Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 56: Secret's of the Uzumaki clan
Naruto gazed at the book sitting in front of him and slowly turned the first page over to see a date that was over a thousand year's old. 'This is unbelievable. It's so old but the book looks like it hasn't aged a single day' Naruto thought to himself as he began to read.
I Ryu Uzumaki have decided to write this journal to commemorate my appointment as the very first official head of our family. Although we are few in number at the moment in year's I hope we can pass our knowledge of swordsmanship and sealing down to future generation's.
As Naruto continued to read on he discovered that the time of the first leader Ryu Uzumaki was more than fifty year's before the time of the Rikudou sennin. Reading on the most part of the first clan head's rule had been bloody battle's and war. This continued through the second ruler's time as well. In fact thanks to the constant war's they were fighting the clan had only stayed at a handful and by the time of the third ruler had dwindled to just five.
The constant waring seems to never end. Our family has been forced to build a small fortified building for defense, but it has become somewhat of a home. There are only five battle ready member's left of our clan but we will not fail to defend ourselves. Peace seems unobtainable as long as we fight. This land is only small and the people who live here only few, but even here our clan can not seem to find the peace we desire.
That was the last entry from the third clan head of the Uzumaki clan. And Naruto was about to skip ahead but the start of the next section caught Naruto's attention.
This is the first entry of Enton Uzumaki. The battle last night cost father and mother there lives, but we still live on. My youngest brother Ryuga saw them die before his eye's and has been in a coma for two day's now. I was elected this morning to lead the clan but I do not feel I am ready. I would have preferred to pass the responsibility on to my uncle but he said it was my duty as eldest son of the previous clan head.
It has been two day's since I took over as clan leader and Ryuga has yet to awaken. The only sign that he is still alive, is that he has a pulse. There also seems to be a silvery substance that will cover him every so often, but it is not tangible and it recedes back into him after a few moment's. Uncle is becoming worried, but there is nothing that we can do for him.
Naruto was thoroughly confused by what Enton had meant by silvery substance. Initially he figured it could have been raw uncontrolled chakra but Naruto had never heard of silver chakra so he decided to read on. And what he found had shocked him to the very core.
Ryuga awoke this morning after almost a week. But his eye's are different. I can feel pressure behind them and they have an aura about them that does not seem natural. While they are still purple like they had been before they are now more metallic and his pupil has shrunk to nothing but a small dot. What is most confusing is the white's of his eyes are smaller only occupying the very edge of his eye's and there is a ripple pattern extending out from the center. He has not spoken much since he awoke but when he has he seemed calm and almost peaceful.
Naruto could hardly believe his eye's as he read the next few entry's about how his brother had begun performing weird feat's that nobody could explain. He would simply stick out his hand and the object he wanted would fly towards him and even one entrance of an incredibly shocked Enton after he saw his brother breath fire.
The next interesting event happened several weeks later after a supposed attack on the young Uzumaki clan.
We were attacked last night, but thanks mostly to Ryuga we came out of it unharmed. In fact they surrendered completely once they saw some of the things my youngest brother can do. They were so awed by Ryuga that they even asked if they can join together with us and become part of our clan. I accepted on the grounds that they were a small family and mostly non combative women and children.
Naruto quickly skimmed over several more entry's but they seemed to be mostly along the same line's there clan would grow by adding several non combatants to there clan and letting the men join them under there own banner. Very slowly the very first village was being formed under the banner of the Uzumaki clan.
A few year's passed before anything interesting happened again, it turned out that Ryuga had began teaching his family and several other member's of his village how to use there chakra properly. It turned out they had been using it without realizing with the clans unique ability to seal object's away inside of thing's but once they had begun to learn about chakra and what Ryuga called Ninshu. Which was basically how to use chakra in it's most basic forms leading into jutsu. Among what he taught was the tree and water walking exercises they still used today.
Six year's had past and the small house that had been used as there old family house had been torn down and replaced with a larger house and they had began work on the underground area that Naruto was currently in.
I have decided that this will be our permanent home, we thought about returning to the main land but we finally have found peace here so why should we give it up. To underline my determination to stay here I will build a safe house underground in order to store the families treasure's for the future and an office where I can store accurate historical events concerning the clan.
Naruto skimmed over the entry's as the year's past, and the family grew. They had began experimenting with several seals thanks to there new found control over chakra, some of the designs drawn there did not look far from the modern equivalent. And there seemed to be several references to the other books in the room that described some of the events like finishing the main chamber of the underground area and several other Uzumaki clan members began teaching the use of chakra.
It had taken close to eight year's before the next interesting event occurred.
Ryuga has decided that in order to live out his dream and bring peace to the world he has to leave. I tried to talk him out of it, but he has his heart set on helping the rest of the world's people. The only form of comfort he gave, was that he will not use the Uzumaki name on his travels to protect the life we lead here of peace and harmony and to prevent any power hungry people from attempting to take control of our island and the Uzumaki clan. It will be painful to see my younger brother leave but he has promised to send word of how his travels are going.
He flicked on through the diary every couple of pages there was something new on Ryuga Uzumaki came up. Often it was because he had invented a new seal or came up with a new jutsu and it would have been sent back to the Uzumaki clan. Naruto found one jutsu in particular very interesting. The Banbutsu Sozo (Creation of all thing's) apparently he could create an object with yin chakra and then breath life into it with the Yang chakra. It turned out it was this technique that caused him to be labeled as the Rikudou Sennin.
It was not long after this that Naruto came to a most important entry.
I have received word from my little brother about a feat that was deemed impossible. The ancient beast known to many as the Juubi attacked him on his journey to a small village. The story seems to be to surreal to believe he claim's that he sealed the immortal beast inside of himself. But it is true we have received word from other clans on the main land that the 'God of Shinobi' has defeated the Juubi at the cost of sealing it within himself and that he truly had so much power that it oozed out of him so you could almost see the power of his self sacrifice.
"So I guess there really was a Juubi. A part of me didn't want to believe Fukusaku sensei's story" Naruto said to himself as he continued on.
After that the stories seemed to get dull, there were some small expiditions to there village looking for the family of there god but Enton decided that his little brother was not to be seen as an Uzumaki to protect both him and the clan, so the traveler's found nothing.
The Sage returned to Uzu twice in his life that was filled with teaching people in his art's. The two time's he returned was when his Son's Uchiha and Senju were born.
It is truly a joyous occasion to have my little brother back in the village. And the boy Uchiha, is a interesting boy but he seems to get along nicely with my sons and our other brothers daughter. Something confused me however. All other children born from men of the Uzumaki clan have had red hair and deep purple eye's. Upon confronting Ryuga about this he informed me that in order to hide his heritage he used his Banbutsu Sozo to change there DNA so that he had in effect created a new family separate from the Uzumaki yet similar enough for them to be relatives. He then told me he planed to do the same with his next child who was due in only a few month's. I asked him if he was worried he was making them weaker by changing there DNA but he said he was giving them gift's and they would be stronger because of it.
"So that would explain how the Senju are distantly related to the Uzumaki clan. But I guess this means were distantly related to the Uchiha as well" Naruto said slightly sadly.
Over the decade or so Senju the younger brother had become good friends with the Uzumaki clan while Uchiha only really had time for his father or his brother. Most of the interesting event's dried up, that was until around the end of Enton's life.
Light is shining and it is night time. My little brother's final jutsu is truly amazing, set to shine every night for eternity as a reminder of his power. But the sealing in the end cost him his life. He did not send word of what he did the only information we have received from young Senju is that he separated the Juubi he sealed inside himself into nine separate entity's that have ascending level's of power based on how many tails they have ranging from one to nine. My guess is he explained the rest of the sealing to his brother Uchiha. The brother's have not been seeing eye to eye on this and have began fighting between themselves. I hope they can resolve there differences sooner or later.
"To think something like this diary exist's and from the way it sound's Ryuga Uzumaki's letter's will be in this room somewhere. Naruto thought as he began to skim through the pages quickly looking for something interesting. Around a hundred and fifty year's later something did come up that made Naruto blink in surprise it was during the rein of the ninth leader of the Uzumaki clan.
There was a murder in the clan last night some ninja from an unknown clan entered the village undetected and used the cover of night to sneak into one of the clan home's outside of the compound. From what we can tell the only survivor was the young boy but the building seems to have taken damage from a strange unknown jutsu. We are still waiting for the boy to wake up.
Naruto thought that sounded strangely familiar, so he continued to read on to the next day.
Those eye's I'm sure of it a second Rinnegan I did not think it was possible. I asked the boy what he could remember but he just said he saw his father killed before him and he collapsed in sorrow completely helpless and he awoke for a small moment to find the whole area around him had been destroyed before he collapsed again into the coma that our ninja found him. Our relative's kept this a secret and so must I but in order to track the appearance of this anomaly we need to mark them on the family tree somehow.
"So a second Rinnegan interesting, if people thought that the Uzumaki clan had a Kekei Genkai and the same one that the Rikudou Sennin possessed they would have been a hunted people. Just so other's could have a chance at obtaining there power" Naruto said thinking about people like Sasuke who would do what ever it took to gain power.
Reading on Naruto discovered soon after the second Uzumaki had awoken the Rinnegan that the genjutsu protected family tree with the blood trace seal was added to the clan house.
Three hundred year's later a third Rinnegan user appeared in the Uzumaki clan this time a woman. She had been a toddler when her mother had been attacked by wolves while they were out by a swimming hole and she died in front of the girl. She did not enter a coma like the previous users, she just fainted for a few minutes after she killed the wolves.
This time it appeared the leader in charge who was rather grander than most of the previous leader's built the statue in the center of Uzu that will only activate when there is someone with Uzumaki blood nearby. Naruto thought he was a bit of a show off, but couldn't help but admit that it was some seriously cool sealing work to get it to operate the way it did.
Naruto then came to the startling realization that he had been reading that book for several hour's and decided to go check on how his clones were doing sealing everything up. He was slightly concerned when none of them had dispelled yet during the entire time he was reading the diary of the clan head's.
Naruto walked out to find his clones all taking a nap. They had finished there work possibly hour's ago and decided that instead of just dispelling they would rack up several hundred hour's of dreaming for Naruto to sort thorough.
(With Jiraiya)
Jiraiya had just finished destroying a large crustacean and used his Hair that he had used to destroy the animal to wrap around Pein.
"Nagato! Tell me where is Yahiko" Jiraiya said.
"Oh yes that's right I do recall someone with that name...He died year's ago" Pein said flatly.
"What happened to you. The old Nagato I knew would never have done something like this" Jiraiya said angrily.
"Nothing happened, there was only war. And that pain caused me to grow up" Nagato said.
"What do you mean" Jiraiya asked.
"Through pain, even a foolish child will grow up. And through pain, the world will be taught and controlled" Pein replied.
"Are you saying that casting aside your feelings for your friend makes you a man?" Jiraiya spat back.
"You are still a man sensei. But caught within infinite pain, I have transcended humanity and I have become a god. By becoming a god, my words and thoughts become the laws of nature. Sensei your still just a man so trying to comprehend my words is meaningless" Nagato said.
"You've slipped this far" Jiraiya said sadly.
"As a god, I now comprehend that which I could not as a man. Simply put, I've evolved beyond man" Pein said expressionlessly.
"Then what the hell are your intentions" Jiraiya said trying to keep the disgust from his voice.
"To cleanse this world consumed with meaningless strife. That is the work of god" Pein said.
"If that is your goal, then why are you collecting the Bijuu" Jiraiya asked.
"Your going to die anyway, that's why I will let you know my true goal. Using the Bijuu, I will create a new kinjutsu. This kinjutsu would have the ability to wipe an entire country from existance" Pein said.
"But that would just escalate the violence" Jiraiya replied.
"All the nation's are in constant conflict. What would you do to end it quickly and easily, Jiraiya sensei" Pein asked.
"That's why I asked you, now answer my question" Jiraiya yelled back.
"I will give the waring nations the weapon, a nation with the weapon is bound to use it eventually. Hundreds of millions will die in an instant. After it, people will be too terrified. The people, the nations... They will all know pain. That fear will act as a deterrent and future conflict's will vanish. You could say the world is moving towards a state of equilibrium. Pain will force the world to grow up. Like the old me thought, for the world to to move forward and grow up, divine help was necessary" Pein said.
"So for the world to grow up you will have it experience pain" Jiraiya asked sickened by what he was hearing.
"Correct. I am the god of peace" Pein said.
"Well look at that you've become good at telling joke's Nagato" Jiraiya said.
"Joke? This is no joke... My Ideal's lay right here" Pein said and he substituted himself with a log which for some reason was half way up the side of a building, and in a village with no tree's. He was standing on a large chameleon that had two separate sized eyes and the back of it's tail looked like a snakes head.
"Then I have to settle this as the Toad sennin of Myobokuzan -" before he could finish his speech the giant toad he just summoned underneath him moved and he fell on his face.
"You never did grow up. Your still as clumsy as ever" Nagato said with no hint of emotion.
"Hey, Gamaken don't go moving around when I am striking a pose" Jiraiya moaned as the toad began to look around.
"I'm sorry I guess it's because I am clumsy" Gamaken said.
"I cant fuck around in this fight, I am going to have to use sage mode, I can enter it using Naruto's seal but I only have one and this could take awhile so I am going to need to summon Fukusaku and Shima" Jiraiya said.
"So you want me to buy you enough time to focus your chakra to summon the elder's I take it" Gamaken said flatly.
"If you don't mind" Jiraiya replied.
"No I can do that, but I am a bit clumsy" Gamaken said as he got into a defensive stance.
The large chameleon that Pein was standing on slowly faded from view, and could not be seen as it was blending in with the surrounding's.
'So it begins' Jiraiya thought as Jiraiya set up a detection barrier.
(With Naruto)
After a quick rest Naruto returned to the large room with the Diary at the center but instead of returning straight to the diary he made his way to the back of the room where a smaller shelf sat as it caught his eye when he came in. there was only one scroll on this shelf which Naruto found weird.
Opening the scroll he soon found out why they had it separate. It was a list of the Uzumaki clans Kinjutsu. There were not many on the list but most of them involved seals that did horrible things. There were note's on the the Shiki Fuin death demon sealing jutsu. And other powerful seals that often cost the user his life or sent him insane.
On the second page there was a long list of seal design's, Naruto recognized some of them as the seals that could be used to seal the Bijuu. 'Why did they have so many' Naruto thought but figured it didn't matter.
Right at the end of the scroll there were two jutsu that confused Naruto. There was warning about it but it did not give any indication of what it did. "The six paths jutsu and summoning of the Demonic statue... what the hell are they, there is no information on them. Probably has something to do with the Rinnegan" Naruto said to himself the only thing that was written on the scroll was.
Six Path's Jutsu.
The Most forbidden technique that has been used inside the Uzumaki clan and will not be mentioned on this scroll.
Deva, Asura, Human, Animal, Preta, Naraka.
"What do these word's at the bottom mean, I will have to search through the historian's records later to find out I guess.
For the final jutsu on the scroll the 'Summoning of the demonic statue of the outer path' the only word's that followed the name of the jutsu were Gedo Mazo.
'Maybe there is something in the Diary about it, I will just have to go check all the entrances that have anything to do with the Rinnegan' Naruto thought before rolling up the scroll and walking back over to the diary.
(With Jiraiya)
Jiraiya had just finished defeating several summoned animal's while still focusing his chakra in order to summon the elder toads.
"I don't get it Gamaken, when I taught Nagato all those years ago he was a master at everything I taught him, he had every form of nature manipulation which was unheard of and by the age of ten he could even control gravity to a certain degree and absorb chakra, so why is he only using summons" Jiraiya said to the toad as a large Ox appeared before them.
"Ok that's enough of this. Gamaken you can return. I will take it from here" Jiraiya said and he didn't even move as the Ox charged into him.
Pein watched as Jiraiya was crushed through a wall but then looked shocked as an explosion of fire sent the Ox flying back before dispelling.
"Boy why must you always summon us in annoying places like this. It's no wonder Bunta always get's so annoyed when you summon him" Shima said.
"Aw don't be like that Ma. Jiraiya-chan always has his reasons" Fukusaku said in Jiraiya's defence.
Jiraiya was currently walking down a tunnel in sage mode explaining the situation to the two elder sage's who were sitting on his shoulder.
"So where is Naruto-chan, I would have thought you would have brought him for something like this" Fukusaku said once Jiraiya had finished explaining about Nagato.
"Well It was really a one man job. That and I did not want to put him in harm's way. I didn't know what, if anything I would find here. It was supposed to be a war zone but it turned out that Nagato had killed Hanzou the Salamander and eradicated any evidence he ever existed from Ame" said Jiraiya and he subconsciously stroked the small wooden box that Naruto had given him before he left.
"I see so your old pupil the boy you said was the child of prophecy, is the leader of the Akatsuki" Fukusaku said sadly.
"I can stop him, it was in the prophecy that he would either bring peace or destruction and that I would make a choice that would decide his future. So I am going to stop him here and now and make my choice" Jiraiya said.
They came to an opening from where the Ox flew out and jumped onto the floor knowing that Nagato was out there somewhere on his chameleon.
'He went through all that trouble, and just to bring out those two small toad's? No... He has undergone a change as well, is this his sage mode. Well it will be interesting to see what it can do before I take on the Kyuubi' Pein thought in mild interest.
"So where is this boy with the sage's eyes" Shima said.
"He summoned a chameleon and got inside, I have put up a detection barrier for now" Jiraiya said.
"Well that wont do, I will have to find him for you" Shima said and she spat out her tongue which seemed to sniff the air before flying forward and wrapping around an invisible creature. "Got him" she said and her tongue sent oil out of it's pours covering the chameleon making it visible.
Fukusaku then shot out a jet of water that was at such a high pressure that it cut right through the summoned creature sending blood everywhere.
"So that's them, the eye's of the sage" Shima said as the smoke cleared away from Pein.
"Such unpleasant looking eyes. This is the destined child" Fukusaku said as if in awe.
(With Naruto)
Naruto was currently reading the Diary entry's about the third Rinnegan wielder in the Uzumaki clan, Meto. and he couldn't help but feel sorry for her after her parent's died she was taken in by the head family and given a carer but on her fifteenth birthday her carer who had become like family to her died on a mission, the following entrances led to the discovery of a rather disturbing jutsu.
Meto had not come out of her room and now the body of her carer is missing the villagers are worried about her well being and so am I. The Rinnegan is a closely guarded secret of the Uzumaki clan and the Uzu village not even our close friends the Senju are allowed to know of it's existence. I fear that should Meto become unstable there could be issues.
The next entrance shocked Naruto even more.
Meto has come out of her bedroom at last but we were horrified to find what she had done. In the room her carer was found with black piercing's along her face. What shocked us more was when she opened her eyes and stood up. But they were not her eye's they were Meto's. She reanimated the body and is able to transfer her consciousness into it. We asked Meto how she knew how to do something like that. But all she said was that she just did, and that her pain and sorrow taught her.
Over the next few year's Naruto found that Meto had turned five more people into what she called her path's of sorrow. In the end she died over using her power to try and bring the first path back to life with a technique that drained her life force completely.
At the end of the last entry by the current head of the Uzumaki clan there was a note written by Meto Uzumaki.
Sorrow is power. For a Uzumaki unbearable sorrow and the feeling of helplessness awakens our hidden potential. But I would not wish this upon another. It is a world of pain and suffering, and I am reminded of my pain every day that I look in the mirror and see the mark of the Uzumaki's tears.
"Uzumaki's tear's... Wait a minute the tear drop's on the family tree. They must be the sign of the Rinnegan user's" Naruto realized but then stopped dead in his track's unable to read on. He shut the book and ran back up through the tunnel into the room with the family tree on it and searched till he found the name of a still living Uzumaki, Nagato Uzumaki. and right next to it was the tear drop that he ignored before but this time worried him to no end.
'Nagato came from Ame. And that's where sensei was going to search for the leader of the Akatsuki. Oh this is bad' Naruto thought with a sense of foreboding.
End Chapter!
Hope you didn't mind the semi filler chapter.
To clear up some point's that might be slightly confusing about my theory of the Rinnegan in this story. Senju and Uchiha were not on the family tree because the Rikudou Sennin changed there DNA so they were no longer Uzumaki's. And because they were no longer Uzumaki's they couldn't awaken the Rinnegan in there families and even when the two are brought together they don't awaken it but can use Izanagi. Any questions I will gladly answer about my theory just Msg me.
That said you must be hating me for yet another cliffy. But I will be resolving this part of the Arc next chapter so don't cry too much. Other than that I hope you liked it.