Future Memories
A Naruto fanfiction by FatefulGravy
Previously: Naruto is believed dead by Sakura and Team 10. Hinata makes progress in her inner struggle while her future self trains. Naruto lies in wait for Kabuto.
Chapter 5
Confrontation
'Got a plan?'
'Of course.'
Naruto was on his way towards where he could smell Sakura. It appeared that once he had caught a scent he could track it over quite the distance, a distance that was extended even further if the scent was a familiar one.
'And does this plan of yours involve some jutsu that you've never used before?'
'Um...yeah.'
'Using an untested jutsu in a battle situation is not a good idea, what if something went wrong?'
Kyuubi had been entirely unhelpful during the previous evenings planning session. His only idea was 'manifest my chakra', which, although it would have given Naruto the power to easily defeat Kabuto, would have also alerted ever ninja in the village. Not a good idea.
'I know its not the best thing to do, but Kabuto has a huge lead on me right now so using skills he doesn't expect is the only way to win.'
'What I want to know is why you insist on going after him anyway, killing an enemy as strong as Kakashi is beyond you. There are much easier ways to get the scrolls.'
'I don't need to kill him, I need him to report me to Orochimaru. The more things on his mind the more distracted he will be, if he's distracted enough Old man Hokage might kill him this time.'
'Knowing that the container of the greatest demon ever has the power to take on his second in command would be a distraction.'
'Yep!'
Naruto stopped on a tree branch. As he came closer to Sakura and Sasuke he had picked up three new scents. Flowers, deer, and crisps.
'Looks like Team 10 is with Sakura.'
He continued moving towards the scent until he came insight of his comrades. The five of them had set up camp next to a stream. Naruto saw that Sasuke had yet to wake up, while the other four were sitting around a small camp fire, skillfully constructed to avoid giving off smoke.
'Any minute now.'
As if on cue Naruto caught the faint scent of snake approaching.
Kabuto was uncharacteristically annoyed. Originally his assignment was to make sure Sasuke's team reached the next round. Now however, due to the Sound teams failure, he had to awaken Sasuke's cursed seal as well as somehow replace Naruto, whom the sound team claimed to have killed. And to add to his problems, Sasuke was now with another team, making his mission even harder.
Cursing his luck, or lack thereof, Kabuto continued towards Sasuke's location. He still had to travel through part of the forest before he reached the river where his target was reported to be. His progress was halted, however, when he entered a small clearing, and heard someone drop to the ground behind him. In a flash he turned, before his eyes widened at who had surprised him.
"Uzumaki Naruto, you're supposed to be dead."
"Hah...well y'know I am Konoha's number one ninja at surprising people," said Naruto before jumping towards Kabuto, fist raised.
Kabuto ducked under the attack and turned to face Naruto, who had landed behind him. "Hey, you wouldn't attack a fellow Konoha Ninja now would you, Naruto-kun?"
"Of course not Kabuto-san, but your not really a leaf-nin are you?" Asked Naruto with a smirk.
'How did he know?' "I don't know what you mean Naruto-kun," Kabuto responded, while dodging another wild attack.
"The only people who would tel you I was dead, Kabuto-bastard, are the sound ninjas. You wouldn't happen to a sound spy would you?" Naruto launched another series of attacks, all of which Kabuto dodged. 'Nearly in position.'
Kabuto's smile vanished, replaced by a glare. "So you found out Naruto-kun, I'm afraid I cant leave you alive since you know my secret now can I?" Kabuto jumped back from a roundhouse kick, leaving his back up against a tree.
'Now!' Naruto jumped back from Kabuto and started charging a Rasengan in his right hand.
Kabuto looked on in shock at the swirling chakra. 'Whats this technique?' Naruto leaped towards Kabuto, bringing the hand held whirlwind towards his stomach. With a sickening crunch the Rasengan impacted...the tree behind Kabuto, and continued to drill through the entire trunk.
"Impressive Naruto-kun, but you cant hit me with that kind of sweeping AH!" The huge tree Naruto had hit slammed into the ground where Kabuto had just been standing. The impact left a huge crater, and tore the leaves from the branches, leaving them floating in the air.
"Hey Kabuto, let me show you something." The voice came from behind the recovering spy. He turned to see Naruto begin another Rasengan. "This is an imperfect Rasengan, the chakra isn't controlled so it leaks out." The wind caused by the imperfect Rasengan was causing the leaves from the fallen tree to swirl around the two opponents. "As you can see, in this form it can cause quite a nice effect." As the Rasengan reached full speed Kabuto was standing in a vortex of leaves, while Naruto stood calmly at the eye of the storm.
Holding up an arm to shield his face Kabuto snorted, "Very pretty Naruto-kun, but also useless." Naruto's grin gave Kabuto the feeling he should rethink his previous statement.
Naruto smirked, "This is just the beginning, Konoha Shuriken!" Suddenly charged with chakra each leaf became as hard as steel, whilst still moving rapidly in the Rasengan storm. Within seconds Kabuto was bleeding from numerous cuts, the storm of 10,000 leaves cutting so quickly that Kabuto could do little but cover his head.
"I know that you can heal yourself quickly, so I doubt this will finish you off." Naruto said as Kabuto tried to simultaneously block the killer leaves and heal himself, "So I have something to add, Konoha Kage Shuriken no Jutsu!" Kabuto's eyes widened, each leaf/shuriken multiplied, increasing the intensity of the storm. 20,000, 40,000, 80,000 a 100,000 leaves slashed at the sound spy. "I don't want you dead, Kabuto-bastard," said Naruto as he lowered the Rasengan, still in his had, to the ground. "But I do want you away from my team. As the Rasengan lowered the flurry of chakra powered leaves grew closer to the ground. With less space to move in the leaves became much more concentrated. With a scream, Kabuto's left leg was severed.
Naruto let the Rasengan die away, using so much chakra had exhausted him and it took all of his stubbornness not to collapse next to Kabuto. As the storm died down he saw his opponent clutching a bloodied stump, face white and eyes wide, the missing leg had been reduced to dust by the onslaught of leaves.
He staggered over to Kabuto and pulled a pair of scrolls from the spy's pouch. "Thanks Kabuto-san, I'll see you around. A medic-nin like you should have no problem healing this injury right?" As Naruto walked slowly off in the direction of his team Kabuto thought, 'How did he know I was a medic?'
Sasuke's eyes cracked open, before slamming closed again. He had a massive headache and that bright light above him hurt. He groaned and sat up, where was he. Opening one eye a crack he took a quick glance around. He was outside, he could hear a river, the ground was hard. He caught a glimpse of pink hair out of the corner of his eye.
"Sak...ura," he croaked out through a dry throat. Said pink haired girl snapped around at the sound of his voice.
"Sasuke-kun! You're awake, how are you? Does it hurt anywhere? Can I get you anything? What happened to you?"
Sasuke cut her babbling off with a glare, "Water," he demanded. Sakura nodded and went to fetch something to drink. While she was away Sasuke tried to remember what had happened. He'd been fighting the snake freak, who had bit him, and then, then...he couldn't remember. How long had he been asleep, and where was the dobe?
Sakura returned with some water, which he gladly drank down. He was about to question Sakura when his questions were answered, "You've been unconscious for two and a half days, its know the final day of the exam," Sakura explained, "We don't have any scrolls and...and Naruto..."
"What about the dobe?" Asked Sasuke, not that he was worried, the idiot had probably just done something stupid and hurt himself.
"He...I...He," Sakura didn't know how to say it, so she just pulled out Naruto's ruined jacket and held it up for Sasuke to see.
Sasuke blinked, confused, "He ruined his jacket?" Sakura closed her eyes and shook her head, she looked like she was going to cry. Actually, now that Sasuke had a close look it appeared that she had been crying a lot.
"He's dead," she whispered, "some sound ninjas attacked and they killed him." Sasuke looked on in shock, this was just great. First they had no scrolls, know one of his teammates was dead, there was no way he would pass the exam now.
Sasuke gestured for Sakura to throw him the jacket, she tossed it to him and it was caught, but not by Sasuke.
"Thanks Sakura-chan, I was looking for that," mumbled Naruto, before collapsing and dropping a pair of scrolls.
Sasuke blinked, confused again, before talking to Sakura, "I thought you said he was dead?"
Sakura's eyes had gone from sad/crying to angry/flaming in a split second, "He will be when I'm finished with him," growled Sakura, 'HE MAKES ME WORRIED THEN JUST SHOWS UP! ARGGGGH!' Put in Inner-Sakura.
It was just a few hours later when teams seven and ten arrived at the tower. After his return Naruto made a quick recovery, although a refused to answer any questions about what he had been up to. When asked where he had gotten the scrolls he just responded 'here and there', infuriating his teammates. None the less, they had reached the tower with both the Heaven and Earth scroll, and were able to progress.
Much to there annoyance, Naruto had split from his team again. He needed to speak to Hinata before the preliminaries, and she was proving hard to find. However, following her scent Naruto had tracked her down.
"Hinata-chan!" he called out. Noticing him, Hinata started to walk over. Naruto noticed the differences in her posture at once. She walked up straight without slouching, and didn't appear nervous at all.
"Naruto-sama," she said, which was strange, no one ever called him 'sama', "I think you're looking for Hinata-chan, shes not in at the minute would you like to leave a message?"
FatefulGravy's Jutsu Dictionary
Imperfect Rasengan (Ninjutsu)
The imperfect form of the Rasengan doesn't contain the energy it uses, so the spinning chakra causes strong winds around the ninja.
Used by: Uzumaki Naruto
Konoha Shuriken (Ninjutsu)
By pumping chakra into a leaf it can be hardened and sharpened to become a very effective weapon.
Used by: Future Uzumaki Naruto
Konoha Kage Shuriken no Jutsu (Ninjutsu/other)
Can be performed several ways. One: by hiding another leaf in the shadow of a leaf shuriken much like the original Kage Shuriken no Jutsu. Two: By increasing chakra flow to the leaves, creating more leaf shurikens out of non-hardened leaves. Three: Transforming shadow clones into leaves, which is very wasteful an not a good way to do it.
Used by: Future Uzumaki Naruto
Storm of 10,000/100,000 Leaves (Ninjutsu/combination)
An original technique created by Future Naruto using a combination of the three above techniques. Razor sharp leaves are blown around as if in a storm. Depending on the number and concentration of leaves used the technique can cause massive amounts of damage. However, it uses a lot of chakra to maintain three techniques at once, and even future Naruto cant use it repeatedly.
Used by: Future Uzumaki Naruto
A/N
Originally everything up to here was chapter one, but if I wrote 10,000 word chapters It'd be ages between updates.
Anyway, Naruto seems overpowered in this chapter, but he has recieved alot of knowledge from the future, which means he has access to lots of techniques. He is still as slow and weak as a genin however, so Kabuto would have kicked his ass if he actually attacked.
Next time: Hinata vs Hinata! and Hinanta and F.Hinata vs Neji! And the other prelims!