Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 58: We Want Answer's
Naruto appeared in the underground Uzumaki library where he left Gamakichi with a Hirashin kunai.
"Naruto-chan where have you taken us" said Fukusaku from his seat on Jiraiya shoulder.
"The old Uzumaki clan home. There was a vault hidden underneath the village that from what I could tell from my reading's only opens for the head of the Uzumaki clan. And as there was no clan head and I was the first Uzumaki here, and as far as I have explored the family tree one of only two left alive I became the official clan head of the Uzumaki clan" Naruto said before handing Gamakichi another kunai and letting him dispel.
"The ceiling. That's the Rinnegan. But why" Fukusaku asked.
Naruto paused unsure what to tell the toad elder. The Rinnegan had been a secret for almost two thousand year's. If Naruto gave that secret out it would be like betraying his family's heritage and could also put his future children in danger.
"Now's not the time. How is Jiraiya sensei doing" Naruto asked frantically also pleased for the distraction.
"He is still alive for now. But I don't think even with Ma and the toad medicine he will make it. He need's to get to Tsunade-chan" the small toad said seriously.
Jiraiya was awake and staring at Naruto with obvious pride in his eyes despite how weak they looked. Naruto felt the pull from his kunai being thrown and placing a seal for later when he could use his jutsu freely they disappeared.
"Pa. What's going on, do you know why Kichi-chan is throwing knives into the house and-" Shima stopped her complaining when she hopped into the house that she felt he husband arrive in to find Naruto and Jiraiya as well. "Oh no jiraiya-chan. He need's help" she screamed as she quickly hopped over to begin attaching herself to Jiraiya to aid in healing him.
"Ma that will not be enough. We need you to go to Konoha and throw one of Naruto-chan's kunai into the ground" Fukusaku urgently ordered.
"Kunai? What is that going to do" she asked but when Naruto handed her the three pronged blade her expression changed from skeptical to shock. "This is one of Minato-chan's. Then you finished the jutsu my boy" she said as she accepted the kunai.
"Yes, he did. But we don't have time for this. If I get off Jiraiya-chan's shoulder he wont last a minute before the last of his senjutsu fades and he dies. Naruto-chan and Tsunade-chan are the only people who can help now" Fukusaku said.
"Here let me put him into stasis that way he cant deteriorate more than he already has. Hang in there sensei I will not let you die, it's a promise. And I always keep my promises" Naruto said as a tear escaped his eyes while he ran through the hand seals for his stasis seal.
"Good job Naruto-chan, but I will need your help regulating his senjutsu chakra. If we can keep his level's stable we can greatly increase the healing rate while he is in stasis" Fukusaku said.
"I know that's why I chose that seal and not the 'Seven Points Elemental Stasis Seal' if I used that seal we could keep him alive in that state but by the looks of his injuries only Sage Mode is keeping him alive. If I used that seal the senjutsu would either drain out of him or build up way too fast to control. By using a lesser seal we have a better chance of saving him" Naruto explained and he began removing the chakra rod's from his sensei's back.
(Konoha)
Tsunade had not moved in almost five minutes since the tea cup she was drinking from cracked and shattered while it was sitting on the table. 'Something is wrong, I can just feel it. But is it Jiraiya or Naruto. Damn Jiraiya why did you have to take that mission. You're always acting so tough to hide the pain you feel. But if you get back I wont make you act any longer' she thought as a tear rolled down her cheek.
Suddenly there was a large puff of smoke and when it cleared Shima was already frantically hopping over to Tsunade.
"Shima-sama, what are you doing here?" Tsunade asked in a tone of foreboding.
"You need to come to the hospital, Jiraiya-chan has been hurt and we cant help him. Naruto-chan is bringing him but we need to ready a emergency room. He is hanging onto life by a thread only Pa is keeping his heart beating at the moment" Shima said as she jumped up to sit on Tsunade's shoulder.
Tsunade didn't need to be told twice. Jumping out of her window in typical Naruto and Jiraiya fashion she ran as fast as she could towards the hospital.
She burst through the door sending it flying off it's hinges but she didn't care as she continued to run inside. "Tsunade-sama, is there something you need" the receptionist asked slightly scared having heard story's of Tsunade's vicious temper.
"I need the largest emergency operating room and I want Shizune and Sakura as well as any other medic's that are not currently saving someone's life to meet me there in under a minute" Tsunade said earning a small nod from the receptionist who put the order out over the speaker system.
Tsunade however ran outside and summoned the slug queen Katsuyu. "Tsunade, it has been awhile what do you need" the giant slug asked.
"Katsuyu I need you to help me save Jiraiya. Can you shrink so you can help me in the surgery" Tsunade almost begged.
"Of course Tsunade" Katsuyu said as she began to shrink to the size of Shima and she moved onto Tsunade's other shoulder.
"Hello Shima-sama, it has been far too long" Katsuyu said as Tsunade made her way into the hospital's emergency ward.
"Tsunade-sama why are we here we have patients that we need to see" Shizune said.
"Shima-sama you said Naruto and Fukusaku-sama where bringing him don't you need to set up a reverse summoning seal" Tsunade asked.
"No, that wont be necessary. But I need the pink haired girl to move out of the way for a moment" Shima said.
Sakura complied but was thoroughly confused as to why she would be in the way. Her question was answered when a kunai rocketed past her face right where she was just standing and imbedded itself into the wall.
"What the hell was that fo-" Sakura didn't get to finish her shocked yell when a yellow flash flickered and Naruto was kneeling in the center of the room his hand on Jiraiya's shoulder.
Nobody moved even Tsunade. She was only thinking one thing 'He did it. He actually finished the jutsu'
"Don't just Stand there, Help him... Please" Naruto begged as he looked around the room frantically.
Tsunade responded first and helped Jiraiya up onto the operating table and started running a diagnosis jutsu. As she went she started crying. "He should be dead already" she sobbed in defeat.
"I don't care. He would never give up on you. He's still alive now save him... Please just try" Naruto said as tear's began to fall freely from his eyes.
Tsunade just stood there unsure of what to do but then she felt a burst of chakra from Naruto. Looking over she saw the Kyuubi's cloak begin to form. "Naruto! You need to calm down, your negative emotion's are allowing the Kyuubi's chakra to leak out uncontrollably. We will save him. I don't know how but if there is a way we will" Tsunade promised Naruto and she got to work first trying to close up any injuries to vital area's.
Naruto just stood there fighting to suppress his negative emotions. "I, need to leave. Please do your best Tsunade Baa-chan" Naruto said his his voice slightly demonic red slitted eyes steaming as the tears burned away even before they left his eyes. He couldn't help it once the Kyuubi latched onto Naruto's negative emotions the sadness was being replaced with rage and he needed to get out before he made things worse by hurting someone in the room or even Jiraiya.
Leaving the room Naruto jumped out the nearest window and made his way to the nearest training ground. He needed to destroy something to get the anger out of his system and take his mind off of Jiraiya. 'I should have been stronger. If I was stronger sensei wouldn't have had to go on such a dangerous mission. Nagato... I will make him pay, he has caused so much suffering. All the other Rinnegan uses were so peaceful according to the Uzumaki clan diary even Meto who had suffered more than the others. But Nagato he only want's destruction' Naruto screamed internally as he sent a Kyuubi powered rasengan into a boulder.
"You know that doesn't usually work. You wont calm down that way, it will only make you more and more frustrated" came a feminine voice from behind him.
"Yugi-chan. Help me!" Naruto said.
"Tell me what happened. Why are you like this?" Yugito asked clearly concerned.
"It's Jiraiya sensei. He was hurt. He was dying, and when Tsunade Baa-chan inspected him she said he should already be dead and there was not much she could do. Then I broke down. First I started crying uncontrollably and then there was this uncontrollable urge for... something I am not even sure what it was. I felt my consciousness slipping and then the Kyuubi latched onto it as a powerful negative emotion and brought me back to reality. Since then I have been like this" Naruto said his eye's still red but his chakra cloak began to fade as he calmed down in Yugito's presence.
"I have never heard of something like that. But it looks like it's over now" Yugito said as she walked over to Naruto and pulled him into a hug.
After a short moment Naruto returned the hug and as the last of Kyuubi's influence left his body he broke down crying again. However it seemed different to before. It didn't have the same power behind it as when he was in the hospital room and Tsunade was telling him she didn't think she could save Jiraiya. 'That must have been it. The the sorrow and helplessness that Meto Uzumaki wrote about. But it seems before it took hold Kyuubi used the powerful negative emotion to try and gain influence over me. So it seems that I cannot awaken the Rinnegan at least not while big and furry tries to break free any chance he get's. But maybe that is a good thing' Naruto thought still crying uncontrollably but feeling a lot better with Yugito there.
(With Tsunade)
"Naruto seems to have calmed down I can no longer feel the Kyuubi's chakra" Katsuyu said as she and every other medic in the room who was working on Jiraiya gave out a sigh of relief.
"I can't believe it, this is actually working, his healing by himself almost. But there is still so much damage" Sakura said.
"Ya. Jiraiya-chan is healing himself faster than normal because of us" Shima said. She had attached herself to Jiraiya's other shoulder and had been applying toad style medical jutsu's while Fukusaku maintained Jiraiya's Sage Mode.
"We may just pull this off. What happened out there Fukusaku-sama" Shizune asked.
"The opponent Jiraiya-chan faced, was like nothing I have ever seen before. I still don't understand most of it. At first there was just one. Jiraiya-chan said he was Nagato, an orphaned boy he trained. He had the same eye's alright. The cold yet powerful Rinnegan" Fukusaku said.
"The Rinnegan? Surely that is just a myth" Tsunade said speaking for the first time since she started working on Jiraiya.
"Oh it's real alright. At the end of the fight there were six pair's of them" Fukusaku said.
"Six! Six people with the Rinnegan? How is that possible. The Rinnegan was supposed to be a myth and now your telling me that there are six people that have it and they are all in the Akatsuki" Tsunade said clearly worried.
"Yes I know. But Jiraiya-chan thought there was something different about them. He figured it out too, but they crushed his throat and impaled poor Jiraiya-chan with large spikes before he could tell me his real identity" Fukusaku said sadly.
"So how did you get out of there with Jiraiya-sama" Sakura asked.
"Before Jiraiya-chan left on his mission Naruto-chan gave him a box, but I don't think he knew what was inside. After he was impaled his heart had stopped and Pein left. But somehow Jiraiya-chan got back up. The first thing his eye's made contact with was the box had given him. Inside there were too object's the first was a photo of the two of them during there training on Myobokuzan. Jiraiya-chan was so focused on getting the photo he didn't notice the three pronged kunai that came with it. The strangest thing happened however after Naruto-chan arrived. He said that who ever Pein is, was using something called the 'Six Path's jutsu'. I think there is something Naruto-chan knows that we don't" Fukusaku said.
"If Naruto-chan knows something about Pein then he will tell us, Pa. It's not like we can question him now. Ya saw the boy, he was beside himself. I am surprised that he made it to Konoha at all. You only needed a second to see the pain in his eyes" Shima said.
They worked through the night but with the combined effort's of everyone in the room Jiraiya slowly stabilized. "He will make it. But it will quite a few month's before he will be able to go on missions. And week's before he can train again. His new arm will take some getting used to as well" Tsunade said with a weak smile as she finally let up on her medical jutsu.
"I'll go tell Naruto-chan. He will be extremely pleased to here the new's" Fukusaku said.
"I will stay here. Jiraiya-chan may no longer be in danger but he has still lost a lot of blood and it was only our chakra keeping him going. The more senjutsu he receives now the sooner he will wake up and he can tell us what he found out about Pein" Shima replied.
"Just don't over do it, we have been at this almost eight hour's now" the gray haired toad said.
"Don't go worrying about me, just go check on Naruto-chan" Shima called in response as Fukusaku jumped out of the window.
(Naruto's Apartment Ten Minutes Later)
Fukusaku knocked on the door and waited. He did not have to wait long as Naruto had been waiting up for word on Jiraiya.
"Fukusaku sensei. How's Jiraiya sensei, please tell me he's alive" Naruto asked urgently as soon as he saw the small green toad.
"Easy there Naruto-chan. Jiraiya-chan is alive and given a couple of month's will make a full recovery. He will likely be out for a couple of day's though. Ma is staying with him at the moment. Can I come in?" Fukusaku said.
"Yes of course, make yourself at home" Said Naruto as he let the toad elder into his house.
Naruto went into the kitchen to make some tea for the elder toad sage who was happily exploring Naruto's lounge room without a care in the world. He then made his way over to the area Naruto used to work on his seals, there he saw a large book open at around one eighth of the way. Hopping up he began to read the from the top thinking it had something to do with Naruto's seals.
Meto Uzumaki has been trying to explain to me how her path's work. In essence she divides six special power's of her eyes among the six bodies. Deva path, controls gravity. Asura path, seems to be made of metal, can change forms, and shoot weapons that are created from inside the body. Human path, has the ability to read mind's, and remove a persons soul. Animal Path, has the ability to summon any animal it can think of, as well as the other path's or people with the chakra receivers. Preta Path, Absorbs chakra in any form. Finally Naraka Path could summon the outer path statues. In addition to these abilities each body was gifted with super strength and were able to still use all skill's and technique's they could while alive. I have decided that this will be classed as a forbidden jutsu and all information on the Six Path's Jutsu will also be made forbidden.
"Naruto-chan... What is this?" Fukusaku asked as he began to read the passage at the top of the page again.
"Oh fuck... I guess I cant hide it now. It is the secret clan diary of the Uzumaki clan head's" Naruto said knowing that it would be less painful to just get this out of the way.
"But this... Meto did she have the Rinnegan? This is the same technique Pein was using" Fukusaku said.
"It's not Pein, It's Nagato. To be more precise it's, Nagato Uzumaki" Naruto said.
"Uzumaki? Are you saying what I think your saying?" Fukusaku asked.
"Yes the Rinnegan is the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan. But from what I have been able to gather so far it can only be awakened by terrible loss and sorrow along with a feeling of hopelessness" Naruto said.
"That is similar to the way the Mangekyo Sharingan is awakened" Fukusaku said.
"Yes which is why the clan always kept it a secret. Think of what some people would do to get a hold of those eye's? They could send people to make sure they awaken in a child then take the kid and bend him to there will. Or take the eye's for themselves, but I think that could only work if they were an Uzumaki or somehow had both Senju and Uchiha DNA however. Throughout the Uzumaki clan's history they have wanted peace. They protected the eyes and the secrets behind them so they would become nothing but a legend. But now I am in a tough spot. Do I come out with the information and ruin my clan's hard work, or I could keep it a secret and if I fail to stop Nagato nobody will ever know of his abilities and who he really is" Naruto said defeated.
"Naruto-chan I know ya want to protect the secrets of ya clan but this is serious. Show me what ya know, we can make it seem like ya found out this information about Pein while ya were fighting him" Fukusaku said.
"Yeah that's a good idea. We better go back to the start then" Naruto said and he turned the book back to the day that Ryuga Uzumaki activated the Rinnegan.
They spent the next few hours going though the book trying to find clue's on the Rinnegan's weakness, but all they had managed to find was that none of the paths could use genjutsu but were resilient but not impervious to them, which helped Naruto about as much as a kick right square in the balls, genjutsu was something he could never use.
"It's not all bad Naruto-chan, they said there were records of most of the jutsu the Rikudou Sennin invented. Maybe there are some clues in them. But where are they?" the elder toad said.
"I sent them to Myobokuzan along with the complete content's of the Uzumaki clan vault. But it would take all the clones I could make almost a year to read through all of the records with how detailed they are but I guess we could try. There have only been four Rinnegan wielders if you include Nagato, so that would narrow it down a bit. And I would like to go train on Myobokuzan again so I can perfect the Hirashin. I am going to need it if I want to beat Nagato" Naruto said.
"Yes that sounds like a good idea, while we are there ya can have clones look though the historical record's. But we should at wait until Jiraiya-chan is up moving again, if there is anyone who can help ya with mastering that jutsu it's him" Fukusaku said.
"That sound's great, but do I tell Jiraiya about this book and what is inside?" Naruto asked.
"That is a good question. Jiraiya-chan is quite loyal to you so I believe it is safe to tell him. But the more people who know a secret the weaker that secret becomes" Fukusaku said scratching his beard in contemplation.
"I guess I will tell him. If I cant trust Jiraiya sensei, who can I trust" Naruto said making up his mind.
"Well, it's up to ya if you tell him or not. But we need to get this information over to Tsunade-chan. I believe she went to her office. We should compile what is safe to tell her and then head over in a few hours once the sun is fully up" the toad said.
"Yeah ok, but I would like to wait for Yugi-chan to wake first, just so I can tell her where we are going. She has been worried about me since I left the hospital. I experienced that sorrow that Meto Uzumaki was talking about the build up of pressure and the indescribable emotion. But instead of awakening the Rinnegan, Kyuubi thought I was loosing control and began to flood my body with it's chakra trying to break free, or get me to use it's chakra. That kept me conscious but I had to fight hard to hold on. Actually the process started when I first arrived in Ame. I was so crushed when I saw Jiraiya sensei impaled with those rod's I began to feel it. I was so concerned with saving sensei however that it gave me a purpose and i suppressed the emotions as best I could" Naruto admitted.
"It's alright now Naruto-chan. Jiraiya-chan is alive, and we have more than enough information on Nagato to stand at least chance against him" Fukusaku said.
(Ame)
Pein's Deva path was sitting on top of his tower in deep thought. 'How did the boy know that there was only one real body, and so quickly. This could be troubling. And that technique he was using, could that have been the infamous Hirashin' Pein was awoken from his thought's by the arrival of Konan.
"Pein-sama, do you think Jiraiya sensei could have survived" she asked.
"It is not likely. But I was sure he was dead when I left him the first time, yet he got back up. It's like he just refused to die" Pein said.
"I see" she said slightly sadly. She would always go along with what Nagato ordered or said but she couldn't help but feel sad at the loss of her sensei and someone who was the first person to ever treat her kindly.
"Get you're thing's ready, in under a week we will begin to move on Konoha. I will not let the Kyuubi jinchuuriki escape me again" Pein said as he stood up and jumped from the roof onto a balcony.
(Land of Lightening)
"Gah how long until we get there" Suigetsu complained dropping his large cleaver in exhaustion.
"How am I supposed to know that, we still have to find which valley is the right one. So shut up" Sasuke said as they made there way up the huge mountainous region that led to Kumo.
"Well I hope we get this done quickly. I greatly prefer the land of fire. There are far more animal's there" Jugo said.
"Once we burn down Konoha I will rebuild the Uchiha clan in it's ashes. It will be our ultimate redemption and my revenge for what they did to Itachi" Sasuke said as he walked onwards seemingly possessed.
End Chapter!
Not really that happy with this chapter to be honest, I wrote it while hung over and that was not the best idea. So I will just do a quick summary of the point's I wanted to address.
Naruto cannot awaken the Rinnegan until he has controlled Kyuubi. This way it work's well with the cannon. Case in point when Naruto saw Hinata get stabbed by the Deva path right after she told Naruto she loved him. He was helpless and I would guess full of sorrow and rage. But Naruto has the Kyuubi that will take over before the Rinnegan awakens.
Also it only started to activate once Naruto could no longer do anything himself to help Jiraiya, and he thought he was still going to die. The reason it lasted so long was because Naruto still felt helpless to save Jiraiya and that lasted until Yugito arrived to help calm him and get everything off his chest.
Anyway not one of my best, sorry. I may rewrite this later once I catch up to current Cannon event's and I get bored with filler arc's I have planned during the war. There purpose being to make it seem like a war and not just one large battle, because that is what it feels like in the manga, at the moment anyway.