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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter List
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Spell check isn't working for me, guys, so ignore any mistakes.
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The two soon reached the outskirts of the small village, stopping only long enough to allow Naruto to evoke the illusion over his appearance before they headed inside and straight for the bridge builders home. Villagers stopped and stared at the group, whispers and looks around them causing Naruto to shrink a little, flashes of memory of his years before Kain causing him to want to instinctively run and hide.
Seeing or sensing this his teammates moved up to either side of him, Sakura glaring angrily at the crowd for 'scaring my brother' while Sasuke gave his more intimidating 'Uchiha glare' he had learned from Itachi.
By the way the bridge builders' shoulders started to tense, he was hearing it as well until finally he seemed able to take no more. He spun around to face the crowd "SHUT UP YOU GUYS!" the crowd looked stunned as he went on "they may not look it but these guys are heros! They came with me and protected me, even though they didn't have to and even saved my life and beat the bad guys easily, TWICE! SO SHOW SOME RESPECT!" he turned back to face the way they were headed as he snorted "idiots."
As they resumed walking the three teammates exchanged looks and then grinned.
They soon reached a small modest home. The bridge builder lead them to the door, allowing Naruto to go first with his burden before calling out "I'm home, darling."
"Welcome home, dad" a woman approached them, whipping her hands dry on her apron "how did it go...." she faded off as she saw them and their burden. They half expected her to act like the rest of the villagers, but instead her eyes widened at their unconscious sensei and asked in concern "is he....?"
"Fine" Naruto answered "just exhausted and sleeping. Do you have anywhere I can lay him down to sleep until he feels better?"
"Of course, my room" she lead him up towards a set of stairs "he'll be able to sleep uninterrupted there."
While Naruto followed her Sasuke spoke as he headed for the front door "I'm going to check the area of the village for anything suspicious." He looked at the pale-red head "stay here with the client and his family. I'll be back shortly.."
Sakura nodded and the bridge builder frowned "what do we tell your friends?"
"Kakashi-sensei probably won't wake up until tonight and Naruto already knows."
"How?" frowned Tazuma, "I didn't hear you say anything about it." Sakura explained as she took the older man's arm and guided him away "he did tell him. Naruto and Sasuke both grew up as brothers, so they have their own language we don't understand."
Once the Uchiha was gone patrolling the village Sakura and Tazuma were joined by Naruto and the older man's daughter, the two conversing as they entered the room.
She left Naruto and Sakura with her father while she went back to the kitchen to get everyone lunch.
The three were talking about what they were going to do when Zabuza popped back up and how Naruto and Sasuke could probably train Sakura while Kakashi was out when an angry and sarcastic voice spoke "why bother, you're going to die anyway."
In the doorway was a child wearing a white t-shirt, overalls and a clothe hat, looking at them with something like contempt.
"Inari!" the bridge builder gasped "that's no way to talk to people you don't know! Even if ya did miss me!"
The boy looked at him as if only just noticing him and called "grandpa!" happily and ran into his arms, to be caught up and hugged close.
They hugged for just a minute or so when Sakura spoke "we're ninjas, kid, we're here to protect you and your mom and grandpa."
"Doesn't matter" the boy said emotionlessly "Gato's too strong, he'll kill you all, and us too."
"Why you little.....!"
"Sakura" Naruto's voice from the doorway stop her before a rant. When she looked at him, Naruto locked eyes with the boy and said firmly but in an soft way"why don't you tell us why."
"Gato's too strong, he's way too rich and powerful. He can hire anyone he wants to kill for him anyone he wants and even people more skilled then YOU to fight."
"You're right about that" Naruto said, "but there is something Gato has been hiding, something important that all those people he's hired don't know about him, and once they do, they'll turn on him. Once all those hired men know this, they'll be so angry at him they will turn on and kill HIM."
"What?"
"Gato actually isn't rich. My dad took all his money from him and now he's left PRETENDING he is. Once all those men he's hired, especially those ninja, find out the truth they'll turn on HIM for lying and promising them things he can't give and kill HIM. Without Gato's money-or promise of money-they have no more reason to stay here and will leave, particularly fast when they realize not only are they unprotected, but the village is protected from ninja of Hidden Leaf..."
"Gato is POOR!?" the woman behind him gasped, Naruto moving aside to let her in the room as he continued "Gato is no longer this big untouchable power. My chichi owns A LOT of property around the Five Nations and beyond. He went into obsecurity for quite some time and Gato felt it was his chance to either forge ownership or just take it. Chichi found out and not only legally took his property back, but decided to shut down every one of Gato's illegal businesses and buy out the legal ones as punishshment. Gato has very little money left, certainly not enough to pay for ninja of Zabuza's skill or the like. He's gambling they don't find out, I don't know what will happen when they do." He looked at the boy, Inari "you see, Gato's living on borrowed time and sooner rather than later that time will run out."
The boy blinked, as if not knowing what to think. Finally he stiffened and said "it won't matter in the end." He then wiggled free of his grandfather arms and left the room.
Tuzama moved to go after him, but Sakura stopped him when Naruto moved to follow "no, let Naru handle this. He has a gift with children."
An hour later he was going past his grandson's room when he heard sound that almost broke his heart. Heartbroken sobbing and a soft soothing murmur. Cracking open his grandson's door just wide enough to look in he found the child clutching an familiar photo frame as he sat in the older boy's lap, sobbing while wrapped comfortingly in his arms and wings while he murmured soothing words and assurances to him. Closing the door softly he left the two alone again.
Later when he came to check on them again he found both asleep, Inari curled into a ball on an soft bedding of the older boy's fox tails, the older boy curled protectively around him.
Without a word Tuzama entered the room, grabbing a blanket to cover them with. As he approached the older boy's eyes slowly opened and he watched him as if he knew he was there all along. Slowly the tails lifted up to him, allowing him to gently take his grandson and lay him on his bed under the blanket, the two then silently leaving to close the door behind them.
Nodding his acknowledgement and graditude to the older boy the two seperated and went their own ways.
It took at least twelve hours before Kakashi awoke. His three students sat around the spare futon he sat on in the woman's bedroom while he checked himself over, marvelling at his unhampered movements. "What was in that water you gave me?" he asked Naruto "except for being exhausted and a little sore I'm healed."
"The tablets I used were only an sedative to make you sleep, an antibiotic to prevent infection and possible poison and an herb extract that helps encourage healing. However it was not those that healed you, that was all you, your own chakra." Kakashi looked stunned "it was my own chakra that healed me?!"
"And it will continue to do so as long as you survive battle with your chakra and give your body enough time to work. In time you might even learn how to control and manipulate it." Sakura spoke "what about that other one you gave him?"
"What other one?" they asked her.
"About six hours ago he gave sensei another flask."
When they looked at Naruto he just shook his head. "That was just some glucose mixed in with water" he said "think of it like this. An hospital uses an saline solution to keep patients hydrated. It was similar to that. The glucose gets converted into energy by his body, his body then converts that energy into chakra. By giving him the glucose after six hours....."
"It renews what my body already used" Kakashi said to which Naruto nodded.
Kakashi then wanted to train them but Naruto told him to stay in bed. Both he and Sasuke would take Sakura off and train her in THEIR way while he was recovering, Kakashi could stay and guard the bridge builder and his family while he rested. If he felt better tomorrow he could train them, after all, it would take Zabuza at least a week to fully recover, three or four days if he had an half-way decent healer to care for him. They had that long at least and wouldn't attack until then, believing the two ninja's were all that was needed.
Kakashi reluctantly agreed, he was still exhausted despite his twelve hour sleep and knew he couldn't teach them much in his current state. One more day would give him time to fully recover. Although if his chakra had been fully unlocked thanks to the sword, why had he gotten exhausted so quickly?
Naruto seemed to read his mind for this and explained "it's like a muscle sensei. When you first use it it can stiffen or lock up pretty quickly, but the more it is used the stronger it gets. Once you start using it more often, wether in battle or training, it'll become easier and stronger."
This made sense to him, after all, isn't that what the Academy was for, to teach students how to harness and manipulate their chakra? Kakashi had had most his chakra repressed by the sharingan growing up, he hadn't had a chance to use it too it's fullness. Chakra was like a muscle, the more you use it the stronger it got and as you grew up it developed with you. He was only twelve when he lost his teammate and gained the sharingan, that was at least twenty years of growing with the majority of his chakra unable to be fully accessible. It would require a LOT of training to fully access and manipulate it.
However now was not the time.
Hours later Naruto lay in a grassy field, cursing Shikamaru's laziness and the fox (or was that cat?) in him. He was laying on his back in the grass, hands outstretched and legs straight, struggling inwardly with the laziness of laying in an patch of soft green directly under an spot where the midday sun came through the trees.
Even the constant buzzing in his head and vibration of it in his body of the call of....WHATEVER IT WAS...couldn't move him.
Sasuke had taken an exhausted and sore Sakura back to the bridge builder's house to rest but Naruto had told them he'd stay and get in some solo training for a while.
Sitting down to rest afterwards and take a drink, Naruto had found himself laying back and slowly closing his eyes. The spot was a few feet from an field full of herbs and even though Naruto had fully intended to take advantage of it and stock up on some of them and put some in an storage scroll for later processing and treatment, he couldn't open his eyes, let alone move.
There was an white flash and he had found himself in his mindscape where Kyuubi and Razeil insisted on continuing his training with them.
It was his Byukugan that alerted him he wasn't alone a couple of hours later. It saw an large chakra system, too strong to be an normal villager while the next stage saw an kekkai genkai, an aura of frost around the being, the same one he had seen at least a day ago on the rogue nin's student.
Tensing mentally and preparing for a fight he waited to see what the other would do. Distantly he was surprised to find, despite his not maintaining it, he disguise was still in place.
At the same time he became aware of a group of animals sarrounding him, birds, a couple of rabbits and squirrels, drawn to him for some reason, maybe Kyuubi's nature chakra? He remembered ever since he was a toddler that they had been drawn to him. Maybe his connection to nature had intensified due to Kiba's connection to Akamaru and their shared personality.
At first the figure didn't seem to notice him, instead seated in the field of herbs, obviously for his master's medical care. When he DID notice him and approach Naruto tensed mentally but continued to lay limp, even maintaining his breathing and little snores to appear he was asleep. When the figure leaned over him, hand heading for his neck, he prepared to Spectral Jump the minute his fingers touched him.
However they paused a few inches from his skin, as if undecided, before changing direction and he was being shaken "hey, you shouldn't sleep here."
Opening his eyes slowly as if just waking he saw an feminine figure looking down at him with an innocent smile. Well, if he wanted to play dumb, so would he. A kitsune were tricksters and illusionists, it would be no effort for him to play the hyperactive knuckleheaded idiot, even going as far as to call the figure chan (female) instead of san.
And he did so for the entire conversation, acting as if he didn't know who or what the figure was, grinning like a loon while muttering to himself about how much his face would hurt at the end of this. It wasn't until the other moved to leave and had his back to him that Naruto dropped the act "so, Haku, what did Gato promise your group for your service?"
The feminine dressed male froze, "what do you mean?" Naruto snorted "You heard me. You think I don't know you, your sent."
He spun, kunai in hand "impossible! The extract....."
Naruto laughed "I have not only an chakra fox demon-the most powerful of her kind-a spirit of an ancient soul reaving male warrior, but numerous bloodline abilities gained from that male. I KNOW about the potion used by Hunter-nin and ANBU that hides their sent so they can't be tracked or detected. Do you REALLY think that a chakra fox wouldn't be able to SMELL you through that stuff?!" He laughed again "I have the ability to SEE chakra, and yours is not only too strong for an normal villager but even if there was a chance one of them had that much strength, it's a common civilian village, NO ONE has THAT sort of control over it. Even then I can also see souls. What I told your master was true, no two people have the same soul, not even twins. By showing yourself to rescue your master, you blew any chance of pretending innocence or deniability."
When the slightly older boy moved to attack Naruto motioned it away "please, if I wanted to kill you I would have slit your throat the instant you leant over me."
The boy hesitated "then why didn't you?"
"I want to talk to you, there are THINGS you need to be aware of."
"What sort of things?" Naruto just motioned at the ground in front of him in an 'sit' guesture. When the boy didn't move he motioned again.
Reluctantly the boy put away his weapon and sat, but watched him closely.
"What has Gato promised you in return for your services to him?"
"Protection from the Hunter nin and ANBU chasing us and money for a place to hide."
Naruto snorted "Right now Gato couuldn't protect himself, let alone anyone else. There are things you need to know about Gato. For a start he's broke, completely. Why else do you think he's persecuting a poor small village with no obvious outside income? He's desperate."
"What do you mean, broke?"
Naruto grinned widely "he made the mistake of screwing with a certain man in Hiddn Leaf that just so happens to be the richest man in all Five Nations. He owns vast property, items and land throughout numerous nations and lands. Years ago he went into recluse and Gato thought he could steal some of it or forge ownership papers. When HE found out he made an amuzing game of shutting down all his illegal businesses and shutting down all his business partners so he could buy out the legal ones. Gato has nothing left now except his name to him."
"How do I know you are telling the truth?" he asked suspiciously.
"You don't" Naruto admitted "but you're smart, I'm sure you'll find a way to get the truth. You could try something like telling Gato you need part of your money to purchase medical supplies for Zabuza. If he makes excuses or refuses, you know I'm telling you the truth. I f he willingly gives you it without trouble, I'm lying. But let me ask you this, why would we hold back otherwise in the fight earlier? If you were other than people Gato was fooling and we wanted to give a chance to know the truth to, we would have just killed you both, no problem."
"What makes you think it would have been THAT easy?"
"Please" Naruto snorted "you really think you and your master had a chance! Think about it. You MIGHT have stood a chance against just Sakura, even with baachan's strength technique because she's only basically trained. But then you have Sasuke, the second of the last two survivors of the Uchiha clan and trained by his older ANBU brother in all their clan abilities and jutsu's. On top of that he is ALSO trained by the Great Toad Sage Jiriaya AND the Great Blood Shadow since he was seven. He also has Bloodline abilities AND shares the power to create fire without handsigns like I.
Next you have myself, trained by both The Great Toad Sage Jiriaya and Blood Shadow. Add The Uchiha heir as well AND both medical and strength training from one of the most powerful healers to date in the nations. Top it off with the spirit of a man centuries old who can feed off souls to make himself stronger and heal and 'reap' an person's bloodline as well as the strongest of all the tailed demons inhabitanting my body with all their chakra and jutsu's at my command.
Then lastly we have the infamous Kakashi Hatashi, copy-nin of Hidden Leaf, master of 1000 jutsu's, trained by the infamous Forth Hokage-the Yellow Flash, who has JUST had the true strength of his chakra fully awakened.
Do you really think you can compare to us?" The other boy hesitated, his face conflicted.
Naruto spoke again "how much did Gato claim to promise you?" When the boy dressed as a girl told him, the winged and tailed other started to crack up. The other looked baffled "what?!"
"I get more than that for just ONE of my weapons! Hell, my ALLOWANCE a month is more than that!" The others mouth opened, he was about to speak when the other cocked his head at him and his eyes went vacant for a few long seconds. Just when the ice-user was considering if he should take advantage of his lack of attention and attack, the eyes cleared and he grinned widely at the other, unnerving the other "what?!"
"What would you say to a job, a PERMINATE job?"
"Perm...." he looked at the other in shock then suspicion "what sort of job?"
"Bodyguards."
"Bodyguards?" he echoed.
"My father."
The other boy frowned at him "why would the Blood Shadow need bodyguards?"
"The Blood Shadow doesn't, but Kain Baransu Hogo-sha does."
I don't understand."
"My father is the one I told you about, the richest man in all the nations and beyond. When my father was young he not only was an nobleman but later went on to become an Kage ruling over a vast land. He gained riches you've never even imagined. In Hidden Leaf he has three identities, the rich lord, the most powerful of all the ANBU and The Fire Lords most trusted advisor.
When he's traveling as Kain, he can't exactly act like The Blood Shadow. As the richest man in the nations you can probably guess he gets attacked by not only theives but people jealous of his money and wanting to kill him for it. Do you know how many assassins father has sent back in a body bag?"
The other boy frowned thoughtfully "And you think if your father officially hires us as bodyguards it will not only give us a regular income but protection from the Hunters and ANBU hunting us."
Naruto nodded "as employees of an citzen of Hidden Leaf, you are not only classed as one. You would have a home, a village as well as it's protection. As bodyguards of an advisor to The Fire Lord, you would have the protection of all the Fire Nations. Add you would receive all the medical care at Hidden Leaf that you will need. And here's a bonus for your master, imagine all those assassins, all those other dangerous ninja's that he can challenge himself with."
The other looked thoughtful.
Naruto rose "just think about it, consider which would be more benificial." He started to leave. Almost out of the field he stopped though "and Haku?"
"Yes?" he turned to look at him. Naruto threw him something heavy "here." The boy caught it, an pouch fill of coins. He looked at the other in shock "but..."
Naruto smiled "think of it as an deposit, even if you both decide not to." And was gone.
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Kakashi was worried. Naruto seemed distracted even more than before, staring at something out the window constantly, eyes either vacant white or locked intently on whatever he could see or sense but they couldn't.
He was so distracted that his teammates let alone their clients family had given up trying to talk to him, and despite his quiet and serious ways or sarcastic fighting style, Naruto was always polite when being spoken too by civilians, giving the speaker his full attention.
Yet here he was, distracted and ignoring everyone else. This was serious enough to worry Kakashi, Naruto's senses were enhanced, his sight that of an Hyuuga with their bloodline activated, his sense of smell that of an Inuzuka's, hearing an demons-rather a demon foxes.
Was there something strange happening and Naruto was trying to keep track of it? Surely he would have told them by now. He wouldn't keep something that important from them.
Kakashi decided to find out.

He approached the boy.
Sitting on the windowsill next to him it took a few tries of calling him name before the boy's head snapped towards him "WHAT!"
"Something is going on with you, Naruto, you've been distracted ever since we got to Wave, even more so now. What is it?"
Naruto sighed "truthfully?"

The Team Leader nodded.
Looking out the window again the boy sighed "truthfully, I don't know."
"What are Razeil and Kyuubi saying about it? I know those two probably know what it is, and either aren't talking or are trying to fully understand it. What are they saying?"
"Neesan doesn't know what it is, she's worried and is trying to keep us from going after it. Niisan on the other hand...."
"What, Naruto, your brother knows what it is? What do you mean by she's trying to keep you from going after it?"
He looked back at his sensai, the man gasping at what he saw there, glancing down he saw white-knuckled hands gripping the seat under him. "It's pulling you, isn't it. Whatever it is your sensing it's trying to pull you to it."
The boy nodded, looking back out the window "niisan more strongly than me. If he wasn't trapped in my body he would have gone by now."
"Does he know what it is? Or doesn't he have any idea?"
"Niisan says it's a glyph, one he's never encounted before. He has no idea what it does or is for though."
"What exactly are these glyphs? You never explained."
"They are ancient artifacts left for the Scion Of Balance all over Nosgoth-or Elemental Nations as they are known now. Most are located in underground temples built by fathers original race centuries before him and only accessible by someone like father with his abilities-or in this case niisan, since the only one father ever found just enhanced and refined his telekinetics.
However niisan found seven before his imprisonment in the sword. It appears there was more than he thought originally."
He looked back to Kakashi as he said seriously "none of the other glyphs acted like this whenever he got near another, maybe a slight tug that told him there was something nearby, but not THIS. Sensai they are resonating with it, vibrating with it's closeness, it's like my entire mind and body are shaking, resonating with it's power it's call."
Frowning the cyclops asked in worry "are they dangerous?"
"Only father or I can get it and there is always a test to getting it, the ancient vampires way of ensuring only father-or niisan-can get it, but it's no more dangerous than the fight we've got ourselves into here, just in a different way and whatever it is, ALL the glyphs found so far have proven useful, niisan says their use has saved his existence numerous times."
"Where is it? How close, can you tell?"
"Kyuubi says it's either in the center of the village or just directly outside it. No further. She suggested checking those hills along the shoreline for caves."
With a deep breath Kakashi came to his decision "I can't let you go out there to find it, at least not alone."
The boy looked at him sharply "you can't come with me, Sensai, you won't be able to enter, Only I can, besides, you're needed here with Sasuke and Sakura. What if Gato's forces attack our client while I'm gone?"
"Zabuza was seriously injured, Naruto. Between the damage the two of us did, he'll be unconscious for at least three days, even with the help of that boy you told me about. Even then, you offered the two employment at way more than Gato was supposedly paying them, they'll want to discuss it first, mercenaries like that will always go for the more money, but they'll have to confront Gato first to see if he's willing to pay more, then they'll either want to confirm it with you or see if you'll pay even more. You'll have to be here for that."
The boy sighed "I'll leave a shadow clone, that way if it's dispelled I can immediately travel through the Spectral Realm and get here within a minute or so, no matter where I am."
"You could make another clone and I'll use a substuation jutsu for myself. That way we both seem to be here, and I'll have my clone train the three of you tomorrow so they will be too busy to notice we are really gone, tree walking I think." He looked at the boy seriously "we can go tonight when everyone's asleep and only for a few hours, we can't risk anything else."
"Fine" the boy sighted "I can see you won't change you're mind. You can come as far as the entrance, I don't know what would happen to you if you were to come in any further and won't be responsible for your injury or death if you don't listen to my warning."
"Just the entrance" Kakashi promised "despite our job, I don't have a death wish. However if I sense danger, I'm going to do something, even if it's just as a clone."
"Fine!" sighed the boy, turning back to the window and ignoring him. However Kakashi also noticed now his hands were relaxed by his sides, his body less tense.
Later that night the two were creeping silently along the beaches just outside the village, checking for caves as Kyuubi had suggested and following Naruto's sense, the vibrating inside his body.
They soon reached one at the end of the beach where Naruto froze, "here, it's here."
Kakashi looked at the entrance closely seeing nothing unusual "you're sure?" it was half question and half statement, he didn't doubt Naruto's senses or abilities, just checking to make sure.
"Positive. It's coming from here and getting stronger."
"So, shall we enter?" Naruto nodded and together they walked inside.
They went far inside, the light of the moon outside soon gone and the full darkness closing in. The further they went the more Kakashi tried not to stumble in the pitch black, only able to follow due to tracking his students chakra.
After a particularly bad stumble and almost landing on his student, Naruto realized his problem "sorry, sensai, I forgot you don't have sight as good of mine."
There was a strange sound and the glow of flame lite the area around them. Glowing on and in Naruto's right hand and snaking up his arm from the seal was an ghostly form. The shape in his hand resembled a sword, HIS sword, the energy of the ghost blade weaving up his arm to the shoulder.
And the colour and pattern on the ghost blade was flame!
"Naruto" Kakashi surprised himself by sounding so calm "what is that?"
"Hum?"
"THAT" he pointed to the ghost blade.
"THIS?" Naruto looked down at it, he eyes lighting up in understanding "Oh THIS! This is the Soul Reaver in fire enhancement, sensai, don't worry."
"It's the Soul Reaver" Kakashi parrotted, an twitch forming over his eye "don't worry?"
"Yeah."
"NARUTO!" Kakashi almost blew his top, "It is NOT the Soul Reaver! How can THAT be your blade when I'm looking at it right now on your back!"
The blonde reached back with his free hand to touch it then snorted "that's because they're exactly the same sensai! Guezz, you getting senial?"
The twitch grew bigger but Kakashi kept himself under control by a thread "how can THAT be your blade and the other at the same time. Did you name both the same? Why have two blades the same name?"
"Oh, they're not different blades, they're the same both are the Soul Reaver."
When Kakashi opened his mouth to speak, he was interrupted by Naruto cocking his head and saying thoughtfully "well, that's not exactly true. The Reaver is the shell and the Spectral Reaver is the soul of the blade." He looked to his sensai "think of it like this. Soul Reaver is the sword of the Scion Of Balance, the lock that controlled the pillars of Nosgoth, an mystical gateway to another dimension, a dimension where the enemies of fathers ansestors were imprisoned. The sword was intelligent to ensure it didn't fall into the wrong hands, only something went wrong during its creation, the process was inturrupted by the only people who knew the process to do so being murdered.
So for centuries the entity inside the sword was trapped there, alert, imprisoned and unable to complete it's purpose, going slowly insane, dark and nothing more than an hungry monster.
Then one day a paradox happens, the blade starts to absorb one soul only to discover the very soul it seeks to 'eat' is it's own before the madness. How could a soul encounter itself in the same time but as two different versions, the very paradox shatters the blade and the soul freed. But it can't exsist outside time and freed forms in one time, so it becomes the very form it was always, only in spectral form...." he held up the flame ghost blade "...think of it as this is the soul of the blade while the metal one is the body."
"I thought your brother was the soul of the blade."
"Exactly" the blonde nodded and told his sensai the origan of the sword and all about it and the enhancements and his brother "so because of the forge brother found in the Vampire Citidel, the soul was purified after absorbing the spirits of the previous guardians of balance. Since they are twin forms of his soul, brother can still be the blade, but merging with me."
"Hum, if what you say is true about his soul originally becoming trapped in the blade after he killed his human self, then since his soul was still around for your father to raise, the spirit in the sword, the previously insane one wasn't his entire soul, just either an fragment of it-all the negative parts and the rest was what was raised, or an imprint left on the sword when he killed him. By absorbing those other souls of the previous guardians he was infact balancing the soul, good or positive sides to the negative side."
"I see your point" Naruto nodded "you could be right."
He was about to say something else when something caught his eye and he headed for the corner of their tunnels cave wall.
Following his student, Kakashi soon saw a carving in the stone, an symbol of the sword Naruto weilded and what appeared to be an slot in the wall in the center of it.
Naruto looked at it critically then murmured "Light Reaver."
Before Kakashi could question him or stop him, the ghost blade changed colour and tecture, lighting up the hall breifly before carefully Naruto slid the sword into the slot, turning it slightly inside the wall, like turning a key into a lock.
Immediately there came the sound of old machinary, a dull clunk, and Kakashi had to shade his eyes as multiple crystals lining the walls the way they had come and the way they were going lite up.
"We can't be too far now, sensai. They wouldn't put the lightswitch too far away from the actual room. Once your eyes adjust we'll go."
The silver haired scarecrow nodded and they soon moved on.
The next chamber stopped them both in awe.
All around the walls were paintings, ancient yet bueatiful artwork, carvings all done by other than human hands.
Kakashi could only look in awe while Naruto walked around looking closely at it, eyes wide "the same as the other forges."
Before Kakashi could question him about it, Naruto turned a complete circle in the room an exclaimed "it's here, it's ALL here!"
"What is here?" Kakashi questioned.
"The entire history, sensai, of fathers race! Brother's seen parts all spread out over the other forges, but never all together! This glyph must be important if they felt compelled to put it all together here!"
Kakashi frowned, walking around the large chamber, inspecting the various fading pictures painted there. Some he knew the meaning depicted there, others confused him "can you understand them?"
"If I can't, niisan does." he approached the ones at the entrance, the right side baring a race of bluegrey skinned humaniod people, huge feathered wings spread behind them, the left an race more insect-like with huge leather and bone behind them instead.
"These are the Ancient Vampires, fathers race centuries before him. These...." he motioned the left side "...were the Hylden, an allie race of equal intelligence and equally advanced."
He motioned at the picture above the entrance and between the two groups, humans bowing to both races "humans worshipped them and the two united races taught them, gave them knowledge to make life easier as well as technology."
"They taught us Jutsu's?" Kakashi had always been curious over where such knowledge had come from. It couldn't have just been invented by humans, SOMEONE had to have figured out not only how to train their chakra but how to manipulate it for Justus at the same time.
"Maybe. With what the races could do, it doesn't surprise me." Kakashi nodded in adknowledgement to this and to go on.
Naruto took him through each painting and its meaning, its connection to the history of his fathers people and world.
Then he suddenly stopped "wait, this wasn't on the previous version."
"What?" Kakashi looked over his shoulder at the part he was examining.
An depiction of the Reaver, an circle of light around it followed by two circles of symbols.
"These" Naruto pointed to the inner circle "are the glyphs. And THESE..." the outer circle "are the enhanced Reavers. However according to these, there are three more glyphs and three more Reaver enhancements. We thought niisan had them all."
"Which ones are they?"
"Well the glyphs we already have are these, Sound, water, sunlight, fire, stone, shift and force." he pointed out each symbol as he went. "but there are three more Balance, wind and energy."
"Three more" Kakashi murmured "does it tell you where the other ones are, if one is here?"
"No, but if I have the same reaction as to here, I'll be able to sense it as soon as we're close enough."
"And THESE?" Kakashi pointed to the enhancements.
"Light, darkness, earth, air, fire, water, purified and spirit. They're what we have. But also Energy or lightening again, and....metal?" he looked confused at it "wouldn't earth by the class for that? I mean metal comes from earth."
"Not necessarily" Kakashi said "it really depends on what it does suspifically."
"Earth allows us to create an earthquake and damage surrounding enemies, lets us walk along the bottom of lakes, rivers etc, can create platforms to high-reaching areas and when fully charged can allow a strike to one enemy be mirrored on all surrounding enemy."
This interested Kakashi "what do the others do?"
"Air spins an enemy around fully charged, throws an enemy away, it can also interrupt an enemy attack. Dark Reaver, fully charged produces forces that attack the enemy, can allow my brother-or me-to become temporarily invisible, blinds security systems to me.
The Light Reaver stuns struck enemies fully charged, can produce an light that temporarily stuns enemies, however the Light Reaver is more efficient against shades than humans."
"Shades?" Kakashi questioned.
"Yeah, in the Spectral Realm, land of the dead, the afterlife you'd call it. There are various beings there as well as souls. Sluagh, being mutated by too long in the Spectral realm who feed on souls-but there is only a few of them left, brother hunted them almost completely. Then there are Vampire Wraiths, the souls of Vampires trapped there, like the Sluagh, but more dangerous. Lastly are Shades. Think of them as guardians of areas of the Spectral Realm. They don't attack souls, but Sluaghs, Wraiths and brother were treated hostily."
"Ah"' Kakashi nodded "go on."
"Fire fully charged sets struck enemy on fire, blasts surrounding enemy on fire. Water Reaver fully charges breifly freezes the enemy, can breifly freeze and damage surrounding enemy. We can also temporarily freeze waterfalls allowing us to climb it.
Lastly Spirit Reaver deals major damage fully charged, can cause major damage to surrounding enemy, it also has the unique ability to purify. It cleared father of the corruption that had tainted him since birth, it also cleared neesan of the taint of the evil man who turned her against our village."
"Hum" Kakashi stroked his chin thoughtfully "what about these others?"
"This is Lightening-in other words electricity" he pointed "The other metal. I have no idea what they'd do."
"Why are they here, then" Kakashi questioned.
"I don't know, but, wait...." he leaned in looking closer at the symbols. Before Kakashi could question what he was doing, he had touched the symbol for Balance and the instant he lowered his hand there was the sound of stone grinding stone and the wall in front of them moved back a few feet and then slid back behind the rest of the wall, revealing a set of massive ornated gates, an long hallway slanting down on the other side.
"Well" Naruto said, "this is where I go in alone."
Kakashi frowned "What do you mean, Naruto? You have a way through this?"
"Yeah, in the Spectral Realm we can just walk through."
Before Kakashi could protest, the blonde faded away like an illusion and then resolified on the other side. With a wave at his sensai to show he was fine, he moved away, further inside.
What followed was Kakashi listening to what felt like hours of listening to his students voice float up to him, sometimes cursing, sometimes mumbling unintellegably, the sounds of stone grinding stone, even occasionally the sound of that strange sword of his.
Then it all went quiet.
Just as Kakashi was starting to worry, there was a click and the grate in front of him slowly slid up into the roof, opening the way inside for him.
Cautiously, ready for a trap, the cyclops made his way inside in search for his silent student.
The light crystals lighting his way, Kakashi made his way down the long sloping hallway, only to suddenly enter and huge cavern.
Carved obviously by hands human or not so, the room was huge, roof higher than the Hokage tower, TWICE, wider than the most extravagant mansion he had ever seen in the entire of the fire nation. You could probably fit the entire of Kohona inside it.
Along the walls were the same sort of painting in the outer chamber, only these were larger by an incredible height, from floor to ceiling and incredibly detailed, as if their most skilled artists were used HERE not the others.
Along the center of the room on either side of the entrance were huge stone pillars, six well spaced ones on either side of the hall, three each, engraved in a language Kakashi didn't know.
But what shocked and awed Kakashi was in the center of the room behind the pillars.
An huge empty fountain was there, the sides rising up to just above Kakashi's head, and incredible statue in the center of it.
The statue was of an winged woman holding a stone replica of his students sword in one hand, so detailed he swore he could see the marks of use on the carved blade, in her other hand a set of scales.
The winged woman was kneeling in the dried out fountain, sword laying over the side like some sort of bridge, scales touching the lip of the wall of the fountain edge, so you could just walk up the sword, along the wall and onto the scales.
And currently his student was pushing an huge carved stone three times his size onto one side of the scales.
Kakashi opened his mouth beneath the mask to call out to him, then snapped it shut, deciding his student knew what he was doing-obviously-and just to watch.
He'd just keep an eye on his student for now.
Once the stone was in place, Naruto cocked his head at it, obviously listening to his brother talk. After a few seconds he nodded and raised the ghost blade, concentrating.
After a few seconds he fired off a shot at the block, blowing an large chunk off it, then proceeded to lift the block from underneath and flip it over, revealing another side and another shot, this time a different colour and movement of the ghost blade.
Kakashi realized his student, for some reason, was using an different enhancement on each side, blowing away segments of the rock to make it smaller.
After he had finished this he inspected it, then proceeded to use completely different attacks Kakashi could only guess were the other gylphs.
To Kakashi's surprise while the glyphs undoubtedly did the same as the enhancements to the block, the stone also seemed to absord the power directed at it, glowing with incredible energy, humming like nothing the cyclops had never heard or seen before, now the size of an human being as it sat on the platform.
Naruto cocked his head at it, nodded in satisfaction, and then climbed onto the other side, onto the other side of the scales.
There was a click as something regestered the new weight and before Kakashi could even figure out how Naruto could think his body weight compared to that of the stone block, something moved, a BIG something.
As Kakashi watched in shock and awe the statue MOVED, it STOOD SLOWLY UP, as if it was alive, raising the sword high in the air, followed by the scales, so Kakashi could no longer see his student below the stone roof.
A grinding sound came, part of the roof slid back to bathe the entire statue in early morning sunlight, temporarily blinding the cyclops, forcing him to look away from it, hearing his student cry out in shock and pain, but helpless to help him, had he been rejected due to being human, not vampire?
When he could finally look back he heard the sound of running water and he gasped in awe.
An stone pillar had grown out of the wall, now supporting the scales in their positions. Platforms of stone and earth were floating in the air, allowing his student to hop down one to the next to the floor.
The fountain was working, a strange glowing water flowing freely from the risen spout between the statue's legs and the stone block was floating between the statue's knees, carved expertly with an picture of the same scales on it.
Relieved to find his student unhurt and fine, he moved to step forward, only to have Naruto motion him to stay put.
Stepping onto an strange swirl pattern on the floor, Naruto waited.
The almost instant he did, the stone block shuddered and moved, flying around the statue for a full five minutes at high speeds, and every time it came from behind the statue it was smaller, until it was the size of a human fist.
Before Kakashi could speak and in time with Naruto's "too big! SHIIITTT!" the thing was heading right for him.
Thinking quick his student disappeared, only to have the stone do the same thing.
Before Kakashi could begin to worry the boy suddenly reappeared, slumped over the lip of the fountain, clutching his chest.
Dashing forward he gently grasped his students shoulders and tried to turn him around to check on him.
At first the boy tried to weakly shrug him off, but the silver cyclops just murmured firmly and turned him.
In the boys chest was an fist-sized hole.
Kakashi could do nothing about such a wound, his limited medical knowledge did NOT include an injury that would kill an normal living being.
The only thing he could do was take him back to the village, call for his students godmother, and hope the blonde lived until she arrived.
He tried to pick the boy up, but he kept murmuring incoherantly and trying to push him away, until Kakashi finally snapped "stop fighting me, Naruto! I'm trying to help you!"
"Don't need your help" he murmured thickly "Razeil and Kyuubi are dealing with it, stop trying to move me. Got energy before I returned, need more Eldrith."
"Eldrith?"
"Spirit energy. Used too much carving the block, weaker now."
"How do we do that? Where do we get it from here?"
The blonde motioned at the fountain.
"THAT is this Eldrith energy you need?! The water?"
"Eldrith...artifical....vampire made synthetic. Artificial spirit energy.... strengthen me enough to heal.... then sleep for a while."
"Good, just wait!" Kakashi pulled an large flask out of an storage scroll in his vest, emptied the water from it and moved to fill it from the fountain for his student.
His fingers tingled uncomfortabally in the liquid, the sensation becoming more uncomfortable the longer he held it in, deciding he didn't want to try it himself if it just felt like that on his hand.
Once full he brought it to his student who downed the entire bottle in less than a minute, followed up by two more before he was satisfied.
Kakashi capped another full bottle, just in case the blonde needed it. If not maybe he could give it to the female Sanin and see if they could replicate the mixture so Naruto would have a readily available source for the near future and missions.
If not, they could easily pay someone in the village to bottle it and send it to them, since Kakashi planned on telling the Hokage about the outer room, it was too valuable, an historically valuable site.
After about fifteen minutes he noticed his student was no longer laying limp and boneless on the lip of the well and despite his injury seemed to be stronger.
Cautiously Kakashi spoke, asking him if he was ready to leave, he could sleep at the clients house while he checked on every one and thing to make sure nothing had changed.
The blonde nodded and with help rose too his feet.
After taking a quick few mouthfulls from the fountain, the two left, the silver haired cyclops supporting his weight as the two made their way back.
The closer to the village they got, the less of his students weight he supported until they were able to sneak back in to the small home through an open window.
"You sleep" Kakashi told him in ninja sign, "I'll keep your teammates and the family buisy and away from you as longer as possible."
"Thanks, sensai" he signed back "and thanks for helping me get the glyph."
"We'll talk about it later" the man signed back, about to leave but on second thought left the flask by his side.
Then he was gone to find his other two students and think over all he had seen and learned.

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An ready source of Eldrith energy is found, where are the other glyphs and enhancements and will the two rogues accept Naruto's job offer??
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