The Spirits among Us

Chapter 1

Naruto walked out of the academy muttering under his breath about stupid clones. While he was walking he saw his instructor and another teacher talking to each other.

Naruto ran up to him and asked, "Hay Sekitan- sensei can you help me with my clones. They always look like they're dying when I do the Jutsu."

Sekitan answered with a fake smile," Sorry Naruto but the year is over, you will have to wait until next year."

"But what am I going to do for the next two months? " Naruto asked.

The chuunin thought for a moment and said " how about this? ", while reaching into his weapon pouch and pulled out a scroll. ," this is a fuuinjutsu scroll, work on this over the summer," handing the scroll over to Naruto.

"What's Fuuinjutsu?" Naruto asked with a confused look on his face.

"It's the sealing arts. Have you ever wondered how some of the teachers get weapons out of scrolls? " the teacher asked. Naruto nodded his head and Sekitan continued," that is Fuuinjutsu, and even the Hokage knows some Fuuinjutsu. The fourth was a Fuuinjutsu master."

Naruto, hearing that his idol was great at fuuinjutsu, was more than enough for him to accept the scroll. "Thanks Sekitan- sensei I'll master this scroll in no time," Naruto said as he started to walk home leaving the two chuunin by themselves.

The chuunin with Sekitan asked, "Why did you give the demon that scroll?"

Sekitan snorted and answered, "Like that brat could learn the sealing arts. It's one of the hardest arts to learn."

His friend nodded, "I suppose you're right, even I have trouble with the basics."

"Come on, let's get out of here," Sekitan said as they too left the academy.

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Naruto ran all the way to his apartment holding onto the scroll tightly. When he got to his apartment he cleaned off the table in his kitchen of all the empty ramen containers and opened the scroll and started to read.

Naruto read the first two feet of the scroll and got out some ink and paper. The scroll suggested that Naruto practice calligraphy before getting into drawing seals. The scroll had an example of some words written in calligraphy so Naruto gave those words a try. It was about an hour before Naruto decided that while his handwriting wasn't too bad, he was going to have to work on it. Naruto was going to need a book on calligraphy. He would have to go to the library, but he knew that the old bat that ran it wouldn't let him in. But lucky for Naruto, stealth was one of his best skills, so that shouldn't be a problem.

That night Naruto was able to get a few books on calligraphy and he started to practice. His hand writing wasn't that bad to begin with so it took about a week before he attempted his first seal. The first few days were frustrating as he would look at the scroll and draw the seal, but there were small mistakes, so when he got his first storage seal to not blowup on activation Naruto was ecstatic. With that it only took another week to learn all that the scroll had to offer.

Now that Naruto had mastered that scroll and the library didn't have any more on Fuuinjutsu for some reason, he was headed to the Hokage's office. When he got there he said hi to the secretary, a young woman who was always nice to him, and walked into his Sarutobi-jiji's office.

Sarutobi greeted Naruto as he walked in and gave him a break from all the paperwork," hello there Naruto, how can I help you today ?"

Naruto smiled as he sat in one of the chairs and said," Hi jiji, I came to say hi and ask you something."

"What is it you wanted to ask me Naruto? ", Sarutobi asked.

"Well I started to learn Fuuinjutsu and I was wondering if you had some books I could borrow", Naruto asked.

Sarutobi looked a bit surprised and asked," Really Naruto, Fuuinjutsu is a very complicated and dangerous art to use, if not used right."

Naruto took out the scroll that his teacher gave him and the one he made," I got this scroll from my sensei, he gave me this scroll after I failed to make one of those stupid clones. It was pretty easy to do and I even made this other scroll to hold all my weapons in," demonstrating by poofing out a kunai.

Sarutobi asked," so you have only had that scroll for two weeks," Naruto nodded and the hokage thought for a moment,' that is pretty good for someone how just started. Hmm… maybe I could give Naruto his parent's Fuuinjutsu books, they have some of their notes on them. It could help him a lot.' The hokage got up and went to a storage room in his office and moved some boxes to where a safe was. After entering the combination and some quick hand seals, the safe opened. In the safe were several scrolls, he took them out of the safe and went back to his desk. He tossed the scrolls to Naruto who nearly dropped them.

"What are these?" Naruto asked as he looked at the white scrolls with the numbers one through four on them.

"A friend of mine liked seals and these are his scrolls with his notes in them." The Sarutobi said, "You can have these."

"But they aren't mine," said Naruto.

"The friend I'm talking about is no longer with us and he would want someone to learn from him. Sealing was one of his best arts," Sarutobi said.

Naruto thought for a moment and said," OK jiji I'll work as hard as I can to master Fuuinjutsu and make you and your friend proud." Then ran up to his jiji and gave him a hug and said," thank you."

"Now Naruto about the academy," said Sarutobi," you will be put with your age group next year. I think we were getting a little ahead of ourselves sending you in two years early."

"OK jiji, I better go so you can get back to your paperwork," said Naruto.

The hokage looked at his paperwork that seemed to double in size since he last looked at it and sweatdroped.

"Alright Naruto be sure to be in room 213 at the academy when the break is over." Sarutobi said.

"See you later," Naruto said as he ran out of the room.

'Well their son would take an interest in seals. If this pans out we could have another seal master in the village,' Sarutobi thought.

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Over the next month and a half Naruto studied the first scroll, which had 15 books in it. He got through the first two and was working on the third. He even thought up some new pranks with the seals that he knew. He went to class early on his first day to put what he had learned to use.

Naruto got in and there wasn't any one there yet so he got to work. He got done with only a few minutes to spare so he sat down in the back of the class and waited for the show. The class began to fill up and as the bell was about to ring Naruto's new teacher came in. he had brown hair, tan skin, and a scar over his nose.

"My name is Iruka Umino. I'm introducing myself because we have a new student with us today," Iruka said and everyone looked at Naruto, "Why don't you introduce yourself?"

Naruto smiled at getting all this attention and said," Hai my name is Naruto Uzumaki I like ramen, fuuinjutsu, and pranking. I don't dislike many things and my dream is to be hokage." Naruto said the last part with excitement.

Iruka frowned a little at the pranking part but smiled at what Naruto's dream was and said, " that's a good dream Naruto and you have a lot of work if you want to reach it and please don't pull any pranks in class." The grin across Naruto's face wasn't a good sign.

"I can't promise that Iruka- sensei," Naruto said.

Iruka sighed and went to pick up some papers on his desk unknowingly triggering the seal that was under it. The next thing he knew was that all but his head, which was blocked by the papers he was picking up, was covered in orange paint. There was an outline of him on the black board.

At this point most of the class was snickering and Naruto and Kida nearly fell out of their chairs. To say the least Naruto spent his first detention after school.

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It had been three months since Naruto started in his new class. He quickly made friends with Choji and Shikamaru but, for Naruto, class was as boring as ever. If you sat behind him you could see that most of the time he had his textbook open, there was a Fuuinjutsu scroll in it that he was reading.

This caught the attention of Sasuke's twin sister Seizasha. What about fuuinjutsu had him so interested, and there were the pranks he was pulling. The paint launcher was just the first. He had transported a bucket of eggs on to their other teacher's, Mizuki, head. He had also been able to cover Iruka in feathers that were sealed to not come off until the chakra in the seal ended or Naruto canceled the seal. Within a half hour of that one Iruka caved with letting Naruto off of punishment to stop the snickering.

Seizasha wondered what about seals had him so interested, other than the pranks that he was pulling. She thought that Fuuinjutsu was just for sealing items and making bombs but apparently that isn't all it could do. And today she was going to find out more about their new classmate and his interest in Fuuinjutsu.

Seizasha noted that the last few days Naruto had been going to the training grounds after class and she was going to find out why. That day after school she followed Naruto to the training grounds. It wasn't like anyone was home waiting for her at home and her brother was too busy in his own world to notice that she wasn't there.

When Seizasha got to the training ground she saw Naruto checking over two sealing tags that were about twice as big as the standard explosive tag. He set them up on two trees in the training area and she hopped into a tree wondering what they were going to do. Naruto touched the tags for a moment, they glowed blue for a moment and he stepped back. He unsealed a windmill shuriken and threw it between the seals. The moment that the shuriken got in-between the seals they shot out blue tendrils and caught the shuriken. Naruto was about to jump for joy when the seals overloaded and blew up.

Seizasha was so engrossed in the jutsu that when it exploded, it surprised her and she fell out of the tree that she was in. After she hit the ground ,she groaned and slowly got up.

Naruto saw her and said," who's there?"

Seizasha came into the field where Naruto could see her clearly see her and said, "hey Naruto."

"Seizasha what are you doing here?" Naruto said recognizing her from class.

"I was wondering why you found seals so interesting so I decided to come and see what you could do with them," Seizasha answered.

Naruto looked at her confused and said," why didn't you just ask? It wouldn't be that hard to tell you why I like seals."

"OK why do you like seals?" Seizasha asked.

"Well at first it was to kill time over the summer after the academy last year but, when I started to learn I found out all that a seal could do," Naruto answered," I mean if you are advanced enough and know the right sealing formula, you can do jutsu without hand seals!" Naruto finished excitedly.

Seizasha thought of the advantages that could give her and the fact that Naruto didn't use hand seal for his pranks. 'That would be a great advantage in a fight,' Seizasha thought, 'maybe he could teach me something on seals.'

"Naruto, could you teach me about seals?" Seizasha asked.

Naruto was stunned for a moment, he never thought she would say that. He thought that she would just nod and walk away. She normally only talked to Hinata and Hanabi, the Hyuuga twins, and these conversations were normally brief, never lasting too long.

Naruto didn't know that they were the only people she could have a decent conversation with. All the other girls where fan-girls of "the last Uchiha" even the yamanaka heir Ino was a fan-girl and that disgusted Seizasha.

Naruto answered about 30 seconds later and said," Sure." He was happy to have a new friend and someone to bounce ideas off of. Naruto pulled out the first scroll he got and tossed it to Seizasha. She caught it and Naruto started to explain to her the basics.

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Over the next month Seizasha got to know Naruto after school and he would help her with the basics of Fuuinjutsu. Most of the month was spent in the Uchiha library writing seals and getting better handwriting. Naruto looked though the library and was amazed at all the books but disappointed when the Fuuinjutsu portion was so small.

Over the next month there were times when Seizasha would get frustrated with Naruto for his stupidity but, after getting to know him she realized her mistake. It wasn't that Naruto was stupid, it was that he was ignorant from basically raising himself. Therefore, she decided to help out with that. When he had those moments of ignorance, she would help explain things to him and let him use the Uchiha library.

They got along well and would spar once in a while when Seizasha got frustrated with seals. She was even able to help him a bit in his taijutsu. She also introduced Naruto to Hinata and Hanabi. Naruto was happy to have some new friends and help them learn seals too. Even though Naruto was confused as to why Hinata got all red and fainted all the time. Seizasha on the other hand found it hilarious and teased the poor girl when they were alone. Seizasha decided to keep Naruto ignorant of her feelings so she could have more fun.

Naruto was able to explain to different levels of Fuuinjutsu users. They were all at the beginner level in seals which is just be able to understand basic formulas. The next level is an expert, they can deconstruct basic and intermediate level seals and can start to make some more challenging seals. The next level is a journeyman who in the old days would travel from place to place studying seals to broaden their knowledge, but now there are lots of sealing books so traveling isn't always necessary. Then there are seal masters who can deconstruct all kinds of seals and have at least five seals of their own making.

So now that they were training together, they made a schedule for what they would do throughout the week. So it came to studying seals Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. They spar on Tuesday and Thursday and they study whatever they want on Saturday with Sunday off. This was the routine for the next six months.

In those six months they all got quite a bit stronger. Naruto was almost done with the tenth book in the first scroll, and his taijutsu got better finding that the hard fist style was a good fit, even if he bastardized it a little. He also got into elemental jutsu when he saw Seizasha's fire style: great fire ball jutsu. He hadn't learned any but is reading some of the different kinds.

Seizasha was getting better at seals but not even close to Naruto's level. She could use basic chakra seals to lock doors and scrolls, trap seals, and pretty good explosive seals. They were more advanced than the one sold in most ninja stores so she thought she was doing pretty well. Her taijutsu was getting better too, but what do you expect fighting three opponents at once. She learned two or three new fire jutsu but was working more on her seals.

Hinata and Hanabi were at about the same place in seals with the exception that Hinata was also working on healing seals. They both got better at the Hyuuga fighting style, Hanabi was still better at the fighting style. With Hinata having the better chakra control and working with her friends, especially Naruto, her confidence went up a little. They both were able to turn on and off their Byakugan without hand seals by the end of the six months.

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It was a Friday after school and everyone but Naruto was at one of the more forested training grounds, as they had just found the tree waking chakra control exercise. Hinata was already at the top of the tree and Hanabi and Seizasha were making steady progress.

Hinata sat on one of the taller branches looking down, asked," I wonder were Naruto-kun is."

"Probably working on that seal that we saw last night," Hanabi answered," He was working on it pretty intently last night."

"I hope it isn't anything dangerous," Hinata said.

Seizasha snorted," Like we could do anything to stop him."

Hanabi nodded at that," The hokage couldn't stop Naruto when he's working on a seal that he is fixated on," Hinata sighed and nodded her head. Naruto could be quite stubborn when he was working on seals.

At this moment Naruto ran into the clearing and had one of the biggest smiles on his face that they had ever seen. He looked for them for a moment, spotting them up several of the trees and ran up to them.

"It's finished," Naruto said.

"So what is it this time?" Seizasha asked while hanging upside down on a tree branch.

Naruto was about to speak when he closed his mouth and took out a seal, placed it on the ground and the field glowed blue for a moment. They recognized the privacy barrier, it was a round barrier that went about 20 meters from what they saw. That was an improvement over the last time they saw him make this barrier. They wondered what Naruto was going to show them.

"What is the n-new seal you wanted to s-show us Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked curiously.

Naruto stood up and said," I'm glad you asked Hinata-chan. You see I made a seal that will help us with our training speed quite a bit."

They all looked surprised at this and Seizasha asked," What seal is that."

Before answering Naruto took off his jacket and shirt, which turned Hinata's face red as she put her hands over her eyes with an "eep." That didn't stop her from looking through her fingers at Naruto. Seizasha and Hanabi, seeing Hinata's reaction giggled a little and Hanabi asked," not that Hinata doesn't like the show that you're giving her but, why did you take your shirt off?"

Naruto looked confused at the first part but answered," Because the seal is on my chest."

Seizasha looked amused at Naruto's confusion and the fact that he still hadn't figured out that Hinata has a crush on him. Seizasha said," you still don't get girls Naruto, anyway what is the seal."

Naruto looked between the girls trying to figure out what the girls were talking about for a moment before shrugging and putting his hands into the ram seal and channeling chakra through his body. The effect was immediate as a seal appeared on his heart and stomach. The first one over this heart had a round center and a two in it. Then around that was a bigger circle that had interlocking circles in-between the two circles and on the other side of that circle was a web like design that went out two rows. He had another one on his stomach that looked like a sun that had a swirl in the middle that had eight lines going out from that swirl.

Naruto answered while pointing at his heart," this is the chakra absorption and resistant seals. The resistant seal will make us stronger and faster. The chakra absorption will take some of our chakra while we improve our control and it will give us more back when we increase our control or get low. The other one I'm still trying to figure out. All I know for sure is that it isn't hurting me, has a lot of security, and is containing something huge."

"Interesting, so you're going to give us the chakra absorption and resistance seals to all of us," Seizasha asked.

"Ya," Naruto said with a smile," it will take about an hour to put on the seal and we'll be good to go."

"What do you two think," Seizasha asked," do you girls want the seal."

Hinata wouldn't turn down a gift from Naruto and said," I think it's a good idea if it will make us stronger."

Hanabi nodded her head and said," I think it's a good idea as well but how did you put the seal on your chest by yourself?"

Naruto looked a little tired when she asked that and said," it wasn't easy, writing the seal from the refection in a mirror but, I got it done."

"So Naruto how do we get started? " Seizasha asked knowing this seal would be complicated.

Naruto blushed a little and said," well I'm going to need you to take off your shirts first."

"Ta-tak-take off my shi-shirt," Hinata stuttered with a shocked look and a huge blush on her face," yo-you can't be ser-serious."

Naruto sighed," I won't lie to you guys. In order for me to give you these seals I have to write them as close to your heart as possible. It uses your heart as a center point for the resistance seal to spread from, and the chakra absorption seal needs to be over one of the eight inner gates to absorb the chakra from. So over the heart is the best place to put this seal." Naruto finished with a blush on his face.

"So putting it on our hearts will make the seal the most effective right, it's not just you wanting to see us with our tops off," Hanabi said. Naruto nodded his head and Hanabi, having no problem with this started to take off her shirt.

Hinata shocked at her sisters action said," Ha-Hanabi what are you doing!"

Hanabi, not surprised at her sister's action, had not fully taking off her shirt said," Naruto said it was the only place to put it and I see no lies in his eyes."

Hinata considered her sister's point and said," I don't think he would lie about this just to see us nu-nude but still," blushing harder at the last part.

Naruto was about to step in to stop a fight before it started when Seizasha put a hand on his shoulder. She said," Turn around for a moment Naruto, let me talk to Hinata for a moment," and walked over to Hinata when Naruto had turned away from them.

Seizasha walked behind Hinata and whispered in her ear," There's nothing to be embarrassed about Hinata, it's just friends helping each other out."

"w-wh-what if Naruto doesn't like what he sees," Hinata whispered as she fidgeted in Seizasha's grasp.

Seizasha had seen what Hinata looked like under her jacket and thought,' then he's either gay or beyond help in the intelligence department.' she said," You have nothing to nothing to worry about Hinata you're beautiful and in a few years Naruto won't be able to keep his hands off you," with a smile that grew the redder Hinata's face got.

With Naruto turned around Seizasha got in front of Hinata and unzipped her jacket. Hanabi figuring out what Seizasha was doing got behind Hinata and pulled the jacket off. Hinata was frozen in shock that her sister and Seizasha were striping her in front of Naruto. Hinata had a body that most fifteen year olds would be jealous of with a mid-high B cup at the age of twelve. After that her shirt and chain mail were off too, leaving her in only her bra. With that done Seizasha and Hanabi took off their tops leaving them in their bra's also, which soon fell off too. Seizasha was at a large A cup and quite proud of that and, Hanabi was just under her sister with a solid B cup. Seizasha got behind a still shocked Hinata and popped her bra off.

"Get ready Hinata," Seizasha said as Hinata put her hands to cover herself as Seizasha called Naruto to turn around.

When he did his jaw nearly hit the ground as he got a good look at them. Hinata was covering herself with her arm but he could still see a lot more than he usually does. Seizasha was beside Hinata with her hands behind her back and Hanabi just had one hand on her hip waiting to continue.

Seizasha saw that Naruto seemed to have frozen and was just staring at them. She smiled and said," do you like what you see N-a-r-u-t-o-kun."

Naruto nodded his head slowly and said I, umm wow, a sorry for um, wow. Wha- what were we doing?"

Seizasha said," you were going to give us your new seal. That is if you remember it after looking at us." Hinata at his point was giving a good impression of a tomato and Hanabi even had a small blush on her face, it was good to know she could make Naruto speechless. "Why don't you start with Hinata Naruto-kun?"

Naruto nodded and unsealed a futon so they could lay on it while he applied the seal," Y-ya, Hinata please lie down on this while I get the ink ready."

Doing as he told her she laid down and tried to relax as her crush came over and knelt at her side and said," try to relax Hinata you're beautiful."

Hinata blushed harder if that was possible and said," go ahead Naruto-kun."

Naruto nodded and he got started to draw on the left side of her chest. She giggled cause it tickled and Naruto smiled and said," It's good to see you smile but try not to laugh. The faster I get this done the faster you can put your shirt back on." Hinata nodded and let him continue.

Seizasha and Hanabi looked at the seal being written. The first one was done in about twenty minutes and the sealing language covered a little move then half her chest. Naruto ran through a few hand seal and put his hand on the center of the seal which was Hinata's breast. Hinata had never been so embarrassed and it could have been her imagination but she thought she felt Naruto squeeze a little.

The next seal took about the same amount of time as the first and as Naruto activated this one something surprised Hinata. It started to spread to cover her arms and legs and put her in pain. Hinata looked with pain on her face and said confused," it hu-hurts Nar-Naruto-kun. You di-didn't say it would hu-hurt"

Naruto looked a little sad and said, "I know Hinata-chan I was afraid that it would scare you into not wanting it. It will be over soon."

"No fair," Hinata moaned out. But like he said it was over a few moments later. She was breathing a little hard but the seal was done. She looked down and it looked just like Naruto's only with a zero in the circle.

Hanabi asked a little concerned," Are you OK, how did it feel?"

"I'm OK, it felt like when you get a bad scrap but all over," Hinata answered.

After that Hanabi was the same way but when Naruto was about to start on Seizasha saw a small scar about two inches long where the center over the seal was going to go. Naruto looked a bit confused because it looked like a stab wound but that wasn't possible. If she was stabbed there it would have gone through her heart.

Seizasha saw where he was looking and sighed," Naruto my heart isn't on the left side it's on the right." Naruto looked even more confused so she elaborated," I have dextrocardia it's a condition were all my organs were made on the opposite sided they were supposed to."

"That doesn't explain the scar over where your heart is supposed to be," Naruto said.

Seizasha smiled ruefully and said," It was a parting gift from my older brother."

Hinata and Hanabi's eyes widened at that as they knew all about the Uchiha massacre and knew that Seizasha escaped that fate on a technicality. Naruto, not being in a clan didn't know all the details about the demise of the Uchiha.

"Your brother Sasuke stabbed you," Naruto said shocked.

"No Naruto it was our eldest brother, Itachi is the one who stabbed me through my chest and he is also the one who massacred my clan," Seizasha said. Naruto was speechless and she continued," I probably used up all my luck that day when he ran me through and didn't check if I was dead. I lived because of a medical abnormality. That is why I try to have fun every day, not brood like Sasuke does."

"How can you move on from something like that?" Hinata asked.

"I didn't have much of a choice, it was either that or I end up like Sasuke, and I don't want that," Seizasha said. "Not that I wouldn't jump at the chance to kill Itachi, I'm just not going to go out of my way to find him."

"How could someone do that to their own family," Naruto said finally coming out of his shock.

"I don't know Naruto-kun but it isn't something that you have to worry about," Seizasha said as she stroked his cheek. She continued," Now can you give me the seal Naruto-kun, I'm getting a little cold."

This brought Naruto out of his slightly angry state and got to work on the right side of her chest. After that he explained a bit more about the seals. Naruto explained how to raise the resistance seals level by channeling chakra to the seal and how to make it go to zero by making the bird seal and saying kai. After that they did some light sparing to get used to level one.

At the end of the day it was just Naruto and Seizasha sitting in a confortable silence when Naruto said," Seizasha if you ever do find Itachi, don't go after him by yourself."

Seizasha smiled," I won't Naruto that is what I have friends for." With that said they got up and went their separate ways.