Madara's Successor

by dkdc

A dying Madara decides that he is going to have a successor... Naruto Namikaze. Infused with the DNA of both Madara and Hashirama can Naruto rise to the challenge and surpass his 'forefathers' or is he doomed to forever follow in their shadows. Alive Minato and Kushina. Sharingan \mokuton Naruto.

6. Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Beta reader; YokoNoDara

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto

"Your test begins...NOW!" As soon as those came out from her mouth, she disappeared in a swirl of leaves. The three academy graduates looked at each other, not saying a word.

"Hinata, can you tell me if you can see her?" Naruto asked taking command of the team

"Byakugan!" Hinata shouted, the veins around her eyes bulged and her pupil less eyes gained a more defined look. A second later her eyes widened a bit before she spoke up

"She's hiding inside of a tree, 100 meters north from here"

"We need to come up with a plan. If we were to go against her separately we'd fail...Why? She is a Jonin, has more experience than us and not to mention we are all freshly out of the academy" Shino explained, and both teammates could not help but agree at that sound logic. They stood there in silence once more, each thinking on how best to best to approach the situation.

"If I can distract her, Shino you can drain her chakra with your insects and Hinata when Shino has drained her chakra and she is disoriented you can get in close and finish her off with your Gentle Fist" It was a sound plan, but of course northing ever went right on the first try.

Hinata looked a bit startled when Naruto mentioned what her role would be. Naruto glanced at her through the corner of his eye, 'She's nervous' he thought. That was not good, when people were nervous they tended to hesitate and when people hesitated they put their team in danger. He sighed inwardly, Kami he hated doing this, and he was not good at helping people emotionally.

'Where are Hitomi and Hikari when you need them?' he groaned inwardly. His sisters were more open with their emotions than he was, and stilling his resolve he forced a smile

"Don't worry Hinata-san, we'll pass this test, as long we work together as a team" he said confidently

"Naruto is right, as long as we work together, as a team, we will pass" Shino added, Hinata looked at her new teammates and seeing how confident and supportive her teammates were being almost made her want to cry. She looked at them and with a determined look in her eyes she nodded her head

"H-Hai!" she said trying to sound as confident as she could be.

"Has she moved?" Naruto asked seriously, turning back to the matter at hand. Hinata activated her Byakugan once more and shook her head.

"No she's still hiding in the same place" They looked at each other once more before jumping into the trees and headed towards their sensei

WITH KURENAI

Kurenai hid patiently inside of a tall oak tree, she knew that her students would easily find her, which was the whole point. She knew that her students would easily find her, which was the whole point. She would test their tracking and observe their team work skills, if any. She felt a strong chakra signature heading towards her and was disappointed since the person was alone. 'No teamwork' she thought. A red haired figure landed on the ground a few metres in front of the tree she was in.

'He's either very arrogant in thinking he can take me on his own, or the other two are hiding somewhere...' Her eyes narrowed as she noticed two other chakra signatures hiding closely 'It's probably the later'. Going through a few hand seals she looked at her target and smirked

"Demonic Illusion; False Surrounding"

Naruto landed on the ground, where he could sense Kurenai hiding in the tree in front of him. His sensory ability limited him to 70 metres (230 feet) only, when he had first discovered he could sense people. He had tried to develop it more in order to extend the range, but honestly he never got around to it. He was either busy with trying to master his sharingan or learning the Fire Jutsu from the Uchiha Clan library. So the time to properly learn and master his sensory ability never came, thus the limited sensory range.

He was a bit surprised when the environment suddenly changed and instead of standing in front of the tree in a forest he found himself standing in his old parent's house and it was night time.

'And to finish it off' Kurenai thought, going through a few hand seals once more

"Demonic Illusion; Vision of Hell" She whispered and waited to see the results of her Jutsu

Naruto found himself lying on the ground, with a kunai sticking in his stomach, and his sisters crying over his bleeding form. His eyes widened in horror 'It can't be!'. The two men slowly descended upon his oblivious sisters, and ever so slowly raised their kunai and in slow motion plunging their kunai into his sisters' back. Their eyes widened, and slowly the life in them dimmed until they were dull blue instead of their bright youthful (*shiver*) crystal blue.

He let out an inhuman scream, "AHHHHHHH!" before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he promptly fell to the ground, unconscious.

Inside the tree Kurenai's eyes widened a bit, before narrowing in suspicion, 'That shouldn't have been that easy, from what I read Naruto is the most talented student in his graduation class. He should have been able to break free from that genjutsu easily...more importantly why didn't he activate his sharingan?' Her suspicions were proven correct when her instincts told her to dodge. Instantly she jumped away from the branch where she was standing on and a second later 5 kunai struck the area where she had been hiding.

She looked around trying to pinpoint where the attack had come from and found no one. She looked at the downed form of Naruto and was surprised when he crumbled into dust. 'An earth clone' She thought both surprised and impressed.

"PHSSSSS-"That was the only warning she got before the branch where she had moved to, in order to avoid the kunai, exploded from the use of several explosive the tags. When the smoke cleared, only a little piece of a log could be seen, indicating a substitution.

An unscathed Kurenai crouched on a new branch, looking at were the explosion had gone off. 'That was close.' Not close enough to have seriously hurt her but close. 'He's good...' She thought. Looking around, trying to locate the young red haired boy, she could feel several chakra signatures surrounding the area she occupied 'Very good.' He was using clones to hide his presence and was attacking from multiple angles. She looked up at the sun, calculating that only 27 minutes had passed. 'Not much time left.'

"Time to take this up a notch" she whispered to herself, taking out a kunai

From his hiding spot, the real Naruto looked at his two teammates.

"Get ready, it's almost time. Hinata, as soon as you see an opening, attack." Ignoring the nervous nod she gave in return, Naruto jumped from their hiding spot and landed on the ground, in order to gain clear view for an attack. He closed his eyes and when he opened them a fully matured sharingan could be seen. He flashed through a few hand seals and taking a deep breath-

"Fire Style; Fire Ball Jutsu!" andblew out a huge ball of fire that easily tore through the forest. Upon reaching the tree where he had sensed Kurenai, the fire ball erupted in a huge fiery explosion that blew away many of the trees and surrounding landmass.

When she had felt him channelling a large amount of chakra in his lungs, Kurenai had done what her instincts had screamed for her to do, run away, and she had not regretted it. When the explosion had died down she was surprised at how much damage the explosion had caused

'And to think he is only a Genin...' Jumping down from the tree she was in, and now standing a few feet in front of him, she looked at him and was surprised to see him only a bit winded from all the Jutsu he had used so far. His Sharingan was spinning madly before slowing down. Now his slowly sharingan was looking at her, as though he was seizing her up 'But then again considering who he is and who his parents are...I shouldn't be all that surprised' Seeing as he was not going to initiate the attack, Kurenai held her kunai in a reverse grip and was gearing up to attack when she suddenly felt her strength being sapped away.

'W-What the-' She tried moving but found she could not, so she forcefully turned her head the side and saw Shino standing there, with his arms stretched and a horde of insects flying out from the sleeves of his jersey

"You're within my range of division..." She heard a soft voice whisper and easily recognized it as Hinata. Before she could even utter a single word "- 8 Trigrams: 32 palms,2 palms, 4 palms, 8 palms, 16 palms, 32 PALMS!" She felt her chakra being closed off and more of it being drained from her.

She blinked too surprised to even react. She had completely forgotten about the other two! Even worse, she had lost to a group of Genin. Fresh out the academy Genin! Her, a seasoned Jonin defeated by mere academy graduates!

This test was supposed to test how well they worked as team, and they were supposed to be in no shape or form expected to defeat her. She tiredly looked at Naruto, her strength almost completely drained from her, and he still had his Sharingan active looking at her expectantly. She had underestimated him. No, she had underestimated all of them...Kami If Anko learned that she had lost to a group of Genin, fresh Genin even, she would never hear the end of it. A smile made its way across her face

"Congratulations, you managed to both track and capture me. You exceeded my expectations and for that..." they all tensed "...You pass."

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...Ok not the reaction she was going for.

WITH HITOMI

Hitomi grumpily made her towards training ground 14 with an angry pout on her face, it was not fair! She thought angrily stomping her foot on the ground. Why wasn't she placed with any of the other teams? Better yet why out of the entire academy students was she the one not to have a team? She was not even at the bottom of the class, far from it actually, sure written exams were not her strong point, but still she was ranked 4th in the class.

As she got closer and closer to the training ground where she would meet her to-be jonin sensei, Hitomi's mood turned sour and sour. Arriving at the training ground she almost screamed in frustration when she found the training ground empty and no sign of her jonin sensei

"Great, even my jonin sensei is not here" she grumbled loudly. Something hard hit her forehead, having not expected the attack, the object, which she identified as pebble, hit her head on. Bringing her hands to the now sore forehead, all her previous anger which had calmed down somewhat skyrocketed and much like her mother, she exploded.

"WHAT FUCK-"she started but froze when she looked up at who she was about to give a piece of her mind to "KAA-SAN!?". There standing on top of a brunch in a tree a few feet from her was Kushina Uzumaki, arms crossed with disapproval look on her face. Instead of her usual clothes she wore every day, her hair was tied up in a high ponytail with strands framing the sides of her face, she was also wearing standard konoha flack jacked, showing her position as a jonin, over a black short-sleeved shirt and black form-fitting pants that reached her calves.

"Language Hitomi" Kushina chided, jumping down from the tree she was standing on, she approached her still frozen daughter. Braking from her frozen stupor Hitomi pointed an accusing finger at her mother

"Your my jonin sensei!?" she shouted out obviously surprised, but who could blame her, it was not common that a parent teach their own child/ren for obvious reasons; for one the parent might avoid taking dangerous missions trying to protect their child, another reason which was the most important was that should their child get in danger the parent would instantly drop everything and try to save them, regardless of whether they were on an important mission or are guarding important cargo/client. So it was very, very rare for parents to lead their own children, especially in a hidden village like Konoha.

"Yes, but whenever we are on duty you refer to me as Kushina-sensei alright" Kushina explained ignoring her daughter's surprised yell; she had expected her to react like this after all. Hitomi just nodded dumbly, her mind still processing what was going on. Regaining some of her composer Hitomi asked the first question that came to her mind

"B-But your my Kaa-san" she stuttered out

"And now I'm your jonin sensei ttebane!" Kushina said excitedly, unconsciously adding her verbal tic at the end of her sentence, upon realising what she had said, she sweat drop and coursed under her breath. Turning serious Kushina looked at her daughter and spoke up

"Now Hitomi I'm sure you are wondering why you were the one chosen to not be in a genin team, more importantly, why I am your jonin sensei" seeing how serious her mother was, Hitomi gulped audibly and nodded her head

"What I'm about to tell you is very important and you should not tell anyone expect those people you really trust ok?" now Hitomi was worried, what could be possible be so important that she could not tell anyone but those she trusted and what did it have to do with her, something inside of her told her that whatever it was, she was not going to like it and her mother's serious demeanour helped confirm it.

"H-Hai" Hitomi responded nervously. Kushina took a small calming breath and taking a small moment to check if anyone was listening, founding no one and satisfied that nobody was close she spoke

"Please don't interrupt me until I finish ok?" Kushina said with her voice becoming softer, Hitomi did not respond, taking this as a cue to continue Kushina started talking.

"In the academy you were told that when the Kyuubi attacked the Third Hokage sacrificed himself using a fobiden jutsu to seal it within the Death God's stomach saving the village" she paused and Hitomi hesitantly nodded her head not understanding what any of that had to do with her. Kushina took another deep breath and continued

"That is not the truth-"Hitomi gasped

"What?" she was about to continue saying more however her mother's glare quickly shut her up

"As I was saying, that is not true, it is impossible for a mortal to drag something as powerful as the Kyuubi into the Shanigami's stomach...so the Third Hokage did what he could at the time, sacrificing himself he sealed the Kyuubi into a new born infant, whose chakra path ways had not fully been formed..." she paused and looked directly into Hitomi's eyes "...he sealed the Kyuubi within you"

Silence, Hitomi froze, her face went blank no emotion could be seen on her face

The entire training ground became silent; the trees frozen not even the blow of the wind could be heard. Kushina could swear she head a leaf fall and hit the ground; the air became very tense, so tense it was almost suffocating. After what seemed like eternity, for Kushina, Hitomi finally reacted

"Seal it within me!?" she screamed out, her breath became laboured, and tears started gather in the corner of her eyes

"Why me?" she whispered out so slowly that Kushina almost did not hear her but she did. Taking a step closer Kushina hugged her daughter though Hitomi did not respond to the hug, her arms just hang to her sides, slowly her shoulders started to shake, the tears in her eyes started to freely flow down her face. Kushina just continued hugging her daughter as she continued to cry, not minding that her clothes were getting soaked from the tears. After a few minutes Hitomi finally calm down enough for Kushina to talk to

"He had no choice, the Kyuubi attacked so suddenly that none of us could've prepared for it, so the Third did what he could to save the village" Kushina explained and Hitomi, whom she was still hugging had retuned her hug sometime when she was crying, nodded her head

"What about the Kyuubi, will it ever brake out?" at this Kushina chuckled, Hitomi looked up from her position quizzically, wondering what she had said that made her mother laugh in a situation like this.

"Trust me the Kyuubi is safely sealed and won't break out, not only is it sealed with the strongest seal ever created but also both me and your father are fuinjutsu expects, so trust me when I say this the Kyuubi will never brake out" she said reassuringly. They continued talking with Hitomi asking questions about the Kyuubi and Kushina answering them trying her best to set her daughters fears. After about an hour of talking Hitomi asked the one question that was still confusing her

"Kaa-chan?"

"Mhh?"

"There's still one thing I don't understand though" Kushina raised an eyebrow

"Oh? What's that?"

"I get that the Kyuubi is sealed in me and everything, what I don't get however is why you are my jonin sensei" Kushina blinked and almost face palmed, how could she forget!. She laughed sheepishly rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment

"Hehehe sorry I forgot about that" Hitomi sweat dropped, seriously?

"The reason why I was chosen to be your jonin sensei is because I can help you control the Kyuubi's chakra" Hitomi eyes widened slightly

"You can!? How?" Kushina puffed her chest proudly and closing her eyes for a dramatic effect, a second later golden chakra chains burst out from the ground, they hang loosely in the air still connected to the ground. Hitomi could only stare mouth open doing a perfect impression of a gaping fish

"That's, that's sooo COOL!" she shouted with stars in her eyes, but then her awestruck expression turned to that of confusion

"That still doesn't explain how that will help me control the Kyuubi's chakra though" Kushina smirked

"These are chakra chains, they are only accessible to me and are nearly indestructible, they can be used for various purposes like direct combating or physically restraining targets, even tailed beast" she explained proudly. Hitomi's eyes widened slightly now understanding what her mother was saying, with her chakra chains she could restrict her when and hopefully never, she lost control.

"Wow, so only you can use them" Hitomi said with a frown on her face. Kushina looked at her daughters disappointed face with an understanding look on her face, she could understand were her daughter was coming from, if the situation were reversed she too would have been unhappy to learn that she couldn't do what her parents could do.

"Well technically not really, just because neither you or your sister and brother have not been able to use the same chakra chains as me doesn't mean you won't be able to one day" Kushina said trying to bring up Hitomi's spirits', instantly Hitomi's eyes had a hopeful glint in them

"Now then, normally I would have to give you an additional test to determine whether you are ready to be a genin or not but since there is only you and no one else I'll just skip the test" Kushina said off headedly much to Hitomi's joy.

"Now let's go get us a mission, since you are jutsu a genin will start with D-rank missions" she smirked, she couldn't wait to see the look on her daughters face when she discovered what D-ranked missions were truly about. Hitomi's earlier happiness was suddenly replaced by that of nervousness, she felt as though a thousand souls screamed out to her warning her for something that was to come.

"I can't wait for you to meet Tora" Kushina said evilly, Hitomi froze; her mother wasn't going make her do dangerous missions was she? And what/who the heck was Tora, whatever it was she was going to kick its ass! She was Hitomi Namikaze, her mother was one of the strongest woman in the world, her father was the Fourth Hokage and both her grandparents were two of the three legendary sannin, nothing could scare her, especially not this Tora person/thing...poor Hitomi, if only she knew

LATER AT THE SENJU COMPOUND

A tired and battered Hitomi walked into the senju compound with an angry snarl on her face, which had several claw marks and a blue swelling eye, upon seeing her Shizune rushed to her in worry. However Hitomi just stomped past her muttering something about evil cats. Shizune looked at Kushina quizzically

"What was that about?" Kushina just chuckled humorously

"Tora" she said simply walking past Shizune who blinked before gaining an understanding look on her face which quickly turned into that of sympathy. Tora aka the Hell cat was known by nearly every ninja in Konoha who had the unfortunate luck of meeting her, even Shizune had had her run with that rebellious cat and till this date, just the mention of Tora made her cringe, she unconsciously reached for her face rubbing phantom wounds that had long been inflicted by Tora when she had tried to catch her back then. Shaking her head in sympathy Shizune continued what she had been doing before.

THE FOLLOWING MORNING

It was early in the morning, the sun's rays barely passing over the, mountain, the dew on the leaves and grass was still visible, and team seven was waiting impatiently for their jonin sensei to arrive

"WHERE THE HECK IS THIS GUY!?" Kiba screamed out stomping his foot on the ground in frustration

"FOR THE 100TH TIME KIBA, .KNOW" Sakura shouted back

"I mean not only did he arrive 3 hours late yesterday and gave us some lame excuse about why he was late, he also told us to be here at 5 am and still doesn't show up, what kind of jonin does that!?...man now I wish I had been placed in the same team with Naruto and Shino, at least their jonin was on time, not only that but she is very and I mean very hot" he ended his runt with a drool at the end only to receive a fist to the face, courtesy of an angry fuming Sakura

"PERVET!" she shouted in female fury, sending the drooling Kiba flying and hitting a tree. Surprisingly a second later he was up and in Sakura's face

"What the hell you crazy bitch, that hurt" faster than he could blink a fist hit him on top of his head sending him crushing into the unforgiving hard ground

" . .call,me?" Sakura asked darkly putting an extra emphasis on each word with her head down and her hair covering her face. Kiba who was now lying on the ground did not see this and mumbled a response that sealed his fate.

"B-Bitch" Sakura exploded, she started punching the still downed Kiba into the ground until half his body was buried deed into the ground and his legs raised high into the air, the only sign to show that he was still alive was the constant twitching of his legs. Dusting herself Sakura huffed and turned around to see a whimpering Akamaru, whom upon seeing that she was looking at him, run away as fast as his little legs could carry him. Sakura smirked and walked towards the other female in their team and her smirk turned into a frown when she saw Hikari

Hikari had not been paying attention to any of her teammates since arriving at the training ground, her mind her was preoccupied with something else, more specifically what their parents had told them about Hitomi last night. It had been a shocker to her and her brother when they learned that Hitomi was a jinchuriki of the kyuubi no less.

At first she had been afraid that sooner or later the kyuubi would break free and kill them all, however her father had quickly intervened and put her fears to rest by explaining to them how the seal was safe and the chances of the kyuubi braking free being impossible. After that the three children had spent some time talking to each other, mostly her and Hikari, before going to bed.

But Hikari did not sleep, something kept her up for the majority of the night, as stupid and ridiculers as it might sound Hikari was jealous, not for not being the one to get the Kyuubi sealed within her mind you, no Hikari was jealous because unlike Naruto and Hitomi she did not receive some kind of curse/power upon birth.

As silly as might may sound she felt left out, when she was told that Naruto had been injected with the DNA of Madara and Hashirama, she had felt sorry for her brother and that had been that, now however her sister too had had the Kyuubi sealed within her, and that changed everything

She now felt like the odd men out, she-

"Hikari!"

"Huh?" was her intelligent reply, she saw the worried looked on her friend's face and wondered for how long she had been thinking for

"I've been calling you for over a minute now, are you feeling ok?" Sakura asked worriedly, her personality in direct contrast to what it had been like a few minutes ago.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine, just have something on my mind that's all" Hikari said off headedly. Sakura looked at her friend with narrowed eyes before frowning

"Ohk, if your sure" Hikari just nodded her head

"So how long do you think sensei is going to make us wait for?" Sakura asked changing the subject. Hikari's brows frowned a bit and she sighed loudly and hit her forehead with her hand

"How I could forget, Kakashi is always late for everything, Kaa-san is always complaining about his always late for every single thing"

"So how long is he usually late for" Sakura asked, he couldn't be that bad could he?

"3 hours" Hikari groaned out

"We might as well get comfortable" Sakura said in a defeated tone, walking towards a tree nearby and slumping down with Hikari right behind her.

THREE HOURS LATER

"Yo, sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way around" Kakashi said appearing in a smoke explosion with an eye smile. Not hearing anything he curiously opened his lone eye uncovered eye and sweat dropped at what he saw. Hikari and Sakura were snoozing away under a tree and Kiba, he had to double take at that, the top section of Kiba was buried into the ground and his dog, Akamaru, was fruitlessly trying to dig him out.

"What a very...interesting team"