Brothers of the Blade
By: Ferahgo
Here is the second chapter of "Brothers of the Blade" I was a little disappointed with the first Chapter with only one review (thank you Hells-Fox), but I had 138 hits, which was good. ENJOY!
"Speech"
"Thoughts"
"Jutsu"
"Kenjutsu Moves"
Last Time…
"I am looking for a student or two to take on, to teach them my kenjutsu style, Dragon Style, or one of the variants, as there are many variations, like the Inferno Dragon style, or the Freezing Dragon Style, which combine different elemental Justus with the kenjutsu style"
"So, do you want me to be your student? Huh? Huh?" asked Naruto quickly.
"Yes Naruto, I do wish to take you as my student, but I will also take another to come with us, so you will have a sparing partner. Now, quickly pack your things, and I will return tomorrow for you"
"Hai Yamato-Sensei"
With that, Yamato disappeared in a rustle of leaves and some and Naruto began to pack.
CHAPTER 2
Yamato appeared in a swirl of leaves on the roof of Naruto's apartment. "Now, who to take on as my second student, and Naruto's training partner…Naruto mentioned he was training to beat a "Sasuke", he must have been the another member of his team that I observed this morning. He would be a good choice, they would constantly train harder to be able to beat each other." With that he leaped to a nearby roof, and roof jumped the entire way through town.
He spotted Sasuke at his home at the Uchiha manor, training in the family training grounds.
"Ah, so he is the last Uchiha, this will work to my advantage," thought Yamato, as he watched Sasuke from the roof of his mansion, compressing his charka signature.
"Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style: Grand Fireball)," shouted Sasuke, performing the tiger and horse hand seals. He exhaled the large fireball at the wooden training dummy, turning it into ash.
"Must train to kill Itachi, must train to kill Itachi, must train to kill Itachi," ranted Sasuke.
"He must be striving to kill his older brother," thought Yamato, as he watched Sasuke continue to train, "him and I have two things in common…damn that Uchiha Itachi-teme"
Sasuke was now practicing his Taijutsu, throwing a flurry of punches and kicks at the training dummies. He put his fist in to the stomach of one and back flipped. In mid air, he lashed out with a kick into the head of the dummy behind him, used that dummy to propel himself back in the direction he just came from, then drew a kunai, and delivered it into the abdomen of the dummy he just punched.
Sasuke then danced around the training grounds, throwing flurries of punches and kicks, totally destroying many of the training dummies. Sasuke focused chakra into his legs, and jumped high into the air. Performing several hand seals, he shouted out "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Mythical Fire Flower)!" and shot out a series of small fireballs from his mouth, from which emerged shruiken. The shruiken submerged themselves into a target on the fall wall. Sasuke landed on the ground softly, and began to run around the Uchiha manor. About halfway around Sasuke quickly jumped and released a Gokakyuu fireball at Yamato. Yamato, slightly surprised, jumped out of the way quickly to avoid the large fireball coming towards him. He landed lightly on the training grounds. A moment later, Sasuke, with an amazing Chakra enhanced jump, leaped over the entire Uchiha manor to stand in front of Yamato.
"Who are you?" asked Sasuke, in his usual I-don't-really-care attitude.
"Who I am is none of your business young Sasuke"
"Why are you here?"
"I simply was watching you train, gauging your power. Although I am curious as to about how you located me, as I concealed myself enough as so the average Chuunin couldn't detect me"
"I noticed a small bit of chakra when I jumped to perform my Housenka jutsu, then when I began my laps, I noticed you changing positions with these," said Sasuke, tapping his eyes, which now contained his level two Sharingan.
"Ah, I see. I've never met a genin with so much potential and caliber as you, Sasuke. Although, you still can't match up to your older brother Itachi"
"WHAT! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ITACHI?"
"Enough to know that he could destroy you, even without his Sharingan, much less his mangekou"
With these words, Sasuke was steadily getting angrier and angrier, his rage growing with every passing word. Finally, with the final few words, Sasuke was pushed off the edge. He exploded with rage, charging at Yamato full force, with his Sharingan eyes active.
Sasuke threw a series of quick, strong punches and kicks at Yamato, who skillfully dodged all of them.
"He will make an amazing Shinobi," thought Yamato, "he will be able to help me in my revenge, along with Naruto"
Yamato pulled a scroll out from under his cloak. He unraveled it, bit his thumb, and ran his bloody thumb across the scroll. He then slammed the scroll into the ground, shouting "Kutchoise no Jutsu (Art of Summoning)". With that, a large cloud of ninja smoke appeared. When the smoke cleared, the were a pair of shorter katanas (The blade is about 2.5 feet long, where Yamato's katana is around 4 feet long) plunged blade-first into the ground. Yamato quickly formed the rat, tiger, dragon, snake, ram, and dragon seals, and pulled the twin blades out of the ground. Upon being freed from the earth, the blades immediately ignited into flame.
Sasuke stared at the man, who was now wielding a pair of flaming katanas.
"Maybe I can't beat this guy…" thought Sasuke, "but he knows of Itachi, so I must win!"
"How do you know Itachi?" yelled Sasuke, taking out a kunai into each hand, and a shruiken into his mouth.
"I met him in a fight once after he did a certain deed. I almost won our fight too, if that bastard shark hadn't of interfered"
"This will be the first time using this on a moving target, but I have to try!" thought Sasuke, "…NOW, while he is distracted talking to me!"
"Kazaguruma no Sharingan: Sanjuuken (Sharingan Windmill: Triple Blade)!" yelled Sasuke, throwing all three of the blades. The two kunai were sent into the walls on opposite sides of Yamato, while the shruiken traveled straight towards Yamato.
Yamato looked confused for a moment, then noticed the thin metal wire that was attached to the kunai and the shruiken, which cut off two of his four possible escape routes. He jumped up to avoid the shruiken, which buried itself into the wall behind him. Yamato landed lightly on the wire like a tight rope, one side anchored to the wall, while the other end was in Sasuke's clenched fist.
"What was that for?" asked Yamato sarcastically.
"It for setting you up for this! The finale!" yelled Sasuke, "Katon: Ryuuka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Dragon Flame)!"
Fire then raced out of Sasuke's mouth down all three wires towards Yamato.
"Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke, how do you expect to beat a flame elemental weapon with a fire jutsu?" said Yamato, lowering his blades, which, at the same time, absorbed the flames, and sniped the wire, "Now, prepare! Inferno Dragon Style: Dragon's Breath"
Yamato raised both blades above his head, and brought them down in a heavy slash, from which emerged twin blasts of fire to race towards Sasuke.
"Oh shit…" muttered Sasuke, trying to leap out of the way of the fire, but he got blasted on the ankle, which caused him to fall on the ground in incredible pain from the third degree burns.
Yamato ran over to Sasuke, and poofed his twin sword back to where they came from. "Chiyute no Jutsu (Art of Healing Hands)," said Yamato quietly, as the focused ball of healing chakra appeared. He applied the chakra to Sasuke's ankle, which healed immediately.
"There, good as new," said Yamato, smiling at Sasuke.
"W-w-who are you and what…what was that attack you used?" asked Sasuke.
" I am Tsurugi Yamato, and that was a variant of my own style, which is called Dragon Style, the style I used with you is called Inferno Dragon Style"
"How is it that you know my brother?"
"As I said during our fight, I met him a few years back and we started fighting, I almost won, but his partner stepped in to stop me at the last minute"
"What did you use to beat him? You must teach me!"
"I used my personal style, the Dragon Style"
"Teach me please! I need to know how to kill him, I must know damnit!"
"No Sasuke, if I accept you as my student, I will teach you the Inferno Dragon Style, as you favor Katon jutsu"
"Will you teach me?" said Sasuke.
"Yes Sasuke, I will train you as my student, but you only on several conditions, if you break even one, I will teach you no more"
"What are these conditions? Tell me!"
"The conditions are that you will listen to what I teach you, and you will do exactly as I say. The second is if you hear anything of Itachi, you will not go after him on some chase, and the third condition is that you will co-operate with the other student I am bringing with us"
"What! Another student! Who is he?"
"You know of him already Sasuke, the other student is Uzumaki Naruto"
"What! Why are you taking that Dobe?"
"I am taking Naruto, because he is also quite a skilled and powerful genin, and my Dragon Style, along with his skill with Kage Bushin, will make him powerful and more deadly. Also, I am taking two students so that both will have a training partner, to practice with. Each of you will always have a reason to get stronger, and that reason is the other student. You will constantly challenge each other in an effort to grow stronger"
"I accept your terms, and am glad that I get to beat the dobe into the ground"
"Good, meet me before the Hokage tower tomorrow at six a.m., come packed"
"Why Yamato-sensei?"
"Because we are gong to leave the village"
Well, here is the second chapter for you. Thank you again to Hells-Fox for your review, and to answer to what you put, I had originally wrote it so that Naruto did know that Kyuubi was sealed inside of him, but the story never flowed properly, so I scrapped it. I also went back to Chapter One and changed Flaming Dragon style to Inferno Dragon Style, which I thought sounded better.
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW
My friend and I are in a contest to see which person's story can get the most reviews for each chapter.
As for when I'll update next, I'm only a High school student, and I generally write this during class, so the work I get done on it is affected by how much school work I have to do. I then type what I wrote the previous day in my Keyboarding class/ at home.
Once again please R & R, thanks, and I hoped you enjoyed it.
