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Chapter 7 - Genin showdown
"I'm ready when you are." said a calm Naruto as he gestured Rock lee to bring it.
"YOSH! I WILL SHOW YOU MY POWER!" Lee yelled as he vanished.
"The crowd around Naruto were confused at where the weird boy went. A second later they saw Naruto raise his hand as something hit it. His feet dug into the ground below him as he skidded back about four feet. After a small delay, it was Rock Lee that had his fist in Naruto's hand, surprised Naruto was even able to catch that.
'He's fast...' thought Sasuke his Sharingan swirling.
'How did he block that? I didn't even see him.' thought a shocked Sakura.
'That's right Naruto-Kun! Show that thick eye brow freak whose boss!' Ino squealed mentally.
"Your TaiJutsu is impressive," Naruto said as he pulled Rock Lee closer to him and delivered a punch to his stomach sending him flying a few feet back. "But you still need a lot of work." he finished.
Lee slowly got up, and resumed his Taijutsu stance. "You are a most impressive fighter, although i am not able to fight you at my full power. Otherwise Gai-Sensei will punish me for going against his will."
"It really doesn't matter that your wearing 100 pounds of weights." Lee grew wide eyed, "Your still no match against me. In fact, if you took the weights off it would let me send you flying further."
Lee charged again, but this time he didn't approach Naruto head on. Instead he vanished again and appeared behind Naruto. He swung his fist to the back of Naruto's head only to have Naruto duck. He then reeled back his other fist and brought it down on Naruto's head only to hit the ground making a cloud of dust come up. 'How is he moving faster than m...' Lee thought but got hit square in the center of his face, courtesy of Naruto's fist. He flew back into the base of a tree with a swing on it.
"I see why you wanted me to use Taijutsu only. It's the fact you can't do neither Genjutsu or Ninjutsu. Am i correct?" asked Naruto as Lee gritted his teeth, awaiting to be called a loser and hopeless like Neji always did.
"Hmm... Work harder and maybe you may have a chance against me." Naruto said in a calm voice. "If you keep focusing on Taijutsu, you may become the world's best Taijutsu expert." Naruto said with a smile.
Rock Lee was shocked. No one close to his age even acknowledged that he was trying his best. He was always made fun of and people always talked about he would never become a ninja because he had no Genjutsu or Ninjutsu. "What did you say your name was?" Lee asked getting up off the ground.
"Name's Naruto, i guess our little spar is over?" Lee looked at his team who gave a small nod, "Well then Lee, i guess I'll be going." Naruto said as he turned his back to go inside the academy.
Lee walked over to his team and Iruka, "How is he still not a Genin? He looks like he should of graduated years ago." asked a still stunned Tenten.
"Actually, He has been to the village less than a week. He just got back so Hokage-Sama had him enter the academy. He needs to graduate from the academy so he can get paid for going on his missions with Jiraiya-Sama." said Iruka.
"He's been with the Jiraiya of the Sannin?" the paled eye boy finally spoke.
Iruka nodded while both Lee and Tenten's jaws dropped.
The crowd around the school yard started to disperse and head to their classes. Ino grabbed a hold of Sakura's hand and drug her to go after Naruto. "Ino-Pig, what the hell? I don't want to go spy on him! Give him some privacy." said Sakura as Ino was still walking and dragging her along.
"Sakura, come on. You even have to admit that Naruto was so cool and hot out there with his fight with that weird guy right?" Ino said, not looking at Sakura.
Sakura blushed, "He looked cool but was not hot as Sasuke-Kun."
"Oh come on, Sasuke-Kun looks hot when he fights, but Naruto-Kun looked like he wasn't even lifting a finger. You're not lying to me about him right?"
Sakura waved her hands frantically, "No of course not Ino! I think he looked cool."
"What about hot?" Ino asked with a smirk.
Sakura's face was growing redder and redder. She was just about to confess that Naruto was hot, but was interrupted as Ino went wide eyed and started blushing herself while looking down. Sakura turned around as her face went so pink that it looked like her hair was covering her entire face.
"Why are you girls talking about m..." Naruto said but was interrupted as Sakura reacted on instinct and delivered a punch to his face. Naruto just moved his head to the side and grabbed her arm. "What was that for?" he asked, his face filled with confusion. Sakura broke free from Naruto's grasp and started running the other way. Ino looked at her confused at what she was doing, but Naruto vanished and appeared in front of Sakura stopping her in her tracks.
"Why are you following me?" Sakura demanded as she looked at him angrily.
"Well first off, why did you swing at me? Second why are you so mad?" asked Naruto.
Sakura's anger started to die down. "You scared me and then you held my arm."
"So? You're mad cause i held your arm? I thought when a girl's face goes pink that she liked what was happening to her. And just a second before i talked to you, you looked like you were blushing when Ino was talking to you about me."
Sakura started sweating as Ino inwardly chuckled at the incident that was happening in front of her. 'HAHA Forehead, i knew you liked him from the beginning.'
"I'm sorry Naruto-Kun, i didn't mean to act the way i did." Sakura said, trying desperately to get out of this situation.
"Well i guess it's okay." Naruto said while Sakura gave a sigh of relief. "But why were you blushing when Ino was talking to you about me. I know that Ino likes me." Ino heard him and her face started getting red. "But seeing you blush like that, do you like me to?" he asked innocently.
Sakura was sweating at blushing. "Well Naruto-Kun, me and Ino have things to do" she disappeared faster than Lee did and all Naruto heard was Ino yelling down the hall. 'Woah, she might be faster than Lee. Why is she running that way? We have the same class together. Why do girls have to be so weird?' Naruto let out a heavy sigh as he continued to the classroom.
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