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Author's Note:
Chapter SixNaruto watched with his jaw dropped when a…tail, made of sand appeared from the crack Sasuke made on the sand ball. It whipped Sasuke but he managed to dodge it on the last second. Naruto felt the fox inside him stirred.
Completely fixated by it Naruto didn't realize someone used genjutsu to put people to sleep. He rubbed his eyes feeling the effect on him. His eyelids wanted to drop. He fell to the ground asleep.
Kakashi watched in alarm as people around him started to sleep under genjutsu. He noticed that Naruto has fell while Sakura watched in confusion before realizing that it was genjutsu and cancelled the effect on her. Gai looked around in suspicion trying to find the source of this genjutsu.
When he looked down the arena, he saw Gaara was carried away by his siblings while his jounin-sensei fought against Genma. He also noticed Sasuke followed them.
"Sakura," he barked. "Wake Naruto and Shikamaru. Sasuke was following the sand genins, he would need help," he summoned a dog named Pakkun. "Bring him with you, he'll traced them for you."
"But, Kakashi-sensei—" a kunai almost hit her but was deflected by her sensei. She watched as some people wearing Sand and Sound hitae-ate appeared.
"GO!" She scrambled to her feet and headed to Naruto. The 2 jounins deflected every attack directed to her.
"KAI!" Naruto twitched and started to open his eyes.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto's eyes snapped open as he back to his feet and observed his surrounding. "What in the fuck!"
She almost cancelled the genjutsu for Shikamaru when the small yet narcissist dog bit him making him shouted in pain. "Shikamaru! You're not asleep, aren't you?" she accused, pointing a finger at him.
"This is too troublesome," he muttered lazily, earning him a whack on his head.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu," Naruto's sound echoed. All eyes around directed at him as he summoned a 2 meters tall toad. Kage bunshin no Jutsu." 10 bunshins appeared.
"Naruto…?" Kakashi for once was at loss of word. The toad attacked the nearest enemy shinobi with his tongue, glued him on it before tossing to a nearby column that cracked his bones.
"Naruto, leave here to us. You need to help Sasuke, he was following the Sand genins to the forest. Take Shikamaru, Sakura, and Pakkun with you."
"Who?" he asked dumbly, not familiar with the last name.
"The little dog there. He will track them."
"I'm not little, I'm a cute puppy."
"…Yeah, right," Sakura said, not convinced at all. The dog wanted to protest, but she dismissed it.
"Oey, what is exactly happening here?"
Gai blasted a hole in the wall, enough for them to pass across. Kakashi motioned them to get out of the stadium from that hole.
"Sakura!" she snapped out and dragging Naruto and Shikamaru with her before they could say anything.
…
"So let me get this straight, other village attack us, probably Sound and Sand from their hitae-ate. The red head Sand boy somehow plays a big role in this attack from what you saw. And now he escaped with his genin team and Sasuke followed them. Is that right?"
Sakura nodded. "That's the basic."
Naruto slapped his forehead. "What a nice day did they chose to attack at," he moaned.
"Some people track us," Pakkun sniffed the air.
"How many?"
"10. And they'll soon caught up with us if we don't start going faster."
"What if we ambush them?" Naruto suggested.
"Bad idea. They'll know if we plan to ambush them. And I bet they have spy inside our shinobi rank and that mean they know the forest situation," Shikamaru voiced out. "Not to mention that our team consist only of us (AN: I don't remember the exact words, sorry). Someone needs to stop and delay them, and that someone would most likely die," they stopped their running when they heard it.
After a moment of silence, Naruto snapped out, "I'll do—"
"No, Naruto. I'll be the one who do it. My kagemane no jutsu afterall was specially made for this kind of thing. You two follow and join Sasuke."
"…Be safe, Shikamaru," Naruto jumped off after casting a worried glance once more to him.
"Aa," Sakura stared at him uncertain, before she too ran after Naruto. Pakkun followed her after giving a nod to him. Watching them gone, he started to work his plan.
"Don't worry, he'll be alright. Although he didn't show it, he's a genius," Naruto reassured his teammate.
"But still, he's fighting against 10 shinobis, possibly jounins," she countered. "What if he decides to ditch us?"
"Even if he doesn't look like it, he's reliable." Before she could reply, he sighed and made cross seal and poured more chakra than usual to his favorite jutsu. "Kage bunshin no jutsu." 4 solid bunshins poofed in. "Go and help Shikamaru," he ordered.
"Roger!" they saluted and went back to the lazy genin's direction.
"Satisfied?" he asked. She looked not convinced for awhile before remembering his fight against Neji, his bunshins were much more improved than before. She nodded and they continued their journey pursuing Sasuke.
"They stopped," Pakkun exclaimed.
"Who?"
"The Uchiha boy and 3 other people. Wait there's another who smelled like a bug."
"Shino?" they looked at each other. "How far they are from us?"
"Providing they stop, we'll reach them in 3 minutes," Naruto nodded. "Two of the 3 sand genins moved," the dog sniffed the air. "The Uchiha boy is after them. The bug boy helps him and handle the sand genin."
"We'll let Shino handle the one. We need to reach for Sasuke," he leaped from the branches to branches faster. Using his agility he left Pakkun and Sakura behind.
"Naruto, wait up!" she shouted, but he didn't stop or slow down. She wondered when did he start to get this fast.
Naruto reached to them in no time when he noticed Sasuke seemed to be in pain as he gritted his teeth. Black markings were covering half his face. He noticed that the sand girl was hiding in…fear? Fear of what or who? Glancing at Gaara his eyes widened when he saw his form. He didn't look a human anymore. His hand was changed into a monstrous hand made of sand. His face was filled with glee and madness. Now he knew what was the girl afraid of.
Gaara charged at Sasuke, but Naruto noticed that the dark haired boy was having difficulty as he clutched his neck. Gritting his teeth and berating Sasuke inwardly for his carelessness pursuing them without a thought, Naruto dashed to Gaara. Enforcing chakra on his fist he punched Gaara right on his face and slammed him to the tree behind him. Sasuke looked at him in surprise and there was a flicker of relief before it quickly died off.
Naruto leaped back to where Sasuke was. The boy was already on his feet not wanting to show weakness in front of his teammate. "Need help?" He humphed and went back to his arrogant mode. Naruto rolled his eyes. He searched for a bottle inside his pouch before throwing a pill to Sasuke who caught and looked at him in quizzically. "Soldier pill. You seem pretty out of chakra. And you better get rid of those black marking of yours. It seemed to feed off your chakra," Sasuke looked up in shock at his saying. Before he could say anything they leaped from the branch that they previously stepped on as it was crushed by the redhead boy's hand.
Sasuke quickly swallowed the pill and felt more recharged after he ate it. He raised an eyebrow when he saw the blond genin wore black sunglasses. "What are you doing, dobe? This isn't the time for you to have some fashion sense," he scowled and dodged another attack from the mad sand genin.
"Just so that sand doesn't get into my eyes," came the reply. With that Naruto activated his byakugan. He raised a quizzical eyebrow when he noticed that the tenketsu on his changed arm was practically flowing with chakra that seemed to be familiar… It kinda felt demonic just like kyuubi's chakra. Could it be that the boy also has demon sealed inside him. If that were true that would explain his inhuman form. Completely focused on his thoughts he was too late to notice Gaara's hand hurled him to some trees, effectively breaking them down in the process.
"NARUTO!"
Okay lesson no.1. Never ever be distracted when you're fighting an enemy. Damn my back hurts like a bitch! Naruto groaned when he felt the wind knocked out of his body. Shit! He rolled himself to his side to avoid another attack only to curse himself for forgetting that he was on a bloody tree and not some ground. Falling down the branch his hand stretched out and caught a branch before doing a flip and stood on it.
"Alright, you son of a bitch!" he cursed. "This meant war!" Sasuke and Temari was gaping at Naruto when they saw him didn't look to be affected much by that blast that should have broken his bones all over his body.
Growling Gaara formed sand spikes and launched it to Naruto started to spin. "Kaiten!" Using Hyuuga style to deflect the upcoming spikes, Naruto was also trying not to give to much force on his feet in fear of the branch he stepped on would snap. When it was over the sand spikes pierced everything around him. The branch he was standing has small crater on it, so he leaped off to a bigger branch. "Try avoiding this. Thousand shards of ice!" he rained him with his ice shards. Sasuke watched him in disbelief as he remembered the event in Wave country. Gaara used his sand hand as a shield, but it couldn't cover his entire body so he was forced to make his sand enveloped him.
"What about this?" Naruto dashed to him in speed almost matched Lee taking the others surprised. "64 hands of divinity. 2 hands," he stroke 2 tenketsus on his shoulder and his arm dissolved into human arm. "4 hands, 8 hands, 16 hands, 32 hands." Powering up, "64 ha—," he blocked before finishing his last move when the sand continuously attacked him. With one hand that he used as his base he flipped and kicked Gaara on his chin simultaneously. The sand automatically reached for Gaara while half of them darted to him like a wave. Naruto leaped back into safety. A smirk was plastered on his face before it became a frown when he noticed that the tenketsus he closed started to shake from force before his chakra leaked out and burst.
Damn it!An inhuman roar came from Gaara and this time both his hand transformed into sand. His and Sasuke's eyes widened when Gaara has a new addition of tail they have seen in the match before.
"Hubba hubba," Sasuke stared at Naruto as if he has loosed his marbles.
"Sasuke! Naruto!" they turned to see Sakura and Pakkun arrived at last. Both boys cursed when Gaara's attention shifted to her. "Wh-What is he?" she took a step back.
"Holy cow," Pakkun exclaimed as he hid behind a tree.
Before the 2 boys could react, Gaara launched a hand made of sand to the screaming girl and blasted her to a tree. She slipped into consciousness with the sand still grabbed her.
"Let her go!" the blond boy shouted angrily. Instead of answering the red head boy made his sand gripped her harder. "You bastard!" he launched himself to where the sand arm was, ready to cut them. Much to his surprise Gaara let it dissolve before he could cut it, leaving only the sand palm to where it was, around Sakura.
"If you want to get her, you should pass through me first." Naruto growled. Sasuke looked at where she was before narrowing his eyes at Kazekage's son. Temari, who understand that her brother was soon losing control to the raccoon demon sealed inside of him, quickly hid behind a tree rather far from him. She didn't want to be there while her brother was in deep bloodlust.
"Naruto," Sasuke called. The Kyubi's container turned quizzically. "I'll hold him off, you save Sakura. I will not let anyone to hurt my friends," The blond smiled at his friend. It was seldom for him to act like this. The only time he remembered him doing something similar was in the Wave Country. It was nice to have him like this.
"Thanks, Sasuke," he paused. "But, I won't let you steal the spotlight anymore," he added with a chuckle. "Beside, you have to see your own condition. You seemed like you will faint in any moment. I will hold him off. You go save her."
"What—"
Naruto powered up till his bluish chakra was invisble for them to see. Sasuke, Gaara and Temari were startled to see him still have much chakra to spare. "Tajyuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Thousands of his clones poofed in and covered the forest around them. There was no tree, trunks or branches seen without any clone at all. All of the bunshins poised into attack stance.
The half transformed Gaara took a step back. "W-who are you?" Sasuke's and Temari's eyes widened at the sight of all of the bunshins.
Naruto smirked and took a stance. "I am Uzumaki Naruto."
TBC… …
Although Naruto is better than before let's just say that his genjutsu is still sucked! That was why it was easy to put him on sleep. Review, kay?
I haven't made the next chapter, so the update will be longer. Sorry, guys.
Cobra-100: oh, sorry. I push the wrong button. It should be 2 nations, not 3.
Dragon Man 180: Oh, he will. Hiashi? Well… I don't know when he will confront Naruto myself.
Dragon Noir: I don't think that I'll make pairing in this fic. Maybe later if I change my mind.
fatalX: you're right O-O
HanaTenshiHimeko: copy demon's move? What demon? Did you mean Shukaku? No, he couldn't. Gaara's power came from his demon, not his bloodline, so he couldn't copy it.
lilbunnyfufu: I thought that the lowest level was 2 comas. Afterall when Sasuke developed his sharingan, it already has 2 comas instead of 1. If you watch the manga or anime closely, Kakashi brought Sasuke to cliff to train, far from the village, so I don't think he have an idea about what Naruto and Sakura doing.
NarutoNoKitsune: lacked of naruhina fics? Are you kidding? I have seen many naruhina fics around. I won't make any pairing for now.
William Moore: there won't be any pairing for now.
wolvesmOon: Sakura asked but then she was distracted by Kakashi's arrival and later the Sunagakure and Otogakure attacked Konoha.
Xyb: well actually that kind of bloodline existed, but they were wiped out. Naruto is now the only survivor from the clan. The others, not even sandaime know that Naruto has that bloodline. Since he has another bloodline from his father and the presence of Kyuubi, it altered his bloodlines. So now his bloodlines is rather different than the originals. Kiba has bloodline limit? I thought that it was just his family specialization.