《Born as a Sage in Naruto World》 -3 Juns Current Stats And Perks His stats and perks and skill set are below. [Name: Jun Kigen Level: 30 EXP: 1066/9610 Age: 5 year Gender: Male Title: Natural Sage (+25% EXP Gain, +50% Skill Growth when using Nature Energy, All Nature / Sage Style Jutsucombined into Single Skill : Nature Manipulation) STATS HP?16250/16250 CP?21000/21000 (Additional Reserve : 21000/21000) (Stats Calculation = Natural Stats + Assigned Stats) STR?(120+10=130) (+4 Each Level) INT?(150+00=150) (+5 Each Level) DEX?(150+55=205) (+5 Each Level) VIT?(120+05=125) (+4 Each Level) WIS?(60+80=140) (+2 Each Level) LUK-32 (Can''t Assign Points to it, randomly increase) AvailableStatPoints : 0 Bloodline Activation: Stage 2: 61.52% Activated Mind Space Activation : 10% Living Seal : ChakraVyuha - Evil Spirit Beast - 5% Kekkei Genkai: Sage Wisdom Eye (S¨¥ji no chie) - 2nd Level Activation: Seitengan True Sage Body Space Release Yin-Yang Release Plant Release Inventory: (Status : Unlocked) Ryo: 0] _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [ PERKS Physique Blessed by Nature: ? Physique that is blessed by nature because of your bloodline. DEX +2 each level, STR + 4 each level Seitengan :- Lost Bloodline of The Runic Seal Eye. Gives +5 INT and +3 DEX each level. Enables Jutsus with High degree of Proficiency to be sealed as permanent Runes in the Seitengan using High Quality Chakra Crystals as Price. Higher the Quality of Jutsu, more No. of Chakra Crystal needed. 1st Sealed Rune : ??? Immortal Body: ? Special Physique under development by a secret technique. Potential to obtained one of the strongest body tempered by nature. WIS +2 each level, VIT + 4 each level [Stage 4 : Green Chakra] Heavenly Breath : Each breath sends new vitality and energy to body and enhances it. [Stage 1 :Eye Enhancement- UnlockedPhysique Enhancement- UnlockedCell Enhancement- Unlocked] Heaven''s Eye : Capture everything you see in memory permanently. Can calculate force and energy behind various techniques and Jutsus with a single glance. Can speed up perception to the point world moves 2.5 times slower with use of Seitengan. Pure Physique of Heavens : Purity of the cells refined by both Nature Energy and Tribunal Lightning is Legendary. Grants 200% Chakra Regeneration speed . Chakra density is enhanced, 1 point of your Chakra can be equivalent to 50-60 Chakra points of an average ninja. Space Release: ? Natural compatibility with all Space and Summon based Jutsus. Can develop more Space ability based Jutsu. Space Style Chakra consumption -30% Yin-Yang Release: ? First glimpse into the most primal of all elements. Now possible to separate Yin and Yang chakra and combine them in Ninjutsu. Gives an Additional Chakra Storage in Body that Doubles the existing Chakra Reserves and makes Chakra denser. Gentle Fist Release: Chakra now has a penetrating attribute when using this type. Fuinjutsu Expert : Identify Sealing Runes with a glances. Easier in finding weakness of various Sealing arts. Sealing Art effectiveness +50% Poison Immunity: ? Poisons are your friend. Even the worst of the poisons don''t hurt you instead help you. +50% HP and CP Regeneration on being poisoned. Can''t heal Major wounds immediately. Permanent Insomnia: ? you can never sleep once your bloodline is activated but also increases mind processing speed and perception. Only deep meditation can rest your mind. +0.1% Bloodline activation on each successful deep meditation. Waking user by external stimulation breaks meditation and no bloodline activation will be gained. Nature''s Manipulation: Can use All Nature Energy Based Techniques Without need for individual Jutsus. Unique body regeneration: ? your body responds to healing less than your natural regeneration. +100% CP cost when using a HealingJutsu on user, Exception only for a bloodline art. Genjutsu hates me! ? Your bloodline which makes you immune to Genjutsu, also prevents you from using it. All Genjutsu Failure +100% Unparalled Chakra Control: You control Chakra like your own limb. Perfect chakra control, utilise up to the last drop of your chakra perfectly. Can master anything chakra related easily if you put your mind to it. All Jutsu exp gain +75% Gamer''s Body: ? Your body is that of a Video Game Character¡­ somewhat at least ? You recover HP and CP when sleeping ? 100% in your bed, 75% in someone else''s, 50% in a sleeping bag or tent, 25% on the ground or in the trees. However Since a perk is available which doesn''t allow you to sleep, HP and CP can be recovered by deep meditation instead. Gamer''s Mind: ? you have the mind of an RPG Gamer, so keep your calm and make some wise choices¡­ hopefully. You are able to calm yourself more easily, but be careful, extreme emotional distress can still affect you. Immunity from forcefulmind control and Genjutsu.] Kumite Dojo Dungeon: Perk unlocked in Gamer System which allows you to create a Pseudo Reality Dungeon anytime and place which will allow you to face various challenge targets and gain rewards on defeating them. This facility can be accessed in response to specific Dungeon compatible environment. Bijuu Dungeon (After Defeating Any Tailed Beast - Level of the defeated Character increase by 50 the next time you fight the same one) _______________ One Tails (Locked) Two Tails (Locked) Three Tails ( Partially Unlocked ) - (Rewards for defeating : Water Style Proficiency Increase) Four Tails (Locked) Five Tails (Locked) Six Tails (Locked) Seven Tails (Locked) Eight Tails (Locked) Nine Tails ( Unlocked ) - (Rewards for defeating : Nine Tails Chakra Crystals) Evil Spirit Beast - (Partially Unlocked) - (Rewards for Defeating : Mind Space Upgrade + 10%) ___________________________________________________ Ninja Character Instant Dungeons (After Defeating Any Character - Level of the defeated Character increase by 5 the next time you fight the same one) ____________________________________ Kakashi Itachi Yakumo Yugao ________________________________________________________________ Special Characters Instant Dungeons [Those characters Which may not make an impact on world storyline, but have unique characteristic] (After Defeating Any Character - Level of the defeated Character increase by 5 the next time you fight the same one) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rokkaku - Rewards for defeating : Fierce Dragon Palm Stage 2 - Dragon Dance Profieciency + 10% ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ -2 All possible Elemental Kekkei Genkai All Possible Elemental Kekkei Genkai with fusion of basic elements _____________________________________ Fire + Wind- Scorch Release, Smoke Release(Hiden) Fire + Water-Boil Release Fire + Earth-Lava Release, Fire + Lightning-Plasma Release, Combustion Release(Hiden) Water + Wind-Ice Release Water + Earth-Wood Release, Mud Release(Hiden), Plant Release(Hiden) Water + Lightning-Storm Release, Acid Release(Hiden) Wind + Earth-Sand Release, Magnet Release(Hiden), Phasing Release(Hiden) Wind + Lightning-Chemical Release(Hiden), Shock Release(Hiden) Earth + Lightning- Explosion Release, Gravity Release(Hiden) Yin + Wind- Sound Release, Shadow Release(Hiden) Yin + Water- Spirit Release, Poison Release(Hiden) Yin + Fire- Cold Flame Release(Hiden), Blaze Release(Hiden) Yin + Lightning- Dark Release(Hiden), Black Lightning(Hiden) Yin + Earth- Crystal Release(Hiden) Yang + Wind- Typhoon Release Yang + Water- Liquid/Blood Release, Wave Release Yang + Fire- Radiation Release, Sun Flame Release Yang + Lightning - Light Release(Hiden) Yang + Earth- Metal Release All Possible Elemental Kekkei Tota with three element fusion _____________________________________________________________ Wind + Fire + Lightning- Ash Release Wind + Fire + Earth- Dust Release Wind + Fire + Water- Cloud Release Wind + Fire + Yin- Heat/Implosion Release Wind + Fire + Yang- Smoke Release Wind + Lightning + Earth - Glass Release Wind + Lightning + Water - Sky Release Wind + Lightning + Yin- Thunder Release Wind + Lightning + Yang- Vajra Release Wind + Earth + Water- Shade Release Wind + Earth + Yin- Dry Release Wind + Earth + Yang- Pulse Release Wind + Water + Yin- Frost Wind + Water + Yang- Glacial Fire + Earth + Water-Ink Release Fire + Earth + Lightning - Fission/Nuclear Release Fire + Water + Wind-Miasma Release Fire + Water + Lightning - Shine Release Fire + Water + Earth-Creature(Modify Parts of body) Release Fire + Lightning + Yang-Purification Release Lightning + Earth + Water - Acid Release Lightning + Earth + Yang -Barrier Release Quad Nature Combination Release ______________________________________________ Earth + Water + Wind + Fire-Solid Release Lightning + Earth + Wind + Water - Space Release Earth + Water + Fire + Lightning - Time Release Fire + Water + Lightning + Wind - Kami/Ghost Release Five Nature Combination Release _________________________________ Wind + Water + Lightning + Earth + Fire- Creation Release, Destruction Ball(Hiden) Six Paths Release _____________________ Wind + Water + Earth + Fire + Lightning + Yin + Yang-Truth Seeking Ball (Can Destroy All Ninjutsu, Can only Use Sage Jutsus To Resist) -1 Juns Skills/Jutsus SKILLS Observe (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Killing Intent Sensing (Active) [Level 100 ? MAX] Nature Style : Deep Meditation [Level 92 ? 62.84%] Basic Base Elements Affinity (Passive) [Level 100 - MAX] Intermediate Base Elements Affinity (Passive) [Level 100 - MAX] Nature Energy Method: Spatial Sense (Active) [Level 94 ? 04.65%] Sage art: Plant Release (Shokuton) (Active) [Level 83 ? 98.34%] Advanced Fuuinjutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 62 - 0.00%] Sensing Hexagram Seal (Active) Chakra Draining Seal Technique (Active) Contract Seal Technique (Active) Five Elements Seal Technique (Active) Five Elements Seal Release Technique (Active) Four Red Yang Formation Technique (Active) Four Symbol Seal Technique (Active) String Light Formation Technique (Active) Ninjutsu Sealing Technique (Active) Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please clickfor visiting. Unsealing Technique (Active) Self - Seal Technique (Active) Uzumaki Sealing Technique (Active) Eight Trigrams Seal Technique (Active) Dead Demon Consuming Seal (Active) Dead Demon Consuming Seal Release (Active) Living Seal : Chakravyuha (Active) Complete Weapon Arts Technique (Active) [Level99 - 95.27%] True Body Transformation Jutsu (Active) [Level 80 - 0.00%] Chakra Thread (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Chakra Transplant (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Chakra Repulsion Shockwave Jutsu (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu (Active) [Level 10 - MAX] Shadow Shuriken Wild Dance (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] True Body Shadow Clone Jutsu (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Basic Iryojutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 100 - MAX] Intermediate Iryojutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 100 - MAX] Advanced Iryojutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 100 - MAX] Nature Style: Iryojutsu (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Nature Style : Demonic Poison Technique(Active) [Level 99 - 90.20%] Chakra Claw Blade (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Gentle Fist Style (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Flying Thunder God Jutsu (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Space Substitution Jutsu (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Spatial Flicker Light Steps Jutsu (Active) [Level 74 - 0.00%] Summoning : Rashomon Gates (Active) [Level 92 - 0.39%] Yin Release : Will materialisation (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Yang Reinforcement- Lightning Release: 10000 Thunderbolt Dance (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] Yin-Yang Style : Spiralling Destructive Disc Jutsu (Active) [Level 100 - MAX] ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 BSNW CH 000 Prologue-Reincarnation Choice [Welcome to the God''s Plane. You are Dead, Would you like to reincarnate using you Karmic Points?] The words were floating in front of me in what could only be considered to be a complete void. "What?" At this point it was the only thing that I could manage to get past my lips in the shock of the situation I found myself in. [Youhavebeenchosenoutofallthesoulsthatpassedatthemomentofyourdeathaccording to the Book of Life and Death. You have done a great Karmic Act at the moment of your death, that gained you immense amount of Karmic Points tobereincarnatedintoaspecialworldwithSpecial powers.Lucky You!] That''s when it figuratively hit me, I DIED! It was official I hate terrorists even more than I previously did. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jun Kokoro That was this soul''s name. His previous life appeared in his mind like a dream. His father was a soldier in a border security force. His salary was decent because of his high post there. His mother was an ordinary teacher. His life should''ve been great since he had been born into such a family, but unfortunately, he suffered from extreme weak physique and ADHD. The doctors all said that it would be a miracle if he manages to survive past his teens due to constant diseases he suffered and his inability to stay holed up in a medical care center. His life was completely meaningless, just breathing eating and surviving on his parent''s money was all he did. His life''s only joy was his sister, who was an anime fan and loved to chat with him for hours when they met. To pass his boredom he used to write fanfictions about the animes along with his sister. Spending time commenting on various famous anime fanfiction was one of his favourite pastime. Then one day his doctor told him that his body had started falling apart, his organs failing. He had one year at most. This news shocked him to the core, and he left hospital secretly, wanting to run away from the inevitable. He rode a train to an unknown destination, his future unclear, just wanting to get away. Suddenly a terrorist hijacked the carriage he was riding in threatening to blow everyone up in a suicide attack. That woke him up from his self-pity, and he found that his carriage had a lot of children from some school and were going to an excursion. Maybe that''s why the terrorist chose this carriage. Complete rage suddenly filled him. He cursed god for his fate, first he was already going to die within a year, and now he didn''t even have enough time to live for a day? And if that wasn''t enough all these innocent children were going to die because of his shitty fate!! Not on his watch! Finalising his decision to rebel against fate, Jun tackled the terrorist and jumped of the train with him. Last thing he remembered was a feeling of peace like never before, and the wide eyes of the children he saved, staring at him in shock as he fell of the train with the terrorist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All Caught up to the present with his memory, Jun was fuming in anger. He didn''t want to die, but was forced to because of his fate. [If you are done reminiscing, pay attention.] Jun sighed and focussed on the floating words. He had no choice anyway, he was a dead soul with nothing else to do. [Because of your decision to save those children, you changed the possible future of their deaths into a wide variety of choices for their future. Also impacted by your sacrifice, those children grew up to be virtuous and noble humans that helped other innocent people whenever they could, to repay the favour you did by saving them. This in turn grew up to impact lots and lots of other humans, gaining you enormous amounts of Karmic Points.] Jun was dumbfounded. This was way beyond what he intended when he saved them. [Hence, The Book of Life and Death created by God to keep track of Karmic Points, Decided to reward you by granting you a special power and reincarnating you into a world of your choice from all your so called ''animes'' you enjoyed. Just FYI, all those anime worlds are real parallel world existences.] Say what?!! Ok fine, I will choose Naruto World then. It is one of the most popular animes for fanfiction. [You do realise you are reincarnating, not writing a fanfiction. Anyway, special power to be awarded to you was chosen at random. It will be power of ''The Gamer'' from one of the parallel worlds. However its powers have been modified according to the world you will be reincarnating in. In fact if you manage to enter into another world somehow, your power as a gamer will help you adapt. And now, choose which clan or character you want to be born in or as.] A huge check list of various clans and special characters appeared before Jun. Location of birth or clan: AmenoKuniThecountryofAmegakurewhichisleadHanzotheSalamanderandAkatsuki, thiscountryhasbeenembroiledinaverylongcivilwar. . MizunoKuni,thecountryofMizugakurewherebloodlineabilitiesarepersecutedagainstandhuntedtoextinctionbythe Sandaime Mizukage, currently in a civil war. . KaminarinoKuni,HomeofKumogakure,oneofthemoremilitarizedvillagesoftheGreatFiveNations, bereadyforcoldweather,fallinghazardsandrapping Junchuriki''s,youhavebeenwarned . KazenoKuni,homeofSunagakureanddominatedbyamassivedesert,thepeoplearehardyandunfazedbythesandstorms That frequent the area . TsuchinoKuni,homeofIwagakure,ahardplacetogrowthings,butsomehowpeoplesurviveinaplacewherestonerules . Hi no Kuni, home of Konohagakure.AfairlymoderatenationwhencomparedtootherslikeMizunoKuni.While not a military powerhouse likeothers,they arearguablyoneofthestrongesteconomicallyduetothesheersizeoftheirterritory. . . . . . Random Clans extinct and unknown in the original anime Each choice will have its own perks associated with it, shown at the end of complete selection] These were the seven choices that caught Jun''s eye. Most were small clans and unimportant nations, according to anime, except for these seven choices that seemed special. The Six most famous villages and nations of the anime, and the last random choice that depended on his luck. He was really tempted to pick Konohagakure, since it was the most famous village in the anime, and of course his favourite main characters lived there. But that was exactly the reason why he didn''t want to replace any of them. If he gets born as one of characters in Konoha, he might end up replacing one of main characters. After a lot of deliberation, he decided to bet on his luck that gave him this chance. He picked to be incarnated as one of the extinct or unknown clans of the anime. [Option confirmed. Random assigning of clan. Clan Kigen no chie (Origin wisdom clan) Chosen. Legendary bloodline awakening exists within the clan. ''The Gamer'' being combined with the clan bloodline. Awakened legendary bloodline due to special nature of ''The Gamer''. Displaying chosen clan and information of bloodline.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Jun Kigen Clan Name: Kigen no chie Clan Kekkei Genkai: Sage Wisdom Eye - S¨¥ji no chie Words Describing the Clan/Kekkei Genkai: Permanent Insomniac, Fearless, Determined, Integrated with Nature Clan/Kekkei Genkai Picture User Image: Pale Golden Band At the edge of Iris, Unknown Runic/Arcane symbols swirling in the golden band while in active mode Clan/Kekkei Genkai Description, History: The Kigen no chie Clan have never been known, they started as farmers and labourers, kept to themselves mostly. The clan was attacked one day and were said to be extinct, no known members that are still alive have made their appearanceKnown to the shinobi world, theorized that their bloodline may have already vanished, diluted in time. Their natural ability to take in nature energy without their knowing, made them close to nature, resulting them choosing professions like farmer. Ancestors of this clan were prosperous at one time due to their instinctive wisdom about various Things, and their inborn gifts of being likable by nature and its beings. The only creature not having default goodwill towards They was sadly their own species, humans. They have the ability to grow stronger all their lives, thanks to their unconscious Intake of natural energy that promotes their life span, chakra, and physique. However the fertility rate is low in this clan so The population of the clan has never surpassed one or two hundred. Have never been involved with shinobi world, so have no idea How to utilise their chakra and nature energy intake speciality. However, have a legend passed through the clan of the child born one in a millennium, with the Wisdom of The Sage. Usually only one can awaken this legendary power in the clan. It is believed that, While the present owner is there, another one won''t be born. Strengths: ? Dexterity +2 each level ? Strength + 4 ranks ? Immune to poison and mind influence using Genjutsu (Legendary Genjutsu effect like Tsukuyomi can be resisted even if not immune) Weaknesses: ? Permanent Insomnia inherited because of inborn closeness to nature, can only rest by deep meditation ? Genjutsu usage impossible ? Healing Jutsus require double the amount of chakra when healing a member of this clan Rules and Requirements: ? Taijutsu + Ninjutsu only. No Genjutsu. Sage jutsus available only after jonin level and awakening of sage Mode. Clan/Kekkei Genkai Stages: [Levels of chakra nature: Basic < Beginner < Novice < Expert < Master < Grand Master < Godly] Stage 1: At Genin stage these shinobi can only use nature to passively enhance their chakra and physique whether by conscious or unconscious mind. This takes a little training to accomplish and conscious use of nature energy to enhance is faster (Hence the insomnia, helps train all their lives), Also since no one taught this clan shinobi techniques they never had knowledge of this and after reaching Genin level unconscious training speed gets extremely slow, so almost no one reaches Chunin level let alone Jonin and beyond. Genin level has the passive benefit of superior chakra recovery and injury recovery. Gain one chakra nature mastered at expert level, need to train actively to master at max level (Godly level) Stage 2: At Chunin unconscious training speed of nature energy gets extremely slow, to the point that one would be an old man by the time they reach the stage training unconsciously. At this stage these shinobi can use nature to passively enhance their chakra, physique, mind and perception. Increase in chances of learning / inventing any Jutsu and increase rate of acquiring skill experience by 20%. Acquire second chakra nature mastered at expert level, need to train actively to reach max level. Stage 3: At Jounin these shinobi are able to use the clan''s inherent bloodline jutsus in every fight. At this stage these shinobi can use nature to passively enhance their chakra, physique, mind and perception. Increase in chances of learning / inventing any Jutsu and increase rate of acquiring skill experience by 50%. The user can now gain third chakra nature at expert level and also have chance to get various combined chakra natures and integrate it with their bloodlines. Chakra and Physique increases exponentially at this stage nearing Tailed Beast (Bijuu Level) Stage 4: Unknown. No prior user reached this stage. Unknown effects and abilities. Rumoured to be the final stage before having small chance to advance to six path level. Clan/Kekkei Genkai Jutsus: Jutsu Name: Fist Style: Barrage of Army - Ken sutairu: Gun no h¨­geki Rank: C rank Element: None Classification: Chakra Enhanced Physical Description: Physical Fist barrages, doubling the fist strikes after each strike. (1 < 2 < 4 < 8 < 16 < 32 < 64 < 128 < 256....) Requirements: Genin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 2 Meters Damage: 5 HP/ Strike (Damage increase by 1 Point per Skill/Jutsu Level) Cost: 1 CP/ Strike Jutsu Name: Sword Style: Particle Bisect - Ken no sutairu: P¨¡tikurubaisekuto Rank: C rank Element: None Classification: Chakra based Kenjutsu Description: Enhance Sword strikes for maximum damage possible according to purity of Chakra and Amount supplied Requirements: Genin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 2 Meters Damage: 5 HP/ Strike (Damage increase by 1 Point per Skill/Jutsu Level + 1 per CP supplied) Cost: 1 CP (Max input: 1 CP)/ Strike (Chakra maximum input possible increase by 1 point per skill level) Jutsu Name: Sword Style: Molecule Shift - S¨­dosutairu: Bunshi shifuto Rank: C rank Element: None Classification: Chakra based Kenjutsu Description: Enhance Sword Aura for maximum ranged damage possible according to purity of Chakra and Amount supplied Requirements: Genin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 10 Meters (Range increase by 0.5 meters per Skill/Jutsu Level) Damage: 5 HP/ Strike (Damage increase by 1 Point per Skill/Jutsu Level + 1 per CP supplied) Cost: 1 CP (Max input: 1 CP)/ Strike (Chakra maximum input possible increase by 1 point per skill level) Jutsu Name: Palm Style: Eight Palms of Sealing - P¨¡musutairu: Yattsu no tenohira Rank: C rank Element: None Classification: Chakra based Taijutsu Description: Enhance Palm Strikes. Each strike Damages internal organs through Shockwaves that disrupt chakra inside body Requirements: Genin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 2 Meters Damage: 5 HP/ Strike (Damage increase by 1 Point per Skill/Jutsu Level + 2 per strike, Eight strike maximum- can''t be interrupted) Cost: 3 CP/ Strike Jutsu Name: Dragon Style: Elemental Roar Rank: B rank Element: All Classification: Chakra based Ninjutsu Description: Ninjutsu based on the roar of the mythical beast. Extremely versatile Jutsu, Changes the effect based on the chakra Applied. Can even activate with combined chakra nature once past Skill/Jutsu level 50. Requirements: Chunin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 15 Meters (Range increase by 0.5 meters per Skill/Jutsu Level) Damage: 50 HP/ Activation (Damage increase by 10 Point per Skill/Jutsu Level) Cost: 25 CP/ Activation Jutsu Name: Art of Summoning: The Twelve Celestial Beasts - Sh¨­kan-jutsu: J¨±niten no kemono Rank: A rank Element: All Classification: Ninjutsu Description: Can make contract with 3 Intelligent summon beasts at every stage of total 4 stages. First stage when learning Jutsu, Second stage at Jutsu level 25, Third stage at Jutsu level 50, Fourth stage at Jutsu level 75, Final stage at level 100: Summon all contracted beasts simultaneously Requirements: Jonin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: Summon within 0 - 15 Meters (Range increase by 0.5 meters per Skill/Jutsu Level) Damage: Depends on the beast Cost: 75 CP/ Beast Summoned Jutsu Name: Supreme Eye: Reflection of the World - Saik¨­ no me: Sekai no han''ei Rank: S rank Element: All Classification: Ninjutsu/Bloodline Art Description: Capture the activation seals of each Jutsu in the eyes and storing in memory. Analysed over time and enable Seal less activation from memory when finally analysed then learned. Requirements: Jonin Stage Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 150 Meters (Range increase by 0.5 meters per Skill/Jutsu Level) Damage: None Cost: 15 CP/ Second (Continuous Deduction while activated) (CP Cost -1 / 10 Jutsu level: level 0 - 15 cp > level 10 - 14 cp > Level 20 - 13 cp > level 30 - 12 cp > level 40 - 11 cp > level 50 - 10 > level 60 - 9 cp > level 70 - 8 cp > level 80 - 7 cp > level 90 - 6 cp > level 100 - 5 cp) Jutsu Name: Nature arts: Perfect Healing - Shizen geijutsu: Kanpekina iyashi Rank: SS rank Element: All Classification: Ninjutsu/Bloodline Art Description: Can heal any injury as long as the target is alive with even one breath left in body. Depends on chakra used and Jutsu level Requirements: Stage 4 Bloodline Activation Range: 0 - 50 Meters (Range increase by 1 meters per 5 Skill/Jutsu Level) Damage: None Cost: Depends on no. of targets and Level of Damage and Jutsu level Jutsu Name: Soul Arts: Devourer of Spirits - Tamash¨© no geijutsu: Seirei no don''yoku Rank: SS rank Element: All Classification: Ninjutsu/Bloodline Art Description: Devour souls of targets killed and Strengthen Soul and Spiritual Strength of user Requirements: Stage 4 Bloodline Activation Range: Depends on the Ninjutsu used to kill Damage: None Cost: Permanent activation with nature energy contained in user Jutsu Name: Mage arts: Gravity Style - Majutsu geijutsu: J¨±ryoku sutairu Rank: SSS rank Element: All Classification: Ninjutsu/Bloodline Art Description: Pure energy created and used to manipulate gravity. Special energy used even effects spiritual life forms. Requirements: Stage 4 Bloodline Activation Range: Depends on amount of special pure energy infused into the Jutsu Damage: Depends on amount of special pure energy infused into the Jutsu Cost: Semi-Permanent activation with nature energy contained in user transformed into special pure energy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jun had had only one thought in his mind, ''I struck gold!'' 2 BSNW CH 001 Reincarnated and Instant orphan [Congratulations on being born in a clan with potential to naturally become sages. How unfortunate it was that this clan never had any shinobi training nor had high fertility rate so their numbers remained small. However you, Young scion of the clan are about to be born from the last descendant of the clan. Choose your perk that will define your abilities apart from the natural perks granted by your clan and bloodline. You may choose a single perk.] No Jutsu ¨C Damaged chakra coils. Extremely High Taijutsu Talent. Taijutsu exp gain + 500% Immense Chakra ¨C Unbelievable amount of chakra since birth. Almost never run out of chakra for Jutsu. Double chakra gained on each level. ¨C 50% chakra control. Can pressurize others with your immense aura of chakra like a Bijuu. Ghost Steps ¨C No one catches your footsteps or your presence. You are like a ghost in the world of living. Sneak effectiveness + 75% . . . Pyro Maniac ¨C You love playing with fire even more than your life. Fire chakra nature at master level. +50% effectiveness of fire jutsus. CP cost reduction. Aqua Being ¨C Water is your life, you can''t live without it like a fish. Water chakra nature at master level. +50% effectiveness of water jutsus. CP cost reduction. Wind Form ¨C You like being like the wind, free and unrestrained. Wind chakra nature at master level. +50% effectiveness of wind jutsus. CP cost reduction. . . . Unparalled Chakra control ¨C Perfect chakra control, utilise up to the last drop of your chakra perfectly. Can master anything chakra related easily if you put your mind to it. All Jutsu exp gain +75% . . Hyper Regeneration ¨C You are nearly unkillable. All wounds and injuries heal at incredible pace visible to naked eye as long as chakra is available. HP regeneration + 200% in all situation. There were many useful perks available but Jun was attracted to only three: Ghost Steps, Unparalled chakra control, Hyper Regeneration. In the end he chose Unparalled chakra control. As long as he perfectly controlled chakra he would be able to do anything he wished. [All choices done. Reincarnation process underway, you are being reincarnated in the time when Kyuubi rampaged. The original child died by the pressure of Kyuubi''s chakra and you are reincarnated in that baby. Mother died protecting the child from mutated chakra beasts, affected by Kyuubi''s chakra. Your dead mother and you are in a small cave not far away from where Fourth Hokage sealed Kyuubi into baby Naruto. Good Luck for your next life. Your memory of all activities in God''s plane and of your previous life will be erased, except those concerning your own power which will awaken once your mind is developed a bit and you awaken your bloodline, which should be two years at max. Live well!] Wait, what?!! That was all Jun could think before he felt everything go black. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Everyone around and in Konoha was drowned in sadness. Kyuubi left a wave of destruction in its wake. Fourth Hokage, who was loved by everyone, gave his life to protect the village and destroy the Kyuubi. At least that''s what everyone knew. An ANBU guard with Cat mask was jumping among roof tops, searching for her master she had been signalled by. She finally saw him, in the edge of forest, surrounding forest trashed beyond belief. In her master''s hand were two babies, a blond adorable boy with whisker like marks, and a black haired chocolate skinned baby, with eyes like deep black pools and golden colored band at the edge of his iris. "Hokage Sama, are you ok?" the Cat masked ANBU kneeled and asked. Yes, her master was no other than the Third Hokage. Currently his tear-streaked face was lost in thought. Cat-Mask, seeing that he was thinking about something, didn''t interrupt his thoughts. Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, finally raised his head and asked Cat-Mask a question. "Neko, what would you do if I say that a big bad fox has been sealed in a small innocent baby?" asked the Hokage "He needs to be protected, his information sealed, until he can take responsibility for the information himself." Cat-mask replied, already having an idea where this conversation was going. "Oh. Not publicised to everyone then as to how his little body is what keeping everyone safe from their worst nightmare becoming reality?" "No, Hokage-Sama. Since human mind is weak, and they will only push the blame of the bad fox onto the small child?" "Hmm, Very well then. This is a SSS rank classified secret , the thing I am going to tell you next will not under any circumstance be repeated to anyone without my permission and presence." "Yes, Hokage sama!" "Very Well, listen closely. This child with blonde hair is the son of our Fourth Hokage and Uzumaki Kushina, His name will be Naruto Uzumaki. He has second identity as the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. Now this other baby is someone I found a little way away from the spot of Fourth Hokage''s Fight with Kyuubi. His mother had died in a frenzy of chakra mutated beasts made by Kyuubi Chakra, However this child survived because of his mother''s sacrifice to hide him in a small cave and protect the entrance with her own body. He has some of the strongest chakra and mental energy fluctuations I have seen in a new born baby. His mother''s identity is beyond recoverable, but I can safely say that his origins are beyond extraordinary, since his mother stayed conscious enough with her mutilated body enough to say his name before dying. From today onwards these two will be my adopted grandkids but will be raised in secret among my trusted people from a mixture of various clans. Two survivors of the Kyuubi will definitely be cornerstone of Konoha in future, Uzumaki Naruto and Kigen Jun." "Yes Hokage-Sama. This secret will be safe with me." "Your duty is not just to protect the secret. From now, you will be watching over these two as their elder sister and guardian. I will take care of the formalities." "It will be my honor, Hokage sama." With a sound of displaced air, the original Ino-Shika-Cho of the Naruto world made their entrance. Inoichi, Shikaku and Choza looked at the babies and then at Sarutobi. "The identity and origin of these two are SSS rank secret, however I can tell you this that they will be my adopted grandsons, watched over by Neko until she can withdraw from ANBU and take care of them without hiding. Their names are Uzumaki Naruto and Kigen Jun." Ino-Shika-Cho silently nodded in agreement. "Also I have a favour to ask. Kigen Jun shows inborn talent and might be suitable to practice basics of your three clan''s jutsus. I would like you to watch over him and if possible, teach him the basics of your Jutsu foundations, no need for the secret jutsus of your clans, I can''t possibly ask you to teach him that." "You don''t have to worry Hokage Sama. Even if it might be a bit troublesome we will take care of him. Oh and I have a suggestion, let us be guardian of Kigen if we are going to teach him anyway. Hokage Sama should focus on Uzumaki, he is clearly the higher priority and risk." Shikaku Said "Intelligent suggestion as always , Shikaku. Fine we shall do that. Kigen shall live in an independent apartment under the care of You Three. Take good care of him." Sarutobi agreed. 3 BSNW CH 002 First Steps in New World It had been a year since the attack of the Kyuubi. Konoha was well on its way to stability again. Although most didn''t forget the terror of Kyuubi, they didn''t let it impact their lives. Unlike in original anime, Hokage didn''t announce Naruto''s identity to either Civilian or Ninja council. Only ones who knew were his most trusted ANBU and few others clan heads, and they had be strictly warned that this SSS class secret should not come out under any circumstance. Thanks to that, the people of Konoha although didn''t know about their saviour, they also didn''t have the chance to discriminate against a little boy. Many people like Danzo and Civilian council heads tried to find out about the Kyuubi, but to no avail. At this time, in the backyard of The Nara mansion, a toddler with soft, black wavy hair was walking with unsteady steps. He had a determined look in his small face, his gold ringed black eyes focussed on some goal known only to him. A woman with a child in her lap watched as the toddler did his best to walk as far as possible. Soon she called out to him, "Jun-kun, that is enough now. Rest for today, you should have something to eat too after that workout." "Ok, Yoshino-san." The boy nodded as he headed back, and climbed up to the porch, sitting beside her. The boy looked at the baby in Yoshino''s lap, lost in thought. This boy was Jun Kigen, and it had been about a month back when he awakened his natural powers and gained a bit of knowledge about his circumstances. His power ''The Gamer'' told him about his clan and how he was a reincarnated soul born into the body of the last descendant of the clan during the Kyuubi attack. He came to know that he had been under the guardianship of the Ino-Shika-Cho since then. No one knew about his mum, but that didn''t prove too great burden for him since Yoshino acted as a mother from him since the day he came under their care. She never told he was not her son, taking care of him as her own. He also came to know that his bloodline was accelerated because of the abundant nature around Nara mansion which provided his body with stable supply of Natural Energy, awakening his bloodline ahead of time. His bloodline may have awakened after two to three years in natural circumstance. Constant supply of nature energy purified and promoted his body, evolving it to a higher level. Also he got random small missions from his gamer power, known as quests. Doing them had raised his intelligence enough to fully understand what was going around him. Yoshino looked at the little boy lost in thought, his unique eyes dazed, and could barely hold herself back from hugging him. Since a few month ago, it was as if he was getting cuter and beautiful. What she didn''t know that it was because of the promotion brought to his unique physique of his body in reaction to the Natural Energy absorption. However, she was sure that girls will be head over heels for him when he grows up, he would be a gorgeous boy. "Jun, I need to get a few flower seedlings from the Yamanakas, also it has been a long time since we visited them and Ino-chan. would you like that?" Before Jun could reply, The Gamer System replied for him. [QUEST ALERT! Visit Yamanaka Inoichi and Ino Go with Yoshino and acquire seedlings for garden and learn how to take care of them. BONUS 1.Impress Yamanakas with your affinity to plants Reward:+100 EXP, +100 Reputation with Nara Yoshino. BONUS REWARD! +50 EXP and Bloodline Activation + 0.5%] ''Ok, Fine. Let''s do it.'' Jun thought as he accepted the quest. ''I wonder how much I improved. [Status]!'' [Name: Jun Kigen Level: 2 EXP: 10/40 Age: 1 year Gender: Male Title: Adopted child of the Ino-Shika-Cho (+35% EXP until level Ten, +50% EXP for the Three Clan''s Jutsus) STATS HP?80/80 CP?162/162 STR? 12 INT?9 DEX ? 16 VIT?8 WIS? 9 LUK15 (Can''t Assign Points to it) AvailableStatPoints : 0 Bloodline Activation: Stage 0: 3.5% Activated Kekkei Genkai: Sage Wisdom Eye - S¨¥ji no chie (Status: Off) Ryo: 20,000] ''Incredible Luck stat, Must be because I have such a cheat system. My bloodline is just on Stage 0 with 3.5% activation, yet my stats are so much greater than those of an average shinobi baby. Although I still don''t know why I was reincarnated with such incredible Bloodline and powers, I am sure someone out there gave me such an incredible gift for something good that I did. Anyway need to check if I got any new Perk. [Perks]!'' [ PERKS Physique Blessed by Nature: ? Physique that is blessed by nature because of your bloodline. DEX +5 each level, STR + 4 each level Poison Immunity: ? Poisons are your friend. Even the worst of the poisons don''t hurt you instead help you. Upto +50% HP and CP Regeneration on being poisoned. However Can''t heal major injuries instantly. Permanent Insomnia: ? you can never sleep once your bloodline is activated but also increases mind processing speed and perception. Only deep meditation can rest your mind. +0.1% Bloodline activation on each successful deep meditation. Waking user by external stimulation breaks meditation and no bloodline activation will be gained. Unique body regeneration: ? your body responds to healing less than your natural regeneration. +100% CP cost when using a Healing Jutsu on user, Exception only for a bloodline art. Genjutsu hates me! ? Your bloodline which makes you immune to Genjutsu, also prevents you from using it. All Genjutsu Failure +100% Unparalled Chakra Control: You control Chakra like your own limb. Perfect chakra control, utilise up to the last drop of your chakra perfectly. Can master anything chakra related easily if you put your mind to it. All Jutsu exp gain +75% Gamer''s Body: ? Your body is that of a Video Game Character¡­ somewhat at least ? You recover HP and CP when sleeping ? 100% in your bed, 75% in someone else''s, 50% in a sleeping bag or tent, 25% on the ground or in the trees. However Since a perk is available which doesn''t allow you to sleep, HP and CP can be recovered by deep meditation instead. Gamer''s Mind: ? you have the mind of an RPG Gamer, so keep your calm and make some wise choices¡­ hopefully. You are able to calm yourself more easily, but be careful, extreme emotional distress can still affect you. Immunity from forceful mind control and Genjutsu.] ''Well all good for now.'' Thought Jun. "Be ready ok, Jun. I will just put Shikamaru in his crib and then we will go." Said Yoshino. After securing Shikamaru in his crib they both left for the Yamanaka flower shop. In the way, Jun watched many different sights of the city as he rarely went outside the Nara mansion. Holding Yoshino''s hand Jun greedily took in all he could absorb with his eyes, quirks of people who passed by, various kinds of products being sold some children laughing and running along, He took in everything. Suddenly he was surprised with a Notification, [Congratulations,duetoyourdiligenteffortsanewskillhasbeencreated!] Observe (Active) [Level 1 ? 0.00%]: ? the most basic skill needed by a gamer. Observe everything and gain information with use of the skill. ? +100% Perception Temporarily, 1 CP/activation target. ''Oh, a skill. That''s right I forgot to check for skills until now. [Skills]'' SKILLS Observe (Active) [Level 0 ? 0.00%]: ? the most basic skill needed by a gamer. Observe everything and gain information with use of the skill. Gain more and more details of target as this skill levels up. ? +100% Perception Temporarily, 1 CP/activation target. Nature Energy Absorption (Passive) [Level 3 ?15.01%]: ? the primary skill of your clan bloodline. Absorb little amounts of nature energy constantly as you breathe. Increase +5% nature energy absorbed per level. Deep Meditation Technique (Active) [Level 7 ? 43.06%]:? the basis of resting your unique body, since you can''t sleep. Increase HP & CP regeneration +5%/every skill level Self-made Chakra Training Method (Active) [Level 1 ? 32.74%]: ? you are now a step above from those with knowledge in Chakra manipulation, while you won''t be performing miraculous feats any time soon, you are able to train your chakra from extreme young age. You will have enormous reserves of chakra as you grow up and immense control over It. -0.3% CP cost for Jutsu per level. ''Pretty good for a kid at my age. Oh look we have arrived.'' Jun thought. Yamanaka Flower shop was a pretty shop with an attractive front full of flowers, however no one would have guessed from the look of shop that one of the strongest clan of interrogation techniques lived and ran this place. According to what he knew, this place was started by Inoichi''s grandparents to give a soothing effects to their patients who come for their Psychic evaluation. Soon Inoichi adopted this tradition since it was effective and many people like it, also was good as a side business. "Hey, Inoichi! Won''t you welcome us?" Yoshino shouted from the front of the shop. Yoshino-san! That''s embarrassing! Don''t scream in a public place. 4 BSNW CH 003 Awakening of a Sage? Inoichi soon came out with a baby in his hands he was trying to appease. The baby was obviously Ino-Chan, Inoichi''s little princess. Her clear teal colored eyes gave a refreshing innocent look as she smiled at Yoshino and Jun. "Ah, Yoshino-san, a pleasant surprise. Oh and this must be Jun-kun." Inoichi exclaimed in surprise. This was the first time he had seen him after that fateful day one year ago. "Yes, actually I wanted some new plants for the backyard, some animals chewed through a few. Can I have a few seedlings? Also I wanted to show Jun around, since this is the first time Jun has come out of the Nara mansion." Yoshino explained. "You should take him out more often. How about it Jun would you like to roam around and see our gardens?" "Yes, Inoichi sama. I love being in nature." "No need for sama, san will do. All right then, let''s go in." Inoichi took them inside, passing through the shop to the enormous garden in the back. A wide variety of flowers, herbs and various other plants were growing in there. It looked like an entire different world in there. Jun was mesmerised, his blood and his body were singing in joy as if they were finally home. Inoichi took them around the garden explaining various plants and their uses to Jun and Yoshino. After telling Jun to play amongst the plants, but warning him to not touch any of the dangerous ones, Inoichi, baby Ino and Yoshino went inside to get the seedlings she wanted. Jun kept wandering inside, playing with the insects and butterflies wandering amongst the flowers. He saw a little squirrel hiding beneath one large leaf of an herb, and started chasing it. It ran to a corner of the garden, and up a big and wide tree. Tired with the exertion of his body, Jun decided rest under the same tree. Since because of his bloodline he couldn''t fall asleep, he decided to meditate instead. His weariness and mental exhaustion faded away slowly as he went deeper in his meditation. Usually he meditated in his room since if he did it outside, someone would disturb him since he was just a child. But here in the bosom of Mother Nature, there was no one, just him. Slowly, everything around him faded away, chirping of birds, buzzing of insects, shuffling tiny feet of rodents. The more he went deep in him, the more he could feel subconsciously that things were changing in him and his surroundings. However he couldn''t care less, as he stopped all conscious thought and just drifted away. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When Yoshino and Inoichi arrived back, they couldn''t find Jun anywhere. Yoshino panicked and started questioning Inoichi. "You sure he can''t go out from your garden Inoichi? I am really worried, the boy never leaves far away from house, and today, the first time I take him out this happens. Oh, I am so irresponsible..." Yoshino panicked, tears forming in her eyes. "Don''t fret like that Yoshino, Jun is definitely safe and sound. There is no way in or out of this garden except the way we came. There are many precious herbs in this place hence its security is really tight. It''s impossible for someone to go past us, especially a one year old child that won''t even know how to sneak around." "Then where is he? Shikaku will chew me out if something happens to him. I am going to search, let''s split up and search the entire garden." ''Let alone Shikaku, the Hokage will chew ME out if something happens to that child.'' Inoichi thought. "Yes lets split up." They both split up and searched the whole garden, but no sign of Jun was found. Inoichi even tried sending out a weak sensory pulse just in case if he could sense his chakra, but to no avail. All he could sense in this garden was the plants. After consoling Yoshino again, Inoichi took two of his trusted men and started inquiring people around his shop if they had seen a one year old toddler coming out of the shop. The inquiries went high and low but to no avail. Tired and disappointed, he came back to the garden and saw Yoshino roaming around it again, searching for traces of Jun. Just as he was going to stop her, he saw something really weird. Now that he was slightly calmer than before, he could see that his garden looked a little different. There were subtle differences, but ultimately he could see that all the plants were all slightly but surely turning and stretching in a certain direction. When his gaze followed that direction he was dumbfounded, stunned as to how he did not notice such a major change. The trunk part of the large tree in the corner of the garden was entirely hidden because of a wall of plants. He couldn''t believe it, neither that a wall of plants hid the tree and he couldn''t perceive that, nor the fact that such a wall growing in the span of a few hours was not possible. He immediately called Yoshino''s attention to that wall, and as they rushed towards it, both wondered how they had missed such an obvious change. When they reached it, they could see that it was like a spongy curtain, shielding what was inside from the outside. Most weird was that, although his instinct told Jun was inside, He still could only sense the presence of nature not a human. The pushed apart the curtain slowly, and were dumfounded at what they saw. Jun was there safe and sound, seemed to be in some kind of deep meditation, unable to be disturbed by outside influences. His face was peaceful, and radiated an aura charged with energy and vitality that made them relax just by being in his presence. His face was as if glowing with an inner light, and if someone concentrated, they would see faint golden tiny runes , swirling and blinking on his chocolate colored skin , like stars in the sky. His velvety black hair was tinged with gold, streaks of soft golden colour could be seen between his locks. But the thing that took the cake was his surroundings. All kinds of small animals like squirrels and rats could be seen sitting around him in peace, some even sitting on his lap. Few little birds hopped around him, finding food, few even sat on his head and shoulders , tucking in their head under their wings and sleeping. The most amazing thing was the plants, which were stretching towards him with their branches and leaves bowed, as if paying respect to their ruler. Neither Yoshino nor Inoichi could figure out what was going on with Jun. 5 BSNW CH 004 Plant Release Inoichi and Yoshino waited for Jun to wake up for a long time but no avail. It was as if he was a stone statue, except that he still breathed. On Yoshino''s insistence, Inoichi decided to ask help from the Hokage, despite what scolding he might get. A slap on the wrist was not as important as keeping Jun safe. Soon Hokage arrived at the scene, and after examining Jun and his aura and chakra emitted, he summoned Yoshino and Inoichi. Sarutobi: "So you say he became like this after about an hour you left him in the garden?" Inoichi: "yes Hokage sama. Yoshino had come here for some purchases and we let him play in the garden after a tour to properly explain which plants are harmful and which are not. He could not have been hurt by any of the plants, but I can''t think of what may have happened to him." Sarutobi: "I have an idea, but to verify it we will have to wait for Jiraiya to return from Mount Myoboku. It may take a bit of time, but don''t disturb Jun in the meantime. Just keep an eye on him. And if he happens to wake up before Jiraiya arrives, bring him to me." After The Third left, Inoichi convinced Yoshino to go home, since Shikamaru was a baby and needed him. Yoshino: "I am leaving my boy in your care Inoichi san, please make sure Jun is safe." Inoichi: "I will, don''t worry about it." _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hours turned into days, Days turned into Weeks, but Jun showed no signs of waking up. One day when Inoichi came early morning to check up on him, he saw a Man with long white shaggy hair, in a red haori with an enormous scroll strapped to his lower back, crouching on his toes before Jun, watching him. Inoichi tensed for a moment before relaxing, realizing that it was Jiraiya Sama of the Sannin. Jiraiya turned back and nodded once to acknowledge him, before turning back and going back to watching Jun. Inoichi went closer to see what Jiraiya was watching , And saw that the faint runes that he had seen around Jun''s body , was now mostly outlining his eyes now. They were a bit clearer than before, but he still didn''t recognize any of them. This went on for a while , before Jiraiya removed the scroll and put it aside , before crossing his legs and sitting in meditation just like Jun. Little while later , a light disturbance could be felt in the air, before Jiraiya opened his eyes and stood up , with eyes wide open. Before Inoichi could ask what was wrong, His eyes fell on what was happening in front of him and his question died in his throat. Jun''s eyes were finally open, but they were not focused on anything in front of him, as if he could not see Jiraiya and Inoichi. His eyes were glowing slightly, especially the golden band around his iris, which now fully contained those weird symbols, revolving around his iris like a train on a circular track. As they watched, Jun stayed distracted like that for some time before raising his hands and putting his palms together. They thought he was praying, but his following actions proved them wrong. "Sage art: Plant Release (Shokuton) - Ruler of Plants (Shokubutsu no j¨­gi)", Jun called out softly, his eyes slightly unfocussed yet determined. Jiraiya was shocked as he could feel nature energy in a frenzy, responding apparently to the little boy, Jun''s Jutsu, or to be clear a sage art. Also its effects could be clearly seen. Starting from the plants near him, it spread to the entire garden. All herbs started to grow to their peak condition. Flowers bloomed and sent out their flowery scents, exciting the insects that were waiting for their nectar. Fruit trees grew and ripened their fruits into their juicy peak condition swiftly. However it barely lasted for a minute before Jun''s hands loosened and he fell unconscious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On Jun''s side Jun had fallen unconscious temporarily because of the enormous amounts of information that was flowing into his mind. When he awoke from his meditation, he had felt that the Plants were communicating with him, trying to show him something. He followed the vague images like instruction they passed into his brain, and performed the new Jutsu. But the strain proved too much, and he fell unconscious. But his gamer powers didn''t let him alone even then. [QUEST COMPLETE! Visit Yamanaka Inoichi and Ino (Complete) Go with Yoshino and acquire seedlings for garden and learn how to take care of them. (Complete) BONUS 1.Impress Yamanakas with your affinity to plants (Complete) Reward:+100 EXP, +100 Reputation with Nara Yoshino. BONUS REWARD! +50 EXP and Bloodline Activation + 0.5%] [Level up!] [Level up!] [Bloodline Stage 1 activation (Genin) Complete] [Various stats being upgraded with accumulated Nature Energy.] [Resonance with Plants found. With nature energy acting as bridge, new Release Method found. Plant Release Method integrated.] [Diversion from usual Chakra affinity path due to The Plant Release Method Activation.] [Compensating with Stage 1 (Basic) Affinity awakening for all elements. User will have to work hard to level them up, since bloodline has selected Plant Release as the main and will not upgraded the basic five element affinities during further bloodline awakening.] [Since basic level affinity for all basic elements is found, user may combine it to Basic Base Elements Affinity Later. User will be prompted when user is conscious.] [Calculating new stats, perks and skills. Displaying Stats, Perks and Skills] [Name: Jun Kigen Level: 4 EXP: 30/160 Age: 1 year Gender: Male Title: Adopted child of the Ino-Shika-Cho (+35% EXP until level ten, +50% EXP for the Three Clan''s Jutsus) STATS HP ? 130/130 CP ? 238/238 STR ? 15 INT ? 14 DEX ? 17 VIT ? 13 WIS ? 17 LUK 15 (Can''t Assign Points to it) Available Stat Points: 10 Bloodline Activation: Stage 1 (Genin): 1.15% Activated Kekkei Genkai: Sage Wisdom Eye - S¨¥ji no chie (Status: Off) Ryo: 20,000] _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [ PERKS Physique Blessed by Nature: ? Physique that is blessed by nature because of your bloodline. DEX +5 each level, STR + 4 each level Poison Immunity: ? Poisons are your friend. Even the worst of the poisons don''t hurt you instead help you. +50% HP and CP Regeneration on being poisoned. Permanent Insomnia: ? you can never sleep once your bloodline is activated but also increases mind processing speed and perception. Only deep meditation can rest your mind. +0.1% Bloodline activation on each successful deep meditation. Waking user by external stimulation breaks meditation and no bloodline activation will be gained. (New)Nature''s Communication: Can use Sage Art: Plant Release without being in Sage mode by directly drawing and using nature Energy. Must be in a plant based environment. Unique body regeneration: ? your body responds to healing less than your natural regeneration. +100% CP cost when using a Healing Jutsu on user, Exception only for a bloodline art. Genjutsu hates me! ? Bloodline which makes you immune to Genjutsu, also prevents you from using it. All Genjutsu Failure +100% Unparalled Chakra Control: You control Chakra like your own limb. Perfect chakra control, utilize up to the last drop of your chakra perfectly. Can master anything chakra related easily if you put your mind to it. All Jutsu exp gain +75% Gamer''s Body: ? Your body is that of a Video Game Character¡­ somewhat at least ? You recover HP and CP when sleeping ? 100% in your bed, 75% in someone else''s, 50% in a sleeping bag or tent, 25% on the ground or in the trees. However Since a perk is available which doesn''t allow you to sleep, HP and CP can be recovered by deep meditation instead. Gamer''s Mind: ? you have the mind of an RPG Gamer, so keep your calm and make some wise choices¡­ hopefully. You are able to calm yourself more easily, but be careful, extreme emotional distress can still affect you. Immunity from forceful mind control and Genjutsu.] ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SKILLS Observe (Active) [Level 1 ? 0.13%]: ? the most basic skill needed by a gamer. Observe everything and gain information with use of the skill. Gain more and more details of target as this skill levels up. ? +100% Perception Temporarily, 1 CP/activation target. Nature Energy Absorption (Passive) [Level 9 ? 54.61%]: ? the primary skill of your clan bloodline. Absorb little amounts of nature energy constantly as you breathe. Increase +5% nature energy absorbed per level. Deep Meditation Technique (Active) [Level 12 ? 93.16%]:? the basis of resting your unique body, since you can''t sleep. Increase HP & CP regeneration +5%/every skill level Self-made Chakra Training Method (Active) [Level 5 ? 82.04%]: ? you are now a step above from those with knowledge in Chakra manipulation, while you won''t be performing miraculous feats any time soon, you are able to train your chakra from extreme young age. You will have enormous reserves of chakra as you grow up and immense control over It. -0.3% CP cost for Jutsu per level. (New)Basic Fire Affinity (Passive) [Level 0 ? 0.00%] ? your chakra has passion of fire - 15% chakra cost reduction to fire Ninjutsu and nature manipulation (New)Basic Water Affinity (Passive) [Level 0 ? 0.00%]- Your chakra has calmness of water - 15% chakra cost reduction to fire Ninjutsu and nature manipulation (New)Basic Earth Affinity (Passive) [Level 0 ? 0.00%] ? your chakra has firmness of earth - 15% chakra cost reduction to fire Ninjutsu and nature manipulation (New)Basic Wind Affinity (Passive) [Level 0 ? 0.00%] ? your chakra has freedom of wind - 15% chakra cost reduction to fire Ninjutsu and nature manipulation (New)Basic Lightning Affinity (Passive) [Level 0 ? 0.00%]- Your chakra has tyranny of lightning - 15% chakra cost reduction to fire Ninjutsu and nature manipulation (New)Sage art: Plant Release (Shokuton) (Active) [Level 1 ? 32.74%] ? your spirit has a resonance with nature''s flora. Unique Release type is gained because of it. You understand the will of various plants using this and can command them as you please. Can only activate around plants. Uses minimum amount of chakra. Plant Release Subjutsu: - (new) Ruler of Plants (Shokubutsu no j¨­gi) (Active) [Level 0 ? 2.74%] - Plants bloom in their finest to impress their ruler. After providing sufficient energy, You can use plants as you will without use of any more chakra. Plants will draw sustenance from nature energy to fulfill your will as Long as this Jutsu is active. Can be used as Attack, Support and Defense. 6 BSNW CH 005 Meeting Jiraiya Jun awoke, staring at a white ceiling filled with words and notification. Few seconds later he realized that the ceiling was empty and white, it was his gamer powers that were showing him notifications. He brought out all the notifications since the time he fell into deep meditation in Inoichi''s and read them again one by one. [QUEST COMPLETE! Visit Yamanaka Inoichi and Ino (Complete) Go with Yoshino and acquire seedlings for garden and learn how to take care of them. (Complete) BONUS 1.Impress Yamanakas with your affinity to plants (Complete) Reward:+100 EXP, +100 Reputation with Nara Yoshino. BONUS REWARD! +50 EXP and Bloodline Activation + 0.5%] [Level up!] [Level up!] [Bloodline Stage 1 activation (Genin) Complete] [Various stats being upgraded with accumulated Nature Energy.] [Resonance with Plants found. With nature energy acting as bridge, new Release Method found. Plant Release Method integrated.] [Diversion from usual Chakra affinity path due to The Plant Release Method Activation.] [Compensating with Stage 1 (Basic) Affinity awakening for all elements. User will have to work hard to level them up, since bloodline has selected Plant Release as the main and will not upgraded the basic five element affinities during further bloodline awakening.] [Since basic level affinity for all basic elements is found, user may combine it to Basic Base Elements Affinity Later. User will be prompted when user is conscious.] [Would user like to combine the Affinities into a single category now? Y/N] Jun chose ''yes'' easily since it would only make his life easier. However derailing from the actual supposed activation of his bloodline which would give him an affinity at Expert level (stage four of the seven stages), He activated this new release plant type. Although he knew that this release was very powerful if used right, it had a major disadvantage that it could be only used around plants. He was lucky that he is in Konoha, which basically is entirely based on plants. [General Affinity Category Skill created!] [Displaying Skills] [SKILLS Observe (Active) [Level 1 ? 0.13%]: ? the most basic skill needed by a gamer. Observe everything and gain information with use of the skill. Gain more and more details of target as this skill levels up. ? +100% Perception Temporarily, 1 CP/activation target. Nature Energy Absorption (Passive) [Level 9 ? 54.61%]: ? the primary skill of your clan bloodline. Absorb little amounts of nature energy constantly as you breathe. Increase +5% nature energy absorbed per level. Deep Meditation Technique (Active) [Level 12 ? 93.16%]:? the basis of resting your unique body, since you can''t sleep. Increase HP & CP regeneration +5%/every skill level Self-made Chakra Training Method (Active) [Level 5 ? 82.04%]: ? you are now a step above from those with knowledge in Chakra manipulation, while you won''t be performing miraculous feats any time soon, you are able to train your chakra from extreme young age. You will have enormous reserves of chakra as you grow up and immense control over It. -0.3% CP cost for Jutsu per level. (New) Basic Base Elements Affinity (Passive) [Level 0 ? 0.00%] ? your chakra has acceptance of all elements - 15% chakra cost reduction to all Base Element Ninjutsu and nature manipulation (New)Sage art: Plant Release (Shokuton) (Active) [Level 1 ? 32.74%] ? your spirit has a resonance with nature''s flora. Unique Release type is gained because of it. You understand the will of various plants using this and can command them as you please. Can only activate around plants. Uses minimum amount of chakra. Plant Release Subjutsu: - (New) Ruler of Plants (Shokubutsu no j¨­gi) (Active) [Level 0 ? 2.74%] - Plants bloom in their finest to impress their ruler. After providing sufficient energy, You can use plants as you will without use of any more chakra. Plants will draw sustenance from nature energy to fulfill your will as Long as this Jutsu is active. Can be used as Attack, Support and Defense.] While dealing with notifications, Jun suddenly felt as if someone was watching him. While pretending not to notice anything strange, he slowly withdrew a little nature energy stored within his body and sent it out as a pulse like in sonar to detect whether anyone was keeping an eye on him. [A special skill has been created through special act of using Nature energy as a sensing method. Nature energy is the best way of sensing with least cost. That is why no one can sneak up on a sage.] [[Nature Energy Method: Chakra Sense Lv 0] has been created. [Nature Energy Method: Chakra Sense] The ability to sense the chakra outside the body using nature energy, the higher the level greater the area of sensing and more precise. Subskills: #Area Sense #Chakra Signature Sensing] Ah, there was someone after all, someone had cloaked themselves invisible and erased their presence to a minute level, just above the window of his room. However, after a discreet cough and a look in that direction Jun didn''t do anything else. He decided to wait and see what their intention was. As he rested on the bed, he decided to train his chakra which had grown a lot and he wasn''t used to it yet. He could also feel his physique was a lot stronger, now that he had levelled up his bloodline to Stage 1. Although it was a long time for the next level activation of his bloodline, it was enough for now. After all, he was only a year old and maybe a bit more since he didn''t know how long he was under deep meditation. His method of Chakra Training involved using up his chakra to empower his muscles temporarily, getting them used to dealing with chakra. Using this method he could drain his chakra and recover it, then again drain it, ultimately raising his chakra capacity and regeneration speed bit by bit. Jun''s training was interrupted by a soft knock to the door, and his room was entered by three people, a doctor, a man with red haori and wild white spiky hair, and finally the Third Hokage. The third Hokage spoke to him first. "How are you feeling Jun? You worried us a lot young man." Third reproached him in a gentle voice. The doctor checked him all over to see if he was fine, but then there was nothing wrong with him in the first place. He was unconscious because of information overload. But he couldn''t tell them that. "I am alright Hokage Sama, was a bit woozy and disoriented when I woke up, but otherwise fine." Jun replied. "Jun, I want to introduce you to someone, This is Jiraiya of the Sannin, I am sure you have heard about the trio. Right then, he has some questions to ask you about the Jutsu you showed right before you passed out." The Third introduced Jiraiya as he came forward. He too had some guesses about that, but he decided to keep it inside him for now. "Hey kid, you feeling ok?" "Hai Jiraiya sama. I am perfectly alright." "Well about the thing you surprised us all with, Have you ever heard of nature energy?" Jiraiya asked. Jun was in a dilemma, he couldn''t tell them about his gamer powers, so he decided to hide the knowledge he wasn''t supposed to have for now. His Gamer''s Mind helped him keep his poker face. "No Jiraiya sama. Never heard of it." "Hmm, ok. How did you make plants obey you like that?" Jiraiya asked curious about his answer. "It''s difficult to explain, as if telling about light to blind, and sound to deaf. The closest I can explain that when I came out of meditation, I could feel the plants trying to communicate with me. Some vague images and information poured into my mind. I just followed them and did what I did. All I got to know now when I woke was that it''s called, Sage Art: Plant Release ¨C Ruler of Plants." "Hmm, well I will tell you what nature energy first. Nature energy exists in nature, emitted from the existence of all the living and nonliving things of the world. Plants emit more of it than anything else. You somehow were able to use it and manipulate plants without any training." "Oh, so that was what it was" Jun exclaimed "I have always been able to absorb this so called ''Nature energy'' since I gained consciousness. When we visited Inoichi san''s garden, I could feel it in tremendous amounts when I started meditating. So I started absorbing it, and when I finished absorbing most of it, that I when the information about the Jutsu from them. It made me really surprised that plants have a collective type of memory and consciousness." Jun went of in a childish tone. Hearing his words, The Third suppressed his surprise before talking to him. "Jun-Kun, you rest for a while. Jiraiya and I will visit you later." Third told him before all three left him alone to rest in his room. 7 BSNW CH 006 History of Shokuton and Juns Training "Old man, what do you know about him? What are you hiding about his powers?" Jiraiya asked as soon as they reached his office and soundproofed it with seal. Third took out his pipe, and smoked a few moments before sighing. He then turned to Jiraiya and started speaking. "Everyone knows Senju clan as one of the fiercest clans in the warring era. If truth be told, that era was more fierce and brutal than any wars that have been fought since the creation of shinobi villages. In those times, it was all about survival of fittest. A wide variety of arts and jutsus were developed in those times, even some powerful Kekkei Genkai. Few clans even tried to make new ones by selective breeding between captives of different Kekkei Genkai. Anyway, coming back to Senjus, in addition to Wood Release (Mokuton) the First Hokage was famous for, there was one more type developed by Senjus. It was however more demanding in requirements, and not as fierce and destructive as Wood style. Hence it slowly died out, but according to Tobirama Sensei, it had the potential to be the perfect all round style suitable for Ninjas. That Release type was Plant Release (Shokuton), which was displayed by Jun." "How could that be possible? Jun is not a Senju, we would have known if that was the case." Jiraiya argued, baffled because of this revelation. "I am not saying he is. But that''s the beauty of this Style. As far as I know, this style requires high affinity for Nature Energy, and decent amount of chakra in user''s body and approval from the collective consciousness of plants. As long as they have it, anyone can practice this style. However as you can see, having all three together is as difficult as learning Wood Style. Moreover, this style shows its main effectiveness in stealth, not frontal assault, which Wood style is famous for. Therefore this style died out with the Senjus and was not spread and no one knows of it either. Only Senjus and their smaller cousin clans knew about this. Now you and I know about this I am sure. Not even Tsunade knows of this, Not that she showed any interest in all this." Third chuckled softly as he thought about his Kunoichi disciple and Medical Genius."With her Monstrous Strength, she wouldn''t adopt either Styles anyway." "So, what do we do about Jun?" Jiraiya asked. "We will lockdown the information for now. Practicing Plant Style will eventually make him a shinobi with tremendous amount of chakra at his disposal and this would be a huge enticement for Danzo, who will want to make him into a weapon to serve him. Not to mention that Plant Style user has the potential to become an unparalled assassin. Therefore, No one will come to notice of this. Officially we will release news, relatively secretively so as to not alert Danzo, that he had an accident while training chakra. Let''s make him attend the Pre-school along with other kids of his age when he is of 3-4 years. Until then, let''s instruct the Nara and Yamanakas clan to train him enough to be able to protect himself. I don''t think he needs Akimichi clan''s training, however ask them to keep an eye out for him as well in case he shows any interest in them. However if I am right, all he may be attracted to may be their food, but that too in future. From what I have seen of his temperament, he will be best suited for mental techniques of Yamanaka, then techniques of the Nara, and finally the Akimichi but only to train his body. I think I will also tell them to train him in academy level Jutsus" Third decided before sending ANBU to inform Shikaku and Inoichi. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ About a year and few months later, In the Forest behind Nara mansion. Three silhouette could be seen jumping from branch to branch. Two teens could be seen surrounding an almost three year old boy, sparring with him. Although it looked absurd, the kid was matching the other two on every move. When the two teens approached the boy to give a final combined attack to defeat him, the teen broke a smoke bomb on a tree branch, filling the tree top with smoke. As the two teens backed off, the kid jumped out from the smoke with a kick aimed at one of the teens. The two teens had anticipated that however, and threw shurikens at the kid to obstruct him. However even when, the shurikens struck the body, the kid kept charging towards them, jumping from branch to branch. "Something seems off, the kid is --" Teen 1 "¡ªbehind you, "Plant Style- Vine Entanglement"." The kid called out from behind the Teen 1 he had sneaked up to. While Teen 1 was being bundled up, the kid turned his glowing golden ringed eyes towards the other teen, firing off the Jutsu he had prepared for her. "Plant Style- Paralysis Thorn Bullets." The kid fired off thorns that struck all four of her limbs, paralyzing them instantly. "Jun, you jerk, I will fall of this tree!!" Screamed the Teen 2 as she started falling to the ground. However the kid, who turned out to be Jun, caught her midway and placed her softly on the ground. Then he retrieved the other teen who was wrapped up like a mummy with only his eyes and nose showing, and from his expression he seemed to have already given up and wasn''t struggling. After he placed them on the ground, he heard applause and he turned around. Inoichi and Shikaku had jumped down from the top of the trees from where they were watching their spar. Both chuckled at the two teens, the one who was all wrapped up was Soushi Nara and the teen girl who had been paralyzed was Miyabi Yamanaka. Both the teens had been chosen by their clan heads Shikaku and Inoichi respectively to spar against Jun every week to improve his skills, And improved he did. As long as it was in a plant based environment, he could easily match a Chunin or even a special Jonin, and in dire circumstance could even escape from the clutches of a Jonin, as long as it was an average one, according to their estimates of his performance. All his skills were well beyond a graduate of the academy. But they wanted him to live like a kid while he can and grow like the others of his age will in the academy. They didn''t want to make this kid give up his childhood so Third Hokage had decided to let him live like a normal kid and not make him graduate to a Chunin directly without academy training or make him an ANBU. Although if one were to think objectively, this kid would definitely would flourish in the ANBU. But since all the blood and darkness of the ANBU was not meant for a child, Hokage had made the plan to protect him from all that. Jun released the vines binding Soushi and removed paralysis of Miyabi''s limbs by reinvigorating them using nature energy. He had become really proficient at handling nature and also had surplus chakra now, incomparable to the time when he first used Plant style. They all waited for Inoichi and Shikaku to reveal their thoughts on their spar. "Ah, that was hilarious. Soushi and Miyabi, you were defeated like that because you underestimated Jun and didn''t plan ahead." Inoichi commented. "It''s not that we didn''t plan, but it is that he went beyond our plans. I mean like really, Solid clones, subterfuge, medicines and poisons, Taijutsu of a well-developed Chunin and not to mention his cheat Plant style, which basically gives him a free pass for stealth attacks. Which of the above do you think an average almost three year old kid has? No to mention he has them all. So troublesome!" Soushi complained while sighing. "Ah that''s true. But this will teach you to expect the unexpected in all situations. Remember, always plan for the expected, and then plan for the unexpected which would disrupt your plan. We are shinobi, that''s what we ought to do." Shikaku responded "Ah, that reminds me--" Miyabi said before going up to Jun, and pinching and stretching his cheeks, "¡ªyou little devil, you had the guts to paralyze me like that huh. What if I had fallen on my face from the top of that tree? Who would heal my disfigured face then, huh?" She loved pinching and stretching his cheeks, really envious of him too. Only god knows how he had got it to be softer than those of even girls. And with his light chocolate colored skin and soft black hair like velvet, he would be the focus of girls when he grew up definitely. "Miyabi-nee shaan! It Hurtssh, it hurtssh. I am shollyy!" Jun apologized, trying to escape from those demonic hands that try to pinch his cheeks at every possible excuse. He didn''t know whether it was punishment or just a chance to play with his cheeks. He finally escaped from those evil hands, under the amused and satisfied smile of Miyabi. "Miyabi-nee san is too evil. Why do you always target my cheeks like that?" Jun asked with a tone full of hurt. "Because you deserve it, you little rascal." Miyabi responded in a self-satisfied tone. "Alright cut it out. Jun, freshen up quick and get ready, The Hyuga have invited us for celebrating the birthday of their clan princess, Hinata-sama. We have to attend that." Shikaku remarked "Yes. You two can rest for today. You all can spar again in a few days, if you are up for it." Inoichi told them as they all walked back. Just as they reached the backyard of the Nara mansion, a blond haired bullet, tackled Jun down, "Jun Kuunnn!!" 8 BSNW CH 007 The Hyuga Affair Part One "Juunn Kuunnn!!" The blond haired bullet tackled Jun to the ground . Her teal blue colored eyes really excited and happy on seeing him as she hugged him hard. "Ah, princess, you shouldn''t have done that. Now your dress is all dirty and we will have to get you changed before we leave for the party at the Hyuga''s. You do remember that we are all invited for the birthday celebration of the Hyuga Princess, right?" Inoichi lamented, as his adorable daughter, Ino, stuck out a tongue at him. He really couldn''t separate her from Jun when she meets him, and he spoiled her a lot, since he was not capable of being strict with her. "Please don''t worry about that Inoichi-san, I will take care of that." Saying this Jun put a hand on Ino''s dress and repelled all the dirt from it using nature energy, making it more or less to acceptable level. "Thank you Jun Kun!" Ino said with a wide smile. Jun finally was able to excuse himself to go and get fresh and changed into an appropriate attire. He chose black colored form fitting soft legging, a dark blue colored inner vest and long soft black leather hooded jacket that was slit from the side blow the waist. There was a soft golden colored ring painted on the back of the jacket and a leaf symbol on the upper left part of the jacket. With his hair combed back and a small golden ahoge on his forehead, he looked charming and adorable, his golden ringed eyes twinkling. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When he arrived downstairs everyone was charmed by his appearance, Yoshino even going as far as molesting him, sticking to him like glue with the excuse that ''he was so soft and smooth that I couldn''t help it''. After everyone assembled, they all departed for the Hyuga compound. Their group was composed of Inoichi and Saori Yamanaka with their girl Ino and Shikaku and Yoshino Nara along with their son Shikamaru and Jun Kigen. When they arrived at the Hyuga Mansion, they were greeted by a Hyuga attendant and guided to the great hall where the party was to take place. When they arrived there, the males of the group naturally left to chat with their own kind leaving the kids with their spouses. Yoshino started guiding Shikamaru and Jun around the party, making them remember the main characters of interest. "Ah, look there. It''s Choza Akimichi, Head of the Akimichi clan, with his son, Choji. They are a bit late, but then they are Akimichi. Shikamaru, Choza is a good friend of your father''s and Uncle Inoichi. So be good to Choji understand, I have heard he is a good kid. Over the years we three clans have stuck close to each other and watched each other''s backs. So, be friends with him. Ah there are the Inazukas, There beast like attitude are really prominent because of their ninken specialty. In the lead is their clan head Tsume Inazuka along with her daughter Hana Inazuka, who I have heard has made name for herself being good at Iryojutsu, a real surprise seeing that she is an Inazuka. Also that small kid with tattoo on his cheek and puppy on his head must be Kiba Inazuka, Tsume''s son and potential clan heir. Oh see, those two parent son combo, they must be Shibi Aburame and his son Shino Aburame. They are insect specialist, those Aburame clan members. Dunno why but they always speak less but always to the point. Never piss an Aburame, they are very scary when they lose their cool. You have never experienced the power of their insects hence you don''t know. And finally the family of four over there, with the air of nobility around them, they are the Uchihas. Their Ancestors were the founding members of this village, Konohagakure, Along with The Senju clan. Along with the Hyuga and Senju, They are considered one of the most valued Major clans, The Big Three so to speak. The one in the lead among them is The Clan Head of the Uchihas, Fugaku Uchiha, With his wife Mikoto Uchiha and their sons , Eight year old Itachi Uchiha and almost three year old like you Sasuke Uchiha. Sasuke''s baby face and big black eyes and soft black hair is the gossip of many of the older ladies of the village you know..." Yoshino kept on talking and talking about various other guests of The Hyuga which Jun didn''t pay attention to. He woke up Shikamaru who had almost fallen asleep from his mum''s constant chatter, and after giving him a small smile, flagged down a passing waiter to get a glass of juice for Yoshino''s poor throat. Yoshino beamed at him for that before thanking him and gulping down the juice slowly. Suddenly a slight commotion started near the stage, because the main reason of today''s celebration had arrived. Hyuga Hiashi along with his Daughter Hinata had arrived already climbed onto the stage, followed by his twin brother, Hizashi Hyuga and Hizashi''s son Neji. After everyone settled down, Hiashi walked to the front to say a few words. "Welcome everyone, and thank you for showing up for the auspicious occasion of the birthday of my daughter, Hyuga Hinata. Your wishes are much appreciated. Now , Hinata would like to say a few words as her thanks." Hinata slowly came forward with shy steps, before giving a slight bow to the entire hall and spoke, "Good evening all, My name is Hinata Hyuga. Thank you for coming to my birthday party to congratulate me. I am really B-blesshed--" Hinata covered her mouth at the end and going red as a tomato, because of her embarrassment at the fact that she fumbled in her nervousness and bit her tongue. However no one minded that, in fact it made her all the more cute. As applause filled the hall , a few last moment guests arrived at the hall. It was the Third Hokage, along with two ANBU and a few other shinobi with a different village headband. "Ah, They are Kumogakure Shinobi. If they are with The Third Hokage-sama, then it means that they must be the delegate that was sent to our village to sign peace treaty to stop war between Konohagakure , as in our village , and Kumogakure, the village hidden in the clouds. Truthfully I don''t trust the Kumo Shinobi, but if doing this stops taking innocent lives as sacrifice, then I am fine with a peace treaty. But be careful Jun, Don''t trust them easily." 9 BSNW CH 008 The Hyuga Affair Part Two After Hokage arrived, he congratulated The Hyugas, before giving a storage scroll with his gifts inside to young Hinata. The envoys too did the same, congratulating her and giving her a storage scroll with gift. However their gaze stayed on her too long, especially on her eyes, giving Jun weird vibes. Before he could ask Yoshino, His gamer powers interrupted. [Chain Quest Alert (MANDATORY) Part One: You don''t feel right about the way Hinata Hyuga is watched by Kumo village Delegates. Keep an eye on their activities, and if they do any action to harm the young Hyuga, catch them in the act. Reward: +100 Reputation with Hyuga Household, +150 Reputation with Hinata Hyuga, +50 exp, +5000 ryo Failure: Death of either Hinata Hyuga or Hizashi Hyuga, Level -1] ''Chain quest? What is that? First time I got something like that. And mandatory means I can''t give up right?'' Jun inquired in his mind. [Those quest that may continue with more quests, on the same topic, depending on the result of the quest provided, is called chain quest. And MANDATORY option is attached only to those quests which may bring a major change to the User and your acquaintances and loved ones. Let''s say that they are related to major events of the world in a sense. User can give up, but it will cost user according to how much it has chance of impacting world. In the case of least impact may be charged with Ryo or some exp or skill level. Medium level may be charged with levels of user or even loss of a specific skill permanently. Higher levels have even more dire cost. So it is recommended, NEVER FAIL A MANDATORY QUEST! Also, giving up on a MANDATORY quest is counted as a failure.] ''Geez, don''t you have some terrifying cost to failure you damn System!'' Jun complained. [Of course yes. Haven''t you heard, everything has a price? Did you think such cheat like abilities of yours come without any price? There is always a price, ALWAYS! And if you don''t pay it, the debt will come due in worst possible way. The abilities you gain with such a speed are your benefits, the quests provided to you are the price of such abilities, and the cost of your failure are your debts. That''s why you have been warned once again. DON''T FAIL A MANDATORY QUEST!] ''Really doom and gloom today are you not System?'' Jun commented sarcastically. ''Why not predict my death too while at it?'' [No need to, all MANDATORY quests have a chance of resulting in user''s death. Therefore be careful.] ''Oh that''s enough. I will do the damn mission. So shut the ''doom and gloom'' up!'' Jun shouted in his mind __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One by one after the Hokage and the delegates, all Clan representatives and important guests started going up to the stage to give gifts and congratulations to the Hyuga princess. Hinata shyly accepted each gift, before thanking them politely in return and telling them to enjoy the party. ''Poor girl, being made to face all these people because of politics between clans. A birthday should be an occasion for the child to be happy and free, not where she should be nervous of the embarrassment she might bring to her family because of her unintentional actions.'' He decided that he would also give her a gift, so he started on pondering on what to give. At that time he heard what Yoshino was telling about the Hyugas to Shikamaru. "The Hyugas are a sad bunch in a way. Their entire clan is divided into main and branch family. Those from the branch family are branded with a special type of curse seal related with their brain and eyes. If they try to rebel against main family or are somehow compromised to enemies, the curse seal on their bodies are activated, turning their brain to mush, destroys their Byakugan, the most valuable possession of a Hyuga and kills them. The branch families have always carried a slight hatred for the main family because of the very reason. They feel as if they are slaves to their very family. In fact the Current Head and the man standing behind him that looks exactly like him are Twin brothers. But since Hiashi was chosen to ascend as clan head, Hizashi was branded the cursed seal by the family and sent to branch family. To be fair, Hiashi did protest against it, but it''s said his voice was overruled by council of elders in clan as Clan Head must be unchallenged. And then Neji was born to Hizashi, a born genius by their clan standards. But since Hizashi is from branch family, Neji was branded as soon as he was born too. Now all the father and son do is curse their fate as they serve the main family, mainly Hiashi and his daughters. And in the middle of all this, this pure natured child Hinata is born, such a tragedy for her." Yoshino sighed. Jun looked once again at the timid Hinata and finally realized what he would give her. Finally it was their turn after the Yamanakas, Yoshino and Shikaku led Shikamaru and Jun onto the stage. Hiashi came forward and greeted them first since Shikaku was well famed all over the village as the best strategist to whom even The Third listened to. Shikaku had power, and Hiashi respected power. "Ah Shikaku Nara-san, I am glad you came with your family. Greetings Yoshino-san, ah and this must be your son Shikamaru. Resembles you a lot Shikaku-san. However--" Hiashi turns towards Jun during his greetings to Nara Family, "¡ªI don''t recognize this child. Could you introduce us Shikaku-san?" "Sure, why not. This is our foster son, Jun Kigen. His mother died during Kyuubi incident hence we adopted him. Please don''t enquire further Hyuga-san. It doesn''t make a good topic of conversation. Ah, here is the Hyuga Princess." Shikaku said diverting attention towards Hinata. Hiashi got the hint too and kept silent about it. After the Nara family had given their greetings, Jun came forward. Bowing slightly to Hinata he said, "Many Happy returns for the day, Hyuga san. Although I didn''t know what to give as a present, but I guess I will give you something only I can give." Saying so Jun put a hand inside his pocket, rummaging something. Jun took out three seeds from his pocket before placing them between his palms. He sent out a burst of chakra from his Plant style, making the seeds grow into three White Daisies, their stem bound together by their own leaves, extending and crisscrossing each other in an elegant pattern. Hiashi Hyuga''s eyes widened a bit in surprise before activating Byakugan and seeing the way those flowers grew and the Chakra flowing into them, after which he became even more astonished. He saw weird runes swirling around Jun''s eyes, on the golden band in his eyes to be precise. Hiashi couldn''t figure out what was this, Unknown type chakra release, and now those weird eyes. The fact was also that, those eyes contested against his Byakugan and won, he couldn''t see the secret contained in those eyes at all. "Hyuga-san, White Daisies represent purity and innocence. May you always keep yours and have the determination never to be corrupted by the darkness of the world and break the chains of fate which may hope to bind you in their clutches. These flowers will not wilt for months, as long as you provide little amounts of chakra to it every day. Just put it in a jar of water and provide some chakra in the water every day, that''s all. I hope it will remind you of the message it contains and encourage you to fight to create your own fate." Jun said to Hinata, before gifting the Impromptu bouquet, to her, which she took with a face redder that tomatoes, steam almost visible above her head. He then turned to Hiashi, looking directly into those intimidating white pupils for a few moments before saying his farewell to both with a bow and stepped down. Hiashi found himself thinking about Jun long after he had gone. ''Such an interesting child, mature, mysterious and powerful.'' Hiashi mused. 10 BSNW CH 009 The Hyuga Affair Part Three Jun''s progress was noticed by The Third too, who was watching him secretly. Although he wasn''t as shocked as Hiashi, since he already knew about Jun''s Plant style, he was still a bit surprised at the proficiency he showed with it in just a year. At this pace, by that time he reaches the age for academy registration, he might already be a jonin level character. The Third could feel a headache coming. This was Itachi Uchiha all over, genius beyond his generation. Here they were praising Itachi as a genius rarely seen in hundred years, and here comes Jun literally breaking all records known to them. If not for the Third suppressing all information on him, he knew many would be flocking to either recruit or harm him. In the mean while Ino was bugging Jun, envious of Hinata who got such a gift from Jun. Jun could only helplessly assure her that he would make one for her too later. Only after extorting a promise from him, did she let go of the issue. Along with Ino, Yoshino and Shikamaru he visited the rest of the major guests. Akimichis were really friendly, since Choza had also considered him under his charge like Inoichi and Shikaku did, even though Jun had never interacted with them as their practice methods didn''t suit him at all. Choji was easy to befriend because of his easy going nature. Give him a packet of crisps and he will be your friend, easy- peasy. Aburames were a bit weird, and scary to be honest. But Jun found Shino to be an intelligent and mature boy under that weird exterior. His way of thinking was really different, as if you were only viewing a situation in two dimension, whereas he saw everything in three dimensions. Jun enjoyed his straight forward yet intelligent manner. Inazukas were a challenge, they lived their lives in moments of passion, but once you befriend their ninken, they would also be your best friends. This was proved when Akamaru, puppy of young Kiba, jumped into Jun bosom and licked his face. Akamaru could sense his connection to nature and his good intentions towards Kiba and itself, that''s why it had easily accepted Jun. seeing that Akamaru liked him, Kiba also became his friend. The only challenge was The Uchihas, Stiff Fugaku, who considered Uchiha to be above all, Itachi, who was drunk on getting stronger and protecting village and Sasuke, filled with arrogance about his brother and his clan. The tension was only broken when Mikoto also started molesting Jun for his smooth and soft skin just like Yoshino, and they both hit off nicely , sharing their adventures of molesting the kids. Sasuke and Jun sighed in unison before shaking hands, Fair skinned Sasuke and Light Chocolate colored Jun making a nice contrast. Soon after the mingling stopped as everyone gathered for dinner, and there after everyone started to leaves in ones and twos for their homes when Jun noticed The Kumo delegates sneaking off. He excused himself and followed them a while before they reached their accommodation. On the way he had only been able to listen to a few fragmented words from them, such as Hyuga, sneak, Byakugan, forest, breakout, swift and midnight. He had guessed they would be doing something to the Hyugas and escape by one of the weak links in Konoha security, somewhere in Forests around Konoha. Having heard enough, he went back to Yoshino and said that he will be going for a walk and meditating in forest. Yoshino was already aware of his quirks like how he never slept and preferred to be surrounded by plants or forest and meditate. She didn''t think much about it and gave permission. Shikaku only warned him to be careful before following Yoshino home. Jun sneaked to the nearest entrance to the forest from Hyuga compound and hid himself, His concealment and sensory abilities working at maximum with use of Nature Energy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Midnight came soon enough, and three silhouettes could be seen fleeing from Hyuga compound before splitting up. One rushed towards Forest with a sack on his back, while other two went different ways to confuse any trackers. Moonlight shined for a brief instant from behind clouds, showing the silhouette rushing towards the forest to be a Kumo Shinobi from the delegates sent. He quickly entered the forest and rushed in the direction of the Village Hidden in the Clouds. He went on for almost an hour, and when he saw that no one was following and that he had almost reached border of Konohagakure, he relaxed, letting go of the tension and indulging himself in fantasies of how he would be rewarded when he presents a child with working Byakugan to Fourth Raikage. He didn''t notice, or could not notice, a single Leaf Shuriken slitting the sack from the bottom. A silhouette moved with incredible speed, moving below the sack, catching the object that fell, and shuttling off towards Konoha, using Branches as footholds. By the Kumo shinobi realized, the savior had already gone with the one who he had saved. Within the forest, matching Jun was difficult, moreover, he had the hood of his jacket on his head, so it made him even more unnoticeable along with his nature chakra sense erasing his presence. The Kumo Shinobi chased that silhouette in rage and fear. Rage at the fact that he was duped and his target was snatched away when he was so close to his goal. Fear was because he was afraid to even imagine what the Raikage would do to him if he failed this mission and it got public that they had betrayed the treaty. He chased with all his strength. The more closely they got to Konoha, more cold sweat flowed down his spine. Finally he decided to risk the package getting hurt and attacked the savior with kunai and shuriken. His speed made it difficult, but a few of kunai and shuriken struck his back and one shuriken struck his left leg. However that person didn''t even slow down and continued with same speed, not letting even one of the weapons hit the package. Seeing that he decided to use Ninjutsu despite the fact that it could alert Konoha. "Don''t blame me for this. You forced me, "Lightning Style: Ligh--"" "¡ªI will say the same to you, "Plant Style: Death of Thousand Leaf Cuts". Hope you survive this Kidnapper-San." Before the Kumo shinobi could even finish his hand signs, he was heard a voice whisper to him and he was surrounded with a maelstrom of thousands of leaf blades, all laced in paralysis and sleep inducing agents. The Kumo shinobi could not even scream out since his throat, lips and tongue were among the very first to be cut with the leaves and paralyze, since the attack had come right when he was about to fire off a Jutsu. In a few moments, he could barely even stay awake and the attack stopped then. As he struggled to stay awake, he saw a figure covered in shuriken and kunai, landing on the floor and holding the package out to the guy who attacked him. They both looked like twins. It was then that the Kumo Shinobi understood. ''Clone... the guy that took the package was a clone, meant to lure me near Konoha. While the main one stayed hidden and sneak attacked. Moreover. Only... a kid--'' That was the last thought he managed before sleeping agents absorbed from the cuts streamed in, knocking him out. ''They always get confused when they see someone take a kunai to the back and still keep going. Honestly, don''t they know that First Hokage''s Wood clones could do that. Even though my clones are Plant clones not Wood clones, they are still much more durable and intelligent than your average clones.'' Jun mused in his mind as he searched the Kumo Shinobi for any communication device or any tracking device on him. Although he didnt find that, he did get scroll tightly bound and hidden inside his headband. Jun tried to read it but to no avail. His System started giving some notifications but he told it to show it to him later when all this is solved. Jun tied the shinobi up with Vine Entanglement, then examined the package i.e. the person who had been kidnapped and knocked out with sleeping drug. ''Obviously a Hyuga, kidnapped for their Byakugan. As Yoshino said that''s all they have. But really, they fell as far as capturing this one, utterly shameless.'' Jun made the clone hold the person steadily, while he woke her up with a dose of nature energy to clean out the sleeping drugs as much as possible. When she opened her wide and confused eyes looking around the place to figure out where she was, she felt the little guy who was holding her put her down and another boy crouching before her, smiling at her. Soon the fog of confusion lifted from her mind and she recognized the person before her, apparently the one who saved her. "You...you--" she struggled to get the words out in her nervousness, pushing her index fingers together. "It''s nice to meet you again so soon, Hyuga Hinata-Sama." Jun replied as he smiled at the nervous girl in front of him. 11 BSNW CH 010 Conclusion of The Hyuga Affair "It''s nice to meet you again so soon, Hyuga Hinata-Sama." Jun replied as he smiled at the nervous girl in front of him. "Umm... H...Hello. Why are we? We here?" Hinata said. Obviously she had been put under the sleeping drug before kidnapping her. If not for the indication of his powers, he would have not noticed. For the first time he felt that, power without a goal was useless. From whom would he use his powers, he didn''t have the true answer to the question yet. But for now he had to calm the panicking Hinata. "You were kidnapped by this guy Hinata-san," said Jun, kicking the guy wrapped up in the vines, currently unconscious "Probably they wanted the Byakugan, but well you are safe now. If I am right, your father would be arriving soon enough. So we will be waiting for him for now." "Um...m, Kigen san -" Hinata started to say when Jun interrupted. "Please, Jun is fine." Jun corrected with a smile. "Umm, then me... Too... Hinata... Please" Hinata replied shyly. Jun smiled and gestured her to continue what she was saying earlier. "Jun-san, how are you here?" "Isn''t that obvious, I came to save you. I saw someone leaving the Hyuga compound with someone slung on their back in a sack. I was suspicious and followed him. When I saw that he was running in the direction of Konoha borders with urgency, I could not hold back and snatched you back." "Umm, no... but... You fought a Full-grown man, a Shinobi at that? Jun-san is really strong!" Hinata exclaimed, surprised. "Yeah he is isn''t he? I never thought there would be someone as strong as him among the kids of our village. Just genius is not enough of a description for him." A voice sounded from behind them. Jun and Hinata turned around to see A man in white clothes smiling at him and Hinata. Hinata stood in a hurry seeing him and Jun relaxed, because now his job was over. Hiashi Hyuga had arrived. "Father-" Hinata mumbled as she slowly walked towards him. Hiashi didn''t reply, but patted her head before turning to Jun. "Jun Kigen san, you have done an enormous service to the Hyuga clan. Hinata is really precious to me and to Hyuga clan. We are really grateful to you, and you will forever be welcome as a guest of our clan. But how did you handle this person and why is he still alive after daring to capture my daughter?" Hiashi asked, a bit of steel creeping into his voice. "Hiashi sama, his life belongs to the village now, just as Hyuga clan belongs to this village. The entire village is my family, even if it was not Hinata and someone else, I would still have done as I did now. Therefore please, don''t do something rash that would make the village face danger. As you know, for better or worse, we have signed a treaty with the Kumogakure. Let''s take him to the Hokage, Let him handle this. After declaring their crime, we can officially ask for compensation. At that time if you would like to take this one''s life in compensation, no one would be able to stop you." Jun explained patiently, trying to assuage Hiashi Hyuga''s anger. "¡­ Truly, age doesn''t measure wisdom at times. Let''s do that, I will carry this man. Can I trouble you to carry Hinata and come with me?" Hiashi requested. "No problem. Hinata san, if you please would get on my back, so that we can get going?" Jun asked Hinata, while getting down on one knee to make her easier to climb. "Um. Ok..." Hinata murmured as she climbed onto his back with a red face, enabling him to piggyback her. Jun carried her and followed Hiashi, who jumped up to the trees carrying the bound man. Jun could see that Hiashi only wanted Hinata away from the man in cape he woke up, that''s why he asked Jun to carry her instead of himself. Otherwise a well-known Shinobi like him, and a clan head to boot, not able to carry a bound person and a little girl together was surely a joke. It didn''t take long for them to reach Konoha. An ANBU met them just as they crossed the gate of Konoha. "Hyuga Sama, Hokage Sama requests your presence in the Hokage mansion." ANBU said. "Very well, I was on the way anyway. Lead on, and Jun Kigen shall follow us too since he was an instrumental part in what I have to talk to Hokage about." Hiashi clarified. ANBU didn''t comment anything and just nodded. They reached Hokage mansion in a while, after which the ANBU disappeared. Hiashi took the bound man and entered the office of the Hokage where he was waiting, smoking a pipe. He raised an eyebrow when Jun entered with Hinata on his back but didn''t say much. Jun crouched on one leg and allowed Hinata to get on her feet, after which they both stood beside Hiashi. The Third Hokage let out a bit of smoke from his mouth before speaking. "A lot of commotion so late at night eh, Hyuga san. So, what has led you to roam around with little Jun, with your lovely daughter together no less. And I assume this tied up person is involved in your explanation too? Let''s hear it then." "Around half an hour past midnight, I was informed that Hinata had disappeared from her room in our mansion. From the signs and traces of chakra in her room I determined that something wasn''t right and I traced the signs to their source as soon as possible , while leaving Hizashi at home to control the news and not let anyone panic. I followed the signs to the leaf forests, at which point I increased my pace since I was sure that she had been kidnapped. But soon I was able to see her chakra moving with another one, while two more sources of chakra following them one after the other, one of which looked similar to the one that was with my daughter. I rushed in that direction, but soon I sensed conflict happening between the two that were following, after which I saw the one who had similar chakra as the one with my daughter moving towards her after disabling the other guy who was following. Then by the time I arrived, Hinata''s chakra had become more active and the one who was initially with my daughter faded away and the guy who had similar chakra as him, got little boost in his chakra. Then I realized that Hinata''s savior had used some kind of clone to save her while stalking the one who had kidnapped her, and had disabled him and by the time I arrived at the scene, Hinata and Jun had started talking about it all, and from their talks I realized that Jun was the one responsible for saving her. After that, on his insistence we brought this guy to you and Hinata and Jun as witnesses to his crime." Hiashi explained everything to The Third. "Hmm, how would you answer to this Jun? Why you were at the scene and what did you see? Also how did you defeat him? The last one is more of my curiosity than a necessity?" The Third inquired. "Ever since I had an awakening of my bloodline powers, I have never been able to sleep. The closest I have come to sleep is in deep meditation amongst nature, where I connect to the plants and am in a semi awake state. After Hinata san''s party, I had informed Yoshino san that I wanted to stay in meditation in the forest a bit, and she didn''t object since I had done it a lot before. Then I went to the nearest stretch of forest I could find after coming out of Hyuga compound and went to meditate there. Around midnight I could suddenly sense four chakra signatures rushing out from the Hyuga compound. I was startled since two of them entered the forest at high speeds. I kept an eye on it and realized after a while that one of the Kumo delegates I had seen at the party was carrying someone in a sack on his back. I became sure then that this was a kidnapping of someone belonging to the Hyuga clan and decided to follow him. When he reached the Konoha borders, he seemed to relax a bit, at which point I created and ordered my clone to rescue the kidnapped person while I keep an eye on the Kumo shinobi. Taking advantage of the fact that he had relaxed his guard on reaching the border, my clone easily rescued the kidnapped one and escaped, while I stayed hidden and stalked the enemy. He was enraged and decided to follow my clone which he thought was me since he attacked with few weapons but it did not disperse." At this point Hokage and Hiashi Stiffened a bit but didn''t interrupt him so he continued "After that he got impatient and decided to attack with a Ninjutsu, at which point I sneaked attacked him with a few of my own jutsus and captured him. Then I awoke Hinata san and told her about the situation and asked her to wait with me for the arrival of his father since Hiashi Sama was sure to track her down. After that point it''s as Hiashi Sama narrated." Hiashi and the Third stayed silent, processing all Jun had told and the fact that one of the children of their village , one who was less than three years old, had done a feat equaling one of their experienced Chunin. 12 BSNW CH 011 Hokages Advice While The Third and Hiashi processed the information Jun gave them, Jun activated all the notification of his quest and other notifications that were pending. [Chain Quest Alert (MANDATORY) Part One (Completed) Part One: You don''t feel right about the way Hinata Hyuga is watched by Kumo village Delegates. Keep an eye on their activities, and if they do any action to harm the young Hyuga, catch them in the act. Reward Received: +100 Reputation with Hyuga Household, +150 Reputation with Hinata Hyuga, +50 exp, +5000 ryo Hidden Objective Achieved: Bonus One: Captured Hinata''s captor alive Bonus Two: Submitted Him alive to the Hokage Bonus Three: Convinced Hiashi Hyuga not to kill him, by extension saving Hyuga household from blame Bonus One reward: +100 exp, Random D rank Ninjutsu Scroll of one of the five elements Bonus Two reward: +150 reputation with Sarutobi Hiruzen Bonus Three reward: Since Major change initiated in Naruto timeline, one of the sealed gamer powers unlocked. User can now use ''Inventory''. All material rewards have been deposited in your Inventory space. User can access it at any time. ] ''Inventory huh, appears to be a kind of space time based storage space. My Game powers are a cheat, I would never need any storage scrolls from now. Ah very well, show me my stats, and the new Jutsu learned since last time.'' [Name: Jun Kigen Level: 6 EXP: 208/360 Age: 2.5 year Gender: Male Title: Adopted foster child of the Ino-Shika-Cho (+35% EXP until level Ten, +50% Skill EXP if using the Three Clan''s Jutsus) STATS HP? 130/130 CP? 238/238 STR ? 20 INT ? 21 DEX ? 19 VIT ? 17 WIS ? 23 LUK - 25 (Can''t Assign Points to it, randomly increase) Available Stat Points: 20 Bloodline Activation: Stage 1: 17.35% Activated Kekkei Genkai: Sage Wisdom Eye - S¨¥ji no chie (Status: Off) Inventory: (Status: Unlocked) Ryo: 45,000] [New Skills Learnt: Plant Release Subjutsu :(+) - (New) Vine Entanglement (Active) [Level 6 - 16.24%] - (New) Paralysis Thorn Bullet (Active) [Level 8 - 06.98%] - (New) Death of Thousand Leaf Cuts (Active) [Level 1 - 01.23%] - (New) Leaf Shuriken (Active) [Level 0 - 06.57%] - (New) Plant clone (Active) [Level 3 - 61.20%] (New) Fire Style: Smoke Bomb (Active) [Level 1 ¨C 24.36%] (New) Water Style: Water Balloon (Active) [Level 1 ¨C 15.78%] All the details can be inquired later manually. ] ''Can you display the scroll in the Inventory without taking it out?'' [Yes, user can directly view and learn any scroll from inventory and no damage will be done to the scroll while learning. One Scroll of Lightning Style: Lightning Senbon learned. Requirements to learn: INT 20, DEX 15 Do you want to learn the Ninjutsu? [Y/N] ] ''But I haven''t done any lightning style exercises. Will I still be able to use it proficiently?'' [You have the body of a game character. Although Chakra nature exercises can help, but you gain skill proficiency for all elemental Ninjutsu the more you use them. So you can learn it without any problem. Will you learn it? [Y/N]] Jun selected ''Yes'' and information about Lightning Senbon automatically flowed into his head and he learnt the jutsu. By this time Hokage had had recovered and set Hiashi home along with Hinata. He asked an ANBU to take the bound up shinobi to Interrogation room and keep an eye on him. Finally he turned to Jun, his old eyes looking at him with a warm expression. "Alright then Jun-kun, I have two options now. Either I can declare your contributions openly and reward you for your services, or I can hide it and treat you like a three year old kid of the village and reward you in secret--" "No need for trouble, keeping my village safe is my responsibility. Moreover, I am a kid, so what''s wrong in treating me like one. As for the information on me, it would help if you modify the information to something of a believable level in which a kid gets lucky. After all, Truth is stranger than fiction." Saying this, Jun left the Hokage''s office, going home. ''Yes, you are a kid Jun-Kun, but one of the most powerful and troublesome one I had yet had the good fortune to meet. I guess I should just let him go about his life like the other kids. He is too powerful for his own good. Too many troublesome factors will reveal themselves if he is brought to spotlight.'' The Third mused as he leaned back on his chair, puffing out smoke. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Two days later, The Third called Jun to his office once more. Jun was puzzled as in the past two days he had one nothing except to prepare for the Ninja Pre Academy Training, also known as Ninja Kindergarten. As soon as he arrived, two ANBU rushed him into the Hokage''s office and sealed it with a variety of seals such as Silencing Seals, Presence Inhibition Seal etc. Seeing Jun puzzled, The Third explained to him. "As I had promised, I found a way to hide your information legally without Anyone having any loophole or method to extract that info. But before that I need to give you something I had been entrusted to do." Saying so The Third gave him a packet containing two scrolls. "These are two scrolls containing methods of practicing Hyuga Style: Gentle Fist Chakra Nature to Basic and Intermediate levels. Advanced and Forbidden level scrolls are clan secrets only meant for their Main family, so no one even among the branch members can''t get them let alone an outsider. But even Basic and Intermediate level scrolls are well beyond anything you can find anywhere else on your own. I seem to remember that you have affinity for all types of chakra, therefore practicing it shouldn''t be difficult. Therefore since you already have a strong Unique Chakra Nature for assassination type attacks, Try getting few more types of Skills that will balance you out on all skills. For e.g.: You could try -" "Wait a second please", Jun said "Can I have that pen and paper on your desk?" "Um Sure." Hokage replied as he gave him what he asked. Jun sat down on a chair, with his pen poised on the paper, "Please continue now Hokage Sama. I didn''t want to waste valuable advice." The Third Looked at him amusedly before continuing what he was saying, "- So as I was saying, Try Iryojutsu, seeing how you often run off alone to danger, you need that in case of emergency. Secondly you could try Fuuinjutsu, Sealing arts have always been important for anyone aiming for all round excellence. I have never seen you practice any Genjutsu, so you could try that? And for now try not using Plant Style unless you are in risk of mortal danger. Apart from Plant Style, your other skills are weak, so catch up on them, like Taijutsu and maybe use of some weapons?" The Third advised. "Fuuinjutsu, Iryojutsu and Taijutsu I can pay attention to. Genjutsu is not possible since something is missing from my bloodline which makes it imbalanced and for some reason it forbids me any Genjutsu." "That''s strange. If I am not wrong you should have a Sage inheritance based bloodline. I will look into similar unbalanced Sage bloodlines and inform you. Which brings me to my next point which is connected to your identity security. The best way I see to resolve your case is join me Hokage reserve ANBU as a trainee. These ANBU unlike normal ones report only to me. If you join them as a trainee you can get a lot of their privileges like Training Grounds for practice, all types of Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and other Ninja use items available. Also most important, you can gain access to various kinds of intelligence reports. So, I think this position should coincide with all your needs." Third stated confidently. Jun thought for a while and felt that The Third was right. Information, Protection, and all types of methods to get stronger would be available. Why not take it then. "I agree to it Hokage Sama." Jun replied respectfully. "Alright, I will introduce you to your superior now. ''Tenzo''!" Hokage signaled while calling his code name, to allow Yamato through the seal. 13 BSNW CH 012 Jun VS. sTenzos When Yamato arrived, he and Jun sized each other up. Jun felt that Yamato was a bit plain and young looking, older than Jun, but barely looked like he crossed into his teens, must be 13-14 year old. Yamato too looked at Jun in hopes of discovering what makes him so special that Hokage decided to let someone like him guide him. "''Tenzo'', as I talked to you before about this, you will be this one''s superior and guide him until he is experienced enough to handle himself. After that you can be back to partnering with ''Inu''. So the sooner you make him independent, sooner you can go back." Third Hokage explained to Yamato about his Partner ''Inu'', i.e. Kakashi Hatake. "As you say, Hokage sama." Yamato replied stiffly. After coming out of Root, the first thing he got was being assigned to a child, he wasn''t in a good mood. "Anyway, you don''t have to do anything special with him right now. Take him to the special ANBU HQ and get him what he needs, at the same time get him introduced to this Medic-Jonin in the hospital" said Third Hokage, giving Yamato an envelope with details "She knows about Jun and has agreed to teach him the way of Iryojutsu. That''s all for now, you can leave. And Jun do please try to follow what I have suggested, it will definitely help you." Jun nodded before leaving the Hokage''s Office with ''Tenzo''. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yamato guided him to an old weapon''s repair shop in the corner of Konoha market, known as ''Tools and Necessities''. After entering the door of the shop Yamato wore an ANBU mask with Red Striped tattoo on the cheeks, and gave a blank ANBU mask to Jun. "Unless you are an ANBU, you won''t be able to enter the HQ. HQ has many entrances, one of which is in this shop. You are getting a blank mask since you are just a trainee. Once you are a full-fledged ANBU you will get a personalized mask. For now I will tell you all you can get here. Lord Hokage let you have an access on the resources of the ANBU division, you can have access to all kinds of information below the ranks of S class secrets. S class and above secrets need approval of the Hokage. The archives of information contain wide variety of knowledge ranging from info on people to Techniques, Theories and Studies in Various kind of Nature transformations and Combined Nature Transformations, Skills of Medical Ninjutsu, Secrets of Sealing techniques and so on. If I am not wrong, Hokage asked you to try Sealing arts and Medical arts. You can get those skills here, although up to Basic and Intermediate level. My advice is however to get a few D and C rank jutsu first and practice them and not over reach your capabilities." Yamato informed him dismissively. Jun didn''t like the way this ''Tenzo'' guy was talking to him. Yeah he was a kid, but wasn''t it too rude to talk like this with someone you have just met. ''Looks like I might need to show him what I can do and shut his mouth for a bit.'' Jun thought "What would you know what I am capable of Tenzo-san? How about we have a spar, we can get to know each other better that way. I am sure there must be some training grounds or practice rooms around here." "There are training grounds outside the HQ, made for training purposes of Jonin and ANBU, but we won''t go there right now. Let''s pick one of the practice rooms here." Yamato talked with the receptionist and booked a practice room for their spar. After locking the room with a seal, Yamato and Jun warmed up for their spar with a few stretches. Jun took out a coin from his inventory for signaling the start of the match. "We will begin when the coin hits the ground Tenzo-San." Saying this Jun tossed the coin up and got into a half crouch position. Yamato stood where he was lazily. The moment the coin hit the ground, Jun sprinted towards Yamato in a zig zag pattern with incredible speed. Yamato looked at his trajectory for a moment before attacking where he was supposed to be next. ''Fast, but if that''s all you got, you need more experience. ''Tree Limb Jutsu'''' Yamato thought Few Roots spewed out from the ground in incredible speed lashing out at Jun, trying to disrupt his speed. Jun had to back off a moment before responding. ''''Fire Style: Smoke Bomb''; ''Sage Art: Chakra Sense'''' Jun released a thick cloud of smoke to cover whole room, and gave up on his vision, and used nature energy based chakra sense to ''See'' Yamato. "This is good, but not enough to distract me, ''Dense Wooden Wall''" Yamato responded. Thick branches erupted from all over the room, dispersing most of the smoke in the process. Jun, seeing that the smokescreen was mostly dispersed, jumped out from the corner of the room with a few seeds he took out from his pocket. He threw them on a few of the branches that were closest to him. ''''Plant style: Explosive Growth''! ''Plant Style: Clone Jutsu''!'' Jun responded the new threat with appropriate measures. The seeds struck the branches, and burst out in sudden growth immediately as if in a frenzy. Soon they had covered almost every part of branches they could reach, creating a mini forest inside the room. Not letting Yamato respond, Jun''s clone kept pestering and distracting him with physical attacks and leaf weapons. ''I am not done yet. Let''s see you deal with this, ''Plant style: Transpiration'', ''Plant Style: Rain of Oil Seeds'''' Following Jun''s jutsu, the plants that had grown from the Wood Style branches of Yamato, started releasing dense amounts of vapor, following which , all the wood started to dry up , becoming brittle. On the other hand, a plant with a large flower started to grow from Jun''s hand, wrapping around it like a glove. Once it was full grown, the Flower opened wide and started shooting seeds everywhere. The places that the seeds landed, were covered in a special oil made from chakra. ''Finally, this would finish it, I am nearly out of chakra anyway. ''Fire Style: Firecracker Celebration''! ''Wind Style: Gust''!'' Jun said as he used last of his usable chakra to create multiple small balls of Fire Chakra, made to explode on contact, and fired them off towards the oil splashes. Then with the Wind Style chakra, he blew of a huge gust of wind, accelerating the fire enough to wrap up around the dried up wood and plants, resulting in a Blazing Forest Fire in the room. Jun was nearly out of chakra, he barely had enough to be conscious. But he saw that Yamato had already defeated his clone and was rushing towards him, with thick branches growing out of his arms, which deflected burning branches and bursts of flames. Jun bit his tongue, arousing him from his semi unconscious state. ''No, I can''t lose here. I won''t lose!'' Determining his state he saw that what he planned next required more chakra than he had currently. But he went on with it anyway, drawing in as much Nature chakra as he could in a split second to compensate for his own chakra, his eyes glowing like a star with runes swirling crazily fast in the Golden band in his eye. ''Sage Art: Blazing Leaf Maelstrom!!'' Jun spent every drop of chakra left in him, and even some of his vitality for this final attack. He ignored the notifications sent by Game System that his HP was dropping and executed the Jutsu. And in the next moment, everything in the room was filled with reddish-orange color. Yamato was blasted away from striking the opposite wall of the room. He quickly executed ''Wood Style: Wood Locking Wall'' and covered himself in a wooden dome to save himself. However even his dome started to crack from the power of Jun''s attack. Just as he thought that he would have to create another one, the attack lost its power and intensity, calming down bit by bit. Yamato gave a sigh of relief, he had genuinely felt a threat to his life in this last attack of Jun''s! When he was sighing in relief and waiting for it to get over, Three Senbons, crackling with Lightning, pierced through the cracks in the dome and struck him in the chest. As fell down, convulsing from the intense lightning coursing through him, he heard a soft tired voice whispered from outside the dome, "I won". After that he heard the sound of a body falling down on the cracked wooden dome that made creaking noises in the utter silence that followed. 14 BSNW CH 013 Juns Injury "WHAT?!!" an angry roar filled Hokage''s office. Three people were currently standing in front of the Third Hokage. One of them was frowning with a dark expression while the other two had ANBU masks hence their expressions couldn''t be seen, but one of them had their head bowed down, as if in guilt. "Tenzo!" The Third spoke, his voice trembling with barely suppressed rage, "remind me again, just what was the assignment I gave you while giving you responsibility of Jun Kigen?" "Watch over him, help him get settled in as trainee of Hokage''s personal ANBU corps, suggest him subtly to follow the advice you gave and prevent him from getting into any fight that shows off his ability and puts him in danger and leaks his information." Yamato replied "Correct. Now please explain how did following that order, resulted in Jun landing in an ICU ward of Leaf Hospital with his hands and forearms having worse than Third degree burns, damages to his back muscles, and second or first degree burns on rest of the exposed skin?" "I was careless. I shouldn''t have let it go that far and defeated him quickly enough." Yamato replied "Wrong! You are still thinking like a Root operative. Normal civilians and Shinobi are not obliged to follow your orders and commands like mindless tools. Jun challenged you to a spar for precisely that reason as you judged him according to your own narrow view. When you left Root and requested us to take you in, you said you didn''t like their methods. Yet now you treated a three year old child the way they treated you, like a tool meant to follow whatever you say. You neither tried to understand him, nor why I gave him that much priority. His Plant Release is just like your Wood Release, a lost art of the warring era. And moreover his is naturally formed. And you go and nearly kill him off due to arrogance because of your ego that was challenged when he asked to spar. This was not meant to happen. Tenzo, you are suspended for three months and imprisoned under the charges of going against your orders and endangering a valuable future shinobi of the village. Inu, you will be in charge of watching over Jun while he recovers full use of his body. You two are dismissed!" Hokage commanded After they both left, Third Hokage leaned back on his chair, turning towards the final occupant of the room. With a sigh he spoke, "How is Jun now?" Shikaku, who was the third person, answered with a frown, "if it was someone else, I would have said that they will never gain use of their hands and should retire as a ninja, which would be immense pity considering he hasn''t even started yet. However that boy is something else, even though his nerves of his hands are burned, his bloodline is healing it, slowly but surely. Rest of his body should be perfectly fine in one month. But his hands can take 4-6 months depending on how fast his bloodline works, even then it might take him one year to become as good in jutsus as before. Currently before his body is healed, he will have 10% of his previous Combat Capability, since his most of his fighting style depended on his Plant Style mostly. However till then, he can at most be equal to an academy student. Saoyo Ichiji-san, the one in charge of treating him, says that with some specially made bandages that will prevent his injuries from worsening, it will be enough for him to be able to do Taijutsu, and that he should attend the pre-academy like other children of his age. I am also of the same opinion. My son Shikamaru and Inoichi''s daughter will be there with him to prevent him from being reckless. Also for his protection you have already assigned someone. So I am of the opinion he should attend classes." Third Hokage thought about it for a while, before tossing a storage scroll to Shikaku. Seeing Shikaku catch it with a questioning expression, The Third explained, "This contains training scrolls for Fuuinjutsu, Iryojutsu and some weapon use Techniques like Shuriken, Kunai, swords etc. and also Taijutsu styles that would be useful since he can''t use jutsu for now. I was the one who suggested he go with Tenzo to get all these from ANBU HQ, well it didn''t go as I had planned but it''s the least I could do. At least he won''t be bored, even if his jutsu is sealed, Fuuinjutsu practice will keep him busy enough. Iryojutsu needs lot of information to be learned about human body, this time is perfect for that." "As you say, I will give him this and tell him what you said." Shikaku sighed, "I usually don''t get angry easily, but for that child to suffer like this, not fair." "I know, just take care of him." Third Hokage told Shikaku as he left. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One week passed. In a private room in Leaf Hospital, a young boy wrapped up in bandages like a mummy finally opened his eyes. As he looked around, he saw a boy with tied up hair, sleeping in a chair in the room , and a beautiful older woman, sleeping by his bed side, her head on his bed. A moment later he caught up with his memories of what happened and called out to her, patting her head. "Yoshino san?" "Jun Kun?!" Yoshino woke up in a hurry, and seeing him sitting up, she started checking and brushing him up all over with her hands. After he realized he was ok, her anger and worry burst out, "Just what were you thinking?! Why did you use such destructive attacks? It was a spar for god''s sake, not a fight to the death. If it was anyone but you who got that injured, they would be dead already¡­" and hence the guilty (Jun) was berated by the Judge (Yoshino) for a long while. Shikamaru woke up in the middle of it, and intelligently stayed out from getting involved in the middle of it. Shikaku who arrived near the end, followed his son''s example and hid in a corner out of sight. When Yoshino finally finished, Jun unwrapped bandages covering the burnt parts of his face , revealing fast recovering pink skin and hair that had been cut short because of the parts that had been burned. All that was unchanged were the eyes, still full of energy. He slowly moved towards Yoshino and hugged her, apologizing for his rash actions. Yoshino hugged him back, crying slightly, while Shikamaru and Shikaku looked at each other and smiled, shrugging their shoulders in unison. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "So, the pre academy school for all ninja kids, including Shikamaru and Ino starts two weeks later, and since I can''t currently train in Ninjutsu or such, you would like it if I attend it too? Am I right?" Jun asked Shikaku. "It''s not just me, the Third also suggested the same. Also, he has given you a few gifts, which he promised earlier. Take rest for now, you can worry about the school later." Shikaku said before leaving Jun to rest and recover. Jun took the storage scroll and deposited it into his inventory. System displayed messages instantly. [Scroll Of Basic Fuuinjutsu Training Discovered. Learn [Y/N]?] [Scroll Of Intermediate Fuuinjutsu Training Discovered. Can learn after mastering Basic Fuuinjutsu.] [Scroll Of Basic Iryojutsu Training Discovered. Learn [Y/N]?] [Scroll Of Intermediate Iryojutsu Training Discovered. Can learn after mastering Basic Iryojutsu.] [Scroll Of Basic Shurikenjutsu Training Discovered. Learn [Y/N]?] [Scroll of Basic Sword style Training Discovered. Learn [Y/N]?] [Scroll Of Basic Pole Arts Training Discovered. Learn [Y/N]?] [Scroll Of Basic Fist Arts Training (Fire Fist Style, Monkey Fist Style, Tiger Claw Style, Ten thousand Bee Style, Strong Fist Style, Shadow Fist Style, Elegant Butterfly Style, Swaying Grass Style) Discovered. Learn [Y/N]?] . . . . Jun confirmed Yes for all the Basic level jutsus, since now that he can''t use Ninjutsu for a while, these will be all he can use, so he had to get proficient with them as soon as possible. 15 Interlude : Update in Gaming System and Juns Progress so far Seeing that usually shinobi get stronger by training too , not just by quest and killings, System will now gain experience through long hours of training. Jun will now be able to gain more stats and exp by training. Translations of some terms used : Fuuinjutsu : Sealing arts Iryojutsu : Healing Arts ShurikenJutsu : Shuriken Technique Rest i have already added along with the chapter so i am not repeating them here If any i have missed some how, Comment in the Comment section and i will clarify about it _________________________________________________________________________________ His stats and perks and skill set are below. [Name: Jun Kigen Level: 7 EXP: 42/490 Age: 3 year Gender: Male Title: Adopted foster child of the Ino-Shika-Cho (+35% EXP until level Ten, +50% Skill EXP if using the Three Clan''s Jutsus) STATS HP?360/360 CP?552/552 STR?20 INT?23 DEX?21 VIT?18 WIS?24 LUK-25 (Can''t Assign Points to it, randomly increase) AvailableStatPoints : 25 Bloodline Activation: Stage 1: 46.45% Activated Kekkei Genkai: Sage Wisdom Eye (S¨¥ji no chie) (Status: Off) Inventory: (Status : Unlocked) Ryo: 45,000] _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [ PERKS Physique Blessed by Nature: ? Physique that is blessed by nature because of your bloodline. DEX +5 each level, STR + 4 each level Poison Immunity: ? Poisons are your friend. Even the worst of the poisons don''t hurt you instead help you. +50% HP and CP Regeneration on being poisoned. Permanent Insomnia: ? you can never sleep once your bloodline is activated but also increases mind processing speed and perception. Only deep meditation can rest your mind. +0.1% Bloodline activation on each successful deep meditation. Waking user by external stimulation breaks meditation and no bloodline activation will be gained. Nature''s Communication: Can use Sage Art : Plant Release without being in Sage mode by Directly drawing and using nature Energy. Must be in a plant based environment. Unique body regeneration: ? your body responds to healing less than your natural regeneration. +100% CP cost when using a Healing Jutsu on user, Exception only for a bloodline art. Genjutsu hates me! ? Your bloodline which makes you immune to Genjutsu, also prevents you from using it. All Genjutsu Failure +100% Unparalled Chakra Control: You control Chakra like your own limb. Perfect chakra control, utilise up to the last drop of your chakra perfectly. Can master anything chakra related easily if you put your mind to it. All Jutsu exp gain +75% Gamer''s Body: ? Your body is that of a Video Game Character¡­ somewhat at least ? You recover HP and CP when sleeping ? 100% in your bed, 75% in someone else''s, 50% in a sleeping bag or tent, 25% on the ground or in the trees. However Since a perk is available which doesn''t allow you to sleep, HP and CP can be recovered by deep meditation instead. Gamer''s Mind: ? you have the mind of an RPG Gamer, so keep your calm and make some wise choices¡­ hopefully. You are able to calm yourself more easily, but be careful, extreme emotional distress can still affect you. Immunity from forceful mind control and Genjutsu.] ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SKILLS Observe (Active) [Level 17 ? 97.93%]: ? the most basic skill needed by a gamer. Observe everything and gain information with use of the skill. Gain more and more details of target as this skill levels up. ? +100% Perception Temporarily, 1 CP/activation target. Nature Energy Absorption (Passive) [Level 16 ? 04.01%]: ? the primary skill of your clan bloodline. Absorb little amounts of nature energy constantly as you breathe. Increase +5% nature energy absorbed per level. Deep Meditation Technique (Active) [Level 18 ? 65.51%]:? the basis of resting your unique body, since you can''t sleep. Increase HP & CP regeneration +5%/every skill level Self-made Chakra Training Method (Active) [Level 17 ? 42.84%]: ? you are now a step above from those with knowledge in Chakra manipulation, while you won''t be performing miraculous feats any time soon, you are able to train your chakra from extreme young age. You will have enormous reserves of chakra as you grow up and immense control over It. -0.3% CP cost for Jutsu per level. Basic Base Elements Affinity (Passive) [Level 5 ? 05.27%] ? your chakra has acceptance of all elements - 15% chakra cost reduction to all Base Element Ninjutsu and nature manipulation. Every 25 levels enables user to learn more difficult elemental ninjutsus. (Level 0- Rank E & D, Level 25- Rank C, Level 50- Rank B & A, Level 75- Rank S, Level 100- All elemental jutsu can be learned and gain +10 skill level for any learnt, as soon as it is learned.) (New) Fire Style: Smoke Bomb (Active) [Level 1 ¨C 24.36%]- Basic Fire style Jutsu for distraction while hiding. Contains little amounts of fire style chakra. (New) Fire Style: Firecracker Celebration (Active) [Level 0 ¨C 24.36%]- Minimal Attack Power of individual Chakra formed Fire cracker bombs , what it lacks in quality, makes up in quantity. (New) Wind Style: Gust (Active) [Level 0 ¨C 38.16%]- Wind chakra blown through mouth creating huge gusts of wind (New) Water Style: Water Balloon (Active) [Level 1 ¨C 15.78%]- Basic Water style Jutsu, mostly for getting proficient with water style. Jutsu made as a joke, might contain some attack power if trained to high levels. Nature Energy Method : Chakra Sense (Active) [Level 27 ? 04.65%]- The ability to sense the chakra outside the body using nature energy, the higher the level greater the area of sensing and more precise. SubSkills:(+) - Area Sense - Chakra Signature Sensing - Chakra Tracking Sage art : Plant Release(Shokuton) (Active) [Level 17 ? 58.34%]- Your spirit has a resonance with nature''s flora. Unique Release type is gained because of it. You understand the will of various plants using this and can command them as you please. Can only activate around plants. Uses minimum amount of chakra. Plant Release Subjutsu:(+) - Ruler of Plants(Shokubutsu no j¨­gi) (Active) [Level 4 ? 72.74%]- Plants bloom in their finest to impress their ruler. After providing sufficient energy, can use plants as you will without use of any more chakra. Plants will draw sustenance from nature enrgy to fulfill your will as long as this jutsu is active. Can be used as Attack, Support and Defense. Derived Jutsu : Plant style: Explosive Growth -Vine Entanglement (Active) [Level 6 - 16.24%]- Commands plants to bypass defense and attacks and entangle and wrap targets. Chakra running through them prevents use of ninjutsu and resists strength and brute force until chakra lasts. -Paralysis Thorn Bullet (Active) [Level 8 - 06.98%]- Fires paralysis venom containing thorns at vital points and joints of targets. Results in instant paralysis , unless sufficient resistance or immunity to it present in target. -Death of Thousand Leaf Cuts (Active) [Level 2 - 45.03%]- Leaves transformed into Leaf blades attack target in a continuous storm of leaves until chakra is maintained. Also can incorporate various medicinal effects: Sleep, Paralysis, Poison, Bloodclot prevention etc. -(New) Sage Art : Blazing Leaf Maelstrom (Active) [Level 0 - 06.57%] - Combination art of Death of Thousand Leaf Cuts, Rain of Oil Seeds, Wind Style: Gust and any Fire style jutsu. Extremely deadly. -(New) Transpiration (Active) [Level 0 - 06.57%] - Drain Water from the surfaces which have plants are attached and release through leaves -(New) Rain of Oil Seeds (Active) [Level 0 - 06.57%] - Fire off hundreds of seeds that let out Chakra oil when burst. -Plant clone (Active) [Level 3 - 61.20%] - Clone created through plant style. Its advantage lies in the fact that its very hard to damage its flexibility based plant innerbody that can take most ninja weapon attacks until its bisected completely in half. It can keep goin through usual damages as long as it has chakra. Its different from wood style clone that has its advantages in sturdiness and durability. (New) Basic Fuuinjutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 0 - 0.00%] - Sealing arts can even seal a Bijuu. Increase Seal effectivenes +10%, +20% success when creaing various seals. (New) Basic Iryojutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 0 - 0.00%] - You are now a step above from those with knowledge in first aid, while you won''t be performing surgeries any time soon, you are able to heal minor wounds and keep people from getting infected - +1% effectiveness/level - 3% CP cost for Iryojutsu (New) Basic Shurikenjutsu (Active/Passive) [Level 0 - 0.00%] - Basic Shuriken Throwing style taught in Konoha. Shuriken and kunai throwing Accuracy +35% , Drawing speed + 25% , Throwing Power + 30% (New) Basic Swordstyle (Active/Passive) [Level 0 - 0.00%] - Basic Sword fighting style taught in Konoha. Sword type weapon combat +60% effectiveness (New) Basic Pole Arts (Active/Passive) [Level 0 - 0.00%] - Basic Pole fighting style taught in Konoha. Pole type weapon combat +60% effectiveness (New) Basic Fist Arts (Fire Fist Style, Monkey Fist Style, Tiger Claw Style, Ten thousand Bee Style, Strong Fist Style, Shadow Fist Style, Elegant Butterfly Style, Swaying Grass Style) (Active/Passive) [Level 0 - 0.00%] - Various fist styles taught in Konoha. Unarmed combat +60% effectiveness ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16 BSNW CH 014 First Day at Pre Academy School Two weeks later Jun''s was getting finishing touches on the special bandages that were wrapped around his lower arm and hands by Saoyo-san. These bandages were made with a combination of Sealing Arts and Healing Arts. Jun had gained little bit of the basic information of the Sealing arts, practicing these past few weeks, but he still couldn''t make out most of the seals and combinations. ''Must be a high level one'' Jun thought as Saoyo stood up. "Alright then Jun kun, These special bandages will help you heal faster and also seal your Ninjutsu. You can still do Taijutsu, but in moderation. Your rest of the body has more or less healed so ninja activities should be too much of problem seeing you can display 20% of your previous prowess. But don''t strain yourself excessively." Saoyo cautioned him. "I got it Saoyo-San I don''t think I will face any problem that will make me strain more than that anyway." Jun replied just as four people entered his room, Two Adults and Two Kids. One of the kids bounded over to hug him, but realized midway that he was injured so she stopped. "Still hurts Jun Kun?" Ino asked him, her eyes getting slightly watery seeing his bandaged hands. "No, I am fine. Oh ya, Shikaku san, did you get my clothes?" "Yes, here you go." Shikaku said as he threw a light grey loose fitting t-shirt and a pair of black colored slacks to him. Jun excused himself, went to the washroom and changed into the clothes and brushed back his newly grown hair. Yoshino san had forbidden him from cutting his soft hair ever again so he had to let it grow, but he did admit it looked good with his eyes. After he came back, Shikaku, Inoichi, Shikamaru and Ino along with Jun, left for the welcoming ceremony of the Pre-Academy school since it was the first day. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "As you know, our village was made by the hard work of many great people. These people did great feats that made them famous to each and every person of their time. But all of them had one thing in common, The Will of Fire, the belief that this village was their home, their family. They have passed on their hopes and dreams to you. You children are the future of the village....." the Third Hokage gave his welcome speech at the beginning of the session, Boring most of the kids , and making the rest fidget and look around. Jun was in the latter category as he looked around to see if he knew the people that would later be in his batch. He saw Choji and Shikamaru a little distance away from Ino and him, with Shikaku , Inoichi and Choza standing behind them all talking amongst themselves and watching over Shikamaru, Choji, Ino and him. Choji seemed to be complaining to Shikamaru about lack of chips or something. In some distance to his left he could see Kiba along with his mother, and his puppy that was on top of his head. The Aburame family was also there near them, with little Shino playing with what looked like a lady bug but in bluish green color. In front of him he could see prominent VIP''s like Hyuga and Uchiha also some of the influential civilian families. He saw Sasuke standing with his Brother Itachi, talking to him with an excited and envious expression. ''Sasuke and Itachi, as far as I remember Itachi was supposed to be a genius. Very well, I will mingle with Sasuke, hopefully his desire to be as good as his brother will make him a good training partner, my ability should be tad bit better than his at my present condition.'' Jun thought Along with Sasuke and Itachi, he saw Hinata and her cousin Neji standing with Hiashi Hyuga. Hinata had her head bowed down, probably because of fear of her father. ''Neji should already be in an older class than us, he probably came because Hiashi wanted to remind him to protect her. Clan politics are nasty.'' Suddenly they heard a commotion outside the hall. A moment later, a Shinobi in a brown haired pony tail, brought a boy in orange jumpsuit, greenish shorts and black inner vest by the scruff of his neck. "Oh, not again!" Everyone who had sharp ears heard the Hokage mutter, which meant pretty much every shinobi in the room. "What did he do this time Iruka?" The man with ponytail, Iruka, deposited the boy with the jarring fashion down on the ground before turning to the Third. "Mischief like usual Hokage sama. Painted on the Hokage Stone Faces that, and I quote him, ''Today marks the rise of the greatest Hokage ever born in Konoha'' and a smiling emoji with a ''V'' sign." Iruka sighed after narrating. The Third held his forehead in his hand for a few moments before turning to the boy, "Naruto, go and stand with the others, I will talk to you after this." "Sure old man." Saying this, Naruto jumped down from the stage before noticing a girl with pink hair among the VIP''s and bounded over to stand along with her and the woman who seemed to be her mother, although the older woman had reddish hair. Jun was confused seeing that pink haired girl, was that a bloodline. He had never heard of it being common one, so was it a unique one like himself? But seriously, Pink hair, what kind of power would justify that kind of hair color. A minute later Jun got his answer. Naruto was trying to talk to her, but after giving him a name and hello for formality, that girl''s entire time was spent staring at Sasuke, with her eyes that seemed to suddenly turn into stars. ''That''s her super power then'' Jun thought shaking his head ''Power of a fan girl''. He could see that Naruto was also staring at Sasuke now, but in envy. His attention turned back to stage as Hokage finished his speech and introduced Iruka, "This is Iruka-Sensei, he will be in charge of your batch until you graduate from academy. For today you will all enroll and do some tests assigned by your teacher to measure your abilities, after that you all will be free to do as you like until leave. All the parents and guardians can go now and let the class continue, also the older siblings may also go to their class" Hokage said looking at a few older students pointedly to let them know, for e.g. Neji and Itachi. After a while Iruka assembled them all in a classroom, and roll called them and took in their details. Jun let it all flash by without paying attention until it was his turn. "Jun Kigen, 3 year old, I like meditating in forest or garden, no dislikes" Jun introduced himself briefly. "Ah yes, I know about your circumstance" Iruka said, eyeing his bandages "I will take care not to stress those." "No need for that Sensei, they are not that weak, I can still use them enough to qualify as a normal student of the class" Said Jun while taking a chalk and swiftly writing his name on the board, to demonstrate his hand was fine, "As long it''s not molding chakra, I can do pretty much everything else." Iruka was flabbergasted for a moment, this was a student beyond definition of genius and he had been slighting him. God only knew his expression if he had known that Jun could easily defeat a Chunin before his injuries, and had even defeated a jonin with a suicidal attack "Very well. Take your seat Jun Kun." 17 BSNW CH 015 Ability Assessment : Obstacle Course Iruka took them all to practice ground for their ability assessment. He told them to choose groups in random, at most five people per group. Jun was in a group with Ino, Sasuke, the pink haired girl, and the blond haired mischief maker. He saw other people he knew also being paired off, maybe those from ninja families automatically sought each other. He saw Hinata going in a team with Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba and Shino. The other kids also made groups of five. When everyone had formed their groups, Iruka told them the method to test their ability, an Obstacle race. "First we will be doing some basic exercises that will help you to use your muscles to their max potential. After that we will have you all compete in the Obstacle Course. Just to inform you, the record of this obstacle course was set by a child during the third ninja war, Nobusaki Tomoya. Poor guy died during an ambush of Kumo Ninja, saving his comrades. He despite being a civilian background holder, saved many of the people from Ninja Clans. All because he was an extremely dedicated child, hardworking to the extreme. Therefore you can remember this lesson, Background doesn''t matter as much as what you do with your Hard work, Willpower and Dedication." Saying so Iruka started the obstacle course. First some of the civilian students tried their attempts. They were motivated by Iruka''s speech and wanted to prove that they were not any less than the ninja children of the clans. However the course proved especially difficult for them, pitfalls, tripwires, launchers that shot blunted light wooden shuriken, twists and turns that would need time to get used to and various traps that were designed to make a person think on their feet. It proved bit more difficult than they realized. Although everyone was really fit beyond their age, however none could go past the course in less than ten mins. Finally Iruka decided to focus on the ten students among whom he saw the strongest of his class. He gave the chance to Hinata''s group first, Shino went first among them. He went past the tripwires and pitfalls easily, however shurikens gave a bit of problem. Still he did them by 6 minutes. Kiba and Choji finished with 5.20 and 8.15 respectively. Shikamaru easily passed every trap with a slow jog, taking his time. He finished barely within 10 minutes. When Iruka asked why he not put more effort for the course, he replied with one word, ''Troublesome''. Hinata went last and finished in 9 minutes, only because she tripped over one of the wires in her nervousness. "Next Sakura!" Iruka called out. The pink haired girl rushed out with a last look at Sasuke. However she got tired halfway into the course and finished at 10.20. While she panted in exhaustion, the blond haired boy went forward and talked to her in excitement. "Hi I am Uzumaki Naruto! What is your name?" "Sakura Haruno." "Well Sakura, you were good, But not as good as me. Watch now." Ino butted into their conversation and went on to the course. She started off in a burst of speed, passing through the shurikens in less than a minute. Jumping around various traps, pitfalls and tripwires, she put one final burst of speed, and completed it in 5.40. Sakura and Naruto looked at her dumbfounded. "No need to be surprised," Dragging Jun forward next to her she continued, "when Jun had had his chance then you will know the meaning of surprise." Ino said with a grin. "No need to wait that long, I will be going next." Jun supplemented Ino''s statement and went forward. Sasuke finally started paying attention on the course. He had been impressed by him when he saw him in Hyuga mansion. As Jun got ready to start he got a notification. [Chain Quest Alert! Part One!] TrainingMontage Irukaisgoingtoputyouthroughatrainingregimen,sodoyourbest. First Objective:Beat the time of everyone on your team in the first attempt. Timetobeat:Depends on the result of rest of your team ObjectiveCompletionReward:+100EXP,+2StatPoints BonusObjective 1: Beat time of everyone in your class. Bonus Objective 2: Beat the previous record holder''s time of 3.22 Bonus Objective 3: Impress Sasuke and Naruto and organize a spar session. Failure:+ 50 EXP He started with a smile, and enhanced his body with nature chakra. He blinked off in a spread of dust, passing by the shuriken launchers before they had a chance to fire off. Jumping beyond the tripwires, he dodged the pitfalls while thinking of how to organize the spar. ''Naruto is easy, I just need to get that pink haired girl, Sakura to join. Sasuke is not that difficult, he will do anything to compete with his brother. He will easily agree as long as it makes him strong. Sakura¡­ I will have to see what to do about her.'' By this time he was already past the pitfalls and nearing the twist and turn part of the obstacle course. Since there was no more dodging past, he turned his gear onto another notch as he flashed through it like a lightning bolt. Before anyone realized how he had done it, he already had finished the race, without breaking a sweat. Iruka looked at him in amazement, before calling out his time. "2.40" Iruka called out as the class went in uproar. The seemingly injured guy who they thought only had good looks, defeated each record ever made on this course. Iruka too came forward and praised Jun. "Well done, you had me worried for a second, you being injured and all. But you far surpassed what I could have ever imagined even if you weren''t injured." Iruka praised Jun. Sasuke finally started taking him seriously and Sakura started to cheer him as he stood on the start line. On Iruka''s signal he blasted of, putting all his effort to beat Jun''s record. His Uchiha blood craved power and accomplishment, give him the will power to push his body beyond his limits. Jun observed Sasuke as he blew past all obstacles. However in the end, the twist and turns dropped his speed a bit, giving him a 3.51 on the time taken. Finally, it was Naruto''s turn, after sending a ''V'' sign at Sakura to show off and a glare at Sasuke at whom she was staring while ignoring him, he took position at start line. With Iruka''s signal to start he bounded off like a rabbit, his head and body crouched down, and his hands slanted back. He ran light a fired bullet, using max strength at each step, sending a pile of dust into the air as he blazed past. When Jun realized that he had been keeping max speed the whole time while dodging traps and jumping past tripwires, he was impressed. ''He is agile as well as has a tremendous stamina, a born hard worker.'' As he reached the final part, Naruto sped up even more, finally finishing with the time of 3.51, same as Sasuke, gaining the attention of entire class, except Sakura, who still believed Sasuke was cooler. Sasuke on the other hand was glad to have another competitor. When Naruto was about to boast off to Sasuke, Jun arrived between the two. "Congrats Naruto, I didn''t know you had that in you. Reaching a draw with an Uchiha, no small feat. I was going to organize a training session along with Ino, Would you guys like to come too? We could have some dedicated practice without disturbance." Jun suggested "Hey Sakura you come too! We could have lots of fun." Ino called out to Sakura, she liked the girl and wanted to be her friend. "Hey don''t forget about me, I am going to beat this arrogant bastard in the training, Believe It!" Naruto Yelled. "Hey no need to yell mischief maker, I got you are coming. Stop jumping around like a monkey." Jun retorted seeing he yelling with that puffed up face and raised hands. Ino and Sakura laughed, even Sasuke snickered at that. "So, tomorrow evening, training ground 3? That should be available for all students for practice and it too has its own practice equipment" When everyone agreed to it, Jun got a notification. [Chain Quest Alert! Part One!] TrainingMontage Irukaisgoingtoputyouthroughatrainingregimen,sodoyourbest. First Objective:Beat the time of everyone on your team in the first attempt. - Completed Objective Completion Reward:+ 100 EXP, + 2 Stat Points Bonus Objective 1: Beat time of everyone in your class. ¨C Completed Reward: Basic Fist Arts +1 level, Basic Sword Style +1 level, Basic Pole Arts +1 level Bonus Objective 2: Beat the previous record holder''s time of 3.22 - Completed Reward: Ninjutsu Scroll: Fire Style: Great Fireball, Water Style: Large Projectile Bonus Objective 3: Impress Sasuke and Naruto and organize a spar session. ¨C Completed Reward: Made impression on two Main Characters of the World''s timeline, changing their fate. Gained a Soul Memory Shard. 18 BSNW CH 016 Soul Memory Shard ''Soul Memory Shard? What is that?'' Jun asked. [Soul Memory Shard are made from the Power of Samsara. In normal circumstances it shouldn''t be possible until you complete master your blood line. However, you changed main timeline of this world by accomplishing the bonus objective. Through World Law for influencing the World Timeline in a positive direction, it has been awarded through this World''s Laws.] ''So my changes made to world will gain attention of the world?'' [Yes and No. The World pays attention to only those events which would significantly affect world enough to change major events. For Egg: had you saved Naruto''s parents somehow, killed the third Hokage etc.? However there are two types of ways you could influence the world. Positive and negative, Positive gets you reward, negative gets you tribulations. However for some people, the tribulations turns into a reward, since if they survive it, they will turn even stronger than before automatically. Tribulations are a test to see if you have the power to go against the world. But it''s not recommended, since the survival chances are less than 5%.] ''Well that is ok, I am not prepared to go against the world. Anyway, how does this Shard work?'' [Application is simple, you have two options. Absorb it directly, or let the System absorb it.] ''What will be the benefit if system absorbs it?'' [Host is now a part of this world, a being made of this World''s laws. If you absorb the shard, you will unlock memories of past life completely, even if it takes some time. But along with the memories will come the effects of your past world''s laws, which will be harmful for your mortal body. However if you let the System absorb it, system can absorb all the information and its effects, and give you the information at appropriate times as part of Quests. This way you still stay completely a part of this world and its laws.] ''Ok, do it. How do we assimilate it in the System?'' [Very easy. Just give me permission. Do you want to assimilate the Soul Memory Shard in the System? (Y/N)] ''Yes, Assimilate it.'' [Assimilation in progress. 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% ¡­. 25%... 35% ¡­. 50% ¡­ 75% ¡­.. 100% assimilated. World Quest option unlocked. You can now get quests that can directly impact the world. Success or failure of those quests will determine how this world will develop.] ''Any quests for now?'' [None for now. Host can be relaxed. You will be informed well in time for you to have a chance to accomplish the quest.] ''Ok then.'' ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ That day, in the evening, a single silhouette could be seen practicing in the grounds long past everyone had gone. If someone from the school today had seen her, they would realize it was Hinata Hyuga, her performance at the course much better right now than what it was when she was taking class with everyone else. She kept falling and tripping as it got darker, but she didn''t let up. After falling a few more times, she finally took a break. As it was getting darker she started going back. While thinking about how to improve her performance, she didn''t notice what was ahead of her and bumped into three civilian kids from her class, who probably were returning from market, seeing from the fact that how bumping into her made they drop the ice cream they had. "Hey, are you blind huh girl?! Can''t you see where you are going? Who is going to pay for all this mess now?" Kid A said. "Hey I recognize her, isn''t she a Hyuga? You know like that weird, violent kid Neji." Kid B asked. "Yup Definitely a Hyuga, I recognize those weird freaky eyes. Supposed to be so good, those eyes, yet she can''t even see where she is going." Kid C While talking they encircled her, not letting her escape. One of the kids started speaking suddenly, "Hey, The Hyuga''s are rich right. Let''s make her apologize and give us lot of money." "I... I don''t have any money. I don''t bring any. " Hinata stammered, scared. "Tch... just a brat. Just as arrogant as her brother, Spoiled by her family. We will teach you a nice lesson so that you never forget to be polite to others." He grabbed her hair and made her kneel. After that all three stood in front of her in a line. "Now apologize to us. Apologize like you mean it. Apologize!" They glared at her. "I .. I..." Hinata mumbled, teary eyed and nervous of what might happen. At that point a boy jumped from a tree branch, landing on the head of the person in the lead. When the other two saw that they tried to attack, but they were awarded with two kicks to the chest, and they boy held the hand of Hinata and ran. Once they had run far enough, Hinata focused on her savior. She was surprised when she saw that it was Naruto who saved her. "Why ¡­" Hinata asked, unsure of why someone would take a risk to save someone he didn''t even properly know. "Why, I dunno exactly. Does there have to be a reason? I felt like I wanted to so I did. I don''t need a reason to save a friend" Retorted Naruto, turning away in embarrassment. "Friend" Hinata mumbled as she realized that all his antics in class, were just to gain a friend somehow. He was an orphan and before today he must never had anyone as a friend since he was always alone. Therefore to hide his feelings he does all the antics. ''So Kind, Yet so innocent, Unlike Jun, who seems mature beyond what a kid should be capable of.'' Hinata thought smiling at Naruto. "Naruto! Here you are, Where did you suddenly run off to, you loser. Tomorrow morning be there at 4'' o clock in the evening at training ground 3. Jun will get permission from Hokage today. Don''t be late!" Ino Arrived with Sakura to inform Naruto of the plan before running off. "So.. You guys will all be doing self-training?" Hinata inquired. "Yeah, you saw Jun today right? If we don''t train harder, it will be much harder to catch up to him in future. So Jun, will be training us from tomorrow. Hey I have an idea, why don''t you join us too? I saw you practicing alone, it will be much more fun and fruitful if we all do it together." "Are sure its fine?" "Yes I am really sure Hinata, tell you what, meet me at the academy after class tomorrow, and we will go together, and deal?" Naruto Assured her and stretched out his hand for a handshake. Hinata smiled and lightly held his hand in a handshake while blushing slightly. She was happy that she finally found a friend she could be comfortable with. Jun''s Maturity made him very difficult to approach. But with Naruto, he was just like a ray of sunshine, spreading light everywhere, making him likable and easy to approach and be with. 19 BSNW CH 017 Juns New Master In The Meanwhile, Jun was on his way to the Hokage''s Office to discuss a few things with the Third Hokage. He needed a few suitable jutsus he could teach others, and a training method suited to each one of them. He reached the office son and was asked by his secretary to wait since he was meeting someone. Jun waited quietly at a side as he meditated while standing, he usually spent time meant for sleep or waiting like this, every bit of training he does is needed. The secretary was confused as how was he standing so still. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In Hokage''s office, Two Old men were sipping tea with their eyes closed, their eyes movements beneath those closed eyes betraying their calm exterior. They were sensing something else though. One of them was The Third Hokage, the other was an old man with a top not on his head full of ancient white hair, with long eyebrows and long pointed white beard. They sat their quietly facing each other while finishing their tea. Then the Third asked him, "So How is it Hinoki? Piqued your interest after so long? Amazing isn''t it?" "Ah Yes, Very tasty Hiruzen", Do give me a packet of this later. I don''t get any similar kind where I live." Hinoki ignored his subtle hints and focused on his tea, waiting for him to come to the main matter. "Ahh, I know you are doing it deliberately. Fine, I will come to the point. You always looked for one who could fuse with nature energy like breathing, so that he can inherit your ''responsibility'' and complete what you started. Trust me, I know you are looking for the other one, but he is not suitable. Trust me, this one is born to subdue ''that'' and succeed." "Fine, don''t nag Hiruzen. I will give him two years while I guide him. Don''t tell him about anything else for now. For now we will just say I am here to train him in Sealing Arts since I am the best you got." Hinoki said. "Mm Ok. I will tell him to come in then." Hiruzen signaled his secretary outside to send Jun inside. As Jun came in, he had forgotten to tone off his eyes, since he had just woken up from a meditation. Hinoki was startled a bit seeing the runes spinning in his eyes, and his hands in bandages, but calmed down as his eyes went back to normal. "Meditating while waiting Jun?" retorted The Third while looking at his eyes go back to normal from their runic states. He knew about Jun''s peculiar bloodline so he didn''t pay attention to it. "Just passing the time Hokage Sama. Actually I came here today for a permission to use the Training Ground 3 for group training purposes, also to get the permission to browse the restricted library for a few jutsu ideas about my future training. Oh and one last thing, do you have any training technique or jutsu that helps train faster? Even if side effects, I will take it as long as it isn''t too much." Jun stated his requirements. "Lots of things you need huh, Jun. Well First two are fine by me, and I have an idea about the third. But before I give you the jutsu that satisfies your third request I will caution you not to speak of it to someone else or teach it to them before informing me." "I don''t plan to teach it to a lot of people. There are only five people, including me, in the training group, so if you don''t mind I will only discuss about it with them, but only if they are suitable for it, otherwise they won''t be taught or told." "Alright, the jutsu that will satisfy your purpose is the Shadow Clone Jutsu. What do you know about the usual clone jutsu?" "Well it uses an elemental medium to create a clone of the user with the element as the base. Its characteristics and specialties depend on the element used." "Yes" the Third confirmed "But there is a problem. Since the usual clones have an elemental medium, it makes them need instructions, also if they are destroyed nothing changes in the creator of the clones since the clone won''t have any means to transfer the info so to speak, or to be specific, the brain part isn''t created when using regular clones. At least that is true for the basic five elemental clones. Some advanced elements are exception but I won''t talk about those. What is the point right now is that, Shadow clone is completely made of non-elemental chakra it replicates the entirety of its creator, i.e. from the chakra signature of the user to user''s brain itself. And when it''s destroyed, part of the chakra returns to the user, bringing all the experiences of the clone with it. Using this training is made easier. But it has a huge defect. When I said that experiences return to creator of clone, I literally mean all the experience. All the mental exhaustion, sensations of pain, training experience, even death, everything is remembered each time your clone is destroyed. Just imagine, you dying again and again and again, enough to put a serious damage on your mental health. Therefore its user has to have immense mental strength and will power, also good chakra regeneration or having enormous chakra reserves doesn''t hurt, because each time you make one shadow clone, the amount of chakra you have is equally distributed between you and your clones. So this is definitely not for those with average chakra regeneration or capacity. I gave you information of this jutsu as you have both the chakra reserves and the high regeneration of chakra recommended for this jutsu." "Alright, I will take care. How do I get this jutsu though?" Jun asked. "I will tell one of the ANBU to take you to the Secret Scroll of Forbidden Jutsu, you can learn it from there, also its enhanced version of its present there. Might be useful, and, I won''t tell you not to read about other jutsus in it, but remember, there is a reason it''s called forbidden, incorrect use can lead to your death. Anyway, there is one more thing. I would like to introduce you to my old friend Hinoki, he is a Sealing art expert. Sealing arts are one of the rarest of shinobi arts, and if you are serious about it then you need a good teacher, would you like to learn from Hinoki? He is one of the best among the current people I know. Also he can guide you on various other things apart from Sealing Arts." "I would be honored to." Jun agreed 20 BSNW CH 018 Way to the Immortal Path After the meeting with Hokage and his new master Hinoki, Jun went to the library with the permission slip given by Hokage. He was led by the librarian to the restricted section. It contained a large variety of incomplete and dangerous jutsus. Also it was also where theories of various proposed jutsus and researches were kept. While browsing for new techniques he could apply for himself he found two special Jutsu ideas along with various special theoretical body training methods that would develop various different types of muscles in body. The Two Special jutsus were ideas for the way of training of body using nature energy: Heavenly Breathing Technique and Seven Immortal Chakra Stages. Jun copied all the jutsu theories using his System, along with the body training methods and other information and theories present. The System now contained a huge amount of information on various Taijutsu and Ninjutsu training methods. Surprisingly one researcher had also listed various possible training methods for various Advanced Nature Release. Later, seeing that it was getting late Jun left for home. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Late at night after everyone had slept, Jun went out to meditate, while the System displayed all the information about the two Jutsu Techniques he viewed today. ''Display the Jutsu information of Heavenly Breathing Technique and Seven Immortal Chakra Stages now.'' [Heavenly Breathing Technique is a Senjutsu breathing method that a researcher called Sumira invented by gathering up large amounts of Nature Energy along with air to increase his body''s capacity and constitution overtime. Supposedly once completed activated it granted him the ability to absorb huge amounts of nature chakra and store it in various ways in his body. However, since he didn''t have the ability to form sage mode nature energy harmed him instead. Heavenly Breathing Technique when combined with the right person can help achieve true Sage Body which would have every cell saturated with nature energy. Theoretically according to known records there has only been one true Sage in recorded history who achieved that stage through the method of storing nature energy in body cells and tempering his body into that of a True Sage where each cell is filled with tremendous vitality. That person was the True Sage Hashirama Senju, who later came to be known as the God Of Shinobi and became the First Hokage of Konoha and the only one capable of completely fighting and suppressing Tailed Beasts apart from Madara Uchiha , who used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to do so by putting Nine Tails under a powerful Genjutsu. First Stage Activation: Use of nature Chakra to permanently enhance Eyes. Causes change in eyes permanently according to user''s attribute as long as body is able to withstand the changes made by the intense intake of Nature Chakra. Second Stage Activation: Permanent enhancement of muscle strength, density and skeletal structure. Each of the muscles contain a tremendous amount of compressed force now. Lean and tough on the outside, terrifying monstrous strength, speed and agility inside. Third Stage Activation: Completely enhance all the cells of the body, modifying them with Nature Energy to contain immense amounts of vitality. Complete activation has the additional effects of achieving true sage body; i.e. permanent sage mode without any outside signs of the activation. However despite its enormous benefits, no one has been able to achieve even the first stage without petrifying first. Therefore after many people sacrificed to this technique, it was considered a failure and put it in restricted section of library. Seven Immortal Chakra Stages has strength and chakra enhancing effect similar to the Eight Gates Technique, even including similar increase in the chakra reserves of the user with each stage. However the difference is that each stage is unlocked over time instead of in an instant like Eight Gates Technique, but the effect is permanent. It is unknown if it comes with the same repercussions as the Eight Gates but the limitations of this technique is that without the body being able to withstand the next stage the user won''t be able to advance in the technique, unlike the Eight Gates Technique where you can surpass limitations. Second limitation is that on each stage User needs to accumulate large amounts of Nature Energy in specific Meridian Points of the Body to open and activate it. Chakra enhancements effect of this technique makes chakra purer, denser, and much more powerful for the same amount released in comparison to ordinary chakra. There are seven stages of this activation technique. First stage (Root Chakra): Meridian point located in the base of Spine. It serves to draw nature energy into the body and transform it into life energy and vitality. It also enhances the reaction speed of body. Side effect of opening this Chakra Stage is that the chakra manifests as red in colour when released outside the body. Second Stage (Sacral Chakra): Meridian point located at a point between base of spine and navel. It further concentrates chakra energy in body. Also helps to raise hormones in body that increase positivity and creativity in the psyche and raises fertility of the body. Side Effect of opening this Chakra stage is that the chakra colour when released outside the body turns orange in colour. Third Stage (Solar Plexus Chakra): Meridian Point located a few inches above the navel. Unlocking this stage strengthens inner organs, muscles, and digestion power. Side effect turns Chakra colour yellow when released externally. Fourth Stage (Heart Chakra): Meridian point located within heart. Strengthens lungs and Increases oxygen intake of body and increases blood and chakra circulation inside the body. Gives a passive training effect to chakra network inside body. Prevents chakra network to be sealed by use of foreign chakra. Side effect results in chakra colour turning to green and the body might display hyperactive tendency. Fifth Stage (Throat Chakra): Meridian point located in the throat. Directly affects the five base senses, enhancing their sensitivity. Gives natural Healing, Purification and transformation effect to the body. This is the last physical stage of the technique, as the rest two reform the psyche and soul. By this stage, the physical part of the true sage body is already achieved. This stage also raises the elemental affinities of the body to Master level directly. Each attacks, whether Ninjutsu or Taijutsu or Genjutsu is infused with tiny amounts of natural energy without need for external infusing, increasing their power and effects. Side effect turns chakra colour to Blue/Turquoise. Sixth stage (Third Eye Chakra): Meridian point at the center of the brow, little bit above the eye level. Tremendously boosts spiritual part of chakra. Unlocks eidetic memory and godly perception. Brain becomes extremely fast and vision enhances to tens of times better. Sensory abilities reach pinnacle, nothing is hidden before you and you can perceive everything that happens around you simultaneously without forgetting anything. Complete activation has a chance to unlock soul memory completely and gain knowledge of past lives. Side effect turns chakra to Indigo color. Seventh Stage (Crown Chakra): Meridian located at top of skull. Destroys the Soul Shackles and fuses Body and Soul, turning body into semi corporeal state fused with nature energy. Gain the ability to turn body into incorporeal state briefly. Nature recognizes you as part of its own, gain complete unlimited ability to use nature energy directly without restriction. Strengthen soul by fusing with nature energy, gaining power of dominance over creatures with weaker souls. Spiritual strength slows down chakra flow of others just by being around them, can also forcefully suppress chakra of others for brief periods of time consciously. Unlocks the ability to display the Soul Form. Final stage activation turns chakra Violet colored. With all Seven Stages activated, theoretically user should achieve an existence comparable to Six Path Level or beyond.] 21 BSNW CH 019 First Training Session After reading and memorizing it all, Jun decided to focus on the first stages of both the techniques since he badly needed to advance his bloodline and by the time these two techniques reach their first stage the bloodline would have activated to second stage. Thinking this Jun started cultivating the techniques, both of them synergized with each other nicely increasing their effects. In one night he made huge progress. But it can also be attributed to the fact that no one can unrestrainedly absorb nature energy like him. Morover By the time the first ray of light came, he had broken through the first stage of the Seven Immortal Chakra Stages. As soon as the meridian point was opened intense energy in an Uzumaki shape surrounded him, shredding grass around him and raising dusty winds. Slowly his chakra released out of his like an aura from his pores, pushing out all the impurities from his body. Once all impurities were pushed out, the energy flow was smoother and a secondary blast of energy pushed all the dirt and filth away from his body, revealing crystal clear skin and his intense glowing runic eyes. Energy whirlpool subsided after a while and his chakra which was being released externally dissipated. By the time it all subsided, it was already time for Jun to get ready for class for the day. [1050 XP gained due to Breakthrough Special Technique Training!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Immortal body Perk acquired.] ''Been a long time since I haven''t invested the stat points I acquired. Let''s see where to put them.'' Jun checked his stats and saw that Strength and Vitality were really high but Dexterity, Intelligence and Wisdom were weaker comparatively. So he put ten points each in all three making the stats mostly balanced and was left with five extra points which he decided to save. His Physique and Chakra could be compared to a High Chunin level now. Jun did a few practice stretches and mock punches and kicks to get used to the new and improved body of his. Yoshino who was bustling about after waking up saw him in the backyard doing mock fighting moves and went away shaking her head, muttering to herself about being too strict on self. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After that both Shikamaru and Jun left for class . Once arrived at the academy they sat with their respective group of friends. Shikamaru was more familiar with Choji, Shino and Kiba whereas Jun sat with Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino. Naruto seemed to be absent right now, or maybe late. Just as they were wondering where he was, Naruto entered along with Hinata. "Did I see it right or did that loser Naruto enter with the Hyuga princess in all friendly manner?" Sakura "I am strongly believed to think I am mistaken, but it seems like you said" Ino reconfirmed "Hi Guys!" Naruto greeted cheerfully, oblivious as to what these two girls were talking about him "Jun, I needed to ask something. Can Hinata also join us in our training Session in evening?" "Sure why not, I have no objections but you two should really take you seats since Iruka sensei is staring at you two from doorway."Jun Naruto turned and upon seeing Iruka at the doorway staring at Hinata and him he quickly pulled Hinata and sat down behind Jun''s group. Iruka coughed softly before going to the podium and started that day''s lessons which contained the history of village and the various clans of the village. He posed various questions which Jun and Sasuke answered perfectly. Naruto was a bit stumped but Hinata helped him out and he answered them all satisfactorily. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Later after the class Jun took his group along with Naruto and Hinata to Training ground 3 where he gave an explanation for the use of Ninjutsu. "There are twelve basic Ninjutsu hand seals: ''dragon'', ''ox'', ''boar'', ''hare'', ''monkey'', ''serpent'', ''ram'', ''horse'', ''dog'', ''tiger'', ''bird'', and ''rat''. The different combinations of these hand seals turned into all the hand seals required for using Ninjutsu in the Basic Ninjutsu category. There are some specialized hand seals invented by a few special Kekkei Genkai users for their unique jutsus, but that''s not relevant right now. For some Ninjutsu to activate, the required hand seal should be formed within a given time, otherwise it would fail. For example, Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu needed altogether eight hand seal signs: ox¡ªdog¡ªdragon¡ªrat¡ªdog¡ªboar¡ªserpent¡ªtiger. These seal must be formed within approximately four second to activate this jutsu along with molding and supplying chakra to the Hand Seals. Although usual ninja records don''t provide a specific time, they shouldn''t take more than four second to form all those hand seals. And some high level jutsu like Water Style¡ªWater Dragon Jutsu, needed 44 hand seals to activate within appropriate time. More familiar you are with forming Seals faster and more accurately you can execute said Ninjutsu. From this we could see that if someone was not familiar in forming hand seals then he should forget about using any high level Ninjutsu. But yet again there are some exceptions to the rule, like the secret jutsu of Fourth Hokage which he used along with his extremely fast movement type jutsu, which supposedly doesn''t use hand seals. Also a few other specialized Kekkei Genkai don''t use hand seals rather depend on the will of the user, which makes it necessary to have firm will and imagination and chakra reserves, like my Plant Style." Saying so Jun demonstrated by making surrounding grass grow into a large simplified enclosure covering them by simply a stamp of his foot. ''Pity that I am not yet recovered completely otherwise I would have given them something awe inspiring. Achieving First stage of the Seven Immortal Stages helped but I still have a lot to recover. But still maybe two weeks more hmm¡­.'' Jun figured as others were looking at the surrounding enclosure like grass construct in amazement, even Sasuke responded with slightly widened eyes and clenched fists. "So for the first lesson I guess we will practice these hand seals. Let''s make it a competition. The one who succeeds in doing all seals in ten seconds by the end of the day will get a Ninjutsu scroll from me. Play hard, I will be back in a while." Jun left them practicing the twelve seals according to an illustration scroll he gave them. While they were busy practicing he went deeper into the training ground 3 before calling out "You can come out now. I know you want to talk with me alone." A moment later a purple haired ANBU in a cat mask appeared in front of him with a sword on her back and a Big Scroll in hand. "Hokage allows you to learn the Forbidden Jutsus from this Scroll of Forbidden Seals. However you only have until end of the day." Purple haired ANBU "So you waited until end of the day, fine it doesn''t matter. Give me the scroll!" Jun said while thinking ''Good thing she doesn''t know about my Gaming System'' As soon as he opened the scroll various messages started flashing as the System scanned and copied various information on the scroll. [Shadow Clone Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Reaper Death/Dead Demon Consuming Seal found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Eight Triagram Seal found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Swamp of the Underworld Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Mystical Hand Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Sensing Hexagram Seal found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Water Style Gigantic Waves Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Chakra Repulsion Shockwave Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Water Style Water Severing Wave Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Chakra Transformation Yasaka Magatama Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Spiraling Destructive Disc Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Great Spiraling Destructive Disc Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] . . . . . ''Wow, this is just too many!'' Jun exclaimed in his mind 22 BSNW CH 020 Jun and the Purple Haired ANBU ''Wow, wonder who was smart enough to develop all these jutsus. Some of them are simply too deadly, for e.g.: Chakra Repulsion Shockwave, No sign Just enormous willpower and chakra shaped into a shockwave that will last as long as chakra is supplied continuously. Simple and effective. Well, first I need to figure out all I can learn right away. System make a list of all the jutsus I can learn immediately and show me those, and make a copy of the rest.'' [List of jutsus that can be learnt with the current stats and requirements: [Chakra Repulsion Shockwave Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Sensing Hexagram Seal found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Spiraling Destructive Disc Jutsu found. Excellent compatibility with Bloodline. Yin and Yang Release Unlocked and added to Basic Elemental Releases. Would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Mystical Hand Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Shadow Clone Jutsu found, would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Multiple Vacuum Palm Jutsu found. Need to learn Gentle Fist Style from scroll. Would you like to learn (Y/N)?] [Flying Thunder God Jutsu found. Due to good compatibility Space Release Unlocked. Would you like to learn (Y/N)?] ] ''Learn all the listed Jutsus. Also search amongst the invent tory for other scrolls that can be learnt and apply them too.'' [All listed jutsus learnt. Searching Inventory¡­.. Found jutsus that can be learnt: Wide healing, Medical Mode, Water Style: Insect''s Medicinal Claws, Healing Ball, Poison Mist, Chakra Scalpel, Delicate Illness Extraction, Chakra Scalpel: Strong Flash, Fire Style: Fire Stream Wave, Fire Release : Fire Shuriken Dance, Shadow Shuriken Wild Dance, Body Flicker Jutsu, Substitution jutsu, Transformation Jutsu, Illusions Dispel jutsu, Chakra Thread, Chakra Transmission. All Found Jutsus learnt.] Jun closed his eyes with scroll open in his lap, concentrating on handling the enormous amounts of information flowing through to his mind. When he finally opened his eyes after it was all done, he saw the Purple Haired ANBU standing in front of him looking at him. When he raised an eye brow at her actions, she explained. "I had heard that you are organizing training sessions with Hokage''s Permission. It just so happens that one of them is ¡­ my acquaintance and... Also someone I need to watch over. That''s why I was wondering if you were capable enough to watch over them." "So you watch over Naruto then?" Jun asked. The ANBU woman stiffened on hearing that, her hand instantly going to her sword. Jun immediately bound and discarded the scroll to the side immediately taking out two shuriken on one hand and a kunai on the other. "What do you know about Naruto? How did you know I was protecting him?" Purple Haired ANBU "Well it was a shot in the dark really, but a well thought one though. The people in my current training group are Naruto, Sasuke, Ino, Sakura and Hinata. We can eliminate Sasuke and Hinata immediately. Neither Hyuga nor Uchiha would let an ANBU watch over their children constantly like that. They would rather have someone from their clan do that, which I am sure they are secretly in case I harm or use them somehow. I have known Ino and the Yamanakas since we were born. Inoichi san would rather trust her with me than an ANBU since he knows while I am there no one can dare to harm her. You can personally try and verify that if you want. That leaves Sakura and Naruto. Well no offense to Sakura, but even though she is smart and looks cute and has potential to be an excellent shinobi if she trains seriously, I never felt someone will go to the lengths to appoint an ANBU for her. Sure her mother is Head of Haruno clan and is a big business head, but it won''t warrant an ANBU protection in my opinion. But Naruto, he is a guy I can''t figure out. Orphan like me, but instead of any foster parents or guardian, he manages everything by himself. Has a strange aura that I sensed around him when we did our Physical tests. It''s like an erratic balloon filled with a mix of oil and water that keep on conflicting in him. It doesn''t make any sense to me, especially since Hokage had me watched when I first demonstrated Plant Release. If so then why would he let someone as contradictory as Naruto be without any guardian? At that point you tell me one you are in charge of watching over is in my group. Couldn''t be simpler really. But you don''t need to worry, I am not going to harm him in any way. His secrets are his, he is just my friend who I am trying to help." Purple Haired ANBU relaxed a bit, loosening her hand from the Sword a bit. But then suddenly she jumped up and slashed at him. Jun dodged quickly to the side while deflecting the sword with his kunai. "What the heck are you doing?" Jun "Let''s see if you are capable of protecting those under your charge before I hand them over to you." Purple Haired ANBU She flickered towards him at high speed, her sword leaving afterimages. Jun dodged the ones he could, deflecting the ones he couldn''t with his kunai. After a few rounds of this Jun threw one of the shuriken into an opening he created by deflecting the sword at a tricky angle. Just when the shuriken was about to strike her neck, it was stuck into a wood piece that suddenly appeared instead of her. ''Damn Substitution! There is not a lot of Ninjutsu I can use with my damaged hands. I have to settle it in the next few moves.'' Jun He sensed the ANBU slashing at him diagonally from behind. He immediately blocked with his kunai in his hand while throwing his remaining shuriken to the side. When the ANBU was puzzled what was going on, she saw a slight glimmer in air. She immediately realized what was up, but before she could act the shuriken returned like a boomerang. It was pulled by the chakra thread attached to it and twisted around her swiftly, binding her with the chakra thread which incidentally had lightning chakra running through it. While she struggled to break the paralysis caused by lightning chakra, a kunai was placed against her throat. "I win" Jun "Yes, you have. But I didn''t use any Ninjutsu so its not exactly .." ANBU woman "Neither did I , I only used supplementary techniques like your Body Flicker and Substitution." Jun "Yes you are right." ANBU woman sighed. "Can I ask you a question? Why did you not adopt him, Naruto I mean. You obviously care about him a lot." "I can''t. Naruto is really important to this village, and if his secret is revealed then lot of people of this village with dark intentions might target him. Even his life might be in danger. So all his information was sealed, and he is just a normal orphan now. Exactly why I cant adopt him or I would bring unnecessary attention to him, and dangers I cant save him from." ANBU woman "Ok. His secret is safe with me don''t worry." Jun Purple haired ANBU woman thanked him before leaving with the Scroll of Forbidden Seals while he went back to the Training session. 23 BSNW CH 021 Juns Mistake When Jun when back to the outskirts of the training ground where he had left the others to practice, he saw everyone lying down on the ground with their hands twitching spontaneously. He realized that they probably had pushed their limits hard. "What a bunch of idiots. How will they pay attention to the next part of training if they can''t even control their body to push their limits without over exerting themselves? Very well let me do something in their stead. Maybe the new jutsus I learnt can help." Jun turned his nature sensing technique to maximum for accurate judgement of fatigue of their body before drawing in nature energy into him for using a large scale jutsu. "Well this is the first time for me but here goes nothing. Rat-Horse-Ram-Dog-Rabbit-Ram-Boar-Dog, Nature Style: Wide Healing Jutsu!" Jun''s Jutsu healed their damage in the over strained muscles. "Now for their stamina; Rat-Horse-Ram-Tiger-Dog, Nature Style: Mass Relaxation Jutsu" Under his observation, he could see their bodies recover their energy and stamina slowly but steadily. Aside from that he also noticed that Naruto was recovering more than twice as fast as others. ''This is not just me, if let alone he would have recovered within ten to fifteen minutes by himself. Such a sturdy physique and regeneration speed. Such physique should have phenomenal amounts of chakra, even far exceeding what I myself have currently. But then why do I feel his chakra just barely exceeding mine. Is his body using that chakra elsewhere or a defect in his body?'' Thinking as such Jun decided to check it. He used his newly learnt Sensing Hexagram Seal on himself to boost his sensing abilities even more. With his one hand boosting the energy in the seal with Nature Energy, He pressed his other palm onto Naruto''s chest sending trickles of nature energy coursing into his body to investigate. As the energy threads reached near his stomach, an unexpected reaction took place. The threads got sucked off into Naruto''s navel area, revealing a peculiar seal with eight directional sign seals and an Uzumaki in the middle. ''The Eight Trigram Seal! That''s the second most powerful sealing jutsu I have till now come in contact with. What the heck is there that needs such a powerful seal? Wait a minute ¡­ what... This¡­'' the next moment Jun felt his surroundings go black. _______________________________________________________________________________ ''So it happened finally'' old man sitting in a tree ''I wonder how long will he survive without my help and will he figure out the secret of that ''space''. I hope he does, it will definitely help for what he will be responsible for in future.'' ________________________________________________________________________________ Jun finally opened his eyes after a long time and saw darkness surrounding him. He felt as if he was walking in space, infinite blankness all around him. At that point he received an announcement. [You have entered a Mindscape Dungeon. To escape from this dungeon either defeat the master of this dungeon, or gain his approval, or wait for him to throw you out of his own will. However, although your body is just a copy made from the real body, any damages suffered here will result in a percentage of damage to the real body. Death here can create a severe impact on your psyche at least, even resulting in you going into coma in worst scenario.] ''Wait, a Dungeon? What is that?'' [Sufficient authority required for full access. Full access denied. Basic information available. Dungeon is a recreation of experiences, records and information collected by user, which recreates unique characters encountered by user which grow alongside the user to give user sufficient challenge for proper growth. This function of the System was unlocked due to unauthorized invasion of a superior force into user''s mind.] ''A superior force?'' as Jun was wondering who it might be, the scene around him finally became substantial. When he looked around he saw a devastated landscape, barren for miles. Enormous pits and other signs of large scale destruction could be seen in the landscape. However one thing that was peculiar was a giant hill that was seen between all this destruction. Jun walked towards the hill in case he might gain some information about what was happening around him. As he drew closer he was surprised to hear deep vibrating noises from the hill. The next moment the hill itself shook and suddenly started growing. A few moments realized that it was not growing, it was getting up. This hill was in reality a creature that turned out to be many times larger than anything he had ever seen. Finally after many tens of meters, the hill stopped growing and turned towards him. Its form turned clearer slowly, and Jun could see what that hill like creature turned out to be, a gigantic fox which was tilting its head and looking at Jun with its big red eyes. As its eyes focused on Jun''s body and aura, it gave a snort and nine enormous tails released from behind its back waving in the air. With that its visage became complete, gigantic orangish-dust colored fox with big twitching ears and nine humungous tails behind it, each thrice the size of the fox itself. The very aura it gave of distorted the air, blasting Jun''s face with warm breeze. Each movement of its tails created wind gusts. Jun could easily imagine the mass and strength it must have had to achieve that. Tiny ant like Jun and the mountain like humungous fox faced each other. No movement took place apart from the tails of the fox which swung around at their own pace. Finally the fox reacted, raising one of its huge clawed finger and drew a big circle around Jun. "Tell me little human, is pepper better or salt?" Fox "Umm.. Excuse me, I don''t quite get what you mean?" Jun "Well, you dared to come before me. I thought it was obvious that you had come to offer yourself as a meal. It''s been so long since I devoured anyone so I don''t want to do it raw. You humans have good culinary practices don''t you, so you suggest which will be better. Pepper or Salt?" The Fox replied as if it was a very normal thing for him while Jun worked his mind on overdrive on a way to escape this place. 24 BSNW CH 022 First Crushing Defea Jun searched his mind for every possible escape solution. At least this Alternate body of his in the dungeon was free from worries so he could use Ninjutsu. But one the downside, he didn''t have access to Nature energy which severely limited his biggest weapon, his plant release. Without it he would have to rely on Ninjutsu he wasn''t proficient with. But at least something was better than nothing. When he started to gather chakra, the fox gave a roar which disrupted his chakra flow momentarily and canceled his jutsu formation. "You want to fight against me? Very well, I see that your stupidity knows no bounds. Deal with these first then" fox raised its hand shaped claw and made a one handed tiger sign "Nine masked beasts!" Nine long strands of hair dropped down from its tail, one from each. The strands formed humanoid figures as they fell down, each with a fox mask on their face and a tail longer than their body sprouting behind them. Each of them was approximately two meters long but had a lean yet powerful figure. They all wore black kimonos that fit them well without hindering their movement. As they fell they shifted their position while in the air, forming a wide area formation with a Hexagon surrounding a Triangle; i.e. six outside and three inside. The fox stretched out its finger and stabbed a nail into the earth. Dragging it around Jun and the rest in a huge circle, making an impromptu battle ring. Only difference was that the border of this ring was a surrounded by a deep hole. "Come one then, let''s see what you are made of. Years of this hellhole without much entertainment, I am fed up. Nine masked beasts, attack!" Fox Jun was surrounded by the three masked beasts forming the triangle rushing towards him for close combat. They had great speed and strength, had Jun been in his original damaged body, this fight would be impossible. Now at least he could respond. Since Jun didn''t have access to nature energy, he activated Sensing Hexagram Seal and his Observation skill at maximum alert. He saw flashes of movement before feeling an unnatural chill on his spine. [Killing Intent Sensing skill acquired!] [Observation level up!] [Observation level up!] [Observation level up!] [Observation level up!] ''System shut off the Skill level up messages and only display skill acquiring ones. And do suggest if you have any way of getting out of here.'' Jun He felt a foot with the toughness of a brick smash into his back and was thrown forward like a puppet with his string cut. As he struggled to get himself under controlled a clothes line attack {TL: Lariat for those who like that better} smashed into him from the front throwing him back again. [Pain Resistance skill acquired!] [Endurance skill acquired!] Jun bounced hard on the ground a few times completely disoriented before flipping and righting himself on his feet. He swayed slightly before realizing he wasn''t a match in Taijutsu, at least not until he could see where they were going. He had no choice but to rely on Ninjutsu. ''Rat-Tiger-Dog-Ox-Rabbit-Ram-Tiger'' Jun "Fire Style: Fire Stream Wave" Jun slammed his hands down after forming the seals, resulting in an omnidirectional fire wave spreading around him. It was hot enough to instantly dry the air in the surroundings. However he underestimated the beasts. The six beasts standing at the boundary made a clapping seal and released a weird fire jutsu from their mouth. The flames released by them were purplish-red illusionary looking and it extinguished flames wherever it went, becoming more solid with more flames they extinguished. "Like it? It''s my Fox Fire, a unique fire jutsu formed by my Chakra and Negative emotions. All fire jutsus are useless before it, in fact it drains them instead making my Fox Fire even more powerful they more flames they devour." Fox ''Damn, Fire''s out. I even had lot of Fire Jutsu from scanning the Library. Seriously, why doesn''t leaf have more jutsus of different elements in library? I barely have a few in my arsenal. Well whatever, let''s see what happens.'' Jun ''Dog-Ram-Horse-Ram-Monkey-Dog, Water Style: Water Ring Pulse'' Water Style Chakra surrounded Jun like a cloak and then pulsed out like shockwave, sending a wave of water pulsing out around him. However it didn''t making much of a difference as it didn''t last for more than a second against the Fox Fire. ''If I can''t extinguish it, then I should not fight against it. I have to find a means to escape'' Jun ''Ox-Snake-Rabbit-Snake-Monkey-Dog-Tiger, Ancient Rock Field'' Huge rocks rose up from the ground and shattered into Rock Missiles, each one glowing with a rune briefly before firing of in all directions. The three close combat beasts easily dodged them and the rocks didn''t have range enough to reach the six beasts in outer ring, so the rocks got spread all over the battle ring. As the three beasts drew closer to attack him, he received a message from the system. [Observation Skill crossed Major Threshold of level 50. Attack prediction can now be shown for observation targets that have been observed for a while.] Just as the message finished displaying, Jun sensed a vague danger of attack from his right even though there was no one there. As he dodged to the left, a ball of fox fire smashed at the place where he was. If he had only been paying attention to the three beasts the Fox Fire would have burnt him to a crisp. Seeing that he dodged the fire, the three close combat beasts increased their speed and reached him in an instant. They attacked with a variety of punches, kicks and feints but now Jun was finally starting to dodge a few of those. But in any case, the overall situation was still bad since he was getting beaten up ultimately. With a final kick, one of the beasts flung him straight onto one of the six beasts standing at the boundary. A large hand made of chakra formed around it and it sent the hand to capture Jun who was kicked towards it. The hand completely bound Jun, leaving his head free while it slowly but steadily tightened around his body. Jun screamed as his muscles were in the verge of being squished, his bones creaking dangerously. Although he had gained pain resistance during his fight, he didn''t think he was going to last long enough even with that. As the Hand tightened further, Jun gave up thought of self-preservation and decided to risk it with one final attack. He stretched the fingers of his right hand as much as possible, black and white chakra particles slowly formed over it. Fighting against the pain of being crushed alive, his focused all his attention onto the Jutsu. Finally a small black ball, the size of a walnut, formed above his palm with a flat white ring surrounding it. Its formation disturbed the Chakra in the hand griping it, disintegrating the hand partially. It was enough for Jun to escape from the Hand gripping him. Once he escaped, he looked at the beast who had formed that hand with blood shot eyes glowing with runic circle. He lunged towards the beast despite his muscles straining and tearing and threw the Black ball towards it, the White ring around the ball spinning at high speed now. ''Spiralling Destructive Disc'' Jun "Now go to hell!!" The ball struck the Beast cutting him up first because of the Spiraling white ring. Then the white and black energies of the ball and the ring mixed together before resulting in an enormous blast. Jun was thrown back from the blast, unfortunately right in the middle of the remaining eight beasts. ''Black and white energy mix bomb? Tailed beast bomb... no magnitude is smaller. Interesting¡­'' Fox Meanwhile Jun slowly lost consciousness while watching the eight beasts come towards him. 25 BSNW CH 023 Hinoki and Nazuna The Fox snorted in amusement when Jun fainted. Dismissing the remaining eight beasts, he poked Jun''s leg with one of his nail. It skewered through the bones, pulverizing them and bringing Jun screaming back to consciousness. After he has screamed himself hoarse, Jun looked towards the Fox with pain filled eyes. "Did I give you permission to faint?" Fox "If this is all you could do to entertain me then you shouldn''t have come here until you were ready. You may be good enough to defeat other ninjas, but before me you are easy prey." The Fox removed its nail and Jun sat himself up, biting his lip bloody in order to stay conscious in front of the pain assaulting him. His left leg was useless right now, and he could vaguely sense that his original body had also suffered some damages because of his situation here. He had prepared a counter plan during the fight when he released the rock field, but wasn''t able to use it because of subsequent events. "Alright seems like it''s time to wrap it up" Fox "I agree! We should go now." As Jun heard the second voice, he felt a wave of chakra turmoil inside him and his vision and the scenery shifted. Last thing he saw was the Fox roaring in annoyance. ___________________________________________________________________________________ As Jun came to, he saw that he was back in the training ground and everyone was awake and crowding around him. He also saw his supposed master, Hinoki crouching near him. As he slowly got up, he felt a sensation welling in his throat and the next moment he spat a mouthful of darkish blood to the side. System sent him a few messages but he ignored them. The children panicked when Jun vomited blood, but Hinoki calmed them down. "How do you feel?" Hinoki "Pretty good, considering what I just went through. Although I could really use a hot bath and place to rest and meditate." Jun "I will take you somewhere better. I will be waiting for you at the entrance." Hinoki said as he disappeared. Jun then turned to the other children and their inquiries about how he was and his body condition. He replied to them vaguely and distracted them by asking about the result of the competition. It turned out that Sasuke was the fastest among them, No surprises there. Although Ino and Hinata were not far off. Jun rewarded Sasuke with a scroll of Fire Style: Fire Coat. It would be a good match for his Taijutsu skills. After that he informed them that he will changing schedule of their training a bit and that they will be meeting twice a week so that they will have time to practice what they learnt by themselves. They all left in groups after that, Naruto went to drop Hinata while Sasuke went off with Ino and Sakura. Jun went to meet Hinoki at the entrance who took him to one of the shops located at a secluded spot at the edge of the market area. He told Jun to wait outside a moment and went in. The next moment he came flying out of the shop with a bang, crashing onto the wall at the side of the road. When he was about to get ready for the enemy attack he heard a roar "You perverted Jiji!!" About half a minute later, a girl with darkish blonde hair and a hastily worn dress came out of the shop. Anger could be seen on her manner which made Jun take a few steps back wisely. She moved towards Hinoki step by step, glaring at the old guy who was pinned in the wall and not even resisting it, as if he was repenting for his sins. "Now you perverted Jiji, tell me. What did I say I will do if I catch you coming in without knocking when I am changing dress?" "Umm¡­ hahah¡­ " Hinoki smiled embarrassedly, his voice lacking strength. "Let me remind you. I said I will kick those old bones of yours out of the house and poke out those perverted eyes so you may never make the same mistake again." The girl said in a menacing manner as she spread the index and middle finger of her right hand and poked at Hinoki''s eyes, earning a squeal from him as if a rabbit was getting trampled on. Jun trembled in fear and winced, backing away a few more steps from the girl. He then observed her while she beat up the poor old guy. Darkish Blonde hair, grayish yellow eyes, Fair skin, 5-6 years old according to her physique and definitely a trained ninja seeing her moves on beaten up Hinoki. After Hinoki, girl turned to Jun "Who are you?" she asked. "Not related to the perverted old guy over there. Nope, not at all!" Jun "Nazuna-Chan, he is our guest and also the guy who will be in our care. I told about my Fuuinjutsu student right? That''s him." Hinoki ''You damn geezer! What if she buries me into the wall next?'' Jun glared with his eyes, seemingly sending the message with the glare silently. ''Why should I be the only one to suffer? Teacher and student should be together in pickle.'' Hinoki''s eyes seemed to say. As Nazuna turned towards him, Jun backed off a few steps. She looked at him a few moments before calling out to him. "Jun right? Jiji told me about you." Nazuna said as she scanned him from top to bottom "So you will be studying Fuuinjutsu from him. That''s good actually, despite all his other faults Sealing Arts are something he can be considered really good at. If there is something about his methods you don''t understand then talk with me." Nazuna then saw his injuries and took him inside the shop. Giving him basic healing for the injuries due to the Fox, she gave a few medicines for internal injuries. By that time Hinoki had come inside, Nazuna went in after shooting him a glare. Hinoki sighed but didn''t pursue her. He then turned to Jun. "You will practice Sealing arts extensively now for the next one year. I want to teach you all you can learn about them during that time. Attend school and train with friends just like you did today. Don''t stress on advancing, build your foundation first. Because you advanced too fast that fox played with you like that. Grow up at your own pace and focus on things you can control best. Taijutsu, Sealing arts, and healing arts that''s what you have to strengthen. Ninjutsu is your forte, therefore use it as less as possible. Also I know you have a natural sage bloodline. Focus on advancing that as much as possible too. One year later, we will go on a journey. In return for my teaching, I need you to complete one task. Is all this fine with you? If not we can go our separate ways." Hinoki "You are not getting out of teaching me that easily, Master." Jun said with a smile. 26 BSNW CH 024 One year Later One year and a few months passed since the day Hinoki and Jun agreed to the deal. Although they had made the deal for leaving the village one year later for the personal mission of Hinoki, they had to delay it since the Daimyo of Fire kingdom was going to visit the village and Hinoki''s first objective involved him. Therefore Jun got more time to master all he could from Hinoki''s teachings. True to his word, Hinoki taught him everything he knew and at the age of four and a half years Jun could be said to have become one of the most formidable Seal Masters of the current age. Apart from that, Hinoki taught Jun various things about the fundamentals of Ninjutsu and about the various meanings behind the various hand signs and their functions. Jun himself invented a few personal jutsus he was proud of and kept them in his secret arsenal. Nazuna too was often studying alongside him and was a bit better them him at sealing, also she was proficient in healing and blacksmithing. She made a variety of gear of strange tastes like a sword with a removable vibrating blade. Jun''s favourite was however a pole which could also be transformed into a whip sword and worn like a belt. She made an all-black outfit with a jacket and a facemask as a gift for his fourth birthday. Jun loved it and had hugged her ecstatically which made her blush and drop her fist down at the top of his head, making him faint for the rest of the day and ended up missing his own birthday party. But finally after all that, the day of their departure was near. Hinoki had told them that it might take about a year before they return to the leaf, Jun was a bit sad about leaving his friends and his foster family, but was also excited about this new adventure. Despite all his prowess and maturity, ultimately he was a kid of four and half years after all. But the one absolutely unexpected thing which happened was he unlocked up to the third stage of immortal chakra stages and the first stage of heavenly breathing technique. This in turn unlocked the second stage of his bloodline, increasing his abilities and unlocking better physique with stronger inner organs, strengthening his soul and obtaining an increase positivity and decrease in negative emotions and unlocked parts of his memories of his past life. He learned about his disabilities, his luck in helping others by chance and gaining chance to reincarnate. Most important of all, he was surprised to know that the world he was in was considered just a fiction in his previous world. However luckily, he unlocked memories of the anime ''Naruto'' which contained information about this world and its future. But once he viewed all his memories, he felt that it was too shallow and that it focussed too much on Naruto and Sasuke the entire time and not in the world itself. But seeing all the problems these two faced their entire lives he decided to change a few if possible. And most of all, he wanted to get much stronger than he was right now and gain the ability to stand and fight alongside them in the troubles to come later. He gave the System a task to coordinate with his memories of the anime and give appropriate reminder at important events. System assured him that he will definitely get quests for such events more frequently now that his memory was more complete than before. He still had parts of his memories locked, but what excited him the most was that there might be other animes therefore other dimensions and worlds out there just like Naruto World. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In training ground three, Jun was having one final spar against his training comrades Sasuke, Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Ino before he leaves the village temporarily. Sasuke and Naruto were the front and Hinata took care of ambushes. Sakura and Ino supported them in various ways. "Fire style: fireball jutsu" Sasuke attacked Jun with fireball keeping him busy while Naruto attacked him with various shadow clones and he himself was mixed amongst them. Hinata had her Byakugan activated and threw Senbons coated with Gentle fist chakra at places where Jun tried to escape to. Sakura and Ino circled the three boys, taking care of any holes left in the assault of Naruto and Sasuke. "Good, you guys have improved. However this is not enough to beat me." Jun said as he dodged Naruto''s attacks and punched each of the clones and dispelled them. He kicked real Naruto at Hinata to stop her rain of Senbons and distract her. "Wind Style: Wind blast" Jun fire of a highly concentrated burst of wind, turning Sasuke''s flames back at him and the winds also flung Sakura and Ino away. Jun quickly made five Shadow Clones who flashed away and placed a kunai each at all the five kids. They all admitted defeat with a groan easily, since they could sense that Jun was not even close to going all out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So, you will be leaving Jun Kun?" Ino asked with her head down when they were all resting after the spar. "Yes. Master and I plan to leave with Fire Daimyo after he has accomplished the work he has come here to do. It seems Master had entrusted something important to the royal family a while back and we need it now. So we would be going with the Daimyo first and then a few other places about which he hasn''t told me anything yet." "The Fire Daimyo?" Sasuke responded to it "Itachi ni-san and his team has been assigned to guard him on his way back to capital. I am so jealous that you are able to participate on mission with Itachi ni-san." Sasuke usually didn''t show much emotion at anything, but his brother was something else. He really loved Itachi and from what Jun had heard about him, Itachi adored him too. However Jun knew from the anime that Itachi would garner hate of Sasuke after he murders the Uchiha clan. If possible he wanted to mediate that. [Quest Alert] [Protect against attack of the masked person on Fire Daimyo''s caravan. Make an impression on Itachi Uchiha] [Reward: +1000 xp , reputation with Itachi Uchiha rises to friendly.] 27 BSNW CH 025 Introduction to Team 2 [Quest Alert] [Protect against attack of the masked person on Fire Daimyo''s caravan. Make an impression on Itachi Uchiha] [Reward: +1000 xp, reputation with Itachi Uchiha rises to friendly.] It seems Itachi and I are fated to meet. Jun packed up the training meet and said farewell to all five. He then went to Nazuna''s shop/home. Hinoki had asked him to come there after training. Jun entered the shop and saw Nazuna packing up various necessities into scroll. Although he too was proficient in it and could make scrolls with big amount of storage space, his inventory system made it redundant since it could already store it all. But he helped her with rechecking her packing list. While doing that he mentally checked his own inventory for supplies. Food, Chakra Paper, His Whip Sword, Outfit, all checks out. While they were about to finish, Hinoki came to inform them that they were ready to leave and that they will leave morning of the next day and Jun went home for the day. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next morning, Jun, Nazuna and Hinoki visited Hokage''s office. The Sun blazed bright gold through the open windows of the Hokage''s office. Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage momentarily forgot about his paper works for the Daimyo''s departure and enjoyed the warmth that seeped into the old bones of his. He breathed in the scent of heated earth and leaves and a faint tinge of smoke, left behind from when he himself was smoking earlier during his paperwork. Usually ninjas would have left early for the missions, but Daimyo had insisted leaving at afternoon therefore they had to wait for him. He had called the two groups that were going to accompany the Daimyo to meet him before leaving. They must be about to arrive soon. He busied himself thinking about them as his attention wavered occasionally to the faint sounds from his village on a gentle breeze, a laugh here and there, and clatter of market chatter of children. Soon a knock sounded on his door and his secretary poked her head in to inform that both the group had arrived and The Third motioned to send them in. "Ah here you are." Third Hokage said to both groups. He then addressed Hinoki''s group about the Team 2 that was going to be guard for the Daimyo and vice versa "Minazuki is the head of Team 2, assigned to protect the Daimyo. You will be joining as additional backup and Hinoki knows the Daimyo so it won''t be a problem anyway. Minazuki, these are a few people that are tagging along with you on a different mission. This is Hinoki, leader of this group and those two are Nazuna and Jun. They won''t interfere in your mission as long as it doesn''t involve them. So good luck on your mission, make the village proud Team 2!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After they assembled outside the gates of village they were approached by Yuki Minazuki, the leader of team 2. "Hello there, I am Yuki Minazuki, leader of Team 2. This is my team Tenma Izumo, Shinka Inari and Itachi Uchiha" He said pointing to each kid in turn. Inari waved at them while, Tenma scowled and looked away. Itachi observed them thoroughly, his eyes widening a bit when he realized who Jun was. "We are just travelling part ways together. I am Hinoki and these two are Jun and Nazuna" Hinoki introduced himself and the two kids "I am a bit proficient at sealing arts and these two can also take care of themselves so we won''t be a burden to you or your mission." Minazuki''s eyes constricted a bit and his expression showed that he didn''t believe them. But he let it slide, it wasn''t his problem if they lived or died. He would just take care of the three kids assigned to him and accomplish his mission. Past noon, the Daimyo''s carriage and his soldiers arrived. Everyone introduced themselves to the Daimyo. As third Hokage predicted, Daimyo was happy to see Hinoki. It seemed Hinoki had done Daimyo and his father some favour when he was small. He invited Hinoki into his carriage and he accepted. Both of them were having fun, chatting about old times in the carriage while the others walked outside. They camped in groups during the nights, Jun easily creating a large comfortable tent with grasses woven together in heaps to form a comfortable place to sleep. They had no problem so far apart from the occasional bandit group that decided to test their luck, but were easily decimated by Team 2 and the Daimyo''s soldier''s efforts. Since they had free time, Jun and Nazuna would often spend it practicing their sealing arts and chakra control training. Jun would meditate when everyone slept instead and often kept watch at nights since he didn''t sleep. Over time, Itachi, Tenma, and Inari grew familiar with them seeing their friendly nature. Jun gifted the three of them Storage scrolls with capacity big enough as much as a large academy hall. As Inari and Tenma thanked them, overwhelmed by their gift, Minazuki watched from the side with a cramped expression. He hated over-talented children who surpassed him easily. Jun''s prowess often irked him as he could see that the boy was as talented as Itachi if not more. Although it put him in a bad mood, he couldn''t show it openly a he knew Hokage considered this group of three very important, else he won''t have sent them as a backup for such a high profile entity as the Daimyo of Fire kingdom. He suppressed his irritation at the fact that his team was getting expensive sealing scrolls and various seal tags like candies and decided to ignore everything that happened. ''I will find a way later to somehow confiscate a few from them later.'' He thought in a huff as he stalked off. The time passed like this until it was already over one week. They had reached pretty close to one of the outpost of the Fire Capital. It was barely a day''s journey to the capital now. Just as they relaxed a bit, having come so near their goal, the disaster finally struck them. 28 BSNW CH 026 Title at the End :P The Daimyo sent a message to the outpost to send the package that was being kept under guard there. It was the very thing that Hinoki had given all those years ago to safe guard. Daimyo urged Hinoki to check it first to see if there was any damage done to it by mistake. Hinoki opened the package carefully as to not damage it. Jun and Nazuna peeked to see what it was as the final wrapping was undone. A Mirror stared back at them, as perfect as the day it was made. Yellow-Cream colored frame, and a clear reflecting surface swirling with dense amounts of Sealing Runes. He could see a variety of concepts woven into it, Self-Reflection, Illusion, Space, Time, And Surprisingly Chakra Drain and Chakra transmission. But its meaning seemed unclear, as if he was only looking at one part of the puzzle. As Jun and Nazuna pored over it, Jun suddenly looked up. Suddenly he was feeling really anxious and strange. He felt as if he was in a path of a meteor that was going to smash right into him. "Master, if you don''t mind then please give the Mirror to me for safeguarding. There is a feeling I can''t describe, but something is going to happen soon." Jun said looking around the surroundings. Hinoki was startled at first, then realized that Jun''s enhance Sage Physique was reacting to signals from nature. More his bloodline evolves, more attuned would he be with nature. He gave the Mirror to Jun who put it in his inventory and quickly jumped to the roof of the carriage, looking around. Itachi glanced at Jun who was up on the roof of carriage searching for something, he felt weirded out by his actions and decided to ask him. He flashed up to the roof beside him. "Hey, is something the matter?" Itachi "You have been searching around like you are searching for something. I don''t sense any enemies or other danger nearby. What is it you are searching for then?" "I don''t know actually, it is like this strangest of feeling like I am in the middle web of innumerable strings. One of the strings has been disturbed and I can feel the general direction, but not the exact position. But I tell you Itachi, something is going to happen and soon. Even though we have gained this miniature army of soldiers and Shinobi from the outpost, this strange feeling makes me feel like I am vulnerable." Jun confessed to Itachi. He could strangely relate to this elder boy, with an innocent face yet mature air about him. His situation and surroundings had given him experiences which had forced him to mature, not unlike his own circumstances. Keeping the knowledge of a reincarnated person and his unique bloodline made his body mature thrice as fast as an ordinary shinobi. He was unable to think like a child at most times, which would definitely must be earning gossip behind his back. His physique, Natural Sage Physique, Immortal Chakra Stages and Heavenly breathing technique had made his body far beyond what a human would have. And at times that was what he felt, that he wasn''t human. All of a sudden he really started to feel something staring at him. It felt like the gaze of a predator which was out on a hunt. "Itachi, its time I think. The danger is here." Jun told Itachi as he signalled Inari and Tenma to come up next to him. When they arrived he told them of his feelings and situation too as quickly as possible. Tenma scoffed at Jun''s paranoia and was about to rebuke him for speaking beyond his age, but Inari elbowed him in the guts, making him shut up. She felt the seriousness from Jun and could tell he was not lying. She always felt a similarity between him and Itachi which made it easier for her to believe him. "Get your fists forward everyone. Hurry up!" He rebuked when Tenma was hesitating with a disbelieving gaze at him, but Tenma was persuaded by Inari to do as Jun asked. All of them put their fists forward and Jun started to make a stream of hand signs at a rapid pace, almost blurring his fingers entirely. As Tenma looked at him dumfounded at his Hand Seal making speed, Jun finished his jutsu by the time half a minute passed. He slammed his left hand onto their fists, while his right hand made a weird hand seal with his eyes closed. When he opened them, His Runic Eyes were spinning with a fast pace and Runic Circles formed and glowed on the fists of the three Genins. They could feel a dense, unfamiliar chakra enter their bodies and settle on the Runic Circle and it stopped glowing finally. "Phew, it went well." Jun sighed. On facing their inquiring gazes, he started explaining its purpose "It''s one of my self-made Jutsus. It will help you against Basic Genjutsu and Taijutsu, absorbing physical damage up to a limit, well as long as the chakra I fed it lasts essentially. Even with my enhanced physique and chakra control that took around 10% of my chakra with each application. I have around 70% now, which should be enough I guess unless I am fighting a true monster." "Hmph, Just Physical damage and Genjutsu prevention? That took around 10% of your chakra? You must be pretty weaker than I thought!" Tenma belittled Jun, Not wanting to look inferior to a kid. Jun smiled as Inari punched him in the gut again to shut him up. He didn''t mind Tenma''s verbal insult as he knew if he told him that he currently had ten times the amount of chakra Tenma had despite using 30% of his total chakra, Tenma wouldn''t believe him. "Of course that is not all." Jun replied to Tenma''s earlier enquiry "There is one special feature added which makes it really special. It''s --" "Hey you brats!" Minazuki interrupted their discussion, peeved at how they were all looking at the 4-5 year old child as if he was a god or something "Get down from there. You are all supposed to be guards of honour and you are wasting this opportunity sitting around with your discussion? It''s really disrespectful--" Boom! Boom! Bloom! Minazuki''s angry rebuke was cut short by a series of explosions around the convoy. Both the way forward and back was bombarded, startling the convoy and finally one explosion also took place right in the middle of the soldiers guarding in front of the convoy, killing off many soldiers and hired Shinobis of Daimyo''s army. A masked person came out of the chaos of limbs and blood, loose and thick Black Kimono adorning his body and a mask with runes and swirly lines on his face. Only one eye hole was present in that mask and rest was tightly sealed. The masked person had a length of thick chain in his hands, partially coiled around his body. It was far, but being a ninja their eyesight was better than regular people. A red eye could be seen from the eyehole in the mask, Three Tomoe swirling in the red disc like pupil. Itachi stiffened next to Jun, and Jun saw him clench and unclench his slightly shaking hands and two words spilled out of his mouth in a soft yet shocked voice, which only Jun was barely able to hear, "Sharingan ¡­. Uchiha" Jun''s head swivelled back to the masked person who was walking towards them at leisure as the rest of the remaining soldiers and shinobi formed a protective semicircle around Daimyo''s carriage. "Oi Oi, I am not late to the party am I? I got the information pretty late ya know, hahah..." Masked Man Jun''s mind was working at hyper speed as he could see this guy was really dangerous. He scanned his memories and finally came to an understanding. Masked Person¡­ Sharingan¡­. Which means he is¡­?! Chapter 26 the Masked Uchiha 29 BSNW CH 027 Fight with Masked Uchiha The Masked Uchiha moved among the soldiers as if he was dancing. He displayed amazing Taijutsu as he moved through the all of them and crushed the entire force. Minazuki and Team 2 tensed as the Masked Uchiha moved towards them with a relaxed swagger. "Ara, is this all it was? I was looking forward to more, I haven''t had enough fun yet, ya know. Come on!" Masked Uchiha Taunting them like that he rushed towards them. Minazuki clenched his teeth and move towards the guy to stop him. However, he alone was not a match for him and it was proved quickly when the masked person forced him to be on defensive without any chance for counterattack. Seeing Itachi and others about to fight the enemy, Jun decided to help them and was about to join them too. However Hinoki stopped him. "What are you going to do?" Hinoki "I have to save them. This guy is really dangerous yet they don''t realize that. They think he is just a slightly stronger criminal because of his attitude. Itachi said he had Sharingan and I agree with that. But, has nobody noticed that despite having a Sharingan he has not yet launched a single jutsu? He is playing with them!" Jun "I did notice Jun, this white hair of mine comes from experience and not old age. Now calm down and think. What do you truly need to do right now? Rush madly at the enemy like a crazy chicken, or observe the enemy and make appropriate according to his weakness?" Hinoki "¡­ We need a backup plan in case they lose. We need to arrange method of protection." Jun "And how do we do that?" Hinoki asked wanting his disciple to find the answer himself. Shinobi blossoms best under pressure. "Counter. We will create a counter attack that can counter him while defending us too!" Jun "Excellent! Now we need to figure out his strength and create that counter for it." Hinoki said smiling After deciding their plan Hinoki and Jun joined the fight along with others. "Itachi, you and Tenma help Minazuki sensei with close combat. Master and I will support you guys along with Inari." Jun instructed as they attacked the masked Uchiha. Seeing Hinoki and Jun joining as well Masked Uchiha got a bit serious. Minazuki tried to take advantage of this and threw a kunai at him. However strangely the guy distorted slightly and the kunai passed through him. "What?!" Minazuki "An illusion? No, I don''t feel anything like it though. How ¡­ it clearly went through him!" "Not an Illusion." Jun mumbled "illusion doesn''t work on me. This feeling¡­ Space Distortion." Jun mumbled. He turned to Hinoki and said "Master, its spatial distortion. I can feel it, he is somehow making his body be there yet not using some form of space release or some unique powers." Hinoki''s expression darkened on hearing that. Space was one of the most difficult elements to defend or fight against, he knew Jun had unlocked it a while back but apart from Flying Thunder God no other technique was known yet by them. While Jun and Hinoki thought about countering his technique, Itachi and Tenma tried to find anyway that would work on the guy. Their every weapon passed through him without harming him. "Don''t **** with me you ¡­!" Minazuki sneak attacked kicking towards the head. The Masked Uchiha ducked, deflecting the kick upwards with elbow. At the same time he delivered a straight kick towards Itachi who was throwing a punch towards him. Tenma tried to attack between this, but the masked Uchiha jumped up and twisted his body mid-air sending a round house kick towards Tenma''s head. Tenma flew tens of meters away, spewing blood as he bounced on the ground. "Tenma!" Inari screamed and went to check up on him. Itachi viewed Tenma lying on the ground wide eyed and turned towards masked Uchiha. Quickly forming hand seals he fired away a Ninjutsu towards him. "Fire Style: Grand Fireball" Itachi spewed an enormous fireball towards him. Minazuki, not wanting to be left behind blew and enormous wind release, mixing up with the grand fireball it turned into a maelstrom made of fire and wind. It obscured the entire front, distorting and drying up the very air. "Oi, that was dangerous! I guess you guys are somewhat good, aren''t you?" masked Uchiha said. He was standing far away from the blaze without a mark on him somehow. "Tobi is finally having fun now! However this much is still not enough" and he teleported behind Minazuki gave a double palm shove from behind. Itachi came to the rescue and prevented Minazuki from flying away from the strike of ''Tobi''. "Ara, so weak. Can''t even handle a shove from Tobi. Being distracted is not good ya know!" ''Tobi'' "I can say the same to you!" Jun said as he teleported behind ''Tobi'' and released a wave of plants from the surrounding twisting and covering ''Tobi'' and released various toxins towards ''Tobi''. However once more ''Tobi'' started to distort, but this time Jun was ready. "Space release: Disturbance!" Jun clapped his hands releasing large amounts of space elements, saturating the surroundings. They slowly started vibrating creating fine blacks cracks in space. Additionally it interrupted ''Tobi''s'' teleportation and injured him slightly. ''Tobi'' wiped the slight trickle of blood that leaked from under his mask, apparently he had suffered some internal injuries while trying to teleport during that spatial distortion created by Jun. Jun was panting heavily , he had used a lot of chakra during this hastily invented jutsu and it wasn''t perfect yet. "Very good boy, now it my turn" ''Tobi'' said while charging chakra into the chain making it glow red hot. "I was waiting for that" said Jun as dense amount of plants rose behind him like a wave while he ran towards ''Tobi''. 30 BSNW CH 28 First Contact with Mangekyo Sharingan Itachi and Minazuki readied themselves for another round as Jun and ''Tobi'' clashed. Jun sent nets of thick vines against ''Tobi'', who sent a fire Ninjutsu at it. "Fire Release : Dragon Flame" ''Tobi'' put both fists in front of him in a hollow grip position and somehow blew a giant flamethrower like jutsu through them despite his mask. Jun was dumbfounded but he strengthened and thickened the nets as much as possible. The pant nets wrapped up around ''Tobi'', but soon inflated like a balloon with the massive amounts of flame. Finally it burst with pressure exerted by the flame and the explosion sent Jun flying into the distance like a kite with its strings cut. In the center of the flame explosion a whirlpool formed in space , and all the flame was sucked off into it like a giant sucking in air. The flame disappeared to reveal ''Tobi'' with a few patches of his clothes singed but alright for the most part. Minazuki and Itachi were shocked on seeing this, their shock making them sluggish in responding to the next attack of ''Tobi'' as he teleported in front of Minazuki and sent one of Itachi''s kunai from before through his gut. As Itachi turned to see his sensei stabbed , ''Tobi'' kicked him in the stomach blowing him off. While Itachi was flying in the air, ''Tobi'' once again teleported behind Itachi and grabbed his neck from behind. "Urgh ark.." Itachi "Mmmm an Uchiha. So long since I met one. Hey Little Uchiha, Don''t you have Sharingan?" ''Tobi'' asked. Seeing Itachi glaring at him while clawing at ''Tobi''s'' hands, ''Tobi'' taunted him once more "Ne, do you know. We Uchiha wear our emotions in our eyes. Do you know, our love and our hate both are present in these eyes of ours? As long as we are happy, our power stays dormant. However when we need to take out revenge, these eyes of ours show their true nature." Saying this, ''Tobi''s'' normal Sharingan changed into something new. Three interconnected sickles formed in his eye in place of the usual three inverted Tomoe. "When we desire even more power in face of bigger problems, our eyes further changes into the object which grants the power we truly desire from our sub consciousness. That is what we call Mangekyo Sharingan or in simple words ''The Kaleidoscope Copy Wheel'' which contains unique powers according to the personality and deepest desires of the person. Just like no two Kaleidoscope patterns can be same, no two Mangekyo Sharingan can truly be same, except when the eyes are stolen by someone" While saying the last part ''Tobi''s'' eyes tightened slightly and Itachi could see hints of anger as blood vessels surfaced on the red eye. "Right then," ''Tobi'' said with a fake cheerfulness "Should we awake your eyes too then? What would make you truly angry? Hmmm..." ''Tobi'' thought for a few moments before turning towards Bleeding Minazuki who was trying to crawl away slowly while ''Tobi'' was busy with Itachi. ''Tobi'' looked towards him and smiled. "Well lookee here, what do we have. A crawling pathetic sensei!" ''Tobi'' ridiculed "Someone who won''t even try to save his student eh! How Konoha has fallen, it truly has become trash now. Scum like this continue living," ''Tobi'' said while stomping on Minazuki''s leg, making it release crackling sounds and Minazuki''s screams. Itachi was getting scared with ''Tobi''s'' crazy behaviour and unpredictable actions. However paying no attention to Itachi ''Tobi'' continued speaking "Trash like this continue to live while the truly precious and good people are sacrificed so these " ''Tobi'' stomped once more on Minazuki, this time on stomach "Can live! Honestly, I would have left the village long ago if I knew all this at your age. Oh wait, I did leave at you age, didn''t I? Well we got side tracked. So, Lil Uchiha, don''t you want to kill this one? He betrayed you ya know? Don''t you want to give him what is coming for him?" Itachi looked at Minazuki before turning to ''Tobi'' and croaked out a soft and hoarse "No" and fell silent once again and tried to punch ''Tobi''. ''Tobi'' easily caught his fist and twisted it, making Itachi wince. "There must be something precious to you, isn''t there? There is always something an Uchiha considers dear to them till they awake to the truth." ''Tobi'' further twisted his hand dislocating Itachi''s arm from his shoulder, making Itachi release a painful shout. "Itachi-kun?!" Inari screamed while holding Tenma. Even Tenma, who had just got back to consciousness pursed his lips and tried to get up on his feet. ''Tobi'' looked at this and smirked "And there is always people who consider and Uchiha precious to them. Do you consider them precious too, eh Uchiha kun?" ''Tobi'' said while Itachi turned his head, trying not to show any emotion or it would get his friends killed. ''Tobi'' gave a crooked smirk as Tenma stood up shakily and stared at Itachi and ''Tobi''. "Itachi-Teme" Tenma "Where did all your showing off go now, eh? In front of real enemy this is all you can do?" Tenma ridiculed and then glanced at Inari "This is the teammate you said was a genius and deserved to be our friend?" Inari turned her tear filled eyes towards Itachi then at Tenma, not able to say anything. "Don''t worry Inari, you made him our friend. Now it''s our duty to save him." Saying so Tenma moved towards ''Tobi'' with a slight limp. Limping towards him quickly, he jumped towards ''Tobi'' with a horizontal sweeping kick. ''Tobi'' sidestepped while holding Itachi and punched Tenma in the thigh of the leg that was kicking towards him. As Tenma fell from mid-air, ''Tobi'' gave him a kick of his own in the stomach, once again making him fly through the air. However Tenma didn''t give up and kept attacking him over and over. He pushed himself to his limits, even over coming pain in his limbs and running towards ''Tobi'' to attack him. ''Tobi'' unleashed a chain in one hand and whipped it towards Tenma. "Tenma-kun!" Inari screamed before making hand seals and firing off a Jutsu "Water Release: Water Screen!!" Water vapours gathered around Tenma before condensing and transforming into a semi solid, semi hemispherical water cover. However it didn''t make much difference as ''Tobi'' broke it with his chakra charged chains and the chains wrapped around Tenma and dragged him towards ''Tobi''. ''Tobi'' then took out a blade which had been tucked in his Kimono''s sleeve. Under Itachi''s horrified gaze the blade flashed towards Tenma''s neck. Itachi closed his eyes filled with pain so that he wouldn''t have to watch his friend die. However instead of the sound of blade slicing through flesh, sound of metal on metal came along with sound of displaced air. As he opened his eyes, he saw Jun, who had wrapped up plants around him like a humanoid plant golem and had blocked ''Tobi''s'' blade with a kunai, whereas Tenma was nowhere to be seen. Jun turned his head behind and shouted to Nazuna and Hinoki "Start it now!!" 31 BSNW CH 029 Four Divine Beasts ---A while earlier--- When Jun was blown off by the blast, he activated flying thunder god and teleported next to Hinoki on whom he had already applied one of the seals. Hinoki stabilized himself and asked Nazuna to heal him. While Nazuna healed Jun, Hinoki started talking, "So, what do you think? Can we handle him?" Hinoki "Not in a frontal attack, he is too strong for that and even uses sneak attacks." Jun replied and winced as Nazuna pressed one of the healing spots. "We need to trap him somehow for the attacks even hit. And even though I have some amount of proficiency using space elements, it tales too much chakra. Not good unless I am one of the Jinchuriki hahah..." "Jinchuriki or not we do have to seal his movements somehow¡­"Hinoki "Grandpa, there is that method.. It will surely stop him." Nazuna "That¡­. THAT method?!" Hinoki gasped "It''s too dangerous! It will take a lot of willpower to handle even one, at most I can bear two for a short moment. But there are total four you have to bear for it to work." Hinoki "You forget grandpa, you have two more sealing experts here" Nazuna said pointing to Jun and herself "We can each take one." "No! Absolutely not! Your spiritual energies are not strong enough yet. It will give great damage to it, trust me. You may have to rest for weeks Nazuna. Jun may be able to bear it for a while because of his bloodline, but he too won''t last more than little while with it." Hinoki "We don''t have a choice Grandpa!" Nazuna said "It''s do or die!!" Hinoki and Nazuna argued while Jun recovered his chakra and energy. He saw Itachi, Tenma and Minazuki fight ''Tobi''. He was worried since ''Tobi'' was kicking their ass pretty badly. "We don''t have much time! Whatever we do, we do it now!" Jun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --Right Now¡ª Jun had exchanged places with Tenma using Flying thunder god and blocked the sword that was slicing towards him. Jun turned his head behind and shouted to Nazuna and Hinoki "Start it now!!" Hinoki and Nazuna took a stance with their fingers twisted in a hand seal. They started channelling Chakra in huge amounts and started a ritual according to what Hinoki told them beforehand. "Jian Bing (White Tiger) who rules over western heavens, lend the power that crushes opposition." Hinoki. Hinoki sent a spiral of Chakra twisting towards Nazuna. Nazuna accepted it with one hand grimacing as it drilled into her body and her hand swelled slightly. She accepted the chakra before enhancing it with more of her own. "Ling Guang (Vermillion Bird) who flies over southern heavens, cry out your rage" Nazuna screamed as a blazing stream of chakra burst out of her hand and sped towards Hinoki. As Nazuna fell unconscious from the strain Hinoki once again received the chakra stream and directed it towards other hand. "Meng Zhang (Azure Dragon) who roars in eastern heavens, destroy my enemies." Hinoki supported the Chakra blast with both hands and sent it booming towards Jun. As the Chakra struck Jun, it ripped of the plants covering him as it seeped into him. Golden light spilled out of the pores of Jun''s body along with a red mist. Jun''s runic eyes projected two runic spiralling circles in the air before his face as he completed the seal and called out the final part "Zhi Ming (Black Tortoise) sleeping in the northern heavens, wake up and deliver justice with your wisdom!" Torrent of chakra spewed out of his mouth and formed four enormous runic circles in the air. Jun used last of his energy to call out "Four Divine Beasts, Give us your protection and Vanquish all evil." Each of the runic circles trembled spreading shockwaves in the air, ''Tobi'' was separated far from Jun due to the energy shockwaves. Two of Jun''s plant clones which were hiding underneath the earth, emerged and grabbed Itachi and Minazuki respectively and teleported away. "This doesn''t seem good, not at all, no, no!" ''Tobi'' said as he backed off quickly. However he wasn''t fast enough as four blurry silhouette''s burst out of the runic circles. One giant bird shaped silhouette sped off and appeared behind ''Tobi''. Seeing it ''Tobi'' dodged and flickered towards left, however was met with a giant paw that smashed him in the opposite direction, ripping through his clothes partially and cracking his mask. As he flew off like a ball kicked, a huge scaled tail smashed into his back. ''Tobi'' spewed blood through a part of the mask that fell off in this scuffle. Finally ''Tobi'' felt an enormous air pressure come towards him from above. As he looked up, he saw a tortoise shell the size of a palace falling from above and had almost reached him. By this time, the two clones of Jun came back and teleported with Jun, Nazuna, Daimyo and Hinoki who were left. Apart from Hinoki no one was conscious and he saw ''Tobi'' being played by the four huge best silhouettes as Hinoki teleported away. When ''Tobi'' had nearly got crushed, a hand grabbed him from under the earth and pulled him through as if he was lying on the surface of water. The enormous tortoise shell crashed onto the ground. Dust clouds spread for hundreds of meters as the four beast shadows disappeared now that Hinoki and the rest who created them were gone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ''Tobi'' appeared from truck of a thick tree, along with another guy in black robes who had a big clamshell like thing instead of a head. ''Tobi'' collapsed on the ground and coughed and wheezed heavily, his injuries at the end were pretty heavy. "That last attack was scary no? I didn''t realize there was still someone remaining from that village who could summon those things! Even though it wasn''t true power of those beasts, not even by a long shot. Still pretty impressive right?" The clam shell guy looked towards ''Tobi'' who was still in a spasm on the ground expecting a reply. When he didn''t get one he continued "Well he won''t be able to use that again for a long time. Still, something to look forward to eh!?" The clam shell guy muttered happily as he grabbed ''Tobi'' once more. "There is still the business we came here to do" ''Tobi'' "There are other ways for it" Clam shell guyfirmly held ''Tobi'' who was trying to go towards where he had just fought "There will be other opportunities, but not now!" Saying so both of them sank into the earth once more. 32 BSNW CH 30 Somethings Change, Somethings Dons After the incident with ''Tobi'' Jun and Hinoki discussed and decided to stay as a guest in one of the inns of the capital until Nazuna was recovered. Hinoki informed Minazuki and his team that they don''t have to wait for Jun and Nazuna and that Hinoki will take them on a special mission which has already be assigned. Minazuki didn''t care about Jun at all to protest so he just said farewell to them and reported to the Daimyo about the completion of their mission and permission to return. The Daimyo granted them the permission and Team 2 departed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within one week when Team 2 had almost reached Konohagakure, Tenma by chance intruded on a gang of thieves returning from their robbing spree. Unexpectedly they turned out to be pretty skilled and used to fighting ninjas. In the fight Minazuki lost an eye and Tenma lost one of his arms. Inari was almost violated by three Bandits, however was saved by Itachi who awakened his Sharingan unexpectedly. He had already had indications of it in the last fight against ''Tobi'', and with additional stimulation now it wasn''t hard as he wanted to protect his friends. Jun''s interference had enacted a change in Itachi''s future, However some parts of it remained unchanged as Inari and Tenma quit being ninjas after that, Tenma due to his physical loss and Inari due to mental trauma. Minazuki disappeared after this and was classified as a missing nin. Itachi was put in same special trainee ANBU squad as Jun was before leaving for his special mission with Hinoki. This squad was under the Hokage due to unexpected joint efforts of Hokage and Fugaku, both with their own agendas. Itachi, who lost his only friends apart from Jun and Shisui, became a workaholic and dedicated himself to training and accomplishing missions given by hokage. In his heart was a fire to devote himself to the village and Hokage paid utmost attention to him to protect him from the likes of Danzo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nazuna recovered after about two weeks of rest after which Hinoki departed with them despite the offers of the Daimyo. One week into the journey and Nazuna and Jun recovered from the stress of their previous encounter finally. Jun finally asked where they were going. "Do you know that apart from the Five Great Villages, many small villages exist?" Hinoki asked Jun to which he nodded. "We are going to a place which used to hold one such village, the Hidden Evil Sealing Valley. Well it could not be said to be a true village, more like a experiment facility." Jun listened with rapt attention. This was something he never knew in original works of this world. "After the warring era, many major clans had started devising various secret methods and powers inspired by the First Hokage and his Kekkei Genkai, which could oppose even Tailed Beasts. One such clan was our Evil Sealing clan, which was made out of strong refugee ninjas from various varieties of clans of the world. However, we ran a secret experiment at that time, which we probably shouldn''t have in retrospect." Hinoki sighed before continuing. "We had luckily captured a member of an unnamed clan who could absorb nature energy like breathing without meaning to, bringing variety of changes in him, even making him feral and beast like. After tons of research we were able to isolate that property of his bloodline. However one of the other researchers theorized something unimaginable. He believed that since Tailed beasts were made out of an amalgamation of natural energy given consciousness, it would be possible to artificially engineer one. With the extracted bloodline as a base and generations of research, various samples were generated with different animals as base. However that mad researcher got an idea to generate a Humanoid Spirit beast. So he did some forbidden research on human babies secretly and generated a spirit which could theoretically absorb Natural Energy until it fully developed into a powerful entity like Tailed Beasts. However things went horribly wrong from then on." Hinoki shuddered briefly before continuing. "The Humanoid Spirit however underwent a mutation. It developed use for the chakra it had been accumulating. It developed a hunger for other spirit beast chakra and devoured all experimental spirit beasts made. In the end it became an Evil that only knew how to play with others minds and generate terrifying illusions that even affect reality at its peak effect. It even abandoned its human form and became something like a huge whale like catfish with crab like legs. It even killed each of the researchers and the families that lived in the Evil Sealing Valley by driving them crazy with illusions and turning them against each other, including my own Son and his wife. However we had devised a fail-safe of five sealing mirrors which would send it into a deep sleep for many years, with the mirrors keeping track of its next awakening. Each mirror had a guardian" Hinoki said taking out the mirror he had got from Daimyo "and I was the guardian of this one. I was too late to save my family except my granddaughter who was too little at that time and was ignored by the Beast. Sealing that Beast cost the lives of four out of us five guardians. And Still asleep it stays. After that I hid all the other four mirrors in the secret domains of the other four guardians and entrusted mine to Daimyo, so that I can access it in case I need it quickly. Anyway, we need to check the status of the Beast and get the other Four mirrors, Because now finally I have a solution for cleansing that Evil once and for all. The other Four Mirrors are in The Sulfurous Valley, The Snow Covered Crystal Ravine, The Desert of Death, and finally Frontier Volcano. Once we know status of the Beast sealed in the Evil Sealing, we will visit the other four places and retrieve the mirrors. However, the mirrors are linked with using space/time methods with the seal in Evil sealing valley. The mirror with us is the key and the other four mirrors are the true lock. I fear that the four locations that house the mirrors may not be as simple as what they were before." 33 BSNW CH 031 First time in Evil Sealing Valley A few weeks later outside the edges of the forests of Fire Nation. A black silhouette danced between packs of chakra mutated beasts. The beasts , enhanced with various elemental chakra, charged towards the silhouette again and again, destroying all in front of them. There were all types of beasts attacking the silhouette at various intervals. "Hishhhsa" Snakes hissed as they lunged towards the black silhouette. One of them was punched by him just below the jaw. The snake flailed striking all around with its tail hissing. The other two snakes sprayed venom towards the silhouette seeing how he had defeated one of them in close combat. The venom turned into a poison vapour flowing through the air towards the silhouette. "Boy that''s dangerous" The silhouette said removing its hood while standing in the poison cloud, revealing Jun with his golden runic eyes "However , Not for me." The poison vapour splashed on his skin, and slowly got absorbed in his skin. Jun created hand seals in an instant and "Wind Release: Wind Blast" gusts of wind blasted the snakes apart . [Level Up] [Additional Title Beast Killer achieved. On applying gives 30% more effective attacks against all wild beasts and chakra mutated beasts.] "Ahhh hrgh" Jun gave a roar as he stretched his upgraded body. Within these past few weeks he had truly upgraded all his skills to a very high level through constant battles with wild beasts. Vast amounts of fierce beasts could be founded in the outskirts of Great Nations. This fact was something he learned in academy, but first time he saw it in person. He battled all kinds of beasts like Boars , Foxes , wolves , snakes , a few tigers and even one bear. Jun then dusted off his clothes before leaving the clearing where he fought the Chakra Mutated Snakes. As he left, a fox crawled its way out of underbush. Sniffling its way around the blasted bodies of snakes, it slowly sneaked around, sighing in its heart that he had survived the danger. Right at that moment, a big projectile of water struck its head from behind, blasting its brain apart. "I don''t like foxes" Jun commented as he moved away finally. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jun reached a few cliffs as soon as he exited the forest. He scaled them upwards and reached a few tents that had been set up on one of them. Two people were sitting in meditation outside them. They looked up as Jun jumped up and landed on top of it. "Finally here huh? Done your daily hunting?" Nazuna got up and asked "You already are proficient enough aren''t you?" "Its fine Nazuna" Jun "I don''t want to get rusty." "That''s commendable Jun" Hinoki said "We will now leave for the valley, its within travellable distance now." After a brief break for food and rest, they left for the valley. Crossing the cliffs they reached an extremely large cliff-wall with two ancient, rustic looking wall fire torches which looked as if they hadn''t been lit in a long while. "Where do we go now ?" Jun "We have already reached the secret entrance boy" Hinoki "It had been concealed with power of the beast. There is a secret method which would allow entrance." "Come on grandpa!" Nazuna "No need to be so mysterious!" She then pointed at the old torches and said "We simply have to light those torches don''t we? Hmph, being all mysterious." and walked towards them. Hinoki simply smiled and let her do as she pleased. Nazuna fired a Fire Release towards the torches, "Fire Release : Fire Wave" Two streams of fire blew towards the torches. However something strange happened when the flames reached the torches. The fire elements were sucked into the torches, and the Jutsu disappeared without a single spark remaining on the torches. Nazuna was dumbfounded at this and turned towards Hinoki. "Hahaha¡­ Did you think it was so easy?" Hinoki laughed at her and replied "If it were so easy, it wont be a secret." Hinoki stepped forward and prepared a Jutsu. As Hinoki executed it, wind coiled around the torches, slowly seeping into its depths. Flames suddenly burst out from them, startling Nazuna and Jun. As the Flames blazed, a part of the rocky wall of the cliff in front of them turned illusory and disappeared. "Wow!" Jun exclaimed "I know right!" Nazuna said, her eyes shining with excitement. "Lets go you two!" Hinoki said as he went into the opening in the wall "This opening will only stay open for a while so we need to hurry. Once inside, you ignore everything that is happening around you and only run for the exit that is straight ahead. Okay?" "Yes!" Jun and Nazuna said. As they entered, Jun received a message from system [You are going to enter an illusory High Speed Challenge Map. Although you can bypass this challenge, would you like to accept it?] ''What Is the benefit?'' Jun [You will be attacked by various Illusory animals inside. However you have to avoid them touching you while crossing the tunnel at high speed. Depending on your speed and the amount of animals you avoid, you will gain points and rewards based on the said points at the end of the challenge. This challenge can be retaken whenever you arrive at this place again. This was initially created as a training ground for some ninjas under experimental conditions.] [Will you take the High Speed Challenge Map ? Y/N] ''Well ok, lets see what this is about.'' Jun said and accepted. As they went in, the place suddenly transformed into a large straight rocky tunnel. The only source of light were the two ends of tunnel, so the objective was clear. They started running immediately towards the other end. "I don''t see the big deal--" Nazuna commented when a black colored snake jumped towards her from ceiling. Nazuna screamed at the sudden attack and wanted to kick. However Jun grabbed her and burst forward while enhancing his legs with chakra. Hinoki nodded towards them while increasing his own speed. Nazuna struggled for a moment before giving up and letting Jun help her speed up. They avoided as many animal attacks as possible, Bats , Slugs , Insects and Snakes. A few attacks made them bleed and for some reason drained their chakra but the continued despite that. Finally after what felt like an hour, they escaped the tunnel. As soon as they escaped, Jun received one more message, [Congrats on your first successful challenge completion. Your score is ¡­. 17/20. You gain instant Chakra Recovery pills that recover 50% of chakra when consumed!] Jun ignored the reward as he saw his wounds and blood suddenly disappear as they exited the tunnel. He turned inquiringly towards Hinoki who explained. "That''s the power of the beast. Its an Illusion, yet its not as it directly affects the soul. Even your bloodline will offer only minimal protection against its powers Jun" Hinoki addressed Jun directly because he knew of Jun''s immunity to regular illusions, hence he clarified his doubts. "Anyway now" Hinoki clapped to get their attention "Welcome to that Valley of Evil" He said and gestured towards their front. 34 BSNW CH 032 The Valley Of Evil : World Ques With the first step into The Valley of Evil, Jun and others saw pale purple mist swirling around in the village. No smell, No substance, No presence and yet they could see it. "This is the Fog of Mist produced by that beast ever since it went berserk and swallowed all the other Spirits. Peculiarly it makes the weak willed people berserk overtime and they get stronger without any special training. However they slowly lose their minds and in the end become beasts that only know to kill." Hinoki said in a sad tone. "That''s how this village became like this. The survivors went insane due to prolonged exposure to this mist, and finally killed each other." "There is no one here" Nazuna said softly peering into a destitute building which probably was some kind of residence at one time, but now was a ruin with the stench of death. "Everyone is long gone.." "How awful" Jun exclaimed looking at some twisted trees that grew inside a blood splattered building. Foul , rotting smell wafted from the base of the partially rotted tree. Even plant life couldn''t survive in this place. "Yes this is really messed up." Said Hinoki "All the Natural energies was concentrated into the shrine which acts as a hot spot to attract it and uses its power to seal the beast. But due to that, this place became a land of the dead where even plant life wont exist." "Lets go and check the seal grandpa." Nazuna They all crossed the village to its northern reaches where an enormous mountain could be seen. There was a deep dark cliff between the village and the mountain with only a wooden bridge to connect them. Jun tried to step on the bridge but no matter what he couldn''t take a step forward. "This is no ordinary bridge." Hinoki explained "It by itself is a test. Only those who provide the five keys may move forward." Hinoki took out the first mirror which they brought. It by itself floated to the entrance of the bridge, its runes glowing white. The symbols floated off the mirror and formed five revolving circles in the air. The mirror fitted itself to one of the revolving circles and a deep boom issued inside the mountains. Hinoki sighed in relief "The seal is working properly. That was the sound of affirmation from one of the five spirit locks on the beast. Now we just need to find the re--" Suddenly the mist thickened and revolting purplish black colour of the mist became even richer. "Guuuuoooaah¡­Aarrhhuuogh?!!?" ???? "No! .. It cant be¡­ there was supposed to be two years ¡­ It accelerated!" Hinoki panicked The air in front of mountain rippled before two enormous horizontal space cracks formed. It widened to reveal monstrous purple eyes with golden pupils. Jun and Nazuna froze due to the enormous pressure from those eyes. A wave of purple light emerged from those eyes blasting out towards them. "Nooo!" Hinoki shouted as his hands blurred into high speed seal forming. He clapped his hands together and four pillars got summoned around the three. The purple light wave got bisected due to the barrier formed by the four pillars. "Its consciousness has awakened. We need the mirrors fast. We have a few weeks at most, Its fighting the seals binding it ¡­" Hinoki Jun received a message from the System [World Quest Triggered.] [Due to butterfly effect of your reincarnation, you triggered an event of future which should have been solved by a hidden character. As a result if not solved in time, it could threaten the very future of you and your companions.] [World Quest : Evil Spirit Beast Gather the rest of the mirrors before the time remaining runs out and deliver it to Hinoki. Reward : Pure Chakra Transformation Technique Manual (Non-Absorption) Failure : Hinoki''s Death, Nazuna''s Death, Hidden Leaf Village Disbandment, Damage to Bloodline(Extent Unknown) ] ''Damn You System!!'' Jun cursed in his mind as he faced the pressure of those eyes staring at them. "Gaargghooouuh" ??? A scream emerged from the space crack as three rays of light emerged from the eyes. The rays of light were not hindered by the barrier as they fell on all three of them. [You have been marked by Spirit Beast ????] [Curse of Spirit Beast Gained : Hostilities from random weak willed people. Only people with strong wills wont be affected by hostility generated towards you due to this curse.] Hinoki stiffened as the light fell on them before sighing. The space crack disappeared shortly after the ray of lights fell on them, taking the ominous eyes with them. "Its finally disappeared" Hinoki said exhausted due to the events. -------------------------------------------------------------------- That night they stayed in the Valley of Evil as they couldn''t leave it unguarded now that the beast had started to gain consciousness. Sitting around a small bonfire for warmth Hinoki discussed future plans with Jun. "Boy, the situation is no longer what we can say is under our control. The Spirit Beast is stronger than before, its resentment on being bound was shown in the way it cursed us. If left unchecked it could break free in few weeks, at most 2-3 months." "What do we do then master?" Jun "It all depends on you now" Hinoki said as he took out a scroll and wrote something in it before rolling it up and sealing it with a special seal jutsu. "Take this to the Third Hokage, he has the seal key for this sealing method. Meet him secretly however, best to meet him in the Hokage Mansion. I didn''t tell you before but I suspect the Beast''s awakening wasn''t a coincidence. Someone is working on this from outside. Although they couldn''t break the seal, they tampered with it enough to let the beast awaken when first mirror is applied. They might hinder you from gathering rest of the mirrors so beware. Stay hidden, get to the Hokage and give the scroll to him. It contains all the info about the mirrors and the way to find them." Hinoki patted Jun''s head as he took the scroll and put it secretly in his inventory while tucking it in a secret pocket. "What about you master?"Jun asked "Nazuna and I will stay here" Hinoki replied "I cant leave this seal alone now. And now that all this has happened, I need to pass on my arts to Nazuna in preparation for future. I will stay and manage the seal. A secret technique of my clan can extend the time it takes for the Beast to break the seal. However I will only last for two years with that, Since that method drains my vitality for everyday the seal is maintained. Don''t be like that child" Hinoki said as he saw Jun''s anger at the helplessness of the situation "We all can only do what we can. You have a job to do so do I. We will watch over the seal and wait for you to find and bring rest of the mirrors. However keep it a secret Jun, No one apart from Hokage and those he assigns to help you find the mirror can know about this." Jun''s expression was grim, his eyes blazing with anger as he processed all that had happened with them today. Hinoki and Nazuna went to sleep while Jun stayed by the bonfire, Fires blazing in the golden eyes. Whether it was fires of the bonfire or his flames of rage no one could say 35 BSNW CH 033 Back Towards Konoha Somewhere in the Divine Realm --------------------------------------------- "Oh my, I never thought that boy would end up making so many changes and get so powerful beyond his age. And he even ended up with one of the Samsara fragments." ??? Some mysterious being was holding his head in his hands watching over the mortal world. Another being, shrouded in a long coat and holding a rod arrived beside him. " Well Senior, You wanted to give him another chance with such powers. It was not at all possible to him live a normal life. Especially in a world he knew things about. Sine he came from beyond this world''s timeline he is not constricted by it and knows things and changes them." ?? The first being suddenly raises his head, struck by an idea. "That''s it isn''t it? He changed because he already knew. I just need to bring more diversity to this world. Obscure its future and its previous timeline. More variables need to be introduced to this world. And I know just the right candidates." ??? "Senior! I don''t --" ?? "Not now, you go back to watching over your world. There is no telling what new changes he will bring. I have my work of recruiting few of the candidates in my mind, I am going back to the Timeless Realm." ??? The first being vanished while muttering and the second one sighed in frustration. "No matter how much time passes, I never get to rest. First mum , then my unworthy descendants, and now he had to go and bring this one into this world. Haah¡­" ?? The second being slashed with his rod and opened a dimensional crack and disappeared. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Right now in the borders of Konoha -------------------------------------------------- Jun was trying to escape the pursuit of three elite ninjas with unknown village affiliation. One of them had a samurai type hair do with only three streaks of hair on each side of head and a muscular physique. The other two had themselves hidden in a robe. As they saw that they were about to reach Konohagakure borders, he called out to the other two with him. "Big Brother Gensho, Jako, we have almost reached that Hidden Leaf. You both should leave to the hideout. I will manage this kid and meet you later." Samurai Hairdo Guy "Alright. Finish this ball of nuisance and get the info from him before he reaches the Village. We will wait for you Rokkaku." Gensho The other two retreated as Rokkaku kept chasing Jun. Jun was bewildered as he wondered how had he managed to get these three on his trail. He had taken care while escaping from The Valley Of Evil. Using His presence hiding ability to max, he had crossed most of the Fire nation. However a week later when he had almost reached Konoha borders he found himself being followed by three. The short skirmish the had before he escaped had informed him pretty well about Their skill level. ''All elite Jonin level, as good as that Tenzo guy. I managed to defeat that one through tricks and personal harm, but not possible to do the same with this one. I don''t even know this guy''s speciality. So far they have only been using usual ninja methods on me. Space Style and other methods will take too much chakra and leave me vulnerable.'' Jun thought as he tried his best to shake him off. Both of them snaked through the forest, once in a while attacking with Kunai and Shuriken trying to throw off each others composure. When Jun had almost run out off ideas he sensed a ruined building in the distance. He decided to use that as a place to hide and throw this guy out of his game. He activated his Sage Mode with his runic eyes spinning to analyze each move of his opponent. He slammed his palms on the ground and raised a huge group of rock clones with a few plant clones mixed in between. He too got mixed with them and attacked Rokkaku. Meanwhile one of his plant clones quietly sneaked off in the direction of the ruined building. "You little dipshit!" Rokkaku shouted as he fended off attacks from the clones and a few chakra enhanced attacks of Jun in between. Jun used Flying Thunder God to switch with his clones often and attack in a wide variety of techniques. Rokkaku Finally got pissed at Jun'' attacks and molded huge amount of Chakra between his palms. Jun kept a close sense on his technique being formed since it mostly was like Rasengan Naruto had shown in anime, no hand seals and pure chakra shape change through chakra control. But Rasengan seemed child play compared to the amount of Chakra molding this guy was doing at an incredible pace. At that moment he received a Flying Thunder God style chakra pulse and realized that his clone had already reached the building he had sensed. He waited For Rokkaku to finish his move. "Ninja Art: Fierce Dragon Palm" Rokkaku Thrust forward one hand in a claw like pose and the Mass of chakra rushed out continuously in shape of a dragon with claws while its tail end was connected to the clawed hand of Rokkaku. The dragon clawed and crashed into each clone dissipating them with each strike. "Not good" jun exclaimed and he along with rest of his plant clones executed a Jutsu simultaneously "Hurricane of Leaf Blades" Thousands of Leaf blades raged about in the air, attacking Rokkaku and providing cover for Jun at same time. Rokkaku could get what was happening, Jun and the the clone in the building switched places. Before the Hurricane ended, Jun''s clones attacked with various leaf blades and shurikens, some even striking Rokkaku and delivering a few attacks successfully. Rokkaku, finally freed of the leaf hurricane, decided to end it and made the Dragon coil and spin, binding all the clones there before bursting with them. When finally the smoke cleared it turned out that Jun had long disappeared.Rokkaku was shocked for a few seconds before letting out a furious roar. Now that he had released such a big one like his Dragon Palm, he couldn''t stay any longer. He regretted that Jun had slipped his grasp, but there was nothing he could do anymore. As Rokkaku Left, Jun was looking around in an unfamiliar building. After he teleported and arrived at the place, he looked around and saw that it was like an enormous shrine or temple. Though it was in ruins, it felt like once upon a time it must have been very well visited. He went forward and blew of the dust from the semi broken door of the shrine. After he had blown off the dust, an Uzumaki symbol revealed itself. Jun was puzzled, Uzumaki symbol was of the Village hidden in whirlpool. Although they were allies of Konoha, he never knew there was a building like this withing Konoha borders. When he pushed and opened the rotten doors, he couldn''t believe what he was saying. "What?!!" Jun 36 BSNW CH 034 Masks and Secrets Jun looked at the wall in front of him in astonishment. Lines of masks were lining in that wall, which was incidentally on top of a podium below three ancient symbols. ''Probably setup by Uzumaki''s before they all fell'' Jun thought was he walked to wards the podium. The used his chakra sensing at max but couldn''t sense anything wrong. However he could see a kind of black flame burning beneath the masks. He moved towards one of them with his Sage mode sensing changes in environment around him at max. When he had almost touched one, he could sense the black flame blazing slightly. ''Maybe its some kind of a trap, if I pick wrong mask then these flames will attack me'' Jun mused. Normally one would not wanna mess with such protected objects. However Jun was curious about what was being kept under so much protection. He roamed his hands over each of the masks, all giving same reaction. Finally he swept his gaze to the top row. Unfortunately due to size of the wall, it was above his reach. Usually he would have just attacked with one of the plant vines and got what he needs, but these masks were dangerous and maybe had sensors or something against Jutsu that may touch them. Moreover he didn''t know if they would react to plant the same way they would to a human hand. After a lot of thought he finally figured a way. Instead of applying Jutsu to his surrounding, he did it to himself. He remembered Naruto transformation Jutsu from original series. Due to his dense chakra, the transformation Jutsu had become solid true transformation whenever he applied it. He decided to use that idea. Using Nature Chakra he directed a lot of it to his Transformation Jutsu. After a lot of time he finally gathered enough to get a solid transformation. He transformed to a supposedly adult form of himself, taller better physique and long hair for some reason. He then finally figured out that the Mask on the third from right on the top row was the only special one among them all. He took it down slowly but no trap assaulted him. After sighing softly he backed away slowly until he was outside the shrine. After coming out he observed the mask using his skill. [Mask Of Oni : ????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??] ''What the hell?! Just what is this?'' Jun [Extremely Risky Object made by imbuing some of the world''s laws. Potent and Dangerous powers maybe summoned on using the mask. Recommended to keep it stored away in Key Section of Inventory] ''Key Section?'' Jun [Part of inventory under High Security. Even user would be prompted before retrieving any object from that section. Powerful or important objects can be stored there for safety.] ''That is OK. But why cant I view the information related to the mask.'' [Powerful artifacts need Observation skill at max before being able to observe. User is simple not proficient enough with his skills right now.] ''Well , fine.'' Jun replied and stored the Mask in his key Inventory as suggested. He decided to rest in that building for the night since he didn''t want to risk being discovered by Rokkaku. He sat in meditation to spend the night. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Hokage''s Mansion An ANBU appeared outside Hokage''s room and knocked since it was pretty late at night . The third came out wearing casual robes, his wizened face showing his age which was usually hidden in the grandeur of the Hokage Attire. "What happened Inu ? So late at night ?" The Third "Apologies, but it was informed that intense chakra fluctuations have been sensed at Konoha borders. Preliminary investigation shows a fight happened between a two ninjas maybe, lots of devastation at the site of investigation. However it seems that the fight never reached conclusion and they both fled somewhere. Tracks of one are traceable until out of fire country, but other disappears abruptly." Inu "Hmm, cant be spies. They wont be so stupid, or maybe a distraction?" Third placed his chin on his hand "You sure the second one didn''t leave any tracks?" Third "Yes, The second disappeared abruptly from the location. Some kind of long distance movement ? or hiding technique like that of Rock Shinobi?" Inu theorized Rock Shinobi''s hiding technique was very famous for being one of the best for erasing tracks. However there was something that didn''t fit well. "What kind of elemental Damage are talking about?" Third "None Actually. None of the elemental Jutsu were used. Either to hide tracks or maybe they don''t specialize in elemental styles ?" Inu "Hmm. No element.. wait a moment. How was the state of forest? " Third "Forest ¡­ ahh , do you mean he is coming back?" Inu "Exactly. No reason for both participant of such an intense fight to not use elemental styles. He is coming back, must have encountered some trouble and was forced to fight. Keep an eye out for him." "Yes Hokage-Sama." --------------------------------------------------- Jun woke up from his meditation, all his lost chakra fully regenerated even having some benefits and growth from the intense fight yesterday. His skills seemed to have grown a lot. He finally could see almost peak of his chakra control due to the continuous use of his space style. He checked and on seeing that No sign of Rokkaku was there, So he could finally leave for Konoha now. After half a day he reached Konoha finally. Just about as he was going to step into the village, an ANBU appeared beside him. Jun looked towards him and recognized who it was. "Ah, Inu-San, How come you are here?" Jun "Hokage''s orders. You have been summoned." Inu "Ah Lucky, I also need some thing to be delivered. Lets go then Inu-San." Jun said as he grabbed Inu''s sleeve. Before Inu''s Baffled eyes they both teleported. 37 BSNW CH 035 Response Team Before Inu could figure out what Jun was Doing, Jun had already leaped through to a third of the distance in one FTG leap. With another two they appeared outside the Hokage''s office. Inu stood dazed for a moment , feeling like his legs turned to jelly for a moment before he got hold of himself. Getting himself composed after a few moments, he knocked on the door. "Come in" The Third As Jun and Inu entered The Third Hokage looked at the two in slight amazement before turning towards Inu with an eyebrow raised. He knew that usually Inu preferred windows. "He used the Flying Thunder God." Inu replied before shrugging his shoulders and being silent again. The Third Stiffened before slowly turning towards Jun, who was scanning the surroundings with his chakra sense. Sensing that no one was around, he turned to The Third and signaled him to seal off the office. The Third was amused with Jun''s cautiousness but did as he asked. Jun then came forward and delivered the scroll Hinoki gave to The Third. The Third took at it and on seeing the special seal on it, opened his drawer and took out what looked like a wooden coin from a pouch. He placed the coin in front of the scroll and made a Release seal with one hand while supplying chakra to the wooden coin from the other hand. The coin trembled a bit before releasing sealing runes steadily , which enveloped the scroll completely. Slowly the special seal on the scroll safely dissolved, leaving the scroll completely intact. "Haah" The Third sighed before raising his head towards Jun "What were his instructions?" "Secrecy should be maintained about this at all costs. The less people involved the better. Master definitely knew that someone has indications of this secret, because I was attacked by three super elite ninjas on the way here. Luckily only one pursued once I reached Konoha border and rest retreated. Even the one who I faced was equivalent to ''Tenzo'' who once was the reason of my almost bedridden injury." Jun replied The Third winced slightly when jun mentioned ''Tenzo''. He had hated Danzo who turned such a good boy into such a ruthless man who didn''t even let up against a kid. Shaking his head to dispel the memory he once again questioned Jun, "What exactly did they look like?" "There were all total three, but except the one I faced the rest two had completely covered themselves showing no trace of their identity. The one who fought me and damn near captured me had a ponytail, the kind sometimes seen in samurai, also had shaved his hair into three stripes on each side. No Hitai-ate was seen anywhere which would link them to any village, but that is pretty obvious measure to take I think. His fighting style was unique, unlike anything I have heard of any village. However, he did use a unique and flashy Jutsu, Some kind of chakra transformation which created a Chakra Dragon connected to his palm and which he could manipulate. From the amount of chakra he utilized, I can say he had lot more than me." Third mood worsened at that, Jun he could sense had a normal Chunin level reserve right at the moment after using Flying Thunder God so many times. If at his peak, he would have as much as the top level Chunin Reserves, equal to Inu. And given the amount of skills he had, Jun definitely was Chunin level in just skill repertoire. Inu would trump him in experience and proficiency, but a year or two later Jun could definitely give Inu run for his money. If one with Jun''s level of skill and sensing abilities said this then he would have to assume the threat is really serious. He never viewed this kid as normal ever since that day at Yamanaka''s garden. It always felt like Jun was an adult masquerading as a child. Shaking his head once more to remove unnecessary thoughts, he focused on the matter at hand. "Inu, alert your team about this individual Jun described. If he has once attacked , he can definitely do it once more. If not for our possible response scaring him, he may have definitely have captured Jun somehow even after exposing himself after that fight. However, that also tells us that he and his accomplices might attack Jun if he leaves the security of village. Jun, " looking at Jun he continued "You have to be under protection now. I cant risk such a promising talent being at risk like that." Jun sighed before saying "Hokage Sama, I think you better read that scroll before saying or deciding anything. I have a feeling that I am going to have a lot more to do than just sitting around once you read that." Third''s eyes narrowed at Jun''s statement, his hand twitched once before he opened the scroll and read its contents. Each word made his expression become darker and unsightly. He would curse out once in a while as if he heard some really bad news. Finally after fifteen minutes or so, He finished reading the entire thing. Closing his eyes, he put his fingers together before his forehead, thinking about this new problem. Opening one of his eyes after a while, he signaled both Jun andInu to come closer. In a voice laced with tiredness he explained the situation. "A kind of experimental spirit beast which imitates powers similar to a Tailed beast is going to be released soon from its seal in a classified location that Jun, and only Jun knows, apart from Hinoki of course. This beast has the power to affect mind and reality and although its chakra reserves right now can not even be 1/10th of the One Tailed Beast of the Sand Village, its still many times more than that of an average elite Shinobi of any village. Moreover unfortunately, unlike the Tailed Beast who are fixed in their nature and chakra, this one is unstable. It devours others minds to sustain its persona and can even grow by devouring others. Although it had been sealed for all this while, its finally getting free now due to interference of a third party. We need to deal with it. Otherwise its highly likely that leaf village will be one of the first targets of this beast. We have just barely started recovering from the Kyuubi incident, we cant afford this right now. We need a response team for dealing with this Evil Spirit Beast right now and Jun will be part of it." The Third Explained "Ah, The Evil Spirit Beast of False Legend. I always thought it was made up, who thought that Kushina chan was absolutely right in her suspicions when she mentioned it to me." ???? All turned at surprise at this sudden intruder who got past their senses, especially Jun who was really sure no one could get past his Nature Energy Sensing method. 38 BSNW CH 036 Secrets Behind the Beas Jun and the rest turned to see Jiraiya crouching down at the window looking at the three of them. His wild silvery white hair, which stuck up like spines of porcupine and his animalistic behaviors made Jun view him like a wild animal gazing at him. It always felt like he was trying to decipher some problem known only to him and was searching for the answers in others. Looking at Jiraiya inside his office despite the wards made The Third exasperated at both his expertise at Sealing Arts and his wild uncontrollable behaviour. He swallowed down his irritation and scolded Jiraiya. "Brat you once again broke my wards without my permission? I don''t have to tell you hat will have if the secrecy maintained by the wards is compromised, do I?" "Chill out old man" Jiraiya "I didn''t break them. I found a flaw and slipped inside without breaking your wards through that flaw. Before going I will modify the wards and remove that flaw don''t worry. But we have bigger problems, namely the Evil Spirit Beast you guys were talking about. If my guess is right , and I am pretty sure it is , that Spirit Beast is real bad news." "Why do you say so? Anything we should know?" Third "Yes. Well this is sometime time before N¡­. ahem .. Kushina was pregnant with her kid." Jiraiya started to explain. Third''s eye twitched slightly when Jiraiya had almost spoken Naruto''s name. "Anyway, back to the point" Jiraiya "At that time we were once having conversation about a new type of seal that was under the Uzumaki''s best Sealing Arts developers. She claimed that this seal, even in its prototype stage, would have surpassed the Eight Trigram Seal which was generally considered the best Sealing Jutsu after the Death Reaper Seal. Moreover, the finished product would definitely stand toe to toe with the Death Reaper Seal in terms of potency." Third gasped softly, since he knew what the Death Reaper Seal was capable of. No, scratch that, he didn''t know the limits of that seal because its potency depended on the power of sacrifice. More valuable the sacrifice is to the user, more powerful the effects. Its power was displayed when the Fourth hokage even split the strongest tailed beast in existence, the Kyuubi, in two halves, and sealed both halves in different bodies. In fact he himself learned the Seal later after that incident to honor the memory of the valiant sacrifice of the Fourth, and it made sweat run down his spine when he recalled the dreadful power he felt while practicing that seal. That seal deserved the word Demon in its name as that entity called by the seal definitely wasn''t anything remotely human. "Did you find out any records of it ?" Third "According to what Kushina told me, I did also go to Whirlpool village during the mission was assigned to at the time of Kyuubi incident. I found some incomplete documents which was hidden in the secret document vault. However apart from the development details of that seal, it also contained some researcher notes about the new Spirit Beast they were going to experiment it on. However the most disturbing thing was the future powers of the beast theorized by the researchers. The Uzumakis kept this to themselves but the beast might go berserk if released from seal, and also one of its dormant powers will activate. It can release evil spirits or usually known as demons which can possess people. It can effectively create an army in weeks of its release and turn all the villages inside out against themselves. It can devour the original spirits of those it posseses to stimulate its full recovery from its unstable state. We are lucky that its still sealed and unstable." "Well That being as it may, according to the information Jun has brought us, The beast will be unsealed latest by 2 years if we don''t do anything. There are four Sealing Mirrors of Hope as they are called. We will send a response team to get the mirrors secretly as planned. On the other hand, Jiraiya you will go to the Valley of Evil using Jun''s directions and see what you can do to help. " Third "OK. So we have to Find the remaining mirrors and seal the Damn beast right? Should be easy." Jiraiya ''Ah , Jiraiya san. Don''t raise such flags. What would you do if all goes to hell because of your reckless declaration.'' Jun lamented in his mind. "Ok then, Inu you and Jun will be assigned on this top secret SS ranking Mission. You are allowed no contact with village until you finish it, apart from asking for reinforcement in extreme emergency. But I doubt you will need it Inu as long as you are low key and secretive about this." Third "Jiraiya as planned You go to Valley of Evil and research the Beast. Also see what you can find out about those Ninjas who attacked Jun and inform me. I have a feeling that the secret of the Beast is not so secret after all. " """ Yes!! """ Jiraiya, Jun and Inu responded. "Jun you stay back a bit." Third Hearing that Jun stayed as Inu and Jiraiya left. Third gave him the scroll Hinoki gave Jun to deliver to the Hokage. "This contains the possible locations of the Scroll, the information of the secret regions of the other Guardians, also the Sealing art Jiraiya was talking about. I didn''t realize it until Jiraiya started talking about it. You should keep it and practice it. The Living Seal : Chakravyuha , ominous name but suitable for sealing something like that beast." Third. Jun took the scroll and glanced at it, The information on the Seal itself was a treasure, not to mention its application methods and information on secret regions of other four guardians. If this was not an emergency then this would have been a SSS rank secret. "You have one week before you leave for the mission. Your first target would be The Sulfurous Valley, More details should be in the scroll .Go and prepare." Third advised and Jun left the office. 39 Elemental Nations Geography @@ Guys I am going to keep a poll here for development of future chapters. I have hit a snag as to which Geographical map to follow for the next few chapters. Hence i will be Keeping a poll to decide the map according to the links provided below. 1. Map by xshadowrebirthx : https://drive.google.com/open?id=10GjiW5pFiTAjXi7mQR3Z3sqCDuL067ar 2. Map by xpierrex : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d6ma_kIZrCQDHYAuak8trGhlTGGSAYqh You guys can vote on my discord link i have opened for this novel : https://discord.gg/GvVpC7e The Voting will be on for the next 24 hours Please decide which map you like better and vote with either 1 or 2 . Your votes will decide the course of the places that would be included in the novel. any questions can addressed at either the comment section of the novel or on discord , whichever you feel more comfortable with. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Also you can use the Discord chat to suggest new elements or changes to the story.@@ 40 Results of the Poll for Map @@ Results of the poll Is : Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Map 1 - Map by xshadowrebirthx : https://drive.google.com/open?id=10GjiW5pFiTAjXi7mQR3Z3sqCDuL067ar Wish they had an image uploading function here. would have made it so much easier.@@ 41 BSNW CH 037 Training time - 1 Leaving the Hokage Office , Jun wandered around a bit in the village, searching for a suitable place to develop various ideas flowing through his mind. Wandering about he coincidentally reached Nazuna''s shop. He entered and saw a medium aged uncle sleeping with his head down at the shop. Jun was surprised since Neither Nazuna or Hinoki was present, he had thought the shop would be closed. He went and pressed the bell at the counter. "Haaghhubah?!!" The man was startled and fell back due to the sudden jerk of being woken up. With a crash of a few more ninja equipment , he woke up. Looking pissed at being woken up he looked about and saw Jun by the bell. "Damn brat! What is the meaning of this? Don''t you have any respect for your elders?!" The man shouted at Jun in annoyance. "An elder who sleeps at shop counter instead of managing customers? No, I have no respect for such elders." Jun retorted in return. "Hmph¡­ what would a brat like you know. I wasn''t sleeping, I was¡­ searching for new forging ideas. Yeah .. that''s what I was doing you see!" The man found an excuse and tried to convince Jun that . "Oh idea for forging, so you own this shop and are a blacksmith?" Jun "Yes" The man''s eyes changed when forging was mentioned. There was a subtle passion which could be seen when he spoke of it. Jun determined that this guy was true blacksmith , not a pretender. "Do you know Nazuna and Hinoki? I ¡­ ehh ?!" Jun was forced to stop and retreat suddenly because on mentioning Nazuna and Hinoki, the man suddenly attacked Jun with a Kunai, which was more extended than a regular Kunai, almost looking like a Short-sword. ''What the heck is this idiotic uncle doing?!'' Jun panicked at the attacked filled with killing intent directed towards him. He dodged a few by side stepping, moving towards the inner part of the shop towards the practice range Nazuna had once shown him. ''Hmm?'' On noticing that the the practice area was near, the uncle too directed his moves, forcing Jun in that direction. He thought it was a coincidence that the boy chose to move there. As soon as the uncle crossed the door way, Jun teleported himself behind him using a mark he secretly left during entering. Gathering nature chakra in his body and strengthening himself, He attacked the uncle with palms outstretched. ''Twin Shock wave palms'' Jun used a Taijutsu move he developed using Nature Energy strengthened body. Usually he didn''t use this since most of his fights were do or die situation. However he dint wanna kill this weird uncle even though it was annoying how he was keeping on attacking without explaining himself. Chakra induced shock-wave was generated from the point of contact ofJun''s palms and the back of the uncle. The shock-wave threw the uncle forward and the Kunai was thrown out of his hand . Jun caught the Kunai and stayed in the battle ready pose. "Oww! Kid are you for real? Hinoki told me you are not one to messed to be messed with but to this degree. Ow Ow Ow!!" The uncle groaned and exclaimed while rubbing his back. Jun was sure that there would be bruises forming there soon. He had not held back too much, just enough to make sure it wont be a killing blow. But he also doubted this guy would die so easily. He wasn''t all that he appeared. "What else was I supposed to do when a pervert leaps at you with a blade?" Jun exclaimed "Who are you calling a pervert?!" The uncle gasped in astonishment. "No one apart from you is here." Jun calmly retorted back. "You.. You!!" The uncle pointed at Jun red faced, but then left the practice area with a humph while softly wincing with each moment. Jun followed him back to the store counter. "Lets talk then brat. What do you need?" "Actually I hadn''t planned anything. I might be going to a few dangerous places soon so I just wanted to be prepared." Jun "You will have to pass a test before that." "Is kicking your ass not enough ?" "You just were lucky you brat. I wasn''t prepared enough. Anyway if you want something good to be made for you here, you will have to pass my test." The uncle told Jun "Why do you think I would want anything made from you?" Jun asked back "There are many others in this village. In fact there is an awesome shop of one of my acquaintances." Jun said remembering about Tenten''s Family. The were a whole family of blacksmiths. "Well of course you can. However just so that you know, I taught Nazuna her craft." Jun went silent on hearing this . he knew Nazuna''s prowess with blacksmith techniques and her taste of unusual weapons. Seeing this uncle''s Kunai with which he had attacked, Jun was pretty sure It was not coincidental. In fact Jun was covered with Nazuna''s craft, His special coat which took ideas from a Haori, a Hoodie and a flak jacket was something of Nazuna''s original creation. Also he had his special whip-sword which she created. If this guy was her teacher, then his craft would be comparable to hers if not greater. "What do I have to do?" Jun asked getting serious now that he recognized the guy in front of him as competent. "Actually its embarrassing to assign you this particular test but also necessary for me. You see, a few days earlier I was in Training Ground 20 since its pretty isolated and rarely used by anyone. I needed to test a few ofmy creations. However I by mistake lost my way and got stuck in the lair of a particularly dangerous chakra mutated beast. I attacked it in hopes of repelling it , However it was many times more dangerous than an ordinary chakra mutated best and it overpowered me. I escaped thanks to a few life saving equipment which were sacrificed in the process. However, I lost the scroll containing my new creations. They are really valuable equipment made from high quality chakra conducting metal. I would like to have them back. Therefore all you need to do is get it back. You see , easy peasy isn''t it?" 42 BSNW CH 038 Training Time - 2 Jun stared at him dumbly for a few moments. ''This guy ¡­ wasn''t he holding a grudge for me kicking his ass and now is sending me to my death. From what he describes, the forest is of absolute high risk. What the heck is he thinking?!'' Jun commented in his mind. ''however I have no choice. It would be good if I can have this place as a base for developing my personal equipment for future.'' "OK fine. I will do it. Just an animal, how hard can it be?" Jun said to reassure himself. "That''s the spirit! Now go and come back soon!" ''Ya right, as if that''s possible.'' jun exclaimed in his mind as he went out. ''I hope the kid can survive this, he will gain lot of benefits if he does'' The uncle thought and went back to sleep and everything went back to how it was before Jun''s arrival. --------------------------------------- Jun went out of the shop while dragging his feet. He tried to devise one plan after another to tackle the challenge, but all ended up short. He wanted something that would give him a real advantage. Suddenly his eyes narrowed, he felt someone or more than one watching him. He looked around and saw he was somehow in an abandoned corner of the village. Only few shacks dotted the place . Training grounds were still some distance away , if he got attacked he would have to fight it right here. He kept a close sense in his surroundings and he walked slower than before , but not enough that his pursuers would notice. A slight chakra fluctuation was detected and Jun smirked as he realized who it was. Shadow stretched behind him and extended to grab his feet like some kind of black grass. It tried to inch forward up but maybe insufficient chakra made it impossible. "Haaahhhh!!" a multitude of cloaked kids suddenly attacked Jun. Since it was just physical attacks, Jun responded without any Jutsu, just pure Taijutsu and that to with just hands since his feet were bound. The punches of the kid army were redirected to strike their companions. Once or twice Jun caught their arm and entirely threw the attacker onto a bunch of others. When only a few were left, five of them suddenly jumped up and caught various of Jun''s limbs, one even wrapped himself on his back. "Fire release : fireball!" taking advantage of this one more cloaked kid released a fireball at them. When the fireball struck, the kids covering Jun vanished into thick smoke. The fireball completely covered are around Jun, seemingly impossible to escape. Three cloaked kids appeared in front of the burning area. "We won! We won!!" One of the kids pulled back the hood revealing a spiked blonde, with whisker like marks on the cheeks, jumping with hands in air and shouting. Next to drag back his hood was a raven haired kid with a smirk on his face. Sasuke was pleased with his final attack. He had compensated its timing to be used as a combination finisher instead of a starting move after a lot of practice. "Where are you getting that much energy from after that fight? Yaaawwnnn , what a drag!" Shikamaru turned out to be the final one , his spiky black tied up swaying slightly as he removed his hood. "Come on you need to celebrate, we finally got one up on him. Our training paid off!" Naruto called out to Shikamaru cheerfully. "I agree!" Sasuke agreed with a happy smirk at his friend''s antics. "Two idiots. Haargh!" Shikamaru sighed with a hand covering his face "Did you two really think we got him? Look again!" Shikamaru countered their claims by pointing a thumb towards the burning area. The flames that covered it had started to dim. Naruto and Sasuke lost their smiles in shock when they saw that all that was left was a pile of slightly burnt vines. "He escaped ?" asked Naruto, his mouth open wide in surprise and his hands hanging down. "Not exactly" a voice sounded behind Naruto and Sasuke, Shikamaru slightly shook his head in resignation before looking back. Jun was standing behind Naruto with a grin on his face "You guys improved tremendously in these past few weeks. I guess you have all been practicing a lot ?" Naruto nodded eagerly , while Sasuke did so grudgingly. Shikamaru just yawned with his hands back on his head. "I am really impressed. Your planning I presume Shikamaru ?" Jun asked to which Shikamaru gave a small nod. "Really good, uncle would be proud." Shikamaru gave a sheepish grin before tilting his head back again with hands on the back of his neck. "Naruto, you have completely mastered Shadow Clone, but try to improve your Taijutsu more, or use an attack like Water projectile which you can spam endlessly along with your clones to create an enormous combination attack. There is even the method of duplicating and spamming huge amounts of shuriken to cover an enormous area, but that''s a bit advanced for now." Naruto nodded with a hand on his chin like a wise elder, making Jun laugh at his antics. "And finally Sasuke," Sasuke stiffened a bit and braced himself "Perfect timing, Perfect Jutsu, Perfect Control" Sasuke allowed himself a small grin while Jun continued "However, you are too confident in the result of your attacks and don''t doubt them for a second. Confidence is good but there is only a fine line between confidence and over confidence. However I was glad to see you cooperating seamlessly with these two. That''s a huge improvement from before where you just went off and attacked on your own." Sasuke scratched his head at that comment, feeling abashed at Jun''s point. "Remember as a Ninja Look at the surface, then whats beneath it, and finally whats hiding even deep inside. Always make counter plans for if your initial is defeated." Jun advised "By the way. How did you guys know I was here? It wasn''t long that I have been back." Jun asked "Ah, that would be me." Jun turned towards the voice and saw a young black haired boy walking towards him, smile on his cute boyish face with small dark tear like tracks on the side of his nose. "Ah, so its you." Jun exclaimed "Been a while¡­." 43 BSNW CH 039 Training Time - 3 Itachi was standing with a crooked smile, watching Jun smile back at him in return. "Itachi Nii" Sasuke tackled Itachi in the midriff when he was distracted earning a groan from him. Itachi gave Sasuke''s forehead a poke with two fingers with a smile on his face. "Satisfied with the surprise attack you wanted Sasuke?" Itachi "Not at all, he defeated us all so easily" Sasuke said while puffing his cheeks. His innocent and goofy side only came out in front of his brother. Itachi laughed at his reaction and replied "I am sure it wasn''t like that. He must have at-least used 10% of his effort against you, isn''t it?" Itachi smirked while Sasuke gasped angrily at Itachi''s teasing. "Niii!!" Sasuke screamed and sent mock-punches at Itachi, which the latter dodged easily and grabbed Sasuke under his arm like a sack of potatoes with Sasuke''s hands and legs hanging in air. "Itachi Nii, don''t hold Sasuke like that. He complains later to me and talks my ear off" Naruto said rushing towards Itachi. Itachi sidestepped and grabbed Naruto under his other arm just like Sasuke. "Then you join him in that position and keep him company" Itachi Shikamaru sighed while holding his head, watching Sasuke and Naruto''schildishness. "What? don''t tell me you want to be hanged under Itachi''s arm like that, Shikamaru?" Jun "What?!! No! (_groans_) Please spare me that embarrassment! What a drag it is to accompany these two idiots. I would rather lay back and watch the clouds with Choji, even if he just accompanies me to just eat his crisps." Shikamaru "Alright you three, run along now, Your parents would be worried that you didn''t come back after class today. Sasuke you too go home. I will come back later." Itachi "Would you be coming home too Jun ?" Shikamaru "Yes I will be, tell Yoshino-San and Shikaku-San I will be here for a week or so before leaving again." Jun "Alright, Take care Jun, do come back by evening, mum would be definitely making something special for you." Shikamaru said while snickering. Jun blushed slightly and said "I know" while Shikamaru rushed off with Naruto. _________________________________________________________________________ "So you need that training ground to practice?" Itachi "Not practice per say. I need to complete the request of that old guy in order for him to sell his wares. His shop has pretty unique type items." Jun showed Itachi his whip sword and custom jacket. "Well these are pretty nice. But the thing is , the training grounds that you mentioned were part of the six training grounds assigned to Chunin and Jonin ninjas and ANBU. With minimum bar being accompanied by at least one Chunin to even think of entering even the lowest ranked ground. " Itachi "That shouldn''t be a problem. If I remember right Hokage should have given me some kind of special ANBU trainee status when he assigned me to go with master. That should work right?" Jun "Hmm, yes. I believe it will. Lets go then." Itachi ___________________________________________________ After grabbing a quick bite to eat, Itachi and Jun grabbed a few combat supplies and made their way towards the training grounds. On reaching the gate that cordoned of the training grounds they registered their name for a pass and entered the gate. The world paused for Jun as a message flashed in his mind. [WelcometoKonohagakureEnvironmentalTrainingGrounds!ThesearetheDungeonswithinKonohagakure,createdinconjunctionbetweenTobiramaSenju andMadaraUchihausingninjutsuandspace/timeseals,eachfieldcontainschakramutatedbeaststobefought and some of these mutated further due to Kyuubi chakra leaked out during the Kyuubi attack,andwhilethedangerisgreat,ifoneis strongenough,theycanfinditemslostbyotherShinobithatyoucanclaimasyourown! FieldsareonlyaccessibletoChuninrankandaboveunlessotherwiseallowed YOUMAYONLYENTERONEFIELDPEREVERY12HOURPERIOD! 20.-Blackwoodtraininggrounds-RecommendedLevels20-25-TheBlackwoodtraininggrounddoesn''tlooklikemuch,butwithinthetreesaresquirrels whohavebeenabsorbingchakrafromtheverygroundfordecades,bewarned,theymaybesmall,buttheyarevicious,praythatyoudon''trunafoulthe ForestBoss. Boss : [RabbitofCaerbannog] - Deadly rabbit of the tales of old, amazing speed and blood thirstiness. 21. WoebegoneSwamp-RecommendedLevel25-30-ThenestingplaceofaspeciesofFalconsthattakefulladvantageoftheiraerialadvantage,using powerfulWindReleasejutsustobuffetinvadersastheyaretrappedontheground.TakecautionfortheBossdoesnottakekindlytothosewhoinvadehis lands. Boss : Midnight Falcon - a Nine tail chakra mutated falcon that uses a mutated type chakra nature release : Dark Wind Release 22.DryGulchWasteland-RecommendedLevel30-35-Waterisaverypreciousresource,thistraininggroundwilltesthowwellyouknowthisfact,butbe warned,othercreaturesarethirstytoo,andtheylearnhowtosurvivebydrinkingblood. Boss : Grizzly Rager - Bear with an uncontrollable thirst for blood because of the environment. Driven mad by Nine-tail chakra, attacks everything within sight when awake. 23.ShatteredFields(Plains)-RecommendedLevel35-40-Whenthisfieldhadbeencreated,somethinghadwentwrongandtheverygroundwassplit apartandseparated,leavingoversmalltrailstogetbetweenthe''islands''.Watchyourstep,forifyoufall,therewillbenoreturn. Boss : Kaepora Gaebora - Once a wise Owl and the clan leader, got corrupted By Hatred and Darkness of Nine tail Chakra slightly lost his stealth advantage due to its mad tendencies, but gained lot of power in exchange 24.TakayamaMountainsimulationTrainingArea-RecommendedLevel40-45-CreatedtoassistKonohaninjaintheirtrainingforbattleinmountainous regions,muchliketheoneKumogakureinhabits,thebeaststhatroamthisgroundhavebecomeonewiththeelementsthatragewithin. Boss : Thunderous Brightwing - Deadly Bat-type boss, heavily relies on Thunder energy, Likes to drain chakra from Ninjas 25. Nightmare Valley -RecommendedLevel45-50- Paradise for monstrous entities, the rule of ''Strong rule , weak obey'' is thoroughly applied here. Unqualified should not even dare to enter here. Boss : Khepri : Humanoid insect warrior, specialises in sword techniques using swords manifactured from its claws and chitin. Combines ferociousness of the Nine-tails with deadliness of its swordsmanship. Boss : Iku-Turso: Deadly mutant marine life form . lower body of a serpent, four humanoid hands and a mouth full of tentacles. Stuff of nightmares, and is incredibly proficient with combo type ninjutsu and poison type attacks. Boss : White Blaze - A White Tiger , once wise and kind member of its race , now rampaging while containing Nine Tail Chakra.] 44 BSNW CH 040 Blackwood Training Grounds - 1 Jun decided to select Blackwood training grounds as it would give him best benefits according to his level. ''Hold on, what is Itachi''s level, he needs to be stronger than me at least if he needs to go here. System, observe Itachi Uchiha'' [Name: Itachi Uchiha Level: 28 HP10,709 CP6,200] ''Wow, This guy is pretty strong. System, can I share Jun''s exp gain system with Itachi while he is visiting dungeon with me?'' [Not needed , since the residents of this worldautomatically gain limited benefits of system like exp gain and skill growth and reward system when they fight along side host in dungeons.] ''Oh, will they get to know its because of me?'' [No, since Dungeons like in the training grounds are made from enhancement of existing conditions. The training grounds already have a similar environment minus the re-spawning nature monsters and gaining of exp and structured nature of game system. So the presence of host is just adding a few additional options to the world by bending a few laws according to the nature o your inherent power.] ''Alright then, Lets enter Blackwood training grounds'' [Choice confirmed. Preparations underway. Displaying information of the training ground before entry.] [20.-Blackwoodtraininggrounds-RecommendedLevels20--25-TheBlackwoodtraininggrounddoesn''tlooklikemuch,butwithinthetreesaresquirrels whohavebeenabsorbingchakrafromtheverygroundfordecades,bewarned,theymaybesmall,buttheyarevicious,praythatyoudon''trunafoulthe ForestBoss. Boss : [RabbitofCaerbannog] - Deadly rabbit of the tales of old, amazing speed and blood thirstiness.] As soon as the option was confirmed, Itachi and Jun found themselves inside a forest the definitely hadn''t seen before in Konoha. ''Oh right, Tobirama and Madara had decided to play with space/time for whatever reason to make pocket dimensions to shove chakra mutations into. The two geezers, who knows how long these chakra mutations have been stuck here and how much have they grown. No sane person would mess with Space pockets so I am fairly certain we are the first ones to come here in a very very long time.'' Jun cursed in his mind. ''Ohwell, at the end of the day they are just a bunch of squirrels . Just how dangerous can they be?'' -------------------------------------------------------------------- After a few hours Jun was feeling as if he would love to go in the past and punch his loud mouthed past self for jinxing them. ''I really should have known better to tempt Fate, seriously, what the in the hell was wrong with me when I thought that?! Now I was surrounded by waist high two-feet-tall ravenous fucking beasts that were slavering at getting a taste of poor helpless little Jun! Well¡­ maybe not helpless I guess'', Jun admitted to himself as sent bunch of Leaf Shurikens, covered with[Gentle Fist :ChakraScalpel]. It was a new application of combo technique Jun figured out during the continuous attacks of these monsters. His shurikens cut deeply into a squirrel that had taken a running leap for his throat, even shredding apart its internal organs because of the Gentle Fist chakra combined into the Chakra Scalpel technique. Another one of the monster Squirrels screeched as Itachi''s blade cut into it, severely damaging several of its organs and muscles. Jun ignored the beast as he turned to the next beast, flinging a handful of Shuriken at it to get it to back away beforeformingthe seals for a Jutsu that would attack the squirrels in a wide range. "[Chakra Repulsion Shock-wave ] , [Plant Release : Shadow Shuriken Wild Dance]" Jun released two wide ranging jutsus one after another. A Shock-wave spread out from clap of his hands, disrupting the charge of monster squirrels rushing towards him. Innumerable amounts of leaf shurikens formed around him then, firing off into all the squirrels without discrimination. "Sqqquuueeeee" a animal screech sounded behind them. As Jun and Itachi turned, they saw a huge red squirrel, the size of a big dog, glaring at them . "This one seem stronger than the others doesn''t it ?" Itachi asked ''Sure does. System, observe it'' Jun [Mini Boss : Crimson Squirrel HP 5000 CP3000] "This one is definitely stronger than the ones until now" Jun affirmed "What now?" "Leave this one to me. Its been long since I got to try something decent. This one is mine" Itachi walked towards it with an unsheathed Kodachi and forming high speed seals with the other hand.Running towards the squirrel he unleashed his Jutsu. "I have been wanting to try this Jutsu ever since I learnt it from the Uchiha Library, [FireRelease:PhoenixSageFire]!" Itachi intoned as he activated Sharingan and spat out a shotgun like blast of fireballs that slammed into three vital points of the squirrel, the hidden Shuriken within the technique adding to the damage as it tumbled back. Jun''s instincts flared, making him roll to the side as another Crimson Squirrel charged out from the underbrush to try and jump onto him. Once he was clear , Jun drew out his whip-sword finally, infused it with [Gentle Fist : Chakra Scalpel] and slashed out a barrage of attacks on the squirrel as it came towards Jun with its drool flying in its rage. Jun decided to experiment more as he applied Fire Release Chakra onto the Whip-sword. [Created New Fire Jutsu - FireRelease:ChakraFlow] ''Nice!'' Jun exclaimed in his mind. Then applying a hasty [FireRelease:ChakraFlow] to the blade , he struck towards the squirrel as the blade ignited. The whip-sword burnt all the parts of the squirrel it came in contact with. Soon enough both Jun and Itachi were exhausted with constant attacks and finally managed to defeat the two Crimson Squirrels. [Host along with his party Defeated two Mini Bosses ] [Gained Exquisite Chakra Blade X 2 , Eight-Bladed Chakra Shuriken X 4] "Hey look, something turned up beneath those fallen squirrels" Itachi pointed out at metallic thing which was uncovered when the squirrel Itachi was fighting finally died and dropped to the ground. ''I can tell you exactly what those are'' Jun thought in his mind ''in fact if you weren''t here they would have directly been deposited in my inventory without even appearing like this.'' Jun and Itachi moved the squirrel aside and saw that there were two bladed weapons of unfamiliar construction style and 4 Shuriken type weapon, but with eight blades instead of usual four. The two unusual bladed were slightly wave patterned with one side completely edged and the other side edged only a quarter of the way from the blade tip. "This is a pretty amazing weapon" Itachi said with his eyes shining "See the partially edged side? Amazing idea, can reinforce blocking with other hand because of it and can even use it for quick slashing attacks as the area near the tip is double edged instead of single. Such a balanced blade too." Itachi exclaimed while tossing and catching the blade. Jun decided to enlighten Itachi with the other function of the blade too "Itachi look at this" and he inserted chakra into the blade. The blade accepted the chakra smoothly and instantly, the chakra formed a short-sword that elongated along the blade quickly. Jun then switched it to [Gentle Fist : Chakra Scalpel] and [Fire Release : Chakra Flow], which the blade accepted easily without problems. Itachi widened his eyes upon seeing this. "Chakra blades ¡­ Refined Chakra Metal!!" Itachi exclaimed 45 BSNW CH 041 Blackwood Training Grounds - 2 Itachi influenced by Jun, played a bit with the Chakra Blade too, getting familiar with inserting chakra and using it. They soon recovered their composure on remembering they still were in the Training ground. They ran up a thick , huge tree and sat on two different branches placing their backs to the tree. While taking in steady breaths, holding his Kodachi at the ready as Itachi carefully watched the dead bodies of the squirrels being burnt by the final Fire Release : Fireball he had released at them before climbing. "How long has it been since we entered the training ground and started fighting these kami-cursed squirrels? Thirty Minutes? An Hour? Two Hours? Or More?" Itachi Sighed "There has to be an exit somewhere. Till then we have to keep our wits about us." Jun said "You are right, we need to be careful" Itachi agreed "You rest for a while. I will keep watch while you rest." "You sure?" Jun asked "Of course" Itachi replied while pointing to his activated Sharingan "I have these, therefore I can see better" Jun decided not to comment that even his runic eyes gave him enhanced vision. When he was about to go to rest he suddenly noticed something. "Itachi" Jun called out. When the older boy turned, Jun showed Itachi his reflected face in Jun''s newly acquired chakra blade, which had regained its shine due to the supply of chakra which was provided earlier. Itachi saw his face reflected clearly and realized what Jun wanted to point out. His Single Tomoe eyes had somehow upgraded to Double Tomoe eyes, most propably due to stimulus of the life or death fights they just went through. It proved that Uchihas best grew up fastest in battlefields. "Congratulations" Jun said before putting away his blade and closing his eyes while leaning against the tree. Itachi nodded silently while taking out his own Chakra blade and observing the rotating red wheel of his eyes with the Two Tomoe. ___________________________________________________________ After a while, Itachi woke Jun up by slightly shaking Jun''s head. Itachi cut the flow of chakra to the Chakra blade and took out his Kodachi. While on the other hand Jun reapplied [Gentle Fist:ChakraScalpel] to his Chakra Blade and held it in one hand while keeping the other free for both his whip-sword and jutsus. Jun''s choice to apply [Gentle Fist: Chakra Scalpel] was both because he wanted to train with it, and because it was honestly more damaging than anything else he had at the moment to use with the blade. Itachi''s Sharingan alerted them to one of the squirrels leaping up at Jun''s back as soon as they had travelled for a bit. Itachi slashed with his kodachi, predicting it''s path as Jun sidestepped it''s leap, from below it''s neck, beheading it instantly. Jun flashed a thumb at him before throwing himself in a flip as another squirrel tried to take out Jun''s hamstrings and slashed his Chakra Blade at it. Jun''s free hand flashing through seals in the space of a second to form a [ChakraScalpel] and using it to sever the squirrel''s spine. Itachi struck out with his foot to kick a squirrel away from Jun before dropping to a knee and stabbing up with his Kodachi at another squirrel flying overhead. If Jun had learned anything during their time here, it was about the battle-awareness of Itachi to his surroundings. It was far too easy for someone to lose himself to the predictive abilities of the Sharingan, relying on it to warn them of danger, when it could only see what they saw. However Itachi had honed his other senses too from the time Jun last saw him, and was developing excellently as an all round Ninja. Fighting alongside Itachi showed Jun to be mobile when fighting, to be constantly scanning the area around him, watching below and above as they moved. Jun was growing up with every moment he spent with Itachi, fighting alongside him. Jun leapt and pushed himself off a nearby tree, soaring over a pair of squirrels as he threw his Chakra Blade down into one of them, embedding it into the spine with the activated Chakra Scalpel cutting off its nerves, before landing on the other squirrel, using his admittedly slight weight to stun the beast before shoving a [ChakraScalpel] activated leaf blade into its brain. Grabbing his Kodachi, Itachi finished the paralyzed squirrel off before turning around and spotting the final two mobile squirrels slowly creeping along the tree branches towards them. Not allowing them to recover Itachi formed three seals. "[FireRelease:GreatFireball]!" Itachi shouted before releasing a single fireball that was as tall as Jun was and taking a good chunk of Itachi''s chakra with it. The two squirrels were unable to get out of the way in time as they had leap at them and were caught in the flames and died soon after. Panting Jun scanned the area for any other threats and Itachi let out a sigh of relief as he only saw the remaining one of Jun''s attacks was the only squirrel alive, and even it was dying with its last breaths running. Panting and slowly dragging their legs, both boys went deeper into the forest. Their chakra was lacking after the continuous fight and even the mental strength was exhausted. Jun took out two food pills and a water pouch to have them recover some of their energy. After gulping the pills quickly, Jun and Itachi washed it down with some gulps of water from the pouch. As Jun put the pouch away, Itachi broke the silence. "After killing so many of these cretins and walking so deep and far, I really think we must be nearing the end of this hellhole" Itachi exclaimed. Jun nodded his head and said "Yes, and if we don''t find that weapon scrolls/pouch of that old amn by the end of this, I really am gonna go and kick his ass once more." Both of them gave a quick small laugh at the thought as they trudged further in. As they walked a bit further, Itachi held a hand out to stop Jun and activated his Sharingan . He spotted a bunch of big rabbits flopping about a few dozen meters in front of them. Seeing that Itachi had activated his sharingan, jun activated his runic eyes too and noticed the rabbits. Looking up he even spotted a brownish winged squirrel sitting on trees. Jun pointed it out to Itachi and then casted observe on the two new threats. [Killer Rabbits HP 4000 CP 5000] ''Whoa, those rabbits have a good chunk of Chakra in them'' Jun thought before focusing on the squirrel. [Screaming Squirrel HP2000 CP4200] ''Another Chakra based creature, but with low HP'' Jun thought and told his suspicions to Itachi who observed them with Sharingan and could determine a bit of the information from chakra flow of the creatures, but definitely not as detailed as Jun''s Observe Skill. ''Observe Skill combined with my Runic Eyes and Sensing techniques can do most of the work of Sharingan and Byakugan'' Jun mused in his mind as the slowly sneaked forward, deciding to ambush the rabbits. However as Jun activated his Chakra Sense, he noticed a squirrel hiding underneath a tree branch a few feet away from them. The squirrel , which turned out to be a Screaming Squirrel, noticedthem at about the same time. ''Oh crap'' Jun cursed in his mind while grabbing Itachi''s arm while the squirrel gave a loud screech, alerting every animal around them. 46 BSNW CH 042 Blackwood Training Grounds - 3 The Screaming Squirrel unfortunately used a chakra induced scream, which interfered with Jun''s and Itachi''s hearing. They ended up getting unbalanced because of it, stumbling directly into the group of Killer rabbits rushing towards them. ''Well Damn¡­. Their goes our ambush'' Jun thought while seeing the bunch of critters with bloodthirsty look in their eyes leaping with unbelievable speed towards them. Itachi took out a Kunai hastily and somehow managed to nail the head of the Screaming Squirrel to thetree. Although it did have enough HP to withstand one hit, but it seemed like Itachi had learnt the Chakra flowing technique pretty well because of the Chakra Blade and had managed to create a coat of Chakra Flow on the Kunai which had resulted a One Hit Kill on striking the squirrel''s Vital Point. However doing the same with these rabbits seemed difficult. Since they were surrounded by group of very alert Killer Rabbits, Jun and Itachi stood back to back to fend off this bunch. Jun didn''t wait to see what these rabbits would do to them and enhanced his body up a few levels using nature energy in his body. Although he was running a bit low on his stock of nature energy he figured it was not the time to be cheap about it. Having strengthened himself, he slammed his hand on the ground, creating a temporary rocky dome around themwith an Earth Release. "What are you doing? Seeing their speed and strength it won''t stop them for long" Itachi said pointing his thumb towards the dome wall. "I know, but you are hurt and can''t perform at your peak. If we want to win, we both need to fight with 100%" Jun said as he covered his hand with Mystic Palm chakra and put it on Itachi''s ears, healing them. Withing a few minutes it was resolved and Jun''s ear damage had also been resolved by then due his quick regeneration in Nature Energy enhanced state.By the time they were done, the Dome jun made was on its last legs too. With a strong tackle from a Killer Rabbit , The dome shattered to pieces as Jun and Itachi simultaneously pushed each other and flipped back. The killer Rabbit which was responsible for dome''s destruction crashed on to the forest floor where Jun and Itachi were standing moments ago, leaving a sizable crater on the forest floor. Jun and Itachi ducked out of the way of the numerous claws and teeth flashing towards them. ''Holy shit that''s some sharp teeth they''ve got.'' Jun thought while devising a plan to get out of this encirclement. Brute force would drain them of too much chakra and there was still the Boss which had not shown itself yet. Itachi flashed out his Kodachi and stabbed a rabbit, that lunged at his neck, right through its mouth. He leaned back just enough to allow another to pass by his head, although it did leave a scratch on his cheek and ear. Jun sent a [Vacuum Palm] striking towards that rabbit and another that lunged at Jun''s leg was dodged with a forward somersault and countering with a foot right to its head. Itachi did a twin heel drop and crashed heads of two to the floor. Itachi and Jun took a moment to catch their breath before resuming the battle. Seeing a rabbit rocketing off in a suicide dive towards them both of them leaped in opposite direction and fired off Jutsu in sync. "Fire Release : Dragon Flame" Itachi "Gentle Fist : Shadow Shuriken" Jun The rabbits were mostly finished after that deadly combo of internal and external Jutsu combo. However there were still a few hidden champions it seemed. One of the the rabbits took a flying leap after using a tree trunk as a launching site. Jun sensed the guy due to his enhanced sense, and it was rewarded with a roundhouse kick to its head launching it up and grabbed its head smashing it onto his knee. Then the poor rabbit got taste of Jun''s nature chakra enhanced [Fire Release : Flamethrower], endless pale yellow colored fire with a hint of blue colored fire spewed out of Jun''s mouth. All the critters in front of him turned to ash along with a heavy chunk of his chakra. Smoke filled their surrounding from the charred bodies of their enemies as two boys walked towards the final boss. They found a few crafting materials like the sharp claws of the rabbit, but since Itachi was not interested in it they decided that Jun would keep it for now until they have a better use for them. "The last one was great Jun. What is that Fire Release called ?" Itachi "Fire Release : Flamethrower, kind of a Nature chakra enhanced method of Fire Release with technique similar to yourDragon Flame Jutsu you displayed earlier, only its more focused and purer flame." Jun explained. "It really felt like a purer type of flame as you said. How did you achieve that though? I copied the method using Sharingan but still there is something missing." Itachi "What you are missing is a touch of nature energy and the concept behind it." Jun "Leaving aside Nature energy, what do you mean by concept?" Itachi asked confused. It was like saying cook didn''t know how to cook. Uchihas were supposed to be the leading authority on Fire style jutsus, and here Jun was saying he didn''t understand the concept? "Hmm, how to explain¡­. Ok, got it. Lets talk about a kindling of flame. How do you do it without any chakra use?" "Umm, produce a spark with friction of dry firewood and let it blaze onto flammable material?" Itachi guessed "Partially correct. You just skipped a really important step. There has to be plenty of fresh clean air supplied to the flame, to ensure the flame is hotter and stronger." "So , you mix wind chakra?" Itachi "More like you have to imprint your intention into the Jutsu to use cleaner air to burn hotter. This is actually easier to do if you have expertise in manipulating nature chakra." "Hmm ¡­ So That''s it. Well it may not be possible right now but I will work on it." While talking both of them reached center of the forest. The strangest thing was that no creature attacked them after their last encounter , and there was no sign of habitation anywhere around as if all the chakra mutants avoided this area even though there was decent vegetation here. Itachi and Jun carefully walked while looking around for signs of any creature. Suddenly they heard rustlingof underbush to their left. They turned to see a normal sized cute little rabbit peeking out from them. Both of them were stunned to see a regular animal in midst of all these monsters. "Hey little guy , Just how did you survive for so long?" Jun crouched in front of the rabbit staring at its eyes while the rabbit stared right back. ''Why is this rabbit''s eyes so intelligent? Shit ¡­ I closed off my Sharingan'' Itachi panicked as the rabbit disappeared right before their eyes only and they realized that it was an afterimage. 47 BSNW CH 043 Rabbit of Caerbannog As the rabbit disappeared , something hit Itachi in the gut with force of a speeding loaded van. Itachi flew back while spouting a mouthful of blood. Itachi had another lesson for awareness and flying today before he slammed into a tree with enough force to splinter both the tree and his back. Another mouthful blood dribbled down his mouth as he slid down the tree. Cold sweat trickled down Jun''s back. He never saw the rabbit move or what attacked Itachi. Next moment he activated everything he could to rise his sensing ability to maximum, against a being with that level of speed that was all he could do to counter. He found the rabbit hopping in place somewhere to his left. He immediately activated Observe Skill along with his Runic Eye. [Boss : [RabbitofCaerbannog] Level 30 HP: 13,500 CP: 11,500] ''The Boss is here finally..'' Jun thought ''Oh god¡­ what have Konohagakure''s founders wrought upon me this day?'' It was at this moment that Jun decided that the day he meets either Tobirama or Madara , the order of meeting didn''t matter, but he definitely was going to kick their ass at least once no matter how long it takes. Granted it might be an Impure World Reincarnation Zombie, But its the thought that counts right ? ''Wait ¡­I am getting distracted.. where is that thrice-cursed rabbit?'' Jun looked around but couldn''t find it , when he felt a Killing Intent to his side ''OH SHIT'' Jun barely threw himself into a side leap in time to avoid a crazy speeding rabbit aiming to maul his face , the rabbit blew past his face with wind blasting his hair wildly. The demon rabbittore through a tree behind Jun as if it wasn''t even there. Jun sent a bunch of Leaf Shuriken spiraling towards the rabbit but it instantly disappeared. Jun focused his Runic Eyes to maximum to catch the minimal of movements around him constantly kept spamming Observe Skill despite the ton of unrelated information flowing into his mind and giving him a headache. [Observe Skill has leveled up to MAX] [You can view Specialties/Perks of the target you Observe and range of your observation has risen.] ''Yes!!'' Jun thought excitedly as he caught a glimpse of the rabbit speeding around , circling Jun. Jun''s leveled up Observe Skill caught the rabbit''s information. Jun kept running at max speed, while keeping the rabbit in his vision. ''How the heck is it moving between the trees so fast??!!'' Jun complained as he viewed the rabbit''s info [RabbitofCaerbannog] Level 30 HP: 3,500 CP: 1,500 PERKS UnassumingForm - Its appearance belies its strength, making any who would approach its domain underestimate it. SuperiorChakraBeast - This beast is the alpha predator of its environment, because of its feeding on other chakra beasts, its chakra is unusually dense allowing it to rebuff any chakra weaker than its own invading its body. ''Bloody Hell!!'' Jun wished he could scream and punch the one who created such a monster. ''If I survive this, then I am going to pay double the attention to Taijutsu and Development of my Sage body to new level. I wonder if I can activate Sage mode somehow along with Sage body or activate all my cells to sage chakra¡­ Well I will have to figure that out later. First I need to get Itachi away fro this monster.'' Jun dodged the rabbit''s attack and tried to keep it distracted with a barrage of leaf blades swirling in the area. Using that as a cover, Jun quickly reached Itachi and left using Flying Thunder God while grabbing him. After reaching few tens of meters away from the rabbit, Jun made a temporary room and bed with a combination of Plant and Earth release Jutsu and created a few barrier type seals using Sealing arts and Earth Release barriers. Satisfied with his preparations to alert him of the rabbit, Jun went back to Itachi to look at his injuries. Although his life may not be in danger, but if not treated then the sequelae left behind with improper self healing might stunt his Ninja career. Jun took time to first renew the supply of Nature energy in body to the max possible in a short while. He then sent a focused chakra sensing pulse into Itachi''s body. It took an hour for Jun to rejoin the broken muscles, tendons and ligament of his back carefully so as to not injure any of his internal organs. While he was almost done, Jun found a tiny black mass, smaller than the head of an earthworm stuck to the membrane of Itachi''s lungs . ''The heck is that?'' Jun thought as he sent the thinnest possible chakra strings he could make with medical chakra and sent them slowly towards the black mass. On contact, he slowly probed it with all the medical techniques he knew so far but kit gave minimal response. However when trying healing on the area around it, it somehow absorbed the healing chakra before it affected the area of lungs around it. ''Hmm.. some kind of vitality leeching chakra mutation in Itachi''s body. I assume some genetic defect, however even if this is sosmall right now, I guess this is the reason Itachi died in original timeline. Now how to get this out¡­'' Jun tried to think of a way to save his friend from his fate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After trying all sorts of methods, Jun finally devised a way. ''Delicate illness extraction can help , but n=may damage vitality and his organs while extracting this. I need to just ensure he gets a constant supply of vitality in his body during that.'' Armed with this information Jun had now a clear solution. He modified one of the medical jutsus he learnt from scroll of seals, slightlywith use of nature chakra. [Combining Nature Chakra into Medical Body Jutsu ¡­. Combination Successful!] [Nature release : Regenerative Body learnt] Using this new Jutsu Jun managed to Give Itachi a temporary regeneration ability, while he carefully extracted the black mass with Delicate Illness Extraction Technique. Slowly and carefully Jun managed to free Itachi''s body from it and infused Itachi with enough nature chakra as he could safely handle to recover quickly. [Major Change to the world timeline. An Important Character''s fate has been changed. As the change is balanced between both good and bad, a single Tribunal Lightning will be sent to the user''s location. Please decide the Location quickly withing the next five minutes. After that the Tribunal lightning will be struck.] [User is advised to prepare as quickly as possible.] ''What the...??!!'' Jun wanted to curse the world law a lot but he didn''t have enough time for that. He quickly created tens of earthen domes overlapping each other around the room where Itachi was resting. He reinforced their density as much as possible using Nature Energyin a short while before rushing off to find the rabbit which was cause of everything. 48 BSNW CH 044 Boss Battle and Aftereffects While rushing to the rabbits location he sensed using his Nature Sensing method, Jun decided to learn two of the jutsus he had acquired from the Scroll of Sealing long ago but never had the chance to learn due to not meeting requirements at the time. [Skill Scroll - Summoning : Rashomon Gates found. Do you want to learn? [Y/N]] [Skill Scroll - Yin Release : Will Materialization found. Do you want to learn? [Y/N]] ''Rashomon Gates, famous Jutsu of Orochimaru. Heck three of his gates stopped four tail mode Naruto''s charge attack. Should help a bit with the Tribunal Lightning. And as for will Materialization..'' Jun took the four Chakra Refined eight-bladed Shuriken he had acquired with Itachi ''Will materialization should help with this.'' Jun thought as he started engraving runes using his strengthened Chakra Threads onto the shurikens. He carefully engraved detailed runes as fast as he could since he had limited time until the lightning strike. ------------------------------------------------------------ One minute before lightning strike Jun had finally finished his preparation to face the tribunal lightning now. He sent out a nature chakra pulse to see where the rabbit was at right now. ''About ten meters in that direction ¡­ Alright, lets go.'' By the time Jun reached there , the rabbit had already picked up signs of his arrival and was waiting. "Fire Release : Fire wave" Jun sent a wave of fire rushing into the area as a greeting. Most of it didn''t affect it but a few ends of its fur did get a bit singed . Jun sent a few regular Shuriken attached to Chakra strings to bind the rabbit while hiding them in the fire wave. "Kachinng!!" the rabbit bit through the Shuriken in a lightning fast manner, even cutting through the chakra threads with its teeth not allowing them to bind it. It barreled towards Jun, claws shining slightly with chakra running through it. It seemed as if it was impossible to affect it with regular chakra, moreover its speed was unbelievable. "Damn this bullshit rabbit!" Jun cursed as he dodged the attacks barely "This definitely has to be a Bijuu that the Sage of Six Paths didn''t tell anyone about!" Taking out his Whip-sword in one hand Jun applied Fire Release : Chakra Flow and used its flexibility to create a non penetrable zone with its attacks to fend of the rabbit. After a few of the Whip-sword''s attacks struck the rabbit , it grew wiser and started dodging them earnestly. ''Thankfully the Whip-sword''s sudden changes in direction and flexibility is keeping this damn rabbit at its toes'' Jun thought as he tried to catch it off guard with a variety of quick strikes. When the rabbit saw it was getting even more difficult, it suddenly increased the chakra enforcing its limbs, so much that the rear legs were glowing in subtle veined patterns. It pushed off with his rear legs, almost leaving a vapour trail in its wake. Jun tried to dodge while slashing with his chakra blade he had hidden in the other hand . He managed to leave a burning deep slash on its flank while he himself was blown off , bouncing a few times on the ground before landing a dozen meters away. "Cohhow gargh" Jun coughed off a mouthful of blood before glaring at the rabbit which was once again planning to charge. He realized that his whips word was lying right in the middle between them while he only had his chakra blade in hand. Jun sent another Fire Wave towards it, but only managed to set the trees on fire when the rabbit dodged it. He kicked off towards the Whip-sword, according to what he planned the whip-sword was really necessary. The rabbit too doubled back while dodging the flames, its speed creating wind bursts on its trail. Just as jun reached the whip-sword, the rabbit arrived in front of him, its teeth aiming at Jun''s neck. Jun twisted the whip-sword at a tricky angle managing to encircle the rabbit in it, even though the rabbit took a chunk of flesh from his shoulder before that. [Time is up] [Lightning Tribulation starts!] A ginormous multicolored lightning bolt blasted off from suddenly formed thunder clouds, like a heavenly sword dividing the skies. Jun sent a large amounts of vines to wrap the rabbit up like a dumpling momentarily paralyzing it with the toxins, while Jun kicked it towards the falling lightning bolt. "Screeeeeeeeeeeeee!!" the rabbit screamed in agony as it tried to use its chakra as a coat to resist the lightning bolt. "Take you damn rabbit!" Jun laughed out in relief "Lets see you resist that one--" Jun''s relief was cut short though when the rabbit got toasted completely due to it running out of chakra and the Lightning fell towards Jun after exhausting a small part of its might on the rabbit. "Dammit! Summoning : Double Rashomon Gates!" Jun summoned The newly learnt Rashomon Gates. Due to not being too familiar with it, he only managed to summon two and he tilted them towards each other to form a crude wedge to resist the lightning. However what he didn''t expect was that the lightning would splinter on hitting the gates and penetrate it, forming a carnival of thunder bolts in the space beneath them where Jun was hiding. "Arrgh" Jun screamed as he failed to dodge one of the thousands of the splintered bolts firing off in the surrounding area. Dodging left and right he tried to ask the system for a way out of this. ''Any ideas system? I will really die at this rate.'' Jun [Only one possibility is there, let the Tribunal lightning use you as a conductor.] ''The heck are you saying? Have you gone mad , System?'' [I don''t have the option of going mad in me. These bolts are a mass of Natural Energy in specific form. If you let them pass through you while concentrating on absorbing them, you will obtain benefits while managing to survive.] ''Ok, I don''t have a better idea and they have almost cut off all my routes of escapee.'' Jun said as he saw that he was surrounded by a dense net of the bolts. Right now Jun was right in the middle of the two Rashomon Gates , and he sat cross legged right there and prepared to be struck by the bolts. "Arrggh ¡­. arghhhg ¡­ hiiaahg" Jun lets out screams as he tried his best to concentrated and absorb as lightning from the bolts as possible when they blasted through him. As Jun kept on enduring the Lightning bolts, system sent one last message before falling silent as if to encourage him [Yang Reinforcement: Lightning Release - Dance of 10000 Thunderbolt learned!] [Seven Immortal Chakra Stages advances to Fourth Stage : Heart Chakra] [Heavenly Breathing Technique advances to Second Stage. Pure Physique of Heavens activated] ---------------------------------------------------------- An hour later. Itachi woke up and on seeing his recovered body and the earthen domes around him, figured that it was Jun who did it. He broke out of the out of the dome covering him and saw that everything around him was blasted to ashes. 49 BSNW CH 045 Title at the end of the Chapter When Itachi saw the destruction around him, he wondered if it was really possible for a Human to do this. Even the rocks that were left crumbled at his slightest touch, sending small dust clouds billowing out. He followed the trail of destruction to the source and saw the weirdest thing he had seen yet. In the center of a blacked crater lush green grass and wild flowers bloomed. In the center of it all sat a boy with cracked and blackened skin which covered him like a layer of filth. Green dense gaseous chakra slowly flowed and revolved around the boy creating an Uzumaki like shape. Surprisingly , fresh rejuvenating feeling flowed out in the surrounding with every revolution of the chakra, the grass and wildflowers increasing their circle while brimming with life. The more closer he got to him , the more Itachi felt as if he was losing a load on his body. His breathing became easier, his senses sharpened and mind felt as if it was faster by a few times.While focused on the boy in front of him, he saw a few changes happening in the boy''s body. --------------------------------- At same time Jun felt as if his whole body was breaking down to pieces. At the point where he thought he could take it no more, a gentle cool feeling spread out from the depths of his core . The feeling spread throughout his battered body, like a rain soothes barren land. After a while he felt a weird layer type feeling covering his body, irritating him. Finally after a while when the soothing feeling subsided, he felt a dense chakra rushing throughout his body. Flexing his muscles slightly he sent out a wave of chakra from chakra points all over his body. Chakra flowed amazingly quick and smooth, the resulting chakra wave blasted apart the black layer covering him and revealed vibrant skin beneath, rippling with lean muscles. His hair shined on his head with silver streaks apart from his previous golden. As soon as he opened his eyes, a soft golden glow flashed for a sec before subsiding back. Jun stretched his neck and limbs, crackling sounds issued out from the now enhanced physique. [You defeated Rabbit of Caerbannog (Boss)] [Gained +8000 exp] [Ninjutsu Scroll ''Inaba Step'' received] [Quest Item - Experimental Weapons Storage Scroll received] [Level Up!] Jun took a moment to check his status and assign the points before letting out a breath and standing up. He looked towards where the mostly destroyed corpse of the boss monster lay. He went and crushed it with a stomp. ''Damned rabbit, good riddance. I am never going to be able to look at rabbits as cute beings from now on'' Jun scowled at the place where boss monsters fragments now lay before turning to go back where he sensed Itachi standing. At that moment however , a reddish orange radiance flashed behind him. He turned to see reddish orange particles gathering to form a small ping pong sized ball like thing. -------------- When Itachi saw the reddish orange small sphere like object forming , he was struck with a slight current of fear . He flickered towards Jun and arrived beside him in a few moments. No words were necessary as they both got into combat mode. Jun had lost his whip sword in the lightning blast, so he was just armed with his chakra blade which managed to survive. Itachi on the other hand was armed with both his Kodachi and chakra blade. At this point the System decided to interfere. [Chakra mass detected. Checking for traces of will ¡­ Confirmed. Nine Tail chakra identified. Chances of individual being formation ¡­. 0.016%.] [Conclusion: Detached Nine Tail Chakra Trace infecting Rabbit of Caerbannog resulting in its mutation and unusual strength. Would User like to convert this chakra to Chakra Crystal?] ''Chakra Crystal? What are its benefits?'' [As of now nothing. If you let it go free then some other chakra mutated animal will be affected by this and may grow into an entity like the boss monster. Even though the amount of chakra in very small, its still Nine Tail chakra, Quality trumps Quantity. Its recommended that you gather it into a Chakra Crystal . Ifyou get a chance then visit other training ground dungeons too. There is a high chance of encountering similar creatures there.] ''You are just asking me to be a hero without benefits aren''t you ?'' [You already got the benefits didn''t you ? You got an original Ninjutsu Technique of the Rabbit of Caerbannog never before seen in the original anime. You got a ton of experience enough to level up. Not to mention the accidental good fortune that struck you. Also you advanced your bloodline by quite a bit. What more do you want?] ''Well you are right. Ok , do it.'' [I don''t have to do anything . You are the one that is going to do it. Attract Nature energy and mix it with Your and Nine Tail''s chakra until a balance is reached. Then change its form to a crystalline structure. Beware though, you might attract a few stray monsters during this process.] Jun extended his hand in front of the ball of Nine Tail chakra while asking Itachi to be alert and watch over him. Itachi just gave a nod before activating his Sharingan. Jun slowly but steadily followed System''s Instructions, sending small traces of Nature Energyand His chakra in the ball while trying not to let Nine Tail chakra go berserk. During that he was surprised to see his chakra green in color and at least 5 times denser than before. His new chakra calmed Nine Tail and Nature chakra instantly , acting as a medium for them to mix easily. Itachi was standing on the ready in case the monsters came but with the added calming effect of Jun''s chakra, the Nine Tail chakra quietly merged with Nature Energy without attaracting attention of wild monsters. After half an hour, Jun finally managed to condense the Nine Tail chakra into a small , round and incredibly smooth gem like object. Jun activated Observe on the gem like crystal and got the result of what he had helped create. [Nine Tail Chakra Crystal (Refined) Contains traces of Nine Tail''s Chakra Chakra Point Equivalent : 3000 CP Renewable Chakra when inserted with Nature Energy.] ''Damn. Its Normal chakra level is around half of my normal capacity without the additional Yin - Yang chakra vessel. Just what kind of a monster is the Nine tails to have that much chakra in just a miniscule trace left behind.'' [As I said, its about quality not quantity. Nine tails has the most potent chakra among all the Tailed beasts. The potency of its Chakra is is only surpassed by The Natural Earthen and Dragon veins of the planet, according to what has been revealed as far in the original anime. Because of its dense nature the equivalence of one trace Nine tail chakra is many times that of a regular Shinobi.] Title: BSNW CH 045 Nine Tail Chakra Crystal 50 BSNW CH 046 Preparation for the mission "What the heck is that?" Itachi asked on seeing the round glowing reddish orange crystal in Jun''s hand. He could feel the same energy as before emanating from it , only it was not fear inducing one anymore. "Some thing very potent and dangerous. But also something we cant allow to stay here." Saying so Jun put it into his inventory . Leaving the dungeon finally , they saw that it was late evening now. Jun sweated bullets when he remembered that Yoshino had prepared dinner for him and he was late. Letting out a sigh of depression he and Itachi parted ways to rush to their respective home. --------------------------------------- Next day on his way to Hokage''s office, Jun was dragging his steps with difficulty. He was mentally tired at the scolding of Yoshino which went on for an hour and was pissed off at Shikamaru and Shikaku who were snickering in the corner, happy that for once it wasn''t them that Yoshino was chewing out and instead the victim was ''Perfect Boy'' Jun. Jun smiled at the fact that in the end they too were found out and were given a long lecture by Yoshino along with Jun. But deep down Jun was really glad to have a family that cared for him. On reaching Hokage''s office Jun was allowed entry at once. Hokage was surprised seeing Jun so soon but soon recovered. "What can I do for you Jun?" Third asked Jun silently took out the Nine Tail Chakra Crystal and held it out to The Third who looked at it with wide eyes "This is ?!!" "Yes, it contains nine tail chakra" Jun affirmed "How did you get something like this Jun kun?" Third asked , little bit of seriousness reflecting in his voice. "When I went to the training ground that seals chakra mutated beasts to train along with Itachi along with many aggressive Mutated Chakra Beasts, I found a Boss Type beast that ruled over them that was affected with this chakra. After defeating it I managed to seal that chakra into this crystal. According to what I suspect the other similar training grounds that hold such beasts might also be contaminated by this type of chakra and may lead to many deaths if entry was allowed in them." "True. What do you propose then?" Third asked. "Simple. Since I am the one that sealed this chakra into a crystal that means I can due it for other training grounds too. I just need time to grow stronger. Once I have sufficient strength to challenge a training ground I will do it since each training ground appears to be categorized by their levels of difficulty. So other than me and those I take with me, please seal off the training grounds for others." "Alright fine. As soon as you are back from the current mission, you will be assigned to this one exclusively. Until you solve this problem no other mission or assignment will be provided to you." Jun nodded at Hokage''s Decision, "Then I will take my leave. I have one day less to prepare before I leave for recovering rest of sealing mirrors." With Hokage''s approval Jun left the office, he had a lot planned for today. ----------------------------------- Jun went to Nazuna''s shop after buying a lot of Fuinjutsu training materials like Barrier Paper, Chakra Paper, Explosion Paper etc. Along with a lot of ink brushes and a lot of food pills and chakra recovery medicine. Also he bought as much chakra metal he could along with iron and steel ingots from the special supplies assigned to ANBU troops, he already had Hokage''s clearance to retreive a sizable amount for the mission. On reaching the store he threw the quest item the sleeping shopkeeper had asked to retrieve , his experimental weapon storage scroll. The shopkeeper opened his eyes and came to his senses on seeing the scroll . He raised his headand saw Jun standing there. "Good Job brat.I didn''t think you would accomplish it so soon." "I had no choice, I am short on time. I will be borrowing the training room downstairs for the rest of the week. And here -" Jun threw another storage scroll at him "- that contains a lot of materials and prototype of my new weapons. I need as many as you can make by the end of this week." Saying so Jun went to the training room and shut the door. After Jun had gone, the old man unsealed the scroll and took out the materials inside, and his eyes widened as he saw the eight bladed chakra shuriken and the chakra blade inside. He was further astonished on the dense amount of sealing runes on them and he gave a hollow laugh when he realised that he couldn''t figure out the meaning of most of the runes. "Is this a challenge for me brat¡­ Fine .I accept you challenge on my name , Kane, andmy pride as a blacksmith. You will see even better versions of these prototypes. However I am afraid you will have to do the Sealing inscriptions yourself." Chuckling to himself the old man Kane went to his forging room after shutting the shop and hanging closed sign outside. For a week both of them were completely busy in their tasks . Jun with his sealing art practice and Kane with his blacksmithing. Jun was taking a leaf out of Naruto''s speciality and enhancing his learning speed with shadow clones. He recklessly devoured potions and food pills pushing his body to the limits to gain expertise on Fuinjutsu. Over the week his efforts did pay well. [Basic Fuinjutsu advanced to Intermediate Fuinjutsu] . . . . . . . . . [Intermediate Fuinjutsu advanced to Advanced Fuinjutsu] [Perk Fuinjutsu Expert Unlocked!] "Now it should be enough too finally learn that seal." Jun said satisfied with his progress. 51 BSNW CH 047 Response Team -1 The Next day Jun finally came out of the training room after having a quick bath to refresh himself as he had to conclude the preparations today. Tomorrow it would finally be time to leave for the search of the sealing mirrors. As he came out lost in his thoughts, he found the old man Kane sleeping at the counter as usual. "Get up old man" Jun said slapping the counter in front of his face loudly. "Hauuggbrgh" Old man Kane woke up with a jerk and fell back out of his chair once again. ''Is this gonna happen every time?'' Jun thought on seeing this. "Who is disturbing my sleep now ?" Kane got upand saw Jun "Oh its just you brat. Here , take your stuff and get out." he said throwing a scroll at Jun and ushered him out of the shop and closed the door. ''The heck is wrong with him'' Jun said unsealing the scroll and taking out the equipment. [Chakra Bladed Kunai - Superior X 2] [Eight Bladed Shuriken - Superior X 8] [(Reforged) Light Weight Chain mail - Superior X 1] [(Reforged) Black Leather Hoodie Armor - Superior X 1] [(Reforged) Black Leather Pants - Superior X 1] [(Reforged) Black Leather Inner Vest - Superior X 1] ''Wow, these are so good'' Jun exclaimed and turned towards the shop and gave a bow ''Thank you old man!'' ---------------------------- Dressed in his new outfit Jun felt like going for training but he resisted his impulse and went to Hokage''s office instead. The receptionist recognized him and told him to go right in since Hokage was waiting for him with his team. ''Team?'' Jun wondered as he went inside the office. He saw four people apart from Hokage inside. He recognized Itachi of course, apart from him He saw Kakashi Hatake , who usually is disguised as Inu and Yugao Uzuki , usually disguised as Neko , and is also Naruto''s Foster elder sister. It was easy for him to recognize ANBU whom he has met, chakra signature sensing was nothing complex when you have trained with nature energy. However the fourth person he didn''t recognize. She had long brown hair and light brown eyes. Her hair was straight on one side, but on the other side it was in a braid. In addition, she sported a clip with two circular designs. She wore kimono-like shirt that had long right sleeves and short left sleeves that were held close by a wide pink sash with red mesh armor underneath it all, that peaked out whenever she shifted slightly, with a light?blue skirt and a brown headband. The Third on seeing Jun nodded and motioned him to come forward. "Jun , you will be accompanied by these four while you are on this mission. They each have a skill set that will prove useful. You already know Itachi. The other three are : Kakashi Hatake , the one with Silver Hair, Yugao Uzuki The Purple Haired one, and Finally ¡­. Yakumo Kurama, the brown haired one. Kakashi will be your team leader , you can all familiarize yourselves with each others skills today before you leave tomorrow. They have already been briefed about you, so any further information can be discussed among yourselves when needed. Any further instructions you would like to add Kakashi?" Kakashi looked at his soon to be four companions with a lazy eye "Well lets meet at Training Ground Three by noon, we can talk there." Saying as much Kakashi gave a small bow to Third hokage before flickering out of the window. "There he goes again.. Well OK You all are dismissed. Jun you stay back I need to talk to you." Third said Jun wasn''t really paying attention to the others leaving as he was focusing on the information he gained of his four teammates using Observe. [Observed targets : Name : Itachi Uchiha Level : 31 HP : 11000 CP : 6200 [PERKS!] Genius -: +25% exp gain to all skills One who walks amongst cats : +50% Stealth Kenjutsu Expert - : +50% effectiveness for Sword Styles, Kenjutsu CP cost - 25% Sharingan (Two Tomoe) : See through Hand Seals and Chakra Flow in body, Copy Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu and Weapon Techniques seen except Kekkei Genkai, Enhanced Vision, Genjutsu affinity + 40% Name : Kakashi Hatake Level : 51 HP- 4825 CP- 7,200 [PERKS!] ANBU Monster : All ANBU Techniques Mastered , +75% Stealth Copy Ninja : Copied and Mastered over 1000 Ninjutsu , Ninjutsu cost -75% , Ninjutsu effectiveness + 65% Kenjutsu Expert :- +50% effectiveness for Sword Styles, Kenjutsu CP cost - 25% Sharingan (Three Tomoe) : See through Hand Seals and Chakra Flow in body, Copy Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu and Weapon Techniques seen except Kekkei Genkai, Enhanced Vision, Genjutsu affinity + 60% Physique of lightning : Lightning affinity + 50%, All Lightning based Jutsu effectiveness +50%, Reaction Speed +20% Name : Yugao Uzuki Level: 19 HP-2380 CP-1338 [PERKS!] Child of ANBU - : +25% effectiveness to [Stealth] skill Sister of troublemaker : +25% chance of detecting traps Kenjutsu Expert - : +50% effectiveness for Sword Styles, Kenjutsu CP cost - 25% Chakra Sensor : Chakra Sensing ability effectiveness +20 % Name : Yakumo Kurama Level : 14 HP-900 CP-2,902 [PERKS!] Kurama Clan Heir''s Kekkei Genkai :- Supreme Genjutsu ability - Gives Real Illusion Perk, Weaker Inherent physique: Damage taken +20%, Stamina Cost +30% Real Illusion : +50% chance of Turning Illusion into Reality Genjutsu Master : - +75% effectiveness for Genjutsu, Genjutsu CP cost - 35% Genjutsu Genius : Can invent new Genjutsu techniques easily and Breakthrough weakness of existing ones ] Third Hokage, seeing that Jun was Slightly distracted, interrupted his thoughts. "What do you think about your new team mates Jun ?" "Hmm, I have met Inu-San and Neko-San before. No need to talk about Itachi, as I am completely OK with having him as a teammate. I can sense Inu san''s prowess better now than before and I am actually amazed, he is the almost perfect definition of a ninja." The Third had his gaze frozen by this time since he didn''t know that Jun knew Identity of his ANBU or at least had figured it out. He hoped Jun wont have any idea about Kurama''s prowess, but he was once again shocked by Jun''s next statement "The last girl is new, but her power is kind of what I specialize in destroying, Genjutsu. And she might be burden at times since I could sense a really weak physique in her, barely a few notch above a civilian''s " "Boy , you once again made me ashamed for underestimating you. The last girl was Yakumo Kurama, her Kekkei Genkai inherently makes her the most powerful Genjutsu expert I have seen or heard of after Madara Uchiha and Second Mizukage. The only reason I am sending her on this mission despite her threat level and her physical disadvantages is that The Spirit Beast was supposed to be an illusion expert according to Hinoki and can as easily take control of people''s minds like eating candy. She will be an asset in countering that. There is also an assurance as you are immune to Genjutsu so you can help keep an eye on her." Jun frowned a bit , he didn''t like being warden for a innocent little girl just because her Kekkei Genkai was a threat for the village . 52 BSNW CH 048 Learning Advanced Fuinjutsu Secrets Jun gave a barely perceptible nod to Hokage''s request. Third nodded in satisfaction "I can only trust you with that. Genjutsu experts are most terrifying because they deal with something most people cant see let alone counter. I do sympathize with what she has went through, but I am a Hokage foremost and I have to put safety of village first. Anyway, You five will be our response team for this spirit beast crisis. Find those mirrors as soon as possible so that we have time to prepare for subduing the Spirit Beast successfully. Bring each one back here when you find them." "Ok Hokage sama" Jun nodded to his instructions before leaving. --------------------------------------- Jun visited Nara mansion and informed them of his mission details and approx time he will be away. Then he turned his steps towards Training ground three according to what Kakashi had told them. When he reached the ground he saw that no one was here yet. He picked a corner with a thick tree as a shade and took out Fuinjutsu Technique scrolls he could finally learn now that he was at least nearing Minato''s level even if not the level of a true Uzumaki. He debated for a while among various choices before deciding to pick the ones that could immediately be useful in the mission along with a few unique ones.''First the immediately useful ones-'' Jun thought [Chakra Draining Seal Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Contract Seal Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Five Elements Seal Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Five Elements Seal Release Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Four Red Yang Formation Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Four Symbol Seal Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [String Light Formation Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Ninjutsu Sealing Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Unsealing Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Self - Seal Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Uzumaki Sealing Technique Found . Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] Jun reviewed the list once again before approving them. [Chakra Draining Seal Technique Learned] [Contract Seal Technique Learned] [Five Elements Seal Technique Learned] [Five Elements Seal Release Technique Learned] [Four Red Yang Formation Technique Learned] [Four Symbol Seal Technique Learned] [String Light Formation Technique Learned] [Ninjutsu Sealing Technique Learned] [Unsealing Technique Learned] [Self - Seal Technique Learned] [Uzumaki Sealing Technique Learned] [Advanced Fuinjutsu proficiency increased !] [Skill Level Up!] [Skill Level up!] ''Wow, that was good and now for the main course'' Jun exclaimed in his mind as he took out three scrolls. [Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique Found . Searching for Requirements for learning .... Requirements found : Four Symbol Seal. Searching ¡­. Requirements satisfied. Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] Jun approved and information about the Eight Trigrams Seal flowed into his mind. He slowly comprehended all the combinations of Four Symbol Seal that can be used to create similar seals and the various methods and keys of releasing such seals and also methods of reinforcing and controlling them. [Advanced Fuinjutsu proficiency increased !] [Skill Level Up!] [Skill Level Up!] ''Ok Now next forbidden seal¡­ this one should give me a lot of proficiency since it even severed the Nine Tail in half.'' [Dead Demon Consuming Seal Technique Found . Searching for Requirements for learning .... Requirements found : Advanced Level Fuinjutsu. Searching ¡­. Requirements satisfied. Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] As Jun approved this one, he gained lot of knowledge about souls, their structure and the Swallowing method used by the Reaper. ''The Reaper is a fragment of modified will of Kaguya ?!!'' Jun was shocked. He applauded Uzumaki ancestorsin his mind for their daring will for modifying the will fragment of the Rabbit Princess herself to use as their Jutsu on their beck and call. At that moment he felt something escaping from inside him. ''The heck is wrong with my body¡­'' Jun tried to sense what was happening when a spatial distortion took place in front of him and the Oni Mask he had taken from Uzumaki Shrine suddenly appeared in front of him, scaring him with the dark and light alternating glow that covered the mask. [Additional Sub Jutsu found due to unexpected Sealing Artifact. Analyzing ...¡­ Completed . Dead Demon Consuming Seal Release Technique Found . Searching for Requirements for learning .... Requirements found : Advanced Level Fuinjutsu, Dead Demon Consuming Seal Technique, Dead Demon''s Oni Mask. Searching ¡­. Requirements satisfied. Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N ] ''Wow! Does this mean in future I will be able to unseal souls from the reaper. Lets see what is this about.''Jun excitedly approved the system for learning this technique. However his expression worsened more the information of this technique flowed into his mind. [Advanced Fuinjutsu proficiency increased !] [Skill Level Up!] [Skill Level Up!] ''Truly worthy of forbidden technique. No wonder no one tried to release the souls trapped in the Reaper''s Stomach. Every wound Reaper makes on it own body would instead do equivalent damage to the users body in order to release a soul from inside the reaper. More the number of sous that are released , higher the damage. Wound from the Knife of the Reaper himself, even one could be deadly not to mention so many. Well , could still be useful in future. Not to mention the is half of the Nine - Tails Still in the Reaper. Now for the final and most necessary one.'' [Living Seal : Chakravyuha Technique Found . Searching for Requirements for learning .... Requirements found : Uzumaki Sealing Technique, Chakra Draining Seal Technique, Self - Seal Technique, Four Symbol Sealing Technique, Advanced Level Fuinjutsu. Optional Requirements : Nature Energy Manipulation or Sage Body .Searching ¡­. Requirements satisfied¡­. Optional Requirements Satisfied. Complete Version of Sealing Technique can be learned. Would You Like To Learn ? Y/N] [Advanced Fuinjutsu proficiency increased !] [Skill Level Up!] [Skill Level Up!] [Skill Level Up!] As Jun approved , the Master Piece Sealing Technique of Hinoki''s Clan sent its information inside his mind. Jun was shocked once again when he saw exactly what was entailed in the seal. ''One has to seal the beast completely as a Jinchuuriki and transform a pure chakra cocoon around oneself which will only be broken when the sealed beast is completely transformed and acquires a new personality?'' Jun exclaimed in his mind 53 BSNW CH 049 Response Team - 2 While Jun was pondering about the information of the Living Seal : Chakravyuha he had just received, he got one more shock by the System. [Massive amount of information and techniques accumulated by the user. System will be under going an Update to Upgrade Hosts Bloodline with acquired information.] ''What bloodline? The Gamer or my Sage bloodline?'' [Both. System going into Hibernation. All of system''s Functions will be sealed except Inventory and learned skills and your bloodline. User can only work hard and improve himself like other ninjas in the time that System is in Hibernation. The accumulated efforts will be analyzed and rewarded when the system comes out of hibernation. Take Care User ¡­.. System Shutting Off !] A low boom sounded in his mind like immensely huge doors being closed. Along with that , Jun felt as if one of his major senses was suddenly sealed. ''So this was how much I was relying on the system. I am starting to feel suffocated just from the initial effects of its Hibernation. As the System said, I need to improve like the other ninjas.'' Jun was pondering on his future plans when he sensed someone entering far end of the training ground. Ever since the Boss Rabbit incident, Jun had started keeping his nature sense passively on so sensing someone entering the grounds wasn''t that big of a challenge. Soon it was clear who had entered, Yugao , Itachi and Yakumo had arrived. As they all looked toward each other they realized that only Kakashi was not here. Itachi approachedJun as usual but Yugao and Yakumo Kurama especially kept her distance as Hokage had said a few things about Jun , his bloodline and his immunity to Genjutsu. She wanted to test it since she never had anyone who had resisted her illusions, not to mention the reality changing ones. She wanted to observe how the Uchiha genius approaches this guy. "Kakashi San is not here then?" Itachi asked Jun "He will be here when he feels like it" Jun said "It doesn''t make much of a difference since he is the most experienced one of us all. If I am not wrong he could even be monitoring us as to how we interact with each other since he is the team leader." saying so Jun lazily eyed one side of the training grounds. "Well how about we introduce each other and our skills and specialties." Yugao interrupted the conversation. Jun gave a half smile before nodding "I will go first then. My name is Jun Kigen, I am almost 5 years old. I am an all round specialist except for Genjutsu. Recently I have been focusing on Sealing Arts since its required for our mission." Yakumo narrowed her eyes slightly on Genjutsu part but didn''t react otherwise. "I am Itachi Uchiha. I am similar to Jun except that I have experience in Genjutsu too , however I am clueless about sealing arts." "Well I am Yugao Uzuki, Sword User foremost and Sensory type ninja as fallback." Jun paid attention to her when she told about her sensory ability "Also I have bit of experience with Sealing arts too" Yugao said glancing at Jun and finding him looking right back at her. "I am Yakumo Kurama of Kurama Clan. We focus specifically in Genjutsu.. Probably even more then the Uchiha clan" She said while glancing at Itachi, who momentarily let Sharingan activate which made her smirk slightly "However my clan''s bloodline makes us physically weak so Genjutsu is all I can do. However no mental attacks of any kind will get past me you can be assured of that." Yakumo seemed bit hesitant to tell them about her Physical weakness. "Hmm how about we all have a free for all spar?" Itachi suggested "Best way to test extent of our abilities. Lets say until Kakashi San comes or majority of us cant continue." "Fine with me" Yugao said while Jun and Yakumo nodded. --------------------------- Yugao got ready with her sword, while Jun and Itachi took out their Chakra Blades. Itachi noticed Jun''s Chakra Blade had been reforged and looked even better than before. "So he reforged your Chakra Blade? Looks even better than before." Itachi "Yup, since I completed his request he had no choice but to accept. Lets get this going!" Saying as much Jun rushed off towards Yugao while sending a bunch of shurikens towards Itachi. While he deflected it, he and Yugao clashed a few times. Yugao displayed very good swordsmanship even though she didn''t seem formally trained. While parrying Jun''s attacks, she suddenly let of a combo of sword flashes towards Itachi who was coming at her from the side. Jun taking advantage of this quickly traced something on the Chakra Blade with his finger. Letting chakra into the blade, it suddenly elongated to thrice its size, as big as a long sword. Running lightning chakra through it , Jun slashed with a Lightning Style Chakra Flow attack similar to how he had done using fire style. Seeing his attack, Yugao extended her hand and activated a Lightning style sword technique that almost transformed her blade to lightning. Narrowing his eyes , Itachi activated Sharingan to copy her technique and look for weaknesses. "You are not the only one who gets to play with Lightning." Saying so Yugao let out a burst of attacks with three times her previous speed. It was better for Jun since he too had Lightning style technique activated , but Itachi had to dodge since he didn''t want to be electrocuted. Jun kept improving his Lightning Style Chakra Flow through observing Yugao''s Lightning Blade with his runic eyes. Her each move gave Jun better understanding as to how to use his own blade. Itachi too joined after a while when he finally successfully got an opportunity to activate lightning blade and attack, making it a festival of lighting. After this had gone for a while, Jun finally decided to end it . He retreated dozens of meters with Flying Thunder God and activated Plant Release, making immense amount of plant rush towards the battlefield hindering the other two. While they dealt with them, Jun activated a new idea he had got. He activated Sensing Hexagram Seal and made Plants wrap around him using Plant Release, making him turn into a Plant Giant ten times his original size. Forming a huge staff from combining and transforming plants, he sent it smashing towards the other two. 54 BSNW CH 050 Horrors of Genjutsu - 1 Itachi and Yugao dodged in a hurry as the staff left a crater where it landed. "Hey are you planning on killing us?!" Yugao shouted at him. "No, but regular fighting was taking too much time. Lets end it with a bang!" Saying so Jun''s attacks left one more crater at Yugao''s position where she had been moments ago , shouting at him. "Fine then Jun, you asked for it." Itachi formed seals at high speed and released majority of his Chakra. Even Jun slanted the Staff against his body getting ready for Itachi''s attack. "Fire Style : Grand Fireball" Itachi jumped high up in the air and released a torrent of powerful flames right at the chest of giant. The power of the huge fireball sent the plant giant sliding back a few meters while flames covered it entirely. While Jun dealt with flames, Yugao decided to target Itachi . By the time Itachi had finished his Jutsu , She had started hers. She jumped up and extended her hand to the right and gave a twitch to her blade, suddenly releasing a dozen blade revolving around her. "My final Technique, Kenjutsu : Hazy Moon Night" all the swords released tens of attacks on Itachi who took out a Kunai in addition to his Chakra Blade and parried her attacks using Sharingan to barely tell her feints from real. Finally while parrying Itachi''s Kunai was cut through. When Yugao thought she would win, a blade made purely of Chakra extended from Itachi''s Chakra blade, resting against her artery that pulsed on her neck. She gulped in shock as her eyes shrunk in surprise. ''He his this attack this entire while to deliver a surprise attack. Deserving of the name Uchiha Genius'' Yugao made a note of his ability in her mind. "All right , I think we can successfully end this now." When Yugao and Itachi turned , they saw Jun standing next to Yakumo. "Wha?! .. How did .. You were inside that giant.." Yugao couldn''t figure out. "I have my Kekkei Genkai . I replaced myself with a clone long before I attacked you from inside that giant. In fact in a way that entire giant is my clone. My clone fought you from inside the giant while I teleported here with Flying Thunder God." Jun explained. "Now, rest and recover a bit, as there is one final battle about to happen" Jun turned towards Yakumo "Yakumo will try and put us all into Genjutsu and we will fight it." Yakumo nodded "Yes, you all should rest as much as possible. Ou will need your full strength." ----------------------- After a few minutes when they had caught their breath, Jun gestured Yugao to start. Initially Jun couldn''t figure out anything , but then he realized the changes when Yugao and Itachi started showing various expressions. ---------------- Itachi''s Genjutsu World Itachi opened his eyes to see that he was lying down under shade of a thick tree on the edge of forest. Feeling something soft below his head , he turned and saw a brown haired pony-tailed girl smiling down at him while running her fingers through his hair. Itachi sat straight suddenly when he saw this. He was sure he was in a Genjutsu, but he didn''t feel anything strange; It all felt so nice and peaceful. "What happened Itachi?" the girl asked with a concerned expression . Itachi focused on her startled as he recognized her. "Izumi ?" Itachi called out in surprise "Why are you here?" "Why shouldn''t I be? When else will you meet me if not after our classes ?" Izumi smiled shyly at him "You are always busy in your training otherwise, this is the only time I get for us. You know , just because I am understanding and don''t complain doesn''t mean that you can take unfair advantage of that and ignore me Itachi" "Ah ¡­ Umm .. I am sorry ." Itachi didn''t know what else to say to that. He had always known she had been attracted to him ever since he saved her during the Nine Tails incident when they were kids. She fought for him when the other kids ostracized him for his aloofness and lone wolf attitude and his quick learning speed. He respected her for maintaining her cheerful attitude despite going through a lot because of being a Half - Uchiha. Before the mission where he met Jun , he had even felt inferior to her as she had woken up her Sharingan even before him , causing her to be the point of even more discrimination for awakening Sharingan before the Uchiha heir. But he always remembered that awakening Sharingan was not all that fun. If it was her choice then she would rather not go through the reason which made her awake her Sharingan. Itachi knew what she meant now, almost losing his friends did make him awaken his Sharingan but if he had a choice he would prefer going through the same boring D rank missions than having lost them like this. "Where are you lost Itachi?" Izumi asked waving her hand in front of his face . "Nothing, was thinking about what you said to me while consoling me about awakening Sharingan. Now that I have gone through an awakening of my own makes me realize you were right. It is both a curse and a gift, these eyes of ours." "You awoke your Sharingan Itachi ?" Izumi asked excited "Show me !!" Itachi smiled and sent a strand of chakra to his eyes. But he felt something weird as his eyes didn''t respond to it apart from the chakra being dispersed after being in his eyes for some time. "Itachi? Umm¡­ you sure you have awoken Sharingan?" Izumi asked, concern marking her voice "I cant see anything changing here in your eyes." 55 BSNW CH 051 Horrors of Genjutsu - 2 Itachi was stunned on what Izumi said. He hurriedly took out a Kunai that reflected his eyes clearly and once again sent chakra strand to his eyes. But as Izumi said , they stayed same with not even a hint of red. "What is happening?" Itachi was completely stunned "Why ¡­ Sharingan¡­ How is this possible?" "Itachi ¡­" Izumi came forward with her eyes sad and slightly wet and hugged him. Itachi stiffened on the sudden intimate contact . However Izumi seemed oblivious to it as she hugged him close while softly patting back of his head. "Its fine Itachi, you don''t need to rush it. You are the strongest and most hardworking Uchiha I have ever seen with the purest and kindest heart. You will definitely awaken the Sharingan don''t worry. In the mean while , I will always be with you . You will always be the same to me whether you have awoken your eyes or not." Itachi felt her warm breath tickle his ears as he felt her soft fingers running through his long hair. His hands fluttered on his sides before he slowly brought them up and hugged her back gently and hesitatingly. "Ah¡­ " Izumi gasped softly in happiness as Itachi hugged her back. Itachi gave a smile at that as he knew she would be feeling really happy that he finally responded to her. But he was glad for her presence in his life. He had temporarily forgotten everything but the two of them. Suddenly he felt Izumi stiffening in his arms. "Itachi ¡­ we gotta run !" Izumi suddenly said while hurriedly trying to pull him away. "I am afraid that its too late for that.I have work from you both . Especially from you Miss Izumi Uchiha"Mystery Man with his hand bandaged approached them with a stern face Itachi noticed finally that they were surrounded by ANBU but these didn''t seem like the ANBU he had encountered while working under Hokage. These were very similar clothed with no distinguishing features among those of the same gender . It was as if they were made to have no individuality of their own . "Who are you? I don''t have to remind you that you are messing with the Uchiha Heir without any reason do I?" Izumi tried to threaten her way out of this. "If you harm him without any reason the Uchihas wont stay quiet." "Uchihas¡­" The man sneered at the mention of them and Itachi finally recognized him. It was Danzo, the elder who had visited him on his graduation trying to recruit him to his shady ROOT organization before messing with his graduation options and recommending Minazuki as his Sensei. In a way Danzo was responsible for everything that went wrong in his life. "What do you need from us Danzo Sama" Itachi inquired in a neutral voice. "Ah so the young head of Uchiha does remember me" Danzo gave a nasty smirk "Nothing much but ¡­ you see ever since your ancestor , that thrice cursed Madara Uchiha with those ridiculously overpowered eyes of his had appeared among Uchihas , My Sensei and I could never really trust you all. You Uchihas have always been a source of trouble for this village with those eyes of yours. But we cant let you leave either since you are useful at times too and letting you guys leave might weaken the village. So.. I got a wonderful idea when one of your own gave his eyes to a perfectly normal ninja without any Kekkei Genkai , making him one of the most well known Shinobi of today and gaining him the title ''Copy Ninja'' . If one of you can donate your eyes¡­" Danzo took out a straight short blade at this point, as did the ANBU surrounding them "Why not more of you do the same for the village. This village needs more Uchiha sacrifices to prosper , and your eyes will be put to good use. Especially Uchiha like you miss Izumi who cant even operate your eyes for long, such a waste. Such beautiful and powerful eyes should belong to those who know its use." Danzo said as he turned his eyes filled with greed towards Izumi who had just activated her Sharingan. "Itachi¡­. get ready. I will make an opening for you to escape. Get Fugaku sama , here as he is the only one who can fight these people. " Izumi said while scanning each ANBU with her Sharingan ready for any sign of their attack. "Izumi .. you.." "I love you Itachi ." Saying as much Izumi jumped towards an ANBU who had made a sign of moving towards them while sending a few Shuriken towards them. Itachi too sent a lot of shurikens bouncing at each other, creating a dangerous zone of dancing shurikens.However at that moment , he heard a scream. Turning back he saw an ANBU with a Ninjato slicing through a few of Izumi''s fingers holding her Kunai while she also had a deep cut on the shoulder of the same arm. "IZUMI!!!" Itachi screamed as his vision turned red. However shockingly he had Three Tomoe in his eyes instead of the usual Two of his he had awakened in the real world. He became berserk and projected killing intent without restraint. However, unknown to him an ANBU appeared behind him and sent an army of insects at him, weighing him down with their weight as they injected their poison into him completely paralyzing him from the neck down. "Itachi ?!" Izumi tried to get to him to free him, however it was not mean to be. Danzo intercepted her and sent his short blade enhanced with Wind Chakra through her gut , shredding her insides and making her spout mouthfuls of blood which Danzo dodged. "Geez these Uchiha, making me work so hard. Get her eyes." Danzo commanded. Two of his ANBU came forward with a weird instrument with insect like legs and a curved smooth membrane in between. "No .. No .. stay away .." Izumi said weakly as they reached her. They forcefully tilted up her head and jammed the instrument right at her eyes. "aaiiirghh .. aaaargghhhiii .. aagghharrhh" Izumi screamed her throat out as the instrument slowly and methodically scooped her eyes out . Seeing her you wouldn''t have believed that she was barely able to speak a moment ago. "Izumi!!! IZUMI !!!!!! Leave her alone, please!" Itachi screamed too and tears of blood leaked from his eyes and his eyes felt as if they were burning. In a few moments Izumi went quiet both since she had ran out of a functioning throat and because their torture had ended . Another ANBU came forward with a glass airtight jar containing a weird transparent liquid which didn''t even create a sound as the eyes were dropped in it. After sealing it, Danzo added a few Sealing Jutsus on it to make sure only he could open it. Then he turned towards Izumi with a smile. "Miss Izumi, you have done this village a great service. Thanks to you we can finally research if it''s possible to transplant Sharingan to all expert Leaf Ninjas loyal to this village and fighting for it with their lives. This village will prosper thanks to your sacrifice.." "Itachi.. .Itachi ¡­. I ¡­ " Izumi called out weakly stretching out a hand in Itachi''s direction. "Izumi ¡­ yes I am right here Izumi" Blood kept flowing from Itachi''s eyes as his Sharingan spun faster than ever and he tried to crawl towards Izumi''s outstretched hand. Somehow managing inch forward , he dragged his body slowly forwards and laid his head onIzumi''s blood soaked hand. "Itachi ¡­ I .. love.. cojjhhg. uupllle" Izumi spouted another mouthful of blood while trying to speak. "Yes .. Yes .. I love you too .. I love you too Izumi" Itachi said with his voice breaking up in his grief. Izumi closed her hollow eyes on hearing this, soft smile like usual covering her blood covered lips. "Itachi ¡­ Dummy ¡­ took so .. long to --" at that moment Danzo slammed a foot right at Izumi''s throat, breaking her neck and throat and instantly killing her. Itachi looked at Danzo''s foot resting against Izumi''s throat in shock while he kept calling out her name softly in a daze to get her to respond to him. "I thought that was enough of lover''s chit chat . I don''t have all day you see and I need your eyes too before they get damaged from all the blood tears you have been crying out for so long --- " Danzo shut up at this point as he saw Itachi''s Pure Hatred filled gaze with his Sharingan revolving faster than anyone''s Danzo had seen . Itachi let out a suffocating killing intent as if a Demon King was out to destroy the world. The ANBU all got their weapons out a they knew that one could never be careful enough with an Uchiha . "I will Kill you ALLLLLL!!!!!!!!" Itachi screamed as his Sharingan started to change. The Three Tomoe of his Sharingan completely merged together, before growing out and transforming into a three bladed curved Shuriken like symbol in his red eyes. Danzo was stunned and just one word slipped out of his mouth "Mangekyo¡­" as he and all his ANBU were devoured by raging hungry mouths of Black Flame projections, instantly turning them to ashes. The flames responded to Itachi''s grief as they spread out , devouring everything around him and Izumi . Soon a glass shattering sound echoed in his mind as Itachi blacked out. 56 BSNW CH 052 The Black Flames A few minutes before Itachi''s Outburst in Genjutsu world Jun and Yakumo were checking Yugao''s condition who had just fainted after failing to break through the Genjutsu. At that time Jun heard whooshing sound behind him. He quickly turned while forming a chakra scalpel in his hand but saw it was Kakashi. "You are late Kakashi San." Jun said while dispersing the Chakra Scalpel. Kakashi''s eyes flickered to his almost instant use and dispersal of Chakra Scalpel for a moment before turning to Yugao and scanning her with his Sharingan. "She is fine, just exhausted due to mental energy deficiency after being in that Genjutsu." Turning towards Yakumo he said with a slight fear in his voice "Very powerful Genjutsu." Turning back to Jun he continued "It was a good idea to compare notes on your skills , but Genjutsu should have been done in my presence. Remember that Jun, since I am your team leader for the better or worse." '' And Whose fault is that I had to take charge huh ? you lazy , excuse filled ¡­.'' Jun cursed irritatedly in his mind when he felt a deep sense of dread in surroundings. He split himself to three using Shadow Clones and made clones hold Yakumo and Kakashi while he flashed towards Yugao and picked her up in a princess carry . They all flashed away using Flying Thunder God, just in time for a maelstorm of black flames to appear around Itachi. Flashing away a few hundred meters, he placed Yugao on the ground and turned towards the other two, his clones already disappeared by now. He quickly formed a few seals before slamming his hands on the ground. A slight shimmer of haze surrounded Yakumo and unconscious Yugao like a mirage. "That is a Space Style Barrier which will protect them . You and I need to stop Itachi Kakashi San . Something is wrong with him and he is the one releasing those flames." "I have never seen such flames. " Kakashi said "However if Itachi is really the one responsible for those flames I might have some idea about it¡­ But I really hope I am wrong." Jun grabbed Kakashi once more before using Flying Thunder God and teleporting them near Itachi. A swirling wall of Black Flames awaited them, completely isolating Itachi from them. "How are we going to get past that?" Jun mused out loud. "I have a way , but it might leave me too exhausted after a few times to even move. So I cant use it much , maybe twice at most." Kakashi replied. "What does your method consist of?" "Lets just say I can send the flames into a special kind of seal but only if they are concentrated in a place not spread out like right now." "Hmm" Jun thought about about it then remembered something "I will get it focused for you in the sky . Get ready to seal it" Kakashi looked at him for a moment before nodding. Pushing his headband up, he revealed his Sharingan and released the entirety of his chakra in a overcharged state. Jun took out a special Kunai he had manufactured by himself in the week he spent in preparation. The hilt was wrapped in a special sturdy chakra paper and was filled with runes. He flickered and sped off in the direction of the Black Flames. As he drew near the Flames attacked him en-masse. Jun held the Kunai in front of him horizontally with both hands and supplied Space Style Chakra to it. A pattern of translucent runic rings emerged from it standing in the way of flames, completely ensnaring them even if they tried to escape. "Flying Thunder God : Guiding Thunder - Space Style Variant" All the Black flames were sucked into a depression in space in the middle of the runic ringed pattern in the air as if a giant was taking a deep breath. A hundred meters above Jun, a second runic pattern formed but it was in the form of a spherical cage. All the Black Flames that were disappearing from front of Jun appeared in the spherical runic cage. Once all the flames got into it Jun raised his palms in its direction and clenched his fist. The spherical runic cage responded and shrunk slowly, compressing the flames until it formed a volleyball sized ball of Black Flames. "Do it now Kakashi San!" Jun called out , his voice strained by the concentration it took to keep the Black Flames under control. "Haaahhhh¡­. Kamui!" Kakashi grunted as the Three Tomoe of his Sharingan spun and turned into an entirely different interconnected sickle like symbol. Suddenly the space around the ball of flames twisted into a giant spiral like appearance and it was slowly sucked into it, vanishing without a trace. Jun gasped as his connection to the spherical runic prison was broken along with it, falling to his knees for a moment. He panted as he looked at Itachi, who was lying in the middle of scorched ground completely unconscious with blood running down an eye but not a trace of burn on him. Jun and Kakashi staggered towards him after they had caught their breath , Jun reaching him first and sending Healing Chakra reinforced with nature energy to his eye . However at first inspection he couldn''t find anything wrong other than few of the blood vessels ruptured and his eyes strained. "Nature Style : Regenerative Body!" Jun used his self Developed regeneration spell he had used previously on Itachi. Once he felt his body was back to the state of ''as good as new'' he sat back and relaxed waiting for him to recover. 57 BSNW 053 Journey Starts Itachi woke up to find Jun and Kakashi lying down beside him on the ground. Sun was setting by then , dying the sky in a fierce shade of reddish-orange. Itachi took a deep breath to relax when he finally realized he was in the real world and not a Genjutsu. He lied back for a while before muttering "They really are a powerful Genjutsu user tribe, the Kuramas. Their prowess can match the strongest of the Uchiha legends." "You don''t know the half of it." Kakashi whispered "There are rumors that the Kurama Heir are chosen for their special bloodlines. But Yakumo has surpassed all her predecessors in talent. Her bloodline is the strongest ever seen in her tribe. Not just that, the scariest thing is, her power enables her to make her illusions to reality under certain circumstances." "That''s why she is assigned on the team with me ." Jun explained "My Genjutsu immunity is a perfect counter for her. Hokage wants me to keep an eye on her while giving her a chance to be a real Shinobi. Are you okay Itachi?" "Hmm .. ya .. fine mostly. Her Genjutsu was so real that I lost myself in it almost , and maybe would have completely forgot myself if something didn''t awake within me." Itachi replied. "I''ll say" Jun exclaimed "The Flames were really terrifying." "Itachi you should talk about it to Fugaku sama before we leave tomorrow. I have a feeling he would have a lot to tell you about it." Kakashi told him. "Sure , but I have to meet someone else before that . I will be leaving first guys , will meet you tomorrow early morning at 6 at the gate as planned." Itachi said as he disappeared with a Flicker. "Oh ya , that reminds me" Jun exclaimed and took out a scroll and showed it Kakashi. "Itachi and I found it in Training ground for storing Mutated Chakra Beasts when we were testing Jutsu. The thing is, while I am sure its a speed enhancing Jutsu, with Flying Thunder God being in my arsenal I don''t need it. I would like it if you could look through it and teach to the others if they are suited for it . I am sure it could be a trump card." "Alright, I will see to it" Kakashi said as he ran his eyes on its title "Inaba Rabbit Jutsu ¡­." -------------------- The Next day at six p.m. 5 people were assembled outside in travel gear, along with a horde of people who came to see them off.Kakashi looked at the audience with his eyes twitching. Jun could barely stop himself from laughing at Kakashi''s expression. "I can understand why Nara-San is here with family, I will even make allowance for Fugaku-sama for being here for Itachi, But why are you here Hiashi-sama?" Kakashi as in a forced calm voice. "Well Naruto brought Hinata to see off Jun along with his friends and I just got worried ." Hiashi said , calm as ever while shooting a glare to Fugaku who responded in the same. Kakashi sighed while clutching his head with one hand. Then he glared at Naruto who responded with his ever present wide grin, Hinata by his side gave a small shy smile. Sasuke , Sakura , Ino , Choji and Shikamaru had surrounded Jun and were barraging him with questions, increasing the already present chaos. Finally an hour later everything calmed down as the audience left and Kakashi''s team left the village with well wishes of their audience. -------------------- They travelled with moderate speed as that was the most Yakumo could handle. Her stamina would be at max comparable to a freshly graduated Genin. While they travelled , Jun accelerated to come beside Itachi so that they could talk. "So where did you go yesterday ?" "Ahem .. umm .. as I said yesterday, I had to meet someone about something. Anyway , leaving that aside , where are we going now?" Itachi changed "Hmmm¡­ anyway . We will be going to the Land of Hot Springs first . According to the notes Master Hinoki left us, one of the guardians of the ''Mirrors Of Hope'' as they are called was an expert from the ''Hidden Hot Springs Village'' initialy and is theorized to have a safe spot there which would definitely be our first bet to find the Second Mirror." "Second ? .. This is the first mirror we have been tasked to find isn''t it?" Yakumo asked while joining in their conversation. "No , the first mirror is the one that Master Hinoki had in his possession and gave it to us. I forgot to mention that he was one of the five guardians of the mirrors. So we just need to find the supposed place. According to Master, his friend used to call it'' The Sulfurous Valley'' ." "So we need to first figure out where is this place and then find wherever the Mirror is hidden. No problem at all!" Yakumo said sarcastically. ------------------- They travelled for a week and a half before finally reaching the Land of Hot Springs. Though it was a bit difficult for Kurama, she didn''t let off and kept pushing her limits so as to not be a burden on the rest of the group. After a half day of journey, they reached their first settlement in the Land of Hot Springs, a small village called the Bamboo Village because of most of its housing being made from Bamboo. 58 BSNW CH 054 The Chinoike Clan It had been since they had been staying at the Bamboo Village. The village had simple farmers working hard to make their lives fulfilled. For the past week the team had been blending with the villagers, passing off as travelers looking for work and they got a lot of it seeing that they were classified as ''good fighters''. Itachi and Jun took care of errands and helping out in fields; Kakashi and Yugao could easily act as guards for the village hunters foraging in forests. Yakumo was the only odd one out but she followed Jun most of the time so no one paid much attention to her. They gathered a lot of info about the Yugakure (Hidden Hot SpringsVillage or the Village Hidden in Steam). They figured that whatever the next level information they could get, it would be from the Hidden Ninja village of the Land of Hot Springs. As a treat for their last night of stay the villagers decided to throw a feast. ----------------------------- At the feast the team sat along with the chief watching the festivities and celebration. At that time the chief approached Kakashi to talk. "Kakashi San, these past few days you and your companions have been really helpful to the villagers. You have been going around asking about a place called ''Sulfurous Valley'' correct ?" Chief asked "Yes , but no one seems to know anything about it." Kakashi replied. "Well maybe because its information was suppressed . There is folklore in the Land of Hot Springs about the descendants of the devils. This folklore is maybe related to this place you have been searching." Kakashi was stunned hearing about this since there was no information like this available in leaf despite Land of Hot springs being neighbors to Land of Fire. Jun and the rest moved closer hearing the Chief talk to Kakashi but they too were stunned hearing about the descendants of devils. "You don''t think there are really anything called the devils, right ?" Yakumo whispered softly "Who knows, we live in an age where people can control elements and change the structure of land and sky , even time and space. Existence of devils may not come as a too big surprise to me . Anyway, lets just listen to the story ?" Everyone nodded and paid attention to the Village Chief''s story. "It is said that a clan of supreme warriors existed during the warring states period in the area that is now inside the Land of Lightning. Every child of this clan would have Supreme Bloodline which would awaken their fighting instincts from a very young age. This clan thrived in war, and in the words of the people who survived their attacks this clan ''the more blood was shed , the more these people would thrive.'' When the ''Ninja World God'' First Hokage of the Village Hidden in Leaves started encouraging people to stop the warring clans and come together and create peaceful villages, this clan married off one of its chief elders to the Land of Lightning''s Daimyo. She was as beautiful as she was clever and through her machinations this clan thrived and was one of the forefront warriors that protected the Land of Lightning against its enemies. However, The First Wife of Daimyo was jealous of this woman''s beauty and preference the Daimyo gave to her opinions. So she waited till Daimyo''s health detoriated and secretly killed him off and put the whole blame on the woman of this clan , spreading out the motive that this woman wanted her clan to replace the ruling clan. She took advantage of the fact that all the Daimyo''s forces were afraid of this clan''s powers. Through her devious scheme, this clan was banished out of Land of Lightning and the Woman of this clan who had become Daimyo''s wife was publically humiliated and whipped and tortured and shamed by the entire army as a warning to her clan in case they planned to ever enter the Land of Lightning again. When they were banished from Land of Lightning, they invaded Land of Hot Springs which was newly formed and didn''t have much warrior strength. When they almost succeeded in capturing the capital, The Uchihaclan interfered." Itachi and Kakashi stiffened at this "The Uchiha Clan had been employed by the Daimyo in exchange for a few ancient treasures of the Land of Daimyo''s personal collection. They succeeded in defeating this clan but they could never completely wipe them out . So the Uchihas sent their most powerful warrior Madara Uchiha here. However He ended up surprising his own clan. Instead of killing of the entire clan as everyone thought he would, he sealed the entire clan in a place known as ''The Valley of Hell'', Its name was given due to the fact that there is a perpetual Blood Fog there , along with prevalent miniature volcanic springs often spew out reddish-brown colored hot geysers. Almost no vegetation exists there, and survival is next to impossible. Initially the Yugakure ninja kept a strict watch and killed of any of the clan that managed to escape there. But over time the clan stopped trying to escape and even the Yugakure ninja couldn''t find their traces so they thought they died out. Today most people have forgotten its location, even its existence and it only exists in folklore. They are known as the Children of the Devil because of their Red Eyes like those of Hell-beasts straight from nightmare that signal their opponents doom when fighting them." "...This clan, what was its name?" Kakashi asked after a long time of pondering, while Itachi clenched his fists on hearing about this side of his clan which forced an entire clan to live a life worse than death. "Hmm¡­ If Memory serves, this clan was called ¡­ yes remembered it, ''Devil''s Children'' Chinoike Clan!" The Chief Replied. 59 BSNW CH 055 Visit to the Sulfurous Valley The next day the Team left for Yugakure, since they once had ninja posted for fighting against this banished clan. Itachi was extremely quiet during the journey to Yugakure, as if fighting an inner battle. Jun decided to confront him one night while the team was taking a break. "What is bothering you Itachi ? You have been very off ever since you heard about this clan ." Jun asked while sitting beside him "It is nothing major, but this was the first time I have been exposed to the past horrors of my clan and its ancestors. I always knew Uchiha Clan has been all about power and supremacy and if it was not for Senju and Uzumaki clan there would have been none that would have stood up to it. But hearing they used their power in such way , to destroy an entire clan just because someone had assigned them to and that too because they were afraid of the clan''s power doesn''t sit well with me." "I know it might be hard to stomach, but your ancestors sins are not yours. If they were the ones to sin , we can wash it off by helping others. All we can do is keep our hands free of the blood." "Maybe you are right. Anyway we need to focus on our mission for now." "Yes, we need to find the mirrors as soon as possible. We have already spent around one and a half months of the 2 year maximum limit master gave us; and it is not even sure that he will be able to hold on for that long. The sooner we complete this the better." -------------------------- Two weeks later, they finally reached Yugakure through assistance of a few small villages that usually employed their services. The team also enjoyed a few excellent Hot-springs on the way there, Jun especially had a very nice time since he found that hot springs are laced with traces of pure nature energy due to their geothermal relations. On reaching the village, Kakashi discussed with the village guards and they were escorted to the Yukage''s office to meet the Yukage. The meeting with Yukage went extremely smoothly. The Valley of Hell was thought to be uninhabitable. Ninja from the nearby Yugakure checked in on the Chinoike clan a few months after they were relocated to the valley and found them drinking what appeared to be blood (Niks :it was actually only water, turned red by minerals in the earth). Unwilling to investigate further, Yugakure declared the Valley of Hell o? limits. Over the years, the valley''s location was forgotten and the Chinoike clan faded from history. He told them that they suspected everyone of the Chinoike Clan had already died since they found that the whole valley was covered in blood like substance from distance and the whole valley emitted a strong smell of rust and sulphur. "The Chinoike were famous for their Ketsuryugan, a dojutsu that, when active, makes their eyes appear blood?red. The Ketsuryugan allows them to perform powerful Genjutsu, of comparable strength to your Uchiha clan''s Sharingan. They can also use the Ketsuryugan to manipulate liquidssuch as blood " the Yukage explained the supposed ''Devil''s eyes'' of the clan. "The white parts of the eye glows blood red while the pupil turns into a double layered on with a slit in middle like those of some amphibians. Its said they need conflict and blood of others spilled for it to awaken. It was quite unfortunate we had to lose such rare bloodlines." Itachi was at his limit by then so he excused himself and rushed off. Jun followed him at Kakashi''s signal. Following his tracks, Jun found him at the entrance of the building, leaning on the wall while clenching his fists. He sensed Jun coming and opened an eye to look at him. "You left very quickly . Are you okay ?" Jun asked "Is that all we are to such people? Just weapons with special abilities that can be pointed at their enemies to scare them? Look at that guy, he is proud of what he did to those people and the only regret he has is losing their abilities? " Itachi was incensed at Yukage''s attitude towards the Chinoike Clan''s plight. Jun had no answer for Itachi and could only silently ponder at what Itachi said. -------------------- Armed with the directions the Yukage had provided , Jun and the team left on the search for the ''Valley of Hell'' , also known as the ''Sulfurous Valley'' before the Chinoike Clan was exiled there. It took them a few days to fined the river that bordered the extent of the seal Madara Uchiha had placed . As Jun and the team crossed the river using an old wooden bridge , they could feel an uneasiness they didn''t feel before. They saw a haze that covered a range of hill like structures in the distance. "That is the entrance to the so called Valley of Hell" Kakashi said as they trudged forward. "They very air feels ¡­ polluted somehow" Yakumo replied while starting to sweat. In fact, all the team members had started to perspire by now as they temperature rose quickly the deeper they went. "There is a peculiar smell of rust here as Daimyo said. But is it really blood? How much blood would have to be shed to shroud the very atmosphere of this place? Even major battlefields would not be like this. " Yugao countered while wrinkling her nose at the smell. "No. Everyone was wrong about this place." Jun said while pointing at a red colored puddle at distance. The team rushed to it and Jun bent down and dipped a hand in it to check. He felt a slightly rough texture floating in the red liquid. Bringing it close to his nose , Jun finally recognized it by the smell. "This is not blood, this is a water saturated with high concentration of minerals which make it dense like blood, chief among which is Iron. The unpleasant smell is a combination of rust and sulfur. As you obviously know , Land of Hot Springs is known for its hot springs that cure variety of diseases and is good for health due to high content of minerals. It just so happens that it is exactly what responsible for this hellish place, an over content of minerals like iron that rust when exposed to high temperature of the hot springs. There fore animals don''t live in this place since they cant adapt to it, and only few types of vegetation can handle it. The question is : How did the Chinoike Clan people survive after drinking such water. I would suspect anyone would die within days with such constant consumption of such water." "How about I answer that for you?" a voice called out from the haze in front of them. 60 BSNW CH 056 En Oyashiro Kakashi got on point of attack formation immediately as the rest took their own positions. Itachi and Yugao who preferred weapon combat got on his flanks while Jun and Yakumo watched their backs. "Easy there, no need for such caution. It is just that its been a long time since there have been visitors and I just wanted to greet you as the only friendly member as opposed to the rest of my fight crazy clan mates." a man with beige colored hair and light baggy clothes came forward from the mist with his arms partially raised up and palms faced forward. "Who are you and why did you approach us truly ?" Kakashi asked while holding his Kunai tighter "Well I can see that you have guessed anyway but I will tell you all the same. My name is En Oyashiro, formerly Chinoike Oyashiro before I was banished from my clan. I have come back after a long time but I don''t dare go back to my clan as my distance is what keeping my family safe there according to the agreement I made with clan elders . Therefore I stay here , watching over them from far away and keep enemies of the clan away when I can. By the way , I do hope that I don''t have to categorize you as one of the enemies ?" Oyashiro said, a hint of steel creeping into his voice at the end. "No , not at all. " Kakashi said while relaxing his stance and putting away the Kunai, the others followed his lead. Seeing this Oyashiro relaxed too, and motioned for them to follow him. ----------- They reached Oyashiro''s abode a few minutes later, a cave hollowed out at one of the hills . Oyashiro didn''t have too much for providing comfort, just basic thin fold-able rug and few other daily use items and a box of scrolls in one corner . He unfurled one of them and reveled few boxes of canned food after unsealing it. "Well help yourselves guys. We can talk after we have had something to eat." Oyashiro said as he himself picked out a can of beans and started eating vigorously. Jun silently sent out a slight wave of healing chakra to test for poisons but finding it safe each of them took a can each . Oyashiro noticed Jun''s checking but didn''t comment. Once they had ate their fill , Oyashiro resealed the rest in a scroll and took out a different one that on unsealing revealed large bottles of water. "I know you ninjas can create water through water release but why waste chakra ,eh ?" Oyashiro demonstrated by drinking a mouthful from a bottle before them. Jun once again did the honors of checking before they all had a few mouthfuls. "So lets get down to business eh? Why are you guys here?" Oyashiro asked. "Do you know any old ruins or place of some type of guardian here?" Jun asked him "..Why do you ask?" "Well " Kakashi explained "According to the information we have, there is a sealing type mirror that is hidden somewhere around here that would help us to avert a crisis. It is one of five in a set , each guarded by a guardian." "Hmm .." Oyashiro rummaged among his things and took out an old diary. After turning, he showed a drawn sketch of a mirror in the diary to them "Is this the one you are searching for?" Jun pulled the diary towards him and studied the sketch "It is remarkably similar to the one we found. Where did you find this diary?" "It is mine, at least it is now. It was my grandfather''s Chinoike Ruu. The Ruins yo are looking for is also something created by him in the heart of this valley. He had left the clan before they were banished out of the Land of Lightning. One day he returned to the clan here , defeated all the strongest fighters and became the chief , then created the ruins and hid something there. He said only people with strongest minds to test their strength and will should go in to find his legacy. After his death many tried going in but no one found anything and died inside instead. My father knew a few things my grandfather told him before his death so he forbid any of our family from trying . I have been holding onto grandfather''s diary ever since my father''s death. The reason I was banished was because of similar reason. The current chief''s son tried to go in and find the legacy and was killed instead. The chief banned anyone from going in ever since and accused my grandfather of being a mad traitor of the clan who wanted to kill off the entire clan and therefore created such a ruin.I didn''t agree and wanted to prove him wrong using the coded clues in this diary but he overruled it and with help of corrupted friends of his separated and banished me, warning me that if I came back then they would kill my family. I went to a ¡­. certain place¡­ during my banishment and became stronger. But even after I returned I don''t have any confidence of facing my entire clan. Might be easier if you guys help though. What do you say? I will guide you while you help me take back my family from this place." "We could definitely use help and you definitely should get back your family so it works out. We have a deal." Kakashi said 61 BSNW CH 057 In The Ruins - 1 Oyashiro guided the team secretly via a secluded path that skirted around the edge of the settlement of Chinoike Clan in the center of the Valley of Hell. They slowly made their way to the central ruins while avoiding the crude huts of the clan members. When they reached the outer walls of the ruins, Oyashiro showed them an old section of wall and the sneaked towards it. Upon reaching it , he pressed on a specific stone section and the walls slid to the side slowly. Oyashiro motioned for them to get in and he came in last while pressing a different stone section on the inside that slid the wall back. He gestured at Kakashi to keep watch on a specific direction of the ruins while he guided them. While they snuck inside , Kakashi noticed a flickering from the direction Oyashiro had told him to watch. When he pointed that out to Oyashiro, he quickly escorted them to a fallen section of the ruin and made them hide behind it. They soon saw two emaciated middle aged men come out of a broken section of wall that slid aside just like the one Oyashiro had opened previously.Since the wall had been broken and crumbling at place they could see the flaming torch in the hands of men , otherwise it would have been a perfect secret passage.Oyashiro motioned for the team to be quite and lie low as they waited for the men to pass . "Can you believe the stubbornness of the bitch? I just asked for one night with her, and she has the guts to refuse. I mean, shouldn''t she show some appreciation for the men bringing her the precious food from the limited stock of the clan. Its not as if we have to honor the agreement with that bastard Oyashiro!" Man 1 complained in anger. "Alright calm down, didn''t the chief say that we only have to tolerate her for a month. The chief has scheduled the awakening ceremony of her daughter the next month. If she survives it , then we have a weapon against that Oyashiro. If she doesn''t , both of mum and daughter pair die together eh ?" Man 2 said with a smirk Upon listening all this Oyashiro released dense amount of killing intent and rushed forward. Before even Kakashi could react, the two men were tied together with ninja wire and their heads were off their shoulders. "Sorry, couldn''t help it" Oyashiro said in a flat tone. "Should I assume that the mother and daughter in their conversation are related to you?" Kakashi asked "Yes and we should hurry. They must be in the passage these scum came from . After I find out they are safe, I will guide you further." They all hurried through the passage way , and Jun silently stored the corpses in his inventory as well as erased the blood with a simple water release and covered the area with dust to erase the traces and smell using wind release before following the rest. The went down the corridor, the ground slanting down at a slight angle all the way. They reached a circular room finally , its walls were leaking red liquid as if blood. Kakashi rushed forward to check it but before he could report what it was , Oyashiro cleared the confusion, "That is not blood, that is just the special hot spring water of the Valley of Hell that looks like it. Its really common here, once of the reasons this place was named the Valley of Hell" Oyashiro scanned the room and pressed one point of the circular wall. A circular depression of the wall slid back and to the side, revealing a medium sized room with a lantern burning in one corner. As Oyashiro entered, a woman''s hand slapped his face before he could react , stunning the rest of the team. "Why ?? Why have you returned ???" a voice drippingwith anger greeted them As their eyes grew used to the dim light , they saw a woman with bruises and slap marks on her face and had dry knotted hair. From her trembling hands and the way she was holding her body forcefully upright with a hand on the wall said that her rest of the body didn''t fare much better. Oyashiro gently touched the woman''s cheek but his hand was slapped away by her. "Mia, I am sorry. I finally had a chance to take you away from here, how could I have missed it?" "Have you thought about what you would be putting us through if you fail? If not me , have you at least wondered bout how little Chino will be treated?" Mia clutched his collar and asked while sobbing . Kakashi signaled Yugao and Yakumo and they gently held Mia and separated her from Oyashiro. Mia started sobbing while collapsing on the floor while they both consoled her. Oyashiro stayed quiet without explaining, but it didn''t take a genius to figure what had happened if you connected what they had overheard from the two previous guards Oyashiro had killed to what Mia just said. Mia had apparently been mistreated and taken advantage of in more ways than one ever since Oyashiro had been exiled. And she had apparently let them happen, all to protect her daughter Chino. And she was worried that if they failed in getting them out and they got caught, Chino might suffer the same fate as hers. "Don''t worry" Oyashiro said as he turned to leave "I will fulfill my obligations to these people Mia. And in turn they will help us get out of here and we will leave this place behind forever, I promise." saying so he left and the rest followed. Only Junnoticed a section of the room whose wall slid open slightly, reveling to eyes and a bit of light blonde peaking out. 62 BSNW CH 058 In the Ruins - 2 Oyashiro back tracked to the circular room and pressed another section of wall at the far side, a huge section of wall slid to the side revealing a wider and firmer opening. A few feet in and the could see a long flight of stairs going down . "If you have any sources of illumination, you should use them now. " Oyashiro said Yugao , Yakumo and Itachi took out torches while Jun simply hovered a small ball of fire above his hand and activated his runic eyes. As they went deeper , they realized that although the flight of stairs had steps of shallow depth, their width and the large number of them assured that they were travelling a long distance. After a while, they finally entered an enormous cave like structure , with boiling hot springs of red color water and red colored steam was prominent everywhere. "Be ready . there will be patrols of guards here as thestrongest of the clan always stay inside the ruins. That is how they escaped the detection of the world out side and everyone thinks they are dead. Those in the settlements outside are the lowest members of the clan made to face all the dangers outside. " They all continued forward until the saw an enormous crater , hundreds of feet in depth and a few tens of meters in diameter. Apart from a solitary rock column at the center, it was filled with boiling red water. "This is the first and extremely obvious combination of trap and challenge. We need to get to the top of the column and pull on a chain attached to the ground there. Unfortunately, the water around it is as hot as boiling metal as well as poisonous, it will instantly corrode all organic matter it touches." Oyashiro explained. Before they could decide what to do Jun stepped forward "Leave it to me!" Declaring so he took a running start and leaped off the edge of the crater. While in midair , three special runic Kunai appeared in his hands. He three one towards the team and it got stuck on the ground right in front of their feet. Holding the other two, one on each hand, he turned towards the column. He threw one Kunai towards it and as it reached halfway the distance , Jun instantly appeared beside it. Clutching the Kunai with the hand that threw it , he threw the other Kunai and again teleported and reappeared beside it as it reached the top of the column. Storing both of them away in his inventory as soon as he touched the ground with his feet, he bent down and saw the thick black chain with Fuinjutsu seals on it attached to a big crescent moon made from black metal. He grabbed it with both hands and gave a mighty tug. Bddoommmm!! Enormous gears turned around the ruins as two huge sections of the wall opened like a door, revealing dozens of men and women with glowing red eyes staring at them. Jun instantly teleported back using the Kunai thrown at his team''s feet and picked it up . Turning towards the red eyed enemies , he flipped the Kunai once before clutching it in reverse and said "Shall we start the party ?" Both sides abruptly rushed towards each other, only Yugao and Yakumo stayed behind; Yugao to protect Yakumo and Yakumo to cast long distance Genjutsus and confuse the enemies. Itachi attacked with his Kodachi, once in a while sending a fireball or two among the groups of people. Kakashi and Oyashiro were quick and efficient, Kakashi using a Kunai with lightning coating it while Oyashiro taking enemy''s head and limbs off using his chakra enhanced wires. But the scariest was Jun, who without holding back even for a moment was dodging and flashing amongst them like a Ghost. Each time his Kunai flashed, blood spurted like a fountain. He was for the first time using Flying Thunder God in a mass fight like the Fourth Hokage did. Seeing the terrifying aftermath of his attacks, Kakashi was reminded of why the Fourth was called the Yellow Flash, and he was sure that the Black Flash will be born in future [Niks : Attributing to Jun''s Black Hair]. It was over in a few minutes. Kakashi stared at the dead bodies a while before asking oyashiro "I couldn''t help but notice, the weapons that these people were using turned to red water as soon as they died." Kakashi noted "Were they all --" "Yes, they all used they red water around us " Oyashiro affirmed "In some cases , they used their own blood." "Ketsuryugan!" Itachi muttered and was overheard by Oyashiro who nodded again "Yes, Ketsuryugan gives control over high mineral content liquid like blood and this red water that contains high amounts of rust and iron. Also like Sharingan of Uchiha Clan it gives us high control over Genjutsu, but that ability was lost to the history after we were made to live here , imprisoned like animals which made us more dependent on our ability to control this red water rather than using Genjutsu." "I am sorry" Itachi whispered, his face a few shades paler "Do not worry young Uchiha" Oyashiro said as he had already seen Itachi activating his eyes during the fight "Your ancestor''s faults are not your own." ---------------------- After they caught their breath, they went into the right section instead of the left, as Oyashiro said left one is just a dead end and rest spot for clan members. Continuing down on the right path they reached a huge gateway flanked by two cliff like structures. "That''s the entrance to the deepest part of the ruins, the mirror and the test to obtain it will be inside. I can accompany no further, you will have to do it by yourselves. I will stay here and try to buy as much time as I can against the rest of the clan . Hurry back as soon as possible." 63 BSNW CH 059 Trap and Confrontation Going through the gateway, the reached an enormous cliff that connected to the opposite side trough a single wooden bridge and red steam was prevalent everywhere. "So we have a bridge now , more danger then. Lets keep going" Yugao committed tiredly. This mission was the most danger she faced in a long time. "No need to stand any longer her then I guess." Kakashi said as he led into the bridge. As they proceeded further down he exclaimed "This setup is very obviously here to protect something. It has made us all walk through here, completely vulnerable. " "There would be one of those mirrors here definitely then , right ?" Yakumo called out hopefully "We just have to hope that keep going forward" Itachi said As they reached the end of the bridge , three people appeared suddenly appeared before them. Jun recognized one of them, "You , Top Knot Guy!! Why are you here now ?" "Who is a top knot guy that looks like a muscle bound idiot huh ??!! My name is Rokkaku, call me that. ROKKAKU!" The top knot guy, Rokkaku said Kakashi focused on the other two and saw that they drew red vapour from surrounding into a sword in their hands and their eyes started to glow red. "Those are the Chinoike clan, they knew about us coming . All this might be a trap for us and Oyashiro" Itachi exclaimed "Or could be that he betrayed us to secure his family, could be anything. Right focus on getting the mirror and getting out of here ." Kakashi replied Rokkaku smirked at Kakashi "Sorry but that mirror is our property. Can''t let you take that out of here. You two, get ready to kill them." The two of Chinoike clan immediately got ready with a sword in each hand and red vapour shrouding their bodies like a cloak. "How are they even listening to you?" Yakumo asked "Pretty simple. I killed their chief and now all the women and children of the Chinoike clan are my hostage. These are such stupid people, just because of their hatred of one man they let me deceive and get in their midst and enslave them." "You are a monster !" Yakumo said as she started to weave a powerful Genjutsu. The air around her started rippling slightly and there was a hazy demon like image that was starting to overlap her. "We are not going to just hand over that mirror to you!" Jun said as he and Kakashi took on Rokkaku and Itachi and Yugao took one Chinoike Clan member each. Yakumo was still busy in her Genjutsu, but looking at the magnitude of changes around her , this was major one. "Lets open with this one, Hazy Spring Jutsu" Jun said. With his last hand seal, chakra was diffused into the surroundings and winds started spiraling like tornadoes around Rokkaku. The tornado also let out wind blades while concealing them in red vapour haze. Itachi and Yugao were completely involved in sword fight against the clansmen. Although they were overwhelming the two clansmen, they could not defeat them in a short while, so it was clear this was going to take some time. Meanwhile Rokkaku sent out chakra charged Shuriken that tore through the tornado like wind around him , forcing Jun and Kakashi to dodge them. Jun increased chakra inside the tornado in retaliation, drawing in lots of red haze and barraging Rokkaku with wind blades forcing him to dodge and be on defensive. "I have had enough of this! Fierce Dragon Palm!!" Rokkaku shouted as he sent out a huge chakra dragon from his palm that shredded the tornado to pieces. "Lets give you a taste of your own medicine. Fierce Dragon Palm!!" Kakashi too sent out a enormous Chakra Dragon like Rokkaku that crashed against his , sending out shock-waves in the surroundings. "Copy Ninjaaa!!! GRRRRR, you will not beat the original!" Said Rokkaku as his dragon became even larger than before and started to overwhelm Kakashi''s dragon and Kakashi had to exert himself a lot to maintain it. "How about two instead of one? That should be able to beat the original right ? Fierce Dragon Palm!!!" Jun said as he too sent out a Chakra dragon "I have been analyzing this ever since you gave me a taste of it last time. Let me return you the favor!" Two slim chakra dragons, one bluish and one greenish in color crashed against huge chakra dragon let out by Rokkaku. The dance of the dragons made the boulders around them crumble to dust and the very earth around them shook fiercely due to the shock-waves let out by their clashes. "Now for the finale, Flying Thunder God- Guiding Thunder: Space Release Variation " Suddenly, in front both of Jun''s and Kakashi''s dragons runic gates appeared. As soon as the dragons passed through the gate, they appeared right above Rokkaku''s head and crashed into him, resulting in a huge explosion. After a while as the dust cleared , they saw a big crater with Rokkaku in the midst of it. He had blood poring out from various torn muscles all over his body. But the weirdest thing was , he was smiling. "You know" Rokkaku said while coughing with mouthfuls of blood "There is supposed to be a challenge before obtaining the mirror. Do you know what is it? The challenge is that, each mirror is connected to the Evil Spirit Beast. Each of them holds a portion of it chakra that helps act as a shield against the main body of the spirit beast. The thing is, when you want to obtain the mirror, for that you have to face the portion of its chakra for getting its approval before you can take the mirror. Summoning Jutsu!!" Rokkaku slammed a hand on the ground and an enormous lizard appeared , with the Mirror mounted on the center of its head. A weird shock-wave ripple passed in the surroundings as it appeared, and the entire place changed. 64 BSNW CH 060 Rin and the Swordsman Itachi, Kakashi and Yugao opened their eyes after a while, and found themselves lying on the banks of a river meandering through a vast plain dotted densely with trees.While they looked around in confusion, they heard the sounds of fighting and disturbance among the trees. Suddenly , a girl was thrown out of the trees, apparently because of a kick. Kakashi was rushing forward to check but stopped after a few steps. The girl slowly got up unsteadily, blood flowing down on one arm due to a large cut , and bruises marked her face along with two purple bands on her cheek. "Rin?" Kakashi called out in a trembling voice. The girl stiffened first , then looked up hesitatingly searching for the caller . On seeing Kakashi, her eyes widened and she whispered "Kakashi?" Rin looked at Kakashi before hesitatingly walking step by step towards him . Kakashi stood at his place stiffly, with his shoulders giving a slight tremble now and then. As Rin came near him , he kneeled before her to bring him to her height. "Rin, I am so sorry.." Kakashi barely whispered out. "Its OK .. Its OK .." Rin whispered softly as she gently hugged Kakashi. Just as Kakashi raised his arms to hug her, a Kunai slammed into his gut. With a vicious twist of the Kunai Kakashi spewed out blood and was then kicked away by a slim leg enhanced with chakra. "..Rin..?" Kakashi called out in shock as Itachi and Yugao rushed forward to help him get up by supporting on each side. "Tsk .. Tsk.. Kakashi. Same old arrogant Kakashi, believing the whole exists for you to just appear and get its gifts. Same negligence that let Obito die, same negligence that led me to be captured and become a accursed Jinchuuriki and a weapon to be used against my own village and friends. You shame his Sharingan Kakashi, You shame Obito''s gift. You are not worthy ''Copy Ninja''. You were , are and always will be a traitor and betrayer of those that trust you." Each word of Rin''s elicited a greater response from Kakashithan her Kunai had. As he closed his eye in guilt Eight people in ANBU masks appeared surrounding them, one of whom had a huge broad-sword , as tall as a full grown man and shaped like a butcher''s knife. As the man removed the sword from his back , it was seen that it had two cut outs from the blade, one complete circular one near the top of the blade, and a semicircular one at the blade edge near hilt. ''One of the seven Ninja swordsman ? What is he ¡­ no .. Rin died by my hand¡­ This is all --'' Kakashi finally had woken up from his stupor " Genjutsu. An incredible one, but this is all a Genjutsu from our own memories. They are somehow making us face those we dread to meet!" Yugao and Itachi were completely stunned, especially Itachi. He had his Sharingan activated but he could not sense what was happening at all. Despite Sharingan''s reputation to see through all Genjutsu , It had failed now. "Genjutsu are not , their threat is real . We have to fight !" Yugao said while releasing her Tanto from its sheath. Kakashi released his Sharingan and started issuing orders for formation. "Leave the Swordsman of the Mist to me. You guys have to focus on the other ANBU. And most important of all, don''t engage with Rin, she doesn''t seem as simple as she looks, some thing is different about her." Kakashi said "Well duh! She stabbed you ." Yugao said as she engaged the ANBU along with Itachi, while Kakashi and the Swordsman simultaneously moved away from the rest and clashed some distance away .As Kakashi and the Swordsman exchanged a few moves, he suddenly backed off and hoarse voice sounded from under the bandages that covered his mouth and neck . "Hidden Mist Jutsu" Swordsman called out and dense white mist filled the surroundings. "Be careful, this is their signature move . They can move freely in the mist while we can not , keep track of your surroundings. " Kakashi said as he searched for the swordsman. Suddenly all kinds of hidden weapons were barraged onto the three of them. They tried to deflect as many as possible, dodged when not able to deflect. "Silent Killing!" Another hoarse whisper echoed as senbons flew towards them accurately targetingall their vital spots. Kakashi and the other two had to use Substitution to dodge and were separated far away from each other due to the mist. "Enough of this, Chidori !!" Kakashi''s shout was followed by a harsh cacophony of birds, and he flashed of while dropping bodies of two ANBU in the next second. "You like to play with lightning huh ? How about this, Giant Vortex Jutsu!!" the Swordsman said as an enormous wave burst out in his surrounding. His shout was followed by four others and the whole place became a large lake, while dispersing the mist. "You guys, back off ! I need space to work here!" Said the Swordsman and the ANBU disappeared leaving him and Rin to face off against the Kakashi trio. Rin dashed off against Itachi and Yugao while the Swordsman threw his sword at an incredible speed targeting Kakashi. Kakashi barely dodged the whirlwind of the sword, only to face a kick to the face by the Swordsman that appeared in front of him. When Kakashi tried to generate another Chidori, the Swordsman ripped of the bandages covering his mouth, revealing his red striped lower face along with a cross shaped scar on his cheek and let out his own ninjutsu. Kakashi recognized the man as Juzo Biwa , a missing nin of the Hidden Mist and one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist, but the realization would not help him currently to face of against the man since it was the first time Kakashi faced this guy. "Water Release : Water Bullets!" He shot multiple large bullets out of his mouth at Kakashi. Kakashi abandoned Chidori and focused on dodging the bullets. However the sword that was hurtled towards him previously, came slashing at his back . Kakashi barely blocked it with a Kunai at the last moment, the impact still blew him off. The Swordsman apparently had a water clone attack Kakashi using the Sword. "That is enough . This is my domain from Now!!" ??? 65 BSNW CH 061 Purification and New Knowledge Lights flashed in surroundings, blinding them all , until it went out as suddenly as it appeared. When they all came to their senses they realized that there was Rin alone standing in front of them looking bewildered as the scenery had changed. They were now in an ash gray plain, with only utter desolation to see whichever direction they looked. "Now you are in my Mind-Space , my World!!" ??? Kakashi and the others looked around to find Jun standing next to a weird demon like creature. Apparently in a female form, she had wrinkled greyish brown skin, big fangs like a snake and two enormous bull like horns. However Yugao was surprised when she saw that the demon was wearing Yakumo''s clothes. It was then that she came to a realization, "Is that Yakumo ?" Yugao exclaimed. "No not quite" Jun replied back "You can think of this as an entity living inside Yakumo or her alternate persona. She is the one who holds the majority of Yakumo''s power. The power Yakumo showed us earlier was child''s play. When you all were caught upin the Genjutsu caused by the summoned beast of Rokkaku using the mirror, Yakumo used her alternate persona ''Ido'' to wrest control of the Genjutsu from the beast while I handled Rokkaku and the rest of his cronies that arrived when they realized Rokkaku had fallen. As I finished up, Yakumo had dealt with the beast too. But the Genjutsu was not broken. It was then we realized that this was no simple Genjutsu. That girl in front of you, is a sliver of the Spirit Beast''s True Soul. It has read you mind and chose a form suitable to the Genjutsu it cast using your memories. It is feeding of the chakra used in the attacks against it, and transmitting them back to its main body to awaken it further. Thanks to that we may have lost a month or two from our deadline." Saying as much , Jun glared at ''Rin''. "Well you got me," Rin said while shaking her head "but I still have to wonder, whether you could stop me at all once I do this!" Suddenly smoke and light flashed around Rin''s body and sent out a shock-wave in the surroundings. When the smoke cleared, it revealed a huge beast that resembled a turtle with a crab like shell and red spikes all over its body. Under its shell, it had hard , red muscle like tissue. It sported a pair of human like hands and arms but didn''t have any hind legs. Its face was nearly covered between its large forehead and lower jaw, both of which had spikes . One of its eyes was closed while the other showed a red eye full of anger and madness. Three enormous shrimp like tails waved in the air behind it. "The Three Tails! Rin revealed her Tailed Beast form ?!" Kakashi exclaimed "Not exactly, I have seen what a tailed beasts real might is. This guy is just emulating on the basis of the bits of details he gleaned from the memories. But memories are fickle things, often they don''t show what they should . For eg --" Jun said and rushed towards the Three Tails. Three Tails roared in front of him, shock-wave blasting apart ground in a straight line in front of him. Jun pushed his palm forward and waves of plants like a never ending tide burst out of the ground , shielding against the shockwave efficiently. The plant-wave then went on to bind the Three Tails quickly, tens of vines growing and binding it for every vine it managed to break. Wasn''t long before its tails and limbs were submerged in the Plant sea. "How is this possible?" The Three Tails roared. Jun who landed on its head using Flying Thunder God replied, "You still don''t get it do you . You are in the combined mind-space of me and Yakumo. You are not fighting me as much as us both of us. And in this mind space I can do anything I can imagine and support with my will power and Yakumo backing me up with her some of her own talents it was guaranteed that you will lose. Moreover, you are not a true entity anyway. You are a random mixture of memories and power, most of which you don''t even know how to use. Whereas, in this mind space I can bring out power that I can only theorize but never bring out in real life. Power like this--" Immense amount of green colored chakra released from Jun''s body while he weaved a complex series of hand-seals. The Green Chakra spread over the plant encased body of Three Tails, forming a net of runes. Jun slammed his hand on Three Tails head and the Green Colored Runes started shining with a blinding light. "Nature''s Purification" Jun whispered as the net of runes started squirming and tightening around Three Tails. Slowly its form started blurring and changing, eventually shrunk down to the size of three average full grown men. When the light finally dimmed, they could see a purplish colored catfish squirming and flopping. "Brilliant!" a deep voice burst out of the catfish''s mouth "seems like I have found my perfect counter eh ? You know, a few weeks before I first saw you in the Evil Sealing Valley along with that oldie and that girl, I was visited by an old man in my dreams. He wore and ancient coat and had a black staff in his hand and told me that it was my time to be born at last. He granted me a skill to do that but said that only the one who can defeat me will be able to use it. So I split four slivers of my soul from myself and sent them to the sealing mirrors I could still feel connected to me. The fifth one which you used on me in the Evil Sealing Valley had lost its connection to me until you guys reconnected it, waking me up partially in the process. That was the reason I sent my mark on all three of you to determine who was the one that old man told me off. However, now that I have found you , I also have to warn you. You have only purified a sliver of my soul, whereas the majority of it still lies sealed within the valley and under the influence of one of your enemies It is being corrupted slowly. If you can''t reach it before it completely corrupts then you will have a true disaster on your hands. So take care , and here is your reward for defeating me!" Saying so, the catfish turned into a gray ball of light and went inside Jun''s chest. Jun felt the knowledge of a new Jutsu in his mind along with sliver of the spirit beast''s soul and chakra roaming in him and sealed them away temporarily. [System Updated completed. New system rebooting1 .. 2¡­ 3¡­ 4 .. 5¡­ 10¡­. 25 ¡­.. 50 ¡­ 75 .. 85 ¡­ 95 ¡­ 100%.] 66 BSNW CH 062 The Conclusion of The Valley of Hell [System Reboot completed.] [Scanning for experience accumulation of host. 0¡­25¡­50¡­.75..100. Done! Rewarding Experience Points.] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Level Up!] [Second Stage Bloodline Activation crossed 50% . Activating Second Stage of of Sage''s Eye. Activating ¡­ Transforming ¡­. Merging¡­.. Done. ''Seitengan (Runic Seal Eye)'' Activated. ] [Scanning Host¡­. Found traces of Evil Spirit Beast Soul and Chakra Sealed. Overriding Host''s Seal Necessary ¡­ Overriding.. Modifying Seal to Living Seal : Chakravyuha.. Resealing¡­ Done.] [Evil Spirit Beast Soul sealed into host after scanning it along with its chakra.] [New Technique Received after scanning ¡­ ??>>@@##$%&>><<>>???¡­. Attempting to Re - Scan¡­.. Re - Scanning ... Successfully Bypassed obscurity. Creation Of All Things Technique Found. Temporarily sealed until host provides permission to learn.] [Dungeon System Upgraded. Bijuu Dungeon , Ninja Character Instant Dungeons, Special Characters Instant Dungeons unlocked] [Re Scanning Host''s Stats. Recalculating¡­ Assigned stats in Balanced mode¡­ Stat Assignment complete!] Jun Felt a Huge amount of energy surging within him, Finally his chakra started to release outside his body. Pure Jade Green Chakra Released out of his body, forming an illusionary garden with his chakra aura. The Mind Space formed with the collaboration of Jun and Yakumo trembled before shattering and they were all thrown back into the real world. After they all woke up in the real world, Jun went and Ripped off the Mirror from the lizard like monster Rokkaku had Summoned. Nodding at the successful completion of the retrieval of the Second Mirror of Hope, Kakashi and the rest of the Started their return journey. However Suddenly, the entire structure of the ruins started shaking badly. "What is going on?" Yakumo wondered out loud, now back in her original human form. "Don''t know but I don''t like it. Hold On to me!" Jun said Everyone Grabbed hold of Jun''s Hand and Disappeared from the place as boulders and rocks crashed the place they were standing a moment ago, completely obliterating the place. ----------- Mean while, at the entrance of the inner chamber of the ruins, Oyashiro was fighting his entire clan alone . In the time that Jun and the others were fighting Rokkaku, his minions had revealed the news about Oyashiro and his group coming to the rest of the clan and incited them to kill off everyone related to Oyashiro. The Chinoike Clan, already half crazed due to Rokkaku''s machinations and brain washing techniques, attacked Oyashiro''s wife and child first, who somehow managed to flee to the inner ruins entrance where they knew they had a chance to meet up with Oyashiro. She trudged along with Chino, She faced various attacks. Finally she arrived where Oyashiro was , her entire body full of wounds that she gained while protecting her daughter. Oyashiro was completely enragedand finally activated his Ketsuryugan and attacked his clan . However while he was fighting , a sneak attack pierced through Mia. Chino was also hurt and fell unconscious. Oyashiro completely lost control after that and decided to execute his suicide spell. At that moment he was visited by Jun , who teleported in their midst after safely depositing Kakashi and the rest outside . "Oyashiro!" Jun exclaimed in horror "What is going on ?" "No time to explain!" Oyashiro said as his purple-crimson eyes glowed horrifyingly while rivulets of blood flowed down fro them. "Now is the time to do! " Huge amounts of red water flowed towards him and got mixed with blood flowing from different parts of his body . Giant shurikens made of red water fired off at the clansmen . While they defended against them, Oyashiro handed Chino to Jun along with an old red diary. "Take her along with you, give her the diary when she awakens her Ketsuryugan. It will tell her how to train it. I am trusting you with her!" Oyashiro gave a bloody smile as once again red water surged around him. "Take her and Go!! Blood Dragon Ascension: Yamata no Orochi!!!" Eight Giant Dragons made of red water burst from the ground with Oyashiro at the center. Each one rampaged amongst the clansmen, toppling them over like chess-pieces and biting them to death. Each time a head was damaged it explodedand a new head grew out in its place. Jun teleported with Chino face away to watch the mayhem safely . After a few rounds of this, no one was left alive except Oyashiro. He looked back at Jun who was watching from far away and mouthed a single line ''Watch over my daughter'', before blasting apart in a mass of red blood and water. Jun could only watch while clenching his fist since he had responsibility to protect Chino. When everything subsided , he took Chino to Kakashi and the rest after treating her and they left for the Hidden Leaf . ---------- "Are you sure you want to leave your daughter to them? I know hidden leaf like the back of my hand. Their are more rotten people their who look like saints on the surface. You sent her there to protect her from the fate of your clansmen , but she may end up falling to the same fate anyway. Her Ketsuryugan will be valuable even there you know?" ???? "I am sure. As long as you don''t interfere that boy will keep her safe . You can bet on that. And the price for your non-interference is right here is it not?" ??? "Ah, the infamous Ketsuryugan, slayer of the battlefields. It interests me as much as the Sharingan. Well the deal is done , lets go . We have a lot to do." ???? "Take care my child. Grow up and find your own path to happiness !" ??? 67 BSNW CH 063 The Gods Interfere Once More In a Forest that barely allowed a few rays of light to seep through its gaps, a cacophony of weapons clashing and shouting of people echoed. The intensity of the fight even scared away all the normal residents of the forests, as if warning them against the walking calamities that were roaming in the forests. Klingg ¡­ Kabaang ¡­ fttinng¡­ Baddoommmm ¡­ Crassshhh.. Among these clashes, suddenly a person was thrown out like a bag of trash . He went crashing into the forest trees, breaking through quite a few branches before he fell down to the ground. "Ah .. hell-- (pui . pui .. puuagh). I almost puked out my guts¡­ That kid never kids around or holds back his punches does he.." A man with a wide variety of scars on his face rose up. As that man went back to the clearing in the forest where the fighting was taking place, he was greeted with a sight of various thug like men sprawled around on the clearing , all with varying states of injuries and unconsciousness. "Oi Oi Oi¡­ who would believe it has only been a few months since this guy joined our gang and he has already surpassed everyone? ¡­ Ok ¡­ You win.. What do you want?" The man turned towards the perpetrator of all this violence , a young kid looking around 6-7 years of age, and asked. "Nothing . I just want to leave the gang and roam the world!" Came the answer from the mouth of the black haired blue eyed boy with face that could be called the brand ambassador of impassivity. "Ok fine. But please just heal these guys up, for good old times sake ? You are the best among us in healing arts right?" "I don''t know which good times you are talking about since all we are is a bunch of thugs that rob¡­ But it is fine ¡­ you guys were decent sparring partners to get my bearing in this new world so I guess I will oblige.. ''Mass-Heal !!'' " With a single gesture and a hand-seal, a fog of chakra descended upon the injured people and they started recovering at a fast pace. The man who had requested this , bowed down to the boy who was departing and said with a voice filled with respect, "Thank you for this favor, and I hope you have a wonderful life ahead.. Shiba Tatsuya!" The boy merely nodded before disappearing into the forest. -------------------------------------------------- In a sweltering hot desert, There seemed to be a caravan travelling the desert judging by the dust in the air. However looking closely , it seemed a procession of giant centipede like beasts scuttling through the desert , raising all that sand into the air. Cliickc.. Clicckety clack ¡­ clickc clcick claack. The Centipede in the lead suddenly stopped and made some clicking noise to the center of the procession. Out from the center , came a humungous centipede twice larger than the largest so far visible in the group. On top of it was a teenage looking boy with dirty blond hair and a uniform of a school kid sporting a bored expression. "Aah ? What is it ? hmm ? Oh is that so ? There is an old ruin underground? But you can,t get in because some kind of .. Energy ..? ¡­ Aaah.. I can''t translate language of these insects too well ¡­ Basically something is blocking our path in there right ? Fine .. I will remove it ¡­ Man .. what a boring life¡­ when can I find some village or even a bunch of nomads.. I am tired of this shitty life of being with insects and eating raw meat .. Sigh .. here goes .. Hyaap!!" The boy gave a punch to the ground and a sound of shattering glass echoed in the ground. The centipede which had called out before went down to scout and returned in a few seconds making bobbing motion with his head and dived down followed by the rest of the group. "hah¡­ seriously what a shitty life¡­ That god cheated me.. I though ''Conversing with all living beings'' would be a cool power to have apart from my usual.. this was definitely not how I envisioned using it. I knew I can never trust a god.. next time I see him I am definitely going to give him a punch in serious mode. He dared to fool me , Izayoi Sakamaki !" Saying as much he nudged the centipede he was on to enter the ruins too along with the others. ----------------------------------------------------- In a barren wasteland , all kinds of chakra beasts were attacking on man with brown hair , ragged beggar like clothes and glowing red eyes with weird star shaping spinning in his pupil along with various runes. "Even animals of this world are using some sort of magical spells huh ? Well .. It will help pass the time at least. By the way I forgot to thank that god who reincarnated me and gave me the sealing to suppress that bastard in me. Yo!!!! Thaannk youuu! Kami sama!!!! I , Ryner Lute Am grateful!!!!! Andyou even evolved me eyes to suit this world better !! So double Thankss!!!!!" Shouting as much , he dove into the the horde of beasts, and soon enough cries of panic rose amongst the beasts as the beggar like person started killing them left and right without a pause, sometimes showing the same attacks as the chakra beasts, sometimes transforming his very body into a chakra beast. Kuuuuaaanggggh!!! An enormous energy blast was fired of the mouth of the Chimera like chakra beast which the beggar like boy transformed into. Huge dragon like head, four big sturdy limbs , huge boulder like body and a giant muscular tail flashing from side to side. The energy blast wiped out most of the beasts, and the remaining were running helter skelter. "Hey wait , I still have more to copy , ehem .. learn!!" a boy like voice burst from the mouth of the huge terrifying creature that decimated most of the monsters around it as it bounded behind in chase of the monsters running in fear of their lives. --------------------- In the god dimension, "Senpai ¡­ Just what have you done!!!! These guys are absolutely monsters on the level of Jun¡­ I can t even imagine the destruction they are capable of bringing once all four of them mature.. Did I have any less trouble that you have added more to the pile??" ??? "Ah , don''t mind ! don''t mind ! They will make it very interesting no ? and I am sure Jun can handle this much .. If it gets out of hand he will mature faster to cope up . Therefore no need to worry!" ??? A ridiculous conversation about the fate of the world was carried out in such a lazy careless manner which would have made any resident of that world give these two a bitch-slap. However they kept on arguing like old men watching a show on Television. "FuFuFu.. entertain me more .. Fufufufu!!" "Senpai!!!!" 68 BSNW CH 064 Rivals of the Future "Senpai ! Do you truly realize what all problems you have created for me now ? The original powers of each one of these was enough to rival gods of at least medium grade. I myself barely categorize as one. How can I take care of this world if I have to pay attention to these three along with Jun ? You do know that as things are about to unfold , the time that my mother will be released is getting closer! Barely a decade more and she will be released into the world. And now you have Introduced three more beings that can potentially be a threat comparable to my mother?" "Relax , despite my frivolous attitude I still am a god aren''t I ? I took care of all these issues before hand. These are just copies of the originals in their respective worlds. I copied the Soul Imprint on a blank soul before reincarnating them here, so of course they will lack strength of the original . Moreover, Their powers have been adapted according to the Laws of your World. Do you think the World Law would have accepted them if their powers went beyond the original limit of this World ?" "Then .. you mean to say their powers have now become a kind of Bloodline?" "More or less. Shiba Tatsuya, he in the truest sense can be said to be a resident of your world, his soul adapted the most. I think his initial character and disposition played a huge role in it . His gift is that of an enormous reserve of chakra, surpassing that of your own descendants and nearly comparable to a half baked Tailed Beast, and that to hen he has barely just arrived. He also has a genius level intellect and extremely calm disposition , so despite his gift being much less awe inspiring as compared to others, He is more than a match for them , possibly will even defeat one or two if all three of them do a free for all along with Jun." "Ryner Lute, well he initially posed a problem. The Dark God he had been contracted with was too deeply assimilated with his soul , so a portion of it was copied here along with him. But I suppressed it for a while , Until Lute become capable of doing it himself. As for his gift - The Alpha Stigma of The Absolute Cursed Eyes, It can be considered a Sharingan without its limitation. However , the cost of Using it is also many times heavier. So it will be a huge drain on his chakra. So his duration of using should be in short burst , but he is a resourceful guy . I am sure he will find a way to surpass his limitations, in fact he has already touched a hint of his path." "The most worrying was the strongest soul of them all - Izayoi Sakamaki. Really , the day I find the being that granted its powers to this kid , I will blow it into oblivion. The gift of the Original Izayoi was able to negate my efforts to copy him completely . In the end I had to make a deal with him after explaining my circumstances. He really does as his mood. It was he himself who allowed his powers to be suppressed , because as humiliating as it is to admit, the nature of his gift was made to go against all aspects of a ''god'' . I had to provide an additional gift to him apart from adapting his gift as much as possible to this world." "How much did his gift adapt ? And what additional gift ?" "His gift is potentially the most strongest one out there. His gift directly trains his Physique over time and gives him the ability to destroy energy. It is a pretty weird bloodline his gift transformed into that prevents him from accessing elements , yet he just grows stronger and stronger without having to train, a big contradiction as expected of his gift. Give him a few decade and he will easily reach your level despite having nothing to do than just eat and sleep. This bloodline was a headache for even me .. But I could not suppress it any further. His additional gift he asked for was very strange , but a very powerful kind - The ability to communicate with anything. I think even he had no idea of what he asked of me or what the power entails. The day he truly understands ¡­.. I don''t want the day to come." "Senpai .. even with adapting their powers , they still are too strong. Are you sure about this ?" "As sure as ever. The golden generation of your world are about to raise their heads and see the world. These four souls will be critical elements in shaping their future." "I hope your gamble doesn''t end up destroying my world Senpai. Anyway , ow that there are such strong beings in this world , I think even I can not stay complacent. I need to train my way again and find my path. I need to grow stronger!" ------------------------------ In the Hidden Leaf, Hyuga Compound Hinata''s mother was in labour with Hinata''s younger sibling and there were many close friends of Hinata and Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga present in the Hyuga compound. Mostly it was Hinata''s close friends Naruto , Ino , Sakura , Choji , Shikamaru who were there to support her. Jun was there with his newly adopted sister Chino. He had Finally started his own Kigen Clan, despite many protests from Yoshino and Shikaku. Yoshino and Shikaku finally had to give in when he said that it was not because he didn''t consider them as his parents , but because he had to provide a good environment for his new sister. Chino had a slight trauma because of what she had undergone with her clan , Therefore instead of her becoming head of her own Chinoike clan Jun persuaded her to join the village as a member of his clan. His Kigen clan didn''t have a set basis for Bloodline inheritance , so he and the Hokage decided to classify Chino''s bloodline as a variant type like Jun''s own. For the past two weeks Jun had been taking care of Chino and because of his mature disposition he had become somewhat of her guardian. Despite physically being of the same age, Chino regarded him like the elder brother she never had and had placed him as the only close confidant in her closed off world , Just them both against the world. Back in Hyuga Mansion, Cries of a woman in distress was echoing softly , getting weaker by the minute. At that moment , a maid ran out of the room and said something to Hiashi. Seeing his face get paler by the moment, Jun decided to intervene. "Excuse me Hiashi sama, is everything alright ? " Hiashi looked at Jun, first impulse was to brush him off like a child he looked. But at the next moment he shook off the false image he had in his mind. He had realized long ago that this child was not normal, and from what Hokage had told him this child could become the next Sage and the pillar of the village like the late Fourth Hokage. Hiashi took Jun aside and spoke in a soft voice , "I was just informed that there were a few complexities during the childbirth. There is a high chance that either Hinata''s mother or her sibling or possibly both can die during the childbirth due to the complications. My Wife is losing her vitality fast as hence I was told to be in her last moments with her." Jun wa shocked by the composure Hiashi showed despite the grief, but then he realized the cruelty of the ninja world. Losing too much makes you somewhat numb to all of it , this was especially true of the Hyuga house where they had the system of the ''Curse Mark Jutsu'' which Jun slightly detested. Hinata was a wonder in herself as she managed to keep her innocence and kindness despite being in such environment. Thinking of her , Jun decided to intervene. "Hiashi sama , I have a proposal for you. I can try and intervene in this and try to save your wife , if you give me permission. My ability as a Sage may be of help to her in regaining her vitality and saving her and her child''s life." Hiashi was shocked but soon regained his composure , "¡­What will be your price ?" "Nothing . Except if you count the friendship between our ''Clans'' as a price. I want Hyuga and Kigen to have a friendly relationship from now on , no matter how much politics the village or other clan may drag the Kigen into in future . Is that possible ? " Hiashi thought for a while before agreeing. This was a pretty small thing to agree to when compared to his wife and another potential heir which was being born. After Hiashi agreed, Jun left Chino in his care and went in to see Hinata''s mother. He found her surrounded by a few medics and nurses and even women from Hyuga clan who were using their Byakugan to keep an eye on her detoriating condition while encouraging her to fight on . Telling them all of Hiashi''s permission, Jun started treating her with his Nature Energy based healing technique mixed with Yang energy which had recently gained proficiency in to restore her vitality. He stimulated her consciousness with Yin energy to keep her conscious. Finally after 3 hours of constant efforts She became stable enough to try another attempt. Jun asked the other women in there to help her while he stabilized her. Soon, a soft cry of a baby girl echoed from the room. Hiashi who had been waiting so long for the very moment , rushed in and seeing both mother and child safe left a single unchecked tear of joy to run down his face before nodding to Jun gratefully and taking his newborn daughter in his arms. After a while of pleasantries and congratulations, Jun and Chino went back to their small yet well furnished bungalow which Jun had purchased with the money he had gotten from the Hokage as Loan to create his own clan. Reaching their home, Chino asked Jun for the first time about his own history "What happened to your mother , Oni san ?" "Well , I was an orphan too Chino , I was raised up in Nara clan due to instructions of the hokage because of my special prowess and circumstances. Until I met you, Yoshino san raised me like her own son , Shikamaru. We grew up like brothers with no difference in our treatment. But now I have you to look after like I promised with your dad , so I decided to make my own clan . Even if a different clan is made , they can still take people unrelated to Clan under their wing as part of the Clan, like I was under the Nara for these years. So Chino is my sister now and part of the Kigen clan. Anyone who wants to harm you will have to first go through me . So don''t be afraid okay ? I will be there for you always" "Un!!" Chino replied happily. 67 BSNW CH 063 Rivals of the Future In a Forest that barely allowed a few rays of light to seep through its gaps, a cacophony of weapons clashing and shouting of people echoed. The intensity of the fight even scared away all the normal residents of the forests, as if warning them against the walking calamities that were roaming in the forests. Klingg ¡­ Kabaang ¡­ fttinng¡­ Baddoommmm ¡­ Crassshhh.. Among these clashes, suddenly a person was thrown out like a bag of trash . He went crashing into the forest trees, breaking through quite a few branches before he fell down to the ground. "Ah .. hell-- (pui . pui .. puuagh). I almost puked out my guts¡­ That kid never kids around or holds back his punches does he.." A man with a wide variety of scars on his face rose up. As that man went back to the clearing in the forest where the fighting was taking place, he was greeted with a sight of various thug like men sprawled around on the clearing , all with varying states of injuries and unconsciousness. "Oi Oi Oi¡­ who would believe it has only been a few months since this guy joined our gang and he has already surpassed everyone? ¡­ Ok ¡­ You win.. What do you want?" The man turned towards the perpetrator of all this violence , a young kid looking around 6-7 years of age, and asked. "Nothing . I just want to leave the gang and roam the world!" Came the answer from the mouth of the black haired blue eyed boy with face that could be called the brand ambassador of impassivity. "Ok fine. But please just heal these guys up, for good old times sake ? You are the best among us in healing arts right?" "I don''t know which good times you are talking about since all we are is a bunch of thugs that rob¡­ But it is fine ¡­ you guys were decent sparring partners to get my bearing in this new world so I guess I will oblige.. ''Mass-Heal !!'' " With a single gesture and a hand-seal, a fog of chakra descended upon the injured people and they started recovering at a fast pace. The man who had requested this , bowed down to the boy who was departing and said with a voice filled with respect, "Thank you for this favor, and I hope you have a wonderful life ahead.. Ikari Jihino!" The boy merely nodded before disappearing into the forest. --------------------- In the Hidden Leaf, Hyuga Compound Hinata''s mother was in labour with Hinata''s younger sibling and there were many close friends of Hinata and Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga present in the Hyuga compound. Mostly it was Hinata''s close friends Naruto , Ino , Sakura , Choji , Shikamaru who were there to support her. Jun was there with his newly adopted sister Chino. He had Finally started his own Kigen Clan, despite many protests from Yoshino and Shikaku. Yoshino and Shikaku finally had to give in when he said that it was not because he didn''t consider them as his parents , but because he had to provide a good environment for his new sister. Chino had a slight trauma because of what she had undergone with her clan , Therefore instead of her becoming head of her own Chinoike clan Jun persuaded her to join the village as a member of his clan. His Kigen clan didn''t have a set basis for Bloodline inheritance , so he and the Hokage decided to classify Chino''s bloodline as a variant type like Jun''s own. For the past two weeks Jun had been taking care of Chino and because of his mature disposition he had become somewhat of her guardian. Despite physically being of the same age, Chino regarded him like the elder brother she never had and had placed him as the only close confidant in her closed off world , Just them both against the world. Back in Hyuga Mansion, Cries of a woman in distress was echoing softly , getting weaker by the minute. At that moment , a maid ran out of the room and said something to Hiashi. Seeing his face get paler by the moment, Jun decided to intervene. "Excuse me Hiashi sama, is everything alright ? " Hiashi looked at Jun, first impulse was to brush him off like a child he looked. But at the next moment he shook off the false image he had in his mind. He had realized long ago that this child was not normal, and from what Hokage had told him this child could become the next Sage and the pillar of the village like the late Fourth Hokage. Hiashi took Jun aside and spoke in a soft voice , "I was just informed that there were a few complexities during the childbirth. There is a high chance that either Hinata''s mother or her sibling or possibly both can die during the childbirth due to the complications. My Wife is losing her vitality fast as hence I was told to be in her last moments with her." Jun was shocked by the composure Hiashi showed despite the grief, but then he realized the cruelty of the ninja world. Losing too much makes you somewhat numb to all of it , this was especially true of the Hyuga house where they had the system of the ''Curse Mark Jutsu'' which Jun slightly detested. Hinata was a wonder in herself as she managed to keep her innocence and kindness despite being in such environment. Thinking of her , Jun decided to intervene. "Hiashi sama , I have a proposal for you. I can try and intervene in this and try to save your wife , if you give me permission. My ability as a Sage may be of help to her in regaining her vitality and saving her and her child''s life." Hiashi was shocked but soon regained his composure , "¡­What will be your price ?" "Nothing . Except if you count the friendship between our ''Clans'' as a price. I want Hyuga and Kigen to have a friendly relationship from now on , no matter how much politics the village or other clan may drag the Kigen into in future . Is that possible ? " Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Hiashi thought for a while before agreeing. This was a pretty small thing to agree to when compared to his wife and another potential heir which was being born. After Hiashi agreed, Jun left Chino in his care and went in to see Hinata''s mother. He found her surrounded by a few medics and nurses and even women from Hyuga clan who were using their Byakugan to keep an eye on her detoriating condition while encouraging her to fight on . Telling them all of Hiashi''s permission, Jun started treating her with his Nature Energy based healing technique mixed with Yang energy which had recently gained proficiency in to restore her vitality. He stimulated her consciousness with Yin energy to keep her conscious. Finally after 3 hours of constant efforts She became stable enough to try another attempt. Jun asked the other women in there to help her while he stabilized her. Soon, a soft cry of a baby girl echoed from the room. Hiashi who had been waiting so long for the very moment , rushed in and seeing both mother and child safe left a single unchecked tear of joy to run down his face before nodding to Jun gratefully and taking his newborn daughter in his arms. After a while of pleasantries and congratulations, Jun and Chino went back to their small yet well furnished bungalow which Jun had purchased with the money he had gotten from the Hokage as Loan to create his own clan. Reaching their home, Chino asked Jun for the first time about his own history "What happened to your mother , Oni san ?" "Well , I was an orphan too Chino , I was raised up in Nara clan due to instructions of the Hokage because of my special prowess and circumstances. Until I met you, Yoshino san raised me like her own son , Shikamaru. We grew up like brothers with no difference in our treatment." "But now I have you to look after like I promised with your dad , so I decided to make my own clan . Even if a different clan is made , they can still take people unrelated to Clan under their wing as part of the Clan, like I was under the Nara for these years. So Chino is my sister now and part of the Kigen clan. Anyone who wants to harm you will have to first go through me . So don''t be afraid okay ? I will be there for you always" "Un!!" Chino replied happily. 68 BSNW CH 064 The Journey for the Third Mirror Four Months had passed since Jun saved Hinata''s mother and her newborn sister. During this time, Jun had focused insanely on training his skills and training chino to gain control of her bloodline. Using the red diary her father Oyashiro had given him, he was completely focused on getting her used to her powers as soon as possible before he had to leave for finding the next Mirror. Despite his trust on the village and his new alliance with the Hyuga, he didn''t trust them enough to protect Chino from hidden dangers. So, it was given that she will have to train and be capable of defending herself while he took her with him. During these four months, Jun''s skills had gained a new leap because of his insane training dedication. He had mastered most of the basic techniques and using the help of his system and his newly gained technique: Creation of all Things, He created some new derived applications from existing skills. According to the system this technique was the Technique which the sage of Six Paths himself used to divide the Tailed beast Jyuubi into the Nine tailed beasts that existed right now. System had helped Jun use this technique which can change reality itself to help consolidate his skills into higher version of themselves by first mastering them and combining them to produce stronger skills by the Creation of All Things Technique. Due to this, Jun had a completely greater arsenal now to fight with than during the time of the search for the Second mirror. He was sure that he could defeat Rokkaku and the Evil Spirit Beast influenced Lizard single handedly in a rematch without need of Kakashi and the rest. Also, he has been visiting the training grounds regularly with Chino. This benefited Chino a lot who could try out her techniques against strong opponents and Jun could gather Chakra Crystals which he needed due to the new evolution of his Bloodline, which transformed his Runic eyes to their new form: Seitengan. "System, display information about Seitengan." [Sage Wisdom Eye (S¨¥ji no chie) - Second Stage Alternate Name - Seitengan (Runic Eye) Using a Supreme Quality chakra crystal as a price (Usually possible with chakra of Tailed Beasts) User can Permanently etch and activate a special rune in his runic eyes which allow him to engrave one technique of his choice in it permanently which can be activated instantly without any seal or delay as long as sufficient chakra is present. Minimum Requirement: 1 Chakra Crystal (High)/ 1 Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal (Small), Skill/Jutsu with at-least 50% proficiency Limits: High the Rarity and Power of Jutsu, The Higher the Cost of Chakra for invocation when using Rune seal and Higher the Chakra Crystal requirement for engraving the Jutsu. Taijutsu is not possible to seal as it is Physical technique. Genjutsu is restricted by Host''s Bloodline Hence Not possible to Seal. Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Equivalence: 1 Divine =??? Supreme 1 Supreme = 100 High 1 High = 50 Mid 1 Mid = 25 Normal 1 Normal = 10 Small Normal Chakra Crystal Equivalence: 1 Supreme: 100 High = 100 Tailed beast Chakra Crystal (Small) = 10 Tailed beast Chakra Crystal (Normal) 1 High: 10 Mid = 1 Tailed beast Chakra Crystal (Small) 1 Mid: 10 Normal 1 Normal: 10 Small 1st Rune: (Not Yet Engraved)] "How many Chakra Crystals Do we have now? " [1 Mid-Level, 2 Normal level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal and 60 Normal Chakra Crystal] "Okay then, display the techniques that can be engraved with current amount. Limit the Choices to Advanced level techniques and Space or Yin-Yang based techniques" [List Compiled: Nature Style: Iryojutsu: 1 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Nature Style: Demonic Poison Technique: 1 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Ninja Art: Yasaka Magatama: 2 Normal Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Chakra Repulsion Shockwave Jutsu: 3 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal True Body Shadow Clone Jutsu: 3 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Spatial Flicker Light Steps Jutsu: 4 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Space Substitution Jutsu: 3 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Flying Thunder God Jutsu: 4 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Summoning: Rashomon Gates: 3 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Yin-Yang Style: Spiraling Destructive Disc Jutsu: 5 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Yin-Yang Style: Great Spiraling Destructive Disc: 2 Normal Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Yang Reinforcement- Lightning Release: 10000 Thunderbolt Dance: 5 Normal level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Yin Release: Will Materialization: 4 Normal level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Water Style: Call of The Ocean: 3 Small level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Earth Style: Tectonic Displacement: 3 Small level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Wind Style: Vacuum Blasts: 3 Small level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Lightning Style: Heavenly Thunder Wrath: 3 Small level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation: 3 Small level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal ] "The cost is pretty great for each of these¡­ But all of them are high end jutsus I have mastered. Being able to call upon them with a simple thought could save my life in a pinch. I need a Space Style technique and a Healing technique definitely." "I guess I will take Iryojutsu one, since the poison type healing method is customized only to work with me where as Iryojutsu can be used on others. As for Space style technique ¡­ Spatial Flicker light steps should be best, since it allows instantaneous movement and will increase me fighting speed multiple times in a fight." "Remaining is one or two attack type techniques. Observe has already been merged into Seitengan so I don''t need to add it to the list luckily. Anyway, lets first engrave Iryojutsu and Spatial Flicker. System, use these two!" [Acknowledged¡­ Total cost ¡­ 5 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal. . .. Remaining: 1 Mid-Level, 1 Normal Level, 5 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal and 60 Normal Chakra Crystal] [Recommended is that Host should select the rest of the techniques before starting engraving process. After the process eyes will be weak for a while and vitality of the host low.] "Alright then. Hmm, I will pick Chakra Transformation: Yasaka Magatama, Yin-Yang Style: Spiraling Destructive Disc Jutsu, Summoning: Rashomon Gates, Chakra Repulsion Shockwave Jutsu, True Body Shadow Clone Jutsu, Demonic Poison Technique" [Acknowledged¡­ Total cost ¡­ 3 Normal Level, 5 Small Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal. . .. Remaining: 8 Normal Level Tailed Beast Chakra Crystal and 60 Normal Chakra Crystal.] [Would you like to Finalize this selection and start the engraving process?] "Yes!" Immediately Jun felt a sensation as if thousands of ants were crawling inside his eye balls, scratching and biting them from inside. It was all he could do to curl up in a ball and clench his teeth against the pain. After a few hours, he felt a soothing sensation in his eyes and realized that the process was over. Waking up he saw Chino lying down beside him while holding him tightly. She had understood instinctively that Jun was in pain and tried her own way to help him. Stroking her head softly, Jun then viewed updated details of his Seitengan. Sage Wisdom Eye (S¨¥ji no chie) - Second Stage Alternate Name - Seitengan (Runic Eye) 1st Rune: Nature Style: Iryojutsu 2nd Rune: Nature Style: Demonic Poison Technique 3rd Rune: Spatial Flicker Light Steps Jutsu 4th Rune: Chakra Transformation: Yasaka Magatama 5th Rune: Yin-Yang Style: Spiraling Destructive Disc Jutsu 6th Rune: Summoning: Rashomon Gates 7th Rune: Chakra Repulsion Shockwave Jutsu, 8th Rune: True Body Shadow Clone Jutsu Jun was extremely happy with the result and decided to test them out. With just a thought, Demonic Poison technique was activated, and the poison attacked the sore areas on his arms legs and head and were instantly absorbed as vitality and rejuvenated him. This was an extremely innovative way he devised to heal himself based on bloodline. He then tested out True Body Shadow Clone and instantly 5 clones of flesh and blood formed before him. These clones had their own intelligence and would not even disappear when dead. They held his knowledge of Jutsus but could not access his ocular powers. Still they didn''t have a distance limit which was a benefit since whatever they trained in or experienced would constantly transmit to each one of them minus the physical fatigue which would only be experienced by the one who practiced. At that moment Chino stirred slightly and an idea came upon Jun''s mind. There must be many children like Chino who are oppressed for their special powers and used as weapons. As Chino''s suffering went through his mind, he decided to do something about it. He turned to his clones and discussed this with them. "I want to protect people like Chino. I need to find all such kids and create a haven for them." Each clone instantly understood Jun''s idea and divided themselves according to the 5 great nations, one clone for each, while Jun would try to search for such kids in his travels. Deciding as such, the Clones disappeared instantly using Flying thunder God. "Oni san, what was that?" Turning back Jun saw that Chino was looking at the place the clones were a moment ago with wide eyes. Jun went to her quickly and patted her head to calm her down. "Don''t worry about its Chino. Your Oni san is just trying to make sure no one else must go through what you did. " Tears filled her bid eyes as she hugged Jun with all her strength. Jun just patter her back as he hugged her back and took her home. ------------------------------------ One Week Later All the preparations were done now, and The Team had reassembled except for Yugao. She was reassigned to some other mission as her strength was judged insufficient for the Mirror retrieval mission after the dangers faced during the Second Mirror retrieval. Instead Chino could join and since Jun too had improved by leaps and bounds, he didn''t ask for any other people to join. So, the team that set out this time was Kakashi, Jun, Chino, Yakumo and Itachi. "Where will we be going Oni san?" Chino asked Jun while Yakumo looked on while being interested in it. "The destination for the Third Mirror is a Place called The Snow-Covered Crystal Ravine. This lies in the Land of River, that is between The Land of Fire and the Land of Wind. However, As it is our fate to get difficulties , the guardian of this Mirror apparently was on odds with the Hidden Valley Village that is the Hidden Village of the Land of River Just like our Hidden Leaf is, so we will have to find the exact location on our own based on the few clues Master Hinoki left us and while hiding from the Hidden Valley Village too." "Jun, is there a chance that we will face another Genjutsu attack of the Beast like What happened with the Second Mirror?" Itachi asked "Yes, there is a high chance of that and since it directly affects our soul therefore even my bloodline is helpless against it. But now we are all trained better, and I have some new tricks in store, I am sure you all have too. We can do this; we have to have faith in ourselves." "Mmmm, I believe we can do this" Yakumo assured with a smile as they made their way towards the Land of River. 69 BSNW CH 065 Tanzaku Town and the Drunk Beauty After a week of journey, the team reached area near Tanzaku Town that was on the edge of Land of Fire just before reaching the Land of Brine. Jun and Chino chatted with Itachi and Yakumo chiming in once or twice in between as they travelled at a moderate pace towards Tanzaku Town. However, Suddenly Kakashi stopped and stopped their conversation as a result. Itachi and Jun noticed immediately that Kakashi seemed to be observing something. "Something wrong?" Itachi asked while raising his guard. "Might be nothing, but I might have found some traces of human travel even though we have been taking a remote route with general public not coming towards this place. Hold on let me confirm it." Kakashi bit his thumb and quickly formed a few quick seals with his thumb bleeding. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "Summoning Jutsu!" With a contract formation quickly spreading on the ground, white smoke appeared with a small puff. As the smoke cleared, they saw a small seated brown ninja dog with a customized apparel for itself with a ninja band showing Konoha''s Symbol. "Kakashi ¡­ Long time since you summoned me. What''s up?" The dog asked offhandedly. "Cute?!" Yakumo exclaimed in surprise "Yo Missy! I am not cute, I am brave and dashing Ninja Dog, Pakkun! Don''t, make a mistake in recognition." "Its fine Pakkun!" Kakashi mediated "Don''t pay her attention. I need a favour." "Yes, tell me " "I found a few traces of humans, or more precisely ninja or bandit like people here. scout around and check whether you can find any." "Fine, Leave it up to me." "Hold on Pakkun San" Jun interrupted. He moved towards Pakkun and applied a Flying Thunder God seal on him. "This seal will help you travel to us in an instant. In case you get in trouble please do so." "Hmph, lad. I was going on missions long before you were even conceived. Don''t teach me how to take care of myself. However, the seal may come useful sometime who knows. Well I will leave now." Saying as much Pakkun took off in a burst of speed. ------------------------------- Some time passed since Pakkun started his tracking. He found the traces Kakashi saw immediately and followed them a while. But halfway through he got a sense as if something was wrong and that someone was deliberately trying to misguide a tracker with obvious tracks. Pakkun got on guard and started searching more carefully. With a bit of effort, he was able to get a second set of hidden tracks. This one seemed to be the true one that the people who laid the trap for trackers couldn''t completely erase. Pakkun followed the newly discovered tracks carefully and finally discovered a bunch of people sitting around a campfire. "Hmm, they seem very capable. If any other tracker was there, they could have fooled them very easily " Pakkun watched them for a while before slowly creeping back towards the way he came from. Once far away from the camp, he bolted back towards where Kakashi and others were. ----------------------------------------------- Once Pakkun was far away, one of the bandits let out a sigh and spoke out softly "Is that all? Just a tracking dog?" "Hmmm, it seems they caught onto the trail we left by chance and wanted to explore..." a girl emerged from beneath a hooded jacket "Old Man Hastar, did you see something?" An old guy who was looking like he was plastered in alcohol until now and had his eyes closed, suddenly opened them now. His eyes were glowing eerily red with a soft light spilling out in front of his face. "I managed to deceive any kind of investigation technique" The Old man said, "With the help of me Mirungan, all that dog should have seen would be a few bandits around a camp fire." "That pair of eyes are pretty damn useful old man " the girl replied back "Ah, the true use of eyes is not just this young lady" The old man said with a chuckle "I have been saving the true power of these eyes as I can''t use it often in this old age. I am waiting for a true opponent from one of the great nations. The more havoc I cause for the great nations, more satisfied will me deceased family be." "Old Man, is it true that your village was destroyed in the conflict between the Great Nation during the after math of the last great war?" Another guy with young face but long white hair called out "Yes, they suddenly came while attacking my village while I had gone out hunting in the forest. When I came back, all I found was a ruin of a village with streets washed in blood. The devils didn''t even let the bodies of the innocent villagers behind as the decimated everything. I swear on my children and grandchildren that died, No one from the great nations will survive if they come in front of me." "Calm down old thing" a guy with a slim face and prominent jaw line called out "Don''t forget that you work for us now. Don''t go on and do something that will put us in jeopardy." "Don''t worry" The old man said, "Even if I go berserk in a fight, I will protect your lives." "Why are you all worried so much about it" A kid called out from their midst "No matter what rats crawl out of their holes, I and my Garian Sword will send them scurrying back. So, need to worry at all " The kid said while puffing his chest out. The rest five people let out chuckles in response and the fire in front of them burnt merrily. -------------------------------------------- Meanwhile in Tanzaku town, A beautiful blonde bombshell of a lady walked out from a restaurant while being completely Drunk. Another beautiful black lady scurried behind her trying to placate her to get back to Inn. "Hime-sama, won''t you please reconsider? Come on let''s go back please! I have heard there are a few dangerous people roaming around the forest nowadays. It''s not good for us two Ladies who are pleasing to the eyes to go out like this. Especially you Hime-sama!" "Hey, you know I lost total 3 million in cards back there" The Blond Beauty giggled drunkenly "I am going to get something good happen to me. I am definitely going to go adventuring and see what comes up!" Saying so the two ladies also went towards the forest. It won''t be long till they are witness to a huge fight between a group of supposed bandits and the exploration party of Jun. 70 BSNW CH 066 Retreat!! Pakkun rushed back to the group hurriedly to tell about the bandit group he had seen. But he also took care to take a roundabout route while covering his tracks to prevent being reverse tracked by anyone. He also took the time to do some additional scouting to see if he had missed anything. When he reached the team, first to reach him was Kakashi who quickly checked for any anomalies before relaxing. Soon the rest joined them too. "What did you find Pakkun?" Kakashi inquired in a whisper "Nothing much, Just a group of intelligent bandits. I would place them at a Chunin level at max. Still take care as you go since you too are at an undercover mission of sorts and can''t exactly reveal yourselves." "We will take care of that Pakkun. You go and rest, you have done enough." Saying so Kakashi released the Jutsu, sending Pakkun back. ----------------------------------------------- After Pakkun was sent back, the team decided to continue from the roundabout way Pakkun had taken to avoid the bandit''s attention.Travelling quickly and silently, they soon reached the outskirts of the forest near the Tanzaku Town. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Jun and Itachi went to scout as Kakashi kept an eye out along with the two girls. "So, what do you think? Will we be running into bandits or not?" Itachi asked Jun as he activated Sharingan to see better and find traces of Chakra that might be left. "Just between us, I don''t believe Pakkun''s report." Jun said while talking softly and releasing his Seitengan to test out its new perception increase powers. As they were discussing, Jun''s Seitengan picked something up. It seemed as if the trees somewhere in the distance were distorting a bit. He looked towards Itachi to see if he noticed anything, but he looked normal. Before he could warn him, he saw the extremely well formed Genjutsu break down because of his bloodline and a figure rush towards them. The man rushing towards them had his arms spread wide and low as he ran half crouched. "Negation release: Power Lock!!" The man growled with his eyes glowing bright red, as if red laser was spilling out of his eyes. Suddenly Both Jun and Itachi felt a weird sensation in their eyes. Itachi''s spinning irises of his Sharingan froze, dispelling its ability of Genjutsu and Enhanced Perception. Jun''s Enhanced Perception was dimmed down too; however, he could still access his rune summoning technique of his eyes. He wondered if they were different from a Dojutsu ability. "He is somehow interfering with Dojutsus!!" Jun shouted to warn Itachi and Kakashi as he went on to engage the man. ''Spatial Flicker Light Steps!'' He willed the third rune in his eye light up as he became a ghost, flickering in and out of vision. Before the man could understand, Jun had already crashed into the man''s stomach, with his shoulder ploughing into it like a speeding truck. The man was thrown back while spouting a groan and a mouthful of blood. "Fire style: Grand Fireball!!!" Itachi sent an enormous ball of fire after the guy. "Wind-Water Combination: Storm Blast" As the man tried to block the fireball with a strong water-wind combination jutsu, Jun appeared behind him with his Spatial Flicker Steps activated. ''Nature Style: Demonic Poison Technique'' Jun placed a finger at a pressure point on the man''s neck and activated the 2nd rune in his eye. The man suddenly stiffened as ghastly black lines started spreading from the pressure point in his neck that Jun had struck with the Demonic Poison Technique. "Kakashi Sensei! Now!" Itachi shouted as he distracted the attacker with a bunch of shurikens. "Raikiri!!" Kakashi uncovered his Sharingan as a huge amount of lightning chakra gathered in his right hand. Kakashi gripped his right forearm with his left as the lightning chakra covered the hand and let out huge amount of chirping like noise. Kakashi ran towards the attacker who was dealing with Itachi''s shurikens. Flashing from the side, Kakashi jabbed Raikiri at the man. "Ahh" The man somehow managed to dodge to the side but his left arm got shredded by Raikiri. However, before Jun, Itachi and Kakashi could take further action, huge mirrors surrounded the injured man on all sides. No matter what attack they sent on it, the mirrors were constant, without a single scratch. "Plant Style: Trap of Despair!!" Jun made a quick seal before executing the jutsu. Huge amounts of plants and vines burst from the ground, surrounding the mirrors. Each moment, the vines and plants branched out more and more, thoroughly surrounding the dome of mirrors within seconds. "Kakashi sensei, it''s your call now. I have a feeling that man is not alone in there right now. Since my sensing abilities are being inhibited by those mirrors, I can''t say for sure, but I have a feeling that man has at least two-three people supporting him now. And if each one of them is as powerful as the one who cast this weird jutsu mirrors, then we will be in serious trouble." "It''s too late for that my friends" A voice called out from beyond the mirrors "You gave a ''present'' to one of our own. Allow us to give a return gift." The mirrors shattered and shredded the plants surrounding it, revealing seven people, which included the injured old man who attacked them. The rest of the six had a kind of plain white mask on their faces. The one standing in the front was the only who had a white mask lined with green-gold colored edges. Wind was acting strangely around him, making his lustrous brown hair blow around gently. Jun''s instincts screamed like crazy, he got the sense as if gods of death were looking at him. The only one he felt he could combat was a lean guy at the back, who was treating the old man in the group. Just as Jun was watching him, the guy looked back at Jun. His piercing blue eyes seemed as if they found a rival pair and a lock of his deep black hair fell forward onto his white mask. "Jun!!" Yakumo suddenly appeared behind him. Her Chakra Ghost technique had hidden her and Chino, till now "The one in the front, he is not normal at all. We will all die if he wants so." Chill ran down Jun''s back as he found his own fears being admitted as true by someone else. Kakashi came to the front "Don''t worry, I am the team leader. Even if I must sacrifice myself for it, I will ensure the safety of you guys so that you have a chance of completing the mission. But for now try to retreat, that is the priority." 71 BSNW CH 067 Flock Divided!! "Not fast! Fujin Release: Wind God''s Wrath!!" The brown-haired leader''s hand blurred as he made a series of hand signs and before anyone could react and a huge black colored hurricane formed around them, enclosing them in the ''Eye of the Hurricane''. "Onee-Chan!!" Chino screamed as she released a stream of red colored water from a gourd on her waist. This was a special gourd commissioned by Jun for her. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. It had increased spatially enlarged space and could hold a few gallons of this liquid despite its small size and even mitigated the effect of gravity on the gourd so that she didn''t feel the weight of carrying so much heavy mineral laced water. This was needed by her to use one of the specialities of her bloodline. "Blood Dragon Barrier!!!" A huge dragon made of dense red water coiled around Chino and Yakumo, saving them from stray wind blades from the hurricane. Despite simply being stray wind blades, they left deep gashes on the blood dragon which Chino had to work hard to resolve quickly. Itachi ran towards the leader with his kodachi drawn, his Sharingan spinning quickly as he used them to max to enhance his perception. He coated the blade with chakra, increasing its sharpness and durability. As he struck out, a long pitch-black katana suddenly appeared clashing against his kodachi. Itachi was surprised as even he with his Sharingan active could barely see the katana appear as it clashed against the kodachi. He looked to the side and saw a pair of huge breasts barely held back by a tight fishnet undershirt and a thin jacket with embroidered flowers. Looking up he saw the owner, a black-haired beauty with her hair tied up in a messy bun with few locks of hair framing her heart-shaped face, one lock naughtily running down the side of her face before ending up touching her lusciously plump red lips. As Itachi was looking at her, stunned speechless, he noticed that she had been holding back his kodachi strike lazy with a single hand. Her big doe-like dark grey beautiful eyes looked bored as she effortlessly pushed back his kodachi and Itachi himself, almost sending him flying. "Oda, you once again forgot to keep your mask on your face while you move like that!" a slim beauty with medium sized bright red hair and a white mask on her face appeared next to then black-haired bombshell silently. However, Itachi was socked to notice eyes with a red-disc like pupil having three tomoe each, staring out from behind the mask at him. Just as he was about to say something, the eyes behind the mask changed. Weird black star like symbols appeared on the red-disc like pupils. As the pupil started spinning again, Itachi found seven black-purple stars appear in various parts of his body. "Akuma no ude no naka ni!" the slim girl said in low voice as purplish-black chakra arms erupted out from the stars on Itachi before completely wrapping around him. Itachi felt his Sharingan dimming swiftly before deactivating. He grew more tired by the second as his chakra was drained by those arms. "No!! Let him go !!!" Kakashi finally lost it. Seeing Rin''s illusion on their previous journey for the mirror had made old wounds reappear, now he saw Itachi being taken down just like obito was. He could no longer hold back. "Raikiri: Rage of the Bird Emperor!!" Kakashi let all inhibitions go as his lighting chakra almost became wild. A huge cloud worth of lightning gathered around his entire right arm, the bird like chirping almost deafening. His Sharingan spun wildly as a trail of blood ran down his eye and his ears. Kakashi flashed in front of the Uchiha girl in mask and the black-haired katana wielding girl. "This gets over now!!" His thrust of lightning covered hand was nearly equal to teleportation. However, that is all it was, just nearly as instantaneous as teleportation. "Mangekyo: Hen''I!" Kakashi suddenly found himself facing the ground a few tens of meters away from the masked Uchiha girl which his hand striking the Raikiri into the ground. The entirety of lightning chakra was discharged into the ground as huge cracks appeared due to the destructiveness of this Raikiri. Kakashi winced slight behind his mask as he noticed the fractured bones of his fingers and arms and his lacerated skin, still smoking along with flashes of spark. But before he could try another attack, a small metallic dart stuck the side of his neck, rendering him unconscious within second. "No!!!" Jun screamed with tears in his eyes as he saw both Itachi and Kakashi being taken down, all within the span of a minute. "Onii!! Watch out!" Chino shouted to warn him as a huge figure appeared behind Jun who was distracted. ''Huh ¡­. ?!'' Before Jun could react, an unintelligible voice sounded in his ear and he became frozen in a huge block of ice. Chino and Yakumo watched in horror as Jun were frozen solid and within seconds, they could not see him in the ice as it was extremely frozen. "Chino, listen to me!" Yakumo suddenly crouched in front of her before holding her by the shoulders "We need to split up now. I will try to save the other three. You have to run back to the nearest safehouse of ours and send reinforcement message to the village telling all that happened here alright Go!!!" Yakumo gave a small push to Chino who rans as fast as she could with a red colored barrier made of liquid around her to protect her and a stream of tears running down her eyes. The leader of the masked people watched amusedly as he had full confidence in his technique that enclosed them. However, he suddenly saw his surroundings change to an extremely unfamiliar barren landscape with blood red sky and dusty clouds. Not just him, all his team members felt the were transported to this world. However, before they wondered further, the injured old man spoke up, "This is an extremely realistic and powerful Genjutsu with self-sustaining capabilities. Its absorbing left over chakra of atmosphere after your technique got deactivated because of being trapped in this Genjutsu. That chakra will be used to power the Genjutsu further. Extremely clear trap, and exceptional since this is not the work of a Dojutsu, else I would have countered it." "No problem old man." The huge muscular man with long mane like black hair interrupted "all I need to break this is do this, Combination Technique: Limitless Stacking!!" Huge amounts of Chakra emerged from the man, settling down over each member of group before forming multiple layers of chakra barrier. "Chakra Suppression! Chakra Propulsion!" The man quickly made hand-seals and the layers of barrier started spinning quickly before breaking off into shards of glass, somehow ending the powerful Genjutsu Yakumo cast, along with themselves. The brown-haired leader looked around and saw that apart from the small loli girl who controlled the weird red liquid, the Genjutsu girl and the kid frozen in ice were gone too. "Hmm, two birds evaded the hunters. But what about the two birds we caught?" he said looking at unconscious Kakashi and the semi fainted Itachi "Now what should I do with them?" 72 BSNW CH 068 Divine Ice Crystal Village A few miles away from where the fight took place , was a half hidden vine covered cave. The cave looked no more special than the other hundreds of them around the landscape of the forest. But that was only at the surface. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Inside was a small secret base, well hidden to the normal eyes and only possible to be accessed while knowing a specific Jutsu formula, unique for every such hideout. In this particular hideout, Jun , Chino and Yakumo were gathering their strength while resting. Jun especially had the grimmest face he had ever put on since reincarnating to this world. All these years he had matched up toall kinds of strong individuals, heck he had faced the nine tails himself and survived. But this was the first true loss he suffered. In that group most were young, not some old monsters who had been training for decades. Yet even with all his cheats, the best he could do was run with two of his companions while abandoning other two. Feeling disgusted with his powerlessness, what made the situation worse was when he realized that the one they faced were all not fighting to their full potential, except that old man who got injured just because he was cocky. The sheer variety of talents in that group surprised him. A super powerful Kenjutsu user who defeated Itachi with a casual strike, an old man with a Dojutsu to suppress all Dojutsu, a guy who could break open Yakumo''s strongest Genjutsu within a minute, a guy who could display the most powerful wind release which Jun never even saw in ancient warring times history books and most surprising of all a renegade Uchiha who had also awakened Mangekyo. Even after all this, they still had two whose power he had no idea about, the serious looking girl who scolded the Uchiha and the young boy hidden at the back who healed the old man. For some reason Jun kept feeling an affinity to that boy somehow, as if they were same yet different, like two sides of a coin. Yakumo and Chino were resting, and seeing that Jun didn''t have the heart to disturb them anymore. Deciding to do the necessary himself, he made them fall into deep sleep with a simple sleep inducing Jutsu and summoned a True Body Shadow Clone to keep watch over them. Leaving the cave, he completely covered the entire place with his Shokuton Release and used them in combination with his Advanced Fuinjutsu to create a barrier that even a True Uzumaki would need some time to break through. He Flying Thunder God to go back to the place of battle, finding it empty as usual. Unluckily he didn''t have a tracking familiar like Kakashi, but if he just wanted to find them, he had other ways. He had two ways currently, one of which would be easier if the luck smiled upon him, while the other would be a tougher method which was basically brute forcing through in a way. He decided to try the first method since he could always try the second one if he failed. Being around his Flying Thunder God multiple times, Kakashi and Itachi were sure to have some traces of the special chakra on them. He would try to sense them and lock onto them. Was a risky way of using Flying Thunder God and he could get injured heavily, but it was the fastest and the easiest method in his arsenal. Sitting cross legged on the ground, he sank into deep meditation, sensing the energies of the land and sky and all the residues of their fight. For the first time, he was using his sage method of sensing like Naruto often did after becoming a sage. It was a bit overwhelming, all the thousands of kinds of energy traces bombarding his senses at once. He could now guess why Naruto was so dumb in general life yet so amazing while using multi-shadow clone and using sage powers. One might go crazy with this amount of feedback. Naruto''s simple thought process might be the one working in advantage to him and helping him strengthen his mind in bearing all this. Finally after a few dozen minutes, he was able to isolate the traces of his Flying Thunder God Chakra. He followed it with his sensing abilities up to a mountain range hidden within dense fog. His sensory abilities weren''table to penetrate the fog, but at least he knew where to go now. He reached the foggy mountain range with a few jumps of the Flying Thunder God, a suicidal aura emanating from him. He swore to himself that if they had hurt Kakashi and Itachi in anyway then he would wreck havoc upon this land even at the cost of his life. Since he could no longer sense inside the fog with just his sage method, he decided to boost it a bit, which was also his second method he had planed to use to find Kakashi and Itachi. ''If I survive this, I am going to have a killer headache tomorrow'' Jun thought as he activated the special method with a few hand signs. "Sensory Combo - Sensing Hexagram Seal Reinforcement! Yin Release: Will Materialization!" Formless ripples surged around him as he unleashed his special combo he had been saving up for emergency. Using them in addition to his Sage Sensing allowed him to peer through the sensory obstruction fog. Around half a mile in, the fog disappeared and Jun teleported in with ease. The sight before his eyes flabbergasted him for a moment. Tall buildings and structures made of compressed ice which made them so opaque they looked like purplish black crystals. They shone in the meager sunlight that filtered in, making them seem like glowing precious gems. This was an entire city here, albeit smaller than Konoha by a lot, yet the structures were so advanced. And this was only the outer part. Looking further, jun noticed that there also seemed to be an inner part to the city but was hidden with a huge wall made of the same compressed ice like the rest of the buildings which hid the inner part of the city. Though it seemed like a city, there was not much noise here. Though the barest of murmur could be heard in the wind, he could see no one around. He could faintly sense a lot of life force from the other side of the wall which made him think there might be many people there and the buildings on the outside here must be for the guards and for those who might visit here. Thinking so he took the first step into the city, wanting to find the traces of Kakashi and Itachi. The next moment however he came to a stop. Rightly so too since a Katana was pressed against his throat and would have lopped his head off if he took another step. Looking out of the corner of his eyes, he saw two big creamy mounds being restrained by a black fishnet and barely covered with a thin jacket with embroidered flowers. Looking upwards he recognized black-haired beauty with heart-shaped face, having a slight smirk on her plump red lips. She was the Kenjutsu master who sent Itachi flying effortlessly. "Oda, you know the rules. No killing until he fails the test. You intimidate him enough and now let me talk." Jun heard a voice lightly scolding the Katana wielding girl and he recognized it as the voice of the brown haired man who acted as the leader of the group. The girl called Oda sheathed her katana without a word and stepped back. Turning around Jun saw the whole group of seven looking at him with varying expression. Chief among which he recognized the old man with furious disdain and the young brown haired leader with an amicable smile looking at him with interest. "Hello traveller, My name is Rikuo Kaneko and the place you are currently in is called the Divine Ice Crystal Village, previously known as Snow Covered Crystal Ravine." Hearing this, Jun''s eyes went wide open. He just realized that he would have ended up in his place one way or another, but the way he had taken to come here might possibly be the worst way and he might have also destroyed all chances to get the Third mirror and of saving his master. 73 BSNW CH 069 Seven Stars of Destruction "Don''t panic, you are safe for now. Our previous situation is void, isn''t it so Old Man Hastar?" Rikuo said turning to the old man who was glaring at Jun. The Old guy glared at Rikuo for a moment before turning his head away with a snort. "Don''t worry about him. He is just grumpy since he lost for the first time in a while to outsiders. Anyway back to the point, You are an outsider traveller. If you want to stay here, then you will have to pass the test. Oh and don''t worry about your other two companions. I felt them worthy of passing the test since they contributed a lot in the fight previously, so they are safe and resting. In fact out of all five of you, I can pass everyone except you based on their contribution. They all contributed their utmost based on their capabilities. You on the other hand held back due to you pride and got them injured. I can clearly see the power you hold inside you, It burns like the sun. You let out only a fraction of it before. So, if you want to stay alive, you better give your all in the test. Else I promise you on my name as Prince of the Wind, I will destroy you." Jun felt true danger at the end of the guy''s speech as Rikuo''s eyes started shining with a chilly light. Jun could feel a suffocating pressure materialize around him and he felt as if the very very space around him was trembling and being suppressed. Jun readied himself as they brought him to a huge field surrounded by Ice Crystal Flowers which didn''t release any hints of cold outside but held incredible amounts of it hidden in those ice crystal flowers. Rikuo stood calmly in front of him and watched him psyche himself up. Jun took a few moments and readied himself, before getting into a loose stance, ready to react to anything. "Ready then I suppose?" Rikuo asked a rhetorical, "Here we go then. Baby steps first : Air burst!" Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. Jun felt as if the very air in front of him exploded, flinging him back like a rag doll. If that was not enough, it was just a starting move, as he was attacked by the air explosions again and again as he was blasted around like a shuttle cock on a badminton match. Wanting to retaliate, he first needed to stop this abuse of him "Chakra Repulsion Shock-wave!!" he responded in kind to Rikuo, countering his air explosions instantaneously with use of Seitengan to give him maximum advantage. He finally escaped the continuous series of chain blasts that controlled the rhythm of the battle, although he had to suffer somewhat to do that. What infuriated him the most was that Rikuo didn''t move even half a step during all this. His Jutsu execution was as fast and perfect as himself even though Jun had the advantage of Seitengan. This time Jun decided to take the lead and attacked first, "Chakra Transformation Ninja Arts: Yasaka Magatama! Gentle Fist Infusion!" Suddenly Six Huge Yasaka Magatamas formed around Jun and started revolving around him in a high speed. They also grew more translucent in the next moment as they were infused with Gentle Fist Chakra. Jun sped up towards Rikuo to engage him in the attack. Rikuo smiled and as if without a care in the world softly said, "Wind Blade Barrage!" Jun was forced to stop that very moment as a whirlwind made out of wind blades formed around him. The Yasaka Magatama formation he had made to attack were instead now used to desperately defend. In fact he had to summon a second formation of it to let off a bit of the pressure from the Wind Blade Barrage. "Giant Spiraling Destructive Disc!" Jun held out his hands in front of him and formed a giant black ball with purplish swirling lines and having flat bladed rings of black light spinning around it. Glaring at Rikuo, the attack was launched from Jun''s hands like a canon, even slightly hurting Jun''s palms with the power it was compressing to the extreme. It destroyed the Wind Blade Barrage as if it was a bunch of swirling leaves and blasted towards Rikuo. For the first time a slight frown marred Rikuo''s eyebrows as he raised his hand. Chakra concentrated on his hand before he muttered softly, "Nadeshiko-Style Hardliner Gale Fist". Wind was sucked towards his hand that he clenched in a fist so fast that everyone had trouble standing still. Wind was compressed into a protective coating like layer on his fist that he punched the speeding black ball with. Everything was in standstill for a moment, but then Jun''s Giant Spiraling Destructive Disc crumbled into chakra particles without having a chance to show its true might. Everyone on Rikuo''s team had smile of relief, which got transformed into a gasp of shock as they saw Jun appear at the spot where the Giant Spiraling Destructive Disc was destroyed with his palm outstretched. "Chakra Transformation : Fierce Bladed Claw Dragon Palm ! Yang Reinforcement Infusion!" a huge glowing dragon made of compressed chakra burst out from Jun''s palm, crashing into Rikuo and pushing him a few tens of meters back before exploding and sending everything into a dust storm. All of those who were with Rikuo were surprised, they never knew Jun was capable of such attack. They knew exactly how strong Rikuo was, and they also remembered what he had said in the beginning. They realized it was true, Jun could have defeated a few of them back then if he had gone all out, which might have changed the outcome of their little spar. Suddenly the dust clouds were scattered due to appearance of intense wind around them. Everyone glanced up and found Rikuo clad in a pale greenish-blue energy cloak, with his hair swaying intensely in the wind. "Bravo little one! You did great, I am not disappointed at all. Now if you can receive this last attack of mine then I will consider you having passed this test with flying colors." "Rikuo has got serious enough to reveal his Wind Sage Mode? That is new, don''t even remember the last time that took place." a girl of Rikuo''s group with long messy brown hair exclaimed. "It always makes me so excited to have a chance to have a chance to see his Wind Sage Powers up close with my eyes" the slim dark blue haired girl exclaimed as her eyes transformed into a pair of Sharingan, "Its so beautiful to watch." "We better keep it down Nozomi, else they might get disturbed." The brown haired girl said, "I don''t want to get chewed off by Rikuo." "Haha, last time he scolded you was fun to watch Kashikoi!" Nozomi exclaimed with a smirk as they both toned it down and watched the confrontation. "This is one of my strongest attacks so be careful" Rikuo told Jun "Wind Sage Arts : Divine Wind Great Breakthrough!!" The moment Jun sensed the intensity and power of the attacked he paled as he realized that none of his elemental manipulation attacks would be useful while confronting a Peak Level Sage Art. His other Jutsus were good for versatility and wide ranging destruction, but compared to this force of nature raging towards him they fell short in power. Just as he thought all was lost, his features calmed down. To battle a Sage Style, you needed a Sage Style. He gave up his hesitation, his doubts and his fear, and with his complete concentration he first reinforced his body as much as he could with Yang Reinforcement, before he revealed his Sage Arts to the world after a long time. "Sage Arts : Shokuton (Plant Release) - Nature''s Tenacity!" A flood of dense chakra burst out of Jun and into the ground. To those who watched it was like a dam had burst open. In the next moment, before Rikuo''s attack could reach Jun, a literal forest of dense foliage of all kinds of plants surrounded Jun on all sides, getting denser with each moment. Before the enormous blast of deadly wind touched him, Jun was bounded up with innumerable layers of foliage that completely protected him and anchored him to the ground. The moment the wind blast struck him, it was like a literal calamity. Uncontrollable wind blast screamed and shredded the plants they encountered, intent on shredding Jun to pieces too. However, for every layer they destroyed, a dozen more instantly popped up. Although this power was completely focused on defense, yet it was terrifying to see the rate at which this literal forest of plant grew despite the suppression of the opposing force. The standoff kept on going for a few minutes before the wind started to abate. However, the plant showed no signs of stopping as they kept growing like a greedy calamity wanting to devour the world. Everyone had blank stares of shock as they sensed the amount of vitality hidden in this forest. Just how much chakra had Jun poured into this Jutsu and how the hell did he have as much in the first place. Rikuo appeared before them as the wind completely stopped, however the plants didn''t stop growing as they expanded extremely quickly around them. Giant thick twisted vines lashed out from the forest towards Rikuo at unbelievable speeds, the wind whistling shrilly at the power. Rikuo powered up his sage mode even more as he dodged and wove in between the attacks. "Quintessence of the Howling Tempest!!" Winds around him became howling tornadoes and clashed against the living forest. It was like watching a calamity happening in front of them as everyone watched in stunned silence. Winds shredded more and more of the forest as if trying the raze them to ground. Tenacious Forest braved the destruction as it grew more vigorous the more it was destroyed and the barrage powerful giant twisted vines struck with enough force to blast the very winds apart and crack the ground. It went on and on for a long time without stopping. Both of them threw a wide variety of attacks at each other, but no one could decide a definite winner. Wind blade, Giant vines, Vacuum blades, Leaf blades, raging wind blasts, huge thorn spikes all flew around in a giant confusing mess. It was a long time before this messy bout of destruction abated. Jun lay on the ground in the midst of writhing plants, completely drained of chakra. Rikuo stood shakily a few tens of meters away from him, although physically he felt better than Jun, mentally he was completely drained from having to utilize his Sage Mode for such a long time. His sage mode was special and took a huge amount of concentration, unlike Jun who had a Nature refined body as if made to host Sage Chakra. -x-x-x-x- It took about an hour for Jun to recover enough chakra to calm down his fatigued body. As he stood up, he found Rikuo Sitting on the ground a little distance away, meditating. Rest of his team was also around them in various distance away, all using various things to entertain themselves and pass their time while waiting. Rikuo opened his eyes as he sensed Jun standing up and he himself stood up and walked towards him. Walking up to Jun, he patted his shoulder with a smile "Congratulations little one. You have passed the test with flying colors. Its always good to spar with a fellow Sage. Come on, I will introduce you to the rest." He dragged the slightly overwhelmed Jun to the rest of his group and introduced them. The mysterious Uchiha girl was Nozomi Uchiha. The brown haired girl next to her was Kashikoi Monodukuri. The well built man behind them with wild long hair and standing stoically was Saibo Kazahana. The fishnet wearing Katana wielding busty beauty who had threatened Jun earlier was Oichi Oda. The Young black haired blue eyed boy in the back who had been staring at Jun earlier when he came was Ikari Jihino. "That old man you guys fought and argued with earlier was old man Hastar. He is a bit touched in the head and doesn''t like anyone from the five great nations. In fact he and Nozomi didn''t get along for a very long time. And as you already know, I am Rikuo Kaneko. Together we are known as Seven Stars of Destruction and we are the protectors of the Divine Ice Crystal Village." 74 BSNW CH 070 - Secret of the Divine Ice Crystal Village "Seven stars of destruction? Did you not want to make it any more fancy of a name ?" Jun asked sarcastically. "Well seeing names like the White Fang, The Strongest Spear, The Sannin, The Copy Ninja, The Demon etc, I think we have still kept it a bit modest don''t you think ?" Rikuo laughed good naturedly. Rest of the Seven stars didn''t react much, except the boy Ikari who seemed a bit annoyed at Jun for being disrespectful. Jun noticed his irritation but didn''t pay it much importance. The boy left right after that, not waiting for Rikuo or Jun. The brown haired girl Kashikoi left right behind him, acting like a big sister to calm him down. Rikuo didn''t make an issue of it and let the boy do as he pleased. On Seeing Jun''s raised eyebrow he had to explain it with a sigh. "You have to excuse Ikari for his temper and rough behaviour. He respects the rest of us very much, except Old Man Hastar. He actually grew up with bandits, and incidentally was highly respected their because of his genius level talent and capabilities. He had invented a crude healing Jutsu all by himself while being in the bandit group. Plus his high grasp of taijutsus and body training talent had made him the strongest of them despite no formal training. It was only after meeting us that he realized where he was wrong and tried to reform himself. Kashikoi took him under wing and taught him almost everything he knows, like an elder sister would. Anyway , because of all that he might be feeling miffed out at the fact that you made fun of those he respects." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.comfor visiting. "I am sorry for hurting his feelings, but come on, I still feel the name is a bit corny." Jun protested while apologizing "Well, it may sound weird to you, but I feel it is extremely descriptive of us. Each one of us should be enough to bring about a wide amount of destruction. Especially Nozomi, Kashikoi, Saibo and me, we can probably give a hidden village run for its money by just ourselves alone." "Are you serious?" Jun couldn''t believe that as he knew of exactly what the powerhouses of Konoha were capable of. With his knowledge of this world he knew of many such powerhouses of past, present and future and he had a difficult time believing the Seven Stars could do what Rikuo claimed. The only one of Seven stars he could believe could bring that much destruction and that was Rikuo himself, and that too barely. After all, that guy had defeated Jun while still holding back, even though Jun went all out. "Oh ya definitely. Take Nozomi for example, what can you deduce from what she has shown so far ?" "Well, I know she is an Uchiha from our fight. Pretty well trained in various fighting styles, helped enormously by her Sharingan no doubt. Other than that nothing much, since our fight was very brief." "Well, for starters, we two are not the only sages here. That should give you a hint." "She is a sage too ?" "Oh yes, and quite a rare one too. The tribe she contracted with was thought to be already extinct. She contracted The Star Shadow Dragon Clan, they taught her the way to become Star Sage. Also they are one of the clans that have unique method of harnessing a different kind of energy than Nature energy for using Sage Mode. In her case it was Star Energy, which is toxic for us if not using the Enigmatic Star Method of The Star Shadow Dragon Clan. Other than that , she is the only one I have seen who has more than two composite element affinity. Although now I guess the list has increased to two, since I can sense at least three from you." "Ya, you already know Plant-style, but I am also proficient with Space and Yin-Yang style which is also known as Creation-style. Her Sharingan seems special too, its evolved isn''t it ?" "Yes, its Eternal Mangekyo, Don''t ask her about it though. Its a tragic event , every Eternal Mangekyo is. Other than that, she is proficient in hundreds of Jutsus in all type of domains like seal type, attack, support etc." "Wow, I am kind of speechless, she seems kind of ditzy and cheerful on the outside. Who knew she will be a hidden master." "Anyway, we should get going" Rikuo said while walking along side Jun "You need to meet our leader, she is the one who approved your teammates to be here in this village. She also said you have something in you she needs to examine before making a decision. Lets go, we should not keep her waiting , trust me on that." -x-x-x-x- Rikuo took Jun to the extreme northern edge of the Divine Ice Crystal Village. This area was completely desolate, polar opposite of the main area of Divine Ice Crystal Village which was beautiful and vibrant. All that existed in this area was huge ice crystal mountains, especially the central one which was tens of times bigger than the average and completely covered in piled up and hardened snow. Rikuo didn''t speak a single word since the moment they came to the vicinity of the mountains. Instead his contained a respectful glance, constantly looking at the central gigantic mountain. At the foot of the mountain nearest to the village, he kneeled on one knee with his head bowed, as if greeting an emperor. Jun was surprised, but eventually followed Rikuo''s example. Although he didn''t know what was going on, he still trusted Rikuo enough to know that his actions must be driven by some logical reason. Rikuo smiled on seeing Jun copy him, he was glad that they could establish a relationship of mutual respect at the very least. Suddenly he opened his mouth and started telling a story in a sombre low voice. "There was once a world where Beasts reigned supreme. Rather, it should be said that all kinds of unnatural beings superior to humans lived in that world and humans were just a tiny existence that only survived extinction because of their immense determination to adapt and their unparalleled ability to reproduce quickly and survive. Humans in that world had to fight tooth and nail every day of their lives to survive and thus they couldn''t stay together in huge communities as they had to constantly keep migrating to survive." After taking a moment of pause, Rikuo continued "However all that changed one day when a powerful being descended from heavens, bearing a seed of a tree of unimaginable power. That being nurtured the seed into a mighty tree and the fruit it bore contained a power so unimaginable that it made the entire world tremble. Feeling the power of the fruit, the supernatural beings of the world all gathered to acquire it. After a brief war, most of the supernatural beings were defeated, leaving the powerful being that originally got the seed to the world, and five unimaginably powerful beasts. These five beasts were all masters of one of the primary element of the world each and boasted complete dominion over it." "The being which was the owner of the tree fought the five beasts in a free for all for a very long time, until the point where she felt she might be defeated. At that point it deceived the beasts and stole the fruit from the tree, consuming it immediately before the five beasts could stop her. The fruit gave her enormous power and a control over a certain new kind of energy which the being named ''Chakra'' and the being gave herself the title of ''Mother of Chakra''. After that the six of them continued the fight, but this time the beasts banded against her and used their elemental mastery to coordinate with each other and boost the power of the elements. After fighting like this for a long while, All six of them realized that they were in a stalemate. So to call a truce, The Mother of Chakra split off a portion of her powers and fashioned it into five Chakra Seeds and offered one to each beast. The best about this chakra seed was that it was basically an imitation of the Chakra Fruit and would be completely free of The Mother of Chakra''s Influence once the beast consumed them." "The truce was agreed and the five beasts went on their own way. To the west went the Great White Tiger Byakko, The Ruler of Lightning. With the application of Chakra he developed a unique nature transformation for himself , which he named ''Power'' or which could also be called ''Boost''. It would increase purely his physical abilities to an unimaginable level when used." "To the south went the Gigantic Bird of Fire Suzaku, The Ruler of Fire. With the application of Chakra he developed a unique nature transformation for himself , which he named ''Purification''. It would ''cleanse'' the target it is used on of all effects the user believes to be ''unclean'' when used" "To the east went the Enormous Dragon of the Heavens Seiryuu, The Ruler of Wind. With the application of Chakra he developed a unique nature transformation for himself , which he named ''Erosion''. It would ''break'' anything it targets, and if used with full effect could remove the world itself from existence." "To the north went the Humungous Snake-Tailed Turtle Genbu, The Ruler of Water. With the application of Chakra he developed a unique nature transformation for himself , which he named ''Protection''. It would ''isolate'' the target it is used on of whatever the user believes to be ''unsafe'' when used as long as provided with power." "The last one wanted to find the purpose of her life, so she chose the life of a loner and wanderer. She was the Ruler of Earth, the Calamity Beast, White Fox Sage Resshin. She was the First Sage Beast and also given the title of Mother of Sages respectfully by all the Sage Beasts. Unlike the other four, she didn''t immediately dwell on her new found power. Instead she studied the power for years, studying its nature and inclinations." "However, within a blink of an eye all went wrong in the world. For some reason the Mother of Chakra became obsessed with power and started hunting all the sentient beings of the world to form a living dead puppet army for herself. However, her own sons, who were born in the fragile peaceful period after the truce between her and the five divine beasts opposed her and joined forces with the five divine beasts." "It was after a huge chaotic fight that a ray of hope was delivered to the world. The eldest son Hagoromo and the White Fox Sage devised a method to seal his mother. White Fox Sage had finally created a unique nature transformation for herself like the other four beasts. In fact, she developed two instead of one like the others. One was ''Creation'' which she devised by combining Yin-Yang Manipulation together with Soul Energy. She taught this Nature Transformation to Hagoromo too. The other was one of the only mental type nature transformation to ever exist, ''Domination''." "She and Hagoromo developed the Sun-Moon Seal that combined the essence of ''Creation'' and ''Domination'' and bound it to the Bloodline of Hagoromo and his Brother Homura. This way the Seal would increase its effects exponentially if targeted at the one belonging to that bloodline, in this case it was their mother Kaguya. After a nearly world destroying battle, Kaguya was sealed and Hagoromo got the control of her ''Chakra Fruit''. However, he had other ideas compared to his mother about the Chakra Fruit." "Once again with the help of White Fox Sage, they combined the essence of ''Creation'' and ''Domination'' to develop the Chakra fruit into an enormous living Chakra being. Out of his respect for the White Fox Sage, Hagoromo added her aura into it, which transformed the chakra being into a Ten Tailed Chakra Beast. Hagoromo then borrowed traces of soul essence from nine different sage beast clans and divided the Ten Tailed Chakra Beast into nine parts, creating the Nine Tailed Beasts." "The Ninth Tailed Beast was formed out of a sliver of the soul of the White Fox Sage herself, making it the Strongest of the Nine. Given her contribution in the matter, Hagoromo and Homura respectfully gave the White Fox Sage the title ''Mother of All Tailed Beasts''." "However, the White Fox Sage discussed with the other four divine beasts and told Hagoromo to let the world forget about the five of them. They were too strong and the world needed time to grow after the destruction Kaguya wrought. Hagoromo hence prepared Five resting places for the Five Divine Beasts to rest until the world was ready for them again. Over the course of time, the Divine Beasts sometimes picked suitable hosts to share their power with if they felt they deserved it. But their existence was a highly kept secret, and usually only a Divine Beast knew about the activities of the other four." Jun listened to the tale completely spell-bound by the immensity of the truth that was applied by the said tale. Just as he was about to ask what this tale had to do with him, the gigantic ice mountain at the center of the mountain group started cracking and rumbling. Before their wide open eyes, the mountain crumbled slowly into a pile of ice shards. Once the dust and snow subsided, an enormous white fox was revealed, with a tail that looked as if made out of clouds and was tens of times larger than the fox''s entire body. The tail was wrapped around the fox like mist wreathing it, its huge eyes looking at Jun and Rikuo, twinkling in amusement. "Jun," Rikuo said solemnly as he bowed even more "Pay respects to the Mother of Tailed Beasts, the Mother of Sage Beasts, the Great Calamity Beast, and Guardian of Divine Ice Crystal Village - The White Fox Sage Resshin." 75 BSNW CH 071 Mother of Sage Beasts Talks Suddenly a voice echoed in his mind "You are a strange soul little one. You are stronger than you should be at this point. Why is that so? Also, you are marked by some very strong powers, forces even stronger than me. Even that brat Hagoromo cant claim that. So I can conclude that you are not from this world huh ?" Jun soon realized that this was the white fox sage. Having experience with Yakumo he affirmed the white fox sage with his mind. Resshin was pleasantly amused at this. "Oh? You adapted pretty quickly, didn''t you? Anyway, I see you have a mark of the newborn chakra beast? Smells like an unnatural one though, poor thing. It must have been created by someone that had no idea what they were doing. You need to merge with all parts of it soon. It''s not okay to leave it split like that. Fortunately, Hagoromo already informed me of this and Rikuo has collected two of its seals. You must have already been in contact with at least one of the other three." "I had contact with two actually, but I only bonded with one of the parts, I didn''t know I had to do that with the other one at the time. Hence I have only around 5% of the chakra/spirit beast in me." "Hmm," Resshin thought "In that case, each seal must be only containing around 5% of the beast as a way to power them. 5 seals mean you will first have to assimilate 25% of the beast through the five seals. Then you will have to assimilate with the rest at once when you are in complete control of this 25%." "I understand. But we don''t have much time, my master is stuck in the Evil Sealing Valley. Moreover, I heard that someone else is corrupting the main body of the spirit beast. I have to make it there with the other sealed parts before the master ends up hurt." "Your master wouldn''t have given you that time frame if he didn''t think himself of being capable enough for holding on until then. Going without full preparation might put him in more danger than going a bit later. Anyway, bottom line is that I think you still have some time. Let''s get you assimilated with the two seals we have." Resshin then flicked two of her tails a bit and two ornate mirrors decorated with seals appeared before Jun. He immediately recognized them as they were similar to the two sealing mirrors he had seen before. He sat in a lotus position and activated his Heavenly Breathing Technique. It helped him to swiftly go into a deep meditative state. He linked his chakra to the two mirrors and then used his chakra to form a pathway between his Chakravyuha seal and the mirrors and tugged with his chakra to pull the pieces of the Spirit Beast into himself. They resisted moving from the mirrors, but in his deep meditation state, Jun could literally feel no emotion or strain. He was like a machine, slowly but surely pulling the two pieces of the Spirit beast into himself. After an unknown amount of time, Jun felt something inside himself snap in place and he felt as if he was becoming whole. After a second a burst of clarity hit his mind-space, he realized that both of the pieces had been merged into Chakravyuha and the mirrors were empty. He also felt new information being transferred to him by the System. [Increase detected in Living Seal Chakravyuha - Evil Spirit Beast: 15%] [Mind Space increased to 30%] [Chakra Capacity increased greatly, Health increased slightly, Spirit grade increased to B] [Spirit beast synchronization unlocked Two Kekkei Tota in Host] [Ink Release Unlocked, Creature Release Unlocked] Jun comprehended the information about the two Kekkei Tota he had unlocked. Ink release manifested a type of ink made of pure chakra. This ink could be transformed into multiple different patterns with purely his mind power. He could also transform the ink into different colors, even make it transparent or purely reflective. The best use he could think of currently was a battle application of Fuinjutsu or pure camouflage properties. Creature release however was something terrifying. He could literally mold his body into the imitation of various creatures, increasing various properties or giving himself pseudo-Kekkei Genkai. For example, he could modify himself into a rabbit hybrid and give himself an pseudo swift release. Same with other creatures, taking their specialty and transforming it into a pseudo-Kekkei Genkai. However, the main terrifying property of this Kekkei Tota was the ability to produce changes in others. It could be used to permanently improve, degrade, seal, or even give new abilities to others as long as they don''t resist his chakra while he was making changes. Even if they resist he could enforce temporary changes depending on his willpower, chakra control, and mind power. Coming out from his deep meditation, Jun discussed all of this with Resshin. She expected the parts about the Spirit beast, Chakra, Health, and Mind Space. However, the parts about the two Kekkei Tota were unknown to her as well and came as a surprise. She had heard of Ink release before, it was an extremely rare Kekkei Tota found in the Uzumaki clan. It was extremely overpowered as the ink produced could not be removed by any normal means. Just like ninjas could use chakra to stick in various places or use chakra strings to create extremely sturdy links, this ink would be applicable on any solid, semi-solid, or liquid surface. Along with that, the property of being able to be controlled by mind power meant that an Uzumaki would be able to create havoc through Fuinjutsu at incredible speed and precision, all by their own ability. The ink would also boost the effects of the Fuinjutsu multiple folds. The only downside to Fuinjutsu known at present was its need to be created with specific material, and even then the material could be destroyed to counter the Fuinjutsu. Ink release bypassed all this to create a nearly perfect ability when combined with Fuinjutsu. The only limitation would be the chakra quantity and control, but that was laughable for an Uzumaki who was known by the nickname ''Tailed Beasts without Tails''. Creature Release completely blindsided her, no mention was ever found in history. If someone had ever unlocked it then they must have died before they could ever become someone famous or record their ability with some record. The creature was in no way inferior to Ink Release in her eyes. If Ink Release could be said to be for being unparalleled in battle, Creature Release was perfect to create an unbeatable army or clan. After all, who would be able to beat a clan who would have each member complemented with abilities that counter their weakness? The clan would literally be able to create perfect soldiers, unbeatable in all aspects other than by incredible strategy or overwhelming power. She discussed all this with Jun to make him realize to just what extent his powers will be coveted by others. Greed and Envy were two of the deadliest sins that plagued the Ninja Communities. If the Hidden Came to know of his abilities, then they could create a literal war for possessing him as an asset. If failing in that, that same war could be for destroying him, just as what happened with the Uzumaki Clan and Uzushiogakure. Jun carefully listened to all her advice, he would be a fool to ignore any word of a being that literally has lived through all of Ninja History. He also took this time to gain basic proficiency over his two new Kekkei Genkai. He could now apply multiple basic seals in an instant, through chakra fog or thread or direct touch. He also used this to try and create a new martial art style just for him. While experimenting with Creature Release, he found a hidden effect of this ability. Humans were also considered creatures, hence he could literally use this ability to correct anything he considered ''defect'' in them. For example, letting an insomniac be able to sleep, someone with defective body part be able to regain use of the said part or even at some extreme levels repair things like permanently broken or degraded chakra networks. This release also complemented Iryojutsu or healing abilities immensely. He used Creature Release to first and foremost remove the Insomnia effect from himself and was happy to see the perk disappear. He could still bypass the need to sleep by entering deep meditation, which would also help him in activating his bloodline faster. But that would be by choice, rather than an inability to sleep or rest in the normal way. This also improved his Gamer''s Body, removing the need to sleep in a bed to recover. Any form of rest would lead to rapid recovery in health and chakra for him now. The increase in mind power and perception brought by the Insomnia perk was negligible compared to what hosting the Spirit Beast had given him. Living Seal Chakravyuha was modifying him in real-time to be the perfect host to the Beast, hence leading to an increase in all properties related to Chakra, Mind-power, and Willpower. He also wanted to remove the Genjutsu limitation he had, since Gamer''s mind already gave him immense resistance to all Genjutsu based on how strong he was compared to the user. However since this would require him to manipulate effects to his chakra pathways and mind, he refrained from it. Till he would be able to say with surety that he had near perfect control over this ability, he would not be touching that forbidden area. Resshin also approved of his choices and decisions, mind and chakra pathways were incredibly sensitive areas which should not be interfered with lightly. Resshin also informed him that he had taken best part of a week to merge with the Spirit Beast parts and awaken his Kekkei Tota. The barrier she had placed dampened the sense of time and all distractive elements for all those within it except the user of the barrier. She removed it and Jun saw Rikuo floating in a lotus pose on top of a random crystal outcrop. Breeze was swirling around him, caressing him like a gentle lover. Seeing Jun was done with Resshin, Rikuo slowly and gracefully floated down like some divine being. Jun hated to admit it but be it his looks, ability or grace or style, this guy was top-notch in all. Plus he was the ideal person who would not be prideful of his abilities unnecessarily. "Mother Resshin, is he ready?" Rikuo asked respectfully "If he is then we are too. We have already tracked down the last mirror, it''s with those who are trying to corrupt the Spirit Beast. They are using Blood and Life sacrifice rituals to forcefully overpower the seal. To their misfortune, that was also the only clue that led us to them. The Seven Stars are ready to move out if Jun is ready too." "Jun is ready too, he has gained enough control over his Jinchuriki Seal and abilities under my care to not hold you all back. Oh, and you are allowed to take all the Seven Stars except the newest child, Ikari Jihino. I have some instructions for him for the migration plan." "As you wish Mother Resshin," Rikuo said with a bow "Come on Jun, let''s go and meet up with the rest of your team and Seven Stars. We even brought the Blood user and the Genjutsu Girl from your hideout. They are all well rested and ready for our next journey." "You guys didn''t hurt them or anything right?" Jun called out worriedly "Chino is like my little sister and she is a little reckless with her Dojutsu, it literally uses up her body when she exceeds her limits." "Don''t worry, she and the rest are all fine. The Genjutsu girl did resist a bit but we were able to convince them we meant no harm. She was relieved when she found out you were not out on a suicide mission to rescue your friend and teacher. You have some pretty good friends, you should cherish them." Rikuo said with a smile. "I had no choice," Jun said "at that time I knew nothing except that you guys are stronger than me and could beat me even if I went all out. Yakumo was the only one I could entrust Chino to. Anyway, I am glad it didn''t come to the point that we would have to employ any desperate means." "Agreed, although none of us harbored any real negative intentions, except old man Hastar." Rikuo clarified "But well he is a special case, he hates nearly all Dojutsu users with a deadly passion. But as I said, he is an anomaly and we have excellent recovery specialists even if it turned out that you guys were hurt a lot in our interactions. So everything was under control at all times, don''t worry. Anyway, we are getting late, we need to meet up with the rest and move out to get the mirrors and help your master." 76 BSNW CH 072 The Last Mirrors Team 1 contained Kakashi, the mysterious ANBU captain of Leaf ANBU and Leader of Team 1, Yakumo Kurama, the Kurama Clan Heiress, Itachi Uchiha, the Uchiha Clan Heir, and the last was Chino, his adopted sister with her mysterious Kekkei Genkai. All of them were pretty strong in their own rights, Chino even had the potential to surpass Itachi because of her rapidly strengthening Dojutsu. Team 2 contained Rikuo Kaneko, the Wind Sage and leader of Team 2, Oichi Oda, the Fishnet and Katana loving busty beauty, Saibo Kazahana, the tall and roguishly handsome ninja with a vast repertoire of terrifying Jutsu, Nozomi Uchiha, the raven-haired Uchiha beauty with terrifying prowess and a mysterious past, and finally Kashikoi Makidori the brunette beauty with a mysterious Kekkei Genkai. Rikuo had managed to find the corrupter of the Spirit Best in a hidden realm called The Forest of Eternal Night, which was near the Valley of Evil where the Spirit Beast was sealed and experimented on. Currently, they were going to the Valley of Evil first, to let Jun absorb the fourth part of the beast contained within the Mirror his Master Hinoki had. After arriving near the Valley of Evil, the two teams will part. Team 1 will continue with Jun to the Valley of Evil, Team 2 will go to the hidden realm, The Forest of Eternal Night, and take the final mirror from the enemy and hopefully meet Team 1 in Valley of Evil before the Spirit Beast can get free and rampage. Jun was confident that with Rikuo and the others, whoever the enemy might be, they were not going to be able to keep corrupting the Spirit Beast. After traveling for over four days constantly, they managed to reach the Valley of Evil. Team 2 parted with them and left for The Forest of Eternal Night, while Jun guided Team 1 along the secret path his master had taken to get to the sealing spot. When they arrived there, they saw many dead bodies of bandits and ninjas scattered here and there along the path. Jun, Itachi, and Kakashi also managed to spot innumerable Fuinjutsu traps, most were used up, but some still active. Maneuvering around them, they finally reached the innermost part of the valley. "You''re here finally Jun." Hinoki said happily "We almost thought you won''t make it." "Sorry Master, I had to assimilate with the parts of the spirit beast in the other mirrors to have the best chance of success against the main body." Jun apologized "I have got very strong in these past few months and I am very confident of my success now." "It''s fine, Jun" Hinoki assured them "We wouldn''t have told you to go if we didn''t think we could hold out or that you could become strong enough." "Let''s start the ritual already" Kakashi interrupted "I have a strong feeling something is about to go wrong, so let''s at least complete our side first." "Why do you always have to be a downpour of negativity?" Jun complained as he swiftly set up a containment circle with Fuinjutsu using his new Ink Release. Both Hinoki and Kakashi were stunned momentarily upon seeing the large elaborate Fuinjutsu containment circle emerging suddenly. "Kakashi is right though Jun" Hinoki intervened after getting over his shock "if there is one thing I have learned about battles is that one should always make plans, don''t put all your faith in them. There is one certainty in a battle, which is that there will always be variables, even if you are in an overwhelmingly superior position." -x-x-x-x-x- It had been a few hours since Jun had erected his containment barrier and went in to merge with the fourth part of the spirit beast. Though he had the experience from the other three parts, he didn''t have the support of Resshin this time to suppress the beast. Hence the progress was slow in comparison. But just like Kakashi feared, something went wrong. Nearly twelve hours after Jun went into the containment field, Kakashi noticed someone arriving at their location. It turned out to be Kashikoi from Team 2. She was boosting her running speed with a pair of weird mechanical gloves, that spewed out chakra forcefully to act as the equivalent of a thruster to boost her speed. She also had a unique mechanical mask on her face, with an eye visor made of crystal-like material. When she finally reached near, her equipment faded into chakra particles, indicating that they were chakra constructs the whole time. She quickly reached out and threw a mirror to Hinoki, who caught it with surprise. "Things went wrong," Kashikoi said in a hurry "there were three main enemies, of which we have already taken care of two. The final one, who was also their leader, went insane and forcefully let the final piece of the spirit beast to merge with him. He also somehow used the connection between the beast and him to slip in between the seals. He is currently inside with the beast, corrupting it. If Jun doesn''t hurry then the enemy might corrupt and fully merge with the beast." "This a race of fate now Ms. Makidori" Kakashi intervened "Jun has already gone into the containment of his making, most probably based on his previous experience with merging of spirit beast parts. There is nothing we can do to help." "That is not exactly true Kakashi" Hinoki interrupted "I have a method to disable the seal, however, which will also mean that if the enemy can gain control of the Spirit beast, they will wreak unchecked havoc. Hence, the only way now is to disable the seal and stall the enemy so that they don''t gain control of the beast." "Sounds like the only plan now. I guess then this will be a two-pronged effort, me, Hinoki-San and Ms. Makidori will go in. You kids keep an eye on Jun and bring him in as soon as he finishes the merging." Itachi, Yakumo, Chino, and Nazuna nodded. "Let''s do it then Hinoki-San," Kakashi said. Hinoki activated hand-signs at a rapid pace before slamming his hands on the glowing dome. Blood-red Fuinjutsu seals spread out from his hands, covering the dome swiftly. Hinoki''s face got paler at a rapid pace as more and more red seals appeared from his hands. Kakashi was shocked upon seeing this. He had read about this kind of Fuinjutsu, the living sacrifice style Fuinjutsu. This was one of the two life and death manipulation techniques of the Uzumaki, the other being the Reaper Death seal which summoned a being closest to be called a god in this world. This type of Fuinjutsu overcame the need for the correct ''key'' for Fuinjutsu containment seals and substituted it with the pure vitality of the caster that manipulated reality itself to negate the existence of the barrier. Though there was still a lot of confusion regarding the domain of soul and life, Uzumaki was truly a clan of geniuses for inventing two such techniques that could be said to border on the realms of god. It was rumored that even the technique of reincarnation, that the second Hokage was infamous for, was a bastardized reverse-engineered version of Uzumaki techniques. This was why it was said to still be incomplete, unlike the Reaper Death Seal and Life Sacrifice Style Fuinjutsu which were complete techniques. Luckily, they managed to breach the seal before Hinoki ran out of vitality. They wanted to let him rest, but he insisted that as an Uzumaki he still had reserves to be called upon from and that he can continue. They rushed in through the cave system, leading deeper into the earth, where the beast was said to be sealed. It was due to this beasts chakra poisoning the land around it that the entire Valley of Evil gained its name. The beast was said to know of everything that happened in the land poisoned by its chakra. When they finally went past the last cave system, it opened into an enormous underground space with a few dimly glowing crystals lighting it up. At first, they couldn''t see anything unusual, it was just an enormous dull clearing, with not even a single rocky formation. However, then they say a dim silhouette walking towards them. It soon was revealed to be a young man in purple clothing, with a necklace made of some beast fangs. He had long white hair and eyes with the dark sclera and blue pupils. A weird chakra cloak had formed around him, waving like weird tentacles. "Welcome, my first experimental subjects. I am especially glad to have an Uzumaki visit here. After all, who better to face the wrath of an experimental spirit beast than one of the very members of a clan that created it." the figure said while looking at Hinoki "However you seem like a mixed breed, your chakra is not only Uzumaki but seems to have the traces of Nature chakra, which the beast is salivating at by the way. Well, no matter, I have a pretty impressive collection here, an Uzumaki and two Kekkei Genkai users, this will be fun." "Cut the chatter and let''s rumble," Kakashi said in a low voice as the chirping of birds surrounded him and a coat of violent lightning emerged on his hand. He had already activated his Sharingan to look for the beast, but the whole place was saturated in its chakra. It was so dense that Sharingan was not able to follow its source. As he looked around for the beast, he heard the unknown guy laughing. "Oh that is precious, trying to distract me while searching for the beast huh?" he chuckled "But who said the beast was hiding anyway?" he said as suddenly the entire place started to tremble. An enormous amount of chakra explosively emerged from the ground, simply disintegrating the rocks around and above to eventually reveal the sky, with many tons of small rock pieces sent flying. It was then they realized that the ''surface'' they had been seeing till now was actually the back of an enormous mutant catfish, which had glowing markings around its eyes, head, and belly, and had two giant crabs like pincers and legs. It had enormous whiskers and a weird mouth like structure between its actual mouth and its dark eyes. Its chakra that it had expelled, swirled around it like a hurricane, before forming a giant green beaded necklace around its neck. The unknown man was standing on the back of the catfish beast, his feet sunk into its back as if fused permanently. Before anyone could do anything, an enormous amount of purple fog like chakra emerged from the beast and rapidly spread across the land. As soon as they were touched by the fog, purple markings spread all over Kakashi, Hinoki, and Kashikoi and they froze. Kakashi had experienced this before when they were pulled into a similar form of illusion by the part of the spirit beast in the mirrors. However, this was many times more potent, they never even realized they were in an illusion. Their bodies started moving like zombie puppets towards the beast, while their minds were caught in an illusionary fight. "And it''s over," the unknown man said as he laughed at the controlled figures of Kakashi, Hinoki, and Kashikoi "No one can resist the Spirit Beast, and with me providing it with consciousness, it is in complete control of its powers. We will rule the world with its resident''s mere puppets before us." Just as he was about to control his monologue, two giant balls of revolving chakra with bladed disks around them crashed onto him, creating two big explosions. When the dust settled, the unknown guy was seen covered with a cut like injuries, his purple clothes in tatters. "Who dares ?!" he roared as another giant chakra ball with a bladed ring appeared before him, but got deflected this time with a purple chakra tentacle. When he looked at the direction from which the ball emerged, he saw a bunch of kids standing there, covered in glowing green markings. In the lead was a wavy brown-haired kid, with black clothes and the lower half of his face covered in a black face mask. The most eye-catching was his eyes, glowing yellow disk-like pupils with rune markings. As his pupils swiftly revolved, another giant chakra ball with bladed rings formed on top of one hand while the other hand supported a floating rotating chakra construct in the form of a Magatama (basically a 3d comma) filled with poisonous light and Fuinjutsu markings. "You won''t rampage while I am here," Jun said firmly as he launched the Magatama towards the spirit beast and the Giant chakra ball towards the unknown guy, while the others got ready to counter the tentacles of purple chakra that came barreling towards them. With explosive sounds of the collision, the final battle for the Spirit Beast began.