Chapter 1: Stratagem of A Lion King.
Naruto is watching the training of Alexander of Macedonia as he trains in the martial art Pankration from it's pugilism, grappling, joint locks, bone breaking, and kicking skills.
Each movement Alexander practiced, Naruto memorized each aspect of his soon to be ruthless hand to hand combat skills.
Alexander also started to learn how to fight with weapons such as a swords, daggers, spears and even the bow and arrow. He was extensively trained in tactics and warfare. Naruto had also listened to the studies of Alexander's legendary teacher Aristotle, a philosopher and polymath. Learning the key skills that Alexander needed as a ruler and military commander.
Alexander at the moment is practicing his skills in the art of pankration with his friend turned brother Hephaestion sparring in an endurance battle. Soon Alexander throws Hephaestion over his shoulder to the ground and pins him.
"I win Hephaestion" said Alexander as he helps Hephaestion.
"Alexander, your skills are incredible in pankration." said Hephaestion.
"Yes but it's thanks to you my friend for the many years of practice and training you have put me through. I only hope they will carry me through these battles in the future when I am king" said Alexander to his friend who's happy for his friend's appreciation.
Timeskip 1 year later
Alexander at the age of 20 is fighting alongside his father at the battle of Chaeronea. Alexander using determination and charisma to guide his actions in battle against the Thebans Sacred Band. Fiercely fighting the elite force that decisively defeated Sparta.
Alexander seeing an opening in the Sacred Band using the utmost of his command over his troops smashes the band's formation leading to a fierce and bloody last stand.
The Sacred Band fiercely fought and died with their lovers next to them.
Alexander sheds a tear for their devotion to their lover and bravery in the face of death as he goes to reinforce his father's forces on the left flank helping his father brutal smash Athenians forces.
Alexander has had the first of many Mortal Combats for his lifetime.
Timeskip several months later
King Philip, Alexander's father had been assassinated. His assassins and their fellow conspirators have been put to death by Alexander's companions.
Alexander began to consulate power by eliminating rivals and purging his government of any disloyal officials, Naruto taking note of this method of power consulting and keeping it inside of his head. He also went to work on more reformations on the military that his father had built for him. Developing mobile siege engines that are able to be deployable during sieges. Alexander also developed the Companions Cavalry, a highly trained shock cavalry unit that will lead the battle charge.
Naruto sees Alexander's accomplishments as a conqueror and empire builder. While he takes notes on things such as Alexander's incorporation of different units such as skirmishers, slingers, archers and cavalry units in his army and how he made full equal use of warriors of his alliances in his battle formation.
He lastly sees Alexander's death from an unknown illness.
Naruto proceeds to leave the memory to go back to the normal mindscape.
Back to the normal mindscape
"So Naruto, what did you learn from that memory?" asked Kurama as she looked at Naruto in question who's walking back to the bubble and absorbs it.
"Many things about warfare and tactics. As well as things that would help me for future adventures. So you ready to be released" asked Naruto as he walks over to the humanoid kitsune vixen to remove her collar. "Wait, Naruto kun, let's not release the seal." Said Kurama as Naruto looks at her in confusion as she continues. " If you release me a chakra wave will indicate your alive and will cause the ones in power of this village who would stop at nothing to make you a slave." Answered Kurama as Naruto thinks about it and nods in agreement.
"Okay I will wait until where alone. But until then" Naruto comes up to her and locks lips with her causing her to moan in the kiss.
"Wait for me my lovely vixen." Said Naruto in a tone of desire and romance as he leaves the mindscape.
"I'm going to have his magnificent children. I can hardly wait for that day" thought Kurama as she licks her lips in great amazement at how good his kissing is.
In the real world
Naruto wakes up to look at his physical form, getting use to his new physical form as he proceeds to move away from the cave in the mountain. He looks over the village seeing it in its degenerative state. He leaps out of the cave. landing on a nearby roof top to a shinobi shop of an owner who had tried to kill him many times in the past. He slips into the shop stealthily and makes his way to the weapon racks.
He looks at each of the swords to see that many of them are not what he is looking for. Naruto stumbles upon a Tachi with a prong guard. He takes some kunai and shuriken along with some storage seals, scrolls on swordsmanship, basic taijutsu ,weapons handling and lastly armor padding. He leaves the same way he came. He moves towards the gate with the swiftness of a panther and set out on a journey of development as a warrior and shinobi.
Soon Konoha will have a rebirth like no other.
For the next few months Naruto had trained himself to the brink of exhaustion. Learning the personal combat skills of Alexander The Great and basic ninja skills from the scrolls he stole from the weapons shop.
From Alexander he learned pankration, melee weapons fighting, From the basic ninja scrolls he learned sealing becoming a tier 40 specialist in seals, basic dakentaijutsu, shuriken jutsu, bojutsu and Kobudo. With the assistance of Kurama he had gained the knowledge of Uzumaki seals from her.
Kurama also taught him the history of the elemental nations and military structures of each village.
Back in Konoha
Konoha patrols have become more active in the village due to one Hiruzen Sarutobi being in the epicenter of a bomb going off. Luckily for him the explosives experts determined it was a high-powered concussion bomb that went off in the office.
Hiruzen was beyond pissed at how he was hit with a concussion bomb as it not only caught Hiruzen off guard, but it had knocked some of his teeth out and showed how incompetent his Anbu that was assigned to sweep the office for explosives are.
In private dojo
A girl with brown hair can be seen practicing with a practice robot using wooden swords. She had just finished practicing previously with knives, sticks, staves, and is now using wooden swords. She shows her skills in the art of swordsmanship. Demonstrating skills on par with an advanced sword specialist.
The girl closes in for a strike until she hears a call of "Tenten time for bed" as she stops and jumps over the robot in question deactivating it with a remote control.
"Okay papa coming just need to put up Kenji and be right up" shouted Tenten as she goes to put the practice robot away and heads for bed.
' I have a big day tomorrow, better call it a night' thought Tenten as she puts the practice robot away.
Back with Naruto.
Naruto is walking on a road towards a town until he sees the remnants of a lost battlefield. He walks around to see many swords of various types that Naruto somehow recognizes. Before he could look any further he senses a strange weapon in a cave of sorts. Naruto goes towards the cave to see a double-edged sword in stone.
Naruto soon recognizes this sword as Alexander's own long sword. The sword senses it's wielder and starts to glow brighter as Naruto walks closer to the sword in question. He resolutely picks up the sword.
Naruto is permeated with ethereal energy as his body feels even stronger. It dies down as Naruto is clad in armor similar to Alexander's original but with more of his world's armor theme shining through with-it sporting samurai and classical ninja gear. In it has a lion engraved inside of the seal.
'Incredible' thought Naruto as he looks at his armor and his sword with interest.
"So the sword of a king has waited for it's true master for many centuries." said Kurama as she sees the sword with great interested as she looks through her lover's eyes.
Naruto for his part swings and twirls the blade seeing it's elegance and flow rivaling that of a Katana with ease. Naruto sheathes this sword and walks out of the cave. Naruto seeing the armor might attract to much attention looks around to find a cloak on the battlefield until the sword glowed to conceal the armor and transform into another sword Alexander had known as a Kopis.
"Well Kurama chan this is shaping up to be a real interesting journey" said Naruto telepathically to Kurama.
"Yes you not only have the knowledge of an incredible ruler, but you also have his sword with your own armor." said Kurama back to her lover as Naruto goes towards the town he was heading towards.
As Naruto is walking, he senses movement in the trees. Naruto has his hand on his sword as he gets ready for an imminent attack on his person.
Soon an attack or more like a fumbling mess of an attack happens as Naruto sweat drops at the scene of 11 grown men failing to attack him due to being very unorganized and uncoordinated.
Naruto walks up to the nearest man in question. "What the hell do you guys think your doing" asked Naruto as he looks at the man in question.
The men then get a good look at Naruto to see he isn't a threat.
"Oh sorry kid we were waiting for a group of renegade samurai coming to attack this village. We thought you were a scout but it looks like you don't have their colors nor a weapon like them" said an armored villager as he looks at the blonde and his unique looking weapon.
"Sorry to disappoint but I am just a traveler seeking knowledge of war through experience for a journey of great importance of the world." said Naruto as he looks at the men in question. Several of the men looks at the blonde like he's crazy.
"But your just a kid you should be at home with your parents their problem worried sick." said one man as Naruto looks at him and says "My parents are dead." said Naruto as the men look at him with sadness. Soon 50 or more people show up in the tree line.
"What's the first of your training and learning agenda in your journey young one" asked an old man who walks up from behind the men in pristine samurai armor .
"Gain experience in battle tactics and strategy" explained Naruto as he looks the old man in his eyes. The old man can sense a young lion spirit in the young blonde waiting to be unleashed.
"Well lets see if he can help you idiots out in defending this village. But first tell us your story young one" said the old man
"I will but I must ask that you all take a vow of silence as for me to reveal my name will let my enemies know of my continued existence" said Naruto as he looks at the group of men. Some of who laugh while the old man looks at him with a critical eye and takes out a Tanto. He cuts his hand and bleed on the ground in a circle. "I vow to keep your secret." said The old man as he looks at Naruto with respect. The other men looks at the old man as if he is serious about the request but the old man scowls at them leaking lethal killing intent that left no room for back talk or jokes.
After committing to the vow. Naruto reveals to them his name and why he is on a journey leaving out what he is and what he contains. The men looked disbelieving at Naruto until Naruto uses his enhanced strength throw one of their biggest men around with one hand. The men after seeing this looks at Naruto in a different light as they see a boy who will become a man with a great role in the world.
"So boy what can you help us with in our strategy and battle tactics." asked the old man as he looks at the boy with an inquisitive eye.
"Well seeing as your defending and the force of your enemy is greater than your number of 100 as that is on it's why in 6 months on a narrow path to your village I would have to say ambush tactics like before but with weapons and a fighting style that would favor your better" said Naruto as he looks at the group in question.
"How so?" asked the old man, curious of the blonde's assessment.
"Well seeing as this forest is more for close quarters weapons your standard weapons would be at a disadvantage regardless of your skill with them" said Naruto as he stands up and draws his kopis sword and goes to attack the old man who masterfully blocks with his sword and tries to counter to see the blonde's point as he finds he isn't able to fully draw his sword as it's caught in between a branch and vine. He finds himself at the mercy of the blonde who has his Kopis blade at his fem artery.
Naruto sheaths his sword and helps the old warrior get his sword free.
"So what do you purpose" asked the old man as he thinks on how his swordsmanship would be compromised by the environment.
"Simply put you would need to adopt specialty weapons suited for the environment like my sword or weapons like the tanto and fighting forms that would take away their advantage in numbers" said Naruto as he looks at the old man in question. One of the men who brought a strange L shaped multi handle club to aid him in battle walks up.
"Like this Tonfa" asked the man as he held his weapon in question as Naruto examines it. Naruto makes a shadow clone and commands him to attack him with his sword. Naruto uses the club to his advantage and disarms his shadow clone with it. Naruto twirls the club around on it's side handle and practice striking while holding handle each and practicing with it. "Excuse me but where did you get this tonfa from" asked Naruto as he looks at the man in question.
"I got this from my homeland of Samsara, " said the man who looks at the blonde boy.
"Do you have weapons like this" asked Naruto as the man nods and shows him his set of spare weapons such as the Tonfa, Butterfly Swords, Kamas, Sai, Bolas, Tekko.
"Toki you may have saved your new home" said Naruto as the old man nods in agreement. Naruto turns to the old man in question.
" Well old one looks like you have something to start with" said Naruto with the old man nodding in agreement to the blonde boys statement.
The man named Toki revealed that he is from an Island Nation of Samsara explaining he was once a martial arts master in the art of Shorei Karate of the area until tragedy struck his home due to fame and plague. He shows his supply of martial arts weapons to the old man and Toki,
Naruto helps the villagers train for 5 months to get them into fighting shape preparing them for the attack on the village helping Toki from Samsara train them in the art of Shorei Karate. Naruto for his part had helped prepare a vicious surprise on the village road and warning travelers not to come through the village road telling of a Renegade Samurai attack.
Naruto also during the time had also developed a love for Gunjin Shogi as he started playing with the elderly warrior. The elder had furthered tutored Naruto in strategy and tactics. Explaining that he senses a great power from within the boy and hopes the boy will one day become a legendary warrior.
On the day of the bandits arrival
A horde of 100 bandits can be seen riding towards the village. Seemingly unnoticed by the villagers. Key word seemingly in truth the people had been waiting for the Renegade Samurai Force.
Everyone in the village is ready and waiting for them with a devastating surprise. Naruto looks from a vantage point looks at the force that is about to run into an ambush.
On the forest flow
A bandit scout goes inside first. The group hidden thankfully knows it's a scout and doesn't attack. When the scout returned to the Renegade force with their report the Samurai launches their attack confident with what the reports showed the village was full of people still without any weapons. As they charge inside, they soon find themselves in a killing field as when the last samurai rider comes inside of the perimeter of the village Naruto's trap springs into action as chains begin to block the entrance of the village. But that was only one half of it the surprise Naruto left happens when the middle group experiences hell when an explosive triggers and kills 25 of the 150 of the attackers and injuring 18 of them.
The villagers attack using the specialty weapons to slowly brutalize and butcher the renegade samurai in question. The old man leading them adapts his sword technique to the use of the butterfly sword cutting through 40 of the men in question. Naruto from a distance thinks.
'Hmm the villagers have shown themselves as being highly capable in terms of combat something most villages non-Shinobi Villages don't show when it comes to the defense of their villages.' thought Naruto as he looks at the fighting villagers with interest as he gains and memorizes an idea for a special project for normal villagers or villages should have as he moves away from the area.
The villagers destroys the Renegade Samurai Force leaving no survivors. Toki will be held in high regard to thanks in part to Naruto's insight on the environment. The man has a new place to call home and a place to spread his teachings of his martial arts. All thanks to Naruto's arrival.
With Naruto on the road.
Naruto is traveling far away from the village of Bako as he is traveling he sees a strangely golden lion statue near the center of a battle site that of sorts. Naruto walks up to it to see various warriors of cultures similar to what he's seen with Alexander the Great's path of conquest.
'What could have done this' thought Naruto as he looks at the site full of remains of dead warriors seemingly killed by a wild beast of sorts. As he walks towards the lion statue he feels predatory eyes on his person. As he comes forward to the statue two golden blurs move forward at Naruto with seemingly lethal intent. Kurama, sensing the attack is about to warn her lover. Until Naruto turns towards the blurs in question unmoving. Soon the blurs stop kicking up a dust cloud.
The Dust clears to reveal two massive golden lions both having their claws aimed at Naruto's vitals.
"Hmm your a strange one. You do not fear death you fear something else but what." asked one golden lion who looks at the blonde in question.
"I fear death without fulfilled purpose. But I face it less the same." said Naruto slightly surprised at talking to a talking lion.
"So what is your purpose" asked the other lion.
"Vengeance through Change" said Naruto as he looks at the two lions with a calm eye.
The Lions are intrigued by the blonde's answer. Thinking in unison 'How can one obtain Vengeance through Change.' "What do you mean by obtaining Vengeance through Change." asked one Lion as he looks at the blonde in question.
"I want to destroy the ones who have ruined my life but only through acts of change that will destroy what they wanted to build by building something that should be built instead" explained Naruto as the Lions retracted their claws and looks at the blonde in question.
"You are worthy of the lion summons contract" said one of the lions as he and his brother looks at the blonde in question.
"So that is what you have been guarding huh" said Naruto as he looks at the golden lion statue to reveal it's a scroll. He sees a list of names, two of which are Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju.
Naruto proceeds to sign his name in blood. The signature glows brightly as the blood hardens.
"Summoner you are to meet the lion elder summons so they may know you" said one golden lion as he opens a portal leading to the lion summons realm.
Naruto walks through the portal to see lions of various sizes running around. Naruto soon sees a lion with battle armor rush up to him.
"Halt who are you" demanded the lion as he looked at the blonde boy. "I am Naruto Uzumaki, your new summoner," said Naruto as the lion looks into the blonde's hetero chromic eyes.
"You are different, come my elder would want to meet you" said the lion as he allows Naruto to climb on his back.
Elsewhere in the Elemental Nation
In the village hidden in the sand in Wind Country three siblings are practicing in the ninja arts. One sibling a sandy blonde-haired girl is practicing the art of wind style Tessenjutsu, another the youngest of the two brothers, a boy with red hair is practice the use and control over the sand. The older of the two brothers is practicing the use of puppetry. They kids are hard at work with one another.
"Come on Temari and Gaara let's go eat something we've been practicing all day" said the elder brother as the other two siblings stop what they are doing.
Temari shuts her fan and Gaara retracts his sand. As they walk Temari feels a wind blowing past her, A wind that will see a new future for her people.
Back with Naruto
Naruto is meeting with the elder Lion sage, an elder sage of the animal kingdom of great wisdom and strength named Shishi. Naruto had explained his story of being experimented on and having the genetic memory of several warriors of ancients past and beyond while also revealing the ones responsible for his treatment and abuse.
'Hmm Gamamaru your up to your old tricks again are you after many scoldings and punishments' Thought the elder lion as he looks at Naruto in question. "So young man what do you plan on doing about the Leaf." asked the elder sage as he looks at Naruto in question.
"Well Shishi sama I would accumulate skill and knowledge that would help change the village and burn some bad leaves, from it" said Naruto as the elder lion nods in understanding.
"Well young cub you have a destiny that is unbound not even the gods could dictate what you will do for now own. You can summon us to battle at any point but you must gain skill and experience as you journey through this world as we will not help you if you can't help yourself in some situation and summon us when we are needed for the battle" said Shishi as Naruto bows in understanding the elder's wisdom on self-sufficiency.
"Yes Shishi-sama I will not let you down" said Naruto as he bows in respect to the elder sage.
"Good now it's time to return you to your journey of training and understanding." said Shishi as he opens a portal back to the elementals. Naruto walks through the portal back to the elementals
Naruto resumes his travels in the elementals as he is traveling, he sees a force of Samurai assaulting a seemingly impenetrable fortress unsuccessfully as they seem to be unable to climb the walls of said fortress due to the defenders having archers in pairs. They tried to use the battering ram but are unable to due to the defenders having boiling oil pouring down on the battering ram group. Naruto also sees that Cannon fire couldn't breach the walls due to the walls being seemingly harder than steel "Retreat Retreat!" commanded the Samurai as he withdrew from the battlefield in question. As the Samurai retreated all of the defenders celebrated at the Samurai's loss. Naruto studies the strengths of the fortress in question seeing no weakness in the walls. He thinks about something of how to bring in the city down as he then recalls a similar situation in the Iliad that Odysseus used to get inside of the walls of Troy.
Naruto sneaks into the encampment at night towards the commander's tent to see that his commander and lieutenants are discussing ways to strike the fortress. Seeing as cannon fire couldn't break the walls.
Soon a Lieutenant turns his head towards the blonde in question. "Hey Kid, who are and how did you get into the camp." commanded the Lieutenant as he looks at Naruto with a suspicious gaze.
"I am just a kid traveling the Elementals gaining knowledge about war." said Naruto as he looks at the man in question. "Well kid, we are waging war with the land of tombs for their betrayal over the daimyo's family. So if you don't mind we are busy" said the lieutenant as he turns to the commander. "I know how you can get in" said Naruto as everyone in the command tent turns towards Naruto.
"Oh and how so" asked the commander as he looks at Naruto in question. "Well, you can't smash through their walls, but you can get them to let you in without them really knowing." said Naruto as the commander thinks on this for a moment.
"Boy you may have saved us some time and energy for this engagement." said the commander as he hands Naruto a bag of gold. As Naruto walks out of the tent.
"Commander what do you have in mind" said one Lieutenant as he looks at his commander.
"Well like the boy said we can't muscle our way in what we need is our own way in that would lead to our victory through the enemy's own hand." said the commander as Naruto goes towards a ridge overlooking the battlefield.
For the next several days the Commander had several engineers look at siege engines that would allow them to slip inside while causing the enemy to be unaware of their attack.
Nearly all of them except one came up with something. That something being an engine disguised as a stature of the Shinigami itself with a capacity for 200 hundred people and equipment.
The engineers went to work cutting lumber down at night to make said fake stature possible on the 12th day the Engineers finished said stature. The next day a sentry in one of the towers had seen the stature in the center of the battlefield. He went to report this to the commander.
The fortress commander and the lord of the land of tombs came to see said stature. The lord of Land of Tombs is a vain and egotistical man who thinks himself a gift from Kami.
Seeing that said stature is not a threat of any sort conceivable brings it inside. Naruto only has to wait till nightfall. To see what's to come.
When night fell the blonde sees that at the bottom of one of the feet is a Samurai checking for ant guards steps out to see any guards patrolling. Seeing none the Samurai signals for the commencement of the siege of the Fortress. Soon all hell breaks loose as the Samurai forces commence their attack opening the gates for their forces to get inside.
'So the Trojan horse was a result of abstract thinking seeing as how I only brought forth the Idea through cryptic wording' thought Naruto as he looks at the Samurai commander in question as he walks out of the tower with the heads of the enemy commander and the Daimyo Lord himself.
Naruto journey's away from the fortress. As he is traveling away he studies Alexander's sword discovering it grants him a boost in spiritual power and health great empowering his chakra but to extension his mental and physical health as well.
He soon sees the one thing he has never seen before the sea. He sees that it's more beautiful than he could imagine. Naruto jogs down toward the port to see that the port is livelier. Kurama tells Naruto to go towards a harbor master to gain a job on a ship so he could gain some money for supplies. Naruto agrees to this seeing as he will need enough for what he has planned.
Naruto for his part goes inside of his mind after checking out a room at a local Inn.
Inside of the mindscape.
Naruto sees that the Mindscape is different not dark like last time but taking building tips from Macedonia of Alexander's time. "Oh hi Naruto kun" said Kyuubi who is in a toga style dress.
"Hello, Kurama, chan how are you" said Naruto as he walks up to Kurama and kisses her.
"I came to absorb some more memories to learn from" said Naruto as Kurama nods in agreement as she guides him towards the sit of the area of the memories. "Hey Kurama, I was meaning to ask why my mindscape looks different from last time" asked Naruto as he looks around the mindscape.
"Well it's due to you absorbing Alexander the Great's memory and the energy of his sword had caused a change in your mindscape that caused it's transformation into what you see around it." explained Kurama as Naruto nods in agreement.
Soon Naruto and Kurama come upon a Library akin to Alexander's period. They walk inside to find two sections one being a medium sized section of books containing his memories and another slightly larger section contains the knowledge of several warriors from the genetic fusion. Naruto goes forward to look for a warrior that may help him during his sea fair days. Soon Naruto stumble upon a man who appears to be a nomadic warrior of sorts of Naruto's own era from the Western Continent away from the Elemental Nations. Naruto enters the memory to see who if this warrior might could help him with skills needed for traveling and working high paying risky jobs.
Inside of the Memory
Naruto sees a man with tan skin brown hair and blue silver eyes he has on dress wear akin to that of a mercenary from the mountains that is comprised of a sleeveless Deel underneath wool and leather padded armor with combat boots, he has a headband with the symbol of a Garuda on the center. The man has a curved sword on his belt and blunted ball mace on his back. He is walking off of a that had seen fighting with pirates.
Naruto sees that the era is the warring clans era of Shinobi history. The man walks up towards a tavern to get a room he sees a local girl being hassled by a group of men in blood red armor with black hair and onyx eyes with the symbol of a black and red fan on their backs.
"Hey girlie why don't you come with us we can show you how manly we are" said one man as he cups her ass.
"Get off me you creeps I have a boyfriend who's coming here to see me" said the girl struggling against the group of rapey ninja.
"The lady says no boys" said the man as he walks up getting their attention.
"Who the hell are you fucker" demanded one ninja.
"You boys can call me Subotai now I am going to ask you again leave her alone" said the now named Subotai as he looks at the three boys who the laugh at the man in front of them.
"Come on boys let's teach this old fucker a lesson on messing with Uchiha clan business" said one Uchiha clansmen as they rush at the old man in question who is smirking at the Uchiha boys in question.
'Different place same story for boys thinking they are men' thought Subotai as he catches a punch from one of them.
Chapter end.
Here's the new chapter for this story folks . I hope you enjoy it. If not to don't follow. I will release more chapters for my other stories.
Author's note:
Each figure will have key abilities that will make things more interesting. Alexander's sword boosted Naruto's spiritual and mental health along with physical health giving him an increase in his chakra power output. The Sword also gives him armor similar to Alexander's own.
Subotai is an original character that will have a powerset that Naruto will gain in the next chapter