Sooooooo sorry for the wait :( Fight scenes are hard for me, and this one may be slightly lacking (I'm not really sure... I ain't a fighter, I'm a lover ;p lol) I decided to split up a chapter that would originally have included the entire test, including the results, but I wanted to get this out to you guys ASAP! So please enjoy my amatuer take on how my Naru would fight :)
***EDIT: small things.
Don't Own Naruto!
Naruto sprinted. She sprinted faster than she ever had before, ignoring the insignificant twigs and leaves swatting at her face. Her impeccable knowledge of the various Konoha training grounds zipped through her mind as well.
The lake should be just a little further, on the right. As long as I can make it there without being seen, it should be easy enough to swim out of the vicinity… Naruto thought, a frown present on her face. However, while she was an optimist, Naruto knew that it wasn't going to be that easy. Whatever her brother had planned was going to be sly, underhanded, and would be almost impossible to accomplish. Her eyes darted back and forth, scanning the blurry foliage around her. Kakashi-sensei could be anywhere.
Sweat trickled down her neck as she strained her muscles to push even faster.
Without any hesitation, her body burst through the trees and entered the clearing in front of a serene lake. Her feet pounded the grass underfoot. She might just make it! With her toes of her left foot skimming the tips of grass in preparation to take that first, watery, step, a calm call reverberated from behind her.
"Doton: Doryuuheki."
Her left foot hastily changed purpose and instead of plowing into water it reached upwards to land firmly on the thick wall of earth that sprung up in front of Naruto, flipping her backwards off it. She landed low on her feet and rapidly rolled to the side before a tall figure appeared with a punch that decimated said rock wall. Her body lay flat in the grass, tensed to shoot up when necessary, as Naruto studied her attacker. Through the haze of residual dust, silver hair standing on end was visible. She scrambled up and into a clumsy stance.
"You sure have a nasty habit of running into the open, Naru. It's going to get you killed just like that stupid color you love." She knew he was smiling in that creepy fashion he always smiled in. Even after years of living with him, Kakashi's smile tended to creep her out more than comfort her when it came to training.
"Yeah, well my reflexes will keep me alive. I'm too fast to be caught by-" The jounin flashed in front of the blonde, not permitting a respite in their battle. His fist was cocked back and ready for another punch. "-suprise!" Naru squeaked out before twisting just barely out of her Nii-san's range. The saddest part of it all was that, when she stole another glance at Kakashi, it was obvious he wasn't even trying. One hand lifting his annoyingly perverted book to his face and the other obviously overextended, his posture screamed, "Take advantage of this idiot!" But even with these purposeful flaws, he could beat the crap out of her.
"Don't get cocky, Chibi. I taught you too well for that." His eyes flashed from his book to her eyes, furrowed under her brow. "Lesson one: if possible, don't announce your jutsu. It warns the enemy."
Naru's mouth scrunched up in distaste, his words confirming the fact that he was allowing her advantages. They were now almost three feet apart, a standoff, and he was patiently waiting for her to make the first move. With a gritting of her teeth, Naruto didn't want to leave him waiting.
Once again crouching low to the ground, Naruto used all the muscles in her legs to push forward. Her speed almost surprised Kakashi, if his slight hesitation showed anything. And Naruto capitalized on this. Using the brief opening her brother provided, she slipped under his book holding arm, twisted around to the side of his body, and flung her hands toward his exposed head. Naruto's determined eyes clenched shut in fear; Please don't hurt Kashi-nii too bad…!
Instead feeling the harsh resistance of his skull, Naruto felt a shattering pain in her side. She flew to the right, slamming against grassy ground. She dug her left hand into the dirt in an attempt to slow her momentum and retrieve her balance before Kakashi pounced on her again, but all she received was a sharp pain in her elbow and grass burns on her chest as she continued to slide. Naruto only managed to stop when her body hit a tree. Naruto took in the fact that she probably just hyper extended her elbow in a stupid move and at least three ribs were cracked, if not broken.
She hissed in pain. Stumbling to her feet, her good arm hugged her left tightly to her body for a couple seconds before the pain subsided. She glared at Kakashi.
He was standing in the same spot he was before, only looking at her with a disappointed look. How she hated that look. Naruto quickly looked away, dropping her now uninjured arm. Her ribs still hurt—maybe the broken bones were almost healed by now?—but she ignored it. Instead she focused on staring at the tree to her left. Anywhere but Kakashi.
"Never," Kakashi-sensei whisper, his tone grave, "shut your eyes in a battle."
She knew that.
"It will get you killed."
She knew that.
"In the life of a shinobi, killing others is necessary."
Damnit, she knew that!
"So, come at me again, Naruto. Come like you want to kill me." His voice was the steel of a kunai knife, slicing through her skin and muscle. It hurt more than her recently sustained injuries, even. Her deep blue eyes clouded over. Her body had completely healed and it was calling out to do just what Kakashi wanted her to do, but her mind protested.
"Lesson two: kill if possible; an unconscious enemy is an alive enemy. And an alive enemy is a threat to you and your team. If you don't want to fail, attack me."
Flinching at the meaning of his words, Naru clenched and unclenched her hands and took a deep breath. Stalling for one more moment with the biting of her lip, Naruto whirred into motion. Shoving a hand into her weapons pouch, Naruto pulled out two kunai, slipping them both into reverse grip, hands lying on the worm cloth wrapping their handles. With a soft breath to calm her nerves and assure herself that this, the life of a shinobi, was what she wanted and why she wanted it, she started. Dashing towards her mentor, Naruto still felt the hesitance in her mind, but refused to let it fester. She struck.
Her move to hit Kakashi's shoulder was blocked with a swipe of a hand. Naruto curled with it, brushing against Kakashi's vest-clad back as she spun to face him again. This time she aimed the kunai in her left hand at his neck. That hit didn't reach its intended target either though, as Kakashi ducked down quickly, swiping Naruto's legs from under her. Her head hit the ground and bounced a few times.
"Oomf!" Sitting dazed for a moment on the ground, Naruto's swirling vision only allowed her to discern an agonizingly amused eye. Naruto scuttled backwards ignoring her haze, intent on escaping from the jounin's reach. When she tried to push off with her legs in a back hand spring, her plans were interrupted when Kakashi simply grasped her ankle and lifted her up.
"Better, Naruto," he said with a smile.
"But not good enough, Kashi-nii. I couldn't even touch you!" Naruto crossed her arms and upside-down pouted. Not that Kakashi could see; her blonde hair veiled her face and he hood swung uselessly behind her neck.
"You're touching me now, aren't you Chibi?" Kakashi chuckled.
Grumpily, Naruto attempted to brush the hair from her face so she could see the infuriatingly happy look on her Nii-san's face. Finally she tugged the hair tie from her wrist and caged her hair with it. "That's not what I meant and you know it, Kashi."
She could hear snigger bubbling from Kakashi's throat. Other than that, the only sounds were the rustling of leaves and the chirping of birds. Kakashi's footsteps while carrying her cumbersome form were still perfectly masked in silence. Naruto could feel the blood starting to rush to her ears and, if she were honest with herself, she wasn't a fan of the feeling. But if what Kakashi was currently doing told her anything, she'd be well acquainted with it.
The hell if she'd sit there and let it happen, though. Swinging her body upwards while releasing her weapons, her hand latched onto the jounin's shoulder, using her strength to pry her ankle from Kakashi's grasp. With a smooth twisting of her hips and core, Naru planted her other hand on his arm and spun off of him, kicking his back and using it as a springboard for good measure. Neatly rolling into a ball to take the edge off her landing, Naru sprung back up to her feet.
Kakashi put the orange book back into his weapons pouch—he never removed it from his hand during the fight, Naruto noted angrily—while turning to look at her and when his hand emerged, it contained a thin rope. Naruto paled at the sight.
"You know, you never had a chance of beating me anyway, Chibi," Kakashi mused, slowly approaching her and cornering her against the lake. "I'm a jounin, you're a genin. It's only natural that your skills alone wouldn't even faze me." His visible eye twinkled mischievously again. "Though," he mused with amusement, "if your teammates are as skilled as you, I would have had serious trouble against your unit. If you passed, that is." An impish grin graced Kakashi's face, not that Naruto ever noticed. Instead, the cogs of her brain were turning and an idea hastily sprouted inside her head. While she was preoccupied with a pensive look deeply etched into her face, something Kakashi noted happily, the jounin made a quick hand seal. With a whooshing sound, a second Kakashi formed out of water behind the unsuspecting genin and grabbed her firmly around her torso as she wriggled.
"Kaka-nii! That's not fair!" she cried out as said man threw the rope over to his doppelganger.
"I don't have to be fair Naru, I'm a ninja. Lesson three: everything is fair game in battle." And with this comment, he winked his lone eye at the girl and left her to his clone's ministrations, which included being picked up and brought to a tree lining the clearing.
After a swift couple of seconds, Naruto's captured foot was tied securely to a branch seven feet above the ground, and she was left swinging there with a scowl as the Kakashi disappeared in a splash of water. She could have sworn she heard a loud laugh as it dispelled itself. It didn't take long, however, for her scowl to morph into a snide smile. Her mind had hatched an idea that would force that laughing scarecrow onto his knees.
With a smirk oddly reminiscent of one brooding Uchiha survivor, Naruto's upper body curled up in an amazing show of strength and her hands deftly maneuvered the knot. It was loosening little by little, she could tell. And if the sun was anything to go by, she still had four hours to put her idea to the test.
I hope you liked it! :( worried and all since it's my first fight scene... and yes, Kakashi basically told Naru what she had to do, but he's her brother and he wants her to pass xD hahaha I realize that the whole healing on Naruto's part makes whether she knows about the Kyuubi ambiguous or not, but that will be explained later on.
Next chapter! Moreeeee Genin tests :p yayyyyyyy hahaha please review to tell me how I did! :D And sorry for the wait on this one, I'll try to get the next one up next saturday (no promises though!)
Thank you to fav-ers/followers of this storyy! -Nightmare's Death, pokerfacelove, Donutdan, Ryuji39, theshow07, PoeticNonsenseNinjaStyle, AnimalKrased, Targul.
Thank you ESPECIALLY to my two reviewers of the last chapter: ramen-luver101 and PoeticNonsenseNinjaStyle! 3
