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Thanks for the reviews…appreciated!! XD… Naruto looks kick ass in the manga, not to mention his new technique. Well this chapter is about attacks and finishing Naruto's training. To those who think Konoha ninja are weak, there not but jonin getting their asses kicked by the sound four and then genin beating them?? And those battles are happening at the same time only in different locations… X)
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Chap8: time to fight
The clearing looked like it had been through hell and back, craters, slashes, cracks here and there, smoke rising from different parts of the clearing. The trees where either burned or cut in half, and a few of them destroyed as splitters where seen scattered in the ground.
"Sparring match my ass… I've been fighting the toad for five minutes and look at the freaking place and the old toad doesn't lead up" Naruto thought in amusedment as he catched a glimpsed at what it used to be a training area, now it was a war zone. When he tried to locate the small toad he widened his eyes as a powerful wing blast almost cut his head of "He's doing this a little more serious than I expected" he thought as he saw the seriousness in the toads face.
"That happens when you don't fight me seriously" Fukasaku said taunting the boy as he threw jutsus and weapons at the boy. "Wait till I make contact, kid you'll feel the true power of a sage" he thought smiling at the at the image in his mind "Oh was he going to be surprised"
"Dammit you said it was a sparr not a death-match" Naruto yelled and duck when a fuma shuriken was throuwn at him. "Fine try this Wind style: drill bullet" he said as he blew a concentrated amount of air from his mouth, you could hear the whistling sound.
A deathly spinning bullet shaped wind attack came at the toad but he kept still till the last moment when he jumped to the side and took air and blew the jutsu off course. The toad smirked at the bewildered expression on the boy; to say he was enjoying this was a fact.
"Gotta do better than that, boy… eh?" Fukasaku yelped in surprised as Naruto appeared at his side and directed a kick aimed to squish the little fellow but the toad dashed for the boy's right and aimed a upward kick to his head, Naruto dodging the attack and making his body bent backwards he rotated on his heel and kicked the toad to the air.
To say Fukasaku was surprised was something, he didn't expect the boy to be this good, he thought he was clumsy but he been hiding something all a long. He saw the boy jump after him and smirked, he was making this too easy… oh well there goes the intelligence. Fukasaku spun in mid-air waited for the kid to get close enough, when he was in range he sent the kid crashing through the ground.
Naruto smiled as the elder toad was in mid-air, he jumped and was going to spin kick the little thing when he saw the toad spin "What's he doing?" he thought getting nearer. He sensed danger a little too late as he started to spin to kick the toad, suddenly he was grabbed by the ankle and with amazing speed the toad took the momentum to punched him harder than he'd been hit in a long time. The blow was so fierce the only thing he thought before hitting the ground with a thunderous crash was… "Shit"
"Come on Naruto-chan I didn't hit you that hard" Fukasaku said as he landed in the ground and waited for Naruto to come out of the crater.
"Didn't hit me that hard? I felt that even in sage mode" Naruto said bewilderment as he lifted the boulder he was under with ease. He looked at the toad with a lot more respect now but the elder was going down. Naruto concentrated and vanished to only reappear in front of Fukasaku and punched him.
The elder toad dodge the attack with ease and saw the damage the punch made, what he didn't count on was the spikes made of rock coming his way "so he used the destruction as a cover to launch a jutsu… he keeps surprising me, but to make smart moves and then to revert back to be an idiot… it's wearing me out trying to understand him" Fukasaku thought sensing a migraine on his way, the kid was hard to figure out.
Naruto smiled as the toad dodge the attack, also the elder didn't know the one that was making the attack was a clone "Time to end this" he thought with a smile as he approached silently to deliver a blow when he suddenly saw the toad jump backwards and started to attack him. Fukasaku aimed kicks and a few punches at Naruto but he kept dodging but when the toad landed on the ground, it trembled and cracked and Naruto lost his balance and that where the elder took his chance.
Fukasaku delivered a powerful kick to the gut and then another powerful kick to the chin throwing Naruto into the air. Fukasaku made a brief contact with the ground before jumping again over Naruto and delivered a double kick only for the boy to burst into smoke. The elder toad sensed someone behind him and then a sudden impact made him say hello to the ground… hard.
"Take that elder, hahaha I'm the best…" Naruto's joyous charade was suddenly stopped when a fist contacted with his right side of his face throwing him meters away, skipping a few times in the ground and finally sliding to a stop between two trees.
"You still have a long way to go kid" Fukasaku said even though he was panting hard, he stiffened when he felt a kunai pressed against his throat.
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Earth country's exchanging point
The mountains big enough to hide a village or so that was the case of the Hidden Rock. Kakashi and his group that consisted of Yamato, Gai and Komachi a demoted Anbu member just like Yamato for this mission only. Tsunade wanted experience for this mission and this squad had it, their mission consisted to destroy a few supplies and to at least wound up a few shinobi doing it.
The mission sounded easy but in times of war nothing was to be underestimated, even if Konoha shinobi where peaceful, they where bumped first and they bumped back. They where elite and they expected just that from the enemy if the enemy didn't have elites this would be an easy victory today.
"Let's just hope there wont be any complications on this mission, I really don't want to see blood today" Kakashi said as he focused on the target: an average building several miles outside the village wall where every merchandise was looked at and then the merchants would pass.
"Sempai, a group of jonin arrived just now" Yamato said as a wood clone came and morphed back to him from the ground. Komachi did a few hand seals and became invisible.
"Kakashi-sempai, please watch me with the Sharingan to know where I'm located" Komachi said to his squad leader and then moved to the left side of the building as Kakashi saw his chakra.
"Okay Kakashi what do we do?" Gai said looking at his rival for a plan. Yamato also moved to look at his sempai whose eye expression was thoughtful.
"Well I'd say to see Komachi's part develop and then we fight our way in there and knock out a few of them… I know is a lame plan for now but if Komachi does his part well we won't need to complicate things" Kakashi said part of his plan which consisted greatly on Gai and himself fast skills and Yamato's jutsu.
For Komachi it was becoming rather hard keeping this up, Jonin everywhere, this was not good and ten of them. He could recognize a few from bingo books to say he was nervous was a fact. Masking his chakra as best as he could and for an Anbu that was excellence he set up paper bombs around the place so the building would fall on them, he didn't expect a volley of kunai going his way. Komachi dodge them and quickly dashed for another area but the weapons kept coming, his guess he was sensed and found.
"Enough of your game, we know your there" a jonin said sensing the culprit and to anger ten shinobi was a death wish. The shinobi dropped his jutsu and droped to the floor to see he was from Konoha… perfect now they had a hostage.
Komachi seeing no other way performed a hand sign and before any weapons reached him the places where he placed the bombs activated and everything went to hell. The weapons that where thrown at him struck to his legs, arms, chest and one grazed his cheek, he was on the ground visibly shook by the blast and seeing the pandemonium he crated, debris, a lot of smoke and a few unconscious shinobi, bottom-line: his part was a success.
Kakashi saw the mess his comrade was in and signaled the others to attack at any second, but when he saw the explosion he knew Komachi had a lucky break there, Anbu or not Iwa shinobi where tough and there where eight of them now. Yamato and Gai took positions: Kakashi and Gai dashed for the building before the shinobi could recover while Yamato stayed behind and created wood pillars to destroy the place a little more and to give his team an edge.
"Gai make bone crushing damage" Kakashi reminded his partner about his mission and saw the green beast grin, that's to say both where going to enjoy this.
"Let's shine with the flames of youth, Kakashi! We'll make our attack a hundred times heavier" Gai said in a boisterous but calm tone as they sped towards the building.
Inside the building the shinobi where trying to find the enemy who was hiding in the commotion and ruble. "Enough this building is destroyed anyway so… Earth style: Rising Pillar" the pillar rose to a degree that from outside Yamato could see it sticking from a side. Komachi, who was hiding in the debris, had a small time to recover and launched a Fire style: Dragon Missile which struck a lower part of the pillar and destroyed a nearby wall.
The rock shinobi had to cover their eyes as the ruble and dust picked up and that's where Komachi made his move. Dashing and taking out his sword he slashed a nearby ninja to the side and kicked him away, sensing a presence at his left he blocked with his katana the kunai and where on a stand still until he saw another shinobi go behind him.
"Heh… foolish konoha ninja now you die" said the shinobi as he lunge forward to kill him but he was brutally kicked and sent backwards and hitting various objects in the way before crashing in the wall.
"We're not the ones that will die here" Gai said resuming his Goken stance and seeing the enemy surrounded him, he smiled "I think they don't know who I' am" "I'M THE GREAT BEAST FROM KONOHA, MIGHT GAI" he yelled as he quickly dashed and knee one ninja on the gut and gave an elbow to knock him out.
Kakashi was busy with two shinobi that by his standarts where good ones. Kakashi dashed to the right and the shinobi followed, dodging or blocking their attacks with constants clangs from the blades. One ninja aimed a kick to the side but Kakashi dodge and the other ninja took chance by the move to connect a punch to the face of Kakashi, but he suddenly burst to smoke revealing a log. The shinobi where on high alert but they suddenly found themselves grabbed by the ankles and pulled down. One of the two escaped the jutsu while the other's head was sticking from the ground. The shinobi started to do seals but he found himself trapped in what appeared to be a wooden wraps to each limbs and crushed them, the ninja was knock on the back of the head by Yamato who appeared next to him.
"Sempai a wood clone reported to me that several squads are coming this way and fast" Yamato said to Kakashi in a hurry, they didn't have enough time or forces to deal with the upcoming assault.
Four squads of Iwa shinobi arrived at the scene and where shocked at the damage and the guts whatever person had to pull this off. One shinobi saw an injured one coming out of the door and carried him out, when he asked who did this he said in a weak tone "don't go in there" as he said this the building exploded taking out the shinobi that where too close or inside to oblivion.
A mile away the Konaha team was observing the explosion happen and where glad Yamato and Kakashi knew earth jutsus. They escaped barely and because they went underground they passed unnoticed, they where a few meters away when the squads arrived. Kakashi set up a few explosive seals more powerful than average so the explosion could be massive.
"Well that should give us the time needed to go back home and report, good job fellas" Kakashi said in his usual bored-calm tone and leapt away the others following him.
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In Konoha
Even though Kakashi, Yamato and Gai where out on a mission they each left behind stuff to do, not to mention Anko and Yugao, another demoted Anbu member that was here to help them train.
"You guys have been very lucky to not have run-in to the elites of Iwa or you would've died" Yugao said calmly as she watched the training shinobi. She was an elite but she was realistic that Iwa ninja where strong and she was going to help shape this group whatever the cost, "I mean they're the future of this village, right" she thought with a smile.
"Hey Yugao, I just dismissed them for the day, what you want to do" Anko asked her partner in torturing the shinobi into an almost twelve hour course.
"I don't know, somewhere quiet and relaxing, having sparred with half of them was tiresome" Yugao said in a tired voice and beginning to walk to her doom -eh- quality time with Anko… yeah sounds better.
In another part of Konoha several shinobi where walking a little wobbly and swaying, that because of the tremendous amount of training they took today or as Shikamaru called it torture with capital letters.
"Man, what a troublesome day… I'd prefer to fight Akatsuki, I mean they enjoy seeing our faces written in pain before they stop… minutes later" Shikamaru said rubbing a sore muscle on the back of his head, not to mention the rest of his body "troublesome"
"Shikamaru-san you should consider this an honor, the best and most respected shinobi in the village are training us and complain, what where doing is for the best of the village, because we have to get stronger to protected properly" Neji said not seeing why the Nara was being so adamant about training.
"Yeah, man did you see how we took care of those ninja in our mission? If we hadn't had this training we would've taken a small beating before wining" Kiba said adding his two cents. Everyone in the group node and Shikamaru didn't care, he just wanted to rest.
"Hinata, Tenten, Chouji, the Hokage wants you assistance in a mission, you should be there… now" an Anbu member said appearing out of nowhere and vanishi just as he came.
The three chunin arrived at the Hokage's office they met with Yugao there and by the look she gave them she already knew what was going on.
"I think this mission is a little big even for them" she tought looking at the three chunin with a little disapproval.
"Ah you arrived, good" Tsunade smiled at them and began explaining their mission
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Lightning country
"Riakage-sama we where too late… Jay was dead" one shinobi that went to find their missing comrade told his leader the news and seeing the enraged face one thing came to mind… run.
"Dammit, why is it that we're losing good ninja? No matter I already sent teams to deal with additional problems" the Raikage said calming down a bit. Jay death shook him a bit, because he was good and the team he sent was good enough to deal with an Uchiha.
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At Myobokuzan
"I see you've been holding back, not a good idea when fighting a tough opponent" Fukasaku said to Naruto as said boy lifted himself from the ground courtesy from a combo the elder toad used.
"That fighting style you're trying to teach me is pretty good" Naruto said wiping blood from his mouth while he grinned.
"Pretty good!? Boy I'm teaching you one of the most effective fighting styles ever and you think is 'pretty good'!?" Fukasaku said angrily at the stupidity this boy was showing him. Naruto just grinned seeing as he touched a soft spot in their pride.
"Well, are you coming back for more?" Fukasaku said smiling at the perseverance of the kid. The boy in question was trying to get in to the stance he was bein taught when out of nowhere he collapsed.
"I guess I hit him a little too hard" Fukasaku said leaping to the uncounscios boy, he too felt tired but had to get home.
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Konoha
Hinata was preparing herself for the mission later this mourning. She could feel a little nervious, even after all that training she had with the jonin, she still saw herself weak.
"I hope I don't fail this one… it's important to the village" she thought with misery as she thought back on missions she failed, a knock at the door woke her up from her thoughts. She answer the door to see her father there, expressionless.
"Hinata, I want you to focus today and not let anything distract you, remember, your village needs you in it's time of need" Hiashi said seriously and hidden pride.
"I know father, I'll do my best to help the village" Hinata said bowing to him and grabbing her bag. She missed the small smile he had and when she was out of hearing he let out "good luck" even if he was hard on her he still loved his daughter and she was becoming an excellent kunoichi.
Hinata arrived at the gates and Yugao was already there sitting on a bench, waiting the others. Hinata could feel that she thought of them as 'not enough', "I guess we'll have to show her how wrong she is" she thought with the determination to get this woman to notice how strong she really was.
"Hello, Hinata you good?" Yugao asked in hopes of bonding a little with the heiress. Hinata nodded and the two started talking and in about five minutes the two others arrived at the same time.
"Okay team, I' m going to tell you this a little boldly… I don't think your up to this task but I'll bee optimistic and trust your skills" Yugao said in a serious but light tone.
"Don't worry, I don't take it personally because in the eyes of an Anbu member we must look pretty weak, but I guarantee we'd manage" Tenten said with a smile and the other two nodded, but they where determined to show her different.
"Well that been said and hope you'd forgive me… let's go" Yugao said walking outside the walls to begin their mission with the chunin in toe. "This mission was going to wear them out" she tought rushing tree to tree
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Guys thanks a bunch for the reviews and I hope you like the chap, if you didn't... who cares XD The new manga chapter is so awesome... sasuke failed XD
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