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 VII

After the Akatsuki encounter Naruto’s training continued on unabated and uninterrupted. After two more weeks of training Shippou and Yaone came to a decision. “Kit, your workouts are getting too easy for you again. I think it is time for you to increase the power of both sets of seals. I suggest that the resistance seal goes up to twenty-five percent resistance and the gravity seal moves up to twenty percent of gravitational pressure,” Shippou informed him.

Not long after Shippou told him to increase the power of the seals he came to another decision involving Naruto’s training. For the past two days, Shippou had watched Naruto flawlessly moved through the four basic kata’s of Kitsune-Wu. “Kit, you have mastered the four kata’s that I showed you. Now, I think that it is time to move on to the next four. These four are the intermediate level kata’s of Kitsune-Wu. After I show you them create twenty-five kage bunshins for each kata and start training on them,” Shippou stated with quiet pride at the fast pace in which Naruto was learning what he had taught him.

That night over supper, Yaone grinned at him and said, “Good work, Naruto. Once you have mastered these four kata’s Shippou and I have decided it will be time for Kouga to join us. Now as he told you he will be improving your speed. Of course, Shippou will be expecting to see that increase in speed in your kata’s. He will want to see both the speed and the flawless performance of each kata.”

Naruto smiled at that and Yaone continued on, “He will also start training you in blade technique’s so expect to receive a lot of minor little cuts. Of course with your healing bloodline they will be healed up pretty fast. Now I think that is everything that I had to tell you.”

Naruto smiled at her and happily informed her, “I have mastered the Rasengan. I can now do it one handed without the clones help on command. I have also finished mastering the Academy jutsu.”

Yaone smirked and said, “Congrats, hero, which means I will have to reassign all those kage bunshins to other jobs. Hmmmm, I think I know what I will have them do but first,” she hands Naruto a piece of paper. “Now I know that Kouga has already told you that you have a Wind affinity. He knew this by the feel of your chakra and because he has an ability that was honed over the years of fighting Naraku and his minions to sense Wind types. This paper will show if you have other affinities other than Wind. Channel your chakra through the paper. It will split in half for Wind, get wet for Water, turn to dust for Earth, crumple for Lighting, and turn to ash for Fire.”

Naruto channeled his chakra into the paper and it split in two and then got wet. “Well kid, it seems you already have two elemental affinities. Now your training will change. Your kage bunshins will be moving onto studying and mastering D-level elemental and ninpou jutsu’s as well as D-level seals. You will created twenty-five kage bunshins for each elemental affinity as well as twenty-five kage bunshins for the ninpou jutsu’s and seals. Once your kage bunshins devoted to your Suiton and Fuuton jutsu’s are finished mastering the D-level jutsu they are to move on to the Raiton and Doton jutsu. If your other groups are finished mastering what they are studying they should move on to the groups that have not mastered what they are studying yet.”

“Ok Yaone,” Naruto replied.

The talk moved on from shinobi training to their training with Watanuki in the forge. They noted that they were moving smoothly forward in their training. They were both getting adept at the basics of forging and Watanuki said that they would be moving on to the more difficult techniques soon. In a fit of inspiration, Yaone had created a makeshift forge outside of the village that would fit one hundred clones inside it. So now to aide them in mastering their new craft they now had fifty clones each working on mastering the techniques in forging that Watanuki had taught them. He had praised them on how fast they were picking up his craft. The kunai and shurikens they had made he had finally declared as being of suitable quality. He was now selling the shuriken and kunai that Naruto was not using to practice with to the Kiri-nins that frequented the village since the building of the Great Naruto Bridge. After their discussion about all of their training, they went to bed.

At supper on another night, they discussed plans for the future again. Yaone pointed out, “We are no where near mastering what Watanuki is teaching us. He is teaching us new things as soon as we can forge an adequate product. This of course means a sellable product. Once we leave for Snow, we will not yet be masters. We will be adequate smiths but not masters.”

Naruto shrugged and then grinned at her and said, “Do not forget that we have that smithy out in the forest. We can use a bunch of storage scrolls and haul the entire thing with us to Snow. Do no forget that storage seals are our friends, Yaone. We can easily work on mastering what we learned in Snow that way.”

Yaone chuckled helplessly and said, “That is a good idea, Naruto. I wonder why I did not think of it.”

“I am just brilliant that way,” he said. They sat in silence for a minute before he said, “You know what, I can not wait till I see the Princess again.”

“Well you will not be seeing her for a while yet, Naruto,” she said. “Also, Kouga will be joining you at the end of the week to start his portion of your training.”

“Really,” Naruto yelled happily.

“Really,” Yaone affirmed.

“This means I am moving forward pretty fast,” he chirped.

Yaone just chuckled and finished the last of her supper. They soon headed off to bed. Naruto, full and content quickly fell asleep when he dispelled his clones for the day.

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Another week past and the weekend finally arrived. Naruto and Yaone had the weekend off from Watanuki’s as usual. After their morning workout and over breakfast the new training regime with Kouga was discussed. Yaone smile and said, “Your chakra control is better this means you can make more kage bunshins. So more kage bunshins will be added to the mount you have now.”

“Got it,” Naruto mumbled as he shoved food into his mouth.

Once breakfast was over Naruto went outside to meet Kouga. One minute he was by himself waiting in the clearing lone and the next minute Kouga was standing beside him and leaves were floating to the ground. “Hey, cub,” Kouga said.

“Hi, Kouga-sensei,” Naruto chirped.

“Okay, today we begin your speed training. It is nothing fancy. Expect to do a lot of sprinting for hours at a time. First, I want you to raise your gravity seal so the gravitational pull is at thirty percent and raise your resistance seal to fifty percent resistance.”

“Ok, sensei,” Naruto replied and he channeled his chakra to the seal raising them to the required level.

Kouga gave Naruto time to adjust his equilibrium before continuing, “I am going to start you off at an easy distance and then gradually increase the distance you sprint so it is longer and longer. Today we start of at fifty meters. I have already marked path over here,” Kouga stated guiding Naruto to he track he would be sprinting on. “Okay, Naruto get ready, set, and go!”

Naruto began sprinting to the orange ribbon that was wrapped around a tree. Once he arrived there Kouga yelled, “Sprint back now.”

Naruto did as he was told and quickly arrived in front of Kouga panting harshly. “Ok cub, I want you to continue to do that for the next two hours.” Kouga told him cheerfully, “Also, your kage bunshins will not be able to do this for you. You have to earn the muscles on your own, cub.”

Naruto looked up at Kouga and panted, “Ok Kouga-sensei.”

So for the next two hours Naruto sprinted back and forth until Kouga said he was free to go to lunch. “After lunch cub, we are going to do some blade work. After lunch join me her with a pair of kunai and we will begin with those and work our way to different kinds of blades.”

Naruto just nodded tiredly and headed to the house in a slow walk. Over lunch Yaone told him how the clone dispersion would begin in the mornings starting tomorrow. “Alright hero, your first batch of kage bunshins will be for the tree walking exercise and no, we will not stop this exercise because the way your chakra is constantly increasing because of the seal. You will probably have to do chakra control exercises everyday for the rest of your life. It is a good thing you can use your kage bunshins the way that you do. The kage bunshins working on the trees will be upping the difficulty by doing pushups, pull-ups, squats, and sit-ups along the trunks and branches. You will have fifty kage bunshins devoted to doing this all day. Now onto the next batch of kage bunshins, you will create one hundred and seventy-five kage bunshins that will be devoted to mastering the C-level ninpou, fuuton, raiton, suiton, doton, and katon ninjutsu as well as C-level seals.” Yaone shook her head and muttered, “I can’t believe that you have already mastered the D-level ninjutsu’s and seals. Now onto the next set of kage bunshins. They will be devoted to the eight kata’s of Kitsune-Wu that you have learned so far. I want fifty for each kata. I also want those groups to be practicing their kata’s on any body of water that they can find. Have fifty kage bunshins practice throwing shuriken and kunai blindfolded and using your other senses to find the target. And finally have kage bunshins working on strikes and kicks being careful not to dispel themselves.”

Yaone looked at Naruto and grinned and said, “Now it is time for you to up the level of difficulty of the spike balancing exercise. Start doing pushups with a kage bunshins sitting on the bottom of your feet. Have fifty kage bunshins work on this. Now Shippou says today you will be learning the last six kata’s of Kitsune-Wu. These six kata’s are on the expert level so congratulations on reaching that level so fast. Of course you will have fifty kage bunshins working on each kata on some body of water.”

Naruto chuckled and nodded his head. He was quite happy to learn that he was progressing so fast. After lunch Naruto joined Kouga with his pair of kunai. Kouga showed him a few moves and then he and fifty of his clones began practicing them. This training session moved similarly to how his sessions with Shippou had gone. Kouga said, “Once you have the moves down pat, I will show you how to add your wind affinity to the attacks.”

Naruto practiced working with the kunai for the next two hours and then Kouga sent him to work on his chakra control exercise. He worked on that for another two hours before going in to clean up. He pulled out a scroll on sealing and began reading it until supper. After supper he continued reading in bed before he dispelled his clones and went to sleep.

****

The next morning he did an hour of sprinting with Kouga after this morning workout. They then moved on to knife fighting. “Remember Naruto, when you get into a knife fight it is the individual who is the most vicious and knows the most tricks who wins the fight. You know you have met someone experienced in using knives or daggers by the scars on the back of their hands. Well the experienced humans will have these scars, youkai heal to quick for scars to form from ordinary weapons. You will be the same due to your bloodline, Naruto. Now let’s start practicing.”

They worked with the basic stances and attacks till lunch. Fifty kage bunshins continued to practice when he went to lunch. After lunch it was back to sprinting. Kouga increased the amount of time he spent sprinting from two hours to three hours. After Kouga said he could stop he slowly walked back to the house with Kouga following him. “Good work, cub, I did not actually think you would make it for three hours but you did,” Kouga said and then a slight smile appeared on his face. “Kami, I remember when I began training to increase my speed. Seals like your gravity and resistance seals did not exist.” He laughed and continued on, “I had to use a parachute to provide the wind resistance. My clan laughed at me and mocked me for being silly and stupid. They thought nothing would ever come from me doing such weird things. They stopped laughing though when I used my hard won speed to kill the old leader of the northern Ookami clan in a battle for the right to rule. I made mincemeat out of him. He never saw it coming.”

Naruto smiled tiredly and listened to Kouga continue to reminisce. He found it interesting to hear the story of the Shikon no Tama from Kouga’s point of view. A question came to his mind and he asked Kouga, “Kouga-sensei, why did I not start this training with you before Shippou-sensei’s training?”

“Shippou wanted you to get the first eight kata’s put into your muscle memory first,” Kouga responded.

Naruto nodded and they continued their walk in a comfortable silence. When they arrived at the house he saw Yaone sitting at a new table under the shade of a tree, Naruto and Kouga walked over and joined her. Yaone smiled at them and said to Naruto, “Today we are going to improve upon your strategic thinking. I am going to teach you the basics of a bunch of strategy games and give you some books on strategy and moves that you can use within the games. We are going to start with playing go, shogi, chess and checkers.”

“What are chess and checkers?” Naruto asked curiously.

“These two games originated from the Western part of the Ningenkai. In checkers each player has twelve pieces which are flat and round. They are usually colored red and white. Some checkers sets have red and black pieces. No matter what the color’s are the darker pieces are always called “red” while the lighter colored pieces are called “white.” There are two kinds of pieces: plain pieces and "kings". A king is made by putting one plain piece on top of another. Each player starts with twelve pieces on the three rows closest to their own side. The row closest to each player is called the "King Row". The Red side gets the first move.
A player can move in two ways. A piece can be moved forward or diagonally to the next dark square. But if one player's piece, the other player's piece, and an empty square are lined up, then the first player can "jump" the other player's piece. In this case, the first player jumps over the other player's piece onto the empty square and takes the other player's piece off the board. A player can use one piece to jump many times in one turn. Sometimes a player can jump in different ways. Then the player can choose how to jump.
If a player's piece moves into the King Row on the other player's side, it becomes a king. It can move forward and backward. Now remember that the regular pieces can only move forward, Naruto. Remember that the king cannot jump out of the King Row until the next turn. The game ends when there is a player who cannot move. That person is the loser. So if a player loses all of their pieces, they lose the game. And if they cannot move, they lose even if they still have pieces. A player may also give up. If nobody can lose, the game can be a draw.
Now chess is a game for two players. The game is played on a board, with two colors of pieces usually black and white. The board is a square, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces, eight pawns, two each of knights, bishops, and rooks, and one king and queen. The players in a game of chess are called "white player" and "black player", depending on the color of pieces they control. The darker color will always be black.
Each game starts with the pieces set in the same way. The pieces start out, from left to right for the white player, from right to left for the black player, in the first row in front of the players in this order: rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, rook. A pawn is placed in the square right in front of each piece. The game commences with the players taking turns moving one piece at a time. White always gets the first move and for new players they are often given that option. The more experienced players will often take the black pieces because it is more of a challenge to use the black pieces. My father prefers black.
Now each piece can only move in a special way. A piece cannot move onto a square that has another of the same color on it. A piece also cannot move through squares that have other pieces on them. Now what you need to know is that a piece can end its move on a square that has an enemy piece on it. If this happens, the enemy piece is captured, which means it is taken off the board and is removed from the game. You will find that chess is a very complex and strategic game and it is somewhat similar to shogi. The reason I know how to play these games is my mother learned how and then she in turn taught me and the rest of my family. My father and I tend to play chess against each other quite often,” Yaone concluded.
She pushed some books toward him and he sorted through them. There were multiple books covering the four games. There were also books on the art of combat. One book caught his eye, ‘The Art of War by Sun Tzu.’ He held it up and asked, “Who is this guy?”
“He was from the Ningenkai. He was from a country called China and he lived about twenty-five thousand years ago. He was a general in the Chinese army and he wrote that book on military strategy. It has thirteen chapters. I am sure you will find it to be an interesting read,” she replied.

Naruto sat down across from her and Kouga joined them. Yaone decided to start with checkers and quickly showed him the moves she had told him about earlier. Then they began to play. Yaone consistently beat him but he was able to win a couple of times. From there they moved to chess and from chess onto shogi and from shogi onto go. They played the games until it was time for supper.

Naruto was exhausted from all his sprinting and the increase in his workout. He had been getting used to the old one. Yaone smiled sympathetically and said, “You do know that as soon as you get used to this routine we will increase it again.”
Naruto just groaned and nodded his head. He said nothing because he knew he had asked for this when he had asked for training. Yaone then told him, “Dad informed me that as soon as you get used to this amount of training he will begin kenjutsu training with you.”

Naruto lifted his drooping head and looked at her and smiled. There was some excitement in his eyes but his exhaustion covered it up. After he finished his supper he stumbled up the stairs and had a nice long, hot bath. He moaned in relief as the hot water soothed his aching muscles. He finally pulled himself out of the tub and off to bed. Feeling tired yet satisfied with his progress he slowly dispersed all his kage bunshins and immediately fell asleep.

************

Naruto dragged himself out of bed in the morning. He felt that four in the morning was way too early to get up. He got dressed in a pair of grey sweats, black tank top and his white runners. He created his kage bunshins and then joined Yaone for their morning workout. After he was done that he started sprinting nonstop for an hour and then joined everyone for breakfast. After breakfast he and Yaone were off to Watanuki’s for the day. Watanuki was proud of how well they were doing and then he asked, “If you used more kage bunshins how fast do you think you would be able to perfect what I have shown you?”

Yaone thought about it for a moment and then said, “If we could each add a couple hundred more kage bunshins we would probably be masters in a few months.”

“Well if you are looking for anymore equipment for a forge a man showed up with a huge supply yesterday. You could buy what he has and add more clones to your training,” he told her.

Yaone looked at Naruto and he grinned and nodded. He then created a kage bunshin and sent it to the house to get his money. Once the kage bunshin arrived with the money, Yaone created her own kage bunshin and had it take her place in the forge. “Naruto, come with me and leave your kage bunshin here to work,” she ordered.

She and Naruto found the man with the equipment and after some haggling they bought all that he had for a good price. They left the man crowing over his good fortune and left the village. Once out of sight of Wave village they created one hundred and fifty more kage bunshins and sent them with the equipment to their makeshift forge with instructions to set up the equipment and start working. After they sent them off, they returned to Watanuki’s forge and dismissed the kage bunshins they had working and took up where they had left off. Watanuki smiled and said, “I have a feeling with all those kage bunshins and your guy’s knack for learning new things and your work ethic that you two will be masters of my craft before you know it.”

The two of them smiled at this and Yaone said, “Naruto by the time we become masters you should also have become a seals master. I think that once you have reached mastery in both you can start putting seals on all of your weapons.”

Naruto smiled and continued to work. He had to finish this piece today because the man who commissioned it would be by tomorrow morning to pick it up. The three of them continued to work steadily for the rest of the day. At the end of the day Naruto ran out of the smithy yelling, “See you tomorrow, Watanuki!”

“See you tomorrow, Naruto!” Watanuki yelled back and nodded his head at Yaone, a smile of amusement crossing his lips at Naruto’s irrepressible energy.

Naruto raced back to the house to get changed into a pair of black and orange shorts and tank top. He quickly stretched and did his exercises so he could get to and finish his three hour speed training. The rest of the day passed quickly and none of his sensei’s let up on him. They added more things for him to learn and by the end of the day he was tired down to the bone. This routine continued for the next three weeks.

His sensei’s added more and more challenges for him. Yaone was pushing him on mastering his jutsu’s and seals. She quizzed him on the “Art of War” and tested him on his strategic thinking. She started a new game called Risk. It was from the Ningenkai as well. Risk was a game that is a turn-based game for two to six players. It started out with just him and Yaone but then Shippou and Kouga joined in to make it more difficult. The game itself is played on a board depicting what Yaone called a stylized Napoleonic-era political map of the Ningenkai, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. The four of them controlled armies, with which they attempted to capture territories from each other.

Yaone told him that the goal of the game was to control all the territories or to put it simply through the elimination of the other three players. Kouga pointed out that Risk used area movement and ignored the realistic limitations, such as the actual size of the Ningenkai as well as the logistics of long campaigns. Shippou had nodded his head and said that was all true but it was a game that caused you to think strategically and that was why they were playing it plus it was real fun. Yaone had smirked and said her father was in the process of creating two of his own versions of Risk. He planned to make one for the Makai and the other one for the Hidden Realm. Once he had finished both of them, she would bring them here for them to play.

Kouga had started increasing the distance he was sprinting every three days. He also had Naruto raise the resistance seals. They were now set at sixty percent resistance. The gravity seals however stayed the same. The knife fighting had moved from the kunai to combat daggers. Kouga informed him that they were from the Ningenkai and they were shaped from a single piece of very stiff stainless high carbon steel. The carbon steel made the combat blades quite rigid. They had a rounded blade that came into an acute point and their handles were lightly padded and wrapped in cloth.

Kouga told him that these daggers were used in traditional kung fu styles and they were most often used in pairs. He showed Naruto the proper way to hold them which was in an “ice pick” grip with the point down, which would allow for whirling slashes and stabs. Naruto found that when Kouga used this style he was swift, vicious and unrelenting. In his hands the combat daggers were one with his movements and one weapon coordinated with the other in deadly harmony. As he learned this style of fighting Naruto came to realize that he was picking it up quite quickly. Kouga said when he mastered all the different styles that used knives, daggers, and stilettos that his wind affinity would come in to play. Kouga smirked and said that he did not want to get a nasty wound in a misplaced strike.

Shippou had decided to make his taijutsu training more difficult. He decided that Naruto and he would spar on the ocean waves. The constant shifting would make the spar more intense for Naruto. Shippou informed him that in about another couple of months he would have mastered Kitsune-Wu. Naruto had cheered and started jumping up and down in excitement. Shippou had just laughed and waited till he had calmed down. After he was calm again Shippou told him after Kitsune-Wu was mastered that he would start training Naruto in Kitsune genjutsu and Kitsune-bi.

Author's Note: *Shifts uncomfortably* Well, recently a fic I've been reading sequel came out. In it the author had the address on Youtube for a fanmade video based off of his story, Time and Again. The video rocked and the song used was just awesome. I started listening to that song over and over again. *groans pitifully* Music inspires my writing and a new plot bunny hit. So now I am writing another story but don't worry I will continue to work on this one. Here is the summary of my new story, Turn It Back, the prologue of said story will be up just after this update.

Summary: Things had literally gone to hell in a hand-basket. The human race was virtually extinct except for the human slave farms ran by the invading demonic hordes and the surviving free humans that lived in the shinobi fortress of Suna. The allied forces of Suna and Konoha fought to protect the survivors and were joined by Team Hawk and the surviving members of Akatsuki. For years they struggled to survive the demonic invasion but their numbers were rapidly dwindling. The free humans were finally forced to take drastic measures. They decided to use a Suna sacrificial kinjutsu to turn it back.

Warnings: Gore, violence, language and yaoi. If you don’t like yaoi/slash then don’t read and don’t flame. Pairings: Shino/Naru/Shino