Last time, after a difficult time of dealing with 2 Jounins, Naruto quickly ducked out of the current fighting area, where he quickly went to the other side of the training ground. As he left, the jounin that he ditched went to follow him. At the same time, Yugao was assisting one of the jounin that Naruto had dealt with earlier.
With Naruto
As Naruto continued to leap through the air, to one tree to another, he looked back to see that the 3rd jounin was quickly catching up to him. Naruto quickly pushed even harder into his legs since he needed to get away to get to the next ambush site.
While Naruto was making his way to his ambush site, his 2 shadow clones was finishing up the final pieces of his traps. Before they could leave, both of them were suddenly struck in the back by something sharp.
As Naruto was heading for the next ambush site, he couldn't help but feel lucky on how he got away from the 2 jounin. While the jounin were going at hiim with full force, Naruto pulled out a homemade flash grenade from one of his pockets. He let it drop while he got into a defensive stance. Both jounin weren't able to recognize on what Naruto had done, which the flash grenade let loose and blinded them for the moment. This gave him the amount of time he needed to run away. As Naruto ran, both Jounin regained their sight and followed him.
Naruto was running pretty hard through the thickness of tree branches, to see and slow down the jounin. It was then at this point that Naruto had now gotten the memories from his shadow clones. It was then that he figured that one of the other jounin must have continued the hunt for Naruto's clones since they figured that the clones might be planning a trap for him to use.
He quickly decided to still go to the site since; the clones had setup several traps before they were destroyed. Naruto probably knew that the jounin that took out the clones was probably going to try and disarm them or use them against him. But he decided to go since his clones setup not only traps, but also a backup plan like his Marine Corps instructors, as well as senior officers, had taught him to do incase facing a strong enemy, to double his chances of success.
Naruto quickly leapt through tree to tree, quickly speeding up to another 100 meters where his ambushed site is located. As he neared it, he also made sure to keep an eye out on the 2nd jounin since the person might be nearby, or maybe ready to set off one of his traps to secure or knock him out, which he hoped the jounin would.
As Naruto was getting closer, the jounin that was chasing him got close enough to perform a jutsu. The jounin did some hand signs and yelled out, "Fire Style: Fireball jutsu.
A huge fireball was heading straight for Naruto, which he notice and quickly dodged. As he dodged, the jounin used this opportunity to try and get him from behind. Naruto landed on his right arm and which he used to narrowly miss the jounin's strike at him. As Naruto was in the air, he spun his body around, which the jounin did the same, but he slided back a bit near the tip of the branch, which he had a bit of difficulty to stay on. For Naruto, he landed on the side of the tree that he landed on and pushed himself hard off it since the jounin was temporarily distract on keeping himself balanced. Naruto went at him to punch his face, which he almost succeeded but the jounin let himself fall to avoid the punch. The jounin fell through a couple of tree branches, before he caught a sturdy branch strong enough not to break. He pulled himself up to see that Naruto had already left the sight and went ahead of him.
At the ambush site, Naruto landed on the ground, but on guard since he knows that a jounin is probably still here. Naruto carefully pulled out a kunai knife and went into a defensive stance. He carefully walked around near the trees to make sure he doesn't get sneaked attack from behind by any kunai or shuriken throws.
As Naruto carefully walked towards one of his prepared traps, he guessed that the jounin that was chasing him would be here in a few seconds, that's if the jounin that took out his clones didn't stop him.
Right when Naruto got near one of his traps, the hidden jounin that was still hiding decided to activate the trap that Naruto's clones made to take them down, to capture him. The hidden jounin cut the vine that kept the trap intact to let it go. Naruto heard something falling which he looked to see that his trap was set off. Naruto quickly jumped up to avoid the collision of 3 giant logs swing down in three directions to hit him in the center. Naruto landed on the logs after they collided with each other.
When Naruto jumped to avoid the logs, the hidden jonin, Yugao, was about to jump at him when she looked behind when she barely heard the tightening of wire behind her. She saw kunai launchers fire kunai at the area she was in. She quickly jumped away and deflected the kunai that would have hit her, but exposed herself into the opening. Naruto saw where the trap was set off to see a woman jounin with violet eyes and long purple hair that reach her back side.
Naruto smiled since his plan worked on making sure that he could find them. He planned on using his traps not only on his opponents, but also on himself this time to make sure to figure out how many jounins were left.
"With that purple hair woman, that makes 2 jounin. I wonder if the 1st jounin I took out is around since I didn't sense her from the other 2 I had to fight." Naruto thought, as he was being cautions on who he was dealing with.
As Yugao jumped back from the kunai strikes, Naruto quickly jumped off the log to try and take out the female shinobi. At the same time, Naruto was fortunate enough to move at the same moment as shurikens embedded on the wooden log that he was just in. Naruto looked behind to see that it was the jounin that chased him earlier. Naruto guessed that the jounin must have waited for a perfect opportunity to trap Naruto, cause the 1st jounin that Yugao helped out, caught up to him and informed him on the plan, but the plan shattered when Naruto's trap forced Yugao out of position.
When the shurikens missed, the 3rd jounin quickly activated another of Naruto's traps to distract him. The 2nd trap had shuriken and kunai flying at Naruto where he was moving forward towards Yugao. He quickly stop, but slid a bit before he backflip to avoid the kunai and shurikens that came flying by him while also catching a kunai and a few shurikens while backflip to avoid them.
As Naruto was busy with his trap, the jounin that unleashed the booby trap was going to make his move when he heard something falling. He looked around to see 2 logs starting to come down on him, but was going to miss him. He thought the 2 logs were going to be used as something for him and his team, but then heard rustling noises coming from below him. He looked to see that he was going to be caught in a vine rope that was going to hang him upside down. He jumped up to avoid it, but was surprised to see that the vine trap was also a booby trap when the vine trap hit some debris that had a well cover trip wire that activated a bend tree branch trap that smack the jounin from the general area that jounin jump at.
The Jounin was hit by the tree branches that would give anyone a bruise. As the 3rd Jounin was being taken care of by the tree branch, the 1st jounin continued to move forward as he intended to take out Naruto, here and now, for causing them some humiliation on being out duped by a rookie shinobi. As Naruto was finishing his backflips, he used some of the shuriken he caught and threw them at both his sides. The 1st Jounin was about to give Naruto a powerful taijutsu combo attack, when he heard something coming at him from below. The jounin saw a vine rope coming straight for him at a 90 degree angle. His body was going to be caught at the center, where he had no time to grab a kunai or anything. He quickly did a front flip, which he barely moved his body to around the vine. As this was happening, Naruto jumped high, where he position his feet right where the vine was coming which catapult him higher into the tree branches, where he then landed on another vine that bend like a rubber, but activated it's function, letting loose some trees that was tide about it to spring shot him away from the battle area, closer to the exit.
When Naruto threw the kunais to his sides, he activated 2 purposes. One was to activate the 1st vine rope as a spring; while the 2nd was to cut the vine rope that connected with the 2 logs for the 2nd vine rope he landed to act as another spring for him.
All three jounins were able to recover just in time to see Naruto flying high above 20 meters above the tree line and closer the exit of the forest. All three of them had the same thought, "He's suicidal, but he's good." With that, the three jounin quickly went after Naruto since he just got ahead start from them.
While Naruto was up in the air, he couldn't help but be proud of himself for out doing three seasoned jounin. His thoughts about it stop as he was getting close to landing. Luckly, his shadow clones scouted ahead from the last booby trap for them to calculate on landing spot. He was going to land by sliding onto a sturdy angle tree branch that followed the trunk of the tree, which gave him a good head start on continuing to running forward. Naruto landed awkwardly but was able to keep his balance as he landed on his feet where he slid down like a snowboarder. Once he reached the edge of the tree trunk, he jumped and started to move like Tarzan (Disney movie), but still had his shoes to work with of course.
As he continue to move, he knew that he the 3 jounins were closing in on him since he knew that they weren't going to give up on pursuing him. He moved through the thickest part of the trees to give him as much cover as possible to slow down their pursuit. As he was moving through the trees like an Olympic gymnastics athlete, "If I ever have the chance to thank Akeno for teaching me her gymnastics' training routine… as well… as showing how flexible I can get… I'll thank her deeply." Naruto thought as he continues to thank an old friend of his.
Naruto continue to move forward, but was then surprised when a few kunai almost hit him from his left side. Naruto was able to dodge the assault in the last second. As he dodge, he did a couple of backflips and gotten into a defensive stance with a kunai out. He had his back on a tree trunk to keep anyone it was then that a few kunai was thrown at him. He would have blocked it with his kunai, but he was able to glance a bit that something was attached behind them. It was then that he knew that it was a paper bombs tied on the backs.
Naruto quickly moved forwards, expertly dodge each one of them by at least a centimeter from his face and body. Just as he dodges, the kunai hit the tree bark behind him which help ignited the paper bombs. Naruto, was of course, moved away from the paper bombs at a safe distance before they exploded. Of course, Naruto didn't stop since he was worried that any wooden shrapnel might fly towards him, which he jumped away when it exploded.
He landed in a clearing which he then went wide-eye, "AH SHIT…!" he yelled. Naruto knew that this clearing was a perfect ambush spot, which he unwilling went to when he came into the area. It was then that the 3 jounin shinobi unleashed their trap. It was then that Naruto was now tied up in shinobi wire going around his entire body, only leaving his legs the only thing to keep him standing. He would use the kunai in his hands to cut the wire, but his hands were crossed together putting the kunai near his arm. If he tried to cut it, he would have cut himself.
It was then that the 3 jounins came out. Yugao was one of the 2 holding the wire too hold him. Naruto tried to struggle, but he couldn't do anything in this position. It was then that the 1st jounin came walking in front of him preparing to put a charka suppression tag seal on him.
As the Jounin walked towards him, he said, "Namikaze-san… for all the trouble you have given us, I can't help but to hold you some respect since yours skills on strategy and such are indeed great that it can match up to a low level jounin even with the limited charka training that you have. I can only imagine that you would one day be stronger than your father. Too bad for you, you were close to leaving this training ground and succeed in this test, but it wasn't meant to be." With respect
Naruto only glared as he kept his cool on trying to figure out on how to escape. It was then that smell something familiar around the area. It was then that he smirked. The jounin hesitated for a moment, which proves to be a mistake. Naruto smirked as he said, "Thanks for the respect, but you shouldn't be overconfident… especially since my friends don't seem to like on how you're treating me."
It was then that a pair of giant wild tigers came out from hiding. The tigers where so huge, that they were the size of Humvee with a roar that matches a race car driver. The 3 jounin were surprised when the tigers appeared, but Naruto only smirked since he recognized these 2 by their stripe patterns since he met them earlier.
Flashback
Naruto was finishing washing off most of the mud from the annoying places on his body. It was then that he met with a slight problem, which was worse for him since he was seeing that his problem had a small group of hungry looked eyes, eyeing him.
In front of him, 2 giant tigers came walking towards him. They came walking towards him as a predator getting ready to pounce on a helpless little animal. The tigers prowled around him, their yellow eyes, looking at him, piercing into his body and soul, looking for the perfect position for both of them to strike.
As the tigers got ready, Naruto just narrowed both his eyes as he eyed them. One of the tigers was about to jump him, which he notice. Just as the tiger was going to tear his flesh apart, Naruto stood up and walked towards it, which kinda surprise the tiger and hold back its attack.
Naruto walked calmly, getting closer to the tiger, showing the tiger his piercing eyes at him. The tiger just growled and roared at him, trying to scare him but Naruto was completely calm, not flinching at the noise. Once the Naruto walked up to what he believed was the older of the 2 tigers, judging on the way they react to each other, he look directly into his eyes with his eyes.
It was there that a struggle of dominance was happening between the 2. The tiger looked at Naruto's blue sapphire eyes, without any hesitation or fear. There was nothing but a strong blue flame in his eyes that showed courage, strength, loyalty and other great virtues. After staring each other, the tiger submitted and let Naruto pet him. The younger brother of the tigers also did the same as the older one. After that, Naruto bid farewell to the tigers.
End Flashback
Once the tigers appeared, one of them leapt at the other jounin that held the shinobi wire, making him drop and help loosen the hold he was on. With that, Naruto was able to move the kunai away from his arm and cut the rope to set himself free.
Yugao would have set stopped him, but after the jounin let go of the shinobi wire, the tiger leapt over Naruto and straight to her. The 1st jounin that was about to place the sealing tag was facing the other tiger, unable to focus on Naruto at this point.
Naruto was able to get himself free and went to the jounin that had him tide up. He quickly gave a few quick jabs and then a hard kick sending him into a tree without the use of his super strength.
Yugao was able to avoid the tiger strike, which it gave her enough time to unleash paralyzing jutsu on both of them. Both of them turned in time to see Naruto kick away the jounin away and was about to leave. Yugao had no intention of letting him escape. Yugao was able to throw a kunai with a shinobi wire and rapped around on one of his legs. This stopped Naruto from escaping which the 1st Jounin quickly put the tag on the back of his head.
Naruto felt the tag being put on his head, which he started to black out. Naruto tried to stay up, but the 1st jounin quickly gave a him a chop at the back of his head. Naruto was still able to stay conscious, but was slowly fading. It was this that he began to think of his options.
"Damn it… I was close… no I can… still make it… I just need more power… but how...?" Naruto thought as he began to figure out possible ways to overcome the situation. He focus all his will to try and find the answer.
It was then that he subconsciously went into his mind. He found himself inside a pipe/sewer like structure. He carefully walked through it until he found an opening that led to a giant cage in front of him. He moved closer until he saw a pair of red, deep, piercing, blood lustful eyes. It was then that he heard, "So after all the moments... after all this time... we finally meet... face to face… huh demon dog." With a vicious deep tone of voice.
Sorry for the wait, but I had some writers block on this story. Well till next Ch.
P.S. Also, for the poll for Naruto's girlfriend in "Elemental Master Naruto", I place another one for the candidates with the most votes. The reason I did this was to give others who voted for the previous candidates that had the lowest votes to make a decision for the ones with the most so it would be fair since one of their favorite choices wasn't chosen. With this, they have the chance to try again and chose a different one.
