Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Living Shrine ❯ Introductions, Part1 ( Chapter 2 )

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(Word is acting up. In the middle of the thing it jumps to double space. I tried fixing it but it doesn't seem to work. Hope you guys don't mind it….-seilif)

 

Introductions, Part 1

 

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It was a flash of steel that could be briefly seen on the entrance of the Hokage Tower. A kunai and a no-dachi clashed in the middle of the afternoon sun. Naruto was holding his modified kunai as an ANBU member was forcing himself against the jinchuuriki with his assassin blade. The bear masked ANBU was releasing his killer intent trying to disrupt the defending young shinobi's actions.

 

“STAND DOWN NOW!” Tsunade's voice rang amongst the area. Many ANBU and Jonin used Shunshin no Jutsu(1) to appear at the scene, only to find the fight that had just started between both ninja. “HE IS APPLYING FOR CITIZENSHIP OF KONOHAGAKURE, AS STATED THAT HE WOULD BY THE THIRD! STAND DOWN OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!”

 

Her voice fell onto deaf ears as the ANBU quickly jumped back, breaking contact from the blond ninja and proceeding to move through several hand seals. Mimicking him, Naruto started going through the seals for his own jutsu, quickly charging up enough chakra that anyone around them could feel it around him. It was then when he was interrupted.

 

“I won't let you, demon-spawn. Kanashibari no Jutsu!(2)”

 

Naruto froze in place. His hands stopped on the Rabbit Seal. The ANBU disappeared from place and prepared to strike on the defenseless ninja; his no-dachi making a vertical slash, barely inches from the younger ninja's neck; when a sharp spike in Naruto's chakra made the masked ninja flinch and the sword strike missed his target's neck, only to be lodged into his right shoulder. “But how is this possible? You should be paralyzed!”

 

Or so the ANBU thought.

 

“Just because I'm paralyzed, doesn't mean that I didn't complete my jutsu.” Came the reply from the Kumo nin. The chakra around Naruto turned a pale yellow color and started to cackle. A smirk appeared on the blond as he muttered some words underneath his breath.

 

“Raiton: Karada Denryuu (3).”

 

As he finished muttering the words, the yellow chakra exploded into electricity, which quickly ran through Naruto's skin, through the ANBU's blade and finally, struck him at full force. The current kept on flowing onto the assailant as he screamed in pain. Wave after wave of lightning poured into the ninja's body and each time could be seen as a shock wave ripped through the ANBU's body, tearing through clothes and skin alike, tearing flesh and searing it shut. Naruto's longer-than-average canines were now showing as he was licking them with a sadistic smile with every wave that ripped through the Konoha Nin.

 

Everyone looked horrified as the yellow chakra turned blue once again and the electricity stopped. The convulsing ANBU was clearly in severe pain as his skin had cauterized scars that were still hissing with the intense heat that was used to close them. The mask that covered the hunter-nin was cracked in many places, showing the lower section of his face and revealing the foam that was coming from his mouth. Naruto's face looked onto the fallen shinobi and quickly turned to a side to rip the sword from his shoulder.

 

As the bloody metal clanged on the hard floor, many present were astonished as how the wound stopped the flow of the crimson, vital liquid as it slowly let out steam and finally sealing without a trace, as if his skin had never been marred. Quickly, cracking his neck, Naruto raised his right arm, testing the newly healed arm. After a moment of self analyzing, he directed himself to the fallen ANBU.

 

“Pathetic. You attempt to strike me without justification. Suffer for your insolence, mortal.”

 

Several more ANBU drew their weapons, jonins followed suit, only to be stopped by a hand gesture of the Hokage herself, as she made her way in between of the injured ANBU and the Kumo nin, to completely diagnose the extent of the injuries one of her own shinobi's had received.

 

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Astonished by the performance of the foreign ninja, Tsunade couldn't help but smile as she was checking up on the wounded ANBU. From the looks Naruto was receiving, she could sense that he was being shown a bit of respect. It's not everyday that a fifteen year old can take out an ANBU, even when said Black Ops Shinobi was on his worst possible moment.

 

Indeed, as soon as the paperwork was completed, she would have to make him go through a Shinobi Placement Examination. She was confident that with his abilities, he could easily be an upper Chunin to mid Jonin level.

 

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Her examination on the wounded Black Ops was over in about five minutes. The electric shock caused by Naruto's Karada Denryuu seemed to have been directed to affect mainly the skin of the opponent, which was a very remarkable feat, figuring how electricity tends to exit through the fastest route out of the body once it's struck by it. The proof was on the charred and seared skin, but no actual internal injuries.

 

`His control is good' She thought to herself. 'To be able to create, control, and direct electricity like that… haven't seen that level of chakra manipulation in decades.' “Shizune!

 

Promptly, the dark haired assistant to the Hokage showed up from behind several shinobi that were gathered around the fallen ANBU and Tsunade.

 

“Hai, Sensei.” Came her apprentice's response.

 

“Could you please take care of the rest? He just passed out because of the electrical assault on his nervous system. He may have trouble focusing and may experience some headaches for the next few days, but he should return to active duty by the end of the week. Make sure that after he regains consciousness, he's sent to solitary confinement with chakra bonds to prevent him from using any jutsus.”

 

“Hai, Tsunade-sama. Leave everything to me.”

 

Tsunade stood up from her kneeling position and motioned the jinchuriki to follow her. Several stares were sent to her direction as both of them proceeded to enter the Hokage tower, leaving a very stunned group of ninjas and a very perplexed Hyuga elder, asking himself why the boy didn't kill his aggressor.

 

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A heavily bandaged middle aged man, who appeared to be in his forties without an arm, walked into a pitch black room, he quickly formed half of the Ram seal. A flickering white glow formed over him as he spoke. “And the rumors that we so feared have finally become our works nightmare. What was stated on the Sandaime's Legacy, his last letter to the village of Konoha and the council has finally come to bear truth amongst us. Now the objective and the reason for this meeting is to find the way to solve this new problem at hand...”

 

As the pale white light shone above the man inside room, several other figures made their presence shown as they slowly appeared in a swirl of leaves, puffs of smoke, or simply shimmering into view. In a matter of a minute and a few seconds, the council had been united to discuss the appearance of the demon that was destined to return to their village.

 

“What course of action should be taken?” a female voice opened one of the topics at hand.

Slowly, eight other pale lights flickered above each of the council members. Each of them was revealed, one by one:

 

Aburame Shibi, of the Bug User Clan.

Akimichi Choza, of the Energy Conversion Clan.

Inuzuka Tsume, of the Dog Clan.

Kurama Yakumo of the Genjutsu Specialist Clan.

Nara Shikaku of the Shadow Wielding Clan.

Yamanaka Inoichi of the Mind Controlling Clan.

Five empty seats were still available for a few more minutes. Finally, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu walked into the room and stood side by side. “Hyuga Hiashi is tending with the Hokage. He should join us shortly after we begin.” Homura stated.

 

“So be it.” Said Danzo as he turned to look at Homura, who was now standing opposite from him. “We will have him give us his opinion directly regarding the demon brat himself. First, we've had to deal with the defection of the last of the Uchiha's to the traitor Orochimaru, and now we deal once again with the murderous menace that threatens us once more.” He said. “Everyone, this council is now in session; speak your mind and we shall come to a vote, though I do believe that we all come to a single conclusion.” A sadistic smile adorned the veteran ninja as he finished his statement, confident that everything would go according to the plan he had already informed them about if they had to deal with the brat again in the future.

 

The council stood silent as each of their members thought carefully how to express their words. It was a good fifteen minutes of silence that was broke by a loud, exasperated sigh coming from the shadow manipulator. “Until we find out exactly what his true purpose of joining the village, we cannot allow for any hostile actions to take place amongst the Sandaime's and now Godaime's charge.” Spoke Shikaku. “It would be quite troublesome to indeed misinterpret the reasons and have the Hokage try to disband the Village Council with justified reasons.” `Though it would be the best move, some of these guys are just too troublesome. '

 

Several heads could be seen nodding in agreement while Shikaku spoke his thoughts. Danzo and several others of the council dropped their smiles as a frown adorned their visages.

 

Things apparently were not going according to plan.

 

“I agree with Nara-dono.” Spoke Aburame Shibi. Danzo's head snapped to his direction, he did not like this. “We, of the Aburame Clan had placed much thought to the outcome of this day and have decided that we shall not partake on any offensive measures to disrupt the trust placed on the shoulders of the container. He was spoken highly of by the Sandaime and he even stated that he sent a letter with the information about his heritage and some of the family jutsu scrolls. Uzumaki Naruto shall have an opportunity to prove his loyalty to Konoha.”

 

“YOU MUST NOT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY!!” yelled Koharu. The council turned and looked sharply at her direction. “He is the same demon that assaulted Konoha fifteen years ago! He is still dangerous to us and to the newer generations of shinobi! We just had the chunin exams not three months ago. We can't possibly risk our new shinobi force to this menace!”

 

“Well, if you put it that way, then yes, you have a point Koharu-san.” Came the voice of Yamanaka Inoichi. Koharu's face was brimming with satisfaction. At least someone was heeding her words.

 

“But he still has to show hostility to any of the people in the village.”

 

Then again, maybe not.

 

“The words spoken by my fellow Council Members hold truth.” The Mind Walker continued talking. “This `menace' that you claim him to be has still to prove ill wishes against any of us. He deserves a chance. It has been more than ten years since his presence has bothered any of the villagers. There's a possibility that they all forgot his semblance.”

 

More heads nodded to the statements. Danzo and the Hokage's advisors could feel their blood starting to boil. They were actually going to give `it' a fighting chance to restart his life in the village he destroyed .

 

The rest of the council spoke their minds. After a couple of hours of deciding the correct course of action, a voting took place and the meeting was finally adjourned. All of them, except for Danzo, Homura, and Koharu voted on giving the keeper of the Kyuubi a second chance, while Kurama Yakumo abstained from voting.

 

As the council disbanded, only three figures remained motionless in the room. Danzo, Koharu and Homura were seething, knowing that the rest of the council had failed to approach the plan that had been discussed in previous sessions. The three of them watched as the rest filed out of the meeting place, only to be left in their own company. They all stared intently at the seats that were left empty during the meeting, particularly trying to burn one with their stares.

 

“Do you wish the extermination of the Kyuubi's container…?” A whisper was heard in the wind…..

 

Smiles crept onto the remaining peoples' faces.

 

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Waiting inside the Hokage's office was a bit boring for someone as hyperactive as the blonde ninja, especially if all you're doing is filling papers with information and signing important documents for the naturalization of a foreign shinobi, and a blood contract swearing his undying allegiance to the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

 

Several yawns, eye rubbings, and a mountain of papers later, Uzumaki Naruto was officially to be declared a Citizen of Konoha. The Sannin took personal care of the Third's wishes in his last letter to the council and in his letter to herself.

 

After a few minutes of giving the newly instated shinobi a break, the blonde Sannin looked up from the desk that had the towering amount of papers, which are the kage's bane, to look at the young, bored ninja in front of her.

 

“Well, Uzumaki Naruto. You are here by officially instated as a shi…..”

 

“Ano, baa-chan…before all of this becomes official, I still need to make one last thing as a shinobi of Kumogakure…” his voice was trembling and by noticing this, Tsunade's fist stopped merely inches from Naruto's face, all because of the name calling, I mean honestly, why would you call a person you just met, old?!

 

Slowly, her fist returned to her side of the desk and interlocked fingers with her other hand in front of her face. Her playful demeanor was kicking in, thinking it had something to do with this girl from Kumogakure.

 

“Oh, really, gaki. And what is this thing that you must do?” She taunted him.

 

“There's a family that was wronged twelve years ago by the actions of the village that took me in. I must apologize to the Hyugas and pay the price of the treason that we have caused against the city of Konoha…” Naruto's voice was subtle, yet a hint of pain was noticed hidden in it. His eyes showed fear and at the same time, determination; and Tsunade noticed this. Her smile was wiped from her face and her semblance became serious. Her hands broke contact with each other and with her right one, she snapped her fingers, signaling her personal ANBU to show themselves in the room.

 

Two ANBU shinobi, one wearing a cat mask and one sporting a bird mask showed themselves in the room, both standing behind the Hokage herself, looking intently at Naruto. Their eyeless face masks bored into him, as in waiting to make his first and final mistake. “Hai, Hokage-sama.” was their answer the moment their puff of smoke finished leaving the atmosphere. The Hokage acknowledged their arrival with a minor hear nodding and spoke to them, her eyesight not leaving Naruto.

 

“From this moment, until Uzumaki Naruto one comes back into this office, you are to escort him to and back from the Hyuga compound. Nothing is to happen to him, unless he shows any kind of hostile act...” She said. Her tone of voice was steady and clear. The flinch on behalf of the bird masked shinobi was not unnoticed by the group in the office. “If he makes one single violent move, you have the authorization to terminate his life in the spot. Are we clear?”

 

In unison, the three remaining people agreed. Naruto even referred to her as Hokage-sama. This brought a smile to Tsunade's face.

 

“Well if you all agree to this, then I want you to go under your code names....”

 

And Naruto froze; his time seemed to slow down as his thought process began to bring forth the memories of something that was told to him twelve years past....

 

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Flashback

“You know, gaki, you should use a code name in Kumo, just in case you wouldn't want them to find out who you are. I mean, they may try to have you betray the village that made you who you are.”

 

The electric hissing voice cackled in the atmosphere. Many a times had Naruto journeyed into his inner self to speak with Raijuu, mainly for training advice and for simple conversing when he had a down time from Kumo's Shinobi Academy, but this particular conversation came to him after he was set on his way to the village of Kumogakure by the former Hokage.

 

“Why should I change my name? I mean, I'm Uzumaki Naruto of Konoha! The Rokubi in the flesh! If people try and kill me, then they'll suffer the consequen...” a sharp hit on his head was enough to shut him up. Raijuu was looking at him carefully while he looked up with his hands protecting the tender spot he had just been hit on. “WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!” Naruto asked angrily. “Because...” responded Raijuu with a big sweat drop on the side of his head. “...even if you are my reincarnation, I can't do anything to help you. You have to train my physical body to be able to handle the techniques that you will learn from me. Yes, you have my exuberant and sunny disposition along with my stamina, but that seems to be the only thing you got as my reincarnation, aside from my golden fur as your hair and my six whisker marks for your physical attributes.”

 

Naruto was now sitting down cross legged on the grassy floor of the Rokubi's lair. The sewer and water maze was replaced with a large open field that had a light breeze blowing; the sky was filled with thunder clouds with lightning crossing from one formation to the other. Thunder roared in the makeshift heavens above as the young container pondered everything that was told to him.

 

“So, the only thing that you can do is teach me. I can't draw from your power?” Naruto's question surprised Raijuu, just for a bit.

 

“Nope, you've got it all wrong, gaki.” He said with a large smile that showed the razor sharp teeth that the huge ferret had. In human terms, his smile could easily rival Naruto's. “The power you draw is mine and yours. Remember, we are one. You just have to learn how to channel it correctly. You see...” the Rokubi's smile shrunk to a smirk. “...when a demon like one of the bijou is reincarnated into a human, his chakra is human chakra until said being learns to convert it into demonic chakra. Now, it technically won't happen unless you visit a seal master and have him place a seal on you that will allow that to happen, but with your case, it's different....”

 

“Nani?” Asked a more and more confused Naruto. “What do you mean that it's different for me?”

 

The Rokubi's smirk turned into the grin once more. “You don't have to worry about that right now!” He said. “When the time comes for me to show you, you will understand, but for the moment I believe that our new name should be....”

 

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“Yashiro….”

 

Tsunade stopped in the middle of a more concrete set of instructions that she was giving the ANBU members regarding the possible threats that other shinobi and common folk would do if they found out who their mark was. “Who the hell is Yashiro?” She asked. She seemed a bit irritated, but at the same time, the way that he said it.

 

“I wish to be called Yashiro. Just until I can be sure of the reactions of the people in this town won't try anything against my persona.” His eyes lacked the spark that he had when she first met him or during the fight with the rebel ANBU a few hours ago. Something was different with him.

 

“Why do you wish to be called `Shrine' then? Why not Yusuke or Kinshi?”

 

“That is the name that I took when I was located in Kumogakure. Were you not aware that that was my fake name? I thought old man Hokage told you about me?” He asked with a thoughtful face.

 

Tsunade's eyes became wide as saucers when he finished the sentence. “Y-You mean, that you're THE Yashiro? The Lightning Prodigy that was adopted into the village twelve years ago?” Both the ANBU and Tsunade turned to look at him.

 

“Heh, well...” he placed his hand on the back of his head and started scratching it. “...umm, yea, that's me...”

 

“Unbelievable. To think that THE Yosugi Yashiro has become a Konoha Shinobi!” Tsunade breathed it in slowly. The rumors of a Lightning Prodigy of a nameless clan were true, but she never imagined that the child would be from Konoha. Both ANBU let out a breath that they didn't even know that they were holding. Seeing the Hokage relax let them too, if not just a bit.

 

“Well, the reason why I chose the name in particular was not because it was a whim of mine, but because it fully describes what I represent. There's only one person in this world that understands that meaning, and hopefully she'll be able to become a citizen also....” Naruto's eyes became distant.

 

`What does he mean by `what he represents'?' Tsunade and the two stoic ANBU asked themselves. “Interesting choice of words…” she responded. “…very well, Yashiro. Please make haste to the Hyuga compound and do not try anything funny. You know that we will assist the Hyuga's in your death if you try and pull something. Dismissed!”

 

The three shinobi disappeared in a puff of smoke as soon as she had finished speaking.

 

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Naruto and the two ANBU appeared on top of the Hokage tower. He immediately asked for the location of the Hyuga compound and upon hearing the instructions, he headed out at full speed. Both ANBU tailed him closely behind, very surprised for how fast he was going.

 

A single tear rolled down the face the Bird-masked shinobi.

 

`Naruto-kun......'

 

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1. - Shunshin no Jutsu - Body Flicker Technique

2. - Kanashibari no Jutsu - Temporary Paralysis Technique

3. - Raiton: Karada Denryuu - Lightning Release: Electric Current

A/N: Hey guys. It's -seilif here again. I finally managed to finish chapter 2 of Living Shrine and I came to the conclusion that I need a Beta. Someone that goes by the name of AtlantisWolf left me a review on the MMdotORG website. He's right on what he said, but I have been asking around @ NARUTOFORUMSdotCOM for a while (even before he reviewed) but I've yet to receive a reply message if anyone wishes to help out.

 

If you're interested, send me a PM @ seilif on either MMdotORG or FFdotNET.

 

Also, there's going to be main character deaths in this story. Just because Naruto wasn't there all this time, influencing half if not all of the rookie nine with his energy and sunny disposition, means that they all stayed the same as the manga or anime. Unfortunately, this means that the rookie nine are going to be as how I perceive they would be without Naruto's presence. Please don't flame on my decision for making half, if not all of the characters OOC. People can vote on who can die. I'll make up the situation (tho' if you give me a good one, I'll probably use it and give props to who gave me the idea.)

 

Leave a review if you want to give constructive criticisms. Flames, well, I'll just laugh them off and erase them from the review section. If you don't like, don't read.

 

-seilif out!