So yeah… My throat has the greatest side effect of not only being completely torn up, but it also not only screwed with my basic sense's, but also my head and mind in the way that I couldn't have stood up for over a minute before collapsing and also having my brain feel like it was being crushed from all sides… Just letting you all know, I was planning on writing all day today when I originally woke up, only to feel my head attempting suicide.
So yeah, sorry.
Anyway, onto the story.
1: When will Naruto regain his chakra?
A: He has already regained, it, it's just really small in size compared to his previous amount.
2: Will Naruto be marrying Shizuka someday or will he get out of it?
A: I don't know currently. Like I said, I have been creating "Possible" routes with different female characters that Naruto can act upon to get close with them. But until it happens, I even have no clue as to who he will be paired up with.
Now, onto the story.
"Speaking"
"Thinking"
"Summons/ bijuu speaking"
"Summons/ bijuu thinking"
"Fire style: Great fireball technique"
"FIGHT ME COWARD!" Came out a shout, causing the tree's to sway slightly in the wind as a single man stood within the centre of a small clearing with a shaking kunai moving around in his grip as his eyes dashed from one side to the other.
His answer was answered in nothing but silence and wind, causing the man with a slashed Kirigakure headband to gain a new sheet of sweat upon his cheeks as he glared outwards into the clearing around him.
"WHAT ARE YOU? A COWARD OR A NINJA!" Shouted the man once more, his eyes soon developing some bloodshot as his heart began to pound even harder as the wind continued to blow.
"… A ninja…" Muttered a voice behind the man. However, before he could turn around, he felt his head soon detach itself from his neck as his body dropped down onto the ground with a thud.
Standing above the man's headless corpse, a set of crimson eyes simply stared down at the form of the missing ninja for a few more minutes before disappearing in a puff of smoke, appearing at what looked like a different clearing before drawing out a single kunai and lobbing it forwards.
Soon the sounds of metal hitting metal was heard along with a few gasps of shock as a small group of people, all females, rushed out of a single large cage with shocked eyes as they started to look around for the one who threw the kunai.
But by the time they had done that, the ninja continued on his way, not bothering to be found out or talked to as he began to tree hop without a care in the world.
"Well, well, well Naruto-boy. Seems to me you have stealth down packed now-a-days don't you?" Asked a voice slightly above him, causing the red eyed teen to simply continue his hopping before coming upon the sight of the valley of the end.
Landing down onto the shodaime hokage's head with a silent thud, the black haired teen pulled down his face mask before giving a grin towards the dark brown coloured falcon that landed besides him.
"Really Taruchi? After a whole year training with you falcons and you still underestimate me? Am I that good that not even "the birds of prophecy" can find the "ninja" within any of their searches? Gotta say, I'm liking the feeling that I can hide from a stupid prophecy, it means I can decide my own fate you know." Replied Naruto, pulling out a small sliver of meat from his pouch before chucking it towards the dark brown falcon besides him, watching in amusement as the falcon caught the piece of meat effortlessly before swallowing it whole in a single gulp.
The bird gave a small scoff before turning his head away.
"Hah! It's because of you not being in any of our prophecy's that it means you aren't all that important brat! Just wait and see when the children of prophecy show themselves as the heroes of the world!" Squawked out the bird, causing the black haired, red eyed teen to simply give the bird besides him a blank look.
"I wasn't all that important, and yet I am still your summoner? Now what does that tell you?" Asked Naruto, gaining a small peck in the leg from the falcon as it narrowed its eyes at him.
How the summoning bird could do that, Naruto didn't have a single clue.
"Considering the blasted toads were already connected to the children of prophecy, it didn't exactly allow us to connect with them and have them as our summoners… Stupid pieces of meat…" Grumbled the falcon as it lowered its head slightly at the thought of a toad of all things being the summoners of the children of prophecy.
Preposterous! Only because of one toad being able to see the future they seem like gods among summons! Their entire upper portion of their clan could see the future to a better degree!
Seeing his summoning animal in despair caused the black haired teen to chuckle as he sat on the shodaime hokage's head with a grin as he listened to the sound of rushing water.
"You know… I probably would have never been able to grow so much without the knowledge the falcon clan had given me… So I really do appreciate it Taruchi." Spoke Naruto, drawing the falcon's attention as it got out of its depressed standing.
Turning its head up, the falcon simply gave the black haired teen a small grin.
"Don't worry about it Naruto-boy… It… Was interesting training you in things that not even the children of prophecy will learn. The most ironic thing about it that it's available to everyone, but one must re-create their chakra to do so." Replied Taruchi, causing the teen to simply give a small nod.
He wasn't unique. He was generic… But to other's he would seem special, unique.
Funny how that works doesn't it?
As the two sat there, the falcon turned its head up towards Naruto once more with a slight tilt of its dark brown head.
"How's the seal going? Is it functioning well?" Asked the falcon, gaining a small nod from Naruto as he pulled up his long black sleeve shirt over his head, exposing his chest and arms.
And sitting upon said chest, was a small image of a konoha symbol.
Pulling down his shirt once more, Naruto gave the bird a small nod.
"Yeah, the restriction seal is working… But why is it that I must limit myself to the strength and speed of my opponents? What does that exactly do except screw with my reaction time further?" Asked Naruto, mentally feeling the seal release itself as he wasn't in combat.
The bird simply gave the teen a blank look.
"I've already told you brat. Experience! What's the point of simply blitzing all your enemies within seconds of your battles if you had access to your actual speed and strength! You know since the removal of your chakra gates your body would continue to grow stronger and stronger the longer you train." Muttered the falcon, drawing a small irritated sigh from Naruto as he looked down towards his fist and clenching it, feeling his knuckles pop within his hand for a moment before releasing and relaxing.
"… It's kinda stupid losing my chakra gates you know… Sure my chakra is purely mine, but I lost a massive boost in power in the long run." Replied the teen as he laid down on his back, staring up towards the darkening sky with a blank look as his mind went over towards his own chakra supply.
During his time with the falcons, Naruto had been given information that would either change the world for the better… Or destroy the world to an even further extent should the children of prophecy turn rogue during their decisive moment.
He had learned not only that he had recreated his own chakra using the purest forms of both Yin and Yang energy, which were the two pools he had been swimming in when he was stuck in his mindscape, but in doing so he removed himself from "everyone" connected through the original link of chakra, the chakra passed down from Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the sage of the six paths.
And because of that, he basically was given a few advantages and disadvantages. The advantages were being able to spam his chakra at any moment and no-one noticing it, including chakra sensor's, but a massive disadvantage happened to be the loss of the eight gates that one could unlock and release more chakra from their bodies, allowing them to access power at the cost of their bodies.
Then there was his chakra being a completely different colour, well three different ones depending which technique he was using. Had he been using chakra that was more suited to being spiritual, aka genjutsu, his chakra would become a more silver-ish shade of white. But, like the opposite, should he be using more yang natured chakra, his energy would turn into a light orange colour. That also included healing techniques.
And when he was doing simple chakra techniques, his chakra would appear as a brilliant shade of pure white.
The falcon simply chuckled… Well, chuckled in a way that was more of a squawk, before pointing a single wing towards the teen.
"Bah! So what if you lost the gates! You are now possibly one of the strongest when it comes to terms of strength or speed… Well… Would be without the seal, I mean, with the training involving the separate energies we put you through, along with pushing the Yin-Yang training. You have nothing to complain about brat!" squawked the bird, causing Naruto to give said bird a dead eye.
"If you call throwing me into lava to strengthen my Yin-Yang energy, in which would then strengthen my "regeneration" then I think you birds have a few screws loose in the head." Replied Naruto with a slight wince as he remembered how much of a sadists the birds were…
Oh the dive-bombing, lava swimming and dismemberments… Sadistic motherfuckers…
Taruchi simply gave a bird version of a shrug.
"Well, at least it now allows you to determine the speed of your regeneration when using that separate yin-yang pool of yours." Replied the bird, causing Naruto to slowly raise his right hand towards the bird's neck, only for said bird to aim his wing at Naruto's raising hand.
Giving the teen a glare, the bird gained a dark grin.
"Do you want me to detach that hand of yours? I remember the odd comment from you saying that regenerating body parts still hurts." Replied the bird, causing Naruto's slowly moving hand to slowly lower itself down.
The two sat there for a while before the bird tilted his head towards Naruto once more.
"You're targets here you know…" Muttered the bird, causing the black haired teen to let out a small sigh before standing up.
Pulling up his face mask up once more, Naruto moved a hand towards his back before sending a small amount of chakra, causing a bow and a set of arrows to appear on his back.
Holding the bow in his right hand and pulling out an arrow with his left, Naruto aimed the arrow slightly before giving a strong tug… Before sending a minuscule amount of chakra into the arrow and letting it soar down towards the valley's floor.
Not a second later did Naruto see his target drop down onto the floor dead with an arrow piercing through the back of his head and exiting from the other side.
Shaking his head at the rather anti-climactic kill, Naruto sealed his bow and arrows back into the seal printed on his right shoulder blade before doing a flip and gliding down towards the ground bellow with a small skid from his landing.
Walking over the dead body, Naruto reached his hand down slightly before grabbing a slightly metallic looking object before sending a small burst of chakra into it, causing a rather weird looking yellow blade to appear from the odd looking hilt.
Raising his brow slightly, Naruto moved the sword a bit, listening to the hum it gave off before releasing the chakra in the blade, causing the yellow light to disappear.
Turning around slightly, Naruto gave the body a blank look before kicking it into the water of the river before walking towards his current destination.
Konoha.
(1 day later)
"Bored… Bored… Bored… I wonder how Kurama is doing. Old fox must have had a fizzy fit at losing the chance to lay down in my mindscape." Thought Naruto with a grin on his face as he walked down a grassy road without any care in the world.
Spinning the metallic object he collected from the missing Nin whose name was… Something… Naruto finally came upon the sight of konoha in all its glory.
"Show-time." Muttered Naruto with a grin as he channelled pure yin energy into his body before disappearing all together from anyone's sight.
Walking towards the gate guards, who couldn't see anything, Naruto walked over towards the entry form they had at the desk to the left before picking up a single pen and writing down the name "ninja" before placing the pen back down and continuing on his way inside the front gates, all with the two chunin guards none the wiser.
Continuing his straight path down the streets of konoha, Naruto gave people a grin as he watched some people walk through him without any notice and some staring directly at him and yet not being able to see nor sense him.
Ahhh, the gift of being able to use your yin energy's purest form… For over ten minutes anyway.
Shaking his head, Naruto crouched down slightly before jumping up onto the roofs of konoha's buildings before bouncing off buildings without a care in the world.
It didn't take all that long for Naruto to appear at the hokage tower, hell, it only took him two minutes of jumping before he phased through the hokage's office window before landing in a crouch.
Turning around, Naruto came upon an interesting sight of the hokage and his wife making out on the floor…
It was also at that moment that Naruto felt his respect for his leader drop slightly. But hey, from what he heard the yellow flash of konoha was usually stuck in his office every day without much spare time.
Shaking his head, Naruto walked through the duo making out before walking towards the hokage's desk.
Taking a seat, Naruto pulled out an empty sheet of paper and a pen before scribbling a small note and laying the blade of the thunder gods handle on the paper before walking out of the building in a leisurely way.
It wasn't till he was outside of the building that he heard the scream of the hokage and his wife as they found the piece of paper, which happened to be a picture of him and his wife passionately making out on the floor with a small message bellow saying "Yeah, so you were kinda busy and since I was in the office I thought of capturing the image in pen because of what I saw and stuff… Yeah, here's the nidaime hokage's lightning blade I retrieved… Have fun I guess – Ninja"
Hearing the scream, Naruto watched as a small group of anbu began to rush towards the hokage tower before the whole building feel silent as they entered through the hokage's window.
Letting out a loud laugh at the sudden silence, Naruto continued to jump around konoha before landing down at his old apartment.
Phasing his head down through the roof, Naruto could only come upon the sight of an empty apartment. And seeing as how it was empty, Naruto gave a small sigh before looking out towards his old training ground.
"Well… I guess I could re-make my wire launchers… And since konoha's barrier only sense's people once they enter, they won't catch me…" Spoke Naruto with a small grin on his face as he dashed off towards an alleyway before letting go of his yin energy, thus allowing his body to begin restoring his lost energy.
It would take a lot longer than chakra does, but still, the whole ghost like power's he gains from it was really amazing.
Walking out of the alley with a set of two blue eyes Naruto began to quickly push down the two horn like pieces of hair sticking up slightly.
"Just because I said the sage's pointy hair looked cool didn't mean I wanted a hair style that was a crossbreed of the yondaime's and his dammit!" Shouted Naruto internally as he finally managed to flatten the two pieces of hair that were now pointing forwards rather than upwards from his head.
Releasing a small sigh at that, Naruto continued his walk through konoha's populace before his eyes caught the sight of a lone ramen stand.
Raising an eyebrow, Naruto gave himself a grin before walking towards said ramen stand before entering it with a grin.
Seeing as how there was no-one currently within the stand, Naruto took a seat on one of the stools before placing a single hand to hold up his chin as he stared forwards, listening to the sound of a tap running from behind the wall that separated the kitchen and front.
This continued for a few minutes with Naruto simply trailing his eyes over the menu as he sat there silently.
"Oh! Hello there! I didn't hear you come in." Spoke a voice, breaking Naruto's attention from the menu as he gave the brown haired woman in front of him a small smile.
"Don't worry about it, I am known to be quite stealthy when I want to be." Replied Naruto with a small chuckle before giving the woman a grin. One of which was returned with a small smile and chuckle from said woman.
Ayame couldn't help but gaze towards the stranger as he sat there chuckling slightly before his blue eyes, similar to that of the yondaime's and his daughters, stare at her with a warm expression. An expression one would give to people they once knew and hadn't seen for a long time.
It felt kind of nice to be seen that way.
Shaking his head slightly and breaking out of his small chuckle, Naruto gave the woman behind the counter a small grin.
"Anyway, I would like to order two bowls of chicken ramen along with a miso thanks." Spoke Naruto, causing the woman to give a small nod as she raised a single arm and gripped her muscle with a small eye smile.
"OK! After all the years of having to feed the yondaime's family I should be done in about three minutes… With each bowl only taking a minute." Spoke Ayame passionately as she turned around and entered the kitchen where the sounds of machines being turned on rang throughout the shop.
And like promised, Naruto gained his first bowl of ramen in 60 seconds, which was then eaten in 10 seconds. Something that shocked Ayame as she delivered the second bowl, only to watch as the black haired teen devoured the second bowl before her eyes.
He could probably give the Namikaze twins a run for their money.
And once the third bowl of ramen was delivered, and devoured, Naruto released a small happy sigh of joy as he felt his stomach growling happily from the food.
Deciding to make some small talk with the woman, seeing as how she was the only one there aside from him, Naruto gave Ayame a small tilt of his head as his eyes caught the sight of a shirt near the back.
"So, you a fan of princess gale?" Asked Naruto with a tilt of his head, only to get a very fast nod from Ayame as she pulled out a stool from somewhere and sat directly across from Naruto with hearts within her eyes.
"Yes! She is absolutely amazing! Have you seen the newest movie? Princess gale: Return of the throne? Where they announced that she was actually the princess of a country? I think it was the spring/snow one! It was amazing! And the ending where the newest character "Ninja" appeared and saved the day with the fire ball thing he had in his hand that changed into a rainbow of colours! It was amazing!" Squealed Ayame as she thought about the ending of the movie with the "ninja" finishing off the evil guy, who was actually the princess's uncle.
Seeing the reaction of the woman in front of him, Naruto couldn't help but sweat drop as his mind went over towards two months ago where he helped said woman reclaim her throne.
So… They weren't actually lying about the whole princess of her own country thing… Was that why Koyuki could only sigh at him when she took the throne? Woops… His bad…
But hey! Now he could proudly say that he had a picture with a daimyo in his memory book… But sadly the picture entitled him being bed ridden without his gear on with Koyuki kissing him on the lips after passing out from his rather large use of Yang and Yin energy during the whole trip.
Why the lips, he never would know. But hey… At least she was hot…
After talking for a while with Ayame, Naruto gave the brown haired girl a small smile and wave before exiting from the stand, leaving her with her father who had appeared not long after their talk.
Walking through the village once more, Naruto couldn't help but release a small sigh as he felt a single shinobi seem to stare at him from behind.
Continuing his walk, not alerting the shinobi behind him that he caught onto them, Naruto moved towards a public bathroom before activating his yin release and walking out, watching as the shinobi stand across the roof seemed to wait in position.
Seeing that it happened to be a shinobi Naruto had actually known off, Naruto gave the man a small sigh before heading towards his training ground, leaving the scarecrow to stand in a single place for the next couple of minutes.
During his walk towards his training ground, Naruto MAY have been slightly curious to see where his "grave" was and so, walked towards the area where shinobi's were buried after they fell in battle.
Arrive at the place, Naruto released his yin release before walking around, reading all the names of those fallen before finally coming upon the sight of a large black stone with names chiselled on the piece… Before feeling a twitch within his eyes.
His name… Wasn't on anything… MOTHERFUCKERS!
Grumbling as he walked away, Naruto returned towards the direction of his training ground, all while muttering "Stopped a bijuu, blew up Danzo's base or at least one of them… Fucking teme's can't even write my name down on a grave…" Grumbled Naruto as he appeared at his old training ground, still looking as it had once he had repaired the place and cleaned it up.
Giving a grin at his former home away from home, Naruto did a small flip before splashing into the water below, enjoying how the water felt on his skin for a few moments before he jumped out of it and entered the mountain training section where he watched as the still pieces of training dummy's stood still.
Walking past said dummies towards his workbench, Naruto gave himself a small grin as he saw a large amounts of pieces scattered around his work table with a grin.
Moving towards the slightly dusty chair that sat in front of the table, Naruto sighed happily as he felt his body sink into the chair before releasing a small sigh.
"Ohhh yeah… I forgot how soft this chair was…" Muttered Naruto with a grin as he sat there…
"And you would know how?" Asked a voice slightly behind him, causing Naruto to blink as his mind began to clear itself out from all the memories flowing back into his head.
Turning in his seat slightly, Naruto could only blink in shock.
"Satsuki?"
And we have now hit 100,000 words for my first story with most of them hitting the 50-80 k range. Anyway, hope you enjoy the chapter and I shall be now writing up one chapter for a crossover seeing as how I got time. Laters people.