Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 61: Training on Myobokuzan
Naruto was waiting for five o'clock. Why five, because that is when Jiraiya would be released from the hospital. It had been a day since Jiraiya had awoken from his coma and Tsunade had made sure that he stayed in bed until the following evening.
He had spent the day improving his Hirashin while his clones worked on elemental manipulation and chakra control. He had improved his Fuuton manipulation the most. He could now cut through almost any boulder with just his basic element manipulation. This led to a great power increase in the power of the Fuuton jutsu that he used. And could now do the Great Breakthrough and Violent Wind Palm with no hand seals.
His process with Suiton and the Hirashin had been less impressive. While he had increased the number of kunai from thirty five to close to fifty he had hit a wall and not been able to push past it. The problem with his Suiton manipulation was mostly that he only had two jutsu and they were both high ranking. He had not been game to test his recently named Suiton Oodama Rasengan. The 'Rasentsunami'. He simply did not have enough room in any of the training grounds to freely fire any of his full powered rasengan variants without causing irreversible damage.
The rest of the time he had he spent by adding his own entrances to the Uzumaki clan diary. Making sure to give future Uzumaki who would read the book a detailed account of the major event's of his life through his point of view. It was a clan diary not a personal one so Naruto refrained from mentioning to much of his personal life.
By the time Jiraiya was ready to be released from the hospital Naruto had covered most of the clan relevant event's of his life. Meaning the invasion of Konoha by Orochimaru, the fact the Akatsuki were chasing the Bijuu and finally the reemergence of the Rinnegan and that Nagato was acting as the leader of the Akatsuki.
Naruto had just put his pen down and closed his book when Yugito came in with both Jiraiya and Tsunade. "Weren't you supposed to meet me once I got out of the hospital" Jiraiya pouted as he took a seat.
"I'm sorry sensei I must have lost track of time, I was working on something" Naruto said subtly moving the thick book out of the way. Something that may have gone unnoticed by Tsunade and Yugito who were talking about what they were going to do about Pein, had made Jiraiya's eyes narrow and him to get out of his seat and walk over to the table Naruto had been working at.
"What's this? I have never seen this book before, it is certainly not you're sealing work" Jiraiya said looking over Naruto's shoulder.
"It's nothing, just a diary" Naruto half lied.
Jiraiya knew Naruto wasn't telling him the whole truth was silently tossing up whether to push the point or not. "Fine, if you say so" Jiraiya said.
Naruto gave an internal sigh of relief he didn't want that book to be noticed while Yugito and Tsunade were around. Not that he couldn't trust either of them. But Yugito despite how much he loved her was still a ninja from a different village and Tsunade would find the book far to interesting to not inspect for herself. And there was no telling what she would be forced to reveal to the counsel.
"So Naruto, I think we will need Fukusaku-sama here to discuss our plan's to deal with Pein" Tsunade said.
"Yeah your right, give me a second I need to focus my charka in order to summon the elder's, it shouldn't take too long as I only need one of them" Naruto said.
After a short moment Naruto slammed his hand to the ground and Fukusaku appeared leaning on his cane he used to whack senjutsu out of the body. Naruto and Jiraiya both winced from the memory of how much it hurt.
"Ah Naruto-chan is it time to go, I have organized the scrolls you sent and I have found some useful jutsu for you to use" Fukusaku said not paying attention to the other members of the room.
"What scroll's are you talking about?" Tsunade ordered.
"Ah Tsunade-chan I didn't see ya there" Fukusaku said as he paled slightly.
"There is a hidden vault under the Uzumaki clan house that can only be opened by the Uzumaki clan head, and as I am the eldest Uzumaki of the main family left, it recognized me as the Uzumaki heir and after I activated the seal it led me to a large library even bigger than the ninja library we have here in Konoha" Naruto admitted hoping Tsunade would not want to inspect the contents too thoroughly.
"I see, so in other words it's Uzumaki clan property. Guess you found yourself a nice little stash there. I have to ask though. Was there a blue Katana there at all? It was the brother sword to my grand uncles Raijin. It was the great elemental sword of water, we thought it was lost when Uzu was burned and taken by Iwa but there has been no sight of it" Tsunade asked.
"Yeah it was there in the Armory. If it belonged to the Senju family your welcome to have it, I don't use a sword so it is no use to me" Naruto said. Truth is he didn't really want to give it up but it was a small price to pay if Tsunade would leave the rest of his findings in the old Uzumaki compound intact.
"No I wouldn't dream of taking it. My Granduncle and the former head of the Uzumaki clans made the two swords together in a sign of friendship. Tobirama was a Suiton user and the former Uzumaki clan leader used Raiton. And with the Uzumaki sill in sealing and the Nidaime's skill at elemental manipulation led to the creation of the two sword's. They each took the blade of the element that they didn't use. They named them the Thunder God and the God of the Sea. They were seen as a sign of prolonged friendship between our two clan's. So I could never take that sword from you. I am just glad that it has resurfaced after so long" Tsunade said with a smile.
"What else was down there" Jiraiya asked curiously.
"Lot's of thing's. Jutsu from each element, styles of taijutsu, Kenjutsu. And medical jutsu, weapons and other things" Naruto said not wanting to tell Jiraiya who had always been liberal with Naruto's money that he had found enough money and valuable artifacts to keep him living well for life.
"Medical jutsu? Do you think I could get a copy of them. I realize they are clan jutsu but they could help save lives" Tsunade asked.
"Yeah I guess so but we need to get Nagato out of the way first" Naruto said.
"Naruto-chan is right. We have training to do, if we want to stand a chance against the Rinnegan. Jiraiya-chan knows more about the boy than anyone. Even if he cant physically fight for awhile if anyone can help Naruto-chan it is Jiraiya-chan" Fukusaku said.
"You're right. So I take it you will be leaving for Myobokuzan then, but how will we contact you if Naruto is needed?" Tsunade asked.
"Simple take one of the messenger toad's should anything come up ya just have to send him back to Myobokuzan to tell us" Fukusaku said happily before summoning a small off green colored toad and handing him to Tsunade.
"Heh and if that fail's here you can summon me with one of these and I will be here in a flash" Naruto said pulling out one of his marked kunai and handing it over to Tsunade. "Uh Baa-chan I would appreciate it if you kept the kunai hidden. I don't need anymore attention, and I bet there are people who would want to get a hold of one of the kunai so they could study it. Fat load of good it would do them though" Naruto said thinking about how long it took him to finally figure out how to make the seal work for him. He basically had to remake the seal completely from scratch.
"Very well, I don't want the drama of having to deal with the elder's and Danzo trying to force you into a marriage. And that would just intensify if they new you had discovered the secret behind you're fathers prized jutsu" Tsunade said.
"Yeah no doubt that old bastard Danzo would see it as an opportunity to get a hold of the jutsu for himself. Or at least see it as the future of Konoha for children to all learn the Hirashin and have a army of people who could use it" Jiraiya said flatly.
"Exactly, that old fart may love Konoha but he want's it to become a heartless killing machine that controls the world. He is no better than Nagato" Naruto said.
"This is neither the time nor place for this discussion. Naruto-chan are ya ready to go?" Fukusaku asked the spiky haired blond.
"Yeah I just need to grab some more thing's. Yugi-chan you packed your stuff right?" Naruto asked to which Yugito nodded and pulled some scrolls out of her pockets.
Naruto sealed the Uzumaki clan diary into a scroll and placed it with the rest of his stuff in a back pack.
"You better come when your called brat, you know I don't like waiting" Tsunade said and gave Naruto a quick hug before turning to face Jiraiya. "Look's like I owe you a date when you return, you came home alive after all" she said with a smile and gave Jiraiya a hug.
Jiraiya couldn't help himself and his hands slowly drifted down toward her ass but she cracked him on the head before he could reach his prize. "You're still nothing but a pervert, what am I going to do with you" she said shaking her head as Jiraiya slowly picked himself up off the ground.
"Well, Ma is waiting, so we better get to work" Fukusaku said and the three ninja and a toad disappeared from the living room leaving Tsunade standing in Naruto's room alone. 'You better learn fast kid, you're the best hope we have for defeating the Akatsuki' she thought before leaving the apartment carefully locking the door behind her.
(Ame)
Konan was walking the hall's of Pein's tower. He had just finished the reanimation of his new Animal path and told her to meet him at the top of the tower.
Konan opened a large door that led to a huge room with a large window that looked out over the village the room it's self was completely black and nothing could be made out from where Konan stood at the doorway. "Pein-sama, we are ready to go. It will take almost a week to get to Konoha if we are moving at full speed" Konan informed the room.
As if glowing from the darkness two two Rinnegan eye's appeared out of the darkness. "Good, it is time to bring change to this world. There will be peace once the world knows pain" a voice called out from the darkness.
"Are you not worried about the boy? He was able to escape after all" Konan asked tentatively.
"He is a talented opponent this is true. But he is still a mortal man while I am a god" Pein declared.
"Still it would be wise to be careful. He was trained by Jiraiya sensei after all" Konan said.
"You are right, caution is needed when dealing with the Kyuubi jinchuuriki" Pein said.
"How far away from Ame will you summon us?" the blue haired kunoichi asked.
"As far as I can reach, we need to keep unseen until we reach Konoha" Pein said.
"Of course Pein-sama, I will go check on the village quickly and prepare for the summoning" she said before turning and leaving the room.
(Land of Lightening)
Sasuke and team Taki were sitting around a camp fire they had tied Kirabi up with ninja wire and made sure to keep watch of him to make sure he did not wake up and attack them.
"How much further till we reach the drop off point" Suigetsu asked. It had taken almost half a day before he fully reformed from his injuries. If he was not inside a large body of water when the attack hit he would have most certainly died.
"Around another day. Karin, any sign of people following us?" Sasuke asked.
"No, there is nobody around for as far as I can sense at the moment" Karin replied.
"So, how do you plan on defeating Konoha, we got bloody lucky taking out the Hachibi, but isn't the Kyuubi far stronger and the the spirit of Fire and Wind, I don't think your Amaterasu will work all that well on that" Suigetsu said, he didn't want to admit it but he was scared about having to fight anything like the Hachibi again.
"It wont be an issue. The dobe has no control over the Kyuubi. He doesn't use it at all. And I can simply burn the village to the ground with Amaterasu, after I take my revenge on the elder's the Hokage and Danzo of course" Sasuke said.
"Killing an entire village, are you sure about this" Jugo asked.
"They are living in ignorance of the Uchiha and Itachi's sacrifice. I will make them recognize the Uchiha and make them pay for how they treated Itachi and for killing my clan" Sasuke declared.
'He sound's like a broken record. First it was Itachi now it's Konoha, I certainly don't want to be his target afterword's' Suigetsu thought with a dead pan expression.
(Myobokuzan)
Naruto, Yugito and Jiraiya arrived around a table with bug's and worms served up in a bowl.
"Ah Naru-kun? You remembered to bring some food right" Yugito asked feeling queasy from just the sight of Shima's beetle soup.
"Yeah mostly ramen, but I brought some fruit as well" Naruto replied his feelings towards eating bug's were about the same as Yugito's.
"That's good I think I will just take an apple. I will wait for you at the shack" Yugito said and she collected Naruto's backpack with his scrolls and left toward the shack the toad's had built for Naruto.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it would be to get time to talk without Yugi-chan around" Naruto said as he pulled out the scroll with the Uzumaki clan diary he had removed from the bag before he handed it to Yugito.
"What are you talking about, what is so secret the girl can't here" Shima said.
"This" Naruto declared, unsealing the scroll and after finding a page with information on the Rinnegan he handed it over to Shima so she could read it followed by Jiraiya.
"This... But how has nobody found out about this" Jiraiya asked clearly in awe of the book.
"That's not all. That is just information on the Rikudou Sennin. There is recorded details of two other Uzumaki's who awakened the Rinnegan. It is the secret Dojutsu of the Uzumaki clan. I suggest you look for the name Meto Uzumaki. That will answer your question's about Nagato" Naruto said plainly.
Jiraiya used the next couple of hours to read the sections of the diary that had anything to do with the Rinnegan. He had to reread everything a couple of times to make sure what he was reading was real. "I don't believe it, with how close Uzu and Konoha were you would expect someone to know about this" Jiraiya said in clear shock as he closed the book.
"I think some people may have. There seems to be a small connection with the Six Path's Jutsu and the Nidaime's Edo Tensei. Think about it, Tobirama and the head of the Uzumaki clan were best friend's they made there swords together. Maybe Tobirama knew and his attempt to use the Six Path's jutsu led to the creation of the Edo Tensei" Naruto theorized.
"I don't know seems like a possibility. But what are you going to do about this book, if it ever fell into the wrong hand's it could be dangerous" Jiraiya said eying the book with awe and a hint of wanting.
"It cant be opened by anyone other than the Uzumaki clan head, here try for yourself" Naruto said handing the closed book back to Jiraiya.
Attempting to pry the book open nothing he did would open it. "Heh I guess it is pretty safe then. Well I still say you keep it secret" Jiraiya suggested.
"Don't worry I plan on it. Why do you think I didn't want to tell Yugi-chan. You know what Kumo is like with bloodline's. A is alright but that counsel sound's more power hungry than Konoha's" Naruto said sadly.
"yeah that is probably a good call. So the question is what to train you in? You know the Hirashin so that is something we can work on improving. It took Minato year's to perfect it to a point where he could activate a seal in mid air once he threw the kunai. Another problem that took him awhile to figure out was activating a seal from a long distance" Jiriaya said.
"Yeah that is exactly what I am having a problem with at the moment. Do you know how he fixed the problem?" Naruto asked eagerly.
"Yeah it was a lot of meditation until he could feel the basic pull of the unactivated seal it took him years to perfect it but eventually he could travel miles outside of Konoha to a inactive seal we will have to work on it at close range reactivating a seal" Jiraiya said.
"Good while you work on that with Jiraiya-chan I want you to send a hundred clones with me and we will work on some of the Fuuton and Suiton jutsu's you found. Ma can you train Yugito-chan with some Katon and Raiton jutsu, I put them to the side" Fukusaku said.
"Very well I will train the girl but it is not often I train someone who is not a summoner" Shima said.
"Thanks Shima Baa-chan" Naruto said but immediately regretted calling Shima old when she hit him with her rolling pin.
"Respect your elder's" Shima said angrily.
"Come on Ma, Naruto-chan didn't mean anything by it. And he needs to train" Fukusaku said.
"When do we start?" Jiraiya asked
"Tomorrow, give Naruto-chan and Yugito-chan a chance to settle in and get re-accustomed to the atmosphere here" Fukusaku said.
"Sounds good to me but I better get to my shack before Yugi-chan begins to think I forgot about her" Naruto said and he stood up from the small table and collecting his book left the elder's house and made his way down over to his own small building.
When he arrived he found Yugito talking to Gamakichi and Gamatatsu who had shrunken themselves so that they wouldn't be too big for the room. "Heya Boss" Gamakichi said with a friendly wave as Naruto walked into the room.
"You're girlfriend is nice boss she gave me some snacks" Gamatatsu said with a dopey smile.
"Hey guy's what are you doing here with Yugi-chan?" Naruto asked.
"We saw her walk over to your house so we wanted to say hi" Gamakichi said.
"Oh that's cool, but we have a busy couple of day's coming up and we will need our rest. And I would like to talk to Yugi-chan in private" Naruto said hoping the toads would get the hint.
Luckily for Naruto Gamakichi was not as thick as his brother, and he pulled Gamatatsu who was complaining that he wanted some more snacks out of the shack.
"Well I am glad Gamakichi is at least switched on" Naruto said before giving Yugito a quick kiss and sitting down on there small bed.
"Yes I think he is definitely the brain's of the pair" Yugito said as she straddled Naruto's leg's and pushed him back so he was laying down.
"We are going to start training tomorrow, Shima will be training you in some of the Katon and Raiton jutsu that I found in Uzu" Naruto said before planting some kisses along Yugito's jaw line causing her to purr. Naruto broke the kiss and was about to continue on with the plan for the next few days but Yugito didn't let him as she slammed her lips back against his to prevent him from continuing.
(The Next Morning)
Jiraiya and Fukusaku had both encountered a very angry pair of blond jinchuuriki when they went to get Naruto out of bed to begin there training. It seemed Yugito did not appreciate being woken that early in the morning. Especially not when she was naked covered only by a thin almost see through bed sheet. Naruto was angry because Jiraiya had taken out his note pad and started taking notes.
After a short while a very angry and embarrassed couple came out of there hut to find Jiraiya and both elder toads waiting for them.
"Ah you're both up. Good. Naruto-chan make a hundred or so clones and send them to follow me. You will be going with Jiraiya to work on the Hirashin. Yugito-chan you will be going with Ma to work on Katon and Raiton jutsu and manipulation" Fukusaku said calmly not wanting to set off a jinchuuriki if he could avoid it.
After splitting up Naruto and Jiraiya came to a clearing and sat down. "Ok hand me one of your sealed kunai" Jiraiya said.
Naruto happily handed him a three pronged kunai and watched as Jiraiya set the kunai in the ground around one hundred feet ahead of where Naruto sat. he immediately felt the pull from the kunai but rather than move to it he stayed in place.
After around thirty seconds the pull faded and the seals deactivated. "Now I want you to feel for the kunai, just close your eyes, create some clones to help if you want.
Naruto created around fifty clones and they all sat feeling for the feel of the seal. Around an hour later the seals on the kunai began to glow, unfortunately fifty Naruto's teleporting to the same kunai just leads to them arriving in a big pile before dispelling.
(Konoha)
Kakashi, Gai and Tenzo arrived at Tsunade's office to find her at her desk talking to Danzo who upon seeing the two jonnin and Anbu left the room in a huff.
"What was that about?" Kakashi asked after Danzo left.
"He was demanding to know where Naruto is" Tsunade said flatly.
"I thought you said he had returned" Gai said.
"Oh he did, but he Jiraiya and Yugito have gone to Myobokuzan. Danzo demanded he return immediately, and I told him no. this toad will retrieve him should he be needed" Tsunade said indicating the small toad croaking happily on her desk.
"Now there have been some development's that need to be passed on, we sent a hawk to Kumo as the terms of our agreement but I need a team to take the information to Suna, Gai I want you to take your team. This information is regards to the leader of the Akatsuki. A man who possesses the Rinnegan" Tsunade informed the three.
"Surely your mistaken, the Rinnegan is just a myth" Kakashi said disbelievingly.
"Myth of not he has it and both Naruto and Jiraiya have seen it. Kakashi I need you to pass this information on to the other high ranking jonnin. Have Asuma help you, he is back in action now, so will be at one of the training grounds" Tsunade said seriously.
"Yes tsunade-sama" Kakashi said and he took several scrolls with information on Pein before turning and leaving the room.
"Now Tenzo I have a scouting task for you, Kabuto gave Kakashi and Naruto a book on members from the Akatsuki. He was in the Land of Fire so I want you to put together a team and look for him. We don't have much time and cant afford to let him wander freely around the Land of Fire" Tsunade said handing Tenzo his new mission assignment.
(Myobokuzan)
The following few day's followed along the same lines, Naruto would work on the speed and distance of which he could activate a seal but it was still taking quite a while. He had in that time picked up quite a few new Fuuton jutsu as well as some high powered Suiton.
He also started leaving some clones behind to go though the Historical records that he took from the Uzumaki vault looking for any weakness in the Rinnegan but he was drawing a blank.
By the fourth day Naruto had decided to prevent the massive pile up of Naruto clones when he attempted his training he gave each clone a separate kunai to practice with. This worked in theory, in practice... not so much. After awhile the pull of separate kunai made the clones forget which one they were supposed to be focused on and after awhile they all ended up in a pile again.
Yugito had made great progress with her Katon jutsu as well she had managed to learn quite a few of the B and A ranked jutsu and managed two B ranked Raiton jutsu.
(Outside Konoha)
A girl with orange hair looked out from atop a mountain in the middle of the forest her rippling purple eyes scanning Konoha that sat around the base of the mountain, the lights from the buildings illuminating the nights sky.
'Tomorrow Konoha will be no more, and they will know Pain' she thought before summoning Konan who created a large tree from paper.
End Chapter!
I could have probably stretched out his training over another chapter, but it wouldn't have added anything to the story so I didn't bother.