Eyes of a Brother
Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I wish I did but I don't
Here it is
Hanabi was looking at the creepy guy across from him and to say Hanabi was nervous would have been a gross understatement, he wanted to run. Run and keep running. The only thing that kept him there was the feeling of his two teammate's and captain's eyes on him. He wanted to be strong, make them proud, but this guy looked unlike anything he'd ever fought, it was intimidating, and a little scary. Hanabi was going to raise his hand to give up but He glanced up at Naruto, whose face was a look of disgust. Hanabi stopped running even if wasn't ready for this he vowed that he would never give up or chicken out ever again, Naruto knew that. Hanabi's close combat skills had improved during the two months he'd been with Sakura and Naruto, but not by much. He had the Demon Wind shuriken he gave him so that would help a bit, but he still wasn't a very good fighter. Hanabi wanted to prove himself so this was going to be interesting.
Naruto watched as the two squared off, eyeing each other waiting for the other to make a move. The Black eyed man's fingers twitched. Hanabi whipped the Demon Wind off his back, drawing and opening it up in a single move. He threw the large weapon at his opponent and raced at him drawing a kunai. Black eyes "Don't you have any other tricks?" asked the man as he leapt over it. Hanabi gritted his teeth.
"I have to do it," he thought "but I'm still not very good at it I could mess up" just as he decided not to do it, a scene flashed through his mind.
Flashback
Hanabi ran through the woods the enemy ninja hot on his trail. This was not good, he couldn't get away. His toe caught a rock and with a cry of pain he fell to the ground. He turned over and gazed at the ninja in fear. Snapping his eyes back open he saw a person standing in front of him in a blood red shirt and shaggy blonde hair.
"Naruto I lost again didn't I" he said stunned, Naruto looked at Hanabi with disgust in his eyes. Naruto said "If you give up and hestitate you will die. There won't always be someone there to protect you also you could get a comrade killed "Hanabi you are Ninja, in wearing the headband on your forehead you've excepted the mantle of the Hidden Leaf Village," said Naruto "You and I are Genin, the future of our village. We don't have time to screw around and give the fuck up, we must advance and take the defense of our village onto our shoulders and help Kakashi-sensei. Never hesitate again even in training I won't be lenient again, I will kill you for giving up"
End Flashback
It didn't take a genius to know that Naruto had been thinking about the time he'd hesitated while fighting Haku with Sasuke. Hanabi's resolve hardened .He threw two smoke bombs and crossed his fingers. Then to everyone's disbelief ten Hanabi's poofed into existence.
"shadow clones" said Naruto to Sakura when she gave him a look of confusion. Realization dawned on her and she looked back down at the match. The black eyed man didn't seem to know what to do. He gazed around trying to find the real one.
"Having," said one.
"Some," said another one.
"Trouble?" said a third but they said they said it in such quick succession it came out 'having some trouble?' Naruto watched as the clones converged on the man all wielding kunai. There was a massive cloud as the man destroyed some of them, but when it all cleared, Hanabi stood triumphant. Hayate walked over and knelt next to the man and checked him.
"The winner: Is Hanabi Mara," he said.
"yess!" yelled Sakura. Naruto nodded in approval as Hanabi looked up at them. He soon joined them on the cat walk looking tired but happy. Naruto turned to face him, a small smile playing on his lips. He congratulated him which made Hanabi smile that he was finally making a friend of Naruto. They heard the board on the wall start to cycle through names again, they all turned to look at it. It ended on Zaku of the Sound village and Shino Aburame. The two leapt to the floor. The guy Zaku looked up at Naruto and gave him a glare. His arms were in a sling.
"How does he plan to fight with his arms in a sling?" thought Hanabi allowed.
"Well, well," said Zaku, "It looks like I've got a little movement in this one." He pulled his left arm out of the sling and pointed it at Shino. Shino didn't so much as draw his hands out of his jacket pockets. Without warning Zaku blasted a huge sound wave at Shino. When the dust cleared Shino stood tall, bugs covering his entire body.
"Ugh gross," said Sakura "What is he?"
"In the village hidden in the Leaf there is a clan of bug masters," said Kakashi "The Aburame, when one of them is born they enter a secret pact with the insects, he provides them with a nest and food and in return they fight for him."
"A nest and food?" asked Hanabi "What do you mean?" he gulped having a good idea what Kakashi was talking about.
"His body and his chakra," said Kakashi. Though he did show it, Naruto wanted to throw up, the thought made him disgusted.
Zaku was about to blast Shino again but his arms burst, he was screaming and he yelled "how"
Shino just said I plugged your arms with bugs. Zaku then charged Shino but the insects flowed off Shino and swarmed Zaku. Naruto turned away and leaned on the rail crossing his arms over his chest.
"It's over," he said. No sooner than he finished, Zaku let out a terrible scream again as the bugs swarmed over him, devouring his chakra. Naruto knew he would never be able to use his arms again.
"That was so gross," said Sakura. Naruto gazed around and saw that that was the general belief. Zaku was carted off by the medical corp. After a brief intermission, the board started cycling names again. It ended on the Shinobi in the stupid cat-eared hood from the sand village and Hanabi's opponent's teammate. The Sand ninja, Kankuro, took the large thing wrapped in bandages off his back holding it out to his side. His opponent attacked him and threw a single punch which Kankuro easily blocked. Then the guys arm snaked up Kankuro's. In no time at all the man, had his limps wrapped around Kankuro with one arm wrapped around his neck.
"Oh man," said Sakura "First a human bug hive, now this." Naruto could help but agree with her. There was a loud crack and Naruto knew Kankuro's neck had just broken. Hayate took a step forward like he was going to stop fight. Then Kankuro twitched, and head spun a one-eighty. Hanabi made a wretching sound. Then the thing Kankuro had dropped burst open, revealing a second Kankuro. The first Kankuro sprouted four more arms for a total of six and wrapped them tightly around his enemy. After a few seconds of struggling, the man gave and the match ended.
"Jeez," muttered Naruto "One weirdo after another." The board stopped one the two names, Naruto glanced up at it.
"Not good," he thought, Ino and Sakura, despite what they said, the two still cared for each other. Sakura and Ino, both seemed to freeze. The glanced at each other seemed to hesitate, before the looks hardened.
They joined each other on the ground glaring at each other.
"Alright," said Hayate, "you may begin."
Sakura raced straight at Ino and threw a hard punch at her face. Ino dodged her head out of the way but before she could counter, Sakura grabbed the back of her head and yanked it down at the same time bringing her right knee up hard. Ino's head snapped back and she stumbled back a look of shock on her face.
Because Team Seven hadn't spent a lot of time around the rest of the rookie's Sakura's growth was wildly an unknown. So the look of shock on everyone's faces came as no surprise to Naruto as he glanced around, a small smirk on his face and a felling of pride in his chest. Sakura kicked Ino hard in the gut. Ino backed up clutching at her stomach.
"How?" she gasped out "How did you get so strong?" Sakura smirked.
"How? It's called hard work Ino, after the Land of the Waves, my total inability to do anything at all spurned me to get stronger, so that the next time we face an enemy I'll be a help, not being a liability." "Sakura was about to pummel Ino again but Ino spoke up "Ok, Sakura, I give, you win." Naruto gave a huge smile, the smile was missed by all, but Kakashi who . Naruto glanced at the rest of the Rookies they all had looks of amazement on their faces. It didn't surprise him, Ino was widely considered to be one of the best female ninja in their age group. However Sakura had beaten her with minimal effort.
Sakura held her hand out to Ino and helped her up. The two watched each other for a minute. Sakura gave her a smile, a real smile.
"Just hang in there Ino, "she said "If I can do it, so can you." Together they climbed the stairs and joined the rest of the Leaf Genin. Ino left to join her team and Sakura join Naruto and Hanabi.
"Well two out of three," said Kakashi "We'll go for a sweep, be ready Naruto." They all gave him a small smile.
"Right," he said. Suddenly Sakura slumped against the wall and slid down it to the ground. Naruto knelt next to her. "You ok?" he asked in a quiet voice. Sakura gave him a reassuring smile.
"I'm ok," she said "The Chakra I used for the Genjutsu in the forest hadn't fully replenished I'm just tired." she gave him another tired smile, touched by his concern. Naruto nodded returning her smile with a small one of his own, before he stood up, he pulled her into a hug and quietly, so only she could hear, said:
"I had faith in you, I knew you would win. Thank you for having faith in me and helping me through these past few months" That said she was overwhelmed with pride and accomplishment in herself, but she felt something more towards Naruto. He then stood up and stepped back up the railing to watch the next match. The two opponents had already been chosen. Tenten, and Temari. Tenten leapt away. And her team started cheering, loudly. Naruto had to cover his ears because of the The Mega-Eye Brows guys in green spandex. The two stood staring at each other. Temari goaded Tenten into attacking. Tenten leapt into the air and threw six shuriken at Temari, they flew straight and on target, then suddenly they stopped and dropped to the ground. Naruto blinked for a minute, then it dawned on him.
"Wind," he thought. "It's over," Hanabi looked at him in shock.
"How can you say that?" he demanded "Tenten is a fellow Leaf Ninja, we must believe in her." Naruto looked at him.
"Don't be stupid Hanabi," he said " I would like to see Tenten win. It's bad luck really Temari is the one person so far who could actually beat her. It's over Hanabi, just watch." Temari unfurled her fan and swung it causing a huge vortex that lifted Tenten into the air. Wind slice at the helpless girl before she fell hard onto Temari's collapsed fan.
"The winner is: Temari," said Hayate. An evil grin crossed Temari's face. She tossed Tenten at the weapons she had used. Lee leapt into the battle area and caught her.
"Nice catch," she said "Now take that pathetic piece of garbage out of here."
"What did you say?" he demanded. He gently set Tenten down and looked like he was about to charge the girl, when Naruto suddenly appeared in front of him his arm stretched out in front of Lee, his gaze locked onto Temari. Everyone gasped,
"When did he get so fast?" thought Sakura.
"Naruto," Thought Kakashi "What are you playing at?"
"Lee, don't," said Naruto "She's not worth your time, take Tenten to Gai-sensei." Lee was stunned by Naruto's sudden appearance.
"Uh, right," he said and carried her off. Naruto stood and glared at Temari. She broke eye contact and turned to join her teammates, Naruto followed Lee. Gaara had a very sadistic look on his face thinking "now I really have a reason to kill him, mother will love his blood, then she will love me"
When they reached the top Kakashi pulled Naruto aside.
"Naruto what are you doing?" he demanded.
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto confused.
"Your unknown growth is an advantage," he said "Why show it now in a rush to stop Lee?" Naruto hesitated. "Don't be so hasty to show off, wait until the match."
"Yes, sensei" Naruto said dejectedly. Kakashi gave him a one eyed smile and patted him on the shoulder.
"I know you're eager to test yourself," he said gently "But don't let that eagerness compromise you." Naruto nodded and walked back to Hanabi a bit ashamed of himself.
"Everything alright?" asked Hanabi.
"Yeah," said Naruto quietly. Sakura stood up and joined them. "You sure you're ok to be moving around Sakura?" she gave him a smile.
"I'm fine," she said "besides, the matches are getting towards the end I don't want to miss your match," she gave him a small smile and slipped her hand into his, and gave it a small squeeze. Sakura knew it was the only show of affection Naruto would allow right now.
Shikamaru and Kin were the next two to fight.
Their fight started off slow, but that was to be expected with anything involving Shikamaru. Kin threw two Senbon at Shikamaru who quickly dodged them. There were bells attached.
"That simple trick?" asked Naruto "Next she'll through Senbon with bells and Senbon without." Shikamaru started dodging all the Senbon, before he suddenly froze.
"Genjutsu!" said Sakura.
"What?" gasped Naruto snapping his gaze up to Sakura.
"It looks like this is one the effects his ears," She said "I guess that's surprising considering what village she's from." Kin threw three Senbon, Shikamaru managed to cover up just in time.
"It's amazing he can even move," she said. Suddenly all action stopped. Kin's face had a look of horror on it.
"He got her," said Naruto. Shikamaru pulled a shuriken out of his pouch which was mirror by Kin.
"Are you crazy?" demanded Kin.
"Oh come on it's be fun," said Shikamaru "Like a game of chicken, let's see who's ducks first!" he threw the shuriken at her the two shuriken raced at their targets, just as it reached him, Shikamaru bent over backwards. Kin mirrored him, and bashed her head on the wall.
"The wise Shinobi properly scouts the battle field and is always aware of his position on it," he said. The match was over. After he joined the rest, the wall on the boarded began to cycle through names, until finally it landed on Naruto and Kiba.
"It's us against the kid Akamaru!" shouted Kiba. He leapt down and ran to the far side waiting for Naruto. Naruto straightened and started walking towards the stairs. Kakashi stopped him.
"Naruto," he said "Only use it as a last resort, but I'm giving you permission to use it." Naruto gave him a short nod and continued to the stairs. As he left Sakura was giving Kakashi an uneasy look.
All around them were words of pity for Naruto.
"Oh man, Naruto doesn't have a chance," said Ino
"Kiba is so lucky," said Choji. And Kurenai looked pretty smug, like the match was already over.
"Don't worry Sakura," he smiled "Hes ready, Naruto and I haven't just been goofing off the last six months." Hanabi was glancing back and forth between them confused. "He had faith in you, both of you. Now have faith in him." they both nodded and turned to watch.
"Now you're chance Naruto," she thought "Show them all how much you've grown."
Naruto stood across from Kiba, his face ever stoic.
"Sorry Naruto," he said "nothing personal," With that he dropped onto all fours, his teeth and finger nails elongating. "Ninja Art: Beast Mimicry!" he vanished only to reappear with his elbow buried deep in Naruto's gut. Naruto's body absorbed the shot and he flew several feet landing hard on his back.
"Oh no!" exclaimed Hanabi, In the five months he'd known him, Hanabi had never seen Naruto take a solid hit.
Naruto was still for a second. Kida was about to turn to Hayate when he stirred. He turned back to Naruto a look of disbelief on his face. There was a poof, and the real Naruto rose from the ground and was up and running, both kunai in his hand. Kiba let out a growl and charged at Naruto drawing one of his own kunai. Naruto swung his right hand, Kiba ducked that kunai and stabbed with his own. Naruto blocked it with the kunai in his left. They disengaged.
"So, I see you picked up a little bit of ability," said Kiba, "You came along way since the academy." Naruto couldn't help but smirk as he sheathed his kunai, this didn't go missed by Kiba.
"You have no idea," said Naruto "how right you are." Naruto started flashing through hand signs so quickly that Kiba could keep up.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" he yelled.
"WHAT?" exclaimed Kiba. The fifteen small fire balls converged on him. Kiba barely escaped.
Asuma looked at Kakashi in shock.
"That move," he said "That's a Fire Jutsu of the Uchiha Clan. So how is it that Naruto knows it?" Kakashi gave him a one eyed smile.
"Oh, you'll see." he replied. Kiba came up charging and drew two smoke bottoms.
"Let's go Akamaru!" he said and threw the smoke bombs. No one could see a thing. Akamaru leapt into the smoke, using his nose to track Naruto. As the smoke started to clear, Kiba charged kunai in hand.
"NARUTO!" yelled Sakura and moved to jump down.
"Stop Sakura!" said Kakashi. Sakura was stunned , Kakashi had never raised his voice to her like that. "Have faith in Naruto." Sakura climbed down off the railing.
Just as the smoke completely cleared Kiba was in Naruto's face and plunged the kunai in his stomach.
"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled again. A look of shock was on everyone's faces. Everyone in the building heard the distinct drip..drip..drip… of water.
A look of shock crossed Kiba's face as he watched water flow out of the wound in Naruto's stomach. Then the water clone collapsed. Kiba searched franticly for him.
"Where is he?" he said aloud. His answer was a hard punch across the face. Kiba stumbled back. "When the hell did you learn to use water clones, and Fire and Earth Jutsu for that matter?" Naruto smirked.
"I wouldn't worry about that right now if I were you," said Naruto,
"Fine," said Kiba "But at least tell me how you used the water clone!"
"Fair enough," said Naruto "Kiba, look around you, at the water on the floor. It's left over from the dripping from the ceiling pipes. When you threw you're smoke bombs I simply used the little amount of water on the floor and created a water clone."
Kiba growled, baring his fangs. Then he sprinted at Naruto.
"TUNNELING FANG!" he shouted and began to rapidly spin. Naruto stepped to the left, Kiba missed him. After finally being bored of this fight Naruto finally punched Kiba making him land to the side a bit. Kiba flipped out of his attack and stood tall with a pissed look in his face."
"I gotta say," he said "I'm actually impressed your even still standing," Naruto glared at him, his cobalt eyes burning a hole in him. Kiba took a step back and slipped his hand into his pouch, drawing out two food pills. He tossed on to Akamaru, before popping one in his own mouth.
"LET'S GO AKAMARU! MAN/BEAST CLONES!" he shouted as Akamaru leapt on his back, in a flash there were two Kiba's. They ran at Naruto on all fours. "FANG-OVER-FANG!" they shouted Naruto leapt out of the way. Kiba came to a stop.
"You know you're pretty pathetic," he said with all the honesty in the world "It takes you three tries to pass the academy graduation exam, which you only passed in the end on a technicality. Then you botch every D-ranked mission you go on, only succeeding it those missions because of Sasuke, and then…"
Kakashi turned to Kurenai.
"Kurenai, whatever happens to Kiba, you cannot hold it against Naruto," he said Kiba is going to bring it onto himself." Kurenai looked at him surprised.
"Excuse me?" she said.
"Naruto is about to kill Kiba," said Kakashi as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"I fail to see how that's going to happen;" she replied "He can't even put up a good fight let alone beat Kiba."
"Naruto's emotions are buried not gone," said Kakashi "Kiba is about to unleash a rage he'll never forget. In this state he could destroy even me in a fight" Sakura was just as confused as Kurenai. She gazed at the two taking and realization dawned on her."Kiba that idiot," she said "is he trying to get killed?"
"You let Sasuke die, you did nothing to help him, as he defended you, you were the one who killed him by being weak and hesitating" Kiba finished laughing. Naruto's face darkened into something that was Pure rage.
Kiba kept on laughing.
"What's that cat got your tongue?" he said smiling
"IM GOING TO KILL YOU!" shouted Naruto realsing a Ki that made everybody freeze. He tore his shirt off. His entire torso was covered in scars like he'd been stabbed by hundreds of thin weapons, needle scars proof of the battle of the bridge. "THIS IS PROOF OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BRIGDE YOU MOTHERFUCKER". He then vanished only to reappear right in front of Kiba and smashed him to the ground. He rained punched after punch into Kiba's face. The second Kiba ran at Naruto and knocked him off Kiba. Naruto skidded to a halt on one knee. Kiba dragged himself to his feet, Rage burning in Naruto's eyes he hated him, he wanted his blood so bad, but then he thought "I don't want to kill him I want to torture him, make him suffer,he will feel the pain I had to endure for so long."
"This is getting intense," said Shikamaru "Naruto is completely different from when we were in the academy.
"You said it," replied Ino a bit nervous as to what was going to happen next. The three Jounin Senseis moved together as a reaction, in case they had to intervene. Naruto glanced up at Kakashi a question in his eyes rage still there waiting to be unleashed.
"Go ahead Naruto," he replied giving him permission
The Third Hokage had been watching all the fights with mild interest, this fight however he'd been paying the closest attention to. He'd promise Minato he's watch over the boy, he wanted to see how far he'd come. He'd been pleasantly surprised at many points in the match but and Kakashi's words, he sat up a bit straighter. In fact everyone in the building seemed to being watching closing.
"Kakashi, what are you talking about?" asked Asuma.
"Just watch," said Kakashi "Keep your eyes on Naruto, he's about to surprise you.
Naruto slowly closed his eyes "Sasuke," thought Naruto "Lend me your strength, help me, please, show me the way" Then he opened his eyes. Then he stood up straight, proud and tall, his earlier rage increased ten fold. After ten months of training, Naruto snapped his eyes open unveiling the Mangekyou Sharingan which looked like a star(imagine Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan.)
The entire building let out a gasp.
The Hokage leapt to his feet.
"Sharingan, but that's…"
"If any of you ever wondered why I insisted on continuing Naruto's train myself," said Kakashi "Now you know."
"Sharingan!" exclaimed Kurenai "but how? When?"
"In the Land of the Waves," said Kakashi, "Sasuke didn't die protecting Naruto. He died as they fought side-by-side. During the fight Naruto was pierced by Senbons as he defended Sasuke's body. Before Sasuke passed on, Sasuke gave Naruto the Sharingan, as a gift of friendship and brotherhood. The village grieves over the loss of the Uchiha clan, while Naruto grieves the loss of Sasuke Uchiha, the closest thing he's ever had to a brother, his best friend and his first friend. The village slanders him for "allowing the last of the Uchiha to die" while Naruto punishes himself for not being able to protect a comrade which is exactly how I felt with Obito and Rin. In fact I believe Shikamaru here is the only one who's ever taken the time to check on Naruto." Every single one of them looked ashamed of themselves. Kakashi turned his gaze to Sakura, who was beaming with pride for her Sensei and for her teammate.
No matter how hard he tried, Kiba couldn't tear his gaze away from Naruto's eyes. It entranced him, drew him in. something told Naruto to use a genjutsu with his right eye, it called it Tsukyomi. Naruto said "Kiba you brought this on yourself" he then whispered Tsukyomi his right eye spinning, putting Kiba into the ultimate genjutsu. Kiba looked around to see that he was tied to a cross with Naruto looking at him he thought "what the hell is this place" Naruto calmly stated you are in my realm I am god here, I control everything even the matter, you will be here for 24 hours. With that Naruto brought out a sword from nothingness and stabbed it into Kiba. Eventually Kiba saw that there was hundreds of him being stabbed at the same time, which was insanely painful making him, scream and pant hoping it was over already. Naruto spoke up and said "you have twenty-three hours fifty five minutes to go"
Everyone wondered why they just stared at each other for three seconds until Kiba collapsed screaming and convulsing. Every Jounin ran to where Kiba was, he was sweating profusely like he was tortured over and over again. When the screaming stopped he passed out. They all looked at Naruto and asked what he did. Naruto merely said "he brought upon himself and walked away" the medics rushed to where Kiba was and hauled him off on a stretcher.
The Hokage looked very surprised at the power Naruto had, he was a little scared because Naruto merely looked at him and made him pass out from mental strain.
"Because his opponent is unable to continue, the winner in Naruto Uzumaki." said Hayate.
Naruto went back to where the rest of the Genins were and rested on the railing.
"Leave it to you to have something like that under your belt" said Shikamaru in a calm voice.
"That was awesome," said Hanabi "Why didn't you tell me you had the Sharingan?"
"I wasn't allowed to reveal it until now," replied Naruto.
The rest of the rookie nine congratulated him.
After the rest of the Rookie nine left him, Sakura pulled Naruto into a hug.
"Great job Naruto," she said. Naruto hesitated for a minute then returned it, holding her tightly.
"Very good Naruto," said Kakashi. "What did you do by the way?." Naruto smirked and said "I put him into a Genjutsu and tortured him for twenty four hours"
"…try not to do that all the time,"Kakashi said with a that's freaky face on.
Noticing Naruto did not have a shirt Kakashi said "Here," pulling off his Jounin vest and draping it over him shoulders. "Wear this until we can get you a shirt."
"Thanks again," said Naruto slipping his arms through it and zipping it up.
The next two opponents were Hinata and Neji Hyuga. They stood across from each other Hinata look terrified, scared like she wanted run. Then she took a quick glance at Naruto her resolve seemed to harden.
They both took the same stance.
"Of course," said Lee "That is the Hyuuga style, that is why their stances are the same. They are both from the Hyuuga clan."
"It's amazing," he said "they release sharp bursts of Charka driving them into their opponents body." Neji finally landed a blow on her throat causing her to back up. Clutching at her chest, the resolve drained from her face for a split second before returning. She charged him again, taking a hard shot right to the heart.
"Damn it," said Naruto "she fought a good fight, but it's over." He turned off the Sharingan. Then a gasp escaped his lips, she was getting back up.
"No, no, no," he said "stay down, don't do anything crazy." She dragged herself to her feet. Neji let out a cry off rage and charged. In a flash Naruto disappeared only to reappear right in front of Neji.
"The fight is over Neji," he said. Neji scoffed and left the arena floor. Naruto turned and ran to Hinata, he was soon joined by Kurenai who knelt down a yanked her jacket open.
"She's going into cardiac arrest," she said. Naruto leapt out of the way as the medical corp. raced in. They had her up and gone in fifteen seconds.
Naruto returned to his team, where Sakura wrapped her arms around Naruto's right arm. Her previous inhibitions forgotten.
The board on the wall scanned through names and came to a stop on Dosu the sound nin and Choji.
As soon as the match started Choji tried to use his human bolder technique but dosu was too fast and he hit Choji with the weird glove making Choji fall down his ears bleeding. Dosu then held a Kunai to his throat and Hayate called the match.
"Uhhhhhh, that was quick" was all Naruto could say.
The last match was Rock Lee vs. Gaara.
Gaara stood across from Lee with his arms crossed and the gourd on his back pouring sand.
"So that's what's in that gourd," mumbled Naruto "it's sand." Lee charged Gaara with amazing speed about to give Gaara a roundhouse kick to the head. The sand rose to Gaara's defense. Then it tried to wrap around Lee but Lee jumped back onto the statue in the room and looked at Gai for Approval. Gai merely said "take them off Lee" Lee took a sitting position on top of the statue and took off the leg warmers that were covering his shins. Once taken off he had weights wrapped around both shins. Lee removes them and lets out a big sigh of relief, "Ah, that is much better."
Naruto notices Neji looking at Lee so he looks and then shows a look of smugness when he sees that Lee has taken off his weights.
Sakura asked, "What are taking those weights off gonna do?" Asuma looked to Gai, "Those are training weights right? Basic training equipment."
Everyone looks a Gai, "Yes they are. Everyday training weights you could get at any ninja store, but when Lee takes these off. His speed increases dramatically."
Hanabi asked Gai, "How fast does he get?" Gai looks at Hanabi and says, "Try and keep up."
From the railings, They were watching with confusion, Shikamaru says, "Training weights are old fashioned." Shino says to him, "Yeah, but there must be more to it than just as it appears. Otherwise it wouldn't make his speed increase"
Lee was looking at Gaara with a satisfied look, "Here I come!" yelled Lee. Lee then dropped the weights and the room watched as they hit the ground and caused the floor to tremble and the create a large craters in the floor. Needless to say everyone was shocked and amazed at the amount of weights this boy had on.
Lee crouched down and in an instant he moved so fast he disappeared. Gaara's eyes widened and he jumped to the right dodging Lee's punch. 'Damn him he moves too fast for the sand to react.' Thought Gaara As soon as Lee's feet touched the ground he disappeared again, he appeared behind Gaara kicking him up into the air then Lee appeared behind him wrapping the his bandages around Gaara hugging him when they fell they fell head first Lee were making them spin rapidly. They hit the ground hard, making a huge crater.
Lee finally stood up, but then he felt a sharp pain in his leg. Neji looked at Lee and could see him grabbing his leg, 'His time is up.' thought Neji. Sakura asked, "Gai-sensei, what happened?" Gai looked worried and said, "Despite Lee's speed when he takes off his weights there is a drawback. Since Lee is moving at a high speed his muscles are going through a lot of strain, so right now he pulled his leg muscles."
Lee was cursing under his breath about how he just needed a few more minutes. Gaara stood back up his sand armor falling sand slowly making its way to Lee who was limping away. The sand grabbed lee surrounding him "Sand Coffin!" said Gaara. Lee struggled trying to get free.
Gaara raised his open hand pointing the palm at Lee. Naruto thought 'I will not lose another comrade if I have the power to stop it but, I cant make it in time, what the fuck can I do' a little whisper said "make illusion reality, I will guide you, don't worry about getting hurt your blood will protect you from harm"
"Sand Burial!" the sand crushed Lee, Sakura turned away hiding her face in Naruto's chest. Naruto had his Mangekyou Sharingan activated and said Izanagi. Blood spurted from the the sand but it instantly disappeared, and Lee was slumped next to the wall right beside Naruto.
Gai and the rest of the Jounins bolted down there thinking they were too late, until they realized nothing was there which made Gai scream with rage but before he was going to attack, Kakashi said incredibly Gai Lee is right next to Naruto which shocked everyone. Everyone thought "how is that possible, we saw him get crushed, now hes next to Naruto just passed out"
Hayate announced after "since Rock Lee cannot continue Gaara wins"
The Sand retreated back into the gourd, Gaara then left the battle field with a crazed look, he wanted his enemy dead but he survived which made his blood boil.
"Alright and with that the Third test preliminaries are complete," said Hayate "can I get all the victors in a single file line in front of me?" After they did as they were asked, the Hokage addressed them.
"First off, congratulations for passing the first round," he said "The finals will be held in one month so use that time to train and learn new techniques, I wish you all the best of luck, you are dismissed.
Naruto turn to his team.
"We have one month," he said.
"You'll all be ready," said Kakashi "But it'll be a long road."
A week later
The Hokage told Naruto that they were going to destroy the Uchiha compound tomorrow and that he should head over there today to get anything he wanted to keep of Sasuke's. He also informed Naruto that he found Sasuke's will and it said that he left all his belongings and money to Naruto which made Naruto gaze down remembering his old friend trying not to cry which he let a few tears escape thinking Sasuke considered him a friend before he did. The third continued saying that since he was the last Uchiha that ment all the Uchiha's funds were Naruto's which was a lot of money.
Day After
Naruto headed over to Sasuke's house. Naruto brought along Sakura because he needed someone to walk him back home after he transplanted the eyes. He was thinking of Sasuke's warning on the way. 'If you ever need to light the darkness replace my eyes with my brothers. His eyes are held in my house hidden in the hidden room in the basement.' So just in case he would transplant it now so that would never happen. He also remembered the object of Sasuke's revenge that Naruto would complete for him in his memory.
Flashback
Naruto overheard an older villager one time say "I heard Uchiha Itachi gave his life to protect his brother when him and a man in a swirling orange mask killed off his clan and before they left the man in the mask went to kill Sasuke but Itachi gave his life to protect Sasuke."
No one ever figured out why Itachi would give his life for his brother because he helped slaughter his clan, but Sasuke wanted revenge on the Man in the mask because the man in the mask killed his clan and his brother who ended up saving him.
End Flashback
Naruto and Sakura arrived at the house at night because they didn't want to be spotted by a random villager. Both him and Sakura entered Sasuke's house which in all honesty even as his teammates they have never been inside before. They wandered in and found that everything had a lot of dust and cobwebs on it, which made them think of how they missed Sasuke. Naruto found the way to the basement. He and Sakura made their way down to find it completely empty. Naruto said "Sasuke said that there is a hidden room that held his brother's eyes. Sakura replied cautiously "I can't see anything because of the dark" Naruto replied "I can't either but maybe I can see it with the Sharingan activated" with that Naruto activated the Sharingan and saw the hidden lever that opened the door, He walked over and pulled it to see an empty room with a fridge inside. They walked in and opened the fridge and saw a jar with two eye balls preserved perfectly. Naruto said to Sakura "Im going to transplant the eyes now, this is what Sasuke wanted even though I don't know why, but we are still gonna keep his eyes preserved though" Sakura asked "why can't you just keep his eyes?" Naruto didn't want to tell Sakura this but said "Sakura, Sasuke said 'If you ever need to light the darkness replace my eyes with my brothers. His eyes are held in my house hidden in the hidden room in the basement'. "I think he was implying that I will go blind by using it unless I transplant his brothers eyes into me and to tell you the truth since I've been using his Sharingan I've felt my eyesight slightly decrease." She responded by saying "..okay"
Ten minutes later
Naruto was being escorted by Sakura back to his apartment his eyes wrapped in bandages. When they arrived about thirty minutes later Sakura let him in leading him towards the bedroom and when they got there she helped him get changed which made her face red, because she could not help but notice that he was packing. She led him to the bed and tucked him in saying she would be back because she needed to take a shower before she went to bed. Naruto could feel the power flowing into him, it felt amazing, like he could take on the world and he started silently laughing at the thought. He noticed Sakura enter the room, for some reason he could smell her, she had an very enticing perfume on. She slipped into the covers and she said to Naruto "Ive been thinking about this a lot lately and I found that I really love you Naruto" Naruto deadpanned, he had no idea what to say other than "..I..I.. I love you too Sakura" he could tell that she smiled. She then kissed him on the lips passionately but a little bit clumsy at first then she started to understand what to do. Naruto at first felt his mind freeze up, and he stiffened but he eventually started kissing back. They continued for awhile until Sakura said "I want you Naruto, but im not sure if it's the right time because of the bandages" Naruto replied after thinking about it "Sakura I love you, you love me. This is a perfect moment for us" with that they made love becoming one. (bit of a teaser huh lol)
Two weeks later
When Naruto removed his bandages that morning in the bathroom, he looked into the mirror and activated his Mangekyou Sharingan. What he saw surprised him it looked like a star shape melded with a tri shuriken shape. (Put Sasuke's plus Itachi's together)
He then set off in search of Kakashi to train.
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