Sorry for the late update...lost my will to update when ffnet removed my penname and all my stories.../sobs/ why! My computer crashed a while ago and I had lost my stories...so I was taking them out of ff and putting them in my group...but I didn't have enough time...oh my stories...all of them...every single one of them.../cries/
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Tsunade panted slightly as Naruto stood up, grabbing his side.
"Brat...one week already...is that the best you can do? If that is the best...than Sasuke is going to pass you and beat you...do you want that?" asked Tsunade. Naruto growled.
"I will beat him Tsunade...I did once before" he said as he dashed towards her again. /Naruto...you should stop...or you will just interfere with his battle/ thought Tsunade as she dodged the attack and punched Naruto, sending him against a few trees.
"Oops...I think I didn't measure my strength" she said with a sweatdrop.
"Uh...Naruto?"
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Jiraiya side stepped, causing Sasuke to fall.
"Boy...rest for a few hours...you've been training nearly non-stop all week and that will just deteriorate your body and will not make you stronger. You want to get stronger don't you? You want to kill your brother? Well you need to be in top shape...not some tired out brat who won't last five minutes" Jiraiya said. Sasuke's eye twitch.
"It's not only Itachi Jiraiya-sama...but the fact that Naruto is so dead set on fighting me at the same time...I have no idea why" Sasuke said as he sat down to take a break. /Knowing Naruto...he probably knows already...maybe that's why he chose the same date.../ thought Jiraiya.
"While you shower...eat and rest...I'll go see The Hokage and tell her of the improvement...whether you feel the improvement or not...I've seen it" Jiraiya said as he disappeared. Sasuke sighed.
"Why Naruto...why fight...and at this time?" asked Sasuke to himself.
"Talking to yourself usually means that you're insane" Neji said as he and Hinata walked into the clearing.
"Che" mumbled Sasuke.
"Sasuke-san...you need to rest...otherwise you won't stand a chance against us" Hinata said. Sasuke perked up his ears and lifted his head to look at them. Hinata smiled and nodded while Neji crossed his arms.
"I will not fight some loser who doesn't even know his limits" Neji stated. Sasuke rolled his eyes as he stood up.
"I know already..." he muttered as he walked into the small cabin to shower and take a quick bite to eat. Neji shook his head.
"To what extremes these two are going....just to prove themselves" Neji said. Hinata shook her head and smiled.
"There's more to it than what either is trying to say...." Hinata mentioned. Neji looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"You'll see Neji-niisama..." she said. Neji just shrugged.
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Jiraiya sweatdropped as he saw Tsunade fanning an unconscious Naruto.
"Let me guess...you forgot to measure your strength?" asked Jiraiya. Tsunade glared at Jiraiya.
"Instead of standing there...help me get him to his apartment" Tsunade said. Jiraiya sighed.
"I now see what Shikamaru says...women really are troublesome" Jiraiya said, only to receive a bump upside his head.
"You two are noisy" mumbled Naruto as he sat up.
"Oh you're alright" Tsunade said as Jiraiya nursed his wounds.
"Yeah...that's not gonna kill me old hag...I'm sure you can do better than that" Naruto said with a smirk as he stood up. Tsunade's vein throbbed as she raised her sleeve.
"Is that so?" asked Tsunade. Jiraiya sweatdropped and shook his head.
"Hokage...don't you have some business to attend to? I can continue training him" Jiraiya said. Tsunade crossed her arms and turned around, walking away.
"You lucky he showed up brat..." muttered Tsunade as she left. Naruto sighed.
"Man that was one hell of a punch" he said as he cracked his neck and stretched out.
"Well you asked for it" Jiraiya stated as he leaned against a tree. Naruto shrugged.
"If you're here to lecture then I can train alone" Naruto commented. Jiraiya shook his head.
"You're an idiot...just be glad I'm taking time to train you brat" Jiraiya said. Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Then lets go ero-sennin" Naruto said with a smirk. Jiraiya's eye twitched at the old nickname.
"You'll pay for that brat" he said as he took an offensive stance.
"We'll see" Naruto taunted as he dashed towards Jiraiya.
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"Shikamaru!!!!" shouted Ino into Shikamaru's ear. Shikamaru sat up and glared at his fiancée.
"What..." he said as he rubbed his ear.
"For Kami's sake...your dad is looking for you...he knew you would be here hiding" Ino said. Shikamaru sighed as he stood up.
"Women and family are troublesome" he muttered. Ino glared at him and whacked him upside the head.
"If 'women' are so troublesome...then why did you proposed to me!" shouted Ino as she gave him the ring and walked away. Shikamaru sighed.
"My Shikamaru...your laziness beats my own" his father said. Shikamaru glared at him, clenching his fist with the ring inside.
"Fix it...then come home to train...you have a special mission...and I'm going to help you train for it..." he said. Shikamaru sighed and nodded, then ran in search for Ino, who was surprisingly fast in running.
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"Iruka...are you listening?" asked Kakashi worried. Iruka snapped out of his trance and looked at Kakashi, who just sighed.
"Sorry...it's just...that this whole thing with Naruto, Sasuke and Itachi is just a big mess" he said. Kakashi stood up from his chair and walked around the table, sitting next to Iruka and pulling him into a hug.
"Listen dolphin...I'm training them both...you know how everyone is trying to help the two get back together. All of their friends are training hard to help them, in both their battle and the battle against Itachi" Kakashi said.
"I know...but I can't help but worry about Naruto...you know how he gets when he's hurt...and I know he has something up his sleeve...but won't tell me...almost as if he didn't trust me enough" Iruka said sadly.
"He trusts you more than anyone else...even more than me Iruka. He's training, and when he's training nothing else matters. Maybe he does have something up his sleeve...but if he exposes it...it might screw things up even worse" Kakashi said. Iruka sighed as leaned into Kakashi's embrace.
"I just hope they know what they're doing..." Iruka said. Kakashi lifted Iruka's chin and pulled down his mask, placing a soft kiss over Iruka's lip.
"They're doing the right thing...in their own way" he said. Iruka smiled as he kissed Kakashi.
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Kisame breathed heavily as he stared at Itachi, whose sharingan had activated.
"That new eye...is really something...I can't even get near you" Kisame said. Itachi brushed the bangs out of his face, exposing his new sharingan eye.
"We will see if it's as good as it is...once I kill my brother...I can take the kyuubi and finally have that power that will measure my capacitance" Itachi said. Kisame smirked.
"And if he wins?" asked Kisame.
"Then I die...I'm not going to lose and live. It's a live or die situation" Itachi said as he sheathed his katana. Kisame chuckled.
"So you'll commit hara kiri if he doesn't kill you...that's too much honor Itachi...something you usually don't have" Kisame commented. Itachi stared at Kisame with his cold eyes and Kisame understood the joke was not funny. Itachi walked past Kisame, heading into the small lodge they were staying in for the time being.
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And the chapter is finally done. Enjoy minna while I cry some more over my lost fictions.
I would like to thank all my faithful readers. I'm sorry I am not responding to your reviews...cuz I don't have them /cries/ thank you for sticking by though. Arigato gazaimasu!