Chapter 11: Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 11
Though he looked on in amazement when she placed two fingers over the strange symbols and there was a small poof of smoke. His eyes widened when he saw the small pile of books and scrolls now resting atop the storage scroll.
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Mito smiled at seeing his excited glimmering eyes and smirked slyly to the ever stoic Senju who had a small frown marring his face at not realizing this small fact a little earlier.
Though both rose an eyebrow when the boy, instead of going for the books or scrolls concerning the Academy picked up the storage scroll from underneath them and was looking at it as if it was Kami's gift to man,
"Wow, how did this little scroll hold so many things? Is this scroll special? Why did these small markings change slightly? How many books can it hold? Where do you get these?" he asked in rapid fire, not taking his eyes off the scroll even for a moment and Mito was surprised that his eyes had caught the slight change in the seals with just a single glance.
No one ever noticed them even after going through them for years, the kid had sharp eyes she mused; smiling softly at his star-struck face while he was looking at the scroll in pure excitement.
"This Naruto is a storage scroll…" she explained patiently, taking it from his hands and he nodded looking at her for more information that she was more than happy to provide him with. "…you have to pump chakra into it to store things in it, or take them out whenever you want."
she explained making him nod, but not quite convinced with her vague information which she picked up on in an instant and grinned. She loved explaining things regarding fuinjutsu to anyone willing to listen, it was such an obscure and unknown art except for members of her own clan.
She pointed her fingers on the strange markings, tracing the expertly drawn Kanji over them to start her explanation.
"These strange markings or Kanji as you can see in some, are seals or special markings that belong to a very rare and obscure branch of the shinobi arts - Fuinjutsu. These seals hold the things stored in them, placed by the user in the small and confined space of the scroll.
Not that the scroll in itself is special. It is all in these seals." she explained patiently, and now the boy had a satisfied smile on his face, liking the little details in her explanation and was still in awe at the power of these small 'seals' as she called them.
"Sugoi! they must be so powerful ,if these little small markings can hold so many of our things in a simple paper scroll then the complex techniques in this branch would be amazing too…" he whispered, gazing at the scroll with a spaced out look not noticing the wide eyes of the adults who were staring at him in stunned silence.
Both glanced at each other in a seemingly silent eye-to-eye conversation and Mito smiled slyly at the prospect of having a new candidate who was willing to venture into this exotic branch of the shinobi arts at so young an age.
Naruto broke out of his stupor and instantly asked the first thing that came up in his mind.
"Will they teach this to us at the Academy too?" he asked innocently, but the hope in his eyes wasn't lost to either of them. Tobirama shook his head, breaking his heart a little at the thought of not being able to learn them in the Academy.
"Naruto, Fuinjutsu is a scarce and rarely practiced art that not many venture into of their own accord…" Mito spoke in her warm voice making him nod sadly. But he was still confused at her words.
"But why is that? It seems so cool…" he whispered, looking at the storage scroll in front of him longingly. Mito put her hand on the boy's head and brushed his silky golden locks gently. Both the elders were surprised how interested the boy looked into learning this non-flashy and boring art.
"You really are a surprising child my little one, most children love ninjutsu or taijutsu since they look and seem so cool and all but brush off Fuinjutsu since they are only simple markings or calligraphy arts combined with a little basic ninjutsu to create something much more complex.
It is really rare for one to take an interest in it on their own." she explained patiently, getting a small nod from the boy while she kept brushing his soft hair she adored so much right now.
She couldn't help but gush at his adorable yet saddening crest fallen expression.
"It is the specialty of my clan you know…" she said making him perk up with a smile. "…it is only learnt by a rare few outside my clan and even within us, only a rare few ever get the honor of being called masters at this art.
It is the most complex art known to the shinobi world." she stated and saw the boy turn his gaze back to the storage scroll with a small bout of silence reigning in the room now.
Both Tobirama and Mito looked on in curiosity at what the boy might say next seeing his contemplative face.
For Naruto, it intrigued him to no end. In his mind it was utterly stupid that they didn't teach this at the Academy. So what if it was hard, that made it all the more reason for anyone to learn it.
"Where can I get books on Fuinjutsu?" he finally asked, breaking the bout of silence and Mito smiled widely at his words. For Tobirama, he was at a loss of words.
Normally, children his age ventured into ninjutsu or even kenjutsu since it looked so cool and flashy, peeking their innocent attention a lot. But this young boy was something else.
Now Mito was especially intrigued by the kid no matter if he was an Uchiha, Fuinjutsu prospecting students were rare enough to think of such trivial things.
She turned the boy's face to her by her finger placed on his right cheek and gave him a little smile.
"Well I am not so bad at Fuinjutsu, why don't I show you a few things and we'll see if maybe you want to pursue learning the art in the future or not?" she asked him curiously and Naruto beamed at the nice lady with a happy nod.
"Really, you'll teach me?" he asked her with a voice of uncertainty but grinned when she nodded with a smile. " …when can we start?" he asked happily and she giggled at the boy's enthusiasm.
"Well we could start now but I don't think you have a calligraphy kit with you so I'll have to bring one tomo…" she was cut off as Naruto spoke up.
"What is this calligraphy kit, I may have it. What does it contain?" he asked and she giggled shaking her head.
"No Naruto-kun, it is rare for someone other than the Uzumaki clan members to have a sealing calligraphy kit with them…" again Naruto spoke up making her surprised when she saw his vigorous shaking of head.
"Madara-jiji's library has so many things in it along with my father's. I don't know what all of them are or how to use them all, but maybe you can find this sealing kit in there?" he asked her, not wanting to miss a chance at learning Fuinjutsu even in the slightest.
Mito was surprised but the idea now certainly seemed plausible, and she nodded at the boy who smiled happily and stood up while taking her hand in his own.
She followed him with a smile while he escorted them through the hallways of his house, this time Mito and Tobirama truly saw how beautiful the house truly was, never having explored it so much before.
Naruto stopped in front of a sliding door with the Uchiha clan symbol embossed over it proudly. He slid it open and stepped in with the two elders following him in to see what had Madara really kept in his house.
Their eyes widened in unison to epic proportions at seeing the sight that was now in front of them. The room had shelves after shelves in several rows, each of them stacked full of scrolls and various other items concerning the shinobi affairs or his clan materials.
Tobirama turned his eyes to the right, to see the last row stocked full of weapons of all kinds but two of them caught his eyes.
There hung on the wall, were Madara Uchiha's personal war fan and Izuna Uchiha's personal Katana. It made several memories of battling against the bearers of the two weapons, stored in such pristine condition fly into his mind. He walked on to the second row with scrolls, and saw them all arranged in several sections of nin, tai and genjutsu.
There were jutsu scrolls of all ranks and elements, even non-elementals were categorized separately from the elemental ones. It was quite probably larger than the village's own personal library, that in itself was filled more that three fourth's of the contents provided by the members of the Uchiha clan with them using their Sharingan to document the techniques they learnt from various enemies of various lands.
His family too must have documented and preserved each and every thing they had scoured over the generations and kept them here for safekeeping. But that in itself raised a peculiar question in his mind.
"Naruto do you by any chance know why your clan elders haven't taken this all in and absorbed this into the clan's property?" he asked the boy, his voice laced in disbelief while unfurling a simple D-rank jutsu scroll to see the personal signature of none other than Madara Uchiha himself at the end of it.
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