AN: Now I do appreciate reviews.. :D *hint hint* If there's anything you want to see i.e. more training scenes or anything let me know.. I just find them troublesome .. to borrow the word. But I'll add them in if you think Naruto is just making power appear from nowhere. But hold on to your seats Cause once the Exams start is when it really starts having fun. :D
Now ONTO THE STORY
The woods were as silent as a tomb, while Naruto made his way back to Tazuna's house. To find everyone awake as he walked through the door, Sakura and the family all seemed to be shaken up pretty badly about something. While Kakashi looked at him strangely, "What?"
The one eyed Jounin, stood up, "Naruto did you kill him?"
"Kill who?"
"Sasuke.." Kakashi asked the hint of worry in his voice.
"Haha, no. I yelled at him a lot and I hit him but I didn't kill him."
"We felt the power you used." kakashi motioned to indicate everyone in the house. Even as Naruto looked at each of them.
A confused but sad smile was on his face, "I didn't use anything. Hell I didn't even use any killing intent." Naruto was confused. Sure he had argued and yelled with the Teme, but that was it. No jutsu, not even chakra enhanced punches.
With his one visible eye Kakashi, looked into Naruto's but he couldn't find the boy lying. He didn't not want to believe him, but his instincts as a Ninja screamed that he did, but at the same time everything else was screaming he didn't.
Naruto just shrugged and went up to the room he was staying and and went to sleep, leaving the rest of them to wait and wonder if he was really telling the truth or not. The next thing he heard was being woken up for breakfast, the sun already much higher in the sky that he was used to seeing in the morning.
Getting dressed and coming downstairs he found Tsumei in the kitchen, "Good morning Naruto," She smiled setting a plate of food on the table for him. "Kakashi decided you deserved to sleep in after everything, so he took Sakura and Sasuke to guard the bridge with my Father."
"Alright, " He smiled as he started eating.
Though it wasn't meant to be as the door was kicked open to reveal two surly men, swords already drawn. " Get the woman and the brat."
Naruto flashed as he appeared between the two thugs, one hand on each of their chests, "I don't think so, but if you would be nice enough to save a spot in hell for Gato, he will be joining you shortly." Twisting his hand, the two fell to the ground dead. The faint glow of chakra on his fingers the only indication that he had done anything.
He turned around, " Get Inari, and yourself to the clinic and take as many villagers as you can." Before he ran out the door, "Don't worry." He pushed himself to reach the bridge in time.
Meanwhile at the bridge, it was like any other day until they reached the bridge, the metalic smell of blood and the sight of dismembered bodies and shards of bone littered the unfinished bridge. Sasuke cringed as memories of his own family flickered in his mind. Kakashi stood at the ready, while Sakura proceeded to vomit.
"Where's the blond brat?" As he landed on the bridge with the masked Nin.
"We don't need him to beat you, "Sasuke yelled out. The anger from the night before sitting just below the surface, along with the revisited memories of the massacre of his family. 'That's why you're weak and pathetic. Vengeance does nothing but destroy more lives. You've been given a chance...' Naruto's words cut through him, as the present and his past meshed up for one moment. 'Was it vengeance that destroyed my family... I need to know.'
"Haku you take care of the boy, I'll handle Kakashi." Which was very close to what Kakashi had said, though he left Sakura to guard Tazuna. As they ran at each other, the mist started to roll in covering both fights from the other, yet flashes of Sasuke and the masked nin could be seen from where Sakura stood.
With Sasuke, "I'm sorry I must kill you, but Zabuza has ordered me too." The near emotionless voice seemed to catch him off guard, it sounded so much like Itachi that night.
"You're sorry you don't even know if you can kill me," he paused drawing a kunai, "but I'm not going to let that happen." Rushing at the masked Nin, they began the fight of clashing weapons and dodging against the other. The masked one's speed was superior and Sauske was noticing as they went. "Great Fireball," he called out flashing through seals, watching as the other quickly dodged.
"If that is how you wish to die," Holding one hand up they began going through seals, "Demonic Ice Mirror Prison." Causing a dome of mirrors to form out of the mist surrounding them both. " Your fate has been sealed, and for that I am sorry." As the Nin stepped backwards into the Mirror behind them, only to appear in all of them. From that point it was flashes as the masked Nin appeared and vanished leaving marks and needles sticking to the Uchiha.
Zabuza and Kakashi's fight however was more even, as they met swing for swing zanbatou against Kunai. Leaving Sakura to watch as her 'Sasuke-kun' was being beaten. She warred with herself part of her wanted to rush over there and save him do anything for him, while the small part of her that was a ninja demanded to stay put.
That part of her lost, as she broke into a run, seeing the flash of hundreds of senbon she dove into the dome, feeling them pierce into her, her body slamming into the ground and skidding along the wet stones into one of the mirrors. A resounding crack echoed between the two that were fighting as they both looked at the limp form of Sakura laying on the ground.
"Hn," taking the Opportunity Sasuke lashed out at the other Nin, knocking the mask of and leaving a gash on her/his cheek. Even with out the mask he couldn't tell the difference, yet he noticed everything seemed slower or he was moving faster.
That was what Naruto arrived to, "Tazuna-san are you alright?"
"Yea I don't think she is though." He pointed to Sakura laying on the ground.
"Great, " Making a few clones, "You guys guard Tazuna and take him to the clinic with the others." Looking at the old man, " Go with them, if anything happens one of them will dispel letting me know." Dropping into stance, he started flashing through seals, "Let's hope I learned that jutsu right." As he watched the battles, and focused his energy. "Forbidden Water Style: Will of the Sea God."
At first nothing happened, until Naruto fell down onto one knee, looking pale as his energy flowed from him like water through a sieve. The strain showing on his face as he pushed himself to stand up shakily, "Disperse." He placed his hands together infront of him pulling them apart, watching as the Mist rippled and flowed away from the bridge, the water below as well leaving only bare land and the bridge to be seen around it.
Even the Mirrors wavered and bent, as the water that made them up tried to obey him, causing The Nin to stumble as their chakra fought for control. The energy pouring from Naruto made his hair and clothes shift as if in a strong breeze, wave after wave rippled from him as he pushed more and more into the jutsu trying to cause the ice to shatter, even as he kept the water and mist back. Translucent images of white tails flickered behind him as he forced more into it until the sound of shattered glass echoed across the bridge, the mirrors falling into shards.
All four ninja turned to look at Naruto, feeling the energy coming from him. His cerulean eyes glowing with that power. The seal had burned through his clothes glowing a bright white and blue, thrumming in time with the pulses of energy.
At the other end of the bridge, Gato and his small army appeared. " Seems like you failed again. Some demon you are Zabuza couldn't even kill of a bunch of kids." The fat greasy man said, "Kill them all."
The men took off running across the bridge, not seeing what the other four saw.
Naruto, looked between the four of them. " Get behind me if you want to live." The strain echoing through his voice, Kakashi took one look at Zabuza and took off running, as Sasuke grabbed Sakura and did the same. The younger nin as well, seeing all of this Zabuza too ran in that direction.
Naruto smiled tiredly, as he swung his arms from his side up into the air, before he brought them down in front of himself clapping his hands together. The water that once flowed under and around thee bridge rose to his command and came rushing in in high waves from either side. Crashing down onto the bridge and washing the men away, dragging them to the bottom, along with the blood and remains of the workers that had perished.
"Your hold over this country has broken, Gato." He said taking one tired step at a time forward. "Your soul is twisted and destroyed beyond salvation I pity you." Making a motion tendrils of water obeyed coming up and wrapping around Gato as he pulled him towards him. Leveling a fist that cracked into the mans face as the water flung him into. Naruto dropped to one knee next to the man, Looking over his shoulder, he smiled before he passed out.
It was a few days before Naruto woke up to the bright light of the sun filtering into his room, a soft hand laying on his forehead. "It's good to see you awake Naruto-sama. I will tell the others." Looking up he caught the appearance of the masked Nin that had been at the bridge, leaving through the door. That only moments later was filled by Kakshi, Zabuza, Tsumei, Inari, Tazuna and the other Nin.
"How long was I out?" He laughed lightly as he pulled himself to sit up in the bed, his entire body sore inside and out, causing him to wince a little.
Kakashi shook his head, "Three days, and according to Haku we need to get you to a hospital soon." He looked to the other Nin. "What ever it is you did, you shattered your coils, They are fixing themselves but need to be monitored and worked on by a Medic, and you can't do it yourself since you can't mold chakra right now."
Naruto listened knowing that it was true. "Alright I should have about four days before any threat of permanent damage is done. What about these two?" He looked between Zabuza and Haku.
"They've agreed to come back to Konoha," the one eyed sensei said.
"I'm tired of running, and my dream for Kiri isn't realistic right now." Zabuza said as he put his hand on Haku's shoulder. "And I want my son to have a chance at being a true Ninja, not the mockery I've become."
Naruto smiled, one of his fox like smiles. "Jiji would go for it, but the council would probably through a fit, and try to get Haku into the CRA." He pushed himself up on the bed gingerly.
Haku looked confused, and Zabuza did as well. So Kakashi decided to explain. "Konoha considers Bloodlines Precious and will attempt to ensure 'procreation' through any means."
Zabuza nodded as he understood, the hidden meaning. " So they turn him into a breeding Stallion."
Naruto smirked, "Well they would if he wasn't already part of a clan."
"What are you getting at Naruto?" Kakashi was curious.
"In my clan scrolls I found a seal that was used for when outsiders married into the clan. It transferred a weaker version of the bloodlines to ensure the children were born with them." He pointed to his coat, which Kakashi handed to him. Letting him pull out a journal.
" There was two versions. One was just to transfer the Uzamaki bloodlines into the spouse so that the children would have the bloodline. The other was for when the outsider had a bloodline as well ensuring both were passed to the child." He opened the journal the the pages containing the seals. "From what I've read it's what caused the boil release to become a bloodline."
"So it would make who ever was sealed an Uzamaki then?" Zabuza asked knowing he could see the possibilities, as well as why the stories of the clan being a bit mythical but if the seal worked like that it would explain quite a bit. Also it would explain why Kiri despised bloodlines like they had.
Naruto nodded, " The only thing is the slight physical changes, to assume the visual traits of the clan."
Looking at Haku, Zabuza raised a brow in question, "It's up to you kid."
"I would be honored, but only if Zabuza-sama agrees to take the seal as well." The young man said.
The room was silent for a moment after that, as they all seemed to wait on Zabuza to answer the unspoken question. "What the hell, but just cause your the 'clan head' don't expect me to take orders from you brat."
Naruto laughed, "Well technically, until I become Chunnin I can't hold that title, and it would make you acting Head until that time." Causing Zabuza's jaw to drop. It was one thing to give up being who he was but to suddenly gain a position of authority in a new village was something else.
"Do it, I have a feeling this is going to be fun." The ferral grin that crossed his face made everyone laugh and in their future village several older men and women feel as if death had just crawled up their back.
"I'll do Haku's first that way both bloodlines pass to you." He motioned for Haku to take of his shirt as he pulled a sealed scroll from his coat and undid the ink and brush, having Haku bit his thumb mixing his blood in the ink. Then drawing a seal on the palm of his own hand in the ink before he drew another onto Haku's chest.
"Now, Do you forsake all other clans, and ties of loyalty to join the Uzamaki clan?" Naruto asked, as Haku nodded yes. Naruto slashed his unmarked hand letting the blood pool before he placed it over the seal on Haku, then placed the hand with the seal on top of that one. Summoning his Energy and willing it to the seals. "Let the bond of blood, the bond of brothers unite us as one clan." Both were covered in soft blue green light as the seals activated pulling from each of them to bond them as family.
The first change they saw as the chakra faded was Naruto's hair was darker, more like liquid gold than sun kissed blond. Though it was Kakashi who gasped as Haku's hair turned the deep red shade that was the same as Naruto's mother's, along with the same cerulean blue eyes. The seals however weren't visible, and caused him to title his head.
"It's a blood seal Sensei, it's as much part of us as our skin now there's no way to undo it them or break them." He looked over to Zabuza who walked towards him. "Now i'll use the other seal on you you'll get a very weak version of mine and Haku's bloodlines. So at most it should just strengthen you affinity to water, and perhaps a small wind affinity. Along with my unique bloodline with Medical Chakra."
Going through the same pattern only it was his blood now mixed in the ink he drew a seal that was slightly different from the last. Repeating the words that he had with Haku getting a terse yes from Zabuza, he summoned his energy again. Casting them in the sea foam blue light of his energy once more. Nothing changed much though Naruto's hair again took on a tinted shade, revealing a light red hue among the golden locks. Zabuza however was now glowing as his skins darkened to a tone a few shades lighted than Naruto's bronze. Yet it was the rapidly growing hair the shade of blood that caught them all until he turned to face them, with blue eyes and perfectly normal teeth.
Naruto sagged back into the bed, "Welcome to the family Haku and Zabuza Uzamaki." The fox like grin spread across his face before he fell asleep the strain of even summoning his energy enough to put him back to sleep with out his pathways to direct it. The untamed chakra and his own massive spiritual energy flowing wild may have had a few side affects that even he wasn't aware of.
His body trying to rebuild his chakra pathways now had foreign bloodlines mingling with his, to weak to force them down he instead incorporated them to his own in an attempt to stabilize his errant chakra..
The other's unaware of these changes, looked at the sleeping blond, "Well I suggest we leave now, it'll be less strain on him and if we're lucky he'll sleep through meeting Guy." Given the looks of curiosity he gave in, "He's know as the Green Beast of Konoha." To which Zabuza shuddered.
"I know of him, and his unique beliefs. Some years ago a few nin I worked with had faced him, any reference to the word youth will send them into seizures."
"That's about right." Kakashi sighed as he dressed Naruto in his jacket, before he started to pick him up Zabuza did so instead, giving him a look.
"Might as well start looking after my family."
It wasn't long before the remainder of the group took up running, bursting their chakra to increase their speed through the trees. All was silent as they made their way through the forest until they found the camp set up buy Guy and his team ten.
Sitting around a campfire, were a man dressed in green spandex and a comical bowl cut with massive eyebrows. Next to him was a mini-clone along with a girl polishing a sword, her hair done up on buns. The last was a pale young man with lavender eyes, and straight black hair the veins around his eyes bulging slightly. "Our objective has arrived Guy-sensei."
"Ah the power of youth has sped your rival Kakashi," Guy turned to look at them. "And who are these other two with you?"
Zabuza shifted his hold on Naruto, almost using him as a shield against the eyebrows. "I'm Zabuza Uzamaki, and this is my son Haku." He stated, though the rest was a bit tense as he spoke. "Naruto-sama discovered us while in wave and is bringing us back to Konoha to re-establish his clan."
The Hyuga stood and looked at them, " Their chakra and kekkei genkai are all matching, what they say. Though we were not informed that Uzamaki-san was in this bad of shape." He titled his head as he observed the shards of the blonds chakra network, with a frown. "Fate has seen to preserve his tenketsu in place, with care he will recover."
There was a silent sigh from the group, minus Sasuke of course. "His estimates were four days max with out care and he wouldn't be able to use chakra again." Kakashi said, "It's why we sent for your team Guy, perhaps you could get him back in time." As he pulled an orange book from his pocket.
Of course guy instantly fell into his 'Nice Guy' pose, "Of course my Eternal Rival! I my team and I will show you the true power of youth and get Naruto-san back to Konoha in two days!" His voice booming, "If we fail to do this I will run five hundred laps around the village, should I fail to do that I will do ten-thousand push-ups with my pinky's."
Kakashi looked up from his book, "Did you say something Guy?"
The clone started to shed tears as Guy face vaulted, " damn you Kakashi and your hip ways, I will show you how the power of youth Prevails." The strange shimmer of a sunset on a beach began to appear, all in attendance minus Lee shuddered.
Kakashi leaned into the sleeping Naruto, "If you start preaching about Youth when we get back, I'll chidori you." The small blond shivered but a small smirk grew on his sleeping features. Zabuza handed Naruto off to Guy Trying not to touch the tainted Green Spandex of un-holy youth.
Once they were arranged the team took off with a speed that shocked Zabuza."You weren't kidding when you said they were the fastest, and they're only Gennin." He shook his head in disbelief.
It was a week later when Naruto opened his eyes, feeling the stiffness of not moving for several days, "Ugh.. now I know what a zombie feels like." Stretching slightly in the bed feeling his muscles and joints crack and pop.
"hehe. It's good to see you awake Naruto-kun." The rasped old voice of Sarutobi spoke. "And now that you're awake I can find out what you used to have such interesting affects on your chakra system." The seriousness in his voice wasn't lost on the freshly woken blond. "The tests show some interesting developments, Like your pathways being enlarged, another bloodline mysteriously appearing and a special Chakra reserve full of Suiton chakra."
Naruto peeled open his eyes, and stiffly pulled himself up to a sitting position, " I shouldn't have gotten the bloodline." The questioning tone obvious as he started to think over what happened.
"What do you mean.. never mind start at the beginning." The Hokage said as he shook his head.
"Well, I used the Will of the Sea God Technique." He looked down at his hands, "That's what shattered my pathways."
The hokage hmm'd as he rubbed his chin, "I see so you managed to awaken your bloodline fully then."
"Then I.. wait what do you mean fully awakened?"
Laughing, "Oh that's simple. Hashirama didn't need jutsu to control water, because he had the secondary reserve like you have developed that allowed him to create and control water. The use of Jutsu only furthered his strength with it." Though he turned serious once more. " However returning with two more Uzamaki, both bearing the bloodline, and another one. Along with one of them strangely looking like a Kiri missing Nin, and one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist. Has me curious as to exactly what happened. Since Kakashi has seen fit not to answer my questions, stating 'It was a privilege to bare witness to a Clan Secret.' "
Naruto scratched the back of his head, and chuckled a little bit though it was nervously. " I'm restoring my clan. Just not the way the council wanted." He spoke softly. " By Clan law, and the ones of this village Haku and Zabuza Uzamaki are blood members of my clan, How and why are Clan secrets." He smiled mischievously.
The Hokage, flashed through a few seals knowing that smile, as he created a privacy jutsu. "Alright, Naruto how what and why?"
Naruto laughed, the Hokage was a like a kid sometimes. "It's an Uzamaki Clan seal. It's orignal use was to stem the need for inbreeding to keep the bloodlines strong.' He sighed, "It transfers blood and the bloodline to the intended, in an unawakened state so that any children will be born with the bloodline. But should a spouse already have a bloodline that would work with the clan kekkei genkai, we would use another seal that would transfer it to the Uzamaki in a dormant state that way again the children would be born with both or a merger of the two."
The hokage was silently listening, and part of him was glad that it was a lost jutsu or seal. Knowing his former student he would love to get his hands on a seal like that. " I see, well given your unique status the bloodline isn't dormant. Whatever it is."
"It's the Hyuton bloodline." Naruto said, "Haku was the last of his Clan, and instead of subjecting him to our Bloodline Craze I brought him in along with Zabuza." Here Naruto smirked, "Which I am assuming you gave him Jounin Status?" The hokage nodded. "Then as Clan Heir I appoint him as the Council Representative of the Uzamaki Clan until I become of age." Rubbing the back of his head laughing slightly, "Though I don't think we have a compound yet or anything here do we?"
Here the Hokage smiled, and started laughing as across the village the Anti-Naruto league all sneezed as they felt another chill climb up there back. "Actually because of the relation between Senju and Uzamaki, we do have Clan grounds for you. Not to far from the Senju Compound. Along with reactivating your assets that were in trust of the Senju clan." Here a busty blond woman sneezed in a bar, knocking the dice to six, winning.
"Uhm, what about the team, with Sakura's..." Naruto didn't want to say it but even if she was a practically worthless ninja she was still a decent person.
"There are a few genin that don't have teams due to death and injury and have been on a waiting list, and with your teams setup she's already been placed, and sine Kakashi left this form for the Chunnin exams I am guessing he approves or the council is pushing for Sasuke to be passed." The hokage said as he pointed to the form on the table. " But as for your clan, we will be bringing your bloodlines to the council, both the Hyouton and Suiton however your natural adaption to healing Chakra we will wait on since it might be a new bloodline."
Naruto nodded, as he thought over all that he had just done, and part of him knew there would be back lash for some of these actions. "As for how they became Uzamaki, they are descendants from a branch clan, that escaped the destruction."
"Good idea, Though I would keep the use of that seal low until you and your 'cousins' start taking wives." The old man stood up, "And just so you know the cancer is officially gone, and with your adept treatment along with the reports from Wave from the clinic and your treatment there, feel that you are fully capable of full Med-Nin status. Because of that, completion of the exams or not you will be promoted to Chunnin. It's already been filed and signed just the promotion date is set for after the exams." Heading for the door and canceling the jutsu, "Take it easy with Chakra usage for the next three days but other than that you've been discharged today."