Land of Fire, Konoha, Training Ground 5
Naruto looked at Tsukihana before he put a hand on his hip and shifted to Naruko. "Why should I accept you as my student?" she asked the young girl, who looked at the blonde.
"I want to be a great Kunoichi," Tsukihana told Naruko, who nodded, "And be just like you and de-" "I will not make you my student," Naruko interrupted the girl, who looked shocked.
"Why?" Tsukihana asked her.
Naruko turned away from Tsukuhana and looked at the broken boken in her hand, "When I get a student, I do not want to make this just like me, I want them to be somethig more," She told the girl who looked confused.
"What do you mean?" Tsukihana asked her.
"Say I acsept you as my student, what is your dream?" Naruko asked as she looked at the girl.
Tsukihana opened her mouth before she closed it. "My dream has stages to it," Naruko told Tsukihana, who looked at her. "The first thing I want to do is get a reputation, be seen as not what I carry but who I am," Naruko said as she held up a finger.
A second finger then went up. "I then want to remove from Konoha the inference that the Nidaime had done to people like me. Then I want to have a family before I become the Hokage, before becoming a Hokage, and then improve the village," Naruko finished as she looked at Tsukihana, who looked at her with a confused look. "So what is it that you want to be?" she asked the girl before she shifted back into Naruto.
Jiraiya listened to what the blond had said and started thinking back to what they had said. "Am I trying to remake another Minato or me?" he thought as he recalled everything the sage had taught Naruto. That was when Jiraiya realised that he did know the answer. "I am making another Minato, and he must hate that," Jiraiya thought as he looked down in displeasure with himself.
He then looked at Naruto and nodded to himself, "I'm going to fix that mistake," he thought as he looked at Naruto before Jiraiya got an idea: "Pa might have gathered some other scrolls," Jiraiya thought as he looked at Naruto.
Tsukihana looked down before she looked at Nartuo, "I don't know
what I want to do or become," She told Naruto, who looked at her before he sighed.
"I will then offer you a deal," Naruto said as Tsukihana looked at him.
"A deal?" She asked him as Naruto nodded.
"Yes, a deal; I will give you one week," he told her as she looked at him. In that one week, you must know what you want to do, and if you have nothing by the end of that one week, then you will drop this request," Naruto said, and Tsukihana nodded.
"And if I have something?" She asked him.
"I will test to see how strong your belief on achieving that goal is, and if you pass the test, I will accept you as my student," Naruto told her as she nodded and left the training ground.
"It seems that you were soft on her Naruto," Naruto heard the voice of the Kyūbi.
"Do you think so?" he asked the fox as he walked. "Hey, quick question: Do you know why Itachi and his fish stick want you?" Naruto asked the beast.
"No," The fox told Naruto, but the blond could say to the fox did not like being left out of the loop, "Go to the Forest of Death, and I will lead you to somewhere that we can find out an answer to that question," The Kyūbi told him.
Naruto narrowed his eyes before he looked at the sage, "The fox said that he knows of a place that can answer the question of why those people want him," He told Jiraiya, who looked over with narrowed eyes.
"Where is it?" He asked Naruto.
"The Forest of Death," The blond told him as he nodded, and the two started to walk towards it.
"Okay," Jiraiya said as they walked towards it, "And while we're inside, I want you to train; there are beasts inside that give ANBU trouble, and by the time, I want you to atleast kill one of those beasts," He told the blond who raised a brow.
"You want me to fight give ANBU trouble?" Naruto asked as the sage nodded at him.
"Yep," Jiraiya said as they walked through the gates and across the village to the training ground. "I'm sorry," he told his apprentice, who looked over.
"For what?" Naruto asked the man.
"I have not been a good master for you," Jiraiya told him as he looked at Naruto, "I have been turning you into a second Minato, and I'm sorry, and to let you know, I am going to be making sure by the time we leave the Forest of Death, you can use those eyes and that sword like no ones buissness," He told the boy who nodded.
"Got it," Naruto said as he smiled. And thank you," he told the white-haired man as the two walked up to the massive forest surrounded by the security gate.
As they were about to walk in, Anko walked over. "Where do you two think you're going?" she asked them as she looked between them.
"We're looking for answers," Jiraiya said before turning to an ANBU standing there. Do you mind if the kid borrows one of your swords?" He asked them as they nodded, pulled off their swords, and handed them over to Naruto.
Anko looked at the two Toad summoners as they walked in before she followed after them. "I'm coming with you," she told them, and Jiraiya looked at her before he nodded.
"Alright," he said as they walked into the forest. Jiraiya and Anko watched as Naruto's body language changed, and the two watched as he became like a hunter.
"So where are we going?" Naruto asked the fox as they moved through the forest.
"Head to the middle of deep part of the forest, as it has something that me and my siblings come from," The Kyūbi told Naruto as they moved.
"Got it," Naruto told the fox as he led them into the forest.
But they did not know they were being followed by something as they walked.
"So perv, where are going?" Anko asked, drawing Jiraiya's eyes.
"The Kyūbi said that he knows of a place where the answer to the question on why the Akatsuki want him and his siblings is in the Forest of Death," He told her as she raised a brow, "And normally I would be agest it, I think that there is some truth to it and I want Naruto to fight some of the beasts of the forest," Jiraiya told her as Anko's eyes shot wide.
The three moved deeper into the forest and encountered an animal fighting a large black-scaled snake. Anko scoffed, "It seemed that Orochimaru wanted to leave something here," she told them as Naruto jumped forward. Anko tried to stop him, but Jiraiya stopped her. "What are you doing?" she asked him.
Jiraiya looked at Naruto, who joined the animal. It was a big cat with well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long canines. It sports a longer, panther-like tail, its snout is seemingly shorter, and its head is more hunched to the ground. The ears are pointy like those of house cats. The fur on its head, upper torso, shoulders, and back is thicker and longer than the rest of its snow-white fur. The fur on its head, upper torso, shoulders, and back was textured with tiger-like stripes.
"What is it?" Anko asked as she looked at the big cat. The large serpent shot forward and started to warp around the cat, constricting and suffocating it.
Naruto landed next to the cat. He looked at the snake as he drew the blade Naruto had gotten from the ANBU and charged at it. He gathered chakra into the blade and ran forward with a glowing blade. Naruto sent out a white energy slash as it cut into the serpent, making it release the cat, "Son of the moon," The giant snake hissed at Naruto as both Jiraiya and Anko looked confused as they looked at Naruto, "Why do you stop my hunt?" It hissed at Naruto.
The blond scowled at it as he gathered chakra in the blade again. "For those who follow Orochimau do not deserve to hunt under my mother's moon," Naruto growled as he jumped at the snake and slashed out another slash.
"Is that Junsui Shirokaku? And what does he mean by his mother's moon?" Anko asked as Jiraiya narrowed his eyes at what Naruto had said.
The snake moved as the cat looked at Naruto, and the blond boy heard, "Naruto-sama, why are you here?" The big cat asked Naruto.
"A serpent that is aligned to Orochimaru does not deserve to be called one of my mother's," Naruto said as he held the sword high into the air and started to gather chakra into it before he jumped at the snake and went for its eye and slashed at it releasing a Junsui Shirokaku at the eye.
But it looked more like a golden crescent moon.
"What is that?" Jiraiya asked as he narrowed his eyes before seeing that it was the same attack that Naruto had used when training with Yūgao.
The arc of the golden chakra is as the massive snake tries to move, but the chakra blade cuts into the snake's eye, making a deep gash. Blood starts to pour out of the eye, and it trashes around.
"What the hell was that?" Naruto asked in thought as he looked at the sword.
"You mixed our chakras," the fox told him as Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Here is a tip: If I think this is true, I will give it to you." He told Naruto, who moved around a tail that went to knock his back while the big cat jumped forward and dug its fangs into the tail.
"Mixed our chakras?" Naruto asked the Kyūbi.
"The first time you used it was a 80-20, and now you used a 70-30," He told Naruto.
"I see," Naruto thought as he landed, held out the sword and started to gather chakra in the blade.
"60-40," the fox told Naruto, who nodded. "And you're going to need to name this technique," the Kyūbi told Naruto, who smiled.
The chakra around the blade started to glow golden as the snake looked at Naruto and saw the visage of someone behind the blond.
They were a girl around twelve years old. She had long crimson hair, purple eyes, and pale skin. She wore a silver parka with a fur-lined hood, silver camo cargo pants, and hunters' boots.
"Lady Artemis, have you forsaken me?" the snake asked himself as he looked at Naruto.
A sword appeared in the visage's hand, resembling Naruto's sword. She raised her sword to match Naruto's movement.
"No snake that follows Orochimaru will ever be accepted under my moon, and shall be hunted down and removed from the world," The visage told the snake, who looked shocked at her.
"Getsuga Tenshō," Naruto and the visage called as they brought their swords down simultaneously. Both swords looked like they sent out a wave of chakra that flew at the snake, removing its head. The snake landed on the forest floor with a mighty thud.
Anko and Jiraiya looked at the blond in amazement. They both saw the visage before it became solid. "How is?" Jiraiya asked as he and Anko jumped down.
The girl put her hand on her hip and looked at Naruto. "So you called on my divinity to deal with a snake?" the girl asked Naruto, who scratched the back of his head at the girl's smile.
"Kushina, how are you? Why did you? How are you?" Jiraiya looked at the girl, finding it impossible that she was alive.
The red-haired girl turned to the man. "Jiraiya, it's been a while," she said as she looked at the sage. "Kushina was the name of my mortal vessel," she told the man.
Both Jiraiya and Anko looked at her in shock, "Ero-sennin, Crazy Snake Lady, allow me to introduce you to the Greek side of my mother, Artemis, Goddess of the moon, the hunt, the wild, archery, maiden girls, and childbirth," Naruto introduced them.
They both looked at Artemis before Anko looked at Naruto, "What do you mean by Greek side?" She asked him.
"My mother has three sides: mortal, Greek, and Roman," Naruto explained to them. "Konoha knows her mortal side as Kushina Uzumaki, Akashi, Queen of the Whirlpools, and Fox, the Captain Commander of the ANBU." He told them as Jiraiya nodded at him.
"Her Greek side is Artemis, a hunter and protector of girls; the Roman side is Diana, a lady of the hunt who has no time for her harsh opinion of the opposite gender," the blond said as his mother put a hand on her hip.
"Did you have to talk about my Roman side?" Artemis said to her son before her face turned serious. "Why are you in the Forest of Death?" she asked him.
"People are after the fox and his siblings, and I don't think it's for power," Naruto told his mother, who nodded. "So the Kyūbi told me of a place in the Forest of Death that has an answer to that one question," he told her as she nodded at him.
"I will come as well," Artemis told her son, who nodded. The group of four walked as Artemis looked behind and saw the creature that was following. "Are you testing him?" She thought as she joined the others before they walked into the deepest part of the forest.
They found the biggest tree stump they had ever seen. "Right there," the fox told Naruto as he directed Naruto's eyes to a part of the stump that looked like a door. The four walked over.
"You know that you can't tell anyone, right?" Artemis said as Jiraiya and Anko turned to her. We gods have pushed these lands before, and we will do it again," she told them. Anko looked confused, but Jiraiya nodded.
"That's why, during Nidaime's rule, we had a famine and drought," he said as Artemis nodded.
"The ancient law states that we gods and goddesses can not raise our children, even if they are our only child, but we added to it," Artemis told him as he nodded. "If our child is forced to do something against their will, like to become a weapon or make a clan, we can save them and punish the one who was responsible," she explained as Naruto put his hand on the door.
"The Nidaime found out about a child of Demeter and a child of Neptune, so they both attacked," Naruto said as the door pushed itself open, "When the daimyō found out, he was pissed as well, so he made sure that the Nidaime knew it, so he made him get rid of the Clan Birthing Act, CBA, but the Nidaime changed it to the CRA, Clan Restoration Act," He told them as they walked into what looked like a home.
"So, now you hide," Anko said as Naruto nodded.
"Yes, all Demi-gods in Konoha hide in plain sight, and we are slowly removing the influence of the Nidaime from Konoha," Naruto told the two as they looked at him. "I almost own the Red Light district, and I am making sure that all Demi-gods are safe," he told them before he looked at something.
It was a stone slap with three markings on it.
A circle, a crescent, and a star.
"That is what we came for," the Kyūbi told Naruto as he approached it. Pour your chakra into it, and then let us all hope that I am wrong," he said to Naruto, who nodded. He started channelling his chakra into the slab as the three symbols glowed before the crescent stopped glowing along with the star.
"It's as I feared," the fox told Naruto, narrowing his eyes. "These people have summoned something that can spell the end of the world," the Kyūbi told Naruto, shooting his eyes wide.
"End the world?" He said as the three others looked at him.
"Yes, you see, me and my siblings came from one beast. It was known as the Jūbi, and it had the power of nature itself. My father, the sage, sealed it away and created me and my siblings," the fox told Naruto. The fox nodded and told the others what he had just told. They looked at each other uneasy.
After a while, no one said anything before Anko spoke up, "Shit."
"I could not agree more," A female voice behind him said as he turned and looked shocked.
It was a giant platinum dragon with small, furry red tufts, two starting from its collarbone and stretching around its neck and one each on its wrists and ankles; on the earthier side of its head are two long forward-pointing horns, with black strips extending from their centre towards the tips. The inner membrane of the wings looked like it depicted a night sky with thousands of stars.
The three ninja started reaching for weapons, but Artemis looked up at the dragon, "So what can I help you for?" The moon goddess asked as she looked up at the dragon.
"I would like to see if that young man would like to become a summoner of the Dragon clan?" the dragon asked. Naruto looked at the dragon as he lowered the sword in his hand.
"Can I ask why I have been picked?" Naruto asked as heavy footsteps sounded. They turned to see a wolf the size of a large horse with white snow-white fur walk up. They had what looked to be dressed in armour.
"That was funny; I was going to ask him the same for the wolf clan," The large wolf said as she walked over.
The dragon looked down at the wolf while Naruto sank to a knee before the wolf, "Lady Lupa," Naruto said as he bowed to the wolf.
"Raise your head, son of the moon," Lupa said as she looked at Naruto. "Will you accept the wolves?" She asked Naruto, who smiled.
Naruto looked at Luba before he looked at the dragon, "How about both?" The dragon said as Naruto looked at them.
"Are you sure you want me to be the summoner to you?" He asked them both.
"From your sent, you are a perseon who is worth the dragons," The dragon said as she summoned a serpentine dragon with four legs and three claws per foot with dark blue scales and white hair that started from the base of its neck and tip of its tail. On its head was a pair of horns that curved back, with a large scroll on its back. "I am Asgorath of the dragons, leader of the Dragon Summoning Clan," She told Naruto, who smiled and looked at the second dragon Asgorath had summoned.
"I am Makimonoryū," The dragon said to Naruto as it bowed its head and lowered the scroll for Naruto to sigh.
And when he did, Makimonoryū returned to the summoning realm.
Lupa summoned a pitch-black wolf with a scroll on its front right leg. "Lupa-Sama, am I here to allow this human to summon our clan? " the wolf asked as Lupa nodded at him.
"Yes, Eigetsu," Lupa told him as the wolf unrolled the scroll for Naruto. The blond sighed the scroll, and Eugetsu returned to the summoning realm.
"Son of the Moon here is a gift from the dragons for you," Asgorath said as she held out four dragon scales for Naruto. They were four colours: platinum, a very dark purple, cyan, and red. "They are from dragons that have fallen in battle, and their spirits now live within the scales, a light dragon, a darkness dragon, a water dragon, and a fire dragon," She told him as Naruto nodded at her.
And after giving the scales over to the blond, she returned to the summoning realm.
"And here is my gift for you, Scarlet Crimson Iron Sand and Divine Silver," Lupa said as she pulled out two bags and gave them to Naruto, who took them both.
Both other ninja looked at Naruto while Artemis smiled at her son. "Go have them forged while I talk to Jiraiya," she told her son and jumped off, with Anko following after him.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at Artemis.
The moon goddess looked off to where her son had jumped off to and smiled, "Minata would want Naruto to know three three jutsu of his , and the same for me, I can't tain him in the Uzumaki Hiden so I," She started as the sage nodded.
"I can trian him in them, what dose he want Naurto to know?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at the goddess.
Ten Minutes Later, Konoha, Red Light District
Anko followed Naruto through the red light district as he walked over to a forge, "So why are we coming here?" Anko asked as they walked.
"This forge is run by a son of my mother's half-brother, Hephaestus," Naruto told her. She nodded, and they walked up to the forge.
It looked like a large building with a rounded roof. Out the front, part of a stall with different weapons for sale was visible.
"The Ancient Anvil," Anko read as she looked at the sign.
Naruto walked in, and it looked like a regular weapons shop with weapons racks. A muscular man wore a white shirt, a brown leather apron, black pants, and leather shoes. He had an extended goatee with tan skin.
"So Naruto, what can I do you for?" the man asked as he looked at Naruto, who handed over bags to him.
"Can you forge two sords and a hunting knife for me?" Naruto asked the man, who smiled and took the back. "Thanks, Chima, " he said as the browned man nodded and started to get to work.
One Week Later, Training Ground Five
Naruto stood across from Yūgao as he had two swords in his hands.
In his left hand was a silver katana with a blade with a blue wave-like pattern, an abstract shape with eight points and an overlapping pattern. Each plate has a navy blue core with a silver border. The sword's hilt is wrapped in a white cloth with a short length of white chain with a broken link.
On his right was a black-bladed katana with a blade with a red flame-like pattern, an abstract shape with eight points and an overlapping pattern. Each plate had a crimson red core with a black border. The sword's hilt is wrapped in a white cloth with a short black chain length with a broken link.
Both swords were brothers, and they resonated with each other. Tsukihana walked onto the training ground with someone.
They are a girl around Nartuo's age with long purple hair and a nice body. She also has amethyst eyes. She wore a black body suit that looked backless, armless, and legless, a purple armoured dress, fingerless gloves that reached her elbows, and high-heeled armoured purple boots.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked the girl, who looked at him.
"I am Tsukihana's older sister, Cai'er Yoruhana," she told Naruto, who smiled at her and smiled back at Naruto.
"Hey, you're here to see if I can become your student, not flert with my sister," Tsukihana told Naruto, who smiled at her.
"Alright then," Naruto said as he pointed a sword at her. "Are you ready?" he asked her.