I DO NOT OWN KINGDOM HEARTS OR NARUTO
Chapter 7!
This is mostly about team 7's training.
Let's begin:
Team 7 sat on the hard wooden floor of Tazuna's house as they watched over their unconscious sensei, Kakashi. It had been a couple hours since their fight with the rouge ninja, Zabuza, and everyone was still curious about Sora's Keyblade, which he had to use during the fight. The other three members of team 7 tried to ask about it as they waited for Kakashi to awake, but Sora told them to wait for Kakashi to regain conscious before he explained everything since he didn't want to repeat himself.
Kakashi began to stir after a while, and soon after he woke up, still light-headed from the fight. Once everyone made sure he was okay, they looked at Sora, expecting an explanation.
Sora began by summoning the Keyblade in a flash of light. "This is the Keyblade," Sora started, holding out the mysterious sword. Kakashi, being familiar with the legend of the Keyblade, stared at the sword in amazement.
"COOL!" exclaimed Naruto, hyper-active as ever. "Hey, can I touch it?" he asked hopefully. Sora smiled and said, "Sure," as he the Kingdom Key to the blonde. Naruto caught and held it up to the light. He swung it around a little, scaring the ones in close proximity to him. Sora, who was impressed with Naruto that he can actually wield the Keyblade without it automatically coming back to himself, told Naruto to settle down before he broke something. Naruto finally did, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. Sasuke grabbed the Keyblade from Naruto once he had finished flailing it around and inspected it for a moment. But before long, the Keyblade disappeared, only to reappear in Sora's gloved hand. Sora twirled it expertly and rested it on his shoulder, telling the group, "The Keyblade chooses its master, so it comes back to me if somebody without a strong heart tries to hold it."
Sora also told them the truth about how he arrived on their world since they were probably going to find out anyway when they returned to Konoha and reported to the Hokage about how Sora is the Keyblade Master.
"Remember when I crashed through the roof of the ninja academy," said Sora, getting everyone's attention. "The truth is that I fell into the classroom when my ship hit an asteroid."
Everybody stared on in astonishment, except Kakashi since he already knew Sora from another world based on the legend of the Keyblade. "SHIP?!" shouted everyone at once.
After a while of explaining and answering questions, team 7 learned and accepted Sora's explanation about him coming from another world. Sora also told them about Nobodies, Heartless, and his mission: to demolish Organization XIII, find his friend, and return home.
Team 7 was still a bit shocked after learning all of this about other worlds and about these creatures called Heartless and, and they received more shock when Kakashi told them about Zabuza. "I think Zabuza is still alive," Kakashi said gravely.
Although team 7 didn't believe it at first, once they thought about how the tracker ninja used senbon to 'kill' Zabuza and how he took him away instead of taking care of the body immediately, they all reached the same conclusion: Zabuza was still at large.
Team 7 went out into the woods to undergo special training. Because Kakashi was unable to fight for the time being, they had to get stronger, fast.
The exercise was to climb up the trees, without using your hands, and marking the highest point you can get to with a kunai. "By focusing chakra into your feet and regulating it through out your body, you can climb up these trees," lectured the Jounin from the underside of the tree.
Sora was the first to reach the top of the tree since he was familiar with focusing energy to certain areas of the body thanks to training with his magic spells. Sakura was next to complete the exercise because she was excellent at chakra control. Sora, once he was dismissed by Kakashi, left to train with the Keyblade deep in the woods. He left Sakura to give the remaining two the secret to the exercise.
Sora stopped in the middle of the woods and summoned the Keyblade. He first practiced some basic combos on the trees, leaving wide marks on them. Then, he went on to perform exuberant and skillful combos, as well as adding some magic spells into them.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke were progressing through the tree climbing exercise, as exhausted as they were. They were roughly on even terms, despite Naruto's slow start.
Sora finished his training, breathing heavily, and walked back to the trees Naruto and Sasuke were running up. He stood in the clearing, and, gazing skyward, he saw two figures on top of the tree, which he recognized as Naruto and Sasuke.
It was supper time at Tazuna's house. Sakura and Kakashi had been there since the afternoon, and still Sora, Naruto and Sasuke hadn't returned from the woods. The front door opened suddenly, revealing the three students, exhausted and hungry.
Sasuke and Naruto had been competing all day, and dinner was no exception. They struggled to see who could eat the most, and eventually puked. Kakashi sighed. These two are going to be a handful, he thought glumly.
Once the two rivals had enough food, team 7 thanked Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter, for the meal. Then, Tazuna's grandson, Inari, walked into the room. "Why are you doing this?" he asked solemnly. Then he added, "You guys are stupid if you think you can stop Gato and save this village. You don't understand what it is like to suffer…"
Naruto slammed his hands down on the table, which effectively shut the kid up before he could continue. Naruto couldn't, or rather wouldn't, take this from a whiney kid. The day before, he bad mouthed their abilities, but Naruto ignored him that time. "Listen kid," Naruto began vehemently, "if you've given up hope for this village, fine! But don't tell me I don't know suffering. You're just a coward."
Those words hit the young boy hard. He left the room on the verge of tears, leaving the group. Naruto left soon after, saying that he needed some fresh air, which meant that he wanted to be alone for a while.
Outside, on the deck, Naruto sat down, looking at the full moon. He could feel the rage inside him still burning, and realized that this anger was fueled by the Kyuubi. He had felt this anger many times before, but back then he didn't know that he had the fox demon sealed inside of him. Now that he did know and could feel its presence within his fury, it caused him to worry. Was he going to turn into the demon if he got angry enough?
Inside, Tazuna was telling the remaining members of team 7 about Inari. He told them that one day, a man by the name of Kaiza saved him from drowning. He eventually married Tsunami, which made Inari happy, since his real father died when Inari was very little.
"Kaiza was a hero in the village," Tazuna told the team. Tazuna told them about a storm that occurred one day. "The storm threatened to flood the whole village if the flood gate wasn't closed, but the water was flowing at such a high rate, that nobody dared to try to swim out to it for they feared they might die. Kaiza, however, wasn't afraid and swam over to the gate, despite the torrent. He filled the village people with much courage."
"But then," Tazuna continued, his voice become sad, "Gato came. He began to oppress our people, but Kaiza opposed Gato's oppression. Finally, Gato executed him in front of everyone, even Inari. Ever since then, Inari has never smiled."
Sora had listened to all this and felt bad for Inari. But, also he was enraged. Enraged at Gato for doing such horrible things. He'll pay for this, Sora vowed.
Kakashi went upstairs in order in calm Inari down while Sora went to calm Naruto. Kakashi told Inari about Naruto's struggles and surmised his life's story, leaving out the Kyuubi of course. Sora did the same thing, only he told Naruto about Inari's life.
After hearing the other's story, Inari and Naruto felt sorry for one another.
Naruto had trained all night after dinner, and eventually collapsed from exhaustion, falling into a fitful sleep on the hard earth.
In the morning, a boy, who strangely looked more like a girl, was in the forest collecting herbs when he noticed boy around his age on the ground, collapsed and sleeping. This boy… he thought as he reached down for his neck. He was prepared to chokehold him so that he could bring the boy known as Naruto back to his master, Zabuza, but he stopped and instead shook Naruto awake.
Naruto opened his eyes to see a pair of pretty black eyes belonging to a girl his age. "Whoa!" Naruto was up like a shot. "You know, it's not a good idea to sleep outside like that," advised the boy, who Naruto thought was a girl. Naruto rubbed his neck embarrassed and laughing slightly. "What were you doing out here?" he asked. Naruto told him, "I have been training! I've got to get stronger."
The boy laughed and said, "But, aren't you strong already?" Naruto was proud that his strength was that noticeable, then asked, "Hey miss, why are you out here?" The boy, who decided to tell Naruto about his true gender later, answered, "I'm collecting medical herbs." The boy then asked Naruto a peculiar question. "Is there someone precious to you that you want to protect?" Naruto didn't know how to answer the sudden question, nor did he have time to because the boy continued to say, "When there is someone for you to protect, that is when you become exceptionally strong."
As the boy left, he said to Naruto, "By the way, I'm a boy."
Naruto froze, and began to mentally curse, HOLY CRAP! SHE WAS A HE?!
Naruto walked into Tazuna's house, hungry, exhausted, and angry that he was about to hit on another guy. "Hey Naruto! Where were you?" greeted Sora, eating breakfast. Naruto was too tired to answer, so he grabbed a quick bite to eat and went to bed. Sora, shaking off being ignored, tried to start a conversation. "So, is today the day we all go to the bridge with Tazuna,"
"Yes," answered Kakashi, not eating with them.
Sora, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi left the house, leaving Naruto behind to rest.
Soon, the team arrived on the bridge, only to be greeted with silence. Then, they found the wounded body of a bridge worker. Sora ran up to him and cast a quick 'Cure' spell on him, which gave the man enough energy to explain that they were ambushed before falling back into unconsciousness.
Familiar mist began to engulf the bridge, to which everyone reacted by surrounding Tazuna in a defensive formation.
"Hello, Kakashi," said a recognizable voice. "Zabuza," grumbled Sora before whipping out his Keyblade.
"Keyblader, Kakashi, you two have caused me enough trouble," Zabuza said.
"Zabuza, leave the Keyblade warrior to the Heartless," commanded a new voice, though Sora recognized it in a heartbeat.
"Xemnas!" Sora yelled.
A dark portal opened and out of came a figure that was distorted due to the fog. This figure raised his arms and, behind him, many Heartless appeared. Xemnas commanded the dark creatures with, "Heartless, gather many hearts from this pitiful village."
Sora told team 7 and Tazuna, "Guys, I have to protect the village! Can you defeat Zabuza on your own?" Team 7 nodded and Sora nodded to them one last time before charging into the horde.
"Good, now I can have you all to my self," interrupted Zabuza, causing the other members of team 7 to tense up momentarily.
Their fight has just begun.
OH! I am just so mean to cut it off right here.
Sorry if the chapter was boring, but I had to do it.
The next chapter is the last part of the Zabuza arc.
I already am excited over the chuunin exams!
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