Naruto - Light Ninja - Capítulo 83 - Rikudou Sannin and The Promise.

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Third Person POV
Land of Water.
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Naruto didn't know how much time had passed while Isobu was telling him an ancient and unknown story, as Akame had already finished creating the summoning scroll, waiting for Naruto to finish talking with the giant bijuu, only needing to collect the blood to finalize the contract. Meanwhile, Naruto, who had taken an interest in many history books of this world, was surprised by such a tale from an unrecorded era. "How is it possible...? How are there no more clues about Rikudou Sannin?! It's impossible for a man like that to have been born 1000 years ago and everyone just thinks he's a legend, with the story you told me, he should be an influential figure throughout the world..." Naruto couldn't understand why the history of this man had been erased... who would do that and why, after all, this man had a perfect ideal for this world, connecting people through chakra... making them understand each other...

"I don't know..." Isobu ended up telling the story of his life for the first time to someone, surprisingly to this human he met and gave his name. "My siblings and I lived together for the first centuries after our father died, we lived in peace, not interfering with the human world, but disagreements arose, especially between Kurama and Shukaku, who started fighting all the time, leading us all at one point, to go our separate ways. I came to the sea and stayed here for centuries, living peacefully." He said.

"..." Naruto remained silent, just listening to his account of the last thousand years.

"Then we gathered again 100 years ago and stayed together for a while, but we continued to stay away from human civilizations, while they seemed to be warring everywhere, one day... Kurama disappeared while saying she would run through the forest... She never came back." Isobu said and would have continued, but Naruto couldn't help but be surprised.

"Who is Kurama?" He didn't know who this bijuu was.

"The one known with the most tails among us." Isobu spoke. "She was always arrogant, claiming she was the strongest among us due to the number of tails, that's why Shukaku and she were always fighting." He spoke and Naruto thought of the two sisters, each with a part of this Kurama.

"We tried to look for Kurama back then... but we didn't find her, and then a human invaded our territory, he began to attack us using nature abilities creating trees and giants that trapped us in wood... All of us were defeated by that powerful giant and since then we have been sealed by various villages." Isobu said.

"So the First Hokage attacked you..." Naruto looked at this with a furrowed brow. "He distributed you all to the villages in search of peace... a false peace in exchange for your freedom..." Naruto looked quite discontent, after all, with the bijuus, wars entered a new scale and many more people would die than in the times of the warring states, as ancient clans were destroyed within years of war, and the world's population was much lower than in that era.

Naruto thought the village system was worsening the chaos in the world more than it was actually making it a safe place, as he read in the books of Konoha, how the First Hokage created and what was the purpose of creating a village.

"I understand, I am so sorry for everything that happened to you..." Naruto spoke at the end, while Isobu looked at him strangely hearing this, moving his gigantic head closer to Naruto.

"Do you really think so?" Isobu asked, surprised, seeming to see something unusual. This human not only talked to him differently from all the others but also felt compassion for him and his siblings, something he hadn't seen since his father's death.

‘One day there will be someone who will unite all of you, and you will gather through him and find the true path... A different one from those who walked while they were inside of me...’ The words of his father, echoed in Isobu's mind, a very, very distant memory, one that marked him and his siblings just before his father left this world.

‘Maybe it's him...’ Isobu murmured internally, though it seemed ironic, after all, it was this human who had been beheaded... but Isobu understood the danger he represented being controlled by a sharingan. He had begun to see Naruto as the one his father had mentioned, but kept this thought to himself.

"Yes..." Naruto responded to Isobu's question. "I don't think it's fair for someone to be imprisoned for decades when they're just an innocent... caused by human greed... this has nothing to do with justice, unconscious people or beings shouldn't suffer because of others..." Naruto spoke firmly.

"..." Isobu was silent for a while, before simply saying, "Thank you." He said to Naruto.

"What's this? No need to be like that, Isobu-san." Naruto smiled at the bijuu, feeling his emotions a bit higher than usual. "We are allies now. So, I hope we can work together to build a better world. That's my goal, I hope you can help me with that, Isobu, let's work on a safe way to remove your siblings from the jinchuurikis without killing them." Naruto spoke confidently and Isobu couldn't be more surprised by Naruto, making him even more confident that this human was the person his father had mentioned.

"Yes... let's work together..." Isobu said and looked at the girl near Naruto, with the scroll on the ground. He approached, lifting a huge fin, causing a cut above the girl as chakra and blood trickled down there, and he placed a piece of his injured fin on the scroll, marking it, removing it from the paper and putting it back into the water, waiting for the girl to finish the scroll.

Akame nodded at that, before also cutting her finger, writing her name, sealing the first summoning contract between the Three Tails and a ninja. This Bijuu would be the first to work this way with a village in the history of this world, he would still have his freedom and the security of having a lifetime to protect him while he would be put to fight alongside them for the first time, when needed.

Even with anger at the village and the humans who had imprisoned him for decades. He looked at Naruto with new eyes, more satisfied, perhaps creating the first friendship outside of his tail-siblings.

"That's great, well, let's go then and Isobu, good luck. And I'll be coming to visit occasionally, okay?" Naruto said, smiling even wider.

"I will be waiting, Naruto Uzumaki..." Isobu said, as he turned around and went into the depths of the sea.

Akame stored the huge scroll, placing its strap over her shoulder looking like Jiraiya... She approached Naruto waiting for his next orders. "Let's go now and return to the village." Naruto said.

Akame nodded and they both returned to Snow Village a day later. "I want you to keep this scroll safe and don't let anyone get close." Naruto said and spent a few days with Akame alone while they trained together until an Anbu appeared with a letter one day and Naruto knew that Mei had summoned him.

"I'll see what the woman wants..." Naruto said as Akame nodded.

Naruto appeared in the Mizukage's office, entering the place and seeing his friend behind the desk doing a good job with the village documents.

"You came back days ago, but haven't shown up here at all... how did things go?" She asked as Naruto just smiled.

"You could say they went very well. Akame can now summon a whole Bijuu when necessary, one that will fight on its own, not a slave bound to a human's body." Naruto spoke while Mei raised an eyebrow surprised by this, after all, she was somewhat skeptical about a plan of Naruto's to try to talk to the bijuu like any Ninja would, but she also had to understand that Naruto was not like any Ninja from this world, he might be many things, but an ordinary ninja was not one of them.

"Anyway, that's impressive. Do you think we can trust this Bijuu loose in the sea?" Mei asked, still reluctant to let Sanbi loose while knowing that everyone on the council would not accept it.

"It's fine, and this is my final decision, Mei," he spoke authoritatively, "and I don't care what those old men think, this is my decision and they will have to get used to it." Naruto spoke as Mei just sighed, he didn't interfere much in the village, but when he decided something, nobody could change his mind.

"Alright, I'll trust you. You have my support," She said in the end.

"Anyway, you didn't call me here just to talk about my encounter with the Three Tails, did you?" Naruto spoke, and Mei sensed his implication.

"Remember the rumors about one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist being on the Coast of the Five Elemental Nations? We've discovered some quite interesting things," she began. "Zabuza Momochi has been seen working as a mercenary, along with a ninja we believe to be from the Yuki Clan," she said.

"That clan you thought was completely extinct, that has an ice element...?" Naruto murmured while scratching his chin, pondering what he heard.

"Yes, it seems there was a survivor who managed to escape from this country, which is surprising, and now is acting as a mercenary alongside Zabuza," she concluded.

"That's interesting," Naruto seemed quite excited about this. After all, it was one of the 7 Swordsmen of the Mist he wanted to recover.

"Should I send a squad to capture him?” Mei asked, but Naruto shook his head. "No, I'll go myself."

Mei looked indifferent. "You never miss a chance to leave the village, do you?" She couldn't help but comment, with a tone of dissatisfaction.

"What can I say? I like to travel the world and see places..." Naruto responded with his slight smile, before speaking again. "Tell me where it is."

"In the Land of Waves." Mei answered.

"Understood, okay, I'm heading there right this moment," Naruto said and simply passed through the window like a flash, leaving Mei unable to react.

"He went alone. Soon, that Uchiha will walk through that door looking for her damn boyfriend and will use those damn eyes on me. I swear I'll kill Naruto if she attacks me...!" Mei muttered angrily, as Naruto seemed to bring more and more trouble for her.