Chapter 7: Even more training.
A/N: Just in case anyone's wondering, the referance from the last chapter (about Sean Connery-sensei) was from a YouTube channel 'Lost Pause'. Funny guy, plays a lot of JRPGs and visual novels. Chack him out.
Enjoy the chapter:3
Later that day. Naruto and Yugao were on their usual training ground.
"So, what kind of training do you need water balloons for?" asked slightly amused but interested Yugao.
"I need to blow it up," Yugao raised an eyebrow. "The trick is that I need to use my chakra to rotate the water inside in a way that will rip this balloon apart."
"That's pretty interesting chakra control exercise. But why do you need it? As far as I can tell, your chakra control is perfect. I mean you mastered kunai and senbon balancing in just two hours and don't get me started on tree and water walking," asked confused Yugao.
"Hmm, I guess you can call it a chakra control exercise, but this is training for a certain A -rank jutsu," Naruto informed his teacher.
At first Yugao didn't know what her student was talking about, but then it hit her. A balloon with rotating water in it, the way Naruto said 'a certain A rank jutsu' and the fact that he just learned 'Hiraishin'.
"You are trying to learn 'Rasengan'," came Yugao's amazed voice.
"I am," Naruto said, adding a fourth rotation to the water.
Suddenly a splash of water dropped to the ground.
"You did it," Yugao's jaw dropped. "You did it on the first try."
"No I didn't."
That was anticlimactic.
[Tell me about it.]
"I made one water stream too sharp and it cut through the balloon," he picked up another balloon and filled it with water from his lungs (he didn't master change in water nature, but he already could turn his chakra into water).
"Could I try it as well?"
"Sure," Naruto tossed her a water balloon. "Rotate it at different angles and in different directions," a student gave his teacher an advice.
Three balloons later Naruto mastered the first step with his right hand. It took him two more to master it with the left hand. And by master I mean blow it up in less than a second. Then he took a rubber ball.
"What are you doing now?" asked a teacher turned student.
"First step was rotation, second step is power. We need to blow this ball up just like I just did with the water balloon."
This step wasn't as hard as the first one. After learning how to rotate chakra in many different directions, it was easy to add some more power to it. Off course with added power it was harder to control all the rotations, but it wasn't a problem for someone with perfect chakra control. He got this step down in two tries; Yugao was still on the first step.
"What's the third step?" Yugao asked, seeing him taking out a water balloon again.
"Third step – containment. I need to contain all the rotation and power inside this balloon without ripping it apart. The key is to make a thin film of chakra so it holds back the swirling mass of chakra instead of the thin rubber of the balloon." Naruto took the balloon in his hand and it immediately blew to pieces. He didn't even finish forming the rotation.
"Well, this will be harder than I thought," Naruto said with a sigh.
It took him almost an hour to learn how to contain all the power of the 'Rasengan' inside the small balloon. By the end of the day Naruto could form the jutsu in either hand in a friction of a second; it didn't matter whether he was standing, running, water walking or tree climbing. Yugao was still on the first step, though.
On the next day Yugao continued her 'Rasengan' training while Naruto concentrated on the final step of his water chakra nature training. It involved drawing all nearby water in. Shinobi with an exceptional water affinity could draw moisture from the air, which Naruto was trying to do right now. As proof he had thin mist surrounding him. When a message that he mastered his water affinity finally came, he noticed something else. Yugao's chakra signature was much sharper. He could see her as if she was right in front of him.
Skill Augmentation unlocked: Water Sense (Thanks to your perfect water affinity, you are now able to increase the range and strength of your sensory abilities. +50m for every % of humidity (Bonus - +125 m for every % of humidity)).
'Hmm, my sensory skills just keep getting better and better,' Naruto thought with a smile.
"How's your training going," asked Yugao flexing her hand.
"Funny you should ask, I just mastered it," as proof Naruto gathered a water ball in front of him. "I also discovered something. Because of the moisture in the air my sensory abilities are greatly increased."
"How greatly?" Yugao asked intrigued.
"A bit over ten km," Naruto informed her with a grin™, already expecting Yugao's reaction.
"TEN? Senju Tobirama was the strongest sensor in the history of Konoha and his range was only half of that. Only one that came close was Kushina–sensei," said amazed Yugao.
"Well, my water affinity is at least as strong as Tobirama's, maybe stronger and all Uzumaki are good sensors. Besides I also get a bonus from Kyuubi," Naruto shocked Yugao once again.
"From Kyuubi? How so?"
"Her power lets me sense human emotion and intentions. If I enter a state of deep meditation I can feel every emotion in the world."
Quite an interesting story on how it happened. Thanks to all the meditating that he's done, our hero managed to apply his newfound knowledge to other forms of meditation. Thus he discovered another sphere of creation – an emotional one. While the physical sphere is our ever expanding universe that we all know and love, the emotional one, while not beyond human understanding, eludes the minds of general population. It is best described as a soap bubble, albeit with more vivid color pallet. This bubble has a ton more smaller bubbles in it, each one representing a planet and having a faint outline of the land. The emotional sphere of creation, despite its name, doesn't create emotions. Rather emotions created it. Every emotion has its color and every person has their own shade. The more similar the shades are the stronger is the connection between people. Perfect examples are parent and child, siblings, lovers etc. When people are really close to each other their colors mix a little and gain similarities.
Empaths, however, are the only ones that can have pure black and white colors. Actually black and white are the only colors they have. While white, they can feel all emotions around them. If an empath is in control of their power, than they can change his color to black. It will completely cut off the empath from the rest of the bubble. Quite a useful ability. Especially while playing poker.
"The day when I discovered that I have this little ability, I found out, that Elemental Nations and the continent with the Demon country in it are the only continents in this world. Also, it appears that there are people beyond Wind country, but every book and scroll I read says that it is an uninhabited wasteland. Do you know why that is?" Naruto asked his teacher/student.
"Maybe because everything beyond Wind country is filled with deserts, ravines and small cliffs. Also it's even hotter there than in the Wind country. And why are you so sure there are no any more continents?"
When Yugao finished her first sentence a few thoughts flashed through our hero's mind.
'Sounds like Aiel wasteland. Nah, he wouldn't.' and after a split second, 'Fuck, he might.' Naruto was a little unnerved by this, but didn't show it.
"Actually I wasn't sure as well but Kyuubi was kind enough to inform me. Tell me nee-chan, do you know the legend behind the creation of the moon?" he asked with a grin™. He always liked hitting people with shocking revelations… as well as with sharp and pointy things, but that's beside the point.
"The legend says that Rikudo senin created it…" Yugao started and then her eyes widened.
"Yes, Rikudo senin took an entire continent and created a moon out of it. Since then the world only has two continents and a few islands in the middle," came a small history lesson from Naruto.
"I didn't think that was actually true. *sigh* You already mastered wind, fire and now water nature change, what's next?"
"Ah, lightning," Naruto said after a brief thought.
"Lightning it is. Hold your hand like this," said Yugao and held her thumb and forefinger slightly apart, "You must create a stream of electricity between your fingers. Pull them apart as much as you can. The second step is to do the same between your palms, until you can hold your hands out on shoulder level making an arc of electricity over your head," She told Naruto what he must do and returned to her own training.
Knowing about the laws of electricity, Naruto and ten of his clones moved to the second step by the end of the day.
By the end of the week Yugao mastered the 'Rasengan' and Naruto started on his earth nature manipulation training. Lightning and fire seemed to agree with him better than other elements for some reason. He had perfect affinity to all of them after all. Just a week before his third birthday Naruto finally mastered it. And decided to get some more attention to creating his own jutsu, and so ten of his clones always practiced 'weapon shadow clones'.
Ninjutsu max: Weapon Shadow Clones (hand signs are no longer required).
He created a throwing pick, charged it with wind chakra and threw it. The pick flew so fast, it made a sonic boom and left a white trail after itself. After five or so meters it split into ten, then after each five meters their count doubled. When the wall of picks collided with the forest, it exploded into sawdust and splinters. Naruto dispelled his picks before they could reach the end of the training ground, quite satisfied with the results.
{[Did you actually expect me to recognize this as a jutsu?]
'Kinda, yeah. I even came up with a name for it – 'Velocitas Eradico','Naruto would be making over exaggerated hand gestures right now, if he could. (A/N: Velocitas Eradico in latin means 'I, who am speed, eradicate'.)
[No, try harder. Cool name, though.]
'Well, sorry for trying to be original. *sigh* I'll just make a 'Rasenshuriken' or something. I'll still be using my 'Velocitas Eradico' though. It's way to cool to pass up.'
[Can't disagree with you on that one,] he smirked.}
"What was that?" Yugao said startled. The sheer destructive power amazed her.
"While playing around with my throwing picks I discovered that besides being great chakra conductors, they are greatly impacted by elemental chakra. Fire makes them explode on contact," Naruto made one and threw it. The pick exploded in a fiery orb slightly bigger than an explosive tag (+200 CP, +1000-3000 dmg. AOE – 5m.) "The size is determined by the amount of fire chakra I put into them. With lightning, if I use a small amount of chakra it will paralyze my opponent and maybe knock them out, if I triple it, the pick will go right through my target frying it in the process," Naruto threw a lightning charged throwing pick. It flew through the tree like it wasn't there and impaled the one behind it. The first tree instantly became black and a few branches broke and turned to ash as they hit the ground (+70 CP, sets paralysis status/+200 CP, +6000 dmg. Single target. Armor piercing.) "Wind increases their speed hundredfold," he threw a pick and it quickly disappeared from view leaving head sized holes into the trees (+200/580 CP, speed – supersonic (Mach 1.2-5).) "Water and earth are a bit more interesting. If I use too little water chakra it turns into a puddle upon impact, if I use a bit more, however…" Naruto threw a water charged pick and as soon as it collided with a tree it exploded into a rain of drops that traveled as fast as bullets in all directions (+200 CP, +100 dmg. per droplet. AOE – 7m. Armor piercing.) "Earth is by far the most interesting. Watch this," he said with a grin™, picked up a chunk of wood and threw it. He then threw an earth charged pick at it and it froze (+200 CP, target is frozen in space) "Once the pick strikes its target, nothing can move it, unless the pick itself is removed."
Yugao's jaw slid further and further down as Naruto's presentation went on. The fact that he could multiply each of those by hundreds if not thousands actually frightened her. All those combinations had a power potential of an S rank jutsu.
Meanwhile Naruto was looking at his handiwork and when his gaze turned to the remains of a tree that was struck by a lightning charged pick, he had an idea. He picked up another chunk of wood and channeled lightning chakra through it. Wood started smoking and blackened, then it fell apart into coals.
'Too slow. Maybe if I use fire…'
Naruto channeled fire chakra and the piece of wood caught on fire. Then it exploded. That got Yugao's attention.
"What are you doing now?" she was a bit afraid to ask.
"Just experimenting," he answered absentmindedly.
"I'll be over there then," young anbu just walked to the other side of the clearing. Naruto smirked and got back to his experiment.
'*sigh* This is wrong as well… I need to do something that will quickly and evenly heat it up. Lightning was close, but too slow. Fire – too fast. Maybe combination of the two?'
He channeled both chakra natures at the same time. Fire and lightning, while not opposing each other, didn't seem to mix very well. Resulting in a flaming block of wood with multiple burn marks of varying intensity.
'Looks like I'm on the right track. Just need to mix them in the right proportion.'
Which is exactly what he did for the next hour or so. The best he could come up with was a nearly instantaneous pile of burning coals.
'Not hot enough. But fast...' He tried to move the chakra in different patterns, but nothing seemed to give him the desired result.
'Seems like I'll have to add wind to the mix. *sigh* Another headache.'
With the addition of the third element the amount of possible combinations grew exponentially. Imagine you have to crack a password consisting of three letters instead of two. Everything mattered. The speed at which element is infused with the other one, or the combination of the two. Proportions. Which element should go first, which last. For example, Naruto learned that to completely negate lightning he needs to combine it with wind in proportion of 1:3. He also learned that adding wind to fire is safer than adding fire to wind. The lesson was supported by a black, flaking skin and a well done arm up to the elbow. It was quite fascinating to watch as the bone grew and surrounded itself with new muscles and skin (since the heeling process was taking too much time, Naruto just decided to cut off the arm and let it regenerate from scratch.)
Through all of that Yugao was too shocked to even move. She managed to regain her composure only after Naruto started flexing his new arm.
"Did Kyuubi do something to disable you from feeling pain?" Now that she thought about it, Naruto have never really shown any signs of acknowledging the pain from the wounds he received while sparing either.
Naruto merely chuckled.
"No, I feel everything 100%. During out spars as well," he added as if reading Yugao's mind. "I simply don't care."
"But how…?"
"Let's just say there are things that can bring more pain than any physical wound ever could," Naruto said with a sad smile.
After that Yugao decided it was to insensitive to pry any further. Or, perhaps, she was afraid… Maybe a bit of both…
After nearly three hours of trial and error Naruto was happy with the combination he came up with and was polishing it to perfection.
'First, lightning and fire, 3:2, mixed in a swirl. Then a quick infusion of 1 wind.'
The whole process took just a fraction of a second. Wood instantly turned into ashes and not black heavy ash, it turned into light grey dust that quickly disappeared into the wind. It took less than a millisecond to turn a chunk of wood into ash, revealing a white gloving palm underneath.
{[Now THAT I can call a jutsu. What will you name it?] He was excited.
'Let's make this a tribute to a wonderful world of 'Needless'. I name it 'Agni Schiwatas'.'
[Perfect. I think your 'Agni Schiwatas' is just as strong as Kakashi's 'Raikiri'. It's definitely deadlier.
'So I just made an S rank ninjutsu?'
[It certainly has an S rank chakra control requirement. Any iryojutsu takes less chakra control than that monster you just created; hell Tsunade's enhanced strength takes less chakra control than this!]
'So only people with perfect chakra control will be able to use it?
[Pretty much.]}
"Nee-chan, what would you classify a jutsu that can instantly turn anything to ash upon touch?" Naruto asked for Yugao's opinion.
"Show me." She just got back from picking up some lunch for them.
Naruto picked up a rock and it turned into ash. Yugao was left gaping. Her student just showed her a jutsu that trumped Kakashi's 'Raikiri'.
"That is at least an S ranked jutsu. When… How… Is that what you've been experimenting on?" Yugao said in a shocked voice.
"Yep," he answered grinning™. "As to how, I combined fire, lightning and wind chakra."
If Yugao's jaw could drop any further a lord of hell would find it in his throne room. When her shock receded a little she asked, "Are you aware that you just created an entirely new style? And it's a Kekkei Tota to boot. *sigh* We'll need to register it. What are you going to call it?"
"I call it 'Agni Schiwatas'. Don't ask," he held up his palm. "And the style… I'll call it Plasma style."
Ninjutsu created: Plasma style: Agni Schiwatas (By combining fire, lightning and wind nature chakra with high - speed friction, you are now able to instantly incinerate any target upon coming in contact with it. 500 CP, instakill.)
"We should go to the Hokage again," Naruto took Yugao out of her stupor.
The trip to the Hokage was uneventful except for another jawdrop Naruto received and another human jaw king of hell picked up in his chambers, from the Hokage this time. Hiruzen gave our hero a blank scroll where Naruto described the workings of his jutsu.
The next day, after a quick theory test, Yugao decided it was time to teach Naruto some iryojutsu. And so Naruto was sitting with a fishing pole before the waterfall while ten other Narutos were trying to bring the semi dead fish back to shape (all fish had 1 HP). After 'Agni Schiwatas', 'Mystical Palm' looked like a child's play.
Iryojutsu learned: Mystical Palm (you are now able to diagnose and heal a single target. At lvl 1 - 100 CP per minute, +1 HP\sec.)
The technique was quite simple. You push your chakra into the fish, through the chakra infusion find out what is wrong with it and move your chakra in a way that would fix the damage. The most difficult part was fixing the damage. It came from having to separate Yang chakra and using it to heal. Naruto decided to start with pure Yang chakra and immediately a system message came up.
Iryojutsu learned: Yang Healing (by using pure Yang chakra you are now able to diagnose any damage or illness, completely heal a fatal injury and regenerate lost body parts. 100 CP to heal, 500 CP to regenerate a body part, instaheal, can remove 'death immanent' status).
From what Naruto got from his previous adventures, the 'death immanent' status is applied upon receiving a mortal injury. This status has a countdown, usually a minute or so. Upon it hitting zero the target dies, obviously. There are a few ways of removing the status; however, they are only available to high level healers or alchemists. If you don't have anyone like that in your party, you can't do anything, but watch as the time goes down.
Currently two fish had this status, one due to a punctured gill; others still could be saved through conventional means. He used it on a fish with the status. Immediately a small white circle appeared underneath his palm and strange markings extended from it. This wasn't the only result as fish's HP instantly hit max. The countdown disappeared as well.
'An instant heal… Useful,' Naruto thought with a smirk.
The fish flopped and Naruto tossed it into the stream.
"Got it," Naruto informed his teacher.
"Already? We started under an hour ago! Show me," Yugao wasn't convinced.
"I can use pure Yang chakra, remember?" asked Naruto and performed his jutsu again.
"*sigh* I guess we need to go to the Hokage again," she just gave up on being surprised.
"Guess so," he answered with a smirk.
All main objectives completed. Do you wish to complete the quest?
'No. I'm not losing 500 exp.'
Message will appear again once all bonus objectives are complete.
Next day Naruto decided it was finally time to try awakening his Sharingan, so he slammed his hands on the ground and lines of khanji extended from it and formed a ten meter dome. It flashed blue and disappeared.
"What was that for?" asked Yugao, standing beside him.
"I want to try something out and don't want anyone else to know about this," he said and moved to the edge of the dome. "I want you to attack me with intent to kill," seeing her hesitation he turned off his emotions and looked at her with cold eyes. "Don't hold back," Naruto said with voice devoid of emotion and made a ninjato out of Yin chakra.
Seeing him like this she took out her ninjato and said in the same, cold voice, "Understood."
They charged. Yugao was stronger, bigger and faster. However, Naruto had the amount of experience she could never achieve; he sparred with her before and knew her style and combos, where she thought Naruto knew only what she taught him, as well as the bit of skill he shoved as they first started training. Naruto also compensated by using his 1 tails cloak, which turned his eyes silver and coated his skin and single tail in wisps of black chakra.
Yugao was stunned. She expected her student to be on the defensive, but they traded blow for blow. Naruto knew that he can't block her attacks outright, so he made sure to parry everything he couldn't sidestep. He never left any openings for her to exploit and his moves were unpredictable. Naruto came close to hitting her multiple times as well. The most startling thing, however, were his eyes. They were the eyes of a seasoned fighter… no - killer. They were eyes of a man that lived through countless life or death situations. And he was starting to dominate the fight.
'I must do as he told. I must strike to kill, or he will kill me,' Yugao thought and did something she very rarely did, she pushed chakra through her blade and her body.
Suddenly Naruto found himself on the defensive. Yugao's blows became much stronger and faster.
'She finally takes this seriously. Now I definitely can't block her strikes... This is gonna be good,' a predatory grin appeared on his face, his slitted pupils started to get thinner and thinner. 'No, Blood, we can't kill her, let Ice do his job,' as quickly as it came, Naruto's face returned to the emotionless face with dead eyes.
Blood surfaced only for a split second, but Yugao could feel the intense bloodlust coming out from her student at that moment. That shifted her focus and Naruto almost pierced her heart. Now she focused on landing a blow on her opponent. Finally she made him block, his blade recoiled back and before he could return it, her own blade came straight for his throat. Suddenly Yugao saw her sword flying away and felt something cold right under her chin. She shifted her eyes down and found a pitch black, single edged blade. She followed it to an extended arm, a little further… and her eyes widened. She was looking straight into a pair of blood red eyes with single tomoe each.
"Sharingan…" she whispered in disbelieve.
Doujutsu unlocked: Sharingan (Thanks to your Uchiha heritage you can now activate Sharingan. At lvl 1 - +50% reaction speed, ability to copy D rank jutsu, 60 CP/min, 1 tomoe.)
Quest completed: Training with Yugao.
Rewards: 3800 exp.
Naruto deactivated his newly awakened Sharingan and took down the privacy dome.
"Let's go to the Hokage," Naruto said and shunshined out, quickly followed by Yugao. By the way 'Shunshin' was a skill augmentation for 'Chakra Enhancement'.
Physical Skill max: Chakra Enhancement (At lvl 5 (max) – STR, DEX, SPD +50%, 50 CP per min.)
Skill augmentation unlocked: Shunshin (By mastering 'Chakra Enhancement' you are now able to use a burst of chakra to move at great speeds. 50 CP, 1m per point of SPD.)
Once they arrived to the Hokage office, Hiruzen, seeing the look on Yugao's face, cleared the room without a word.
"I have a special two in one for you. A new ability and a question," he pointed to his eyes and activated his Sharingan. To that Hiruzen just smiled happily.
"So you managed to awaken it."
"You knew that I was a part Uchiha?" a surprised Naruto asked.
"How is that possible?" Asked Yugao. "I thought…"
"I probably should start on the history of the Namikaze clan," Hokage started, interrupting his anbu. "The Namikaze clan was a small clan in the Hotsprings country. When Yuugakutre became a resort instead of a shinobi village Namikaze decided to leave. Yuukage didn't like it and send anbu after them. In the end about a dozen Namikaze survived, among them a clan head and his young son."
"My dad and granddad," Naruto guessed.
"Yes. They decided to come to Konoha, the birthplace of Minato's mother," Hokage tried to continue, but Naruto intervened again.
"And my grandmother was an Uchiha. The question is what an Uchiha was doing in the Hot Springs country?"
"Correct again Naruto–kun, Uchiha Noeko, your grandmother, was exiled from Uchiha clan."
"Exiled?! From Uchiha clan?!" this time Yugao interrupted the Hokage.
"Holy fuck. Was she Madara's daughter or something," Naruto said with a laugh.
"No, his niece," Hiruzen smiled at their gaping faces, "She was a daughter of Izuna, Madara's younger brother."
"A quarter of Uchiha blood and I managed to awaken Sharingan. What are the odds," Naruto said with a grin™.
"Apparently Uchiha blood is just as strong as Uzumaki's. Minato had Sharingan too, after all," came another shocking revelation from sandaime.
"So THAT'S how he did it," Naruto said after the 'shock' receded.
"What are you talking about?" asked Hiruzen.
"His 'Hiraishin' step three, that Howl Dance thing. I tried to recreate it, but it was so disorienting… I could barely do it with three beacons while he did it with six."
"That reminds me, what is his progress Yugao?"
It was the time for her to make the monthly report, after all.
"So far he's mastered anbu taijutsu style, he is very proficient in leaf kenjutsu, he mastered shurikenjutsu, mastered all changes in chakra nature, he's genjutsu skills are easily anbu level, perhaps even kage level, he created an S rank jutsu and a new style on his own and his Yin chakra rods combined with elemental chakra produce devastating results." Yugao gave him a full report.
"We had a spar right before coming here. I can say with certainty, his kenjutsu overall is anbu level. He used one tail of Kyuubi's chakra and when he awakened his Sharingan he became much faster. I wouldn't be able to defeat him in pure kenjutsu battle," Yugao looked at Naruto in a way that said - she recognized him as a master swordsman.
"What about an all out fight?" Hiruzen was curious. So far it seemed as though Naruto had more potential than Uchiha Itachi.
"I'm not sure, I don't know his ninjutsu skills. He read a lot of scrolls in the shinobi library but I've never seen him use any," said Yugao.
"I'll send someone to test his ninjutsu skills and train his Sharingan. Naruto-kun, could you set up a privacy barrier around training ground 25?" Hiruzen asked our hero.
"No problem, I was thinking of doing it anyway."
On the next day when Naruto activated a newly set up barrier and immediately created ten clones for some training Yugao asked, "Shouldn't you conserve your chakra for your test?"
"I'll only train for an hour, it won't take even half of my chakra and by the time he gets here I'll regenerate it anyway," said Naruto concentrating on his hand.
The anbu arrived shortly after Naruto's chakra regenerated, just as he predicted. Anbu stopped for a moment to appreciate the barrier and walked in. He didn't see anyone right of the bat so he turned to his sense of smell and found a fresh one deeper into the forest. He moved there but before he could get halfway to the scent, before a fireball hit his position. The anbu managed to avoid it but had to jump again an orb of wind impacted the ground at his feet, sending him further away. He tried to look for his attacker but didn't have time as several bolts of lightning nearly hit him. Anbu managed to escape only thanks to a rapid series of 'shunshin' jutsu. He decided to retreat and analyze the situation.
He tried to shunshin out, but found himself suck as the ground around him turned into mud. While he was struggling to get out of the chakra draining swamp, a giant torrent of water did that for him. He got smashed through a tree and found himself falling.
'Shit, the ravine!' he thought as he started falling in. Suddenly he felt something cold pierce his shoulder and everything froze. And I mean everything. His body, blood, heartbeat, water in his lungs. Only his thoughts weren't frozen. He saw a flash of black lightning and a hand grabbing him by the collar of his vest. His world went black but regained its form and color in an instant. Saved anbu found himself in a clearing able to move again. He coughed up water from his lungs.
"I know this was a surprise attack, but I really expected better from you, captain," he heard an overly familiar voice.
"Yugao, what's with the warm greeting?" anbu, said taking of his mask. He was confused by his friend's behavior.
'What did I do this time?' he thought and was surprised by her answer.
"I didn't do a thing."
"You are here to test out my ninjutsu skills. So what do you think, Uchiha Shisui?" the newly identified Shisui's head snapped towards the new voice. He didn't even feel his presence until just a moment ago. He found himself looking into a pair of single tomoe sharingan. Those eyes belonged to a five – six year old looking boy with long, black hair with red tips, clad in a black t-shirt, white shorts and a pair of black shinobi sandals. Naruto was squatting to the right of him.
"You?" Shisui couldn't hide the surprise from his voice. A kid launched all those jutsu at him in such quick succession?
"Want to go for another round?" Naruto asked with a grin™.
"No, thank you. Just show me the jutsu you used," asked the anbu captain.
"Sure thing," said Naruto and launched his first jutsu.
"Fire style: Great Fireball (A jutsu where chakra kneaded inside the body is converted into fire and expelled from the mouth as a massive orb of roaring flame. Strength is altered by controlling the amount of chakra. 100 CP, C rank)." Naruto performed a set of hand seals so fast only a Sharingan could see and a massive orb of flame rushed from Naruto's mouth, leaving a trench in the ground.
"Wind style: Great Vacuum Bullet (A/N: I know it's a 'sphere', not 'bullet' but I have some other ideas for 'Vacuum sphere')(The caster compresses the entirety of the previously inhaled air into a single large, crushing sphere of wind chakra that they then proceed to expel from their mouth. 200 CP, B rank)." After another quick set of hand seals Naruto took a deep breath and launched an orb of visible wind that crushed through a couple of trees. As soon as it disappeared Naruto started hand seals for his third jutsu.
"Lightning style: False Darkness (Caster emits a spear of lightning from their mouth, which then pierces their enemy. Caster can increase the number of lightning bolts to attack multiple enemies. Jutsu can be focused into a laser beam. 250 CP B rank)." A beam of blue light emerged from Narutos mouth and destroyed a nearby rock. As soon as the sound from a crashed boulder faded Kakashi and Yugao herd another jutsu being called out.
"Earth style: Swamp of the Underworld (By changing the surface of an object beneath the enemy into mud creating a swamp, the caster can sink his enemy into the adhesive, chakra infused mud ensnaring their body. It's almost impossible to recover one's strength and escape from the swamp. 400 CP A rank)." Naruto then slammed his hands on the ground and a large space before him turned into a swamp. A few trees sank into it and disappeared. While the trees were still sinking, Naruto performed his next jutsu.
"Water style: Great Waterfall (This jutsu extends water over a large scale, surges and rises up to several dozens of meters high. Then it streams to the ground in one big cascade, leaving an aftermath reminiscent of a natural disaster. 360 CP A rank)." Naruto raised his head and a stream of water came from his mouth. It rose for over twenty meters and cascaded down like a giant waterfall. When water receded three shinobi were standing in front of a what looked like a dried up river.
Shisui was beyond shocked. A kid, barely over half his size, just performed Two C, four B and Four A rank ninjutsu in a quick succession and didn't even look winded. He knew Naruto was a Jinchuuriki, but this was beyond ridiculous.
"How much Chakra do you have?" he asked amazed.
Naruto quickly checked Shisui's stats.
Name: Uchiha Shisui (m)
Lvl: 59
Age: 21
HP: 3500
CP: 4200
SP: 4300
LF: 1000
VIT: 350
STR: 510
DEX: 500
INT: 420
WIS: 340
INS: 72
SPD: 740
Perks:
Uchiha: +10 SPD every lvl, +5 STR every lvl, +5 DEX every lvl, Sharingan, total immunity to all genjutsu below C – rank, all genjutsu are 100 % more effective,
Anbu captain: got at lvl 57 – all stealth skills are 75% more effective,
Born leader: all teammates have 50% more morale, teammates' stats increased by 10%,
Genjutsu master: got at lvl 30 - +3 INT per lvl, +3 WIS per lvl, all genjutsu are 50% more effective,
Ninjutsu master: got at lvl 20 - +3 INT per lvl, +3 WIS per lvl, all ninjutsu are 50% more effective,
Mangekyo Sharingan: got at lvl 27 – total immunity to all genjutsu below B – rank, all genjutsu are 75% more effective, Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Kotoamatsukami, Izanami (1 Sharingan), Izanagi (1 Sharingan), Susanoo. Total blindness after 100 uses of any previously described jutsu.
"I have almost twice as much chakra as you do," Naruto shocked the anbu captain.
"Your insane amount of chakra aside, how do you even know how much chakra I have?"
"Jiji didn't tell you anything did he?" Naruto said rubbing his face.
"Hokage–sama said I needed to test your ninjutsu skills and train you in using your Sharingan. He also explained how you got the doujutsu in the first place." This still shocked him by the way.
"I guess I should inform you then. I'm a Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi no Yoko. The seal is set up in a way that it would slowly release Kyuubi's chakra into my own chakra system. That is why I have so much of it," Naruto started.
"I knew that you were a Jinchuuriki, but isn't that a bit ridiculous?" Shisui said.
"Hey, Kyuubi has the most chakra of any being currently in existence. As for your second question, like any Uzumaki, I'm a strong sensor. I'm even stronger than Senju Tobirama. You should also know that I mastered seven nature changes, all single elements and Ying and Yang styles. I can use Uzumaki chains. I also created my own style and an S rank jutsu for it. I mastered anbu taijutsu style and Yugao recognizes me as a master swordsman. Did I get everything, nee–chan?" Naruto finished and asked Yugao.
"You forgot to mention that you created an iryojutsu that can heal pretty much anything in a flash," came another shocking revelation from Yugao.
"Well, now that we are done with introductions, shall we get on with the lesson?" Naruto clapped his hands.
"Ok, but before we do that, could you explain how you managed to pull off that 'introduction' of yours?" Shisui was still shocked that all the jutsu in the 'introduction', as he put it, were fired pretty much instantaneously. While Naruto's handsealing speed was impressive, it was physically impossible to cast them in such a quick succession.
"Shadow clones," Naruto said and anbu captain's eyes widened. "I made ten of them and they hid in the trees and masked their scent. The scent you picked up was from nee-chan's anbu vest."
Naruto picked up a chunk of wood, tossed it up, threw a earth pick in it, hiraishined to it and back.
"And that is how I saved you from falling." Naruto finished.
Shisui could only sigh and rub his temples.
'This kid more ridiculous than Itachi. AND he's five years younger! What is it with this OP as fuck kids?!,' thought the owner of the most OP genjutsu currently in existence.
"*sigh*How much chakra do you have left?" asked Shisui getting up.
"Slightly more than you do," Naruto said with a grin™.
"Ok, let's start then," anbu captain said enthusiastically.
New teacher received: While training with Shisui Your physical stat training speed will be increased by 60%, you will learn ninjutsu, genjutsu and Sharingan related jutsu 50% faster. You can train all your stats up to +10 p.p.l. You will receive additional 10 points of SPD per lvl. Upon completing your Sharingan training you will receive Uchiha style ninjutsu.
New quest: training with Shisui.
Main objectives:
-Unlock three levels of Sharingan
-Master Uchiha Interceptor style
-Learn ten sharingan exclusive genjutsu (0/10)
-Beat Shisui in a spar
Bonus objectives:
-Unlock all five levels of sharingan
-Beat Shisui in a spar using only Uchiha created jutsu
-Finish the battle with a genjutsu.
Rewards:
-350 exp per main objective
-600 exp per bonus objective, right to wear an Uchiha crest in public.
The next few weeks consisted of Sharingan training. Naruto completed the objective on Sharingan genjutsu and unlocked three tomoe (got to lvl 3. Other two levels are Mangekyo and EMS) so he now had +150% to reaction speed and could copy A rank jutsu. He also often sparred with Yugao and Shisui. They both admitted that Naruto is better at genjutsu than they are, no Mangekyo, of course. Actually, genjutsu was the easiest for Naruto to learn. Mostly because it's based on chakra control and, surprisingly enough, insight. The ability to insert his chakra into someone's brain to mess with it heavily relied on WIS. INS came into play later, when Naruto had to make a believable enough illusion or the one that would shake up his target the most. Needles to say, he could do both exceptionally well.
He also got that ninjato from Yugao. They were at her apartment later that day. Yugao went to her closet and took out a ninjato from the top shelve. It was slightly different from other anbu standard issue weaponry. It had the same black wooden sheath, but it had a red line running down the middle of it. The handle was the same, only it had a swirl like the Chunin and Jonin vests had on their backs, and in white instead of red.
"You like it?" Yugao asked and upon receiving a nod continued. "It belonged to your mother." Naruto just smiled softly. "I thought it would be better in your hands."
"Thank you, nee-chan," Naruto thanked the purple haired anbu and hugged her. The fact that she was in her usual tank top was quite nice. The only down side was that Naruto wasn't tall enough yet. But give it a year…
[*Perverted giggle*]
He continues training with Tenzo and with both Naruto and Machiko working together eroded the seal enough to get him up to three tails.
Skill Unlocked: Kyuubi Cloak 3 Tails (Upon activation chakra is fully replenished. +200% to all stats and ninjutsu dmg. -40% to WIS, -40 HP/sec. (bonuses – no debuff to WIS, no HP loss).
He also tried to copy Tenzo's wood style and even further shocked everyone when he succeeded. Turned out wood style didn't just use earth and water chakra, it also used life force. The reason why nobody could use wood style is that they needed high LF and perfect mastery of earth and water natures. Also it would be fatal for anybody but Senju or Uzumaki since only they could regenerate their LF. Or Orochimaru's experiments, that works too.
Finally Machiko decided to deliver the promised training.
"Why now of all times?" Naruto asked.
"For the sake of plot progression!" came kitsune's overly enthusiastic cheer.
Omake: Earning money.
One morning Naruto was sitting in the kitchen, breakfast already eaten. Yugao was finishing her shower and Naruto was writing something.
"Decided to quit the life of a shinobi and start writing? Or just trying to copy Jiraiya-sama?" Yugao asked, smiling as she stepped into the kitchen.
"More like the second," He answered with a smirk. "I read a few of his… stories… and I'm trying to see if I can do better."
"I'll probably regret asking this, but what's it gonna be about? Or will it have any plot at all?"
"Kukuku, it will," Naruto answered with a NOT a creepy laugh. Yugao immediately regretted asking. "It will be about aliens, magic, science, an intergalactic space empire and a 16 year old student."
"How does that mix?"
"How does that mix?"
Machiko and Yugao both asked at the same time.
{"You haven't watched 'To love ru' yet?" Naruto asked his tenant in return.
"Hehe, no I spent the last year playing Souls games (For those who don't know – 'Demon Souls', 'Dark Souls', 'Dark Souls II' and 'Bloodborne'. Yes, I'm counting 'Bloodborne' as a Souls game, deal with it). They are the second hardest thing I've ever came across, but they are addicting as hell," Machiko said with a small giggle.
"Yeah, I know what you mean," Naruto said with a nostalgic smile.
[Not gonna comment on that 'second hardest' bit?] he was clearly amused.
Nope, I've already took that joke waaaaay too far with this little interaction.
"You probably should answer Yugao's question now. Before this gets too far." Kitsune suggested.
"It's not like she's waiting for it; the time is frozen. By the way, how are you in the frozen time?"
"Well, we are pretty much the same entity right now. That's how you received my exp for Minato's kill after all."
"Yeah, that does make sense…" Naruto mused.
"How about answering that question now. I'm interested as well."
"Oh, right. It actually mi-" our hero started, but was interrupted by Machiko.
"Unfreeze time first."
"Time, right, ok…"}
"It actually mixes pretty well, believe it or not. Has a lot of possibilities and potential too. I'm pretty sure it can top Jiraiya's work as well."
"Well, as long as you're confidant…" Yugao sighted. "How are you even going to publish it?"
"I'll ask jiji to do something. I'm sure he'll agree for a chance to get an early copy, hehehe…"
In the Hokage tower.
"Achoo," A few papers flew away from a powerful sneeze. "I get a feeling something good is about to happen, hehehe…" Hiruzen giggled perversely.
True enough, in just under a year Naruto's novels blew up the market. Mostly because he actually described his journey, instead of the canon one. All the money went to Naruto's account that the old monkey made for him. Sarutobi himself was content with receiving an exclusive copy a week early.
Omake2: About Naruto (part 2).
Naruto and Machiko were currently lying in bed. Kitsune's head and right hand on his chest. Legs intertwined. Just enjoying the closeness of each other. Then Machiko spoke.
"You know, despite you making fun of people's deaths and just general disregard for human life, I have a hard time seeing you as the bad guy…"
"Probably because I'm not. Well, I defiantly started as one. While now you can describe my alignment as True Neutral, in the beginning it was, without a doubt, Chaotic Evil."
"Speaking in D&D terms now?" She said with a giggle.
"It's easier that way. Anyway, after a certain incident I realized that I cannot continue living as Chaotic Evil. That is when I started developing other personalities. Over the years my alignment changed to True Neutral. Well, I have bits of Chaotic Neutral and a few vague aspects of Chaotic Evil still remain, but they are too weak to impact anything. I still find killing pleasurable and some people may find my understanding of 'justified torture' a bit vague. But I won't go on a killing spree just for shits and giggles. If it had some benefit apart from my personal enjoyment, then sure, but as I'm right now the consequences would be too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. Massive genocides don't interest me that much anymore. Besides, I did manage to make some semblance of a moral code throughout the centuries."
Next time: New places.
Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Lvl: 7 (exp – 1400/1500)
Age: 6 years (physical), 1054 years (mental), 3 years (spend in 'Naruto' world)
HP: 2500
CP: 7650
SP: 2196
LF: 2400
VIT: 250
STR: 189
DEX: 99
INT: 765
WIS: 765
INS: 1012
SPD: 123
Perks:
Gamers' contract: you remember all your incarnations, perfect memory, RPGescue GUI in all worlds, granted mental time freeze,
Great one: INS cannot be lower than 1000, WIS cannot be lower than INT, change In form successful 100% of the time, +100% to effectiveness in all sensory abilities, granted ability to consume/enslave souls of lower life forms, ability to reach perfect control of all natures, all physical drawbacks are canceled,
Ashura's chakra: +10 VIT every lvl, +50% to team's morale, +50% to team's exp gain.
Uzumaki – dominant: +100 LF every lvl, +5 VIT every lvl, +5 STR every lvl, +5 INT every lvl, ability to reach absolute mastery in fuinjustu (max lvl 5), chains, +50% to effectiveness in all sensory abilities, red hair,
Namikaze – recessive: +5 SPD every lvl, +1 STR every lvl, +1 DEX every lvl,
Uchiha – recessive: +2 SPD every lvl, +1 STR every lvl, +1 DEX every lvl, Sharingan,
Preteen: LF is stable,
Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi no Yoko: +100 LF every lvl, +15 VIT every lvl, +15 STR every lvl, +100 INT every lvl, enhanced healing – in combat - 10 HP/s, out of combat – 100 HP/s, total immunity to all genjutsu below A – rank, ability to sense emotion,
Hanyou: got at lvl 3 - +5 VIT per lvl, +5 STR per lvl, +5 DEX per lvl, +5 SPD per lvl, enhanced healing – in combat - 40 HP/s, out of combat – 400 HP/s, 9 tails (they represent how much of Kyuubi's chakra is under your control), sense of smell x1000, night vision, enhanced sight – up to x10, enhanced hearing – up to x10, chance of successful transformation 10% (bonuses – chance of successful transformation 100%).