Hello again. I've finally been able to mold into a schedule that allows more time for me to spend updating my fic. Hoorah! Hopefully I will be able to update more often now.
Warning!! In this chapter I reveal the name of Naruto's brand new technique, from the manga Ch 337. If you don't want to learn it from me then do not read. If you don't care then go right ahead. I really don't think it's that big of a deal, but I don't want to drive away any of you readers by being discourteous.
Blah blah blah…still don't own Bleach or Naruto.
Onto the story
Chapter 4
Secrets Revealed
"Tatsuki…I really don't-"
"What, are you chicken?" Naruto looked at her sharply, but didn't rise to the bait. "Afraid of losing to a girl, ya big chicken."
Flashback
"Naruto…"
"Huh?"
"You're not hurt are ya…you big chicken?"
"Grrr…SAUSKE!!!"
"Naruto!"
"Huh?"
"These Ninja have poison on their claws and if you don't remove it soon…You'll die."
"I won't be scared and I won't run away. I make this oath on the pain of this hand. I'll protect you old man no matter what!! Believe it!"
End Flashback
"No Way!! I'll fight you, and I'm gonna kick your ass!" Whoa…what's up with the sudden change…Maybe my taunts really got to him. He looks kinda scary when he's all fired up, but at least he's willing to fight now.
"Oh? So you're not a chicken?"
"Hell no, I've face people much more skilled than you and come out on top. I'm not scared of you at all. In fact this couldn't even be considered a warm up for me." He replies smugly. If looks had the ability to kill Naruto would have died a very painful and horrible death.
"Warm up huh? We'll just have to see about that." The two were so busy exchanging insults that they totally forgot that Inoue was there. She kept glancing between her oldest friend and her newest friend with growing interest. Personally she thought that Naruto was going to be beat, and badly. No one could stand up to Tatsuki-chan other than Kurosaki-kun, but at least it would be fun to watch. They arrived at the sparsly wooded area that Tatsuki liked to practice in a few minutes later. Naruto and Tatsuki were still too involved in sending insult after insult at each other to notice Inoue stop. They continued to walk, totally oblivious of there surroundings.
"Tatsuki-chan! Look out!-" Too Late. With twin splashes, both Naruto and Tatsuki dropped into the river. That in and of itself was embarrassing, but the situation only got worse. It was a somewhat chilly day, and Tatsuki had been wearing a form fitting white shirt. When she came in contact with the cold water, it caused some rather obvious reactions in her body. Naruto came up spluttering, and wiped the water off his face. The first thing that caught his attention was Tatsuki coming up from the water a few feet from him, followed closely by the obvious changes her body had undergone after hitting the water. His face turned a deep red, but he was unable to tear his eyes away from her soaked body. She spluttered, then noticed how red Naruto's face had become. At first she was confused at why his face was such a deep red, but then she looked down at herself and, if possible, turned an even deeper shade of red than Naruto. She turned around quick as lightning for modesty's sake. Her first reaction was….
"YOU DAMN PERVERT! KEEP YOUR FUCKING EYES OFF MY BODY OR I MIGHT MAKE SOME SERIOUS CHANGES TO YOUR ANATOMY!!!!" He flinched visibly and turned away from her, still a deep shade of red
"Hey Kid, She doesn't have too bad of a body for a puny human, I wonder what the rest of her looks like, especially without those rags you call clothes. I never got why humans find it offensive to go around in what you were given at birth. It's like you're ashamed or something."
"You bastard Fox!!! You're worse than Ero-Sennin, and that's saying something. He is THE Legendary Pervert after all, and we can't just walk around in the buff it's-"
"It's what? Wrong? Offensive? Perverted? Vulgar? You do realize that you are the only creatures that cover up. That should tell you something brat."
"Shut the hell up and leave my alone you damn Fox. I don't want to hear your opinions on what is ok for me to do, you are after all the Greatest of the Greater Demons, and you kill people just for the hell of it and destroy villages just 'cause you can." That comment was met with a deep rumbling laughter, that for some reason made Naruto flinch away in fear. He began backing away from the prison in which the Kyubi was sealed, then caught himself.
"FUCK YOU FOX!! I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME? I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU!!!!! YOU MAY BE A LEGEND, BUT I WILL BE GREATER THAN LEGEND!!! I WILL BE THE GREATEST NINJA OF ALL TIME, ONE EVEN THE GREATER DEMONS WILL FEAR!!!" The deep rumbling had paused at the furious outbreak, and now silence was all that greeted Naruto's pledge.
"Naruto-kun are…are you ok?"
"Eh? Wha- yeah I'm fine why?"
"Well…your eyes they looked kind of funny for a minute…like they were bleeding or something."
"…no, I'm fine, honest."
"Good, because Tatsuki-chan's gonna kick your butt."
"…umm, about that, I-"
"GET YOUR ASS UP HERE YOU DAMN PERVERT!!" Naruto flinched again. He was in some serious trouble, and he knew it. Sakura-chan, had always seemed to have monstrous strength whenever anything perverted had been involved.
"…uh, ok I'll…be right there." As Naruto cleared the edge of the bank, what appeared to be a vast thunder head had settled behind Tatsuki, and her eyes flashed like lightning. (note: The thunder head is similar to the one Kakashi summoned when Team 7 broke his rule during the bell test.)
"…Umm…I suppose an apology wouldn't help would it."
"NOT ON YOUR LIFE, YA DAMN PERVERT!"
"…ok…"
Oh Shit! I am totally going to die! She's gonna kill me. Even Sakura-chan has never looked this scary before.
Naruto was too worried about Tatsuki's rage, and the impending ass whooping he was about to receive to notice the humongous creature that was moving slowly toward them.
Elsewhere…
"…telling ya Chad, this guy is a total goof, but there is something strange about him. I have a feeling he's more than what he appears."
"Like us." His giant of a friend responds in his normal fasion…brief
"…..I didn't think about that. Hmmm….No he's not like us. I can't really sense any spirit pressure when around him.
"Well you were never very good at sensing spirit pressure in the first place Kurosaki."
"Ishida! When the hell did you get here!?"
"I've been here the whole time idiot!"
"….uh, right. Well any way he-" Ishida and Chad looked up sharply. "What the hell was that? It made a hollow seem like a fluffy little kitten." Ichigo looked at his Substitute Sinigami badge. It hadn't made a sound. "Well what ever it was it was brief, and it wasn't a hollow."
"It…felt old…and very powerful. It made the captains of soul society seem like little kids, even captain Yammamoto."
"…what could possibly be that powerful?"
"Aizen?"
"Not a chance in hell! Aizen would shit himself in the presence of what ever that was."
"well… perhaps we should ju-!" SHRIEEEEEEK, SHRIEEEEEEK, SHRIEEEEEEK, HOLLOW, HOLLOW, HOLLOW!!!!
"Holy shit!" Ichigo had leapt straight into the air at the sudden alarm. "This thing almost gives me a heart attack every time it goes off." He turned it off and was about to switch to his Shinigami form when…
SHRIEEEEEEK, SHRIEEEEEEK, SHRIEEEEEEK, HOLLOW, HOLLOW, HOLLOW!!!
"What the hell? Another one?" He turned it off again. "Damn it now there's two of em."
SHRIEEEEEEK, SHRIEEEEEEK, SHRIEEEEEEK, HOLLOWS, HOLLOWS, HOLLOWS!!! MULTIPLE HOLLOWS, MULTIPLE HOLLOWS, MULTIPLE HOLLOWS!!!!
"Fuck! Chad, Ishida, I'm gonna need your help on this one." They nod quickly and follow him in the direction of the gathering Hollows.
Back with Naruto…
"Tatsuki-chan!! Take Naruto and run! Quick, you have to get away from here NOW!!!"
"Wha-" Tatsuki had been focused on the pervert, but at Inoue's fearful tone she looked around, and nearly collapsed. Holy shit! Where the hell did all these monsters come from! And why the hell didn't I notice them. I've been able to see and sense these things for a couple of weeks now. Ever since I saw Kurosaki fight that one at the hospital during that weird guy's live show. Why the hell are there so many!?
Naruto had also looked up at Inoue's scream to run away. What he saw made his jaw drop.
"Holy shit! What the hell are those things!" In the clearing, surrounding them, were close to fifteen hollows. Surprisingly it was Inoue who answered.
"These things are called hollows. They are the souls of people who weren't able to go to soul society, or had something that held them here until they changed. They eat the souls of the living, and they target people with high spirit pressure. I haven't seen this many in one place before. We are in a lot of trouble."
"like hell we are. I'm not afraid of these things!"
"Naruto normal people can't hurt them. You may be able to see them, but you probably can't hurt them."
"I won't know until I try, will I?" He said giving his signature grin. As she watched he made a strange gesture with his hands and said "Release!" The air around him seemed to shimmer, then suddenly there was Naruto with an arsenal of weapons strapped every where on his person. Tatsuki and Inoue could only stare. Where the hell did he get all of those weapons?
"You Hollow's are making a big mistake attacking me."
"Oh … what have we here. A tasty little treat that has a big m outh. Kid you have no idea what you're up against. We aren't push overs. We aren't even here for you. We sensed a powerful spirit in this area no single hollow could have taken it. You will be a tasty snack, before the m ain course.
"Oh Yeah? You wanna try me?" The surrounding hollows laughed. Naruto's normal cheery attitude disappeared in an instant, and his blue eyes filled with determination. He reaches over each shoulder and pulls free two short bladed katana. He smile again, but this time it is one of such depravity as to cause the Hollows pause. In that moment of hesitation Naruto attacks with a strength gained under two and a half years of personal training from one of the Legengary Three. He specifically avoids the one that spoke, assuming him as the leader and the strongest of the Hollows. Naruto may be slower than Sauske, but he was almost at an equal level with him on overall strength. The first Hollow that got in his way attempted to crush him with a massive blow from it's enormous fists. The twin katana flashed in the light, and the Hollow let out a horrible shriek as both it's arms fell with a crash to the ground. Naruto figured that the katana by themselves could not cut through the bone looking armor that covered each Hollow, but with his added elemental chakra behind it, the armor caused little resistance. I will not let these monsters have either of these girls. No way in hell. They are not some of my precious people, but…they could be eventually. Plus to a Hokage everyone is a precious person. I will not sit by and watch while they are killed. Naruto flew by the injured Hollow, confronting the next closest one. His hands flashed another symbol "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" and four clones appeared at his side. Each clone took a different direction and the small army of Naruto's decimated the ranks of the Hollow. He had not killed any of them, but he had made it impossible for them to fight in any way. Strewn across the clearing were the fallen Hollows, missing legs, arms, or both. Finally there was only one left, the one that had spoken up.
"What the hell are you !?? How the hell were you able to cut through them so easily. There's no way!!!
"A Death God? No I am not a Death God, I am Uzumaki Naruto Leaf-Style Ninja, and you made the biggest mistake by underestimating me." He slid the katana back into their sheaths on his back held his right hand out low. Slowly what appeared to be a controlled typhoon appeared in his hand, then it changed becoming jagged and razor sharp around the edges. Right before charging the hollow Naruto made one last comment. "No one underestimates ME!!" The Hollow took a desperate swing at this lethal kid that had destroyed fourteen Hollows like it was nothing, only to his empty space. He looked around not seeing him anywhere, when the sound of gale force winds brought his gaze up. "FUUTON: RASENGAN!!" The ground exploded in all directions causing an enormous cloud of dust to erupt into the air. When the air finally cleared where the hollow had been there was an enormous crater five times the height of the boy at its bottom. Inoue and Tatsuki's mouths were hanging open and their eyes were nearly popping out of their heads. Holy shit!! And I wanted to fight HIM!!! He would have totally decimated me. How the hell could he do all those things! Holy shit, holy shit, HOLY SHIT!!!! Naruto jumped up to the edge of the crater he had created with his own personalized technique and smirked at the totally stunned girls standing in front of him.
"Ya know…if I didn't know any better, I'd say you two were trying to catch some flies, what with your mouths hanging open like that." Two mouths snapped shut.
"…how the…I mean you just…Holy shit!" Tatsuki said weakly.
"What are you Naruto-kun?" Inoue asked, not expecting him to flinch at her choice of words. He looked at her for a very long time before finally…
"I'm a Ninja from The Village Hidden In The Leaves. I've been sent here on a mission to find out about your friend Ichigo and his powers."
OK this has been the longest chapter yet. I kind of thought about splitting it into two, and I could have, but I decided not to. I hope you enjoyed it.
As to the technique Naruto used against the last Hollow. If you haven't read the latest manga online (337) then I apologize for revealing the name of Naruto's new technique. I felt it would be a good place to use it so I did.