NARUTO
Nox Noctis Ingredior
The Sage of Six Paths?
"Why am I naked?" the woman asked, clumsily and slowly getting to her feet, at the same time looking down and marveling at her body. However, when the red haired woman tried getting up, she stumbled before she was even half way, remarkably able to stay on both feet, but all the same, failing to stand up successfully. The three Genin to the side watched in absolute bewilderment and with dead-panned expressions as the woman clumsily staggered, tripped and stumbled around in circles, trying to regain her own sense of balance.
However, it took her nearly a minute before she was able to find her footing, and when she did stop stumbling round in circles, she stopped five meters in front of the Naruto, Samui and Karui. The only boy of the trio had to shove his fingers up his nose to stop it bleeding, at the same time, remove his mask. With the proximity between the three gawking ninja and this weird red-haired female, both parties were able to get a better look at the other.
"Wow… that was fun!" the woman exclaimed, giving the three kids the XD expression. She then suddenly stumbled around on the spot, but then straightened up, holding her hands up to her face and moving them back and forth. Naruto, Samui and Karui had to stop themselves from falling over in embarrassment as the woman became absolutely fascinated by her own two hands. "Oooohh… wow! Pretty colors!"
"What…the…fu…" Karui began, but both Samui and Naruto slapped their hands over her mouth to keep her from completing her sentence.
"What a nice place! Wow… is this how I see things now!" the woman exclaimed, turning around on the spot, now not at all fussed by the fact that she was utterly stark naked in front of the three kids. "Everything is so… wavy… and… purply. Oooh…"
She turned around on the spot about twenty times, and then stopped dead in her tracks, looking straight ahead, over the heads of the three kids, both Naruto and Samui still clamping Karui's mouth shut, and looking up with sweat-dropped expressions at the very strange woman.
"I'm dizzy…" the woman said, causing the three kids to look at each other oddly, then back up at her.
The red haired woman's fox ears twitched, and then she looked down, blinking as she stared at the three children. Naruto, Samui and Karui blinked. Then the woman blinked. Then they blinked again. Then she blinked. This went on for another minute or so.
When the minute was up, the red haired woman smiled at them.
"Hello!"
"Uhh…" Naruto tried to speak, but couldn't.
"Uhh…" the woman imitated him.
"Wha…"
"Wha…"
Naruto chose to shut up after that, with Samui and Karui still staring oddly at her. The red haired woman looked at all three of them one after another, and at the same time, attempted to copy their expressions. It was rather amusing and disturbing to watch her warp her face in odd ways, from widening her eyes to perking her lips. This went on for another five minutes, before the woman then bent over, looking straight into Naruto's eyes, and stared.
After examining the boy intently for a moment, she then reach over and yanked the blonde's hand away from Karui's mouth, and looked at it, examining each finger and hand. Naruto had no idea what the hell was happening, and watched as she then felt the cloth of his jacket, then crouched down to look at his hands, lift the cuff of his pant leg, then poke at his toes. She then straightened back up to a bending over position, and still holding Naruto's hand, took his index finger, and put it in her mouth.
"OW!" Naruto shouted, pulling his hand back.
The red haired woman straightened and flicked her tongue around her mouth a little bit, her mind registering to the taste. She pursed her lips and nodded her teeth.
"Teeth… strange…" she mumbled, and then shook her head. Turning on the spot in a counter clockwise direction, the strange woman then looked back at the kids and smiled down at them again. "So… how do I look?"
"Uhh…" This time it was Samui who mumbled, blinking as she looked the woman up and down.
"No wait! Shush! No! No! I'll check!" the red haired woman replied quickly. Looking down, she brought up her left leg and flexed it a little bit, stretching it out and stuff. "Let's see, legs… left and right, okay good! I've still got legs!" She then turned and bent over completely and checked out her feet, with Naruto looking away with a red face as he was able to get a good view of… well… everything on the woman. "Feet… toes… one, two…nine, ten! Yup! Two feet… ten toes, five on each! Excellent! Nothing's out of place yet!"
Karui and Samui watched with concern as the woman straightened up and continued checking herself out, becoming really engrossed in her appearance.
"Okay… two arms… oooh… hands… fingers!" the woman continued, becoming engrossed in her hands again and playing around with her fingers. "Look at my hand… Oh God…how weird is my hand!"
"How weird are you?" Karui thought, Samui's hand no longer on her mouth, but having changed her words from verbal to mental.
"Good…right! Lets see, neck, head," she began studying what she could see, her hands running over her face and head. "Ears, cheeks, eyes…nose!" She measured the distance from nose in comparison to her visual perception. "Okay… smaller then I remember it! Chin…" She ran her knuckle over her jaw line. "Oooh… more streamline… I like it…" She then checked her cheeks again. "Oh… peachy… I love it! I must look cute! Round as well!" She then reached up to the top of her head and felt around. "HAIR! Ooohh… wait… did I get a haircut?" Her hands moved to the back and felt around. "Yup… shorter at the back! Sweet! Okay…" The woman moved her hands further up her head, and she grabbed the two fox like ears up there. It was at this she groaned and stomped her foot. "Dammit! I've still got these things! Man…and I thought I'd change some more! I'll never get rid of these extra ears…"
Ignoring it for now, the woman then stepped back a little bit, this time successfully, and looked down at her body. Her hands patted her stomach and she smiled. "Wow…I'm thinner then I remember. Hang on! Wait!" She measured her height, doing some strange measurements with her hands and waved her hand about a foot above her head. "NOOO! NO! No! NOOOO! I've gotten shorter! No! I loved my old height of seven feet!"
She mopped around a bit, complaining about her height, with Naruto, Karui and Samui still not understanding what the hell was going on.
"Damn… oh well… lets see…" She looked down at her crotch. "Thank Kami, nothing extra! That would have been strange." Her hands then cupped her breasts with a rather satisfying 'glomp' noise resounding when she did so. Naruto, Samui and Karui blushed as they watched her knead and squeeze her own breasts. "Wow… they're bigger then before. That's a plus! Oh… and my butt!" She then slapped her butt cheeks. "Perfect breast to ass ratio. Mmm… oh wait… what's that?" The red haired woman stopped in mid-examination and looked up a Naruto and the others. She straightened herself and began flexing her left leg a little, moving it around. "Is that… is that what I think it is? Ooh. Yes! YEEEES! A mole; a mole on my left butt cheek."
The three Genin sweat dropped as the woman now focused attention on the smallest, less significant aspect of her body. They watched as her expression went from curious to happy.
"Fascinating, I've never had a mole before…" Sighing happily, she then looked back at the three kids and raised an eyebrow at their slack-jawed expressions. "What are you staring at?" The kids blinked, and nearly jumped when she swooped down on them, leaning over and looking them in the eyes.
After a few seconds, she spoke.
"I'm still a girl… right?"
Naruto, Karui and Samui nodded in unison.
"Then be honest with me…" She held her breath for suspense, earning a raised eyebrow from the three of them, before she let loose the question several seconds later. "Is my hair… blonde?"
Naruto looked up, blinking, then shook his head. "No… it's… red…"
"NOOOOOOoooooo!" the woman groaned loudly, walking away and grabbing her hair, pulling at it. "I'm never blonde! I'll never be blonde! It's always red! I'm stuck with red hair my entire life!"
Complaining and cursing to thin air as she walked around the room several times, the woman then hopped and skipped back over to the three Genin, skidding to a stop in front of them and bending over, looking at the three in question. Naruto and the others were getting pretty fed up with her hyper and sudden movements, but continued to ignore her antics to this point.
"Hello!" she exclaimed.
The three of them blinked again. This time, the red haired woman, making a bit more sense smiled at each of them. It was then she did something completely random, grabbing Naruto's face and, like a lover, gave him the most passionate kiss he had ever experienced. Samui and Karui were literally shocked and appalled when this red haired hussy suddenly began sucking face with the boy, who was just as shocked as they were. However, Samui and Karui also felt a pinch of jealousy when the woman continued to kiss him for a solid minute, before letting him go. She licked her lips and grinned at him.
"That was nice…" she said happily.
"What was that for?" Naruto asked, ignoring the dirty looks Samui and Karui were giving the woman.
"For setting me free!" She then glomped him. The woman hugged him so tightly she was almost suffocating him. This became even more awkward because she was hugging the boy against her enormous, uncovered breasts, which had the Genin almost die of blood rising to his face. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
She then pulled away from him, and dropped to the floor, crossing her legs and sitting up straight. Looking at all three of them, especially towards the dazed Naruto, she then patted the floor space in front of her. Hesitantly, the three of them sat down, and sat in a circle around the woman.
"Let's talk…" she said suddenly, smiling widely.
"Could you please put on something first?" Karui asked the woman. "It's distracting for us if you're sitting in front of us naked!"
The red head shrugged. "I'm comfortable the way I am…"
"Yeah… well… we're not," Samui said. Taking off her back pack, she pulled out a blanket and gave it to the woman, who covered herself with it like a cape, but still gave a good view to them of some of her more intimate areas.
"Oooh… nice and warm," the red haired purred, and she rubbed her cheek against the material.
"Sorry… for interrupting… but," Naruto began, shaking his head clear from his nuzzling and snuggling experience. Catching his breath, and resetting the mood, he clicked to get the woman's attention. "Who are you… anyway?"
The woman blinked, the looked down at her right hand, then her left hand, then down at herself. She then started feeling around her face with both hands, and then smiled at the three kids in front of her.
"I'm not sure yet… just got up," she replied, stretching out and letting out a sigh of relief. "What year is it anyway?"
"Well, according to the calendar, it's Tuesday, 18th May… 13 Years after the end of the Third Great Shinobi War (AGW III)," Karui stated. (I don't want to use the modern dates since this is an Alternative World to ours, so I'll just go and make one up).
"Really?" the woman exclaimed, rubbing her chin in thought. "What do you mean…Third Great Shinobi War?"
"Have you been living in a hole for most of your life?" Karui gawked, slapping her forehead in distress, and earning an annoyed glance from Samui for her rudeness. "The Third Great Shinobi War, in history, was the third war to be fought between three of the five most powerful nations on the main land, and because it was waged between the most powerful shinobi villages, makes it a Great Shinobi War!"
"I see, okay…" the red haired woman stared blankly at the Kumo Genin, nodding her head as she absorbed this information. "Yes… you are making absolutely no sense to me whatsoever…"
"WHAAAAAAAT?" Karui screamed.
"I mean…geez," the Rinnegan user groaned and rubbed the back of her head in thought. She was obviously taking a lot of time in figuring out what the hell was happening. "How long has it been? A hundred… no… a thousand years…?"
"Could you please tell us who you are?" Naruto asked, now getting a little bit tired of this round-the-roundabout conversation. "Seriously… we have no idea who you are or what is going on."
"First tell me who you are," the naked woman replied, pointing at the kids. "I am just as confused as the next person in this room, and… yeah there are only four of us in here…hey look, a butterfly!" Her attention then changed to the insect that fluttered by, with Naruto, Samui and Karui falling over anime style from where they sat. A few seconds later, the woman turned back to them and smiled.
"Hello!"
"Okay… I'll start!" Naruto said, sitting up and pointing to himself. "I am Naruto Uzumaki of the Uzumaki Clan, Ninja of the Village Hidden in the Leaves of the Land of Fire!"
"Nice to meet you Naruto Uzumaki!" the woman exclaimed, leaning over and looking him straight in the eyes, smiling widely. "You are so cute!" The boy had to stop himself from fainting.
"I'm Karui, member of Team Samui and Genin of the Village Hidden in the Clouds of the Land of Lightning," the red haired Kumo girl spoke, gesturing to herself.
"And I'm Samui, head Genin of Team Samui and Ninja of the Village Hidden in the Clouds of the Land of Lightning," the blond girl spoke up, all three of them going in order.
"Nice to meet you Samui and Karui," the red head said, nodding to both girls politely. "I am the Sage of Six Paths, nameless nomad of the great plains and Shinobi of the Heavens, Gateway of Life and Death and Container of the Ten Tailed Beast!"
The conversation seemed to stall at this point. The three Genin blinked in unison as they stared silently at the Rinnegan woman, who just smiled happily back at her audience. Silence fell for a good five minutes as the three ninja attempted to decipher what they were told, obviously their minds going into a coma like state of shock, which didn't show on their faces until a good ten minutes later.
"WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT?" Naruto, Karui and Samui shouted, their voices shaking the walls around them and causing pieces of debris to crumble from the ceiling.
"YEEEEEEESSSSS! WHY ARE WE YELLING!" the woman shouted back at them.
"Please don't do that again," Naruto said.
"Okay," the red head, now identified as the self-proclaimed Sage of Six Paths replied in a quieter voice.
"Hang on… rewind!" Karui said, doing gestures to match her words. "Are you telling us, near-say, stating that you are the genuine Great Sage of the Six Buddha Paths of Reincarnation: the enlightened Human God, founder of the shinobi world and creator of all modern ninjutsu, and the most powerful ninja that ever existed?"
"…"
There was a brief pause as the woman drank up the entire question, before she gave Karui a nod in response.
"Yes…"
"Don't get this the wrong way, but…" Samui also spoke up, before gesturing to her entirely. "I thought the Sage of Six Paths was a…guy…a God…"
"Who told you that?" the female Sage replied, frowning at the girl. "How long has it been since my body was sealed away?"
"That had to be a thousand… several hundred years ago," Karui tried to guess, scratching her head for an answer. "The Sage was said to be a myth, a story passed down for generations."
"But if we had to estimate, then we'd say… it's been about six hundred… seven hundred years," Naruto concluded. "Your existence predates even our First Hokage!"
"Well that's just great," the Sage huffed and folded her arms, her breasts being pushed up a little bit, and causing Naruto to look away awkwardly and in embarrassment. "I told my students to pass down my story and teachings, but they do the exact opposite and turn me into a myth! That sucks." She sulked where she sat like a child would when they had their favorite toy taken away from them by their parents.
"She kind of reminds me of you," Samui exclaimed, elbowing Naruto in the ribs. The blond frowned and looked at her.
"I…do not…sulk," he muttered, causing Samui and Karui to giggle.
After a minute or so of staring at each other, the three Genin and the self-proclaimed Sage, things moved into more of a Q&A exchange, and Naruto headed this event. Folding his arms, he glared at the woman, who just smiled back at him, rising out of her state of comical displeasure.
"If you really are the Great Sage of Six Paths of legend," Naruto began, raising an eyebrow at her. "Then you should know every single modern day Jutsu we shinobi use today!"
"Modern day what?" the Sage repeated.
"You know…Jutsu!" Naruto said, slapping himself in the face. "Ninja Techniques that utilize the spiritual and physical manifestations of energy inside of the human body, a concept known as chakra, and by shaping, producing and controlling the chakra through a series of hand seals, and depending on the nature type of your chakra and ability to use it, can produce techniques of offense, defense, sealing and healing."
The woman blinked. "Jutsu?"
"Oh… this is getting me nowhere!" Naruto groaned. He stood up and stepped back, turning towards a wide-open and empty space in the room. The Sage, Karui and Samui turned to watch him with interest. "Here, let me show you."
He formed a series of hand seals, ones that he was familiar with from watching Jiraiya when the Toad Sage was demonstrating the concept of chakra to him when he was younger. Once he was done, he initiated the technique.
"Wind Release: Rising Dragon!" Naruto shouted, inhaling a breath of air that inhaled his lungs substantially, before letting it go with incredible destructive force, a blast of wind rocketing from his lips encompassed by a tornado, which whipped around it and formed the shape of a Chinese Firebolt Dragon. The Dragon's mouth at the head of the attack widened and engulfed the area in front of it, the ground being torn up, debris flying, walls crumbling, and the everything else just being blasted away.
When Naruto finished his demonstration, he let out a sigh of exasperation and turned back towards the others, where he saw Samui and Karui gawking at him from the results of his technique, while the self-proclaimed Sage was looking on with great interest. She suddenly smiled in delight and clapped her hands in almost congratulations, obviously entertained by the show, which Naruto had not been attempting to achieve.
"Wow! That was amazing!" the Sage exclaimed.
"Huh?" Naruto stared, looking a bit dumbstruck.
"You've taken my Wind Manipulation concept and, not only have you applied shape and direction to it, you've also given it a name! Awww… that is so cute!" the Sage exclaimed, clapping her hands frantically and bouncing on the spot. "Do it again! Do it again!"
"What? No!" Naruto shouted, before pointing at her. "If you really are the true Sage of Six Paths, then you should be able to do what I've just done! That technique has been passed on for over a hundred years, and it's one of the simplest…"
"That technique was created after my time," the woman said, her cheerful mood dropping to just a plain smile on her face. "You see, I didn't actually create all the ninja techniques you ninja seem to be using today…"
"Huh?" Karui, Samui and Naruto replied, even more bewildered now then they were several seconds ago.
"True, I was a ninja in a past life, but all of my training beforehand was built upon the old ways of the shinobi: the warrior of the night. My skills and strengths as a ninja were so absolute that I earned the title of Great Sage Ninja," she exclaimed, thumbing herself in the chest. "Once I had achieved all that I could in strengthening myself in the ways of the shinobi, I then began exploring the concepts of understanding, utilizing, and mastering the elemental forces around me. It was a way for me to achieve true enlightenment, and because I devoted most of my life to understanding energy, I discovered chakra, and through it, gained full control over all the elements in the world."
"That actually makes a lot of sense," a rather surprised Karui commented. "But… what could you do though, you know… using your chakra as a means of fighting…"
"My main goal was never to cause any harm to anyone with the knowledge and strengths that I had gained," the Sage stated, frowning a bit at the word 'fighting'. "The discoveries I made were a means of maintaining peace throughout the lands as the avatar of all elements: body and soul, light and dark, earth and sky, life and death. It was a way to enable people to better understand the world around them and preserve it. It was this knowledge of understanding I was hoping to pass on, and encourage as well as inspire others to follow in my footsteps…"
"But…?" Naruto said, spurring her on, sitting down to listen to the red haired woman's story.
"It was not until I left this world in the hands of my two students that I realized there was a significant difference between what we see as an individual and what values we hold onto as a person. I left most of my knowledge, teachings and powers to my only students, whom I hoped would pass on my wisdom wisely," the Sage stated, letting out a sigh. "You see, it was my two apprentices who improved my concept of chakra manipulation, and transformed them into completely new ninja techniques. Although they were both my students, the two of them held completely different ideals, and were still too young to fully comprehend what I myself had gained through years of experience. The one, whom I entrusted with my eyes to see all things, believed strength was the answer, and transformed my techniques into the most deadly of weapons. The younger of the two though, believed love was the answer to all the pains felt by others. Love being the purest of all things in this world, I chose him as my successor, for he took not only my teachings, but also my values to heart."
"That's incredible…" Naruto said, smiling. "So I guess, after you left, those two went on to help build the ninja world we know today…" But then, another realization clicked in his head, and after considering a lot of the things he did know, the blond sort of looked a little downhearted. Karui and Samui looked over at him in concern, suddenly detecting his downturn in mood. "Not to mention a cycle of war, hatred and pain…"
"Hmm… it's not as bad now as I had once thought though," the Sage exclaimed, smiling at the boy and shrugging. "I mean… the world's still around after six-hundred years… that's fine…"
"Yeah, but we've got even more problems today then ever before," Naruto stated, looking up at the red haired woman. "Sage… I mean… damn… do you have another name-like title we can give you? Geez. I have to give you a name…"
"How about Vixen; it goes with the ears?" Karui suggested, doing an ear imitation of her own.
"No… that would just be mean," Samui said, elbowing her friend. "Try something original…"
"How about Sagey?" Karui asked.
"Too dull…"
"Foxy?"
"Stop suggesting names," Samui snapped coolly, before looking over at the red haired girl. "Okay, you've got red hair and swirly eyes. Can't really build anything on that?"
"How about Mia? Mia is good," Naruto exclaimed, giving it a bit more thought. "It's simple, and easy to remember!"
"I like it!" the Sage exclaimed. "I've started a new life, so what the heck. Mia…Mia…Miiiiaaaaa…MIiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…MIA!"
"Don't wear it out," Karui said, giving her a half-smile. "Things can start sounding a little strange if you say it over a hundred times. Like this for instance…" The red-haired Kumo Genin picked up a rock lying beside her and held it in her palm, staring intently at it. "Rock. Rrrrrock. Rock…"
"Anyway…Sage of Six Paths…Mia!" Naruto said, turning his attention to her and smiling, with Karui continuing to pronounce the object's name in her hand in the background. "Since you've clearly mastered chakra control and have basically developed a clear understanding of a lot of the concepts… even todays' concepts… umm…"
"Yes," Mia replied.
"Question: How good are you with seals?"
An hour later…
It wasn't until later onwards did Naruto eventually introduce the self-proclaimed, resurrected Sage of Six Paths to the rest of his team. But of course, before that, after talking with the Great Sage some more, and after finding her a set of clothes to wear (a pair of baggy pants and samurai robes over that, and a pair of wooden sandals she made herself from scratch), the blond Genin and his two Kumo companions had to lead her out of the catacombs.
Unfortunately, finding their way back out proved a hell of a lot harder then when they did coming in, not counting the now childish, Great Sage they had to put up with, who was surprisingly clingy…
"KAMI DAMMIT! DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING?" Karui shouted at the blond after they took another right and found a dead end.
"Give him a break, Karui," Samui rounded on her friend, frowning on her. "He's baby sitting…"
Naruto found himself carrying the Sage of Six Paths (Mia) on his back, and was looking kind of annoyed. She was latched onto him, smiling happily and nuzzling his cheek as he walked along, clearly showing him a lot of affection. He was glad he was so strong otherwise it would have been exceedingly difficult carrying a person twice his height. At least she was light.
"I know where we're going, don't worry," Naruto replied, before glancing to the young woman he was carrying. "And could you get off of me please, lady? Why are you still hugging me?"
"Ne! You released me, so that makes you my hero. I owe you my life, and hence, am in your debt!" she replied, before purring into his cheek. "You will make a fine husband for me!"
Naruto nearly fell over when he heard this, and Karui and Samui went slack jawed.
"WHAAAAAAAAATTTTTT!" Karui roared in outrage and jealousy.
"Like hell you will!" Samui shouted, storming up behind the woman and yanking her off of him. She then not s gingerly dropped her to the floor, and glared down at her, as if scolding a child. It made it even more hilarious that the Great Sage looked a little ashamed and upset. "Listen, if anyone is going to marry him, it's going to be me!"
Karui stared at her oddly, whereas Naruto was stretching out from losing the added weight. "Wow… where did that come from?" her teammate commented.
"I…I mean…" Samui looked away, blushing fiercely and scratching her cheek in an embarrassed way. "You shouldn't make such foolish statements without deep consideration…"
"But I have made my decision," Mia exclaimed, smiling up at the girl. "I've thought about it for a bit…"
"Yeah… well… it's still too soon…"
Mia remained silent for a minute or so, looking between the blond haired girl, then back towards Karui who was also looking a bit displeased, then back to Naruto, who was waiting patiently for them to be finished. After considering what she has seen so far, the young Sage smiled and looked back at Samui.
"Very well then, I will be his wife, and you can be his mistresses!" she exclaimed happily.
"SAY WHAT!" all three of them shouted at her.
This discussion took up about a quarter of the time they used getting out of the tunnels. When they eventually did get out, Mia found herself under the scrutiny of the entirety of Team 7 and Team Samui. Even Killer Bee and Anko were staring at her in disbelief, all of them encircling her and taking their time looking her over. The red haired woman enjoyed the attention she was receiving, and smiled happily at all of the, not at all concerned about her wellbeing or of any danger imposed on her.
She wasn't intimated at all…
"Whatcha guys lookin' at?" she asked, looking at all the eyes locked onto her.
"This…" Anko pointed, looking over at her blond student. "We came all the way down here… for this?"
"Problems?"
"I find it hard to believe that you were able to find, not only a child with Rinnegan eyes, which nobody has even seen for thousands of years, but have also found a second, older, hotter girl with the exact same eyes in the span of a month! And on top of that, she claims to be the Sage of Six Paths… good lord," Anko sighed, shaking her head. She then looked back over at the red head and folded her arms. Looking her up and down again, the purple haired Jonin then smirked and looked back up into her eyes. "I've got to hand it to you though, Naruto,ou do know how to pick em'!"
"Please don't," the blond replied, ducking his head and hiding it under his wide-brimmed armored hat.
"You have the craziest adventures whenever you go off somewhere," Ino said, raising an eyebrow and she walked around the woman, getting more acquainted with her figure, and feeling a tad bit jealous. "This is so unfair… she looks to be in her older teenage years, and she's got such a perfect figure! All the girls he meets are so good looking. Even his teacher…"
"Quite a remarkable find," Omoi said, rubbing his chin in thought, while Isaribi next to him continued to look with interest up at the woman. "To think the Rinnegan actually exists! This is astonishing. Or are they the real Rinnegan? Perhaps a mutation in a bloodline of another clan? Or is it a completely new kekkai genkai? Maybe we've discovered a long lost lineage…"
"She feels… nice…" Isaribi spoke, sensing a pure, warm aura about the woman. "It's like I can trust her…"
"Yo, Nightwalker!" Killer Bee began, glancing down at his short friend. "What's the real deal with this babe? Is she like, the real deal, or nay?"
"She says she is," Karui answered for him, placing her hands on her hips. "She's made a lot of sense so far… surprisingly enough…" Remembering how this woman was acting when she was let out of that box of hers, even to this point, it was pretty difficult to determine whether or not she was the genuine Sage.
"YOSH! And she is gorgeous!" Lee exclaimed, bowing to the woman. "It is a pleasure to meet such a youthful looking person."
"Why thank you," Mia grinned down at the boy, her cheeks reddening with delight at his compliment.
"Of course, if she really is the genuine Sage of Six Paths, prove it. She'll have to… you know… perform a technique for us; one that only the legendary ninja of all ninjas could perform," Sakura stated, looking judgingly upon the red headed female. "If she can do that, then I'll be convinced she's for real…"
"You're smart!" the Sage exclaimed, smiling at the pink haired girl. The red head walked up to her, and held up her right hand. "If you want proof, then I'll show you the window of time…"
"Huh…" Sakura was about to question what the woman was about to do, but before she even had the chance, Mia laid her hand atop of her head, and in a blink of an eye, the girl's eyes widened and became devoid of color.
Team 7 and Team Samui leapt away in shock, with Anko swiftly drawing a kunai in response to the sight, whereas Naruto just stood and watched on with interest, Killer Bee too.
"What are you doing?" Anko demanded, glaring at the woman, who simply smiled back.
"Relax Anko Mitarashi: Snake Mistress of Konohagakure, Miss Sakura Haruno will be fine…" Mia replied, before looking back down at the young girl, who seemed to stand there, staring up at the taller woman with a look of shock and calm on her face. The picture of emotions was clearly reflected in her eyes.
"Y-You're… inside my head…"
"I'm drawing on all your memories from your past, present and future," the Sage exclaimed, smiling kindly. "It's okay, there's nothing that will gravely upset the balance of anything; and they're just fragments only I can see, not what you can see unless I allow you."
"How in the world can you do that?" Anko asked, looking bewildered. "You can't see ahead in time! No normal human being can do that! It's impossible."
"I'm an impossible human… not normal at all," Mia stated, smiling as she was given the full preview of Sakura's life. "I can only see as far ahead as this child will live… which is a pretty long and happy life." Mia smiled, but then frowned when she saw other glimpses of things that could be in the future, and what could have been in the past. "Hmm… something appears to have gone wrong…"
"What?" Naruto asked, now a little bit concerned about what she was seeing.
"Events seemed to have skewed out of order… not what should have happened," Mia replied, removing her hand from the young girl's head, before looking around at the group. "Odd but… no big!" A smile returned to her face and she looked back at Anko and Naruto. "I know all your names and more. Apparently, she is in love with that boy there!" She pointed towards the spiky haired blond, who just smiled and rubbed the back of his head bashfully. "He's gotten around… he already has more then five girls buying for his affections…"
"Five?" Killer Bee queried, before grinning and turning to the boy, raising his fist towards him. "Spanking, dude… never thought you had it in you! The play boy with no shadow, girls come outta the blue!" Naruto bumped fists, grinning as well.
"That's Naruto!" Ino exclaimed, hopping over to him and wrapping her arms around his. "He's just awesome like that!"
Killer Bee shook his head, Anko just grinned and Lee gave his friend the thumbs up. Omoi just stood silently where he was, thinking, with Samui and Karui glaring with jealousy at the blond latched onto Naruto. Sakura shook herself off from the intrusion into her head, before walking over to her teammate and hugging him, earning a smile from Mia, as well as Isaribi to the side.
"Hey… if you can manipulate time through memories," Anko spoke, stepping towards the red haired woman in the center of the broken up circle, thumbing to her shoulder. "Do you think you can help me out with a problem of my own?"
"Sure…"
"I have a cursed seal stamped onto the side of my neck and it pains me to no end," Anko stated, rubbing the area where it was sizzling. "Do you think you can get rid of it?"
"Let me see it," Mia stated, making a hand gesture. Anko did as instructed and turned around, lowering her trench coat and exposing the area of skin where Orochimaru's Curse Mark was. The Sage watched as she knelt on the ground, and was able to get a good look at the black tomoe seal on her neck. She leant in and bit her index finger, looking cutely with curiosity, analyzing the seal with intrigue. Team 7 and Samui gathered, with Isaribi also getting a much closer look, wondering what she was planning to do.
Of course, when nothing happened for the next minute, with the Sage gazing with interest at the seal, patience wore thin. Anko's right eye twitched and she glared back over at the woman, teeth bared.
"Well? What?"
"…"
"Mia!" Naruto said, nudging the woman. The red head suddenly restarted spontaneously and let out a holler of laughter, which got Ino, Sakura, Killer Bee, Samui and Karui looking at her strangely. Omoi, Naruto and Lee were perhaps the only ones who were composed at the moment. They waited until she stopped laughing.
"What is it?" Anko asked, irritated.
"This… This is your big problem?" the woman asked, letting out another laugh. She leaned in and prodded the seal, the reaction from it being a red flare up on its surface, making Anko wince at the sudden, searing pain shooting through her from it. "The Seal of Heavenly Manipulation; full body and blood control, changes the gene structure and not only strengthens it, but also controls the person to a certain extent. I used to play around with something like this all the time. I had a great time at parties with it."
"Huh?" Anko murmured.
"It's a cheap trick; scares the pants off of you, but easy to get rid of," Mia stated, placing her left hand on it. "Strange though, I could have sworn I threw this away…"
"Well… can you get it off of me now?" Anko asked.
"Of course. Just like this!" Mia stated, placing her right hand on Anko's head, causing the same thing that happened to Sakura to happen to her. Everyone seemed to blink in surprise as the red head smirked and applied more pressure to her grip on the seal on the Jonin's neck where the seal was, smoke beginning to rise from between her fingers. "You've got some memories locked up; I'll release them as well. Be warned… this might sting…"
There was a loud zap and Anko let out a shriek and fell forward onto all fours, withering. Mia smiled as her hands latched free, her left hand steaming a bit. She looked down at it, and found the Cursed Seal imprinted on her hand, before it faded away. Satisfied, she then watched as the Jonin struggled back up, with Sakura and Naruto helping their sensei up. When they all looked at the place where Mia's hand was, they saw to their astonishment the patch of skin covered by the burn mark of a red hand print, before that faded away, leaving nothing but clean skin. No mark whatsoever.
Everyone was amazed, even Isaribi, who knew she had just watched something impossible happen.
"Incredible!" Ino exclaimed.
"Unbelievable," Sakura also said.
"Fantastic!" Omoi said, clapping his hands together loudly. "Simply amazing…"
"YOSH! Amazing!" Lee said, punching his fist in the air. "Feeling better sensei? More lively?"
"I…I feel…" Anko began speaking, looking up in shock. "I feel… light… like a whole load of weight has been lifted off of me…" She literally sprang to her feet and looked at where the Cursed Seal once was, only to find that it was gone. The Jonin traced over the patch of skin, pure amazement reflected in her eyes. "It…It's gone!"
Naruto grinned, looking towards Mia with arms folded. "You're a miracle worker…"
Mia returned his comment with a gratifying smile. "Thank you…"
"Hey! Hey!" Isaribi bounded forward. "Can you help me? Please?"
Mia looked down at her, blinking in surprise. "Oh… Isaribi was it?" The purple haired girl nodded frantically, with Naruto coming to stand by her side in support, and also to calm her down. He gestured towards the girl as he took her by her shoulder.
"I promised I'd help her when I brought her back to Konoha, but since you're here… maybe you can help her out," Naruto stated, reaching up and removing the bandages around the girl's face. Mia leaned in with wide eyes, immediately becoming fascinated with the scales being exposed to her. A lot of the others crowded around, also intrigued. "Orochimaru performed experiments on her, and transformed her into a human-amphibian hybrid. Unfortunately for her, these scales still show on her normal skin whenever she reverts back."
Isaribi stepped forward again, looking at the young woman pleadingly. "C-Can you make my appearance human again? I…I still want to be able to transform though…"
"Sure," Mia said with a smile. Before she proceeded though, she reached out and prodded her skin, earned a whimper from the girl. "She's a chimera! Oh wow! I haven't seen a chimera in years…" Without another word, the red head then ran her fingertips over the scales on her face and, like an eraser, got rid of them. It was quick and decisive, with Isaribi responding to a sudden numbing feeling all over her body. Mia let out a sigh and looked down at her hand, seeing the scales smeared over it, and fading away like the Cursed Seal. She dusted her hand down and grinned down at the girl. "There. Done."
Isaribi looked over herself, with Naruto helping to remove her bandages. It came as a great shock to her to see that all her scale marks and blemishes were completely gone, and within seconds of looking herself over, became overwhelmed with joy. She let out, laughing, and hugged the red haired woman, crying into her shirt and thanking her to no end. She then hugged Naruto, who didn't expect that, but accepted it all the same.
A loud growling noise got everybody else's attention, and swung them out of their celebrative moods. Mia giggled and rubbed her stomach area, blushing in embarrassment.
"Uhh… can I get something to eat around here? I'm starving!" she exclaimed.
"Really? You seem fine to me," Ino spoke up.
"I haven't eaten in about a thousand years, so cut me some slack… or… you know… some pork…"
While Mia was given some protein bars and other food from a lot of the Genin, who also asked her to help her with some of their problems, Naruto took Isaribi aside and double-checked her skin, which he found to be completely cleared up. Anko and Killer Bee joined the two, and watched with amusement as the Genin asked the resurrected Sage about her past life, and whether she could clear up their scars and illnesses, to which she answered them as best as she could.
"Quite a person you managed to find," Anko chuckled, placing her hands on her hips. "The Sage of Six Paths… I have to say… that is beyond impressive…"
"She's a got an awesome set of skills on her! Wouldn't want her to wander off without yer!" Killer Bee rapped out.
"Yeah… not to mention I'm stuck with her," Naruto let out a sigh, shrugging. "Still, I wouldn't mind having her around."
"So she's coming to live with you," Anko said, nodding her head in understanding. "Another two girls picked up on a mission. You don't do any wrong, do you? You must have friends on the other side helping you along brat…geez…"
"Depends on your point of view," Naruto stated, shaking his head. "I swear, I brush with Death so many times, I should high five him when I pass him. It's ridicules…" Before he could go into full blown complaining mode, Isaribi wrapped her arms around his and hugged him affectionately. The blond looked at her, seeing her smiling up at him.
"Thank you so much, Naruto-kun…"
"Anytime Isaribi," Naruto said, grinning.
While the group continued to pester the red head Rinnegan girl and Anko and Isaribi watched on with amusement, Naruto glanced up at Killer Bee and grinned.
"It's quite fortunate you showed up when you did, old friend," Naruto began, with his Kumo buddy glancing down at him in response. "I may have asked this before, but I just plain forget…who hired you guys anyway?"
"Dunno… some babe wearing a weird cloak with cloud patterns on it," Killer Bee replied, shrugging his shoulders. "She was nice. She said she digged my rapping, yo!"
Naruto blinked, raising an eyebrow at Killer Bee. He seemed to shake when his friend mentioned cloud patterned cloaks, and gave the glasses wearing Jinchuriki more attention, and pressed home on the subject.
"Cloud patterns? What did she look like?"
"Not sure…" Killer Bee thought, rubbing his chin with his fingers. "Never saw her face; she always kept her hood up. But I do remember one thing…" He turned back to Naruto, pointing to his right eye. "She had this killer eye; a Sharingan! Don't know if I was tripping or somethin', but it had red swirlies instead of black, and the iris in the background was dark too…black as coal…"
Naruto's eyes widened and he looked ahead of him in shock. He thought back to his battle with Kajika, where he remembered seeing his eyes glowing with the exact same Sharingan when he was suddenly possessed. He also thought back to his bingo book, where he remembered seeing a silhouette photograph of an unknown ninja, with that exact same eye pictured in it.
"It can't be…"
Elsewhere…
Marching through a distant forest, draped in the same black cloak with a hood and red clouds, the mysterious stranger walked on. She had been for several hours, now, traveling through these woods almost aimlessly. It was until she arrived at a particular clearing at the center of the forest, where she stopped just after entering it.
She stood there, glaring ahead of her through the shadows of her covers, waiting and listening. Her two Sharingan glowed, the red tomoes illuminated, and producing an aura of unease. This tension in the air did not go unnoticed, and as expected, another guest arrived on the scene.
Her brow furrowed and her tomoes spun, eyes glancing behind her when the sound of space displacement could be heard. A revving of energy filled the air as a small black hole opened behind her and began to spin, atoms and particles spilling out into the open air, and filling the once empty space. Seconds later, as the hooded female turned to face the clearing behind her, she was quickly met with the orange, swirly patterned mask, and single, blazing Sharingan of her new arrival.
They faced each other, Uchiha confronting Uchiha.
Or so it seemed.
"It's you…" the masked man spoke, his voice deep and hauntingly dark with malice, "The Abomination of the Uchiha Clan…"
"Why… Madara Uchiha is it… or is it just the name you choose to go by these days…Obito?" the female spoke, but then furrowed her brow again. "Wait… no… not Obito… I think the name Juubi is more appropriate…"
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's Note: Wow what a twist! I was actually planning on having someone else pop out of the caskett (like Mito Uzumaki, the Zero Tailed Slug or an OC), but I decided to go with the Sage of Six Paths. However, instead of going with the whole wise, insanely powerful, and perhaps semi-good-semi-evil character idea, I decided to go with a completely different concept.
You see, from my point of view, in reality, if anyone had to be as powerful as the Great Sage of all ninja, then they wouldn't or just have to be incredibly wise, but would also be a bit of a whack job from knowing and creating everything he/she did or had. I mean, you can't create something out of nothing without insane imagination, vision, or anything like that (a mind of a child, insanity, an idea... it all connects in a way). So instead of going with all-knowing, wise, power flaunting, mystical and mysterious, I decided to go with the the Great Sage who knows only a lot of things from her time, but near nothing when it comes to modern day stuff, and a complete dunce, as well as an idiot, which is what also makes my version of the Sage so powerful in her own way. Able to do things that are impossible by modern ninja's standards whether intentional or unintentional, acts naive, and screws up a hell of a lot of times, and isn't afraid of anything.
Lol, she's my creation and I think she is adorable.