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Chapter Two: Is This The End?
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"Whoa... fuzzy-brows what happened here?" Naruto questioned loudly.
"Kakashi-kun, you're here!" Kurenai rejoiced.
Kakashi's group ran up to join with Kurenai and Lee. "So, what happened here?" Kakashi questioned.
"Well, the client turned into this guy here, and it turns out that he's Yamcha." Kurenai responded.
"So, fuzzy-brows what happened?" Naruto asked.
"After this guy appeared he attacked us, and well, as you can see we aren't doing that well, but we did manage to get his sword away from him." Lee explained.
"What happened to Ten-ten, Lee?" Hinata whispered.
"She's over there. It turns out we really underestimated his power and skill." Kurenai responded.
"Alright then…" Kakashi whispered as he walked in front of the group, facing Yamcha. "Here's the plan. Naruto I want you to bring Tenten over here; Kurenai, Hinata, I want you two to watch each others back, and keep that sword away from him. Got it?"
"Yes… but what about you, Kakashi-kun?" Kurenai questioned in concern.
"I'll be the distraction; once we've regrouped we're going to make a run for it."
"Okay then. Let's do this now!" With that Kakashi drew a kunai and charged at Yamcha, who seemed to be completely bored, with his head drooping.
Naruto immediately dashed towards the unconscious Tenten. Meanwhile, Kakashi attempted a jump kick but flew over Yamcha as he ducked under him grabbing a kunai from the ground simultaneously. Kakashi followed up with a leg sweep but Yamcha leaped, and attempted a leg drop but Kakashi rolled out of the way. Kakashi pounced toward Yamcha trying to stab him but Yamcha stooped down, making Kakashi miss and leaving him open for an attack. Yamcha swung the kunai straight up but to Kakashi's surprise, Yamcha only hit the metal part of his head band, sending the left side of it up two inches up, revealing the sharingan.
Yamcha then jumped away to take a look at Kakashi's face. Everyone was surprised to see him not finish Kakashi. "Hmm... So, my guess was right. You are Hatake Kakashi, 'The Copy Ninja'." Yamcha chuckled with a small smirk on his face.
By now, Naruto had already gotten Tenten and got her back to the group, who were tending to her wounds but could not help stealing glances of the fight. "Okay Kakashi, now that I'm sure, let's kick this fight into a higher level."
"What did you have in mind?" Kakashi smoothly but angrily replied.
Yamcha threw the kunai at Kakashi which he easily avoided, he then did a few hand seals 'Water Style: Snow Dragon', a giant dragon made of snow then rose off of the thickly, snow covered ground and charged at Kakashi. He did not move but seemed to have been taken away by the dragon crashing into him. The grounds cleared up but Kakashi was no where to be found; suddenly, another dragon made of snow came crashing down on Yamcha.
Yamcha slowly emerged out of the snow that covered him, only to see Kakashi making more hand seals, 'Water Style: Water Dragon', a water dragon emerged from the ground and flew towards him. When the dragon vanished, all that was left to see was a Yamcha icicle, which, with a light wind, fell down, breaking into pieces.
"Is it over?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi remained standing there, starring at the pieces, "You shouldn't let you guard down, Kakashi. You let me get behind your teammates." Yamcha chuckled.
"You must have forgotten that you're not only fighting one jounin." Kakashi replied.
Yamcha got confused but quickly remembered that Kurenai was there when she was attempting to kick him in the face. He blocked but was still sent flying into a tree. He managed to land on his feet but was holding his arm. "You'll pay for that!" Then he ran towards Kurenai, but before he could get there Kakashi was standing in front of him in his fighting stance.
Kakashi attempted to kick him but was blocked by two arms. Kakashi flowed into a spinning back kick with his right leg but was blocked by Yamcha's left arm. Yamcha retaliated with a punch but Kakashi caught his fist after landing on the ground. Yamcha yanked his fist free quickly and dropped to try a leg sweep but Kakashi jumped to avoid it and tried punching straight down, but with no results as Yamcha leaped backwards.
Kakashi soon realized that he and his team were not going to have a chance of getting away while Yamcha was still conscious. Kakashi stood with his legs apart, using his left hand to hold his right arm, which was straight down; he began gathering chakra into it, then out came the bright, flickering, chidori.
He posed for a charge and locked his sights on Yamcha, who was puzzled as to what was in Kakashi's hand. Kakashi launched at him at seemingly lighting lightening spee and thrust his arm at Yamcha's stomach, but he was suddenly stopped when Yamcha caught his arm in a tight grip, with his left hand. Kakashi was shocked to see that the speed accompanying the chidori had failed as it slowly faded away. Yamcha then lifted his right elbow: in a flash, he drove his elbow into the back of Kakashi's neck, and his knee into his stomach, then released him.
"Do you like that move? It's called the 'Scissors Knock-out', guaranteed to knock out a shinobi but mostly made for a chidori holder like yourself, no matter what they do."
"Really…?" Kakashi mumbled nonchalantly as he dropped to his knees holding his stomach.
"Now, what's going to happen is you're slowly and painfully going to loss consciousness." Yamcha boasted as he approached him.
He then kicked him out of the way. "Kakashi-sensei...!" Naruto shouted.
"Kid, if I were you, I'd worry about myself." Yamcha said.
Naruto, without a second thought, irrationally charged at him and attempted a punch but Yamcha caught his fist and held it, "You know kid, I don't know why but I like you're bravery and guts but you all must die so that the fall of Konoha may begin, but tell you what... you can be the first to die." He then began to laugh. Naruto's eyes widen as his fist was released. "Now… be prepared, kid!" He yelled.
"Let the massacre begin!" Yamcha hollared before he punched Naruto in the stomach, which made blood come out of his mouth.
"Naruto-kun...!" Hinata shouted, as Naruto doubled over in pain.
Kurenai defensively charged at Yamcha, "Hold on Naruto!" she shouted as she rushed towards Yamcha. But he made one hand seal with two hands, 'Hidden Water Style: Crystal Ice Bondage jutsu'. A ball of snow began hovering over the ground. A portion of it flew towards Kurenai, who had no time to dodge it. She was hit and sent flying toward a tree. The ball seemed to turn into thick rope but was still made of snow; it then wrapped around her and the tree before hardening into crystal ice leaving her immoblized.
Yamcha did the same to Lee, but he was more of a challenge to catch but he only managed to dodge two, while holding the sword and Tenten, before being caught by the third attempt. He tried to catch Hinata but found it even more difficult because of her 'Gentle Fist' and byakugan. She then charged at him to use her jyuken but before she could get in range, the another snow ball rose from the ground in front of her. It sped toward her and crashed into her stomach; Hinata and the ball flew towards a tree, and she was now caught and bound to the tree.
Yamcha then looked down at Naruto, who was still doubled over in pain. Naruto managed to turn his head to see what had happened to Hinata, Lee, Tenten and Kurenai; he turned his head more to see Kakashi unconscious, sitting at the bottom of a tall tree. He then stole a glance at Hinata again, before being kicked in the stomach and sent flying about seven feet away.
"Come on, is this still the same kid that I said had guts?" Yamcha boasted. What a waste and here I thought that you would have given me a run for my money!" He said as he began to walk towards Naruto.
"Hinata-chan..., Kakashi-sensei" Naruto began listing in his mind slowly. "Fuzzy-brows..., Kurenai-sensei..., Tenten..." Naruto then slowly struggled to his feet.
"Hmm..., nice to see that you still have some fight in you, because I really started to wonder if Konoha had ripped me off and given me a bunch of weakling, drop-out ninja." Naruto then became infuriated with what Yamcha said.
"You think I'm just going to let you disrespect my friends..., my village! Anyone that says anything like that about my village, while I'm around, won't be saying that ever again after dealing with me." Naruto had then begun one of his promise speeches. "I swear I will defeat you!"
"Oh yeah and what makes you so sure?"
"Why? It's because that's my way of the ninja!" After finishing his speech Naruto was ready for round two.
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata began thinking, "why did I have that dream? When... no I know you will never become that demon I saw."
Aahhh...
Naruto had charged at Yamcha. "No...! Naruto run away you don't stand a chance against him!" Kurenai shouted. But Naruto did not listen as he continued to charge.
"Ah... here's the kid I..." He was cut off by Naruto trying to punch him but he sidestepped making Naruto miss. Yamcha then punched Naruto in the stomach drilling his fist in and lifting Naruto about five feet into the air. Yamcha quickly stooped down and begin a one-eighty degree kick from the ground into the air then back down; this sent Naruto hurling towards his teammates.
"Naruto-kun…!" Hinata shouted, "You should stop fighting and run."
Naruto was about to answer before he was rudely cut off by a shouting Kurenai, "Naruto, she's right, you can't beat him, he's too strong!"
"But I..." he was cut off again by a concerned Lee.
"Naruto, they're right you should go."
"Are you all done?" Naruto questioned sarcastically, "Good! Now I can talk! The reasons I'm not going to run away are that I have my team to protect, I have my home to protect, I have my pride to protect, and most importantly I have the people I hold close to my heart to protect, and that's why..., I'm not going to run away!"
"That's very noble of you." Yamcha mocked.
Naruto got pissed, 'Kage Bunshin no jutsu', then ten Narutos appeared in puffs of smoke. Nine attacked, some with kunai some without.
Yamcha quickly took them out: with a leg sweep to two; a kick to one's face; a jump kick to one; a leg drop to another; an elbow to a face; a punch to another. A clone tried a leg sweep but to no avail, and it was taken out by a stomp; a straight kick to the heart of the last clone and all the clones where gone in under twenty seconds.
He turned to see the real Naruto and a clone forming a blue ball of swirling chakra in the real Naruto's hand. When the ball was done, the clone disappeared and the real began to charge. "Is this the Fourth's famous move? What was it called again?" Yamcha went into such a deep thought that he forgot that he was in a fight and struck a thinking pose.
"Resengan...!" Naruto hollered.
"That's it!" Yamcha shrieked with joy, "Wait; wasn't that a deadly attack?" He questioned, before noticing that Naruto had the deadly attack in the palm of his hand aiming at him.
Quickly Yamcha stepped to the side and applied a small pressure to Naruto's arm, thus, avoiding the attack by redirecting the point-of-attack, "That was close." He thought before kneeing Naruto in the side. "Alright…! Playtimes over kid! Now it's time to die!" He shouted.
Before Naruto could finish the reflexive arching of his body, Yamcha kicked Naruto high into the air, before jumping after him. He appeared next to Naruto with his fists clasped together over his head. He slammed down into Naruto's stomach. The blow sent him crashing into the ground. As Yamcha came flying down chakra began a slow release from the knee he had aimed at Naruto's gut. He crushed into Naruto's stomach with intense force leaving Naurto in a small crater and coughing up a lot of blood in the process.
"NARUTO-KUN...!" Hinata shouted.
"Naruto..." Lee whispered as he held Ten-ten in one arm and the sword in the other. Though Kurenai remained quiet, she had a worried look on her face.
Yamcha stood next to the crater laughing. When his laughing died down, he began to walk towards Rock Lee. Now standing in front of Lee, who was glaring at him with Tenten unconscious right next to him, he held his hand out. Lee, all of a sudden, felt the sword leaving his hand; he looked down to see the sword fazing through the crystal ice.
"What the...?" Lee was outraged to see this.
Yamcha then walked towards Hinata with his sword, "Are you enjoying the show?"
Hinata did not answer, but he gripped her jaw tightly but not enough to reform her face, she looked at him with teary-eyes and disgust. "I take it that means yes. I can tell that you WERE going to be a beautiful woman when you grew up; probably made some guy's dreams come true because I heard pleasant rumors about female Hyuugas..., very pleasant!" He released a soft chuckle as a smile grew upon his face.
Everyone that was conscious could only look on in horror as the man harassed poor, little Hinata. "Get your hands off of her!" a familiar voice echoed. Yamcha's smile dropped when he turned to face Naruto, who was struggling to stand, starring at the ground, and his arms limp.
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata whispered.
Yamcha took his attention off of Hinata to completely face Naruto. "So you're...," he was then cut off by two Naruto clones emerging from the ground and snow,. They were holding the resengan, which caused Yamcha's eyes to widen when he saw this. They got even wider and his mouth opened wide when he felt the swirling power of the resengan in his stomach. He was sent flying through two trees, dropping his sword while flying before stopping at a boulder which began to crack and break when he collided with it. He then he slid down into a sitting position, with his hands on his lap, legs laid out straight and his head drooping.
Naruto dropped to his knees after watching him fly through tree after tree. "I ... (pant)... defeated him." Naruto rejoiced to himself, "Matte, but why didn't his jutsu fail?"
Shortly after that thought Yamcha reappeared from the bushes, "You Damn Bastard KID!" Yamcha shouted angrily. "That hurt! Now the kid gloves are off! I'm going to kill you!"
Naruto was shocked to see Yamcha still standing after that. Then Yamcha began to charge at Naruto, picking up his sword at the same time. He swung straight up, which made Naruto spring to his feet. He had little time to find his balance before dodging by jumping back. Yamcha sliced straight down, making Naruto jump back again. Yamcha stooped down and did a leg sweep with his sword, in a complete circle, but Naruto jumped to dodge it. Flying to his feet straight into a jump kick, Yamcha sent Naruto soaring through the air. Naruto landed hard and began to roll and skip to a stop. He quickly but crookedly stood to his feet and did a hand seal, 'Kage Bunshin no jutsu'.
Three Naruto clones appeared from the smoke; Yamcha wasted little time after seeing this by rushing at all of them. He swung horizontally: slashing two in half. A clone tried to punch him but was quickly stabbed. He then kicked the real one, who tried to block but was still sent flying a few meters away.
"Naruto-kun... you can do it. I believe in you." Hinata thought.
"Naruto, you can do it, we believe in you." Lee thought.
"You numb-skull...! Why didn't you run when you had the chance?" Kurenai shouted in her mind.
Suddenly, Yamcha turned to face Kakashi and did the same seals for the crystal ice bondage jutsu before using it to tie Kakashi to the tree he was leaning against. "Nobody will stop me from killing you, kid!" Yamcha said with a deep voice filled with venom.
While Naruto was standing up with his back facing his opponent; Yamcha was charging at him with incredible speed. Naruto slowly turned, as Yamcha quickly ran but slowly armed his sword for a thrust.
When Naruto completely turned, his eyes widen as a jolt of pain ran through his body but then concentrating in one area. Everything went quiet and nothing was heard at all. Naruto turned to see Kurenai shooting but he could not hear anything; he turned to Lee and Ten-ten and saw Lee, also shooting but he still could not hear anything that anyone was saying. Finally, Naruto turned to Hinata who had simply been looking down.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
The silence was then broken by three dripping sounds. Naruto looked down to see that a sword had been driven through his chest. He looked forward to see Yamcha with a smile on his face, but he still could not hear anything. When the sword was pulled out of his chest, he took three clumsy, rapid steps back, with his left hand covering the wound.
Naruto staggered back slowly before falling on his butt and just sitting there. Naruto removed his hand to look at it. Seeing in covered in his own blood, he gasped deeply when, suddenly, all sound came back and he heard two people shouting his name, and also soft sobs and sniffles. He looked up to see his team still bound to trees. Naruto's vision of them became blurred and his sight slowly began to fade. Naruto's eyes slowly closed as he fell and everything blacked-out.
"Is this the end?" Naruto whispered.
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