The spire was sticking out of the ground, Naruto wasn't on it, he had learned his lesson when he had two spikes go through his feet, and they were still bleeding. Naruto also had a large spike stuck through his shoulder, he couldn't move his entire right arm.
Tori wasn't in any better condition, one of his legs looked like a cactus with kunai and shuriken in it, and he had been Rasengan in the stomach, making him throw up a bit of blood. They had only been fight for twenty minutes and already the blood was every where.
"Hey, Naruto…" Tori called from the other side of the field. "Two minute break?"
Naruto was breathing heavily. "Alright… Neither of us does anything for two minutes…" He said, they both sat down and began addressing their wounds. Tori pulled all the kunai and shuriken out and Naruto began to tug on the spike, he couldn't get it out so he broke off the front half. He rammed his shoulder against one of the spires causing the rock to push through. Naruto screamed in pain and it was enough to let Kyuubi come through some, but not much. Just enough for his eyes to turn red. The shoulder began healing along with his feet.
Tori healed his leg some and stood up. "Is that two minutes?" He said stretching out.
"Yeah…" Naruto said. They ran at each other, kunai in hand. They hit and jumped back, Naruto landed on a spire as did Tori who put down his hand, Naruto jumped off as large spikes grew out. Naruto bounced quicker then before with the Kyuubi in him and was able to grab Tori's shoulder before he could moved. Naruto hit him to the ground. He hit on his back and rolled over to his feet, still sliding and launched spikes out of his frame.
Naruto dodged to behind a spire landing on it, Tori hit his hand to the ground. A spike shot through Naruto's foot. It was enough to set the beast off. Jumping off the red chakra was coming out. Ms. Hiyate turned to Jiraiya. "What's the meaning of that?"
"Its chakra, the match can continue for now." Jiraiya said pulling out several seals and picking through them for the chakra suppression one just in case. Naruto lunged foreword at Tori, the claws growing. Tori tried to jump but Naruto was faster and was able to hit him into a spire with several spikes coming out of it. Naruto stopped as he saw blood flowing more freely out of Tori's mouth, and the choking sounds he made.
"It's incapacitated! Match over!" Mrs. Hiyate yelled as Naruto rushed over pulling Tori off and running to the porch carrying the body. He looked up at Ms. Mitsubi and just started apologizing. "Naruto, come, let her work!" Jiraiya yelled. Naruto stepped back up to the Sanin and just watched as Ms. Mitsubi unleashed as much healing chakra as she could unto her grandson.
"I remember Gaito was in this condition when Kakashi finished with him…" Ms. Mitsubi said. She laughed a little then. "Gaito thought he was going to die, it was hilarious."
"My guts were cut open…" Gaito said in his defense.
Jiraiya smiled. "Good job Naruto, you won… That means you both owe me supplies!"
"You were betting our supplies, Gaito-Sempai!" Adji roared turning to him, he smiled and began to explain that the supplies were when they made it to their country, than they gave them supplies there. "Oh… but still. You shouldn't bet things like that!"
"He's a little better… I'm just out of chakra." Ms. Mitsubi said quite upset.
Naruto knelt down next to her and held out his hand, "please, Mitsubi-sama, use my chakra to heal Tori!" She looked at him and smiled then placed a hand over his and continued.
Gaito smiled, "a good fighter and a generous victor. You don't find many like those anymore…"
Jiraiya shook his head. "Yeah, it almost died of with Minato… Luckily, Naruto's got a good heart and a head that could use some improvement…." They laughed together but no one else could hear, they were all focusing on Tori's health. The wounds were healed, but Tori was knocked unconscious. "There…"
Ms. Mitsubi stopped pulling her hands away. "Is he going to be alright?"
"Hai, but he'll have those scares for life probably. Scars are a good way to remember people, right Gaito?" She said turning her head.
"Hai hai." He said and lifted up his shirt reviling a huge scar almost horizontal. "I'll never forget fighting Kakashi. He hasn't forgotten me either, simply because of the way I screamed when he did that."
"You screamed?" Adji fell over laughing thinking it was hilarious. "From that little cut? Ha!"
"Gaito was very weak as a child, very sickly. It's taken a long time for him to recover to his current self." Jiraiya said and put a hand on Gaito. "The fact that Gaito survived his match with Kakashi as long as he did was astonishing and caused by the sheer fact that he didn't want to go down yet."
"That makes me respect you a bit more, but still…" She continued laughing.
Ms. Mitsubi picked up Tori and carried him inside over the laughing Adji. Gaito threw Adji over his shoulder, she began to complain but dealt with the fact there was nothing she could do and let him take her inside. Jiraiya held a hand out to open the door. "Come on, it's time fore breakfast!"
"You're not making ramen are you?"
"I am, but it's a special ramen with eggs and shrimp!" Jiraiya said giving a huge thumbs up. Naruto shook his head and went inside.
Tori was awake by dinner, he couldn't however sit up to eat. "Hai hai, give me a minute." Adji said leaving Naruto alone with him.
"What does she mean 'give me a minute'?" Tori asked somewhat confused by her past antics.
"I talked her down from doing crazy stuff, she's probably just bringing you a plate of food." Naruto said hoping he was right. It really was just a minute until Adji walked back in the room, a plate and a spoon with some rice and soup.
"Here, all feed you." Adji said sitting down on the edge of the bed. Tori watched as she scooped up a little bit of rice and slowly put it in mouth. He swallowed. "Thank you."
"No problem." She turned to Naruto, "why don't you go get some water?"
"Yosh!" Naruto ran out of the room happily. Adji watched him run out of the room. She looked down at Tori, "Tori, I'm sorry about my behavior earlier."
"Its fine, I know people worse then you are." He smiled and she shoved a spoon of rice into his mouth.
