Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King or Naruto
I have to say that I really didn't think this story would get so popular! It's funny that one day after I posted the new chapter my inbox was full of story alerts. When I saw that I was smiling so much it started to hurt.
This chapter will include a time skip, some things won't be explained until much later so you will be left in the dark about some things.
Include some mediums for the oversouls. One of the mediums will be shown here, but if you can think of one better than please tell me.
Hmm, I can't think of anything else. If I do think of something else, I'll put it in the next chapter.
Italics – 'Thoughts' or flashback
Bold – Jutsu or beings of great power
Underline – Emphasize and reading
It had been one year since Naruto had gained his shamanic powers. In that time, he met Hashirama Senju, Mito Uzumaki, and Kushina Uzumaki, his mother. He learned about his origins and about him being the Kyūbi's jinchūriki.
Of course he didn't take it too well. It was only thanks to his mother being with him that he was able to keep from being overwhelmed by the information. Sadly, his mother had moved on into the afterlife shortly after they met.
Now, Naruto was still trying to master the Hyoi Gattai. He found out through trial and error that he could remake Hashirama's famous Mokuton techniques. However, the most he could make was a small sapling, and that was when he used most of his chakra. Hashirama said that Naruto probably didn't have the DNA required to properly merge the two chakras.
Naruto was saddened when he found that out but it wasn't all sad news, as they found out. When merged with Hashirama, Naruto's chakra control skyrocketed!
Once again, it was because of the Hyoi Gattai. Hashirama's knowledge and experience helped balance out Naruto's own chakra which improved their control. This increased control allowed Naruto and Hashirama to used earth and water chakra. Unfortunately, Hashirama's water chakra control wasn't up to par with his earth chakra. This meant that the water jutsu were always weaker than earth jutsu.
Every day Naruto and Hashirama practiced the Hyoi Gattai. When they weren't practicing, Naruto trained his body. In Hao's book, it stated that a Hyoi Gattai relied heavily upon the users own body. If the body was not up to the conditioning of the spirit used, then the Hyoi Gattai would never be able to achieve a 100% merge.
That 100% merge was what Naruto was aiming for, and with Hashirama as a teacher, he was quickly approaching that avenue. Of course he wasn't as physically strong as Hashirama was considering he's only 8, but when proportioned they were near the same level. This helped Naruto immensely as they were able to merge easier and faster. In fact, they were able to merge easily enough that Hashirama could just insert himself into Naruto's body. This had the advantage of not leaving Naruto wide open when he used the Hyoi Gattai.
What they didn't know was that the more they used earth and water chakra the more Naruto learned to use the two chakras. He wasn't using them himself, but his body was. That meant that he just needed to remember how the chakras were molded and he would be able to use them himself. Of course this was a long way off, but he would be able to do this one day.
Naturally, Naruto wasn't just learning from Hashirama. After he met Mito and learned that Uzumaki's were gifted with fūinjutsu, he begged to learn his heritage. Mito obliged, but warned Naruto that learning fūinjutsu was nothing like learning other aspects of being a ninja. She warned him that there was no physical learning, it was all mental. This didn't deter Naruto at all.
He knew that it would be one of the most difficult things he would ever learn, but he knew that if he learned fūinjutsu he would be that much closer to his clan.
Afterward, they began Naruto's learning in fūinjutsu. It was extremely slow going. Mito explained to him that fūinjutsu relied heavily upon the use of yin and yang chakra. Mito went on to explain that yin chakra was used to imagine something being sealed into something else. Yang chakra was used to physically seal the object into something else. That was how all seals worked. Even things like paper bombs used yin and yang chakra to seal the fire chakra that was used to make them.
However, those types of seals didn't need to have yin and yang chakra separated as they had seals inscribed onto them that converted whatever chakra was put into them into yin and yang chakra. Of course, those seals were unable to convert enough chakra to seal something incredibly powerful. Things like weapons and objects were simple since they didn't have consciousness or chakra. When an object did have chakra, it was more difficult and required a more complex seal, but it was able to handle to strain. For more powerful things, such as bijū, yin and yang chakra needed to be created consciously as the amount of chakra needed surpassed anything that could be converted by seals.
This made up all of Naruto's first year of being a shaman. Hao's book wouldn't let him advance until he achieved a 100% Hyoi Gattai. He had tried to circumvent the security, but when he tried, the book burned his hand. Obviously Hao had put a spell on it that would keep him from trying to learn something he wasn't ready for.
His time at the Academy was always boring. The only time he had fun was during the spars. There was a new student called Sasuke who he often sparred against. No one else in the class could compete against the two. The first time they sparred, Naruto got overconfident and was face down on the ground before he realized what happened. The second time they sparred it was Sasuke who was on the ground. This continued to be the norm as they continued to fight against each other. When one of them won once, the next time they lost. They kept going back and forth using taijutsu.
None of the students were allowed to use ninjutsu or genjutsu in the spars. It was especially banned in the Traditional Shinobi Spars. There tradition was taken very seriously and all of the students followed the rules, even Naruto. Of course this was only after he was chewed out by Hashirama for not respecting all of the slain Konoha shinobi that sacrificed their lives so that they could live in peace.
That made Naruto feel ashamed, so the next day he apologized for not realizing the significance of the event. Iruka had been extremely surprised when Naruto came into class early to apologize for something he had already forgotten about. Nonetheless, he still congratulated Naruto for apologizing and for learning the lesson he was trying to teach. Beaming Naruto left the Academy.
Iruka had bid him a good day and continued his paperwork. In fact, he didn't realize that there was still school that day until after Naruto had long gone. When he had, he could only laugh at himself for not realizing it sooner. He decided to give Naruto the day off just because he was mature enough to apologize and for learning the lesson.
Naruto left to go visit Hashirama and continue their Hyoi Gattai. The last time they had merged Naruto could feel that they were almost at a 100% merge. He had set the goal to finally get a complete merge.
Arriving at the usual training spot, he saw Hashirama sleeping on the ground. Walking up to Hashirama Naruto prepared to wake him up by kicking him to get back at Hashirama from when he had woken him up a year ago, when his eyes snapped open and grabbed his leg mid-kick. Looking at Naruto with one eyebrow raised Naruto could only laugh nervously as Hashirama let go of his leg.
"Why are you here so early Naruto? Shouldn't you be in the Academy?" Hashirama had gotten straight to the point.
"I'm ditching today so that we can finally accomplish the 100% Hyoi Gattai!" Naruto yelled this with enthusiasm.
Laughing, Hashirama allowed Naruto to train since he too wanted to see their combined strength at 100%.
Focusing, Naruto prepared himself to activate the Hyoi Gattai, when out of the trees, a man fell. The man looked to have been in a battle recently as he had burn marks and he was clutching his leg. However, what drew their attention away from him was the spirit that was floating behind him with an angry look on his face.
The ghost wore a face guard with with a leaf symbol on the forehead. He had three red streaks under his eyes and on his chin. He had white hair with red eyes and he wore blue armor with a white collar underneath.
"Brother!" Surprised, Naruto looked at Hashirama before he turned back to the spirit who looked just as surprised as he did. However, he quickly put things together and realized that the spirit next to the guy on the ground was the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju.
"Damn, just when I thought I made a clean getaway, I trigger a trap." The man on the ground was Aoi Rokushō. He had just stolen the Raijin no Ken. The legendary sword used by the Second Hokage.
"Hey! Who are you?" Naruto couldn't stop himself from doing something he probably shouldn't have.
"Crap, its the Kyūbi jinchūriki. Well, I could at least use you as a hostage." Trying to stand and failing, Aoi could only take deep breaths as he tried to fight through the pain.
Backing away in surprise he turned to look at Hashirama and realized that this was his chance to finally test the Hyoi Gattai.
"Hitodama Mode: Hashirama!" Grabbing Hashirama's hitodama, he then pushed the hitodama into his body. Feeling a rush as Hashirama's consciousness merged with his own, he opened his eyes and released a breath before he focused on the kneeling form of Aoi. Taking advantage of the situation, he quickly sprang forward hoping to catch Aoi off guard.
This was not meant to be, as Aoi jumped out of the way and kicked Naruto in his ribs. Naruto was smacked into a tree with enough force to shake the tree and dislodge some of the leaves. Opening his eyes trying to fight through the pain in his ribs, he saw that Aoi was limping his way over to him.
Struggling to stand, he took notice of his surroundings and saw that there was something on the ground from where Aoi had fallen. Running to it despite his burning ribs, he grabbed it and noticed that it was the hilt of a sword. However, he didn't see any sort of blade attached. Seeing that it would be useless at the moment, he stowed it away into one of his back pockets, and brought his hands together.
Flashing through hand seals, he channeled earth chakra into his hands and he slammed his hands onto the ground while yelling out "Earth Style: Ground Liquefaction!"
The ground began turning to mud and Aoi was quickly sinking in it. Flashing through more hand seals, he channeled water chakra into his lungs and compressed it while yelling "Water Style: Gunshot!"
The bullets smacked into Aoi, breaking one of his legs and horribly bruising one of his arms. Before, Aoi could stand despite the pain, but now, the pain was overwhelming and he collapsed onto the mud unconscious.
Staring, Naruto could only blink. He had expected the fight to last much longer. Walking up to Aoi, he received no reply when he kicked him in the ribs. Thus, Naruto concluded that the guy was very much unconscious.
Turning back to look at the ghost that was with Aoi, he saw that the ghost was staring at him with a surprised look. Disengaging the Hyoi Gattai, he saw Hashirama float toward Tobirama.
"It's been quite some time brother." Hashirama stated with a calm facade.
"It's been decades brother. How is it possible that you are still here?" Tobirama asked with wide surprised eyes. He had always believed that he was the only ghost in the entire village. Then again, he had always been bound to the Raijin no Ken, and the Raijin had always been stored in the village vault.
"I've been here since my death. Yet, where have you been? I looked all over the village yet I could not find your spirit. I had hoped that you would have found peace by now."
"Well, I've been bound to the Raijin since my death. Actually, I don't know how I was bound to the Raijin since I didn't have it with me when I died. The last thing I remember from when I was alive was lying on the ground dying. Afterward, I woke up in the Konoha vault next to the Raijin. I tried to leave, but I couldn't get more than a few feet from the Raijin before I couldn't move any farther."
"Interesting. Naruto! Do you have any idea why this could have happened?" Hashirama asked Naruto since he was the only one who could read Hao's book. The time he tried to read it, he saw a vision of a great being with incomparable power warning him to stay away from the book.
"Well, the only thing I can think of is that since he had such a strong connection to the Raijin, the sword connected him to this plane of existence. The only thing I can't understand is how the Raijin connected to his spirit if he never had any sort of furyoku. I guess it could have been his chakra like it was for you, Hashirama."
When Naruto explained what he knew about spirits to Hashirama, they didn't understand why he was bound to Konoha when he died on the battlefield. The only reason they could find was that since he had created all of the trees for Konoha, the chakra in the trees acted as a beacon for him. This probably drew his spirit there and anchored it to the land in and around Konoha.
"Well, it doesn't really matter, because I get to see my brother once again after all of these years." Hashirama stated with a smile as he truly missed his brother.
"It has been a long time since we last spoke, but first what did you and Naruto do?" That was something he never knew could happen. He saw his brother's spirit enter the body of a small child and then quickly defeat an injured jōnin.
"Oh, that's our Hyoi Gattai! It allows Hashirama to enter my body and it gives us the ability to use all of the skills that Hashirama had when he was alive. Of course I need to be able to physically do them, or I won't be able to at all."
"So my brother's Mokuton is inaccessible?" This really interested Tobirama, as he could see all of the amazing applications such a technique had.
"Kinda. I can use Mokuton, but because my body doesn't have the right DNA, I can't do more than make a small little sapling, and that's when I exhaust all of the chakra in my body."
While Naruto was speaking to the spirits, Aoi had awoken. He felt horrible, but in his pack he had emergency pills. The pills would help him to ignore the pain and increase his blood and chakra flow to help ease his injuries. The downside was that after he burned through the pills they would leave him exhausted and easier to defeat than a civilian. He was lucky that he had the foresight to establish a safe-house once he got out of Konoha.
Knowing the risk, he took the medicine. Instantly, he stopped feeling pain. He felt his blood and chakra flow faster. Getting up, he shoved the bone in his leg back into place. Looking to see if Naruto noticed him, he quickly braced the leg with ninja wire to keep it from popping out.
Seeing that Naruto was still distracted, he took out a kunai and threw it at Naruto aiming for his head. Fortunately for Naruto, his instincts had gotten quite a boost from the Hyoi Gattai practice, so he was able to move so that the kunai only went into his upper arm.
"Ahh!" Falling to the ground while crying out in pain, Naruto looked up as Aoi, stalked over to him. Crawling backward, trying to get away, his hand brushed against something. Looking at it he saw it was the hilt from before and it gave him an idea.
Looking at the two spirits, he saw that Hashirama had the same idea that he had. Nodding, he stood up. "Hitodama Mode: Tobirama!" Tobirama could only look on in shock as his body became a small blue orb of light. Quickly shoving the orb into his chest, he felt Tobirama's confused consciousness merge with his own.
Merging with Tobirama was quite different from merging with Hashirama. With Hashirama, he gained an immense calm and he looked at everything analytically. With Tobirama, he gained a burning drive quite similar to his own.
Looking at Aoi, he saw that Aoi had stopped to look at him strangely for doing something that did nothing. However, he quickly smirked when he grabbed the hilt that was on the ground next to him. Spinning it in his hand to get used to the feel, he grabbed the hilt in his right hand and channeled lightning chakra into it. The results were immediate. The formerly blade less hilt, now had a glowing yellow blade made of pure lightning chakra.
Looking at his shocked enemy, he smirked and dashed toward Aoi. Surprised, Aoi could only stumble back away as the Raijin almost cut into his midsection. Jumping back to gain some space, Aoi was surprised when Naruto entered a stance.
Naruto had grabbed the hilt with both hands and pointed the blade to the ground on his right side. He moved his left leg behind his right leg and gripped the sword harder. Channeling enough chakra into the sword that it began to glow brighter, he drew upon the knowledge that Tobirama had and attacked.
"Super Sonic Boom!" the attack released from the blade was a large wave of pure lightning chakra that headed straight for Aoi. Widening his eyes in shock, Aoi could not comprehend that a child had such mastery over such a difficult weapon. This cost him as when he finally paid attention again, he was too late to be able to dodge or block the attack.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Yelling in pain as his body was shocked with pure electricity, he could only wonder how he had been defeated by a child in the academy!
Falling on his back when the attack ended, Aoi had smoke rising out of his body as he skin was charred black. Unfortunately for him, the emergency pills that he took before kept him awake, but he couldn't do anything. The medicine to block out pain had been overwhelmed by the amount of pain he experienced in that one attack. Awake and in pain, Aoi could only lay on the ground hoping that someone would put him out of his misery. Sadly, it would be another few minutes before he would receive help and by then the medicine would have worn off and he would faint.
Naruto, could only gape in shock at the attack. He knew that the attack would have been strong, but he didn't expect it to completely defeat his enemy. Ending the Hyoi Gattai, Naruto could only stare at the two brothers as they surveyed the strength of the attack.
However, all three of them were brought out of their stupor when 4 ANBU arrived and in the center of them was Hiruzen Sarutobi, The Third Hokage.
Okay, so it's been a while since I last posted. I have a few reasons. The first reason is that I was lazy. The second reason is that I had to rewrite this chapter because I had no idea where the original chapter was heading.
Anyway, review and tell me what you think!
Oh, and just to let everyone know, none of my chapters have been beta'd. That's why they might have some mistakes.
Edit (3/8/12): I fixed a small thing in this chapter. Nothing that would actually change the story, but it was bugging me. I doubt you'll see it unless you compare the two chapters side by side.
