Hello guys, what's up guys! I hope you all are having a good holiday. And Merry Christmas to you all. Yeah yeah, i know, i am one or two days late but marry christmas anyway, even though i don't celebrate myself.
Anyway, guys, i have a few questions to ask.
What do you guys think about the fighting scenes that i write on this story. Do you guys enjoy it? Please tell me on the review. And also tell me if i am making naruto too overpowered. I know when i said that i will make naruto very OP, but i started to think that making him overpowered will prevent you from enjoying the story. I don't know, tell me what you guys think. Although it's too late, opinions are still appreciated.
Oh and one more thing. I have a quiz for you ; )
(How many jutsus did naruto used so far in this story, and what are they?) Not how many times, how many did he used.
well, that's it. let's not waste any more time and enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 7
Previous chapter
When he saw that all was clear, he looked back at the building and closed his eyes for a moment. He then clapped both of his hands together and channeled his chakra at the center of his palms, before he muttered something out.
"Particle style: Atomic Dismantling jutsu."
Suddenly, when he slightly parted his palms from the clapping motion, a swirling white energy appeared between his palms and took the shape of a small, transparent cube with a glowing white spear shining at the center.
He then thrust both of his hands forward and launched the small cube towards the building. Suddenly, the entire building was engulfed by that same small cube but in a much larger scale. When the building was engulfed, naruto lowered his right hand and clenched his left fist, causing the entire building to suddenly shrink and disappear, leaving a large, cube shaped crater behind. Naruto dusted his hands and gave a sagely nod of his head, before he used one hand seal and disappeared with an orange blur.
Story, continue
Naruto quickly appeared at his apartment using the Body Flicker jutsu and immediately started to seal up all the items he needed to move to japan. He has been reading about different countries besides gathering information and found many of them interesting, but the one that caught his eye was japan. He read everything that was available about japan and realized that it's much more similar to the elemental nation. Some of the cities and villages look just like the elemental nation, but most of them are more modern than the other countries. He has been planning to move there since the people and the place somewhat remind him of his own world, but deep down he knew that it was a selfish reason to calm his inner stress.
After packing everything he needed, he was about to seal the rest of his belongings when he approached the three picture frames on the small desk. But he stopped and gazed at them with a faraway look in his eyes, each frame holding a piece of his past.
One of them held a picture of team seven when naruto, sakura, and sasuke became genin for the first time, with Kakashi standing behind them while giving a nervous eye smile.
The other one held a picture of a thirteen-year-old naruto with jiraiya beside him, his right hand slung around naruto's shoulder. Both were squatting forward with identical goofy grins on their faces, while giving a thumbs-up towards the camera.
And the last one held a picture of a pregnant kushina standing while holding her bulging stomach with both hands, with minato standing behind her, his arms wrapped around her in a firm embrace, both having a loving smiles on their faces.
Naruto looked at the pictures with a somber expression in his eyes, before he gently picked up the picture frame of himself and jiraiya and stared at it in silence. He softly rubbed the frame with his thumb and let out a tired sigh. "I'm very sorry pervy sage, I'm very sorry. If only i had listened to you, all this wouldn't happen in the first place." Naruto quietly muttered to himself in silence, his voice filled with regret and sorrow. He would have shed tears right now, but he was too tired of crying and simply mourned for his former master and surrogate father.
Naruto closed his eyes and started to remember what his surrogate father had told him in the past.
Flashback
"Don't blame yourself naruto, this isn't your fault. You have done all you could, that uchiha was just a lost cause. Forget him from your mind and just move on." Jiraiya said to a thirteen year old naruto who's currently sitting on a hospital bed with bandages wrapped around his entire body.
Naruto looked at jiraiya with an incredulous look on his face. Before he could speak, jiraiya continued from the window while looking towards the horizon with a somber but serious expression on his face. "To be a ninja, you need more than strength and jutsus, you must acquire the judgment to make the right decisions. If you want to live your life as a ninja, you must become smarter and understand what needs to be done." Jiraiya said to a bedridden naruto with a wise tone, his heavy voice filled with wisdom. "This world, is not a place for a fool, that's the true reality." Jiraiya said the last part with a serious tone, silently waiting for naruto to absorb what he said.
Naruto didn't say anything and simply stayed silent, gazing at the front wall with determination and resolve. "I get it. If being smarter means what you say it does, then i will remain a fool my entire life." Naruto said to jiraiya with determination burning in his eyes, refusing to become smarter just so he could forget his former best friend.
Jiraiya gave a heavy sigh and shook his head.
Flashback end
Naruto opened his eyes and let out a heavy sigh, before he gently grabbed the remaining picture frames and sealed them inside his storage seal. After sealing his belongings inside the storage seal, he walked towards the entrance door and prepare to leave. He took one last glance at the apartment before finally stepping through the door and closing it behind.
Few minutes later
Naruto slowly walked out of a small villa located a bit farther from his apartment. "Alright, the genjutsu is off. Now the old man doesn't have to pay my bills anymore." Naruto said while dusting off his hands with an innocent smile under his mask, completely ignoring the fact that he had forced the poor old man to cover his expenses, including meals that cost over twelve hundred euros each, which sometimes nearly broke the poor old man.
Naruto then pulled out a folded paper from his pocket and quickly unfolded it, revealing a large map of the entire world. He directly looked at vatican city on the map and slowly navigated toward japan, which is located in the east-northeast of asia. After pinpointing japan, naruto noticed that it was positioned in the ENE of the secondary inter-cardinal direction.
Quickly folding the map, he shoved it back into his pocket and pulled out his new compass, which pointed him in the right direction. He rotated his body to find the proper direction and quickly found his heading. So putting the compass away, naruto leapt onto a rooftop in an orange blur and continued jumping in the same direction at a very fast speed.
Naruto was seen jumping over a transmission pole and heading forward. "Damn it, at this speed, it will take me more than an entire day to reach japan." Naruto thought to himself with slight annoyance, wondering how he could accelerate his speed to reach japan as quickly as possible. Before he could consider using kurama's chakra, he quickly dismissed the idea. Naruto had tried to contact kurama and the others for a long time, but for some reason, he couldn't. Everyone inside his seal was completely silent. He had also checked his subconscious numerous times, but every time he got closer to the white light, something forced him to leave his subconscious, as if he were being pushed out.
So that idea was out of the question. Naruto jumped from the rooftop of a store, but no one even noticed him as they continued with whatever they were doing. He quickly landed on another rooftop in a blur and disappeared from that position. He kept jumping from rooftop to rooftop, trying to think of what else he could do. Suddenly, he remembered something as he jumped from another rooftop. He then gave a smirk under his mask as he thought about the idea. "Guess it's time to try out that jutsu." Naruto thought to himself with growing excitement, before he began to channel his chakra throughout his body. In that instant, everything has frozen as naruto took one very slow step on a rooftop.
Everything around naruto came to a complete stop, as if the time itself was halted, while the air itself started to feel thick with energy. His entire body started to spark blue lightning, as if his very essence was charged with electricity. His entire surroundings seem to be in a deep freeze, with every object suspended in the air, frozen in time. The colour of his surroundings suddenly took a bluish hue, lending a surreal and somewhat of an over-worldly atmosphere.
One of the storekeepers was about to flip his food, but he suddenly stopped, as the food remained frozen in the air. People on the street also froze, as many of them were about to take one step. One of the kids had a balloon in his hand which suddenly popped. But the stretching rubber of the balloon was froze in place, along with the kid's reaction.
From his frozen position, naruto first glanced to his left, then to his right, then he brought his gaze back to the front and gave a smirk. "Blitz style: Flash Step." Naruto mentally said, before he started to run in an accelerating speed, crossing the entire europ in just under a second. Everything around him was just passing through in a blur, nothing is visible except for a few flashes of light passing through.
Blitz style is a combination of three chakra natures: wind, lightning, and yang release, or light style, which he developed through curious experimentation during his training in the other dimension. One day, he attempted to combine wind and lightning chakra to see if he could create something new. Instead of forming a projectile ninjutsu, he discovered it could be utilized for body enhancement jutsus. This led to the creation of the jutsu "Flash Step."
In blitz style, wind helps to reduce air resistance to enhance acceleration, while lightning helps him to supercharge his nervous system for super fast movement speed and reflexes.
When naruto attempted to combine only wind and lightning, similar to the raikage's lightning cloak, it almost succeeded. However, because he was supercharging his nervous system with lightning while using wind to reduce air resistance, it sometimes causes paralysis or disrupts his sense of equilibrium, leaving him dizzy at times.
Naruto tried to use the blitz style without the paralysis or disruption, but he failed many times, even with the help of his clones. At that time, he didn't realize that it was incomplete and he was missing something else.
After a lot of thinking, he realized that he was channeling his chakra throughout his internal organs, which he cannot train no matter how hard he tries. And for the worst, the wind and lightning has advantage and disadvantage factor, which makes them harder to control, especially throughout his internal organs. So he experimented by adding yang chakra beside wind and lightning and to his surprise, it worked.
Yang release, or light style, helps naruto to protect his internal organs while controlling the immense kinetic energy generated by his movement. Together, these three chakra natures worked in perfect harmony, making it a complete sub elemental fusion or a kekkei tota.
Flash Step is one of the jutsus of blitz style that manipulates time perception and the kinetic energy of his movements. By saturating his body with lightning chakra, his nervous system acts as a booster, increasing his movement speed into an incredible level. Since the nervous system is connected to the brain, it also affects his thinking process and perception by supercharging them. When his brain becomes supercharged, he starts to think much faster than a normal human. No, he doesn't gain an IQ of over two hundred, he simply processes thoughts at an accelerated speed. Not only that, but his vision also speeds up, making the world appear frozen as his brain operates much faster than normal.
With wind chakra, it reduces air resistance that allows naruto to move at extreme speed without being slowed down by friction. It also helps him to maintain control during sharp turns or sudden stops. Not only that but it also helps to vent excess heat and energy generated by his rapid motion, preventing his body from overheating or breaking down.
Yang release, or light style, helps him to maintain and stabilize all those energies generating from him, both from rapid movement and channeling chakra. The bluish hue and frozen surroundings are the result of the magnetic field generated by his intense chakra output.
This makes the jutsu one of the hardest yet fastest techniques in his arsenal. Even though he could move at light speed with kurama's chakra cloak, Flash Step is still under development and requires further improvement. For now, he can use it similarly to the Body Flicker jutsu, but over much greater distances and at a faster speed.
Naruto entered the border of turkmenistan and crossed it in under a second. He passed through countless skyscrapers and took the road toward the other side. Then, he entered the border of china, speeding past numerous buildings and skyscrapers, as well as some ancient structures, which he ignored and crossed the entire country in just two seconds. Finally, he crossed south korea in less than a second and was now approaching japan via the sea of japan. His sheer speed split the entire sea in half, from south korea all the way to japan.
Naruto spotted an empty coast in the distance and smiled under his mask. "I think that's it. Man, this country is completely on the other side of the world. It was morning in the vatican, but over here it's the opposite. I think it's midnight here. Well, that's even better for me, now no one will find out about me suddenly appearing out of nowhere." Naruto said to himself, as he finally stopped at the coast, with small thunderbolts crackling off his skin and clothes.
He closed his eyes and focused his chakra, immediately stopping the thunderbolts crackling from his body. In an instant, he entered Sage Mode and took a deep breath to calm his pounding heart. When he opened his eyes, it revealed two horizontal pupils looking at his surroundings with a curious expression. He stretched out his senses further and quickly detected a civilization not too far away from the coast. "Hm, I think I found a city. But how would I know exactly where I am? Everyone's probably sleeping right now." Naruto said to himself with a sweat drop, rubbing the back of his head with a nervous eye smile. Then, he suddenly remembered there might be a bar open twenty-four hours. He can just find one of them and ask a bartender the question.
Nodding to himself, he quickly released all the nature chakra from his body and instantly Body Flickered away from the coast. Naruto reappeared at the top of a building and began to search for a place filled with lights and drunks swaying around like lunatics. It didn't take long before he spotted a drunken man stumbling his way home, a mini bottle of alcohol in hand. Without hesitation, naruto used the Body Flicker jutsu and appeared right behind him. He then quietly walked towards the drunken man and tapped him on the back. The drunken man immediately stopped babbling nonsense and turned to look at naruto with a curious expression on his drunken face.
"Excuse me, old man, can you please….." Before naruto could finish his sentence, the middle-aged man placed a hand on his shoulder and began to cry heartily for no apparent reason. "Sob, sniff, sob! Even you think I'm an old man. If this keeps going on, I'll never be able to get a girlfriend. I'll be alone my entire life!" the man exclaimed loudly, before continuing to cry uncontrollably, trying to wipe his tears with the back of his sleeves.
Naruto actually gave the middle-aged man a brief look of pity, before he hardened his gaze and spoke once again to the middle aged man. "Excuse me, sir. Can you please bend down a little so i can tell you something?" Naruto asked the middle aged man with a calm tone, using his native language to speak.
The middle-aged man complied with naruto's request and bent down to his eye level. He looked at naruto with his teary eyes and asked. "W-sob, what, sob, do you want to…" Before he could finish his sentence, a thunderous slap echoed through the entire street. The man's head snapped to the side, saliva flying from his mouth.
Immediately, the man snapped out of his drunken state and gently touched his cheek where naruto had slapped him hard. Naruto had done this many times to jiraiya whenever he got too drunk and started crying about how unfair it was that he couldn't have sex with tsunade or hear her moan his name. It always gets so awkward that naruto sometimes threw him into a pond or river just to make him stop blabbing about random nonsense.
Naruto placed both of his hands on the man's shoulders and shook him hard, trying to make him look up, only for him to lower his gaze in shame. "Look at my eyes, old man." Naruto said sternly, causing the man to flinch, before he reluctantly met his gaze. Sapphire blue eyes met dark brown.
"Listen old man, i get how you're feeling right now, but let me ask you this. Would you rather spend your life carrying heavy responsibilities, or live your life to the fullest, enjoy everything the world has to offer? In this world, there's more to just having sex and getting children. Think old man, think." Naruto said in a serious tone, making the middle aged man ponder for a moment. "If your goal is to one day make a family, then let this kid give you some advice. Don't just sit around drinking alcohol. You need to step up your games and do something that will actually catch everyone's attention. Trust me when i say that you'll be surprised at seeing the result of your hard work." Naruto said with a confident tone, causing the middle aged man to gape in shock at seeing the wisdom behind his words.
Naruto then remembered why he was here in the first place and looked at the stunned man in contemplation. After a few moments of silence, he gave a nod of his head, decided to ask the question to the middle aged man instead. "By the way, old man, can you tell me which city we are in right now?" Naruto asked the middle aged man in a friendly tone.
The man, who had been frozen in awe, quickly snapped out of his daze and spoke up in a tired voice, the effects of alcohol slowly fading away. "I… i think niigata. Yeah, we are in niigata right now." the middle aged man replied with a slightly raised eyebrow, wondering why he would ask such a question. But he then shrugged, assuming it was just a curious question from a kid, while ignoring the fact that a child was wandering on the streets at this hour.
Naruto raised an eye brow at hearing the name and quickly brought up his map from his pocket. "Niigata, niigata, niigata... Ah, here it is." Naruto said to himself, before he widened his eyes in surprise. "Whoa, it's really far from yamagata. Guess i need to head northeast." Naruto thought to himself with a nod of his head, before he looked back at the middle aged man and gave him an eye smile. "Thank you old man, now i can go to the right place. Oh, and don't forget what i have told you old man. Don't just sit around and drink alcohol." Naruto said to the middle aged man with a wave of his hand, before he ran off to a random alley and disappeared from the site.
The middle-aged man stared at the spot where Naruto had previously stood and contemplated his earlier words.
With naruto
Naruto quickly jumped onto a rooftop from the empty alley and immediately used the Body Flicker jutsu to travel faster to yamagata. In just a few seconds, naruto had already covered sixty miles using his teleportation jutsu.
Naruto quickly stopped on the top of a tree branch to check his direction. He had already passed two towns and was now traveling through snow covered mountains with countless trees. He quickly pulled out his compass from his pocket and confirmed he was heading the right way. Nodding his head in confirmation, he used the Body Flicker jutsu once more and arrived somewhere in an empty town in yamagata.
Naruto silently looked around his surroundings with curiosity, noticing many structures with less modern designs. However, there were also a few modern buildings mixed with the older designs. Random cars were parked in various spots, each covered by a thick layer of snow. The leaves of the trees were already fallen, with the branches also being covered with thick snow.
Naruto looked further ahead and noticed some light emanating from a distance. Narrowing his eyes, he quickly moved toward the light, which was a few blocks away from his position. As he approached, he suddenly felt warm air brushing against his skin despite the cold weather. He could also smell the faint scent of flowers in the air, like the day of cherry blossom blooming in the spring. Coming to an abrupt halt, naruto glanced to his side and finally realized why he was feeling so warm and why the scent of flowers lingered around the air.
It was a hot-spring.
Naruto realized as he read the sign above the entrance that says, "Yamadera hot spring." The building is surrounded by bamboo fences with huge boulders covering the other side. From the other side, hot steam covers the entire place, indicating its natural hot spring origins. He could also hear faint conversations of many people who were taking a natural warm bath.
But he ignored them, continuing to stare at the name of the hot spring in confusion. "Yamadera? Am I even in the right place?" Naruto thought to himself, while scratching the back of his head in wonder. Before he could think about it further, the door to the hot spring suddenly slid open, revealing an elderly woman with grayish-raven hair stepping outside. She was dressed in a red kimono with cherry blossom patterns adorned on it.
The elderly woman stepped out of the entrance and noticed a young boy with gravity-defying blond hair standing outside, looking at her with his sapphire blue eyes filled with curiosity and wonder. She looked at naruto and gave him a gentle smile, before motioning for him to come closer. Naruto understood the gesture and approached her, stopping just in front of her before giving a small bow. "Hey there granny. My name is naruto uzumaki, and I was wondering, is this place yamagata?" Naruto asked in a friendly tone, hoping she could help him with directions if he had gone wrong.
The elderly woman raised an eyebrow in curiosity, wondering why he would ask such a question. However, she mentally shrugged, assuming it was just a curious question from a young boy. "My boy, we are currently in the yamadera district. But you could also say we're in yamagata. You see, yamagata is divided into several districts. And yamadera is one of them." The elderly woman explained, answering his question. Naruto paused after hearing the explanation and pondered for a moment.
He then looked at the elderly woman and gave her a grateful smile from under his mask. "Thanks granny. Now I know where I am." Naruto said to the elderly woman with a grateful tone. "I have one last favor to ask if you don't mind." He said, while pulling a map from his pocket along with a marker he had seemingly gotten from who knows where.
"Would you please mark all the places that are part of yamagata?" Naruto asked politely.
The elderly woman smiled warmly and happily complied with his request. She gently took the map and marker from his hands and began marking all the districts and notable locations in yamagata.
"So dear, what was your name again?" the elderly woman asked softly as she continued marking the places as he had requested.
Naruto looked at the elderly woman and spoke up with a certain energetic tone. "My name is naruto uzumaki, and you better remember it, dattebayo!" He loudly exclaimed, crossing his arms at the end. But then, he widened his eyes in shock as he realized he had unconsciously slipped back into his old self. For a long time, he had tried to bring a small part of his former self back after the fourth great war, but he couldn't, cause of his guilt and grief.
The elderly woman gave a soft chuckle at his sudden enthusiasm, finding it adorable along with his verbal tic. However, unknown to her, this enthusiasm was the first sign of his mending heart.
Naruto couldn't help but feel like a small part of his old self was coming back. However, there was no guarantee he would ever fully return to who he once was. He had experienced countless deaths and traumas, which had forced him to mature and grow wiser. In many ways, he was like jiraiya and kakashi, carrying guilt in his conscience much like kakashi, while being wise yet striving to remain cheerful just like jiraiya.
Naruto, realizing his verbal tic, blushed in embarrassment under his mask. He bashfully scratched the back of his head and gave an awkward chuckle. "Heh heh, yeah, that's my name." He said to the elderly woman, who responded with a gentle smile.
"Naruto uzumaki, hm? That's quite an uncommon name. I would say it's the first time i've heard such a name." The elderly woman remarked as she marked the last location in yamagata. She then handed the map and marker back to naruto, who gave her a grateful bow.
"It's understandable. When i first thought about it myself, i'd also say it's a pretty uncommon name. I mean seriously, who the hell names their children fish cake. But i guess my deceased parents liked it and named me naruto." He said to the elderly woman with a humorous tone, while remembering how he used to ask hiruzen about his name and the people who named him.
The elderly woman gave a chuckle at hearing his remark, but then gave a frown when she realized what he said about his parents. "Oh, i'm really sorry, dear. I..." Before she could say, naruto cut her off with a shake of his head. "No no, please, don't be so sorry. Yeah, i was sad at first when i realized that i didn't have my parents with me from the beginning, but i'm already over it, thanks to my surrogate grandfather." Naruto said to the elderly woman with a sad smile. Although it was covered by his mask, she could still see the hidden sorrow and grief in those sapphire blue eyes.
The elderly woman didn't understand the reason for such hidden pain from a small boy, but she could guess that the reason for his grief and sorrow was related to his surrogate grandfather. She didn't fully understand, and by the looks of it, he gets very bad memories talking about it. So deciding to drop the matter, she quickly change the subject by asking him a curious question. "Naruto-chan, why did you ask me to mark the places in yamagata? The elderly woman asked the blond with curiosity, wondering why he would ask her to do that.
Naruto looked at the elderly woman with widened eyes, before he started to think what to say. He cannot just outright tell her that he is on a mission to rescue children from being experimented by people with crow like black wings or other possible supernatural creatures.
Running out of options, naruto sighed and decided to use a genjutsu on the elderly woman. Closing his eyes for a moment, he channeled his chakra before slowly opening them again and making eye contact with the elderly woman.
The elderly woman's eyes suddenly grew heavy and she was about to collapse, but fortunately, naruto caught her and gently laid her on the ground. Turning toward the hot spring, he yelled out. "Help! Someone, please help her!" Naruto shouted with slight desperation in his voice, causing many people inside the hot spring to become alert and rush over to see what was happening.
A crowd of people rushed outside to check and saw the elderly woman laying unconscious in a child's arms. Quickly approaching the unconscious woman and the child, two men who look to be at the age of twenties, kneeled down beside naruto and started to check up on both. One of them placed a hand on naruto's shoulder and got his attention. "Son, what happened?" The man softly asked naruto, who looked at him with a fake concern expression on his eyes. "I-i don't know. A minute ago, i was talking to this kind granny, but suddenly... she started to fall on the ground. But before she could hit her head, i-i caught her and called out for help." Naruto explained, before he brought his attention back to the unconscious woman.
The two men looked at each other and gave a nod, before the man who had placed his hand on naruto's shoulder spoke up. "Son, I thank you for calling out for help. You did a very good job. Now, let us take her inside and let her get some rest." The man said to naruto with a reassuring smile. He then supported the woman from the back, while the other man gently lifted her legs into the air. With little effort, they carried the woman inside, leaving the rest of the people to their conversations.
The people outside looked concerned and quietly murmured about the elderly woman's health. It was only then that they realized they hadn't even checked on the child. Quickly turning to look for the child, they saw nothing but empty space, with a small twister of wind fading away.
Everyone's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets when the child mysteriously disappeared. "Huh, where the hell did the kid go? He couldn't just disappear out of nowhere, right?" One of the guys asked in bewilderment.
"N-no, maybe he ran off while we were not looking?" One of the girls theorized, but questioning herself if this was actually the case.
All the people were busy thinking about naruto, while he himself was simply watching them from a rooftop with a awkward expression on his face. "Damn, maybe i should have put them into genjutsu and sealed their memories with the Memory Blackout jutsu." Naruto thought to himself, before shaking his head. "Nah, it's not necessary. Let them think i just ran off. Besides, i need to move on quickly. The sooner i find them, the better." With that thought, naruto used the Body Flicker jutsu and disappeared.
End of chapter