The Hero She Deserves
AN: I'm reading the reviews of the first two chapters and I understand all the points made, I will work to improve them.
AN: I'm currently searching for a Beta reader, to check for any flaws that the chapter may have, if any of you, is interested on helping me this way, I would really appreciated.
AN: Some of you had some questions, so I will answer them. First of all Naruto is started to train at such early age because I think that by the time of the 'Kushina kidnapping' no academy student could beat 4 jonins alone, much like Kakashi in the cannon that he was genin at 6, chunin at 8, and jonin at 13-14, I'm making Naruto strong enough for the challenges to come.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto.
Chapter 3: Results of training.
Ten year old Naruto now stood at 5.0 feet, he was tall to a boy his age, and sun kissed blond hair, blue ocean eyes. Naruto is wearing a white shirt, a dark red jacket with black anbu pants, black fingerless gloves, black shinobi sandals, and a katana strap in his back.
The katana has a black leather grip, with a black case. The blade of the katana is a clean metal color, and it has a carving running across the blade that it reads 'Hi no kishi' that means, Fire knight.
This blade was a present from Mifune, when Mifune heard that Naruto has a strong fire affinity, he went to retrieve one of the great swords of the Iron country.
The katana 'Hi no kishi' was made at the beginning of the Iron country, it says that it was forge at the home of the lava monster, the four tails, it says that the Yonbi himself provided the lava for the forge, and from there it has passed from generation to generation.
Mifune never wielded the blade himself because he has a water affinity, so the potential of the blade would be lost. Mifune thought that Naruto would be able to use its power to the full potential.
The blade has a special power, it says it amplifies the control over fire of the wielder, only a couple of grand samurais got to wield the sword, but no one manage to use it properly.
Naruto's training was divided in 4, the first year of training Orochimaru taught all the theory of ninjutsu, genjutsu and shurikenjutsu, and he just practiced his skills in shuriken and kunai, during the whole year Orochimaru didn't let Naruto train at ninjutsu and genjutsu, because he wanted Naruto to master the basic shinobi skills first.
Orochimaru first of all taught Naruto the three most basics jutsus, the academy jutsus, the Henge(Transformation), Bunshin (clone) , kawarimi(replacement), till mastering them, and doing them seal less.
During first year of training Naruto also kept training at his kenjutsu and taijutsu styles, and started a more demanding body building regimen, this regimen mostly focused at speed, because Orochimaru knew that Naruto could one day be the fastest shinobi alive, without chakra enhancement.
During the second and third year of training, Naruto started the elemental manipulation training, while continuing to perfect his taijutsu and kenjutsu styles.
During the two year period of elemental manipulation Orochimaru decided that Naruto should start with his fire manipulation, seeing that is his strongest element.
The first step on fire manipulation was, burning a leaf from the center to the edges without burning the whole leaf, the problem with this training was that Naruto had such a string affinity for fire that he just burned the whole leaf almost instantly.
This step of the training took him almost a whole year, Orochimaru was not surprised that it took him so long. Orochimaru expected Naruto to finish this step of the manipulation within the beginning of the third year of training, because even that he is a prodigy, Naruto was still a child.
During the third year of training Naruto finished his first step of wind manipulation, within the first two months. Much like the fire manipulation training the first step of wind manipulation consisted on splitting a leaf with his chakra.
The remaining eight months of the third year, Orochimaru decided that it was time to teach Naruto some fire and wind jutsus, the fire jutsus that Naruto learned were Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu, Fire Style: Great Dragon Flame Jutsu.
Orochimaru also taught him some wind jutsus that were, Wind Style: Air Bullet, Wind Style: Great Breakthrough.
Orochimaru refused to teach him any other jutsu until he managed to master all the jutsus that he already knew.
Naruto managed to master all the jutsu that Orochimaru taught him, at the point of making them perfect. His Wind Style: Air Bullet, and Wind Style: Great Breakthrough, were as strong as they could be managing to use them with one hand sign, making the simple C-rank jutsus to B-rank just by the sheer power of them.
With his fire jutsus Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu, Fire Style: Great Dragon Flame Jutsu, were mastered to the best point he could at the moment, he managed to master Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu to a point that the white flames were huge and making this normal C-rank jutsu to B-rank bordering A-rank, mean while his Fire Style: Great Dragon Flame Jutsu was master to a point that the usually B-rank jutsu was borderline S-rank because of the speed, and white flames.
Also during the second and third year of training Naruto never stopped training his taijutsu, kenjutsu and shurikenjutsu.
Finally the last year of training was spent at the final stage of fire manipulation and his sharingan genjutsu skills. The last step of fire manipulation was one of the hardest ever made, but by mastering the first stage, he managed to finish within the year.
The final step of fire manipulation was the same as the first step but this time instead of a normal leaf, it was a dried leaf, this small change was such a big deal that it cost him almost all the year.
At the end of his elemental manipulation training with fire Naruto realized that his fire jutsus improved a lot, first his Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu stopped being B-rank and became A-rank because with more control, he needed less chakra to make the jutsu and he could make it bigger.
The same happened with Fire Style: Great Dragon Flame Jutsu, it improved from being A-rank jutsu to being a full blow S-rank jutsu. Needless to say that Naruto was impressed with the result of his training.
At the genjutsu area, Naruto managed to use his sharingan to induce people in illusions just with seeing to his eyes, but he needed more training with his eyes to make the illusions that he makes better that a simple B-rank genjutsu.
The final strong point in Naruto's training was that he managed to learn how to infuse wind and fire chakra to his sword and kenjutsu style.
When he channels his wind chakra through his blade, he makes it sharper. By channeling wind chakra through his blade it gains a blue glow.
When he channels his fire chakra through the blade it makes it burn everything that it touches. By channeling fire chakra through his blade it gains a white wavering that makes it seem as if the blade was of fire (which really is, just trying to explain).
Orochimaru is pleased with results of the training, Naruto by all means is a Jonin level shinobi, now he just needs experience, because against a seasoned jonin, he would need to use his sharingan to have a chance of winning.
Right now Orochimaru and Naruto are at the doors of the fortress, ready to leave the Iron country to Konoha.
4 years ago, when Orochimaru arrived at Iron and started training Naruto, Mifune made a deal with the Hokage. The deal entails that at the end of the training Naruto would go to live as a shinobi of Konoha. Mifune saw no problem with this deal because Naruto has no family left at Iron country, the closest thing as a family he has is Mifune himself, and knowing that the whole Uchiha clan is at Konoha, he knew that Naruto will be better there.
The day that Mifune told Naruto that he will leave to be a Konoha shinobi was the same day that Mifune saw the moment to explain about his family and heritage.
Needless to say that Naruto was speechless at the moment, First of all, he will be leaving Iron, he will be leaving his 'Uncle' and will be going to an unknown village to be a shinobi there. Naruto was about to shout Mifune that he didn't wanted to leave him. Mifune seeing that the only way that Naruto would be willing to leave him, he would have to explain his heritage to Naruto.
So there Mifune started explaining about Naruto's grandmother, Takumi's mom, and her relationship with Madara Uchiha. He explained Madara's life, his fight with Hashirama, and the dead of Madara, how the legends say that he controlled the kyubi with his Mangekou sharingan.
Naruto was shocked with the story that Mifune told him, and was impressed with the strength at of his grandfather, to control the kyubi, the greatest of the tailed beasts, was nothing short of amazing, but what shocked him the most was the letter that his father left him before he died.
Mifune had this letter from the day that Naruto was born, Takumi knew that if something happened to him and his wife, the only one that they could trust Naruto with was Mifune, his godfather.
In the letter was a message of Takumi that confirmed everything that Mifune told him, and explained the darkest secrets of the Uchiha, the secret behind the Mangekyou sharingan, the one that his mother told him, on her deathbed. Naruto was shocked that his grandfather had to replace his eyes to the ones of his brother Izuna.
It took a moment to finally understand everything that Mifune told him, and everything that was on the letter. After making peace with his lineage Naruto decided to finish reading the letter.
At the end of the letter was a store seal, Naruto quickly opened and saw a wooden box, the wooden box was small, but it had the Uchiha fan on the top of it. Naruto tried to open it, but he failed, then he read that at the bottom of the box was written, 'Only Miko's blood is the key'. Naruto was puzzled at first by the strange message but understood that must be Madara that made the box.
Naruto quickly figure that only his grandmother Miko and her blood relatives could open the box, so without wasting any moment he bit his finger and sprayed his blood in the lock of the wooden box.
What happened next was that Naruto heard the click of the box, and a little hesitant opened the box. Within the box there was an opened letter and a scroll.
Reaching for the letter:
"Dear Miko
You were one of the few things that happened to me since the day of Izuna's dead, I know that we may not see ever again, so I want to give you one of my most price position, my eyes.
In the scroll there are my original eyes, the ones before I replace them with Izuna's, I want to keep them safe, No one can every put a hand on them, my eyes contain secrets of the clan that must not be known by anyone outside of the clan.
I want that the day that you finally pass to the afterlife, I want you to be buried with the box, escape the Land of Fire and never return, if I survive I will find you, if not I hope you leave a great life.
Madara Uchiha."
Naruto was watching the scroll in the box, and trying to figure everything out. First Madara Uchiha was his grandfather. Second his grandmother Miko knew that maybe his son or grandson would need Madara Mangekyou at some point in his life, so he left it to Takumi. Third his father Takumi knew that Naruto would need some that Madara eyes, if the stories of Miko were anything to go by.
After that day Naruto trained even harder to honor the legacy of his grandmother and father that even that it was uncertain they knew that he would need the eyes of Madara, So from that day forward he would be Naruto Uchiha in honor of the man that his grandmother loved, his own grandfather Madara Uchiha.
So here they are, the day were Naruto starts his journey to Konoha, with the end of the war 4 years ago, Naruto finally gets to fulfill his destiny and start a new journey to Konoha.
"Lets get going Naruto-kun" Orochimaru said to Naruto at the door of the fortress, where they were saying goodbye to Mifune.
"Hai Sensei" Naruto said before turning to Mifune and giving him a hug of goodbye. Mifune hug back and said "Naruto never forget your way… And never forget the code of a samurai".
Naruto heard Mifune and reply "Never Uncle, 'Protect the week, destroy the evil and live honorably', I will never forget it old man".
Mifune gave him a soft smile "Then go my boy, and don't forget to pay a visit to this old man from time to time", and with that Naruto and Orochimaru start their travel to Konoha.
Land of Fire: Konoha
Kushina Uzumaki is a 10 year old girl with long read hair, big beautiful purple eyes, and she stood at 4.5 feet, just like a normal 10 year old girl. She is wearing a short yellow dress with a black sash at her hip, black socks that go up to her mid-thigh (History picture).
During the last 4 years at the academy she trained a lot on her own and with the help of Tsunade of the Sannin.
In her Fuinjutsu skills she managed to reach level 4, something extraordinary considering the complexity of the art.
In her other shinobi skills, she managed to be quite good at taijutsu, and kenjutsu, being one of the things that she practice the most. Her taijutsu style was taught to her by Tsunade, needless to say that she was one force to be reckon with, and with her kenjutsu she was pretty good considering that she no one was teaching her.
After the first year after entering the academy, Tsunade started teaching her chakra control, needless to say that being the jinchuriki of the kyubi was a pain in the ass for Kushina, and her chakra control was horrendous.
Tsunade seeing this, started early her training in chakra control and also they worked together in her taijutsu, taking advantage of the senju library to search for the Uzumaki fighting style. This taijutsu style was focused on strong hits and flow movements, the style was called, whirlpool style.
Kushina knew that Tsuade couldn't help her with her kenjutsu because Tsunade was not a kenjutsu user, and Orochimaru being the only one of the three Sannin that knows kenjutsu, she had to learn it by herself. Even without a proper teacher she was quite good at kenjutsu, probably mid genin at the art.
Tsunade also teach her, the chakra paper and they tested Kushina's affinities. Tsunade was surprised that Kushina actually has not only one affinity but two, water and earth. Kushina's water affinity was not normal, actually it was pretty high, and Tsunade told her that with proper training she could be as good as the Nidaime Hokage.
Kushina was static hearing this from Tsunade that she begged her to teach her how to control it, Tsunade actually agreed with Kushina and they started training in her taijutsu, chakra control and water manipulation.
So during the last 4 years they trained together, first they trained her chakra control, this training was one of the hardest ones for Kushina but the most rewording one, it took her almost a year finishing tree walking and water walking, because with her high and dense Uzumaki chakra and being the jinchuriki of the kyubi, her reserves for a little girl were ridiculous.
Kushina's chakra reserves at the age of 7 were almost as high as a jonin, Tsunade was happily surprised, having that much chakra and being able to control it was nothing short of amazing, but besides having good chakra control, she couldn't make a simple clon.
Kushina mastered the Kawarimi(replacement), and the Henge (Transformation), Tsunade told her that when she is old enough she will teach her a variation of the clone technique. Kushina understood and did not question Tsunade's judgment.
Tsunade seeing that Kushina was training in Kenjutsu, told her that if she ever managed to be jonin level at kenjutsu, she would inherited Tobirama's sword the, 'The Sword of the Thunder God', hearing this Kushina was beyond static hearing that she has the chance of earning such a famous sword.
Beyond training Kushina had a great relationship with Mikoto Uchiha, her best friend. From the day that they met, they were inseparable. Kushina managed to make more friends than just Mikoto, one of them was Tsume Inuzuka, the heir of the Inuzuka clan, and she was harsh and rude but a great friend.
The three little girls managed to be together as if they were glued to each other. But even with more friends, most of the classroom made fun of her and kept bullying her to this day, needless to say that the fouls that tried something with her seeing that she was one of the prettiest girls at the academy, those fouls that after bullying her, tried a move on her were utterly destroyed by the fury of the 'Red Hot Habanero'.
The 'Red Hot Habanero' was a nickname that the boys of the class put on kushina after receiving the fury of the red headed girl. Kushina was happy with a part of her life, but she still is trying to be completely accepted by his pears, she wants someone that believes in her and her dreams, she knows that Mikoto and Tsume are her friends but she knows that even they don't believe on her dream of becoming the Hokage.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third Hokague of Konoha was waiting patiently for Orochimanu and Naruto to arrive at Konoha, they are expected today to arrive, the reason for waiting for them was that even if Orochimaru trained Naruto, Naruto still needs to be at least 1 year at the academy, the reason for this is that the council don't trust Naruto being that they now nothing of the kid, and Orochimaru decided that he would keep his bloodline a secret.
Ending his train of thoughts, he heard a knock on the door, gathering himself he mutter a quick 'Come in', and his secretary told him that Orochimaru was waiting with a kid and they are asking to come in, Hiruzen gave her a not and said "Let them in".
Orochimaru enter the office first, followed by a blond kid, Hiruzen understanding that this must be Naruto, speak up "So Orochimaru you finally returned, this must be Naruto-kun".
Orochimaru address him first "Yes Sensei, and yes this is Naruto-kun, he is quite the prodigy", Naruto address the Hokage and gave him a bow "As Orochimaru-sensei said, I'm Naruto, is a pleasure to meet you Lord Hokage".
HIruzen was surprised by the manners presented by this youngster "Nice to finally meet you Naruto-kun, so Orochimaru before the council meeting, mind telling me Naruto-kun bloodline".
Orochimaru frown at hearing that the council was already waiting, gave a sigh and reply "So the council is already bothering with my student". Hiruzen also sigh and said "Is as expected, that you nonetheless accepted a student and one with a bloodline".
Orochimaru understood his sensei point, so he turn to Naruto and told him "Naruto-kun show him", Naruto gave his sensei a nod and turn to face the Hokage and the sharingan flare to life.
Hiruzen Sarutobi is a man hard to impress, but at seeing a full grown sharingan in the eyes of a foreign youngest, was honestly shocked, so he gather himself before turning to Orochimaru and asked "So, the sharingan and a mature one, I honestly didn't expect that", so he turn to Naruto and with a voice that speak volumes of power asked Naruto "So, Naruto, how do you have the sharingan".
Naruto was a little afraid by the tone of voice the Sandaime used but he man up and reply "Sandaime-sama could we please have this conversation on private, not even Orochimaru-sensei knows this information".
Sarutobi was puzzled by this request, and by seeing that Naruto managed to sense the anbu at the office, so he spared a look to Orochimaru, and seeing him nod, he spoke up "Anbu, give us a moment", and with that order the anbu left the room and Sarutobi flare the silencing seals on.
Sarutobi said "Now that we are alone, would you tell us, how can you have the sharingan". Naruto understood that it was not a question, it was an order, so he took a quick breath and started speaking.
"Sandaime-sama, Orochimaru-sensei, I'm the grandson of Madara Uchiha". Needless to say that Orochimaru and Sarutobi were left speechless by this information.
Seeing the confusion in the elder faces Naruto started to explain, all that was on the letter that his father left for him. How Madara had a lover in the name of Miko, how he left her before the fight with Hashirama, how MIko escaped Fire country and went to Iron, how Miko gave birth to his father Takumi, how Takumi met his mother Hana, and how they had a child, and how his parents died a couple of years ago.
Orochimaru and the Sandaime were left speeachless for a couple of minutes till the Sandaime clear his throat and said "That is quite a story young man, do you have any proof of this", Naruto understood that they didn't believe him yet so he told them.
"You can run a DNA test any time you want Sandaime-sama, I'm completely sure of this information for reasons that I cannot tell you", Hiruzen understood that the young man may have secrets so he did not pry any more in the subject.
Hiruzen quickly deactivated the silencing seals and call for an anbu "Yes sandaime-sama"reply the anbu, Hiruzen said "Anbu I want you to bring Tsunade in this moment, tell her that is an emergency", the anbu understanding the request, disappear in a swirl of leaves. "Lets wait till Tsunade arrives see if what you say is true".
And with that everyone waited for a couple of minutes until there was a swirl of leaves and there appear Tsunade Senju, the granddaughter of Hashirama Senju.
Seeing that Tsunade arrived Hiruzen reactivated the silencing seals and turn to Tsunade, and before that Tsunade could say anything he said "Tsunade test Naruto's blood, with this blood example" and with that information Hiruzen walked to Hashirama's portrait opened and retrieve a blood vial with an Uchiha fan on the glass.
Tsunade surprised with the sudden request, grabbed the blood vial from his sensei and turned around to see a kid, no older than 10-11, and without wasting time pull a scroll, unsealed a vial and a needle and pull blood from the kid.
After pulling the blood from Naruto, Tsunade put both vials on the table and her hands started to glow green, she put her hands on top of the vials, and watch them change colors a moment and said to Hiruzen "They have the same DNA, they are blood relatives, so Sensei could you please tell me whats up".
Hiruzen sign and turn to Tsunade "This is Naruto, he is the kid that Orochimaru went to teach during the past 4 years". Naruto being named, turned to Tsunade and gave her a nod and said "Nice to meet one of my Sensei's teammates, I'm Naruto please to meet you".
Tsunade finally noticing that Orochimaru was at the room, saw him nod and turn to Naruto, and gave him a nod of acknowledgment. Finally she turn to Hiruzen and asked "So Sensei what is up with this test and who is that blood that you pulled out from the vault".
Hiruzen gave a long and tired sign and said"That blood was from Madara Uchiha". Hearing this Tsunade froze and turn to Naruto, while still watching Naruto, she said "Explain, now" and with those simple words Hiruzen explained everything that Naruto told them earlier to Tsunade and made Naruto flare his sharingan to prove his point.
After explaining to Tsunade, Hiruzen turn to the other three ocupants of the room and speak "None of this information will go out of this room, if the council hears a sniff of this they will go crazy", Tsunade, Orochimaru and Naruto gave him a nod. Seeing that everyone understood Hiruzen said "Now Orochimaru, Tsunade and Naruto follow me to the council chambers". Following orders everyone left the room.
After the council meeting, Orochimaru was pissed, they are making his student go to the academy, like any other kid, saying that he was way too valuable to waist his time on a kid, if Hiruzen wasn't there he would have killed all of those arrogant civilians that were shouting that an outsider could not become a Konoha shinobi.
Hiruzen quickly shut them by showing Naruto's bloodline, if Naruto didn't had a bloodline the council would never accept an outsider even if this is a student of a Sannin become a shinobi, but there was a draw back with accepting Naruto, he has to pass the academy like a regular kid, and he cannot skip years because he has to prove his loyalty to the village. Seeing that the council made some good points he could do nothing but agree with them.
After the council meeting Hiruzen, Tsunade, Orochimaru and Naruto were back at the office and Orochimaru quickly made his rage notice "This is bullshit, how could they think of doubting my student".
Hiruzen sign and said "You have to understand them, no one knows Naruto besides you, and I think that maybe he will benefit of interacting with people his age". Tsunade understanding his Sensei spoke up "Sensei is right, the kid needs more than being a killing machine, he needs friends at the village".
Orochimaru gave a sign and said "It has to be done, I still believe that he will be wasting his time at the academy". Naruto not liking being left out said "Its ok sensei, its not like I will stop training, I will catch up after the two years". Orochimaru understood and gave him a nod.
Hiruzen hearing this said "So its settle Naruto will be starting the academy the next week, have the keys to your apartment, one of my anbus will take you there, and you will be receiving an allowance till you make genin". Naruto gave him a nod and quickly disappear with the anbu.
Seeing that Naruto left, Tsunade started speaking "I'm still impressed that the kid didn't want to go live at the Uchiha compound, even after Kagami offered him a place there". Orochimaru hearing this said "Naruto-kun was always an independent kid, I was expecting something like that, and he will be fine". Sarutobi smiled softly at his students and said "Now that this matter is solved, let's continue with work".
Naruto arrived at his new apartment with the anbu, the anbu gave him the basic instructions, like where is the laundry, etc.
Entering his new apartment Naruto started to look around over the apartment, and saw that it was a small apartment with one bedroom a living room/kitchen and a bath room, Naruto was happy even if the apartment was small and simple. The apartment was already with furniture so he only needed to buy food.
Putting that aside for tomorrow, he went to take a bath and reflect on everything that happened the last years, he unlocked his sharingan, he started training, his parents died, Orochimaru arrived, a new training began, his father letter, Mifune gave him his sword, leaving Mifune, arriving at Konoha and going to his apartment.
He gave a long tired sign, and started thinking what will his future have ready for him, finally getting out of the bath, unsealed his cloths from a scroll, change to sleeping cloths, that were a shirt and some shorts, and finally getting to bed to get some well-deserve rest.
The week before the start of the academy, all Naruto could do was meeting with Orochimaru for training, seeing that he had no friends his age he had nothing better to do than training, he really didn't mind, he liked training.
Finally the first day of Academy arrived. Naruto was a little nervous, he never was a people person, and he never had friends his age and all he did was training, needless to say that he didn't know how to behave with other kids his age. After going to the principal's office and presenting the letter from the Hokage that said that he was a especial case so he can star classes even if he wasn't the first 4 years of the academy.
The principal seeing the Hokage stamp did not question the kid and gave him a paper to present to the instructor. So Naruto started to search for the classroom and after finding it, he knocked and hear all the noise that was inside of the classroom despaired. He gulped and waited for the instructor.
After seeing a tall kid the instructor was puzzled but, quickly putting it aside he reach for the paper Naruto was giving him and after reading it, he gave Naruto a nod and told him to follow into the classroom, so Naruto gave a sign to calm himself and follow after the chunin.
AN: there is where it will finish and I will be uploading the next sometime this week, as always please leave a review to help me improve. Thanks for reading.