Yo, back again... aren't you so happy about that. Anyways, thanks for the kind reviews and keep them coming, I look forward to hearing from you.
Now this chapter contains some fighting action and some more details about his condition. As such, it may seem a bit choppy in places (for the information parts), but I'll allow it since it is neccessary to get some more information out without tying up too many words and making it boring. I guess that is all for now... to the chapter!
Yo, me no own Naruto, me no make money off either. (Hey, who let the caveman in?)
Chapter 2 – Overwhelming Anger
(Day 2 of no Ramen)
Naruto slept well that night for some reason that he couldn't explain, but didn't think on it for too long since it was a new day and news had to have been found about where he could find some ramen. He decided to skip breakfast, since he didn't have his usual ramen stocked, and decided to run down to the Hokage's office to find out what she found.
"Hey Baa-chan!" He shouted annoyingly as he busted through the doors into her office startling Tsunade, who was once again napping on the mountains of paperwork.
"Damn it brat not so loud and early in the morning, I haven't woken up yet!" She screamed at him, but noticed she was screaming on the wrong direction still.
"It's freaking nine in the morning already Baa-chan, I've been training for a few hours already."
"That's nice, now what do you want?"
"Ramen! What did you find out?" He asked, full of hope.
"Well I have some bad news for you. It seems that your ramen shortage is country wide and since it is something only found in our village, for the most part, you are out of luck." Tsunade watched his face fall but was surprised when it straightened out again.
"Well that really sucks, but I found out that there are things that taste just as good that I can eat, I just can't find one that in unbiased towards me."
"Well I have a way to fix that. I propose that until Ichiraku's opens again that you come by the Hokage Estate for lunch. They will prepare anything you want, but they can't make ramen."
"Really? Thanks."
"Yeah, don't mention it. Now I'll need to run some routine tests on you at the hospital to check on how the Kyuubi's seal is working today, so meet me there by noon." NAruto grumbled a bit at having to go to the hospital, but quickly got over it.
"Alright baa-chan, see you around!" Naruto took off in the direction of his favorite training ground to do a little training before his check up. After nearly four hours of training with his clones, he was quite tired and headed to the hospital. Like usual, he went to his reserved room, since he always seemed to be there for one injury or another, and found Shizune and Tsunade waiting for him.
"About time brat, now take a seat; we need to draw some blood, Shizune."
"Hai." Shizune stuck Naruto's arm with a needle and drew out some of his blood for analysis. After a few more small checks, Naruto was done with his check up.
"Well, I will need to see you again in about ten days to get another sample to see the progress and if there is any change in things. You are free to go." Naruto hopped off of the table happily since he was getting out of there.
"See you then, I guess it is back to training since missions are out." Not waiting for any response, Naruto took off running like a kid to do more training.
(12 days with no ramen)
Ten more days have passed and it was now time for Naruto's second checkup. Mostly everything stayed as routine. Naruto would wake up, do some training then head to Tsunade's house for lunch. After that he would hit up training again, while Hinata watched him from a far like always, without him knowing, and then he'd get supper before heading home to do it all the next day.
Another thing that happened in that time was that Hinata's favorite restaurant was officially closed a few days after their lunch, maybe the destroyed building had something to do with it, but she was actually happy about it since she saw no need in going to a restaurant that wouldn't treat the man she loved, secretly, with the care he deserves. She hasn't said a thing to Naruto since that day, but that was probably because she needs to recharge her confidence but that didn't stop her from watching him train.
Tsunade had just finished the second analysis of Naruto's blood that was collected earlier that day and wasn't happy with what she found. She decided to call in Jiraiya again for his opinion on how Naruto may react to the changes she found in his blood. After once again sending Shizune out to fetch the pervert he finally joined her in the lab.
"Hey Tsunade, what did you call me here for? I was doing some valuable research."
"Quiet perv, it is about Naruto and his ramen issue. It seems that you were right about his testosterone levels and everything I tried spiking his food with doesn't work. Ten days ago Naruto had hormone levels that ran at about half of what it was supposed to be at, but now it has more than tripled. Right now I would suspect he would feel normal, but could have more of a hyper temper."
"Great, you haven't found a solution and he is already past the ten days. I would hate to be the one that ends up challenging him to a fight now." He mentioned while cringing at the thought.
"Is it bad enough to tell him about it?" Tsunade asked, hoping that if it was indeed that bad they would need to tell him so he knew not to get into fights.
"I wouldn't for now. Let's just hope it stays at this level, but if it gets worse he would need to be warned to avoid conflict." Jiraiya stated, actually serious for a change.
"Ok, I'll bring him in about five days from now for another test, and if it reads higher, I'll inform him. But what type of damage are we talking about if he looses it?"
"I'd say close to Armageddon. He has enough of his own chakra to rival his four tailed state and if he looses control it would probably be about a six tailed transformation. This would be on par with Gai opening all the gates at once. People will die if it happens." Tsunade sighed and leaned back in her chair while rubbing her temples.
"Not good, he is surely going to be the death of me, one way or another."
"You and me both Tsunade."
"Well, it is going to be yours before it is mine. I want you to watch him for any signs of him loosing control. You don't have to watch him all the time, just if he is sparing or something." Jiraiya grumbled unhappily as he shuffled reluctantly out the door.
Naruto was in the middle of doing his usual warm-ups, at his favorite training area, when a sudden blur of green flew onto the field. Lee ran right up to Naruto completely busting with energy and hopping from one foot to the other..
"Hey Naruto! Care to challenge your stores of youthfulness? Gai-sensei told me that if I was to be accepted into jonin ranks I would need to defeat the strongest chuunin in the village, but I know no chuunin stronger than the strongest genin, namely you." He told him, finishing in his signature good guy pose.
"Well Lee, you are lucky I'm in a mood to fight someone. How would you like to do this?" Naruto asked feeling a sudden thrill fill his body at the thought of a good fight.
"Wonderful my good friend! I say a friendly spar using only taijutsu and weapons. That is the only way for our full youthfulness to shine!"
"Hmm, a bit in favor of your abilities, but somehow I feel the urge to take you on hand to hand."
"Good to hear! Shall we begin then?"
"Yeah let's." Naruto felt another, greater, surge of excitement flow through him at the anticipation of the fight to the extent he hasn't felt in ages. He grinned a feral grin as he fell into a standard stance with his right foot leading his left and right hand cupped upwards similar to Lee's usual stance. Seeing this, Lee gave him the thumbs up before mirroring his stance to a degree.
"So you aren't going to take off the weights?"
"I thought we could use a good warm up first." Lee replied
"Well you just ran here and I was training so that is enough warm up." Naruto didn't waste time as he launched forward faster than Lee was expecting and landed a quick elbow to the green clad ninja's stomach. Lee was sent skidding on his feet back dragging small trails in the dirt for nearly three feet before the energy was absorbed.
"Very good Naruto." Lee coughed out as he attempted to get the air back into his lungs.
"Why don't we pull out all the stops already?" Naruto asked with an uncharacteristic smirk.
"I think I'm warmed up enough, I accept." Lee lifted up the flaps to his leg weights and pulled out a bunch of round bar weights and tossed them to the ground embedding each a few inches into the dirt.
"So those are your new weights." Naruto observed since he has heard he carried a different type of weight. "What else do you have in there?" Lee smiled before grabbing a pair of his weights that happened to be chained together.
"Are these what you were looking for?" Lee asked as he held one weight in each hand and pulled them apart snapping the connecting chain taut proving that it was indeed a massively weighted down nunchaku. Lee started out in the standard exhibition moves of nunchaku twirling it around his body, over his head and under his arms before stopping with the chained end tucked between his side and arm.
"Well then Lee, let me see what you can do with those." Answering his call, Lee disappeared with his major boost of speed and reappeared inches from Naruto before stopping quickly and letting loose the chained end of the nunchaku. With the inertia from the run forward, the end of the nunchaku buried itself into the gut of the blonde. Naruto was flung away easily with the mass of the weapon and toppled into a close by tree with heavy force. Lee cringed helplessly as he heard a sharp crack and hoped it was the tree and not Naruto's back.
Somehow after the first punch was thrown, nearly all of the Konoha eleven and Konohamaru's team heard about the battle and started showing up to watch the fight along with some other residents of the village. Of course Hinata has been there for the start of it and feared for his safety after he hit the tree.
"Well now we're getting somewhere." Naruto groaned and pulled himself to his feet before pulling off his jacket revealing a tight black tank top advertising his cut muscles from years of training.
"Good lord, where did he get those muscles from?" Ino commented as she was practically drooling over how his body looked from the sidelines.
"Tongue in your mouth Ino, Hinata is within hearing." Sakura whispered while covering part of her mouth with one hand. "But he does look like someone out of a glamour magazine." Sakura confessed with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Hey who's the hot guy fighting Lee?" Tenten asked while stepping next to the two other girls.
"That's Naruto." Ino told her with a smile.
"Well, I must say he looks different without his jacket." She commented.
"Hey, you just said he looked hot before you knew who he was." Sakura teased.
"Did not!"
"So you just want to sound uninterested so you can pursue him later." Ino mocked.
"I didn't say that." Tenten shouted back with empty anger.
"No but you didn't deny it either." Sakura caught her with that one and smiled after seeing Tenten blush slightly.
"Shut up and watch the fight."
Naruto's jacket slammed to the ground and made an indent of its own showing it too was weighted for training. He arched backwards to stretch out from his injury earlier and did a few more stretching exercises before resuming his stance.
"Well I guess we did manage to fit in a warm up Lee, now let's get serious." Naruto took off after the taijutsu specialist with more speed than Lee has seen in ages, but it still wasn't faster than he could move. When Naruto went for a quick punch to his face, Lee blocked it with the his hand and snapped the nunchaku from his other hand landing the full length of the chained half across his ribs, cracking them, and sending Naruto flying again. He groggily stood up with a hand on his ribcage trying to make sure it was still in place before resuming fighting.
Hinata had her fingers curled up to her bottom lip as she watched and cringed each time her crush was struck, but she knew he would never give in and had more power to go since Naruto's secret was out a while back, so they all knew of his burden when they had to help with the destruction of the Akatsuki nearly two years ago. It took some of them a few months to come around to it after returning from the missions, but in the end all accepted him fully. Hinata was just wishing that he wouldn't end up having to use that power since it always seemed to hurt him when he did.
"Damn, I guess your nunchaku packs a punch with all that weight behind it. Let's see what I have up my sleeve." Naruto pulled out a scroll from his pants pocket and held the flap in his hand while he threw the scroll high into the air to unroll it. "Weapons summoning!" In a puff of smoke a staff, about the height of Naruto, appeared in his hands. Holding it in his right hand, he spun it around like a windmill before stopping it and locking it against his forearm and held it straight across his back while crouching with his other arm outstretched..
"Hmm, I see he can handle his staff well." Tenten commented with satisfaction.
"Oh? Tenten, which staff are you referring to?" Ino questioned with a teasing smirk.
"Shut up Ino! I'm not interested, ok?"
"Sure, whatever gets you through the day." She continued with a slight giggle.
Naruto and Lee stared at each other seemingly waiting for an unknown sign to begin again. Suddenly the onlookers caught a glimpse of a lone leaf floating to the ground. The moment it touched the ground, they were both gone. When they reappeared they saw Lee sideways in the air with one leg cocked back and knew what was coming.
"Konoha Gōriki Senpu!" Lee shouted as he carried on his attack. Much to everyone's horror, Naruto didn't make any movement except one. He took his staff and plunged it into the ground placing the sharpened point to appear next to his head in the direct path of Lee's kick. Seeing this just in time, Lee changed the direction of the kick and let it glide over Naruto's head, but what really surprised him was when Naruto reached out and grabbed his passing foot with his free hand and used the momentum in the kick to forcefully slam Lee into the ground face first.
"That has got to hurt." Naruto uncharacteristically commented while admiring the crater he left with Lee's body. Everyone was surprised at his sudden rudeness and attitude bordering on enjoying dealing out pain. Suddenly a blast of chakra shot out from the crater flinging dust and rocks out of the indentation in absurd amounts.
"I am sorry I must use this Naruto, but I will be allowed to enter Jonin testing." Lee announced with veins popping from his face signifying he has resorted to using the chakra gates.
"Sounds like fun, time to see how long you last." Naruto threw away his staff and Lee followed suit with his nunchaku. The spectators started to back up knowing what was about to happen and wanted to be further away from the battle. Like was expected, Naruto channeled the Kyuubi chakra throughout his body causing his longer nails, fangs, and darkened whisker marks to compliment his slitted pupils.
Naruto and Lee took off after each other faster than most could see. A thunderous boom was heard across the training ground as their fists met each other in the center of the grounds letting off a huge shockwave over the small crowd. It was difficult to keep up with their speed except for the times the blurs stopped in a stand still just to disappear again. Each time they were able to be seen they sported a few more bruises than before showing that they traded blows heavily while moving much too fast for normal eyes.
You could see them every so often flying through the air before they would land on the ground and perform some weird types of gymnastic moves to right themselves and be off again after their opponent. Some of the trees around didn't fare too well in the battle either as branches were torn apart and smashed from missed attacks or for launching at each other. Naruto was feeling like he was getting the upper hand, but that was until he saw Lee leap strangely off a tree and realized he was doing the Kage Buyō (Shadow of the Dancing Leaf) sideways. Even though he knew what was coming, he realized that since it was taijutsu only, his usual kage bushin and even replacement was thrown out the window meaning he was going to be hurting in the morning as he felt Lee grab him and twirling around for the Omote Renge (Front Lotus).
Naruto appeared again, but Hinata could tell it wasn't like usual as he was falling at a much faster rate than before. His body rocked the earth from the impressive impact making the audience cringe knowing that could kill a normal person, but Lee only did enough to ensure his disability and wasn't aiming for death. Naruto crawled out of his crater, surprising even Lee, but he knew it was over when Naruto looked at him with nearly lifeless looking glassed over eyes joining his bloodied body. Massive amounts of chakra started to swirl about his battered limbs uncontrollably before the very chakra itself appeared to start bubbling out of every pore of his skin, but Lee paid no attention to the impending danger.
"Naruto-kun?" Hinata voiced, but still didn't see any form of recognition in his eyes. She started pondering over his current status as Lee appeared in front of Naruto.
"Naruto, it was a great match, you put up a wonderful fight, but…"
"Lee! Get away! He's unconscious!" Hinata screamed once she realized what was happening. Lee didn't heed her warning soon enough when Naruto, in his full four tailed state, lunged at Lee. On reflexes alone, he jumped back from the powerful left punch narrowly avoiding it as it struck the ground causing the earth to crack and throw debris around. Without missing a step, Naruto reached out with his right and gripped Lee's face before plowing it straight through a nearby tree sending splinters across the field completely decimating Lee in the process..
"Who's next?" Came an evil sounding voice from the blonde standing next to a seriously injured taijutsu specialist.
"I am." Naruto turned around just in time for Jiraiya to firmly plant his chakra sealing sutra on his forehead. Naruto stared at the intruding sannin with his glassed over eyes as the chakra receded into his body and slumped to the ground.
"Why did he lose control? It has been over two years since the last time." Sakura asked Jiraiya.
"Don't know." He lied fluently. "We'll need to run some tests at the hospital. Gai, take Lee there as well, I think he needs some attention." Jiraiya hefted Naruto up on his shoulder and set out for the hospital with Gai doing the same with Lee. The crowd dispersed in a solemn mood while Hinata picked up Naruto's staff and jacket before resealing it and pocketing the scroll.
'I'm sorry Naruto-kun; I'll make it up to you soon.' Hinata blushed at what crossed her mind before disappearing into the village.
(15 days without ramen)
It was nearly three days after the fight and neither Naruto nor Lee have regained consciousness but at least they have stabilized enough so tests could be carried out on the young jinchuriki to see how far his situation has progressed. Tsunade was holed up in her analysis lab with her assistant Shizune, when she was joined by Jiraiya.
"So how bad is it Tsunade?" Jiraiya asked after she finished analyzing his blood work up for the second time. She went through all the papers again hoping she didn't miss something or read it incorrectly and let out a long sigh with the final figure she came up with.
"It looks really bad. He had some figures that are off the charts. From what I can figure, he will wake up with his mind intact, but I have a feeling that his sexual awareness and drive will make yours look like a school girl's crush. Not only that, but he will be teetering on a fine point in the anger department. To think that battle a few days ago was actually a friendly spar and it escalated to that point. Makes you wonder what would happen if he was actually angry."
"So the brat is finally going to follow in my footsteps, it is about time. I could get some good research off of this." Jiraiya giggled perversely while thinking of all the ways his former student could fascinate him.
"Damn it Jiraiya, that isn't what is going to happen, if he doesn't get things under control, he'll most likely die from making advances on the wrong people. You remember what happened to you when you did the same." Jiraiya cringed and stepped a few feet back from Tsunade after remembering the only time other than the fight with Naruto in four tailed state that he feared for his life; that was that last time he would ever go for a feel of her.
"Uh, not good. So what do you suggest we do with him?" He asked her, finally serious again.
"We can't do much. I will tell him when he wakes up and suggest he confines himself to his apartment for a while, at least until I can figure out something."
"You know he'll hate that."
"Sure, but there isn't anything else I can do, unless…" Tsunade suddenly got an evil grin on her face. "Shizune, go get Anko, I think she may be of use."
"Hai."
"Tsunade, what are you planning?" Jiraiya asked with intrest in her new plan.
"Just a little experiment, besides Anko knows more about the desires of men more than any other due to her chosen outfit." Jiraiya got a perverted look again as he imagined the very same person that nearly showed off all of her breasts with her skimpy clothing. "But you won't be here pervert." Tsunade reminded with assurance of pain if he tried.
"You have no vision. My research leads to works of art! You dare destroy a masterpiece in the making?"
"Get, or I'll destroy your other, so called, masterpiece." Tsunade smiled as that statement made the man pale and disappear in a puff of smoke. "Well Naruto, let's see if you manage to live past 18." Tsunade stood up from the chair in her lab and made her way to Naruto's room to await Anko's arrival.
So that was chapter 2. Expect chapter 3 to be just as long (will contain more humerous stuff, including interaction with some kunoichi), but the last two chapters will be near double (and no, it wouldn't work to readjust them to even length chapters, I tried)...Later