DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...
(A/N): Well guys, here we are. This chapter is the end of the Kirigakure ark. Also, IT FRICKIN CHAPTER 30!
I've been writting for a month know and to be honest, this has become my favorite part of my day. The response I have gotten from you guys is awesome and the fact we are nearing 6000 views is just astonishing. To be honest, when I started this story I didn't think I would get anywhere close to this number. SO HA! TAKE THAT ME! SCREW ME AND MY PESSIMISM!
You guys are awesome and without any further delay, TO THE STORY!
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Chapter 30: Uzushiogakure
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Once they finished they were excused and Naruto headed home.
He opened his front door and said, "I'm back!"
A familiar voice responded, "Hey Kid, took ya long enough, I brought souvenirs!"
"Dad!" Naruto yelled as he rushed to his father.
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Naruto came at his father into a rushing tackle. Cole caught his son in a hug. "Sup squirt! Heard you had your first C rank while I was gone. How was it?"
Naruto let go of his father and told him all about the mission. About how he set traps for the bandits and how he fought the Ronin Twins. He started to look down at the memory of him having to kill but he brushed that off. "So, are you allowed to tell me how your mission went?" He asked his father.
"Yeah I can tell you, but I'd rather have your mother here so I don't have to tell it twice." Cole responded with a smile. Naruto pouted but let it go. Cole looked at his son and asked, "So, how's the Hiraishi coming?" It had been a little over a month since Cole learned that Naruto developed a Hiraishin variant and was trying to reverse engineer the jutsu through his own version.
Naruto scratched the back of his head and sheepishly replied. "It's slow...It's a lot like the Storage Hiraishin, but minus the middle man of the Pocket Dimension. And in stead of transporting chakra, I have to teleport myself or other physical objects." He pulled out his notes and showed his adoptive father. "I found Minato's notes on it in the armory hidden behind a special seal that hid itself from anyone without his blood. But now that I have it, I hardly know what to make of it. This damn thing is so complex that even with all I already know about Fuinjutsu I have no idea what half of it says."
Cole nodded. "Well, even Jiraiya of the Sannin couldn't learn the jutsu, and he's a seal master like myself. I could help you as much as I can, but until you get to the level of a seal master you won't be able to complete it."
Naruto looked down and had a shroud of sadness around him. Cole chuckled and patted his sons shoulder. "Don't let it get ya down. It's just a extremely difficult jutsu. You'll get it down soon enough. The fact you made a variant of it by just looking at the kunai with the trigger seal on it is amazing!"
Naruto looked up a bit and chuckled. "I guess it is isn't it."
Cole smirked at his son and was about to say something when he was tackled by another figure in a brown trench coat.
"What happened, what happened, what happened, tell me, tell me, tell me!?" Anko said as she shook Cole on the ground. "Stop! Stop! I'll tell you, I'll tell you!" Cole begged. Anko stopped and stood up over him with a broad smile. Cole slowly stood up and went back to sit on the couch.
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"HAHA we did-" Cole's victory was cut short when he felt the chakra exhaustion catch up with him. "S-shit," was the last thing he said as he fell unconscious.
All of the Six Beasts dispelled except for the Manticore. Ao reached to catch Cole before he fell but was stopped when the Manticore caught him. It growled at Ao before running off into the forest.
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About two hours passed before Cole woke back up. "Ugghh. Ok I officially hate chakra exhaustion." He looked to see the Manticore still carrying him through the forest. "Heh, thanks buddy. I think I can walk for myself now."
The beast complied by stopping and gently letting its master down. "I'll need you to stick around though, I still don't have the chakra or stability to fight yet." He said to his summons. The Manticore simply nodded and let its master lean on it as they walked through the forest.
About another hour passed and they came to the end pf the forest and to the shore of the island that made up the Land of Water. "Ok, gonna need to make camo here..." Cole mumbled to himself.
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The next day Cole had recovered from his minor chakra exhaustion and let the Manticore dispel itself. After eating his breakfast he took to the skies and made his way for Uzushio.
After an hour of flying he saw the island and landed on the northern shore.
"Ok, lets see what we can find..."
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"And that's about it," Cole finished his story. Anko had to shake her head to get over her amazement. "I knew I could pick em'. Defeating Bijuu and all." She leaned over to her husband and snuggled up to him.
Naruto got an annoyed look on his face. "Can you guys at least wait until I'm asleep before you start...whatever it is you're about to do?"
Cole blushed heavily. He looked down to Anko, only to see the mischievous grin on her face. He could almost hear her thoughts. 'You haven't been around for a month...oh the things that'll happen...'
Cole gulped and looked away from his grinning wife.
Naruto shuddered and then had a glossed over look to his eyes. "Hey dad, Kurama wants to know why you were fighting Isobu in the first place." He said. Cole sighed and got a sad look on his face. "He was under 'THAT' mans control. I got there too late to stop him. I was able to drive him off and seriously wound him...but I don't think it'll hold him for long. When Isobu escaped from Yagura, he had already been partially taken by the Gedo Mazo. When I defeated him he was sent back into that into that infernal statue."
"What is the Gedo Mazo?" Naruto and Anko asked at the same time.
"The Gedo Mazo is a statue that any Rinnegan bearer can summon, other than myself. It is used to store the Bijuu's chakra until all nine are collected." Cole explained.
"Why would they want to-" Naruto started to explain but was cut off by his tenant. "The Jubii, Kit. Once me and my siblings are captured the statue would turn into the Jubii, the Ten Tailed demon. The being my father spent his entire life trying to defeat. He eventually succeeded in its defeat. He sealed its body in the moon and split its chakra into nine beings. The nine Bijuu." Naruto nodded and went to tell what he heard from Kurama but stopped when he caught a look from his father. 'Don't tell' it appeared to say.
"What do they want with the Bijuu?" Anko asked. Cole shook his head and lied through his teeth, "I don't know. Maybe they hope to make a weapon out of their chakra, but right know. I don't know."
Anko pouted. She knew he was lying. She had been with him for twelve years know and could read him like a book. But she knew he wouldn't lie without reason so she dropped it.
"So, on to the fun part." Cole said with a smile. He brought out a scroll and unrolled it. He channeled chakra into the two seals on it and two objects appeared. The first was a pair of gauntlets that had pointed finger like claws. "These are for you Anko-chan. I found them in Uzu when I made a stop there. They are made of Chakra Iron so you can channel chakra through them, as well as put poisons in the tips of the fingers." Anko squealed and greedily took the gauntlets and gave a heavy kiss to Cole's cheek. "This just won you a little prize for later~." She purred into his ear, quiet so Naruto couldn't hear.
After Cole got his blush and slight nose bleed under control he handed the second item to Naruto. It was a ninjato. The sheath was pure white and so was the handle, but once Naruto drew it to view the blade, it was a dark red and seemed to glow slightly.
"Woah..." was all Naruto could say. "Where did you find this..." Kurama breathed. Cole smirked and chuckled. "That is the Kitsune no Kiba. The 'Fang of the Fox'. I also found this in a hidden vault in Uzu. And if my guess is right, it reacts to Kurama's chakra. Since I couldn't even unsheathe the blade."
"K-Kurama says this was made over a hundred years ago...They used pieces from one of his fangs and some of his fur to make the blade...It just radiates his chakra. This...this is amazing..." Naruto said in amazement. He could see the chakra starting to coil off from the blade. It seemed the blade made its own chakra and never ran out. "That's Dad...You're the best." He said as he put the blade back into its scabbard and hugged his father.
Cole chuckled. "Why don't I get dinner started. I bet you two didn't have a decent meal since I left."
His answer came from two growling stomachs. He shook his head and mumbled, "what would you two do without me."
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(A/N) DONE!
Ok guys, I know the story progression is a little slow, but I'm gonna start to pick up the pace a bit. The next chapter will be the start of the Wave ark and I plan on it being about four to five chapters long, so yeah.
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