Author's Note: My first author note. Thank you to all who read and enjoy my work. Keep those reviews coming and I'll keep on writing! I am a new author, so please spread the word of my writing! I have another KakaSaku in the works after I finish this one, but I am planning to keep this one going for some time, (Sorry I'm a sucker for long KakaSaku stories). So without Further interruption:
Chapter 21: Onward to Lightning Country
The Four Nins looked down at the swarm of black clad shinobi that waited under their window. "We should go around and try to out run them." Kakashi ordered.
"No way!" Naruto objected, "We can take em Kakashi!"
"No Naruto. There are too many of them. We wouldn't stand a chance." Naruto gave his priceless grin.
"No worries Kakashi," he gave a thumbs up, "We got it covered." He motioned to Sasuke. "Ready Teme?"
"Ready when you are Dobe." The two hopped onto the ledge. Kakashi reached out to them.
"No wait!" the two ANBU nins jumped off. "NO!" On their way down, the two nins performed a blur of seals.
"Flamethrower Jutsu!" They said together. Naruto spit up oil and Sasuke used his grand fireball jutsu to ignite it. The fire blanketed over most of the enemies, who backed away quickly, giving enough room for Sasuke and Naruto to land. Kakashi and Sakura wasted no time and came down after them. Kakashi lifter his hia-ate and proceeded to copy one enemy's jutsu. The attack cancelled out as he started to form another. Sakura charged chakra into her hands and slammed her right fist into the ground, causing the earth to come up from beneath the left flank of enemies. "Twin technique 2?" Naruto asked.
"Do it." Sasuke responded. Both nins held up a cross symbol.
"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" They said together. 50 Naruto and Sasuke clones formed. "Henge!" The Naruto clones said together. They transformed into fuma shuriken which each Sasuke clone took and launched to the enemies. The entire group was wiped out in a flash by the four man team within 10 minutes. When the dust settled the four shinobi stood observing the battle grounds. "How many did you get?" Naruto asked Sasuke.
"50. You?"
"Same." Naruto turned to Kakashi. "What about you Kakashi?"
"30." He said, panting from the amount of chakra he used. The three turned to Sakura who was dusting off her shirt. She looked up at them.
"What?" She inquired.
"How many did you kill?" Sasuke asked. She looked baffled.
"What? You actually count? That's horrible!" The three guys sweat dropped.
"Alright," Kakashi started, "I think it's time we head out. Let's grab our things and get going." They all jumped into the room through the window and began to pack. Outside, the towns people who woke up went outside and were horrified at the amount of dead bodies in the streets. Kakashi looked out the window. "Oh man I really don't want to deal with this. Team!" He called to the other three. They looked up from their bags. "Looks like we're going to have to take to the rooftops. Dealing with the press is something I don't want to have to deal with." They nodded and scooped up their bags. One by one they took off from the window onto the rooftops and headed towards the other side of town where the exit towards Lightning Country resided.
"That was really impressive back there you two." Kakashi commented. Naruto grinned widely, and Sasuke smirked.
"We decided since we were going to be partners in ANBU now, we should have some great team attacks. We actually have a whole arsenal of them!" Naruto ranted. Sakura didn't hear any of this. She was too caught up on Naruto's new short sword. It looks great, but dare I say…too colorful for Naruto?
"Naruto why did you choose a pink short sword?" Naruto stared blankly.
"Huh? That's not mine this is mine!" He pointed to the white short sword on his back.
"Then what's with that pink short sword?" Kakashi looked to Naruto's pack. Baka.
"Ah, I can explain that," Kakashi interjected, "I was going to get that for you but that whole teashop incident happened, so I sent Naruto out to buy it for me." Sakura's face lit up as Naruto unhooked the sword and handed it to her.
"Kakashi you're the best!!" She squealed as she wrapped her arms around her lover's neck. Kakashi smiled in her shoulder. He started to feel like he couldn't breathe.
"Umm Sakura…" He managed to let out. The gripped tightened. "Sakura…you're choking me." She immediately let go and smiled sheepishly.
"Hehe…sorry." Kakashi's eye crinkled in a smile.
"No worries." He replied, rubbing his neck. They continued their trek through the forests, tree hopping from one branch to another.
Night fell, and team 7 was running on empty. Naruto was heavily panting and heaving. Sakura was quickly wiping the sweat from her forehead. Sasuke and Kakashi ignored their bodies and kept their composure.
"Ne, Kakashi," Naruto whined, "can we stop now? I'm really tired."
"Shut up Naruto!" Sakura warned, "We're all tired, but we have a mission to complete."
"No he's right," Kakashi interrupted, "we've been traveling all day. It's time we stopped for the night." He hopped off his branch to a nearby clearing. The other three did the same. Naruto dropped his bag and flopped onto the ground. Sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke placed their bags on the ground and began to set up camp. Kakashi pitched up the tents, and Sakura started to make a fire.
"I'll get dinner." Sasuke said, and disappeared into the forest. Sakura piled a few logs in a pile, and put stones around it. She performed a few hand seals, and blew a stream of fire into the logs. Kakashi's eye widened.
"Sakura where did you learn fire jutsus?" He asked.
"I copied you." She said with a smile. Kakashi was impressed. She remembered the seals he used when lightning one campfire. He nodded his head in approval and continued to set up the tents. Sakura looked over at a passed out Naruto. She felt irritated that he wasn't doing anything. She walked over and punched him on the head. "Baka!" She yelled, "Wake up and make yourself useful! Go help Sasuke find food." Naruto rubbed his head as he went off into the forest to find Sasuke. Sakura turned to see Kakashi just finish the tents. She walked over and slid her arms around his waist. He indulged in the warmth of her petite arms. He removed her arms and turned around to face her. She slid her arms around his neck and stood up on her toes to give him a kiss through his mask. Their lips locked and they kissed deeply. Sakura groaned in the back of her throat from the euphoric sensation that came over her. "I love you." She breathed.
"I love you more." He responded. Before they could kiss again, they heard a bang from the forest. Kakashi turned his head to look for the source of the bang. "Sasuke. Naruto." He said to himself. He let go of Sakura and ran into the forest. Sakura picked up her shuriken pack and hurried along after him.
Sasuke was standing by the river, looking in with his sharingan to find any fish. He saw a pretty large salmon and launched his kunai into the river. He reeled in the fish with the nin wire attached to the kunai. "That's four. I know Naruto he'll be hungry, so let's get hmm, 6 more."
"Sasuke!" Naruto called. Sasuke turned his head to see his blonde companion running towards him.
"What is it dobe?"
"Sakura-chan told me to come help you." Sasuke grinned evily.
"Ok," he tossed the bucket at him, "carry these while I get more." Naruto nodded his head. Sasuke caught 3 more fish, while Naruto held the bucket feeling irritated.
"Hey! When can I fish?" He asked.
"When lightning strikes me."
"Thunder Bolt Jutsu!" A voice came from the trees. A bolt of lightning shot out of the forest and hit Sasuke in the arm. He faltered in step and winced.
"What the hell?" Naruto exclaimed, dropping the bucket. Sasuke turned towards the source of the lightning, sharingan still activated. Another one he anticipated. A second bolt shot towards his face. He easily dodged it and sent a chidori flying towards the source. Three men wearing hunter nin masks came out of the forests, each with a Cloud village insignia on their mask. Naruto charged a rasengan and darted forward. The left-most nin shot a bolt of lightning towards him. He launched himself forward and thrust the chakra ball through the lightning, causing the lightning to mix with the chakra. Normally, the reaction would cause an explosion. Instead, Naruto held a ball of chakra with lightning infused with it. It was similar to the chidori but was most likely twice as fierce. Without giving it second thought he slammed the ball into the hunter nin. Needless to say, what happened next shocked everybody in the area.
Rather than pausing and then exploding, the rasengan cut through his body like butter, and stayed intact. It didn't just go away like a chidori or a rasengan would. Naruto held this in his hand and looked at what he had accidentally created. The other hunter nins were too stunned to notice Kakashi come out of the trees and hit them with a dual raikiri. Sasuke and Kakashi watched with their sharingans, copying every intricate detail. Naruto called off the jutsu. "What the hell was that Naruto?" Kakashi asked. Naruto shook his head.
"I don't know," he replied, "it just happened." Kakashi and Sasuke walked towards the Kyuubi container. Sakura jumped in from the trees kunai ready.
"What happened?" She asked.
"Just some hunter nins," he replied, "Naruto had did you do that?"
"Well," he started, "one of them shot a lightning bolt at me and I blocked it with my rasengan. But instead of blocking it, the rasengan absorbed the power and made this new rasengan. Sort of a chidori ransegan." Kakashi was intrigued.
"I think these next two days will consist of training." Kakashi began. He turned to the other two.
"This can be a powerful ally. All three of you will learn this move. You all know the rasengan so you all should know this." He turned back to the blonde. "Naruto, we will now make your new ultimate move. One you get to name yourself." Naruto mulled the idea over.
"My own move. The true ultimate rasengan, not the one we've been working on." Kakashi shook his head.
"Entirely different. You need to fuse wind chakra and lightning chakra." Naruto nodded. "But first," he added with a smile, "dinner!" They laughed and picked up the gear. Sakura walked over to Sasuke.
"Here let me get that." She offered. He held out his arm.
"Thanks Sakura." He said. She healed his arm on the walk back to camp.
(The Next Morning)
Naruto woke up with a yawn and groggy eyes. He looked around and then his eyes widened. He hopped out his sleeping bag and got dressed. "Time for training!" He yelled pumping a fist in the air. Sasuke woke up and looked to a fervent Naruto.
"What the hell are you doing? It's 5 o'clock dobe!" Naruto grinned at his bunk buddy.
"Training!" Sasuke thought the idea over then decided to get up as well. They left their tent and were surprised to see Kakashi and Sakura already up and ready to go.
"Come on you two," Kakashi began, "Don't wanna be late for our checkpoint spot now do you?" They packed up camp and began walking towards the border of Lightning Country.
"Ne, Kakashin," Naruto asked, "how do I harness lightning chakra?"
"Well," Kakashi began, "first it's best to learn a lightning based move. There aren't many out there but they can be useful. At this point, Sasuke is at the advantage for already knowing the chidori. But I will teach you a simple move. By itself it's useless but combined with the rasengan and you will have your new move." Naruto's eyes gleamed with the thought of a new technique. "By the way," Kakashi added, "have you decided on what you will name the move?" Naruto pondered a bit.
"Nothing yet." He concluded. Kakashi walked up ahead and turned to face everybody.
"Alright everybody, here's what your training will consist of. I need you all to form a rasengan in your right hand." They all did so with ease. "Next, I want you to take a your left and form a chakra current." They all looked confused.
"How do we do that?" Naruto asked.
"Simply by focusing chakra through your hand and trying to convert it into static electricity energy." They all attempted but failed at it. "Don't be discouraged, it takes time and practice." Sasuke thought a bit and charged a chidori into his left hand. As he brought both hands together, the chakra started to merge. Then they wouldn't merge at all. Sasuke pushed harder, but nothing. Naruto looked for a minute then his eyes widened.
"Uh Sasuke, remember at the Valley-" BAM! The force of both moves exploded in his face. Sakura ran to her friend. Naruto keeled over in laughter. Kakashi just shook his head.
"Obviously that won't work." He thought aloud. "You can practice on the way. We're ahead on time, so we should be there in a day and a half." Sakura helped her teammate up and they continued walking north towards Lightning Country.