Uzumaki
It's five days later, Friday, that Sakura tells Sasuke there aren't any books that could help him in the civilian section.
"Thank you Haruno-San, but I still need you to help me with something else. It's something only you can do. Will you help me?" Sakura looks hard at him, she knows something is up.
"What is it?"He smirks as she asks.
"Meet me at the Uchiha compound in three hours bring everything you can find on object movement in space and wind jutsu even if you think it's useless." Sakura frowns at that, but nods.
Three hours later Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke, plus Frank, are staring at Sasukes kitchen table.
"Ok Uchiha what is this. What is he doing here?" Sasuke narrows his eyes at her.
Wow Sasuke already so protective of your little brother, eh.
Shut up.
"First of all. You don't talk to people like that in my house. He's helping me and so are you. I could find some one else to help if you don't want to."
Sakura's eyes widen, but Sasuke isn't sure if it's because of the threat or because he's protective of Naruto.
"Alright, lets see those books Haruno." Sasuke sits down at the table as Sakura gets the books out of her bag. Sasukes notes are spread out on the table.
Sasuke picks up one of the wind jutsu books as Sakura explains what she found.
"I could only find two small book on wind Jutsu and they don't explain in any detail how to change your chakra to wind. They do explain how the jutsu effects your opponent. There is one that seems like something you might be looking for. The Wind Bullet but it's doesn't cover a small area, it covers a wide area."
Frank laughs at the name, and Sasuke has to resist the urge to snort.
"Hey, Sasuke. Why am I here? This seems like something you and Sakura can do alone." Naruto starts. Sasuke looks at Naruto with a smirk.
"That's because, Naruto, your gonna do the hard part. You have to sneak us into the chunin section in the library." Naruto gapes at Sasuke then his face morphs into a mischievous smile. Sasuke knows this is gonna be fun for him.
"Naruto, while Haruno and I go over the notes and books, you can figure out a plan. You're good at getting away and sneaking. Remember they're chunin, so we have to be careful. You can go to the library and scope it out, since I'm sure you've never been." After Naruto scrambles out, Sasuke and Sakura silently look over the notes.
Sakura keeps fidgeting, and as Sasuke goes to ask her what the problem is she asks, "What is the point of all this Uchiha-san? What are you doing with all this?" That caught Sasuke off guard. He was sure this shy girl wouldn't ask him questions. That's why he went to her. Sasuke grinds his teeth, not sure what to do. I don't know her, I can't trust her with this. Frank doesn't respond.
"I can't tell you Haruno. It's a secret project, but your smart, you might figure it out." Frank interjects I doubt it.
Haruno nods "S-Sorry, I thought since we're gonna break into the library, you'd tell me something." She quiet for a few minutes and then points to one of his drawing. "This diagram looks very interesting." She point to the outline Sasuke made of the Sniper rifle and then the one he tried to incorporate wind jutsu with. That one didn't turn out so great.
"The second one here, theoretically is not as sound as the first because it's missing a a stabilizer in the pipe. If I'm not mistaken."
Frank?
She's not wrong, I didn't catch that. You should keep this girl around. She's a smart one.
When it's starts to get dark out Sakura leaves. He walks her to the gates since it's her first time here and it gets confusing. When they get to the gate, he sees his fan club and darts away.
He doesn't even make it around a corner when he hears it.
"Forehead girl,"
"What's a big forehead girl like you doing with Sasuke-kun." Sasuke scowls they have no right to use my first name, I don't even know them. Before Sasuke can step in Naruto comes in yelling.
"What are you saying about Sakura-chan? She has a big forehead?! Well that's cuz she smarter than all of you combined. This is Sasuke's land, your not allowed to be here."
Thats when Sasuke steps in with a scowl. His face is dark and hate-filled, "He's right, now get off my land." Both boys watch until the last of the fangirls scatter and then they turn to Sakura.
"Are you ok Sakura-Chan? Don't listen to those girls. Their just jealous of your big brain, your just too smart Sakura-Chan." Naruto speaks for both of them, while Sasuke nods his agreement.
Sakura tells them she has to get home before her parents get worried. "Bye Sakura-Chan." Naruto yells after her.
"Don't forget we still have work to do." He replies in a normal tone.
The next day Sakura knocks on the door with more books on object movement. "I got more books from my house. My father is a builder so I borrowed these." Naruto hasn't woken up yet, he stayed up late planning. Sasuke takes Sakura to the kitchen and they get to work. It's two hours later that Naruto stumbles into the kitchen in his froggy pajamas.
Sakura laughs at his ridiculous outfit, Sasuke has seen it before so he just smirks. Naruto turns bright red."S-Sakura-Chan. I didn't think you'd be here."
"What ya mean, Naruto. I told her to come over last night." Sasuke says his name like a insult but they both know it's not. It's like they've been brothers forever, but they've only known each other a week.
"I left some breakfast in the fridge for you." Naruto heads to the fridge, pulls out his food and makes a space at the cluttered table for himself. He eats his spaghetti, or tomato ramen as Naruto dubs it, cold.
Naruto turns to the rest of them when he's done. "I have a plan, guys. Tommorrow we have to meet up here at 8 in the morning though." And Naruto goes on to explain how they are gonna get the books.
Sakura goes home that night with a headache and and heavy heart. Shes never done something like this. They could all get in serious trouble for it. She walks in to the TV on, her father has been waiting for her. She gets excited, she almost forgot. He's going to teach her something new today.
She rushed to the kitchen, but her father has already put the food away. She grabs some out of the fridge and eats it cold and she thinks of Naruto. After she's done, they go to the her fathers study. This is where she practices her fuinjutsu, and where she learns new seal arrays.
The Harunos were descended from Haruno Uzumaki, a handmaiden that the Mito Uzumaki brought with her from Uzushio. Haruno was Mitos best friend, so the story goes. Sakura has searched the library a dozen times over and not found a scrap of information on Haruno Uzumaki. Sakura thinks she might not have even lived, but then she thinks how would I be alive, how would papa know fuinjutsu.
Her father places a scroll in front of her. "You've been studying before bed I hope."Sakura nods "Good, today you will learn something that took me a few years yet to get. So don't be discouraged if you don't get it right the first time. You know the Uzumkai swirl is used to store the chakra and directed it, correct."
Sakura nods, "Yes, sir."
Her father smiles, "Of course Sakura, but if you take out the swirl and leave the kanji but add a semi-Circle-swirl. What happens?"
Sakura thought about the swirl, which stored and directed the chakra when you pushed a small amount of Chakra in it. The more storage the bigger the swirl but circles had a different function altogether. They made the seal unstable, unpredictable. Circles are loops, they only loop the chakra in one direction, the uzumkai swirls can exit the circle of the swirl more than once making the distribution of chakra more even around the whole seal.
"So that makes the seal more unpredictable, but stable. That doesn't make any sense how can it be stable but unpredictable." Her fathers laughs at her conclusion.
"I told you it's a hard concept, but there's more to it than that." Her father place a scroll in front of her, smooths out the edges. He points to the lines that she hasn't learned about yet. The lines are complicated, they twist and turn and loop. They cross over each other, connect to the swirl and the kanji and some even connect to each other. Basic exploding tags don't have most of these. They show the kanji for explosion and then a broken circle around that, the rest of the tag symbolizes the explosion with squiggles and dots, like an image.
It's too simple, no Uzumaki would ever use that type of seal. The image seals work for simple things, but if you want a seal that can hold a storm that changes inside the seal with lightning and rain, or one that can keep you hidden and harden your skin so nothing can penetrate it. That image seal isn't gonna work.
"These lines are probably the second most important part of a seal. They connect the chakra, which you already know, but more than that they make up the dimension where the seal exists. Where your soul, or yang Chakra connects with the yang chakra of the realm of the undead." Sakura eyes widen.
"The undead, what do you mean, papa. That's crazy, there's a world of undead." Sakura's father smiles softly and nods.
"There is. We Uzumaki with our strong life force can connect to it with these seals. It is also said that the Uchiha eyes could do it, but the art was lost in time. Even if there were someone that knew, they died in the massacre never to pass on their knowledge." Her father sighed sadly, his dark pink hair, almost red hair, covered his face. Sakura thought of Sasuke and his family. She wanted him to have this knowledge.
"D-Do you think they kept records somewhere?" She asks but her father shakes his head.
"If there were, I'm sure they would have found it before now. Alright back on topic, it's getting late, my dear. The realm of the undead, used to be a part of our religion. It was said to be as beautiful as Uzushio. Many civilians use to practice it, but its fallen out, now. But they believed it was a dark and unnatural place. Which isn't true. I gave you a choice on what you wanted to believe Sakura, a choice that wasn't given to me, so I want you to keep an open mind on the next part of what I'm going to tell you." Sakura remembers her father praying to the ocean god, death god, and the sun god, in her childhood. She remembers small statues in the wall behind her fathers desk in this very room. She doesn't ask what happen to them because she want to hear the story.
"Keep in mind this is a religion, but also a history. Long ago, before the warring clan era and before the sage of six paths introduced chakra to everyone. The Uzumaki lived. They were small barely ten families. They lived on an island, just those families. There were three guardians of the Uzumaki, The Ocean Serpent, The Red Flying Sparrow, and the Dead Man.
The Uzumaki would thank the ocean serpent, Manou, for always protecting them from outsiders by throwing fruit into the ocean once every moon cycle. The Serpent would catching it in its swirling jaws that protected the island, those were the eddies so I think. They would thank the Red Flying Sparrow by letting lose red lanterns whenever he would leave.He was important for telling when the crops were ready to be picked. One of the prayers my father taught me, or should I say songs, the Uzumaki were never so solemn.
The last and most important god was The Dead Man. The Dead Man came around every few days, months, years. He was never gone for long on their small island, because many things died. He was the protector of the dead. He guided souls to his realm, where they never sought for anything except their loved ones. He saw how the Uzumaki protected all living things and wanted to give them a gift. The gift of fuinjutsu. He was the one who taught the Uzumaki how to use fuinjutsu and their soul, or yang chakra. The Uzumaki thanked him by protecting the living. They welcomed others on to their island, these were the beginnings of uzushio." Sakura clapped after the story was done. It was very interesting, it was her history. "I think that's enough for tonight. Remember what I told you about the connectors and half circle-swirl. We'll continue tomorrow." He kissed his daughter on the forehead as she got up to go to sleep.