Chapter 13: Enemies clash and discoveries made
Anyway only two things to say: 1. I meant what I said about giving me input to make the story better and I thank the two of you who did.
2. Midterms are upon me that's why this chapter is so short, please forgive me.
"blah"-talking
Blah - thinking (I'm getting rid of the accents '' because real writers don't use them so I wont either.)
"blah" demon talking (a hint to whether the Kyuubi will be appearing)
Blah demon thinking
Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter.
The girl was faster then Gaara had originally thought. She was even, possibly, faster than Naruto, but no where near as strong. She was probably twelve and had talent and her skills all worked incredibly well versus Gaara's sand.
The red haired boy ducked as a shuriken surrounded by electricity was thrown at his head.
The girl surrounded the shuriken with an electric current and when Gaara's sand went to block the projectile the electricity sucked the chakra out of his sand.
Gaara now rolling had only figured one thing out about the electricity surrounding the shuriken. After it sucked the chakra out of his sand it disbanded allowing him to catch the shuriken if he had enough time unfortunately she was an expert marksmen.
He rolled to the side dodging three more shuriken. She sprinted forward and dodging the sand sweeping toward her she lunged at the red head with a kunai which she surrounded with electricity as well.
"That jutsu is dangerous." Naruto commented to Temari as Gaara sent all his sand attacking knowing defending was useless. The blonde haired girl looked in horror at the scene. She's wielding the kunai with an intent to kill! Sado who by now could move again sat against the wall watching the fight in awe.
Gaara's sand managed to grab the girl's ankle and he hurled her into the wall. Gaara looked at her, hoping that she would not get up. Unfortunately she was up though panting. He had small cuts and burns on his arms from where she had hit him, and though Gaara knew that she was one of the few who wielded the power to kill him he was ecstatic.
So this is… Pain. It hurts more and less than I expected. He turned to look at his adversary who was injured as well, the back of her head was bleeding and blood was trickling from the corner of her mouth.
If I can throw her into the wall again she won't be able to fight.
The girl smirked at the boy she was fighting her father had informed her who they were and both intrigued her immensely.
She formed some hand seals and formed a ball of electricity in her hand. Gaara seeing this as a chance to attack sent his sand at her and just as it was about to trap her she threw the ball to the ground.
Immediately all the sand in the room fell to the ground and when he tried to move Gaara found it impossible.
The girl giggled and looked at the now nine year old boy. "You know for a second I was worried I was worried you would beat me."
She used shunshin jutsu sliding across the electricity covering the floor. "In fact I was mainly surprised how you a demon vessel had killed so many at you age." The girl noticed his look of angst. "What's the matter? Had you not told your friends?" She laughed.
Naruto looked wide eyed at Gaara. Could it be true? Did it make sense? The more he thought about the more it made sense.
The boy glanced at Temari. She did not seem shocked or evenly mildly surprised it had to be true. Naruto turned back to the boy wondering what sign he missed that should have alerted him to the boy being a host to a demon.
Perhaps it doesn't affect him.
The girl stood behind Gaara and sent him to the floor with a karate chop to the neck.
She turned to Naruto. "I'm ready for you, son of the Hokage,"
Naruto walked to Gaara and then knelt and slung the boy's arm around his neck. "We'll finish this later." He said not looking at her.
He walked toward the door. For a second the girl felt like blocking his departure instead she sighed and let him go. Then she whirled around and looked at Temari who stood like at her menacingly.
The girl looked at the blonde. "What? Don't tell me you want to fight me. I doubt you're as could as your brother and you saw what happened to him."
Temari stepped forward toward the girl. "What's your name?"
"Raiki and you're Temari. You should research your enemies."
Temari walked over to the bin contained all the weapons and grabbed a fan. "Not only am I going to destroy you I am going to embarrass you to no end."
Raiki looked nervously at the fan knowing that her abilities were weak against this wind user. The brown haired green eyed girl looked at the blonde haired blue eyed girl with disgust.
She was a close range lightning user in an enclosed area with a lot of chakra gone against a long range wind user. I have to retreat.
Temari sensing what was on the girls mind whipped the fan at her, sending a small but powerful wind at Riaki sending her skidding away from the exit.
Raiki fired a few shuriken at her all were immediately shot back. She was tempted to use thunder ball paralysis again but she knew it would use up the rest of her chakra and knock her out.
She ran at the blonde trying to get close, but Temari just fired another gale at Raiki and flung her against the wall. Temari walked over to the girl who was losing consciousness and picked her up.
She grinned at Sado who stood up slowly and then she left.
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Naruto placed Gaara into his bed. This is not the face of the demon. He smiled at his friend and left the room turning off the light.
He left the room his hands on his head strolling lazily down the hall. To get his mind off of Gaara he looked at the building which he loved so much. He walked back to Jiraiya's room which had a balcony overlooking all of Tea country and gazed off at the beautiful countryside on which the sun was now setting.
He leaned on the railing tiredly before getting up and looking at the note Jiraiya had left on his bed.
Naruto
I'm out snooping around by the time you get this it should be getting dark so head to the meeting hall for dinner.
Jiraiya
Naruto dropped the letter onto the bed and marched down the stairs.
He entered the meeting hall, the place where all their meals would be eaten and looked around a bit unnerved by the seating arrangement.
There were six long tables more than enough to accommodate twice as many people, but immediately Naruto understood why there were so many tables.
There are so many rivalries here they have to have so many different tables. The rock village hates us the wave hates the lightning the rain hate everyone the grass hate the rock and well the sand is pretty much neutral… For now.
Naruto looked around the room it was pretty easy to tell the groups for each had a guardian ninja who had a headband. In fact a lot of the kids seemed to have headbands as well. Naruto sighed Jiraiya, Temari and Kankuro had not come down yet. Gaara was asleep. Sighing the blonde knew he was going to sit alone.
He walked to an empty table and sat down and picked up a menu. After a moment he was completely submerged in the menu studying it closely. He loved food and he was hungry. However his concentration was interrupted as a boy sat down across from him.
Naruto shaken dropped the menu and looked at the boy suspiciously. The boy had jet black hair and wore a katana on his back it was in a silver sheath.
"Hi, the names Heiri what's yours?" His tone was harsh, rough and brusque but Naruto was thankful for the company.
"My name's Naruto… Who are you?" The blonde stared at the boy not out of curiosity, he had seen enough new faces in only half a day, but because the boy had an expression had an expression he had never seen before. His face showed anger, ferocity, courage, and desperation all save his eyes which were calm, serene and gentle.
"I'm Heiri I just told you that." The boy said letting a grin sweep across his face. "But if you wish to know what village I'm from, go ask my sister Raiki."
Naruto already alert trying to understand the boy, squinted at the Heiri trying to see a hidden motive for sitting with him.
"So what do you and your sister want? She already beat up my friend." Naruto said in a voice which he believed an interrogator might use.
Heiri sighed, "My sister is an asshole. I only said go ask her because she's an evil, arrogant, outspoken person."
Naruto looked at Heiri blankly. Did he just call his sister an asshole? I've heard Jiraiya and other adults talk like that and say bad words but a kid, no older than me and about his sister?
"You're the son of the Hokage I presume?" Heiri asked.
"How does everyone know that!?!" Naruto asked him angrily.
The dark haired boy laughed his bedtime eyes soothing and helped Naruto relax. "Well one cause a lot of our parents told us to watch out for certain people and second because we all know that the only boy with blonde hair is the son of the Hokage."
Naruto laughed at hearing that. "Fair hair, right my bad."
Heiri sighed and glanced at the menu in front of him.
Naruto turned to his menu, "Why do you hate your sister?"
Heiri sighed, "She's so much like my father. They treat everyone around them terribly and they degrade everyone without power."
Naruto was a little shaken by how easily the words came to Heiri's lips.
The two sat in silence until they ordered when Naruto noticed another thing about the boy. He was rather polite in spite of his name. "You know Heiri if you really are the opposite of your sister you must be really slow."
Heiri smiled, "So you saw that she's fast. She has attributes which are spectacular though she's an incredibly hard worker devoted to an extreme, talented too." He looked at Naruto thoughtfully. "So you want to know how strong I am, huh?"
Naruto blushed, the boy had seen through his plan to ask subtly how good his sister was and then hearing from his statement guess at the boy's strength. "Yes." He admitted.
"Well let's just say we're even but our skill set is completely different." Heiri laughed. "She's three years older than me so I mean I'm not quite as good as her but…"
He turned and took the bowl the waiter had put before him, and thanked him.
Heiri blew on the soup and then spoke up, "I wonder where she is anyway. She's never late to anything."
Naruto shrugged.
The two dug into their meals momentarily forgetting about each other. When they finished the two parted a few words exchanged nothing more.
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Naruto woke up and rubbed his eyes. He had gone to be early so he could get up train with Jiraiya.
He stole a glance at the clock unfortunately he had forgot to plug it in and it was blank. Sighing, he pushed himself off the bed and got in the shower that he shared with Jiraiya.
Jiraiya woke up to the sound of running water. Groaning he sat up and looked at his clock which he hadn't plugged in either. Sending the clock a dirty look he put a pillow over his head and went back to sleep.
Naruto was out of the shower and dressed before Jiraiya got up again, so while waiting for his teacher he thought about Gaara and Raiki's battle. He would have to watch out for her.
His thoughts were interrupted as he heard the shower turn off. He hadn't realized Jiraiya would be done so quickly so getting his fan and his utility pack he waited until Jiraiya barged into his room.
"Okay kid today's the second day of this vacation so we'll begin training but not for too long because I saw this really gorgeous babe from Lightning country. I think she's the teacher, anyway let's go."
Naruto followed his teacher to the pool area which was empty. "Alright Naruto we'll train on the water because it forces you to think about multiple things when your practicing jutsu."
Naruto grinned ready to learn. "So what awesome technique are you gonna teach me?"
"Well I'm going to show you how to use the rasengan your father's famous technique." The sannin smiled watching the child's face light up.
Jiraiya took out a balloon and dipped it into the pool filling it with water than tying it he turned to Naruto. To learn this technique you must first pop this balloon, Jiraiya demonstrated popping the balloon with ease.
Naruto looked on with excitement. "I'll do it easily, believe it!"
Naruto took a rubber balloon from Jiraiya and filled it up and began to push chakra into it.
Jiraiya watched Naruto seeing he was having some difficulty well. I'm going to take a nap in the hot tub. The old man grinned and pulling off his shirt jumped into the hot tub which was beside the pool.
Naruto growled at his teacher before getting back to practicing. After twenty minutes of failure Naruto decided to rethink his strategy.Pushing chakra in isn't working so maybe I should try molding the chakra inside the balloon.
Focusing his chakra into the ball he began to imagine it spinning the chakra around the very center of the ball. After another few minutes of trial and error Naruto popped the balloon.
"I DID IT!" Jiraiya, "I did it!"
He turned to see his teacher asleep in the hot tub sake bottle in hand. He sighed and grabbing another balloon to show him how he walked over across the water to the hot tub. "HEY JIRAIYA GUESS WHA-"
"OOooff," Naruto grunted sinking into the water. He looked up to the woman standing on the surface before swimming up. "Hey lady it wasn't very nice of you to try and kill me!" Naruto yelled.
The woman grinned. "Sorry," she said forming hand seals. Naruto looked intently at the seals. "What are you doing?" He asked nervously.
"Making sure you don't bother us again." The woman then jumped into the air and fired electricity at the water.
Not wasting time Naruto dashed to his sleeping teacher and dived of the pool's surface. The blonde boy was glad to see that his teacher was up even if he didn't look to pleased. Jiraiya frowned at his student, "You better have a good reason for this."
Naruto pointed at the woman forming the same jutsu again. "Oh," the sannin mouthed seeing an attack coming, "Apology accepted!" Jiraiya said before forming his own hand seals.
Jiraiya then opened his mouth and shot a stream of water at his enemy's feet the result was something Naruto would never forget.
The kunoichi's electric attack hit Jiraiya's water stream and traveled up it to her own feet electrocuting herself and the sannin.
Surprisingly both ninja managed to stay on their feet. "Naruto I'm going to show you the full extent of the rasengan now so pay attention." Forming a blue ball of chakra he charged.
The ninja obviously from lightning country formed a ball of electricity and charged as well and sent her lightning sphere into the rasengan. The result was anticlimactic, the rasengan destroyed her lightning sphere easily and a weakened rasengan was hurled straight into her stomach throwing her back into the wall.