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Chapter 21: Legacy of the hidden shadow village
Temari had just woken up and felt a bit nauseous, chalking it up to waking up late and not yet having breakfast. She decide she better grab something to eat, and quickly heated up her favorite, kenchin soup. She had just finish eat, and started feeling nauseous again, making her hold her stomach.
"I'm.. I'm going to puke" Temari said, holding her hand over her mouth as she raced to the downstairs bathroom.
After emptying her stomach, she sat back against the wall in the bathroom, breathing hard. "Fuck me...what did I eat?.. Or am I coming down with something?"
Temari shook her head and managed to stand up to wash out her mouth in the sink.
"Maybe I should go get check up and make sure It's nothing serious.." Temari stated, making her way into town after she felt up to it.
She decide to go to the Hokage, instead of the regular hospital, since she the best medical ninja in the ninja world and was kind of like family now. She found Tsunade trying to set paperwork on fire and Shizune trying to stop her, to which Temari just laughed slightly, alerting the to her presence.
"Oh.. Hey there Temari.. How's it going?" Tsunade said, suddenly acting calm as Shizune gathered up the singed paper work. "Everything ok?"
"Actually.. I stared feeling nauseous earlier.. even after eating" Temari said, holding her stomach. " I ended up throwing up my breakfast.. It might be nothing.. But this has happened a few times this week and once last week so I wanted to make sure I'm not coming down with the flu or anything.. Can't have it interfering with my duties as a Kunoichi"
"Sure, come on over and pull up a chair" Tsunade said, standing up. "Let's do a check up.. All Anbu leave the room for now"
Several Anbu appeared and walked out the door before Tsunade activated a privacy seal and had Temari strip to her underwear and bra. Tsunade slowly passed her hand over Temari while it glowed with greenish energy, looking to see what the problem was.
"Well?.. Is it the flu?.. Food poisoning? Or what?" Temari asked impatiently as she got dressed.
"Go figure…" Tsunade said stepping back. "Well since you're a blunt person, I'll just spit it out.. Your pregnant"
Temari just stared at her, repeatedly blinking while in silence while Tsunade just waved her hand in front of her face, trying to get her attention.
"Are...Are you sure?" Temari asked, finally speaking up after nearly five minutes. "I'm.. I'm pregnant?"
"Yup.. You and Naruto are going to be parents" Tsunade said with a smile. "Congratulations"
"..holy shit" Temari stated, still in disbelief. "I'm going to be mother…that's.. nuts.. Though I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner"
"What do you mean?" Shizune asked as she straightened up Tsunade's desk.
"Well.. Me and Naruto end up.. "Having alone time" pretty often.. As often as possible.." Temari said blushing. "Given that he has a lot of stamina we end up spend hours.. Enjoying ourselves.. Like the night before his recent mission.. 5 hours straight...I was exhausted beyond belief afterwards.."
Tsunade and Shizune both had slightly red faces as they stared at a embarrassed Temari.
"Uh,…sorry.. Anyways...any idea's how far along I am?" Temari asked as she tried to regain her dignity.
"Well… based on what I saw.. I'd say not far.. Maybe a few weeks at most" Tsunade replied, folding her hands. "For now your fine.. You can stay on active ninja duty for now with no issues as long as your careful.. Although I won't be assigning you any missions above C rank for the time being.. Just to be on the safe side"
"Wonderful… he knocks me up and now I'm refrained from taking on difficult missions" Temari said bitterly. "Still.. I'm going to be a mother.. And well.. I'm not sure what to think about that.."
"Well… becoming a mom is certainly a challenge.. Even more so for a Kunoichi" Tsunade said, smiling. "But you'll have plenty of help from me, Shizune, your friends and of course Naruto"
"Yeah I suppose.. I just hope I'm a good mother.." Temari commented. "I've never been around little kids much… nor had to raise one.. This will definitely be a challenge.. A good challenge.. But a challenge none the less"
As Temari dealt with the revelation that she was going to be a mother, Naruto(with Kurama taking control) was continuing to fight the hidden shadow ninja Fumihiko as it was quickly becoming a stalemate, much to the annoyance of both fighters.
"You are a annoying human…you realize this, correct?" Kurama said through Naruto's body, while Naruto sat on Kurama's head in his mindscape watching the battle. "This isn't the first time I've face a strong opponent though.. Me and Naruto will defeat you"
"We'll see.." was all the Fumihiko replied before launching another shadow based jutsu.
"Kurama… I have an idea" Naruto said, as they managed to dodge Fumihiko's attack.
"Good.. Tell me what it is so we can take this bastard down" Kurama said, in his mind to Naruto.
After a few minutes, Kurama created hundreds of 9 tails Chakra mode shadow clones and they all stood by, waiting to enact the plan. On Kurama signal, the clones wordlessly created what seemed to be even more clones and they all attacked at once.
"Do you really think this will stop me?" Fumihiko grinned, as he did a hand sign. "Multi Shadow Possession Jutsu!"
The clones continued to close in on him as he activated his jutsu, but to his surprise and shock the attack passed through the clones instead of attaching. In the brief moment of surprise, Kurama appeared behind Fumihiko and shot a red energy chakra arm forward and tore off Fumihiko's left arm in a spray of blood.
"Ahh.. Damn it!" Fumihiko yelled in pain as his arm was severed and landed quite a ways away from him on the ground. "You little rotten demon bastard!"
"Sorry.. But we don't have time to be gentle… you're like a parasite in our side and need to be removed" Kurama said, narrowing his eyes.
"Damn.. That was harsh Kurama.. Not to mention graphic.." Naruto said cringing from inside the mindscape. "Then again.. He is immortal and would heal fast from minor injuries…"
"Indeed.. You know the only way to defeat him. Will be to kill him.." Naruto said with a bit of reluctance and sadness. "I hate killing.. But.. If we don't then.."
".. then he will get the Mizukage's niece and stay a large threat to many others in the world" Kurama finished. "Let's combine… and take him down, partner"
"Are you sure?.. We haven't practiced a lot with that mode.. Especially now that your yin and yang forms are one again.. Won't it be too much to use that mode without practice?" Naruto asked concerned. "Let's just use the pre-complete tailed beast mode for now"
"That's what I had meant Naruto" Kurama said, nodding. "Are you ready?"
Naruto and Kurama bumped fist against paw and put Naruto bad in charge as he created hundreds of shadow clones to mob and distract the injured Fumihiko. He the activated his incomplete tailed beast mode and jumped on top of the head of the translucent form of Kurama and channeled positive and negative Chakra.
"Tailed Beast bomb!" Naruto shouted as he and Kurama fired the dense ball of Chakra at Fumihiko and the Shadow clones that created an enormous explosion so strong that even some distance away and Fumihiko's subordinates were knocked off their feet.
Hanabi managed to use the 8 trigrams Palm Rotation technique at the last second to shield herself, Eri and her squad mates from the blast, though she was glad the blast was not closer, since she wasn't as talented as Neji was in using the Palm Rotation. The Leaf Ninja and Eri looked over and saw the two Shadow ninja's getting back on their feet and knew they had to stop them.
Konohamaru created 2 shadow clones and jumped into action, as one did the Fire Style: Burning Ash jutsu which completely consumed the insane Ruri on hot high heat ash while the other clone and Konohamaru created a giant Rasangan using the second clone to help make it as big as he could make. He and the clone ran at the enemy at fast as they could with the giant rasangan in hand, yelling out as they did.
"Giant Rasangan!"
The giant ball of swirling energy smashed into Ruri's side and tore through it as he pushed her into a tree behind her. She coughed up a lot of blood upon impact as she scream in agony as the Rasangan tore her insides out. Final Konohamaru stopped the Rasangan and nearly puked as he quickly turn his head, to avoid seeing the now dead women with her insides mostly gone and her blood pooling around her.
He then did puke, despite trying not to. Killing a person in such violent way was not something that one could ever be prepared for. Konohamaru's only condolence was that his squad and friends were safe from the women, he just hope they could deal with the man as well.
Ruri's partner looked on at the bloody mess that had just moments ago been a living person and shook his head. "Can't say I'm sorry that she died.. She was insane,, and the things she did to people…"
"You know what? I think I'm going to take a break and wait to see the outcome of the fight with Fumihiko and this Naruto guy" Shinji said, sitting next to a tree and pulling out a flask filled with sake. "No worries kids.. I didn't want to fight to begin with.. And even though I said I would.. That's way to much of a drag for me"
Hanabi looked at Moegi, Konohamaru and Eri trying to figure out what to do, silently asking them if they should believe the man or attack him and try to hold him off until Naruto returns. Moegi shook her head, indicating not to fight him and Hanabi reluctantly agreed.
"If you wanna go help your sensei, go for it" Shinji said , leaning back. "I won't stop ya"
Although still not trusting the man, Konohamaru, Moegi and Hanabi ran, with Eri in tow, to find Naruto. They ran, with Hanabi looking for Naruto's Chakra and making sure to an eye on Eri just in case the third member of the enemy's group suddenly decided to attack them. It didn't take too long to find Naruto, but they stayed a distance at first to see what was going on before getting closer.
"Damn.. You think that got him Kurama?" Naruto asked, jumping down to the ground after the explosion ended and the dust cleared.
"Given that you defeated that Akatsuki member Kakuzu with just your Rasenshuriken.. It's a safe bet to assume you defeated this one with a tailed beast bomb" Kurama said, through their mind link. Be on your toes just in case though.. That Akatsuki guy wasn't immortal in the same way as this one is"
Naruto looked ahead and saw that nearly half of Fumihiko's body was missing. His right arm and right leg were detached, his left arm was missing entirely, probably disintegrated, and his mostly burnt head was laying a long ways from the rest of his remains. Naruto felt a little sick after seeing what remained, including the body and the head with most of Fumihiko's skull exposed. Suddenly, to Naruto and his squad's horror, the eyes opened and the mouth grinned widely.
"Not…bad…. Kid" Fumihiko's disembodied head said, as blood dripped down what was left of his lips. "That…really.. Fucking … hurt"
"How that hell… HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE!? YOUR JUST A HEAD!" Naruto yelled loudly. "Even if your immortal.. Your head isn't even on your body.. How can you even talk?"
"Because… nothing can kill me…. short of malnutrition …kid" Fumihiko said, slowly. "Just except it.. You can't win.. As soon as my head.. is back.. On my body.. Your dead"
"Naruto sensei!" Hanabi yelled as she and the rest of the group ran out from their hiding spot. "Konohamaru dealt with the crazy girl that was with him.."
"Hanabi?.. What are you and the others doing over here?" Naruto exclaimed. "Wait.. You defeated the girl? Nice one.. What about the other guy though?"
"He said fighting children was drag.. And then he sat down by a tree" Moegi stated, trying not to look at Fumihiko's remains. "What happens now sensei?"
"He.. Let you go?" Fumihiko exclaimed. "That… soft.. Bastard.. I knew.. This would happen"
"You knew?" Naruto asked, looking back over at his opponent.
"Yes.. He hated.. Fighting in general" Fumihiko stated sighing. "But hurting children… he always refused to.. Some say that made him soft… others say it made him human.. Either way.. I'm in a bad place here now.. I mean.. a worse place"
"Um… What do we do here?" Hanabi asked glancing at the head. "Do we just leave?.. It's not like he can stop us.."
"Um.. I guess?" Naruto replied, in a unsure tone. "If his partner just gathers him up and lets him heal though.. He could come back after us again"
"Tell you what kids.. I haven't had such a great fight since I battled the Second Hokage along side Kakuzu.. And he didn't injury me as much as this" Fumihiko said with a grin. "As a reward.. I'll let you all go. And forget about this mission…how's that sound?"
"Your seriously gonna let us go?.. Just like that?" Naruto asked skeptically. "What's the catch?"
"No catch kid… just.. That if we meet again.. In the future.. I won't rest.. Until we trade places… and you're the pile of lunch meat on the ground" Fumihiko said, still grinning. "Now leave.. Before I change my mind"
Not taking any chances, Naruto and the others all ran to continue to their destination, while having Hanabi keep an eye on Fumihiko as they ran. They took nearly a 4 days to get to the land of Tea and drop off Eri before finally heading back home to the Hidden Leaf Village which took another week of travel and several pit stops, mostly camping outside ,though at least one time when they were able to stay at a hotel for a night.
At last Naruto and his squad had finally arrived at the main gate to the Hidden Leaf village, where Kotetsu and Izumo, the two eternal Chunin were on gate duty, signing people in and out of the village as they arrived and left.
"Hey there, Naruto welcome back" Kotetsu said, standing up from his chair. "You and your squad have a good mission?"
"Yeah… it was certainly eventful, that's for sure" Naruto said, with a grin. "Are we clear?. I wanna hurry up see grandma Tsunade and get some ramen.. And then see Temari…well maybe see Temari first and then get ramen"
"You never change, do you Naruto?" Izumo said with a grin of his own. "Go on and report in the Hokage so you can see your wife and get some ramen.. See you later kid"
"Naruto and his squad ran through town trying to avoid people so they wouldn't knock anyone down as they headed to the Hokage's tower to report in. Naruto had his squad go in the regular way while snuck up to the window to scare Tsunade. He was surprised to see Kakashi also about to go in though the window and the man stopped upon seeing him.
"Yo!" Kakashi said, waving a hand briefly. "You here for a mission? Or back from a mission?"
"Back from one, what about you sensei?" Naruto asked, curious. "A mission? Or something else?"
"Actually, Tsunade wants me to consider taking another squad after the next group of Ninja Academy students graduate in a month" Kakashi said, leaning against the building. "Not sure I want to though.. Your squad was the only one I felt would surpass us all.. Part of me wishes I had done a better job as a sensei in the beginning.. I bet your father, Minato Sensei, would be disappointed in me of he were still with us"
"Well.. I can't say that everything went well with our squad… you, Sakura and ..even for a time, Sasuke were like a family to me.. Even if we didn't usually get along to well" Naruto said, in a rare serious tone. "I'm sure Dad would be proud that you tried your best.. That's the kind of person I think he was"
"Maybe your right.. And your just like him… you have his spirit of never giving up and always looking at the positive side of things" Kakashi said playfully messing up Naruto spike hair. "You also have his love of ramen to boot.. But in any case.. We should see Tsunade shouldn't we?"
Naruto slowly opened the window was about to yell out to scare Tsunade when he heard her speak to him.
"Don't even brat.. I already know you and Kakashi are there" Tsunade said turning her chair sideways so she could see them both. "Your squad sold you out.. And I heard you both talking out there too.. Just get in here already.. And start using the door like everyone else.."
"Uh… yeah.. How's it going grandma?" Naruto said as he and Kakashi slipped in the open window.
"Fine Brat… go ahead and give your verbal report and then you can collect your mission pay from Shizune" Tsunade said, Turing her chair back to face the room after Naruto joined his squad, and Kakashi stood to one side out of the way. "Just give a basic repot, you can be more thorough in the written report"
Naruto gave a rough idea of the vents of the mission that went well until meeting up with ninja from the hidden shadow village that was suppose to a legend only. Tsunade was glad they made it out ok, and order ordered to have some one talk to Konohamaru to make sure he would be ok with killing someone in battle. Afterwards, Tsunade told him that they and his squad were dismissed and to get some well deserved rest.
"Make sure to go home first to Temari though" Tsunade said as Naruto and his squad left.
Naruto nodded and they all left the office, splitting up once they exited the building with orders to rest the next day and then report to their training filed the next day at 6 am for training. Hanabi and Naruto made their way to the estate the live at, stopping few time to say hi to their friends. They eventually arrive home and found Anko of all people sitting on a chair with it facing backward so that she rested her folded arms on top of the chair's back.
"Anko? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked raising an eyebrow. "I mean your always welcome, but I think this is the first time you've been here"
"Well look who's back from their mission" Anko said grinning. "Good to see you kid…and uh.. Hanabi wasn't it?"
"So where's Temari?" Naruto asked looking around.
"She's upstairs in the bathroom, she'll be back in a minute probably" Anko said casually. "But in any case , I should probably get going… she's gonna wanna talk to you and since it's family business I'll be on my way.. Wanna get some dango and bug Kurenai anyways.. See you later Naruto"
Just as Anko left Temari came down the stairs holding her stomach making Naruto and Hanabi concerned.
"Temari I'm back.. Are you feeling ok?" Naruto asked walking up to her and hugging her tightly.
"Well.. I guess I should just say it.. Naruto.. Your going to be a father" Temari said with a smile. "I'm pregnant"
"P-p-pregnant!…that's...that's...Amazing!" Naruto shouted with a huge grin as he picked Temari up in a hug and swung her around, making her giggle slightly. "I'm going to be a dad! Yahoo!"
"Congratulations Temari" Hanabi said with a smile as Naruto set Temari down. "How far along are you?"
"Thank you.. I'm about a month along now.. And it's showing slightly.. Not a lot though.. Since I'm naturally thin" Temari answered Hanabi.
"Wow…. This insane.. I gotta tell Iruka Sensei and Kakashi too" Naruto said grinning brightly.
"They already know Naruto" Temari said shaking her head at her smiling husband. "Since their close to you, I already told them.. Some other people like the Hokage , Shizune and Anko know too.. But not everyone"
"This is hard to believe.. But so awesome at the same time.." Naruto said, before becoming slightly solemn. "I wish Pervy sage, the old man Hokage and my parent were here to see this day"
"I'm sure their proud of you Naruto" Temari said, pulling him in a for a kiss. "Just like I am.. Just like a lot of people are.. You'll be an amazing father, I can already tell"
"I'll do my best.. Believe it" Naruto said after the kiss ended. "and you'll be a great mom Temari"
"I hope so… I wanna be like my mother was before she died" Temari said with a sad tone. " I hope she'll be proud"
"I just know your mom will be as proud of you as my parents would be of me" Naruto stated, hugging Temari tightly. "We're in this together after all and we'll make it work"
"Sorry to interrupt.. but I was wondering something…" Hanabi asked, blushing at them. "Do you know what the gender of the baby will be yet?"
"Not yet Hanabi" Temari replied, still hugging Naruto. "We wont be able to find that out until I'm at least 16 weeks along… maybe even 18 weeks….so we won't know for while now"
"Well… what do you want your baby to be? A boy or a girl?" Hanabi asked after a moment.
"Hmm…I'm not really sure yet…" Temari said, furrowing her eyebrows in thought. "As long as our baby is healthy.. I guess it doesn't matter...what about you Naruto?"
"Hmmm…" Naruto said, thinking hard. "A son would be cool cause I could teach him the Rasangan like Pervy sage did for my father before he taught it to me. It would be like a tradition.. But then again, a daughter would be equally awesome.. Cause she'd be a strong kunoichi and would be as beautiful as Temari is"
Temari just smiled and blushed at Naruto before giving him a kiss on his cheek, before slowly pulling away.
"Hanabi.. I just remembered.. Since your part of our family now, our child will be your sibling" Temari said, looking over at Hanabi as she took a seat on the couch. "Granted you'll their step sister, but it's close enough"
"Really?.. So I'll have either a second sister or maybe a little brother huh?" Hanabi thought out loud. "That would be acceptable… I mean great, that will be great"
"That would be acceptable?.. Falling back into Hyuga training Hanabi?" Naruto said grinning as he embarrassed her.
"S-shut up.. You moron.." Hanabi said, blushing as she crossed her arms and looked away. "What did you expect… I've been taught to keep my emotions in check all my life.."
"Oh really?.. Then why were you so quick to swear and be out of control when we first started training on my squad?" Naruto asked still grinning. "That doesn't seem to fit with "Proper Hyuga training", now does it?"
Hanabi just glared at Naruto, who was now laughing until Temari smacked him in the back of his head while giving him a half hearted glare, meaning he now had two girls glaring at him to some degree.
After the glaring treatment was over, they were about to figure out what they wanted to do when the door bell rang and Naruto went to answer it. Standing there when he opened the door, was Hinata, who of course blushed upon seeing him so close to her.
"Hinata?.. Hi.. What's you doing here?" Naruto asked with a friendly smile.
"N-Naruto-kun" Hinata stuttered with a blush. "I.. I was wondering if.. If H-Hanabi was busy"
"Hanabi.. You got a visitor" Naruto said stepping to one side as Hanabi came to the door.
"Hinata?.. What are you doing here sister?" Hanabi asked raising an eyebrow.
"We'll .. Actually.. Me and father missed you… and w-wanted to see if you were busy today.." Hinata replied, still slightly red faced from Naruto's close proximity. "We'd like it I-if you could come over and…m-maybe have lunch with us sister.. If your able to that is"
"Um.. is that ok Naruto?" Hanabi asked looking over at him.
"Sure.. Why wouldn't it be?" Naruto said, patting the smaller girl on her head and making her blush. "Go on.. Enjoy yourself.. Your family after all.. You don't have to ask, just let me or Temari know where your gonna be so we don't get worried"
"Oh.. Ok.. Thank you Naruto" Hanabi said with a smile. "I'll be back tonight I guess"
"Well you stay over night if you want to actually" Temari said walking over to the door. "You haven't had many opportunities to see one and other recently. So you might as well"
"Really.. Can we do that sister?" Hanabi asked , looking back at Hinata.
"S-sure.. I bet father would like that.. And so would I" Hinata said nodding with a smile. "You can go ahead and get some thing like clothes to change into. Do.. Do you want any help sister?"
"Um sure.. You can see my room while your at it" Hanabi said taking her sister's wrist and pulling her inside. "That's ok right?"
"Obviously" Naruto said grinning. "Go for it"
Hanabi took Hinata to her room upstairs while Naruto and Temari waited there for them to return. It wasn't long before they did with small pack on Hanabi's shoulder that held a change of clothes and a few other things.
"Have a good time Hanabi" Naruto said smiling brightly. "You can stop by and see her any time Hinata.. don't be a stranger"
"T-thank you, N-Naruto-kun" Hinata stuttered as she and Hanabi left, "Good bye Temari"
After they were gone Naruto turned to his wife and smiled at her.
"That was pretty nice of you to suggest that Temari" Naruto said, looking at her. "Letting her spend time with Hinata and her father like that"
"Well I can understand that it's hard being separated from her family. .. Although to be honest, I do have a more selfish reason for sending her off " Temari said as she smile in a flirty manner
"You do?" Naruto asked, confused. "What is it?"
"Well you see.. There's a certain blond husband of mine that was away on a long mission and I really missed him.." Temari said hugging him tightly and nibbling on his ear. "I want to have some alone time with him.. Do you think he'd mind… my Naruto-kun?"
With a red face, Naruto just shook his head and let Temari lead him up the stairs and into their room. Where nothing but moans, groans, and the sounds of a bed moving fast could be heard from the bedroom for the next several hours.
Several hours later, Naruto and Temari were laying in bed naked, sweaty and partly covered by a sheet.
"If that's how your gonna greet me after being gone on a long mission.." Naruto looked over at Temari as she pushed her soaked hair out of her face. "..Then might have to ask for long missions all the time"
"Like hell you are.." Temari stated, looking at Naruto. "You better not go on any long missions right now.. Not when I'm pregnant.. I'm not helpless, but even so.."
"Don't worry Temari, I was only joking" Naruto said, leaning over and kissing her forehead. "I missed you a lot on my last mission… I'm glad to be back here with you"
"I'm glad your back too knucklehead.. Village wasn't as lively without you.. And it was kind of lonely to be honest.. I did have things to do, and I hung out with people like Anko, The Hokage, Shizune and Ino among others.. But it wasn't quite the same" Temari said, turning on her side, draping her arm over him and snuggling close to him. "I missed my blond knucklehead"
"I missed you too" Naruto said back, pulling her closer. "And now that I have a son or daughter on the way, I missed them too"
"Your a goof.. You better not start talking to my stomach all the time either...it's embarrassing" Temari said, while still smiling to let him know she was kidding. "Also.. Do you wanna wait before we decide on names?"
"Hmm.. I only heard I'm going to be father a little while ago.. I'm not sure about names yet" Naruto replied. "What about you Temari?"
"I've know about being pregnant for a bit longer then you have, but I want us to decide on names together" She said back to him, closing her eyes. "But you know what?.. We can probably wait.. We don't even know the gender yet and besides… yawn…I don't know about you, but I haven't been this tire or sore since our honeymoon"
"I'm not that tired really.. But I might as well take a nap with you" Naruto said, closing his eyes as well. "You want me to wake you up later? We can go out for dinner.. Maybe with some friends so I can catch up"
"…sure baby…." Temari said, already drifting off to sleep. "…see you then…
A few hours later, Naruto woke and was perfected rested while Temari was still sound asleep and to his amusement, drooling slightly. Naruto carefully got out of bed, and covered up Temari before going to take a shower and get dressed.
After doing both, he left a note for Temari saying he was going to go do some training outside in the private training fields.
Once outside, Naruto summoned numerous shadow clones and began sparing with some of them while the rest of the clones went off to one side and practiced his jutsu's to strengthen them as well as use less chakra in them.
While Naruto was training in the Leaf village a long ways away, Obito, Sasuke and the others were taken a break while training as well.
Sasuke was practicing with his newly devised jutsu he had made only recently. A combo attack that had the jutsu user combining the Chidori with the Amaterasu. Sasuke had dubbed it the Black Flame Chidori.
"Just remember Sasuke.. Don't over use this technique" Obito said, as he came into view using his Kamui. "Over using it will be as taxing on your eyes as using the Amaterasu on it's own is.. Possibly even more so"
"In any case.. You can practice more with that later. It's time for you to start practicing using the wood style jutsus…" Obito said as Sasuke walked over to him. "I implanted the cells of the first Hokage in you a while ago and your ready to start using them.."
"It's about time, Madara.." Sasuke said smugly. "What are we starting with?"
"A rather interesting one.. Just turn on your Sharingan and watch my hand seals" Obito said, as he did several seals. "Wood Style, Wood Dragon Jutsu"
A giant dragon made of wood shot out of the ground some distance away, and flew through the air before Obito directed it back into the ground.
"Now.. Your turn boy" Obito said, calmly. "Use it to destroy those trees at the far end away from us"
Sasuke concentrated as he gathered his chakra and did the same hand seals as Obito did. "Wood Style, wood Dragon Jutsu!"
A slightly smaller, less powerful dragon emerged out of the ground and shot at the trees, destroying them upon impact.
"Not bad.. Thought it needs some work… here's another one for you to practice as well.. One that will help with training as well as put you more on equal ground with Naruto Uzumaki " Obito commented, doing another hand seal. " Wood Clone Jutsu"
"I like it" Sasuke said as he copied the wood clone jutsu. "Let's see how Naruto likes it when he's not the only clone jutsu master around"
"More practicing.. Less talking.. And keep in mind that the 9 tails boy has more chakra then you" Obito said, walking to one side where Karin was watching Sasuke and their other allies were doing their own things. " Karin.. If he get's too worn out or is close to burning out his chakra reserves, go and help him.."
Karin nodded, but didn't verbally respond to him as she sat on a log watching Sasuke.
"Good.. I'll be back shortly" Obito said, before disappearing again with his Kumai technique
"So Karin…" Anju said after taking a long sip of her sake. "Why did you decide to join this group of glorious bastards?"
"… I have my reasons" Karin commented, without looking at her.
"You wanna jump Sasuke and ride him till you collapse don't you?" Anju said with a grin.
"WHAT!" Karin exclaimed with wide eyes and her jaw hanging down practically to her knees.
"It's not like your fooling anyone.. It's obvious you like him.." Anju said shrugging. "I say go for it.. Ask him to pound you and while pulling your hair and calling a filthy gutter slut"
"What kind of person do you think I am?!" Karin yelled with exaggerated angry eyes. "I'm gonna to cut out your eyes in your sleep with a Chakra Blade you bitch!"
"Karin! Be quiet over there.." Sasuke yelled over. "I'm trying to train in peace and quiet"
"Ha!" Anju said laughing at Karin. "Relax.. I'm just fucking with ya"
"….." Karin growled and glared at Anju.
"So Karin.. Your from the Uzumaki clan right?" Anju asked putting her sake bottle down. "Did you grow up in the Hidden Whirlpool village or was it in another village?"
"How old do your think I am!? ..Outside the village obviously" Karin said still not looking at Anju. "I was the only survivor of a small village that was destroyed in a fire during a small war"
"Oh yeah?.. That sucks" Anju replied, leaning back slightly. "I was kidnapped at a young age and taken out of my village … I managed to escape and learned that my village thought I was dead. Rather then go back I decided to wander the world, learn advanced taijutsu and became a jack of all trades, known for getting the job done at all costs"
"That's pretty fucked up…have you ever been back to your home?" Karin asked finally turning to look at Anju. "Shouldn't you have told your village that you were still alive?"
"I will soon enough" Anju answered, yawning. "As for why I did it.. Well.. Sometimes things happen and starting over is the only way to move on with your life.. I had my reasons"
"I see…" Karin commented. "You asked me why I joined, right?…well why did you join Sasuke and the other one?"
"Cause it's gonna be fun, that's why" Anju said, shrugging her shoulders. "What other reasons do I need?"
"Your off your rocker aren't you?" Karin asked darkly.
"Pretty much" Anju replied proudly with a grin. "Normal's overrated"
"So is sanity it seems" Karin mumbled to herself, going back to watcing Sasuke and ending the conversation.
"Wood style, Wood Dragon Jutsu!"
A slightly larger dragon made of wood erupted from the ground and slamed into some trees making Sasuke grin in satisfaction. "Better.. Much better… just need to use less chakra for it and it will be perfect for tearing up the Hidden Leaf Village"
Ninja Art: chapter end Jutsu!
To be continued….
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