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talking: Ya' know
thinking: Ya' know
jutsu: Flying Raijin Jutsu
Summoning talking: You little runt
Summoning thinking: You little runt
Tailed Beast talking/slight possession: Damn you 4th Hokage
Tailed Beast thinking: Damn you 4th Hokage
Chapter 14: Naruto vs Gaara, Funeral for the Heroes and Busted?!
Naruto currently stood across from Gaara's monsterous form, atop tree branches. Naruto remembered his encounter, his and Shikamaru's, with Gaara in the hospital. Gaara had attempted to kill Lee. If it weren't for Guy interfering, there would've been a fight. Naruto was shocked to find out that he and Gaara had similar pasts. The only difference, is that Gaara was alone for a lot longer.
"Man, Sasuke is really beat up. This is going to be tough, I forgot to get my kunai from the stadium. Damn it! If I knew this was going to happen, I would've prepaired more kunai with my seal! I'm gonna have to make every move count." Naruto thought, frustrated at the situation.
"Get out of my way!" Gaara yelled, charging directly towards Sasuke.
Naruto immediately reacted by jumping up twisting his body 360 degrees, giving him some momentum to give Gaara a sideward bicycle kick in the face. (It's a flashy soccer kick.) Gaara got up from the same spot he just came from. This had been the 2nd time Naruto had kicked Gaara in the face. Gaara glared at Naruto, knowing he wasn't getting to Sasuke without getting through Naruto. "Sakura, take Sasuke and run! I'll take care of Gaara!" Naruto yelled, without turning around.
"Ok. Give him a whack from me, for hitting my Sasuke." Sakura said, picking up Sasuke.
"You got it." Naruto replied. "You want them, you gotta get through me! So bring it on you 'sandy phychotic fuck'!" 'Shadow-Clone Jutsu!' Naruto yelled.
"AAAAAH! Die, Naruto Uzumaki!" Gaara yelled, as he charged towards Naruto. Naruto jumped up, dodging Gaara's transformed arm.
'Wind Style: Great Breakthrough Jutsu!' The jutsu hit Gaara's back, causing him to break through the branch Naruto had just been standing on. Gaara landed on a branch about 20ft below the one he had just crashed through. Looking up, he saw Naruto looking back down at him with a smirk. Naruto began making another set of hand signs. 'Wind Style: Wind Blades Jutsu!"
Gaara jumped away in an attempt to dodge Naruto's jutsu. Unfortunately Gaara's tail was 3/4 cut off, with the cut-off portian turning into sand. "UUUAAAAAHH! I'LL KILL YOU!" 'Wind Style: Sandstorm Devitation!" Gaara yelled. As the name of the jutsu suggests, a sand storm blew towards Naruto breaking off branches on the way.
Naruto saw mouths open all over Gaara's body, and prepaired to dodge. When the jutsu came Naruto dodged, avoiding the jutsu by hiding behind a tree. Jumping out the otherside, Naruto threw a kunai with a smoke bomb at Gaara. Hiding behind another tree, Naruto prepaired his new jutsu.
Gaara blocked the kunai with his arm, just before the smoke bomb went off. Blinded by the smoke, Gaara didn't notice the sudden appearance of Naruto with a blue orb of chakra in his hand. 'Rasengan' Naruto rammed the jutsu into Gaara's gut, sending him spinning and *crash*ing into the ground. But not before getting his hand on Gaara's right shoulder.
"No way! H...he's beating Gaara. He's actually beating Gaara! How is that even possible?! But Gaara hasn't even let that thing take over. But I got to hand it to him. No one has ever pushed Gaara this far." Temari thought, surprised that anyone could push Gaara so far.
Lying within his 3ft deep hole, Gaara was thought. "This can't be. This caN'T BE HAPPENING!" "THERE'S NO WAY I CAN LOSE TO A GUY LIKE HIM!" Gaara yelled. A giant pillar of sand errupted, rising above the trees. Just like Gaara's temper did.
Suddenly Naruto was staring up at a giant, 150 meter tall, Tanuki make of sand with blue markings all over. "Oh shit!" Naruto said, realizing how much tougher everything got.
"Oh no! He's going to lt that thing take full control! I have to get out of here!" Temari thought, looking around for the best possible route away from the area.
Gaara brought his hands up and performed one hand sign. 'Play Possum Jutsu!' Once the jutsu was set Gaara's arms went limp. "Yaahaaa! I'm finally free! Let me kill something!" Shukaku yelled.
"Shit! There's only one thing left to do! It's a good thing I had my Shadow-Clones working on different jutsu at once. Even if I did get some major headaches." Naruto said, biting his thumb. 'Summoning Jutsu!' With a huge *POOF* Naruto stood atop a giant toad, that was roughly the same size a Shukaku.
"You again? What do you want?"Asked Gamabunta, the Chief Toad.
"Hey boss. How about it, will you fight along side me today?" Naruto asked.
Before Gamabunta could answer, Shukaku decided to make his decision for him. 'Wind Style: Air Bullet!'
Gamabunta jumped in order to dodge the attack. "Why you sneaky 'over-sized sand-rat'!"Yelled Gamabunta, prepairing an attack of his own. 'Water Style: Aqua Bullet!'Gamabunta yelled, firing 2 large orbs of water.
'Wind Style: Air Bullet!' Shukau yelled, firing 3 large orbs of air. The jutsus were canceling eachother out, but the 3rd air bullet wasn't. The last air bullet it Gamabunta in the face, knocking him down to ground with a thunderous *CRASH*.
"That hurt. You'll pay for that. Alright Naruto I need youto give him a good whack in the face. That should wake that kid up, and put him in control. He'll be easier to beat then. Otherwise he'll just get stronger."Said Gamabunta, as he continued to dodge and counter Shukaku's attacks.
"Right but we need to get a good grip on him." Naruto replied.
"Then we'll just use a 'Combined Transformation'. Think of something with fangs and claws."Gamabunta answered.
Temari couldn't believe what he could see. She wasn't able to see Naruto or Gaara, due to the distance she managed to obtain. "That kid can summon something like that?! H..how is that possible?! That kid is NOT Genin level. Just what IS he?!"
Meanwhile, Sakura was almost to the village with Sasuke. Sensing a huge pulse of chakra, Sakura stopped on top of a large tree. *Gasp* "What's going on over there?!" Sakura asked, seeing a large Tanuki and and equally sized toad fighting one another.
"I think Naruto summoned that toad." Said Sasuke.
"What?! Since when can Naruto use a 'Summoning Jutsu!'?" Sakura asked.
"He must have learned it during the month break. But the question is, from who did he learn it?" Sasuke asked.
"I don't know?" Sakura replied. Sasuke insisted on watchin the rest of the battle from where they were at. So that if Naruto somehow failed, they could warn the village of the threat. Suddenly they saw a large *Poof* of smoke. And from that smoke came the Nine-tailed Fox. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Sakura screamed.
"It's a 'Transformation Jutsu!'. Naruto transformed into the Nine-tails. It must be for some sort of plan." Sasuke explained.
Naruto and Gamabunta latched onto Shukaku, by biting him in left shoulder and clawing it's arms. "Now's your chance kid!"
"Right!" Naruto replied. Throwing down a smoke bomb and using the 'Flying Raijin Jutsu!' Naruto disappeared from Gamabunt's head, dispelling the jutsu, and reappearing on Shukaku's right shoulder. Naruto took advantage of the situation, and jumped towards Gaara's exposed upper body. "Wake the fuck up, you 'shit head'!" Naruto yelled, punching Gaara in the face.
"NOOOOO! C'MON, I JUST GOT HERE!" Shukaku yelled.
"Mmm. Why YOU! I'LL KILL YOU!" Gaara yelled, enraged that he was woken up. Gaara began to control the sand, having it wrap around Naruto's ankles.
Naruto had to act fast, otherwise he would be squashed. He pulled out his last kunai with a smoke bomb attached. Gaara was confident that Naruto couldn't move, he only blocked the kunai and letting the smoke bomb go off.
Naruto just smirked, he knew Gaara would think that he had him trapped for good. Naruto took advantage of this, and created the 'Rasengan'. Disapearing and reappearing Naruto, once again, rammed the jutsu into Gaara's gut. The giant sand creature began crack. Soon all the sand fell apart, causing Naruto and Gaara to fall. Since Naruto's jutsu was still being rammed into Gaara's gut, Gaara shot straight to the ground. Naruto had landed on top of a tree.
"Well, looks like you got this from here. I'll take my leave.
"Alright, thanks a lot Chief!" Naruto replied.
With that Gamabunta left with a massive *POOF*. Naruto had jumped from branch to branch before finally landing on the ground, 20ft from where Gaara was lying. Gaara's body hurt. It hurt so much that all he could do was move his head, towards where he heard Naruto land. Gaara's eyes shot wide open, seeing that Naruto was beginning to wald towards him.
"It hurts, doesn't it? Being alone. I know, because we're the same." Said Naruto, causing Gaara's eyes to open even further.
"Why? Why would you go so far for anyone, other than yourself?" Gaara asked, with panic in his voice.
"Because they saved me from myself. I was all alone, but then came Iruka sensei. Soon after came Kakashi sensei and my teammates. But before them, came someone very special to me. She was the 1st person I could trust. They saved me, gave me a purpose for living. And if anyone threatens them, I'll stop them. Even if I have to KILL them." Naruto stopped 5ft from Gaara while he was talking. When he finished talking, both Temari and Kankuro jumped down next to Gaara. They both looked ready to fight.
All three looked like they were about to start a fight, when Gaara suddenly spoke up. "That's enough. Let's go."
Temari kept her eyes on Naruto, while Kankuro looked over his shoulder at Gaara. "I can't believe it. He's completely exhausted." "Alright." Said Kankuro, turning around to pick up Gaara. The three Sand Gennin then left, heading in the opposite direction of the Leaf Village.
*SIGH* "Oh man, that was tough. That fight almost took all my chakra, with the 'Summoning Jutsu!." Said Naruto. Naruto turned and headed back to the village.
Gaara was thinking about what Naruto had told him. He couldn't argue with what was said, since he fought for the opposite reasons. Yet he lost, believing that his reasons were right. Gaara decided to try it Naruto's way, starting with his siblings. "Kankuro, Temari. I'm sorry."
His siblings were shocked that Gaara suddenly appoligizes. It was Kankuro who eventually answered. "No problem." "Man, what did that kid do to Gaara?"
"Gaara appoligized? It must have something to do with that blonde kid." Temari thought.
A few days later the village was in attendance to a funeral. The funeral wasn't just held for the 3rd Hokage, but all the others who died protecting the village from the Sand/Sound Invasion. Naruto was sad that his grandfather figure had died protecting the village from Orochimaru. Looking over, he saw Konohamaru crying with Iruka trying to comfort him. "Iruka sensei. Why do they do it? Why do people risk their lives to protect others?" Naruto asked. He knew why, he just wanted Konohamaru to hear it.
"Well. When someone dies, all earthly attachments are broken. But all emotional still remain. Even if you're not blood, everyone in the village is family. It's to protect those bonds you share with others, that you would do everything you can to protect the ones you love. Everyone who died protecting the village from the attack, is a hero." Iruka explained.
Two days have passed. Hinata and Naruto were finishing up their date, the same way as usual. Sitting atop the Hokage Monument. They sat next to eachother holding the other's hand, unaware of the pair of eyes lingering from the trees behind them.
"How are you h..holding up, Naruto? You know, w...with the 3rd Hokage dying?" Hinata asked.
"Alright, I guess. I just never thought he'd die. He seemed so strong, even for his old age." Naruto replied, sadness in his voice.
"I know. But he did it to protect you as well. He cared for both you and the village." Said Hinata, comforting Naruto.
"I know. Thanks Hinata." Naruto replied, leaning in towards Hinata.
"You're welcome, Na..ru..to." They closed the distance between eachother, eventually locking lips.
The figure in the trees couldn't believe their eyes. Seeing the most unlikely pair, right there kissing one another. The figure had followed the two the entire date. They wondered why they were under a 'Transformation Jutsu!. Now it made sense. The 'Hyuga heiress' and the 'Village Pariah' dating, explained the slight increase in confidence in Hinata. But seeing what's in front on them, shows that there was more than what met the eye. Before now, anyway.
Having seen enough the figure jumped out to confront the the two. "Stop! Explain why you two are sneaking around like this!" The figure yelled.
Tuning around, Hinata *Gasp*ed recgnizing the figure immediately. "Wh...what a..are you d...doing here?! Hinata asked.
"Who the hell is this, Hinata?!" Naruto asked. Both were panicking, about what this would mean about their secret relationship.
Oh shit! Who caught them? Well that's for me to know, and you to find out next chapter. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, please review.
