Disclaimer: Own Naruto? I don't believe I do. Not that I want to. It'd just be a waste of my awesome time. Also, I don't own Bleach, which as you will see in the chapter, I use some terms from, though I try to stay at least a little bit original. Ha! Yeah right! Orginality? That's a good one.
Author's Note: Yeah, I am aware that this is a little late coming out, but, life gets distracting sometimes. Anyway, I read the chapter I had written out before this one, and hated it. So today I rewrote it. And I still don't like how it turned out. Whatever, my opinion doesn't matter, though yours do. Real quick I need to point out some things.
One: For the energy question I asked, I decided to use Reiryoku and Reiatsu. It actually kind of fit here and with what I'm going to do. I want to thank everyone who gave their suggestions and apologize to those who didn't have their suggestion used.
Two: Yes, this chapter is short, though it explains somethings and leaves others open. And yes, I am aware that I left this chapter on a major cliffhanger. The Wave Arc should finish next chapter and chapter six should be the reunion between Naruto and his parents, but it won't be a happy one, you can count on that.
Three: I began to use Japanese honorifics in this chapter, even though I didn't use them in the first three chapters. I don't think I'll go change that though. Also, it sounds more badass when the techniques are done in romaji. I didn't want to, but I did anyways... so, yeah!
Four: About the pairing, since I had a couple reviewers asking about it, I am partial to Naruto/Kurenai, one of my favorites really. But, this fic isn't about romance so much as it is about drama, suspense, and action. I will say this though, you can expect some romance, but not a lot, as, if it's done wrong, can ruin the whole story.
Anyway, I'm done talking for now. Read the chapter and everything follows or not, and review, or not, though I hope you do, I like hearing from you guys. Now read!
The Devil's Blade
An Epic reimagining of The Demon's Blade
By RisenInfection
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Kill. She speaks to me. I can hear her more clearly now. Kill for me and I will love you. Her voice grows stronger every day. It's like she woke up inside me and is seeing everything I do. Sometimes she begs me to kill, to slaughter... and I do. I can't ignore her. She knows who I am and I must do. It's as if she's trying to strengthen me, trying to prepare for something. I don't know what and cannot fathom why such a beautiful voice would talk to one such as I, much less try to help me stain my soul more.
But it matters not. As long as that angelic voice is with me and I have her, I am content. She eases my burdened soul and sings me into dreams of the sun. Though, I wonder, does she care about like my Goddess does? Does she truly love me, like she does? Whatever, like before, as long as their within my soul, I am content. Though, her voice is always growing stronger.
Kill for me and I will love you forever, my container...
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Act I
The Devil Swordsman
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Chapter 4
Blade of the Maelstrom
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Naruto stood at the edge of the lake, his red eyes boring into Zabuza. Though the man hid most of his face in bandages, the blonde could still see the man's eyes. He watched as recognition and fear entered the man's ocular organs, setting in to a resolution to fight. Though he concentrated on the other man, he still heard the gasps and could feel as the two kunoichi behind him began to build their energy up, ready to attack. He didn't know if it was him they were going to assault or Zabuza, he didn't really care, though.
Raising his hand to the hilt of his nodachi, Naruto spoke to the women. "Kunoichi of the Leaf, you can relax if you want, I'm on your side," he drew his sword, the blade's edge gleaming as it was withdrawn from its sheath, "...For now." And in a barely noticeable blur, he was gone.
Zabuza's eyes widened when the manslayer disappeared, his eyes moving from right to left as he searched for the blonde man. Hearing a soft splash from his left, the man quickly drew his huge zanbatou and brought it crashing down toward the left side. He grinned beneath his bandages as the sharp ringing sound of steel hitting steel met his ears. He looked to find that he had blocked the samurai's initial strike.
Naruto nodded at the sight. "I'm impressed. You must have good reflexes to know where I would attack from. But will you be able to keep up this guard, or will you fall?" The blonde blurred away again, surprising Zabuza as his sword fell and sliced into the water without an object to hold it in place.
The black haired man hefted his sword onto his shoulder with a snarl and looked to his right to make sure that he still had his hand in the water prison that held Kakashi. He looked around again and tried to feel for the blonde bastard's chakra signature. "Looks like your savior ran away little Kono-ugh!"
He quickly withdrew his hand from the sphere of water as he tried to dodge Naruto's downward slash aimed at his hand, but was surprised as the blonde feinted, spun, his blade cutting through the water's surface, and planted his left foot into Zabuza's gut, launching the man back. Quickly finishing his spin, Naruto brought his sword up and slashed down, a blade made of water blasting from the tip of his nodachi.
Zabuza, despite his shock, managed to bring his sword up to block the blade of water, though he was blasted back even further by the attack. The man breathed heavily, glaring heatedly at the blonde swordsman. Then he started laughing as he switched sword hands. "I guess the rumors could be true. You really are the Oomizu no Majin, aren't you?"
The blonde closed his eyes and sighed softly. "Yeah, I am."
This proclamation drew a couple gasps and some curious and angry glares. Tazuna was one of the one's who glared angrily at the younger man. "You! You bastard! You killed the Wave's protectors! Gatou wouldn't have taken control if it wasn't for you! The Land of Waves wouldn't be like it is if it wasn't for you!"
"Don't you think I know that, old man?" Naruto spoke softly, those his words were heard by everyone. "I have my reasons for what I did."
Zabuza laughed at that as he set his zanbatou upon his shoulder. "You had a reason for wiping out a whole nation of samurai in one night? Why would a killer like you need a reason to start slashing people to bits? Don't you enjoy it? The terror in your victim's eyes right before you decapitate them... it's exhilarating."
A soft chuckle escaped Naruto's throat as he stared at the man. "Obviously, though we are both killers, you and I have a different reason to kill. You enjoy killing others while I kill out of necessity, so that I may still exist in this world and if fools like you want to throw their lives away, then so be it. I will all to gladly stoke my own flame of life by stomping out your own." With that, Naruto dashed at Zabuza, his intent to kill clearly seen in his eyes.
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Kakashi panted slightly as he trudged up to the other jounin, his Sharingan eye still out. He looked back at the fight, watching as the two men seemingly flew at the other as their swords clashed again and again, though it seemed that Zabuza was beginning to tire. With his Sharingan, he could see Zabuza's chakra, the energy being molded primarily in his legs and arms, probably to help with the strain of blocking the Devil's rapid but fierce attacks.
Focusing on the blond however was a completely different story. Though he could see and read the man's every movement, there was no information coming to him, which meant he couldn't copy the blonde's sword style. But that wasn't the biggest shocker to him. No, what was completely shocking was that the man had absolutely no chakra output or any chakra movement whatsoever. That couldn't be right, nothing could live without chakra. Unfortunately, he had never heard of the energy true samurai used and had just figured that they used chakra like ninja.
"Whoa!" Kakashi was shocked from his reverie by Anko who watched intently as the black garbed blonde blasted more blades of water at Zabuza, who dodged and bum rushed the samurai. "He looks like a taller, darker, hotter Fourth. You think his face looks as handsome as the Hokage's, eh Kurenai-chan?"
The woman in question blushed slightly but composed herself. "Get your mind out of the gutter Anko. We have a mission, remember? And it isn't to sleep with the first man that turns you on."
Anko pouted like a kicked puppy. "Aw, you're no fun."
"Um, Kakashi-sensei?" Natsuko asked hesitantly, both afraid and excited as she watched the two swordsmen battle. "Did you know that blonde guy was going to be here?"
Kakashi nodded as he covered his left eye. "Yes, I did. The Hokage warned me that he may or may not show up. I was actually hoping that he wouldn't though. But, we should just be thankful he's on our side, even if it's just for the moment."
Natsuko nodded, happily accepting the grey haired man's answer. An ally was an ally, no matter who it was, or that was what her father had always taught her. But one of the genin wasn't satisfied with the answer as Sasuke spoke up. "Why would the Hokage care about a lowly samurai, their beneath us ninja, aren't they?"
The three jounin looked at the boy oddly, wondering if he'd been watching the fight at all. Kurenai decided to educate the boy. "You can't judge a book by its cover, Sasuke. You need to look underneath the underneath. For all we know about him, which is very little, he could be the strongest being on the face of the earth. But since we know so little, we have to adapt and learn from what we see of him. And from the looks of it, he could take each and every one of us on, including Zabuza, and still kill us all."
Nodding, Kakashi decided to add something to Kurenai's statement as he watched the swordsmen lock blades once more. "If I judged every opponent I'd ever fought at face value, I'd be dead right now. There isn't much known about samurai, just that they hold similar beliefs to us, though they hold honor and the blade in much higher regards than we ninja do."
"What do you mean by that Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura finally spoke up, her mystified expression from watching the battle turned to one of puzzlement.
"It's simple: We ninja see swords and other weapons as tools to be used to get the job done. But samurai are different. They hold their weapon of choice in the highest regard, treating it as if it had a soul of its own. Daimyo see them as true soldiers while they see us as just the tools we use," Kakashi answered, his right eye 'smiling' at his genin.
The two girls accepted the answer while Sasuke just seethed. 'I will challenge and defeat him to prove I am the strongest. Then, I will kill Him.'
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Zabuza breathed in hard as he was pushed back by Naruto, who just stood there, staring at the shinobi. Unseen, Zabuza had a large grin plastered on his face. This was not only his toughest battle to date, but it was his most exciting as well. And the thought of actually killing the blonde devil, he'd make history.
Breaking from his thoughts, Zabuza quickly dodged another blade of water by jumping to the side. Placing his zanbatou on his back, the ninja exclaimed. "Playtimes over litte devil!" And began to swiftly form a long chain of hand seals. Naruto just watched the man curiously, as he had only seen one or two ninjutsu in his lifetime.
Zabuza landed on the last seal, Bird, and called out his attack as multiple pillars of water began to rise into the air around him. "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" The water pillars began form and take the shape of five dragons made completely out of water. The dragons gave a pseudo roar and blasted towards Naruto, who didn't seem very impressed.
Two of the dragons went towards the blonde's flanks as the other three began to spiral around each other and formed into a bigger dragon. Before all three crashed into him, Naruto let out an angry sigh. "I hate dragons."
The ex-Mist ninja laughed manically as the water dragons exploded into a torrent of water upon hitting the Devil. "Hahahahahahahahaha! He wasn't ever a match for a...!" Zabuza grew silent at the spectacle before him.
Standing where he had been the whole time was Naruto, his sword held in a one handed hanging guard. The excess water was caught in the cyclonic windstorm spiraling around the blonde. "Tensho-ryuu! Godai no Jutsu! Fuuton: Teikiatsu no Tate!" With the whispered words, the cyclone settled, showing that the blonde wasn't even wet, much less damaged.
Every observer had the same thought. 'He was able to stop the technique!'
Zabuza shook his head, trying desperately to reassure himself that it wasn't true. Snarling, he yelled, "Y-You decimated my jutsu! I don't know how your samurai arts work, but my next technique is going to destroy you!" He then began to rapidly form hand seals again.
Naruto's eyes narrowed. He brought his blade down in front of his body, the edge parallel to the water's surface. "You're too slow."
Zabuza was caught off guard by the statement. Looking at the blonde, he felt his eyes widen on their own. Both wind and water were spiraling in a circle around a sphere of whirling wind that sat at the tip of the blonde's nodachi. "What is that? Is that a jutsu?"
The blonde shook his head. "This is one of the more mediocre techniques learned in my sword style, Tensho-ryuu. Now, are you ready to meet the king of hell?"
Zabuza chuckled as he finished the chain of hand seals, water beginning to spiral before him. "After you."
Naruto was impassive as a red light was emitted from his fully charged attack. "So be it. Tensho-ryuu! Godai no Jutsu! Fuuton: Senpuudou!"
A spiraling cyclone of wind blasted from the sphere, aimed solely at Zabuza, whose technique dissipated as his concentration was lost. The tunnel-like twister impacted with the missing-nin, who had been rooted to his spot by a strange pressure bearing down on his body, and blasted him through several trees, small blades of wind cutting into the black haired man's body.
The man finally crashed into the fourth tree as the wind's force turned into a gentle breeze. Zabuza looked to find the Devil of the Flood already standing over him, the small, shallow cuts all along his body beginning to bleed. Zabuza laughed to himself, blood staining his bandages. "You really are him, huh? It was an honor to fight a true swordsman like you."
Naruto just stared at the man for a moment. "In two days we'll talk again, Demon of the Mist. Until then, try not to strain yourself too much. And you should feel honored: you're the second person who I have spared."
Eyes widened, Zabuza was about to ask what the blonde was talking about when two objects pierced the side of his neck, making him topple over to his left, 'dead'.
A teenage ninja wearing baggy clothing and a Mist Hunter Ninja mask landed next to the corpse from a body flicker just as the Konoha ninja made their way over to the newly made clearing. "Thank you samurai-san for your assisstance, I couldn't have killed him if hadn't been for your technique."
Naruto just looked at ninja before turning. "Whatever, just go before the others come."
The hunter-nin seemed confused before nodding in understanding as the Leaf ninja showed up. "Thank you." And then he was gone in a swirl of mist and leaves.
"Excuse me, Majin-san? Did you let that Kiri ninja take the body?" Kurenai asked as she spotted the blonde.
Red eyes stared into Kurenai's own intently and the woman felt as if the man was staring straight into her soul as he addressed her. "Yes I did kunoichi-san. If I did something wrong, I apologize. I don't know how you ninja handle deaths, but we samurai usually try to preserve the body so their soul can be sent to Yomi."
Kakashi rubbed his head as he looked between the two sets of red eyes. "Um, we usually burn the body upon death, Majin-san, for security issues."
"Naruto," the blonde stated, shocking the Leaf ninja. "My name is Naruto, not Majin."
Kakashi felt his eye widen at the name. 'Could it be? He has blonde hair like sensei. I'll try find out later.'
Tazuna wasn't as shocked as he was angry. "Why are you here, monster?"
"Your daughter sent me, old man," Naruto answered. "She said she'd do anything if I protected you and your family."
"Why you despicable little freak!" Tazuna shouted, surprising the others with his anger. "And what did you ask for, huh? Her body, so you could use her than kill us all?" The old man suddenly found the blonde's blade at his throat.
Naruto's eyes were as hard as stone as he peered at the elderly man. "I would rather kill myself than take advantage of a woman in a state of need and helplessness." He lifted his sword and sheathed it. "All I asked for was shelter and food, but you have final say, since it is your life on the line. If your wish is for me to leave, then I shall."
The masked man turned and began to walk away. Tazuna, though still angry and bitter at the blonde's past transgressions, decided to see reason. "I-If you need a place to stay, you're welcome in my home, as long as you are going to be protecting me." He turned to the ninja. "If I have him protecting me, I don't think I'll need your services anymore."
Before Kakashi could deny the request to abort, Anko spoke up. "Nope, not happening, ojisan. We've come too far to turn back now."
Kakashi nodded. "Anko is right Tazuna-san, we've come too far. Despite that though, you are still going to have to pay Konoha for a A-Ranked mission upon completion."
"A-Rank?" Tazuna and Kakashi's genin yelled at the same time, well Sakura and Natsuko at least did while Sasuke kept staring angrily at the masked man who only stared back impassively. "I can't pay for an A-Rank mission!" Tazuna finished heatedly.
A hand was placed on the bridge builder's shoulder. The man looked to find Naruto there. "You can keep your money, Tazuna-san, I'll pay them for you."
Tazuna's eyes widened. "Y-You? What do you gain from paying them?"
"Nothing," Naruto stated simply. He looked up to the sky for a moment. "We should leave for your home, Tazuna-san. It'll be dark soon."
The old bridge builder nodded his head. "Yeah, right. Come on, all of you, my house is only a kilometer or so from here."
The Leaf ninja nodded and followed after the man, Naruto taking up the rear. Outwardly he was disinterested in anything, though inwardly, he was on full alert as he felt a foreign energy signature he had only felt once before. 'I don't know who you are, but I know who you're working for. And that gives more than enough reason to kill you.'
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Tazuna's Home
Three Hours Later
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Later that evening, Kakashi announced to his genin that he was going begin their training the next day as they sat at a dining table, waiting for Tazuna's daughter, Tsunami, the one who had hired Naruto, to finish cooking supper, which the woman was all too pleased to do.
Once their meals were placed in front of them, the ten, including Inari, Tsunami's son, began to eat. Noticing that Naruto wasn't eating, Tsunami spoke up. "Naruto-san, are you not hungry?"
Her statement was answered by the blonde's stomach growling, at which he glared and whispered 'traitor'. He sighed. "No, Tsunami-san, I am, and this looks good, but I don't really like taking off my mask in front of others."
Anko snorted up some tea at the man's statement. "You can take on and defeat a trained killer, but you're afraid to take off your mask? That has to be the lamest fear ever." The woman found two pairs of eyes glaring at her. "What?"
"Be nice, Anko," Kurenai said as she watched her friend clean herself up. "You should remember to do unto others as you would have them do unto you." She turned to the blonde man. "I'm sure Anko-chan didn't mean any disrespect to you Naruto-san."
"It's alright, I know what she meant, Yuuhi-san," Naruto spoke quietly. He reached up to his mask and began to untie the bandages that kept it in place. The group watched with bated breath as Naruto grasped the mask and began to remove it. They all exhaled as he set his mask down on the table.
'It is him! It's sensei's son, Uzumaki Naruto!' Kakashi thought, his one eye showing his utter shock.
"Damn! He is hotter than the Hokage!" Anko exclaimed, giggling like a schoolgirl on crack. Kurenai couldn't help but agree with her friend, though her enthusiasm was in her blush that almost matched her eyes.
Sakura and Natsuko both thought he was rather handsome, though both kept it to themselves. Sakura didn't say anything because it would be traitorous to her Sasuke-kun and Natsuko didn't because the man looked a lot like her father.
"You're very handsome Naruto-san," Tsunami told the young man with a smile. Inari, gave her a dark, dirty look before excusing himself and running out of the room.
Tazuna just chortled drunkenly while Sasuke brooded.
Naruto's hair slightly shadowed his half-lidded red eyes and complemented his tanned skin. His face was slightly angular with no trace of fat at all and seemed aristocratic, though the three whisker-like scars on each cheek made the man look slightly animalistic.
"Naruto-san," Kakashi asked, "just how old are you?"
The blonde looked at the jounin, gazing intently into his singular eye. "I will turn twenty this October, Hatake-san, why do you ask?"
"Oh, I was just curious, that's all," Kakashi said, waving his hand. Inwardly though, he was in a panic. 'What should I do? Should I ask his surname? Should I tell Natsuko that this is her brother? Should I send word to Minato-sensei and tell him I found his son? Nah, I'd rather see the look on his face, though he'll probably be sadder than anything to learn his son is a coldblooded killer.'
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An hour later found Naruto sitting at the dining table with the three jounin, his mask still off and his sword resting on his left shoulder and chest. His eyes were closed as he meditated, though he could still hear the three discussing something about him quietly. Though it didn't seem like he was paying attention, he was actually listening intently.
"He what?" Anko quietly exclaimed. "How could he still be living if he doesn't have any chakra? I thought chakra was a human's life energy or something."
"I don't know Anko, it's hard to explain," Kakashi whispered.
Anko gained a miffed expression. "Well, you could damn well try."
The grey haired man sighed. "When I looked at him with the Sharingan, I couldn't copy any of his movements even though I could read and see what he was doing as clear as day. And when I tried to look for chakra movement, there just wasn't any there. Absolutely no chakra at all, though, there seemed to be a black cloud-like substance. It could be that his chakra is hidden and the cloud was a seal keeping me from copying him. Sensei does it to me all the time."
"Perhaps we should ask a Hyuuga to look at him, or we could try asking him," Kurenai suggested, looking towards the blonde.
"You should have done that before you started talking about me. You never know, I might've told you something," Naruto spoke, though he still hadn't opened his eyes or even faced them.
Kakashi raised his only eyebrow. "Okay, Naruto-san, would you care to explain to us why you don't seem to have any chakra and the Sharingan can't copy any of your techniques."
Naruto stared at the man. "You ninja are foolish and ignorant. You think chakra is the only energy in the world and that you are the only ones capable of fighting because you know how to use it."
Anko pouted in thought. "So, what kind of energy do you use, Naruto-kun?"
The man stared at her, confused as to when they were on such familiar terms. He quickly composed himself and began to explain his power. "I, like all the true samurai before me, use a power called 'reiryoku', or Spirit Power. I can use this power in a different number of ways like walking on water or manipulating the elements. I can also use it to increase my speed in a technique called Sokudo."
"How did you acquire this energy and lose your chakra?" Kurenai asked, puzzled.
Sighing, Naruto continued. "Through a process called Henkan, a human's chakra, an energy we're all born with, is converted to reiryoku. The Henkan is a painful process as it rips the body's chakra coils apart and destroys all remnants of it. It takes three years and once complete, the body and soul will expel any remaining chakra as 'reiatsu', or Spirit Pressure, the physical form of one's reiryoku."
A light bulb seemed to go on over Kurenai's head. "So that was what that weight I felt when you used that one technique was then."
Naruto stared into her eyes once more. "You are spiritually aware then."
"Hmm? What do you mean by that Naruto-san?" Kakashi asked, obviously confused.
"Every being, spiritually aware or not, can see and feel a samurai's reiatsu if he uses enough reiryoku. But I was only using a miniscule amount in my Senpuudou to where no one should've felt my reiatsu except Zabuza, who I was focusing my reiatsu on to keep him still for a moment," Naruto explained. He looked to Kurenai again. "If you are spiritually aware, then that means you have the potential to go through Henkan and gain reiryoku. But I doubt you would want to, though. You'd lose all your chakra based techniques and would have to learn how to use a weapon instead."
Naruto sighed and stood, picking up his mask as he did so. "I don't feel like explaining anything else. I'm going to go to bed now. Sleep well, Leaf Jounin." And then he left, walking up the stairs towards his room.
A few minutes later Kurenai and Anko turned towards Kakashi. "What do you make of him, Kakashi?" Kurenai asked.
The man rubbed his masked chin in thought. "I don't really know at the moment, though I say we should keep an eye on him."
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Time/Place Unknown
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A short, pudgy, pig-like dressed in a business suit sat in an expensive throne like chair, nursing a broken arm. "Zabuza's bitch will pay, I'll make sure of it," the man, Gatou, snarled. His sunglasses were thrown haphazardly on his expensive mahogany desk, right next to a picture of a man dressed in black wielding a long sword.
Just as Gatou began thinking of all the nasty things he was going to do the teenaged girl, his office doors opened. A man dressed in red and white walked through, his dark eyes locked on the small, rich man. "You're Gatou, right?"
"What of it?" Gatou snapped, clearly angry.
"You would do well to watch your tone with me," the stranger warned. Though his head and face were hidden from view, Gatou could literally feel the man's anger in the air. Plus, the giant sword on the man's back scared him a little.
Gatou gulped down his fear and eyed the man. "What do you want? Unless you're here to kill someone for me, I don't have any time for an unannounced drop-in."
The man's aura seemed to lighten. "Actually, I am here to kill someone, but not for you. My master, a god to you humans, wishes for a blonde man dressed in black to be killed, so the man cannot interfere with his plans, plus I have own vendetta against him. I heard he was last seen here in the Land of Waves, and I thought you, being the tyrant you are, would know if this was true. So, do you?"
A cruel smirk made its way onto Gatou's face. "Yes, he has been sighted. He's staying with a man named Tazuna and protecting the man alongside a bunch of Konoha ninja. But, don't go and kill him yet."
"Oh, you have a plan then?" The man asked, seemingly excited.
Gatou chuckled almost manically. "Why yes, of course I do, I am a tyrant, after all. But before I tell you it, I want to know your name."
The stranger's aura became palpable to Gatou, who found his breathing to become hard and painful. A blood red glow shone from the stranger as his clothes were ruffled in a supernatural wind. "Me? I... am Genjitsu Akihiro, the Glorious Prince of the Sun..."
Translation: Henkan - Conversion. In this fiction, Henkan, or Conversion, is the process samurai go through to convert their chakra to reiryoku. The process takes three years to complete and is extremely painful.
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Techniques: (Been awhile since I've done this, hasn't it?)
Name:Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu! (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!)
Type: B-Rank, Offensive, All Ranges
User(s): Momochi Zabuza (Known)
Description: This technique creates a giant dragon made of water, which is then sent flying to crush the opponent. Drawbacks are that the technique must be used in or near a large body of water and the user must complete a chain of 42 hand seals to use, the most hand seals used for a singular jutsu.
Name: Tensho-ryuu! Godai no Jutsu! Fuuton: Teikiatsu no Tate! (Piercing Heaven Style! Art of the Five Elements! Wind Release: Cyclone Shield!)
Type: C-Rank, Defensive
User(s): Uzumaki Naruto (Known)
Description: This technique, used within the unique and ancient sword style Tensho-ryuu, creates a cyclone of wind around the user, defending against most attacks, though susceptible to fire techniques unless used in conjunction with another fire technique or used on or with water. The only known user is Uzumaki Naruto, the last practitioner of the Piercing Heaven sword style.
Name: Tensho-ryuu! Godai no Jutsu! Fuuton: Senpuudou! (Piercing Heaven Style! Art of the Five Elements! Wind Release: Whirlwind Tunnel!)
Type: B-Rank, Offensive, All Ranges
User(s): Uzumaki Naruto (Known)
Description: This technique, used within the unique and ancient sword style Tensho-ryuu, creates a spiraling circle of wind and any caught within around a sphere of air and reiatsu, which rest on the tip of the users blade. Once fully charged, the users blasts a tunnel of small, spiraling blades at the target. The technique cannot change direction once used and cannot be stopped until the user wishes. Use of fire techniques against the attack is highly advised, as it will only make the attack more dangerous. The technique can only be fired from the tip of a blade. The now only known user is Uzumaki Naruto, the last practitioner of the Piercing Heaven sword style.
Name: Sokudo (Speed)
Type: D-Rank, Supplementary
User(s): Uzumaki Naruto (Known)
Desription: This techinique allows the user to move at accelerated speeds. All samurai learn this technique upon the completion of the Henkan. Uzumaki Naruto, the Devil of the Flood, has increased his ability to use Sokudo to where he can effortlessly move at high subsonic speeds.
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Author's Note: You done reading all that? Good! I'll make this last part quick. I'm sorry, again, I got this out late, I lost track of time. Anyway, something big is about to go down, obviously. Like I said, next chapter should finish the Wave story arc and the Reunion and Chuunin Exam arcs should begin in the sixth chapter. And now a couple more things.
One: I should of said this in the beginning A/N, but I didn't. When she is in italics, Naruto is referring to his sword, which will be named later in the fic. When she is in bold italics, Naruto is referring, to... well... you should have guessed it already. And if you haven't, I'm not going to tell you.
Two: I should have said this in Chapter 1. Naruto's clothes are almost exactly like Ichigo's Bankai form from Bleach, but you had probably guessed that already. The only difference is that Naruto's obi is red, where as Ichigo's is white. Hope that clears up some confusion.
Three: The ages of the characters in this fic are obviously going to be different than canon, so I'll list all the ages of known characters as of chapter three, which started in canon:
Naruto: 19 (About 7-8 years older than canon)
Minato: 39 (This is guessed at)
Kakashi: 26
Kurenai: 24 (Is three years younger than canon)
Anko: 23
Natsuko: 11-12 (Same as canon Naruto)
Sasuke: 13
Sakura: 12-13
Akihiro (OC): 29
That's it I'm out of here.
Until next time, RisenInfection, out