Chapter 70 The Shinigami

The Flying Thunder God Jutsu was becoming relatively simple. It made sence why no one could replicate it as well as Minato had. The seal that Naruto's father put on his destination was custom. And for anyone else the seal had to be different. This was done to ensure that no one could discover the technique by simply studying the seal. Now all Naruto had to do was figure out what his seal would look like. It had to be something personal, linked to his very soul, so to speak. It wasn't something you made, rather it was something you had to find.

Naruto despised that, anything esoteric just reminded him of the strange and unusual things in the world. Something he did not want to think about when training. In his anger he had accidentally made a new jutsu, not exactally something that happens every day. One he was eager to teach his teammates. And that is exactly what he was doing.

"Wait, it can't be that simple", said Sasuke.

"It really is, you just have to have enough chakra for it. With your curse marks it's easy. All you do is the tree walking exercise on the ground, normally useless but when you add to much chakra the ground cracks. Add an ungodly amount and you create a fissure that goes straight ahead of you. You can literally be a walking earthquake, I call it the Fissure Jutsu", said Naruto.

"And you discovered this by accident", asked Sakura.

Naruto shrugged.

"Accidents happen, and sometimes they help out. Though for most people it's a waste, for us. It's a boon", said Naruto.

"We really should have been friends sooner", said Sasuke.

Naruto chuckled.

"Perhaps we should have, either way it works best on earth. So try it out in the caves, I don't want to have to fix my labs again after I found it out", said Naruto.

"Sounds good to me, what about you", asked Sasuke.

"Herbert says he has something he wants to show me", said Naruto.

They nodded before leaving.

Naruto nodded as they left and headed to the nearest room where Herbert was working. He was going over some maintainance on his cybernetic parts which so far consisted only of a hollow tube in his arm that gave him a sonic attack, and a metal braced grafted to his forearms that he could attach weapons to. He seemed to be stuck on further improvement.

"So hows work", asked Naruto.

"Not bad, got a few designs I'm working on with Shinno, so ready to see the Ctulhu Killer I told you about", said Herbert.

Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Cthulhu Killer?", asked Naruto.

Herbert smiled.

"Remember the weapon that I said could be used against Cthulhu, it's done", said Herbert.

Naruto was curious about this and followed Herbert into a room that before was nothing. Now it was filled with computers, keyboards, and the biggest screen Naruto had ever seen. Herbert pressed a few buttons causing the screen to turn on. It revealed schematics of the base. Naruto's eyes widened and his jaw fell.

"Herbert, You are a genius", said Naruto.

Herbert smiled.

"Aren't I", said Herbert.

The screen showed exactly what Herbert had been doing for the past few months. The entire base they were in had been changed on the outside. It resembled a skull, which irked Naruto a bit but damn if he wasn't impressed.

"I turned this entire base into a floating fortress using tech gathered from the sky village. The Shielding is ten feet of solid steel formed into the shape of a human skull for intimidation and, well same principle as Haku's visible heart. Mad scientists don't do ordinary, we do stylish. All that we need to finish is the same energy weapon that the Sky village was working on, which is in the skulls mouth. Later we plan on adding some tech from the Land of Snow for further offensive capability. For now it uses mounted turrets that will shoot special kunai with your seal for the flying thunder god, when the damn Jutsu is ready anyway. Once you figure that out, then with one hit anywhere even on another flying ship and we can spawn waves of clones in there", said Herbert.

"This is what you have been working on, damn you were not kidding when you said this was best used against Cthulhu", said Naruto.

Herbert nodded.

"Yep, this room is used to control the ship, several closed circuit cameras allow us to see the outside world. In addition, The top of the skull is hangar to use the Sky villages flying machines. Completely impenetrable, can submerge under water, and go up to ten thousand feet in the air", said Herbert.

Naruto nodded. Though as impressive as it was it would not be enough against Cthulhu, but it was a step in the right direction.

"How did you make it so fast", asked Naruto.

"Naruto when it comes to building anything you may be good, but me. I'm magic. Most of it was directly taking pieces from the Sky ruins and putting it into our base, some had to be built from scratch, but with their schematics, we saved a lot of time. And like you, I can summon as many clones as I want for labor. This ship is a quarter the size of the Sky Village, but it is much more durable", said Herbert.

"Amazing, did you name it", asked Naruto.

Herbert nodded. He overdramatically lifted his hand to present his newest and greatest creation.

"Naruto, say hello to our flying fortress the Shinigami", said Herbert.

Danzo sat in his office, his Hokage office. He was quite proud of that fact. The job suited him, honestly Danzo never understood Hiruzens displeasure with paperwork, then again Danzo was quite good at it. For his vision to come true, paperwork actually helped. If he knew what was proposed he could easily allow a few non ninja necessities to pass. If the villagers fell behind him, he could use it to his advantage to keep peace within the village as he took over the other lands.

However Danzo was not in the best of moods. He hid it well but not perfactally. One of his largest bases had been destroyed by the Uzumaki child and his team. It was a simple matter to escape, simply let Sai use his special ink clones to gain some information on the situation. Though the information was troubling.

Somehow, and Danzo did not know how, The Uchiha and Haruno unlocked their cursed seals second level and did not display any negative side effects usually associated with the seal. Then their ws the Uzumaki child. When Danzo saw what looked like nine tails behind the boy he felt as if his life would end. He originally believed the boy had unlocked the foxes power, but now he was not so sure. The look of the boy was barely human, no animal could be used to describe whatever he became, though obviously their were traits of the fox in this form, such as the nine tentacles and the strange whiskers that melted anything they impaled, most of the changes could not be so easily explained. Such as the marks on the boys face having what appeared to be the Byakugan and Sharingan. What scared him most was one pair seemed to ripple, similarly to the Rinnegan, but it seemed malformed and only seemed to show when using bloodline abilities. Not to mention the trees the boy could summon and other strange abilities. All these traits were that of bloodlines, which besides the boys unique dojutsu, should have been impossible.

The boy having the blade Samehada was noteworthy but compared to everything else rather minor. Though it did explain why the missing nin Kisame had been killing innocents at a frightening pace. Topped with the creature Danzo had inadvertently summoned, and the Inuzuka incident the village was a powder keg. Seeing no other choice, Danzo knew what he must do. It would have been more preferably to capture the boy, but with this new information it was safe to assume he had other tricks. He would have to be dealt with. Unfortunately nor the boy or his teammates could be found, and their sensei had taken an A-rank mission the very moment the village doors were open.

Danzo looked at the files before him. And marked them all accordingly. As of now, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno were ranked as B-Rank Missing Nins. No doubt this would prove unpopular, but Perhaps Danzo could seal the nine tails into another more obedient ninja to salvage this situation.

Wilbur Whateley was angry. How big was this forest. He had been walking for days in a straight line and had yet to find any towns or villages or anything. But he continued to walk. He thanked his luck he no longer had to sleep, otherwise he would never escape this forest. He did not want to risk the Necronomicon to escape, no telling which direction he should head towards. As he walked he smelled the air. Someone was near. Someone human.

Wilbure hid in the trees and looked around, summoning four other copies ripped from time and space to aid him. Soon one found the humans who's scent he had smelled. Their were two of them, yet he only smelled one. They wore black cloaks with red clouds. One who actually had a smell had blond hair. When Wilbur looked closely he could see the man had mouths on his hands. The tongues wiggled around. A Y'Golonac worshiper perhaps. It was not uncommon for men to seek the God of Perversions. But Wilbur was not going to fight anyone who worshiped that beast. Even he had standards.

The other was a hunched figure who seemed to move on wheels, that was the best way to describe it. He moved forward in a sitting position and only a small portion of his face was uncovered. An an odd hat on his head. Strangely this man had no scent. Wilbur noted they were headed to the very village he left. And as he looked closer he could tell they had been in a fight of some kind, a deadly one. He listened to their conversation.

"You are a moron, ya know that Sasori", said the blond figure with mouths on his hands.

The other one sighed.

"If what Dr. West told us it true, and I believe it is. Then it would be best to seek him out Deidara. I would prefer not to die, my life is more important to me than world conquest, which I care little for", said Sasori.

"Then why did you join", asked Deidara.

"It was logical, if they succeeded in ruling the world than getting in their good graces was a way to allow my self a position of power of some sort, allowing me unlimited subjects to turn into my own art. If what Dr. West said on this Cthulhu character is true, then it is likely the organization he mentioned is much more powerful than the Akatsuki, He knew much on all of us, so he is keeping a watch on us, and yet I saw no evidence we were ever watched. I was impressed", said Sasori.

"Good for you, un", said Deidara.

"I never said you had to join me, you could have stayed", said Sasori.

"You are the only one who can hold a good conversation, un", said Deidara.

Sasori said nothing.

"So, know where he even is", asked Deidara.

"No, but he wore fabrics similar to those found only in Konoha, it is a good place to start", said Sasori.

Wilbur was intrigued, it seemed as if these two knew of Cthulhu, and their was an organization who was put together to stop it. Meaning Cthulhu was nearing the time to soon rise from the sea. Wilbur left the two alone, despite their smell they were not human, and clearly knew little on Cthulhu. However the name Dr. West was something to look into. It could be a relative or even the same man as the Dr. West who created the fabled Reagent. Though the man had died, if he completed his formula then he could still be around. Something to remember. Wilbur continued but this time he followed the trail the two strange ones were leaving, but in the opposite direction. Whoever the Akatsuki were, it sounded like their goals mirrored his in a way. After all world conquest was not far off from World destruction.

Naruto once again was doing inventory of his desk. It calmed him somewhat. He was a missing nin, his whole team were. His clones above dispelled as soon as this information became apparent, and Now Naruto was depressed. He was going to have to tell Sasuke and Sakura. He went through his desk faster as he though on that.

Files on the hidden villages, files on known missing nin, files on politicians, several bingo books, Kabuto's ninja Info cards, The emergency medical kit. He went through it all. By the time he was finished not ten minutes had passed. His psudo-mother walked into the room.

"Are you ok", she asked with worry.

Naruto said nothing for a moment as he compiled his thoughts. He looked to Kushina.

"No, I just learned the new Hokage has made me and my team missing nins", said Naruto.

She came up to Naruto and hugged him. Naruto accepted it, it calmed him more than running inventory did.

She pushed him back but with her hands still on his shoulders. She looked him in the eye.

"Are you going to be okay", asked Kushina.

"I'll be fine, but we cannot stay in Konoha. I'll have to let Sasuke and Sakura know", sid Naruto.

"Are you going to need help", asked Kushina.

"No, I think it best if it is only us three", said Naruto.

Kushina hugged him again. It was soothing to pretend he was her child, at lest it was at the moment. After that he commanded his clones to go and bring his teammates to him. He sat as he thought on what to do. He pondered for a good few moments as they walked in.

"So what's this about", asked Sasuke.

Not one o waste time Naruto got right to the point

"Danzo has made his move, us three have been branded B-rank missing ninja", said Naruto.

He watched as they simply stared at him mouths agape. He let it sink in.

"But, he has no evidence we did anything, and ROOT is officially disbanded even if he did he runs the risk of being found", said Sasuke.

"Normally yes, but as Hokage he officially reinstated ROOT, he doesn't need evidence", said Naruto.

"Wha-What are we going to do", asked Sakura who was literally shaking.

Naruto sighed. What he proposed was going to defiantly blow his cover, I suppose secrecy cannot last forever.

"There is nothing more for us in Konoha, tonight we go to our homes sneak in and get what we can. In the Morning, the Shinigami rises", said Naruto.