Long time no see. Hope you enjoy the chapter.
Puppet Legend
Chapter 7: Sai
"Wake up."
Naruto opened his eyes and was about to say something when he felt a hand cover his mouth. He struggled for a moment, but found his limbs were pinned to the ground.
"Keep quiet, I'm here to help." The voice whispered again, betraying absolutely no emotion. "You must leave Konoha immediately; they are planning something to do with you."
Feeling the hand leave his mouth, but still being unable to move, Naruto tried to see where the voice was coming from, but the room was pitch black. "How do you know?"
"Because I'm under orders to watch and make sure you don't escape, however I'm working undercover for the Hokage."
"Show yourself." Naruto ordered, glaring round trying to guess where the voice was coming from.
"You need to leave now. I'm going to knock myself out so my cover isn't blown. I suggest you collect up what you need and go immediately. They mentioned that someone was coming tomorrow, so you need as much time as possible."
"How can I trust you."
"You call the Hokage 'Old man', and he recently told you about the Hokage Chrystal Ball."
There was silence for a few seconds before the blond felt his arms and legs being freed. He quickly crossed to the wide open window of his apartment, but the street outside was deserted.
Five hours and a hundred miles later, Naruto suddenly received a set of memories from a dispelled clone. Four people had taken him early in the morning to a clearing in a forest. Tormented and beat him around for a few minutes, then when they saw they were getting no reaction out of him, stabbed him in the eye with a Kunai which dispelled the clone.
Naruto shook his head in confusion, and looked out at the huge expanse of water stretching out in front of him. Sighing, he stepped out onto the water, and began to run.
"What can I get for you sir?"
"One bowl of everything you've got."
The elderly lady serving Naruto rubbed her hands together at the money she would make from this order, and hopefully of many more to come. "So when did you arrive in Yokohama? I haven't seen you around, and the last boat arrived over a month ago." The lady asked, while bustling around the kitchen preparing the food.
"Oh I've been around." Naruto said nonchalantly, before quickly changing the subject. The blond spent a good hour at the stand eating and listening to the stories the grey haired Ramen chef had to tell, which, if he had to be perfectly honest, weren't that exciting. Yokohama country had fought for its independence from Fire country during the second great Shinobi war, and had managed to drive the Leaf village forces from the small island that lay about thirty miles of the east coast of Fire country.
No-one had ever returned to reclaim the land due to the poor economical state of the island, and the ever decreasing population. The country had nothing going for it, which obviously led to most of the population moving away, but for Naruto it was perfect. As far as he could tell there were no other Shinobi on the island so he could remain hidden, and due to the still strong resentment towards Konoha, even if he was found out, it would be very unlikely that he would be sold out to the Hunter Nin's. He could do the few odd jobs to pay for himself, while spending the rest of the time training.
Right now however he had just ran across the top of thirty miles of water, and even with his immense stamina, he was totally worn out. He finished his ramen with a contented sigh, paid the lady and left for the small three room cottage he'd rented for the year.
The next morning he completed his morning exercises. He'd mastered all the Chakra control exercises, that classed him in Konoha terms as being as good as the average Jonin, so instead he moved on to combinations of them, so for today he was walking on his hands on water, while balancing a large boulder on his feet.
The strength and fitness exercises he was doing were getting too easy for Naruto, so at the next opportunity he was going to get some weights to wear.
It was only ten O'clock in the morning by the time he was finished, so he decided to look around town. There were a small row of shops, selling food and general household items, but nothing that would be much use to his Shinobi training. A small bar stood at the far end of the street, but Naruto guessed it would be too early for anyone to be there, so decided to come back later.
The rest of the day was spent looking over the scrolls he'd taken from the Hokage's 'secret' hiding place. Naruto promised that the next time he was anywhere near Konoha he would disguise himself and take the old man out for some Ramen.
There were eight scrolls in total. The Scroll he'd stolen when he was still in the ninja academy listed all of Konoha's forbidden techniques, which were not to be taught to anyone without the express condition of the Hokage, if it were deemed to be safe. Kage-Bunshin was listed as an A-rank forbidden technique due to the amount of Chakra it required, and the level of control of the technique that was required to only summon one or two clones. Naruto guessed if it wasn't for the Kyuubi's Chakra, he would've dies when using the technique to capture Mizuki, as the technique wasn't limited to how much Chakra the user let out, it took it directly from their body. As all the Techniques were A/S-rank and he probably wouldn't have a very good chance of learning them, he put the scroll aside to be looked at, at a later date.
The next five scrolls all looked identical apart from the Kanji for each different element stamped across the front: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind and Lightening. However as Naruto could only guess at his own affirmatives, he would have to wait until he visited a shinobi shop to get the required paper that tested someone's elements.
The last scroll was by far the best and most interesting to Naruto however. Naruto couldn't believe his eyes as he opened the scroll labelled 'Hokage' and cast his eyes down the page. There were four lists, separated by the numbers one through four, with a short paragraph above each. Not believing his luck Naruto read the introduction to the first. 'Mokuton: Hijutsu Jukai Koutan'. Looking at the page as if it were made of solid gold, Naruto looked around him expecting to see an army of Konoha ninja's come to get the scroll back. He'd just read the Shodaime Hokage's original Jutsu. The Jutsu he'd used to create the dense forest covering half of Fire country. As the Jutsu needed a bloodline limit to use, Naruto didn't bother reading the short explanation of how to master the technique. Instead he continued down the page, past the Sution Jutsu's the Second Hokage created, past the variety of different techniques the old man had created till he reached the short passage from the Fourth Hokage:
Rasingan - Step 1: Swirl Chakra in hand to pop filled water balloon (emphasis rotation). Step 2: Similar techniques with rubber ball (emphasis Power). Step 3: Form chakra into spherical shape burst (emphasis control).
Hiraishin no Jutsu - Transports the user immediately to the location of a chosen seal, faster than the speed of light. Ask Jiraiya for training on how to use the seals.
Kuchiyose no Jutsu - Summoning Jutsu. Sign your name on the Summons Contract. It belongs to Hanzo an old acquaintance of Jiraiya's I met during the last great Shinobi war. He was very paranoid and gave me the contract to look after, letting me choose someone to sign the contract as payment.
'I leave my only two original Jutsu's and the Summoning Contract to my only son Uzimaki Naruto. To be given to him if I don't manage to kill the fox, when he grows up enough to understand my reasons. Tell him we love him and I'm sorry.
Underneth each of the techniques the require hand seals were listed and their rank, but as soon as he read the last line all thoughts of cool techniques left his mind: The fourth Hokage was his father. Naruto shook his head in confusion, it still wouldn't sink. Konoha's Yellow Flash was his father. He didn't know what he felt, confused, upset that no-one had told him, happy, proud, betrayed, and angry. Deciding none of these emotions or the relevations about his father would help his current training he quickly grabbed a sword summoned some clones and attacked. However busy he was, one thing kept circuling around his head. The man who'd sealed the Kyuubi in him was the fourth Hokage, his father.
"Hokage-sama, do you where Naruto is, I've checked his apartment, the ramen stand and the training ground he always uses. I found Sakura, and she said you haven't given them any missions recently due to Sasuke leaving."
"I'm sorry Iruka; Naruto won't be around for quite a while now."
"Where've you sent him, he's only a Genin, he shouldn't be doing any long term missions." Iruka spluttered.
"I wish I could say he's on a mission, but I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that. I'm sure if you'd gotten back from your backup mission sooner then he would've told you before he went."
"Went. Where!?" Iruka managed to grind out, his knuckles gripping the desk slowly turning white.
The Hokage signed, and braced himself. "Naruto's been gone for three days; he's been declared a Missing Nin…"
Naruto woke up to his fifth day on the island of Yokohama, quickly got dressed, grabbed the box of plastic ball and made his way out into the back garden of the tiny cottage he was renting. It had taken three days for one of the ten clones he'd assigned, to finally master the first stage and burst the water balloon. Now for the next stage.
Naruto drew his hands together into the all too familiar seal and created fifty Kage-Bunshin. He chucked the box of plastic balls to one, who made his way to one corner of the large garden with nineteen identical looking clones, and began practicing the technique.
"Remember you've got to focus on making it as powerful as possible, that's why I gave you guys so much Chakra." Naruto called over to them. The leader glanced over and nodded, then resumed his look of great concentration at the rubber ball.
"Boring basterds." Naruto muttered under his breath so as not to upset the clones. Last time that had happened, they'd turned on him and he'd had to dispel all of them at the same time giving him a killer headache for the rest of the day.
Naruto sent the next ten clones to continue his, what seemed like, never ending Chakra control training. He'd worked out that due to the Kyuubi's chackra being constantly added to his system, his control is constantly becomeing worse, so he'd decided to have ten clones working everyday on it to cancel the affects of the fox's chackra, and keep his control at the consistantly high level that most high ranking Jutsu's need.
"You lot try to figure out how to get that Sharingan working." Naruto passed one of the clones the Uchiha puppet and a handful of Kunai and Shuriken. "Anyone not doing anything, work on improving chakra strings."
Naruto smirked at the left over ten clones standing in front of him. "Bring it."
Twenty minutes later Naruto dispatched the last of the clones with a satisfying uppercut to the chin. He looked round briefly to check all of the clones were still busy working, then rolled up his sleeves and began to gather his remaining Chakra.
He flashed through a set of hand seals, bit his thumb and shouted "Kuchiyose no Jutsu." While slamming his hand into the ground.
"Aaagh. This one's smaller than last time!" Naruto shouted, glaring at the tiny newt like creature in front of him.
"Least this one's got legs." A clone added helpfully from the side. "Ooops…" It managed to add before it disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Danzu, I am not pleased. You promised me the boy, and I expect to get him. Until I get the boy, the invasion will be going ahead as planned, and you and your pathetic Root will be wiped out along with the rest of this accursed village." A man wearing a long black cloak with a hood hiding his features hissed at the other three people in the clearing with him. "You can find me the same way as before, but this time I expect twenty healthy test subjects and another fifty sacrifices for Manda."
"Yes Sir, I'm sorry for causing you any trouble." The war hawk grovelled. As soon as he had left, Danzu turned to the two elders standing next to him. "I want him found. Get as many Hunters on it as fast as possible. Approach every Jonin that isn't on a mission, tell them we'll give them bounty for an S-class Missing Nin if they find him and bring him back alive. I'll get everyone of my men on it at once." He snarled, then stormed of beck to his headquarters.
"So what exactly is so important 'bout this B-rank missing Nin that's worth enough money to buy me Dango for over two year."
"That's none of your business, but in the interest of capturing him fast, I will tell you Orochimaru is involved."
AN: Next update by 15th June at latest...promice :)