Rivals: Naruto vs Sasuke, Natsu vs Gray
Naruto stood at one end of the battlefield looking at his opponen on the the opposite side who was also facing him. A boy about a year and a half older than him named Sasuke Uchiha.
This was Naruto's first battle in school, and he couldn't wait to get started. The room was full of many students in period 1 sparring, many of them were betting that Sasuke was going to win since he was the strongest shinobi in 9th grade.
The teacher was a man named Mr. Hatake, but he likes his students to call him by his first name Kakashi. He was excited to see this little sparring match, he thought that he should have a new student take on the 9th grade's strongest so that he could see that he'll have a lot to learn about being a shinobi. Little did he know that he and the other students were in for a surprise.
Most of the class were just some random kids that Sasuke didn't know, only three of him friends were in period 1 sparring with him.
Sakura Haruno, a girl with pink hair that his been crushing on him since grade school.
Rock Lee, a kid who big bushy eyebrows who can't do any Ninjitsu talent, but is amazing in hand to hand combat.
And Hinata Hyuga, the girl who is very shy and doesn't talk too much, she is a pretty good fighter, but is never really to kind of person who talks much. But with Naruto in the school now, that might change.
"Well students, our first match of the year is about to begin! On one side we have newcomer Naruto Uzumaki, and on the other side is Sasuke Uchiha!" announced Kakashi.
"Are both shinobi ready?" he asked.
"Ready!" replied Naruto and Sasuke. Everyone was ready excited for this battle, but thought that Sasuke was going to win since he is the strongest.
'Sasuke's got this, he always trains hard. He's not losing today that's for sure' thought Sakura, she always likes seeing Sasuke in battle and thinks that makes him cooler.
'I hope this Naruto kid at least stands a chance against Sasuke for a little while, until Sasuke decides to start getting serious' thought Lee.
'I hope Naruto does well, I would hate to see him have a very embarrassing defeat on his first day here in school' thought Hinata.
"Start" said Kakashi. But, nether Naruto or Sasuke made a move, they just stood there, looking at each other without saying a word. Everyone was really surprised, why didn't they start moving.
Finally Sasuke decided to go first, he ran up closer to Naruto and was about to punch him in the face, but the blonde ninja rolled towards the side and got up as fast as he could to round house kick him in the spine, which sended Sasuke to roll onto him feet again.
He was impressed, no one had landed a first blow on him in a sparring match in about two years. He could tell that this Naruto character could give him a challenge!
This time, Naruto went in to attack, he tried to punch Sasuke in the face, but he blocked it with his arm and then punched Naruto in the face. The blonde ninja quickly recovered and tried to round house kick twice, but the black hair shinobi ducked twice and avoided the attack. But when it looked like Naruto was going to kick again, he caused Sasuke to duck again, but switched legs and kick him in the face. Then Naruto saw an opening and kicked his knee into Sasuke's stomach, after that he punched him three time before jumping backwards for distance.
'Wow, six hits and it hasn't been thirty seconds yet, finally a challenge after all this time!' thought Sasuke.
Everyone was amazed that Naruto could land at least one hit on Sasuke, no one could hit a hit on Sasuke until after a minute of trying, but Naruto did in just eleven seconds, this promised to be a good match!
"You're the toughest opponent I've faced in a while, I hope you have more surprises" said Sasuke.
Naruto smiled at his opponent, "You bet I do, this battle is far from over!" he warned.
"That's good, because I'm not even using half strength!" replied Sasuke.
"Well, show me a bit more if it's not too much trouble?" asked Naruto.
Sasuke responded by running straight up at Naruto and started to deliver punches, but Naruto was blocking all of them with great speed, however the impact of force from Sasuke's attacks was starting to push Naruto back a bit as they were soon approaching Naruto's end of the battlefield.
Naruto knew that he had to do something and fast, so he quickly ducked Sasuke's next punch, punched him in the stomach three times, kicked his leg up to hit Sasuke's chin, which sended Sasuke up a few meters from the ground, but then Naruto grabbed Sasuke's leg and started to spin him around until he then threw him back to his own side of the battlefield.
Everyone was surprised on how good Naruto was, they thought he wasn't going to last about two minutes, but it's almost been two minutes and his still going on strong.
The two sparring ninjas looked at each other and nodded, which meant it was time to take this fight to the next level. Sasuke took out his sword, while Naruto brought out his kunai. Now this were going to start to get interesting.
The two ran up to each other and collieded their weapons, the both of them started to push their blades against each other to overcome the other, they looked at each other smiling, which promised a good fight.
Naruto's strength over powered Sasuke as he pushed his kunai hard and pushed Sasuke and his sword back, Sasuke spun around to try to strike Naruto from the right, but the blonde ninja ducked and then used his other hand and right leg to punch and kick Sasuke in the chest, then he jumped back for some distance.
"Your better than I thought, you really are giving me a good fight!" complemented Sasuke.
"Glad you're enjoying yourself, now how about we add some jutsus into the battle?" asked Naruto.
"I agree. Fire Release, Great Ball Technique" said Sasuke as he moves his fingers and hands it a few positions and the blew a ball of fire from his mouth at Naruto.
Naruto acted fast and jumped over the fire ball, then he stuck out his legs and was heading straight for Sasuke's neck ready to kick, but the black hair shinobi grabbed his opponent's feet and was going to smash Naruto to the ground. But, Naruto quickly landed on his hands and used his free leg to kick Sasuke in the chest about seven time in just three seconds. The pain was too much for Sasuke, which caused him to let go of Naruto's leg, which gave the blonde ninja the chance to roll away to a safer distance.
Sasuke held his chest in pain on how hard Naruto can kick, he was glad that Naruto was this strong, now he cause have someone to encourage him to get stronger.
"Are you going to use an jutsus?" asked Sasuke.
"You mean like this one, Shadow Clone Jutsu!" said Naruto. He got his fingers into position and soon a puff of smoke appeared and two more Narutos, which makes three Narutos in the battlefield.
'He knows how to use shadow clones' thought Sasuke.
Without a moment of hesitation, the three Naruto's ran up to Sasuke and started delivering punches as fast as they could. Sasuke did his best to prevent himself from being hit, he ducked, dodged, jumped, and caught blows with his hands the best that he could, but he was starting to run out of breath. He also felt his are getting tired.
The Narutos stopped punching and jumped back again to get more distance,(Yes again) Sasuke was about to run up to them when suddenly he could feel his left arms.
"Ow, ah, what, what happened to my arm?" he asked. His arm was weak and couldn't move it at all, it was like his left arm wasn't even there!
"Alright, it worked!" said one of the Narutos.
"What did?" asked Sasuke, as he held on to his arm.
The original Naruto spoke the answer, "Pressure points, I used the clones to keep you focused on dodging all of our attacks, all we needed to do was keep you distracted enough to have at least one of us hit all the pressure points in you arm".
Everyone in the room was amazed at how Naruto thought of a strategy like that, Kakashi was impressed by this new student, he wondered where this young made learn so much.
One of the Naruto clones disappeared and that left two Narutos on the field. Sasuke decided to continue, he had battled with an unavailable arm before, but that was just once, but he thought if he could do it once then he could do it again.
Sasuke grabbed his sword with his other hand and began to run up to the two Narutos. One Naruto got out his kunai and was ready to block, while the other stood at the side ready to attack when the time was right. Sasuke got close enough for the Narutos to make their move!
The Naruto with the kunai, instead of blocking Sasuke's sword, ducked down to roll out of the way so that the other Naruto could catch Sasuke's sword and hand in between his fingers. The Naruto that caught Sasuke's attack kept his fingers open to let Sasuke's sword stick out from the fist, but held his opponent in place so he wouldn't escape, Sasuke tried to get Naruto to let go of his hand but it was no use, he was trapped.
"You are an awesome fighter, and I really enjoyed this battle! But now it's time to end it, and I'm going to use a special technique!" said the Naruto in front of him.
"Here we go!" said the Naruto as he held his free hand out as the other Naruto started to move his hands around and in circle around the hand of his copy. He kept on moving his hands as blue chakra started to appear in the free hand of the other Naruto.
'His using the clone to gather chakra faster, ingenious!' thought Kakashi.
'Yes, you can do it Naruto!' thought Hinata.
The chakra in both of the Narutos' hands starts to get bigger and it soon takes the form of a sphere ball. Everyone's eyes widen when they saw the ball of chakra in the first Naruto's hand, they have only seen that technique been used by an adult shinobi in the school, they were told that it takes years to master that technique, but now a fourteen year old shinobi is using it right now!
'That's Mr. Kakashi's technique, how did this guy learn that move?' thought Sakura
'Mr. Kakashi told us it takes years to master to move, did this guy started training at five years old?' thought Lee.
'Wow, if Naruto can learn Mr. Kakashi's move then he must have gotten a lot stronger!' thought Hinata while blushing.
Everyone in the room was surprised that how Naruto could learn that technique at such a young age, and Kakashi's reaction was no different. 'This young man knows my technique? He's so young, but yet he knows the..'
Naruto looked at his clone and nodded, and then it disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving one Naruto just like from the beginning. Naruto knew it was time to end the battle, he looked up at Sasuke and smiled to let him know that he did well, then he pushed the ball of chakra into Sasuke's chest and called out his name for everyone to hear, "RASENGAN!".
When the attack hit Sasuke's chest, it was so powerful that it sended him flying across the room. "AAHHHHHH" he yelled until he crashed into the wall. He fell down onto the floor and used all his strength to get up to continue fighting, but the rasengan was so powerful that he couldn't stand up again and just dropped to the floor out of pure tiredness.
"It looks like the winner is our new student Naruto Uzumaki!" announced Kakashi, as he grabbed Naruto's hand and held it up high. The students cheered at how Naruto was able to beat Sasuke and of how good of a shinobi he was.
'He did it, Naruto actually did it! He was great.' thought Hinata.
"Sasuke!" yelled Sakura as she ran up towards him to see if he was alright, but was stopped by the medical ninjas as they started to put him into a hospital bed and were about to take him to the medical room so that he could be healed with some healing jutsu, when he called Naruto over.
"Hey Naruto!" he called. Everyone looked over at him when he called, and the blonde shinobi walked over to his defeated opponent with a confused look on his face.
"Thanks for that fight, I haven't had an opponent like you in ages! Welcome to Epic High School!" said Sasuke as he raised his fist at Naruto, the new shinobi knew what that meant and he also showed his fist and the two of them shared a fist bump.
Sasuke was then taken away to the medical room to get healed, and not a moment too soon the bell rang as it concluded period 1.
Naruto got his bag and things to head to his second period class, right when he was about to leave he saw one of his 'brothers' Natsu!
"Hey Naruto!" called the dragon slayer as he ran up to his blonde shinobi 'brother'.
"How was sparring class?" asked Natsu.
"It was great, my opponent was an awesome fighter and was a great challenge" replied Naruto.
Natsu was glad that his 'brother' enjoyed his first class, he did too if he excludes the Gray inseden, he told Naruto about how science went for him and how he and Gray started to pick a fight.
Naruto laguhed so hard that a tear came out of one of his eyes when Natsu told him about the stripping part, he couldn't believe that there was a student in the school who would do that.
"And now I have to take care of Panties in a match of our own, so that he learn that if I want to laugh than I can laugh." claimed Natsu.
"Well good luck bro, I know to can do it!" encouraged Naruto as he patted his 'brother' on the back and started to head to his next class, while Natsu entered to sparring room.
But what the two boys forget was that there were other people in the hall that hear their conversation.
'Bro?' everyone thought. Natsu and Naruto looked nothing related, while some of the people in the hallway thought that it was just how Naruto likes to talk, others thought that there might be something between the two of them. Everyone was starting to get suspicious!
(Period 2)
As many ninja shinobis started to leave the room, many other students started to enter to get ready for period 2 sparring class. Only two students from Natsu's science class were here, Erza and Gajeel.
"Well, well, looks like your excited for sparring class if you got here early. Natsu, right?" asked Erza.
"Yeah, sorry but I didn't get your names last class" he replied.
"I'm Erza, and this is Gajeel" she introduced.
"Just to let you know, you can't let your guard down will fighting against stripper boy, he's someone who shouldn't be taken lightly!" warned Gajeel.
"Thanks, I keep that in move!" answered Natsu.
"Some more advice is that Gray is an ice wizard and he uses ice make magic, he can make many things from ice, so be careful!" warned Erza.
"Got it" replied Natsu.
Gajeel then walked over to a table where the students are betting on who's going to win the fight, students were putting money in jars with the fighters names on it. Gajeel took out $20 and put it in the jar with Gray's name on it.
"WHAT?!" yelled Natsu.
"Why are you voting for him when you gave me advice to beat him?" asked Natsu with a bit of anger.
"Because Gray has been kicking butt for all summer and hasn't come close to losing yet, so why would he lose today?" replied Gajeel.
"Because he's facing me!" answered Natsu.
"What's so special about you that gives you a chance of beating him?" asked the iron dragon slayer.
"Enough!" said Erza as she smashed her fist on Gajeel's head, making him drop to the ground.
"He's right, we should give him a chance, he may surprise us" she said. She then took out $10 and put it into the jar with Natsu's name on it.
"He might surprise us all!" she smiled looking at Natsu as she dragged Gajeel with her as she walked to her seat.
Natsu then looked at the jars and looked at how much money Gray has in his jar and compare it with his. Gray's jar looked like it had about $255 inside because of all the $20's, $10's, and $5's it had, then he looked at the jar with his name on it and all he saw was the $10 from Erza. Then he saw a hand put in a $20, that meant that there was now $30 in Natsu's jar. He looked to see who put that $20 in and it was Mr. Makarov.
"Mr. Makarov? What are you doing here? Don't you need to be in your period 2 class teaching?" asked Natsu.
"For some 'strange' reason, no students showed up, the principal said that if no students show up in any of the four periods, then I can use it as my free time. So, I decided to come and watch you battle Gray!" he answered.
"But, why did you bet on me?" asked Natsu.
"Because something inside of me tells me that you are very strong, not just physically, but also spiritually, and I believe that your spirit is what's going to help you do well in this battle" smiled Makarov.
Natsu smiled at his first real teacher for believing in him, "Thank you, I won't let you or Erza down!" he said as he made his way towards the battlefield. Makarov smiled at the pink haired boy for having enough confidants to go out there and fight.
The sparring teacher for period 2 is a man named Gildarts. He had announced the match between newcomer Natsu Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster will end when one of the fighters can't continue. He also warned that if the fighter that the students beted on wins, then the losers would have to help him clean the battlefield before having lunch.
Everyone agreed to the strikes of the battle and sat down to watch. Some students brought popcorn too eat while watching the show, others took out their phones to record the battle on video, and the last few just sitting there without saying a word.
Soon Gray entered to field and looked at Natsu, he also quickly stripped, but just his shirt, which was fine with his teachers as long as he doesn't do anymore clothes.
Natsu tried not to laugh, but Gray could see that Natsu wanted to laugh by the look on his face.
"You still think this is funny, pink head!"
"Yeah, I think it's funny!"
"Well you won't be laughing when your frozen solid!"
"I'll make you a melted puddle, you pervy popsicle!"
"Fighters ready?" asked Gildarts.
"Ready!" they both replied.
"Start!" called Gildarts.
Gray was the first to make a move, he ran up to Natsu and tried to punch him, but the pink haired wizard leaned his head to one side and then to the other when Gray tried to punch him a second time.
Gray then started to punch multiple times as Natsu continued to dodge his head to avoid the attacks, Natsu then lifted one of his legs a kneed Gray in the stomach, that caused to ice wizard to step back a bit.
Natsu was now running up to deliver a punch, but Gray caught it. Natsu did the same with the his other hand but Gray caught it as well, Natsu decided to knee him again, but instead Gray kneed as well. They both started to collide their knees together, Natsu's right met Gray's left, Gray's right met Natsu's left.
Natsu then managed get out of Gray's grip and them delivered a round house kick that sended Gray to the floor, he then tried to punch Gray while he was down, but the ice wizard rolled out of the way and was back on his feet.
The two stared at each other for a moment and saw determination in their eyes, both were going to do their best to win the battle.
They then started to go at each other again, they delivered punches and kicks as fast as they could. When Natsu punched or kick, Gray ether stopped it with his arm or leaned his head to one side, the same was done with Natsu.
Soon the ice wizard managed to hit his opponent in the stomach, he then started to punch him a lot in the same spot, Natsu was taking a lot of hits in the stomach and couldn't let himself be beaten so quickly.
Gray stopped punching and got his hands into position to use his magic, "Ice Make Knuckle" he said. Giant ice fist came out of his hands a headed towards Natsu, he tried to dodge but the punches he took before hurt too much for him to move fast enough and got hit by the giant ice fist that sent him to his end of the battlefield.
Natsu made a quick recovery and knew that he had to step up his game, Ok, let's see you beat this! Fire Dragon Roar" he said. Natsu started to breath fire out of his mouth that when it make contact with the giant fist, it started to melt from the heat and created a lot of steam.
"So he can use dragon slayer magic like me, huh!" said Gajeel in the audience.
"Well, since fire beats ice, this could give him the upper hand, but we'll see in time!" said Erza.
The steam from the fire and ice contact was everywhere on the field, it was hard for everyone to see what was happening, all they know is that the ice had now turned to water and the field was super wet.
"Hey fireboy, where are ya?" asked Gray, he could see anything in this steam.
"Right behind ya!" replied a voice, which sounded like Natsu's. The ice wizard turned around and saw the dragon slayer right there, but felt a foot hit his stomach and was sent back a bit across the field.
Natsu then ran up to Gray again and started to throw more punches, but the ice wizard was able to make a fast recovery as well and started to catch all of Natsu's punches with his hands. The dragon slayer then thought fast and kicked Gary in the stomach again, then he tried to deliver a punch but Gary jumped over Natsu and landed behind him. he then used his magic again.
"Ice Make Hammer" he said. Then a giant ice hammer appeared and Gray used it to hit Natsu and send him flying across the field again. Natsu was able to do a few flips before landing on his feet.
Fire Dragon Roar" called Natsu as he breathed fire again and it was heading towards Gray. "Ice Make Lance" called Gray as he shot thin lines of ice at the fire that was heading his way. The attacks collided with each other and then they started to push against each other to overcome the other, but they were both equal in strength. It was official the two of them were now stuck in a beam struggle, it was Natsu vs Gray, fire vs ice, dragon slayer vs ice wizard, and now the possibility of anyone winning was pretty good.
The beams kept up for a while until both fighters decided to get a bit closer, Natsu and Gray started to walk closer to where the beams meet and each other. they both wanted to win badly and were going to keep fighting until one of them goes down.
"Your not going to win, I'm not giving in!" warned Gray.
"I'm not losing today, or even this week!" replied Natsu.
The two wizards kept on shooting their attacks for a while, after about five minutes the giant ball of fire and ice in the middle of the beam struggle started to grow a bit more. It looked like it was going to explode, and it was!
*BBOOOOOOM*
The explosion blasted many students out of their seats and some of them spilled their popcorn, while the others tried to make sure that they didn't loss their phones, no one was going to miss recording that blast!
When the smoke cleared up, it showed Gray on his butt keeping himself up with his arms, while Natsu was on his face in the battlefield but slowly getting up. Gray got up quickly and walked to his opponent on the ground. "Well, looks like your out!" he said smiling. "Nope, I'm not done, I'm not done, I'm not done, I'm not done, I'm not done, I'm not done, I'm not done" Natsu repeated as he got up slowly struggling.
"Yeah, you are done" said Gray.
"No, I'm not!" said Natsu as he quickly got up and headbutted Gray hard, he then grabbed Gray's arm and started to spin him around in circles. this surprised everyone, they all though Gary had won alright but he didn't, Natsu just faked it to catch Gray off guard to make his move, they were all impressed.
After spinning for about 20 seconds, Natsu threw him into the air and jumped after him to do his next move. "Fire Dragon Iron Fist" he yelled as his fist started to be surrounded by flames and punched Gray up higher. The ice wizard's back hit the ceiling and was now falling towards the floor, but he recovered from the attack and used his magic to give himself a softer landing.
"Ice Make Slide" he said as his ice magic made a slide that got him down safely. When he landed on the ground he got up and asked, "Where's that fire clown?"
"Right above you!" answered Natsu. Everyone looked up and saw Natsu coming down from the impact of his own attack, he then started his next move, "Fire Dragon Sword Horn" he yelled. His body was soon covered in flames as he kept falling towards Gray. The ice wizard dodged to get a safe distance from Natsu and was now far enough to be safe, or so he thought. Everyone thought that Natsu was going to crash into the ground, but he didn't, instead he landed on his feet and launched himself towards Gray while his body continued to be surrounded by flames. Gray didn't have enough time to react and was tackled by Natsu.
The two had been fighting for a while now and things were starting to get exciting. Right now Natsu was punching Gray in the stomach really fast, it was like ten punches in five seconds, after that he kneed him in the chin which send him back a bit. Gray back flipped so that he could land on his feet and make his next move.
"Ice Make Sword" he said as he made a sword with his ice and held it in his hand. Natsu smiled and made the 'come over' sign with his hand, Gray accepted the offer and started swinging the ice sword as much as he could to land a hit on Natsu, but the pink haired dragon slayer was just too good at dodging the attacks, he ducked, leaned to each side, jumped, rolled, and back flipped, to avoid all attacks. Gray was getting tried and was starting to loss stamina, he couldn't keep this up for much longer.
Natsu thought it was time to get ruined of the weapon and return to combat. He set his hands on fire and grabbed to sword when Gray tried to strike again, the flames melted the sword into water, seeing that his ice sword failed, Gray then lifted his leg to kick Natsu in the head, but the dragon slayer blocked it with his hand, Gray tried to do the same with his other leg but Natsu blocked it as well. Gray kept on kicking and Natsu kept on blocking, his when on for about a minute until Natsu started to get bored of this, he decided to end this match now!
He timed Gray's next kick, and punched him in the face, this caused Gray to hold his nose for a moment, but that gave Natsu the chance he needed to attack. Natsu started to punch Gray as fast as he could in as many part as he could think of, the nose, the face, the chest, the legs, the shoulders, and the stomach, Natsu punched them all to deliver more damage.
This was getting really powerful, the two of them where now growing stronger by everyone second that pastes, there was no telling when this match would end.
The two of them were now staring at each other while catching their breathes, they looked at each with respect. Natsu smiled at Gray as he continues to catch his breath, while Gray did the same.
"Hey Gray, I have an idea on how to make this fight more fun!" said Natsu.
"What is it?" asked the ice wizard.
"No magic, just our skills in combat!" answered Natsu.
"Sounds fun, let's do it!" replied Gray.
The both of them agreed to use no magic and just hand to hand combat to defeat each other.
Natsu started to run up to Gray to deliver an attack, he jumped up and tried to kick Gray in the head, but the ice wizard leaned his body to a side to avoid the attack and Natsu flew past him. Then Natsu turned around and tried to punche Gray in the back, but Gray spun around to avoid the attack again and punched Natsu in the back when the dragon slayer flew by again. Natsu loss balance when Gray hit him in the back, but he then rolled back on to his feet.
Gray then started to run up at Natsu and was going to throw a punch, but the dragon slayer jumped over Gray and grabbed his hair, then when Natsu came down on the other side he pulled on Gray's hair and send him face first into the battlefield.
Gray tried his best to get up but was struggling, he took a lot of damage and that was keeping him from getting up. Natsu kept his guard up just incase Gray was faking it like how he did earlier. And he was, Gray got up as fast as he could and threw a punch, but Natsu caught it with his hand and held on tight, he then used his other fist to punch Gray in the stomach and then uppercut him, hopeing it would finish the fight.
Natsu let go of his hand and let Gray fall to his knees, then Gray fell down on his face again. Gildarts walked up to see if Gray was alright, he turned Gray on his back and put his hand on Gray's chest to feel his heart. Gray was fine but out cold, so that meant the Natsu was the winner!
Everyone was amazed that how amazing Natsu was at combat, he managed to beat Gray so well!
Not a moment too soon the bell went and that meant lunch time. Natsu grabbed his bag and headed out the door. Erza and Mr. Makarov grabbed their stuff and the money that they beted on Natsu, since he won the people who beted on him get their money back while the losers have to help Gildarts clean the battlefield and give their money to the school, while Gray was being taking to the medical room to get healed with ether healing jutsu or healing magic.
Everyone couldn't believe how strong Natsu was. While some students were upset the they need to spend part of their lunch cleaning the battlefield, others were fine with it because the had the whole fight recorded on their phones!
There are the battles I promised, which fight was better, how good were the fights, what can I do to improve?
Let me know what you think and just to let you know,Dan will be in the next chapter.
That makes your last chance to vote on who's after Dan, your final choices are...
a) Luffy
b) Kirito and Asuna
Keep voting until Dan's chapter is out, and you'll hear from me soon, bye!