Yo, it's the Fresh Prince of Konoha. How y'all been? I haven't updated in a while on account of laziness. Anyway, I have to say that I've been listening to the first two albums of Linkin Park more and more these past few months. And I finally see why a lot of people say that their 3rd album sucks in comparison to the first two. The first two albums had some good songs on it that I haven't heard until lately. The 3rd album has good songs on it too, but they don't hold up to the first two. Also, they have out a new single called "New Divide." It's for the new Transformers film that's coming out on June 24, 2009(Or June 19, 2009 if you're from the UK). If you like Linkin Park but haven't heard it yet, listen to it. If you like the Transformers movie, listen to it.
Okay, enough advertising Linkin Park. I think that Kishimoto is taking a bunch of clichés and putting them in the storyline. Like how Nagato's parents and best friend died, so he turned to a life like that. Like that hasn't been used a hundred million times? Anyway, here's the next chapter.
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Naruto and Lee were in the GR training. They'd been working really hard the past 3 weeks. Lee had been working and working at becoming a Super Saiyan. He could feel the power that Super Saiyan held and he knew that he was getting closer and closer every single day. But it seemed like the more he worked, the more he realized that he still had a farther way to go.
Naruto was learning how to better manage his ki by Vegeta. Since he had learned how to manipulate his ki, he'd been using it like a trigger-happy kid with a gun. Naruto often found himself very tired after fights and he went to Vegeta to ask him about managing his ki since Vegeta had decades of experience on him.
Vegeta said that Naruto should really cut down on his ki consumption. When talking to Naruto, Vegeta said "I admit, ki is very powerful and it's deadly. But it's not only deadly to the target, but the user also. If you become too dependent on it, your other skills will start slacking. Take your ancestor Goku for example. When he learned how to use ki, he went crazy with it. And as a result, his fighting skills suffered greatly. Yes, he was a good fighter, but his fighting skills were nowhere near as good as they could've been if he'd worked on that just as much as his ki.
"While Goku's fighting technique suffered, his friend Yamcha didn't have even 1/100th as much ki as Goku had. So he had to figure out a way to make end's meet. And since he knew that he could never level up to a Saiyan in ki, he trained like crazy in martial arts. He got so good that if Kakarot and him had the same level of strength, he could beat him in a fight with his hands tied behind his back.
"You see, everything about fighting is a give-and-take system. Where one thing is increased, another is decreased. What you have to do is figure out your strengths and how to make up for your weaknesses. It's not easy, but nothing good ever comes easy.
"Take me for example. I have barely any Jutsu. But the Jutsu I do have are powerful. Like my Apollo's Fury Jutsu. It's a fire Jutsu that summons a column of fire wherever I want it to. I only have about 10 Jutsus, but they're all powerful, so where I lack in numbers, I make up in power."
Naruto took those words to heart and had ever since been working on where his strong points are and his weak points. But he had to put that aside to help Lee attain Super Saiyan. Ever since they've been forced to fight the robot army everyday, they came to the conclusion that it would be easier to win if Lee were a Super Saiyan. So he's been helping him ever since.
Ever since the beginning, Naruto's been giving Lee words of encouragement. "Come on Lee, you're so close. You have to push your power harder. You can't give in right now. Come on!"
Lee had been in a power gathering stance for hours now. His lavender hair was blowing up towards the skies and his muscles were in a weird pattern of expansion and contraction. He was feeling a lot of pain and he could feel the power surging through every fiber in his body. With a yell, Lee pushed his power up another notch. He kept raising it more and more, pushing his body above and beyond its limit. He felt his power rising, until he literally felt something stop his power flow. He felt it forcing his power back down.
With another yell, Lee pushed against the barrier. But he just couldn't get past it. With a grunt of fatigue, Lee fell down on his knees, gasping for air. Naruto walked up to Lee. He wasn't that concerned, as he felt that exact same way every time he powered down from Super Saiyan. He said "I felt your power. You hit the barrier, didn't you?
Lee said "Yeah, how do you know?"
Naruto said "Experience. I did that exact same thing when I first transformed. The first time, I pushed through it because of my rage. But every time I went Super Saiyan, I felt that barrier trying to stop me. It stopped me when we fought Teoast and I did something else weird. Anyway, when your power gets strong enough, you'll push through it."
By the time Naruto got done talking, Lee was okay. He stood up and said "But why can't I? You said that you were at a power level of 125,000 when you pushed through it. I was stronger than that when I first met you. I should be able to push through it. Why can't I!?"
Naruto closed his eyes and thought for a moment. He then opened his eyes and snapped his fingers. He said "It must've been your transformation to a Half-Saiyan. Maybe it's because your Saiyan instincts are stronger now. And your Saiyan instincts are forcing you to get stronger before you can reach that power."
Lee said "Damn, why didn't I wait until I became a Super Saiyan to become a Half-Saiyan?"
Naruto said "Don't worry, you'll get to Super Saiyan soon enough. For now, let's take a little break. …That bitch destroyed another one. I really need to kill that slut."
Naruto narrowed his eyes in anger and said "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" He created 3 Shadow Clones and said "Go and take the position of the one that was just destroyed." Without a word, the clones immediately took off.
Lee looked at Naruto with a puzzled look on his face. He said "What was that for?"
Naruto said "Since my dumbass teacher doesn't teach me anything and all we do is go on D-rank missions, I send a Shadow Clone in my place. The only problem is that that bitch Sakura keeps destroying them. It's getting on my fucking nerves."
Lee said "She really needs to take some anger management classes."
Naruto said "Damn straight. From what I learned from the clone, we just completed another mission and my clone insulted her."
Lee looked at Naruto with a confused expression on his face and said "Maybe your clone shouldn't have insulted her."
Naruto was about to say something, but he felt information rush into his head. A clone of his was destroyed and he got the information from his team. Apparently Sasuke destroyed the clone after saying "We're needed at the Hokage's Tower."
After getting through the small headache of the clone's memories, Naruto took off toward the Hokage's Tower. Since it was daytime, and Konoha was very lively at this time, he fazed there. When he got there, he said "What do you need me for, Oji-san?"
The Hokage said "Hold up a minute Naruto. There are more people coming, so we'll just wait for them. I don't wanna explain this a bunch of times."
A few minutes later, Kakashi and the rest of Team 7 walked through the door. Naruto turned to the Hokage and said "Alright Old Man, what's up?"
The Hokage said "Hold up a minute Naruto. The rest aren't here."
After a few more minutes, Lee's team came walking through the door. The Hokage said "Okay, now that everyone is here, I can begin.
"You're all being assigned on an A-rank mission to help our ally Sunagakure no Sato. They're having trouble with a group called the Golden Dragons. Team 7, I'm sure that you're familiar with them?"
Although the Hokage was talking to the entire team, Naruto answered for them. He said "They're a multi-national organization who operates mostly in slave trafficking. They're mainly made up of punks who're trying to make a name for themselves, bandits, and missing-nin.
"The Golden Dragons are one of the biggest names in Kusa no Kiri (Grass Country) when it comes to weapons smuggling, slave trafficking, forced prostitution, and drug trafficking. They've recently expanded their operations to Wind Country, Rain Country, Bird Country, and as we found out a few weeks ago, Fire Country."
When Naruto finished his explanation of the crime syndicate, everyone was looking at him in amazement. Even the Hokage didn't know the things he was saying. The Hokage said "Yes, well moving on." Sarutobi looked at Naruto and said "Naruto, do you remember when you told me you helped stop the Golden Dragons operation in Wind Country?"
Naruto looked at the Hokage strangely and said "Yeah, what about it?"
The Hokage said "Apparently, the Golden Dragons are trying to gain another foothold in Wind Country. Since you and the Kazekage's children stopped them before, they lost their only base in Kaze no Kiri and they needed to gain another foothold or else they could kiss their operations there goodbye. Sunagakure Intel has discovered some illegal human trafficking at Kaze no Kuni's border with Bird Country hat's run by someone. Rumor is that he's part of the Golden Dragons. They're sending the children of the Kazekage to investigate and destroy the operation."
The Hokage continued "Apparently, they're shorthanded right now. The Jounnin are busy doing a lot of B to A-ranked missions that are coming in for the village. They can only spare the Suna Siblings. The Suna Siblings and Sunagakure originally requested Naruto only, but since I can't send a Genin alone on a mission, let alone another country, I've decided to send Team 7 and Team Gai to help. Team Gai has a year more experience than Team 7 so I decided to send both of you."
Neji spoke up, saying "That's okay and all, but are you sure that Suna can cover the charges? I mean, they already had to pay the A-rank mission rate for the Suna Siblings and their sensei. They only requested Naruto, but they now have to take 8 people."
The Hokage said "I've been sending them messages by messenger hawk since last week, when they requested Naruto's help. All this was previously discussed and they agree to pay for 2 teams. But no more than that. I suggest that your teams get rested. It's a long way to the Bird Country-Wind Country border, so I'd pack for a mission that's a month long, at least. You leave in 3 hours at the West Gate. Be on time Kakashi or else I will demote you to Genin and have you doing D-ranks for 3 full years without pay. Good luck."
When they were dismissed by the Hokage, Naruto went to the lab to work in the GR. After training in 3X for a little while, he started working on his Jutsu. He took the Kyuubi's advice and was trying to learn to do all of his jutsu without handseals. But it was hard. It was like being blind and trying to memorize all the notes of a song on Guitar Hero with the difficulty set to expert. Calling it hard would be the understatement of the century.
But Naruto wasn't one to quit when the going got tough. He kept trying to manipulate his chakra without the use of handseals, but it was getting hard. After an hour, Naruto got pissed off and ordered the main computer of the GR to create a few robots. He needed to kill something.
Naruto manipulated the skills to be a perfect match for him. Well, not a perfect match for him. Since Naruto was mad, he accidentally put the robots on the level he and Lee use for their beat-em-up training.
Speed: Level 30
Strength: Level 25
Endurance: Level 29
Stamina: Level 29
Ki Blasts: Level 25
Fighting: Level 25
Intelligence: Level 25
(Song: Linkin Park: Figure .09)
Naruto waited and the room made the robots for him to fight. When the 10 robots came, they immediately started charging him. Naruto was about to charge them too, but one of them shot him in the face with a charged ki blast. Naruto flew back from the shot. He didn't have his guard up and was blasted to the window. When he landed, he found that the others were blasting him also. The robots didn't let up and didn't give him enough time to counter.
When Naruto got his second wind and got over the attack, he started standing up. The attacks kept coming, so Naruto made a ki shield to block the attacks. The yellow shield came up and blocked all the ki blasts. The shield wouldn't hold for that long though. But it held long enough for Naruto to stand up and get out of the attack range. Naruto ran around the robots to come behind them. He ran at the farthest one on the left and led with a punch.
Unfortunately because of the stronger robots, they sensed him. As Naruto was about to punch that ones lights out, he was met with the sole of a foot across his jaw. He fell to his left from the attack and had to roll to get back up before the robots pressed their advantage.
Naruto got back up and started to attack the robots again. He shot a ki blast at the robot on the far right, only for another in the middle to shoot one at him. Naruto had to deflect the blast with his other hand and fire another one off.
Naruto charged another robot and created 9 Shadow Clones to do battle with the other robots. The clones charged the robots, leaving one for Naruto to fight. Naruto ducked under the punch that the robot threw at him. He leaned to the left and right to dodge more and more attacks, but one punch got through. It hit him in the chest, pushing him back.
He crouched down in pain, but when he looked up, the robot had closed the gap inbetween them and was in the air with a flying kick aimed at his head. Naruto could do nothing but take the hit as he was kicked. Regularly, he could've dodged the attack, but he was in 3X gravity as he was fighting so he wasn't as fast as he usually was. Naruto rocketed back from the kick, skidding on the floor. He got back up and started doing handseals. When he finished, he called out "Water Style: Water Bullets Jutsu!"
Naruto took a deep breath and shot out a huge amount of Water Bullets. They sailed forward and hit the robot he was originally fighting. The robot was able to put up a ki shield though. It blocked most of the attack, but it started failing. When it failed, some of the Water Bullets still came through and hit it. It stumbled back and was off balance. Naruto took the chance and ran forward. He charged chakra into his left fist, ready to destroy the monster.
But Naruto made a mistake in not watching the fights between the robots and his Kage Bunshin. If he did, he would've seen that one of his Kage Bunshin was destroyed by a robot and now that robot was watching his battle. With its sensors, it saw Naruto charge energy into his fist. The robot charged energy into its hands and shot a ki blast at Naruto. Naruto felt the attack hit him right in his side.
The second robot came over to join the first one in battle. Naruto saw that and started charging energy into his palm. That energy grew into it became a ball floating off of his palm. He then yelled out "Spirit Ball Attack!" and threw the ball at his foes. The attack sailed forward. The robots threw up ki shields to block the attack, but Naruto predicted they would.
He pointed his index and middle fingers at the Spirit Ball and commanded it to move around the robots. The robots' ki shield didn't extend around their backs, so Naruto had the attack go around them and explode. The robots were blasted forward from the force of the attack. Naruto charged up energy into his palm again. This time, the energy took on a dark blue hue. He let the attack go forward, yelling "Power Blitz!"
The mini attack went forward, growing in size as it traveled and collided with one robot and blasting through the armor plating. The force of the blast was so powerful, the robot exploded. Naruto charged the other robot and came with a kick. The robot rolled out of the way and threw a punch at him. Naruto blocked it and countered with a right hook. The robot ducked under it and punched Naruto in his gut. Naruto backed up from the pain and was hit with an uppercut from the robot. The uppercut sent him sailing through the air.
Naruto came back down to the ground and landed in a small crater. When he got up, he started seeing how the battle was going for him. It wasn't good as all of his Kage Bunshin were destroyed. He saw that the 9 robots were now closing in on him. Naruto stood up and cupped his hands behind his body. He started charging up energy inbetween them.
"Kaaaaa" The energy coming forward started increasing.
"Meeee" The energy took on a bluish hue.
"Haaaaa" The ball of energy started increasing in size.
"Meeee" The ball grew as big as it could.
"Haaa!"
He let the Kamehameha Wave soar forward, blasting the attacking robots. The robots saw the energy buildup with their sensors, and were able to throw up ki shields. The ki shields protected them from the attack. Naruto kept feeding energy into the attack, trying to destroy the robots. As the attack kept blasting forward, the energy shields of the robots all gave away, causing each of them to get blasted. The four closest to the blast were immediately destroyed. The outward 5 survived, although Naruto didn't know that.
When he let he attack go, he couldn't see as there was a lot of smoke. Naruto didn't see the one of the last 5 surviving robots blast him through the smoke. The attack sailed forward and Naruto barely dodged it. He then flew up, taking to the skies. He charged more energy into his left hand. The robots sensed the energy buildup and all blasted Naruto. Naruto used his right hand to deflect the energy attacks from the robots. The energy in Naruto's left hand glowed bright blue as Naruto let it go, yelling "Riot Javelin!"
The attack hit one of the robots and destroyed it. The last four kept shooting at him, not giving Naruto any time to attack. Naruto manipulated his ki to surround him in a skintight bubble. He then shot forward at the last robots. The ki attacks started bouncing off the shield, but soon his shield started to fail. When he reached one of the robots, he let his chakra-enhanced fist connect with its chin, tearing its head off.
Naruto didn't have any time to rest though, as the other robots started blasting him. Naruto's shield gave out and he as blasted by all of their attacks. Naruto was able to fight back the pain from the blasts enough to take to the skies. He flew around the GR, the attacks trailing him. As the attacks were trailing him, Naruto did his favorite Jutsu. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Naruto made 10 other clones and had those all fan out. The robots started blasting each clone, but the clones did the Afterimage technique, leaving the ki blasts to just go through air. While 8 of the clones were playing with the robots, Naruto and the other two clones were on the ground, moving to fast for the robot's sensors to track them.
Naruto started charging energy into each palm. As he was doing that, the clones were doing handseals. When they both were ready, they stopped. The two clones stopped by two of the robots. Naruto stopped by two. The clones let their attack out. One yelled out "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" and breathed out a gigantic ball of fire.
The other clone yelled out "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" blasting the Grand Fireball, increasing its size and destructive power. The attacks sailed forward, blasting the robots, burning them to scrap.
The original Naruto let his attacks go, yelling out "Double Riot Javelin!"
The attack blew completely through the two robots, leaving them as scrap for the cleaning robot to pick up.
Naruto looked around to see that he had finally defeated the last of the robots. He let out a huge sigh, letting the adrenaline from the fight finally wear off. He reabsorbed the power from the Kage Bunshin, the chakra making him feel a little better. He walked outside of the GR and went to a special room in the lab. It was where they held their Regeneration Tanks. Naruto walked to the computer by Regen Tank One. Naruto looked at the time to see that he had to leave with his team in 2 hours. He set the GR for an hour and a half.
He could've used a Senzu Bean to heal himself, but the Senzu Beans didn't feel as good as the Regen Tanks. In the Regen Tanks he could get a good nap in since the green fluid that filled it also had a mild sleeping drug so the person inside it would sleep. He also felt his body heal which felt good to him. Naruto laid down in Regen Tank 1, put on the black oxygen mask and let the Tank do its job.
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After Naruto's rest in the Regen Tank, he got out and went to his apartment. He grabbed his kunai, his shuriken, and all the other things he needed. He then ran back to the lab to collect some Senzu Beans. He thought to himself 'I get the feeling that we're gonna need a lot of these.'
Naruto ran to the West Gate, getting there as the team was about to leave. Before they left though, Kakashi laid out a schedule. By the first night, they had to make it at least halfway to the border of Rain and Fire. They were traveling in a straight line to the border. By the second day they had to be there, at the least. The third day they would move diagonally and cut through Ame and get to its border with Sand Country. On the final day, they would make a loop and go to the border between Bird and Wind. When no one voiced their objections, he told them to move out.
While they were on the road, Neji said "Naruto, you seem to have more information on the Golden Dragons than anyone else. I think it would be best if you told us what you know, so we know what we're getting into."
Naruto said "The Golden Dragons are a bunch of bandits. They're made up of a bunch of missing-nin, who usually controls the group. They're multinational so it'll be hard to destroy the entire group. They completely control the black market in Kusa no Kuni. They plan on taking a hidden village, then another, then another until they control them all. I infiltrated their base in Kaze when I was there and I heard that they would try to take Kusagakure first since it's the closest. I also heard rumors that they were doing experiments on some people there."
Sasuke heard their conversation and tuned in to listen, like most of the people on the mission. They were all intrigued to find out how Naruto knew the things he did. Sasuke cut into the conversation at that time, saying "Well, we know that it wasn't a rumor now. When we went on that Kiano mission 2 months back, the people had weird powers. One guy could manipulate chakra to do just about everything he wanted it to. He could push something or someone who was nowhere close to him. He could pull them, and make a chakra shield around himself. I threw kunai and shuriken at him, and he stopped them in midair. Then he turned them on me and they almost sliced me to ribbons. And that was just what I saw when I fought him."
Naruto said "The guy I fought was almost twice as strong as me. And he moved faster than I've ever seen anyone else move. The only way I beat him was because I was faster than him. He said that their division was called Hydra. He also said that the guy that Lee's dad was fighting could heal from any injury without a scratch. If they can make an entire army like that, I don't think it would be possible to defeat them."
Neji said "But you two beat them and you're just Genin."
Naruto said "Neji, here's a little advice. Don't make assumptions based on rank. When the Yondaime was a Chunnin, he had more power than the Old Man did in his prime. The Yondaime took on an entire army by himself, won, and lived to tell about it. Trust me, ranking doesn't mean shit."
Neji was about to object, but then he thought about it. Naruto had only been a Genin for 2 months. Neji had been one for over a year. When they fought, Neji lost. It would seem that Neji would win since he had more experience, but Naruto wasn't an ordinary Genin. When he thought about it, nobody on his or Naruto's team was normal.
Neji said "You are right, ranking doesn't mean everything. But still, how did you defeat them?"
Naruto smirked a little and said "I do push-ups and sit-ups and drink lots of juice (I love that line from when Vegeta said it to Cell when they fought). I also trained my ass off until I passed out every."
Neji was about to ask more questions, but he saw that Naruto didn't want to answer them. He let the topic drop, realizing that he wouldn't get anywhere with it. They traveled in silence, trying to get to the border as quick as possible. That night, they made it halfway to the Ame-Fire Border
That night, Naruto, Lee, and Sasuke left their campsite to train. Before they started, Lee tried to go Super Saiyan again. He started summoning his energy again. He summoned it more and more, trying to become a Super Saiyan like his father.
But as hard as he tried, he couldn't break through. But just as he was about to give up, he felt something. He didn't know what it was, but he went with it. He tried to call on it, but when he couldn't, he forced the power to come.
Naruto and Sasuke were looking at Lee, trying to help him. They both felt that weird power, but Naruto knew what it was immediately. Naruto said "Lee, force out that power. Use everything you've got. That's it."
Lee grabbed hold of the power and broke through the barrier keeping him from attaining Super Saiyan. He felt power flood his system and knew that this was the power. He looked at Naruto and jumped in the air. He yelled "I finally did it! I achieved Super Saiyan!"
Naruto and Sasuke were looking on at the spectacle in confusion. Sasuke said "Naruto, I thought you had pupils when you went Super Saiyan."
Naruto nodded his head. "Yeah, you're right."
Sasuke said "I know that your hair supposed to change to blonde."
Naruto said "It should. I think I know what's going on." Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated on Lee's power level. He saw that it jumped incredibly. But it wasn't enough for Super Saiyan. Also, Lee's appearance was wrong. Lee's hair was still lavender and was just blowing in the wind created by the aura. Also, his eyes didn't have pupils or irises. His body also had a yellowish glow to it. Naruto interrupted Lee's parade and said "Lee, hold up."
Lee looked at Naruto and said "What?"
Naruto said "You didn't unlock Super Saiyan."
Lee looked at Naruto with a puzzled face. He said "What are you talking about? I can feel the power, it's amazing. You guys said that I'd feel more powerful than I ever had before, and I do. There's no way that this isn't Super Saiyan."
Naruto said "The transformation you're in isn't Super Saiyan. You partially unlocked it. You're in a False Super Saiyan transformation. Your power has been multiplied by 5. In a real Super Saiyan transformation, it's 50 times. What you unlocked was a small fraction of Super Saiyan power. You're on the right track, but just not there yet."
After hearing out Naruto, Lee's head hung. He had been trying so hard and for so long. And just when he thought he had it, it turned out to blow up in his face. He felt so weak that he subconsciously dropped the transformation to False Super Saiyan.
Naruto said "Come on, Lee. Reaching this is a good achievement. You can use False Super Saiyan, until you unlock the real one. Besides, you've unlocked 5X your normal power. That's something to be extremely proud of. Barely any Saiyans could unlock even 1/10 of the power we have right now. Before it was destroyed, the strongest Saiyan on Planet Vegeta was your ancestor, King Vegeta, and his power level was just 50, 000. You now have a power well over one million, and you're feeling bad? Do you know that most Saiyans would chop off their arms for the power you have now. You should feel damn proud of yourself."
After hearing that, Lee's head rose up again. He sighed and said "Alright then. Maybe I can access that mode again." Lee bent his legs again and started gathering energy. He felt the barrier that was holding him back, and tried to break through it again. He found that he was successful, but the power was fading quickly.
Naruto felt the energy released by the False Super Saiyan form, and also felt it leaving him. Naruto said "Lee, keep a hold on the energy. You have to keep it in yourself before it leaves."
Lee concentrated, and eventually, he was able to keep the energy in his body. It was 5X, just like last time. Naruto said "Good Lee. Now let's see you put that energy to use."
After speaking, Naruto charged Lee. He came forward with a punch, but with the added power from FSSJ, Lee was able to lean to the right and dodge it. Naruto came up with a left knee to his face, impacting with Lee's nose. Lee's head shot up in pain, but it didn't do much damage. Lee looked at Naruto and said "Is that the best you got?"
Naruto came with a kick to Lee's midsection. Lee was able to block the hit, and then he blocked the punch that Naruto threw. Lee pushed Naruto out of his space, and then jumped forward. He turned in mid-air and came out with his left foot, yelling out "Leaf Whirlwind". The foot impacted with the left side of Naruto's face. Naruto was knocked to his right from the attack, spinning in mid-air.
Naruto went spinning in the air, but caught himself and levitated where he was, 1 foot from impacting with the ground. Naruto moved into the upright position and started shooting ki blasts at Lee. Lee was easily able to block and deflect each attack. Naruto thought to himself 'Damn, False Super Saiyan has really made Lee a better fighter. I can't land a single hit on him.'
Lee shot off towards Naruto, ready to attack him. He came at Naruto and did a Leaf Whirlwind. Luckily for Naruto, he was suspecting that and created an Afterimage to leave there. Naruto reappeared behind Lee and shot a charged ki blast off at Lee. Lee saw the attack come for him and he tried to deflect it. The attack exploded and he was hit.
Naruto charged Lee again, going in for a strictly Taijutsu battle. He punched Lee in his face, then in his chest, and then he kicked him in his face. Lee didn't attempt to block or dodge any of those. He took the attacks like they were taps. He punched Naruto in his face, making Naruto fall backwards. Naruto sat up and said "Damn, that was strong. If you can learn to access that level of strength without the negative effects of Super Saiyan, you could really do some damage. You could probably do this mission by yourself. But come on, we gotta get some rest."
After they made it to their campsite, they went into their tents and went to sleep. They were in for a world of trouble tomorrow and they had to be prepared.
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(Next Day-Dawn)
As soon as the first rays of the sun shined over the horizon, it was time to go. With a yell of youthfulness from Gai, the Genin were up. They were out of there tents in one minute. Within 5 minutes, the Genin were all packed and ready to go.
Well, all of them except Sakura. She still wasn't awake. After waiting for her to get up, they sent Tenten in there to wake her up. Tenten couldn't wake her up. Tenten came out saying "I can't seem to get her awake."
Gai looked to Kakashi and said "Kakashi, doesn't she get enough sleep? "
Kakashi said "Beats me."
Gai turned away from Kakashi, looking off in the distance in thought. 'She's a Genin now. She shouldn't be this heavy a sleeper. She should be able to wake up easily. Didn't Kakashi tell her that she would need to be able to do that?' Gai gave a sideways glance at Kakashi, saying 'Why didn't he?'
After Tenten tried again to wake Sakura up, Naruto said "Move out of the way, Tenten. There's nothing like the heat and smoke of a fire to wake someone up in the morning."
Naruto did familiar handseals, then yelled out "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" He let loose a huge fireball out of his mouth and Sakura's tent caught fire. He said "Just wait. She'll come out soon. Or get burnt in the fire. Both options are winning for us."
Before a minute passed, Sakura shot out of the tent screaming. When she looked back, she saw that everything she brought on this trip was burning. She was only able to get her rations before everything burned. She looked on in horror as her tent was burned. She then turned immediately to Naruto and tried her best to kill him. Naruto was dodging all her attacks, while laughing at her. He said "Why are you attacking me Sakura? I'm not the only one here who knows a Fire Jutsu."
Sakura said "I know you did it because you did it the last time too!" as she tried to hit him with a right hook.
Naruto closed his eyes and dodged another hit, saying "Yeah I did do it then. And now. And I did it those other 5 times."
Tenten looked on in disbelief. She then turned to Sasuke and said "He set her tent on fire 7 times?"
Sasuke smiled and said "Yeah. All because she never woke up on time. You'd think that she'd either learn to get up on time, or buy flame-retardant tents."
Tenten narrowed her eyes in confusion and said "Is that right?"
Sasuke said "No, it isn't right for Naruto to burn her stuff like that. But he's trying to teach her that she can't stay asleep through a wake-up call like that. All he's doing is burning her tents. If there was a real fight, she'd be getting raped right now, and killed afterward. So while it isn't right to burn her stuff, he's doing it to teach her a lesson."
Tenten sarcastically said "Yeah."
Sasuke said "It's either that… or Naruto takes pleasure in burning all her stuff. I think it's the second choice."
Neji scoffs and said "Sure as hell seems like it."
After her tent was done burning, Kakashi said "Come on guys, were burning daylight and we gotta be there in 3 days and I don't wanna be late."
The group moved out immediately, moving at full ninja speed, taking the trees. No one paid attention to Sakura's whining about her tent except Neji, Tenten, and Gai.
Gai looked over to Kakashi and said "Kakashi, Naruto just burned Sakura's things. Are you sure you should allow them this much leeway?"
Kakashi huffed and said "Listen Gai, how you teach your team is different from how I teach mine. If Sakura doesn't get up at the right time and it was an enemy attack, she could die. I tried to tell her to wake up, but she didn't. Eventually, Naruto set her tent on fire."
Gai said "But Kakashi, burning her stuff. Doesn't that seem a little extreme?"
Kakashi said in a hardened voice ". I would reprimand Naruto, but if it takes Sakura's stuff burning for her to realize that she has to get up when I say to, then that's what will happen. No questions asked."
Gai closed his eyes in thought for a moment, somehow still able to hop on the trees. He said "I understand why you're letting it happen, but I still think you're being a bit too hard. They're Genin."
Kakashi looked to Gai and said "Gai, death doesn't spare people because of rank."
Gai was about to say something else, but let the idea drop, not wanting to bicker with Kakashi anymore. Neji also had similar ideas, but he saw where Kakashi was coming from. She needed to learn not to act like a kid anymore and she needed to grow up.
Tenten was silent, though she was reprimanding Sakura in her mind. Kunoichi were degraded and thought of as weaker than shinobi because of women like Sakura. She concentrated on her looks and making herself look good. Tenten didn't have a problem with that, but Sakura's ninja skills suffered. She cared more about her looks than her duty to her village. Kunoichi like her were giving kunoichi everywhere a bad rep and Tenten was tired of being thought of as weaker because she was a girl.
That night, the boys tried more to help Lee. Lee was quickly getting used to the strain from his body, and having 5X his regular power surging through his body damaged it. But thanks to the natural Saiyan ability of advanced healing, he was able to not only repair the damage, but strengthen himself little by little with the healing.
Lee had been constantly activating and deactivating his mode to get better at accessing it. Naruto suspected that if Lee kept going at the pace he was now, in 2 weeks he could activate the powerful transformation with just a thought.
Lee turned to Naruto and said "Naruto, how about a little spar?"
Naruto looked at Lee and said "Didn't we spar last night?"
Lee smirked and said "Not at Super Saiyan. Come on, I wanna see where I stand against you."
Naruto said "You sure Lee? You could get hurt."
Lee said "Don't worry. Anything you can dish out I can take."
Naruto said "You're gonna regret those words."
Sasuke, who was there the entire time, said "Good luck. Don't kill each other. I don't wanna explain to the senseis about how you two dumbasses died."
(Song: Linkin Park: Points of Authority)
Naruto concentrated, and reached out for the powerful and familiar power of Super Saiyan. He forced the power out, all in a span of 5 seconds. As soon as he transformed, Lee did also. In 5 seconds, he also transformed. Without a warning, Naruto and Lee ran at each other.
Naruto sent a punch at Lee's head, but apparently Lee had the same idea. Lee sent his left fist out, while Naruto sent his right fist. Their fists met in the air, with them pushing the others fist in a bout of power. Naruto and Lee's legs were spread and bent, trying to make it easier to put their weight in the punches. Naruto was gaining the upper edge, so Lee decided something needed to be done. He brought his foot up and connected it with Naruto's temple. Backing up from the pain, Naruto accidentally dropped his guard. Lee immediately shot forward and hit Naruto with a Leaf Hurricane.
Naruto was knocked away from the hit. Before he hit the ground, Naruto righted himself up and levitated of the ground. He fazed out and reappeared by Lee and punched him in the chest. Following up, he delivered another punch and a kick to Lee's face. Lee was able to quickly recover and block a punch aimed at his chest. He then blocked another kick and ducked under another. He twisted around on the ground, yelling "Leaf Violent Wind!" and swept Naruto's feet out from under him.
Naruto fell forwards into Lee's foot. Lee yelled "Leaf Rising Wind! "And kicked Naruto in his chin, sending him 20 feet in the air. Lee jumped up to Naruto's position, sending punch after punch after punch into Naruto's abdomen. Naruto was feeling so much pain from his chest that he couldn't counter when Lee went behind him. Lee then sent a roundhouse to Naruto's right side, then left side. He flew around to the front of Naruto, and then kicked him in his chest, sending him rocketing down toward the ground. Lee started flying toward Naruto, matching Naruto's speed of descent. He focused his energy into his right hand. His hand started glowing yellow. Lee was right on top of Naruto, and as Naruto hit the ground, he yelled "Konoha Raiken!" and buried his fist in Naruto's chest.
His fist buried Naruto 10 feet deeper. Lee flew 10 feet in the air and started shooting ki blasts into the ditch. Sasuke saw this and whistled. He thought to himself 'Lee ain't playing today. He's looking for blood, and Naruto's his target.'
The ki blasts Lee was firing at Naruto were uncountable. Each blast hit his point, further hurting Naruto. Lee then charged up a super ki blast and let it fly, hitting Naruto. The blast had an unforeseen side effect though. The blast exploded, rupturing the rock around Naruto. That blast set them loose, making them fall in and surround Naruto.
Sasuke looked at what happened in shock. He looked at Lee and said "Lee, what the hell did you do?"
Lee said "The hell if I know! That was an accident."
They both were worrying for their friend's safety, when they heard the ground start to shake. They then heard a primal yell. They looked at Naruto's makeshift grave to see yellow light coming out of it. They then heard a big blast as Naruto destroyed all of the rocks, breaking out of the grave. He charged at Lee, sending a punch right at him. The attack hit Lee, knocking him out of the sky. As Lee fell, Naruto charged up a charged ki blast and shot it at him.
While falling toward the ground, the half-saiyan recovered and touched down; just as the ki blast was coming for him. Lee caught the attack in one hand. He charged his own energy into it, and sent it back at Naruto. Naruto, thinking quickly, charged up another and sent it at Lee. The attacks collided in midair, destroying both.
Lee charged at Naruto, disappearing and reappearing above him. Lee used a double hand smash and impacted it with the top of Naruto's cranium. Naruto was sent to the ground, impacting and creating a huge crater.
Lee charged back down and was at Naruto's side in an instant. He threw three punches at Naruto's face. The first two were blocked, but the last one got through and connected with Naruto's face. As Lee was about to send another attack in, Naruto jumped backwards and shot off a ki blast at Lee's head. The blast connected, but it didn't do much damage to Lee. Lee shot off his own ki blast and it almost connected with Naruto's face. Naruto leaned backwards and caught it with his right hand. Naruto focused ki into the blast, and threw it back at Lee. The ki blast moved faster and the impact it made with Lee's chest was stronger.
Lee was blasted backwards by the ball of ki, but he was able to stop himself. Lee charged up energy into his right hand and left index finger. His right hand shot off another ki blast. His left index finger was charged in case he needed to use a precise ki beam. Naruto was able to dodge the ki blast, but not the ki beam that immediately followed. It connected with his stomach and blasted him backwards.
Naruto got up, but was met with a palm-sized ki beam right in the face. The attack knocked him backwards and scorched his face. Naruto landed and rolled backwards. He got up and fazed out. He reappeared in front of Lee and punched him. Lee blocked, expecting a punch. But none came. He looked to see that it was a spectral transparent version of Naruto that punched him. He thought to himself 'Afterimage.'
He charged energy into both of his hands, keeping a Galick Gun charged just in case. He started looking around for Naruto, not finding him anywhere. He looked left, right, in front of him, behind him. Lee started thinking about where Naruto would be when it hit him like a ton of bricks. 'He can fly!'
Lee looked up, but it was too little, too late. Naruto had fully charged up a Kamehameha Wave and set it loose on Lee. Lee only had half a second to unleash his Galick Gun, and he did it. The Kamehameha attack rained down and collided with Lee's Galick Gun, too close to Lee for comfort. The shockwave of the two attacks hitting caused Lee to lose his footing. He slipped back, but levitated and caught himself. How his back was on the floor, pushing against the Kamehameha. The shockwave knocked Naruto back a little, but it didn't do much. As the attacks were pushing each other, Naruto thought to himself 'It's time to end this.' With a yell, Naruto summoned up the rest of his energy, forcing it into the Kamehameha. The attack engulfed Lee's attack. The only thing Lee could do was try to push it back more, but it didn't work.
After the attack, Naruto was wiped out. He put most of his power behind that attack. That's why he hated using the Kamehameha. It was so damn draining. He touched down on the ground to see that Lee was getting up, severely bruised. Naruto said "You okay, Lee? You're not hurt are you?"
Lee stood up, saying "No, I feel fine. What about you?"
Naruto said "Perfect. But we might need to heal our injuries."
Sasuke said "Maybe you two should fly back to Konoha. Go to the lab and sleep in the Regen Tanks for the night. I'll tell everyone that you two just got tired and slept at the training ground. Knowing you two training dummies, they'll believe me."
Naruto said "Why don't we just use Senzu Beans?"
Sasuke looked at Naruto and said "Didn't you say we might need them for this mission? It won't be good for them to all be gone because you two got crazy with your training. If you're not back by morning, I'm telling the others to leave you two."
Naruto rolled his eyes and said "Okay then."
Naruto and Lee then took off, rejoining the group in the morning. Sasuke did a little of his own training, then went to sleep.
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That's the end of chapter 11 folks. Also, if you're wondering, yes, False Super Saiyan is a Super Saiyan mode. Goku used it against Lord Slug in the Lord Slug movie. I thought it would be good for Lee in this fic.
