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Kimimaro stood overlooking the path that would lead him back to Konoha. He hadn't stayed in The Leaf Village despite The Hokage's offer to give him a small house to have as his own, it was too peaceful for his liking. The sound of children playing, birds chirping and the smell of food being cooked was nauseating to his senses. He had found a place not far to stay at and was now preparing to head back. The guards at the gate had been told of him, they wouldn't give him any trouble.
As The Kaguya prepared to move he wasn't surprised when he saw a burly man appear in the path in front of him.
"Going to Konoha?" The man asked and flashed a smile which revealed several missing teeth. "I'll be your guide to the village good sir." He said and did a deep bow.
Kimimaro looked on amused at him but sensed other presences. There was at least three of them, hidden not far from here he could detect by the faint sources of chakra. He recognized who the men were immediately and what their purpose was.
Perhaps Konoha wasn't as peaceful as he thought it was. He could clearly detect a group of men and one armed with a long bow hidden between a group of rocks.
"How much Ryo you offer?" The missing teeth man said to him getting his attention.
The Kaguya didn't respond as he stared at the man with a bored expression on his face.
"Ya deaf?" The man asked. "You pay, or we take the money from your skinny corpse!" He said and reached towards the side of his traveling cloak and revealed a short sword. His buddies except for the bowmen stepped forward as well revealing their own weapons and they walked forward confidence in their steps as they surrounded him who hadn't made any moves
Despite the confidence they had in their footsteps he knew they where nervous, the brigands were. He could read their movements the same way a scholar did a book. Already he could tell their next course of action and where which side they would come from. The archer he noted was hesistant.
"This is your last warning…" The man said drawing out his sword.
Kimimaro still didn't say anything he slightly moved his foot forward and hooked it under a nearby rock which went unnoticed by them as he looked at them all with a bored expression on his face when in truth he was tightening his honed muscles and preparing to make the move
Inside his mind he let out a mental sigh thinking it all folly.
"We gave you a chance! Seize him!"
The other two started to advance on him from the side when he leapt up kicking the rock towards the first brigand and outstretching his legs kicked both while he was in midair. One he hit in the face while the other he hit in the chest, He grabbed the one on the right and held him in front of him to use as a shield from the archer.
He needn't have bothered, as the archer missed and badly. Dropping the shield he saw the burly man charge him roaring his sword overhead.
Kimimaro dodged the man's wild swings and when the man went to stab him leapt over the man into a somersault and landed behind him. He grabbed the man's arm and twisted it causing him to curse in pain, twisting the arm and guiding it he used the brigand's own weapon to block a swipe from one of the others and punched him away.. The archer of the group fired again and missed, not even coming close to Kimimaro.
"Idiot…" He muttered under his breath
He still holding the man's arm twisted it again hearing a popping and snapping sound and flipped the man onto his back. He then raised his foot up and brought it down hard across the squirming man's throat crushing it. The sword he had flew up into the air from the impact and he caught it without missing a beat.
Instinct told him danger was afoot and he dodged a stab from behind by a brigand who used a spear. The man jabbed and stabbed at him and Kimimaro lazily blocked and parried with the sword he had pilfered. Clearly none of them here were any good at fighting.
Tiring of this he dropped the sword and pulled out of his arms two medium sized blades. He went on the offensive and the brigand could not keep up as he drove him back. He cut through the spear head and then stabbed the man in the ribcage, hearing him gasp his last when he felt it enter a lung and pulled it out.
Then without missing a beat not bothering to look his raised his hand up and fired his fingernails at the other brigand the sharpened objects piercing through his throat and dropping him as well.
He looked at the three dead bodies and knew the archer was still out there, but apparently the would be thief had given up as he saw him throw his bow to the ground and sprinting from his hiding spot retreating. Trying to run as fast as his feet would take him. He could easily chase him down, he could even get the bow and fire an arrow into his back but Kimimaro saw no point in it.
Not even bothering to check them for any money or items he continued on his path towards the Leaf Village.
At The Training Grounds…
Naruto Uzumaki grumbled as he looked down at the new outfit he was wearing. After having got his ass kicked by his cousin the day before the first thing they had done after he regained consciousness was to buy and get Naruto some new ninja clothes.
Gone was the orange and blue outfit, in place was a outfit similar to Kimimaro's but in a different style and color. Naruto had gone with an white and blue styled outfit instead of the all white that Kimimaro had worn. His upper body was covered by the blue shirt which didn't expose his chest like Kimimaro's did and it had long sleeves as well which could conceal kunai and shuriken and he worn white pants with a sash as well as his sandals.
He looked over at his teammates and had noticed the looks they had given him after seeing him show up in the new outfit. The darn things had cost him a lot of money and he had heard some of the villagers making snide remarks as he walked earlier wondering how he was able to afford clothes.
"Ah, good day everyone. Nice outfit Naruto." Their sensei said as he had finally arrived.
Naruto looked over at his sensei Hatake Kakashi who was late as always and his teammates Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha. Each had placed at the top of the class respectively whilst he had been at the very bottom and had been paired up with them.
They already didn't like him he could tell as Sakura, the long pink haired girl had complained about him wondering why she and Sasuke couldn't be a team by themselves. She was more concerned with her makeup and how she looked than training. While Sasuke was only concerned with himself and getting stronger and often called him dobe.
He let out a sigh and wondered how this was going to work out, no one in the village liked him, some hated him and his cousin wherever he was had given him the nickname of Trash ever since they had met and would be training him how to harness his bloodline that he possessed.
"What is that?" Sakura asked suddenly looking at him and he noticed she was staring at the two blue dots on his right arm that he had when he had rolled up his sleeve. "Is that some sort of disease or something?" She asked rather rudely to him.
"It's nothing, it's just a birthmark." He said to her defensively and she turned and left and went back to fawning over her Sasuke.
Naruto looking on would give up Ramen for life if he got that sort of attention on a daily basis.
"Well then we shall begin by-" Kakashi started to say when he sensed a presence. He turned his head and looked in the Eastern direction and the three Genins did as well.
"He's here already?" Naruto muttered as he saw Kimimaro walking towards them his expression blank.
"I'm afraid you're going to have to leave stranger." Kakashi said to him. "This is Team 7's training area for today and you'll have to go-"
"I'm here for the boy." Kimimaro responded and pointed at Naruto. "I'm taking him off your hands, it doesn't appear you are going to do anything today anyway." He said in a rather rude tone of voice.
"I appreciate your offer but a sensei can't teach if he doesn't have his students." Kakashi said to him.
"I'm under orders by the Hokage himself to train tra-Naruto." He said starting to call him by his nickname. "Seeing how he's not doing anything with you, it'd be better if he does."
"Why does the dobe have special training?" Sasuke asked wondering why he was getting extra training.
"Weak garbage like you wouldn't understand…" Kimimaro said to him.
"What did you say?" Sasuke shouted in anger at what he just said to him.
"You can't talk to Sasuke-kun that way!" Sakura shrieked at him but Kimimaro seemed unconcerned.
"C'mon Trash, let's go. I don't have all day." He said to Naruto who grumbled and went with him leaving Team 7 behind.
"Your sensei and your comrades are pathetic." Kimimaro said to him as they walked.
"You keep calling people names and you'll tick them off and find a kunai in your back." Naruto responded as they walked.
"Many have tried, all have wound up dead." Kimimaro said with a smirk when he stopped and began coughing suddenly surprising Naruto. Kimimaro's body was shaking as he coughed and hack and Naruto looked on at his cousin's unexpected outburst as he covered his mouth with his hand.
After a few tense moments Kimimaro managed to regain control and wiped his hand from his mouth and Naruto thought he saw blood on his hand.
"You okay?" He asked wondering what just happened.
(Damn illness) Kimimaro thought to himself. "I'm fine Trash," He answered and Naruto either ignored it or didn't hear him as he looked on. "We'll begin by learning how to walk on water."
"Water walking?" Naruto said and looked confused. "Isn't that kinda advanced?" He said as he wasn't expecting that.
Kimimaro rolled his eyes. Just how did they teach here? "Water walking is an basic technique for the wielders of Shikatsumyaku to learn. Our Kekkai Genkai is both a blessing and a curse. It allows our bodies to become weapons yes but at the same time our bones become much heavier and denser. Surely you have noticed it in that thick skull of yours."
Naruto glared at him but didn't respond. He did feel heavier he had noticed lately. As if he was wearing extra weights or something. As if his body on the inside was becoming harder, he didn't look it but he felt a lot heavier ever since the incident with Mizuki, thankfully none of that had been transferred to the outside or else he'd be a dead ringer for Chouji.
"Many have died by drowning due to being overweighed by their bones and sink to their deaths when knocked into water. Both our clans mastered water walking at a young age so we can stay afloat in the water and save ourselves. I thought at least you'd know that by now. This requires chakra control. Surely your father at least taught you about that?"
"I never knew my father…" Naruto responded much to Kimimaro's surprise and saw him drop his head.
"…My point is, is that Shikatsumyaku is not something any fool can learn overnight and neither is chakra control. You must be determined to master it. Before I even teach you how to harness your bones as weapons like I can do we will work on chakra control."
Naruto nodded and noticed they had stopped by a stream of water. Kimimaro then shoved him unexpectedly and Naruto lost his footing and fell down into the water with a splash.
The water wasn't deep only up to his knees standing up and he came up spitting water out of his mouth and cursing.
"You bastard! What the hell did you do that for you damn asshole!" He shouted at him who looked down at him amused.
"This will be a good place to start as any. You can start here and it isn't deep so I won't have to worry about you drowning yourself when you fall through." He said to him and Naruto continued to curse at him and the boy's anger and words he shouted at him reminded Kimimaro of the female flute player back at Oto. "Every day when you're done with your team you'll start training with me from noon to seven. Now get up out of there and we'll begin your exercises on water walking." He ordered.
Naruto climbed out of the water and rejoined him up there grumbling all the while.
Later…
"AHHH!" He shouted in frustration as his feet fell through the water for the tenth time and sunk to his knees.
Cursing to himself he kicked the water angrily.
"Stop polluting the water you demon brat!" A man who was walking by shouted at him and Naruto glared at him.
He was soaking wet as he couldn't handle it for more than a few seconds as his chakra control was bad. It was hard what he was trying to do, and becoming a big pain in the ass as well. He managed to get both feet on it but couldn't handle it and eventually fell through again. He lost track after the tenth time.
"Continue, focus your chakra on your feet and keep your mind open on the task Trash." Kimimaro said walking past him on the water without a problem as if to mock him as they had been there for hours, it was now in the afternoon.
He was lucky looks couldn't kill with the look Naruto was giving him.
Every now and then a person would walk by and seeing them would often shout at them, well most often at Naruto calling him a demon. Naruto ignored them as he tried to focus.
"If you killed a few of the maggots Trash I doubt they would keep calling you names." Kimimaro said as he would often respond to an insult with a sword.
"Yeah right, and become even more of an outcast?" Naruto mumbled sarcastically.
Kimimaro shook his head as he stood on the water looking at him, Naruto's chakra control was pathetic, it would take weeks at this rate for him to even stand on his feet with the way they was going.
"Find a goal, use that as inspiration if you need to. Use that to focus your mind when you do it." He said trying to find some way for his cousin to do it.
Naruto looked at him and got ready to do it. He pressed one foot into the water and closed his eyes and imagined his dream.
To be accepted, he could see it now. An older version of him dressed in the Hokage's robes as he had fulfilled his goal. The thousands of people cheering and chanting his name. Kakashi looking at him with pride at his greatest student. Iruka smiling at him as he had achieved his dream. Teuchi and his daughter offering him all the ramen he wanted. All the people who had doubted and mocked him before cheering him and praising the new Hokage.
Sakura, Ino, and the other girls fawning over him. Sasuke…Nah, Sasuke wasn't there. There was no place for him in his imagination that he had. The people of Konoha bowing as one in honor of him. Sarutobi telling him how proud he was of him
And lastly visualizing his face carved into the Mountain next to the past Hokages.
He opened his eyes and looked down and saw that he had both feet in the water and he hadn't fallen through. He was standing on it successfully for the first time. A smile formed on his face and he took a few steps and stayed above it. Grinning he started to run.
"Hey! I'm doing it! I'm doing it! I'm-"
SPLASH!
So excited that he was on there he lost focus and fell through again. He came up on all fours spitting water out of his mouth and his hair soaking wet.
He saw a pair of feet and looked up at Kimimaro who had his arms folded across his chest.
"Before you run Trash you must learn how to walk. That's enough for now." He said and leapt up out of the water. "I'll see you tomorrow." He said and walked away.
Naruto growled and slapped the water in anger.
He'd show him, he'd show them all.
The next few days went by pretty fast for Naruto. He'd get up, eat breakfast and go work with Team 7 and do some D rank missions such as helping paint fences or god forbid, chase after the Cat that belonged to the Daimyo's wife. And after that he'd go to Ichiraku's and eat his usual servings of Ramen the two glad to see him back to his normal self.
When it was noon he went with Kimimaro and the two resumed where they left off previously. Although Kimimaro was a bit of a psychopath in his eyes and always called him that nickname he hated Naruto realized he was learning more under him in one day than he was with his teammates and their sensei. It did please him that he was getting actual attention and teaching even if he was being called Trash and other names instead of being overlooked.
He was finally getting the hang of Water Walking and control of his chakra after a while and Kimimaro began training him in Taijutsu the two sparring in hand to hand fights. Naruto had yet to land a real blow on him but he could sense he was getting better. The fight ended with Kimimaro the victor but he was strengthening Naruto's blows and speed as well.
Kakashi having seen him after a few days passed also noted that Naruto was showing signs of improvement
As he walked across the water without falling once he felt like patting himself on the back pleased with himself. How many Genins knew how to and were capable of water walking this early?
"Oi! Kimimaro-san, I think I got this down pretty well." He called out to the other who was seated against a tree watching him. The Kaguya raised himself up as Naruto got out of the stream.
"Your chakra control and water walking is substandard, but I guess that's good enough for now at least. Now follow me." He said to him and Naruto followed after his cousin.
"You need to loosen up you know that? Find yourself a nice girl or something. You make one of my classmates Shino look like that crazy kid with the big brows with how stoic you are." Naruto called out to him as Kimimaro rarely showed any emotion other than quiet anger or annoyance at him.
The two came to a training ground that was empty and stopped. "Now we'll finally begin the process of using Shikatsumyaku." He said to him who nodded. "Shikatsumyaku, our bloodline enables us to do things beyond the norm of normal people. With this we can use our bones as weapons and endure all but the strongest of attacks. Only a Kaguya and Uzumaki can use it as it cannot be copied." He said and to make an example pulled one out of his body.
Naruto nodded again and spoke up. "How do we use it? Also wouldn't we injure ourselves by pulling them out and basically turn our bodies to jelly with taking them out?"
Kimimaro rolled his eyes at his cluelessness. "Shikatsumyaku is self regenerating Trash, meaning that it heals itself and grows another whenever we pull one out another grows in its place. Any body part, ever our fingernails can be used as a projectile weapon if we put our mind to it." He said and to demonstrate aimed at a target dummy and fired five nails from his fingers which penetrated it and Naruto saw them grow right back on his hand. "Any bone part can be used, some can even be used for picking locks such as the small ones in our wrist and hands. Shikatsumyaku's limits is only that of its wielder. With your daydreaming I suppose you could make plenty if you put your mind to it." He said going into detail about it
Naruto wasn't sure if that last bit was a compliment or an insult. The way he talked about it, Shikatsumyaku was the greatest thing in the world and above everything else. He didn't have much experience with bloodline users except for occasionally the Hyuga clan. They were often pretty arrogant except for the heiress and Sasuke himself was pretty cocky as well being descended from the Uchiha clan. It seemed looking at his only family, that the Kaguya clan often considered themselves superior to others as well
"It is important that you focus when using it as an unfocused mind can lead to you damaging or possibly killing yourself when you use it. When you activated it you've noticed a searing pain didn't you?"
Naruto remembered the feeling that his shoulders were inflamed when he had first done it. No one else knew that he would be practicing his Kekkai Genkai, mostly everyone thought that he was just getting a special trainer and sensei to help him train since he was at the bottom. Except for Iruka and The Old Man, no one even knew he had a bloodline and given his past treatment he would be looked down even more if they saw him doing this.
"Like walking on water it is important to focus and have keen chakra control when you do it Trash or else you risk harming yourself." Kimimaro said to him. "The body heals itself and regrows the bone you draw out and you have the Kyuubi's regeneration as well so you should suffer little damage when you try it." He then rolled up his sleeve and revealed his arm up to his elbow. He then reached towards it and grabbing the skin pulled out a three foot long bone which sharpened and became a sword with little effort.
"Now then do as I did, we call the art of pulling them out Heijin Drawing. Drawing blades from ourselves show me that you can do it. When you feel you got it, begin pushing it out. I'll warn you, it will burn." He ordered Naruto who looked at him a bit unsure. He rolled up his sleeve as well of his left arm and looked at the body part.
Focusing on it he reached forward and grabbed it. Focusing on his chakra he felt it starting to do something. As if something was beginning to stick out of his arm, he reached at his elbow and grabbed it and felt something hardening in his arm and becoming sharper.
He saw to his shock a white marrow like object starting to stick out ever so slowly. Grasping it he began pulling it out, it felt like his elbow had been caught on fire with the searing pain he started to feel but he gritted his teeth and ignored it and continued doing so.
Grabbing it he pulled out the foot long blade and let out a cry as he pulled it out fully and held it in his hand.
"Damn that stung!" He said and shook his arm trying to get the flaming pain to go away. He looked at Kimimaro and held out the bone blade. "Well what do you think?"
"Hmph, you need to be faster. One should be able to pull one out in less than a second. Also it needs to be longer as well, that's only the length of a Tanto. Basically used for suicide by dishonored Samurai. You need at least two and a half feet to have a good blade. At least you managed to make it look sturdy and it looks sharp." He said to him as he examined it. "Now then slide it back into your arm and it will go back in place."
Naruto placed it back against his elbow and he saw it go back into his skin.
"Whoa, that's freaky." He said and then got an idea. "Hey since I'm going to be using swords and stuff does that mean I'll be learning Kenjutsu?" He asked.
"You still have a long way to go Trash, but maybe if you show some decent ability." Kimimaro said to him. "Now then do the same thing only this time pull out fifty of them."
"FIFTY!" Naruto shouted at him that he'd have to do that many
"Fifty-Five. Now begin." He answered back.
"Why you…" Naruto muttered at him and began.
The process took him over half an hour to do that many but eventually Naruto managed to get the hang of it and the throbbing pain in his arms when he pulled out the bone started to numb and go away as his body was becoming used to it. The time it was taking him to pull one out was shortening as well and he was making them longer as he focused his chakra and energy.
Finally he had made a large pile of bones each over two feet long and pulled the last one out of his arm. Smirking and pleased with himself he saw Kimimaro meditating nearby.
"Hey!" He shouted interrupting his meditation. "I got them all!" He said and pointed to the pile. Kimimaro stood up and after coughing for a second walked over and examined them.
"Hmph, this is somewhat better, at least you've gotten the hang of making them longer." He said as he studied them with a critical eye.
"It's hard to impress you isn't it?" Naruto asked. "So when do I get to learn how to fight with them and do those jutsus."
"Just wait Trash." He responded and pulled one of his own out he took it in front of him and brought a hand up and made hand symbols with it. The bone suddenly became surrounded by a blue glowing light. "This is called Heijin Barrier. When the Kaguya spars with another Shikatsumyaku user they would use this on the weapon they chose to fight with so they wouldn't risk damaging their training partner. A D class jutsu."
"Can I learn that?" Naruto asked looking at it with interest. Focusing he pulled out a two and a half foot long blade and brought it before him. Remembering how he did it he brought his other hand up and made Hand Symbols.
"Heijin Barrier!" He said finishing it. He looked at it and nothing happened at first and he let out a sigh thinking he'd messed up again, but then a faint red light appeared around the blade and he touched it and felt it covered as if it was in a sheath. "HaHa! I did it!" He said beaming with joy.
"Don't get overconfident Trash." Kimimaro said but Naruto ignored him. "Even novices can pull that off. Other ninjas that use bladed weapons can pull that off as well."
"Whatever, when do we start sparring?" Naruto asked him smiling.
Kimimaro twirled his blade and looked at him not saying anything. Naruto realized what this meant and taking a couple practice swings got into a stance.
Kimimaro rushed him and Naruto barely got his blade up in time to block it. Kimimaro followed it up with a series of slashes and stabs aimed at him and Naruto was on the defensive barely able to dodge and block the cuts and slices at him. Although they were sparring he could tell Kimimaro was serious about this.
Naruto avoided a swipe at his stomach and countered with a stab of his own which was blocked easily. Kimimaro thrust his sword at his ribcage and Naruto narrowly missed it.
The boy was outclassed by his cousin and soon Kimimaro had disarmed him of his weapon and had his weapon aimed at his heart.
"O-Okay, I think it's clear you won." Naruto said sweat pouring down his face as Kimimaro withdrew the sword.
"You need to get better. If this was serious I could killed you in a second." Kimimaro said to him. "We'll continue where we left off tomorrow after you're done with your team." He said and turned and walked away leaving him.
Naruto watched him go knowing he'd have to get better if he was going to earn his approval and fulfill his dream as well.