Let's Train, Sasuke!
Disclaimer: This belongs to the series, Naruto. None of these parts are mine and are only written for entertainment purposes.
Appearing at the training area after a long exercise run around the village, Naruto spotted Sasuke throwing kunais at five different targets in front of him, nailing each dead on. He felt a presence showing up to his left and found Sakura there, watching Sasuke with a neutral face. Sasuke stopped throwing weapons and stood there, not moving and began speaking.
"Well, are you going to watch me all day and do nothing or what?" asked Sasuke, putting his left hand on his hip and faced the two with a smirk.
"Bring it on," shouted Naruto, grinning.
Sakura frowned, staring at the boys, "B-but, isn't this just going to be a repeat? You shouldn't fight each other!"
"No, Sakura," assured Naruto, "We won't be sparing for awhile. Just training."
Sasuke collected his kuanais off the targets and put them in his bag pouch then began stretching. Naruto picked several kunais out and began throw them at the targets, using other kunais to change the path to nail the targets. He had seen how Sasuke used that technique in their last fight and he was determined to master it.
None of the kunais hit their target, some were way off tangent while others never sailed past the targets themselves. Naruto sighed and turned to Sasuke and was met with a smirking face.
"Trying to master that technique?"
"Yeah," replied Naruto, crossing his arms, "got a problem with that?"
"Actually no," he replied and chuckled.
Naruto humphed, turning away from him and continued to practice throwing kunais and trying to hit bull's eye with his other set of kunais.
Sakura practiced her genjutsu, trying to improve herself, knowing that she was weaker than her two teammates. Sighing and faced the boys with furrowed eyebrows. Sasuke stopped throwing shurikens and looked at Sakura.
"What is it?" he asked.
Naruto stopped practicing when he heard Sasuke and looked at Sakura.
"Nothing," she replied, "let's just train some more," Sakura said, shaking her head and refocused on her training with Genjutsu.
The other two glanced at each other and Naruto shrugged. He returned to practicing throwing shurikens and kunais up and changed the paths with his other kunais. None of the targeted kunais or shuriken succeeded. Growling under his breath, he turned to Sasuke to complain and stopped when he saw something was wrong. The very moods within Sasuke seemed to be emitting from his body. Alarmed, Naruto took a step back when he saw his eyes were upon him.
"W-what is it, Sa-Sasuke?"
Sakura stopped practicing and moved away from Sasuke when she saw the mood he was in. She looked at Naruto as something squeezed within her chest.
'No! I don't want to see another fight between them! I'm going to stop them!' Inner Sakura thought, wanting to voice the words, but Sakura wouldn't allow her to.
"You… that really brings back a lot of memories," he said quietly. "Now I want to fight you again. Spar if you will."
"Spar?" asked Naruto, looking at Sakura who shut her eyes tightly, cowering.
'No! No, please don't!' she thought, clenching her fists.
"Yeah," he replied, crouching into his fighting stance.
"Whoa," a new voice appeared, "Whoa, whoa. Hold it right there. This is where I will draw the line and I have to interfere."
The three genins looked up and saw Jiraiya standing on top of a tree stump, arms crossed with a blank face. Sakura perked up at the sight of him, smiling in relief.
"Pervert Hermit," Naruto whined, "What are you saying?"
"What I'm saying is that I have to supervise you and Sasuke whenever you 'spar,' so it doesn't get out of hand. Like the time on the roof," he replied, jumping down. "I'm sure it's no problem, right genins?"
"Yeah, Jiraiya-sama!" replied Sakura happily.
"Sure, Pervert Hermit," said Naruto, scratching the back of his head in thought.
Sasuke nodded to Jiraiya and resumed his stance. Naruto complied and began attacking Sasuke first without warning. Launching forward from his stance, taking out a kunai and slashed at Sasuke's left arm, which was blocked with his own kunai. Sasuke closed his eyes, chuckling and opened them again, red eyes staring at Naruto. Naruto jumped back, holding the kunai in front of him as a defense as he took out another kunai and threw both at Sasuke. He blocked both with his own and the four kunais clanged against the ground. Naruto formed a hand sign, yelling.
"Mass Shadow Clones Technique!"
Ten clones appeared in arrow formation, with the original in front of the line. Sasuke smirked and used his multiple fireball technique to take out all of the clones except the original who jumped out of the way in time. Both growled in frustration as Naruto landed several feet further away from Sasuke. Naruto spat at the ground, grinning at him who grinned back. Naruto formed the same sign, shouting the same words, causing Sasuke to exhale with irritation.
Naruto created twenty clones of himself, surrounding Sasuke, preparing to attack him differently this time. Using his eyes, Sasuke studied the clones, and when the three attacked him from three different directions and saw which will land first, he dodged the first punch, sending a kick through the clone's stomach while twisting his torso to punch the second clone in the face before it could land an attack. The both clones vanished in a cloud of smoke.
Caught up in the first two clones, the last clone sent a punch to Sasuke's stomach, sending him flying into a branch. He flipped and landed underside of the branch and threw a kunai at the third clone, causing it to disappear.
"That was a good warm up, Naruto," said Sasuke, reverting back into his defensive stance, using his chakra to stay upside down on the tree's branch.
"All thanks to me," said Naruto, grinning, "Let's bring it on!"
"Stop talking and fight," said Sasuke, waiting in his crouched stance.
Ten clones attacked Sasuke at once, some throwing kunais and shurikens, others throwing kicks and punches. After ten minutes of solid fighting, all but five clones were gone, including the real Naruto.
"I wonder which one of you is real," said Sasuke, jumping off the branch and landed twenty feet away from the clones, "Let's find out."
'Real Naruto?' thought Sasuke, momentarily freezing.
"Naruto," he gritted his teeth, closing his eyes, giving him a small grin, "Kukuku…" he chuckled evilly, "You've gotten stronger, and what have I been doing? Kukuku… nothing!"
Naruto stared at Sasuke, fearing Sasuke. His laughter seemed eerily similar to Orochimaru's. He shook his head, his chest heaving with pain, struggling to hold his tears back. He closed his eyes, raising his hand to Sasuke's cheeks, causing to take him by surprise and stopped the evil sounding laughter as Naruto spoke.
"Brother… If you want to blame my powers on something…" he said, "then blame it on Nine-tails demon that lies within me. Blame it on Konoha Village for it."
"Nine-tails…? What the hell are you talking about?" asked Sasuke and sighed. "Whatever, it's too late, kukuku," said Sasuke, "Whether you have a demon or not in you, it's all the same to me."
The four clones attacked Sasuke at once, taking the advantage of Sasuke's pause in fight. Sasuke felt the force of each punch and the movements soon became a blur of a single punch. The force of the punches sent him flying into tree after tree after another, stopping at the fifth tree.
Groaning in pain, he clenched his fists, 'Damn it, why did I have to remember this now?' wondered Sasuke.
Amidst of yelling and cries, Sasuke lied there, his mind feeling disconnected from his body. He closed his eyes, realizing the real reason why Naruto had so much stamina, so much power.
'Damnit… Damnit, damnit! Why Naruto? Why?' he thought. 'Why does he have such a demon in him? He's… he's…' he paused, clenching his fists, 'he's my brother!'
He opened his eyes and saw Naruto in front of him, panic written all over his face like a mother worrying about her child. Sasuke gave him a weak smile.
"I—I'm fine, let's fight some more," he said, using his elbows to sit up.
"No, that's enough, you're injured, Sasuke," said Jiraiya. "You'll have to visit the hospital," he paused, looking at Naruto, "Now that I thought of it… Naruto, you're still in your hospital clothes. You two need to go to the hospital."
Naruto sighed, "I was hoping you'd let it slide since I can fight and all…"
"Well yes," he said, sighing, "but you need to be officially discharged just so we'll be on Tsunade's good graces."
"Good point," agreed Naruto, nodding.
"Right. Now, Sakura, please help Sasuke up," he said, leading the way back to the village.
"Yes sir!" she said, walking over to him to help him up and the three followed him out of the forest.
