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Ch. 36 Don vs. Naruto, the Fight Long Awaited
A fire sparked in Don's heart when he heard these words. He hopped down instantly and walked to the middle of the battlefield.
"Ah! Hinata, these guys serious, I have to face that guy?" Naruto said a bit franticly. "Don't worry Naruto, I know you'll win. You've been training hard for a long time now." Hinata said gently in her usual voice.
Meanwhile Tsunade and Gaara watched as they waited for Naruto to make it to the field. "Well Gaara, it seems this is the match both of our villages have been waiting for. The two prides of our villages going at it in a one on one brawl, a true test of strength."
Gaara turned to Tsunade, "Indeed Lady Tsunade, this match will be most interesting." The crowd started to cheer and howl. Rain turned to Baki-sama. "Sensei, why is everyone cheering so loudly?"
"Well Rain, believe it or not, the people of both our villages were looking forward to this match. You see, ever since Sauske left the village, people have looked up to Naruto for hope, from which I hear he has been doing all his life. He has gained quite the respect. He has become strong and this village takes great pride in him as we do for Don." He replied.
Don stood patiently waiting for Naruto to come down. Hinata joined Naruto as he left to head over to the field. They walked down the stairs until they made it to the dark tunnel that Naruto was to come out of to get to the field.
"Good luck Naruto-kun." Hinata said. "Thanks Hinata, I plan on winning this match." Naruto said pompously. Hinata leaned over to him and gave him one last hug and looked him in the eyes and kissed him good luck.
Naruto then began to walk down the light that was at the end of the dark tunnel. Don watched as he saw the figure, that was Naruto, exit the tunnel. As he did the crowd began to cheer very loudly. Naruto looked around and waved, he then spotted the sections where all of his friends were seated and waved at them.
Don turned around to see who Naruto was waving at and saw everyone he knew in that one section from the people around his age and sensei's he grew up knowing. He was a bit shocked to see them all there at once.
Don looked towards the stands and saw his teammates cheering for him and giving him thumbs up. He then tuned his attention to the reserved seats for the Hyugas. There he saw Neji glaring at him. Don ignored him and turned his attention to his opponent who was walking toward him.
When Naruto was done waving to everyone like a celebrity he looked at Don and grunted. "I'm gonna pound that guy's face in." He said to himself.
"Are the two challengers ready?" the proctor said. "You bet I am!" Naruto shouted. Don stretched and nodded. Don heart was racing, this fight had been long awaited, the chance to fight Naruto again and not hold back for anyone's sake.
Time seemed to stop for Don as he awaited the word to begin fighting. Don and Naruto had a stare off glaring at each other, adrenaline racing and nerves jumping, ready to fight the other.
"Let's just see how you do Don." Neji said to himself. He looked down on the field and waited for the proctor to tell the two to begin. "Naruto, be careful." Hinata said quietly to herself.
"I hope your ready to lose Gaara because Naruto has grown into quite a ninja over these past few years and he is no push over." Tsunade said. "I wouldn't count on it Lady Tsunade, Don is quite the contender. He's creative and very clever. Don't underestimate him." Gaara replied.
Don could feel the energy built up from all the excitement and the waiting for this battle. That didn't matter to him though, his opponent was infront of him and he was ready to give it his all and win.
"Begin!" The proctor shouted and the battle was under way and everyone in the stadium shouted to these words as they watched the two ninja fight.
Don jumped back a bit to create some distance between him and Naruto. Naruto made a hand sign and filled the area full of his shadow clones. Naruto's shadow clones soon surrounded Don.
"Go get him Naruto!" Lee shouted as he saw the clones about to attack. "Calm down Lee, Naruto is going to do fine." Guy sensei told him.
Don smirked and then took his fighter stance. "Sensei, look!" Lee shouted. Lee pointed out Don's fighter stance; it was the same as his and Guy's. "What the devil? Only a few people from this village even know how to use that stance. What is the meaning of this?" Guy said in confusion.
"Maybe if you watch, your answer will be answered." Kakashi said. Guy turned surprised to see his long time rival Kakashi standing next to him reading his Make-out Paradise. "Darn you Kakashi! Always so cool! Gyaaa!" Guy said to himself.
The clones all attacked at once; Don was able to counter attack each one. He spun around in a formation similar to Neji's Rotation. As each Naruto got in range of the rotation Don took them out with his Taijutsu.
"Seems that Don has a few tricks up his sleeve, he's even got my Rotation almost completely perfect and made it more dangerous by modifying to his own use." Neji grunted as he watched the cone be obliterated.
Don quickly made a hand sign and pulled out his earth sword. He then split it into two; the Naruto clones pulled out their kunai. Don managed to fend off the clones, the blades of his two swords and the blades of the kunai clashed making the sound of a metal clang.
Don quickly finished off the few remaining clones with a few quick and precise blows with his swords. "Now lets fight, man to man Naruto." Don said. Naruto grunted. "I'm going to pound your annoying face in you jerk!" Naruto shouted.
Don combined his two swords into one and blocked Naruto's attack that he had made with his kunai. For a while the two went at it, sword against kunai.
"Neji, do you think Naruto will be ok?" Hinata asked. "By the looks of things Naruto has a fifty-fifty chance of winning. All I can say is, this will be a close match." Neji replied.
Don punched Naruto hard and Naruto went skidding across the ground and then poofed into a cloud of smoke. "Gah, a clone!" Don shouted. "Up here!" Naruto shouted and Don looked up. Naruto was falling toward him with a rasengan in his hand.
"Here's a move I've been working on for a guy like you!" he shouted. "Rasen-Bomb!" Naruto threw the Rasengan down towards Don; it was so fast that it made contact.
"Don!" Temari and Don's other teammates shouted. The rasengan held Don in place to where he couldn't move; he felt as though he was stuck in a twister, he could feel his clothes tearing.
"No one has ever survived one of Naruto's rasengan. It's so powerful that it can leave you immobile for weeks." Tsunade said. "It does look quite powerful." Gaara replied.
"Ha, gotcha." Naruto said. Naruto looked down at Don who was kneeling to keep himself up from that devastating attack. He noticed his kimono had been torn to shreds and saw clothing underneath.
"Just who are you!" Naruto grunted. Don just chuckled. "Well Naruto if you must know, I will show you." Don said. As he stood up, his destroyed kimono slid right off him and fell to the ground.
"Recognize me Naruto?" Don said revealing his true identity to all. "Guy sensei, look!" Lee shouted. "It can't be!" Guy shouted. Even Kakashi was shocked. "Hmm, seems the boy who was presumed dead wasn't really dead after all." He said calmly while still reading his book.
Tsunade stood up quickly, "What the hell is going on here? Don, you bastard, you're still alive after all this time!" Tsunade shouted. "Is something wrong?" Gaara asked. Tsunade turned to him angrily. "He disappeared about six months ago, we presumed he was dead. Why have you been hiding him from me all this time!" She shouted.
"Tsunade, I assure you I had no idea." Gaara said calmly and apologetically. Tsunade punched the railing and made a crater like dent in it.
Everyone else that Don knew was equally as shocked. "D…Don?" Hinata said shakily. "Neji, is that really him? Is that really Don?" she said with tears about to burst in her eyes. "Yes, Hinata, it is Don, he is still alive." Neji replied.
"You! You're supposed to be dead!" Naruto shouted. "Naruto you think headed idiot, I am quite alive, I think everyone is in shock enough to see me, lets finish this fight!" he said and made a handsign activating the earth bombs he had implanted into the ground with the team up match with Naruto, but never used.
Naruto went flying. "You don't know how long and how hard I trained for this moment Naruto, now, let's finish this!" Don shouted and made a handmotion.
"What the? How the hell did he learn that jutsu!" Tsunade said as she watched Don's hand movements. "What jutsu?" Gaara asked.
"This is a little jutsu that has been passed down my family for generations, from master to student back from the beginning of this village, in fact this jutsu created this village." Don told Naruto. Don slammed his hands into the ground, "Forest of Creation Jutsu!" he shouted and the whole field was covered densely with the trees found outside the village.
"Hmm, amazing a boy of his age mastered that jutsu, eh Guy?" Kakashi asked. "Amazing? It's unheard of." Guy replied.
"Now you're in my terrain Naruto! Prepare yourself!" Don shouted. "I won't give up Don! You're the one who's going down!" Naruto shouted back.
"Neji, I can't see a thing, what's going on?" TenTen asked. "Hold on and I'll tell you," he said, "Byakugan!" Hinata and her father did the same. Through the trees they saw two figures standing on the thick branches of the trees.
Naruto summoned as many shadow clones as he could. Don made a handmotion and summoned Bernatello. "You ready buddy?" he asked. "Yeah. Oh and by the way, that Temari girl you like so much is a maniac." He replied.
All the Naruto clones charged at Don and Bernatello. They all attempted different moves from regular punches, kicks, to different combos that Naruto came up with. Don and Bernatello's superior Taijutsu skills were no match for Naruto's and the clones were vaporized quickly.
Naruto made a handmotion and summoned his toad companion Akamichi. "What is it kid?" he asked. "You're gonna help me fight this guy and win." Naruto said. Akamichi looked at Don and his bear. "You nuts kid? Go against that thing? That cub will rip me to shreds." He replied.
Naruto glared at him. "Fine, but don't expect anything good, the bears are well feared among the toads." Akamichi said. Don and Bernatello charged at the two and struck fiercely but missed as Naruto and his companion jumped out the way.
Akamichi shot some liquid from his mouth and it hit Bernatello. "What does that do?" Naruto asked. "Watch and see." He replied.
Bernatello tried to move but he was stuck to the branch. "Don! I can't move!" he shouted. Don turned to him. "Hold on I have an idea." Don made a handsign and a surge of water came from no where and washed Bernatello off removing the sticky liquid that he had been held by.
Though the surge was so powerful it knocked him off the branch and sent him falling to the ground. Don caught him and the landed safely on the ground. Don made a hand motion and reached into the ground. He pulled out many bombs and stuffed as many as he could in his weapons bag.
Naruto jumped down along with Akamichi and the four fighters went at each other in a full-scale battle. Then Don looked up to see something very horrifying. While Don and Naruto were fighting, Naruto had made many shadow clones of himself. Each one of them had a rasengan in his hand.
"Try and get out of this one Don, I doubt you will." Naruto said as the clones all threw their rasengan down at him with a rasen-barrage. "Bernatello get close, he's going to destroy the whole forest!" Don shouted.
Bernatello stood close to don and Don quickly made a handmotion and pushed his hand into the ground. A big explosion went off as the rasengan touched down. The whole forest that Don had created was destroyed accept for one tree.
When the dust cleared Naruto looked around to see Don no where but a hole where he once was.
Temari smirked when she saw the hole and at the same time relieved to see that Don avoided the attack. Naruto turned around to see Don in the shade of the tree, which extended some distance in Naruto's direction. Don smirked at Naruto.
"Don, you're finished, you have nothing left to attack with." Naruto said as he summoned a clone and with his entire mite formed one last rasengan. Then Naruto charged at Don with the rasengan in hand.
Don squatted and made a handsign. Naruto kept charging, focusing on his goal to eliminate Don. "Oh, great, Naruto's done for." Shikamaru said. Don cast his shadow and it connected with Naruto's.
Naruto froze and wasn't able to move. "What a cheap trick, you learned that from Shikamaru." Naruto shouted. "Just shut up!" Don said. He stomped his foot on the ground as did Naruto and some earth bombs popped up at Naruto's feet.
Don took his right hand and thrust it upon his chest. Naruto did too and he was struck by his own rasengan. The bombs kicked up into the attack and Don released Naruto and activated the bombs causing a big explosion in the orb.
"It's over." Don said. Naruto was released from the rasengan and fell to the ground. Neji and Hinata sat and stared at what they just saw. The power Don had shown, not to mention that e defeated Naruto with his own attack.
Don stood exhausted and began walking to the exit. Everyone watched in shock. Temari and Don's teammates left to go catch him.
"That bastard, when I get my hands on him." Tsunade started. "Deal with him as you please later, right now you must see the rest of this exam through." Gaara said. Tsunade grabbed the arm of her chair and crushed it with her bare hand.
Don exited the stadium, worn out from his fight with Naruto. He walked through the streets alone until he finally made it home. He opened his door and went to his room where he laid across his bed. He then shot his eyes open when he heard a voice come from his door.
"Don? Is it really you?"