Corrupted Realities

Chapter Five: Mizu's Civil War

AN: Alright so, it is Christmas Eve, my birthday, and here is my fifth installment of my story Corrupted Realities. My poll for continuing the full time, or working on another story as well is coming to a close in the next few days, but it looks to be in favor of me just continuing this for now, and I am fine with that, I will probably come back to the other story at another time, maybe after I am firmly half way through with this story. Sound good? Well, this will be my last update for a few days, so Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and enjoy time with your family.

Isao and Naruto had been on the road for more than two weeks, taking a leisurely walking pace to Mizu, Isao taking time to teach Naruto a few things, mainly talking about ninja battle history, the Uzumaki clan history, how it tied into Uzushio, and the Uzumaki's place as the head of Uzushio.

Naruto soaked all of the knowledge up, paying full attention to Isao as they walked, often tripping over rocks as they walked, his attention completely focused, his thoughts occupied. Naruto was also learning to throw kunai and shurukin when they made camp, quickly learning the form to throw them, and getting all the practice he could when they were paused for camp.

When they were traveling, and Isao wasn't teaching Naruto history, Naruto was working on the leaf floating exercise as they walked, Naruto having very poor progress with it. When Naruto had started to get down about it, Isao had quickly told Naruto that Uzumaki often had large chakra pools, and that his poor chakra control would just have to be a lot of hard work, but his large chakra reserves would be much more useful once he learned large scale jutsu, and he would have much more stamina in a fight than other ninja.

In two weeks, Isao had told Naruto about the Uzumaki clan, detailing how they were the founders of Uzushio, how they led the village, and had always held close ties to Konoha, which was why the Uzumaki clan swirl was on the uniforms of Konoha Shinobi, as a symbol of their friendship after most of the Uzumaki had been hunted down.

Isao also explained to Naruto that their clan had been feared and hunted for their excellent grasp of sealing arts, surpassing all others by far, their knowledge growing and expanding hugely before the start of the Third Great Shinobi War, and that Iwa and Tsuchi heard of it, and feared the Uzumaki's potential to become a major threat to them as the war went on, and so they massed their troops and launched a surprise attack on the village, later hunting down any and all survivors.

At that, Isao had broken down into tears, tearfully telling Naruto how he was away on a high priority scouting mission into Iwa territory alone, to find most of Iwa's troops absent, and a trail leading back to Uzushio. He had raced back to his home; way too late to even attack the Iwa forces at the village, eywere long gone back to their own country.

Here, Isao told how he had returned to his own home in the village to find that his wife dead, his daughter missing. He had searched the village center, taking many of the hidden Uzumaki scrolls of sealing that were hidden there, hidden behind blood seals so only the Uzumaki could ever get them.

Naruto had asked where those scrolls were now, and Isao told them that he kept them in a sealing scroll hidden in an old Uzumaki clan hideout outside of Tanzaku Gai, and that was why Isao had set up shop there, so he was close by at all times.

Isao then went on to tell about how immediately after leaving Uzushio, he was ambushed by a troop of ten Iwa hunter nin sitting outside of the city, catching Uzumaki that returned home. He didn't detail the fight, only that he had been horribly enraged, destroying the hunter Nin in a fit of rage, finding that those hunter nin alone had caught and killed a dozen Uzumaki that had tried to return home.

After realizing that Iwa would hunt him and kill him if he went to Konoha, he knew he had to stay hidden, so he went to the only country not involved in the war, Mizu. There he hid out from Iwa and Tsuchi, his old friend Ao protecting him, giving him a place to stay and grieve.

And that is where Isao and Naruto were currently, walking to a rendezvous point that Ao had told him he and his allies were camped out at currently, as they hid from the Yondaime Mizukage led a hunt to kill all the bloodline clans in Mizu, convincing the common people that bloodlines were demonic powers, a taint from the evil powers.

Isao and Naruto were roughly two hundred more yards from where Ao had told Isao to be, walking through a think, foggy forest, when Isao called for Naruto to stop, as four shapes emerged from the fog ahead of them, seeming to melt from the fog and trees, materializing before them like ghosts.

They all wore bandannas over the bottom halves of their faces, but the seeming leader of them stepped forward, his face uncovered, and an eye patch covering his right eye, the veins bulging around the covered eye. He had electric blue hair sticking up in a faux hawk.

Isao smiled wide as he approached, "Ao dude it is great to see you!" Isao reached his arm out to Ao, who took his hand as they shook hands.

Ao turned to look at Naruto, taking in the red hair, green eyes, and facial features. Ao's visible eye widened, "Is this a son of yours Isao?"

Isao turned at Naruto, smiling, "He isn't my son Ao, but he is my relative, Naruto Uzumaki, he was in Konoha, and so I couldn't just let him stay there, there were other circumstances that led me to take him out of Konoha."

Ao nodded,
As long as you can look after him yourself, we won't be able to look after him all the time when things get hairy."

Isao nodded as well, "Yes I realized that he will not be very safe while we are here, but I owe it to you to help you out, after all you have done for me."

Ao smiled at that, "Yes and I am very grateful for your help here, we are in a really tight spot against the Yondaime and his fanatical supporters. I don't know why he is so against bloodlines now, Yagura is only a teenager, yet he is the Yondaime Mizukage and all the people follow him blindly. He is the Jinchuruki of the Yonbi, and he is immensely stronger than anyone but our leader Mei, he has killed hundreds of bloodline users, including being the leader of the group that killed the entire Kaguya clan, which was a huge lose to our chances."

Isao's eyes widened at that, "The entire Kaguya clan? That is unbelievable that any group of people, or even one person in particular, could even do that to such a ridiculously strong clan."

Ao nodded, "Yagura is a monster, he needs to be taken down, but the only person we have that can take him down is Mei, but she is too valuable to send to the front lines."

Isao agreed, "Yes well I think I could take down a Jinchuruki if I needed to."

Ao laughed at that, "You could a hell of a lot more than that my friend, you could take on three jinchuruki with your speed, and we will greatly appreciate your help." Ao turned back to his men, "And now we can head off to the camp, wouldn't do to keep Mei waiting would it?"

Isao waved over Naruto, who walked over, nodding to Ao, who extended his hand out to Naruto. Naruto took Ao's hand, "It is nice to meet you Ao, good to meet someone who helped out Isao, which makes you cool in my books."

Ao laughed, walking towards his allies as Isao and Naruto followed them back to their camp.

*****Timeskip*****

Isao walked into the rebel's camp, heading straight to Mei's tent to report the success of his last mission. It had been four months now that Isao and Naruto had been in Mizu, Isao working for the rebel's cause to rid Mizu of the obviously insane Yagura, even Yagura's closest war councilors were said to be concerned, noticing that Yagura was completely not himself.

In between his missions for Mizu, Isao had been training Naruto in basically anything and everything that he could. Naruto had learned the leaf floating exercise, no big task, but then he had utterly failed at creating a clone, a henge, but he could do the small fire jutsu to create a small enough flame to make a campfire. Isao was not even worried about Naruto being unable to make a clone, or perform henge, as his Uzumaki boosted chakra, with the Kyuubi's chakra would blow any small scale, low chakra jutsu way out of proportion.

Isao had also proudly introduced Naruto into sealing, starting small with having Naruto learn to write a sealing scroll from memory, explain the basis behind the sealing scroll, and detail exactly how it was first created. Naruto knew how much it meant for Isao to teach Naruto sealing, as it was what made the Uzumaki famous, and feared. So Naruto focused as much as he could into sealing, declaring to Isao that he would be the best sealing master of all time, a proud goal for the future of the Uzumaki clan.

Which also lead Isao into his own personal dilemma. The Uzumaki clan way back in the beginning of the clan had set a rule, called the Clan Restoration Act, declaring that if the Uzumaki clan fell below three members, that any surviving Uzumaki male would have to take on at least four wives, and have a minimum of four male sons. Of course that meant he and Naruto would have to take four wives each, which was something he was definitely putting off, as he had already had a wife, and a daughter.

Cutting out of his thoughts, Isao walked into the war council's tent, ducking his head through the entry flap. In the room, was Mei, Ao, Kumara, the espionage division's leader, Onako, leader of the frontal assault team, and Naruto sitting in a chair in the furthest corner.

Naruto split a smile at seeing Isao, jumping from his seat and running to hug Isao. Naruto jumped up into Isao's arms, Isao speaking softly in Naruto's ear, "Hey buddy I'm back, sorry for being gone for a week."

Naruto laughed softly, "It's alright, and Mei is great company, even if she is sixteen."

Looking over at the sixteen year old leader of the rebel's forces, Mei Terumi, one of the only survivors of her clan when Yagura had first attacked blood line clans, the Terumi were the second clan hit, caught off guard as their leader led men against them. She was the holder of two bloodlines, one gave her control over boiling hot mist, and control over lava as well. It was a very deadly combination, and as such, she had been trained as a ninja her whole life.

Mei had looked on as Isao and Naruto had hugged, speaking when they were finished, "So how was your mission to take out that supply house?" Mei was referring to Isao's prior mission to destroy a supply warehouse where Yagura had thousands of kunai, shurukin, exploding tags, chakra pills, among other things.

Isao stood apart from Naruto before speaking, "It was easy enough at first, I simply snuck inside, placed their own exploding tags all over the place, changed them slightly to blow up when I put chakra into a central seal, and boom the place went. But that was where things got interesting, as Yagura himself, in his chakra cloak, came flying out from the trees at me. Apparently word of my aid to you had reached him, as he appeared to have been waiting to ambush me."

Isao coughed lightly, holding his ribs gently, "Yagura is a fast son of a bitch, let me tell you. He came flying out of nowhere at me, a blur to even ME. He caught me with a huge cloaked hand to the chest, the blow instantly cracked my ribs, and sent me flying through at least fifteen trees. I don't know how the hell I managed to do it, but I was able to use my Aka Senkou no Jutsu to get out there before he even got to me again."

Mei nodded, "Yes Yagura's speed can only be matched by you with your seals, or another jinchuruki. However, Yagura is the only jinchuruki that Kiri has so that isn't an option for us. I can only hope that when the time comes, I can kill Yagura before he kills me, not to mention what will happen once we kill Yagura, what will happen to the Yonbi after it is freed from its seal."

Here Ao nodded, "Yes the Yonbi is definitely the next biggest concern. But what I propose we do, is-"

There Ao was caught off by a large explosion, seeming to have come from the south end of the camp. Confusion rippled through those in the tent, but then someone came running into the tent, screaming "Yagura is here!"

AN: So a cliff hanger here before I go to sleep, here it is five minutes to Christmas, so MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!