Chapter 27
History
Mangetsu led Naruto through the trees a distance away from the others. "Take a seat. This is quite a long story."
Naruto nodded and sat on a rock (conveniently placed by the author) jutting out the ground and waited for Mangetsu to begin the explanation.
"there must be many questions you want to ask. If I'm not wrong, the biggest one is "who are my parents?" correct?" Mangetsu asked.
Naruto nodded.
Mangetsu sighed. "That's easy. Your parents were Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash and Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki the Red Hot Habanero."
Naruto's eyes widened before he closed them and took a deep breath. "If it was that easy then why did you take so long to tell me?" he asked.
"Telling you their names was the easy part. The hard part is explaining the rest. That's why I took so long. As you know, we are in a civil war, and as the rebels, we do not have access to the archives. Ever since Zabuza came to the rebel camp three years ago, I had been searching for the explanation. Old rumors, experiences, spies,"
"Spies?"
"It may not seem it, but both the Rebels and Loyalists have spies everywhere. Other villages, small towns, even in each other's bases."
"I see"
"As I was saying, I contacted my spies everywhere. The spies in Mist searched the archives and dug up all the records they could find. The spies in other villages looked around for anything else we could have missed. I asked around the camp for rebels who may know anything. Relations, experiences, and things they had heard. All that took time. Only last week did I get the last piece they could find."
"And? What did they find? Are they still alive?"
"No, I'll first tell you about them, I'll get to the cause of their death later. First, Minato Namikaze. Not much was known about him. From what we gathered, he was an orphan made sometime between the Second and Third Great Shinobi War. He attended the academy with all the other students his age. He was a student with slightly above average scores and graduated to be on a team with his peers. His sensei was the legendary Sanin Jiraiya. A few years later his teammates died on a mission gone wrong and he became the apprentice and successor of Jiraiya. During the Third Shinobi War, he invented his two signature jutsu. The Hiraishin, also known as the Flying Thunder God, and Rasengan. With the Hiraishin, his speed was unrivaled, even surpassing the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Armor. The Rasengan was the pinnacle of chakra control. A hand held ball of pure chakra. Together, he decimated an entire battalion of Rock Shinobi within minutes." Mangetsu took a breath and gave Naruto an apologetic look "that is pretty much all we know about him."
"It's ok, it is more than I knew before. What about my mom?"
"Kushina Uzumaki. Now that's something we know more of. Let me first tell you about her homeland and clan. The Hidden Whirlpool. It was on a large island not far off the coast of Mist. It wasn't close enough to any of the other lands to be part of them. Instead, it was given the name "Land of Eddies". On the island resided the Uzumaki clan. They were a relatively small and clan compared to some others. In fact they were once part of the Senju clan of the Forest back during the warring clans era." Mangetsu paused and knelt before drawing a spiral on the ground. "the Hidden Whirlpool was given its name by the many whirlpools surrounding the island. For any normal shinobi, it is near impossible to cross, be it water walking, summoning, or ship. Yet somehow the Uzumaki harnessed the whirlpools and used them as a defense.
The special thing about the Uzumaki is that they had extremely potent chakra, insane stamina and strong life forces. There had been many debates whether it was their bloodline or not.
It wasn't unusual for an Uzumaki to live past a hundred. Almost all Uzumaki were naturally gifted in Kenjutsu- some rivaling your sensei, Mifune, when they reached 25. They were also unrivaled in the sealing arts. Creating many masterpieces throughout the generations. There have been many stories of Uzumaki conjuring up tsunamis in forests, tornadoes on cloudless days and raining kunai that lasted hours."
Naruto listened in awe as his imagination ran wild with the images of Uzumaki harnessing the forces of nature and bending them to their will. Suddenly a thought ran through his head. "wait, so they made things that were much more complex than even the Higurashi sealing scroll?"
Mangetsu smirked, "of course I believe one story of it was an Uzumaki that was close friend of a Higurashi clan head went to a wedding without gifts and panicked. He grabbed a spare scroll from his pouch and drew the sealing formula before presenting it. In his haste he failed to realize that it was a special replicating scroll and he drew a blood seal on it. The scroll had a spiked edge which the clan head pricked his finger and completed the blood seal. The scroll then replicated many times before they finally got it under control. By that time, there were enough scrolls for every Higurashi at the time to carry one and more."
"so the treasured scroll of the Higurashi was made by an accident at a wedding because an Uzumaki forgot a wedding gift" Naruto deadpanned.
"pretty much"
Naruto sighed "please continue"
Where the average shinobi learned things about how chakra is used and taught simple jutsu D-ranked jutsu in the academy, the Uzumaki taught sealing arts and C or even B ranked jutsu to their students.
From the rumors, it was said that to pass their graduation exam, they had to be able to show significant skill in Kenjutsu, display a jutsu B-ranked or higher or of their own creation, and create an original, useful, functioning seal."
Naruto's eyes were widening with each passing word. "Tell me more!"
"there had been rumors that the Uzumaki had a clan summon, but that was never confirmed.
Some also say the Uzumaki had such potent chakra that they could compact it and use the dense chakra to form a physical construct." Mangetsu paused to look at Naruto in deep concentration with his eyes squeezed shut and sweat dripping down his brow. "what are you doing?" he asked amused.
"trying to make a chakra chicken" the blond answered.
"well, you might want to tone it down a bit, right now your chakra is acting like a beacon for the loyalists." Mangetsu warned him while trying to hold back his laughter.
"right sorry" Naruto apologized and stopped trying to mold his chakra, "as you were saying?"
"Well, the Uzumaki had short attention spans for learning most things but they were also notorious pranksters. There had been instances where the Uzumaki won a battle where they hurt nothing but the pride of the enemies. They would do small things like draw a seal that attracts flies to the person if it was something simple like accidently stepping on their toes- if they were lazy. But if they were really offended then the person would have bird poo attracted to them, being chased around by insects, ferrets and other wildlife and more, while running around shouting random words in a pink skirt."
Both shinobi paused a moment to imagine the scene before bursting into laughter.
Finally both of them calmed down enough to talk normally.
"Yeah, so that was the Uzumaki. Anything else you wanted to know before we moved on?" Mangetsu asked.
"Are they still around?"
"Yes and no. The Hidden Whirlpool was destroyed at the end of the Second Shinobi War. Cloud, Rock and many other smaller villages decided that the Uzumaki were getting too strong and banded together to destroy them. The combined alliance outnumbered the entire population- including civilians 1 to 100. Somehow the invading forces got through the whirlpools without their ships torn apart."
Mangetsu took a deep breath and looked Naruto in the eyes.
"The battle lasted three days. By the end of the third day, the invading force of thousands had less than two hundred alive."
Naruto gapped in shock. A massacre of that level! He shuddered just thinking about it.
"Do you see now, Naruto? Why the Uzumaki were so feared?"
Naruto nodded, unable to speak.
"Most of the Uzumaki were killed. Some fled to all corners of the shinobi world, hidden. This brings me to your grandmother."
Naruto looked up, pushing the thought of the carnage to the back of his head. "My grandmother?"
"Yes, this was something that surprised me too. It just happened to be in the marriage records in Mist, an unexpected find. Of the fleeing Uzumaki, a few settled down in Mist. Your Grandmother was one of them." Mangetsu took out two pieces of folded paper and gave it to Naruto.
The blond unfolded paper and read it. "T-this is…"
"Yes. A marriage record between Sayuri Uzumaki and Kazuma Hozuki and the other one, the birth certificate of Kushina Uzumaki. The people that did the documents must have been friends of either one or both of them. If word had gotten out about an Uzumaki being alive, and having children no less, well, the point of invading the Hidden Whirlpool was the extinction of all Uzumaki."
Naruto folded the papers and carefully placed them in his pockets. "Wait, then how did my mother meet my father if she was in Mist and he in Leaf?"
"Well," Mangetsu scratched the back of his head "the invaders wouldn't have taken down all the Uzumaki anyways. The wife of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, married an Uzumaki, Uzumaki Mito. I suspect your grandmother contacted her to take your mom, knowing that even if word got out there was an Uzumaki there, she would still be safe..."
"Because Leaf was and still is the strongest hidden village" Naruto realized "to take her would start a war they wouldn't win. Not with all the legendary shinobi there! Grandmother was a genius!"
"I would like to think the Kazuma Hozuki also played a part in planning it" Mangetsu pouted.
Naruto stopped mid-cheer "Oh yeah! Grandpa was a Hozuki! That makes us related right?"
"Well, probably distant cousins or something, but yeah"
"Woo hoo! I got an awesome family!"
Mangetsu smiled at his energy "hmm, family. I wonder how my little brother is doing." He mused to himself. "Come on Naruto, let's head back to camp, the others should be back too"
"Right!" Naruto saluted, getting up from the rock.
"Oh and one last thing, it's best not to go around shouting out your clan names. There are ears everywhere and both the Uzumaki and your father, Namikaze have enemies everywhere." Mangetsu whispered in his ear as he walked past.
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AN: sorry this got out a bit late. I had a slight complication with uploading (namely my internet being a pain and having no signal)
so yeah, a brief history lesson. As I said a couple (like 8 at least lol) chapters back, I'm taking a lot of liberty with Naruto's grandparents. I kept most of history similar to canon (at least I hope I did) so not to get confused.
I did a little experiment in the beginning to add humor, what do you readers think of my attempt at poking the fourth wall? Should I get my hammer and start breaking it?
Planned fillers: Isaribi, snow/spring, Shion, Uzumaki Ruins exploration, star village
Debating: blood prison, 0-tails (amaru), kazehana, tayuya and Karin rescue, 3-tails capture
Still need a few more fillers. Come on! We need 3 years of fillers!
Summon news: as it stands, Naruto's summons are going to be wolves because so many people love the idea and have convincing arguments (that doesn't mean you can't vote or request a different type! There is still a chance the summons will change!).
And if you look closely at the chapter, you might get some sneak peeks of what I might have planned, not just a chapter to give Naruto his clan names, maybe ;)
Also if nobody minds, I will start using Japanese terms, nothing major, just some village names, the suffixes and that (because typing "the village hidden in the mist" is so much harder than "Kirigakure" and I think just saying the leader's name without "-sama" is a bit disrespectful )
Anything else you would like to clarify anything feel free to PM or drop a review!
Reviews:
Thatoneguy1242: good ideas, I will chat to ZV about it.
Antex-The Legendary Zoroark: thanks
AndiDuel: that's a great idea!
BlackDragonShinigami: hmm I prefer not to use foxes cause they're a bit overdone. As for ligers… I'll check up on it. why, how and what special abilities would they have as well as the boss summon.
Zeus501: so many questions…. Let's see, in order- I'm pretty sure those are rhetorical questions you were going to answer…. I prefer no foxes/kitsune because it's a bit overdone, I haven't seen wolves before either, for those special abilities… wouldn't those just be like normal? xD. I admit the thought of a bunch of wolves shooting fireballs would be scary, but fun. Imagine, instantly cooked and ready to eat food after a tiring hunt. Demon and multi-tails, dunno pretty sure that would upset the balance of only 9 tailed beasts. The threesome would start around where shippudun would be I suppose. Rasengan- maybe will, maybe wont ;). The Leaf will learn about it at a much later stage (again around shippudun) and will they try taking him back? Well you gotta wait and see now won't you? ;). As for my research, well I have just created a catnip with 50x the addiction yet blended with a special secret formula (not the one used in krabby patties… or is it) that has medicinal properties to prevent any deaths.
Thor94: thanks
PhysicsLlama: water bears? I haven't even heard about it! xD. The ideas and your explanations are great though.
Noahendless: demons are a pain to name and control.
Jacklvmage12:I admit, I hadn't seen the demon birds (except that one used by pein, but that doesn't really count) either. The ideas for the Byakuganish and tracking are great and would probably lead to some amusing situations. As for the power levels… I think that's a little OP xD. I mean, destroy the universe on a whim? Well I suppose I know how to end the story if I'm desperate lol..
As for the chapter section. Either ways, it's likely that I won't show something like that again. It was meant as a one-time filler thing.
Emeraldfox57: thanks, I like the idea of having many different wolves that have their own elements.
SpencerDorman: I admit you raised some good points on him having the sword, but, firstly, remember he isn't his father (he might not even use the Hiraishin), secondly as you know he has his own sword (and if you look closely you'll find I dropped a little hint of it not being made by the sage) thirdly, Fu is a support without many offensive jutsu so she would need something to defend herself, fourthly, plot. I'm not going to say why but, plot.
Yes there is a difference between the eyes, well the Mangekyo anyways (which is still the same awakening as normal). Its advantages, disadvantages and drawbacks (if any) will be slowly revealed throughout the story. As for the sword, as I stated earlier, I revealed a slight hint to the creator. Yes there is something special (though it would be amusing to see reactions if I revealed it was just a sword dipped in gold)
Drinkingdragons: hmm swordfish, haven't seen that one before, wouldn't be much use on land though (but I suppose that wouldn't be of a drawback since they're in Mist)
MiseryWolf97: good points, though I can't say much about Moro since I haven't gotten around to mononoke yet.
Draco7347: thanks