Fuinjutsu Chapter 8 part 1/3
Chapter 8.
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Village of Stone; Shopping district; The Incredible and Amazing Inu’s Seal-shop; One month and three weeks after infiltrating Iwa; 18:00 GMT.
“So…” the young female ninja now fully introduced as Maruishi Hari wheedled as she leaned over the counter in Naruto’s shop. “What exactly are you doing?”
Naruto tried very hard to ignore the fact that he now had a very good angle to look down Hari’s impressive cleavage. Having known the girl for approximately one whole week now, he knew far too well that any form of lecherous behaviour would be rewarded with bodily harm.
“I’ve already told you,” he said in light exasperation as he shuffled through a huge mound of papers that he’d never gotten around to organize. “I’m looking for the sheet of paper where I wrote down all the information you provided me with.”
He absently stretched his right hand out to make a grab for the bottle of liquor that had been left on the edge of the counter, but she quickly slapped the hand away.
“I’ve told you Ogre; no drinking when I’m within a hundred feet of you.”
Naruto sighed mournfully as he gave her a begging look with soulful eyes. “But-!“
“No!” she said again, this time with a lot more force. “I’ll not have you getting drunk in my presence. You’re bad enough sober.”
“But-“ Naruto tried again.
“No.” She interrupted him.
“If-“
“No.”
“Only a sip?”
“No.”
“Aww…” Naruto finally whined as he gave up.
At his childish display, Hari quirked her lips in mild amusement.
“You’re looking for the paper where you wrote down my personality traits?” she asked, both to clarify his earlier answer and to get them back to the matter at hand.
“Yes,” he said dejectedly as he cradled his head in his hands, acting as if a headache was starting up.
“Then why the hell are you looking for the paper? Just ask the stupid questions again.” She said as she straightened and folded her hands under her impressive breasts.
Naruto raised his head in a painful display of confusion. “I can do that?”
She snorted, “Of course you can you numbskull.”
Naruto grinned sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.
After their second encounter on the Main Street a week ago, Hari had been visiting Naruto’s shop regularly. The seal she’d demanded as payment for the bottle of liquor she’d broken was a personal summoning contract.
It was an outrageous request and they both knew it. Naruto didn’t mind at all though, since all the time they had to spend together to fulfil her request played nicely into his own plans.
The creation of a personal summoning contract was divided into three different levels of progress.
At the first level, the grafter and the receiver had to spend a lot of time together in order for the grafter to get to know the receiver’s personality inside-out. This was needed for the grafter to be able to find the perfect animal for the receiver to summon.
Personalized summoning contracts were different from the summoning contracts used by for example the three legendary sannin. The contracts of the sannin could be passed down to other people and more than one person could hold the summoning contract at the same time. In addition to that, the Grand Summons - which were what the sannin possessed - essentially help more brute power than Personalized Summons. They had a great variation of summons to pick from and could be adapted to many different styles of fighting.
Personalized contracts, while not exactly weak, were specialized for only one person’s use. Naruto had long suspected that Kakashi’s contract with the summoned nin-dogs was a personalized contract. The fact that Personalized Summons were personalized was the actual strength and ingenuity of the contracts. They were made especially for one person’s use and for one person’s fighting style. With enough use and training with the summoned animals, a holder of such a contract could become as good as unbeatable.
The weakness of the Grand Summons was the fact that the summoners rarely mastered their contract. They didn’t have the time to get to know all of their summons and distrust and personality-clashes between the summoner and the summons could very well prove just as dangerous as the enemies they would be fighting together against.
Personalized contracts lacked this problem and with enough time and training invested, the summoner and the summons would essentially become one well-trained and deadly entity. There even existed rumours of people who had achieved telepathic bonds with their chosen animals.
The second level of creating the contract involved making the actual design of the contract and the grafting of the summoning-seal. This part of the process wasn’t nearly as time-demanding as the first part, but it too needed to be paced. It was important that Naruto didn’t make any mistakes while designing and grafting the contract, or it could very well be the death of the both of them. Summoning contracts were some of the most volatile seals to be grafted since they essentially dealt with creating bonds across dimensions and opening stable temporary tears in the fabric of reality.
The third and the last level of the process was the easiest as far as Naruto was concerned. It dealt with the first activation of the contract and the creation and stabilization of the bond between summoner and the summons. It should be as easy as melting snow in hell.
At this point in time, Hari had been dropping by Naruto’s shop as often as her work allowed in the interest of letting Naruto get to know her properly. Already the first day Naruto had managed to get her to write down the personality-traits that she identified herself with. This was only the first step in the time-consuming task of peeling back the imaginary layers what made a person tick.
Having Hari write down how she saw herself opened up for the opportunity for Naruto to see how her own view differed from his own. After that, he’d begin to ask her about hypothetical situations that she might encounter in her daily life, be they personal or work-related. This would give him further insight into her personality that she might not even be aware of herself. It all depended upon which answers she gave to each situation.
Naruto’s goal was build up first a casual rapport with the girl in the hopes of getting her to trust him enough to maybe tell him even more about the actual situations and experiences she went through in life.
Getting the Tsuchikage’s daughter to trust him enough to reveal military and restricted information to him would be invaluable for Naruto’s mission. He knew from his experience with Sarutobi, Tsunade and Gaara that the leaders of the hidden villages often confided in trusted friends and blood-relatives even if it was strictly against regulations - and rules.
If everything worked out according to plan, he’d have a spy planted in the Tsuchikage’s office and the spy wouldn’t even know about it.
“Great!” Naruto enthused as he found a blank paper that he could use to write down the questions and answers he’d get from interviewing the young kunoichi again.
“So…what’s your favourite colour?” he asked while giving the young woman an intense stare.
The kunoichi sighed heavily as she rolled her eyes in exasperation. “…Brown,” she answered eventually.
Naruto nodded energetically as he began to write down the question and the answer with precise and careful strokes. The tongue sticking out of his mouth was a testament to all the concentration he was using to complete the simple task.
Hari sighed again.
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