Hello there! Down to business!
Recap: Nothing happened last chapter. Jiraiya raped the fourth wall.
'Well....crap.'
Truer words have probably never been thought...
It was one thing if it had been a wildcat, hell even a wolf would have been better, but why oh why did it have to be a feakin' bear? Naruto took time to rethink the situation, and then mentally face-palmed. 'We're in Bear country...duh..But...I thought it was just a name!!!'
Oh Naruto, what's in a name? 'Damn it to bloody feakin' hell!! Stars and bears don't even go together anyway!' Up in the sky, both the big and little dipper began to plot the blond's eventual downfall; jerk.
The blond closed his eyes as he began to slap the sides of his face in growing frustration, an action which didn't go unnoticed by both girls or clone. The bear only continued to snarl, a bit of foam forming at the corners of its' mouth, as it began to pace about the bottom of the rock heap, never once taking its' eyes off Naruto.
"Ok! Look you.." Naruto said as he pointed in the behemoth beasts' direction. "Your fight is with me ya big, brown bastard!" The bear's eyes glowered for a second but it continued on with it's growling; more froth spewed from the animal's maw and began to drip to the forest floor.
That statement shocked both girls, to their very core and why wouldn't it? It's a freakin' bear! Four hundred and twenty three kilos of fur, muscle and teeth, damn! Not only that, but those claws.....Those god awful claws....Would have no problem rending a man in half...
Finding her voice before her fellow brunette, Tenten protested. "Naruto you baka, that's a grizzled-spotted sun bear, those are most ill-tempered bears in the eastern hemisphere.
"So???"
Hokuto awoke from her daze to answer. "'So', those things have been known to give even Jounin trouble."
More or less that was an understatement. The grizzle-spotted sun bear did indeed have track record for killing, maiming, and slaughtering WHOLE squads of Jounin just with blind primal rage alone. Sometimes even attacking without even being provoked at all, if one bear is capable of such carnage what chance does one Genin have against it?
Naruto raised his already raised eyebrow. "So???"
Tenten, just cupped her eyes with her hand. "Never mind..." The clone she was riding on only shook his head with a knowing smile.
The blond only frowned in their direction, but shrugged it off as he turned away from them and released a sigh. "Look, I only need to buy you guys enough time anyway...I can handle it....Until back-up arrives, at least..."
"Wait, what do you..."
"Plan? A distraction doesn't need a plan, that's where you two come in, go to the village and bring back help." He said still facing away from the two.
"Naruto-san....You can't be serious, we can't just..."
"Hokuto I'll be fine, besides it's not like I'll be alone Fukurou's here with me." Naruto turned his head back to smile, but that smile wavered when he heard a scraping sound. He whirred his head around and discovered that the bear was starting to make progress, as it began amble its' way up the shattered ground.
"Go NOW!!!!" Naruto ordered as his clone took off with an irate Tenten in tow. Hokuto was about to launch herself off as well but hesitated; and turned to the blond, her gaze focusing on his bare back as a sharp wind blew, tousling his hair.
"....Hokuto?"
"Promise to make it out of here in one piece?"
"...." Naruto lifted his arm with his thumb extending skyward; signifying his response. The girl could only shake her head at gesture before taking off after his clone. As she caught up, a terrifying roar was issued from the shrinking outcrop.
'Please be safe.'
"Pick up the pace Lee it came from this direction."
"On it!" Lee said as he poured on the steam and overshot passed Neji. "Yosh!!"
'Figures...' Neji thought as he shook his head at his teammate. 'It can't be helped I suppose. I may as well see what we're getting ourselves into before he does something irrational.' He once again activated the Byakugan and spotted two figures moving through the trees towards them. Neji's eyes widened as his left began to twitch madly.
"Why are you in you're underwear, Naruto?"
Naruto's body began to tense once he could no longer feel a friendly prescience behind him. His eyes narrowed as the bear drew closer, and he pursed lips into a thin line as if to fight back a smirk that was slowly overtaking his countenance.
"Five, four, three, two...." He never got to one, as the bear lashed out with it's baring fangs, effectively knocking Naruto of his feet with a subsequent full tackle. The blond quickly rolled to his feet, but it was a little to late, as the bear sunk its' teeth into his frame. Naruto clenched in pain, as blood gushed from his shoulder.
Yet...A smile played its' way onto his face, which soon gave way to a bloody grin.
"One..." 'Poof' A cloud of smoke obscured the beast's vision, yet its nostrils flared, tracking its' opponent through the fog. "Now!" Naruto yelled as he created four clones surrounding the bear on all sides. There was no escape from this...
"Uzu...ma....ki!?"
That was when the clones realized that something had gone horribly, horribly wrong. The animal failed to go airborne. It growled at the sad attempt, its' fury increasing ten-fold.
"Umm....B-boss ya going ta need more bushins."
An enraged roar erupted from the creature as it began ransacking the clones, 'poofpoofpoofpoof...!' The bear slowly made its way out of the smoke and into the clearing, following its nose to the blonds' location.
"Ooh hu!" The owl called from above, signaling to the blond that the plan had failed.
"Shit....Looks like like...!"
The bear rushed towards Naruto once more giving him no chance to finish his sentence. Naruto quickly formed an inverted ram seal and produced another clone, who began manipulate the chakra that began forming in the his hand. 'Now's a good as time as any...' He thought as the bear loomed over him, raising to its' hind legs and preparing for a fatal strike.
"RAAAoaarrrrrrr!!!"
"Rasengan!!! Naruto avoided the claw, as he slammed his jutsu into the bear's gut.
The blond grinned like a mad man. He did it! Wait, what the!!?
The Rasengan began to catch onto the fur and started to bore into the the beasts' underbelly. Naruto's eyes widened, he could stop it. The animal released a hellish cry as the jutsu ground its way into its innards. Naruto desperately tried to cut the flow of chakra off but to no avail.
Fresh, warm blood encased his entire forearm as the jutsu finally came to a halt. The blond tried to remove his arm, but somehow the creatures' entrails had become entangled around his wrist, and bound him to the beast. He was stuck.
The bear let out an agonized grunt of pain when it saw an opening and slammed its' claw into the side of Naruto's head, severing the first three vertebrae upon impact. His body was sent skidding into a tree and with a 'crack' landed in a crumpled heap.
"Oh-hu-ooh!" Fukurou cried as it began drive, and swoop the bear, somehow managing to gouge out an eye with its beak during the hit and run tactics. The blinded beast let out a snarl as it snatched the avian from the air, and threw it to the ground.
The owl's wing bent at an unnatural angle as it laid there. "Ooh...." The bear slowly approached the brave bird preparing to finish it off once and for all.
"Fu...ku....rou...."
"Mmhahaha.....You're nothing without me. Nothing more than a weak, pathetic, brat. Be grateful to me for this...."
Heh, a fun chapter to write all in all. I ended it there for a few reasons. I'm hoping to see some reactions out of you guys, this time around.
Later...