A/N: Hey guys whats up?! Sorry for the wait, but with finals in school coming up, you know things kinda get in the way of story writing, as I'm sure you all know how that works. Anyways, to make up for it, I made this chapter a little longer for your enjoyment.
I got a comment once before saying that I needed better story development, although my grammar was good. It was pointed out to me that there are some stories that had terrible or not so good grammar but very good story lines, and vice versa. So I believe, in that person's eyes, that maybe I'm right in the middle? Anyways, I honestly have to disagree with that point of view to a degree. I mean, if the grammar sucks ass, how can you follow the story in the first place? There was this one story that had incredibly good potential. It was a mortal kombat fic where if I remember correctly scorpion and mileena fell in love and a whole bunch of other stuff. It may sound kind of cheesy or whatever, but it really did have some very good potential. However, the ENTIRE thing was just flat out shot because of what? Sucky ass grammar. If you cant read it right, you cant follow it right, plain and simple.
I do respect other people's opinions, but that's just my take on it. Guys let me know if you agree or disagree on it, or with anything else. I am constantly looking to improve my writing skills, so everything helps in some way.
Without further ado, enjoy this next chapter!
NOTE: Remember, I know its easy, but the naruto in this story is NOT wearing the orange jumpsuit! Remember to look at the picture. That's his look.
A Broken Man
Chapter 9
Training
In the middle of the forest in Outworld, Naruto, Mileena, Ermac, Cassie, Jacqui, Takeda, and Kung Jin were standing in front of the wooden house that Naruto had just created, using his wood jutsu. Naruto stood aside holding open the door as they all walked in. Before he closed the door, he created fifty clones and sent them out to secure the outermost perimeter. After he did that, he created twenty more to surround the wooden house fifty yards out surrounding the house, giving the house two full circles of clone security. There was no way anyone was going to get close to them without him knowing about it first, and would also know if they were in the first circle or the second, giving him a very clear idea as to how far away they were, whoever the possible threat was. Hopefully, there wouldn't be any, but one can never be too prepared.
Before he went inside, he created one more clone with a little more chakra than the rest and said, "Go to the area where the battle was and seal the heads of the beast and the girl. Afterwards, burn the bodies and bring the sealed heads back to me."
"You got it boss!" the clone said before it took off via shunshin.
Naruto went inside the wooden house, closing the door behind him. Once inside, he turned to everyone inside and said to them all, "Alright, listen up. We are going to rest for tonight and then head on out tomorrow morning. Ermac, what information do you have against Kotal Kahn? Anything helps."
Ermac nodded as he said to Naruto, "We know that he only intends to unite Outworld for it to stand strong against its enemies. He does not rule with an iron will, he is actually very just. His only thorn in his side is Mileena, who wants to rule once more."
"And I will!" Mileena exclaimed.
"You will," Naruto agreed, "But not before you have had the proper training in your attitude and demeanor. That can make all the difference when it comes to ruling. Even a terrible ruler with a good attitude will last longer than a good ruler with a bad attitude. Patience, Mileena, patience."
"So how are we going to go about this?" Kung Jin asked Naruto. "We don't have a device or anything that can transport us back and I'm pretty sure you don't either."
"I don't," Naruto agreed, "But Kotal Kahn does I'm sure."
"Are you saying that you plan on getting through to Kotal Kahn's resources to use his stuff right in front of him?" Takeda said to Naruto.
"I am a ninja," Naruto told Takeda.
"So am I," Takeda told him, "And so is Scorpion, but I'm sure not even he would just charge in to Kotal Kahn's hands. That's a suicide mission!"
"Whoever said that I was charging in?" Naruto asked him.
Suddenly, four Kotal Kahns walked in from the shadows from the four corners of the room.
Everyone took a defensive stance as all four Kahns just stopped and stared at them all. After a moment, they burst into smoke.
"During our conversation," Naruto told everyone, "I made four shadow clones and sent them to each of the four corners. Once they were there, I had them all henge into Kotal Kahn. That was almost ten minutes ago."
"But you never did anything or said anything," Jacqui pointed out. "How did you even do that without us knowing anything?"
Naruto simple said to her, "I'm a ninja."
"Okay, I see your point," Takeda said to Naruto, "But that still doesn't quite explain how you plan on getting us back and fending off Kotal Kahn's entire army at the same time."
Naruto then received memories from one of his shadow clones from the inner circle of clones as he told them all inside, "We have company. It's the Konoha guys again. This time though, they have Tsunade with them as well as a few others."
"Hey," Cassie said to Naruto. "Did you just say Tsunade?"
"Yeah, why?" Naruto asked her.
"Does she have blonde hair tied into two pony tails and have huge tits?" Cassie asked him.
Naruto couldn't help but slightly chuckle at the girl's bluntness and said, "Yeah that's her. How'd you know?"
"My mom used to drink with her a while ago, before I was born," Cassie told him. "She told me stories about her and her friend Jax, and at some point told me about this 'Tsunade' chick with, as she said to me, 'breasts that could make even a gay man straight'. Hahaha, that was pretty funny. I'd love to have tits like that you know."
"I would too," Jacqui said to her friend. She slightly squeezed her boobs together and said, "Still, I got a pair of D's, so I'm good."
"Lucky you," Cassie said. She pointed at her own and said to Jacqui, "I've only got a B cup. Not fair."
"Man, I can get used to this," Takeda said, looking between the two girls. "Talking about boobs…not a bad thing to talk about am I right?"
"Both of you fall short compared to me," Mileena said to the two Earthrealm women. "I have, according to you Earthrealmers, what you would call a double D. I am proud of them too, I might add." She then looked at Naruto and with a sexy voice she said to him, "I know Naruto likes them for sure."
They all heard a loud knock at the door and a voice say out loud from the other side, "Naruto! I know you're in there! It's me, Sakura! Let us in!"
It didn't take a genius to tell that Naruto was frustrated and just overly pissed off at the people from his home village. Mileena looked at him and honestly, in spite of her aggressive tarkatan blood flowing through her, just wanted to give the man a hug and hold him.
Naruto opened the door none to gently and said briskly, "Get in."
Sakura, taken aback by his attitude, slowly walked in. Naruto looked behind her to see if there was anyone else, but clearly they had just sent her. At least for the time being, the rest of them were standing back to gage his reactions.
"Naruto," Sakura began, "How come you haven't gone back home yet?"
"Because I still have a mission to do," Naruto responded to her as he closed the door.
"What mission?" Sakura asked him. "Lady Tsunade never assigned you a mission here in Outworld."
"That's right Sakura," Naruto responded. "She didn't, I took this mission upon myself."
"Why?" Sakura asked him.
"Because it's the right thing to do," Naruto responded to her incredulously, like she should have known that from the beginning. "If you have a choice to something right, then you should take it without hesitation. That's what it did."
"But you need to come back home," Sakura said to him, clasping her hands in front of her she walked a little closer saying, "You need to come back home. You need to come back to me."
Naruto stopped all movement and stared at her. After a few moments, his eyebrows furrowed and his eyes narrowed as he said to her in barely contained anger, "Did you really think that that stupid little line that you probably rehearsed would actually work Sakura? That you could have used my past feelings for you against me?"
Seeing the slightly surprised look on her face only confirmed his thoughts, and, also seeing her crestfallen look, could also see that she really thought that it would work too.
"I absolutely cant fucking believe this," Naruto said to her. "You, my own teammate, actually were trying to use my own feelings towards you as a weapon to convince me to do what you wanted. Fuck. You. There's the door."
"But Naruto, why did you leave us in the first place?!" Sakura said aloud before anything else could be done.
"I already said it once," Naruto said. "And knowing you and your stupid thick headedness, you probably wont even pay any attention. Just like you never paid any attention to me back when we were kids, in the academy, and especially once you really did get Sasuke back. Which was, I might add, due to me bringing him back, and you still to this day have yet to thank me for it. Geez…fuck you Sakura. You used me from day one."
"I'm sorry!" Sakura blurted out.
"No you're not," Naruto said to her, waving his hand in dismissal. "You know what though? You said you wanted to know why I don't want to return to Konoha, right?"
Sakura nodded her head, "Yes, I really do. Its your home."
"Its YOUR home, Sakura!" Naruto yelled at her. "It was my own personal torture chamber! Nevermind that though. You said you wanted to know why, I will GLADLY show you why. Ermac!"
The being comprised of ten thousand souls or more walked up to Naruto and stopped by his side and said to him, "Ermac, are you able to transfer memories and feelings from one person to another?"
"We are able," Ermac said to him.
"Good. I would like you to recover all of my memories, and the feelings that went along with them, and transfer them to Sakura."
Naruto, looking at Sakura and told her, "After you see this, Sakura, you may wanna abandon the village too. Get ready."
Sakura nodded her head, face showing her determination. Ermac place one of his ghastly looking hands on top of Narutos head and his hand glowed a bright green. Ermac's eyes also glowed bright green throughout the duration of the memory absorption. After about a minute, the glowing stopped.
Ermac quickly transferred his hand from Narutos head onto the top of Sakura's head and his hand once again started glowing a bright green. Immediately, Sakura's body stiffened very painfully. She winced a lot, body jerking as if she was having a terrible nightmare in her sleep and could not wake up. Her mouth opened wide in a silent scream several times, and she was trying to breathe, but for some reason had serious trouble getting the air in her lungs. Her eyes opened wide as she fell to her knees, Ermac's hand still on her head, transferring the memories and feelings associated with them all. About a minute later, Ermac's hand, to Sakura's relief, removed itself from her head. Her body fell forward, her hands stopping her fall as she sat there on all fours, shaking uncontrollably from the pain, anger, loneliness, betrayal, and everything else that Naruto had ever felt and experienced until this very moment in time. Sakura began crying silently as she sat on her haunches and hugged herself and rocked back and forth slowly. Despite her hugging herself, she still shook violently.
"Now do you see?" Naruto asked her. "You were lucky, experiencing it like that."
Sakura looked up at him, still shaking and said to him in a light whisper, "H-how…a-am…I l-lucky?"
"You got it all at once, its done and over with," Naruto told her. He looked down at her and said to her, "Imagine all of that dragged out throughout your life, on top of no one ever being there for you. You had your parents and your friends. I had no one. Literally. It wasn't until I was thirteen that Iruka sensei was finally on my side. Yes, you are lucky Sakura. Now you know why I don't want to return to the village."
Sakura could only look ahead blankly. She finally understood what the pain her former teammate had gone through. And, she felt HORRIBLY guilty. All of the times she had dumped him violently? All of the times she, unintentionally or not, had him put his life on the line for her because she was too scared? Asked him to throw his life away to bring back her precious Sasuke? Which, even to this very moment, she still hadn't thanked him for it. She felt terrible.
"I..I-m sor-" Sakura tried to say before Naruto cut her off immediately saying,
"No!" He said abruptly. "I don't want to hear an apology from you that was practically forced. All I ask is that you understand. Which you do now to some degree. Now get the fuck out of here. If any of you want to talk to me, I will only talk to Lady Tsunade. Out of the entire damn village, she was the only one there for me. Get out Sakura. Now."
He turned his back on her and walked towards the center of his wooden house that he had created and sat down. He made a snake hand sign and a small pile of wood formed in the middle of the room. Performing a small fire jutsu, he made another little camp fire similar to the other one he had made earlier before the sneak attack by Ermac, Ferra and Torr. Sakura just stared at him.
Black mask, red scarf. Long sword on the back, sword belt on the chest. Shiny black shoulder pad on his left side with a red cloth hanging from it with the kanji for 'nine' on it. Orange sash and black cargo pants with a large weapons pouch on either leg. Red armored gauntlets with sharpened fingers in the form of a fox claw. Red armored greaves with pointed claws where the toes are. Blue eyes that were once bright, blue, full of life and vigor.
Now dull and damn near lifeless. A complete turn around from the orange loving idiot that she once knew. Was everything that she had known about him a lie? Or a cover up? Or had he really just changed, and everything caught up to him after the war? Sakura couldn't tell. One thing she did know though: as far as she was concerned, the orange loving, ramen loving idiot that once always chased after hand was officially dead, replaced by this man who was haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Sakura shakily stood up and said under her breath, "I'm sorry Naruto."
She turned towards the wooden door and slowly walked out. But before she closed it behind her, she looked up and said to him, "Thank you Naruto. For everything."
His back toward her, he never even bothered to respond as the door closed.
Naruto let out a breath he didn't know he was holding when the door closed. He just stared into the fire, the light from the flames dancing across his face.
Mileena walked up behind him and placed a tender hand on his shoulder and said, "I am sorry for your suffering."
Naruto didn't respond. Continuing to stare in the flames, Jacqui couldn't help but let a tear slide down her face. She quickly wiped it away, not wanting anyone to see. Unfortunately for her, Cassie saw it. Placing a hand on her friends shoulder, Jacqui looked and was surprised to see a few tears come from Cassie as well.
"We gotta help this guy," Jacqui said to her friend and superior.
"I know," Cassie told her. "And we will. We need to get home first and get debriefed though."
Takeda sat down next to Naruto and held out his hand. Naruto, only moving his eyes, looked at the offered hand.
"I don't wanna just be someone you need to escort home, Naruto," Takeda said to him. "If you'll allow it, I would like to be your friend. Truly good people are pretty hard to find these days."
Naruto looked at the hand, unsure of himself. Suddenly, he stood up and walked away.
"Hey!" Takeda said and stood up. He walked to Naruto and said to him, "You know you could have just said no."
"No," Naruto said simply, staring at the wall with his arms crossed. The entire duration, his stare was blank.
Takeda looked at Naruto and got an idea. Taking a few steps back, he put a couple of fingers to his head and concentrated.
He was surprised to hear the thoughts of his blonde escort.
No emotion, no pain…no emotion, no pain…no emotion, no pain…no emotion, no pain…no emotion, no pain…
Lowering his hand, he slowly shook his head at the misfortune his fellow ninja had gone through. He just walked back to his superior and his crush and sat next to them. Kung Jin soon followed.
"Whats up Tak?" Jacqui asked him quietly.
"He's bad," Takeda said to his crush. "Just the same thought, over and over. I don't know what to do."
"I don't either," Cassie said to him quietly. "All we can do for the time being is just to get home and see what we can do from there."
"I agree," Jacqui said.
"Me too," Jin said. "Besides, I think its time for us to get some shut-eye. Goodnight guys."
"'Night," Takeda said to his friend. The two girls simply nodded their heads as they also laid down to rest.
Ermac was sitting next to Mileena who was also laying down, asleep. Ermac looked asleep to Naruto, but he couldn't tell. He honestly didn't care. He just went back to the fire and sat down, on the opposite side of everyone else. Staring at the flames, he let his only real thought burn away as he slowly faded into sleep as well, with one eye always open.
…
"What happened?" Ino asked her friend. Tsunade, Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, Kakashi, Shino, Choji, Hinata, and Hanabi stared at her in earnest. Sakura just looked at her friend sadly, tears beginning to well up in her eyes, even after crying all the way back to their hiding area. She thought she was done crying, apparently she wasn't.
"He…" Sakura tried to get out, but then she just started to bawl like a baby then. Ino held her close and began rubbing her back, whispering comforting words to her best friend. "What happened Sakura?" she asked her.
"He…he showed me," Sakura told her. "I saw it…I felt it!"
"Felt what, Sakura?" Choji asked her.
"EVERYTHING!" Sakura suddenly burst out. "I FELT EVERYTHING! AND I CAUSED A HUGE PORTION OF IT! HIS PAIN….OOHHH GOD!" Sakura fell to her knees and cried in her hands uncontrollably.
Tsunade walked up to her student and said to her, "Sakura, what do you mean, he showed it to you?"
"He, he had some…some weird person come up and transfer his memories and feelings to me," she explained to her master. "From the moment of his birth, from his early childhood years, throughout his teen years, through the war…EVERYTHING! I felt it all, Lady Tsunade! Help me, please! Help him! Help Naruto!"
She resumed crying in her hands. Tsunade could only look at Kakashi, who could only share her somber expression. Apparently everything was worse than they thought, far worse.
"So he didn't just choose to abandon the village right off the bat," Tsunade said to the Hokage who had succeeded her.
"No," Kakashi agreed, "But it looks like it had developed into that. Honestly, I cant blame him one bit."
"I cant either," Tsunade told him, "But village rules are village rules. If he does really desert, he will be labeled as a missing nin, and I really don't want that. we need to bring him back."
"I'm sorry," Hanabi said, stepping forward to the two and said to them, "Lord Sixth, why are we even bothering with Naruto? I mean, I know he saved the world and all, but why bother with him if chooses to go off the deep end?"
"How DARE you?!" Tsunade said, snapping. She stood up and smacked Hanabi across the face and pointed at the shocked girl, holding her cheek that was now a beet red.
"YOU LISTEN TO ME HERE YOU LITTLE BRAT BITCH!" Tsunade yelled at Hanabi. "ITS BECAUSE OF SNOBBY LITTLE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO CANT LOOK BEYOND THEIR OWN DAMNED NOSES THAT NARUTO IS THE WAY HE IS NOW! THE ONLY REASON I CALLED OFR YOU IN THIS MISSION IS BECAUSE WE COULD USE TWO BYAKUGAN USERS, SO ONE CAN REST WHILE THE OTHER IS ACTIVE! I SWEAR, HINATA IS THE ONLY DAMNED HYUUGA WORTH A DAMN! NOW YOU WILL GET YOUR DAMNED ATTITUDE STRAIGHT RIGHT NOW, OR YOU WILL SEE EXACTLY WHY I WAS NAMED BOTH SANNIN AND HOKAGE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"
Hanabi visibly and audibly gulped as she slowly nodded her head. She had never seen Lady Tsunade that angry before, and she was a very patient woman. She may have gotten aggravated here and there, but never outright pissed off. The fact that Tsunade acted like that towards her really was a blow to her ego.
"Sometimes I wish I could just burn that damned village," Tsunade said out loud. Narrowing her eyes, she said, "All right that's it! Everyone stand up and lets go!"
As everyone stood up, Kiba asked her, although cautiously, "Where are we going Lady Tsunade?"
Even though she wasn't Hokage anymore, Kiba thought it was best to use her title nonetheless, just to be on the safe side.
"We're going to see Naruto!"
…
A flash of lightning appeared right in front of the wooden house. Raiden turned around and faced the door and walked to it.
But before he could open it, he heard a pop of smoke behind him. He turned around once more to face the possible threat.
What stood before him was a young ninja, clad mostly in black, with a long red scarf, red armored gauntlets with sharpened claws and red armored greaves with sharpened talons, and a long sword on his back.
"Who are you and what do you want?" the person asked Raiden.
"I am Raiden, Protector of Earthrealm," Raiden answered the stranger.
The stranger's eyes widened for a second, and then he said to him, "Raiden, the God of Thunder?"
"That is correct," Raiden responded. "By how do you know me, may I ask?"
"From Mileena," the stranger said to him. Raiden narrowed his eyes and said to the stranger, "You are an ally of Mileena, then you are an enemy to me, and to Earthrealm."
"Hang on a second," the stranger said. "I do not wish to fight you. From my understanding, things were a little different from what they are now. Things have changed, Lord Raiden," the stranger said to him.
"How so?" Raiden asked the stranger. "How do I know you are not a threat to me directly? You are a ninja, deception are your greatest of weapons. I will not be fooled."
"What do I need to do to convince you that I am not a threat to you, Lord Raiden?" the stranger said to him.
The stranger unbuckled his sword strap and threw his weapon at the god's feet. He then lowered his mask, revealing his three whisker marks on each cheek. He also removed his gauntlets with the claws on them and threw those at the gods feet as well, free from all of his weapons aside from the talons on his armored greaves, he kneeled in front of the god of thunder and lowered his head, saying "My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I am originally from a village from the Elemental Nations called Konohagakure no Sato, or Konoha for short. I am also the Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku-"
"The Toad Sage?" Raiden interrupted. "I thought that Jiraiya of the Sannin was the Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku."
Sadly, Naruto said to Raiden, "He was, and he was also my sensei. He was killed by a group known as the Akatsuki. I became the Toad Sage shortly after."
"I do not believe that you are the Toad Sage," Raiden said to Naruto. "Jiraiya of the Sannin could not completely master Sage Mode, and he was an incredible shinobi. I do not believe that a young man such as yourself could master it, let alone attempt it at all!"
Still kneeling, Naruto said to Raiden, "If you will allow me, Lord Raiden, I will demonstrate my Sage Mode Transformation."
Normally, Raiden would not allow someone to become more powerful and over power him, whether they could or not didn't matter. However, this Naruto was calm and collective and respectful the entire duration of the conversation. Narrowing his eyes, he said to him and said to Naruto, "Very well, demonstrate your ability. However, be warned,"
Raiden held up one hand and a huge bolt of lightning struck his hand and Raiden seemed to hold the powerful element in his hand as it transformed into a sporadic ball of barely contained electricity and said, "If you try anything, Naruto Uzumaki, you will not survive."
"I am fully aware of this, Lord Raiden, "Naruto said, sitting down, "And thank you for allowing me this opportunity."
Closing his eyes and remaining completely still, Naruto began to absorb the essence that was nature energy. After about thirty seconds, Raiden could clearly see the oval-shaped orange markings appear around Narutos eyes. Naruto opened them, and the toad-like iris was also clear as day. Naruto slowly stood up, obviously in Sage Mode, and bowed to Raiden, saying, "I hope this is proof enough Lord Raiden. Fugaku-jiji taught me himself."
Raiden, able to see that this twenty year old boy indeed the Toad Sage, was quite surprised at this turn of events. Lowering his hand and disabling the lightning, he said to Naruto, "Very well, Naruto Uzumaki, you have me convinced that you are who you say you are. However, how is the situation changed, as you so claim?"
"Mileena has officially changed," Naruto explained to Raiden. "Not meaning to brag, but I am the one responsible for the change. You see, what happened was…."
Naruto explained what had happened from the moment he was accidentally thrown into his friends portal to the moment they are in now. Raiden, now understanding where this Sage is coming from, says to him, "Ok I understand. But, my priority is the safety and security of Earthrealm. How do I know that this change, having Mileena as Kahnum once more with Kotal Kahn as one of her top advisors, not endanger Earthrealm, or simply go back to what we are in now?"
"We cant," Naruto said. "But whats the point in not trying when you have a shot for peace, for everyone involved?"
"I understand," Raiden said to him. "Now what are you asking me?"
"Actually its quite simple, Lord Raiden," Naruto told the God of Thunder. He once again kneeled and said to him, "I need to eventually face off against Kotal Kahn, and my lightning ability is the only one that I lack full control of. I request that you train me in the art of controlling lightning."
Thinking, Raiden said to Naruto, "And if I did train you in wielding lightning, what would you do with it Naruto Uzumaki?"
Without hesitation, Naruto responded with, "To protect those closest to me and those who cannot defend themselves, Lord Raiden."
Raiden couldn't help but smirk to himself. It was very often that a teacher walked around and found someone who didn't want power for themselves.
Raiden walked to Naruto and said, "Rise, Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto stood in front of the God of Thunder as he said to him, "Naruto, I hereby accept you as my apprentice in wielding lightning. First I need you to show me what you can do as far actually using it."
Naruto nodded and took a few steps back and, performing a few hand signs, created his own version of Kakashi's chidori, it looking like lightning with more of a rasengan shape. Naruto struggled to hold it, but it soon became too much and blew up in his hand, sending Naruto flying back and hitting a tree. Naruto stood up and said out loud, "FUCK that hurt!"
Raiden studied this and immediately found out the problem and told Naruto "Come here Uzumaki."
Naruto slightly limped as he walked to Raiden. Reaching down, a small and gentle stream of electricity came from Raiden's hand and reached Narutos legs, healing him. As he was healing him Raiden explained, "You have the actual creation and maintaining of the lightning correct. The problem is its containment."
"So I'm not holding it correctly or something?" Naruto asked.
Finished healing his apprentice's legs, he said to Naruto, "No. You do not contain lightning, it is impossible."
"What do you mean? I just saw you holding a ball of lighting in your hand a few minutes ago."
"That is what you perceive," Raiden said to him, "But that is not what is actually happening. Tell me, Naruto, what exactly is lightning?"
"Lightning is a form of raw electricity."
"Correct. Now, do you contain electricity Naruto Uzumaki?"
"No, it has to go somewhere or do something, it follows the easiest path."
"That is absolutely correct. So tell me, why are you trying to contain it?" Raiden asked.
"Because it's a jutsu," Naruto answered. "If you let a jutsu go haywire, it will damage the user as well as the target, maybe even more so."
"With other elements, that is true," Raiden agreed. "However, electricity is completely different from the others, as I'm sure you have noticed. You must guide it, allow it to somewhat flow through your body, with the actual electricity that is in your hand or whatever other form it takes as the main source. If you do this, you can wield an untold amount of lightning in the palm of your hand. Watch closely Naruto."
Naruto watched as Raiden opened his hand a ball of lightning suddenly appeared from thin air. As he looked closer though, he could vaguely see small and thin strands of electricity going through Raiden's body.
"Now you do the same Naruto," Raiden directed.
Naruto nodded and performed a few hand signs and a chidori appeared in Narutos hands. Still in Sage Mode, the lightning jutsu was three times as big as normal. Closing his eyes and concentrating, Naruto was able to slowly feel the electricity flow through his arm and back down into the actual jutsu itself. Feeling himself begin to lose control, he gritted his teeth and threw his arm to the side towards the forest, launching the jutsu like a lightning cannon. The lightning jutsu, in mid-flight, took the shape of a giant and narrow arrow head right before it hit a tree (Think of Sasuke's 'Indra's Arrow' attack). The tree exploded into hundred of little pieces, each and every one covered in electricity. As the parts of the tree fell to the ground, little sparks of electricity spread across the ground before vanishing for good.
"Damn," Naruto said. "That was cool."
"Congratulations," Raiden said to Naruto. "You have mastered the basic steps needed in order to wield lightning. The rest is now up to you. You actually had a very good understand of how it worked, you only needed help in that little area of the final step. From now on, it is now your own training that will further your abilities."
Naruto bowed and said, "Thank you so much Lord Raiden."
Just then, the door of the wooden house flew open and Cassie, Jacqui, Takeda, Kung Jin, Ermac, and Mileena came out and were at the ready, weapons and abilities ready to attack whoever the attacker was.
Seeing that it was just Naruto, they calmed down.
"Raiden!" Cassie said, relieved to see that it was just him. She walked up, putting her guns away and said, "What are you doing here?"
"I am here to retrieve you and your team," he said to her, "something your ignorant mother should have done long ago."
Cassie relaxed and said, "Thank you. I don't why she did that, but whatever. When can we go?"
"Right now would be best," Raiden said to her.
"Alright, lets go you guys!" Cassie ordered.
Takeda, Jin, and Jacqui got up to her and Raiden but Jacqui said to Raiden, "Hey Raiden, we need to help Naruto too."
"I am aware," Raiden said to her. "But first we must get you home."
Turning to face Naruto, Raiden said "I will return shortly. For now, stay here."
Naruto nodded his understanding. Raiden raised his hand and in a flash of lightning, Raiden and the Earthrealm team had disappeared.
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A/N: Here you go guys! Lemme know what you all think! How was this chapter? Remember that all comments are appreciated! Until next time, Roku out.