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Thinking
Tail Beast
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Dammit! Is the one word going through Minato's brain so many things went wrong and way too fast. First he couldn’t stop the kyubi from breaking free thanks to that mask man and now he’s about to be killed by it!
“Sage mode!” Minato screams, finding a clearing and entering his Frog Sage mode gaining an orange color around his eyes.
“I have to seal this..” Minato thinks staring at the massive fox but the problem is where? I mean the only logical choice would be…
That night was 10 years ago
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Standing at a height of 4 '8 is Naruto Uzumaki his hair is bright yellow and his jumpsuit is bright orange hurting most people’s eyes when they look at it. Luckily Naruto doesn't care if anything he welcomes it, anything to get people to look over in his direction at all even if they look away a second after.
“Man this is so lame I’m supposed to be a kickass ninja that becomes the hokage for Kami sake!” Naruto yells with his arms above his head.
Naruto has just tried to pass the academy for the first time and he totally bombed it; he couldn't even get any points!
“I can’t even get the transformation jutsu right!” Naruto screams in frustration before arriving home where he sees words wrote on his house ‘Demon brat, Devil, Demon’
These words don’t seem to have much of an effect on Naruto but that’s just because he’s used to it so he walks in like he didn’t see them.
Now how do I get stronger before this summer ends so I can become a genin?
No matter how much Naruto uses his brain he can’t think of anything so instead he decides to do a prank today.
Perhaps the inuzuka for today…
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Now in broad daylight Naruto has a bag of rotten food he collected from the village trash wrapped tightly that he intends to drop on the unexpecting clan and he knows he has to be fast before he’s smelt out by that dog nose they have.
“Hehehe” Naruto laughs with a small grin
*crash*
“Oh crap!” Naruto whispers when he bumps into a trash can knocking it down making a loud noise and makes an even more noticeable smell making it impossible to hide now.
“WHO'S MAKING ALL THAT RACKET!?”
“WHAT'S THAT SMELL.”
Hearing this Naruto begins to open the bag intending to drop it as a distraction but then something catches his eye.
“A jutsu scroll?” Naruto says staring at a ripped scroll it’s so badly damaged he can’t make most of it out which is probably the reason it was in the trash in the first place before he knocked it down.
“That gives me an idea!” Naruto yells with a new brightly ignited smile.
“Naruto?” A clan member that came out to see what was happening yells at the young boy.
“AH!” Naruto yells instantly running out of there at top speed knocking down the rotten fruit bag which opens buying him enough time to make his escape.
Maybe that nose is a weakness instead of a gift
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“Alright so the plan is simple go to the clan's trash seeing if there are any Justus i can learn!” Naruto says with a smile and a piece of paper and a pencil in his hand which he uses to cross off the Inuzuka off his paper which has all the clans names on it and then he goes on his search.
“Yamanaka, Nope.”
“Aburame, Nope.”
“Saratobi, None really? The Hokage's own clan can’t throw away jutsu scrolls that aren’t destroyed!”
“Uchiha, None..I bet Sasuke is keeping any they may have…”
“Akimichi, None.”
“Nara,..wait there’s barely anything in here!” Naruto shouts in surprise seeing the barely filled space of the Nara trash can but then he sees a blue one.
“A blue trash can? A recycling bin?” So it seems only the smartest of the clans recycle.
“And there’s nothing in here either!”
“So that leaves…Hyūga” Naruto gains a worried look on his face at the revelation.
The one clan I couldn’t prank!.. but this time I’m not pranking them so maybe it’ll be alright.
_.
Now heading to the Hyūga clan, Naruto tries his very best to blend in but with blond hair and his orange jumpsuit it’s not really working unbeknownst to him.
Now that I think about it, I never saw a Hyūga use any Jutsu besides the fist thing: do they even use Ninjutsu?
“I guess it’s too late now though to turn back”
So Naruto continues his plan making his way to the Hyūga compound where he spots two guards in front of the main gate and in front of them a bit to the side is a dumpsters and a bit may be an understatement as it’s far enough away you could confuse it for a public dumpster if it wasn't for how well maintained it was.
“Guess I just have to be quiet, I can do that easily.” Naruto says with a smirk on his face.
So walking over to the dumpster as quietly as possible Naruto climbs in and starts searching for anything he could use to become a better ninja which isn’t too difficult as only so many things could actually help him.
Laying beside a ripped up robe is a scroll which beside having some terrible stains isn’t in the worst condition compared to everything else he saw today.
“Finally a scroll! A Scroll!” Naruto yells in excitement completely forgetting he was supposed to do everything discreetly.
“What are you doing in our pristine clans trash?!” A voice yells out as the guards begin walking over.
“Oh crap!” Naruto says a little quieter even though it’s useless at this point as he picks up the scroll and begins running away not intending to stay around at all.
“There’s no point in chasing him. I bet he just stole some rotten food or something like that to eat.” One of the guards say
“Eh it seems like if he would take rotten food wouldn't it be for a prank if anything knowing him.” The other guard says.
“Perhaps but at the end of the day if someone from our clan chose to throw it away it holds no more value to us”
“That is true”
-.
Now in his Apartment Naruto can barely hold his excitement anymore at the thought of all the jutsu he could learn as the scroll is fairly big.
“Well time to open it up!”
And what Naruto read made his excitement explode.
“List of!… E-rank Justus?”
Before it instantly gets shot back down again.
“Oh come on! I got this stinky off colored stained scroll for E-ranks?”
Well I guess I should check it out anyways
So with an over dramatic tear Naruto opens up the scrolls where he sees clone jutsu, transformation jutsu, Substitution jutsu, tree climbing exercise and water climbing exercise.
“All the jutsu are what we learn in the academy…” At this revelation Naruto gets a sad look.
“Well that doesn’t matter! I’ll crush all these Justus and I’ll become the hokage Believe it!”
So with a new look of confidence Naruto begins looking at the descriptions for some of the jutsu.
“ ‘You accomplish Tree climbing by putting the right amount of chakra on the sole of your feet and climbing up a tree standing straight, great for learning chakra control.’ “
“Well time to get started!”
5 weeks later on the day summer is half over.
Naruto still cannot get the tree climbing exercise right after 5 weeks of nonstop walking up some trees he found that were in a training ground.
“How can walking up trees be so hard!”
“If I can’t do an E-rank how am I supposed to be hokage?”
Naruto has kept this up for so long that quite a few pieces of bark fell off the trees and onto the floor from where he put too much chakra and fell down with it still on his feet and then there’s scrape lines on trees where he put too little and slid down.
“Hey what are you doing?” a mysterious man asks under the shade of a tree and the only thing you could make out is a book in his hand that covers his face and his hair which seems to not listen to gravity.
“Uh..uhh well mister I’m just trying to learn how to walk up a tree…I saw other ninjas doing it and I’m trying to learn it as well! But I can’t get it at all.”
“Well are you balancing your chakra over or just using it?”
“What?”
“Allow me to explain in terms I think you’ll understand when you pour water into a ramen cup too little won’t cook it all the way and when you add too much the ramen overflows both of those options being bad but if you add the right amount…” The man then begins walking up the tree and soon he’s out of Naruto's view.
“Woah thanks mister! And are you a nin..Where did he go?” Unbeknownst to Naruto he never did walk back down and settled for standing on top of the tree staring at Naruto and the scroll set behind him.
Based on the condition of that scroll I bet that’s what Naruto found out of one of the clans trash that I heard he was looking in the other day, most likely Hyūga considering it isn’t in shreds or it could be Nara I guess but at least he’s training . Then the man disappears from the tree in leaves like he was never there.
“Alright imagine the ramen…” with a picture in his head of pouring water in ramen he begins walking up the tree reaching the third branch for the very first time before he suddenly falls straight to the floor.
“AGH that hurt…”
“But I improved!” Naruto says with a smile.
-.
October 10th Ten years ago
“Nine tails!” The person who screamed this is Minato Namikaze. He has orange shading around his eyes which he normally doesn’t have showing he’s using sage mode.
“Lava Release: Scorching Rock” Large rocks of fire and lava get shot at the massive fox making its eyes turn to the blond man.
“RAGHH” With a loud noise the fox slashes at the man who quickly dodges.
“Not the fastest man alive for nothing…” Minato whispers to himself before jumping off at the giant fox.
A lost amount of time ago in a forgotten place.
“You beast! Give us lava!” A large man says with a drawing of a red and white fan on his chest.
“S- Sir I don’t think this giant monkey will do much for us, it's best to kill it before something happens.” A scrawny man says
“It’ll be fine beside Madara and our best are keeping the beast restrained.”
“Do we even know if it will or can give us its lava abilities?”
“It better or it’ll be nothing but a large rotten corpse” the large man then looks up at the large red monkey with four large tails behind his back while everyone in the
Uchiha Clan beside the two try to keep it under a genjutsu.
Suddenly quite a few of the people who were previously standing still with blood in their eyes drop with large breaths being the only sound.
“Begin the Night Routine the strongest Genjutsu users should now begin handling most of the work keeping the Beast restrained and the rest should begin to sleep and when they wake up have them switch.”
“Yes sir”
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“Are you sure we should be doing this?” A blond man asks a woman with brown hair beside him.
“Of course we can’t just let them torture the creature like this but it dosent surpirse me that the Uchicha would do this” The Women responds
“Wow you Senju sure hate the Uchicha.”
“Why did you volunteer if you would have second thoughts?” She said turning around practically ignoring his previous comment.
“Well i'm a Namikaze a Civilian clan that as you know specialize in knifes and short swords for ninja and samurai alike and well I just feel like I should do something more meaningful that actually has a big impact beside being a supplier and this seems to be my only chance.”
“So it’s for glory?” She saids moving along to a different rock where she can now see the sleeping Uchicha and the few still standing Uchicha with their bleeding eyes looking at the tied monkey beast that looks like he could snap all of his restraints at any moment.
“I wouldn’t call it glory more like the need to help”
“Huh so your noble nice anyways that has to be the end of this talk it’s now or never.” She says grabbing a Kunai out she plans to use to cut the rope.
“Alright I’ll begin my role.”
“Wait, You may not have to be a suicde distraction I didn’t think the Uchiha would be this drained it looks like any of them could collapse at a moment we may be able to free it and run.” The woman then smiles, imagining the destruction that would follow the clan.
“Go” and with this one word the both of them move the Namikaze freeing his arms while she quickly frees his legs unbeknown to the hyperfocus Uchicha and the mentally restrained ape.
“I’ll go free the Genjutsu you prepare to run.” The brown hair beauty says charging up a jutsu.
“Fireball jutsu!” She says loud enough for those awake to hear but quite enough for those still sleeping to stay in their slumber.
“Huh?” All of the Uchiha that are awake yell when they see the massive fireball stopping the genjutsu, well almost all of them yell.
“I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!” The massive red beast screamed with a large amount of chakra flowing off him in a threatening red aura.
“But first who freed me?”
“Uh that would be us sir!” The Senju woman says from behind a tree with the blond Namikaze.
But due to the overflowing chakra of the tail beast sensing anyone else’s becomes 100x more difficult, a little too difficult especially if someone’s hiding their signature.
“Come to me” the Ape says
As she begins walking over a scream hits her ears first as she turns around and gets met with a sword slash across her abdomen delivered by none other than Madara Uchiha a talented young man who has many dreams for the future.
“Die curseded Senju” the man says before quickly jumping into a tree and running in the forest.
“That’s for my brothers…” he mumbles slightly, ignoring that he would have to abandon this battle.
“ENOKI!” The Blond Namikaze yells running towards her dead body.
“Hey hum-“
“Why didn’t you stop him!? You could have, You have a god's power, I feel it!”
“This is your first time encountering death isn’t it? Death isn’t something predictable or stoppable sure maybe I could have but to be honest I wasn’t expecting it just like you. If anything I’m shocked more about how easy it is for humans to kill their own kind then the fact she died cause I asked her to come towards me.”
“How could you say that? You're Replacing blame if you would have done what you said first and wiped the Uchiha out instead of calling her out of the trees she would have been alive why did you call her anyways?”
“You cared for her?”
“I just met her, I care for life.”
“Interesting how about you come over here I swear this time no one will be trying anything.” and with a roar of his power the Uchiha who have been just staring in fear remembering the last time they fought the beast began to run in the direction of Madras chakra trail carrying the bare minimum of supplies they could, something very uncharacteristic.
“I’m sure that’s not the last time those pesky eye batards will do something…”
“What is it?” The man says now standing in front of the beast.
“You are a weird human. I've never seen one that shows they care for life. I wish to give you a gift to protect life just as you said purely for entertainment.” The ape says, holding his finger out as the man touches it.
“AAAHHH” the man screams as a red energy surges into his body as he suddenly collapses.
“What was that…” the man says weakly.
“It’s Chakra added with my personal Lava Release”
“Isn’t that what they were trying to get out of you?”
“Yes it is Lava release as it sounds give you the ability to make and control lava and my chakra boost your reserve and increase your healing capabilities and because I embedded it in your chakra so you produce a mix of mine and your chakra it should be inheritable if you live that long. So bye hum-“
“What’s your name?”
“Excuse me?” The monkey says with a look of confusion no one has ever asked him his name before.
“I want to properly thank you but I don’t know your name”
“It’s…Son-Goku”
“Thank you Son-Goku I won’t forget your kindness and I’m sorry for placing her death on you when it’s my fault for not being strong enough to protect her or anyone else” He says bowing his head with a serious look on his face.
“Strange human indeed, I also won’t forget you so please tell me your name.”
“My name is Zuroki Namikaze”
“Goodbye Zuroki Namikaze '' The ape then begins running far away making a giant dust cloud.
“I have to bury you now..” Zuroki Says looking at the fallen Senju.
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“FINALLY!” Naruto says with a bright smile as he finally manages to walk fully up a tree and then down it.
“I finally finished! I gotta thank that weird man for the tip if I ever see him again, now what’s next?” After saying this Naruto walks over to the scroll when his heart drops.
“Water walking?? How do you even do that? Where’s that mysterious man?” Naruto freaks out.
“I’m not going to finish before the academy starts back…”
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3k words! Anyways I should probably talk about this story a bit, some of you reading will know that this is a rewrite and I wanna say it won’t be taking the same route hopefully of an OP Naruto and I hope you also appreciate the 2k more words than I did last time.
Every chapter will have more than 2,5k words
Update scheduled: I’ll try once a week. I actually wrote this chapter in 3 days if you don’t count all the days I didn’t write at all. Reviews do help with motivation and I want constructive criticism.