A/N: …I have been wondering what Naruto's fighting style should be. I don't want to make him all super, but somehow Jashinist!Naruto has started to fascinate me. I haven't settled on anything yet though. If someone has ideas, I'll listen – I don't promise anything though.
And the good news is that my inspiration has somehow come back, probably because I'm finally starting to get this' plot to form in my head…
Kusaitu-baka doesn't own Naruto. No matter how much she would like to… Does this really have to be written in every chap.?
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Eight chapter
Pein looked at Kakuzu and his partner as they were standing before his desk.
"Your mission is to kill this guy", he took a file of their target and gave it to Kakuzu. "Gather his bounty and a scroll. Information of the scroll can be found from the file too."
Kakuzu looked through the file and his partner wondered how he and leader could read in the dark. He himself couldn't even see where he was going there.
"Now, you're dismissed. Tell Sasori and Orochimaru to come here", Pein told the two and they left.
The all mighty leader of Akatsuki looked at the light switch longingly… How he wanted to press it so he could see, but he had reputation to keep.
His longings were interrupted though, when Sasori and Orochimaru came to his office, without even bothering to knock. He glared at them for it, but didn't say anything.
"You called", Sasori stated calmly while Orochimaru seemed to be daydreaming – about Itachi, no doubt.
"Yes. I have mission for you two", Pein stated while glaring at Orochimaru who didn't seem to register anything that happened around him. Sasori smacked him on the back of his head with his tail.
"Ouch!" the snake cried out and was about to whine more, but noticed he was in leader-sama's room. "Oh, leader-sama! Just the one I wanted to see!" he cooed at Pein. "You wouldn't mind changing Itachi-kun as my partner, would you?"
"No way", Pein stated sternly. "Now, back to that mission…"
Orochimaru was about to cry, but held it. Sasori listened to their leader while getting ready to smack his partner again if needed.
"I've send Zetsu to spy on Konoha in case they decide to try and get Itachi or Naruto back", Pein started. "And his report has come. It appears that Danzo, some old geezer from Konoha's council, has sent some of his Foundation members after us. I want you to eliminate these four."
Orochimaru smirked, but nodded alongside with Sasori.
"Right. Orochimaru, you're dismissed. Sasori, I have something to discuss with you."
The snake left the room, pouting since everyone seemed to diss him today. It isn't fair, he whined in his head and decided to find Itachi-kun.
Sasori looked after his partner and sighed. If their fighting style didn't go so well together he would have already killed him… He turned to look at the leader. "What is it?" he asked.
"Danzo's plans include allying with Orochimaru", Pein went straight to the point. "I want you to keep eye on your partner and let those ninjas give the message to Orochimaru. I want to see just how loyal he is to us."
"So I should act obvious to this?"
"Yes. Zetsu will follow you two, he will come back to the base in a hour. If Orochimaru agrees to ally with Danzo I want you to report it to Zetsu right away", the leader said and looked stoically at Sasori.
Sasori nodded and then dismissed himself.
--- at the
so-called training ground ---
Naruto was bruised and
exhausted, as he was trying to call his chakra forward. He was
practicing the basics of chakra control so Itachi would start to
teach him jutsus. It was a lot harder than he had thought. For those
who weren't ninjas it would have looked like he was meditating, and
he was supposed to draw a little bit of chakra out so he could get a
hang on chakra controlling.
Itachi had sat next to Kisame and Tobi while waiting for Naruto to succeed. The young Uchiha was frowning as he looked at the boy and his training. He was bad at teaching, so he really couldn't give Naruto any tips. He had only shown the boy how to do it and was hoping he could get it. It seemed he couldn't though.
But why was it so hard for Naruto to do it? It wasn't that hard and he could see Naruto was doing it right.
Kisame glanced at the boy beside himself and saw his distress. It made him smirk. "Maybe he has too much chakra?" he suggested, his tone giving clearly his amusement away.
Itachi blinked couple of times, turning to stare at Kisame. "Hn", was all he said, if you can call that speaking, before glancing at Naruto. The shark just might be right. What to do now if Naruto was incapable of doing the simplest chakra exercise? He turned back to look at Kisame. "I take it so you know how to deal with that problem?"
"Sure! From first-hand experience!" Kisame declared, his grin exposing his whole row of sharp tooth.
Itachi stared at him in manner that clearly said 'well, start explaining what to do then' and made a note-to-self that he should get a Teaching for Dummies-scroll from somewhere.
"Oi Naru-chan, come here!" Kisame shouted to the boy, deciding to start calling him Naru-chan too.
Naruto stopped what he was doing and stood up, looking around so he wouldn't get lost on the grass jungle. He walked over to them and made a nervous grin. "Yes, Kisame-san?" he asked, hoping he hadn't done anything wrong.
"I noticed that you have too much chakra for this exercise", Kisame stated. "So try to call just random amount of chakra and start practicing to make that amount smaller, you get what I mean?"
Naruto nodded. "I… think so", he mumbled, little uncertain. He didn't say anything more, but looked at Itachi for approval. After getting a nod and a little smile from Itachi he went back to his training.
---
--- with
Orochimaru and Sasori ---
The said two were sitting outside
the basement, waiting for Zetsu and looking at the training ground
that was little further away. Orochimaru was staring mostly at
Itachi, but the training boy seemed rather interesting too. Kyuubi's
vessel, he noted, seemed to be rather gifted.
When they both sensed the enormous amount of chakra that fired out of the boy, Orochimaru decided that the boy really was worth his attention too – of course Itachi came first though. Sasori didn't really care, he was just surprised.
Suddenly there was an rumbling sound and a plant appeared before them. Zetsu looked at Orochimaru and Sasori, finding Sasori glare at him.
"Oh Sasori-kun! You really should learn patience!" Orochimaru said off-handedly to Sasori, getting glared at in response and without saying more they left to do their mission.
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I'm sorry that this one's quite crappy and short. Next one is probably going to be longer and there will probably be some action in it – or at least in that one there will actually happen something. I promise!
