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Chapter 5
Konoha, Hokage Tower
Danzo, Homura and Koharu were all standing in front of the Sarutobi Hiruzen and each one seemed to be tense as hell. In fact the tension was so thick that it could be cut with a chakra enhanced kunai. The Third Hokage seemed to be extremely calm but they had spent years with each other and knew his body language well enough to know that Sarutobi was anything but calm. The atmosphere was the same as the day Sarutobi had found Naruto eating from trash cans outside the shops while going to visit Hinata. The look in the eyes of Sarutobi was practically the same if one ignored the calm and almost relaxed look that he was projecting.
Danzo knew something had happened and it was something big. His ROOT shinobi that he had sent to spy on the jinchuriki and Hyuuga heiress had reported that they had left the village with Jounin Kurenai Yuhi and Special Jounin Anko Mitarashi. He had cursed the fact that Hiruzen had allowed and unsealed Byakugan and the jinchuriki of the Kitsune no Kyuubi outside where they may be kidnapped by any other hidden village. But before he could ponder further on the news, he had gotten summons from the ANBU that Hokage had summoned him as soon as he arrived in the village. And now he was here waiting for Hiruzen to make a move so that he could ask about the decisions he had taken.
"You know, it has been a very long time since we have been together. I may say it was for some good reason but I can't say it was for that. Genma!, your squad is needed, now!" he roared.
Five ANBU arrived in the room and three of them directly behind the Elders and each of them felt the cool length of ANBU's ninjatos resting with their tips poised a hairsbreadth from each of their necks and crackling with tightly leashed chakras poised to end their lives in an instant.
"What is the meaning of this Hiruzen? Have you gone mad? Why are we being treated as criminals?" Koharu asked looking incredibly angry.
"Enough. You will call me Hokage-sama. I am no longer your friend. You all have crossed your limits years ago and make it abundantly clear that you had chosen your paths. But first, let me secure this office." He said while unleashing his own chakra and KI at them and freezing everyone in their tracks and went through several hand signs and the room darkened and several sealing arrays spread became visible in the room before vanishing.
Danzo cursed at his own laxity at being caught off-guard and now he was here without his usual Root guard defenceless. He was nevertheless surprised at the anger and power he felt that Sarutobi was exuding and remembered why was his old friend and rival called the Shinobi no Kami after the death of Hashirama-sama.
"The thing is this that you all have gone too far and I have felt that it is better to rein in you fools before you bring down the wrath of the entire shinobi continent on us and we are crushed. First, tell me Homura, shall I kill your grandson Udon and your daughter in law for your stupidity. I seem to remember that is what you said when deleting the entire role of Uzumaki Clan from the village academy and curriculum. Even the Uzumaki's Clan Noh Mask Hall located on the outskirts of the village has been abandoned and never repaired. Explain this to me Koharu, you were made in charge of that duty a long time ago. And you Danzo, I ought to simply seal your chakra, rip every memory out of your mind and then publically execute you and your henchmen, Fu Yamanaka and Torune Aburame, shall I. Oh! Yes. I know. About your ROOT, Fu and Torune, your stupid plans and your selling out S rank secrets to the public about Naruto. Remember, the first and second chose me for this very reason."
"Damn You! Hiruzen. If only you had allowed me to do what I asked of you years ago, it could have been avoided." Danzo roared, while but Homura and Koharu paled before they hung their heads in shame but any further thought was simply stopped by the fact that the ninja holding him had tightened the grip on the ninjato and it had cut very minutely into the irate elder's skin. Danzo stopped before the overzealous ninja took off his head.
Sarutobi simply sighed to himself before he came to a decision and then snapped his fingers. Immediately the two left members of the ANBU team arrived in front of him and Hiruzen made a few hand gestures but for the life of all they knew no one else knew what he was talking about but then he felt himself being forced to his knees while the other two ninja's simply arrived and took up killing postions around him and his robe being cut. Danzo gulped to himself when Hiruzen spoke in a cold menacing voice that chilled all to their bones," I already gave you a lot of lee way Danzo but know I must do whatever I can to keep you from ruining the peace and plans I have for Konoha. This will be your punishment and remember that what I am doing is for the good of Konoha. Prepare him, now!"
The Elders were both horrified at what their ex-teammate was going to do to his rival and old friend. This was not what they expected when they woke up this morning and were worried if this was what Hiruzen had in store for them after Danzo was done. If so, they could not even protest as it would be effective as signing a death certificate for Hiruzen was really angry and seemed to have really tightened the reins over them.
After an Hour of Intensive Sealing on Danzo
Hiruzen hated Danzo for what he had just made him do to him. If several years ago he had taken the advice of his student Jiraiya and simply cracked down harder on Orochimaru and Danzo's shady operations, this day wouldn't have come. He hated the caged bird seal variant that he had ordered to be placed on the small of Danzo's back, interwoven with the nerve endings of his spine. He hated (albeit to a lesser extent) the seal to be put on the bottom of his tongue that would keep him from speaking of village secrets and the kill switches that were to be implanted on three separate parts of his body with the everyone watching him. This is what he hated at how far Danzo had decided to fall and now he was a virtual slave.
"This is your punishment Danzo. I am ordering you to tell me the entire operations of ROOT and your history with Orochimaru. Homura and Koharu, you are not to speak of this to anyone. If you do, this is my decree for all of you. You all are going to be branded as traitors and your entire families killed and their bodies will be scattered to the wind after being burnt to ash. Your records will be erased as even the Fire Daimyo will be advised to issue a kill on sight order for you and your associates. The bingo books will carry S- Rank, KILL ON SIGHT orders. Your choice. I have, for too long allowed you to dod a you please and I am sick of it. I am the Hokage and you will all refer to me as such. Though I am ashamed as what you all have done. And Danzo, if I find there were any other stupid actions you took after I finish interrogating Fu and Torune, you will pay with your blood. Am I clear?" Hiruzen spoke without any mercy or emotion visible on his face. All the ANBU had taken position behind Elders and Hiruzen himself was flanked by two of them.
They all nodded even Danzo who looked to be in massive amounts of pain after the seals had been applied.
"Your ROOT ninja will be given rehabilitation training, while their seals that inhibit their ability to speak and think freely will be removed. I will be personally overtaking the command of ROOt and you will be introducing me to them. Though you will be their commander but you will be reporting to me. I will be making sure of their loyalty to the village and heaven help you, Danzo if there are any children in the black ops. Now, that is over. Let's talk about your roles in allowing Uzumaki clan and the history of this village to be altered. Let's talk." He spoke and the talks began that would shape Konoha into a better place.
Uzushiogakure no Sato, Uzu no Kuni
There was silence in the grounds of Uzu no Kuni as the three legendary ninja's stepped out of their coffins and stood in front of the persons that had revived them. Hinata Hyuuga who had used the technique in the future before she came to the past was intimately familiar with the ins and out of the technique but that was when she had massive and superbly fine controlled chakra reserves. Right now her body was feeling incredibly strained due to the chakra requirements of the technique was glad Naruto-Kun was there to keep hold of her for the duration of calling the people through the use of Edo-Tensei.
Kurenai and Anko were arguably in shock. Here in front of them were the two figures of the Shinobi Era who were widely recognised for their power and strength. Both were the previous kages of their village and the woman if they had read one's history would know of her prowess and strength in battlefield and politics. Both women shuddered at the cold and much refined and noble look Mito Uzumaki was wearing that both the kunoichi were envious of albeit they were more in awe than jealous. Looking at the woman who was looking as if she was going to rain hell upon them at any moment and knowing the woman's prowess in fuuinjutsu, it was not impossible for her to do so.
"Shodai-sama and Nidaime-sama, it is an honour to meet you both, though we are sorry for not recognising Mito Uzumaki due to the fact that the history of the Uzumaki clan was nearly wiped from the archives of the Konoha after the destruction of Uzu and you can thank your protégé Danzo Shimura along with Sandaime's ex-teammates Koharu and Homura for helping him to suppress the truth of Konoha's ties with Uzu. We are Kunoichi of Konoha Shinobi forces and My name is Kurenai Yuhi while my companion is Anko Mitarashi. She is a Special Jounin and works in Torture and Interrogation Department. We are in the ruins of Uzu no Kuni for training two Heirs of Clans. They are Naruto Uzumaki and his childhood friend Hinata Hyuuga. They both were the ones who summoned you but we are at a loss at how they brought you back to life as we know that you are dead." Spoke Kurenai while suppressing her fan girl personality at seeing the two of the most widely recognised figures in Konoha.
Anko was even worse as she was licking her lips at seeing such dangerous ninja's in front of her. Though it had taken her a while she had recognised the woman immediately from the pictures that Kushina Sensei had shown her once when she had gone to learn kenjutsu from her. The woman in front of them was no other than the legendary Mito Uzumaki-Senju, wife of the First Hokage Hashirama Senju and the most advanced fuuinjutsu user in her time and many times better than the Yondaime, Sandaime, Jiraiya and even Kushina Uzumaki. She suddenly thought back at what Hinata had said before coming here, that there might be someone who could remove her curse seal and her eyes became wet slightly at the chance of finally being free of the snake bastard that had ruined her life.
Mito Uzumaki was not a woman who could be surprised easily. The last thing she remembered was feeling the sweet release of freedom while sleeping in her bed at the age of hundred and twenty. She remembered a bright light and then nothing. A few moments before she had felt a pull and then the feeling of suffocation as if she had been put into a small box and the feeling disappeared as soon as it came. The door opened and she found that the box was nothing more than a coffin and her keen eyes caught the sight of the seals written on the coffin. She also saw her husband and his brother being present with her and immediately knew that something was wrong as they were supposed to be dead. Like her they also seemed to be a bit confused at how they were suddenly alive but she saw something like a realisation pass on Tobirama's face before he schooled his features and looked resigned to himself.
Her eyes immediately looked in front of her and she found an odd group in front of her consisting of two beautiful and young women in their late teens or early twenties. The Konoha headbands they were wearing made her relax but then she saw them, a Hyuuga girl and a boy with bright blond hair and ice blue eyes. Those eyes immediately looked into her and she caught the sight of several emotions including pain, sadness, hurt and hope. Her emotion sensing ability activated and she found that he contained a very familiar source of chakra though it seemed to be diminished and incomplete. Her mind went into overdrive at the thought of the boy in front her being a jinchuriki and that of the Kyuubi no Kitsune of which she was the very first container.
But it couldn't be because he looked nothing like an Uzumaki. When the introductions were being done her hands clenched at the thought of Konoha wiping out the history of her clan with the village and making their roles nonexistent. Even her husband and her brother had been angry at the news they heard, for her negative emotion sensing had managed to find out the spike of anger and she knew both were itching like her to go to Konoha and unleash hell upon Sarutobi and the others. She was about to speak but her husband stepped forth and spoke," It seems that we have been recalled into the world of living because I remember dying in the battle field during the first shinobi war. What about you two, Tobirama and Mito, how was life after I passed on. Did the village remain stable?"
"I died after I was attacked by Hanzo of Ame. He betrayed me and attacked me after I had been attacked by the Kumo forces. I helped my team to escape and was severely weakened. It led to my defeat. Though I can understand. It was foolish of me to believe that Hanzo would not take advantage of the fact due to the pact we had made, but he was rather ruthless and cunning." Spoke Tobirama Senju.
"You cannot talk about ruthlessness, for you are the one who practically created ruthlessness for your own agenda. In a battle you are a quite fearsome and brutal opponent as witnessed by your battle tactics: taking advantage of any lapse in defence of your enemies, crudely and calculatingly attacking them at moments they were vulnerable.
It seems that you recognise the technique used to bring you back. How can you not, for you were the one who created it in the first place." Spoke Naruto earning surprised looks from Anko and Kurenai at his knowledge.
"Yes. I recognise it though I am surprised that you managed to perform an Edo Tensei. I sense a great chakra in you, you are the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi aren't you and at least a half blooded Uzumaki. Also you have minute traces of Senju chakra in you. But I think we all want to ask how a child can know a kinjutsu and perform it without flinching. You know the requirements for the jutsu, a living sacrifice. How does a child know about this technique which was sealed in the Forbidden Scroll. And don't even think about lying to me." He commanded while leaking a minute amount of his Killing Intent at them causing both Kunoichi to look alarmed at the knowledge of needing a sacrifice for the kinjustu. But before they could say anything, Naruto answered while keeping calm.
"You can switch off your intimidation tactics Lord Second because it was the only way that we both could talk to you about several things. All of them are important for the coming future but it would be better if less persons know about it. So if Lady Uzumaki would be so kind to raise a barrier between our teachers and you that would block all sound and sight, it would be beneficial to us all. And Please, Anko-san and Kurenai sensei, do not attempt to say otherwise. We will discuss about jutsu and its requirements later." Naruto finished on a commanding note.
"Yes. Both Hashi-kun and I would like to know more about the village and it's state and also how you possess the Kyuubi. What happened to Kushina and our family? And what do you mean about the coming conflicts in the future?" asked Mito Uzumaki while she raised a Fuuinjustu barrier that hindered sight and sound while making a hidden sweep for any bugs or summons that could be used for spying.
In a flash, Hinata had moved behind Naruto and using her Jyuuken gone for a blow that immediately knocked him out."Sorry Naruto-kun but I think that you are not ready for this talk right now." She spoke apologetically as she lowered him on the ground slowly while this action startled the un-dead summons but all relaxed at her words.
"Gomen-sai but it was necessary for he is not ready for what I am going to tell you all. My name is Hinata Hyuuga and I am using the contact Lady Mito and my Great grandfather cooked up to save myself from the barbarian rule of the Hyuuga Elders and I love Naruto-kun with all my heart. Though I look like I'm only eight years old but it is not true. My mental age is close to being forty years old and that is due to the fact that..." she told as far as she was interrupted.
"Because you travelled back into the past. Don't look so surprised for it was one of my unfinished and fancy ideas that were based on the things that Mito's father showed me. I presume that my diary was lost and you found the research for the jutsu and finished the incomplete Uzumaki technique. I had planned to go back and change the way my fight ended with Madara but fate had other plans for me. If you don't mind me asking how many years it took for you to complete the jutsu?" said a jovial looking Hashirama, ignoring Tobirama face palming and Mito muttering some not very nice things that she was going to do to her baka of a husband if she got the time.
"Nearly ten years Shodaime-sama but please listen what I have to say and the reason I came back..." spoke Hinata while all three listened to her tale of the terrible future that was to come if they were unprepared.
She told about the survival of Madara Uchiha after his fight with the First Hokage and his mad Moon Eye Plan. She told about Akatsuki and their goals. The attack of the Kyuubi on the Village Konoha and the truth behind the failure of the seal of Kushina. The treatment of Naruto in the village before she met him and took him with her. The plans of Danzo that he did using ROOT shinobi, Sarutobi's failure of killing Orochimaru and Orochimaru's mad quest for immortality. The attack on Konoha during the Chunin exams and many other things including the Massacre of the Uchiha clan and it's truth. She specially told about the Fourth Shinobi War and Madara's role in it and Naruto's death and why she had come to the past. In the end all three were wearing grim looks at the chaotic and problem filled future that was to come in time. They were worried about many things but before anyone could say anything else, Tobirama spoke," You mentioned the Uchiha's were wiped out. And you say that I am responsible for it. Can to tell me how and why?"
"Lord Second, during your reign you were primarily responsible for establishing Konoha's organisational system and You established various organisations such as the Academy, the ANBU, the Chunin Exams and the Konoha Military Police Force, the latter of which you created as a sign of trust towards the Uchiha who made up the majority of that organisation. However, many of your policies and jutsu that you developed ended up causing problems later down the line. Danzo believes and I know you also believe that the rebellious elements bearing Madara's will would always be smouldering in the Uchiha clan.
But you are the one who drove the Uchiha to it, Lord Second. It could be said that the seeds got sown with the Uchiha Police Force you created. People who crack down on crime are often easily disliked. The more authority such a group has, more conceited it can get. You conspicuously shoved them away to the outskirts of the village, next to the prison under the pretext of closely monitoring the criminals.
A few members of the Uchiha clan would later come to believe that this was just an elaborate way to ostracise them from the village, and its government. This led them to secretly follow the will of Madara Uchiha and decades later, be massacred after plotting to stage a coup d'etat. Though that is a matter which is not important right now." Answered Hinata without flinching at the glare and power surrounding Nidaime Hokage during her explanation.
"Tobirama calm down now! I understand your worries and I am even more worried at what the future holds for my descendant. He already has faced such pain at a young age and will be hunted later in his life. Though I want to thank you on his behalf for taking him under your care. I hope you will continue to help him and I have decided that I will help him to best of my abilities," spoke Mito and turned a sickly sweet smile at both Hashirama and Tobirama, both who began sweating under her crazy look bordering on insane and spoke with her voice sending shivers down their un-dead spines and an Oni peeking out from behind her," and these two will also help all of you in the training for the next two years. Won't you Hashi-kun and Tobi-chan?"
"Yess... w..w...e..ee will help. Say it Tobirama won't you?" spoke a madly sweating Hashirama with a very enthusiastic Tobirama nodding like a bobble head.
The sickly aura disappeared and Hinata breathed out a sigh of relief. She went to Naruto and using her knowledge woke him up.
Naruto woke to a pounding headache and he asked the first thing that came to his mind," Mind telling me how I have this killer headache, Hinata-chan?" he asked with his frosted smile, which was just a quirk of his lips at the edges but suited him just fine. She blushed while silently wondering when she would see his wide foxy smile of his, again.
"Ano.. Naruto-kun. You were so excited that you slipped and cracked your head on the pavement and became unconscious for two hours. I discussed everything with them and they have decided to help us and our minders... oh... I forgot about them. Lady Mito will you please drop the barrier. I will have to calm them about the Kinjutsu and maybe you can help us. I told you everything, didn't I?" Hinata asked while pleading with her eyes, a gesture not lost on lady Mito who could feel the turmoil within the young Hyuuga heiress.
"Yes, you did. Now let us drop the barrier and tell them what we have decided for you all. Fuiin Kai!." Lady Mito said while making a ram hand seal. The red barrier around them dropped and Anko and Kurenai rushed towards them and Anko snarled at Mito and said," What the hell, you old hag! Couldn't you warn us that you were going to take that much time. We were waiting for many hourr,,,,ss... " she trailed off as a massive and terrible KI fell upon them. Lady Mito was standing in front of her looking ready to punch the daylights out of her with a terrible aura behind her looking just like an Oni which looked like it was going to rain hell upon them. The sky had darkened and storm clouds broiled behind her making her an intimidating sight.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME JUST NOW! LET ME JUST TELL YOU I AM NOT OLD. GOT IT CHILD!" Lady Mito roared while Hashirama and Tobirama had face palmed at the loss of composure and the hot headed angry temperament of the Uzumaki woman. Everyone cowered from the obviously bipolar woman who then smiled sweetly at them making all of them at the edge. It was not a 'I am happy to see you smile.' But rather it looked more like a 'I am going to skin you alive and then pour salt and acids on your bare skin' type smile and sent shivers down everyone's spines. Anko felt that she had just signed her death certificate at her mad and insane look. Kurenai and Naruto shot her a look that had her feeling a bit worried while Hinata's reaction had her sweating bullets. The girl was looking at Lady Mito with what could only be interpreted as awe and a healthy dose of hero worship. Anko shivered at the feeling of disturbance in the natural order of things and then apologised to all.
"It is all right. Now we have decided to train you all but only on certain conditions that are as follows. Break them and we will kill you and dump your bodies in the sea as fish food. Got it or not." It did not look like the woman was joking and both Kurenai and Anko nodded immediately at her glare. Naruto looked amused but with his ice cold expression it was really hard to say.
"Oh yes. Now the conditions and the rules. The rules are simple and easy.
· Never be late.
· Proper respect must be shown to us at all times when we are your teachers and to your companions while in formal occasions.
· No one is allowed to try and persuade another not to leave.
· Training uniforms will be worn at all times except when bathing and sleeping and they will be given to you tomorrow.
· No complaints.
· Expect the unexpected.
· After your training is complete you may train whoever you deem worthy but you must take responsibility for that person's action
Finally, you must never reveal the location of the place or the source of your training. Even if that old monkey Saru- chan asks, you are all going to lie. This is essential as we want to keep this technique a secret and why is that I will tell you all later.
Burn these rules into your memories and never forget them, write it down if you must, but so long as you are here you will be governed by these rules. After which, you are free to make your own decisions. I want an oath on that, on your blood and your headband." She spoke seriously.
"Hai shishou," they all answered at once and recited the oath.
"Good," she said with a smile coming across her lips, "now, the guidelines we are about to give you is for your benefit and following them will help you greatly in your training so pay close attention and feel free to ask for clarification on anything when my husband is done."
They all nodded their heads with varying degrees of excitement with the prospects of finally beginning their training under the legendary ninja's. Hashirama stepped in front of them and spoke in his own soothing voice. "Take everything one step at a time, have patience with yourself and rest when you are supposed to rest," and he turned serious, "and most importantly never let your emotions guide you, let them strengthen you and motivate you but a decision made solely on emotions such as hate, anger, jealousy, greed and vengeance is a poor decision and in the end will only lead to suffering."
Hinata suddenly had a feeling of sadness wash over her; the words the Hokage spoke had a profound effect on her as she knew from firsthand experience what he was talking about.
"Now that that has been said, remember it and hold fast to it. Are there any questions?" This time Kurenai was the first to speak up. "when we will begin our training sensei and for how long will we be under your care.?"
This time Tobirama who had been standing in the corner, straightened and then spoke," Two days after today at the dawn of the first ray of light, we will begin our training and it will run for nearly five years. Do not worry for Hinata had told us that we have only two years. Fortunately for us, Lady Mito will be opening a Special Training Chamber in Uzu, which was sealed by her before she came to Konoha. It was a project that she lost interest in but she completed it and sealed it away for the future use of Uzumaki Clan. The Chamber can slow down time and we can adjust the chamber setting so that the next one and a half year will be equal to five years. But remember that you will also age accordingly inside. Outside the time may be one and a half years but you will lose five years of your life. Tell me do you find this acceptable?" when they all nodded he went on," Ok then you all get your supplies and we will get food for the time frame in our sealing scrolls. Lady Mito will unseal the chamber and repair any damage that has been done to it. My elder brother will help you in making a Monument for the fallen Uzumaki brethren and also help in the repairs for the village. Don't worry for it is our way of atoning for the failure of the village not helping its allies." He sighed and then looked out towards the ruins of the buildings of the village that was once home to one of the most feared clans in the Elemental Nations.
All of the present persons moved towards their respective tasks and soon the town square was empty except for a bird or a rabbit.
Two Days Later
All the seven people were standing in front of the underground caverns that were beneath Uzu that had been hidden by using seals and several genjutsu. The entire pathway had several traps and other security seals present. Lady Mito had taken the last two days combing over the entire island with Hashirama and Tobirama cleaning the island and the whole security seals of the island were activated and then the entire island had been filled from the trees from the Hashirama's Mokuton. The entire trees were kept close to the village boundaries. It was done to remove the cover up of the battle of Uzu and the invasion marks left on the land. He also created a huge tree as a monument for the fallen Uzumaki's. The last two days were easily the most hectic for the living as being un-dead summons all of them worked tirelessly to make Uzu habitable again and to serve as a base of operations.
Lady Mito went through several hand signs at a rapid rate that were practically a blur from all even to Kurenai and Anko. The cavern wall rippled as several seals flashed into being with each vanishing at a very fast rate one after the another. Everyone seemed to be enthusiastic at seeing such high level fuuinjutsu and suddenly a part of the wall vanished into nothingness and a path became illuminated with torches burning all along the way.
"Follow me and keep to the path. And please don't go on anywhere without anyone with you or you might get lost forever." She spoke making others oddly spooked though no one noticed the slight smirk adorning the corner of her mouth.
The party of seven persons moved through the caverns and then suddenly there was a ripple of movement that encompassed the entire group and they were suddenly walking on lush plane complete with green grass and plant life. Everyone except Mito had their eyes widened by the sudden change in scenery when suddenly both Hashirama and Tobirama stiffened and shot Lady Mito an incredulous gaze filled with awe and fear.
"Is this a summoning plane? You found or created an entire summon plane by yourself, Mito. I am so proud. I got a real ass kicking wife of mine who knows what her stuff..." Hashirama was promptly bashed on the head by her slightly blushing wife who looked everywhere but at her companions.
"Yes. This was a summoning plane for an ancient creature called Kraken but it died many thousand years ago. My Uzumaki ancestors found this plane and began experimenting to try to become sages here. However, one of them was more interested in making this plane a perfect training ground and he created several seals to change this plane. It is located in a pocket dimension accessible only by a certain path that we took located underneath the land of Uzu. I managed to create a time seal on this plane that allows me to manipulate time with respect to the real world but the only drawback is that our bodies age like we would have if we spent time in the real world. Whatever we need, this plane can become and don't take it as an illusion. It is very real. The seals created by my ancestor change the landscape by manipulating the seals and all we have to do is know the correct sequence to do so. This is our training ground and we will begin it from now. Get ready for this is the last time to back out. After this there is no turning back." Spoke Lady Mito.
Naruto, Hinata, Anko and Kurenai all nodded with serious expressions on their faces and with a final hand seal, the cavern became shut sealing the persons inside for the next one and half years in real time but inside it was going to long and hard five years underneath the ninjas that were once legends of their time frame.
All the three un-dead ninja's were looking at their four students for the next five years. This time frame they had gotten was enough to make them into decent ninjas of old time. From what they had managed to find out the standards for the ninjas had fallen very far. Today Jounin was equivalent to the Warring Era's Elite Genin. This was all due to the fact that the ninja's of this age had become complacent due to the long era's of fake peace and that is why they had been slaughtered in the Fourth Shinobi War. This attitude was what they had to break and by the gods they would do so.
"Now follow me outside so that we can begin, and do not keep me waiting." Said Hashirama in his happy go lucky voice and went out of the Mokuton House he had made using his bloodline.
Forty five minutes later the four students were finally outside, it took them fifteen minutes just to stand up due to the gravity and resistance seals that had been planted on their bodies by Lady Mito. They were more difficult to work with due to their intricacies and complexity.
"Now that you are finally here start running and don't stop till I tell you to stop," Tobirama said, "I need to see where I need to start with you."
They ran all morning nonstop until one by one they each began to drop from exhaustion one by one until finally Naruto came to a crashing halt after seven kilometres worth of running. They had covered a distance that would be considered reasonable for a Genin with the exception of Kurenai and Hinata who couldn't make past two kilometres.
"Alright meditate for 15 minutes and when you're done I will teach you how to conceal weapons so you don't have to go about with that pouch and holster all the time." Lady Mito said calmly, "and I have already taken the liberty of burning your weapons pouch and holsters."
After they meditated she began to demonstrate the art of concealing weapons.
"Now you try," she said as she made an entire box of senbon, thirty Kunai, fifty Shuriken, a pair of Kamas, a pair of sais, a short sword and two Fuma shuriken appear from her clothing and then making it all 'disappear' back into her clothes. She then unfurled a scroll which she pulled out from under her kimono and unsealed an arsenal three times as much as what she was currently carrying. The best thing about the weapons was that they were all made of chakra metal. She looked at their amazed and awed faces and sighed to herself. These tricks were taught to herself and her generation of all Shinobi such little tricks and this was nothing for them. It made getting one's weapons being unable to be seized and one couldn't to be unarmed even after getting caught. She often wondered how much the standards the village and the academy had fallen now-a-days.
Later that day, Naruto and the others, after getting the hang of concealing weapons were treated to a meal of rice, fish and vegetables. "Now that you have learnt the art of concealing weapons, I must increase the level of this art. For now these are your weapons. In Uzu, we were given these grade of weapons in our clan house after we learnt to be dangerous with the training weapons but before we were even not even allowed to touch the metal. So taking that in mind, I will teach you all to be deadly with nothing but a pair of chopsticks, paper or even your food." Said Lady Mito while others looked suitably scared or in case of Hinata, awed. She then took away their metal weapons and unsealed their new ones. Anko had pouted a bit on relinquishing the weapons but one KI enhanced glare later, she practically gave the entire armoury she carried over to Mito-sama.
The funny thing about the new weapons was that they were all made of construction paper.
"These are your new weapons, and until you are able to use them like real weapons you are forbidden to use real ones," she said noting the incredulous faces of her three students, "reason being, a ninja must be able to make anything in his hands a deadly weapon from a stick to a peanut as I want to you all to be. Now start concealing these weapons, when I return there must be nothing left in your piles and I must not see any unusual bulges."
But before she was gone in to the house she paused. "And don't bend them. When you get the hang of this you may wash up, eat and rest, your mental training begins tomorrow," she began to walk away with one last thing to say before she disappeared in the door way, "Enjoy this freedom while it lasts for tomorrow your new life truly begins and your old life ends. We will forge you to be the best and that is our promise to the world."
After dinner they all returned to their common room where they were asked to sleep side by side on futons, but not before showering first. Their sensei's locked them all inside the room saying it was for their own good and that they needed to become less distracted by the body of the opposite gender and that Naruto was lucky to be getting such good training and need to grow up and stop acting like a child and that he would get used to it. They eventually did become accustomed to seeing such sights but that did not mean Anko did not stop teasing others with her body. She even groped Naruto's crotch before giving Hinata a sly grin while the said girl glared at her heatedly. Kurenai often tried not to ogle Anko like a piece of meat. Poor Naruto had the worst. To him every female body was like a dream goddess. Anko's groping had made turn redder than a Tomato. He had just tried to ignore the feelings that erupted in his stomach at the sight of beautiful nude females.
After they were settled Tobirama came in and made them aware of the three charts on the ceiling of their sleeping room, one of which was chart of pressure points and their effects – death, paralysis and unconsciousness –and the other a chart of striking point and their effects.
"Memorize each and every one of these points and their effects as well as combining consecutive pressure points or striking points. Make them second nature to you."
With that he left, leaving three very tired students staring at the ceiling, trying to memorise the charts with diligence. He grinned to himself for tomorrow was going to be the beginning of true hell for these cute little students.
THE NEXT DAY
It was five O' clock in the morning and our four Ninjas in training were all snug and warm on their futons dreaming happy dreams until a torrent of ice cold water was dashed on them immediately jolting them from their slumber –they're not accustomed to the water on that cold as freezing ice.
"You have twenty minutes to get ready and eat breakfast, after that meet me behind the house." Said Lady Mito and Tobirama nodded while lowering his hand which was how they knew he was responsible for their impromptu bath.
With that they disappeared in the shadows of the room.
All of them complied even though reluctantly as they hastily washed up, put on their clothes for training and ate breakfast but they soon felt ill as they saw what their sensei had set up for them at the back of the house.
The back of the house was like a forest and got darker the further you looked and there was a lake to the right but that was not the cause for their sudden illness. The back of the house looked like something out of a war movie except with a lot more traps that actually worked. There was an obstacle course starting with a twelve foot wall and a single ninja wire spanning fifty feet attached to the top of the wall and a poll of similar height. From that there was more poles scattered haphazardly about in different heights leading to the lake and from the lake thin slabs of either cardboard or sheeting ply on the surface in an arc leading back to the land where rows of swinging blades awaited them to pass through then through a jungle of ribbons and soft material all with a large sheet of foil paper underneath and a second twelve foot wall with a board perched on a stand on the other end, not to mention everything had bells on them. The scariest thing was… that was the things they could see.
As they stared wide eyed at the Torture machine, Tobirama cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Before you begin, first warm up by stretching then do fifty push ups, seventy five sit ups and a five kilometre jog. Get going." He barked
To some that sounded like exactly what it was, a warm up, but when you are not accustomed wearing seals, while wearing a weighted suit that resists every motion you make and adds fifty pounds to your body this warm up was more like having a run up a mountain while carrying a heavy slab of stone on your body.
Two hours later they were finished with their warm up. Naruto didn't know how much more he could go, Hinata and Anko didn't know how they made it and Kurenai being the only ninja with the least stamina was in tears as Lady Mito had practically forced them all to finish and yet she did not give up even though she was taunted, ridiculed and belittled all the way at random intervals.
With all resting, Tobirama was explaining their assignment or torture or whatever you want to call it.
"Firstly, I forbid the use chakra in this exercise," that seemed to take the wind out of Naruto's sail, "you must scale the wall, move across the tight wire while killing or incapacitating the hidden targets, if you don't they attack back, hop from poll to poll without falling while dodging the weapons we will be throwing at you, next, you run across the sheets on the lake and kill or incapacitate the targets in the boat without falling in, make it through the blades without getting sliced up and through the ribbons and sheet without disturbing it, go over the second wall and land on the board without breaking it or making a sound."
Each of the four students were as pale as ghosts now, unfortunately it did not end there.
"Oh, if here a bell, the sound of the foil, I see the ribbon or sheets move or you get hit by a weapon you start over immediately and you will do this every day except Sunday until you can do the entire course in thirty seconds or less," the grin he had on was almost sadistic, "hey no need to worry, this is only level one. Oh, by the way, and no blood line ability. Begin."
And they were moving towards their destiny...