Three days later, Naruto was at the training field. Again. He was laying on the middle of the field passed out from chakra exhaustion. He had been training non-stop for two days straight. He had a small smile on his face. The Kyuubi had been straining him to his limits and beyond, increasing his speed and his agility as well as his ability to control her chakra.
Hinata had watched him train occasionaly, surprised at his growth. Naruto had once disappeared from view, moving insanely fast, for about an hour before he came into sight. He had a small sweat worked up but not yet panting. Hinata just smiled and blushed before leaving and going home. She trained in the Hyuga training field with her father, learning new styles and increasing her own speed.
Naruto woke up a few hours later, chakra not completely restored but he wanted to train some more. He decided against it because his chakra being that low was not beneficial to his training anymore. He went to a ramen stand in Konoha that was always open. He sat down in a stool and knocked on the table.
"Hey old man, pork miso with extra vegetables," he said.
"Coming right up Naruto," he said.
Naruto smiled at the girl, Ayame he thought her name was. She smiled back, a small blush on her cheeks. She had a small crush on Naruto. She started cooking the broth. Naruto grabbed a pair of chopsticks and set them on the table in front of him and struck a small conversation with Ayame.
After a while Ayame said, "Why do you train so much Naruto? You are already strong, why do you want to get stronger?"
"I want to become strong enough to protect the entire village. Right now I can barely save myself so I need to be stronger," Naruto said.
"Here you are," the old man said.
"Thanks," Naruto said breaking the chopsticks and digging into the bowl with vigor. Naruto ate about 15 bowls before he was satisfied. "Thanks for the meal old man, it was delicious as always."
"No problem Naruto, here's the bill," he said handing Naruto a receit.
Naruto paid him and went to his apartment. He stripped down to his boxers and went to sleep on his bed.
Naruto woke up the next morning and showered and dressed in some orange jeans and a black shirt with a red swirl on the front and back. He put an orange jacket on top and his hitai-ate. He then took off to the Hyuga compound.
When he got there, he knocked on the gate and asked for Hinata. He then lounged around and looked at the clouds for a few minutes. When Hinata got to the gate, Naruto hugged her and kissed her on the brow.
"H-hi Naruto-kun. What a-are you doing here th-this early?" Hinata said.
"I am going on a mission and I wanted to say goodbye," he said not letting her go yet.
"W-when will you b-be back?"
"I don't know, maybe tomorrow. Most likely in about a week though," Naruto said stepping back. "When I get back, do you want to have dinner with me?"
"H-hai. I will see you when you get back," Hinata said stepping forward and hugging Naruto around the stomach. Naruto hugged her tightly around the shoulders. When he let go he inclined his head and kissed her on the lips.
"See you later Hinata-chan," he said.
Naruto took off toward the edge of the city. When he reached the gates, Sakura and the hawk masked ANBU stopped hiding and joined him.
"So you finally going to fight this masked man?" Sakura asked.
"I think I'm stong enough now. I want you guys to stay out of this fight. He will kill you guys if you interfere. If I'm defeated, he will kill you anyway, so I want you to run if he starts to win," Naruto said.
"Hn, if you start to lose, I'm jumping in," the ANBU said.
Naruto didn't respond but started to go a little faster. He led them to a cave some leagues north of Konoha. He stopped at the entrance and did some meditation excersices. He was focusing and stayed in the trance for a little while.
All of the sudden he appeared in the Kyuubi's dojo. When he got there, the Kyuubi looked up at him with one of her giant red eyes.
'You are finally going to face this masked man. I will assist you as I have a personal grudge on this guy,' she said.
"Fine with me but tell me, what did he do to you?"
'He dragged me out of my previous jinchuriki and used his sharingan to control me. I hate being controlled,' she snarled out.
"Who was your previous jinchuriki?"
'Uzumaki Kushina, your mother. The process nearly killed her, then he finished her off,' the kyuubi said, standing up and stretching. Her tails scraped on the ceiling when she straightened them out.
"That makes me want to kill him even more," Naruto said clenching his fists.
'I was going to when the jutsu to control me vanished, but your father sealed me into you before I could do much. However, he released his name as he was sealing me. It's Tobi.'
Naruto didn't say anything, but he looked up at the ceiling. He did some light stretches and looked up at the kyuubi. She looked back at him and yawned.
She then appeared to be deep in thought. Naruto started to say something but she cut him off saying 'If you make it out of this alive I want to show you something.' Naruto smiled and closed his eyes trying to imagine what she could possibly show him. 'Don't be grinning like that, I haven't shown anybody this for a thousand years. You will be lucky to see it.'
"Okay, I'll come back once I've kicked his ass," Naruto said before nodding at the Kyuubi and disappearing.
Naruto opened his eyes and blinked a few times to get adjusted to the sunlight. He stood up and stretched his arms up. He punched his hands together and said "Let's go," and walked into the cave.
Naruto walked straight down into the cave. They walked for about a mile, the sunlight no longer visible behind them. Sakura and the ANBU were having problems seeing, but Naruto was using chakra to enhance his eyesight to see in the dark. After another mile, some kind of light was beginning to appear ahead of them. Naruto walked straight into the light to see Tobi sitting on a rock poking the fire with a stick.
"Naruto, you've brought guests. That wasn't in the job description, but then again neither was betraying me. You haven't come to give me the intel have you?" the maked man said standing up.
Naruto just pushed Sakura back and getting in a fighting stance.
"I'll take that as a no. You can't defeat me, you know that. Why are you going to commit suicide like this? Just give me my intel and you can live." Naruto didn't respond again. "Oh well, I knew you would eventually turn against me. However, that doesn't change the fact that you can't defeat me. I'll kill you quickly."
Naruto and Tobi attacked at the same time, Naruto going for a punch and Tobi going for a kick. Tobi kicked Naruto's punch out of the way and went for a backhanded punch to Naruto's face. Naruto brought he other hand up and blocked the punch before going for a kick. Tobi brought his leg up and blocked it, jumping backwards off of Naruto's leg.
"Katon: Gokakyou no Jutsu!" Tobi said, shooting fireballs at Naruto, lifting his mask off of his face to do so. Naruto jumped to the left to avoid it doing hand signs in the process. He didn't say the jutsu, but a huge gust of razor sharp wind shot at Tobi. Tobi used his teleportation jutsu to dodge but Naruto expected that and aimed a punch where he was rematerializing. The punch connected to Tobi's chest right when he finished. Tobi flew and hit the wall behind him creating a crater.
Naruto shot a fireball at him (you have to know at least two elements to become jounen) and followed it by running right behind it. The fireball hit Tobi, causing his clothes to smoke a little but Tobi caught Naruto's punch and kicked him in the stomach. Naruto flew but twisted in the air to hit the wall on his feet. Naruto kicked off straight at Tobi who stepped out of the way. Naruto landed on his feet again and jumped off before Tobi could turn around. Tobi spun around and kicked Naruto in the chest. Naruto hit the ceiling causing fractures to appear. Tobi jumped and punched at Naruto's face. Naruto rolled out of the way, using chakra to stick to the ceiling, and threw a kick at Tobi.
The man flattened himself on the cieling to dodge it and they both fell to the ground at the same time. As soon as they hit the ground they disappeared, moving so fast the normal eye couldn't see them. They appeared and disappeared infrequently, usually only appearing if someone hit the other. This fighting went on for a while, both able to sustain that speed for over a while. They eventually stopped Naruto's right fist in Tobis left fist and vice versa. They stood there panting.
"You've gotten better, I didn't expect you to put up this much of a fight. However, it's futile. I will still kill you and your friends her. Then I will slaughter the entire village you hold dear," Tobi said sadistically.
Naruto just scowled and threw his knee into Tobi's stomach. Tobi let Naruto's hand go and hit Naruto's knee down before punching him in the stomach in one smooth move. Naruto hit the wall behind him, losing his breath and blood trickling down his chin. Naruto wiped the blood from his chin and looked at it. A pure yellow chakra started to seep out of Naruto's stomach. The kyuubi started to give Naruto it's pure chakra instead of its killing intent and desires for once. Naruto looked at it in surprise, never having seen this chakra until now. It encased his entire body and increasing Naruto's chakra a hundred-fold.
"Hahaha, you befriended the Kyuubi! This is getting interesting, maybe I'll play with you a bit," Tobi laughed.
Naruto didn't say anything just shot a look at Tobi that was full of Killing Intent. Tobi started to actually get scared for the first time since he was young. Naruto jumped into action, moving faster than Tobi's sharingan could catch. Naruto suddenly appeared behind Tobi and kicked him hard in the back before disappearing again. He appeared infront of Tobi before he hit the wall and hit him straight up. Naruto started to kick Tobi around the field before finally hitting him hard enough in the face to crack his mask.
As soon as Tobi hit the wall and fell to the ground, a section of his mask fell off. Tobi looked up at Naruto. The top right portion of his mask, right around the area where his sharingan was, fell off exposing his eye and part of his nose and forehead. That side of his face was completely scarred up. Naruto just took off at Tobi who teleported behind Sakura and grabbed her with a kunai to her throat. Naruto stopped moving and just stared at Tobi.
"Very good. Now release that chakra," Tobi said, not playing around anymore. Naruto released the chakra and looked apologetically at Sakura. "Good. Now that I have your attention. I will kill her if you don't comply with me. Tell me everything about the current ANBU team. Where they live, their elemental abilities. You know the drill."
"Well, I haven't been able to get any of that information since you killed off the last set. They found out that I was giving you information. I had actually decided to kill you after you killed one 2 years ago. Speaking of, why did you kill them in close succession like that? You seemed scared of something."
"I don't get scared. I just happened to run across some information and wanted to act first."
"Likely story. Care to elaborate?"
"Not to you. However I will kill you," Tobi said teleporting behind Naruto and thrusting his kunai into Naruto's neck. Naruto disappeared revealing a log where he used to be, and reappeared underneath Tobi with the Kyuubi chakra already activated. Naruto punched Tobi straight up. Naruto then kicked him straight down. Naruto then started to use a move out of pure instinct. He gathered Kyuubi chakra and a little of his own to create a giant purple mass. He then condensed it to the size of a pool ball. He grabbed it and threw it, enhancing the speed with chakra, straight at Tobi who was just crawling out of the hole he made in the floor. The chakra ball hit Tobi in the top of the head and exploded. Naruto grabbed Sakura and the ANBU and took off out of the cave. He jumped out of the cave right as the entire cave collapsed in on itself from the shock of the explosion.
The ANBU had a new respect for Naruto after witnissing first hand what he could do in battle. Sakura just stared at the entranse of the cave, not sure what happened in the last few seconds. Naruto released the Kyuubi's chakra and leaned forward on his knees panting. He looked up at the sky. He had been battling Tobi for almost a whole day. Naruto sighed and looked around, still breathing heavy. He looked directly into Sakura's eyes and smiled saying "I did it, I killed him," before passing out due to chakra exhaustion.
Author's Notes:
This is not the end, I just decided to get this part out of the way. I want to move on to something else I was thinking about. Please tell me how I did on the fight with Tobi, I thought it was kind of off but I would appreciate your input. Anyway, I'm going to take a small break on this story to start another one. I will post a new update for this in less than a week. Please review!