Chapter #7: Genin Exam – part V

Control Points

"Where did Naruto-sensei go to?" thought Emi, while jumping from one tree to another. Suddenly she stopped and looked in front of her; there was Daisuke attacking the jonin with his chakra fists: "There you are…" she announced to herself and observed the whole battle from a distance.

Naruto was easily dodging Daisuke's attacks by jumping to the sides, the boy's fists haven't touched him even once. The preteen kept swinging his hands, but every attack was too slow. He felt that his arms started to lose their strength.

"Chakra Flow techniques aren't common among shinobi" announced the whisker-marks calmly. "Wanna know why? First off: it can only be learned by shinobi with top-notch chakra control. Second: it is very hard to control even if you have enough chakra control to master it…" at this point the man grabbed both of the fists.

Surprisingly for Haruto, Daisuke smiled. A moment later, Naruto felt the fists changing form.

"Impossible" Naruto thought.

A second later the fists expanded, causing Naruto to lose his grip. Daisuke's right chakra fist then turned into a hammer and it aimed straight for Naruto!

-That time, elsewhere-

Takeru was finally able to stand up. As soon as he stood back on his feet, he started to move every part of his body. It was completely numbness. Suddenly he noticed somebody's presence. He pulled out a kunai and turned around. It was Kumiko.

"What do you want?" he asked coldly, retreating the knife.

"I just…um… the paralysis wore off right?" she responded.

"How did you…? Never mind. I heard an explosion. Was that you?"

"Kinda…" she nodded.

"But you didn't get the bells, did you?"

"No, I didn't" confirmed Kumiko simply. "But I do have an idea on how to get them…"

-Back to the fight-

Naruto dodged the attack by jumping to the left. He heard the hammer going right next to him as he flew. "Unbelievable" he thought to himself. "Being able to mould chakra at this age. This kid's ability is on its way to being on Sakura's level."

"Didn't work" announced Daisuke, dropping his face a tad. "I really thought that I'll get you this time, sensei…"

"Well, you did surprised me, I'll give you that" responded the older blonde.

"Well, it's not like I have no chance of getting the bells now" noticed the boy. "Even though my secret was revealed, it still doesn't mean that I won't reach your bells, Naruto-sensei.'

"You won't, Daisuke" interrupted Haruto.

"We'll see about that, I'm just getting started" responded the chakra master and attacked the Nine-Tails vessel with a sword he molded.

Daisuke aimed the sword straight at the jonin. Naruto strafed right to dodge the sword and grabbed Daisuke's hand.

"Bad move" announced Naruto with a smirk, slamming his palm into Daisuke's chest.

Before Daisuke could react in any way, Daisuke noticed his chakra sword vanished and he could no longer bring up his chakra. After that, the sharp part that until now was using Naruto's hand to get to the bells, stopped.

"No matter how good your chakra control is…" explained Naruto calmly with a straight face, "Once your Chakra Points are shut down, it's finished."

"He blocked the connection on the Chakra Pathway System that Daisuke uses to materialize his chakra…" Emi deciphered, narrowing her eyes, "He really is good!"

"Also…" continued Naruto with the same voice, "With your main Chakra Point shut down, you won't be able to do anything else either…"

"Dangit" the chakra master thought to himself. "He's better than I anticipated. I gotta think of something…"

"Daisuke, just think for a second!" commanded Haruto, walking up to his teammate.

"Shut up!" his companion shoot back annoyed. "You weren't been close to getting those bells, so what do you know?!"

"You're right I wasn't…but I do have an idea" announced Haruto, surprising the chakra master. "Neither me, you, Kumiko, Emi or even Takeru is able to get those bells…"

"Oh yea?!" ordered Daisuke, anger mixed with confusion. "If it's not possible to get the bells, then why make the exam!?"

"I'm not saying it's not possible to get the bells" corrected Haruto matter-of-factly. "I'm just saying that we need to put our heads together on this…"

"What're you suggesting?"

"Well there's four bells, right?" Haruto explained, thinking really hard. "All of us won't be able to pass that exam, but if we don't work together, none of us will. There's two of us. By working together, we might get two bells, so why not fight together? As a team, we have a better chance to get at least one…"

"You know, that just might work" responded Daisuke with a nod, "Fine, let's give it a go. And can we get one for my love Kumiko?" he proclaimed while Naruto just smiled under his nose.