Naruto of the Homunculus
I'm back everyone! The poll is still going strong.
Sasuke: 0
Sakura: 0
Both: 4
Neither: 4
Disclaimer: I still don't own Naruto or Fullmetal Alchemist. Darn.
After taking a boat to the Land of Waves, Team 7 arrived at Tazuna's house where they met Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter and Inari, Tazuna's grandson. While Tsunami was thrilled that they were here to free them from Gato, but Inari was far from that.
"So you've come to fight Gato?" said Inari, "What's the use, you'll just die."
"What'd you say?" exclaimed Naruto.
"All you heroes are the same," scoffed Inari, "you all live great lives and know nothing about pain and suffering and you always die."
"Inari!" scolded Tsunami.
"So brat, you think you know all about pain and suffering?" said Naruto in a dark voice, "Tell me, have you ever been tortured and hunted like a fox every birthday of your life?! Have you had to search the trash for food until a kind old man offered me food at his shop? You see you know nothing about true pain!"
With those words, Naruto stormed out of the house.
"N-no way," said Inari in a trembling voice, "he was lying about all that, right?"
"I'm sad to say that it's all true," said Kakashi, "Naruto has had the misfortune of being the bearer of a burden that causes the village to hate him and think of him as a demon or monster. He had to fight to survive and endured the scorn and punishments of the villagers. So you see, Naruto knows more than anyone about pain and suffering."
This caused Tazuna and his family to stare at the door that naruto just exited from.
"That boy," said Tazuna.
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Naruto found himself in a clearing full of flowers. Smiling he leaned against a tree and closed his eyes. After a while, Naruto picked up the sent of someone entering the clearing. Opening his eyes, he saw a feminine figure colecting herbs and plants.
"Hello there," said the figure upon noticing Naruto, "you know if you sleep outdoors you could catch a cold."
"Thanks," said Naruto, "so what are you doing here?"
"I am collecting healing herbs for someone precious to me," said the person, "do you have anyone precious to you?"
"I guess you could say that," said Naruto.
"That's good," said the figure, "a person is truly strong when they are protecting those who are precious to them."
"I hope your friend heals, miss hunter I'd like a rematch," said Naruto casualy.
"Wh-what are you talking about," said the figure nervously.
"I know you are the Hunter-nin that we faced earlier from your scent," said Naruto, "I can also smell Zabuza's scent on you so I know he's alive."
The Hunter-nin pulled out some senbon, "What do you want?"
"I have no intention of fighting at this moment," said Naruto, "but I will fight you if you force me too, though I hope we can be alies."
"You are an interesting one," said the hunter, "I will bring this message to my master. We will meet again."
"I'll look forward to it," said Naruto.
"Oh, and I'm a guy," said the Hunter-nin.
Chuckling at Naruto's gobsmaked expression, the Hunter-nin walked off.
xXsceneXx
The next day, Kakashi brought the team to an open field.
"Today we are going to go over some chakra control exersizes," said Kakashi, "so you're job is to climb these trees."
"How will climbing trees help our chakra control?" asked Sakura.
Kakashi then walked toward a tree. Placing one foot on the trunk, he proceeded to walk straight up the tree without using his hands.
"By channeling chakra to your feet, you can stick to objects, but it has to be a precise ammount or the technique won't work," said Kakashi.
Kakashi then handed out kunai to the team, "Use these to mark your progress."
Sakura and Sasuke nodded and began to try and run up the trees, but Naruto walked over to Kakashi instead.
"What's wrong Naruto?" asked Kakashi.
"Well, the thing is," said Naruto, "you know the unique powers that I have?"
"Yes, what about them?" said Kakashi as Sakura and Sasuke walked up to listen to the conversation too.
"The abilities came at a price," said Naruto, "in exchange for my special abilities, I lost my chakra reserves and any hope of ever using chakra."
The others were shocked at this.
"But how did you do all those things?" asked Sakura.
"It's a long story," said Naruto.
"We have time," said Kakashi.
"Well, it begins on the night of the day that we had the academy graduation exams," said Naruto, "I was tricked by Mizuki into stealing the forbbiden scroll under the impression that if I learned one technique from the scroll, I would graduate from the academy."
"Why did you believe him?" asked Sasuke.
"I was desperate," said Naruto, "anyway, I found a strange sealing array, or what I thought was a sealing array, and when I pushed chakra into it and was pulled into a white void where I met a being who called himself Truth. Truth offered me the powers that I now possess in exchange for my chakra and the Nine Tailed fox."
"The Nine Tailed Fox?" said Sasuke, "What does it have to do with anything?"
"The fox wasn't killed by the Fourth Hokage," said Naruto grimly, "it was sealed into a newborn child. Me."
"That's why the villagers treated you like that," said Sakura in shock, "Naruto, I had no idea."
"Yeah," said Naruto, "so that's the story. I bet you guys hate me now."
"Why would we hate you?" asked Sasuke, "You didn't want to have the fox sealed within you. Nor are you some demon because of that."
"That's right," said Sakura, "I've known you long enough to know that you're no monster."
"Thanks guys," said Naruto as a few tears fell from his eyes.
"So Naruto, what abilities do you have exactly," asked Sasuke.
"Well, I can extend my fingers and sharpen them to form a sort of Ultimate Spear that can pierce just about anything, I can change my skin into a sort of armor by turning the carbon in my skin to a substance that is as hard a diamond, I also have a powerful sense of smell that can rival an Inuzuka and I can change one of my eyes into an Ultimate Eye that can perceive weaknesses in my opponent. I can also manipulate my shadow similar to a Nara and use it to attack. I also have powerful healing abilities and super strength and speed and powerful kenjutsu skills and I can use Alchemy to transmute objects," explained Naruto, "I use these abilities to make up for my inability to use chakra."
'That Ultimate Eye sounds a lot like my Sharingan,' mused Kakashi, "What's this Alchemy that you mentioned?" he asked.
"Alchemy is the science of understanding, deconstructing, and reconstructing matter," said Naruto, "with it I am able to change the form of objects by deconstructing their molecular structure and reconstructing it as something different."
"So you can create any object you want with this power?" said Sakura.
"No," said Naruto, "I have to follow the law of Equivalent Exchange."
"Equivalent Exchange?" said Kakashi, "What's that?"
"It's a Law that all those who practice Alchemy must follow," said Naruto, "something cannot be created from nothing. To create something, I must change or destroy something of equivalent value or the transmutation will rebound back at me and injure me."
"Can you show us some of these abilities?" asked Kakashi/
"Sure," said Naruto, "stand back."
Naruto clapped his hands and slammed them into the ground. There were some arcs of blue energy and some metal spears rose from the ground.
"Amazing," said Kakashi, picking up one of the spears, "I have an idea, Sakura, Sasuke, you two work on the tree climbing exercise and Naruto and I will spar so I can determine his level for training."
The team nodded and began to train.
xXsceneXx
The next day, Team 7 escorted Tazuna to the bridge and stood guard as the workers worked to finish the bridge. Suddenly there was a whirring sound and Zabuza's sword flew at them and embedded itself in a concrete pillar. Immediately, Team 7 moved into defensive positions around Tazuna as Zabuza and his assistant appeared standing on the blade.
"Hey brat," yelled Zabuza to Naruto, "it's time to finish our match!"
To be Continued…