Of Trees and Frost
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter Seventeen: The Training, Part Three
Naruto spun a kunai around on his finger. Clones disappeared right and left around him, the new jutsu he was working on failing once again. "Naruto, come take a break would you?" called Haku. "I need to talk to you any ways." Naruto sighed and put away the weapon. He went through the door of the huge dojo he made using one of his Tree jutsu to see Anko and Haku waiting for him.
"What is it?"
"Well Naruto, I was talking to Anko at the party two weeks ago." started Haku before Anko activated a Flashback Jutsu.
"Hey Haku, how's it with you and Naruto?"
"It's going pretty good considering its Naruto." they laughed at the joke. Haku moved on to the reason she had come over here. "You like him don't you?"
"What, Naruto, you're kidding me?" she said, waving her arms back and forth.
"Anko-sensei, don't lie to me." Anko sighed and chugged a bottle of sake in one gulp.
"I don't know if 'like' is the word. I don't think I love him but I have more then just a simple crush on him." she looked so confused at this point.
"Anko-sensei, I know he cares for you a lot. Maybe we could, I don't know, share him." Anko was dumb struck. She let the words sink in before grabbing Haku in a big hug.
"THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!"
"Sensei, put me…down. Can't…breath." Anko let Haku go and let her catch her breath. "We'll have to…get him to say yes…though." she said as Anko headed to start the Karaoke competition.
"Anko, Haku, I love you both, and I would be incredibly happy to date you both." he looked at their smiling faces and gave each a kiss. "Now leave so I can train!"
(Sasuke)
Kakashi and Genma clones surrounded Sasuke, who had his two tomoe Sharingan activated. He calmly lifted up his left arm as the clones surrounded him. An acid green colored whip dripped down from his clawed fingers as he let small doses of Youki flow through him. The clones all jumped at him in unison. In a flash of green, the whip cut them to shreds.
Those clones were only at Genin speed. Next, clones using Chuunin speed attacked him. One got to close and he jammed his green claws of his right hand into the clone. "Acid Spike!" a line of green energy split the Kakashi in half as Sasuke increased his speed.
"Jutsu time." yelled one of the clones. All of the clones of Kakashi made a different set of hand seals and shot different Fire Style attacks at Sasuke. Said boy closed his eyes. When he opened them, they were blood red and his face became more angled. He let out a roar as a cyclone of purple chakra surrounded him.
"Fire, cease your path of destruction!" the wall of fire circled Sasuke, bending to his will. But then it exploded backwards as Sasuke used the Gobi chakra to become a one tailed, the fire tail, Sesshomaru.
"Sasuke, that's cheating!" the wolf laughed and ran towards the original two. He jumped high in the air towards them, shifting back (actually against his will) to his human form a few feet from them and planting a foot in both faces. He fell on to the ground, unconsciousness draining the life from his eyes and lolling him into sleep.
(Gaara)
His Shukaku arm grew from the gourd, smashing into any thing and every thing in the world of his mind. "Hehe! Gaara is good! Shukaku give Gaara gift! Give Gaara Stronger Sand! Iron Sand, make stronger Shukaku out of!"
Gaara smiled a grin of excitement that hinted craziness. He was pushed out of his mind and instead of a sphere made of sand it was a gray metal circle. He had seen pictures of such sand in his village's history books and autobiographies on the Third Kazekage.
"Iron Sand Rain!" his jutsu fell apart around him and shot into the air, forming a cloud of gray. It started to fall apart as bullets of sand impacted the ground. Gaara smiled, a smile of a Jinchuuriki who lost control but regained it, all because of one person.
(Yugito)
Yugito's team mates fought her clone while she fought her sensei. She threw a kick towards his side but he smacked it away. A kunai hit his vest. It bounced off harmlessly and he jumped away to protect the bag of fake blood under the vest.
This was a tradition in Cloud. Practice killing by using bags of fake blood under the armor. Though it did cause some to get a homophobia, it was a very effective technique and kept ninja alive in a large battle. "Almost had me there pussy cat." he taunted, throwing a rain of kunai.
"SONIC SCREECH!" she hate that nickname, hated it! Her sensei refused to call her Yugito unless she did well. So she countered his move with on of the Nibi's. A blast of chakra enhanced sound waves sent the kunai back at him.
The waves hit, since they were near invisible and he couldn't see them, and sliced up his shirt, making the fake blue blood pour out. She noticed red was starting to mix in and stopped.
"That's it, no pokey for you Yugito!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" the man gulped when she turned into a giant two tailed cat.
"Did I say no pokey for Yugito? I meant no pokey for the Riakage." she shifted back and took his wallet from the tree on the edge of the clearing.
"Thanks sensei, because Konoha has the best and most expensive pokey in the Elemental Countries."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he screamed, feeling the pain as his wallet flattened bit by bit with each bill.
(Urusai)
The three shadows shifting through the fog were his only indication of their movements. In his hands he held a sword with a large blade, longer then a zanbato blade, colored white with a red handle. He felt the spirit inside it. Inside this sword was the soul of his mother and his true eyes. "One day, you will return to me." he spoke to it.
He grabbed the handle of the sword and dug the tip into the soft ground, spinning in a circle. Moans of pain and agonizing howls ripped apart the silence. White hands flew out and grabbed the three people inside the mist. He released the jutsu before the aura ripped out their souls.
"My son, you are progressing fast." Urusai covered his War Eyes with his head band, turned, and bowed to his father.
"Thank you Lord Tsuchikage. It is an honor to hear you say that." the older man snapped his fingers and a dome of earth surrounded them. As soon as darkness claimed them, Urusai pulled his head band back up and gave his father a hug. "Mother came to me when I used the move father. I don't know if I can use it in the invasion."
"I'm not forcing you Urusai. We can find another way." Urusai sniffed and pulled his head band back down.
"No, I will do it." he put his mask on. "Has Akira come back yet?"
"I'm afraid she has gone after Deidara son. She is a traitor." Urusai slipped a little further into the emptiness. 'Must all my precious people be killed or abandon me?'
"I'm going for a walk father."
"I shall stay here and talk to your sensei." the dome slipped away and Urusai slipped away from the group. His sword was strapped to his back when he encountered her. She had platinum blonde hair and a Cloud head band.
"Are you Urusai?" they glared at each other, she being unaffected by the Kekkai Genkai created by her tenant. Urusai felt heat in his cheeks and was glad he wore his mask as he examined her body.
"Yugito, would you like to go on a date some time?" the question caught her off guard.
"Urusai, I think I would like that very much." she ran away, a smile on her face and her heart fluttering. He felt a pulse from the sword, stronger then the ones he usually got when he talked to Yugito. It made him wonder. He was supposed to capture another's heart. Was he to kill Yugito?
(Temari and Kankuro)
Kankuro was sitting at the table, working on his secret puppet. So far, it had a red wing decorated with seals, a large arm with a shield, a set of broad swords, thousands of needles, one hundred and eighty six different poisons, and a large gattling gun. "Almost done with my Fire Angel puppet Temari."
"Yeah, that's real nice Kankuro." She was outside the doorway, trying to get the Dragon Cyclone attack Kagura was teaching her right. She wanted to do it with her large fan but was forced to do it with a small fan. She managed to get a single lizard of Wind on the last one, so she was getting better.
"Keep trying Temari and I'll move you up a fan size soon." encouraged Kagura.
"Very good design Kankuro. That wing interests me the most. I have a very special part to add to it if you get done by the end of the week." chimed in Chiyo, happy to pass on her knowledge to her bone kin. The Yondaime Kazekage was on the roof, lying down with his hands behind his head while listening to the praise his mother gave his son and the woman that appeared in the village encouraged his daughter.
'My dear wife, if only you could see how strong our children are. Gaara especially.' he thought he saw a star twinkle but put it off as his eyes playing tricks on him. 'I wish I hadn't killed you. I could have sealed him into Gaara another way or used my own jutsu to bind him to Gaara's servitude but I was a foolish bastard. Please, forgive me.' he saw the star twinkle again and thought he saw his wife smiling down on him.
(Deidara)
The last jutsu on the scroll he stole from Iwagakure was finally his to control. He fired barrages of small clay orbs out of his mouth and let them impact on the trees, detonating on impact. Then he started one last jutsu. The mouths in his palms expanded with small pulses and he had to put them on the ground. Soon two demons stood in front of him.
"Summoning: Earth Fangs!" the faces of the two demons were just large fanged mouths. Their bodies were hidden by large purple cloaks but the smell of rotting sewage and decaying flesh mixed with burnt popcorn rose from the sleeves. They suddenly jumped in the river and each came back with mouths full of food.
"Deidara, dismiss them, right now!" demanded the Kakashi clone he was working with.
"But why?" the clone pointed at the river. It had started to boil and become a swamp, polluted with dead fish rising rapidly to the surface. Deidara heaved his lunch and dispelled the summons. Now he knew what the F symbol next to a jutsu meant.
(Haku)
Haku and Anko were sparring with each other. Haku managed to freeze one arm and Anko was hard pressed to fight back. She swung the frozen arm into Haku's stomach and headed for the trees. She tossed a kunai at a tree and it caught fire. Anko hid behind the flames as her arm melted. Now she would get serious.
(Hinata)
"Alright Hinata, I was looking through the clan library when I found this." he handed her a small piece of paper. It suddenly crumbled and a large puddle formed around her feet. "Do you know what that was?"
"Yes, we learned about them in the academy. It tests your chakra to see what elements your chakra relates best to."
"Very good Hinata." it was a new concept to praise Hinata to Hiashi but he tried, and that's all a father can do, right? "As I was saying, I was looking through the library. That was the first thing I found." 'She has a Water affinity close to the Isonade. Her Earth affinity is high as well, so this should be interesting.'
"Your mother was a Hyuuga genius because she created a style of the Gentle Fist that requires affinities like yours. It's called, 'Dance of the Flowing Water Blood Style' and it focuses around three key moves. I want you to learn this style and make your mother's spirit live on." he handed her four medium sized scrolls and she greedily took them and ran to her room.
Behind a wall, Hinabi deactivated her Byakugan. 'Why does she get mother's scrolls!? Why can't I use that style!? Why has that weakling surpassed me so quickly!?' Hinabi grabbed her head for a moment. Her Byakugan activated against her will and she felt a slight tingling behind them.
She looked in the mirror, confused. The normally white eyes were black and a strange seal spread over body. An evil voice laughed in her head before she fell down, some one else's memories flooding to her.
(Flashback)
Madara Uchiha dashed through the streets, his cloak trailing behind him. He was heading for the Uchiha district to remove the suppression seal on Sasuke. He dashed past the Hyuuga residence and stopped as he felt a small wave of killer intent, jealousy and rage mixed together. He activated his Sharingan and saw a small Hyuuga watching an older one beat down an older boy he knew as Neji Hyuuga. "This is a good opportunity to try out my new jutsu."
"Father, I'm going to my room." he heard her say. The head of the clan simply grunted and waved his hand to leave. The girl marched out of the dojo and down the hall, opening the door to her room. Madara rushed past the sentry and to her window. The little one hit a teddy bear and it exploded into the air.
Madara did the hand seals he copied from Orochimaru and extended out his neck. The girl never saw it coming. He bit into her neck and left a mark resembling the Hyuuga's Cage Bird seal surrounded by three small sphere-like markings.
"Child, I am Madara Uchiha. I give you power to grow strong, and you in turn will come seek me out. I will wait in Amegakure."
"OVER HERE MASTER HIASHI! I CAN SEE HIM!" yelled a sentry. He fell to the ground as Madara's Tsukuyomi stopped but it was too late. He disappeared in a flash of black fire to his village. Sasuke would have to wait.
(End Flashback)
Hinabi let a touch of crazy cover her features before she became emotionless and the marks receded to their resting seal. "Mistress Hinabi, the council requests your presence." some one said from the other side of the door.
Her Byakugan deactivated and she opened the door. The man behind it led her to the room where the Hyuuga Council met. A large table lay in a large circle of seals and candles burned around them.
"NO!" she knew this room. She tried to run but several Branch members stopped her. They carried her kicking and screaming to the table and strapped her down.
"I am sorry my dear daughter." Hinabi spit in Hiashi's face and flipped him off. The room glowed green from the light of the seals and she felt a huge amount of pain hit her forehead. She felt her Byakugan activate and turn into its black form. She saw on a mirror on the opposite wall the veins were gone and she had red rose shaped irises.
The Curse Seal was half finished when she broke free and glared at one of the Council Members. He fell to ground, clutching his forehead. She smiled, satisfied, for she knew that pain. Her new Byakugan made who ever she chose experience the pain of the Curse Seal, only worse. She ran from the room and compound and out of the village as fast as possible.
She would ask directions to Amegakure later.
(Shikamaru)
A hand of shadows ran up the tree and grabbed onto the wooden dummy. It caught the dummies throat and choked it. The head fell to the ground with on last hand sign. "Shikamaru, what was that last hand sign?"
"Snake, for quickness and pain." the hand, now holding a sword of shadows, returned to the blob of Shikamaru's own Shadow. Shikaku tapped his chin for a moment before giving Shikamaru a case of black liquid in twelve medium sized vials.
"This is a Nara clan potion. We call it Shadow Poison because who ever your shadow connects to is poisoned. Just swallow a small amount and BAM, your shadow is even more dangerous." Shikamaru put the vials in a sealing scroll and yawned. He leaned against the trees, thinking about what it must be like to become a cloud.
(Sai)
The last remaining squads of ROOT were under the control of the Sandaime's teammates. Currently, they were teaching Sai Kenjutsu. "Let the sword become a part of your body, as if extending your arm into the metal. Use your chakra to increase the cut if the need calls." his instructor called out tips such as this. Sai was getting very aggravated. That man would just NOT shut up!
"Are you listening to me!?" Sai snapped and dug the sword into the ground, sending down a line of blue energy to the liquid below.
"Ninja Art: Ink Geyser!" the black moisture rocketed up from his feet and sent the man up into the air. Sai did one more hand seal and turned the ink into hundreds of hot girls with big breasts and no clothes on. The man was entered into the hospital an hour later for severe blood loss.
"That was a foolish move." called Yamato from the tree.
"But it was cool looking."
(Shino)
"Shino, now that you've recovered from the huge dose of poison, I'm going to teach you our clan's most powerful jutsu, the Armor of the Scarab Beetle." ignoring the glare his son gave him at the mention of the poison, he flared his chakra on the circle of seals and they appeared in a sandy wasteland with golden pyramids in different directions.
"Father, where are we?"
"This is the world of Egypt son. Now the hive I gave you has room for one more kind of insect. Find the Scarab Beetle and fill that section with them. Here, I'll show you what they look like." he pulled out a small beetle with golden wings.
"I shall not fail Father."
(End)