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Mortal Kombat: Revival of the Lin Kuei Chapter Three - Shotokan and Dragon
It was big, that was Naruto's first thought. It was big and it was his. His house, and his home. It was a place that was his. And it was big.
It had a living room, a foyer, a bathroom, a bedroom, a master bedroom, and a master bedroom. There was even a training area, not to mention a separate room just off the foyer that served as an excellent dining hall or formal sparring hall. And the training area was large and secluded.
The Hokage had told him that he'd be able to make over 500 clones and be able to train in peace, once he mastered the technique of course.
Naruto was so happy that he hugged the Third Hokage hard enough to do some damage, especially when Old Sarutobi began to muse about sending a reminder to Naruto's old daycare lady that he would never be returning.
Naruto was now in that same training area, his brow furrowed as he read from the scroll that Old Sarutobi had given him. Of course, the only reason that he bothered with this jutsu was because he wanted to be super cool in the least amount of time possible. Naruto had already decided that he wanted to know more jutsu than Old Sarutobi and his father put together. And since the third said that he had a lot of potential, he could be really powerful
As Naruto sat and read, he began to zone out and think of the one thing that he wanted to ignore, Yesterday. As much as he liked holidays he couldn't bear to experience his own birthday. And now he knows why he has had to hide from smiling faces that turn to glares of bloodlust. A little annoying furball trapped inside of his stomach.
But as he concentrated on the Katakana-sosho writing in the scroll (glad that it wasn't kanji for once), he began to see the driplets of crimson that melted its way down the ice spike.
Trying to shake the panic out of his senses, he looked around hoping that no one had put him in a genjutsu.
As he concentrated on the amount of chakra that he might need to summon, he began to hear the dead man's silent scream as he didn't have a chance to scream while he was alive.
Shaking his head once more he tried to ignore the ringing in his ears. And as he began to move his hands and fingers together in the position of the Ram seal, he saw the shaft of the ice spike shoot out of the ground and pierce the back of the man's throat, forcing the man's mouth to open like a giant penetrating a virgin. The man's jaws had unhinged a few split seconds prior. The force of the shaft had made them come clean apart.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," he heard himself say.
"Hyoton: Kori Shi no Jutsu," he heard another voice whisper, somewhere deep inside himself.
Naruto was amazed when he realized that his test run had wielded results, but as soon as he saw that the smoke had cleared, Naruto wasn't so happy anymore. Naruto doubled over and puked as he saw a clone of himself, one that was impaled through the chest by an ice spike. He heard it groan and saw it wince in pain as it dispersed itself with a poof.
To Naruto, this was a reminder of his first kill. A kill that pushed aside by adrenaline and instincts that were fueled by the idea of self preservation.
Naruto grew shocked as he curled up in the training area. While momentarily he would brush aside his plan, this time he couldn't ignore it. His facade for others had been held together by his will to be acknowledged, but now that he wasn't around others, his mask cracked until it crumbled. He fell asleep soon after that.
Later, in the middle of the training area, Naruto awoke with a new resolve. He knew that every thing had changed and that everything would continue to change. He only hoped that with his new outlook that his dreams of acknowledgment would be realized. He would bring his clan back from extinction, he would become Hokage to protect others, and when he was strong enough he would take his father's name.
Picking himself up off the ground, he wiped his pants off, freeing the dust and dirt that had caked itself onto his pants. Feeling fresh and filled with a new strength, he brought his fingers together to form a now reflex orientated seal.
"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu " And so, when Naruto's vision began to get used to the amount of smoke as it started to disappear, a sea of blonde hair covered the training area.
As soon as Naruto dispelled the clones, he made his way into the house, so that he could find the scrolls on the taijutsu styles that the Old Man wanted him to learn. Making his way into the Master bedroom he made his way into the second walk-in closet for the room, one used for weapons.
Inside the weapons closet there were mulitiple display shelves on one side, and on the other was a vast shelving unit built for holding scrolls.
The main shelf of the display case was built for larger weapons like swords. It currently was made were it could hold three medium sized swords. But the strange thing was that each of the three stands, while shaped differently were empty. This puzzled Naruto but he decided to worry about that later.
The shelf just above that was filled with a few scrolls, probably on weapon maintenance, and there were some spools of ninja wire and some multi-packs of explosion tags sacked in a rushed manner, as if they were only a small amount of what was left after a rushed pilfering.
On the lowest shelf, there were multiple shuriken and kunai haphazardly tossed there, but the one thing that caught his eye wasn't the shuriken, the kunai, the larger than life shuriken that were easily two feet across, or the wind-fan shuriken. It was the three kunai in the center, the only neat thing on any of the three shelves, and they had three prongs. Turning around, he promised himself that he would ask the Old man about this later.
The center of his attention now was the stash of scrolls in front of him. The only thing that kept him from taking every scroll and giving each one to a different clone was his promise to the Old man. Noticing that they were categorized by the type of scroll, he walked over to the taijutsu scrolls that were much older than the rest. The first scroll was on the Shotokan and Dragon taijutsu styles, the styles of the Lin Kuei. The second was on the Shirai Ryu clan's taijutsu styles, Hapkido and Moi Fah. The last scroll was on the Taijutsu enhancing Chakra techinique, Jishin Kobushi. Pulling out the first scroll, he gave it a once over before leaving the room, with a longing glance back at the other scrolls.
Once he made his way back outside, he sat down on the wooden walkway that separated the training area from the house. As he began to read off of the scroll, he created about fifty clones. Skipping the section of the scroll on the different principles of Karate in general, he read down the scroll to find that the style, Shotokan was simply a kata that was used to generate a fluid taijutsu style. Assigning 26 clones to perform each stance of the kata he had the rest practice the transitions of the kata. After an hour of training his clones in the basic Shotokan form, he dispelled them anxious to try out his new style.
Once he was able to master Taikyo shodan, Heian shodan, Heian nidan, Heian sandan, Heian yondan, Heian godan, and Tekki shodan, he began to concentrate on the Bassai dai. When he realized that if he forced too much power into the eighth kata of the Shotokan that the stance might falter and the fluidity that would be required to pass into another stance would not be as easily obtained, he decided to concentrate again. He was thinking too hard. All that he wanted to do was concentrate on Ikken Hisatsu, or the finishing moves. He began to go over the maxims or principles of the Shotokan. His mind stopped on the sixth, fourteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and the nineteenth principles.
6. The mind needs to be freed.
14. The outcome of the fight depends on one's control
17. Postures are for the beginner; later they are natural positions
18. Perform the kata correctly; the real fight is a different matter
19. Do not forget control of the dynamics of power, the elasticity of the body and the speed of the technique
He realized that only a master could expect results and he soon realized why the Old man geve him the cloning technique. Reciting the ninth principle, Karate training requires a lifetime, Naruto realized that it would never be a perfect technique. But he would be able to master the kata. Even if he would never completely master the entire style.
Taikyoku shodan , Heian shodan , Heian nidan, Heian sandan, Heian yondan, Heian godan, Tekki shodan, Bassai dai, Jion, Empi, Kanku dai, Hangetsu, Jitte, Gankaku, Tekki nidan, Tekki sandan, Nijushiho, Chinte, Sochin, Meikyo, Unsu, Bassai sho, Kanku sho, Wankan, Gojushiho sho, Gojushiho dai, Ji'in.
These were the stances that he had the clones master each one in succession, and with such fluidity that the clones could switch from one kata to the next, which for them was exhausting. While some of the Kata, like Taikyoku shodan had only five positions. Others like Bassai dai, had 34 stances, and ones like Gojushiho dai had 56 stances. Still Naruto persisted and after three days studying his scroll he became immensely adept at the entirearsenal of Katas and began to use the fluidity learned in the Kata styles to develop a loose interpretation of the Shotokan style in general, a style that he would use when imploying the different strikes of the clan.
Hour later, Naruto could be seen employing the basic techniques on a few of his clones. Getting ready to use Yari te dageki on the nearest clone, he used his hand as the tip of the spear that his arm formed. If his hand had been any sharper, he would have impaled the clone. It was then that he realized just how long he had been practicing for. If the technique that he used had been done with that much force using just a bit of chakra behind it, he only hope that the rest of the clones had had the same success. Looking around, he noticed that the rest of the clones had advanced past the basics and had begun to employ harsher attacks on each other. Kori Yaiba, Lin Kuei Arashi, and Te no Kumo were just a few of the techniques.
As he watched some of his clones launch each other in the air with the longer combinations, he smirked. Maybe this wouldn't be so hard after all. Dispelling the Jutsu, he realized that the only taijutsu techniques that he had yet to learn were the ones with relation to the Dragon Style, groaning he realized why the Hokage told him to both styles. While the techniques were all from his mother's side of the family, the taijutsu styles were from two clans. And while the third and fourth styles and even the enhancing technique were all developed with people from the Lin Kuei line, the third and fourth style were developed by a Lin Kuei rebel, meaning that it would be easier to completely master the Original style before thinking about attempts on the other scrolls.
Unraveling the Taijutsu scroll even further than before, he began began to pray that the Dragon style was even easier than the complex Shotokan style. Using the 'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu', he motioned for them all to slip into the first stance, his hands taking the loose shape of a dragon's head.
A week later found Naruto and his clones each performing various combinations of both styles. Naruto had to take a training sword from the rack nearby to use some of the taijutsu combinations. He didn't bother trying to master the entire Lin Kuei Kenjutsu arsenal, not because he didn't want to. But the Lin Kuei Kenjutsu scroll that he had to forage for in his scroll library clearly stated that the attacks would not work correctly without the original 'Kori Blade'. Memorizing the small picture that displayed with details the sword, he promised himself that one day he would find the sword, returning it to the clutches of his clan.
After that Naruto left to the Hokage Tower, intent on finding out just what it was that the Old Hokage might be able to give him to aid his training.
Author's notes:
This is just a shout out to my reviewers...
Coheed 16 the man in the diary - I love you because you agree with me completely 1221ba - you're quick and to the point and I like that Himp - get a different translator or just review in spanish its easier that way, it's engilsh to put it bluntly sucks.
Veldin - thanks for reviewing again.
Now for the polls...
Naruto Pairing?
Haku(fem) IIIIIIIIIIII
Hanabi IIIIIIIIII
Hinata IIIIIIIIII
Ino IIIIII
Kin I
Sakura IIII
Tayuya IIIIIIII
Temari IIIIIIIIIIII
Tenten IIIII
Who gets to kill orochimaru?
Naruto IIII
Jiraiya I
Tsuande
Sasuke I
Naruto/Jiraiya II
Naruto/Jiraiya/Tsunade I
Naruto/Sasuke IIIa
Naruto/Sakura/Tsunade b
And when?
Chunin Exams II
Tsunade Retrieval IIa
3 year time-skip
Sasori and Kabuto Bridge Meeting Ib
Sasuke Retrieval(the one with sai) I
Original timeline II
should I change the Wave Arc mission?
Original timeline II
team Naruto as backup IIIII
different mission I
Meet Haku and Zabuza?
Yes III
No I
What should teams be???
Naruto/Sasuke/Sakura II
Naruto/Sasuke/Hinata II
Naruto by himself IIIIII (and I mean actually by himself, chunnin exams and all, no story that I've read has done this)
Naruto/Shino/Sakura I
Anything else you can think of...
And who's his teacher?
Kakashi II
Kurenai II
Jiraiya III
Anko IIII
Asuma I
Ebisu
and this somehow made its way into becoming a poll...
Who wants to die?
Hiashi ab
Sakura ab
does anybody actually want them to live?
If you haven't noticed I use letters when people vote under the same name and type of question.
and I want people commenting this time on if they believe that having naruto graduate early or not go to academy or something along those lines.
I also want input of whether or not I should have them do russian roulette with the teams, forgive me, roulette with the teams, you know naruto takes the place of someone who dies or something.
I want it known that just cause I put something here doesn't mean that I will use it in this story.
And can someone tell me if I wrote that naruto was in the academy and where I want to scratch that out. He'd enter it when he's ten right? I'll just make it eight...
if you can read spanish, which I can... I'm cool like that and I'm puerto rican... I'm recommending to you the fic... 'El legado del escorpion' (I'm using it as my required reading for my AP spanish class at school.)