AN: Hello again. Thanks for the reviews. Before we go on I wanted to make something clear: Many people asked what about Hinata. I know I put you on the rack by waiting so long for her real appearance or especially for the reason for her sudden change. I want to apologize for that but since I started to write this story I had planned it all out where and when she will show up.
But since I started to update the story frequently I recognized that I had to work a little more on my writing style and I think that the chapters are a little short in my opinion. And to tell the truth: The last two Chapters were originally split into two (or by means four). But since I had the time to read more and more stories I realized that a short chapter just teases the reader more and more and the story will get uninteresting.
So I decided to enlarge the chapters and fuse future chapters together to go further in the story faster.
So beginning with the next chapter (Chapter 9) I will enlarge them to go on with the story further.
Enjoy
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto ………… unfortunately
Chapter 8: Let the training begin
*** Unknown Hideout***
Inside a dark cave a man was kneeing in front of something what seems to be an altar. The man had silver spiky hair and wore a black cloak. Under his cloak he wore black trousers and a fishnet tank top and around his hips he wore a red sash and on its left side there was the golden hilt of a sword visible.
The man appeared to be praying or meditating as he was suddenly interrupted. A man appeared right behind him form out of nowhere. He whore a similar cloak and a white mask with black crossed lines. The silver haired guy began to speak without even opening his eyes.
"I hope you have a good reason to disturb me in my meditation, Tora."
"My apologies Ryo-sama but if have interesting news from Hell's Keep."
Ryo suddenly opened his eyes, stood up and turned around. He looked at Tora with no expression in his face. A shiver run down Tora's spine by Ryo's piercing look. Although he looked every time like that he couldn't get used to it. Ryo's right eye was light green and it seemed he was blind on it. The other eye was red with a yellow cross through is iris. Those eyes gave anyone the creeps who saw them.
Tora putted himself together and began to say "A view hours ago a group of 5 Shinobi headed for Hell's Keep. They may already arrived by now."
Ryo's expression didn't change and he spoke with the same calm voice as before. "Can you say anything about the Shinobi?"
"They are Konoha ninja's. 4 men and a girl. One of them wore his forehead protector over his left eye and the leader of the group had white long hair."
Ryo looked down to the ground. "Jiraiya and obviously Kakashi the copy ninja." Ryo said.
"And one of the younger ones had the Uchiha sign on his jacket."
"Uchiha?" Ryo said with a little surprise ness in his voice. After a few moments of silence he continued "I want Hojo to keep en eye on them."
Tora nodded and disappeared immediately.
"Hmm … this can be very interesting." Ryo spoke to himself.
*** Hells Keep ***
Later that night Kakashi, Jiraiya and Sakura already felt asleep in their tents but Naruto had problems to fall asleep. He thought about his parents and what Chyoko said earlier. "I'm all like my mother. Hmmm … I wonder how she looked like?" he asked himself
Sasuke lied in his tent and also had problems to sleep. The performance he saw today from Chyoko made him doubt about all what he learned from Orochimaru. In the last 3 years he learned many jutsu and also specialized his Chidori. After the long training he was equal with Orochimaru although he didn't show him and even fooled Kabuto. But as he saw how Chyoko easily stopped both their attacks he thought that he wasn't so good after all. And he decided to train very hard to get stronger and surpass Naruto and take his revenge.
*** Meanwhile in Chyoko's house ***
Chyoko was still meditating in the middle of the seal she painted on the floor. She was surrounded by innumerable glimmer in all colors ant they glided through her body one after another. She kept concentrating and not even moved a bit on the outside … but in her mind there were plenty activities.
** Chyoko's mind **
With her eyes closed Chyoko sat in a dark room surrounded by many silhouettes of persons who watched her. On after another moved to her and touched her head for a few seconds and then moved back to his original position as the next one did the same. After a while a deep male voice began to speak.
"Are you sure you wanna do that again?"
"Do you think I shouldn't train them?" she asked still with her eyes closed.
"I mean the ritual. You can train them in your current form as well." The voice said.
"I'm sick of this body and I can train them better after the ritual." She answered.
Then a female voice began to speak "Sure, but we're worried that you will try to break the rules."
Chyoko opened her eyes and looked at the silhouettes in front of her. "When I do, then it's my own choice … and I will take responsibility for my doing."
Another voice began to speak who sounded like a kid. "It isn't your fault that Ryo betrayed you. You're not responsible for that."
Chyoko got a sad expression. "I am responsible for my children and their actions." After that her face instantly changed angry. "And I will take care of that no matter what."
The silhouettes continued to alternately touching her without any further words.
*** Hells Keep outside of Chyoko's house ***
Sasuke and Naruto finally felt asleep and began to dream about their fight in the woods.
***Flashback start:
"SHIT!". Naruto said as he looked up and saw all the Sasuke-Clones had created a Chidori in their right hands. "That's really bad." He thought as he looked at hundreds of Sasukes with a fully charged Chidori.
The Sasuke clones began to speak simultaneously "This is the end for you!".
Naruto looked shocked at the Clones "How could he possibly manage to do that much!" he thought but he was interrupted by the first Sasuke who stood nearest at him and attacked.
Sasuke stretched his arm in Naruto's direction and tried to hit him with the Chidori. But Naruto quickly jumped backwards right in time to avoid the attack. As he flew back wards Sasuke began to smile and said "Wrong decision."
Narutos eyes widened as he saw the Chidori from Sasukes hand moved out of his hand like a hidden sword and hit him straight into the gut. All the electricity went through his body and he felt a pain he never experienced before. He felt like ten thousands of needles hitting him simultaneously all over the body and he began to scream.
He landed on the ground and the Chidori still wandered through his body. After a view moments the electricity vanished but the pain was still there. He wanted to hold the paining parts of his body but it was impossible to hold them all at a time. He began to roll on the ground back and forth still feeling the pain.
"How does it feel Naruto? It will hurt even more before I finish you for good."
Naruto finally recovered himself a bit and began to stand up even if his body hurts like hell. He looked around him seeing all the other Sasukes waiting to do the same again.
"I have to come up with something … quick!" he said to himself and tried to figure out a way of this situation.
Then suddenly the next Sasuke began to run at him. He quickly forced his Chakra into his feet and began to jump back like he did last time.
"Same mistake again." Sasuke said and again the Chidori move out of his arm like before. In the last moment Naruto stomped on the ground and quickly move sideward so the Chidori missed him. As Sasuke passed him he kicked him and Sasuke vanished in a puff. Naruto stomped on the ground again and glided a few meters before he finally came to a stop.
He turned around quickly because he felt something behind him and he was right because the next Sasuke was going to attack him. He dodged this one to and punched him so the Clone disappeared. And then again the next attacked.
After dodging 3 more clones Sasuke they suddenly stopped attacking and wait.
"Not bad Naruto. But can you dodge them all?" Sasuke asked Naruto while he was hidden in all of his Clones so Naruto couldn't make out his position. Naruto froze for a moment as he realized that Sasuke was right. All of a sudden the whole scene began to run in slow motion.
"He's right. I can't dodge them all. … is this the end?" he thought as he looked at all the Sasuke's prepared for attacking him. "This isn't right … It can't end like this …" Naruto thought about all his preparations for the fight.
He talked with Jiraiya about all possibilities but he didn't think of something like that. "All the training for nothing?" he thought desperately and was already giving up but then he suddenly came up with something. "Wait a minute!"
"This is the end!" Sasuke said and then all his Clones began to attack Naruto.
Naruto quickly looked around like he was searching for something. "Damn … I can't tell … Okay then …" he looked back at the Clones right in front of him.
"It's a long shot but my only hope." He said and putted his hands together and formed the tiger seal. He closed his eyes and began to concentrate. As the first Clones were only a few meters away from striking range Naruto opened his eyes again and yelled "RELEASE!"
Instantly the whole scene changed and Naruto found himself standing right in front of Sasuke who was still down on one of his knees in the crater where Naruto kicked him with his FOX DANCE still surrounded by the 5 Shadow Clones he created for that.
Naruto took a deep breath and said "Nice try Sasuke."
Sasuke was shocked. He didn't though that Naruto could see through his Gen-jutsu. Even he hadn't managed to get the Magenkyo Sharingan by now he trained hard with Orochimaru to create a similar Gen-jutsu to the Tsukuyomi. But Naruto could escape even if he wasn't really sure whether he was caught in a Gen-jutsu or not.
"Impossible. How could he …"Sasuke thought but was interrupted by Naruto.
"I thought you could do better than using such stupid tricks."
After that Naruto's clones suddenly disappeared and he instantly felt weaker because all of their tiredness went back to the original Naruto at once.
"Stupid trick's ha? Look who's talking." Sasuke said with confidence while he stood up.
"You're the one who said just a minute before that you're just warmed up. And look at you now. Maybe you're not so tough after all."
Naruto breathed heavily but pulled himself together and said. "Maybe I bluffed a little. But I've still enough power to beat you."
But this was only half the truth. He knew that he had not much Chakra left because of his FOX DANCE. But the same goes for Sasuke. The Gen-Jutsu he just used used up most of his Chakra reserves. He only had enough power for one shot. And he prepared for it.
Sasuke stretched his right arm down and created a last Chidori. Naruto opened his right palm and created a Rasengan. "Deja vue." He said with a smile on his face as he looked at Sasuke.
"That's enough. Stop that!" Jiraiya screamed and jumped down from his tree.
As he landed on the ground he suddenly felt a pain in his right leg and suddenly fell down on his knees.
"What's that?" he screamed and looked back at his leg and was quite shocked.
Kabuto was still alive and held Jiraiya's leg. His hand glow green because he used a medical jutsu on Jiraiya.
"He he … no interference." He said heavily laughing.
"Damn you …" Jiraiya said angry and instantly created a Rasengan in his right palm and punched it on Kabuto causing him to fly into the darkness of the forest. But he wasn't able to stand up and couldn't interfere the fight.
"You're right Naruto!" Sasuke said with a smile a well
"But this time there will no one interfere." He said and began to attack Naruto with a loud scream. Naruto did the same and attacked Sasuke with his Rasengan. They collided with a big explosion which almost destroyed the nearby trees. Sasuke pushed out his Chidori like he did in the Gen-jutsu before and the Lightning rod move into Naruto's arm.
But Naruto's Rasengan did the same in Sasuke's hand. Caused by the Chidori the Rasengan was compressed into a whirling stick moving right into Sasukes arm. Both their attacks caused both their arms and Chakra coils a lot of damage and nearly ripped their arms of.
After the few moments the attacks were used up and Naruto and Sasuke were standing towards each other. Naruto had Sasukes fist in his palm and both of them were breathing heavily. They hardly had any chakra left and fought to remain consciousness. They remained in their positions for a few moments. But then Sasuke couldn't stand on his feet anymore and began to faint.
As Sasuke landed on his knees Naruto who could also barely stand spoke "I win!" just before he fainted too.
***Flashback end***
***The next morning in Hells Keep***
"GOOOD MORNING!" a young female voice sounded through the area and woke up all Shinobi in their tents. Naruto rubbed his eyes and yawned.
"What's wrong with you Sakura? Do you have to scream so loud?" he asked. Then suddenly his tent opened a little and a head came right trough.
Naruto froze as he saw the orange haired young woman which said "Do I look like Sakura, Gaki?"
"WAHHHHHHHH!" Naruto screamed as he jumped up. But he lost his grip and fell 10 meters backwards together with his tent. After he managed to get his head out of it he glared at the young handsome women which woke him up.
Meanwhile the other ones came out of their tents. Sakura yelled with closed eyes. "Baka Naruto! Can't you just wake up like a normal person? Huh?"
Sakura actually froze as she also saw the young woman. The woman was a little bigger than Sasuke and had a very sexy figure. She wore tight black leather pants and a black tank top. Sakura recognized the clothes because she brought those to Chyoko yesterday. But she couldn't believe it and was speechless. Even Sasuke was surprised but was the first who managed to speak.
"Who are you?"
The women began to giggle. "Don't you recognize me? It's me … Chyoko!"
"CHYOKO????" the three young Shinobi said surprised.
"That's right." Jiraiya said who came out of his tent.
"It's all her. Hmmm … but you look a little different than I remembered?"
"You think?" "Yes … You're … much younger." She began to look at her body and realized that Jiraiya was right.
"You're right." Then she began to smile again and looked over to Sakura. "Perhaps we overdid it a little with the blood!" Chyoko said and began to laugh.
"I … I caused this?" Sakura said with a stunned look on her face. Inner Sakura: "WAY TO GO MEEE!!!"
"Yes. It was your blood after all. Hmm … it may be also because you're very young. I never had a blood sacrifice from such a young girl." Chyoko said with a big smile as she looked at Sakura.
"HUH??" Sakura said with eyes like tea cups.
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?" Naruto yelled still with his head out of the tent.
"Stop yelling already. Just get up and clean yourself and after that I will explain it to all of you. And so they did.
After they cleaned their selves they stood right in front of Chyoko hearing her explanation.
"Well then I will make this short. I am the heir of an old bloodline called the Sierra and we are the keeper of the Spirit weapons."
"Spirit weapons?" Naruto and Sakura asked simultaneously.
"Yes. You see: Eons ago there were godlike creatures on the earth that fought evil demons. After they managed to bring peace to the world they were worried about the future. Even they had a long life span they were not immortal and so they chose to transform into spirits to remain their power eternally. But a few of them were chosen to be the keeper of the spirits … The Sierra. The Sierra should use the power of the Spirits and watch over the world. The Sierra created Hell's keep protecting the spirits and they gave her life for it. My ancestors were the chosen one to protect the spirits and this place but also to train worthy humans and gave them the power of the spirits in form of a weapon."
They young Shinobi listened carefully and were fascinated by that story. "That means you teach us to use weapons?" Naruto asked.
"No." They began to look at her questioningly. "I will just train your strength and mind."
"But you said you …"
"I know what I said. It will be all clear after you trained some time."
The young Shinobi's were still confused but accepted it for now.
"Well then Sasuke … Naruto." Chyoko said and the boys looked at her.
"You both go to the mountainside and each of you brings me two of the squared marmot stones."
"Is this part of the training?" the blonde asked.
"No, I just wanna renovate …" she said annoyed and then she yelled "OF COURSE IT'S PART OF THE TRAINING BAKA."
Naruto and Sasuke suddenly winced because of her frightening face.
"Now get moving." Chyoko said with a bossy voice
And so they did.
After a few minutes the boy's each stood right in front of two marmot stones. They were sweating because the stones weight almost 300 lbs. They looked at Chyoko with curious eyes what will happen next. Chyoko already had four ropes in her hand and move to the marmot stones.
She rolled out the ropes and as the boys looked at them they recognized that each rope was split into five strings with loops at one end. Sakura was also surprised and couldn't imagine what the loops are for and the boys couldn't either. Kakashi looks also puzzled at the ropes because he didn't know it either. Only Chyoko and Jiraiya knew it and a big grin appeared on the white haired Sannin's face.
Chyoko tied each stone with the normal end of the rope and gave the boys the other end with the loops. "Okay boys … Now put your fingers into the loops of each rope."
They did as they were told and looked puzzled at their fingers.
"Next mold some chakra into your fingers."
As they did the loops began to tighten.
"What the hell?" they said and tried to remove them but they couldn't.
Chyoko still looked at the boys and a little smile grew on her face.
"And now you will drag the stones around the house."
Their eyes widened to big saucers as they both screamed "WHAT?"
Sakura and even Kakashi looked surprised at her.
Chyoko was still smiling and said with a determine voice "You heard me. Now get moving!"
Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other still with their surprised look on their face.
Jiraiya smiled and thought "This is going to be good."
AN: So the training has started. As I said the next chapter will be longer so stay tuned.
Next chapter: The trainings effect
Oh and by the way: It will be Hinata's first real appearance.
