Capítulo 204: Chapter Four: Deals with Demons
The training was tough, no denying that. As soon as they had left the office, Kurotsuchi had gone over the basics of what he would be taught. Naruto was told the training would start next week, but she felt that she could start him on the intellectual training right away. What this meant was memorizing the rules of being an Iwa shinobi and some small scale tactics lessons. And to help him further, she taught him shogi, an intelligence game formerly used to test battle plans. And Naruto absolutely sucked at it, losing to even Akatsuchi who was well known for being a horrible shogi player. But he was just starting out so he still had tons of room for improvement. If he was still losing to the giant years later then there would be concerns.
After a week of training his mind Kurotsuchi started training his body. She started off by getting him weighted wristbands and ankle bands. Starting him off small, just ten pounds per arm and fifteen per leg. But he was only five so it was still pretty tough for him. After giving him the weights she had him run laps around the mansion and then push-ups and sit-ups without breaks. And that was just a warm up. Poor little boy collapsed on the ground after the laps, which really shocked Kurotsuchi since the kid never ran out of energy. Exhaustion and Naruto were never used in the same sentence.
Still, after a couple weeks he could do everything she told him to do without a problem. To encourage and help him along, Kurotsuchi would do the exercises with him. She also had him working on chakra control exercises and was still teaching him other things like basic math and other things a ninja would need to know. However she wasn't going to teach him any jutsu. Not yet anyways. There were a couple reasons but the main was that the academy and then his jonin sensei would teach him those. Over time she also upgraded his weights by five pounds each. He was still a kid so she was taking it slow. He was training harder than any other child his age in the village, but he wasn't being forced to become a super-powered killer right off the bat.
"Okay Naruto-kun, take five. We'll start on the katas afterwards." Kurotsuchi said. She was wearing her full ninja gear because she was going to be leaving for a mission that night. Oonuki said he was going to have someone watch the kid and keep up his training so she wasn't worried. She figured he'd be fine for a few days.
"Finally!" Said energetic blond dropped down on the ground and was breathing heavily. She had upgraded his weights today so he was tired even though he was used to the exercises by now. He was wearing a black short sleeve shirt and had on dark blue shorts and shinobi sandals of the same color. "You're a slave driver Kaa-chan I swear." Kurotsuchi sighed and shook her head.
"What did I tell you about complaining?" Naruto paled.
"Complaining gets me double the workout." He muttered. Kurotsuchi smirked as she stood over him. Naruto was easily getting scared she was going to do something to him. She reached down with one hand and he closed his eyes to avoid seeing what he was going to do. "Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!" Naruto started rapidly repeating as she started pulling him to his feat by the ear.
"Since I have a mission later today, I can't double the workout for you. So instead, were going to finish up the routine without any breaks for the rest of the day." She smirked as he stared at her horrified. "Now get into the first stance so that we can start. And if you slack off then when I get back from my mission, you will be doing a lot more than just this." She threatened as he quickly got into position. Ah the joys of teaching.
"So what am I doing Oji-sama?" Naruto asked. He was standing at the main gate to the village with Oonuki standing right next to him. Unsurprisingly, the five year old was the same height as the old kage. "I thought you were gonna have someone come train me while Kaa-chan is gone."
"Sort of. Just they're not coming here to train you. You're going to him." Oonuki answered. He then pointed ahead to a man that was walking up to the gate. He had red hair done up in a ponytail and a red beard covering the lower half of his face. Across his nose was a black strap and his headband was more of a brown crown with a gold ring looped into the right side. He wore was looked like the standard jonin uniform only the flak jacket was brown while the rest was purple. "Naruto, meet Roshi. He will be training you for the next two weeks."
"So this is the kid, eh Oonuki-sama?" Roshi asked as he walked up. He knelt down and put a hand to his chin as he looked him in the eyes long and hard before smirking. "I think I can work with this brat." This comment of course got said brats attention.
"I'm not a brat! My name is Namikaze Naruto and I'm gonna be the strongest ninja in Iwa!" He shouted. Roshi laughed as Oonuki smirked.
"Oh yeah, I can definitely work with the brat for a couple weeks. Well come on kid, we've got a bit of training to do." He said before standing up and leaving the way he came up. Naruto was a little confused but just gave a short bow to Oonuki before heading after the taller man.
"So what are you gonna teach me?" Naruto asked as the two were walking down a mountain path away from Iwa. Roshi actually looked surprised and turned his head down to face him.
"Oonuki didn't tell you?" Naruto shook his head no causing Roshi to sigh. "Did he tell you anything about me or why I don't live in the village?" Again the blond shook his head no. "*sigh* That old midget is gonna get himself in trouble one of these days. Alright, I guess I better explain. I know you're the jinchuriki to the Kyuubi no Yoko. Well I am the jinchuriki to the Yonbi no Saru. I am going to teach you how to contact and draw on your demon's power."
"We couldn't do that back home?" Naruto asked. He was surprised that there were more like him out there but after some thought figured he was being stupid since how else would Iwa know so much about his condition if there weren't.
"Learning how to use a bijuu's power is very dangerous. If you don't have total control then you could draw too much and your demon could take over. If Kyuubi is anything like Yonbi, then it hates being trapped in a human so it would likely start killing any and everybody it were to come across in vengeance. That's why were heading to my home out here in the mountains. I left Iwa with Oonuki's permission years ago with the promise that I wouldn't come back until I had total control over the Yonbi." Roshi explained as they came up on a small hut next to a lake. The hut wasn't much, it looked like it was created through Doton jutsus seeing as how it literally just seemed like it one day sprouted from the ground. Roshi first led Naruto inside and showed him the single room. Just a bed in one corner and a small pit in the center for him to start a fire. A few clothes and tools were hanging on the walls but overall it was very bare. "Alright Naruto. Now, tell me what you can do now."
"Um… I'm pretty strong for my age according to Kaa-chan. And um… I have decent chakra control compared to how much chakra I have. The only things I've really been taught though are tree-walking and smart stuff like math and shogi." Naruto said. Roshi looked him over to see if the boy was lying or anything but could tell he wasn't. He really wasn't taught much yet; which made Roshi wonder why Oonuki wanted him to start learning how to use Kyuubi's chakra already.
"Okay then. Do you know how to meditate?"
"Huh?" Naruto asked as he tilted his head to the side. Roshi let out a sigh and rubbed his hand over his face.
"Alright I guess that's first then. I want you to sit down and stay still. Clear your mind of just about everything." He said as he sat down and crossed his legs. Naruto copied him as Roshi started a fire and set a pot with some water from the lake he had to boil. "In order to use your bijuu's chakra you have to either make a deal with the beast or force it to hand the stuff over. The Yonbi in me hates humans with a passion and refuses to make any deal so I have to force it. Iwa's other jinchuriki, Han, has the Gobi no Irukauma. He was able to set up a deal with his bijuu and as such has a far easier time controlling its power than I do."
"Then why isn't he teaching me Roshi-san?" Naruto asked. Roshi shook his head.
"It's because of Han's personality and because of who you are." Naruto looked confused so Roshi explained. "Han fought in the Second and Third great wars. He hates Konoha and anything related to it. Your father was the Yondaime Hokage; Han would kill you on sight, Tsuchikage's orders be damned. It also doesn't help that you're very close to Oonuki and his family. You see, Han has been treated like a monster since the day he had the Gobi stuck in him. And the Niidaime Tsuchikage ordered him to live outside the village, mainly because everyone was scared that he might lose control. This has caused Han to hate Iwa. He won't go rogue because he knows he'll just be hunted and killed and the Gobi would just be shoved into someone else. But at the same time he wants nothing to do with any of us. He barely tolerates me because I have the Yonbi. But you; Kyuubi or not you represent everything he hates or wanted. You're allowed to live in the village, with Oonuki and his family no less. You haven't ever been treated like a monster in Iwa, despite having the strongest of them all inside you. Add in your heritage of Iwa's greatest foe and to Han you're nothing more than a bastard that has everything he's ever wanted because of everything he's ever hated."
"Oh."
"Now, clear your mind. Just sit there and think about Kyuubi. If you're doing it right you should be drawn into the seal to speak with the beast." Roshi explained as Naruto nodded and closed his eyes. Roshi was silent as he poured himself some tea and took a drink just waiting for Naruto to speak. He didn't want to break Naruto's focus but at the same time he was also a very patient man and just sitting and waiting while drinking some tea was a very relaxing way to train the boy. About half an hour later Naruto sighed.
"Um… I don't think it's working."
"So you just sat still for half an hour without contacting Kyuubi or anything?" Naruto nodded. "Oh well, we've got two weeks for you to contact the beast. Just keep trying for the rest of the day. Tomorrow I'll show you water walking to help with your chakra control. And then we can do a few simple exercises to tire you out a bit. It's usually easier to make contact when you're tired." Roshi said. Naruto again nodded and asked if he could have some tea while he tried to think about meeting his inner demon.
Such was how the next few days would go. Get up, meditate for an hour or two, attempt water-walking for another hour or so, and then physical exercise until Roshi told him to stop. A simple meal and then meditating for the rest of the night until he fell asleep. Naruto got the hang of water-walking on the third day, able to make it all the way to the center of the lake and back without falling or sinking. So Roshi added running laps on the lake to the boy's physical exercise. Needless to say, the blond started getting exhausted a little more. Jinchuriki or not, there was a limit to a five year olds stamina.
Meals would be fish that Roshi would catch while Naruto was training or some wild deer or boar he hunted from the light woods around them. The elder jinchuriki was patient with the blond but also expected more and wouldn't let him stop until he was satisfied. And he was starting to think that perhaps there was something about his seal that was stopping Naruto from contacting the fox too early in life. He had managed to reach the Yonbi after meditating for a few hours on his second try. Naruto still hadn't made any progress. Either the boy couldn't properly clear his mind or the seal was interfering somehow. But at the end of the first day he was proven wrong. Roshi walked back into the hut with a small bundle of fish over his shoulder. "Alright Naruto, time for some dinner." He muttered as he sat down across from the boy who was sitting cross legged on the ground with his eyes closed. When Roshi didn't get an answer he looked at the boy and snapped his fingers. This still got no response causing the red haired man to smirk. "Brat finally did it huh?"
"Where am I?" Naruto spoke to himself as he looked around. He was standing in what looked like a sewer with a few leaky pipes dripping water all over. He was just wandering aimlessly as he tried to figure out what was going on. He was practicing his meditating while Roshi went fishing when suddenly he just woke up on his back in a sewer he'd never seen before. Was it a dream of some kind? Did he pass out and Roshi took him back to Iwa and toss him in the sewers for failing to contact Kyuubi? Naruto just didn't know. As he kept walking he soon came upon a large room. One wall of the room was a large barred cage. The lock covered by a small slip of paper with the kanji for seal written on it. "No way…" Naruto muttered as he started to peace together where he was.
"So the warden finally visits his prisoner. I was wondering when I'd see you human." A dark and loud voice spoke out. Naruto's eyes were firmly set on the darkness beyond the cage as a large red eye opened up to stare back at him. "Well well, you're a lot younger than I expected you to be when we had our first meeting." Slowly another eye opened up and a large red fox seemed to fade into view. It was easily as tall as the cage it was in and it's eyes just screamed pain and suffering to anybody that angered it. But the thing that caught the young blonds' attention was the nine long red tails that flowed behind the beast.
"You're the Kyuubi aren't you?" Naruto asked as he took a few steps closer to the cage.
"I am. Now what can I do for you little human?" The fox asked as it lowered its head to the ground to try and be closer to eye level with the boy. Naruto just walked up a little closer to the cage as he stared at the bijuu with a blank face. After a few minutes of silence the fox was starting to get a little annoyed that the boy was still just staring at him. "Do you want something or am I just that interesting boy?" He asked with a slight amount of anger in his voice. Naruto suddenly seemed to snap out of whatever he was doing and smiled sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Sorry, it's just I can't believe I did it. I've been trying to talk to you for about a week." The fox just rolled its eyes as the boy then cleared his throat. "Okay, what I'm here for is to learn how to use your power. Roshi-san said to try and make a deal with you if I could and to force you if I couldn't. So let's make a deal. Is there anything you want that I can get you in return for you giving me your power when I need it?" Naruto asked, trying to sound mature and business like.
"My freedom would be nice boy."
"Sorry but Roshi-san said that's the one thing I have to refuse no matter what. Anything else though is possible if Tsuchikage-oji-sama says okay." Naruto answered right away. The fox kept its eyes focused on Naruto as it thought about what it could get from him. Sleeping in a cage was definitely a very boring existence. If he refused then the boy would just train and force it, which due to the seal he could do. But if Kyuubi made a deal then he could possibly get his freedom anyways by having the boy 'accidentally' draw too much power and break the seal. He could do that if he was being forced too but it would be harder and take more.
"I want to destroy the village that imprisoned me for so long and kill a certain man." The fox told him. Naruto squinted his eyes as he looked up at the great demon.
"Konoha put you in me when I was born but Iwa hasn't taken you out because they want me to use you. Plus it's only been five years, that's not very long according to Kaa-chan." The fox surprised Naruto when it started laughing.
"Five years? You think that's all I've been imprisoned for? Here's a news flash for you boy; that place you call Konoha has had me for near a hundred years!" It shouted. Naruto's eyes were wide as he stared at the beast. "I was first sealed into the wife of their Shodai Hokage. Then before she died I was transferred into a young girl. And just as I manage to get my freedom and exact some well deserved revenge on the village for keeping me prisoner; that girl's lover, the Yondaime Hokage, shoves me into you!" Naruto was now staring, mouth wide open, at the demon.
"The Yondaime's lover? That was my mother! You mean you were sealed in my Okaa-san?" Naruto shouted. The fox looked wide-eyed for a second before looking closely at the boy. It then broke into a grin after a few seconds.
"Now this is a surprise. I thought that bastard just grabbed some random child after I got free but he used his own son! Hahahahahaha! What a bastard! To seal me, an entity of pure hatred and malevolence into his own child! And people call me evil!" The fox just kept laughing as Naruto was now thinking that his mother was the previous jinchuriki to the fox. From what he was told by Roshi, a jinchuriki dies once their demon is removed. All he knew was his mother died in the attack somehow. Well now he knew she died at the very start of the attack. Naruto then shook his head trying to get back to the deal.
"So you wanna destroy Konoha and kill someone. Is this guy from Iwa?" Naruto shouted since the fox was still laughing. Kyuubi looked down at the boy as it slowly stopped its laughing.
"No he is not. He left his village before I was sealed into my first host. He also ripped me out of your mother but then placed me under a genjutsu before I could kill him." The fox explained. Naruto nodded.
"Ok then. I think Tsuchikage-oji-sama will be alright with those terms. I just gotta let him know before we agree to it." Naruto said before he looked around. "Say Kyuubi, do you know how to get out of here?" He asked as he looked back up at the giant. The fox deadpanned at the boy before sighing.
"Focus on the real world and you should leave. Now that you know what this place looks like you should be able to get here faster on your own as well. Now leave me." The fox explained then ordered the boy. Naruto just gave a slight nod before closing his eyes and focusing. It wasn't long before he faded out of sight. Kyuubi stared at where he was for a few seconds before sighing and closing its eyes. 'Kit is interesting, I'll give him that much. Not once did he look at me with fear in his eyes. That takes guts.'
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