Sage's Inheritance

Prayers Answered

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"Why me the worst ever?" Naruto Uzumaki, the dobe of the Academy and bane of every ninja around, is walking or more like stomping around the forest diving Wave Country, where his ninja team left on a mission, and Fire Country, where Naruto's village lies and supposedly 'hidden'. As for why the blonde ninja that wears all orange in such a bad mood is in a few minutes ago:

"My fault? Naruto was back in the simple wooden cottage where his client lived as a father and grandfather and he was in an argument. "What do you mean it was my fault that Sasuke-temewas nearly killed?" Sasuke in question was better known as Sasuke Uchiha of the feared Uchiha clan for their Katon and their Kekkei Genkai, the Sharingan until one of their best members supposedly went mad and slain everyone except for Sasuke who is the younger brother of the clan killer, Itachi Uchiha. Ever since that horrible night, Sasuke acted like he was more important than even the Daimyo which got on Naruto's nerves and even more because his childhood crush, Sakura Haruno, is after the jerk and is also the one angry for no clear reason.

"Why did you have to jump in when Sasuke-kun didn't need help? He was nearly killed when you forced him to take in all those Senbon!" Sakura, as you can see, is a loud and annoying fangirl of Sasuke that if Naruto wasn't in love with her, he would have slapped her on the cheek.

"He said that his body moved on his own! And if I didn't barge in, how would have he dodged that attack!? And why didn't you take the client to safety while we distract Zabuza like his companion? You could have protected him better that way and he told that but you wouldn't even listen to his word only thinking about your stupid crush! Why do you love him? What has he done for you to earn your affections? And what happened to your feelings for me!?"Naruto ranted about everything but he instead got hit on the head by an angry Sakura,

"Shut up Baka! You are nothing but trash that makes Sasuke pull extra weight and for me to get dirty which will ruin everything I did to seduce Sasuke-kun! You don't have a bloodline or a cool jutsu like Sasuke-kun! You don't have skills like Kakashi-sensei! And you don't have my chakra control! Unless you have those, you will never become Hokage! You are the worst ninja that ever lived! This Sakura will never love you, juts Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled that broke Naruto's heart and dreams that he snapped. He slapped Sakura to the ground and jumped out of a window without opening it first causing it to break but the pain couldn't scratch what Naruto has felt all his life so he didn't care.

Now, Naruto is feeling sleepy so he changed to the opposite direction back to the cottage thinking of ways to get in and fall asleep without them noticing because sneaking around was the one thing he truly did good at the very moment. Until he felt something hit his foot causing him to fall on his face.

"Arrgh! What is-?" When Naruto looked back, he saw a scroll sticking out of the ground and that was what tripped his foot. 'Who buries scrolls out here and in such terrible jobs?' Naruto thought, 'Anyways, someone buried this important scroll in a hurry and since no one was around...' Naruto looked around to see no one but what he didn't notice was that the birds were not moving and there is not wind whatsoever. 'I guess I should see what is so important in here and hopefully it will help my ninja career.' He had no idea how right he was until he opened the scroll.

When Naruto opened the scroll, he found three circular matrix like those exploding papers that he had seen in action only these had the Kanji for 'Toad', 'Slug' and 'Snake'. Naruto of course had no idea what they meant of what to do with them when he saw a note on the bottom of the scroll itself. It read:

"To anyone who finds this scroll,

Congratulations because this has the secrets and jutsu of the prodigal three which made them strong and infamous. If the reader is terribly taught in the ninja arts, all they have to do is channel their chakra into the storage seals. Good luck in handling the mysteries of the energy chakra.

'Sound simple enough as those blasted academy teachers actually taught me how to activate my chakra in the first place.' Naruto thought as he about to do that until he had something reach his mind so he made a cross of his index and pointer fingers in each hand, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" An extra two Naruto appeared on each side of the original as they mimicked him in unsealed the three matrixs on the scroll. Instantly, three clouds of smoke appeared, startling the three Narutos and causing the two clones to dispel into smoke themselves.

"More scrolls!?" Naruto said in shock and disbelief as it was true, there on top of the seals were three separate piles of scrolls along with other stuff like a sword in its sheath and a pouch revealed to be filled with Senbon and daggers making a complete set. Naruto thought it was that is late that he was getting frustrated but he noticed that his sleepiness was gone probably replaced with excitement.

When he looked closer to the scroll piles, one of them all had 'dobe' on them as well as 'best rookie' and 'best girl'; the terms that brought back why he was on a team that doesn't even pay any attention to anyone other than Sasuke and Naruto was the only one who minded that fact.

'Still, if there is a scroll about the dobe of the class maybe it can help me as the class dobe of this year' Naruto thought as he reached for the pile to see that the top one was a summary of Katon and Doton as well as Kejutsu and Combination Techniques but the most astounding one was the technique called the Rasengancreated by the Yondaime Hokage himself. In the pile was a contract for the toad clan which said that contracts grant whoever signs it is able to call them through the Kuchiyose Jutsu. Naruto found scrolls on Jutsu involving Shurikenand Kunai to multiple them in midair similar to the Shadow Clone Jutsu; there were also pointers on to increase their accuracy and throwing potential with these tools.

'If that was what is inside the 'dobe' scroll...' Naruto thought, 'maybe there are more to learn from the others and if I read the 'best girl' scroll, I can teach it to Sakura and then she will at least be my team mate.' If you hadn't noticed, Naruto didn't address his crush like he used to which meant that he aims to take his ninja career seriously. Anyway, he checked the pile to see a slug summoning contract with scrolls on Medical Ninjutsu including a Raiton that causes the target's nervous system to become tampered with so that the target can't move a limb as he wants. There were also Taijutsu scrolls in the pile too of many types; Naruto couldn't wait to try them out to improve his stance; but the one that got him most excited was the scroll on how to use chakra to enhance the ninja's strength, with it the ninja can crack the ground and level mountains. The last one was about a Henge that can really alter your age by an extension as it will not only make you younger but also your body younger; Naruto thought it was just for people who hate their old age and appearances and used this technique to escape it all. Still it is interesting that the Henge can actually transform; Naruto was told that the Henge as just an illusion made to sneak in unexpectedly or fool their targets into overlooking them for another person.

Now it was the last pile that got him not astounded or excited but disgusted and dismayed since the knowledge in the scrolls was all about experiments with living test subjects and steal their lives to continue their own. Naruto made a note to burn these scrolls when he learns the Katon in the first pile but not all of them because the scrolls worth keeping were on Doton but also Suiton and Futonand Kenjutsuespecially the one on the study of Bloodline Limits; it told that Bloodline Limits were mutations in a ninja's genes that live through family lines and since they all have are activated by chakra, they were theorized that they were created from chakra. But when humans tried it, they couldn't meet the amount of chakra to permanently change the DNA of an another human to last until death until they saw more than enough in the Bijulike the Kyubi no Kitsune that attacked the Konoha village when Naruto was born.

Now when the heavy and magnificent feeling chakra had emerged from Naruto's body while mostly his belly, it got the former's curiously as he somehow remembers feeling that force on the day he was first-born so he created his own theory but he prayed to be proved wrong that somehow, in his belly, laid the Kyubi trapped ever since that night. One thing is for sure is that he wants answers and he wants them now; and the only way to find the answers to face the most feared being in the land inside his stomach.

End of Chapter 1

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Translations:

Katon - Fire Release

Kekkei Genkai - Bloodline Limits

Sharingan - Pinwheel Eye

Damiyo - Ruler over a Ninja Land

Senbon - Japanese Needles; used for injecting liquids or attacking precise points on a living being

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu - Shadow Clone Jutsu

Doton - Earth Release

Kejutsu - Hair Techniques

Rasengan - Spiraling Spheres

Kuchiyose no Jutsu - Art of Summoning

Ninjutsu - Ninja Art

Raiton - Lightning Release

Taijutsu - Un-armed Techniques

Henge - Transformation

Suiton - Water Release

Futon - Wind Release

Kenjutsu - Sword Techniques