The Lazy Maelstrom
By The Obsidian Blade
Chapter seven-Naruto's real ties
Sasuke was pissed. No, he was pissed when Naruto showed that he was better than him during the fight with the demon brothers. Right now, he was beyond pissed. The blonde teen stayed with Kakashi and fought against the man known as Zabuza, an S-rank Nuke Nin. He mentally smirked at the idea of what happened; the blonde was most likely dead right now. It was only natural; after all, the blonde was gennin and only that. There was no way that he could possible beat the former Kiri Nin.
Right now, it was early morning and the Kage Bunshin that Naruto used was disposed of already. The moment they arrived, they were introduced to Tazuna's family. One was his twenty nine year old daughter named Tsunami. She was a nice lady but seemed a little pale but that could be due to the fact that they were in the mist a lot of the times. She had long dark blue hair and black eyes. Her son was someone that acted like they were going to die. Hell, right when they entered the house, he said that they would be killed and that no one could win against Gatou. He was short, about eight years old. He looked a lot like his mother but as in a boy form.
The house that they lived in was not big but it was not small either. It was about moderate size. It was where it was made that made it amazing. It was built on a dock over looking the ocean. The place screamed fisherman's home. Hell, almost every room in the house over looked the ocean.
Sasuke was about to step in the living room when he heard a knock at the front door. "Got it!" he heard Tsunami yell from the kitchen followed by the woman shuffling to the door. Tsunami opened the door to see Naruto and Kakashi behind it. "Naruto-kun, you're back," the woman said with a shocked expression, expecting him to be dead after what Sasuke said about his rank and the person the team was fighting. She looked to the side of the blonde teen and noticed Kakashi. "And this might be Kakashi if I am not mistaken. Nice to meet you I am Tsunami." Kakashi eye smiled at the woman before taking the woman's extended hand and shaking it. "Come on in."
Naruto lazily walked inside the house before looking around. He was lucky that he used a Kage Bunshin to get here. If he had not, then they would most likely still be at the inn that they had to use to stay the night at. The teenaged girls that just happened to be there would not leave him along at all. They were everywhere in that place and they kept on appearing out of nowhere. It scared him to no end, and he has seen some pretty scary shit. But he was glad that he was able to get out of the many situations that had his virginity in danger. He could only imagine what would happed if SHE figure out. Now that was a truly scar thought.
Sasuke looked at Naruto with anger in his eyes. How the hell could the blonde survive the attack of an S-rank Nuke Nin? That was not supposed to be possible at all. And yet the blonde stood in the living room with his hands in his pockets as if nothing was wrong. And he managed to save Kakashi-sensei as well. The blonde teen was going to die after his uses were accomplished. That would be something that the last Uchiha would accomplish.
Sakura walked into the kitchen to see Naruto, Kakashi, Sasuke, Tazuna's and the rest of his family sitting around the table eating. What scared the pink haired girl was that Naruto and Kakashi were there alive. She was not expecting to see them alive ever again. She really did not want to see the blonde alive either. She wanted him dead as all he did was get in the way of her Sasuke-kun. Kakashi was just someone who could teach her and her beloved. That was his only use to the team. "How are you two alive?" she stuttered out.
Naruto looked at the pink haired girl lazily before sighing. "It would be too much of a bother to explain it to you so I won't," he answered in a lazy tone of voice. The blonde sharingan user tilted his head back slightly, dodging the fist of an enraged Haruno. "You know that if you keep doing that you might end up dead?" the disguised kitsune asked.
Sakura was seeing red. The blonde teen practically insulted her and in front of Sasuke to. That was a crime of its own as well. She reared her fist back before attempting to smash the young blonde's head wide open. When that would happen, she would be dancing around his dead body, saying that no one had the right to insult her. Maybe she would get praise from Sasuke if she killed the blonde baka. The lone Uchiha had to hate the Nara teen as much as she did.
But her fist never connected to Naruto's face. Instead, the arm was caught by the wrist by a gloved hand. She followed the arm up to see Kakashi eye smiling at her. She found that smile kind of creepy and she was sure that everyone else felt that way as well. "Now, now Sakura-chan," the silver haired man said in a warning tone. "We need him alive. Besides, I got something to tell you guys. Zabuza is still alive."
Sakura and Sasuke looked at them surprised. The eldest sharingan user allowed the man to live?! What the hell was he thinking?! Was he high on something?! "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT ZABUZA IS ALIVE?!" Sakura yelled out. "WHAT DID YOU TWO LAZY, GOOD FOR NOTHING BAKAS DO?! LET HIM LIVE?!"
Sasuke looked at the two jounin level ninjas, trying to analyze something about them. His eyes widened slightly as he noticed something in Kakashi's eye. "That is exactly what you tow did isn't it?" he asked. All Naruto and Kakashi did was nod their head slightly. "What the hell were you two thinking? I always thought it was a ninjas job to kill people and yet here you two come and let our enemies live. I bet it's the dobe's fault as well. What did he do, slip and knocked himself unconscious making Zabuza laugh his ass of and let you two live?"
Kakashi sighed, trying to restrain himself from hurting the dark haired teen. Sasuke was really trying his patience. And that was something that he had a lot of. It was just the teen's coldness and how he belittled people that was the problem. That would be a problem in the near future. "That may be true, but it is also a ninja's job to make sure that the problem never arises again. Gatou works like this; he never shows his face unless he has to. If we took down Zabuza then, we would be having a man hunt on the man and by the time we find him, it might be too late. So we use Zabuza to lure him out. He never pays his men because he kills them and it is usually the spot that they did there work. Sometimes it is them at his base but that is beside the point. The point is that we let Zabuza-san live so we could hunt down Gatou." Kakashi looked out the window before looking back at his team with an eye smile. "The way I see it is that we have about a week before Zabuza comes back with help. So let's begin training. You three are to meet me outside in the near by forest."
Sakura and Sasuke looked at the man as if he was crazy. What the hell was training going to help them with, dieing? What they needed to do was to contact Konoha for help. That was what they should be doing, not training so they could die. Naruto just looked at the man before sighing and walking out of the house.
The team followed the man to a near by forest. The trees were tall and easy enough to walk up as Naruto noticed. He sighed at that. He did not like the thought of going through that again. But this time he counted himself lucky. This time there were not many ninjas hurling boulders at him as he had to dodge spikes that would randomly pop out of no where along the wall. That was one of the worst things he had ever experienced. He still had scars on his feet from where the spikes actually went through his feet.
Sakura looked around before questioning on what were they doing in a forest. Kakashi smiled at Sakura before answering. "We are going to climb trees." The reactions of the two gennin level ninjas were to be expected. It was a look of disappointment and of some shock. The shock was most likely due to the fact that they were going to climb trees when they already no how. The disappointment was probably due to the fact that it was not something cool like walking on water or something of the like. He looked at Naruto's face and sighed. At least he could have showed some kind of emotion instead of complete boredom. "The trick is to do it with out your hands like so." Kakashi walked towards the tree and started to walk up the tree.
Sasuke and Sakura looked at the man with wide eyes. He walked up a tree. He walked up a fucking tree and did not even use his hands. Something had to be wrong here. There was no way that he could walk up vertically. It went against the laws of physics to do that. Sakura just stared at the man before yelling at him. "How is learning how to climb a tree with just our legs going to make us stronger!"
Naruto sighed as he started to explain. He figured that if he explained it in full instead of Kakashi's half assed explanations that she would not ask for anyone to go deeper into it. "This teaches chakra control," the blonde voiced out, gaining odd looks from his two team mates. He sighed as he lazily explained what he meant by it. "When you are climbing a tree like that, you are using chakra. When people use a jutsu, the amount of chakra put into it. A lot of jutsus require that you be precise to make them work. That is what this teaches you. The amount to pull this off pretty small but you have to be exact. In other words, I would not be at the top of the tree if you mess up."
Kakashi eye smiled at the blonde teen. "That is exactly it Naruto-kun," he commented before throwing down two kunai, one in front of Sasuke and the other in front of Sakura. "I suggest that you two start running before you go up the tree. It helps when you start out. And use those kunai to mark your progress. Try aiming higher than the last slash mark."
Sasuke looked at Naruto smirking. "Looks like you don't get to do this dobe," he said with mirth. "Even the teacher thinks you are nothing but a hopeless cause."
Naruto eyed him lazily. "Already did this one so I don't need to go through this," the blonde informed the brooding teen making him go wide eyed. To prove his point Naruto simply just walked up a nearby tree before standing on a branch, right side up. "Can I go work on something else Kakashi-sensei?" he asked as he watched Kakashi jump form his branch and land on the dirt.
"Go ahead Naruto-kun," the ex-ANBU replied. "Just keep close to the house. We don't need you dead." Naruto nodded his head slightly before rushing off into the forest.
The blonde sighed as he landed in a clearing. Naruto looked around, noting that there was no one watching him. This would be the perfect chance to go through his jutsu that he has been trying to perfect. His right hand took off the fingerless glove on his left and the spiked band as well. Chakra exploded everywhere as he dropped them to the ground. His hands started to form a long chain of hand seals. When he was done he placed his hand on his left shoulder and focused chakra through his hand. The bandages unwrapped around his arm and began to wrap themselves around his torso. Black seals made themselves visible along his arm. His large canines bit a whole into his thumb before he swiped it down his arm, making the seals glow a dark purple.
Haku mended to Zabuza as he slept. If the blond was Yami then he and Kakashi would be the first two that needed to be taken out. They were just too damn strong to take on. The other two were weak though. She could tell that they only recently became gennin. What struck her as odd was that Yami was pretending to be a gennin for Konoha when he was a jounin from Iwa, their enemy. It just made no sense unless he was a spy. It would make sense as no one really got a good look at his face when he fought. The only reason that she and Zabuza knew about him was from rumors and the recent bingo book that the pilfered off of a clueless Hunter Nin.
Her eye narrowed as she felt Gatou come into the room. He was a short, stoutly man with white hair and sunglasses. He dressed as if he was always in a board meeting or something of the like. She could smell the slight amount of alcohol that he ingested earlier, making it kind of obvious that he was drinking earlier. Beside him was Waraji, a large tattooed man, and Zouri, a short man with a weird cap. The two of them were supposedly the best bodyguards in al of the hide out.
"So you even come back defeated," Gatou commented as he walked forward. He looked at both Zabuza and Haku. He mentally smirked at the sight of the young woman. She would do nicely as a young sex slave. He could not wait to label her as such. It was Zabuza that was the problem. He came back to the hideout defeated. He was supposed to be a demon and yet he allowed a group of nobodies beat him. "It looks like Kiri's ninjas are pretty pathetic. "You can even avenge your men? And you call yourself a Devil?"
Haku growled slightly as she watched the two bodyguards reach for their katanas hat they strapped to their left hip. She could tell that they were not the best of blades but they were probably in better condition than most. "Hold on for a second," Gatou ordered, using his hands to wave them down. He walked towards Zabuza with a shaky out reached hand. "There is no need to stay silent Zabuza."
Before his hand could reach Zabuza's mask of bandages, Haku gripped his wrist. "Don't you dare touch Zabuza-sama," she state with a growl. To emphasize her point, she squeezed it roughly. She could hear the cracking of bones as she did so. She turned her glance behind her, hearing the slight click of katanas unsheathe themselves before she let go and disappeared.
The two bodyguards ran to Haku before she disappeared. They did not even have time to stop when their own blades were grabbed and placed at their necks. They could feel the killing intent coming off the girl, freezing everything around them. This was unbelievable. No human could produce that much. No human should be able to. Yet the young woman that held their blade to their necks was radiating it off of her like a fountain. "You should not do that," she said in a bone chilling voice. "I am pissed off as it is without you two interfering."
Gatou looked around, trying to figure out a way out of this mess. He could feel everything and he was not liking it. "One more time!" he yelled. "IF you fail one more time you won't be welcome here anymore!" with that, he took his men and walked out of the room, hoping that he could get a drink to calm down his nerves. He could not place his finger it, but something frightened him about the situation he managed to get himself in.
"Haku, you did not have to do that," Zabuza voiced out.
Haku sighed as she took a seat next to him. "I know," she started. "But it is still too early to kill him. If we cause a commotion here, they will be after us again." She looked at Zabuza with a smile adorning her beautiful features. "We must be patient."
Zabuza looked at his 'tool' before closing his eyes ad chuckling softly. "I guess you're right," he said in a gruff voice. "For right now, let's figure out a way to take down the sharingan and the shadow." Haku smiled slightly as they started to talk about ways to take down the two jounin level Nin.
Naruto groaned as he walked inside the house. The week that they had was almost up and he could not get the damn jutsu down what so ever. The day after tomorrow was the day that he was expecting Zabuza to arrive along with his accomplice. And yet he could not get that jutsu down what so ever. He clenched his bandaged arm in slight pain. He sighed, night fall was coming and another useless day of accomplishing nothing had gone by. Well, he could not say that. He got the jutsu to affect a small area. It was getting it to affect a larger are that was the problem. The seals would not stick and would always go back to his arm painfully. The seals that he used for the jutsu were ultra sensitive. The spiked band was to draw chakra to it so he did not accidentally activate the jutsu and the bandages that were around his arm were so that nothing could contaminate them.
He pushed up his sunglasses and sighed. What he figured out last night was something that he did not want to remember. Gatou took away the word courage by killing one man. The man went by the name Kaiza and was the man that Inari looked up to like a father. The whole village loved him. Till one day, they came and got him. It angered the blonde that Gatou would kill a man just because he inspired people. The blonde would make sure that he died slowly and painfully.
Naruto walked into the kitchen, ignoring Sakura as she yelled at him for being late. He plopped himself down in a seat, saying thank you to Tsunami as she served the food. He was caught opening his mouth to put a fork fool of food into his mouth when Kakashi asked him a question.
Naruto sighed as he looked at the eldest sharingan wielder. "So how far I can only get it to affect small areas," the blonde answered. "It is keeping the seals to stick long enough that is the problem. It is not the seals themselves but probably the way the chakra is used. I will have to see what I can do about it later." Kakashi nodded his head before going back to his food. Naruto shook his head lazily as he could feel Sasuke's cold look on him.
The young Uchiha was glaring daggers at Naruto. The blonde Nara was making his own jutsu and Kakashi knew about it. He shook his head. There was no way that the blonde could ever make a decent jutsu. He was just too damn weak. He did not even get rooky of the year so how could he possibly make a decent jutsu.
Inari looked at Naruto as he finished his plate and set his head down on the table. Flashes of his father went through his head. It hurt so damn much. Why was this blonde bringing up those kinds of thoughts? Tears started to stream down the young boys face. Naruto lifted his head up in question. "Why do you guys even bother to try so hard?! No matter how hard you try, you will end up dead! No matter what glorious claims you make or how hard you work, when facing the strong, the weak will end up getting killed!"
Naruto sighed as he stared the kid in the eyes. "Whatever gaki," the blonde said. "If you're story is correct then Gatou should be dead right now. In the end, it is only the 'weak', as you put it, against the cowards."
"What the hell do you know!" Inari shouted out again. "You don't know anything about this country, yet you are being so nosy! What the hell do you know about me?! I'm different from you. You are always lazing about. You don't know how hard life can be!"
Naruto looked at the young boy before speaking. "No, you're wrong," Naruto started. "You are dead wrong. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever lived without a parent?" Inari looked at him with wide eyes as he spoke. Naruto's killing intent rose beyond comparison as he looked at the boy. "Answer gaki! Have you ever lived without?! If you have then you know what it's really like to live without anything. If you have had your mother than I would not be talking about how 'hard' life can be because I know exactly how unforgiving it could be!" Naruto sighed as he pushed himself up and started for the door. Before he left, he started to speak again. "Remember gaki, no matter how hard you have it, someone else has it even rougher than you."
Crystal was walking through the forest near Nami, cursing up a storm. She wore the standard brown and white Tsuchikage robes that hid her figure well. She looked about twenty years old and had no blemishes in sight. Her long hair was silver with multicolored strips running through it. Her eyes were a dazzling amethyst as she looked about the forest. She was currently cursing about how her fiancé was nowhere insight. He was supposed to meet her here and yet he was not there. Then here eyes trailed along Naruto before they lit up slightly. She forced her body to rush over to him, noticing that he was leaning against a tree with his eyes closed and his sunglasses off.
Naruto groaned as he opened his eyes. Last night was the night he finally accomplished the jutsu. He could now keep it in a large are. The problem now was the repercussions of the jutsu. Even though he only used the jutsu for a minute or so, it still hurt him to no end, mainly the left arm. It seemed that it caused muscle damage as well as damage to the chakra coils that went through his left arm. He was lucky that he had the Kyuubi or he would have lost his left arm due to immense pain. H noticed a chakra source run at him before groaning in pain as the source jumped onto him and claimed his lips as its own.
The kiss only lasted a few seconds before the source let his mouth go and looked at him, revealing that it was Crystal. "I have been looking everywhere for you Naru-koi," she purred out as she leaned her head into his neck and wrapped her arms around him. Naruto sighed as he did the same and started to whisper into her ears.
"You know that you are not supposed to be here."
She groaned slightly, knowing that he would say that. "I know," she said in a complaining voice. "But I could not help but come here. Besides most of the ninja are off on missions so I just had to accept this." She pushed her body up slightly so she could see his face when she spoke. "When are you coming back home darling. Konoha does not deserve you at all."
Naruto sighed. "The pill should wear off sometime tomorrow," Naruto said. "By then I should be back to my real age. I still have some documents to get before I go back home. I should be back in Iwa a month before the chuunin exams take place. After that, the second part of the plan will take place."
Crystal sighed as she looked at him. "I really don't like this plan love," she commented before getting up. "But I guess it's the best way to get some insider info. I just wish it would be faster."
Naruto sighed as he kissed her lightly on the lips. "I do to. I don't like being a gennin again. But soon I will be able to come back home and then the leaf will crumble shortly after. I just need to convince a few other people to help." The blonde sharingan user cringed slightly as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a purple scroll. "This is a list of possible people that I could get to join us."
Crystal took the small scroll before reading it. Her eyes widened slightly as she read the names. "Mitarashi Anko, Yuuhi Kurenai, Hatake Kakashi, damn these are some pretty strong ninjas," she commented before looking at Naruto with a bright smile. "Are you sure you can get them on our side."
Naruto nodded before handing her another scroll labeled guard duty. "This a listing of the guards, what shifts they work on, how much time it takes between each guard, and their behaviors. It is only the gate guards but it should work."
Crystal smiled even brighter before pecking him on the lips. "I got me the best man," she said allowed before diving down and claiming his lips as her own. She moaned softly as he wrapped his arms around her waist. Her tongue swept along his bottom lip, begging for entrance. He was only to glad to give it to her as he opened his mouth and had his tongue dart out to meet hers in combat.
There was no victor as the two lovers felt a chakra source rapidly come up to him. Crystal growled slightly as she reached for a kunai, only to be stopped by Naruto. "We do not need to expose ourselves this early," he explained. She sighed before getting off of him and helping the blonde to his feet, knowing that he already put on his shades. She was about to make her leave before Naruto gripped her arm. She looked back to question him only for him to kiss her briefly. "Be safe," he whispered into her ear. She nodded before taking off to the trees.
The lazy blonde sighed as he looked at Sasuke approach him, most likely in hopes to learn some new techniques. "Come on dobe, I was sent here to get you for breakfast so come on." Sasuke looked at him in the eyes. The young Uchiha needed to learn all of his techniques. The more he could learn the better of a chance he has of killing his older brother.
A/N Well, I will be updating erratically before I take down the poll I have in my profile. What that means is that I will be updating what ever comes to mind and what ever story till the polls are finished which will be Tuesday or Wednesday of pacific time since I live in California. So be prepared. Oh yeah, the paring still stands like this
Naruto-Kurenai-Crystal (OC)-X
I made a mistake when I said Anko was in. I meant to say that she was not. I would prefer someone from outside the village but an older woman would not be bad. The reason why I say that is because Naruto is lying about his age. How much is up to you guys to guess and me to tell you later.
And who saw Naruto actually going against Konoha happening at all. I know that he stated his dream was to be Hokage but I say no to that. And do not fret about my paring idea, I have plans for that.
And I forgot to do something last chapter
Jutsus use so far-
Mizurappa-no-jutsu (Violent Water Wave technique) - this is one of my personal favorite jutsus and this is one of Naruto's main water jutsus if Mar's Maelstrom is any indication. After you form the proper hand seals you will spit out a strong jet of water at your enemies. The jutsu is mainly offensive
Kage-Mane-no-jutsu (Shadow imitation technique) - this is a pretty cool jutsu really. The caster can have his shadow travel along any surface yet it can't jump form surface to surface like all shadows unless there is a way across. By using other shadows near by you can extend the reach, however your reach is limited to the surface are relevant to the shadow. Once the target is 'caught' they are frozen to do what the caster does like a mirror until the caster run out of chakra. The move was originally built to stall people hence why it is a supplementary jutsu but it has other uses
Furoamasutaa-no-Jutsu means either floor master jutsu or wall master jutsu. I got this idea of Legend of Zelda. In a lot of ways it is like floor master. The user can control where the hands go just by thinking it. The only problem is that the user is literally making his own shadows by focusing their chakra. If I get any shit about that idea, well, let's just say it involves four horses and four lengths of rope. When the hands grab a person it will be a lot like what would happen in Zelda except the starting point is anywhere the user is touching a solid object. Like a lot of shadows it cannot jump from solid object to solid object unless there is a way to get across there in its shadow form. In hand form it could touch the object but it will not be able to go any further. As you guys can see the 'hands' can combine to create a large hand or they could have hands extend from the 'arms' of the hand. That is some kind of surprise eh?
Kage-Bunshin-no-jutsu is a better version of Bunshin-no-jutsu. Unlike the Bunshin-no-jutsu this one is solid. When the clone dispels the user gains the information the clone has gained. The primary use for the jutsu is for infiltration or distraction as they are easy to dispel. The way that Naruto uses it is to either overwhelm the opponent or to even the playing field. The two problems with the jutsu are that it can exhaust the user's chakra and could give a major migraine if the information is gained improperly.
Suirou-no-jutsu means water prison jutsu. What it does is after you create the hand seal, you are able to trap and unsuspecting opponent into it. The prison basically forms itself out of water into a sphere which somehow does not drown the imprisoned. How I do not know. Any who, the jutsu does not allow contact to be broken which means that you have to keep contact at all time or the jutsu falls. That is why Zabuza used a clone to attack the group instead of himself.
Alright, there is the list of jutsus used so far. Any guesses on what Naruto's new jutsu does? If so go ahead and tell me. I will give you a couple of hints though. It revolves around nexus and summoning. There are your hints so for now REVIEW OR FACE THE WRATH OF MY MUTANT TEDDY BEARS WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO HUG YOU TILL YOU REVIEW! JUST LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW! THEY ARE RIGHT THERE!
