Uzumaki's Wrath
Chapter 4
"Today is the day!" Aang shouted happily in their little camp in the rocky area that his group was currently in. Of course it was still morning, so there was not much reaction to him being awake. "Can you believe it, after all that time searching for a teacher, I am finally learning earth bending! And this place, it's perfect! Don't you think? Sokka?"
Unless you count Toph that is and Sokka, who glared at the bald kid for waking him up. "Oh, you're still sleeping, huh?" Sokka just grunted. "Sorry!"
Then the earth shook as Toph's make shift rock tent exploded. "Good morning earth bending student!"
"Good morning seifu Toph." Aang said with a smile.
"Hey, you never call me Seifu Katara." The water tribe girl said sleepily.
"Well, if you think I should?" offer the bald kid. However, before anyone more could be said, Sokka growled as he slinked around in his sleeping back, glaring and mumbling about the group.
"Sorry snoozels, we will do our earth bending as quietly as possible."
Before she could send him in the air, she heard Naruto, who was sitting at the bottom of one of the rocks, with his cloak as a blanket. His hat was over his head. "I agree with Sokka on this one…." He said as he took of the hat along with the cloak. "Seriously, can't you wait an hour?"
"NO!" Toph shouted with a smirk. "Time to get your lazy ass up!" She hit the ground with her foot and both Sokka and Naruto went flying in the air. Of course Sokka went up scream while the blond went up with a deadpanned expression.
Sighing, Naruto used his chinese hook swords, that were in the cloak that flew up with him, and latched onto a root that was coming out of the large rocks. After that, he flipped off of that and used Gravity Bending to slowly levitate him back down to the ground. Sokka just fell back to the ground and then went off to find a quiet place to sleep.
Soon, Naruto, Toph, and Aang were in a wide area, perfect for learning how to earth bend. In front of them were a few boulders. "The key to Earth Bending is your stance. You've got to be steady and strong."
Not to mention you have to have the mentality of a true earth bender. Naruto thought as he observed as he leaned against a rock.
"Rock is a stubborn element." She continued before pushing Aang to make a point. "If you are going to move it, you got to be like a rock yourself."
"Like a rock…got it!" Aang replied as he rubbed the spot where she shoved him.
No Air Bender, I really don't think you do. Naruto thought with a shake of his head.
"Good." Toph said as she changed up her stance a bit. "Now the motion for this is actually pretty simple." She then shoved at the rock and it went screaming into the side of a cliff. "Ok, you ready to give it a try?"
Aang said with serious face as he did the motion but all that happened was the bald kid punching the rock and sending air at it, which blew him away and into Appa, who was yards away. That made the blond laugh.
"Rock beats air bender!" Sokka chuckled from his position, making the blond laugh harder.
Aang shot up and glared at his blond teacher as he stalked over to Toph. "I don't understand what went wrong. He did it like you said." Katara in put her opinion.
"Maybe there is another way." Aang suggested.
"There's not another way." Naruto finally spoke up. "You may think there is another way, that is the air bender mentality. If you want to do this and do it right, you have to have the mentality of an earth bender. As in, you literally have to face things, head on!"
"Exactly! Like this!" Toph shouted as she jumped at a nearby bolder and completely shattered it, freaking out Aang.
Katara frowned as she caught up to Toph, with Naruto right behind her. "Listen, I have been training Aang for a long time, he really responds well to a positive teaching experience. Lot's of encouragement and praise. Kind words. If he is doing something wrong, maybe a gentle nudge in the right direction."
"Thanks Katara, a gentle nudge. I'll try that." Toph said with a smile, making Naruto roll his eyes.
"Let me take it from here Toph." Naruto said, which got a nod from the girl. Naruto then slammed his foot into the ground and pulls backwards, bringing Aang right to him. That also got a muttered, 'show off' from Toph.
Aang, who was sitting on the ground, looked at the blond with wide eyes and was a little afraid of his smile. "Now, if I can learn Earth Bending, anyone can Avatar." Naruto started. "For you see, when I started learning this art, well…I was not pretty. My teacher even thought it was not even my natural element…and he was right!"
"What? What was it?"
Naruto's smile widened. "My natural element was the opposite of earth, that was why I had such a hard time doing it. So, it was Wind, like you. I just had a lot of energy and made sure I could Earth Bend is all. All you need is the determination and you'll get it like me."
"Really?"
"Oh yeah, but the training will not be fun. It will be tough. You sure you can handle it?" Naruto said with a raised eyebrow while Toph smiled at the conversation. He did not mince words and that is what she like about him. Oh yeah, there will be pain. Katara inched away from the smiling girl, getting a bad feeling.
"Yes I can. I am not afraid." Aang said.
When Naruto heard this, his smile became evil. "Oh you will be. You will be."
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"KEEP YOUR KNEES HIGH TWINKLE TOES!" Toph screamed as Aang stumbled around with a small bag of rocks on his shoulders, but that didn't seem all that bad. What was, however, was Naruto using Gravity Bending to make it weigh like a large boulder. Toph was also messing with his footing, throwing him off balance. Soon, he just fell over.
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Naruto was teaching the bald kid the stances and would throw rocks at him if he got it wrong, which happened a lot. He also rose a stone statue out of the ground to practice the moves up close, but Aang was still wary of that and when Naruto said it was either the statue that could not fight or himself and he would bring the pain to the Avatar. Aang chose the stone statue, making the blond pout.
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Over the next few days, Naruto and Toph put Aang through many odd and dangerous exercises to make the Avatar tougher and it seemed to work near the end.
"This time, we are going to try something different." Toph began. "Instead of moving a rock, you're going to stop a rock. GET IN YOUR HORSE STANCE!" Once he was she continued. "You see Naruto on that cliff? He is going to roll that large boulder down at you. If you have an attitude of an earth bender, you will stay in your stance a stop the rock.
Even from up high on the cliff, Naruto could see that Aang was freaking out. "Let's hope you got what it takes." When Katara voiced her opinion, Toph made it harder for the kid to do this by placing a blindfold on his so that he had to sense the vibrations of the rock instead of seeing it. "Heh, classic."
Toph made sure that Aang was in position before she yelled up to her blond friend. "Ok Naruto! Send it down."
"My pleasure." The blond drawled out a she pushed the rock down to the air bender. When it came down to it, Aang chickened out by jumping over it.
Toph stalked right up to the young Avatar and got right in his face. Naruto leisurely walked down, expecting this, so he was not as mad as his old friend. Kyuubi watch boredly as things transpired. He thought it was more entertaining when Naruto was learning all this, especially when Naruto failed this particular exercise and was flattened by the rock.
"I..I guess I just panicked." Aang explained weakly. "I don't know what to say."
"There's nothing to say! You blew it! You had a perfect stance and perfect form, but when it came right down to it, you didn't have the guts!" She yelled as he poked him in the chest, making the Avatar fall on his ass.
"I know, I'm sorry."
"Yeah you are sorry, if you are not tough enough to stop the rock, then you could have let it smush you instead of jumping out of the way like a jelly boned wimp! I mean, that's what Naruto did!"
"Oh yeah, that was hilarious!" Kyuubi laughed from atop of Appa's head. This gained a tick mark on said blond's head. Not one of his greatest moments.
Toph smirked at that before shouting at Aang some more. She even thought it was funny. "Not are you ready to face that rock like an earth bender!"
Aang hung his head and said, "No, I don't think I do."
Katara put her hands on his shoulders and said, "Aang, it is no big deal. We'll take a break and we'll try again when you're ready. Besides, you still have a lot of water bending to work on, ok."
"Yeah…that sounds good." Aang said as he got up to follow her.
"Yeah whatever, go splash around till you feel better." Toph dismissed the boy as she walked away.
Naruto sighed as he slapped the Avatar's back. "Don't worry, you'll get it in time." He then took off towards Toph. "You know, that was a little harsh."
"So what!" Toph shouted as she rounded on him. "Was I any less harsh when I was training you?"
"No…not really." Naruto deadpanned as he thought about the boulder stopping exercise and him getting flattened before she yelled at him to get back up and try it again.
"Then why should I be with him?" Toph asked before she sighed. "But I guess we could change this up a bit. We are not getting anywhere fast."
"Right, and I have an idea for that." Naruto said as he leaned in and whispered something her ear, making the girl smirk.
Kyuubi sighed as he trotted off to find something to eat. This crap was boring to him. Hell, he might even find out what was taking Sokka so long.
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Rinnengan eyes opened up in the darkness. The site this made 8 people shiver. "I am tasking you to find the Kyuubi. He has disappeared from this time and has gone to the future. Do this and I'll let you go. I'll let all of you go." Pein lied.
"To what time will we be going?" a girl with green hair asked with narrowed eyes. She did not trust this man or any of the people that was in his group. His group had captured all the other Jinchuriki and for what? They never said why! These people were just so creepy that it could not be good.
"I to where we bend the elements and there are no longer any ninja." The man said with no emotion, creeping the girl out even more. "This jutsu will send you to that time, now get into position." Once they were, he spoke again. "Once you are all together and have the Kyuubi, send chakra to your Tattoos and you will be here once again. Ninja Art: Time Travel Jutsu!" Pein slammed his hand down on the array of symbols on the ground, which begun to glow as they stretched around the other 8 jinchuriki before the glow completely engulfed them and they fizzed out of existence. Pein looked at the spots they had occupied and muttered, "Fools"
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Unbeknownst to Naruto, Aang, and the others, the sky had lightened up and 8 bolts of light shot over the land, crashing on it like meteors. One by one, the Eight awoke and begun their search for the Kyuubi and by extension, Naruto. Most of them, however, did not trust Pein, so when they did find the Kyuubi, they hoped that they could join forces. However, some of them didn't care. They just wanted to watch the world burn. One of those was close to our blond friend and his new friends. He had a feeling that they would pass into the region he was in, so he would wait. He would wait for sand was like time to him, endless.
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For the next few hours, Naruto watched Toph torment Aang by taking his nut and staff, using the latter to break the former, making Aang irritated. And it worked very well as the air bender watched Toph walk off with his staff while bagging it against the cliff walls.
Soon Katara came over while he was trying to meditate and he almost snapped at the water tribe girl. However, when she told him that she had not seen Sokka all day, the young air bender went off to search for him.
"HEY BALDY!" Kyuubi's voice rang out as Aang was searching for his friend. All this annoyances were really starting to affect Aang because he started to develop a twitch in his eyes.
"What it is Kyuubi?"
The small nine tailed had an annoying smile on his vulpine features as he said. "I think I found that simple minded water tribe warrior. The fool is literally in the gorund!" the fox then laughed at that as he lead the young air bender to Sokka's position, where a young sabertooth mountain lion moose cub was messing with his hair.
However, when they had to fight off its mother, Naruto saw the pure determination in Aang's eyes to protect his friend from danger and literally blew the giant creature away.
They heard clapping from a feet from them and saw Toph just sitting there with a smile on her face. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!" Sokka questioned loudly.
"Just enjoying the show."
"What! You were there the whole time!" Aang asked.
"Pretty much….so was Naruto!" she said pointing to a tree behind them.
They turned their heads to see Naruto, who was hanging from a tree using chakra. "Yo." He said with a smile and wave.
"What are you doing up there?" Sokka asked.
"Oh, just hanging around." Naruto replied with a shrug.
"Why didn't either of you do anything!" Aang shouted. "Sokka was in trouble! I was in trouble! You could have helped get him out and helped us get away."
"Guess it just didn't occur to me." Toph said with a shrug as Naruto jumped down. Toph threw one of Aang's nuts on the ground and was about wack it with his stick again but he had enough.
"Enough! I want my staff back!"
"Do it now!" Toph commanded.
"Do what!"
"Earth Bend." Naruto said calmly from his position next to the earth girl. "You just stood your ground against a crazy beast to protect your friend. Hell, what is even more impressive is that you stood your ground against Toph."
"But-"
"DO IT!" The two earth benders yelled.
Aang quickly turned to a nearby boulder and pushed it away using earth bending, making a large smile come to the air bender's face. "You did it! You're an earth bender now!" Toph said with a smile.
"I can't believe it!" cheered Aang.
"Well believe it is baldy! Congrats!" Naruto cheered as he slapped the air bender's back a bit too hard, making him fall on the ground.
"Aw this is really a wonderfull touching moment. So can you get me out of here so I can give you both a big snuggly hug!" begged Sokka from his position in the ground.
"No problem Sokka!" Aang began as he attempted to get his friend out of the ground.
"Actually, you might want one of us to do that." Toph said, stopping him.
"Yeah, you might crush the idiot."
"That's the pot calling the kettle black." Toph commented as she popped Sokka up and then dragged him out of the ground the rest of the way.
"Hey! I resent that!" Naruto shouted defiantly.
"Hey, it is true you know." Kyuubi said as he trotted up next to him. "That is why you get along with them so well. You're all idiots!" Glares are what he got on response. "What? I am just speaking the truth, you're all idiotic kids!"
"Ok, that is one thing I didn't miss about you Kyuubi." Toph deadpanned.
"Eh, I am just being me!" Kyuubi snickered.
"And one of these days it is going to get you killed." Naruto said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Yeah, you lead me to Sokka and didn't even do anything to help me. You just laid there!" Aang said.
"So?"
"So…time for a little payback." Toph said with an evil grin that was on all present company.
"Hey, what is with those smiles?" ask Kyuubi nervously. "No stay back! I be good! RUN AWAY!"
With that, the Kyuubi took off toward camp, hoping a certain water tribe girl would protect him. They usually got along well after all.
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That didn't work out like he planned because the girl ran past him, happy that her brother was ok. "Aw…..shit." he said before taking off again to hide behind a certain boulder.
"You found him!" Katara said happily as she and her brother hugged.
"The whole time I was in that hole, not knowing if I was going to live or die. It makes a man think about what's really important. I realized-" Sokka said but was then cut off by Aang.
"Hey Katara! Look what I can do!" Aang announced as he demonstrated his new earth bending skill. The pushed a certain boulder away, erecting a high pitched girly scream.
While Naruto, Aang, and Sokka when to check it out, Katara leaned over to Toph and said, "You tried the positive reinforcement, didn't you?"
Toph smiled knowing. "Yep, it worked wonders."
"AAAAAHHHH! DON'T COME ANY CLOSER YOU PYSCHOTIC MORONS!" Kyuubi shouted as he shot out of where he had been hiding, only for the boulder to almost crush him. "Baldy almost killed me!" He shouted as his size went from a small dog to a kitten and jumped right into Katara's arms. "SAVE ME!"
"Aw, did they scare you?" Katara asked.
"Yes ma'am." He chirped as he snuggled into the chest's chest, all the while giving off a foxy smirk at the three boys.
The three said boy all had gawking looks on their faces. "Ugh…my sister is too nice."
"AH! That useless bag of fur is so lucky! When I get my hands on him I will….he he he" Naruto stated with an evil chuckle and said fox got a chill down his spine.
"Why is he so lucky?" Aang asked naively.
Naruto looked at the Avatar with a deadpanned expression. "Did those monks teach you nothing of puberty? Look at his current position."
"Oh? OOOOHHH!" Aang said with a blush before his smile turned evil like Naruto's as they both chuckled evilly. Afraid for his own safety, Sokka inched away from the two boys.
Toph had gain a tic mark on her forehead thanks to that whole conversation. She didn't why she did it but she shifted the earth a bit so that Naruto fell right on his face. "Idiot."
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Ok, shorter still, but I got distracted to much while writing this chapter that I am ending it here. Anyway, I got drunk the other night and I didn't like it…..and I was conscious enough to get a right from a few friends….man I am a lightweight, drunk after three shots.
Anyway, I will have Naruto go back to the Ruins of Konoha again. Maybe for his vacation…hell he might take them to the other ruins of the old villages. Bu the Konoha ruins are more important because I have a plan to get Toph's eye sight back….temporary. REVIEW!