So yeah it's been a while but heres chapter four.
Oh yeah I figured I'd take the time to describe Naruto's eyes, aka the Alpha Stigma, to you. The Alpha Stigma can essentially analyze and understand everything that it sees. So if Naruto was to say see a jutsu then he would know what the jutsu is, how it works, the exact effects of said jutsu and how to use it. However this does not mean he can automatically use the jutsu for he might not have enough chakra, or chakra control or the right element etc.
Once again thanks to the lovely Dulemina for being my awesome Beta.
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The Sandaime Hokage was a wise and charismatic leader, he was the creator of hundreds of jutsu, he was nicknamed 'The Professor' and 'The God of Shinobi' for a reason. He was the type of ninja and the type of leader that everyone aspired to be like. Never before had Kurenai thought that her leader had lost his mind. "Can you please repeat that Hokage-sama?" Kurenai asked, hoping that she had misheard.
The Sandaime gave a small smirk "You are being given an A-Rank mission to observe and protect Uzumaki Naruto, the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi, until he graduates and becomes a shinobi of Konoha," he repeated, his voice tinged with amusement.
Kurenai silently released her chakra in an effort to dispel whatever genjutsu she was under, when nothing happened she had to acknowledge that she had heard correctly and this was not a genjutsu. "May I ask why Hokage-sama?" she asked, hoping to find a way out of this duty.
The Sandaime gave a nod before leaning back in his chair "As you have seen Shikaku has some plans for the boy, I know that he won't ever do anything to purposefully harm him but I believe that it is only a while before something goes terribly wrong. That is why I want to have you watching over him," the Sandaime explained.
"Why do you not just have him stay away from the boy then?" Kurenai asked, confused.
The Hokage's smirk dropped from his face and he adopted a look of seriousness. "As Shikaku has pointed out he is protected thanks to the Clan Charter, I can not act unless he causes Naruto harm, which he has not done yet. If I were to act then the rest of the clans would see it as an attack against their rights and civil war would break out," the Sandaime explained.
Kurenai could feel the blood rushing from her face at that thought, a civil war would be horrible.
The Sandaime nodded at her look before he pulled a scroll out of his desk, "does this look familiar to you?" he asked Kurenai, handing her the scroll.
Kurenai took the scroll and looked it over, it was covered in numbers and symbols, probably detailing some obscure jutsu by the look of it, but that wasn't what drew Kurenai's attention. In the middle of the scroll was the seal array that she had seen the Jinchuuriki use for his fire jutsu, his chakraless fire jutsu. "This is the seal array that Uzumaki used," Kurenai announced.
"I thought as much," the Sandaime said grimly, "this is a copy of a scroll that Naruto obtained from the Nara's. The scroll details a fire jutsu that has potentially infinite power, it is also completely impossible."
"What do you mean impossible?" Kurenai asked before a few seconds later adding "Hokage-sama.
"I did not get the title 'The Professor' for nothing," the Sandaime said. "The jutsu in that scroll does not use any elemental chakra, in fact it does not use any chakra at all. The seal array does not use any seals in existence and means as much as chicken scratches on paper. That jutsu is impossible and the fact that Naruto was able to use it is… worrying. Shikaku knows what has happened and how Naruto was able to use this jutsu, I know it!" the Sandaime exclaimed.
"Can't you just interrogate the Nara clan head about this?" Kurenai asked.
The Sandaime shook his head "This scroll is a part of the Nara clan's secrets and the fact that I have it is enough for the Nara clan to start a civil war. No we can't interrogate Shikaku."
"And the need to keep this jutsu secret is why I am the one being given this mission," Kurenai stated in realisation.
"That and you are one of the few people who has shown worry for Naruto," the Sandaime added. "Sadly most of my ninja would have just stood by and watched while he was attacked or kidnapped."
Kurenai could agree with that but she could not stand the thought of being on glorified baby sitting duty for the next three years. "But only Jounin are allowed to take on A-Rank missions alone Hokage-sama," she said, trying to get out of her situation.
"You are correct," the Sandaime said "Only a jounin can take on A-Rank missions alone." Kurenai almost allowed herself to sigh in relief. "Congratulations on your promotion Jounin Yuhi!" the Sandaime announced with a wide smirk.
Kurenai had no response to that.
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Naruto was unsure of where he was, he was in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar room. It was strange, also Naruto had no idea of how he had gotten there, the last thing he remembered was giving Shikamaru some advice about his clan's jutsu and then the next thing he knew he was waking up here.
"I should get out of here," Naruto muttered to himself, getting out of the bed and to his feet.
With his eyes activated Naruto surveyed the room, looking for any hidden traps or alarms. The door had a minor alarm jutsu on it, to alert someone whenever the door was opened, while the windows had a seal that would keep them closed no matter what."Someone really does not want me to go. Luckily I know just how to get out of here."
With a slight smirk to himself, Naruto stalked over to one of the windows and regarded the seal placed on it. "Okay let's see," he mused. "This is the power source, this is the locking seal, this is the activation/deactivation seal and this is the alarm seal for if the window is broken. If I break the power seal a little then the remaining chakra should bleed out causing the seal to die," Naruto decided. "Now I just need to find something that will allow me to cut into the power source."
After a bit of searching, Naruto was able to find a few kunai in the room and he used one to cut a small line into the power source portion of the seal, allowing the chakra to bleed out into the air. After a few minutes the seal ran out of chakra and the windows unlocked. "Too easy," Naruto smirked to himself before opening the window.
"And just what do you think you are doing young man?" a sharp voice came from behind him.
Paling slightly at the voice, Naruto turned around to be confronted by the sight or what appeared to be a regular middle aged housewife. Despite how she looked Naruto knew one simple thing, who ever this woman was, Naruto did not want to anger her, in fact Naruto wanted nothing more to please her and have her smile at him, it was strange.
"Errr...just getting some fresh air?" Naruto asked pathetically.
The woman obviously did not believe him but she nodded anyway "you should stay in bed after what happened to you," she told him. "If you need anything just ask Naru-chan."
"Y-yes ma'am," Naruto said, blushing bright red at the nickname. "Err what happened to me?"
The woman gave him a concerned look "You mean you don't remember?" she asked "Shikaku brought you in last night, he said that you had been assaulted by a group of civilians. Thank Kami he knows some Iryo-jutsu or you would be in a lot of pain right now," she finished.
"Oh... um thank you for taking care of me ma'am, I should probably be getting home," Naruto said as he moved for the door.
The woman moved to intercept him, "You will do no such thing young man," she said sternly "You will get into bed, rest and I will bring you some breakfast. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes ma'am!" Naruto said, instantly getting into the bed.
"Good," the woman said, giving Naruto a motherly smile. "Oh and Naru-chan I thought I told you to call me Obasan."
"Yes Obasan," Naruto said. He couldn't remember who the woman was but the name was perfect for her. Besides he could worry about who she was later, right now Naruto didn't want to make his Obasan worry.
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Just over one year Kurenai had watched over Naruto. In that time she had seen enough to make her wonder if the world would be a better place if the Village Hidden in the Leaves were to be burned to the ground. She had watched as Naruto was sneered at, insulted, attacked, verbally abused, as his training was sabotaged and as Nara Shikaku plotted on how to use the Jinchuuriki. The people of Konoha were horrible for how they treated Naruto, only the two people who ran the ramen stand, one of them was the teen who was looking for her little brother, and one of his teachers at the Academy treated Naruto well. Everyone else treated him as if he was the fox that he held.
In that time she had watched over Naruto, as the Sandaime had ordered, and made sure that Naruto was unaware that he was being watched, as the Sandaime wished for Naruto to try and live as normal a life as possible, Kurenai almost called him senile over that.
Things had not gone so well in her personal life as well. Ever since it had become known that Kurenai was on a long-term mission to watch over Naruto, the rest of her fellow ninja started to shun her. Some shunned her for watching over and sticking up for 'the demon-brat' as they called him and others shunned her because of her new status as a pariah. Her slowly growing relationship with Asuma was dropped when the young Sarutobi realised that she was too busy with her mission to go out on dates, no matter how much he tried to convince her to skip out on her duty occasionally she wouldn't budge. The only person who did not treat Kurenai any differently was her best friend Anko.
There were times when Kurenai was tempted to blame Naruto for her problems but she would then remember that while she was shunned and avoided by people, Naruto was hated and attacked by people. He had it a lot worse than she did and he was ten years her junior. She had no right to complain.
At the moment Kurenai was watching as Naruto practiced his Academy level Jutsus. He had an acceptable Henge, an acceptable Kawarimi but his Bunshin was excellent. Each and every Bunshin that Naruto created looked exactly like him, their hair moved with the wind, the grass appeared to bend beneath their feet, the Bunshin were perfect and Kurenai knew that most Jounin would not be able to tell that they were only Bunshin.
"Speaking of Bunshin," Kurenai muttered "I thought Jinchuuriki were supposed to have insane chakra levels, the Bunshin should be impossible for him to use if that was the case." This stray thought caused Kurenai to pause "A chakraless Jutsu, chakra levels only slightly higher than average, no sudden desires to kill people. Just what is going on with him? Is he really a Jinchuuriki"
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Naruto decided to take a break from his jutsu practice and just relaxed against a nearby tree. As he leant against the tree he took in his surroundings, he was in a forested training ground that was halfway between the Nara clan compound and the Academy, there was a few wild animals roaming about and his mysterious guardian as well. He didn't know who his mysterious guardian was or even what the guardian looked like all he knew was that the same person was always observing him, while under a genjutsu. While his eyes could see many things they could not see through a genjutsu, however numbers in the air saying that a certain space of nothingness weighed more than Naruto did kind of make it obvious for the blonde.
Truth be told Naruto did not mind the observer, a few times in the last year he had been protected by his mysterious guardian, while under the guise of a genjutsu, so knew that his guardian and observer was not looking to harm him.
The last year had been one of the best of his life, ever since he had woken up with his case of memory loss he had spent most of his time with the Nara clan. Yoshino was like a mother that he had never known, Shikamaru was the annoying brother he could count on and Shikaku while distant was like an uncle to him. Best of all the Naras accepted him and did not treat him like some sort of monster like the rest of the village did.
There had been one problem though. Sometimes when Naruto was feeling angry or upset he would hear a voice talking to him, ordering him. "Erase. Shatter. Break. Dissapear. Collapse. Burn," the voice would say over and over again. The more angry or upset Naruto felt the louder and faster that the voice would become.
Shaking the thoughts out of his mind Naruto got up and started to make his way to the Nara clan's compound. He smiled in amusement when his mysterious guardian had to quickly step out of the way to avoid him. "I wonder if I should let her know that I know she's there?" Naruto thought idly to himself. "Nah!"
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Ryner looked up from his books when he heard a voice echo throughout the cell.
"Erase. Shatter. Break. Disappear. Collapse. Burn. Erase. Shatter. Break. Collapse. Burn..."
The voice was persistent, Alpha's curse was awakened by his magic and now it refused to sleep. Ryner was curious though on what it would do when it finally took control. It did not have his magic to fuel it only his hosts chakra. Would it wreck the same destruction as it would without his magic or would it be tame in comparison?
Whatever happened Ryner just hoped that his host would be able to come back when the curse finally took him over.
Ryner's thoughts then turned to the woman following his host. She was unnaturally beautiful just like Ferris was and he knew she was tasked with keeping an eye on his host just like Ferris was tasked with keeping an eye on Ryner. It almost made him nostalgic thinking of the two but then Ryner would realise that his host was not he and the woman was not Ferris, they were completely different. "It's probably a good thing too. What happened to us should never happen to anyone," he sighed wearily.
"Erase. Shatter. Break. Dissapear. Collapse. Burn…." the voice of the curse continued.
Ryner grabbed one of his books and through it out of his cell, "don't you ever nap?" he whined.