It was finally time for Naruto to step up. He had waited for this all day, the only other thing he had been so excited for was Sasuke's fight but he missed that due to a prolonged bathroom break, however he had been reliably informed that it was not incredibly spectacular and Sasuke swiftly ring-outed his opponent. So Naruto was left feeling particularly pent up and very overly energized for his fight. He wondered what kind of person he would go up against, he envisioned a behemoth standing over him and in a true David vs. Goliath esque fight, and he saw himself toppling the beast and standing firm and proud as the victor. Thoughts like this just made him even more excited, so you can imagine his reaction when his name was called out. He heard the speaker go and immediately began his dash out of the room, completely missing a shy Hinata's stuttered "Good luck, Naruto."
He entered that dark grey marshalling room, his heart racing, he tried to keep a calm and collected face but he just couldn't stop himself from smiling. Muffled from outside he finally heard the loudspeaker go again. He couldn't hear it clearly, but what he could hear was the word "Chiaotzu". Just as Naruto heard himself utter the words "What the heck is a Chiaotzu?" the door opened again. Naruto had to take a double take, as the gargantuan figure he expected, appeared to be no higher than 4' 5". And that would be a kind estimate.
Naruto gawked at the tiny man as he took his seat, legs dangling above the cold grey floor, and then looked Naruto in the face. His small opponent frowned and then finally spoke. "What're you looking at blondie?" He said his voice somewhat childlike. Naruto, on close inspection of Chiaotzu, noticed how odd the little man was, not only due to his height, but firstly due to his completely snow white skin with red dots on his cheeks, he almost looked like a doll. "Urm, I don't want to offend you but, how old are you?" Naruto asked, puzzled. "Older than you," Snapped the short fighter, sticking his tongue out at Naruto. "Are you sure, it just, oh never mind…" said Naruto, giving up on forming any kind of adult conversation with the fighter.
The two were, after a long wait, allowed to continue onto the stage. When Naruto asked why it had taken so long, he was informed that it was due to the stage needing repairs, having suffered major damage in the previous match and inflicted by a fight by the name of "Piccolo". The two stepped up onto the large, white tiled arena and Naruto looked up. The sky had the same aura is had when they first got their but it set against a pale orange sky as the sun had only just started it descent from the heavens. Naruto looked back across the stage at his small opponent who, although was put to a serious disadvantage due to physical comparison the Naruto, still stayed quiet and confident, not moving an inch, perfectly calm.
Finally the gong sounded, the crowd roared and the fight was under way. Naruto took up a fighting stance and looked at his opponent, who still stood perfectly still. "Huh, why aren't you moving" said a confused Naruto "is this a joke to you?!" Naruto was becoming frustrated "I'm not moving" said Chiaotzu "because I don't need to." This infuriated Naruto "Oh really?! Let's see you not need to move for this!" Naruto produced a shadow clone and the two ran at Chiaotzu. "What the?! There are two of you?" Yelled a startled Chiaotzu. Both Naruto's went straight in with punches, aiming for Chiaotzu's face, which was just about all they could aim for because the rest of his body was only at kicking height. Chiaotzu dodged, avoiding punches easily because he was small and eventually managed to derail the combination attack of the two by ducking between them, forcing them to fully stop as Chiaotzu made distance between them.
"So you can make copies of yourself?" Said Chiaotzu panting "Well I've seen that trick before, the afterimage is a cheap trick blondie and I've seen people use it better than you!" Chiaotzu now began hovering in the air, rising so that his head was at the same level as Naruto. Naruto was shocked by this technique, however he saw the positives mainly that, if he needed to use a Rasengan, Chiaotzu was now on the right height to use it. "Now then, my turn." Said Chiaotzu chirpily as he raised his arm and pointed a finger at Naruto's clone. His finger flashed blue for a second, and suddenly, the clone froze dead, as stiff as a pole and completely motionless. "Ha I have you!" Said Chiaotzu delightedly as he flung, what he thought was his opponent, out of the ring. Naruto looked at Chiaotzu puzzled, and Chiaotzu returned the look. "How are you still there and there?" He said, confuse "I stopped the real you, the afterimage should have stopped."
Up in the viewing area, Tien couldn't bear to watch, embarrassment creeping upon him. "Chiaotzu still hasn't realised that this kid obviously isn't using the afterimage! I don't know what's worse, the fact that Chiaotzu hasn't realised this or the fact that that kid isn't taking Chiaotzu's confusion to his advantage." However Tien was about to eat his word, at that moment, Naruto made a dash at Chiaotzu who had just been distracted by Naruto's clone exploding on the outside of the ring, with a puff of smoke. Naruto reached his target just in time to take advantage, unleashing a venomous right hook which sent Chiaotzu spinning backwards off the stage, however, he still continued to levitate, and did not touch the floor, much to Naruto's disappointment, that was not a match winning move.
Naruto moved back a bit and decided to plan out a strategy. "Okay, so so far I've managed to make him reveal two techniques, flight and telekinesis." He thought "Oh why didn't I just rush straight in and force him out straight away rather than be courteous?! No Naruto, stay on topic, from what I can tell his weakness is…" at that moment his trail of thought was cut off by a sudden flash of light over in the corner, Chiaotzu was preparing to make his next move. And he was charging ki. "So he's a Sayain…" thought Naruto once more "if I let him charge his energy then it could be the end for me, I gotta work, and work quickly too, his weakness is…" Suddenly the entire fight so far flashed before his eyes, and one thing stuck out "HIS WEAKNESS IS CONFUSION" Naruto's mind screeched the fact at him like a chorus of heavenly banshees, screaming out the most obvious answer to all his problems.
"Hey, short stuff!" Naruto yelled at the small fighter, who was rapidly charging his energy. Chiaotzu stopped momentarily to investigate the disturbance. "You thought two of me was difficult? Try this!" Naruto quickly placed his hands in the appropriate cross shape for his clone technique "Kage Bunshin no Justsu!" suddenly, there were hundreds of them, and Chiaotzu had a lock of horror and shock spread across his face. "How many is there?!" He put his hands up and started frantically trying to count on his fingers the amount of shadow clones Naruto summoned as suddenly, the group leaped in the air.
"Oh no" screamed Goku up in the viewing area "Naruto figured out the way to distract Chiaotzu, this is horrible!" However, on the other side of the viewing area, the Leaf team rejoiced. "Yeah, go Naruto!" yelled Kiba and Sakura collectively. "Huh, I guess Naruto does have a brain, when he decides to use it." Said a somewhat surprised Shikamaru. The only two who stayed silent, were Kakashi and Hinata. Kakashi stayed silent out of respect for the fight, taking in every slight detail, every move, and every little fact. Hinata stayed silent because the only person she wanted to hear her praise for Naruto was Naruto, but she could never say the things she wanted to to his face.
Meanwhile, down in the ring the Shadow Clones had reached the peak of their jump, and were preparing to descend with all mighty force upon the small man. "I have to try something!" yelled a terrified Chiaotzu, he suddenly pointed a finger at a random point in the crowd of descending blonde men and suddenly, a bright yellow beam of light erupted from his finger tip "DODON RAY!" screamed Chiaotzu. The beam hit a fraction of the group with immense power, and an explosion ensued which shrouded the group with smoke. After a few seconds Chiaotzu simply uttered one single phrase "D-did, I win?" stammered the little man.
In the viewing area, the mood had switched on both sides and suddenly everyone of the Saiyan team was getting hopeful, and the Leaf looked on in fear. "N-naruto." Gasped a fearful Hinata. But suddenly, everything changed.
Bright blue light pierced the veil of smoke and it dispersed completely as Naruto flew, face first down towards his opponent, arm outstretched, and a blue orb of pure energy held out in front of him. "RASENGAN!" He screamed, flying at high speed into the little man, and sending himself and his opponent, into the floor outside the ring. The arena was stunned for just a second. "A great move from Uzumaki Naruto pummels Chiaotzu into the ground, the challenger representing the Hidden Leaf wins!"
The stadium erupted in roars of pleasure, and the entire Saiyan team, especially Tien sighed. "I really thought he might have had him there." Said a disappointed Tien. "Bahahahaha!" roared Vegeta "he should have tried blowing himself up, maybe then he might've actually scratched the kid!" Obviously squabbles ensued amongst the Saiyans at this point, however across the ring the Leaf team rejoiced. "What a great move" yelled Sakura "I knew he could do it." Everyone was cheerful until Kiba's voice broke the jubilance. "Urm guys, Hinata's fainted." And of course, having seen Naruto's feat of heroism, Hinata had in fact fainted straight off.
Hey guys, you see? Much quicker update this time. Some people may be disappointed that out of all people for Naruto's first battle I chose Chiaotzu but I needed someone to pair him up against didn't I? And to those of you who wish to say that I did not write him in earlier, well, he's small, Chiaotzu is difficult to spot in large crowds. Get over it. Next update will come whenever I stop doing A level work and all that jazz, give the story a like, if you're really nice give it a review and as always, I love you all - Nick