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Sorry for the long-ass wait but I had tests all month that I needed to study for and now I have the standardized testing coming up. Remind me in the future that I owe you guys a 5k chapter for making check point, though hopefully this chapter makes up for some of that wait.
Notes: Vote on my poll (homepage) it will determine the future of this fiction…to an extent
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The winner of the Naruto skill poll is *Drum roll* Seal master Naruto with an affinity for wind, water and lightning! (How original) but for the sake of originality and to keep my brain from freezing from the lack of innovative enthusiasm. I will add in one or two sub elements (poll at the bottom) and I will swap lightning for earth. If you would rather have the original, set send me a review with a reason why.
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Last time:
Naruto peeked at his damaged robe. "THAT GUY OWES ME A NEW ROBE!" Naruto yelled into the open startling a flock of blue birds. With those words in mind, Naruto leapt after the unidentified kage full throttle content on beating a new robe out of the pink-eyed Nin.
--RMS--
The chase for Naruto's' hit and runner as he was fruitful tracked down to a barren landscape. "Found em'", Naruto smirked. The red-eyed ninja was pulling his body out from out of a rocky indention inside a large trench. Naruto pranced down off the trenches ledge into the once serene clearing turned gutter. At the brink of his cruise, he unceremoniously landed on the plant user.
'PLOP'
"Ughh" Hiroshima groaned from the extra weight that graced his spine. Scrounging himself off the dirt Hiroshima rolled over on the floor effectively knocking over Naruto with him.
The leader coughed then blinked as he saw Naruto on top of him in a compromising position. "What the hell are you doing kid"! Hiroshima scolded Naruto while he pushed him off. Naruto startled at his voice jumped back at the force of the kage's shove and stood at attention.
He looked around frantic for the source of the voice and thing that felled him twice. Finally, he spotted the Senjuu laid under his feet. "How'd you get down there"? Naruto asked dubiously ignoring the kage's stern question relaxing his tensed muscles for a time. Naruto thought the kage seemed kindly enough and if the fire country garb meant anything, he should not have anything to fear. Talk about having an appalling memory.
Hiroshima looked Naruto over and shook his head. "You know what? You are not worth it kid." He said jumping back to his feet while he clutched his ribs and coughed out some blood.
"I'm in pursuit". He trailed in a sober tone that left an enlightened feature on Naruto's face.
Naruto nodded his head and got back to his feet as well. "Oh you mean that dude with the diseased eyes right"? Naruto asked again this time more confidently. Hiroshima not knowing to what extent the word diseased meant or the more precisely the literal use Naruto used merely nodded in response.
After all that bit of information was public knowledge in Konohagure. He even wanted to go as far as to give Naruto an order to return to the village for backup from when he saw a speck of what might have been a leaf band when Madara cornered Naruto in the electro-prism-o-death.
Naruto nodded his head again about to speak when his headband once again glistened, refracting off the light. A bulb went off in the Hokage's head as he smacked his head mentally for his obscene stupidity at not taking a closer notice to Naruto's allied band sooner.
Hiroshima floated his now glowing green hands over his wounds visibly rejuvenating his wounds and other small cuts on his form. "What kind of idiot do you take me for"! The first shadow demanded while he reached into his side pouch and popped a soldier and blood-replenishing pill into his mouth.
Naruto just stared at him as a man would a cat that spontaneously combusted before getting drunk in celebration. After a moment of silence, Naruto finally set himself even and asked. "What are you talking about" he wondered Hiroshima's face tickled something in the back of his mind. There was something about the kage or person that rumbled something in his psyche, he could honestly say he did not know the man yet he felt that he knew him. It was a confusing notion that built in distortion the more he reflected on it.
Hiroshima stamped his hands into the ground and started to conduct killing intent. "A leaf ninja went rogue I've never met?" Hiroshima mock asked. "Think your fixture more thoroughly Iwa scum!" He yelled out raising his hands to forehead level, clapped them then rammed them wrist deep into the dirt.
"What the hell is up with everyone saying I'm from Iwa"? Naruto thought to himself then felt something rumble at his feet. A slim tentacle of entwined vines overturned the soil under the blonde-man's feet and grabbed him by the ankles then hung him in an upside down position that left him wafting freely. "What the hell is this"! Naruto exclaimed as he felt the vine wrap around his body restraining his arms and constrict his chest with ravenous precision. Though before they pent up Naruto managed to grasp a hand around his neck, palm facing outward and intercepted a creeper going for his throat.
Hiroshima grunted at his misfortune. "Lucky kid, that sucker would have snapped your neck on contact." A bead of sweat rolled down Naruto's face in response.
Hiroshima took a short pause and mumbled, "Let us see how long you last" chanting the last bit to himself and shrugged a shoulder over his eye to pick out some dirt that dusted into his tear duct. Then he pushed his hands deeper into the soil at his fingers tips drawing an effect on Naruto, as the vines became more visibly sadistic.
Naruto's pupils dilated in pure agony. "ARRRAA", he shouted at the tightening living strands of shit fertilized wild growth. The hyped vines groped and sprung at his sides stretching him out like man tied to four horses while others teared at his muscles like an angry feline suffering from catnip withdrawal.
The kage hands still firm in the ground turned his head and coughed almost losing his twine on Naruto."Forest rebirth jutsu", Hiroshima hoarsely explained bluntly to Naruto for reasons alien to him. Then he made another a set seals not bothering to wait for a reply. Hands fully presented a series of mutated blue grasses spontaneously ruptured from the ground rocketing up easily ten feet into the air. At the basis of the grass was a circular hole like indention that contained a pulsated oak tree that towered over the valley eerily.
Naruto struggled for a time trying to overpower the Hokage' jutsu but stopped shortly after noting that it seemed to tighten the more he thrashed about. Struggling out of the picture Naruto flipped his flexed his fingers and tried to undo some of the invisible knots of his flax binding.
Hiroshima took notice to Naruto's struggle seriously considering ending the boy now while he was vulnerable which as a ninja would be the most reasonably desired action. To take out an unknown before something negative happened. Sadly, to Hiroshima's misfortune ending the boy now with this jutsu was not possible, he simply did not have the energy to spare. His only choice was to contain and exhaust the blonde-haired person to unconsciousness while bound and even that was not possible since in might cloud Madara enough time to escape.
That just left him containment.
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Naruto hooked his fingers around in the vines searching for some sort of knothole or groove he could fit his fingers into that could allow him to ply off the overgrown weeds.
Hiroshima looked up visibly tired and strained. "It is pointless gaki", he garbled. "These roots are not knotted or sown together as you might think. Think of this as a fertile more tame form of a boa constrictor", Hiroshima daunted grimly. Naruto's back gave short spasm, another bone poked through his robe this one with eye level should he look down.
Naruto screeched a grunt between his teeth as another vine took its place around his two-foot torso effectively covering his entire chest and abdominal area with the green rope.
Hiroshima inwardly frowned at Naruto continued struggled and pursed his lips when his sensed the tentacles retraining Naruto has armed begin to decompose. All he had accomplished was to drain his own chakra stores and test a boy's stamina.
"I couldn't have chosen a worse jutsu for this situation". The Hokage deliberated bitterly. "The chakra strain is terrible and the damn gaki hasn't vented out any of his chakra yet. Either he's stupid or toying with me but either way I need to wrap things up quickly….maybe".
Naruto gritted his teeth. "This shits squeezing the hell out of me"! Naruto all but screamed internally. Another grunt escaped his lips as he felt a sharp string of crackles in his chest signaling a broken, shattered or fractured rib. Blood bounced from his lips coating it like lipstick as another set of crunches resounded from his prone body.
Hiroshima in the space of a quarter of a second; switched places with his hands forming an 'X' on the ground with his arms in front of him.
Naruto's eyes expanded nearly popping from their respective sockets under the pain eclipsing his body. His skin paled under the strain and his rabid blood loss and another lone bone had pierced through his robes that just barley nicked his left lung just beside his heart. The bone throbbing through his robes by the rhythm of his heart beat. Naruto's chin abruptly fell to his chest his neck to make himself more comfortable and loosen some of the tenderness around his collarbone, eyes closed.
The Hokage stood still his head searching for the Uchiha while he continually surged chakra through the ground with less effort than before to save chakra. Replacing the hungry channel of his life energy for more cultivated control, so now instead of trying to crush Naruto to death via constriction he was flailing his vines close to the ground playing a one sided game of ping-pong taking advantage of Naruto momentary vulnerability. Lowering the strain on his own body exponentially by shortening his vines to seven feet and played close to the soil.
Hiroshima spoke up in a partial effort to keep from expelling more of his precious force. "Tell you what gaki", he started slowly. Naruto groggily bobbed his head toward Hiroshima. "Give up now and I promise you a painless death". Hiroshima promised aloud.
Naruto felt the vines loosen as Hiroshima forsook power for conservation of energy to keep hold of his quote and so took siege of it in a fit of panic by surging gallons of his chakra urgently. He looked dead into Hiroshima's eyes his own eyes raged with the flames of defiance all the while.
Hiroshima frowned and flinched at the sudden pulse of charka Naruto exerted. A slim sphere of brownish goop twirled around Naruto escaping from his pores and digging into the ground at the Hokage's feet before coalesce of soften rock upset his balance knocking him over and deeper into the gorge. The fall caused him to uproot his hands from the turf setting Naruto free.
Naruto fell to the ground squeezing at his sides from the throbbing pain he endured. His cloak matted, drenched in his own blood and sweat. His face was red from abuse and his bones still protruded from his skin.
Naruto blinked and groaned as he sat himself down on the floor. "Never in my damn life would I have thought that getting injured actually hurt this fucking much." Naruto panted on the ground and groaned some more, dancing a shaky, green hand over his tender areas.
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Naruto looked up and over the edge of where Hiroshima had fallen and started his way down to catch up to him. "Hokage or not you fuckers owe me a fucking robe"! Naruto fumed between his teeth while tenderly making his way down.
Hiroshima back up and about saw Naruto climbing down towards him anger evident on the blonde-gaki's face. "Kami damnit, what the hell does a kage have to do to get rid of a damn Iwa flunky"!He growled to himself before making a muton bushin which than re-trapped Naruto in the same bind as before.
"WHAT THE FUCK"! Naruto screamed in frustration when he was caught in the same technique for the second time that day.
Hiroshima spun around with a short lived smirk drawn to the site of the crater that was suppose to fit the red-eyed Nin's body only to find it empty. A solitary ball of flesh draped from a stalagmite inside the cove still attached to a stringy cord.
"Shit", he swore audibly at the prospect of Madara getting away. However, that foreboding feeling shimmered away an unnatural mist wafted over the gorge.
"My eye", a ghastly voice moaned. Hiroshima looked into the crater he traced Madara to before his clone spun his fiber web on Naruto. "Madara-kun, you sound like you are in pain", the Senjuu flaunted to the crippled Uchiha from within the red bog careful to hide his injuries as unnoticeably as he could spare to muster.
Madara though masked by the fog appeared saturated in pain and anger. "My eye" he echoed again his blood still flown freely from its socket. His voice rebounded in the gorge, the malice in his tone so palpable Hiroshima himself felt his throat suddenly dry up like a well in the dry season.
Naruto rolled his eyes thinking choice words revolving around 'melodramatic clichés' while he tried to shake free of his bind. He managed to snap part of the extra strength growth while the Senjuu occupied himself with Madara, apparently the bushin wasn't quite as reserved as the leader and was expelling more chakra than necessary and the dumb fuck was tightening his arms and legs instead of his core and head not even his hands were covered. That meant he could still use half seals.
Madara made another call this time from in front of Hiroshima deeply cutting into the cheeks of both Naruto and the Senjuu almost nicking their cheekbone. Hiroshima and Naruto felt a wintry chilliness roll down their vertebrae and numb at what had just happened. They hadn't even felt the pierce of their flesh until their own blood rained down their sides.
--RMS—
Sub element manipulation poll: Main elements: earth, water, wind
Glass/ice - This one is a bit iffy because of the ice elements constant use, but I could do it!
Sand- That's Gara's gig….But it would be easy to put in.
Weather manipulation- spontaneous lightning [rain] storms or hail effects good for terrain advantage and intimidation)
Dust manipulation: If Gara can have sand, I will bastardize my own version on a smaller scale! Besides that shits everywhere annoying the elderly. I say it is time to put it to good use!
Mud (swamps/ect.)- That's right mud….If you could see what my minds sees you would see it too and don't call me on it being a mix of doton and suiton! This one would feed the kid inside me greatly….do not taunt happy fun cat!
-Poll ends AFTER next chapters so vote now-