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 36:
The Journey To Iwagakure: Confrontation Near The Village Hidden In a Waterfall!
Uzumaki Naruto yawned out a breath, having walked with his sensei, Jiraiya, almost all day as they approached a small town near Takigakure, the Village Hidden in a Waterfall, the place they would have to go through to reach Iwagakure. Naruto slipped his hands into his pockets and slouched lazily as he walked toward the town with uncaring, tired eyes. All he wanted was to sleep after having to travel all that distance and not taking a break except to eat some ramen at a restaurant they had seen on the way here. Jiraiya was just Jiraiya, grinning perverted and looking at the young ladies and women that passed the two.
Many of the inhabitants looked curiously at the two, noting the Konohagakure headband on Naruto's forehead, barely covered by the chunin's blond bangs. Some of the girls looked curiously at Naruto, wondering what he looked like as the shinobi had positioned his hat in a way that no one could look at him clearly, while others pouted cutely at not being able to see the young Uzumaki. Naruto inwardly chuckled at the irony of the attention from the ladies he was getting; after all, back in Konohagakure, Sasuke was the one getting all the curious glances and stares while mostly Naruto got quite a few glares and frowns, some passive, calm looks, and a very rare smile or, even rarer, a blush.
He just kept walking as he entered the inn after Jiraiya went ahead and went inside the building. Naruto just relaxed against the wall, leaning back as he tipped his hat in an angle to where no one would be able to see his face. Feeling someone's presence, he tipped his hat up with his thumb and looked upward with his cerulean eyes that were vaguely hidden by the darkness cast from the light of the inn and his hat to see a young girl that looked about five look into his hat to see his face. Naruto grinned at the curious wonderment that filled the girl's grey eyes and took off his hat as he leaned down, crouching to be level with the girl's face that was round like a tomato and was framed by locks of light blonde hair.
She tilted her head to show she was still curious and extended her hands to Naruto's cheeks. Naruto smiled kindly, not minding the wondering girl's curious hands reaching, touching the birthmarks, the whiskers on his cheeks. The sign that displayed to the world that he was different, that he housed something unknown, something terrifying. He was confused when he heard a crowd of giggles surrounding his ears only to note that there was a bigger crowd around him of various people, looking with hands near their mouths, amused expressions occupying their faces.
Jiraiya, becoming curious, looked over in the direction of where he heard giggling, believing it to be where Naruto was leaning against the wall as he saw a hoard of boys and girls, men and women. Jiraiya peaked over their heads, seeing Naruto, crouched down as a small girl happily rubbed his whisker birthmarks, smiling and giggling at Naruto's reaction whenever she did it. Jiraiya narrowed his eyes into a glare, getting a little jealous of the attention Naruto was getting. Jiraiya, then, sighed and chuckled.
Ah, youth… It seems that most people in Konohagakure don't notice things about Naruto as much as people in other villages and towns do. He smiled at the situation, then, looked back to grab the key from the receptionist. Plus, it seems Naruto is more relaxed out here than in Konoha as of late and I wouldn't blame him since the Sasuke incident… I wonder how he'll react when he arrives in these other villages, let alone Konohagakure again…
"Naruto!" The blond looked up to Jiraiya, getting all the eyes on the tall, white haired sage. "I've got the key for our room. Let's head up and get ready to get some shuteye. After all, we're going to be heading out soon anyway."
Naruto smiled lightly as he rose up to his feet, patting the blonde girl's head, said something quietly to her, causing her to smile sadly and nod. He grinned his own famous grin and said his goodbyes to them, causing them to smile and wave at him as he and his sensei went to their room.
Jiraiya grinned widely at his pupil and nudged him in the shoulder. "It seems my disciple is becoming popular like his father and myself!"
Naruto chuckled, shaking his head. "I'm sure you were, Ero-sennin." He patted his sensei's back and snatched the key to put it into the door as Jiraiya just looked pissed about what Naruto was pretty much saying.
"Hey, you gaki, do you really think you can say something like that to the Great Jiraiya-sama?"
Naruto just fell onto his bed, enjoying the comfort of the sheets, tuning out Jiraiya's complaints as he just drifted off to sleep.
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Shimura Danzo looked at the cuts he had put into the trees from his Wind Release techniques as he noticed the Root shinobi by him. "Good thing I brought you guys after all."
"Why is that, Danzo-sama?" One of the masked shinobi asked as Danzo gripped his right arm, taking off the Golden Arm Braces and gripping at his bandages.
"Come at me with the intent to kill," Danzo spoke darkly.
"Danzo-sama…," the shinobi said hesitantly.
"I said, 'Come at me!'" Danzo yelled, causing the Root shinobi to charge forward with intense speed, kunai drawn, not noticing the revealed Sharingan on Danzo's right palm. As he was about to stab his leader in the chest, Danzo made a quick hand sign, targeting his chakra to the eye.
Izanagi!
The shinobi was shocked when he stabbed Danzo in the chest, only to see a second later Danzo disappear, only to reappear with some hand signs stringed together into a technique, breathing in.
Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!
The two Root shinobi were totally shocked when blades of wind tore them into shreds of crimson life and flesh, no life, no body anymore. He looked to see the eye on his palm close as he knew he would just have to replace it with another open one. At the very least, he knew the jutsu worked and that was all that mattered. After all, there might come a time when he will have to use this jutsu to catch some shinobi off guard like the rogue Uchihas or Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto.
He merely wrapped up his bandages and grabbed the Golden Arm Braces as he secured them to seal the Sharingans and the cells of the Shodaime Hokage, Senju Hashirama. Danzo merely held his usual calm emotionless look as he walked through the woods, his arm secured in the brace, hidden from the world for now.
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"Come on, Naruto!" Naruto quit waving to the people of the village as he began to head away from it and he looked over to his sensei, Jiraiya. "You know we can't be lollygagging around when we have to cross through Takigakure, which isn't going through the best times."
You're the one that is lollygagging the most anyway, especially whenever we stop in the village just so you can check ladies out… I mean, "Do research!" Naruto thought angrily as he caught onto what Jiraiya said. "Wait… you never told me what was happening around Takigakure!"
Jiraiya face faulted at not telling Naruto what was going on and he quickly got up and rubbed the back of his head all while wearing a sheepish smile. "Well, Takigakure is near Kusagakure, a village where Orochimaru has a hideout from what I've gathered, though it seems he mainly has stayed in Otogakure with him training that Uchiha kid. Orochimaru's men have been giving the village a hard time plus all the conflicts with having so many nearby villages such as Iwagakure, Kusagakure, Konohagakure, Otogakure, and Amegakure. It's very difficult to deal with the tension."
"I see…," Naruto said, walking forward with Jiraiya.
"That's why I want you prepared if we have to deal with some confrontations on the way." Jiraiya smirked at his student, who was now holding a smirk as well.
"So, I can begin to show why people have begun to call me the Kaze no Arashi…" Naruto said more than asked as he looked ahead to see a not well hid Otogakure shinobi. "It seems those confrontations are going to happen sooner rather than later."
Jiraiya merely kept his smirk, seeing the Otogakure shinobi scamper off like a bug from the bushes. "Though it seems it will be longer than you think since it looks like that ninja was all alone, maybe a watcher for when I would come down this road. After all, my head would be a good gift to that snake, Orochimaru." Jiraiya joked as he saw a puff of smoke appear a little distance from the foliage. "So, it was a shadow clone to see who would come. They're probably minor chunin rank shinobi that occupy this area to scare off civilians and beginning ninjas. Shouldn't be a problem to deal with at all."
Naruto moved his arm in front of the Sannin, his eyes holding a serious expression inside them. "Let me deal with them, Ero-sennin… You can watch from the background and be my backup if I run into trouble with them."
Jiraiya chuckled at the sudden serious, commanding attitude Naruto held. "Alright, gaki… Go ahead…"
Naruto grinned wildly at his teacher. "Alright, won't take long at all…" Naruto dashed forward as Jiraiya chuckled again at the rambunctiousness he held.
"Yeah…," Jiraiya merely said with a light smile, following his student forward, toward the lion's den.
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"What did you see," the leader of the Otogakure shinobi in this sector to take care of any minor shinobi trying to get into Kusagakure from Takigakure or any other village nearby, though their overall leader, Orochimaru, told them there most likely wouldn't be many major shinobi approaching here.
"Toki-san, I believe it was the Gama Sennin, Jiraiya, and some teenage kid, but the kid was wearing a hat to where I could identify him at all, though it seems that my clone was spotted by both of them so would believe the kid is either a well-trained genin or a new chunin. I couldn't even see his headband from under his hat so I don't even know what village this boy is from, but most likely, it's a Konohagakure shinobi, knowing Jiraiya is with him."
Toki's eyes grew fierce and narrow as his fist tightened in his metal claw-like glove. Konohagakure… He always hated those people that were in that village, thinking they were the best of the best. It made his lips curl in anger, Konohagakure… He would show not just this boy, but the whole village that they didn't hold true shinobi. He smirked slightly at being able to do that. "Do you think they are heading in our direction?"
"Yes, I believe so, from what I sa-"
"Toki-san," a thin, masked Otogakure shinobi burst into the tent where they were located, "some kid is approaching here and fast. It looks as if he can float on wind!"
This got Toki's attention, his flowing, black hair landing on his shoulders as he moved toward the exit with a grin. "Alright, I will deal with this pest… completely…"
His hand slapped the tent flap as he exited, ready for some action with his blade.
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Uzumaki Naruto had his arms crossed on his chest, a grin on his face as he saw the Otogakure ninja rushing forward; looking determined to get a kill. Naruto flashed through hand signs, still keeping his signature grin on his face as he stopped forming the signs and blew in some air.
Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!
Naruto released his held in breath to have the wind become fierce blades that torn at a few of the shinobi, shocking some of them. One of the Otogakure shinobi by one of the closer, smaller tents flashed through hand signs, smirking at his hidden plan.
Sound Clone Technique!
A bunch of clones zoomed to the hilltop where Naruto stood with his grin. Naruto flipped into the air, moving his hands into signs for his jutsu, still wearing his grin while he was in the air. Wind Release: Wind Storm Technique! Naruto put out his palms, emitting a storm, a torrent of wind that came down upon the sound clones, bursting all of them and tearing apart some of the many Sound ninjas. The blond sage, then, hear a piercing sound, making his eyes go wide. Shit! Almost all of those men were sound clones! This is bad! I have to get out of the range of the controller of the technique and use some dummies to absorb the blow!
The blond Uzumaki flashed through hand signs once again to end with a familiar cross seal. Shadow Clone Technique! Four Narutos appeared with three taking the sound technique full on as Naruto himself smirked, charging a Rasengan with the left over clone. The clone caused a puff of smoke with the other clones, allowing Naruto to charge in without being seen that well with the cover as he saw the shocked Otogakure shinobi, scared, sitting on the ground by the destroyed remains of one of the tents. Naruto moved the Rasengan right on the guy, shooting him fiercely into the ground, dead as a doornail.
Naruto charged forward, making another set of four clones, two standing on each side of Naruto as he sent the other two into the fray to see where the others were. He was shocked when suddenly his clones disappeared rather quickly, getting a memory of being chopped by a katana, wincing slightly at what happened. He went forward as he saw the puff of smoke from his clone clear, standing still to see the sharp katana that destroyed his clones held in a hard hand. Naruto stood still, his hat still on his head as the wind lightly touched the little bell tied to it, causing a tiny sound to chime from its openings. Toki looked with a smirk at the Konohagakure shinobi, swinging his katana at his fail attempt to intimidate the young ninja.
"So, you're the student of Jiraiya that I heard so much about from Orochimaru-sama. Uzumaki Naruto, correct? I've heard you are also the Kyuubi Brat, but it seems that you are that little shinobi that has gotten a slight reputation, eh, Kaze no Arashi? You were named after that wind technique you used earlier, the Wind Storm Technique." Toki chuckled as he looked at the ground, but then, suddenly, looked up at Naruto with cold, sewer-water eyes that struck Naruto to the core. He chuckled darkly once again as he licked his lips almost exactly like the Snake Sannin himself. "Orochimaru-sama is going to love me handing your head on a plate to him."
Naruto glared at the Otogakure shinobi, his clones disappearing from existence as Naruto's eyes turned into the eyes of a toad, orange with a black, minus sign pupil in the middle of them. He became a stone wall as he stood completely still, looking deadly to the man. Naruto growled fiercely at the feeling of this man, want to rid of him as quickly as he could, even if it resorted to his Sennin Mode. "My head won't come off as easily as you think, but I'll gladly let you try!"