What do ya know? It's tough updating during school...
I do not own Naruto
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Act VI
Seals
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"-And so if you can master this ninjutsu, you have a 93 percent chance of being able to defeat any foe you come across," lectured Jiraiya to his blond haired pupil, "Now," he directed his attention to Naruto, "What did I just say?" he asked, glaring daggers as the young blond that seemed to be paying more attention to a pebble than his speech. The boy looked up with a distracted shine to his eye.
"...what?" asked the boy cluelessly. Jiraiya pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. "Naruto, what's up with you? You haven't been listening for a week! I even did research on this jutsu just so I could get your attention back." Naruto's sapphire orbs traveled up to Jiraiya's shining black one's and held his stare, "Sorry, sensei. I've been thinking." The gray haired man raised a brow slightly, "That's a first," he said, "Mind enlightening me on what?" The boy looked like he was going to spit back a retort, but he held his tongue and focused once more on the single pebble.
It had been like this for the past week. Ever since the fifteen adolescents branded themselves with the mark of Fire Country, their home at turned its back on them. They were too rebellious for everyone's tastes. They believed they were going to be taken away and thrown into jail at any moment.
But they never were. It puzzled them all. Sure, Sasuke was Orochimaru's pet, he wouldn't send that boy away for anything. And Sakura and Naruto were starting to become favored by the other Sannin, but that didn't explain why the others were still safe. They had practically been defying every law set by Orochimaru—It made absolutely no sense. It was almost as if someone was pulling strings directly to Orochimaru that kept them safe.
But that didn't make any sense either!
Naruto was to the point of pulling his hair out at this—everyone was—but there was something bigger that was bugging him.
Right before they re-'graduated', Neji had shown them his curse seal. The last time he had seen it had been in their match in the chuunin exams, one of the last memories before Orochimaru took over. It was as clear as ice. He had promised that once he had become Hokage, he would fix the Hyuuga's ways...
But it didn't look like he was going to become Hokage anytime soon.
'Damn' he mentally cursed, 'it isn't fair to Neji! I need to do something to help!'
He suddenly looked up to see a boulder flying his way. (-.-")
-and promptly screamed and ran out of its coarse, kicking Jiraiya in the head on his way, ceasing the elder man's laughing.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR YOU PERVERT?!"
The white haired man rubbed his sore head and let out a low chuckle, even if annoyance was evident in his tone of voice, "You spaced out again, brat. I am trying to teach you another technique of the Fourth's, but I'm getting the idea you don't have the mental capacity to stay focused long enough to do so!" he turned towards the exit of the earthy dojo and started to walk away, "I guess we're done for today." he took a few steps, waiting until that moment when he started to beg fro him to stay.
"Wait!"
ahh, there it was. Like music to his ears.
He stopped at the sound of the yell and waited for the young blonde to continue, but fell over when he did so.
"What do you know about seals?"
The man picked himself up and half walked half dragged himself to the boy, putting his arms on his shoulders, "kid," he flinshed when he saw he was the one begging, "I am trying to teach you another of the fourth's techniques, and all you can ask of me is if I know anything of sealing?" he sat down, exasperated, "You're hopeless, kid." Naruto just scratched his head in confusion, "Well alright, I admit, learning another of the Fourth's techniques would be beyond belief to me, but I really need to learn more about seals right now, preferably, how to remove them."
Alright, that caught the old man's attention. "What seal exactly, are you trying to remove," he asked suspiciously, thinking of the first seal that anyone would automatically think of when around the boy.
Catching his teacher's look though, he reassured, "Not not that seal. I can take off that whenever I damn well please. It's Neji."
"Ah."
Naruto rolled his eyes, "Thank you ever so much for that enlightenment, Jiraiya-sama. I have now mastered the technique because of your wonderful tutelage, please—mfmfamm—GET YOUR GRIMY HANDS OFF MY MOUTH!!"
"Kid, the seal on Hyuuga is permanent. I trust you know what that implies."
"Yeah, but, there has to be SOME way to get it off! There has to be some sort of...counter-seal or something, right?" he asked, now full of vigor and determination. "Right?!"
He shut up once he felt a large hand rest on his head, looking up to the white haired man, all seriousness in his eyes. 'This is crazy,' thought the man, 'He should be all out for learning a new jutsu, especially this jutsu, but he's asking me to teach him something ELSE.' A memory popped up in his mind, making him finally realize what his friends had been talking about.
"You don't even know Naruto anymore!"
'I suppose I really don't.' he looked straight into the deep blue eyes full of determination that reminded him so much of his late student and sighed mentally, taking his hand off the boy's head. "Alright, kid. Here's the deal. I can teach you a sealing technique, (cut's off a cheer from the exuberant boy), but I can't guarantee that it will be successful. You have to put 110 percent into this, is that clear?!"
"HAI!! ERO-SENNIN!!" shouted the boy, mock saluting the man.
Jiraiya smirked at the boy, "I will not take failure to your friend, UNDERDTOOD?!"
Naruto caught what he was trying to say. "Hai." he answered firmly.
'Then you better develop this technique, boy, 'cause it sure as hell doesn't exist yet.'
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Act VII
Lotus
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Sakura glared at her text unwaveringly. 'Stupid Kabuto and his stupid arrogance!' she yelled mentally for the billionth time. 'Thinks just because he's my senior he can order me around like that! "Read this, Sakura-chan, and you might be able to pull it off!" hah! Who does he think he's kidding! I am going pull pull it off and I am going to do it better than he could've done himself! That'll teach that bastard!!' Sakura yelled into her mind.
Earlier that day she had finally run out of reading material for research on Lee's condition. She had went to Tsunade-sama for help, but she had no more resources to give to the poor girl, and directed her to Kabuto, albeit begrudgingly. So Sakura had to search the chillingly empty halls of the Hokage Tower for the elusive teen until she finally caught him walking into his quarters. She ran up to him with a scowl on her face and gritted out the request for material on cell regeneration. He had answered with a smirk and had given her the text before scurrying off back to his beloved master.
So there Sakura sat in Tsunade's office, (A squared room with bookshelves full of medical text, and a Koi pond to the right.), on a small couch next to the pond, listening to the sounds of the waterfall with a glare in her emerald eyes. Her eyes caught sight of a light green koi, and softened immediately in remembrance of who she was doing this for.
Her eyes then went straight back to the short section there was on cell regeneration. She had already read it over several times, and practiced it over several more, but it just wasn't clicking. She usually got three fourths of the body done in a split second, that was all she could manage...
No! That wasn't good enough! "Think of the person you're doing this for Sakura!" she berated herself, "Would he give up?!" her eyes drifted to the green koi, "If I can't do it this time," she whispered to herself, "Then I will shut myself in this room till I do." She gently picked up the fish, as if it were Lee himself, and placed him on the sealing circle on the table. She went through a stream of practiced seals and then placed them over the twitching fish, her hands glowing purple for one moment before they died, and the fish straightened out. She quickly placed it back into the pond with the other disabled fish, and let out a breath she didn't even know she had been holding when it started to dart around, reminding her of Rock Lee himself even more so than before.
It finally kicking in what she had done, she started to laugh crazilly with a large smile on her face. Shizune took that moment to step into the room, looking a little scared at the laughing Sakura.
"Sakura-saAAN!!" She yelled as the girl ran up and hugged her, spinning her around, "I did it!" she laughed. "I need to go tell the others!" with that enlightening piece of information, the bubble-gum haired girl dashed out of the office, off to her friends no doubt.
Shizune, indescribably curios now, peered into the younger girl's work, gasping in astonishment at what she saw. An alien book lie askew while a bright green fish that she was sure was about to die from severe broken bones was friskily swimming about the pond. Shizune, realizing what had happened, couldn't help but share her smile as well. Then though,her brows furrowed, "...Not even Tsunade-sama is able to do that...Orochimaru...you certainly have picked a strong village..."
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Act VIII
Test Subject
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Sasuke, like every other training day, stood in the middle of a dimly lit room, staring down the Snake. Orochimaru blinked and walked over to a table, knowing that onyx orbs would dart right after him. He picked up a syringe full of some type of potion or another, handmade by Kabuto. All were meant to push to body into full performance, and, looking at his future body, that was exactly where they were going to go.
Knowing that the boy would put up some sort of resistance, he quickly flashed behind him, stabbing the soft flesh of his neck with the thick needle, injecting the concoction. Barely even have registering what just happened Sasuke fell forward, holding the puncture hole. To Orochimaru's amusement, the boy's skin started to bubble subtly, causing the boy extreme pain from the looks of his writhing form.
Just as the bubbling stopped, and the Uchiha sat up from his position on the ground, Orochimaru implanted yet another injection into the boy's body. A scream escaped from his clenched teeth, much to the joy of Orochimaru. The genin was shaking like a leaf, and burning up. The Snake Sannin scowled, these potions better help the body, and not harm it in any way..
He picked up the younger boy by the collar, bringing him to eye level. "You need all this, Sasuke-kun. It will make you strong...strong enough for Itachi. You still want this, no matter what delusions your friends have put upon you. He killed you family, Sasuke. He needs to be brought to justice." He dropped the boy, "I will give you all this medicine, then I want you drilling Chidori's until you cant stand. I'll be back when I can't feel your chakra anymore. Ja ne, Sasuke-kun."
So he left the raven haired genin in the dark, Kabuto coming out of the shadows to take over his job of injecting the "medicine." 'Oh yes,' he licked his lips, 'this boy is excellent...'
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Acts IX-X coming soon...
(hopefully)
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Naruhina wins.
Kibaino, or Inochouji?
All pairings besides sasusaku will be subtle, peoples. Don't be devastated if you hate them.
Sorry for the late update, school is a killer when it comes to time, plus i procrastinate, with everything, including the work, so i had to do that, and then this, and it sorta took awhile. Sorry.
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