Naruto looked from the hidden mountaintop. He could see the surrounding area for miles in all directions.
The mountain was on the border of several lands and it had confused him that it had been hidden.
Micahamaru explained it to him when he uttered his amazement.
"It's a powerful jutsu. The mountain is time skipped. The only way to access it is by using the hand signs you saw me make. Otherwise you'll pass on thru it as if it weren't there."
It had been days since his exile from Konoha, the leaf village, and during that time traveling further and further away, Mica had taught Naruto proper chakra control exercises and meditation in order to control his and the Kyuubi's chakra better.
"The problem is you were learning a ninja's way of controlling their chakra. You have the fox's chakra mixed with your own thru your whole body. The normal exercises won't work for you properly."
He taught Naruto how to focus and explained to him and showed him some basic skills that he told Naruto that Master Kwai had showed him when he first was sent to the shaolin priest.
Naruto admitted that after a day he felt different.
"Of course you do. Its like night and day. Once you learn the proper ways to mold your chakra, you'll find that everything else will fall into line and you'll have control that will put the sannin to shame."
Naruto explained to Mica at night how he felt different.
"Its like, I'm calmer…at peace with the world around me. I…I also feel the fox." Naruto said scratching the back of his head.
"Naruto, you feel the fox, but do you really feel it?" Mica asked.
"Feel what?" Naruto asked confused and looking at his silver haired friend.
Micahamaru sighed. "Have you ever talked with the Kyuubi?" he asked, his voice soft, his eyes looking off to the horizon.
"Once." Naruto admitted.
He saw his friends questioning gaze and explained. "It was Ero-sannin was teaching me to summon. He tossed me off the cliff and I…I don't know crawled in my own mind or something and told the fox to give me rent. I came out of my head and summoned the Boss Toad."
Micahamaru shook his head. "We really are going to be talking about your sensei's." the silver haired teen muttered and Naruto blinked wondering what he meant about that, and the tone in his friend's voice.
"Nani?"
"Later Naruto. Please just wait till you speak with Master Kwai. He'll explain it so much better than I ever could. I don't want to say it the wrong way and confuse or frighten you." Mica sighed. "Please, for now just work on the meditation exercises I showed you earlier."
Naruto nodded. "And if you should talk to the Kyuubi again, before we see Master Kwai, please be respectful."
"What? The damn fox…"
"JUST DO IT!" Mica yelled cutting off whatever insult Naruto was going to say. Naruto blinked. Mica had never raised his voice to him in the past, before he'd left Konoha.
Mica sighed seeing Naruto's expression. "I'm sorry Naruto. I didn't mean to yell. Just please trust me. I swear on a mountain of Ichiraku ramen that all will be clear once we talk with Master Kwai."
Naruto nodded after a moment. Swearing on ramen between them was very big. It was sacred. It was what the two of them had bonded over when they met at the orphanage all those years ago.
"Now." Micahamaru said sitting down across from Naruto, both of them taking a meditative lotus position.
"Close your eyes." Mica said and Naruto mirrored him shutting his own eyes.
"Calm your mind, focus on your breathing. Breath in and hold."
Naruto took a slow breath and did just as he was told.
"Breath out…remember to release it slowly and relax." Mica reminded him
They did this for some time just breathing in, holding it and releasing it.
After a bit of time, Naruto found himself relaxing. Tension flowed from his muscles and out of him.
He allowed his mind to focus on his breathing, and as he relaxed he could feel his senses sharpening, becoming clearer.
He could smell the coming storm that was miles away from the mountain. He could smell the earth and stone beneath him. Naruto could smell the surrounding trees; the leaves, the bark, the sap.
He could smell the rabbits in the nearby bushes.
His enhanced hearing he could hear the rabbits heartbeat.
The surrounding leaves from the trees sounded loud as they were lightly blown in the breeze. He could hear Mica's slow steady breaths along with his friend's heartbeat, it was strong and steady.
Focusing himself inward he could hear his own heartbeat start to become in synch with Mica's.
He focused further in and could feel the two different chakra in his body. He could feel it flow thru all the parts of his body, both his chakra and the Kyuubi's.
The fox's chakra if Naruto was asked to describe it, he would say it felt wild. He swore it smelled of earth, of fire, of wind and water.
It felt strong and when it flowed thru his chakra coils with his own, it felt liberating, as if it was the right thing to do.
He traced it thru his body to the seal, and his mind followed the seal's design.
Deeper and deeper he went into his subconscious. He followed the chakra flow, his breathing slowing and his heartbeat relaxing.
He was lost in the sensations and jumped when a familiar voice addressed him.
"Welcome back brat!"Meanwhile….
Konoha…Tsunade stood in the council chamber, her eyes focusing on the gathered council, behind each member was a masked ANBU standing guard.
Around the rest of the chamber sat the leaders of ten of the twelve great clan's of Konoha.
"What is the meaning of this Tsunade?" Eizou, one of the council members demands.
"You had us dragged from our homes and kept in cells below the tower for several days." Hamada another member speaks up.
"You overstep your authority Tsunade." Nozomu a third member sneers.
Tsunade locks eyes with each of them. "I overstep MY authority?" she repeated. Her hands tightened at her sides ad everyone in the room could hear the tightening and cracking of knuckles.
"You all are trying to play innocent and think that I am stupid. Did any of you not think I wouldn't find out what you did?"
"We have no idea what your rambling about Tsunade. Perhaps you've hit the sake too much in recent days." Tsuuda sneered.
Tsunade narrowed her eyes. "I am speaking of you idiots forging my signature and exiling Uzumaki Naruto."
You could hear a pin drop in the council room.
"You are charged with Treason. It is punishable by death forging the Hokage's signature, and BY WHAT RIGHT DID YOU MORONS THINK YOU HAD YOU COULD EXILE MY LITTLE BROTHER?"
"Now Tsunade…" Tsuuda tries to reason, but her fist connecting with his jaw sends the council member crashing thru the chamber wall and into the waiting room beyond that is filled with ANBU.
"That's Lady Hokage to you morons." She says turning to look at the rest of the council.
"You stupid fools actually thought you'd get away with it. Naruto Uzumaki has done everything for this village from containing the Kyuubi since his birth to defeating Gaara of Suna during the Chunin exams, to bringing me back here and convincing me to be Hokage. I'm wondering why he bothered, this village is showing me that its not worth the price Naruto has paid."
Tsunade looked around the chamber, disgust on her face. "I hearby charge this council with treason, the sentence is death."
Murmurs from the rest in the room is heard. "ANBU leave." the animal masked nin vanish. Tsunade looks at the clan leaders. "I suggest you all leave as well."
Once they were thru the door, Tsunade looked at the council. "I thought long and hard about how to go about your execution. It was one person, a Genin who gave me an idea."
Tsunade looked over her shoulder as the doors opened one more time. A small figure wearing black robes and a hood entered slowly, hands hidden by oversized sleeves that were folded together before the figure.
"I was going thru the scrolls the Third had left me, when I found one. I was going to use it myself. I was about to sign it with my blood to activate it, when the Genin there asked to do it. I hesitated, and in that I was beaten. Now I present to you, Uzumaki's Revenge…I give you your executioner."
The hood slipped back revealing dark blue hair, pale white eyes focused with the veins of the Byakugan.
The slender features of Hyuga Hinata stared back and her eyes burned with raw anger and hatred.
When she spoke, it wasn't the voice that the council had heard before. The voice was hollow, cold.
"Your souls are stained with corruption." Hinata spoke, but it wasn't her.
Tsunade put a hand on the girls shoulders. "Hinata is the first nin since Kushina Uzumaki to host the spirit of Vengeance." She said.
Hinata's hair moved as if blown by a breeze and the black robes whipped around her as she advanced on the council.
"You have been weighed…" several more steps brought her closer to the trapped council. In the light they could see her skin was nearly bone white now. Her Byakugan eyes went from white to black.
"You have been measured…" she reached the first member of the council and her Gentle Fist style connected and the councilor behind the first was covered with gore as the vengeance spirit enhanced blow blew a hole thru the chest of the council member.
"And you have been found lacking." The cold spirit possessed voice of Hinata said and another council member fell after a flurry of Gentle fist strikes that normally would have shut down the numerous chakra points in a body was instead blowing holes in bodies.
Tsunade stood before the door and any council member that rushed at her to escape met with her chakra powered punch that sent them flying towards the spirit possessed Hinata who with a Juken strike would blow holes in them.
Tsuuda who was trying to escape out the waiting room he'd landed in turned to see a blood covered Hyuga.
"You exiled him, and all he did was the right thing. My host may have trouble speaking her heart, but the boy has been marked by fate and destiny. You have denied them, and for that you will pay. As the Spirit of Vengeance, I will do what I can to repair the threads of destiny. You however will no longer witness them."
The Juken blow to the head obliterated Tsuuda's head as if it wasn't there.
"Eight trigram's…Two Palms…Four Palms…Eight Palms…Sixteen Palms…Thirty-two Palms…"
The Spirit of Vengeance possessed Hyuga looked at the body of Tsuuda that looked like swiss cheese. "EIGHT TRIGRAMS…SIXTY-FOUR PALMS!!!!"
The last blows rained down and the body was now so much sludge as it slid to the floor.
Tsunade sighed. She lied to the council.
When she'd come back to her office after meeting with the Jonin Instructors, she'd found Hinata standing amidst the remains of the safe. She was applying her blood to the scroll.
Flashback
Tsunade stepped over the unconscious bodies of her guard and entered her office to see Shizune tied to a chair unconscious. Tsunade turned to see Hinata standing amidst the remains of the vault, scroll in hand.
"What is the meaning of this?" Tsunade demanded.
Hinata looked up, her eyes wide. She seemed to shrink upon herself, then as if mentally bracing she looked at the angry hokage before her.
"T-They m-must p-pay for w-what they did to N-Naruto-k-kun."
Tsunade looked at the Genin. "They will be executed…"
"NO!" Hinata yelled. "A-All his l-life, the c-council has g-gone out of its w-way to hurt and h-hinder Naruto-kun."
"W-when you told us they e-exiled him…"
Tsunade saw tears in the young girls eyes it took her restraint not to go to the girl that seemed to care for her adopted little brother.
"Hinata…"
"No. I-I remember m-my mother speaking about a sealed scroll that…that was hear. It contains a Vengeance spirit. I-I will do what I m-must for N-Naruto. I-If they wi-will be punished…I-I Will do it."
Tsunade watched as Hinata broke the seal and after reading it, bit her thumb and a drop of blood touched the scroll.
A flash of white light enveloped the Hyuga heiress and a shockwave knocked Tsunade off her feet.
When she looked up Hinata stood there. "Free." The cold hollow voice said.
The girls head cocked to the side as if listening to a conversation only she could hear.
"Conditions accepted. Vengeance will be served."
Tsunade felt the chill run up her spine. What will this cost us? She thought as a shadow formed a cloak around the Hyuga girl. And what will this mean for Naruto who didn't even know she cared?
End Flashback
"Vengeance has been served." The cold voice said and Tsunade found the girl standing before her.
"Remind the girl when she awakens of our deal."
"What deal?" Tsunade demanded of the vengeance spirit.
"I wish to meet her chosen. For once so pure to offer me freedom to walk the land in the face of evil, I am intrigued. Fear not Hokage. My lot in existence is to serve. I return to the scroll when my host dies." The Hyuga had a grin on her face at that. "But that will be as hard as killing a demon or a hanyou. Till I am needed, peace Hokage of the Leaf."
Tsunade watched as the girl seemed to shimmer and as color returned to her skin, her eyes returned to the white eyes of the Hyuga, the cloak dissolved around her leaving her in her clothes.
"D-Did I d-do it?" Hinata asked as she slumped to the floor unconscious. Tsunade looked at the remains of the council and knew they would need some mops and sponges to get the remains off the floor and walls.
"Yeah…you did fine." Tsuande said picking her up and carrying her from the chamber of death as it would be called in Konoha after this day.
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