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Antex- The Legendary Zoroark (February 11)- your OC will be revealed in a few chapters once the actual story begins (it has taken a while I know, but I think it will be worth it) everyone, if you have an idea for an OC you want to see on this story please send the idea to me. I will be happy to find a place for them. Now, that doesn't mean they will automatically play a major role, they might die before the chapter ends, but they will still be shown in the story.
BClassDemon (February 11)- the reason Orochimaru has yet to recruit any Uchiha is because he has not finished his immortality jutsu. He finally finished the one seen in the series in this chapter and is beginning to try and kidnap/recruit Uchiha to possess since he would rather possess them then make a clan out of them.
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Akuma panted as he went through another of his katas. It has been two years since his training had begun and he could confidently say that he could take on most chunin. He was a jounin level ninjutsu level however, but that was because of his shadow clones. At first he and his father thought that his shadow clones could help him in taijutsu and kenjutsu as well but he was in for a rude awakening a week later. While they could learn forms and techniques effortlessly, since their bodies' memories did not transfer he did get any muscle memory or reflexes from the training.
However, over the last two years he had been training to increase his mobility, flexibility, and reflexes to get ready for a taijutsu style that his father would teach him personally. Until then however, he would train in the style that Ken-sensei had taught him, Aikido. This fighting style relied on counter-attacking his opponents with throws and strikes that he would enforce with chakra to break bones. He was thinking of incorporating daggers with the style, but that would wait until he became better with them.
Speaking of weapons, Ken was very impressed with Akuma's progress as of late. He was chunin level in both the katana and sai while genin level with daggers. Given another few years, Ken was sure Akuma would be jounin level in all three weapons. Also, Akuma had learned a lot about Ken in the past year that he had been his teacher.
Ken was the youngest son of the previous leader of the Fuma Clan with his oldest brother being the head of the Fuma Clan and the other being head of the Tetsu Clan. However, Ken was widely thought of as the strongest in either clans and one who was incredibly loyal to his family so he was never thought of as a threat for the position of clan head. He came from a large family with 3 brothers and 1 sister he had to work hard to be noticed by his father who was always too preoccupied teaching his older brother how to be clan head to worry about his other children. He was considered by all of them the one who took their mother since she had died while giving birth to him and was bullied until he could fight them back.
Despite all of this bullying, he eventually proved himself to all of them when an elder of the clan noticed his talent for the clan's taijutsu and kenjutsu styles. He quickly mastered both of them by the age of 10 and was considered the genius of the Fuma Clan. He made chunin at 11 and jounin at 16 while teaching his siblings how to fight himself. Eventually, his father noticed him and the bullying from his brothers and sister finally stopped and he was respected throughout the clan. However, tragedy struck when the Third Great Shinobi War began. His family was hired by Iwagakure to aid them in the war and they fought Konoha on many occasions.
His family was very helpful to Iwa, and this caused Konoha to kill any Fuma Clan member that they came across. Their unique green hair caused them to be easily targeted and was the reason Ken shaved his head. His brother, the future clan head, was the first Fuma to die in the world. He had been leading a small group of ninja and the next thing he knew, his head was blown off by a lightning style jutsu by none other than the White Fang of Konoha. Luckily, no more of Ken's siblings died until near the end of the war. Many more Fuma died to enemy shinobi and with each death Ken grew angrier and angrier. Eventually, his anger and eagerness to kill Konoha shinobi resulted in his sister's death by a lucky kunai throw by a genin named Asuma Sarutobi. He had broken that kid's ribs and arms and was about to cave the brat's skull in when his sensei had intervened. He had carved out that idiotic jounin with his nagintina but by the time he was done, the brat had escaped.
That was the day Ken had forsaken anger as best as he could. He was emotionless and logical most of the time and being the reason his sister died had left him in a deep depression that made the light leave his once bright hazel eyes. He reminded Akuma of steel, cold, uncaring, and deadly. That was probably one of the reasons of the man's nickname, Black Steel. "Enough thinking Akuma. There will be no time to think on the battlefield," as Ken said this he threw a few kunai that Akuma was forced to deflect. Whenever he got lost in thought he would get kunai launched at him. He was forced to choose between deflecting or dodging depending on the weapon or situation and getting it wrong would result in a particularly painful taijutsu match.
"Now, now, surely you can cut the boy some slack Ken-kun," a chuckling voice said from the doorway.
Ken grew a tick mark above his, well Akuma was going to say eyebrow butttt, which was a rare occurrence. "I really wish you wouldn't call me that Otokage-sama," Ken said in a voice that signaled he was annoyed, not that anyone who didn't know him could tell.
Orochimaru smirked and shrugged nonchalantly. "Fine, so how is Akuma-kun's training going Ken-chan?"
Ken put his face in his palms and breathed in and out slowly. Orochimaru loved to make Ken angry, it was just so fun to rile the war veteran up. "He is quickly mastering the weapons which I have decided to train him in. I have taught him the Soresu kenjutsu style and he is very proficient with sai as well. Daggers are still a work in progress but he should become chunin level with them soon. Also, he is high chunin in the Aikido taijutsu style and should become jounin level soon."
Orochimaru smiled at his son's progress. He would be his successor and he will enjoy hearing about him in the future from faraway lands. Of course it would also be nice to have someone at his level helping with experiments… He finally found a way to gain temporary immortality but he would need a body to possess before he tested out his new method. He would send Kabuto a message to record Uchiha going out on missions so that he could get a few to possess. As Orochimaru looked at Akuma he remembered something else. Project Falcon was going to happen soon… Oh how he could not wait for that, people would be talking about the event for centuries all because of little Akuma-kun there.
"Well, that is good to hear. You are such a good teacher in fact that I think it would be wise to give you a genin team in the future."
Ken's head snapped to Orochimaru after he had looked off momentarily. Not many people knew this, but Ken had always wanted to be a sensei ever since he had first started to help his siblings learn how to fight. "I- thank you Otokage-sama," Ken said while bowing low.
Orochimaru simply chuckled at the man and signaled for him to leave. He nodded and left the training room with a small grin on his face. The man was as strong as the Copy Ninja Kakashi, it would be good to have a few ninja be taught by someone like him. "Alright, Akuma-kun, you remember what today is right?" Orochimaru asked.
Akuma nodded excitedly, "It is the Oto Festival right?" The Oto Festival was a festival Orochimaru himself had made to increase moral and economy for the village. It was to celebrate the founding of Otogakure and was one of the few days that anyone was allowed into the village. Of course sensors and their version of Anbu, the Serpents, would be watching the visitors at all times but it was a chance for new clients to see their village. They would also hold multiple events like a play that included well known missions like the time Black Steel destroyed a bandit occupied samurai base singlehandedly or the time Orochimaru and his teammates fought Hanzo. With Orochimaru's exact memory of the event of course… And a tournament between 4 of Oto's best shinobi whose abilities were already in the bingo book so they could use the ones said. The participants were Ken Tetsu, Guren, Naifu Fuma, and Suika Taranku.
"Yes, now you need to get ready before we leave. We wouldn't want the Sound Prince to look like a bum."
"Father," Akuma whined. "You know I don't like that name, it makes me sounds lame. I want one like Black Steel or Green Beast."
"Well you'll have to earn a new name son. Don't worry, I am sure you will in due time," Orochimaru said with a smile that would make most run in fear, but was comforting to Akuma. He rubbed his son's hair and sent him off to his room to get ready for the tournament. He smiled and ran off to his room, he was extremely excited to see his taijutsu sensei fight his sealing sensei and hear another story about his father's ninja days. Orochimaru looked at where he left then looked down at his hand with a frown. His dye was wearing off and he was too old to think it was natural now, it seemed like he would have to tell him of his true parentage soon. Hopefully it would not cause him to defect from the village… Orochimaru cursed in his head, thinking of Akuma as a son had been an unexpected factor in his plan. No… Akuma wouldn't defect. He was more of a father to him than Minato was. That blonde bastard left the child alone in a village filled with hatred and malice. He didn't know why, but he hated him for that more than for taking his hokage position.
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Akuma looked around excitedly as he and his father walked through the streets. He was dressed in a purple kimono with golden snakes running across it as well as the Oto village symbol on his back. His hair was slicked back instead of spiked up like usual and he had a necklace given by the Land of Sound's Feudal Lord that was solid silver in the shape of a dragon.
His father was dressed in his Otokage garbs that looked exactly like the Hokage's but instead of red coloring there was purple. All around them civilians and shinobi bowed before going back to business and his father seemed to find it especially amusing when shinobi from Konoha bowed to him. He had already learned from his father the reasons he defected and why he experimented on those 'innocent' people. He did not blame him if he was honest. To make his home stronger, he would do anything as well. He just had to marvel at the stupidity of Konoha. They chose a blond war hero who was charismatic but golden hearted instead of a much more competent shinobi. When he ruled Oto, and he WOULD rule Oto, he would make sure nothing like that happened in his village.
"What's that father?" Akuma asked as he pointed to a stand that was selling some foreign food.
"Oh, that is an Akimichi food stand. They have restaurants in every village and will probably be asking for permission to make a restaurant here as well."
"But why? Don't Konoha shinobi hate you?"
Orochimaru smirked at his son's question. He was certainly a genius from all the books he and his shadow clones have read, but he still had a lot to learn about tactics. He also would have to hide his Icha Icha books harder from Akuma, it was a dirty little secret that every male shinobi owned one of the books from a series. While he was an idiot, he had to admit Jiraiya certainly had a gift with books. He would have to see if he would consider selling the franchise in Oto as well…
He looked to his son to see him still waiting for an answer. That was the problem with people, they always talked and expected you to talk as well. But soon Akuma would be so much more than human… he would be a shinobi. "Well, if they made a shop here then they would have a prime opportunity to 'spy' on our activities. Not only that but it would make them, and by extension, Konoha more money. I'm sure it is somewhat amusing to them to constantly receive money from their 'enemies'." Akuma nodded at this information and filed it away to ponder about later.
Meanwhile, Orochimaru thought about certain plans that were about to unfold. His village was doing decent economically but it needed much more franchises from other countries to come in. Businesses like the Gato Company and Akimichi Cafes were needed to keep the economy steady. While missions were still the main focus of economy, Orochimaru did not want to turn into what Suna is turning into, a village that depends on nothing but missions. Plus, opening up his village to foreigners would make it like all of the other villages and the spies that no doubt would come in would be great for experimentation…
"Hey, father what is that?" Akuma asked politely, ah he really did teach his son well didn't he? Orochimaru looked over towards where he was pointing and saw a ramen stand that little Minato and Kushina had always eaten at. They must have wanted to get more business or start a franchise. Oh well, Akuma probably wouldn't like ramen anyway. What harm would there be in letting him have some?
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Now, many things could be said about Orochimaru. Some said he was evil, some said he was a genius, some said he was the leader of Oto that would make it rise to greatness. But no-one had ever said that Orochimaru was a crier. Be that as it may, the great snake sannin really felt like crying as he and his son left the ramen stand. For a second there he thought he might have had to tap into the village treasury just to be able to afford feeding his son. After that, he had looked at him with that damn Puppy Eyed Jutsu that he was going to kill Kabuto for teaching to him and asked if they could allow the stand to make a franchise there.
Needless to say, in a month or two Ichiraku's Ramen would have a new stand right there in the middle of Oto. Apparently the man's daughter would be the one in charge of it while Teuchi, if he remembered his name right, would run the one in Konoha with the aid of a civilian named Nudoru Haruno from the Haruno civilian clan. While he was at it, he also gave the Akimichi Café owners permission to open up a franchise in Oto. He also said that any Akimichi that wanted to move to Oto could as well but he wasn't very hopeful in that event happening.
The mighty leader of Oto looked down into his empty wallet and prayed that when the new Ichiraku's opened up that they would give a kage discount. "So, I am guessing you liked the ramen Akuma-kun?" Orochimaru asked with a small laugh as Akuma patted his stomach.
"That had to be the best food I ever tasted father. Even Hakura-san didn't have food that go-oomph!" Akuma was cut off as Orochimaru rapidly covered his mouth and looked around for Hakura. He breathed a sigh of relief as a dark shape with fire in her eyes and a pan in her hand backed into the alley of which she came from. Hakura was the owner of Hakura's Diner, the best restaurant in all of Oto, and to insult her cooking was like calling an Akimichi fat. He still had a bruise from when she had snuck up on him one day for calling her food 'mediocre'.
"Now Akuma, what have I told you about saying stuff about that woman's food?" Orochimaru said, getting completely serious.
"That if I did it then a demon stronger than all the sannin combined would come get me?" Orochimaru started to sweat as he felt eyes boring into the back of his head at his answer. He was not scared of anyone, especially not a 50 year old woman who had a good swing with a frying pan.
"No, the other thing."
"Oh, that Hakura-san is the best cook in all of the world and that we should never insult her cooking since insulting her cooking is just lying to ourselves?"
"There you go," Orochimaru said in relief as he led his son away from the demon woman. Whenever someone tried to destroy his village, he wouldn't even bother telling his ninja to defend it, he would just tell that woman the enemy insulted her cooking.
Orochimaru and Akuma walked through the village and stopped at many more stands and attractions. There were fishermen selling fish caught by workers in the Gato Corporations, blacksmiths from the Land of Iron showing off their handiwork, authors from the Land of Rivers trying to sell some of their new books, and many more. Eventually, Orochimaru had decided to allow many of them to set up businesses in Oto. While the ninja force was doing fantastic, the civilian residents did not have much to see or do in Oto. Sure they could always go to the marketplace but there was no bookstore, no clothing store, not many restaurants besides Hakura's, and just not much to do in general. The more businesses he allowed into Oto, the more jobs the civilians would get, this meant more D-rank jobs since everyone would be busy with the jobs they just got to do it themselves. Maybe he should ask the feudal lord if his wife had a cat…
He wouldn't allow more than three Konoha businesses in his village however. He wasn't stupid and he knew that if he let all the ones who applied in, it would be hard to catch Konoha spies that entered the village under the pretext of leading the new businesses. However, he was glad that he would get some franchises into his village. Maybe in the future, Oto will turn out like Konoha only twice as good. Looking down at Akuma, Orochimaru had no doubt that it was a possibility.
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Jiraiya smiled as he walked through the streets of Otogakure. He knew who led the village and all the experiments that went on in the labs but he still enjoyed seeing all of the happy people. He also had to applaud Orochimaru's cleverness in the law that he made as soon as the village was founded. There were no prisons here because of his law, only the labs. If you broke any of the laws you were experimented on and that was that. It was one of the reasons there was so little crime in the city, even if you survived the experimentation, you would never be the same again.
From what he's heard, they experimented on people to test out certain artificial bloodlines before applying them. So far they had made unique bloodlines for both the Tetsu and Taranku clans with many other ninja running around with experimental bloodlines just waiting to be tested. He heard of a boy that could move his bones around to keep them from breaking and another who could absorb chakra, but since the two did not want to start a clan and Orochimaru still felt like the tests were not finished it was not a clan bloodline around here. Of course there were a dozen other artificial bloodlines that Orochimaru apparently made, but they either weren't valuable enough to distribute through a clan or just weren't genetic.
He'd be impressed with how his old teammate managed to create a new bloodline from scratch if he wasn't so utterly disgusted. As it was, he was just visiting Oto for the festival and to gather information about the town. He recognized some of the seals around the cavern as Uzumaki seals but other than that couldn't find out much. It turned out that all Oto shinobi had a seal like Danzo's Root shinobi put on them. This made it near impossible to interrogate them, but he could still find out some information about Oto life.
Apparently there was a boy that was being groomed to be Oto's second Otokage in the future named Akuma. He could not get a description of the boy but he was willing to bet it was Naruto. He would abduct him if he wasn't put under constant guard to prevent plans like his. He could easily defeat his guards but he knew they had some other method in place that would probably result in him fighting Orochimaru himself. He would bide his time until little Naruto went off on a mission, then he would bring him back home.
Jiraiya looked down at the pamphlet he got at the gates for the tournament most shinobi came to see. The first round would be Ken Tetsu vs Guren and Suika Taranku vs Naifu Fuma. Maybe he would find some interesting information before the tournament ended. He looked below the information about the tournament and got a shit-eating grin at what he saw. Right below it was a coupon for Oto's brand new community hot springs and Jiraiya was happy to offer his 'professional' opinion on them. With a whistle and a skip in his step he headed right towards the promised steamy goodness. Little did he know, Orochimaru was patting himself on the back for the best distraction in the world.
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Next chapter will be the first real fight in the entire story as well as soon good old teammate tension between Jiraiya and Orochimaru. Also, Project Falcon will be underway next chapter. Can any of you guess what it is? Anyway, please rate and review, it really helps me know how you all like my writing and is greatly appreciated. See you all (hopefully) next chapter!
