Well, this one's a bit longer than the last one, but still on the short side. I had to end it here, though, because I want to give the next part a chapter all to itself.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or Naruto!!
"So basically…all I have to do is spar with you?" Danny asked Kakashi as they stood at the center of the training fields.
"Basically. We want to test how well you fight against someone who can use the sharingan," Kakashi replied. "Oh, and one more thing."
"What's that?"
"You're allowed to use your ghost powers." Danny gawked at him.
"WHAT? But…I thought…" he sputtered. Kakashi sighed.
"This exercise is supposed to be a simulation of what you're going to face once you leave here. Do you seriously think that you're not going to use your powers at all when you have to fight against Vlad?"
"But it wouldn't be fair to you! Vlad has ghost powers also, so at least the two of us are on a somewhat level playing field!"
"Trust me," Kakashi responded, as he raised the left half of his headband, "I think I'll be fine." Kakashi's left eye had a long vertical scar across it, and the iris was bright red and had two additional dots in it, just like Vlad's had.
"Fine," Danny sighed, and then looked up resolutely. "Going ghost!" He shouted, and a ring of intense bright light appeared and hovered around his waist. As it split into two and each new ring moved away from the center, his outfit began to transform. His shorts changed from beige to pure black. His sandals also lost their cerulean tinge and became black as well. His high-collared T-shirt, once all white, became black with a white interior and also acquired his flying DP symbol in white over his heart. His raven hair became snowy white, and his eyes changed from electric blue to radioactive green. As soon as the transformation was complete he took off into the air.
For a few joyous seconds he relished the feeling of true flight, rather than the extended leaping he'd experienced for what he felt to be too long, then cast his gaze down to where Kakashi had been standing only to realize that the jounin had vanished.
"Okay…how am I gonna do this?" he mused to himself.
"How indeed," came a voice from above him. Startled, Danny spun around in midair and saw Kakashi hovering a couple of feet above him.
"Wha…how…" the very confused halfa asked.
"The sharingan allows me to analyze and copy anything you do," Kakashi answered calmly. "That's why you can use your powers with me; I can use them right back at you." Danny growled and launched an ectoblast at him, only to swear as Kakashi deflected it with a blast of his own. Danny and Kakashi slowly circled each other, Danny shooting Kakashi a death glare and Kakashi returning with a half-lidded, almost bored facial expression. Finally he yawned.
"If you're not going to do anything interesting…" he began, then rummaged around in a pouch on his leg. Danny tensed up, expecting him to pull out some sort of weapon, and was flabbergasted when instead Kakashi whipped out a book. He stared, openmouthed, as the man calmly opened to a dog-eared page and began to read.
"I'll teach you to ignore me…" Danny muttered to himself, and immediately flew directly at Kakashi at his full speed in an attempt to knock him out of the sky, or at the very least knock the book out of his hands. He was two seconds away from impact…then one second…half a second…
…before Danny knew what had happened, he was laying spread-eagled on the ground. He angrily got up and zoomed to where Kakashi was floating, and was enraged to note that the sensei was reading his book as though nothing had happened. He shot at him again…
…and Kakashi had pinned his arms behind his back. The position was fairly painful, but Danny couldn't break the man's grip and get his arms free. He went intangible and phased out of Kakashi's grasp, and came to be floating level with him. He charged another ectoblast and launched it, but Kakashi batted it away without even looking up from his book. Danny was livid, and was about to try a direct attack again, but then an idea came to him. He turned intangible and flew into the ground, and pulled a pair of shuriken out of the weapons pouch tied around his right leg. His hands glowed green with energy for a second, and then the shuriken began glowing with an intense green light as the ghost energy was transferred to them. Danny caused the energy in his hands to die down, and the shuriken reverted to the usual metallic black, but kept a dull green tinge. Keeping the shuriken intangible for only as long as necessary, he threw them up at where he presumed Kakashi to be. He made his head intangible and invisible, and stuck it out of the ground so that he could observe what would happen. He caught sight of Kakashi just in time to see him reach out and, in a flash, catch the shuriken with his index and middle finger. Suddenly, he disappeared.
"What? Where did he go?" Danny asked himself as he frantically scanned the ground.
"That's a nice little combo you have there," he heard Kakashi say. He turned around and saw Kakashi's hand sticking out of the ground with an ectoblast primed and ready to fire. Though he was invisible, he noticed that Kakashi was looking right at him, with his red sharingan eye trained on his face. Even at this close range, Danny could see that Kakashi purposely wasn't looking him in the eye.
"HA! You can't hit me while I'm intangible!" Danny exclaimed as he regained visibility, though his still-intangible form remained a clear-blue.
"Perhaps not," Danny heard, then was thrown out of the ground as an intangible Kakashi tackled him out of the ground from below. A second Kakashi, the one Danny had been looking at before, floated up out of the ground and hit Danny with the ectoblast.
"But I didn't even use duplication yet!" Danny whined. "How were you able to copy me if I haven't done the move yet?"
"I used a shadow-clone jutsu," Kakashi explained as the clone disappeared in a puff of gray smoke. "Naruto's not the only one who can use that technique; what makes him unique is the fact that he can do it at the genin level; normally it's only a jounin-level technique." All of a sudden, he gurgled and fell forward onto his knees, revealing a duplicate that Danny had made while he was underground. The duplicate had just rammed a kunai into the left side of Kakashi's lower back-not fatal, but not entirely painless either.
"That was for ignoring me," Danny boasted, but then swore as Kakashi's body was replaced by a tree stump. "A replacement!" He spat.
"Very good," Kakashi congratulated as he rose up out of the ground. "And extra points for claiming that you hadn't duplicated yet when, in fact, you already had. But I'm afraid you're incorrect about me ignoring you. You see, I can't imitate your techniques if I don't pay attention to you. This sharingan eye sees everything you do, even if it doesn't look like it. The only reason why I'm not looking you in the eye with it is because that would unlock aspects of the sharingan that I highly doubt Vlad can use."
"But I need to prepare for something like that! What if he can use those sharingan moves?"
"Trust me…the use of the sharingan that way takes years of training. But back to your exam…where were we-" but he was cut off as he was struck by at least five each of kunai and shuriken in the side. Danny, who had been hiding invisibly since Kakashi's first replacement jutsu, recalled the duplicate that was standing directly in front of where Kakashi had been. There was a puff of smoke and when it cleared, a rock was lying where Kakashi had been, all of Danny's weapons lodged within it.
"Another replacement!" Danny moaned, and watched as the real Kakashi, who apparently had also been invisible, appeared out of nowhere and began scanning the area around the field. As his sharingan eye passed over where Danny was invisibly floating, he paused, prepped an ectoblast, and launched it right at Danny. The halfa yelped and became visible as he leapt out of the way.
"That's one powerful eye," he admitted as he landed on the ground in front of Kakashi. "But I'm still going to beat you!"
"How? I can do anything you can! I have all of your strengths!" the jounin replied.
"If you have all of my strengths," Danny muttered as he built up his energy, "then you must have all of my weaknesses as well!" He and Kakashi each took a deep breath, and the two of them unleashed twin Ghostly Wails at each other. The two sonic blasts collided and ricocheted off of each other, and tore apart the ground between them. The two kept it up for a few more seconds, then they both sank to their knees, exhausted and panting heavily, and Danny transformed back to human.
"Out…of energy…" Kakashi gasped. "But you are…also."
"Not…quite," Danny replied. He raised a shaking hand and, with the last of his strength, fired an ectoblast at Kakashi that hit dead-on and caused the man to be thrust backwards a couple of yards. Danny watched him land heavily just before his strength gave out completely and he fell forward and passed out.
When Danny slowly woke up and groggily opened his eyes, the first thing he noticed was that he was bound tightly to a wooden stake. The second thing he noticed was Kakashi standing right in front of him.
"Huh…what?" He mumbled.
"Very good," Kakashi exclaimed. "You fought very well."
"I…did?"
"Yes."
"So you mean, I beat you?" Kakashi chuckled lightly.
"No, I'm afraid not. It takes much more than that to take out a jounin. However, I think that you're strong enough to take on Vlad, for sure."
"How do you know?"
"Is he able to use that sonic-based attack?"
"I don't think so."
"Then if and when you use it against him, he'll copy it using his sharingan. After that, he'll be weakened, just like I was, and you'll be able to finish him off."
"Hm…that makes sense…just one question, though."
"Sure, anything!"
"What were you saying before, about other aspects of the sharingan that you doubted Vlad could use?"
"More advanced sharingan users are able to do a sort of hypnosis, where they take over their opponents' minds and force them to do things. This takes years of experience, though, so I highly doubt Vlad would be able to do that."
"Oh, okay…last thing."
"Okay." Danny cleared his throat.
"WHY AM I TIED TO A STAKE?" He shouted. Kakashi shrugged.
"I was bored."
Danny growled as he manifested ecto-energy and used it to break through all of the ropes. His hands were smoking and his eyes were glowing green as he turned them back on Kakashi.
"Anything else you'd like to tell me?"
"Yes. The hokage has determined that, although you are strong enough to defeat Vlad and his sharingan on your own, we are willing to give you an even greater advantage."
"How do you mean?"
"You'll see once we get there. Come on, there are a couple of people you need to meet."
The two of them left the fields.
As for next chapter...some of you have already come close to guessing what happens, and I know at least one person already figured it out. But I ain't telling! Anyway, see you next time!