And we are back-got some better feedback, as I was almost rushing myself when I pushed it out, so all in all I am still seeing good progress, and I hope to see it continue as I get further along with the main plot.
Now, the pairing; so far the current result's for the pairing look like thus-
Karin-16
Fem. Sasuke/Hikari-16
Temari-14
Kurotsuchi-12
Ameno-9
Karui-6
Harem-20
Single-21
As mentioned previously; I am taking into account of which people are suggesting for both single pairings as well as a harem. That data is taken and compiled by tallying the girls of choice in each variation of a harem as well as how many people choose them. I am constantly updating the count as I write the new chapters with all tally's being made-so these are the current position's of the votes you are all making.
I hope to see more by the time he gets back to Konoha-which should be within the next few chapter's-the final decision shall be made.
Choose who's gonna get him before time runs out and it is too late!
Oh-1 quick note for you lot before going on; STOP REQUESTING GIRLS FOR THE HAREM, I have supplied a list, vote off of that; it is right up there above.
Now-ON TO THE STORY
"It's true that we've never gotten along in the past... There were, perhaps times when we had no other choice. And now, today, even if this treaty comes to be... or if we can hold onto it. But I have this dream... In the future… I dream of a time when all factions will cooperate with each other… A time when everyone's hearts will be together regardless of their countries. That's my… dream of the future. I ask you to take the first step toward that dream today! So please, please, please, please... Take this dream and weave it into our true dream!" ~Hashirama Senju
What the Future Behold's
Previously: "If you would, Lord Sandaime, I believe you would do an admirable job as the interim Hokage, until such a time as a replacement can be found. Perhaps one of the Sannin? Tsunade would be the best candidate, likely, with her renown and connection to the Senju Clan, but Jiraiya-"
Hiruzen's soft chuckles stopped Fugaku causing the Uchiha to look at him in confusion, "Ah, Fugaku, whilst your plans are indeed well thought out and rather exceptional, I already have a candidate in mind to become Godaime Hokage. I will personally sponsor them myself, if needs must be met." Hiruzen stated, a sparkle of some of his usual mischief within his eyes that had been so common in his youth.
Poor Fugaku almost collapsed in relief, sinking into his rather nice pillowed chair with complementary colors to his own, "Thank the Gods." he sighed out.
"This candidate is you, Fugaku Uchiha."
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"I accept." he answered.
"Good, I will tie up some loose ends on my end before we make the announcement. Wouldn't want others to try and take advantage of a new Kage now would we?" he grinned as Fugaku snorted, "You head home now, I will see you tomorrow for the meeting between clans where we shall deliver this news." he said shooing the man away with a chuckle as the Uchiha bowed politely before departing.
Now-If Hiashi Hyuuga had been told what was going to transpire in the Hokage's office on this day six months ago much less eight years ago when he took over the clan; he'd have laughed in the Hokage's face. Now-he was quite shocked by what he was hearing.
"M-My Lord, surely you jest?" he questioned the old Hokage.
"Does this face look like it is joking, Hiashi Hyuuga?" Hiruzen questioned with a serious tone, his face betraying no emotions or physical feeling by what he was ordering.
"Lord Third, it's not that easy-" he went to state only for Hiruzen to interrupt him, "Then make it simple for me to understand. Tell me why you have yet to abolish an enslavement seal that holds sway over half of a clan that treats their own kin as if they were lower than trash while in my village?" he commanded, "Do not make me inform the Daimyo that his own law has been ignored for the last sixty years since the founding of his own Hidden Village. Your clan has known for the last sixty years that such a practice is illegal, and has continued it even under warning of extermination." Hiruzen remarked.
"It is clan-" Hiashi went to speak only for Hiruzen to surge his chakra, enough to crack and splinter the floor-walls-and ceiling around him to the point the entire room shook, "DO NOT, lecture me about clan policies in my office, Hiashi Hyuuga." Hiruzen snarled, "I have warned your clan; you included-time and again to abolish that seal. This is my last warning." he growled out, "You either abolish the Cage Bird Seal, or I will take matters into my own hands and exterminate the Hyuuga clan for illegal practices in my village. It is your elders who claim it is tradition, well your tradition is breaking eight different laws of the Land of Fire put in place by the Daimyo himself when he took command of his kingdom."
"You will get your clan in line, be it through placing the seal upon all it's member's, or taking it off entirely. Do not treat me as if I am a fool, Hyuuga, the seal is removeable-so do it. You have twenty-four hours to comply, and it is not a request. Tell your elder's, if they have issues to bring them up with me, but warn them that should they try to, their heads will come off immediately upon complaint. Now get out of my office, and get rid of that seal or by the God's I will remove your clan from history itself." he growled.
Hiashi couldn't leave fast enough.
A snap of his fingers called down two A.N.B.U member's, "Two of you clean this mess up, one of you go tell Danzo Shimura that I am expecting him at Training Ground Zero, he has twenty minutes to get there or I am going to personally tear compound to the ground and burn it to ash." he commanded as he got out of his seat and began walking out the door to make his way to the Training Ground in question.
~XxX-25 Minutes Later-XxX~
Danzo grunted as he was sent flying back, only to slam into the ground when Hiruzen had appeared behind him, leg extended to trip him where the War hawk collapsed onto his back. Before he could recover, a foot slammed down onto his chest followed by a excruciating pain emanating from his arm causing him to look over and gaze at the limb now missing from its socket, "I thought I warned you, Danzo Shimura, of what would happen if you disobeyed me again." Hiruzen's voice filled his ears causing the crippled man to turn his gaze up-the pain was nothing compared to the shock and fear filling his body, "I think the words that I told you were something along the lines of, 'If you disobey my order even once, you would not live to see the morrow' but you may correct me if I am wrong. Am I wrong, Shimura?" Hiruzen growled as he began to unwrap the arm, revealing a hideous abomination containing no less than a dozen Sharingan eyes implanted into the flesh of the arm as well as the face of his Sensei-Hashirama.
"And I think I also told you to stop trying to gain power that which does not belong to you, am I wrong again, cause I am simply dying to know." Hiruzen growled as he pushed chakra through his leg and embedded the man deeper into the ground, an explosion of dust filling the air around them, "ANSWER ME DANZO!" he demanded, "HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN GOING BEHIND MY BACK FOR YOUR SO CALLED PLANS!?" he questioned.
"Decades... Decades Hiruzen, you grew weak in mind and body-our enemies only took their chances and gained from your-GAH!" he wasn't able to finish as another surge of chakra pushed him deeper into the earth and shattered some of his ribs in the process.
"And yet even now, after I warned you about what happened when you tried killing me that should you step out of line, you would pay with your life!" Hiruzen growled, his chakra expelling itself around him to the point that visible airwaves whisked up around them, the ground shook and cracked under the sheer potency of the God of Shinobi's power, "I spared you on a whim as I had thought I could reach you as your friend, but it seems that all you care about is yourself." he snarled, "You killed Kagami, harvested his eyes like a trophy simply because they were the Mangekyo, and then you sent out several of his clan to missions they weren't ready for, slaughtered them under the guise of a mission simply to collect their eyes for this... abomination." he stated as he grabbed the bandages on Danzo's face and ripped them off.
"Don't try to lie your way out of it, I was always the better Sensor of us, and I recognize his chakra anywhere." the old Hokage stated, "And I believe illegal experimentation does fall under the category of treason, does it not?" he questioned as he ripped the eye out of Danzo's skull, the Warhawk crying out, "Shut up, I ain't done with you yet." he stated, "Your ROOT was meant to be disbanded, yet I sense that they are still in operations, well no matter, I am sending in all my personal A.N.B.U to remedy that issue, seeing as you like to think yourself so clever. And this seal on your chest, doesn't matter anymore." Hiruzen stated as he sent out a quick pulse of chakra to disable the seal and quickly erase it, "Your corpse will reveal all your secrets, and your intel will prove useful should you try to hide your secrets via the reverse seal technique-which has now failed."
"I am done with you and your games, Danzo, and as such, I hereby sentence you to death-something which should have happened decades ago." he said as he raised his hand up, "I will miss you my friend, but not the current you." he said as he covered his hand in raw fire, "Farewell."
"Wai-" Danzo couldn't cry out as Hiruzen plunged his hand into his chest, killing him as he burnt his heart and several organs around his hand.
There, that was one less issue for Fugaku to deal with when he found himself in office.
If Homura and Koharu tried their bullshit with his next choice, they'd learn the hard way as well. He was done with all the bullshit.
Now then, it was time to go see how things were going among the remainder of the village.
Snapping his finger's, a squad of A.N.B.U appeared, "Take this trash to the Intel corps, see what they can dig up from the body, make sure to be thorough with their search, any and all information from the past twenty years should suffice, but if they want to go the extra mile, make it thirty to be safe." he told them, "After that, feed the thing to the animals in the Forest of Death. I want all secrets and techniques he had at his disposal from his body on my desk in a week, get to work." he commanded as he walked away. it was good to finally get rid of another issue for his village.
~XxX-Hokage's Office; several hours later-XxX~
Fugaku had returned with further reports of the damage.
While it wasn't as extensive as Hiruzen had initially had thought, the amount was still staggering.
Setting the paper's down, Hiruzen sighed as he began to feel his age. Setting the papers aside he looked at Fugaku, "Thank you for bringing these to me on such a short notice. With all the bad news, it is good to finally receive good news for a change." the old Kage said softly, igniting his pipe and inhaling some of the smoke.
"Of course, Lord Third, the feeling is mutual." Fugaku agreed, "So many dead or lost. It feels good to find some of those who were in distress and get them back on their feet." he crossed his arms, "I'm sure Kushina would at least be pleased to hear that the Uzumaki's Clan Noh Mask Hall remained largely intact from the Nine tails rage." he remarked to the older Kage, who nodded.
"Those Masks are priceless and dangerous. One of them is his Great-Grandfather's own mask which invokes the Death God directly." he stated, "Even knowing that, we have yet to even try to deduce which mask allows it or which masks invoke what arbiters or spirits." he inhaled more smoke, "I would recommend repairing and sealing it away from everyone except those of Uzumaki blood, meaning Naruto." the Hokage stated.
"But I am sure those repairs can come a bit later, seeing as we need to allocate finds and resources to things that require more attention at the current moment." Fugaku stated; receiving a nod in response to his statement.
A knock on the door filled the air causing both men to turn towards the sound, "Enter." Hiruzen called out, causing the door to open just enough for a familiar face to poke in, "Ah, Nemuri, I wasn't expecting you until sometime tomorrow, what is it?" he questioned.
"Oh, I have that report you asked of me. Detailed within are my personal medical belief's and findings on what we discussed earlier this morning." she answered before looking around the office, "Uh, where is little Naruto, might I ask?" she followed up with.
"He is in a secure location for his own protection Nemuri, he will be fine." Hiruzen smiled.
"I see, shame, I had thought he would have been hungry and had a wet nurse ready for him in case of that." she said softly-she couldn't help it, her breasts were hurting, and her own doctor had recommended it.
Fugaku barely flinched, but even he couldn't help but hear the silent pleading of Nemuri to feed the child herself; lucky little- er-herm moving on. Hiruzen took it in stride and held his hand out for the report, "I am sure that has been taken care of for the time being, now, let me see the report?" he stated as he took the file from her.
"Uh, My Lord, is it alright to be discussing such sensitive information so openly?" Nemuri questioned.
"Trust me, he already knows, he is the boy's Godfather after all." Hiruzen stated causing Nemuri to blink.
"Oh, I had assumed it was Lord Jiraiya that had been named Godfather by Minato-sama and Kushina." she remarked.
Fugaku scoffed, "That pervert might think his literature is the closest thing to the handwriting of the God's, but he is not the Godfather of Minato's son. His skill's would require him to constantly be on the move and lookout for enemies that he might not be able to stop in time." he stated honestly. As much as he admired and respected Jiraiya of the Sennin, it only pertained to his wisdom and combative skills-not in his people skills.
That didn't say much-seeing as he had the first two copies hidden in his own desk at the Uchiha Police Force's headquarters' where his wife couldn't find them.
He needed a hobby dammit; and Mikoto-chan wasn't giving anything to him this time around as her hormones constantly had her up in arms for his head!
Hiruzen cleared his throat, "Thank you Nemuri, that will be all. Feel free to have the rest of the day off." he told her, the Hyuuga woman nodding and exiting the office to return home-hopefully to soothe the aching in her swelling chest.
"So, what does the report say?" Fugaku asked curiously.
"it's a report I asked Nemuri to write up on her findings when she looked at Naruto earlier this morning." Hiruzen responded.
"Oh, I didn't realize he had been seen by a medic." the Uchiha blinked.
"He wasn't..." Hiruzen said with a dull tone, "The little tyke tossed me across the room, followed by the crib he was laying in. When he landed on the floor he was unharmed which was when Nemuri came in and scanned him." he told Fugaku who had a look of disbelief, "Trust me, the pile of garbage behind the tower is proof enough." he stated, "And with Nemuri having perfect memory recollection-a very rare trait even for a dojutsu holder-it made sense for her to write her findings and medical expertise from what she saw." he told his successor.
"Well, no use in worrying about it now, might as well see what she has written up." Fugaku sighed where Hiruzen silently agreed.'
"Let's see..."Hiruzen hummed as he read the papers, "From Nemuri's examinations, she believes that Naruto's body isn't able to expel Chakra in the normal way like how other shinobi and Kunoichi can. It seems that due to Naruto's unique biology that his coils are too large which makes his chakra unstable from the Reaper's seal design-and seeing as Minato didn't seal half/half whereas he instead sealed half/quarter of the Nine Tails into Naruto and nearly killed his son and was forced to leave the seal be which caused his unique change on contract." Hiruzen read.
"What does that mean?" Fugaku asked.
"I am uncertain. But, I have only seen a rare few cases where one has large chakra pools to draw from but are incapable of using them properly in combat." Hiruzen answered.
"Ah, yes-I recall a young Chunin by the name of Might Guy having a similar disorder, relying solely on his Taijutsu to fight." Fugaku nodded, "So he has something similar to him does he?" he crossed his arms.
"Quite the opposite in fact." Hiruzen stated, "If I ask Enma to do some of his own studies into Naruto's biology, he might recognize that Naruto's body acts similarly to that of certain summons, and then go from there with how he trains the lad up."
"How do you come to that conclusion, Lord Third?"
"Simple, because his chakra pathways are developed similar to that of a Animal Summons from what these reports are saying. Nemuri does possess the White Tiger Contract of the Winter Forest if you remember." Hiruzen reminded Fugaku, "Just as you possess the Bear Contract of the Flame River Valley and I the Monkey's of the Flower Fruit Mountain." he told Fugaku.
"Well, I am sure we can circle back to this discussion at a later time, why don't we focus on the village." Fugaku said.
"Yes, in a couple hours, Hiashi Hyuuga shall arrive and I will have to speak to him on the progress of our talks from earlier this morning." Hiruzen huffed.
"That bad huh?" Fugaku remarked.
"It could have been worse." Hiruzen chuckled.
~XxX-8 years later-XxX~
Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze was a very excitable child-more so than the average human being. However, his upbringing was as unique as he.
Having grown up a majority of-actually the entirety of his life, among the Monkey Summons of the Flower Fruit Mountains, he learned to see the world as one of them.
He knew he had chakra, he could use it, but even then; all he could really do was walk up trees or if need be stick to water as if it were a solid surface.
There were some other thing's he could do, but he was only able to do so much as he was still learning. The best thing he had learned about so far was the ideal of the Ninja Creed; Ninshu as it were. To bond through use of chakra alone was amazing, and he was over the moon when he learned that it had originated from the mystic Sage of Six Paths. But, for all things called myth; there was a bit of truth.
Handseals-he had heard that most people used them to cast their techniques, but as no Summoning Animal used them-even the Monkey's-Naruto had learned to use his chakra much like they did. And with the elements-his abilities were a bit; oh how to say this, overpowering. He was able to use powerful techniques, but he had no control of them in any way or fashion.
The martial arts he had been learning since he could walk were as much a part of him as they were his fighting style. Hell, incorporating elemental fighting was more practical with his fighting style than simply trying to use the human methods as they were so much smoother for him to perform. Hell, he had even made up several fighting styles based off watching the monkey's and how they lived-sadly it was only for Earth and Wind as the style was just incompatible with the other elements.
The Stone Monkey Taijutsu style allowed Naruto to manipulate the earth around him through the use of his chakra and for Naruto-it involves waiting and listening for the right moment to strike and, when that moment comes, acting decisively. In other words, the style relies on Naruto having to endure his enemies' attacks until the right opportunity to counterattack reveals itself.
As for the Restless Monkey Taijutsu style, it was Naruto's own variation of incorporating Wind Style chakra into his martial arts and requires a lot of flexibility through finding and following the path of least resistance. Though this fighting style is almost purely defensive, Naruto can overwhelm many opponents at once with large and powerful attacks that could prove fatal; however such attacks are rarely used as Naruto doesn't like hurting others. Instead, the young blond strives to use his opponents' energy against them.
Now, don't get the wrong idea, the two fighting styles were nowhere near perfected as he was still finding ways to improve not only his skills in the two separate arts, but the two separate styles themselves still had many openings that he found could be exploited if he weren't careful. His mentor could attest to that-seeing as Enma didn't play or fight him fair either.
And yes, while he knew of his heritage; not that it mattered here on the Flower Fruit Mountain-he didn't really see the point of being a prince or heir of a fallen dynasty. What was there to be upset over when he wasn't even born during the time his clan fell. The Uzumaki had powerful reaches, but even their own impressive abilities still failed them in the end.
The Namikaze were a small clan to begin with, and their dying out was only a matter of when and not if. They boasted similar levels of power as his mother's clan, but they still got wiped out until he was born.
'Oh you are the heir of two clans, you have a duty to them' many would say when he got back.
What duty?
What clans?
A clan that was extinct in all but name aside from him?
A scattered clan that could never reunite under the pain of being purged?
What was the point of duty to a clan he had no knowledge of aside from their past?
Was there any honor in remembering old grudges to an enemy that broke his family apart out of fear?
He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard his mentor call out to him, "Master!" he said as a grin formed on his face, then jumping down from the branch he sat on.
"Lessons are about to begin, don't want to be late to Emmi's class do you?" he asked.
Naruto shook his head, "No Master, I do not." he shuddered.
Emmi was Enma's wife-mate-love whatever you wanna say about her. She was usually a gentle and kind soul, but heaven forbid you're late to even one lesson and the dreaded tail flick was unleashed.
Lesson 1 of Emmi's class-Don't talk about Emmi's class.
And then there was the next lesson of Emmi's teachings.
Lesson 2 of Emmi's class-Don't talk about Emmi's class.
He was pulled from his thoughts when Enma chuckled, "Well, you best be going, wouldn't want to endure another penalty would you?" he asked the boy who went ramrod straight.
"Of course, Master, I will go to her right away." called out the little blond as he waved to the elder monkey as Naruto took off towards the lessons.
And with that, another day on the glorious and beautiful Flower Fruit Mountains continued as if there was nothing that had changed.
A bit shorter than most chapter's, but this is what I had.
Also have been super busy, so my updates have been a lot slower than I wanted them to be; but fear not, not all is lost as I will endeavor to make sure I provide to you the glory of Fanfiction!
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1: Yes, as you can see, there are MORE Summon Animals than the: Monkey/Toad/Slug/Snake/Weasel/Crow/Clam/Baku Summons from the main story; here we also see/hear mention of the White Tigers and Bear Summons; with several more to come in the future; like seriously why haven't we seen more than the ones in series, you would assume that with animal's having chakra and forming contracts there would be many more; and some are only seen once or twice; SUCH LOST POTENTIAL, fear not, the Summons will all have their time to shine here in this story.