Chapter 22

Naruto's real body spent time playing with Ai and explored the various specialties of Konoha while his clone met with Tsunade.

Explaining the situation to the Hokage, Naruto found about the legendary nightmare known as Lord Loss also known as The Master of Hell.

Lord Loss was described as having pale red, lumpy skin, and eight arms (which are frequently described as being mangled). He had no heart, and instead simply had an open hole in his chest filled with deadly, venomous snakes. He bared a pair of very dark-red eyes with even darker red pupils. Instead of having legs, strips of bloody flesh hang from the edge of stumps where his feet would normally be shown, and so he moved about by levitating. He was often described as having a very sad voice and look. The many individual cracks in his skin, which seeped blood every time he even slightly moved, gave his demonic appearance a nice touch as well.

Unlike any other immortal beings, Lord Loss fed on the sinful souls and as such he would assign a contractor in the mortal world. The contractor would represent Lord Loss and make deals with people that were in dire need of help. The help came at the cost of their soul and the soul of their victim.

However, it was a myth and not supposed to be real. There had been mysterious deaths and people seemed to have come up with the story through centuries. But, it seems all legends were coming to life these days.

"Is there a way to tackle this problem?" Naruto found that the creature wasn't as evil as assumed, since it didn't really kill indiscriminately and only the contractor dragged the souls of the damned to it. Regardless, it was still a threat and Naruto didn't want Ai to kill people for the monster.

"We will have to find out ourselves since the creature in the myth doesn't really appear much, only the contractor known as the Hell Girl would be referenced. The fact he was here means that Ai has become the current Hell Girl while the previous one has been freed.

To free Ai, you will have to either defeat him or make him choose someone else. Those are the only options available at the moment. I advice against trying to pursuing the monster to its home world, take it slow and we can defeat it since it seems to follow some rules." Tsunade pointed out the obvious findings from her knowledge and stopped Naruto from making any careless decisions.

"What kind of rules?"

"The fact it has a contractor should mean that it can't stay in our world for long. It didn't kill anyone personally means that it might not have the ability to do so."

"But it tried to drag me in."

"Meaning he can't kill you in our world. And, he might have also paid a price for doing it without following the normal routine."

"Ok, that's fine. But, what about Ai? Wouldn't she be forced to act as his agent when someone summons the Hell Girl?" Naruto wasn't scared of the spider and was completely motivated to start mastering the Six Paths Senjutsu now as he realized that normal means wouldn't work on immortals.

As for the summon, it was a procedure that took place by finding the moon reflected on a lake surface at exactly 12 in the night. By throwing some of your hair and saying the name of your target, the Hell Girl would visit you and give you the cursed doll.

With the cursed doll, the person would have the choice to send any person to hell. However, it also condemns them to hell when they die.

Tsunade had no answer to that question and now she could connect the incident of the village burning down to Ai. It was their fault for not informing Naruto about Ai's condition. It could have all been avoided if Naruto had talked to her sooner.

Tsunade shook her head at his question, "Sorry, but she might have to endure until we find a way. You can only help her keep her humanity and make her enjoy the normal times. Or, the creature will try to kill her heart."

Naruto didn't like the answer, but he also no solutions. Once again, he felt helpless to protect what he wanted.

He had already lost Sasuke to Orochimaru once, this time he will not allow someone else to disappear to another enemy.

"Who is the most knowledgeable person on chakra, Senjutsu and Jutsu?" Naruto asked as he needed some guidance urgently.

"There are many people that specialize in different aspects of these subjects. However, Orochimaru is the person with the most knowledge on these three subjects currently."

"I will be starting my studies from today, please arrange the schedule for everything." Naruto sat down on the seat and conveyed his intent.

Looking at his seriousness, Tsunade didn't know if it was even possible to get further motivated than Naruto had been beforehand.

"Visit me after two hours, and we will have a plan ready for you." Tsunade gave the command to summon Shizune and Sakura while planning to summon Kakashi, Gai, Shikamaru, Tsume, Hiashi, Ino and Choji.

"Thank you" Naruto knew he was asking for a lot, but he needed help and there was no one else that could help him.

With a pop, he disappeared and left Tsunade with a task to create the ultimate menu for a Hokage in the making. It would cover the basic knowledge, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Weapon mastery, Politics, business, war strategies, espionage, fuinjutsu, healing, body mastery, negotiations, communication and much more.

It wasn't a training plan for a warrior, but the Ultimate Hokage. It was made difficult by the fact that Naruto was extremely incompetent with academics. He was someone that got bored easily and distracted. Practical aspect made him enjoy it but the theoretical aspect was hard for him to grasp.

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Naruto ending up meeting Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon while moving around Konoha. These three were the same age as Ai, around 12 years old, and they idolized Naruto before he even became the Hero of Konoha. They were the official students of Naruto Uzumaki, and he had actually taught them the Rasengan plus the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

"Boss, we finally found you." Konohamaru called out as he stopped in front of Naruto with a dramatic pose.

Looking at the kids, Naruto remembered that he hadn't seen them since the war had started.

"Oh sorry, my mistake. I have been very busy. How about we play today? We also have new friend joining us." Naruto rubbed the back of his head and chuckled before pushing Ai to the front.

Ai looked at the three kids while they looked at her.

"Who's the pretty girl, Boss?" Konohamaru was very blunt about things, and said what came to mind.

"Ai, she is my new student. Come on Ai, these are my students so you can talk to them comfortably."

Feeling his hand on her head, Ai didn't hide from the trio as they surrounded her. She didn't want to trouble him.

"Hello, my name is Ai Enma. I hope we can be good friends." Ai introduced herself while holding onto Naruto's hand.

"My name is Moegi Kazamatsuri, and you can just call me Moegi. Ai, you have such beautiful hair." Moegi was very tomboyish most of the time, but even she had some feminine likes.

"Udon Ise, it is nice to make your acquaintance." Udon talked in a neutral tone unlike his boisterous friends as he showed a calculating side which was inspired by smart and evil characters that wore glasses from comic books like Aizen from Bleach and many more.

"Konohamaru Sarutobi's the name; remember it well as I am the Seventh Hokage." Konohamaru declared confidently while his friends posed with him.

However, they didn't get a reaction from Ai since she didn't know about the Hokage or Konoha.

Naruto clapped for them as they really learned how to pose well and make an entrance. He was very proud of his students since they were keeping the legacy of his master alive.

The pose and entrance was very important for every important character in history. That was what Jiraiya believed in and taught him extensively to make a heroic pose, and entrance.

"Okay, how about we show Ai some ninja battles?"

"Yes!"

"As you command."

"Yes, Boss."

With that the hero moved along with a squad of little kids towards the training grounds of his new home. After the war he had relocated to the Uchiha complex and taken it under his control to keep the legacy of the Uchiha intact while also mixing it with the Uzumaki legacy. He had started gathering all kinds of jutsu, weapons and seals for his place while also thinking of a way to continue the Uchiha name.

Sasuke was the last of his clan, but it might be possible through genetic manipulation. However, he wasn't decided on the issue.

Nonetheless, in the training ground he found about the great changes that had taken place within his students. They had all grown within the month he had been away from them.

Naruto sparred with the trio without any seriousness but he had to focus since he didn't want to kill them. It was the downside of becoming extremely powerful, he had to focus all the time or he would cause natural disasters with any sudden movement.

It made him feel like he was a human living in the world made for ants. Just a single step might be an earthquake for everyone else.

Regardless, such power was necessary and Naruto only focused on the positive side instead of complaining about the small problems.

The trio also showed their bravery by not showing any fear in front of him.

"Here we come, Boss!" Konohamaru started the battle with his announcement and using a wind jutsu.

Wind Bullet

The invisible bullet of concentrated air arrived instantly and sent him backwards where he ended up sinking into the mud created by Moegi using her earth jutsu.

Udon followed it up with a barrage of small water bullets that would have torn apart any normal person. The combo was smoothly done, but Naruto easily avoided it.

The clone popped and the trio was hit by a wind bullet that sent them crashing into the boundary of the training ground.

Naruto made him power and ability on their level, so it wouldn't harm them.

Konohamaru recovered fast and threw a smoke bomb before following it up with kunai covered with wind chakra.

Moegi also recovered and slapped her onto the ground, creating earth hands to hinder Naruto.

Udon was last the one to recover from the sudden damage and he also threw kunai at Naruto before following it up with an oil bullet at him.

Naruto easily dodged the earth hands and countered the Kunai with well placed strikes with his finger laced with chakra.

Konohamaru used the oil bullet and used Dragon fire, a focused flame thrower ability that was enhanced by the presence of oil. It turned into a large raging fire and Moegi helped support it with her earth jutsu to seal Naruto along with Udon.

Rasenshuriken

The killer move destroyed the Dragon fire instantly and cut through it, almost bringing death upon the children before flying into the atmosphere at the last moment.

However, just the shockwave from the attack had sent the children into unconsciousness except for Konohamaru who had managed to summon Monkey Enma in his adamantine staff form.

"Did you finally decide to follow in the footsteps of Grandpa Third?" Naruto was surprised at the appearance of Enma. He had only seen the monkey few times when Hiruzen summoned it, and it might have been the last time since no one had been acknowledged.

"Yeah boss, you are the best but I think monkeys are cooler than toads. You already learned the Sage mode from the toads, so I want something equal to it. I will master Sage mode from Master Enma and become the first Monkey Sage." Konohamaru looked up to Naruto but that didn't mean he wanted to become a copy. He wanted to become as strong as Naruto, because to him that was the ideal image of power.

In the past, Naruto only showed the potential for it and now he had already become that ideal image.

"I look forward to it." Naruto smiled happily at his little student and closed the distance between them before hitting Konohamaru with a rasengan while also using Gentle Fist with his right hand to paralyze him.

The future sage was shocked by the attack and sent crashing into slumber as Naruto controlled the power.

Ai felt jealous of the kids as she saw that Naruto really enjoyed playing with them. She didn't want to be left out and stand alone, it made her feel scared.

Running towards Naruto, Ai asked him to teach her.