When a Maelstrom goes West
Hey guys, so I looked over the reviews and PMs that I received and ultimately decided to make this story. Now don't worry, I will work extra hard now to update both regularly. Once a month if I can handle it, so you get two chapters of two different stories in one month, aren't you guys lucky! Unfortunately I won't be updating TRT until next year. And because I don't want to have to translate every single attack I do, I will set it out like this: Futon: Great Break through :)
Anyway this is the first instalment of 'When a Maelstrom goes West I hope you enjoy it.
PS: I hate Sasuke so be prepared for that.
-Red
I don't own Naruto
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
'Attacks'
"Demon Talking"
*Actions or Sounds*
Naruto stared at the ceiling and wondered where he went wrong. He had brought back Sasuke even after suffering not one but TWO chidoris to the chest, but was that enough for him to gain acceptance from the populace of Konoha. Nope. And to make matters worse Sakura blamed him for the 'excessive' injuries of Sasuke. All Sasuke was, was unconscious with a few cuts and bruises. HE ALSMOST DIED! But the worst of the news came just after he woke from his two day coma.
(Flashback)
The nurse that was tending to him left with a scowl on her face after confirming he was going to be fine. It was quite obvious she had been ordered to take care of him but he didn't care.
Naruto grinned like a madman, he had done it. He kept his promise to Sakura and brought back Sasuke.
His thoughts were halted with the entry of a pink haired girl. Somehow Naruto's grin widened at the sight of her. "Hey Sakura-chan! I did it! I brought back Sasuke, just like I promised!" He yelled excitedly.
"HOW COULD YOU!?" Sakura yelled pounding her fists on top of Naruto's head. "I trusted you! You almost killed him!"
Sakura raised her fists to continue her beating but a stern voice broke through. "Enough Sakura." Said person turned to the voice and came upon the sight of Tsunade with her arms crossed looking at her. "Leave." Was the simple command which Sakura obeyed immediately.
She bowed to Tsunade and left the room quietly, sending one final searing glare at Naruto, who was still recovering on the bed, before closing the door.
Tsunade turned to Naruto and her gaze softened. She moved to the bed and sat on it and started to lessen the pain in his head. Naruto's body visibly relaxed due to the healing and he slumped into his bed once more.
Naruto smiled lightly, "Thanks Baa-chan." He said softly. Tsunade looked ready to pound him herself for a moment but stopped herself. Her face became down trodden at the implication of what happened.
"Naruto." Tsunade began. "Due to the injuries of Uchiha Sasuke and you excessive use of the Kyuubi's power during your retrieval mission your Shinobi license has been revoked and you have been banished from Konoha." By now she was in tears. "I'm so sorry Naruto."
Naruto was silent, his eyes wide. His mouth moved but no sound came out. Eventually he spoke. "But can't you do anything?" He said hopefully.
"I'm sorry, but the council can banish somebody if it's a unanimous decision, they went behind my back. There is nothing I could do."
Naruto closed his eyes to hide the tears building in them. "H-How long do I have to leave?" He asked.
"You have to be gone by the end of the week." Naruto merely nodded in response. Being unable to speak at the time. Tsunade stood and silently walked towards the door. She cast a final look back towards Naruto and walked out the room, closing the door behind her.
(Flashback end)
Now he was just staring at the ceiling. Thinking. Lots of Thinking. No one had come to visit him apart from Iruka but even he could only stay for so long. But hey, he brought him ramen. That was all worth it. Not even his 'Sensei' Kakashi had come to see him. Or his so called friends.
Sighing, he gave up thinking, he was never good at it anyway. He closed his eyes and relaxed in his bed, setting down to sleep.
(Mindscape)
Naruto opened his eyes to the dark, damp sewers of his mind. Sighing he proceeded forward down the tunnels wondering what the damn fox wanted now.
Naruto turned the corner and came up to the gates of the seal. The large fox was lying on his haunches behind it. Naruto looked at it for a short time before starting the conversation. "What is it you want Furball? Want to mock me about my recent failure like all my other pitiful kind?" He drawled.
Kyuubi didn't answer and just started at Naruto. Naruto shifted under the piercing gaze the fox was giving him. Finally he spoke. "This is quite the predicament you've landed us in."
Naruto snorted. "Is that it? Is that all you wanted to say?" he questioned
"Seeing the situation we are in, I am willing to resolve our differences so that we can aid each other." Kyuubi replied.
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "You? You want to help me?" Naruto couldn't help it and burst out laughing.
Kyuubi was quickly losing patience with the laughing blonde that was now rolling on the floor, when he finally snapped, "SILENCE!" He roared. Infusing his Killing Intent within his voice. Naruto was on his feet, silenced immediately. "Now if you would be so kind as to listen you pathetic bag of flesh I would explain." Naruto mutely nodded. "As you no doubt have guessed. WE are in a lot of trouble. I am stuck in your body and I don't want to die yet. So I am going to give you an offer." Kyuubi said.
"Oh? And what does the great Kyuubi-sama want to offer a lowly me?" Naruto asked.
Kyuubi growled but kept silent. "I am willing to make a deal with you. I will give you training and offer my chakra whenever you need it. In return you will listen to my advice when given, give me a change of scenery in this place and rip a piece of the seal of so I can access your senses." He said
"Ok and how do I know your telling the truth and by ripping the seal you won't try and escape?" Naruto said in return.
Kyuubi narrowed his eyes but pushed a scroll forward through the bars with his tail. "This is the summoning contract for the dragons. As a sign of my faith I will allow you to sign it in place of the Toad contract you will undoubtedly lose due to the contract being loyal to Konoha. The boss summon is my friend." Kyuubi said. "If you explain to him that I am sealed within you he should allow you to be their contract holder." Kyuubi explained.
Naruto stared at Kyuubi silently, contemplating the request. As Naruto continued contemplating he closed his eyes. The sewer walls of his mind began to blur out and was soon replaced by a luscious green forest with everything enlarged. The trees grew taller than the Kyuubi himself and large animals roamed around. Naruto opened his eyes to see Kyuubi looking around his surroundings with a collar around his neck and the seal hanging from it. "Is this satisfactory?" He asked. Kyuubi looked down at Naruto and nodded.
Naruto walked forward towards the scroll as Kyuubi pounded off towards a rather tasty looking giant rabbit that caught his eye.
He opened the scroll and had noticed that no one else had signed it. Copying what he did with the Toad contract he cut a finger on one of his canines and signed his name in blood. He rolled the scroll back up just and Kyuubi came back after licking his lips from whatever meal he just had. "OK it's done." He said. "I'll do the seal when we are out of Konoha."
Kyuubi nodded. "That's fine, it'd be best if you woke up, you'll probably want to leave before dawn."
Naruto nodded and faded from his mind.
(Hospital Room)
Naruto yawned as he opened his eyes. As he stretched he looked out the window he saw the sun falling quickly behind the trees casting the sky in deep oranges and reds.
"ANBU-san?" He asked softly as he sat up in bed. He looked to his right when he heard a pop. He saw an ANBU wearing a boar mask standing next to the bed. "I'm feeling strong enough to move." He said while stretching, he was a little stiff, but that would fade when he started to move. "I was wondering if you could shunshin back to my apartment? Or are you under strict instructions to keep me here?" He asked
The ANBU replied in a gruff voice, "My orders were to protect you and if taking you home with do that than I shall comply, if you are doing what I think you are than it is the best course of action." He said simply.
"Oh? And what do you think I am doing ANBU-san?" Naruto questioned as he stood up and started putting on some clothes
"You are going to pack so you can leave before dawn so you can avoid the civilians that will most likely appear to run you out of Konoha." Boar explained.
"Hit the nail on the head there boar. So will you help me?" He asked putting on the last of his clothing.
"Of course I'm sure, if you asked any other ANBU they'd also be glad to help." Boar explained before putting his hand on Naruto's shoulder and shunshin to his home.
Boar was actually sad to see Naruto go, as was many of the ANBU in the corps, due to the respect they held for him. Many admitted that they could not have survived what he had and still remain sane. Most of the ANBU knew why he did the pranks in the first place. It was so he could have fun while running from them. The only real time he could. As such the ANBU respected his wishes and didn't chase after him seriously and let him have his fun.
(Apartment)
When they arrived boar immediately shunshined out again, Naruto was confused for a moment but shrugged thinking he had to do some important ANBU stuff. He walked to the kitchen to get something to eat before packing.
Once he had done so, he moved to his bedroom and began shoving any essentials into the rucksack he had. After having trouble closing the bag he set it down by the door. He walked to the bed and knelt down by it. After some trouble he shoved it over revealing a floorboard that was a different shade than the others. Grabbing a nearby kunai he pried open the board revealing a secret compartment. Reaching inside he grabbed the contents and set them on his bed. This revealed at small box about the length of his forearm a face mask akin to that of Kakashi and black cloak with a hood that would cover him to his calves. He moved to his dresser and took out some black clothes he had saved just for a time like this. He may be dense but he always prepared for the worse. And it appeared it was the best option. After getting changed he moved back into the kitchen and set his bag on the counter and put the box on the table. Opening it, it revealed a small blade called a tanto. He slowly ran his hand over the sheath of it and remembered the Sandaime giving it to him as a birthday present a few years ago. He had also shared his thoughts on whether the situation at hand would come to pass and helped him prepare. He had provided most of the things he needed. One of the main things was that he helped him study geography to help him navigate the surrounding area.
He was preparing to leave and finished making some gifts that he had got some people to thank them for being nice to him, for Tsunade he got some finer sake, something he could afford yet still good quality, for the Ichiraku's he gave them a good portion of his savings to make up for all the free ramen they gave him so he wouldn't go hungry. And for Iruka he gave him back his head band that he gifted himself on the night he became a ninja.
A pop resounded around the apartment just as Naruto was about to open the door. He turned to look and saw boar with scroll in his hand. He walked up to him when he held the scroll out to him. When he opened it he realized it was a map of all the ANBU patrols near Konoha. "A gift from us to help you escape without anyone seeing you, just make sure to burn it when you get past them so it doesn't fall into enemy hands." Boar said.
Naruto nodded his thanks. "Thanks, and tell that to all the ANBU as well. I know you weren't serious when you chased me after my pranks and you helped me when some villagers decided to go fox hunting. You have my eternal gratitude." Boar bowed slightly in return. "Oh and a last favour, I was wondering if you could deliver these for me?" He asked handing Boar 3 scroll containing the gifts. Boar nodded and disappeared.
Naruto looked around the apartment one last time. Before opening the door and walking out. He didn't bother locking it this time around as he wouldn't be going back.
Stepping out his apartment block he breathed in the air and shouldered his rucksack. Looking down the empty streets he shrugged at took to the rooftops and ran in the direction of the gate. He was nearing the gate when he suddenly stopped and looked at a random direction towards the forest. He looked back towards the gate again and then back to the forest before shrugging and running in that direction.
(Namikaze clan compound)
Naruto stood in front of the compound gates. Something had always bothered him since the day he found out about Kyuubi. Why him? He had read in some books that the Yondaime was a selfless man and would put Konoha before himself. And his face. He was the spitting image of the Namikaze, he was surprised that no one else had seen it. Though he guessed it was because they were too busy hating him to look at the similarities between him and the Yondaime.
He stayed staring at the gate for a little while longer before walking up to it and nicking his thumb on a canine and swiping it on the gate. Naruto waited with baited breath as he watched the seals glow for a while before disappearing and the gate opened. The clan compound appeared modest with a large 3 story house, with each level getting progressively smaller as it went up, in the centre and gardens surrounding it. Along the path towards the house were sakura trees, lining the way forwards. Naruto took a deep breath and stepped through and listened as the gate closed behind him.
He continued walking and eventually ended up at the door. He looked at the handle no firmly in his grasp, apprehensive of what was to come. Eventually he turned it and walked into the building, closing the door behind him. He walked to the wall and flicked on the hall way light. As light illuminated the hall, Naruto gazed at the decorations. The wall was a soft blue with white highlights. Pictures of a blonde haired man and a beautiful red haired woman hung on the walls, lining it with more colours.
Naruto drifted around the ground floor looking in rooms and admiring the decorations. He eventually advanced to the second level. There he found many empty rooms and storages, the only notable thing he found was the Yondaime's study. He left the door open and carried on, leaving it to rummage through it after he found the reason he was here in the first place.
After passing more storage and empty rooms, he made it to the third level. There were only 4 doors on this level. 2 on one side 1 on the other and the last at the end of the hall. Naruto started with the door closest to him. It appeared to be the master bedroom. It was a big room but sparsely populated. The centre piece of the room was a king sized bed, with red covers and black pillows with a gold Uzumaki crest in the centre of the covers. The wall on the right was taken up by draws and wardrobes, most likely filled to the brim with clothes and outfits. On the other wall was a desk with bookshelves either side with a few books and scrolls upon them. What caught his attention was the large scroll on the desk. Naruto walked towards it. He picked it up and began inspecting it; he froze when he came across a name. 'To Naruto'. Said person almost dropped the scroll in his shock.
He stared at the scroll and began wondering what to do. He was scared. Scared of what the Yondaime was going to say to him. Warily he went to open the scroll but when it didn't budge he realized it was locked with a blood seal. Nicking his finger he swiped it over his name and watched it glow before disappearing. When he opened the scroll, 5 things fell out. They included 2 envelopes, both with his name on, a katana with a red sheath and black handle, a small black book which was quite thick, and another scroll. First he opened one of the envelopes and began reading:
Dear Naruto,
You are probably wondering who I am. Well for starters I am your father…or was. But I am more commonly known as the Yondaime Hokage. And first of all I wanted to say is that I'm sorry. I'm sorry for leaving you alone, and I'm sorry for sealing the Kyuubi in you. Despite my wishes I also doubt that the village will see you as a hero. I was the Hokage, I know how the villagers will take this. I only hope that more senior members of the ninja society will abide by my wishes. Though that I also doubt. I know what fear and hate does to people. If you mother dies as well than know that your Godparents should be willing to take you in. Your Godfather is Jiraiya of the Sannin, and your Godmother is Mikoto Uchiha, she was your mothers best friend.
I can't write for any longer, the Kyuubi is almost at our gates and the ninja fighting it are wavering so I have to go. Just know that I will always love you. And I'm leaving you my book of seals, the black book, and the entirety of the Namikaze and Uzumaki vaults which comes to around 37.6 million Ryo. Just remember I will always love you.
Love Your Father
Naruto stared at the letter in his hand with tears welling in his eyes. It confirmed both his best dream and worst fear. He had always hoped to know who his parents were, and the Yondaime was his freaking father! He was ecstatic! But his emotions took a dip when he realized that his own father had sealed the being that made his life a living hell for 13 years of his life. After getting a hold of his emotions he put down the letter from his father he picked up the one from his mother, opening it he read:
To Naruto,
My dear little boy. I am so sorry to leave you without parents but just know that the time I held you in my arms, despite how small, were the best in my life. My name is Kushina Uzumaki and I am your mother if you already didn't know that. I have little time to write this as I have to aid your father in defeating Kyuubi and I know the way he is going to do it and for that am sorry. I hope that my friend Mikoto will take you in after we pass and I hope you will enjoy your life there. She was my best friend and I thought of her as my sister. For you I leave the Uzumaki book of seals which I included with you fathers making it a joint Uzumaki and Namikaze seals book. Learn well and become a seal master that surpasses both me and your father. I also leave you my Katana named Ketsueki shīrudo. I hope it serves you well. And remember like you father, I will always love you with all my heart.
Love Your Mother
And stuck to the bottom of the letter was a picture of his father and pregnant mother standing hand in hand smiling at the camera. When he saw this his tears finally began to fall. It was his first and last photo with his parents. Smiling as his tears stopped he took off the photo and put it into his cloak. He grabbed the katana and unsheathed it revealing a black blade with a silver edging to it. In Naruto's opinion it was quite beautiful. He re-sheathed it and put everything back in the scroll and re-sealed it and turned to leave the room.
Leaving the room with the scroll firmly tucked into his cloak he closed the door and moved onto the next. Opening it he almost fell to his knees but he held his body upright by grabbing onto the wall. The room was a nursery. The walls were painted a soft orange with red Uzumaki swirls dotted around. When he eventually collapsed to his knees, it wasn't because of the decorations on the walls. It was because of a name imprinted in gold on the crib which sat in the corner of the room. 'Naruto'. He continued to stare at the name. His name. This was his room. He would have grown up here.
After gathering himself he left the room the explored the other doors. The room on the right was a bathroom lined with light blue and cream coloured tiles. The room at the end turned out to be just storage like many others on the lower level.
Naruto later returned to his father's study. His father. The concept that the Yondaime was his father still hadn't fully caught up with him. How could the man hailed as the strongest and fastest ninja in his time be his father, a boy who failed the academy 3 times and can't even throw a punch right. Then again that wasn't exactly his fault if he had some proper teachers he could at least be chunin maybe even jonin. We'll never know. And so Naruto began exploring the study. Looking through documents and papers trying to see of anything caught his interest.
When he was inspecting the books on the shelves he spotted a peculiar book. The name read 'Tale of an Utterly Gutsy Ninja'. But it wasn't the name that drew his eye to the book. It was the author. 'Jiraiya'. Naruto was shocked. The man who was known worldwide for his porn writes a book that didn't seem to be porn. Naruto reached to the book to take it off the shelf but when he did the strangest thing happened. The bookcase's back which the book sat on began to glow. When the glow died the bookcase began to fade out and eventually disappeared revealing a staircase in the wall. Naruto shrugged before mumbling "The wonders of seals I guess," and proceeded to march down the stairs.
The stairs were dark and he almost tripped every once in a while. When he eventually reached the bottom the staircase opened up into a bright room. But it was not that, which made Naruto stop and gape in wonder. It was the rows and rows of jutsu scrolls and books piled onto shelves. There were Jutsu for each element, genjustu, taijutsu, and kenjutsu. Naruto began looking at the scrolls in bewilderment. Awed at the collection his parents had made.
He eventually made it to the end of the room, where a larger shelf stood. Upon said shelf were 3 scrolls and a case similar to the one that held his tanto. He picked up the scrolls to see what they were. One was the taijutsu style for his father 'The Humming Bird'; another was his mothers kenjutsu style 'Bloody Whirlpool' and the final scroll were the jutsu scrolls for Hiraishin and Rasengan. He put the scrolls back down and turned to the box. Opening it he found a hundred 3 pronged kunai.
Naruto looked around the room and frowned, so many jutsu going to waste. Naruto wandered the room for a while when he eventually came across a cabinet full of empty sealing scrolls, so he grabbed a few a started sealing everything. He sealed the elemental techniques into their separate sealed the other disciplines of jutsu separate as well and sealed that all into another scroll and put that in his cloak as well.
Naruto made his way back up stairs and out the door, and walked to the gate. When he was outside he turned to look at the compound. He sighed sadly a closed the gates and ran off in the directions away from Konoha.
(A few hours later)
Naruto sat at the bottom of a tree resting. He had been running for ages and even his stamina had its limits. He had just finished burning the scroll that boar had given him as he had made it past all of the patrols that he should be concerned with. He decided this was a good place to release part of Kyuubi's seal because he was far enough away that if some chakra escaped it wouldn't be felt and if it did he would be long gone by the time that they arrived. Sitting down he tried to meditate to appear back in his mindscape.
(Mindscape)
Naruto appeared in the now luscious forest of his mind a went to find the giant orange fox that inhabited it. After walking for a while he found said fox lying on his back with his belly extended and multiple corpses of animals littered around. Naruto sweat dropped at the pleased grin on Kyuubi's face.
"AHEM!" Naruto shouted trying to get the fox's attention.
The giant being, startled by Naruto's sudden appearance bolted up and let out a rather high pitched yelp, which was quite comical when the thing making it is the same size as the Hokage Mountain.
When he had settled down he glared at Naruto for disturbing his rest. "What is it you want kit?" He asked
"Kit?" Naruto asked
"Kits are baby foxes. I thought it would be fitting." He replied
"Oh, anyway I came to do the seal." Naruto said walking up to Kyuubi who lent down so that Naruto could reach the seal. When he did he hesitated. "There won't be any side effects will there? Like I won't suddenly get a tail?" he asked
Kyuubi chuckled. "No you won't get a tail. Your senses may improve but other than that I don't think so."
Naruto nodded and ripped part of the seal. The sudden increase of demon chakra was slightly painful but nothing that he couldn't handle.
(Forest)
Naruto awoke and quickly became aware that his senses were defiantly better. He looked behind him to check if he had a tail and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw he didn't. He had another thought and quickly pulled out a kunai to see if had some ears and smiled when he realised he didn't. He did see though that his hair now had some red highlights. He actually quite liked it. Pocketing the kunai he wondered out loud, "Where to go…"
"I know a place." A voice resonated in his mind which made Naruto leap 10 feet in the air.
"How are you talking to me?" Naruto asked after recovering.
"After you ripped the seal I was able to establish a mind link so we can talk without you coming into your mind to do so." Kyuubi said.
"Ah. So what were you saying?"
"Go west, away from the elemental nations, no one would think to look for you there."
"Ok, West I go. Oh an Kyuubi?"
"Hm?"
"What's your name? I kind of figured that Kyuubi was a title."
"Oh, it's Kurama"
"Right, thanks Kurama." Naruto said.
"Don't worry about it kit, now get going it's going to be dawn soon, you want to be out of fire country by then."
"Alright! Let's get going!" Yelled Naurto.
(End)
So how did you enjoy my first chapter of the new story. As I said at the start I won't be updating TRT until next year so sorry about that. Other than that advise me if some lore is wrong and I might fix it but until then Merry Christmas!
-Red
Translations:
Ketsueki shīrudo – Blood Shield