Note: This fanfiction takes place when Team 7 (Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura) was still an official team, training, and going on missions. The Third is still the current Hokage.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. What do belong to me are the characters at the tournament and some of the attacks and Justus in the story. Enjoy.
Note: The names of the techniques in this fanfiction are taken from the official US manga version of Naruto (except for the ones I created). For example Naruto's "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu " will be "Art Of The Doppelganger" as named in the US manga. I know many Naruto fans are used to the Japanese names of the techniques, so I apologize for any inconvenience (yes, I know they sound kind of stupid).
Thanks for all the reviews, it makes me so happy. For those who had some questions about the ring, well it is similar to DBZ, but only I changed some of the rules and the stadium is much bigger. Naruto was able to go out of the ring and back because one of the rules is that you can go out if you want and come back but if you are thrown out then you can't. I guess I should have mentioned that rule during the beginning of the tournament, sorry.
Well, here is chapter 8, thank you for being so patient. Enjoy.
Chapter 8: Like Father Like Son
Previously on Change of Heart:
With quick thinking Naruto defeated one of the guru brothers, but refused to help Sakura defeat the other one. With no little choice Naruto had to interfere and saved Sakura, but only because they could have lose if he didn't. Sakura found a way to finally talk to Naruto which almost went deeper than ever before. With Naruto and Sakura having made up, nothing could stand in their way, not until they found out that the strange fighter, who claims his name is Oturan Uzumaki, was actually Naruto's father.
Naruto couldn't believe his ears, a total stranger just told him, he was his father. A father that Naruto didn't even know when he was born, a father who left him to rot in peaces. Now came back to tell him that he was his father. That is an unbelievable story to take in at any given time. It's just not possible.
"No..."
"It can't be." said Naruto who was horror struck.
"Why can't it? It is the fact that you are a ninja while I am a martial artist or that I left you when you were young." said Oturan.
"Not young, you left me when I was just a baby, I didn't even know you one bit." yelled Naruto as tears started to run down his face.
"Yea, well I had a reason..."
"Lets me guess, you can't tell me what that very important reason is that made you leave your son with no word at all." yelled Naruto.
Sakura was standing next to Naruto that whole time. She couldn't believe what she just heard, Naruto's father, the unknown character from Naruto's life, was standing right in front of them.
"Whatever you say father, you came here for a fight and that's what you are going to get. Lets go, this should have start a long time ago." said Naruto as anger goes through his whole body.
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The room was dark, nothing could be seen, and no shape could be seen in the dark. Only one light could be seen, but it was just an array of light. Just for a second a hand could be seen lighting a cigar in the dark.
The phone rang for just once, and was picked up just as fast.
"Hey, boss. I just got the signal, the kid toke the bait." said a harsh voice on the other line.
"Good."
As he puts down the phone, he could not help but let out a small laugh.
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"That kid actually thinks that 'The Trick Demolisher' is his father, what an idiot. It's really easy to trick someone that never actually met his father, no wonder it was so easy. Boss had the best idea ever, and that's the reason he is the boss. This match is over." With one last look at the ring he turns around and leaves the stadium, chuckling the whole way out.
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Naruto always wondered why his own father left him, but now he don't care anymore, all he just wants to do now is to pound him to death. He was going to let out all the anger and hatred he held all these years, and he was going to drop it all on his father.
"HUH? PEOPLE THE FIGHT STARTED, SO LETS SEE SOME ACTION!"
Naruto was ready, and his so call father will see how alike they can be.
"Sakura, lets go." yelled Naruto.
Just like that, both Naruto and Sakura were gone, all you could see were blurs and at times the color of their clothes. They just kept moving all around the ring with Oturan in the middle.
Oturan wasn't moving, at all. His eyes were closed with his arms crossed over his muscular chest.
Naruto attacked but was to late to see that it was not the best idea as he was sent flying across the ring.
It seems that Oturan was concentrating and felt the exact moment when Naruto was about to attack.
Sakura was surprised to see that, but it did not get her to stop from her mission. She knew that for Oturan to get Naruto he had to change his concentration from defense to offense leaving him open for her attack.
She threw three kunais straight for Oturan's chest, and planned on going for his legs after the kunais hit their targert.
Her plan came crashing down just as she hit the ground hard on her back right next to her failed kunais.
Naruto had just back flipped his way from hitting the ground, only to see his father dodge Sakura's kunais and landed a kick straight across her jaws.
"NO, SAKURA!"
Naruto felt a rage he has never felt before, somehow seeing his father pound the girl he loves so much, was not a good way to start a relationship after all these years.
Oturan struck Sakura so hard; if she were just your average teenager her jaws would have been dislocated with no hope of ever talking the rest of her life.
It was as if Sakura was actually hit all over her body, she was feeling pain all over, and it was even hard to breath.
"ART OF THE DOPPELGANGER."
The ring was surrounded by Naruto clones, with Oturan and Sakura right in the middle. Knowing the ring would be to small to hold many of himself Naruto decided to make only fifteen clones.
Oturan seems always calm at all times. His eyes were closed and his arms were crossed over his chest once again.
"Com on, son. You know you can't hurt me, just give up and..."
Oturan had to jump out of the way or he would have been struck, all the Naruto clones started attacking him at once, he was dodging right and left.
Oturan knew he had to find the real Naruto or he would have to stay on the offensive for a while.
Each Naruto got out a blade from their bags, before Oturan could even start looking for the real Naruto, they all just ran back at Naruto and disappeared right behind him.
Naruto flicked his wrist and the blade he was holding opened up to be one of those huge shurikens he love to carry around.
Naruto jump in the air and threw the shruriken with all his might.
It was the easiest thing to dodge, Oturan just jumped and it missed him.
"You disappoint me, son," said Oturan as he shakes his head.
"Sorry father but its not over yet." said Naruto with a huge smile across his face.
As Oturan turn, he saw another shuriken coming off of the top of the first one as they both turn back, heading straight for him.
Once again he dodges both shurikens, only to see another one coming off of the first two making four. As the three attack the next time and he dodges another one comes out from the original one, and so the air had fifteen of them circling the air.
"Not bad, using your doppelganger jutsu to have fifteen of them, pretty smart, but not smart enough." said Oturan with a smile.
Naruto didn't say one word, then with just one swing of his arm, all fifteen shurikens headed straight for Oturan.
No one can dodge this, but he isn't anybody.
To Naruto's surprise Oturan did not even plan on running, in fact he just stood there, his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed.
"Now, its my turn." said Oturan as he opens his eyes.
As fast as anyone could see, Oturan punched every single one of the shurikens before they even reached him, sending them flying everywhere. People had to try and move out of the way as shurikens would pass right by their heads, only to go halfway to a wall or into the seats.
Naruto was at a mere point of giving up, he hasn't even scratch Oturan so far and he was getting pretty tired, then he suddenly noticed that he actually did do some damage. Oturan hands were bleeding, turning the bandages around his hands bloody red, with no sign of white left in them.
"Just some scratches, that why I hate these bandages." said Oturan as he unwraps the bandages off his hands and throw it out of the ring.
Before Naruto could react he saw Oturan walking to Sakura, who was on ground unable to even stand. He goes up to Sakura and picks her up by her hair, lifting her up to his face. Sakura would scream if she could, as the pain increased dramatically, but somehow all that came out was some groans and moans of pain.
"So it this your girl? What a huge forehead! You could have done better, I mean I picked your mother and she was one hell of a looker. I almost killed four guys because they looked at her with eyes of lust. Great memories." said Oturan laughing loudly.
"Let her go, your fight is with me now!" yelled Naruto with anger soaring through him, he tighten his fists and felled strength flowing through him.
"I'm not done with her yet, I need to do one more thing."
Before anyone could react, Oturan let go of her hair, and then kicked her right in the ribs before she had reached the floor, like a soccer ball. She flew out of the ring and landed on the grass with a huge thump.
"SAKURA, NO!" yelled Naruto as he starts to feel the chakra of the fox demon flowing through his whole body.
The whole stadium was filled with cheers and boos, Lee almost jumped out of his seat to go see if Sakura was ok, but someone beat him to it as he sees Sasuke picking Sakura up in his arms, and carrying her to the hospital.
"IT SEEMS WE ALMOST HAD A DISQUALIFICATION HERE FOLKS, BUT SAKURA IS STILL ALIVE, MEANING THAT THIS MATCH WILL STILL CONTINUE WITH NARUTO VS. THE UNKNOWN FIGHTER, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE NARUTO'S FATHER NAMED OTURAN.
"Ok, now I'm done, lets finish this." said Oturan as he turn his attention back to Naruto.
"This is the first thing you said all day that we both agree on. This match is over, and since I don't have to worry about Sakura..."
"YOU ARE GONNA GO DOWN, FATHER OR NOT!" yelled Naruto as his whole body starts to shake.
Closing his eyes to concentrate, Naruto was well on his way through half of a jutsu and ended with the sign of the rat.
Putting his two hands on top of the other with one palm down and the other up, he opens it up to have a huge blue ball growing as his two hands comes further apart. He made the ball about the same size as a basketball.
"I will not lose to the likes of you or ever forgive you, this ends now!"
"SUPER RASENGAN"
Then with one huge thrust he throws the ball with all his might at Oturan, as soon as the ball was released it grew five times the size than before.
The hokage was very much surprised.
Interesting, by concentrating his chakra and the demon fox's chakra, he was able to make his Rasengan jutsu fives times the normal size, but something tells me he has one more trick up his sleeves.
The blast came at Oturan at top speed, but he was able to focus most of his strength through his hands and used it to stop the blast in its tracks. It kept on pushing Oturan inch by inch until he was at the edge of the ring. Almost using all the strength he had left, he was able to block off the blast and sended it flying out of the whole stadium, and out to space.
"ART OF THE DOPPELGANGER"
Before Oturan could see what was happening he saw Naruto coming down from the air straight for him.
"U"
Oturan was kicked down hard, before he even reach the ground two other Naruto appeared out of nowhere and kicked him back up into the air, as the clones disappears the real Naruto was already in the air.
"ZU MA"
Naruto landed a kick directly at Oturan's torso.
"KI!"
Oturan hit the ring hard, making a huge hole as a proof to those who couldn't believe their eyes of what just happened.
Oturan seems to be seconds away from unconsciousness, he could barely open his eyes and when he finally did, Naruto was standing right over him. Something was happening to him, his face started changing and his hair started moving, his face turned out to be older and his hair became longer and turned black.
"I knew you wasn't my father. I may not know him or ever met him, but one thing I know is that my father is a ninja and would have never fall for a trick like this." said Naruto with a smile.
"I knew you could block my blast, but I also knew that it would require most of a person's strength to actually manage to do that. Knowing you would be weak; I toke that to my advantage and used my own move on you. Its over!"
"Ha, Ha, Ha. You think you won, but its not over, oh no. This is far from over, I was merely the beginning." finished Oturan as he slips into unconsciousness.
The stadium was filled with cheers as Naruto made his way across the ring to the locker rooms, waving to everyone on the way. He really likes the attention. He could see everyone from his village cheering the loudest, especially his teammates, and teachers.
"THERE YOU HAVE FOLKS. THE SEMI FINALS ARE OVER. NARUTO HAS SINGLE HANDILY DEFEATED OTURAN WHO HAS ONCE AGAIN TURNED OUT TO BE ANOTHER PERSON KNOWN AS THE TRICK DEMOLISHER, A STRONG AND POWERFUL FIGHTER WHO TRICKS HIS OPPONENTS INTO THINKING HE IS SOMEBODY ELSE MAKING IT EASIER FOR HIM TO WIN HIS FIGHTS.
WELL GUYS, I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS AND SOME GOOD NEWS. THE BAD NEWS IS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE FINALS, I KNOW THAT SUCKS, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT IT WILL BE THE MOST MEMORABLE FIGHT EVER, NARUTO AND SAKURA OF THE LEAF SHINOBI VILLAGE VERSUS, YOU GOT IT, THE DOUBLE DRAGON NINJA GAIN."
End of chapter 8.
Well, this was chapter 8. Well, it was a great fanfiction, with great reviewers, I had a really great time, but there is only a few more chapters left. Its all up to you guys, if you all liked this one then let me know and there might be a sequel. So please review, and I will see you all next chapter.
Next Chapter: The Finals