Chapter 12: First day in Konoha… part II
'Naruto! You interrupted my research again!' Jiraiya growled, but then caught two kunais in his hands and took an unexpected hit of 7 kunais in his one arm.
'What the!' Jiraiya yelled, confused, looking towards the direction of the kunais. He turned around a little too late, just to get slashed right in the face by Phire's katana. She moved back, and looked at him.
'Who the hell are you?' Jiraiya growled, checking her out like he does with every other girl. Phire sighed, and then put her sword in a sheath.
'Naruto and I had a bet; if I can defeat you, I get to teach him, but if I lose to you, you become his sensei instead of me,' Phire told him. Jiraiya raised an eyebrow, and then sighed.
'Whatever,' he muttered as he almost attacked her with rasengan, but she dodged it, and then did a darker version of rasengan, nearly sending Jiraiya 80 feet into the air! Jiraiya coughed out blood, and then Phire grabbed his throat, choked him in the air, and then threw him into the ground, sending him 50 meters below ground. He got up, angry.
'Who the freak are you?' he asked, making a much bigger version of rasengan. 'How could you perform rasengan? You don't have Sharingan, and you were never taught,' he told her, biting his thumb, doing kuchiyose no jutsu,summoning Gamabunta.
'Ranpu Phire of the Hidden Moon village,' she told him, her sword in her hand. She then raised her sword into the air, and summoned rays from the sun to hit Jiraiya, but he dodged with ease, only to go near the exploding clone of Phire. She then attacked from behind, slaughtering his back with her sword, and then grabbed his hair, spun him around, and then threw him into the hot spring that had old men!
'I give! I give!' he yelled, twitching constantly. He wasn't even in the mood to fight. She put her sword away and sighed.
'Your no fun,' she sighed. She then looked to Naruto, who was blinking, and then looked to Jiraiya, and then Phire, and back and forth. Sasuke and Sakura were surprised as well. Tsunade had seen from her office, and she couldn't believe that Phire defeated him like that.
'Now I'm fun, just not for fighting, momentarily,' Jiraiya corrected her. She rolled her eyes.
'Naruto, I totally acquiesce with you calling him "Ero-senin",' Phire muttered, going towards him. 'Now I'll be teaching you, so you three, come with me.' She stopped and then stuck her sword into the air behind her, which actually wasn't the air, but Jiraiya about to grab her from behind and attack, and she stabbed him in the stomach badly. He coughed out more blood, and then Phire grabbed one of his books he wrote and burned it right in his face.
'You did not just do that,' he growled at her. She grunted, and then teleported herself and Team 7, leaving with a few words, which were:
'Better luck next time, Jiraiya.'
'Wasn't that a little too harsh, Phire?' Sakura asked. Phire shrugged.
'I guess I did kind of overdid it,' she agreed with Sakura, but Naruto was saying how cool she fought him and stuff like that.
'He deserves it for being perverted!' Naruto yelled. Sasuke sighed, and just looked spaced out. As Sakura and Naruto started fighting, Phire went towards Sasuke.
'Do you want to learn something?' she asked him. He shrugged.
'I… just want to be alone,' he told her. She sighed, and said something before Sasuke left, but then he didn't leave.
'I can help you get stronger, maybe enough to kill your brother, but I can't guarantee anything,' she muttered. He stopped and widened his eyes, and then turned around, seeing her look very serious.
'Would this training help?' Sasuke asked, still having his back towards her. She nodded.
'It canhelp with the amount of chakra you use for sharingan,' she told him. He turned around, but faced the ground, and then looked up to her.
'Would you really? How did you know?' he asked her. She smiled, and then hit him in the forehead with two fingers before he knew it.
'Forgive me, Sasuke, but maybe I'll tell you some other time,' she smiled and told him. He felt as though he heard Itachi's voice half of what she said, and even saw him instead of Phire, but then he shook his head, and saw Phire this time, not Itachi.
'Sasuke? Are you okay?' she asked him. He was staring into space, and then he shook his head.
'Hai, I-I'm okay, let's just get on with the training,' he told her. Sakura and Naruto were still fighting, so Phire threw a kunai at them both, causing them to be pinned to two trees.
'Whoa… how did I see Itachi? How could she quote him without knowing it? What's happening to me? What's going on?' Sasuke had many questions in his thoughts, and then he shook his head again and joined the group.
'Okay, your lesson today is going to sound crazy, but you will be climbing air,' Phire told them. They sweat dropped; air?
'Is that even'- Sakura was interrupted when Phire started climbing the air, and was around40 feet above ground. They all widened their eyes.
'It looks so easy! I can do it!' Naruto "bluffed" as usual, and when he tried to, he fell down. Sakura and Sasuke sighed.
'You guys can either try to learn how to do it, or you can ask me; by the end of today, I can guarantee that you all will know how to climb air up to 25 feet minimum, if anything,' Phire told them. They tried to think of it like the tree-climbing exercise, but it didn't work. After 20 minutes, they asked Phire how to do it. She laughed.
'And I was taught to learn everything by trying it; you guys are pa-the-tic!' she laughed, and then climbed 10 feet into the air.
'How the heck do you control your chakra?' Sakura asked. Kakashi was watching, and even he didn't know how to climb, but had an idea and could do it after he healed. He was 30 feet away, but didn't show that he was there despite Phire knowing that he watched.
'You know how to climb stairs and steps, right?' Phire asked them. They nodded.
'When you do it there, you don't have to worry about falling into the ground as they already give support; but steps of air requires imagination and determination,' she told them. They nodded, Naruto not understanding anything, Sakura confused as to how, and Sasuke just listened.
'You must pay attention to how much chakra is in your feet when climbing air steps; but steps such as wooden you don't, so you don't pay attention to how much weight you are putting, which you can calculate, but not getting into that, you must be able to try to calculate how much chakra you need for each height of "steps"; if you didn't get that, then you better just go back and worry about your real teacher that is not feeling well,' Phire told them. Sakura understood, Naruto was thinking hard, and Sasuke actually got 4 feet into the air before dropping to the ground!
'Amazing; now how did you do that, Sasuke?' she asked. Sasuke summed up exactly what Phire had said, and then tried harder.
'Once you get to 7.57-8 feet, tell me,' Phire told them. It took about 1 hour for Sasuke to reach 8.01 feet, Sakura around the same time with a minute extra, and Naruto got only to 5 feet in the hour!
'Sasuke, show Naruto how good you think you are at this exercise,' Phire told him, waiting for him to get to 6 feet. When Sasuke was about to go up another step, a kunai hit him in the arm, causing him to fall down to the ground. Phire sighed.
'Sasuke, if you can't get to 8 feet, I can't help you; I think you should not be a ninja yet and keep training,' Phire told him. Sasuke panted and looked at her in surprise; what! He defeated other ninjas! How could she say such!
'Sakura, go,' Phire told Sakura. Sakura was really nervous, and when she was around 6.5 feet, she trembled, and then fell in fear. Phire told her the same what she told Sasuke.
'I thought I told you to come when you could do it,' Phire said, sighing. 'Oh jeez, I thought Konoha ninja were actually something! I was so wrong,' she sighed. 'Now I'll give you one hour to train. If you don't do it until then… well, let's just say that you will, no matter what,' Phire told them, teleporting right behind Kakashi, but the others didn't pay attention to that, and they practiced.
'Your training them very well,' Kakashi told Phire. Phire looked at him.
'When you are from a place that makes you multi-task a lot, you get good at almost everything,' Phire muttered.
After an hour, they all were able to get up to 13-17 feet with less trouble, but still with difficulty.
'Okay, who wants to go first?' Phire asked. Sakura raised her hand.
'Go,' Phire told Sakura. When Sakura took one step, a kunai went flying past her hair, and she almost fell, but used her hands to handstand 3 feet in the air, almost falling, and went back to her feet, and as she ran to 10 feet, she felt like she was in genjutsu, so she bit her lip, only to get hit by a kunai in her arm, causing her to go back down to 5 feet, but then she grabbed a kunai and as she went up, deflected 3 of the 15 kunais thrown at her, and she finally reached 15 feet before falling to ground zero.
'…That's all? Wow, I expected a lot from you,' Phire told Sakura. Sakura glared at Phire, but then sat down on the ground. Phire then looked to Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke wanted to go next, and before Phire said go, he went 7 feet into the air before falling down to 2 feet because of a kunai into his hand, so he powered himself to go into the air by aiming Katon, Goukakyuu no jutsu to the ground, sending him 17 feet into the air, but then when he got to 19 feet for once, waves of darkness surrounded Sasuke, and choked him, making him fall right to the ground.
'I guess I overestimated you, Sasuke,' Phire told him. He glared at her, but then just crossed his arms. Phire then looked to Naruto, who was very eager to try.
'I'll get to 25 feet by today evening, Phire! I promise!' he smiled. Phire smiled.
'Then keep the promise or get hit by that kunai behind you,' Phire told him as a kunai hit him in his back. He coughed out blood as he was 2 feet in the air, but then jumped so he was 13 feet into the air, and then when he reached 18 feet, he felt a tanketsu chakra hole close up and he fell down to 1 foot, only to get his red chakra out, and he jumped up to 15 feet, and when he struggled to 18 feet, Phire was right in front of him and flicked him in the forehead, causing him to hit the ground.
'Naruto, you suck. You said 25 feet; 18 feet is not 25 feet,' Phire told him. He growled, but then got control of himself.
'I can't see much improvement, you know, but you will get to at least 25 feet by today 8 p.m., or else in 3 hours,' Phire told them. 'I'll give you now just 30 minutes to train; I'll be back,' she said as she disappeared.
'What the hell! She just discouraged us!' Sakura whined. Naruto kept going and reached 19 feet before falling. Sasuke was angry at himself, not Phire, as he knew she was trained much worse than this, so he wanted to be able to get to 25 feet when she came back.
'She may have discouraged you,' Sasuke told Sakura, who was 10 feet in the air, 'but she encouraged me.' Naruto and Sasuke raced and reached around 16 feet in the air before kunais hit them in their arms, causing them to fall down. Sakura sighed.
'Come on, all of you better succeed 25 feet or I will kill you,' she told them, serious. They gulped, especially Sakura, as she couldn't even get to 20 feet. Kakashi was intrigued at the way she was training them.
'Sakura, you first,' Phire told Sakura. Sakura held back her tears, and ran straight for 20 feet, but got up to 17 feet when 10 kunais attacked her. She deflected 3 of them, and she fell to 4 feet, and she kept getting up and falling down. A genjutsu made her fall to .34 feet above ground.
'Continue or die, Sakura,' Phire growled, stabbing her in a genjutsu. The pain in her head was immense, and she fell to .1 feet above ground, but then used kage bunshin no jutsu to help her get thrown into the air, had kunais in her hands to deflect attacks, kept a kunai in her leg so she could stop some genjutsu effects, and she finally reached 27 feet in the genjutsu! She then fell down to the ground, tired as hell. Naruto and Sasuke ran over to her.
'Congratulations for just making it, Sakura; it wasn't 25 feet, but 26 feet I was actually aiming for. You better get higher than that or I will kill you,' Phire told her. She then looked to Sasuke. Sasuke was ready, and he had gotten around to 28 feet despite the amount of times Phire attacked him.
'Wow, Sasuke, I just noticed you existed,' Phire told him, 'maybe you should improve.' Sasuke wiped the sweat off of his forehead, and then it was Naruto's turn. Before anybody did anything, Phire made everybody quiet, and she slightly angled her glance behind her, and then looked back at Team 7.
'Naruto, you were going to say?' Phire signaled Naruto to continue. He blinked, and then did continue.
'Phire, I promise that I will exceed 25 feet!' Naruto told her. She blinked, and a few kunais hit Naruto in the back. Despite that, he ran into the air. Many kunais attacked him from arbitrary places, but then Phire herself pulled Naruto down, causing him to almost fall to the ground, but the was still .23 feet above ground! He used rasengan with the help of a shadow clone, and the rasengan boosted him into the air, 28 feet!
'Phire, how did you keep your promise?' Kakashi thought, amazed at how high they could go. Naruto then used the kunais Phire attacked him with to make him go up into the air, 30 feet! He then fell down, and was panting. All of the other jounins were watching, including Tsunade-sama.
'Naruto, keep trying hard; you will become hokage, if you practice and never give up,' Phire told him, 'but you still suck compared to me.' Naruto grumbled, and tried to tackle Phire to the ground, but she grabbed him when he approached her and threw him into the ground near Kakashi.
'So Kakashi, what do you think? May I still train them?' Phire asked Kakashi. Kakashi smiled.
'If they would like the other training sessions like this one, I guess,' Kakashi laughed, and Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura just fell down on the ground, moaning in pain. Phire laughed, but then it was 8, and she had to go.
'Oh, I have to go; be back tomorrow,' she told them.