Author's Note: Hello my friends, I've decided to put out another chapter! Thank you for being so patient with me! I know I have a weird writing style but I hope you all will enjoy this chapter I've put out! For future references, I do not bash characters. Although there are certain characters I do not like(whom will not be named) I will not bash.
My top two favorite characters, though cliche are hands down Naruto and Sasuke, followed by Itachi and Madara. While I'm on a personal note, what's with the lack of stories Time Travel / Dimension hop Adventure Fanfiction where Naruto has his abilities after his fight with Kaguya and his final fight with Sasuke? I've been waiting on a well written one to pop up for awhile now and it doesn't seem like it's coming. The whole reason I posted this story was to fill that gap in the fandom. Well, on with it I guess!
Chapter 5:
Naruto stood awkwardly in the center of the room, on the sparring mat surrounded by a whole group of people- all of which whom were whispering excitedly, or disapprovingly at this whole situation keeping a hefty distance between them and himself, but to the ones who were displeased it was beyond their power seeing as Naruto agreed to it, and the order came from one of the highest authorities, period. Naruto kept and ear out for any useful information while Menma was conversing with the instructor. Said family member in the distance chuckled at whatever was said out of hearing distance by the instructor. Apparently, Naruto had caught Menma's attention because he gained a brief look of pleasant surprise, giving that ever seemingly trust worthy closed eyes-smile much like his sensei Kakashi and a friendly wave. Naruto only stared back at his Brother. Menma blinked, rubbed his chin and turned back to the instructor.
Naruto was usually happy for any attention he could get, but for once there was something he just didn't trust about Menma. With Kurama's ability he was able to sense Menma held no ill will toward him, but that didn't stop him from being deceitful. Despite that facade he put on for his fans, family, friends, and his men, Naruto could see the underlying darkness hidden in his brother's eyes. Putting the dark haired mirror image out of his head, he focused on those around him to listen for anything once more.
"You know, I was expecting a lot more... I don't know, arrogance?" Apparently his reputation extended further than just the castle, just how spoiled was his image?
"I hear you, she just looks lost and confused and nothing at all like I heard..." Lost and confused pretty much summed up Naruto's entire existence here so he really didn't have anything he could counter with.
"Is her brother really going to make her fight? Look at those tiny hands, she's a flower girl not a martial artist! This is wrong..." That would explain all the pink and plush in the room...
"She's so small and cute! Is she really that spoiled? She doesn't look like she's even older than my own daughter... The empire really is strict on training isn't it?" A woman in the crowd conspiratorially whispered. Naruto wasn't too big on training children to be killers, but from what he'd seen in this world most people didn't even seem to be Ninjas so he couldn't comment because he didn't know what training was being done other than a spar.
"Yeah, the Royal Family is full of power monsters but I don't think she's even gotten an official training, she can't beat a kid a few years older than her... How does he expect her to fight powerful martial artists and magic users?" Wait, what?
Naruto's ear flicked as he picked up the sound of "magic user". Magic doesn't exist, the closest thing to it is chakra... But then, Naruto had to remember the foreign energy he felt earlier in the day when bursting into the meeting room. Different universe meant different rules, so magic could actually exist here. What a strange thought.
"H-Hey Hinata, you don't think that she's spying on me do you?" What?
Naruto found 'her' eyes drifting to his right, where he saw an anxious Konohamaru staring at him whilst hiding behind a mini Hinata. A mini Hinata with long hair.
"Oh, don't be silly Konohamaru... There's no way she even knows who-"
"Look! She's looking directly at me!" He frantically whispered. True to the other boy's words, Naruto gave the boy an unimpressed look. Looks like Konohamaru was the same as ever. Feeling the prankster rising in his soul, he couldn't help but give a bright sunny grin to his unofficial student.
"Idiot, you're just being paranoid-" Neji stopped his sentence to see that Naruto was in fact, looking directly at them. "...Well, that's... Odd."He finished lamely, for once the Hyuuga lost poise, after all- what does one say when confronted with something so unlikely that it should never be true, and yet it was?
Konohamaru on the other hand, found himself staring into those cute thoroughly amused eyes of the tiny girl. He knew that light in her eyes better than anyone, in his own opinion, the gleam of someone pulling a rather funny prank and reaping the humor as they went along. She was messing with him!
Naruto took his attention from the anxious boy to look back at Menma after hearing footsteps, whom of which was making his way back over to him. "Imouto, are you ready to begin?"
"Oi'..." Naruto frowned at Menma, whom still didn't seem to get the message that Naruto didn't trust the way he acted because he looked slightly saddened by the lack of trust. "What are we doing exactly? I'm not going to agree to just anything y'know." Menma perked up considerably.
"You really are full of surprises today, aren't you Imouto?" Menma gave an actual amicable smile for once, instead of that false one he was always conjuring up, though this smile actually put him on edge, he at least gave his brother the courtesy of a small genuine smile back. This only increased Menma's large smile. "A figured a few simple spars would be nice for a warm up, and then we'll move on to something a little more advanced since you're a privileged guest here today. Actually, I was sure the reason you were here at the school was because you wanted to learn something." School?
A dawning of realization occurred as Naruto realized how Menma had found him, he was on the School's estate! Not his 'own' home estate! It explained how come he hadn't recognized any of the rooms or even the building outlays after he left his room a few hours ago! How big was this school for him to have been wandering these halls for hours without him even knowing where he was? It also explained all the closed doors and sounds of fighting, pencil scratching, or lessons that had been taking place as he'd been walking pass the doors earlier. Menma gave a knowing smile. "Lost again, Imouto?" Naruto only gave a sheepish grin, causing Menma to give an amused chuckle. "Regardless, you're here now. Right?" Menma patted Naruto on the head, heading off the other direction- Naruto made a move to follow him, but he suddenly swiveled around and held out his hand.
"After speaking with the instructor, we've decided the best way to test your performance is by bringing in one of the senior students from another class. He's around the same age as you, actually." Naruto gave a blink. "Sasuke! Come on in!"
Naruto froze, hearing the name of his rival, brother, former enemy, and best friend...
Sasuke Uchiha...
Sure enough, the mini black haired avenger came walking in with his hands at his sides after sliding the door open, cool as the day Naruto met him.
"Sasuke!" Konohamaru bursts out with glee, causing Sasuke to look at Konohamaru with surprise. His onyx eyes shun with an emotion that Naruto knew was foreign to him outside of combat- Loyalty. But why that loyalty was there was another question. The duck tail haired one time avenger paused once he reached the other side of the mat beside Menma, giving a casual friendly wave to Konohamaru. He then did something else he'd never seen before...
He bowed. "Menma-sensei... This is Naruto-sama?" His eyes glowed with curiosity, raising himself. This version of Sasuke was... weird. He was actually sociable! "She doesn't look half as spoiled as everyone made her out to be." He said bluntly, causing a few snickers to come from the crowd. "But, she definitely doesn't belong on sparring grounds. Look at her form, it's so clumsy and she's just standing there. I can tell by her stance she doesn't have any grace at all, she looks like she just throws her fists and hope they contact. But what is she, six?" Naruto felt a vein ready to burst on his forehead as Sasuke casually poked at him much like the times back at the academy.
"Ten." Menma corrected. "I will admit though," He said patting Sasuke's head affectionately. "Despite being awfully blunt, you've got a good eye to spot those flaws in her form while she's not even fighting. You truly are Itachi's little brother aren't you?" Sasuke seemed to swell up in pride at the compliment, as well as deflate at the same time.
It was ironic, here in this room he could see dozens of Kekkei Genkai users with amazingly powerful DÅjutsu who could see things Naruto could never see with his own eyes, and yet they were all blind to the way Sasuke felt about being compared to his brother, forever in his shadow. Though Naruto was upset because of Sasuke nitpicking at his fighting ability without even seeing him fight, he did feel bad for him. Sasuke quickly covered up his disappointment, folding his arms.
"Princess or not, why am I fighting her?" I can defeat anybody else in this room with little effort-"
"OI!" Naruto scowled.
"-and you're putting me against a little girl who can't even fight?" Sasuke ignored Naruto's outburst, finishing rudely and casting a glance of 'superiority' over the rest of the students. "Send her back to flower picking, this is a warrior's training area, not a girl's play room." Annnd, there went Naruto's pity. It was lost to his annoyance and ire- He had fought Sasuke for much much less, let alone all these thrown insults. Naruto had dignity though, and he would not give in to Sasuke's demeaning words. "Give me a real challenge- GAH!" Or not.
Naruto - Heavy Violence
Naruto finally shut the boy up with well placed satisfying knee to the face- hearing an audible thwack from the contact of flesh. Sasuke found himself hurdling across the mat, skidding and bouncing, one, twice, three times, before crashing all the way on the other side of the mat, rolling to a halt.
"Oi..." Naruto's voice quivered with barely restrained anger, his hands clenching as he gave the Uchiha a scowl. "Don't talk down on me... Teme." Naruto coldly glared at his friend. Sasuke's body twitched, he then pulled himself off the floor- an infuriating smug smirk etched on his lips as he stared down Naruto with his confident onyx orbs. It took everything Naruto had not to lunge at the Uchiha, years of that same smirk burned into the recess of his mind from pure annoyance and agitation. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Naruto crossed his fingers in his ever famous line- the smug smirk was wiped off Sasuke's face(to Naruto's delight) as it was lost to surprise to the five clones that dashed from the smoke clouds at concerning speeds. The clones were homing in on him far faster than he had anticipated, not that he had expected a girl who supposedly couldn't fight to be able to:
A: Cross the huge distance in less than a fraction of a second, faster than HE was able to, and he was trained all his life for it.
B: Jump high enough to knee him, and get close enough to surprise him.
C: Send him hurdling across the mat with that knee.
And D: Be able to perform a move that almost killed him when he tried to even use it, let alone send FIVE of the ONE he couldn't even create without nearly dying.
Regardless of the element of surprise, Sasuke lashed out in a spinning reverse kick as the first clone crossed the distance between, he felt a satisfying contact as his foot pelted the back of the clone's head and dispersed her- following closely was the second, third, and forth clones who tried rushing him from left and right, and from above respectively screaming their tiny little heads off as the prepared to sock the duck haired bully- clearly not grasping the idea of "surprise attack", he slid right under the legs of the one coming from the right, grabbing her tiny ankle.
"Gah!" The clone cried out in alarm as Sasuke used her as a projectile, tossing her at the clone who had previously been in the air whom had came down after Sasuke slid away- the clone made contact, smacking the other tiny clone in the face with her skull causing them both to cry out in pain and disperse into smoke. The remaining clone rushed Sasuke, lunging forward and throwing a nasty looking hook- but he simply side stepped the hook and chopped the back of the little clone's neck causing yet another clone to disperse.
"I'm impressed. It looks like I underestimated you after all, not that it really matters. A useless skill that won't help you." He goaded Naruto, his back turned to the other child. He dusted himself off, turning back to face Naruto. "But no matter what number you multiply zero by, the answer is always zero-"
Sasuke felt a chill run through his body as he realized he couldn't find Naruto on the battlefield anymore. There was a significant lack of the sun-kissed child on the mat. He had been so concerned with the clones, that he'd forgotten about the original, a rookie mistake. He did however find comfort in the fact he wasn't alone, as everyone in the room was looking for the real Naruto. No one was expecting her to preform a move of such high caliber out of nowhere and be a fast as she was-!
Sasuke's head quickly snapped heaven-wardly as he felt a deep panic and a cold sweat form, his eyes widening and pupils shrinking as he looked up- and saw true fear in the form of one Uzumaki Naruto as the dots connected in his head.
BL_82 - Bleach
Time moved slow for the Uchiha as he got a full look at his opponent. She was the envision of true terror on the battlefield, her once seemingly warm sky colored eyes were now a freezing ice blue, her pupils shrunken to a near pinprick. Her face was locked into a cold visage with her icy eyes widened to a point of looking absolutely insane. Her foot was held above her head, prepared to deliver a nasty looking axe kick with a cold factual finality, her head held high and her mouth drawn into a thin line. Her killing intent was so powerful it was palpable- Sasuke could feel the terror running down his spine, in his stomach, in his heart, and the panic in his brain. The picture was burned into his mind for absolutely forever, likely because he had just unlocked the Sharingan if the slow motion was anything to go by. Because of that, Sasuke was able to react in time- he launched himself backwards having the ability to see her move before it was even done-
Or that had been the plan, until he felt a pair of tiny hands wrap around his waist, keeping him locked in place. "What!?" His head snapped backwards, a smugly smiling clone of Naruto was holding him! His mind raced at lightning speed as he tried to figure out just when Naruto conjured this clone. 'There's no way, I only lost track of her for the time she was in the skies! When did she make another-' Sasuke came to another horror inducing realization. Naruto created five clones, not four! He lost track of Naruto AND her clone! His head snapped back to the real Naruto who was still in the sky- she had substituted her cold, crazy, empty look for a cheerful bright and sunny close eyed smile as she mimicked her Sensei, Father, and Brother.
"YOSH!"
She cute, and perkily cheered, opening her eyes, giving a bright happy grin and with a blinding speed that even Sasuke's newly unlocked Sharingan couldn't slow down delivered a destructive flying axe kick straight onto the Uchiha's unprepared skull-
THAWK! CRASH!
-Causing the pale skinned boy to crash through mat, and put a dent in the wooden floor under it, sending debris through the air, splintering the wood and shaking the ground from the raw destructive force of the Prophecy Child's dropped heel, and shooting dust from the long unopened floorboards.
A sudden silence reigned over the training room, looks of awe, surprise, and shock written over the faces of the students and teachers alike.
"WHAAAAAAAAAT!?" For the second time, Konohamaru was the voice of the those surrounding him. "DID YOU SEE THAT!? SASUKE'S NEVER BEEN BEAT BEFORE! IT WAS ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION!" Konohamaru was gripping his head with both hands in absolute mind boggling shock as he foamed at the mouth from his destroyed reality of "I'm the one destined to be Sasuke" was erased clean out of his head. Menma was stunned into a silence, but he raised his hand in a stupor.
"Winner! Uzumaki Naruto!" He called out.