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 V

Naruto’s body had finally gotten used to getting up at five in the morning and he got up without Yaone coming in to get him up. He met her downstairs, created his kage bunshins and they began their light morning workout that actually was becoming a light workout. Yaone, on seeing how much easier it was for Naruto to complete the workout added another two hundred pull-ups, squats, and push-ups. She also added ten more miles to their jog. Yaone responded to Naruto’s look of disbelief. “Yes, Naruto, once you get used to what you are doing I am going to increase it. It will be good for you. Do not worry, after I place the seals the amount of work you are currently doing will go down until you are used to working with the increased gravity and resistance.”

They washed up and sat down to breakfast and Naruto asked, “Hey Inari, do you want to join Yaone and me when we go into town to do some shopping?”

Inari beamed at Naruto and nodded his head enthusiastically. Tsunami gently smiled and inquired, “May I join you as well, Naruto-kun?”

“Sure,” Naruto replied affably.

Soon they finished there breakfast and headed down to the village. Yaone said, “Ok, Naruto, we are both going to get some new clothes. We need practical clothes for working in a forge. We need durable stuff that can take the heat so expect a lot of leather or sailcloth clothing. What we are currently wearing isn’t cutting it.”

They both looked down at their outfits that were now filled with tiny burn holes from flying sparks. Yaone continued on with her mental list. “We also need proper workout clothes like shorts, t-shirts and sweats. Now Naruto, I know you love the color orange but right now your skills as a ninja just do not make it possible for you to successful hide yourself. Do not worry, in time you will be skilled enough and you can wear all the orange you want. Okay?”

Naruto looked a little sad at not being able to wear his favorite color anymore but he understood where she was coming from. “Alright, no more orange or any other bright color.”

“So we will get you new shinobi gear in darker colors then. Now your civilian clothes can be in any color you want,” she said and smirked at the joy that filled Naruto’s blue orbs. “We will get regular clothes as well as some fancier clothes. We will both get a pair of formal kimonos as well as a pair of yukata.”

They arrived at the village at they step into the clothing shop. Yaone and Tsunami pulled Naruto to men’s area and began going through the racks, holding clothes up to his body critically before deciding to either reject them or accept them. Inari followed along and snickered at Naruto’s suffering expression. Yaone stated, “Alright, I think that is enough clothing to try on. Go into the changing room and try them on. Come out after each outfit and model them for us.”

Naruto groaned softly but did as he was told. He soon came out in his first shinobi oriented out fit, dark green, baggy pants and skin tight t-shirt with a dark brown belt to hold his hip pouch. He looked at them and Yaone nodded to herself. “We will add some of that fishnet armor and wrap the pant legs with ninja wrap.”

She looked at his bright blonde hair critically before turning and headed to the accessory section and grabbed a few dark colored bandanas. She wrapped a bandana over his head; the color matched the rest of the outfit and covered his distinctive blonde locks. She looked him over and nodded in satisfaction. “Ok, this outfit is a pass. Next one, please.”

The next one was similar to the first accept in dark blue and long sleeves. It was the same for the third except black with both a t-shirt and long sleeves shirt. They moved on to the work gear. It was a mixture of brown leather and heavy canvas fabric. He got five t-shirts and five pairs of pants. The workout gear was five sets of orange and red shorts and t-shirts and five sets of grey sweatpants. Finally, they came to the civilian clothing. He walked out in the first outfit and Yaone wolf whistled and said, “Well looking good, hot-stuff!”

Naruto had on a pair of skin tight pair of jeans and the color hovered between orange and brown which was paired with a crimson red t-shirt that was just as tight as the pants. Naruto flushed as the younger female shoppers looked him over hungrily. “Do they have to be this tight?” he muttered.

“Yes,” came the resounding response from every female in the store.

Naruto shifted uncomfortably and said nothing more. “Next,” Yaone caroled happily.

Naruto returned to the changing room and came out in a pair of baggy, blue jeans that were held up with a belt made of chains and an orange wife-beater. Yaone nodded and he moved on to the next. A pair of baggy, black jeans with orange and red flames going up the legs and a sleeveless, skin tight, black shirt was the next outfit on display. It too got the nod of approval and he went on to put the next outfit on. Tight black leather pants, tight, black silk t-shirt and a long sleeved, dark orange cotton dress shirt. “Where am I going to wear something like this?” he asked Yaone.

She just smirked and declared, “I can think of a few places. Next outfit.”

Naruto went into the changing room and came out in what was his favorite outfit. It was composed of a sleeveless black shirt with orange and yellow flames and a pair of loose black pants with and orange stripe going up the side. “Do I have to try out everything?” Naruto complained, thinking about the pile of civilian clothes and dark colored clothes that were suitable for shinobi gear in the change room.

“No, I just wanted you to try out the fancier outfits,” Yaone replied.

“Good,” he said and turned to the shop girl and asked, “Can I just keep these on and pay for them at the till?”

“Sure, no problem,” she giggled.

He went into the change room and brought out the clothes including his old orange jump suit. The shop girl said, “I will take that to the counter, Uzumaki-san. Do you want to keep your old clothes?”

“No, you can throw them out. They are ruined anyway,” he responded.

Yaone then dragged him to the footwear section of the store. “What size of feet are you?”

“Ummmm, size six to six and half,” Naruto replied.

“Sit,” Yaone ordered him, pointing at a chair. She began going through the selection of footwear. She tossed him shoes and boot for him to try on. His eyes went wide as she gave him a pair of black shinobi sandals, a pair of dark brown, tough leather work boots with steel toes, a pair of orange canvas sneakers, a pair of black doc martens, a pair of black, high top sneakers, a pair of white running shoes, and finally a pair of black leather, almost knee high boot with three silver buckles on them. He quickly tried on the foot where she gave him and when he put on the knee high boots she smirked and said, “Keep those ones on.”

The shop girl took all the footwear to the front counter. Yaone dragged him to where the jackets were next. She had him try on jacket after jacket until she had found exactly what she was looking for. Naruto now had a short, black leather jacket, an orange windbreaker, a brown sued jacket that went down to just below his ass and finally a burnished orange, ankle length duster that was closed by a series of buckles that went from throat to waist. The fabric split at the sides from the waist to the ankle giving him room to fight in. As soon as he tried it on he knew it was meant for him. He kept it on while the rest of the jackets went to the counter.

“I think that is all you are able to get here, Naruto,” Yaone said thoughtfully. “We will have to get you kimonos at a store that specializes in them.”

“Yaone, I do not think we have enough money from our checks to pay for just the stuff I am getting,” Naruto said.

“I know that is why I grabbed more money from that stash in that scroll,” Yaone said.

“Okay,” Naruto replied.

“Now, I need to get my things,” Yaone said just before she disappeared.

Naruto blinked looking around wondering where she disappeared to and a few minutes later she reappeared with an arm full of clothing which she handed off to the shop girl. She disappeared again and then reappeared with a pair of black canvas sneakers and work boots similar to his own as well as a white and red windbreaker. “Let’s go pay for this and go get our kimonos,” she commanded.

As they went to the front counter, a table filled with t-shirts caught his eye. The display shirt was a dark red that was so dark it was almost black with a slogan in white lettering emblazoned on the front. The slogan on the front said, ‘Don’t let your mind wander. It’s too little to be let out alone.’

Naruto smirked; he had to have that one. He stopped at the table, started sorting through the shirts, and began pulling out the ones he liked. ‘Death is but a doorway, . . . here let me hold that for you.’ Black letters on a white shirt was added to the red shirt. Inari joined him and held out a black shirt with red lettering saying, ‘Where am I? Why am I in this hand-basket?’

“I like this one, Naruto-nii.”

Naruto added it to his growing pile, A green shirt with white lettering, ‘Those who can do, those who can’t don’t,’ ‘I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it,’ stated another in black letters on an dark orange shirt, a royal blue shirt with gold letters proudly proclaimed, ‘Will fight evil for food.’ Naruto picked up another shirt that said, ‘The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on,’ and smiled before tossing the brown t-shirt with blue letters onto the pile. He picked up a white shirt with red writing on it and looked at the saying, ‘People pointing swords at you are probably up to no good.’ He arched a golden brow, nodded his head in agreement, and added it to his growing collection. Yaone picked up a peacock blue shirt with white letters and said, “I think this one suits you.”

Naruto read the saying, ‘That’s me, cute but RUTHLESS’ and chuckled before adding it to his purchases. He picked up a dark purple shirt with ‘BE YOURSELF Everyone else is already taken,’ emblazoned on the front in white letters. He nodded his head and handed the t-shirts to the shop girl who took them from him and went to add it to their other purchases up front. Yaone just smiled at Naruto’s excited grin and followed the bouncing blonde to the counter. The shopkeeper rang every thing through and when the total was given, Yaone raised a brow. The owner had just given them a fifty percent discount on all the clothes they bought. He smiled at them and simply said, “For our hero.”

Yaone smiled and said, “Thank-you.”

Naruto then sealed the bags into one of the scrolls he had used to pack his apartment up. They left the shop and Yaone muttered, “Anything for their hero, huh?”

“I guess so,” Naruto replied a little stunned at the owner’s generosity. He had never been treated like this at home, in fact, often the opposite would happen and the shopkeepers would charge him fifty percent more.

They walked down the street and entered the shop that specialized in kimonos and other traditional Japanese clothes. “Alright we each are getting two kimonos and two yukata’s,” she said and then paused when she saw the haori and hakama’s. There was a thoughtful silence before she nodded and said, “I also think you should get a set of haori and hakama.”

Naruto nodded and began to look through the offered wares and was quickly joined by Yaone, Tsunami joined Yaone in helping her find the perfect kimono while Inari joined Naruto. They met at the front counter and showed each other what they had picked. Naruto’s first kimono was black with orange dragons flying across the fabric and a black obi. His second Kimono was a pumpkin orange with yellow and red flames climbing up the hem and the hem of the sleeves and the obi was the same red as the flames. One of his yukata’s was a plain spanish orange with a matching obi and the other was red with a black cross pattern and a black obi. The haori was black with a light orange floral pattern with a plain black hakama and a light orange obi.

Yaone just shook her head at all the orange but realized that Naruto needed his favorite color like a child needed a security blanket. Her first kimono was a light blue with parrot green splashes going across the fabric and a matching green obi. Her other kimono surprised her when she found it. It was an exact match for her father’s haori, white while the left shoulder and sleeves were red and the family symbol of three white hexagonal cubes with white Sakura blossoms contained within them. She searched for and found a yellow and purple sash like the one her father wore as well. Her first yukata was white with a red cross pattern and the other was red with a white floral pattern.

They took their purchases to the front counter. The owner smiled in delight when she saw Naruto and just like the previous shop she gave them a fifty percent discount on their purchases. Yaone shook her head and wondered if this behavior would continue at the rest of the shops they planned on visiting.

They headed down to the next shop on their list once Naruto sealed their purchases into his scroll. They walked in and the owner beamed at them and Yaone’s lips twitched under her mask. “I guess so,” she muttered quietly under her breath.

She swept through the shop picking up scrolls, pads of paper, ink brushes, ink, pens, pencils and spiral notebooks. She paused as a section of the shop caught her eye. She wandered over to it and stared at it in surprise. She thought she would have to order these items. “I see you are looking at our tattoo supplies?” the owner said.

“Yes, I am surprised you have this here,” Yaone admitted.

“Well, a tattoo shop opened up just down the street and they had me order in their supplies for them. The extra that came in I just put out on the shelves. I did not think that they would sell but we have been getting some Kiri nins taking their time off here and they have been buying it to do their own tattoo work so I kept ordering the supplies in,” the owner explained.

“The god’s must be shining down on us,” Yaone said wryly.

She picked up some black ink, a tattoo pen and sanitizer to properly sanitize the needle when she was done tattooing the seals on Naruto’s body. She bought all of her purchases to the counter and once again the shop keeper gave them a hefty discount. Yaone paused outside and thought about what else they would need to do today. She needed to visit an apothecary to pick up some topical anesthetic and she would also go to Watanuki’s. There was something’s she needed to talk to him about.

She crossed the street, striding purposefully to the apothecary’s and after getting the anesthetic she was off to Watanuki’s. “Naruto, I know you have received all those weapons but I think you should leave them alone for now,” she told him.

“Why,” Naruto asked.

“In order to be considered the best you are going to have to prove yourself. The best way to do that would be to take jobs aka start a business. Those supplies would be best for starting up your own business as a ninja for hire,” Yaone informed him.

“So what am I going to use for training?” he asked.

“That is what we are going to talk to Watanuki about. We are going to be learning how to make weapons and there are going to be a lot of duds at first. You can practice with those. After all if you can learn to hit a target with defective gear you would be deadly with good quality weaponry,” she stated.

Naruto nodded and they continued their journey to Watanuki’s in silence. They walked in and greeted Watanuki and he greeted them cheerfully in return. Yaone smiled and began speaking earnestly with him and soon they were shaking hands and Yaone gestured to Naruto and company to follow her out of Watanuki’s. “Okay, Naruto, Watanuki has agreed to take the cost of the metal we will use to make weapons out of, out of our pay check. Not only that it is at a discount.” She smirked wickedly at him and pointed out, “Well, hero, your decision to come to Wave was the best decision you have ever made.”

As they walked through the village, Naruto looked toward the general area where he knew Zabuza and Haku were buried and turned to Yaone. In a subdued voice he said, “I think I would like to visit their rave and pay my respects.”

Yaone nodded and Tsunami spoke up, “I need to go get some groceries. Inari and I will meet up with you two later, alright.”

Naruto and Yaone nodded and watched as Tsunami and Inari walked off. Naruto turned and began walking toward the location of the burial site and Yaone followed. They walked in silence until they reached the graves. Naruto kneeled down and communicated silently with his dead friend and Zabuza. Yaone stood behind him and eyed the blade in the ground. When Naruto stood up and dusted off his knees she stepped forward and pulled the large Zanbatou out of the earth and twirled it around experimentally. She looked at Naruto and quietly said, “This is a good blade and it is wasted by being left sitting here.”

“But that is Zabuza’s sword. We placed it here to mark their graves,” Naruto protested.

Yaone shook her head and pointed out, “Naruto by learning to use this blade and then using it in battle would be a better way to honor those two then to let this sword rust away in the ground. Moreover, there may come a time when someone unscrupulous will come and take this sword and use it for their own purposes. Hell, you could even face it once again in battle if you don’t take it.”

Naruto sighed and then nodded his head slowly. He knew that Yaone was right. They headed back and met Tsunami and Inari before returning home. Once they arrived back and put their purchases away, Yaone told Naruto to change into his workout gear and bring the scrolls with the information on the two seals that they were going to use and meet her in the clearing where they found that spring in. She went there and waited for him. Naruto soon joined her and he handed her the scrolls that she asked for. She then sent him out onto the spring to practice his taijutsu with some of his shadow clones.

She got comfortable under a tree and began reading through the scrolls while watching Naruto practice. As time went on she stopped reading and focused intently on Naruto’s taijutsu. She frowned unhappily as she realized that Naruto’s taijutsu style was complete and utter crap. The style did not suit him at all. This needed to be rectified immediately and decided that the best one to do that was Uncle Shippou. Shippou’s style would be perfect for Naruto because the two of them had similar body types. The Kyuubi being sealed into Naruto also influenced him to some degree and Shippou’s style was designed for kitsune’s. She nodded to herself and decided to contact her honorary uncle after supper. Decision made she turned back to the scrolls and continued reading. After a couple of hours of intense studying she got a solid understanding on what she needed to do to properly situate the two seals on Naruto’s body for the maximum benefit.

****

After supper Yaone had Naruto strip to his boxers and lay down on the blanket she had placed on the floor. She rubbed the topical anesthetic onto the first area where she was going to place the seals. She pulled out the tattoo pen and filled it wit ink. She placed the tip to the back of Naruto’s neck and began to work. Three hours later she had finished tattooing the seals onto Naruto’s skin. She had placed seals on his biceps, forearms, back, his thighs, lower legs, the bottom of his feet, the back of his hands and the back of his neck. The seals had already faded into his skin and she nodded happily and said, “Perfect, absolutely perfect. Now Naruto, in order to use these you have to channel a percentage of your chakra into them. I suggest starting at ten percent for now.”

Naruto nodded and did as she told him as the chakra was being channeled the seals flicker to life and were seen by Naruto before fading away. Naruto channeled his chakra gain and looked at the ones on his fore arms. One seal was on the top the second on the bottom and the lines ran so close together that at first glance it looked like a tribal tattoo with the way it wrapped all the way around his arm. “Are they all like this?” he asked.

“Just the ones on your arms and legs. The ones on your back, neck, feet and hands are one on top of the other,” She answered.

Naruto stood up and could feel the difference already. Yaone smiled as he stumbled up the stairs and to his hi bedroom. She heard the distinctive pop of kage bunshins being dispelled and when it stopped, she stepped outside. She moved swiftly away from the house and then stopped. She muttered a few words in a musical language and channeled some of her youki and on doing so opened a small portal to the Makai. “Uncle Ship, are you there?” she called into it.

A few minutes later a smooth masculine voice answered her. They exchanged greetings and soon Yaone was telling Shippou about Naruto. She told her uncle everything including that the Kyuubi was being held prisoner within him. She concluded the story by asking Shippou if he could come to the Hidden Realm and train Naruto in Kitsune-Wu, the kitsune taijutsu style. Shippo thought about it for a moment before saying he would join them in the morning. He wished to study the seal first then he would train the human child in the kitsune style. Yaone smiled gratefully and said, “Thanks, Uncle Shippou, I guess I will see you tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow,” Shippou agreed.

****

In the morning, Yaone and Naruto got up and Naruto’s kage bunshins were dispensed for their tasks for the day. Yaone and Naruto went back to the original light work out as Naruto got used to the pressure the two seals put on his body. After the work out and they had cleaned up and Naruto put on one of his new workout outfits. Dressed in an orange t-shirt, grey sweats and white running shoes Naruto joined Yaone, Tazuna, Tsunami, and Inari for breakfast downstairs. Yaone said, “I have some good news for you, Naruto. Yesterday I noticed how badly your current taijutsu style suits you and I decided to contact Shippou last night. He said he would come this morning and trains you in his style of taijutsu.”

“Really,” Naruto asked excitedly.

“Yeppers!” Yaone chirped. “But until he gets here you will work on the spike balancing chakra control exercise, okay.”

Naruto nodded and finished his breakfast. As soon as he was done, he went out front and worked on his chakra control. Yaone joined him outside, started to mediate, and used her youki to hover a few feet in the air. An hour later her eyes snapped open and she go up and faced the east. Naruto joined her because he too had felt the surge of youki. “The door form the Makai has opened,” she told him.

He nodded and they waited for Shippou to arrive. A few seconds later Yaone gasped in surprise. Shippou had not come alone. She stared in disbelief as she took in the four elegant figures that had stepped through the tree line. Yaone could not believe what she was seeing, this had never happened before. For the first time since the creation of the realms, all four of the Great Lords had left the Makai at the same time.