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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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In the following weeks things struggled to go back to normal. Damage was repaired, bodies removed, 'stains' cleaned away. The civilians returned to their homes and businesses and life resumed, except for the overhanging sense of grief at the death of their leader and undercurrent of fear, who would lead them now?
Then, by unanimous vote coupled with the discovery of the will of Hirzen Saratobi it was decided.
Naruto would have cracked up there on the streets when he learned the identity, but he was SUPPOSE TO be in mourning like everyone else.
His sake drinking, gamble-addicted godmother.
Apparently the Third had nominated his godfather, funny in itself-but in the event he refused the position (let's face it, NOTHING was allowed to interrupt that man's perving)-it would go to his godmother. Because the Third had left it in his will AND the council approved it (the last Senju as the Fifth Hokage-just like her grandfather before her, who WOULDN'T want that? Good for Kohona's image) and lastly the civilians voted for it wholeheartedly, she couldn't refuse without looking bad. And with Kain having already paid off her depts, it wasn't as if anyone would be coming to demand since she was the Hokage, Hidden Leaf itself pay off what she owed.
Naruto did however crack up when he came in once-to visit of course, not to laugh at her-when he found her asleep across the desk, muttering about "paperwork, so much paperwork. What, did the old man leave it ALL for ME to do?"
Just after everything calmed down and went back to normal, Naruto and the rest of the Guardians confronted Shino. He reluctantly admitted he had discovered the ability in an previous training session but had been reluctant to use it, knowing man wasn't meant to control time-absolute power corrupts absolutely. Being able to control and manipulate the future and past, what COULD BE was too much of an temptation. What person in the world wouldn't kill to have the ability to go back and correct every little mistake they made? To go to the future and see what will happen so they could manipulate the present in THEIR favor?
He had tested, but so far only seemed able to go back seconds, he had not been able to stand the thought of loosing Shikamaru and THAT was the only reason he did it.
He then asked Naruto how HE had been able to remember what happened, everyone else but him 'forgot' the events of the original time-line.
Shikamaru didn't remember.
"We are the Balance Guardian" Naruto said "of course we'd remember."
"I have traveled back and forth through time" Raziel answered with his next breath "I have seen hundreds of versions, even been there at the center of one of those shifts-twice. "
"So you're saying since you were there for these events it's given you some.....leeway with others?"
The wraith nodded "my rebirth-even my true birth were pivotal events in history. There are a few in time who are the same, time moves around them and depend on their actions for certain points to actually occur. That gives them some 'wriggle-room' in such as these."
It was also decided that Sasuke leaving Hidden Leaf to 'defect' to Sound would wait a few months. He wasn't quite ready yet and it gave Orochimaru time to APPEAR to be struggling with finding a way to heal, to get use of his arms back.
After all, if he had really lost the use of his arms, he wouldn't be worried about Sasuke at the moment.
In reality Naruto had Spectral Jumped inside the base, healed him and secretly moved among the snake-nin's forces, ferreting out spies or traitors for him to know about and keep an eye on.
It was during this time that Naruto had found....IT.
"How did this base come to be?" he frowned as he faced the snake-nin.
"Come to be?" the sannin frowned at him "what do you mean?"
"Did YOU build it, or did you merely find it and claim it as your own?"
"Ah" Kabuto looked at him "master, I believe he found that hidden door. The one we could never open."
After grimacing at the title Orochimaru searched his memory for it. It took a few long seconds to find it among all the things he wanted to forget, but it was there and he nodded to his medic "you are right" he looked at the younger man "when I originally found this place, it was an entrance, hall, this room....." he motioned around him "and THAT DOOR we could never open. We tried everything, jutsu, explosives, summon NOTHING could get inside or even open it. It seems protected somehow in ways too advanced for us. So I had the base built around it in the hope of one day finding a way inside." He looked at Naruto curiously "you know WHAT it is and why it's there?"
Naruto nodded "the one that enacted that jutsu on you endangers the entire planet with his scheming. Somehow my fathers ancestors-who were an highly advanced race-foresaw the events this guy did and left various chambers and items of power around the Elemental Nations for those chosen to fight him to use against him and protect them. Some have already been found, only a few, but if it really is protected, this is one of them."
"Whose?"
"I have no idea."
"Why do I feel drawn to it?" Orochimaru asked softly, thoughtfully "like it's calling me? But it won't let me in."
Naruto's head snapped up towards him "WHAT did you just say?!"
"I'm drawn to it, always have since I found it. Which is why I had the base built here. Yet I can't get in like everyone else."
Naruto frowned "have you gone near it since your return from Hidden Leaf?" When the snake-nin shook his head, Naruto rose from his seated position and motioned the two to follow "come with me."
The two followed Naruto to the door where Naruto motioned at it "touch it." When the sannin just frowned at him, he just motioned again "trust me."
Slowly the sannin reached out and lay a palm flat against the door.
There was an hum of power and the door lit up under his flesh, a line of light spreading out from between flesh and stone, racing around the surface of the door until a symbol-a picture- appeared.
Snake nin and medic gasped, an white snake! The same one that the sanin had been experimenting with! The one the Otokage had become so alike!
There was a sound, like power coming to life and old machinery awakening and the three stepped back, Orochimaru away from the door as the heavy stone slid open, revealing an dimly lit interior and stairs.
Before the others could move in, Naruto caught both their arms and pulled them short, speaking first to Kabuto "you can't go in there, no one but Orochimaru-san can."
"Why not?" the medic frowned suspiciously.
"The chamber is only for the one it was designed for, any other will die in there, this is for him an him alone." He released his arm to look at the snake-nin "if this is one of THOSE chambers, there will be a test, to prove who you are and your worthiness. To pass you must hold NOTHING back, it will take all your skill and cunning. Once you have passed and the object is yours and in your possession, THEN it will be safe for us to come inside, not a moment earlier. For this you are on your own."
Orochimaru hesitated "the.....object at the end. Is it worth it?"
"Everything left by the ancient vampires has proven useful-vital even so far. Whatever it is will either prove vital to the future or invaluable to you later on, believe me."
Hesitantly the Otokage nodded and moved inside. Kabuto started to panic when the door started to close behind his 'master', but Naruto soothed him softly "it's alright, it just ensures he's not followed or interrupted. This will require all the intelligence, cunning and speed he can muster."
Ten minutes later they were still waiting and Kabuto had been forced to move off and divert some Sound from the area. Once one of the ninja had gotten past Kabuto and Naruto had been forced to Spectral Jump to avoid him.
It took at least twenty minutes before the door slid open. Naruto sent an mental call to the silver haired medic who came as soon as he could.
Together the two moved inside.
Kabuto looked around in awe at the architecture inside as well as the symbols everywhere. He never thought he would see snakes portrayed so nobly and heroically, but here they were.
In a corner they found the sannin slumped against the wall, seemingly unconscious, limp, hair hanging down to hide his face from them. Naruto reached the figure first, kneeling by his side to examine him. By the time Kabuto had reached him, Naruto was finished with his exam and looked up "he's uninjured, just exhausted and low on chakra. It took a lot out of him."
In an surprisingly tender gesture, Kabuto knelt in front of his kage and stroked the hair from his face gently "sensei?"
"I remember" he slurred weakly "I remember EVERYTHING." The two exchanged looks "Everything?"
"Everything, everything they made me forget, HE made me forget." He motioned weakly at the back of his head and Naruto gently pulled him forward so Kabuto could move his hair to the side to reveal.......
Naruto frowned "a SEAL?!" he leaned a little closer to look more clearly "it's one designed for memories, I've seen it in use on prisoners of the T&I."
Something was attacking it, eating away at it, they could see chunks slowly disappearing as they watched. A line of glowing light ran just under the snake-nin's skin from it and following it back they found his left hand still clutched around an item, a book.
A book on sealing Naruto had never seen before. Is THIS what the ancients had left the man? A BOOK? But why? Although if someone HAD previously sealed away the sannin's TRUE memories and manipulated them to suite him or her, perhaps it made sense.
Letting the man lean back against the wall again, Naruto looked into his eyes. The yellow was clouded and unfocused as he obviously attempted to sort through the mess inside, new and old, real and fake.
"My father was a great seal master" he began "he was the one the Hokage called on when needed, HE EVEN started to teach Jiriaya."
Naruto nodded to Kabuto "keep him talking" he said to him mentally "it will help him sort it all out if he speaks of it."
The medic nodded "HE was the one who taught the greatest seal master in Kohona? Wow. Did he teach you as well?"
The sannin frowned "no, he refused, he wanted me to follow mother. When I started to get into it and create my own, he punished me" he motioned at his neck again. "he sealed away all my knowledge and memory of them until the one-eyed ninja contaminated it with his jutsu."
Naruto's eyes widened and he looked at the Medic, identical knowledge in his eyes "the curse seal" they said together. It all fit. Orochimaru had said he could see those capable of using sage energy, could see it, but couldn't use it himself. Combine that with a child experimenting with seals. He had said he wanted to find a way to allow those who had the capability to actually use it. The snake nin must have been trying to find a seal capable for releasing that energy in ninja from an very young age when his father found out and in order to stop him, sealed that knowledge away, it was too dangerous-for him and those he chose to use to try it out on.
However he could STILL see that energy and after his parents died and the one-eyed ninja cast that jutsu, the desire returned, only because of the contamination....
"I can continue, with this" the sannin's eyes were slowly clearing as the light faded, it's work done. "I don't know how your ancestors knew so much about seals and sealing, WAY MORE than Jiriaya ever did, but I can continue my original work as it was meant to be, not that abomination it became. They even made sure I would never be twisted so badly again. Look."
Frowning the two leaned forwards again.
A new seal was there where the other was, it hadn't been there seconds ago. "What is it?" Kabuto asked, then yelped when he went to touch it and instead received an aggressive shock, quickly snatching his hand back.
"An seal of guardianship, think of it as an protection charm. No one will ever control me again. But it also has an type of filter, so if the one-eyed ninja returns to renew the jutsu it won't work, but I'll know what he wants me to do, so I can act on them like he's in control, but he is not" he looked at Naruto "that's when Kabuto will get in touch with you." The tailed and winged boy nodded and leaned forward to get a better look at the new seal without touching "it seems your new seal acts like my Skulks, it protects the bearer from ALL chance of contamination. You saw it's reaction to Kabuto, now you know why when you tried to seal Sasuke the reaction was....severe."
Orochimaru's hand flew to the mark "you mean that they....."
"Yes. Somehow and some way, the knowledge of the ancients sealing was passed from them to you though this book, and to the Kyuubi through me."
"Although" he thought "how did the knowledge of the ancient vampires sealing get passed to the nine tailed? They are two completely different time periods nowhere near each other?"
"I have no idea" came the inner reply "I just have it. I never questioned it before."

His answer came a few weeks after Tsunade's appointment as Fifth and the 'event' at Sound. Team Seven was called in for an special mission.
"The Fire Lord is sending an dignitary to Hidden Leaf" she said "to officiate my induction as Hokage. You four are to meet him on the way to Hidden Leaf, he should be just arriving in Grass Village now" she handed over the information on a scroll. "His safety is the top priority, the official is close friends with the Lord and his wife and has known them for many years. This makes him a target to those seeking to harm the Fire Lord. Meet him and make sure he and his property reach Hidden Leaf safely and undamaged."
"Um" Naruto started "why did you choose us of all teams? If this guy is so important, shouldn't the ANBU or even chichi be the ones to escort him."
"Because for some reason your team were requested" Tsunade said to them "no set reason why was given, just that he wanted you four and none else."
"Hmm" Kakashi said, stroking his covered chin thoughtfully "this implies either the Fire Lord is up to something putting him with us, or the dignitary knows of or one of us personally."
"But who and why?" Sasuke questioned.
"THAT we'll have to wait to find out."
As they moved towards the coordinates given Kakashi felt a sense of forbidding he hoped to the Kami was wrong. However he also noticed Naruto tensing the closer they got.
"Something's wrong" Naruto frowned and spoke suddenly, staring ahead of them where they were going intently.
Aware by now of the blonde's heightened senses and sixth sense for danger-never mind the fact he felt something wrong for himself, Kakashi tensed "what is it, Naruto?"
"I don't know exactly" the boy frowned "something's wrong ahead, I sense Jitsu's and fire."
"Like where we are supposed to meet our client?"
"SHIT!" Naruto was off so fast even Kakashi with all his years and experience, was having trouble keeping up.
They entered a clearing just in time to take the situation in.
Ninja's from the Fire Lord, probably guards to the dignitary, lay dead around the place, blood and...other things all over trees, grass and bare earth. Along with them were dead kin-nins, obviously the aggressors.
There was an covered carriage, the horses obviously gone, near the far trees.
Just as they were entering the clearing, Naruto was attacking one lone ninja, glowing sword drawn, however he wasn't in time to stop the man launching an huge fireball at the lone carriage.
"SENSEI!!" Sakura screamed, Kakashi attempting to go through the hand signs for an water attack to douse the flames, but it was too late, THEY were too late.
Flames engulfed the carriage and there was no hope for those on board. Kakashi continued, hoping to put it out on time when he was stopped "Sensei let me, I won't need chakra."
Hesitating the man nodded.
Raising one hand, the other and then dramatically clapping his hands together Naruto send an huge tree-high vertical wall of water to cover the entire area of the burning structure, dousing it instantly.
As the four headed for the ruined structure Kakashi spoke "which was that attack? I have never seen it before."
"Water glyph."
"You used Sound on those Sound nins in the forest of death, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Tell me about it" Kakashi said as they started to dig into the burnt frame, looking for survivors or bodies. So the pink and brunette haired teens began to recap the events as they worked.
"Quick thinking, Naruto" the sensei appraised "thinking like that on a battlefield is what keeps you and those you work with and love alive."
"Well father taught me that many enemy are NOT immune-even vulnerable-to their own attacks. So sound may be their attack, but it is also their weakness. I mean how many people out there train against their own bloodline and or attacks?"
"I do" Sasuke said "Itachi and I trained each other to resist or even overpower each other's Sharingan, he said I have to be ready for ANYTHING, even the unlikely attack of another Sharingan."
"Unlikely?" Naruto grunted "more like likely. Don't forget our enemy possesses an Uchiha body, complete with Sharingan. Obito may have had only one eye after giving it to Kakashi sensei, but how much do you want to bet once he transferred bodies, he transplanted his previous forms eyes into the new one? Meaning we have an former ANCIENT Uchiha with who knows how much knowledge and probably an mangeko to boot and years of hatred against the Senju and Kohona to contend with."
"I'd hardly call him ancient" Sasuke snorted "KAIN-SAMA is way older than this guy even Razeil-niisan and Kyuubi-neesan. Just because he's two hundred odd doesn't make him an ancient. He's not ancient, just old."
"True" came another's voice. "It would be an distinction known and I would expect from no one less then the son of my blood-child and his team."
The group froze, looking around but seeing nothing. The voice had been male, gentle and kind, whispering around them like an breeze through the trees, but while amused it seemed very grandfatherly, even priestly. The words were very old, almost like an priest would use, even ancient, but the actual age was indistinguishable.
"Wait" the blonde frowned "I know that voice, I've heard it before...But where?"
"Naruto?" the group looked at their blonde friend.
"I've heard it before, no...wait, niisan has. But we can't place it."
As they watched his eyes went white and he began to look around. "Where are you?" He said in the voice they knew by now meant his brother's spirit was out and in control.
"Look up."
The blonde's head snapped up and he gaped, "YOU!? IT CAN'T BE!!"
The other three followed his eyes to gasp. Above the trees but close enough for them to see fully was a sight.
Huge black wings dipped in white spread to allow flight, skin of dark greyblue was a figure. He had slicked back black hair cut around the back of the neck and streaked with grey.
The hands were what could only be described as cloven, two fingers and a thumb.The eyes were yellowgold the frame tall and well build-muscular.
Two longer and pointed canines were seen on the top jaw of the mouth, similar to Naruto when his brother showed fully.
He appeared at least forty, maybe younger.
He wore ANBU boots in white, rich whitegold long pants tucked into his boots and an matching whitegold sleeveless long-coat over an plain white shirt.
Stitched into the coat and around the bottom that fluttered around his legs was writing so ancient they couldn't begin to read it, flowing up the sides and all around the outside-past the collar to meet the start at the bottom again, almost in an weird kind of circle.
On the back of the coat-from the shoulders to the leather belt, was an picture, a picture stitched also in gold but also yellow, red, purple, orange, cream and blue.
They were ten strange symbols each a different color, all revolving in a circle around another, to their surprise, the copy of Naruto's sword.
The sword was golden but seemed aflame, to their surprise there was ten more symbols circling the blade, inside the other circle.
The figure floated closer towards them causing the others to withdraw their kunai and tense for battle, but NarutoRaziel raised one arm to block their path "Wait" eyes narrowing "Janos?!"
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