Chapter 19: Unfinished Business
(One Week Later)
Naruto was currently on top of Hiruzen's stone head, just laying down on his back and talking to it while looking up at the sky.
"Jiji, you think I can really become Hokage?" He asked the stone head. "I don't know, you were amazing, I don't know if I'll be though."
The young boy just exhaled a sigh of regret, regretful that he no longer had his Jiji beside him in order to guide him. However, he smiled right after that, and thought
'I still have Ero-Sennin, Baa-Chan, and my girls. I hope to see you again one day Jiji, but for right now, I'll be fine without you, thanks to the fact that I have other people to help me.'
After thinking this, he looked at his watch and saw that it was now 12 P.M, so with one last exhale, he got up off the stone head, stretched a bit, said
"Well, sorry to say this Jiji, but it's time for me to teach your son a lesson that he'll never forget" and then took off to where he was destined to go.
(Half an Hour Later)
"Wow" Naruto began to breathe out loudly. "That took way longer than I expected."
After saying this, he checked his surroundings and saw that he arrived right outside his destination, the Chunin Exams Stadium.
"I made it" he said before taking a step forward and then falling to the ground after feeling an abundant amount of pain on his hips. "I guess I still haven't fully healed from my battle against Haruka, or my battle against that snake."
The young boy then pressed his hands on the ground, pushed himself up, and then got back on his feet. After getting back on his feet, he attempted to take a step forward, but was then grabbed by the shoulder, and shunshin'd into the center of the stadium.
"What the?" The young boy said in confusion before getting pushed to the ground by the one who brought him there.
"Get up kid" said the voice from behind, which Naruto instantly recognized.
So as soon as he started picking himself back up, he simply gritted out
"Asuma Sarutobi."
"The one and only" he said with a dark smirk.
After getting back to his feet, he looked around the stadium and saw that it was empty. Once he realized that, he smirked at Asuma and mockingly said
"I thought you told me that you were gonna embarrass me in front of the whole village, Sarutobi."
"I was going to, but then I realized something" he started.
"And what was that?" Naruto interrupted.
"That I don't want anyone to save you when I'm beating you to the ground" Asuma replied. "This way, none of your friends or pedophilloic girlfriends can save you."
Naruto gnashed his teeth at the sudden name calling of his women. He calmed down though, deciding that he was going to let it all out on Asuma during their fight. However, right as he decided to, he started getting a bad pain in his chest, and clutched it in order to stay up.
"Aww, what's the matter, does the wittle kid need his momma?" Asuma mocked. "Oh who am I kidding, you're mom didn't want you either did she?"
Naruto again, got angry, but to be honest, that insult towards him didn't bother him as much as the insults that that monster, kept saying about his women. So he just shouted
"Enough! Quit talking, and start fighting you bastard!"
"With pleasure" Asuma said before getting a good look at the young blond. "Are you ready to do this, Gaki?"
"Of course" Naruto replied.
Both then got into their fighting positions and after exchanging glares, charged at each other.
Naruto Vs Asuma
Naruto struck first by landing a punch on Asuma's left ribs.
"Argh" the man groaned in pain from the punch before firing back with one of his own, aimed for the exact same spot as the one he got hit with.
"Damn!" Naruto growled in pain before stumbling back a bit.
Asuma used the space between them to his advantages, made hand signs, and then called out
"Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu" before sending a big gust of ash Naruto's way.
-Boom-
"Toh!" Naruto shouted in pain as the power of the gust of ash sent him up the sky.
"Oh no you don't" Asuma said before jumping high and kneeing the kid in the mid-section, forcing him to bend over and clutch his stomach.
Asuma then used this opening to clasp his hands together and then hammer down at Naruto's back.
"Argh!" Naruto shouted as he was sent plummeting down to the ground.
-Boom-
The sound of the ground exploding from the impact that Naruto's body made with it was heard everywhere.
(Through The Village)
"Whoah" some random villager said as the sudden noise of what sounded like a bomb detonating was heard.
"What was that?"
"I don't know."
"It sounded like a bomb."
"Where did it come from?"
"I think it came from The Chunin Exams Stadium."
"I think you're right."
"Let's go."
(Back to The Fight)
Asuma was clearly dominating the young boy, as he was landing all the blows, whether it be Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, or Taijutsu.
Eventually, Asuma grabbed the kid by the collar of shirt, lifted him up the air, and mockingly asked him
"What was it you said you'd do again, after I disrespected your pedophilloic girlfriend the first time?"
Naruto clenched his fists at the words his enemy was saying.
'Damn, if only I was healthy, I could've torn his arms off right from the start' Naruto angrily thought as he was helpless against Asuma's grip.
"Oh no wait I remember, you said that you would give me the worst beating I've ever taken in my life" Asuma continued on. "Essentially, you wanted to teach me a lesson that not even my dad taught me. Well guess what? You failed!"
After shouting the last part, Asuma punched Naruto hard, across the jaw, and sent the boy to the ground.
"Toh!" Naruto groaned in pain.
"That's all you've got, really?" Asuma mocked as he stood in front of the downed body of Naruto. "How pathetic, and here I thought you were actually at least gonna put up somewhat of a fight against me. I guess I should've known better, after all, you're still just a kid. A kid with girlfriends that belong in the Interrogation and Torture Department."
That was it for Naruto.
He placed both his hands on the ground, brought himself back up, looked Asuma in the eyes, and then shouted
"Enough!" Instantly getting that man's attention. "You can talk all you want about me. You can beat me to a pulp, call me whatever you want, but don't you ever, disrespect the women I love!"
After shouting that last part, Naruto immediately began running at Asuma and as soon as he got within range, he threw and landed a punch to the nose of Asuma.
"Gah!" Asuma growled in pain from having his nose punched.
Asuma was clearly hurt from the punch, if the sound of his nose cracking wasn't enough of an indicator, and stumbled back because of the punch. He shook it off though and told Naruto
"You're dead!" Before running at the boy again.
The boy however, was able to better defend himself against Asuma's attack than before.
Asuma started it off with a right hook, but Naruto parried it. Then Asuma went for a left hook, which was again, parried by Naruto.
After failing with both punches, Asuma went for a front kick, but Naruto dodged it. He then decided to go for a Backfist, but Naruto blocked it.
After playing defense for a little longer, Naruto decided to go on the offense.
"Take this!" Naruto shouted before landing a swift wheel kick to the left side of Asuma's jaw.
"Tah!" Asuma shouted as the kick made him spin, mid-air, and then fall back down to the ground, chest-first.
As soon as Asuma fell back down to the ground, Naruto ran to his side as quickly as possible, halted, and then stomped on his back as hard as possible.
"Ooomph!" Asuma wheezed in pain and shortness of breath.
That wasn't the only stomp that Naruto landed though, as he went for another, then another, and then another, and kept going till finally, after his eighth stomp, Asuma rolled out of the way, and dropped Naruto to the ground with an imanari roll.
"Whoah" Naruto shouted as Asuma brought him to the ground.
Asuma then attempted to get Naruto into a leg lock,but failed miserably, as Naruto retracted his leg, and then kicked Asuma in the shoulder, pushing him back a bit, and providing enough space for Naruto to get back up to his feet.
Once Naruto was back on his feet, he started making hand signs, and then called out
"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" Before sending a dragon made of fire at Asuma.
The son of Hiruzen was able to just barely pivot his body and avoid the incoming dragon, and as soon as he did, he got back up and made some very familair hand signs of his own.
"Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu!" He called before sending another cloud of ash at Naruto.
Naruto however, unlike before, was able to evade this attack, and did so by jumping far back, but as soon as he did, he made some of his own hand signs, called out
"Suiton: Suikoudan no Jutsu!" Which effortlessly made the cloud of ash dissipate and also blasted Asuma far back.
The blast resulted in Asuma being launched from the center of the arena to the ground near one of the walls of the arena, but as soon as his back hit the ground of that part of the arena, he got back up, and stared the young boy down.
"Nice shark" he sarcastically commented.
"Thanks" Naruto says with an insincere smile.
"Let's see what you think of this though" Asuma replied before forming more hand signs, calling "Katon: Haisekishō!" And sending another blast of gunpowder at the boy.
Naruto was over it though, made the same hand signs as before, called out
"Suiton: Suikoudan no Jutsu!" And sent another shark made purely of water at Asuma's gunpowder.
The shark and stream of gunpowder clashed and neither users of the Jutsu were relenting.
Naruto kept applying more and more pressure to his shark and Asuma kept applying more and more pressure to his stream.
The entire arena was shining in both blue and grey, as the two Jonin were trying their hardest to gain the upper hand against the other.
"Damn!" Naruto gritted out as he continued to apply more and more pressure on his shark.
"Stupid, Gaki!" Asuma angrily yelled, angry at the fact that he was actually struggling against a twelve year old boy.
As the two were struggling to overpower the other, they were too focused on each other to notice that lots of people started entering the stadium and were watching the fight that was taking place.
"Argh damn" Naruto yelled out as he continued to struggle with his shark.
"Naruto-Kun!"
'Hinata-Chan?' Naruto thought before turning his head to see one of his women in one of the seats of the stadium.
"Hinata-Chan, what're you!?" Naruto started to ask before getting interrupted.
"Naruto-Kun, don't let him win, you've got this!"
Naruto again turned his head and this time, he saw Sakura. As he continued to look he noticed that almost all his women started entering the arena in order to see him fight.
"Ino, Anko, Koyuki, and... Kurenai-Chan" he whispered in shock at seeing them there too. 'I don't see, oh that's right, Hana and Tsume-Chan are away on a mission right now.'
"That's right Naruto-Kun, we're here!" Ino shouted.
"And we're here for you!" Kurenai finished.
Hearing and seeing that almost all his women were there to cheer him on in order to beat Asuma lit a fire in Naruto, a fire that gave him the extra strength he needed in order to overpower the man.
"Ahh!" Naruto shouted as his shark finally overpowered Asuma's stream and was ready to deal some serious damage to the Jonin, had he not moved out of the way at the last second.
"That was close" he whispered to himself before the shark crashed into one of the walls of the stadium. "Really clo"
Asuma wasn't able to finish his sentence this time though as Naruto appeared right beside him and decked him across the face.
"Ow!" He grunted in pain before covering his now bloody lip.
"That's not all" Naruto said before punching Asuma again and again, till finally he started fighting back.
Naruto punched Asuma a total of fifteen times, before Asuma finally caught one of his punches by grabbing him by the wrist, lifting him up in the air, slamming him down to the ground, bringing him back up to the air, slamming him back down to the ground, and then repeating the process.
After slamming him for about the twentieth time, Asuma lifted him up once more and went for a hard punch across the face, which connected and launched Naruto a few feet back.
Naruto fell to the ground and as soon as he did, he got back up, threw his hands in the air, and shouted
"Is that all you have Asuma, well, is it!?"
"Why you little" Asuma started before bringing out and then throwing about twelve shuriken.
Naruto knew he had to do something about the incoming shuriken, and so thinking quickly, he caught each and every last one of the incoming shuriken, and then sent them right back to Asuma.
Asuma just turned his body to the side and avoided the incoming shuriken before running at Naruto and like at the start, engaging in a purely Taijutsu fight with him.
Naruto was the first to initiate it by throwing a low kick at Naruto, which Naruto blocked by bringing his leg up.
After blocking the low kick, Naruto went for a left hook, but like the low kick, it too was blocked, but by Asuma.
Asuma decided to god for a front punch after this, but Naruto parried it and moved outta the way
After moving outta the way, Naruto went for a backfist, but Asuma dodged it and then went for a sideways elbow, which Naruto evaded.
Upon avoiding the elbow, Naruto went for a straight punch, but of course Asuma parried it and then went for a front punch, only for it to be countered by a front kick from Naruto which hit first and landed directly on Asuma's stomach, making him stumble back a couple feet.
"Argh" Asuma growled while rubbing his stomach. "Ahh!"
As he yelled in anger from the sudden pain in his stomach, Asuma yelled at Naruto and went on the offensive.
He instantly went for a wheel kick, which just ended up being avoided by Naruto who just moved his head back, and then went for a hook kick which landed right on Asuma's temple.
The second Naruto's heel hit Asuma's temple, Asuma stumbled back in pain while clutching his temple, which gave Naruto the perfect opening to go for a sweep kick.
The sweep kick landed and sent Asuma to the ground, and once it did, Naruto went for a stomp, only for Asuma to roll out of the way, and then up kick him in the face.
The up kick sent Naruto stumbling back a couple feet, but he was quickly able to regain his footing, find his composure, and as soon as he did, Asuma was back on his feet.
"You're good kid" Asuma said before breathing heavy. "I'll give you that much."
"I get better" Naruto replied before both men ran at each other and continued their pure Taijutsu Fight.
Naruto went for a power punch, but it was caught by Asuma who then went for an overhand punch, which landed on the stomach of Naruto.
"Toh" the young blond gasped out.
He didn't give in though, clenched his fist as tightly as possible, and then decked Asuma across the jaw.
"Argh" Asuma gritted out while clutching his jaw. "Damn brat!"
Asuma went for a hook punch, but Naruto parried and then connected a front punch to his nose.
Asuma felt his nose bend to the side after the punch, but didn't exactly have the time to voice his pain, as Naruto then added onto the front punch with even more front punches.
After connecting a total of six front punches to Asuma's shoulder, ribs, and chin, Naruto ended it off with a jump front kick, bringing Asuma back down to the ground.
Asuma quickly picked himself back up though and then went for some more of his own moves.
First he dove at Naruto with a sideways spin with both his fists out (M. Bison Style) and landed his fists directly on that boy's core.
'Oh no!' All of Naruto's women thought together.
However, it didn't end there though and Asuma actually ended up lifting Naruto off the ground and up the sky for about ten seconds before sending him crashing back down on his back.
"Toh!" Naruto gasped out loudly as his back slammed against and broke the rocky/grassy ground beneath him.
"Naruto-Kun!" All the women who loved Naruto shouted.
Asuma on the other hand, sustained zero injuries as his move made it to where Naruto not only took all the damage, but also softened and cushioned his fall. So with him relatively fine, he stood back up and looked at the downed blond.
"I'm not done with you yet" Asuma said before picking the boy up with one hand on the throat.
After getting the boy to the point where he could actually see eye to eye with him, Asuma simply head-butted him. The headbutt was strong, but Asuma was very careful not to let him go, as that was the last thing he needed. And when he saw the young boy open his eyes, that was when Asuma finally decided to speak.
"You really thought you could win, couldn't you?" He mocked. "You actually thought you stood a chance against someone like me. I'm the son of the Third Hokage, sorry kid, but this is where your luck ends."
Naruto simply chuckled a bit, his lips swollen and letting out blood. Asuma noticed this and then immediately asked Naruto
"What's so funny?"
"This" Naruto croaked out before spitting in Asuma's left eye.
"Agh!" Asuma growled before letting go of Naruto and then using both his hands to rub the saliva off the eye that the kid just spat on.
As soon as Asuma let Naruto go, Naruto's feet hit the ground, and once they did, Naruto went for a hard back kick to the gut, which for the umpteenth time, sent Asuma to the ground.
However, the kick caught Asuma off-guard, so much so that he couldn't even register anything that happened or was about to happen, till eventually, Naruto stomped on his chest as hard as possible.
Asuma couldn't even speak, as he felt numerous of the bones connected to his skeleton break and crack from the force of Naruto's foot.
It didn't end there though and Naruto kicked Asuma as hard as he could and sent him crashing to another wall of the stadium, which caused the wall to break and bury him in rubble.
"I know that's not it for you, so get out of there!" Naruto yelled at Asuma, daring him to get out of the rubble, and sure enough, after a couple minutes passed, the rubble started shaking.
"Rah!" Asuma shouted as he bursted out of the rubble, and then immediately rushed Naruto. "I'm gonna kill you!"
He was right in front of Naruto within an instant and as soon as he was, he went for as many attacks as he could.
Asuma started it off with a wheel kick, which Naruto was able to dodge and then retaliate to with a throat punch, which Asuma parried.
Upon parrying the throat punch, Asuma went for a left hook, but Naruto blocked it and then went for a low kick, which Asuma easily avoided without much difficulty.
Asuma then went for a left hook, but Naruto blocked it and then went for a hook kick, which Asuma easily caught and then down his elbow in a Twelve-Six Fashion and crashed it down onto the shin of the young Jonin, forty times in a row.
"Argh!" Naruto grunted in pain before retracting his foot and holding onto it tightly in pain.
"Not so fun now is?" Asuma began to mock, only for Naruto to deck him in the mouth, and make him stumble back quite a bit. "Oww."
"I was literally just five inches away from you dumbass, think smarter" Naruto retorted while momentarily balancing on one foot.
"You brat!"Asuma shouted before again, rushing Naruto.
Naruto tried his best to defend himself while standing on only one foot, and did a relatively fine job.
He still got hit quite a few times, but he did better than a regular ninja would've done in this scenario.
It all started with a wheel kick from Asuma, which Naruto caught and then pushed to the side, making Asuma spin a total of twelve times before Naruto finally punched him in the stomach, which made Asuma hunch over, and as soon as he did, Naruto punched Asuma in the right side of his head, bringing him down to the ground.
Naruto would've have continued attacking the downed Asuma, but he needed to take some time to relieve his leg of the pain that it was currently in by squeezing it as much as he could.
Asuma took advantage of this, got up to his feet, and ran at Naruto.
Naruto of course, got ready for what was sure to come, but unlike before though, he wasn't as accurate.
Asuma went for a front punch which Naruto tried to block with a single arm, but he was too slow and the punch hit him square in the jaw and also made him hop back a couple of feet.
'Damn, that hurt' Naruto thought in pain while still balancing his body on one foot.
"How do you like them apples?" Asuma asked Naruto cockily.
"I prefer oranges" Naruto replied before hopping to Asuma and then attempting to elbow him horizontally across the face, which failed, as Asuma bobbed and weaved, with his follow up punch landing directly on three of Naruto's left ribs. "Argh!"
"You're gonna have to try harder than that" Asuma said angrily before pushing Naruto back and forcing him to fall on his back.
Once Naruto's back hit the ground, Asuma continued to exploit his injured leg by stomping on it with as much force as he could muster.
"Owww!!" Naruto screamed in pain as his already injured leg was getting even more injured.
"Naruto-Kun!" They women all shouted in worry.
Naruto was trying his hardest to endure the agonizing pain of the stomps and look for a way out, but he couldn't, and as a result, Asuma continued to stomp on his foot more and more till temporarily halting his foot and picking Naruto up by the collar of his shirt in order to see him eye to eye and then began to speak his mind.
"You know" Asuma said before punching Naruto in the face.
"Flah!" Naruto coughed out as he spat out some blood.
"My dad always told me that he had high expectations for you." He continued before kneeing the boy in the face.
"Oomph!" Naruto gasped out.
"I never understood why though." Asuma continued before elbowing the boy in the face.
"Tooh" Naruto spat out blood to the side.
"You were just a little kid when he said that" Asuma kept king white elbowing Naruto repeatedly across the face.
As those elbows made more and more impact with Naruto's face, blood began leaking out of his face like crazy.
"On top of that though, you're just an orphan, an orphan who everyone, including his own parents hate, so why did he have such high expectations for you?" He finished speaking, and then began punching and kicking Naruto over and over again, while he still had him lifted by the collar of his shirt.
This infuriated all of Naruto's women, as they couldn't stand how much Asuma was disrespecting the boy they all loved and wanted to help said boy, but of course, they knew that this was a matter that Naruto had to take care of himself. No matter how badly they wanted to save him, they couldn't.
"Huh, do you like it, huh, let me hear you scream!" Asuma yelled as he continued punching the kid viciously.
As everyone was witnessing Asuma holding the boy up in the air with one hand on his shirt's collar, while using his other hand to punch him repeatedly, they were all wide eyed at seeing just how badly the kid who seemed to have the upper hand just moments ago was getting beaten. The women of the boy who was getting beaten however, were more furious than anything at what they were seeing, but had to calm down, as they knew the consequences it would have on their man if they interfered with the fight.
"Come on, let's see what you can really do, Gaki!" Asuma shouted hysterically. "Oh wait, is this all you have! What a shame, cuz now you're gonna bleed till I decide to take pity on you and show you mercy kid, but believe me, that's not happening any time soon!"
As Naruto continued getting punched over and over again by Asuma, he was getting epiphanies of all that's happened up till this point. The epiphanies were of the times he spent with his Grandfather Figure and also his women, and when he saw all his women looking at him with sadness, grief, and worry in their eyes, he found the strength and resolve to clench both his fists, open his mouth, wait for Asuma to throw another punch, and then bit down on his hand as hard as possible.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Asuma shouted before tossing Naruto to the side. "You little shit!"
Naruto was currently on the ground, still wounded and injured, but pulled through and with the thought of all the women he loved in mind, as well as the thought of his old grand master, he got back up.
Once he was finally back up to both his feet, he didn't even bother to catch his breath and just ran at Asuma before punching him as hard as he could in the eye, pushing him back, quite a bit.
"Damn it" he groaned, the punch having effectively shut down the pain he felt from the bite.
With pain from the bite having subsided, Asuma just flicked his wrist a little, cracked both sides of his neck, and then said
"You have really sharp teeth."
"Thank you" Naruto said before spitting some more blood at the ground. "But from the looks of things I might have to bite your heart out."
"Not if I rearrange those teeth of yours first" Asuma said before bringing out a kunai and tossing it at Naruto.
Naruto avoided the kunai but was then met with another punch across the face from Asuma, which again sent him stumbling back.
After landing the punch, Asuma rubbed his knuckles, looked at Naruto, and told him
"I seriously don't understand what my dad saw in you."
"Shut up!" Naruto yelled. "Don't you dare speak of him so terribly! He was a great man and I'll make sure you see that right now!"
"I'm serious though, look at you, you're pathetic, how could he have seen anything in you?" Asuma remarked. "I guess old age was really getting to my dad after all, since he was both blind and delusional enough to see anything in you."
"I said shut up!" Naruto shouted, not wanting to hear another word of disrespect aimed towards his former mentor. "Before I shut you up my damn self."
"Then do it" Asuma said, daring Naruto to try. "But let's knock it off, no more pure Taijutsu, show me all you got, Gaki."
"Gladly" Naruto said before forming his signature hand signs. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
And like that, fifty other Narutos appeared on the battlefield.
Asuma smirked after seeing all the Narutos that appeared on the battlefield and said
"Come get me then" and of course, the swarm of Narutos did just that and rushed Asuma down.
Asuma was not going to stick with Taijutsu though, and neither was Naruto, and they both proved this by bringing out tens of shuriken and throwing them all at each other.
Every shuriken from Naruto missed Asuma, however, ever shuriken from Asuma hit either the real Naruto or one of his clones.
And this continued on for a couple minutes till eventually, every last Naruto, aside from the original, was gone, and both Asuma and Naruto were just staring each other down, worn out and tired, but still not ready to give up.
"Kaze Gyorai no Jutsu!" Naruto called after making the proper hand signs, sending a huge torpedo made of wind at Asuma.
"Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu!" Asuma called after making the proper hand signs as well, sending another blast of gunpowder at Naruto.
The torpedo and the gunpowder clashed, but the torpedo easily gained the upper hand and was able to vaporize the gunpowder, and kept going till it got close enough to hit Asuma.
Asuma was able to just narrowly dodge it though, made some more hand signs, called out
"Katon: Haisekishō!" And sent a huge stream of gunpowder at Naruto.
As soon as the gunpowder reached Naruto's location, Asuma bit the gust and then it exploded into fire.
'That got him' Asuma thought with a smirk as he waited for the dust to settle.
Two things were off about this though. First off, none of Naruto's women were yelling at Asuma for harming the boy and secondly, he also didn't hear Naruto scream in pain.
The answer became clear to Asuma when the dust settled and he saw that Naruto was nowhere to be seen.
"Where'd you go you little" Asuma started while looking left, right, and up, before hearing
"Right here" and then getting struck from below by an uppercut from Naruto.
This uppercut dropped Asuma onto his back, which Naruto attempted to take advantage of by stomping him while he was down, but before he could, Asuma rolled away as fast and as far as possible. Once he was far away enough, he tried to get back up to his feet.
"How did you avoid my attack?" Asuma asked, now on his knees.
"Easy, like this" Naruto said before he made some different hand signs, slammed his hands on the ground, and called "Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu!" Before sinking into the ground, and then striking Asuma from below with an upward knee to his back, dropping him on his chest.
"Damn" the Tokubetsu Jonin muttered out.
"You said it" Naruto stated. 'I can feel myself losing chakra fast. If I was at my peak, I'd have squashed him a long time ago, but there's not really anything I can do about it right now except for continuing to fight over and over again, despite the immense pain I'm feeling.'
After thinking this, Naruto realized that if he was gonna finish this, he had to finish this now, and so he made some more hand signs, and then called out
"Fūton: Daitoppa!" Sending a huge gust of wind at Asuma.
Asuma tried to cover up from the incoming winds, but that proved to be pointless as the winds flew him off his feet and into another wall.
As soon as he felt his back skeleton crack against the impact of the stadium wall, he coughed out blood, but then immediately afterwards, made some more hand signs and then croaked out
"Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu!" Sending another blast of gunpowder at Naruto.
Naruto was able to evade the attack and then immediately afterwards, ran at Asuma.
As he ran at Asuma, he made some more hand signs, called out
"Katon Ryuuka no Jutsu" blasted Asuma's body with a dragon made of fire, and then drop kicked Asuma even further into the wall.
"Toh!" The man wheezed out.
After drop kicking the man, Naruto grabbed him by his shoulder, pealed him off of the wall, and punched him across the jaw, sending him back to the center of the stadium.
After the punch, Asuma got back up to his knees, angrily gritted his teeth, muttered
"I can't believe I actually have to do this" and then formed a certain set of hand signs that he normally would save for only the most dire situations.
"What the hell is he doing?" Naruto asked, limping over to the guy.
After Asuma finished the hand signs, he looked at Naruto, shouted
"It pisses me off that I'm actually going to use this on a brat like you, but it looks like I don't have any other choice!" He then took a deep breath before calling "Raigō: Senjusatsu!"
And like that, some kind of golden spirit appeared right behind of Asuma, and as soon as Naruto saw it, he thought
'Wait a minute' paused for a bit, and began remembering something his Jiji told him a long time ago. "That's it."
"What is that?" All the people watching from the stands were muttering.
Naruto however, put his foot down, looked at Asuma, and told him
"That must be what Jiji always told me about. Some Jutsu you learned that you weren't supposed to. That must be the spirit of."
"Kannon, yes it is" Asuma cut him off.
"Isn't that a little tiny?" Naruto asked.
'That's what I said the first time I saw Asuma's tiny pecker' Kurenai thought funnily before turning her head in humor.
The same man she inwardly berated, began speaking.
"Don't let it's size mislead you. She's way stronger than I am, so be ready for true hell!"
After he said this, the spirit's eyes as well as it's entire body turned red and charged at Naruto.
Naruto didn't even see the spirit coming and was completely defenseless when it threw and landed it's first punch, aimed for the gut of the blonde boy.
"NARUTO-KUN!" All the women screamed in worry as the body of Naruto was sent flying to the other side of the arena where it then crashed into the wall of that same side of the arena.
"Toh!" Naruto gasped out after his back slammed against the wall and then landed on the ground.
This one attack was all it took for Naruto not to be able to fight anymore. He couldn't even move, but the spirit would have none of that and creeped closer and closer to Naruto.
"Damn" Naruto gasped out, completely immobilized.
The spirit creeped closer and closer.
'I guess this is where it ends for me' Naruto thought sadly. 'Goodbye girls.'
The spirit then appeared right in front of Naruto interlocked both its hands together, and then brought them both down, in an attempt to crush the boy to death.
The sound of an explosion was heard and a huge cloud of sand filled the entire arena, keeping everyone from seeing what happened.
"Tah!" All of Naruto's women said together, covering both their eyes with one of their arms.
When the sand cloud settled and everything was visible, everyone could see that the spirit's attack was caught by a giant red hand.
'Thought you'd never show up' Naruto inwardly told the fox with a very relived look on his face.
"Well you aren't exactly beating that giant spirit all on your own I can tell you that much, nor are you beating that Tokubetsu Jonin in the condition you're in either" Kyuubi told him. "And I can't have you dying on me either."
"What are you talking about? I had him handled just fine" Naruto replied.
"Kit, you probably don't realize this so I'll just say it to you straight, he was holding back" Kyuubi revealed.
This shocked Naruto greatly, if the sight of his eyes widening to the size of dinner plates wasn't enough of an indicator.
"How do you know?"
"Believe me, I can tell by how much chakra he was exerting, it was nowhere near the amount he actually has. So you're not beating this spirit without my help, nor are you beating him."
"Why would he do that?" He asked the fox.
"You're injured, you really think he wants to be seen as the man who needed to go full out to beat an injured kid?" The Kyuubi replied. "Now let's end this quickly kit, because from what I'm able to see, that Tokubetsu Jonin is currently stabbing himself with a syringe to bring himself back to full strength.
"Alright, then let's do this!" Naruto shouted loudly before three tails of bright red chakra appeared behind him.
Once those tails became visible, Naruto kept his hold on the interlocked hands of the spirit with the same hand he used in the beginning, brought his free hand back, and then pushed it forward, extending his arm, which allowed his fist to connect with the spirit's chin.
The spirit was blown back quite a bit, but it rubbed its chin, then looked at the now demon-like Naruto with dead eyes.
Naruto saw these eyes and growled as a response.
"Rarh!"
After the growl, both Naruto and the spirit of Kannon charged at each other.
Naruto landed the first strike and he did so by growing an extra hand, one made of chakra, and then swiped at the red spirit, successfully scratching its face.
The spirit was silent, but the pain it was in was as clear as the night sky.
It didn't let the scratch get to it though and retaliated with a straight punch to the chest.
The punch connected and rocked Naruto back a long way.
"Toh!" Naruto growled as he was sent plummeting to the ground.
However, Naruto got back up to his feet almost immediately, grew two extra large hands and arms made of chakra, and then continued fighting.
The two were now on equal terms.
Being on equal terms, Naruto decided that it'd be best to go on the offensive before Kannon did, and so he did.
"Take this!" Naruto shouted before attempting to strike the spirit down with a left hook.
The spirit was able to parry the punch and went for a punch of its own, which Naruto dodged by moving his head to the side.
As soon as he felt the air from the force of the failed punch breeze through his neck, Naruto brought his leg back, grew an extra chakra-made leg and foot, thrusted it forward, and was about to land a perfect wheel kick to the spirit's neck, until it of course blocked the kick with a rising block.
Upon feeling the spirit's forearm blocking his kick, he grew another chakra leg and foot, both jumped and spun, and attempted to counter the block with a tornado kick in mid-air with his free foot. However, the spirit would have none of that and slapped the foot back down.
After she did this, Naruto landed back on his free foot, then pulled his other leg back, and lastly, went for a backfist to the right side of Kannon's face.
However, she moved her head back and avoided the hit.
After Kannon avoided this last hit, she went on the offensive.
Kannon began her onslaught of attacks by running at Naruto and going for an elbow to the side of his head.
Naruto used one of his extra hands to catch the elbow and after he did, Kannon brought out her other elbow and attempted the same thing, but Naruto caught that one as well.
After both her elbows failed, Kannon then went for a headbutt, but Naruto moved his head to the side and then pushed her off.
After getting pushed out of the way by Naruto, Kannon went for an overhand punch, but Naruto simply moved out of the way in order to avoid it.
Finally, Kannon went for a straight punch, but Naruto caught it and then pushed it back.
After pushing it back, both began taking deep breaths. They weren't taking these deep breaths because they were tired, they were taking them because they were both equally as frustrated with one another since neither of them managed to land a single punch.
Once both got done taking a total of sixteen deep breaths, they ran at each other and continued fighting.
(Ten Minutes Later)
After ten minutes of neither one of them landing a single hit on each other, the spirit finally spoke.
"I never thought I'd be able to fight another demon" it stated in a demonic voice of its own. "And I must say, I am not disappointed."
"I am not a demon" Naruto started, in a very contradicting demonic voice. "But for you, I will be."
The spirit of Kannon then just shook its head and then got ready to continue fighting, with Naruto following suit of this.
Once they were both ready, they charged at each other, locked hands, and then growled at one another.
"Grgh!" Both growled as they tried to gain the upper hand against the other.
Naruto realized that he had no hope of overpowering the spirit, as the two were dead equals.
'From what Jiji told me, the spirit is supposed to be at least fifty times more powerful than the user, and judging by how equal we are, the same should apply with my tails' Naruto thought while still trying to overpower the spirit. 'Welp I guess that means I'm gonna have to find another way to beat her then.'
Naruto then began thinking and after a whole minute, Naruto finally got an idea, grew another arm made of chakra from the top of his head, and used it to punch the spirit of Kannon in the nose.
"Gah!" The spirit yelled out as it felt its nose break and let go of her hold on Naruto's hands.
As soon as he felt the spirit let go of him, he went for a whole combo of punches and kicks all over the spirit's body, with of course, his chakra prosthetics.
He started it off with a question mark kick to the right side of Kannon's ribs, then a wheel kick to the same side of Kannon's ribs, and just kept repeating this process with that side of her body.
After kicking that side of her body a total of fifty times with each kind of kick, Naruto switched to the other side.
He attacked the left side of her body with crescent kicks, hook kicks, and just repeated before swapping to the side of her body that he just left from, and started hitting it with a combo of punches.
He started to attack the right side of her body with both hook and bolo punches continuously, trying his hardest to bring her down.
After landing a total of fifty of each kind of punch, he took a step to the left side of Kannon's body, created a split second opening, and proceeded to land stiff one twos onto that side of her body.
After these combos, he went to the center of her body and started going for a mix of kicks and punches to her stomach and chest.
He landed every punch and kick he threw beforehand, that being being wheel kicks, question mark kicks, hook kicks, crescent kicks, hook punches, bolo punches punches, and one twos.
After landing a total of six hundred hits, Naruto topped it off with a spinning back kick and finally brought the spirit to the ground.
"Oomph!" The spirit sounded before being sent down to the ground.
Naruto wasted no time, brought out one of his chakra legs, and went for an axe kick to the heart of the now downed spirit, only for it to be caught in between the spirit's legs.
"Eat this! The spirit evilly whispered before landing a firm punch to the face of Naruto.
"Toh!" Naruto sounded after getting punched viciously across the face and launched up in the air.
This punch sent Naruto flying, and as he was, Kannon reached out her hand, caught the boy, and after she caught the boy, she also proceeded to slam him onto the ground a total of two hundred times before tossing him up in the air and then landing an overhand punch which not only harmed him, but also dragged him down to the ground, causing the ground below him to explode causing a huge cloud of smoke to appear.
"No!" The women of Naruto all shouted in panic.
"There you" Kannon started to say but was interrupted by an uppercut (Mario Style) to the chin, from Naruto. "Ohh!"
As soon as Naruto's feet both landed on the ground, he began to take deep breaths while looking at the hurt spirit, till of course, the spirit shook off the initial pain from the uppercut, and also took deep breaths while looking at the boy.
After five seconds of staring eye to eye, they both charged at each other again.
Naruto went for a right hook, with one of his chakra prosthetics, but the spirit parried it and landed a straight punch to the stomach.
"Oomph!" Naruto gasped out.
As soon as Naruto gasped out in pain from the straight punch, Kannon immediately tried to follow it up with a right hook of her own.
Naruto however, was able to block the hook and then fired back with a left hook, actually landing it this time and then pushed the spirit away from him with a push kick.
After being pushed back, the spirit went for a hammer punch, which connected with the boy's spine and brought him down to the ground.
She then went for another hammer punch, but the boy moved out of the way, and used his two arms made of chakra to land a strong double punch to the chin of the spirit, knocking her off her feet, and then down to the ground.
Naruto immediately tried taking advantage of this by forming some other hand signs, calling
"Maruishi Tounyuu!" And then sending a huge boulder at the spirit's direction.
The spirit managed to punch through the boulder and after it did, the pieces of the boulder came flying at Naruto.
Naruto of course managed to dodge all the incoming pieces of the boulder, but after he did, Kannon threw and landed a rough power punch to the heart of Naruto.
"Toh!" Naruto shouted as he was launched to yet another wall of the stadium.
He quickly got out of there though and out of anger, rushed faster than ever before at the spirit, cocked his left chakra fist back, and then threw it as hard as he could.
"Grah!" Naruto sounded before decking the spirit across the jaw with his large chakra fist.
"Ahh" The spirit sounded after getting hit, but then quickly began shaking it off.
Once the spirit was over the punch, it replied to the punch from Naruto with an overhand punch to the top of his head.
Naruto dodged the overhand and went for a dropkick, this time though, with two feet made of chakra.
The dropkick landed and made the spirit stumble back a bit again, and after it did, it went for a bolo punch.
The bolo punch landed directly onto the back of Naruto's head and made him hunch over, but then the spirit followed it up with an uppercut, which landed on his chin and succeeded in not only harming Naruto but also lifted him up into the air.
"Tah!" Naruto shouted in pain.
He quickly shook it off though and while he was still in mid-air, Naruto grew a large chakra leg and used it to axe kick the spirit on the top of its head.
The spirit of course, shouted in pain, but even if she didn't, the way she scrunched up her face let anyone in attendance know that she was in pain.
"Ahh!" She shouted in pain.
After screaming though, Kannon retaliated quickly to this kick though by hitting Naruto's entire body and face with a straight punch.
"Toh!" Naruto spat out after getting hit hard by the spirit.
After taking that hit, Naruto landed on the ground, cocked his fist back, grew another extremely large arm made of red chakra, and used it to again, deck the spirit across the face.
This punch knocked the spirit off its feet and down to the ground. After it did, Naruto, both quickly and hastily, made some hand signs, and then called
"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" Before sending a huge dragon made of fire at the spirit.
The spirit shook off the initial pain it felt from Naruto's punch, saw the dragon coming his way, and then proceeded to attempt to punch through it with a right hook.
The fist of the spirit and the dragon collided, but after a while, the spirit prevailed and landed the strike all over the left side of Naruto's body.
The complete force and power that exuded from not only the fist of the spirit, but also the dragon that Naruto brought out, collided with every single bone and intestine located on the left side of Naruto's body.
"Argh!" Naruto screamed in pain as he felt numerous of his bones cracking and numerous of his insides beginning to tremble, all while being launched through the air and to one of the walls of the stadium.
The spirit didn't waver once Naruto crashed into the wall though and continued to run at the boy.
The boy was unable to heal quick enough and got grabbed by the head as a result. After getting grabbed by the head, the spirit cocked its fist back, crashed it into the boy's gut, relished in the sound of him screaming out
"GAHHHH!" As well as the sound of the women he loved and that loved him shouting out
"NARUTO-KUNNNN!" And then began using him as a punching bag.
"Die, die, die!" It shouted.
After landing a total of fifty seven punches to the boy's gut, the spirit got bored and wanted to try something else. So she tossed him high in the air, clasped both her hands together, and then went for a downward strike with both sides of her palms.
"TAH!" Naruto wheezed out before getting launched into the ground and creating another crater.
Upon crashing to the ground, Naruto was feeling weak again, as if his healing factor disabled for the moment.
As soon as Kannon saw this, she grabbed Naruto with one hand, brought him up to her face, cocked her free hand back, and was about to go for another punch.
Before she could though, another arm made of red chakra grew out of the top of Naruto's head and punched the spirit in the eye.
"Damn!" She shouted in anger and pain.
The spirit let go of Naruto and once Naruto dropped to the ground, he finally felt his healing factor take charge again.
After roughly two minutes, Naruto was back to full strength, got back up to his feet, and began to attack the spirit himself.
He started by growing another arm made of chakra and used it to grab the spirit by the throat. After doing so, he lifted the spirit up into the air, and slammed it down on its back over and over again, and after slamming it down a total of sixty times, he tossed her up in the air, made some quick hand signs, called
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Instantly summoned fifty different Narutos, and then proceeded to make more hand signs and call "Kaze Gyorai no Jutsu!"
Sending fifty-one torpedoes made of purple air at the spirit.
The spirit was defenseless against the incoming torpedoes and as a result, was blasted by each and every last one of them till it finally fell back down to the ground.
Once it fell back down to the ground though, it actually managed to get back up rather quickly, turned to look at Naruto and then went for a palm strike.
Naruto halted the incoming palm strike with an open palm made up of the fox's chakra, and then used both his actual hands to create hand signs and then call out
"Futon: Daitoppa!" Sending a wave of wind at her.
Kannon didn't fall over, but she was pushed back a bit.
The distance between the two that resulted from the wave of wind was nothing major, but it was enough for Naruto to cock back one of his chakra hands, and then push it forward, landing it squarely on the left shoulder of the spirit.
As soon as the punch landed on the spirit's left shoulder, the spirit twisted its body, and as a result, this left a grand opening for Naruto to land a direct and perfect hook punch to her liver, which he of course took.
"Gah!" The spirit screamed out in pain from the sudden collision of Naruto's large chakra fist and her liver.
It ignored the pain it was in however and continued fighting.
With both swift and grace, the spirit threw a total of fifteen punches in a row at Naruto.
Naruto dodged the first punch by backflipping away.
Then he dodged the second punch by front flipping past the fist.
He dodged the third by twisting his body to the right side, then the left side for the fourth one.
The fifth punch was the final one dodged by Naruto, and he did so by simply ducking out of the way.
After avoiding that punch, Naruto rose back up to his feet and instead of dodging the next ten punches, he parried them all with two huge chakra hands.
After successfully parrying all ten incoming punches, Naruto grew four extra arms and used them all to continuously punch the spirit over and over again a total of sixty times.
The first ten landed on Kannon's heart, an additional ten landed on her chin, ten more crashed with the right side of her face, ten extra punches landed on the left side of her face, another ten hit her liver, and the final ten hit her throat.
These punches not only resulted in her being severely injured, but they also resulted in her not being able to speak or even scream out her pain anymore, as the ones that hit her throat kept her from speaking loudly any further.
Naruto noticed this and as soon as he landed his sixtieth punch, he used all six of his chakra arms to grab the spirit by the wrists, backed away as far as possible, and then slingshot himself at the spirit, hitting it with an amplified drop kick that brought it down to the ground again.
After dropping the spirit on its back, Naruto brought out all four of his large chakra arms, as well as his own two hands, made a total of six Rasengan, two small, four large, and called out
"Rasengan!" Before launching all six at the spirit.
The six total Rasengan all hit the spirit full force and blew up loudly as a result.
The combined forces ended up creating a cloud of sand so big that it filled the entire stadium and made al the watchers cover their eyes as a result.
"Ahh!" Every regular citizen watching the fight through the bleachers shouted while covering their eyes.
"Damn" all of Naruto's women breathed out while also covering their eyes from the huge cloud of sand that was created.
Eventually, the cloud dissipated and when it did, it allowed for everyone to see the six extremely large craters that had now appeared on the stadium, as well as the downed spirit who appeared immovable with both its eyes closed.
'It stops fighting and disperses when it either uses up all one thousand of its punches, or when it's defeated, but judging by how it's still around, I haven't beaten it yet' Naruto thought while breathing in and out continuously. 'I'm just relived that Asuma is only able to use this Jutsu once a year, as he is no monk, and even monks have to wait half a year in order to use it again.'
As Naruto was inwardly explaining all this to himself though, he didn't realize that the spirit had finally begun to move its hand and open its eyes.
As soon as it's eyes opened up, the spirit placed both her hands on the ground, and pushed herself back up.
She started on her hands, then her knees, then eventually, stood tall on both her feet.
Once she was on both her feet, she looked down at Naruto and got ready to keep fighting.
However unlike Naruto, the spirit of Kannon didn't have a healing factor, so every single hit that she took during the fight with Naruto, wasn't going away, and was instead getting in her way during the fight.
So when it put its hands up to keep fighting, Naruto capitalized and went for twenty more punches with his own two hands, and after doing so, he kicked it to the ground with one of his two real feet.
As soon as the spirit hit the ground again, Naruto jumped high, made some more hand signs, and then called
"Fuuton: Furyuu no Jutsu!" Sending one huge dragon made of purple air at the spirit.
Kannon tried to defend herself against the dragon, but she was too slow and too weak, so the dragon hit and defeated her without any difficulty.
When it did, the spirit made one last noise, and it was heard by only Naruto.
"Damn" it lightly gasped, unable to loudly voice her pain as the dragon seized and with it, the spirit.
As soon as Naruto landed on the ground, the fox's chakra left his system and he was back to normal.
It was a drag, but it was finally over, and that's all that mattered to Naruto.
Speaking of which, Naruto also now looked perfectly fine.
His shirt was completely torn apart and all that remained of it was a single piece of string, so everyone in attendance was able to see his body, and he was in perfect condition.
He had zero scars, gashes, black eyes, bruises, or any type of mark that showed injury.
Nobody else noticed it but the women of Naruto got lost staring at his body, as they still couldn't believe how well in shape the kid was in.
He was twelve, yet he had such a well defined six pack, along with wide pecs, and V shaped torso. His body was fine, and so were his arms, they were by no-means unbelievably bulky and huge, but they had a decent size to them and gave him a very well balanced 145 lb body, with a height of 5'5.
The women didn't realize that they were drooling over him, till they felt their drool fall off their mouth and splash into their lap.
"Oh" they all said in unison before shaking their heads, trying to shake the impure thoughts they had of him off.
Right as soon as they shook those thoughts off though, they noticed many other females, some older some younger, looking at the blonde in the same way they were, and well, they were pissed.
It was understandable why those females were staring at him, as it is very unlikely that any other man in Konoha, ninja or not, had a body like Naruto. Those grown women must've just been so jealous that a twelve year old boy had a better body than their husband, and the women of Naruto couldn't blame them. The young teenage girls in attendance more than likely don't have a boyfriend. The ones that do are likely captivated by how much better in shape Naruto is than their boyfriend, and the ones that don't probably had no idea that a man's body could be as well defined as that.
That however doesn't change the fact that those females were all staring at the man they all loved like he was their's, when in fact, he was their's.
They couldn't yell at them though, as that would take the attention away from the fight and they really didn't wanna do that, so they each just bit their tongue, and tried to calm down.
Once they all calmed down, they turned back to the boy they all loved, and saw the boy currently trying to catch his breath.
"Thank, Kami" Naruto said before dropping to the ground on his knees, a little tired. "It's finally over."
"Guess again."
"Huh?"
As soon as this quick exchange of words was made, Asuma kicked the young boy diagonally across the body, which made him drop his back down to the ground (Like when Deontay Wilder knocked out Bermane Stiverne. Only difference is that Naruto didn't get knocked out).
"Ow" Naruto said plainly before rising back up to his feet. "Now how could I forget about you?"
"Cuz you're an idiot" Asuma replied.
"Maybe" Naruto replied before getting back up to his feet and looking Asuma in the eyes. "Doesn't matter though, cuz this idiot is gonna kick your ass."
Asuma got a good look at the boy's face, as well as his body, saw that both had zero scratches on them, and opened his mouth.
"So I take it the Fox healed you back up to full strength didn't it?" Asuma asked.
"Yep" Naruto replied.
"Good, now I don't have to hold back against you" he said.
'He was holding back?' Was the thought almost everyone watching inside the stadium had.
This shocked everyone in the stadium, except for of course, Naruto, who then told the man
"Yeah, and it's the same thing for me."
This also confused everyone in the stadium, including Asuma.
"What do you mean, for you too?" Asuma asked.
"Early on during our fight, I was unable to use any of my Jutsu to their absolute best due to my condition, not only that, but I straight up couldn't use lots of my Jutsu because of my how bad in shape I was. Now that I'm back to one hundred percent though, get ready for hell" Naruto said while assuming his fighting stance.
"You're on kid" Asuma replied, also he tying into his fighting stance.
Both looked each other in the eyes for a good five seconds, before continuing their fight from where they left off.
Naruto Vs Asuma, Round Two
"Hyah!" Both shouted as they clashed forearms. "Argh!"
After the clash, Naruto went for a sweep kick, but Asuma jumped over the incoming foot, and while on mid-air, grabbed the back of Naruto's head, pulled it down, and crashed his knee onto Naruto's face.
The young blond stumbled back a bit after the knee, but shook it off quickly and then threw a straight punch at the man.
The punch connected with the man's chin and like the knee did with Naruto, sent Asuma stumbling back a few steps till he eventually re-found his footing and then threw a right hook.
Naruto blocked the hook and then went for a front kick, but Asuma slapped it down with both his hands.
After this quick exchange, both took a step back, spent a second and a half discussing what else they were going to do, then took a step forward, and started to attack each other again.
Naruto was the first to land a hit, and he did so with a side kick (Johnny Cage Style) to the stomach of Asuma.
The kick landed and took the wind out of Asuma, but he quickly reacted to and countered Naruto's next move, a spinning back kick, and he did so by hitting him with a wheel kick to the spine before his spinning back kick could even touch him.
The wheel kick sent Naruto to the ground, but he brought himself back up, and then went for a power punch to the heart of Asuma.
The Tokubetsu Jonin evaded the punch by moving to the side and once the punch narrowly missed his body, he grabbed the arm the boy used to throw the power and punch, and performed a shoulder throw, successfully tossing the boy over his shoulder, and then down to the ground.
"Toh!" Naruto wheezed out as his back slammed against the ground.
Asuma then went for a punch to the downed boy, but the boy caught the punch, and then landed an up kick to the man's chin, knocking him down on his ass, and allowing for Naruto to get back up to the ground, via kip up.
As soon as Naruto got back on his feet, he ran at the man and started kicking him while he was down.
After landing three consecutive kicks, he went for a stomp, but this time, Asuma was able to move out of the way and then get back up before Naruto's foot could hit the ground.
Upon seeing the young boy stomp the ground so hard, Asuma looked at him and then confusingly told him
"I thought you had leg weights."
Naruto simply smirked at Asuma and then asked him
"How'd you realize it?"
"Whenever you were kicking me, it felt like flesh and bone, not metal" Asuma answered.
"I decided to ditch them after a little while, they were just getting in the way too much during my missions" Naruto replied.
"Makes sense" Asuma replied.
"Yep" Naruto replied before appearing right behind Asuma. "Just like you're in mine."
As soon as Naruto said this, he went for a downward elbow to Asuma's neck, but Asuma was able to dive outta the way.
Upon avoiding the elbow, Asuma rolled back up to his feet and began making hand signs and then blasting a large cloud of ash at Naruto.
Naruto began coughing loudly after the ash rushed at him.
"What the -heavy cough-" Naruto started to say as the ash maxes its way into his system. 'The ash feels so much more potent and powerful than before, he really was holding back!'
Asuma simply smirked evilly after hearing Naruto cough, called
"Katon: Haisekishō!" And then bit down on the ash to make it explode.
"Ahh!" Naruto shouted as the cloud of ash became a large ember.
"No!" The women who loved the boy shouted in alarm.
When the gunpowder dissipated, Naruto could be seen on one knee, breathing in and out rapidly.
'How about I do it again?' Asuma thought before spamming that same attack thirty more times.
After the twentieth time, Naruto could be seen on both his knees, with blood coming out of his forehead, chest, and arms, as well as lots of sweat cascading down his body.
After seeing Naruto in the condition he was in, Asuma went for the same move again.
He took a deep breath, let out another large cloud of ash, called
"Katon: Haisekishō!" And another large ember appeared on the field.
This time though, after the ember dissipated, Naruto was gone.
'Wait, where'd he go?' Asuma thought before nervously looking every direction.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto called before a total of forty Narutos burst out from every direction of Asuma.
"What the hell!?" Asuma shouted before hastily making some hand signs, and then calling "Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu!"
Successfully taking out all ten Narutos that were coming at him from the left side.
However, while he did take out every clone coming at him from the left side, the other thirty got him.
They didn't hurt him bare hands or feet, but instead chose to make their own hand signs and then call out
"Katon: Karyuu Endan!"
"Fuuton: Furyuu no Jutsu!"
"Suiton: Suikoudan no Jutsu !"
"Argh!" He shouted with his arms up as all thirty Naruto hit his body with their Jutsu and created a large cloud of smoke, covering both Asuma and also Naruto, who landed on the ground, and then dispersed all his clones.
When the cloud of dust settled and everyone was able to see Asuma, they saw that he looked just as bad as Naruto did. Like Naruto, Asuma was bleeding from his forehead, chest, and arms, breathing in and out heavily, had lots of sand all over his body, and was down on one knee.
After getting back up to his feet and dusting himself off, though, Asuma finally snapped.
"Alright that's it, enough games, I'm ending this, now!" Asuma yelled out before he finally brought out some of his world famous Chakra Blades, called out
"Hien!" infused them with chakra, and then rushed the kid down.
One front punch from Asuma, was too fast for Naruto and so it landed on the left side of his face.
Another front punch from Asuma, landed squarely on the other side of Naruto's face.
This just continued on and on.
Asuma was punching Naruto again and again with everything he had and it was slowly becoming too much for Naruto to take.
After punching the blond in the face for the eightieth time, Asuma directed his punches elsewhere.
His first punch, which was a right hook, landed directly on Naruto's liver.
His second punch, this time it was a left hook, instantly landed on his ribs.
And Asuma continued on with these strikes.
Left side, right side, he was unrelenting, and showed absolutely zero mercy, as he wanted to send a message to everyone that was in that stadium.
The message being that he not only was the better and more superior fighter, but also the better man.
Eventually, after punching Naruto's ribs over and over again for a grand total of fifty times on each side, Asuma picked up his speed and started punching Naruto over and over again in the chest.
Front punch after front punch, they all landed on Naruto's chest and were pushing him back every time they struck.
After severely bruising and injuring Naruto's face, chest, and ribs, there was only one last thing that Asuma had to take care.
So with one last wound up punch, Asuma struck Naruto in the throat, bringing him down to the ground, hyperventilating and choking from the damage dealt to his entire system.
After seeing the beat be put in his place, not only Asuma, but also everyone in the audience (Except for Naruto's women) started cheering.
"You got him!"
"Congratulations, Asuma-San!"
"You killed the monster!"
The women of Naruto who were there couldn't stand what they were seeing or hearing, and so they all gripped onto the railing and shouted
"Naruto-Kun!"
Naruto opened his eyes after hearing the sound of his women's voices.
"Naruto-Kun, you're better than Asuma in every single way imaginable!" Ino shouted.
"Naruto-Kun, you were injured before the fight even started, but Asuma was perfectly fine, and yet look at Asuma now, he's panting heavily, clearly injured, clutching his ribs, and barely able to stand on his feet!" Hinata added.
"You're the best at this Naruto-Kun, don't let him get to you!" Sakura chimed.
"You're the better man Naruto-Kun, no matter what anyone else says!" Koyuki made clear.
"Make that scumbag regret the day he was born!" Anko ended.
Hearing these words filled Naruto's heart with determination, so much determination that he just couldn't give up. He managed to get back up to his feet from these words, but still didn't have the heart to fight anymore.
Asuma saw this, brought out his Chakra Blades one last time, said
"So you want more huh?" And got closer to him, rather slowly though as he was still too tired and hurt to really do much at a regular rate.
As Asuma made his way over to Naruto, the blond was still unable to move his body from the sheer pain and exhaustion he was feeling all over his body.
That was until he heard Kurenai shout
"Naruto-Kun, don't forget, even if you lose, you'll always be the better man in our hearts!"
That did it for the boy, and with a look of pure rage, anger, and determination on his face, he rushed Asuma, cocked his fist as far back as he could, applied as much chakra as he could to it, and once he got close enough, he punched him in the stomach as hard as he could.
This single punch from Naruto was enough to send Asuma crashing into one of the walls of the Chunin Exams, and right after he did, his women shouted
"Way to go Naruto-Kun!" In unison.
After hearing this, Naruto ran to Asuma's side, peeled him off of the wall, and started to beat some sense into him.
He started it all by literally grabbing Asuma by his legs, and then slamming him all over the ground.
First he slammed him on his face, then the back of his head, then he repeated this same process over and over again till finally, after slamming him for the twentieth time, he decided to switch it up.
He did this by throwing him back into the wall he peeled him off of, and once he was wedged into the wall again, Naruto started using him as a punching bag.
He was building up as much chakra as he could into his fists in order to harm that bearded scumbag as badly as he could, and it was working, cuz literally, after six punches, Asuma looked as bad as Naruto did, but of course, Naruto didn't relent and continued hammering away at Asuma's body and face without any mercy.
After punching Asuma in both the body and face a total of fifty times each, Naruto finally relented, brought back his fists, once again, peeled him off the wall, and tossed him to the center of the stadium.
Once Asuma reached the center of the stadium, Naruto ran to that center himself, picked up Asuma by his hair, and once he was in the proper position, Naruto Upper Cut Asuma as hard as he could.
This punch landed directly on the chin, and it was enough to send Asuma high up to the sky.
Naruto knew that the fall back down to the ground would be more than enough to finish the job if he just let it happen. However, Naruto had other plans
'I'm not letting you off that easy?' He thought with an evil smirk before jumping as high as he could, and once he was right in front of that flying body of Asuma's, Naruto brought up his left knee, while also bringing down his left elbow.
The combined limbs ended up striking the front and back of Asuma's heart, which already would've been painful, but Naruto induced the amount of pain Asuma would feel by applying chakra to both of his limbs.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Asuma screamed out as the sound of one of his ribs breaking as well as both his heart and lung squelching was heard by everyone in the stadium.
"That's not it" Naruto said before bringing out one his hands, and allowing for chakra to develop in that hand in order to create a clear sphere. "Rasengan!"
The Rasengan hit Asuma right in the heart and as soon as it did, Asuma went flying all the way down the stadium ground.
"It's" Naruto started. "Over."
-Boom-
The sound of the top of Asuma's head crashing into the ground of the stadium was heard by everyone.
The crash resulted in both a huge cloud of dust forming around the arena, and also a huge crater being created from the sheer impact that Asuma's body made with the ground.
When the blond Jonin landed on the ground and started catching his breath, the dust settled and an unconscious, wounded, and bloody Asuma with his eyes rolled all the way back was clear for everyone to see.
Naruto then collapsed down to his knees, desperately trying to catch his breath. Once he fully caught his breath, he stood back up, and announced to everyone
"Victory... is... mine!" With his arms raised.
As soon as Naruto declared this and everyone got a good look at the now unconscious body of Asuma from their seats, the entire audience (Except for Naruto's women of course) started booing loudly.
"You cheated, kid!"
"That wasn't fair, you caught him off guard!"
"Filth orphan, haven't you learned nothing about fighting fair!?"
Naruto ignored these yells, but his women didn't and were about to yell at the audience to shut up, but before they could, Naruto waved at them to just leave it alone. They didn't want to, but they knew that if Naruto was telling them this, he had a reason.
And he did, as he got down to his knees, and waited for Asuma to wake up.
After a couple of minutes, he groaned awake.
"What the hell, happened?" Asuma groaned out in pain.
"You lost, that's what happened" Naruto replied.
Asuma gnashed his teeth at this, but couldn't reply as he knew it was true.
"That's not all I wanted to tell you though" Naruto added.
Frustrated, Asuma asked the boy
"Then what else did you wanna say?"
Naruto just let out a deep breath and then began speaking.
"Listen, I can't forgive you, for how badly you disrespected and hurt one of my Himes, but since you are the son of my former Sensei, I will help you by telling you what to do, if you really are a man that is."
Asuma gnashed his teeth at this and was about to speak, before coughing and hacking, as dust was currently clogging up his throat.
After seeing the grown man cough out a cloud of dust, Naruto continued on.
"What I want you to do is think about your dad and everything he has ever done for this village, actually no, think about everything he has done for you."
Asuma groaned with venom at this.
"I said think!" Naruto yelled.
The yell from Naruto was loud, but because of how loud the many people that hated the boy were yelling at him, they didn't hear it. However, Asuma definitely did and flinched upon hearing the tone of the boy. Once Naruto saw the man flinch, he continued on.
"Think about all the times he went out of his way and halted his duties as Hokage to help you out. Whether it was to attend your birthdays, help you with schoolwork, or just being a dad in your life!"
Asuma just looked away after hearing this.
"What you're gonna turn away huh!? What is it with you, your dad gave you the world, and this is how you behave after everything he's sacrificed for you!? Some legacy you're leaving for him and for yourself!"
This really hit a nerve of Asuma, so much so that he actually tuned his face back around in order to look the boy in the eyes, and then replied.
"Shut up, you know nothing about my dad!" Asuma croaked out loudly before clenching his throat from the pain in his vocal cords.
"I know nothing about your dad huh?" Naruto asked the man shockingly. "I know more about him than you!"
"No you don't" Asuma muttered out in a small voice.
"Well how about this then" Naruto gritted out, much quieter, but still angry. "Did you know that when you were seven, your dad ditched his Hokage duties to come see you in the hospital because of a bad fall you took? Or how about when you were nine and you asked out your first crush, who was there to help you when you got rejected? Your dad, that's who. Or how about when you were eleven, who stopped everything by they were doing that day just to see you eat promoted to Genin? Your father Asuma."
How do you know all this?" Asuma asked, a lot more calm.
"Because whenever me and you father trained, you and your brother were all he ever talked about" Naruto explained, much more calm now too. "Whenever I would mention how well I was doing in the academy, he would somehow change the topic and make it about you and Konohamaru's father."
"Really?" Asuma asked, dumbfound.
Naruto simply nodded and then told Asuma
"You were his son, his eldest son. He always told me about how he was most proud of you and your brother over anyone else, including me."
This hit a string in Asuma's heart.
"There were times where he would actually blow off training with me when we were both free because he wanted to spend time with you, his son."
What Naruto was saying hit Asuma in a way he never imagined would be possible.
"I-I didn't realize" Asuma stuttered before Naruto told him
"Knowing Jiji, he would tell you that it's fine, and that it'll work itself out, but that's not me. So instead, what I'm gonna tell you to do is once you are fully dismissed from the hospital, get your lazy, ungrateful, bratty ass outta there and visit your father's grave, pay your respects, and then do what I always do, talk to his stone head."
Asuma nodded his head weakly, as he was still too weak to really move himself normally.
After seeing the man nod his head in understanding, Naruto stood back up on his feet.
"Alright, with that being said though, there is something else I must attend to" Naruto said before he shunshin'd to Kurenai's seat of the stadium.
"Naruto-Kun" Kurenai mutter before Naruto grabbed onto her and then shunshin'd again to where his Sensei and Orochimaru sat at during the invasion.
Once they both made it there, Naruto cleared his throat before yelling out
"Shut up!"
This instantly caught the attention of everyone in attendance. It actually scared all the regular citizens that were there, as for the women of the man, they knew it was coming, and they knew that
Once Naruto knew that he got everyone's attention, he began speaking.
"This woman right here, is Kurenai Yuuhi, one of the most beautiful and amazing women in all of the elemental nations!"
Kurenai blushed upon hearing Naruto speak about her as if she were a queen.
Suddenly though, Naruto continued on.
"She however, is my girlfriend!"
To say this shocked everybody would be an understatement.
Hell, it even shocked the women that were in love with and sharing Naruto. The only reason why though, is because they never expected Naruto to declare it to so many people, when he was still just twelve, and not eighteen or older.
It especially however, shocked the regular citizens. They were still scared by the voice of the boy, as well as just how strong and angry he looked at the moment, and listened intently because of it, but due to the fact that they were listening so intently, they grew confused at what he said.
'Isn't he twelve?' Was the thought they each had in their minds.
As if reading their minds though, Naruto then loudly declared
"Yeah, I am twelve, so what?!"
The citizens all just gulped at the mere anger they could sense and hear in the tone of the boy and just shook their head profusely, showing that they weren't judging him.
After seeing this, Naruto continued on.
"It doesn't take away the fact that she is one of the few people who I love more than anything else in the world!"
'One of?' Was the next thought on everyone's mind.
Again, as if reading everyone's minds, Naruto shunshin'd both himself and Kurenai back to where she was sitting at originally, and upon getting there, he shielded all the women behind him, and then announced
"All the women standing over here are mine, and if any of you so much as look at them the wrong way, you'll end up like him!" While using his left hand to point at Asuma.
That did it for them and every regular citizen started to scream and run out of the stadium as fast as possible, not wanting to feel Naruto's wrath.
It was understandable. Naruto just kicked a Tokubetsu Jonin's ass, what chance would regular civilians have?
Once the stadium was clear of everyone except for Naruto and his women, he turned around asked them all
"Are you all alright?"
All the harem-girls couldn't hear Naruto, as they were all captivated by the mere sight of his hot, chiseled, and sweaty body. Never-mind the bruises, and small burns, those were unimportant to them. What did matter to them, was that the boy right in front of them all, was more jacked than most men could ever hope to be in a lifetime, and the sight of his sweat traveling down his body and highlighting his features really helped.
They were so lost on his body, that they didn't hear him till he asked them for the fifth time.
"Are you alright?" He repeated.
"Oh, y-y-yeah, w-w-were fine N-Naruto-Kun" they all replied.
"Good, you guys go back home, Ill meet you back there in a bit, I just need to take Asuma to the nearest hospital first" the boy told them.
The women nodded and went off.
Once they did, Naruto jumped back to Asuma, tossed him over his shoulder, said
"Let's go" and then ran to the nearest hospital he could find.
(One Hour Later)
Naruto was just now leaving the hospital in which he dropped Asuma off at and was making his way to his house.
He still didn't have a shirt on, so he was attracting the attention of numerous women as he walked down to the streets of Konoha.
"That wasn't fun" he said with a stretch. 'But at the end of the day, I did end up teaching Asuma an important lesson. So I'm hoping he takes my advice, and even if he doesn't, that just means I'll have to kick his ass again.'
"Well have I got some news for you" someone said from behind Naruto.
Naruto recognized the voice instantly and then asked him
"It's you again, isn't it?"
"Yep, it's me kid" the voice replied.
"What is it this time?" Naruto questioned.
"See for yourself" the voice said before handing him a scroll from his vest.
"Are you suddenly now Baa-Chan's delivery boy, Anbu-San?" Naruto asked.
"If she needs me to deliver a letter, I will, it's a simple as that, now read it and then decide what you're gonna do with it" the Anbu said before vanishing.
Naruto just opened up the scroll, looked over it, and after seeing through it. He realized that it was more than do-able.
So he just said
"Alright, I'll do it tomorrow" before walking back home.
To Be Continued...
Author's Note:
If anyone is angry or upset about the many details that I added to the spirit of Kannon, as well as Naruto's three tails state, I'm sorry, but it was the only way to make the fight between the two interesting. Also in case some of you guys didn't get the joke, the spirit of Kannon that Asuma summoned was big, but it was supposed to be much bigger, which is why Naruto called it tiny.
With that being said though, did you guys enjoy this new chapter of Young/Old Heroism? If you did let me know in the comment section.
