Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
(A/N: I AM ALIVE PEOPLE!)
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Blows were exchanged with an ever-increasing intensity and ferocity. Naruto smirked as he swapped himself with yet another Kage Bunshin. Naruto grinned as he delivered a heavy kick towards the knee, only for it to be intercepted by Sasuke's foot.
The feint worked and Sasuke's eyes bulged and blood pooled in his mouth as another kick caught him in the diaphragm. "Coward!" Roared Sasuke as the addictive power of the curse mark rushed through his body.
"Don't be so hasty teme. Like, I said…YOU ARE COMING HOME!" Naruto thundered as he delivered a set of wild but powerful strikes at Sasuke, who let go of Naruto's leg to get away from Naruto's punches.
For all of his drawbacks, Sasuke knew that Naruto was one of the last…scratch that, the last person he wanted to end up in a prolonged contest or fight against. For his vaunted Sharingan, curse mark and naturally powerful reserves, even paled in the light of Naruto's purely monstrous and dense chakra reserves. It allowed him to just keep coming.
Which is exactly what was happening right now "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Shouted Sasuke, exhaling a colossal fireball. Naruto grinned as he expelled a fireball of his own. His was much smaller and more compact, when the two collided, Naruto detonated his with the force of a dozen explosive tags.
"How!"
"You're not the only one who knows that technique." Naruto mocked as he began to mould chakra for another jutsu. Sasuke watched, his three tomoed sharingan whirling only for him to freeze. "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu!"
Sasuke's eyes widened as Naruto not only exhaled a second jutsu, commonly used by an Uchiha but also vomited close to three dozen fireballs showing an impossible degree of control and mastery of the technique.
"How! Those are UCHIHA Techniques!" Screamed the Uchiha as he exhaled his own salvo of fireballs. The concealed metal projectiles clinked, clanked and struck each other before falling to the water below, which was slowly beginning to bubble.
Naruto landed on the surface of the water, heavier than Sasuke but as Sasuke was landing, Naruto was all up in his face. His chakra pulsing, Sasuke's eyes widened! This was bad! Naruto's chakra never became visible unless he was seriously pissed off.
The chakra thankfully was blue. "Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu!" Sasuke exhaled as he flicked his fingers wrapping Naruto in Ninja cord.
Naruto swore as the flames encompassed him. He managed to replace himself.
Sasuke grinned to himself. The dobe, was gone for all of his "advanced" training, nothing could stand up to the sheer battle prowess of the Uchiha! With that he began to cackle.
(Forest half-hour or so from Konoha)
Hari, loosened the sword in its sheathe positioned on his back "Who is it? I've sensed you the moment I left Konoha."
"If you insist." Came to the reply and Hari found himself accompanied by Kakashi. For once the silver haired Jonin did not have his book out, his face set into one of sheer determination.
"Hari-san, I need your opinion. What do you think of me? Both as a Shinobi and a Sensei."
Hari looked at the wreck of the former legendary shinobi "Honestly Kakashi?"
"Please."
"On your honour as a shinobi, that you will not do anything rash like suicide."
Kakashi gulped "On my honour."
Hari smiled thinly "I hate seeing you like this and I hate having to do this but I need to. As a shinobi, that is easy. I think you were the best we had, easily the strongest shinobi on the force bar Hokage-Sama, Sandaime-Sama and ANBU Commander, at least 13 years ago. You slowly slid down a depressive cycle 12 years ago and it only accelerated. When you were once S-ranked in the Bingo Book, you're only A-rank only because of the sharingan in your eye socket and the amount of jutsu you know but reserve and capability wise, I think you're not even A-rank. Do not get me wrong, you're an incredibly gifted shinobi but you've let yourself go…As for a sensei…Prodigies do not often make good teachers, you'd make a fine apprentice-master routine but not three students…Although speaking of your team what in the actual fuck? What the fuck were you thinking? Why did you want THAT team?"
Kakashi looked at him "I owe people. I owe a lot of people. I owe a lot of people a great many things and Naruto and Sasuke for better or worse I wanted to train them and I failed. I owe Minato and his Wife for in essence looking after me after my father committed seppuku because he saved his colleagues instead of completing the mission and then there's Obito Uchiha, my best friend…Only, I never called him that. The only time I did was literally just before he died. So, I asked for Naruto and Sasuke…I under anticipated the animosity of the villagers and the cunningness of the Elders, they made it impossible for me to teach Naruto, or give him any guidance. So, I thank you for that as is Jiraiya. Now I need to stop those two from potentially killing each other."
Kakashi nodded the answers hurt, but then again, he did ask for Uzuki Hari's opinions and Yugao's twin had always been known to be unapologetically blunt in his opinions on people. Thankfully, he had the professionalism to not bring it up whilst on mission and not bring it up in his verbal reports and everyone knew it would be in the written report when he used the phrase "My full report will say everything."
The pair carried on their intense pace when Kakashi smelt something. As a Hatake, he was blessed with an incredibly natural heightened sense of smell, nowhere near the sensitivity of their distant cousins the Inuzuka but definitely more sensitive than most sensory ninja. "We've incoming!"
In front of them wearing blank ANBU masks with the insignia 'Ne' on them, wearing black tops revealing the midriff were forty shinobi that Kakashi pegged as 'Root Division'. A division he himself had infiltrated shortly after the Sandaime came back to power. "Root…"
Hari's eyes narrowed and then came the unmistakable sound of his katana being drawn from it's sheathe "Kakashi, I've got this. Go, get your students."
(Valley of the End)
The Valley was in two words, messed up. In three words seriously messed up. Big gashes had been carved out of the two gigantic busts of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama. The size of these gashes and craters was a serious testament to the raw chakra being flung around.
Sasuke grinned and turned to leave the territory of Hi no Kuni, when a dual toned reverberating voice came out of the smoke "You know what teme! You're seriously pissing me off!"
Naruto left the smoke, looking distinctively feral "Your little fire attack didn't harm me…Now, I'm going to kick the ever living shit out of you…What I've just done, is a warm up."
Sasuke smirked but the smirk faded as Naruto's distinctively nailed fingers, now looking more like claws buried itself in his gut. The next strike was an elbow to the top of the head, stopping him from forming the words to his next jutsu. Following this came an elbow and knee strike, the former of which was only just blocked, the latter a feint.
Meanwhile as the two friends turned enemies carried on their brawl. The water began to churn, lap against the feet of the statues and whenever the fight took to the water, the presence of the malevolent chakra surrounding Naruto, it began to boil.
In response to this the cloud cover, began to thicken and darken as the excessive heat began to evaporate, condense and then descend as rain. Sasuke snarled and the curse mark erupted over his body, wings erupting out his back and he began to channel his chakra into his hand. The chakra erupted into life in the tell-tale familiar bird chirping mass of lightning, the only difference was the fact that this one was turning dark.
Naruto snarled and held his hand out, his red chakra shroud billowed and a grotesque hand tail like protrusion manifested and like the previous time chakra began to flow, compress and rotate.
(Hari and Kakashi)
"We cannot allow you to get to the Weapon or the Uchiha. They are our orders."
"Well order THIS!" Thundered Hari as he activated a shunshin, reappearing in front of the first Root shinobi and buried his sword into the shinobi's gut.
"You're in our way. You're our enemy. Jinton: Genkai Hakuri no Jutsu!" (Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling) a cube of chakra exploded from Hari's curved steeple fingers in the shape of a cylinder. The chakra erupted into a drill like shape slamming into and completely destroying twelve Root-nin and five trees.
Kakashi suddenly found a tag on his back glowing "Seal: Almighty Push!" Called Hari as he activated it. Kakashi jumped forwards and suddenly found himself soaring through the air unopposed. He went to help his comrade, but found Hari already amongst the Root-nin. As effective as they might be for completing the mission and knowing the skills of their enemies, no-one was ever really prepared for the 'Hellsword of Konoha'. Right now he lived up to the name, the seals on his sword ablaze with a crimson light and flames erupting on the edge of the swing.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Pakkun!" Kakashi called slamming his hand on what appeared to an arm or a leg.
"Seriously Kakashi! A Leg? We're not cannibals." Said the Pug Ninken on appearance.
"Gomenesai, Pakkun. I need your help. Sasuke and…"
"Naruto are beating the crap out of one another. Come on, this way. Should have summoned me earlier."
"Naruto, Sasuke…I hope I do not fail you again." Kakashi said to himself. As he began to lengthen his stride, his training in the ANBU came back to him.
As the smell got more and more intense, he could feel the chakra. Suddenly the area in front of him illuminated a massive purple orb of solid chakra. "They must have collided their most potent techniques." Kakashi stated, his jaw dropped "Kaimon: Kai!" The cyclopean shinobi murmured and chakra surged through him and he charged towards the centre of the dissipating orb of chakra.