Naruto : Chapter 41

It was Saturday afternoon; Jiraiya was in the old Uchiha district checking out the seal the ROOT had found. He was frowning. This didn't look like any standard seal he knew of. He channelled some chakra into the seal and watched where the chakra was directed to.

The result was nothing he liked. He would need assistance with this. He turned to the ANBU that was there as a fast messenger to the Hokage in case that was needed.

"Racoon, go to the Hokage and tell him I need support here. Tell him that I need Kakashi Hatake and Dark Phoenix for this." Jiraiya said.

The ANBU nodded and disappeared in a body flicker.

Thirty minutes after Jiraiya had called for assistance, Kakashi, Dark Phoenix and the Hokage stood next to him.

"What's the problem, Jiraiya?" The Hokage asked.

"We have a level four seal that is somewhat different from what I have seen so far and that directs chakra all over the Uchiha district. I only pushed a small amount into the seal, but this is really worrying. I wanted to have Kakashi and Dark Phoenix here to see what they think and to neutralize that seal eventually." Jiraiya said.

"I think it would be best if you showed us the seal then when it is fed a bit of chakra." Kakashi said.

Jiraiya nodded and repeated his earlier test.

Naruto looked shocked at the array he saw.

"God damn it, the Uchiha were really bastards. To install something like that in their district. It probably powers through the entire village." Naruto cried out in disgust.

"You know this, Dark Phoenix?" The Hokage asked surprised.

While Jiraiya had confirmed that Naruto was indeed a seal master, he didn't think that the boy would be able to identify seals that Jiraiya didn't know.

"Kakashi, please check the seal with your sharingan if there are any parts here in the district that we can't see with our normal eyes." Naruto addressed the jonin.

Kakashi nodded and pushed his headband up, only to have both eyes widen in shock.

"There are seals all over the whole district. Most originate from this seal, but some seem to be their own system. Wait a moment then I'll draw it up for you." Kakashi said. He soon took a piece of paper and began drawing what he had seen. "There are these two types of arrays that originate from this seal.

Here in the district I mainly see the second type, only a few homes have the first type. It repeats itself over the entire district. This is the other array." He said pointing at the two arrays he had seen.

"The second one is a very complex secrecy seal that is used to hide an important location. Sensei, didn't you say you couldn't find many scrolls when you cleared out the Uchiha district after the massacre?" Jiraiya asked.

"Yes, while we found some scrolls and weapons it was nowhere the number we had expected to be in the Uchiha district. For a clan that had copied jutsus over generations, there simply wasn't enough material.

And Sasuke also didn't have more. He had a few scrolls on sharingan techniques and fire jutsus. We looked long for the library we suspected here, but never could find it." The Hokage confirmed.

"Well, I guess you needed to look with a sharingan from a certain position. The second array probably hides the library that you couldn't find. I've seen that seal being used for places like that before. Dark Phoenix, while I have only a vague idea about the first array, you seem to know what it is." Jiraiya turned to Naruto.

"It is a parasitic seal. It consists of a main seal, which is the one you were called to check, and many other subparts. Those are the ones Kakashi found with his sharingan. I think from what I saw, the subparts don't only spread through the district, but over the whole village.

When Jiraiya Sama powered the seal we saw the connected parts spread out through the gate of the district. This seal works like a chakra leech. The big seal here is the receiver; the smaller ones are either the senders or sub-receivers. From what Kakashi said, here are mostly sub-receivers.

This looks like a very elaborate plan to take over the whole village. If this seal would have been activated at full power, the Uchiha could have sucked out the chakra of the people in the village, left them helpless and taken over. I guess I know now why the massacre happened." Naruto angrily said.

Both Jiraiya and the Hokage looked shocked. Kakashi looked resigned. To have just dodged a threat like this one.

The Hokage now had the irrefutable confirmation that his decision to sign the order for the annihilation had been the right one. While they still didn't know why all the small children had been killed, they should have been exempt from the massacre, but even Itachi hadn't known what had happened with them.

He had first taken out the leaders of the revolt and then every adult or teenager that had activated the eye and was in on the conspiracy. Which sadly had been most members of the clan.

"Can this seal still be used, Dark Phoenix?" The Hokage asked.

"Yes, it's completely workable. And with its size and the number of connected sub-seals, it will take some time to disable. Especially as it seems they created it so that only those with the sharingan would see the seals.

Otherwise the Hyuga would have already found the seals with their byakugan. We need to find them all and disable them." Naruto said.

The Hokage nodded. That would be a time-consuming task.

"I think I should first map out the seals that are spread over the village with my sharingan. That way we can see if there is a way for others to take care of the seals once they know where they are." Kakashi said.

"Yes, that will be the first thing you need to do. How many shadow clones can you make and still use the sharingan?" The Hokage asked.

"I think two if I'm fully rested." Kakashi pondered.

"Ten." Naruto said and held out some seals. "These are some powerful storage seals. I tested them with my own shadow clones. In each seal is enough chakra stored to last for five hours under normal training conditions. Meaning learning some new jutsus.

By my calculations, you should be able to have ten clones running around with an activated sharingan for three hours as the sharingan has a slightly higher drain than constant jutsu training for you.

You place the first seal on yourself to have the chakra to produce the clones, the others you place on the clones themselves. As long as they aren't hit by anybody, the seals keep them going until the stored chakra runs out."

The others looked at Naruto astonished.

"Does that system work for everybody or do you have to tune it for each person?" Jiraiya asked impressed, analysing the seal.

"No, those are universal. It's just a normal chakra storage seal that I tweaked a bit to be able to power a person or shadow clone. My original idea for them was to use them to treat chakra exhaustion in a fight. You know - give somebody who is down a boost so they can get out of there while still defending themselves.

And contrary to soldier pills those seals don't have any negative effects afterwards like receiving the whole amount of exhaustion in one major strike after they run out.

If somebody stores his own chakra there are absolutely no effects, if you use somebody else's chakra it could be that the receiver feels a bit weird, perhaps a little bit tipsy. But I couldn't test that aspect yet." Naruto admitted.

"Incredible." The Hokage said. "That would be a powerful tool to have in a fight. How long does it need to be powered up?" He asked.

"Hm, for a normal ninja with average chakra reserves, I would guess it could be siphoned off during one night of sleep. One seal takes about the same amount of chakra as two A-rank jutsus.

Of course you could also power up the seals with more chakra output in a shorter time. I just think the method over night is the easiest one and the one powering the seals wouldn't even notice the drain when he wakes up." Naruto said.

"I see. Well, I want you to make thousand of those seals for our armoury, Dark Phoenix. Those seals will be classified as level three ones. By the way how often can they be used?" The Hokage asked.

"Normally they should hold about ten to fifteen uses. They are a prototype. I'm working on having them hold for twenty uses. Longer is impossible as the chakra conductive properties of the ink can't take more.

As these seals constantly give and take a high amount of chakra by their nature, the wear makes them less effective over time." Naruto answered.

"Still, that's remarkable. I see your fuinjutsu mastery was well-earned. Okay, Kakashi, get to work. We need to find out the whole dimension of this conspiracy. Dark Phoenix, Jiraiya, come with me to my office, we need to discuss something." The Hokage ordered.

"Yes, Hokage Sama." Kakashi and Naruto said while Jiraiya answered: "Yes, sensei."

Kakashi placed the first seal on himself and felt incredible about the amount of chakra he had available. He made the ten shadow clones easily and then placed the chakra storage seals from Naruto on them. He and the shadow clones took off with the intention of searching the village for the parasitic seals.

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