Izumo kotetsu are once again assigned to gate guarding duty, now both of them are sitting in the cabin playing cards to quench their boredom "hey izumo, you think any interesting thing will happen today" kotetsu asked already bored of the game also "who knows.. if only the knucklehead were here it would have been interesting" izumo replied reminiscing about Naruto his pranks "hey when say naruto, don't you think it's time he comes back to village" kotetsu says joy leaking into his voice "yeah its been 2n1/2 year already, I think he'll come today wanna bet" izumo replied excited
Before kotetsu could answer he heard someone calling "hey izumo, kotetsu how ya doing" turning to the direction of incoming voice he saw 4 people, a boy of 12 with brown spiky hair dark brown eyes wearing long blue scarf over a light green shirt dark pants with a pair of dark blue shinobi sandals, next is a boy of round face dark bowl cut hair wearing a oversized thick rimmed round glasses along with black shirt grey pants with standard ninja sandals, next is a girl of same age as other two With orange and worn in two high pigtails, with bangs framing her face amber-colored eyes wearing a pink sleeveless shirt with a high collar and matching shorts. Her outfit is completed with blue shinobi sandals.
All three of them wearing forehead protector on their forehead called konohamaru sarutobi, udon ise moegi kazamatsuri of newly formed team ebisu then another girl of 16 with pink hairs green eyes with forehead protector over the bangs wearing a red top pink skirt with black shinobi sandal hand gloves at the height 5'3", this girl is sakura haruno member of team 7 under the jounin instructor Kakashi hatake
"Hey kid what's up"izumo greets him "well boss is meant to be coming today, did you see him" konohamaru asked excited but all of them were saddened to hear naruto has not come yet, after chatting with the bored eternal guards they went their way
Time skip 1 hour
Kotetsu felt someone with large chakra reserves coming towards village "izumo someone's coming with kage level chakra" kotetsu said waking izumo from his dream both came out of the post to see who's coming saw the silhouette of two people, after few seconds the silhouettes became clear the left one is Jiraiya he was a tall and well-built man in his adulthood with fair skin. He had waist-length, spiky white hair that he usually ties back into a pony tail, with two shoulder-length bangs framing his face. There were red lines under his eyes which extended further down his face,His usual attire consisting of a green short shirt kimono and matching pants, under which he wore mesh armour that is visible at his wrists and ankles. He also wore hand guards, a black belt, traditional Japanesewooden sandals, and a redhaoriwith two yellow circles on each side. carrying a large scroll on his back, and had a tattoo on his left palm, wearing hornedforehead protectorwith the kanji for 'oil', which denoted his affiliation withMt Myōboku.
The right side person is a boy 15-16 with shoulder length spiky white hair cerulean blue eyes with three whisker marks on each cheeks wearing a grey head band with a kanji for 'oil' also denoting his affiliation with toads standing at the height of 6'4" an inch taller than his companion, wearing a short-sleeved long black haori with red flames licking the bottom of it over a white shirt, black pants a pair of black ninja sandals, the boy had a gunbai a red pole of 5' on his back a sword of 3 ft one side edge blade with golden handle of a roaring lion's head at end in a white sheath which had multiple three tomoes circling eachother a crystal necklace on his neck with black string, this boy is Naruto uzumaki before he used to be a shrimp seeing his transformation both gate gaurds jaw dropped
Yeah sure he grew quite tall in the six months but now he is like a god, women will have orgasm just by seeing him both were sure that Naruto will be a target of large portion of mens, as they neared the village both of them could hear the bickering about whose books are best, naruto is saying his book is best while jiraiya reciprocating his students words, bickering they came to the entrance of konoha stopped their chared, 'yeah he is naruto, nobody has guts to call jiraiya-sama ero-sennin' both thought confirming his identity
A few minutes later jiraiya Naruto entered the village with a small smile on their face "hey izumo kotetsu how're you doing, man... the village has not changed except for granny's face on hokage monument" naruto said bringing the eternal guards from their shock "yeah I think so, tsunade-sama did some changes in medical department, academy few changes here there" kotetsu said still in awe that he can't sense naruto's chakra at all "well then, I'll be seeing around bye bye" with that naruto took off into village making his teacher jiraiya mutter about ungrateful brats already carving tsunade's ugly face on the monument.
Naruto walked through streets people who saw him gave off either lust or jealous towards him most of the female population got a tingling sensation in their lower part stomach, he soon jumped on an electric pole turning all around to see the whole village then he yelled "uzumaki Naruto is back" in a loud voice drawing the attention of sakura team ebisu along with some peoples negative emotions.
Sakura her companions came running near the pole 'he has grown so strong handsome', naruto jumped down the pole as he sensed familiar chakra signature "hey sakura, you haven't changed at all" he said making her grow a tick mark "you still don't understand womens heart you've grown almost a feet taller than me" sakura jokingly said "yeah it seems so"konohamaru interupts him "hey naruto-niicha" 'sexy jutsu' out came a beautiful naked women with smoke covering her private parts causing the newly came jiraiya to drool "how was that a real drool of a jutsu wasn't it" konohamaru excitingly said "hehehe.. konohamaru I'm not a kid anymore you gotta work on other jutsu too, y'know" making sakura think about how mature he has become then comically he said "that jutsu is totally boring, now watch my new pervy ninjutsu invention" with that he made a half ram seal only to be hit by sakura's chakra enhanced fist to the guy which didn't even faze him, then in a puff of smoke a girl as tall as him with a hourglass figure with big breast ass stood there with smoke covering her private parts.
The reaction were different konohamaru core was amazed had sparking eyes, jiraiya was noting in his notebook for his next sequel 'icha icha paradise' with his eyes glued to the best research material ever, sakura was dumbfounded her punches can destroy an entire training ground in an instant that didn't even faze him he didn't react to it at all 'how much has he trained, how strong are you naruto' sakura thought still in a daze, after a few minutes of showing off to konohamaru core he puffed back to normal "come on brat we have to meet tsunade then we can go to ichiraku" the pervert said and naruto, jiraiya sakura who was still in shock leaving konohamaru core their demise "hey you three, come by tomorrow I'll give you each a jutsu" he said left to the office.
'princess Tsunade the fifth hokage' is a fair-skinned woman with brown eyes and straight blonde hair that parts above her forehead. Her hair has shoulder-length bangs that frame her face and the rest reaches her lower back. The Strength of a Hundred Seal - taking the appearance of a violet diamond- is clearly visible on her forehead. In her childhood, she wore grey mesh shirt and over it a teal-coloured kimono with short sleeves and red-lining around the collars which she secured with a blue sash. She also wore red wristbands and white wrapping over her calves with blue sandals
And next to her is Shizune who is a fair-skinned woman of average height and slender build with onyx eyes and jet-black hair; her hair is straight and shoulder-length with bangs that cover her ears and frame her face. wearing a long bluish-black kimono with white trimmings, held closed by a white obi, and open-toed sandals with low heels.
"It's already been half an hour since he came back, yet he is not here" tsunade said with a tick mark on her head which somehow scared shizune about naruto "tsunade-sama I think he has met his friends, you shouldn't get angry I'm sure he'll come.." before she could continue to placate her superior the person they were talking about came through the window scaring them, after a second both jiraiya sakura came through the door although the latter was huffing a little
"Is that you naruto, you've changed a lot you've grown too, look you're even taller than jiraiya" tsunade said composing herself then coming near him she gave a hug with a motherly smile on her face, shizune also gave a hug although she felt a tingling sensation in her tummy, they chatted for few minutes, Naruto felt kakashi shunshin on the roof "hey kakashi how've been" naruto asked to which kakashi replied after coming inside the office through window with his nose buried under the red porn book he carried which got tsunade's grumbling about 'why di they bother build office with doors' "I'm fine Naruto, you're looking great I bet you've become strong too" naruto bashfully rubbed the back of his head "oh.. I have a present for you" he unsealed one of the seal matrix inside his haori in a puff of smoke there were two green book with a title make out tactics a picture of a girl thinking about girl and other had picture of a warrior drenched in with a look of regret kneeling on the ground
"Naruto you really brought m-me this" kakashi said not noticing the other book "yeah I don't get why you read that it's boring, I would rather be in action also my book is far better than ero sennin's" with smug look he replied "also mine already sold more than 10000 copy just within a week after release in kiri, suna kumo, I bet more copy will be sold in konoha too" kakashi asked curious "what book are you talking about" naruto answered puffing his chest taking the book in the hand "it's called 'sorrow of a warrior' read it next part will be in three months"as showed the book to everyone, he got mixed reactions
Jiraiya was grumbling about his books are being unsold because naruto's, kakashi sakura didn't even there was such a book, tsunade heard about its popularity but didn't think too much about it but shizune dropped the tonton in her hand making it fall to the hard floor, in a blink she stood infront of him with sparkle in her eyes "you wrote that book, then tell me why did she betrayed him" which caught everyone off-guard "hey I can't reveal it like that, it'll spoil the drama" Naruto said smiling "ohh atleast you can tell me, I'm your niicha right tell me,tell me" shizune pressed on "how about... No" which made her sad then she brightened up once again holding the book "atleast put an autograph"
in the background tsunade asked jiraiya "jiraiya is that book that good" jiraiya replied first calmly then proudly "yeah, brat wrote a good book but not as good as mine, 15 days ago he released it since then my sales have gone down", all of them talked about what they did in the 3 year it was already 4pm tsunade spoke up "Naruto I want see your progress, you sakura will be fighting Kakashi in 1 hour" before naruto could answer jiraya interjects "I have not won against him for more than a year he never went all out" tsunade said "then what you don't want me to test him" jiraiya replied "that's not what I said, if you want to test him put all rookie 12 their sensei against him" but shizune asked worried "jiraiya-sama don't you think that's too much, they're all strong" jiraiya said taking a stern look "shizune, the people he's going to face aren't mere jounins, they'll be monsters maybe even stronger than me i'm also curious how strong they have become" that stop shizune from asking anymore question
"i'll be in ichiraku ramen call me when everyone comes to training ground" with that he left for the food of the gods, with a lightning shunshin he was infront of ichiraku ramen stand within mere seconds, "hey teuchi-jiji, ayame-niicha naruto special keep them coming"he ordered excitedly sitting on a nearby empty chair the women in the bar would glance at him once in a while but the men are giving jealous glance death stare for attracting their womens.
"hahaha.. is that you naruto, its been too long" teuchi said with a grandfatherly smile on his face then ayame came out drying her hands in a towel "wow naruto, dad see him how tall he is, not to mention handsome" she said the last part in a mutter with a tint of pink on her cheeks which was heard by naruto due to hightened senses, for an hour he ate chatted with both of the people who fed believed in him in his childhood, an anbu shunshin behind him "naruto-san hokage-sama has requested your presense in training ground 7" naruto replied "thank you i'll be there in 5 minutes" with that anbu left.
after naruto went to ichiraku tsunade sent anbu to inform team 8,9 10 members to be in training ground 7 to test all of them, and the words spread in the village about the fight b/w naruto who has returned that morning against all the friends he graduated with, all the shinobi who're in the village went to where the fight is going to be
in a dango shop asuma,kurenai,anko hana were chatting when an anbu came told kurenai asuma to gather their team present in TG7, anko licked her lips hearing the rumours about naruto, might gai was training his team in TG9 an anbu came informed about what hokage ordered, iruka was walking home after academy when heard about naruto's return possible fight against his peers set his direction to TG7, like that many shinobi got an information about an amazing fight about to begin set out to the destination.
Naruto slowly walked to the TG7 sensing hundreds of shinobi chakra standing on the ground or sitting on the tree along with tsunade,jiraiya,shizune the people he has to fight standing in the clearing, walking to the clearing he greets the people he knew, all the kunoichi got blush seeing his godly body, putting his gunbai,bostaff sword near a tree he greets his freinds
"lets not waste anymore time.." tsunade was interrupted by naruto "what are all of them doing here, are they here to fight or something" tsunade replied "no they're here to watch what all of you've got" naruto agreed "all 14 of you will be fighting him, don't hold back" hearing that everyone got into their stance, tsunade,shizune jiraiya jumped back into trees then she yelled loudly "begin"
all 14 of them sprang in to action since they already made their statergy, team asuma kurenai jumped back into forest while team gai,kakashi sakura circled around him then in a burst of speed gai lee rushed towards him denting the earth below them with a dynamic entry from opposite direction, but naruto didn't train with jiraiya for nothing that showed when he grabs both of their legs smashes eachother before throwing in opposite direction, he didn't get the chance to celebrate as a big fireball coming at him from kakashi's direction
replacing it with a log he came face to face with the hyuga progidy he once defeated, neji sent his hands to block his chakra points naruto who saw this was about to deflect it when the ground under him shook in a small parts it lifted up due to sakura's chakra enhanced punch after a cry of 'shannaro' which caused him imbalance neji's finger blocked two of his 'tenketsu' but when neji saw the chakra building up inside naruto he replaced himself with a log then heard an explosion splinters of the log flying everywhere, immedeately all of them heard hinata saying in their head "naruto-kun is behind you kakashi-sensei"
naruto tried a axe kick to kakashi's back but kakashi suddenly turned around crossed his arms as the blow connected he was sent flying back then crashing to the tree almost breaking his hands which was tended by sakura.
back to naruto, as soon as he kicked kakashi a volly of kunai shuriken rained down on him but he swapped with a log just behind tenten to knock her out, that was mistake on his part as thousands of insects covered him about to feast on his chakra recovering quickly he formed a rat sign trapped all the insects in 'water style: water prison jutsu' by using the water molecules aruond him
the spectators were all in awe at the skill shown by naruto others, few started betting on who'll win, few discerning each others plans stratergy suddenly shikaku nara the jounin commander the clan head of nara spoke up "naruto uzumaki will win this fight" which jiraiya whole heartedly agreed but tsunade asked"why is that, as for as I see he is forced to defend himself from the attacks" the genius nara was about say what's going on when they heard naruto's voice
naruto once again shunshined to the centre said "I understood your statergy now, you're all connected with ino's mind technique, neji hinata can locate me no matter where I go, with shikamaru's genius you sent those who have high stamina to tire me out with tenten, shino sakura as middle long range support, your statergy is to either tire me out or prolong the fight until the night falls as shikamaru will have a great advantage of shadows then asuma hinata will knock me up" then they heard a kiba's voice "just knowing our statergy won't make you winner naruto" naruto laughing replied "says the guy who doesnot even know he is in genjutsu"; "because this whole thing is a genjutsu"shikaku said to tsunade causing her everyone to dispel the genjutsu only to see all of them are still in the battle ready position
"how is my genjutsu it's called 'mirror of minds' this genjutsu allow me to learn about others statergy as I don't control anything unless I have to" naruto explained but kurenai voiced her question "where did you get this genjutsu when did you put it, sharingan byakugan should be able to dispel any genjutsu" naruto started expalaining "as granny told to begin I sent a small pulse of chakra all over the training ground it's my own creation also both dojutsu detect genjutsu if they're activated also you underestimated me thinking still i can't use genjutsu"
"I'll give you another chance disperse yourself come at me with an intent to kill" without questioning all dispersed, this time as tsunade announced the beginning of fight gai lee sprang into action with neji, kakashi's midrange support while tenten would throw projictiles at pinpoint accuracy which he dodged or parried while attacking or defending against the green beasts
he sensed a shadow infused with chakra trying to sneak upon him, as lee gai threw a strong punch at him he parried it jumping up in the air kicked both of them sending them crashing through tree, neji tried pushing naruto the range of shikamaru's shadow using his 'gentle fist' which is gentle only in its name but was discouraged when naruto parried each every strike of his with an aura of experienced shinobi then with an heymaker to his chin naruto sent him soaring through the air
naruto felt temparature rising behind him due to the huge fireball that kakashi spew which was fueled by asuma's 'wind style: great breakthrough', swiftly making handsigns for 'water style: water wall' both jutsu fought for dominance for a second before turning into steam, he didn't get the chance as a swarn of insects tried to eat his chakra an oversized hand tried to punch him both were cleared by a simple 'wind style: great breakthrough'
immedeatly after that his body stiffened unable to move then he heard "shadow paralysis jutsu success" shikamaru along with all others came out "accept your defeat naruto otherwise" he said the shadow around him made a figure of hand then gripped his throat, kiba boasted "is that all naruto, I thought you'd be tuff since hokage sama told all of us to fight you" then naruto laughed, laughed hard
"kiba if this is all you all got then it won't be a fight anymore" he said "shikamaru tell me what's your jutsu weakness is" shikamaru replied"it's light, if there is a light my shadows will vanish" then naruto took over "also raw strength" he moved his hands with some difficulty signifying the shadow's have little to no affect on him "you know i'm dissapointed, except lee nobody has improved, neji the same moves with little more sharpness, sakura got a monsterous strength but she doesn't have speed to compansate not to mention it's effects are less aginst me, lee gai, choji you've learned to increase your body parts size fastly but you could have learnt how to use a bostaff or any other weapon, so what I'm saying is from now on i'll attack so defend"
with that said he activates a flash tag causing the jutsu to dissolve "i'm coming" with that he sprang into action gai, lee kakashi could keep up with him since he's not going all out, lee gai opened six gates then started attacking naruto who effortlessly parried them, the trios fist were shooting small fireballs due to the rapid punches the friction of their hands with air causing the fist to ignite, everyone got serious
the spectators were all awestruck at the amazing fight going on, although shikamaru's shadow's can't stop naruto they were able to stop him to let the slower members like kiba, hinata, sakura, ino choji to attack him, kakashi would throw all types of jutsu to make an opening to get a drop on him, with the flawless teamwork of all 14 he wasn't able to knock any of them but naruto not wanting to level up anymore made a stratergy first take out sakura shikamaru
in a blitzing speed naruto sent green beasts into forest once again, then countering the wolf made of lightning courtesy of kakashi with his 'wind style: serpent of breeze ' that crushed the wolf after coiling around it like a snake which shocked the copy ninja the former 12 guardian who knew wind is very hard to shape, but their musing were cut short when the 15 year old boy sent a huge dragon that is made of vaccum 'wind style: vaccum dragon jutsu' as it came down on them it exploded sending them crashing to the ground unconcious
next he chopped the neck of the 'genjutsu mistress' after the 'demonic illusion' genjutsu he dispelled, after some resistance from kiba, shino hinata he knocked out all of them along with shikamaru, he was about to go after sakura who is tending to kakashi, two green blurs attacked him lee tried to use reverse lotus which naruto noticed pumping chakra through his legs slightly stepped on the ground causing the already half destroyed training ground to destroy around a radius of half a kilometer with the debris flying upward, this new stregth he showed not only shocked all that're present also distracted lee enough to give him an advantage which he gladly took in a blitzing speed he was behind lee before hitting few of lee's pressure points to knock him out
guy sped towards him in an amazing show of speed determination which showed as several sonic booms were heard in his tracks, for the spectators it was like a teleportation guy one second stood there the next second he was behind, before naruto could react he opened his 7th gate increasing his speed by 4 times,naruto didn't get the time to react as guy sent a flurry of punches kicks sending him into the range of neji who already stood in his stance to use his clans taijutsu 'gentle fist' sensing the danger he corrected himself, channeling chakra all over his body he sped towards guy who also reciprocated the action
with an high speed punches kicks both created several sonic boom explosion forcing everyone to close their ears, after few minutes of amazing hand to hand combat guy said "be careful naruto, my next move might kill you" with that said gai gestured his hands into a sign that looked like a snarling tiger then naruto herad 'Hirudora' with his guard up he saw a white tiger size of a one story house made of highly pressurised air running at him, understanding the power damage it might cause he made 3 hand signs 'boar-monkey-dragon' immeadiately a brown pole rose up, moulding 'earth-water-lightning' chakra at once he turned the mud pole into metal pole, raising it above his left shoulder he swung it down without using any chakra immeadiately after that a blue rhinoceros with red eyes purely made out of condensed air water around them
the rhino then sprinted forward tearing the tiger with its horn, before it could destroy the tiger gai made it explode which made the surrounding tree catch fire, few trees flew away due to the shockwave of the blast even the spectators were having hard time sitting standing along with destroying the rhino "you're the second person to make me feel the thrill of battle gai, you really are something" naruto said with the end of his lips curling upward into a grin,naruto appeared behind him but before gai could comprehend what's happening darkness took over his eyes mind, placing him near lee he turned around
only to see kakashi,asuma, sakura, neji tenten ready to fight, then tenten threw few shuriken tied with ninja wires but he deflected them, next mome nt asuma spew out a ash for his infamous 'fire style: ash pile burning jutsu' then with a click of his teeths he ignited the ash causing naruto to be consumed by flames, which he avoided being fried by channeling water nature chakra all over his body, after the flames cleared he came face to face with neji's 'eight trigrams sixty-four palms' which caused him some difficulty to overcome before knocking him tenten
just after the defeat neji tenten, asuma took the stance for a jutsu he learnt from his friend 'chiraku' the 'welcoming approach: thousand armed murder', for the first time in the entire battle naruto got hit by a jutsu but he managed to avoid most of the blows then he kicked asuma hard to unconscious
standing up there were only sakura kakashi left to fight, kakashi's experiance his knowledge over ninjutsu along with sakura's monsterous strength helped the fight prolong few minutes extra, he defeated both of them using 'earth style: earth dragon jutsu' which trapped both of them unable to move, tsunade called the stop for match announced naruto as the winner.
tsunade woke everyone then started healing the bruises wounds on their body, naruto spoke up while healing lee "all of you should level up your game, there're shinobi younger than me yet stronger than me, if this is the best you can give then you won't win,you can't protect anyone" moving towards gai he once again spoke up "especially you shikamaru, plans don't work all the time just like now..." shikamaru interupts "I didn't know you became this strong otherwise I would've made a better plan" naruto laughed pausing his treatment "hahaha.. then it's good that I didn't go all out, so what? I gave you all second chance didn't I?, are you going to say that to someone who kills your charge that 'I didn't know your strong otherwise I would've made a better plan' tell me shikamaru why did 14 of you failed to defeat me"
shikamaru didn't speak understanding what he's trying to say "want me to tell you, it's simple I was simply stronger, you made plans after plans but none worked do you know why? it's because you simply relied on other strengths, plans work when there is a strength behind to accomplish it, this is not academy anymore you yourself witnessed what happened to all of us in that mission, lets stop this year but there is a group of S-rank ninja out there hunting people like me, you might be thinking he is paranoid because of his life, i'm not gonna die before i become hokage but lets take a wager that if I died they got all the bijuu what do you think will happen, its just chaos utter chaos, you old people might remenber 16 years ago kyuubi attack if not for Fourth hokage the village wouldn't be standing just think what happens when all nine of them are unleashed" with that said fully treating gai he started walking "then lets do a party tomorrow my treat, i'll be leaving then i have to take some rest"
everyone present were stunned at his words, tsunade jiraya looked at his retreating figure with a proud smile on their faces at how mature he had become.
In the spectators anko few others counted the large sum of money due to their bet, while temari was shocked to see the used to be shrimp guy not only become handsome but also strong causing her face to get a pink tint lower part to dampen, not just temari most of the kunoichi were daydreaming about him while the shinobi were awestruk by his performance, after 3 hours of battle naruto came out with just some small bruises, everyone started going back to village since it's already been 8pm except for anko,temari the fighters.
Temari who heard what he said felt her blood run cold it's true that jiraya informed them about a group of missing nin after bijuu but she ignored it since she was strong but when she saw how he fought few of best shinobis from konoha without breaking a sweat yet he is worried it made her feel insignificant, weak afterall what can she do if people as powerful as naruto attacks them, ofcourse she will defend her brother but what if she fails she will lose her precious little brother who is warming up slowly, the thought of her brother in danger made heart skip to beat, since her mission is already over in konoha she went directly to her hotel room to pack her things, coming to the gaurd station she checked out to go for suna as fast as possible the only thought she had in her mind was 'gaara, kankuro please be safe, please be safe' with that she started sprinting in medium speed towards a shortcut route for suna that takes half time from the normal route.
as naruto walked back to home he felt like something was wrong but he didn't dwell on it much since there are probably very few people who can give him a hard fight walked to his apartment thinking of buying a new ground to live, what he didn't know was on the other part of the elemental nation his friend was in danger that was the discomfort of intuition that he felt.
Next chapter: Gaara's abduction
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