Ch. 10 Don vs. Gazu

The bell rang and all the students left the room. Don left as well and walked to Temari who was waiting for him as she was yesterday. Then a voice called out to Don "Hey! Outsider! Where you going? Don't you want to fight me?" it was Gazu.

Don looked at Temari and she shook her head at him. Don nodded and when they were about to turn around and go, Gazu cut them off.

"Is this your girlfriend? I bet she would leave you if I beat the shit out of you. Isn't that right gorgeous?" he said lifting his hand to touch her face. "Back away you bastard." she said taking a few steps back. "I just wanted to touch your pretty face." he said then attempted to do it again.

Don stepped in the way swatting away his hand. "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get." Gazu grinned "Fine, your dead meat wimp" and threw a punch at Don, which he dodged.

The surrounding people backed away in fear of getting in the crossfire of these two academy students. Then Gazu pulled out a scroll and placed it on the ground and made a hand sign on it.

"Summoning!" he shouted and a puppet appeared. This wasn't like Crow. It was a stiff pale human like puppet. It wielded a well-balanced sword. Temari's eyes widened in shock.

"Don he's a puppeteer be careful these kind of guys carry some heavy poison, if you get hit you could die." Temari told him. Don just smirked. Then Gazu launched his swordsman at him and swung at him with his sword. Don managed to dodge.

"The poison must be in the sword. I better watch myself" Don said to himself. Then he ran to a nearby building and stood in the shadow of it. Temari then smiled. If she was right she knew where this was going. Though there was a fault in his plan. Hopefully he knew this and found a way to get around it.

Baki-sama sat at his desk and looked up to see Don running to the shadow of the building across the street from the academy. Trailing him was Gazu's puppet. He got up from his desk and headed outside.

Arrogantly Gazu sent his swordsman foreword. Don made a hand sign and cast his shadow to the swordsman's. "Got you" Don said. Don spread his hands apart as did the puppet. Gazu tugged on his strings but his puppet wouldn't move. "Shit what the hell is wrong!" Gazu said.

Don and the puppet walked toward Gazu. Gazu started to panic then Don and the puppet ahead of him, attacked Gazu. Gazu dodged. He didn't get it how Don was possessing his puppet. Don had the puppet hack away at Gazu.

Gazu kept dodging and then caught the puppet's arms as it came down for a swing for his head. Gazu smiled though Don just had the puppet kick him in the stomach and sent Gazu tumbling back against the academy wall. Then Gazu had an idea.

Gazu got up and yanked his arms to the side of his body releasing the chakra threads attached to his puppet. The puppet fell to the ground and then Don realized Gazu found the flaw in his plan.

When Gazu realized that his plan had worked he charged at Don. "It's time to take this to close combat, face to face" Gazu said to himself. "You won't win you coward!" he shouted at Don. Don assumed his battle stance just as Lee or Guy would when in battle.

Gazu threw a punch at Don, which he dodged. Then Don felt a hard blow to his gut as he went flying and hit the ground skidding he realized Gazu had kneed him hard. "Ha ha ha, I knew it. You're a weakling, one hit and you can't fight back. You should go back to where you came from." Gazu said.

Temari watched in terror. That blow looked really hard. Don got up and covered his stomach with his arm. He grunted in pain. Then he assumed his fighting stance once more.

"Looks like he wants more." Gazu said to himself and charged at Don. Gazu threw the punch and followed up with his knee but Don saw it coming and dodged the attack and went around him. Gazu ended up hitting the wall of the building infront of him punching a huge hole in it.

He turned around and took a few steps forward and saw Don with the same hand sign he used to posses his puppet. But it was too late. Temari smiled "Over." she said to herself. The position they were in Don was going to do what Shikamaru had done to that sound village girl during the chunin exams.

Soon enough she watched as Dons shadow was cast and it connected with Gazu's. Don glared at Gazu. Gazu started to panic. He couldn't move. "Now let this be a lesson to you Gazu, mess with me or my friends this is what you'll get." Don shouted.

Don spread his hands out as did Gazu. The Don flung himself back arching his body. When Gazu did it, it hit his head on the wall so far he knocked himself out. Then Don retrieved his shadow.

All the people stared at the scene. An outsider taking out one of their own. It was unheard of. Temari ran up to Don "Don! You did it, thank God you're alive." then she hit him upside the head. "You idiot what did I tell you about getting into fights here?" she barked at him.

Don just smiled "Sorry he was about to harm you, I couldn't let that happen. I know that you could have probably defended yourself but since I was present I was involved so I had to stand up." Then Temari smiled at him and kissed him on his lips. Don was caught off guard and held Temari in his arms.

"Don" a voice called. Don turned around to see Baki-sama looking at him sternly. Don bowed "Yes Baki-sensei." Baki-sama looked around and saw the fear in everyone's eyes and looked over his shoulder to see Gazu knocked out on the ground.

"Well you have caused quite the trouble." Baki-sama said. "It was self defense sensei. But before anything else happens, shouldn't you take care of that guy?" Don said pointing behind him to Gazu. Baki-sama nodded "I guess so I will go get the medics. We will discuss this tomorrow."

Baki-sama left to go fetch the medics. "Hey Temari can we go home, I've had a long day. I'm tired." Don said and then yawned. "Baka you're just like Shikamaru, always wanting to relax or sleep. Fine but we are going to make a quick trip somewhere." Temari replied.

"Where would that be Temari?" Don asked. "I am going to treat you to dinner in a celebration for your first fight and victory here in Suna. You'd either have to be pretty strong or pretty stupid to take one of us on, even if it was an academy student." Temari replied happily.

Don smiled awkwardly and followed her to the street of restaurants.