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Transcending

Chapter 11

As for what debilitating legend could make the people of Shinseimura scared enough to say 'fuck you Konoha'. Kakashi left them to their own imagination.

AKA he didn't answer a single one of his teams questions, opting to chill inside his hotel room to sleep or read. And leaving three hormonal and frustrated teenagers outside his room.

"I don't know whether to love him or hate him." Naruto had a torn look on his face, "Sometimes he's a badass... and other times an asshole..." He groaned in annoyance.

Sasuke eyed him and shook his head, before walking away. Both his teammates stared as he walked past his room and down the hall of the hotel. When he got to the staircase he noticed his teammates looks.

"What." He was not amused by the attention.

"And you are going..." Naruto trailed off, leaving Sasuke to answer.

The Uchiha grunted, "I am not staying here. I want to look around."

Sakura looked at her crush before going a little red, "Oh Sasuke! We can go together!" She clasped her hands and stared at the ceiling dreamily, "It'll... it would be like a date!"

When she looked back down both of her teammates were gone.

'Ok. Definetly a badass.'

'It is rather nice of him to give you money, but do remember that I did tell you to bring some of your own.'

Naruto rolled his eyes at his mental friend, he didn't bring money, which wasn't very good in a tourist attraction like Shinseimura. The town was made entirely for a spending wallet, even the crappiest hotel the team could find was ten times more expensive then an identical one in Konoha.

'Supply and demand. People want to stay here, and the owners know that people will spend the money for a room.'

'Your telling me.' Waiting for Kakashi for hours left him hungry and bored, and without any money to soothe either of his issues. Luckily he found a generous stack of bills for someone his age with a note of a smiley face on it. Sure sign of Kakashi no doubt.

Naruto spent some time exploring the city, trying some of the local cuisine and attractions. Even though many of the people had smiles on their faces, Naruto could notice some signs of worry among the people.

As the sun started to get lower in the sky many non-tourists began to walk faster, almost frantically going to their homes. Stand owners closed down much earlier then the ones at Konoha. They where scared. But of what?

'It would be best if we find a local to ask for the issue.'

As if on cue a drunk stumbled out of nowhere and infront of the blonde.

'Well then.' Ashura sounded pleased, 'That was convenient.'

Naruto hoisted the drunk man up, the livid smell was enough to tell that he had drunk WAY to much alcohol.

"Are you alright?" Naruto asked, not fully expecting an answer.

The man stared at Naruto with wide eyes, "It... IT'S HAPPENING!" He grabbed Naruto by the shoulders and started to shake him frantically.

Naruto had to fight himself from slapping the drunk away.

The blonde removed the drunks hand from his shoulders, "What is happening exactly?"

"You... you don't know!?" He took a few steps back.

"Umm... I just got back from vacation. Yeah, vacation... from the Land of Cheese."

'Smooth. Like silk.' The low snicker of Ashura taunted him.

'Hey! That's a quality lie!' The blonde retorted back.

The drunk, like expected, completely believed the boy. He stared to nod, and kept shaking his head for almost a minute.

Naruto looked at his with concern, "Are you sure your only drunk? Because there must be some sort of drugs involved."

The man collapsed onto the ground, "Why does it matter? Guapo is going to kill us anyways..."

"Guapo? What kinda name is Guapo?"

The drunk got into a sitting position, "He is Guapo the... ninetieth? All I know is that his ancient ancestor sealed away an ancient power in the village, and his blood is the only key to getting it. Guapo recently broke out of prison. No doubt to get the power!" He was doing something like a sob as he finished.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "And the power is sealed..."

The man didn't even hear him.

Naruto snapped infront of his face, "Oi stinky. Where is the power this Guapo guy is after?"

The drunk started to slowly lean down, before laying on the ground asleep. He muttered something, but it was too decoherent and quiet for the blonde to hear.

Naruto looked at the man for a moment before walking away, leaving him on the ground.

'Well.' He spoke to Ashura. 'That was surprisingly helpful.'

'It was. But we never got a location.'

The sun was till up, sunset still had about half an hour or so. Naruto looked at the sky before looking up the hill of Shinseimura.

"We got to see the Sage. We have enough time until it gets dark."

"Would you look at those designs? Amazing."

'To see how it transcended time... credit to the architect.'

Naruto nodded slowly, "Whoever it was." The Sage statue made him feel like an ant, up close it was absolutely massive. The base alone was a solid 15 meter tall cube with intricate designs on it, lines flowing and swerving all along it.

'There is a plaque of some kind, right in the middle of the base.'

"Oh." Naruto said mildly surprised, "Didn't even notice that, thanks." He walked closer to the wall and looked at the plaque.

Unfortunately it was dark, and none of the torches surrounding the statue was lit, so the blonde squinted as he tried to read the writing.

"I think it says..." Naruto dropped to the floor seconds later. An arrow barely missing his head.

"Ah shit. I missed."

Naruto sprung up and turned around, a chunky looking dude who definitely needed to put a shirt on stared at him. He had a small bow in his hand that looked way to small for him.

He turned to his right, "My finger slipped." A crappy excuse.

Another person, who was 3 meters tall? Was over nine feet even possible for a human? He was tall and lanky, swaying like a tree.

He glanced at the chunky man, "Well..." His voice was deep, even deeper then the Kyuubi's. "We have a witness now... what do we do boss?"

A third, and hopefully final figure appeared, he was tall, not strangely shaped like his friends, and had a swagger to him.

He smirked cockily at him, "Well then kiddie, you lucked out." He flicked his spiky hair, which didn't absolutely nothing, and stared at Naruto with a look that just screamed 'asshole'. "You must be eliminated for getting in the way of the great Guapo!"

Naruto stared at him blankly, "Who?" He knew who it was, but this guy obviously loved himself more then anything else and Naruto had to play off that.

Guapo stomped his feet, "What!? I am THE Guapo! I was born to receive the power hidden here! It is my blood right!"

Naruto took a step back slowly, "Look. Can't we just do things peacefully?"

Chunky laughed, "Shut up kid. Fuck peaceful ways!" He pulled his tiny bow back and notched an arrow.

Naruto frowned as he released an arrow, "So be it..."

As the arrow was about to hit the blonde an explosion of chakra erupted out of him. Blowing the projectile back.

Naruto created a chakra arm and shot it at Chunky, who tried to jump away like his comrades, but couldn't with his size. He was smacked away into the forest on the other side of the statue.

'Left. 45 degrees.'

Naruto turned and weaved through hand seals, "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough." He shot a giant gust of wind out his mouth into the forest. Tall and lanky fell from the tree and onto the ground, head hitting his head on a rock and knocking him out.

The human sacrifice waited... and waited... and waited...

No Guapo.

He could hear Ashura sigh in his mind, 'No doubt the leader must have left at the sign of danger. Coward.'

Naruto created three shadow clones to collect Chunky and Lanky, "That was disappointing. No chakra from these guys."

He then suddenly felt a spike of chakra, he turned around back towards the Sage.

The plaque was broken by Chunky's arrow. And behind it... a hole?

A small hole, perfectly shaped circle in the base of the statue. Actually, all the lines decorating the base led into it.

Suddenly, Naruto's chest felt warm. He frowned as he put an arm over his heart. Something was emitting heat.

He opened his jacket and reached into his breast pocket. He pulled out... a disc?

'Oh shit. Uncle Hamura's disc.'

Naruto looked from the disc to the hole in the wall, "Ashura..."

'Yeah. The disc is the same size as the hole.'

Naruto took a tentative step forward, "Ashura... should I?"

Silence for a moment, "Yes... do it."

Naruto put Hamura's disc into the statue base.

The disk glowed an ethereal white as is slowly started to spin, as it started to gain speed the lines on the base started to fill with white energy.

Naruto attempted to take a step back when a white energy grabbed onto him, "OH shit Ashura!"

'Can you break free!?' The disc was now spinning at insane speeds, wind stared to blow around the statue intensely.

Naruto grabbed and tugged at the energy holding him, he tried to channel Ashura's chakra only for nothing to happen.

The disc suddenly stopped. And Naruto's entire vision went white.

"Ahh... damn it..." Naruto groaned as he grabbed his head.

"You alright?" Ashura's helpful voice rang, it sounded just as distraught as he was.

Naruto sat up, eyes closed from the sting of light, "Yeah... you sound different Ashura."

"So do you."

Naruto opened his eyes... and then screamed.

Ashura winced and got up, he saw the... trees? The sun? Fresh air? "Well this definitely isn't your mindscape..."

Naruto kept screaming for a few moments, before stopping and staring at Ashura's form in shock.

Ashura turned around, and was greeted by a somewhat familiar sight.

Shinseimura. Or at least what looks like Shinseimura.

It was completely different, no tall and fancy hotels or houses. In fact most of the building where small and single shaded, most of the hill was still nature, and the Sage...

The Sage statue was completely gone, nothing was there at all.

Naruto was shell shocked, "Ashura... what is this."

Ashura frowned deeply, "No. I cannot believe this."

"Me to! You are here Ashura! Physically here!" Naruto wasn't quite sure on his conflicting emotions at the predicament.

Ashura started to walk, "We are in the past." He stated bluntly.

"What?"

"The past Naruto. If I'm right ten thousand years ago."

"Huh?"

Ashura sighed. What the hell is happening?

"Ashura I am so confused. What is this?"

Both Naruto and Ashura sat in an old tea shop, very heavily dressed girls served the tea, bowing before and after they poured it.

Ashura took a sip of his tea, savoring the taste, "Ah... I have not tasted this kind of tea in such a long time."

Naruto tried a sip, raising his eyebrows at the unique taste, "What is this?"

"The leaves for this tea was probably lost in time if I am right. Such a shame." Ashura set his cup down and wiped his mouth with a napkin, "Well Naruto." He said, "Are you calm now?"

"Enough." Naruto said with a slight blush, "My composure was completely broken, sorry."

Ashura nodded, "Well, I am sure you saw the outside, and heard my little explanation."

"Yes... but the past? Time travel?" Naruto shook his head, "That just can't be right. I know you time traveled, but how did we? And you are here right now." Naruto pointed to his stomach, "You are suppose to be in the seal."

Ashura nodded graciously to the woman who refilled his drink, females played a much different role in the ancient times. They were much more oppressed, only powerful like Ashura's wife, or rich like Indra's could get a proper education. It would take a few more years with Ninshu for them to get proper rights.

"Well Naruto." Ashura said as he sipped some tea, "Remember that Hamura sent me here, and we did put his disc into whatever the base of the statue is."

"So Hamura? But the disc never emanated much chakra until we were transported. I forgot about it in my pocket!"

Ashura became silent, "Wait." He began a few minutes later, "What about Kurama?"

"The Kyuubi?"

"Yes." Ashura leaned forwards, "Can you contact him?" He asked.

Naruto frowned and closed his eyes, 'Hello... Kyuubi?'

Silence.

'Kyuubi?'

Nothing.

Naruto tried a leap, 'Kurama?'

He then felt a rumble in his mind, 'Shut up midget. I am in agony.'

Naruto opened his eyes and looked to Ashura, "He's here, but in pain I think."

"That is not very good." Ashura waved a server over, who bowed as she approached.

"Yes sir." She kept her voice quiet and respectful.

Ashura gave a gentle smile, "Here, my bill." He handed over a large amount of cash, much larger then the actual bill was, "Is this your families shop?" He asked, he received a nod. "Keep all of it then."

The girl hastily bowed and ran off into a back room.

Naruto raised an eyebrow as they exited, "Where did you get money from? You've been bunking in my mind for 12 years."

Ashura shrugged, "I had it when I jumped over, I guess it never left me."

Naruto felt... different. Yes, he always liked to stand out, but the current looks the population of ancient Shinseimura made him uncomfortable.

It wasn't irritation for his pranks, or even the remorse or anger fueled looks caused by the Kyuubi attack. It was just curiosity and confusion on why the hell someone would wear clothes like that.

He tried to ignored it as he and Ashura walked down the street.

"So Ashura, what exactly is the plan?"

Ashura looked at him as they walked, "Go back to the statue, or at least where the statue used to be. Maybe we can reinsert the disc and go home."

Naruto felt his breast pocket, making sure it was there, "Yeah, but maybe we're missing something."

The older man raised an eyebrow in response.

"Well..." Naruto began, "Hamura, or at least it strongly suggests Hamura, sent us back here. So there has to be a reason."

Ashura nodded slowly as he watched a large group of men walking their way, "My guess is that whatever we need to find is at the statue also."

Naruto followed Ashura's eyes, and saw a rather threatening looking group of men infront of them.

Threatening did not mean powerful however. They had swords, spears, and axes. They looked mostly like the bandits of his time, albeit not as sloppy.

One of them, an man with an eyepatch stepped forward, "Stop right there." His voice was a deep gravely tone, definitely a fake voice used to intimidate.

Naruto wrinkled his nose at the man, Kakashi made an eye patch seem ten times cooler, this guy didn't exert any of the power that every single ninja, Sakura included, exerted. A sign of no chakra most likely.

Ashura gave a small smile, "Hello there, may I ask why we are being stopped?"

The man snorted at Ashura's polite tone, before giving Naruto a look, "What is with the kid? What kind of hue adores his garments?"

Hue adores his garments? Naruto had to remind himself that this was thousands of years in the past and more intelligent speaking was the common dialect. But by the look on Ashura's face, the eye-patch man was less then intelligent even with those words.

"He is my apprentice, I am instructing him in the way of the scholar." Ashura did not sound amused at all by the current situation.

The man shot Ashura a dirty look, "You did not answer my question."

Ashura rolled his eyes, "I am sure my answer is enough to satisfy you."

Eye-patch took a threatening step forward, "And if I not satisfied?"

"Then thou can go fuck thyself." Ashura then slammed his fist into the man's temple, knocking him to the ground unconscious.

"Ashura!" Naruto yelled in shock.,

Ashura shrugged, "He has the scent of blood and sex on him. He angered me."

"But-" Naruto quickly kicked a charging man in the stomach before shoving him away, "You're a pacifist!"

Ashura ducked underneath an ax swing and brought his fist up into an uppercut, smashing his fist into a man's chin and sending him flying away, "These man are terrorizing the city, they need to be removed, and they will not listen to words."

Naruto decided not to argue as he had to fight. He quickly leaned past a spear stab and brought his fist down into the wooden pole, the spear broke in half. The wielder stared in shock before Naruto slammed the broken pole into his forehead.

Naruto then leaned all the way back to avoid a sword slash, before putting his hands on the floor and pushing his feet upwards, executing a mule kick straight into the swordsmen's chest. Naruto then span around into a viscous roundhouse kick straight into the fleshy stomach of another man.

Naruto wiped a bead of sweat of his head and looked towards his ally, before staring in mild shock.

Ashura was destroying the opposition, flowing like water as he used his shakujo as a weapon.

Naruto's lack of concentration almost lost him his head, and the blonde rolled away and settled back into a combat stance.

Ashura was having a much easier time, his father having trained him extensively on combat.

He ducked underneath a swing before spinning and putting all of the force into his shakujo, which he slammed into a mans head, before shoving the end behind him into a mans nose, breaking it on impact.

He then swung around and kicked a man in the neck, before throwing his shakujo to a bowman aiming at Naruto, the staff slammed into the archers face and knocked him over and out.

Ashura clapped his hands to catch a vertical sword swing, and then kneed the wielder in the stomach. The man doubled over and Ashura brought his fist straight into the mans face, sending him into unconsciousness.

All of them defeated, Naruto just finished kicking the last man in the face.

Ashura dusted off his white clothing before walking over to the unconscious archer, picking up his shakujo and walking over to his 'apprentice'.

"Excellent job." He complimented.

Naruto rubbed his cheek before kicking a downed man in the stomach, "Damn it! That bastard has a punch to him."

Ashura chuckled, "You'll be fine, we should leave now before more people come."

"And where should we go?"

Ashura looked to the east, "My brother had a vacation house somewhere over there, I know where it is."

Naruto frowned as he held a bag of water, "No fridges... how am I suppose to ice this?"

Ashura grabbed it and the water instantly solidified, he handed it back to the blonde and walked over to a window, "That is an issue."

The blonde sat down on a chair and iced his face, "What is?"

"The entire town is in a form of martial law of some sort."

Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, "Those guys we beat up did not seem like government to me."

Ashura closed the curtains of the window and looked around the room, Indra was always a bit of a peacock, he loved to decorate his house with expensive and regal things. But this house was never used, he bought it only so he wouldn't sleep in an inn for a night, since he had the money. Most of the walls where bare and there where only minimal furnishings.

"My guess is that a large bandit group has occupied the town, most likely using it as a base or looking for something." Ashura sat down onto a plush couch, he frowned at the light scent of his brother before refocusing on the current situation.

Naruto took the pack off his face for a moment and poked his cheek, he winced before speaking, "Well nobody has chakra right? I have Ninjutsu and you have that Ninshu thing, it's an advantage we can use."

Ashura shook his head, "I cannot use Ninshu to fight."

Naruto put his hands into the 'elaborate' gesture.

"Ninshu was not created with any violence in mind." Ashura began, "Ninshu is to link people, help people understand each other to create peace, there is no combat capability in it."

Naruto slowly nodded, "So not Ninshu... but using chakra to fight is what I meant."

He was again given a head shake, "Right now Ninshu is still picking up major momentum. If I'm right me and my brother are a few years older then you and are traveling the world with my father, in a few years Ninshu will bring complete world peace."

"Look." Naruto began, "I love hearing about your father, and world peace is going to be awesome, but I still don't get it. We need to go home and fighting with the upper hand seems like the best way." He frowned at his hand, his ice pack had melted, "Here." He tossed the pack across the room.

Ashura caught it, "The issue is there will be no peace if people see us fight." Chakra swirled around his hand and the pack slowly started to freeze again, "I'm positive that the creation of Ninjutsu was from people watching me and my brother fight. Before our showdown nobody has ever seen chakra used in combat ways, and the natural lust for power all humans have fueled the morphing of my fathers greatest creation." He tossed the subzero pack back.

Naruto fumbled with the absolute freezing pack, before lightly pushing it to his face, "Ok, I understand the gist... fighting with chakra will cause the weaponized form to appear sooner."

"Yes."

"So no chakra against a large amount of enemies... right." Naruto did not sound very excited.

Ashura glanced at the clock on the wall, "Make it subtle, glowing with bright blue chakra is way to obvious, but a discreet shadow clone? That will be fine."

Naruto nodded and stood up, leaving the pack on the chair, "Keep it subtle, got it."