Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but you always knew that. I just included a disclaimer as safety measure to not get sued.
Naruto found himself looking at a ceiling, he brought his head down to see that he was in a room as he looked, he saw that there was a table in front of him and bookshelves. It was then that he noticed that he was sitting on a couch next to a woman with long blue hair, which was tied into ponytail that stopped the hair from covering her whole back. The lady had a welcoming smile that Naruto could remember anywhere... Naruto instantly knew that she was Asuka. On Asuka's lap was a small energetic child. He knew the boy to be Ken. Naruto could remember the both of them so fondly, he unknowingly smiled at the sight of Asuka gently combing Ken's hair.
Naruto looked at them and remembered the good times with them, like when the two of them first tried to bake a cake for him, only to burn the kitchen. Naruto remembered the second time that the two of them baked a cake for him, Naruto could never forget the god awful taste of the cake and the memory of vomiting in the toilet. Naruto chuckled as he remembered all the fun memories he had of Asuka and Ken. "Naruto-kun?" called out Asuka as she grabbed Naruto on the shoulder and shook him, trying to get Naruto's attention.
Naruto heard Asuka's voice and shook his head clear of all the memories as he focused on Asuka. "Are you okay?" asked Asuka as she gave Naruto a concerned stare. Naruto mentally smiled as he could feel the caring nature of her concerned stare. Naruto could remember all the times she had acted like this, afterall it was one of many things he loved about her. Naruto did what he always did as he patted Asuka's head, "You always worry too much." stated Naruto as he displayed a peaceful smile to dispel all of Asuka's worry. Asuka could feel Naruto's hand leaving her head and grabbed it as he kept it placed on her head, she looked at Naruto and blushed when she saw his smile. Naruto noticed her actions and waved it off as being cute.
Ken noticed the blush on Asuka's face and tried to take advantage of her moment of weakness, "Kaa-san, can I have some ramen?" begged Ken as he got up from Asuka's lap and stared at Asuka with tearful puppy eyes. Ken hoped that it would work on Asuka as it always worked on Naruto. Naruto's eye twitched when he saw what Ken's act. Naruto felt a desire to bop Ken on the head grow inside of him, 'I can't believed I let myself fall for that trick so many times.' thought Naruto as he prayed Asuka wouldn't fall for Ken's act.
Asuka took a moment to register Ken's sentence before she narrowed her eyes, "Young man, there is no way I am not going to let you eat that unhealthy food you call ramen. Am I clear?" asked Asuka in a demanding manner as she were surrounded by a oppressing dark-blue aura that brought fear into both of Naruto and Ken's hearts. The two males watched in fear as they witnessed Asuka turned into a demoness. Without a moment to waste, Ken quickly nodded and escaped certain death. Once Ken agreed with Asuka, Asuka instantly lost her demonic aura and her furious expression was replaced with serene one as Asuka smiled peacefully. Both of the males gulped in fear at the memory of how quickly Asuka turned into a demoness.
It seemed that Naruto's prayer was answered when he saw Asuka ignored Ken's puppy eyes, Naruto couldn't help but laugh as Ken got what he deserved for using the puppy eyes on him. His laughter drew Asuka and Ken's attentions as the two looked at Naruto and then each other, before they joined in the laughter. The three continued to laugh for a while, but eventually they all stopped laughing. Asuka looked at Naruto, "So, when are you heading back to Konoha?" asked Asuka with a sad facial expression. It caused Naruto's heart to ache as he couldn't stand the idea of hurting Asuka in any way, shape or form. He looked at Asuka as he observed and captured every movement from Asuka. Both Asuka and Ken became both downcast at the thought of Naruto leaving as they both pouted.
When Naruto noticed Asuka and Ken's pout, he shook his head with a simple smile on his face. "I am heading back to Konoha tomorrow, I'll come back once I have replace my blood clone with a new one. Considering that summer is close, I should have time to spent with the both of you in a month when the ninja academy closes." stated Naruto as he flashed them a happy smile. Asuka and Ken cheered up and smiled when they heard what Naruto said. "So you're going to spend the whole day with us?" asked Asuka with a cheerful smile as she and Ken started to cheer with excitement. Naruto smiled as he heard them talk about going to an upcoming festival and participating in all of the activities.
Asuka and Ken finished their plans for the upcoming festival, "Ken and I will be going to the kitchen to continue on baking a cake for your birthday, feel free to come and help us when you're done with your homework and the paperwork." said Asuka as she grabbed a bag and pulled out a pile of papers, she placed them on the table in front of Naruto. Naruto sighed when he saw the pile of papers and prepared for the long, tedious task. Asuka walked up to Naruto and nervously kissed him on the cheek, "Before I go, there's something I wanted to tell you." said Asuka, before she turned away to hide her red face as she took out a pink letter from a pocket in her skinny jeans.
Naruto was confused as he wondered what Asuka wanted to talk about, 'M-maybe she's going to confess to me like those schoolgirls in mangas!' the thought crossed Naruto's mind but he quickly got rid of that idea as he mentally laughed at the thought, 'Yeah right, as if someone like her would love someone like me.' thought Naruto. Naruto continued to wonder what Asuka wanted to talk about, "So, what is you want to talk about?" asked Naruto with a poker face as he was panicking on the inside about what she wanted to talk about.
Asuka started to breath heavily as her faces became as red as a tomato, she felt really embaressed as she was about to confess to someone who was way younger than her and as she was thought about handing the love letter to Naruto, her head was starting to filled with thought of him refusing her. 'I want to confess, but what if he refuses and treats me differently because of it, I mean I'm a lot older than him, so there's good chance he'll say no.' Asuka kept thinking of what would happen that she was lost in her own thoughts, soon Asuka began to mutter and mumble as her brain went over a countless ways that her confession could turn out.
Naruto waited for Asuka to say something, he waited and waited, before long he could hear Asuka ramble out words and gibberish. "Asuka! Asuka! Asuka!" yelled Naruto as he called Asuka's name out loud. Eventually, Asuka's train of thoughts stopped for a moment when she heard someone call out her name. Naruto placed his hand on Asuka's shoulder, "Asuka, are you there?" asked Naruto as he tried to shake her out of her daze.
Asuka got out of her train of thoughts once she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around to see who the hand belonged to, when she saw Naruto's face and realised that she still had the pink letter in her hand, she ran to the kitchen. "It's nothing, never mind!" shouted Asuka as she left before Naruto could question her on her red face, the pink letter or her weird behaviour.
Naruto tried to figure out Asuka's strange behaviour, but decided to question her later as he chose to focus on his paperwork and homework. He grabbed hold of a pencil and started to fill out the papers, starting with his paperwork first. Naruto continued to fil out the papers for what seemed like hours, after filling out the fifty and the last paperwork, he massaged his temple as he got a headache from filling out all of the paperworks. Before long, Naruto's headache was all but gone and he was about to start completing his homework, while he was doing his homework he heard the sound of something shattering. Naruto quickly theorised that Asuka had been clumsy as she had been previously, he smiled when he remembered how clumsy Asuka could be sometimes.
"Okay Asuka, what did you break this time?" asked Naruto as he smiled at the thought of Asuka's clumsiness. When Naruto entered the kitchen, his smile instantly crumbled as he saw Asuka and Ken on the ground covered in blood. Naruto didn't even think as he rushed to Ken and Asuka's body. He checked Ken's pulse and cried when he realised that Ken was dead, Naruto was filled with grief at the loss of Ken.
Naruto continue to cry when he heard Asuka's strained breathing and coughing, Naruto desperately rushed towards Asuka as he wrapped one of his arm around her back and used the other hand to try and stop the blood pouring from Asuka's chest. "Asuka, please stay with me! Don't die!" yelled Naruto as he lightly slapped Asuka's cheeks to keep her awake. He tried to concentrate his chakra in his hands to heal her, but the chakra didn't heal her.
Asuka looked up at Naruto's eyes. "Naruto-kun... Please promise me that you will succeed and accomplish your goals of being Hokage..." spoke Asuka with strained voice that was filled with sadness as blood rushed out of her mouth. Her coughing became more intense as she started to cough blood. She put her hands on Naruto's cheek, using all of her will, she rose and gave him a brief kiss.
Naruto was shocked by the kiss and ignored the blood on his lips. "Asuka..." Naruto was about to say something when Asuka interrupted, "I'm dying and I just wanted to let you know that I have always been in love with you, Naruto-kun." confessed Asuka with a weak voice as she clumsily pulled out a pink letter from a pocket in her jeans and slowly gave it to Naruto with her shaking hand, she also flashed Naruto a weak smile to hide the pain she was feeling.
Naruto was momentarily happy to hear that Asuka was in love with him, but the happiness was instantly crushed when Naruto remembered the current situation. "Asuka, don't give up. I can get a medic here to save you." said Naruto as he tried to decieve himself and Asuka into believing that she could make it. Naruto got up and was about to go get a medic, but stopped when Asuka grabbed and tugged on his pants.
Naruto turned around and was about to say something to Asuka, but paused when his eyes meet hers. Naruto saw that Asuka knew what situation she was she was in. He noticed that she realised that she wasn't going to make it, Naruto also noticed that Asuka's tired eyes were filled with fear and pain. "Please stay with me." begged Asuka with a weak voice as she was holding on Naruto's pants desperately with her trembling hands.
Naruto fell to his knees and wrapped his arms tightly around Asuka with her face against his chest as tears started to pool in his eyes, "I have been in love with you since the first time we met and I promise I won't let you go, Asuka-chan." said Naruto as he held Asuka tightly to his chest, hoping that she could feel his unendingly love for her. Naruto held his tears back as he refused to let Asuka know that he was sad, he just closed his eyes as he continued to hold on to Asuka tightly and ignored his clothes being smudged by Asuka's blood.
Asuka nuzzled against Naruto's chest as she enjoyed the warmth radiating from it, Asuka also enjoyed hearing the sound of Naruto's heartbeat as it soothed her. "Thank you." said Asuka with a weak whisper-like voice that Naruto could barely hear, Asuka slowly closed her eyes as she wrapped her arms around Naruto. Asuka smiled as she enjoyed her last moments, despite her strain breathing and frequent coughing.
After a while, Asuka's desperate gasps for air stopped and her body stopped violently trembling as her arms fell to the ground, her body started to become cold. Naruto laid Asuka to the ground, at that moment the tears he had held back started to flow out as a stream of tears traveled down his faces, Naruto just allowed the tears to flow as he gave in to the grief and anguish he felt at the loss of Asuka and Ken. He looked up at the sky as he let out a cry of grief and anguish.
Naruto suddenly woke up to find himself back in Tazuna's guest-room; he had been sleeping on a futon. He could feel water in the corners of his eyes and swiped it away with the back of his hands as he tried to get a hold of his emotions. Naruto couldn't help but wonder, 'Asuka and Ken, you were both so kind and innocent.' thought Naruto as he mentally tried to stop thinking of the memories he had with them.
Naruto just stayed still with his back against the ground and continued to stare at the ceiling as he tried to get rid of the pain that he felt. Suddenly he heard a voice from downstairs, "Leave my mom alone!" Naruto snapped of his sadness, he headed out of the guest-room as soon as he heard Inari's distressed shout and hurried downstairs.
Naruto made it downstairs to see two thugs holding a tied-up Tsunami, one had a scar on his face as well as a eye-patch while the other had cap that covered his hair. Without a moment to waste, Naruto used the shunshin jutsu to get behind the two thugs and proceeded to slam their heads against one another. The thugs could only show their expressions of surprise before they fell unconscious to the floor with their swords.
Naruto was unprepared when he was tackled by a crying Inari, "Naruto-nii, thank you for saving my mom." said Inari as he hugged Naruto tightly and cried loudly all over Naruto's shirt. Naruto said nothing as he wore a clumsy smile on his face and gently patted Inari's back. Tsunami just stood there and watched the two with a smile as she ignored the fact that she was tied up.
Eventually, Naruto managed to get Inari to let go of his shirt. Naruto wondered what to do when he remembered something that he used to do to Ken. Naruto kneeled down and swiped the remaining tears off Inari's face, before he looked Inari dead in the eyes, "Inari, you were great and I'm proud of you. Great job." said Naruto as he stood up and ruffled Inari's hair.
Inari sniffed, "Really?" asked Inari as he looked at Naruto.
Naruto gave Inari a genuine smile, "Yes, Inari you did great." said Naruto before his eyes changed into a pair of hardened sapphires. "If Gato's men showed here to take Tsunami as a hostage, then it is most-likely that my team is fighting against Zabuza and Haku." stated naruto as he stood up and created shadow clones to protect Inari and Tsunami from more thugs.
Meanwhile, with the rest of the Konoha teams. Zabuza and his accomplice revealed themselves to the Konoha ninjas, but before they could do anything, Zabuza charged with his sword held high and slammed it down at the place where the Konoha ninjas used to be. However the Konoha ninjas were able to react in time to dodge the attack as the genins jumped to right while the jounins moved to the left. Kakashi pulled up his hiate to reveal his Sharingan.
Zabuza instantly charged at the jounins as he tried to slash Kakashi and Kurenai, but failed as they both were replaced by wood logs that Zabuza's sword cut through with ease. At that moment, Zabuza position his sword in front of him as it blocked Kakashi lightning-covered hand. The two tried to overpower each other as they stood their ground, Kakashi jutsu seemed to be holding its own against Zabuza's sword, though Zabuza was able to counter Kakashi attack with his brute strength.
Zabuza and Kakashi had a staring contest as both refused to budge, "I am flattered that the copy-nin is using his famous jutsu, 'Chidori', on me." stated Zabuza in manner that could make anyone know that he was enjoying the battle. Though unseen due to the bandages covering his mouth, Zabuza was sporting a joyful smirk at the prospect of facing a famous ninja.
Kakashi didn't respond as he tried to peirce through Zabuza's sword with his glowing hand. It was then that he pulled out a kunai from his side pouch as he shunshined behind Zabuza and slash at Zabuza's back. Zabuza quickly moved forward and rotated with sword, ready to cut through Kakashi. Kakashi quickly reacted as he met the sword with his kunai, but the force behind Zabuza's sword was too great forcing him to duck under the sword and try to stab him with the kunai.
Zabuza quickly grabbed Kakashi's hand and stopped it with his free hand, Kakashi immediately responded by making his other hand glow as he tried to hit Zabuza with it. "Chidori!" shouted Kakashi he peirced through Zabuza's chest with his glowing hand. Instead of falling to the ground dead, Zabuza turned into water and drop. The mist surrounding the bridge grew thicker as it became harder for everyone to see further.
A familiar figure covered by the mist appeared behind Kakashi, when the figure moved closer, the figure was revealed to be Zabuza. Just as Zabuza was about slice Kakashi in half, a kunai slit his throat from behind as the Kakashi in front of Zabuza vanished into smoke. Again, Zabuza turned into water and dropped to the floor. Kakashi stood there as he stare down at the puddle of water, 'Another water clone! Where is the original?' thought Kakashi as he used his Sharingan to look for Zabuza in the mist.
Kakashi saw a figure nearby and threw a kunai at it, the result was instant as a feminine cry could be heard. The figure got closer and closer until the figure close enough for Kakashi to see that it was Kurenai. "What the hell, Kakashi?!" shouted Kurenai as she looked pissed, which caused Kakashi to chuckle nervousily as he tried to apologise to her.
Zabuza appeared in front of Kurenai and chopped her into two with his huge sword, Zabuza was about to attack Kakashi when Kurenai's corpse disappeared and she reappeared in front of him without any injuries. He tried to attack her but could not move, Zabuza found himself tied to a tree as his arms were being stretched and tore apart by the tree branch. Zabuza bit his own bottom lips until blood came out, Zabuza noticed him was back on the bridge as he barely managed to duck the shurikens that flew his way.
Zabuza jumped back as he created some distance between him and the two konoha jounins, "I should have known better than to underestimate my opponents, especially when they are the Genjutsu mistress of konoha and the Copy-nin." stated Zabuza as he verbally berated himself for his own idiocy.
Zabuza quickly ran through handseals and stopped after completing a chain of handseals, "Suiton: Suiryuuudan no jutsu." called out Zabuza as water from the sea surrounding the bridge rushed upwards until it took the firm of a Chinese dragon with yellow eyes. The dragon let out a loud roar before it charged at Kakashi and Kurenai.
Kakashi quickly flashed through handseals and used the same, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu." called out Kakashi as the water from the surrounding sea rose up to form another Chinese dragon with yellow eyes; it let out a roar before it head butted the dragon that charging at Kakashi and Kurenai. The two dragons exploded into millions of water-drops and fell towards the floor, causing the three strong ninjas to be drenched in water.
Kakashi and Zabuza were briefly distracted by the fact that Kurenai's clothes were all wet and showed off her figure more, but the two shook their heads before they charged at each other with their weapon at hand, Kakashi with his kunai and Zabuza with his unusually large sword. The two attacked each other as they tried to slash the other with their weapon, the two exchanged hits and dodges as they refused to let up.
While Kakashi and Zabuza fought, Mito and the rest were busy fighting against Zabuza's accomplice, the fake hunter-nin.
The fake hunter-nin used her speed to dodge all of the attacks that Mito and the rest threw her way. Before long, the fake hunter-nin rapidly formed handseals and called out "Hijutsu: Sensatsu Suishō.", suddenly large drops of water formed and floated in the air before separating into several smaller orbs and took the form of sharp senbon, the senbons turned towards the Konoha genins and Tazuna, before flying towards them.
"Katon: Goukagyuu no jutsu."
"Suiton: Suibei no jutsu."
"Jūkenhō: Hakke Sanjūni Shō."
The needles were quickly destroyed by Sasuke and Mito's attacks. The fake hunter-nin mentally cursed at the fact that she was outnumbered, she decided that it was best to pull back from the group of genins. When the Konoha genins saw the fake hunter-nin retreat; Mito, Kiba and Sasuke ran after him while Hinata, Shino and Sakura just stayed back to carry out their main mission, which was to protect Tazuna.
The fake hunter-nin was happy to notice that some of the genins followed after her. Once she thought that she had moved far enough from the genins that were following her, she waited for the following genins to reach her as she prepared to use her ultimate jutsu to even the odds. Once the fake hunter-nin spotted the Konoha genins, she instantly used her ultimate jutsu.
"Hijutsu: Makyō Hyōshō."
Suddenly a dome of large mirrors with small space inbetween them formed around Sasuke, Kiba and Mito. They all watched in curiosity as the fake hunter-nin walked straight into a nearby mirror. Once she was in the mirror, her image appeared in all of the mirrors, which alarmed the Konoha genins as they tried to find a way to find the real enemy. Kiba and Akamaru tried to find the enemy using their enhanced sense of smelling and hearing, but failed.
The genins decided to go on the offense as Mito created a wave of kage bunshins to hit each mirror, but all of the Kage bunshins disappeared from being hit by and the rest noticed that the senbons seemed to be coming from all the mirrors. Mito tried again and again with her Kage bunshins but they all kept being taken out by a wave of senbons from all sides.
Eventually, the three genins decided to use their strongest jutsus destroy the mirrors as they all rushed through different set of handseals, except Mito who was manipulating her chakra to her hand. Once Sasuke and Kiba finished making the required handseals as Mito finished building up the chakra in her hand, they casted their jutsus.
"Katon: Goukagyuu no jutsu." Sasuke spat out a giant human-sized fireball at one of the mirrors.
"Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu." Kiba's jutsu caused water from the nearby sea to move upwards as it turned a human-sized Chinese dragon with yellow eyes, the dragon rushed to a mirror with its mouth wide open.
"Fuuton: rasengan." Mito created a spiralling ball of wind in her hand as he charged at one of the mirrors and slammed the spiralling ball of wind against the mirror.
All three of the genins watched in complete disbelief as their most powerful jutsus did little to the mirrors. Before they could do anymore, they were all hit by waves of senbons from all sides. The three Konoha genins took out their kunais to deflect the senbons, the genins were forced to defend against the attacks and try to find a way to beat their stronger opponent.
When Naruto finally got to the bridge, he saw that Shino, Sakura and Hinata were surrounding Tazuna in a defensive formation as Sakura stood in front of Tazuna while Hinata and Shino stood guard on Tazuna's sides. He tried to look for the others, however the dense mist made it difficult to see what was going on.
Naruto quickly flashed through handsigns, "Fuuton: Daitoppa no jutsu." called out Naruto as he held his hand towards the dense mist, suddenly a powerful wind rushed from Naruto's hands and blew the dense mist away. Once the mist had mostly cleared up, he could see what was happening.
Zabuza was fighting against Kurenai and Kakashi as he used the mist to evade their attacks. Once the mist disappeared, Zabuza was caught off guard by Naruto's interference and his guard was down, Kakashi and Kurenai quickly took advantage of it as Kurenai placed a strong genjutsu on Zabuza.
Zabuza found himself in a field with his body held up in a scarecrow position, his arms were straightened up. Zabuza bit his bottom lip until it bleed to free himself from the genjutsu. However, as soon as Zabuza breaking out of the genjutsu, a bunch of different dogs appeared around him and bite him with their powerful that prevented him from moving.
Zabuza noticed Kakashi charging up electricity on his hand, "Damn these stupid dogs, I can't move." said Zabuza as he was struggled to move away. His insult only seemed to make the dogs bite him harder. He looked ahead to find Kakashi rushing at him with the chidori, ready to kill.
Kakashi replied, "This time you're going to stay dead, Zabuza." Zabuza quickly prepare for what was to come.
Meanwhile, Zabuza's accomplice was busy fighting with Mito, Kiba and Sasuke. Haku had to use her secret jutsu as the three genins were too much for her to handle without the use of her Kekkei Genkai. Between the three continuousily blocking and using their strongest jutsu, she had to use her special jutsu to stand a chance against them and make sure that they didn't get her master's way.
Haku was inbetween an attack on Kiba when she noticed the lack of mist and turned away long enough to see that Zabuza was in trouble, "Zabuza-sama!" shouted Haku in distress as she called out to her master. Mito, Sasuke and Kiba saw that the enemy was distracted and attacked. Sasuke shot a fireball at Haku, who noticed and managed to dodge it in time. Mito appeared in front of Haku and quickly sent a mean uppercut to Haku that launched her slightly into the air. Kiba and Akamaru jumped up and spiralled as they turned into a two conjoint tornado, Kiba's attack sent Haku crashing against the bridge.
Before the three genins could get another attack, Haku used her Kekkei Genkai to create an ice mirror and used it to get in front of Zabuza and take the attack that was meant for him. Naruto quickly rushed in front of Kakashi with chakra covered hand as he slapped away Kakashi's lighting-covered hand. When everyone noticed what happened they were shocked, especially Haku and Zabuza.
Everyone watched in shock as the lightning covering Kakashi's hand died out, Kakashi looked at his hand with disbelief and shock. "How?" asked Kakashi as he looked unbelievably at Naruto, everyone was mimicking Kakashi.
Naruto didn't move as he felt a slight tinge on his hand, he noted that the chakra didn't completely block out the Chidori. "I tend to have a lot of free time and enjoy creating new jutsus..." replied Naruto nonchalantly with a shrug.
Before they could say or do anything, they heard clapping. Everyone saw Gato standing at the end of the bridge with a smirk as he had a army of thugs behind him, "Looks like you failed me, Zabuza. No matter, I wasn't going to pay you anyway." stated Gato with his smirk as he stood there with his cane.
Gato cleared his throat and opened his mouth, "Kill all of the them, but leave the girls alive, I plan to have fun with them. Especially that one." stated Gato as he pointed to Haku with his cane. The army of thugs cheerfully charged at ninjas as they were brandishing their weapons.
Naruto held a tanto in his right hand with a reverse grip as he stood defensively in front of a tied-up Asuka, he could feel slight pain all over his body. "I will give you one more chance to leave kid." said the man dressed all in black, he wore a Ame headband with a horizontal line across the symbol. The man held a amused smile on his face. Naruto could immediately tell that the man was in charge because of the power he radiated and the way the man stood confidently.
Naruto noticed that the two ninjas closest to him prepared to charge at him, "Asuka, don't worry. I promised to protect you and I don't go back on my promise." stated Naruto in a serious voice that eased most of the fear and doubt present in Asuka's mind. Naruto noticed that the two ninjas were tightening their grip on the hilt of their katana, he knew they would attack at any moment and tensed his muscles in preparation for the attack.
The two ninja instantly charged at him with their katana unsheathed, they slashed at him but he managed to block with his tanto. He quickly used his favourite jutsu to create a kage bunshin besides him, the two enemies couldn't do anything as the kage bunshin stabbed one of them with a kunai. The injured enemy quickly jumped backwards to avoid anymore injuries. The other enemy moved back as he tried to slice Naruto horizontally into two but Naruto escaped death by using the kawamiri no jutsu to switch places with the kage bunshin.
Naruto saw the opening in his enemy's guard and rushed at the enemy as he pressed his left shoulder against the enemy. The enemy instantly tried to cut Naruto as he twisted the sharp edge of his katana towards Naruto's right arm; he tried to move his katana through Naruto, but Naruto intercepted the katana as he used his free left hand to grab the enemy's hand. Naruto quickly used his tanto to pierce through the enemy's body, he pulled his tanto out of the enemy's body, he straightened his body and let go of the enemy's hand as the enemy fell backwards towards the ground, dead.
Naruto relaxed his muscles and let go of the serious expression on his face, "Naruto-kun, look out!" shouted Asuka, which allowed for Naruto to turn around and see the other, injured enemy charging at him with his katana held high in the air. Naruto quickly had a serious facial expression and tensed his muscles, he channelled chakra through his leg muscles to move faster.
Naruto waited for the last moment when the enemy was close enough as he moved aside from the enemy's attack and placed his right foot in front of the enemy's; the enemy fell down on his face and before he could do anything, Naruto placed his foot on the enemy's back and stabbed through he enemy's back with his tanto. Naruto quickly shunshined in front of Asuka, back in his defensive stance.
The man with the amused smile stood in the same place. "You are strong for someone so young, why don't you join Ame's shinobi force? If you do so, maybe Pein-sama might let Asuka live. Pein-sama can give you proper training and give you more power if you join the Ame shinobi force." spoke the man as he tried persuade Naruto into joining the Ame shinobi force.
Naruto listened to the man and noticed the brief look of anger in Asuka's eye at the mention of 'pein'. Asuka looked towards Naruto to notice that he closed his eyes, Asuka just looked at Naruto and waited for his decision. Naruto finished his thoughts as he opened his eyes to look directly at the man, "I refuse, I will never betray Asuka's trust for power, nor will I go back on my promise." said Naruto as he reached into a back pouch that was attached to his belt. He took out a special kunai with a seal around the hilt and kept it in his left hand.
The assumed leader let out a sigh of disappointment, "I see. Then, before we fight, may I know the name of the shinobi who I shall fight?" asked the man.
Naruto raised a eyebrow, still not letting go of his serious facial expression. "Naruto, my name is Naruto Uzumaki." stated Naruto as he decided say his name in order to entertain the man.
The man smiled in amusement as he spoke, "I am Ryuunosuke Fukui and the two men you killed were Aoi Nishimura and Michi Hirano." Ryuunosuke pointed the corpses of the ninjas that Naruto recently killed. Ryuunosuke wore a complete set of anbu clothes and a brown flak-jacket, he had a scratched headband tied around his forehead. Ryuunosuke had black eyes, he also had long red hair that was tied into a ponytail, which reached his back ; he had no pouches or weapon, except for the sheathed katana attached to his belt.
Ryuunosuke rushed at Naruto, Naruto dodged RYuunosuke's punch by moving his head aside from the punch. Ryuunosuke quickly aimed for Naruto's stomach, but Naruto blocked it with his left hand and grabbed it as he raised his and prepared to attack. Before long, Naruto's Tanto cut through Ryuunosuke and caused him to split into two halves.
Naruto noticed that the two halves of Kimiko transformed into a paddle of water; he looked around, then spotted Ryuunosuke, who were finishing a chain of hand-seals. "Doton: Doryuuheki no jutsu." he called out as a the earth rose from the ground and formed a wall of earth behind Naruto.
Just as Naruto rushed at Ryuunosuke "Katon: Karyuu Endan." Ryuunosuke inhaled great amounts of oxygen as he held the tiger hand-seal; he opened his mouth and released a stream of flames, which divided into three and took the forms of Chinese dragons as they rushed at Naruto from the front, left and right. Once the flames died down, there remained a burnt ground and burnt front of the wall.
Naruto rose from the ground as if it was water, he created four Kage bunshins; the four Kage bunshins moved to Asuka and formed a perimeter around her. They all made the same hand-seals and finished in sync. "Shi-ri no Shōheki jutsu." the four Kage bunshin of Naruto spoke in unison as a square-shaped barrier formed with the Kage bunshins at the corners. The barrier was red and the size of a normal room.
Naruto let out a sigh of relief as he was glad that Asuka was safe from danger. Ryuunosuke pulled out his Katana and threw the sheath, like a spear, at Naruto's face. Naruto slash through the sheath with his tanto, the sheath fell to the floor in two and when Naruto looked up, he moved his kunai in front of him to block Ryuunosuke's Katana in time.
Naruto was forced on his knee by the force behind Ryuunosuke's attack as the force was greater than Naruto had expected. Naruto made up for the mistake by kicking Ryuunosuke's leg, causing him to fall backwards, Naruto was about to slice Ryuunosuke, but Ryuunosuke summersaulted backwards as his foot hit Naruto's chin, which launched him into the air.
Naruto created kage bunshins in the middle of the air; the Kage bunshins threw him higher before they were replaced by small clouds of smoke. Naruto rotated his body as he had his body upside down, another Kage bunshin appeared and Naruto quickly pushed his feet against against the Kage bunshin as he increased his speed.
On the way down, Naruto prepared his Tanto above his head as he got closer to Ryuunosuke. Naruto brought his Tanto down at Ryuunosuke with all of his strength. Ryuunosuke slash through the air with his Katana as he collide his Katana with Naruto Tanto. Clang.
Naruto and Ryuunosuke fought against each other's weapon with all their might. The two were unnerved by the cracks that formed at the point where each of their weapons was colliding with the one another. Crack. Ryuunosuke's katana shattered, which forced him to substitute himself with a wooden log. Naruto Tanto tore through the wooden log and continued in an arc towards the ground. The Tanto meet the ground, splitting into two as the top half ricocheted off the ground and towards a tree, embedding itself deeply into the tree.
Naruto got off the crater as he coughed violently for a brief moment, he observed his Tanto and noticed that the Tanto was broken. He released his hold of the Tanto's hilt, uncaring of the Tanto hitting the ground as he placed his special kunai back into his pouch. He closed his eyes and searched for Ryuunosuke's chakra.
Naruto ducked to avoid Ryuunosuke's kick to the chest. Naruto instantly responded by low kicking Ryuunosuke's other leg, making him unbalanced and start falling towards the ground. Naruto pushed onto Ryuunosuke with his body, adding more weight and force to the fall. Ryuunosuke groaned as his back hurt from the fall.
Ryuunosuke turned into water and fell to the ground to form a puddle of water, Naruto rounded his body to the right and avoided a foot stomping on him. Naruto used his hands to quickly get up as he created a rasengan on the palm of his right hand. Ryuunosuke quickly formed a tiger handseal, he opened his mouth and launched a giant fireball at Naruto.
Naruto reached into his pouch and took out the kunai as he threw it at Ryuunosuke through the fireball. The kunai pierced through the fireball without too much difficult, Ryuunosuke tilted his head and dodged the kunai.
Naruto appeared behind Ryuunosuke as he grabbed the flying kunai with his left hand in a reverse grip and tried to stab into Ryuunosuke's back, but he quickly turned around and stopped the attack by using his hands to grab Naruto's hand. Ryuunosuke spotted the smile on Naruto's face, his eyes widen in realisation as he tried to jump back and dodged the upcoming attack.
However, Naruto rushed towards Ryuunosuke and slammed the still-present rasengan against Ryuunosuke's chest. Naruto continuously pushed the rasengan as deep as he could against the Ryuunosuke. Immediately, Ryuunosuke was pushed away with such force as he crashed through two trees and against a third.
Ryuunosuke's body was twisted in an inhumane manner and twitched greatly, blood spilled out of his mouth. Naruto stood in front of Ryuunosuke, "Do you have anything to say before you die?" asked Naruto with an uncaring stare as he held a kunai against Ryuunosuke's neck.
Ryuunosuke smiled in an amused manner, "Watch out for Pein-sama, he is far stronger than any Kage. He is able to do things that no shinobi will ever be able to do." spoke Ryuunosuke trying to speak as clearly as possible, despite the blood flowing from his mouth.
Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerous, "What was your mission?" asked Naruto with a threatening voice.
Ryuunosuke stared intensely at Asuka, "He wanted me to make her suffer in every way possible and kill her..." spoke Ryuunosuke as he turned his stare towards Naruto. "...Through any means necessary." said Ryuunosuke as finished his sentence.
Ryuunosuke's whole body turned into water and exploded. Ryuunosuke appeared a great distance away from Naruto as he took off his flak-jacket and dropped it into the ground, which crashed against the ground and created a crater. Boom.
Ryuunosuke wasted no time as he rushed in front of Naruto and punched him with an unbelievable speed. Ryuunosuke didn't waste the opportunity as he continuously punched the helpless Naruto. Naruto moved his arms in front of him as he watched Ryuunosuke roundhouse kicked him in the face, Naruto flew through the air as he crashed against a tree.
Before Naruto could do anything, Ryuunosuke appeared in front of him and his fist blurred in Naruto's sight as Ryuunosuke landed punches after punches on Naruto. After a brief period of complete assault at Naruto, Ryuunosuke ended it with a kick to the stomach, he jumped back a long distance as he avoided Naruto's slow punch.
Naruto dropped to the ground, he halted his fall as he placed his arms against the ground and took deep breathes. "Full-beast transformation." whispered Naruto.
Naruto's hair began to grow longer as it reached his back, his hair became wilder as it grew. Naruto's nail lengthened and sharpened. Naruto's eye turned red as a red faint aura-like chakra covered him, like a second layer of skin. Everyone watched the whole transformation, 'What is happening to Naruto?' wondered Tazuna and all of the Konoha ninjas.
Naruto, in transformed body, stood up as he jolted towards Ryuunosuke with a far greater speed than before. Ryuunosuke was surprised at the speed and took a surprising right hook to the face, Ryuunosuke groaned with a pained facial expression before retaliating against Naruto.
Naruto dodged the punch and landed a consecutive punch at Ryuunosuke's face, Naruto threw a kick. Ryuunosuke ignored the surprise and pain he felt as he reacted quickly by blocking the kick with his arm. Ryuunosuke and Naruto threw a punch at each other, which they both stopped with their other hand.
The two pushed their captured fist as much as possible, they tried to land the punch against each other. Ryuunosuke saw an opportunity as he held Naruto's fist and moved his head forward. He opened his mouth and exhaled a football-sized fireball at Naruto's heads. Naruto evaded the attack as he used the kimiwari jutsu to substitute himself with a nearby stick.
When the some of the smoke in front of Ryuunosuke dispelled, he didn't see Naruto's body. Ryuunosuke stood on guard and spotted a single kunai heading towards him, he planned on dodging the kunai but when he saw the glowing paper seal wrapped around the kunai's hilt, Ryuunosuke used the shunshined to created as much distance as possible.
Naruto growled as he took out a few kunai from his holster and threw them at the thugs. Naruto made one hand-seal, "Kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu." called out Naruto as the couple of kunai he threw turned into thousands as they pierced and kill most of the thugs, wounding a few.
Boom.
Ryuunosuke let out a sigh of relief as he stood a few feet away from the small burnt crater that the explosion created. Ryuunosuke was saw Naruto charging at him with a fist pulled back, ready to attack. Ryuunosuke intercepted the punch with his left as he punched Naruto. Naruto instantly poofed out of existence.
'Kage bunshin.' thought Ryuunosuke. Suddenly, he was taken by surprise as two arms grabbed his feet and dragged him down. Ryuunosuke's body was quickly submerged into the ground with only his head sticking out of the ground.
The remaining thugs recklessly charged towards Naruto as they swung their Katanas and Tantos, Naruto dodged their attacks and responded with more devastating attacks as he pierced the chest of the two closet thugs with his hands, the two thugs dropped dead as he ripped out their hearts and crushed it in his hands. He shook off the bloodly mess on his hands.
Naruto grabbed the Katana and Tanto that the two thugs dropped, he quickly charged at the other thugs as he beheaded one of them and chopped another in half. He stared at the twenty remaining thugs and charged at them with his weapons readied. One thug tried to stab him but Naruto jumped on top of the spear and slashed his Katana through the thug's head.
Naruto threw his Tanto at closest thug, who died as the sword peirced through the thug's body. He instantly used his Katana to cut the hand of another thug. Naruto stabbed the Katana into the thug's heart, then he went and took out the Tanto he threw from inside the dead thug. Naruto saw that three more thugs rushed towards him.
Three of the thugs tried to slash him into pieces, but he used his two weapons to block the attack and stop them. Another thug tried to charge at him from behind, but Naruto used his strength to push the three thugs backwards, then he sidestepped the attack from behind as he turned and tore the thug's body with two diagonal slashes.
Naruto quickly turned to the front and stabbed one of the thugs, the other two tried to attack him from different sides as they tried to cut him into two pieces. Naruto quickly kneeled to the floor and grabbed the legs of both thugs, he pulled their legs up and caused to them lose control as they were became unbalanced. Naruto threw the two struggling thugs into the air and threw his two swords at each of them, when the thugs hit the floor, they were dead as the swords was implanted deep in their stomaches.
Naruto appeared in front of Ryuunosuke as he kicked Ryuunosuke's head, which caused his head to roll away, the head turned into a ball of water as it fell to the ground. Naruto searched around for Ryuunosuke and spotted him forming a chain of hand-seals. Ryuunosuke finished the hand-seals as he slammed the ground.
"Raiton: Rairyuudon no jutsu."
A chinese dragon formed from lightning as it floated above Ryuunosuke's head, its red eyes glowed as it let out a mighty roar at Naruto. The dragon rushed towards Naruto with its mouth open and its sharp teeth, posed to devour Naruto.
At the same moment, Naruto formed a two chains of different handsigns with each hand as he slammed his lefthand on the ground after he formed the final hand-seal. "Doton: Dosekiryuu no jutsu." called out Naruto as the ground raised and formed a Chinese dragon. The two dragons collided and destroyed each other as water and debris of rocks and stones flew everyplace.
Naruto slammed his right hand on the ground. "Doton: Douryuusou no jutsu."
Naruto saw the last fourteenth thugs trying to run away and made a few handsigns, "Doton: Douryuusou no jutsu." called out Naruto as he slammed his hand on the floor, suddenly spears of stone rose from the ground and impaled the thugs that tried to run away. Naruto walked to towards frightened Gato.
Naruto grabbed Gato's head and pulled him up. Gato struggled to get out of Naruto's grasp as he hit Naruto with his cane. Naruto got annoyed by Gato's struggle as he slammed Gato against the floor, as he created clones to beat the crap out of Gato with punches and kicks.
Naruto walked towards the bleeding Ryuunosuke. Once he was in front of Ryuunosuke, he stared at Ryuunosuke, ignoring the spears of stone that pierced his body. "Tell everything you know about Pein." demanded Naruto as he squated, he pulled out a kunai and held it in front of Ryuunosuke's neck. Naruto glanced at Asuka for a second.
Ryuunosuke smiled and laughed in an amusement tone. "You think that Asuka will be safe, ha! If i fail, then stronger ninjas will be sent after her and you won't be able to save her?" said Ryuunosuke as he laughed in manner that suggested that he was amused by Naruto.
Naruto stared at Asuka and then Ryuunosuke, before he sighed and slit Ryuunosuke's throat. He left Ryuunosuke's body where it was and headed towards Asuka.
Naruto pulled out a kunai from his punch and was about to slit Gato's throat, but stopped when he turned around and saw Haku. Naruto stared intensely at Haku with narrow eyes as the Asuka's features overlapped Haku until he was staring at the Asuka.
"Asuka."
Naruto dropped the unconscious Gato, he turned around as he tumbled towards the large group of ninjas and holding his hand in grabbing motion. Kakashi, Zabuza, Kurenai, Mito, Haku, Hinata, Sasuke, Kiba, Shino, Sakura and Tazuna watched nervously as Naruto tumbled drunkenly towards them with his hand in front of him.
"Asuka!"
Everyone tensed their muscles as Naruto got closer to them and his voice got louder. Uncaring of everyone's nervous stares and the tende at Atmosphere, Naruto continuously walked towards Haku, who was nervous and worried about Naruto at moment as she and the others just wistnessed Naruto carry out a massacre.
"Asuka."
Naruto stopped in front of Haku as he wrapped his arms Haku and hugged her. Naruto let go Haku as he moved his mouth closer to hers until they met. Much to Haku's surprise and happiness, Naruto kissed her passionately for a long time before he pulled away from Haku.
Naruto looked into Haku's eyes with a loving stare. "I will always love you." said Naruto with a gentle voice, surprising everyone as his voice carried with it, his love and compassionate. Naruto stepped away from Haku as he collapsed to the ground and the faint red aura-like chakra faded. His hair, nails and eyes returning back to normal.
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Naruto woke up, he opened his eyes to see that he was in Tazuna's house. He groaned as his whole body hurt, especially his chest. He rubbed the corner of his eyes as he got up and looked around for a clock.
Naruto let out a sigh, 'It 's times like this that I wish I has something to focus on, like Kakashi.' thought Naruto as he looked around for something to pass the time. He spot book next to his futon with a paper on top of it.
He picked up the paper, 'To Naruto. I figured you could use a guide to becoming a man; I leave with you a book, this book will give you inspiration and help you. From Kakashi.' thought Naruto as he mentally read the writing on the paper.
Naruto placed the paper down on the floor as he picked up the book and read the cover, "Ichi Ichi paradise: a sage's tale."
Naruto palmed his face and shake his head as he looked at Kakashi, 'Kakashi gave me a smutty book? I guess I can take peek, if anyone asks, I'll just blame Kakashi.' thought Naruto as he opened the book and read the first chapter.
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