Element Nations, Land of Fire, Konoha, Training Ground 0
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Naruto, deep in his Kurama Chakra Mode, his eyes closed in concentration, was a sight to behold. His three-tailed beast chakra arms, each holding a massive toad statue, were a testament to his intense training.
"Well at least they are not being destroyed," Tsume said as she looked at Naruto.
"True," Jiraiya agreed as he looked at them.
Amidst the tranquillity, a determined splash broke the silence. Tsume's daughter emerged from the lake, her head held high. 'Ten more, Hana,' Tsume's voice echoed, and without a moment's hesitation, the girl nodded and resumed her climb.
Before more could be said, an Anbu appeared next to Tsume. "Inuzuka-sama, the Hokage has called for all members of the council to be in attendance. He is about to reveal a significant truth-that Uzumaki-san is a child of a god," they told her as Tsume nodded, understanding the gravity of the situation.
"And it's about god dame time as well, those fools have been putting this off long enough," Tsume muttered, her frustration evident. She had long believed that the truth about Uzumaki-san's heritage should have been revealed sooner, and the council's delay only fueled her anger.
"Tiger and I can continue teaching him, so you head off to the meeting," Jiraiya told her as she walked over to the Anbu and touched their shoulder. The two teleported away to the council chamber.
Tsume walked over to her seat while she waited for the meeting to start. She looked over at Inoichi. "So how was finding out for you? " she asked the man.
"It was a shock," He told her as Tsume nodded at him.
"Oh, trust me, it is more than that," she told him as she recalled seeing him arrive at her compound. My clan is making sure that we repent, as we now know that if we step out of line, the wild will turn on us," Tsume explained as Inoichi nodded.
The first of the ones on in the now was the head of the Aburame clan. Like his clan members, his eyes are obscured by dark glasses, which feature a single tassel hanging down from one side. He has very spiky, short black hair and a moustache. He wore a high-collared outfit and black baggy pants with blue sandals.
The following person walked in. He wore the standard Konoha uniform but had an orange piece of clothing sitting on top of it around the neck. This covered most of his chest, which would otherwise have been exposed by his uniform. This was connected to an orange sleeve on his right arm under the much looser-fitting uniform sleeve. He had colourful feathers on his right eyelashes and eyebrows. He has shiny skin, purple eyes, and jaw-length black hair, which gives him a somewhat feminine appearance in conjunction with the feathers.
Assume walked in next to Konoha Hospital's director. He was a tall man with medium-length, wavy, and spiked dark-blond hair. He had thick eyebrows and prominent eyelashes and wore his scrubs with a long lab coat.
Ibiki walked in next as he sat across from Inoichi, who nodded at him.
A man dressed in a full white cloak was the next to walk in, and next to him was a woman with short brown hair and tan skin sat next to
Hiruzen, along with the three elders, walked in next.
Kakashi walked in and sat in his clan's seat before he looked at the Hokage. "What is this meeting about? " he asked Hiruzen as someone walked in.
They were fair-skinned women with shoulder-length blonde hair and a single bang that fell into their faces. The woman also had green eyes and wore a whiteqipaodress with three red circular designs at the bottom of the front and back. Underneath the dress, she wore pink -length pants and brown sandals.
And both her arms were in casts.
Tsume looked at her before she shook her head. " I really did get off easy," she muttered as some others looked at her in confusion.
Hiruzen looked at the woman with the casts before he looked over to Kakashi. "I will say when everyone gets here," he told the man, who nodded and pulled out his book.
Inoichi saw his teammates and one of their wives walk in beside him as they sat beside him.
"Inoichi, do you know what is going on," One of his former teammates asked.
He was a tall, plump man who seemed to wear a long, spiky red hairpiece. He had purple markings on his cheeks. He wore a samurai-like outfit: a black suit with armour bearing the kanji for "food" (食). He also wore a rope belt, hand guards, and—instead of a forehead protector—a hachimaki tied around his head. He also wore a pair of silver, hooped earrings at some point before passing them down to his son.
"Well Chōza, all I will say is that this is going to be big," Inoichi said as Tsume nodded.
"He's telling the truth, and I don't know if their are any in this room, but from what someone I'm training is saying is that he knows at least two people like him," She said as Inoichi's second teammate narrowed his eyes.
The man had two scars on the right side of his face. He had dark hair tied up into a spiky ponytail, dark eyes, and a goatee. His ears were also pierced. He wore a meshed shirt underneath his flak jacket, a deer skin coat over that, and hand guards, "What do you mean, and dose it explain why my son is now my daughter," He asked as Kakashi looked over.#
"I think it does," He said as the man looked at the one-eyed man.
"Shikaku, it serves our son for being sexist," The man's wife said as Shikaku nodded.
His broad, long, dark brown hair is usually kept in a low ponytail with three strands framing her face, fair skin and dark eyes. She wore the standard Konoha uniform.
"I know Yoshino, but I think that this lesson would have found a better way to resolve the issue than turning Shikanmaru into a girl," her husband told her.
"He was cursed," Hiruzen said as that drew looks from the others, "I will say more when everyone is here," He told them as they nodded at him.
The following person walked in, and he was a tall, muscular, stockily-built man with orange-brown skin, pale green eyes, thin eyebrows, and a large nose. He has dark red hair cut short and completely framing his head with sideburns, a beard, and a partial moustache formed by spike-shaped strips of hair extending from either side of his upper lip toward the centre without merging; the top-middle section of his hair is instead orange, spiky, and noticeably longer than the red majority is.
He wore black overalls with bandages over his arms.
Next to him was a beautiful young woman with chestnut-brown hair tied into a low-side ponytail on the right side. She had green eyes and wore a pantsuit with dark blue sandals.
Not long after, the two men had long, straight, silver hair, blue eyes, and a somewhat muscular build. He wore a button-down shirt and dress pants.
The man pulled out a lollipop and put it in his mouth as he sat down while two more people walked in.
The first was a young man with spiky, grey hair shaved into an undercut style, with the shaved portion being black. He has small, intense brown eyes and is of average height and muscular build. He was dressed in the standard Konoha uniform.
Next to him was a member of the Hyūga clan. Like all members of his clan, he had long, black hair and featureless white eyes. He wore very traditional, loose-fitting robes with a long-sleeved, brown haori.
"Hokage-sama, I have to say that this meeting has come at ill timing, as my clan was having a meeting," The Hyūga clan member told his leader, who narrowed his eyes at the man.
"Hisashi, you clan is at 'My' call, so if a meeting is interupted for somehting I have to say is to bad," Hiruzen told the man, who nodded stiffly, "And when this metting is over, you and I will have a personal talk about the way your child was almost killed by her cousin, and you do nothing, and as she is a member of my forces, I can, and will, act to make sure that something like this dose not happen agine, am I understood," He told Hisashi who nodded.
"Until that talk," He said to the Sandaime.
Three people then walked in next as they walked over to their seats.
The first was a young man. He wore high-collared red and tan robes with gold trim and a large, flowing white toga draped around his torso. He had short black hair and dark eyes.
The next was a mild-featured man with brown scholarly hair enhanced by square glasses and soft brown eyes. He wore a kimono with his clan's symbols over it.
Next was a man with light brown hair that fell over his ears. He also had small black eyes and wore traditional robes.
And the last
The third was a short, elderly woman with heavy wrinkles and missing a top right tooth. Her white hair was done up in a bun. She wore green robes with a grey shirt over them.
When the three sat down, Anbu appeared in a chair. They were dressed in a full-body black cloak with a dragon mask.
The next to walk in was a beautiful woman with a stern demeanour. She was tall and curvaceous, but she was also well-built. She was fair-skinned and had a small mole below her bottom lip, centred to the right. She had sharp, intelligent eyes with long eyelashes. Her hair was dark and straight, kept shoulder-length, except for a clump of short bangs hanging above her forehead, and was usually styled in a half-up-half-down bun. She was dressed in the standard Konoha uniform with a long cape that flowed behind her.
The next was a man with brown eyes and jaw-length blonde hair with a straight cut. Many of his facial expressions revealed his upper teeth. He was of a lean build and wore puffy black pants and a skin-tight, long-sleeve dark shirt with his clan symbol on the back.
The last person to walk in was a young woman with a curvy figure, chin-length dark green hair with a fringe styled into a bob, and light green eyes. She wore a long white fur coat, a dark green form-fitting V-neck dress with a high collar, thigh-high black boots, and several pearl necklaces.
Once she sat down, Hiruzen looked at the council members before he started to speak. "First, I am deeply annoyed that it took us five days to meet up when it could not have taken that long," he said as the council members looked away from his eyes. Why is this meeting being called so that you all know that a higher power is watching Konoha? Multiple people, in fact," Hiruzen said, as many in the council looked at each other in confusion.
"He means that thanks to some people having been born, the gods are watching us, and one of them happens to be the son of a goddess that was put in a mortal body," Danzo said as the council looked at him.
Kakashi looked away from what was said, as he already had an earful. "Who's the child, Hokage-sama?" Ibiki asked his leader.
"Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki is the son of Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze, but Kushina is not her true name, as her true name is Artemis, the goddess of the moon. She is displeased with Konoha, so much so that she plans to inform her brother, the god of medicine, to stop the doctors in Konoha from healing most of their patients," Hiruzen said as the man in the lab coat flinched. "Hajime," he asked the man.
"Artemis is my aunt, Hokage-sama. I'm a son of Apollo," Hajime said as Hiruzen stroked his beard. That makes Naruto my cousin, and now I know that. I am saying here and now that anyone who harms him and ends up at the hospital, well, that will be seen last," he said as his eyes turned to gold for a second.
Danzo nodded at him, "That is within your right to do so, and I do not wish for Konoha to suffer from the stupidity of some," he said as people started to open their mouths. I told you all that we had a plan in place when I informed you for fools of what happened, but you took to attacking him instead, and now look what is happening," Danzo told them, as they did not know what to say about that.
"The ones closest to her have already been punished. Our dogs attacked my clan, Hana and me the most," Tsume said as the others turned to her. The woman with the broken arms looked away, "Mebuki had her arms broken by Artemis, Yūgao Uzuki was slammed into a wall, and she was lucky that her back was not broken, Kurenai Yūhi was shown her partner cheating on her with a love goddess, the love goddess Aphrodite," She added as everyone turned to Mebuki who nodded.
"It's true as when she found out that I was one of the people that would watch as her son would be beaten, she broke my arms, and when I own daughter found out about it, she moved out, my husband is trying to fix our relashonship, but with everything I have done, I do not think I will be speaking to my child for a good few years," Mebuki told them as everyone looked.
The man with the lollipop looked at Tsume before approaching Hiruzen. "What is going to happen now? We can tell our clans what we have learned, but for what that will do, I do not know," he said as the woman with the cape shook her head.
"I don't think that will do mush, and with me just taking over the academy and finding out that the person that you fired Hokage-sama was doing a shit job as a teacher," She said as Koharu raised a brow at that.
"What do you mean," She asked the woman.
"Well, Elder Koharu, from what I have learned and been digging up is that Sasuke Uchiha should not have passed the Genin exam, he preform the transformation, and the substitution, but did not preform a bunshin jutsu," she told the woman as Kakashi looked over.
"What," He asked, shocked.
"Yep, Mizuki wanted Sasuke to pass for some reason and had him only do those two jutsu before giving him his Hitai-ate, and what is worse, his written exam is not that high, Uzumaki's is the same, but he prefromed the other two, and on the night, he preformed the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, allowing him to pass, the others in his year were the same, all exept Uchiha," The woman told him as Hiruzen narrowed his eyes.
"Nana, I want all your findings on my desk, but let us get back to the point at hand, and that is Konoha has, to my knowledge right now, three Demi-gods: the first is Naruto, who is the son of Artemis; the second is Tenten, who is a daughter of Enyo; and the last is you Hajime, a son of Apollo," he said as the man with red hair raised a brow.
"My daughter is a Demi-god? So you mean to tell me that my wife, who went missing five years ago, is a goddess?" he asked, and Hiruzen nodded.
"Yes, Tenten now knows, and you can now speak to her about it, but do not tell her the name; I was informed by both Naruto and Artemis that sometimes a god or goddess will claim their child when the need arises," Hiruzen said to the shock of the members of the council, "But Naruto is partly claimed, and no I will not go into it but do know that you daughter will be declared soon, after the exams and she will be allowed to go to a camp with other Demi-gods," He said as Hajime and the woman in a green dress nodded.
"Camp Halfbood, in the realm of the gods, a different realm from this one; I go there for my summer holidays," the woman said as Hiruzen looked at her. My father is also a god, and unlike Hajime's old man, mine is being punished for his, for lack of a better word, lust, so he is the camp's director," she told him.
"I see, Fubuki. Do you know if anyone else in Konoha is a Demi-god?" Hiruzen asked the woman, who shook her head.
"No, for that, you would need Satyr. They look like humans from the waist up, but from below the waist, they are goats, I have not known any that are in Konoha, or if any have come to Konoha," Fubuki told him as Hiruzen.
Shikaku looked at his leader, "And what are we to do with this information, now that we know that the gods do indeed exist," He asked.
"I would like to say everything have not changed, but that will be a lie, and right now, we are all in trouble," Hirzune told them as they all nodded and looked at him, "Konoha is in the middle of a forest, and that is in the heart of Artemis's domains, meaning that we have to make sure we do not piss her off, or she takes Naruto out of Konoha and pushishes us; at the moment she is following her late husband's and Naruto's wishes and not doing that, but what will be the last straw that broke the back," He asked them as they all remained quiet.
He looked around one more, "So here is what we are going to do," Hirzuen told them.
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Training Ground 0
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Naruto used the chakra arms to lower the statues as he returned to normal. "Alright, kid, we're moving on to Fūinjutsu," Jiraiya told Naruto, who nodded.
"Alright, Mom already has Uzumaki Fūinjutsu, and with that, I have been creating my seal," Naruto told him as he pulled out a scroll and handed it over to the sage, who opened it and started looking through.
Jiraiya looked at the seal on the scroll before looking at Naruto with a raised brow, "Are you making a Kinjustu or something, as this sounds dangerous," He asked Naruto, who looked at him with a raised brow.
"I know, and only the Uzumaki can dream of using something like this because of our life force, and the downside of this will likely put us in the hospital for a week or three," Naruto explained to the sage, who looked back at the scroll and nodded.
"I see. Right then, let's finish so that seal is for you," Jiraiya said as Tiger looked over and helped while Hana was still climbing.
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Training Ground 5
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Cat and Panda looked at Sakura, who was getting better with Kenjutsu, as she moved her swords around.
She moved through Kata, which Cat had drilled into her head for the last five days, and her body moved fluidly around in slashes and swipes.
"Well done Sakura," Cat said as she walked over.
"Thank you, Cat-sensei, but I have to say that I am not a Kenjutsu user, not like you and Naruto," she told her sensei, who nodded at her.
"True, but you now know how to use one," Cat said as Sakura looked confused. Artemis-sensei once gave me Tenjū while she gave Hana Majū, but when Hana focused on her clan's jutsu, I claimed the second sword so I could one day pass them onto a student, and I had hoped deep down that the student would be close to Naruto," she told the pink-haired girl, who smiled and sheathed both swords.
"Now, both swords are yours. You can keep them until you find someone who you think is worthy to have one or both of them, and I pass down that teaching line to you, Sakura," Cat told her as Sakura bowed at her sensei.
"Now that you have a grasp on the swords, you can return to Taijutsu, so let us spar," Cat said as she walked over to Sakura, and the two started to spar hand to hand.
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5 Hours Later, Golden Leaf
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Naruto and Sakura sat across from each other as they held menus, looking at what they were going to order, "So what are you thinking," Sakura asked him as Naruto looked over the menu at her.
"I was thinking about some venison or rabbit," Naruto said as Sakura nodded.
"I was thinking about a small bit of fish," Sakura told him as Naruto smiled.
After a few moments, a waiter approached them. "What can I get the two of you? " he asked.
"Can I have a venison stake please, medium-rare," Naruto said as he closed the menu and handed it over.
"Good choice, sir, and for the lady," the waiter asked Sakura, who looked at the fish.
"What is the freshest fish that you have," She asked the man.
"The trout ma'am," He told her as she nodded.
"Then can I have some grilled trout please," Sakura asked him.
"Of course," The waiter said as he looked at the two of them, "And what would you like to drink," He asked them.
Naruto looked at Sakura, "Do you wish to try the wine? We are ninja, and so that means that we are allowed to drink some, but if you want to stick to water, that will be fine," he said as Sakura thought for a second.
"Can we have a wine that will go with each of our dishes," She asked the waiter, who smiled.
"I shall be right back ma'am," The waiter said as he walked away.
Naruto and Sakura looked at each other and smiled. "So, how was your training?" she asked him.
"It's going well; I now can use Kurama's chakra arms without them disintegrating everything they touch, and I have moved on to Fūinjutsu, and in the morning, I'm going to plase something on myself that will help me out alot," Naruto told her as she nodded at him, "What about you," He asked as the waiter walked back with a bottle.
"Here is a Malbec that should pair with both of your dishes; the wine's taste will cut through the flavour of the dishes and elevate them to new levels," he told them as he poured a glass for both of them before he put the bottle in an ice bucket.
Sakura looked at the red wine before she took a sip and liked its taste. "Well, I did some training in Kenjutsu, as Artemis-sama trained Cat-sensei in Kenjutsu and gave her a sword. Hana-san had the other sword, and as I now have both, I can use them, and when I teach someone, I can then pass them on to them," Sakura told her boyfriend, who nodded.
Both then started to talk about their training and other things that had happened for the last five days before Sakura looked at Naruto with a look of fear, "Naruto, I can't help but have a feeling that something is going to happen during the finals," She told him as Naruto nodded.
"I have the same feeling, and I've told my three teachers, and they said that they also had that feeling, and so Tsume is looking around the forest as we speak because she does not like the feeling," Naruto told her as Sakura sighed.
"Oh, good," She said as Naruto reached over and rubbed his thumb on her hand.
"I will alwas be their when you need me, no matter what I am doing, I will always be their," Naruto said as Sakura saw nothing but love in his eyes for her.
Their food was soon delivered, and as they ate, they did not know Sasuke was watching them from outside.
"Those fools think they have a chance, only if they knew," He said as he walked down to his home.
As he reached the Uchiha compound, he felt he was being followed, so he turned around and found Orochimaru standing there.
But Sasuke found nothing before he scoffed. What he did not see was Kabuto stepping out and smiling. "He's good," Kabuto said as he disappeared.
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Hokage Building, Hokage's Office
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Tsume, Tiger, Cat, and Jiraiya stood before Hiruzen, who looked to be thinking. "Are you sure that you find a summoning circle? " he asked the four.
"Yes, sensei, and it's for the snake summoning clan, so that means Orochimaru has put it there, and with the finals three weeks away, he plans to attack during the finals," Jiraiya told the man, who narrowed his eyes.
"I see. Then we have to act first," Hiruzen said as he looked out over the village towards the full moon in the sky.
The others looked at it. Tiger asked, "Do you think she is watching?" The others nodded.
"I do," Tsume said as she narrowed her eyes. If we can mess the seal on the summoning circle up, we can make it implode when they try to summon something," she told them as they nodded.
"I can get on it tonight," Jiraiya told them as Hiruzen nodded, and the sage left to do his job.
"Tiger, how is Naruto with his elemental release," Hiruzen asked the Anbu.
"He has all five basic elements and Jiraiya-sama and I were thinking about moving on to Wood Release soon as it will aid him when facing Gaara," Tiger told his leader, who nodded.
"Good, make sure that Naruto can take down Gaara. Kakashi is training Sasuke, and I hope that his lateness moves onto his student so that Sasuke will be disqualified," Hiruzen said as the others looked at him.
"What do you mean sir," Cat asked him.
Hiruzen got out of his seat and looked out the window, "I have been thinking about why Orochimaru has been after Sasuke, and the thing I can think of is that he is after the Sharingan, but not just that; he wishes to get immortality, and after speaking with Artemis I have found out that immortality is not a gift but a curse, but Orochimaru is wanting to have all jutsu at his beck and call," He told the three in his office as they nodded, "And with the Sharingan, he could plan to move to another eye, but that is neither here nor their at the moment, but right now Orochimaru is planing something, and so far we only have small trickles of information, we need something more," Hiruzen told the three who nodded at him.
"Understood," They said as they stood straight.
"Cat, gather a team so that in the night, make sure to scout around where the summoning circle is located," Hiruzen told the purple-haired Anbu, who bowed and moved out. "Tsume, go to Hisashi, and the two of you are going to be moving your clans around Konoha to see if anything is out of place." Tsume nodded, left the office, and went to the Hyūga clan compound.
"Tiger, go to the barrier team and make sure that they are at full power until the day after the finals," He told the Wood Release user, who nodded and left.
When the door opened, Hiruzen was alone in his office, and his three old teammates walked in. "Hiruzen, I saw the head of the Inuzuka clan move out of your office. "Can you tell us why?" Koharu asked him as Hiruzen turned to them and told them what they knew.
"I see, what would you like us to do," Homura asked his old friend.
Hiruzen looked to be in thought for a while before he nodded, "Danzo, have your Root move around the summoning circle hand and have them take out all that services the implosion, Koharu, I still dislike that Gaara was sent to Konoha without word, find out what is happening, Homura, make sure that our ninja are on high alert, we need this quiet, if we make a wrong move and Orochimaru will find out what we are up to," Hirzuzen said as Danzo opened his eye and looked at his leader.
"I'll sent my best team," Danzo told him as Hirzuen nodded.
Koharu walked to the door, "I'll message my spies in Suna and see what they know," she said. As she walked out, Hamura nodded and said he would speak with Shikaku.
"It seems that the old Monkey King is back, and is bearing his fangs," Danzo said as Hiruzen smiled at him.
"Oh so true, my friend, and is the War Hawk ready to take out a snake that is trying to poison the great tree," He asked the man, who had a smile on his own.
"Oh, the snake will not get a chance to slither it's way pass the straplings," Danzo said as the friends smiled at each other.
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Three Days Later, Training Ground 0
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Naruto and Jiraiya were both sparing, with Naruto working with Kunou aiding Naruto.
But the blond demi-god was not hitting the sage. "Alright, the two of you are working well, but so far, the two of you have not been able to hit me," Jiraiya said as he moved his body out of the way of Naruto's kick.
But then Kunou did something shocking, curling into a ball on Naruto's foot.
Tiger and Tsume watched as Kunou started to spin on Naruto's food and become a disk of gold. "Did you know she could do that?" Tiger asked Tsume as Kunou became a disk of gold.
"No," She told him before Naruto kicked the disk that went by the name of Kunou at Jiraiya.
Kunou's body gained a light blue around her disk form in the air as she flew fast at the sage, who caught the fox as she spun in his hands.
"They are good. I can feel the skin of my hands starting to be peeled away," Jiraiya thought as his hands became black, and he stopped the disk.
"My turn," Jiraya said as he threw Kunou in the air, and Naruto looked up at her and released her with a rock.
But she failed to see that Jiraya appeared behind him and kicked him into the back.