In His Own Right:
Chapter Three:
Death was definitely more inviting than this.
"You have a minute to get the fuck out of your bed or your brains hit the wall!", came the dry unnaturally serious tone of a certain black spiky haired Anbu. His katana mere slightly pressing the side of his face. Naruto gulped, the drowsiness no longer present, for good reason too. Shisui...Shisui Uchiha of the body flicker was his title. He was greatly known throughout the shinobi world, his powers and effectiveness in battle clearly indicated his superiority to that of Naruto's. Anbu Team one had completed the most missions after all.
"Alright, damn. Interrupting my sleep...threatening me and all this bullshit." came the aggravated mutter of said Uzumaki.
The katana ignited, flames devouring it. Naruto felt the heat emanating onto his face, he instantly reacted by grabbing a hidden dagger hidden within his sleeping wear, slashing the flaming weapon from his persona.
The weapon remained in Shisui's hand, Naruto's attempts in vain.
"Alright, pass the dagger.", The body flicker master held out his left hand while his flamed katana was still in his the right ever so close."What did you think you were getting out if attacking your superior exactly?"
"Bastard..", came the blond's reply as he tossed the dagger lightly towards a threatening Shisui
"Now, as I recall a certain blond-haired, large breast, easily angered Hokage order you and Sasuke-Kun both to be put under our wing as per punishment.", he began. Naruto noticing a small grin through the dark early morning of his apartment. Which reminded him.
"I know.. I know, but can't we do this like.. " he gazed at the clock beside his bed. It read 3:25 AM. "..uh, later."
"No. Shit, we're doing this now!"
"But, I literally only got one hour of sleep!", The blond retorted. "An hour and seventeen minutes to be precise.", he concluded remembering the time in which he returned from Sakura's house as opposed to the time now.
"Either get the hell up, or I promise you I'll slice you into small chips.", Shisui's ultimatum and the dangerously close flaming sword were enough to convince the young jounin to comply. He nodded at the Anbu submitting to his will.
"Now, we're about 13 minutes off schedule, Thanks to your insubordination", he spoke flaming disappearing slowly.
"Go get dressed, and meet us in training ground 14. Don't waste any more time than you've done already..", There was nothing more said before Shisui vanished in a puff of smoke.
Naruto grunted. He hadn't expected the punishment to begin so..early. He was rather annoyed, irritated actually. And sleep-deprived... But not only that, but also curious.
He took off, not wanting to waste more time, heeding Shisui's warning.
Dark chocolate eyes fell softly upon the two Shinobi before them. Little brother and Naruto respectively in that order. Both of them stood still and at attention as Shisui successfully chastised them, allowing his ranked over them to get the better.
Izumi sighed, her eyes heavy as she felt old-man consciousness slowly leaving the barracks of her mind. It had been roughly, 48 hours since her last rest, and the sleep deprivation was beginning to take a toll on her. The mission had been longer than expected as stated prior.
It would be worth it though, she was completing two missions at the same time.
"...we have one hundred and ten percent control of both of you. Shit, we own both of you, two hundred and forty percent. For the next six months, I am your superior, for the next six months you will bow before me; you will not laugh, sleep, sneeze nor will you eat without my permission!...",
He was taking this very seriously, a small glare in his eyes that Izumi knew all too well.
"...do you two comprehend?",
Both Naruto and Sasuke hesitated, not understanding if he was joking or if he meant every aspect of his statement.
"I said. 'Do you understand?',", his voice lowered in pitch and became much louder.
"Hai."
"Hai!"
"Now...Mandatory training... Hmm..", he lifted his chin up in thought before turning towards Izumi.
"Izumi-chan, does 240 laps around the entire village seem okay?"
"240 laps, are you shitting me?", a frantic Naruto spat obviously having no control over his tongue. Why was he complaining? Team seven has definitely run much longer distances.
"It does seem sort of light if you ask me.", Shisui stated, glaring at the loud blond.
Izumi watched the two Jounin. It was apparent that they had a certain distaste for the work they were about to be exposed to. She'd fix that, laziness wasn't acceptable.
"It seems like an acceptable routine.", she spoke. Her eyes quickly found their way towards a certain blond jinchuuriki. He was starring, she caught a glimpse of suspicion in his crystal blue orbs. And yet another look that she couldn't exactly put a finger on, it was strange and quickly become awkward. He broke away as soon as he realized she was glaring back. He obviously had questions.. And if she knew him as well as she thought, he'd be more than willing to ask without hesitation.
"Alright let's get to it, Anbu pace! We don't have time for that slow junk!", The spiky-haired Uchiha cried slamming his palms together in contentment. "Move move, Get your asses running! Don't worry we'll instruct by example..."
"Come on Sasuke-kun and friend. It's only been 240 laps and you're already on your fucking knees huffing and puffing.", Shisui scolded the two young male shinobi who to Izumi, seemed almost half dead. They weren't used to such exercise that was obvious enough, especially considering that both Izumi Shisui had barely broken a sweat. She wondered what type of exercises they did in the lower ranks. Anything below Anbu.
"It's impossible... to do this at such a pace.", Sasuke huffed attempting to catch his breath.
"Yeah, how do you expect us to do it at such a quick pace?", Naruto inquired.
"Are you high? You guys have gone on missions where you're run at top speed for days upon days."
"Yeah but that's a mission!"
"It's necessary on a mission cousin."
"fuck it, go!"
"UUGH", they both replied.
Dripping from head to toe in sweat, exhausted and aching. Naruto fell backward on the soft grass, laying with legs and arms widely spread out. Relief hitting him instantly as he rested his legs.
Sasuke fell parallel beside the blond, he glared at him from the corner of his eye. Blue and black eyes met. And with that simple glance, Naruto knew exactly what he was saying; 'How the fuck did we get ourselves in this mess?'.
"Alright, I'm impressed. I actually thought you two would have given up by the 170th lap. But you've pushed through, awesome." Sasuke's cousin Shisui praised them, sitting down in a meditated pose, perpendicular to Sasuke's sister. He seemed genially pleased, albeit Naruto wasn't sure if it was because of their progress or his own sadistic gain. Izumi on the other had seemed unchanged from the moment he first saw her today.
"Alright, well Izumi-chan, I understand if you'd like to get little Sasuke-kun. So I'll get this idiot."
Naruto tilted his head forwards towards the two resting Anbu. "Excuse me?!"
"There's more, isn't there?" Sasuke spoke irritably.
"Well Izumi-chan thought it'd s great idea to evaluate you two's strength, and how awesome would it be to see how you two work under stress.", Shisui gave both Naruto and Sasuke a huge wide grin that seemed to extend all the way towards his eyes.
"So Naruto looks lik-",
"Actually cousin, I'd like to evaluate Naruto-san.", Came the impassive voice of the other female present. Her eyes remained closed and her face lacking any type of expression.
Naruto's eyes widen. A bit, what could she possibly what? He knew it would be a great opportunity to get answers to his huge sum of questions. But what were her ulterior motives?
Shisui's facial expression change to that of surprise, awe even. He nodded before a sly smirk made it's way prone onto his features.
"So, I get little Sasuke-kun...aye.", he clasped his hands together devilishly. This resulted in a certain Sasuke to gulp in response.
Both Anbu brought themselves up to the ground and walk towards their respective 'foe'. Shisui unleashed his katana, igniting. An inferno devours the sword. Izumi on the other hand took no action to grab her weapon, Naruto noted this. "Underestimating me?" he whispered the words only audible to himself.
She was gonna hold back then?
So would he...
"I'd get up if I were you two, we don't intend on showing mercy.", The genjutsu master, Shisui informed both members of team seven.
Naruto and Sasuke brought themselves to their feet.
"Don't get too overconfident, this won't be easy." Sasuke declared proudly towards his cousin, kunai finding it's way to the Uchiha's palms. Naruto wondered if that was going to be the case, though he prayed it play close to that.
"We'll see about that." Mere moments after Shisui had finished his statement, he was on Sasuke slashing at the younger Uchiha. Attacking violently and with great speed. He really was showing No remorse, which means.
Izumi stood feet away from Naruto. His eyes narrowed as he prepared himself for an impending attack. She stood motionlessly and with a blank expression, her hands unmoving at her sides. She looked rather innocent if she asked Naruto, he delicate features making her look rather cute if you would. But Naruto knew better than to base assumptions off of appearances and preconceptions. Izumi was the top Anbu captain in the whole entire village, that spoke for itself. She was the best of the best, of the best. He refused to underestimate her, not this time at least. And it probably wouldn't hurt to try and get some answers in the process.
Suddenly her right hand moved to her mouth, and without even a hand sign or any indication of her next actions, she released a huge blaze of fire from her mouth. Naruto side slid away from the huge mass of fire. His hands grabbing two kunai from his pouch as he gained visual of his opponent. She stood in the same spot, despite the fact that she was now facing him.
Naruto watched her feet, not chancing a look into her eyes. Even if she hadn't activated her Sharingan, which he knew she probably had, he didn't want to make any mistakes. He had to execute everything perfectly. She wasn't taking him seriously, he'd change that.
He tossed his duel kunai at the female Anbu captain who of which in that instant released her katana before swiftly deflecting the deadly weapons. With this Naruto rushed forward his hands coming together as he performed the hand signals to create his shadow clones.
He only needed about fifteen. He summoned the shadow clones as they came upon Izumi. They attacked, fists attempting to hit the unnaturally quick female. She dodged barrages of kicks and punches from the clones, sending a few of her own successfully dispelling them.
Naruto quickly summoned more, using them to gather wind chakra as he began to reform his signature Rasengan. Her back was towards him and he took his chance, he pounced forward leaving nothing to chance and he thrust his hands forward landing his attack on the Uchiha heir's back, and sending her flying, landing a short distance away.
A smile of satisfaction fell upon Naruto, his eyes lighting up. "It would do you better in the future, not to underestimate me!", he yelled out as pride filled every fiber of his being. It all changed when he felt a chilling tickle go through his spine.
He gazed back towards the spot where Izumi lay. His eyes widen. She was gone.
He looked in all directions, left, right, up, down. Where had she gone off to, it didn't seem like a substitution nor did it look like a clone?
In that instant, the sky turned black, and the sun a crimson red. Naruto choked out a cry as he found himself paralyzed. Not from fear, no by all means. But another force...
"Did you really think it'd be that easy, Naruto?", a voice whispered, the voice obviously belonging to Izumi.
"Ah, Genjutsu!", Naruto yelled in realization. He had little to no control over himself, his body was completely at her mercy.
"When?", he cried out almost in anger.
Her figure appeared before him, his body still frozen.
"From the moment you gazed into my Sharingan."
"But I didn't, or.. I don't remember.",
"Effects of my genjutsu, it's expected.", she spoke. "I control every aspect of this world..", she trailed off her voice sweet sending shivers down his entire body.
Her slender figure clad in her Anbu captain attired approached the paralyzed Naruto who had now realized his position. That position unexpectedly being him bound to a cross. She came close, more close than Naruto felt comfortable with - not that he was comfortable, to begin with. He tried moving with every fiber of his being, as he felt his face heat up in embarrassment. Wrong place and wrong time.
Izumi's stoic face was mere inches from Naruto's as she came closer Naruto's heart rate shot up like a firework. She whispered softly into his ear.
"I expected more..."
If she expected more, then you know what, Naruto would do exactly that.
*You expected more, huh Izumi? Well, don't underestimate your opponents. We'll end this here. I hope you guys enjoyed this short installment there will be more very soon :P.
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