For the Greater Good Chapter 12
Naruto walked up to the observation stand where his father was looking in on the matches, along with several other Konoha Jonin and the Sandaime Hokage.
Minato had a grim expression on his face, he had just seen his son kill a foreign shinobi in cold blood, slowly and gruesomely, he knew his son had a dark side that allowed him to do questionable things but what he just did was something that was not necessary, not like when he rescued the Hyuga heir.
Hiruzen was thinking along the same lines, over his tenure and lifetime he had seen many horrible things, he had seen the ruthless acts of many shinobi from all across the elemental nations, but those he had seen commit such acts, took dark roads, such as the man he considered one of his oldest friends, a childhood friend, now he was considered the Darkness of Shinobi, Danzo Shimura.
"Father, I'm going to take my leave for what we talked about earlier," Naruto had arrived; blood was still on his hand, dried from the wipe but refusing to get off.
"Be careful, if you can't get in don't try, I don't want you to die out there, not for something that may not even be worth the effort or sacrifice, but remember, you have one month, you made it into the finals, and they take place at the end of that month," Minato told him sternly, he couldn't help but be curious as to what was there, and if anybody could find it, it was his son, an Uzumaki.
"Understood father," Naruto walked up to him to get closer, "What about the invasion, do you think we could use some help?"
"I'm going to begin the preparations as soon as this is over, what do you have in mind about help?" Minato whispered as low as his son did, he had told Hiruzen and some others, but he wouldn't reveal he was slowly preparing for a counter to a possible invasion for at least a while.
"You'll see when I get back, in the meantime, tell Naoko and Sasuke to get stronger, we 're going to need them, and put surveillance on Sasuke we don't know if Orochimaru is going to make a move," Naruto was not so sure that his friend was out of danger.
"Good luck Naruto, be careful, please," Minato ruffled his son's hair and hoped that he would come back in one piece.
Naruto began to walk out of the arena and found himself in the Forest of Death; he looked around and activated his dojutsu that allowed him to teleport, but nowhere near as fast as the Flying Thunder God.
Naruto found himself in his family compound and walked up the stairs where family photos were framed on the sides, he walked to the end of the large hall and went to the double doors at the end, he walked into his father's personal study littered with books and scrolls, he walked behind the large desk in the center and grabbed one of his father's large blank scrolls, he then walked to his room and grabbed his other scrolls that carried his weapons and survival back pack from his room and then grabbed the large map that he kept on his own desk.
He would be making several other trips than Uzushiogakure, to pick up certain items that he deemed necessary to take out of the hands of fate.
Naruto began to walk out of the compound and into the streets of Konoha, he reached the gates in short time and was let out by the guards on watch, he looked out to the open area between Konoha and the forest, picturing the battle that would ensue in a month.
He began to walk the trail and headed towards the village of his mother's and his ancestors.
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Naruto arrived at the bridge where Fire Country connected with the Land of Waves, he couldn't help but smile when he looked at what it was called, "The Great Naruto Bridge" he began to walk along and was happy to see that there was a lot of traffic, people looked happy. It was a much nicer picture than when he had come here the first time, tired and depressed faces hating their existence, now they were seeing better days.
As he walked along he saw that the Land of Waves was indeed doing better, and then he reached the closest point where Wave and Whirlpool Country met. It was in view of Wave but only as a small speck, he began to walk on the water and then started to run, wind was starting to blow back his hair, the large scroll he had on his back that he essentially turned into a giant storage scroll, was bouncing on his back from the speed that he was running.
He reached the Whirlpool in a few minutes and what he saw was not what he was expecting, it looked like a continuous mountain range, as far as the eye could see the island was littered with mountains. Naruto using his sensor abilities began to feel a large concentration of chakra at the center of the island and began to head there, he pulled out a black Hirashin kunai and imbued it with chakra, he had a month to get better with it, hopefully he could show it off when the invasion began and would be more helpful with it in his arsenal.
Naruto threw the kunai diagonally in the air and focused on the beacon, he tried to teleport to that point and appeared into the air some distance from it. He was not discouraged however, his father did say it would take some time, so he pulled it towards him with a Bansho Tennin as he fell from the sky and clutched it before he threw it again.
Naruto kept getting the same result, but the distance that he was appearing away from the kunai was getting smaller and smaller with every try. A few hours later he reached the place where the chakra was coming from and he knew he had reached his destination, his view was of a river, running through the middle of village.
But the village did not look like any he had ever seen, it was ruined, collapsed, buildings fallen over and it was desolate. Naruto began to walk down the peak of the mountain he was on, towards where the largest chakra signature was coming from; it was behind the west side of the village.
Naruto came upon what was an untouched house, it was two stories, it was modest, not something large, but Naruto could tell that it was important just from how it looked, and the chakra that was coming from inside.
The house had a tree in the front, it was still flourishing, behind it was a porch that encircled the entire house it seemed, with a fence on it except were a small stair was that led up to a double door entrance. The house had a large Uzumaki swirl made by the two doors being together.
The house looked untouched by whatever attacks thrust the village into chaos.
Naruto walked forward and reached for the double door's handle, he touched it one second and was blasted backwards the next, a white force field of some kind hit him hard and sent him quite a ways. Naruto was on the floor thrashing around wildly like he was in an immense amount of pain, within him was that searing pain, his body was electrocuted.
When the barrier touched him it sent lightning chakra into his body forcing his neurons to overwork, his body was stuck in a convulsive and flexed state, any lesser person would have died for sure, if not for his body's resilience.
Minutes later Naruto groaned, he dug his fingers into the ground and pulled himself up and glared at the door, he was pissed now, he hadn't expected it but he realized he should have, after all people had died trying to get whatever was inside. Naruto walked toward it again and began to think but the answer was simple, overpower the barrier. And if it was lightning based it would fall to wind.
Naruto stood a good distance back and prepared his jutsu, after he finished his hand signs, he used a technique he had created from one he had seen earlier from a Sound ninja, Decapitating Airwaves, he thrust his hands forward releasing several blades of wind and they hit the doors, but nothing happened.
The door was untouched, he had seen the barrier for a quick second, it came out for a bit but disappeared. One moment later he realized what it did; a massive visible wave of sharp air came rushing towards him threatening to slice Naruto apart.
Naruto's quick reactions saved him; he put up his own barrier and absorbed the chakra infused air waves stopping him from getting sliced apart by his own technique.
Naruto looked on in shock, he had never seen a barrier do that, sure he had seen them stop attacks before but never had he seen a barrier throw them back at the user.
He chose a different approach next; Naruto walked up to the barrier and tried to use his ability to absorb chakra again. Naruto put up his hand and felt the threshold of the barrier an inch away from his palm, he began to try and absorb the chakra that made up the barrier and pulled, but did not expect what happened after. The barrier was pulling his own chakra out of his body, and at a much quicker rate than he pulled it out of things, he quickly pulled his hand away.
Naruto walked around the house, checking the perimeter to see if the barrier encompassed all of it. Unfortunately it did.
Naruto once again was at the front doors, he looked frustrated and worn out, he had tried many things to bring down the barrier, all failed.
Inside of the house had to be something worth getting to, a barrier of this proportion and ability wouldn't be guarding anything, so how would whoever created the barrier get back inside?
Naruto felt like a fool when he came to the most probable conclusion. The house was Uzumaki.
Naruto bit into his thumb and put it up toward the barrier, immediately he felt the barrier fall. A smile appeared on the blonde haired boy's face.
Naruto put his hand on the handle and pulled it to the side, it moved. Naruto walked inside and felt a stale air enter his lungs; people probably haven't been inside the house in decades. Naruto was happy he was in now and immediately made fifty clones of himself.
"Search the house, I want every inch checked, report anything you find, anything that looks of significance you grab and you bring to me, I want twenty-five of you to search down here, twenty-five of you to come with me upstairs," Naruto began to head upstairs with his group.
The walls leading up were barren; the inside was painted a diluted white. Naruto entered the first door in the hall, it looked to be a bedroom, "Check in there," Naruto ordered and four of his clones moved in, Naruto saw two other doors in the hallway, "Check those as well, tell me if you find anything."
Seconds later came a comment that sounded promising; it came from the last door in the hall, "Sir you might want to check in here!" Came the excited statement, Naruto moved down the hall and looked in, it looked like a study, the sides were bookshelves that were loaded with books and scrolls. There was a desk close to the window; the curtains were open allowing the sun to come in as rays, showing the dust floating in the air.
Naruto saw something on the desk, it looked like a note, he walked closer and sat in the chair, he grabbed the note and read it.
We are at a chaotic point now, we are under siege, we are faltering, but we will not lose who we are, we will fight until the end. If any Uzumaki should find this then I have failed, and know that you are one of the last of our clan, you must carry on our spirits. Protect who we are and the ideals we held, protect the power we have been entrusted with.
As descendants of the Sage of the Six Paths, our ancestor, our founder, it is our duty to protect these things, and keep them from falling into the wrong hands. Good Luck because if you are here, you are my family, and now a heavy burden has been thrust upon you.
-Head of the Uzumaki clan, Uzumaki Zhanshi
What was holding it in its place was a scroll, he unrolled it and found that it was a storage scroll, sealed by blood, he bit his finger again and swiped it across the scroll, a puff of smoke later appeared a sword, and a decently sized length box.
The sword had a black hilt with an Uzumaki swirl on both sides, it was a katana. Naruto unsheathed it from the black hilt and saw that it was made from black metal; it looked deadly sharp and radiated power. Naruto opened the box next to find a necklace, it had six red Magatama jewels on it, and it also radiated power.
Naruto was confused however, he didn't know what these were, all of his studies and knowledge that he had acquired in his lifetime, he had never heard of anything held by the Uzumaki clan to guard. He also never knew that the Uzumaki clan were descendants of the Sage of the Six Paths. It was time to bring in somebody who might know.
Naruto entered his mindscape, he looked toward the giant three tailed turtle in front of him, "Sanbi, I just found something in the home of the Uzumaki clan leaders house. I need clarification on some things."
"What do you want to know?" The raspy reply of the turtle came.
"I found a sword and a necklace, they were above a note by the Uzumaki clan leader, and it said it was entrusted to the clan, a power that could not fall into the wrong hands. What are they?" Naruto pictured the two objects in his mind and they appeared in his hands, he held up the two objects to the turtle.
"They belonged to the Sage of the Six Paths, my creator, that was his personal sword, and that was his necklace," Sanbi motioned to the objects with his head respectively.
"Would you care to elaborate more, it said they were a great power, so they have to do something right? I've never heard of them before though," Naruto was however surprised that they belonged to the Sage.
"The sword, it has many abilities, it can absorb chakra, seal the souls of whoever falls to it, it can absorb the users chakra and store it, or give the user the chakra that it absorbs, the chakra pushed through it can create shapes stemming from the blade itself. Not just that it is the sharpest sword ever created, and unbreakable. You can also push elemental chakra through it, deploying attacks from it. It creates a bond with whoever uses it, by offering it blood, but that only works if the previous user is dead, and the last person I have seen use it was the Sage so I think you can create a bond. Once you have bonded with it, you are the only one who can wield it," the Sanbi finished the explanation for the sword and Naruto was happy that he had found it.
"Ok so what about the necklace, this couldn't possibly be used for combat," Naruto looked at it admiring its beauty but wondering what purpose it had.
"That necklace was the Sage's it allowed him extreme mastery over the five elemental chakras, he created it to practice with the natures and eventually it became so powerful with it, he imbued those powers into the necklace on his deathbed," the Sanbi looked down at that in remembrance of the only person who ever cared for him.
"So it helps with controlling the elemental chakras?" Naruto was not impressed.
"It now amplifies the ability of the wielder to use the five chakras, one jewel for each nature, fire, earth, water, wind, and lightning."
"What's the sixth jewel for?" Naruto questioned.
"The jewel allows the wielder enhanced ability in the use of Ying-Yang chakra, basically in any jutsu that does not have a nature element to it."
"That seems like a lot of power, this is very interesting," Naruto looked at them with renewed appreciation, "I also wanted to ask you, are the Uzumakis descendants of the Sage?"
"Yes, they are, why do you think the Uzumaki were so advanced in sealing techniques, after the man became the first Jinchuriki by sealing the Jubi within himself, he became fond of the practice of what is now known as fuinjutsu, he passed that fondness onto his youngest son who then passed it onto his son until the Uzumaki clan came to be."
"Thank you, for the information Sanbi," Naruto received another nod from the turtle and he left his mindscape to see the room with his clones looking through the books and scrolls.
Once the others saw that he had his eyes open they turned to him, "Boss you gotta see this stuff. It's incredible!"
Naruto turned to the small group gathered around something, "What is it?" Naruto asked and got up from his seat to see what they were looking at.
"We pulled a book from the shelf but it was a trigger of some kind, the book case slipped open and this compartment was behind it, they're summoning contract scrolls boss," Naruto reached them and pushed them aside, looking to see five large scrolls leaned against the wall in the hidden compartment, he read them and was blown away by what he saw.
He read the characters on the scrolls, Dragon, Phoenix, Owl, Wolf, and the final scroll had an Uzumaki swirl on it, with the kanji for Forbidden at the top.
"Takes these, and seal them into this scroll," Naruto took his own giant storage scroll off of his back, he unrolled the scroll, he then sealed the necklace and the sword in and the clones sealed in the summoning contracts. "What did the rest of you find?" Naruto looked to the rest of the clones.
"We so far have water jutsus, fire jutsus, lightning jutsus, kenjutsu styles, taijutsu styles, fuinjutsu scrolls. A load of techniques that we have never heard of before."
"Good, seal everything into that storage scroll over there," Naruto pointed to where his other clones were.
Naruto got out of the study and went down the hall checking on everybody to see if they had found anything; it seemed that everything that was valuable was in the study however.
A few hours later Naruto had turned the house upside down and found nothing more. Naruto dispersed his clones and began to leave the compound; he walked through the rest of the village for a few days and found other interesting things, recipes for medical remedies, food recipes, and even literature from the village. It was depressing to see that such a prosperous looking village was wiped out, the home of his clan, but he was looking forward to bringing back the Uzumaki clan and establishing them among names such as the Uchiha or the Senju.
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Days later Naruto was headed to the Land of Hot Water, he was headed to get something very important and promising to a lot of things in Konoha, elevating the Uzumaki clan, and his power.
Naruto reached the destination he confirmed looking down at the map that he had brought from home; it was a valley in the Land of Hot Water where the Kyubi once made his home. It was also where a team of Kumogakure Jonin assembled to try and capture the Nine Tailed Fox for Kumo. It was the place where the Kyubi killed the Gold and Silver Brothers after it spat them out for feasting on his stomach. Not that they died after it spit them out at first, after they betrayed Kumo and went on a rampage they came back to finish the job, and then they failed.
Now they were six feet under somewhere, where Kabuto once found them and brought them back with the Edo Tensei. He came along when Kabuto was gathering pieces for their Edo Tensei subjects; it was amazing how resourceful he was in finding the corpses of notable dead shinobi.
Naruto arrived at the spot and placed his hands on the ground, he raised a modest square of earth from its place and began to dig out the bodies of the dead brothers, Naruto grabbed them both and threw them onto untouched ground, they hit with a dull thud.
Naruto walked toward the bodies and grabbed Kinkaku opening his mouth, he pulled out Bashosen and Shichiseiken, he then placed them on the floor. Naruto then moved towards Ginkaku and pulled out Kōkinjō and Benihisago. On the floor were the most renowned criminals of Kumogakure and four6 of the Five Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths.
He sealed everything, even the brother's bodies into his storage scroll and began to leave, now headed for Amegakure, he crossed through Fire Country again and reached the grave sight of Hanzo of the Salamander, unfortunately the Salamander contract was nowhere on him, nor was it in his headquarters he found out when he asked about it after joining the Akatsuki, it seemed to have disappeared.
Now it was time to go after what he was dreading the most, he had already used half of the month that he was allotted and would now go after something that may take much longer, and now that he thought about it, he should have done first.
Naruto a few days later was in Tanzaku Gai, a frequented town by none other than the Legendary Kunoichi Tsunade of the Sannin. His sensing abilities were good, but in such a crowded place, he would have more difficulty. But it wasn't as hard as he found out when he put it into practice; in such a large place one person with Kage level chakra levels was somebody who was sticking out like a sore thumb. Naruto quickly went into the casino where he sensed her at.
The few guards at the front tried to stop him since he looked underage, but with a quick look into his eyes they turned into mindless drones for a few seconds until they woke up not knowing what happened. Meanwhile Naruto had made his way into the casino, easily spotting the blonde with her assistant holding their pet pig. The Sannin was playing cards at a table and was losing chips profusely.
He walked towards them and smiled at them, receiving weird looks from the pair, wondering why a kid was smiling at them, but that soon stopped when they saw a Konoha headband on his forehead.
"What do you want squirt?" Tsunade looked away from him and took a swig of her sake.
"You are needed back in Konoha Lady Tsunade," Naruto crossed his arms behind his back and allowed them to rest on the scroll that he was carrying.
"Sorry shorty but I'm not going back, I'm never going back to that place, ever, so piss off," Tsunade was already in a bad mood but this kid was now pushing it with his arrival.
"May we talk outside Lady Tsunade, hear me out and I will pledge one-hundred thousand ryo towards relieving your debts," Tsunade looked at him and snorted.
"I highly doubt you have that kind of money kid, now go away," Tsunade motioned her hand as if shooing away a pesky cat.
"I do in fact have that kind of money, please speak with me and listen to what I have to say, if you don't agree, you can leave if you want with some money in your pocket," Naruto said with a serious look on his face.
"Lets walk kid, I'm losing anyway," Tsunade got up from the table after sizing him up and grabbed her cup of sake, she began to walk toward the casino exit, Shizune and Naruto following closely behind.
Once they had reached the entrance they began to walk into the streets, Naruto turned into the first alley he saw wanting privacy.
"Well kid, what do you want, a Konoha gennin coming to speak to the Legendary Tsunade of the Sannin, better be big, and if you have one-hundred thousand spend on me it must be. By the way why did they send a gennin anyway, they should know I can still take on hordes of Anbu, do they think your baby face will gain you immunity to a beating?" Tsunade goaded Naruto.
"I am not here on a mission, the money is my own, and neither my father nor the Sandaime know that I am here," Naruto deadpanned not liking that she called him a baby face.
"Your father? So it's you Naruto, son of the Yondaime, how you doing kid? I haven't seen you since you were born," Tsunade was surprised that the little brat she once held in her arms when she was younger was the person in front of her.
"I am fine, thank you, and it has been a while, but we need to speak about why I am here," Naruto wanted to get to the point.
"Well go on kid," Tsunade shifted her weight and crossed her arms over her big breasts.
"In ten days, there is going to be an attack on Konoha by the villages of Sunagakure and Otogakure, this invasion is being orchestrated by your former teammate Orochimaru. We need you back to organize the hospital in preparation for the casualties and injured, and we need you out there when the invasion begins as a roaming Konoha shinobi providing assistance and medical attention to any other injured Konoha ninja," Naruto finished out.
"I left Konoha to get away from the death kid, so if there's going to be an invasion, I'm staying out of it, now give me my money," Tsunade put out her hand.
"So you're going to let what your family has worked so much for, what your family has sacrificed everything for, you are going to let the man that betrayed your team and teacher kill countless Konoha shinobi?" Naruto knew getting her to come would take time so he would use everything in his arsenal to speed it up.
"You can't use that on me kid, my family made their choice, they died as fools, they died protecting a village that they cared for which I respect but I'm not going back," Tsunade finished getting more annoyed.
"So you are telling me that Nawaki and Dan, died as fools? You would spit on their dreams, on their sacrifice? Because that is what you are doing by not helping to aid in the defense of Konoha." Naruto was taking steps closer.
"How dare you bring them into this you punk, don't think you know what it is to those who sacrificed, to those who loved those who have sacrificed." Tsunade was beginning to storm off when Naruto grabbed her by the wrist, she turned lightning fast with a fist aimed at Naruto's face which would have connected and broken his skull had he not caught it in the air with his own hand. The sound that was made when the two connected was a loud slap that pierced the silence of the alley, the pet pig oinked and Shizune grimaced.
"Konoha needs you back, or countless of our shinobi will die, you are an expert in medical ninjutsu, you can save lives that no others can, would you let the ones who protect the village that your loved ones died for fall as well, because you are afraid to face it?" Naruto pushed her fist down until it hung by her side.
"I'll go, until after the invasion, then I'm gone," Tsunade had her head down, thinking about the ones that she had lost, thinking of the ones others had lost, people that wanted to be Hokage to defend their village, people who died on the battlefields of three wars for Konoha.
"Thank you Lady Tsunade, you will save many lives," Naruto walked out of the alley and into the streets, they were now headed in to Konoha.
"So kid, how did you stop my punch, I've killed countless shinobi with that punch, shinobi much stronger than you." Tsunade couldn't let how he so easily stopped that punch go.
"I am stronger than you Lady Tsunade, I am stronger than any shinobi you have ever faced," Naruto kept walking along.
"I'm sure you know that I've faced Hanzo, he was strong enough to defeat the three Sannin. You're no stronger than Hanzo kid, you're a gennin," Tsunade countered, insulted however that he believed he was stronger than her.
"You only became the Sannin when he defeated you and showed you mercy, your teamwork helped your survival, alone you all would have died, and alone you are significantly weaker. Not that you can't kill high level shinobi, just that you can't take on people like me or Hanzo without help."
"Care to test that theory kid?" Tsunade challenged.
"Since I know you will not let the subject drop, sure, let's just do it in a secluded area," Naruto kept on walking.
"So Naruto, how did you become so strong, I've seen walls smashed apart by Lady Tsunade's punch," Shizune questioned, very interested in the young man.
"Training, from childhood to now, I've been training to be the greatest shinobi all of my life," Naruto said simply.
"Training all of your life? That sounds like a dull way to live, you must have some other hobbies?" Shizune couldn't believe that such a young kid would train all their lives to kill.
"I do enjoy cooking, and sometimes I like to garden," Naruto said nonchalantly, revealing those things was strange for a boy, let alone a boy who said he had been training all his life to be a killer.
"Really!? I enjoy gardening too, for medicinal purposes, but Lady Tsunade and I move around a lot so I rarely have the ability to do it," Shizune replied looking downward slightly.
"Maybe we can plant a garden together in Konoha sometime, if you decide to stay I mean," Naruto kept on walking.
When they had finally reached a secluded area out of the town, he prepared himself to fight Tsunade; he crossed his arms over his chest.
Author's note thingy-
So, tell me what you thought of the chapter, I hope you were okay with what he found, and what he did, those are not all the summoning contracts he will acquire however.