Journey Of A Soul - A Naruto Fanfic

it was evening and all the people from yesterdays meeting were gathered in the conference room with hiruzen already seated thinking deeply about what his apprentice has told him in the morning.

He was absently greeting back to everyone coming in and they were also confused about why they were gathered and what was going on.

minato- hiruzen sama, did something happen with sasaki kun, why are we gathered today?

hiruzen signed and signaled his personal anbu. minato and the others noticed this and waited quietly and the door opened with our mc walking in, to everyones surprise.

hiruzen- i called you here on behalf of sasaki who wants to share some details which i declare is ss rank and should not be shared outside this group.

with that everyone were shocked, especially minato, jiraya and tsunade. the other people like kakashi, shusui and itachi were confused why they were here.

(mc pov)

i entered the room and opened my observation haki to scan the room, soon i found two seals which are hidden under a tile. i made a signal to everyone to quiet down and took a kunai to remove the tile and show the seals to everyone.

it seems like jiraya and hiruzen recognized the seal master but before they opened their mouths i signalled them to quiet down and took out a storage scroll to store the tile and gave it to minato.

jiraya- that's orochimaru's signature, it seems like he left quiet a lot of spy ware here.

minato looked serious - sasaki kun, how did you find the seals.

'i will explain everything, once i am done you will understand. i will even scan through the village for similar seals for my first mission'

minato looked confused at that and wanted to follow up but hiruzen stopped him and looked at me.

hiruzen- sasaki, some of the things you are going to disclose it too s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e, dont you think its better if we discuss this before with just minato?

'master, even if its s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e, the information i have gathered will directly effect the people here and its not like some of the secrets can remain indefinitely right?'

hiruzen thought about it and signed since its true.

i looked at fugaku and hiashi, bowed slightly to say- uchiha sama and hyuuga sama, please listen to my whole explanation and if possible at the end i would like your permission for some things'

they both furrowed their eyebrows but nodded signalling me to continue.

'i have approached master today for permission to graduate and intensefy my training' here kushina, mikoto ans tsunade made to speak but i stopped them

'he asked for my reasons, and i have explained my conjuntures from my research but i thought the people here will benifit from the same and i need your help to gather proof for what we will discuss today'

with that i made it to the center of the room and stated talking.

'some of you may not know this but i have editic memory, and i have ability to sense aura not chakra'.

minato- i heard you mention this before, can you tell us the difference.

i nodded and explained- the aura i am talking about is different from chakra, aura is more about presence where i can feel the presence of everything with emphasis on living beings. a chakra sensor can not sense civilian chakra since its dormant and very little. but presense is a fundamental thing which culminates the energy, capabilities and battle power. thats how i found jiraya as his aura told me that he is one of the strongest. there is an inferior method recorded with similar ability concerning chakra which first hokage used called nature sage mode. which allows the user to be one with the world allowing them to temporarily sense chakra in more detail. i can rank who is more powerful which includes their battle capability which is next level and mine is innate.'

here even jiraya was surprised by my statement and hiruzen nodded his head confirming that first hokage had such an ability.

jiraya- i am a sage and senjutsu is the use of nature chakra, but i dont have that capability.

'are you a perfect sage?' i asked for which jiraya shook his head.

'records show that only a person who is completely in sync will have these support abilities, anyways getting back to what i was saying, i remember the nine tales attack on konoha when i was five months old and made some diductions which i would like to present before we move on'

' i have felt the aura of nine tails and i sense the same aura on three seperate individuals i met in my life'

here minato, kushina, jiraya and tsunade have tensed and looked at hiruzen who nodded. i looked at minato for his decision and after looking at me and across the room once again he nodded.

'i felt the same aura mingled or inside kushina nee san , natsume and mito'

here everyone else were slightly shocked. but i kept continuing. ' thats also when i started learning fuinjutsu and started looking for information regarding bijuu'.

now everyone made the connection but i again looked at minato who spoke - natsume and mito are the current jinchuriki of yang and yin part of kyuubi while kushina was the previous one.

here everyone were talking at once when hiruzen released his aura when they queited down again.

'this is one of the most important secrets of konoha and i hope you understand that it should not leave this room'

everyone queited down with that and nodded at him. i took over once again ' i started researching on how the kyuubi suddenly appeared in central district of konoha and the previous citings which were listed in public records. once such record was made by someone named kagami uchiha who stated that in the historic battle of first hokage and madara uchiha 60 years ago the kyuubi was summoned by madara'

here the uchiha tensed while fugaku asked- do you mean to say madara is still alive? and attacked konoha 4 years ago?'

i shook my head and replied -' if madara was truly alive he doesnt have to do all this guerilla tactics, based on the battle records of hashirama senju and madara uchiha the only person who can match them is themselves. after the first died, madara could have easily brought konoha to the ground by him self.'

here i took 2 maps from a scroll and showed the area surronding valley of the end before and after their battle.

' if you look at the two maps you can see the change in landscape from their battle and at what level they fought at.'

they could see almost hundreds of mountains were cleared and a lake from the sea which was like someone cut the continent in half.

' no i believe that madara was critically injured but somehow was able to prolong his life. from their i thought back to who could be part of kyuubi attack, which led me to the conclusion that madara found a successor who he passed on the kyuubi contract.'

fugaku said defending his clan- but we have checked our archives fo any M I A shinobi and that came up empty.

minato who was listening to this queitly said - the person who attcked the village at that time indeed had a sharingan and a wierd ability for teleporation and have his physical body to phase through.

fugaku and mikoto- mangekyo sharingan

seeing every one looking at them they disclosed the next stage of sharingan.

i clapped my hands and told them- ' now it is confirmed that the one who attacked was not madara'

they looked at me to elaborate - ' in the records madara indeed had abilities quiet mystical in nature but they were different. he had the ability of summoning black flames of amaterasu, which burns everything in its path for 7 days and 7 nights, another is an unbreakable genjutsu technique called tsukiyomi where the user can torture the victim where 1 second outside is 1 week inside and the effects can be visible. there are no records of teleportation or phasing as you put in. seeing that there are different powers manifesting the evolution may depend on user so deeply like in soul level and cant be passed down.' (seeing that nagato could not use madaras ability with his eyes)

'anyways from the battle in valley to till now, i was looking at any abnormalities which can only be explained by outside forces i tracked madara's movements and two things stood out from the recent war'.

i looked at minato and said ' there was a mission which ended the third war where your team was sent to destroy kannabi bridge and were caught by iwa explosive corps'.

here kakashi has tensed and asked 'what about it.'

' dont you find it strange that instead of barrier corps who should be guarding the bridge the iwa used explosive corps who are major offensive unit generally massacring on front lines and large scale battles as is their mo'

the room was again silent in shock while i continued 'and at the same time, minato had to deal with thousands of iwa nin who attacked in kamikaze style while their side is actually winning?'

that seems to bring them out of shock when kakashi connected the dots and started hyperventilating while minato had a striken look on his face.

i faced fugaku and asked - did you recover obito uchiha's body as is the norm?

fugaku caught on and replied- we were told his body was destroyed by fire

kakashi - but we reported he was buried under stones? we even had a body said to be recovered buried in konoha cemetary.

that does it.. it seems like we found our kyuubi attacker..