Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic. Is a Naruto story. I don't own any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of SEVENTEEN are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. Non-constructive critics, flames with harsh words and just saying that the story suck won't be accepted or replied. You might voice your discontentment in seeing your favorite character suffering on the story as long you keep civil and understand that his is only a story and the suffering is a main part of the story plotline.
It won't be changed by requests of readers; I won't spare one of the characters because the readers are telling me to. I write this story. If you don't like it please don't read it. Some characters might be out of character and acting in ways that they wouldn't act, that is because what happen on the story.
If you dislike seeing OOC stop reading because it will appear a lot. There will be original characters and self inserted characters on the story if you dislike them stop reading here and go look for another writer because I ALWAYS write SELF-INSERTED fics. If you do read the story being against something that I wrote above I just tell you this:
"You have been warned."
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Signed: Benji Himura.
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Chapter nine: Toughing up
On the next morning Ino wakes feeling the scent of food on the air, she looks around and finds herself on Benji's couch covered with a warm blanket. She sees Haruka in the kitchen fixing the breakfast and hears the sound of someone taking a shower, it isn't hard to Ino to guess who is bathing, and she restrains herself to not just go join Benji on the bath. Ino moves to the kitchen and greets Haruka and get some water.
After few minutes she sees Benji leaving the bathroom toweling his hair and with a towel around his waist, in moves to the bathroom to freshen up and deal with her own morning needs. When she moves to the shower she notices a set of clothes neatly folded besides a clean towel, she smiles and undresses and takes her shower. Ino leaves wearing a very loose blue t-shirt and loose shorts. Ino uses her forehead protector as a belt to hold the borrowed clothes on her body, it was clear that the clothes belong to Benji.
They all have breakfast and enjoy chatting for a while. Haruka washes her own clothes and Ino's and put them to dry, her sense of duty was screaming to get it done soon so she could take out Benji's clothes, since he also borrowed them to her. After two hours the two leave the apartment and move to their own houses, Ino already had a excuse of being on Sakura's and the pink haired girl had agreed to lie to Ino's parents if she was asked about her location.
Benji puts over his shirt a light jacket and put on his boots and leaves the apartment, he decided to get things done and tell to the elders his plans. It takes two hours to explain to them the details of his ideas and convince them to accept his terms. Benji leaves the prefecture feeling tired, the former spirit knows that he has to improve his stamina; thirteen years with out using his own body took a toll on him.
Benji moves to a restaurant to eat something, he knew that he shouldn't abuse of his body but after so many years with out tasting food he wasn't going to deny himself anything that he wanted to eat and on that moment he wants to eat gyoza, lots and lots of it and orange soda to wash it down. He isn't caring if he gets sick later he just wanted to once again savor the pleasures of being alive.
While waiting for his meal Jiraya sits in the empty chair in front of Benji. "You are stalking me aren't you?" Benji asks to the sannin. "Stalking is a really strong word." Jiraya replied signaling to the waitress to attend him. "I prefer the term following you around." The sannin orders some sake and snacks for himself. "I heard that you gave to the elders a quite bold plan to create a brand new group of shinobis for the village." Jiraya tells to Benji.
"Well news spread fast." Benji commented. "When you know where to listen it is true." Jiraya replied. "A multi village combat group leaded by a former spirit that was trapped inside the vessel of the Kyubi that sounds really amazing." The sannin stop talking when the waitress arrives with the orders. "As I said to the elders I believe that having a group with combat skills that complement the other is the best thing for Konoha instead of a group of people with the same set of skills." Benji tells to the elder before eating a gyoza.
"I agree with you in that. Anyway that isn't the reason that I am here." Jiraya replied. "When you will show yourself to Naruto? The boy really misses you." Benji looks down and swallows his food. "Naruto needs to get used to the fact that I won't be there for him anymore, he needs to grow and walk his road with his own strength." Benji replied. "Still knowing that his best friend and closest thing of family is actually alive and isn't something that he imagined will do him good." Jiraya countered.
"And what I am supposed to say, that I was a spirit sealed inside him and now I have regained my body?" Benji replied before eating another gyoza. Jiraya sighs and sips his sake. "It wouldn't hurt tell him something. You are the closest thing that Naruto have of a family." Jiraya tells to Benji. "I also understand that Naruto needs to fight and live by himself and that he needs to realize that he can't rely on you taking over and protecting him anymore."
"Then you understand why I don't want to show myself to him now. It will ruin all that he achieved so far." Benji replied. Jiraya sighs, Benji is very stubborn. A treat that made possible for the spirit bear all the years with out a single contact with the real world and real people. Benji eats in silence for a while and Jiraya does the same. "Anyway what you will do about your current situation?" the sannin asked to the former spirit. "Train to overcome this weakness." Benji answered. "I am going to begin tomorrow." "Good luck then." Jiraya replied getting up, he pays for his drink and leave.
About one hour later Benji is on his apartment, Ino is there too now with a small bag filled with her clothes for when she decides to sleep over. Benji is planning his training while Ino is humming a tune and arranging her clothes in an empty drawer on Benji's room. Benji moves to his apartment telephone and calls Haruka and let her know about his plans and asks her to find a good location. The red head tells him that she will find it the place that he requested. Ino overhears the conversation; she doesn't know if she gets worried, jealous or just ignore it.
By noon Benji is once again called by the council of elders, this time he is taken to a small arena, Benji can see some Jonins around and he guesses what is about to happen. "We summoned you here to test your skills." The elderly woman of the council tells to Benji. "We saw what you did only as a spirit now we want to see you fight with a real body." "I will go first!" Gai says in a flashy manner. Near him are Kurenai, Asuma, Kakashi, Anko and few more Jonins that Benji doesn't know.
'Boy I am so screwed now.' Benji thinks while everyone but Gai leaves the arena. On the audience stand there is few shinobis to watch the event clearly to steal any technique that Benji tosses on the combats. Gai is making some warm up exercises, Benji is trying to find a way to get out of there, even thought he was able to regenerate brutal amounts of damage he wasn't sure that he would be able to take someone like Gai head on like that.
The signal to begin is given and in a blink of eyes Gai is in front of Benji punching him hard sending the former spirit into a wall. "I was waiting more from what I heard." Gai commented in a superior tone. "Gai pay more attention to your arm!" Asuma shouts to the green dressed Jonin. Gai looks at his right arm and finds ten long gashes on the length of his arm they are deep and are bleeding a lot.
"How this happened?!" Gai exclaims confused. Benji pulls himself to his feet clinging on the wall. Gai notice that Benji's fingernails are now five centimeters long and they are stained with blood. "Kakashi you saw what happened?" Kurenai asks to the Sharingan user. "Yes." Kakashi replied. "In the few fractions of second that preceded the punch Benji placed his arms in order to grab Gai's arm, when he was tossed back by the impact the own speed of the punch gave him the power to slash Gai's arm like that with his claws. The moment that his nails changed like that I couldn't see." "Impressive, he used Gai's movement to attack during the time that he was attacked and now Gai have a handicap." Kurenai exclaimed.
Gai is holding his wounded arm. "You are good. I give you that." he says to Benji who is coughing leaning in a wall. Ino and Haruka run to the arena and see the fight, now just the stillness. Gai dashes at Benji, the spirit moves to the left just one step and Gai drives his entire left leg on the wall. "Shinzui hana." Benji whispers grabbing Gai's leg. Gai let out a scream when the energy turns into a mass of spikes inside his leg. Gai backhand Benji into another wall.
"Why he doesn't attack?" Asuma wonders. "The ANBU reported that when he fought with that copy of him he was fully offensive." "Gai isn't a copy of him and he doesn't know how to face Gai, not to mention that Gai is in a totally different level when comparing to Benji. He is only countering using every opening that Gai is giving and he is doing a good job." Anko commented. "Benji knows that he is in disadvantage, attacking now will give too many openings to Gai to take, countering gives much less in case that his attacks miss."
"You trained him didn't you Anko?" Kurenai asks to the other kunoichi. "I did, that is why I am telling you that he won't attack until he is sure that the attack will land." Anko replied. "Benji might not be a ninja for long but he isn't stupid, he knows how to fight and how to plan, right now all that he can and will to is mining Gai's strength until he is able to win."
"Right now he took about twenty nine percent of Gai's attack power by wounding his arm and he took about forty six percent of his mobility by attacking his leg." Kakashi commented. "But Gai is still above him." Anko nods confirming. "But Benji is stubborn he won't give up easily." She commented. "I paid dearly because I underestimated him."
Gai attacks Benji again and drives the former spirit through a wall. "You fight without honor." Gai says to Benji in a scolding tone. "A fight must be beautiful and filled with honor! So when you face a dishonorable enemy he will repent for his sins and he will see the light of honor and justice that you give!"
"It doesn't matter how honorable was the battle if you lose it." Benji's voice replied behind a thick cloud of dust that the impact rose. "Beauty also doesn't matter, a fight isn't pretty and death isn't beautiful. Besides if you die who will protect those that you love?" Benji's words strike Gai hard that stutters trying to find a way to counter it. Two metal blue orbs appear on the middle of the dust.
"Gai block!" Kakashi shouts. Gai does so preventing a lightning ball from hitting him straight on the chest. 'What power is this…?' Gai thinks as his body is stunned and a powerful vacuum force pulls him down, a second lightning ball hits Gai's chest exploding and sending the Jonin flying away. "Raikou toukai dual blast." Anko exclaimed.
"What?" Asuma asked. "It is one of his most powerful techniques." Anko replied. "A pair of lightning balls, the first shot is a vacuum shot that drags the enemy to the location where the second ball will hit. The second strike is at least fifty percent stronger than the first." "And Gai took that hit straight into the chest. The vacuum of the first blast pulled him down with the defense too, the second blast slipped through the created hole in the defense and retarding his reactions." Kakashi added. "That Benji guy is creative I give him that, but those blasts aren't enough to take Gai down."
As making true to Kakashi's words Gai is getting back on his feet, his vest is badly burned. "That was an awesome movement!" Gai exclaims. "Now I see why you were able to fight beside the Third Hokage!" Benji is breathing hard, already tired because of the fight, the little stamina that his body had after thirteen years unused is quickly diminishing. "But now you are tired and the result of this fight is obvious! You are a wonderful fighter!" Gai added. "You lasted this long against me in the situation that you are! There isn't shame in being defeated now!"
Gai charges at Benji, moving quickly in zigzags to confuse Benji. Gai packs a powerful punch and attacks. Benji moves to his right on the very last instant and packs the stronger hit that he can produce on Gai's groin. Gai hold his groin with both hands and let out a very out and high pitched scream. "That must hurt." Kurenai commented seeing all the males watching wincing in sympathetic pain.
Benji stumbles forward getting distance from Gai. "His eyes changed." Hiashi said when his Byakugan noticed the change of color on Benji's eyes. His irises are now dark blue, his cornea is now black and his pupils are thin blood red slits. "Is that a Kekkei genkai?" Kurenai wonders. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was." Hiashi commented. "From what we was told he was a spirit for thirteen years and his spirit shared the same vessel as the Kyubi, not to mention that for that same period his body didn't aged or rotted while buried. I don't know exactly how a Kekkei genkai is firstly created but that must be a way of begin."
'It is getting clearer each time that he moves…I can see the signals that his body send when he will attack, move, I can see every message that his body is sending, the way that his spirit charges for an attack…' Benji thinks looking at Gai who is still shouting in pain. Benji is panting trying to recover his breath. 'His wounds are healing too fast.' Hiashi thinks seeing with his Byakugan Benji's internal wounds healing in an insane fast rate with out the use of chakra.
Gai recovers from the hit and charges Benji again, Benji avoids the hit once again dodging on the last instant, Gai keeps attacking surprised with the former spirit moves. Benji hits Gai on the stomach, the Jonin barely feels the hit and attacks Benji back sending him to another wall. Gai cringes feeling some after pain from the hit on the groin. Benji gets up again looking even more tired. "You have lots of guts and I admire that." Gai commented looking at Benji. "Even thought you fight dirty."
"Why he can still move?" Kurenai asks looking at the state of Benji. "What is keeping him moving and standing is his spirit." Anko replied Kakashi and Hiashi nod agreeing. "His spirit is forcing his body to move and fight, the spirit surpassed the body." Benji leans on the wall to get some support. "I am tired so I am stopping here." Benji says coughing. "You win, for me it was a good training and to see my limits."
Gai stares at Benji, he was expecting fight until one of them was knocked out not him giving up. Benji sits on the ground. "Haruka patch him up!" Benji shouts to his underling that moves to action as soon he stopped talking. Ino moves to help Benji. Gai complains a bit but allows Haruka to heal him. Ino was going to heal Benji but stop because he told her that wasn't needed.
"That was kind of anti-climatic." Kakashi commented covering his Sharingan. "I think that it was a good ending." Kurenai replied. "He knows when to stop." "Why she is there?" Asuma wonders seeing Ino kneeled besides Benji. Most of the people there move away commenting about the fight, the elders discuss a little and walk away. Kakashi moves to tease Gai a little.
After recovering more Benji stands with Ino's help and moves to Gai. "It was a really good fight. I am looking forward to a next time." Benji tells to the Jonin. "I say the same." Gai replied with his trademark smile. "I am done." Haruka said. "To get a more advanced treatment you should go to the hospital." Gai nods and moves to aid Benji to leave the arena.
"See you guys around." Benji commented leaving the place. "Odd guy." Kakashi commented and Gai nodded agreeing. "Look who is talking." Benji whispered, Ino and Haruka chuckle at his words. "You are sure that you don't need treatment?" Haruka asks to Benji. "I am fine, my wounds are already healed." Benji answered. "I guess that is the advantages of being an evil spirit. But I am tired, really tired." Haruka sighs at his words. "I guess that you really need that stamina training after all." Ino commented.
Later on that day Benji is sleeping to recover the used energy, Ino and Haruka are both on their respective houses. Gai is on the hospital getting a more advanced treatment for the injuries as well the removal from the mass of mental spikes from his match against Benji.
On the next day Benji and Haruka are in a training ground far from the village with many large boulders on the terrain near of a small river. "Let me see if I got this straight…" Haruka says to Benji who is holding a thin and strong looking set of chains. "You will tie those chains in a boulder, lift it a dozen meters from the ground, tie yourself in the same height in a different tree, release the boulder to swing against you while you swing against it and try to use a technique that is basically giving a insanely strong poke in the boulder to shatter it in tiny little bits, I got everything right?"
"Yep, that is everything." Benji replied tossing the chain over a very thick branch. "For the records let me tell you that I think that this technique is absolutely insane." Haruka tells to Benji crossing her arms. "What good that technique does?" "Well other than making me regain a lot of stamina it will increase my defense in brutal levels because I will be hitting the stone many times until I perfect it." Benji answered, he makes a little pause and continues. "Not to mention that if I am able to pierce a stone using a finger I can kill someone using just a finger by piercing the target flesh and bone."
Haruka sighs; once again her commanding officer is acting crazy. She knows that he is a genius when it comes to new techniques but some of his training methods were dangerous if not insane, she still recalls the burns that she got because of that speed training called Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken, she won't deny that her speed had increased greatly and that in the end of two weeks she was actually able to take the chestnuts from the fire without burning herself.
"Pulling fishes out of the water with out getting my hands wet or taking nuts from a fire either way those training methods are insane." She mutters while Benji is arranging the system of pulleys that will be used to lift the boulders. After half an hour of preparations the first boulder is finally on the air and Benji is also tied and strapped in position to train. Haruka pulls the boulder using a rope, Benji nods and she releases the boulder. Benji let go of the rope that he was holding and swings against the stone shouting a war cry.
The result was the expected for both ninjas; Benji was hit by the boulder because his finger gave up. Benji pushes himself from the boulder and tries again and again and again with the very same results. At the end of half an hour Haruka calls a break and proceeds to untie the former spirit so he can regenerate properly after smashing against the stone more times than he cared to count, Haruka on the other hand is keeping notes of his smashes against the boulder.
After a ten minutes break it all begins again, Benji keeps hitting on the boulder, actually the boulder keeps hitting him while he tries to use the Bakusai Tenketsu. Benji isn't sure if the destructive power of the technique will actually happen but he is sure that at least he would get stronger because of the training and if the power appeared it would for sure be impressive and make anyone that doesn't know that the technique shouldn't make anything other than stones explode cower in fear, of course Benji also don't know if the technique works on humans.
Ino and Sakura are in an ice cream shop together. "What else you want to today?" Ino asks to Sakura. "Sasuke-kun, Naruto and Kakashi-sensei are in a mission for a couple of days and I have free time." Sakura replied. "We might go shopping." Ino nods agreeing. "And why you didn't go with them?" She asks curious. "The contractor is a male and they were supposed to be doing something in a place where females are forbidden to enter so I got a time off, besides that guy creeps me up." Sakura answered.
Ino chuckles at Sakura words. "After we have some fun you want to train?" Sakura asks to Ino. "Sure, I still need to perfect the Shinzui hana." Ino replied. "It is harder than it looks." Sakura nods agreeing, even with her talent to control chakra she is having problem to keep the energy stable for that attack. "Where is Benji?" Sakura asked. "He might help us out."
"He is busy training himself." Ino replied picking a spoonful of her chocolate ice cream. "That is bad, he is good teaching us." Sakura commented. "I am sure that you mean in more ways that you are telling." Ino teases Sakura knowing of their little affairs. Sakura blushes confirming her friend's words.
After a while the duo finishes the ice cream and moves to the shopping district. On the way they meet Hinata and since she wasn't busy they decide to drag her to shop too, the shy girl is pushed to agree but in the ends accept and goes with them with hope of getting something that would attract Naruto to her. After shopping for three hours the trio moves to train, even Hinata went by pressure of the other two girls. Hinata wouldn't deny but she is having fun with the two girls while they move to a secluded area to train they share stories of missions.
In the following days Ino and Sakura begin to train the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken near of where is being beaten by boulders. Unlike Haruka the duo decided to train using a water tank with stones on the bottom, Haruka shows to the duo the move on the water and finds that it was harder to keep the speed of her hands in the water, in the end she joined the duo in training with the tanks while Benji keeps his diet of stone.
It took Benji one more week to perfect the Bakusai Tenketsu, to his surprise he was actually able to chop the stone in tiny little bits, he did that many times to make sure that he had truly perfected the technique and to make sure that he wasn't feeling a thing when the high speed debris hitted him. Haruka is actually shocked with the destructive power of the technique that she had sneered in her mind so many times on the passed three weeks. Benji is content with the results of his training, he could feel that his stamina had increased and he begins to train the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken with the girls.
Two weeks after the beginning of the Kachu training Benji had also mastered the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken and he gets the news that Naruto left with Jiraya to find Tsunade. After finding that Benji packs a small backpack and gets ready to leave, he knows that Orochimaru will also contact Tsunade not to mention Itachi attacking Naruto on the middle of the way, since until the moment only Kakashi is on the hospital Benji moves out of Konoha in high speed thanks to his training.
Benji's sudden departure confuses and worries Haruka, Ino and Sakura. They know that Benji wouldn't be that serious if the situation wasn't indeed very serious. Later they would discover that Sasuke had chased after Naruto because his brother was going after Naruto and that Kakashi was in the hospital because facing Itachi's Tsukuyomi attack.
Far from there Itachi had just deflected Sasuke's chidori and both brothers begin to fight. Jiraya appears to protect Naruto from Kisame. Itachi uses the Tsukuyomi on Sasuke and Jiraya uses his Toad Mouth Bind, Kisame and Itachi flee seeing that they won't be able to capture Naruto on that moment. Gai arrives a little late and Benji gets there even later.
Benji watches the conversation from the group from distance, he sighs frustrated because he wasn't able to arrive in time when Itachi was weakened and most likely on his most vulnerable shape in god knows how long. Benji sees Jiraya and Naruto leaving the city and follows them at distance knowing that soon they will face Orochimaru again and Benji wanted to make things easier to everyone and kill Orochimaru if possible.
End of the chapter nine:
Fight with Gai-sensei: Back when I wrote this chapter I wanted to have a fight with one of the main jonins so Benji could see how much his body deteriorated, as well how much everything changed because the thirteen years sealed. Even with the training as a spirit Benji and especially his body isn't strong, conditioned or skilled enough to fight with Gai in the same level.
So during the fight Benji was fully defensive, and as he fights, get hurt and start to push his body based only on his spirit's will, the body started to show some changes, the different eye color, seeing the electric and spiritual signals that Gai's brain send to his body, allowing Benji to foresee with some extent Gai's next movement.
The spirit also affects the body, since the spirit is by far stronger the body is stimulated by the energy and it heals him in an insane fast rate, it also allows some minor changes as longer and stronger nails, to make his hair grow faster.
Anyway since it is only explained that the Kekkei genkai is passed down in the bloodline, there will be some theories of how a particular line started (genetic manipulations, mystical forces, and more things). However all that happened with Benji isn't a Kekkei genkai; looks like one, but it isn't.
Training: Once again Benji go back to his roots as anime fan to find a suitable training to make himself stronger in a short period of time, and the best place to find that kind of training is in Ranma 1/2, where people expend a handful of days training with some odd/insane training techniques/routines and become stronger/faster than before.
Benji started with Bakusai Tenketsu to gain more stamina, defense and strength, toughing up his muscles, bones and entire body with multiple collisions with a three tons (if not more) rock, based in the training that Cologne gave to Ryoga. Once he got hard enough to not feel the hits and his fingers can pierce stone (just imagine what he can do on soft targets).
Benji moves to Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken, to get speed, more stamina, better eye-hand coordination, after all it doesn't matter if you hit as hard as a demolition ball if you can't hit a thing, and I like hitting more (faster) than hitting harder than the enemy (speed and accuracy over sheer strength), of course that the best is a balance between high speed and massive strength (Tsunade!).
The girls would follow some of the training (not the Bakusai) to increase their fighting abilities since the two of them were after all unpleased with their strengths, after Benji used Haruka as guinea pig (she regenerates so she can test the dangers and effectiveness of insane Ranma's techniques without permanent damage), Sakura and Ino started to train the Amaguriken using a fish tank.
Since water is denser than air, the training is by far harder than using the 'traditional' way, but the results are faster and stronger movements (all that based in personal theories with some liberal adaptation of the laws of physics), when done they can hit several times by second, with total mastery they will be able to do the same with their feet (Chun Li's kick) and other body parts (not the head, there has to exist limits, just imagine the brain damage on 100 headbutts by second).
More training techniques where and will be given to them based on the need, but the basic starter's 'schedule' is Amaguriken, Bakusai, followed by advanced spirit techniques, attack, defense and medical jutsus, strengthening the body, then the mind and the techniques. Ino is a certain on the training, Sakura is also constant on it, Hinata was just visiting (she might decide to go to Benji-sensei's training course of hell).
Search for Tsunade and Itachi's attacks: Once again Benji forgot about important things until it started to happen and he couldn't stop them from happening. And boy he missed a perfect chance, if he was there when Itachi 'turned off' the sharingan killing Itachi with a bullet on the head would be easy.
So now Benji is after Tsunade knowing and remembering everything that he could about that, he doesn't know the name of the city but knows details of it, so after finding the city, he will eventually find Tsunade, and then Orochimaru, and who knows with some luck Benji put a bullet on Orochimaru's brain.