A second round...
'Naruto...NAruto...NARUTO!!!' Naruto heard in his dreams. His dream did not last long when he was woken up by a punch to the face. Naruto opened his left eye because his right one was swollen shut. Sakura and Sasuke were standing over top of him. 'Wake up you idiot! We've got 15 minutes before we have to mean Asuma-sensei!' Sakura was yelling at the top of her lungs. 'Huh...whaa?' Naruto could barley make out any noise, mostly because Sakura's foot was crushing his lungs. 'What's the problem you moron! Get up we can't be late this time or we fail!' Sakura was freaking out until she saw Sasuke pointing at her foot on Naruto's chest. 'Oh...hehe sorry Naruto' Sakura apologized taking her foot of Naruto's chest quickly. 'Ok guys turn around while I get changed' Naruto commanded.
'Make sure you put on pants this time' Sakura commanded back at him. Sasuke began to walk towards the window that they climbed in to wake up Naruto. 'I'll meet you guys there' Sasuke jumped out the window. Sakura chased after him not saying a word. 'Hey you guys wait up!' Naruto yelled while he was hopping around trying to get his pants on. Finally Naruto got dressed and jumped out after his comrades, but something felt wrong. 'Oh well I don't have time to focus on bad things right now' Naruto said to himself as he caught up to Sasuke and Sakura. They got to the meeting place 10 minutes late, to find an angry Asuma. 'What took you three so long?' Asuma's eyebrows were twitching with frustration.
'Sorry Asumi-sensei' Naruto apologized.
'It's ASUMA!'
'Oh...heh...right, sorry' Naruto apologized again with a stupid grin on his face scratching the back of his head.
'Alright, you guys have 10 minutes to find hiding places. I'll be hiding around the woods so you'll have to come chase me. You have till sun-down.'
'Alright! I'm gonna whip your butt worse then I do Kakashi-sensei!' Naruto pointed at Asuma with glowing confidence. 'Heh...yea right' Sasuke corrected Naruto 'this guy is older then Kakashi-sensei, he's probably been a jounin longer then him....he's probably better.' A look of dread came over Naruto's and Sakura's faces. Asuma did some hand seals and smiled, 'You have 10 minutes' Asuma pointed out again as he jumped into the woods.
'Alright what are we going to do? We can't take him on one on one' Sakura told Sasuke and Naruto. 'I say we take him head on! Just like Kakashi-sensei said we should've done to him.' Naruto responded with enthusiasm. 'Doesn't sound like a bad idea, it's not like we have a time limit or repercussions this time around' Sasuke agreed.
'Ok then...we all charge him and take the bells by force' Sakura agreed with Sasuke, even though she thought it was a bad idea. The three of them ran headfirst into the woods, they didn't slow down their pace at all. They needed to find him before he could make a battle plan. Sasuke was slightly worried, they knew nothing of his skills or weaknesses. For all they knew he could be the strongest Jounin in the village. One thing Sasuke did notice was his weapons, where Kakashi-sensei used mostly kuni, this guy had strange looking brass knuckles. They looked like they had spikes on the ends of them. They could be potentially dangerous, and was this guy willing to use them. Sasuke looked at Naruto, he seemed excited. Sakura appeared calm and callous, she was ready for anything. Sasuke looked ahead of him again and saw they were coming into a field. And in the center of that field was Asuma-sensei, hands on his hips waiting for them.
'Go!' Naruto yelled as he charged faster. Unlike Sasuke and Sakura who slowed down when they reached the edge of the field. 'Shit...Naruto wait!' Sasuke yelled 'oh dammit!' Sasuke chased after Naruto. Sakura pulled out four kuni and jumped into a tree ready to give them support.
'Come get some!' Asuma yelled as he got on one knee. Naruto jumped at Asuma foot first. Asuma didn't move, Naruto passed through him as if he were a shadow. Sasuke saw Naruto fly though Asuma and realized it was a shadow genjutsu. 'Shit! He knew what we were doing? Where is he?!' Sasuke thought to himself. Sakura was watching Naruto and Sasuke from the tree branch, wondering what was going on.
'Hi' Asuma smiled squatting next to her on the branch.
'Shhhh....that's actually not Asuma-Sensei, we have to find out where he is and I can't have you giving away my position' Sakura scolded Asuma without even looking at him.
'Oh ok, well I won't tell him where you are ok?' Asuma was still smiling.
'Ok than...' Sakura's head wrenched to her right, where Asuma was sitting. Sakura let out a scream that could be heard throughout the entire forest. Naruto and Sasuke turned and saw Asuma sitting next to Sakura. 'Shit!' they both said simultaneously as they threw two kunis each at the tree branch. 'Sorrygottago' Asuma jumped and disappeared. Naruto and Sasuke looked closely to see if they had hit him, but all they saw was Sakura in a contorted position to dodge all the deadly kunis that were sticking out of the tree.
'You idiot Naruto!' Sakura yelled at Naruto.
'Why just me?' Naruto asked while Sasuke was walking away with a smile on his face and his eyes closed. Naruto was arguing with Sakura about how Sasuke threw kuni as well, Sasuke could hear it. He began to walk towards the woods when he hit what felt like a tree, he looked up and saw a smiling Asuma.
'Miss me?' Asuma asked as he punched Sasuke in the chest making him bowl over Naruto.
'What the!?' Naruto yelled as Sasuke charged Asuma.
'Naruto come on!' Sasuke yelled. Naruto jumped up and followed suit after Sasuke. Sasuke kicked at Asuma's stomach, Asuma blocked the kick with both hands. Naruto jumped over Sasuke's head and punched Asuma in the face. Naruto stopped dead in the air, it felt like punching a brick wall. Naruto yelped in pain as he fell on top of Sasuke, they jumped apart and began to pummel Asuma. Both of them had forgotten about the bells and just wanted to show they could damage this guy. Unfortunately for them they couldn't, every blow felt like punching a solid tree.
'Aren't you guys forgetting about the bells?' Asuma questioned while getting beaten.
'Oh right...the bells!' Naruto yelled as he grabbed for them. Sasuke jumped, spun, and kicked towards Asuma's face. While Sasuke was spinning before his kick, Asuma ducked and grabbed Naruto's arm. Asuma stood up and lifted Naruto in front of his face, Naruto was smiling a huge smile. 'Sasuke I've got the....' BLAM Naruto was kicked in the face by Sasuke's hardest kick. Naruto dropped the bell as he went flying backwards, Asuma quickly punched Sasuke making him fly backwards as well. When it was all over the bell landed softly in Asuma's open hand.
'Better luck next time guys.'
Sakura had just finished pulling the kuni out of her clothes. 'That idiot Naruto got all the kuni stuck in my clothes pinning me to the tree!' Sakura was severely pissed off. She looked where the fighting was going on, and saw Sasuke and naruto laying on the ground about 30 feet apart from each other. Both of them were on their backs looking at the sky. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Asuma running into the woods. She threw kuni after kuni at him, trying to hit him before he hit the woods. Asuma threw a kuni for ever kuni Sakura threw, then threw 5 more pinning Sakura to the tree yet again. The Kuni were dug so far into the tree that Sakura had to spend about 30 minutes pulling them out. After she got the last one she jumped down to Sasuke and Naruto who were still laying face up. She landed next to Sasuke 'Does it still hurt?' Sakura kissed his forehead and helped him up.
'What about me?' Naruto mumbled as he got up by himself.
'Shut up Naruto and get up and help Sasuke!' Sakura yelled at Naruto.
'Get off of me!' Sasuke pushed Sakura off of him and ran into the woods after Asuma.
'I guess he thinks we should split up' Naruto said as he walked up next to Sakura who was standing speechless staring at Sasuke run away. Sasuke was running through the woods looking for good places to set traps. 'A snare trap here, a trip wire there, a kuni trap here...with an extra trip wire...and one last snare right next to the trip wire, with a kuni trap to hit the person who steps into the snare trap' Sasuke was ready to lead his prey into the trap. Sakura had run off on her own, she needed to sneak up on this guy. She would never be able to take him head on. She saw him standing next to a tree she was about to jump to, she quickly jumped into a bush as quietly as possible.
'I can see you ya know?' Asuma smiled while staring at the bush she was hiding in. Two kuni flew out of the bush headed for Asuma. 'You've got pretty good Aim, better take that away from you' Asuma caught both kuni, tossed them to the side and began to do some hand seals. Sakura was watching him closely. 'It's not a ninjutsu, it has to be a genjutsu...but what?' Sakura could see the seals closely. Uma (Horse), Nezumi (Rat), Inu (Dog), Uma (Horse) again, O-hitsuji (Ram), Tora (Tiger), and one she didn't recognize. 'What's he doing!?' Sakura jumped out of the bush and began her retreat.
'Not yet you don't!' Asuma pushed his hands forward and Sakura felt something hit her in the back. When she opened her eyes everything was upside-down. 'What's going on?' Sakura whispered to herself.
'Let's just call it my upside-down attack shall we?' Asuma laughed 'Hope you can enjoy it, its gonna last 24 hours.' Asuma jumped away, Sakura decided she was done for the day. The last thing she saw before she closed her eyes was Sasuke jumping after Asuma.
Sasuke was close behind Asuma, 'He's slower then Kakashi-sensei...I can use this to my advantage.' Sasuke decided to do a suicide attack, he threw a kuni past Asuma and cut a trip wire. About 10 kuni flew right in front of Asuma making him stop, Asuma let out a sigh of relief, 'That would've taken my face off.' Asuma decided he would let Sasuke take another shot at him, 'ya know it's not gonna hurt me anyway right?'
'Sure...' Sasuke answered as he flew shoulder first into Asuma. The force of Sasuke's tackle pushed Asuma and Sasuke off the branch and into a trap Sasuke had set. The four corners of the new flew up catching both Sasuke and Asuma in the net.
'Not bad kid, now what?' Asuma asked being squished up against Sasuke and the net.
'I get your bells' Sasuke could maneuver easier then Asuma and grabbed his bells.
'Awwww...dammit kid, I guess you got me' Asuma frowned. Sasuke grabbed the bells and smiled in Asuma's face.
'Guess you're not as good as Kakashi-sensei huh?'
'Guess not kid...' suddenly Asuma and the bells in Sasuke's hand disappeared in a puff of smoke. A distorted look came over Sasuke's face, who was now stuck in the net by himself 'DAMMIT!!' Sasuke yelled. Sasuke quickly cut himself out of the net and ran off into the woods yet again.
Naruto was running around the woods randomly, hoping he would be able to get the slip on Asuma-sensei. Naruto came upon Sakura laying in a bush with her eyes shut 'Hey sorry kid, didn't think she'd....'Naruto threw two kuni at the voice behind him without looking.
'Shit!' he heard the voice call as he heard flesh tear. Naruto turned around and punched as hard as he could hitting only thin air. Naruto was furious, 'How dare you do that to my friends! You're finished!' Naruto's vision was beginning to turn red 'how could he do that to sakura? She's knocked out! Even Kakashi-sensei wouldn't do that to her!' Asuma knew he was at less of an advantage. 'My genjutsu that forced my brain to not feel pain was overwhelmed when that blond kid threw his kuni into my leg' Asuma thought to himself. 'I've got no choice but to take him head on, hopefully I can subdue him in enough time to finish off the Uchiha boy' Asuma knew what he had to do. Naruto jumped out of the woods and flew at Asuma, there looked like there was very little rational thought in his eyes. Asuma viewed the situation and understood the circumstances, Naruto's normal chakra was running low and the 9-tails chakra was beginning to take over. If all of Naruto's chakra was lost the 9-tails would take over, that could be potentially lethal to everybody.
'Alright kid, let's go!' Asuma yelled as he charged Naruto head on.
'Give it up kid, your low on stamina' Asuma punched at Naruto, Asuma had to get him to quit before he went insane.
'Shut-up!' Naruto wasn't even listening. Naruto punched at Asuma, Asuma sidestepped and kicked Naruto's feet out from under him. 'Listen kid, calm down!' Asuma demanded. 'D...i...e...' Naruto blurted out before three shadow clones jumped onto Asuma's back. One grabbed onto Asuma's ankles, and one on each arm. Naruto got up and punched Asuma so hard the clones disappeared in a puff of smoke. Asuma flew into a nearby tree, cracking the trunk, Asuma had to fight to stay conscious. Naruto had calmed down and was back to his normal self, 'Thank god' Asuma thought. Sasuke ran into the field where Naruto and Asuma were. Sasuke was surprised to see that Naruto had gotten a shot off on Asuma, but he didn't have time to dwell on it. Sasuke and Naruto charged Asuma and began to attack.
Asuma could block Naruto easily, he was tired and low on chakra. Sasuke was different, he hadn't expelled as much energy and was almost full of chakra. 'Naruto now!' Sasuke yelled Naruto did his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and about 50 Naruto's appeared. Every single one took a single shot at Asuma one at a time. Asuma needed to focus all of his attention on the shadow clones or he would be pummeled. Sasuke took this opportunity, he made a couple of hand seals and committed to his Karyuu Endan. Fire shot out of his mouth headed right for Asuma's back, Asuma grabbed onto one of the Naruto's fists and turned around.
'Not again!' the naruto yelled as the fire hit him full force. The rest of the Naruto's disappeared while the real Naruto got toasted. From above two kuni embedded themselves into the back of Asuma's legs. He was taken to his knees from the shock that gave Sasuke and the now blackened Naruto enough time to punch Asuma in the face at the same time. Asuma fell right on his back, Naruto jumped up and down in victory while Sasuke walked up to Asuma and took his bells. Sakura jumped out of a tree and landed uneasily next to Sasuke, she leaned on him half from exhaustion and half because she just wanted to touch him.
'We did it, you lose' Sasuke said with a smirk on his face directed toward Asuma. Naruto was still jumping around in excitement. Asuma stood up uneasily, made a couple of hand seals, suddenly the sky turned black.
'What the?' Naruto looked up at the night sky. Sakura fell off of Sasuke to the ground on her knees. Sasuke looked at Asuma with an angry look on his face 'What did you do? Fast-forward time? So you could win!?'
'Hahahahaha....hardly....sorry kid but I'm not that good' Asuma pulled the kuni out of the back of his legs as he stood up. Sakura knew what had happened 'remember when he made hand seals before we left?'
'Ya and?' Naruto butted in.
'Haha...alright I'll tell you kids. Those hand seals were a genjutsu, a very powerful genjutsu. It allows me to fool anybody in my eyesight. I can make them feel as though time had stopped, ever notice why you didn't get hungry? Or why the sun had never moved? We have actually been out here for long past the time limit...it's about midnight' Asuma explained. Suddenly Naruto's stomach began to cramp horribly as if he hadn't eaten all day. 'You kids did very well...you did manage to get the bells despite my best efforts...but I still win' Asuma smiled. Now let's get back, since I denied you food all day I will buy you as much as you want!'
'Alright I'll forgive you this time! As long as you feed me well!' Naruto yelled with excitement. As the group walked into the moonlight a sigh of relief came from all of them...
'Naruto...NAruto...NARUTO!!!' Naruto heard in his dreams. His dream did not last long when he was woken up by a punch to the face. Naruto opened his left eye because his right one was swollen shut. Sakura and Sasuke were standing over top of him. 'Wake up you idiot! We've got 15 minutes before we have to mean Asuma-sensei!' Sakura was yelling at the top of her lungs. 'Huh...whaa?' Naruto could barley make out any noise, mostly because Sakura's foot was crushing his lungs. 'What's the problem you moron! Get up we can't be late this time or we fail!' Sakura was freaking out until she saw Sasuke pointing at her foot on Naruto's chest. 'Oh...hehe sorry Naruto' Sakura apologized taking her foot of Naruto's chest quickly. 'Ok guys turn around while I get changed' Naruto commanded.
'Make sure you put on pants this time' Sakura commanded back at him. Sasuke began to walk towards the window that they climbed in to wake up Naruto. 'I'll meet you guys there' Sasuke jumped out the window. Sakura chased after him not saying a word. 'Hey you guys wait up!' Naruto yelled while he was hopping around trying to get his pants on. Finally Naruto got dressed and jumped out after his comrades, but something felt wrong. 'Oh well I don't have time to focus on bad things right now' Naruto said to himself as he caught up to Sasuke and Sakura. They got to the meeting place 10 minutes late, to find an angry Asuma. 'What took you three so long?' Asuma's eyebrows were twitching with frustration.
'Sorry Asumi-sensei' Naruto apologized.
'It's ASUMA!'
'Oh...heh...right, sorry' Naruto apologized again with a stupid grin on his face scratching the back of his head.
'Alright, you guys have 10 minutes to find hiding places. I'll be hiding around the woods so you'll have to come chase me. You have till sun-down.'
'Alright! I'm gonna whip your butt worse then I do Kakashi-sensei!' Naruto pointed at Asuma with glowing confidence. 'Heh...yea right' Sasuke corrected Naruto 'this guy is older then Kakashi-sensei, he's probably been a jounin longer then him....he's probably better.' A look of dread came over Naruto's and Sakura's faces. Asuma did some hand seals and smiled, 'You have 10 minutes' Asuma pointed out again as he jumped into the woods.
'Alright what are we going to do? We can't take him on one on one' Sakura told Sasuke and Naruto. 'I say we take him head on! Just like Kakashi-sensei said we should've done to him.' Naruto responded with enthusiasm. 'Doesn't sound like a bad idea, it's not like we have a time limit or repercussions this time around' Sasuke agreed.
'Ok then...we all charge him and take the bells by force' Sakura agreed with Sasuke, even though she thought it was a bad idea. The three of them ran headfirst into the woods, they didn't slow down their pace at all. They needed to find him before he could make a battle plan. Sasuke was slightly worried, they knew nothing of his skills or weaknesses. For all they knew he could be the strongest Jounin in the village. One thing Sasuke did notice was his weapons, where Kakashi-sensei used mostly kuni, this guy had strange looking brass knuckles. They looked like they had spikes on the ends of them. They could be potentially dangerous, and was this guy willing to use them. Sasuke looked at Naruto, he seemed excited. Sakura appeared calm and callous, she was ready for anything. Sasuke looked ahead of him again and saw they were coming into a field. And in the center of that field was Asuma-sensei, hands on his hips waiting for them.
'Go!' Naruto yelled as he charged faster. Unlike Sasuke and Sakura who slowed down when they reached the edge of the field. 'Shit...Naruto wait!' Sasuke yelled 'oh dammit!' Sasuke chased after Naruto. Sakura pulled out four kuni and jumped into a tree ready to give them support.
'Come get some!' Asuma yelled as he got on one knee. Naruto jumped at Asuma foot first. Asuma didn't move, Naruto passed through him as if he were a shadow. Sasuke saw Naruto fly though Asuma and realized it was a shadow genjutsu. 'Shit! He knew what we were doing? Where is he?!' Sasuke thought to himself. Sakura was watching Naruto and Sasuke from the tree branch, wondering what was going on.
'Hi' Asuma smiled squatting next to her on the branch.
'Shhhh....that's actually not Asuma-Sensei, we have to find out where he is and I can't have you giving away my position' Sakura scolded Asuma without even looking at him.
'Oh ok, well I won't tell him where you are ok?' Asuma was still smiling.
'Ok than...' Sakura's head wrenched to her right, where Asuma was sitting. Sakura let out a scream that could be heard throughout the entire forest. Naruto and Sasuke turned and saw Asuma sitting next to Sakura. 'Shit!' they both said simultaneously as they threw two kunis each at the tree branch. 'Sorrygottago' Asuma jumped and disappeared. Naruto and Sasuke looked closely to see if they had hit him, but all they saw was Sakura in a contorted position to dodge all the deadly kunis that were sticking out of the tree.
'You idiot Naruto!' Sakura yelled at Naruto.
'Why just me?' Naruto asked while Sasuke was walking away with a smile on his face and his eyes closed. Naruto was arguing with Sakura about how Sasuke threw kuni as well, Sasuke could hear it. He began to walk towards the woods when he hit what felt like a tree, he looked up and saw a smiling Asuma.
'Miss me?' Asuma asked as he punched Sasuke in the chest making him bowl over Naruto.
'What the!?' Naruto yelled as Sasuke charged Asuma.
'Naruto come on!' Sasuke yelled. Naruto jumped up and followed suit after Sasuke. Sasuke kicked at Asuma's stomach, Asuma blocked the kick with both hands. Naruto jumped over Sasuke's head and punched Asuma in the face. Naruto stopped dead in the air, it felt like punching a brick wall. Naruto yelped in pain as he fell on top of Sasuke, they jumped apart and began to pummel Asuma. Both of them had forgotten about the bells and just wanted to show they could damage this guy. Unfortunately for them they couldn't, every blow felt like punching a solid tree.
'Aren't you guys forgetting about the bells?' Asuma questioned while getting beaten.
'Oh right...the bells!' Naruto yelled as he grabbed for them. Sasuke jumped, spun, and kicked towards Asuma's face. While Sasuke was spinning before his kick, Asuma ducked and grabbed Naruto's arm. Asuma stood up and lifted Naruto in front of his face, Naruto was smiling a huge smile. 'Sasuke I've got the....' BLAM Naruto was kicked in the face by Sasuke's hardest kick. Naruto dropped the bell as he went flying backwards, Asuma quickly punched Sasuke making him fly backwards as well. When it was all over the bell landed softly in Asuma's open hand.
'Better luck next time guys.'
Sakura had just finished pulling the kuni out of her clothes. 'That idiot Naruto got all the kuni stuck in my clothes pinning me to the tree!' Sakura was severely pissed off. She looked where the fighting was going on, and saw Sasuke and naruto laying on the ground about 30 feet apart from each other. Both of them were on their backs looking at the sky. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Asuma running into the woods. She threw kuni after kuni at him, trying to hit him before he hit the woods. Asuma threw a kuni for ever kuni Sakura threw, then threw 5 more pinning Sakura to the tree yet again. The Kuni were dug so far into the tree that Sakura had to spend about 30 minutes pulling them out. After she got the last one she jumped down to Sasuke and Naruto who were still laying face up. She landed next to Sasuke 'Does it still hurt?' Sakura kissed his forehead and helped him up.
'What about me?' Naruto mumbled as he got up by himself.
'Shut up Naruto and get up and help Sasuke!' Sakura yelled at Naruto.
'Get off of me!' Sasuke pushed Sakura off of him and ran into the woods after Asuma.
'I guess he thinks we should split up' Naruto said as he walked up next to Sakura who was standing speechless staring at Sasuke run away. Sasuke was running through the woods looking for good places to set traps. 'A snare trap here, a trip wire there, a kuni trap here...with an extra trip wire...and one last snare right next to the trip wire, with a kuni trap to hit the person who steps into the snare trap' Sasuke was ready to lead his prey into the trap. Sakura had run off on her own, she needed to sneak up on this guy. She would never be able to take him head on. She saw him standing next to a tree she was about to jump to, she quickly jumped into a bush as quietly as possible.
'I can see you ya know?' Asuma smiled while staring at the bush she was hiding in. Two kuni flew out of the bush headed for Asuma. 'You've got pretty good Aim, better take that away from you' Asuma caught both kuni, tossed them to the side and began to do some hand seals. Sakura was watching him closely. 'It's not a ninjutsu, it has to be a genjutsu...but what?' Sakura could see the seals closely. Uma (Horse), Nezumi (Rat), Inu (Dog), Uma (Horse) again, O-hitsuji (Ram), Tora (Tiger), and one she didn't recognize. 'What's he doing!?' Sakura jumped out of the bush and began her retreat.
'Not yet you don't!' Asuma pushed his hands forward and Sakura felt something hit her in the back. When she opened her eyes everything was upside-down. 'What's going on?' Sakura whispered to herself.
'Let's just call it my upside-down attack shall we?' Asuma laughed 'Hope you can enjoy it, its gonna last 24 hours.' Asuma jumped away, Sakura decided she was done for the day. The last thing she saw before she closed her eyes was Sasuke jumping after Asuma.
Sasuke was close behind Asuma, 'He's slower then Kakashi-sensei...I can use this to my advantage.' Sasuke decided to do a suicide attack, he threw a kuni past Asuma and cut a trip wire. About 10 kuni flew right in front of Asuma making him stop, Asuma let out a sigh of relief, 'That would've taken my face off.' Asuma decided he would let Sasuke take another shot at him, 'ya know it's not gonna hurt me anyway right?'
'Sure...' Sasuke answered as he flew shoulder first into Asuma. The force of Sasuke's tackle pushed Asuma and Sasuke off the branch and into a trap Sasuke had set. The four corners of the new flew up catching both Sasuke and Asuma in the net.
'Not bad kid, now what?' Asuma asked being squished up against Sasuke and the net.
'I get your bells' Sasuke could maneuver easier then Asuma and grabbed his bells.
'Awwww...dammit kid, I guess you got me' Asuma frowned. Sasuke grabbed the bells and smiled in Asuma's face.
'Guess you're not as good as Kakashi-sensei huh?'
'Guess not kid...' suddenly Asuma and the bells in Sasuke's hand disappeared in a puff of smoke. A distorted look came over Sasuke's face, who was now stuck in the net by himself 'DAMMIT!!' Sasuke yelled. Sasuke quickly cut himself out of the net and ran off into the woods yet again.
Naruto was running around the woods randomly, hoping he would be able to get the slip on Asuma-sensei. Naruto came upon Sakura laying in a bush with her eyes shut 'Hey sorry kid, didn't think she'd....'Naruto threw two kuni at the voice behind him without looking.
'Shit!' he heard the voice call as he heard flesh tear. Naruto turned around and punched as hard as he could hitting only thin air. Naruto was furious, 'How dare you do that to my friends! You're finished!' Naruto's vision was beginning to turn red 'how could he do that to sakura? She's knocked out! Even Kakashi-sensei wouldn't do that to her!' Asuma knew he was at less of an advantage. 'My genjutsu that forced my brain to not feel pain was overwhelmed when that blond kid threw his kuni into my leg' Asuma thought to himself. 'I've got no choice but to take him head on, hopefully I can subdue him in enough time to finish off the Uchiha boy' Asuma knew what he had to do. Naruto jumped out of the woods and flew at Asuma, there looked like there was very little rational thought in his eyes. Asuma viewed the situation and understood the circumstances, Naruto's normal chakra was running low and the 9-tails chakra was beginning to take over. If all of Naruto's chakra was lost the 9-tails would take over, that could be potentially lethal to everybody.
'Alright kid, let's go!' Asuma yelled as he charged Naruto head on.
'Give it up kid, your low on stamina' Asuma punched at Naruto, Asuma had to get him to quit before he went insane.
'Shut-up!' Naruto wasn't even listening. Naruto punched at Asuma, Asuma sidestepped and kicked Naruto's feet out from under him. 'Listen kid, calm down!' Asuma demanded. 'D...i...e...' Naruto blurted out before three shadow clones jumped onto Asuma's back. One grabbed onto Asuma's ankles, and one on each arm. Naruto got up and punched Asuma so hard the clones disappeared in a puff of smoke. Asuma flew into a nearby tree, cracking the trunk, Asuma had to fight to stay conscious. Naruto had calmed down and was back to his normal self, 'Thank god' Asuma thought. Sasuke ran into the field where Naruto and Asuma were. Sasuke was surprised to see that Naruto had gotten a shot off on Asuma, but he didn't have time to dwell on it. Sasuke and Naruto charged Asuma and began to attack.
Asuma could block Naruto easily, he was tired and low on chakra. Sasuke was different, he hadn't expelled as much energy and was almost full of chakra. 'Naruto now!' Sasuke yelled Naruto did his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and about 50 Naruto's appeared. Every single one took a single shot at Asuma one at a time. Asuma needed to focus all of his attention on the shadow clones or he would be pummeled. Sasuke took this opportunity, he made a couple of hand seals and committed to his Karyuu Endan. Fire shot out of his mouth headed right for Asuma's back, Asuma grabbed onto one of the Naruto's fists and turned around.
'Not again!' the naruto yelled as the fire hit him full force. The rest of the Naruto's disappeared while the real Naruto got toasted. From above two kuni embedded themselves into the back of Asuma's legs. He was taken to his knees from the shock that gave Sasuke and the now blackened Naruto enough time to punch Asuma in the face at the same time. Asuma fell right on his back, Naruto jumped up and down in victory while Sasuke walked up to Asuma and took his bells. Sakura jumped out of a tree and landed uneasily next to Sasuke, she leaned on him half from exhaustion and half because she just wanted to touch him.
'We did it, you lose' Sasuke said with a smirk on his face directed toward Asuma. Naruto was still jumping around in excitement. Asuma stood up uneasily, made a couple of hand seals, suddenly the sky turned black.
'What the?' Naruto looked up at the night sky. Sakura fell off of Sasuke to the ground on her knees. Sasuke looked at Asuma with an angry look on his face 'What did you do? Fast-forward time? So you could win!?'
'Hahahahaha....hardly....sorry kid but I'm not that good' Asuma pulled the kuni out of the back of his legs as he stood up. Sakura knew what had happened 'remember when he made hand seals before we left?'
'Ya and?' Naruto butted in.
'Haha...alright I'll tell you kids. Those hand seals were a genjutsu, a very powerful genjutsu. It allows me to fool anybody in my eyesight. I can make them feel as though time had stopped, ever notice why you didn't get hungry? Or why the sun had never moved? We have actually been out here for long past the time limit...it's about midnight' Asuma explained. Suddenly Naruto's stomach began to cramp horribly as if he hadn't eaten all day. 'You kids did very well...you did manage to get the bells despite my best efforts...but I still win' Asuma smiled. Now let's get back, since I denied you food all day I will buy you as much as you want!'
'Alright I'll forgive you this time! As long as you feed me well!' Naruto yelled with excitement. As the group walked into the moonlight a sigh of relief came from all of them...