Naruto Shippuden: Swan Song
Chapter Seven
Reborning The Yellow Flash!!
It was nighttime at Konoha, everybody was at their homes, some with their families, some with their spouses or lovers. And for some people like Naruto are by themselves. Naruto stared at the crescent moon, enveloped by clouds, but its majesticness overpowered the clouds and still appeared with its almightiness. Something was on Naruto's mind, something happen today, and it was something to be excited about. Naruto received word that he was going to obtain new training, and it was a special kind of training, something only he can do; he was going to learn a new blood line limit. Tsunade told him it was going to be hard, and it was going to take time. And also this, Tsunade has promoted him! Yes that's right; he was now a full fledged Chuunin. Tsunade was impressed of how far Naruto has come in his abilities, for this one time she waivered the exam requirement just because Naruto didn't needed it.
Why was this coming all at once? Because Tsunade needed Naruto to get stronger quickly, because a lingering cloud hung over Konoha of a possible war with not only Akatsuki, but with roots as well. But she didn't tell him that. For the whole day Naruto was nothing but smiles, it was like it was his only facial expression. A few minutes later, Naruto turn off the lights, and went to bed. He needed his rest, because tomorrow was the first day of his brand new training.
"Tsunade said that someone was going to be here.." Naruto murmured to himself, a little ticked off that his mentor has not come yet. It was barely dawn, and the moon was still present. For an hour he had waited, Naruto didn't know who it was that was going to supervise him, but if the lateness of whoever was coming was an indicator, it would be Kakashi. But then far off the distance, people were coming, he couldn't tell who was coming. But then a few minutes later, it was just only Kakashi and Sakura. Instantly he knew it wasn't them, but why in the hell were they up so early in the dead of the morning?
"Hey guys! Why are you up so early?" Naruto asked giddily. I guess its Naruto's mo to be so giddy in the early morning.
"What do you think?" Kakashi said sarcastically.
"Uhh… to train?" Naruto said with his mind way off the distance.
"No.. Sakura mind if you told him?" Kakashi said.
"Naruto, me and Kakashi are here to teach you. Actually Kakashi is here to restrain you from transforming into the Kyuubi, I'm actually going to teach you." Sakura said to Naruto. Naruto immediately beamed with excitement. Naruto jumped off the tree, and stared at the pink-haired Kunochi, but something didn't make sense to Naruto. Usually it would be an older Jounin who would be teaching him new techniques. But Tsunade did say that there would be a person who has near perfect chakra control, I guess this is the person. Not there isn't any problem with it anyways, right?
"Are you really that good? I had no idea." Naruto said.
"Well, since that I am a medic; it requires a ninja to have such a high decree of chakra control… I guess I am that good." Sakura said with uncertainty. It amazes Naruto that Sakura doesn't have that much confidence in herself, he knows for a fact that Sakura is one of the most brilliant Kunochi's he had ever seen.
"Aw c'mon Sakura-Chan, don't doubt yourself. I think you are that good." Naruto said with his usual grin. Sakura eyes glistened when Naruto said that.
"You are the smartest one out of all of us, and you do a hell of a job healing other people." Naruto said with his continuing grin. Naruto always thought she was strong, mentally and physically. It amazes her that Naruto had so much confidence for her. She smiled at him softly.
"Thanks Naruto. Now I know." Sakura said with a small blush. Kakashi grinned under his mask; he was amazed yet again by Naruto's uncanny ability to make people believe in themselves.
"So, is there going to be any extra-curricular activities after class?" Naruto said with a very foxy grin, and it made Sakura blush double, but if you knew Sakura as long as Naruto has, something was going to happen..
"NARUTO, YOU BAKA!!" Sakura yelled at the top of her lungs as she decks the lights out of Naruto, Naruto flew 5 yards from the ground and landed right on his face. Sakura came to Naruto to see if he's alright, but you got to admit; Naruto kinda deserved that one, I mean saying something so dirty in front of their sensei. Bad Naruto, bad…
"Naruto, are you okay?" Sakura said as she helped Naruto up, dirt all over his face, and a bad black eye.
"Of course I'm ok, I'm sorry Sakura-Chan, I shouldn't have said that." Naruto said with a stupid grin. Sakura just grinned back at the silly ninja.
"Here, let me heal that." Sakura said as she laid her hands on his black eye. Her illuminating green aura surrounded Naruto's eye, it felt very smoothing for Naruto, it felt like he was being healed by an angel. Usually it's rough for Sakura to heal people because their chakra tries to fight off any foreign chakra, but it was different for Naruto, his chakra was more inviting for foreign chakra. It probably might be because Naruto has two chakras instead of one. Two minutes later Naruto's eye was fully healed; Naruto got back up and was ready to rock and roll.
"Okay Sakura-Chan, or should I say Sakura-Sensei, are we ready?" Naruto said with determination.
"Alright then, let's begin then. First off, what you are learning is… teleportation. This requires precise chakra control, and you have to think of a place where you want to warp." Sakura explained to Naruto.
"Okay.. Umm how do I improve my chakra control?" Naruto asked.
"Glad you asked, here." Sakura said as she pulls out a scroll with an unusually large lump. She opened the scroll to reveal a dead fish. Naruto quirked one of his eyebrows, he was thinking how the fish had got to do with anything with this training.
"Umm, Sakura-Chan, how does the dead fish help me?" Naruto bone headedly asked.
"Naruto, you are about to learn some medical ninjutsu. This was my first exercise to becoming a medical ninja; your objective is to revive the fish. This will take a few days at least." Sakura said to Naruto. Naruto stared at the dead fish, and grinned.
"What is it Naruto?" Sakura asked Naruto. Naruto had a sneaky glint in his eyes; he knew how he can speed up the process.
"I know how I can make this easier and faster." Naruto said. Naruto did a couple of hand signs, and poof! A few hundred clones of him appeared. Kakashi eyes widened in amazement that Naruto remembered that he can speed up any kind of training with his shadow clone jutsu. Sakura then catch on what's going on here, she read somewhere that shadow clones could be used to speed up training. She was impressed how smart Naruto can actually be. But then..
"Um, Naruto. I don't mean to break the mood but how can you do this if you only have one fish?" Sakura said to Naruto. Moments later, he realized that this can't work.
"Uhh, oops." Naruto said sheepishly to Sakura. But then she realized she can remedy this situation. Instead of hundreds of clones, Naruto can do this with only four clones. She brought extra dead fish just in case.
"Naruto. Disburse all your clones until there are only four of you." Sakura said to Naruto. Naruto nodded and disburse his clones until there was only 4 left of him. Sakura took out the extra fish and placed them on the ground. Naruto knew where this was heading, Naruto and his clones walked over to the fish.
"Are you ready Naruto?" Sakura asked Naruto.
"Are you kidding me Sakura-Chan? I'm Naruto Uzumaki; I'm ready for anything." Naruto said with a monotone voice. And thus his training began…
The rain was pouring monstrously in Amegakure.In this village; this rainfall was very usual for the village. This village used to be leaded by Hanzo, but he died when Akatsuki waged a civil war against the village, from that day on and still continuing, Akatsuki's leader; Pein, runs the village as it's leader. Pein stares down at the rain from the tallest building of the village, reminiscing the recent battle of his former sensei that was killed by his hand. In his eyes, Jirayia was an ignorant blind fool that didn't see the ninja that he believes is corrupt and it needed cleansing. This was why he started Akatsuki, to take over the world and rid of its corrupted people. He needed only one more tailed beast; he sent out the newly formed Team hawk and the rest of the Akatsuki to take the tailed beast back to him. Both team hawk and Akatsuki are strong, but not strong enough. They were facing the world's most powerful defensive squad in the five great countries; Anbu. To remedy this situation, 15 years ago they hired someone to go to Konoha and try to run as its hokage. But failed, instead Sarutobi won the 3rd Hokage title again after recently come out of retirement. This person is still in Konoha, now running as the leader of Konoha's 2nd defense; Anbu Roots. His name was Danzou.
'Only one more… just one more.' Pein said to himself in his head. Konan is usually here with him, but he recommended her to go with the rest of the Akatsuki members. He now walks back to his chamber. The technology in this chamber is very advanced for this day and age. There were seven pods, six of them filled and one of them vacant. He walked over to the 4th one, his face changed from contempt to a mix of insanity and happiness as he walked over to that pod. He now faces the pod, he put his hands on the pod and leaned forward to the pod's window, what he was looking at was him; one of Konoha's finest, the body of one of the legendary three ninja; Jirayia.
Pein only smiled evilly at his new body. Soon after this, he goes to the vacant pod and finally rests after a long week. He has to periodically change bodies because his six bodies uses up an huge amount of chakra, but his mind is still there but only in a different body. Now he rests, and then the lights of the room went off, and nothing else happens.
"Wahoo! I finally revived this stupid fish!" Naruto yelled cheerfully as he revived the fish. Sakura was amazed at how fast Naruto progressed. It took Sakura a week to revive the fish, but it took Naruto only 2 days to not only revive one, but four fish. She smiled at him, feeling proud for Naruto, now the hard part was over.
"That's amazing Naruto! You did this in record time; you are ready to try it out!" Sakura said to Naruto.
"Now… I can use the clones." Naruto said as he begins the process of unleashing his clones, in a matter of seconds a few hundred clones appeared.
"Now.. How do you do it again?" Naruto and his clones said in unison.
"You have to focus your chakra perfectly, think of a place and let your chakra explode all at the same time." Sakura said. Naruto nodded, he then closes his eyes. Now focusing all of his chakra, and trying to think of a place to teleport to. He and his clones ran, running at all of his might.
'C'mon, please let this work. Focus, focus!!'
Then a huge yellow flash followed and appeared for only a split second, and just like that he disappeared.
'Omigod, he actually did it!' Kakashi said to himself.
'Way to go Naruto! Now where did he go?' Sakura thought to herself. She looked around, a few seconds later she found him, but her intuition knew that this wasn't the place Naruto didn't want to go. Naruto and all of his clones were all over the place, some of them on the ground, and some of them on the trees. She playfully rolled her eyes at Naruto. Kakashi just moaned.
"It seems like you need get more used to it. Don't worry Naruto; I'll help you get used to it." Sakura said to Naruto.
"Yeah." Naruto said sheepishly. And with that, Naruto continued his training, and wouldn't stop until dusk. Naruto and Sakura were now all alone since Kakashi left; Kakashi knew Naruto was in good hands.
"Alright Naruto, don't you think it's time to stop for today?" Sakura asked Naruto. Naruto was sweating all over the place, she was right; he needed to stop. Almost all of his chakra was gone; Naruto nodded his head with acknowledgement.
"Okay Sakura-Chan. Can I walk you home?" Naruto requested Sakura. Sakura just laughed at the blonde, it wasn't her that needed to be walked home, it was Naruto that needed to be taken home.
"How can you walk me home if you can't even get up?" Sakura said playfully. Naruto tried to get up, but it was all in vain, Sakura was right; Naruto couldn't get up at all.
"Ok, you got a point there. I guess next time. Right?" Naruto asked Sakura.
"I guess so." Sakura said.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow right?" Naruto said.
"What are you talking about?" Sakura said.
"Well, if I'm not walking you home then that means you're walking home by yourself." Naruto said idiotically. Sakura sighed heavily; sometimes Naruto can be the dumbest person on earth.
"Naruto, I have to take you home first before I can go home myself. Now grab my hand." Sakura said as she offered Naruto her hand. Naruto had to bite the bullet on this one, he needed help to get up and walk back home. So he grabbed her hand and slowly got up.
"Thanks Sakura-Chan." Naruto said with a half assed smile.
"No problem." Sakura said as she winked at Naruto.
"Sakura-Chan, are we going to train tomorrow?" Naruto asked Sakura.
"No." Sakura answered Naruto.
"Why not?" Naruto complained. Sakura's mouth widened a bit, shocked that Naruto doesn't remember what tomorrow is.
"Baka, don't you remember? It's the gala!" Sakura said to Naruto with utter shock. Naruto's memory jogged back up. Now he felt really bad.
"I'm sorry, it slipped my mind." Naruto said to Sakura.
"Naruto… Don't sweat it, you're forgiven. Now it's time to take you home." Sakura said as she finally begins walking to take Naruto home.
"Can I ask you something Sakura-Chan?" Naruto asked Sakura. Sakura acknowledge Naruto with nodding.
"I kind of remember something that you said something about a promise or something?" Naruto said to Sakura. Then it hit Sakura, he was right.
"You can remember that and not the dance?" Sakura said to Naruto.
"What was it again, I remember you were about to promise me something.. but I don't quite remember…" Naruto said.
"I forgot about that… But you're right, I did. Want me to say it now?" Sakura asked Naruto.
"Sure."
"Well, I want to promise you something, remember that I didn't know if I loved you or not that night?" Sakura asked Naruto. Naruto remembers that night completely.
"Of course, what about it?" Naruto said to Sakura.
"The promise is about me finally knowing if I love you or not. I promise you that I will know if I do or not when the dance is here." Sakura said with a big blush on her face due to the sheer embarrassment of the conversation.
"Sakura-Chan, I don't care if I have to wait for one-hundred years for you to love me, I'll always be waiting. I'll respect your decision anyway it goes." Naruto said with all his heart. This touched Sakura's heart, it almost made her cry. Thinking about the times she had treated Naruto badly, she was wondering why Naruto was even still there for her, it still amazed her to this day. She couldn't take it anymore, she hated waiting, she wants to tell him how much he meant to her.
"Naruto, I can't wait anymore. I've been.. Naruto? " Sakura said to the blonde before she heard something. Naruto fell asleep on her, she was a little angry to know the fact that he fell asleep while she was confessing her heart out, but then again she laughed at the sleeping ninja and just smiled at the situation. She carried him on her back for the rest of the way. About 40 minutes later, they arrived at Naruto's house. She pulled out the key from under the mat and unlocked the door. She walked over to Naruto's bed and placed him slowly on the bed. She fluffed up the pillows, and straightens out the blanket for him. For some reason she felt like a mother, I mean this is what mother's do for their kids. But no matter, she placed the pillows under the blonde's head and tucked him in.
She sat down on Naruto's bed, lovingly smiling at the sleeping baka. She slid her fingers on Naruto's soft yellow hair, and then had her hand on Naruto's cheek. She really did love him now, she leaned over to give the blonde a kiss on the cheek, and then left a few minutes later. She was blushing big time, she felt something that she had never experienced with Sasuke; genuine care. She had her hands covering her face, she felt like laughing. Never before in her life has she felt this way, it felt relieving, uplifting, and it felt right.
'Just one more day, just one more day.'
-End of chapter 7-