Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 69: Anbu from Oto
Sakura was still crying uncontrollably while Kakashi tried to comfort her. If he was honest with himself he was also deeply upset that Sasuke would be killed. The last Uchiha was one of his pupils after all, so it hurt to see him fall so far. 'So this must have been how the Sandaime felt when Orochimaru betrayed the village, despite all of his bad deed's he always cared for the fallen sannin' Kakashi thought while Sakura wept beside him.
While this was going on Yugito and Jiraiya decided to move on elsewhere. "I cant believe they managed to capture Kirabi. I mean he was a compete idiot most of the time, but the only person in the whole village that stood a chance against him was A-sama" Yugito said.
"Your right, I saw him fight, and beating him would be no easy task. I guess Sasuke either has some talented friends, he has gotten a lot stronger, or there is something else going on" said Jiraiya.
"What you think Kirabi, let them take him" Yugito said indignantly.
"No, I'm saying he made them think they took him, he could have given everyone the slip. But that is just a slim possibility, even if that was the case it doesn't help the spoiled brat of an Uchiha, nor should it, attacking another villages jinchuuriki is unforgivable" Jiraiya said.
"Try telling that to Sakura" Yugito said.
"I'm sure Tsunade will, I still would not want to be the one responsible for killing the little prick. In my opinion this decision has come far later than it should have, that Uchiha should have been given a kill on sight order the day he left the village and ran a chidori through Naruto's chest" Jiraiya said darkly.
"I'm inclined to agree, and now for all I know the only two jinchuuriki left are Naruto and myself. I don't much like my chances for being allowed to move here to be with Naruto anymore. Not now that Kirabi is gone" Yugito said sadly.
"You never know, usually if the kid want's something he finds a way to make it happen. I mean just look at his track record. He wanted you, and nobody else, and he gout you" Jiraiya said.
"That was different, I think it was more of a mutual attraction and similarities that brought us together" Yugito said.
"Ok then, he wanted to save me, and he made it happen. He wanted to defeat Nagato without having to kill him if possible, and he made it happen. He is special, there is just something about him that makes you want to believe in the kid. I remember when I first met him. He was four and I saw him wandering the streets looking for food. I was told by sensei that for his own safety not to approach him, but I followed him from afar and watched as he was kicked out of every shop he tried to get some food from, but he didn't give up he just kept going with a smile. Although I could tell he used it to hide his pain I knew then, that he would be a great ninja one day. He had the power to never give up, I had to respect that. Eventually he came to a small restaurant that not only allowed Naruto to enter but also treated him with kindness despite knowing just who he was, after he left I gave the Ichiraku's a rather large donation for there kindness" Jiraiya said a small smile crossing his face from the memory of how happy Naruto was to find a few people who would treat him kindly.
"You know, you would make a great father, if you stopped being such a pervert" Yugito said
"No, a failure like me cant raise a child, I would screw something up for sure" Jiraiya said giving a small laugh.
"You don't realize that you already have raised a child. If you didn't teach Naruto how to be a man then who did? You're a great sensei, and only the best sensei's can teach there students without realizing it. You have been a father to Naruto all along. That's not a failure that's a genius" Yugito said kindly.
"Well now that I think about it I always have considered Naruto to be family, maybe he will be my success that will out way all of my failures, maybe the tale of Jiraiya the Gallant will be one of success after all" Jiraiya said.
"I bet it will, now come on lets go talk to some of the carpenters about this design we have, it took Shima hours to find the blueprints to the clan house among all of Naruto's stuff so we don't want to screw this up by giving it to people who don't understand the design. But I don't think I will be giving the builders a copy of the Uzumaki seals that need to be added, once the building is complete. Not that they would understand them anyway, but you can never tell with some people" Jiraiya said.
"Yeah good idea. Hey Jiraiya what were Naruto's parent's like, I mean as people, I have heard tales about the yellow flash and the Bloody Habanero but I mean the people, only person who I ever heard talk about them as people rather than legends was Kirabi" Yugito said.
"Really, and what did he say?" Jiraiya queried.
"It's kind of hard to tell with the way Kirabi always raps when he talks, but from what I could make out he said Minato was both kind as well as deadly. He never spoke of Kushina though, maybe they didn't meet" Yugito said.
"Well Minato was a very friendly boy. But serious, too serious if you ask me. But he was always willing to go out of his way to help a friend in need. Kushina, well if you want to know what she was like just look at Naruto, there the basic carbon copy of each other personality wise. She was so kind and friendly, but had a short fuse, it was how she got her nickname. Well that and her vibrant red hair. She came to Konoha as a child and she didn't have any family here except for the Shodaime's wife Mito, who she stayed with. But despite that she was always so happy and determined to succeed. When I look at Naruto I can really see both of them, Minato's skill and Kushina's kindness" Jiraiya said.
"I see, do you think they would approve of me? I mean I am from another village that has a history of bad blood between each other" Yugito questioned.
"I have no doubt in my mind, as long as you make Naruto happy they would have loved you" Jiraiya said with a smile.
"Thanks Jiraiya-sama, I have really wanted to know what they would think of me" Yugito said.
"Ah don't worry about things like that, life's far too short to worry about things that wouldn't matter anyway" Jiraiya said.
"I guess you're right, well come on, these plan's are not going to deliver themselves" Yugito said as she picked up her pace back towards the village center.
(Land of Waves)
Naruto had just finished having a friendly spar with Inari. "Not bad Inari, your style is very direct, I think you could go for two shorter blades, here take this kunai and head home I will go find you some blades that will channel your chakra, I think a couple of Tanto's would be perfect" Naruto said with a smile.
"Take one of your kunai's? What good will that do, and how do you plan on leaving wave anyway?" Inari questioned.
"Oh well the kunai is like a marker for one of my jutsu, I use them to transport myself wherever I have one, at the moment I still have trouble activating them at will and I need to concentrate on finding them, where I have my armory is pretty far away, so it is taking me awhile to even locate the marker kunai let alone activate it" Naruto explained.
"Wow that is so awesome, what does it look like when you transport somewhere?" Inari said as Naruto sat down to focus harder on locating the kunai.
"It's the jutsu that gave my father his nick name of the yellow flash, and that is exactly what it looks like. I'm no where near as good as he was at using it yet, sensei said he could move wherever he wanted in an instant, he only ever needed to focus on kunai that were large distances away, I still need a while to activate the kunai from any distance, but I will get there" Naruto said.
The blond sat in silence for awhile before he finally opened his eyes. "Well I will see you in a bit just place that kunai outside your house somewhere and I will see you in a little while" Naruto said and after a quick farewell wave disappeared in a yellow flash.
(Myobokuzan)
Naruto appeared in front of his small shack that was stuffed full of Naruto's scrolls that contained all the items he had taken from the Uzumaki compound. What he didn't notice was he appeared right Shima was making her way back to her house with the ingredients for that days dinner.
Shima was so shocked to see Naruto, just appear before her eyes despite knowing how he did it and seeing him do it hundreds of times before. She was still given a massive fright when it happened without her knowing it was about to occur. In fact her fright was so large she lost all of the bugs she had gathered that afternoon.
Naruto was just about to head on into his shack, we 'Wham' he was struck over the head by Shima's rolling pin. "Ow what the hell?" Naruto complained before turning around to face Shima.
"You scared me half to death Naruto-chan, I lost most of the stuff for mine and Pa's dinner tonight" the old toad said.
"Hehe sorry Shima, I didn't realize you were there, I came here to get some chakra conducting Tanto's from my Armory. Need them for a gift to an old friend of mine I haven't seen in years" Naruto admitted.
"Oh, well you cant keep showing up and scaring me like that, if it happens many more times I will die of a heat attack, I'm not ready to go just yet, you hear me" Shima threatened.
"Ugh yes maam" Naruto said then gulped not wanting to be hit by Shima and her rolling pin again.
"Good, now you will be happy to know that I sent the designs for the Clan house to Jiraiya and they will hopefully begin construction in a few days once they find a builder who they can trust to keep to the designs and not to blab about who they are building it for" Shima said.
"Why would it matter if they knew they were building it for me?" Naruto asked.
"Because Naruto-chan, half the village would show up wanting to help build it, and the rest of the reconstruction wouldn't get done" the new voice of Fukusaku said from inside Naruto's shack.
The gray haired toad walked out with one of the Uzumaki historical record scroll's in hand. Naruto didn't mind that the old toad was going through his stuff, he had given his sensei permission to look through the records as much as he wanted to,
"Oh hey Fukusaku sensei, how's it going with the research?" Naruto queried.
"Not bad, most of it is pointless drivel, but I have found some detailed accounts of some of the Rikudou Sennin's jutsu and events that occurred in his life. No sign of any of his letters just yet but I hope they will turn up soon" Fukusaku said.
"Yeah good luck, I searched the things for so long with my clones and didn't find anything, but that said, they only really had a week and there is so much there. Anyway I need to get to my armory and then head back to Wave" Naruto said remembering why he was there.
"Then we better let you get back to work, come on Ma, lets leave Naruto-chan to his business" Fukusaku said.
The two small toads left and Naruto sat inside and began searching through all the different swords to find some that he could give to Inari.
(Konoha)
Tsunade sat still impatiently waiting for Kakashi to arrive, 'I can't believe you Yugao, I told you to bring Kakashi here immediately and he is still almost an hour late' Tsunade thought angrily.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Kakashi entered followed by Sakura who had evidently been crying and Yugao in her Neko mask.
'So that must be why he is late, Sakura must have found out about Sasuke' Tsunade thought before taking up her business like Hokage position at her desk. "Kakashi, better late than never I guess, I take it you have been informed of the situation by Neko here?" Tsunade inquired.
Kakashi went to answer but was cut off by Sakura. "Is it true? Have you really labeled Sasuke-kun with a kill on sight order?" Sakura asked begging for an answer that she knew wouldn't come.
"I'm sorry Sakura, but this is the only option we have, our relation's with Kumo have greatly improved over the last few years and denying them this request would be foolish bordering on insane" Tsunade said.
"But Sasuke-kun is a Konoha shinobi, he just need's time to return to the village. You'll see, he is still a good person" Sakura begged.
"He attacked a foreign villages jinchuuriki and captured him. He is also working with the Akatsuki, does that sound like a good person to you?" Tsunade asked she was now trying to keep her anger in check, she thought highly of Sakura as both a student and a medic but her obsession with the traitorous Uchiha was becoming painful.
"We don't know what they want the jinchuuriki for, maybe it's for a good cause, and that's why Sasuke-kun joined them" Sakura said desperately.
"A good cause? You have seen the village haven't you? Does that look like a good cause? So what do you propose, we just hand Naruto and Yugito over to the Akatsuki because you think Sasuke might come back if we do?" Tsunade yelled her anger getting the best of her.
Sakura seemed to shrink under Tsunade's angry gaze, and looking around she saw a look of disappointment firmly set on Kakashi's face. "No, I'm... I'm sorry Tsunade-sama, I think I need to be alone for awhile" Sakura said before leaving the room.
"I'm sorry about that Tsunade-sama, I will talk with her later, and maybe some of her old class mates can get her to see reason" Kakashi said somberly.
"Thank you, that would appreciated, and for what it's worth...I'm sorry I had to do this, I know Sasuke was one of your students but it is out of my control now. All other nations have agreed to mark him as a kill on sight missing ninja" Tsunade said.
"That's alright Tsunade-sama, I have been almost expecting something like this to happen, but to tell the truth I never expected him to join the Akatsuki. Not when Itachi was a member" Kakashi said.
"I know, but I have read over the report, it was definitely Sasuke. This has been coming ever since the attempted kidnapping of Kurotsuchi, during the Jonnin Exam's" Tsunade said.
"You're right, still it is saddening to see just how far my old student has fallen" Kakashi said.
"Anyway, I need you to go find the team from Kumo and take them to the record room, they have been granted access to see Sasuke's file" Tsunade said.
"Right away, Hokage-sama" Kakashi sad and he disappeared via shunshin to go off to find team Samui
(Land of Wave's)
Naruto returned to Wave later that afternoon and after teaching Inari how to channel his chakra through the blades he spent the rest of the day giving Inari pointers in taijutsu and to a lesser degree kenjutsu.
Tsunami was so happy to see Naruto again she offered him one of the spare rooms for him to spend the night before he left to the next destination on his trip.
Naruto awoke late the next morning, he had stayed up until the early hours just before the sun rose to make sure that who ever was targeting the village would not be attacking that night. 'Well the village is still calm, maybe they didn't want to attack while I was still here' Naruto theorized while getting dressed.
Naruto walked downstairs and was greeted by the aromatic smell of a perfectly cooked breakfast. "Good morning Naruto-kun I hope you slept well. I made you a large breakfast for your trip, and of course to give you energy to beat those thugs that are terrorizing the village" Tsunami said from the kitchen when she heard him arrive.
"Wow, thanks Tsunami, you didn't have to do all this just for me though" Naruto said.
"Nonsense, you are a hero here, and it would be rude to not give what ever help I can while you are here" Tsunami said.
Naruto didn't retort, he just sat down and began to enjoy the wonderful meal that Tsunami had prepared for him.
Once he finished he insisted he help Tsunami wash up despite her protest's. Once that was done Naruto collected all of his things and prepared to depart.
Upon leaving the house Naruto went wide eyed seeing all of the people that were there waiting for him. It seemed that news that one of the ninja who saved Wave returning to the country had spread over the night and now everyone had come out to see him.
Naruto just gave a nervous smile and stood still unsure of how he should reply to such a greeting. "Uh hi everyone" Naruto said sheepishly.
"Are you going to save our country from the bad men again" a small girl asked running forward from the group.
"Well that's the plan, don't worry, who ever is cowardly enough to pick on a small developing nation like Wave will be no match for me" Naruto said confidently.
A loud roar of applause erupted from the group, and Naruto couldn't help but notice the looks of longing and lust on some of the woman of the village's face's causing the blond to shudder at the thought of more fangirl's.
Coming to the front of the group were Inari and Tazuna who walked over to Naruto. "So you off to save our country again huh, where are you heading to after that?" Tazuna asked.
"I still have to go to the Land of Tree's and Demon Country before I can head back to Konoha. So old man, will you head to Konoha and help with the reconstruction?" Naruto said.
"No problem kid, I am after all the best builder in the Elemental nation's" Tazuna said proudly.
"Is that so, well then maybe when you get there you could do my a favor, find a man with long white hair and markings under his eye's, that's my godfather, his name is Jiraiya. He will have some private work for you building a clan house for the Uzumaki Namikaze clan" Naruto said.
"No problem Kid, I will gladly take the job, and I will even give you a discount" Tazuna said.
"Thanks old man, but I better go, I'm positive who ever has been attacking the village will be waiting for me to leave the village to attack me, I better give them what they want" Naruto said with a smile.
Naruto was followed to the bridge by the large group before they waved him good luck and farewell. From then Naruto made it look like he was heading back towards Konoha, at what would seem like a good speed, but Naruto was clearly keeping himself slow so the five people he could sense attempting to surround him would succeed.
Around fifteen minutes later Naruto landed in a small clearance not bothering to jump to the next tree and bypass it. "Alright, show yourselves, I know there are people out there" Naruto said. He was careful not to give away just how much he knew.
"Well, what do we have here? A little Konoha shinobi, all alone, you came to the wrong place, little boy" a female voice called from the surrounding forest.
"We'll see, why don't you show yourself and we can find out just who is in the wrong place" Naruto said defiantly.
"Oh I like you kid, you have a lot more fight in you than those pathetic samurai at the village" the voice said, then from in front of Naruto a tall black haired kunoichi with a red Anbu mask and the symbol for Oto on it appeared.
Naruto couldn't help but notice that she was rather attractive despite the fact he could not see her face her figure was one of the best that he had ever seen, it even rivaled Yugito's. "Oto Anbu, no wonder you are picking on a small country like Wave, for a village that pathetic it's no wonder. The only people you would stand a chance against are the tiny nations" Naruto laughed.
"We were strong enough to defeat you" she said.
Naruto felt something move behind him but didn't react in time to stop from being run through with a large katana. "Stupid Konoha rat, you think you're so superior to us then why are you going to die here" the man who had his blade sticking through Naruto's gut said.
Naruto didn't say anything he just started laughing uncontrollably before puffing into smoke. "Damn he was just a shadow clone. Kira, where is the real one" the man who just stabbed Naruto said.
"I don't know, he is outside of my range, I will have to use my curse mark to find him" the woman said.
"You two are both incompetent, how could you have not been able to tell he was just a clone" another man said arriving along with two others.
"That was a shadow clone, they are perfect copy's, it's not my fault" the woman named Kira said.
It was most unfortunate for the group they didn't notice the kunai that had fallen from the grasp of the shadow clone as he despelled.
"Well we don't have time to mess around anymore. Find him Now!" the new arrival said.
"Don't bother I'm right here!" Naruto yelled from a tree above them and jumping down with rasengan in hand slammed the spinning orb into the back of the man who had stabbed his clone. "Well that's one down, so tell me. Do you want to surrender now? Or do you want me to defeat and possibly kill you all" Naruto said lazily as he picked himself up off the ground the man struck with the Rasengan clearly dead underneath him.
"What, Kira you just said he wasn't inside your range of detection how did he get here that fast if he was?" there leader said.
"Oh don't feel too bad, I mean. At least I am going to defeat you myself and decided not to let my clone do all the work" Naruto joked.
"Fuck you kid, We don't have time for this, come on curse marks, lets take this guy down, he doesn't know what he is messing with" the leader of the Oto Anbu group said.
Right before Naruto's eyes the three people out of the four changed into strangely deformed creatures while the other seemed to stay the same but Naruto could feel the increase of power from the only woman in the group, but at the same time Naruto decided it would be for the best if he took them seriously now. Three level two curse sealed opponents were nothing to laugh at.
There leader acted first, his right hand had become larger and seemed to look like a cannon. Naruto sensing danger quickly jumped away, and his instincts were correct as a large blast of condensed chakra shot forward destroying the area where he once stood.
Naruto didn't have any time to rest as the other two people from the group who had both transformed into large half man half bull beings jumped forward at relatively fast speed's. Naruto was not too worried about them as he was still far faster than they were and easily avoided there onslaught kicking them both away with ease at the first opening.
"I hope you guys have more than that" Naruto said leaning against a tree while standing on a branch high above the group. He soon had to jump out of the way again as another blast came shooting at him. "Well you got a bit closer to me that time, who knows I may have to try after all" Naruto said hoping to enrage them into making some mistakes. Naruto hadn't bothered to enter sage mode deciding that this could be a good bit of training.
Finally the woman moved and she moved at blistering pace, Naruto only narrowly avoiding the hit. This act more than anything else Naruto had done shocked and scared the Oto ninja. "He dodged Kira's Swift release, how is that possible?" there leader stammered out.
"Swift release? A Bloodline limit huh, well you are fast I suppose" Naruto admitted turning to face the shocked looking woman. "You might even be a fun sparing partner, but your friends, well they are quite useless" Naruto said.
"Hey who do you think you are calling useless you Konoha rat, I will kill you" the leader said,
Naruto just looked at him with mild interest and removed three kunai from his pouch. "There is four of you, and one of me, why don't I even the odds a bit. I really want to test myself against your swift release so you're safe but I think these three have worn my patients out" Naruto said mostly to himself.
"How dare you mock us, lets get him if we attack together he wont stand a chance" one of the Bull like men said.
"You could try, but I will have you three defeated within the next five seconds anyway so it will be kind of pointless" Naruto said.
"What are you talki-" there boss couldn't finish his sentence as Naruto threw three of his kunai in the directions of the three Oto ninja before flashing infront of the boss slamming a rasengan into his chest before disappearing again.
It was over in just over three second. And the final remaining member of the group of Oto ninja stood there and she was rather glad she was still wearing her Anbu mask as it was hiding a look of sheer horror that was covering her face. 'What is this guy, first he avoids my swift release then he just disappears and there are these flashes of yellow and my team are dead' she thought, she was now thoroughly scared for her life.
"Well, now that they're out of the way, how about we continue, I would like to see how strong your swift release is, I will remove my restriction seals so I can fight you fairly" Naruto said.
"What the fuck are you talking about, how am I supposed to beat you, and how did you even do that to my team" Kira said clearly frightened.
"Well I doubt you can defeat me, but I have no desire to kill you, in fact I had no desire to kill any of your team members but I had to defend myself and the village you have been targeting. That's why I am going to spare you, and instead of killing you I will just capture you and send you back to Konoha. Now shall we? I wont even use ninjutsu, just pure taijutsu" Naruto said.
"Heh I have never lost a match in taijutsu, you must be insane" Kira said before she rocketed off delivering a punch to Naruto's chest but blinked when she found Naruto had crossed his arms to block it.
"Hm you're not physically strong or fast but your bloodline limit seems to use a mixture of Raiton and Fuuton chakra to increase your speed dramatically, if you had bothered to train your speed you would even be faster that old man A, but you rely on your Kekei genkai far too much so now while you are indeed fast, you will be no match for me without my restriction seals" Naruto informed her.
'How dare he lecture me, I will show him' Kira thought and moved in a blink of an eye to attempt a leg sweep. She was in part successful in that she knocked Naruto off his legs but he easily pushed off from the ground with one arm and delivered a two footed kick to Kira's chest which she was able to block just in time.
"Your best skill is your ability to perform moves that usually require large amounts of focus, at amazing speed because your bloodline takes care of speed allowing you to put all your attention into getting the moves right, I can tell from the speed you were able to perfectly balance yourself for that leg sweep at an amazing speed" Naruto said.
"I don't care about your damn lecture or analysis of my skills, now just shut the fuck up" Kira said ash she shot forward again with Naruto narrowly avoiding strike after strike. Naruto couldn't help but feel a little bit excited, he had not had a taijutsu fight this good since his fight with Lee, during the Jonnin Exam's. Her form was excellent, the pace in which she was able to move made any opening Naruto tried to exploit disappear almost as soon as it came, Naruto as even taking a few hit's but they were mostly glancing blows.
Eventually Naruto got sick of being on the back foot and started to push back, his toad style was perfect against fast opponents and once he got into his rhythm of his attack's Kira was forced back and was clearly struggling, so much so that she had to jump away from Naruto landing in a nearby tree panting lightly.
"Just who are you" she said as she tried to regain some composure.
"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze" Naruto said.
"Na-Naruto... you mean you're the son of the Yellow flash, ranked S class ninja in Oto's bingo book with a do not approach label" she stammered.
"Yeah I guess I am, hehe I forgot all about Orochi-teme adding me to Oto's bingo book" Naruto said with a smile.
'They said this guy beat Orochimaru-sama in a fight one on one, but he is only around sixteen. However with the way he has been toying with me, I don't doubt it, what am I supposed to do, he hasn't even used the technique that allowed him to take down the others yet' Kira thought as she began looking for an escape.
"Well this has been fun, but I think it's time I end this, it was fun though. don't worry I'm not going to kill you, I already told you, your going to go to a prison cell in Konoha, but tell me why didn't you transform into some hideous creature like the others?" Naruto queried as he took out several Kunai not wanting to give her any openings to escape.
"I never went through the awakening to get a second level curse mark, I didn't think it would be necessary and I don't want to turn out like some of the people who were consumed by the seal and had to stay in the curse form's" Kira said not knowing why she answered but figured she was just trying to avoid what ever Naruto had planed for as long as possible.
Naruto threw his kunai and the last thing Kira knew seeing was a flash of yellow followed by her consciousness fading slowly as Naruto chopped the back of her neck.
Naruto summoned a large toad and gave it orders to deliver the captured Oto Anbu to Konoha along with a report of what had happened in the land of wave. He then created a clone and sent it back to wave to tell them that there troubles were over. 'Well that was fun, I can only hope the Land of Tree's and Demon's are this entertaining' Naruto thought as he began to make his way west towards the land of Tree's.
End Chapter!
I know Naruto sort of had an easy time of it, but hey it's a filler Arc, plus there are not that many S ranked ninja anyway so I think it was believable.