Underneath – Naruto's Lesson – Chapter 3
Disclaimer – I don't own anything about Naruto, He and all his friends and enemies belong to people with money. Money I don't have. Suing me no money.
My First Story, but go ahead and flame me if you want. I'll just ignore you; on the other hand, constructive criticism is welcome.
And don't ask me why Naruto is acting goofy sometimes, that's the way Masashi Kishimoto made him, and I happen to like him that way. My Naruto won't suddenly become Anbu, wear a mask all the time, and be "badass" like Sasuke. He's just changing his learning style, and getting smarter slowly because of it. Haku and Naruto are also blooming into friendship, not yaoi!!!
Also, info on Naruto's new jutsu is at the bottom of the page.
Oh right, forgot this last two chappies.
Scene change…
'thoughts'
"speaking"
"demon fox"
Below the bridge…
Haku landed on the surface of the water, he lifts himself up with his arms. Kneeling, he clutches at his head. "What was that attack?"
"Eh heh heh heh… that was my new technique, like it?" Haku turns to the voice, coming face to face with Naruto.
"You? How?"
"My new technique! You can't win, Future Hokage Naruto has arrived!" Naruto shouted, clearly proud of himself.
"Get ready, here's some more!" And with that warning, he charged, "Kage Bushin!" Twenty were swarming on Haku, who had only just gotten to his feet. Haku drew six senbon and threw them at the first few clones, which poofed from existence. The clones suddenly split in down the middle of the group, forming a pincer movement. As Haku readied more senbon, Naruto's shout interrupted him.
"Haku!"
'He knows my name!?' Haku wondered, thoroughly boggled that this young ninja fooled him so easily. He turns to Naruto, watching as he exhales sharply. At this point Haku is blasted back by the gale force winds that struck him, blasting him back into a bridge support. Haku crumpled to the ground once the wind receded. Naruto's clones quickly surrounded him. "This is your technique!?" He gasped.
"You like it? I named it after my newest friend, Haku!" Naruto grinned thinking about his newest friend right there.
Flashback
3 days previous…
"You…what's you're name?" He asks. She blinks and looks at him. He grins at her. "I'm Naruto!" He says proudly, pointing his thumb to his chest.
"Umm… My name is Haku…" She says, looking confused.
"Alright! Let's be friends!" He yells, suddenly, he adopts a thoughtful expression. "Hey, Haku, I have a question."
"Yes?" she answers, clearly still off balance with his inclination to trust her. "What is it?"
"Do you know anything about chakra?" Naruto asked, brow furrowed in thought.
'Does he suspect?' Haku looked at him, 'Who am I kidding, he's clueless.' She composed her thoughts, "Chakra, Naruto-kun? what's that?"
"You don't know about chakra? It's what we ninja use to do techniques." He frowned, "If you don't know about it, then you probably can't help me."
"Wait, Naruto-kun, you said chakra is used to do techniques, have you tried to use for anything else?"
"Eh? No I haven't, why, Haku?" Naruto scrunched his nose up in his confusion.
"Naruto-kun, ninja use chakra to power jutsu. Maybe Naruto-kun, you could use it to power parts of your body." Haku said, becoming pensive.
Naruto's eyes grew wide, "you mean like using Kage bushin on my arm?"
Haku giggled, "No, more like fuel for an engine, it gives it power, and increases its output, or boosts its strength."
Naruto got excited, "Like super-strength!?" He jumped up, "Yatta! Super-strength!"
Haku started laughing harder, "Maybe, Naruto-kun, but I also imagine it would be like filling your body with lead, too much chakra in a muscle and it will be like lead. And power without speed is useless, neh?"
Naruto deflated, "Oh, yeah…"
Haku laid a hand on his arm, smiling, "I imagine you'll figure it out Naruto-kun."
He grinned, "Yeah! Uzumaki Naruto never loses!" He jumped up, "Oh! I'm late for training with Kakashi-sensei! Bye Haku!" He charged off in the direction of Tazuna's home.
"Good-bye, Naruto-kun…" Haku sat there for a long time, wondering what to do, collecting herbs for Zabuza.
End Flashback
Haku stared, absolutely floored, 'He's toying with me!? Impossible!' Haku face hardened behind his mask. "You'll regret making a fool of me. Hijutsu: Sensatsu Suishou!"
Haku stomped, sending twice the amount of water he used on Sasuke into the air, it quickly changed into thousands of needles, which subsequently destroyed Naruto's clones, the rest of the needles soared in Naruto's direction, piercing the spot he vacated within a second. Naruto himself had back flipped out of range upon the declaration of the attack.
"Holy Crap!" Naruto screamed, "You trying to kill me or something!?"
"That's the idea, yes."
"Fine, Take this! Haku!" Naruto exhaled, blasting the spot Haku was standing, crushing him into the pillar again, or at least he would have, had Haku been there. Jumping into the air, he landed behind Naruto, and once again called out his signature attack.
"Hijutsu: Sensatsu Suishou" This time the needles shot up from the water, piercing Naruto from every angle.
"Aaaaaarghhh!!!" Naruto screamed as the water quickly dispersed leaving Naruto to bleed all over upon the water. He collapsed, barely keeping himself above the water.
"Your death shall be painful for toying with me." Haku said frostily.
"Ah, ah, ah…" Naruto gasped for breath, "can't die yet…" Suddenly, red chakra sprung up around him, coalescing and spiraling around his hunched form.
"What is this chakra!? It feels so evil." Haku shivered, "This is a terrible mess."
"You." A voice like gravel ground its way out of Naruto's throat, "You tried to kill the gaki, yes?" A chuckle, if it could be called that, ground out as well, "Well then, now it's my turn!" Swiftly, he jumps up, claws forming where fingernails grow, whiskers darkening, spreading across his face. He looks up, making eye contact with Haku, freezing him.
"Rrrrrrraaahhh!" He charged in, diving at Haku. Haku ducked, getting a few hairs removed by the razor claws at the fox's disposal. Haku leaned in, intent on gutting Naruto with a few senbon, but right before he made contact, the fox caught his arm, blasting him with a continuous wave of chakra, which Haku was barely dispelling before it scorched him. The water rippled outward in increasingly large waves. The fox clutched his hand into a fist, wound back, and smashed Haku in the face, hurling him back skipping along the water.
"You tried to kill me…" Naruto whispered, red chakra whipping around him, "You tried to kill me!" He jumped up, using his gravitational acceleration to increase his punch's power he fell towards Haku, whose mask fell to the water below.
Naruto's eyes widened, "What!?" He pulled back desperately, veering his punch off to the left, where it landed, exploding violently in the water. He stood, his eyes wide with disbelief. "H-haku?...what are you… you are a missing-nin!?"
Haku, while in extreme pain, jerked up sharply. "You didn't know!?"
"What! How could I!? You are one of my precious people…" Naruto said, tears in his eyes.
Haku's eyes softened, "Naruto-kun…you are a fool…" She smiled, "A technique named after me, huh? I'm flattered."
Naruto smiled. "Thank you."
Haku suddenly stiffened, sensing Zabuza was in danger. "Naruto!" Haku picked up Naruto and jumped to the bridge.
Up on the bridge…
'Shit, the Kyuubi could break loose at any moment, got to finish this now.' Kakashi thought frantically. "Chidori!" Kakashi charged his chidori, hunching forward, watching Zabuza, who was incapacitated by his nin-dogs, "Time to end this Zabuza, Good-bye."
He rushed forward, intent on delivering the death blow.
"Zabuza-san!"
Zabuza was suddenly knocked away, along with all of Kakashi dogs, by Haku. Kakashi, shocked, was unable to stop himself and stabbed Haku through the chest, destroying his heart.
"Haku?!..." both Zabuza and Naruto echoed each other.
"Haku…why?" Naruto asked, scared for his friend's life.
"I'm sorry, Naruto, Zabuza, but my heart chose this, rather than live without him, I chose instead to save the man who saved me from hell. Good-bye Naruto, Zabuza, I care for you both very much. And Naruto, don't ever stop searching for precious people, and I was proud to be one of them." She coughed, spitting blood, and collapsed, boneless on Kakashi.
"What's this Zabuza? You're being humiliated. Three brats and some old guy? Oh well, all of you are worn out any way, I'll just go ahead and kill you all." Gatou had appeared, along with an army of mercenaries.
Zabuza's form slackened, the bandages around his face long since shredded in his fight with Kakashi, his arms immobilized, turned to Naruto. "Oi, gaki, toss me a kunai, will you?"
Naruto turned to him, "Yeah, take him out." He tossed a kunai up into the air, which Zabuza caught deftly with his teeth.
"Thanks, gaki." He then charged ripping deep into the horde, killing everyone interfering with his path to Gatou.
"What the hell! You're demon!" Gatou screamed, running for his life from the monster that was after him.
"Me? A demon?" Zabuza asked, "No you're a demon, I'm just you're ticket to hell." He then stabbed up into Gatou's neck, killing him. Zabuza then shoved his softly gurgling form of the bridge into, the sea.
He stood there with weapons and blood covering his body, staring up into the sky. He spoke suddenly, "Gaki, take my sword, yeah? And don't forget my Haku's words." It was barely a whisper, but Kakashi, Sakura, Tazuna, and Naruto heard every word as if he were right in front of them, instead of well over thirty meters away. Naruto nodded, tears in his eyes Zabuza nodded, smiled, and collapsed, falling over the edge, into the sea below.
The mercenaries suddenly were in uproar, "Hey you killed our meal ticket! We'll just have to kill you all and raid the town then I guess."
Naruto sneered, "Try it, trash. Haku!" exhaling, he blasted ten of them off the edge into the sea.
'So, it was Naruto who saved Sasuke before.' Kakashi mused, eyebrow arched thoughtfully. 'I'll have to ask him about it later.'
"You can't beat all of us!" One of them yelled. A chorus of yells joined him.
An arrow struck down between the two groups, shinobi and mercenaries, signifying a new party. "Maybe not alone, but with us, you don't stand a chance!" Inari yelled, with a chorus of cheers from the townsfolk with him.
"Inari!" Tazuna and Naruto cheered.
This proved to be the breaking point for the mercenaries, for they quickly fled haphazardly upon the realization that they were outnumbered.
Upon completion of the bridge…
The village and team 7 stood in admiration of the bridge in all its glory.
"Well, Tazuna-san, it looks like our job and your job here are both done, as such, we should get back." Kakashi said, once again his bored self.
"Yeah Inari you did great!"
"Hn, dobe."
"Teme!"
"Alright then!" Tazuna said, "You guys did a super job! We know who we'll call next time!"
Team 7 walked away, leaving the villagers and Tazuna's family. They all turned to the bridge.
"Hey Tazuna, whatcha gonna call it?"
"I think I'll call it the Great Naruto Bridge!"
To be Continued…
Okay so, important information….
Naruto acts goofy cuz that's how Masashi Kishimoto made him and I like him that way and I'm not changing it. Whew, now that terrible grammar and stuff is out there let's go.
I refer to Haku when he has his mask on as a HE. And when she takes it off, Haku is a SHE. This is because of the complex relationship that Haku and Naruto developed and also Haku never got to tell Naruto that he was a guy. Also, I kind of wanted the readers to decide for themselves.
Review and I'll answer any of your questions.
Naruto's new technique…
Haku – means "Exhale". Using what he and haku talked about, Naruto forces chakra into his lungs chakra into his lungs, diaphragm, bronchi, and trachea. He then exhales, hence the name, and breathes out a "super breath" that has incredible concussive force. This requires no chakra control, just enormous amounts of chakra, all Naruto does is cram chakra into all those places, a lot of chakra. The air that he releases is also not laden with chakra, so it can go through chakra barriers, as it's just air.
Chidori - Thousand Birds, Kakashi's only unique jutsu. Also known as lightning edge, or Raikiri
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