lived."
Jiraiya walked toward Naruto's location, "He better be since the Akatsuki could move at any moment."
"Is Orochimaru still with them?" Saurtobi asked, wondering of his former student.
"No, it seems he's on the move." Jiraiya spoke to his sensei, turned, looked out toward Naruto's location. "I think it has to do with the Chunin Exams approaching in a week. That must mean he's after something and I might teach Naruto some things before the exam."
"You only have a week though." The Third said to his student.
"I can teach him before the Third Phase of the Exams. That's a month of training. I might teach him some Wind Release jutsu and the Summoning Jutsu. Maybe even teach the boy the Rasengan or at least part of it. After all, he is Minato's son."
"I agree and if you can, help him learn the making of seals since he has a scroll full of them." Sarutobi said as Jiraiya's eyes widened in realization.
"That scroll Minato thought he lost was found with all the notes and his and Kushina's techniques." The elderly Hokage nodded as Jiraiya smiled. "It must have been fate that it landed in Naruto's hands."
The Hokage chuckled before he vanished. "Maybe, Jiraiya, maybe."
Jiraiya looked through a bush at his student's son and legacy as the boy was walking on water like an expert. He must have been walking on water for an hour or so. He already has it almost mastered. Though that is still a basic in ninja training compared to elemental training, but thanks to his bloodline, he already has an adept mastery for Wind Release jutsu.
Jiraiya walked out of the bush and smiled at the boy who had his back turned toward him. "Ah, so you learned how to walk on water, eh, gaki?"
Naruto turned to look at the stranger and his eyes widened in shock at the tall man. "Who are you?"
Jiraiya chuckled inwardly but he looked fiercely at Naruto on the outside. "You impudent whelp, you don't even know my name! I am the most powerful and most dashing man to ever grace the land of shinobi! I am the legendary Toad Sennin of Mount Myoboku. Whenever girls hear my name, they faint from how awesome and ravishing I am. One of the Sennin of Konohagakure, Lord Jiraiya the Gallant is here!"
Naruto looked dully at the man and sweat dropped as he looked at the goofy elder before him. "Never heard of you, Ero-Sennin…"
Jiraiya sweat dropped and face faulted at Naruto's statement. "You baka, you gaki, you can't even comprehend the magnitude of my power! I could crush you like a bug with my sandals right now! "
"Just go away, old man!" Naruto yelled rudely at the Sennin, who looked like he was about to walk away.
"Alright," Jiraiya said with a grin, "and I was going to help you master the jutsu of Minato and Kushina Namikaze, but it looks like sadly you won't let me."
Naruto froze from fear at knowing this might be an enemy of his father that the Third told him about. He made a handsigh and allowed the wind to surround him like a bubble. "How do you know my father?" Naruto's tone was fierce like a growl of a Biji. Jiraiya turned and looked at the son of his student and saw the eyes of Minato, the eyes of a genus in the making. He saw the face of the beautiful Kushina, a talented kunoichi. This boy…
"Don't worry, gaki," Jiraiya said, smiling kindly, making Naruto stop the wind and look at Jiraiya confused at the man. "I was a student of the Third and the teacher of the Fourth, your father. I'm one of the Legendary Sennin of Konohagakure, Jiraiya the Gama Sennin, the Toad Sage. I can help you master the jutsu in that scroll and more."
Naruto's mouth widened into a fierce grin, his eyes were pools of determination. "Then, let's get to it, Gama Sennin!"
Jiraiya laughed as he looked at the face of his new student. "Yes, gaki, let's get to it!"