"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Jutsu"
'Flashbacks/ memories'
"Summon/Biju talking"
'Summon/ Biju thinking'
Naruto of the Flash Step
Chapter 8: Death
Three figures could be seen standing in front of the great gate of Konoha. On closer inspection, one of them was a blond boy wearing a Haori who was reading a scroll, a blond girl who was wearing a Kimono and was reading a book and the last was a teenager who was wearing regular Konoha Jonin outfit and was reading an orange book while giggling from time to time.
Suddenly the gates opened, allowing the three to leave the Village. The small group didn't seem in a hurry since they walked through the forest around Konoha at civilian pace. After about two hours of walking, the oldest person from the group stopped on clearing and sat under a tree. The two blondes looked at each other and then at the silver-haired one.
"Ne, Kakashi-Nii, what are you doing?" Asked the boy. Kakashi looked from his book and gave Naruto an eye-smile.
"Well, this is training ground 86, its the most away training ground from Konoha. We will be staying here for at least a month to train Temari-san in the basics since she just entered the academy and she isn't an ultra-super-prodigy child like you," Kakashi said and turned back to his book. "Pack out your tents, we will begin to train in an hour," the teenager said.
"What about your tent, Kakashi-san?" Temari asked, making Kakashi point to his left, his eye not leaving his small book. The two blondes looked over to where he was pointing and their eyes bulged in surprise when they saw a tent already prepared. "When have you done this?" She asked the young Jonin who gave them an eye-smile.
"That's a secret," He said, making the two blondes grumble and go to prepare their own tents. One hour later, the three were standing in the middle of the clearing.
"Naruto, for now, I will be focusing on Temari so she can progress faster with the basics, okay?" He asked and got a nod from his younger brother. "Alright, then you are free to learn Fuinjutsu for now, I will show you a Jutsu alter so you can practice," Kakashi said and the blond Chunin nodded and went back to his tent. "So, we will begin with-" Kakashi was cut off when both of them heard the sound of summoning. They both looked to where Naruto was and saw a room.
They both watched as the door opened and Naruto came out with a satisfied grin on his face. The blond Chunin saw the dumbfounded looks he was getting from his two companions and rubbed back of his neck.
"Sorry, Kakashi-Nii, Temari-chan, forgot to tell you that I took my study with me so I could learn Fuinjutsu more effectively," Naruto said with a chuckle.
"If you took a whole room, why didn't you bring the whole house with you?" Temari asked, a bit irritated. "We could be sleeping in your house and not in tents," She added. The Chunin looked at her puzzled.
"Who would bring a whole house with him for a training trip? It's stupid," Naruto answered his own question like it was something that everyone should know. His two training companions looked at his with sweatdrops.
'Right, who would take the whole house with him for training trip?' They thought at the same time.
One week later
One week has passed since they began their training trip and Kakashi was pleasantly surprised. While Temari wasn't a super-ultra prodigy like Naruto, she was learning very fast. The blond girl made big progress in only a week. She went from an untrained civilian girl to an at least second-year student at Konoha Ninja academy.
Currently, the blond Suna girl was sitting on a chair that Naruto unsealed from one of his scrolls and was relaxing after her Taijutsu training session with Kakashi. The silver-haired teenager was a slave-driver when it came to her training because as he said, he wanted to make them as strong as possible in this one year.
The said cyclops has gone fishing their dinner, leaving the two blondes alone. Temari really didn't know why Kakashi wanted to go fishing if he had a Village not ten minutes from their location. Maybe it had something to do with this orange book.
Well, either way, she and Naruto were alone at their clearing, so she decided to learn more about Suna history, seeing how Naruto wouldn't be able to talk to her as he was working on his seals. That was the only thing that irritated Temari. Normally, she and Naruto would talk and play the whole time, but when he started to work on his seals, it was like he wasn't even with them.
The Suna princess herd rustling of leaves and turned to where it came from, but she hasn't seen anything. She decided to ignore it and started to read her book again. At least until she herds someone land on the grass. She turned to where it comes from to see how much fish Kakashi had caught today, but her eyes widened when she saw that it wasn't their Sensei.
Before she stood a man who hands short brown hair, black eyes and his mouth was twisted into a permanent grin, which in Temari opinion looked scary. He was wearing a long-sleeved red shirt, pants of the same color and a brown flack Jacket. She looked at his forehead and paled. There it was, the Iwagakure Hitai-ate.
As soon as he felt the new Chakra enter the clearing, Naruto appeared next to Temari with two Kunai in his hand, ready to fight whoever it was. As he looked at the man, he tried to remember who the Iwa-nin was. Suddenly it clicked and he remembers the man from the Bingo Book.
"Akira of Iwagakure, B-ranked Special Jonin who is known from his great teamwork with his two twin brothers. I can't sense them, have they left you alone?" The blond Chunin asked, making the Iwa-nin laugh. Naruto narrowed his eyes when he heard his opponent laugh at him.
"Oh my, I am famous even in the shitty Village of yours. And to answer your question, no, they are probably killing your Sensei by now," Akira taunted but was disappointed when he saw no reaction from Naruto and Temari.
"What do you what from us?" Naruto asked and when the special Jonin started to talk, he whispered to Temari. "Temari-chan, stand back," He commanded and the other blond nodded slightly.
"Well, Tsuchikage-sama thought that a Kage's child being alone so far from her Village is bad, so he tasked me and my brothers with delivering Kazekage's daughter to him, so he can escort her back to Suna," Akira lied and then narrowed his eyes. "Alright brat, give me the girl or you are gonna do this the hard way," Akira threatened.
The last Namikaze over his shoulder to Temari and nodded, making her nod back and start to ran away. The Iwa-nin growled and threw a single Kunai at Temari's back, which was blocked by a Shuriken which was the thrown by Naruto. "Your fight is with me," Naruto said and threw the other Kunai at his opponent, making hand seals.
"Ninpou: Shadow Kunai Clone Jutsu!" The single Kunai multiplied into a dozen, all of them flying towards the brown-haired Ninja who hastily made two hand seals and poofed away, revealing a log implied with Kunai. Akira studied the blond boy with narrowed eyes.
'What's with the kid? Blond hair, blue eyes, black shirt, and pants... goddamit, how could I forget it!' Akira shouted at himself in his mind and jumped out of the tree he was sitting on. He landed in front of Naruto and gained a maniacal gleam in his eyes.
"So you are this Namikaze brat everyone is talking about?" Akira asked rhetorically and rushed at Naruto with the intent of a Taijutsu fight. "Let's see if you live up to your reputation!" He shouted and launched and roundhouse kick at Naruto, under which the blond ducked, but had to roll back to avoid the following ax-kick.
The blond Chunin quickly rolled back to his feet and blocked a right hook to his temple. As soon as he blocked, he tried to counter with an uppercut to Akira's gut, but the special Jonin caught Naruto's wrist and kneed the blond in the face, making Naruto stumble back a few steps before he had to move his head to the side to avoid a straight jab to his face.
The jab was obviously a distraction because as soon as Naruto moved his head to the side, his face was met with the Iwa-nin's foot. The kick sends the blond Chunin three meters away. Naruto rolled for a few seconds and stopped at as his back touched a tree. 'Dammit, think Naruto! What do you remember about him?' The blond asked himself and slowly started to rise to his feet.
Suddenly NAruto's eyes widened when he remembered a part of the note in the bingo book. 'Each of the brothers is powerful in one of the main Ninja arts. Akira's strength is..."
"Genjutsu! Kai!" Naruto said, making the ram seal. Suddenly the world started to vanish until Naruto found himself staring at Akira, Temari still at his side. The blond Chunin was about to tell Temrai to run away, but fell to his knees and started panting. "Damn," The blond cursed quietly and slowly raised to his feet again.
"naruto-kun, are you alright?"Temari asked, seeing her best friend suddenly drop to his knees. The blond boy gave her a grin and stood up.
"Don't worry about me, Temari-chan. Go, I got this," The Chunin reassured, making the Suna princess to nod uncertainly and then run away from the fight. The blond narrowed his eyes at Akira, who was grinning smugly.
"So, you broke out of this Genjutsu? Not bad, not bad at all," Akira stated and took out a Kunai. "But let me tell you because my Genjutsu is powerful doesn't mean that my Tai-or Ninjutsu is weak!" He shouted and threw the single Kuani at Naruto who jumped to the side, but as soon as his feet touched the ground, he heard Akira shout.
"Doton: Mud Dragon Jutsu!" A brown dragon formed behind Akira and shot out towards NAruto who made four hand seals at neck-breaking speed.
"Raiton: Lighting arrow!" The last Namikaze made a motion like he would be shooting out from a bow and suddenly a yellow arrow materialized in his hand. The blond let go of his attack and watched as the projectile flew at the dragon and at the moment it was about to hit, the mud dragon vanished. Before the blond could do as much as a scream in shock, he was hit from behind by the same mud dragon that vanished a moment ago.
Naruto flew face-first into a tree and coughed up blood as soon as he hit the trunk. The CHunin slid down the tree and weakly did the ram seal again and disrupted the Genjutsu, which showed that Akira wasn't standing 15 meters from Naruto, only three and had a large fist made of stone ready to attack the blond.
Making a single hand seal, the blond sucked in the air and spat out a large bullet of water that hit the Iwa-nin int the stomach and made him fly back. During the shock that Naruto was able to land a hit on him and the pain from the attack, Akira lost his concentration and the large fist crumbled away.
Naruto slowly raised to his feet, again, started to make the longes sequence of hand seals he knew. After 44 hand seals, Naruto crouched down, to better concentrate and started to draw water from the air.
"Suiton: Water Dragon Jutsu!" Large dragon with yellow eyes formed in front of Naruto and flew at Akira who was just stood up and hand no time to defend himself. The blond Chunin watched in satisfaction as the dragon tore through Akira's body, making the Iwa-nin scream and howl in agony. As soon as the dragon hit the third tree, it dissolved.
"There is no way he survived," Naruto muttered to himself and was about to go to Temari when he heard her scream and saw a shadow rise above him. Before Naruto could react, an earth spike was stabbed through his chest, making the Namikaze gasp in pain. Naruto felt the metallic taste of blood in his mouth and knew that it meant that at least one of his vital points has been destroyed.
"Well, there is a way I survived," Suddenly Naruto's blood run cold when he heard Akira's voice behind him. Mustering all his strength, he looked in the Iwa-nin's eyes and asked the only question on his mind.
"H-How?" Naruto asked weakly as he felt the lifeforce leave his body. He watched as Akira grinned and the earth spike started to crumble away, making Naruto his the ground. Hard.
"Mud Clone," Akira answered simply and started to walk towards Temari with a sickening grin on his face. "Now that he is out of the way, let's have some fun before I will give you to the Tsuchikage, shall we, my little girl?" Akira asked with an ill laugh as he neared the blond girl.
Naruto watched this all as he lay on the ground while a poll of his own started to create under him. 'Damm it, forgive me, Temrai... -chan' The blackness started to consume his vision even more as his heart started to slow down until everything went black and silent.
Yo, so this is the end of the story, thank you for reading, till the next time!
No juts kidding, just a little cliffhanger! I think I know what bloodline I am gonna give Naruto, so stay tuned!
Ja Ne!
