Okay, once again I'm posting late. I'd like to thank ddcj1990 because they jump started my imagination. Hmm, I can't possibly think of anything that I need to say so, on with the show!

Italics – 'Thoughts' or flashback, timeskip

Bold – Jutsu or beings of great power

Underline – Emphasize and reading

Hiruzen Sarutobi had experienced much in his long life. He fought in wars, he defeated countless enemies, and survived an encounter with the Kyūbi No Yoko. However, he had never seen what he saw a few hours ago.

He never saw a person wield the Raijin No Ken like Naruto had. Except of course, its original owner, Tobirama Senju. However, now he had a problem. They had often tried to pass the Raijin on to other shinobi, but they could never wield the Raijin well enough. Whenever they tried to use more advance stances, they always hurt themselves.

Now though, he had a child that, if given enough time, could wield the Raijin at the same level as his former sensei. Though that in itself posed a problem. Naruto was still a child. He couldn't be trusted with such an ancient artifact of Konoha.

Even so, they finally found a candidate that could use the Raijin No Ken. Sighing, Sarutobi stared at the seated Naruto. Naruto had explained that he only defended himself against Aoi. He knew that he was using the Raijin no Ken, but it was the only thing that would work against Aoi. Sarutobi had detected no lies, but he could tell Naruto was hiding something. He didn't seem to be lying to be malicious, but to protect something. A secret of his own perhaps, but it didn't seem to be important to the issue at hand.

"Naruto I'm sure you don't fully understand the implications of what you have done." Hiruzen stated to Naruto with his hands folded in front of his face. Naruto could only squirm in his seat as he tried to meet Hiruzen's intense gaze. "It's true you defeated the traitor Aoi with the Raijin, but what you don't know is that no one has ever been able to successfully use the blade besides the Second Hokage. The fact that you were able to use it at all without hurting yourself shows that you have the potential to one day master the swords, but the problem is that it's an artifact of the village. If I were to hand the artifact to you, it would cause an uproar in the village." The news that he wouldn't be able to use the Raijin saddened Naruto greatly. Old Man Hokage was right though, it was a precious artifact of the village, he couldn't use it just because he showed some proficiency.

"However, it doesn't mean that you won't be able to use it again. Right now, I can't give it to you because to do so would require permission from the village council, and your age would make them vote against it. Even so, I can make it so that you can have access to the sword. You won't be able to use it everyday, but you will have access to it every other day." Hiruzen could only chuckle when Naruto's eyes widened in shock. His chuckle turned to laughter when Naruto started smiling like crazy.

"Naruto, once you've gained enough proficiency to use the Raijin in actual combat, we can have an evaluation in front of the council to get approval for you to use the Raijin during your career." Naruto's smile got even bigger.

"Don't worry Old Man! I'll be so good with the Raijin that they'll have to let me use it!" To Naruto, this was just another obstacle he needed to overcome before he became a ninja.

"Whew, I can't believe he bought that." After being dismissed by the Hokage Naruto returned home to his apartment. "What do you think he would have done if I told him the complete truth?" Naruto asked Tobirama and Hashirama.

"Well obviously, he would believe you're insane and have you institutionalized." Tobirama stated this with complete seriousness. He smirked when he saw Naruto's dumfounded expression. "Well, what do you think he would have done? If you told him the truth he wouldn't believe you because you have no evidence. Or in the worst case scenario he would have thought that the Kyūbi might have taken you over."

That immediately brought Naruto's mood down. "The only way he'll ever believe you is if you get strong enough to do that oversoul thing you told me about." That reminded Naruto of his promise to Hao. While he was improving, he didn't believe he was improving quickly enough. All he needed was to learn how to do a 100% Hyoi Gattai.

Finally, feeling the exhaustion of the day's events, he bid his spirits goodnight and went to sleep.

Timeskip-6 Months

The training with the Raijin had begun with a bad start. The Hokage had assigned an ANBU to oversee his training, but the ANBU wouldn't let him use the Raijin. It wasn't even because he cared about Naruto's safety, but because he had been one of the candidates to have injured himself using the Raijin. This block kept Naruto from learning to fully use the Raijin, but he was able to get around it. He made a bet with the ANBU, that he would be able to beat him using the Raijin. The ANBU didn't take him seriously until he stated that if he lost he would tell the Hokage that it had been a fluke that allowed him to use the Raijin.

The ANBU agreed and they fought. The ANBU lost for a variety of reasons. One, he didn't take Naruto seriously. Two, Naruto was merged with Tobirama. Three, he had the Raijin. While Naruto and Tobirama weren't the same size at the moment, Tobirama could use Naruto's body like it was his own. This led to the ANBU being defeated in seconds. Of course, if the ANBU had taken him seriously, Naruto wouldn't have actually won.

While, the ANBU was unconscious on the ground, Naruto took time to look at the Raijin. While it was on, it had a glowing blade of lightning chakra. Every few seconds, some of the lightning chakra would branch off the blade and into the surrounding area. Naruto, being Naruto, wanted to see if the blade was actually shocking. He put his finger to the blade and shocked himself until all of his long hair stood on end. Tobirama was laughing his ass off, because Naruto looked like a golden porcupine.

After that small hiccup, the training went great. The ANBU would supervise, but he would never offer any advice. That was fine with Naruto, because he was learning all he needed to from Tobirama.

Naruto had been amazed to learn that Tobirama had actually created the Raijin. He was told that the Raijin was just a handle with a bunch of seals inside. At the moment, they were too advance for Naruto to learn, but what they did was they absorbed chakra and changed it into lightning chakra. Tobirama told him that it might be possible to change the element, but lightning was used to compliment his water affinity

His training with Tobirama was also going great. He realized that by using Hyoi Gattai, he could learn some of the moves that Hashirama knew. He used this to help him learn Hashirama's fighting style. It was difficult to learn the beginning parts because he was still young, plus he was short. This made some of the more advanced moves inaccessible at the moment, but he did learn the basics. Another advancement was that the Hyoi Gattai had reached 99% unity. They kept trying, but for some reason they couldn't reach that 100% unity. After an entire week of trying, they decided that it would be best to learn other things first and then get back to it at another time.

Mito's seal training was difficult. He first had to learn all of the theoretical knowledge about seals before he could even try to make one. He learned that using seals required an intimate knowledge about how things worked. This meant that instead of just having homework from the Academy, he also had homework from Mito. However, Mito's work covered a wide variety of topics. It covered science, math, anatomy, and anything else that she thought was important. All of this work left Naruto brain dead at night. Even so, the results spoke for themselves when Naruto started to better understand the world around him.

His ninja training was also advancing quickly. At the Academy they were learning the basics, but with his spirits he learned things that he might have learned after years of fieldwork. He was learning to read body language, he started ticks that people had, and he was learning how to get information through interrogation. Interrogation scared him at first, until he learned that not all interrogation had to be physical. He learned that psychological interrogation often worked best and it was often less work.

At the moment Naruto was deciding on something that would change his life forever. He was deciding on whether he should graduate early, or to graduate with his year mates. He knew that if he graduated early he would be more likely to advance in rank quicker. Even so, if he graduated with his year mates he would be more likely to connect with people closer to his age. It was truly a conundrum. Then it got even more complicated because if he did graduate early, he had to choose when to graduate. He could do it three years early, two years early, or even just one year early.

He still had time to decide, but it was something his spirits wanted him to keep in mind. Sighing and planning to think about the topic later, Naruto tried to figure out what to do on his day off. It wasn't often he had a day off and when he did it was really boring. He had gotten used to working his butt off everyday, so when he had nothing to do he got bored quickly.

'Ugh, I hate days off. I have nothing to do and I get so boooooorrrred! I can't even train! Stupid spirits telling me to not train. I don't need any days off, I have the Kyūbi to fix any sort of exhaustion I may have. Staying in my apartment won't help me get rid of the boredom. Might as well look around the village.' Standing up, Naruto got off his bed and walked toward the door.

Walking toward the rail outside his door, he looked over the village. He stared at all of the village not really looking at anyone thing, until he see's a flash of red. 'Huh? Where is it? I know it's somewhere, I just can't find it.' Looking near the general area where he saw the flash of red, he noticed all of the buildings around there where empty. There was no one in that general area, and there was some yellow sign near one of the roads. Looking above the sign he saw what caught his attention.

It was a fan, but not just any old fan, it was the Uchiha clan symbol. Looking at it he remembered why the place was deserted. The Uchiha Clan Massacre had left no one but Sasuke alive. That's why it was so empty. All of those people in the clan were wiped out. They were all probably angry and confused. That meant that they could all still be attached to this world and they were just gathering in their hate and anger.

Realizing the danger, Naruto went to look for his spirits. He had learned from Hao's book that angry and hateful spirits often gathered together to form an Oni. He didn't know if it was possible in this world because of chakra, but he had to make sure. He knew that Hashirama and Tobirama liked to hang around the Hokage Monument, and Mito liked to stay near the playground. He didn't know why she liked to hang around there when there were plenty of other places to be at, but it was probably because it brought back memories about her children when they were young.

'The closest one is Mito, so I'll go get her. Hopefully she'll be able to do something with her seals.' That was something he learned from her. There were seals that could affect souls, but those seals forcefully controlled a soul. It couldn't replicate anything that a shaman could do, but it was the best they had at the moment. Until Naruto learned to consciously use his furyoku they were limited to those seals.

'Why is that park so far!' While Naruto could use chakra to make himself faster, he didn't because he couldn't let anyone know he was advanced enough to use chakra that way. At the moment, he was regretting the fact that he didn't skip grades so he could use chakra openly.

Finally arriving at the playground, Naruto was hunched over trying to gather his breath. 'God damn! It took me too long to get here.' Once he caught his breath, Naruto looked around. He was confused because the playground was empty. That was strange because it was the afternoon and it was a bright and sunny day. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth he ran toward where he saw Mito. "Mito! We might have a problem!"

"What's wrong Naruto? Usually, you at least say hello first before anything else." Mito was always one to remind Naruto to use his manners. Even when the time didn't call for them.

"Sorry, but I don't think we'll have time for that! There's something I forgot to explain. You know that when a person dies, if they can't pass on, they stay on this plane of existence right? Well I didn't tell you that if those souls are angry and hateful they might join together to form a spirit called an Oni! What's worse is that if this Oni is strong enough it could manifest itself into a metaphysical form that could actually hurt people!" Finishing his explanation, Naruto started taking deep breaths.

Staring at him for some moments Mito said the only thing she could. "Your only telling us this now? Why didn't you tell us this earlier, when both Tobirama and Hashirama were with you?" Giving Naruto a deadpanned look as she waited for his answer, Mito could guess that he had forgotten, but she wanted to hear it from his mouth.

"I uh, forgot." Looking ashamed as he said this Naruto could only stare at the ground as he waited for Mito's reprimand.

Sighing, Mito look at Naruto while letting out a small chuckle, "At least you told us about this when you remembered. Next time, try not to forget okay?" Patting Naruto on his head, as he looked at her with a confused expression, Mito began to laugh at as he nodded.

"Alright then, lets go make sure that no Oni appears." With that Naruto and Mito made their way to the Uchiha compound. Strangely enough, the closer they got to the compound the emptier things got. The entrance into the compound was completely abandoned. Nothing was even stolen from the compound.

Looking around the compound, they saw nobody. There weren't any souls anywhere near their position. Walking deeper into the compound they didn't see anything strange except that they still didn't see any spirits of the Uchiha clan.

It wasn't until they were in the middle of the compound did they find someone. The person was wearing standard ninja attire, but he had a blank look on his face. Naruto recognized him as the clan head, Fugaku, but what was weird is that he seemed to be talking to himself.

"The Uchiha clan will rule Konoha. Nobody will stop us. Soon we will control all of the Elemental Nations. The Uchiha clan will rule Konoha. Nobody will stop us. Soon we will control all of the Elemental Nations." He constantly repeated those three sentences over and over again. It seemed like he was a remnant of the real Fugaku. Hao's book explained that it rarely happened, but sometimes souls split themselves because part of them was ready to move on, but another part was rooted to whatever they hadn't been able to accomplish. That's what apparently happened to Fugaku. It seemed like he wanted the Uchiha clan to rule Konoha, but was killed before any sort of plan he had was accomplished.

"He's a remnant. He's only a part of Fugaku. He'll be no trouble as long as no Oni forms, because then he'll probably try to finish his ambition., which wouldn't end well for Konoha." Finishing his explanation they left the remnant alone, walking deeper into the compound in search for any sort of trouble.

Not much action in this chapter, it's more like a transitional chapter. Anyway, if you have questions review and I'll see what I can do. Sorry if you find it short!