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Arc 1: Tests of Honor
Chapter 10: Naruto vs Kisame
The doctors approached Lee's pale and heavily breathing body to examine him. Once they were done they told Gai that Lee had several lung problems and was on the brink of death from the sand. He would have to undergo immediate operation in order survive and if the operation failed he would either die or be unable to work as a shinobi ever again.
Naruto grew even more distraught after seeing another failure like him and Hinata carted off in uncertainty. Now it was only him, Shikamaru, and Chouji left int the exams, who bore the name failure.
'Hinata-chan, Bushy Brows, don't worry I will succeed. These pompous so-called geniuses will have to answer to the failures who made it into the next round in one month's time.'
Naruto was broken from his thoughts by an arrogant voice next to him "What a fool. Even in death, he never understood that destiny never smiles on failures. Especially one would tear himself apart trying to defy it. But I guess in that way your a lot alike Naruto."
"Just you wait GirlHair-teme! Cause come finals I'm totally going to rip you to shreds!"
Though he was pissed off at the Girl Hair comment Neji brushed it off and resumed watching the medics cart his teammate off to the emergency room, and his sensei following, weeping on the way.
"Alright now would the last two remaining competitors please step forward so we can *cough cough*, sorry, so we can begin the final match?" Hayate asked.
In response Chouji and Dosun stepped into the arena. The latter for the chance of fighting Sasuke, and the former for the promise of all you can eat barbecue.
"Alright now that we're all here, we can begin the final match."
"Come on Chouji. Show this mummy jerk who's boss."
"You can do it."
"Wow Shikamaru, your just full of surprises today. First you've got a crush and now your cheering for someone. Looks like I'm not the only one who's changed in the past six years!" Naruto teased his friend who only let out a frustrated groan in response.
To get her teammate more battle ready Ino yelled "fatso" to him which pumped him up to the extreme.
"Don't worry Ino, I'll pound this mummified weirdo into the ground and then I'm coming for you!"
"Are you really sure I'm going to be the one pounded into the ground fatso?" Dosun prodded his opponent on more. Choji made a quick hand signs and once he finished he bloated up to almost the size of the room.
"Expansion Jutsu: Titan Style"
He pulled his arms and head into his giant body as to protect his ears from Dosun's sound attack and began rolling around at him at incredble speed. Dosun avoided the attack which resulted in Chouji getting stuck in the hole previously made by Kiba, but still kept rotating so Dosun couldn't get a hit in.
In order to attack without getting ripped to shreds by the fastly orbiting sphere, he punched two holes in the ground and rammed his feet into them. Without hesitation, Dosun threw a punch into Chouji's girth.
"Nice try but you can't beat with that sound of yours when my ears are plugged!"
Dosun smirked through his bandages and flicked his gauntlet, activating his attack. Chouji screamed in pain as he popped back into his giant form while knocked out cold by the vibrations.
"Even with your ears plugged my sound attack will leave you out of it. Since the human body is mostly made up of water that leaves you vulnrable to my attacks even with your ears covered."
Once he was done gloating he realized Chouji was falling backwards from fainting. Dosun attempted to move out of the giant's way but remembered that his feet were stuck in the holes he had made. With no way to escape, he could only scream as Chouji fell and crushed him.
When the smoke from the impact and reversion cleared it revealed, a shrunken and asleep Chouji, and a crushed and dead Dosun.
"Due to the fact that one is unable to battle and one has been killed, neither will advance to the final round of the Chunin Exams. The tenth and final match of the preliminaries is a draw. Would the able-bodied winners of their matches please come down so we can explain how things are going to work."
In response to his request Naruto, Shikamaru, Neji, Temari, Kankuro, Shino, and a recently resealed Gaara came down from the stands to hear his words, while the Jonnin and Ino stayed behind.
"Lord Hokage, do you want elaborate?"
"Of course Hayate" The old veteran answered before he began his explanation. "In the final rounds of the exams you will each put your battle skills to the test in front of an audience of nobles from this sea and others, as well as the Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral Momonga. They will decide by ballot who they think should be chunin after the exams have been completed. You will have exactly one month from today to train your bodies and jutsu. That and we'll need to send out notices. Before you were battling an enemy with unknown abilities such as inhuman strength, demonic chakra, and even a few Devil Fruit powers. So to make the finals fair, you'll have a month to develop strategy and learn a few new tricks, since it's likely everyone here knows your basis of all your attacks. Now everyone will need to take a number from the box Anko is holding."
Anko walked up to everyone, giving them a chance to take a piece of paper until it was completely empty. Once asked their number they replied to which Sarutobi wrote something down on a dry erase board he was holding.
"The final exam's showcase will be in a tournament bracket. The numbers you have randomly picked will decide who you face in the finals." Sarutobi said.
'Lets see, out of the remaining people I would want to fight Gaara, GirlHair-teme, or Sasuke-teme. The other one's from the sand I just don't care about, and going up against someone as smart as Shikamaru or Shino would definetly be bad.'
"I will now reveal your first opponents in the exams." He turned the dry erase board he was holding around to reveal the matches.
Roronoa Naruto vs. Neji Hyuuga
Sasuke Uchiha vs. Gaara Sabaku
Kankuro Sabaku vs. Shino Aburame
Shikamaru Nara vs. Temari Sabaku
'This is exactly what I was hoping for. Right of the bat with GirlHair-teme. Things couldn't be any better!'
"Any questions?"
"Wait if their's only one winner wouldn't that mean there would only be one chunin?" Shikamaru asked.
"Quite the contrary actually. While the winner automatically becomes chunin there will be a ballot among those in the audience afterwards to decide who becomes chunin. There'so even a possibility ALL of you could become chunin. The further you make it in, the more chances you have at showing your skills to the judges. Does that answer your question?
"Yeah sure." The Nara replied aloofly.
"Now there will be a few rules added on that weren't there before.
Rule #1: No spying on the other contestants, especially while they are training
Rule #2: As opposed to the preliminaries, weapons such as katana are allowed
Rule #3: In the event a contestant is killed before or during the exams they will be disqualified
Rule #4: The use of bloodlines is permitted and encouraged. Killing the user of the bloodline in question will result in execution, if the party is from Konoha. Killing anyone else is fine.
These rules were written and signed by our wise and powerful Civillian Council." Sarutobi said as he gritted his teeth together in the last part.
"We will now adjourn. Congratulations on making it this far and we'll see you all in the Land of Fire National Arena in one month's time. Now goodbye." Sarutobi and the rest of the higher ranking ninja then shushined out of the room leaving the rest of the examines to either leave or speak amongst themselves.
After about three minutes only three remained, Naruto and Neji. With a confident look Neji turned to his future opponent and began trying to sway him from competing "Of course, fate pairs me up against another failure I should have no problem defeating. A word of warning Roronoa, don't show up to the stadium, or else I'll make sure you leave in a hearse. You've only made it this far due to luck, and just like Hinata and Lee you don't deserve to be in the exams with geniuses like me and Sasuke. Needless to say, I'll have to kill the Nara under the same terms if I get him after I send you to hell. Tata!"
Neji shushined away to leave Naruto in his own thoughts, hoping he had scared away from the fight. However what he had just had done the opposite, making Naruto even more pissed off at the arrogant Hyuuga.
But at the moment, the swordsman had bigger fish to fry. He needed to talk to a certain old man about what he saw in Lee's match. There were more than one jinchuriki and he needed to know just what was going with them.
In the Capitol building of Konoha, Sarutobi was in office taking care of the arch enemy of any political leader in the world. Paper work! At least he was until Naruto went crashing into his office by slicing down the door, and walking through nonchalantly,much to the shock of the Hokage's workers in the other room.
"Oh hello Naruto. I was expecting you here. Come, sit down have a cup of sake." Sarutobi said monotonously despite the oddity that just occurred .
Naruto approached the table and sat down while his surrogate grandfather poured the sake into the cup signaling Naruto to take a sip. After a few drinks he began asking questions.
"Alright Jiji, we both know why I'm here. So tell me what is it with other jinchuriki. How many are there in the world today and what are their conditions. And finally, and this is the most important one, HOW COME YOU NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
The old shinobi brought his hands up defensively and said "No need to shout gaki, just let me talk and I'll explain everything."
Naruto calmed down quickly after Sarutobi's reply. This gave him enough time to clear his throat and begin his explanation.
"Despite their being more than one, the jinchuriki are very rare, being confined to only this large island in the South Blue. Of the nine jinchuriki there are Gaara Sabaku of the One Tailed Racoon, Yugito Nii of the Two Tailed Cat, Yagura of the Three Tailed Turtle, Roshi of the Four Tailed Monkey, Han of the Five Tailed Sheep Utakata of the Six Tailed Slug, Fü of the Seven Tailed Beetle, Killer Bee of the Eight Tailed Steer, and of there's you. Each of these shinobi are scattered across the hidden villages. For the most part they aren't treated very well in their own villages since when the beast gets out it causes massive havoc. Usually they either become a missing-nin like you did or go completely insane like Gaara. But some villages like Kumo don't mind the demons inside them and even honor them as ninja."
"Yes well that still doesn't explain why you didn't tell me about this all years ago." Naruto retaliated.
"I was planning to tell you once you turned 16, but at that time you were somewhere in the Grand Line. The reason I didn't tell you to begin with is because of a criminal syndicate dedicated to capturing and killing all nine hosts called Akatsuki. They weren't considered a threat until very recently when to of their members called Scorpion and Artist assassinated the Mizukage Yagura. I worried that telling you would cause you to give up your goals out of fear of death."
Naruto gave the third an annoyed look and said "Do you really think I'd do that? I may not be the smartest guy but if I die fighting for my goal I couldn't give a shit!"
"Yes, I realize that it was very foolish to think that way of you. I hope you can forgive me in time. But you should probably be going. I need to take care of that Ibiki buisness." Hiruzen said as he sat at his desk and motioned to the door.
When Ibiki's name was brought up he had realized that the interrogator hadn't been present at the closing ceremony for the preliminaries. And the way Sarutobi had mentioned him was very concerning.
The Sandaime had sensed this told him " I know what your thinking. I'm afraid Ibiki was murdered earlier this afternoon. And judging from the substance we gathered during the autopsy, there's only one person who could have done the deed…Sasuke!"
Naruto felt another surge of rage sear through him at the tragic news, and yelled "Then what are we just standing around here for? We should be arresting the teme for murder after what just happened!"
"Yes but at the moment there's nothing we can do. The civilian council would aquit him of the murder and accuse someone else, likely you. So for now I'm ruling the death as accidental. But don't worry, one of these days that brat will screw up so bad not even the council will be able to shield him from justice."
Naruto turned towards the door with a slightly dissapointed look on his face and said "Alright, I understand. He won't get away with this though, for whatever reason he did it for. And one more thing, who was the jinchuriki before me?"
"Oh him? The jinchuriki before you was a man named Ichigo Hatake. But he disappeared during the Kyuubi attack. I wouldn't be worrying about that though, after all you need to visit your new girlfriend in the hospital!"
His faced turned hot with both anger and embarrassment from his surrogate grandfather's teasing of his relationship with Hinata. He turned around and yelled "Shut up old man!" before running out the door red as a beet.
The aged ninja chuckled at Naruto's defensive reaction before turning to his office window and looking outside 'Tobimara-sensei, I'm sorry I couldn't be a worthy successor to you. I'd retire but then those council bastards would put the Uchiha child in my place, and that would only make things worse. I hope that the true bearers of the Will of Fire will ignite the flames of this village's honor once again.'
It took about five minutes for Naruto to get to the nearby hospital where all those who lost their matches that made it out alive were being kept to heal. He hadn't heard much about most of their conditions but was still worried about the one's whose life hung in the balance when he last saw them such as Hinata or Lee.
He walked into the room to see a familiar looking nurse at the receptionist she was one of the many nurse's that tried to have him killed when he was admitted into the hospital after being attacked by a drunk mob.
But unlike the other nurses who were killed for breaking the Sandaime's Law, she attempted his life right around the time the council took almost complete control over the government so she got off scot free.
Seeing as there was no other way to get into the ward he decided to just go up to her. She gave him a hateful glare and said "Sorry Demon, but you get no admittance into this hospital. Visiting hours are over, and besides you might taint the patients."
Ignoring the fact that visiting hours weren't over for another hour he gave the spiteful lady a glare of his own before slicing the visiting hours sign in half "Oh would you look at that the visiting hours are gone. That must mean I can go in!"
While the nurse was frozen from shock, Naruto headed into the hallway. He looked around the doors to see if he could find the one with Hinata's name. He kept walking down the passage without looking and ran right into a familiar face.
"Hayate, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked very confused.
"Oh, my wife had my child today so to pass the time while she's resting I'm visiting everyone who failed the exams, that actually survived. So far Chouji and Tenten are the only one's who've actually regained consciousness. Hinata's condition is stable if your wondering. I assume you were going to visit her?"
"Yes, I was. And I'm going to right now, see you later Hayate." Naruto said as he was directed to Hinata's room by the sickly jonnin.
He walked into and felt his heart leap at Hinata's sleeping form. Ever since he left the village to pursue his goals as a swordsman he never really had much of an romance. Mostly stemming from the fact that he was always either training or bounty hunting. And the fact that he became directly affiliated with some of the worlds most wanted pirates didn't really help with luck with women.
But Hinata was the only girl beside Ayame who actually treated him with any respect. He felt close to her, unlike almost anyone else "God damnit, I better not be turning into that stupid cook, otherwise I'll run to the New World just to beat the shit out of him!"
"So your here dobe? Good I want you see this?" Naruto was broken from his thoughts by a voice he'd hoped not to hear for another month. Sasuke was standing in the door with the same smug grin on his face.
"What the hell are you doing here Sasuke-teme? I thought you were off on your little murdering spree with your boyfriend Orochimaru. I know all about those gold samples on Ibiki's corpse!" The swordsman retorted.
"So that toothless worm of a Hokage told you? Not like it matters, the Civillian Council will come pin the evidence on you if he even tries to accuse me. But with Neji going to kill your worthless ass in the exam you'll be out of my hair and I'll be promoted and receive that special sword of yours! Then I'll take the chair from the old fart and make this town of fools my own my playground for Uchiha. And your bitch is going to help me with that goal!" Sasuke said as he pointed to Hinata.
In response to his threat Naruto immediately withdrew a sword from it's sheath and swung straight for Sasuke's arm. Before it could hit Sasuke turned his arm into the knife he used to kill Ibiki. Both strongly held their positions with an extremely large amount of Ki exploding out of them, as they locked eyes like two beasts battling for supremacy.
But something burning hit Naruto in the back and stuck to it. He recoiled from the pain giving Sasuke an opening to stab him with his other arm. Despite this Naruto still stood in incredble pain. The clone that had attacked him walked around him haughtily and exploded.
When Naruto looked up he saw that a flaming red curse mark was spreading like a disease across Sasuke's face "That's why I'm stronger than you dobe. Before we were equals! But thanks to Orochimaru's gifts I'm now the strongest genin alive!"
Sasuke was shocked when Naruto just started laughing "Really Sasuke-teme? Your the strongest. What a load of horseshit, the only reason your strong is cause you had everything handed to you on a silver platter! Your jutsu, your Sharingan, your Devil Fruit, and now that glorified hickey! You were given everything so you have no idea of how hard life can really be. All you do is bitch about your brother and your family of thieves, but everyone loves despite the fact your literally the worst person I've ever met. Where as there are people who had to work hard for what they got Shikamaru, Shino, and all had to work our asses off to get to the finals and here we are! Face it Sasuke-teme your not the strongest genin alive. Your the biggest wimp alive!"
Sasuke was enraged to the point that his Sharingan had turned on involuntarily by this point in Naruto's insult and lunged at him with both his fists tirned golden and spiked. Naruto withdrew Kurama to prepare for the oncoming brawl but right before he could make impact with the sword, Sasuke stopped dead in his tracks.
Both were equally confused until an aloof voice came from the doorway "Sorry Uchiha but letting you and Naruto fight now would be incredibly troublesome."
There in the doorway stood Shikamaru and Ino looking pissed off as ever, though this was more notable on Ino's side "If you lay one more hand on either one of these two I'll flatten you into the ground Uchiha!"
"Why you stupid little whore! Make your loser of a teammate at once. I am an Uchiha so I shall do whatever I want to the Hyuga bitch and neither you or the dobe can stop me!"
His demanding only pissed of the blonde kunoichi even further to the point she lunged at Sasuke and slammed her fist into the top of his head sending his face bloody face directly into the tile below, while Naruto just looked on in amazed shock.
"Di-did you just nail that bastard? I have to say… I'm pretty impressed!"
Ino got and dusted herself before answering the injured swordsman "Well Naruto, if I'm gonna be less like Sakura and more of a respectable kunoichi, I'll need to get over my obsession with this jerk!"
"That's great and all, but the next step in that is to not beat your teammates senseless for no good reason." Naruto told her slightly amused while pointing towards Shikamaru's unconcious and bruised body.
Apparently since Shikamaru still had his shadow linked to Sasuke when he was assaulted by Ino, so he took brunt of the attack as well. Once she saw the unintentional damage done to her teammate she turned around and grabbed him by the collar and began shaking him violently.
"Holy Crap, Shikamaru I'm so sorry, come on you can get up! Wake up buddy, one look at my gorgeous face and you'll be ok for sure!"
"Superiority Hammer"
She was silenced when Sasuke his golden fist into her back, using the opprutunity when she was focusing on Shikamaru to strike. It only took her a few seconds to collapse from the pain.
"That's what you get for defying my you hussy! Now I'm going to finish all of you!"
Shikamaru awakened to see that Sasuke had lifted him of the ground and was about to kill him with his heated knife "Time to die Nara. Don't worry after you die, Naruto will in the caring hands of the World Government, after he takes the blame for you and Yamanaka's murder!"
Before he could pierce his heart Sasuke felt another more demonic presence pressed up against his neck "You make one more move and you'll be missing a few pieces Sasuke-teme. And don't try using your logia powers to avoid it either. It's laced with Armor Haki so you can't do a thing to avoid it."
"You can't touch me dobe. Remember the rules written by the council? If you kill a member of a clan with a Kekkei Genkai you'll be executed! Just sit back and wait for when I get to you and that sword!" Sasuke tried to prevent his pseudo-teammate from carrying out the threat.
"Seems you've forgotten the rules yourself bastard! Though you seem to think your clan is the only one in the world, Shikamaru and Ino also count as clan members with bloodlines so if you touch them, I have every right to execute you as a shinobi of Konoha."
Sasuke tried to come up with a counter-argument but realized that he was correct. If he killed either of them Naruto could do the same to him without suffering consequences. knowing there was no way he could win in this scenario he stormed out the door in rage.
"Sorry you had to get mixed up in that you two." Naruto apoligized immediately to the two.
"It's ok Naruto we both know a few healing jutsu. I took a class on it before the Academy and Shikamaru can just spread the shadows across his body to make them act as makeshift ice pads and stitches. Now we might want to get that gold Sasuke shot at you off your back."
Naruto took off his jacket in response giving Ino a way to flake the gold off with her healing chakra. After she got enough of it off she began to get a small nosebleed from seeing Naruto's back.
"Hey Ino stop ogling Naruto the gold is all gone, he should be fine for now. Come on, we need to go visit Chouji in his room." Ino stopped instantly at her teammates teasing.
Incredibly embarrassed she stood up and retorted "Like your much to talk about me staring at Naruto, it's not like I've got a crush on him or anything. Not like you and Temari!"
"Now wait just a minute. Just because I decided to be nice and help her heckle Sakura doesn't mean I like her or anything!" Shikamaru defended himself.
"Oh yeah then explain why blushed when she thanked you for getting Sakura in that Jutsu of yours!"
"Why don't you explain while you were blushing while healing Naruto's back!"
'You know in hindsight I'm so glad I'm here right now' Naruto thought to himself as he watched the argument.
"Excuse me but you'll have to leave. Visiting hours are over and out patients will need rest." A doctor in the doorway said before walking off. They stopped the fight and complied leaving the hospital. Once they were outside Naruto asked Shikamaru "So What happened to everyone else? I didn't have time to visit bushy brows."
"Sakura got a concussion from that weapons bag Kankuro threw at her, Tenten just needed a few stiches so she'll be out soon, the sound girl I fought got after a couple of hours, Kiba needed casts, burns, and stiches after what you did to him, but that's nothing compared to him after what his mother did to him after she figured out about those Energy Steroids he had. He's gonna be out of it for a long while. You already know Hinata is doing and Lee's lung surgery is still going on, but we should learn about the results by tomorrow. Chouji's just a bit sick from that guy's sound vibration. Good luck with your training, cause against that curse mark we're gonna need a lot of it."
Once Shikamaru and Ino had left, Naruto began his own way home. He clutched hard to the hilt of his sword as he walked through the streets of Konoha, as some drunk villager might attack him in a rage.
About halfway through he saw a pair of figures on the roof one of the buildings. He brushed it off as just mirages of fatigue but was stopped in his tracks when they reappeared on the awning in front of him. Both of the men wore large black cloaks with red clouds painted in several areas and on their heads they wore traditional straw fishermen hats with strips of paper hanging off the edge to cover their faces.
The taller one with a large sword on his back spoke "Roronoa Naruto, I presume. Oh what does it matter I'm going to kill you anyways!"
Then the large figure swung his large sword at Naruto who blocked in a nick of time with two of his swords and struck with own attack.
"Nigiri"
Before he could be cut the attacker did a backflip onto another nearby awning "Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki. You guys are known throughout this continent and have fairly high bounties on your heads. So I have to ask, what are two Missing-Nin doing in a place where the could easily be slaughtered by Hunter-Nin?"
"The answer is simple Naruto. We are now part of the organization working for the betterment of mankind known as the Akatsuki. And for this organization we have to capture you. And by the way we go by codenamed now, so please call us by those. I am Genocide." Itachi said as he took of his cover.
"And I am Brother named for the one your friend Zoro helped get turned in 2 years ago!" Kisame said.
"Wait are you talking about Arlong? He had a brother!?" a befuddled Naruto realized.
"And a sister but that's besides the point. He took my brother away from me, so the least I could do is return the favor!"
Kisame lunged at Naruto with an upward chop which was dodged and countered with a sweep to the legs, which was blocked by Kisame's Samehada. The tear in the in the bandages revealed several sets of blue spines which stretched out to impale Naruto, and could only barely be blocked.
Naruto retreated away from the spines to run up a wall and attack from above and spinning his blades into a ball.
"Santoryu: Hyo Kin Dama"
Kisame blocked until the momentum from the attack slowed down and attacked with a jab from Samehada to his chest. Naruto hit the ground in pain and looked at his ribs to see that his skin had been torn in several places.
"Normal swords only cut. But mine can shave you clean of your skin in a matter of seconds! And that's not all it can do!" Kisame said as he swung his sword down onto a sword Naruto had dropped. Chewing sounds could be heard as well as grinding metal, and when the sword lifted the blade was gone and only a hilt remained.
"How are you gonna fight now without out your precious three sword style?"
"Nitoryu Lao: Rashomon"
The fishman got his answer in the form of a two large cuts across his chest one of which burned incredibly painfully, causing the great white to howl in agony.
"Lesson One of entering the fox's den: Never Underestimate the man who'll be the worlds greatest!" Naruto said as the fishman collapsed.
Itachi just watched patiently as if waiting for some thing to happen. This confused Naruto as he figured the Uchiha would attack him the moment he killed his partner but saw why when the fallen Kisame turned to the Samehada and vice versa.
Kisame attacked but Naruto blocked sticking one of his swords into hid. Seeing as Naruto wasn't going to move on his own Kisame had the spines his swords extend to impale Naruto forcing him to move out of the way. Naruto looked up to see the sword eat his blade until the hilt dropped with a clank.
"And then there was one." Kisame taunted his opponent as he was left in a very bad position.
'Kid what are you doing? Your getting your ass kicked out there! Grow some balls cause I don't wanna get eaten by that psycho.'
'Can it, dumbass I'm trying the hardest I can. Wait you just gave me an idea!
'Umm… What are you going to do?'
"Alright fishman, you win. Take my sword so you can go suck the life out of me." Naruto said as he held out Kurama.
"What?!"
'What?'
'WHAT?!WHAT?!WHAT?!WHAT?!WHAT?!WHAT?!WHA-'
(A/N):
Ikō: "WWWWWHHHHHAAAAATTTTTTT?!"
"You heard me, just take it I'm done fighting." Naruto said nonchalantly.
Kisame smirked and said "Well aren't you a smart kid. If anything this gives me another snack!"
He took Kurama from Naruto by the blade and began swallowing it whole. Once it was down. He and Itachi walked away expecting Naruto to follow, only for him to say one thing.
"Kurama, detonate."
As soon as he said that the fishman burst into flames, screaming in even more agony then before. Itachi was shocked and bewildered at what just happened before he saw Naruto's look of victory.
The burnt fishman's screams finally stopped and he collapsed to the ground while spitting up Kuruma. Naruto dragged his sword out of his jaws, and began staring down Itachi before started turning red around him and he was brought to his knees by a splitting headache.
"So you've managed to defeat two of our best swordsman. The rumors were true, you are powerful. But while you are strong enough to beat Sasuke you aren't good enough to beat me. He is by far the weakest of the our clans remainder."
'Shit, this guy's really good. Damn it my head!'
Just as Itachi apped to finish the job an odd looking man jumped in between them and shattering the ground under him. He had blazing red hair, a curly mustache, pointed sunglasses, and a sparkly purple tuxedo.
The man spoke in an abnormal way "You shall not pass, Genocide. You have no power in this part of Oz!"
Itachi attempted to sock the stranger in the face, but his fist was caught and he was flipped over, with a pocket knife pressed up against his chest "Begone evildoer! And take your fallen comrade with you!"
Seeing there was no way he could win, Itachi picked up Kisame and shusnined away. Naruto asked the weird newcomer "Um who the hell are you?"
"I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the pencil that breaks everytime you try to use it. I am the world renowned fighter of the Kirigakure, one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist, Maglako!"
"Your world renowned? This is literally the first time I've ever heard of you in my entire life!" Naruto said slightly annoyed at the man's eccentricity.
"Cinderface, you are very powerful in your own regard, but you will need to be stronger if you wish to complete your goals, especially with two out of three of your swords left destroyed by your fight with the fishman, Brother. If you wish the get stronger come by Training Ground 46 tomorrow morning. I will have two new swords and new techniques for you."
Maglako then vanished as quickly as he had come leaving Naruto to ponder the offer, before coming to a conclusion "If I have to face more people like Gaara or Itachi, training with this freak might be my best option…Kurama you smell terrible."
'…Gaki…We wil NEVER speak of this night EVER AGAIN!'
(A/N): Hallelujah thank the lord that this semester is over! With all my finals over till June I feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, so now I can (hopefully) write a bit more often. On a different note in two on the I'll have been on the site for an entire year! That would be a big milestone if it weren't for the fact that this story has the biggest audience out of my four. Probably because I REALLY sucked at the beginning, which is why after this arc is over I'll likely rewrite Voodoo's Disciple. Don't tell Cedric about that though…
But enough about my personal life. It's time for…
Skillet's Fanfiction Rec's:
Today's rec will be...
The Losers (Rewrite):
This could very well be one of my favorite stories on the site, only under 2 others. The basic plot is that in the Academy Kiba decides not to be jackass to Naruto and offer him a friendship which later extends ovet to the other dead lasts Shikamaru and Chouji. The four then use combined skills to rock the class and face challenges on their own teams. This is one of those stories where I can very little wrong with. The characters work off each other rather well without ridding them to much of their original personalities. The plot is easily one of the most original I've seen in awhile. This is an utter masterpiece of a story and I urge all of you to check it out. Yes there was an original version of it, but that's a dead fic now. Shame cause that was really good too.
And by the way, Maglako is voiced by Christopher Walken for those wondering.
Next Chapter: New Swords and a Strange Town
