The forest reverberated with sound of clashing metal and yells.
Naruto was training with Sasuke, an event that had become common sight a week after the blonde's meeting with the Hokage. He was trying his best to keep his emotions in check, as he dashed towards the Uchiha again. The calculating dark eyes followed the movement, and the prodigy quickly leaped in the air, over Naruto, while launching a flurry of shurikens. Naruto spun, and threw his own shurikens in response, each of the instruments clanging against each other in a harmony of discord.
As the metal fell harmlessly to the ground, each of the opponents began a set of seals.
Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger.
Horse, Ram, Tiger, Bird, Hare.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"
"Hyouton: Fibiki no Jutsu!"
An eruption of flames came from the raven-haired boys mouth, and blossomed into a huge fireball. At the same time, the blonde sucked in a large amount of air, and blew it back out; as it came out, his chakra manipulated the outgoing gust into a cold snapping wind, so that the path of air became a miniature snow storm, as it began to freeze over the moisture in the effected area. The two jutsus collided, and the area was covered in a huge, shrouding mist. As the moist clouds dissipated, only one was present.
Sasuke looked around cautiously, knowing that his opponent could be anywhere.
He never expected him to drop out of the sky.
Naruto came down with a devastating kick to the top of Sasuke's head, only to wince, as his foot connected with a log. He recovered quickly enough, and sent chakra to the bottom of his feet, sticking to the log in the process. He followed through the kick with a front flip. At the peak of the flip, he released the log, launching back upwards, into Sasuke, who had been trying to drop down on Naruto, just as Naruto tried to do to him. The log slammed into him, knocking the breath from him completely.
Naruto threw his right hand up, palm facing Sasuke. He began building up his chakra into a central point, and made it spin around it.
"Rasengan!"
The blue sphere of chakra was ready in under two seconds. Naruto then began to make a thin outer casing of chakra for the ball. Once that was complete, he poured more chakra into the ball inside, causing a slight instability that was enough to throw the ball into a wild spin. He then applied a separate layer of chakra in his palm, just under the Rasengan. He aimed for a second, and then had the layer in his palm explode, launching the chakra sphere at his opponent.
Sasuke looked in surprise. He had just thrown off the log, when he saw Naruto fire his Rasengan. He could not believe that he was going to die, by the hands of his friend no less, when the ball met its target…
And dissipated harmlessly.
Sasuke looked down at himself, and then at Naruto, before feeling gravity pull on him. He landed sloppily on his feet, and stared at Naruto, who was on the floor laughing.
"You should have seen your face! It was priceless."
Sasuke simply gave him the finger while he brushed himself off. He looked up at the sky, and said, "Let's go moron, it's getting late."
Naruto gave him a grin and told him to go on ahead. His companion shrugged and waved good-bye, before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
Naruto's grin quickly disappeared as he walked farther into the woods, where no one would see him. He quickly found a spot, and got straight to business.
I have to perfect this jutsu. I have to perfect it!
His chakra began to build rapidly as he began the training. Around him, nature itself seemed to fear the power emitting from his body, and was thrown in chaos. Trees were whipped around, birds were scattering, and the clouds of a storm thundered above. The rain fell around him heavily, but he did not notice. He kept his attention solely on the jutsu at hand and the target of the jutsu, in this case a rock.
A large explosion of chakra flashed, engulfing the area in a blinding light before settling down. Naruto lay panting and looking at the rock, which had been reduced to nothing more then rubble. He stared at it for a second, before pound his fist on the ground in frustration.
"Damnit…" he muttered, before knocking unconscious. Around him the rain continued to fall, blanketing the shinobi in cloak of rivulets. In the trees, two dark figures looked at each other solemnly and jumped, straight towards the prone form.
yup, here we go...a very fillerish type thing, but got to update right?