Hey, sorry for the long hiatus. With Work, personal Life and now School again I often had no Time, or sometimes a Lack of Motivation.
Now you may wonder, why did I delete all the Chapters? Why am I rewriting it? Simple I was extremely dissatisfied with this story. The Pacing, the Plot, the awkward or illogical scenes…I could go on. Originally when I sat down to write more, and I read the story to get into it again I realized that it was Horrible (in my opinion). So here I am trying to do better now.
I do not own Naruto or Spider-Man
Chapter 1: Every Hero has his tragic beginnings
Fog reduced visibility as Kakashi Hatake walked carefully and tensely past countless corpses with his blade drawn. The air is filled with smoke and blood.
An eerie silence spreads across the estate. Not even ravens or other ace-eaters seem to dare approach the corpses.
'It looks like a war has been waged here' As the copy ninja walks past the bodies of a family, he suddenly hears falling rocks.
Tense and ready to fight, he slowly walked to the place where he heard the noise. However, what he saw made him stand still. In front of him was a small boy, covered in blood and dirt, his clothes torn, and his face smeared with tears.
The boy looked up and stumbled back when he saw Kakashi standing there. His body seemed to go into a fight or flight mode and the fear was visible in his eyes.
"Easy, I won't hurt you," Kakashi spoke calmly to the little survivor as he sheathed his blade. As Kakashi carefully approached the boy, he ran his eyes over the boy's form, evaluating what kind of danger he could pose if the fear was faked.
The boy scrambled backwards a little, "Stay away from me, I have nothing I can give you."
His brown eyes showed his fear even if he tried to show the opposite with his trembling voice. The Konoha Nin saw that the boy seemed to be breathing heavily, which could indicate broken ribs.
"Don't worry I'm not a thief, here you look hungry. Tell me what happened here, what happened to your clan?" Still in a reassuring voice, the Anbu tried to give the boy a sense of security while holding out a nutrition bar from one of his pockets.
The little boy looked suspiciously at Kakashi's hand. Carefully, he reached for the bar and began to answer the shinobi in a drawling voice "Why do you want to know, why are you helping me, why would a Konoha shinobi be interested in the Shukeikō?"
"One question at a time. I don't want to harm you, I just don't want to see a little boy die surrounded by the blood of his relatives. And just because I'm from Konoha instead of Kumo doesn't mean I can't have sympathy." The grey-haired ninja sits down one and a half meters next to the frightened child.
"My name is Pītā Pāka son of the clan head I 'sob' am the only survivor here. I saw, I saw how m-my family..." with a shaky voice the now named Pītā tried to tell the shinobi what happened, but Kakashi saw how he could barely keep himself together.
Slowly and carefully, he placed one hand on the boy's shoulder and rubbed it soothingly "I wish I could tell you that everything will be alright, but unfortunately, we don't live in such a perfect world. Have a good cry Pītā Pāka, don't let the grief eat away at you."
As soon as he said this, Pītā pounced on him and began to cry loudly, the pain and suffering was soul-stirring.
While he was crying in Kakashi's arms, his team came to their captain. Before any of them could speak, he gave them a hand signal to stay quiet.
After several minutes, when Pītā began to calm down a little, he started to speak in a rough, weeping voice.
One of his distant uncles had betrayed the clan and brought an enemy into the estate. The Kurabina-fu clan, which for centuries has been a clan obsessed with blood and glory, looking for the strongest animals, summons and shinobi to kill in battle, be it in a fair or unfair fight.
For many years, the family has been looking for ways to destroy Kumo's Spider Clan to gain access to some of the forbidden and dangerous techniques and Jutsu of the Clan.
The uncle who did this was apparently once one of the best shinobi of the Shukeikō clan, but he fell out of favor in the eyes of the clan head and the elders due to his greed for power.
As he talked, Konoha's Anbu Team Ro listened to him attentively, the Anbu code-named Weasel and Tiger carefully scanned the area to make sure there were no seals or other listening devices.
Pītā was there when his father and mother were killed, he heard his entire clan being slaughtered and saw the cruelty with which they were all taken to the realm of the dead.
He only survived thanks to the fact that he was knocked unconscious by a paralyzing poison his mother gave him in her last moments and hurled him away to give him at least a small chance to survive.
He can barely remember what she said before she kissed his forehead, and his world darkened.
Exhausted by the story and his wounds, Pītā fell asleep on Kakashi's shoulder. He just looked thoughtfully through his mask at the boy, wondering what he should do now. A situation like this was extremely unusual, as it is the duty of an Anbu to remain unseen, but the duty of a Konoha shinobi to ensure that nothing happens to children and that they can grow up without suffering.
Because that is the will of the fire. The reason why Konoha was founded.
Careful not to wake the young man, Kakashi lifted him slightly to examine his wounds. "Weasel bring me a med pack, the boy is badly injured. Cat and Tiger, secure the area and get ready for the return journey."
"Captain, we're not taking the boy with us ba..." Tiger had not finished speaking when he was shushed by a Kakashi.
"The boy saw his entire family die Tiger, he has no one, if we leave him here, he will surely die. Let's take him to Konoha and make sure he survives." Kakshi spoke in an authoritative and quiet voice so as not to wake Pītā.
Just as Tenzo was about to object, the youngest member of the squad suddenly spoke in a worried voice, "Captain, there are various poisons in his system, one of which seems to have entered his system by breathing. We need to get to an experienced medic nin as soon as possible"
Kakashi and Tenzo immediately turned their attention to the boy in Itachi's arms. "How bad is it?" the gray-haired shinobi asked his Kouhai, concern clear in his voice.
After another diagnosis, Weasel replied again, "His immune system is fighting it bitterly, but because of his injuries and lack of water, it seems to be having trouble eliminating the poison completely. Besides, I have never seen a poison as potent as this one."
"Senpai, the area is safe, I have not found any other survivors or enemies. All I found were several scrolls which were equipped with several complicated and advanced blood seals." The Anbu Cat returned just after Itachi had finished his diagnosis.
Kakashi gathered his thoughts briefly before passing on orders to his squad, "Well done Cat, pack the scrolls, you and Tiger take the vanguard we need to get to the nearest hospital as soon as possible, Weasel and I take the rearguard, we can't let an innocent child die."
""HAI"" without hesitation, the Anbu took up their positions and set off.
While the Konoha shinobi moved as quickly as possible, but as carefully as necessary so as not to aggravate Pītā's wounds, Kakashi was filled with worry. Worry about Pītā and worry about how he should explain to his Hokage how to accept the last survivor of the feared Shukeikō clan of Kumo into their village.
….
Six days later, the group rested about two kilometers from a village in Frost Country, near the border to Hot Water Country. Normally, they would have covered three to four times the distance in that time, but Pītā's wounds and condition prevented this.
While Itachi and Yūgao took care of the boy, Kakashi kept watch and Tenzo went to the nearby village to look for possible medicine and food. Over the last few days, they rotated in taking care of Pītā, although it mostly was Tenzo and Kakashi while Itachi only changed his bandages and cleaned his wounds.
Pītā writhed and moaned in pain while Itachi held him with difficulty and Yūgao tried to give him some water through the cloth mask the boy was wearing, which for some inexplicable reason could not be taken off, the only times it was taken off was at the time he was awake and ate something, still they never saw his face. According to Pītā it's a clan tradition to only show your face to relatives or spouses. The Problem now? He was unconscious since this morning.
"Weasel please hold him a little tighter, I can't put water in him like this." the purple-haired woman said to her teammate as her patient squirmed with impressive strength.
Itachi gasped strained, holding the boy became more difficult with each passing minute, "I'm doing my best Senpai, but he's incredibly strong"
"It can't be that a five-year-old boy is giving you such a hard time!"
But before the young Uchiha could answer, Kakashi cleared his throat a little, "Don't blame him Cat, the boy is from the Shukeikō clan whose Kekkei Kenkai gives them incredible physical strength and speed, that's also the reason why we can't get the mask off, the Shukeikō are supposed to be able to climb walls without chakra, something I thought was a rumor myself"
The two Anbu looked at Kakashi in amazement, slowly understanding why the Shukeikō Clan was so feared. The ability to walk on walls without using chakra, physical strength and off-the-charts speed made the shinobi deadly assassins.
Not long after, and another 10 minutes of fighting to give Pītā some fluids to keep his condition from deteriorating further, Tenzo came back with a surprised and almost frightened posture.
Kakashi saw him first and immediately realized that something was wrong "Tiger, what's the situation, what happened? Have you encountered any enemies in Tetsumaru?"
As soon as he said this, the attention of the other two shinobi turned to Tenzo and the situation became tense. Both prepared to move into a fighting stance as quickly as possible without endangering their little patient.
Tenzo, on the other hand, tensed up a little more and began to say with a blistered face, "No, senpai, I haven't met an enemy. B-b-but i-in Tetsumaru *gulp* I met T-t-tsunade Senju and her companion. When I saw her, I tried not to draw attention to myself but she grabbed me by the collar and started asking me why I have a similar chakra to her grandfather, she suddenly was just there"
When the Anbu heard this, Kakashi turned pale. The cruel experiment that Orochimaru of the Sannin performed on sixty children is an S-rank secret Not even Cat and Weasel knew what happened. Tsunade, known for her explosive temper, who as a Senju and Medic Nin holds the lives of innocent children in the highest regard, can only end in a rampage on her part, should she get to know about it.
"When I tried to e-explain that I didn't know what she was talking about, she threatened to...do that to me..." The Mokkuton user tried to continue but had to stop, fear written all over his face.
"I threatened to break him into enough pieces that not even the gods would recognize him, among other things"
A dominant and deep female voice interrupted him, and all the Anbu turned to her, ready to fight, but then they all froze like stone.
There Tsunade stood about 1,63 meters tall, her unmatched Beauty dwarfed the Legends about her.
Her long platinum blonde hair was held back with a simple ribbon. Her green haori, draped over her shoulders, gave off the aura of someone who was in command.
Her face was strong and beautiful, especially her eyes, now set in a gaze of cold determination. Those piercing and stunning amber eyes were now set in a gaze of cold determination that had been honed by years of loss and hardship.
But what really caught the attention was how she just stood there without any pretense, without any flickering of her chakra, even Kakashi the senior shinobi with a legendary reputation didn't feel her coming.
It was as if the air itself had simply made a place for her, at first there was no warning no feeling and then her absolute tremendous power literally smothered the atmosphere of the camp.
Her chakra was overpowering, like the calm before a storm, full of destructive potential. Her presence carried the weight of the Senju legacy, a power so vast it seemed capable of crushing anything in its path, it testifies to her power as the strongest kunoichi in the world and a legendary Sannin. Tsunade's power remained undiminished despite her years way from Konoha.
The son of the White Fang was the first to compose himself and faced the Senju princess with a slight and respectful bow.
"Tsunade-sama forgives us, but we cannot tell you why you feel the resemblance in Tenzo's chakra to your grandfather. The Sandaime himself made this an S-rank secret to protect Konoha, the legacy of the Shodaime and Tenzo. If you want to know warmly, I respectfully and humbly ask that you ask Sandaime-sama himself"
Tsunade's eye twitched slightly at the answer, displeased that this brat would not answer her 'Who do you think you are'
Her chakra flaring up, she took a step forward which shattered the ground slightly before her gaze fell behind the gray-haired ninja and saw Pītā lying there on a mat, writhing slightly and covered in sweat.
Her gaze flickered between Kakashi, his team and the boys and raised an eyebrow questioningly while she put her hand on her hip.
But before he could say anything to her, her senses detected the boy's chakra and she got a better view of what he looked like.
His chakra was unusually potent and his reserves extremely high for a boy of his age. But the decisive factor was the black mask the boy was wearing. One clan in particular was known for it, where even the children started wearing masks when they were in public.
The Shukeikō. A clan shrouded in mystery and known as the strongest of Kumogakure, a type of elite shinobi whose strength and loyalty is legendary. They swore their allegiance to the Kage of Kumo when the village was founded in exchange for certain benefits.
For him to be here, surrounded by Konoha Anbu and no Shukeikō adult or shinobi as his guarding is concerning, her eyes narrowed 'They couldn't possibly abducted him, could they?'
While the Sannin was still lost in her thoughts, Kakashi noticed where her gaze fell and slowly stood in front of him protectively, still thinking about how he could defuse the situation, Tsunade noticed something incongruous in the boy's chakra.
"What's a member of the Shukeikō doing here? And what's wrong with him?" Tsunade demanded an answer authoritatively. 'It may be none of my business, the conflict between Konoha and Kumo, but I'll be damned if I'm going to watch a child being used as a weapon or a bargaining chip'
"He was poisoned," Kakashi answered her calmly and a little more relaxed than before. The fact that she seems to care about the child, even if it's barely visible in her body language, shows that the years away from Konoha didn't destroy her core values.
"The Shukeikō clan was wiped out by the Kurabina-fu clan in the last few days, except for the boy. He only survived by luck and the love of his mother, but he still has a lot of the poison that the Kurabina-fu used in his system. None of us are experienced Medic Nin, which is why we are on the fastest way to Konoha to guarantee his survival."
Briefly and factually, Kakashi told the beautiful Senju everything. Her eyes widened as she heard the story, knowing the pain of seeing her loved ones die in front of her eyes. And this boy had to do it at such a young age.
"(mumbling)That's why I told Sensei we need Medic Nin in every team. *Clears throat* Go to the side I'll have a look at the boy" in short steps she was at the boy and knelt down next to him. Her eyes softened as she looked at him and scanned with her Iryō Ninjutsu, her eyes widening in horror.
'I haven't seen such a potent and strong poison since the second ninja war' quickly and precisely she started her work and barked orders to Itachi and her assistant Shizune who just then arrived at the shinobi panting.
Pointing to the young Uchiha, she ordered, "You bring me a bowl of clean water and some washcloths IMMEDIATELY", addressing Shizune, "Shizune, move over here the patient is showing signs of intoxication, we need to start detoxification immediately before the poison reaches his heart"
"Hai Tsunade-sama!" While Shizune carefully took the necessary equipment out of her bag, her master carefully began to undress the boy.
Turning to the other shinobi, she ordered them to set up a tent around her and not to interrupt her under any circumstances, otherwise it could have fatal consequences for the already critical situation of the boy.
Shizune and Tsunade immediately began the procedure to detoxify the boy, while Shizune used the Mystical Palm Technique to keep Pītā's values stable, the Sannin began to remove the poison from the boy's body using the Delicate Illness Extraction Technique and store it in the bowl of water Itachi brought her so she could examine it later.
'If it wasn't for his unique physiology for normal shinobi, the poison would have killed him a hundred times already. You should be thankful for being born as an Shukeikō otherwise….'
While the two Med Nin were working on their little friend, the Anbu, after setting up the Tent, made sure that no one will be in the way of these two, or they will pay with their lives. Pītā had already become one of them, and their principles as Konoha shinobi compelled them to protect him, no matter the cost.