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This chapter will mainly go over Akuma's training over the next few years as well as a few other things to keep it semi-interesting.
Also here are some responses to a few reviews that everyone can see. If you want to know what they asked, go look into the reviews real quick, if the story gets popular enough to where there are more than 100 reviews then I'll come back and write them out.
RagingSoul (February 8)- Akuma will not be injected with any bloodlines in this story. This is because he already will be overpowered with his clones learning all sorts of things constantly and the Kyuubi helping him out in the future. Maybe one day I will write a story to where Orochimaru just gives Naruto all sorts of bloodlines before someone finds him, but that won't be until a few months later probably.
BClassDemon (February 7)- Akuma will be using sealing and will one day become a master in the arts. However, this will take way longer than most other skills he will master because of the low amount of clones he can use for this specific skill. Also, I am not sure whether or not Orochimaru should put his soul in the curse mark thing. I mean if I keep it it would be a last resort in case he dies to come back and could play a huge part in the story, but if I ever want to kill him off for emotional development it would go like this. "Oh no! Dad's dead! Well good thing we can always bring him back with good ole curse marks!" You know what I mean? So really, it depends on which I think would be better for the story as a whole, even if it means he doesn't die or something.
And to everyone else who told me to keep up the work and good job, I sincerely thank you! I'm not going to abandon this story no matter how long it takes to write, but updates will take longer to upload soon. The only reason I can write so much right now is because I am recovering from surgery and can't go to school or work. When I recover, instead of having like 12 hours to write I will have about 3-4 hours. I hope you guys can wait on those updates and I hope you enjoy the rest of this story.
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Akuma jumped out of his bed in a flash as his alarm clock went off. This was the day. His father would finally begin his real training that wasn't just physical activity. He looked around and smiled as his father had also finally let him decorate his own room. Houses in Oto were mostly stone but there were a few other materials here and there. He himself lived in the Otokage's Mansion which was pure marble with snake carvings all throughout the building. His room was surprisingly small compared to other rooms in the house and all he used to have in it was a bed and a closet for his clothes. Now, he had a poster for the up-and-coming ninja team, the Element Destroyers. They were a three man team that his father supposedly sent on the most important missions for the village. The members were Ken Tetsu, their close combat master, a young genius recruited last year named Guren, and Orochimaru's old assistant, Naifu Fuma.
In addition to the cool poster of those three ninja standing in front of a snake while doing awesome posters he had a few other things. He had a couch, a television that was programed with educational channels, a bookshelf filled to the brim with books about phycology, his latest interest, and other things he found interesting, and a few dumbbells. There were no toys as his father, and by extent Akuma, thought that playing around was a waste of time when he could be learning. Speaking of his father, Akuma actually hadn't seen him as much as he used to. Orochimaru was very busy lately with various new experiments and more new recruits coming into the village. They still did not have enough ninja to combat Konoha's forces of 12,000 shinobi. However, Oto was getting more and more ninja, approaching 2,000 at this point.
Akuma knew that his father was starting to get annoyed with all of these jobs he had to do. Oto now had 4 clans with a new one known as the Taranku Clan being formed by Suika. What he did was adopt the minimum number of people required for a clan, 25. There were plenty of people willing to be recruited with around 400 people joining the village per year now but Suika said he wanted a small clan until they could learn how to control the spiders in a way like the Aburame Clan. Orochimaru actually helped with that project so that now they could communicate telepathically with the spiders. He was now trying to make their DNA able to produce a hard, web-like material that could be used as weapons or armor. One member of the clan that had joined after fleeing to Oto was a very young boy with a biological deficiency, giving him 6 arms instead of two. His name was Kidomaru or something if he heard his father right and he was only a year older than him.
Akuma finished getting dressed in his training gear. His birthday was yesterday and his father told him to report to the training room about an hour after he woke up. His training gear was made up of grey plated armor over a black long sleeved shirt, black pants with bandages wrapped around his right leg's thigh, black sandals with bandages wrapped around his ankles, and a black mask that covered everything below his eyes to his neck. He looked a lot like Orochimaru in his Konoha Sannin days except for the mask.
When he finished getting ready he went out of his door and headed towards the stairs. The building was a two story one and had an amazing 15 rooms. It seemed like there was a room for everything and in reality there was. Akuma's personal favorite room was the library, where books about everything filled each shelf until they reached the roof. It nearly as big as the Otogakure Library, but it served its purpose. He wondered what his training would be. He was thankful that he learned multiple chakra control exercises during his basic training. Thanks to the Kyuubi, who his father told him about as soon as he could understand what it meant, he was able to access his chakra earlier than most children. Ever since then, he has done nothing but chakra control exercises and taijutsu training.
His father even laid out a training plan for him. He would wake up at 5 a.m. then eat special food that gave out the most beneficial nutrients called Oto Bars, then he would start his physical activities for 3 hours, he would then start taijutsu training for 2 more hours, then chakra control for 2 hours, then ninjutsu training for 2 hours, kenjutsu training for another hour, sealing training for another hour, then stealth training for another hour, finally, he would be out researching and studying various subjects interesting to him or suggested by his father. Luckily, Oto Bars kept a person sustained for all day so he didn't have to waste training time with eating and slept at 8 p.m. to get the healthiest amount of sleep, 9 hours.
Most people anywhere else, except for one maniac with a bowl cut, would probably faint at the mere mention of this kind of intense training. This would happen until he was 7 years old, that was when he would choose his personal subordinates and start taking on missions. Personally he thought that was way too long of a wait, but his father wanted to be sure he could take on anyone when he left the village on missions. Akuma dropped by the kitchen and grabbed an Oto Bar before heading towards the training room again. Sure they tasted horrible, but they did their job and Akuma hasn't really had anything else anyway.
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"Kukuku, I see you are eager to begin your training Akuma-kun," Orochimaru chuckled as Akuma was basically bouncing in place right beside him.
"Yes, father I am. So what are you going to teach me? A fireball? A wind scythe? Maybe a giant earth snake!"
"Kukuku, no Akuma-kun, today I will teach you something much more useful than those petty attack jutsu that so many shinobi, myself included, enjoy using." He put his hands into a cross shaped seal and then smiled. "This jutsu is called the shadow clone jutsu, and with it you will learn 1,000 times as fast…"
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Guren cursed softly as she read over the reports of the area she and her team were about to destroy. Recently a small group of Iwa missing nin had made camp in the northern part of the Land of Sound but that wasn't what she was cursing about. To back them up, Lord Orochimaru had sent Kabuto and Suika to assist them in the extermination of twenty ninja ranging from chunin to jounin. According to Naifu who had done some espionage at the camp, there were three jounin in all while the rest were chunin. Apparently they were led by the ex-Explosion Corp captain, Baku Hatsu. The other two jounin were no-names, no problem.
If she was completely honest with herself, she couldn't see why Lord Orochimaru sent that infuriatingly arrogant jerk Kabuto. She had only met the kid once and she had to admit he was very skilled… for a 15 year old. She knew he was a jounin now because of his medical talent but she did not see how any of that would help them. They already had a medic and had a plan that would work to defeat all of the enemy in the camp below without the help of another skilled medic and a womanizer with a spider fetish. Ken would make many arrows which Naifu would put explosion notes on and then shoot them at the camp below. Anyone who survived the initial attack would either be picked off by Naifu, skewered by Ken's nagintina, or cut up by Guren's crystal blades.
Speaking of Ken, he was the only male on the team but thankfully did not seem that interested in either of them. He was shirtless to be able to make iron weapons anywhere on his body without ripping his clothes and wore purple plants with gold leg warmers. He was bald and his headband covered his entire head with the sound symbol etched into the front. He was also eyebrow less and was 30 years old with a very stern face and many muscles. She had yet to see anyone who could match him with a nagintina and the only one she had seen beat him in taijutsu was Orochimaru himself. However, he did not use ninjutsu much and only seemed to know a few earth style ones since his bloodline seemed to automatically give that affinity to all of the Tetsu Clan now.
She was actually the ninjutsu user of the team, knowing water style, fire style, and earth style ninjutsu since the crystal style was a combination of all three. She knew about 30 ninjutsu not including crystal style thanks to Orochimaru helping train her and had been learning taijutsu from Ken himself. Naifu was one of the stealthiest people in the village and was the best long range specialist. While this focus on other things made her medical ninjutsu not nearly as good as it could be, she could still heal a serious injury if they needed it. She also was considered a jounin level sealer and though she was nowhere near the sannin Jiraiya she was good enough to make longer range explosive notes.
She was just about to finish the plan when who else but Kabuto should bust into the tent. "Hello, how is the strategy coming along?" he asked in that superior tone of his. Kami, if it wasn't for Orochimaru's command she would have beheaded him.
"It is finished," she said frostily. "Naifu will fire out the explosive arrows towards the camp and Ken will pick off any survivors with the assistance of myself and Suika. You and Naifu will stay at the back in case of the need for medical assistance."
Kabuto frowned at her. "Why aren't you putting me down there with Ken and yourself? Surely, a medic who can defend himself would be a great asset down there."
"Well it's great you can defend yourself, that means that you are perfect for protecting our medic while she is shooting the enemy. We are meeting up on the cliff that overlooks the camp in five minutes, get prepared."
Kabuto forced himself to smile, "As you wish commander." With that statement he left to go meet up with Naifu and leave. Guren frowned after he left, this was the first mission where she was in charge and she'd be damned if she let him mess it up.
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There were not enough curses in the dictionary to match all of the, admittedly creative, ones Kabuto had come up with for Guren. Why should he be at the back like some lowly medic? He was able to sever peoples' nerves for Christ sake, you'd think that would be good enough to put him at the front lines. He was still a chunin however, so he really couldn't afford to argue with his superior out in the field or he'd never get a promotion.
At least he would be assisting Naifu on the mission, he didn't think his mind could take it if he had to work with another while at the same time not doing anything. Naifu was like an older sister to him and whenever they met, which were very few times since he was a spy and she did not have much reason to visit Konoha, they would hold long conversations about their medical discoveries and things about their respective villages. He also saw a kindred spirit in her as she also had to go through Akuma's Hell Test as the Sound Shinobi call it. Now, he was more like an older brother to Akuma and was actually glad to hear that he had begun his training a week before this mission.
According to Naifu, he had learned the shadow clone jutsu in less than a day, record time, and was learning jutsu, taijutsu, and kenjutsu styles rapidly thanks to his many clones. The only problem was that he couldn't use as many as he usually did, Kabuto had choked on his own spit when he heard he had made 300 on his first try, but could only use 10 so no information was lost when he was studying scrolls. He also couldn't use them to augment his physical abilities but people thought that in a few years he would know at least a hundred jutsu.
To be honest, he hoped that Orochimaru would choose him to train Akuma in a few ninjutsu or chakra control. That was another problem, many jutsu required less chakra than he had so he had to constantly train in chakra control which the clones could not help in either. He knew a few techniques that might help Akuma in the future. Speaking of training, he wondered who would be in charge of his training. Orochimaru was too busy to take care of the complete training but he did plan to save some time each day to teach his son ninjutsu. He was starting to hold auditions as well for Akuma's senseis and the line for that was HUGE when he was last in the village.
Akuma, despite his little tests that would make Ibiki proud, was loved by the entire village. To them he was their prince that Orochimaru would make his successor someday. Those that had met him, and weren't babysitting him, found that they were treated kindly and with respect which was different from most royalty. And that was what Akuma was in Oto, royalty. Parents dreamed of their daughters marrying him and their sons being his right hand man or most trusted advisor. Jounin dreamed of training him while chunin wanted to work with him and genin wanted to work under him. He was just 3 years old and already had all these people trusting him and praising him. He himself had thought that Akuma would be like Itachi, who faced death at the very young age of 4 during the war had become cold and withdrawn to almost everyone. Orochimaru did not want Akuma like that all of the time so he had made the decision to not allow Akuma out of the village until he was 7.
Speaking of which, he was tasked with scouting potential candidates for Akuma's squad in the future in Konoha. At the moment he would be looking into the Hyuga Clan for potential candidates. Orochimaru had cryptically told him not to worry about the curse seal and look at ALL Hyuga members about 4 months ago. He was suspicious that all of the seal users of Otogakure had gathered around that time for a very important experiment but he figured it didn't matter at the moment. Anyway, in Konoha he did not see very many people who would be willing to defect. Orochimaru had made it very clear that he wanted willing people to serve his son and there weren't very many interesting people who would willingly defect.
He shook himself out of his thoughts with a mental bookmark to look into the experiment from earlier when Naifu said that she was ready and everyone gathered up onto the overlooking cliff. He wasn't sure how many people that Naifu could take out with her arrows but he would be here to kill any stragglers. He looked down and immediately saw the leader, Baku Hatsu, with his right hand man next to their little fire. There were tents all around and he looked to Naifu who seemed to be thinking off something. She made some ANBU hand signs that Oto adopted from Konoha that basically said, "I will make some flame seals to ignite the tents as well."
Ken just nodded and made about thirty arrows from thirty pores on his body. He was one of the five people in his clan who could do this, the others were only able to use the pores on their hands and arms. The five that could use the bloodline like Ken were himself, the clan head, his daughter, his wife, and the clan head's daughter. Anyway, Naifu grabbed the arrows and pulled out a chakra blade from a sheath on the small of her back. It was purely ceremonial Kabuto was sure, it didn't seem to be used to fight. It was pure copper with a shuriken guard and jade handle.
He raised an eyebrow as the copper started radiating heat that he could feel from five feet away. He then raised the other one when he realized what she was doing. She was using chakra to heat up the blade and then started carving seals into the arrowheads on the iron arrows. In five minutes she had managed to do what would take most people an hour thanks to the heated blade. She nodded then brought out a scroll which unsealed her prized bow that was crafted by Orochimaru himself. The shaft of the bow was carved wood to look like scales and two snake heads on both end of the shaft. The bowstring was blood red in color and many said that it was because it had absorbed all of the blood of those she had slain.
She fixed the first arrow onto her bow and pulled it back. Slowly, she took aim and pointed it towards the leader of the missing nin. Kabuto looked at the arrow and his eyes widened when he saw it was an explosive arrow. As soon as the arrowhead made contact it would explode in a radius of ten yards. She let the arrow fly and it sunk into the leader's head with a loud 'squelch'. His partner could do nothing but watch and let out a half scream as the explosion killed him and also caught one of the tents, killing two more. Naifu did not stop for a second and grabbed the fire arrows before shooting them towards every tent.
Judging by the screams, a few were caught in the flames, but doing a quick count, Kabuto saw about 10 ninja out in the open. Naifu grabbed three arrows at once, all explosive, and they landed in the middle of clusters of enemies. After the explosion, only one remained with his arm missing. "Mission accomplished," she said in a smug tone before resealing her bow. "Orders commander?"
Guren sighed as she looked down at the remains of the camp. Naifu always got to have all the fun. She had hoped that at least one of the strong ones would have survived but Naifu was quickly becoming legendary for her ability to do things like this before the enemy could react. She might even dare to call her an assassin if she didn't have an explosion fetish. "Alright, Kabuto go down there and stop that man's bleeding. Orochimaru-sama wanted us to bring a prisoner to get information about Iwa. Luckily for us it seems like he was one of the jounin but it WOULD have been better if we would have gotten Baku's right hand man instead," she looked over at Naifu with a tick mark at this part, which Naifu promptly ignored.
Kabuto sighed as he leapt down the overlook and started heading towards the wounded ninja. He would put him unconscious before stopping the bleeding, the last thing he wanted was some shinobi with his pride wounded complaining the whole trip back to Oto. As he was healing the man, he couldn't help but think that he wished that he could have fought too.
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Jiraiya cursed as he came across the dead body of ANOTHER of his spies in the Land of Hot Water. He was currently in one of the big cities of the country, Ashizomaki. He had heard of a new ninja village being founded that accepted missing-nin of all things in their ranks. This was nothing new, but they accepted missing-nin from everywhere with no repercussions for their actions. According to his sources, a lot of missions were being taken from the eastern part of the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Rice Patties. He had only sent his spies here however after he heard that a shinobi went to each big city to gather requests from them and the surrounding area around it, including multiple small villages.
This made him lean more towards the Land of Rice Patties, but no-one knew where the village was! All they knew was that to get into the village you had to go to the capital and sign up. It was a long process where they wash you down to get rid of any disguises, have a chakra sensor see if you had a henge, and then put you up to a lie detector to and ask some questions. The people in charge of it also had a seal suspiciously like Danzo's Root shinobi had so they could not be interrogated. He would also have to wait a few years until even HE was allowed into the village because they were still starting out and were not yet willing to have a sannin in the village.
That in of itself was suspicious since they were the first village ever to not allow him to visit. Oh well, he would get in one day but now he needed to tell his spies to be a bit more careful. It seemed like this new village did not appreciate spies watching them at all. He wouldn't give up though, he had already failed him once and he'd be damned if he did it again. "Hold on Naruto… I'll find you soon and then be the godfather I should have been at the beginning," he whispered out into the air. He did not notice the white snake watching him from the shadows of a nearby alleyway or how it disappeared in a poof of smoke after he left.
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Well how did you guys like the chapter? By the way, the story will still be a bit slow like usual but will finally start up again when Akuma gets his team/subordinates/guard. I won't tell you guys who they will be but there will be four people on his team and one additional person that will make his/her own team. There will be one person from Oto, two from Konoha, one from Suna, and one person from Kumo. You can guess who those people are as you please. Also, next chapter will basically be father-son time between Akuma and Orochimaru so you guys know how their relationship is. Please remember to rate and review and thank you to all those who already have! It has made me know that I am doing most things in this right and it makes me extremely happy to know people are enjoying what I write. I'll (hopefully) see you guys in the next chapter, later!