CHAPTER 9: THE UCHIHA HIDEOUT
Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter! I meant to do a Christmas special, but I didn't get it out in time, so I ended up scrapping it.
DISCLAIMER: I own none of the characters I use except Kitsune Koji. Eveline belongs to a friend. His account ID is in chapter 2.
LETSA GO!
I was in a room. It was...a strange room. White walls, so pure of white that you couldn't even tell there were walls there. Same with the floor and ceilings. I felt sensations...pain, cold, and the feeling of something being...put inside me. Suddenly, I sat up in my bed in a cold sweat. Heavily breathing, I got up and went to the fire we had set up last night. It warmed me up while I thought about my dream. It had seemed so real. I was usually a lucid dreamer, but there, I was strangely unaware of it being a dream. I got up and woke Eveline.
"Hey, it's time to go," I said. She rolled over and groaned.
"Is it? Is it really?" She asked. I rolled my eyes.
"Just get up. I'll go make breakfast." I said as I walked out of her tent. I jogged over to our food stash and got out some eggs, milk, and salt, and grabbed a pan to make some scrambled eggs. We ate in silence, then packed our things up to go. As we started to leave, I noticed the ruins of a wall.
"Be careful," I said as I stopped. "Reduce your chakra level. They'll have set up sensors and traps linked to them." I lowered my chakra level to about 0. Eveline kept walking.
"I'm sure we can avoid th-" She was cut off by a figure lowering himself through the air.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" The figure bellowed. His hood came off and we were staring up into the face of Itachi.
"I thought you were dead!" I yelled, looking up into his face. Eveline just laughed.
"He is!" she yelled. She formed a hand seal. "Release!" she shouted as he disappeared. I looked over at her, confused. She laughed again. "Genjutsu. Simple enough to counter." I shook my head in wonder of my idiocy as we started moving again. After another couple of miles, We reached the entrance to the old Uchiha hideout.
"So how do we get in?" Eveline asked. She held out her hand to the door and tried multiple jutsus, but couldn't open it. She looked over at me for an answer.
"Simple. Blood of an Uchiha." I said as I cut my hand with a kunai and wiped some blood on the wall. The door shuddered open silently, and we stepped inside. I held my hand out as we walked, and Eveline healed the cut on my hand. We stepped into the throne room. Sasuke was sitting on the throne, looking at a scroll.
"Sasuke!" I shouted, my voice unwavering. "We have come for your guidance!" He looked up at us.
"How did you get in?" He asked as he formed a chidori and got ready to rush us.
"Do you really not recognise me?" I said. "I am your son! Ryan Uzuchiha, though now I go by Kitsune Koji." I said. He looked me over.
"Oh." He said, unimpressed. He dispelled his chidori. "Who's the cat-fox-rabbit thing? Why's it got a big fluffy tail?" he sat back down and sighed. "Explain. Now."
After explaining everything that happened to us up to that point, he hummed. "I see." He said.
"I would like to train under you to become more powerful to defeat Gio, and she would like to train under Tsunade to become a better medi nin," I said finally. He looked at me.
"And what's in it for me?" He asked. I looked up at him.
"Are you just gonna sit here all your life because your salty about my mum's death? Just because something bad happens doesn't mean you should shut down! You didn't have this reaction when your entire clan was murdered! Why are you having it now?" I yelled. He looked at me with rage in his eyes. "If you think I'm stupid, that's okay. If you think I'm weak, that's okay. But what right do you have to judge my power if you can't even handle death?! If you can do anything to please Sarada just one more time, you should help us so we can defeat her murderer." I said, looking him in the eye, my voice steady. He sighed.
"Fine." He said. He got up and turned toward a door leading deeper into the hideout. "We need to check that Tsunade is alright with your girlfriend training with her. Eveline and I blushed deeply.
"We're not...uh...a couple." I stammered as I rubbed my neck, my face bright red. He looked at us.
"Really? I thought for sure that I...Nevermind." He said, cutting himself off. "Let's go." He walked out of the room, and after exchanging a glance with Eveline, we followed. We walked into a small room where a feminine figure was sitting at a table.
"Yes, Sasuke?" She said without turning around.
"We have a person who wants to train under you," Sasuke said. He nudged Eveline forward.
"Hi," Eveline said nervously. Tsunade turned around.
"Hello," Tsunade said. She looked Eveline over. "Good chakra control. You're keeping it down effortlessly." I realised we were still holding our chakra down, and let it up. She looked over at me. "Not as good of chakra control on this one. He with you, Sasuke?" She asked.
"Yeah," I said. "I've heard you're incredibly strong, Lady 5th," I said. She smiled.
"Did you, now?" She said. "I assume you read the old scrolls. You aren't wrong…" She trailed off. I looked at her.
"Fight me. Please. I know you're only a fraction of Sasuke's power, but I want to see how strong you are!" I yelled ambitiously as I stopped moving to get sage mode up. Suddenly, I felt a kick in the stomach. I stumbled back. She smirked.
"Someone who's good enough to withstand that kick that isn't as strong as Sasuke? Yes please!" She yelled as she rushed me. I activated my sharingan and caught her by the foot as she attempted to hit me with a roundhouse. I threw her, but she stopped herself by expelling chakra. She smashed into my chest and sent me into the walls. I stood up shakily.
Damnit, I thought. I'll have to dodge all her hits. She hits hard. I jumped around behind her and kicked her into the ceiling. I activated my mangekyou in both eyes and jumped up at her. She launched herself toward the ground, and growling, I smashed into the ground so hard it created a crater. Suddenly, her eyes filled with rage.
"THAT WAS MY FLOOR, YOU PRICK!" she yelled as she attempted to axe-kick me but missed. Strong...and scary… I thought to myself. She must be single. I looked at her.
"AMATERASU!" I yelled as her cloak burst into black flames. My eye began to ache and I closed it and put my hand up to it. When I brought my hand away, I saw blood. "Ow," I said, wincing. I looked over at her and saw her standing there gathering chakra. I stood still and began to gather nature chakra. Suddenly, I burst into sage mode. I opened my eyes and saw her still gathering chakra. I rushed her right as she opened her eyes and planted a kick in the middle of her chest, pushing her backwards. I jumped back.
"RASENGAN BARRAGE!" I yelled as I generated a rasengan in both hands and smashed them into her stomach. She flew back into the wall. I wove seven hand seals and jumped up to see her better. "Katon! Gokakyu no Jutsu!" I shouted as I launched a massive fireball at her. She convulsed as it hit her, and the room filled with smoke. I activated my byakugan after I landed to seek her out and saw her lying on the ground with elevated chakra levels.
So that's how she survived. I thought. She created a sort of chakra barrier around her and used it to protect herself. That's what the chakra gathering was for. I looked over at Sasuke.
"Do I win?" I asked. He looked at me in wonder.
"How-" He began.
"I have my ways," I said, cutting him off. He looked at me in annoyance.
"Your mangekyou was extremely powerful." He said. "It sent chakra lightning down you face when you activated it." I looked at him in confusion just before I blacked out.