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Chapter 7

The night before

"speaking"

'thinking/nine tails human form/ master hand thinking and talking/flashback'

"thinking nine tails fox form/ yelling/Naruto with nine tails chakra/Jutsu"

Naruto and Mario were both found in the training area of princess peach's castle. They were sweating furiously and exhausted physically and mentally. The battle had gone on for 4 hours and it was still going strong. Mario's golden cape (move from super smash bros melee) had proved an excellent counter to naruto's sword as it had reflective properties. This only left taijutsu and ninjutsu and unfortunately for naruto, Mario proved to be quite the master in the field of taijutsu and adept in ninjutsu (his fireballs). Now it came down to 1 final attack. They would give it everything they had.

A sweat drop rolled down naruto's face and on to his chin. Then as it fell off and hit the ground both fighters prepared their best attacks. "IT'S A MARIO TIME!" shouted Mario as he let loose a huge fireball that he easily reached the ceiling. Naruto quickly ran through 50 hand signs and started charging up atsuko's chakra to his right fist. "Kitsune style final attack: Demon of the underworld!" he yelled as he slammed his fist forward. A huge translucent fox head came from his fist and charged towards the fireball. The two attacks clashed battling for supremacy with each of the fighters putting all their energy in to it. Suddenly there was a huge explosion and both naruto and Mario flew back and hit the wall. When they got up they saw in the middle of the explosion master hand holding up the peace sign. He had to quickly dodge 2 kunai from naruto and 2 fireballs from Mario because of his interruption.

'I forgot to tell you naruto your room will be right next to Mario's. The tournament will start early in the morning so you had better rest up or you'll be exhausted' chided master hand. 'Good luck, my student.' That was master hand's final words as he teleported out of the room. Naruto got out of the wall and then helped Mario so that he could get out. They started chatting as they left the room.

"Wow naruto, the attacks your world has are pretty interesting. You have to bring me there sometime" said Mario.

"Sure, maybe when I go back" naruto said with shrug. "Well, I'm going to go get some sleep. It's gonna be dark soon and I have to wake up early for the tourney. Goodnight everyone!" naruto exclaimed as he disappeared in a flash. All the spectators of the battle were on the sidelines commenting on how brilliant a fighter naruto was when naruto flashed back into the area.

"Uh, where's my room again?" the blonde shinobi said with a chuckle. This effectively destroyed the god-like image everyone held for him as large sweat drops grew on the back of their head.

Back in the leaf one sauske uchiha was fuming with rage.

"I wonder what that dobe thinks he's up to going off and doing some kind of secret training. He's probably learning how to throw a shuriken the right way. It doesn't matter anyways, no matter what he does he'll never be able to stand up to the might of an uchiha" sauske thought as his fist continued to slam in to a tree. Without naruto team 7 had not been able to take any missions. This left all of them to their own devices while they waited for the most unpredictable ninja's return. Sauske had taken to training with his sharingan and with the help of kakashi his sharingan had evolved into 2 tomoe in each eye. This had helped him immensely as now all kakashi had to do was show him a crap load of jutsus each day and his sharingan would allow him to copy them.

While sauske was doing his own training sakura was training her genjutsu and medical ninjutsu. When naruto had went away she had lost someone to vent her frustrations on but she gained some time to think about what she really wanted in life. She had realized that sauske would only focus on power and would only endanger her later on. This made her start thinking about naruto and how he always went out of his way to protect her. She decided that when naruto returned she would pursue a romantic relationship with him after the chunin exams were over. She had also decided that naruto would only date a strong woman so she took up genjutsu and medical ninjutsu to impress him. She's currently under the tutelage of konoha's genjutsu mistress: kurenai yuuhi. Since Kurenai couldn't teach much to her own students, because of their clan policies, she was glad to help sakura out in genjutsu and find someone else to help her medical ninjutsu. Sakura was now a force to be reckoned with as sauske found himself having to try when they would spar during team meetings.

Everyone in konoha was gearing up for the chunin exams but Naruto uzumaki was doing some last minute training for the smash tourney.

After naruto had been directed to his room by Mario he waited until everyone had fallen asleep so he could go outside and get in some extra training. He had decided that he would try to strengthen the connection between him and his sword. He got into a meditative stance and went into his soul scape.

When naruto arrived he found that byakuya had changed the look of the soul scape. It was now a grassy field at night time with a full moon in the sky. A noise behind naruto signaled byakuya's entrance. Naruto mentally prepared himself as he had an important topic to discuss with byakuya.

"Kuchiki-sama" naruto said with a respectful tone of voice. He knew that since this conversation was going to be serious then he should as well. Byakuya looked at naruto with a critical eye as he tried to determine what caused his change in demeanor.

"What is it naruto" he said.

"I want to talk about the techniques for the sword."

"What about them?"

"While they're incredibly strong and I mean no disrespect, but I think I should learn some different techniques!" Naruto said quickly before closing his eyes. He knew byakuya had a lot of pride when it came to his techniques and only taught him ones that could be used in conjunction with senbonzakura. He waited for the impending explosion he knew would come from the usually emotionless byakuya.

And he waited.

And waited.

Until he opened his eyes to see what was delaying it. The sight he saw was burned into his mind forever. He saw byakuya, the most expressionless person he knows, chuckling! The blond shinobi checked the skies to see if the world was coming to an end.

Byakuya was amused at naruto's antics. He knew that naruto was going to need different techniques as his wielder would not be a one trick pony. He was just waiting for naruto to come to him for help. He didn't want to treat naruto like an infant; he wanted naruto to figure out some things for himself. He waited for the blond to calm down before they continued.

"You're correct naruto" said byakuya. "It's about time I show you a new move to add to your repertoire."

"What is it?" naruto shouted in anticipation for a new technique.

"I got it from an old friend. The move is called: Getsuga Tensho" Byakuya said with a smirk.

Authors' notes: Yeah, I know it's been a while but I'm back and better than ever! By the way, I saw the issue with chapter 5. Turns out I put the incomplete version up by mistake. Sorry, my fault. I put the complete version up today for anyone who wants to see it. Naruto's coming back to konoha in 2 chapters so be ready!

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