Bloodline

chapter 10

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Ebisu was looking for his student. He had been asked as a personal favor to show the 'demon-spawn' the next level of chakra control exercises. The Gaki's influences on his prime student, the Honorable Grandson; Sarutobi Konohamaru and through him the two grandchildren of the elder councilors. He was given the honor of instructing the three, and while easier to drive them on by comparing their progress to that of Naruto, it ment that he had to pay positive attention to the 'demon-spawn' and his exploits...

He found the blond trouble maker in a group, heading towards the hot baths, carrying the Hyuuga Heiress. As he moved to block the group, an ANBU caught his wrist. He turned to look at the female ANBU, Cat.

"We follow. We watch. The Boy is both entertaining and enlightening. He has shown, just in the handling of the trio from Suna, a clear mind of an ally and an innocence of a child. He has also shown a cunning and an eye for detail that matches if not surpasses most chunin. He has entertained the trio, acquired items that showed us just how strong they are, and something along the lines of what jutsu they use, and the skill they have mastered. The Female redhead is a Kage-Bushin of his, but He takes orders from it. The Monk, is Suna-Bushin, of the Male redhead. The blond is skilled with wind jutsu and the other boy is a puppet user that we are told rivaling the skill of Saori of the Red Sands of equal age."

A male ANBU also a cat, took up the tale. "He has surrounded himself with active ninja if things get out of hand, is guiding the outsiders to a place where they can be disarmed and their defenses stripped from them, should the need to act against them arise." The male Cat put his hand on Ebisu's shoulder. "We have received word that an old specialist will be at the destination that they are going to. Kakashi has already taken the Uchiha boy out to train him, but the Gaki is going to be trained under a different master. He was chosen by the Hokage."

"Why was I not told?" Ebisu asked. He jumped to keep the group to in sight, the ANBU followed.

"Finding you was not our job." Neko whispered. "But it was decided that we were to tell you if you crossed our path. For now, allow the boy to play the fool, as we watch. If anything it will allow you to find new ways to teach that group you mentor in the afternoons."

Ebisu snorted and nodded.

Naruto was not bouncing about, as he was carrying the Heiress, but he was leading the way to the hot springs. Kyubi had threaded her arm through Temari's as they whispered back and forth about how cute the selected boys about them were. Shukaku was walking along beside Choji, talking about BBQ sauce recopies of all things. Shikamaru and Gaara were just silent, noting was needed to be said. Kankuro was busy pulling chakra strings threw his top.

When they had arrived, the two girls collected the passed out Hyuuga from Naruto. Kyubi leaned close to Naruto, "In the bushes, you will find the Peeping Master. Tell him that the Son of the Forth calls upon the Toad Sage."

Naruto nods and heads to where Kyubi pointed. Sure enough he found a older man sitting on a toad, peering through a hole in the fence. With the guys behind him, Naruto clears his throat, and in a pitched voice, "Are you the Peeping Master?"

Suddenly the voices in the Pool area went silent, as a wave of Killing Intent washed over the assembled guys. "Who wants to know?" the old man turned his head.

Naruto cocks his head. "I was told to say; The Son of the Forth calls upon the Toad Sage."

That got the attention of the old man. "Are you saying you are the Son of the Forth?"

Naruto frown. "No, I have no Idea who the Son of the Forth is. But Kyubi said that I was to tell that to the peeping master, and you are the only one spying on the women's bath. Besides, Kyubi will be in there shortly."

Shukaku nodded. "And while she has no trouble sharing her body with others, she does like to be able to see who is watching her."

Now the old man stood up and walked over to the blond and the monk. "A jinchuuriki, and a Biju in Human form." He squinted, "But there is no link between you two..." His eyes flickered over the rest of the group, landing on the Monk's twin. "Ah, two Jinchuuriki and..." his eyes went wide as he tracked back to the blond in front of him, "Did you say Kyubi would be in the bath?"

Naruto nodded.

Looking into the Sky, the old man muttered. "Damn you Minato, not only do you saddle me with this burden, but then he disrupts what few pleasures I have left!" was it his imagination, or did he hear Kushina giggle. "Okay boy, just what is it you want?"

"I think first and foremost, Gaara and I need you to look at our seals. Gaara's has been altered to allow him to sleep, but it was altered to fix that flaw, and we do not know if that is the only flaw in his seal. Mine was altered last week by that snake-teme and it is discomforting to my Biju." Naruto counted on his fingers, "Then there was something about a summoning Contract with the Toads..."

The toad sage was holding his head in his hands as Naruto started talking, but it raised slowly to look at the boy as he listed off his reasons for bugging the great sage. "Toad Contract? Who said anything about the Toad Contract?"

"Kyubi." Naruto answered with a straight face. "I will need to talk to the Boss if I am to have both contracts, but I was told my father was a toad summoner, and that it was something of a family thing."

The Toad Sage's face returned to his hands, "Are you trying to be this stupid?"

"Actually, no." Shikamaru answered. "Naruto is normally this obtuse." then the boy frowned, "Or truthfully, this is pretty high functioning for him. He is pretty much just dumb thug. That redheaded girl with him earlier might have something to do with this..." He stepped back as the old man was suddenly in his face.

"Redhead? Girl?" the old man grabbed his shoulders, "The men of his bloodline have trouble with redheads. Great trouble. His Father was condemned by a redhead, his mother!" His white head leaned on the Nara boy's chest, "She culled him from my teachings, turned him into a pillar of the community! He would have been the greatest of..." he took on a pose complete with sunset, "the Super Perverts!"

Kyubi-chan raised her head as she sensed PI(pervy intent) "It is good to be back among the True Believers again."

"What?" asked the Blond as she finished stacking her fans neatly in the corner.

"The True Believers. Naruto-kun's mother called them perverts, but they had a world view that We Biju enjoyed. In-fact part of the reason I drug you two in here, is to evaluate your pure to perv ratio. You are a year or two older then Naruto-kun, so I won't be up against any heavy moral walls. If you bend, yeah me, a new playmate. If you don't, yeah me, I don't have to share. Either way, I win." she flashed a vulpine grin at the blond. "Call me Kushina. It will really freak out the adults."

"What about her?" Temari pointed at the 'sleeping' Hyuga. "Are you going to evaluate her too?"

Kyubi-chan/Kushina cocked her head as she looked over the 'sleeping' girl. "Most likely not, Her I am just going to corrupt; first by playing on her desire for Naruto-kun, then by teaching her to bind and train him." She grinned at the Suna Blond. "I sensed your interest in the Nara boy. Be warned, the Nara have great minds, but it takes a strong willed woman to get them to move. Naruto-kun says his hobbies include napping and cloud watching. His interests are to be unremarkable average, find a 'not too troublesome' female and have two kids, and die of old age." Her Kimono shimmered and faded, as her nine tails flared. "You can wake up now, Hyuga-hime, and we can begin your training in claiming your Mate." the Biju clone snapped her fingers in the pale eyed girls face.

The girl sat up. "What do you mean 'claiming'?"

Again the nude redhead grinned, "Both of you, strip and join my in the hot spring. I will begin there."

Naruto stood topless channeling chakra through his seal array. Jiraiya frowned as he probed the seal, making a quick hand sign, and a blazing fingers plowed into the dark marks around the Jinchuuriki seal. Naruto grunted from the impact...

Kushina had just slipped into the water, her tails coiling about her waist, when she felt the disruption seal being dispelled. It caused a flux in her chakra which gave her a minor orgasm. "Ahh! Yes, I do enjoy being among the True Believers. Now where were we?" she ginned at the two nude girls across from her.

Jiraiya grunted, "Okay , now for Gaara.."

Now this seal issue was more complex. Jiraiya had to reformat the seal without releasing the Biju it held. "Hold on boy, this is going to hurt." Those watching missed half the hand signs, but the look on the young Suna nin's face as the pain flooded his system. The boy did not even have time to scream. Shukaku mirrored him, and as the reformat finished; his skin and face rippled in a full body shudder, both inside and out.

"Now that you boys are finished," Jiraiya turned back for the wall surrounding the pools.

"Not so fast, Pervy-sage. We need to learn the basics of Water-walking." Naruto crossed his arm over his bare chest. "I was told you taught my father before me."

"I thought you said you knew..." Jiraiya snapped around to face the blond.

"Not his name, nor hers. I was told you were his teacher, something about a contract with toads, so we can talk about twin summoning." Naruto rubbed his brow, as if fighting off a headache. "The only thing that has gone my way today was free ramen and the twin tanto. Now She is plotting something with the Hyuga heir, Something with the Blond Suna Kunoichi concerning Shikamaru, and then there is the plans She has for the One tail tonight. I do not want to know what that is about..."

All but Choji looked at Naruto. Jiraiya was caught between joy for the boy, and fear for what else the damned fox had in mind. Nara Shikamaru had a look of fear, of true terror, on his face. Gaara and Kankuro where acting like overprotective brothers, before glaring at Shikamaru. Shikaku just grinned and smirked.

"How do you know those things?" Shikamaru stammered out.

"the Kage-Bushin, I often get their memories if they are not popped right away. When Pervy-Sage fixed my seal, it rippled through my coils, and I got her memories from when I pulled her out up to when my seal was fixed." He looked at the fellow genin. "After all she is a modified Kage-Bushin."

"You can use the Kage-Bushin?" Jiraiya asked, "How many?"

"I lose count after two hundred." Naruto tucked his thumbs into his waist band, "I can do that ten times before I feel a real drain. Twenty puts me to my knees. But by the next morning I am good to go, where everyone else needs a day or three." He looks to Gaara, "How many Clones can you pull?"

"I do not use Clones." Gaara frowned. "Never had any need to." He waved at the monk, "He is the first clone type jutsu I used. And it was a sand-mimic jutsu..."

"I am standing right here." the sand clone spoke up.

"Yeah, and you are thinking of merging with the wall over there and enjoying the view of the Kyubi and the girls." Gaara retorted. Then he blinked, "How do I know that?"

"Your more solid Clone jutsu, often used for infiltration, allow the 'clone' to disperse and the memories to return to the Ninja" Shikamaru answered. "It is similar to what Naruto got from the Kyubi. When Jiraiya altered your seal, the two of you merged, if only for a second. Since it was not enough to dispel him/you, it only gave you/him the basics."

Gaara looked at the Nara boy. "My sister has made commits about your tactical skill, and I noticed your look when Naruto was talking about her and plans for you. Why were you worried?" sand whirled about his fists.

"While your sister is cute, I find her being the daughter of the Kazekage, and brother to the Suna Jinchuuriki too troublesome to be my first choice in a wife. That is not taking into account her personality. She might be a sweet girl, but as my wife..." he put his hands in his pockets, shook his head and walked away.

"Lazy as a Nara." Naruto said. "All the Nara males are like that. You want something done, talk to the women of the Clan." Naruto looked to Jiraiya, "Now if you could give us the basics of water-walking, We will practice while you and Shukaku try to return to your 'sport'."

"Okay, you know the tree walking?" Jiraiya looked at the Suna Nin. "Or in your case, Wall-walking? Where you just pour chakra into the souls of your feet to stick to the wall?" getting a nod from the assembled nin, "Too much, and you either stick, sink into, or it explodes. Too little and you slip and fall off/down." He turned and stepped on the hot water beside the group. "With water, you need to control the flow of chakra, too much and you disrupt the surface of the water, too little and you sink. Water is always moving. Even standing water moves."

Nara Shikamaru frowned a bit, then stepped out on the water. He moved slowly, but soon he was beside the Pervy-sage.

"Yeah!" Naruto leaped from the side of the pool, bringing his hands into the rat sign. He slipped right in. in over his head. Out he came, boiled bright red. "Hot!" he landed on the side of the pool, panting. Those around him but Choji and Gaara laughed.

Gaara just grinned. He pulled off his gauntlets, and his gourd, settled his robes, and walked out on to the water, sinking only an inch or two, but he quickly stabilized.

Choji was just finishing his bag of chips, when Shikamaru smirked, from behind his back pulled out a large bag of 'Fire Roasted BBQ' chips, opened them, and tilted them as if to dump them into the water. Choji was at his side before the first chip shifted. "You would not dare!" the massive boy hissed.

"Look where we are." Shikamaru handed him the bag, "Now keep them dry."

Kankuro strolled out onto the water, but then he already knew this skill, or rather it was easy for him, control is needed for puppet work, and he can dance his puppet around and around through any course maze you care to put in front of him.

It took another three tries for Naruto to get it down. In doing so, he found he could skate along the surface and come to a full stop just by altering the chakra flow. Soon the four genin of the were skating about the hot pond. Shikamaru had moved off to the side, he had a few things to think through.

Shukaku and Jiraiya had moved off to the side where they could see swimmers down in the river. The toad had already jumped back. It was carrying word that the Kyubi Jinchuuriki was asking to talk to the Boss, something about twin contracts...