Haven't updated for a week or so cause of Thanksgiving. Also cause something was wrong with FF I think. Well thanks for the replies so far and hope you like this chapter. Hope you people are enjoying it so far. Probably update in a few days or something.
Chapter 12:The Green Beast
It took them five days to reach the first town in the Country of Waterfall.
When they got to town the old man left to get some supplies. It was a medium size town. Naruto could see a huge waterfall in the back that formed into a river that went through the middle of the town. The houses were all the same. The houses were made of bricks. Red tiles made the roofs.
"So what do we do now?" Naruto asked Kato as they got into town.
"It takes him pretty long, so you guys can go out for a while. Come back in three hours or so," Kato replied.
"Alright I'm starved. Let's go find a ramen place Yugito," Naruto said to her.
"No, let's go to a nice restaurant today," Yugito replied in her usual voice.
Naruto raised one of his eyebrows, "no, we're going to eat ramen this time."
"Nice restaurant."
"Ramen."
"Restaurant."
"Ramen."
They began looking at each other with narrowed eyes, neither of them backing down.
"Lee, I think we should leave them," Kato said to Lee. Lee nodded and left with Kato.
"Fine, we'll eat at a nice restaurant this time and we'll eat ramen next time," Yugito said to him calmly, breaking her eye contact with Naruto.
"No we won't, we'll eat ramen this time and eat at a nice restaurant next time," Naruto answered back.
They resumed their staring contest.
"Fine, let's Roshambo then," Naruto said.
"Alright," Yugito answered.
"Person that win gets to choose where we eat, no ifs ands or buts. One win decides the winner," Naruto said. Yugito nodded. They played roshambo for about a minute.
"Yes, I won," Naruto said. He threw up his right fist indicating that he won.
"Come on Naruto. Let's go to a nice restaurant, please," Yugito said in her most helpless tone.
"Nope, you lost Yugito, we're going to a ramen place," Naruto replied smiling at her.
"Fine," Yugito replied. She crossed her arms indictating that she didn't like it. They walked to the nearest ramen place, not holding hands this time. Naruto didn't mind. He knew that she would get over it pretty soon. She wasn't a type of girl who would hold a little grudge like that for long.
They got to the ramen shop and sat next to each other. Naruto was on the right while she was on the left.
"I'll have three bowls of pork ramen and three bowls of beef ramen," Naruto told the waitress.
"I'll just have one bowl of miso ramen," Yugito said.
"Does anything ever happen on this mission?" Naruto asked her. Just as he expected Yugito was already over her loss.
"Not really. Once in a long while there are shinobis that attack," Yugito told him.
Yugito wanted to know more about his past. She remembered that Sakura told her Naruto grew up without parents. Yugito wanted to know how he dealt with the cold stares. She had Kato and her parents, even though they were dead now.
"Naruto I wanted to ask you how you dealt with the hate?" Yugito asked him.
Naruto leaned back on his chair looking up at the ceiling. Yugito couldn't tell if he was trying to remember or if he was trying to evade the question. After a few moments later he answered.
"I won't lie, Yugito. It was hard. Part of the reason why I think that I handled it was because of old man Sarutobi keeping it a secret from my generation. The only shinobis that knew were the ones that fought the Kyuubi. I also didn't receive any special training or anything that would make me stand out. While most of the people in my generation didn't like me, a couple of us did get along. I remember when Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, and I would pull pranks on Iruka-sensei. While we didn't hang out much, I think those pranks helped me a lot. It made me know that I was a part of something. Also, on my first day of graduating from the academy I learned that Iruka-sensei really did care for me. He risked his life to save me even though he knew I held the Kyuubi. After that, it was team seven. We didn't get along that well, but when the time came we protected each other with our lives. That showed me that they also cared for me. Then it went on from there, the Rookie 9 and team Gai taking the Chuunin Exam together. We all became closer after the exam," Naruto said.
"So how about you?" Naruto asked.
"I didn't have friends growing up. Even now I don't have any friends," Yugito said.
Naruto interrupted her, "you don't consider my friends, your friends?"
"I don't know. They seem nice and all, but I don't really know them that well. Maybe if I spent more time with them I could consider them real friends. Right now I see them as acquaintances. I don't even know if they like me or not," Yugito answered.
"I'm pretty sure they like you," Naruto said in a tone that suggested he really did know what they thought of her.
"How do you know?" Yugito asked him.
"They're my friends. I can see when they've accepted a person or not. They've accepted you. I'm pretty sure they tried to include you into their conversation sometimes," Naruto replied.
Yugito thought back. She remember Ino and Sakura of course, but she also remembered when Kiba asked her what she thought of Sasuke.
"Back to your regular question. I think I managed because I had Kato and a family. My parents died a while back, but after that Kato was the one that looked after me. Other than that I don't have anyone else. That was until I met you about a year back. You were the first person who accepted me outside of my family," Yugito said looking at him.
They held each other's hand after that. The ramen came and they began eating. After eating they visited the local stores for a while. There wasn't anything interesting, just a few bookstores and gambling stores. Naruto never gambled before and never planned to. He saw what it has done to Tsunade and vowed never to start. Yugito has already been playing slots for about an hour though. Naruto was standing behind her.
"Yugito, I don't want you to become a gambler like nee-chan. Can we go now?" Naruto said to her.
"There isn't anything to do here. Plus, we have about an hour left before we meet up with Kato so why don't you just take a load off and play for a while," she told him.
"No, I don't want to. I've seen what happened to nee-chan and I don't want to start. I also don't want you to be like her," Naruto told her in a serious voice.
Yugito laughed not turning back, "Don't worry I don't really like it. I'm just trying to kill time." She pulled the lever again. This was the truth. Yugito really didn't like to gamble. It was just that there was nothing to do in the town. When she looked back she could see that Naruto wasn't convinced though.
"Fine, we'll go," she said.
They wait for about 30 minutes when they saw the old man and the wagons coming up. Lee and Kato were also there with the old man.
"Everything finished?" Naruto asked as Kato came up.
"Yes, let's get going," Kato replied. They started to walk back. Kato and Lee were in the front while Naruto and Yugito were near the back.
They continued this formation for the next three days. The group was walking when they felt the presence of someone in the nearby trees. Naruto and Yugito immediately jumped to the front of the wagon where the chakra came from. They haven't seen anyone yet, but there was a chakra presence just before. There was no doubt about that, they took out their kunai and held a defensive posture. He or she was waiting for them.
"Did you see the person?" Naruto asked.
"No, but I felt it also," Kato answered him.
"Come out we've felt you already," Kato said outloud. There was no answer. He looked at Lee and saw that Lee was looking at the ground. Was he scared or something. I was sure Lee already had field experience. He can't be scared now could he? Kato thought to himself.
The foreign ninja was in the nearby trees. He was middle-aged, about thirty-five or so. He had green eyes and wore his forehead protector like Ebisu. He had the typical uniform jacket and pants. The forehead protector stated that he came from the Hidden Village of Waterfall. Four kids. I'll take them out at once. It'll be easier like that.
He immediately jumped from the tree and started doing some handseals. As he landed in about ten feet in front of them he said, "Karada Chinou Setsudan (Body Brain Disconnection)." Naruto, Yugito, and Kato all tried to move, but found out that they couldn't. They were just standing still. Damn, I can't move, Naruto thought. The man immediately threw four kunais, each for one of their heads.
Lee immediately felt the kunais coming and dashed to grab Naruto, Yugito, and Kato. He managed to grab them all and move them out of the way before the kunais made any connections. Lee jumped near the third wagon and set them next to it. He immediately jumped back to the front to confront the guy.
This guy's fast. He was able to get all three of his friends out of danger at such a close range. I can see him getting one person, but all three? It seemed that he didn't even lose speed while he was carrying them. I must not underestimate him, the ninja thought.
"My name is Shouta," the ninja said to Lee. Lee didn't give him an answer. He continued looking at Shouta's feet.
"So serious. At least give me your name," Shouta said to Lee. He still didn't answer him.
Shouta took out another kunai. He jumped at Lee trying to slash him as he came down. Lee immediately moved out of the way and appeared behind him, giving him a right kick to the back which sent him hitting the ground. Shouta got back up. He was surprised to see the young man looking at the ground again. What's this fool doing? Shouta taught. He tried a sweeping kick, but Lee just jumped up avoiding the attack. As Lee was falling down from his jump Lee gave a right hook to Shouta's face sending him five feet to the floor again. Shouta stood back up, Is he mocking me? Not attacking while I'm down and looking at the floor. Lee was still looking at the floor.
Shouta looked to his left and saw that the other three shinobis still couldn't move from his genjutsu. He jumped and threw six kunais at their direction. Lee immediately moved in front of his friends and blocked the six kunais with the kunai that he pulled out with his left hand. Lee put his kunai back into his pouch.
Damn, this kid, Shouta thought. Fine, I'll just make him a little weaker first. He did a few handseals and said, "Nemuri no jutsu (Sleep jutsu)." After his jutsu there was a slow, soft melody coming from his hands.
He ran towards Lee to kick him, but found that Lee was gone from his sight. Where did he go? My genjutsu didn't affect him? He looked down and saw the young boy getting ready to kick him. Lee sent him up to the air with a hard right kick. He then jumped to the air and gave Shouta a hard left punch to his stomach which sent Shouta coming back down at an accelerated rate. Before Shouta hit the ground, Lee went right under him and gave a right uppercut to Shouta's back. There was a loud crack as the hit connected. Shouta's spinal cord was broken.
Lee immediately went to the group. Lee took out a kunai with his right hand.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but I don't know how to break genjutsu and I know you the most. So I guess it'll be you," as he said that he stabbed Naruto hard on his right leg.
"OOOOOWWWWWW," Naruto said as he was stabbed on the leg. He got up with most of his weight on his left leg.
"You didn't have to stab that hard," Naruto told him.
"I'm sorry, Naruto. I assumed it was a high class genjutsu so I had to do enough pain to snap you out of it," Lee replied. Lee was right in his decision. It was a high class genjutsu so there had to be significant pain to release the genjutsu.
Naruto looked at Yugito and Kato and raised his hand, "Kai."
As he said that Yugito and Kato got up.
"Lee, you saved us all," Yugito said as she got up.
"No problem," Lee said. "Shall we continue our journey?"
"Yes," Kato answered.
Kato and Lee resumed their position in the front while Yugito and Naruto went to the back.
"Lee, how come you weren't affected by the genjutsu?" Kato asked as he and Lee jumped to the front.
"I didn't look at him," Lee said.
So, that's why he was looking at the floor. It wasn't because he was scared, it was because he didn't want to be caught in a genjutsu, Kato thought.
"How do you fight without looking at the opponent?" Kato asked him.
"Easy, I just look at their legs. It's pretty easy once you get used to it," Lee answered.
"Amazing, Lee you've got to teach me that once we get back," Kato said to him. Lee just laughed.
"How about other ways of affecting you without sight. Seeing a person is not the only way to cast a genjutsu," Kato said.
"That's true. Even though about 80 of genjutsu are cast when the victim sees a person, there are other ways. I have ways of dealing with those too," Lee said.
"How?" Kato asked curious.
Lee took out a little earpiece from his ears, "Here's how. Go ahead try them on."
Kato took the earpiece and put them on. Weird, it didn't do anything.
"So can you hear me?" Lee asked him.
"Yea, I can hear you," Kato replied.
Lee tapped something on his left thigh. He stepped in front of Kato. Lee was and he was moving his mouth. Was he talking? Kato thought. He couldn't hear a sound. Not the sound of Lee or the sound of the wind or the wagons trailing behind him. Kato was completely deaf. He took the earpiece back out.
"So that's how you deal with the genjutsu coming from sound waves," Kato said.
"Yes," Lee replied.
"How do you know what commands are given then?" Kato asked him.
"I can lip-read. My team usually knows that I'm deaf during a confrontation so they try to speak so that I can see their lips," Lee replied.
"That's usually the other way genjutsu are cast. They consist of about 10 of the genjutsu that are casts. As for the touching genjutsu, I just try not to get touch," Lee said laughing.
"For smell, I just breath through my mouth so that takes care of that. Taste genjutsu are rarely used. They are usually only used in preparation so I don't really worry about those," Lee said.
"What about ninjutsu then?" Kato asked him.
"I just follow the chakra. I just try and not get hit by it," Lee answered.
"Don't you want to see what they've cast so that you might learn it later or how dangerous it is?" Kato questioned him.
"No, not really. I just avoid all of them like they're dangerous. Naruto hasn't told you about my disability yet has he," Lee said.
Kato shook his head indicating that Naruto hasn't mentioned anything about Lee.
"I don't know why, but the group never mentions it to anyone. I'm guessing that they think it'll hurt my feelings or something, but to tell you the truth it doesn't. Well, I can't use mold my chakra to use ninjutsu or genjutsu so there's no reason to look at the handseals. That's also why I can't afford to get caught in a genjutsu. If I do and there isn't another person around, I'll most likely die," Lee told him.
"You've become a shinobi by only using taijutsu," Kato commented.
"Yes," Lee answered.
If he took this much preparation to avoid genjutsu then his taijutsu must be real strong. No matter what he says, fighting an opponent only by looking at their feet must have took years. I know he was holding back in our sparring before, but I didn't know how much. Of course I was also holding back, but still he must have held back a lot more than I originally thought, Kato thought to himself.
"So you were holding when we were sparring," Kato said.
This was true. Lee didn't see a reason to take off his weights in a spar. To use his gates in a spar would be insane. He could also tell that Kato wasn't using his full strength when they were sparring, "yes, I sense that you were also."
They continued talking until they reached the Hidden Village of Cloud.
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Hidden Village of Cloud
When they got home Yugito could tell that something was wrong with Naruto. After the shinobi attacked them, Naruto wasn't acting the same. It seemed like something was bothering him.
Lee and Kato immediately went to the dojo on the third floor. Naruto and Yugito went into their bedroom. Yugito was lying on top of him with her back on his frontside. His arms were around her body.
"What's wrong Naruto? I could sense that something's been bothering you ever sense we were attacked. Is it because you weren't the ones that saved us?" Yugito said to him jokingly.
"No, that's not it," Naruto replied in a serious tone.
"So, what's wrong then?" Yugito asked him in her normal voice.
"If I couldn't break free from that genjutsu then I don't know how I can break from any genjutsu that is casted by Akatsuki," Naruto replied.
"It was a difficult one to break out of. I couldn't break out of it either," Yugito told him trying to make him feel better.
"Yea it was hard, but still. I'm sure that Akatsuki can cast harder genjutsus than that," Naruto replied.
"So that what's been bothering you, Akatsuki?" Yugito asked him.
"Yes," Naruto answered.
"Naruto you're letting Akatsuki get to your mind too much. They're not even doing anything right now and they're still getting to you," Yugito said to him.
"I'm sorry Yugito, but I can't stop thinking about them," Naruto said.
"Can't you just stop thinking about them?" Yugito asked him.
"No, not really," Naruto answered.
"How are you going to live if you're always thinking about them?" Yugito questioned him.
"Before I didn't think about them as much when they were just after me. But, after I found out who they were also after, I couldn't stop," Naruto told her.
So, she was the reason why Naruto was always thinking about Akatsuki, Yugito thought to herself.
"Naruto I can take care of myself you know. Just relax a little and try to enjoy our time together," Yugito said to him. She turned around so that her face could meet his. Her face was a serious one. Yugito didn't want Naruto to spend all his time thinking about Akatsuki. She didn't like his current mood much.
"Fine, I'll try Yugito," Naruto said to her when he saw her face.
"Thank you, that's all I ask," Yugito replied. She returned to her position with her back on his frontside. Naruto immediately grabbed her hard between both his arms. She struggled and they both fell to the floor.
"Naruto, let me go, that's not fair," she said as they hit the floor. They were on their side now. Yugito was struggling, but his grip was too tight for her.
"Who's the strongest? Answer this and I'll let you go," Naruto said to her.
"Stop cheating and let me go. Then we'll see who's the strongest," Yugito said still struggling.
"I'll let you go after you answer who's the strongest," Naruto told her.
"It certainly isn't you," Yugito said.
"BZZZZ, wrong answer," Naruto told her. He squeezed her tighter in his arms.
"Naruto I'm serious, let me go now," Yugito told him in a commanding voice. Her threats were not taken seriously by Naruto.
"You're not answering the question," Naruto said to her. He proceed to tighten his hold.
She was trying to get out of his hold. The only thing that she could do was to try to head bunt Naruto with the back of her head, but it just barely hit his chest. She couldn't get any momentum to hurt him. She couldn't do anything so she finally gave in, "fine, you're the strongest," she said in a very low voice, almost in a whisper.
"What? I can't hear you," Naruto said.
"You're the strongest," Yugito said in her normal voice.
"Who's the strongest? Say the name and in a sentence," Naruto told her.
"Naruto is the strongest," Yugito said in her normal voice.
"Hehe, yes that is true, Naruto is the strongest. Now you know that also," Naruto said to her. Naruto let go of his grip. He could see that Yugito was getting up. Yugito didn't get up completely. As she was pretending to get up she quickly moved her left leg under the left side of Naruto's stomach. She dropped down behind him and moved her right leg around the other side of this stomach. She had him in a scissor leg lock. Yugito wrapped one of her arm around Naruto's neck and started to choke him.
"The strongest should never let their guard down. Who's the strongest now?" Yugito asked him.
Naruto's hands quickly went to his neck trying to break her choke-hold, "Yugito, you're choking me."
"Shut up Naruto. You better answer the question or you'll run out of breath soon," Yugito told him.
"I can't breath," Naruto said in a raspy voice.
"You're not answering the question," Yugito said tightening her grip more.
Naruto struggled some more. He tried with all his strength to break free, but her hold was too strong. Plus he was losing oxygen fast.
"Ok, ok, you're the strongest," he said in a low voice.
Knowing that he couldn't speak louder, she let go of her hold a little so he could talk. Naruto used this opportunity to break free, but Yugito was already ready for this. She retightened her hold before he could do anything.
"Didn't I say the strongest should never let their guard down? Try that one more time Naruto and I won't let you go the next time. I'll show you who's the strongest instead," Yugito said to him. She continued to hold him in a rear naked choke. It was about a minute before she talked.
"So, who's the strongest?" Yugito asked him again.
"You are," Naruto said in a low voice because he couldn't speak louder.
"I'm going to loosen my grip so you can talk a little bit louder, but you better remember what I said earlier," Yugito said to him. She loosened her grip just a bit, but not enough for comfort.
"So, are you going to answer?" Yugito questioned him after he didn't say anything for a couple of seconds.
"You're the strongest," Naruto said in a louder voice this time.
"The name and in a sentence," Yugito told him.
"Yugito is the strongest," Naruto said.
"Hehe, yes I know that. And you're her boyfriend, aren't you glad?" Yugito said. She let go of her grip and rolled on top of him looking at his eyes.
Naruto was massaging his neck and catching his breath, "Damn Yugito, you didn't have to choke me, you know."
"Just teaching you a lesson," Yugito replied and she gave him a peck on the lips. She was glad Naruto was in a happier mood now. Yugito got off of Naruto and got up.
"Naruto, I'm going to change for bed now so don't look, okay?" Yugito asked to him in a slightly serious tone.
Naruto was still on the floor. He glanced up at her. Even though they've been together for almost a week, Yugito never changed in front of Naruto. She would always change in the showers before she came to bed. The only time that he saw her body was the first time that slept together. After that, she would always wear her pajamas instead. This was not an opportunity to be missed, Naruto thought to himself. He was lost in his thoughts about seeing her body again.
"Are you going to answer me?" Yugito asked him snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Sure Yugito, I won't look," Naruto said and covered his eyes with his hands.
Yugito sensed something was wrong. "Promise me that you won't look Naruto," she said in a worried, but serious voice.
"Don't worry I won't look," Naruto said. He couldn't hide his smile that stated he had other thoughts on his mind.
"You haven't promised," Yugito said to him.
"I won't, don't worry about it," Naruto answered.
"Fine, if you're going to be like that," Yugito said. She did a couple of handseals, "Absolute Darkness." Everything went black. It was completely black for about 30 seconds.
"Kai," she said. When the darkness disappeared Yugito was wearing a purple pajama that had yellow cat-like eyes designs.
When she looked at Naruto she could see that he was disappointed. He had a small frown on his face.
"I didn't teach you that jutsu so that you could use it on me you know. I also said that I wouldn't look," Naruto told her.
"Well, you didn't promise so I had to do what I had to do," Yugito responded.
"I just wanted to see your body again. It's not like you were going to completely undress," Naruto said in a defeated tone.
"I'm a little embarrassed Naruto," she said calmly.
"Embarrassed of what?" Naruto asked. "From what I remembered it was fine with me."
"Don't know, I just am okay," Yugito told him. She said it in a tone that said this was her final answer. Naruto didn't ask her any more questions about her body. She wasn't mad yet, but Naruto could tell that she would be if he kept on pressing on.
Yugito went back on the bed. She was laying with her back to the bed and her arms behind her head.
Naruto got up and took off his clothes.
"You can see me," Naruto said with a laugh. He changed into his pajamas. Naruto was wearing a red pajama that had orange fox faces designs.
"It's different, you're a guy and I'm a girl," Yugito replied.
After he got dress he looked at Yugito. He forgot all about Akatsuki and remembered why Tsunade let him come by himself. It was to enjoy time with Yugito, not worry about Akatsuki. I'm going to spend my time on Yugito while I'm here, not Akatsuki. I can take care of that later, right now I just want to spend as much time with her as possible. Naruto lay on top of her. He rested his head just above her chest.
"Sorry about before Yugito, I forgot why nee-chan let me come by myself," Naruto said to her in a low voice.
"It's okay Naruto," Yugito answered. She put her arms around his head and they went to sleep.
Jutsu Descriptions:
Karada Chinou Setsudan: Body Brain Disconnection- (A-rank) A genjutsu that disconnects the brain from sending signals to the body. This jutsu is very hard to break out of by yourself since you can't use pain to cancel the genjutsu also.
Nemuri no jutsu: Sleep jutsu- (B-rank) A genjutsu that causes the victim to go to sleep. This genjutsu is cast through sound waves.
