BSNW CH 075 Bahamut Awakens

"We will also have to build a better hideout, one which will help us support our growing group." Jun said "Any suggestion?"

No one spoke for a while until Nazuna interjected with her suggestion "How about the ruins of Uzushiogakure?". everyone looked at her in shock at first, until they started to see merit in her suggestion.

"Yes, that seems to be a good idea" Jun agreed "in our current group, we now have three Uzumaki and two Kigen. If we are not qualified then I don't know who is."

"But it will take a pretty long time to do it" Yakumo mused.

"Well, we have nothing but time" Jun pointed out "by the time we all grow into our full potential, I am sure we can take Uzushiogakure to previous heights and even learn from its mistakes."

After discussing various specifics of the plan, Jun let the three girls retire to rooms to rest. He on the other hand asked Primus to contact the other four Clones and gather them in a secluded room. Once they were all gathered, Jun activated a few runes to make sure they won't be disturbed and that all sounds and actions inside here are hidden from others.

At first, he converted them all to True Blood Shadow Clones and linked the minds of all five of them and himself with runes. They would now be able to share information amongst each other as soon as they were within a certain distance.

He then decided to go in order of their naming to upgrade them. It would be Primus first, then Secunde, Tertia, Quarto, and Quintin. He created a medical bed through basic Earth Chakra manipulation before making Primus lie down on it.

After discussing with them all, they had themselves picked an element for themselves. As they known head of Pentagon, Primus had decided to get an inspiring type Kekkei Genkai based on Fire. Jun created Solar Flame Elemental Kekkei Genkai, through fusing Yang and Fire element, before implanting it to Primus through Creature Release.

Jun had got its inspiration from seeing Rikuo's Typhoon Element as a Wind Sage. He instructed Primus on a few theories on how to harness Solar Flames, just like a Sage would harness Nature energy. It should give him an elemental sage form, just like Rikuo. Jun bestowed Primus with the surname of Ignis.

Secunde wanted to go in a hidden path, like an assassin. Jun fused Yin and Water elements, to create Spirit and Poison Release. After a bit of thought, he implanted them both into Secunde and imparted her with similar knowledge to Primus. He also manipulated her body to change it permanently to female, a younger form of the current older disguise she wore.

Spirit Release gave her the ability of Soul-Based Genjutsu and Manipulation, similar to the Spirit Beast. Poison Release was self-explanatory, giving her the ability to synthesize various poisons and antidotes within herself. She could also release in chakra form, gaining the surname of Undine by Jun.

Tertia wanted a protective type Kekkei Genkai based on Earth. Hence Jun combined Yang and Earth element to create Metal Release for her. It allowed her to analyze various metals and transform her outer body to similar material. He also changed her to female and bestowed the surname Terrim.

Quarto was a destructive fighter, hence was interested in Wind-based Kekkei Genkai. Hence, Jun took a leaf from Rikuo's book and bestowed Quarto with Typhoon Release, a fusion of Yang and Wind. He got the surname Zephyr from Jun.

Quintin was a speed enthusiast, hence was very interested in lightning-based Kekkei Genkai. Jun had to experiment for a bit for this request, but finally, he was able to create something he never thought might be possible. A fusion of Yang and Lightning, two extremely energetic elements on their own, to create an even more powerful elemental release, Light.

Light Release could act as both a speed type and a purification type element. Its purity of energy was a direct counter for all kinds of corruption, curses, darkness, and negativity based techniques. Quintin was extremely satisfied with this Kekkei Genkai and was bestowed the surname of Fulmen.

After the procedures were finished, the five of them thanked Jun and then discussed his plan. Jun told them about his need for metamorphosis with the Spirit Beast chakra. They promised to have a constant guard outside and maintain a seal to hide his and the Beast's chakra.

Once they were gone, Jun set up a few dozen of his own containment seals too before finally unleashing Chakravyuha formation around himself. Immediately the Spirit Beast Chakra became free inside him and started running amok.

Before he could crumble in the face of it, the chakra ball Hinoki had made him absorb burst open, releasing the runes onto the Chakravyuha formation and stabilizing it. When the pressure on his psyche was released, Jun found that Hinoki's chakra had given him new knowledge along with the stabilizing runes, knowledge of Ninshu.

Years ago, Hinoki had befriended the Samurai and one of their elders had bestowed Hinoki with knowledge of Ninshu basics. Though they had refused their advanced techniques, the basics of Ninshu were enough for Hinoki to formulate his own techniques, Elemental Ninshu and Spiritual Ninshu. The knowledge Hinoki had just passed onto him contained knowledge about Elemental Ninshu and Spiritual Ninshu, rather than the version the Samurai used.

Hinoki wanted Jun to use Spiritual Ninshu to create a pseudo ego for the Spirit Beast chakra, but he hadn't known about Jun learning the Creation of All Things technique and refining it under Resshin. With Spiritual Ninshu and Creation of All Things technique, Jun could create a true ego for the Spirit Beast, similar to the Tailed Beasts, yet without their quirks and more mature.

Sitting in a meditative pose, and heavily drawing on both his own chakra and nature energy, Jun infused it into Spirit Beast's chakra. He then shaped his will into an ego for the Spirit beast, imagining an ideal friend for himself who would be his partner and he could entrust his back to in a pinch.

As he meditated on that idea, a series of images flashed in his mind. First was the image of a devilishly handsome man in a kimono and Haori. His two-toned hair of black and white floated behind him defying gravity. The man's image then morphed into a dragon, made of rock and lava.

The lava dragon's image then morphed into a giant six headed snake-dragon made of metallic material and purple plasma. And finally, the six-headed snake dragon's image morphed into a truly gigantic dragon humanoid, with a dragon-like head, four arms, ten dragon-like tails, and two legs. It sported a pair of enormous dragon wings, twice as large as the rest of its body

"I got your message, partner" Jun murmured, as his chakra shaped the Spirit Beast's chakra into the images he just says "I will let you be reborn just like you want. From today onwards, your name will be Bahamut, the calamity dragon. You will have four stages of release: Human, Dragon, Six-Headed Dragon King, and finally, Calamity Dragon God."

His words further solidified his will and formed the ego for Bahamut. A glowing purple egg formed in Jun's Mind-Space, absorbing large amounts of Nature Energy through his body. As more nature energy was absorbed by it, the Egg slowly grew in size, along with having innumerable tiny runes forming various patterns on it.

At this moment, a crisp 'ding' sounded in his mind, followed by a bunch of notifications.

[Congratulations host, You have reached Level 50 with the System and have also reinforced your Physique and Spirit stats to reach Grade A+.]

[Having reached the counter stop for mortal bodies, Leveling and exp function is disabled. Upgrading Your Physique and Spirit grade can now only be achieved through body and spirit forging techniques.]

[Certain Perks of the host have upgraded and had a new description.]

[Reached Stage 5 of Seven Immortal Chakra Stages. Chakra color transforms to Sky-Blue and has been compressed and purified even more. All Chakra based techniques have power, efficiency, and control upgraded by three times.]

[Unlocked True Sage title. Affinity with Nature energy has been greatly improved. Can ingest nature energy without concentrating. Can directly see Nature energy through Seitengan activation.]

[Your Perk 'Genjutsu hates me' evolved to 'Spirit Immunity' through the influence of Bahamut's chakra. The host can now use unique Genjutsu when using Bahamut's Chakra.]

['Unique Body Regeneration' perk has evolved to 'Bahamut's Jinchuriki'. Natural Regeneration has strengthened and can be boosted with Bahamut's chakra. Chakra quantity and quality of the body has been boosted greatly.]

[Race categorization has been added and upgraded to 'Evolved Human'. Gained perk 'Eternal Youth', you have gained the physique of an evolved human. Aging is stopped after the body reaches its peak. Can't die of old age, the body regenerates infinitely in the presence of nature's chakra.]

[Status upgraded greatly. Congratulations host!]

When Jun opened his eyes, he felt as if he was looking at the world as a blind man seeing colors for the first time. Everything was clearer, more beautiful, and well defined. His by seemed to have gone through a refinement process, making his physical attributes stronger and better. His five senses had greatly improved, with his sixth sense of intuition going through an awakening.

In his mind-space, he saw Bahamut drawing in more and more nature chakra through him, draining his surrounding dry. If it went on like this then one would have to go to either Land of Demons or the Sacred Beast lairs to have enough Natural Chakra. But as both were not possible currently, he had to put a lid on these ideas.

When he was about to emerge from his room, he found Secunde and Quintin arguing and facing off against an immensely beautiful mature looking blond twin-tailed woman with a diamond-shaped crystal in her forehead.

"I just want to take a look" the blond beauty argued "I won't pose any harm to anyone in there, no matter their identity. I just want to see the person who controls a power similar to my grandfather."

As he saw his two clones calmly but firmly obstruct the blond beauty, Jun was puzzled by her statements. 'Her grandfather? What power is she talking about? Oh, right I must have caused an enormous shift in nature energy when I went through the awakening process. Though no one can sense anything inside the room, the shift of natural energy around the place is unmistakable.'

He then glanced at the blonde beauty 'She must have good senses or must be familiar with the aura around sages to recognize Nature Energy's flow. But why haven't I heard of a Sage other than Jiraiya then? Unless…? In that case, she must be ….! Yup, Blonde, beautiful, mature and insanely desirable body figure, like keeping Twin-tailed hairstyle, Grandfather who is a sage. All in all, my luck landed me in front of the one person I should not encounter.'

Jun sighed in dismay as his luck made him encounter the only Female Sannin, Famous for her nicknames of Slug Princess, Ball-Busting Beauty, and Princess of Senju Clan, the Infamous Tsunade Senju in the flesh.

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As he expected, Tsunade recognized him immediately upon seeing him. She may be living in isolation, but she did have a friend who was a spymaster and a clan heritage from the leaf. Given that more than five weeks have passed since the Spirit Beast mission and because of the time he spent in isolation for the metamorphosis, he had no surprise at the fact that Tsunade knew his identity. He was only surprised that the Pentagon had managed to hide Yakumo, Chino, and Nazuna.

He spent a lot of time discussing his circumstances with Tsunade, his past, his powers as a sage, his master choosing him to counter Spirit beast, his journey with Kakashi and others, and finally his master's warning about Leaf with his dying breath.

Tsunade stiffened when hearing all this but soon showed a sad yet understanding expression. She then explained the reasons she herself had left Leaf. She had started to get the same doubts as to my master, especially when both her brother and her soon to be husband were killed a bit too coincidentally.

She had also dug deeper and found out that in the Second and Third war, many Senju had been killed, much more than all other clans put together. All under coincidental circumstances, yet all information about this had been suppressed. A founding clan like theirs being annihilated so silently and thoroughly shook her to the core. She also had suspicion behind who was responsible but, with that person having the support of Hokage and Konoha Elders, he was untouchable.

Hence, she had used her reputation as Sannin and Senju Heir to pressurize the Third Hokage to let her leave Konoha indefinitely. She had to swear no to join any other hidden village or leak Leaf's secrets to outsiders, but ultimately they had to let her go. Her friend Jiraiya was made as a liaison between her and the Hokage, to act as a guardian and spy all at once.

She relaxed more and more while talking to Jun, making him realize just how much burden she had been caring behind her bold attitude and carefree smile. After spending a night sharing their woes, the kid and the mature beauty bonded. Tsunade went into a drinking spree after their talks, while declaring Jun her sworn little brother that she would look after. Jun also felt a slight affection towards the world-weary blond beauty so utterly crushed between responsibility, heritage, and her caring nature.

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They spent over two years in the hideout of Tanzaku town. The Pentagon helped Tsunade watch-out for any additional spies Jiraiya might have posted on her during his visits. Tsunade kept the Pentagon posted with knowledge about Leaf and the rest of the Great Villages.

Once in a while, she would come to hang out with Jun, to talk and drink while he looked after her. The night would always end with Jun squished against her physics-defying bosom, as she clutched him tightly while enduring her everlasting nightmares in her drunken stupor.

Jun had practiced Elemental and Spiritual Ninshu with dedication these past few years. He also absorbed Nature's energy every night for refining his body, spirit, and bloodline. As a result, His Seitengan was on the verge of a breakthrough and he had managed to replace his basic five elemental Ninjutsus with the five basic elemental Ninshu.

Jun had also spent a lot of time training Pentagon and his other companions. He also had gained familiarity and bonding with Kimimaro, Haku, Jugo, Karin, and Fu, while Tsunade bonded with Karin's mother, on the account of her being Uzumaki like Tsunade's Grandmother.

He had also managed to gain grudging respect from Chomei, who was the Seven-Tailed Beast sealed in Fu. Chomei had also advised him in the development of Bahamut through sharing of memories and knowledge, which was advice he took gratefully.

Jun had instructed all his companions, including Tsunade, in the Seven Immortal Chakra Stages and Heavenly Breathing Technique. Jugo was a born genius in this, followed closely by Kimimaro. Both of them gained basic proficiency within a week of being taught, and after two years, they were now at the Final stage of Heavenly Breathing Technique and 3rd stage of Seven Immortal Chakra Stages.

Others had varying amounts of success, but all of them had gained basic proficiency in the techniques at the least, improving their physique and spirit. He still remembered the night he had been instructing Tsunade and vast amounts of smelly liquid seeped out of her pores because of Nature Energy's rebirth cleansing her body.

She had chased him murderously when she awoke, only letting up after he promised to let her cuddle with him every night for a month after that and teach her all the Sage Arts he knew. She had introduced him to her Slug Summon after that, Princess Katsuyu.

Katsuyu had greeted Jun warmly and thanked him for making Tsunade come out from her depressed state and instructing her in Senjutsu. It seemed that despite being this generation's Slug contractor, Tsunade had been unsuitable for their Senjutsu, and due to her contracted state, no other sage beast clan would teach her their Senjutsu.

Slug Senjutsu was cruder than other Sage beasts, heavily focused on regenerative and self-division and mutilation type techniques. Such techniques are generally not practicable by humans, hence the severe lack of Slug Sages in history as compared to other Sage Beast clans.

Senjutsu in its essence was mimicking what is found in nature and taking its properties. I had bypassed that requirement by directly refining and attuning my body through nature energy itself using the Heavenly Breathing Technique and Seven Immortal Chakra Stages. It was harder than regular Senjutsu, but was more powerful and had a lesser restriction for its practice.

Katsuyu had been really impressed with these techniques and had discussed with her Great Slug Sage to exchange for it with their knowledge over the ages about Nature energy and its application. The Great Slug Sage even has some theoretical information on how to combine Ninshu with Nature energy, making Jun incredibly pleased.

Jun had been going into seclusion for longer each time, as the time for Bahamut's hatching in his mind-space grew closer. In the week preceding the approaching new year, Jun, Tsunade, Kimimaro, and Jugo were sitting in meditation in a Fuinjutsu formation of Jun's own design. Karin, her mother Kana, and Nazuna were maintaining Fuinjutsu formation.

The Formation had Jugo, Kimimaro, and Tsunade sitting in three corners of an equilateral triangle with Jun sitting in the center of it. The formation was designed to help them better attract Nature Energy and funnel it to Jun.

After a week of this, Bahamut's egg finally hatched, right at the hour of New Year's arrival. Bahamut's hatching gave Jun access to shape-shift into Bahamut's first form, which was human-like in looks. He was a devilishly handsome kid in a kimono and Haori formed out of solidified chakra construct. His two-toned hair of black and white floated behind him defying gravity. He had a teasing had an innocent smirk on his face constantly.

Tsunade had nearly crushed his body and eardrums upon seeing him in this form for the first time, through her bear-like hug and her piercing shriek praising his cuteness. Jun just smiled helplessly as his new partner joined him in lamenting their misfortune.

Despite this minor hiccup in the form of Tsunade, Bahamut had now taken his first step in the Land of Shinobi alongside his partner and friend, Jun Kigen.