A/N: This is chapter 10. Chapter 9 is taking too long and it won't really make much difference to the story. It's basically Goku's passed and my own event's after dbz. I'll put it in soon. So remember this please.
Plus I hate viruses... They make my work take longer... T/_\T
Chapter 10
The wind whipped up the sandy cliffs as Goku and Naruto tracked to the temple. Goku glanced up from under his brown cloak and hat to see the kazekages cart coming their way. Naruto glanced up as well.
As the carriage passed Naruto made eye contract for a second with a red haired lad before they passed. Naruto turned to the cart. 'What was that just now?' Naruto quickly turned to Goku's call and followed.
The pair reached the temple to see it look like a battle field.
"What happened here?" Naruto gasped in shock to the sight. Unido walked up. He was in happy spirits.
"I see the son of the kazekage had his time well here?" Goku said as he watched monk's trying to pull one out by his leg's who was buried torso first in the ground. "And the daughter as well..." Goku muttered looking at some of the monk's hanging from pillar's by their sliced clothing.
"It's always fun when those two come. Show's these monk's that their still a long way from being ready to leave." Unido looked to Naruto. "So my boy... You ready to learn the style we call, shippuu-ken. The hurricane fist?" Naruto nods. "Then please this way..." Naruto nods and walk's passed Unido. Goku and Unido exchange quick words.
"He's passed right?"
"All three stages... Train him from first to last..." Goku said walking off. Unido nod's and followed behind Naruto.
The pair walked into the temple and Unido led Naruto down stairs to a large pair of doors. Unido glanced to Naruto, the boy was wearing his monk clothing, having much less destroyed his old ones training with Goku. Unido opened the doors.
It was a large underground training area. Filled with all sorts of obstacles. "Naruto..." Naruto glanced to Unido as the man walked forward. "You spend the rest of your time here, till I think you're ready. Only then will I let you leave and move onto the temples of fire and lightning." Naruto nods.
"Now... What you see out there. This what you'll learn to do when fighting in the wind fighting style. But before we can go so far as to touch them. You have to control your wind chakra."
"Oji-san said that. He said you trained the fourth in his element. Is it true it would take less time that what it would take?" Unido nods.
"Ninja's don't normally get to train here. But Minato knew Goku. And Goku knew the temples. Goku was the only reason we even let you, or anyone else come to our temples to train." Naruto nods.
"He did say that... So, where do I start?" Unido waved his hand to follow.
"First you need to focus out that wind chakra. I know of your limit. And it wouldn't help going by the monk's usual style of training. So we're going to use something else." The pair entered the room to the left.
Naruto blinked as he glanced about the large room. In the centre was a set of staffs and at the back a large bell.
"This is where we will focus your wind nature. Out before you is a line of candle poles. You will have to put out each one of these. But there is a problem." He clapped his hands and they lit up. "Each one is made of a stronger fire jutsu than the last. I'm sure you know the five element's table?" Naruto nods.
"You will have to put each out. But I will also point out. That it has to be the fire alone. You can't, and will not. Damage or destroy any one of the staffs or candles. Otherwise you do it all again. And finally, once you have finished all these 8 poles. You must ring the bell at the back. And you must do this from where you're standing now." Naruto looked at his targets as Unido continued.
"This will help in you control, normally you would have to cut a leaf and slice water. That being how a ninja would do it. Our temple put's our monk's in the harshest winds, and you must be able to stand your grounds against the raging winds. But as you're not on their level. A harder one is set for anyone above them. This place works on the mind. You focus at your target, and summon the wind there. You will also learn to form wind out would from your body at a distance and control the speed and power." Naruto rubbed his head. "It is confusing yes. But you'll begin to understand once you start." Unido said walking to the side of the hall.
"I will stay and watch. And remember. There are three over room's left. And you have very little time to do it. Don't disappoint me." Naruto took a breath and focused at the candle. Unido sat with his legs cross and had a serious look on his face and he watched the boy.
'I want to see if I'm correct. Goku may not have told me, but I feel I know what's going on.' Naruto closed his eyes.
'My power comes from the wind itself. So...' Naruto brought his right arm up. Focus...' Naruto mussed as wind began to slowly appear round the flame of the candle. This only had the flame increase and Naruto blinked before the wind vanished. 'There has to be a way to stop that flame...' Naruto closed his eyes for a moment.
'Fire need's oxygen to stay active... So...' Naruto looked at his palm. Wind rippled along his hand. 'I need to find away to remove that oxygen...' Naruto look at the candle. 'Let's try this...' Naruto looked at his palms and cupped them together. 'Focus...' Naruto closes his eyes and let the wind flow and spiral in his hands before blowing into them. 'If I focus on an orb of wind. And use the carbon in my lungs.' He slowly opened his palm and look at the light orb of wind. He then looked at the flame and aimed his hand at the flame.
Unido watched with interest as the blond sent the orb out. The flame's expanded before dimming. But didn't go out. 'Seems he knows how to kill fire off. But simple carbon dioxide won't help here. You need to kill the flames with the wind. And simply doing what you've been doing won't help you here. You need to use such force that the wind cuts the fire out. That is the only way you'll do this...'
The minutes... and hours rolled by, and Naruto was nowhere near passed the first candle. Unido yawned and stood as Naruto glared. "Keep trying... I'll go get some food. I'll bring something back." With that he left. As the door closed Naruto groaned.
"Why won't this work? I've tried all the ways to kill the flame under the sun... And some I thought were pretty good ideas and they didn't work either. Ugh..." Naruto sighed as he slumped a bit. "This is too hard. How did he do it...? How did the 4th do it?" Naruto asked himself. "I need to figure out how to kill that flame. Naruto looked at the candle. He glanced to the door. 'Let's try something...' Naruto crept over to the candle. "Ok..." Naruto pinched his tongue a bit before pinching the flame with his finger and thumb.
This only left the result with Naruto burning his finger as the flame didn't go out. "Ouch..." Naruto grumbled as he looked at his burnt hand. 'Oji-san made it look so easy...' He walked back to his spot and tried again, and again, and again.
And like the candle. Naruto's fuse was getting shorter and shorter till. "Argh!" Naruto yelled. "Why won't it work!" Naruto yelled as he stamped at the ground in annoyance. Naruto blinked as he heard a light tap and looked at the floor. A small chipped piece of rock rested by his food.
"Where did..." Naruto blinked as he looked up. He then looked down and lifted his foot.
The area around his foot was completely cut up.
'Cut up... cut... It's worth a shot. If trying to put out the fire won't work any other way. Then maybe... Then maybe using a small condensed blast of wind will kill that flame.' Naruto then looked from his distance to the flame, and then to the chipping. 'I best practice if I'm going to hit that target.'
When Unido returned he could only blink as he walked into the room. It looked like someone had gone at it with a blade.
"Naruto..." Unido said with his arms crossed as he looked about. "Did you really have to damage the room? Your target was the flames..." Naruto grinned while rubbing his head.
"Sorry... But I've done it... Look." Naruto said pointing at the three smoking candles.
"Not bad..."
"I've been able to send focused disks of wind and it slices right through. But I can't focus it anymore..." Naruto muttered. Unido nods from behind Naruto.
"You got a weapon?" Naruto nods.
"A sword but what that going to do?"
"This is where wind style goes to the next level. Because you can channel your chakra through weapons. Unlike water or earth. Wind, fire and lightning chakra can be pushed into a weapon. Focus you wind at the point and fire... That's all I'll help with." Unido said as he put the food down.
More rice... It's like the only thing the temples eat... Naruto inwardly groaned. He was missing his ramen. He pulled his scroll out from his bag at the wall side and summoned his blade. Naruto looked at it and pondered.
How was he going to channel chakra into his blade? He's now done that before.
'But then again... I've done earth chakra control... Water chakra control. And each required me to do a form of chakra channelling. From sticking to walls to standing on water. I've got the air running through my system where I don't need normal chakra control for that element... Hm... The paper...' Naruto held the blade out and focused out from his palms. The blade glowed with a light green chakra. Naruto looked at it. It looked like it was covered in jelly. Naruto looked at the next candle. He drew the blade back and focused at the tip as best he could. And swung.
He got what he wanted. But the orb shot out to wide and hit the wall. It didn't even really just into it.
"...." Naruto looked at the blade. 'The chakra's to lumpy to control... My chakra needs to be sharp like my sword... So maybe...' Unido smirked as he watched.
'He's a fast learner... But I'll give him a week. Then he'll have the hard part to do.'
And learn he did. With every slash, every swing. Naruto's move that he calls the cutting wave. Or Kattoha. Got sharper, faster, and more accurate. And Unido watched as Naruto cut out each of the flames. Till his final target was the bell. Before Naruto could swing.
"That won't be needed Naruto. This requires a whole different form than before." Unido said walking up. Naruto lowered his blade.
"How so?" Unido stood beside the blond. And looked at the large bell.
"This task requires you to hit the bell and make it ring with a thrust of wind..." Unido said as he thrusts his right arm forward. Naruto blinked as he watched the air ripple before the bell shook with a gong. Naruto looked to Unido.
"You must do this three times. After that, we can move on. And you have to thrust the wind from here. Not from a distance. Have a go." Naruto looked at the bell and held his right arm up. He gathered wind and pushed forward.
No gong... Not even a ripple in the area. Naruto then blinked as he noticed one of the candle's light back up. "What the?"
"It took you 5 days to knock all the flames out. Not you're on a time limit." Naruto blinked more.
"With every second that's passing by. A candle will light up from the time difference it took to knock it out. It took you five days to get them out. It will take five to get them all on. But, with every candle. The bell will get heavier and harder to push with your wind. So you don't have much time Naruto. This will require a greater amount of energy needed than what you used for that wind slicing ability." Naruto nods.
And began he did one day passed and Naruto had only got half the distance with one thrust.
The aim was to gather enough energy that it will travel fast and hit hard. But the combination of focus and control was higher than before. And was really getting Naruto's blood boiled.
By day three....
"Hargh!" Naruto yelled as he thrust a blast of air at the bell. It hit the bell and dispersed with no noise. Naruto took a breath.
"Let's take a break Naruto." Unido called out. The blond sat beside him and a bowl was put in front of the blond.
"Rice... Again..." Naruto muttered. "If Goku hadn't got him onto different food nearly a year ago. He would have gone mad without ramen for so long. Hm... He wondered how the ramen shop was doing without him? The first he'll do when he gets back is stack up the dishes, not matter if it's morning or night. He was going to get his fix when he got back.
"Naruto..." Unido spoke. "I might have something info that Goku said will get you more focused at the task." Naruti looked at the old man.
"What?"
"Goku has gone out to gather ingredients to make you ramen for when you get through this training. Though... He did say it may not be as good as what you normally have."
"That's cool. I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to get some ramen... But." Naruto looked at the 4 candles. "Unido-san."
"Hm?"
"Would you still be able to ring the bell with 5 flames going?" Unido shook his head.
"My skills will never be that strong. But yours will. Your connection to wind is far greater than mine. I'm even sure you could ring the bell at 8 candles. But the point of this is to help you master wind in shape and power."
"What's in the next door?"
"Well... I may as well tell you. The next room is all about speed and defence. And the final room is all about attack."
"So it's control, defence... And attack. What does wind come under here?"
"Offensive and attacking. But with your limit."
"It can be anything... I know that from the earth and water temple..." Naruto sighed. "It all ways makes me feel odd thinking this..." Unido watched Naruto as he pondered.
"But ever since my tenth birthday... Everything I've done up until now... It almost doesn't feel real to me. I mean Son Goku... A saiyan... Picked the 4th hokage and then me to protect the world. I don't know if I could meet his standards..."
"But he picked you Naruto. Meaning he must believe you can."
"But for some reason... That amount of weight on my shoulders... Really hasn't registered yet... I wonder if it ever will. And when it does, what will happen?" Naruto stared at the ground for a small amount of time. His mind going over what he should be about to do, if the story Goku told him really was true. The unlimited potential he'll have... And he'd have to take Goku's place for him. It's something Naruto was beginning to dread more than get excited about. Having to do what Goku could.
Could he really meet a man of such a title...? Such a level of skill? No... All he could do was just try his best, and hope not to fail this great hero.
"I bets get back to it. I have to get this down before long... And ugh, Unido."
"Yeah?"
"How long have I been down here? Time seems to have no meaning in a place like this?"
"Do you want to know?"
"... I guess not. It wouldn't make much difference." Naruto said as he looked at the bell. "I just have to ring the bell. To move on." Naruto looked at the bell with his right arm forward but stopped a second. Something dawned on him.
'It's worth a shot...' Naruto put both palms out together and gathered the wind. 'Let's try this first...' Naruto released a stream of wind and Naruto watched the shadow move back a bit. 'More....' Naruto tensed as a burst of wind bulged down the stream and the bell moved back. But the wind slowed and stopped after that.
'I think I might have a way to do this. So...' Naruto closed his eyes with a smirk. 'Let's try a bit of a combination.' Naruto cupped his hands out and brought his hands back as he moved his body into stance.
Unido watched as wind became brighter and more visible in Naruto's cupped his hands. 'The air's been condensed into an orb. Naruto opened his eyes.
"Let's go! Futon: Kazehameha!" Naruto yelled as he brought his hands forward.
A violent vortex of wind drilled out from Naruto's hands and slashed up the ground and at the bell.
There was no ring. More an explosion as Naruto's feet where forced off the ground and into the back wall with a thud. Naruto's head hit with enough force to knock him out.
As the smoke cleared Unido stood and walked to the centre of the room. He looked to his right. Down the path of destruction, and the now destroyed bell. Then to the left to the blond. Then to the floor in front of him at his feet.
The orb had lost control and expanded leaving a crater. Unido looked back to Naruto and saw the light smoke on his palms. The man rubbed his head.
"Not even Minato... Could do something like that. Impressive." He then walked up to the blond and gripped him by the vest. With a small tug he carried the blond out and off to the next room.
9 day's it took Naruto to pass the first test. And with only just 17 days left... Could Naruto master his powers in time?
When Naruto awoke he found himself in another room. This one had hole's... But not just 5 or 6. Hundreds of holes. About his fist in size.
"What the?"
"Welcome to stage two." Unido spoke as Naruto quickly stood.
"So what am I doing now?" Naruto asked looking round.
"Only one thing really. Just dodge."
"Huh?" Naruto blinked as he heard a click. And a ball shot out of the ground passed his face. Naruto stumbled back as a click echoed out again.
"This room is a self learning room. Each hole. Contains a rubber ball. And will be fired to the hole opposite. The more you dodge the faster the ball will get. But, if a ball hit's you. They increase by one. The speed drop's too normal. But like before. Continue to dodge and they will increase in speed. The aim is to use your wind to move faster than normal. Even by your chi standards at this point. And use the wind round you to send balls another direction. That's all I can really say. The key, is to feel the air. Right down to the pressure being pushed out the hole. This will help with prediction of movement."
Unido turned to the door. "The best I can do is ten balls moving a 4 times a second. That's with speed. Garra... The kazekage's son on the other hand..." Unido said as he stepped through the door.
"200 balls at 2 times a second. And that's without moving. Good luck." The door shut and Naruto sighed.
Naruto heard a click and he quickly jumped out the way of a ball. And then jumped sideways as one shot from behind.
Up, down, left and right. The ball got faster. And even predicted Naruto to his surprise. It didn't take long before Naruto was blurring his way past 10 balls moving at incredible speed.
And boy when they hit. They hurt. But Naruto kept going.
He didn't know how long he dodged, deflected or even evaded the balls. But by the end he could say he had never experienced something so hard in his life. Unido showed Naruto out and Goku stood there with a smile.
"How you feeling?"
"Painful..."
"You did well... I watch you in a special room. You've improved greatly." Naruto gave a light smile.
"Thanks.
"And in 6 day's too. Non-stop." Naruto froze. 6 day's? What the hell? He didn't even feel hungry in that time or anything? Goku chuckled.
"I added something to the rice. So that way you could fully focus. It should wear off in 4 more days."
"What was I supposed to learn from that room?" Naruto asked. Goku raised an eyebrow.
"You didn't figure it out?"
"All I did was evade and block. What was I supposed to learn?"
"It's to help when facing more than one enemy. You have to evade an enemy strike while still evading or blocking the next. I've had to have fights where I've battled more than one foe and had to keep moving to evade the next. Tell me, how many balls at one time did you evade from within an arm's reach?"
"Ugh... About 7 I think."
"Then that means you could evade and or block nearly 7 different kinds of melee attacks. But we're getting short on time. You have 6 days left to finish this final room." Goku said as they stepped into the next.
"This is another self learning room. About combat. You can use any weapons of moves you want that are wind based alone." Unido said. "You will spend 4 days in here."
"Why so short?" Goku then spoke up.
"The self learning rooms. Are so advanced for training. That too much time would kill someone. 6 day's is beyond the normal limit of 4 day's max. But you are beyond the normal human. You need to be pushed to all your limits. And in this room I'll give one final word of advice." Goku said as he put a hand on the blonds shoulder.
"Save the weapons till the end... But then again. You won't know how far you are from it." Goku said as his hand glowed and Naruto felt his energy and fatigue fade. Naruto looked about the two story room with 6 statues and 6 glowing doors. The statues eyes lit up. Naruto blinked as a stone being appeared before him. It attack and Naruto evaded like a pro and crushed the being with one kick.
Naruto grinned and blinked as the statue's eyes glowed red and another appeared. But faster than his attack on that last statue.
The room would learn, increase and improve each of the stone dolls. Going from predicting combat movement. To copying moves like Naruto's kazehameha. And then to go as far as to carry a weapon when he used it.
It calculated his every move and kept pushing Naruto more and more. All ways keeping the blond on his toes.
The fighting had gone nonstop. Naruto wasn't sure how long he'd been in there, but the room now looked like a battle field more than a training room. And Naruto looked worse than he felt.
But then, everything stopped. Naruto himself found he was at blade point by 5 of the ten statues while the other five, were ready to attack.
As the door opened the statues eyes glowed and the dolls turned dust. Naruto, after having gone further and beyond his limit's. Passed out.
4 day's he'd spent fighting. And now it was time to return home.
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Naruto awoke in one of the temple rooms just a day later. With six days to go. He knew he would have to really work hard... But first...
He really had to use the bath room. Badly.
Once he was finished... He was going to do two things. Train more in his wind art. And find out what the hell Goku put in his rice!
It took a total of 2 hours. 5 minutes to track Goku of course. To the training room. Goku grinned at the blond.
"Good to see you up. How you killing?" The answer came with Naruto drawing his blade.
"I'll kill you for putting me through that!" Naruto roared rushing the elderly saiyan.
For the next few hours. Unido watched as Naruto went through the complete obstacle course and training tasks as he chased after Goku. Unido had to say. Goku maybe a good teacher. But he was slyer at his minor pranks.
The day passed and Naruto had gone to bed. Giving up trying to kill Goku for the whole experience or it could be the fact he promised to pay for Naruto's ramen once they got back into Konoha. Unido wasn't sure.
Day after day, sun rise to sun set. Naruto went over wind style combat for four days. This went from learning how to fight in mid air to jumping great distances on a single leap. Which Naruto found to be the most fun. And would definitely continue to do that once he got back in Konoha.
But finally, it was the day to return. But it seemed Naruto would get to put his skills to the test.
It was a bright morning and Naruto left the temple to find monk's all facing out to the gate. "What's going on?" Naruto spoke as he walked up. One of the monk's glanced to him.
"Seems them bandit's have grown some bravery to come and take the temple." Naruto blinked.
On the other side of the line. Goku and Unido faced the line of bandits.
"Just hand this place over. If you do, we'll let everything go about what you've done to us." The leader spoke with a grin.
"Geez... You on drugs on something?" Unido muttered rubbing the side of his head. He was clearly not bothered by this guy's threats.
"I wouldn't be making a statement like this if I wasn't confident." The leader said with a grin. Unido said as he stepped forward. But Goku put his hand on his shoulder.
"Leave this to me..." Goku said only for Naruto to appear in the sky and land between the groups.
"No... Let me." Naruto said standing. The leader and his men chuckled.
"Of come off it. I'm not here to kill a small child. Step aside and let us just take over."
"No way." Unido said with his arms crossed. "This it the sacred temple wind temple of Karin. I will not let you take over. Naruto I'm tired of this. I'll sort him." Unido said, only Naruto didn't move.
"Let him do this." Goku spoke before Unido could. "Naruto seems to want to. Right?" Goku asked. Naruto nods.
"I want to pay Unido-san's help back. I'll clear these guys off." Naruto said as he got into his stance. Goku nods.
"Then you have no worries from me. Go to town with them. Just don't damage the place." Unido sighed with a nod and followed Goku.
"You think he's ready?" Unido muttered as Naruto smirked. Goku nods.
"He's always been ready."
The leader sighed. "Fine... If you want to die, very well. Ichi, ni, san!" The leader snapped his fingers and three men landed in front of him. Each wore red vests with black jeans. Each carrying a weapon. "Kill him."
Naruto's eyes glowed. "Bring it!"
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Man! That was troublesome. And yet this took five days to do. Not bad.
I'm sorry it took so long. But as I said, chapter 9 is taking it's time. Now before you leave. I have a long notice. So let's start with the most important.
Starting Monday. I start a new job and my times will be shorter for my work. But I doubt it will make much difference. Plus the more annoying part is now my Saturdays are taken up. T/_\T
Ok. That's info one.
My next bit of information comes with chapter 9. Because it's so long. And mainly because it's more filler. I'm going to do a separate story for this sort of thing. Now I guess you wonder why? Simple, I've decided to do long movie chapters. I have one in mind that came from watching a moving. Won't say. But I'll have it ready maybe a chapter or two, for you to read. I will post a note for you to know.
Now number three.
I have so far. One oc. Thanks to diimmortal for one. So far team 7 has a replacement. There are spaces still open for those who still want to pass one over. And don't think that just because team 7 has a ninja. Doesn't mean you can't make one better, it's supposed to be challenging. And a final note on this. You have till the chapter just before the first exam. I will let you know when you're getting close.
Now to info 4.
Like saiyan reborn. This story Naruto's path of chi. Is a 3 part story.
The first being the cover of things through the cannon. Which end around the sasuke retrieval time point.
The second part is the longest, which may just cover the three years. Like saiyan reborn will. While this story will cover that and much of the shippuuden time line. So these are going to be the longest.
And the final part is the ending. Saiyan reborn will most likely finish along cannon line. While I have something planned for N,P,O,C. I bet your stunned I've even seen this far? Well I have, in minor viewings of my imagination. And I hope it goes as good as I see it.
Now for the final bit. Once part one is done. I will be taking on 3 minor stories. I understand from thenagain that doing this is bad. But I've planned and I'll be making notes to not forget them.
Now the reason for this is to help my idea's expand.
So the two main stories will be Naruto's path of chi part two. Which will need a new title I think at that point.
Saiyan reborn: a change in tails.
Now the minors. I've had a think and I've decided to have a go at these thre or four.
Naruto, card captor cross. In the ccs world. I'll sort my first chapter out having made a big error from not watching nearly all the anime.
The next is a Naruto digimon cross. Part one in dg world then part 2 in Naruto. Pairing's being minikushi. From those who remember ninja tamers. It's going to be something similar.
Number three. The maybe is the one piece Naruto. This along with way of the blade are idea's I like. But I need to let things progress in two areas. That being to let the bleach time line go on so I can see shinigamis I can use for my story show what they've got. And I need to watch the one piece anime and look at the manga after before I feel ready for it.
And finally. This idea is something I've tossed and turned at and I'll be doing it for two reasons.
One, this pairing is hardly used. And I hate to admit it, but it could just be a good shot at one. Plus I really want to try one of the styles I've read from someone else's story to make this pairing work.
Now, this is a Naruto with future yugioh cross. So think back to my fic white wings. And you have some idea of what's going to happen. And the pair. Is a Naruto shizune pair. Yes I know it not the sort I do.
But the idea's I've got. And how I see things. It's possible. Shizune is a character that could work with because of how little we know of her skills. I won't say what I'll do with this story. But you will just have to wait and see... Sigh.
I'm a naruhina fan in heart and soul. But I've never done a good fic in my eyes for that pairing. I seem to do better with fics that have pairings not used much for people to really poke at. So I'll do with what I'm good at and hope that I'll be able to do a good naruhina one day.
Now That I've said what I've wanted. Thankyou for reading and see you soon.
Oh and last things. Teamfourstar is suspended. But I'm sure everyone knows this. T/_\T Damn it! And also look up raruto on youtube. It's a Spanish manga parody of Naruto. But someone did an English dub animation. Part one is not really good. But part two is funny as hell. Sadly there isn't a part three. And the English language is sort of been stabbed at with a rusty nail from listening to it. But have fun.
Take care, Geta.