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RegretChapter 4
"Now make those seals that I showed you Kit and push your chakra into your head." He watched as he saw his vessel preparing to perform the ancient jutsu. If the Kit didn't do everything just right then he may just find himself stuck in a world where he was no longer able to control his own body nor would he be able to communicate with others around him, he would float until his body decayed.
"Okay Kyu this better work." He slowly formed the seals that the demon had shown him, pushing a small amount of Chakra into his mind careful to keep the amount steady.
He felt the temperature drop and he was pulled forwards, he landed on his hands and knees gasping for air. A heaviness settled onto him, holding him where he was before he was able to stand. As the pressure lessened he slowly got to his feet and hesitantly took a few steps. He couldn't sense anything.
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He hated this silence. Not knowing if he had made it or not. With a heavy heart he decided to take the final leap.
"Yo! I'm Uzumaki Naruto; I'm the medic trying to heal you at the moment." When he received no reply he continued on, "What's you name? I never had the time to read the charts," he muttered under his breath the last part. Again silence awaited him. He turned from left to right trying to sense anything.
Where was he? Had he done the wrong thing? He thought back trying to remember each of the seals that he had performed. They had all been correct he had made sure to use the right amount of chakra as well, so what had gone wrong?
There was silence for a few more minutes, he could hear the faint breathing of a person behind him, then a sharp intake of breath. Someone was about to speak.
"My name is Kyo… why are you here? That other man was thrown out. So why are you here?" He turned to face the voice.
"Easy kid, I'm here to help you! Hang on a sec I wanna see what you look like." He paused sensing that he had to explain he rushed on; "Normally I'm blind but when I'm in a mindscape, like this one, I can normally see."
He reached up and untied his hitai-ate. Bright blue eyes stared into those of the red haired boy. The kid looked just like his mother, the image of a woman with red hair and emerald eyes holding a sharp blade that was dripping crimson blood flowed through his mind only to be roughly pushed away. He did not need to see that image again. He would not hold Kyo responsible for his mothers' actions.
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"Okay, Kyo-san to be able to heal you I will need to teach you an extremely dangerous jutsu. Before I can do that I need you to swear that you will never use this jutsu to harm a fellow Konoha nin. Will you give me your word?"
He watched the boy carefully.
Kyo stared at the ground, uncertain. His mother had always warned him about this man. "That 'person' will cause nothing but trouble for Konoha. Stay away from him Kyo-kun." He was also the only person who would be able to help him. He looked up at his new sensei.
"You have my word Naruto-sensei, I swear that I will never use the jutsu you are about to show me unless it is to protect my precious people or Konoha." The look of determination on the boys face brought a smile to his own. Kyo was very similar to how he had been.
"Great, now we can get started, to learn this jutsu there are three stages. Now in normal circumstances I would leave you to figure out how to complete these stages on your own, but that will not help us. So instead I am going to show you how I learnt the jutsu. I am going to show you my memories of when my sensei taught it to me."
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"Now Kyo-san, before we start I need you to understand the main principal of this jutsu." He briefly concentrated on his left hand.
Kyo let out a gasp, his sensei held a swirling ball of chakra in one hand. He had learnt about this technique. There were only three known users, one of which was the Yondaime Hokage who had created the technique; another was one of the legendary Sannin. The third; he was the least famous, his name was never mentioned, yet he was the one that the students had most looked up to it was said that he had gone from being the dead last at the academy to being the Sannins apprentice.
"Kyo-san this is the rasengan. The Yondaime Hokage's technique. It took him three years to master. You should be able to in at most a month." Kyo's mouth fell open.
"A MONTH!!! You seriously think that I can master THAT technique in a MONTH?!" he was answered with a sharp nod from his new sensei. A wry smile grew on his sensei's face.
"Kyo-san, I mastered the last phase of this technique in a week." The smile on his face grew.
Kyo's eyes widened even more with shock. This was the apprentice of Jiraiya the toad Sannin, he was also the enemy of Orochimaru the Snake Sannin and he had a mother son relationship with Tsunade the Godaime Hokage and slug Sannin. He was a teammate to both Sakura the Godaime's apprentice, Uchiha Sasuke a traitor to Konoha and the only survivor of the Uchiha clan massacre. His other teammate was Hatake Kakashi, the copy nin, said to have copied over a thousand jutsu.
Naruto laughed this was going to be fun.
A water balloon stand appeared beside Naruto. Kyo stared. Where had that come from?
Naruto reached over and held one of the filled water balloons in his hand. "Kyo watch what I do very carefully," The water balloon appeared to start moving, bumps appeared on the once smooth surface, suddenly the water balloon popped. "Now it's your turn. Move the water around on the inside. Oh before you start I want to show you something."
He started to crate hand signs, careful to circulate the right amount of chakra. Without a word spoken, the two nin watched as the image of a younger Naruto and a tall white haired man appeared before them.
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"Ero-Sennin! I did it! I did it! I know what I was doing wrong." The older of the two turned to face the blonde.
"Before you tell me what you did, show me." Naruto stood before him a blue water balloon with yellow spots in his right hand.
The balloon started to stretch at the sides; the blonde moved his left hand to hover over the balloon and started to gently tap around it pushing chakra into the balloon. After a few seconds the balloon burst.
Jiraiya started to laugh, "You did it kid! But before we move on to the next exercise you should practice using only one hand, it'll help in the long run, so tell me what did you do?" The blonde boy smiled up at the older man.
"Well actually it wasn't me. You know that cat at the hotel where we are staying? Well it followed me to training. I dropped one of the balloons and it started playing with it. When I heard the balloon pop I thought that it had put a claw into it. That made me think of making the water on the inside spike out all at once to pop the balloon. I tried it and it worked! I found out though that it's a lot easier when I use my other hand to push the chakra."
"Well done kid, let's see what you can do with only one hand first, then I'll let you go on to the next exercise." Naruto ran to get another water balloon; he tripped over on a root that was jutting out. This only made Jiraiya laugh.
"SHUT-UP! I'd love to see you try to learn a highly advanced jutsu and still be able to sense everything around you!" Naruto stood back up and walked over to the bag of water balloons lifting one up a fox-like grin enveloped his face oh how Jiraiya would pay later, there were after all plenty of water balloons left. Jiraiya didn't seem to notice the foxy grin that was directed towards him. After walking back to Jiraiya Naruto performed the technique again this time only using one hand.
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"Alright Kyo now it's your turn." He threw a balloon at Kyo who caught it in his right hand.
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"Well done! Kyo-kun, that was very good." A week had passed. A week in which Kyo had stubbornly attacked the water balloons with chakra. A week and he had finally managed to make the balloon burst.
And he had managed to burst it right over both of their dinners. Naruto's eye twitched. Kyo had managed to put out the fire destroy their cooking dinner and splash both of them with water. With the ONE water balloon. Kyo burst into laughter. Naruto glared at the wet and soggy food before him. Why did they have to have chosen a meal that consisted of bread and what was meant to have been dried meat.
Although they were in a mindscape Naruto still preferred to cook his own food. When he had first been blinded he had had to rely on others to cook for him. After a few missions with Jiraiya he had learnt to cook quite quickly. Jiraiya may have been a great shinobi but he was a terrible chef.
He sighed, "dinner may be a bit longer now, I think we should have something else. What's your favourite meal? We should celebrate."
"My favourite food is sushi. Thankyou sensei! I can't wait, sushi is the best!" Naruto sighed again. He hated how similar he was to this young boy. A young boy whose mother tried to kill him, managed to blind him, tortured him for countless days… But that had nothing to do with Kyo. He knew that Kyo was not responsible for his suffering.
"Alright sushi it is. Kyo-kun what would you like in yours?" Sushi at least was simple enough to make.
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"Alright Kyo-kun you are ready for the next exercise. This one is a fair bit harder than the first and may take you longer." He held up another ball, Kyo groaned in response. He concentrated on the ball in his hand and it burst. Kyo watched carefully. "This time you don't need to see how I figured out how to do it. Come here for a minute I need to see what type of chakra user you are."
Kyo walked forward and Naruto saw that Kyo was a right-spiralled chakra user. The same as he was. "All right Kyo-kun, what I need you to do is burst the ball, this is the only hint that my sensei gave me." He asked Kyo to hold out his right hand, he then drew the leaf symbol onto his palm. "This is to help you concentrate. Believe me it helps. Another thing you have a right-spiralled chakra just keep that in mind." At Kyo's look of confusion he explained.
"A person's chakra spirals around a person's body. For this jutsu to completely work you have to follow the way that your spiral works in both of our cases that means in a clockwise direction."
"How do you know whether a person is left or right?" Naruto laughed.
"By the way their hair grows. See my hair has a spin in it that goes towards the right, yours does too. All right now it's time for you to have a go. Oh, yeah, this takes up a lot more chakra than the first exercise, tell me when your arms are aching and your hands start shaking. I failed to mention that to my sensei and I payed for it, my arms ached for ages afterwards." He threw a ball to Kyo; it was bright red.
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He watched as Kyo started to concentrate on the ball in his hand, he smiled. Kyo was just as determined as he had been, three days had passed and he had hardly stopped to rest.
For the last week and a half here it had been peaceful he had been able to train for as long as he wanted, his medical expertise had helped too when Kyo had started to feel pain in his arms. Although it was peaceful he was beginning to wonder what was happening around his body, he hoped that whoever was in charge of caring for his and Kyo's bodies was being careful.
He felt a twinge of pain in his cheek as if someone had punched him. It did not hurt overly much but he was sure that a bruise would form. But that did not worry him it was the fact that someone was attacking him. And he had no way of protecting his body.
He gasped and fell over as a searing pain reached his side like a burn, his student turned to yell in triumph, he had just managed to make the ball pop on one side the air releasing. The grin on his students face vanished quickly when he noticed that his sensei was injured.
"Naruto-Sensei! You're bleeding! What's happening?"He knelt down next to Naruto not knowing what to do, he was no medic nin.
"Kyo-kun, I need you to wrap any of my injuries that you can. I also need you to stay calm. I need you to be able to keep training."
I need to find out who is attacking me but I can't leave here, if I do he'll die, but if I don't we might both die. He looked at his student watching as the young boy quickly ran to a pile of bandages that had appeared, standing up he noticed the searing pain on his cheeks, touching his face he noticed that there were three cuts on each of his cheeks. Each cut covered one of his whisker marks.
He had received wounds like these twice before and the last time had nearly ended with his death, if Iruka had not found him then… He once more looked at the boy before him in his place though was a woman; she held a kunai in her hand.
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End chapter three
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