THE IMPERFECT SEAL
Chapter 12
Naruto age: 12
Foreign Shinobi
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
"Fūinjutsu: Kage Bunshin Fūin- KAI!" yelled Naruto as he grabbed Konohamaru by the scruff of the neck and jumped away.
Kankuro's head vibrated for several seconds before exploding into thousands of pieces. A clone now stood atop his shoulders, replacing his head.
Naruto narrowed his eyes as the flesh that pelted him felt much too hard to originate from a human. He picked up a piece of debris and discovered it to be made of wood.
"Leave this area." Naruto demanded calmly, his eyes still glowing crimson as he glared towards Konohamaru. The boy nodded his head fearfully as he turned around and ran away.
"A puppet?" Naruto asked towards the beheaded figure standing several yards in front of him.
The 'body' dropped the strange object on it's back as it began to rustle. The white tape started to unroll rapidly, revealing the form of Kankuro, an enraged expression on his face.
"A puppet master…" he growled. "And you just destroyed my most valuable piece." The previous body of Kankuro began to shudder violently before completely exploding, sending debris everywhere and dispelling the clone on top of it.
"And you have assaulted the grandson of the Hokage as a foreign shinobi, a crime that shall be punished by death." Naruto said as various sealing tags began to appear on his palms. The blonde haired genin wasted no time as he began to charge forward with his arms outstretched, various seals glowing on his palms.
He didn't make it very far before pieces of the retired puppet seemed to come to life and assault him.
Kankuro was working diligently in trying to slow down Naruto's charge. He was picking up every piece of wood debris with his chakra strings and hurling them at the blond. Kankuro finally got the opportunity he was looking for and rushed forward. The two opponents met instantly as Naruto tried to send his hand through Kankuro's torso.
Kankuro narrowly ducked under the boys hand and grabbed his wrist from below. He allowed a tiny grin to appear on his face as he spoke. "You're dead." said Kankuro victoriously as he jumped away.
Naruto looked at his wrist and noticed several poison senbon sticking out of it. His eyes suddenly became a deeper shade of red as his necklace began to spin excitedly around his neck.
Demonic chakra began to surface from underneath his skin as the three senbon were purged from his skin and dropped to the ground. More and more red chakra poured out as Kankuro looked on with a stunned expression. Once the poison was completely exterminated, he cut off the flow of the Kyuubi's chakra and dashed forward, straight towards a stunned Kankuro.
Temari looked on in absolute amazement and fear as the horrifying presence began to disperse from the air. She quickly stood up and unlatched the fan on her back.
Temari immediately opened the fan to the third moon. "Oh no you don't!"
"Fūton: Kazekiri no Jutsu!" she yelled with a swing of her fan. A massive blade of wind was sent hurtling towards her opponent. Temari looked on with satisfaction as Naruto was forced to leap away from Kankuro. Her attack seemed to have snapped her brother out of his daze.
She quickly stomped the bottom of her fan into the ground and began to go through several hand seals. However, she quickly stopped when she saw two red eyes appear in front of her. The form of Sasuke Uchiha began to come into view as he landed directly in front of her.
"Let them settle their own matters…" Sasuke said as he eyed her suspiciously.
Temari quickly picked her fan up from the ground and began to circle around her opponent.
"That's fine, Ill just beat you first!" she said confidently.
Sasuke smirked as he slipped two shuriken into his palms.
With Naruto:
Naruto quickly regained his bearings as the blade of wind went soaring past his face, nearly cutting the skin on his nose.
He locked eyes with Kankuro as his opponent reached his hands into his uniform and pulled out ten senbon. He quickly attached chakra strings to each senbon and began to rush forward. "You may be immune to my poison, but no one is immune to old fashioned physical damage!"
Kankuro began to wildly engage Naruto in taijutsu. Every time Naruto would block, chakra strings would get wrapped around his arms and send several senbon into his flesh. Kankuro began to fight more and more aggressively as Naruto's healing abilities struggled to keep up. The puppet master attempted to get one more hit on Naruto's face before watching his opponent jump back.
Naruto breathing became labored as he regained himself.
'I haven't gotten one seal on him yet...' Naruto thought. 'This will be hard to win without creating massive amounts of damage to the village… unless.'
His bloody frown turned into a sadistic grin as a small amount of demonic chakra began to leak out.
With Sasuke:
Sasuke dodged underneath another wind attack as Temari's relentless barrage continued. "Are you going to fight or just stand there and look pretty?!" she taunted with another swing of her fan.
Sasuke jumped up again with a pained expression as his legs began to feel the strain of his defensive style.
'Almost there.' he thought.
He landed on the ground and immediately jumped back up to his original tree branch. The moment he landed he locked eyes with his opponent. 'Now.' he thought with a smirk as the tomoe around his sharingan began to spin wildly.
Temari looked on in interest as the whole world around her began to change. The overall color scheme began to change to red and black.
The squelch of flesh was heard as she looked over worriedly at her brother. It appeared as though Naruto had just slammed a fist though his chest.
'A genjutsu!' Her right hand went into the ram seal. "Kai!" she yelled as the world began to return to normal.
Temari immediately picked up her fan again but noticed something was off the second that she touched it.
"You broke out of that faster then I had hoped, but no matter." said Sasuke from the trees. Temari attempted to jump back, but fell on her face with her efforts.
She took a good look at herself and noticed that her body was bound to her fan with very thin ninja wire, and her fan was bound to the Uchiha's fingers, which were now going through hand seals.
"Shit!" she yelled as a massive ball of fire traveled down the wire straight towards her fan.
With Naruto:
Naruto continued to fight the losing battle of Taijutsu with Kankuro.
Every time that Naruto would attempt to attack, Kankuro would use his chakra strings to cut up every piece of flesh that Naruto possessed. Every time Naruto was forced to retreat he would drag his feet on the ground, it now looked like there was some sort of irrigation system on the battlefield.
The blonde haired genin took another leap forward, three shuriken in each hand. He threw the weapons and dashed straight towards Kankuro's midsection. The puppet master laughed mockingly as he just ducked under the shuriken and prepared his senbon once more.
Kankuro lashed out at the blond, forcing him to retreat once again. As he came sliding to a stop, the puppet master noticed something was wrong. There was a glowing seal plated firmly on the ground in front of him.
His opponent was smiling, his eyes still crimson and his hands planted firmly on the floor. Naruto began to channel a massive amount of Demonic chakra towards the ground as his opponents eyes widened.
The Kyuubi's energy began to form a hemisphere around Kankuro, the only thing that appeared to be keeping the demonic energy at bay was the seal on the ground, which was pouring out blue chakra.
"It was quite a challenge to fool you-" Naruto began slowly as the barrier of demonic energy was now completely formed.
Naruto was suddenly interrupted as some massive projectile was hurled towards him. The object seemed to soar straight into the barrier, sustaining serious burns from the Kyuubi's charka once it was safe near the seal.
Kankuro had a look of pure anger on his face as the object landed right next to him. "Temari!" he shouted with a worried tone.
"Don't worry, I'm just a little burned. I can still fight." she said tiredly. Temari slowly made her way to her feet with the assistance of her fan. She noticed Sasuke land beside Naruto outside the barrier.
The young Konoha genin put his hands in the ram seal as his raven haired teammate spoke. "What business do you have in Konoha?" Sasuke asked as the barrier began to constrict around the two shinobi.
"Speak or-" Naruto began to talk but was interrupted by a hand on his shoulder. He didn't even have time to look behind him before he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
"Fuck."
Sasuke said as the chakra barrier immediately dispersed once Naruto had been taken away. Kankuro let an evil grin cover his face as the barrier dispersed to nothing. "What was that Uchiha?" he asked mockingly. Temari reopened her fan to the third moon, holding in a wince of pain. "I don't have much left in me, but with me and Kankuro together? You're a dead man."
Kankuro dashed forward as Temari began to prepare her final attack. The puppet master lashed his chakra strings in front of him, hoping to ensnare the Uchiha and win the fight. Kankuro smirked as he felt his threads begin to wrap around his target. "Temari now!' he yelled in midair.
"Fūton: Kazekiri no Jutsu!" yelled the blonde Suna nin with a swing of her fan.
Everyone's eyes widened as the form of Sasuke seemed to be pulled backwards by an invisible force.
Sakura let out a grunt of exertion as the full force of her teammate came hurtling towards her. She skidded back several feet as the body of Sasuke was now in her arms.
"I was barely *pant* able to save you with my chakra strings." the pink haired genin said as she began to overrun Kankuro's threads with her own chakra.
The bindings quickly fell off of the raven haired genin as he quickly exited Sakura's grasp and got back to his feet.
"Thank you Sakura." He said impassively as his sharingan blazed back to life. A light blush spread across Sakura's face as she got into a fighting stance behind her teammate.
Kankuro and Temari looked on in anger as their opponents now seemed to have overtaken them once more.
"This is bad." the puppet master whispered. "Should we retreat?" replied Temari.
Both of their hearts stopped as they stood frozen in place as they heard an all-too familiar voice sound behind them.
"You should stop disgracing our village." said a young red haired child that had just appeared behind them. "Uh Gaara! So glad you're here!" Temari said with a fake relieved smile.
"Shut up and leave." he said coldly as Temari dropped her head and walked behind her younger brother. Kankuro remained in front of him however, staring angrily at the Uchiha. "You too idiot." Gaara said impassively.
The puppet master grunted as he crossed his arms in front of him and walked over to where his sister was now standing.
Sasuke looked on in interest as this new arrival took complete control over their opponents. His look was met with a cold gaze as the red haired boy locked eyes with Sasuke.
"You. What is your name?" Gaara asked with the same stoic expression. "Uchiha Sasuke." he replied with a smirk. Gaara nodded weakly and turned around. He began to walk away.
Both of his siblings glared at the Uchiha one last time before running after their younger brother.
With Naruto:
Naruto re-emerged in what seemed to be a wide open space. The entire area would echo any sort of noise, and the only light was a candle about 10 feet to the north. There was a large wooden desk situated directly next to the candle, and there appeared to be a man sitting behind it.
Naruto narrowed his eyes until the figure of Danzo could be made out, staring right at him.
The two seemed to glare at each other for several seconds before Naruto got on one knee and bowed his head.
"Danzo-sama." he recited calmly.
"You may come forth." replied the aged voice of the old War Hawk. Naruto nodded his head slightly and stood up, he began to walk forward until he stood about 2 feet in front of the desk; it appeared to be made out of dark cherry wood. There was a steaming glass of tea on the table.
"I take it that your mission was a success?" the old man asked calmly.
"It was. Kakashi was able to make a full recovery due to my comrade being able to learn medical techniques in such a short period of time." Danzo nodded slowly as he took a sip of the tea. "And what of the rest of your mission?" he asked.
Naruto began to go into every detail of what occurred in Nami no Kuni.
He left out no aspects.
The blond haired genin described every event of his mission, from the first encounter with Haku- to the conflict with the Suna shinobi. Danzo raised his eyebrows as Naruto continued the story involving the puppet master.
"I suppose it makes sense that you would be confused as to why there is Suna shinobi among Konoha." Danzo began "They are currently in our village in order to attend the Chuunin Exams, why they did not tell that to you, I have no idea." he said with an impassive expression.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the man in front of him.
"They assaulted the grandson of the Hokage. As a foreign shinobi, they should be punished with death." he said coldly, a glint of red returning to his eyes.
"And die they shall… in due time." the old man said with a ghost of a smile.
Naruto looked on curiously as Danzo seemed to put some sort of mask on his desk. The War Hawk gazed at the mask as he spoke. "You are correct in assuming that the actions of these foreign shinobi is unacceptable. However, killing them is not an option at the moment." Danzo leaned forward in his chair as a tiny gust of wind chakra pushed the mask towards Naruto. "Due to the fact that assassination is not an option, I have created a plan for you."
Danzo shifted his gaze to the mask, signalling for Naruto to pick it up. The blonde haired genin looked at the piece of wood for several seconds before reaching his hand forward and allowing his grip to take hold of it. "You are most likely going to be entered in the upcoming Chuunin exams, if you are given the opportunity to neutralize one of them, then do so."
Naruto nodded as he slipped the mask into place. "Before that can occur however, you shall attempt to gain intelligence regarding the team from Suna. I find their actions to be suspicious enough to require surveillance. Is your objective clear?"
"Of course Danzo-sama." Naruto said stoically, his face now concealed with a blank white mask. "When you do acquire any sort of intelligence, channel chakra into your mask. This will alert nearby members of ROOT."
Naruto nodded firmly.
"If any sort of conflict occurs during your surveillance, you are to run and maintain your cover at all costs. Are the parameters of your mission absolutely clear?"
"Of course Danzo-sama."
"Excellent. Dismissed."
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