Naruto stared out into the waters as he rode a boat from Wave Country to The Land of Whirlpools. It is night time and he doubted that anyone would come after him anytime soon.
After Kakashi had fell over from his chakra exhaustion, Tazuna had led them to his house where his daughter and grandson stayed with him.
They arrived and met a woman named Tsunami and she quickly ushered them in and gave Kakashi a room to rest up.
Kakashi woke up soon after and got everyone to training on tree walking. It was about channeling chakra to the soles if your feet to cling to a surface. Too much and you will be blown off and too little you won't stick. They needed to find a balance between the two.
Sakura was the first to get the hang of it. She made it up to about a quarter if the tree before she got tired out. Sasuke and Naruto were struggling to get started but after calming down, Naruto eventually started to make process.
He tried to help Sasuke but all he got was an Uchiha grunt. Kakashi by this time had went back his bed to recover. Naruto had created some clones to help him get this down quicker. Sakura had gotten to the top of the tree but was winded as she was almost of out chakra. She had superior contol but less reserves than the boys.
Naruto made it up about three quarters of the way and Sasuke wasn't that far behind him. They had larger reserves but less control.
After a couple days, they had moved on to water walking which Naruto instantly dreaded yet looking foward to. He listened to Kakashi explain the difference between tree and water walking. After his sensei left, he created two hundred clones away from his teammates. He had one hundred work on the tree walking and the other hundred on attempting to water walk.
Since he couldn't touch still water, he decided to work on his 'ROOM' for the time being.
Later that night, Naruto and his team were enjoying dinner with Tazuna and his family. Inari, Tazuna's grandson, started to question their reasons and stating that they would die. He went on a tirade of how his life was the absolute worse and no one could understand him.
Naruto had snapped. What did this kid know about suffering? He had a house and family to love him. Food on the table to eat everyday and clothes on his back. Naruto voiced his thoughts and after he was done stormed out to 'blow off some steam.'
Inari ran off crying and Kakashi went to comfort him.
Soon after storming out, Naruto went and found a ship captain that would take him to the Land of Whirlpools and that is where we find him.
"Hey, kid. Were coming up to as far as I can take you. This island is surrounded by whirlpools hence the name." The captain said in a gruff voice. Naruto nodded and took a deep breath. He leaned out of the boat and tentatively put his foot onto the water surface and channeled chakra into the bottom of his foot. When he saw he didn't sink, he slowly gained confidence and placed the other foot down. He let go of the boat and stood on the water. 'Hey! I did it!' He mentally cheered.
'Yes. Great job. Now get going, meat bag. I'd rather not die because you're a hammer that ran out of chakra.' His tentant said impatiently.
'Geez. Calm down. You know my reserves are quite large for my age.' He said as he started to walk across the water and that slowly came up to a sprint.
Thirty minutes later, Naruto found himself staring at the ruins that used to be his ancestors homeland. "Whoa. What happened to this place?" He wondered out loud.
'The Second Shinobi War happened. Kiri, Iwa, and Kumo all attacked. They feared the Uzumaki and their prowess with sealing arts. They deemed too powerful to be left alone.' The fox said.
Naruto frowned at that bit of information but kept silent as he walked around and searched through the ruins. He came up to a building that looked a lot like the Hokage Tower in the Leaf Village. It looked like the rest of the village as it was falling apart and had holes in a lot of places.
Naruto walked into the tower and create ten clones. He sent them off to see if they could find anything. They nodded and sped off to search the destroyed village.
Naruto kept walking until he found something akin to the Hokage's office. He walked in and looked around found the place in disarray. He walked over to the wall with pictures on it like the Hokage's office. 'It seems that that the Leaf borrowed a lot of designs from here.'
'If that's true then there is a vault where precious items are stored in the basement. Like when you stole that scroll from the old man.' Kyuubi said. Naruto nodded and eyes widened a bit as a clone popped and he got the memories back. "I think I found it." He said as he walked out of the room.
As he arrived at the clone's last location, he saw a massive room and an equally large vault door. He took a closer look and saw that is had no lock mechanism. 'What the.. where's the lock?'
He walked up to the door and saw a series of seals. He put his hand onto the seals and pushed some chakra into it but nothing happened.
He pondered what else to do and it hit him. He bit his thumb and he swiped it across the center of the door. The door started to unlocks with sounds of moving mechanisms and slowly opened with a groan.
Naruto back out of the way and the door opened all the way. He saw a lot of money sitting around in piles and had some clones seal some into a couple scrolls. "Why is there so much money here?"
'I don't know. I overheard that the Uzukage had a sizable fortune and your mother was his daughter. Technically, you're not stealing. You're just taking what is rightfully yours. With this plus whatever you're parents left you in their bank accounts, you should be set for a pretty long time.' The fox said lazily as Naruto nodded dumbly.
He kept walking and he stopped when he saw a large scroll placed on a pedastal. He walked over to it and unrolled and saw that is had a few name written into it. "What is this?"
'Kit. That is a summoning contract. Your father had signed one with the toads. They can be very powerful. Not as powerful as the Great Kyuubi-sama but still powerful to you humans.'
Naruto sweatdropped towards the end of the Kyuubi's explanation. "What animal is it and do I just sign?"
The Kyuubi sighed. 'I think you sign your name in blood and place your fingerprints on the scroll. Draw some blood then go through the handseals: Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram. Slam your hand on the ground and push chakra through it. The amount of chakra you push in will determine the summon that comes out. The more chakra, the larger the summon, I believe.'
Naruto just blinked, "How did you know all that?"
Kyuubi snorted, 'Silly human. I am the Great Kyuubi! I know all! AndIsawyourfatherdoitbefore.' He quickly whispered out.
Naruto smirked at the fox but said nothing else on the matter. He bit his index finger and signed his name and put his fingerprints by his name in blood.
He bit his thumb and went through the handseals, 'Stop, kit! Not in such a small space, baka! We don't know how much chakra you will put in even with your upgraded chakra control. You could summon as small as a tadpole or as huge as a mountain.' The Kyuubi reasoned and Naruto rubbed his head sheepishly.
"Hehe whoops."
The Kyuubi snorted at its host moment of stupidity. Naruto continued to search through the room after he put the summoning scroll on the small of his back. He kept walking and looking around and picking up and examining things. He stopped when he laid his eyes on a sword. He would've kept moving but it was as if the sword was calling him towards it.
He looked at it and saw it was a katana that had a black sheathe with a red line where the blade should be. It had a red string wrapped around the sheathe. The hilt was wrapped in all black wraps. He picked up the sword gingerly and unsheathed it. The blade was a double edged katana that was pitch black with red edges. He got an ominous feeling from the sword as he swung it around. He looked down and saw a black book.
He picked up the book and dusted it off. The title read: "Art of the Black Blade: Legacy of Dracule Mihawk."
"Dracule Mihawk?" Naruto tried the name out. He opened the book and started to skim over the words written down. His eyes widened when he read this Mihawk was once a pirate and the World's Strongest Swordsman before he was defeated by someone named Ronoroa Zoro. He left behind some notes on his style of swordsmanship. He also said tha this style's true power could only be unlocked by the use of his sword, Yoru.
"Hm. Doesn't necessarily mean I can't use this style. Maybe I'll find his sword. He didn't say where he left it." Naruto mused as he put the book away and continued to walk looking at jutsu scrolls here and there. He saw two other books and they were white and silver. "History of Whitebeard by Edward Newgate. Finished by Marco the Phoenix?" He said looking at the white book with a skull and bones in a cross formation. The skull had a grin with a large white beard.
"Turning the World Upside Down: Story of the First Pirate King by Silvers Rayleigh."
He put the books with the one he got from Mihawk and continued to walk.
-Outside the Uzukage Tower-
Naruto continued to look through the vault but he only found some notes on some sealing that caught his eye.
He was currently standing before the tower. 'Alright let me try this out.' He hit his thumb and flipped through the summoning seals and slammed his hand on the ground. Seals spread out from under his hand and there was a huge plume of smoke.
After the smoke cleared he saw a huge black bear. It towered over him and a bit taller that the Uzukage building. The bear had a huge slash scar across it's chest and it had a gold trimmed white vest over it upper body. It had a massive war hammer strapped to its back. The hammer had an oak handle and its actual hammer head was kind of jagged with the four points it had. It looked like anything hit with it would cease to exsist and just splatter everywhere. The back of the hammer head came together until a point and one side looked bladed for dual use.
The bear looked around confused before it narrowed its eye and glared at Naruto, "You dare summon the Chief of the Bear Clan?! Who are you and tell me why I shouldn't strike you down where you stand!" The bear roared out.
Naruto looked nervous at the thought of getting hit with that hammer. "M-My name is Naruto Uzumaki."
The bear let out a chuckle, "Haha! You an Uzumaki?! Kid, my clan have fought with the Uzumaki for countless years. Uzumaki are known for their red hair and you are clearly blonde. Come to think of it, how did you even get the scroll? Last I heard it was locked up in the Uzukage's vault." The bear said dangerously as it reached for its hammer.
"I-I tried pushing chakra into the seal of the vault but it didn't work so I used my blood and it worked." Naruto quickly explained. The bear stopped reaching for its hammer and looked at Naruto with a blank face.
"Only the blood of a royal Uzumaki could unlock that vault. Who were your parents?" The bear asked.
"Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki." Naruto responded.
The bear eyes widened in recognition, "Ah the young princess of the Uzumaki. She was the Uzukage's daughter and was sent to the Leaf Village." He looked back to Naruto and saw some features of the old Uzukage in him. 'There's something off about this brat. Let me give him the test.'
"Alright, kid. Just because you are of royal Uzumaki blood doesn't mean we will serve you. You need to pass a small test." The bear said and Naruto didn't catch the glint in its eye.
"What's the test?" Naruto asked. The bear grabbed the massive hammer from its back and held it in paws. "Survive this and we will talk." It said before it swung the hammer towards a shocked Naruto.
Naruto was panicking and saw his life flash before his eyes. 'Kit, concentrate! You have the power to destroy entire landmasses at your fingertips! Use it!' The Kyuubi yelled out mentally.
Naruto shook his head and reared his hand back. A white orb surrounded his hand and he slammed it forward in the middle of the hammer spikes. Everything still for a few seconds and then the reaction happened.
Behind the bear chunks of the ground was unearth and thrusted away but the bear stood strong. 'This boy. No one has ever just struck at my hammer. Even more so he did it to a stalemate.'
Behind Naruto the winds from the hammer blew into the Uzukage building and destroyed what was left of it. 'What is with this bear?! I thought the Gura Gura no mi would overpower his hammer.' He thought as he saw cracks appeared from where he struck the hammer but it didn't break.
'You don't have as much control over that fruit as you think, kit. Without control that power is not as useful, you'd be just a walking earthquake machine. You have some control yes but to beat an opposing force such as this isn't possible for you at the moment. I'm actually surprised that you're in a stalemate right now.' The Kyuubi said.
'You're the one who suggested this!' Naruto yelled back.
'It was either this or let you get hit and die, so shut up!'
Naruto was thrown back away from the bear in to the rubble that was the Uzukage building after letting his power drop and the winds carried him. It was a comical sight to the bear and and the demon fox.
The bear hefted its hammer up and whistled, "Damn brat cracked my hammer. Ben ain't gonna like this." The bear said. It reached over to Naruto and picked him up.
"Okay, kid. You passed my test. You can now summon us and we will help you." The bear said. Naruto smiled and bowed to the bear. "Thank you..uh.."
"My name is Theodore but call me Ted." The now named Ted answered.
Naruto sweatdropped, "Um..okay Ted. My name is Naruto Uzumaki!" He said.
"Hmm you told me that already but tell me Naruto, how did you stop my hammer? Most people just jump away but there was there this one brat who jumped and stuck to my hammer." He grumbled the last part.
"Oh I used my Devil Fruit power." He explained as if it was obvious.
Ted's eyes widened a bit, "Did you say Devil Fruit? Which one did you eat?"
Naruto grew curious, "There are more of them? And I ate two of them: The Ope Ope no mi and the Gura Gura no mi."
Ted's eyes widened even more, almost threatning to pop out of his head. "You ate two?! How are you alive?!"
"I have the Kyuubi sealed in my gut and he kept me alive." Naruto explained.
"So you're a jinchūriki, eh? I guess that explains it." Ted said as he rubbed his head with his other paw then a look of realization crossed his face.
"Did you say you at the Ope Ope fruit?" He said with a blank face.
"Um yeah..why?" Naruto said before he and Theodore disappeared in a poof of smoke.
-Summoning Realm-
Ted and Naruto reappeared in a giant forest not unlike the one that surrounds the Leaf Village. Naruto looked around and saw that there were caves located within the forest from what he could see.
"Where are we?" Naruto asked.
"We are in the home of the Bear Clan." Theodore said as he let out a roar and bears of many sizes started to scurry of the caves and forest and surrounded the giant black bear.
"We have a new summoner!" He bellowed and the bears let out a collective roar. "He survived the test and even has eaten a special Devil Fruit." He said and the bears quieted down.
"Where is Little Bepo?" Ted asked and a small panda bear in a black jumpsuit walked out in the front of the gathered bears.
"Little Bepo fetch that book for me."
The panda's eyes widened but quickly scurried off and came back with yellow book. The giant boss summon picked up the little book between his claws and handed it to Naruto.
"This is the journal of one Trafalgar D. Water Law. He was the captain of The Heart Pirates and quite the threat because of the fruit you ate." He said as the bears gasped.
"Y-You mean.." A golden bear stuttered out.
"Yes, this boy has eaten the Ope Ope no mi. The same fruit as our ancestor's former captain." Theodore answered and they looked at Naruto with wide eyes.
Ted looked back towards Naruto, "The one to start this clan was the navigator on the Heart Pirates' ship. We are all descendants of Bepo with Little Bepo being a direct descendant, his great-great-great-great grandson, I think."
"That book there contains all of Law's information on the fruit and his adventures."
"Why did he give it to Bepo?" Naruto asked.
"Most people don't know this but the Uzumaki were a wandering clan before they settled in the Land of Whirlpools. They often seen and collected a lot of things. They got the Bear Summoning Contract soon after Bepo made it. They had also found the Ope Ope no mi but they refused to eat it for some reason. Beop obtained the book from the first mate in hoped to give it the consumer of the fruit if it was ever eaten again. It never happened as the fruit was kept in the vault and passed through the generations. That is until you found and ate it." An elderly bear said.
This bear had glasses that rested on its snout. It was a little large and it had gray colored fur. It was holding a sledgehammer with the hammer end being on the ground and it looked to be supporting it's weight a bit. It had a white cloak on its shoulder held together with a res string, on the back was a kanji for "Kuma" inside a circle.
"That's Elder Gobi. He's been around for awhile."
Naruto nodded dumbly and was whacked upside the head by the elderly bear which suddenly appeared in Theodore's palm with him. He grabbed his head and glared at the old bear.
"Ow! What the hell, bear?!" Naruto yelled out.
"You didn't bow before me. How disrespectful. I am your elder and a Hiking Bear. Time for punishment."
"Um..Elder? Naruto didn't know what species or your customs, you can't punish him for it." Theodore said.
"Oh yeah?! Just watch me!" He said as he went towards Naruto. Naruto started to run away from the bear. "Oi, Ted! Send me back to the Wave!"
Ted chuckled, "No can do. We don't have a summon point there. Best I can do send you back to Uzukage Tower."
"Whatever! Just get me away from this crazy geezer!" Naruto said before he disappeared in a plume of smoke. The elder glared up to the black bear. "Well since he can't get punishment, you'll take it for him. Assume the position!"
"What?! Thay isn't how it works, you old fart!"
"Assume the position!"
Theodore begrudgingly sat in the Traditional Japanese sitting position. "Your hour starts..Now!" He said as he flipped a hourglass upside down to start time.
-Uzukage Tower-
Naruto appeared and sighed. "At least that bear isn't chasing me anymore."
He heard a plume of smoke and an added weight to his head. He looked up and saw a small black cub mixed up in his golden locks.
"Um..hello."
"Hi! My name is Jan and Papa said that I'm your personal summon now! Let's have lots of fun okay?!" She chirped out.
Naruto just smiled at her and nodded a bit so not to knocked her off. She was kind of big for his head and wouldn't fit in a couple months but he woud deal with it for now.
He looked up and saw that it was still night time and he needed a way to get back to the Wave.
'You could use throw a kunai and substitute with it for a while. It was a version of the Flying Thunder God before your father finished the technique. You could water walk once you get close enough.' The Kyuubi suggested.
Naruto nodded, "Hey, Jan. I'm going back to my team. I'll summon you when I reach the land, okay?"
The cub nodded happily, "Okay! Just get me a fish or some berries when you summon me." She said before she disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Naruto went to the water and started to walk on it before taking off to gain some speed. He threw a kunai and waited for three seconds and then replaced himself with it. "Hmm. I guess that really worked." He muttered to himself.
'Of course it worked!'
Naruto rolled his eyes and focused on getting back to the Wave. He was going to be low on kunai for this mission but he needed to get back.
-End-
Shoutout to devanta1 for giving me the idea of the Bear Clan summoning among some other things in this chapter like Bepo being the ancestor of the Bear Clan and Naruto finding Whitebeard's and Rayleigh's journals.
I had a hard time in finding good bear names. Theodore is named after Theodore Roosevelt and the black bear he refused to shoot in a tree. Jan is named after an author of the Bernstein Bears books. The elder is a bear that the Straw Hats meet when they are climbing the mountain to fins the doctor when Nami got sick.
Review please.