Chapter 12 Face to Face Part 1
Naruto cracked his knuckles, which was followed by all the clones filling the woods with the sound, from his position in the trees Naruto could look down at the two false humans. One claimed to be, his hero the legendary 4th Hokage Minato Namikaze while the other claimed to be his very own sister. He could see the transportation seal that the false 4th had placed on his hand when he slammed his rasengan into the ground.
"Naruto…I know this is hard to believe but I am the 4th Hokage and I am your father now come down and let's talk." offered Minato hoping against hope that his words would bring his son down to him.
"Nice try fake." growled Naruto before turning toward his friends who were still standing there. "Run I'll take care of these fakes."
"I'll let them go and not go after them if you come with us." offered Minato
"But Dad what about…" started Meiko only to have her father spin his head around to face his daughter.
"Nice try fakes." stated Naruto as he prepared to attack, kunai in hand. "I'll kill these fakes for impersonating the greatest hero in the history of Leaf."
"Dad, I don't think is going like we planned." observed Meiko as her father found himself in a second hardest situation he had ever found himself, he had to defend his daughter from his son. The only situation which was harder was when the Kyuubi was released upon the village and he had to decide to give up his life to save his son and the village.
"Meiko stay back and…" ordered Minato only to see all the Naruto's clones pull back their left hand, the one which was holding the kunai. The 4th knew what was coming as a storm of kunia went flying toward him, it was only luckily that Naruto sent all his kunai flying at him instead of Meiko. Minato pulled out a six kunai and threw them two to his right, two to his left and finally two to his front. He had only seconds to spare and seconds before it storm of kunai hit he disappeared in a flash of light.
He reappeared in a flash beside one of the trees, before he even had time to study the field he felt an impact in his chest. He looked down to see a kunai had hit his vest. Maybe it was luck or fait but the kunai had hit him in the hardened armor plate above his heart. Reacting fast Minato grabbed the kunai seeing the paper bomb attached to the tail he let the kunai float in the air, the explosion happened at a second after he had disappeared in another flash of light.
"Damn." cursed Minato as he looked at the explosion where he had been only seconds before.
"Damn." cursed Naruto as Minato looked at his son.
"Tell me how did you know I would go there?" inquired Minato to the nearest clone. "There was six options you couldn't have been prepared to cover them all."
"Because the real 4th Hokage is right handed and in most of your fights his owning move was to the right. That left only two options." explained Naruto as Minato nodded his head, that was something Jiraiya had always told him about but it was just a habit he could not seam break.
"Tell me something, if the real Minato always starts to his right and I start to the right does that help you believe me?" inquired Minato with a slight grin as Naruto's eyes narrowed.
"Not a chance in hell." Snapped Naruto
"You're your mother's son that is for sure." observed Minato
A few yards away Sakura stood watching the fight part of her knew she had to run but she had already lost Kakashi-sensie, Lady Tsunade was likely gone as well and Shizune turned out to be a traitor, she wasn't going to lose Naruto as well.
"Sakura we have to go." ordered Ino as she tugged on her friend's arm. "We don't know when more of those things will arrive."
"We can't leave him. We need him to find out what we are dealing." Snapped Sakura back "You go on ahead; I'll stay back here with Naruto."
"And do what watch him fight?" inquired Tenten
"Besides we need you to find out what was going on." explained Ino "You're a better medical ninja then I am."
"I am not leaving him!" snapped Sakura "Ino would you leave Shikamaru, Neji would you leave Tenten? We left so much already we can't leave each other."
"We will not be able to convince her," stated Sai as he pulled out his short tanto blade before striking Sakura on the back of the head with the flat of the blade. Her knees buckled as the blow from her teammate caused her to black out, the last thing she saw was Naruto's back as he did battle with the man who claimed to be his father. With Sakura disabled Neji picked her up and threw her over his shoulder as they kept moving, first by jumping up into the trees before moving from branch to branch.
The pain was almost unbearable as Kakashi moved out of the woods and out onto a small road, one of many which ran around the village hidden in the Leaves. It was a rather simple road, just above a footpath, the road was dirt and just large enough for a single cart to travel down. Kakashi stumbled for a moment before moving down the road. In a twisted luck, he came across none of these demons before he entered a small gathering of buildings at the crossroads of two small roads. There was only six buildings total with the largest being a warehouse of some kind.
Kakashi's vision was begin to blur from the pain as he moved toward the two-storied wooden building at the corner. He pushed open the door to find himself in a large open room full of round tables with high stools. Along the wall was a long bar with an even larger mirror behind it. Everything was covered win a heavy coating of dust and filth, the only disturbance in the dust was the path marked out my the movement of rats and bugs. In the corner there was the remains of the likely owner, the man had clearly been taken by the flue but it was discovered a long time ago that the virus didn't last long once the carrier was dead. The owner had clearly been dead for a while and the rats had feasted on the remains so there was no risk of infection from the dead body. Every bone in Kakashi's body screamed for him to sit down to rest his leg but he knew that if he did he would not stand up any time soon. He had work to do and this spot was going to be his last stand and he knew it.
Screams filled the air as Rin Nohara landed in the middle of the forest clearing, her fellow demons looked at her strangely for a moment since she was still in her human form.
"Don't worry I am one of you and a medic." explained Rin as she took out some pills out of ninja vest and swallowed it before moving onto the scene. "What is the situation?"
"His hands are blown off!" yelled a fellow demon as Rin looked down at the male Ushi-Oni, his hands where totally gone and the demons which arrived on scene had used heavy straps as tourniquets to stop the bleeding. Even so the bull like creature was pale in nature and he was fading in and out.
"Is there anything you can do?" inquired a kitsune as Rin looked down before pulling out the same container which was only had a quarter left of the greenish white piles. She studied it for a moment deciding if it would help him and if it was worth the risk. "He said a masked ninja with silver hair did this."
"To save his arms, no they are totally gone not even the best medic in the world could do anything there." explained Rin as she studied the pills again for a moment before taking six of the pills placing them in her ninja vest out before tossing the vile toward the kitsune. "Have him swallow all those pills two every ten minutes. Then take him to the medical center, they should have stronger stuff which will allow him to get off this."
"What are these?" inquired the Kitsune as she sniffed the pills.
"They increase the amount of blood and allow the heart to beat with less blood in the system, it will buy time for which ever doctor is waiting in the center to work on him." explained Rin as she heard another person landing in the clearing. She turned to see Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze, the wife of her sensei and the mother of her own student, Meiko Namikaze.
"Rin, Minato may have found Naruto outside the village." explained Kushina
"Makes sense, this is Kakashi's work for sure." confirmed Rin "And I saw your son with Kakashi in the center of the Leaf before the attack."
"You did?" inquired Kushina stunned for a moment before a more important question came to mind. "You didn't grab him?"
"There was no way I could." Defended Rin, she may have been a skilled ninja but she was a medical ninja not a direct combat ninja. There was no way she could have won a fight against Kakashi, Lady Tsunade and the other ninjas which would arrive in the battle.
"Well come with me now, you can help me get my son." offered Kushina as Rin looked at the ground and the pool of blood which lead away from the battle.
"I am sorry Kushina but I have to track down my teammate." Explained Rin
"Alright." stated Kushina as she prepared to move out.
"Kushina wait." ordered Rin as Kushina looked at her. "I don't know how but Naruto can see through the hedges. He can see what we are."
"What, that shouldn't be possible," stated Kushina one of the reasons why they had kept their human hedges was so that they did not scare their son.
"Yet it is, he saw through Shizune's hedge and she said that the Kyuubi died in Naruto," confirmed Rin as Kushina's eyes widened. "My best guess is that when the Kyuubi died something happened which allowed him to see through the hedge."
"What could allow that?" inquired a worried mother
"Not totally sure, likely when the Kyuubi died it released a bunch of demon chakra into Naruto's system. While not deadly in small to medium amounts a massive amount kills human cells." Explained Rin as Kushina's eyes widened and her heart stopped for a moment. "The only option I could see to save him is to turn him and turn him as soon as possible. If that doesn't happen and I am correct Naruto's cells will keep breaking down and he will die."
Minato was getting sick and tired of this fight. Naruto and all his clones had the teleportation seal on the arm, which in a normal fight would allow the legendary Yellow Flash to defeat his enemy with ease. This was not a normal fight this was his son, and he didn't want to think what his wife would do if he harmed Naruto. This limited the options he had before him; he leaped back as one of Naruto's clones came down from the tree tops with a kunai in hand.
As he jumped back another clone came out from behind a tree, this time there was no time to get out of the way. Instead, he let the kunai blade hit his own three tipped kunai. Like all bladed weapons when the two blades hit they scrapped down the side, normally the slide would be stopped by one of the outer points but Naruto's strike had hit the side tip. This meant when the blade slide down the side of the blade the metal blade of Naruto's kunai cut into Minato's skin drawing blood. Minato grabbed the Naruto by the back of his jacket before putting his knee into the clone's stomach. Split and a little bit of blood came out of the clone's mouth he then threw the clone aside and against a large oak tree.
These blows should have been enough to break the clone causing it to burst in a puff of smoke. This caused Minato to look at the clone, unlike the others this one had no teleportation seal on his arm. He had assumed that the real Naruto had been in the rear of his clones directing the action. He smiled for a brief moment; his son was fighting in the front just like his mother always did.
"You really are your mother's son," said Minato as he disappeared in a flash of yellow light before reappearing behind another one of the clones, with a single move he stabbed the clone in the shoulder blade with his modified kunai. The clone disappeared in a puff of smoke before Naruto could even blink Minato appeared behind another Naruto clone. That clone suffered the same fate as the first clone and the process took off like a rocket. Within seconds, all the clones had been taken out leaving only the real Naruto.
"Naruto, can we please stop this game?" inquired Minato "I admit I have wanted to spar with you, to train you in our clans justus like I have your sister but there is so much to do first. Your mom wants to cook you a home cooked meal first."
"Still trying to push the whole parents lie?" inquired the real Naruto as he put the kunai away and pulled out his favorite weapon the chakra blades. The blades where basically brass knuckles with the sharpened points at each knuckles and a long curved blade coming out the back. He left one of his hands free, he would need it incase another transportation seal got on him.
"It's not a lie, we are a family." yelled Mieko as Naruto's head snapped toward the girl. She jumped back in fear as she saw her brother's eyes, they where silted and seamed to burn with a hate, but there where also tears in her brother's eyes.
"Just stop with that lie, also you will never get me to believe that the 4th Hokage turned against the Leaf village." snapped Naruto as Minato looked down in shame.
"Maybe when you have children of your own, your understand. Your do anything to be with them, and your pay whatever the price to be with them again." explained Minato
"Naruto!" yelled a female voice as Naruto turned to see a tall woman with long deep almost blood red hair. For a moment he was taken aback from her buety and the look in her eyes was a look he had seen multiple times from mothers seeing their kids come home from their first mission outside the wall. She wore a simple white jacket with red highlights around the coler sleeves and a large red slash which covered her midselection. She wore black pants with helled shoes, around both her legs where two ninja pouchs.
"Naruto." said the woman again as Naruto pulled another chakra blade out of his pack, he now had two possibly three enemies to deal with. The woman raised her hand up to show that she was unarmed. "I know your confused and don't know what is really go on but I am your mother, Kushina Uzmamikie"
"Another liar." snapped Naruto before turned back to so called 4th Hokage. "You demons sure have sunk low, first trying to get me to surrender to a fake 4th who claimed to be my father and then pulling someone to claim to be my mother."
"Naruto we really are your parents." explained Kushina "I held you when you where born and you where prefect in every…"
"Shut the hell up!" yelled Naruto as his head snapped back to the woman, his eyes where still the deep blue but they were silted. "I have no family, I have never had a family and all this lying is doing is making me want to kill you more."
"Yes, you do we have never stopped loving you and wanting to come back to you." explained the woman as she voice began to break in pain. "They kept us away from you, imprisoned us until today, what do you think made us do all this. We want to hold your, to be a family."
Naruto looked down for a moment which caused the women to smile in hope, then his head snapped back up and he spat on the ground.
"Nice try but I am not falling for your lies, time to end this," said Naruto as he looked at the three demons hiding in human form, he formed a seal as two shadow clones formed beside him. One clone moved toward to protect the other three gathered in a group behind the first.
"Naruto…wait, I know you don't understand or believe." said the woman who claimed to be his mother, her words where drowned out as the high pitch whining sound filled the air. In the centered one's hand a rasengan began to form only this one was higher pitch then any rasengan Minato or Meiko had ever made.
"What a massive amount of chakra." stated Minato as he looked at the ball of chakra in his son's hand.
"Naruto, we aren't going to hurt you didn't the third, Kakashi or Tsunade tell you who you are?" inquired the demon who claimed to be his mother as she begged for this to end.
"I know who I am, I am a ninja of the hidden leaf and I know you are demons who are out to destroyer her." snapped Naruto as all the clones disappeared as he raised the ball of chakra over his head. "Now shut the hell up and DIE!"
With that Naruto did something none of them had expected he threw the massive spinning ball of chakra toward the three of them. Naruto watched as the man and the woman grabbed the young girl and jumped up and away into the tree just as justu expended and took down multiple trees with the force of the chakra laced wind.
Seeing his opening Naruto turned to run only to see a three bladed kunia in the ground behind him, he didn't have time to do anything more than curse himself as the 4th appeared in front of him. Minato did not say anything instead; he got a strong punch in the gut, which sent him off his feet. At the same time he felt a seal get placed on his body. Instantly his body stopped moving and it felt as if a weight had been placed on every part of his body.
"Gravity seal." cursed Naruto as he tried to stand for a moment but the weight was too much as he fell to the ground.
"Sorry Naruto, but it was the only way," said Minato as he moved toward his son who was lying down in the dirt, Kushina rushed to his side and knelt over her son.
"Listen I know it will take time but we will explain everything…" said Kushina as the sound of chirping birds filled the air. They turned just in time to see hundreds of six-inch long lightening needles come flying out of the woods. They had not expected this and Minato dove to move his wife and daughter out of the line of fire, being hit in the shoulder at the same time. Then he had to use his flying god technique to get out of the way as a giant meat clearer of a sword came down where they were.
"Grab the blonde fool and let's get out of here!" yelled the wielder of the sword as a woman with red hair picked up Naruto and with a little bit of a struggle picked him up and disappeared into the woods. Then the wielder threw a large packet on the ground, seconds after it hit the entire field was filled with smoke. The smoke did not just hid the movements but it scrubbed the scents of everyone making it impossible to be tracked that way.
"NARUTO!" yelled Kunshina as she looked around the empty field but her son was gone.
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the fight I had between father and son. Now yes I had Naruto lose to his father but he got away and has not been turned. Now until next time I hope you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.