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Danny exited the portal in Clockwork's lair. He stepped onto the rocky floor and smiled when he saw the blue-skinned Time Wizard floating in front of him in his old man form.
"Well, Danny, how was your adventure?"
"You already know," Danny replied coyly. Clockwork chuckled.
"That's true…are you ready to return to your own time? On second thought, I already know that, too, don't I?" Danny smirked.
"How are they doing?" he asked pointedly. Clockwork motioned over to a supply closet, where twin dirty and battered Fenton Thermoses were sitting on a shelf.
"Dan and Zabuza are both locked away safely," Clockwork assured his young charge. "You need not worry about either of them escaping anytime soon." Danny nodded.
"Thank you." Clockwork nodded his head once, a small grin appearing on his features, before waving his staff in front of the large circular portal that adorned the main room of the lair. An image of Tucker and Sam watching Sarutobi and him disappearing in a puff of smoke appeared on the portal, and a small digital dial underneath read: 2 months ago."
"Two months?" Danny asked incredulously. "I've been gone for two whole months?"
"Yes. Frankly, I'm surprised it didn't take you longer to learn how to do things such as molding chakra, but you continue to surprise me."
"I thought you knew everything?" Danny asked inquisitively. Clockwork shrugged.
"Now shoo! Get into that portal before the Observants learn that you were here!" He whacked Danny on the head with this staff.
"Alright, alright…" Danny muttered as he floated up to the portal, rubbing the top of his head. He looked at the image resolutely, and stepped through.
As soon as he re-entered his room, his ninja skills kicked in and he scanned it for possible traps. Chastising himself for being so ridiculous, his eyes settled on Sam and Tucker, whose eyes were the size of dinner plates and were taking in every inch of him.
"Oh my gosh…" Sam murmured. "It's…what happened to you?" Danny smirked.
"Two months of ninja training, that's what. He placed the bag down on his bed and began pulling articles of clothing out.
"Two months? You were gone for two whole months?" Tucker asked incredulously. Danny nodded.
"Yeah, Clockwork brought me back to right now."
"Yeah, isn't that what the hokage just told us would happen?" Sam asked. Danny quirked an eyebrow at her, but then realized that to them, Sarutobi had taken him away less than thirty seconds ago. The two of them immediately began pelting him with questions about where he'd been, what he did, who he met, etc. After a couple of hours, he noticed that the sun was beginning to set. The two of them said that it was getting late and they had to go home for dinner.
"One last thing, though…what happened to your eyes?" Sam asked him.
"Yeah, they look kinda creepy," Tucker added.
"Well, in order to beat Vlad's sharingan, the hokage asked for me to be given a different, more powerful Bloodline Limit, one called the byakugan. It lets me see peoples' internal chakra networks and attack them directly.
"Chakra?" The two asked, confused. Danny sighed.
"I don't want to get into it now…can I explain it tomorrow?" The other two agreed, despite being slightly disappointed, and left for their own homes. Danny continued removing the clothing and weapons from his bag, and packed everything away in his room. Exhausted from having to explain the entire last two months of his life down to the most minute detail, he headed downstairs for dinner and afterwards collapsed into bed,. He fell asleep immediately.
The next morning, after showering and brushing his teeth, Danny changed into a pair of baggy cargo pants, a fishnet undershirt, and a white, high-collared t-shirt. He put on his weights and tied his hitai-ate, and flicked the metal forehead protector affectionately. He also put the weapons holster on his right leg and the pouch on his waist. He went ghost, about to fly off to school, when he realized something. His ghost form looked very much like his human form, with both wearing a forehead protector, a high-collared t-shirt and weapons pouches. He decided to nix the t-shirt and weapons while in human form, so that the two forms would look more different and also so that he wouldn't get expelled for bringing weapons to school. He went ghost for the second time, when all of a sudden the doorbell rang. He clapped a hand to his forehead, feeling the cool metal of the hitai-ate on his skin.
"I forgot! Sam and Tucker were supposed to walk to school with me today!" He changed back to human and ran down the stairs. He yelled a goodbye to his parents, threw open the door, and left the house, quickly closing the door behind him.
"Dude!" Tucker exclaimed once he exited FentonWorks. "You're ripped!"
"What?" Danny asked distractedly, and looked down. He noticed that the fishnet did tend to bring out the muscles he'd built while training. He looked up and saw that Sam was looking in the opposite direction.
"Sam?"
"What?" she asked. She glanced around for a millisecond, but it was enough for Danny to be able to tell that she was blushing bright red. He chuckled and led the way as the three friends made their way to Casper High. They entered through the main doors and were immediately assaulted by Dash.
"What's up, Fen-toenail?" the quarterback asked with a mean smirk. He grabbed the front of Danny's shirt and tried to lift him up into the air, but to his surprise, found that he couldn't.
"What the heck? Why are you so heavy today, Fenton?"
"I think it's because of these," Danny replied as he showed Dash the weights buckled to his right arm.
"Whoa…how much weight is that?" Danny shrugged.
"I don't know…maybe forty pounds on each leg, twenty-five on each arm, something like that…why?" Dash let go of Danny's shirt and backed away, now very afraid of the boy standing in front of him.
"You're weird, Fenton," He sneered, then turned around and ran away. Danny turned around and found Tucker and Sam gaping at him.
"How are you able to move with those on?" Tucker asked, awed. Danny shrugged again.
"I've had these on for a few days now…you kind of get used to it."
"A few days? But…oh yeah…" Tucker finished lamely. "Forgot about that time lag." The three of them headed to their lockers in order to get their books. Danny was lucky that he had a copy of his schedule taped to the door of his locker; otherwise he would have had no idea which classes to go to, being two months out of practice. He vaguely wondered how he'd be able to keep up in school now that he didn't remember what they were even learning about in each class. He closed the locker door, when all of a sudden he heard someone calling his name.
"You-hoo! Danny!" Paulina called as she came over to him. "Have you been working out or something?" She asked as she ran a finger along Danny's toned bicep. Danny fought back a slight blush.
"Er…you could say that. Thanks!" Just then, the bell rang, signaling that he was running late. "Sorry, gotta go, Paulina!" Danny called back to her as he ran to class.
As Danny ran into his classroom and sat down in his seat, Lancer considered giving the boy detention for being late. However, he looked more closely and realized that his student had clearly been lifting weights; Danny looked as though he could break the middle-aged teacher in half if he'd wanted to. He supposed that Danny wasn't that late after all…"Everybody open your textbooks to page 641…" Lancer said, and began the lesson.
A few hours afterwards, Danny had sat down with Tucker and Sam at their lunch table. Tuck had a lunch box full of meat, while Sam brought a few fruits and vegetables.
"Where's your lunch, Danny?" Sam asked him.
"Right here." Danny replied as he brought a pack of instant ramen out of his backpack. He went over to the machine that dispensed hot water and teabags, and filled the Styrofoam cup with boiling water. He returned to the table.
"What is that, exactly?" Tucker asked him.
"Instant Ramen. It's noodles and, in this case, pork, that you can add hot water to and eat. It isn't as good as Ichiraku's, but it'll do." His two friends shot each other confused glances, but didn't press the issue.
"So, what do we have after lunch?" Danny asked them. Tucker checked his PDA for a second.
"Gym," he answered. Danny smirked.
"I'm surprised that you haven't passed me yet, what with two months of ninja training and all," Sam joked as she and Danny ran laps around the gym; Tucker panting and wheezing far behind them.
"Later, I'll go into more detail about chakra, and you'll understand how fast I can go if I really want to," Danny replied with a shrug. "Besides, when you have to run a thousand laps around a track or do a morning marathon to warm up for that days' training, it doesn't pay to sprint." Sam could barely believe what she was hearing.
"A thousand laps? Morning marathons? Are you kidding?" Danny chuckled.
"I'm serious!" they finished running. They went over to the bars and began doing pull-ups. "Ninja are practically superhuman; they can do incredible things, and they work out intensely in order to be in insane physical shape." Sam was starting to get tired after around twenty pull-ups, but Danny wasn't even breaking a sweat. She let go and dropped to the ground, and he kept going. Mrs. Tetzlaff came over just as he was rounding fifty.
"Not bad, Fenton," she noted, and went to go yell at Tucker.
"I can't believe you're still going…and with those weights, too!" Sam commented. Danny shrugged and dropped to the ground. "Again, this is nothing compared to what I had to do before." The bell rang, and half a second later his ghost sense went off.
"I'll catch you later," he said, and ran over to the locker rooms. He went into a stall and transformed, then flew out into the gym to look for the ghost. Seeing that the room was empty, he turned intangible and flew through the side and into the next room over, which was a storage room.
"I am the Box Ghost!" He heard. Danny groaned and turned to face the blue specter, who was floating over a pile of, you guessed it, boxes.
"I guess I can't complain…I did have two whole months of vacation from him…" Danny said to himself.
"This time I shall surely defeat you, halfa!" the Box Ghost shouted. Before he could even follow up with a 'beware', he was pinned to the wall with four shuriken. He was visibly shaking as Danny floated up to him, killer intent rolling off of him.
"You will go back to FentonWorks and back through the Fenton Portal. You will fly through the Ghost Zone and tell every ghost you see that the halfa just got a whole lot stronger. Understand?" The Box Ghost nodded vigorously and Danny removed the shuriken keeping him pinned to the wall. As soon as he was free, the Box Ghost darted out of the school in the direction of FentonWorks as fast as he possibly could. Danny was placing the shuriken back in his weapons pouch when he heard the whining of an ectogun behind him.
"Nice new look, ghost. But the new threads won't save you from me." Valerie sneered. Spiking his chakra for less than a second, Danny sped around the huntress and appeared directly behind her.
"Thanks," he said. She spun around, startled, but before she could finish he had turned invisible and left. Valerie growled as she threw her ectogun to the ground.
"I'll get you next time, ghost kid," she said to herself, then left the room.
That afternoon, Danny, Tucker, and Sam were walking home when Danny's ghost sense went off for the second time that day.
"Dynamic entry!" They heard Vlad's silky, urbane voice say. Immediately after that, Vlad himself teleported in front of them in a swirling pink vortex of energy.
"My sources in the Ghost Zone have informed me that you've become more powerful, Daniel," he said. "So I decided that, instead of giving you the three days I'd originally promised, I would come today and shatter your thoughts of defeating me with your newfound power here and now. However, I will still offer you one last chance to join me peacefully. So, are you going to come quietly?"
"Not a chance, Plasmius," Danny spat as he transformed.
"Very well." Danny sensed Vlad's chakra levels suddenly increase. "Sharingan!" He shouted, and the pupil and three tomoe formed in his eyes. "Although I must reiterate that you cannot defeat me."
"That's what you think, cheesehead," Danny countered. "Byakugan!" Sam and Tucker gasped as the kekkei genkai took effect and his vision increased a thousandfold. Danny saw Vlad's keirakukei, and was able to see the lines of red chakra crisscrossing through his body. He focused a little more, and was able to make out the tenketsu that appeared throughout the chakra network. He smirked.
"Let's do this."