I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.
Chapter 24
Naruto stepped back and ducked, his hands going behind his head as he rolled back then placed his hand on the ground pushing himself up into a handstand position only to have to prove his strength by jumping in that position to dodge a downward swipe by what a previous clone had informed him was a poisoned tip that also shot out senbons like a shuriken shooter back in the academy for reflex practice only faster and the projectiles were too small to get a clean grip on.
"Stop moving brat." Aoi Rokushō grounded out, the smile he had earlier and throughout the fight since it began was adding features starting five minutes ago. First came the little twitches in the corner of his mouth, that somehow turned into a lip lick at the end. Second, came the twitches in the eyes followed quickly by the third, lip biting he looked hungry for something.
"Your weirding me out, you pervert!" Naruto shouted out as he finally found that gap in his opponent's strikes to create space and Rokushō stopped in his tracks, staring dumbfounded at Naruto in disbelief.
"What do you mean pervert?" Rokushō's question was one of genuine concern, he didn't know what he did to get called such a thing, matter of fact he was still a Virgin he was just angry.
Naruto blinked wondering if he got it wrong, the look was very disturbing like he was hungry for something. The kind of hunger that makes you angry because can't have what you want and the only thing naruto saw around was himself.
"You're not hungry for me?" The moment those words left his mouth he cringed and shivered, witnessing Aoi shiver as well made Naruto gulp. He got it wrong, he laughed lightly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Look my bad Woah!!" Naruto's eyes widened when he narrowly avoided a senbon needle from Aoi's umbrella. The seaweed-colored jonin from Ame narrowed his eyes.
'This boy knows, but how?' Rokushō wondered as he watched and listened as the blond explained to him why he thought he was a pervert and every word that came out of his mouth infuriated Aoi so deeply he wanted to cook the boy and serve him to the Hyuga girl once he starved her.
"Look it's not you, it me it's my bad, it's just you're twitching eyes, the lip licking and biting then the pink tint on your cheeks I thought you were a pedophile. Watch it!" Naruto exclaimed dodging another needle and Rokushō was surprised once more.
'That needle was supposed to at least graze him his not that fast.' Rokushō wondered. Naruto wasn't supposed to be able to dodge that, the only known way to do so is to know where the shooter was aiming by watching the very tip or being fast enough to dodge, the blonde gaki was not the latter.
'But I only fought his clones.' Rokushō's eyes widened as he realized what was going on and he snickered.
"Hey Gaki, those are shadow clones you are using right?" The umbrella user asked and Naruto stopped talking.
"So, what of it?." Naruto asked and Rokushō grinned looking at the boy even more closely, with blonde hair and whisker marks.
"Now I remember you." Aoi laughed as he charged the blond once more. Naruto quickly made the cross seal and summoned a clone that covered his retreat by being a meat shield or chakra shield.
"The Kyuubi brat himself." Aoi revealed as he laughed and moved for another attack only to have to move out of the way when a clone was thrown at him like an arrow.
"Those glasses Gatō wore, it was one of your disguised clones." Rokushō didn't question it he stated it and his laugh became even more pronounced.
"You have skills kid and I can appreciate that unlike that village spreading nonsense like the 'will of fire.'"Rokushō stopped his attacks and raised his hands in a show of no harm.
"What are you getting at?!" Naruto had to raise his voice to ask the question because of how far he was from the man.
"Join me." Rokushō simply said and Naruto blinked in surprise, he didn't expect such a request but more than that he found it hilarious so he laughed long and hard.
"Hahaha, you want me to. Hahahahah, join you?" Naruto was gonna double over if he wasn't in the middle of a life-and-death situation. "Why would you think that I would join you? Think before you speak stupid hahaha." Rokushō bared his teeth at the blond, he was mocking him.
"I'm giving you a chance to live brat, with those clones of yours and my……" Rokushō stopped talking when Naruto laughed louder even going so far as summoning a clone who immediately began laughing as well, the clone actually doubling over.
"My clones and you're what?" Naruto asked as all the humor left his face and he did to Rokushō what Gatō had done to him earlier in the day. He looked him over and scoffed. "The only thing your good at is manipulating little boys and girls." Naruto spat as his clone continued laughing in the background.
"Not even a bingo book prodigy, just a loser who had a kid steal for him." Naruto repeated Gatō's words, word for word because he knew those words hurt Rokushō he had a front row sit when Gatō mocked him. He saw the man's reaction loud and clear he hated how he was seen in the ninja world.
"I'm gonna skin you alive!" Rokushō bellowed to the heavens as he dashed at Naruto and jumped up in the air, opening his umbrella and going through hand seals he called out the name of his jutsu.
"Water style: Umbrella shockwave!" After swinging his umbrella Aoi produced a torrent of water large enough to attack a group of targets all aimed at the blonde who had summoned another clone in addition to his first and they all set up a barrier to defend against the attack.
Naruto's barrier lasted 2 seconds flat before the technique broke through and he was blasted by pressure so heavy his clones dispelled on contact and he was left in a crater with the pressure pressing down on him, the pain was unbearable.
"Not so funny now uh brat? Don't even think of dying because I will enjoy torturing you until you beg for it." Naruto screamed as the pressure continued building up pushing him deeper into the ground. He could feel his ribs creaking very close to snapping under the pressure and caving in.
"I'm not dying anytime soon loser!" Naruto screamed as he fought the pressure to raise his hands and made a hand seal. A clone popped into existence only to dispel immediately and Rokushō grinned.
"Your clones won't bail you out of this demon!" Rokushō said loudly at Naruto who wasn't screaming anymore as he fought against the pressure and got into a sit-up position he felt like he hit a hundred sit-ups just by sitting up straight before glaring at Rokushō.
"Watch me break out of this!" Naruto shouted as he began struggling to stand on his feet fighting the pressure from the water jutsu. In response, Rokushō poured more chakra into his jutsu making it push Naruto right down again with another scream of pain.
"Your gonna die here demon!" Rokushō promised loudly as he salivated at the prospect of killing the blonde so much so he never noticed the bird nose-diving down above him.
"Hey!" Rokushō looked up at the voice in shock just as a cloud of smoke dispersed and a blonde appeared kicking him with the heel of his foot. Rokushō registered pain as the blow landed right in the middle of his face, his nose broke on contact blood gushing out in a spray, his mouth busted as both his molars got spit out of his mouth and he popped a blood vessel in his left eye from the impact of the blow.
The momentum the clone had caught from nose-diving as a bird from a great distance plus having its master's natural strength made the front flip heel kick he delivered devastating. Rokushō soared down to the ground in a matter of seconds as he landed on his back creating a cloud of smoke on impact and a human-shaped crater on landing.
Naruto who was still laying flat on his back with tattered clothes and bruises grinned and sent his clone a thumbs up as it landed and it returned the gesture only to get dispelled a second later as a glowing electrical blade stabbed it.
"Mmou smoupid blat, mou aa mying moolay." Rokushō grimaced when he realized his words which were 'You stupid brat, you are dying today.' were not coming out the way they should. He opened his mouth and placed his free hand inside only to find teeth missing, he felt a loose one and it dropped into his hand.
Rokushō brought his hand in front of his face and saw a canine laying there bloody. The anger that blossomed within him was something he had never felt before in his life his chakra became violent as it fed The sword of the thunder God in his hand making its intensity increase and the arks of electricity it released became more powerful.
Naruto stood up slowly as he watched the sword cautiously, this fight was now for his life, he had to get his game face on there would be no second chances or retries.
"Mmmmmiiiiie" Rokushō was saying 'Die' but because of his broken nose and lack of many of his teeth his words came out incoherent and that pissed him off even more as he sent an ark of electricity at Naruto with the blonde throwing himself out of the way.
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Haku ducked under a roundhouse kick and moved away from the younger Uchiha who was keeping up with his speed so he was in front of him before the space even became something tangible only to have to dodge a reverse roundhouse kick from Haku.
The fight had been a martial arts frenzy from kicks to punches, elbows, knees, heads, and wrists the whole six yards since it began. Sasuke dashed in only to stop in front of Haku locking eyes with the Hyoton user who closed his eyes behind his mask and threw a blind punch.
Sasuke seeing the punch coming turned and grabbed it over his shoulders before heaving and throwing Haku over his shoulder sending the boy soaring away from him. Performing hand seals in a second he called out his art. "Fire style: Fire phoenix Jutsu!" Shooting four flame balls one after the other they grew in size and flew over to the mist missing-nin.
Haku seeing the flames heading his way made his respective seals and called out his jutsu. "Secret Technique: Demonic Mirroring Ice Wall!" A single ice wall appeared in front of Haku taking the brunt of multiple flame balls, hissing as the opposite elements met and let off steam but the ice wall held and Haku landed on his feet.
"You can't copy my jutsu's Uchiha-San." Haku told his opponent when he saw him blink in confusion. "My Art is a bloodline limit." He explained softly and Sasuke scoffed.
"What are you, an ice dispenser?" Sasuke mocked finding that the ice user could place his ice machine in the same category as the fabled Sharingan amusing. "And don't mock me, I won't need to copy anything to win here." Sasuke said dashing at his opponent.
Haku stood his ground as he waited for his opponent to get close and sent out senbon needless from a hidden compartment in his sleeves to fend off the Uchiha genin.
Sasuke jumped sideways and dashed wide circling Haku before throwing one kunai that Haku weaved to the left to dodge. He threw another one that Haku grabbed and threw to the floor. Sasuke threw five kunai all at once before jumping high with four kunai in each hand he did a twist in mid-air as he positioned himself upside down.
He threw the first 1 in his right hand, followed quickly by the three in his left hand, he did a turn and threw two more from his right followed up by one from his left. Doing a twist Sasuke switched one kunai to his now empty left hand behind his back and released both kunai at the same time.
Haku had drawn a kunai from his pouch and used it to deflect the five kunai thrown at him only to look up at the Uchiha and see him perform some complicated throws making the kunai bounce off each other as they threw Haku off guard until one got knocked by another changing its overhead trajectory and bringing it to Haku in his blind spot.
"Aghhh" Haku grimaced when a kunai got embedded in his thigh.
"You should start running while I still feel forgiving." Sasuke said as he landed, he finally got that kunai trick of Itachi's down.
"You are being ignorant Uchiha-San I don't want to hurt you, let me have the bridge builder and I will ask Zabuza-Sama to spare you." Haku pulled the kunai out of his right thigh and placed a hand on top of the wound freezing it.
"Your master will die by my sensei's hands." Sasuke said with all the faith in the world, Itachi would never lose against some stupid missing-nins.
"I hoped I didn't have to do this but." Haku dashed at Sasuke In a burst of speed making the Sharingan wielder's eyes widen at the unexpected speed. His Sharingan caught the incoming attack the only question was whether Sasuke's body could react to it.
Sasuke moved to the left but his Sharingan told him he was too late because his body was not fast enough. He grits his teeth as he went back to his training. Haku's fist landed on Sasuke's shoulder knocking him off balance and Sasuke twisted with the blow bringing his backhand across to Haku only to see the boy had already ducked.
Haku stood from his duck raising a hand and hitting Sasuke's offending hand upward with a rising palm strike.
Sasuke once again thrown off balance received a kick to the stomach getting thrown back. Haku then made hand seals and called out his jutsu.
"Ice release: Crystal Ice Mirrors." As Haku dashed passed Sasuke's airborne form he turned to face his approaching form and an ice mirror appeared in front of him. Haku quickly jumped into the mirror from the back and came out from the front with even greater speed.
Drawing two kunais in both hands he crossed his hands above his chest and when he and Sasuke got close he strikes, throwing his hands out and striking Sasuke. The Uchiha tumbled to the ground while Haku stopped by sliding and twisting to face the Uchiha.
"Shit!" Haku quickly turned back around, behind him was a log, and there ready to punch him in the stomach was Sasuke. Haku grabbed onto the offending hand, Sasuke's eyes looking straight into Haku's mask trying to ensnare him in an illusion.
"Your not bad Uchiha-San." Haku complimented as he grabbed Sasuke's hand. "But I'm better." Sasuke watched dumbfounded when Haku began performing one-handed seals while he interlocked their fingers together so Sasuke cannot escape.
"Secret Technique: Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death." At the call of his Jutsu. Haku creates a thousand long needles from the nearby water, which surround him and Sasuke. He carefully aimed the needles at his target and fired them at rapid speeds.
Sasuke who looked up to see the needles approaching yanked his hand from Haku's grasp with his greater physical strength and is able to escape harm by leaping directly upward.
"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke sent out a torrent of flames that quickly shaped into a 20 feet ball of flames rushing at Haku bellow him. Sasuke still airborne went through more hand seals as he watched Haku run from the flaming projectile.
'Tiger, Boar, Ox, Dog, Snake.' Sasuke finished performing his 5 handseals in record time eyes locked on the log that had taken Haku's strike earlier and whispered.
"Substitution Jutsu." In a puff of smoke, a log took his place and Sasuke landed in its previous position, Haku did not see all of this as he was still in the process of maneuvering out of the earlier projectile.
'At peace, Snake, Dragon, Rabbit, Tiger' Sasuke thought as he ran through more hand seals before calling out. "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Sasuke spits out flames from his mouth, that took the shape of a Chinese dragon's snot quickly traveling forward in a straight direction towards its target.
Haku blinked in horror when another much faster fire Jutsu came at him and crossed the distance between them in seconds. Haku went through his hand seals as both projectiles got closer.
"Ice Style: Glacial Dome." Haku quickly froze the surrounding air around him and created an icy, transparent igloo-like dome around himself to act as a defense. A second later both Fire based attacks made contact with each other doubling in size and intensity becoming one before impacting the Ice dome.
Sasuke breathing heavily watched as steam covered the area of impact with him unable to get a good view of his opponent's status. Sasuke was running out of chakra from the constant use of his Sharingan and the jutsus he performed, at least he knew Haku was in the same position.
Since they started they have been evenly matched, Sasuke had the advantage of being able to predict Haku's moves and intercept them while Haku was very flexible due to his lithe build and reflexes.
"I shouldn't Underestimate you, you are a dangerous one." At Haku's words, the steam got blasted away by the boy's chakra being called forth in great quantity and Sasuke frowned something big was about to happen he had to stop him quickly, so Sasuke dashed towards his opponent. Haku wasn't even harmed by his combination attack.
"Secret Technique: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!" Sasuke stopped in his tracks and looked around him at the ice mirrors surrounding him and Haku. By entering one of the ice mirrors, Haku's reflection appeared in all of them. Haku can travel between these mirrors near-instantaneously, giving the appearance that he occupies all of them simultaneously.
"I didn't want to hurt you Uchiha-San but you leave me no choice." Haku spoke from all the mirrors before all his reflections drew a handful of senbon. "Prepare yourself." Haku warned as he slicked out the mirror and with speed Sasuke could follow with his eyes but not his body Haku attacked.
Sasuke tsk'd as he quickly drew a barrier tag provided by the 'dobe' and placed it on the floor in front of him, activating it before giving it his back and turning to face behind him drawing a kunai from his pouch. He listened as the first barrage of needles dropped on the floor after making contact with the green barrier.
"You will have to do better than that Iceberg!"Sasuke taunted as he twirled his Kunai, Sharingan blazing with equal tomoes and a challenging smirk on his face. He was enjoying himself.
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"I heard the little Uchiha brat is your younger brother." Zabuza said offhandedly trying to get a rise out of Itachi who jumped away from his strike and brought his kunai down aimed at the top of his head. Zabuza brought his giant blade up and blocked the Kunai before pushing up and throwing Itachi to the side, only to immediately dash towards him.
"Itachi, Itachi, Itachi fucking Uchiha, you owe me a pound of flesh." Zabuza made a low swipe that Itachi dodged by leaping back, not planning on giving the Uchiha space Zabuza leaped after him with a downward strike that Itachi swerved around the moment his feet touched the ground.
Zabuza's blade dented the hard bricks the bridge was being constructed out of when his downward strike missed its target. Itachi threw a kick at Zabuza from the side that the man blocked with the flat of his blade as he skidded a few feet back.
"I'm taking that flesh out of the little Uchiha brat, then I'm coming after your whole clan." Zabuza grounded out in anger and Itachi raised an eyebrow at the missing-nin.
"Why do you speak of something that cannot be accomplished unless I'm dead?" Itachi asked as he pulled out a scroll and unrolled it. Placing a palm on top of its seal and in a puff of smoke a Tantō appeared in his hands that he twirled in his hands before taking a ready stance.
"Come, you have already lost." Itachi said cryptically as he pointed a finger at Zabuza and the previous member of the swordsmen of the mist growled charging at Itachi.
Itachi moved in when Zabuza was close enough to swing his larger blade ducking under the swipe as he spun and made a low swipe of his own at the same time. Zabuza jumped over the blow performing a flip that had him spinning like a shuriken in mid-air before stopping and bringing his blade down on his opponent.
Itachi rolled away from the attack and jumped up throwing 5 shurikens before performing hand seals 'Ox, Dog, Dragon, Rat, Dog, Boar, Snake, Tiger' and calling out his Jutsu.
"Ninja Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu." The five Shuriken duplicated using Itachi's chakra in the same way that the shadow clone technique makes copies of its user.
Zabuza's eyes widened when 5 Shuriken suddenly became more than a hundred. Placing his blade in front of him Zabuza used the flat of it as a shield only to get grazed occasionally by the sharp projectiles.
When the barrage was finished Zabuza looked over his blade only to have to leave it behind to dodge a downward strike from Itachi creating distance between them. Itachi looked over at the legendary sword and decide it was a nuisance, he kicked at its sharp tip making it flip up into the air before turning and kicking it as hard as he could.
Zabuza gapped and bared his teeth in anger as he watched his kubikiribōchō get kicked off the edge of the bridge and dropped into the waters below.
The area around them got eerily quiet at the sound an object makes when it was dumped in water indicating the blade had dunked. Zabuza began laughing, these leaf nin were something else entirely they knew how to piss people off. He looked at Itachi's impassive face and ground his teeth in anger.
"I'll make you regret that." Zabuza warned making a water clone before going through hand seals.
'Ox, Monkey, Hare, Rat, Boar, Bird, Ox, Horse, Bird, Rat, Tiger, Dog, Tiger, Snake, Ox, Ram, Snake, Boar, Ram, Rat, Yang Water, Monkey, Bird, Dragon, Bird, Ox, Horse, Ram, Tiger, Snake, Rat, Monkey, Hare, Boar, Dragon, Ram, Rat, Ox, Monkey, Bird, Yang Water, Rat, Boar, Bird.'
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" Itachi raised an eyebrow at the very long sequence of hand seals he could have attacked a total of 4 times while Zabuza performed them but he was curious and impressed by the imposing figure glaring at him.
Going through handseals of his own. 'Ram, Horse, Snake, Dragon, Rat, Ox, Tiger' Itachi called out his Jutsu.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Bomb!" After kneading the chakra, Itachi breathed out a torrent of fire from his mouth. Manipulating the flames into the shape of a dragon and dividing it to strike the target from the left, right, and front all at once. Unlike the great fireball, which covers a wide area, the Fire Dragon Flame Bullet makes focused strikes, quickly reducing targets to ash upon contact.
Zabuza grimaced but sent his water dragon at Itachi, who did the same by sending his fire dragon forward to intercept Zabuza's Jutsu. Zabuza's clone seeing its chance dashed to the edge of the bridge and jumped.
Itachi seeing the clone sent a piece of his jutsu after the clone but couldn't tell if it destroyed it or not before it reached the waters below. The two B-rank jutsu collided with Itachi sending the last piece of his divided jutsu to circle and attack Zabuza.
Zabuza's eyes widened when he saw the approaching flame projectile heading towards him from the flank he couldn't drop the water dragon jutsu or the other attack would converge on him.
Zabuza ready to take the burns and pain of the approaching flames felt a tug on his chakra network and he grinned accepting it, as his clone Performed the Substitution Jutsu with him. Appearing in the clone's previous position at the edge of the bridge Zabuza found his blade kubikiribōchō on the bridge floor and picked it up.
"Water Release: Hiding in Mist Technique." Zabuza called out in a whisper as he covered the area in a thick mist obscuring himself from view and dashing at Itachi's unsuspecting form in silence.
AN
Thats part one of the fights everybody played around with their opponents until they realized OhOh that was a bad idea when their guards dropped and they were shown another mistake like that will cost them more then just their pay but life as well.
Next chapter...Hinata awakens maybe?
I hope I got the fights right and it can play in your minds seamlessly
Naruto vs Aoi Rokushō
Sasuke vs Haku
Itachi vs Zabuza
The fights continue I'll maybe be done with the wave arc by the next 3 characters.
