Phantom of the Legacies
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter Five: Sand and Fire Demon's Face off
Naruto flexed his fingers as they reached the gate. The guards were not letting them through, and he was getting mad. He drew Kitsuhada from his back as Yin and Yang let there chakra floated up and wrap around his arms. The now arms length dragons swirled around him as they felt what he was going to do. He pointed the blade at the gate and blasted a hole through it. Yin and Yang as well as the dragons pinned the guards down as they walked in.
Kurenai ran over to Asuma and they held hands as they walked. "What took you so long to get back?" they explained every thing on there way to the Hokage office.
"Naruto ended up coming back after along time with some awesome gear and the dragons and turtles." they reached the door and told the hokage the same story after they went inside.
"I see, I see. Well, I think its time to give you the last piece of inheritance your parents left you." they followed him to the hokage monument and went inside the fourth's head. They found a huge vault in the floor. They opened it up and the place was filled with weapons, scrolls, armor, and a huge dragon wrapped around the room.
"What the hell? Valakus, what are you doing here?" she looked up and put her head back on her paws.
"You father placed me here to protect every thing. Do you have some stuff to add to it?" he nodded and Haku handed him the scroll with all the items they got from Isonade and some stuff he had found in the scrolls he had gotten from his parents. He unsealed every thing and spread it around the room.
"There you go Val." she grunted and they left the vault.
"You're parents were loaded weren't they?" asked Haku in astonishment. He nodded and they went to his house. He took a nap in his room and woke up to a yell from Ino.
"I don't care if he is asleep! He has to be there!" he flipped off the side of the bed and crawled under it as Ino walked in. "Uzimaki, where are you!?" she threw the blankets around and looked in the closet and bathroom. He sent a Shadow Clone out of the room to get her attention and crawled out. He set every thing back up on the bed and went to sleep.
"Naruto, Naruto, wake up, quick!" he opened his eyes to see Konohamaru and his friends trying to wake him up. "You said you would play ninja with us today!" he groaned and got ready. They walked along the road till the found Ino.
"Naruto, there you are!"
"Hey boss, is this your girl friend?" she turned to Konohamaru with a tick over her eye but before she could say any thing she spoke again. "She sure is an ugly one." she punched Naruto in the stomach for bringing him and while his friends were pulling Naruto form the wall, Konohamaru just wouldn't shut up. "Is that how you treat your boy friend? You have to be the worst girl friend ever!"
"Konohamaru, run for your life." they ran away form Ino. Konohamaru pulled ahead of him and rounded a corner. They heard a thud, and found a boy in a black outfit and a puppet on his back with a girl in a purple skirt and white shirt with a battle fan on her back. The boy was holding Konohamaru up while they girl was arguing with him.
"Put him down Kankuro, before he shows up."
"Relax Temari; we got time till Gaara gets here. Besides, this kid needs to be taught a lesson." his arm came back to hit the young boy, but an eight armed puppet with blades running along its arms grabbed him. Kankuro let out a gasp in surprise at seeing the puppet and dropped the boy. He ran to Naruto and hid behind him.
"Leave him alone, or else my puppet will kill you." Kankuro pulled away from the puppet and pulled the wrapped up puppet from his back.
"Let's see whose puppet is stronger." Naruto nodded and Ichigo no Diri jumped back to him.
"Who ever is hit by the other puppet first loses." the Crow jumped forward and Ichigo threw him up. Senbon rained down on him and stopped Ichigo. The Crow threw Ichigo behind Kankuro and cut Naruto's chakra strings. Naruto snapped and waited for the crow to get near him. The arm flew forward but fell limp at the last minute as Kankuro struggled to break out of the other puppet's grasp.
"How did you do that?"
"Ichigo no Diri has a seal on him that lets him become a living being. He doesn't need my help to move." Ichigo let him go and walked over to Naruto where he merged back into the arm. He flipped a kunai out of his pouch and over his shoulder, caught it then threw it at the red headed boy in the tree. It whizzed by Sasuke's head and was caught by the sand coming from the boy's gourd.
"Shukaku, always good to see you." said Naruto, Kyuubi's voice echoing in the back ground. Gaara's eyes widened and his sand flew at Naruto. He laughed as it incased him. The sand turned red and let out large waves of heat, quickly turning it to glass. Naruto shattered it with a chakra blast and stepped out.
"You hold the…" he looked at Ino and Sasuke, as well as his siblings and quickly thought what he should say. "You have Kyu don't you?" he nodded and they both briefly switched their eyes into their demon forms.
"Your uncle says hello by the way. Not the one that tried to kill you, the other one." he nodded in understanding and turned to his brother and sister.
"Kankuro, Temari, let's go." they began to walk away but Naruto asked him one last question.
"Hey, are you Gaara of the Desert?"
"Yes, I am. You know who I am, but who are you." before he could reply, Sasuke stepped in.
"He is a weakling. The name's Sas-"
"His name is Sasgay likesitupthebutt Uchiha." he said while slapping his hand over Sasuke's mouth. "My name i s Naruto Uzimaki-Namikaze-Sarutobi. Just like you I'm the son of the Fourth Kage for my village." Sasuke broke free from Naruto's grasp and turned to him in anger.
"What the hell dobe?" Naruto's eyes grew in rage and he lifted Sasuke up from the ground by the front of his shirt, the Wind Devil Blade in his other hand.
"If you ever interrupt me, call me a weakling or a dobe every again, I will kill you in an instant." he dropped him in the ground and walked away.
(One Day Later: Night Time.)
The enemy ninja crept into the field Naruto was practicing in. He waited till his back was turned and threw his umbrella into the air, making senbon rain down. The senbon embedded them selves in Naruto, then turned to ice and exploded with Naruto. "Iruka, what the hell are you doing interrupting my private training session?"
Iruka turned his head to see Naruto with a trench knife ready to run through his heart if need be. He gulped and Naruto backed off. "It's part of the Chuunin Exams. I have to test you to see if you are ready. You have definitely passed." Naruto nodded and Iruka took off, leaving Naruto to finish. He was trying to make an assassination move as well as rival the Rasengan in strength. It would be an attack that could be a brute destructive force, or a quick and silent death.
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Asuma watched as Naruto approached the house, his body covered in blood and sweat. He sighed and began to turn, but he heard a thump and saw Naruto hit the ground. He would have taken his time to go get him, but a rain ninja had come from behind him and drew a sword that once belonged to the village. He brought the sword above his head, but a kunai stabbed him in each lung, his kidney, and his heart.
"Your first mistake was underestimating me. No, that was your second. Your first was taking the job to kill me from Orochimaru." he took the weapon from his grasp and placed in a blood and chakra seal on his bag. He limped to the house and Asuma helped him back up to the room.
"Naruto, what happened?"
"Well, I was just finishing up my training when this guy came out with the sword. I didn't realize what it was at first, but then he started to cut me with it and I figured it out. Then he said Orochimaru had hired him to kill me. I only had a few kunai left and not enough chakra to use hardly any jutsu so I made three Shadow Clones and we spread out with the cover of a smoke bomb. I was outside the house when the clone's information was sent to me. He stabbed me in my leg and I limped to the yard with what was left of my strength, but I fell over in pain."
"I barrowed my parent's strength and let Kyuubi heal me while tried to stop him. When I had enough power, I used my kunai to kill him and take the Raijin back from him." he lapsed into unconsciousness after that and Asuma sighed. He tried to get the Raijin back out, but knew Naruto wanted to keep it, so he laid it to rest and went to his own room to sleep.
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In the morning, Naruto limped down stairs to find Kimimaru and Haku eating breakfast while Zabuza and Asuma worked on Taijutsu outside in the yard. He said hello to Haku. She said hello as well, but then noticed his limp. He explained what happened and she ran over to heal him. He ate some cereal and walked to the academy with his equipment sealed in his pouch. "Good luck Naruto!" he waved back to them as he left the court yard.
"Hey Naruto, what took you so long?" he waved to Kiba and Ino who were waiting for him at the academy. They walked into the building were they found Sasuke and Shino with Kimimaru.
"Hey Kimimaru, what are you doing here?" he turned to Naruto as they slowed to walk together.
"I was assigned to be on their team for the Chuunin Exams." they walked towards the end of the hall where a crowd was around a sign with a Genjutsu on it. Naruto put his hand over Sasuke's mouth to stop him from yelling it out then he walked into the crowd and told TenTen, Lee, and Neji. They all walked up the stairs into the room where hundreds of ninja from other villages.
"Hey, the gangs all here. Well, not Sakura." they turned to see Choji, Hinata and Shikamaru waiting for them.
"This place looks like it could be dangerous." said Hinata while twiddling her fingers. Naruto let out a laugh and jumped on a table.
"Alright, all you losers listen up! I'm gonna be a Chuunin, then a Jounin, and I will become Hokage! If any one wants to try and stop me, I'll slam these through your chests and bleed you out!" he drew Kitsuhada and the Raijin as Yin, Yang, and the dragons circled him. Every one gulped as he charged Kitsuhada and then sighed as he jumped down.
"You sure are causing a lot of trouble." said a white haired boy in wire rimmed glasses. Kimimaru looked a little suspicious, like he wanted to say something, but he didn't.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Kabuto, and I can help you." he pulled out a stack of cards from his pocket. "These cards hold info on the people here." he pulled out a card with a map on it and explained how many people form which villagers where here. "Do you have any people you need info on?"
"Yeah, Gaara of the desert and Naruto Uzimaki-Namikaze-Sarutobi." Naruto tuned out the part about Gaara, except the part about the A-rank mission and no wounds on any mission.
"Now, for Naruto. It says here his mother was the last surviving member of Whirlpool Country and the Ninth Mizukage. His father was the Fourth Hokage and the last survivor of Sealing Country. He was adopted by Asuma Sarutobi the day he was born and they went on a three year long training trip where he mastered a huge amount of jutsu and weapons. He has done no missions below A-rank. He has four hundred of those, and six hundred thirty three S-rank missions, as well as the Dragon and Kage Summoning contract. He has a very powerful set of puppets called-"
Naruto's hand covered his mouth as he held a kunai at his throat. "No one should know about my puppets. Only some one like OROCHIMARU'S BEST SPY could know such things." getting the hint, the Chuunin in the other room appeared and took him to be interrogated. Ibiki patted Naruto on the back.
"Go job Naruto. You just found a traitor, and one of our greatest enemy no less." he smiled and they began the first test.
(I really don't want to write the test because I thought it was stupid, so what happened is Naruto made clones become flies and give everyone but Sasuke the answers)
They all waited outside the gate for Anko to give the okay. Once they heard her voice on the intercom, they dashed in at top speed, looking for a heaven scroll. Sasuke, Shino, and Kimimaru appeared next to them a few moments later and they found a group of rocks to use as a hide away. At night, they snuck through the forest to find an enemy. They found it in a group Rock ninja. "Naruto, be careful. If they see you, they will try and kill you."
"Don't worry Shino, my dad warned me about Rock's hatred of him, so I brought this baby along." he unsealed the halberd he had gotten from Isonade and focused his chakra to the jewel in the center of the handle. He jumped down with a war cry and sent a slash of solid ice at them. They jumped over it, but Yin and Yang ripped the ground from under them as they burrowed out and began to cannibalize on the weakest one.
The dragons flew down and circled the second member at a high speed, the wind slicing him to pieces. The final member coward in fear as Naruto let out a crazed laugh and held the Raijin in a reverse grip. He threw a kunai at Naruto, but he leaned to his side and dodged it. The enemy brought a katana down in a side slash, but Naruto jumped over it in a half crouch half jump, then flipped forward, cutting the shoulder and heart of the ninja in two and half way through the tree behind him. He placed the weapon back in its seal and they moved on.
They grabbed the heaven scroll and left. After a day and a half of looking for another scroll for Sasuke, Shino and Kimimaru, a wind picked up and tried to blow them away. Naruto set up a barrier as a female grass-nin came out of the woods with an angry glare. "Namikaze Naruto, you just ruined my chance of my plan working!"
"Go fuck off Orochimaru!" she gasped and let a sadistic smile cover her face. She pulled a piece of her face off and revealed a pale white face with snake like eyes. He pulled out a blade, signaling Naruto to attack. He sighed and pulled a handle from his pack. He flicked it and hit a tree. A small branch in the shape of a tiny dagger blade popped out. "Woops, grabbed the wrong one!"
"Is that some kind of elemental blade?"
"Yes, its one I'm making myself called the Kijin. I'll just out this away…ah, here it is!" he pulled the Raijin from his pack and pulled the handle out. He activated it, and a halberd came out of the blade. Naruto slashed it quicker then the other genin could follow. The tree fell down from above his head down, and Orochimaru had to quickly slash it to save himself, and barely dodged the slash from Naruto.
Naruto spun and threw a kunai at him. He flipped over it and thrusted the sword at the blonde. He jumped over the snake and held it in a reverse grip. With a quick flick of his wrist, the lightning expanded and slammed into the chakra point on his hand, ending the use of that hand. He stumbled back and cut the hand off at the wrist. He made a quick one handed seal and a new one grew from the stump. Naruto jumped back and spun, releasing Ichigo no Diri from the seal. The puppet rushed him and began to flip over him to confuse him.
Naruto stabbed him through the stomach and he stumbled back as the poison flowed from the puppet. Naruto began to do round house kicks, then moved on to rapid punches and finished with a kick that sent him flying into the air. He flicked his wrist and two kunai hit a tree then hit part of his bandages, unwrapping them.
He jumped up and the bandages became a dragon and lion head. They rammed it to the snake Sannin and tore him to shreds. He hit the tree and Naruto landed next to the crater and slid back into a normal stance. He looked at the crater in distaste as he saw the stone powder and blood to make the copy cat clones. Luckily, he had adapted his style to his blood, turning it into a blood line almost. He heard and saw it before he felt it. Sasuke screamed out and fell to the ground as the fox mark fought to prevent the Curse Seal, but he realized too late he had forgot to place that mark on himself.
Orochimaru's neck shot at him, but he ducked under it. Then he snaked his way to Naruto arm and bit his arm above the right hand. Naruto screamed in pain and anguish as the mark spun up his arm and took shape. It was a fox head with a dragon, phoenix, monkey and tiger head around it. He stumbled back and slammed his hand into his stomach, sending out thousands of waves of chakra to nullify the seal. The fox mark appeared on his forehead and disappeared as it fought.
Orochimaru watched in wonder, but then he felt the pain. He turned to see his wounded arm covered in sand and a line linking it to Gaara. "Sand Coffin Jutsu!" the arm exploded and he screamed as he managed to use his other arm to summon a snake.
"You will pay for this Gaara, I swear it!" he slithered off, leaving the demon containers to face each other as the seal was repressed.
"Thanks, but I wish you had come earlier."
"You got rid of the seal though, didn't you?"
"No, I just repressed its control over me." he looked at the mark with hatred and rage. "I don't care, I will never use this mark unless I am about to die!" he pulled out a kunai and began to carve a kanji in his palm, right below the mark, stopping the healing ability. He showed it to Gaara when he was finished.
"Defiance? Why did you carve that there?"
"I refuse to use this mark, and I will not get rid of this kanji until I have negated the effect." he stood up and noticed Gaara as holding out a Heaven scroll.
"It was an extra. I know you have one set, and I want to fight you at full strength so you should get to the tower and rest, so I can kill you." Naruto glared at him, and Gaara glared at Naruto, then gasped and lurched forward as the gray blue flames danced on the seal on his stomach. Gaara fainted, and Naruto picked him up as the sand followed.
"I thank you Gaara…Shukaku, consider this your punishment for torturing this boy o much and ruining his life. I have given him control of his body, and he can sleep in peace whenever he pleases." the sand formed a Shukaku head and lurched at Naruto, but Gaara's hand shot up and the sand stopped.
"Thank you…Naruto and Kyuubi." the sand returned and Gaara fell into a slumber. They arrived at the tower and after solving the riddle and explaining to the Hokage and Kazekage (Yes it's the real one) about Orochimaru, they went to their rooms.
When the time finally came for the preliminary matches, Gaara was smiling with his siblings as Kankuro told a joke. He laughed and the Hokage called them to order. After his explanation about the real reason for the Chuunin Exams, and the prompter coming out and explaining the reason for the prelims, the names began to shuffle.
Sasuke faced off against a boy from Cloud named Jinji Kizu, who had a pair of broad swords on his back and a katana at his side. Sasuke started with a fireball jutsu, but it was stopped by him being hit in the neck with a chop. He dropped to the ground and brought his foot up, connecting with Jinji's balls. He stumbled back in pain as Sasuke kicked him into the air. He did a move called Lion's Barrage and ended the match in his favor.
His team mates, a boy with a pair of arms sprouting from his back, and a girl with long blonde hair in a pony tail, watched as they took him away. Next up, Hinata and Neji had a fight. Neji came out the victor, but Naruto nearly blinded him when he tried to hit him in the head with the Raijin in anger. He hit him across the chest, sending him to the infirmary. Next Kiba hit the ground as the boy with arms sprouting from his back calmly walked down the stairs.
"Hey, my name is Danzo Ichimaru, and I will make this quick for you." Kiba laughed at him and the match began, then ended in a flash as Danzo called out "Four Hand Death: Death Bow!" a bow of black material formed in one of the hands as the other hand drew an arrow back. It fired and pinned the two to the wall by the shoulder.
"Okay, I guess let the names roll." said Anko as Kiba was lifted away and Danzo stood next to his female team mate. The names went faster and faster. They began to slow down quickly. A sigh echoed from the two fighters. Naruto looked up at the names in shock, and then whispered to one of them.
"Don't kill him, okay dood?"
"I make no promises." Kakashi looked up at the names.
Gaara no Sabaku VS Shikamaru Nara
"Let the match begin!" the sand flew forward and Shikamaru flipped away.
(Scene Skip)
"Okay you two. We'll make an exception and you can both move on." said the Hokage as Gaara and Shikamaru tried to stay conscience. They were moved from the arena as the names rolled. Choji and Dosu went down to the floor. Dosu quickly ended the fight and they moved on. Ino and the blond girl hit the floor. Lightning danced on her finger tips as she got ready.
"I am Yugito Nii, and I will kill you if necessary." Ino snorted and did her hand signs. She took over Yugito's body and let out a scream as she returned to her body in an almost traumatized state. Yugito walked back up the stairs and Naruto jumped down to face Kankuro. They both sent their puppets at each other and started to attack. A hidden tail came from behind Ichigo no Diri and segmented into four, then rained weapons into Kankuro's puppet. Naruto was declared the winner as the medics rushed to get the poison out of him.
Kakashi pulled him aside and he, Asuma, and Naruto went to a room to seal the mark further. He came back in time for the results. He was fighting Neji, Gaara was fighting Temari, and Yugito was against Sasuke. He limped out of the tower and went through the forest to his house. He went to sleep as soon as he got there.
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It was half way through the month they had been given and Naruto was incredibly tired. He, Gaara, and the newly discovered jinchuuriki, Yugito, were training together for most of the time but now were solo training. He looked at the huge crater in the ground and the burnt trees and bushes from the first technique he had created and from the thousands of shattered rocks and metal from his defense and speed move. He felt a soft substance beneath him and fell asleep. He slowly cracked his eyes open and looked at the calendar by his bed, making him shoot up from the bed.
He had been asleep for two days and felt the sand come off his back and float back to where ever Gaara was as he strapped his newly formed sword to his side. It was a combo of the Namikaze family sword and the Uzimaki family sword that could become a black bladed huge ass sword that curved in to a handle with a ring of ice white flames as a cross guard (Think Tetsiaga from Inuyasha except with a black blade and instead of that fur at the end, the fire) that was disguised as a old beaten katana when not in that form.
He grabbed the wrist bands that let him do his two jutsu and ran off to train some new moves he had gotten from Obito on his last visit. He ran into Jiraiya at the hot springs and decided to use a move he had completely forgotten about. He focused some of Kyuubi's chakra to his middle and index finger and lashed them at the perv. A red energy whip hit him across the back and he turned to see Naruto smirking at him. "Hey Pervy granps."
"Naruto, you are so dead!" he got ready to lung at Naruto, but he cracked the whip across the ground, making all the ladies look over the fence. When they saw Jiraiya, they thanked Naruto and rushed him. Naruto grabbed the scroll from his back quickly and let them beat him. He signed the contract and sighed. Only one more before he could destroy Orochimaru.
"Naruto, why did you sign the contract?" Jiraiya limped over to wile wiping some blood form his mouth and took the contract back.
"Well, you know about the nine Bijuu right? Well, there were originally thirteen of them, the ten through thirteen tails being sealed inside a sword, which was split and given to the boss summons of the Dragon, Kage, Toad, and Fox contracts. Orochimaru marked me with this," he lifted the mark up to him and then the kanji. "And I need the blade to negate the effect of a small chip of his soul that was placed in it. The blade's true purpose is to obliterate evil souls."
"I see, I see. Why do you need another weapon when you have so many already?"
"Well, before I become Hokage like my dad, I want to make a name for myself as a collector and maker of legendary weapons. After the Sacred Four Blade, I'm going after the Kusanagi blade Orochimaru has." Jiraiya slowly nodded his head in understanding and a light bulb appeared above his head. He snickered and signaled for Naruto to come with him.
"I know where the blade the Kyuubi hid in the village is, but I can't get to it so-" Naruto waved his hand for him to stop and pulled Kitsuhada from his back.
"Yeah, I have it with me. Now, I have to go work on a new move so I'll see you later?" he nodded and Naruto ran off. He waited a minuet and followed him in time to arrive at a training ground where he was finishing a long string of hand seals. His arms twisted in a full circle and dark scale slowly bubbled up from the skin. They spread over his body and a tail slowly developed while claws came over his finger tips.
His eyes became dark gray with a spinning line of red and a small red eye in each one. A skeleton arch grew from his back and bones came down. Skin and scales grew over it and wings formed from them. A small silver flame spread from holes in his hand and he began to fire bullets. After ten minutes, the training ground was nearly destroyed and he was on the ground, his back bleeding form the forced bone growth.
Jiraiya pulled him on to his shoulder and took him to the hospital…again.
(Time Skip: Final Round)
Naruto barely arrived on time to not be disqualified. He caught his breath and leaned back on the wall. He stood in front of Neji and began the fight on Asuma's orders. He flipped over a palm thrust and swiped his feet form under him. Neji pushed up and ran his palm at him, but he became a log at the last second. Neji flipped over a kunai and spun around with a shuriken flying.
Naruto caught it on his fingertip and threw it back. Neji rushed him and began to hit his chakra points. "Wow that was weak Neji." Neji let out a howl and began an attack.
"Eight Trigrams, sixty four palms. Two Palms," Naruto's arms went limp at his side. "Four palms," his chest felt heavy all of a sudden. "Eight palms," his legs went numb and felt like lead. "Sixteen Palms," the chakra was now visible. "Thirty two palms," the chakra was penetrating his body at this point. "Sixty Four Palms!" Naruto flew back and skid across the ground and into a crater. Neji walked over with a smug smile on his face, and it disappeared as he saw the powder and blood. A clapping came from the wall above him as he saw the thousands of seals spreading around the top of the circular wall and spread out as an army of Naruto's came out and hit the ground, surrounding him.
The original Naruto pushed forward through the crowd and stepped up. "I was looking through some old Hyuuga scrolls and found a forbidden technique that no Hyuuga could use. I spruced it up and I learned where all the nerves and chakra nodes on the body are located and also how to target the muscle tissue. Get ready to loss Neji Hyuuga!"
"What are you going to do?" he flew back as the twenty Eight Trigram rings dissipated from view as Hiashi and Hinabi nearly fell from the balcony in surprise as the name of the attack echoed through the arena and into the ears of each person there, especially Orochimaru, who gulped as Naruto sent him a look that said 'You're next you stupid bastard!'. He walked away as he talked to Neji.
"Remember Neji, you have been defeated by the forbidden technique Eight Trigrams: One Thousand Two Hundred Eighty Palms."
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Okay, that's it for this chap. It's Halloween and I got to get ready for trick or treating with my friends. If any one who reads this lives in Gainesville Texas, I'm the kid with glasses, blue jeans torn at the knee, a pillow case and maybe an MP3 with me.