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Speech note- "Ouch"-Normal speech
'Ouch'-Thoughts
"That had to hurt"- Kyuubi/Boss Summons/ anyone with a sufficiently deep voice.
"I didn't know a human arm could bend like that."- Gyakusetsu
Shadowedge
Chapter Five: Explanations
Naruto's Mindscape
"Hey Gyakusetsu-san, what are you? I mean, from what you have been saying, you make it sound as if you aren't human." said Naruto.
Gyakusetsu looked at Naruto and smirked, "True, I am not really human. I am mostly human, but I have some rather… interesting… blood in my ancestry. I am descended from a creature called a 'Wrath'."
"A 'Wrath'? What is a 'Wrath'?"
"The best way to explain Wraths is to say that they are inner demons, of sorts. At least the first generation Wraths are. The second generation still are the same as the first, but they don't have hosts to start with."
"Could you give me the whole story?"
"No. But I can tell you what I know about them. But I would rather you not interrupt me while I talk."
"First, I'll give you a briefing on the types of Wraths, as well as what I meant by first and second generation. There are seven types of Wraths. The first three, and the over all weakest, are the least Wraths, the lesser Wraths, and the greater Wraths. Next three are the Terrors. They also come in least, lesser, and greater varieties. The final type, and the rarest, thankfully, is the Unique Wrath. First generation Wraths are spawned from hosts, which could be anyone. The way they are spawned varies from the death of the host, to severe damage to the host, to the host letting the Wrath loose. There are also other ways they can be spawned, but that would take too much time to go in depth. Second generation Wraths are the offspring of two other wraths, usually, but not always, one male and one female."
"The weakest of the Wraths, the least, is a mindless beast. It has an instinct to kill, eat hunt, and to do the bidding of stronger Wraths. The chakra-like substance they use is the weakest of all the Wraths, roughly a 20. In terms of strength, a team or two of genin, could, with a bit of strategy and luck could take down a least."
"The next up is the lesser Wrath. A lesser wrath has a mind, and thus a personality. They generally aren't as intelligent as the average human, they might be able to speak a language, albeit poorly, but they could speak it. Their chakra-like substance (c-l.s. for short) has a potency of 25. They aren't very intelligent, but they have a certain cunning that makes them dangerous. Eight chunin led by a jounin could take down one with a few casualties, maybe a fatality as well."
"The greater Wrath is strongest of the common wraths. They are about as intelligent as the average human, and ridiculously dangerous. Their c-l.s. has a potency of 30. Their powers vary wildly, and it would take few 4 man teams of jounin to take down just one greater Wrath."
"The next are the Terrors. Terrors are greater Wraths that consumed a powerful being, usually another greater Wrath, and in doing so, absorbed the energy of that being. The influx of power warps the body of the now-Terror. The warping of the body causes mental shock to the Terror, decreasing their intelligence. A least Terror is as intelligent as a lesser wrath. Least Terrors are strong enough that only a team of A-rank and S-rank individuals should even attempt to fight them. Their c-l.s. has a potency of 40."
"Lesser Terrors are back to the intelligence they were at when they were greater Wraths. They are ridiculously dangerous, capable of taking down a dragon in single combat. Their c-l.s. has a potency of 50, making it similar to youki. Because of this, lesser Terrors are sometimes confused for actual demons."
"Greater Terrors are the strongest that a Wrath can become. They're rare, and they only fear the Unique Wraths, and even then that isn't necessarily true. The stronger of the greater Terrors can take on various Bijuu in head to head combat. Their c-l.s. has a potency of 60 and up. They're very intelligent, though it varies in each case just how intelligent they are."
"Unique Wraths are thankfully very rare. They are the most powerful wraths to exist. They always have a unique form, personality and set of abilities. Their intelligence varies from each Unique Wrath to the next. Luckily, a Wrath has to be born or spawned as a Unique, otherwise there would be a large number of them by now. I suppose their c-l.s. would average 70. One thing I can tell you for sure about the things is that they each could go toe to toe with a deity and have a good chance of winning."
"I fought one of the Uniques before, but that is a tale for another time. First generation Wraths are weak against their hosts, or a weapon that is linked someway to the host. Wraths share a general personality, though there is a chance of them having a unique personality. The basic personality can be summed up as seeing other being as prey, and that they should be killed at a whim. Lesser and greater Wraths have a 5% of possessing a unique personality, least Terrors have a 20% chance, lesser Terrors have a 35 % chance, and greater Terrors have a 50% chance."
"Now then, what say we go meet someone?"
"Meet someone? Who would we meet here?"
"Why, the Kyuubi no Kitsune of course."
Naruto's Mindscape, Kyuubi Cage
"Hold up kid. I'll have a clone wake her up."
Gyakusetsu focuses and creates a clone through thought alone. The clone sneaks into the cage and whispers something in the Kyuubi's ear. Kyuubi wakes with a start, eyes wide. The clone falls and dispels upon hitting the water. Kyuubi looks out of the cage at the two and says, "I can tell who the midget is, but who are you?"
"My name is Kurokage Gyakusetsu, Lady Kyuubi," says the wrath-descended man.
"So, what is it that you two want with me, the mightiest of all demons?" says the Kyuubi.
"Wait a sec. Gyakusetsu-san, you talk to the fox like it's female. It sure doesn't sound female," noted our favorite knucklehead.
Gyakusetsu smirks and says, "Kid, you try being some 70 feet tall and having a high girly voice. It isn't easy. Possible, but not easy."
"Oh."
"As for your question, Kyuu-chan, we came down so the kid could meet you and see if we can't get on your good side. Though you might want to take a humanoid form to make talking easier."
Naruto's Apartment, Day after bell test, 6:00 AM
"YAAAAWWWWNN!"
Naruto wakes up and checks the time. He quickly makes ramen and eats it before heading down to training ground seven. Once there he begins to work on his fighting techniques, while Gyakusetsu gives him pointers. At 7:00 A.M. Kakashi hasn't shown up and the other two are still waiting for him. By this time Naruto has moved onto pushups. By 8:00 Naruto is practicing throwing weapons. By nine he is practicing using his kunai for close quarters. At ten Kakashi finally shows up. "YOU'RE LATE!" shrieks Sakura. "Sorry, but no less than five black cats crossed my path on my way here and I had to take a really long way around." "LIAR!" "Actually Sakura-chan, he might not have been lying. If five black cats did cross his path at certain points he would have taken 5 hours to get here." said the team blonde, surprising the other three present. "Kakashi-sensei," he continued, "do you know where I could get training weights, as well as sword training?"
"Sure, I can help you with those, but what's the sudden interest?" queried Kakashi.
"Oh, um, well yesterday, the fight with you really opened my eyes. I figure that if I can get better physically, I can become Hokage faster. Plus, I read somewhere that is better to be a fool who is poor in all than a fool who can do only one thing." Naruto replied nervously.
"We can see about helping you out after we do our missions for today."
Training Ground Seven… 4:00 P.M. … Three D-ranks later
"That's it for today. Naruto, I'm going to take you to a couple of colleagues of mine. The first will be the one to get you your weights. The second will be your teacher for kenjutsu." Kakashi stated.
The two head over to training ground nine, while Sasuke heads home with Sakura pestering him for a date. Once Kakashi and Naruto reach training ground nine they see it has occupants. One is a long-haired Hyuuga; the second is a girl in a Chinese-style shirt, pants, with chocolate brown hair and eyes; the other two look very much alike, one looking like a mini-me of the older one. The both wear green spandex, have giant eyebrows, and have hair that looks like it was cut with a bowl. The younger has orange leg warmers, while the other wears a flak jacket.
Kakashi yells out, "Gai! Come over here!" The older of the two bowl cuts runs over to Kakashi and asks, "Yeah Kakashi, what is it? It isn't time for 99th contest is it, my arch rival?" "No, Gai. Actually, I came to see if I could borrow some of your lightest weights for my student here. He asked if I knew where to get training weights, and I knew to come to you."
Gai pulls some weights from his pouch and hands them to Kakashi while saying, "Actually, Kakashi, I'll give you one better. These weights are designed to take in chakra to increase their weight. However, chakra goes in but it doesn't come out. Right now the weigh some fifty pounds each. Hopefully you youthful pupil will be able to grow stronger and have his flames of youth burn brighter."
Upon hearing this, the mini-me bowl cut has tears well up in his eyes and yells out, "GAI-SENSEI! THAT WAS A MOST INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH!"
"Naruto, run." Kakashi commanded before hightailing it out of there. Naruto follows behind, just in time.
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
Behind the two hugging male comes the mysterious, unbreakable sunset illusion.
Elsewhere in Konoha
Naruto and Kakashi catch their breath, while Kakashi explains what they were running from. After that he has Naruto follow him to another part of Konoha. Once there, they meet a sickly looking man with brown hair, a sword at his back, and wearing standard chuunin attire. "Hey Hayate-san, do you think you could my student how to use kenjutsu? Considering you are a swordmaster, you would be the best to teach him." said Kakashi.
"Sure, Hatake-san. How about every (cough) evening from six to seven. Starting tonight, of course (cough). (cough-cough) But first let me ask what he knows. (cough)" said the sickly-nin
"Naruto, tell him you know that you that you cut the enemy and don't get cut yourself."
Naruto says, "Um, I know that you cut the enemy and don't get cut yourself."
Hayate sighs, and coughs before telling Kakashi that he will need a lot of training but it can be done.
Omake: Kiba's Mistake
(Park in Konohagakure)
Teams Seven, Eight, and Ten, as well as their senseis, Anko, Inuzuka Hana, and Uzuki Yuugao are all in the park for various reasons and within ear shot of each other. Now this may be unusual in occurrence, but what made this particular gathering noteworthy is the carnage that happened at this particular gathering.
"Hey, Naruto! I've got something to show you, come over here!" yelled Kiba.
Naruto runs over and says, "Yeah, what's up Kiba?"
Kiba pulls out a Playboy magazine and a bit too loudly says, "Playboy!"
"Naruto, move away from Kiba. If you don't want to get hurt, move."
All the female nin, sans Hinata, head over to where Kiba is while Naruto quickly moves away. Kiba looks at Naruto, wondering why he is moving away, until he sees the approaching females. "Ah, shit."
Hana looks at her brother disapprovingly and says, "Kiba, what have you been told about those magazines?" Before he can reply, the kunoichi start to give a really brutal beating.
Five minutes later the beating has stopped. A small, stout kid mutters, "Damn." Kiba manages to utter "Ouch."
Naruto looks at him and thinks "Ouch." Inside Naruto's mindscape the two tenants look at the fallen mutt-nin. "That had to hurt." The other says in an amused tone, "I didn't know a human arm could bend like that." The Kyuubi looks at him with a what-the-hell look on her face. Gyakusetsu looks back over and says, "I can honestly say that I have never seen, in all my years, a human arm bend quite like that. And that is saying something." The Fox looks back and says, "You know, I haven't seen an arm bend like that either."
Author's Note: No more Omakes for a while. But, yeah, I had that one planned for some time now.