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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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The winged and tailed boy grinned as he dashed through the trees to his left. It was merely two days before the so-called invasion and Kakashi was putting his two passing students through an rigorous last-minute training resheme. Naruto was enjoying every minute, especially watching Sasuke having to adapt to each new trick, keeping them both on their toes.
Training with Gaara, Temari and Kankurõ had been....interesting in the least, adapting to his new relations had kept him on alert the entire time (especially since Gaara had found their prankster side and seemed to concentrate ALL his attention on HIM in that way) and he had learned a lot from them about working with and around sand. Apparently since water was precious in the desert it meant developing ways to survive with less in such ways that Naruto was frankly amazed there was so many hidden water sources hidden in the desert.
Now he knew how to find them and Temari promised to teach him more after all this when he could come visit.
Kankurõ was a lot like Shikamaru. He acted lazy and dumb, but in reality was an near genius. However Suna wasn't exactly the best outlet for his mind and instead of being able to encourage his intellect into new fields and explore new lines his intelligence could go, he was forced to repress it and instead content himself with his puppet making. It was why he was so obsessed with making them, it was his only creative outlet.
When Temari discovered it though, with her younger brother and Naruto's encouragement, they talked him into letting out his 'mind' a bit more. Naruto secretly brought him scrolls for the library in the village for him to read, some about things that would interest him-like certain metals and woods and carpentry and even brought him with him to the forge and watched him work so he could learn about metals and their strengths and weaknesses.
He seemed like all this didn't interest him in the least, but having learned to read Shikamaru, Naruto could tell he was soaking up any little bit of information he could get to enhance andor improve his puppets, or even create new better ones. Naruto could practically see the wheels turning in his head, the 'what if I?'s' and 'can THIS work better than...?' and was pleased he could help his new 'brother' in even a small way.
Orochimaru was an help in his way. Through Kabuto he gave them any information he knew would help, from jutsu's to medical knowledge. Naruto was surprised at how vast was their medical experience, Kabuto's mind was so interesting to him. It was like a steel trap, trapping away any little titbit about ANYTHING. But then of course without any real identity his own he was desperate to learn anything to help him become someone.
His ability to use chakra scalpels as weapons vastly interested him and he was willing to learn how to create and utilize them. If Tsunade could learn them she could use such to help in medical emergencies. They were biologically better, more sanitary, accurate and could be used anytime or place-say on the battlefield in an emergency. An chakra scalpel in the hands of someone like Tsunade during an medical emergency would mean better chances of survival or help when needed.
And although Orochimaru's jutsu knowledge would also be of great help-especially about the curse marks and their original purpose-the knowledge of how they were gained, by experimentation on helpless victims, made the Third reluctant to want to gain them and Orochimaru hesitant to give it.
Naruto however argued for gaining it. Not only would it mean they could find ways to counter or protect against them, but in some cases completely destroy them.
Like the curse mark.
Naruto had been vastly interested to learn that the original reason for them was to allow the bearers to access sage-like power. Apparently the snake-like missing nin had the ability to SEE those capable of accessing and using sage energy. He could see it in others all his life, but was unable to use it himself. As he got older his interest in biology and jutsu's had grown from his desire to see if he could manipulate it to unlocking it in others.
If many Kohona ninja could use it, less ninja like his parents would die.
He had been close to finding a way when the one-eyed ninja had contaminated him. By warping Orochimaru's mind through the jutsu, he had warped his experiments, turning them into the monstrosities they became, including the ones about the sage energies, becoming curse marks, allowing the missing nin, therefore the one-eyed ninja, to control those he marked.
That had been the plans for Sasuke. They would attack his mind with thoughts of revenge for his clan, make him feel guilt for not seeking revenge on whoever did it, even try and convince him that Itachi had done it to turn the brothers against each other. It was fortunate that the glyph seal had protected him or who knows what the youngest Uchiha would be going through right now.
Slowly the three Sand siblings were working their way through their father's forces in Kohona, convincing them that the invasion was the WRONG thing to do and once the attack was supposed to happen they should join the village against Sound. They carefully chose those they spoke to and turned, knowing some of the ninja believed in what they were doing and some may be spies. Naruto helped, he was able to 'accidentally encounter' those suspected and scan their mind, telling the three whom they could trust and who may betray them.
Just in case they also had him examine their trusted-which was fortunate he did when they discovered two of the one-eyed ninja's spies among them.
The Sand siblings' sensei and team leader Baku was hard to convince, as his belief in the Kazekage being who he thought was complete.
So they were forced to prove it to him through Orochimaru. Afterwards they discovered an rich source of ideas, information and even a way to turn more of their forces to their side.
When he informed their ninja of how Naruto 'purified' Gaara, allowing him control over the demon and easier way to harness the chakra for the defense and safety of their village-some became convinced Gaara, as their leaders last child and baring his father's bloodline-was the rightful leader.
The others would soon learn.
Sakura had become a great help to Tsunade lately. Being the Guardian Of States seemed to extend on her 'book knowledge' into chemical, elemental and biological. Her knowledge of 'how things worked' was growing at an surprising rate and even provided the 'missing link' to some of Orochimaru's experiments, helping to actually achieve the original goals, refine them and even changed the route of the experiments so they didn't require experiments and trail and error on victims. This interested the medical, scientific and T&I departments greatly and she was soon spending most her spare time with either of the three departments or Tsunade.
With HER help the standard ninja med-pack became smaller but more powerful, the soldier pills more potent but with less side-affects, the T&I had more potent potions and even Orochimaru's most dedicated soldier (next to Kabuto of course), an young man named Kimmimaro who was ill, finally had a chance. And since he all but worshiped his master and didn't care in the slightest which way his master went, the snake nin felt it was safe to tell him what was happening and what he wanted to do.
The pale-haired soldiernin vowed to help his master's new plan in any way he could.
Choji, after the games, suddenly became obsessed with military strategy. He started reading ANYTHING he could get his hands on, from the past war ones, current, to anything Kain had on him. He started learning surprisingly fast, and when it seemed he had nothing left to learn, he started churning out his own. He could point out flaws in even the most fool-proof plans and develop cunning ones of his own.
In fact Ibiki and some ANBU who were friends with Naruto were actually trialing them now for use in the invasion or on missions.
Kiba was learning more and more about manipulating the earth for battle and spars, in fact he came to a training session once, beaming about how he had finally beaten his mother, he had produced an instant wall of metal instinctively between them and her ninkin when they had been about to attack him.
If he could learn how to summon up the various elements of the earth instinctively and in certain or suspific forms, even to aid or protect Akamaru, he could enhance their skills.
Shikamaru had been finding it difficult himself with his new abilities. Seeing the very life and death energy around him was confusing and made him prone to splitting headaches, but during an sparing session it suddenly changed.
Concentrating on his opponent his vision sharpened, allowing him to see certain areas in their body as darkness and light, in other words their strengths and weaknesses. The dark spots-being 'death' he figured out-meant these were an ninja's weaker areas and by attacking these areas he could hurt them worse. He could even manipulate them.
He could manipulate more than their shadows as well. He could use the shadow of a tree-for instance-to create an sharp 'branch' like an spear. All he did was take the shadow of a branch off a tree and manipulate it into an sharpened end, like a spear.
He could even use the shadows in a different way, to travel. He found, similar to Naruto's Spectral Jump, he could will himself to kind of 'sink' into one shadow and appear in another. It was like an combination of Naruto's ability and Kakashi's.
However this would all require refining and so far only being around Naruto, Kain or Hinata helped with the problem with his vision, but Tsunade and Sakura were currently working on that.
Shino so far had shown nothing, that or nothing he felt like showing to them yet.
Hinata had become an powerful asset to the T&I department, no mind could stand up to hers and in return Ino's father was putting her through some complicated and sometimes dangerous training to help her develop her defenses and control her abilities to their fullest.
Sasuke had not only fully learned the chadori, he had helped their sensei refine and strengthen it into what they now called the 'Lightening Blade'. Currently when not with his team and Skulk, he was in the library, pouring over books, scrolls or texts, anything he could learn about all the different types of energy.
He seemed to have became obsessed with it, bugging anyone else with lightening association or knowledge about any type of energy. Kabuto seemed pleased to impart all his knowledge of such, including chakra, and he even started bugging Tsunade and Jiriaya, Tsunade for her medical knowledge of chakra and the bodies energy and Jiriaya about sage energy. However they made sure to keep this information from Orochimaru, just in case. If he was corrupted again and knew how to get Sasuke's attention...
However his new obsession also helped. By learning so completely about Chakra, Sasuke could not only figure out how the human glyphs used the chakra in the air, but he was able to-with Sakura's help-to refine the process and an mechanic to build them, able to built devices in the form of bands around his fellow Skulk's wrists. What these things did was tell the group if they were in an area strong in Eldrith energy by an small panel that lit up when they were. It went from black-meaning none, red meaning trace amounts, blue, yellow, amber, and green for the closer levels.
Once they were in an Eldrith rich spot an tiny storage device could absorb certain amounts using samples of the water from Wave-only enough for emergencies-and be ready just in case it was needed.
Tsunade was already using samples of the device to store ninja pills and other such for other ninja. They were even looking into using an storage seal to allow full med-kits inside them. By coding each to an certain persons chakra they could ensure the device never fell into enemy hands and by adding an small explosive tag inside they ensured if the enemy did, it was not for long.
Even the Sand siblings had one hidden on them.
Tsunade had taken advantage of this. If an bracelet was created that could be disguised as the same as an haitite, baring the Leaf symbol, but underneath contained an storage seal so messengers could hide stolen or general items inside, then ninja could prevent the items from being stolen back. Medinins could carry extensive supplies into battle or during war, eliminating the need for ninja packs, something every other ninja knew about or used.
Ninja stealing items or important documents could carry a decoy pack to fool enemy if in events of capture or they were slain.
ANBU and Hunter-nin used it to carry medipacks, blood and soldier pills.
Ninja like Tenten carried extra weapons. Lee-who's was coded to his blood like an summon scroll-had weapons also but his 'special candy' as well.
Haku even thanked them gravely, stating he could use his to store any herbs he found in his travels, preventing what happened at Wave from happening again. He could give his master immediate medical aid.
Naruto and Kain found themselves trying to help Shikamaru, worried about the effects his appointment had on his vision. Being able to see the life and death energy around them was messing with his vision and causing serious headaches. He would be no help as an ninja if he was crippled all the time by headaches andor migraines.
Why would the earth do that to one of her guardians? Or was that purely from the the pillars and Vampire magic? Perhaps it was both? Maybe somehow the Pillar Of Death was stronger in its energy than the others and when Shikamaru was chosen, the pillar kind of rebelled against the earth and pushed it power into him, meaning Shikamaru was the Guardian of The Life Stages, DEATH AND LIFE. He DID tell them he could see both.
There HAD to be a way to 'turn it off' or at least mute it. Kiba told them he would ask nature about a way.
Kain muttered maybe that was why Mortanius had been mad.
Hinata pointed out that it could always be his glyph that would do that, controlling the problem. After all, if the Ancient Vampires saw what they would need to do later for them to create the glyphs, they probably foresaw the problem.
However as of yet they were unable to find the location of the next one, there was none in Sasuke's chamber.
"Perhaps Sasuke's was meant to be the final glyph" the Third said, rubbing his chin "the Ancients saw who would need some....aid in the future and placed them there."
"I doubt it" Tsunade said "more than likely we found the chamber early. It was probably the final one and there are more out there."
"The location is in the chamber and hidden somehow" Jiriaya suggested "the kid DID say there was writing he could see in the one at Wave ONLY when he shifted over. Maybe you should send him in to look around."
"What about the one in Iwa that held Kakashi's" Tsunade pointed out "HE didn't see another location, yet here we are with another one. Maybe you should send Naruto into both chambers to look before the next part of the test, to see."
"The one in Iruka Unimo's chamber was obvious to see" this time THE THIRD had a point "the others would be. And that one had no hidden engravings for him to see, he tried."
"You can lead him to the one in the the training grounds and get him to look. If it doesn't contain an location, check the other" Jiriaya said logically.
So Naruto was asked to check the chamber Sasuke's glyph came from. After examining the huge family tree on one wall closely-so Razeil could look for himself and see how his family line had came and gone-he shifted to the Spectral Realm.
Only to have the entire chamber light up at him.
Everywhere, there was writing EVERYWHERE, every visible surface was covered!
But none of it was the location of the next chamber, just more of that weird language from Wave. And now he recognized it. One of the books in Kain's crypt was written like this. He and Shikamaru had found it years ago when going through his adopted father's things. Neither had been able to understand it, so had put it back and there it remained.
"It should still be there now" he said to the Third after reporting to the man his findings.
"So is it possible this book could help translate the writings?" the man asked him.
"The entire book was written in it, but if there was any way inside for us to translate, either we would have brought it to you or Shikamaru would be working on it by now" Naruto pointed out "it's just like it was written by the same people and either the translation is in another chamber, or the translation was lost somehow. We might never know. It may be ancient Vampire or Hylden and the only ones who can understand it are long gone."
However the solution came when Naruto was with Shikamaru and taking some of the books from Kain's crypt to the Third, thinking he may be able to use them in some way. Including the book mentioned.
He was just approaching the tower when a bunch of students chasing each other down the street narrowly missed Naruto, but one accidentally stood on one of his tails.
The boy acted immediately like an injured cat, yowling and bristling, back raised weirdly in anger, several of the books tumbling to the road.
"Sorry ninja-san!" the boy cried over his shoulder and was gone before they could react. Shikamaru sighed his usual "what a drag" and bent to pick up the books.
Only to find one was laying cover open and pages down so when he picked it up and turned it over...
He froze.
Naruto noticed this "what is it?"
Shikamaru showed him the open book "I can read this."
Naruto looked startled "what do you mean? You've looked at it before and said it was gibberish to you."
"Well I can NOW. It's strange and I'm having trouble understanding the context of the sentences, but I CAN read it."
The tailed and winged boy looked at him blankly for a second then shifted the other books to under his arm. Taking the others wrist he marched him towards the Thirds office "come with me."
With the lanky genius protesting the entire way, the other pulled him into the office, snatching the paper out of Jiriaya's hands and ignoring his godfather's protests, he gave it to him, "read that."
Shikamaru looked at it closely, eyes scanning critically over the page. Only Naruto saw his instant reaction "what is it?"
"It's written by Mortanious, to ME!"
"WHAT!?" Tsunade, The Third and Naruto chorused in shock while Jiriaya just blinked blankly "who?"
"The guardian of the Pillar Of Death before Kain-sama was born" Tsunade explained "he helped Mobius the Timestreamer lead a rebellion on the vampire and slaughter them all. He was the one responsible for the murder of Arial the Balance Guardian, Kain-sama's murder and his resurrection as a vampire. In the end he was possessed by an Hylden soul who used him to corrupt the pillars, but mad as his plans were, at least he was trying to put things right."
Naruto frowned at his Skulk brother "what would Mortanious want to say to YOU? How would he know about you?"
"Whatever he DOES say, be careful and don't completely trust. You know his and the others history."
Shikamaru examined the document and spoke "he says he wrote this just before he died by Kain-sama's hands. He knew he was going to die from the day he had him murdered, but he knew through Mobius what would happen and wants to help. He left documents for me, all about everything the Ancient Vampires taught them, what the others could do and what he had researched and learned as the Death Guardian."
"Find it" The Third said "locate it's whereabouts and after the chunnin exams bring it here. This is top priority and could give Hidden Leaf an tactical advantage."
"NO!" Tsunade yelled "Mortanious was an master manipulator being controlled by ANOTHER master manipulator! Anything he has left behind for the current Guardians will just be an attempt to control things way beyond his lifetime!"
"Besides" Jiriaya reasoned "even IF he knew things about the Skulk, they're not Pillar Guardians, so anything he leaves him is useless."
Naruto frowned, looking at The Third "he also said he knew things through Mobius, since when has the Time Streamer EVER told the truth-except as he sees fit to tell? He was using everyone around him, just as the Elder God was using HIM. Do you REALLY think anything Mobius had a hand in was or would be any good for us? No, it'd probably bring the parasite back-or some crap like that."
"While you three have a point and normally I'd agree, this knowledge in the hands of our enemy would be too dangerous. Knowledge of experimentation into Death itself" The Third shook his head "if it really is that dangerous it would be better locked safely away with things like the Forbidden Scroll."
Naruto snorted "if Kiba and I could get it out from under you, what makes you so sure no one else can? What if the bastard is using Orochimaru and the invasion as an distraction to take something important from the village? The Forbidden Scroll, the scrolls Sasuke found, or something else, something more powerful?"
"Why would he take these when no one but Shikamaru-san can read it? It would be useless to him otherwise."
"Who said only Shika can read it? It's only he SO FAR" Naruto pointed out. "Who knows if there isn't an translation somewhere. We've seen what's in Iruka-sensei's, the Wave temple and Sasuke's, what about Itachi's or Kakashi's? What if there was an cave or something somewhere with the translation that we missed?"
Tsunade spoke out "he could have already found the place with the writings Mortanious mentioned. If he has, he could have already had an translation method and started doing so. It's possible that they mentioned some important scroll found among Sasuke's and that was the entire point of the invasion. He KNOWS the temple is somewhere in Hidden Leaf, but not exactly where. He can have the invasion happen and while we're busy he just sneaks in, finds the temple and because he's also Uchiha he thinks he can fool the traps into thinking he's Naruto's Skulk brother and get what he wants." She looked at Naruto "have you and he finished looking through them yet?"
"No" Naruto shook his head "so far all we've found are both clan jutsu's and ones they've copied from enemy ninja using the Sharingan. None of them seem powerful enough to do whatever he wants." Since Naruto had an sharingan as well as Sasuke, he was the only one able to read the scrolls as well as his Skulk brother. Any jutsu's they learned they then had Kain give to Itachi one at a time, allowing their 'brother' access to the secrets as well.
Kain had even taken an copy of the family tree to him to examine since the young man had been taught about it from their father and he was currently studying it closely in his spare time. He had even told Kain he KNEW the one who was to be his wife, but he had no idea how he was going to get to her, she was currently the only female Akatsuki and she seemed more than dedicated to its leader.
Sasuke had every confidence that his brother would find a way.
The Third looked out the window at the setting sun "it's getting late and you two have a busy day tomorrow, I suggest you go home, get your things prepared, have a good meal then go to bed, we need you fresh and ready for the morning."
Naruto rolled his eyes "old man" before, ignoring the twitch, turned to his godparents "'night guys."
"Good night, kid" Jiriaya grinned "and if we don't see you before then, give them your best."
Naruto gave them a huge grin, rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment "yeah, well, it's not like they have a chance is it. I'm not fighting actually. Only Shika, Temari, Hinata and Ino will be fighting. My so-called fight doesn’t work because Kankurõ is forfeiting."
“Whatever, kid.”
That night the three Sand siblings sat in their room, preparing for the next day. Temari was polishing her fan, Kankurõ adjusting and fine-tuning his puppets, Gaara seated on the window-sill and looking outside, conversing with his demon. “so, tomorrow is the day.”
“Yeah” Kankurõ said.
“Tomorrow” Gaara whispered, whether in agreement or talking to his demon, they didn’t know.
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