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Exiled Whirlpool

Chapter25: Flying Thunder God

Lightning Country: Storm Cloud Ravine

"Where the hell is he?!" Yugito shouted as she, Shi, Darui and the members of Team Samui arrived at the Hachibi Jinchuuriki's home.

"He's long gone yo; said he had to go back to Wave so..." Kirabi shrugged as he leaned back in his chair.

"Would you stop your infernal rapping at a time like this?! His match starts in ten minutes! If he's not there he forfeits!" Yugito yelled.

Kirabi just waved his hands dismissively, "he'll be here. Just ask his summon over there," he nodded towards a large human-sized toad which appeared to be sleeping.

Yugito instantly recognized it and marched over to its sleeping form. Not bothering to be gentle she smacked the creature upside the head causing it to jerk awake.

"Hey what was that for?!" the toad whined.

"Why isn't Naruto here Ero-Gama?" Yugito's voice sounded it menacing even though she wasn't using her Biju's chakra or her own killing intent.

Gamakichi laughed nervously, "Well he said he needed more room to train so he headed back to Wave Country two weeks ago".

Yugito's glare didn't lighten, "and how does he plan on getting back in time?"

The Toad pulled out a large scroll from seemingly nowhere, "with this".

"What's that?" Karui asked stepping up to see the scroll.

"A reverse summoning scroll; it's handy for getting to places," Gamakichi said with grin. He laid the scroll out on the ground, "now everyone please step back". They all took a step away as the toad finished making hand-seals (I'm not even sure how that's possible) and slammed his webbed digits down on the scroll. "Gyaku Kuchiyose no Jutsu," he said as the scroll burst into a cloud of smoke blocking all view of the area.

The Kumo nins coughed slightly as the smoke cleared and they could see a figure standing in the center of it. Or should I say they tried to see who it was; he was covered in a constantly spinning current of chakra and wind which blocked his entire body from being seen. His eyes were still visible but they were blue with an outline of red at its edges. After a moment the wind and chakra died down as his eyes returned to their normal shade of ocean blue.

Gamakichi just grinned at him, "So how'd it go in Wave bro?"

Naruto shot him one of his grins and answered, "I've done just about everything within my power. No matter who I'm facing I feel like I can beat just about anything right now...well anything besides Raikage-sama".

"I can't decide whether he's talking tough or not," Karui muttered.

"For Naruto that's some statement," Omoi agreed.

Gamakichi gave the Wave Daimyo a look and asked, "hey bro. Where's the Forbidden Scroll you had on you when you left?"

"I left it with Gerotora before I left," Naruto replied.

"Come on your match starts soon; you don't want to be late," Samui said as she turned away and started walking.

Kirabi stood up and grinned, "hey kid. Do you really think you can win? I mean my brother won't be taken down so easily".

Naruto just sent him a grin worthy of a fox, "You'll just have to watch the match if you want to find out Mr. Eight".

Kirabi just smirked at that, "now that does sound promising".

"Let's go already," Yugito said as she grabbed Naruto's hand.

Lightning Country: Valley of Lightning

The Valley of Lightning was a large canyon situated between two large mountains north of Kumo. The canyon itself was enormous, stretching for over a hundred miles. The clear sky above allowed the sun's rays to scattered across the land giving it a look of deceptive tranquillity. Thousands of people from all over the Elemental Countries had gathered on the nearby mountains to watch the coming match that would shake the fountains of the Lightning Country.

The leader of Kumo, the Raikage stood in the center of this grand arena. With his calm visage and neutral look, he appeared somewhat bored though to anyone who knew him personally they would have seen the anxiety in his eyes. A sudden flash of yellow light caught his attention and he looked up at where it originated.

"Sorry I'm; I got lost on the road of life," Naruto said offhandedly as the wind around him started to pick up slightly.

"So you came after all huh? Good to see ya kid; shall we begin then?" the Raikage asked with a grin slipping across his face.

Naruto's gaze turned serious at that, "not yet; I need to ask you something". The Raikage raised an eyebrow at that as he continued, "I've found another reason to fight you. If I manage to defeat you here will you acknowledge me as having reached the level of my parents?"

The Raikage's grin widened at that, "sure kid; if you beat me. But if that's what you want then I suppose it would only be fitting to tell you my name. My name is Yotsuki Rikiya and I am the Yondaime Raikage".

"Well then," there was a flash of light as the Whirlpool Sword appeared in Naruto's hand. "Let's go wild," he declared as and dashed forward.

"Let the final match begin!" Yue called out to the crowd.

'Shunpo no Jutsu,' Naruto closed the distance between them in an instant and slashed with his sword.

'So this is his famous Shunpo no Jutsu; impressive but I can already see its weakness,' Rikiya smirked as he narrowly evaded. "You have to do better than that kid," he said as he kept evading the following strikes.

"And you shouldn't underestimate me; Futon: Hein," wind chakra formed a white blade of friction over sword.

'He's upgraded the Sword of the Whirlpool with his wind element? Heh not bad kid but still not good enough,' Rikiya smirk spread into a grin as a he started channeling lightning chakra to his hand. "Rai no Tsurugi," he said as a blade of lightning formed in his right hand.

'His reflexes are too good; Shunpo is useless against someone like him,' Naruto thought as he parried the Raikage's first and second sword strike.

'His Kenjutsu is good but Kushina's was better,' the Raikage thought as the two broke apart.

'Kenjutsu is no good against him,' Naruto thought as pointed the sword towards his opponent. 'This isn't going to be easy,' he thought grimly.

Rikiya chuckled slightly as if reading the blonde's thoughts, "since you're going to go all-out I might as well cut loose too...trust me you'll want to dodge this". He started forming hand-seals faster than anyone could see, "Cho Oodama Raikyu". A huge ball of electricity, at least the size of his own body formed in his hand and he threw it towards Naruto, "catch!"

Naruto watched as it came and felt something he hadn't felt since awakening after his fight with Pein.

Clarity...

He knew what he had to do; there was no catch, it was just him and his opponent. In that moment a shadow clone popped into existence beside him and pulled him out of the way faster than the eye could see. Once he touched back down on the ground, he quickly flash-stepped behind where the Raikage stood.

Rikiya turned quickly, his superior reflexes kicking in and parried the horizontal slash. Instead of breaking off like before however, Naruto kept going and with the aid of his wind elemental chakra managed to cut through the sword of lightning in one swift stroke. The Raikage saw this and quickly backed off knowing that taking a direct hit from that blade would bring down even a man of his calibre.

"You're not bad kid; there aren't too many who can cut through a sword made of pure lightning manipulation. Even fewer are still alive," the Raikage spoke with a grin and tossed the destroyed sword aside.

"Then I'll just have to be one of the ones who've lived huh?" Naruto said with a grin of his own. A moment later the sword he held disappeared in a flash of light and he let out a heavy breath. He closed his eyes and silence claimed the canyon.

'What's he doing?' the Raikage narrowed his eyes as he felt the air around him change slightly.

Sage Mode Activated

Rikiya suddenly felt a weak but wide shockwave wash over him as Naruto opened his eyes revealing that the pupils were now narrowed into vertical slits. 'So...that's the famous Fox Sage Mode of Namikaze Naruto,' the Raikage thought.

He quickly formed a hand-seal that was all too familiar to him, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu". Four clones popped into existence beside him and the Raikage was instantly on his guard, "alright let's do this".

'What's he planning?' Rikiya watched as the four clones started channelling large amounts of chakra into Naruto's two hands. 'That must be his original jutsu; I remember seeing him use it in the tournament earlier,' he jumped back intent on putting some distance between the two of them.

"Futon: Tsuin Rasenshuriken!" Naruto called out as he threw the pair of chakra shurikens at the Raikage.

'How can he throw something so quick-spinning and condensed? If even one of those hit I'll be done for,' Rikiya thought briefly and channelled chakra to his hands. "Tsuin Oodama Raikyu," he threw two large than normal lightning balls to intercept the approaching shuriken.

The forces of lightning and wind collided with each other forcing the chakra shurikens to detonate prematurely and expand into all consuming balls of wind and destruction. Two loud thumps echoed across the canyon as both balls of wind exploded in a blast of nature sending dust scattering in all directions.

'He can expand them too, even if they're intercepted,' the Raikage realised and looked around for the blond in the midst of the dust cloud. A flicker of light from above caught his attention and he looked up seeing Naruto there and holding a pair of scrolls, 'are those weapon scrolls? Wait—does that mean that last attack was just a distraction so he could get them ready? He's smarter than he lets on, this kid".

"Taju Fūin Kai!" Naruto called out as he unsealed the two scrolls.

Almost instantly a large volley of kunai erupted from the scrolls in a massive poof of smoke; they fell quickly to the ground as the Raikage evaded them. Some did hit him but they appeared to just bounce off him leaving no damage and fall harmlessly to the ground. Rikiya watched as the kunai around him began to glow and his eyes widened in realisation.

"These kunai...there's no way he could have-" he was cut off however.

"Hiraishin no Jutsu," there was a flash of yellow light as Naruto landed a monstrous punch to the Raikage's face sending him flying back.

'Damn it; so he really did master it,' Rikiya thought and Naruto appeared above him the next instant ready to hit him. "You're not half bad kid," Rikiya said as he sent an uppercut at Naruto only to meet empty air.

Naruto was behind him now with his fist at the ready, a split second later the Raikage swung an arm back aiming to strike at Naruto before he could attack. Again it met empty air and Naruto appeared in front of him again.

'What? He's even faster now; he must be using his Shunpo no Jutsu to augment it,' Rikiya realised as his fist smashed down on where Naruto was standing only for him to appear behind the Raikage a moment later. "Hold still!" Rikiya shouted the ground around them exploded from his impact.

"Not a chance!" the blond shouted back as he attacked from almost every direction.

"W-what exactly is going on here?! Is this an illusion? The blows just keep coming and coming seemingly without end. Raikage-sama is engulfed in a torrent of light as the Kitsune-Sennin batters him from all sides and he can do nothing but stand there and take it!" Yue exclaimed as she watched awestruck at the scene before her.

"Go Naruto!" Omoi shouted.

"Hey shouldn't we be rooting for Raikage-sama? I mean we are Kumo-ninja right?" Karui asked as she looked at her team-mate.

Omoi just shrugged, "good point...but I don't care".

'Grandfather...Naruto...you two...' Yugito didn't know what to think as she watched the fight continue.

'That is some speed—ugh,' Rikiya thought as he was knocked into the sky by one of Naruto's monstrous kicks to the stomach. The next moment Naruto threw out a Hiraishin kunai at the air right above him, 'that can't be good.'

"Hiraishin no Jutsu," there was yet another flash of yellow light as Naruto appeared above him and his whole body covered in raging winds. "Futon: Rasenken!" he called out as he landed a monstrous punch to the Raikage's gut.

Rikiya was blown down and crashed hard into the as a plate of spinning chakra formed under Naruto to keep him in the air.

'I hit him and then some; I even used the Futon: Rasenken but I wasn't really doing any real damage. It was like I was trying to punch Pein back in Konoha; I just can't inflict any lasting damage on the guy,' Naruto thought as he saw the dust clear to reveal an unharmed Raikage lying down in the middle of a small crater.

Flashback no Jutsu Begin

"Go in there with the intent to kill and you might just be able to pay the bill," Kirabi told him during the training.

Flashback no Jutsu End

Naruto narrowed his eyes at the memory of his training over the month, 'I hope this works'. He started channelling large amounts of chakra to his hands as he jumped off, "here I come! This is it!"

Rikiya eyes widened slightly, "crap". His body tensed as Naruto drew near, "Raiton no Yoroi".

"Cho Oodama Rasengan!" Naruto called out as he landed the large ball of spinning energy.

A massive explosion rocked the entire canyon as the jutsu detonated and reduced the nearby mountainside to a crater. Trees were blown away but thankfully everyone who was watching was outside of the blast zone so they weren't injured because of it. The dust cleared a few seconds later and revealed the form of the Raikage on one knee groaning in pain.

"Maaaan; okay that hurt. Any ordinary ninja would have been blown to pieces by a thing like that...not pulling any punches are you kid?" Rikiya asked with a groan as he shook his head to get rid of the slight dizziness he had.

"I'm not done yet," Naruto said from behind him. The Raikage turned quickly but he was already too late, "Futon: Kamikaze no Jutsu!"

'You're kidding?' Rikiya thought hopefully only to blown into the ground by a monstrous tornado of wind and air.

He hit the ground hard sending a dust cloud into the air as he went followed by the tail end of the tornado. Naruto kept the jutsu going for another five seconds before cutting his chakra and letting the jutsu die out. Silence settled on the battlefield as Naruto landed feet first on solid smooth terrain and smoke drifted out from where the Raikage lay face down on the ground.

Sage Mode Deactivated

Naruto let out a sigh as his eyes shifted back to normal though he never took his eyes off of where the Raikage now lay...

"H-he's down! Raikage-sama is—I mean he's just—could anybody have actually predicted this outcome? To think someone other than Namikaze Minato himself has left Raikage-sama motionless on the ground; in-incredible," Yue shook herself to see if her eyes were deceiving her. "He's not moving a muscle; I-if there are no objections I'll begin the count now".

"No way..." Karui's eyes were glued to the scene before her.

"Did that idiot actually do it?" Yugito asked barely above a whisper but everyone else heard it just fine.

"M-maybe," Shi answered truthfully. "I mean Raikage-sama really let his guard down just now and the guy just took advantage of that," he explained.

Omoi was openly cheering, "Nice one Naruto!"

"He took a direct hit from three S-Rank Jutsus one after the other; even Raikage-sama is going to have some difficulty fighting after taking that kind of damage," Samui commented.

Kirabi's face however remained neutral throughout all this...

'Looks like my plan worked out after all,' Naruto thought as he stared at his opponent's unmoving form. "A man like him won't fall for traps and I'm no match for him in experience...so how is a sixteen year old kid like me meant to beat him? It's simple really," he spoke with narrowed eyes. "With speed and power," he finished.

"It's one thing to say that Daimyo-sama but to actually make it a reality is an entirely different thing," Yue said shaking her head. "Do you want to get in one last blow? It won't make you popular but it's not against the rules," she told him.

Naruto shook his head at that, "no...I'll wait. It would be dangerous to approach him right now".

"What?" Yue asked confused.

Just then the strangest thing happened...the Raikage rose to his feet just as the ninth count was stated.

"H-he stood up," Yue said in disbelief. "H-he's up? He's on his feet and standing as though nothing happened...is he even hurt?" her question echoed through the air allowing all to hear.

"Oh no," Karui muttered as her eyes widened.

"Damn it; this is bad," Omoi said through gritted teeth.

'Naruto get out of there now!' Yugito tried to yell but no words came out.

A low chuckle escaped Rikiya's lips but it soon escalated to all out laughter. His head held back as he laughed to the heavens themselves, his voice booming over the canyon.

"W-what in the world is this? H-has he sustained damage to the head or something like that?" Yue asked nervously.

He brought his head back down settled his gaze on Naruto; lightning chakra sparked as his body was engulfed in it. His muscles were now tense as his gaze became unwavering and hardened for the first time since the fight started.

'This isn't killing intent it's...his presence alone,' Naruto realised as his heart started faster. "Yue-san you might want to get out of here," he said.

"Y-yes I think I should," she said and left as faster as she could.

'This is the first time I've ever seen Raikage-sama take a stance...' Naruto thought as he sawRikiya settle into a Taijutsu stance. Naruto closed his eyes and said simply, "I guess this is where the real fight begins right?"

The Raikage's face remained neutral as the lightning danced across his body, "yes it is".

Sage Mode Reactivated

Author's Notes:

Well how do you like the first part? Yes? No? Maybe? I don't know...could you repeat the question? Well here's chapter 25 and it was surprisingly easy to write...hopefully the next one will be as well. For the record I hate the fact that Kishimoto has made the Kages out to be total pansies since Sasuke has been pretty much kicking their asses.

This is my way of saying 'up yours!' to him by making the Raikage stronger than Killer Bee (who kicked Sasuke's ass...three times).

Okay before someone complains about the Raikage's name; well since he doesn't have one I needed a name that practically described 'unsurpassable wall'. I heard that Rikiya meant strong so I thought it was a good choice of name to use (I hope it's a guy's name; I really do).

Translation

Kitsune = Fox
Neko = Cat
Sennin = Sage
Gyaku Kuchiyose no Jutsu = Reverse Summoning Technique
Rikiya = Strong
Futon: Hein = Wind Release: Flying Sparrow
Rai no Tsurugi = Sword of Lightning
Shunpo no Jutsu = Flash Step Technique
Cho Oodama Raikyu = Super Great Ball Lightning Ball
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu = Shadow Clone Technique
Futon: Tsuin Rasenshuriken = Wind Release: Twin Spiralling Shuriken
Tsuin Oodama Raikyu = Twin Great Ball Lightning Ball
Taju Fūin Kai = Multiple Seal Release
Hiraishin no Jutsu = Flying Thunder God Technique
Futon: Rasenken = Wind Release: Spiralling Fist
Raiton no Yoroi = Lightning Release Armour
Cho Oodama Rasengan = Super Great Ball Spiralling Sphere
Futon: Kamikaze no Jutsu = Wind Release: Devine Wind Technique

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P.S. Double post with Naruto: Rinnegan Chronicles

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