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Chapter-28-Strengthening the Defenses
"Even with three tomoes…..you couldn't see my attack," said Naruto with a smirk as he continued to walk forward while his shadow clone which he put quite a chakra in was standing in guard for Anko and Temari.
"Shutup loser!," growled Sasuke as dark purple chakra started to leak out of the enraged Uchiha, who had quite some bruises, blood flowing down his forehead while his robes were torn in several places. Naruto though immediately lost his smirk, involuntarily the images of an injured Anko and Temari flashing through his mind making him clench his fists tightly. Raising his own chakra levels, with his white chakra now flaring around his body as a small crater formed beneath his feet…..he growled with a cold tone that sent chills down the Uchiha's spine, his index finger pointing in their direction.
"You're going down teme, both of you!," a firm serious expression on his face while his Rinnegan was activated. Sasuke though shuffled his feet in anticipation and a bit of nervousness for he knew how strong much his ex-blonde teammate was, even though he would never willingly admit it.
'This time...I'm not gonna attack just head on like the last time, I'll have to remain calm and collected here,' the Uchiha inwardly steeled himself as he glanced at the redhead yonbi jinchuriki standing beside him, the guy sporting an unfazed expression on his face.
'But still...this guy here, I hear he's on a whole other level. And his lava release is something to watch out for,' he further added to his thoughts while patiently waiting for Naruto to make a move who just kept glaring at them with his cold piercing eyes.
'I have to think of something to stop these Iwa and Suna shinobi to come through our defenses like that, and most probably they are creating a diversion at the gates and have created an underground passageway or something. We don't have any skilled Earth element users too except a few like Hana-chan...but that wouldn't be enough. What do I do? Even though I know how to do earth nature manipulation, I couldn't control the element earlier effectively due to only pseudo second level unlocking...but now I'm confused. Do I have now full affinity for Earth element or a half affinity for the last fire element...argh! I don't even have a chakra paper to test it! All of my unsealed clones as well as just now created clones were dispelled earlier due to my condition, though Kaa-san's shadow clones are still providing a significant resistance but for how much longer, they just keep coming out of no where! At the gates however, we have things under control as per the memories of my clones...I got it! I can just summon the Earth's boss dragon to find a possible underground tunnel and destroy it seeing as...that is IF I have the full affinity here. Oh well, let's just see then,' the blonde jinchuriki thought, his mind running mile a minute as he planned for any possible solution to these endless reinforcements arriving out of nowhere. He could see that the average jounins and chunins were at their limits while elite jounins like Kakashi, fire queens and Gai were slowly getting exhausted too.
Going through set of several handseals at a fast blurred pace, he said...
"Doton: Doryuudan (Earth Release: Earth Dragon Projectile)," while Sasuke's tomoes spun rapidly as he tried to copy the technique making Naruto smirk at the Uchiha.
'Very unlikely Sasuke...you only have two major affinities, even if you do manage to copy it, like Itachi-nii said, that would be the weakest form of the technique combine to the fact that Earth is not your strong affinity, it's not going to work,' thought the blonde as he put the required amount of chakra...no, what he usually put in this technique expecting somewhat improved results. Though what he got completely took the whiskered user by surprise for just as he had moulded the chakra, a HUGE dragon made of a mixture of sand and hard earth particles rose from the pile of sand before, as controlled by Naruto, it went at lightning speeds towards the standing duo.
'What the fuck! Now earth element too!,' thought Sasuke with a frustrated expression as he watched the earth dragon come at him at speeds what would be extremely impressive considering it's huge structure.
Roshi jumped out of the way while Sasuke too, using his fully matured Sharingan dodged it easily as the dragon continued to head towards where other battles were taking place.
Naruto though, who was holding his hand in the rooster seal to maintain the technique as well as control the dragon had an awed expression on his face.
Meanwhile, the Earth dragon roared over the other groups containing Konoha and mostly Iwa & Suna who were fighting amongst themselves. Though all current actions stopped when they noticed a large shadow forming on their forms. Turning their heads, their eyes went wide upon gazing at the menacing dragon whose eyes were glowing with chakra, it's mouth open when suddenly an idea clicked in Naruto's head when he remembered Kushina's lesson on collaborating elemental techniques with each other. Releasing the rooster one, he again went through some handseals before ending them on the monkey one.
"Raiton: Kangekiha (Lightening Release: Inspiration Wave), he exclaimed while pouring the lightning natured moulded chakra into the earth technique. The effects were instantaneous as a ball of glowing blue lightning started to form inside the earth dragon's mouth making the shinobi amongst which Konoha shinobi were present too, panic.
"What's that thing?," yelled one incredulous Konoha jounin, thinking of it as an attack by another Iwa nin, rooted to their spots as they thought of a possibe escape while the Iwa and Suna nins had dropped their guards thinking it was the work of one of their comrades when suddenly the earth dragon fired off a concentrated beam of lightning.
BOOM!
Leaf jounin's jaws were on the ground as they saw the dragon which was supposed to attack them, decimate half of the enemy troops in a matter of seconds while the other half couldn't believe their eyes.
"W-Why is it attacking us?," exclaimed another Iwa jounin who was standing amongst the remaining half as they watched the dragon collide itself into the dusty area where it had fired the attack previously, completely shattering all hopes of the those squished nins surviving such attack.
"Kurenai...did you see that?," muttered Hana who was now panting a bit when the red eyed jounin replied.
"How did he do that? I thought he couldn't control the earth element completely. And to use it in collaboration with lightning element...how did he gain such chakra control so suddenly?," pondered Kurenai as they now were almost out of chakra due to fighting large number of jounins in just a couple of hours.
"Well, the most logical explanation would be is that Naruto-kun's Rinnegan has fully reached level two, and improved chakra control might be one of its benefits. And it's reasonably understandable that he now has a strong affinity for Earth element according to the scroll we read," said Yugao as they had defeated their share of their enemies while Kai and Gai were going at them.
"Hana-chan...could you like possibly use some kind of earth technique to find out where these reinforcements are arriving from?," said Kurenai as she prominently ate a foodpill to restore her chakra reserves with Hana and Yugao doing the same.
"No, I don't have any type of sensor technique to find seismic disturbances or something like that," muttered Hana as she gazed worriedly upon the lying form of Anko and Temari.
"You three, we need a hand here!," they heard Kakashi's distant voice when they saw the duo rivals were being overwhelmed by the amount of enemies.
"Damn! Let's go you two," hissed Kurenai in frustration before the trio dashed towards the struggling leaf jounins.
Meanwhile, Naruto had his eyes bugged out anime style as he gazed upon the destruction his technique had caused. There wasn't a trace of any body left while a large crater in the sand had formed whereas other jounins present there had shocked expressions on their faces.
"Why didn't it attack us?," muttered a leaf jounin as she turned her head along with others to see where the dragon had came from for them to notice Sasuke and an unknown redhead standing there making their eyes widen.
'The Uchiha!,' they thought simultaneously before they were focused on the battle currenttly under their collars. Taking advantage of the startled expressions of their enemies, the leaf jounins with chunins in the mix attacked them mercilessly. Naruto though was busy in his own thoughts as he tried to come to terms with his new found strength.
'T-That's something I didn't expect. It's amazing! My chakra control has improved drastically...I could easily mould my chakra this time compared to when Ifought Gaara. Well, the scroll did say that my chakra control along with the reserves would increase...but to actually feel it so is astounding. If these are the benefits I gain from the second level, then I'm ready to go through the pain again,' he thought with an amazed expression on his face. Activating the Rinnegan with his new found chakra control, he wasn't surprised...rather excited when he noticed his vision much sharper than before, the chakra points in Sasuke's body which earlier weren't visible to the first level of his doujutsu, now he could somewhat define them though not to the Byakugan's extent seeing as those chakra points were still a bit hazy, but nevertheless they were visible. However, he immediately deactivated it considering he wanted to preserve chakra.
'Just you wait Orochimaru...I'm coming right up there after I take care of these two,' thought Naruto as he gazed through the corner of his eyes up there on the roofs where the large barrier was present, the water wall along it's edges hindering any normal person's view though Naruto had seen through it with his Rinnegan and was shocked to find nine chakra networks in there.
THAP!
Sasuke's eyes widened when he found his fist which he had aimed at Naruto's head caught by the blonde's hand whose head was still facing towards the barrier.
"How did you...," the Uchiha trailed in shock as he saw the blonde easily stop his attack.
'He wasn't even looking at me!,' thought Sasuke with an incredulous expression.
"I see you've learned to attack sneakily just like that snake freak," said Naruto who still hadn't taken his eyes off the barrier making Sasuke grit his teeth as he tried to pull back his fist which Naruto, much to his surprise let it go. Flipping back to create some distance from the blonde, Sasuke skidded to a halt besides Roshi as he held his fist which was tightly clenched over by Naruto's hand.
Turning his head back, the blonde jinchuriki immediately dashed towards the duo in a barely visible blur to any naked eye.
WHOOSH!
Sasuke barely dodged a punch aimed at his face while Roshi caught Naruto's leg which was aimed at his mid-section. Placing his other hand on the sandy surface with his leg still caught in Roshi's hand, Naruto twisted his body in mid air at blazing speeds before he used the other idle hand to create a half seal.
POOF!
The Uchiha was sent hurling across the sandy surface due to an extremely fast punch by one of the two kage bunshins which Naruto had created who hhad used the puffed smoke to their advantage.
The two shadow clones lunged at the Iwa jinchuriki who was forced to leave Naruto's leg as he flipped back with a punch and a kick, courtesy of the two shadow clones, passing just over his face.
"Shinra Tensei," whispered the orginal Naruto, who still was supporting his body on one hand while Roshi was in mid-air, in between his flip. The red head was immediately flown back while spiraling up and down in midair at blazing velocity towards where Sasuke had just stood up while holding his possible broken nose. The clones however gave no time whatsoever before they ran full speed towards the Uchiha who immediately went through a few hand seals at fast pace.
"Katon: Ryuuka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Dragon Fire Techniue)," the raven haired Uchiha yelled before he exhaled large amounts of fire from his mouth which took shape into that of a blazing hot dragon. The clones though easily jumped over the dragon due to their momentum, dodging the attack as they skidded to a halt behind Sasuke.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!," Naruto's eyes widened, who was standing in front of Sasuke as he saw the Uchiha create two shadow clones who dashed towards the two clones behind Sasuke.
'Either he copied that from me during the preliminaries or Orochimaru must have taught him,' he thought when he used a chakra enhanced jump to dodge several balls of lava which were aimed at him.
'Lava release? So this guy must be the yonbi jinchuriki,' pondered Naruto with a grim expression before he landed on the surface.
"Naruto….," trailed Anko as she watched the fight go on with the clone standing in front of her.
"Don't worry Anko-chan…..boss has got things under control," the clone said over his shoulder with a smile as he continued to guard the injured form of Anko along with an unconscious Temari.
Standing up, Naruto gazed at the slightly bruised form of Iwa jinchuriki who apparently didn't look affected by his previous attack, while averting his eyes to the side, he noticed that his two clones had dispelled Sasuke's clones relatively easily and were keeping the Uchiha busy.
'Got to take care of this guy here…..Sasuke isn't much of a big threat anyway,' thought Naruto as he narrowed his eyes at the jinchuriki in front of him who was raising his chakra levels at a fast rate. Getting ready while crouching his knees a bit….
"AAGGHH!," Naruto doubled over in pain when Roshi suddenly blurred in front of him to deliver a swift punch to his gut.
'I didn't even see him!,' thought the blonde jinchuriki before he activated the Rinnegan immediately and blocked a knee thrust which was aimed at his nose. Displaying amazing acrobatics, keeping his hand on his knee, Naruto delivered a vertical roundhouse kick to Roshi's head making him stumble back while the blonde himself landed on sand with astounding agility.
'I shouldn't have underestimated him,' the whiskered blonde thought as he wiped the blood off his mouth before he dashed full speed at the slightly dazed Roshi who was holding his head. The Iwa jinchuriki surprisingly dodged Naruto's kick before apparently both of them blurred out of sight as they traded lightning fast blows with each other, the battle now being of pure taijutsu as their blurred movements picked up sand around the area. They would however, appear for a second with their hands locked in a duel before again disappearing in blurs.
However, Sasuke was getting frustrated as he was getting pummeled in taijutsu by the two clones, his Sharingan helping him to barely dodge the blows but he was receiving quite a few of those.
'I can't even keep up with his clones, who are much weaker than the original one,' the Uchiha thought before he suddenly used a chakra enhanced jump when he found an opening. While in midair, he unsealed another katana from the scroll before charging lightning chakra through it as he launched himself at the two clones. Using the gravitational momentum to his advantage, he lunged towards the clones who strangely just stood there.
"TAKE THIS!," yelled Sasuke as he shoved his sword in one of the clones before taking it out and slicing the other one at his mid-section expecting them to puff into smoke. His eyes widened though when they began to glow before…
BOOM!
A violent explosion took place where the clones were previously standing making Naruto smirk in between his fighting as he got the clone's memories back.
'I see the teme has improved over the month….but not enough,' thought Naruto as he continued to trade bone crushing blows with Roshi who just kept a cold and a stony expression.
"Phew….would've died certainly if I'd got caught in that explosion," muttered Sasuke to himself who had substituted himself with a random kunai which was laying on the sand.
"Psst….Orochimaru's rubbing your ass sensually," Sasuke's eyes widened when he heard a voice behind him. Snapping his head back, he was kicked in the face rather hard making him fly back yet again before he skidded on the sand….again while holding his definitely broken nose….again.
"Next time check where you are substituting teme!," yelled the clone who was standing in front of Anko, the latter of which was struggling to control in her laughter….and settled to only chuckle to herself due to her weakened condition.
"That…..was fucking awesome!," she said weakly while chuckling to herself making the clone grin back at her sheepishly.
BHOOSH!
The sound of a punch connecting resounded making Anko turn her head for her to see Naruto and Roshi standing with each of their fists embedded into the other's cheeks. Naruto was gritting his teeth as he pushed his fist harder with Roshi doing the same…both of them trying to overpower each other.
"Naru-kun….," she trailed in worry for him while the clone just smiled reassuringly at her. She knew that he was immensely strong and that he was still holding back….but couldn't help be worried for him.
'Fuck it! No need to preserve chakra anymore….besides I've got huge chakra reserves combined with Ayumi-chan's chakra AND the youki stored in the Ushio curse seal….which is roughly now about seven tails. If I continue to hold back any longer, more reinforcements will probably arrive and Kakashi-sensei and others don't look in any shape to take any more of those jounins,' thought Naruto as he brought his other hand in a half ram seal to while passing his chakra through the numerous seals which were placed on his different body parts.
'Level two should be enough right now….,' he involuntarily pondered before quietly whispering to himself.
"Kai," opening his eyes he could feel the effects as some more gravity seals deactivated this time making him feel much lighter….like a weight was lifted off of him. Roshi was barely able to even blink when Naruto's kick connected with his ribs making the Iwa jinchuriki cough some blood when the blonde delivered an ultra fast left hook making Roshi's feet lift off the sandy ground due to force of the blow before he impacted the sand several meters away to form a crater.
Naruto though had other thoughts going on in his mind as he had noticed something from up close in Roshi.
'His chakra….it's wavering in his coils. He's under a genjutsu! But who could be so strong so as to control a jinchuriki and make him fight like this….well, that explains why he appears like a machine with his eyes practically devoid of any life,' thought Naruto before he again vanished out of sight when he appeared besides a standing Roshi who apparently was still unaffected by the rib crushing blow from Naruto.
Putting his hand on his forehead quickly, Naruto released a burst of high amount of chakra to disturb the flow of his chakra before jumping back.
'What! Impossible…nothing happened!,' thought Naruto with a stunned expression as he stared at the apparently still a robotic Roshi. Usually, Naruto could dispell almost any genjutsu due to his high amount of chakra reserves, and hence by spiking his chakra for a short time…he had dispelled some of the Kurenai's best genjutsus before.
"Whoever we're dealing with is extremely strong here….could it be that same stranger who attacked thirteen years ago?," the blonde muttered to himself when he noticed Roshi going through handseals at extremely fast pace.
"Youton: Kazanfunka no Jutsu (Lava Release: Volcanic Eruption Technique), slamming his hands down on sand surface, Naruto's eyes widened when he felt the earth beneath him shake before the sand beneath his feet started glowing yellowish-orange in colour. Using his increased speed, he jumped high into the air using chakra beneath his feet, though his eyes did widen when the sand bursted violently for it to reveal a huge column of hot lava heading up towards Naruto who created a sealless kage bunshin. Grabbing the original blonde's arm, the shadow clonde threw Naruto towards Roshi in midair with a display of amazing strength.
'Let's see if one handed Rasengan is possible now'
The clone though was immediately engulfed in the huge column of lava while the original one kept his hands at his side while falling head first towards Roshi at high speeds with the wind whizzing his trenchcoat as well as his spiky blonde locks.
'Rotation...compress the chakra...keep it going'
"RASENGAN!," roared Naruto as he plunged his hand which contained the wildly rotating ball of white glowing chakra. The attack though only grazed with the Iwa jinchuriki's shoulder who had jumped sideways just in time making Naruto slam the deadly technique into the sand forming a corkscrew crater in the ground inducing large amount of dust around the area of impact. Roshi though just continued to stand a meter or two away from the dust before he took out a kunai. The fabric on his shoulder, which was bleeding a bit, was torned while it seemed like the yonbi jinchuriki wasn't feeling any pain.
However, he looked down at the surface when he felt it move a bit beneath his feet. Two hands suddenly shot up from the sand to grab his legs tightly before Naruto pulled him into the sandy surface and finally into the hard ground. Some seconds later, the blonde jumped out from the surface, sand falling off of him as he shook his head to get rid of the dry sand particles.
Turning his head after he had landed, he wasn't surprised to see a bruised and a tattered unconscious Sasuke laying in a sand crater with blood leaking down his nose.
'He did improve very much this past month...but still, nowhere near my level,' he thought when his eyes widened upon feeling large amount of youki being released making Naruto snap his head in the direction where he had buried Roshi.
'Is he using the yonbi's chakra?'
The sand explodedbefore a blurry figure jumped out of it to land on the ground. Naruto though wasn't surprised to see the jinchuriki in front of him enveloped in a cloak of red chakra...making him sigh.
"Guess I'll have to fight him like this," muttered Naruto to himself as he glanced sideways in the direction of Anko, noticing that she had slipped into unconsciousness, probably due to her weakness while his clone was standing on full guard.
Naruto though jerked his head forward when he heard the sound of someone's feet impacting with the sand.
"You...," the blonde trailed in recognition of the dark skinned man standing in front of him...someone who he had seen with the Raikage before.
"Yo Naruto, the names Killer Bee," came the sing song greeting of the hachibi jinchuriki making the whiskered blonde sweatdrop.
'Ah yes...he was the one who raps like crazy,' he thought before smiling somewhat awkwardly at the man in front of him while Roshi continued to stare at Naruto with his demonic eyes...the cloak now consisting of two tails behind him.
"What are you doing here Bee-san?," Naruto said as he got serious while Bee grinned at him.
"I'll take care of this Iwa dude, and make him lick my sandy boot," Naruto's eyebrows started to twitch as he spoke.
"Are you sure? That guy's a jinchuriki you know...," trailed Naruto, hoping to get the meaning across when he heard the serious voice of the man in front of him.
"Just go and help your girlfriend Naruto...I will handle things here fuck yo!," Bee said while Naruto's eyebrows lifted in surprise when he sensed youki slowly start to leak from him.
'So he's the hachibi jinchuriki then. Guess this makes things somewhat….easier for me,' he pondered before replying to the dark skinned jinchuriki.
"Alright Bee-san….though be careful. He looks to be in some sort of extremely powerful genjutsu which I can't seem to break. I only way I think you can wear off the jutsu off that Iwa nin is to knock him out, but don't kill him as it seems he was forced into this," said Naruto while walking closer to Bee before he stopped to stand beside him.
"Got it….now go"
"Thanks….Bee-san," Naruto spoke with a smile as he turned and extended his hand towards Bee who stared at Naruto in momentary surprise before his lips curled upwards slightly, forming into a smile before both of them shook hands.
"No problem'o kid. Hope we can meet when all this shit's over," Naruto grinned back as they released their hands.
"I sure hope so….see ya later!," he said before shunshining out in a puff of smoke. Appearing several meters away, he bit his thumb before going through several handseals, after which he slammed both of his hands on the sand.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!," the area was immediately filled with white smoke which slowly disappeared to show Naruto standing on one of the two giant toads he had summoned.
"Gamaken, Gamahiro….I want you guys to follow my clone's orders. The village's under attack, the rest he will explain it to you guys. But first of all….take Anko-chan and Temari-chan to the hospital," Naruto spoke out aloud, pointing at the two unconscious females while the two toads had their eyes widened as they saw the destruction and havoc which was wreaked upon the now heavily damaged stadium before them.
"Naruto….what-"
"Just go you two!," they snapped their heads to see Naruto staring somewhere above….at the roof. Sensing that the situation was critical and needed action, they immediately jumped over to where Anko and Temari were laying. Picking both of them gently with the clone, who was possessing plenty of chakra, jumping on Gamaken's head…the summoned toads took off with a jump.
'Now that that's taken care of….,' again going through the same set of handseals as before, the blonde this time put….large amounts of earth natured chakra into the technique before he put his hand on the sand again.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!," he yelled before suddenly jumping away when the area again was enveloped into a huge cloud of white smoke which slowly cleared for Naruto's eyes to widen when he saw the creature before him.
"Um….would you….by any chance, happen to be Dilong-sama?," said Naruto hesitantly while the creature in front of him narrowed his eyes at the blond. Standing in front of him, was a huge brown serpentine dragon….possible taller than Gamabunta, his eyes blood red with no pupil whatsoever, five claws in each of its limb and most importantly, it didn't have any wings.
"Yes I am….though I will decide if I'll kill you or not based upon what's your name," Naruto gulped nervously as he stared upwards at the intimidating dragon whose head was now just inches away from the blonde's small stature compared to its size….its harsh breath blowing away his hair and his trenchcoat.
"Uzumaki Naruto," he spoke with a clear stern voice….somehow managing to shoo away his nervousness he was feeling a moment ago. The dragon though, kept looking at him….his eyes now glowing before they widened as Naruto heard a vibrating growl escape from its large mouth, it's sharp salivated fangs showing before it raised its head while gazing at Naruto.
"So….you're our summoner. I have to say you're worthy indeed….the pain and suffering you endured and your kind heart, you sure are a true Uzumaki….even if you are no longer by blood," it said and Naruto could've sworn that the dragon had a smirk on it's face.
"I see your village's being attacked as informed by one of my minions which you summoned a while ago. So, whose ass do you want me to kick right now?," it said with its booming voice making Naruto serious as got back to the point.
"You see, many enemies have been entering our village even when we have strong defenses at our gates. There are no activities in the skies…..so it only means that they are coming through underground means. I just wanted you to possibly find that secret route they are using as you're the boss of earth type dragons," said Naruto politely while bowing a bit.
"Such a simple task, you could've summoned one of the earth type rookie claws for this," it growled making Naruto's eyes widen as he thought to reply quickly…unless he wished to incarnate the wrath of such being upon him.
"I'm sorry for that Dilong-sama…..but I also need you to destroy that route and possibly the enemies who are using it right now. And besides….you could go to the frontlines where you can help my comrades there in protecting the village," the blonde shinobi spoke as beads of sweat rolled down his nervous face, though he snapped his head upon hearing a violet explosion behind the huge creature in front of him.
"Well, they sure are going at it full force," he muttered to himself upon seeing that both of them had tailed beast cloaks upon their bodies as they fired a concentrated blast of red youki at each other.
"Fine then…let's just hurry up and get this finished. But remember this, I wouldn't be so lenient next time. You cannot just summon us boss dragons for small tasks like this," it said while Naruto just bowed his head.
"It wouldn't happen again!," he said with a loud voice.
"Though….I'll admit that sometimes doing these small things isn't bad, but don't let this get to your head kid," Naruto smirked before summoning another kage bunshin.
"Take a clone with you Dilong-sama….he'll lead you around the village," Naruto said aloud making the dragon nod with him who suddenly closed his eyes making Naruto blink in confusion as to what the dragon was doing. Slamming it's leg on the sand violently, the blonde (Rinnegan now deactivated) noticed that his body started glowing a bit before it died down after several seconds.
"Found it," Dilong declared making Naruto's eyes widen in shock.
"Already?," he exclaimed making the dragon glare at him.
"What? You doubt my abilities boy?," it asked in a threatening tone making Naruto shake his head furiously.
"You might wanna hurry considering that I felt seismic vibrations through the large tunnel I sensed in the earth. It only means that more forces would be arriving soon, though it would be best if I destroy the exit before they reach the end," it said somewhat offhandedly making Naruto's eyes go wide in surprise when the clone suddenly jumped at the dragon's serpentine back.
"Hold tight kiddo, cause it's gonna be a blur to you," it said as the clone applied chakra to it's feet to stick himself when the dragon, at mind boggling speeds….flew? Hovered? Dashed? The blonde didn't know….but that dragon was fast, EXTREMELY fast if the aftermath of its flight was any sight to take in-huge amount of dust was unleashed upon the combatants in the arena while large volume of sand was dispersed into the air, the shower of sand grains now falling in the arena.
'Damn! He could've warned me for this,' thought Naruto as he continued to cough out dust before he shunshined out of the arena.
"I'll tell you Kurenai-chan…..he never ceases to amaze me," said Yugao in wonder who had seen Naruto summon that huge dragon. Just looking at that huge thing, she almost pitied her enemies….ALMOST!
"Heh….yeah, though-," she stopped in between her statement when suddenly she plunged her kunai backwards (through the gap between her arm and ribs), her years of honed sixth sense of danger kicking in.
"You think you can sneak on me so easily huh?," Kurenai said with narrowed cold eyes as she pushed the kunai deeper.
"Kurenai-chan…NO!," the genjutsu mistress heard Hana's panicked voice making her eyes turn towards the Inuzuka heiress to see her staring behind her, an expression of horror on Hana's face, with Yugao sporting the same look.
"K-Kurenai-chan….w-what?," Kurenai's eyes widened in shock, her heartbeat increasing as she heard that familiar voice….no, please no!
'Oh no…please kami no,' she prayed with a look of total terror of her face as she turned around slowly….as if afraid to check who was behind her. And she turned around completely, her hands now began to tremble as she released the kunai which was embedded into the flesh of the one behind her.
"N-No….N-Naruto…," her trembling hands involuntarily covered her mouth in quiet shock as she stared at his face, blood seeping down his mouth as he held his stomach where the kunai was plunged deep there, blood coating the metal kunai and as it dropped from its handle….Kurenai's heart being clenched with each drop of his precious blood falling onto the cold concrete surface.
"K-Kurenai-chan…why?"
"N-Naruto-kun…..I-I'm so sorry…p-please….y-your bleeding!," she exclaimed as tears started to pour out of her eyes when the blonde jinchuriki smiled at her.
"I d-dreamed s-so much…h-having my first time with y-you….have many k-kids with you….b-but y-you squashed all that…why?," Kurenai though would've have blushed furiously if not for the situation in front of her.
"I-I'm so s-sorry N-Naruto," she stuttered as Hana and Yugao stood frozen in their places, tears fully cascading down their sweaty faces due to all the fighting.
"Sayonara you three….I love you," Naruto said in between his coughs making Kurenai's eyes widen.
"NARUTO NO!," all three of them screamed simultaneously as they lunged towards him...their eyes widening when he just grinned at them.
"Fooled ya!," he exclaimed before puffing into smoke making their eyes bug out in surprise.
"W-What?," stuttered Hana in shock when suddenly they heard someone burst out laughing behind them.
"HAHAHAHAHA...ehehehe, oh man...AHAHAHAHA" snapping their heads back, the oxygen just got trapped in their throat when they saw their favourite blonde laughing like crazy while pointing a finger at them.
"Y-You two...AHAHAHAAHA...just l-look at your f-faces...c-classic!," Naruto said while hollering in laughter as tears escaped his eyes.
"Y-Your alive?," stuttered Yugao as she wiped her tears quickly to clear her hazy vision due to the warm liquid in her eyes while eventually the trio narrowed their eyes at him.
"T-This is t-the g-greatest p-prank EVER! I gotta s-sho-umph!," he was interruped when he was tackled by three blurs making the group fall down the stairs.
"OW...OW...Hey watch out! AH MY BACK!," multiple voices could be heard from the falling group before they crashed to lowest row of seats there.
"YOU IDIOT!"
"ITAI!," Naruto yelled in pain as Kurenai started to shake a laying Naruto violently who had cushioned their fall while Yugao just stood up quietly whereas Hana started to pull on his ear harshly.
"Hey Hey...I was only joking!," Naruto spoke frantically as he tried to defend himself while Kurenai and Hana continued to assault him with tears of relief? Frustration? Anger?
"That's enough you two!...Just leave him. We have enemies to take care of remember?," Kurenai and Hana heard Yugao's emotionless cold voice making their eyes widen in surprise as they promptly stood up while Naruto blinked in surprise upon hearing Yugao. Her voice sounded like that whenever she was angry...or upset over something. Naruto knew her very well...for she too just hid her pain like he used to during his academy days.
Slowly standing up, Naruto started to dust his trenchcoat as an odd silence ensued between the four except the random explosions and sounds of fighting around the stadium. He could hear the occassional sniffs escape Kurenai or Hana as they wiped their eyes...his eyes casting down in guilt.
'I'm an idiot...shouldn't have gone that far', thought the blonde jinchuriki when he heard Yugao speak.
"Where did you take Anko-chan and Temari-chan to Naruto?," her back still turned to him making his eyes widen when he noticed the lack of '-kun' at the end of his name.
"My clone took both of them to the hospital. But Anko-chan's condition is stable and would recover in a day or two whereas Temari-chan suffered chakra exhaustion", he muttered quietly as he noticed that Kurenai and Hana were still silent...both of them having disturbed expressions on their faces as they stood besides him while he noticed that Kakashi and Gai were now nowhere to be found.
'I really shouldn't have done that', he thought before he walked upto Kurenai and suddenly took her into a hug...startling her while she unconsciously hugged him back whereas Hana too was surprised while Yugao didn't look back.
"Um...I'm sorry Kurenai-chan, I didn't know this would affect you so deeply", he said in an apologetic tone, a small smile on his face as he rubbed her back gently while she rested her head on his shoulder, tightning her arms around him.
"It's alright, I can't stay mad at you for long anyway. But don't you ever do that again!," the genjutsu mistress said in a threatning tone making Naruto chuckle nervously.
"Wouldn't dream of it", he stated when he slowly released her before leaning close to her and capturing her lips in a chaste kiss making her ruby eyes widen a bit in momentary surprise...before she closed them and kissed him back. The kiss was gentle and sweet while Kurenai felt her heart flutter at the contact. Withrawing slowly, Naruto smiled at her while scratching his backhead as she too smiled back a bit shyly, both of their cheeks tinted a light shade of pink. Leaning close again, he softly kissed her forehead making her giggle a bit while Hana just smiled at them, wiping her own remaining tears.
Squeezing Kurenai's hand lightly, he offered her his foxy grin before slowly walking upto Hana who looked at him a bit nervously, a small cute blush on her face as she fidgeted with her jounin vest. She couldn't believe how Naruto could make her feel with just his piercing gaze, his sparkling blue eyes...she was still a teenager and felt just as giddy and at the same time comfortable in his presence.
Naruto though smiled at her apologetically before slowly taking her into a tight hug making Hana smile in content as she too pressed him tightly to her.
"Nothing needs to be said Naruto-kun...you ARE the son of nee-chan, so we can't expect anything less from you", the Inuzuka hieress said with a smile making him smile. Pulling out of the hug, the whiskered blonde smiled warmly at her making some heat rush to her cheeks in anticipation. Though her expression did saddened a bit when Naruto turned around towards Yugao making her sigh when she heard him.
"Oh...I forgot something!," he exclaimed before turning back and taking her soft lips in between his as he rubbed his lips against hers gently. Hana too immediately kissed him back as she closed her eyes while Yugao was just standing with her back still towards him...as if, waiting for them to finish. Rubbing her soft cheeks gently, he wiped the moisture of her tears off her skin as she kissed him back lovingly...her worries for him flying away as she felt his warm body in her arms. Slowly leaning back, Naruto grinned at seeing a dazed expression on her face as she licked her lips to savour the kiss. Leaning forward, he lightly kissed her small cute nose making her blush a bit while Kurenai was smiling fondly at Naruto...glad that he was alive and safe. Her heart had almost stopped when she had seen his blood falling off his stomach. Though she blushed furiously upon remembering what his clone had said about having kids.
Meanwhile Naruto turned towards Yugao who STILL hadn't looked back, like she was just content in ignoring the blonde.
"Um...you two, would you mind helping me?," whispered Naruto lowly to Kurenai and Hana...both of whom looked sadly towards Yugao before they just grinned at Naruto mischievously.
"Good luck Naruto-kun", both of them spoke in a hushed tone making the blonde's eyes widen before they vanished in a puff of smoke.
"Damn it!," he cursed silently to himself as he now took a deep breath. Yugao though, sensing that Kurenai and Hana had shunshined away prepared to leave.
"Take care Naruto...I have to help the others now", she said with a bit of quiver in her voice making Naruto's eyes widen when he suddenly grabbed her hand.
"Yugao-chan...I'm really sorry", he said as he now hugged her gently from behind when he felt her body stiffen a bit.
"Leave me...Naruto", she said making the blonde tighten his grip around her arms as suddenly he formed several shadow clones without any seals who stood on guard around them.
"Naruto please...I forgive you, just let me go", she said making Naruto narrow his eyes at her before he suddenly grabbed her shoulders before turning her around harshly making her eyes widen.
"Why are you ignoring me!," the blonde growled with fierce eyes, noticing that she had her eyes wet while her cheeks had moisture, probably by her wiping her tears.
"I know that just by that stupid prank...you wouldn't ignore me like that", he said again with a fierce tone while Yugao just lowered her gaze. Naruto knew that what he was doing, specially amidst a war, when his village was being attacked was foolish...but he had known that something was bothering her. Half a month ago, she had like...started ignoring him, and though they had went on dates, she had looked somewhat saddened each time he was either with Kurenai, Anko, Hana and other girls. It was like she was...jealous? No...she was not jealous, he could tell that, but it was like...longing in her eyes whenever she looked at him, like she wanted something from him.
"I...please Naruto-kun, we have to ptotect the village. We can talk later", she said softly, still not matching his gaze while he tightened his grip on her shoulders.
"The invasion is quite already under control...I've seen to it. With so many dragon summons and three major toad summons along with our primary defense...it wouldn't take much time to stabilise our condition. And I'm going to help Kaa-san and the others up there...but, first I'm gonna solve this mystery about you. I thought I would talk to you later...but now I am thankful that I performed such a prank. Now I finally get to talk to you...alone", he said seriously, weakening her resolve as tears started to leak out of her eyes...the emotions she had been suppressing finally coming out as she suddenly hugged Naruto closely to her startling the blonde as he promptly hugged her back.
"Yugao-chan, what's wrong?," asked Naruto in a concerned tone as he passed his hands through her soft silky purple hair. She started to sob uncontrollably, wetting his trenchcoat as the blonde just held her close to him while softly patting her back.
Meanwhile, the shadow clones surrounding them had created a strong barrier around the duo so that anyone who would look in their directions would only see the now...almost destroyed empty stands.
After several minutes, the purple haired kunoichi calmed down as Naruto just continued to hold her patiently while her form had stopped shaking.
"Tell me please, what's wrong?," he again asked softly as she leaned back from the hug. Her eyes red while her cheeks were puffy making her look...well all the more cute and beautiful to Naruto.
"Naruto-kun, you...do you like me?," she asked with a blush making the blonde blush a bit in response.
"W-Why are you asking that now?," he said, apparently caught off guard by the sudden question while Yugao just moved her eyes downward.
"I knew it", she murmured to herself quietly while Naruto clearly heard her with his enhanced senses.
"No...I don't like you", he said to her making her heart clench in pain as she desperately tried to stop the fresh oncoming tears.
"Because I...love you", he said with a small blush on his whiskered cheeks making her snap her head as she looked at him widened wet eyes.
"What?," she again asked as if...she hadn't heard correctly and wanted to confirm what she thought she heard was true.
"Geez...yeah, I love you...is it that hard to believe?," he said with an embarrassed smile making her eyes widen.
"Y-You r-really love me? I thought it was only a date thing or like that. You never gave enough attention to me...always interacting with Kurenai-chan, Anko-chan and Hana-chan...but you never just noticed me", she blurted all out with anger entering her voice when suddenly she clamped her mouth with her hands...her eyes widening as she cursed herself inwardly.
'So that was it...now that I do remember, the other three involved me in talks or other tasks and I wouldn't even notice Yugao-chan because she was always quiet. But in the end...it was my fault after all. No matter how hard I try...I always do commit some mistakes', he thought with a saddened expression as he lowered his gaze to the ground...ashamed at himself for how he, although involuntary, ignored her . Kurenai had told him that Yugao too had lost her parents when she was a baby and was an orphan, so she too must feel extremely lonely...and he just ignored her.
'What a bastard I am!,' he thought while clenching his fists in anger while Yugao's eyes widened when a lone tear escaped his oceanic blue eyes.
'But I would make it up to you...starting right now'
"Naruto-kun...I'm sorry, I di-," she was interrupted when the blonde suddenly moved in and started to kiss her making her eyes widen in immense surprise as she just stood frozen for a second.
'He's kissing me!,' she thought with some excitement because Naruto had never kissed her so passionately...usually their kisses were chaste, sensual and short, which usually left her wanting for more. Though the others didn't know, Yugao was a closet pervert when it came to Naruto and would many times relieve herself by imagining him touching her all over her body...and would admire his body when he took of his upper body clothes after training.
Naruto though, when he felt her stiffen into the kiss and noticed that she wasn't responding back...his heart clenched in pain. As he began to draw from her slowly, his eyes yet again widened when Yugao suddenly pressed herself onto him and started to kissed him passionately as she hungrily tasted his lips while her hands grabbed his blonde locks.
'What the...WOW!,' Naruto thought in immense surprise, blown away by the hot and passionate kiss as he too now responded to her just as hungrily, if not more.
He started to nibble on her lower soft lip making the kunoichi moan into the kiss as he rubbed her lower back sensually when the blonde snaked out his tongue and started licking her lips. Yugao immediately opened her mouth into the kiss, as they began to tongue wrestle with their bodies rubbing against each other. Surprisingly, the kunoichi won the battle as she began to explore his moist cavern making Naruto completely blow away with the mind blowing pleasure. Wrapping her arms tightly around his neck, she continued to kiss him wildly and passionately as if he was the only thing which could keep her alive. Naruto groaned into the kiss while Yugao too moaned loudly as they eventually seperated from each other with their bodies still pressed against each other. Both of them were now panting, their eyes glazed while Naruto had to say that this was the most passionate and hottest make-out session he ever had.
"Wow", he choked out in a rasped voice while Yugao just had a dreamy look on her face as she licked her lips.
"That was amazing Naruto-kun... out of this planet", she mumbled making the blonde blush who himself was in a stunned state of mind.
'I...never knew she could kiss like that. But I'll have to say...it was amazing. Well they do say the quite ones are the most perverted ones', thought the blonde with a smile as he brought his index finger to her lips to stop her as she was leaning in for another kiss, making her pout cutely at him.
"Later Yugao-chan...but first we gotta take care of what's going on outside", he said with a smile making Yugao blush in embarrassment as she had completely forgot about such an important thing. The clones put down the barrier as they dispelled themselves while Naruto just carressed Yugao's cheek lovingly with a smile.
"I love you too Naruto-kun", she finally said making Naruto smile at her.
"I know...because I'm just that awesome!", he said with a silly grin making Yugao chuckle as she leaned into his hand carressing her cheek.
"Baka", she muttered with a smile when the blonde spoke.
"Remember Yugao-chan...I love you and always will. Though I'm sorry for somewhat not paying enough attention to you...after all, I too have suffered that pain and I'm really sorry to cause you such pain. I love all four of you with my heart equally...you girls are like my sisters as well as girlfriends to me, and I wouldn't have it any other way", a sad smile on his face while Yugao squeezed his hand which was caressing her cheek.
"And we have always loved you with all of our heart and will always do", she said making Naruto's heart swell with happiness.
"Now go Naruto-kun...help nee-chan up there, I know you can do it!," she said with uncharacteristic enthusiasm making Naruto blink his eyes before he just nodded at her with a grin.
"Take care Yugao-chan!," he said with a wave before signing out with a shunshin as she sighed with a smile on her beautiful face, now rejuvenated and ready for some action.
'I'm now glad too that you pulled that dirty prank on us...for without me knowing that you loved me and with all the tension I was feeling, I may not would've been able to fight at my full potential. Things do happen for a reason I guess', she thought with images of a certain blonde filling her head as she moved to get rid of the remaining few enemies.
Meanwhile Naruto just shunshined to just out of the four corner sealing barrier on the roof where other Anbu were standing, ready and waiting for the barrier to go down.
"Naruto-san! What are you doing here?," one Anbu asked as Naruto just stood in front of the barrier with a serious expression on his face.
"I'm going inside there...you guys keep a watch out here", he said while examining the barrier closely.
"Well, Kushina-sama did entered quite a while ago...but be careful in there, I sense very powerful chakra signatures in the barrier", another one spoke making Naruto nod his head as his hands were covered in his white chakra which he put on the barrier.
'Alright concentrate...I just have to match the wavelength of this barrier with my chakra', he thought as he now had his eyes closed. Some moments later, his chakra began to waver a bit before it completely sticked to the flat surface of the barrier like a film through which Naruto jumped in with ease before the chakra applied wore out and he Rasengan'ed through the large water wall.
Annnddd CUT!Hoped you liked this one too...and hopefully not frustrated by the bit of fluff I put in there because of it being unrealistic or something :)
Sorry to those who wanted the emo to get killed...but for plot's sake, I as well as you guys can't have the pleasure so soon. And those of you wondering about Ayumi, she will come and sorry if there was not enough action in this chapter which you guys were expecting ^_^
Also, I wanted to ask you guys which fic should I start next...the dimensional one or that NarutoxBleach crossover as described in my profile? Please leave it in a review or PM me. Also, this chapter was long too 8.5K+, so please review cause I really sacrificed precious fingers to type this on my phone. (Yes...I'm frustrated too, but that's the only way I can update right now. Though last chapter I did have access to my desktop, that's why I was able to write 9K+ in three days, but this time I wasn't so lucky and hence it took me longer...but who cares about the reason as long as you get the update and I get some reviews). So yeah, review guys and take care! I'm really glad that you're liking this fic so much and that my hardwork is being paid off for once. Thanks for reading and until next time, goodbye! ^_^
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