Chapter 8
Mokuton
Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto
A/N; I must confess guys, I suck at describing how people look(their height, shape, clothing, etc) so there are times when I will either avoid giving a description or I'll just give a sketchy description of them ...please bear with me on this one, ok?
RESULTS
Pairings
Kurotsuchi-6
Yugito-10
Temari-4
Fu-2
Samui-2
SUMMONS
Dragons-6
Eagles-5
Fox-2 (forgot to add this one earlier)
Raven-1
Wolf-1
Beta'd by; YokoNoDara
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Team 8 continued on walking straight ahead, acting as normal as they could possibly manage. They continued on walking until they were stopped by the two men who were standing in the middle of the road. Kurenai had moved so that she was walking slightly ahead of her team.
"Can I help you?" Kurenai asked, looking directly at the two men; both were wearing slashed Kumo headbands. 'Missing nin' Kurenai thought to herself
"Of course you can. How about you and that little princess there, follow us and we might think about letting the other two go...alive". One of the men leered at Kurenai. She looked at him, taking what details she could about what appeared to be the leader. He had dark black hair hung limply on his head, and appeared unkempt. He had mud coloured brown eyes, a short but heavily built body that was made for combat and had the scars to prove it. He was wearing a tight black fish net that showed off his heavily scarred body, with brown cargo shorts that stopped at mid calf; and normal dark blue, Shinobi shoes.
If there was one thing that Kurenai hated more than perverts, it was rapists; and by the looks of lust in these men's eyes as they seized her up, it was obvious what their intentions were. She held back the angry sneer that was threatening to slither across her ruby painted lips. She reached down to her pouch that was tied around her tight, and pulled out a kunai, and her students did the same.
Suddenly, six other men appeared from the bushes surrounding them, a look of shock appeared in her eyes
"Ah, ah, ah. We can't have you fighting back now can we? After all...you might hurt yourself" . The same man spoke again, shaking his finger in a mocking gesture as a lecherous grin spread across his face; the same look that was on all of their faces.
"So how about you give up, and we can all get what we want" he gestured with his bandaged covered hand to his friends. Kurenai just smirked.
"How about we not!" With that Kurenai disappeared into nothingness, with the images of her Genin team doing the same.
"Body Stop Technique" Much to the men's shock multiple Kurenai's appeared behind each of them like a solid ghost, gripping the back of their necks with one arm. They each felt their body's freeze; they couldn't move at all, no matter how hard they tried. To make matters worse, they heard a buzzing sound like those made by bees. They saw a black cloud of insects swarm them, surrounding them and draining their chakra.
From their hiding spot, Naruto looked at Shino, waiting for him his to give the signal. Shino nodded his head, and that was all the confirmation he needed. Flashing through a few hand seals, he took a deep breath and
"Fire Style; Dragon Fire Jutsu" From his mouth he blew out a large stream fire that came out much like a flame thrower. The fire hit the target and loud screams of pain could be heard as the men were burned alive.
The smell of burning flesh hit their nostrils, and all of them almost threw up. In fact, when the smoke cleared, revealing the smoking and badly burnt bodies of the dead men; Hinata was the first to throw up. Naruto looked at the men he had killed with a tint of guilt in his eyes, however he had already killed before so he didn't feel as guilty as most people would feel for their first kill.
"Naruto" Kurenai said worriedly, she hated that she had to force her Genin into killing; she was also worried about how he would react to his first kill
"I'm fine, I have already killed before" he responded in a monotone voice. Kurenai felt like a ton of bricks hit her on the head. How could she forget? The incident that happened 6 years ago, it was the talk of the entire village for over a month. All about how someone had broken into the old Namikaze house, and how Naruto had been forced to kill 2 ANBU looking men. At first she had been sceptical about the whole thing. Seriously how could a six years old kid, kill 2 fully trained ANBU?
It wasn't until the Hokage had confirmed the story and her best friend Hanna who had been a part of the tracker team to investigate the scene, had told her face to face that it was true.
"Now you've gone and done it" a gruff voice said behind them, they all looked over at where the voice had come from, and to their shock found 3 men standing there, their skin slightly pink from the intense heat of the fire.
"How?!" Kurenai asked in surprise, since she had been so sure they had gotten them all. The three men just smirked in response.
"I will tell you when we are alone" Kurenai looked at the three men in front of her, 2 Jonin level and 1 Chunin. She hated what she was about to ask her Genin to do, but she had no choice
"Naruto you take the guy on the left, Shino and Hinata team up and take the one in the back and I'll take loud mouth of here" Shino and Hinata looked at Kurenai with surprise. There were two Jonins and 1 Chunin left, and she had just instructed a lone Genin to go against a Jonin level Missing nin.
"Sensei, I don't think it is wise for Naruto to go against him alone" Shino spoke up, trying to save his friend from what he could see was a very dangerous battle, one that he would not win. Kurenai bit her lip, she had seen Naruto going all out and knew he was powerful, but that was a mock battle. Even though Kushina was barely holding back, he is her son, so she was sure at some point she might have pulled some punches. This however was a Jonin level Missing Ninja. He wasn't going to hold back, he was going to be attacking with the intent to kill.
The problem was, Naruto was the only one skilled enough to face one of the ninja alone. She couldn't take on two Jonin level ninja once so her best plan at the moment was for her to finish her battle as quickly as she could and then go help him put out. She looked at Naruto through the corner of her eyes and could see his Sharingan spinning madly in preparation for the battle.
"We have no choice, Naruto do you think you could keep him preoccupied long enough for me to finish my battle?" Naruto nodded his head
"If you're done rumbling to each other can we get this show on the road" the same man spoke up again this time in annoyance.
"Ok then team you know what to do" they all nodded their heads, Shino's colony of insects slowly crawled out from his raised arms, and out from under the sleeve of his coat, taking to the air. Hinata had her Byakugan activated and was standing in Hyuuga jyuken stance, Naruto had a kunai held in reverse grip in his right hand, his hood was off showing his wild untamed red hair and his Sharingan spinning madly
"Hai!"
Shino and Hinata vs Chunin level Kumo missing ninja
Shino and Hinata stared at their opponent seizing him up, from what they could tell; the man was in his late twenties. He had short and choppily cut dull white hair that barely reached his shoulders. He had dark green forest coloured eyes and pale white skin that almost matched Hinata's. He was wearing a tight fitting dull black shirt with baggy, torn green shorts that were ripped just below the knees; his slashed forehead protector was tied on his bandaged left arm.
"Fighting against a two Genins...I feel insulted" he said throwing several kunai at them. They both easily avoided the kunai but to their shock the kunai all had explosive notes tied to them.
When the kunai exploded, both Shino and Hinata had been forced to use a substation to get away from the blast radius. When they appeared from the smoke unharmed, the man sneered and took out a kunai and attacked Shino head on.
Shino retaliated by doing the same and fought with the man. The area they were in was filled with the sounds of clashing of metal, and the sight several sparks that arched through the air each time kunai met kunai. Shino was being pushed back by his opponent; he was not very good with head to head combat, and the man he was fighting against was taking advantage of that.
In a display pure of speed he disappeared from Shino's view and reappeared behind him.
"SHINO!" Hinata tried to warn him, but it was already too late. The man stabbed Shino in his back with the kunai, however, Shino dissolved into a thousand insects. The insects swarmed the man, covering him from head to toe. Hinata rushed at the captured man with her Byakugan active. The moment the insects departed from the now much weakened man she attacked.
She gathered chakra to her hand, making it glow blue momentarily and quickly thrust her palm at his chest. To the naked eye, it looked like all she had done was hit the man with her palm and sent him flying. To those with a DouJutsu, however, with prior knowledge of the Hyuga fighting techniques, would tell you otherwise. The chakra in her palm hand been sent directly into the man's chest, severing several of his arteries and tendons. He died instantly and painfully.
Not realizing what she had actually done, she ran to where she could see her teammate was. She found him leaning on a tree with his back turned against it and he was breathing heavily
"A-Are y-you h-hurt Shino?" she asked, she had seen the kunai stab him before he had substituted with a clone of his insects.
"The kunai did not injure me greatly, however it seems that it was laced with poison. My insects are trying to purge the poison, but I don't think-" from behind his glasses his eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he collapsed, unconscious.
"Shino!" Hinata screamed out, eyes wide in fear.
WITH NARUTO A FEW MINUTES EARLIER
"A Sharingan user? Haven't fought one those in quite some time" his opponent commented, Naruto ignored him and readied himself
"A silent type, huh? We will soon change that!" The man disappeared in a burst of speed and appeared in front of Naruto with his fist buried in his stomach. He smirked, assuming he had finished his battle quickly and effortlessly. His eyes widened slightly when the Naruto he hit crumbled to dust, revealing itself to have been an earth clone.
He looked around the area to find his target; when he looked up he saw Naruto in midair, blowing out a huge fire dragon. Flashing through a few hand seals, he shouted.
" Water Style: Water Cannon Jutsu!" From out of his mouth he spat out a powerful beam of water that easily tore through the fire attack and hit an unsuspecting Naruto, who was still in midair, head on. Naruto used his hands as a shield to block some of the force of the attack, but the attack was still strong enough that it sent him flying away and managed to break a few of his ribs. He crashed harshly on the hard and unforgiving, creating spider web like cracks on the ground.
Sitting up, he put his hands on his broken ribs and his hands started to glow green. A few seconds later he had completely healed his ribs, so it was as if they had never been broken. At that moment he was thankful for learning a few Medic Jutsu from his Baa-chan. They had all been pleasantly surprised to learn that even though he had a large chakra reserves, his control over it was near perfect. Whether it was from his Senju DNA or the constant use of his Sharingan that had improved his chakra control to where it was, he was not certain, but hey he was not complaining. His grandmother had happily taught him a few Medic Ninjutsu, though because of how complex and hard it was to learn them, he had not learned a lot; just enough to heal a few fractures and minor broken bones and stop some bleeding.
Naruto silently cursed, of all the opponents he had to face against it had to be the one who used water. 'What was a water type Jonin doing in Kumo anyways, and didn't Kumo specialize in lighting style Ninjutsu and kenjutsu?' He ranted in his mind. At that moment, he slightly regretted having focused so much on fire style Jutsu. He had a few water and earth Jutsu but no33ne of them were strong enough to overpower his opponent. He made a silent promise to learn some more earth and water Jutsu when he got home. After all, he could easily convince his grandmother to allow him to access the Senju Library...that was, of course if he got out of this battle alive.
He jumped away just in time to avoid several kunai hitting the very spot he had been standing on. He looked at where the kunai had come from, and saw that his opponent was looking down at him from the tree he was standing on, with a smug look on his face
"I'm surprised you survived that attack" his opponent growled darkly with a murderous glint in his eyes.
"Let me rectify that"
"Water Style: Giant Water Dragon"
"Water Style; Giant Water Dragon!"
They both shouted at the same time, spitting out large globs of water that transformed into giant dragons with snake like body structures, and yellow glowing eyes. The dragons met in the middle of the space between the two ninja and upon impact exploded, creating a large wave of water that sent both ninjas floating away.
Naruto deflected a kunai coming at him with his own, and not giving him any time to recuperate, the Jonin attacked him head on. Naruto blocked every strike the Jonin sent his way with slight difficulty. True, his Sharingan could predict each and every attack, but the Jonin was faster than him, making it harder for him to defend himself. Seeing as the Jonin was gaining an edge with each passing moment, he jumped away from the head on assault and going through a few hand seals, spoke.
"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire" He blew out several dragon headed fireballs, all aimed at his opponent. He heard Hinata scream out in terrified concern.
"SHINO!" He looked over to where her voice had come from in worry, and that distraction cost him dearly. The fire Jutsu hit the water covered ground and vaporized into mist, and the Jonin appeared above him, his mouth bloated and hands on a seal. When trying to move, he found he couldn't, he looked down and saw chains made from water binding his feet to the ground.
'Water style: Water Cannon Justu' the Jonin chanted in his head, and spat out a powerful beam of boiling lava hot water straight at the restrained and struggling Naruto. With his Sharingan, Naruto could see that the attack was significantly more powerful than the Missing Nin had used before. Due to the large amounts of chakra that was used in the Jutsu, and from the steam rolling off of it, he didn't think he could survive it. He didn't have a fire justu strong that was strong enough to vaporize the Water Cannon Jutsu, and there was not enough time for him to cast any Jutsu.
"No!" He shouted, in desperation, his head turning to the side with his eyes shut tightly. He raised his arms up in a defensive cross formation. For a few seconds northing happened, then he heard a loud explosion, like steaming water hitting something solid. He waited for a few more seconds, and still he did hear anything, nor did he feel any oncoming attack or any pain. Tentatively he opened his eyes and was surprised to find himself surrounded by wood in a what appeared to be a wood like cocoon, that stretched around him while leaving the back open ( A/N; think of the cocoon-like wall that Yamato used to block the shockwaves from the battle against 4-tailed Naruto and Orochimaru)
The Jonin softly landed on the ground, with a smug look on his face as he looked at where his attack had hit, the area was covered in steam from the boiling water. He was sure the battle was over, he had to give credit where it was due though, the kid he fought was very good. For someone his age to go against him, and actually hold out this long on his own, that had been impressive.However, in the end, he was a Jonin with more battle experience than him. He was about to head to where he had heard that scream come from, after all he still had a job to do, however before he could he was attacked. He jumped away just in time to avoid large wooden branches that burst out from the ground where he had been standing.
"W-What?" he asked out in surprise, shocked at being attacked by wood. As far as he knew, Wood Style Ninjutsu was only ever used in history by one person and one person alone, the First Hokage of The Hidden Leaf Village. He looked around trying to find who had sent the attack.
"Come out!" he shouted after not finding anyone. He jumped again as more wooden branches burst from the ground only this time the branches and the roots of the trees chased after him.Like a ghost Naruto appeared standing a few feet away from the Jonin.
"Y-You!?" he stuttered out, taking a step back. What he did not see, however, was the large tree behind him until it was too late. Roots and branches from the tree grabbed him, wrapping tightly around his body, binding him to the tree so he could not move. Naruto approached the man and in one swift move, stabbed him in his chest right where his heart was, killing him instantly.
When the man was dead, Naruto dropped to the ground on his knees panting hard. Willing those branches and roots into attacking, without ever having done before, especially without having any kind of training whatsoever had drained his chakra to near exhaustion. He slowly rose to his feet, using the trees for support as he walked to his teammates. The trees that had burst out during his fight with the Jonin, aiding him immensely, slowly sank back into the ground, and the branches holding the now dead man returned to their rightful position.
He never noticed a plant like figure sinking into the ground with a single yellow eye looking at him
'Leader-sama will be interested in this'
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Naruto arrived where his team mates were, that was not at all far from where his battle had taken just place. He saw Hinata crouched on the ground, hovering protectively over Shino, who lay unconscious and motionless. Thinking the worst, he quickened his paces, straining his sore and highly exhausted body.
"What's wrong with him?" He asked Hinata startling, the poor girl. Disliking the feeling of being so weak, he took a small bottle with several red pills in it. out of his pocket. Taking one of them, he felt his chakra being replenished.
"H-He's b-been p-poisoned" Without a moment to waste, Naruto took out another bottle from his pocket, that was filled with yellow pills. He took out a single pill and opened Shino's mouth and placed it on his tongue. He slowly tilted Shino's head upwards, and using his other hand he stroked down Shino's throat gently; these actions had the effect of causing the unconscious Shino to instinctively swallow the pill.
Hinata who had been silent throughout the whole process spoke up when he was done.
"What did y-you give him?"
"It is a special pill that my grandmother made; she gave them to us when we graduated from the academy. The pills stop any infections or poison from spreading within the body or blood stream. However they only last for about 5 hours before they completely stop working" he explained putting the pills back in his pocket.
"We have to get him to a hospital soon, Hinata can you use your Byakugan and tell me whether Sensei is done or if she is still fighting that missing nin"
"Sensei is right-"
"Here" Kurenai said appearing behind them
"Is everyone alright?" she asked already automatically checking Shino. The two Genins nodded their head
"Shino has been poisoned, I have given him some medication to stop the poison from spreading, but it will wear off soon" Naruto told Kurenai, she nodded her head and inwardly cursed that her Genin was in a life threatening situation on his first real mission.
"Are you two uninjured enough to travel?" Kurenai asked. Hinata had not done much fighting, and had not suffered any serious life threatening injuries, so she was okay. Naruto though had fought a full on battle with a Jonin, and had it not been for the chakra pill he had taken, he would have dropped down on the ground in exhaustion.
They both nodded their heads; Kurenai took Shino into her arms, carrying him bridal style
"We will move as fast as we can back to Konoha and will take breaks on the way, as they are needed. However our first priority is to get Shino back to Konoha as fast as we possibly can" Kurenai said seriously. With that, team 8 rushed towards Konoha as fast as they could, to save their teammate\best friend\ student's life.
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"Arg I'm sooo bored right now, why doesn't anything exciting ever happen" Kotetsu groaned out, banging his head on little gate post he was cited on.
"I don't see why your complaining, you're the one who suggested we guard the gate in the first place 'It will be easy Izimo, will get paid for doing northing' that's what you said right" Izimo responded with a frown on his face, he too was bored.
"Well you didn't have to agree with me!" Kotetsu shouted back, embarrassed about choosing to guard the gates.
"You said it would be easy money!" Izimo shouted back standing up from his post and glaring at his best friend who stood up and started glaring back.
"Ehm" someone said drawing their attention, they both looked at the direction of the voice and saw a slightly beaten up Kurenai holding Shino in her arms. Her other two genins standing behind her, they both noticed that Naruto's cloths where torn and there was a large hole on his stomach, which was showing his skin. They were both surprised to find that Hinata had damage on her form and only looked to be tired
"Oh you may pass" Kurenai nodded her head and continued running into the village towards the hospital, her to genins following behind.
"What do you think happened to them?" Izimo asked after the team was out of their sight
Shrugging his shoulder "I don't know, whatever it was it must have been bad to put them in that kind of state" Kotetsu responded and Izimo nodded his head. They were both silent for a while before-
"I'm bored" Kotetsu whined
"Shut up Kotetsu, you're the one who choose this job" Izimo said in annoyance
"It's your fault for agreeing with me in the first place" Kotetsu responded standing up again...and the cycle continues
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A few hours later.
After dropping Shino to the hospital Kurenai had left her team to go and give the Hokage a mission briefing, though not before she had them that she was giving the team two weeks off.
Naruto walked towards the Senju house with a solemn look on his face, his thoughts going back to the mission they had just completed. The mission, a simple delivery mission, turned out to be a very dangerous, one that almost cost them their lives.
He clenched his fist tightly; his best friend had almost died on that mission. The thought made him halt for a second, he knew about the dangers and sacrifices of being a shinobi, his parents had made sure to make them understand that being a shinobi was not like most people thought it was about, that as a shinobi there were times when you will have to kill, watch your comrades die, assassinate innocent people on all because of a mission.
He had taken those words to heart, but after that close encounter with those missing nin had been a real eye opener for him. His thoughts drifted to his own fight, even though he had hold his own and even won against a jonin, he had lost. The battle showed him his weaknesses; he relied too much on his Fire Ninjutsu. True he had a few water and earth style jutsu, they were few too few, he had hardly put any effort into the earth and water affinities, something he would rectify soon.
He remembered how he too almost died, had he not used the mokuton jutsu to grow that shell like wall he would surely have been in the afterlife now. Mokuton! He suddenly realised, he had used wood style Ninjutsu, the famous wood release that was used by the First Hokage, the ability that allowed said man to capture and tame all the bijuu! He almost jumped in excitement, he had gained such a powerful ability, his strength would surely increase now, and it was inevitable. He couldn't wait to tell his family, especially his grandmother, she would be thrilled to know he could use the same ability that her grandfather had used, and to her it meant that the Senju blood was not going to die with just her but would also continue with Naruto and his children.
He halted slightly, how was he going to train using the wood release he didn't know how he had used it in the first place nor did he know anyone alive who had it, it was just like his sharingan; when he had awakened it he had no clue how to use it even more embarrassing was that when he first awakened it he didn't even know how to activate and shut it off, but at least back then he had the Uchiha library to help him. 'That's it!' he shouted in his mind
Just like how he learned to control his sharingan from the Uchiha Library, he could also learn about the wood release from the Senju library. The First Hokage must have left some notes about his wood release just in case one of the Senju children was able to awaken it and hopefully a few jutsu to go along with those notes. So now his goals were to first learn to use wood release and practice and improve his earth and water affinities. With that in mind Naruto continued his walk home, before he could do any of that he first needed some rest, he had managed to hold it off so they could get to the village quickly but he was exhausted. He had not recovered fully from his fight, his body was aching everywhere, he added some extra speed to his step, and the sooner he got home the sooner he could finally rest.
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WITH HINATA
Hinata much like Naruto was walking towards her own house in deep thoughts, her mind constantly replaying the events that took place during the mission. She had never felt so useless in her life, her team mates and sensei had all fought against their enemies and she had barely done anything to help Shino against their own fore.
She bit her lip when she thought about Naruto, her team mate, he had single handily fought and won against a jonin level missing Nin. And yet she had barely held her own against a chunin level Nin with the help of Shino and that's what riled her up. If Naruto had been able to win against jonin and she had trouble fighting against a chunin, what did that say about his her strength? She knew he was strong; from his battle against their sensei, but now she could truly see how strong he was and the gap between their strength was not one to laugh at.
Right now she was the weakest in their team, she was the one holding them back a burden for them to carry. She clenched her fist tight enough to almost draw blood
"Not anymore" she spoke under her breath, from now hence forth she swore she become stronger, she would not become a burden anymore she would walk alongside her team mate's side and not behind them, she would show them the true Hyuga Hinata!
She started sprinting towards the Hyuga compound, with determination burning deep in her eyes; she had some training to do!
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2 DAYS LATER
His body no longer ached, his chakra was fully restored, all his muscles were healed he had to tell the truth, he loved his Uzumaki and Senju genes. Not only did he have a large amount of chakra, near perfect control of that chakra but his body's natural healing rate was second to his jinchuriki sister. He walked towards the hospital with two people in mind.
The hospital was near the Hokage tower which was close to the senju compound and so it didn't take long for him to arrive there. Even from afar he could see the very large building which easily towered over many of the other buildings in Konoha, he couldn't help but marvel at its size, the hospital one of the most important buildings in the leaf village, responsible for saving and healing hundreds of injured people per day and to think his grandmother run it all.
He arrived at the straight foot path leading to the double doors leading inside the massive building. He entered the building and was imidiatly greeted by the smiling face of a nurse sited on the reception desk.
"Hello what can I do for you today?" she said with a warm smile on her face, Naruto smiled back slightly in response
"I'm here to see my team mate, he was brought here yesterday"
"What's his name?" the kind nurse responded taking out a file from under her desk.
"Shino Aburame"
"Aburame, Aburame- oh! Here he is" she exclaimed in success "says here he was brought in yesterday and was sent to the ER, he is currently in room 204 recovering, you can see him"
"Thank you" Naruto responded walking towards the room
"Its trouble at all...would you like me to take you out- I mean to the room" she said horridly with a pink tint in her cheek. Naruto simply raised an eyebrow at her behaviour
"No thank you, I know the room" he said kindly walking away, he had been at the hospital many times before, and he knew his way around.
The nurse sighed dreamingly as she watched the young red herded boy walking away; she had to admit for such a young boy he was handsome with those deep beautiful blue eyes, deep spiky red hair reaching his shoulder, perfect light tan skin, an angular face almost free of his baby fat. Judging by who his parents where, especially his father, she could only imagine how hot-cough-handsome he would become when he grew older.
She wouldn't mind having a go with someone as handsome as him, regardless of their age difference, too bad she had almost every single female in the leaf village to compete with. She sighed again, as she watched him disappear into the corner, a girl could only dream with that one.
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Naruto walked past the many doors of the hospital, some empty some not, he held back a shiver as he made to his destination, the way that nurse on the reception desk had been eyeing him had scared the red haired boy, it reminded him too much of the way Ami and to a lesser extent Ino looked at him back during the academy.
Those looks, the way their eyes lit up with excitement and what he could identify as lust? Whenever their eyes landed upon his form. He was sure if ever he were to drop his gourd around any the females in Konoha, he would long since have lost his virginity.
He saw the room where Shino was said to be in, entering the room he found a sleeping Shino lying on the hospital bed. He was not at all surprised to see him wearing his black sunglasses, 'Aburame and their secrecy' he scoffed slightly. Honestly he had not once ever seen his friend not wearing them, or any of his clan's men for that matter; maybe he should ask Shino why they liked wearing black glasses so much.
Putting his little mental observation for later he approached Shino and sat on the chair beside his bed side. he sat there is silence not sure what to do or say, he started feeling awkward, he looked at Shino and could see his chest steadily rising up and falling down, he was connected to any machines indicating that he was not in any danger, the poison had been fully removed from his system.
Ten minutes passed and Naruto had not moved his chair, he stood up from his chair and took out a little blue card from his pocket. He put the card on the window and walked out of the room.
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Tsunade sighed in exasperation as she glared at the mountain of paper on her desk, had she known being the head medic nin would have her sit behind a desk and do so much paperwork she would never had agreed in the first place. Looking at the large amount of documents still waiting to be read, signed and approved, she rubbed her temples 'I need a break'
Taking out a small golden key from her pocket, she walked towards the picture frame of her family that was on the wall. She removed the picture from the wall and behind it was a safe. She opened the safe using the key she had taken out from her pocket, this was where she kept a secret stash of her 'stress reliever', she smirked inwardly Shizune may know where all her other secret hide sports were but not this one, she had made sure to hide it perfectly and made it inaccessible to anyone but her.
She opened the safe and was rewarded with...an empty safe, save for a neatly folded note. She snatched the note and read it 'Drinking is not good for you Tsunade-sama, Love Shizune'. A Shibi smiling Shizune was drawn at the back of the latter giving her a thumbs up.
Tsunade started shaking; her eyes glowed with righteous fury. She raised her foot and swiftly brought it to the ground, the action shook the entire room and good portion of the building too, crack marks appeared on the ground where she had stomped her foot.
'SHIZUNE! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON THAT LITTLE-'her angry murderous thoughts were stopped by someone knowing on the door
"Knock, knock, knock'
"Enter" she said calming her a bit, she would sought out her little apprentice later. The door opened and in walked a red herded boy that she instantly recognised
"Naru-kun!" she exclaimed happily her anger forgotten by the sight of her grandson. She walked towards him and hugged him, burying the poor boy in her generous bosom.
After an eternity (on Naruto part) of hugging and smothering the poor boy she finally let him go.
When he had been freed from what he could only say as one of the most dangerous situations in his young life; only second to being trapped in a room full of fan girls. Naruto took a deep breath to replace the oxygen he had been deprived of seconds ago; he looked at his grandmother, who in all honesty didn't look like a grandmother at all, considering her age he wondered how she looked so young, he would have asked but he was not willing to risk making her angry, he had seen how she reacted when angered; his grandfather learning how to fly was proof of it.
He straightened himself, unaware of the blush on his face but unfortunately for him Tsunade noticed it.
"Aww my little Naru-kun is blushing" she gasped, putting her hand on her mouth " Don't tell me you have developed a crush on me, you know Naru-kun incest is prohibited" She put a hand under her cheek in a thinking meaner "Bust since you're so cute, I'll make an exception"
To say Naruto was embarrassed would be an understatement, his face as red as his hair; he was stuttering words trying to defend him. Tsunade could only laugh at his failed attempts of denial her grandson was making, after having a good laugh and her mood dramatically improved she decided to put him out of his misery
"Relax, I'm just joking kid, you're a little too young for my taste..." Naruto breathed out a sigh of relief the blush on his face receding, honestly why did his grandmother and mother like to tease or rile him up as often as they could. It was like they enjoyed watching him get embarrassed or 'loose his cool', but that couldn't be it, could it?
"Baa-san" Tsunade glared at him "Ehm, I mean Baa-chan" he quickly corrected himself. Tsunade sat on her chair with and indicated for him to seat on the chair in front of her desk.
"I don't think this is a social visit, is it?"Naruto inwardly sighed, was he that readable?
"No, I came here to ask you for something" he admitted. Tsunade narrowed raised an eye brow
"Oh? What is it?" Naruto fidgeted in his seat, he felt like he was back at the Uchiha compound asking Fugaku for his permission to enter the clan library. He tried calming his increasing nervousness, this was his grandmother, she loved him surely she would agree.
"May I...can I...could you-"getting annoyed
"Spit it out" Tsunade said
"Can you allow me to you use the Senju Library" he blurted out. Tsunade blinked that was it? That was the reason why he was so nervous, all wanted to ask for was to use the library, it's not like there was anything important in it or anything.
Unknown to Tsunade she had been silent the whole time as she thought about the stupid reason for her grandson's behaviour and her silence was making said boy very nervous.
"Sure, you can use the library all you want" she said off handily. Naruto just sweat drop at that, here he was having a mental breakdown worried that she was going to refuse or worse explode on him, and she had just casually given him permission to the library without so much of a care what so ever.
Seeing the relived look on Naruto's face, Tsunade chuckled inwardly her grandson and only living blood relative was sure a weird one compared to his sisters. Unlike Hitomi and Hikari who were both very loud, very open, and overly cheerful, Naruto was the odd men out, he was reserved, quiet, and rarely if ever spoke out loud.
And truth be told she was worried for him, she knew about how people treated him, the expectations that everyone had for him, she was worried that just like the Uchiha prodigy Itachi, he too would crumble under the pressure and do things that would haunt him for the rest of his life. She would often spy on him as he trained himself to the ground wanting to get more powerful, to show his worth to everyone else. She wondered what would happen if he was to get that power, would he become evil and abandon his family and friends-cough-friend and become a power hungry tyrant like her teammate or worse Madara. Or would he use that power to protect his loved ones and the village like her grandfather.
With the influence of his family, his friend, she knew he would not fall to the dark side, or at least she hoped he would not. Her grandson was destined for great things that much was curtain and was going to change the world, for better or for worse.
Pushing her thoughts aside she stood up slightly to pinch his cheek
"You shouldn't over think things so much Naru-kun, you're going to give yourself a brain tumour one day" Naruto rubbed his now sore cheek and gave her an annoyed look.
"Says one of the smartest women in the village" Naruto responded back.
"Don't get cheeky with me brat" Tsunade said amused by his response.
They were both silent after. Seeing as he was not leaving and the maintain of paperwork on her desk would only grow if not attended to.
"Is there something else you wanted?" She asked finally
"Something happened to me on the last mission that I had" Naruto began getting Tsunade's attention, she had head from Minato about the mission that he was talking about, they had been on C-ranked mission when a group of missing nin had attacked, from what she had been told and the mission briefing she had read Naruto had fought against one of the jonins and had won.
The scolding she had given Minato for allowing a group of inexperienced genin to a C-ranked mission after they had been a team for only 2 months, and to make it worse her grandson was on that team. Of cause Minato had defended himself saying that sooner or later Naruto was going to go on a higher ranking and that he was strong, that she agreed on, and going on higher ranking missions would give him the experience he needed.
She had calmed down after that and had stomped out of his office threatening him that should her grandson or granddaughters be hurt in one those missions he would be in a world of hurt. She knew that she was wrong, she couldn't protect them forever, sooner or later they much like she did long ago, would set go on their own missions and leave their own lives, but whilst she still could, she would be the over protective grandmother.
"What happened to you?" she asked with a hint of worry in her voice
"When I fighting against the missing Nin, he trapped me and was surely going to kill me with a powerful water jutsu until"
"Until?" Tsunade said now on edge, her hands shaking slightly, he had almost died!
"When the jutsu was about to hit him I closed my eyes and felt something block it...when I opened them I saw a wooden wall-like cocoon blocking it, I then attacked him using roots and trees, in the end I caught him and bind him to a tree with roots and tree branched and killed him"
Silence, Tsunade's mind shut down for a moment. She knew that there was a possibility that he would inherit her grandfather's wood release, but the possibility was so slim that she had all but forgotten about. Getting over her shock she jumped out of chair and glommed Naruto, who yelped in surprise?
"Can you show me?"She said after letting him go. Naruto rubbed the back of his head
"Well you see that's the problem, I don't know how I actually used it in the first place, it was a spur in the moment thing, that's why I was actually asking you to use the Senju library in the first place"
"Well that's not going to be much help" Naruto looked at her in confusion
"The information in that library is the same as the one you'll find in the local library" Naruto physically deflated at that, how was he going to learn about wood release now? "But there is a secret hidden room in where I know you will defiantly find what you're looking for" she finished
"Can you show it to me?" Naruto said excitedly, his voice a little louder than it usually was.
Tsunade looked at the paperwork on her desk then at her hopeful cute grandson 'Paper work, Naruto, paper work...definitely Naruto'.
"Let's go right now, I needed a break anyways" she said cheerfully, standing up from her desk. She walked up to Naruto, grabbing his shoulder they both disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
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The appeared at the Senju house, Naruto hunched forward feeling a bit dizzy from the transportation.
"Sorry I forgot about that, you'll get used it" Tsunade said rubbing his back to relive him of the vertigo he was feeling. The shunshin was a fast movement transportation that had the nasty effect of causing nausea because of the high speed that the body moved it, most jonins and chunin usually get over the effects after constant use of the shunshin.
Are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine, that was disorienting" Naruto said feeling the vertigo pass over. Tsunade gave him an apologetic look
"That's the shunshin for you" Naruto nodded his head wondering if he could learn it too some day, it seemed like an effective technique for travelling short distances.
"Could you teach it to me?" Tsunade gave him an amused smile as she walked inside the house. She had expected him to ask, that was her grandson, always looking for ways to improve himself
"You'll find it at the local library...it's a D-ranked technique" Naruto eyes widened slightly in surprise but did not comment any further, he couldn't alive that such a technique was accessible to even academy students. To think if had learned that technique a long time ago; travelling to his little 'secret' training ground would have been all so much easier.
He followed his grandmother in silence as she lead him to the basement, she turned on the lights and what he saw surprised him, shelves upon shelves of scrolls and books. He actually gasped audibly, all this was information was latterly under his feet the whole time and not once had he ever bothered to check the basement.
"Your sisters usually spend some time here learning a few jutsu; I'm surprised that you actually didn't know about this library"
"B-But why didn't you tell me?"
"You never asked" Naruto sweet drop at that, seriously that was the best excuse she could come up with?'
"Enough gawking you'll check the library some other time, right now we still have something important we are looking for right"
"Right"
They walked past the many shelves to the back of the large underground library. Naruto raised an eye brow when they stopped in front of a wall, he was again surprised when his grandmother started going through a few had seals
"Kai!" she shouted slamming her hands on the ground and to his astonishment, a complex seal matrix formed on the ground, Tsunade bit her thump and pressed the bleeding thump on the seals. The seals started to glow and the ground started to shake slightly, a horizontal square stone slowly slid away from the ground where the seals where and behind a star case leading deeper within the ground could be seen.
Tsunade did not hesitate and descended down the stairs, she looked at a dumbstruck grandson. "Well aren't you coming?"
Naruto shaking nodded his head and with a hesitant step followed her. They did not walk for more than a few steps before coming to a dead end. The light from the library gave them a clear view of the steps and the dead end wall, Naruto could see a key whole that strangely enough looked like a
Tsunade took the necklace from around her neck and inserted it into the key whole and to his surprise it fit perfectly. Wall started shaking and started going dropping to the ground, not before Tsunade had taken the crystal necklace back.
Naruto blinked when he saw what was behind the wall, it was a small room with a table, a chair and a few scrolls neatly folded in a box under the table, it looked like a study. That sent red flags in his mind, why would anyone go through so much trouble as to hide a study?
"This used to be used to be First and on a later date the Second Hokage's secret study, they used this room to have private meetings in here" Tsunade explained making" some of the scrolls in the that box were written by the First Hokage, they contain information in his wood release and how to control it"
Naruto's almost fainted in shock, this very room was once used by the previous Hokage's and his grandmother was going to give him scrolls written by the first hokage himself! His lips started trembling whether from happiness or excitement he could not tell, he did something that Tsunade never expected him to do.
He launched at her and gave her a hug and was actually laughing in excitement,
"T-Thank you Baa-chan, I don't know what to say" he said happily still hugging her.
Tsunade patted him on top of his head; for once he actually did not mind the gesture. "Think nothing of it brat, besides if I don't help my grandson to became strong then how else is he going to attract a strong woman to give me many, many strong healthy grandchildren" a small blush appeared on Naruto's face, which made Tsunade laugh lightly
"So what are you waiting for, that box is not going to pick it's self"
Naruto bent down and started to drag the box with scrolls in it, he pulled the box from under the table saw something that grabbed his attention. Under the box a small handle, curious he pulled it open and saw a large scroll inside.
"Um Baa-chan, what is this?" He said after removing the rather large scroll and showing it to his grandmother.
Tsunade looked at the scroll with a raised eyebrow and picked it up to get a closer look, on the side of the scroll she could something written on it but it was covered by dust. Clearing the dust away she saw a single word 'EAGLE' written in kanji vertically. Her eyes lit up in recognition as she remembered what the scroll was.
"Naru-kun do you know what this is?" she said loudly almost screaming. Naruto nearly jumped when her heard her yell, honestly having no idea what the giant scroll was he shook his head.
"This is a summoning contract, not just any contract but the same summing contract my grandfather used. I thought it had been lost all those years ago but now...here it is!"
Naruto was curtain his brain was going to explode sooner or later from the many surprises he had seen today, first there was an ENTERE library under their house that everyone knew about expect for him, then his grandmother showed him a secret meeting room that was once used by the Hokage's, THEN his grandmother was giving him scrolls that were written by the FIRST HOKAGE and now he was looking at a summoning contract that was used by the first Hokage, he didn't even know that he had a summoning contract, maybe he should active his sharingan to make sure that this was not a dream or some powerful genjutsu, after all his brain could only take so much surprises in a day.
Whilst Naruto was having a mental===== Tsunade was having one of her own, she was excited, ecstatic, she couldn't believe that she had found something important like this, this was a summoning contract that her grandfather had used, to her it was like she was a relic of her clan, something to show that her clan had not completely vanished. She had a few things to remind her of clan, her family, the necklace she had was one of the few things she had to remind her family. Their belongings had either been lost during the war, stolen or taken by the village.
She could still remember the day when her father had had one day offered her to sign the contract, unfortunately by then she had already signed the Slug contract, had father had been slightly disappointed but the promise that his youngest son, her little brother, would sign the contract however thinks did not go as planned...
She looked at the contract; she was defiantly never going to use it, she already had a summoning contract. Now what was she do with it? She looked at Naruto who looked like he was in deep thought and her eyes lit up, she may not have been able to sign it herself back then but maybe her grandson would. She looked at him again, he was the only living Senju left who could do so, and 'he is a perfect candidate'
"Naru-chan" she said sweetly bringing him back from his thoughts
"Yes?"
"How would you like to sign the Eagle summoning contract?"
"W-What? M-Me?"
"Yes you, unless of cause there is another Naru-chan here"
"Thank you Baa-cha, I am truly grateful for what you have done for me today"
"Think nothing of it, besides you will pay me back later with many grandchildren right"
"Right..."Naruto drawled out. He took the summoning contract from her and placing it on the ground; he rolled it out and saw two names written on it
"Senju Hashirama, Senju Keiji, who's that?" Naruto asked reading the names written on the contract, Tsunade frowned as she looked at the names written on the scroll.
"Your great-great grandfather" she sadly as she looked at her father's name
"Oh"
Pushing the depressing emotions that where arising aside and putting on a smile on her face "All you have to do is to sing the contract by writing your name using your blood"
Naruto nodded his head he beat his thump and wrote his name.
"In order to summon you draw your blood from the hand which you signed the contract with, the type and size of summon you want to summon is determined by the amount of chakra you use, the more chakra you add the bigger the summon will be. The hands seals are Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram, and then you say SUMMONING JUTSU and that's it" Naruto nodded his head listening to his grandmother
"Again thank you Baa-chan"
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After parting with his grandmother walked to his secret training ground. Arriving at the training ground, the ground was now covered in small patches of green grass; he had long since filled the crater that was in the middle of the training ground, that fight with his mother had really done a number on his private training ground. Fortunately the once blacken ground was now a healthy green.
He unsealed the box with the scrolls inside and started looking through them, he looked through the scrolls and was pleased to find one that was written WATER MANIPULATION on it, he placed the scroll aside for later use. He found another scroll written EARTH MANIPULATION.
"Kami must be happy with me today" he said quietly, after all he had promised to improve his earth and water manipulation and today he just found scrolls on them, what were the odds?
After searching through a few scrolls he finally found it, it was a plain green scroll on the bottom of the box, he opened it and instantly his eyes lit up at what he saw
'Wood release is a combination of water and earth based chakra. In order for one to gain a good control of Mokuton Ninjutsu you must have good control over both your earth and water affinities-' Naruto looked at the two scrolls on both water and earth manipulation and sighed 'I guess there is no helping it' he closed the scroll he was reading and sealed it away.
"Water and earth manipulation it is"
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CHAPTER END.
For those of you who are thinking that Yamato is technically a senju so Tsunade shouldn't say that she and Naruto are the last senju alive. The reason why I'm not considering Yamato is this; when Orochimaru experimented on young Yamato, his body 'accepted' the DNA and overtime adapted to it enough for him to be able use Mokuton.
Where as in Naruto's case, his body didn't just 'accept' the DNA but rather his own DNA combined with both Hashirama and Madara's DNA becoming ONE, so he is defiantly half senju and Uchiha and his children will one be the same.
Sooooooory for the late update guys I was just busy and will be still be busy so I'm not going to be able to update as frequently...and lastly read and review please.
Next chapter is the chunin exams!
See ya