Wooh! I don't know what shot me full of the writer's juice but I feel like I am on a roll right now with these! Sure, I've been low-key disturbing myself with how far I'm willing to torture naruto for the purpose of the story, but I truly think I am coming up with something good here. sure, I only have four reviews so far (might change by the end of writing this chapter), but I have faith what I'm writing is worth it. We will be approaching the end of the 'Education' arc soon enough, but don't worry, the Squad will make a return eventually. For those returning, you might have seen this ~{SM}~, floating around. I will be attempting to use these as scene breaks, since it turns out the ones I was using were disappearing on this site's format… a very embarrassing thing to note. With that said, I have received a pm and I will say again, PAIRING. ALREADY. DECIDED. I have not added his/her name to the list, due to not wanting to spoil it until we get to the review. But no, I will not be putting naruto with anyone above his age group, so no anko, hana, tsunade, shizune, ect. The pairing will be one of my Favorites, so if you don't like that then tough.
And another point. To the one who claimed this is just torture porn… Don't worry. It does get better very soon. I have come to discover I am not a fan of naruto just 'getting' his powers without some price to pay. And the price of high power regeneration is simple, You gotta live through what goes on. And if you do that, you gotta get used to the pain. I draw example to poisoner naruto fanfictions where he has to expose himself to toxins in order to get used to them (the forgotten doctor being a great example, I full recommend checking it out). From here, The gore will come in one of three categories. Comedic (because what is immortality without a jab or two at death), Horror because A bit of Psychotic breakdown is good for the Rage boy or Combat to the death. No more torture for the sake of torture.
And as for the Naruto kill all Anbu comments, shhh. What happens will happen.
With that said.. ONTO THE FICTION!
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To say that Naruto was tired, could be considered the understatement of the century. It was day 23 into the long, long month he had spent in the 'care' of the education squad. Bear had returned on the 18th and for five days straight now, the man had been drilling Naruto into the ground… And the walls. And the Ceiling- He was just brutalizing the boy for any mistakes he made. Used the seal too early? Bind him and let him struggle to get up while dodging kicks and punches that could shatter bone. Used it too late? Not even be given the chance and get pulverized into a broken bag of bones by the giant of a man's harsh attacks. Not to say it was all bad… The harsh treatment had been serving double time for helping Sparrow in his Pain endurance training, earning him a few sessions free of the sadist's touch… While he may have lessened his negative feelings to her thanks to hawk, he did not enjoy the act of regrowing organs as she removed them like some kind of pop quiz.
Speaking of hawk… He hadn't seen the man since bear came back. He missed hawk, he was the only man who saw fit to try and actually make the boy feel like a human… instead of a test subject, a failure or…a traitor.. oh yes. Then there was Him. Dragon. The man had started taking a sick pleasure out of torturing the boy, Breaking him down in front of those Faceless masked bastards. Making sure the boy knew he was worthless, Spineless, That the deaths were on his hands and… he was tired of it. Dragon had started going even rougher in his beatings to the boy lately, going as far as to use the weapons he showed to the boy while activating his seal. Sparrow did nothing to help; Bear turned away from it and Hawk… Hawk was gone. Between bear's training to control his power and Dragon's attempts to make the boy break, The attempts Naruto made to improve himself were only getting harder and harder to pull off.
As he sat in his room; which had been cleaned once again of the blood that covered it, The boy lifted his hand up to his vision and watched the black markings of his cursed seal cover it with ease. While he was still a far cry from being able to land a hit on bear or walk away from one of dragon's "lessons" without being near the brink of death, He most certainly had made progress. Progress that came with a cost however. His eyes went to the other hand…or lack thereof; Sighing as he looked up at Sparrow with a dead gaze, blood pouring out of the stump that ended just below his bicep. "If I Didn't know better, I'd say you were enjoying this Sparrow Sensei…".
The woman just shrugged. It had become a bit of a game to the two, well… game to her, Annoying game to him to try and avoid her when she felt… cutty. With an application of His inner Chakras, The bone that sprouted from his arm was soon followed by strands of intertwining muscle, Followed after that by more bone, and more muscle; The arm rebuilding itself in seconds as crimson flame coated the limb before it lay fully recovered, fingers flexing. "You did not even show a reaction to it this time Uzumaki. Are you trying to put up a mask, or have our lessons finally started to pay off.". The blonde just stared at her for a few moments, one eye twitching. "she does know I haven't physically reacted to her doing this since day 19 right..?".
Not giving Sparrow an answer, Naruto instead chose to stand up and stretch; dodging out of the way as she tried to slide another scalpel between his ribs. "I see. So it does still hurt. Well I will schedule you in for another-", she was stopped in her speech by him turning to her with rolled eyes, taking the scalpel and flicking it to the side, despite the stare of emerald behind Sparrow's mask. "It will always hurt Sparrow-Sensei. I'm just used to it now. Would I prefer to not feel it? Yes. Do I know I can handle it if I do? Also yes… You've cut, Sliced, carved, removed every part of me you could to see if it will either kill or break me and… other than that one time, Nothing has done it… I don't see what else you can come to gain from slicing me Sensei so please, Could we just…stop…".
The woman stared at him, head tilted to the side like some kind of curious puppy at first, before she leaned in with those green eyes showing… some form of interest in his reaction. As he tried to back up, she did not let him, instead guiding him much like a sheepdog back onto the bed as she crawled over him… a position most men would envy, if not for the fact that songbird had used this same position many times to work on him intimately. His lungs still didn't forgive him for falling for that trap. "Interesting…". The word sounded so wrong coming from her. "You've begged, Cried, screamed but never just straight… Asked, for me to stop my lessons. Tell me, Uzumaki... What is pain to you?"
She had asked him this question before. Day 3, a passing comment he barely understood due to the act of her removing his fingers, but now… now it felt like passing conversation to the boy. "It is a tool that reminds me I am alive. A reminder of what blows I cannot dodge and therefore must mitigate. And if I cannot, Then Fuel for my rage to empower my body". Sparrow stared into his blue eyes, as her own lost their glimmer… their light… and then let out a sigh? As she slowly pulled herself away from the boy and stared at him with a look of mild…indifference.
"Then I have nothing left to teach you. come tomorrow I shall go back to my post in The interrogation department and you will never see me again, unless you commit treason to the great tree a second time. I'm sure that brings you great relief, Gennin Uzumaki". He couldn't really help the nod, he was glad to know that her sick games of doctor had come to an end. But he could not but feel oddly… Disturbed by how easily she had backed off. He did not get a chance to inquire as to why though, as four loud thumps against his door could be heard before bear opened it, standing next to…
"Hawk sensei!". The bird themed male walked in ahead of his giant friend, laughing a little too much as he walked over to naruto and clamped a hand down on their arm, lifting them up into a hug that was Way To tight. "s-sensei, ribs, can't, breathe!". But the man just hugged tighter, even as bear came up to stand next to them with a sigh under his breathe… before bringing his fist down atop Hawk's head. He sent both man and student crumbling to the ground, scoffing a small 'weak' under his breathe before turning to sparrow. He noticed her body language immediately, raising an eyebrow at it. "…He's already done?"
A nod was his answer. "Gennin Uzumaki is Now capable of subconsciously channeling an equal Mixture of Cursed seal Chakra and Tailed beast chakra to his Injuries, Resulting in a Regeneration time of 1 to 2 seconds depending on the severity of the wound, 5 seconds maximum for regrowing lost limbs, anywhere between for organs. When the cursed mark is active, these times are reduced to an instantaneous amount at the cost of some form of sanity". The Bear masked Operative scoffed, looking to the boy with his arms crossed in front of him. "good thing that's my job then. Brat!".
The boy looked up from where he had to push hawk off of him, groaning at the weight as he looked up at the hulking beast of a man. "Meet me in the Training hall in 5. I got a surprise for you". now when bear said he had a surprise, nine times out of ten he meant I have a new way to crush your bones. But this time… something in the hesitance in his words said otherwise. The chuckle coming from the half conscious hawk was the only encouragement he had to this thought process… still, naruto stood. He did not thank or look at sparrow because truth be told… He still hated the bitch. Hawk would no doubt follow and as for the missing fourth…
Naruto could have given less than two fucks where he was.
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When Naruto did arrive in the training hall as it was called between the Education squad and him; his eyes widened at what he saw. Dragon, Bear and…somehow hawk, had all gotten ahead of him and were standing around a wooden footlocker, and a much larger wooden box. Dragon's body language spoke of being pissed, Bear's as nervous and Hawk…satisfied? "Bout time you got here Shrimp! Come on over here before I have to pull you by your ear!". Knowing Hawk would definitely play on this threat, he wasted no time approaching the three of his remaining 'sensei'
…what. He may be pseudo immortal that shit hurt!
When he approached, he watched as Hawk turned his 'gaze' to Dragon and watched him expectantly, and… was he humming? There was this low buzz coming from the man, and dragon stood still… and still… and still, before sighing as he looked towards Naruto. "Traitor". Ah… still on that old shit train again. "You did well in surviving Sparrow's pain endurance training with your mind intact, and with 8 days left to spare… now we know your clothing won't be cut to ribbons at any time, Hawk here has something he would like to give you. something he picked up on his latest mission outside of Konoha".
The implications that the old man had sent a blind shinobi out into the field was strange enough, but the fact dragon was complimenting him? the three had to watch as the boy took his thumb… and snapped it backwards. He stared at the three of them in return, the appendage popping back into place with little difficulty as dragon could be seen twitching… "Told you he'd think it was a Genjutsu Draggy-chan~". It took all the man had not to break professionalism and attack the idiot… and the memory of what had happened to him the last time he pushed the Ex-Uchiha too far.
"Do not confuse my appraisal for approval, Gennin Uzumaki. As far as I am concerned, you are still our prisoner for the next 8 days, It is only Hawk's mercy that your assigned time with him is instead being used on this mockery of a celebration instead". He tried to ignore the other two staring at him, looking down at the boy with his best look of disgust and hate that a mask could create… only for hawk to lean down and whisper in the boy's ear. Loudly. Too loudly.
"that's his way of saying congrats and he's going to miss you". Naruto just smiled, Thankful of hawk's support of him… even bear's shoulders seemed to be shaking. While dragon gave a glare to hawk that he was sure could kill with the right Doujutsu, he leant down and with a little application of Cursed chakra, Snapped the metal locks on the footlocker clean off of it while the lid was flung aside. Sitting on a bed of straw, sat…. furs? "those are clothes made from pelts and parts I skinned off of some summons a missing nin decided to throw at me while I was tracking down my target on the border to Iron. In return for accepting half pay, which the third was NOT happy at me for, I managed to get the Nearby samurai living on the border to take the furs and turn them into clothes for you. They're lined with Thermal seals, Self repairing seals; With your Ambient chakra disposal from the cursed seal, you shouldn't have to worry about them ever running out of juice. Go ahead and try them on".
Words could not explain how happy naruto was to finally receive some actual clothes! Pulling out the items of clothing from the box, he was… less happy to see the animal skinned for the pelts were… "yeah, Wolves and elk are kind of the only animal you can find up there. I have it on good word that the Inuzuka and Nara clans hold no ill will for wearing such clothing though, as long as you don't hunt down their animals for the Materials.". Naruto did not believe that for a second but clothing was clothing and he was tired of the cloth pants and shirt they kept washing and giving him to wear.
The clothing was…easy enough to slip on really. The bracers tied on easily, each one possessing large wolf fangs over his knuckles as well as grey fur tufts under the brown leather going up his arm, the grieves going on just as easily with rope tying them into place akin to laces on a boot, The grieves going over a set of Dark grey Cloth pants with black leather straps and metal plating over the knees, Shins and even a belt fashioned in the same way as his bracers, with a buckle resembling a snarling Wolf's maw fashioned from hammered steel. Coming up over his chest was a vest of the same leather, with the Grey fur on the outside this time, lining the arms and neck of the vest with a Deep V going down his chest; showing off the Binding roots tattoo on his chest and his arms, with only a pair of leather straps going across his chest to connect to a pair of leather shoulder Pauldrons, the leaf's symbol engraved in them and more wolf's fur lining the edges.
The final touch, Naruto noticed, Was a Wolf's pelt mantle… Head included, The shoulders and head of the beast had been removed entirely, sewn off expertly with the lower jaw missing and leather cords in place for him to tie it around his frame, covering him entirely with the Upper part of the wolf's head, again… fangs included, Actually forming a strange hood. He looked into the mirror provided by Hawk from… somewhere, And he had to admit… he looked good. With the Tree-like seal, The Furs, his whisker marks and feral appearance with his scars, He looked as if he could pass as one of the 'Barbarians' in the princess Gale movie he had seen last winter…
"He looks like a twit". Bear's eyes rolled as both Naruto and Hawk ended up in the corner of the room, Drawing little circles in the floor with their fingers. Before hawk produced his classic finger-in-the-air, bad idea pose. "Kid, activate your seal. They'll see how cool you'll look!". Not one to let an opportunity to show off slip by him, Naruto exhaled slowly before letting the black marks of his tainted Chakra coat him entirely… And in the mirror, caught how his exposed chest and arms showed off how the marks grew from the binding root seal like branches of the tree; only adding to his tribalistic look.
"Eh? EH? Come on Bear, you have to admit that look's cool!". The man stared from behind his mask, unyielding with crossed arms. One second passed. Two seconds passed. Three… "He looks like an intimidating twit". While naruto's confidence deflated, Hawk; as positive as always, simply held a thumbs out to the boy. Naruto however, was focusing on dragon… Who's gaze was heavy. and cold. "he Looks.. Like a common place bandit. What were you thinking hawk".
"Well draggy~ I was thinking that the boy needed style. Your little request for Sparrow to torture the poor boy-", Naruto's eyes shot to dragon at that with a wide gaze, before narrowing into a hateful one. So all of that was his idea huh? "and Your little Remote control Pain seal on his body you had me so Willingly apply to the boy, Along with Bear's training to have him fight like a savage; well it all already had the boy looking like that. I just decided to turn it into his brand, think about it. Naruto Uzumaki, Konoha's Savage Fishcake!... wait that's not right". Bear just watched alongside dragon as Hawk leant down on Naruto's head, ignoring the Raging blonde's Attempts to strangle him while muttering up fishcake related puns.
"…Commander". The Dragon masked man said nothing, staring at the two with…hate… in his eyes. "Commander.."
"what is it Bear"
"the window…" the man looked up, only to stiffen as he looked upon both a set of white robes with a ren trim… and bandages upon a black robed figure. The two most powerful men in Konoha, staring down at him…not naruto. Not hawk. Not bear. Him. The stare said it all, one of Judgement and one of Contemplation, but both saying the same thing.
We know…
His attention was pulled away by Hawk guiding the Fur clad blonde over to the other box, Once again watching as the blonde pulled on his cursed mark chakra and opened it by ripping wood from- Dragon's heart stood still…
In the box, standing as tall as the blonde, A familiar looking Axe lay. It's once warped metal straightened, Repaired and Reinforced. The wooden handle, Replaced by metal and wrappings of shark skin… but it was that axe all the same. The lions that once sat on it, replaced by wolves and foxes, a snarling maw on both sides of the blade… he gazed upon Hawk with such a blazing hatred, that the man looked at him with what he knew had to be a smirk, somehow knowing even without his sight.
"like it Draggy? I found it in an old storage closet and decided it could be put to better use in the hands of Konoha's newest Warrior~" his voice spoke of playfulness…but his body. The way his head was tilted towards the two he feared, hell, standing right in the perfect spot for him to have all three of them in his line of sight..
He could do nothing. And hawk knew that perfectly.
Bear, Detecting the fight that was about to break out, quickly stepped in and took away the blonde from the overactive bird; coughing into his fist… Despite the mask. "Well, while this weapon definitely fits your whole… Thing, now; Don't go thinking you can just use it willy nilly now brat. This may be your break but tomorrow, I'm going to come at you like a Demon to get you used to swinging around such a weight so you best be prepared. Now we know how much you can survive, I'm going to ensure that you're either limping or dragged back to your room… got that?".
Naruto nodded with a smile, a bright one too… unware of the dark… dark look he was getting from the Dragon in the room.
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Up above, Hiruzen Sarutobi exhaled the contents of his lungs onto the glass; enjoying with mild satisfaction the look of distain coming from his once best friend. "Seen enough for your liking Danzo? Or does seeing your old puppet bring you nostalgia for the past". The bandaged man next to him simply sighed, his eye hovering over the man in question… the look to kill was clear, as he flicked his gaze back to His fellow elder. "You will never let me rest for that will you… The man was Psychotic, and about to turn coat to Kumo. I brought him back to the great tree".
"You mean to the roots of it… Down there lies three of your greatest mistakes Danzo. Dragon, My loyal protector you Twisted to gain a threat over me. Hawk, The man you failed to kill and now knows every dirty secret of yours in a mind so strong that not even Inoichi can pry it open… for fear of what your actions caused it to split into… and finally, The boy. Blank faced Anbu are not in my forces old friend… It is them who drove him into those sewers in the first place, and now he wields the power of two of our greatest foes…". instead of denying Hiruzen's words, Danzo nodded… Looking down at the room below as Hawk began running Naruto through a few poorly made kata for wielding the axe.
"The first seeks death to the third, while the second fans pours fuel on the fire while standing in the way of the Dragon's fangs… Dragon will not allow Naruto to leave this facility alive, Hiruzen. Not untouched anyhow. My conditioning of how to handle Traitors will see to that, and The loss of his fiancé down in those tunnels… Even if you remove him from their care, it will do little but enflame the sparks of hatred in dragon's heart towards the boy… Are you prepared to do what Is needed for the boy to flourish, old friend? The one thing he has yet to break?"
The old man just dragged on his pipe once more, watching the smoke on his breath cover and fog the glass… obscuring the ones below. "We will see, Danzo. One way or another… Dragon's time is coming to an end".
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ALLLLRIIIIGHT. So, we finally get into the true theme of what this naruto will be. That's right, BARBARIAN NARUTO! It made way too much sense, with Kyuubi rage, The cursed mark stuff; plus Naruto has always been a beast in Taijutsu (Sasuke 5-piece anyone?) when it comes to raw strength, lacking the martial arts of a trained shinobi at first and just preferring raw, unhindered force. Plus, Barbarian's are all about one thing. Tanking. Kyuubi enhanced healing and sage mode/Nature charkra? Jinchuriki stamina? HELLO? Naruto makes the perfect barbarian! It was a real struggle between Warhammer and Battleaxe for a weapon, but in the end axe won out by a split second realization. That realization? I didn't want to copy Bring the hammer down (another fantastic naruto fanfiction I recommend). Please review fairly, anyone still around after the last chapters…as uh… yea. I'll admit. I went a bit hard on the torture stuff. I only hope my reasoning as explained at the top helps show why I went as far as I did.
and yeah... I wrote dragon to die. sorry anyone who wanted me to keep him around but... gotta have at least one of these dudes bite it and it sure as hell ain't gonna be hawk.
