Hokage no Isan Chapter 25, a naruto fanfic

Yo, long time no see. Anywho, since Kaka-baka isn;t here, you'll just have to make due with me giving a disclaimer.

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None of the characters listed here belong to me, though I sorely wish they did.

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This is purely a work of fanfiction and no relation at all to the actual manga goodness.

Tsunade: (groans) my head...make the world stop...hey WTF?!

Kyugan: (hides camera and turns to face Tsunade, who is wearing a schoolgirl outfit.) Morning.

Tsunade: Don't morning me you perv! What the hell are you doing?

Kyugan: Keeping you distracted. (Dodges a punch that could hospitalize Godzilla) You were really smashed, you even felt up Jiraiya.

Tsunade: I WHAT?! (Gazes in horror at her hand) BLEACH! I NEED BLEACH!

Kyugan: uh, I wouldn;t open thqat dorr just yet...

(Tsunade opens the door, Genma and Shizune look over at her in annoyance, both are decidedly naked.)

Genma: Dammit woman can;t you see I'm in the middle of someone here?!

(Tsunade blinks, closes the door slowly and then walks back to tyhe couch, very stiffly.)

Kyugan: (Holds out sake cup) Hair of the dog? (Nods as she grabs the whole damn bottle before raising a remote) Roll camera.

Sasuke's rage; Tenfuuin and Chidori!

Lee, still recovering from the savage beating he took, yet moderately healed with Yanagi's help, stared at Naruto in wonder. He knew from the preliminaries that the blonde was a strong individual, and his reputation as the no.2 rookie preceded him.

'Still,' he muttered, feeling a shiver go up his spine, 'this level of skill…is almost scary!'

"Sensei…" the Taijutsu specialist asked, hands clenching around the crutches the doctors stubbornly insisted he use, "What on earth…is Naruto-kun?"

Kagero blinked, then smiled at the 'cute' clone of Gai warmly. "Like you Lee, Naruto is someone who earned everything he has with his own two hands." She smiled at the youth's look of befuddlement, "He's strong because he worked to be strong, prior to my adoption of him though, he was considered the dead-last at the academy."

Lee's eyes widened, he himself having born that title, even after his graduation he remembered being chased down the streets being called a 'loser' or 'dead-last'.

"But he worked hard, and eventually claimed a position amongst the top five." Kagero continued, "To him, nothing mattered more than proving his worth to all those who doubted him." The woman smiled, "He told me once that he wanted to fight you, ever since he saw you fight with that boy from sand." She chuckled at his look of shock, "Not just him, Recca and Domon too, they all grew strong together, and all of them wanted to take a crack at you."

Lee stared at the woman, awe on his face, before she placed a hand on his shoulder. "You should sit down Lee-kun," Kagero insisted "you need to rest."

The immortal kunoichi stood up to offer him her own chair, which the genin tried to refuse, but Kagero's motherly instincts won over his objections, and the boy found himself sitting down, his crutches resting against the seat. "You can't heal if you don't rest," Kagero reasoned, "and Naruto wants to fight you as soon as you get better."

Lee blinked, eyeing the woman in awe, and then made a fist. "YOSH! Hanabishi-san! Please tell Naruto-kun, Recca-san and Domon-san that I will recover swiftly so that we can face each other!"

"LEE!" Gai yelled, tears running down his face, "Your youthful spirit is burning!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

Kagero chuckled weakly as the two exchanged 'youthful' hugs amidst sparkles and the sound of crashing waves. "So energetic." She said, smiling weakly, causing Kakashi to sweatdrop and shoot a wary glance at Kagero as he tried not to retch in his mask from the sight.

'This woman's a veritable Bodhisattva.' he muttered, eyeing the hugging duo and turning slightly green, 'Goddamn form-fitting Leotards!'

Naruto stared down at the Uchiha, being careful to avoid eye contact, despite the teen's position. "Next time you want to face me," he muttered, turning around and walking away, "come at me with your own techniques."

Sasuke growled as the blonde walked off, his vision turning red. "Kisama…don't walk away from me!" he grunted, struggling to stand up, wincing at the pain in his leg, "We're not finished!"

Naruto didn't look back, though he did stop. "Give it up," he ordered, "with your leg like that, you'll be lucky if you're up and about in a month." He waved to Genma, nodding as he caught the proctor's attention. "This match is over," he stated, thumbing over his shoulder dismissively, "call a medic or something."

Sasuke growled at the back of the blonde's head, as if willing it to implode through sheer willpower alone. 'Damn you!' he hissed, 'Underestimating me…treating me like dirt," his hands clenched into the dirt, "who do you think you are!?'

He felt a twinge of pain from his neck, as the symbol of Orochimaru's seal glowed. 'This thing…Kakashi warned me that it would halt my development…' He scowled, 'But the power…that miraculous power…'

Sasuke grit his teeth, watching his teammate walk away, the ghostly image of Itachi's back superimposed over it.

'I can't lose to this guy!'

Kakashi's eyes widened as he noticed the purple chakra rising from the seal with his sharingan. "Sasuke!" he yelled, dashing to the barrier, "STOP!"

"Hroooooooooohhhhh!!"

Naruto blinked as the disturbing feeling of the cursed seal's chakra filled the air, followed by a sickening cracking noise. Turning around revealed Sasuke standing on his feet and smirking at him, his leg apparently healed, flame like markings covering half of the boy's face.

'Those marks again…and that sickening chakra…' Naruto muttered, scowling, 'It's like the damn forest all over again.'

Sasuke grinned as he stared at his clenched fist. "Not so talkative now are you?" he muttered, the Uchiha's voice having taken on an arrogant tone that seemed to fit with his personality perfectly.

"So you got an instant tattoo job." Naruto mocked, "I'm supposed to be impressed? You should have asked for a whole face job, lord knows they couldn't have made you any uglier."

Sasuke's smirk didn't waver, if anything it grew even more confident. "Spout all the crap you like," he boasted, "they'll be your last words."

With that the teen blurred out of view, catching Naruto with a kick to the side and sending the teen flying.

"He's FAST!" Domon yelped, as he watched the teen vanish again, disappearing from the giant's mental radar briefly.

"What's up with those freaky tattoos?" Recca growled, "Koku says he feels a weird power coming from them."

Domon blinked, and then scowled, looking around the stands warily. "Bet that damn Orochimaru's got something to do with this!" he muttered, before turning back to the arena as Fuko winced, Naruto having been sent hurtling into the air.

"Surprised, Naruto?" Sasuke asked, hovering behind the teen using Kagebuyo, "This is true power, something the likes of which you've ever seen," he smirked, "and who better to wield it than me?"

Naruto growled, fangs showing as he glared at the Uchiha from the corner of his eye, careful to avoid direct eye contact. "You think letting some pedophile place a demonic hicky on you is a sign of power?" he growled, only for Sasuke to snort in rely.

"Jealous?" the avenger mocked, "You should be." He leaned forward and whispered in the blonde's ear, a smirk on his lips the entire time. "You'll never upstage me again, so long as I have this." He whispered grinning dangerously, "Know your place from now on."

Naruto smirked confidently, completely unfazed by the Uchiha's boasts. "I already do," he mocked, turning his head slightly, avoiding the Uchiha's eyes, "it's on the Hokage's throne, looking down at you."

Sasuke's grin turned to a scowl, as he growled in the back of his throat. "We'll see about that!" he snapped, the raven-haired youth performing his Shishi-Rendan flawlessly on the seemingly defenseless blonde. But just before the final blow landed, the clone disappeared, causing the Uchiha to curse and land badly against the arena floor.

"Did you honestly think that all I was good at was kenjutsu?" Naruto's voice called out mockingly, echoing off the arena walls. "You forgot that the kage bunshin is my trademark jutsu, I know it inside and out!"

Sasuke twitched; he HAD forgotten that little detail, but decided to not let such a minor detail set him off-balance. "Hiding again, Naruto?" he mocked, eyeing the surroundings, "Scared of me?"

"Scared of you whispering more sweet nothings in my ear," Naruto countered mockingly. "Don't think I didn't notice you popping a rod back there you Tori-atama Okama!"

Recca and the gang were in stitches, the two rivals leaning on each other for support, whilst Fuko sat on the floor, howling with laughter, even Tokiya was finding it hard to suppress his amusement.

"Bird-headed Tranny!" Recca laughed, "That's the best one yet!"

Domon's roars of laughter increased at the statement, as he pointed into the ring amidst tears of laughter. "Look at Uchiha's face!" The giant howled, "I can't tell if he's blushing or angry!"

Shikamaru fought to suppress a snicker. 'Sure explains a lot,' he reasoned, 'like why he never noticed women.'

In a corner of the booth, Shino kept his own counsel, but if you looked close enough you'd see that he was trembling from suppressed laughter. If you were really brave enough, you'd have heard what sounded like over a million miniature sniggers emanating from his overcoat.

Sasuke growled, biting the inside of his cheek to remain calm. "Playing the fool to the end are we?" he called out, trying to gauge the blonde's position, when Naruto didn't reply, the Uchiha snorted. "What's the matter chicken," he called out, "nothing to say?"

"DORYUUSEN!"

Sasuke's eyes widened and he spun round, only to get a hail of dirt and rock to the face that sent him flying backwards.

"How many times do I have to keep reminding you?" Naruto growled, lifting his sword from the crater he'd formed, scowling irritably. "A real shinobi never lets his back be taken twice, " he muttered, "How many times do I have to keep pounding it into your thick skull?"

Sasuke snarled and flipped away from the teen.

"You'll pay for that!"

"What are those markings on Sasuke's body?" Kagero asked, looking serious as she tilted her head slightly.

"The Tenfuuin," Kakashi explained with a scowl, "a cursed seal designed by Orochimaru of the sannin, the three greatest ninja of Konoha."

Gai nodded, picking up where his rival trailed off. "He defected several years ago, after being turned down for the title of Yondaime." The beast shivered, "Even Morino Ibiki is scared of him."

Kagero nodded, "And the markings?" she reminded, sensing they were getting off target, smiling as Kurenai took up the slack.

"We don't know the exact details," the genjutsu specialist admitted, "but Orochimaru only places them on a select few 'gifted' individuals, such as Sasuke…or Anko-san." She added, wincing at the thought of her friend's torment.

Kakashi scowled, glaring down at his impetuous student. "The seal corrupts the mind of the victim, in exchange for granting them tremendous power." His fists tightened, "However, there's only a ten percent chance that the victim will survive having it placed on them, and if they come to depend on it, their potential for growth decreases."

Kagero nodded, eyeing the Hokage booth warily.

'I see, so Sarutobi-sama was right.'

Sasuke eyed the blonde carefully, the two circling each other like a pair of wolves. 'He's still the same speed as me, even with the seal.' the Uchiha growled, 'No matter, I got him to draw his sword, I can see how he fights with it and make it my own.'

Naruto stood, sword tip towards the ground, eyeing his opponent. 'Whatever the fuck you are...' He growled mentally, 'you're still a Konoha ninja, so killing you won't be taken very well.' He sheathed the sword and moved into the battojutsu stance, causing Sasuke to smirk.

"You ready?" the raven-haired teen asked, crossing his palms over his face. Not waiting for a reply, he back flipped rapidly towards the wall, continuing up it before sliding to a halt, crouched low. The Uchiha popped his joints, before making three familiar seals.

'Ox, hare, monkey…'

Kakashi moaned and covered his eyes, "Dammit Sasuke! Calm down!" he yelled, "Don't you dare use that jutsu!"

Gai's eyes widened at the sight, "Kakashi…the reason you trained him in Taijutsu…" he began, prompting a sigh from Kakashi as the copy-nin shook his head in resignation.

"Hai…he's the same type as me…"

Naruto stared in shock as a massive build-up of chakra formed in the Uchiha's hands, sparking with electricity. 'What the…a lightning element jutsu?' he muttered, 'Where did the teme learn…'

He froze in shock as it hit him.

Flashback

"As you all know there are only five base elements in ninjutsu, and each of the five shinobi nations is named after them, Fire, water, earth, wind and lightning."

"People whose chakra nature is inclined towards a specific type, can perform that type of jutsu easier than someone who isn't." he shrugged, putting the paper away.

"For example, people like the Uchiha had an affinity towards fire, which is why the Goukakyuu is considered a standard jutsu for them."

The trio frowned in thought, "So how does those paper thingies work?" Domon muttered.

Kakashi shrugged, "Lightning element: the paper gets wrinkled, like mine…

End Flashback

"Kakashi-sensei…" Naruto growled, glaring up at the stands out the corner of his eye.

"…You fucking bastard!" Recca snarled, clutching his fists together as he glared at the Uchiha in anger.

"He even told us he was a lightning element type," Domon growled, "says not everyone can do it." He rammed a fist into the wall, adding to the damage he'd inflicted in his own match. "And then he goes and teaches one to Uchiha!"

Tokiya raised an eyebrow at the anger coming off the two and decided to watch in silence.

Sasuke smirked as the Chidori reached its completion, sweeping his arm out and causing damage to the wall. "Your sword may be good Naruto," he called out over the noise, "but I'll cleave it in two!"

With that he charged down the side of the wall, digging a trench as he went. As he lunged forwards, another noise emerged over the sound of crumbling rock, a distinct, high pitched, chirping noise that almost deafened everyone in the arena.

Kagero's eyes were wide at the sheer power she felt coming off the boy's hand. "What kind of technique…!"

"A simple thrust." Gai supplied, fists clenching, "However, it is a technique especially designed for assassination, the speed of the thrust, combined with the sheer quantity of chakra produced by the heightened flesh…"

He shook himself, leveling a look at the kunoichi, "Because of the speed of the user, you hear a distinct noise: the sound of a thousand birds lunging straight towards you…" Sasuke hit the ground and accelerated, disappearing in the dust cloud. "That is why the technique is called…"

Naruto blinked, as Sasuke's leering grin appeared not three feet away, as the Avenger lunged forwards, his hand screeching with the power it held.

"Chidori!" Gai finished, just as Sasuke rammed his hand towards Naruto's chest at point blank range.

Sasuke grinned as he lunged forwards, not missing the look of shock on his opponent's face.

'MINE!'

To his surprise though, Naruto spun on his heel, still in the battojutsu stance, and appeared to apparate at the teen's side as he passed by.

"Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu!"

Sasuke swore and tried to move, but the back of Naruto's blade rammed into the back of the Uchiha's skull, sending him tumbling head over heals clumsily, to land in a boneless heap five feet away.

"Ryukansen!"

Gai sighed in relief, as the Uchiha finally came to a halt. "The technique is Kakashi's sole original one," he finished, "and it earned the name Raikiri when he cut through a bolt of lightning with it."

Kagero blinked at this piece of information, before eyeing the copy-ninja carefully. "What were you thinking, teaching a genin such a technique?" she asked in a level tone, though various people were making various efforts to get far away from ground zero as they sensed the stiletto steel in the woman's voice.

Kakashi sighed, shaking his head slowly. "I thought I was teaching him responsibility," the jounin muttered, "I see I went wrong."

Gai snorted, patting his rival reassuringly on the back. "Fortunately, the fact it was a straight thrust, coupled with the speed, makes it hard for the user to change directions quickly." He shook his head, "We're lucky that Sasuke hasn't fully mastered the sharingan yet, or Naruto would have a hole in his chest the size of a melon."

Naruto stared at the limp form of the Uchiha, watching for the slightest hint of movement, causing Genma to swallow nervously. 'Damn…these kids aren't normal!' the chunin muttered eyeing the blonde in particular. 'No-one's ever dodged Kakashi's technique like that,' the jounin thought wildly, 'it was a last minute gamble…one wrong move and he'd have been skewered.'

Shaking himself, the senbon chewer stepped forward raising a hand. "Since it appears Uchiha Sasuke is unconscious, winner by knockout is-!"

Naruto held up a hand, silencing the jounin in mid-announcement. "Not yet," he muttered, eyes not leaving his opponents back, "he's faking it."

Genma blinked at this, confused, until he heard what sounded like someone snorting.

Sasuke chuckled darkly, pulling himself off the floor slowly, before turning to eye the blond. "Lucky shot…dobe." He smirked, blood running down his forehead from its intimate meeting with the arena floor, sharingan eyes reeling with power and bloodlust.

Naruto said nothing, merely sheathed his sword again and eyed the avenger cautiously. 'That seal must be deadening his nerves to the pain.' The blonde thought, wincing as he noticed the markings flash red and spread a little more, 'So I have to really clobber him if I wanna take him down without killing him.'

'Not that I wouldn't be well within my rights if I did kill the bastard,' he muttered with a growl, a twinge of pain flaring up inside, 'he was trying to kill me back there!'

Sasuke cracked his neck joints and clenched his left hand, eyeing the blonde carefully. 'I have enough chakra for one more Chidori,' he noted, 'then I'm limited to Taijutsu.' He winced as he felt his shoulder ache, the seal spreading even further. 'This seal strengthens me, but it also eats up my chakra like there's no tomorrow.' A smirk crossed his face, 'A small price to pay for power, the power to defeat HIM…to defeat everyone!'

"Naruto!" The Uchiha cried out confidently, flipping back a good ten feet or so, "This ends here!"

The Hanyou merely scowled and moved into his battojutsu stance, eyes like flints.

"I couldn't agree more."

Kakashi eyed the teens cautiously; ready to jump in if things got messy. "Sasuke's limit with the Chidori is two a day at his current chakra level." He explained to Kagero, "With the seal eating up his chakra even when inactive, it's amazing he could do even that."

Kagero said nothing, causing the jounin to shiver at the look of calm on her face. "If Naruto isn't careful, he could die here." Kakashi added, wincing, as the face didn't change in the slightest. "Ano…Kagero-san-?" he asked, looking concerned, reaching out to touch her shoulder cautiously.

"Hatake-san," Kagero cut in, her eyes not leaving the ring, "please shut up and let me watch the match."

Kurenai winced as Kakashi was frozen in a giant stalagmite, the kanji for 'cold' hovering in the background. 'Kagero sure can be scary when she wants.' The genjutsu specialist muttered, as Gai attempted to revive his eternal rival with 'youthful' cries and a, disturbingly youthful, full body hug that would send the most devout homophobe into hysterics.

Meanwhile, Hinata was trembling with fear and worry as she stared down at the object of her affections. She didn't know Sasuke that well, but she knew enough that he wasn't the same boy that had gone with them to the academy not so long ago.

The reason being, THIS Sasuke was out for blood, whereas the one she knew had been cold and aloof, suffering from the same 'kunai-up-the-ass' disease as Neji nii-san maybe, but definitely not psychotic.

"Naruto-kun," she whispered, holding a hand to her heart, "be careful…"

The whole arena fell silent as the two eyed each other, neither making a single movement. The wind seemed to pick up, blowing the dust off the ground, wrapping around the combatants at times.

A leaf detached from one of the trees and slowly made it way towards the ground.

Sasuke smirked and slammed through the seals for the Chidori, leaping back to cover more distance as he did so, the jutsu fully armed as he landed.

The leaf tumbled gently over and over in the light breeze.

Sasuke charged towards the blonde Jinchuuriki, digging up the ground with his Chidori; building up momentum for the killing blow as he charged. Naruto shifted slightly and moved into a tighter battojutsu stance.

The leaf continued to tumble gently in its freefall.

Sasuke leered madly; lips peeled back revealing his teeth, as he dashed forwards; the marks of the seal seeming to spread even further, as if fueled by his bloodlust. Behind him lay a path of destruction, to his side; the screeching of a thousand birds accompanied his charge.

The leaf buffeted in a sudden updraft and rose another few feet, as if dancing in midair.

"SHINEE! NARUTO!" The Uchiha screeched over the sound of the Chidori, lunging forwards, palm outstretched. "CHIDORI!"

To his surprise though, Naruto lunged forwards as well, spinning so that he appeared to be flying at the Uchiha whilst upside down.

The Leaf once again descended, like a pendulum now.

"Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu:" the blonde yelled out, "Ryukansen Tsumuji!"

The Uchiha could only stare as the blonde passed him again, shivering as what felt like the wind passed through him. Naruto landed, sword at his side and looking straight ahead with his slit-pupiled gaze. Sasuke stared ahead too, scowling, his sharingan spinning.

The leaf descended further, only half a foot from the ground.

Abruptly there was a spray of blood, and Sasuke let out a howl as his right arm landed on the floor two feet from his body, before collapsing, clutching the bleeding stump.

"No matter how sharp the blade," Naruto muttered, sheathing his sword slowly as he spoke, "Nothing can cut the wind."

The leaf split in two, the pieces falling gently on the ground at the base of the tree.

Well...that was...climactic wasn't it. I even surprised myself.

Anyone who can gues the symbolism behind the leaf gets a free one-shot with the setting of their choosing.

If you want Yaoi I'm open to consideration, but don't push your luck, the same goes for Yuri, not out of dislike but because if you have qualms with one you have to be fair and have qualms with the other.

Tsunade: Please, you probably whack off to that stuff all the time.

Kyugan: Not particularly, then again the only decent Yuri scene I've seen is this one. (Holds out what looks like a tankobon.)

Tsunade: Eh? (opens the book and flushes scarlet) WTF?! Is that supposed to be me?! And Shizune?!

Kyugan: Now calm down, if you must know Jiraiya sent me that, and I'm certain you don;t get up to that at all.

Tsunade: Why the hell am 'I' on the BOTTOM?! Are there any others like this?!

Kyugan: Not so far as 'I' know, (kicks a pile of Naruto/Tsunade doujins under the couch where no-one will notice.)

R&R!!PLZ!!THXBY!