Chapter 6: Unorthodox Mission
It has been a while since Naruto arrived at Earth country and had been roaming around in search for Roshi. Looking up he could see it was about to get dark and if he wanted to capture the rest of the three tailed beasts today then he would have to hurry up. Sensing someone coming from the direction he was heading he stopped knowing that only one person was allowed to be here. When the person came into view, he was revealed to be Naruto's target, Roshi.
"Why are you here? No one is allowed here."Roshi asked.
"I am here to complete a mission."Naruto replied.
"And why would your mission request you to come here?"
"That's because I was sent to retrieve something."Naruto replied.
"What is this thing you were sent to retrieve?"Roshi asked.
"Well that's simple, I'm here for what you have sealed inside you."Naruto stated making Roshi flinch ever so slightly. "So I want you to do me a favour and give me the four tails peacefully."
"If you really think I'm going to give him to you, then you sadly mistaken and you won't take either. You are just a brat who doesn't know who's stronger."Roshi said with an arrogant smirk on his face looking at Naruto.
"Well you can't say I didn't take the peaceful approach. Anyway let's get started I've other business to attend to."Naruto said activating his sharingan. 'Let's hope he uses Son Goku's chakra as soon as possible. I wouldn't like a dragged fight since I've spent almost half my chakra on fighting sealing and releasing Saiken in a short amount of time.'
'The sharingan well he will be a bit of a challenge, but won't be able to copy and use my lava jutsus against me. If he uses fire style jutsus, like most Uchiha, he will only be fuelling my jutsus heat.' "Before we start what's your name, I would like to know the name of the person I kill?"Roshi asked.
"Even though you are lying I will tell you. I know you want to put my name in the bingo book if I succeed, but I'll tell you anyway. My is Rock."Rock replied.
"What kind of a name is Rock?"Roshi asked clearly not believing that was Rock's name.
"Let's say my parents weren't very bright or creative I don't know, but enough about me let's get started. I've wasted enough time as it is."with that Rock started weaving hand signs and said "Fire style: Phoenix flower jutsu" and nine small fireballs came out of his mouth.
This only made Roshi grin as he slammed his hands together and said "Lava style: Scorching rocks" and released the same amount of lava rocks as Rock's fireballs. The lava rocks absorbed the Rock's jutsu and continued towards a surprised Rock. "You see the thing about lava jutsus is that fire strengthens the jutsu used against fire. So you have no chance of beating me since you Uchiha have fire affinities."stated a confident Roshi, but was shocked by what happened next.
"Kamui"Rock said and the fire enhanced lava jutsu was sucked in to a swirling vortex and sent to the sealing jutsu platform for later studying. Then Rock saw that Roshi was stunned he weaved a set of hand signs and said "Water style: Water Bullets" and a series of water bullets were shot towards Roshi, who was blazing through his own hand signs.
"Lava style: Lava Dragon Bullets" and when the two jutsu collided, the exploded leaving mist to linger in the air. Rock saw the mist and thought about what Kisame taught him about 'Silent Killing' and decided to take advantage of the mist. Performing hand signs for the his next jutsu "Water style: Hidden Mist jutsu" and used Kamui to bring out a katana he got from Zetsu.
Roshi sensing the sudden change in the mist he grew a red tail and activated his 'Lava style Chakra Mode'. Then he heard something from behind and it was coming fast, but Roshi was not bothered by this.
Rock seeing Roshi covered in lava all over shocked him and when his katana came close enough it started melting. But what really raised Rock's danger senses was the tail, he failed to see the first time, trying to stab him. As the tail was coming close, Rock's Susanoo burst to life and formed a protective ribcage around him. When the tail hit the Susanoo it pushed Rock with great strength that Rock went flying in the ground.
Roshi not being sure that he killed Rock yet he went to make sure since he couldn't see in the mist. When he saw Rock was laying there with no blood stains he was surprised, since he didn't see the Susanoo, that Rock was still alive. He raised he his lava fist and was about to punch Rock by the heart to pierce through his body using the lava. Before continued with the action he looked at Rock in the eyes and that's when he saw two blood red eyes rapidly spinning. Before he could look away, knowing the Uchiha and their genjutsus, he blacked out.
Naruto seeing the sharingan reflect from Roshi's eyes he entered his mind.
(Roshi's mindscape)
What Naruto saw was a jungle type environment and a cave with iron bars, which Naruto thought had Son Goku, and moved towards the cave. What he saw was an ape with red fur and white chest, feet and hands. The ape had teeth with two fangs and two horns. It had red eyes and four tails.
"What do you want with me human?"Son Goku asked deep voice.
"Well you're certainly different from Kurama. Atleast you call me human."Naruto stated.
"Don't compare me to that arrogant fox and answer my question!"Son Goku roared.
"Woah, calm down I just came here to take you to a safe place."Naruto quickly replied.
"Who said I need protection, especially from a tiny human like you?"Son Goku snorted a reply.
"I know you don't need protection, but you can't protect yourself from inside there."Naruto responded pointing at the cage.
"Even so, I can still supply my container with my chakra to fight for me."
"And look what happened he lost. If you don't want to then people wearing the same cloaks, stronger then me mind you, will come take you to seal you in some statue that Pain called the 'Demonic Statue of the Outer Path' to revive what you came from."Naruto said as he caught the demon ape's attention.
"Why aren't you helping them?"Son Goku question to see if he could trust this human.
"Because Kurama told me to do otherwise when he was sealed in me and I don't want a rampaging beast destroying everything at sight."Naruto answered.
"Why isn't he sealed in you now?"
"Because I set him free and right now he is in a summoning realm that used to be for the cat summons."Naruto stated.
"How do I know I can trust you?"
"Well I wouldn't be here telling you and would have just taken your hosts body to the statue." 'Well he sure does ask a lot of questions'Naruto thought.
"How many of us have you taken to this summoning realm of yours?"
"You would be the third to go there."Naruto answered.
"Very well then. How will I get there?"Son Goku asked.
"Well I would transfer you into my seal, reverse summon myself and release you there. First I need to put a genjutsu over you."
"Why not put it before and release it after releasing me?"Son Goku question.
"Kurama told me not to get on Kokuo, Chomei and your bad sides."Naruto answered.
"I understand Kokuo and I, but why Chomei?"Son Goku asked clearly not knowing why Chomei would be a threat.
"Well Kurama said that Chomei acts like a pregnant women according to his experience with his female containers."
"Fine let's hurry up I've been sealed for far to long."with that said Naruto cast the genjutsu and gave Son Goku instructions on what to do when he starts the 'Tailed Beast Transfer jutsu' and left Roshi's mindscape.
(Earth country)
Naruto came out of Roshi's mindscape and made a dome around them in case some Iwa ninja sensed the yonbi's chakra. But he didn't waste anytime as he weaved signs for the 'Tailed Beast Transfer jutsu' and used the chakra of both the rokubi and kyuubi to transfer the yonbi. What he didn't know was the chakra had mixed and that if it was used it would refill like his own chakra. The process took 20 minutes, since a tail worth of chakra took 5 minutes, and reversed summoned himself to the cats summoning realm.
(Dreamland of the Cats)
Naruto appeared in a poof of smoke and found Kurama resting in the shade and Saiken was near the large river dam cats used to use as the hot springs. "Hey fluffy how did Saiken take the news about our plan to stop 'Madara'?"
"He's fine, just the way you convinced him made him upset."Kurama answered.
"Well I'll just begin unsealing Son Goku and go convince Kokuo. The sooner I finish the sooner I get my ramen if it will be open."Naruto stated.
"You never did get rid of that unhealthy habit of yours. I'm surprised you even tried eating something else with the way you used to be a stubborn brat when it came to that ramen thing."Kurama said as he closed his eye to go back to his nap.
"Yeah whatever, you over grown fluffy fox."and with that he entered his mind to release Son Goku.
(Naruto's mindscape)
"Son Goku you will not resist and will leave half of your chakra when I use the 'Tailed Beast Removal jutsu'."
"As you command."with the confirmation Naruto started the jutsu to releases and after 10 minutes later he finished and left his mindscape.
(Dreamland of the Cats)
When Naruto regained his real body he released the genjutsu on the sleeping yonbi. Using Kamui and brought a bottle of chakra pills and took one to refill his chakra pools to be ready for the last fight against Kokuo's container. "I'll see you in a while fluffy and tell Saiken sorry for using a genjutsu on him."those were the last words from Naruto before he poofed away.
(Earth country)
Naruto looked at the now awake Roshi and said "I would say I'm sorry, but I won't. As you can see you still alive, so that would mean that you still have your tailed beast. But don't expect him to help you in any way from now on. It would be bothersome if you got any stronger. Well I'll be going so have a nice evening."
All Roshi saw was Rock leave in the same swirling vortex as the one he used to avoid his jutsu. One thing was for sure was this guy was dangerous and he needed to tell the tsuchikage about him.
(100 feet from the Sunagakure)
We find Naruto staring at six people headed towards his way with his arms folded and if his senses were right his last target for his mission was amoung the crowd. He was proven right when the when one of them fit the description in the bingo book. He was Han of the five tails.
"Hey you with the mask what do you want?"asked one of the ninja with Han and from the headband he was a sand ninja.
Naruto sighed as he wanted no interruption, but it seamed that his luck had taken a vacation. "I'm here for Han and the rest of you can go away."
"We will not leave our client, plus you only one boy playing ninja. Go home to mommy and cry like the brat you are."stated the same ninja that Naruto thought was the leader of the mission.
"You talk to much."Naruto said and his blood red eyes glowed before closing his right eye. But what they all failed to see was the tears of blood from his right eye thanks to the mask. "AMATERASU!" as soon as that word the said leader and a man to his left was caught in the black flames. The screams from the men who were burnt spoke volumes of how much it hurts. "Anymore volunteers to join them."he was met with silence so he continued "I'd advise you to go call the kazekage or the three of you will follow in the foot steps of your team mates, death. But don't worry if you choose to follow them just ask its not that hard."
"YOU BARSTARD! How could you do such a thing?!"
"Well I did tell you nicely to leave Mr Han, but you chose to insult me because of my size. Now that I've shown my superior strength you blame me, how foolish. Go away before my mercy runs out." the sand ninja left without hesitation to go get the kazekage.
"I'm impressed that you managed to kill two jonins and made the chunins go call for back up. And don't get me started with that weird fire jutsu. I'm sure it took up a ridiculous amount chakra, won't that dash your hopes of achieving whatever you came for."Han said speaking for the first time since arriving at the scene. For reasons unknown to him, Han just couldn't remember where he saw the eyes he was looking into.
"You see I didn't come here for a full scale battle so the chakra I have left will be enough. Umm… didn't they tell you not to look an Uchiha in the eyes before?"Han's eyes widen in realised where he had seen them. But before he could break the eye contact with Naruto he heard "Tsukuyomi" and he started falling into a dark hole.
(Tsukuyomi world)
Han suddenly found himself in a world where everything was black and white, except the red moon and sky with black clouds. Then he was tied to a flat surface and a stone humanoid structure came from the ground. "Before we start I would like to introduce my unbreakable genjutsu. You see here I'm god, I control everything from time, space and physical mass. So I can do whatever I want to you for 5 days. But since I'm being merciful today I'll cut it down to to 3. Now let's see how long it takes to break your spirit."Naruto said sitting on top of the humanoid structure.
What Han saw next made him wince even before it happened. The large statue raised its fist and sent it towards Han's body and the impact was so hard that even Naruto flinched at the scream let out by Han. This happened three more times until Han's body was nothing but smashed meat and bones. Then everything reset and Han's eyes widen that it was going to happen again but he still told himself the it was a genjutsu. What he heard next shattered any hopes of surviving "71 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds to go, so make yourself at home. Reset!"the whole time left there were three types of noises that were made, which were boom, ahhh and Naruto yelling 'RESET!' just to make fun of Han. This continued until the time finished.
(100 feet from the Sunagakure)
When the genjutsu ended Han didn't even stay conscious for second, he just fell face first in the sand. "Well that was enjoyable. He didn't even finish the time in the genjutsu. Anyway let's get Kokuo out of there I need to go to sleep."Naruto started walking towards Han, deactivating his sharingan, and started transferring the five tails from Han's seal to his seal. The 'Tailed Beast Transfer jutsu' took 35 minutes, since he didn't place a genjutsu on the five tails to stop the resistance.
Naruto stood up as he felt many chakra signatures coming towards his location and decided he could entertain them before leaving. "So have my sand friends returned to say goodbye to little old me?"
"Who are you and what did you do to Han?"a man dressed in white and the other colour was not visible to Naruto.
"You can call me Rock and what I did to Han, well let's say I gave him a taste of the future. So who are you?"Naruto answered.
"I'm the kazekage. What do you mean taste of the future?"the man, now known as the kazekage asked.
"Why should I spoil the surprise Mr kazekage? Well I should be on my way."Naruto said as he weaved hand signs making the sand ninjas prepare for the jutsu about to be used. But what they didn't expect was Naruto to disappear in a puff of smoke.
Getting over his shock the kazekage started giving out orders. "Quickly take Han to the hospital and I want this Rock person put in the bingo book and once Han wakes up ask for his abilities."the kazekage said and received a round of 'yes sir'.
(Konoha: Naruto's apartment)
Naruto came in his apartment using Kamui, after he finished with convincing and releasing Kokuo, then speaking with the tailed beasts he left the summoning realm and returned home. He looked at the time and saw it was past mid-night. Not bothering with changing, Naruto just threw himself on the bed and passed.
(Time skip: week later)
It was early in the morning and many people were sleeping, Naruto was not an exception. Well that was correct until Zetsu appeared from the ground and woke him up.
"Naruto wake up its 8:00!"white Zetsu screamed at Naruto.
"Not so(yawn) loud Zetsu."Naruto said rubbing the sleep out his eyes.
"Well I had to be so you'd wake up since you never wake up."white Zetsu defended himself "Have you finished the writing the reports on the skills of the people you went to fight?"black Zetsu quickly asked to avoid the argument that was about to happen between Naruto and his other half.
"Yeah I did its on top of the kitchen table."Naruto answered.
"Well you better make a blood clone to fill in for you, because Pain wants to see you for a long term mission."black Zetsu said.
"Yeah I'll make one and go to Rain country for the mission he has for me."Naruto said with an non-enthusiastic voice.
"By the way you look at the bingo book. Here's one from the Suna page 63 and one from Iwa page 59."white Zetsu says throwing two books.
(Page 59)
Name: Rock.
Age: 12-16.
Rank: High A
Status: Missing Nin.
Affinities: Fire and Water
Village: Unknown.
Bloodline: Sharingan.
Unique Abilities: He can swallow things and himself into a swirling vortex. He calls the jutsu Kamui. And can use silent killing technique.
Description: Black Anbu style pants with black and white type of boots. His black cloak with red clouds reaching just under his knees and was closed at the top to his waist and the rest is open. He had white nail polish and a silver ring with black coloured top. The ring was on his pinky finger. He had a white sharingan looking mask with three tomoe, two by the eyes were open and the third by the mouth was closed with a black net, which were surrounding a black pupil. His hair was tied and was inside his cloak.
Taijutsu: Unknown.
Genjutsu: High Chunin.
Ninjutsu: High Jonin.
Kenjutsu: Low Jonin.
Action: Don't underestimate.
Wanted for: Attacking Roshi of Iwa and trespassing on sacred territory.
Bounty: 750,000 Ryo in Iwagakure - Dead.
(Page 63)
Name : Rock.
Age : 12-16.
Rank : Low S
Status: Missing Nin.
Affinities: Fire
Village: Unknown.
Bloodline: Sharingan.
Unique Abilities: Use black fire ninjutsu with no hand signs and use an unbreakable genjutsu by looking at your eyes. This genjutsu lasts for days but is only a few moments in real world.
Description: Black Anbu style pants with black and white type of boots. His black cloak with red clouds reaching just under his knees and was closed at the top to his waist and the rest is open. He had white nail polish and a silver ring with black coloured top. The ring was on his pinky finger. He had a white sharingan looking mask with three tomoe, two by the eyes were open and the third by the mouth was closed with a black net, which were surrounding a black pupil. His hair was tied and was inside his cloak.
Taijutsu: Unknown.
Genjutsu: High Jonin.
Ninjutsu: High Jonin.
Kenjutsu: Unknown.
Action: Flee on sight if alone, engage with caution if have numbers.
Wanted for: Attacking client and killing two jonins.
Bounty: 450,000 Ryo in Sunagakure - Dead.
"Would you look at that, I made S-rank by using two jutsus in Suna and high A-rank by defeating Roshi in Iwa. I just wish I didn't have to use a name that's not mine."Naruto stated with pride in his voice, but quickly went away at the end.
"Why Rock of all names? You could have chosen any other name and Rock was the name you chose?"white Zetsu asked Naruto curious as to why Naruto chose that name.
"It was the only thing that came to mind when I was asked by Utakata."
"Anyway we will be on our way."black Zetsu stated and both Zetsus begun sinking in the ground.
Naruto didn't say anything and just went to go do his morning activities and breakfast. 30 minutes later Naruto had finished preparing and already made the blood clone. "Okay I want you to do everything that's supposed to be done, but make sure you get Ino the sensei she asked for and study the jutsu that was sealed when I fought Roshi."all the clone did was nod and Naruto swirled away using Kamui.
(Rain country)
Naruto arrived on top of Pain's tower, as the people call it, and found Pain standing at the edge looking at the village.
"So you have finally arrived? I was almost thinking you wouldn't come for the special mission I have for you."Pain stated as he turned around to face Naruto. Pain was dressed in akatsuki style boots, black Anbu pants and a black cloak with red clouds. He had orange hair, a Amegakure headband with a slash across and metallic purple eyes with a ripple pattern of 4 black rings around the black pupil.
"Well I'm sorry if I'm late. I did know there was a time limit to arrive."Naruto replied back.
"Well that doesn't matter, what matters is that you are here now. What do you say we begin and I tell you about the mission I'm about to give you."Pain said.
"What is the mission about?"
"Well I would like you to go to the moon. There's are some things I want to look into and you are the only one qualified to do it."Pain explained.
'I think Pain has lost it. He wants me to go to the moon to see if there really are people there.'Naruto thought with a frown, but was covered with his mask. "And how am I qualified for this mission."
"That because you the have the highest chakra in the Akatsuki, thanks to the kyuubi, to hold your breath for a long time and can come back using that jutsu you and Madara share."Pain responded.
"I see… how will I go there and when do I begin."
"You will going with that (pointing behind Naruto) and you may go now."
Naruto looked behind himself to see a half made mini "Chibaku Tensei". 'Well he really thought things through, but when did he come up with such a plan or what he's really interested in. This is not the kind of mission I had in mind, but I guess even if it's a suicide mission I did get 4 tailed beasts to screw with their plans. Oh well I better go now then later.' "How long will it take to get there."
"Well if I predicted correctly then it would take about… let's says 3 hours more or less. Since its about 8:45 you get there at 11:45. I'll be guiding you until you leave the world. From there on I will not be able to guide you any longer, but you'll have to use chakra to push yourself towards the moon. Upon arrival you will find and bring anything that has to do with our plans for the tailed beasts. Then report to me personally then collect your mission reward."Pain explained and Naruto nodded.
Shushining to the top of the half made mini Chibaku Tensei, which was looked like a ball divided in two: top and bottom, the top part was not there only the bottom. Arriving on top of the flat surface Naruto sat in a meditative position and prepared to draw the chakra in his mindscape to use for preserving his breath.
Naruto was so concentrated on gathering chakra that he didn't feel the platform he was sitting on move or notice the time that passed until he heard "Shinra Tensei". Then he felt the air pushing him back very hard against surface of the platform and after a while it stopped. Opening his eyes all he saw was black with many white shining dots and looking to his right he saw it. It was his destination, it was his mission, it was the 'Sage of Six Paths' creation, the moon. Even though he could see it he still was a long distance away. Quickly remembering what Pain had said 'you'll have to use chakra to push yourself towards the moon.'. He used the remainder of his chakra, not being used for survival without air, he went to the other side and used the "Fire style: Fire Steam jutsu" on the opposite direction of the moon. The said jutsu was released with so much power that it made the mini Chibaku Tensei move towards the moon.
After an hour and few minutes passed Naruto reached the moon, but was very exhausted by having more chakra used then normal. But before he could even let chakra exhaustion claim he made a shadow clone to see if there was oxygen to breath. The clone dispelled after confirming that it was breathable and Naruto collapsed.
It was an hour later that he woke up, but it was not that he wanted to but it was because he was cold. Getting up he made 50 shadow clones and told them to scout the area to find anything that about people staying here. While the shadow clones looked around, he went to his Kamui dimension to prepare for the people he might find.
(Kamui dimension)
Appearing at 'the medical centre', he got his chakra pills to refill his reserves and then went to 'the kitchen'. As he was eating he saw one of his clones memories after dispelling from a getting heat by a large stone golem. It only had a upper body and when it moves from its position, there was a large hole which had to lead somewhere by the way its guarded. Finishing his meal Naruto made his way to 'the weapon place' and got a new katana, since the one he used on Roshi melted, then left to go battle the golem.
(The moon)
When Naruto came back from his dimension and saw the grey rock golem, one thing was running through his mind was 'That thing is HUGE!'. Not even the hokage mountain was that huge in size, even his Susanoo might be smaller in size.
Seeing this Naruto thought of 1 person that might be able to fight this golem head on. So Naruto started weaving signs before the golem could recognise his presense and said "Summoning: Kurama". A large puff of smoke was seen and even let golem know that there was something coming. When the smoke cleared it showed the kyuubi standing there with its nine tails moving lazily behind it and the golem seemed to have notice the oncoming battle.
"Naruto why have you summoned me in the desert to fight against a rock golem. You know that beating the summoner of the golem will stop it?"Kurama asked not noticing where he was and not happy to be summoned while taking his nap.
"I would have done that if I could see the summoner and according to my clones memories, they're in that hole and we're on the moon not the desert. Plus have you seen the size of that thing!"Naruto answers like it was a common topic to be on the moon and fight a huge rock golem.
"I think I'll need brute force if I want to open that hole you were speaking about."Kurama stated as he charged a "Tailed Beast Ball" and ate it after condensing it. All the while the golem was coming towards to the tailed beast and his partner at high speeds. When the golem was close enough Kurama fired the Tailed Beast Ball and it hit the target directly making a hole right through it. As it looked like it was defeated, the golem started reforming and it continued with its attacked.
"Anything in mind Kurama?"Naruto asked.
"I'll fight the rock, you go into the hole and then I'll give you atleast five minutes than I'll dispel."Kurama exclaimed.
"Alright good luck I'll see you after finding Isobu."Naruto stated jumping off of Kurama and used Kamui to get to the other side of the golem to enter the dark hole being covered.
Upon entering the dark hole, Naruto's ribcage Susanoo burst into life to provide light plus protection from any more surprises. What Naruto saw was that he was in a cave and at the end there was a pond. When he got to the pond he saw there were no other places to go, it was a dead end.
"Well I guess there are no people staying here. Might as well take a swim."Naruto mused to himself as he took off his clothes, leaving only his Anbu pants, the rest were sent to his Kamui dimension. Naruto started swimming in the surprisingly warm water, but what he noticed is that the more you go down the warmer it becomes. So favouring warm over cool, Naruto started swimming to the bottom using chakra for holding his breath to see what is making it warm. Naruto kept swimming and swimming but it looked like he would never reach the bottom. He had thoughts of swimming back, but the warmth was calling him. No matter how hard he tried to tell himself to go back, there was something that drew his attention. It was more then his craving for more jutsus or sleeping, it was almost like a calling to discover something unheard of or a massive breakthrough from his personal studies of jutsus. So like any human he kept swimming and swimming and swimming until he reach the… surface of the water. But what really shocked Naruto was the city he saw. It looked better then any village he ever saw, hell some things he had never seen. Things like the material used for the road or the height of the of the building at the end of the of the broken bridge.
"So it was true that people lived on the moon. Let's see what kind of jutsus they had here. Maybe I might get to learn something new or a new weapon to start my collection of weapons."Naruto said as he brought out his clothes from his Kamui dimension and started getting dressed.