I deleted the old version of the chapter and reposted a new one since I did some major changes. Not to the whole chapter but certain parts of it. Want to let all of you know that this takes like nine years later so this chapter will be like the beginning of the Wave Arc from the series. My reason is because I figured that it would be better just to get to the part where the more exciting stuff happens. Also since it's a massive timeskip there will be other Shinigami with only a few of them knowing Bankai and that Naruto will be two years older then the other Rookies so he's like fourteen right now. Don't worry there will be brief summaries of what happened during the timeskip so don't get all confused. You can only get confused if I want you too (hehehe). Anyway without further delay read, review and enjoy!
(Nine Years Later, deep within the forest of Konoha, near the village's outskirts, the Uzumaki Temple now Shinigami Headquarters/Compound)
Fourteen year-old Naruto Uzumaki woke up from his bed, letting out a yawn and stretching his arms too. He looked at one of the two windows in his bedroom for the past nine years. Even now he still had to admit that it gave him a good view of the large forest area of Konoha. As he did his mind once more went back to how his new life started.
Nine years ago when he awakened his Shinigami powers, along with his Zanpakuto and his ancestor's memories, Naruto knew he had a lot of work to do. Fortunately he had his Zanpakuto spirit Zangetsu and his jiji and Ichigo's memories, Naruto was able to get things done on his list very quickly with the first bit being setting up a compound for himself and other Shinigami. The place he chose was none other then the Uzumaki Temple, with Naruto's reasons being that it was large enough to house several people since it was the same place where Kushina stayed before she married Minato (Yes Naruto now knew everything of his heritage including the Kyuubi, though he did yell at his jiji for lying to him. The Hokage just took it since he knew he had it coming). The second reason was because its where Naruto discovered his Zanpakuto and felt that it would be a symbolic place for future Shinigami to live.
However it wouldn't be until he was eight when he was able to move the large facility into the village since the Hokage didn't want Naruto live in the outskirts of the village. Thankfully Naruto was now able to live in the mansion his parents use to live in and during the two years he lived there Naruto managed to discover and quickly learn his father's fame technique the Hirashin. With four of the three-pronged kunai and memories of Kido Spells Naruto got from Ichigo's memories (Guess his ancestor had a pretty good memory)
Naruto managed to create a barrier around the temple and teleport it next to his parent's mansion, which while in the village's walls, was deeper within the large forest of the village, most likely for privacy like a lot of other rich people in Konoha do. That and it would be better from having unwanted eyes on him, though Naruto would have to place up some security seals in order too ensure privacy. Later on Naruto had come up with the crazy idea to reconstruct and merge the mansion and the temple together so that way Naruto and his fellow Shinigami would have a larger space to live in. He was thinking of this idea while inside the temple after teleporting it.
But to the surprise of not just Naruto but the Sandaime Hokage as well, the next morning both buildings had merged together, while the former was sleeping inside the mansion. He hadn't felt any movement at all during the night and yet when he woke up he found himself in a different, single and larger house. After calling his jiji and an hour or two of exploring Naruto and Hiruzen discovered that the material used to create the temple were from the Shodaime Hokage's Mokuton combined with modification seals created by his wife and the Kyuubi's first jinchuuriki Mito Uzumaki. Modification seals were seals that could modify a single room or an entire building to the needs of the person who made the seal or anyone related too the person, such as Naruto being related to Mito, the woman being his great grandaunt. The Uzumaki clan, being masters at fuinjutsu, were able too take this seal to a whole new level such as what happened with the temple and mansion. The latter also had modification seals courtesy of Naruto's parents. The seals in the temple reacted to Naruto's plan while he was inside of it and merged with the mansion, with said mansion having the same seals thus making the merge all the more successful. Either way it only meant that Naruto had a larger place for him and other Shinigami too live, not that he minded.
While all this was happening Hiruzen was working on explaining Naruto's new powers. This was in order too avoiding massive panics or civilians and idiotic shinobi trying to kill Naruto out of bias fear. He would explain to the populace of the large black energy that was felt was a result of Naruto awakening his 'bloodline' as it was decided to be called and a few details that would be altered to a degree. Hiruzen and Naruto agreed too leave out the part of Zangetsu having a spirit. The Hokage, Naruto and the council and a few others if necessary under heavy penalties would only know about said topic until a safer time.
Back in the present a more or less dressed Naruto was busy brushing his teeth and mentally planning out his day. While gurgling some water he heard a knock at his door. Doing a quick spit Naruto said, "Come in"
The door opened and walking in was a man who looked like he was in his mid twenties. He was a little bit taller then a man of his age would be and had tan skin and a calm look on his face. Both his hair and eyes were brown, with the former being unruly and going down to his neck, covered his ears, the right side of his face while the rest of it, mostly the left side, was left uncovered. His attire consisted of a long wide sleeve zippered black jacket with a mesh shirt and black shirt underneath the jacket, which was a little bit open at the top. At the bottom of his body he wore matching black pants with white bandages at his ankles and bottom leg with black sandals. Over the jacket was a white cloak that had long sleeves and a short collar. On the back of the cloak was the Gotei symbol, which Naruto decided to use as the Shinigami clan's symbol. The last bit was a sword strapped to his waist with a robust hexagonal shaped tsuba and a black leather wrapped handle. And while his stance appeared calm his aurora was letting out nothing but power; not as great as Naruto's but still formidable.
"Naruto-sama, the Hokage has sent a Jigokucho saying he needs too speak with you." The man said in a polite and formal voice.
Naruto stepped out of the bathroom after getting dressed. His attire was similar too the man's except that his white cloak had no sleeves thus revealing his black jacket's sleeves and his dual Zanpakuto strapped too his back. "Thank you Kaiso I'll head there after having breakfast." Naruto replied.
Kaiso Isamu was one of the many Shinigami that Naruto had discovered during his two-year journey around the world. When he was twelve Naruto had managed to convince the Sandaime Hokage to let him explore the world while also searching for anything related to the Shinigami a thousand years along with finding other Shinigami that might be just awakening their powers. It took sometime to convince Hiruzen since even though Naruto's powers were Kage-level, maybe higher, along with the fact that he had his ancestor's memories and a Zanpakuto Spirit. However when bringing up those facts and with a few more convincing words, Naruto had the Hokage's permission too leave the village for two years until he had too return.
The venture had proved more fruitful then Naruto had ever imagined. He managed too reach Uzushio and Whirlpool Country, the birth place of his mother Kushina Uzumaki and retrieve several artifacts and sealed them into storage scrolls while leaving the rest hidden in the catacombs underneath the Uzukage tower. Even though he was a Shinigami now he was still an Uzumaki by blood and along with sharing his clan's love of seals, he also wanted to explore his clan's village, taking in its sights and finding anything that could help him with his goal of resurrecting the Shinigami.
And then there were the number of Shinigami he managed to find over those two years. He didn't really know how many he would find, though he guessed maybe a small number. Instead he returned back to the village with a total of 43 Shinigami, himself included. The reasons for this large number because one his large spiritual pressure was like a beacon for his fellow Shinigami, many of them coming to him rather than the other way around while the rest Naruto discovered during his travels. They all ranged from different ages with a few being older then Naruto, yet they all swore loyalty to Naruto because of his guidance of using their new powers and his clearly more vast power. And the best part: out of the 43 Shinigami seventeen including Naruto and Kaiso Isamu could use Bankai along with their very high spiritual pressure, which they demonstrated during their arrival too Konoha a few months ago in order to show the village why the Shinigami were so powerful. It had been funny too see the shocked and awed looks on their faces at the power Naruto and his Shinigami brothers and sisters were releasing.
Back in the present Naruto headed off towards the Hokage Tower after a good breakfast of ramen (yes ramen for breakfast), cereal and milk. A few minutes later thanks to Shunpo Naruto arrived at the Hokage's office. Said man was currently reviewing some papers with the aid of his shadow clones. Naruto inwardly smirked as he remembered when he mentioned that trick to the Hokage. It was the first time the Shinigami had seen the old man acting up and stuff. "Hey old man you called for me?" Naruto asked.
Hiruzen looked up from his work and smiled at seeing his surrogate grandson before dispelling his clones. "Ah Naruto-kun I'm glad you got my message. I was worried that I've might have used those… Jigokucho was it, incorrectly"
During Naruto's travel, the blonde hair boy had been trying too see if he could recreate any of the devices that the Shinigami had used in the past. It was fortunate that he managed to find memories of these items from Ichigo's memories and also a hidden and ancient facility built by the last captain of the 12th Division and head of the Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Naruto guessed that the mad scientist wanted to preserve his work and notes even after his death for whatever reason. Naruto was just grateful he found it and spent most of his time there before packing as much as he could with him and then left one of his father's kunai there in case he needed to get back there quickly.
Anyway one of the said items that he managed to create were the Jigokucho, the Hell Butterflies that were used by the Ancient Shinigami as messengers. It had taken a while for Naruto to think up of how to recreate these creatures but by the time he returned to Konoha he managed to come up with a theory. Naruto had managed to convince the Hokage of how useful it would be for Konoha and the Hokage and Naruto also agreed to bring in the Aburame clan. The clan would be a great help for recreating the Jigokucho due to their relationship with insects. And when Hiruzen explained the project to Shibi, the Aburame clan head was greatly intrigued by the idea and agreed with his clan helping out.
With Naruto and his notes combined with the Aburame clan's large insect breeding areas, the project had actually been finished in just a few weeks. The clan had managed to gather a few newborn caterpillars, which Naruto injected with a substance that he claimed was chakra made into liquid form. Since the clan also used insects to gather information, Naruto had an easier time of directing their abilities as messengers. Either way the results were good and the recreation of the Jigokucho was a success. Naruto then explained to the Hokage that all they had to do was make physical contact with a Jigokucho, such as having it perched on their fingers and then whisper the message towards the creature, along with the name of the person it should go too. Since they already had chakra in them the Jigokucho's spiritual energy would connect with both the sender and the receiver with the bonus of them being undetectable by chakra sensors. They hadn't been used yet since the Hokage wanted to wait until more were breed, a task he assigned to both the Aburame Clan and some of Naruto's Shinigami.
"Yeah they worked greatly though I'm wondering why didn't just send a messenger monkey instead?" Naruto asked since the Hokage knew that the young Shinigami preferred to have as few people as possible know the location of his clan compound.
"I was going to but I figured that this would be a good chance to test out the Jigokucho." Hiruzen replied.
Naruto shrugged. "Fair enough so what did you want to see me about?" The Shinigami head asked.
"Well besides wanting to speak with you over the rest of your ideas, I wanted to see if you and your people were ready to begin training some of the shinobi to combat the Hollows that you discovered along with assigning a mission to one of your Shinigami." The Sandaime Hokage replied.
At the age of ten Naruto had discovered that there were still Hollows in the world though not enough for Naruto to be worried. While the information was fuzzy with the aid of Zangetsu, Naruto managed to find out that ever since the Rikudou Sennin defeated the Juubi, which was connected to Hollows, many of the creatures had begun to reappear over the centuries. But over said centuries many of the Hollows had begun to change if the wording was correct. As usually the Hollows tried to feast on souls, either living or dead, but this proved to be a problem for them. Since humans had gained the mastery of chakra, an energy similar to reiatsu, the humans were able to fight back, killing many Hollows that were unprepared for their prey too be able to harm them.
And it was nearly impossible too feast off of dead souls because of Ichigo's actions. While the fate of Soul Society was still unclear when Ichigo broke the walls down separating it from the Human World, it also affected of how Souls get to the afterlife. That means that said walls, in other words the Dangai, the dimension that Shinigami used to travel through using the Senkaimon was destroyed and thus the need for Shinigami to go through it. This made it easier for them to enter the Human World to protect the humans and later on moved there and integrated with humans. Furthermore this means that dead souls can enter Soul Society or whatever acts as the afterlife, quicker without the need of a Shinigami. If Hollows could somehow pursue them then they would've done so. And with dead souls being less frequent in the Human World and the living being able to fight back, the Hollows were pushed back near extinction.
Some Hollows had managed to find safety in certain areas unapproachable by humans through normal means. This is where the change began because many of these areas were filled with chakra and natural energy, also known as Reishi to the Shinigami. Hollows that chose to stay in these areas began to change both physically, mentally and spiritually in order too adapt to their new environment. While they did not become human, they became creatures that were intelligent and could use chakra, many of them taking on animal-like appearances. In short those Hollows and descendants were now chakra using creatures used as summons by shinobi. Kind of ironic that said creatures would fight alongside those that they once considered food. There were still however, other Hollows but in areas that humans rarely go too and it still wasn't clear if they could go too Hueco Mundo, if it even still existed.
"Well I do have a few of ideas for teaching the shinobi ranks but I'm just curious what the mission is and why you're giving it to us?" Naruto said since he knew that even though they were a clan of Shinigami, they still needed money besides from slaying Hollows that wandered into human populated zones. That and they were considered part of Konoha's military.
"Well I wanted to wait until you and the Shinigami settled into Konoha more and help teach the shinobi forces of dealing with Hollows, we're currently don't have any other available teams to send and I think this would be a good chance for you and the others to work alongside the village's shinobi." Hiruzen explained.
"Fair enough. So what is the mission anyway?" Naruto asked.
"The mission I'm giving you is actually to back-up team 7 a recently made Genin teams under Kakashi Hatake in Wave Country." Hiruzen said as he took out a scroll. "The mission was C-rank but turned A-rank when they and the client were attacked by missing-nin from Kirigakure, the Demon Brothers I believe they were. According to what the client, Tazuna, told Kakashi the reason that the mission's rank was a C-rank was because that Wave Country was currently in a economic depression and could only gather enough money for a C-rank."
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "They've must've been desperate if they were willing to lie about the mission's importance. What was the mission anyway?" Naruto asked.
"Well the mission that was given to the team was to escort Tazuna back to his nation and watch over the construction of a bridge he's building that will connect the nation to the main lands for trading purposes." Hiruzen explained before tossing another scroll towards Naruto. "While that mission is still for them the mission I wish to assign to the Shinigami you send is to deal with the source of the nation's problem: Gato."
"Gato?" Naruto asked as he skimmed the scroll's contents. "As in Gato the shipping tycoon?"
"The very same though according to my sources that is merely a front for his more illegal activities and apparently he's taking over Wave Country as a base of power for his underground dealings." Hiruzen explained. "While he's causing trouble for Wave Country his work is also causing trouble for other nations, mainly Fire Country so its for both the sake of our nation as well that he be dealt with."
Naruto thought over it for a moment before nodding. "Okay I guess we'll do it. I think I'll go myself if that's okay jiji." Naruto said.
Hiruzen raised an eyebrow, expecting Naruto wanting to go himself though he wasn't to keen on the idea. "Are you sure you can handle it? And what about the other Shinigami? Will they be okay with you gone?" The Hokage asked.
Naruto smirked. "You don't have to worry jiji, I'll leave Kaiso-san in charge and even then they know how to take care of themselves without me. And I can handle nearly anything, remember when I sparred with you three years ago?"
"Yes you don't have to remind me." Hiruzen grumbled, recalling of how he wanted to spar with Naruto to see what his Shinigami powers were capable. Despite him being a Kage with Kage-level chakra, he still had trouble holding his own against Naruto even in his Zanpakuto's Shikai mode. Though in the end he forced Naruto to use Bankai, it was kind of embarrassing for the Professor to be defeated by an eleven-year old and Naruto used every moment he got to rub it in.
Naruto's smirked increase before continuing, "Yeah but you get my point. Besides I haven't gotten a chance to stretch my legs since I got back here and the last time I managed to cut loose was when I was fighting in Kirigakure." The blond added.
"You still haven't told me how you got yourself involved with helping the Kiri rebels." The Hokage deadpanned while giving Naruto a look.
"Hey a lot of stuff happened that's all I can say." Naruto shrugged, though he had the decency to look sheepish. "Anyway can I bring someone else with me? Another fellow Shinigami?"
Hiruzen sighed. "Fine very well you can but be sure to give that scroll to Kakashi to inform him of the details of your mission. You leave at the South Gate in two hours." The Hokage said.
"Got it jiji" Naruto said doing a mock salute before using Shunpo and vanishing from the office. Hiruzen just rolled his eyes at his surrogate grandson's childish actions before returning to his work.
As Naruto was heading back towards the compound to pick up the second person a voice in his head spoke, and it wasn't Zangetsu. "So you're finally going out into the field huh? About time too was getting bored of seeing no action." The voice said.
"Was wondering when you would wake up Kurama." Naruto responded through his mental link with the Kyuubi. It had been four years, when he was ten, when Naruto had finally made contact with the Kyuubi. With a rough beginning, which involved fighting inside his mind, chakra remnants of Naruto's parents and several other factors, Naruto had managed to befriend the large chakra entity, even learning the fox's name, Kurama along with several other things about. More importantly Naruto had full access to his Zanpakuto powers now that he and Kurama were on good terms and he could use the fox's powers.
Zangetsu had explained to Naruto that dual Zanpakuto weren't as powerful as single Zanpakuto but were unique and rare because they possessed two spirits, one for each blade. Both spirits of the Zanpakuto possessed the same ability that can either be used either together or separately. And in Ichigo's case his Zanpakuto spirits represented his different powers and in different forms. The white Ichigo and the old man were both Zangetsu, the former representing Ichigo's Hollow/Shinigami Powers while the latter represented his Quincy Powers he inherited from his mother.
However in Naruto's case his Zanpakuto was different then other Shinigami's dual Zanpakuto, both past and present due to the Kyuubi. The one that was called Zangetsu was his sole Zanpakuto spirit, representing his Shinigami powers, but Kurama's influence within him altered his Zanpakuto into a dual Zanpakuto and even gave it some of his abilities. And if you include the changes that Naruto took on when he used Bankai, Kurama was in a way, Naruto's Hollow/Fullbring powers while Zangetsu was his Shinigami powers. Besides it was easier just to call the Kyuubi by his birth name (also the fox didn't want to change it anyway). The only people who knew about Naruto befriending Kurama were his fellow Shinigami and the Hokage, the latter it took some convincing that the Kyuubi wouldn't manipulate Naruto.
"I woke up when I heard that the old timer wanted to see you." The fox replied. "I'm just glad that you decided to take this mission yourself then giving it to someone else."
"Hey I meant when I said that I needed to see some action after helping the others settle in. Besides I know that would've have ranted about seeing some action too and what better chance of dealing with a tyrant business man like Gato who hires missing-nin and mercenaries?" Naruto replied.
Kurama let out a grunt in response before asking, "Speaking of which, is the person you're going to bring with you Rajingu? He's the only one I know that has a bone to pick with that Gato person."
"Yeah" Naruto replied. "I know he's move on from his parent's death but I figure with a chance like this he can finally be free of his past." Naruto said before he spotted the Shinigami compound.
(Three Days Later, Coast of Wave Country, with Team 7 plus client)
Kakashi was inwardly cursing himself at the current situation. It had started at least a week ago when he and his team had finished another D-rank mission and headed towards the Hokage tower to report as well as request a C-rank mission. Since they had done enough 'chores' as his genins stated, the Hokage decided to give them a C-rank mission, which involved escorting a bridge builder named Tazuna back to his country and watched over the construction of his bridge. It sounded simple and any opposition would most likely be bandits or pirates.
Turns out that assessment was wrong, as no sooner then an hour or so when they left Konoha the Demon Brothers, missing-nin from Kirigakure, attacked them. The battle was brief and Kakashi managed to incapacitate the assailants did they learn the true danger of this C-rank mission, that Wave Country had been taken over by the business tyrant Gato who had hired missing-nin to kill Tazuna and stop the bridge's completion. Though originally intended to return back to Konoha, after a brief discussion with his team decided they wanted to continue. And so they continued towards Wave, though Kakashi sent back his summon Pakkun to inform the Hokage on the recent events and ask for more back-up in case the two teams got more then they could handle.
And it did! Now after a brief skirmish with another missing-nin, the A-rank shinobi Zabuza Momochi, Demon of the Mist and one of the members of Kiri's Seven Swordsmen group, we finds Kakashi in his current predicament. Said predicament was the copycat ninja now trapped in a water prison by Zabuza with his manmade mist surrounding them. And though Kakashi couldn't see clearly even with his sharingan he could tell that things weren't going so well for his team. Said team was now trying to protect the client from Zabuza's water clones. Sakura was standing in front of the client while Sasuke Uchiha, the only survivor of the Uchiha massacre along with his mother Mikoto Uchiha, and Sai were taking on the water clones, with little success.
Soon one of the clones made a dash towards Tazuna, moving so fast that none of the genin would be able to keep up. But before he could attack the bridge builder a voice shouted, "Hado #4. Byakurai!" And a beam of lightning flew past Tazuna and Sakura piercing the water clone's form, thus causing it to dispel and turn into a puddle of water.
"What was that?" Sakura asked out loud but before anyone could even respond the sound of something against the wind could be heard and then several water clones turned into puddles after being slashed by what appeared to be large black colored slashes.
Zabuza was stunned of seeing so many of his clones being cut down so quickly and taking a brief glance at his prisoner saw that Kakashi was also surprise. Though the copycat shinobi wondered if it were reinforcements but neither he nor Zabuza could think of anything else when a shadow fell over them. Zabuza's instincts kicked in and using his free hand managed to raise his weapon, the broadsword Kubikiribocho just in time to block two dual swords wielded by a young blonde wearing a Konoha headband.
Naruto smirked at shocked look on Zabuza's face. Putting some more weight downwards Naruto said, "Well this is first. Usually I move so fast that even if people can react in time, they either end up dead or the very least seriously injured." Naruto said.
Zabuza let out a growl. "Don't get cocky brat! I've met a lot of people who think they have what it takes to take me down and their corpses are left out for the crows!" He snarled before pushing Naruto back, surprising Zabuza and Kakashi that the blonde hair boy was floating in the air before them. However before Zabuza could gather his wits Naruto raised his swords into air and said, "Getsuga Tensho!" And brought both blades downward and they released two large blasts of black energy straight towards Zabuza. The Demon of the Mist had the brains to jump out of the way, and thus releasing Kakashi from the water prison, in order to avoid being killed by the attack.
Kakashi had managed to dodge the attack too but the backlash of the attack struck the sharingan user that he did several air flips before landing in the water face upwards. Fortunately someone grabbed him and pulled him towards land near the rest of his team and the client. The person was a male who appeared to be at least eighteen year olds. He had long smooth black hair that went down to his back with a few strands sticking out. His skin was a light tan and he had deep sea-green eyes. His attire was similar to Naruto's except his haori was being held at the waist by a black leather belt with gold stripes on it and his pants were a dark blue too. In his right hand he held a katana with a brown oval guard that had a black and yellow handle.
"Is this everyone?" The man asked as he helped Kakashi towards his team and leaned him against a tree.
No one really responded but it was Sakura who instead asked, "W-who are you guys?" She asked as she looked towards where the blonde boy about their age was fighting against the person that had nearly killed them. Now that the mist had fade away due to Naruto's attack, they could see clearly once more as well as the fact that Naruto had Zabuza on the defense.
It was Kakashi who answered her question after pulling his headband down over his sharingan. "Well the one who is fighting Zabuza right now is Naruto Uzumaki, head of the recently made Shinigami clan of Konoha." Ignoring the shocked looks on his genin's faces Kakashi looked at the person standing next to him. "And I assume you're one as well right?"
The man nodded. "Yep I'm Rajingu Masaharu one of the elites of our clan. We were sent by the Hokage to back you guys up. Good thing too since you were getting your asses kicked." The man replied before turning his attention back towards the fight.
Zabuza was, though he would never admit it, scared. This person, a kid no less, was completely dominating him with his dual swords and incredible speed. One moment the kid was in front of him and then the next moment he would reappear somewhere else and nearly killing the Demon of the Mist. What made it worse is that the kid could use those swords for long range attacks due to the chains attached to the sword's pommel, using the blades as flails almost. Even with his skills as a swordsman and years of experience he knew that his chances of beating this kid were slim.
'Should I call Haku out to help?' Zabuza thought to himself as his sword deflected another strike from Naruto's weapon. 'No even the two of us the chances of defeating this kid are slim. Kakashi and his team aren't a problem but if that other guy who came with this kid jumps in then we'll end up dead. Better to have Haku remain where he is so we can pull an escape if necessary, for now I'll try a different approach.'
Once he got an opening Zabuza did a chakra infused jump backwards while performing hand seals with only his left hand, something Naruto took notice of. 'Interesting so he can do single handed hand seals.' The young Shinigami thought but noticed that multiple water clones of Zabuza began to rise from the lake and surround him, all of them gripping swords too.
As one all the clones attacked Naruto who didn't show a trace of fear but instead smirked as he raised his dual blades and charged towards the nearest clone. As he cut down that clone he moved onto the next one using the sword style he had invented. Since he wielded a dual-type Zanpakuto, it was only natural that he trained himself to use both at once. But because of their unique shape he also held them in the reverse grip, using them as daggers too. And with the fact that they had chains attached underneath their handles, Naruto would switch in between using one as flail for long range and the other for close range while at the same time moving, making it look like he was dancing almost while taking on several enemies at once. And that was only when he wasn't using his Zanpakuto's techniques, which were darkness type (A/N: In my story Zangetsu is a Darkness-Type Zanpakuto besides being just a melee) fused with other elements sometimes.
After cutting down the eighth clone Naruto felt a shadow over him and looked up to see that three of the remaining ten water clones had decided to attack from above. Smirking Naruto swung both his swords upwards. "Dual Getsuga Tensho!" And fired two, though smaller, Getsuga Tensho upwards with one taking out a single water clone while the other took out the other two.
Following it up Naruto focused on the remaining energy shards from that attack and doing a spin with his swords shouted, "Getsuga Soshaku! (Moon Fang Bite)" And soon the shards followed Naruto's swords and struck the remaining clones, dispelling them back into water. While Getsuga Soshaku manipulated the shard remnants of Getsuga Tensho weren't as strong, they were still deadly and were good for getting rid of a large mass of clones.
But soon Naruto felt a spike of chakra nearby and saw to his left the real Zabuza finishing up from what Naruto assumed a long string of hand seals. 'Looks like he's going to try something new.' Naruto thought as he watched with mildly curiosity as Zabuza finished the hand seals.
The Demon of the Mist had just finished forming the bird hand seal and said, "Suton: Great Waterfall Jutsu!" and suddenly the water around him began to rise up higher and higher, towering over Naruto who still hadn't moved from his spot. When the tower was high enough it began to fall downwards towards Naruto, almost like a waterfall.
While team 7 and Tazuna watched in horror at the large body of water heading straight towards Naruto, Rajingu appeared to be perfectly calm with his sword already sheathed. He knew what his leader was going to do and so did not worry about Naruto's safety, knowing that he could take care of himself.
And just as the water was inches away from Naruto, said person cried out "Getsuga Tensho!" And fired a large blast of black reiatsu. When the attack made contact with the body of water, the latter was completely destroyed by the former, water flying everywhere. Everyone minus Rajingu, were shocked beyond belief of how easily Naruto had deflected a high-level ninjutsu.
Noticing Zabuza's form frozen in place of what he just saw, Naruto decided to attack and finish it. Raising his right hand Naruto shouted, "Gengetsu! (Crescent Moon)" And swung his sword downwards, firing a perfect crescent shape attack of black concentrated reiatsu straight towards Zabuza as it cut through the water.
Zabuza managed to snap out of his stupor but only had enough time to raise his sword in a last ditch attempt to block the attack and even sent whatever chakra he had left into his broadsword to strengthen it. When the attack made contact with the blade, Kubikiribocho managed to hold the attack back for a few seconds before breaking in half completely and then strike Zabuza on his left side. The force of the attack also sent the missing-nin flying backwards across the water towards the other end of the lake, crashing into some trees.
Even though smoke that had formed from the impact obscured Naruto's vision, he could sense the Zabuza was, miraculously, still alive though barely. Naruto was about to move in and finish him off when he suddenly sense another chakra source, mid-chunin level if he had to guess, appear besides Zabuza before disappearing completely. Naruto frowned when he couldn't sense them, meaning they were no longer in the nearby area or had somehow cloaked their presence. 'Must've been another of Zabuza's subordinates or an associate.' Naruto thought to himself before letting out a sigh and heading back towards others.
And done! So basically the major change I made was that Naruto didn't use bankai. My reasons for having done it before were because I guess I wanted to show what it looked like. Anyway he'll be using it for real against more deadly opponents.
Anyway review!
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