Normally I don't give out a disclaimer because its fairly obvious I don't own the story...if I did...why would I be writing fanfiction? Great question...and moving on. I do want to say that the Ether characters that are original, Sicerio, Lily, Cindy, and Red are mine. You can't have them. Not for a bajillion dollars.
Sicerio: Age 26 (technically 25,026)
Lily: Age 25 (technically 25,025)
Red: Age 26 (technically dead)
Cindy: Age 25 (technically 25,025)
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Walking out onto the training ground, the two parties stood towards each other and guaged the others. Naruto, in the middle of his group was around 5'6", obviously around fifteen years old, with blond hair and a orange and black jacket. His sandals looked blue, and his spiky hair was held up by the bandanna like cloth and metal on his forehead. His most defined features were these black whisker like marks on his face, and the red spiral on his back.
To his right was Sakura. A pink haired girl with a red dress and black shorts. She had bright green eyes and stood somewhere around 5'4". She also had the bandanna like thing around her forehead and blue sandals. Though her toes if you looked closely had recently gone through a pedicure as it looked. She also looked fifteen.
To the right of Naruto, stood Sai. He had black hair, and blue clothing and tan shorts. He had a sketch pad at his side instead of the holsters the other two wore, and he looked bored. He stood around 5'5" and maybe sixteen. He could heard muttering 'penis' over and over again as if were tormenting him.
Across from them stood at the center Sicerio. He looked like he was in his early twenties despite being twenty-six. With his dark brown hair and brown eyes, he looked plain compared to the three ninja genins. He seemed to have the chakra aura of a villager, and yet he had stopped Tsunade cold in her tracks from destroying him. He was obviously the man in charge of the three foreigners. He stood as giant to the three Ninja at 5'10.5". He wore a simple pair of shorts with a muscle t-shirt that they'd been wearing for the exercise that morning.
To his right stood Lily, a woman with bright red hair and ocean like blue eyes, much the same as Naruto's eyes. She looked roughly 5'6" and late teen to early twenties as well, despite being twenty-five. She wore a simple pair of sweatpants with the word 'Kitty' written on the back, a gift from Sicerio to be sure. To top it off she wore a flowing shirt that covered her skin between waist line all the way up to around her neck and then out to cover her wrists.
To the left of Sicerio, stood Cindy. She was the shortest of the three, at roughly 5'3". She had long flowing brown hair with hazel eyes. She wore a skirt, and a blouse. Her feet were socked with sandals, much like the ninja counter-parts. She was also looked around her early twenties despite being twenty-five.
Tsunade had long since walked out of range to be caught in the crossfire, sitting in a tree watching in interest. Here she stood and waited to see what would happen.
But the action was rather dull. Both groups were still sizing the other up. It was Sakura who spoke up first, "Why should they even deserve the chance of being our sensei's if their chakra is so low?"
Naruto was about to respond when the answer came from Sicerio instead, "Better question Pinky...why do three grown adults have to teach three teenage brats how to kill right?" His question was sarcastic and calm...the kind of mixture that easily spoke of the venom beneath it to egg her on.
You could see the veins in her forehead as growled and slammed the ground, instantly commencing the fight as rock and bits went up. As the dust settled the three ninjas were gone, and the three foreigners remained, standing with their backs to each other softly whispering.
"If they're ninja then they should be sneaky about their attacks. Attacks hidden within attacks. Be on your guard," came the soft and bright whisper of Lily.
"Any direction," reminded Cindy from her position.
"All we have to do is either flush them out, or stun them," came the tactical whisper of Sicerio.
They began calling up the energy of the under-verse, slowly channeling it and bending it to their will. Sicerio built an invisible barrier around them, a bubble made up of his stretched strings. Lily let her strings coax alongside Sicerio's in strategic places, as to act as an offense to his defense. While Cindy, ever mindful of the 'any direction' she had herself reminded them of, worked her strings into the ground beneath them. They had set up their defenses, now they were waiting for the ninja teens to make the first move.
In the trees Naruto hid behind a tree trunk, signaling towards Sakura and Sai, whom he could barely see. Apparently the foreigners were expecting them to make the first move. In his mind he kept reliving that moment...wondering what it was that the man had done to stop Granny Tsunade.
At length when things had calmed down Tsunade, the one clearly in charge demanded a response. When Sicerio had continued to ignore her and was instead conversing lightly with the other two strangers, she cocked back and aimed one of her Super Punches to the back of his head. His fate was set in stone...he was a dead man. He couldn't be anything other than a civilian...a samurai at best maybe.
To the Naruto Universe characters, they were surprised when Tsunade's hand stopped. She herself was angry that she'd been stopped and not even budged the man. Whatever was holding her back was not the greatest thing for ninjas all around.
Then that voice kicked in. With his back to the Naruto characters, Sicerio spoke up in that suave voice of his, "You shouldn't hit a person with glasses in the back. No matter your profession," and turning around they could see the eyes. The kind of eyes that told the story of death and pain, blood and guts.
That man...he'd seen death before, probably even taken lives before. Tsunade had been stopped instantly. No slowing down, not even a pushing backwards. He had foreseen the attack and pushed back equally to stop her dead in her tracks.
Sakura was thinking along the same lines. 'Fucking assholes. Called me Pinky! Nobody calls me Pinky. Nobody!' Ok...moving alone away from the crazy bit-...
Sai in the meantime was checking out the male foreigner. 'Nice decent chest, looks like he's been working out. I wonder what his peni-...' Alright, this is ridiculous. Is it so bad anymore nobody is sane but Naruto? NARUTO MAN! I mean...come on! He's the crazy one. Ramen this and Ramen that. Hokage this and Hokage that. Sure he's a decent looking guy and he really deserves the bit-...Pinky...or someone else...(coughHinatacough)...but is it so bad now that he's the only sane one?
I mean...Tsunade had the moment earlier where she basically begging Sicerio for a good time.
Tsunade in a drunken stupor was asking the man of the arriving group if he wanted to have a good time.
"Soooo...how's it...gonna go in?" said that very same drunken Tsunade. Her arm was drooped over the man's shoulders and her lips were nearly upon his...
Just too many moments to count correctly. Otherwise the three ninja were preparing to attack. The plan was simple...attack from the three holes they had left in their sides. Right in between where they were facing waiting for their attack.
They were blurs as they fly across the ground in zigzags. A powerful punch flying through the air courtesy of Sakura, an ink like monster courtesy of Sai, and an army of Naruto's courtesy of Gaara...I mean Naruto.
They zoomed in closer and closer, the three foreigners tensing for impact. It was the ninjas who came to a 'surprising' end. They came to a dead stop, and then they were surprised to feel tiny cuts begin to trace themselves on them, but before much damage could happen they pulled back stunned.
Naruto getting a pretty good idea of what was going on, took a kunai and threw it at the three. The kunai zipped right along its deathly path until some ten feet away from the foreigners, it stopped, and then was slit in half.
So this was the power that had stopped Tsunade. Something evidently not chakra...nothing they'd ever encountered before. You'd almost think the three were lesser gods if they didn't appear somewhat normal. The two women looked a little frightened, but the man...he looked like a god in this case. His eyes betrayed nothing. He was not afraid, he did not fear for his life. He was calm and collected.
Sakura charged once again, diving beneath the ground's surface and Naruto was grinning, readying his kunai for when she disassembled whatever they were using by coming up from beneath the ground. Sai too was preparing. He was preparing to sketch the penis of the man whom they called Sicerio.
The two ninja were sort of unnerved when a bump appeared in the ground but then receded. Sakura soon came back out of her hole and was rubbing her head. Virtually they had no way to go beyond this barrier. They were protected in all directions, and the defense even had an offense.
Sicerio took the moment to speak up, "One day Naruto, all three of us will be able to do each of these three things and not depend on the others. Given that kind of strength...what could you ever do to surpass it?"
Sicerio was either really smart as some believed. Or he was really stupid and got lucky a lot. Naruto was brimming with loathing for basically being told he didn't measure up. The field was almost instantly filled with red aura-ed looking Naruto's, and Sakura and Sai knew well enough to take cover. Dashing out of the way before they could be caught in the crossfire.
With a loud demonic growl, the field of Naruto's charged forward and slashed and rasangened and slashed some more at the invisible strings, but all that occurred was the slow depletion of Naruto's in the field.
By the time just three were left, Lily and Cindy were winded, and they, with permission, flagged themselves out. Three against one, as Sakura and Sai returned warily. Technically five against one. But that didn't change Sicerio's outlook on the matter. "Give up shrimp...you don't stand a ghost of a chance."
"I'm going to beat you and become Hokage! Believe it!" just...take a guess who said that. (Sai?) NO!
All five ninjas pounced, sliding, zipping, or flying in to attack the prone man. Given the fact that two of the foreigners were gone now, he should be much weaker. To their surprise ten wiggly string like objects blared into view. "Like I said little boy, you don't stand a chance."
Five of the wiggly strings retracted and molded themselves around his body, while the other five sharpened almost invisibly thin again if it weren't for their aura. Each of them gave off a shimmering green aura. "Bring it on shrimp," came the cocky voice of Sicerio.