After spending few hours with his new followers, Naruto thought about Orochi and Akuma. There was also the little girl called Ai, whom he had brought to Konoha. Even though he had wanted to learn things slowly, it seemed things had to be accelerated because of the circumstances.
All the strong fighters with fusion ability would end up as the main defence against the threats to their survival and he would lead them to make them stronger. It was the best choice to focus on those individuals instead of everyone at the same time.
Regardless, Naruto finally decided to visit the Sage of Six Path's sanctuary that was hidden in the center of the planets core. It was literally impossible to find without help.
The sanctuary was a grand structure made of marble with murals showing the history of the world. It was where Naruto finally saw what happened when Kaguya appeared in the world. He saw the normal world before chakra was part of life.
It also showed that even without chakra, humanity waged war continuously. Proving that chakra was just another weapon for humanity and not the source of conflict.
There were also giant murals of the Bijuu in their natural environments as guardians of the world. They looked much grander in the picture than the real versions, which confused Naruto.
However, he didn't stop and went to the room at the end where there was a mural of the Sage in his prime. Under it he found a large treasure chest filled with precious items along with books for guidance.
The Sage's counter to the Otsutsuki consisted of few but effective steps. There was the Golden metal that was fused with Leviathan alongside blue and red metal.
The explanation was written about them to guide Naruto. These metals were chakra metals of the highest qualities that developed special properties.
Majority of the weapons used by warriors of power were made from chakra metal, metal that absorbed chakra and grew beyond its natural state. The metals quality depended on the intensity and quality of chakra along with the skill of the blacksmith handling it.
Metal in nature were also exceptionally strong when mined from areas with high natural energy. But, best quality was still man-made.
The golden chakra metal was the best quality of chakra metal formed through the intense energy of the Sage of Six Paths at his full strength. It would directly boost the stats of the user and would reflect all attacks that hit the user.
Just having equipment made from such metal would allow the user to slaughter the Kage like they were nothing.
The blue and red chakra metals were only secondary to the golden metal and these two would also boost the stats of the user to a high point. However, the blue focused mainly on speed and the red focused on attack.
There was enough to make nine sets of equipments according to the Jinchuuriki of the Bijuu.
Moving on from the raw materials, the Sage left an orb for each of the Bijuu that seemed to contain the techniques that he wanted them to learn. Just like the Juubi had powerful skills and would have been almost unstoppable with real intellect, The Sage created techniques using the natural chakra of the Bijuu to create something suitable for them.
It would directly boost their powers to beyond their current state, since they were just throwing energy at this point.
Getting past the orbs, there was the book of fuinjutsu created by the Sage. It had the Six Paths Fuinjutsu that would allow him to change countless outcomes. There seals to boost stats, seal stats, seal all power, barriers, summoning seals and much more.
It was extremely complex and would completely depend on Naruto's aptitude to learn it. Maybe he might have to even share it with others to accelerate the progress.
Other than the book of seals, Naruto found the eyes of the Sage inside a transparent container. The three Rinne-Sharingan eyes stared back at him containing immense power.
However, Naruto didn't even consider implanting them. He had taken Sasuke's eyes and they were there to stay. Naruto decided to store them away and find a proper candidate for them since they would need a user with immense chakra.
Finally, Naruto came upon the biggest treasure held by the Sage of Six Paths. It was not the Sword of Nunoboko that could rewrite the planet, but the Book of Six Paths Senjutsu. It contained techniques beyond using the nature to boost the power, it was reality warping itself.
Full counter: Completely counters and reflects attack back at the enemy with even greater force, or vanishing the damage.
Vain: Increase the energy burden of an opponent's abilities to limit their usage.
Crisis: Increase power in proportion to damage sustained.
Combo: Stacks additional force for each consecutive attack.
Destiny bond: If the user dies then the target also dies.
Megas Drepanon (Great Scythe) - Can bypass defenses and cut physical bodies, energy and spirits at once.
Aegis Shield: A barrier that creates a layer of dimensional planes to stop any attack.
Another Encounter With Reality: The user takes his opponents to the World of Dreams. There, he has total control over minds and bodies of its enemies can imprison them in dreams, delusions and nightmares. The user is capable of making your dreams real, and can, for example, changing the place of combat in a mountain range, can also precipitate their opponents from the top of a mountain with an altitude of 10,000 feet, or designing meteorites. While not look real, the damage is what they are. This technique is very dangerous because of its almost unlimited potential.
All the World's Evil: If fully submerged in the curse, it paints space itself around the person, surrounding them in darkness and imprinting hell upon their brain by showing them unseeable darkness, ugliness that can't be acknowledged, and all the crimes of the people in the world that make them want to run away from it all. Those trapped with the darkness will eat themselves to death from pain and hatred, and they will be swallowed by it like the painted space. Avoiding such a curse and the very concept of blocking it are nearly impossible.
Alpha force: an ultimate force which, in battle, instantaneously replays the elapsed battle, although the user's attacks are over in just an instant, you can't grasp how many attacks it actually unleashed, and in theory, you can only see the final blow that brought down its opponent.
Ultimate Force: The Ulforce, is a legendary holy overwrite sequence born from positive feelings such as joy, pleasure and a strong heart which desires to protect its loved ones. While conventional Overwriting sequences damages in exchange for an increase of power, eroding their data and thus shortening their lifespans, Ulforce is a sacred power that is able to reconfigure data, strengthening and healing the user's body and allowing it to evolve.
The user can use its healing abilities to rewrite data faster than direct deletion attacks can keep up with. Also, it can be used as a shield which has same regeneration ability.
Because of its remarkable healing abilities, it instantly self-recovers the user from any damage allowing them to always fight at full power.
Nega-Genesis: It is a Skill that permits one to maintain a Conceptually Bounded Field that rejects the evolutionary course of everything beyond the History of Man.
Domina Coronam (Ten Crowns): In simple terms, it's a skill that can make any injury or event outcome as if it had not happened. As long as the user has this skill, he is virtually invincible.
Judgment: This magic literally strips people of their consciousness if they ever bear any ill will to the user.
Execution of Light: The spell allows the user to change the "hierarchy," of things since something of a higher hierarchy cannot be harmed by a lower hierarchy, changing their "Precedence" in a manner of speaking.
All these skills were beyond anything that Naruto had considered and it also allowed him to understand what kind of beings he was about to face. He had completely forgotten that the Sage had abilities to rewrite reality, meaning people on his level operated with such powers.
He was fortunate that the Sage left him a helping hand or any wild Otsutsuki would have taken him out with reality warping abilities since none of the ninja would have considered that avenue.
Wiping away his sweat, Naruto took away the treasures and stored them inside a storage seal on his heart.
These attacks were overpowered, but they are also impossible for the current Naruto with his minimal understanding of chakra and Senjutsu. He would have to spend years to actually learn few of them before he could start grasping the rest.
Getting back to Konoha, Naruto decided to look for the little girl he had taken in. Locating her through life force signal, Naruto found her at the Orphanage. Focusing on the target, Naruto found that she was feeling scared and worried.
Flying towards the orphanage, Naruto walked into the place while being adored by the little kids that had learnt of his exploits.
Naruto smiled at the little children and posed for them. He could see himself in the little ones since they were somewhat like him. They were without parents, but that didn't mean they had to be without love. Looking at their expressions and the care takers, Naruto could see that Tsunade had been very careful with choosing the people.
"Lord Uzumaki, the little girl you brought wants to see you. She refuses to interact with anyone else. We have tried everything but she has developed a heavy trauma from her experience." The Caretaker woman informed him while feeling regretful and sad.
"It isn't your fault." Naruto gave a nod and sped towards Ai.
Inside the small room, Ai sat in the corner with a knife in her hand while her eyes were bloodshot from anxiety and fear.
Seeing him enter the room, she didn't let down her guard as Ai knew that ninja could transform.
"Hello there Ai, I am sorry that I didn't visit you sooner. I thought you would love this place, so please forgive me for my mistake. Will you?" Naruto walked closer to Ai while she glared at him and even ended up stabbing him with the knife.
It didn't break his skin and Naruto hugged Ai tightly, "Calm down Ai, no one will hurt you anymore."
However, things didn't go as planned.
"You have committed a forbidden act! You have opened the door to your heart that you swore to keep shut. " From the small body came a voice that was extremely terrifying. Ai's body started floating while pushing away Naruto with dark energy.
It wasn't hard to understand, something had taken possession of the little girl.
"Who are you?"
"Keep out of it mortal, this is between us. Or, you shall suffer for eternity." The unknown being warned Naruto.
"I promised to keep her safe, so I will have to refuse. Get out of her now!" Naruto closed the distance between them and used his Rinne-Sharingan's soul removal abilities.
Thrusting his hand into Ai's chest, Naruto caught on to the dark being attached to her soul and removed it.
"You should not have interfered, Uzumaki. We had a contract, and I always ensure the success of my deals." The dark soul slipped through his hands and turned into a spider with eye shapes on its back. Before Naruto could react, the spider had grown in presence and the surrounding seemed to shift.
Darkness seemed to coil around his body and a hole opened below him, countless spiritual hands dragged him down.
Naruto activated his full power, but was restricted by the fact that he was inside the village and couldn't just release an energy shockwave.
However, he tried to struggle with his chakra armor activated in Six Paths mode and even tried to teleport.
"It is a futile struggle, human. I am the Master of Hell, and you are invited to live there forever." The terror inducing being, spoke with a malicious tone and it was obvious that he enjoyed dragging the hero at a slow pace.
"STOP!" Ai screamed as she woke up seeing Naruto sinking into the floor.
"You know, I despise rule breakers. So, wait for your turn Ai. We will be going to hell and you will suffer your punishment."
"Please forgive him, and I will become your servant forever." Ai begged with tears in her eyes. Naruto was surprised by her words, as he didn't know she actually cared for him.
Ai had made a contract with the immortal being as her soul had wandered to another dimension when her fear and anxiety had reached the extremes. There she had met the spider and contracted the being in return for his power.
The spider allowed her to get revenge on the people that had wronged her. She had burned down the village, but it also put restrictions on her. One of them was that she was not allowed to have emotions.
However, she broke that rule when Naruto hugged her.
"I will not allow it." Naruto couldn't allow anyone to die on his watch. He would never allow others to sacrifice their lives.
Focusing all his power on the Sword of Nunoboko, Naruto willed it annihilate his target. The DNA shaped sword turned into a spear and tore through the target while making a hole in reality as the sword erased space and all matter that it touched.
It was fortunate that the sword belonged to Hagoromo, so Naruto was able to push the enemy away from the current dimension.
Feeling the pressure disappear, Naruto erased the dark hole and other things with his Truth Seeking balls that expanded to cover everything within his desired range.
Ai ran towards him and cried in his arms, "I am sorry. I am sorry." The cute little girl continued to repeat as she had almost caused her savior to suffer a fate worse than death.
"It's okay. It isn't your fault." Naruto tried to calm Ai, but she wouldn't stop. He tried to think of ways to make her relax and ended up teleporting with her to the top of the Hokage Mountain.
The sudden change in temperature shocked the little angle hiding her face into his chest.
"Look Ai, this is my favorite spot. You can see the whole village from here and the world that extends beyond from it." Naruto turned Ai towards the scenery and showed her the world that she was missing out on.
It was a wild guess, but the sudden change did help the situation a little bit as Ai realized that Naruto was trying to cheer her up and she didn't want to burden him more. Controlling her tears, Ai held onto his clothes and looked at the scenery that Naruto enjoyed.
It was not the first time she had seen a city from above a mountain, but the experience felt different this time.
"How is it?"
"It looks lively and warm." Ai described what she felt as she looked at Konoha bathed in the sunlight.
"Yeah, it is a warm place and it is your home now. The people here will love you and take care of you, so you can move around freely." Naruto put his hand on her head and brushed her long black hair.
Ai didn't know about other people, but she was willing to trust Naruto.
'I will be waiting for you, Ai. Don't think you can escape from me.' The voice of the creature spoke inside her head, making her shake in fear.
"What happened, Ai?"
"Nothing, I am just feeling cold." Ai decided to hide the fact about the creature as she was afraid for Naruto. It was her fault that it happened and she didn't want to trouble him.
The lie didn't work on Naruto since he could feel her fear clearly and realized that the creature might be communicating to her directly.
'What demonic entity is it? I need to discuss with the others and find a way to remove it from this world.' Naruto realized the danger that the spider held for the world, so he couldn't allow to roam freely and damage others.
It would be best to talk to Ai, but she was already traumatized.
"Don't worry, I will protect you." Naruto hugged her again while covering Ai within his chakra cloak, sharing his emotions with her and letting her feel everything positive. It was the ninshu that Hagoromo taught and Naruto could now finally use it at will. It was the only technique from the Sage that Naruto was extremely talented at.
Naruto's real body spent time playing with Ai and explored the various specialties of Konoha while his clone met with Tsunade.
Explaining the situation to the Hokage, Naruto found about the legendary nightmare known as Lord Loss also known as The Master of Hell.
Lord Loss was described as having pale red, lumpy skin, and eight arms (which are frequently described as being mangled). He had no heart, and instead simply had an open hole in his chest filled with deadly, venomous snakes. He bared a pair of very dark-red eyes with even darker red pupils. Instead of having legs, strips of bloody flesh hang from the edge of stumps where his feet would normally be shown, and so he moved about by levitating. He was often described as having a very sad voice and look. The many individual cracks in his skin, which seeped blood every time he even slightly moved, gave his demonic appearance a nice touch as well.
Unlike any other immortal beings, Lord Loss fed on the sinful souls and as such he would assign a contractor in the mortal world. The contractor would represent Lord Loss and make deals with people that were in dire need of help. The help came at the cost of their soul and the soul of their victim.
However, it was a myth and not supposed to be real. There had been mysterious deaths and people seemed to have come up with the story through centuries. But, it seems all legends were coming to life these days.
"Is there a way to tackle this problem?" Naruto found that the creature wasn't as evil as assumed, since it didn't really kill indiscriminately and only the contractor dragged the souls of the damned to it. Regardless, it was still a threat and Naruto didn't want Ai to kill people for the monster.
"We will have to find out ourselves since the creature in the myth doesn't really appear much, only the contractor known as the Hell Girl would be referenced. The fact he was here means that Ai has become the current Hell Girl while the previous one has been freed.
To free Ai, you will have to either defeat him or make him choose someone else. Those are the only options available at the moment. I advice against trying to pursuing the monster to its home world, take it slow and we can defeat it since it seems to follow some rules." Tsunade pointed out the obvious findings from her knowledge and stopped Naruto from making any careless decisions.
"What kind of rules?"
"The fact it has a contractor should mean that it can't stay in our world for long. It didn't kill anyone personally means that it might not have the ability to do so."
"But it tried to drag me in."
"Meaning he can't kill you in our world. And, he might have also paid a price for doing it without following the normal routine."
"Ok, that's fine. But, what about Ai? Wouldn't she be forced to act as his agent when someone summons the Hell Girl?" Naruto wasn't scared of the spider and was completely motivated to start mastering the Six Paths Senjutsu now as he realized that normal means wouldn't work on immortals.
As for the summon, it was a procedure that took place by finding the moon reflected on a lake surface at exactly 12 in the night. By throwing some of your hair and saying the name of your target, the Hell Girl would visit you and give you the cursed doll.
With the cursed doll, the person would have the choice to send any person to hell. However, it also condemns them to hell when they die.
Tsunade had no answer to that question and now she could connect the incident of the village burning down to Ai. It was their fault for not informing Naruto about Ai's condition. It could have all been avoided if Naruto had talked to her sooner.
Tsunade shook her head at his question, "Sorry, but she might have to endure until we find a way. You can only help her keep her humanity and make her enjoy the normal times. Or, the creature will try to kill her heart."
Naruto didn't like the answer, but he also no solutions. Once again, he felt helpless to protect what he wanted.
He had already lost Sasuke to Orochimaru once, this time he will not allow someone else to disappear to another enemy.
"Who is the most knowledgeable person on chakra, Senjutsu and Jutsu?" Naruto asked as he needed some guidance urgently.
"There are many people that specialize in different aspects of these subjects. However, Orochimaru is the person with the most knowledge on these three subjects currently."
"I will be starting my studies from today, please arrange the schedule for everything." Naruto sat down on the seat and conveyed his intent.
Looking at his seriousness, Tsunade didn't know if it was even possible to get further motivated than Naruto had been beforehand.
"Visit me after two hours, and we will have a plan ready for you." Tsunade gave the command to summon Shizune and Sakura while planning to summon Kakashi, Gai, Shikamaru, Tsume, Hiashi, Ino and Choji.
"Thank you" Naruto knew he was asking for a lot, but he needed help and there was no one else that could help him.
With a pop, he disappeared and left Tsunade with a task to create the ultimate menu for a Hokage in the making. It would cover the basic knowledge, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Weapon mastery, Politics, business, war strategies, espionage, fuinjutsu, healing, body mastery, negotiations, communication and much more.
It wasn't a training plan for a warrior, but the Ultimate Hokage. It was made difficult by the fact that Naruto was extremely incompetent with academics. He was someone that got bored easily and distracted. Practical aspect made him enjoy it but the theoretical aspect was hard for him to grasp.
Naruto ending up meeting Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon while moving around Konoha. These three were the same age as Ai, around 12 years old, and they idolized Naruto before he even became the Hero of Konoha. They were the official students of Naruto Uzumaki, and he had actually taught them the Rasengan plus the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
"Boss, we finally found you." Konohamaru called out as he stopped in front of Naruto with a dramatic pose.
Looking at the kids, Naruto remembered that he hadn't seen them since the war had started.
"Oh sorry, my mistake. I have been very busy. How about we play today? We also have new friend joining us." Naruto rubbed the back of his head and chuckled before pushing Ai to the front.
Ai looked at the three kids while they looked at her.
"Who's the pretty girl, Boss?" Konohamaru was very blunt about things, and said what came to mind.
"Ai, she is my new student. Come on Ai, these are my students so you can talk to them comfortably."
Feeling his hand on her head, Ai didn't hide from the trio as they surrounded her. She didn't want to trouble him.
"Hello, my name is Ai Enma. I hope we can be good friends." Ai introduced herself while holding onto Naruto's hand.
"My name is Moegi Kazamatsuri, and you can just call me Moegi. Ai, you have such beautiful hair." Moegi was very tomboyish most of the time, but even she had some feminine likes.
"Udon Ise, it is nice to make your acquaintance." Udon talked in a neutral tone unlike his boisterous friends as he showed a calculating side which was inspired by smart and evil characters that wore glasses from comic books like Aizen from Bleach and many more.
"Konohamaru Sarutobi's the name; remember it well as I am the Seventh Hokage." Konohamaru declared confidently while his friends posed with him.
However, they didn't get a reaction from Ai since she didn't know about the Hokage or Konoha.
Naruto clapped for them as they really learned how to pose well and make an entrance. He was very proud of his students since they were keeping the legacy of his master alive.
The pose and entrance was very important for every important character in history. That was what Jiraiya believed in and taught him extensively to make a heroic pose, and entrance.
"Okay, how about we show Ai some ninja battles?"
"Yes!"
"As you command."
"Yes, Boss."
With that the hero moved along with a squad of little kids towards the training grounds of his new home. After the war he had relocated to the Uchiha complex and taken it under his control to keep the legacy of the Uchiha intact while also mixing it with the Uzumaki legacy. He had started gathering all kinds of jutsu, weapons and seals for his place while also thinking of a way to continue the Uchiha name.
Sasuke was the last of his clan, but it might be possible through genetic manipulation. However, he wasn't decided on the issue.
Nonetheless, in the training ground he found about the great changes that had taken place within his students. They had all grown within the month he had been away from them.
Naruto sparred with the trio without any seriousness but he had to focus since he didn't want to kill them. It was the downside of becoming extremely powerful, he had to focus all the time or he would cause natural disasters with any sudden movement.
It made him feel like he was a human living in the world made for ants. Just a single step might be an earthquake for everyone else.
Regardless, such power was necessary and Naruto only focused on the positive side instead of complaining about the small problems.
The trio also showed their bravery by not showing any fear in front of him.
"Here we come, Boss!" Konohamaru started the battle with his announcement and using a wind jutsu.
Wind Bullet
The invisible bullet of concentrated air arrived instantly and sent him backwards where he ended up sinking into the mud created by Moegi using her earth jutsu.
Udon followed it up with a barrage of small water bullets that would have torn apart any normal person. The combo was smoothly done, but Naruto easily avoided it.
The clone popped and the trio was hit by a wind bullet that sent them crashing into the boundary of the training ground.
Naruto made him power and ability on their level, so it wouldn't harm them.
Konohamaru recovered fast and threw a smoke bomb before following it up with kunai covered with wind chakra.
Moegi also recovered and slapped her onto the ground, creating earth hands to hinder Naruto.
Udon was last the one to recover from the sudden damage and he also threw kunai at Naruto before following it up with an oil bullet at him.
Naruto easily dodged the earth hands and countered the Kunai with well placed strikes with his finger laced with chakra.
Konohamaru used the oil bullet and used Dragon fire, a focused flame thrower ability that was enhanced by the presence of oil. It turned into a large raging fire and Moegi helped support it with her earth jutsu to seal Naruto along with Udon.
Rasenshuriken
The killer move destroyed the Dragon fire instantly and cut through it, almost bringing death upon the children before flying into the atmosphere at the last moment.
However, just the shockwave from the attack had sent the children into unconsciousness except for Konohamaru who had managed to summon Monkey Enma in his adamantine staff form.
"Did you finally decide to follow in the footsteps of Grandpa Third?" Naruto was surprised at the appearance of Enma. He had only seen the monkey few times when Hiruzen summoned it, and it might have been the last time since no one had been acknowledged.
"Yeah boss, you are the best but I think monkeys are cooler than toads. You already learned the Sage mode from the toads, so I want something equal to it. I will master Sage mode from Master Enma and become the first Monkey Sage." Konohamaru looked up to Naruto but that didn't mean he wanted to become a copy. He wanted to become as strong as Naruto, because to him that was the ideal image of power.
In the past, Naruto only showed the potential for it and now he had already become that ideal image.
"I look forward to it." Naruto smiled happily at his little student and closed the distance between them before hitting Konohamaru with a rasengan while also using Gentle Fist with his right hand to paralyze him.
The future sage was shocked by the attack and sent crashing into slumber as Naruto controlled the power.
Ai felt jealous of the kids as she saw that Naruto really enjoyed playing with them. She didn't want to be left out and stand alone, it made her feel scared.
Running towards Naruto, Ai asked him to teach her.