Hello, I'm back. I know I have mentioned this a couple of times but do you guys prefer it if I take longer to upload longer chapters or do you want me to do this sorta daily one-thousand word chapter? Also, I mentioned about how all of these chapters are called 'Hot off the press' so would it be okay if I spend a bit more time to have revisions and edits? PM me what you think. ANYWAYS TO THE STORY BECAUSE I AM FAR OFF TRACK.

"I" - Speech

'Will' - Thought

Never - Non-human

Surrender - Human

Disclaimer: I assume most of you can figure out I don't own Naruto or Akame ga kiru -_-

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After the rather short lived break, the two fighters had resumed their positions on the battle arena.

Naruto had begun the countdown to start the second battle between the two teenagers, "three," The two had critically observed each other, "two,"

"Good luck Sayo." Tatsumi said before the battle had begun.

"Same to you." Sayo said shaking her friend's hand before the spar had begun.

"Begin." Naruto said, signalling the start of the battle between the two friends.

Tatsumi had charged in moving in a zigzag pattern towards Sayo who had fired a cone volley of arrows towards Tatsumi. An unorthodox move from Tatsumi with his sudden sheathing of his sword using his bare hands to redirect the zipping arrows. To Sayo's surprised, the arrows were able to be blocked by Tatsumi who had cuts marred on his hands as he had charged in, trying his best to push the arrows away from any fatal areas.

'So he figured out the weakness to the arrows? I have to give him that and the sheer reaction timing needed to block the arrows too?' The blond observed as the brown haired warrior neared the brunette. Reacting quickly, Sayo had leaped over the charging boy, firing more arrows from above Tatsumi, having recalling the non-airborne arrows. Tatsumi took the attack head on, the arrows sinking into Tatsumi's flesh. The projectiles didn't get lodged to far into the skin and was easily pulled out by Tatsumi.

Another barrage of arrows had been shot from Sayo. It seemed that a majority of them were missing the green eyed boy who became briefly confused at this before dismissing this notion. He grabbed his sword from it's confinement in the sheath and had ran forwards, the sword pointed directly towards Sayo in a very similar fashion to a spearman. Tatsumi had let out a war cry as he had charged linearly towards the archer only to feel resistance on his body that felt awfully like wires. Sayo had fired another arrow missing the boy to a normal observer but after the shot had fired, Tatsumi had felt his binds tighten even further. His sword however was free to be moved and with some rather tricky movements, the quick minded Tatsumi had been able to throw the sword to Sayo who had to dodge the incoming blade. The flying piece of metal seemed to slow down and the tightened wires encaging Tatsumi were released before he suddenly realized his problem.

Sayo seemed to also notice this rather obvious predicament going on in Tatsumi's head as she had notched an arrow pointed at Tatsumi, "Surrender," was all she had said before a grin had appeared on Tatsumi's face.

The boy, while unarmed, was not completely out of the fight as of yet. With a swift kick, the country boy had managed to knock the bow out of Sayo's grip. This specific event had lead to a close combat situation with both more or less unarmed.

Sayo however was better off than Tatsumi, having an uninjured arm and her quiver still with her. The archer had thrown the arrows at Tatsumi. While it wasn't launched from her bow, thanks to a time distortion seal that Naruto had painstakingly carved on the arrows, the arrows were still going at a seemingly fast speed. Tatsumi had raised his arms in hopes to at least lessen the barrage of thrown arrows at him only to find that they hadn't hurt all too much.

Neither of the teens knew but the time distortion would only affect perception of time, not velocity itself. So the arrows weren't going all that fast. It only seemed like that.

The brown haired swordsman had slowly begun to walk through the torrent of thrown and recalled arrows. His fist tightened had landed on Sayo who had just retrieved her bow from the ground. The superior strength of the punch had managed to temporarily stun the girl allowing the sword that had been prior thrown to be retrieved again. The girl had began coughing some blood from the power of the attack but quickly rearmed, Tatsumi had confidently strided towards the girl who had multiple arrows notched on her bow dragging his blade on the earth.

'So who will win? Sheer power and tenacity or swift tactics and skills?' Naruto thought to himself watching the battle still prepared to enter in, a time distortion seal at the ready.

"Last move?" Tatsumi asked getting a nod from Sayo, "Let's do this!"

The user of Last Whisper had launched the barrage of arrows towards the boy who had been running directly towards the archer. With the speed that the arrows were going, it should have been extremely difficult to dodge them but it seemed that Tatsumi was faster than earlier. After dodging several barrages of arrows, Tatsumi had decided to end it now by performing a somersault over the arrows surprising the girl and had swung down the blade on his descent towards the ground. Just when it looked like it would be over for the girl, she had lost her brief surprise and fired an arrow at the boy's stomach who clearly didn't think this far from the evident pannick crossing his face.

Naruto of course saw this as a win for Sayo considering where the arrow was headed and had activated the time distortion seal. For Naruto, the world had abruptly froze but to anyone else, they would have seen a yellow flash that was eerily similar to his father's famous ,or infamous depending on who you were, technique, the hiraishin. The blond had simply plucked the arrow out of the air and placed it on the ground.

Naruto headed back to his spot where he was earlier and cut the flow of chakra to the seal no longer distorting the time around Naruto, "That's it. Sayo wins."

Hearing this, Tatsumi had dropped to the ground, rather comical tears flooding out at hearing his loss to the archer and said girl beaming with pride.

"Good fight." Tatsumi said recovering from his rather short lived depression shaking Sayo's hand.

"Same to you." Sayo brightly said with a smile on her face.

"Well I'll be talking to the two of you later. I have some recon to be doing for our side." Naruto said leaving the two teenagers to go back to the headquarters of Night Raid having gone through one of Naruto's less intense training.

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Hello. I'm back. I would like to thank luffyxrobin-luffyxnami for inadvertently giving me some advise. Yes I just now noticed the rather lack of build up in my earlier chapters so I will try my best to improve these future chapters. Also I would like to know whether to spend a couple of days revising and fixing some of the earlier chapters or do you want me to continue with the story as it is now? Anyways at some point I will fix the chapters but right now, I'm going to get to bed. Bye (: