Growing Up
Chapter 16
Yondaime and Kakashi
"He won't," Naruto's fist curled slowly as his arm shook with anger. The battle with Sasuke still fresh in his mind, the fear and pain as the Kyuubi took over still sent shudders down his spine. The anger, the power the Kyuubi filled his body with. He wasn't himself during that battle, Naruto was gone, the Kyuubi was there in his place.
"He will, Sasuke will obtain the Mangekyou," Kakashi's head fell slowly as he looked away from his former student. His hand rose to scratch the back of his head lightly.
"Your wrong, if Sasuke comes back, he will die. Kyuubi will kill him! Kyuubi almost killed him last time, this time will be no different,"
"Exactly, Kyuubi will almost kill him,"
"If he kills me though, it proves you wrong. If I die, then we are not the Sannin!"
"Sasuke won't kill you Naruto, you will live, but your spirit and soul will die. That's all he needs,"
"Still, the Sannin were taught by a Hokage, your not a Hokage!"
"I'm sorry Naruto, but your wrong. If anything happens to Tsunade-sama, death or retirement, I will be the only choice left to take the position. In time, I will be a Hokage,"
"How do you know all this? Huh?" Naruto's stance took to a wide offensive one, feet planted for apart as his eyebrows grew close together. If possible, he would have grown his own fangs as his blood boiled. "What gives you the right to decide our fate!"
Leaping forward, Naruto's fist drove deep into Kakashi's stomach. His eye widening in sudden shock and pain, Kakashi coughing. Losing his balance as he fell back slowly. Naruto's shoulder met Kakashi's stomach, tackling him to the ground. Tightly balled fist rose and fell, smashing it's bulging knuckles into Kakashi's face.
"I will be Hokage one day! Sasuke is going to pay and I will make it my life's purpose to kill him! We are not the Sannin! You hear me!" Blood trickled down Naruto's knuckles as again and again, his fist drove into Kakashi's face. Coughing and heaving, blood stained his mask.
This wasn't right, something was wrong. Naruto wasn't this strong! The Kyuubi's chakra wasn't there, there was no sense or the demon's power. As another fist began to fall, Kakashi's hand rose, grabbing Naruto's wrip, he shoved the small boy off of himself. Crawling to his feet slowly as Naruto skidded to a crouch as he rolled along the roof.
"My destiny is my own! You know nothing, Hatake! Your theories and stupid and meaningless!" Naruto panted softly as he stood up, his eyes burning with anger as he watched his sensei wipe the blood from his eye.
"Hatake? What gives you the right to call me Hatake, Naruto?"
"What gives you the right, to decide the future? What makes you think whatever you believe is right? Tell me, Hatake-kun," As Naruto stood upright, his eyes shone. Placing his hand on his hip and he smirked lightly, his eyebrows furrowed as he looked to Kakashi with a confident smirk.
"Hatake-kun?" Kakashi stood, unmoving as he drew silent. A heavy wind picked up over Konoha as Kakashi watched his student in silence. As the wind blew and caught Naruto's hair and gaze, he was gone.
Naruto no longer stood before his master as the flowing blonde hair and wide cape of Yondaime The Fourth Hokage stood before his pupil. Kakashi's body shook as Yondaime lowered his head, shaking it lightly as he sighed.
"Answer me Hatake-kun? What gives you the right to decide the future?"
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"You'll never make a good ninja Gekkyo, quit now," Hatake chuckled lightly as he stood beside the wooden log which held Gekkyo, his best friend. "We've done this what, three times now? Every time Yondaime-sensei catches you cheating. You'll never be a ninja,"
"I will, you see. I'll even be a Jounin one day," Gekkyo yelled his he nudged his goggles over his eyes by crinkling his nose.
"Come on Gekkyo, we all know, only Motoko and I have a real chance ad Jounin," Hatake smiled as he chuckled lightly, rubbing his knuckles roughly over Gekkyo's defenseless head.
"I don't know about that. What gives you the right to decide the future? What makes you think everything you believe is right? Well, Hatake-kun?"
Gasping quickly as Hatake turned, he saw Yondaime-sensei and Motoko, standing side by side. Yondaime-sensei smiling face, staring down upon him. His hand on his hip as his cape blew lightly in the wind, "Well, Hatake-kun?"
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"Yondaime-sensei?" Kakashi's breath grew short as he watched Naruto, a pale blue chakra rose from Naruto's feet as he stared coldly to his master, teaching, and one time precious one.
"The Final Sealing, calling upon the Death God to pulled the souls from the bodies, and seal it within a medium's body, forcing them to fight forever in an endless battle of hatred and power, yet our powers would kill they boy, the death god Seto feared his destruction and sealed us away into separate parts of his mind. The boy isn't the host for Kyuubi alone. Why do you think, Hatake-kun? That this boy Naruto and I share so much? Looks, powers, we even share Jiraiya-sama… this boy is not the Sannin… this boy, Uzumaki Naruto is my last gift to Konoha, the last protector of these people, and my legacy! So don't you dare place him in the ranks of the Sannin, Hatake-kun!"
Naruto's eyes shone such a bright, marvelous blue. The soul of the fourth Hokage, long forgotten and believed to be lost for so many years, like the Kyuubi was alive and will within the boy, Uzumaki Naruto.
"Let Sasuke-kun come, my boy will not perish at his hands nor anyone else. I nor Kyuubi-sempai will allow it…"
"Sensei…" Kakashi fell to his knees slowly as he stared in awe. Just as the Kyuubi's chakra formed around Naruto's body, months ago in the face of death against Sasuke, the form of Yondaime had formed around Naruto. Taking small short steps forward, Naruto reached out, his hand lightly mussing through Kakashi's head.
"I'm sorry I hit you, Hatake-kun. But you tarnished my name and my legacy. I couldn't let it continue. I want you to forget about this now. Your ideas and beliefs of who we are, and what we will become. You'll be wrong every time, that eye of yours is a good one. It gives you good dreams, good beliefs, but this Uchiha eye you now have, I feel it's hurt you more then anything else,"
"I've wanted to talk to you for so long, Hatake-kun. You have that eye, but as you use it, you are becoming more and more dependant on it. If you want to truly go after Itachi-kun, or truly help in this on going battle between Orochimaru-sama and Konoha, use it wisely. But become the ninja I once called my precious one once again, nor this ninja who relies on something he shouldn't have in the first place,"
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"Hmph, Yondaime-kun…" Jiraiya smiled lightly as he stood on the balcony of the Hokage's home. Leaning against the railing lightly as he stared up to the two standing atop the town hall. Uzumaki Naruto, Hatake Kakashi, the best Konoha truly had to offer. And there, the man who made them what they are, the fourth Hokage, Yondaime. "I guess, it was final time to step in,"
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"Ladies and Gentlemen! We will now begin the final semifinal match-up of the Chuunin Exams! Will the final four please report to the battlefield. Uzumaki Naruto and Harunama Kazuki vs. Hyuuga Hinata and Shitaru Keisuke,"
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Sorry this chapter was so short, I just got back from vacation. Also I didn't want to start the next fight in this chapter, just add a bit more to the story. Again I know I will get love reviews and hate reviews, lets just hope I got more love.
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