p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"strongChapter 34: 3…2…1… FIGHT!/strong/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"The next morning, Naruto and Hinata were sleeping next to each other. Hinata slowly opened her eyes, waking up. She remembered the sparring match that the group was talking about. She got out of bed, and walked to the right side, where Naruto was in a peaceful slumber./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"She gently shook him. "Naruto, wake up…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Naruto slowly opened eyes, and looked up. "Hinata?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yes, it's me, Hinata. We have a sparring match with the other guys, remember?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Oh yeah… but I don't wanna wake up…" Naruto said groggily./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""We still have to go, Naruto."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Mehhh…" Naruto said as he shifted to sitting crisscross on the bed. He supported his head with his hand and started at the footboard of the bed. "I'm still so-o tirrreeed…" He said, looking over to Hinata./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Don't you want to fight?" Hinata asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I do, but… just not when I just woke up."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Come on, after you wash and eat breakfast you'll be fine."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'll take your word for it." Naruto said, slowly getting out of the bed. The two washed (A/N: Hinata in the upstairs bathroom and Naruto in the downstairs one… you pervert) and Hinata prepared breakfast and the two ate, and set out to leave. When Naruto stepped outside, Konohamaru came running up to him./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Nii~san! Nii~san!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""What is it, little bro?" Naruto asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I heard you were sparring today with those new people!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah… how'd you find out?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I saw Sakura~chan going to the forest earlier, and she told me!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Dang it! Sakura's already there!" Naruto muttered to himself. Then, in a slightly louder voice, he asked, "So then, why are you here?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Can I go with you?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Umm… why?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Because I wanna see how strong they are myself!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Are you sure? I mean, you don't even know them…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""It's not like you do either!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Konohamaru, Aelita's my emcousin/em, and I knew Yumi."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Pl-ease?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You're not five, you know… you don't have to say it like that."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But still, can I go?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""If you really want to, I guess you can…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Thank you, nii~san!" Konohamaru said, hugging Naruto./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No problem. Just… don't cause any more trouble, you got that?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Got it!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Hinata had just finished getting ready, and walked over to the doorway to the home, seeing Naruto and Konohamaru talking outside./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Are we ready to go?" She asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah, I think so." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Is Konohamaru coming too?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yup! Nii~san said I could!" Konohamaru said excitedly. He really wanted to beat up the new guys./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright then, let's go!" Hinata said, smiling./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"When they arrived, Yumi and Ulrich were already sparring. They weren't using any weapons; it was just their fists. Sakura hadn't arrived yet either. When Naruto, Hinata, and Konohamaru stepped into the forest clearing where the towers were, Ulrich and Yumi immediately stopped sparring and looked over to them./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Finally, someone came. I thought you all forgot about our plan." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Is that… your little brother, Naruto?" Yumi asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah… we're not related by blood though." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Oh, okay."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Where's Aelita? And Odd?" Hinata asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Aelita's on Lyoko right now, talking to Jeremie. And Odd doesn't want to wake up, so we left him behind. He'll probably come wandering here in a few hours looking for Samantha or something." Ulrich said. "Or he might've chickened out and doesn't want to admit it."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Just then, one of the towers closed, and opened again, Aelita inside this time./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Speak of the devil." Yumi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Odd still hasn't come yet?" Aelita asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yup." Yumi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Nor has Sakura, Sasuke, or Shikamaru." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Sasuke and Sakura came to the clearing, Hanabi running straight in front of them, coming to a quick stop./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Speak of the devil… again." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""What took you so long?" Konohamaru asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Eh… I must've taken a long time to get ready." Hanabi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Wait, Konohamaru, you knew Hanabi was coming?" Naruto asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah… I mean… well…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You don't have to explain. If you want to hang out you can, it's just… odd that you only chose Hanabi to come along." Naruto said with a sly face./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I-IT'S NOT THAT!" Konohamaru said in a panic./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Don't worry, I'm just teasing ya. Now go on and hang out in the forest for a bit."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright. Come on, Hanabi!" Konohamaru said, and the two ran off into the forest./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You can just… let him go like that?!" Aelita said in panic. "What if he gets lost?! It's such a big forest!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""First, we know this place like the back of our hand. Second, Konohamaru's a pretty tough kid. He can protect himself." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But still… he's a preteen."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Says the person who went onto this 'virtual world that was only in testing' when she was thirteen."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You have a point."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well, yeah, but in our community, it's odd to put a child out there like that… it's the wilderness. He can physically emdie/em out there." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Did somebody say emodd/em?" Odd said as he jumped out of a tree headfirst. His landing didn't end too well, unless nearly hitting your head on the root of a tree is considered a 'good landing'./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Are you okay?" Sakura asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah, I think, I'm kind of fine… ugh, my head…" Odd said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Your gimmick would've had more comical value if you had done that the first time someone mentioned the name Odd." Ulrich said. "But I guess jumping out of a tree in a position that emany/em normal person would've known would've hurt them made up for it."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""They call me Odd for a reason!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well… since Shikamaru is the only one who hasn't come yet, should we get started?" Sakura asked after a few minutes of chatting./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I guess so." Yumi said. "We can't loiter around forever."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""So who's gonna fight first?" Odd asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well… We should get to know your fighting style first, right?" Aelita said, looking at Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah, sure." Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""How about Naruto and Sasuke first?" Yumi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Sasuke and I are sort of on par with each other…" Naruto said. "It's same with the girls."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""How about boys versus girls then?" Aelita asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'm up for it." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Same." Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright then… umm, Get to your places!" Odd said, as the girls lined up on one side, and the boys on the other./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Three!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Two!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"One!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"FIGHT!" Odd yelled, and the Konoha group started sparring to no end. They were throwing around punches, kunai knives, shurikens, and jutsu left and right as the Lyoko Warriors watched in admiration. Finally, after about half an hour, the boys had taken down the girls, and were diving down to deliver their final blows as both women were lying, tired on the ground. The boys landed, and their fists stopped in the middle of the air, as they were just about to punch the girls in the face. Every fighter had scratches and punch marks on their faces, the girls slightly more bruised than the boys. (A/N: Please don't nag at me for the fact that the boys won, I'm a girl myself and I just thought about all of Naruto and Sasuke's power compared to the girls'. Plus, Naruto and Sasuke were more synced with each other, since they've fought together, and have fought each other, unlike Sakura and Hinata.)/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Heh, looks like the boys won." Naruto said with a smile./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'll get you both next time…" Sakura said. "I like that you both didn't go easy on us though."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Naruto and Sasuke reached out their hands. Hinata and Sakura grabbed them, and the boys helped them up. They then turned to the Lyoko Warriors and said, "think you can beat us then?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"The Lyoko Warriors stared in astonishment, their jaws dropping all the way to the ground./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""HOW THE HECK DID YOU- THAT WAS AMAZING!" Odd said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I mean, we emhave/em practiced pretty much all our lives." Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Gosh, I didn't know you guys were emthis/em strong now… we probably can't even get on par with you…" Yumi said, clearly astonished by how much they had all grown, especially Hinata, who couldn't even throw a punch when Yumi knew her./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well, we sort of went full-force at each other. We can lighten up a bit if you need it." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You'll have to lighten up a lot…" Aelita said. "Even though I'm your cousin, we're pretty much opposites when it comes to our strengths."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright… who wants to battle next, then?" Sakura asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Ummmm… how about me versus Ulrich? We never got to finish our match…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Wait… guys, shouldn't we train them first? I mean, it wouldn't be fair if they came in 100% blind." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But where would we start? We don't even know what their chakra natures are!" Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Chakra… what?" Odd said, confused. "WAIT, ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT THIRD EYES AND STUFF?!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No, Odd. Not Hindu chakra. Ninja chakra." Yumi said. "It's different, you'll see."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright, but if it has ANYTHING to do with third-eye stuff, I swear…" Odd grumbled./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""What, still traumatized over your bad luck?" Aelita teased./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No! I mean, well, a little." Odd said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Back before the Ninja War, Kakashi showed me this paper that would do different things based of the chakra the paper got from the user. I wonder if he still has any…" Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'm pretty sure I saw some slips of blank paper on Kakashi's desk when I went to tell him about us going to Lyoko." Sasuke recalled a few blank slips of somewhat translucent paper on Kakashi's messy desk./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well then, what are waiting for? Let's go!" Sakura said. The group went off to the Hokage's building, also known as the place where Kakashi resided./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Kakashi~sensei!" Naruto said, bursting through the door. "We need something from you!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Please, next time, don't knock down the door." Kakashi said calmly as the others poured into his room. "Now, what do you need?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You remember when you showed me something called chakra paper?" Naruto asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yes, yes I do."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""We need some for these guys here. We want to train them so they can protect themselves here." Sakura said, motioning to the Lyoko group./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Ah, I see. Well… I do have a few slips left… I'm not sure where they are though…" Kakashi said, shuffling around a few papers on his desk./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'm pretty sure they were right here." Sasuke said, moving a few papers on the left corner closest to him, revealing the slips. "Here they are." He picked them up, and flipped through them, counting. "There are exactly 6 slips here."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Take them all." Kakashi said. "I can get more from Tsunade when she comes back to the village."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But we only need four." Aelita said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Just in ca- I'm not that old." Kakashi said, eyeing Odd with daggers./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Huh?" Ulrich asked. "Odd, what were you whispering in my ear?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You mean you didn't hear me?!" Odd said, panicking./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No, I was listening to what was IMPORTANT, not your unfocused whispering." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But anyways, take those extra two, just in case." Kakashi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright then…" Sakura said. "I guess we'll get going now. Bye, Kakashi~sensei!" The group strolled out of the room, Naruto exiting last./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Naruto. One last thing." Kakashi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah?" Naruto turned around./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Come by my office either this evening or tomorrow morning. I want to talk to you. Now go, the others are probably wondering where you are."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright. I will." Naruto said, and he exited Kakashi's room, jogging down the stairs to catch up with the group. emWhat could Sensei possibly want to talk to me about?/em He thought. emI haven't done anything… have I?/em Just then, he had approached the group. No one had noticed he was left behind. He continued to walk with the group, back to the forest clearing like nothing had happened./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"A/N:/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"I have no idea whether me updating a chapter will give you a notification or not, but I'm doing it anyway. This year was a turning point for my work ethic and stuff, since I was ambushed with assignments and whatnot. It'll only keep going that way, and during the school year, I lost the spark I had for this story. As much as I hate to say this, updates for this fanfic will come out VERY slowly, if any at all. Who knows, I might drop it altogether. Please don't hate on me for this in any way, since I was really hoping to keep it going. I've also started two other stories with OC's, and I might have to ditch this for those, especially since those two have way more complicated plots than what I had planned for this. I might start a Wattpad for one of them, but I'm not really sure right now. I don't know whether this is against the rules of or not, but if you feel like you want to piggyback on what I've published and make your own twist on emNaruto, Life, and Lyoko/em, you are welcome to as long as you credit me for the start. That's all I have to say, and I hope you understand why I'm doing what I'm doing. If you have any questions about the whole piggyback thing (if you can do it I guess), then I'll be checking my private messages. Have a nice day!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"The next morning, Naruto and Hinata were sleeping next to each other. Hinata slowly opened her eyes, waking up. She remembered the sparring match that the group was talking about. She got out of bed, and walked to the right side, where Naruto was in a peaceful slumber./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"She gently shook him. "Naruto, wake up…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Naruto slowly opened eyes, and looked up. "Hinata?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yes, it's me, Hinata. We have a sparring match with the other guys, remember?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Oh yeah… but I don't wanna wake up…" Naruto said groggily./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""We still have to go, Naruto."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Mehhh…" Naruto said as he shifted to sitting crisscross on the bed. He supported his head with his hand and started at the footboard of the bed. "I'm still so-o tirrreeed…" He said, looking over to Hinata./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Don't you want to fight?" Hinata asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I do, but… just not when I just woke up."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Come on, after you wash and eat breakfast you'll be fine."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'll take your word for it." Naruto said, slowly getting out of the bed. The two washed (A/N: Hinata in the upstairs bathroom and Naruto in the downstairs one… you pervert) and Hinata prepared breakfast and the two ate, and set out to leave. When Naruto stepped outside, Konohamaru came running up to him./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Nii~san! Nii~san!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""What is it, little bro?" Naruto asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I heard you were sparring today with those new people!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah… how'd you find out?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I saw Sakura~chan going to the forest earlier, and she told me!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Dang it! Sakura's already there!" Naruto muttered to himself. Then, in a slightly louder voice, he asked, "So then, why are you here?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Can I go with you?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Umm… why?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Because I wanna see how strong they are myself!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Are you sure? I mean, you don't even know them…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""It's not like you do either!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Konohamaru, Aelita's my emcousin/em, and I knew Yumi."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Pl-ease?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You're not five, you know… you don't have to say it like that."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But still, can I go?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""If you really want to, I guess you can…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Thank you, nii~san!" Konohamaru said, hugging Naruto./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No problem. Just… don't cause any more trouble, you got that?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Got it!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Hinata had just finished getting ready, and walked over to the doorway to the home, seeing Naruto and Konohamaru talking outside./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Are we ready to go?" She asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah, I think so." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Is Konohamaru coming too?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yup! Nii~san said I could!" Konohamaru said excitedly. He really wanted to beat up the new guys./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright then, let's go!" Hinata said, smiling./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"When they arrived, Yumi and Ulrich were already sparring. They weren't using any weapons; it was just their fists. Sakura hadn't arrived yet either. When Naruto, Hinata, and Konohamaru stepped into the forest clearing where the towers were, Ulrich and Yumi immediately stopped sparring and looked over to them./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Finally, someone came. I thought you all forgot about our plan." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Is that… your little brother, Naruto?" Yumi asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah… we're not related by blood though." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Oh, okay."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Where's Aelita? And Odd?" Hinata asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Aelita's on Lyoko right now, talking to Jeremie. And Odd doesn't want to wake up, so we left him behind. He'll probably come wandering here in a few hours looking for Samantha or something." Ulrich said. "Or he might've chickened out and doesn't want to admit it."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Just then, one of the towers closed, and opened again, Aelita inside this time./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Speak of the devil." Yumi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Odd still hasn't come yet?" Aelita asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yup." Yumi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Nor has Sakura, Sasuke, or Shikamaru." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Sasuke and Sakura came to the clearing, Hanabi running straight in front of them, coming to a quick stop./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Speak of the devil… again." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""What took you so long?" Konohamaru asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Eh… I must've taken a long time to get ready." Hanabi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Wait, Konohamaru, you knew Hanabi was coming?" Naruto asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah… I mean… well…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You don't have to explain. If you want to hang out you can, it's just… odd that you only chose Hanabi to come along." Naruto said with a sly face./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I-IT'S NOT THAT!" Konohamaru said in a panic./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Don't worry, I'm just teasing ya. Now go on and hang out in the forest for a bit."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright. Come on, Hanabi!" Konohamaru said, and the two ran off into the forest./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You can just… let him go like that?!" Aelita said in panic. "What if he gets lost?! It's such a big forest!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""First, we know this place like the back of our hand. Second, Konohamaru's a pretty tough kid. He can protect himself." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But still… he's a preteen."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Says the person who went onto this 'virtual world that was only in testing' when she was thirteen."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You have a point."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well, yeah, but in our community, it's odd to put a child out there like that… it's the wilderness. He can physically emdie/em out there." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Did somebody say emodd/em?" Odd said as he jumped out of a tree headfirst. His landing didn't end too well, unless nearly hitting your head on the root of a tree is considered a 'good landing'./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Are you okay?" Sakura asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah, I think, I'm kind of fine… ugh, my head…" Odd said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Your gimmick would've had more comical value if you had done that the first time someone mentioned the name Odd." Ulrich said. "But I guess jumping out of a tree in a position that emany/em normal person would've known would've hurt them made up for it."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""They call me Odd for a reason!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well… since Shikamaru is the only one who hasn't come yet, should we get started?" Sakura asked after a few minutes of chatting./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I guess so." Yumi said. "We can't loiter around forever."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""So who's gonna fight first?" Odd asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well… We should get to know your fighting style first, right?" Aelita said, looking at Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah, sure." Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""How about Naruto and Sasuke first?" Yumi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Sasuke and I are sort of on par with each other…" Naruto said. "It's same with the girls."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""How about boys versus girls then?" Aelita asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'm up for it." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Same." Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright then… umm, Get to your places!" Odd said, as the girls lined up on one side, and the boys on the other./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Three!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Two!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"One!/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"FIGHT!" Odd yelled, and the Konoha group started sparring to no end. They were throwing around punches, kunai knives, shurikens, and jutsu left and right as the Lyoko Warriors watched in admiration. Finally, after about half an hour, the boys had taken down the girls, and were diving down to deliver their final blows as both women were lying, tired on the ground. The boys landed, and their fists stopped in the middle of the air, as they were just about to punch the girls in the face. Every fighter had scratches and punch marks on their faces, the girls slightly more bruised than the boys. (A/N: Please don't nag at me for the fact that the boys won, I'm a girl myself and I just thought about all of Naruto and Sasuke's power compared to the girls'. Plus, Naruto and Sasuke were more synced with each other, since they've fought together, and have fought each other, unlike Sakura and Hinata.)/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Heh, looks like the boys won." Naruto said with a smile./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'll get you both next time…" Sakura said. "I like that you both didn't go easy on us though."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"Naruto and Sasuke reached out their hands. Hinata and Sakura grabbed them, and the boys helped them up. They then turned to the Lyoko Warriors and said, "think you can beat us then?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"The Lyoko Warriors stared in astonishment, their jaws dropping all the way to the ground./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""HOW THE HECK DID YOU- THAT WAS AMAZING!" Odd said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I mean, we emhave/em practiced pretty much all our lives." Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Gosh, I didn't know you guys were emthis/em strong now… we probably can't even get on par with you…" Yumi said, clearly astonished by how much they had all grown, especially Hinata, who couldn't even throw a punch when Yumi knew her./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well, we sort of went full-force at each other. We can lighten up a bit if you need it." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You'll have to lighten up a lot…" Aelita said. "Even though I'm your cousin, we're pretty much opposites when it comes to our strengths."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright… who wants to battle next, then?" Sakura asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Ummmm… how about me versus Ulrich? We never got to finish our match…"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Wait… guys, shouldn't we train them first? I mean, it wouldn't be fair if they came in 100% blind." Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But where would we start? We don't even know what their chakra natures are!" Sakura said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Chakra… what?" Odd said, confused. "WAIT, ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT THIRD EYES AND STUFF?!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No, Odd. Not Hindu chakra. Ninja chakra." Yumi said. "It's different, you'll see."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright, but if it has ANYTHING to do with third-eye stuff, I swear…" Odd grumbled./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""What, still traumatized over your bad luck?" Aelita teased./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No! I mean, well, a little." Odd said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Back before the Ninja War, Kakashi showed me this paper that would do different things based of the chakra the paper got from the user. I wonder if he still has any…" Naruto said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'm pretty sure I saw some slips of blank paper on Kakashi's desk when I went to tell him about us going to Lyoko." Sasuke recalled a few blank slips of somewhat translucent paper on Kakashi's messy desk./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Well then, what are waiting for? Let's go!" Sakura said. The group went off to the Hokage's building, also known as the place where Kakashi resided./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Kakashi~sensei!" Naruto said, bursting through the door. "We need something from you!"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Please, next time, don't knock down the door." Kakashi said calmly as the others poured into his room. "Now, what do you need?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You remember when you showed me something called chakra paper?" Naruto asked./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yes, yes I do."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""We need some for these guys here. We want to train them so they can protect themselves here." Sakura said, motioning to the Lyoko group./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Ah, I see. Well… I do have a few slips left… I'm not sure where they are though…" Kakashi said, shuffling around a few papers on his desk./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""I'm pretty sure they were right here." Sasuke said, moving a few papers on the left corner closest to him, revealing the slips. "Here they are." He picked them up, and flipped through them, counting. "There are exactly 6 slips here."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Take them all." Kakashi said. "I can get more from Tsunade when she comes back to the village."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But we only need four." Aelita said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Just in ca- I'm not that old." Kakashi said, eyeing Odd with daggers./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Huh?" Ulrich asked. "Odd, what were you whispering in my ear?"/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""You mean you didn't hear me?!" Odd said, panicking./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""No, I was listening to what was IMPORTANT, not your unfocused whispering." Ulrich said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""But anyways, take those extra two, just in case." Kakashi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright then…" Sakura said. "I guess we'll get going now. Bye, Kakashi~sensei!" The group strolled out of the room, Naruto exiting last./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Naruto. One last thing." Kakashi said./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Yeah?" Naruto turned around./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Come by my office either this evening or tomorrow morning. I want to talk to you. Now go, the others are probably wondering where you are."/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;""Alright. I will." Naruto said, and he exited Kakashi's room, jogging down the stairs to catch up with the group. emWhat could Sensei possibly want to talk to me about?/em He thought. emI haven't done anything… have I?/em Just then, he had approached the group. No one had noticed he was left behind. He continued to walk with the group, back to the forest clearing like nothing had happened./p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"A/N:/p
p style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;"I have no idea whether me updating a chapter will give you a notification or not, but I'm doing it anyway. This year was a turning point for my work ethic and stuff, since I was ambushed with assignments and whatnot. It'll only keep going that way, and during the school year, I lost the spark I had for this story. As much as I hate to say this, updates for this fanfic will come out VERY slowly, if any at all. Who knows, I might drop it altogether. Please don't hate on me for this in any way, since I was really hoping to keep it going. I've also started two other stories with OC's, and I might have to ditch this for those, especially since those two have way more complicated plots than what I had planned for this. I might start a Wattpad for one of them, but I'm not really sure right now. I don't know whether this is against the rules of or not, but if you feel like you want to piggyback on what I've published and make your own twist on emNaruto, Life, and Lyoko/em, you are welcome to as long as you credit me for the start. That's all I have to say, and I hope you understand why I'm doing what I'm doing. If you have any questions about the whole piggyback thing (if you can do it I guess), then I'll be checking my private messages. Have a nice day!/p
