The Fight
Hi everyone and thanks to those that reviewed now I just want to say to in response to thor94's review which is:
"thor94 Good chapter. Do you plan let naruto as mini-kakashi or naruto will solve his eye problem?"
Now I don't fully understand your question but the eye thing will be explained better in this chapter. I hope you all enjoy this chapter I did struggle to find time and I have a holiday coming up soon as well as some rehearsals for a musical that I'm in.
Kurama talking/ other bijū
sounds
'thoughts'
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As Hinata's name came up on the screen her heart sank at who she had to face. She could never beat Neji in any of the spars in the compound and she knew it would no doubt be the same here. Hinata cast a glance over to the blonde haired Genin who was looking at the name board.
Naruto turned to look over at Hinata and noticed that she was already looking at him although she was very shy it kinda freaked him out that she would always stare at him and when ever their eyes met she would run off. Naruto gave a reassuring smile over to Hinata but their eyes met and she ran down the stairs.
Sighing Naruto looked over to Anko and tapped her hand gently. Anko looked over to Naruto and mouthed "What?" Naruto smiled and leaned in and whispered into her ear before saying "We have more in common now than you know." As Naruto leaned back Naruto had a cheesy grin across his face.
Anko gave Naruto a stern look which made his grin disappear just as quick as it appeared "What have you done Naruto?" Anko asked flatly as her left eye twitched slightly.
"I have a Hebi summon." Naruto replied quickly. He knew what would happen after the twitch appeared and it never lead to anything good. Anko arched her fist back and drove it straight into Naruto's gut making him buckle over with a series of coughs which soon turned to laughter. As Naruto straightened up he gave Anko a quick kiss on the cheek which made her blush before looking down at the fight below.
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Hinata was barely holding on against her cousin Neji who in all rights and thoughts were destroying the Hyūga heiress. Every move Hinata attempted was either interrupted or countered instantly not allowing her to make any progress in trying to at least make a touch on his body.
'I'm done for' Hinata thought to herself as she felt her body going numb from the countless hits that Neji had hit her with.
"Destiny is something you can never fight against Hinata-sama" Neji said as Hinata felt the a cold embrace wash over her.
Hayate appeared next to the young girl and called out "The winner of the fight is Hyūga Neji!" Kurenai jumped over the railing and ran to Hinata's side and lifted her out of the arena while Neji walked back up the stairs towards his team mates.
Kiba glared over at Neji and was about to charge at him when Shino placed a hand on his shoulder. By now Kiba knew that this small gesture meant loads coming from Shino so Kiba stood down.
The screen came to life and the names spun into life. The first name landed on Uzumaki Naruto. The second name continued to spin but slowed down to Uchiha Sasuke and Naruto grinned devilishly but the second name changed to Rock Lee. Naruto lost a bit of his grin and looked over to the green spandex, bowl cut Genin and sighed.
"This is going to be harder than the other one." Naruto said solemnly before hoping over the guard rail and landing quietly on the arena floor below.
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Down on the arena floor Naruto was staring at Lee and he couldn't help but pinch the bridge of his nose with a sigh Naruto looked up to Gai then to Lee before saying "You really are a mini Gai aren't you."
"I am pleased that you think I may be as youthful as my sensei!" Lee shouted before striking a pose with his right thumb outstretched with a twinkling smile. "But aren't you as youthful as Kakashi-san?"
Naruto's blood boils hearing the man's name "I am nothing like that man I may have liked him in my childhood and are now stuck with this fucking eye that not even Jiraiya- a seals master- can get rid of!"
"Naruto that is an S-class secret you should not be talking about that!" Hiruzen shouted over to the boy who glared back.
"I want it revoked seeing as I was the one that made it the secret, I want it revoked NOW!" the boy yells up at the Hokage with a slight snarl.
"Naruto I-" Hiruzen began but quickly stopped under the glare of Naruto's now crimson eye. "Fine it's no longer a S-class secret." he says with a sigh.
Naruto's eye returns back to normal and he faces Lee once again. "Your a Taijutsu specialist, correct?"
"That is correct Naruto-san as I can not use any jutsu that require chakra."Lee replies without missing a beat.
Sighing Naruto unseals a scroll and throws it over to Lee who easily catches it before looking down at the scroll in question. "Don't worry it's not a trap besides Hayate-san hasn't said it's okay to start yet." Naruto spoke as he waved his hands around looking very bored.
Lee opens the scroll and has a quick read over the contents of it. "Pick one of them and that's all I'll use," Naruto says aloud answering Lee's unasked question.
Lee looks back down at the scroll again and reads off the contents 'Eye, jutsu or weapons? Hmmm I've practised with Ten-ten on weapons so they wouldn't be a problem. Gai has told me about some of Naruto-sans jutsu and how deadly they are so I won't chose that although it would show my youthfulness but the eye is what I don't know about and that it used to be a S-rank secret makes me wonder.' Lee mused to himself before smiling and throwing back the scroll. "I chose to fight you while you use your eye!" Lee shouts to Naruto who grins in anticipation.
As Naruto smiles he raises his hand up to his Hitai-ate to reveal his hidden eye. As Naruto opens his eye Lee takes a slight step back at seeing a sharingan staring back at him. Naruto glances down at Lee's ankles before looking back up at him. "It wouldn't be very youthful to fight your enemy without using your full strength now would it Lee-san?" Naruto says with a slight smile.
Lee glances down at his ankles then up to Gai who nods in approval. Lee then knell's down and pulls down his leg warmers revealing two weights that he slowly undoes.
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Up in the stands Sasuke can't believe what he's seeing. Naruto having a sharingan would, should be impossible but he has one 'I don't even have mine yet this fool has one...how?' he ponders to himself as he continues to glare down at Naruto.
"He is going to fail." Neji states allowed and Gai looks down upon his student with a raised eye-brow.
"What makes you say that Neji-kun?" Gai answers before Ten-ten could.
"Naruto has now made this a complete Taijutsu fight and you only just beat Lee in Taijutsu. Therefore there is no way someone like him could ever hope to beat Lee." Neji responds in his usually cold demeanour.
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Back on the arena floor Lee finally undone the straps on his weights and stands up holding his arms out straight. "I would close your eyes Naruto-san," Lee states just before he drops his weights to the ground. As soon as the weights make contact with the ground they impact the ground with tremendous force which actually shatters the ground around them. A series of dust and rubble fly up from the impact spot.
As the dust settles Naruto opens his eyes and and adjusts to the now type of battlefield. Naruto sighs and closes his right eye leaving his left open to see the chakra remnants of the audience as well as the boy who still stood before him.
"Anko release those seals on me will you?" Naruto shouts up to her through the dust cloud.
"What but we don't know what will happen if I release them all do we?" Anko shouted back with a hint of worry that made all the Konoha Jōnin look at her bewildered.
"Trust me will ya. I survived your training when I was how old remember?" Naruto shouted back with a laugh.
Anko smiled a true, genuine smile as she thought of a small boy drenched head to toes in sweat who looked like his body was soon to break, his eyes however didn't if anything they looked stronger than ever before and awfully determined to prove himself.
"Fine. Kai!" Anko shouted aloud and the area floor exploded in a see of dust that quickly settled. Everyone one was shocked at what they saw. Naruto seemed to glow a beautiful blue which seemed to shock even him.
"This feels nice." Naruto said quietly to himself as he waited for all the seals to stop working.
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Up in the stands Asuma walked over to Anko puzzled but also intrigued as to what was happening. "Anko what is that?"
"What? That Naruto-ai asked of me?" Anko responded casually.
"Yes, what Naruto asked of you." Asuma replied impatiently.
"I released a few gravity seals that Naruto had been wearing to help with his strength and speed." Anko replied flatly. Asuma looked baffled and spluttered slightly and was going to ask a question before Anko spoke again, "I don't know how they work, exactly, but I know the more chakra I put into the seal the heavier it will become."
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Hayate looked from one Genin to the other and asked "Are you both ready?" both Genin nodded and as soon as Hayate started the match Lee vanished from sight.
The other Genin who were not used to Lee's speed could not see him at all, Naruto however followed his every move with both of his eye's. Lee looked slightly erratic jumping from wall to ceiling to floor and back again. Although it looked erratic Naruto saw the pattern forming, Lee was testing him. Smiling Naruto took the challenge head on and vanished from sight only to appear directly behind Lee planting one foot squarely on his buttock and kicking him away. Lee quickly came back into focus for everyone and landed with a skid on his hands before flipping round to land, rather elegantly, on one foot. Naruto came into focus soon after but seemed to float down rather than fall down. "It's not very, as you would say, youthful to toy with an enemy Lee-san."
"That is very true Naruto-kun forgive my un-youthfulness please." Lee said with a bow after straightening himself. Naruto just let out a small weak sigh before disappearing again. Lee instinctively caught Naruto's left low kick. Although he caught it the force from it was still strong enough to send Lee into the wall. Cracking the area around where he impacted against it. Coughing Lee managed to stand up panting "I wouldn't think I'd need to use this already but you are a great opponent Naruto-kun, Gate of Opening Open!" with that a surge of chakra burst from Lee's body completely enveloping it and his skin bubbled slightly. Once again Lee vanishes from view and for a fraction of a second Naruto's. Back stepping Naruto missed a right hook by only a few millimetres.
'If that hit's it will really hurt,' Naruto quickly thought before countering the punch with a kick of his own. Before the kick had landed Lee had managed to grab a hold of Naruto's coat using his right hand. As the force from Naruto's kick was transferred into Lee he smiled and Naruto glanced to his left before letting out a small sigh. Both boys flew across the room lumped together by force. Both bodies hit the statue with unnatural force shattering it completely. From the stands above they could hear a series of coughs thanks to the dust that was created.
As the dust settled the fighting continued but Lee was still being pushed back eventually he cried out "Gate of Healing and Life Open!" with that Lee turned red and disappeared from Naruto's sight not even his sharingan eye could see him. Naruto felt something very heavy and hard impact on his back which sent him tumbling across the arena floor. Quickly getting onto all fours Naruto snaps his head in all directions but sees nothing. Once again Naruto is sent across the arena floor this time there is a foot mark left imprinted on his cheek.
Snarling Naruto jumps away from where he landed and yells "Demon gate stage 1!" with that Naruto's eye's turn slitted and his non sharingan eye slowly looses it's usually calm blue demeanour to that of a blood red eye, his whiskers becoming more defined. Naruto quickly jumps up off the ground as a green leg approached his head, in mid jump Naruto reaches out and grabs the leg that was aimed at his head. Planting his feet back onto the ground Naruto slams Lee into the ground repeatedly but Lee manages to twist and keep his hands on the ground to prevent any massive damage. Annoyed Naruto's right eye twitches before pulling Lee back towards himself and driving his right knee into the base of Lee's skull.
For a few moments Lee just is just laying there but then he vanishes. "God. Damn. It!" Naruto yells as he spots Lee limping in the side of his vision. In an instant Naruto is beside Lee and uppercuts him into the air, Jumps up after him and sets to giving Lee a series of punches. Left fist hit's the kidney, right punch to the diaphragm, left to the heart and finally right to the face before Naruto hit's Lee with an axe kick straight to the gut just as he was about to hit the ground.
Panting Naruto backs up and sits on the ground "Damn I should work on Taijutsu more," Naruto pants out as Hayate walks over to the boy's. First he checks Lee for his pulse as his skin had, by now, returned to it's usual colour.
Hayate then walked over to Naruto asking "Can you stand?" Naruto nodded then carefully stood up if a bit shaky. "The winner of this match is Uzumaki Naruto!" Hayate announces and both Gai and Anko appear next to Lee and Naruto respectfully. Gai carefully gets Lee up to his feet and moves him closer to Naruto, Anko manages to catch Naruto before anyone would notice that he was going to fall. Naruto extends a hand out to Lee and he takes it with a smile, a pained one.
With the match over Naruto and Anko leave the arena to get some help. "He hit you hard didn't he?" Anko asks with concern ringing through her voice.
Naruto although reluctant to say nods slowly "Yeah when Lee got that kick in that hit me in the face it caught my ear as well so for the most part of the fight I was only half aware of my balance because he damaged my cochlea."
"Well good thing I caught you then huh?" Anko said rather cheerfully.
"Yeah I guess it was, hey do you want to go get something to eat I'm starved." Naruto says rather flatly.
"I don't think you would be allowed to leave the tower while the exams are still on." Anko said in a defeated tone but Naruto smiles in response to it.
"Well I could still be here," with that two Shadow Clones pops into existence, one Naruto the other Anko, they nod once before walking back to the arena "now we can go out." Naruto states with a cheesy grin. With that Anko shakes her head and turns to face Naruto, he sees this and turns to face Anko with the same smile that he had on earlier. As they walked they couldn't help but look into each others eyes and they stop, and just stare into each others eyes. After a while Naruto leans in and presses his lips against Anko's and she accepts them and presses her own onto him, carefully pressing them to him.
They had to keep there kiss short as they could hear others coming up from behind them. They quickly ran off hand in hand as they ran. They soon reached the exit door's for the tower and ran as fast as they could to get out of the forest.
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Back in Konoha Anko and Naruto were walking through the street hand in hand smiling to each other and lost in each others eyes. They walked over to Ichiraku's ramen stand and walked in to be greeted by the owner Teuchi who is smiling from ear to ear.
"Ahh how are my best customers today?" Teuchi said with his usual smile "Don't worry Anko-chan Ayame isn't here."
"Good I'd probably kill her fore calling me a bitch again." Anko said with pure venom but when Naruto takes her hand in his she lets out a sweet smile.
"Well take the usual Teuchi-san, I'll try and keep Anko pleased in the mean time." Naruto said with a laugh.
Anko let out a mischievous grin "What can I say I'm a high maintenance girl." Neither Naruto nor Teuchi said anything they simply gave each other a momentary glance at each other that could be conveyed as "Don't say anything, she'll kill us," so they both gave a half hearted laugh.
Teuchi quickly whipped up some some ramen that they both liked, miso. In all the years that Anko had been with Naruto a bit of him had rubbed off onto her, for one she liked ramen just as much as dango but the thing that rubbed off on her the most was Naruto's eating style. She could near enough chomp down ramen as fast as Naruto on a bad day.
The two sat in Ichiraku's for a good while just enjoying each others company while they had an endless or seemingly endless supply of miso pork ramen coming there way. The two would just look at each other then begin to laugh without muttering a word and when they did the conversation could go on for ages without repeating anything.
Eventually the time came to head back to the tower so that they could see who else had passed the exam. As they passed through the forest several Hunters tried attacking them but to no avail Naruto called forth his "Inferunoāmā no jutsu (Inferno armour jutsu)" to shield him and Anko from the Hunters that pursued him and his girlfriend.
Naruto called out through the link in his chakra to the two clones that were standing in the arena to leave so that the real ones could take their place. When the clones were just out of sight they dispelled and the real ones walked right back in just to see the end of the last fight. Sasuke and Gaara.
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And I'm cutting it there first off sorry for the long wait for this chapter but I was really busy with all kinds of things also sorry for it being one of the shorter ones I have uploaded as of late but I felt like this one needed to be a straight up chapter about the fight scene with Naruto so I hope I've done well in it as fight scenes aren't my forte.
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