Chapter Eight
Anakin ducks below a fist and grabs the arm, twisting it over his back and throwing the attacker over his shoulder. The person lands on a hard "oof" and Anakin keeps hold of the twisted arm while placing a foot on the person's back. Unable to move, the person taps out and he lets him go and helps the blonde up. "Ugh, you really didn't have to go that hard you know."
Anakin laughs, "But where is the fun in that? Besides, with your chakra unbalanced, you need to keep your taijutsu up to snuff to make up for it."
Naruto rubs his arm, "I'm still going to need this arm and you breaking it only hinders me."
Anakin shrugs, "Oh well. It'll give you an excuse to have Hinata look it over."
Naruto blushes, "W-what? Why would you bring her up for? It'll only trouble her and I'm sure she'd rather not want me to bother her."
"Oh Kami help this dear hopeless child of yours. When will you ever open your eyes?" Anakin sighs.
"Child?! We're the same age idiot!"
It's been a couple of days since both Team Seven and Eight arrived at the tower. A number of other teams, including the rest of the rookie Leaf genin teams, have made it as well. During that time, Anakin and the others have been 'lightly' sparing and relaxing until the time of the second runs out. Hinata has been healed enough to fight without any of her previous injuries hindering her. Sasuke has calmed down but has trouble with the cursed seal and not allowing Kakashi to seal it just yet.
A small yellow ball of light catches the pair's attention. "Anakin, Naruto, he's back at it again." Issillda tells them. The pair shares a look before following her out of the training room. They arrive in the hallway to find Hinata and Sakura standing in front of Team Nine, or more specifically in front of an angry looking Neji with Tenten and Lee standing a little further behind him trying not to get involved.
"You're an embarrassment to the Hyuga clan and undeserving of being the heir of it. Fate has decreed it as such. We have no need for the weak," Neji spats at his cousin. This has been going on and off again since they all arrived here.
Sakura tightens her grip around her sword with a scowl on her face, "You better get the fuck out of her face."
Neji shifts his attention to the pink girl, "Or what? What will you do with that toothpick of yours? You are no prodigy like I am nor are you part of a clan. The best thing you can do with that is to do the world a favor and commit seppuku with this weakling. Neither of you have any true worth to the village." Before he can say anymore, a ball of light hits him on the cheeks and leaves a burn mark. "Argh!" He shouts out holding his hand over the burn.
Issillda lands back on Anakin's shoulder when he and Naruto join the scene. "That was a warning for you to keep your mouth shut. There may be a rule that you all aren't allowed to fight, but I'm not a ninja so it doesn't apply to me. Say one more bad thing about the girls or any of Anakin's companions and the next one will be right in those eyes your clan value so much. Then we'll see who the worthless one is!"
"Issillda calm down, your actions might end up reflecting on me and I have no wish to be kicked out." Anakin then shifts his attention to Neji, "And I believe we've been over this already. Keep your unneeded hatred to yourself and save it for later. I'm sure you'll get your chance to try to put up or shut up in the next exam. So either save it till then or I'll summon something that will make Issillda's threat-"
"Promise!" Issillda cuts in.
"Promise look like paradise. Am. I. Clear?" He asks the Hyuga.
Neji just grunts and walks away still holding the burned spot. Tenten bows and apologies before running after him. Lee stays behind and shakes his head, "This has been so unyouthful of my teammate. I also apologize for his actions."
"It's okay Lee. I understand the reason he is acting this way to me. I can only hope one day we can go back to how we were before his dad died." Hinata tells the bowl cut boy.
Naruto puts a hand on her, which causes her to blush, "Still him blaming his dad's death on what happened during the kidnapping of you doesn't give him the right to vent it on you. You're an amazing girl and don't deserve to be treated that way." She looks at the blonde next to her and gets lost into his ocean blue eyes with him looking back at her pupilless pale eyes.
Sakura grabs Anakin's hand and lens into his ear, "And they say we need to get a room." This earns a chuckle. "Honestly if Naruto would just figure it out about how she feels for him. It's so obvious they feel something for each other that it's a wonder they don't see it."
"That's exactly what everyone thought about you two before Kurenai stepped in," A new voice says, making both of them jump.
"Shino?!" Anakin exclaims, "Where did you come from?"
Shino looks at them, "What do you mean? I've been here the entire time. Did you not notice me?" A head shake from both of them gets a tick mark on his forehead, Again I've been forgotten. At least I'm getting more screen time this time around unlike Tenten.
A voice from the intercom comes out telling all teams to meet up. This breaks the staring pair out of their daze and into deep blushes causing the onlookers to laugh. They then make their way down the hallways and find a group of genin crowded before the Hokage with a few jounin. Team Seven takes a spot next to Sasuke who has already arrived with Team Eight following. The Third sees everyone is there and begins to give a speech about how the exams are basically a way to have mock wars with other villages without having to actually lose many lives going to war.
A jounin steps forwards halfway through the speech, "Excuse me Hokage-sama, but do you mind if I finish?" The Hokage allows it and backs away. The jounin coughs, "Alright my name is Hayate Gekko and I am in charge of this part of the exams. Since so many of you have passed, we will be holding a preliminary fight to narrow you all down. The reason being is that we don't want the sponsors to grow bored from the long process of watching everyone here fight, so only winners of the preliminaries will move on to the finals to give them a good show along with giving the judges a better time choosing future chunin. If you wish to back out because either you're in no shape to fight or something then this is your chance to." Kabuto and some other genin take this out until only twenty-two genin remain. The remainders are Team Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, The Sand siblings, a team from the Sound village, and Kiba with one of his teammates. "Alright then you all had your chance so no backing out now. Please direct your attention to the screen to see who our first challengers are." Everyone looks at the screen as it randomly picks two genin. "Naruto Uzumaki vs Kiba Inuzuka. The two of you remain here and everyone please head up to the stands."
"Um... Good luck Naruto-kun!" Hinata tells him before following Sasuke to the stands.
Anakin pats Naruto's shoulder, "Hey buddy, make sure to put on a good show for your dear Hinata."
The blonde blushes, "W-what? Will you ever shut up about that? Get up there before I decide to kick your ass instead." Anakin laughs after ducking a fist from him and being dragged off by Sakura.
"Are you finished?" Hayate asks the boy. A nod is what he is given. "Good now if you are both ready then begin!"
"Hmm, I got paired with dead last so this should be over fairly quick." Kiba assumes with Akamaru barking in agreement.
"Hey you better get your pet out of here before he gets hurt," Naruto tells him.
"Pet? He isn't a pet, but my partner. He is a ninja dog that is bred to fight alongside my clan. So basically you are outnumbered." Kiba exclaims.
"Oh yeah?" Naruto asks. "Well see about that. Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Only a few puffs of smoke appear and copies of the blonde appear which causes him to frown. "Oh yeah, my chakra is messed up right now so I can't spam them. Oh well, I can still kick your ass with this handicap!"
Kiba chuckles, "We'll see about that. Fang Over Fang!" Both he and Akamaru turn into drills and start going through the shadow clones before going back to normal. "Well you are by yourself again. If that is all you can manage then you deserve the dead last spot."
Naruto arches a brow, "Oh is that so? Well try this for size." A golden chain shoots out of him and wraps around the dog. Kiba is unable to react as he watches his animal companion get lifted up and slammed down hard enough to make a crater. The chain disappears to show an unconscious dog lying in the center. "Well I'd say we're about even now."
Kiba shakes from his shock and runs at Naruto in blind rage. Halfway through he goes back into a drill which is just what Naruto was waiting for. He sends another chain from him and lets the flying drill tangle himself up. Now the drill has a golden chain in it and is no longer in control and crashes into a wall. Kiba tries his best to remove the chain and notices that he is losing chakra from it. Naruto catches up to the crashing drill operator right as Kiba breaks free. The two then begin a brawl. Kiba starts by swiping at Naruto who backs away from it and sends a kick. Kiba catches the kick with his other hand and swings the blonde into the wall. Naruto falls out and chucks a broken off bit of the wall towards Kiba. He is hit in the chest, knocking the wind out of him. Naruto then sends an elbow to the kidney and follows it up by headbutting Kiba's chin. Blood flies from Kiba's mouth as he falls to the ground. He tries to get up, but is stopped by a stomp onto his face and head slamming into the ground. Naruto is about to being punching him in the face, but he sees his opponent not moving.
Hayate then calls out, "Kiba Inuzuka has been knocked out and is unable to continue fighting. Naruto Uzumaki is the winner!" Applause begins as the medical team recovers the losing duo.
Might Guy, the jounin for Team Nine, looks over to Kakashi, "Was that?"
"Aye," Kakashi confirms, "The Uzumaki Chakra Chains. He learned it a few months ago and is already performing great with it."
"Wait, the Uzumaki are a clan?" Neji asks.
"Yes and they were a very powerful clan. So powerful that they were pretty much their own nation on their islands. It took two villages working together to defeat them. Now only a handful remain with Naruto being the only Uzumaki in the Leaf. Which would make him the de facto heir to the clan." Kakashi explains.
"Hm, then it was only fate that they were destined to fall. They along with the Uchiha were both unfit to remain and the survivors will soon join their weak and dead-" Neji stops halfway through and begins gasping for air. His hands go to his throat as he chokes. Everyone around is shocked and horrified by what they are seeing as they are unable to help.
Anakin looks over the arena with his hand raised, "Be careful that your ego doesn't get high enough for you to be unable to breathe. The dead might not be able to defend themselves, but I'll be damned if I allow you to disrespect Sasuke's, Naruto's, or my fallen family members. It sucks that your father has died, but that doesn't mean you need to get high on this 'fate' shit and develop a superiority complex. We are all ninja and death is always a factor for all of us. We know the risk as so did our family and everyone else that came before us." He then lowers his hand and Neji falls breathing in air normally again. "So get over it and fix your shit!"
Naruto finally makes his way to them, "Hey guys I did it!" He looks at the scene he has come to see that it's not as he thought it would be. "Um, what happened?"
Kakashi turns to his genin and ruffles his hair, "Don't worry about it. You did good out there despite being held back. You have really grown since the academy. I'm proud of you."
Naruto beams, "Thanks Kakashi-sensei!"
Hinata brightens up seeing her favorite blonde, "Naruto-kun! You did great out there." She thrust her hand out and performs a little medical jutsu to heal his bruises. "That should help you."
"Thanks Hinata-chan," Naruto says.
"Alright everyone," Hayate calls out, "The second match is about to begin. Let's see who the next two will be." The screen once again picks out two names. "Anakin Uchiha vs Rock Lee. Both of you please come down." They both make their way down to the arena floor. "Both of you ready? Then begin!"
"I am glad I am fighting you. As the only other remaining Uchiha, this fight should be very youthful!" Lee exclaims.
Anakin sighs, "While I don't understand your definition of what counts as 'youthful', I do know you beat Clan Head pretty good a few days ago." He draws out his sword, "This should at least be interesting."
"So you favor kenjutsu? Not what I would have expected from an Uchiha since you already have the sharingan. Then again I never expected you to be able to choke Neji without even touching him." Lee admits.
"Well you can just assume that I'm the black sheep of the clan. I would consider myself a specialist with swords." Anakin explains.
Lee pulls out a kunai, "So you are a kenjutsu specialist. Well I just so happen to be a specialist in taijutsu."
This peaks Anakin's interest, "Are you know? Makes me wonder which one is the better specialist?"
"Let's make this a challenge then. We will only fight each other in taijutsu and kenjutsu. Any other attacks are not permitted. I will even allow you to use your sharingan to help along with anything else that only affects yourself." Lee suggests.
Anakin thinks it over, "If you are allowing me the sharingan then you must have a dangerous trick up your sleeve. I accept."
"Yosh!" Lee shouts out. "Let's have a very youthful battle!"
They both shift into their stances. They then begin to circle around each other until Lee breaks forwards at a surprising speed. Anakin is caught off and barely manages to block the attack. He shifts the kunai away from him and hones his senses. Lee makes another dash and Anakin ducks under it only to get a knee to the shoulder. He stumbles over and rolls back into his feet. Tired of being a defender, he shifts his chakra to his legs and launches himself at Lee. He makes a slash at Lee and Lee moves his kunai to block it, but Anakin doesn't stop there. He continues to swing left, right, overhead, and from below. Lee is now on the back petal trying to block each attack. Lee tries to shift the momentum back at Anakin by thrusting his kunai forwards, but the extra distance Anakin has with a sword makes Lee overextend. Anakin grabs Lee's arm with his left hand and thrust his sword on Lee's exposed side. What shocks Anakin is that Lee brought up his leg and the sword bounces off it leaving no mark. Lee takes the moment to push himself off Anakin and jumps on the statue in the arena.
"I must say Anakin, you speak truly about your skill in kenjutsu." Lee tells him.
"As do you Lee. What I didn't see coming is your speed and being able to block my sword with your leg. How is that?" Anakin asks. Lee then pulls up his green jumpsuit to reveal weights on his legs.
Kakashi looks over to Guy, "Weights? A bit old fashioned isn't it?"
"It is, but it works the best for his training. He is unable to use ninjutsu or genjutsu, so he focuses on his taijutsu and speed," Guy explains.
"I guess that makes sense. Though if he is this fast now, how fast is he without it?"
Guy gets a smirk, "Lee! Take them off! I give you permission for this time to show him what you got!"
Lee beams a smile and takes the weights off, "Yosh! Now I can move freely!" He drops the weights and the impacts of them hitting the ground shakes the arena.
"I think you went overboard," Kakashi states.
Lee then seemingly vanishes from sight. Anakin looks around only to get a warning from the Force from his right side. He brings his sword up and sees Lee appear next to him. He is barely able to block it before Lee disappears again. A look at his sword shows a crack in it. Shit if he's that fast, then I better not get hit- Another warning forms from his left and he brings his sword to that side only to get another crack in this sword. This continues a few more times with him getting more and more cracks into the sword. Another warning is from above. A leg comes down and smashes against the sword. The sword is unable to take anymore and breaks. The leg continues to fall at a slower pace and collides with Anakin, making him almost facepalm. Lee then jumps back, gaining a little distance.
"It would seem you have lost your weapon specialty," Lee tells him.
Anakin examines his broken sword and tosses away, "It would appear so. Luckily my taijutsu isn't too shabby either, though I doubt it's better than a specialist like you. Also the speed you have without those weights on is impressive, however I have been holding back my top speed as well." He closes his eyes and focuses both chakra and the Force throughout his body, then he takes off in a blur the moment he opens his eyes.
Lee is taken aback for a moment before grinning, "Yosh! I see I finally have someone so youthful to keep up with my speed! Our battle will be legendary!" He then takes off in blinding blur as well.
Meanwhile the onlookers struggle to see a battle even happening, but can feel the force of wind coming from the two combatants. Kakashi lifts up his headband covering his left eye, "They are moving so fast that even my sharingan barely keeps up! I never thought I'd ever witness a genin move so fast, let alone two fighting each other." Sasuke follows his sensei's lead and brings his sharingan out as well.
Guy nods along, "I trained Lee to be able to outmaneuver and out speed his opponents to make up for his lack of ability to use jutsus. However I never thought someone would be able to keep up with him. You must have trained him very hard for him to be that fast Kurenai."
She just shakes her head, "I have nothing to do with his speed. That would be the Force power he has. All I have trained him is to be able to properly mold his inner chakra and use jutsus."
"Ah I do remember you coming over to my house drunk and telling me about it many times," Asuma Sarutobi, the jonin of team ten, agrees.
"Wait, why would Kurenai-sensei end up at your house drunk? Is there something going on between you too?" Sakura asks them in a mischievous grin. Both jonin blush causing the group of leaf teams to chuckle at them. A shockwave from the fighters sends a strong pushback to everyone causing them to stop their conversation and return their attention back to the fight.
"What the hell was that?!" Ino exclaims getting back up.
Back at the fight both fighters stand panting on opposite sides of a crater line from their shockwave. Scoffed up marks and bruises are seen on both of them. Anakin is the first to speak, "I'm beginning to… regret making this challenge with you… Truly as we are now, you have a slight edge of being… the better fist fighter."
"I am amazed and grateful… to have someone keep up with me while keeping their promise… But you have yet… to use your greatest weapon." Lee comments.
"True, I have not been using the sharingan… That is because I sense you have yet one more ace in the hole hidden up your sleeve."
Lee gains a shocked expression, "You can tell?"
"Yes, that's what the Force is telling me." Anakin takes a deep breath and levels his breathing. But even without it, I have enough combat experience from both this and my previous life to know when someone is hiding something powerful. So how about we finish this fight with what we both have left, to put it with your words, show how youthful we are?"
Lee takes a look at Guy, who just nods, then faces back to Anakin, "Yosh! Let's give everyone a truly youthful fight!" Power starts to radiate off the bowl cut genin, "The Third Gate, the Gate of Life, open!" The power is amplified and Lee's skin turns red.
Kakashi shoots a look Guy, "Surely you did not-"
"I did," Guy interrupts. "He has something to prove and the lotus blossom gives him the chance to do so."
"Do you not understand how dangerous that is? Opening the gates isn't to be taken likely because of personal feelings!"
"Don't lecture me about personal feelings Kakashi for you are in no position to do so. But I did not teach him how because of a limb. I already explained to him the cost of opening the gates. However, what he needs to prove is something that he is willing to risk death over," Guy explains.
"The Fourth Gate, Gate of Pain, open!" Lee shouts with chakra surrounding him. After this, he takes off faster than ever with the floor breaking beneath him. Anakin barely had time to activate his two tomoe sharingan before he is launched into the air. He redirects the Force and chakra in strengthening his body after having his ribs cracked from the first punch. Lee then comes around again and launches Anakin to a different side of the room. Hardening himself has protected himself a bit, but a bruise spot is still on the impact area. Another hit midair sends him flying off again.
"It's like a human pinball out there," Naruto comments while everyone watching agrees along with him.
Damn I can't keep up with his speed. No amount of slowdown the sharingan has or speed boost the Force is enhancing me can counter this. Even the warnings from the Force can keep up! Anakin thinks to himself after being hit again and creating another crater in the ground with his impact. I doubt I can match him by now if I stop upholding the promise. I need something else! He extends his senses searching for anything, and comes across the chakra in the air. The same one he had tried before Kurenai taught him to use his own. But now he notices a clear difference between this external chakra and his chakra, and hell even everyone else's chakra. The external is more potent but feels calm and free. It feels as natural as the Force is from his galaxy. Maybe if he is able to use this chakra with his own, he can get the strength to overcome Lee. Laying in the crater, he tries to imbue himself with the natural chakra. He uses the same technique as using the Force to balance the dark and light side.
Lee stops himself from advancing after seeing Anakin no longer moving. He looks to Hayate for his judgment. The jonin nods and raises his hand up, "Anakin Uchiha seems unable to battle. Rock Lee-"
"Wait!" Hinata calls out with her byakugan activated. "Anakin isn't out yet. He seems to be collecting energy from the air into himself."
"Neji," Guy says.
"Already on it," he says, activating his own byakugan. "Tsk, she's right. He's pulling the energy into himself and seems to be empowering himself further."
The Hokage instantly gets concerned, Is he collecting natural energy!? With no training he can easily turn to stone! I got to stop this! He is about to say something when Anakin climbs out of the crater. Everyone can feel something different within the boy. Hiruzen studies the boy to see a white sharingan irises and pigmentation around his eyes. Now his eyes widen, How? How is this possible? He is able to balance the natural energy with his chakra! It even has affected his sharingan! Even Jiraiya can't do that without the help of the toad elders! Hell, Hashirama-sensei and Minato needed to train extensively to do it themselves! Anakin has somehow managed to surpass two Hokages in balancing the chakra and obtaining senjutsu!
Anakin takes off and Lee moves to re-engage his opponent. Lee sends a kick, which Anakin catches. Lee is shocked about someone being able to stop him and is hurled upwards. Anakin appears in front of him. He sends a punch and he feels his muscles tearing from the pain of maintaining the gates open. Anakin again catches it and starts swinging him around mid air before letting go back to the ground. Lee lands with a hard crunch, but he is given no time to process his injury as he moves out of the way from Anakin's kick.
Asuna drops the cigarette he was about to smoke, "Is that what I think it is?"
"It appears so," Kakashi confirms with his still revealed sharingan, "Sage Mode."
"Sage Mode?" Naruto asks.
"Sage Mode is what you get if you combine and balance the natural energy around us with your own chakra. With it, you create senjutsu chakra. It not only makes you physically stronger and faster, but powers up ninjutsu or creates powerful jutsus only able to be made with it." Kakashi explains.
"Why haven't you taught me that yet?" Sasuke huffs.
Kakashi doesn't remove his sight from Anakin, "Because it is not something that I am able to teach, nor am willing to teach you. Normally you have to go to a specific place filled with natural energy and train yourself for weeks, months, or even years to find peace within yourself and obtain balance. If you don't have enough natural energy, it won't work. But you have too much, you turn into stone. There's only been three known successful users of Sage Mode, the First Hokage, The Fourth Hokage, and the sannin Jiraiya."
"So the question is, how did Anakin figure out how to do something only those near or at Hokage level trained so hard for? Because I can assure you I didn't teach him that either," Kurenai asks.
"The Force perhaps," Sakura muses and everyone turns to her. She notices and begins to expand her answer. "Anakin-kun explained the Force to me quite often. The Force is an external energy force. However like a coin, there are two sides of the Force, the light and the dark side. He's been trained to find a balance in the Force. To use the light, but not to ignore the dark. The thing he did to Neji was him using the dark side, but he was able not to get corrupted by it and stay within the light.
"So I would assume he would take the teachings of the Force to the natural energy. If you all remember when we were at the academy, he would try to use the energy around himself and not within himself. This is because using outside energy is more familiar to him than internal energy. Plus he already has a ton of experience in balancing his power with the Force, which was shown with how fast he picked up balancing chakra for tree and water walking. With that in mind, he would be able to figure out the formula for Sage Mode better than anyone else. In fact, I'd argue that it comes more naturally for him than anyone else, including past Hokages." She looks back to the fight, Please be careful Anakin-kun. Anakin takes a brief second to look towards Sakura before facing back to Lee.
"Oh, you had an ace of your own too," Lee states.
Anakin looks down at himself for a moment, "It comes as a surprise for me too. I guess stumbling upon an ace I didn't know about is better than not having one at all. I'm not complaining though."
"I can no longer hold back, this will finish this! The Fifth Gate, the Gate of Closing, open!" Lee shouts before rushing towards Anakin. Anakin waits for his charging opponite for an opening. The speed of Lee is faster than ever that Anakin barely had time to register a foot inches from his chest, however the brief second he has is what he needed. He has been analyzing Lee's fighting style the entire time he was getting tossed around. He takes the kick and rides the hit out, but he takes advantage of Lee's overextension to wrap his arms and legs around the leg. Lee tries to pull his leg back, but he is too late. A loud snap is heard and the two fighters are both thrown from each other. On one side, rubble covers a combatant while the other side a scream is heard.
Guy gets extremely worried for his genin and jumps down towards the scream. When the smoke clears, Lee is clutching his left leg that is now bent forward from the shin. His skin is back to normal and blood is staining his green jumpsuit. "Lee!" Guy says making it to the genin, but Lee's pain makes him unable to give a proper answer. "Hayate, call the match! Lee needs medical attention now!"
Hayate looks over to the rubble to see Anakin also back to normal and trying to get out of it. "Rock Lee is no longer fit to fight. Anakin Uchiha wins!" There is no applause though, for the screams from Lee leaves no room for joy as the medical team takes him out of the arena.
Sakura jumps off the balcony and rushes to Anakin's side, removing any rubble on him. When he is finally free, she slaps him. "Don't ever do something like that again!" She then pulls him into a tight hug, "Do you have any idea how worried I was for you? I was afraid you would have ended up dead or in stone!"
Anakin grunts, "You're crushing me Sweetness."
She pulls back from the hug, "Nah ah. Don't you 'sweetness' me. You are in no position to butter me up like that."
"But-"
"No buts! Now you are going to let the medical team examine you. And trust me when I say if you don't end up in the hospital, then one wrong word out of your mouth and you'll definitely end up there."
Anakin shuts up enough to hear pockets of snickering and the sound of a whip forming from a certain blonde. The medical team goes to check over his body and bandages his bruises and give him a cast for his ribs. "There that should hold you good for now. And as long as you don't try anything but a walk, you'll be fine enough to stay and watch the rest of the fights. However I'm leaving a nurse to watch over you in case you do something or if a new problem arises that causes you to end up in the hospital." The lead medical member quickly glances at Sakura during the last part.
"Thanks for the warning doc, but I'll probably just sit down and lean against the wall for the rest of the fights," Anakin explains.
"That would be best for your sake," She quickly glances at Sakura again. Anakin catches her meaning with a small smile. The medical team leaves the arena and Sakura wraps her arms around Anakin to support him to the rest of the group.
"Um Anakin-kun? During your fight, did you happen to…" Sakura trails off.
"Hear your thoughts for me?" He guesses and she nods. "Yes I heard it. Caught me by surprise honestly."
"Should it? I already know you can read thoughts," She says.
"I can feel your feelings," He corrected. "With it, I can guess your thoughts. What happened was not that. I heard every word you said. I never thought I'd get one here."
"Get what?"
"A Force bond. It's a bond between two people through the Force. With it, you can more easily feel whatever emotion the other is feeling and at times have conversations with only your mind. What you did was the latter, which surprised me. I haven't heard it happening between a Force sensitive and a non Force sensitive. My previous parents are like that and I never once heard my father say something to anyone in my family through the Force." Anakin explains.
"What does this mean then?" Sakura asks, setting him down against the wall.
"I'm not too sure. I'll meditate on it at a later time. For now, I'm going to take a quick rest. Wake me if one of our team has a match." Anakin tells her, closing his eyes.
Author's Note:
Aye I'm back. Sorry for the long wait, I finally checked out the new library that was built a couple years ago in town and had my nose in a book whenever I was off work. A bad excuse I know, but it's whatever. Anyways I know I'm not good at describing fights and such, but I hope you guys enjoy the first part of the primaries. I mixed up some of the fights while others I kept it against the same people. I'm going to try and keep going into detail with fights to get better for the future though. I probably won't do in detail for the same fights since we all know what went down and who won. However I will go into a bit more detail if a character is different from the original story such as Naruto fighting Kiba. Lastly I know Anakin getting Sage Mode might seem out of left field but as Sakura explained, he's been trying to use the energy around him before becoming a genin. I hope some picked up the clues I was attempting to drop. Anyways I hopefully won't be gone too long again for the next chapter to come out. Thanks for reading and I'll talk at y'all next time!
