AN: FF seemed to not like me on this post, but this should be much more readable. As for headaches, powers and pairings...
Headaches.. yes they exist and I have them from writing this :D
Powers.. Depending on how this writes itself along with any suggestions I'm still trying to figure it out.
Pairings...there might be.. ah hell of course there will be.. just haven't gotten to that point yet..
Now onto the show.. :D
The sun was setting as Naruto lit the lamp in his den, his cerulean blue eyes flickering over a scroll on the table in front of him. It contained lists of sealing techniques, with descriptions and references to other scrolls on studying them. The excitement of his graduation was passed and he was concerned that Anko was right about his team. Not that he didn't mind it he knew it would be really impossible with dealing with Sasuke and his 'holier than thou' complex.
To add Sakura into that they wouldn't work with him, she would faun over and do everything that Sasuke said even if it wasn't the right way. Letting out a sigh of frustration, "Anko was right.."
"I know I am, thanks for telling me."
He whipped around in his seat to see the purple haired woman standing there scantily clad, "Anko-nee-chan. Are they really going to make the teams like what you said?"
She pushed herself from the wall, "Yea I just came from the meeting for the Sensei's." Walking over she sat herself on the table. "But, I've got something that might make it better for you."
The blond smiled, "Oh really?"
"Yes brat, It's a jutsu. It's not something I should teach you but if I don't want all my hard work to go to waste then you're gonna have to learn it." She tossed a small scroll at him.
Reaching out he snatched it and started looking it over, "Shadow Clone? And why does it say dangerous?"
Leaning forward into a position that would send most men flying backwards from blood loss, "because Gaki, unlike other clones, this one splits your chakra evenly between yourself and your clones. Not only that but anything the clone learns you will to when it dispells."
"So it's a spy clone?"
"Sort of, it can also use jutsu since it has chakra, and it's solid. But I'm going to show you how to give it more chakra so it can hold up through your training." She slowly went through the seals, adding a different one at the end. In a poof of smoke another Anko stood right next to her. "The trick is to make it more durable I want you to send this to train with Kakashi for a while. That will give us time to work out a few more things that I want you to know."
"Alright Nee-chan." Naruto with Anko's supervision began the hours long process of learning and mastering a Single shadow clone. But by midnight Naruto was tired but could do the clone like Anko wanted.
"Good brat, I knew I liked you for a reason." She ruffled his hair. "Now when you make the clone in the morning, I want you to use as much chakra as you can. Then go back to bed I'll wake you up when I get here."
With a Yawn, "Sure thing ..." As he flopped onto his cot and quickly passed out. Anko smiled as she pulled the blanket up around his chest and placed a kiss on his forehead. "Tell anyone about this and I'll kill you." She whispered with a smile.
Morning came and went as Naruto woke up and created the Super Clone, and stumbled back to bed. The drain on his chakra was fairly massive given the slightly above average reserves. This time around with out the direct feed from the Kyuubi Naruto didn't have the spare chakra to use. Though as he slept the seal on his stomach glowed a faint green, as it pulled the energy from the Kyuubi to support his spiritual reserves.
Unlike those who had an even mixture of the two energies to make their chakra, or even a heavy pulling from their physical source. Naruto was heavily flooded by the spiritual energy, and as he slept recovering from his taxing jutsu, none noticed the seal shift ever so slightly.
What seemed like five minutes to the blond was indeed several hours later as he felt the frigid cold of water covering him. " ARGH!"
"Wakey wakey." Anko giggled.
"You know.. that's cold right?" He said as he quickly stripped out of his wet clothes and dressed into some dry ones. "Okay so what are we doing?"
Anko just kept smiling, "Well, I was going to let you choose. Weapons and endurance, Stealth and Speed, or both." As she pulled out a stick of Dango and began to munch on it. She had thought about having him sign her summoning contract, but linking him to that man. She suppressed a shudder, as he hand touched the hidden mark on her neck.
"Since I'm choosing it means I don't get this for to long any more right?"
"That's about it kid, now that you technically have a team I'm not suppose to teach you anymore." Looking him in the eye,"I've got a month before I get sent out on missions. So what will it be?"
Naruto chewed on his lip, before his eyes glinted, "Both, since I want to be just like my nee-chan." He flashed one of his fox like smiles. While inwardly he wasn't going to waste the chance, and the small irony of a fox being trained by a snake amused him.
They found that out a year ago...
/Forbidden Technique: Flashback no Jutsu/
A mop of blond hair flashed through the forest as he jumped from tree to tree occasionally running on the ground. The slither of snakes as they were flying towards him, was truly the only sounds heard among the trees.
Several of them were smaller serpents, but one was much larger. All were summoned by Anko as a stealth training, yet as soon as they appeared they began to chase him. Anko shortly behind then, trying to figure out the cause.
She knew they were unruly summons but she never had this much of a problem. It wasn't until she heard the hissed words of Fox, and several other expletives that the lines connected for her. Even she could smell the slight difference, but not as much as an animal or the Inuzuka, but it was there.
She focused and dismissed her summons as she landed next to a very worn out Naruto, "That makes sense... Sorry about that brat."
Naruto looked up at her, "What were they not suppose to chase me?"
"Not like that, do you know why they did?"
"Well" he scratched the back of his head, "They kept calling me a fox, like the villagers did, and that was the demon that the Fourth killed, and I was born on the same day that happened." He started to get nervous.
Anko smiled sadly, "Well, if I were to guess it's cause you smell like one too. " She hid the truth, "You'll figure it out when you're older I bet. But until then you can be my little fox." The mildly lecherous smile crossing her lips.
Naruto gulped. "Uhm.. o-okay."
"Good now let's get back to work."
/Flash-back Kai/
Meanwhile with Shadow Naruto and team Seven...
Kakashi was standing next to a post after just placing an alarm clock on it, "You have until Five, to get these two bells from me."
"But, there's three of us and only two bells." Sakura whined.
Kakashi eye smirked, "That's right. It means one of you will be sent back to the academy."
The raven haired Uchiha just glared at the bells, while Naruto looked a bit absent minded. Sakura kept looking between the two boys, 'I have to help Sauske-kun but Naruto will probably screw it up, he's soo not as cool as Sasuke.
"Begin." With that Kakakshi stood there, as the three teens jumped away and vanished into the woods of the training grounds.
Naruto hid in the bushes, "What would Boss do?" he thought it over as he waited and listened to Sasuke trying to fight Kakashi, and loosing. He repressed a snicker, even Anko wouldn't fight Kakashi and win, maim him yes win no. Which meant the three of them had little chance on their own. But, this team was a dysfunctional as could be with out them being dead.
Flowing through seals, "Water style: Hidden Mist." The water vapor started to fill the area, as the mist started to roll from the near by river to blanket the training grounds.
Kakashi noticed to thick fog, and attempted to dispel it as a Genjutsu, only to have it remain. 'Interesting, this is a Kiri technique, none of them should know it.'
Naruto thought over how long he could hold this with out being dismissed, as he began moving through the mist. 'If I weren't a clone this would be so much easier.' Pulling out some kunai and ninja wire, he began to make a web of wires in hopes of tripping up the jounin.
Kakashi stood there, waiting for the attack, but he couldn't sense them in the mist. He'd only heard of the technique up to now. But he thought it was strange that they weren't attacking him, 'Maybe they are smarter than I gave them credit for.' When he heard the faint whistle of a kunai being thrown at him. Only to feel the snag of several wires around him as he tried to moved away, "Suiton Shuriken" was echoed through the mist.
They came flying passed him as he dodged, thinking it was rather simple until he heard the snap of the wires, as they began to flay around him leaving some cuts in his clothes and skin. The small jingle of the bells as they fell from his waist caused him to flip in the air.
Naruto smirked as he ran along the ground and jumped to catch the bells, both of their hands wrapping around them at the same time, his hand under Kakashi's. Which he quicly substituted himself with a nearby rock and started to run away as the mist was let go.
Running to the post with the clock on it he grabbed it and set the time back two hours, as the last of the mist cleared. Then taking off to run past the buried Sasuke dropping a bell in his head and into the brush to find Sakura.
Eventually Kakashi caught them all looking between the three of them, he kept most of his thoughts to himself. As he pondered of how pathetic Sakura was and how Sasuke was to arrogant and Naruto was still very much an enigma as he didn't anticipate anything the blond did. "Well it seems none of you understood the purpose to this test, no matter how it worked out for you getting the bells."
Kakashi shook his head, "It was to pull together as a team and work to over come your opponent, Yet one of you managed to get the bells from me, and then gave them to your teammates." He eye smiled, "It's unorthodox but I will pass you guys.. meet me here at seven tomorrow." Before he vanished in a puff of smoke.
Naruto looked at the others before dispelling, making it look like he used the very same technique as Kakashi but just let himself return to the Real Naruto.
Back with Naruto and Anko, they were working through several forms of weapons which Naruto had chosen a set of black trench knives, with the knuckle guards. They were sparring as Anko showed him different ways to use the shorter blades. When the memories of his clone returned, causing him to fall to the ground as his mind tried to reorganize the events.
Anko knew what happened as soon as he fell, "Give it a second." She said softly, part of her was still adjusting to this soft and caring attitude that she was developing but still swore if anyone saw it or said anything about it she would gut them and leave them hanging by their intestines from the Hokage Monument.
Naruto twitched as the last of the memories came to him, "Ugh.. you didn't tell me it would hurt that bad." He pushed himself up from the ground to a crouch.
"It's why it's a dangerous jutsu, and you should only ever use one at a time until you can adjust completely with out problems." She walked over and knelt down in front of him. "Also never let anyone know you can use this jutsu unless there is no other way."
He nodded his head, "Sure thing, and you want me to use this everyday for a month?"
She just smiled sadistically, "What doesn't kill you.."
"Isn't Anko." He laughed, causing her to laugh a little as well.
"I think that's it for today Gaki, we'll do this for the next month.. after that I expect you to win every fight and complete every mission... if you don't... I'll make time"
Naruto gulped, "I understand Nee-chan." Rubbing the back of his head. The surge of memories for the first time, and having so much chakra sitting in his system felt weird as his clone didn't use much of what he did to create it. Honestly he felt like a balloon ready to pop, Bath, food, study then repeat..."
Anko just nodded, if she could get away with it she would adopt the boy, but the Hokage was adamant that he wasn't taken in by anyone, if only because the Council pushed so hard for that. In the three years she had spent with him, not once had she seen or felt anything of the demon sealed inside him. If anything she would think it was a lie, except for how fast he healed and the seal glowing now and then from over using his chakra.
"Good you'll need your sleep the next month is going to be the last three years all over again." She laughed as she shun-shined away. Leaving a rapidly healing boy to stagger into his Den.
The month passed in a blur of pain, sweat and headaches on his part. But she hadn't been lying when she said she was pushing three years into one month. Between speed drills, dodging, physical work outs, the added weight seals, and the scrolls on Sealing, Medical Jutsu, and Suiton jutsu he kept pouring over. Add in the 'training' and D-ranks with Kakashi and it was a bit more than anyone would expect of a thirteen year old boy, ninja or not.
As Naruto thought over all the hard work he's done to get where he was, elsewhere to green spandex glad Ninja's felt a dark cloud wash over them as if someone was working harder than they were. With affirmations of their Youth they began to work even harder.
Naruto had sent his clone out to train with his team as he stealthily head to the Hokage's office to find the old man sitting there by himself. " Hey Jiji!"
Sarutobi looked up, "Naruto shouldn't you be training with you team right now?" The knowing look in the old man's eye spoke volumes to Naruto.
"Well yea, I am but I wanted to ask you something important that I know Kakashi wouldn't want to hear and I don't want to interrupt his time with Sasuke."
This intrigued the Hokage, as he had been getting reports from both Anko and Kakashi on Naruto's progress, though from Kakashi is was more a question of where Naruto was learning what he did. "Alright, what is it?"
Naruto sat down, "Well I want to know what's in the seal on my stomach, and two I wanted to get test as a Medic." The big blue eyes shone with a practiced puppy look.
The Hokage sighed, "What I am going to tell you is an SS-class secret. The Fourth Hokage couldn't kill a Demon, instead he created a seal that would imprison the beast and allow the Host to use it's chakra."
Naruto sat there, with a puzzled look on his face, "Jiji.. if I could use the demons Chakra I think I would have noticed by now... Seriously.. I feel tired after training all day, and I always feel near chakra depletion." He looked down at his hands, " That and if I had that much chakra then I shouldn't have this level of Chakra control..."
The hokage sat forward surprised by the boys response, "I may not be a seal master, but I have study that seal indepth, let me see it." To which Naruto stood up and walked over pulling his shirt up for the Hokage to see the seal.
The old man hummed, as he traced the different patterns and glyphs within the seal, before he stopped, and pulled a scroll out of his desk and smeared blood on it to open it. Before he started looking back and forth between them. "I see, Naruto have you ever done anything to your own seal or let anyone that you know of mess with it?"
Naruto shook his head, "No, not like anyone would want to touch me.."
That phrase jerked a cord in Sarutobi's heart, as he cleared his throat. "Well the seal is different than the copy I have, which means it's either changing which can happen, or something was done differently when it was placed on you." He pointed at the two different symbols, "This was meant to let you draw on it's chakra, however, what you have seems to split and refine the demons chakra into the base Spiritual and Physical energies. Sadly demons are much higher beings of pure energy, leaving them no true bodies."
"So they are mostly spiritual energy compressed with the loosest amount of physical to give them shape and control of the power." Naruto finished, just as he had read in the scrolls that were left in his den.
The hokage hid a cringe, as those were Kushina's exact words from so many years ago when she herself was dealing with controlling the beast chakra. "Exactly, The fact that you can use your chakra would be a miracle at all, but the seal connects it to your spiritual reserves instead of your Chakra reserves."
"So, that means I'll have to look up what could happen with that then..." He scrunched his nose as if something was just outside of his memory. " Well what about the medic test.. I mean I pretty much figured out that I was holding something the way the animals would react to me, and the Inuzuka did too. I smell just like a fox."
The hokage sighed, it was bound to happen and to be honest, it was best that it came out this way. " Let's do this now and get it out of the way if you think you can do it."
"Hai, I can.. I may not be the greatest but I can do enough to pass the test." Naruto puffed up proudly, as the Hokage laughed, summoning an ANBU to alert the Hospital to have an impartial examiner ready.
Once they reached the Hospital a Doctor was waiting on them, " Good morning Hokage-sama, I was informed that you had a Genin that wanted to test for a field medic." He looked at the blond with out giving away any feelings about him.
It was strange for Naruto, to have someone look at him neither with disgust or happiness."I'm Uzamaki Naruto, I wanted to see if I qualified for the program." He walked forward with the Hokage's hand on his shoulder.
The hokage smiled, "As with most I looked into the records to determine their value, and with his high level of control for his age, I would think he would be a perfect candidate. Along with his personal studies in anatomy and poisons."
Naruto fought back the blush from the praise of the Hokage, as the Doctor looked him over, "What's the highest level of Chakra control you have completed?"
Looking to the Hokage and getting a slight nod, "I can do the second level of the Water Elemental control, and I can do Chakra strings."
The Doctor thought it over, and with the Hokage there it was easier to believe, than if the boy himself just told him that. " Alright, if you say you can do that then I would like you to perform two medical jutsu. The Tenshi Palm, and a Diagnostic Jutsu that you know." Thinking he had the kid there.
Naruto smiled, and did the jutsu sealessly as it was designed to be done, it was simply converting your chakra into a neutral healing base. Most people thought they needed the hand seal to mold the chakra but after learning to mold chakra for elemental manipulation it was just as easy.
The doctor, looked over the control and found the jutsu to be even, and well formed if not still a bit rudimentary but far better than he had anticipated for a young teen to pull off. "Alright, now a diagnostic jutsu"
Naruto formed a half horse seal, as he decided to scan the Hokage as he was right there. It was a low surface scanning jutsu, which even if it went wrong the most they would feel is a tingle, but as he scanned, he raised a brow, and did another seal causing his hand to glow a bit more as he focused. "Everything looks fine but I don't know what's right here." He pointed at a spot just below Sarutobi's rib cage.
The Doctor surprised but now more intrigued decided to humor Naruto, and did the same level of scan, and searched the area not sensing anything but just to be sure used the strongest scan justu he knew, and was shocked to see the beginnings of Tenketsu Cancer. "Lord Hokage, Naruto, both of you come with me."
They followed the doctor into a more private room, with some equipment, "I appologize for the swiftness of my demands, but it seems one that Naruto has an affinity with Medic justu. Had I not done a deeper scan myself I would have though he was faking the whole thing." He motioned for them to sit down.
Naruto smiled but felt that something was wrong, as the Doctor continued. " The scans from both of us show that you are suffering from the early stages of Tenketsu cancer." The Doctor waited for any form or reaction.
Sarutobi, sighed knowing that he was getting older but that he was also sick wasn't something he had counted for. "I see, but I'm unfamiliar with what that is."
The Doctor nodded, "In it's advanced stages it makes molding chakra and even containing it very difficult. Including the natural levels need to live." He performed a Genjustu using the information from the scan. "This is what your tenketsu look like now, and this" he shifted the image to show the twisted and knotted forms." Is what it will look like in a few months, with out treatment."
He looked between Naruto and the Hokage, "If you allow me and with Naruto's help seeing that he has a more medical directed chakra we could reverse the effects and potentially giving you a few more years on your life."
Naruto instantly turned to look from the Doctor to the hokage, this was one of the only people in his life that showed they cared. He would be damned if he didn't do something to help him. " Jiji you're doing this or.. or I'll defect to Iwa." He stated firmly.
Sarutobi looked down at Naruto, at his words. To declare something like that to the Hokage no less would be immediate treason, but it was the reason behind it that broke at the Old mans heart. "I'll do it, as long as it's kept secret from the rest of the Village."
The Doctor nodded as did Naruto, before he began looking through several books and telling bits of information to Naruto on what he was to be doing, and drew a few seals that they would be using. It took nearly an hour between the three of them but it was finished. " Alright, I'll need you to lay here on the bed, while I perform the jutsu, Naruto. I'll need you to stand behind me to supply me with chakra. Just mold and convert it to Medical energy and I will direct it where to go."
Everyone moved into place, as The doctor began the treatment jutsu, and Naruto focused everything he had into helping His grandfather figure. The seal on his stomach began to glow, as his entire hand and arm began to shimmer and glow in a pure vibrant green color. Flowing like water along his arm and visibly through the doctor follow the path of the jutsu.