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This story of Rated M for its Mature content.
Chapter 8
Naruto always prided himself for being smart. Even as a child, Naruto had always known his mind was quicker than most children his age and some older than him. Not overly intelligent, his mind had an uncanny ability to come up with ideas and ways to do something on the fly without him having to know everything about what he was doing. However there were times when Naruto didn't use this ability whenever he could and this was such a case.
As soon as the words left his mouth, Naruto realised his folly. On hindsight it should have been obvious to him that mentioning one's greatest rival and claiming to be that person while baring no resemblance to that person was not a very good idea. But as that thought penetrated his mind it was already too late to do anything about it.
Sasuki came at him as soon as the last word to his name left his mouth. Naruto only had time to widen his eyes before the girl was on him and before he knew it he felt himself pushed back into the couch by a firm hand around his neck. In less time it took him to realise what had just happened, Sasuki was straddling his lap with his hand pinned to his sides. Naruto looked up and found a fist right at him only inches from his face.
"Wait…let's talk about this."Naruto stared cautiously eye the girl.
"What do you know about Naruto?"Sasuki asked him in a cold voice.
Naruto alternated his gaze between her cold and now impassive face and the fist just a few inches from his nose before finally settling on her face.
"Like I said I am Naruto." he answered her truthfully.
Sasuki tightened her grip on his neck. "I have known Naruto ever since I was little and you are not him."
Naruto shrugged with a little bit of difficulty because of his situation before saying, "I am telling the truth. You don't have to believe me."
"Naruto left the village three years ago on a training trip with his godparents…"Sasuki narrowed her eyes at him. "and you don't look anything like him at all."
Naruto snorted. It seemed the little deception the old man had spread had managed to convince everyone who hadn't been present or a high ranked shinobi. Naruto had indeed left but it hadn't been what he would call a training trip despite having actually again strength.
"If you are talking about my red hair and eyes," he tried to shrug again and failed. "It the result of the training I underwent. If you want proof…. just look at the whiskers on both my cheeks."
Technical it wasn't a lie after all the changes to eyes and hair were actual the results, albeit indirectly of his increases in power after all. Now that he thought about his mother had been red, and when he had asking her one day after visiting the seal she had told him it had been because of her Uzumaki blood and chakra.
Does that mean the result of my Uzumaki chakra awakening was a product of Kyuubi's chakra awakening a part of my heritage or was it because of something else? Naruto wondered. It would make sense that a part of his being had been changed but if his was a being of chakra them that would mean….
Naruto's thoughts were derailed when he felt a rush of air before a fist collided with his nose.
Sasuki studied the boy underneath her. The Naruto she had known did not resemble anything like this boy looked like. The Naruto in her childhood had been a blond boy who always was a nuisance in her side along with Kiba. This boy was however different first his hair was long and spiky reaching all the way to his waist instead of being short and blond. There was also the strangeness of his eyes. They were red and slitted like a snake while Naruto's eyes had been blue, the colour akin to clear water.
However just as the boy had said both he and the Naruto she had known had the same whisker like marking on both cheeks as if someone had used something to scratch three permanent horizontal lines on each cheek.
If this was the same Naruto she had known then he shouldn't have been caught off guard like what had just happened. In fact if this was the same Naruto that had went on a training trip with Jiraiya the Sanin then he should have been able to avoid being pinned down.
Sasuki tightened her left hand around the boy's neck and brought her right fist down. It was obvious whoever this was not the same Naruto she had known but an imposter claiming to be him and a poor one at that.
Her fist caught him right on his temple. There was a look of surprise on his face before his body slumped underneath her. With the boy unconscious, Sasuki frowned, thinking. After a moment of thinking she decided it was best to hand over the boy to the nearest shinobi she could find and let them deal with him.
"Well that was...eh…interesting." a voice commented from behind her.
Sasuki jumped and turned to find the crimson haired boy sitting calmly on the couch she had woke up on. Casting a glance on the body she had just been straddling she saw a cushion were the unconscious body had been.
Substituted himself with a cushion, Sasuki cast her gaze back to the boy, but when did he.
"When did you use the Kawarimi? There was no way you could have formed the hand-seals with the way I had you pinned."
Naruto shrugged nonchalantly before replying pointing at himself. "Did you forget I was trained by a Sanin? You have to be faster than that if you want to keep up with me"
Sasuki narrowed her eyes in suspicion. If speed was what he was talking about then that meant the boy had moved before she had, and at such speeds that she hadn't seen him form the required hand seals to the escape jutsu. Worse the boy was her age and was clear more powerful than her if this little display of power was any indication. At the Academy no one her age was faster than her and this boy had just proved her otherwise without any effort.
"TCH, okay I believe you." she finally admitted taking a sit. "But how what happened to you?"
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Like I said…..training, training and more training from the old pervert."
"But what happened to your hair and eyes."
"Oh that…"Naruto ran a hand through his hair before saying, "its part of the secret training the old man put me under. Apparently it symbolises the awakening of my Uzumaki blood like my mother."
"So you have a bloodline?"Sasuki asked with a bit of suspicion. She had never had of a bloodline like that before.
Naruto shook his head. "No nothing as exotic."
"Anyway how is everyone? How is Kiba, Ino, Hinata, Sakura and everyone?" Naruto sent question after question changing the topic but that didn't mean he wasn't curious about what his friends had been up to in his absence.
A look of annoyance flashed on the raven heard girl before she spoke, coldly "I don't know and I do not care."
Taken aback at her cold tone, Naruto blinked in confusion.
"Don't you play together anymore?" he asked leaned forward, a look of puzzlement on his face.
Sasuki seemed to hesitate as if debating with herself whether or not to tell him before she told him. Despite the gruesome memories from the Kyuubi and what he himself had done, Naruto was slightly disturbed at what Sasuki was telling him. Naruto pulled what he knew of her brother Itachi and wasn't surprised by how little he had known of him. However Naruto could clearly remember that Itachi had been a quiet person, who liked to keep to himself and his training and according to his father Itachi had been one of the most skilled shinobi in Konoha even surpassing Kakashi at the height of his shinobi abilities.
But Naruto couldn't believe Itachi had been that powerful enough to massacre the entire Uchiha clan in a single night without help whatsoever. It was simply impossible. Unless the entire clan had been drugged senseless, Naruto saw no way Itachi could have went toe-to-toe against an entire squad of sharingan wielding shinobi.
As Sasuki talked about how Itachi had then went about killing both their father and mother before she stumbled onto him finishing her mother and then using his evolved eyes to show her the gruesome scenes of the slaughter.
Long forgotten memories and knowledge of the Uchiha clan pushed themselves forth into Naruto's mind. Some of these memories didn't make senses at all, while some memories were too much for his to grasp as if at that time the Kyuubi had been part of a whole. Naruto ignored those for the time being. Nevertheless of the memories he was able to grasp, Naruto learned a lot. For example he doubted anyone knew that the sharingan was a by product of the Kyuubi's own hate and malevolence and within that connection there was a link between him and the eyes.
Realisation dawned on Naruto. Now he understood why the sharingan filled him with a sense of fear and anger. Those were lingering feeling left by the Kyuubi. Now that those memeroies where clear he now knew that with the spinning eyes when used correctly an Uchiha had the ability to influence him to some extent. Naruto felt a moment of fear numb his mind for a second at this new information before he shook away the fear with a bit of an effort.
No, Naruto chastised himself, I am not the same old bijuu. I am a different being entirely, an actual fusion of the Ten-Tailed fox with a human conscious at the helm therefore I doubt that ability of the sharingan has any significant influence.
Naruto pulled himself from Kyuubi's memories or his memories if he had to admit it to himself and studied the girl before him as if seeing her for the first time, which was partially the truth since it was actually the first time in more three years. Admittedly Sasuki was beautiful, a cold and untouchable kind of beauty. Her lithe and toned body told him of years spent training. Naruto wonder if she knew how beautiful she was going to be in later years but doubted it. Naruto shifted his gaze to her dark eyes. If eyes where the window to one's could what he could see in those depth made him shiver, not from fear but restrained…. Her eyes were empty as if she was staring at things far beyond him.
Naruto's mind started churning with thoughts and plans. Here was someone who clearly had big ambitions and if played his hand or paws there was opportunity and if all went well something to be gained from this. Better yet Sasuki had probably had the sharingan which was a bonus if he managed to gain her attention.
Naruto licked his lips, resisting the urge to smile.
"So why don't you ask them to help you in your training?"Naruto asked. "I mean training alone if good but how to you know if you have progressed."
Sasuki gave Naruto an impulsive dark look before replying, "They will only slow me down."
Naruto shrugged. He pondered not asking what she meant by that. To him it seemed reasonable that beating someone to a pulp with set conditions was a good way to measure one's strengths. Still, Naruto had to know before making his own move.
"Huh what do you mean?"
"I have no use in making myself look beautiful or staring at boys." Sasuki grunted. "Besides I already know everyone in our class is weak."
"Well how about I train you?"Naruto finally asked.
Sasuki narrowed her eyes at him. "What do you mean by that?"
"Since I am stronger than you…"Naruto grinned at that. "I should be a good training partner and…"
Naruto trailed off, leaning further forward from his sit before raising his hand palm facing up.
As Sasuki watched fire a spark of appeared in the of Naruto's palm before swirling into an orange sphere of fire that radiated intense heat. Her eyes widened at what she was seeing. Here was power unlike anything she had ever seen. Despite having a latent affinity to fire natured chakra, Sasuki had never had anyone who could do what she was witnessing. Not even Itachi with his mastery over the fire element had ever displayed such a feat in ninjutsu when she had spied on him.
Sasuki felt her heart beat faster in her chest. She couldn't help wonder what else the boy before her could do and how much she could learn from him.
"Why do you want to help me?"She asked narrowing her eyes at Naruto.
Naruto shrugged again before replying showing nothing of what he was thinking on his face. "Why not? Why shouldn't I help someone who wants to get stronger?"
Sasuki kept her eyes narrowed as she spoke her next words calmly, "Can you help me awaken my sharingan?"
She had a feeling the boy before was hiding something. The way Naruto talked and shrugged as if he didn't care told her the boy was very strong and was withholding some information among other things. More over now that she had time to think it was just occurring to her that it was possible that with his abilities it was possible that he could help her awake her sharingan.
Naruto grinned, a knowing grin. "I could but that is another issue altogether. Because one your eyes fully awakened there is no doubt it will only be a matter of time before my presence becomes useless.
Naruto raised him hand cutting of what Sasuki was about to say. "But I have a solution if you want to so awaken you sharingan. In fact I can do it now of you agree."
Sasuki's face lost all expression at those words. "And that is?"
"Not much."Naruto shrugged. "But I don't think you will agree to the terms."
"Tell me."Sasuki demanded standing up from her sit a scowl on her face.
Naruto hid a smile. This girl was just too interesting. It was too obvious that her drive to kill her brother was so great that on occasion it overrode what was good for her.
"Okay…I will awaken those precious eyes of yours in exchange for…."Naruto pointed at her.
Sasuki blinked in confusion looking at his figure not understand what Naruto meant. She let her dark eyes travel from the finger then back to where it was pointing. Anger and disgust bubbled from her throat at the implication.
"Forget it "She shook her head in anger. She should have guessed. Naruto was a boy after all and probably worse than Kiba.
"Wait; don't be quick to decline my offer I haven't finished."Naruto quickly said.
"No...I don't want to hear anymore of your offer. I will train by myself if that is what takes to kill my brother."Sasuki growled.
"The conditions are simple and straight forward. You will be my servant until a time you are able to defeat me and at moment you are free to do as you please. But of cause I can understand if being someone's servant is too much for you, something you can't handle"
Sasuki hesitated at those words and sat back down thinking.
Watching with keen interest Naruto let her think. His bait was set.
Sasuki turned the offer over and over in her mind. With the new condition the offer wasn't that bad. Lost in thoughts Sasuki let her mind briefly touch less painful memories of her past. being a female mamaber of the Uchiha clan Sasuki like any other female member of the clan had grew up with the known that if her future was to live the life of a servant if her sharingan failed to awaken. In fact before her death at the hands of her brother her mother had begun instructing her in her ways in case her sharingan did not manifest. Also she was sure once her bloodline wakened the offer was as good as void, as with the power of the Uchiha she was sure she could beat him on their first fight.
Sasuki frowned at that thought. If she did that then she would be missing out of the opportunity to steal his jutsu. Sasuki cast an eye at the red haired boy staring at her with a curious expression. If she agreed she would be just like what her father had wanted her to be, a servant to a selected older shinobi but if she refused then she would be missing out on an opportunity to awaken her sharingan early something only a few Uchiha could attest to without the near death horrifying training.
She silently ran through her options until a thought pushed its self from the darkness. Sasuki focused on Naruto once again. Tall, handsome like his father and obviously a powerful shinobi if the knowledge of him being trained by a Sannin had training was true. Sasuki smiled internally.
She supposed if she actually failed to beat him then what other better way was there to restore her clan than marrying a son of a former Hokage. Hell, with the blood of a Hokage already running through his veins there was a possibility that she could give birth, literally, to a new line of Uchiha powerful that the last. However, if he proved weak then once she had the sharingan she was confident it would take her only a month at most to match if not weeks to surpass him and once his usefulness was done she would simply look for someone else stronger. Either way she will be getting either one of both her ambitions power and a way to restore her clan.
For his part, Naruto wasn't concerned about that Sasuki was thinking. In his mind even with the sharingan there was no way Sasuki would ever defeat him by herself. Best of all with her sharingan it was possible that Sasuki would be enough of a challenge to push him past him current limit he limited himself into certain skills like not wasting any chakra in their spars. Since the seal that had held him imprisoned had been impossible to break because the seal sustained itself by consistently draining a third of his chakra, making it impossible for him to overpower it with what he had left. And since it happaned with every second that passed while inside the seal after the first year alone, his chakra levels took a massive drain since that was when his pool where at their highest.
What he needed now was regaining all the chakra he had lost. There were two ways in which he could advance past his first tail. The first was the simplest and easiest. Since he was a being whose chakra reserves were gathered from nature enough chakra that it over followed enough to manifest another tail. The problem with this was that in order this method to be more effective, Naruto needed to spend a lot of time immobile and consciously pulling chakra from his surroundings. To him this idea was one he dismissed without a second thought. He couldn't see himself doing nothing for over 2 years.
"Okay I agree." Sasuki finally said in the silence. Naruto smiled on the inside and nodded seriously on the outside.
"There is going to be pain. Are you willing to go on?"
"I don't care. Just do it."
Naruto smiled and before Sasuki knew it she was unable to move as something held her on the spot. Whatever it was it bound her left hand to her side and legs together up her chest around her mouth stopping her from uttering any work.
"I give you my power."Naruto laughed before unwrapping the bandages around her right hand. Her hands were slightly bruised and swollen red from her training, Naruto idly noted as he brought her hand level with his lips.
Before the girl could pull away, Naruto opened his mouth and bit off her smallest finger off without any thought or concern for her. Naruto kept his eyes on Sasuki as he did this. The only sign of pain that came from her was the widening of her eyes and a muffled scream from her throat. The vice like grip he had on made sure she couldn't pull her hand away and had enough pressure to stop any blood from spurting out of what was left of her finger.
Naruto ignored the taste of blood on his tongue as he swallowed her finger. As soon as it began its path down his throat his chakra went to work dissolving the intruding item, the amounts of chakra that had been clinging on it were aborted into him as he had intended.
Satisfied with himself, Naruto licked his lips. "Now it's time to give you my power. For you own good, I just hope your soul and mind are stronger than your pitiful human body."
With those words, Naruto severed his own finger with a swift pull and then placed it on Sasuki's missing finger. There was a sizzling sound as his finger infused its self to her flesh. Naruto wrinkled his nose at the burning stink of flesh that filled the air.
Naruto watched as his finger molded with her flesh as if that finger had belonged there. Shifting his gaze to her face Naruto saw the look of pain on her face shift into something else.
He smiled, it seemed the girl was beginning to feel his power pouring into her body. Naruto retracted his tail back where it had came from and watched.
Sasuki felt pain wreck her body as Naruto's finger merged with her body. She felt her body heat up as a wave of foreign energy entered her veins and chakra system. Her mouth opened in a scream that was kept unheard thanks to Naruto's appendage around her mouth. Her world had turned into a haze of pain. Her body began to spasm as if she was having a seizure. A level of fear and hate unlike anything she had ever allowed herself to fell manifested itself from her thoughts that time seemed to slow to a crawl.
Just when she thought she was about to go insane or her body was going to melt down the foreign sensation vanished. It was as if a plug had been flicked down turning everything off. Sasuki felt power unlike anything she had felt fill her power. The pain she had initially felt was gone replaced by something even more wonderful, a wave of euphoria and sense of power unlike anything she had ever felt before.
"This power," Sasuki marvelled aloud "With this power I can kill Itachi."
She clenched and unclenched her fingers a few times and began to laugh, a cold dark laughter. Something on her hand caught her eye. Travelling up from her hand were thick purple veins that went up her arm until they vanished into her sleeve. As she watched in fascinated a purple aura shimmered into existence around her hand suffusing his body with energy as it travelled further up his entire body.
Sasuki turned to Naruto and saw, and smiled a dark cold twist of the lips absent of any warmth.
"Finally I can see. "She smirked.
…
After the deal had been sealed Naruto advised Sasuki to rest and wait until her body became accustomed to what he had just given her. As predicated Sasuki thought otherwise and insisted they start training. As a way to show who was in charge, Naruto firmly disagreed and that was the end of it.
So out of lack of anything to do they talked for a few more hours, Naruto trying to milk as much as he could from a less inclined Sasuki. Still, he was able to gather enough to know that his friends had moved on since his absence, despite his sudden departure having upset a lot of the girls.
Naruto had grinned at that. The topic of girls had been one he and Kiba had always been at odds for with the problem being that being the his father's son Naruto drew attention of the girls, as they envisioned themselves as his wives. Back then it had taken his mother's verbal thrashing to realise what was happening when it had started taking liberties of the girls attitude towards him for grunted, such as when he had pushed the girls into bringing his sweets and other things he had wanted but been afraid to get them himself on such occasion.
Sasuki, Naruto learned after the death of her clan had drifted away from the others as she concentrated more on her training while the other girls focused on their looks and went on casing boys. Hearing this Naruto had to do all he could to stop himself from laughing out loud. From the looks of things Naruto had no doubt Sasuki drew more attention than the other girls. He said as much and wasn't surprised when Sasuki had grunted in affirmation before mumbling that she had a large following among the girls as well.
Despite the amusement he was getting from this, Naruto thought he understood. Once something life changing hit you in the face awakening your eye to the world, after such an occurrence your past became irrelevant like a distant false dream. When Kyuubi's last bid for freedom had back fired on it thanks to the strength of the Shinigami's seal, Naruto had been changed in everything to his way of thinking. Sometimes it felt as if his thoughts alone were that of an older and a cunning being wearing a shell that hid what it was.
Naruto knew his thoughts of wanting to exploit other people were wrong. Deep down he knew that but the Kyuubi's memories of emotions and past events had matured him unnaturally that it was only thanks to the fact that for some reason he didn't understand his consciousness was limiting what he should been feeling and doing, hatred and destruction to a sense of curiosity and fun.
After much talking, Sasuki had demanded Naruto to fight her now that she had her sharingan.
"Huh are you sure?"He asked cocking his head contemplatively. "You don't look like you can walk on your two feet let alone fight."
Sasuki scowled, "don't worry about my body."
"Or could it be that you afraid that the deal of yours is going to end today before you can get anything out of it?"She question, smirking.
Naruto looked at her thoughtful before grinning in turn. Clearly the girl had issues of her own but who was he to argue with a girl. His grandfather had taught him when it came to the opposite sex it was sometimes wise to let them have their way so that you can have you own way later on if you thought carefully. And Naruto was doing just that after all maybe beating her this early in their agreement just when her euphoria of awakening her sharingan was still fresh he could put some doubt into her brain at her own ability to defeat him despite her eyes in the future. Of cause this was depending on how a much of a beating he delivered with crippling or killing her.
He shrugged and nodded. "Okay, lead the way."
Sasuki smirked before leading him out of her house through a cluster of generic green bamboo reeds found throughout the Elemental Nations into a small privet training field. Naruto was a little surprised at the size of the place and how much training equipment was at hand. Naruto saw everything from balancing beams to hand strengthening apparitions.
"Wow have a quit a place to yourself don't you."Naruto appraised.
Sasuki simply grunted in response as she took a position in front of him in a large clearing next to a row of training dummies.
Naruto raised a single eye brown when she didn't answer before shrugging once again. From the look on her face he could tell she wasn't in a mood to talk.
"Fine but before we start I need to lay down a few conditions."
"Hn…Whatever, it won't change anything. "And an uncaring shrugged was his only answer.
"First," Naruto went on raising a single finger. "Come at me with all the intense and purpose to kill. Don't worry about breaking my bones because I can just heal."
Naruto showed her the stump of finger he had removed and with a push of his of his mind, red chakra bubbled out of the stump before congealing into a shape of a figure and then solidify. He grinned at the look of surprise on her face.
Sasuki was surprised at how easily Naruto had regenerated a missing finger. Mentally scowling she wondered what else he could do.
"It's something I learned from the Toad Hermit." Naruto lied.
"Now, second. I am going to be using hand to hand combat until you are able keep up with me or if you manage to push me." Naruto smiled as her eyes narrowed into slits.
Sasuki narrowed eyes at the red haired. She couldn't shake off the feeling that he was calling her weak. Well I will have to show him what an Uchiha is capable of, she thought, smirking coldly.
"Now come."Naruto licked his lips. "Show me what you are capable of with those eyes."
Contrary to what Naruto had expected Sasuki did not bring forth her sharingan. Instead she simply charged at him with her fist cocked behind her. Naruto mental shrugged that away as he waited for her to deliver the first move.
Fast, Naruto admitted to himself as Sasuki came charging at him. Despite her speed however his keen eyes and fast mind allowed him to see her as if she was running at a speed a fraction less than what she was actually moving at.
Once he was within her reach, Sasuki sent a punch at his face. Naruto saw it coming and slapped her hand away with a flick of his hand upwards. Her attack having had no effect on him, Sasuki counted him by crouching low and attempting to take his legs from underneath him. Naruto jumped into the air just in time to avoid the leg swipe but Sasuki had already counted for that.
Sasuki pushed herself with her hand on the ground followed him into the air, her feet first. Naruto quickly crossed his hands in front of him as he saw her heels coming towards him. The impact pushed Naruto further upwards and using that extra lift flipped himself backwards away from Sasuki.
Naruto landed on his feet and was moving as soon as he hit the ground. They exchange blows and kicks which none landed on their intended target before Naruto grabbed her wrist on her next punch and pulled her down towards a raising knee. Sasuki however attacked fast before Naruto's knee could hit her face. She managed to bring her other hand in the way stopping it before it could reach her.
His next move however managed to get past her guard. Naruto let go of her hand and stepped to the side before delivering a kick to the side of the head with enough force to send her tumbling to the ground two feet away.
Instead of capitalising on the opportunity staring right at him, Naruto simply waited and watched with shining eyes as the girl picked herself up from the ground.
"Sasuki-chan I think you are going to have to do better than that you are hoping to defeat me." Naruto said in a toned dripping with fake concern.
Sasuki grunted as she stood. That little move had caught her off guard. It was as if the boy just like her could plan each of his moves one step ahead of her if not more.
Shaking her head to clear her vision, Sasuki decided it was time to test her sharingan. Feeding chakra to her eyes she witness everything around her slow down noticeably as single black tomoe appeared on both her red eyes.
"Finally going to show me what those eyes of your eyes about…huh." Naruto widened his slitted eyes in joy.
"Here I come. Let's see if what I gave you was worth it." Naruto then said turning serious. While he knew about the sharingan's abilities this was his first time fighting against someone with one.
Without another warning Naruto ran towards Sasuki was on her in less than two seconds. His opening attack was a probing punch to the face. With her eyes awake, Sasuki saw the punch coming a second before Naruto actually committed into it. She watched as if everything was happened in slow motion and once his fist filled her entire field of vision simple moved her head to the side, letting his punch travel past her.
Naruto followed again with other punch with his left hand which Sasuki easily evaded just like the one before. A leg swipe that followed was dodged just the same. Naruto tried a kick to the head but Sasuki again saw the attack coming and avoid it by stepping back away from his reach before she countered by swiping his remain leg from under him.
Naruto felt hiself falling before he managed to right himself by putting his hand on the ground and pushing his body into a flip, at the same time evading a drop kick from Sasuki.
They engaged once again in flurry of punches and kicks, with Sasuki clearly having the upper hand but failing to land a blow on him. It was on their third engagement that Naruto's mind came up with a solution. Naruto was tempted to laugh at what his mind had come up with.
Naruto grinned as his eyes spotted a weakness. As he was pulling his hand back after a puch that had been easily dodged by a simple tilt of the head, this time Naruto quickly grabbed her shoulder as he withdrew his hand then pivoted his body around and threw her in to the air.
Sasuki was once again caught by surprise by the unexpected move and before she knew it she found herself in the air. Sasuki expertly oriented herself in the air and was able to land on both her feet. However as she was still wondering what had just happened, a fist to her gut doubled her over onto her knees as she desperately tried to draw breath.
Naruto shook his head before saying, "So much for that."
It seemed to him that while the sharingan allowed its user so see and counter whatever he had threw her however could not predict anything outside her immediate focus.
After a moment he turned his back to her and started in the direction of her house.
"I think that's enough for today." He sighed in disappointment.
"Wait…" Sasuki whispered as she shakily rose to her feet. "I can still fight."
"Huh…I don't think you can. In fact this fight was over before it had begun." Naruto said over his shoulder.
"No…I am not weak damn it."Sasuki shouted angrily at his back. Sasuki couldn't believe how easily she had been defeated. All her training hadn't been enough to keep up with him. It didn't make any sense. Was this what all the training she had done over the year summed up to? It was like the last scene of Uchiha massacre all over again. it was just like when Itachi had turned his back on her after tutoring her in with his eyes.
Sasuki glared at his back in raising anger. Snarling in hatred, Sasuki's hand started weaving into a familiar set of hand seals taking in a great lung full of air before sub vocalising "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)" as she exhaled a large fireball at Naruto.
The sound of the fireball travelling his way alerted him to an incoming attack. Naruto turned and his eyes widened in surprise as he came face to face with a fireball big enough to swallow him whole, leaving enough room for three more people to fit in.
Naruto idly wondered how a girl her age had enough chakra to pull of such a jutsu as he raised his arm palm facing the orange ball of flames. When his godfather had should him this jutsu as an example of Fire techniques he had admitted the jutsu was a big as the chakra you poured into it, and by the looks this fireball's size it looked like Sasuki had put her all into it.
Naruto licked his lips as he idly wonder how much more powerful she would be once the gift he had given her full adapted into her system.
As the fireball streaked towards him, Naruto could feel the temperature increase each inch it travesty as it came closer. Naruto felt his excitement rise at what he was about to do until he was practically grinning like a mad man.
Still in her feat of anger and rage, Sasuki smirked as the fireball sailed towards its target at a fast pace. The great fireball technique was a trademark fire jutsu that every Uchiha child capable of being a shinobi had been required to learn as soon as they could mold their chakra reasonably. Her brother Itachi had taught her this jutsu as a birthday gift. She knew what damage the jutsu was capable of doing to a person but in her anger she didn't care.
She wanted to laugh out as the stupid boy was about to meet his death.
That what you get for dealing with powers you cannot begin to understand, she thought darkly, as she watched her jutsu fly.
Then as she as watched, her one tomoe sharingan active something impossible happened. The fireball suddenly stopped as if it had collided with an invisible force. She waited for an explosion but to her incredulity nothing of that sort happened. Instead of an explosion the large ball of flame suddenly shrunk once then again a second letter and then again and again until before her wide eyes stood Naruto untouched in his palm hovering a red sphere that appeared to be radiating flames.
"That's impossible. "The words left her mouth without even realising she was talking. "What are you?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulder with a grin on his face. "Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze and soon to the strongest being in the world."
And then as she watched, her eyes fading back to normal, Naruto raised the orb to his mouth and swallowed it. Sasuki could only watch in disbelief and fear before chakra exhaustion pulled her into unconsciousness.
"Not again."Naruto sighed rolling his eyes.
…..
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kurenai, Kakashi and a hand full of jonin present in his office stared at the crystal ball with shock written on their faces at what they had just witnessed. A sinister chakra spike from Uchiha compound had alerted him in the middle of the meeting about the upcoming graduation, causing him to stop mid speech and pull out his spying orb.
Once the crystal had focused on Sasuki's chakra signature, Hiruzen had been relieved to find the girl talking to Naruto in the house and nothing had been amiss. Out of curiously he had decided to watch the two for a while just to be sure. When the two had left the house he had stayed tuned onto them interested in what the two had been up to.
But…
"Is that even possible, Hokage-sama?" Kakashi was the first to pull himself out of the shock of witnessing such an impossible feat.
Hiruzen stared at the cystal his mind whirling with possibilities. How had the boy pulled such an impossible feat? The only possible way he could think of emulating such a feat was through fuuinjutsu or if his affinity with the elemental used was greater than….but that is almost impossible with fire unless I have total control over that element.
Hiruzen relaxed his hold on his pipe. He wasn't surprised to see that his knuckles were white from the force he had been exerting. Like everyone present he too had been shaken by Naruto's display of mastery over fire.
"From what I can come up with such a feat is possible, "He nodded to himself. "If you have a way to subvert control of the jutsu used from its caster. In fact my during my train, Tobirama was capable of such a feat with his mastery over the water element, a feat he used during the war."
"The flames of youth burn brightly on that one." Gai Maito said seriously for once.
"But he could have died."Kurenai whispered, her face a little white. She was glaring at the crystal with anger that a few present wondered if Naruto could feel the intent radiating from her eyes through the crystal.
"Come one Kurenai you know what the boy if capable of first hand." Asuma sighed lazily but still impressed.
"OH I know what he is capable of alright. The problem is why didn't he simply use the kawarimi or just move out of the way." Kurenai shifted her glare on him
"Her don't be angry at me."Asuma raised his hands. "Besides you could ask the brat yourself cant you?"
"Now…what is he doing?"Kakashi peered closer into the crystal ball.
Naruto was crouched on the prone figure of Sasuki. As everyone present the red haired kid pulled something out of his ninja pouch. From the bird's eye view provided by the spying globe it was almost impossible to see what he was doing but from his hand movement they all could tell the boy in the process of scribbling something.
"Is he doing what I think he is doing?" Asuma said his face shifting from curiously to comical disbelief.
As if hearing his question Naruto shifted his body revealing what he had been busy doing. Sasuki's face now looked like an extremely failed experiment at putting on makeup. Naruto had inscribed crude spiral shaped on both her cheeks. Both her eye brows now looked like one long thick black line that ran continuously across her forehead.
Naruto rose to his before nodding to himself in satisfaction before hoisting her unceremoniously over his shoulder.
"I think Asuma is right. But the kid is full of surprises"
Kurenai pursed her lips in a thin red line, "I intend to do just that as soon the meeting if over. Naruto needed to learn a few things."
A few of the shinobi present felt pity for the boy, as they watched him entire the Sasuki's house.