The Orange Flash and the White Dog

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakushou, and King of Hell. Their respective creators do. I do own all the original characters though. If you wish to use them, please ask.

Summary: Naruto is banished by the council after his failing to retrieve Sasuke and return him to the village. On leaving, things happen between him and the Kyuubi and he ends up meeting Taishio Yaone. A powerful Inuyoukai who is the daughter of Taishio Sesshoumaru, the ruler of the Western Lands of the Makai and the Shikon Miko, Kagome. Together they become the legendary Orange Flash and White Dog.

Warnings: This is a yaoi/slash fic. The eventual main pairing will be Shino/Naru with mentions of Shino/Kiba, Majeh/Naru, and Majeh/Naru/Samhuk
If you don’t like slash, don’t read, don’t flame.

Author’s Notes: Any grammatical errors that I may have missed please let me know. Thanks, The Lady of Shadows.

Chapter IV


Yaone woke Naruto up bright and early the next morning and Naruto mumbled, “Why so early?”

“Do not forget we are going to go get jobs so physical training is slated for early mornings and evenings. Even if we do not have a job yet it is a good idea to get your body ready for early morning starts. We will start the morning with a light workout, have breakfast and then plan your entire regime for the next little while. Tomorrow we will go looking for a job and you will start an intensive training routine.”

Naruto blinked sleepily up at her as he sat there in a daze before muttering, “Ok, Yaone.”

“Follow me, Naruto,” Yaone commanded and headed out of Tazuna’s house and down to a nearby clearing with a sparkling, blue stream crossing through one end of it. Yaone had him start stretching his muscles and after she felt he was ready she walked up a tree and began to do pull ups on a nearby branch. She told him to do three hundred pull ups using his chakra to stick to the branch. After that she headed out onto the nearby stream and told him to do three hundred push ups, both regular ones and handstands pushups. After that she had him do three hundred sits and crunches. She joined him and they swiftly finished them together. Yaone sprang to her feet after her push ups and began jogging up the stream. Naruto did not need her to tell him to follow and they jogged up the stream for twenty miles before turning around and heading back. When they arrived back at Tazuna’s house she sent him up to have a bath. She sat down to wait for him. She smiled in amusement at the memory of Naruto’s red face and the sweat pouring down from his hair. She had not let him stop and rest and he was a wreck by the time they had returned to the house. She on the other hand had not even worked up a sweat.

Tsunami came down and started breakfast and she had just placed a pot of tea down on the table in front of Yaone when Naruto came down, fresh and clean from his shower. Yaone smiled at her in thanks before turning to Naruto as he sat down beside her and asked, “What is next?”

“Now it is time to plan your regimen. Now that I have seen the way our move and seen what your body type is, I have come to the conclusion that you are built for speed not strength. What we are going to concentrate on is building up your speed and chakra control. That is why our light morning workout …”

“Light morning work out!” Naruto exclaimed.

Yaone cleared her throat and continued on, ignoring Naruto’s interruption. “Our light morning workout occurred out on the water. We were exercising both your body and your chakra control at the same time. I am going to start you on a different chakra control exercise then what you are familiar with. It is an exercise that has different levels of difficulty.”

“What is it?” Naruto questioned.

“You will see,” she mysteriously responded. “I also have some ideas on how to build up your speed but I will have to think about if for a bit. Now go get the scrolls you were given. We will go over them and see just what you have to learn.”

Naruto got up and headed back up the stairs. He soon returned with the thirteen scrolls. “Ok, first we will see just what items you got from Iruka, Shizune, and Tsunade. This way we will know what we need to get later on.” Yaone said.

Naruto opened up the first scroll and it was filled with forty large packs that held fifty shurikens and kunai, five spools of ninja wire, a set of one hundred exploding tags and 200 senbon making the total amount to two thousand shurikens and kunai, two hundred spools of ninja wire, four thousand exploding tags and eight thousand senbon. Yaone and Naruto looked at each other in disbelief. “Ummmm, this is just scroll one. I wonder what the other three scrolls contain.” Yaone murmured.

Naruto nodded and a opened the second one. One of each kind of weapon you could think of had been contained in the scroll. A katana, wakazashi, tanto, aikuchi, chisa katana, chokuto, two sets of daisho, daito, hamidashi, ken, kodachi, kubikiri, kwaiken, moroha, naginta, nodachi, o-dashi, shikomi-zue, shoto, yoroidoshi, nagamaki-naoshi, two kama’s, a great scythe with attached ball and chain, a regular scythe, a scythe with three blades and various yari, jumonjsu yari, kama yarii yari, katakama yari, omi no yari, fukuro yari, and a kikuchi yari. There were also chain and blade weapons of a wide variety of sizes and blade types. “Holy fucking shit,” breathed Yaone, “Did they raid the damn armory?”

“You know what Yaone? I think they might have.” Naruto replied in stunned disbelief.

“Oh my,” Tsunami murmured and then smiled at Naruto, “I think your hokage and teachers cared for you a great deal.”

“Yeah,” Naruto whispered. “I can not believe how far baa-chan, Iruka-sensei, and Shizune-san went for me.”

“We still have two more scrolls to go but I think you need to put the other two scrolls away first,” Yaone pointed out wryly.

Naruto nodded his head and sealed all the weapons back up. He then opened up the third scroll. It contained armor. Every kind of shinobi armor you could think of it had in various sizes. There was Anbu armor in white and black. There were fishnet shirts, pants, and vests. There were various types of shin and arm guards and ninja wraps and even blank Anbu masks and faceplates. “I think you will never have to ever worry about armor ever again, Naruto. This stuff comes in all sizes. I think they expect you to grow up and they want you to have armor that fits you as you grow.” Yaone said quietly.

Naruto laughed a bit desperately and then put it all back in the scroll. He looked at the fourth scroll in both anticipation and trepidation. He wondered just what those three had put in that scroll. He swallowed and unsealed it. “Oh my,” Tsunami whispered her eyes had gone wide in surprise.

“I second that,” Yaone choked out.

Naruto said nothing and just stared at the very large pile of money spread over Tsunami’s table. He finally said, “Do we really need to get jobs, Yaone? There is quite a bit of money here. It would last quite a long time.”

Yaone coughed, “Well if the job I was hoping for us to get is already filled then no, we will not need one. But if it is open, then yes, we are getting a job.”

“What do you mean?” Naruto asked her curiously.

“I want us to get a job at the blacksmith’s. It is a good physical workout and it will teach you a very useful skill even though you may never need it with all the weapons your friends provided,” Yaone told him.

Naruto looked at her for a minute but quickly understood what she was getting at. He turned to the other nine scrolls and began unsealing them. He left the one with Namikaze emblazoned on it for last though. They spent the morning going over and organizing all the jutsu’s that Jiraiya and Kakashi had given him. They organized them by level and chakra type. All the scrolls were sorted by type, Doton, Katon, Suiton, Futon, Raiton and Ninpou ninjutsu were put into their own piles. All the genjutsu were sorted into another pile. All the scrolls on seals and their creation were put in yet another pile. They separated all the scrolls like this and then they were further sub-divided into level of difficulty D-level’s, C-level’s, B-level’s, A-level’s and S-level’s. They had to stop their sorting for breakfast and then continued to just before lunch. “You have literally thousands of jutsu’s at your disposal, Naruto-kun,” Yaone murmured. “They went all out for you, didn’t they?”

“Yeah,” Naruto smiled sadly, “Yeah, they did.”

“You still have one more scroll to open.”

Naruto nodded and looked down at the scroll his father left him. He gently picked it up and examined it. Its seal was different from the others. Yaone, seeing him look at the seal said, “It is a blood seal, Naruto. You need to use your blood to open it up.”

Naruto bit his thumb and smeared the blood across the seal. The first scroll he picked up was the one that had his name emblazoned on the side. He opened it up and read it.

Dear son,
I am writing this just before I go out to face the Kyuubi and sacrifice myself to seal the bijuu into you. If you are reading this then you are now a chunin and either Sarutobi or Jiraiya has given this to you. I am sorry for having to give you the burden of being the Kyuubi’s jailor but I was given no choice. I have to seal it into you or see everyone, including you, die at its hands. I hope the village will see you for the hero that you are going to be but if they do not, I am sorry. I hope you had a good childhood and I wish I could have been there to see it. I was so excited when Kushina, your mother, told me she was pregnant with you. I started planning on teaching you everything I knew but that dream died when I was told about the approaching bijuu. I know that the village shinobi can not defeat it but I know that it is possible to seal it into a human baby. I just finished creating the Shiki Fuujin I know that I am not powerful enough to actually seal the beast and that I would need the help of the Shinigami. The cost to use the Shiki Fuujin will be my life and soul and it hurts to know that I will leave you an orphan as Kushina died giving birth to you. The med-nins said that the Kyuubi’s toxic chakra cost her life as her chakra instead of protecting her, protected you. Do not blame yourself for her death. The one responsible is sealed within you and if my seal works right it will eventually kill it.

Now in the scrolls that this letter has sealed within it contain various Namikaze and Uzumaki clan jutsus. They are jutsu’s that are suitable to our dominate chakra affinities. Namikaze’s have always had the affinity for Futon jutsu. The Uzumaki’s have always had the affinity for Suiton jutsu’s. Not only that, each clan has there own minor kekai genkai. The Namikaze’s kekai genkai is infinite stamina and chakra. We can recover a good portion of our stamina and chakra after about thirty minutes. Not only that we can often outlast our opponents in battle. It was very useful for me during the Second Shinobi War. The Uzumaki’s kekai genkai is a very powerful healing ability. It can heal anything. Every poison your mother’s clan has ever encountered was healed with ease so you will never have to fear poison. The larger the individual chakra supply is the faster that that individual will heal themselves. You being our child as well as being the container of the Kyuubi will be able to heal yourself from blows that would most likely kill anyone else. Neither clan bothered to name there kekai genkai but if you want to do so. There are two jutsu in here that I created myself, the Rasengan and the Hirashin. I never truly completed what I planed to do with the Rasengan and I left notes of what I planned on doing. I hope you will be able to finish it. The scroll on the Hirashin gives instructions on how to create the seals needed for use and how to use it correctly.

Your mother is too weak to write a personal message for you so I will include what she said about you before she died. She too wishes she could have seen you grow up. She was looking forward to seeing you crawl for the first time. To hear your first word which she hoped would be mommy. To see you take your first step and learn your first jutsu. To see you walk up the side of a tree for the first time. We both wanted to see you graduate from the Academy and show us your new hitai-ate. Know this my son, we love you with all our heart and all we want is your happiness. Find someone to love as much as your mother and I loved each other. Have many friends and always strive to do your best. Do not ever give up on your dreams and I know your mother will be watching over you and cheering you on. I think I have run out of time, my son. So now I will say good-bye to you, my son. Live a long and prosperous live and always remember that we love you.

Signed your loving father,

Namikaze Minato

Namikaze Minato

Naruto looked at the various clan jutsu’s and then picked up the scrolls on seals and glanced through them before handing them to Yaone. She looked scanned through the names and put two scrolls to the side before putting the rest into the appropriate piles. She then picked up the two scrolls and carefully read through them and smiled. She looked at him and said, “These are what we will use to increase your speed.”

“What kind of seals are they?” Naruto asked.

“The first is the gravity seal which when placed on the body increases the pressure of gravity. The gravity increases when you add more chakra to the seals. In order to be at normal gravity you just have to remove your chakra from the seals and that can be done with a thought.” Yaone stopped and took a sip of tea that Tsunami had thoughtfully provided and continued, “The other seal is the resistance seal. It acts like you have a parachute attached to you or that you are running up hill against the wind. Like the gravity seal, how much resistance you are up against is dependent on how much chakra you decide to channel through the seal. Together they provide a very convenient way to increase both speed and strength.”

“Wow, those seals sound exactly what we are looking for.” He looked at the scrolls on seals the interest apparent. He whispered, “My father was a seal master and he created the Hirashin and the Shiki Fuujin with his knowledge. I wonder what I could do if I became a seal master?”

Yaone smiled and said, “Who knows, Naruto just remember that the skies the limit. Now even though you have lots of money, I want to see if we can get a job at the Smith’s and use the paychecks we get to pay for the ink we need for both of the seal tattoos but also for you to practice creating seals with on regular paper. We will also need to buy a completely new wardrobe for training, work, shinobi gear, and civilian clothes. Now let’s start planning your training regimen. Now I want you to do something for me.”

“What?” he asked.

“I need you to create a kage bunshin and have it follow me,” Yaone said.

“Sure!”

Naruto created a kage bunshin and Yaone and the kage bunshin went into the kitchen and whispered something in his ear. The kage bunshin nodded and then dispersed itself. Naruto’s eyes went wide. “You are two hundred years old?” he blurted out.

“Youkai physically age slower then you humans, Naruto,” Yaone said. “Now, Naruto, how did you know how old I was?”

“Because you told me . . .,” his voice trailed off. “Wait you told my kage bunshin not me.”

“Yes and now you know how you are going to train while you are at work. Now you cannot use the kage bunshin to create muscle tone or speed. You actually have to work at that but chakra control, mastering jutsu, reading about seals and things like that they can do. Practicing taijutsu and kenjutsu can also be done by kage bunshin. Some of it you have to do yourself to improve muscle tone but the muscle memory is all in your mind so you can have them memorize the strikes and kata’s of each discipline for you. They can also do the chakra control exercises and the benefits of them doing them will be passed on to you. With your family’s kekai genkai you will not have to worry about learning this way because you healing ability will heal the damages that kage bunshin would normally do to your mind and body,” Yaone concluded.

“I get it,” Naruto stated.

“Good, now let’s plan your daily routine,” she said.

She pulled out a notebook and a pen and they started planning. The finished product went something like this. In the morning they would do the same thing that they did this morning. Then Naruto would create one-hundred fifty kage bunshin. Yaone wanted him to go easy at first and then work his way up. Twenty-five kage bunshin were going to practice water walking and another twenty-five would work on tree walking. Yaone said that Naruto needed to work on truly mastering the Rasengan and so twenty-five clones were sent to do that. Yaone pointed out that the E-rank jutsus that he learned in the Academy could be mastered to the point that you could do them with no seals and set twenty-five kage bunshin to doing that. The next twenty-five were to spend the day reading the D-rank scrolls for ninjutsu, genjutsu, and seals. The final twenty-five kage bunshin were set to practicing their aim with throwing shuriken and kunai. This routine would of course change as time went on but it was a good start.

They finished the day by building a shelf to hold the scrolls in and placed it in Naruto’s room with the scrolls placed on the shelf in the order they had sorted everything earlier. Soon evening came and they had supper and went to bed. “After all,” Yaone pointed out, “We have to get up really early in the morning.”

******

Yaone woke Naruto up early again. “What time is it?” he questioned.

“Five am,” came the chipper response.

She had Naruto create his kage bunshin and send them to their tasks for the day. Then they started Yaone’s light morning workout and Naruto hoped that one day he too would consider the morning workout as light. When they returned to the house Naruto went and had his shower. Tsunami was already up and starting breakfast. She put a pot of tea on the table and Yaone thanked her. Naruto soon came down and they ate breakfast and left for town.

On arriving at the village, Yaone questioned a couple of villagers and got the directions to the local blacksmith. “Now, as I told you before, I wanted you to get an apprenticeship with the blacksmith because of the advantages it provides. The extreme physical work of smithing will build up your muscles and knowing how to fix your own weapons will be very useful as well. Not only that I am sure you are aware of weapons that have been created or worked upon by seal masters, yes?”

“Yeah, the Nidaime’s Raijin,” Naruto replied.

“In order to best understand where to place your seals you should have a superior understanding on how your sword or whatever weapon you are using is made in order to get the best results. This is true for youkai weapons as well,” Yaone said. “This is why I want to get an apprenticeship with the local blacksmith as well. In fact, this is another reason why I came to the Hidden Realm. I have always been fascinated with the art of sword forging and I wanted to take an Apprenticeship with the Makai’s premier weapons smith, Totosai junior. Unfortunately he said that he would only take me on if I got apprenticed to a regular blacksmith to learn the basics of forging because he did not want to take the time to teach me.”

“Basics?” Naruto questioned.

“Totosai junior creates magical swords out of youkai fangs, claws, and bones,” Yaone told him dreamily. “His father did the same. Actually it amazed people when Totosai senior had a kid at all. He was already extremely old when he found a demoness to mate with. My uncle was surprised that he even had enough juice to even have a kid.”

“I can see why you wanted us to get an apprenticeship,” Naruto said.

“If you do well, perhaps, I can get Totosai junior to train you as well,” Yaone said thoughtfully.

“You are planning on taking me to the Makai?” Naruto asked incredulously.

“Yes,” she said simply.

They soon arrived at the smith’s. Yaone and Naruto entered the building and Yaone approached the tall, muscle bound man. They talked intensely for a few minutes. Yaone gestured to Naruto and the smith looked at him and went still for a moment before grinning broadly and nodding his head. The smith said something else to her and then he and Yaone shook hands. Yaone walked up to Naruto and grinned at him behind her mask. “Well, kid, he has agreed to take us both on. I did not think he was going to for a moment till he saw you. Your hero status here in Wave got us this apprenticeship, congrats, hero.”

Naruto blushed happily and a warm feeling filled him at her words. “So what are we doing now?” he asked her.

“Tomorrow we will be here to start at seven am. Today we will return to Tazuna’s and begin working on your new chakra control exercise,” she replied.

They headed back through the village all the while being stopped along the way by individuals or groups of people who wanted to thank Naruto for what he did for Wave. Naruto just smiled and just said that they were welcome but he had just done what was a part of his job. They finally made it back to Tazuna’s and Yaone smiled at Naruto. “Well, hero, it is time for you to learn that chakra control exercise I told you about earlier,” Yaone said.

She called forth her youki and two metal spikes spaced a couple of feet apart emerged from the ground. She took off her tattered red cape, went over to them and proceeded to go into a handstand on her pointer fingers. Her youki emerged from the tenketsu points in her fingertips and glowed green. “Now what this exercise does is refine your use of chakra. You have to have a constant release of chakra coming from you fingertips in order to protect them from the points of the spikes. You also have to release chakra from your body to stabilize your body in the air, in order to keep you upright. You also must use your chakra to keep your blood flow moving in the proper directions so it does not all pool in your brains blood vessels. Do you understand what I am saying, Naruto?”

“Yes,” Naruto replied excitedly. He loved being taught new things. He thought that this love came from the time when no one would teach him anything properly. He really enjoyed his time with Kakashi and Iruka when they taught him the basics he had missed in the Academy. Iruka always felt guilty that he did not realize why Naruto never listened to him in class was because he did not understand what he was saying due to knowledge that he had never gained.

“Ok, hero, get to it then,” Yaone said amusement lacing her voice.

Naruto took Yaone’s place on the spikes and Yaone sat down and watched him as he struggled with the exercise. Every now and then, she gave him pointers when he was really having difficulty in making it work. His chakra faltered now and again and he toppled to the side but he got up to try again. He did not get frustrated like she had when she was learning how to do this little exercise when she was younger. Naruto kept trying, never giving up. If he continued like that for the rest of his training he would go far. He could easily achieve his dream of being the strongest. After an hour he got the exercise down pat. For the next four hours he performed the exercise. “Impressive,” she muttered softly to herself.

She had collapsed after two hours of doing this the first time she had done it. The Namikaze stamina and chakra reserve levels were truly impressive. Two hours later she had him stop as his chakra began to falter. “Okay, hero that is it for the day. Go and get cleaned up for supper.”

Naruto lowered himself back down to the ground gratefully. He did not know how long he could have kept up the exercise. He jogged slowly up to the house while Yaone dispelled the metal spikes and then followed him in. She sat down at the table while Naruto cleaned up. Tsunami was hard at work making supper. Soon the entire group was around the table laughing and talking about the day. Naruto told them about the trip to town and the villager’s behavior toward him. Tazuna told him he would have to get used to it. He was Waves hero, after all. Yaone chuckled at Naruto’s red face. Soon after supper they went to bed. She told Naruto to get undressed and into bed before he dispelled his kage bunshins because, he would be out like a light. She cautioned him to not dispel them all at once. The resulting headache that he would get would not be pretty. Groups of fifteen would be best. “Okay,” he agreed.

****

The next morning and another five am wake up call. They followed the same routine as yesterday before heading into town. The only difference is that fifteen kage bunshins were water walking, fifteen kage bunshins were tree walking, and twenty kage bunshins started the new chakra exercise.

They swiftly traveled through the trees heading into town. Naruto did not say it but he was excited about his new apprenticeship. Yaone was looking forward to it as well because once she was finished then Totosai junior would take her on as an apprentice. They arrived and the Smith, Shinya Watanuki, greeted them and had them immediately start. He told Naruto to lose the orange jacket and Yaone was told to pull back her hair into a braid and to take off her cloak and gloves. Naruto eyed the claws on her hands and shuttered he would not want to be on the wrong side of those babies. He also noticed the two red stripes on each hand that were exactly like the ones on her face. Watanuki had Naruto start the fire and he soon organized their tasks for the day.

He showed them how to forge the metal for a plough. After showing them how it was done they began working on it with him watching over them. He explained that once they could properly forge farming implements they would move on to weapons and other fine tools. As the morning progressed they practice what he had shown them. Lunch soon arrived and they went to the bridge to eat. They discussed what they had learned from Watanuki so far. Naruto was enjoying himself even though the work was hard. He said, “I have never created anything with my own two hands before. I find it to be incredibly exciting and rewarding to finish something in the forge and to know that I did it.”

“I agree, Naruto. There is something incredible about creating something with your own two hands,” she agreed softly.

They finished lunch and returned to the forge to continue working. The day was soon done and Watanuki informed them that they would receive there first pay check at the end of the week. They returned to Tazuna’s and Yaone had Naruto do another light workout. After finishing their run they both had baths needing to soak newly discovered muscles.

After supper they immediately went to bed exhausted after a long day working at the forge. Naruto dispelled his kage bunshins and while his mind processed all the new information he acquired during the day he fell into an exhausted sleep. The next morning after the morning workout, Yaone and Naruto began discussing what his kage bunshins had learned over the past couple days. Naruto was excited about the uses of seals and could not wait to start practicing what he learned. From there they moved on to the changes that had taken place in Wave since the bridge had been built. Tazuna was proud how quickly his home had sprung away from poverty. He mentioned that Wave would soon have enough money to pay Konoha the money that they owed.

Naruto and Yaone‘s conversation moved on to discuss where they would go from Wave. Naruto wanted to get strong enough that he could easily become an efficient bodyguard for Princess Koyuki in Snow. He did not want to get the job because he was considered a hero in Snow as he was in Wave. He knew he was not strong enough yet. Of course just because he would be strong enough to be her bodyguard did not mean he would stop training one he reached Snow. He would continue training while in Snow as well.

Yaone said, “Of course you are not going to stop. You need to be strong enough to survive in the Makai which is not an easy task. You will train your ass off and continue to train in the Makai with various Youkai masters including Totosai junior. I also believe I can get three of the four Lords to personally train you.”

“Why only three?” Naruto asked curiously.

“As I told you earlier, Shippo, Kouga and my father ended up becoming allies against Naraku and the bonds that formed during the many battles against Naraku remained strong after his death,” she said.

Naruto nodded his head and they finished up their breakfast and headed off to work. After another hard day they returned home, exercised, ate supper and slept the sleep of the exhausted. They kept that routine for the week until they received both their first pay check and the weekend off. Yaone turned to Naruto and smirked wickedly at him. “We will give Tsunami here, a large portion of our checks for food and lodging and the rest we will spend shopping tomorrow.”

Tsunami tried to protest but Yaone turned to her and said, “You think Naruto’s appetite is large now wait till you see it as soon as his training increases. He will be eating a hell of a lot more.”

“Oh, okay,” Tsunami whispered as she accepted the money. She knew she could not afford to continue to feed Naruto if what Yaone said was true.

Soon they finished supper and went to bed. They would be up early tomorrow as usual. Before he fell asleep Naruto wondered what Yaone planned on buying in town. He had a feeling that the trip would be focusing on him.