The Legend Continues
Chapter 5
Raising to the Challenge!
An:Hello all my readers READ THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
I hope you all saw that header so here's the announcements first is that the poll for who is the last one in the harem is over so I give you the finalized one.
Samui, fem Haku,Hana, Tayuya, and the last one is … Yugito.
Those are the members that are going to be vying for the blond ninja affections, just because their in there it doesn't mean that their all going to end up with him, it's, more like a Ranma ½ or Rosario type pairing.
The second thing is that I have put up another poll, this one is to see what new story I should post, or not post a new one and focus on my existing stories. Each story on my poll has the first chapter already written and the only thing it needs is a little editing and it's ready to go, I am working the second chapter on most of those too so go out and vote.
That's all so on with the story.
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'Normal thought."
"Jutsu!"
Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto or Legend of Dragoon.
A black haired woman in her mid 20's sighs as she washes her dishes looking out the window at the setting sun, her father was suppose to be home today but the man still hasn't shown up making her worry.
She was broken out of her thoughts by a loud knocking at the front door, setting down the dish in her hands she went to answer it. The knocking continued as she walked "Yes yes I'm coming just wait a second!" shouted the women as she reached for the door " Yes what is- oh Tou-san your back." said the woman as she blinked in surprise.
Standing there in the door way was none other Tazuna the bridge builder "Ah Tsunami-chan sorry that I'm a bit late but we ran into a small amount of trouble."Tazuna said this in a bit of a hurried voice.
"We?" asked the now identified Tsunami in confusion until she looked past her father, standing slightly behind the older man was a group of teenagers with two adults. The adults were being supported by one of the teenagers with the sliver haired man looking exhausted with the wavy haired female clutching her ribs, another person that was being supported was a tall blond teen with his right arm hanging limp.
After snapping out of her shock Tsunami went into action guiding those who injured to the couches, the first thing that was fixed was Naruto's dislocated shoulder giving them another helper to deal with the others. The group did pretty well considering that none of them had any real medical training, the only ones that could claim any sort of competence were Hinata and Naruto, with Hinata's interests in herbs and Naruto having to more then once had to patch himself up from a training accident.
Naruto was blushing up a storm as he finished bandaging Kurenai's cracked ribs for which she only had her bra covering her top half "There that should be good if you take it easy for a week they should be healed." spoke Naruto as he turned away from the woman as she put her shirt back on, Naruto glared at Kiba who had found the situation to be hilarious while Hinata wrapped his sprained wrist.
Leaning on a wall while he sat listening to the conversation that Kakashi had started on the fate of Zabuza, apparently while Naruto and Kiba had been swimming towards the shore Kakashi had finished the fight with the man but was interrupted by a hunter-nin. From what he could glean from Kakashi is that the hunter had used a Senbon needle to take him down, the needle was probably used to hit pressure points in the neck make Zabuza fall into a death like state along with the fact that the person took the body with them and not destroying it then and there was suspicious.
"So that means that Zabuza is alive and the hunter-nin is a fake that's working with peach fuzz right?" summarized Naruto just waiting for confirmation.
Kakashi cast his gaze in Naruto's direction and sighed "Yes that is what I think happened which means we have to plan are next move.".
"Don't you guys think maybe your over thinking things you said the guy was dead right so maybe your just being paranoid."said Tazuna in a nervous tone hoping that the scary person with the large sword was dead.
"Your never sure someone's dead in this world until you hold their severed head in your hands and even then be wary old man." responded Naruto with his normal blunt wording.
Leaving the elder man with that grim imagery Kakashi spoke up " We'll have long day tomorrow so you should all get some sleep." with that Kakashi pulled his headband down to cover his eye falling asleep almost instantly leaving the other to head to the rooms Tsunami prepared for them.
Later that night.
Naruto sighed as he lay on his back looking up at the moon from the roof of Tazuna's home, his attention was drawn to a window when he heard the sound of footsteps approaching.
"Should have figured you guys wouldn't be able to sleep huh Kiba, Shino?" spoke the blond with out even turning his head as the two aforementioned stepped out onto the roof.
"The same would be said for you Naruto." came Shino's monotone reply as he and his teammate sat down on either side of Naruto.
Deciding to break the already forming silence Naruto spoke up "So what are you guys thinking about?".
" The same thing you are Naruto we weren't all that useful out there today hell you had kick us in the ass to get us moving." said Kiba as he remembered being next to useless in the fight until Naruto got him into gear.
"Maybe but even then we were outclassed by Zabuza we could barely survive for a little while if it went on any longer some of us might have gotten seriously injured or worse." at that Naruto clenched his hands tightly at his sides at the mere thought of his friends getting hurt.
"I agree we were rather ineffective today but what do we do about it?" Shino's voice held some emotion as spoke, today had been their first real taste of life and death of combat the experience was rather sobering.
"We train." spoke Naruto as he stood up and was soon fallowed by his friends "We train hard and if that's not enough we train even harder till we're ready." the blond's words were full of conviction as the three rookie Gennin stood there under the moon in a circle each of their gazes filled with a flame of determination.
Unknown to the three they had a watcher who sneered at them ' Tch what weaklings.' with that the dark haired teen walked back into the house with a mental thought of ' All you need is your self others will just hold you back.'.
The next morning.
With the sun barely coming up over the horizon the Gennins of teams 7 and 8 were lined up out in the forest behind Tazuna's house for the first day of their new training.
In front of them was were the Sensei with Kakashi using a borrowed pair of crutches to move around and Kurenai taking it easy with her cracked ribs.
Clapping his hands together to get the gathered teenagers attention Kakashi began to speak "Alright now that your all here we can begin, since I only know how far my team is in training how about you take over Kurenai." said the masked man as gestured to his fellow Jonin.
Stepping forward the brown haired woman started to explain "Well Kakashi my team has been doing the standard teamwork drills, physical training, sparring, and the tree walking exercise what about your team Kakashi?" The more experienced Jonin couldn't meet the woman's eye.
Before she could go any further she was interrupted by a question Umm Kurenai-Sensei what is the tree walking exercise?" asked a confused Sakura.
The Kunochi developed a twitch in her left eye "I'll tell you in a minute Sakura after I have a 'talk' with your Sensei." with that she grabbed the taller Shinobi by his ear and began to drag him off out of the clearing.
With the Sensei.
Kurenai had let go of the man ear when they were far enough away from the students that even Kiba couldn't hear them, she turned around to see the one eyed man rubbing his abused ear.
"Kurenai did you have to pull so hard aren't I injured enough as is." wined Kakashi as he looked at the serious woman in front of him.
"Kakashi I am going to ask you some questions and I don't want your normal excuses, bullshit or you trying to dodge the question got it?" asked the fierce Kunochi with a 'I will neuter you if you fuck with me!' look in her eye.
"Of course!" answered Kakashi automatically not wanting to anger the woman further.
Taking a deep breath to calm herself Kurenai asked her question "What did you teach your team in the month after the test Kakashi?".
Rubbing his chin to buy himself time to come up with the best way to reveal the information "Well we of course did the basics of teamwork building exercises and D-rank missions." giving his patented eye smile.
"And?"
"And what?"
Kurenai was rendered speechless for a minute by what the her superior officer had said "So for a month you had your team only do team work exercises and then you take them on a C-rank mission ARE YOU UTTERLY INSANE?" Kurenai yelled the last part of her sentence along with unconsciously using the Akuma atama no jutsu(Demon head technique).
Recovering from the yell the genius Shinobi sighed "Well some what, the thing is Kurenai my team isn't like yours at all.".
Raising an eye brow at the statement "Really? How so?" asked the curious Jonin since she only really knew the basic info on the three Gennin.
"Well your team basically clicked all you have to do iron out a few small problems and you get an effective unit, my team didn't have that they dislike each other to near point of hate. Sasuke is loner who feels that others are useless and will only hold him back along with having a superiority complex that is only matched by his late father, Naruto's personality clashes with Sasuke's with him hating Sasuke's condescending view on him, Sakura is a fangirl to the extreme on not training and already having dislike for Naruto. So I had them do teamwork building to at least get them to level where they could work together and I did … barely, they can work together if they absolutely have to. I was hoping to use this mission to show that they have to work together but instead it went totally FUBAR on us." she had to agree with that from what she saw team 7's personalities did clash.
"I just haven't gotten them to point where I can teach them jutsu and other skills just yet but this mission has forced my hand, I guess while we're here I guess it would help to know more about my teams skills right." getting a nod Kakashi began to explain the three skills.
"Sasuke has above average taijutsu using his families style but can get over confident in it, he a few Katon jutsu from his family library his Genjutsu while not great he is competent at dispelling them, his chakra control is around where it should be for his reserves."
"Naruto is the most versatile of them with his odd skills but from what I can tell are self taught since most the academy teachers only taught him barest amount they could get away with." Kurenai rolled her eyes at mention of the irrational hate of the teen " But he is monster in Taijutsu and I've had to stop him from sparring Sasuke having won each one since Sasuke's attacks don't have the power to put him down, his Genjutsu is horrible since his massive reserves make it harder to control. He doesn't have many jutsu but I can fix that later when his control is better, his weapons make him dangerous at all ranges and we have to deal with his Doujutsu soon but not until his control is improved I'd rather not have him hurt himself by using too much chakra." rubbing the bridge of his nose know that will cause many a head ache later.
"Not too much to say on Sakura but that she has good control but that comes from having small reserves, she use's the academy style for taijutsu and does it by the book so it's easily predicted other then her book smarts she doesn't have too much for combat at the moment."
Kurenai let out a low groan while massaging the bridge of her nose apparently team was head ache waiting to happen " Nothing is ever easy is it, well we better get back before Kiba gets bored and attempts to relieve his boredom." aid the woman as she started to walk back.
"Hmm I'm more worried about Naruto and Kiba together, I've heard horror stories about their time at the academy from Iruka." quipped Kakashi hobbling after the shapely Jonin.
Back with the Gennin.
The Jonin arrived back in the clearing where they left the Gennin to find Naruto and Kiba huddled in conversation away from the rest of the teams who were looking skittish.
Apparently the two hadn't noticed the arrival of the Jonin until Kurenai walked up to them clearing her throat to announce her presence "You two wouldn't be planning something?" her voice suspicious of the two infamous pranksters.
"Why would you think that?" "What gave you that idea?" was their immediate response with straight faces.
Deciding against pressing for information since all it would get was the run around from the two and they would find out what the two were planning eventually " Never mind just line up." with the all the teens in a row the Genjutsu mistress began her explanation.
"Kakashi has filled me in on his teams training so far and they haven't gotten to the tree walking exercise." this made Kiba grin thinking he had one up on his friend "So the teams will separate with team 7 learning the tree walking exercise while team 8 who has already learned this will move on to the next exercise.".
Before they could get on the way a blond swordsman interrupted " I guess then I should go with team 8 then.".
"Why would you do that Naruto you have to learn this first to go on the next one?" said Kakashi even tho he had a feeling that Naruto was about pull something off under their noses.
"Because I already know how to do this one." said the blond while shrugging.
Snort from the side made Naruto look towards his teammate Sasuke "If you know how to dobe why don't you show us how." sneered Sasuke.
This got Naruto hackles up as he hated when people were condescending to it was one of the few things that could truly make him lose his temper "Fine teme." ground out Naruto as he walked towards the nearest tree.
As soon as he got up to it Naruto lifted one foot and placed it on the tree and began channeling chakra to his boot sole he then brought up his other leg and repeated the process until he started to calmly walk up the side of the tree as if he was on the ground.
The reactions of his fellow Konoha Shinobi were different a death glare from Sasuke and Sakura, surprise from the Sensei, no outward sigh from Shino, Hinata was playing with her collar, but from Kiba a look that made him know he had foiled his friends one up attempt.
Grinning like a fox while hanging upside down from a branch until he stopped channeling chakra to his feet falling only to flip to his feet half way.
"Well I guess you know how to do it so you be training with team 8 but I have to ask Naruto how did you learn it." Kakashi's visible eye was trained on the teen as he spoke.
Naruto knew he would be asked this eventually so he had come up with a convincing lie "Well it was about a year and half ago I over heard some Gennin who had just learnt the technique talking about to some of their friends about it so I thought I'd try it out." the tale was plausible and extremely hard to disprove along with the time frame lead it away from his break in at the library.
Kakashi raised a sliver brow at this perhaps it was a coincidence that the library was broken into only six months before Naruto's story and it just so happened have a book being left out with the exact chakra control exercise that Naruto just so happened to over hear it was hard to tell around Naruto " Okay Naruto since you already know the exercise you'll be going with Kurenai's team then.".
With that out of the way team 8 plus Naruto started to walk out of the clearing, when Naruto walked past Sasuke the blond threw a slight smirk at the dark haired boy causing him glare death at him. Kakashi sighed when he saw this it wasn't a friendly one ups menship contest like Naruto had with Kiba but a rather hostile rivalry between the two he'd have to do something about that soon.
With Team 8.
The four Gennin found themselves standing on a dock in front Tazuna's home with Kurenai in front of them, Kurenai looked at the assembled teens in front of already knowing which Gennin were going to take to the exercise easily.
"This exercise is next step up from the tree walking it will help you refine your control, like tree walking you will have to emit a constant amount of chakra from the bottom of your feet but the amount of chakra used will always be changing the exercise you will be learning is called water walking." as soon as she finished her statement the Jonin took a step off the low dock and into the water or rather onto the water, instead of the normal reaction of falling into the water Kurenai was standing on top of the surface of the water with barely a ripple.
The Genin showed varying levels of surprise or in Shino's case he raised an eyebrow, sure they had seen Zabuza and Kakashi do the same the day before but they weren't exactly focused on the fact.
Looking at the students in front of her Kurenai begun to explain what she wanted from them "You will be training in this exercise until you are able to fight at full speed on top of the water using the exercise unconsciously. I would get started now if I were you." still standing on the water Kurenai waited for something to happen.
The event Kurenai was waiting for was for the two most impulsive to jump the gun, which did happen only half way as Kiba attempted to walk on the water at the end of the pier. She had thought that Naruto would try it to but was surprised that he attempted to stop his friend from doing it by trying to grab the back of his jacket but missed, Kiba landed on the water's surface channeling chakra to his feet and he was able to stay on top of it for all of about a half second before the eventual-
Splash
When Kiba resurfaced he was met by a by grinning Naruto who was crouching at the end of the pier "Yea know it might be a good idea to know if you can stand the water first before jumping into the deep end cause now your just going to smell like wet dog all day." teased Naruto knowing that Kiba would have done the same if he had screwed up ah such was a friendship between men.
"I'm gonna get you back for that Naruto."
"Probably but until then buddy of mine I'm still the man."
Later that night.
The sun was almost set when the four young Gennin trudged back to their clients home after the training, as they walked three of the four made a squish sound coming from their sandals having fallen in the water more then once but the fourth having worn boots had them water proofed and was high and dry much to the displeasure of his comrades.
The Konoha Gennins had made some progress in the water walking exercise, Hinata had the best results had almost gotten it down because of her natural chakra control and former training with her clan. Shino had was still had to work on it but had easier time with it thanks to his small reserves from housing the colonies of kichaku, sadly Naruto and Kiba were still struggling to work out thanks to their less then stellar chakra control. Naruto was having a harder time since the size of his reserves was massive but he had solution to that in the form of Kage bunshin(Shadow clones.).
Kurenai's eyes had nearly bugged out when he had created over fifty clones and didn't even look winded, the average Jonin could only make about ten clones of that type at best and they would be huffing and puffing from using that much chakra. To make that many and still have more chakra meant that he had far more chakra then she had thought.
At the moment the teams along with Tazuna's family were sitting around the table eating diner, the food was a little sparse what with very little food coming into the island thanks to Gato's blockade. Even with that the mood at the table was pretty lively with laughter and talk of the various things each person had done at the moment Naruto and Kiba were telling a story of a prank they had pulled when in the academy.
The only person that was not drawn into the happy atmosphere was Tazuna's 12 year old Grandson Inari, the boy was of average height for his age and having brown hair. He wore a normal tan shirt and green overalls with a white and blue bucket hat, the young boy had an aura depression around him at all times and rarely interacted with the Shinobi other then what was necessary.
A small growl escaped the boy's throat as he listened to the story told by Naruto, when he could not take anymore the young boy slammed his hands down on the table.
"Shut up!" yelled the pre-teen at the blond.
"Inari!" said Tsunami in scolding tone.
Hearing the kid's tone Naruto started to frown "What's your problem kid?" the blond's voice was gruff, Naruto normally he liked kids but this one was pissing him off by saying things like 'You'll all just die.' or acting like a little emo, they already had the quota filled by Sasuke thank you very much.
Looking directly the taller teen in the eyes Inari spoke "You are! You just sit here telling jokes and stories like nothings wrong acting all big and tough, you don't know what it's like to suffer living in your rich village!" the boy was panting slightly from his rant.
"Fucking Brat!" swore Naruto which made Kiba raise an eyebrow at it, Naruto never used curse words in front kids he must be pissed "You've got some balls to say that brat, you make it sound like your the only person that's suffered in the world.".
Inari was about respond but was cut off by Naruto "Well brat if want to sit around and wallow in your own grief instead of getting the fuck up and doing something about it go right ahead!" he growled out the last part of that he started walking towards the back door.
"Naruto how could yo-" began Sakura ready berate her teammate but was cut off.
Turning around to glare at the pink haired girl Naruto had unconsciously activated his newly obtained Dojutsu, the reptilian like yellow eyes pierced into her while Naruto released a bit of KI at her silencing her.
"Don't even start with me Hanaro." said Naruto his tone filled with a warning not to piss him off "I'll be back by morning Kakashi-Sensei."
With that Naruto walked out the door not to be seen again until the following morning.
After a minute of silence was broken by Sakura "I can't believe Naruto how can he say stuff like that." giving small haughty huff.
Rolling his eyes at the annoying his Kunochi Kiba decided to add his two cents "Hanaro shut the hell up, Naruto knows where he coming from this if you hadn't noticed his life ain't so great but you don't see him being a pussy and moping around." it was one of the things that irked him that a whole load of people hated his best buddy and he didn't know why, he had asked other like Hana but she didn't know, his mom knew but wasn't talking along with the fact Naruto also knew but kept clammed up about.
Kakashi sighed as he watched as Kiba argued with Sakura, his team was getting worse in trusting each other and team work, it wasn't like the past team 7's where they disliked each other, tho some would say out right hated one another. They could at least put their difference aside to work together when necessary but his team could barely do that, maybe when they got back to Konoha he could ask the Sandaime for tips on dealing with this type of team.
With Naruto
'Who the hell does that brat think he is spewing that shit!' thought Naruto as he deflected an attack.
Naruto stood in a large clearing far enough away from Tazuna's house so he wouldn't be disturbed, he was holding wooden practice spear and facing a kage bunshin holding a wooden practice sword modeled after his broad sword.
Right now Naruto was working off some frustrations while getting some practice in, unlike what most people thought about his temperament Naruto actually was slow to anger. But there were a few things that could get Naruto pissed real quick, people looking down on him, hurting his friends, and a person acting like they suffered more anyone else and not standing up for themsevles.
So it was safe to say Inari pissed him off as he engaged his clone in furious weapon battle, numerous clacks of wood on wood filled the clearing as the two blondes deflected each others attacks with a good deal of skill.
Naruto executed a spinning strike where he leaped into the air holding his spear at the end and spun in a 360 while in the air to increase his power, the clone had just barely dodged the attack almost popping him, the copy rushed at Naruto knowing that the spear will be useless in close quarters.
Showing an impressive deal of flexibility Naruto bent backwards when he landed from his attack to avoid a near instantaneous double slash at his head, allowing his upper body to drop Naruto lashed out with his legs nailing his double in the knees dispelling it.
After getting over the phantom memory of breaking his own knee caps Naruto flipped to his feet turning to check the progress of something, over to the side of where he had just sparred his clone was a group of 40 kage bunshin.
30 of the clones were attempting the water walking exercise with some success as most of them could remain on top of the water for at least 4 minutes before falling in uttering curses as they did so, the last ten were doing a refresher course on the tree walking exercise.
Naruto was thinking on what to do next as he had already gotten in a good a amount of weapon practice, with the exception of the bow since he didn't want to lose arrows in the dark, unless he got a sparring partner there was much he could do as fighting a clone was good and all for fine tuning but one needed an opponent other then themselves to fight to grow stronger.
"Well there always physical training." said Naruto to himself.
Rooting through his pack Naruto brought out four long white bands with what looked like symbols drawn on them, these were the training weights that Gai-Sensei had given him, the bowl cut man had given Naruto four of them since he also had to build up his arm muscles for his weapons.
Taking off his his arm and leg guards he attached the bands around his shins and forearms then putting armor back on, Naruto then took out the instructions Gai had given him on how to use the weights.
The instructions weren't written like he would have thought, instead of it filled with words like youth and youthful flames it was clear and concise, all he had to do was channel chakra into the weights to increase how much gravity affected them the more weight he wanted the more chakra had to be added.
Channeling chakra until he felt a strain on his muscle from the weights Naruto began to move around acclimating to the added weight, when he was sure he was ready Naruto began to go over his normal work out.
Said work out consisted of a 7 mile run, 300 push ups, 150 squats, 200 crunches, 100 pull ups, and various other exercises that gave the teen a balance between strength and speed.
'Better get started if I want to sleep early tonight.'
Scene break
To those that didn't know Naruto Uzumaki one would have guessed that he was heavy sleeper from the way he was laying at the base of the tree snoring like a sleeping dragon.
But to those that do know him he is a light sleeper as the light touch can awaken him and his body reacts without thinking when awoken, many had to learn this the hard way, like Kiba, who had awoken Naruto before by shaking him only to get tossed head over heels out Naruto's apartment window from Naruto's body reacting to his training.
So it was the person fault that when they poked the blond in the cheek that he grabbed there wrist then flipped the person on to their back, when Naruto's conscious mind took over he found himself straddling a girl.
Said girl looked to be a little older then the blond himself, she had long brown hair and soft brown eyes, the older girl was wearing a pink sleeveless kimono with darker pink marking on it. She was much shorter then Naruto being only 5'2 with a slender frame that was curvy, she seemed to be blushing.
Naruto was pinning her down with his left hand firmly around the throat while his right arm was drawn back for a punch.
As his mind caught up to his body he voiced his thoughts on his position "Ah crap."
Chapter 5 end
