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35. Three VS One!
Sweat fell off his face as he threw glances to his left right and front. Three opponents and only one of him though one won't be too much problem but he still had to worry about the one with silver hair and the one with blonde hair.
'I won't worry about the Genin, I'll focus on Naruto and the Copy-nin.'
Kakashi looked over at Naruto who was breathing hard, 'Naruto looks very worn out, better keep a good eye on this guy.'
Kakashi used his right hand and grabbed the part of his forehead protector that covered his left eye and raised it up revealing his crimson eye with three black tomoe's around the pupil. Hiroshi quickly noticed it.
'That eye, it looks exactly like the eyes of that man Naruto-sensei fought back in the Hidden Waterfal.' He mentally noted as he remembered the face of Sasuke.
Shinsui smirked but inside he actually became a little nervous, "So you're going to use the Sharingan."
"Yes," was Kakashi's simple reply.
'Hmm, I can't stay and fight I have to get the hell as soon as I get a chance. I will not survive this.'
Kakashi looked at Naruto and nodded and the fight was about to begin. Kakashi flashed through hand seals. Shinsui noticed he performed them faster than he so he didn't have time to react.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)!" he yelled and took a deep breath and exhaled, a massive flame erupted and targeted Shinsui.
Shinsui's eyes widened as the oncoming attack was fast and no time to react, the intense flames hit its target. Kakashi actually thought he had gotten Shisnui.
'So much for the leader of the Tatsumaki,' he thought.
The smoke cleared and Kakashi's eyes widened as Shinsui wasn't where he was supposed to be. All that remained was a small puddle of water that was quickly evaporating by the intense heat that still remained on the scorched area.
'A Mizu Bunshin (Water Replication), hmm,' Kakashi thought as he waited. Soon enough he sensed projectiles coming at him and quickly turned around with kunai in hand and deflected all the shuriken that was thrown at him. After deflecting the projectiles Kakashi turned his attention to the figure that was standing ahead of him. There stood Shinsui standing with a small evil smirk painted on his face.
"That was close," he said, "I had barely enough create a Mizu Bunshin and use the Kawarimi (Body Replacement) to get away from that jutsu."
Kakashi though didn't seemed fazed one bit by Shinsui's supposed escape and it was Shinsui's turn to flash through hand seals with the final hand seal pumping chakra into his katana.
"Kage Katana Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Blade Replication Technique)!"
"What?!" Kakashi said in surprise as Shinsui's blade turned into many and surrounded Kakashi.
Shinsui smirked and did one hand seal, "Tajuu Katana Kai (Multiple Blade Cut)!"
The surrounding blades decended and quickly began cutting Kakashi. The attack was over just as quick as it began leaving a bunch of little cuts with small amounts of blood leaking out of them. Kakashi grunted in pain.
'This attack, he's toying with me.'
"Okay enough games, time to finish this," Shinsui spoke, "It would be an honor for me to kill the great Copy-nin."
Shinsui did another hand seal, "Tajuu Katana Shishou (Multiple Blade Stab)!"
All the blades tilted until they looked like they were merely pointing at Kakashi and quickly all the blades descended and stabbed Kakashi at all angles on his body. Shinsui immediately knew something was wrong when no blood began dripping from the human sword holder. Kakashi then puffed out of existence.
"What? A Kage Bunshin?" Shinsui asked no one in particular.
Shinsui undid the jutsu and now only one katana remained but he didn't dare move to retrieve it, he was waiting for the next move to be made by any of the ninja but not moving was a big mistake as two hands came out of the ground and grabbed a hold of Shinsui's ankles. The hands pulled him under and turned out to be Kakashi's. Kakashi didn't pull him all the way under only exposing the head like normal. Instead, Kakashi brought him down into the ground just enough so Shinsui couldn't move his hand. Kakashi bent down to Shinsui's level and smirked and disappeared. What was he planning? Then he saw it, the blonde he was fighting earlier was charging at him with a ball of swirling chakra in his hand.
'Shit!' Shinsui yelled in his mind as Naruto came closer and closer. Soon pain shot through Shinsui's shoulder.
"Rasengan!" yelled Naruto as he slammed his palm into Shinsui's left shoulder. The force of the Naruto's Rasengan was powerful enough to break Shinsui out of the ground and send him flying through the air. Shinsui tried to balance himself in the air so he could stop himself. Shinsui managed to do so and pumped his remaining chakra into his feet as they slid across the ground in hopes of stopping. Finally Shinsui stopped he tried to move his left arm but pain quickly ended that. Naruto's attack left the muscles around his shoulder in shambles. Unable to move his left arm, Shinsui began trying to find a way out of this fight.
'I think I've been beat, I need to get out of here.' Shinsui though and turned around to try to escape.
Kakashi was standing there with chakra in his right hand with electricity sparking out of it.
"Wh-what is that?" asked a slightly nervous Shinsui.
"My, is the great leader of the Tatsumaki nervous?" mock asked Kakashi.
"I fear no one," lied Shinsui when in fact as soon as Kakashi had arrived to interrupt him and Naruto's fight, we was slightly afraid.
Kakashi smirked underneath his mask and charged at Shinsui at blinding speed. Kakashi was clearly aiming for Shinsui's heart and at the very last minute Shinsui tried to jump out of the way. Shinsui wasn't fast enough so Kakashi's Raikiri (Lightning Blade) did slice through Shinsui's already damaged shoulder. This brought a piercing scream from Shinsui as the pain was just too much. It managed to bring Shinsui to a knee. When the blade made of lightning disappeared Shinsui quickly grabbed his wounded shoulder.
'This is not good; I need to get out of here fast.'
Shinsui quickly glanced around trying to find any means of escaping this now turned hell battle. Things were good when it was just Naruto, now that he was fighting the Copy Ninja from Konohagakure (Village Hidden in the Leaves). When Shinsui noticed that Kakashi was looking over at Naruto signaling him, Shinsui took the chance to run. If he stayed any longer he would be good as dead and so he took the opportunity to run and quickly dashed into the trees clutching his shoulder.
"Kakashi-sensei, Shinsui's escaping!" yelled Naruto and Kakashi quickly turned around to find Shinsui not where he was.
"Shit," was all Kakashi had to say as Naruto and Kakashi went after Shinsui.
Shinsui leaped through the trees as fast as he could trying to get away from a mission that terribly failed all because of an unexpected guest.
'If I couldn't beat the Copy Ninja, how am I supposed to go through with the plans.'
Shinsui was sent out of his thinking when pain came to the arm clutching his shoulder. He looked to find a kunai embedded in his arm. He looked ahead to find Hiroshi standing on a tree branch ahead of him.
Shinsui chuckled, "You think you could defeat me? Even in my current state, you couldn't lay a finger on me."
"My name's Kurosaki Hiroshi and I will fight you." Hiroshi said with confidence.
"Kurosaki? You related to Kami?" asked Shinsui.
"Hai, that wretched teme (bastard) is my uncle." Hiroshi replied.
Without warning Hiroshi charged at Shinsui. Shinsui smirked. Hiroshi quickly took out a kunai when he got closer to Shinsui but before he could attack Shinsui he was grabbed by the neck by Shinsui's right arm.
"I told you kid, you cannot beat me even in this condition," he said while holding onto Hiroshi's neck.
"I just bought time for them." Hiroshi said pointing to two figures behind Shinsui.
Shinsui glanced over his shoulder to find Naruto and Kakashi standing on a tree branch behind him. Shinsui cursed himself, it was all a trap and he fell right into it. His hold on Hiroshi's neck began to tighten. Naruto immediately noticed this.
"Hey! Get your filthy hands off of him!" he yelled and disappeared and reappeared at the right side of Shinsui. Naruto took out a couple of kunai and stabbed Shinsui in the arm that was being used to hold Hiroshi. Naruto's eyes widened, instead of blood coming out of the wounds, water began pouring out and soon enough the replication turned into water. Hiroshi began to free fall but Naruto quickly reacted and caught Hiroshi before he hit the floor. Naruto let him down to the ground while Kakashi joined them on the ground as well.
"It looks like he escaped after all."
Shinsui finally came a clearing and stopped and just fell the ground. He was tired and in so much pain and he used up the last of his chakra in maintaining the Mizu Bunshin to through off Kakashi and Naruto. Soon a dark shadow stood over him.
"Look at you." the dark, mysterious voice said.
Shinsui's eyes widened and the voice spoke again.
"Deceiving your opponents is fine, but this I won't tolerate."
Kakashi, Naruto and Hiroshi just stood looking around, for reasons they didn't know. They knew Shinsui had escaped. Kakashi covered his left eye with his forehead protector and looked at Naruto who just fell to the ground exhausted. Kakashi walked over to Naruto and stood there waiting for Naruto to acknowledge his presence and sure enough Naruto looked up almost immediately.
"Naruto, what were you thinking?" Kakashi began, "Going against an order from Tsunade-sama."
Naruto looked back down not wanting to answer that question.
"Seriously," he spoke again, "What would you accomplish coming out here to kill Hiroshi's uncle?"
Naruto finally spoke, "I didn't come out here to kill Totosai."
Hiroshi's eyes widened, he thought Naruto was going to help him out but he lied, killing his uncle was not what Naruto was truly going to do. Naruto, however, noticed the puzzled and betrayed look on his studen's face.
"Well not right away, I wanted answers."
Kakashi seemed to be confused, "Answers for what?"
"Jiraiya told me Totosai would be able to tell me, since he was no longer of the village."
Kakashi eyes widened, 'Jiraiya-sama, what were you thinking?'
"He told me about my father."
Kakashi sighed and placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder, "You okay?"
"I guess, but it's all so much to take in, being the son of the Yondaime Hokage and he being the same person that sealed it within me." Naruto said.
"Yeah, Minato-sensei was a great man." Kakashi said looking at the sky. Naruto's seemed shock when Kakashi added the sensei to his father's name.
"Sensei? My father was your sensei?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi nodded then sighed, "Come on Naruto, we got to get you back to Hokage-sama."
Naruto cringed in fear, "So, Tsunade-baachan knows?"
"Unfortunately yes, and when we return with you, expect her to be very angry."
Naruto sighed and they began to walk. Naruto noticed Hiroshi wasn't following.
"Hiroshi, come on, we're going." Naruto called out.
Hiroshi was driven out of his slight trace by Naruto's voice, "H-hai, Naruto-sensei."
Sorryy about the long awaited update, I've been busy with work and other things but I have returned and until next time, see ya.