Disclaimer: Sorry Sorry! Life been kicking me and my electronics asses so it's hard to update, but You know the deal. I don't own Naruto, Capcom, SNK, or Arc systems or anything associated with them, nor do I own any licensed music. I do have ever own the Original characters, the story, certain pieces of soundtracks and certain moves that will appear. Let's start.
(Background music: keep yourself alive
Guilty Gear)
"Nice going brats. Let's get to it." Sol spoke lazily as he swung his smoke emitting blade towards, the necks of Hinata, Haruno, and Sasuke. Hinata ducked underneath while simultaneously pulling her to cohorts down with her. With a devious smirk the gear swordsman brought the flat side of the blade down upon Hinata, who blocked it two chakra infused kunai.
"Go!" The Hyugga yelled to her two teammates, who quickly leaped away from the stalemate.
"Quick question? How long can a weapon empowered by chakra last against a weapon made of magic?" Sol asked casually slowly placed more pressure on Hinata and summon more of the fuuenken magic, causing the blade to heat up even more. The heat from was rapidly heating up the small area around the two, heating up the kunai despite Hinata best efforts. The kunai blades turned red, and the handles began to burn as the stalemate continued.
' ah it burns! Got to get away...Holy!' Hinata eyes widen as she began to see her kunai melt underneath the fuuenken. In one quick movement she dropped her weapon and rolled to the left, causing sol to slam fuuenken down to the ground razing due to the heat. Pain surged through Hinata from her burnt palms.
'Great kami above, that hurts!' The princess thought as she apply some homemade ointment n her hands, which now bared a black kunai imprint on her palms and fingers.
"That's looking bad brat. How about you give in? After all with your hands like that your Jyuken is useless." Sol stated as he tossed the bell in his right hand up and down. His left was carrying his sword. A look of amusement came upon Sol as he saw Hinata take a Muy Thai stance. With a thumbs up which he immediately turned upside down, sol tied the bell to the hilt of his sword, and got into his usual stance.
"Seven hits. Ya' here!" He cracked his neck as he lazily told the condition to obtaining his bell, which Hinata nodded to. The two stood still, waiting for the other to attack. It was at this point where a group of flying shurinken came at Sol from behind.
In one quick motion Sol spun around and deflected the weapons towards a shrub on the left with fuuenken. A small "eep" was heard from the shrub, causing Sol to divert his attention to it.
'Chance!' Hinata thought as she rocketed herself towards Sol, she wasn't the only one as she saw Sasuke leaped from a nearby tree and sprinted towards the swordsman back, kunai in hand. With a a mighty thrust Sasuke attempted to stab Sol's shoulder blade. To his great surprise Sol shifted his body just slightly, throwing Sasuke of target and of balance. Before the Uchiha could right himself Sol grabbed him by the back of his shirt, and slammed him face forward on the ground. Before he could say anything to Sasuke, Hinata was already upon him with an elbow toward his back. He dodged the attack by leaping into the shrubs.
"I didn't ask for your help Hyugga." Hinata scoffed at the Uchiha comment. He roused with a glare, which Hinata gladly returned.
"Don't interfere. You hear me!"
"Oh yes, cause you was doing so well!" Sasuke growled at Hinata taunting.
"You heard him right? He'll surrender the bell if we can hit him seven times. So how about a truce for now, you know work together? Besides that the point of this exercise, So we might as well." The Hyugga heir offered, with a small handshake, which Sasuke slapped away.
"I don't need the assistance of anyone who trained with Uzumaki!"
"You conceited...
"ahhhhh!" Both Hinata and Sasuke turned their heads towards the shrubs at the blood drenched scream.
"Guess he got her. Ah well one less person to worry about."
"Cease your insolence Sasuke, we're going to help."
"Why should i help you, help her?"
With a tight grip of his shirt Hinata, pulled the Uchiha close Byakugan blazing.
"You want to know why? Cause i want to pass this damn test! Cause i want to go on missions under Naruto's leadership and most importantly cause i freaking said so! If you ever want to have a chance to restore your clan, stop acting like damn royal ass and assist me!"
With that said Hinata rushed towards the shrub leaving Sasuke a bit bewildered at what transpired, he follow behind her though.
What they saw behind the shrub, was less then what they expected. Haruno was perfectly fine her hair covering her eyes from the genin. Sol was standing next to her leaning on A mulberry tree, his blade planted in the ground. Both genin stood their ground, before Hinata walked up towards the girl.
"Hey Haruno-san. Are you ok?"
With a mighty roar of "cha!" Haruno threw a chakra filled fist towards Hinata, who leaped just out of range. Haruno glared with tear filled eyes at the two in front of her. With eyes wide Open, Sasuke and Hinata both looked at Sol for an explanation.
"A lesson genjutsu."
"I'm going to regret this but, what was the genjutsu Sol-san?" Hinata asked with a strange, nauseous feeling in her stomach.
"You white-eyed hussy! How dare you try to take Sasuke from me!" Haruno yelled out as she threw a few kunai at Hinata, who reflected with her own, before shivering at the thought in disgust. This actually caused Sol to laugh a bit.
"I thought you liked The dobe? I bet that was a lie to get Sasuke-kun! Well too bad go find someone else you slut, Sasuke-kun is mine, and no one else's CHA!"
With that said Haruno hared at Hinata with. A barrage of punches pushing Hinata on the defensive. Hinata side step at a punch causing Haruno to fall off balance.
"Haruno-san, I would never get with Sasuke. My. Taste in boys are those with...personality, energy, excitement...NOT one who act like more of a ice princess than me...an actual princess. I assure you i will never want to be with Sasuke. That's just Disgusting!" Sasuke glared hard at Hinata explanation as Sakura try to charge again. This time though Hinata charged as well and met the pinkette halfway. She pale to chakra laced finger tips on Haruno forehead.
"Kai!" Haruno eyes glazed over before she dropped down to the floor, surprisingly Sasuke caught her before she hit her head hard, and laid her down near a tree gently. He stood up next to Hinata ,who stood in a Muy-Thai stance, and faced sol who was looking a bit bored but ready to fight.
"I'm surprised you actually was gentle with her. Change of heart Uchiha-san?"
"Hmmph! Not in the least, but if it'll get me to pass i guess i can help you normal people. Besides i want to make you eat your words, about me being an ice princess."
"Offended, are we?"
"very!"
"Good. Then maybe you'll change...but that can wait. First things first, the bell. The one who hit him more gets the bell?"
"Deal. Shall we?"
"Lets."
"Ladies first."
"Thank you"
Hinata rushed towards sol who stood with his hands in his pocket, before he charged as well. Sol attacked with a kick towards the young teen side which she leapt over, and countered with a kick to sol's face, only to have it block with his right hand. Sol, moved back away from Hinata and smirked a bit menacingly, clenching and unclenching his fist.
'Surprised me. Using Jyuken through her feet. My hand feels a bit numb, Well i should of expected it, maybe I'll kick it up a notch.'
Sol leapt back upon a tree trunk, gaining momentum before rocketing towards Hinata at a high speed, his left out. As Hinata attempted to block the attack, she was tackled out of the way by Haruno. They didn't have time to speak as they watch Sol fly towards Sasuke. The two Kunoichi watched as sol got closer until...
"Katon:Gokakyu no jutsu!"
The giant ball of flame engulf Sol in midflight, burning him completely, when the flame though nothing was left except burnt grass.
'Did I incinerate him? No impossible! So where has he gone.'
"Watch out Sasuke-kun!"
"Behind you Uchiha!
"Fenir!"
The two girls watch as Sasuke turned his head behind him, and received a magic induced, flame engulfed fist to his skull. The force of the punch threw him back a bit farther then where Hinata and Haruno were. His left cheek was burnt and smoke was coming from it. Sasuke tried to stand but the hit made his legs wobble.
Just as he was about to straighten himself up, his teammates both took a stance in front of him. Sol gave a lazy grin before running towards the three. The two stood their ground, as Sol rushed them. They were Surprised when Sol leapt over them and landed near fuuenken.
"You little punks seem you forgot the condition, or maybe you don't care! Too busy saving each other to care about it...Fine then."
Sol grabbed the bell of the hilt and tossed it towards them.
"Why?" the perplexed Hyugga asked, as she held the bell in her hand. Sol looked at the three and cranked his necked with his hand.
"This exercise was used to established teamwork, while you didn't get the bell, you showed enough to be rewarded. Now when you actually want to spar, I'll try to make a little time for you brats."
"Fair enough."
(BGM ends)
Hinata tossed the bell towards Sasuke and Haruno. The two looked at the bell and then at the Heiress.
"Sought it out among yourselves."
With that said Hinata leapt into the tress heading back to assist Duke, leaving the two bewildered. Sol watched and smirked at the duo face.
"You two do realize she was holding back, right?" their looks of shock and rage were hilarious.
*with Naruto & Sakura versus Kakashi*
'Damn. I didn't expect them, to be this proficient in battle. They're only genin for god sakes. I shouldn't have agreed to battle training with them after they got the bells.'
Kakashi sighed at this thought. He knew they was more skilled then normal genin and could work well together before the battle begun but he never expected them to be as good as they are. his thoughts drifted back to how they got the bell.
*flashback*
(BGM: Naruto ost: Strong and Strike)
Kakashi stood near a tree, causally reading his book, giggling at the naughty text and pictures. He was soon interrupted by a Gou-Hadou-ken and a similar, smaller blue and white ki made fireball known as the Hadou-ken colliding with his body, throwing him into the tree. His back and head struck the tree with a sickening crack, before he proofed away into smoke. Out of a bush nearby, Naruto and Sakura appeared surveying the area, unaware that they were being watched.
"Ok that backfired, so now what?" The Chestnut haired girl asked as she sat on the ground.
"I can't say, i guess we'll just stay on guard." The blonde stated as he began to sit on the ground crossed leg, in a meditative stance.
"can we play cards?"
Naruto opened his left eye at the question.
"spades, crazy eight or blackjack?"
"spades of course. I haven't forgotten our last game, i believe it was 430 to 560 in your favor.
"Yeah, we were playing to 2000. So ready?"
Naruto dug into his back pouch and pulled out a pack of cards. The two sat on the grass and began playing their game of cards, oblivious to Kakashi gaze.
"This...is a disappointment. Have these two given up?"
With a heavy sight, Kakashi vanished from his hiding place in the shrub, nearby and reappeared beside Sakura, with a glare on his face.
"Would you mind explaining, what are you two doing?"
"SHH! Kakashi, I'm about to make a move." Sakura whispered to the jounin, before she put down a two of diamonds. Naruto growled as Sakura celebrated in victory. She leaped up and latched herself upon Kakashi.
"Boom Scarecrow, we got you."
At Naruto's warning Sakura opened her mouth to reveal an exploding tag about ignite. Kakashi didn't have time to comment before the blast occurred.
As the smoke and flame, all that was left a burnt piece of wood, that was once a log, Naruto still and smoking body on the ground and what seem to be a headless burnt Sakura. Kakashi appeared just by the corpse of Naruto, his face full of anguish.
"Damn it! Just how insane are, are these kids. To sacrifice their selves just for a couple of bells!"
"Kakashi, what in the hell happened here?"
Kakashi visible eye widen as he turned his head to see the Hokage standing there, his face full of shock and anger. He grabbed The jounin by his vest hard and pulled him to his face.
"Why is my niece dead, Hatake Kakashi, your life depends on your answer."
Kakashi gulped as he felt the immense killing instinct radiate off Hizuren. Kakashi bowed low in repentance.
"I'm so sorry! Both of them came up with a plan to get the bells around my belt buckle, and they ended up killing themselves in an explosion, caused by a tag."
"You are a jounin, hell once a ANBU black ops commander, surely you know how to disengage an exploding tag!"
"I thought it was a bluff and i had little time to react..."
"Enough! Relinquish your vest, pouch and the damn bells. You are hereby relieve of your duties indefinitely!"
Kakashi nodded as he followed his Hokage orders, and with a heavy heart gave the Hokage the items.
" I am ashamed of you Kakashi..." The Hokage stated as he walked away. He suddenly faced Kakashi with a mischievous smile not fit the face of Hizuren.
"That you fell for such a farce!"
With that he proofed into smoke and when it cleared, in place of Hizuren was Sakura sitting on Naruto shoulders, with the bells, vest and pouch in her hands. He was about to ask when he hard to poofs behind him.
"Kage Bunshin? You can perform Kage bunshin."
"Not me, Naru-kun and Duke can though. But I'm a hell of a personator."
"Well isn't that convenient."
"Aw don't be upset. You should know that we wouldn't sacrifice ourselves for some bells...or maybe it because we beat you so soon. Ah well, you live, you learn, and then you get old people luvs. Oh yeah Sakura give him back his vest and pouch. "
Sakura nodded and tossed Kakashi back the items, who placed on the vest and pouch, while glaring at the two it was then he realized his pouch felt lighter. The couple of pranksters smiled at this.
"Looking for something, Kaka-sensei?" Sakura taunting voice sang, causing him to look toward them two. In Naruto hands were his copy of icha icha paradise.
"Hey did you finish this yet Kakashi?"
"Why?"
"I guess not. Man the ending was so good, i mean the final cat fight between Emi ,Maya, and Haruka was good ..."
"Quiet and give it back!"
Naruto smirked at this, knowing he could get under Kakashi skin.
"Under two conditions. One we all pass..."
"ok ok...what the next?"
Sakura leapt off Naruto shoulders and assumed a fighting stance. Her right leg was parallel to her body slightly bent outward at the knee, while her left was few inches in front of her body. Her left arm was held at stomach height horizontally, while her right was held to her head vertically. Naruto stood back to back with her in his demon paw stance.
"Oh. Really, it seems i am being tested now."
Kakashi didn't have time to get into a stance as Sakura rushed at him, bouncing from side to side as she did. Kakashi dodged the hook from the right, and the low kick to from left. He hopped her sweep kick.
"Hadou-..."
Kakashi quickly put his guard for the up for the up incoming attack. It was a fake, Kakashi soon realized when Sakura grabbed each of his elbows, and used his chest as trampoline propelling herself through the air, landing just a little in front of Naruto.
Kakashi on the other hand was sent rolling back from the kick , he quickly righted himself though and stilled his stance, he was rubbing his chest a bit.
'Strong girl.'
Kakashi thoughts were quickly interrupted as five Naruto clones dropped from the sky, each with an ax kick. Kakashi quickly dodge the assault, with a few chakra induced leaps. Putting in the dragon, ox and rabbit seal, Kakashi sunk into the ground shocking the five.
"It's the headhunter jutsu! Get off the groahhhh!"
The warning from Sakura was too slow as she was the first one to be taken underneath the ground, only her head remained above ground.
"Get moving Naru!" Sakura yelled as she struggled to free herself. Naruto didn't time though as Kakashi pulled him and his clones down into the same position as Sakura. The clones popped as they were pulled in though. Kakashi appeared and grin underneath his mask at their positions.
"Well, looks like i won our little match, now i believe you got something that belongs to me." Kakashi gloated as he reached for Naruto's collar and lifted him up by his shirt and placed him on the ground.
"Book...Now!" Kakashi warned as he held out his hand for it. Naruto nodded as he dug into his pouch to pull out Kakashi beloved book, only to throw it into the sky. Kakashi looked at the flying book before shooting an armory like glare Naruto, who was already getting up from his crouching position.
"Gou-Shoryu!"
The ki propelled uppercut connected hard with the jounin chin, lifting him off the ground. At the height of the move, the stunned Kakashi proofed and was replaced by a log. Naruto wasted no time, grabbing the log and chucking at a nearby tree. The log was enlodged in the trunk of tree near Kakashi face.
"He was able to find me so quickly? No, it had to be a lucky throw." Kakashi whispered to himself as he turned his head towards the log and sweat dropped.
*end flashback*
'It seems I'll have to give them a more serious battle.' The white hair thought as he watched Naruto help Sakura up. He threw a half a dozen kunai attached to smoke bombs. As soon as the knives landed they filled a small part of the plains with a thick smoke fog, trapping the two genin. After creating two quick clones, he and one of the clones leapt from his tree perch into the fog.
Before Naruto and Sakura could get their breath and baring's, they both were pulled by an arm away from each other, into another part of the fog.
They both saw the same thing though, Hatake Kakashi, sharrigan revealed, ready to battle. Both genin responded in tune and slipped into their previous fighting stances.
Sakura launched herself towards her Hatake, with the attention of ramming her knee in his abdominals, but was denied by him shifting his body to the side causing her to miss.
"Shunpuu-kyaku!" Sakura called as she channeled a bit of ki to legs, before leaping towards Kakashi in a move similar to the Gouki's own Tatsumaki Zankūkyaku. The difference was hers was unrefined, and lack range as it, instead of sailing through the air rises then falls in an arcing pattern, and speed as the move only hits twice.
Kakashi was able to block both hits successfully, even though his arms did fell as if a small blade was striking them. As he was about to put his guards down, Sakura struck with a mighty straight kick to the mid-section. The jounin quickly guarded against the kick, but was still pushed back a yard or so.
'Powerful girl, if this how she is now, i can imagine her strength when she'd matured. That last kick felt like a cannon.' The jounin thought before his eyes widen.
'The other clone was just destroyed. Better finish this quick.'
As soon as that thought passed through his mind Sakura was already rushing towards him. She threw a right hook to his jaw, followed by a left backhand. The first was ducked under while he grabbed the back hand. He gave her a hard palm to her side and a kick to her stomach before throwing her a few yards away.
Sakura flipped a few times before righting herself. She landed on her feet, and slid a few feet back in a kneeling position, holding her midsection, in a bit of pain. Despite this she grinned as Kakashi came at her.
She ducked a roundhouse, and jumped above a sweep kick. While still in the air she blocked an hard straight kick, and grabbed his ankle hard. She spun her body as she was landing and with grace, strength and a hell lot of momentum, was able to throw the jounin hard to the ground, causing him to poof out of existence.
(BGM ends)
"Just a clone huh? Well it was a good one." Sakura said through grinning pain, as the fog was blown away from behind her. When she turned she saw Naruto there with a broad sword made of wind that dissipated quickly.
"You could've done that earlier, you know." Sakura said with a smirk.
"And ruin the fun, fat chance. You look like you had a work out."
"as do you, your clothes got rips in then and your arm is bleeding a bit."
"Dual Kunai wielding clone."
"Ah."
Just then they heard clapping from the trees above.
"Very good, the both of you." The real Kakashi congratulated before leaping down beside them.
"I have a good idea of what to expect out of you, so i think we should call it a day, agreed?"
The two teens nodded in agreement when they heard some rustling from the bushes, before Sol, Haruno and Sasuke came out.
"Yo Kashi, still in one piece. Even though it looks like they gave you some trouble." Sol stated with his usual lazy demeanor.
"Did you two get the bell?" Naruto asked his soon-to-be subordinates, who each held up half of a bell.
"They did well, they was able to cover each other backs, the Hyugga basically held the team together."
"Sol-san. Where is Hina-chan?" Sakura asked curiously.
"She said she was going to assist Jinketsu. That was nearly 20 minutes ago." Sasuke said with a little less haughtiness than usual.
"Now that should be interesting, let's go watch shall we, besides it only 30 minutes to the end of the exam." Kakashi said, feeling a bit anxious to watch himself. They all agreed and quickly headed towards Duke's fight.
*30 minutes ago*
(BGM: Street fighter ex plus alpha ost: God hands)
"I'll be taking that bell!" Duke stated as he looked towards Gouki, his Kuro-Doragon-Tsume-no-jutsu flaring (left) and crackling (right). Gouki adjusted the bell upon his prayer bead necklace that it hung off the front a bit.
Duke attacked first by stretching the black flamed claw towards Gouki, who effort dodged by shifting his body to duke's right, while moving forward. Instead of retracting the claw though, Duke grabbed the ground, before jumping up band allowing the claw reel him in towards Gouki, in attempt to hit him with a lariat.
As Duke rocketed towards him Gouki, in a masterful use of ki, warped through Duke himself placing himself behind the young gear, who landed and faced the martial artist, a truly pissed off look on his face.
" The Ashura Senkuu! You're fucking with me Gouki!"
Duke launched a barrage of swipes at Gouki who dodge, and evaded, each. With the last "X" style swipe, Gouki was forced to warp back onto the center of the lake. Duke chased after him, by leaping into the air and attacking with the demon blade kick.
"Hmmph!" Was Gouki only warning before he countered attack with a small Gou-Shoryu-ken, which connected with Duke's side, causing him to wine and grind his teeth...Before proofing away in smoke.
Gouki didn't even get to land before, a burning sensation and a high voltage shock ran through his body starting, by two dragon clawed punches, to the gut. The claws tried to pulled him underneath the water, only to be denied when he stopped himself, by placing a lace of chakra, upon his feet.
As he was about to attack the one below him, he saw a point of blackish gray light, getting larger by the moment.
He shifted his body to the right barely dodging the Gou-Hadou-ken. He felt another burning and shock, temporarily stunning him. He was quick to gain his Barings though, and was able to prevent the Gou-Hadou-ken colliding with his stomach by throwing one of his own. The two ki projectiles dissipated upon impact with each other.
Gouki had no time to rest though as more Gou-Hadou's flew out of the sea and towards him in rapid successions. The dark master since he was being held in place he shifted his body as much as he can to dodge and shot any one of those he couldn't, he kept this up for a minute and forty-five seconds.
"Gou-Shoryu-ken!" is what Gouki heard twenty times in a row, as clone after popped out of the water, all with the attention of knocking the martial artist flat. Gouki evaded and blocked against the assault successfully.
"Tenma Kuujinkyaku!" The clones yelled as they all came down upon Gouki, with a ki empowered kick at a high speed. Gouki grin a demonic grin at this, before grabbing the dragon like wrist of the Duke underneath him tightly, causing him to release his grip on Gouki. He whipped the Duke towards the others effectively knocking all of them out of the air and existence, including the on in his hand.
"So they were all clones. Then the real one got to be..." Gouki looked towards the land, to see Duke, Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Haruno and Sasuke, ready to fight.
(BGM: Legend of the HANDS style Ost: Battle Ballad)
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Sasuke launched the fireball at Gouki, who responded in kind. Moving his hands at a nearly blinding speed he put his hands in the rat, dog roster, dragon and ox seal.
"Suiton: rising water pillar jutsu!"
The fireball and water wall collided and resulted in a steam fog surrounding the area. Haruno took advantage of the fog and tossed six kunai with exploding tags, towards the martial artist, which caused a very large explosion in the middle of the lake, causing the fog to be blown away, and a small rainfall to begin. Unfortunately though with the fog gone , it was revealed that Gouki had disappeared.
"Hime!" Naruto ordered quickly to Hinata, who responded by activating her Byakugan to find the master fighter.
"NO NEED TO SEARCH!" Gouki roared above the group as he came down upon them with a high speed demon blade kick his target Haruno. The pinkette closed her eyes and braced herself from the impact, but was surprised when it never came. She opened her eyes to see Sasuke kneeling down in his back in front of her, and his arms in a guarding position.
"Sasuke-kun are you alright?" She asked concerned as she helped him to his feet being careful of his now badly bruised arms.
"I'm fine, now let's go join the others" a wincing Sasuke stated before he and Haruno went and join the other four in their assault on Gouki.
Meanwhile, Gouki was engage in battle against the four HANDS style practitioners and even he had to admit they was putting up an adequate challenge, so far he had been on the defense, blocking and evading each attack they launched, even more so since Naruto and Duke was sending clones every time, more so that; like the originals, the clones had their jutsu activated. To add even more difficulty Hinata and Sakura was using their HANDS martial arts style, combined with Jyuken and Sakura own take on the moves of the Ansatsuken arts.
"8 on 1 a bit much for you, Gouki-jiji?" The young gear asked in a taunting tone. Of course Gouki didn't respond to the verbal jab.
"To me it looks like we are getting up in that ass!"
"Insolence!" Was the only warning they got before Gouki warped in front of them and delivered A devastating palm to the gear chest, knocking the air out of him, and placing him on the floor, face forward coughing, up a bit of blood, and disengaging his kage-bushin. The others didn't waste a moment and launched a five man attack on the master.
Naruto and his clones struck first with their wind kodachi blades from three different directions Gouki was avoiding get touch by any of the blades.
"Sloppy!" Gouki stated as he grabbed a clones arm, and forced it to slash the original in the arm. Naruto winced at the shallow cut before he was suddenly blown backwards by a gust of wind, he would've been smashed into a tree if Duke didn't catch him. The two brothers rushed towards Gouki, to join the girls who were already engaging him.
Hinata and Sakura were working in perfect unison as they fought Gouki in hand to hand combat. Sakura attacked with a right hook to his side which was blocked, followed by a left knee which he knocked back down with a fist. He had to jump back from Hinata straight kick. He shot a Gou-Hadou-Ken at the Hyugga heir who blocked the projectile. She was surprised to see Gouki in front of her after she placed her guard down. Gouki took advantage her moment of shock, grabbed her by her shoulders, placed his left foot on her stomach, and leaned back towards the ground and somersaulted four times on the ground before tossing her into the air in an arc. As she was about to hit the ground, Naruto slid and caught her in his arms. Looking at her face he saw she was a bit dizzy.
"Hinata! Oy Hinata!"
"Naru-kun, did you activated your kage-bushin. Why are the clouds swirling around?"
"Get it together Hina-hime!" Naruto shook Hinata by the shoulders knocking her out of her daze.
"I'm ok! Ssssstoooop shhaaakkkiiinnng meeeee!"
Naruto stop and helped her up to her feet a small blush on his face, as was on hers. Unfortunately before the scene got any more romantic Duke and Sakura slid back towards the couple eyes on the quick approaching Gouki.
The Four stood their ground and was about to charge when a giant fireball collided and engulfed Gouki, or so it appeared at first. It was soon revealed that Gouki shot it with a Shakunetsu-Hadou-ken creating a wall of fire. Suddenly a kunai with a explosive tag flew in front and behind Gouki and exploded creating a thick smoke screen around the master.
"HMMPH!" Gouki stated as he gathered just a bit of ki and stomped on the ground blowing the smokescreen away. He was surprised for a millisecond to see all six genin attacking, with an uppercut to his face. He was even more surprised when connected at the same time throwing him backwards in the air in flipping and even knocking his prayer beads off, he landed hard on the back of his head and even had to roll to right himself.
They was already upon him with their own attacks by that time though. Sakura and Hinata from behind with a mighty shoulder to Gouki back pushing him forward towards Sasuke and Haruno who laid a well place combo that consisted of a hard body blow from each of them, followed by a knee to the chest by Sasuke and sweep kick from Haruno which landed him on his back. The duo was going to stomp on him, but he flipped to his feet, and was about to attack when he felt a shock to one of his left leg before it went numb. He turned around gave Hinata a powerful straight to her Face which she evaded countered with a gentle fist to the offensive arm, leaving it temporarily numb and paralyzed.
"Zanku-Hadou!" Gouki announced before shooting a quicker, one-handed version of the Gou-Hadou-ken. It was a deep blue with a purple and yellow tint, and Hinata chest ate it, resulting in her being pushed back and tumbling on the floor. Sasuke, Sakura, and Haruno tried to attack from the air and received the same treatment.
Gouki looked at the four on the ground, still trying to get up and continue the fight.
'Commendable effort, these pups have a strong will. Now speaking of pups, where are the main two?'
Gouki question to himself was soon answered, as he felt a powerful presence, he searched couldn't find it until it was too late. From below the ground, Naruto came with a powerful orange chakra infused kick that connected with Gouki chin sending him upwards a bit. The kick was followed by an uppercut lifting him up even more.
"Here i come."
Naruto drew out more of his tenant's chakra as he crouched down, and prepared his attack. He leapt towards Gouki in a twirling fashion.
"KYUBBI NO KYAKU!"
Naruto kicked Gouki countless times as he ascended to the height of his jump, when the peak was reached he grabbed Gouki by the shoulders, and gave him a devastating donkey kick to his chest sending him flying towards the ground.
"Yo bro, finish it!" The jinchuriki yelled towards Duke as he fell back to earth.
Duke nodded and rushed toward Gouki, a black and purple fog like energy engulfing his wrist and ankles, as he charged. His eyes were even different as they change to gold and became dragon-like. He stopped just below Gouki and prepared to attack.
"Chaos whip!"
The young gear threw his arms in a whipping motion expanding the fog from him to coil Gouki body like a snake, holding him in midair. The energy changed from a black and purple fog to a scarlet and forest liquid like elastic, which tighten around Gouki.
"NEEDLE!"
The scarlet elastic coil started bubble a bit, when it suddenly spiked out thin needles effectively stabbing Gouki all through his body. Gouki cough and gaged before proofing out of existence.
'I figured that much. No blood was spilt after all.' Duke thought angrily as he disengaged his spell and reverted to normal. He fell to the floor as he felt the adrenaline of the battle leave his body.
(BGM ends)
"So all that was a clone huh?" Sakura said as tiredly as she sat beside Duke. She like all the others looked worse than she felt. She was bruised, battered, a bit bloodied and her top blown to smithereens revealing a black sleeveless tank top under a fishnet shirt, but she was happy. He nodded as he watched the others help each other up.
"Was that your true form?"
"Not even close, but that was my gear magic showing."
"Impressive. So compared to the actual article how strong was the clone?"
"Approximately fifteen to seventeen percent of his true power and twenty percent of his true skill."
"I feel weak now."
"Don't, he and Sol...are not of this existence. Actually all four of them are above the abnormal."
"Oh and what about me. I went easy on you guys as well." a. Voice said from above. The Genin looked at up in a nearby tree to see Kakashi reading his "icha icha paradise".
"You are an elite. Not yet an abnormal." Naruto stated as he walked up towards his brother and Sakura, carrying Hinata piggy back. Sasuke and Haruno also joined them.
As Kakashi looked over each every one of the genin, he felt a bit of pride. They were all thoroughly exhausted, they were bruised and battered, so more than others but they all looked proud.
Duke dug into his pocket and pulled out a bell which he jingled. He tossed it to Sasuke, as he found out that he gave Sol's to Haruno, A fact that Sakura and Naruto teased him about a bit, resulting in an argument between the three.
'It seems they can get along well enough to carry out an mission completely. Well I guess that's fine for now. All in due time.' Kakashi thought as he watched Sakura and Naruto continue to tease Sasuke and now Haruno, both who was getting pissed by it, Hinata was trying to play mediator, and Duke who laughed at the whole thing.
"Ok straighten up you six."
The genin instantly stopped and gave the jounin their complete attention.
" I must say that i was impressed by your teamwork. In truth i thought it would be a disaster..."
The genin at this point glared hard at Kakashi.
"But you guys proved me wrong. So starting next week you guys will be given missions. Until then continue your training." With that Kakashi disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
As the genin was about to leave, Duke and Naruto called them back.
"What is it you two want? I wanna go home and wash up." Haruno complained.
"This won't take long, Duke just have something to say." Naruto insured.
"I'm not one to mix up words or beat around the bush, so I'll just say it. Meet back here in two days. Your magic training begins."
Duke statement allowed for no argument. As a result all was in silent agreement, before Sasuke and Haruno left the four practitioners.
"So now that's done, how about we hit ichiraku for some ramen." Naruto suggested with a mighty stretch. The others agreed eagerly with the idea. As they left the two girls leapt upon the boys back.
"Piggy back!" The girls commanded, with a smile. The Boys just sighed and with a small smirk pale their hands underneath the girls bottoms and carried them along.
Duke: Another episode down.
Naruto: Yup I actually thought it would be harder though.
Duke: Don't complain. Hmm you know I wonder how Alt did.
Alt: Really? Ok then I tell you. Next time, on HANDS style: Alt's test and magic training!
Glossary:
Hadou-ken: surge fist (street fighter)
Shunpuu-Kyaku: Spring Breeze Kick (Street Fighter)
Ashura senkuu: orge sky flash (street fighter)
An: Another Chapter done. I should be able to update more rapidly now. Thanks for reading.. and you can hear the Battle Ballad on youtube or my facebook. Tell me what you think.