AN: Hey people's how's it going? Good I hope. Anyways I just wanted to say to all the awesome and fantastic people who followed and favorited and reviewed this story I just wanted to say thanks is all. The fact that all these people like or at least find this story decent enough to read and enjoy makes me so happy, and I just wanted to say to everyone out there who is thinking about writing a story and are thinking "I probably suck at writing" or other reasons I'm saying just fucking go for it. I didn't think people would like my stuff but now I have over 200 follows and favorites. You never know if you never try and writing is relaxing and helps you with your typing.
Now I feel as though I need to clear some things up, Minato does not hate Naruto. Naruto is his son and he loves him, it's just that he sometimes forgot about Naruto due to Natsuki being a jinchuriki. This is also not a bash fic but Minato will have the tiniest of bashing, very small and it will be done by Naruto. Now why Kushina forgave Minato so quickly will be explained in the future confrontation between Naruto and Minato. Also questions on whether or not Naruto will use more his sword than jutsu or if Naruto is going to be a jutsu spammer will be shown in the following content you are about to read which is basically going through Naruto's five years with Mifune and the start of his three years abroad before his return. So let's get to it, and remember as always.
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Chapter 4: Training and a Journey
First year of training
Currently our hero was running some laps around Mifune's compound while also wearing weights with only twenty pounds attached to each of his legs. He could go heavier but Mifune says he doesn't want to stunt his growth so this year will mainly be about conditioning and getting his body ready for the heavier tort- training to come.
Finishing his laps Naruto quickly began doing some push-ups before transitioning into sit ups and various other physical exercises. Thirty minutes later Naruto stopped as he felt a familiar chakra signature approaching.
"Naruto-kun over the past year you have done exceptionally well, and even though you don't wish to adopt a bushido and instead a nindo. I am happy to be able to say that I taught the man who I know will one day go down in history as the world's greatest swordsman." Said Mifune with pride evident in his voice.
"Thank you for giving me this opportunity to train under you Mifune-sensei, and I am sorry but I am a loyal citizen to Konoha and I hope to one day become a ninja so that I may protect her and its people." Said Naruto sincerely.
"Yes it is understandable being a ninja is in your blood. On the plus side thanks to you being an Uzumaki that allows you to train more than a normal ninja. So that means that we are now going to increase the number of laps and the speed of how quickly you will complete them, so get to it."
Groaning Naruto started to run more laps now sprinting.
"DODGE!"
Was all the warning Naruto got before diving out of the way of an arrow that had almost pierced his midsection. Looking over at Mifune he noticed a large long bow, that wasn't there before, in his hands.
"What the hell was that sensei?!" yelled Naruto.
"Oh we are also going to increase your agility and reaction time with evasive training. Also I will no longer yell dodge so that means we will also be training your ears to be able to hear even the faintest of noises." Said Mifune with a large grin, before notching another arrow.
"I love being able to train a ninja, I can't do this with my samurai." Thought Mifune, his grin widening hearing Naruto curse as an arrow was able to give him a rather deep gash on his back.
"Oh yes, so much more entertaining than training samurai." After seeing Naruto drop to the ground and curse even louder.
Second Year of Training
Naruto now a little older dodged a leg that was aiming to take his head off, before taking out his sword and blocking a slash to his midsection. Back flipping over a leg sweep Naruto came down with an axe kick that connected to the helmet of one of his sparring partners efficiently taking him out of the running before turning swiftly blocking a sword slash to the back and sliding Senbonzakura down the length of the opposing blade and disarming his opponent, placing his zanpaktou at his opponent's neck before his attention was brought to the sight of a clapping Mifune.
"Congratulations Naruto-kun everyday your skill in taijutsu and kenjutsu improve every day. Now that means we are going to increase your weights and raise the number or opponents to three instead of two." Said Mifune.
"Also how has your academic studies been going?" asked his sensei.
"They've been going good, I find calligraphy to be the easiest and the most relaxing." Replied Naruto.
"It must be due to the fact that you are an Uzumaki, in that case I should get you some books about the art of sealing." Said Mifune.
"I would like that very much sensei, I have been curious about seals ever since I saw my mother working on them in her as she calls it "scroll of ideas" they seem to be very interesting." Said Naruto thinking back to when he and his mother were inseparable.
Walking over to Naruto Mifune couldn't help but ask the question that has been on his mind since taking Naruto on as his apprentice.
"Do you hate them?" asked Mifune quietly.
Naruto looked at him with a mask of stoicism before his face adopted a softer look.
"No, I could never hate my mother, I just couldn't. We were always very close but after Natsuki began to show the ability of accessing her chakra we began to drift. My father on the other hand, always had a closer bond to Natsuki. He loved me like a father should and I like to think he still does but I am very angry with my father. When I return to Konoha I am going to challenge him to a fight. Even if I don't win I'm still going to show him without his or my mother's training I still grew strong." Said Naruto, a fire igniting in his eyes.
Mifune smiled at his answer, he was happy that Naruto didn't hate his parents and instead drove to just prove to them that he had just as much if not more potential than his sister.
"Will you try to rejoin the clan and get back your clan head status?" asked Mifune with genuine curiosity.
"No, I will let my sister have the position of clan head and instead revive the Uzumaki clan in honor of my fallen ancestors and family." Said Naruto.
Ending the conversation there Mifune instructed Naruto on the next stage of his training.
Third Year of Training
We come across our hero sitting under a tree meditating. Small woodland creatures are gathered around him as he seemed to be in a deep trance. Surprisingly in his lap was a fox that had decided that Naruto's lap was a good place for a nap. Not that he would notice as he was currently busy with other things.
In Naruto's Soulscape
Currently Naruto is sparring with Senbonzakura so that Naruto can master what Senbonzakura calls shikai or the initial release of his sealed state. So the only way Naruto will be able to master his sword and achieve the second and final release of his zapaktou he would need to master his shikai before being able to use the full potential of his sword.
Naruto and Senbonzakura were standing away from each other across a pond that was near the sakura tree in his soul scape. The blossoms of Senbonzakura floating around both of them before they each sent out a wave of the deadly blades to collide and attempt to overpower the other.
"You're getting better Naruto, before I used to be able to just barrel right through your defense." Complimented Senbonzakura.
"Thanks to you zakura, you're a great teacher? Hey, have you ever had another owner?" asked Naruto now only barely straining to hold back Senbonzakura.
Ignoring the nickname Senbonzakura began to lessen his attack before sighing and sitting down.
"You're going to want to sit down for this." Said Senbonzakura.
Cocking his head to the side in confusion at his behavior Naruto sat down nonetheless.
"Many years ago and in a different reality all together lived a man who went by the name of Byakuya Kuchiki. He was a part of that reality's heaven, and a part of group of souls who were blessed by the Soul King, or Shinigami here, to be able to use zanpaktou. Meaning that he was my previous and first wielder. A man by the name of Genryuusai Yamamoto started a group known as the thirteen court guards of seritei. My previous wielder was one of the captains, the captain of squad six, he was a prodigy in the arts of zanjutsu, kenjutsu here, hoho, taijutsu here, and kido, ninjutsu here.
Hence he was very powerful and in many ways how you are right now reminds me of him when he was younger. The Soul King being summoned by your father to seal the two halves of the kyuubi into your mother and sister, sensed you and saw your future potential. So he decided to bless you with the ability of being able to use zanpaktou and even he didn't know which of zanpaktou would be best paired with you.
As you most likely realized I was the best choice for you, but as well as another but he decided to instead gift you the knowledge of one his techniques called getsuga tensho. Once you have mastered my shikai I will teach you the technique. So in a ways yes I have taught another before, he was someone I knew for a very long time and I was greatly saddened when his time came, but now I am with you and I no longer feel the sadness that once filled me. For that I thank you and I hope that the power you were gifted will be used wisely." Finished Senbonzakura.
Naruto couldn't help but look stare at Senbonzakura, before asking, "Could you show me what Byakuya looked like?"
Concentrating Senbonzakura's form shimmered for a second before his appearance changed into that of Byakuya Kuchiki.
Byakuya was six foot even and had short neck length straight black hair similar to Naruto's own only a different color and shorter with a strand falling over his nose. In his hair was a hair piece that seemed to be very expensive. His face was pale with sharp features, and with coal black eyes. His facial expression was cool and aloof.
He was dressed in a black shikaksho with a white obi and white socks with tabi shoes on his feet. Over his shikaksho was an open sleeveless high collard white haori with gold trim on the collar and the trim of the haori, a gold tassel hung on the ends of the collar on each side. On the hem line of the haori was a line, dot, line pattern following all around the hem line. On his hands seemed to be grayish white gloves that covered his palms and the back of his hands stopping an inch below his elbow.
All in all Naruto couldn't help but think how freaking cool he looked. He decided that when he was older he would model his attire after Byakuya and cut his hair to match. Except he would do away with the baggy clothing and go with something more appropriate for ninja wear.
"Thank you for showing me what Byakuya looked like zakura. Also how would you feel if I copied his wardrobe and hair style to honor my predecessor?" asked Naruto.
"I have no issues with this and I feel as though Byakuya would've been flattered by it." Answered Senbonzakura.
Smiling Naruto dodged a couple of blossoms before he had to block a sword slash from Senbonzakura.
"Now I feel that you've had enough of a break, it's time to get back to training." Said Senbonzakura.
Fourth Year of Training
A now twelve year old Naruto stood before seven samurai as he gazed at them before blowing some of his now neck length crimson hair out of his face. His amethyst eyes narrowing at seeing his opponents settle into the traditional samurai kenjutsu stance.
Hearing the sound of armor move behind him took Naruto's attention away from the rest of his opponents making him rely on his sensor ability moved to intercept his enemy using a new technique that Senbonzakura called Shunpo, or flash step, right now it's only as fast a 'Shunshin Shisui's' shunshin. If he wanted to surpass his father and Byakuya, who he learned was famous for having one of the highest masteries of the technique, then he would need to make it faster.
Flash stepping behind two of the samurai Naruto made quick work of them before unsheathing his sword to engage in a quick kenjutsu match against the two more of them before having to dodge multiple sword strikes that came behind him.
Lifting his arm Naruto muttered "Bakudo: Byakurai." Before a shot of pale white lightning shot out of his fingertips hitting one of the samurai in the chest, he had lowered the power of the attack so that he wouldn't accidentally kill him. Naruto stared with a cold look of indifference, before he brought his sword up to his face turning the blade so that the flat side was showing.
"Chire, Senbonzakura." Said Naruto.
The samurai couldn't help but stare at the beautiful spectacle of seeing Naruto's zanpaktou disperse into what looked like beautiful cherry blossoms. That quickly passed because as they have come to learn these blossoms are actually razor sharp blades that could slice you to ribbons if you are not careful. Seeing Naruto begin to move they were instantly on edge, looking around nervously they couldn't help but feel anxious.
What they didn't see is that Naruto had made a regular bunshin and had shunpoed behind them taking some of Senbonzakura so that he could surround them. One of the samurai became impatient and rushed the non-moving shinobi in training and was soundly surprised when his sword slash went right through him. The samurai near the back of the group instantly tensed when he noticed that laying at his and his comrades feet were those dreadful blossoms.
"Guys? Yeah look down." Said the samurai.
The rest of the group confused with the request looked down and groaned before they all turned around and saw the actual Naruto standing there inwardly smirking. Seeing that they all sheathed their swords they began to pick up the rest of their beaten comrades and decided to walk away with their heads held tall, after getting beat by a twelve year old boy.
Turning around Naruto looked at Mifune who had just arrived and smiled at him.
"Impressed?" He asked.
"Quite, you have even surpassed my expectations and have mastered all that I could teach you, now knowing that what would you like to do?" asked Mifune.
"I have decided to stay here for another year and hone my skills and continue sparring with you. This also gives me a good and safe place to practice my ninjutsu and kido and also increase my proficiency in the taijutsu my mother was teaching me. Also how did you even get a copy of the Uzumaki clan's fighting style anyways?" Said Naruto.
"Well it's nice knowing that you will be here for another year, and to answer your question some of the Uzumaki came here long ago and gave us the scrolls but since they needed Uzumaki blood to open and read them we just kept them. Also how many of those kido do you know now?" asked Mifune.
"I know ten hado and twenty bakudo, and I can use kaido now. While lightning is my only chakra affinity, and it's actually quite strong, kido is just manipulating spirit energy into what needs to be done, and that's why you will sometimes see me using kido that utilize fire or wind. My ninjutsu is limited to what academy students know and while I know what my affinity is none of the bandit camps that I have raided have any scrolls that would teach me how to use my affinity, though I do have a good number of lightning jutsu scrolls now." Said Naruto.
Nodding Mifune finally asked another question he has been wondering, "And how goes your, shikai? Training going?" he asked.
Naruto nodded and answered, "I will have my shikai completely mastered in another three months."
"Good now come my apprentice, we have much sparring to do, I would like to see how well I stack up to you going all out." Said an excited Mifune.
Last Year of Training: The Departure
Naruto, now thirteen years old was walking down the road out of Iron country. He had finally mastered his shikai and all that Mifune had to teach him, he also now knew twenty five hado and thirty bakudo and was much more proficient in kaido. He also was now a level six in fuinjutsu and had a knack for making unique seals.
The zanpaktou wielding red head also has almost mastered the Uzumaki taijutsu and just needed to learn a couple new kata and needed more experience. To finish off his training with shikai Senbonzakura also taught him getsuga tensho and he had found the technique to be one of his favorites.
Naruto also kept his hair short like Byakuya and even got the same hair piece made. Naruto has also grown to the impressive height of 5' 7" tall for his age like his father once was. Naruto also had decided that he would return to Konoha in about 3 or 4 more years, now he just needed to make a name for himself and gain experience. Mifune also said that he gauged Naruto's overall strength around high chunnin, low jonin.
Right now Naruto was wearing black shinobi sandals, and black shinobi pants with the ankles wrapped in crimson medical tape tucking in the pants. A black shirt with a crimson cherry blossom flower in the middle covered his torso. A crimson mid collard jacket with three thin black stripes going down the sleeves covered him. A black Uzumaki swirl on the back, two crimson belts crossing like an X held Senbonzakura on his right hip. While he was ambidextrous he seemed to favor his left hand a little more. Also if someone were to lift his left sleeve they would see a black cherry blossom flower tattoo on the inner forearm, which also doubled as a seal so that he could seal Senbonzakura in it when he entered other shinobi villages. The clothes were a gift from Mifune as well as permanent citizenship in the land of Iron should he ever consider coming back.
Smiling Naruto continued on his way and mentally planned where he would go first.
Two Months later
It has been two months since Naruto has left Iron Country and so far he had started making a name for himself as a bounty hunter and someone who has been eradicating bandit camps and the few who have ever seen how it was done he has now earned the nick names, The Crimson Flash and The Crimson Blossom, though he favored the second one much more than the first one.
Right now our hero was sitting in a tavern somewhere in the land of the rice patties sipping sake, a vice he had adopted from Mifune and the other samurai. He was just sitting there listening to everything that was going on around him, lately he has heard a lot of chatter from the area that the recently founded Sound Village has decided to invade Konoha and that was something he was not going to permit.
"Hey Sora, are you ready to finally wipe those tree huggers off the face of the Earth?" asked one very drunk sound ninja to another equally drunk sound shinobi.
"Hell yeah Ikaku it's gonna be fucking great! I can already see that damn village burning to the ground!" said Sora laughing loudly.
"Hey Sora when is the invasion again?" asked Ikaku after downing another shot of sake.
"Y-you idiot! We are attacking in one month during the finals of the chunnin exams. So shut up already and drink." Berated Sora.
Had anyone noticed after Sora finished his sentence they would have noticed a certain red head gone and money left on the table.
"Well it seems I am going to make a quick stop at home before continuing this journey of mine." Thought Naruto jumping from roof to roof.
"Maybe I'll get to see Sakura-chan before I leave again, I wonder if she still remembers me?" was the last thing Naruto thought before concentrating on getting back to help his village.
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AN: HOLY SHIT THAT WAS THE LONGEST CHAPTER I HAVE EVER WRITTEN! OKAY PEOPLE I KNOW THAT THIS WAS KIND OF A BORING CHAPTER BUT THE NEXT TWO ARE GOING TO BE ACTION PACKED!
SO WHAT DID YOU ALL THINK OF GIVIING NARUTO GETSUGA TENSHO? I HOPE NONE OF YOU ARE MAD AT THAT. NOW REMEMBER PEOPLE READ, REVIEW, RECOMMEND, AND AS ALWAYS.
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