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TEACHER VI
Super speed, it was called that because of the way you moved, because you moved faster than the eye could follow and naruto uzumaki had reached that level of speed, he had mastered it and yet it was not enough, he could not keep up with the way Vegeta moved. They had been sparing for what seem like days now, an on going battle to see just how much naruto had improved on his skills as a fighter. From the sidelines goku watched and frowned, he was not impressed, the kid had managed to impress all of his friend but so far he had yet to reach that level, his or vegeta is speed and strength, something was slowing him down.
"What's the matter kid? Can't keep up?"
Naruto clenched his teeth in anger; there was no way this was possible his speed his strength it was to much, his eyes could barely keep up with the prince is movements so how the hell did he expect him to counter his blows. It was impossible.
"I can't"
Goku frowned and vegeta laughed aloud, this was kakarot is protégée? How could that be? The kid gave up way to easy, hearing the man is laughter goku frowned and appeared beside naruto.
"Why?"
Naruto looked up at him but he quickly turned away from his sensei is gaze, he couldn't face him, could not face the fact that he was letting him down, that he was letting himself down.
"I……"
"Don't hold back"
"W-what?"
"Use it naruto"
The blond turned towards goku and frowned, there was no way he was telling him to actually use his other chakra, they didn't even know what would happen.
"What's the matter runt? Bit more than you could chew?"
Naruto looked at vegeta and saw the man smirk, he knew that it was only the prince is way of encouraging him but it was annoying as hell, he was not from this world how could he expect him to achieve there strength? How could they expect so much of him?
"Don't count him out yet vegeta, he landed a solid punch on gohan"
"If the runt can land a solid punch on me then I will personally train the brat along side you"
Naruto looked at the prince of all sayains and then at goku, he could see the smile on the man is face, goku knelt before him and placed a hand on naruto is shoulder. His eyes fixed on goku and the man just nodded.
"Let it all go"
Goku vanished and naruto closed his eyes, could he do such a thing? He had never in his life let his emotions get the better of him, ever since he could remember he had been holding every thing back, his pain, his sorrow, every thing was always held back.
"What's the matter? Are you going to cry?"
Cry? He had not cried since he was a 3 years old, he remembered how the villagers laughed at his pain, how they smiled when they saw him shed his tears.
"Don't be pathetic and fight me"
He was weak, he had not been able to understand, he had cried when he felt pain or when he felt sad and all they ever did was laugh at him.
"BE A WARRIOR AND FIGHT!"
Vegeta is yelling made naruto flinched, they always yelled at him; they always looked at him as if he was nothing.
"I…I…"
"You are nothing"
Vegeta turned around and began to walk away from naruto, the blond is body froze, he was some one, he was going to be a shinobi and then he would become hokage and there was no one who would stand in his way, no one was going to block his path to being somebody.
"I AM SOMEBODY!"
SHAKKOOOOMMM
The explosion shock the whole area and a bright flash of red darkened the sky, vegeta turned around and saw the boy is blood red eyes glaring at him, but what surprised him the most was the pain he saw behind those eyes, the pain of being weak.
"W-what is this?"
The blond boy was covered in red energy, he frowned when he felt the blood lust emanating from it, the ki was different than the boy is original one, and it was alive.
"I AM SOMEBODY!"
With a flash of speed, naruto vanished and appeared inches away from the sayain prince, vegeta grunted and barely managed to dodge the first punch, but then they kept coming, one after another. Naruto felt his whole body burning with anger, all he wanted to do was make him take his words back, all he wanted to do was prove that he was somebody that he was not a loser that he could become something more. Vegeta frowned when he felt the shift once more, he was to his left now and was throwing a right hook followed by an upper cut and a series of kicks, the speed had doubled in mere seconds.
The prince smirked and shock his head the kid was increasing his speed and power by leaps and bounds, every second he fought he had to increase his own speed and block or dodge the attacks the child was throwing him, he smiled remembering trunks; his son was just about the kid is level when he turned super sayain. Then it happened, he had been too deep in thought that he had dodged the right punch but he had failed to see the left kick and it had connected.
The prince of all sayains had been kicked in the head and had been sent crashing into a near by mountain, naruto stopped and looked at his hands, they had grown into claws his body felt like it was on fire but he had made it, he had managed to connect with a direct hit.
"Bravo naruto, you did it"
Naruto turned around and with out thinking unleashed a punch towards goku, his sensei simply held out his finger and stopped the punch, the energy naruto had unleashed grew smaller and soon it all but vanished, goku smiled and patted the boy on the head he had finally reached a level beyond human.
"I….i don't know w-why I"
"Don't worry about it"
Goku smiled and then frowned when he felt vegeta is ki explode from behind naruto, the mountain turned rubble exploded and in the center stood a very happy super vegeta. Naruto turned towards the man and shock his head in disbelief; he had just crashed into a mountain and yet he was standing and walking towards them as if nothing had happened.
"Ok brat, you will now be training under me and you will become the greatest human warrior alive"
"W-what?"
"That's right kid; you think kakarot is hard on you? You think piccolo is tough. Just wait till I get trough with you"
"B-but I had I thought I had"
Vegeta smirked, a few sparring lessons and the brat thought that he had been training him not very bright but then again neither was kakarot and he was a by far the strongest being alive, so the kid was not all that different, goku smirked and patted vegeta on the shoulder.
"Just don't kill him"
"I won't"
"But I thought"
Naruto frowned and wanted to puke, hadn't all those sessions with vegeta been training? He looked at the two men and frowned.
"Don't worry naruto those were just sparring matched to help you in increase your body is resistance to punishment"
"Right"
The blond child just frowned and fainted on the spot.
TEACHER VI
"BROKEN"
"Who are you?"
They spoke at the same time and neither could answer the question, how could they when they themselves did not known the answer to it, naruto shock his head and looked away, once there little staring match was over there little daze spell seem to end and naruto finally found his voice.
"I am a shinobi"
Haku nodded to herself, she knew that but she also knew that he was doing this for her sake as much as for his own; they had found something in each other that was both frightening and exiting at the same time.
"Oh? Are you training?"
Naruto smile and nodded but still avoided the girl is eyes as she did his, there was no point in them staring at each other and wondering of what ifs when nothing could be done about there situation. They were both ninja they knew the rules and what the stakes were so there was no point in dwelling and wasting more time on something that could never be, so she would finished her mission and he would do what needed to be done because that was the path that they had chosen and both of them knew this.
"I was, until you arrived"
She smiled but continued to look at the ground not noticing that he was looking at the sky above.
"Oh don't mind me, I am just collecting herbs"
Naruto turned to stared down at her and smiled when he saw her holding a basket, it seem that zabusa had suffered some damage since she was looking for something to help him recover quicker.
"Are you hurt?"
She shock her head and smiled, this conversation seem so natural and with out pretence that she had second thoughts about continuing the lie, but despite herself she could not hold back her tongue or the words that slipped out of her mouth.
"It is not for me"
Naruto smiled and knelt down, he knew whom the medicine was from and he wouldn't mind helping her find the right plants if it meant spending more time with her.
"Is this the plant you want?"
Haku turned towards him and smiled, she kneels down beside him and shakes her head in the negative. Her brain was screaming at her to stop what she was doing to pull away from this before she got in too deep but she couldn't help herself, she knew that despite knowing what her mission was and knowing what she had to do she found herself engaging the boy in conversation and being friendly to him.
"This plant is medicine?"
"That is a weed, but thank you for helping out"
Naruto looked at the plant in his hand and smiles while scratching the back of his head, haku shock her head and smiled at the boy, all the while naruto began too blush and closed his eyes. He was acting like such a fool and yet she was not making fun of him or teasing him or to a more extreme hitting, as sakura would. She was just looking at him with a warm and inviting smile, a smile that he could not look away from.
"No problem, I mean you are working really early so this person must be pretty special too you"
She frowned and looked away, how could she describe what she felt for the man that had given her all and show her what it meant to live? She couldn't not with out revealing a painful part of her past, a part she didn't feel comfortable revealing to this boy she had just meet, not when she was supposed to be gathering information from him not getting to known him better. So she simply smiled and nodded, she had to divert the conversation away from the subject of zabusa or she would divulge more than she wanted too.
"So why are you training? You seem pretty strong to me"
Changing the subject so suddenly might seem suspicious but she had no choice she couldn't talk about zabusa, naruto saw the discomfort on the girl is face and closed his eyes. He couldn't expect her to just open up to him about personal matters, not when she hardly knew him and was probably just here to gather information from him or kill him.
"I want to become stronger"
Haku could see the far away look on naruto is face, a look that she knew all to well, despite his outward behavior the boy was a conflicting mass of sorrow and loneliness, constantly being tortured by memories of his childhood and the desire to not be alone any more. She had been once been like him trying to find a reason to live, wanting to give up and just end it.
"Why is that?"
When the question was asked she wanted to take it back, she knew she had no right to ask any thing of him but his eyes told her that he was glad to try and answer her, despite knowing who she was and why she was here he seem to not mind her at all. Glancing away from him, she realized just how desperate he was for some one to notice him, to just talk to him.
"To survive"
He had no one, she realized and she wondered what it was like, to live for so long and have no one, to be all alone. She glanced at him and saw the far away look on his face, she knew the look all too well, she had worn it a long time ago a time before zabusa, a hollow mask to hide the pain and the fear. The mask was a painful reminder of her past and of what she had once endured; this boy was like a living memory.
"You do have some one who is important to you?"
He smiled a cold and dead smiled and turned towards her with such hollow eyes that brought memories of a time best forgotten.
"I don't really have any one….."
"Oh"
Haku frowned when he saw the look on the boy is face, he had stood up from his crouching position and moved a few feet away from her, even now, he was shielding whom he truly was and keeping his walls up. She should drop the subject and just let it go but she could not, so she followed and stepped right along side him and she tried to glance at his face but he was facing downwards and his face was being hidden by the shadows.
The only thing that glimmered how ever was a tear that fell from the shadows, naruto lifted his hand to his face and rubbed his eyes, he couldn't be doing this not when she was here when he knew what was at stake.
"It's ok"
She placed her hand on his shoulder and was surprised by his reaction, not only did he pull away from it but he had flinched by the touch almost as if it had hurt him.
"I have to go"
"Wait"
But he didn't, he just blinked out of her sight and despite her eyes scanning the area and searching for any sing of him she was un able to find any trace of his presence. She took in a deep breath and shock her head, the situation was getting far to complicated for her own good, it had taken her only a moment to realize that she had grown attached to the boy. Unfortunately, she had ignored her instincts to run away and had stayed to figure out the boy only to find herself more intrigued by him.
"You sure this is were it came from?"
Haku frowned when she heard the voice of the dark haired boy, it seem that the copycat had felt the massive pulse of chakra that naruto had created and decided to investigate. Jumping away from the clearing she hides herself on a near by tree and decided to see what naruto is team was like, and why he said he had no one. As team, kakashi entered the clearing she smiled when she saw that it was only the black hair kid with the jounin, it seems the pink hair girl was not with them.
"Positive that chakra, I couldn't of mistaken it"
"Huh?"
Sasuke looked at kakashi and raised an eye brow the way kakashi was speaking was worrying him, the man was not the serious type, even in training he was usually relax and would crack stupid jokes but this time it was different, something had spooked the man.
"Nothing, just remember what I told you"
The uchiha nodded.
"Stay away from naruto, right I got it that how ever still leaves sakura"
Kakashi nodded in understanding, despite his warning to the girl, he knew that she would not listen, the girl disliked naruto to no end but she felt loyal to him because he had saved them and they were on the same team. The copycat felt like trash for the way he was acting but the last thing he wanted to do was have the deaths of his first students hanging over his head, he had too many deaths in his conscience already he didn't need to add two more.
"Sakura barely tolerates him, she will come around eventually"
What Kakashi didn't tell the last uchiha was the fact that the pink hair girl would never jeopardize her chances at being with sasuke by siding with naruto, her fear of pushing sasuke away would eventually win over.
"Right, so what's next on our training?"
"You have to reach the top of the three first sasuke"
Kakashi smiled and the boy glared at him while walking away leaving kakashi behind, the copycat looked at the area and frowned, he didn't need any more proof that he was doing the right thing, the chakra pulse he had felt belonged to the fox demon. There was no mistaking it and that only meant that whatever strength naruto had gotten from the fox it was getting out of hand or else naruto wouldn't need to expel such a massive amount of power when not in a fight.
Kakashi turned away from the area following sasuke his mind made up, he had decided to talk to the hokage once back in konoha, if the fox was getting lose then his team was not the only one in danger. Even if naruto was not the demon there was no telling what the demon had done to him to make him be able to take on a jounin of zabusa is level and survived. On the tree tops haku frowned and glared at the silver haired man, the way he spoke of naruto reminded her all to well about the treatment she had gotten when she lived in the alleys of the village hidden in the mist.
Now she understood what naruto had said, if the boy is own teacher feared him what would his village life be like? Shaking her head, she tries to fend of the memories of the past and of her time in her own personal hellhole. the blond she had just meet was in his own hell right now and had no one to save him, she had escaped that life but she had zabusa the blond had no one, no real connection with any one. There was no way he could understand what true strength was, that is why he kept training, why he fought; he was searching for his answer.
Rushing away from the forest clearing, she arrives at her temporary home and enters the small shelter; putting her herbs away, she goes into the bedroom and smiles at the sight of zabusa struggling to crush an apple with his hand. He has been doing that stupid exercise ever since his fight with kakashi. She smiles more when the apple finally gives in and is crushed by the man is brute strength.
"You're almost all better"
Haku is voice brought zabusa out of his thoughts. He smiled when he saw haku coming trough outside door, it seem that she had finished gathering her herbs and had missed gatou is little threat, he knew how haku dislike the little bastard and if she had witness there little chat she would have no doubt taken action and either broken the man is arm or kill him. Still she couldn't let her know what the man had done, she was already worried enough as it was, and now with the little incident that had just occurred he was beginning to think that she had been right. The man was not to be trusted, but they were already in to deep and beside that, he would not let that little blond brat get away with making a fool out of him.
"We should get going soon, what have you found out?"
Zabusa sat up on the bed and glanced at haku and haku froze, she had failed at her mission and that was unacceptable, for the first time since she had started working with zabusa she didn't know what to say to him. The blond had been to distracting, he had keep of off guard and had even managed to lower her defenses; she closed her eyes and looked at the ground. Zabusa is eyes widen. She had failed him! His eyes glared at the girl and his body let out enough killer intent to make her fall to her knees, he growled out lout and cursed at her.
"You failed?!"
"I'm sorry zabusa-sama"
"Sorry isn't good enough; your worthless…don't fail me again"
Haku nodded and left the room, she could still feel the man is killer intent filling the room, shaking her dead she promises herself that next time it will be different, next time she will not fail.
xxxxxx(4 days later)xxxxxx
Sakura looked at the bridge builder and smiled. The old man might be a drunk but he sure knew his craft, the work was coming along nicely and there was no sing of zabusa or that mask ninja, still she just wished that sasuke were here with her; unfortunately, he had to finish his training with kakashi. after the way he had failed to clime the tree there was no way he would be doing any thing else but training . The girl could still remember the small glare sasuke had sent her way when she had climbed all the way to the top of the tree, instead of praising her; he was angry at her success and as discomforting as his glared had been it also had made her doubt herself.
The way he had acted made her think long and hard about why she was a ninja, when she had first entered the ninja academy her parents had been somewhat disappointed but had supported her all the way, in all the years her family had lived in the village no haruno had ever been a ninja. She was the first and she had set her sight at being the best, for sasuke? Every thing had been about that boy, ever since before the ninja academy when ino had spoken about how he had survived the massacre of his family and of how he would be her boyfriend.
At first sakura had just dismissed ino is obsession with the last uchiha and like a good friend she had supported the girl in her crush, that was until the little incident and there fight, when they had become rivals and had sought out the attention of the uchiha. Ever since then her sole focus had been to be noticed by sasuke and in order for that to happen she had to excel at being a good ninja, or at least that is what she thought. The way sasuke had acted just now when training had place a dark seed in her mind and heart, if he would not noticed her for being a good ninja then what else could she do?
"You ok girl?"
Tazuna had seen the girl staring out at the ocean for a while now, it seem that she was worried about something but not about an attack or about guarding him, she seem preoccupied with something else entirely.
"Y-yes I was just wondering were the others were"
"Really? I thought you might be thinking about that dark haired kid"
The blush he received in return confirmed what he had been thinking all along, the way the girl praised the dark haired kid was a clear indication at what she felt towards him, he smiled when he thought about the blond loud mouth, poor kid would be crushed when he found out that the pink hair was out of reach.
"W-why do you say that?"
"You have the same eyes my daughter had when she meet inari is father"
Sakura turned away from him and shock her head; she couldn't be that obvious, could she? Then again if tazuna had noticed and he was a drunk then that meant that kakashi and sasuke knew of her feelings as well. Tazuna saw the way the girl is mood changed from embarrassed to full-blown depression, it seems that his words had only served to worsen the situation.
"Am I really that obvious?"
The man smiled and scratched the back of his head, what could he say? He had already opened his mouth once and had only served to make the situation a lot worse, now she was asking him something that could get him in over his head, the girl was a classic case of teenagers that were in love. Infatuated with the good-looking smart and cool looking guy. A guy who would probably dump you when something else got his interest all the while ignoring the nice guy. Oh, he had seen this many time during the course of his life but now he was in a position to do something about it.
The girl was a nice enough kid and she was risking her life trying to protect him so a little bit of guidance from his part was the least he could do, sitting down beside her he smiled and took a deep breath, it had been a while since he had a father daughter talk.
"You are"
"Oh god"
As expected the girl was mortified and he just chuckled, no matter what country or place teenagers were alike, here was a pretty smart and beautiful girl that went to pieces as soon as she found out that the boy she liked knew how she felt and had done nothing to show her that he liked her too.
"Saying that here is a piece of advice, let him go and move on"
Sakura snapped out of her self-loathing and stared at the old man with an incredulous look, she understood why he had said it, and after all, he didn't known that she and sasuke were meant to be together so she would let it slide for now.
"I"
"I known what you think"
He interrupted her because he knew what was coming, every one defended there position when they thought they were right but for a love sick teenager to tell him or she that they were wrong was like brining there whole world down, like ripping there hearts out of there chest and squashing it. Sakura for the most part just stared at the old man and saw that he was not drunk like she had originally believed, he was sober and his face held a seriousness that reminded her of her father and mother back home.
"But your are wrong, if it was obvious for me to noticed you like the brat then he knows how you feel as well, but has he ever made any indication that he might like you?"
Sakura stayed silent giving tazuna his answer, more than that it revealed that the boy had never once noticed the girl, never once gave her any indication that he might like her or that he noticed her for that matter. Taking a deep breath he prepared for what he was about to say next and hoped that the girl didn't take it to hard.
"Does he even notice you?"
Sakura looked down ant shock her head, tears were already falling from her face and tazusa took a deep breath, this was as heart breaking now as it had been when he had told his daughter the same thing. He just hoped that this girl listened and didn't end up or go trough all the hardships his own daughter went trough. As for sakura the girl just sobbed and rubbed her eyes in anger, sasuke didn't noticed her he dislike her, he thought of her as annoying when they had first gotten together as a team and just now in the forest he had glared at her for exceeding in her training.
"N-no…."
With those words she rushed away from the bridge forgetting her duties, tazuna wanted to shout at her and tell her to stop but he knew that the girl needed time alone, turning towards his workers he cursed when he saw them staring at the girl. She was supposed to be there protection after all and now she was running away from the bridge they had a right to be concern, standing up he walks towards them and smiles.
"Today we finished early guys!"
They nodded and left the bridge, all of then ran and tazuna shock his head the fear they all held would end just as soon as his bridge was build, slowly he packed his stuff and headed home; he only glanced back at the area were sakura had ran and wondered if she would be all right. Arriving on his house he was confronted by a very angry blond, it seem that an enemy shinobi was running around and sakura was not the fighter type, he cursed and told the kid what had happened
"After that I don't know were she ran off too"
Naruto shock his head and took a deep breath, the last thing he needed was a missing sakura. Opening his senses, he found sakura on the outskirts of town luckily; she was alone.
"I'll be back later"
Tazuna was about to tell him to stop when the kid just vanished, he turned towards his daughter who had come in to check on his and saw the look of surprised on her face; he smiled and just shock his head.
"Don't ask me they're ninjas"
In the forest, naruto appeared in a three and saw the pink hair girl crying, what ever had happened in the bridge had her riled so he didn't need to startle her any more than he had to. Jumping downwards, he managed to get her attention and a kunai thrown his way, sakura gasped a second latter realizing what she had done, but her surprised was unwarranted as naruto simply reached out and grasped the kunai by the handle. The girl was now staring wide eyed at the blond; all the while naruto simply smirked back.
"You know that could have hurt"
"H-how did you?"
"Lots and lots of training"
She saw the look on his eyes and the concern hidden behind them, despite every thing that kakashi and sasuke had said she couldn't believe that naruto would ever turn on them, that he was dangerous, after all what kind of betrayer or dangerous person would offer to help them train, to get them stronger. Naruto could not be what the others thought of him.
"Naruto why are they afraid of you?"
The question caught him off guard and he simply smiled, there was no telling were that question had come from but he knew that there was no way he could answer her question.
"I don't know, but I came to see how you were doing"
Despite already knowing what had happened, he was not going to let her known that, he remembered reading some were that girls were particularly moody and emotional when it came to personal matters, so it was better to let her open up on her own ratter than tell her that he already knew every thing.
"W-what? There is nothing wrong with me"
"Your eyes are red and puffy"
He knew she would deny every thing, but he still had to try, she might not be a friend but she was his teammate after all.
"That doesn't mean any thing!"
"Sakura, come on what's wrong?"
She had been in the forest for a while and in all that, time there was only one thing in her mind, sasuke. The boy who had been the cause of all the chaos on her mind, on one hand she could simply try harder to get him to notice her, on the other one she could just give up on sasuke and focus on being a good ninja. Then there was naruto, she was divided between being loyal to him or sticking to the warning her teacher and team mated had given her, adverting her gaze away from him the pink hair ninja took a deep breath and shock her head.
"We are supposed to be a team but every thing kakashi said was a lie, they don't trust you and I am only here because of sasuke"
"W-what?"
"I don't know what I will do, but in the mean time I can't stop fighting, I can't let go of sasuke not now"
Naruto smirked and shock his head, he understood were she was coming from and couldn't blame her for making her choice, sasuke was her every thing after all. Deciding to keep quiet on what he knew he decided it was better to let her deal with this on her own.
"All right"
Sakura looked up at him and took a deep breath, it seem that naruto was not as thick headed as he appeared to be, taking a deep breath she tried to reassure herself that what she had done was the right thing, but she couldn't convince herself of that fact. As for naruto he simply smiled at her and nodded, he couldn't very well expect her to just give up on the boy whom she had spend almost half of her life chasing after. This did surprised the girl and naruto smiled, it seem that every one who knew him had actually bought his little act.
"You are not mad?"
"No, but from now on try to use weights when training"
"W-what?"
"I don't want my team mates to be weak"
With that he vanished and sakura just gawked at the place were he had been standing, his voice had changed from understanding to cold and distant in a matter of seconds, naruto was helping her even now, giving her a tip about her training and pushing her away. This was his way of dealing with loss and making things a lot easier on her. Now how ever she had to stick to her decision and not give up on sasuke and all the while becoming a strong ninja.
Naruto re-appeared on tazuna is house looked at the roof in the house and took a deep breath; he had been doing that a lot lately, ever since the conversation he had with haku. For some reason it refused to leave his mind, it had already been four days and it was still repeating itself over and over in his mind. For a moment, he had forgotten that she was an enemy, she was unlike any one he had ever met before, she was some one like him. She could understand him if only, if only she were not an enemy then. The blond took a deep breath and shock his head, there was no point in thinking of what ifs, he knew what he had to do, she was an enemy ninja they would meet in battle and one of them was going to die.
"Shouldn't you be training?"
Turning around naruto spotted inari, tazuna is grandson looking at him with pure anger and annoyance on his face, cursing mentally for dropping his guard he just smiled at the boy.
"I'm pretty strong, don't need to train"
Inari looked at him and frowned, his dad was strong and that had not helped him he had died and for what? For nothing naruto looking at the kid saw his doubt and the glared, he was filled with despair and nothing naruto said was going to change his point of view. Therefore, it was with no surprised that the boy is answer to naruto is words came with tears and a voice filled with anger.
"Why do you guys bother to try so hard?! No matter how hard you train, you're still no match for gatou's men!! No matter what glorious claims you make or how hard you work. When facing the truly strong, the weak will only end up getting killed"
"Say what you will, I am not like you"
"I HATE TO BE ANY THING LIKE YOU! You know nothing of this country, yet you are being so nosy! What the hell do you know about me?! You don't known how hard life can be!"
"Then cry all day and do nothing, cry for ever and be a coward"
"NARUTO YOU SAID ENOUGH!!"
Naruto turned towards the door way that lead into the small room and glared at the figure of kakashi, naruto grunted and shock his head, no need to stick around and try to talk to the copy nin, he couldn't deal with another confrontation this day. Kakashi shivered when he felt naruto brush past him and shock his head, the boy was angry and he had felt the anger coming from him as he left, turning towards inari he saw the tears and took a deep breath, the kid was not frightened but angry at the fact that they would not listen to him.
"You ok?"
"Why don't you just leave?"
"We are ninja and as such we have a duty to perform, to abandon your duty is not courageous, below the courageous there is nothing. Those are the previous hokage is words, we are strong just like your father was"
Kakashi left and inari fell to the floor sobbing, these ninjas believed that his father was strong and they were willing to risk every thing to help them, they were willing to die just for a chance to save them. He shock his head and wiped the tears away from his eyes, he remembered naruto is words and took a deep breath, how long was he going to cry and be weak? For how long will he cower in fear and be haunted by the memories of his father is death? No more, he was tired of it and he was going to do something about it.
As per naruto he found an exhausted sasuke in the hallway and smirked, it seems kakashi was giving them special training, sasuke looked at naruto and quickly glanced away. There was no way he was going to allow himself to think of naruto as some one that could help him achieve his goal, closing his eyes the last uchiha forced himself to remember kakashi is warning and remember the betrayal of his brother.
"You been training, but if you did it with weights on imagine the results"
Sasuke is eyes snapped opened and turned to look at the blond, who just passed him and kept walking towards the staircases that lead to the first floor, all the while the uchiha is gaze was fixed on the boy. Kakashi had claimed that he would betray them, but here was naruto giving him pointers on his training on how to improve and now thinking about the blond is words sasuke realized that he was right, if he put weights on while climbing then he could become stronger, shaking his head he wondered why kakashi hadn't thought of it first.
Naruto hadn't even known of there training regimen and yet with out knowing he had told him how to make his work out more effective, sasuke clenched his fist and wondered why he had not thought about it, or for that matter how the hell naruto had thought of it. As far as he knew, the blond had been one of the worst students the academy had ever passed and now here he was giving him pointers on his training methods. He was an uchiha for god sake, he had graduated the top of his class and now he was getting pointers from a dead last, it couldn't be possible but something told him that naruto knew more about training and fighting than he let on.
As the day drew to a close naruto stepped out of the house and looked at the fading sun, it had been five days since they had fought zabusa, which meant that as soon as morning came both haku and zabusa were going to be at the bridge waiting for them. The chances were that they were going to the bridge earlier to prepare an ambush, which would lead to a confrontation between innocent workers; he needed to get there first and wait for them to show up.
When dawn came the two mercenaries looked at the deserted bridge and the blond standing in the middle of it, he smiled and waved at the two. He had been right the two had arrived early which meant that they were in fact preparing an ambush. When zabusa saw the blond he immediately went into alert, if the little genin was here then kakashi had to be some were near.
"Relax, they are just heading this way"
The chakra signatures were still a few minutes away, which might give him enough time to separate to take both of the two mercenaries down with out taking there lives.
"What?"
"I knew that you might pull a stunt like this, and in doing so you would have injured or killed innocent workers, so I came to prevent it"
Haku is glance was fixed on the blond boy, he was so serene and calm that was unlike any ninja that she had ever face, it was as if he was sure he would win this fight.
"So you are a fool after all"
Naruto smiled but as soon as it had appeared it vanished and his face turned serious, there were two chakra signatures on tazuna is house, which meant that they had sent some one after tazuna is family, cursing for not thinking of it earlier his gaze turned into a glare.
"So you also sent people after tazuna is family, clever"
"What are you talking about brat?"
Zabusa looked at the blond with a glare and naruto shock his head, he had no time for games, the two chakra signatures were chunin level and the only other chakra signatures that were on the house were those of inari and tazuna is daughter, kakashi had left no one behind.
"I'll be back in a bit"
With that naruto vanished and zabusa frowned, the kid was ready to start fighting and then all of a sudden he changed his mind, something big must of happened.
"Do you think gato?"
"I don't care, let's get ready for kakashi and his team"
"Yes"
When kakashi arrived he immediately saw the mist and frowned, it seem that the day had finally arrived, the mist was infused with chakra and it was much thicker than regular mist, sasuke noticed the way kakashi is hand twitched and immediately instructed sakura to stand in a defensive position guarding tazuna.
"Here they come!"
Kakashi is shout made sakura flinch, the last time they had battle the two enemy ninja kakashi had been taken out and they had to depend on naruto to save them, now with the blond having vanished all they had was a recuperated kakashi and a trained sasuke.
"Kakashi sensei this is hidden mist jutsu right?"
"Long time no see kakashi"
The disembodied voice made sakura shiver and sasuke began to tremble, within the mist zabusa just smirked and shock his head, kakashi is team was pathetic, both of the genin were trembling and the blond had run away.
"I see you're still with those brats, poor kids they are shaking"
Sasuke clenched his kunai a bit harder and smirked when zabusa is water clones appeared.
"I'm shaking from excitement"
"Do it sasuke!"
Sasuke jumped away from the defensive formation and jumped towards the clones, each one of them fell in a matter of minutes, sakura gasped in surprised and kakashi smirked. Sasuke on the other hand just resume his position and glared at the two figures that came out of the mist.
"You can't fool me"
The arrogant voice made zabusa smirk, the brat still thought he could defeat them, haku just glanced at the dark haired boy and frowned behind her mask, the boy is arrogance was annoying.
"He saw through the water clones, the brat had grown. It looks like a rival has appeared eh haku"
"Indeed it does"
WITH NARUTO
He arrived just in time to see the two chunins breaking trough the front door, he was about to rush towards them when something surprised him, inari is voice was coming from inside and what was most surprising was that the boy was actually threatening the two armed men. He smiled and rushed inside just in time to take both the boy and the mother up to the second floor of the house.
"Hey there"
Inari looked at the blond and took a step back; naruto placed his mother on the ground and smiled at the kid.
"So you decided to stop crying?"
Inari wiped the tears away from his eyes and nodded, he did not want to appear weak, not to this blond who had called him a coward. He straightened up and nodded.
"I-I couldn't I w-wanted to…."
"Being strong doesn't mean you have to fight"
"W-what?!"
"You just need to stand up to bullies and show them that you are not willing to back down"
The boy smiled and began to cry while naruto vanished and appeared on the first floor. The two chunins looked at the blond and smirked, this was easier than gato had said.
"So boy lets make this quick"
(((((((((((((((((THE BRIDGE)))))))))))))))))))))
The battle had began neither side was holding back, but they had been separated kakashi had rushed to protect sakura and had left sasuke to fend for himself. Kakashi knew that all the training he had done with sasuke had managed to raised the genin is fight level so he could at least hold on against zabusa is little helper, and even tough kakashi knew that sasuke could hold for a while he didn't know for how long. The kid was a gifted shinobi there was no doubt about that but that mystery ninja still concern kakashi a great deal.
In battle a ninja could never take things to lightly, things like unknown enemies, for example ones that ran around with killers like zabusa, those were the kinds of things that concern the copycat. Whatever the kekegenkai the kid had unleashed had trapped sasuke on some kind of cage and unless he finished the fight soon he might lose the last uchiha konoha had.
So while kakashi dealt with the assassin of the mist sasuke had been trapped in a cage made out of ice mirrors, it seem that this ninja who ever he was had a kekegenkai which allowed him to control water and manipulated it as he saw it fit. So far the masked shinobi had been in hiding deep within the mirrors jumping from one to another unleashing an occasional zenbon needle his way, sasuke knew that he was being tested and gritted his teeth in anger, there was no way that this masked kid was going to play with him.
The masked shinobi how ever was not playing with the boy but thinking long and hard about what would happened if he dealt the killing blow, this boy was in naruto is team after all and that was something that was making her hesitate. Naruto had been on her mind ever since there meeting and now in the midst of battle she could not forget the blond or there little meeting, could not help but think about the disappointment in the blond boy if she were to kill his teammate.
"Your fast I will give you that"
The genin is words barely registered with haku, she was still concern about the little genin she had meet and wondered how could some one caused her so much trouble, how could see be so shaken by some one she had just meet. She didn't know and she didn't want to know but she had to move on and focus on the battle.
"You have no idea how easy I could kill so don't speak as if you have an ace up your sleeve boy"
Her focused shifted and sasuke found himself impaled by six zenbon needles, he cursed when he felt the shift in the battle, knew that he had asked for this by taunting the masked shinobi but he had no idea that he was this good. He hadn't even seen the masked teen come out of the mirrors or were the needles had come from.
"Hah that the best you got"
Sasuke is taunts made haku frown, there was no way that she was going to let this brat keep her from aiding her master, slowly the ice mirrors began to display her figure and sasuke frowned, every single reflection of haku held a zenbon needle in hand. There were too many of them and the masked shinobi was to fast, sasuke knew that there was no way he was going to be able to dodge all of the attacks especially if they all came at once.
"I am sorry naruto"
Haku whispered and unleashed her attack on the only uchiha survivor, sasuke cursed but that was all he could do; the needles all connected and he fell to the ground haku closed her eyes and stepped out of the mirror. She had not killed the boy just hit every single one of his pressure points to render him in a death state.
"Thank you"
She opened her eyes and saw a blond boy smiling at her.
Haku is body froze, naruto appeared inside the ice cage and looked at the uchiha survivor knocked out a small smile played on his lips, and it seem that haku had had enough of sasuke. He turned towards haku and smiled once more, this time how ever his blue eyes looked at the mirrors and at haku; she however turned away from him, she could not stare into the eyes of the blond she couldn't afford too, the blond reminded her so much of herself and of that brief conversation they shared. Naruto saw her avoiding his gaze and shock his head, this was going to be more difficult than he had originally planed but it had to be done.
"Haku please I don't want to fight you!"
"Nor I you"
"Then why deam it!?
"Because I am a weapon, nothing else matters. Only my master is wishes matter"
Both ninja stared at one another neither wanting to make a move until haku is right hand twitched, naruto cursed and closed his eyes.
"Please don't …I don't want to fight you"
"But we must"
"Please no"
His pleading voice made her hurt, it hurt to hear such despair in his voice but she had to finish her job zabusa was depending on her to end this soon and go aid him. Turning towards naruto, she raised a zenbon needle to eye level and naruto frowned, he knew that she had made a choice.
"I am sorry"
In her hand appeared four zenbon needles and just as soon as they had appeared, she threw them at naruto.
"Haku…."
Was the only thing the blond whispered, right before his left hand moved and snatched all four zenbon needles from the air, those shots were meant to incapacitate him and leave him just like sasuke but he couldn't allow him self to be defeated, if he did then kakashi was as good as dead. Haku might not want to kill them but zabusa had no such reservations, he had to win this and if possible save every one from dying.
"No, I am not going to give up, no one will die"
Haku stared in surprised at the blond, he had managed to snatch all four needles in mid flight, he was fast perhaps faster than she.
"(H-how did he…..who are you naruto)"
"Fight me!"
Haku jumped into an ice mirror right before it shattered under a punch from naruto, the girl had barely been able to jump to another ice mirror before the one she had been on had shattered which was impossible. Her ice mirrors were supposed to resist any kind of attack from jutsu or any other forms of attack and yet this boy had managed to destroy one of them with his just one punch.
"(I have to strike now while he is still in mid attack)"
She came out of the mirror that stood next to the one naruto had shattered and threw four more needles towards the blond.
"Teleport"
Naruto whispered and vanished again.
"(To fast, I couldn't follow his movement) you are faster than I"
She spoke when naruto reappeared behind her.
"Give up, please"
"But far weaker than I"
She could feel the kunai knife pressing on her lower back, yet naruto refused to strike the killing blow.
"You don't want to kill me in this fight, but unlike you I will kill you"
"Then why haven't you"
Haku took a deep breath and closed her eyes; she had made a clone and used it so that I would come up from behinds naruto, so now a clone was behind naruto in one of her ice mirrors holding a zenbon needle in its hands ready to strike, only she could not give the order.
"If I strike you, you will vanished and I would receive the blow"
She was lying.
"You could easily avoid it"
"I am unsure I want to…."
Naruto is kunai dropped from his hand. He couldn't do this, he was not the kind of person to take a life not especially when that life belonged to some one like haku, the girl had managed to wrap herself around his mind and despite what he tried to do, he couldn't shake her off. She reminded him so much of himself and yet she seem to known something he didn't, seem to have and understanding far beyond his own.
"I can't kill you, but I will stop you"
With that said, he spun around and punched the mirror that was behind him, it shattered along side with the haku clone, turning around once more he frowned when he didn't saw haku; she was no longer in front of him. She had disappeared and entered another of her mirrors. Naruto tried to follow her but her chakra was all over the place, not only that but when she vanished she didn't leave any trail behind, her teleportation was as good as his, only she had to depend on her mirrors.
"You are strong naruto"
"Deam it haku stop this!"
She wouldn't listen, so instead he avoided a zenbon needle and cursed, haku wouldn't listen and the way she was jumping from mirror to mirror told him that this fight would only end if one of them couldn't continue. The zenbon needles are thrown again this time however naruto can see each one of them heading his way, then before haku blinks the blond begins to move and every single needle is caught by his hand, he moves faster than the eye can see and she begins to worry.
"You were hiding your true power all along, how many mask do you wear naruto-kun?"
He can hear the sympathy, haku simply stares down at the boy and wonders just how much of himself she is truly seeing, how many mask and hidden emotions are keep under lock and key just because he is afraid to show who he really is. She was once afraid just as he was but that was until zabusa had arrived and taken all the pain away, had removed her mask, showed her that it was okay to be herself to not fear what she was, if she revealed herself she would not be hurt.
Throwing another set of needles she wonders what the boy is really like, did he eat from the garbage just as she had? Was he always alone just like her? So many question that she wanted to ask and knew that she could not, this was her enemy. Naruto was trying to stop her from achieving her goal, she couldn't let that happened couldn't betray the one man who had showed her who she truly was.
"Deam it"
He had been hit, naruto looked at his shoulder and frowned at the torn fabric of his jump suit, a needle had gone trough.
"I am sorry, but I can't allow this battle to go on any longer"
She knew she couldn't because the longer she stayed battling the blond the weaker she would grown, she knew that her resolve to kill him was not strong enough, that if she stayed in the battle any longer she would not be able to deal the killing blow. Even now when she had hurt him, she had flinched at the sight of his blood, at the fact that she had hurt him.
"Genjutsu"
She was clever all right, she had used an illusion technique to double the amount of needles heading his way, but more than that, she had used the ice mirrors to her advantage and reflected the actual number of needles that were heading his way. There was no telling which set of needles was the real one, which could be a problem especially if they all came at him at once, his eyes could follow them but to know which ones were real that was the hard task.
He smiled and realized that maybe he should have taken up that little training session with kurenai; she was rumored to be the best genjutsu specialist in all of konoha. Haku saw the small smile and frowned; what ever this kid was, planning it had to be good or else he wouldn't be so confident.
"Why are you smiling? Did you find a way to counter my attack?"
"No, I'm not good at detecting illusions so I guess I'm stuck"
"Stuck?"
How could that be? Was he not the sharingan user is student? How could he not know how to defend against an illusion attack, it just didn't make any sense the boy should know at least basic defenses against illusion based attack. Yet if his life was anything like hers it shouldn't of surprised her that the copycat had neglected the boys training.
"Don't worry I wont let you beat me"
He smiled up at her and she wondered if he knew the weight of his words, he was so calm and serene as if knowing how every thing would play out and that every thing would be all right.
"You speak as if you have already won the battle"
"I have"
"You can….t?"
Landing in the middle of the mirror cage he began to avoid needle after needle the more haku threw the more he avoided dodge or simply knocked back with his kunai knife, she double the amount of zenbon needles and frowned when they all failed to make a direct hit or were blocked.
"(How the hell did…he…?)"
"No more needles?"
Naruto opened one of his eyes and looked at haku; she was looking straight at him trying to figure out how he had been able to avoid every single one of her needles.
"You closed your eyes"
Naruto smiled and nodded, it was dangerous to close his eyes when he was fighting a ninja seeing as how he couldn't see what there hands were doings, but it was the only way to detect and avoid the real needles. Any slight change in air current told him what he needed to do that way he didn't relied so much on his eyes. Hakus for the most part just frowned and shock her head, the blond was full of surprises, he had made her zenbon attack useless.
"Yes I did so I don't care if there are a million needles I will avoid them all"
"No need I can see that your are far more reliable and stronger than I first believed, so I will no longer hold back (this will consume most of my chakra but hopefully it will finish this…..i am sorry naruto)"
Naruto frowned when he saw her hands move, a hand sing.
"W-what are?"
The mirrors began to shatter and naruto frowned, when he saw that haku was no were in sight, she had apparently left the safety of her mirrors and was now using the mist as a sort of camouflage, her chakra was still undetectable thanks to the technique she was using.
"Hidden mist stile. Shards of ice jutsu"
The million ice shards her broken mirrors had created began to circle him, all of them began to break down into smaller pieces until nothing but small razor sharp blades were all around him.
"What the hell?!"
"This is one of my deadliest attacks, every single piece of glass will attack you at the same time…..you will not survive this"
"We will see"
Haku frowned and wondered if the blond was nothing but a overconfident fool or of he actually believed he could survive this kind of attack, closing her eyes she cleared her mind and allowed the jutsu to take over, in a second every single piece of ice was had rushed towards the blond genin.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
The scream surprised her; it was not one of pain but of determination.
"I won't lose!"
Naruto is voice rang out and when haku opened her eyes he was surrounded by a clear blue shield composed entirely of chakra, his hair was shining an even brighter shade of yellow it almost seem to be turning into a gold color, but what was most surprising was the fact that every single piece of ice had been blocked. Naruto took a deep breath and shock his head, making the chakra shield was more exhausting than he remembered but that was the only way he could block all of haku is ice shards, the small pieces were almost impossible to see or feel; if he had tried to dodged them he would be dead by now.
"H-how is this possible?"
"Phase one of my defense chakra shield. I gathered all of my chakra and unleashed it around myself to block any incoming attack….unfortunately I can't sustain it for very long"
"Then the battle is over"
"For you"
The chakra shield was nothing more than him expelling chakra and then trying to gather it back up, this caused the chakra to remain near him and shield him from other attacks that had chakra on them. One of the drawbacks was that if haku were to throw a zenbon needle or any kind of non-chakra based attacks it would pass right trough his shield as if it was nothing, the other one was that it wasted a lot of his energy and he could not contain it for very long.
"W-what?"
Naruto released the hold he had on the shield and it immediately turned into a chakra wave that repelled all of haku is shards as well as the mist zabusa had gathered.
"Phase two of my defense, when ever I dispel the shield it turns into a massive chakra wave that repels all chakra base attacks"
That was a good defense but just as she was about to respond she felt it, a spike of chakra and then a feeling that overwhelmed her senses. Naruto looked at her and saw the change in character, she had faltered just as she was about to move or reply to his statement she had stopped and just looked around as if trying to find something. That is when they both heard it, when they both saw it, the mist had begun to fade and birds began to chirp at once.
"Zabusa needs me"
"Haku!"
She vanished and naruto cursed, she had to aid her master and in the process would place her life in danger, closing his eyes he cursed when he felt it, kakashi is chakra was flaring and zabusa is chakra was beginning to fade, he had lost and kakashi was going to end his life. Following the chakra signatures he could feel what haku was going to do, she was moving in an intercept course, she was going to jump in front of the attack. By doing so she would be saving her master but would most likely kill herself, he couldn't allow that; she would not die on this day and if that meant protecting her master then so be it, she would not die. So he had acted and while haku had move in front of zabusa and right in the middle of kakashi is attack naruto had moved in front of her.
The raikiri had never connected, kakashi had not dealt the deathblow to the assassin of the mist, he had rushed towards zabusa and had made to strike the assassin but something had stopped him, or more likely, his attack had hit something and in the process had exploded blowing him back wards. Naruto had jumped in the middle and with one hand had stooped kakashi is lighting blade and sent the copycat kakashi staggering backwards with his attack dissipating. The sharingan user stared wide eyed at his own student and clenched his teeth in anger, but the blond didn't seem to noticed him at all, he didn't seem to even pay attention to him all he did was stare at the masked shinobi that stood a few feet from zabusa.
The two seem to be lost in a world of there own, they paid no attention to there surroundings no heed to the dangers of the battlefield; all they did was fight a silent battle amongst themselves. Kakashi could see the turmoil in naruto is eyes and the silent desperation hidden behind an all too familiar mask; both of them were making a choice, deciding if they should follow the path, they had known all there lives or listen to what there hearts were telling them.
"N-naruto"
The moment she poke those words naruto felt the change around him, sensed the movement from behind haku and knew what was going to happened, with out thinking he moved faster than he had ever done so, for if he failed to act she would die. Zabusa from behind moved his sword ready to strike, he heard the tremble in his weapons is voice and knew that she had been broken, she had been broken by the blond genin from the leaf.
"MOVE!"
Naruto is words had stunned her for just a second before his hands had roughly pushed her to the ground, then it happened, every thing slowed down and she saw her master is sword pierce the blond is chest, zabusa is eyes widen with surprised. Haku had been only inches from his sword and yet the blond boy had moved faster than any human should. Half a second, that was all it would take for his sword to pierce haku is back and yet the genin had managed to save her.
The blood began to spill and zabusa glared at the blue eye boy, he had ruined every thing, he had made his weapon useless and now he was stopping him from disposing of it, he pushed the sword even deeper and naruto grunted in pain. Zabusa stared at him saw the smile on the genin's face and wondered why the boy was smiling when it was clear that he would die this day.
"Why?"
Zabusa stared at the boy and naruto smiled.
"You would never understand"
Naruto spoke and zabusa froze, how the hell could he be smiling at a time like this, how could he speak such nonsense, anger took control of the demon of the mist and he pushed the sword deeper inside of naruto.
"Fool"
Zabusa swung his sword, the body of naruto was thrown a couple of feet away from his and all they heard was a sickening thud and a swish of blood, zabusa turned to his weapon and glared at the girl. Her mask had come off and what he saw in her eyes was nothing but hate.
"Y-you…"
"Remember your place!"
Haku seem to snap out of her anger but all she could see was naruto is body impaled in her master is sword, glancing to were the blond had landed she saw his orange jump suit soaked in his blood and a small crimson pool began to gathered around him. kakashi just stared at the body of his student and shock his head, naruto had jumped in front of him and had saved the life of that mist ninja but why? Why did he risk his life to save an enemy?! It didn't make sense.
"N-naruto…."
Haku is voice snapped every one out of her there daze, slowly she walked towards him and knelt by his side all the while zabusa just glared at her slowly he to began to walk towards the two, he had lost his weapon so now it was time to dispose of it slowly he raised his sword.
"You are broken haku"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx( THE DEMON )xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"W-were am 1"
The blond looked at his chest and frowned, the wound zabusa had inflicted on him had vanished but what was most surprising was the fact that he was no longer on the bridge, he was on some kind of sewer. Standing up he frowns when he sees the big cage before his eyes, the golden gates stared down at him as if telling him that he is nothing with out them, mocking him with there power.
"You are with me boy"
The voice from within startles him but he frowns when he sees the sing on the middle of the golden doors, a seal a seal for a demon.
"So that is your home"
"Impressive that you do not fear me"
From the shadows, two massive red eyes emerge and glance down at the blond.
"You're trapped so why would I fear you?"
"Not as stupid as I first thought, so why don't we get down to why you are here"
Naruto raised an eyebrow and saw the red energy coming from the bottom of the steel doors; he jumped away and frowned at the fox. There was no way he was going to let the fox is chakra mix with him, not when he knew all to well the consequences.
"Sorry not going to happen!"
"As powerful as you are you lack my abilities boy"
"Even you can't heal the wound I receive"
"You doubt me even now? Foolish child my powers can do more than heal your pathetic little body"
"No deal fox"
"Then the ice maiden dies along side you"
Haku. Naruto frowned and glared at the fox, the demon smirked and noticed the change in attitude the blond had had.
"What are you talking about!?"
"Even now as we speak that man called zabusa is ready to strike your friend"
"……………"
"You can sense it cant you, the way his chakra is flaring and hers is fading"
"Deam it…deam it all"
"Ready brat?"
"Once this is over you and I will have a talk about who is the strongest"
"That we will"
TO BE CONTINUED……………………………………………………………….
Small little notes:
Deathrunner : I cant really compare the power levels, the z-fighters can destroy a whole planet while a shinobi dies if he uses to much chakra so I never compared the two.
The haku naruto fight, I made a small sequence you can view at H.O.A…..House of archangemon, it covers the first round of the fight. If it gets to confusing then go check out the drawings and it might give you an idea of what I was trying to do.