Started on August 1, 2017| Philippines| 10:30 hours

Sup people! This idea came about after reading "Sealkeeper: He Who Binds" by Syynistyre. Of course, it seems to contain a lot of misspellings and even a lot of grammatical errors, but that's in the story itself; thus I am saying that it is actually few in cases of chapters (although one can argue that the "to" to "too" and "of" to "off" is rather disturbing if you read too into the grammar and spelling).

Anyway, that aside, I suggest you read this chapter and tell me how it goes. I was inspired by his work so I'll try to pace my story the way he paces his – although I'll still keep my style of writing to at least show that I am still me, and not an imitator, even if in all; honesty, authors tend to copy some styles of other fellow authors.

Before I leave you to the story, I'm referencing the Hattori clan from Total War: Shogun 2 as they are my favorite, being able to deploy outside their deployment zone. Obviously, since I have my bias in favor of them, I'm making them extra powerful (there are mods that do that anyway). Plus, it's fanfiction for a reason.

I've been rambling too much now so enjoy!

WARNING: Rated M for a reason.

WARNING 2: Rated HI for Harem Inconsistency.

Current MAIN Genre: Crime, Supernatural, Action

Current GENERAL Genre: Crime, Supernatural, Action, Romance, Family, Hurt/Comfort (more to be added)

(Rise of the Hattori)

The Elemental Nations – at times called the Elemental Continent due to their countries being named after the elements of the earth – have faced many battles. However, these battles were not battles against an outside country, but instead these battles started out as battles against each other, as clans. Much like the feudal system of Japan, a country in a parallel universe to this country, it had Daimyo, Shogun, and of course, Samurai. Even ninja existed, and like the historically accurate world of Japan, these ninja were mostly samurai trained to do the dishonorable and do so in private lest they disgrace the name of their family.

However, all that soon changed when chakra was introduced. A goddess by the name of Kaguya Otsutsuki had defied the so-called "Rule of the Gods" and as such ate the fruit of the Shinju Tree. She had gained power unimaginable, and with it, she stopped all the wars.

At the price of being feared, that is.

The Goddess soon had two sons, one who would become the ancestor of the Hyuuga clan who held the Byakugan – this being the second son. The first son, however, would be known as the Rikudo Senin, the man who would establish the world of Shinobi, and be the known ancestor of the Senju and Uchiha clan. Thus came the birth of what one would call a shinobi. The difference was that at first, ninja were not used mainly as assassins, but instead mainly as intelligence gatherers - although the two did fall into the possible missions an ninja would have. But then with the rise of two of most notable, noble, and most powerful clans – namely the Uchiha and the Senju, those rules would soon change. Of course, there was a second clan that would be born from the lineage of the Rikudo Senin and that clan would be the clan related knowingly to the Senju clan. Many would speculate that it was also related to the Uchiha, but seeing as none have been able to awaken the Rinnegan, they threw that theory aside.

The Uzumaki would be well versed in Fuinjutsu, the sealing arts. They were well protected because of it, and they also had the power to conquer the world, should they so choose to; and yet they didn't. Instead, they made their own hidden village and their own country. Their population would rival that of Konohagakure, Kumogakure, Iwagakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure. However, even with their power, their alliance to Konoha would be a dangerous one.

The reason why it would be dangerous was because since the introduction of chakra into the world, wars have been fought on a much grander scale.

And also at much steeper costs.

Now, while the wars would at first continue with a clan versus clan, they would soon be replaced by a shinobi clan versus another shinobi clan. At this point in time, Konoha and the rest of the other villages did not yet exist, although Uzushio was already in the making. Thus, the Uchiha and the Senju had yet to form a truce, and had yet to form the first official hidden village.

Unofficially, it would be noted by the rest of the world that first hidden village was made in Uzushio, Uzugakure, but considering that it wasn't at all "hidden" but instead the capital of Uzushio, they did not consider it as such.

However, unknown to the masses, the first hidden village was that of a clan that had little to no access to chakra at all at the very beginning. Now, that would change over the years, with them mixing with rogue members from other clans, but this "misfortune" would soon become their strength as it has then set the standard for the samurai of the clan.

The Samurai of the Hattori.

The Hattori would have no key part in the First Shinobi war even with the hidden villages having already been established, and would instead have their gates closed, hidden all too well from everyone, including those who were labelled as Shinobi. They would spend this time observing, learning, and understanding the use of chakra, and also the possibilities of it. However, since at this point in time they still had low chakra reserves with a few who could by this time match those of a classification of shinobi called Squad Leaders - who would in the future be labelled as Jounin, they had to adapt.

The only way they knew how was what would bring them to become the most powerful clan of all, even when compared to the Uzumaki, Senju, and Uchiha combined.

They became the "Masters of Darkness".

Nearing the end of the First Shinobi War, the Hattori would have perfected the mastery of stealth. In fact, one could argue that they have made stealth into an art. And with this art, they emerged, and yet even with this emergence, they emerged without notice. Sending dozens and dozens upon dozens of spies throughout the Elemental Continent, the Hattori would grow in knowledge, number, and most of all, skill of the other clans.

The last part, however, went into full effect during the Second Shinobi War, one where the Hattori had once again stayed out of.

Or so it seemed.

For each battle of the Second Shinobi War, the Hattori would keep its eyes out for those who were gravely injured, especially those on the verge of death. Usually their agents would approach as medics, spreading silent whispers of a haven to those who would wish it and abandon their clan from all this useless fighting, and instead live peacefully. The promise was true, but those who did not accept were silenced by poison through injection. It was easy, considering those approached were dying, no one suspected a thing. Those that did accept, however, were silently taken away, declared dead with a fake body in which no one could tell apart from the original as it had no chakra around to show a Genjutsu.

It was in this war that the Uzumaki would fall, and they too would be offered chances by the Hattori. Many would decline, few were allowed to live for a simple reason; at the request of two members who would choose to join the Hattori.

Thus the Hattori grew. True to their word, the Hattori offered safety, peaceful living, but most of all they offered the survivors a chance of true peace, one where two opposing parties would meet, and in turn reconcile their difference. From then on, no matter what village the survivors belonged to, no matter what clan birthed them, they were now Hattori, and no Hattori would ever fight their fellow Hattori unless they were gutsy enough to turn traitor and risk the wrath on the entire clan against them, their family, friends, and other loved ones.

It was truly a work of art, one very few could even hope to accomplish, even fewer could hope to achieve, and even fewer than fewer could hope to sustain. After all, what is the point of accomplishing a part without achieving anything in return, and more so when you would lose everything simply because it could not be sustained?

There were a few things, however, that the Hattori clan head had kept secret from the rest of the new members. One such thing was one that could turn all against them, still young in chakra, and they would surely survive, if only barely to limb back from their beginning.

Madara Uchiha had a son with Mito Uzumaki.

The clan head and the rest of the original Hattori clan members could still remember it, when Madara had come to them just before he and Hashirama Senju fought. It was a forbidden affair, that was sure, however with Mito leaving Hashirama for a year, no one had noticed simply because she said that she had "business" to attend to concerning the Uzumaki clan.

Not a soul, even Hashirama, questioned her.

That business was for her to give birth without anyone's knowledge. Anyone except for the father's, Madara Uchiha.

After the year, Mito had returned to Konoha, no one even asking her questions on what the business entailed. No one seemed to care either since the Uzumaki clan was powerful enough. However, while Mito would return to Konoha, Madara had made a pact with a being out of his league.

The Kyuubi.

He and the Kyuubi would work together, but Hashirama saw it as a threat and so they fought.

Yet as stated earlier, Madara had left his legacy in the care of the Hattori. The child would, in the end, live long enough to live through the Second Shinobi War, and in turn live to read the message from his father.

The son's name may have been lost within the Hattori's records, but the son's legacy also came to fruition. Thus, in turn, Madara's legacy would continue on, and just like the man before him, the son of Madara would leave his son in the care of the Hattori, his only family, and would instead leave a letter explaining why he left.

However, the years would pass and the unknown legacy of Madara's son would soon be known throughout the entire world.

He was sent, as his first mission for the Hattori, to study in a foreign country, the country called Hi no Kuni. It would be there he would meet the woman of his dreams, but their relationship would be complicated as he was assigned to marry the last survivor of the Uzumaki Clan. It was understandable, all things considered as his true clan had only two Uzumaki clan members with them - the Hattori, and those two were both men who have lived through the first two Shinobi wars.

However, the Third Shinobi War arrived at the man's door. It was in this war that the name Minato Namikaze would be forever remembered as the Yellow Flash of Konoha. It was also here that the said man would fall in love with a woman who was none other than his target, the last Uzumaki, namely Kushina Uzumaki. The reason for why he fell for such a woman was because… his first love died in a battle fighting beside him, before he even discovered how to upgrade the teleportation of Tobirama Senju.

With Minato on the side of Konoha, and his true clan – the Hattori – silently sabotaging the supplies of his enemies, Konoha had won. The Third Shinobi War had ended.

However, Minato Namikaze, who was really Namikaze Hattori, soon became aware of a few things going on around him.

His wife, Kushina, was having an affair with Hiashi Hyuuga and Fugaku Uchiha at the same time.

Being the smart man he was, Namikaze had gone to report it to Hitomi Hyuuga first… who he found crying. It went into quite a cliché then, but make no mistake, the two had realized they had truly fallen in love with the right one. Each other.

They had also unknowingly completed the bloodline of one Kaguya Otsutsuki.

Thus, Hitomi asked for a leave. Hiashi was at first skeptical, but barely minded it Seeing as Minato was willing to accept any mission at the moment, Hiashi had made an official mission to safeguard his wife for one year. This way, his affair with Kushina would remain a secret. However, unbeknown to him, he was already found out. Minato and Hitomi just didn't care since they had found to have loved each other more than their partner.

And so, for a year, Minato and Hitomi would be away from Konoha with Minato doing his best to safeguard Hitomi during the second month until the tenth month of their time away. This was due to Hitomi's pregnancy, and as such, on the tenth month, Hitomi gave birth to a healthy boy.

With Hitomi's permission, Minato would leave the woman in the capital of Hi no Kuni, and travel to the only place the Hattori Clan existed.

To Tetsu no Kuni, also known as The Land of Iron.

For two weeks, Minato would do his best to make his way to the Hattori lands quietly, making sure that only the Hattori would ever sense him. He would avoid towns, villages, even small huts just to make it there. After all, he was about to repeat a process he knew his father had done to him, and his grandfather had done to his father. Then, when he finally arrived at his destination, the Hattori had welcomed him with open arms, each knowing who he was – although they were still unaware of his Uchiha, Uzumaki, and Senju lineage with the Uzumaki being closely related to the Senju.

But the only difference now, was the fact that he would try to maintain a certain amount of acceptable contact with his child. Unlike the two men before him, he would not leave his son alone to the Hattori with a mere letter explaining his absence. No, the man planned to send gifts as often as he could, and had even asked his heritage to be revealed.

Surprisingly, many of the Hattori took it quite well. Unsurprisingly, few Hattori felt betrayed by this revelation. However, the two sides could agree that this revelation would prove to be a godsend in the near future. As a result, those who felt betrayed wanted to leave, but at the same time wanted to still be able to help their fellow Hattori.

And so came the time for them to join the Samurai of Tetsu no Kuni. Slowly, they would leave the Hattori and live as spies amongst the samurai of Tetsu no Kuni. As such, they soon became known throughout the ranks as mysterious swordsmen who came from the darkness, and they were greatly welcomed into the Samurai ranks and had even formed their own branch of the army known simply as The Branch of Yami, in other words, the Branch of Darkness.

With this, the Hattori now had an ally outside of their clan.

Trade between the Hattori and the samurai of Tetsu no Kuni commenced shortly after ensuring a massive boosts in income for the Hattori. However, the Hattori paid little in terms of money. Instead, they paid with having some of their men train the samurai of Tetsu no Kuni, and as such received great income, and even access to Tetsu no Kuni steel.

However, while all this was good, the son of Minato Namikaze would have been trained since the tender age of two. As was required by the clan due to the new rise of Shinobi, all children within the clan were to be trained in the art of literature by the moment they could speak. This had actually ensured almost a non-existent language barrier as they could each speak the languages of the five countries aside from the common language, this time allowing them to understand all "rumors" without notice.

However, just like Madara, Madara's son, and Minato before him, the boy would be a prodigy and rise through the ranks of the Hattori with little to no problems. And, while Minato had indeed kept contact with him, at a point even managing to stay with the boy for a week due to negotiations with Tetsu no Kuni, the boy had matured far too quickly for the tastes of the Hattori elders.

And so, for five years, the boy would receive gifts from his father with great letters of love accompanying them. The boy, being too smart for his age, even understood quite well why his father had to be away from him, and also understood why the marriage between his father and this woman called Kushina Uzumaki was highly important. He even had feelings about this arraignment that screamed danger, much more than his father had thought.

By the sixth year, he was proven right when instead of a letter full of love, he would receive his father's cloak and signature Kunai.

This woman, Kushina, was about to give birth, and this birthing would be that of a half-brother – or so he assumed – and that would lead to the weakening of the seal. Already, an omen presented itself to the boy.

This is where our story truly begins.

{"Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!" – Takeda Shingen}

Naruto Hattori was the son of Namikaze Hattori. Namikaze Hattori was most commonly known as his cover-name, Minato Namikaze; who is the current Fourth Hokage of Konoha, and the "Yellow Flash of the Leaf", as his title so claims. It was of this reason that much was expected of Naruto Hattori.

The boy – with mainly black hair which also held steaks of blonde – did not disappoint.

At the age of one, he could already run, although rather cutely considering he was still a toddler. It was cute for many of the Hattori who saw him run, and they even played along. It was also at this age of one the boy could speak a full sentence. Of course, it was also at this age he received his first gift from his father.

A locket – the inside containing a picture of him being cradled by his father and mother, respectively "Minato" Namikaze Hattori, and Hitomi Hyuuga.

At the age of two, Naruto could already use his chakra consciously. It was at this point his father gave him a special gift; namely they were a set of scrolls containing all chakra exercises from known Genin exercises to even the most speculated chakra exercises used by legends such as the Rikudou Sennin. The former Hattori, was of course receiving personal letters from his friends still within the Hattori clan to know of his son's progress.

Then, at three years of age, Naruto was able to think like a twelve year old Nara clansman. It was here he would be given books on science, math, engineering, business & accounting, and he did all of them well. However, he excelled in things related to history, philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, politics, and anything else related to humanities and social sciences.

At four, the semi blonde-black haired teen had such amazing chakra control he could change the color of his hair using his own chakra with just a thought. Thus, he made his hair an all-blonde. His fellow Hattori clansmen, however, began to speculate that Naruto was no longer just any prodigy, but one with memories of a past life. It was here that Naruto would receive two gifts, one from his father; a scroll containing all known Jutsu collected throughout the world. The second gift was from his mother; a scroll containing the style of the Hyuuga Gentle Fist.

It was here that Naruto questioned why his mother would give him such a gift, although admittedly, he was glad as it was his mother's first gift seeing as he didn't count the letters they – his father included – sent back and forth to each other.

It would only take a week for Naruto to realize that his mother didn't intend for him to learn it. Instead, the woman intended for him to learn how to counter it, and he even added an extra thought of making a variation of it.

It all came to fruition six months after.

At five, however, the young Hattori would receive the happiest surprise of his life.

His parents chose to visit him. Sure, it was under the guise of a diplomatic mission, but one other person was present; Kakashi Hatake. Thus, while his relationship with his parents would grow within a week (as per the requirement of the so-called "diplomatic mission"), Kakashi – being Minato's personal guard and all – was allowed to stay for a month to "ensure the mission went well" as the blonde Hokage oh-so put it.

And it did go well. In fact, one can argue that it went far better than could be inspected; for Kakashi soon became Naruto's brother figure. And, for the month he would be staying there, Kakashi would help Naruto train in all Jutsu he could teach.

At age six, unfortunately, the young Hattori received no gifts from his father.

Instead, the young boy received a gift from Kakashi… containing the cloak and signature kunai of his father, along with the instructions and dreams of his father's own "original" Jutsu, which in all honesty, was really just a human variation of the Bijudama (Bijuu Bomb). His father called it the Rasengan.

However, Naruto knew what this meant far more than what he was hoping it meant.

Minato Namikaze Hattori was going to die.

Thus was the reason why now, one could find Naruto practicing his father's Rasengan. Around him was a littered training field. Around the field was a small forest of trees, and in those trees stood four of the best Hattori warriors.

"He is progressing faster than anyone in history ever recorded." One of them says.

"Indeed. However—" One would reply, but was then cut off by the third member. "However, Madara Uchiha was one such man who – if given the right training and incentive, could have very well matched this boy's progress."

The fourth chuckles at that. Then he speaks. "Well, perhaps his genes want revenge for not being to go to their full potential, and now they have acted in that man's legacy."

"Still…" The first one speaks. "It won't be long before he'll be brought into the world of killing."

The second one remains silent at that while the third and fourth members talk about it.

"Well, from what I heard from our Daimyo, he's planning on sending Naruto to Konoha as a sleeper agent."

"Humph, if I had my way, I'd be taking the boy on mission already."

"Oh come one, think about it, we could—"

"Kage, Tengu, Shin," the second one speaks breaking into the two's conversation and the one's observation of the conversation. "I'll be taking him in as an apprentice. He can train well by himself, but that can only get him so far…" He looks at them, who in turn gave him stares of disbelief. "I already have permission from our Daimyo to train him in the ways of the traditional ninja, those of us who knew how to work without chakra."

The man named Tengu had his face covered with a Tengu Mask – meaning a porcelain mask in the form of an old man's face but with a long nose, and the mask is colored red. He was the one to reply to the second member of their group. "So, the legendary Oni is finally looking for a new person to take his mask. Is that it?"

Oni gives a grunt before shrugging his shoulders. He wears a crimson Oni mask – a representation of the best fighters within the Hattori ranks. However, only the best of them have earned the right to the title "Oni". Usually, the best would also lead a team of Kisho Ninja – each being the best of the best to the point that they were possible candidates for the Oni program… but that was in the past; where chakra was still left outside of the conflict between armies.

"Good day, gentlemen." A man says from the branches above the four. The others look up only for him to drop down to their branch. "I have come bearing news."

The four give him a blank stare and say in unison, "No shit."

The man just chuckles before his face turns serious, and in turn so does the air around him. "We've been ordered to move."

"What happened?" Oni asks.

"As of last night, our scouts have spotted something disturbing rising near the borders of Tetsu no Kuni." He pauses as he looks toward Naruto. "It seems as if Naruto here will see war much sooner than we would want… even if it isn't of a grand scale."

Tengu sighs before looking to the sky. "What happened?"

"A new hidden village by the name of Otogakure has just been added to the map."

Oni's muscles tense at this, and rightly so; for it was a week ago that he was visited by a being out of this world.

"Tell me, do you like games, Oni?"

Oni shudders at the memory.

"Because I have one you all will be playing no matter who you are… a simple game of life and death, and you dear Oni, will have a big part in getting an even bigger piece of mine to take part in it."

(TBC)

Depending on how you guys review, I may, or may not make more. Seriously though, I love the Hattori in Total War: Shogun 2. This is pretty much a crossover for it, but I haven't found any so I guess I'm just placing this in the Naruto section instead of the crossover section with Naruto x Total War (no stories there so far meaning it doesn't exist).

That aside, this is just a tentative story for now. We'll see what happens next... and I just finished this two days before mid-terms… shit.

I'd say I'll go study, but I'll probably play War Thunder or Shogun 2 again.

Till next time!

Finished on August 13, 2017| Philippines| 08:21 hours

Beta read by yours truly on August 13, 2017| Philippines| 09:01 hours