Episode 43: The Next Akatsuki
Tosen and Barragan were back in the Akatsuki base. Tosen threw the rings to the man with orange hair. Even though it looked like the rings were going to miss, the man held his hand out and then the rings flew to his hand.
"The question is who will take their place..." Mumbled the fish man with the sword.
There was a silence for about a minute. "There's a woman who I think would make a good Akatsuki... but I don't know about the other person." Said a man with half his skin being white and the other half being black, and he had large green things coming from his shoulders resembling some sort of strange jaw.
"Tier Harribel." Said a man with black hair, and red eyes with a strange design in them.
"Harribel is going to be the one, but who will be the other?" Asked Barragan.
"What about Tobi?" Suggested the fish man.
"Tobi is a wild card." Said the man with red eyes. "He is unpredictable."
"Ahhh... but Tobi is a good boy..." Mumbled the white side of the strange man.
"Shut up." Growled the other side of Zetsu.
"If no one has anyone better to offer, we will have no choice but to accept Tobi as our next Akatsuki." Said the orange haired man.
No one said anything for a minute.
"I do not believe Tobi would make a good Akatsuki." Barragan put out.
"You didn't hear my statement then." The orange haired man turned to him. "If you don't have anyone else that could join than it has to be Tobi. It doesn't matter how many of us dislike him."
The next day, Naruto was standing in front of Tatsuzo.
"Alright!" Naruto punched his hand. "Let's do this training stuff!"
Tatsuzo suddenly teleported, and his fist was suddenly an inch from Naruto's face.
"Next time I'm going to follow all the way through. And I'm going to do this, until you can dodge them of them right in a row."
"What- come on! No fair!"
"Tatsuzo's training is hardcore. If you can't handle it, you're going to have to find a new master."
"Why don't you teach me?"
"Nah, I can't."
"Why not?"
"Jutsu's too dangerous. If it accidentally activates than it could kill you."
"How do you accidentally activate your jutsu?"
Tatsuzo took a deep breath. "That doesn't concern you. At least right now. Get ready."
Tatsuzo suddenly teleported right in front of Naruto, and he punched him right in the face and sent him flying. Naruto hit a wall, and then stood there for a second.
Tatsuzo walked over, his arms crossed. "Come on. Get up."
Naruto stood up, and Tatsuzo punched at him.
Naruto tried to dodge it, but he still got punched in the cheek. He was hurled into another wall.
Naruto groaned, and went to stand up. Tatsuzo punched him again.
Kenpachi woke up, and he sat up. He rubbed his eyes, and he tied his eye patch to his face, and he attached his bells to his hair. He put his Squad Eleven jacket on, and he walked outside. He jumped up to his roof, and he did a hand stand. He removed his one hand, and he started doing reverse pull ups.
After about twenty minutes of those, he switched hands. Then after twenty minutes, he started doing something else.
After his morning exercises, he jumped down to the ground.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, Yachiru jumped on his back. "You didn't think you could leave me, could you, Kenny?"
"No. How could I ever dream of such a thing..."
"Don't be sarcastic!" Yachiru punched him in the back of the head.
"Stop that! Oh damn. I don't know where that Naruto brat went. Hell."
Kenpachi then darted off, running around the Steel Village, trying to find the Nine Tailed Ninja.
Several hours later, Kenpachi finally found him. He was training with Tatsuzo.
"Finally, I found you!" Kenpachi growled. "Do you realize how long I was looking for you?"
Naruto looked over at him. "Sorry. I was practicing."
"This Leaf Ninja sucks." Said Tatsuzo. "You better teach him something... because he's really bad at stuff."
"No one could dodge your attacks! It's impossible!"
"Oh yeah?" Tatsuzo suddenly teleported in front Kenpachi, punching at his face.
Kenpachi side stepped, without asking questions, he drew his sword and slashed at him.
Tatsuzo jumped backwards. "See? Kenpachi dodged it."
"I'm not a teacher, Tatsuzo. I can't teach him anything."
"Just teach him how to fight."
"He doesn't have a sword."
"Than get him one."
"But like I said. I'm not a teacher."
"Use your motherly instincts that you got from raising Yachiru."
"Shut up."
"So are you gonna do it?"
"Whatever." Kenpachi groaned. "Follow me." Kenpachi gestured for Naruto to follow him, and he started to walk away.
Naruto ran up to join him.
Kenpachi went to a sword shop.
"Hey, Kenpachi. How's it going?" The owner asked.
"I gotta kid that needs some steel. Get him a good sword."
Naruto looked around. "Where do you get all these swords?" There was swords of all shapes and sizes all over the walls.
"Well, take a look around. There's steel all over. The ground. The walls. By using a Metal Style Jutsu I can bring some up, and then I take it in here. I use a Fire Style Jutsu to heat it up into a liquid form. I put it in a sword mold... and then my assistant cools it down with his temperature changing kekkei genkai."
"AWESOME!" Naruto put his fists down on the table.
"Stop screwing around and get a sword."
"Alright..." The owner looked around. "There's swords all over. Pick any sword you want."
Naruto looked around. He pointed to a sword that was behind the owner. It had a golden guard, and it had a blood red sheath and handle. It was leaned up against the wall. It had the kanji for demon on the butt of the handle and on the side of the sheath.
"No... you don't want that sword. It's cursed."
"Cursed..." Naruto gulped.
"Hey, if you wants that sword then give it to him." Kenpachi said.
"No... it's okay..." Naruto's face was turning pale.
Kenpachi walked over. "Get him that sword. How much for it?"
"Uh... I didn't actually put a price on it... so I guess I'll just make one up. Five thousand Ryo."
"Yachiru. Hand me my wallet."
"Here ya go!" Yachiru handed Kenpachi his wallet.
"No... I really don't want the cursed sword now..."
"Silence!" Kenpachi growled. "You'll take what you get!"
"Okay..." Naruto gulped.
Kenpachi paid for the sword and then the man grabbed an oven mitt, and he quickly set the sword down on the table. He quickly yanked off the oven mitt, showing that his hand had a small burn on it now.
"You're sure about this, Kenpachi?"
"Yeah." Kenpachi grabbed the sword by the sheath. He instantly let go, cussing instantly. He looked at his hand, seeing that it was really burnt.
"Your hand was burnt that bad after touching it just for a second...?" Naruto swallowed. "I won't be able to-"
"Shut the hell up." Kenpachi grabbed the sword, and he walked out. "Pleasure doing business with you."
Kenpachi and Naruto went to a training ground. Kenpachi dropped Naruto's blade on the ground.
He looked down at his now extremely burnt hand.
"Stay here for a minute." Kenpachi said. He suddenly darted away.
"So how are you going to train that kid?" Asked Yachiru.
"The only way I know how."
"YAY, Kenny! The strongest ninja!"
"But I need a way to hold my strength back so I don't kill him."
"Why don't you just not swing at full strength?"
"I guess I just have no idea how to hold back..."
"You could get a much of weights. Weigh your arms and legs down so you can't move as fast."
"Good idea. I'll do that."
Sakura was sitting on a bench, looking up at the sky.
Kakashi walked over to her. "Are you worried about Naruto?"
Sakura thought for a moment. "It's not that I'm worried about him... it's just that Sasuke left the village... and now Naruto has to leave the village... And I'm all alone..."
"That shouldn't bother you, Sakura. Naruto was unsafe here. But he's safe there."
"Yes but... I'm by myself now. I don't know when I'm going to see either of them again..."
"You will see them again. You'll see Naruto after the Akatsuki are dealt with. And you'll see when Sasuke again after we bring him back to the Leaf. Even if we have to drag him back."
Sakura nodded. "Yeah." She stood up. "Sorry about that... I really sounded like a brat there."
"It's not a problem, Sakura." Kakashi stood up. "Actually currently Naruto is being trained by the strongest one from the Steel."
"Oh, really?"
"Yes. You may have heard of him... His name is Kenpachi Zaraki."
"Kenpachi... Zaraki..." Sakura's blood ran cold. "Why the hell did you tell me that?"
"Oops."
"Kenpachi! That name means the one who loves killing the most! Why is he training Naruto? Naruto is going to get killed!"
"Sakura, calm down-"
"I'm not going to calm down! We need to rescue Naru-"
Suddenly a man appeared behind Sakura.
"Naruto Uzumaki is fine." He said.
Sakura turned, surprised. Kakashi's eye widened, but just for a second.
Standing there was Tatsuzo.
"Who are you?" Asked Sakura.
"I was here to tell your Hokage that Naruto was getting trained in the way of the sword. But then I heard a name of my comrade. Kenpachi is a strong warrior. Yes, he does kill his foes. But he's never attacked an ally before. I was a Genin with him. I know him well."
"Oh... okay..." Sakura said calming down.
"The worst thing you have to worry about is Naruto's personality being effected by being around Kenpachi- crap. Shouldn't have said that."
"WAIT! Kakashi-sensei! We need to rescue Naruto before he becomes a blood thirsty killer!" Sakura turned to Kakashi.
"Sakura, calm-"
"No! I won't-" Tatsuzo hit her upside the back of the head lightly. The cooler faded from her eyes, and she fell to the ground.
"Sorry about that." Tatsuzo said.
"It's not a problem."
"Well... actually she's pretty weak too. So I think I should train her."
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