Okay, first: sorry to keep you waiting so long. I was extremely busy with my studies. I'd like to give a special thanks to Shang who helped me out with this chapter. If it wasn't for you, it probably wouldn't be finished yet.

Secondly: sorry to say this but my mid-terms are coming and it's highly possible I'll be too busy to write anything, so be prepared that you might have to wait till Feburary for the 10th chapter. Sorry guys, but I'm behind my studies.

Now, without further to do:

Chapter #9: Symbol of Black Flame

Chapter Cover: Urusai is drawing whisker marks on his cheek and right behind him stands Naruto a bit pissed

"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" yelled Naruto and before anyone knew it, five blonde jounins appeared in the place of one.

"A simple Kage bushin?" Genko's eyebrow went up. "You think that such a basic skill will do you any good? I'll destroy those clones before they'll even lay a finger on me…"

"We'll see" replied the blonde jounin as his four clones charged right at the cloaked man.

The first clone threw a punch at the white-hair but his opponent easily dodged to the right and grabbed the clone by his hand. Before anyone could react to that, Genko used the clone he grabbed to bounce of and elbow another incoming Naruto.

The other, two clones grabbed him by his hands, one each and instantly the fifth Naruto jumped into the air, finishing the attack with a powerful punch. Surprisingly, Genko seemed completely unharmed by the blonde jounin's fist.

"That's all you're capable of?" the white-hair seemed surprised. "I was expecting more… much more…" and with those words he tossed the clones, which were holding hid hands, forward.

The clones disappeared in the cloud of white smoke as they hit the ground hard.

"How disappointing" announced Genko as he unleashed the storm of punches at the blonde. As the last punch connected, Naruto disappeared in the cloud of white smoke, thus making white-hair's eyes widen. "What the…?" was all he could say before a powerful orb of chakra hit his stomach and send him flying at the nearby tree, spinning wildly.

Genko slowly began to rise to his feet. His cloak was damaged pretty badly, as well as his body. The worst place was the stomach as blood was coming out of it in a big among.

"When did you…?" he began, but was instantly interrupted by Naruto:

"I spotted you even before we left Konoha. That's why I created one clone first. All that time it was just a clone that was traveling with my subordinates, while I watched you… in the end, you're the one that's disappointing…"

"Naruto-sensei…" Urusai thought to himself. "You're strong!"

"I underestimated you" admitted Genko. "But don't think you won… the fun has just began."

"And so you rhyme…" added Naruto, trying to piss his opponent of. And it worked.

In an instant Genko attacked the blonde with a kick in the face. Naruto was able to block that with his hand, but he still felt the impact of the kick pretty bad. Before he knew it, he was avoiding and blocking Genko's furious attacks and with every hit he blocked, his hands were hurting more and more.

"What's with that strength?" wondered Naruto as he kept backing away. "Is this guy a medic-nin or something? I don't think even Tsunade would be able to hit that hard…"

Finally he was late with the block and received a powerful punch in the face, which send him flying way back. The blonde crushed hard with a tree.

"Naruto-sensei!" yelled Ayame after their instructor.

"Even he cannot defeat this guy…" Urusai began worrying. "What shall we do? At this rate it's highly possible he'll kill us!"

"And now for the finishing move…" announced Genko as he gather his chakra into his right fist. "I'll crush you…" and with that he charged at Naruto who was just getting back to his feet.

Noticing that his opponent gather most of his chakra into his right arm, the blonde jounin concentrated on dodging any attack that would came out of it.

But surprisingly for him, Genko came to a stop far away from him and simply punched the air. A second later Naruto was hit with a powerful, air impact and thrown at the trees once more. As he once more began standing to his feet, the white-hair charged at him again.

"I see…" Naruto thought to himself while biting his finger. "So he actually released all this chakra into the air and send it in my direction… such force is hard to withstand… Neji used the same trick… but I thought that it's the technique know only to the gentle fist users and he certainly isn't one…" and with that last thought he slammed his hand to the ground, yelling: "Kuchiyose no Jutsu! Come forward Gamabunta!"

And so, right before everyone's eyes, appeared a huge, red-skinned frog with a tobacco pipe in its mouth, wearing something that seemed like kimono and carrying a huge sword.

Genko stopped in his tracks and looked at the huge reptile that materialized itself in front of him. After a short shock, the white-hair smiled under his nose and turned to the blonde jounin:

"And you think this will save you?"

"Hey, Gama, would you mind showing that bastard he should not make fun of you?" Naruto completely ignored Genko and address the line to the toad.

:"My pleasure…" replied the reptile as he picked out his katana and cut from the right, aiming to cut the white-hair in half.

Surprisingly for everyone, Genko just stick out his fist and before everyone's eyes the sword broke into pieces as it connected with the white-hair hand.

"Wha…?" was all the toad could say at the sight.

"He's not human!" shivers run down Ayame spine as she observed the pieces of the huge blade falling around the area.

Before anyone could get out of the shock, Genko charged at Naruto and Gamabunta and with a single hit he knocked down the huge frog, thus making it disappear in the cloud of white smoke.

The blonde jounin landed safely on the ground, completely amazed: "I knew that Black Flame members are strong but this much? This is above the whole ANBU squad! Possibly above any of the Five Shadows!"

"What's going on?" asked Jun as he began regaining consciousness.

"Naruto-sensei is fighting the guy that knocked you out" responded Urusai simply.

"And it seems he's losing" added Inari.

"Naruto-sensei… is losing?" Jun's eyes widen as he looked in the direction they all were staring.

"Now what?" asked Genko. "Without that frog of yours you're out of tricks?"

"Don't count me out just yet…" replied the blonde jounin. "I still have few…" and with that he began performing new hand seals. "Doton: Ishi Akuryoku!" and suddenly a huge, stone hand appeared right under Genko.

The white-haired jumped into the air, thus avoiding being grabbed, but before he knew it, four clones of the blonde jounin surrounded him.

"U-ZU-MA-KI!" yelled the clones as each of them launched Genko higher into the air by kicking him from below. "NARUTO Rendan!" called out the original as he slammed his leg into white-hair's head, thus sending his crushing to the ground.

"With that damn endurance of his I doubt if I really hurt him…" Naruto thought to himself as he landed on the ground. "But he had to at least felt that…"

Genko slowly got up, shaking some rocks of his cloak. He gave the blonde jounin emotionless glare and then began moving towards the leaf-nin.

"How come he is unharmed?" yelled Ayame, frightened by the look.

"It probably has something to do with his abilities…" replied Jun without even looking at the kunoichi. "I doubt he's a medic-nin, coz he didn't used any jutsus typical for them… his strength resembles one though…"

"So what type of jutsus does this guy uses?" asked Urusai.

"How should I know?" responded the young Hanayaka. "All I know that this guy is far above our level… and he could kill all four of us in less then a minute…"

"Uzumaki Naruto…" announced Genko as he was just few meters away from the blonde jounin. "You have to do better then that… I was expecting a bigger challenge while fighting you… you're supposed to be one of Konoha's strongest ninja's… are Leaf shinobies that weak to consider you strong?"

"Well, you do have a point… I should put more heart into it…" Naruto smiled under his nose. "But before I get serious, there's this one, last thing I wish to try out…" and with that he started a new set of hand seals.

Okay, I have to cut it here. Sorry, but there won't be jutsu encyklopedia this time around, coz, as I wrote, my free time is really limited.

Hope you enjoyed that chappie. Please read and review.

Also, hope that this year will be MUCH better then the previous one for all of you!

See ya.