Awlric Hayell: you know, you might have a point. i had a good reason. it was to denote the way it was being said, being as there is a distinct difference in the way each sounds.
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-that evening-
Naruto was sitting in his living room reading a scroll on handseals and chakra manipulation, trying to figure out a new jutsu for his bloodline. He then looked over at the other scroll he had laying next to him with a few jutsu on it and frowned slightly. He then placed the scroll he was looking over next to the one he was writing on and got up, looked out the window and streched. As he was looking out the window he noticed sombody running across the roof tops at a verry fast pace with an absurdly large scroll slung across their back. Curiosity getting the better of him, he decided to follow the mysterious, scroll bearing person.
As he followed the ninja through the woods, the ninja sudenly stopped in a clearing to catch his breath and make sure nobody followed him. That was his first mistake of the night. Naruto jumped down from his position and landed about 20 meters from the other man. "Mizuki sensei, what're you doing out here in the middle of a forest at night?" questioned naruto as he eyed the scroll.
"What Im doing is none of your damn business brat, now go home like a good boy you little bastard." Mizuki then punctuated his statement by throwing several kunai at Naruto. Naruto dodged the projectiles and realeased a cloud of paper from his coat sleave with a yell of "origami shuriken", making a single one handed seal. The cloud quickly formed into a hail of shuriken flying tword Mizuki at high speed. Mizuki pulled out a kunai and cut all of the shuriken in half before throwing the kunai at the blonde. He then pulled out another kunai and charged at naruto.
Seeing the charging chunin, Naruto created his sword and swung it horizontaly. "ka-do ken: dansaiki rendan!" The blonde genin called out as he simultaneously released a wave of fast spinning cards and dodged the kunai. Mizuki flipped ofer the barage of projectiles and once again threw the kunai in his hand at naruto, again forceing him to dodge. before naruto could get his bearings he heard the silver-grey haired traitor mutter something about damn demon brats.
Mizuki then went threw a couple seals before calling out "Katon: ensho no jutsu!", sending out a wave of pure heat at naruto, making him fly back several yards before slamming into a tree. He then walked half way to the fallen blonde before smirking evily. He then changed his tactics. "Tell you what, I'll tell you why I'm out here since I'm going to kill you anyway. This here is the scroll of forbiden jutsu and I intend to use it to become extremely powerfull. Then, after I've learned every technique in here, I'll sell it to the highest paying village." By the time Mizuki was done with his explanation, Naruto was wide eyed and shaking with rage.
"Y-you bastard!" The blonde genin yelled as he ducked the grey haired chunins thrust and kicked him in the stomach, dropping the older man on his ass. Flipping to his feet naruto went through a couple hand seals before calling out "Doton: Iwa Supia Sennen no jutsu" as he landed, causing a thousand spikes of solid rock to quickly rise from the ground, making it verry hard for the fleeing Mizuki to counter attack and dodge at the same time. "I can't let you leave with that scroll, teme-sensei" Naruto called out as he closed in on Mizuki with his sword drawn, pointed diagonaly at the ground, blade twords the traitor. "ka-do ken: garyuu dangan!" he called out as he swung his sword, sending a ball of paper right at the traitorous chunins head.
Mizuki did a quick Kawarimi no Jutsu, barely avoiding being struck by the ball as it slammed into the spike he was hiding behind. After another quick Kawarimi no Jutsu to avoid debris and shrapnel, he then started to go though seals. "Two can play at this, demon brat! Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" After pouring a third of his chakra into the attack, he spit the giant fire ball at naruto.
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Iruka landed in one of the near by tree tops and watched as the events below unfolded, frowning. He then jumped into the clearing between mizuki and naruto, canceling the fireball with one of his own. "Mizuki, you are under arrest for treason and attacking a fellow konoha shinobi. Return the scroll and your punishment could be lessend."
Startled, Naruto looked up at his favorite sensei. "Iruka-sensei, what're you doing here?"
"Saving your blonde ass, isn't it obvious?" Replied Iruka in a joking tone without taking his eyes off Mizuki. Iruka and Mizuki then threw a kunai at each other before going through hand seals. Mizuki finished first and sent a small fireball at Iruka. Iruka used Kawarimi to switch with the kunai he threw and planted his fist in the grey haired traitors temple, knocking him to the ground. Mizuki roled to the side, avoiding the foot that was about to smash his head and threw a couple shuriken, distancing Iruka from himself. Panting, Mizuki unfolded a fuuma shuriken and threw it at Iruka, forcing him into a position for the second fuuma shuriken that was hidden in the firsts shaddow to burry itself in his back as he was flipping out of the way of the first. shortly after several kunai were lodged in his limbs.
Naruto watched as Iruka fell to the ground face first, about 10 meters in front of him. Shocked, he ran towords the downed chunin, unshed tears building up in his eyes. Before he could even get half way he was knocked back a couple meters onto his ass as mizuki seamingly apeared from nowhare and delivered an upercut to the blonde genins chin, followed by a quick side kick. As he landed from the kick he burst in a cloud of smoke, revealing several paper shuriken stuck in the ground, proof of a successfull Kawarimi no Jutsu. 'whared that little bastard disapear to? I know what'll draw him out...' mused Mizuki as he turned around and slowly made his way towords the incompacitated Iruka, a terrible grin on his face.
-elsewhare, unknown location-
"As we speak, one of my associates should be on his way with the item you requested."
"Good, inform me when it has arived."
"Of course, as you wish." the hooded figure inclined their head in respect before disapearing in a swirl of orange smoke.
-back in the forest, Konohagakure-
Before Mizuki could make it half way to Iruka, several paper shuriken shot at him from both sides of the clearing, forcing mizuki to drop to the ground. As soon as he hit the ground he heard a verry faint call of "Doton: Iwa Supia Sennen no jutsu". After dodging nearly all of the earthen spikes, he decided he had finaly had enough toying with the blonde. Said blonde genin dropped out of the tree directly infront of him and glared. He had his sword drawn and was flanked by three clones on each side, also with drawn swords. Two of the Naruto's sudenly darted toword the silver-grey haired man as the other four spread out andtook their positions. The original called out "ka-do ken: dansaiki rendan", releasing seven identical archs of spinning, slicing cards, all heading directly for him. With out there being enough time to even pull off even a quick replacement he dodged as best he could, receiving several severe gashes across his chest, stomach, back and limbs. As Mizuki fell to his knees, Naruto came up and grabbed the scroll off the traitors back before heading over to Iruka to make sure he was ok. Momentarily forgotten, mizuki escaped into the ground, disapearing before he could be turned in.
Almost an hour later Naruto and Iruka arived at the administrative building and made their way to the Hokage's office, Iruka sligtly limping due to Naruto supporting him, carrying the scroll and injuries. All in all making an odd sight. Naruto helped the injured chinin to the chair after closing the door behind them. Taking his own chair, he collapsed into it with a sigh.
"Hokage-sama, we retrieved the scroll of forbidden jutsu after confronting one Mizuki Zokushi," started Iruka. "After being relieved of the scrolls possesion, he retrited from the feild of combat to an unknown location." Sarutobi looked at him for a moment before reaching into his desk to grab is pipe. Fiddling with it for a second he then lit it, taking a few puffs he then sighed.
"Well, at the verry least the scroll is safe, and to be honest I'm actualy glad it was a traitor that tried to steal the scroll instead of a foriegn theif. Other wise it could of been a huge fiasco, and I'm too old for that kind crap." At that he chuckled to himself, before looking at the two seriously again. "I would like a full report, starting at the beginning of the confrentation." 20 minutes later, after a detailed verbal reenactment by Naruto and a rather tired Iruka, they were dismissed. Naruto then helped the injured chunin to the hospital for his many minor wounds, thanks inpart to his flack jacket. After his task was complete, he headed home for a well diserved nap.
The next day he showed up at the east gate at exactly 7:01 am, fully packed and ready to go. Noticing he wasnt reprimanded for being late he finaly noticed that their sensei wasnt there. "Hey, where's sadist sensei?" Hinata and Shikamaru slightly grinned at what he said, pointing behind him. Naruto slowly turned around to see a ginning Anko. 'Crap, I'm screwed.' "M-morning sensei."
"Mornin runt, you three ready to get the hell out of this place and go kill some lowlifes?" she asked, with a hint of anticipation. The three of them nodded and with that the three of them took off through the gate and into the surrounding forest. It was rather quiet as they ran through the tree tops, and it was realy starting to grate on Ankos nerves. After the first 45 minutes she couldn't take it anymore and finaly snapped. Just as she was about to say something Shikamaru cut her off.
"Ok, somethings off, Naruto you'r too damned quiet. Whats up?"
Naruto just looked at him for a seconed before he laughed. "Man, and here I was, trying to be all serious and you go and ruin it. Man, what a drag." Shikamaru frowned at the jab, causing anko to snicker loudly and hinata to giggle.
"What a drag." he said causing his two team to laugh, along with his sensei. Shikamaru decided he'd just keep his mouth shut and shook his head in defeat. Afew hours later they took a break for lunch. Anko also decided that this would be a good time to go over the stratagy that they were to use, in order for them to do this as quickly and efficiently as possible. They also decided since they wanted efficiency, they would attack at night, giving them the element of surprise. They also decided to split up into pairs and use a pincer attack.
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jutsu used
origami shuriken - folded paper shuriken
ka-do ken - card sword / name of his kenjutsu style
ka-do ken: dansaiki rendan - Card sword: paper cutter barage; when the sword is swung it releases 10 fast spinning cards in the shape of a cresent
ka-do ken: garyuu dangan (dragon's fang bullet; releases a compressed ball of paper at high velocity that explodes on impact, causing shrapnel damage and minor shakra burns to/on the victim)
Katon: ensho no jutsu - fire release: heat wave technique
Doton: Iwa Supia Sennen no jutsu (Earth release: 1,000 rock spear technique) (causes 1,000 spears of stone to rise up out of the ground beneath and around the opponent, think sand coffin but more in the concept of the iron maiden
Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)
Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique)