The Prodigy Namikaze by SoulReaperCrewe

Chapter 20: Comeback Of A Hero

Two Years Later

The sound of footsteps echoed through the empty forest as a lone figure covered in shadows walked at a steady pace. Though his body was shrouded in the shadows, his eyes could be seen clearly. His violet eyes flickered all around before they locked onto a building that stood in front of him.

It was barely standing and looked to be some kind of old shrine. The front of it was half elevated while the rest had crumbled to the ground with one of the red pillars broken off in the middle. The rest of the building was cracked and had moss growing all over it.

The most striking feature though was the numerous Uzumaki symbols that decorated it. He wondered how his mother had never know about this shrine but guest that since it was some miles away from the Leaf village and with the destruction of Uzu, he guest she must have thought it no longer existed, if she knew it existed in the first place.

Slowly he walked up the ruined steps of the old shrine and stepped into the main hall where he stopped and looked at the giant wall in front of him. At the top of the wall were three Uzumaki spiral in a triangle formation.

Beneath the symbols were three rows of masks each with nine masks that resembled the shinigami hanging there. Beneath them was a pit of black fire that flickering wildly.

He wondered just how long that fire had been burning.

Then he closed his eyes and sensed the masks for any residue of chakra. His eyes flickered from beneath his eyelids before his eyes snapped open and his violet pupils zeroed in on the shinigami mask that was on the second row and sixth mask across from left to right.

Not being able to pick up due to the black fire, the figures unsheathed a sword that was strapped to his back and used the sword to knock it off the wall before managing, with great skill, to balance the mask on the tip of his sword.

Once in his hands he re-sheathed his sword and looked at the mask. It did look a little frightening and wondered if that was what the shinigami really looks like. The long teeth made it look like some kind of beast or demon.

"Power like this should not be left out in the open just like this. In the wrong hands this could be used to conquer entire villages and countries. I have to make sure that this mask stays locked away."

"I pray I never have to use this mask and its abilities." he muttered before he sealed the mask into a spare storage scroll, he had before sealing that scroll into a seal on his wrist.

Looking around he felt the history of his old clan in this room and wondered what would have happened to it if Uzu was still with them today.

Taking one last look at the room he turned his back and left the building. Once outside he looked back towards the old shrine and did a few hand signs before slamming his hand on the ground.

All around the area new trees began growing out of the earth and create a new dense cover and wall around the shrine, completely hiding it from view.

Grinning at his work he then ran up the tree and stood on one of the top branches. Just a little ways off in the distance he could see light and buildings lay beside a familiar looking mountain he had grown up with.

"Home," he said before he ran along the tree tops. Though before he could go much closer he stopped when he felt a familiar chakra signature he had not felt in three years.

'Mito-chan?' He thought before he then sensed two others with her. One he could tell was hurt while the third had a vile chakra about him he could feel the other chakra singiture's intentions.

His eyes narrowed before he suddenly shot off from the ground.

Few miles outside of Leaf Village