Sorry for the long update, I've been calling my grandmother to check on my gramps since he has lung cancer and dumbass doctors don't know what the hell they're doing since they punctured his lung. She's been keeping me updated and said he's fine so I can concentrate on school work and my stories again. Enjoy!
Naruto wakes up to see a mysterious blade in the bed with him unable to remember where it came from. He tells Yamato who doesn't recognize it from anywhere and decides to think about it later. Naruto and Gaara continue their training with both Rasa and Chiyo all the while a mysterious voice tries to call out to the little blonde. Who could the voice belong to?
Clear blue eyes opened up at the start of a new day in Sunagakure no Sato. The little blonde sat up and rubbed the sleepiness out of his eyes before yawning and stretching his arms above his head only to freeze in place when he felt something in the palm of his hand. Bringing his arms down he stared a a blade, but it wasnt just any blade, it was the same one from his dream.
"What?" He inspected it himself and it was a little big for him to wield, not to mention heavy. There was something else in his dream that he vaguely remembered seeing...what was it again? Moving his other hand around in the bed he spotted the same colored orbs from his dream too!
"What's going on?" Naruto blinked at the orbs in his bed.
"Hm? What's wrong?" Yamato mumbled waking up with a yawn.
"Nii-san, look at this!" Naruto showed the man his new blade and picked up an orb too.
Yamato woke up immediately eyeing the blade carefully but didn't touch it, "Where did you get this? More importantly, how did you get it?"
"In a dream." Naruto said calmly.
Silence.
"...Huh?" Was Yamato's intelligent response.
"I'm serious! I was dreaming and saw something, it was speaking to me and then I was this blade, and these orbs!" Naruto placed the orb in his hand before Yamato.
Yamato inspected the orb this time and wondered why it was orange, not only that but he saw the blonde had other orbs that were in the bed with him.
"Where did these come from?" The older man questioned.
"They came from my dream too, what's going on?" Naruto wanted to know what was happening.
Yamato wanted to know what was going on too, but had no answer. He didn't sense anyone had come in the room last night so the boy's claim of this kunai weapon coming to him in a dream as well as the orbs. Giving the blade one last look he addressed the confused boy, "For now we should focus more on your training and think about it later."
"Okay." Naruto nodded.
He washed up and got ready for the day all the while still trying to think about what his dream was trying to tell him, no what that creature he saw was trying to tell him.
"Naruto!" Gaara greeted from on top of the Kazekage's tower. When the blonde didn't respond right away the red head became worried and tugged on the blonde's white shirt.
"Naruto?" Gaara called out worriedly.
The blonde was brought out of his deep thought thanks to the voice of Gaara, "Huh, oh what's up?"
"Are you okay?" Gaara asked.
Naruto smiled, "I'm okay, just a little tired."
Gaara blinked, "Can you not sleep either?"
"Eh?"
"Oya, looks like you two brats are here early. Good." Chiyo arrived with the Kazekage who stood next to Yamato.
"What are we learning today, Chiyo-baa-chan?" Naruto asked.
"Since you two have done well in your chakra control I believe its time to see what your chakra affinities are." Chiyo said.
"Chakra affinities?" Naruto and Gaara questioned.
Chiyo nodded, "Every person's chakra has an affinity for fire, water, lightning, earth, and wind," she took out two chakra papers, "What I have in my hands are Chakura Kannōshi's (Chakra Induction Paper's). By applying chakra to these papers it will tell me what your affinities are, if its fire then it will ignite and turn to ash, if its water then it will become damp, if its lightning then it will wrinkle, if its earth then it will turn to dirt and crumble away, and if its wind then it will split in two." she explained.
Naruto was beginning to understand even if the explanation was too long for his liking, but knew it was necessary to explain the details to him. His affinity could either be, fire, wind, water, earth, or lightning, none sounded too bad in his opinion. He took the chakra paper from her and Gaara followed his example and started channeling chakra into the paper and watched as both sliced in half.
So they both have an affinity for Fūton, huh?
"Fūton (Wind Style) appears to be both of your affinities it seems." Chiyo observed impressed Naruto's affinity was for wind.
"Hey Chiyo-baa-chan, is Fūton common here?" Naruto asked suddenly.
Chiyo gave him a hum of approval, "You ask the right questions young man, instead of it being common among the citizens here in Sunagakure no Sato you could say its more common among blood. Take Gaara for example who is the son of the Kazekage, sometimes affinities are blood related and sometimes it just comes with the territory. For example, Kirigakure no Sato are known for their Suiton (Water Style) jutsu's because of the moisture in the atmosphere.
Naruto stared at his paper in wonder, "Oh..."
The old woman clapped her hands getting their attention was again, "Now that we know what your affinities are we can start teaching you wind style jutsu's at a later time but for today we will be working more on controlling your sand."
"Yes ma'am!" Both boys said.
Both boys wasted no time in practicing in trying to control their sand, Gaara was making faces again but they were all of Naruto who is obviously his favorite person in whole world. Naruto meanwhile closed his eyes trying to figure out what he shaped his iron sand into but couldn't come up with anything. A light suddenly appeared in the dark, as he reached out his hand he saw the face a beautiful woman with long red hair and purple eyes giving him a gentle smile. He reached out to the face with both hands and tried to touch it but Yamato's voice brought him back to reality.
"Naruto!"
Snapping his eyes open he saw his iron sand created the face of the woman he just saw, the iron face of the woman was hovering above him both hands covering him as though it were protecting him from the world.
"Wow..." Gaara stared.
Naruto's gaze was held on the face his iron sand created, "Did I...do this?"
"That you did, who is this woman?" Chiyo asked curiously.
Naruto didn't know but his chest told another story as it felt painful all of a sudden, "She's...I don't...huh?" The iron sand around him began to move on its own as if responding to his emotional turmoil, "She's...she's..." he grabbed his chest painfully.
"Naruto, calm down!" Yamato tried to go over to him but Gaara beat him to it placing a hand on his head calming the blonde down.
"Does it hurt?" Gaara questioned feeling sad for his friend, "It's all right..."
Naruto realized he was crying and wiped his tears away before giving Gaara a heartfelt smile, "I know who she is..."
"The woman?" Gaara said.
"Yeah," Naruto nodded, "She's my mom, I don't know her name but I just know...she's my mom."
Chiyo moved closer to the boys just as Gaara removed his hand from his friends head, allowing the elder to have a turn, "I see, your mother." She rubbed his head.
Naruto clenched his chest tightly, "It hurts, but...I feel happy because I know...that I had a mom, and she loved me." He tried to keep himself from crying but it didn't help. Two arms suddenly pulled him in an embrace, Chiyo smiled as she did this.
"That's good," she said softly, "Keep that memory with you, never let it go." She regretted not doing this with her grandson all those years ago, if she had then maybe...
Naruto held onto the elderly woman as he cried for very first time, even back in Konoha he never cried, not once. But here in Suna he was free to cry as much as he wanted.
So he did.
Gaara didn't know what to do as he saw Chiyo hug his friend who started to cry, a hand on his shoulder brought him out of his confusion as he saw it was his father's hand on his shoulder, "Go to him." Was all the man said as the little red head went over to the two and was pulled into the group hug.
Rasa and Yamato observed from a distance, "This is the first time I've seen the boy cry."
"Same here." Yamato commented getting a confused look from Rasa, "You know Naruto is just like Gaara, but not once have we seen him cry. This would the first time I've seen it."
Rasa turned his attention back over to the blonde, "The boy is strong-willed."
"He is."
After the water works were over they got right back to training, Naruto and Gaara had finally managed to control their sand enough to the point where it will only activate if it sensed any hostile intent. After that was finished Chiyo brought them back to her workshop where her puppets were, Gaara showed no interest in puppets but loved watching them move. Naruto was a different story though, he was given a doll size puppet to practice with. Learning to control his chakra from Chiyo proved to be helpful for he was able to move the little doll slowly on the table much to Yamato's amazement.
"It's his first try and so far he's doing well." Yamato observed.
Rasa was impressed, "Impressive, my oldest has taken an interest in puppets recently. I'm impressed the boy's able to control his chakra perfectly."
"Thanks to Chiyo-sama's guidance." Yamato said.
"Mm, Chiyo-sama was once feared on the battlefield back in her day, even now she's still feared." Rasa commented.
"That I can believe." Yamato agreed.
Chiyo nodded her head at the blonde, "Very well done, Naruto. You're getting the hang of it." She complimented.
Naruto smiled, "Thanks, but I have a long way to before I reach your level."
"Hmph! You're a hundred years too young to even think you could reach my level, brat!" Chiyo teased.
Naruto's eyebrow twitched, "That a challenge? I'll take you up on that then, hag."
Chiyo's eyebrow twitched this time, "Who are you calling hag, you little midget?!"
"I'm not midget, this is normal for someone of my size!" Naruto retorted.
"Hah! That I highly doubt!"
"Says the smallest person here!"
"Disrespectful little-!"
Gaara giggled at their banter, while Rasa and Yamato either sighed or shook their heads, but Yamato was smiling on the inside. Back in Konoha the elderly were especially vicious to him because some of them lost children and grandchildren during the whole Kyubi attack, so to see him act this way around Chiyo was blessing.
She became his surrogate grandmother.
And that was fine with Yamato.
"Just you wait, I'll surpass both you and the Third Kazekage!" Naruto declared.
This took Rasa and Chiyo by surprise, he wants to surpass the Third Kazekage? With the progress he's showing with his Satetsu he just might. Until now, everyone in the village believed the Magnet Release kekkei genkai was dead and gone with the dissapearance of the Sandaime Kazekage. But with Naruto here, even if it was just for a short while he just might be able to surpass the man who was known as the second strongest Kazekage.
Chiyo flicked his forehead, "See if you can, you brat."
Naruto gave her a challenging grin, "You bet!"
"...rat..."
The blonde stilled and looked around the puppet room wanting to know where that voice was coming from but saw no one, but the people gathered here.
"Naruto?" Gaara called his friend back to reality.
"Huh?" Naruto jerked his head towards his friend.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Uh...yeah, I'm okay! Just spaced out a bit!" Naruto rubbed the back of his head.
Yamato wasn't convinced though and wondered what that was all about, but decided to wait until the blonde was ready to tell the man himself.
Naruto stared at the scroll in his hands that was given to him by Chiyo-baa-chan yesterday. It contains all of the techniques of the Sandaime Kazekage, there were a total of six and they were all hand written by the Kazekage himself. Opening the scroll he looked at the list of techniques.
1) Satetsu Shigure (Iron Sand Shower)-It is a gunshot-like attack which uses Iron Sand hardened into minuscule grains to attack simultaneously across a vast range. The bullets are so fast that they are difficult to see. The moment the user has finished preparing the attack, evading it becomes extremely difficult. Using the repellent force of magnetism, the speed of the bullets is rapidly increased after they are shot. Furthermore, you can also use an attack pattern where the Iron Sand bullets are shaped into sharp needles, increasing their ability to wound or kill the opponent.
2) Satetsu Kesshū (Iron Sand Gathering)-This technique greatly increases the hardness of the Iron Sand, creating a gigantic steel-like weapon in an instant. The weight and size of these shapes are so great, they can easily shatter bedrock and break through most defences with a single hit.
3) Satetsu Kaihō (Iron Sand: Needle Sphere)-This technique uses Iron Sand to create a gigantic sphere of branching spikes. You must first create two masses of Iron Sand of opposing magnetic fields and then merges them together. This causes the magnetic forces to instantly increase and the repellent force created by the two opposing magnetic fields scatters the Iron Sand across a vast area.
4) Satetsusō (Iron Sand Spear)-This large, triangular shaped weapon allows you to penetrate through defences as strong as rock. It can be spun to pick it up even more power, giving it a drill-like appearance. It can also be shaped into a thinner, but longer version of it to increase its range.
5) Gosunkugi (Five Sun Nails)-These long spikes, besides capable of penetrating through someone's body, can be used to attack multiple targets.
6) Kyodai Tettsui (Giant Hammer)-This giant block-like weapon can be used to crush its target with devstating poweris a giant block that is used to crush the target.
These jutsu's were pretty impressive though and he couldn't wait to try them out today, but its best to start slow, so if he manages to get the first one down then he'll move straight to the next one. His goal for today is to master two of the justu's in this scroll.
He walked behind the Kazekage's tower because that's where the private training ground was located. As he arrived he spotted Gaara was standing there smiling as though he were waiting for him to show up.
"Gaara?"
"Naruto!"
"You came to use the training ground, too?" Naruto asked.
Gaara shook his head, "I was waiting for you. I knew you would come so I waited."
Naruto blinked, "How did you know I'd be here..." he trailed off spotting a giant eyeball looking down at him.
'Is that...a giant eyeball?!'
"Uh...Gaara?" Naruto said slowly.
"Yes?"
Naruto pointed at the giant eyeball, "Did you create that...eyeball?"
Gaara smiled, "It's an eyeball I created. It can see things from far away, that's how i knew you were going to come here."
Naruto had no words.
He was literally speechless.
"Uh...okay," he said unsurely, "Anyway, Chiyo-baa-chan gave me this scroll that was written by the Sandaime Kazekage. I'm gonna try out a jutsu from here."
"Okay." Gaara said.
Naruto opened the scroll knowing just the technique he wanted to use, positioning himself before three sand stumps he took a deep breath making the Ram hand sign, "Satetsu Shigure (Iron Sand Shower)!" Gathering his iron sand he shot it towards the stump in the middle, watching as it pierced through it quickly.
He stared at what he'd just done before a huge smile stretched his face.
He did it!
He really did it!
"Did you see that, Gaara?! I did it! I really did it!" Naruto was jumping up and down with glee.
"You did! That was amazing, Naruto!" Gaara smiled.
Naruto grinned as he gave his friend the peace sign as he managed to get the first jutsu down without any problems. That's one down and another one to go.
"...rat..."
He froze in place.
It was that voice again.
Looking around he once again didn't see anyone, but he knew he heard a voice just now. Where was it? Was it...in his head...?
"...brat..."
"What? Brat?" Naruto said hearing it much clearly now than he did the first time.
Gaara tilted his head in confusion as his friend seemed to be talking to himself, "What's wrong?"
"No...I don't know, but I think its that same voice from yesterday again. I can hear it." Naruto told his friend.
"A voice? You hear a voice, too?" Gaara said seemingly surprised at another thing they had in common.
"Yeah...just now, I heard it call me brat." Naruto said.
"Brat?"
"...brat...can you...hear me...?"
"There it is again! But it asked if I could hear it this time!" Naruto covered his ears freaking out a little.
"It did?"
"Yeah, what do I do?" Naruto questioned.
"Try responding to it." Gaara suggested.
Naruto took a deep breath and tried out his friends idea, "Y-Yeah, I can hear you."
He waited for the voice to respond again, and wasn't dissapointed when he got a response.
"Hmmm, so you can finally hear me. Your mind was being guarded by an unfamiliar being, making it difficult for me to speak."
Naruto blinked at the long explanation and wasn't sure how to respond to that, "Um, sorry...?"
"Do not apologize, the being sealed within you was preventing my voice from coming through but no more now that we have a stable connection."
"A Being sealed inside me?" Naruto didn't understand what the voice was talking about and decided to ask Yamato about it later, "Who are you?"
"I will tell you my name another time, besides we met in your dreams though it appears you don't remember."
"We met in my dreams?"
"Yes, I am the one that gave you that blade and the orbs. You are the summoner I have chosen, do not disappoint me."
Naruto could feel that was the end of the conversation as he didn't hear the voice say anything else. He looked to his friend Gaara, "I should tell Yamato about this."
Gaara agreed with him.
Inside the Tower
Yamato stood there as Naruto explained what happened just now at the training ground, he knew something was wrong yesterday but when they got back to the hotel they were staying in the boy wasn't in the talking mood and simply went to sleep. But now, this voice he heard came back and it scared him a little. Yamato instantly thought it was the Kyūbi, but from what Naruto was describing it couldn't be that so maybe it was something else. From the sounds of it this voice in his head sounded like it was part of a summoning contract.
Yamato thought about that theory before turning to Naruto, "It might be a summoning trying to get into contact with you, probably."
"A summoning?"
"There are many summoning animals and contracts out there, this one may be no different. From what you've said, it sounds like to me this summoning animal contacted you in a dream first before contacting you again. Looks like its chosen you to be its summoner." Chiyo explained.
"But what summoning animal is it?" Rasa questioned.
"That I don't know, it could be any animal there are a lot of them out there," Chiyo said sounding unsure, "But from what I'm hearing this one might be special like Konoha's Toads, Slugs, and Snake summoning contracts." She was referring to Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru.
Naruto looked down, "It said something else too, how a being sealed inside me was preventing it from contacting me."
Yamato flinched as his eyes trailed over to Rasa and Chiyo unsure of what to say and from the looks on their faces they don't know what so say either, so the wood user simply placed a hand on the blondes head.
"Don't worry about it, just focus on your training." Yamato smiled.
Naruto looked up at the male giving him a small smile, "Right..." he was still bothered by it a little but let it go for now. The one thing he still wanted to know about was the blade he was given, and hopefully he'll get his answers soon.
He stared at the strange blade in his hand, wondering what its special abilities were. Whatever it was the orbs were connected to it, the only problem was how the hell was he supposed to figure out what the blade was supposed to do along with the orbs? Looking at the whole carved in the blade he placed the red orb in the circle waiting to see what would happen. As soon as the orb was in place the blade turned red making his eyes widen having not expected this at all.
"W-Wow...so this is what the orbs are for," Naruto said staring at the blade in absolute awe holding the blade up, "I wonder if it has a name?"
"It does."
He jumped as he heard the voice again, "What's it called?"
"Ryūjin (Dragon Blade)."
"Ryūjin (Dragon Blade)..." Naruto repeated.
"It is a powerful blade from our clan that has chosen you to be its wielder."
Naruto plopped down on the bed he took the orb out of the blade, "Hey, are you gonna tell me your name?"
"Not yet. It is not yet time for you to know. Patience is required."
Rolling over on his side he snuggled his face in the pillow before closing his eyes, he a little disappointed because he only learned one jutsu from the scroll instead of two like he was determined to but oh well. With a deep sigh he succumbed to sleep vowing he'd deal with this stuff tomorrow, but right now he needed sleep.
And lots of it.
Next Time: Ryū no Kuni