Genjutsu Legend Chapter 7
Team seven was walking away from their regular training grounds and towards the Ichiraku Ramen stand for the regular meal after a training session. Kakashi had his usual book out in front of his face and seemingly ignored everything around him. The Jounin had been quite fustrated for the last few weeks, as he just couldn't get Naruto or Sasuke to open up to him. After the brief mission to Nami no Kuni, he had not seen Naruto use an ounce of hidden strength that he showed against the Oni Kyudai.
Sasuke had become even more distant to Naruto ever since they returned from the premature C-ranked mission, and had been looking like he would want to challenge Naruto to a fight. Naruto hadn't seem to notice yet but Kakashi was getting increasingly worried about it. The young Uzumaki was as polite and kind as ever, and had started to become much better friends with Hinata, making the girl come out of her shell a little. Kakashi saw genuine kindness from Naruto when he was helping Hinata train, and was glad that he would show his true emotions when he was with his friends.
The Hyuga heiress had improved a lot since team seven was created, and had become a more active person in general. She no longer had to poke her fingers together to gather confidence, she still hid herself your most people, but had beome more open to her team.
"Are you tired Hinata-chan, you were training very seriously?" asked Naruto with a kind smile.
Hinata smiled back at her friend with a small blush. "I'm fine Naruto-kun...thank you for asking."
Sasuke sccoffed and flicked his hair. "You call that serious training...pathetic."
Hinata looked down a little but Naruto glared at Sasuke. "That was uncalled for Sasuke...we may bot be as strong as you are, but you don't have to keep putting your own teammates down." chastised Naruto as the Hyuga girl looked up at him with a smile.
The Uchiha heir smirked. "Whatever...the weak would always have an excuse..." he said before he looked over at his Sensei. "I'm not going to lunch Kakashi...I'm going home..."
As the Uchiha was about to walk away, team nine just happened to walk by and Neji gave Sasuke a harse glare. Kakashi, and the Sensei of team Nine, Gai, look on with interest, as Naruto, Hinata, Lee, and Tenten was confused at the scene.
Sasuke activate his sharingan and glared at Neji. "Do you have a problem...Hyuga?" asked Sasuke with a dangerous edge in his voice.
Neji sneered. "What could someone like you do to cause me any problems...Uchiha..."
Hinata was nervous when she first saw her harsh cousin, Neji had always been the most gifted Hyuga in their generation, and everyone knew that she was nothing compared to him. Naruto saw this and placed his hand on her shoulder for comfort, the girl looked back at her teammate and blushed when she saw him smile down at her.
Kakashi walked over to Sasuke. "Do you know each other Sasuke...?" asked the masked Jounin with a more serious tone than normal.
The Uchiha smirked. "In a manner of speaking...we are...rivals of sort." said the young man as he looked into Neji's Byakugan.
Gai smiled brightly and clapped his student's shoulder. "Well that is great, your rival is on the team of my own eternal rival!" cried the excentric man as Neji's eyebrows twitched.
Sasuke shrugged off Kakashi arm and started to walk towards the Uchiha compound. "Whatever...this is a waste of my time." he sneered as he walked away.
Lee and Tenten were annoyed at the Uchiha and Gai gave Kakashi a weary look, both a little worried about the situation. Neji scoffed and walked away from his team...glaring dangerously at Hinata before he left, leaving traces of Killer Intent.
The atmostphere became calmer as the two geniuses left, and Gai smiled at Kakashi and gave him a thumbs up. "Yosh Kakashi, I was going to ask you for a spar, but I think our teams need to calm down a little after that." said the man as he bid goodbye to hs life long friend.
Kakashi nodded. "You're right Gai...I'll see you later at the Jounin meeting." said the Copy Ninja as his rival walked away along with the rest of his team. Kakashi looked at Naruto and Hinata. "I'm sorry guys, but I should go check out Sasuke for a bit...so we'll cancel lunch for today..."
Naruto nodded as he held Hinata's shoulders. "Hai Sensei..." said the young man as Kakashi vanished from view. Hinata was still unnerved by her cousin and was shaking a little, so Naruto wrapped her arms around her and rubbed her back. "It's alright Hinata-chan...he's gone."
The Hyuga girl nodded and looked down at the floor for a while to calm down. "T-Thank you N-Naruto-kun..."
Naruto smiled and waved her off. "You don't have to thank me Hinata-chan..." said Naruto with a wave. "But there is one thing that you need to know..." said the man seriously.
Hinata was surprised at the sudden change of tone. "W-What is it Naruto-kun...is there something wrong."
Naruto nodded solemnly. "Last time when I passed by the Hyuga compound..." Naruto paused and looked around to see if anyone was listening in. "...I heard something about the Hyuga branch family...planning to revolt against the main family..."
Hinata's eyes widened as she shook her head violently. "No...that would never happen!" cried the girl.
Naruot hushed her down. "Not so loud Hinata-chan..." he looked around again to scan the area. "I don't know if it is true...but some of the gaurds talking that night noticed somebody standing there..."
Hinata quickly grabbed onto Naruto's arms. "Then did they see you...Hyuga guards can see very well no matter how dark it was!" cried the girl in horror as she was afraid that her own clan would kill the very man that she loves.
Naruto smiled down at the girl. "I don't think they saw me, because if they did I would be dead already..." said the young man with a chuckle before turning serious again. "...But just incase...you have to be careful of Hyga Neji...he was one of the names that I heard that night...and please don't tell anybody for now, we wouldn't want to start a civil war because of slip of the tongue..."
Hinata nodded timidly, still shocked at the sudden news. Naruto sighed and patted her head. "I'm sorry Hinata-chan...I didn't want to scare you, but I didn't want to see you get hurt."
The girl looked up at the man with tears in her eyes. "Don't worry about it Naruto-kun...thank you for worrying about me."
The Uzumaki chuckled. "Well, I can't let my cute teammate get hurt right...?" Hinata blushed bright red at the compliment. "Whatever...lets not think about it for now, we'll just go have lunch." said Naruto as he pulled Hinata along to their original destination...
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"AAAAHHHHHHH D-DAMN YOU D-DEMON!" cried a man in anguish as he perished into nothingness. His began to lose it's form as his chakra started to pour out of his eyes, mouth, nose and ears, until all of it was absorbed by the purple tint orb in Naruto's hands. The orb looked like glass and it had a bluish, purple energy surging inside it. The orb itself gave off an incredible aura, to the point where it wouldn't even feel like chakra anymore, it felt like something more...
"Is it ready yet Uzumaki-taicho?" asked Neji as he stood next to his leader, both of them wearing black Jounin uniforms.
The Uzumaki sighed before he sealed away the orb into his palm. "No Neji...that was no where near enough, to fully activate the orb, a much greater source of chakra must be needed." said Naruto as he looked at the clothes of the fifty people they have fed to the orb.
The Hyuga genius sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "Than should we do this again tomorrow night, we can always use more people to gather chakra?" asked the young man.
Naruto shook his head. "No Neji, we have already used to many people and the village had started to notice and the increase of people missing, we don't want this to be spreaded out too much" said the young leader as he began to walk back to his base with Neji following closely behind him. "Plus, human chakra is just not strong enough to activate the orb..." finished the man as he trailed his fingers along his stomach.
Neji knew that his leader was talking about, and had been worried about it. "So I'm guessing that you will begin to target the Bijuu next?"
Naruto chuckled. "Neji, you and Sasuke are the two that know me the best" he said as he smirked at his subordinate. "Yes, I am going after the Bijuu, but not until we have formed a solid base of operation outside of Konoha...we would need much more power of we are to steal Bijuu from the other villages."
The Hyuga nodded. "Yes it would be a difficult task, but I am sure that we would be able to do it!" said Neji confidently, if there was one person that he believe had unlimited potential for strength, it would be his leader.
Naruto smirked and nodded. "You are right Neji, I have forgotten how optimistic you really are..." he said before he looked at the Hyuga seriously, making Neji sweat a little. "By the way...what is the progress on the mission I assigned you?" asked the powerful Uzumaki.
Neji bowed slightly before he answered. "The mission is going well Uzumaki-taicho, I have narrowed down the scroll to three places...but there is now way that I would be able to retrieve it."
Naruto nodded as he had expected as much, "That is fine Neji, as long as you tell me the exact location of the scroll, I will be sure to retrieve it."
Neji bowed again. "I'm sorry Uzumaki-taicho, because of my incompetence you will have to finish the mission!" saluted the man.
Naruto waved him off casually. "You don't have to worry about that Neji, I made you a promise and I intend to keep it, you will be freed of your curse soon my friend..." said the leader before he jumped into the treeline heading for Konoha, Neji looked at his leader and friend with gratefulness before he follow him into the darkness.
The Sandaime Hokage just received news that a newly formed village requested to join the semi-annual Chunin exams taking place in Konoha. Otogakure had sudden appeared on the map, located in Oto no Kuni, and had been said to be specialists in Genjutsu. It would be in Konoha benefit if they found out more about the newly formed village and the abilities of their Ninja, so the Sandaime had accepted their request.
Sarutobi was becoming increasingly nervous about the upcoming Chunin Exam, as intell from his loyal student Jiraiya, the traitor of Konoha, Orochimaru, was going to make a move soon, and the exams would be the perfect time for the vile snake to infriltrate Konoha. The elderly Hokage had organize special ANBU teams to essemble of the ex-sannin were to attack, but he knew that in the end it would be futile...
Orochimaru had always been the most talented out of the three Sannin, and undoubtedly had become much more powerful since his betrayal. The Sandaime himself was worried that he would no longer be a match for the snake man...
The only hope Konoha would have, would be to have Jiraiya fight the man, as Sarutobi knew that his other student had become immensely powerful, and would be a match for Orochimaru. Sarutobi really hoped that there will be someone to rise up with power and intellect who would be able to succeed his role as Hokage, just like the Yondaime did. Sarutobi smiled when he thought about the blonde Namikaze, the man was truly one of the most talented Ninja he had ever seen in his long life...
The Sandaime had hoped that Naruto would be as powerful and talented as his father, but sadly for him, the Yondaime's son was not like his father, he was just an ordinary Ninja that took longer than usual to become Genin. Uzumaki Naruto become an enigma of a sort to the old Kage, as Sarutobi was surprised that someone with such a horrendous childhood could grow up to be such a respectable, and polite young man. In the Sandaime's eyes, Naruto was more like a scholar than a Ninja, the young man's caligraphy was better than his own, and apparently his painting skills were also quite extraordinary.
There was still hope for the young Uzumaki once he activated his Shikai, was the thought of the Sandaime. According to Kakashi, Naruto had been hiding his strength from everybody, and was actually very talented. The Hokage was happy to hear the news but was still disappointed that the young man had still to activate his Shikai, as most Uzumaki's achieve that step during ther early teenage years. The true power of the Uzumaki lies within their blades, and Sarutobi thought that all Shikai releases will make the katana itself look different...so he assumed that Naruto had yet to unlock his Shikai.
Uzumaki Kushina was reknowned as one of the most powerful and beautiful Kunoichi to ever live, and was considered an equal of the legendary Sannin, Senju Tsunade. Minato and Kushina was a great couple, they loved each other very unconditionally, and they considered their son their pride and joy. Ever since Kushina found out about her pregnancy, Minato went home early every day to talk and sing to his child, they loved Naruto more than they did their own lives.
The attack of the Kyuubi was truly tragic, as Konoha had lost two of the most powerful Shinobi they ever had, and left a once loved boy and orphan, as well as the scorn of the village. Sarutobi had to admit to himself that he treated Naruto's situation rather rashly, he should have done a better job hiding his identity as the host from the villagers, and should have punished those who had wronged Naruto with more severe consequences.
The Sandaime looked up at the Yondaime's picture and sighed. "I'm sorry...I have fail you Minato...Kushina...Naruto..."
Inside the Uchiha compound were a lot of training fields that were designed better than the standard village ones, and Naruto often used them to train Sasuke and Neji. The Uzumaki had placed many seals around the entire compound and it prevent anyone from perceiving them fromm outside, including the Hyuga clan, because the seal not only generated a powerful Genjutsu, it also created a wall of dense chakra that would block the byakugan.
"Katon: Shakkaho!" cried Sasuke as he fired a blast of crimson flames directly at his Hyuga friend.
Neji saw the ball of flames coming at him and twirled his body around as he release chakra from all of his chakra points. "Hakkeshō Kaiten!" a dome of chakra surrounded Neji and the spin of the chakra around him repelled all incoming attacks, so Sasuke's flames were brushed off easily.
Just as Neji slowed down his rotation, Sasuke appeared from above him and dropped at him with his leg extended, Neji parry the kick with his arms, and used Sasuke's momentum to pull him to the ground. The Uchiha almost crashed into the hard floor, but used his own hand to support himself, and did a series of backflips to create some distance between himself and Neji.
The Hyuga smirked at his friend before he weaved through some handsigns and held his two palms in front of him and towards Sasuke. "Futon: Tenran!" A blast of whirling winds shot towards Sasuke at blinding speeds, the high density wind teared the ground to shreds, and ripped the trees apart before it crashed into Sasuke's area and caused a huge explosion of debris. Neji used his byakugan to look through the dust, and was not surprised to see that Sasuke had managed to escape before impact.
Neji's eyes followed Sasuke into the air and was on guard once the Uchiha started to form his own handsigns. Sasuke jumped into the air once he dodged Neji's attack, and was quickly heading towards Neji's area, directly above him.
"Raiton: Raikoho!" cried Sasuke as yellow lightning gathered in his hands and shot towards Neji at lightning speeds, completely destroying that part of the training field. With his Sharingan, Sasuke saw that Neji had dodged his attack and was retreated to the east side of the field, so Sasuke landed on top of a tree and continued his assult. "Raiton: Byakurai!" cried out Sasuke as pale lightning shot from his fingers, this attack was not as strong as the Raikoho, but it was much faster, and had the potential to cause lethal damage.
Neji dodged right and left from Sasuke's barrage of attacks and did not have enough time to activate his Hakkeshō Kaiten. Sasuke began to charge towards Neji but kept firing his byakurai continuously, thus closing his distance from the Hyuga as well as kept his opponent's movements locked.
Just as Sasuke was about to fire a punch at Neji, the latter shot his palm out aiming for Sasuke's prominant chakra point, but the Uchiha predicted his movements with his Sharingan and easily dodged it. Sasuke landed a hard punch on Neji's face and sent the older man backwards a few meters.
Neji groaned in pain as he immediately flipped himself to his feet and glared at Sasuke. "Hakke Kūshō!" A blast of chakra fired from Neji's palm, and even though Sasuke coud see it with his Sharingan, he could not dodge in time, so he was sent a few meters away as well.
Sasuke grunted his pain as his chakra was messed up by the Hyuga's attack, but quite organzied his chakra network and jumped back up to his feet. "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu!" many small fireballs shot towards Neji, but the latter just smirked and used his Hakkeshō Kaiten to deflect the fire and the shuriken that were inside the flames.
Neji rushed towards Sasuke and quickly jabbed him in the chest with his Jukken, making his friend lodge back in pain. Neji continued his assult and began to block the chakra points in Sasuke's arms and shoulder so the Uchiha could hardly feel his two arms. Neji pulled Sasuke into his strangle hold and placed a Kunai to his jugular...
"Sorry Sasuke...you lose this time." said Neji with a smirk on his face.
The Uchiha sighed and glared at his friend. "Fine you asshole...let go of me and unblock my arms!" demanded Sasuke as he tried to move his incredibily numb arms.
Neji smirked and walked away. "I'll do that later...I am hungry and need some food."
Sasuke glared at his friend's back. "What the hell man, at least free my arms before you raid my fridge!" cried the Uchiha as he ran into his home demanding his arms to be fixed.
Once the Hyuga and Uchiha got inside the house, they saw third fellow team member sitting on the floor as he painted a grand picture of the sky. Sasuke looked at the pale young man. "Hey Sai, tell Neji here to unblock my arms." demanded Sasuke again.
Neji ignored him and walked around to the kitchen counter to grab something to eat. Sai looked at Sasuke with his usual smile, "Sorry duckass, but I would prefer you and white-eyes to not fight while I paint, it is really distracting..." calmly said the man as he looked back at his painting.
Sasuke and Neji were annoyed by the horrible nicknames Sai chose for them, but the former was more agitated. "Damn it Sai...I told you that those are not good nicknames...you are such an idiot!"
All three of them froze when they felt an immensly powerful chakra signature from behind them and bowed when they saw Naruto walk in with his black Jounin uniform, his katana was strapped to his waist and his hand was constantly on the hilt. Naruto smiled at his closest subordinates before he sat down on Sasuke's couch with a sigh.
"Relax you three, I am not here to fight you..." said Naruto with a smirk.
Sasuke smirked back and sat acorss from his leader on the couch. "Well, your aura coming in said differently Uzumaki-taicho." joked the Uchiha as he tried to move his arms little by little.
Neji rolled his eyes at the Uchiha before he walked over and unblocked the chakra points on his body. "I think I prefered the old Sasuke...he was a brooder but at least he was not a twerp..."
Sasuke glared at Neji with his sharingan. "Fuck you Neji, I am not a twerp" replied Sasuke as he moved his arms to get the blood back in.
Neji sat across from Naruto and looked at his leader. "Excuse me Uzumaki-taicho, but how did everything go with that little bitch yesterday?" asked the Hyuga genius with venom in his voice.
Naruto smirked. "It all went according to plan...Hinata is starting to doubt the side branch family of the Hyuga...and soon would could impliment the second part of the plan."
Sasuke smiled and patted Neji's back. "I have to say Neji, that is a very smart way to steal the Jutsu-Shiki for the caged bird seal..." said the Uchiha.
Neji chuckled. "It was not my plan Sasuke...it was all thanks to Uzumaki-taicho, he had organized all the pieces since he placed the bitch on team seven..."
Naruto nodded and smiled at Neji. "It was the most convienent and effective way...not only will we be able to free Neji, we would also destroy most of the Hyuga clan and give Neji a chance to steal most of the secret Jutsu and scrolls." finished Naruto as he relaxed on the couch with a smile.
Sai sat down across from his leader and bowed his head a little. "Uzumaki-taicho, may I ask how the Hogyoku project coming along?" asked the young man politely with his head down. Neji and Sasuke were silenced by the question and also focused on their leader with seriousness as they sat down across from him.
Naruto sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "The gathering of human chakra will continue each night, but we will need to decrease the numbers and avoid using as much Shinobi as that will attract attention." said the Uzumaki as he leaned against the side of the couch with his arms crossed. "And when the time is right, we will feed the Hogyoku te nine Bijuu in order to complete it."
Neji nodded his head as Sasuke and Sai were in shock, they had not heard about the Bijuu plan from Naruto before. "A-All nine Bijuu...?" asked Sasuke as he thought the task would be impossible.
Naruto nodded. "Yes...The Hogyoku is not something that normal humans can control...I must offer it all the power it needs before I would be able to use it." said the man as he crossed his legs.
The others were silent for a few minutes, all trying to digest the new information, and Sai was the first to break the silence. "Uzumaki-taicho, what exactly is the Hogyoku...?" asked the pale young man was Sasuke and Neji stiffened at the sensative question at their leader.
Naruto sighed and closed his eyes. "I created the Hogyoku when I was trying to produce a defensive shield that was made out of pure chakra, and I used many seals to stablize the energy...than I found out that the only way to keep the density of the chakra high, was to keep it in motion...as long as I could make the chakra move at a constant speed, I could maintain the shield. Originally, I made simple glass sphere and wrote the Jutsu-Shiki inside of the ball, and I channeled all of my chakra into it at one point." Naruto's subordinates were all shocked as they all had an idea of how vast the Uzumaki's chakra reserves were.
"All of chakra was forced into the small area, and the seals made them constantly move in all directions inside of the ball. The chakra inside of the ball should have broken out of the glass, but I found that some of the chakra was actually coating the innards of the ball, and made a shield inside the glass preventing object from being destroyed. On one end of the shield, the chakra was compressed and moving, so it was incredibily strong, and the other side that was touching the glass was calm and stagnant, and the shape of the glass kept it from escaping..."
Naruto unsealed the Hogyoku from his hand and it hovered over his palm, it's aura was incredible, even Naruto felt uncomfortable when near the orb. "The more chakra I added into the Hogyoku, the more powerful it became, the chakra inside became to dense it started to influence natural things outside of the seal." said Naruto as he placed the orb close to a plant next to the couch, and when the plant was exposed to the orb, they entire thing glowed and broke apart into five pieces...
Sasuke's eyes widened. "T-That's different types of chakra!" he said as he looked at the glowing bits of energy that used to the his plant. "The Hogyoku broke the plant apart and separated each element of chakra that made up the plant in the first place."
Naruto nodded. "You are correct Sasuke..." said the man as he gazed into the powerful orb. "If I want the Hogyoku to target something, all I need to do is to get within ten feet of the item, and I can break whatever apart into their basic chakra components...and since everything in the existence is consisted of chakra, there is nothing I cannot destroy with the Hogyoku..."
Neji and Sai were utterly shocked at the great power. "But Uzumaki-taicho...if the Hogyoku is already so powerful, why do we need to offer it the Bijuu?" asked the Hyuga.
Naruto smirked. "That is because this is not the full potential of the Hogyoku...if enough power is gathered for it, I would be able to have unlimited chakra of every element...Even now I am able to harness the chakra of the Hogyoku and use it as my own, and if the Bijuu are added to it...I would be able to destroy the elemental nations with absolute ease!" muttered Naruto menacingly. "In Konoha I can make all the trees die within a second, all the people would be absorbed by the Hogyoku, and the entire village would be nothing but a crater and a distance memory in our minds."
Sasuke smirked in excitement. "This is amazing...every nation is famous fo each of the rich natural chakra that is found in their land, and thus they are called the elemental nations. Uzumaki-taicho, even if you don't want to kill everybody in the nations, you would be able to take away all the fire chakra from Hi no Kuni, all the water away from Mizu no Kuni...holy shit, you can turn Amegakure into a desert by pulling all water from it!"
Naruto smirked as he held the Hogyoku tightly. "Just like the legendary Rikudo Sennin, I am able to wield all five elements to their greatest level, and I can make everything in found in nature become a part of my chakra..."
Neji, Sasuke and Sai all suddenly bowed to Naruto. "Congratulations Uzumaki-taicho, you will reshape this rotten world to your own image!" cried Neji as he felt his loyalty to Naruto highten to new grounds, be it out of fear and anticipation of the full power of his leader.
Naruto chuckled and stood from where he sat. "You three may not be as powerful as I am...but you are my three closest subordinates and friends...All three of you will be known as some of the most powerful men ever live..." said Naruto proudly as he walked up to a window and gazed at the sky. "And under me...the Uzumaki clan, Uchiha clan, and Hyuga clan will be reborn in Uzushio no Kuni!"
Neji, Sasuke and Sai suddenly all got on one knee and bowed their heads. "HAI UZUMAKI-TAICHO