DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...
(A/N): ALRIGHT! KIRI ARK TIME!
Oh yeah Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate!
TO THE STORY! *gobble* hehe...turkey noises...
ok...I fucked up. I kept calling Kiri Mizu by mistake in the last chapter. Sorry bout that. I plan on not doing that little fuck up again.
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Chapter 24: Kirigakure
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The next day, before the sun rose over Konoha. Cole walked out the front gates. He took a look behind him at the monument. He sighed and continued walking on, "Anko, Naruto...I'll be back. I swear I'll be back."
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"Hey Kit, wake up. That alarm is annoying!" A tired Kurama yelled in Naruto's mind. Naruto woke with a small yell. He looked around and slammed his hand on the infernal machine. "Urrgg...Sorry about that Kurama...Guess I was sleeping pretty hard there."
"You're worried about your father. I get that. But trust me Kit, you have nothing to worry about. No one in this world right now can possibly pose a threat to him while he has the old mans eyes and chakra," Kurama, strangely, consoled. Naruto sighed. He knew this already, it's just, he felt like something was going to go wrong.
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Cole's day was going anything but good. He had almost been caught by some Kiri Jonin fifteen times now and he was frustrated. "How the hell do they keep tracking me!?" he thought as he hid in the ground.
Ao was on the hunt. He was working recon for the resistance movement against the Mizukage when he saw someone he wasn't familiar with sneaking around the village. Ao was apart of the resistance because once he got his implanted Byakugan, the purgers turned their eyes to him. He had enough with the idiocy of his own village. Bloodline powers were a powerful weapon to have and the destruction of them as only weakened Kiri.
"Alright, where are you mystery man..." he wondered. "Byakugan!" He looked all around the last place he saw him. It took him a few minutes but he caught him in his sights. "Gotcha." he whispered to himself. "Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu! (Water release: Water Dragon Bullet)" He yelled and shot a massive blast of water at where Cole was hidden.
"Ah hell no!" Cole said as he jumped from his hiding spot and continued to dodge a water bullet. "Looks like I finally caught you mystery man. So I'm gonna have you tell me what exactly you're doing here and then I may or may not kill you." Ao said in a attempt to scare his opponent.
Cole sighed. "Well this explains how I kept being found. Ao of the Byakugan eye. It is a pleasure to meet you. Aren't you a part of the resistance? Why do you care if I am trespassing in Kiri?" Cole said. Ao got into a readied stance and replied, "I am still a shinobi a Kirigakure. I have a duty to keep this village safe, be it from outsiders or itself."
Cole smirked. "That is very commendable Ao-san. But what I were to tell you that I am here to help Kiri?" Cole asked. Ao quirked an that. Cole was really banking on Ao believing him on this one. He waited for about point one of a second before he had to dodge another water bullet. "Did you really think I would just go, 'oh you say? Well let me bring you to the resistance headquarters so we can save the village!' Yeah fucking right. You must really be green kid," Ao said to Cole.
"Actually that's exactly what I was hoping for, but I guess we just aren't the trusting type." Cole said. "Looks like I'm gonna have to rough you up a bit then." Cole dashed forwards to Ao while dodging a assortment of water jutsu and kunai. He planted a kick punch into Ao's stomach to only get drenched in water after he turned out to be a water clone.
The real Ao released a wave of shuriken at Cole, who switched out with a log. "Damn kawarimi..." he mumbled. He activated his byakugan to find where his opponent was. Only to barely turn around and block a strike from some sort of rod. Cole click his tongue and backed off. "You're not half bad for a greenhorn," Ao commented. Cole chuckled, "Maybe because I'm not as green as you thought."
Ao scowled at his opponent. He had the strange feeling this was not going to be easy. Hell, he even had he feeling he was going to lose to this guy. He gritted his teeth and decided to fight on. What kind of guy would he be if he pussed out after talking so big earlier. He was going to teach this kid to fear his elders. "Well, come on then. Stop holding back on me like a little bitch and come at me."
Faster than even his prized Byakugan could track his masked opponent was on him landing blow after blow. He tried to bring his guard up but it was only batted back down. Temple, knee, ribs, liver, shoulder, kidney, stomach, sternum, neck, and jaw all felt like they were being struck at the same time over and over again. After the third wave of strikes Ao went down. beaten and broken. He looked at the masked man with swollen and defeated eyes. "Well...finish it."
Cole looked at the defeated man and said, "Don't feel like it. I don't normally kill people who are trying to do the same thing as me. I was telling the truth when I said I was here to help Kiri. But, it seems like I'll just do it on my own. Tell your comrades that they have my support, but to not get in my way." With that he shunshined away.
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"Kakashi-sensei! I can't...do any more!" A tired Sakura yelled to Kakashi who was lazily leaning against a tree reading his Icha Icha. He turned a hooded eye to his student. "Sakura, that was only you second lap. You got through the Academy didn't you? You have one more lap, try to catch up."
Sakura let out a exasperated sigh as she began to run another lap around the training ground. Naruto was on his fifth lap and didn't look tired at all (especially with the resistance seals on), and Sasuke was right behind him breathing a little hard. Once Naruto and Sasuke finished ten laps and Sakura finished her three they stood on front of their sensei. "Alright guys, 50 push ups and 100 sit ups." Sakura paled as Naruto and Sasuke began to do the workout without complaint.
After they finished their workout they again stood in front of Kakashi. "Ok, that'll be our daily warm up before we do formation and signal training. Once we have those down I'll start to train you taijutsu and ninjutsu skills." He said to his three students.
Sasuke sneered at him. "Why don't we just learn jutsu and taijutsu? We don't need formations and signals. We need power."
Kakashi sighed, but before he could answer the blonde of the bunch spoke up. "Even if we train up our ninjutsu and taijutsu we are still kids and Genin. We might end up fighting someone we can't beat on our own and will have to handle them as a team. So if we can't do that then were screwed."
"Man the kid can be smart when he wants to be," Kakashi thought. "It's exactly like he says. Teamwork is extremely important for Genin. So we're going to train that right now."
As they went through their team training Naruto struck conversation with Kurama. "So, how far am I with the level one cloak again?"
"I'd say another three days of practice and you should be able to handle a single tailed level one cloak. It's not much of a power boost, but the cloak works as a powerful defense and since my chakra is pretty volatile it'll burn people on contact." Kurama replied. Naruto just gave a 'huh' in acknowledgement. "How do you think Dad is doing?"
"Knowing him, he's probably talking someone into some dumb deal and getting people to do what he wants."
Naruto snickered and his teammates looked at him weird but brushed it off when the went through the exercise again.
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"So, you expect me to believe some no name man just comes out of nowhere, beats up one of my best comrades, and wants us to believe that he is here to help us. You're joking right, cuz it sounds like a joke." Terumi Mei said to a sweat dropping Cole. Cole let out a nervous chuckle, "Well, I guess it does sound a little far fetched."
Mei looked at him and said, "Take off the mask." Cole just reponded with, "No."
Mei got a tick mark and yelled, "Just take it off damn it!"
"No."
Mei growled but stopped trying. "Fine, just why do you want to help us anyway?"
"Well, I know who is pulling the strings behind the scenes, and he is not someone you fuck around with. I also have a little grudge with the guy. So, I'm here to take him down."
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(A/N): Boom, chap done. I am so sorry about my little error on the last chapter so I give you this chapter early as payment. Please don't hurt me o_o
BTW no update tomorrow due to the holiday. :/
Remember to review and as always, I'll see ya next time!