Uzumaki Naruto Chronicles Rewrite
Chapter 17
Shikamaru's Reveal
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Anko was beyond pissed, not that she could tell what was going on outside the ice dome she was in, but it had sounded that Hinata had been taken. She was getting sick of the little fuck head that had trapped her in this ice prison and was throwing needles at her.
Anko tried blocking them, but there were a lot of them and she was getting tired. Her being a special jonin she was not having a hard time blocking them, she just could not stop blocking to do anything about it.
She rushed forward deflecting the senbon as she went. She kicked at one of the ice mirrors but it did nothing.
Anko cursed and jumped back to the center. "You know I am just about fucking sick of your bitch ass little needles. Why don't you come out and fight me like a man."
"Funny that coming from the damsel, that can't do anything but block. Please just lay down your arms and stop fighting. I do not want to hurt you more than I have to." Haku responded from somewhere in the mirrors.
Anko growled, she was now thoroughly pissed, "You are about to find out what it means when you fight a tried and true leaf ninja." With that she started jumping around dodging as many senbon as she could, while doing handsigns, finally she finished and slammed her hand into the ground and shouted "SUMMONING JUTSU" With that a giant snake popped into existence. It shattered the mirrors as it rushed out of them knocking Haku out of them and to the ground.
Anko released her summon, and ran at Haku as the boy got up. Anko slashed at him with a kunai and he blocked it with his senbon. They held the blade lock as Haku started going through one handed seals.
Anko smirked and sent a python out of her sleeve, it bit the boy's hand, stopping him from his hand seals. Haku grimaced in agony and jumped away breaking the blade lock and shrugging off the snake.
The snake coiled itself around Anko hanging from her. She smirked and charged Haku, the boy fending off the attacks the best he could. But the snake mistress was just too fast for him, too skilled for him. Finally he jumped back and ran through hand seals, "Ice style: Ice Dragon Jutsu." A giant ice dragon launched itself at Anko.
Anko grinned and ran through hand seals, "Fire style: Regal Fire Dragon Jutsu" With that a rather large dragon made of white flames shot into the ice dragon. The two dragons, twisted around each other. They crashed into each other as steam shot out of the crash. The fire dragon pushed through the ice, easily melting it and turning it straight to steam. It crashed down on Haku destroying his defenses and knocking him into a tree.
Anko grinned, "That is why you don't fuck with leaf ninja boy." With that she turned to Shikamaru.
Shikamaru was battling his own demon brother and it was not going well. Meizu was a chunin level ninja after all. Shikamaru was much smarter than the brother and that was the only thing keeping him from death was his smarts. He was two steps ahead of the demon brother. Shikamaru had hidden a bomb under the soil and was trying to force the demon brother into it. The man finally stepped on the bomb and Shikamaru grinned as it went off. The man was blasted back and Shikamaru charged him throwing kunai at him as he did. The man blocked the kunai and Shikamaru stopped and pivoted right in front of the man and spun into a roundhouse kick as he launched the man into the sky. He threw kunai with paper bombs on them at the man and they blew up in his face throwing him into a tree. Shikamaru grinned and turned to take stock of everything else going on around him. He was unaware that the demon brother was sneaking up on him, he had pulled a last minute substitution and Shikamaru fell for it.
Just as he was about to drive the kunai into the boy's skull something caught his hand. He looked over and saw Anko, the snake mistress grinned and tossed the man into a tree before pinning him to the tree with a wire that she had thrown connected to shuriken, they dug into the tree and trapped Miezu there.
Shikamaru thanked Anko and she responded by saying, "When we get back to the village, we are upping your training, physically you are weak. But that is something we can fix with hard work."
Shikamaru nodded grimacing, the woman was brutally cold sometimes, but he knew she was right.
The two turned to see Kakashi finishing up his fight with Zabuza, Kakashi was copying Zabuza's every move and they both sent out giant water dragons. They crashed together cancelling each other out. The two then went through more hand seals but Zabuza stopped in time for Kakashi to send the giant water vortex into him. Zabuza crashed into a tree and Kakashi put 5 kunai into the man pinning him to the tree. He sighed a large sigh of relief and took off heading in the direction that Naruto had left.
Kakashi, Anko, and Shikamaru finally entered the clearing where Naruto had defeated the other demon brother. When they got to the clearing they gasped, both leaf ninja were unconscious lying in a pool of blood. The blood was Naruto's Kakashi could tell. He cursed and he and Anko dropped down and picked the two up, placing them on their backs they took off for Konoha.
The Next Day in Konoha Hospital
Naruto woke up and groaned, his body was sore, but he could tell Kurama's chakra had healed most of his wounds. He sat up and looked around, he saw Kakashi, "Hey sensei, I really need to stop waking up in here."
Kakashi nodded, "You need to stop doing stupid shit. We had Inoishi Yamanaka take a look into your consciousness to find out what had happened. You burned yourself so hard you couldn't beat that chuunin like you should have been able too. You were easily caught in a genjutsu and could not get out of it easily. It was not a tough genjutsu to get out of. And letting yourself be stabbed to kill him?! Have you gone insane! That was the best idea you could come up with? Your mission was to fucking stall him Naruto, you were to stop him from getting farther with Hinata, which you did, but you ignored a basic order to stall and distract rather than fight and win. There were many better options the entire fight, and leaning on the Kyuubi to much is what let you down."
Naruto's head dropped, clearly ashamed, he had never been berated like this before, he had never had anyone to be disappointed in him, and Kakashi was more than disappointed, he was pissed. Naruto started to speak but was stopped when Kakashi continued.
"That being said, you fought hard, you would not give up and you did save your comrade. You risked your life, and saved your comrade. You did everything you could and fought through to win, you made a calculated risk and I know you would not have if you didn't have to, so I also have to say well done on completing your mission. You saved Hinata, fought through poison and while it was a rash and stupid decision you won. Well done. As soon as you are released we will be working on you using Kurama's chakra, refining your techniques and having you figure out how to break out of a genjutsu." Kakashi said while grinning.
Naruto looked at him with tears in his eyes, "Kakashi, thank you, thank you for caring so much."
Kakashi nodded and stood up ruffling the boy's hair, "Well I am heading home, you should be released tomorrow, but I know you want to see Hinata she is next door, she had already made a large recovery, but will spend some more time here, don't forget, you saved her from a certain hell and death at the hands of the cloud ninja."
With that Kakashi left and Naruto groaned pushing himself out of his bed. He still needed to talk to Hinata. He still needed to try to fix things with her. He still desperately wanted to be her friend, he had accepted he could not be with her yet. If ever.
Naruto walked slowly out of his room and to the room next door, he heard Hinata giggle as he got closer. He walked in to see a man in there with her. She looked at him and glared.
"I suppose you are here for a thank you Naruto." She spat out.
Naruto grimaced and weakly responded, "No, I never require a thank you from you, I just wanted to make sure you were okay." He looked down at the ground as he said it.
Hinata was about to reply when Kabuto said something first, "She is fine, no thanks to you. You do not even have the right to walk in here and ask her that."
Naruto gritted his teeth, "Oh? And exactly who the fuck are you to say anything to me?"
Kabuto laughed, "I am Kabuto Yakushi, what I am saying is if I had been there she never would have been in any danger, let alone hurt by someone."
Naruto was pissed, his anger flared and he looked at Hinata, "Hinata, you don't blame me do you?"
Hinata looked at the ground, "No, I don't but that does not mean we are fine. Thank you for coming for me, but it was not necessary." She turned to Kabuto, "Please Kabuto don't be mean to Naruto."
Kabuto then spoke up again, "No Hinata, Naruto, you piece of shit, you have any idea how much you hurt her. Do you? You fucking ingrate. Get the fuck out of here."
Naruto nodded and walked out, not saying a word, he walked into his room and got dressed and jumped weakly out the window.
Hinata stared after him for a moment before turning to Kabuto.
"Why did you do that Kabuto!?" Hinata demanded. "I told you not to be rude to him!"
Kabuto turned to her, smiling that knowing, overly-confident smile of his, and said, "Aw, Hinata, you're not mad at me. Are you?"
Hinata blinked, trying to focus as her head grew light. She shook her head slowly.
"No," she said. "No I'm not mad. After all, you were just defending me, as always."
Hinata knew she should not be treating Naruto like this, but somehow seeing him upset had made her feel less sad, she had not stopped Kabuto because he was the only thing keeping her together at the moment, being with him made her somewhat happy. She sighed, Naruto had only been here trying to make sure she was okay, and she treated him like shit. She let Kabuto treat him like shit, it wasn't okay. Naruto was really just trying to help. She finally gave up and let the tears flow down her cheeks as she cried. Kabuto tried to comfort her, with kind words and reassurances. She really couldn't be mad at him she thought he was only trying to protect her, after all he was the only one that was here for her now.
Naruto was on the ground walking around in the shop district, he walked into Ichiraku ramen shop and ordered his normal pork ramen bowls and sat and ate.
He was shocked when Shikamaru walked into the restruant and sat next to him. The boy didn't talk however ordered a bowl himself and started to eat.
Finally Naruto's curiousity got the best of him, "Shikamaru, how did you know I was here?"
Shikamaru stopped eating and turned to him, "I checked the hospital, and you weren't there, so this was the next most likely spot."
"Naruto nodded, "Right, is there something you wanted to talk about?"
Shikamaru shook his head, "No, I am simply waiting for you to tell me what is wrong."
Naruto shook his head, "I don't know what you mean."
"Cut the shit Naruto, it's obvious you are upset, so either you tell me what is wrong, or I will think you are too stupid to know what is wrong, and I will tell you why I think you are so upset, and you know I'm not usually wrong, so go ahead, what has you all out of shape." The boy genius responded.
Naruto blanched a little and grumbled under his breath, but responded, "It is all this shit with Hinata that is what has me down."
Shikamaru nodded, "Didn't you break up with her? Did you expect her to be okay with it?"
Naruto sighed, "No not exactly but I thought she would understand, I have tried to explain everything to her, but she won't even let me talk to her, she is being so cold."
Shikamaru scratched his chin thoughtfully, "So it is because of the demon inside you that you broke things off."
Naruto was now even more shocked, "What?!"
"Come now Naruto, you thought I wouldn't know? Even after you used its chakra right in front of me?" Shikamaru responded smugly.
Naruto looked down, "So now what? You gonna beat me? Mock me, hate me for what I can't control."
Shikamaru snorted out a laugh, "What, are you kidding? That would be pretty stupid, obviously you are not the demon, and you are the one containing it, stopping it from killing us all. No, to you I say thank you for taking the burden onto yourself."
Naruto was shocked, he could not believe what he was hearing, "Thank you, Shikamaru."
The genius boy grinned, "Now, next bowls are on me."
Naruto grinned and shouted, "Now you are talking!"
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