Another fabulous chapter of Sky Ninja is finally up.
Dedication goes to no one as sadly there had been no new reviews.
disclaimer: don't own the awesome orange ninja. but i do own something that is orange. :)
We last left off with the prelims over at last. Now the remaining ninjas who had passed are to now train for the next 30 days. This is the 30 days.
The alarm clock went off in Naruto's room.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEE-ZZZZT . . . . the clock was found on the ground with a kunai through it.
"When is Kakashi-sensei gonna learn?" the sleepy head sat up in his bed, stretching his arms and releasing a massive yawn from his mouth. "Well. Gotta get to the trainig grounds." Naruto then performed his ritual morning routine and was finally ready after a half an hour or so. He knew he was going to be late, but then again he also knew...so was his teacher.
Taking his swell time across the village, Naruto stopped as he saw a blur run over the rooftops, slowly being followed by another.
"Heh, must be in some kind of a hurry those two are." chuckling a bit, Naruto continued his way until he had reached the bridge. Where he stood waiting on the side of the wooden structure.
He waited, and waited...and waited.
Naruto then realized that this was taking too long. Even for Kakashi. Being a bit worried, Naruto started searching the village until he found either his team mates or his sensei. And after ten long minutes of roof hopping, he did. There was Kakashi sitting at a food stand about to take a bite of some yummy dango. His hand was on his mask when,
"Hey! Kakashi!" Kakashi lowered his hand (A/N:dang it! so had that planned. way to go naruto!) and looked over to see one of his students coming right at him. 'Oh boy.' Naruto stood right in front of him and began ranting.
"Why weren't you at the training grounds?! I thought we had to train! What you think that I can't do it?! Do you?! Well let me tell you something, I don't care what you say, you're going to train me no matter how much you're going to hate it!" a heavy sigh came from the one-eyed ninja as he placed his hand on his forehead.
"Naruto. The reason I wasn't there, was because I'm not training you for this month." Naruto's mouth dropped, "I'm training Sasuke." the mouth dropped right down to the ground.
"B-But why can't you train both of us?" Naruto basically now having tears running down his face.
"Don't worry Naruto. I have assigned you another teacher that can help you out." Kakashi gave his eye smile, hoping that would cheer him up. It didn't.
"WHAT?! You think you can just shove me off to another sensei just like that?! Who gave you the right anyways?!" Naruto was now steaming out the ears ready to take Kakashi out.
"The Hokage said I could." the steam went away as Naruto knew he had no power over the Hokage.
'Curse you old man.' giving a sigh like Kakahi's before, Naruto reluctantly replied, "Where's my sensei at?"
"I'm glad you could come around Naruto. He is to meet you at Training Ground 7 in about half an hour." with his head slumped down, Naruto takes his slow walk of shame to where he just was ten minutes ago.
(Half an hour later)
Naruto crosses the bridge to his ususal training ground with his head still hanging. But before he could raise his head, a voice was then heard from his left.
"You're late." Looking to his left, he saw probably the last person that he could of thought of that would be training him.
"Hey. You're that Sky Ninja kid. What are you doing hear?" Naruto now had a confused look on his face.
"Didn't your sensei tell you? He asked me personally to help you out for the finals." Musuko said as he walked away from the tree he was resting on.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course it's not like he'd have you train with that Ebisu guy right?"
"Heh, yeah, I guess you're right." Naruto smiled grabbing the back of his head.
We then find Ebisu struggling for life as he is tied up with duck tape across his mouth hanging upside-down from a tree branch.
"Anyways. Um...how should we begin?" asked Musuko to his new student.
"Well, Kakashi had us say our names, likes and dislikes, our dreams, and our hobbies." Naruto replied.
"Ok, You go first."
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I like ramen and trainig.My hobbies are cooking ramen and eating it. I dislike the time it takes to make ramen, and perverts. My dreams are to become Hokage and defend those that I care about."
"So, I'm guessing you like ramen, alot. Alrighty then, my turn. My name is Brother Musuko, my hobbies are making up new ways to impress or surprise my opponents. I like my way of fighting as it hasn't failed me yet, and my custom-made senbon bands. My dislikes...I don't like talking about them. And my dream is...hmm, what is my dream. I guess I don't really know."
"Don't worry, you did a whole lot better than Kakashi or even my other team mates." Naruto then took Musuko through all the things that the three had said. And at the end, Musuko had his head down in shame.
"So, Sasuke's a power hungry avenger, great, Kakashi's just an unknown to you guys, and Sakura," he paused for the moment, "she's a fangirl to the avenger." 'Ah crap. This is going to be tougher for me than I thought. But this info on the Uchiha boy would be useful for Brother Seirei.'
Musuko lost his train of thought when Naruto blurted out, "So. What are we going to learn first."
A smile crawls onto the white-haired ninja's face, "Oh you'll see soon enough. But first, let's see what you got." Musuko moves into a fighting stance, as does Naruto.
(Hyuuga Compound)
Around the same time that Naruto was waiting on the bridge, Hinata, who had just recovered from a serious heart injury by some miracle, was practicing her Jyuuken. But what she was actually doing that no one realized, was that she was trying to obtain that strange feeling that she did when she had fought her cousin in the prelims. She had tried everything from training with her team mates to using almost all of her chakra into her attacks. But alas, she failed in every way.
She was in the middle of her Jyukken attack when her father came out of the door behind her.
"Hinata." she stopped what she was doing and turned to her father. "I need you to go into the village and deliver this message to the Hokage."
With a bow, "Yes, father." the Hyuuga heiress took the note and left the compound to the Hokage Tower. As she left, Neji entered and walked down to his uncle. Who was now looking at his daughter walking out the entrance.
"Is something wrong?" Neji asked, "Are you still worried about my attack on her? She has fully recovered from it." he said insensitively.
"No. But I am very angry still." he went quite until Hinata left his sight, "It's the unusual chakra that she obtained that the Hokage told me about."
"What so great about that?"
With a huff of air, he turned around and headed back into the house, "I'll tell you when you are ready for it."
Hinata was coming back from the Hokage Tower, when suddenly.
GRGGLE GRGGLE GRGGLE! her stomached roared out.
She looked around for a place to eat, and laid her eyes on a Dango shop. Running into it, she sat at the bar part of the shop and placed an order. The chef nodded his head and went into the back where the kitchen was. After awhile, the chef returned with a plate and a dango on it.
"Uh thank you sir." Hinata was about to dig in when,
"Make that another dango sir. On me." Hinata turned around, it was Chichi coming into the store and sitting down right next to her.
"Uh thank you, but I can pay for it. You don't need to."
"Ah, but I'd like to. Plus I'd like to talk with you for awhile." the chef left once again to make another plate of dango.
"Um. I have to go, now. My father will be wondering where I am." she takes the dango from her plate and starts to leave the shop.
"The chakra hasn't come back yet has it?" Hinata stopped dead in her tracks, "You still haven't gotten that strange feeling that you get when it happens." Chichi remained facing the other way as Hinata turned around shocked.
"H-how did you-"
"I've been there before. But if you want to know how to get that feeling again, you have to stay and eat with me first." he turned to her with a smile on his face. This then won a smile on her face and her coming back to her seat and the two ate together.
Back with Naruto and Musuko, the orange ninja was down on one knee gasping for air and eyes wide opened.
"I told you. I like to surprise my opponents." Musuko said walking up to his student.
"That's amazing! How are you still a genin?"
"The standards are really high in my village. And besides, I wanted to take the exams here." stretching out a bit. Musuko gave Naruto enough time to catch his breathe again. "Now, we get to do some new things. Since I now know what you are mostly capable of-"
"Mostly? I was giving it my all in that fight!"
"Believe me, I think you can do much more than that. We just have to help you along in it." pausing for a moment, "So have you heard of tree climbing."
"Oh don't get me started. Kakashi-sensei had us do that on our mission to the Wave Country."
"Did you pass?"
"Of course I did. I'm training to become the Hokage someday."
"Good. Because I didn't want to go that basic in our training. Come with me to the river." the sky ninja turned and went towards the water area of the grounds with Naruto follwing right behind him.
"What are we doing here, Musuko?"
"First, you are to refer to your teacher as sensei. Second, we are here to learn chakra control. Since you have already learned to climb trees without using your feet, it means that you have some knowledge of this skill already. But now, we will put this skill to the test." Musuko jumps across the river and lands on the other side, "Come to me." Naruto gets into a crouched position getting ready to jump but is then stopped, without jumping over the river. Or swimming it, if that's what you were thinking next. You have to walk across."
"What?" was all Naruto said.
Musuko then explained, "In your tree climbing lesson. You learned to emit chakra from your feet to keep you standing on the tree. Now you must do the same thing here. The only difference is that unlike the trees around here, the water is always moving and changing. So then this means that you have to continue letting out chakra to not only keep you standing ontop of the surface, but you have to keep a specific amount of it. Too much and you'll launch off the water. Too little, and you'll sink to the bottom. Now, begin crossing." Naruto nodded and began his training.
The first step he made, he placed in enough chakra and his foot only sank about an inch, but it still remained above the water. The next step he took, the foot went a bit deeper. Naruto tried to put in only a small amount of chakra, but he thought was small was not small at all to the lesson. His foot jumped out of the water. Taking concentration away from his training, his other foot lost its chakra it had and Naruto landed in the water on his back.
Naruto swam out to the edge of the river still on the other side of where Musuko was. Naruto sried off his clothes as best as he could and was about to go back into the river for another try.
"No. It's ok. I just wanted to see how far you could get. We will go on to the next lesson now. But next time we do this, bring your swimsuit." Naruto was a bit irked that he couldn't do the water walking exerecise again, but he had to listen to his new sensei and besides, Musuko was going to teach him some new things.
"Well that was a lovely meal. Don't you think so Hinata?" Chichi asked as the two walked down to training ground 8. Hinata nodded with a smile but remained quiet as the two continued walking. "You're quite the shy one aren't you? Not a very common thing in a ninja." the Hyuuga lowers her head in shame. "No no. It's not a bad thing. We just have to get the shyness out. And I think that will happen during our training." Hinata then stops were she is as Chichi continues walking a few more steps, "Is something wrong?"
A small blush comes onto Hinata's face, "I-It's just that ... I hardly even know you, and you talk to me as if you've been with me for years."
"I'm a very friendly person. I talk like I know everyone, you'll get used to it. Now come on, your team isn't going to be back for two hours, that's enough time to start." He starts running off to the grounds. But Hinata remains sstanding with a smile slowly crawling up her face. Chichi stops running and turns around with an even bigger smile and a feeling of embarrasment, "Yeah, that's right, I don't know where it is." a small chuckle came from both of them, and the two continued on their way to the training grounds.
"Alright, Naruto." Musuko said sticking his hand in his back pocket, "I've got something here that will help us out in your training." he then pulled out a piece of paper and ashowed it to his orange suited student.
"What is that." Naruto said looking at it really close. He thought it was going to be some kind of awesome new jutsu, go figure.
"This is chakra paper. Now what you do with this is insert just a small amount of your chakra into the paper. The paper will then react to the chakra in a specific way depending on your chakra element. This will then show me what element jutsus you can do and will help the trainig moving along." Musuko then hands the paper over to Naruto. "Go ahead, give it a try."
Naruto took the paper into his hands giving it a look over. Finally, Naruto concerntrated his chakra into the paper. Just as he did, the paper reacted. Down the center of the piece of chakra paper, it began to split in two, it continued splitting until the entire paper was cut and flew out of into different directions. Naruto was a bit surprised, but was confused as to what it meant.
"Well, that kinda stinks." Musuko said watching the paper fall.
"What does it mean?"
"It means that your element is wind. And it stinks because I don't that many wind jutsus as the other elements. Don't worry, I can still train you a good months worth."
"So then that means that we will be learning new jutsus?" Musuko repled to the question with a silent nod and a smile. "Yes!" Naruto jumped for joy, thinking of all the possible jutsus he could learn. But then Musuko noticed something else on the chakra paper. One of the corners was charred.
Picking up the piece, Musuko said, "It seems that you have a fire element as well." 'Looks like someone was trying to put in their say in the training.' "Well Naruto, seems we'll also get to learn some fire jutsus as well. You're going to have a fun time this month, believe me."
Hinata and Chichi finally arrived at the training grounds laughing for an unknown reason.
"So-So Akamaru accidently (laughter) accidently thought that Shino's leg was...was a" Chichi couldn't help but laughing.
"Yep, Shino had disguised himself so perfectly in our test, and Akamaru had to go, so." Hinata was smiling with a small blush on her face. She had never seen anyone laugh this hard since Kiba when he found out what his dog did. "We're here."
The two stopped next to a large tree overlooking a small pond.
"Lovely place you got here."
"Yes, I usely come here to relax if I'm not training."
"Well right now, we're training. Let's begin." Chichi got into a fighting stance.
"Wait."
"Yes, Hinata?"
"I-I'd like to know what that feeling was. I know it had something to do with my chakra, so it's some sort of jutsu. And you said you have felt it before, so then you know what it is." Chichi got out of his stance and smiled.
"You might want to sit down, this will take awhile." Hinata nodded and sat down leaning against the tree. "Did anyone tell of Lee's fight against Gaara?"
The Hyuuga nodded, "Kiba did. He said that Lee went incredibly fast after opening some sort of chakra gate." thinking it over, "Is that what I did?"
"Sort of. The gates that Lee opened in his fight were five of the eight celestial gates. They provide one with an enormous supply of chakra by removing the filters in ones chakra system. But with this kind of new strength, there would be no doubt that it would have some bad side effects to it. You feel intense pain from the overuse of chakra in your system. Sometimes the chakra pain is so great that it can even kill you. But that is only when one opens the eighth and final gate." Hinata became worried about the whole side effects, "Now don't worry Hinata. You didn't open any of the celestial gates. What you actually did was open what is called, the Tenyomon.
"The Tenyomon is quite similar to the gates before as they supply the user with an enourmous amount of chakra. but that's where the similarities end. The gates do much more things. Unlike the celestial gates, they do not have any side effects. You could not notice as, well, you got shot through the heart, and survived miraculously. Anyways, the heaven gates are also not easy to activate, you can't just focus on your chakra system and open it up like Lee did. As a matter of fact, you're not supposed to concentrate on your system at all. The gates are activated in a certain way, each different for the user. For me, it's activated by pentance, giving up my own life for another. Now what we need to do is to find out what activate yours." this made Hinata think through what she did during her fight with Neji.
Then she put her hand to her mouth and blushed a bit. "Something wrong?"
"I-I think I-I found out wh-what activated i-it." Hinata stuttering though her words.
"Great, what did you do?" the blush grew on Hinata's face. "Hinata? You all right? It looks like you're coming down with a fever or something."
"N-no, it's just." a really long pause came between the two ninjas, "You won't laugh, promise?" Chichi nodded in a confused manner, the blush grew, "I-I was thinking a-about...Naruto."
Chichi's eyes opened up, "Oh. How were you thinking of him?" a smile rolled onto his face, this only did one thing to Hinata. It made her faint. "Well, I guess I know how."
We find Seirei minding his own business as he sat on the top of the Hokage Monument right above the Third's head. He looked down upon the village, thinking.
'My brothers. So caught up in this village. We're gonna have a hard time leaving here now.' and with that, he took out his book and began reading. But he didn't get far as he heard a rustling behind him. He grabbed the handle of the sword on his back and turned to greet the intruder. He stopped as he saw who it was.
"Hello, Seirei." a feminine voice was made from the intruder.
Seirei, letting go of his weapon, "Hello to you too. What brings you here. Temari." the wind mistress came out into the clearing.
"Ah, you remebered my name. I'm surprised that you did, with how fast you finished the match."
"What do you want?" Seirei said straight forward, not beating around the bush.
This tone of voice for some reason knocked Temari's tough face completely of and became almost sad. She answered the sky ninja, "I just came to say, Thank You. For saving my life." Seirei turned around and faced the village once again.
"Like I said before, 'It wasn't your time.'" just as he was about to open his book again, he felt something wrap around his body. He turned his head around to see that Temari had wrapped her arms around him in a hug. They stood like this for a few seconds and then Temari repeated, "Thank you." she released the black haired shinobi and left the way she entered. Seirei was left standing where he was completely dumbfounded.
'Seems this village has caught up with me now. Great.' he goes back to his book and reads through the pages.
However, off in the bushes, a wooden head has been peeping out of the brush.
It returns into the bushes not to be seen again.
"Ok, the first thing that we're going to do, is to learn a wind jutsu." Naruto becme excited, "First, run to that tree as fast as you can." Musuko said pointing to a tree about 50 yards away. Naruto complied and dashed as fast as he could to the tree. Naruto reached the tree in about ten seconds, and once he reached it, Musuko shouted over to him, "Too slow. Run back, only faster." Naruto did as he was told and dashed as fast as he could to Musuko. When he arrived he was gasping for air. This time it took him 9 seconds. "Good job, one second less. But do you know why?"
"Because I went faster." Naruto said irritated.
"No. You went the same pace as you did before." Naruto became confused, Musuko continued, "Notice where the wind is blowing. The wind is blowing towards us from where that tree is. So as a result, you ran faster with the wind on your back. Like a ship at sea. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, now all I have to do is run at my opponent where ever the wind is blowing which then means that I can only run in one direction." Naruto said sarcastically.
"Not if you have a wind element." Naruto's head shot up at hearing this, "You see Naruto, the wind can be easily manipulated, and when you manipulate that wind to blow right behind you, you're speed will increase. Right now the wind is going at about 5 miles an hour. But once you've mastered this jutsu, you'll be able to let it go over one hundred. This jutsu is known as Fuuton: Taifuu Kasoku (Wind Style: Typhoon Acceleration)" stars glimmered in Naruto's eyes, he thought of how fast he could go with this new jutsu. He could go as fast as Lee without even opening the gates! "Don't get your hopes up." the stars went away, "This jutsu took me quite awhile to master as it was not my strongest element. But since it seems that your's is, it should take maybe a month and a half, maybe two."
"Then what's the point of teaching me the jutsu if it doesn't help me in the finals!"
"There will be other chunin exams. And besides, you don't have to master the jutsu to use it. Yes there might still be flaws when you use it, but you will be much faster with it than without it. Now." Musuko sits down in an indian position, "Sit down."
"Why." Naruto asks as he too sits down in the same position.
"My sensei taught me, 'If you are too perform elemental jutsus, you should understand what they are. ONly then can one truly master his or her element.' Close your eyes, and feel the wind blow against you." Naruto thought this was a bit odd, but he did as he was told as he remembered Musuko's sensei was the Kage of his village.
The world became black around Naruto, all he could sense were the birds around him chirping, the leaves russling in the wind, and the sound of the wind blowing past his ears. Doing what Musuko told him to do, he focused on the wind. He could feel the wind gently blowing against his body, on the right of him. He heard the gusts of wind swiftly blowing by. Finally he was concentrating so hard that, he saw something glowing in front of him. He knew his eyes were closed, but still he saw something like a snake slithering around in the void of his eyelids. He heard the wind again, and this time another snake-like thing appeared and followed behind the other going in the same direction as the wind. Just then a large gust of wind appeared and Naruto saw before him a large swarm of these glowing snakes flying right by him, some doing flips in the air as they continued on their path. With the surprise of the immense amount of things going through at once, Naruto opened his eyes. He saw only Musuko sitting right in front of him.
"You see them. Don't you?" Musuko said not opening his own eyes.
"What are they?"
"They are the wind. What really makes the leaves move as it passes by, what makes that hissing sound as it passes your ear, what picks things up in wind storms. That is what the wind really is. They look like snakes because that's what the wind does, it slithers and slides around things. There is an animal that represents each and every element. The turtle for earth, the octopus for water, and the ant for fire. Those are just the basic four elements, there are other elements such as lightning, but we won't talk about those now." Musuko stood up and opened his eyes to look at his student, "Right now, we will work with the wind element, which is your strongest right now. Later on, we'll do fire."
...nata?...hellooo. Wake up...Ah...his is...rassing. She faint...erself, not even by...perver...remark. I'm gon...to work on that.
The Hyuuga awoken from her self-induced faint and saw Chichi right in front of her face.
"Ah, good. You're awake finally. Well then, shall we begin now?" Chichi backed off and helped Hinata up onto her feet. Hinata, still with a blush on her face, was wobbling a bit from getting up to quickly, "Don't go fainting on me again." Chichi joked as she got her balance and smiled a bit as well.
"Ok. I'm ready."
"Alright, then I think I can tell you now how you activate the Tenyomon." pausing for a moment as to find the right words, then continued, "The activation of the Tenyomon is different for everyone. But it always is something that is of good. Mine is from pentance as I said before. And yours...is activated by...passion." Hinata's blush grew, "I know it sounds weird, but it's true. You were thinking about that Naruto fellow, most likely because, well, you have shown a liking to him. Is that right?" Hinata's eyes widened and she backed up to a tree behind her.
This only went to aggrivate Chichi, "Hinata, you have to stop being so shy. It is not a fitting emotion for a ninja. What would happen if you were paired up with the person who you liked in a mission. You could not focus on the actual mission. Instead, you'd think all about that one person and hoping that they will come and swoop you up and rescue you from evil clutches. Now I have to be realistic with you now. That isn't going to happen."
Hinata frowned on this and almost began to cry. But before she could let out a tear, Chichi walked up to her, she looked up into his eyes. They showed kindness in them and a hint of friendship within them.
Chichi continued, but in a calmer voice, "I am right when I say it won't happen. But it won't happen if you don't tell the person who you admire how you truly feel about them. Not only will it eliminate your shyness, but it will give you a new friend and a person who will protect you no matter what." he smiled, "Now. Tell me. Do you have any feelings for this Naruto or anyone else in this village?"
Hinata's mind was now running faster than an F-284 (A/N: yes people I know that is not a real plane. But if it was, it would be really fast.) The blush was gone now, either that or it consumed her entire body. Her heart was beating faster than before. She could hardly breathe. Should she tell him? Should she spill out her heart right onto his lap? Then she thought over what Chichi said before the mind jogging question. She would no longer be shy, she could be an actual kinouchi, she could have friends, and she could know that she was safe with Chichi and Naruto-
Wait...she completely had forgotten about the blonde Uzumaki child. She had had a crush on him ever since she first saw him, and it was the same with Chichi. Could it be that...that she had these feelings for both these shinobi?
"Hinata?" Chichi interrupted her train of thought. Hinata slumped her head down seeing that she would have no other choice.
She nodded, "Yes Chichi. I do care about him so. Ever since I first saw him when I was a child. He has always been there for me, never calling me weak or anything. I just wish he could see me for who I am and how I feel about him."
The last words she said shocked and at the same time touched him. Hinata had grown attached ot him as did to her. He gave a big warm smile to the Hyuuga. "That's what I wanted to hear." Chichi moved closer to Hinata as her head was still down. And without her noticing, Chichi placed her into his arms in an embrace.
This momentarily surprised Hinata, but she then smiled and put her arms around the grey haired ninja as well. "And don't worry, he'll see in time." The two closed their eyes as to enjoy the others warmth. Just then, blue chakra began to swirl around them at intense forces.
Hinata was the first to open her eyes, she saw the chakra.
"Chichi." Chichi replied to Hinata by opening his eyes and too seeing the chakra.
"You've activated the first gate of the Tenyomon! And without being in a fight. This is good, if you can do it now, you can do it fighting." his warm smile turned into a larger, more friendlier smile. This made Hinata blush a bit, knowing exactly what made her activate the gate.
Chichi.
After a few more seconds, the blue chakra faded away into nothingness, and the two shinobi were left alone once again. Both in an embracing position still. Eyes looking right at each other with their faces mere inches away from each other as they continued to smile. Then the moment killers arrived.
"Hey Hinata!" Kiba came running out to her yelling at the top of his lungs with Akamaru running behind him and Shino walking in his quiet manner as usual. What are you doing here so early? Shouldn't you be resting?"
"I was with-" She looked right in front of her to see that no one was there. Chichi had vanished. This stunned Hinata just a bit as she did not even noticed he had left.
Kiba, breaking his teammate out of her daze, "Hinata? Who were you with?"
The Hyuuga replied with a smile, "No body, just me and the wind."
"Concentrate Naruto! Remember, you must think of how a snake moves around. You can't just tell the wind where to go, it won't listen, direct it with your chakra." Musuko said as he was clinging to a branch for life.
Naruto had gotten the wind to move, but control, he lacked. He put so much chakra into the wind motion that it could have shot Musuko a good hundred yards if he didn't grab hold of a tree branch.
"Just channel a small amount of the chakra through the air and you should have enough wind to propel you instead of just fling your opponents to the ground."
"But Musuko-sensei, if I can just do this, I could easily defeat anyone." Naruto questioned.
"Wrong." Musuko said angrily as he released the branch and landed on the ground. He walked over towards his student as he spoke, "Dead wrong. You can defeat the common human. But a ninja, they could easily recover from that attack, even worse, reflect it right back at you. The jutsu you're tyring to do takes concentration which I believe you have. You must give the wind not only the right amount of force, but also make it only so that it is blowing on your back. What you are doing is great for the first day believe me. But we have a month to do this, so try practicing on it and we'll continue tomorrow. Same place." with that Naruto nodded and walked off of the training grounds to get some ramen.
Musuko stayed and pondered over the things that happened on the first day. 'Amazing, he has gotten further than me in the first day than I did in a week. Definetely could finish this in two weeks at least. That is...if he had the correct support.' Musuko looked down to his hand, 'We'll give it another week. If the pattern doesn't change, then we'll do it.' and with that, he too walks off the training ground as well. But not without being followed by a shadowed figure.
(At night; somewhere unknown)
Hands slam down against a table in rage.
"DANGIT!" Kabuto has his hands all over different scrolls strewed across the table.
Another figure with a Konoha vest appears behind the four eyed ninja. "Something the matter Kabuto?" a hiss was made.
"Master Orochimaru. I have checked with our entire scroll vault, and I don't see any seal that matches the one that you placed on the Uchiha." a long pause between the two as Orochimaru skimmed across the scrolls layed out across the table. "He has shown an increase in chakra as well as physical strength, like all the other seals have. But what doesn't make sense is that his chakra has been used in ways that the other subjects were incapable of even trying. Could it be that you made another seal master?"
"It's the heaven seal." the snake sannin said flattly.
"What?" Kabuto asked, "But that doesn't make any sense. The heaven seal has three tomoes. Sasukes only has one-"
"And two dots." Orochimaru finished for his subordinate, "Something happened that changed those two tomoes into dots. Who did it or what caused I'm not sure. But I do know one thing." moving the scrolls around to reveal the heaven seal on the table, "If the final tomoe becomes a dot, he will be better to me than I had ever hoped for." a snakey smile crawled onto the sannin's pale-white skin.
It has been seven days since Hinata and Naruto's began, let us bring you up to date with what has happened.
Naruto, has been gradually making his way with the water walking and the Taifuu Kasoku, but still, they are nowhere to be completely done. However, aside from those. Naruto has gotten better with the daily spars against his sensei and has even tricked him with the occasional shadow clone. He pulled a prank on Musuko once, and let's just say the thousand years of death jutsu was the least of his worries.
Hinata, by the miracle of Kami himself, has stopped stuttering (A/N: finally! no more dashes), and thanks to her training with Chichi, she has been able to open the first gate of the Tenyomon at any given time. But since she lost even with the first gate, Chichi and Hinata have been sparring with her only using her Jyuuken Style as so she could perfect it. They still train before her team arrives for the afternoon and so both Kiba and Shino still have no idea as to how Hinata is improving so much.
Sasuke, as we have not seen him at all in this week at all, is as we all know in the care of his original sensei, Kakashi. So you can probably guess as to how he's doing.
The Sky Ninjas, have not been improving physically, but with their training with Hinata and Naruto, Musuko and Chichi have been keeping up with their own training and possibly getting to make some friends. Musuko has been introduced to the ramen world which his student has come to love so much, and he actually likes it. Given it isn't his favorite dish, he still is forced to have it every day for lunch. Chichi and Hinata have gotten along and treat each other like the best of friends. Of course, Chichi has found the way to make her faint, multiple times. Seirei, he has been doing his own training. Most of the time just sitting up at the Hokage Monument and reading his book.
Temari, we have seen little of her. But she continues to her training program as her brothers are still in the finals and so cannot leave just yet. Not to mention the little surprise they have for Konoha.
Musuko is with Naruto as he watches him perform the Taifuu Kasoku. But failing as he looks that Naruto only has a large amount of wind still blowing past him. Which the enemy could use if needed or have the wind element themselves. Then there was the water walking, he has now made it to about ten steps but then his chakra gives out and he falls straight into the water. He needs to walk the water without even feeling exhausted, not to mention getting more than two thirds of the way across. The way things were going, Naruto would be stuck on this one jutsu for the entire month as well as the chakra contol exercise.
Musuko had no other choice. If he wanted to speed up the training, he had to do it.
"Alright Naruto. We'll continue tomorrow morning." the white haired ninja said to his student. Naruto was at the moment on his seventh step in the river.
"Ah come on Musuko! I think I got it this time. Look." and with that Naruto took three more steps, and on his tenth step his foot was practically consumed by the river. He did not sink. He took the eleventh step, landed on the water. Then fell. His chakra had given out on him once again.
Gasping for air, the orange ninja was pulled out of the river by his sensei as he stood on the river himself. Angry, Musuko looked Naruto square in the eye. "One, did I not tell you to call me sensei?" Naruto not speaking, feeling the killer intent coming from the sky ninja, shook his head yes, "Good. And two, when I say we are done. We're done." he tosses Naruto onto the riverbed and walks away to where ever.
Naruto is left on the ground rubbing his soar spot from where he landed. A bit irked as how Musuko spoke to him. But he had to remeber that Musuko was his teacher and he should not disobey his orders. He stood up and left to go get a nice hot bath at the springs. Little did he know that this trip would change the entire month of training.
Chichi and Hinata were busy improving Hinata's Jyuuken. She was about to strike the gray haired shinobi in the arm, when he jumped out of the way and popped up behind her.
In a playful voice, "You're gonna have to be a lot faster than that."
Hinata returned the tease with her own smirk, "Fine by me." just then, blue chakra started swirling around her. Chichi's eyes went wide as his smile also did too. But the smile faded just as fast as Hinata did. "This fast enough for you." Hinata shot her arm out and hit Chichi in the back, sending him flying into the ground five feet in front of him. He laid there motionless.
But Hinata stayed where she was still in her battle stance, "Come on Chichi. I know you've had worse from me." Chichi stood up, unharmed. Brushing off the dirt on his shirt, he replied, "You've improved. But you forget." he displays his own smirk as blue chakra surrounds himself, "There's more than one gate." the chakra grew twice the size as the amount that Hinata had around her. And with that, he vanished.
Looking around, Hinata activated her Byakugan. Just as she did, she raised her right arm out in front of her. The arm moved back as pressure applied to it. She raised her other arm, the same thing happened. She ducked as wind blew by her head. As she was ducking, she also did a small jump as the dirt moved by. Finally, she crossed her arms in a defence position as she was sent flying into the ground. Chichi had finally appeared just as Hinata hit the ground. Both ninja's blue chakra vanished as they both panted for air.
A few seconds later, Hinata rose up with a smile on her face as she rubbed her arms. "Nice one Chichi, which gate did you open?"
"Just the third. But it was just enough. The Tenyomon increased your Byakugan's ability, so if you had went on the offense you could have beaten me." Chichi said with a big grin and his hand on his head.
Thinking about it, "How many gates can you open?" she got the exact opposite reaction that she planned. Chichi went silent, and his mood changed completely. From happy, to a mix of what appeared to be anger, sadness, and possibly...shame.
Not even looking at Hinata as he spoke. "I can open all the gates." Chichi said with the most coldest voice Hinata had ever heard come from him.
Hinata was frozen in fear, as she had never seen the sky ninja like this, but she asked, "W-what happens when you open the final gate."
"No." Chichi said flatly, "No, you will not open the ninth gate."
"But...what happens then?"
A long silence fell between the two, "You cannot die. No matter what." Hinata's eyes went wide. You couldn't die? Immortality?! But...why would Chichi hate this, was what was running through her mind. Until the shinobi continued, "The ninth gate, the gate of angels, gives you an incredible amount of chakra, enough to defeat your Hokage in one foul swoop." Hinata's eyes remained wide, that much power would be that of practically...a god. "But there is a price to pay for this power." Hinata looked at his eyes, tears were almost forming around them as he spoke, "It gives you a tenth gate, the Antegate. The Tenyomon is activated by something such as passion or even pentance, but the Antegate, is activated by the exact opposite. It's activated by pure rage, the want to truly take another's life with no regret for the act." Chichi's last few words brought a cold chill down her spine, but Chichi continued in explaining this horrible ability, "You gain an immense amount of power, but then, you have no control of your actions. Another being takes over, following your one emotion, and to carry out your one desire by any means necessary. You truly do become," a tear trickles down Chichi's face, his fist clench tight, and his head looks down to the ground beneath him, "a monster." another tear falls to the ground.
Hinata stands looking at her new found friend, just standing there, trying to hold back the tears. Her feelings took over, she walked over to the gray haired boy without even knowing. She placed her hand on his shoulder. Chichi did not look up.
"It's happened before to you. Hasn't it?"
"So many. Dead. So many. In so many horrible ways." the tears ran freely down as he landed his head onto Hinata's chest.
Hinata did not expect this to happen at all. Not from him. If anything, she thought that it would be her to cry into his chest. His strong, burly, getting off subject here. If he was doing this and being a ninja, truly the Antegate had to be a terrible thing to have. Feeling pity for her friend, but also caring kindness, she wrapped her arms around the sobbing shinobi trying to confort him. Patting him on the back, moving his and her body back and forth in a cradling motion, and making a small shushing sound.
"I promise," a small tear fell from her own face, "I will not open the final gate."
Just then Chichi's own arms wrapped around the Hyuuga in an embrace. "Thank you. You don't know how much that means to me. I'd never want to see you like that, ever."
The calm wind blowing by their bodies was the only thing that could be heard around them now as they remained in their embrace.
Finally, "Well sniff I best be heading back now." Chichi removed himself from Hinata's grasp, with a little difficulty. A blush appeared on both of their faces as they removed from the hug. Wiping his eyes, "I'll see you tomorrow. We'll continue our training then." and with that he turned around and left the training grounds, as did Hinata.
"Now do you believe me, Shino?"
"You are right Kiba." the bug ninja replied hiding behind a bush with his team mate, "So this is how she is improving so much in her training." he said silently.
"I knew she was getting help from that stupid sky ninja that we met in the forest. What's her deal with him anyways?"
"Something tells me that an event happened in the Forest of Death." silence, "We will deal with this tomorrow. Right now, we go and inform our sensei." Kiba nodded, and the two left the scene.
We find Musuko now in Ichiraku Ramen Stand. He didn't know why he was there, but he had this strange need for ramen. Ordering a bowl of his students regular, just one bowl, he began eating. Then he smell something odd, yet somewhat familiar. He sniffed his bowl, but that smelled pretty much the same as anything. Then the guy sitting next to him, just smelled of some alcohol and BO. Finding that it was nowhere near him, he turned around to look behind him. That's when he saw her, Sakura.
"Excuse me, sir?" the pink haired ninja asked for the chef's attention.
"What can I help you with miss?"
"I'm looking for my team mate, Naruto. I've heard he comes around here often."
The chef simply smiled at the sound of the name, "You heard right. He's one of my best customers. But I'm sorry miss, I haven't seen him today." he then heads back into the kitchen to make some more ramen for his other customers.
"Heh. That's kinda funny." Sakura turned to where the voice came from.
"You!" she said noticing Musuko, "What's so funny?"
"You. You smell like your name." taking another bit of his ramen, "I thought I recognized that smell somewhere. It's from when we last met alone." giving a quite chuckle.
This brought Sakura back into her memories. Where she was carrying groceries, where this ninja popped out of nowhere, where he finally knocked some sense into her. Getting out of her mind, she sees Musuko had returned to eating. "Thank you. For talking to me."
"No problem. There should be no fangirls in the ninja society, there is no place for them in it." sipping down the broth, Musuko continued, "You said you were looking for Naruto."
"Yes? Do you know where he is?"
"Not really, I was just training with him bout a half an hour ago, but he could be anywhere by now." Musuko responded.
"Wait. You've been with training? With Naruto? Of all the people in the finals. Why not someone like Neji, or your own team?"
Placing money on the table for the bowl, Musuko answers, "Because Chichi is training with Hinata, and Seirei, well Seirei is doing his own thing. And as for me, I believe Naruto has some potential. He just needs some training."
"So." Sakura putting her hands on her hips and with a smirk on her face, "How is he doing?"
Musuko returned her smirk with one of his own, "Let's just say, by the end of the month, he'll be a whole lot faster." this surprised Sakura a bit, "Hey, you might not even recognize him as the dead-last of the academy after the finals." he keeps his smirk as he leaves the stand, leaving Sakura almost frozen in shock. But that left her once Musuko asked, "Hey Sakura, you guys got a pizza stand in this village?"
Sakura's face turned from shock, to absolutely clueless, "What's a pizza?"
"..." the two just stared at each other for a moment, "I'm gonna take that as a no." and with that, Musuko left the ramen stand and leaving a kuniochi wondering what on earth was a pizza?
While the meeting of Musuko and Sakura was going on, Naruto had brought himself to the hot springs as he relaxed in one of the many hot pools.
"Ahhhh. This is the life. No training, and this time it's ok if I am in the water. Man I just wish I can get that stupid water walking down." the blonde ninja slid down more into the pool, relaxing even more from the soothingness of the waters.
After a few minutes of nothing but cmoplete relaxation, Naruto heard a giggle. But not from a girl, which they usual come from. It sounded like it came from a man, an older man. Turning around, he looked up to see an old man high up on the cliff, with a telescope. And what could he be doing with a telescope at the springs and giggling? What else, but peeping. Naruto frowned upon this as his own sensei, Kakashi, was himself a pervert. After being trained by Musuko for a week, he had actually increased on his stealth. And with his already brilliant mind for pranks, he had instantly came up with a way to teach this old fart a lesson. The plan came to him as if by reflex, and in return, Naruto revealed an evil grin on his face.
The old began giggling again as he took out a notebook and began writing in it as he continued to look through his little telescope. "Oh this is perfect for my next book!" but as he finished the sentence, a huge gust of wind came from behind him. The gust was so strong that it caught the old man off guard and caused him to lose his balance. But that's all it did. Leaning over the ledge that would lead to his doom as the girls' springs were right below him. Turning around to grab onto something he noticed a small boy in orange and with a grin leaning up against the cliff himself. With a quizzical look the boy responded by throwing out both of his arms at the old man. Another gust of wind blew at the man, and this time, it took him off the cliff. He fell down screaming and landed right into the springs. Then the only screaming one could hear was the screeches from the women as a man had appeared. Then the next set of screams came from the old man as he was beaten to a bloody pulp by the women who had now wrapped themselves in towels.
And as all this was going on, Naruto was rolling on the ground laughing.
Seirei we find sitting on the Hokage Monument indian style, reading his mysterious little book. He had been sitting there since the sun had rose, continuing to read his book. Sometimes he would close his book, but then he would just sit there looking either down into the village, or up into the sky. But today was different, as he first gave a small sigh, then spoke.
"How long have you been there, Temari?" and once again, the Suna Kinouchi appeared from the bushes.
"It seems long enough if you finally realized I was there." she said with a smile. She walked over to the sky ninja and sat down next to him to enjoy the view he was watching as well.
Seirei looking back at the view as well, "You've been there for the past three days. Not straight, but dang you've been in those bushes for a while." giving a smile of his own, "I just thought you would tell me the truth as I had caught you."
Temari looked angered by this, she had actually thought that she had a pretty good hiding place. So much for that. But then she thought of her own comeback, "Yes that's true. Three days I've been watching you. And you for all that time, you have not yet done a single bit of training whatsoever. You've just been reading that same book and enjoying the scenery. And what's funny is that you are the one with the finals match against whom your brother I believe proclaimed as a 'genius.'"
Seirei laid down on his back with his hands behind his head, "I have my reasons." in return, Temari did the same thing and laid next to the black haired boy looking up at the sky.
"'The Village Hidden in the Sky.' I've never heard of that village. Is it new or something?" Temari asked still cloud gazing.
"No. It's relatively old for that matter."
"Oh."
"This must make you homesick." Temari said, "Staring up in the sky all day."
"It's what keeps me strong. The only true sign that I have a family out there." "How about you? You got any family?"
"...Yes and no. My brothers hardly act like brothers to me. My father, he's too occupied with his job as our village's Kage to be there for us. And my mother died giving birth to Gaara."
Seirei didn't respond to her complaints. Thinking that the boy was taking his time to think of something nice to say, Temari waited. But when nothing came for three entire minutes, her patience was running thin. She was about to yell at the sky ninja, when he finally said something.
"I'm sorry."
"That's it? That's all you can say for thinking that long about my family troubles?" sounding a bit angry, yet humorous as it was kind of funny on how he reacted.
"Well, that too." Temari quirked up her head as well as an eyebrow, but she remained quiet as she sensed Seirei had more to say, "But I'm sorry...for what I did to you in our match."
Temari sat up look down at a self-pitying ninja, "It's ok. You healed my arm completely. Somehow? So no harm, no foul, right?" she gave her cloud gazing partner a reassuring smile.
"But I didn't mean to hit your arm. I was aiming for your fan." a gust of wind went by them as only silence was heard, "My sword attack was to render your fan useless for the match. But...but the wind pushed me up more than I expected. And I had cut off your arm. I didn't mean to. That's why I said you were lucky. Not many people escape their deaths." he then stood and walked away. While as Temari looked at him in confusion, and then without knowing, she placed her hand up onto her arm that had been cut off.
What did he mean by escaping death?
About an hour or so, Naruto was still laughing about his greatest prank since painting the Hokage Monument. He came across the hospital, which made him laugh even more. Naruto began thinking about what kind of pain that old fart was in right now. He was probably in two arm casts, one leg cast, a whole lot a bandages on his chest, a busted lip, and a swollen black eye. Naruto laughed once again thinking of that image he had just made up.
Just then, bursting out of the hospital's front doors, was something Naruto would have never believed if he didn't see it.
It was a man in two arm casts, one leg cast, a whole lot a bandages on his chest, a busted lip, and a swollen black eye. The man came out in ranting rage with a nurse following close behind.
"Sir, you need to stay in your bed for another day or two! Your injuries haven't fully healed yet!" the nurse yelled out to the injured man.
"I'm fine, OK! I've had worse, believe me!" the old man remebering the last time he got caught at the springs. A shiver went down his spine as he remembered one specific blondey that he would indeed never forget. The mans train of thought was broken when he laid his gaze on Naruto. "YOU!!"
"Eh heh. Gotta go now." and with that, Naruto made his escape up to the rooftops.
"Come back here!" the old man stripped away his casts and jumped up onto the rooftops himself.
Naruto looked behind him thinking that he lost the gramps for good. But to his dismay, that gramps was hot on his tail. Looking up on the old man's head, he noticed a head band protector with the 'Oil' symbol on it. Crap, this guy was a ninja himself. Now Naruto decided to book it, which the old man did in return.
Our little orange ninja tried every trick and manuever in his artilery, but the old ninja still was keeping up with him no matter what.
"Man! This old guy's not kidding." Naruto said to himself still running on the rooftops.
"YOU'RE GONNA PAY YOU LITTLE BRAT!" the old man shouted at his target, he had picked up his speed.
This got a small reaction out of Naruto, he was going his fastest without using the Taifuu Kasoku. He didn't use it as he knew that it was not yet mastered, so it would just give his persuer the same boost. Naruto went through his list of tricks once more, scratching off each one he had used and failed. The list was almost completely eliminated, when finally, he came up with another devious plan. He just remembered using it once on the day after he had graduated. It took perfect precission, but it was most effective, considering who it was used on. Looking about, he saw a clearing about a half a mile northeast from him. He made a quick turn in that direction, which in return knocked the old man back a few steps behind Naruto, but he was still gaining. Lucky for Naruto, he wouldn't reach him until he had reached his destination.
Naruto landed into the clearing stopping at the edge of trees in front of him. A second later, the old man had landed right behind Naruto heaving with anger and killer intent.
"Now you're going to pay for what you did you little punk!" the man lifts his fist into the air, but as he did, Naruto, the prankster that he was, turned around to face his opponent.
"We'll see about that. Pervert." without another second being wasted, Naruto placed his hands into a ram seal, "Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" in an instance, the clearing was filled with clones of the blonde ninja surrounding the old man.
"Nice," admiring the boys work for the moment, "I have never seen this amount of clones before. Still, you're going down."
"On the conterary," Naruto smirked and placed his hands into another seal, "You are. Oiroke no Jutsu!" just then, the clones within the clearing transformed into the trademark naked woman that many perverts have already fallen prey to in the past. And this opponent would be no different.
Once the smoke cleared to reveal the scantily clad females, the old mans jaw fell open. Looking at all of the women, he could have sworn that the brat killed him and he had gone to heaven. The blush on his face was so intense that it could have rivaled Hinata's own. But that all ended when the old perv fell down to the ground due to a massive nose bleed. Now out cold for awhile, Naruto transformed back into his normal form and dispersed his clones.
"Don't mess with Uzumaki Naruto." said ninja gave his foxy grin at the laid down man. But the smile quickly faded away when he felt a sharp point on the back of his neck. Looking at the old man on the ground, Naruto saw that the man poofed into smoke and turned into a log.
"Not bad kid. Not bad at all." the man took away the kunai from the boys neck as he turned around to see him, "You used your enemies weakness against him. I must say I'm impressed. What are you Chunin?"
"Genin." the old man was taken aback for a moment at hearing Naruto's ninja ranking, but then regained himself.
"You one of those Genins in the finals?"
Naruto now being smug, as he still didn't like perverts, "What's it to you."
"Oh nothing. I just thought I could teach you a jutsu or two for the finals."
"Sorry old perv, I already got a sensei." Naruto turns away and begins to leave.
"But is your sensei a higher rank than Jounin?" the man's words stopped Naruto in his steps. Turning around with his interest peaked, the old man continued, "I can train you when you aren't training with your sensei, and by the end of the month you'll win the finals for sure. So, what do you say to that?"
Naruto put his hand on his chin in a thinking posture, 'Let's see here. Training ends at two, which could give me a half an hour for food and rest. Then straight back to training with this guy. If he is what he says, he'll be able to teach me more powerful jutsus. As long as Musuko-sensei doesn't find out until the finals, nothing bad should happen.' "Alright, perv. But we need to start training at three o'clock each day."
"That means you're going to be done at around seven with my program, you understand that?"
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, I can handle it." the blonde shinobi turns around waving behind him, "See ya tomorrow old perv."
"Will you stop calling me that! It's Jiraiya-sensei from now on." Naruto smiled, "All right...sensei-perv." Naruto jumped up to the rooftops leaving the old man now known as Jiriaya to return to his 'business'.
The sun set and rose upon the village of Konoha. Hinata had finished her breakfast and chores, asking to leave for training, she headed out to training ground 8.
As she was walking down, she began thinking to herself.
'Another beautiful day for me and Chichi. I remeber when it rained all day, you couldn't do any of our moves without slipping and falling into the mud. Heh, my jacket got really dirty. Luckily it came out. Wonder what Chichi has planned for us today? Maybe having me unlock the second gate. Because with my Byakugan active, I could then easily defeat him in a spar finally. Oh yeah, I forgot. He can open all the gates, so whats stopping him from opening the eighth.'...'Something doesn't feel right. I know this is a good thing what Chichi is doing with me. But why is he? I'm not in the finals. I was not nearly as good as Neji was when we first fought. What could be the reason.' Hinata stopped as she just had a thought strike her, 'Could it be? That...that he likes me? No, it couldn't. Could it? I mean, he lives in a completely different village than I do. Not to mention we've only known each other for not even two weeks. He wouldn't have gained an interest in me that quickly.'...Hinata's head bows down in sorrow, 'No one would.'
She walked into her team's training grounds, ready to wait for her friend from the sky.
"Hey Hinata." Hinata's head shot up, she recognized the voice instantly. However, it wasn't Chichi's, "What are you doing here so early?"
"K-kiba!" the canine ninja leaned up against a nearby tree, waiting for an answer, "I-i just wanted to put some extra train in for me. I mean, we don't really start our training session until the afternoon, right?" Hinata trying to hold back her stutter as to not look nervous.
"That is true." this time, Shino walked out from behind the tree, making Hinata even more nervous, "But me and Kiba insisted to Kurenai-sensei that we start early this week. Since none of us are in the finals, we can start whenever we want."
"I would have been in the finals if they didn't carry me off of the floor. I could have taken that stupid sky ninja."
Kurenai jumped down from the same tree Shino appeared from, "Kiba, you were temporarily paralyzed. If he was a true enemy, you would have been dead. Not to mention, Akamaru as well." Kiba snuffed at the obvious fact that his sensei presented to him. He still thought he could have won. "So Hinata. Since you're finally here, we can start the session, or do you want to take a breather after walking such a ways." Kurenai said in a motherly tone.
This was not good. This was not good at all. Hinata knew that Chichi would arrive at any given moment. Since she was the first one there, she had to find a way to warn Chichi, Kiba was not on the friendly side when anyone even mention the three sky ninjas. So meeting one would not at all be fun to see. She closed her eyes for a second to think of some excuse for her to leave, but her plan to warn him was thought of too late. As he jumped out from a tree behind Hinata about to pounce on the Hyuuga. He was so quiet that no one noticed him until one of the kunai on his shoulder reflected a beam of light into Kiba's and Shino's eyes. Shino didn't react as he had sunglasses. Kiba pulled out one of his own kunai. Hinata stayed where she stood as she gave a long sigh as if she was disappointed.
"Well, so much for that." Hinata said to herself. Then, just as Chichi was about to land on her, she shuffled to the side. Chichi landed and threw one of his legs into a roundhouse kick to her chest. Hinata's eyes still close, she lifted her hand and caught the leg coming at her. "Chichi, now is not the time."
"Oh come on. You always loved my surprise attacks. Heck, you've been doing much better. You didn't have to open your eyes for it." a dead silence fell between the two. Chichi then felt eyes upon him, Hinata released his leg so he could turn around. "Oh, well, um, nice to see you all." whispering to Hinata, "Don't you guys train in the afternoon?"
"It appears that our schedule was changed."
Hinata's team had all their own reaction to the sky ninja's intrusion. Kiba, not liking the last sky ninja he met, was absolutely infuriated that Chichi had been infatuating himself with one of his own team mates. Kurenai, almost had stars in her eyes. Finally, her Hinata had a friend that wasn't her own team mates. And by the looks of things, they seemed to getting along quite fine. And Shino, well you all know, he doesn't react to anything.
"So Hinata," Kurenai, breaking the silence, "Who is your friend?"
Chichi instantly went into a rich gentleman's stance and bowed down to the Jounin, "My name is Brother Chichi of Amagakure, the village hidden in the sky." he then went back into his own posture waiting for a reaction. He got one.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?" Kiba bursted out in absolute rage, "COMING IN TO OUR VILLAGE AND THEN TRAINING WITH ONE OF MY TEAM MATES!! WHO GAVE THAT PRIVILEDGE TO YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE?! I OUGHTA GIVE YOU A PIECE OF MY MIND!!"
"Kiba! Control yourself." Kurenai stopped her student from possibly mauling the gray haired shinobi, "There is nothing against others working together to help each other train. Then again, this could be the reason as to why Hinata is always more winded at the beginning of our training sessions."
"Sorry about leaving her tired out with you guys. But we have been going overtime since we do only have one month." Chichi smiled with his hand on his head.
"AND WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN! YOU SICK LITTLE PERVERT!"
"Kiba, down." out of nowhere, Kurenai pulls out a water squirter and shots it at Kiba's face. "So Hinata." Shino says, "Just what exactly have you and this boy been training on?"
"Taijutsu."Chichi said without missing a beat, "Her Jyuuken has improved greatly with mine and your teams aid, and I think she'd be a very worthy opponent for anyone now. Maybe even for Kiba and Akamaru." Oh-ho-ho-ho...that just plain out did it for Kiba's short fuse. He went off and was now bursting red at the top of his lungs.
"I COULD TAKE YOU ON ALL BY MYSELF! WE'LL SEE WHO IS THE BETTER FIGHTER YOU LITTLE PUNK!"
Kurenai was about to bring out the squirter again, when Shino intervened, "No. This could finally cool down Kiba. Not to mention, I'd like to see him fight a second Sky Ninja." Kurenai smiled and nodded to Kiba and Chichi approving of the brawl.
"Ok, I will supervise this match. Understand?" both nod as they begin strectching, "You both know the rules, but I will stop it if it gets too out of hand."
"Hey, Akamaru come on." Kiba called over his dog.
"Don't bring the dog into this fight." Chichi said in a sincere voice.
"Akamaru and I always fight together, weather you like it or not."
"I don't think you should bring in an animal that doesn't want to fight." Kiba looked down to his canine partner. Akamaru began shaking his head and ears down.
Kibe a bit ticked, but he could never be angry at his own dog. So he nodded to Akamaru and the canine ran over to stand next to Hinata.
"Heh, this is still going to be a piece of cake." Kiba said with a toothy grin.
"Funny, that's just what I was thinking." Chichi said full of confidence. Grinding his teeth, Kiba was on toes ready to just rip into the sky ninja.
"Ready?" Kurenai asked, "Now remember, do what you want. Just don't kill each other." she lifts her hand into the air, Kiba got down on all fours. Meanwhile, Chichi remained where he stood and placed his left hand on the back of his head.
"Looks like Chichi wants this done quickly." Hinata said to Shino. Shino then turned to his team mate not understanding what she said. Hinata explained, "This is one of his better stances. It makes it look like he's completely open, but he's fast enough to make sure you think twice."
"Something tells me he's gotten you with it." Shino said.
"Learned my lesson there and then. He really does pack a punch no matter what he uses. But..." thinking if she should say this, but does anyway, "he has never broken a single bone with his hits. You just hurt alot, nothing fatal, yet it looks like it should be." Shino's head perks a bit as he looks back at Chichi.
"A most interesting taijutsu ability."
"Begin!" the Jounin's hand falls down.
Kiba's body lunges forward at full speed running on all fours. Chichi remained standing still. Kiba was smiling now as he was a mere ten yards away. The canine shinobi jumped up into the air, "Gatsuuga!"
"This attack again?" Chichi asks sounding a bit bored. Kiba begins flying in the air as he spins like a drill directly at his opponent. Chichi simply ducked as he did a half way split, the attack missed and Chichi rose up again. But Kiba wasn't finished, he stopped his spinning in mid-air. As he flew in the air, he took two kunai and threw them with each hand at Chichi one after the other. "And now the attack from Tenten's match." he said it with a disappointed air. He grabbed the first kunai with his free hand, the other still on his head. Doing a quick spin, he threw the first kunai right back at the other one to deflect it.
Kiba landed on his feet and a hand for support. Seeing that there was no damage made to the sky ninja, he snarled.
Chichi responded, "You think you would have thought that these attacks wouldn't work on me. You used the Gatsuuga on my brother, it didn't work except for the time you had Akamaru fighting with you. The kunai attack would not work as shown in my match with Tenten, I nullified her ability to use weaponry. So the only thing you have left would be taijutsu." Chichi extended his free hand motioning a 'come on' gesture to Kiba.
This aggrivated Kiba even more. But he knew that the punk was right. He didn't have any jutsus that focused on himself. With a breathe, Kiba went straight at Chichi. Said person was staying right where he was as Kiba neared his position. When close enough, Kiba jumped towards Chichi in a pouncing form, but before he touched Chichi, Kiba tucked and rolled right in front of the sky ninja performing an upside-down donkey kick to Chichi's chest. But it missed as Chichi bent his upper body backwards. Since Kiba missed, he continued in his path over Chichi. That was when the gray haired boy pulled his hand on his head off. The hand flung up in a karate chop, and landed straight in between Kiba's legs. Yep, Kiba got chopped in the pups. His eyes went crossed, he became short of breathe, and with the forward pressure from the chop, Kiba was shot forward and landed face first on the ground. Everyone around winced at the shot taken, even Akamaru. Just looking at the move looked painful, imagine what it was like for the guy who went through it. Kiba was rolling on the ground whinpering like a dog holding the spot in between his legs.
Chichi now stood erect and walked over to his wounded opponent. Crouching down and looking him in the eye, Chichi said, "If you don't get up, then that means I win." Kiba stopped rolling. Slowly but surely, he rose to his two wobbling feet. He showed a toothy grin once again. Chichi's curiosity got the better of him, "Why are you smiling?" Kiba didn't answer. Instead, he put his hand into his pouch. Shuffling through it, he finally pulled out a small brown bead. His grin got wider as he placed the bead into his mouth.
"It's soldier pill time." Kiba said. Just after he bit into the pill, his appearance became more beastial. He got onto all fours, now looking even more like an animal than before. "Here I come." With new found speed, Kiba came rushing at Chichi. But this time, Chichi had both hands out, but still he was in no stance that anyone could see. Kiba threw back an arm with his clawed hand ready to slash at the sky ninja. As he brought his arm across, Chichi's body vanished. But just as he had vanished, he instantly reappeared with a small cloud of dust around his feet. Kiba was left completely open as he didn't expect this sort of thing to happen. Chichi spun around and brought his right elbow into Kiba's own chest. Kiba went back only a foot when Chichi return right up to his front. Making his palms open and fingers curled, he began making multiple palm shots into the canine ninja's midsection. On the final palm strike, he placed some chakra into it and sent Kiba flying into the nearest tree, which was about a hundred feet away. Kiba landed on his rear and body was hanging limp. Chichi walked towards his opponent in his weakened state.
When he got about five feet away from Kiba, the boy slowly lifted up his hand, "No...more. I...give up. You win." Chichi continued towards Kiba, grabbing an arm, he lifted Kiba onto his shoulder and walked him over to his team.
"Just because you lost, doesn't mean that I can't help you every now and then." a short laugh came from Kiba.
"You know. You sky ninjas aren't all that bad I guess." Kiba smiling a bit. When they reached Hinata and the others, Kurenai declared Chichi the winner of course.
However, after that, Shino had his own set of questions, "Why didn't you use them?" Chichi gave a look that showed he didn't know what the Aburame was talking about, "Your Kunai. He have at least twenty hanging off of your shoulder, and yet you didn't even touch them."
"I don't use them like that. You've seen me use them before." Shino then recalled to the time he first saw Chichi when he was playing music on the rock in the clearing just before the rain ninja appeared. "Well Hinata. This was a decent day of practice for me. I'll leave you and your team with your session now. See you tomorrow, at..." looking at Kurenai, "What time would be alright for you and the team.
"Oh, the same time in the morning for you two is fine with me. We will just go bach to the usual schedule."
"Alright, same time tomorrow then?" directing his question to Hinata this time. Hinata nodded in return. And with that, Chichi left the training grounds.
"I think that will do it for today, Naruto. We'll continue tomorrow." Musuko said as his student got to his twelveth step across.
"Ok." is what Naruto only said as he swam across the river and got into his dry clothes. With a wave of his hand, Naruto left his sensei.
However, Musuko was feeling that something was up. But he put it aside for now as he thought it wasn't all that important. 'Hmmm. Wonder what Seirei and Chichi are up to.' closing his eyes, he reopened them to reveal the Mitarigan. He now could see what his brothers were doing. 'Seirei is off. He must be asleep, if not going to the bathroom. And Chichi, well, speak of the devil, he's coming this way.' Musuko turned his head around to the right to see his gray haired brother land right next to him.
"So how is training with the Jinchuuriki doing?" Chichi asked.
"Naruto, which is his name, is doing quite fine. But, I think I'll need to give him some motivation to help along." Musuko said.
"That kid looks like he has plenty of motivation."
"No not Naruto, him."
Chichi took a moment to think of what Musuko meant, "Oh. I see." "You need any help with it?"
"You might need to hold him down. He's a bit figgety." Chichi nodded, just as his stomach growled.
"I'm gonna grab some grub, whe do you want to do this?"
"Tomorrow at the start of our training, in the morning." Chichi nodded again, and then left to fill his belly.
"Everything seems to be going fine." Musuko said, but little did he know about his Brother Seirei.
The activation of the Mitarigan woke Seirei up. Opening his eyes, he could see nothing but darkness around him. He tried to move his arms and legs, but as he did klinking noises were made and he remained motionless. He then began moving his head around, his head was free to move about. He felt things wrapped around his arms and legs and midsection. Nothing was on his back so that meant that both he was not chained to a wall, and that his sword was not with him. Making a small moan, he got a reaction.
"So, you're finally awake." a male voice was heard right in front of him. Looking forward Seirei felt hands on his face. Right after the touch, light filled his eyes, the blindfold had been ripped away from his face. Looking around himself, Seirei could see that wooden things were what was keeping him bound and that a wooden belt-like object was around his abdominal. He found himself in a room with no windows and just one door. Looking forward, he saw his captor.
"You're Temari's brother aren't you?" Seirei asked trying to pinpoint the ninja.
"Kankuro, thank you very much. And it seems that you already know my sister. After you almost killed her!" the puppeteers fists clenched tightly.
Seirei giving a deep sigh, "Look. I healed her, I have already apologized, heck, she said thank you to me. So now that we got that settled-" the sky ninja was cut short by a piece of paper being shoved into his face.
"Recognize this?" Seirei sees that the paper is actually a photograph. And is showed Temari, with her arms around him. "And how bout this?" Kankuro showed another picture that showed the two of them again sitting but with Temari in the bushes...with a smile on her face. The final picture he showed was Seirei lying down on the ground with Temari sitting over him.
Seirei just shook his head and smiled.
"Care to explain yourself?" Kankuro was not in the mood for jokes.
"Where is my sword? Answer that and I'll let you know." Seirei compromised.
"It's right behind you." Seirei turned his head as much as he could, and sure enough there was his sword leaning up against the wall. He turned his head back to Kankuro, and his smile grew wider.
"Well?"
"I don't have all the answers you want. So why not asking your sister?" his smile still on his face.
"Please. She's incompitent of her skills. She didn't win her match against you. I on the other hand did and-" Kankuro's face froze with fear.
"She's right behind me isn't she." Seirei nodded his answer in reply to Kankuro.
"So, I'm incompitent aye?" Kankuro turned around suddenly and was waving his hands frantically.
"No no no. You miss understood. I said...'income print'! Yeah! That's it!" Temari glared daggers at her brother's lame excuse. Almost telepathically, Temari watched as her brother left the room. Once he had left, she returned to Seirei.
"I see he wheres the pants in this family." Seirei joked.
"You aren't really in the position to make jokes. Now aren't you." Temari reminded Seirei that he was still bounded by Kankuro's puppets. "Now what should I do with you? Hmmm?" she said the last part as she walked towards the sky ninja almost seductively. She pulled out a kunai and started waving it around in front of his face.
"How old are you?" Seirei killed the moment. Temari put away the kunai and frowned.
"You must be tired of being like that." the wind mistress turned around and headed to the door, "I'll get my brother to get you-"
SMASH!! Temari turned around to see Seirei rubbing his left wrist, and the puppet arms and belt broken into large pieces. Temari was awe struck. Seirei went to his sword and placed the large weapon back in its place on his back.
"Carrying this sword around, you have to be strong." Seirei said. Temari smiled and she escorted him out of their area and back into Konoha.
Naruto made his way to the creek where the Jiraiya had agreed to meet him to train. Naruto was being cautious and looking around every now and then. He knew if his sensei caught him, he would be in deep trouble. So while he was walking, he concluded that he would not used any of the techniques that Jiraiya tought him, and he would always make sure he stopped at the ramen stand. Musuko knowing how long he takes to eat, Naruto will only eat a few bowls in order to leave as soon as possible. With that all figured out, Naruto arrived at the creek, but no Jiraiya in sight.
"Please. Please, don't let him be like Kakashi-sensei and always be late." Naruto looking up to the skies in prayer. The blonde then heard a small noise coming from the distance. Looking a bit further down the creek, he could see someone sitting behind a bush.
Sure enough, it was his pervy sensei. Sitting behind the bush, Jiraiya was too busy with looking at the girls in bathing suits to notice Naruto come up behind him.
"You've got so many problems." Naruto said startling Jiraiya and falling onto the ground. The thud was heard by the girls as they turned their heads to the sound.
"What was that?" one of the girls asked.
"Don't know. Must've been a clumsy squirrel." the girls giggled at the image that of said object and went back to continue their play.
Jiraiya got up as not to be seen by the girls. Furiated by Naruto's actions, "First rule: NEVER sneak up on me when I'm doing my research."
"What for? You need to train me." Jiraiya turns around to get a little bit more info, but when he did the girls were on their way back to their homes.
The old ninja moaned, and with a sigh he reluctantly turned back around to Naruto. "Alright, Naruto. Let me say that you are to obey my every word. Right down to the punctuation mark. Agree?" Naruto nodded, "Kay. Now for starters, we'll start off with something you probably haven't heard of: tree climbing."
"Heard of it." Jiraiya was stopped and yet surprised that this kid already knew what this exercise was, "And I finished it too. I'm on water walking right now." Jiraiya became even more surprised. His training schedule had been cut down by just this kid saying that he did it already. Now he could get to some fun stuff.
"Naruto. Do you know anything about, summoning?"
"Not really. Is that what we are learning?" Jiraiya nodded.
"Summoning takes alot of chakra. Ordinarily, I wouldn't be teaching this to a simple genin. But if you can make that many clones without even looking winded, then you can summon." Jiraiya then takes his thumb and bites the end until it begins to bleed. Placing the blood on each finger tip on his hand, he raises it up into the air. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" he slammed his hand down onto the ground and a puff of smoke instantly appeared. Once it cleared, there stood Jiraiya, on top of an enormous toad. In it's mouth he held a massive scroll.
The toad unrolled his tongue which was holding the scroll and placed the it on the ground.
"This here is called a 'summoning contract'. Before you can even think about summoning anything, you must sign a summoning contract in order to actually do it. All you need to do is open the scroll, put some of your own blood onto your finger, and write your name in blood on one of the empty spaces."
Naruto obeyed every ordered that he was given. After putting the final touches on his name in blood, the scroll rolled back up and went back into the toads mouth. The toad then puffed away in the smoke and Naruto was left alone with his sensei again.
"Ok, now that that's done. Let's see if you can summon one. Place blood onto your finger tips, perform the needed hand signs, then place the hand on the ground while saying Kuchiyose no Jutsu while concentrating chakra into your hand. Think yo ucan handle it."
The blonde replied with a smirk. Jiraiya showed him the hand signs, Naruto duplicated them, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" his hand hit the ground and a puff of smoke appeared like before. When the smoke appeared, there was only one thing different between Jiraiya's toad and Naruto's. The size.
"Congradulations. You've managed to summon a toad. THE SIZE OF A DANGO!!" the toad was nothing more than a few inches wide, and it looked like any other toad you could find around the creek. "I thought you would have at least summoned one half your size. But no, that seems to be too much for you."
"Hey, I did the best I could. It's not my fault that it came out to be nothing but this!"
"YES IT DOES! The kind of toad depends on how much chakra you put into the summon. But put too much into it and no toad will come to you unless you have the toad boss's consent. And since you haven't even summoned him yet. You better get in some practice. But for now, we're done with summoning. I want you to spend the rest of the time we have doing your water walking exercise. The better your chakra control, the easier you can summon the toad boss." with a huff, Naruto reluctantly obeyed and went to the creek. Meanwhile, Jiraiya looked back over the bushes to see if anything new arrived. He sighed to see no one returned. He had to resort to watching this genin fail at the water walking excercise. Jiraiya let out another sigh.
The time passed, and Naruto still hadn't managed to cross the creek. He was wet from head to toe in his trunks and very frustrated that he spent three whole hours straight on just this one thing and still couldn't do it right.
Jiraiya gave out a long yawn as he stretched himself out. He then stood up, "Time's up Naruto. We'll try finishing this by the end of the week."
"Dangit." Naruto punched the water, "Why can't I do this!?" he was really mad about this. He's been doing this exact same exercise for an entire week now and still made practically no progress at all. He just couldn't seem to get it down. He tried everything, but nothing had worked. He just, couldn't control his chakra. Like Jiraiya, he let out a sigh, packed up, and went back to his apartment with his head bowed down. Tomorrow was going to be a long day. He could feel.
Morning again. Hinata was making her way to the training grounds to train with Chichi once more. And as she did, she continued off her thoughts that she had yesterday.
'Why would he help me? I can tell he's not getting any better. And I'm not even in the finals so that's not the reason he chose me. Could it be that he saw my match with Neji? When I first felt the Tenyomon open, he must have wanted to help me improve it. Yeah, that's just probably it.' without thinking, her hand went to cover her heart, 'But still. I feel that there is more to it. It feels like-like my heart is racing whenever I think about him or Naruto. Is it because, that I have feelings for him just like I do for Naruto?' the Hyuuga then remembered what Chichi said when they started training.
'...tell the person who you admire how you truly feel about them.'
'Yes.' she stood erect and her face turned serious, 'That is how I truly feel about him. And I will tell him, today.'
She had reached her destination. Looking around, Chichi was nowhere to be found. She thought that was normal of Chichi as she was usually the earlier of the two. So she went to sitting up against one of the trees thinking over what she was going to say.
She waited for the gray haired shinobi...and waited...and waited.
"Well Naruto. Good morning to you. I trust you had a good sleep?" Musuko was oddly friendly today to his student, and Naruto noticed that right off the bat.
"What's going on sensei? You're not acting like you usually do." the blonde ninja scratched his head trying to figure out the reason.
"That's because we're going to try something new today." the sky ninja turned and signaled Naruto to follow. Musuko lead him into the forested area of the grounds.
When they had arrived, Naruto noticed someone leaning up against a tree.
"Ah, Brother Chichi. You made it. That's good."
"Hurry up with this. I got to be somewhere right now."
"Oh yes, your training of course." Musuko reverted his gaze to his student, "Naruto, have you ever heard of sealing jutsus?" said ninja nodded in reply, "Good. Because this is not one of those jutsus."
Just then, Naruto could not move his arms. Turning around, he saw Chichi had him in a submission hold.
"Hey! What do you think you are doing?!" Chichi did not respond.
"We are going to do something called a 'Gyakufuin Jutsu'. (Reverse Sealing Technique) You see, this jutsu reverses the effects of all sealing jutsus. For example, a sound seal would not let sound exit from an area. But this would reverse it so that no one in the area could hear sound at all. Or if some one was to seal say, a demon into something. I could bring it out."
Naruto's eyes widened as Musuko raised his orange shirt. The sky ninja formed his left hand into a claw. Blue chakra then surrounded the finger tips.
"Gyakufuin Jutsu!" Musuko plunged his clawed hand into the spiral of Naruto's seal. The chakra covered areas of the fingers sunk into the skin, but showing no signs of peircing the flesh. Was they sunk in, Musuko began turning his hand in a clockwise rotation, and with his hand the seal turned as well. After it had turned a complete 180 degrees, the white haired shinobi pulled out his hand and Chichi released Naruto.
Naruto fell to his knees holding his stomach in pain. He placed one hand on the ground for support, but when he looked at his hand, he saw something; red fur. The fur continued growing up his arm, then it started growing on his other hand. Naruto had now completely forgot the pain in his stomach as he watch his body become covered in fur. Then he noticed that a tail began growing from his behind, then another. His arms by instinct fell to the ground and moved into the position that an animals forelegs would be in. His face extended forward, his canines grew, his ears became pointy. He cried out one last time. But he did not let out a scream, he let out a roar.
Standing in front of the two sky ninjas was the powerful nine-tailed fox demon, Kyuubi.
"You placed the silence barrier correct?" Musuko asked his brother.
"First thing I did when I got here." Chichi replied. "Good." Musuko looked up to the behemoth of a fox.
The fox turned his head back and forth examining his surroundings, then down to see his paws.
"At last. I have been released." the fox demon let out a magnificent roar.
"Actually, you have not." Kyuubi's roar stopped as he looked down to see Musuko. He raised his tail up as to make a swipe, but Musuko interrupted, "No no no. If you even try to make an offense, you go straight back into the seal." Musuko remained where he stood.
"The seal has been broken. I am free to do as I please once again."
"No. The seal has only been reversed for a period of time. And that period depends on the way you behave. Besides, I have a propasition for you." Kyuubi's massive tail lowered back to wear it once was.
"You? You have set me free for a mere deal?" anger rising in the fox's voice.
"I told you. I did not set you free. I could have done that, but the Fourth seemed to have been very good with seals. This one I was lucky to get you out for ten minutes. But that is still plenty of time to give you the proposal." Kyuubi's paw began to move towards Musuko, "Ah ah ah. I can send you right back into the boys seal anytime I want, and then we'll right back where we started."
With a small huff to Kyuubi, but a mighty gust to the sky ninjas, the demon reluctantly complied, "What is it that you wish?"
"You have not been pulling your weight in this life. Naruto has lived a life worst than Hell itself since he was born. And all that because of you."
"I have given him an increase amount of chakra. I paid my due."
"Yes. But just to keep him alive just enough. Nothing else."
"What are you getting at human?"
"I know what you want, and I am willing to help you get it."
Kyuubi's eyes straightened at Musuko's own and he lowered his head to almost touching the ground, "How could you possibly know what I want. I want out of this wretched prison!"
"That's not what you truly want though." a pause fell between the two, "What you want is to have the old days back. You want to show your power to everyone and everything on this planet. You want them to fear you, worship you for your power, truly know that there is a true force to be reconned with and cannot be stopped by any mortal. You want that feeling of absolute rule once more."
"You have peaked my interest."
"True, your original form is gone and can never be truly free. But you now have a new form, you've had it for thirteen years now, and you've only used it once. Give Naruto your power. True that it won't be your name that everyone comes to fear, but just think that you have been reincarnated. Reincarnated inside a human being that truly has the ability to become the most powerful thing in the world. You will once again have your absolute rule, people will flee on sight when they see Naruto. And those foolish to fight you will suffer a death unimaginable."
"You speak with wisdom beyond your years."
"I know. I hate it too."
Kyuubi raised his head back up and went into a sitting position, "Very well then, I shall give him my power. But on one condition. I will only give him a small amount as of now, the rest will come only when he finds his will to truly kill. He will never be feared if he never kills. Therefore, I will wait for that day to come."
"Agreed. Since the deal is done, and we still have another three minutes. What else would you like to talk about?"
"Heh. I like you kid. You show no fear, even though you are speaking to me. Most would have already pissed their pants by now."
"Fangirls, that's all I have to say." both shivered thinking about what they were truly capable of.
"Wait." a sudden silence. Kyuubi put his nose in the air sniffing it.
"Somthing the matter your foxiness?"
"There's a bijuu within this village. It's strong."
"I think I know what you might be smelling. Me and my brothers sensed it when we were in the Forest of Death on the first day. It felt like it was coming from that sand ninja.
"No. The sand demon is Shukaku, and I know his scent. This is different, this is a scent I have not sensed before. Is this...no, it can't be."
"What?!" Musuko was getting nervous now. But before Kyuubi could answer, he fell to the ground in pain. The hair on his body began receeding and his size began to shrink back into the body of Naruto. The Gyakufuin's time was up.
Naruto layed on the ground out cold. Chichi had vanished as soon as the seal's time was up. Musuko was standing in front of his student waiting for him to wake. Sakura was standing behind a tree knees shaking and hands over her mouth in a gasp.
'Naruto...Musuko...what are you?'
Chichi reached the training grounds hoping to apologize to Hinata for being so late. Knowing her, she would forgive him. But when he arrived to greet his sparring partner, she was no where to be found. Thinking that she got tired of waiting and went back to her home, Chichi ventrued on to the compound. This got Chichi a little bit more worried.
When he had reached the compound entrance, he was stopped by two Hyuuga standing as guards.
"I wish to see Hinata Hyuuga." Chichi said.
"I am sorry, but we have strict orders not to allow a boy into the compound that fits your description." Chichi was surprised, he was not allowed in. Someone was not happy with him.
"Look, I'm going to see Hinata. One way or another." Chichi's threat became null as Hiashi, the clan leader and Hinata's father, came to greet the sky ninja.
"You must be Brother Chichi. I have heard lots about you from Hinata."
"Yes, that is who I would like to see, sir. But your guards will not allow me in."
"Their order did not come from me. My daughter made it. She is the heiress to this clan and therefore has the right to give only a few orders. If she wishes that you are not to enter, then you are not to enter."
Chichi began shuffling through his pocket now, "Very well then. But could you-could you just give her this for me." he hands Hiashi a small box.
Hiashi looks at it for a moment, then responds, "She is busy at the moment, but I will put it on her bed to make sure she recieves it."
Chichi gave a bow in means of a thank you. Hiashi returned the bow with a bow of his head, dismissing the sky ninja.
Hinata was walking out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body and a second one in her hands drying off her hair. Her movements were slow and weak like as if her whole body was in sorrow. When she sat down onto her bed finishing up her drying, she felt something hit her side. Looking down, she noticed a small box with a paper attached to it. Untying the letter, Hinata opened it up and read what it said:
Hey Hinata, it's Chichi
Inside this case is something that I hold dear to me. I believe you deserve to have it. Because even though we have only known each other for only two weeks or so, both of us probably feel it's been much much longer than that. I just want you to have this and hope you accept it as I have accepted you.
Hinata opened said box and looked inside, she let out a small gasp and placed her hand over her mouth. Tears started falling as she saw what was inside; a diamond. The diamond was in the shape of a tear drop and was attached by a golden chain that looped around to make a necklace. Hinata pulled the necklace out from its case and examined the beautiful jewel. It reflected off the light as each surface faced the sunlight peeking through the window. Hinata was so overwhelmed with the necklace and Chichi's behavior that she bursted into tears burying her head into her pillow while still holding onto the necklace.
Without her noticing, the diamond began to glow. Right after that, the diamond let out a bright light. Once the light diminished, Hinata heard a familiar voice.
"Hmm. So this is what her room looks like." Hinata lifted her head from her pillow to see Chichi standing with his back to her. Filled with anger of what happened earlier that morning and the fear that he could possibly see her like this, she got off her bed with great speed, pushed the sky ninja through the door and slammed it shut behind him. "Hinata! Opened the door, please." Chichi asked banging on the door.
"No, go away. I don't want to see you right now."
"Hinata, I can't."
"Why?" Hinata's voice is starting to crack, "Why not?"
"Because you shoved into the closet." Hinata made a thud on the door as she hit her head on it, "Hinata, if this is because I was late for the training. I needed to do something for my brother and I lost track of time. Hinata, I'm sorry.
"But I did keep track of time. I sat next to that tree, waiting. Waiting to say...to say..." she stopped talking as she started to sniff and sob.
'Bugger. Don't tell me that she was going to say that? Of all the days to miss!' the door opened up and Hinata was seen with her head bowed down in sadness.
"I like you. I really do like you. That's what I wanted to say to you. ...Please," trying to hold back the tears, "leave."
Chichi got out of the closet. He stopped in front of Hinata and turned. The next thing that Hinata knew, she was in Chichi's arms in an embrace. She started pouring out her tears as she rested her head onto Chichi's chest. "Heh, this is kind of funny. Only two days ago, I was in your position. We've both been hurt. You were hurt in your heart, I was in spirit. Both of which cannot be healed by simple words, but by actions. A simple hug from a friend can be all that one needs. That's what we are Hinata, friends, and maybe something even more." Hinata looked up at the boy. Chichi brushed away a tear falling down her face, "Come stop your crying, it'll be alright. My arms will hold you and keep you safe. Remember Hinata, this bond between us can't be broken. I will be here. Because you will be in my heart. From this day forth, now and forever more." he lifts her hand holding the necklace and takes it. He lifts the necklace over her head and places it around her neck. "Beautiful. It truly is."
Hinata looks down at the diamond. He was right, it really was beautiful on her. From the wonderful gift that she just got, she started crying again.
"Like that jewel, when you need me, I will always be close to you as that necklace is." Hinata's tears stopped flowing as she looked at Chichi with sparkling eyes and a smile, "Hinata? Are you-" he could not continue as a pair of lips had stopped his own from moving, Hinata's lips to be exact. The kiss was short (A/N: no tongue, sickos), but it felt as if it went on for hours. When she removed herself, there was a huge blush on Hinata's face, and there was a blush as well on Chichi's face. "I'm guessin that you have forgiven me?" Hinata giggled and nodded yes. Just then, she remembered something very important; she was still just in a towel.
"Umm, Chichi. Not to sound rude, but, I'm still in my towel and..."
"Say no more, I'll see you tomorrow then?" Hinata nodded once more, and with that Chichi went out the correct door.
Hinata fell back onto her bed, feeling lighter than a feather and happier than if she had if she had kissed Naruto. Wait. What about Naruto? Did she still have feelings for him? Or had that all just been some sort of fangirl phase? Looking down at her chest, she saw the necklace again. She then knew that there was no doubt. She truly only cared for Chichi. He was her friend, he recongnized her for her and not an heiress. He was the first to ever give her a present this great. And he was the first to ever share his feelings to her, not to mention cry in her arms. Chichi was indeed the one for her, and no one else would tell her otherwise. She grasped the diamond tear and smiled from ear to ear in joy.
"Awww. My stomach." Naruto groaned as he had finally woken up, "What happened to me?"
"Bad ramen I think." Musuko said, "You just fell down in the middle of our training exercise. That little accident of yours had lost us a lot of time. So I guess we'll just continue with your water walking." Naruto groaned again, but not because of his stomach. He knew he would be getting no where with this stupid exercise.
Getting into his swimsuit, he headed to put his first foot into the water.
"Just relax and concentrate on keeping your feet above the water." Musuko instructed. Naruto simply shrugged it off, as he knew he wouldn't get far anyways. He had completely given up on this exercise, to him, it was useless.
But since his teacher told him to, he had to. He put out a foot and placed it on the water. He moved it forward some more as he accidently hit the ground. Once again, he had hit the ground. Naruto was a bit confused as well as angry about why he was hitting the ground instead of water. Looking down, those two emotions turned to shock and delight.
His foot had touched the water, but the landing was so firm that it felt like he was walking on the ground. He took andother step, not one ripple was made, and his foot didn't even go down a centimeter into the water. He took and another, and another. He started running around on top of the water, not once had he even moved downward into the water.
He did it! He didn't know how he did it, but he did it. One day he was barely keeping his feet above the water for ten steps, now he can run around without even thinking that there is water underneath him. Finally, he had completed the water walking exercise.
"Sensei! I'm doing it, I'm actually doing it!" Naruto was grinning the biggest grin he could make.
Musuko shared in his grin, 'So, Kyuubi kept his part of the deal.' clapping his hands, Musuko caught Naruto's attention, "Good job. You have finally completed the exercise. Our training for today is done, Tomorrow, we will start on the Taifuu Kasoku again." Naruto grin went even wider, if that was at all possible. With an almost skip to his step now, Naruto ran off to the ramen stand. Musuko was glad that Naruto had no memory of his attack, and yet, Musuko was somewhat worried. Something got to the Kyuubi, but the question was; What?
We find Jiraiya sitting behind a bush once again with his notebook out. He had found more girls that decided to play in the creek that day. He was in the middle of writing down possibly his best book ever, but was interrupted by a "Hey!" Jiraiya dived down back into the brush as not to be detected, he turned around to see that it was once again Naruto.
"I seem to be able to sneak up on a ninja higher than a Jounin." Naruto said to himself, but mocking Jiraiya at the same time, "Either you aren't really even Jounin level, or I'm much higher than Jounin myself."
"Shut up you little brat. I have already told you not to sneak up on me when I'm doing research! And beside that it's early, why are you even here?"
"My sensei let me out early. I needed to you to show me the handsigns for the summoning jutsu again."
"Please, last time we tried this, your toad was smaller than the one before."
"But I believe I can do this time. Please, just give me one more chance."
Jiraiya pondered over this. Why bother, it won't hurt anyone, "Alright. Once more, but if you don't summon any thing even near the size of you, then it's back to the water walking exercise." Naruto nodded accepting the deal. And with that, Jiraiya showed this student the signs once more for summoning.
Naruto followed his instructions perfectly. Slamming his hand down on the ground, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" an massive cloud of smoke appeared, covering most of the area. And when the smoke cleared, Jiraiya himself was surprised what had appeared.
"Oi. Who has summoned me?" an old voice came from a unbelievably giant toad wearing a cloak and a pipe in it's mouth. This is what Naruto had summoned.
"Yo Gamabunta! It's me Jiraiya." the old ninja yelled out to the toad.
"Jiraiya? Have you summoned me?" the toad asked.
"No, not this time. The one on top of your head has." the toad responded by looking up onto his head, there stood Naruto with his foxy grin.
"What! This puny child was the one who had summoned me! I will not accept this!" Gamabunta began shaking his body, trying to shake off the orange pimple on his head.
"Wait, Gamabunta. Give him a chance. Just yesterday, he was just summoning common toads and nothing more. Now, on his first summon since then, he has summon you. Now I don't know, but I think that is quite a leap in my book."
"Hmm." the toad took a puff of his pipe as he thought, "Yes, that would be indeed quite a leap. But he is still needs to have a drink with me in order to seal the deal."
"WHAT!?" Naruto cried out, "I'm not even of age yet!"
"Do not worry, when you are of age the deal with be set. But until then, you may only summon my family for battles that are absolutely neccesary, and you owe me a drink." with that, the toad disappeared into another puff of smoke and giving Naruto a hard landing on the ground.
"Well, congradulations Naruto. You have successfully summoned your first true toad. And that one toad just happened to be the toad boss. Believe me when I say, I am really proud of you." Jiraiya shuffled up the blonde's hair with a smile of satisfaction. Naruto smiled as well. "Well, I guess I can give you a day off today. You deserve it." Naruto bowed farewell and ran off to where ever. "That kid has got real potential."
Training had continued on for Naruto under the tutelage of both Musuko and Jiraiya for the rest of the month. He had come to fully develop his Taifuu Kasoku thanks to his success in the water exercise. Musuko has been sparring partners with him from then on so as to not overflow Naruto's inventory with techniques. Jiraiya has also been teaching the blonde about stealth and hos to gather information on the target, but really it was just peeping and writing down what was going on. Naruto did not want to have any part of that at all. He had improved greatly over the next few months and could possibly already be at chunin level, but that was for the finals to decide.
Hinata and Chichi remained friends, but now instead of leaving with a simple good bye, they give each other hugs or the occasional kiss on the cheek. Hinata had completely mastered the Jyuuken style of fighting after about two weeks, and she has also added some extra stuff into it to make it her own. The style even rubbed of on Chichi, as the fact that attacking the pressure points of the human body with just poking at the body was all to him intruiging. The two also began spending more time with each other outside of training, sometimes even with the rest of team 8.
Sasuke, as we have not mentioned him at all, has been training with Kakashi. But with the strange curse mark intervening with the training, Kakashi had no choice but to place on the mark a sealing technique to prevent the marks influence over Sasuke. Though a bit furiated that he could not use the mark again, Kakashi reassured the Uchiha that is was better that he didn't use it.
Seirei had stopped going to the top of the Hokage Monument, which made it harder for Temari to find him. He was pretty hard to find for most everybody, even for his brothers. It was as if he did not want to be seen by the village.
Sakura has been remained terrified of the sight that she had saw with Naruto and Musuko. She just wanted to find out as to what Naruto and Musuko were doing and possibly ask if she could join. But when she reached the woods to find him, then it happened and a giant red fox resembling the one in her textbook appeared from Naruto. She was confused as to what to do. So she made sure she kept her distance between herself and the sky ninjas and Naruto until she was ready to confront them.
The time has passed, and all have gathered to the arena to see the Chunin Exam finals. It was truly promised to be the time of their life. Especially for the people of Konoha.
done and done! over 20,000 words in this one chapter. The most I have ever written. Even for my schools short-story project.
As you can see, Chichi's pairing has already been made, and there will be no harems. I have already decided about Musuko's pairing as well. But the true question that I have for my readers is if Seirei should get hooked up. I am torn between these three choices:
- He will be paired up with Temari and Kankuro is gonna get pissed.
- He already has a love one in his own village, which will take a longer to time to reveal.
- Or save the mushy gushy stuff and say he has no pairing and is flying solo.
This choice will be left to readers out there. I have plans made for either one of them, so I'm am not favoring any choice right now. Please vote in the polls and not as a review. I would rather have flames than just votes showing up as reviews. But please don't flame, and please vote, and please review. Until next chapter which I can't promise will be shorter. Also, I am looking for Beta Readers. If anyone is interested, please send me a private message. The beta searcher is down as of now.
Until we meet again, so long.