Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto Present Tense ❯ Chapter one: Open road ( Chapter 1 )

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Chapter 2: Pursuit

“I’m awake now.” Sasuke said, “Let me drive.”

Naruto turned to him and grinned, “No way! This car is way too fun.”

Sasuke shook his head, seeing that he wasn’t going to be able to get back in the driver’s seat…yet. He sat back and looked out the window, what else was there to do. The silence was nice, calming, and peace was great, but his companions might get a little bored with it.

Sasuke glanced back at Konohamaru, who seemed to be alright with it for now. He was laying back in his usual position, stretched out completely with one leg hanging off the seat. He had his hands behind his head and his goggles down over his eyes with a small smile across his lips.

Konohamaru probably would get bored eventually, even though he was used to long stretches of traveling being the President’s grandson. Sasuke figured they should probably stop somewhere, what’s a road trip with out seeing anything?

“Hey Sasuke.” Naruto said, casually letting the seat back some and glancing at him sideways. “Let’s stop at the next town or something.”

That could work.

“Alright.” Sasuke reached behind him and picked the map off the floor, he glanced at the odometer. It was at Zero when the left Konoha, 568 now, and with that he was able to find out where they were, considering that they’d been taking the same road since they started.
“The next town is a few miles ahead.”

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“Look at all this stuff I won.” Konohamaru said excitedly, sorting through everything he’d gotten as a prize at an amusement park. Which was just about everything he could carry, and when he really wanted something he could carry a lot.

“I never knew you were good at all that stuff.” Naruto said. Konohamaru had played just about every game at the park.

“I had a lot of practice.” Konohamaru said proudly.

“Really, When?” Sasuke asked.

“Uh…” Konohamaru rubbed his head trying to think of a quick excuse. He couldn’t exactly tell Sasuke that he’d learned just about every thing he used from Itachi and Kisame. He’d learned aiming from Kisame, which he used in darts and a few other games.

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Some time around a year ago.

“See that’s your problem.” Kisame said, he and Konohamaru were in shooting range in the basement of Kisame’s house. Which was more of just a hide out because he was never really there, and the basement was more of training center. There was just about everything anyone could need to do so.

Itachi leant against the wall just watching, this really didn’t help Kisame’s argument that he wasn’t attached to Konohamaru. “Either your thinking to much, or the type of person that’s not thinking enough.” Kisame said, standing behind him and raising Konohamaru’s arms a little bit.

Konohamaru held the gun outward, for a second wondering why he was even learning this now. It was either now or 2 years later in military school, and Kisame seemed like a much better teacher. “What do you mean?” Konohamaru asked,

Kisame looked over him, noticing something was wrong “First off, your not holding it right.” Kisame raised Konohamaru’s hands a bit over the handle, he just wasn’t strong enough to hold it he way he was thinking about holding it. “And since you completely suck at aiming.”

Kisame pressed a button in front of the trigger, turning on the laser sight. “Use this first, and put one leg back.” Kisame said. Konohamaru closed an eye and put one leg back some for support. Then he aimed at the target about 100 feet away, lining up the sight with the bull’s-eye and pulling the trigger.

Konohamaru felt the strain of the gun pushing back when he fired, forcing his arms to bend back some but managed to hold it this time thanks to Kisame’s hints. “See how easy that was?” Kisame said, reaching down and turning off the laser sight. “Now you remember where that red line started?”

Konohamaru nodded, it started just under the barrel of the gun. “Now picture it in your head and take the same shot.” Kisame told him. Konohamaru closed one eye, remembering exactly how the laser looked when it shined outward from the gun. He pictured that line and aimed accordingly right before firing the shot.

He hit halfway between the top of the target and the bull’s-eye. “Keep practicing kid.” Kisame pulled his gun out a holster under his shirt. A sliver gun with a brown handle and a long barrel, A .44 Magnum with special 44 caliber incinerating rounds. Kisame made them himself being an expert in ammunition.

He held the gun outward with one hand a fired a single shot through the bull’s-eye, small flames spread outward from the hole in a widening circle, turning the target into nothing but ashes. “You’ll get it eventually.”

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Nope, not a good story to tell Sasuke.

He learned how to target and hit moving object’s from Itachi, a big help in quite a few other games.

!- ! -!

A few months ago.


Kisame’s shooting range was set up much like the one in the police academy, which was most likely where he got the design. Konohamaru and Itachi stood past the booths, which was now a panel of bullet proof glass thanks to a few presses of a few buttons.

Konohamaru barely got down the targeting training Kisame had gave him and he was moving on to moving targets. Konohamaru held the gun outward, watching the target move across the wall, he turned towards it, firing a shot at it. He had a little strength and experience with a gun now so he didn’t have to put his leg back to support himself anymore. But he didn’t even hit the target.

He turned and followed the moving target, emptying the clip but not managing to hit each time. “I can’t do it.” Konohamaru said.

“You give up too easily.” Itachi said, taking the gun, pulling out the empty clip and replacing it with a full one. Itachi held out the 9mm to his side, hitting the center to of the target with out even looking. Then he handed the gun back to Konohamaru.

“Whoa! How did you do that?” Konohamaru said in amazement.

“Simply put, your trying to follow that target then shoot. You need to fire where it’s going to be and not where it’s been.” Itachi said.

“Alright.” Konohamaru turned to the target moving in circles around the room, it was behind him now. ’Where it’s going to be…’ Konohamaru closed one eye, looking at the track the target was on, from there he could easily tell where it was going to be. Konohamaru aimed the gun in front of the target, visualizing where the bullet was going to hit and then firing.

Hit fired too early and a few inches to high to hit the center, but he did manage to hit the target this time.

Itachi ruffled the boy’s hair and smiled in an manner that said good job “Keep practicing.”

“Isn’t there any more tips you can tell me?” Konohamaru asked.

“There’s no easy way to becoming skilled or powerful, it takes hard work and practice. That’s the only way.” Itachi said, walking away and leaving Konohamaru to think about it.

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“Around.” Konohamaru decided just to go with a safe answer.

Sasuke turned back towards the road, he managed to get to the driver’s seat before Naruto could even think about it. And they left the city on the same road that entered from, so they where on the same course as before. It didn’t turn out to be a good thing they chose this road again, for more then one reason. The first was about to make itself apparent.

Konohamaru laid back down in his usual position, about to pulled down his goggles over his eyes when he spotted something in the air…more like heard something. “Hey…What’s that?” Konohamaru asked, reaching forward and turning the radio off, then looking backwards into the sky.

“It’s a helicopter.” Naruto said, squinting his eyes from the unusual sight. “It’s flying kind of low.”

Sasuke looked into the rear-view mirror, tilting it upward so he could see in to the sky. With his sharp eyes he was able to see a sign on the side of it. The letters were backwards but he could easily read backwards. “That’s a Konoha police department helicopter.”

“Wow.” Naruto said looking back at the approaching vehicle “I thought they would have come after us a lot sooner.”

Everyone looked up as the green and white helicopter flew over them in a rush of generated wind. Now in front of the black car, the helicopter turned around and began flying backwards. Giving those in the car a chance to see those in the cockpit and vice versa, It was Ebisu along with his usual team of 3 other men and a pilot.

Ebisu hung out of the side of the helicopter, pushing the microphone of a headset towards his mouth. It seemed to be directly connected to the loudspeaker. “Stop the car!” Ebisu called.

“What do we do now?” Naruto asked.

Konohamaru lent forward between the driver’s and passenger’s seat. “Sasuke, can I see your phone.”

“Why?”

“I’m going to call Ebisu.” Konohamaru said. Sasuke pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and handed it back to Konohamaru. With the item in hand, Konohamaru sat back and buckled up. Then dialing the number to Ebisu’s cell phone. It apparently went through because they could see Ebisu pull his own out of his pocket and hold it up to his ear.

“No way Ebisu!” Konohamaru shouted, “Your not taking me back this time, not after all the work we went through to get out!”

“Stop the car or I’ll fire!” Ebisu said, they could see the pilot reach up and flip a few switches, lowering the machine guns on both sides.

“Now what?” Naruto asked.

“He won’t hit us, he’ll aim for the tires.” Sasuke said, shifting gears and accelerating. The car sped under the helicopter and went forward. Looking back they could see the Police helicopter turn around and come after them, both gun’s blazing, blowing two lines of shots along the ground trailing after them.

“Hold on.” Sasuke warned, abruptly turning the steering wheel to the left as far as he could and hitting the breaks. The car spent around stopping in the completely opposite direction, Sasuke shifted the car in reverse and started driving backwards, then pulling a gun from a holster under his shirt.

With his eyes he could quickly target, in this case it happened to be the left machine gun on the approaching helicopter. Driving with one hand and holding his gun with the other, Sasuke opened fire on the gun, with two shots he was able to send it up in flames and put it out of commission.

Somewhat surprised, the Helicopter veered to the left, flying close enough to the ground so that one of the railings almost hit the windshield. “Whoa, that was so cool.” Konohamaru said in amazement of Sasuke’s skills.

“Don’t get too happy yet, he’s coming back around.” Naruto said.

Sasuke nodded and did a similar move as before, whipping the car around in the opposite direction so they were driving forward and shifting gears again.

The Helicopter lifted into the air to avoid trees when maneuvering, it stopped completely and turned around to face the approaching car. “Stop now!” Ebisu yelled.

“Not a chance!” Konohamaru yelled in to the phone, hanging up on Ebisu and turning the cellular device off..

The Helicopter flew backwards again, firing with it’s one remaining gun a the hood of the car, this time it’s shooting was more precise. The trail of rapid machine gun bullets started a few feet ahead of the car giving Sasuke no more then two seconds to react. He stayed calm and eased the steering wheel to the left, if he would have turned sharply he risked a spin and that would get them hit for sure.

The machine gun fire switched lanes directly after they did, one bullet hitting the side of the car just above the right-rear tire. Sasuke slowed down abruptly, enough to throw someone to of the car if they weren’t wearing a seat belt.

Then he switched lanes and avoided being hit again, then accelerated, speeding under the helicopter and leaving it behind . “We have to lose him.” Sasuke grunted, watching the Helicopter turn around and come at them again.

“I got it.” Naruto said, taking Sasuke’s gun and unbuckling himself. He checked the clip, finding plenty of bullets left, before climbing in to the back seat next to Konohamaru and turning towards the back of the car where Ebisu was trailing. Holding the gun outward, Naruto started firing at the remaining gun, the first shot knocking it off course.

A trail of bullets ran along the ground unaimed on the side of the car, Naruto was easily able to hit it now with no chances of his shot being deflected. He pulled the trigger again, firing two shots in to the junction where the gun connected to the Helicopter. Making it fall off and leaving Ebisu weaponless.

“You guys are good.” Konohamaru complemented.

Naruto flashed his usual smirk but was almost knocked out of the car when the Helicopter rammed the rear bumper. “Pay attention dobe!” Sasuke shouted.

“Stop the car!” Ebisu shouted into the loud speaker, at this range the volume was enough to hurt their ears. The Helicopter starter ramming the car, lifting the rear off the ground a little each time.

“Damnit!” Sasuke yelled, trying to turn but that ramming was making it hard to do so with out going out of control. “The only way we’re going to get him off of us is we take him out of the sky.”

“How are we going to do that?” Konohamaru asked, clinching his scarf to keep it from being blown off from all the wind.

Naruto sat down, clinching the seat when the Helicopter rammed them again.

“Knowing Ebisu this is just a warning.” Konohamaru said, “He’s going to fly over us and pin us down. So what ever your going to do, do it now!”

Naruto looked back at Ebisu in the cockpit. “Sasuke, you got anything stronger then this?” He asked, holding up the handgun.

“In the trunk.” Sasuke called back, reaching down and pressing the switch to open the trunk.

Naruto jumped over the seat and slid down the back of the car until he was against the trunk door. Then he jumped over it, landing in the trunk being pressed against the window of the Helicopter. Looking back at the 5 men in-side Naruto picked up a M4A1 riffle and smirked.

Realizing what he was going to do, Ebisu ordered the pilot to pin the car down. And just as Naruto expected, the Helicopter rose into the air above them. Giving him an opportunity of a second or two,

Lifting the gun, Naruto aimed for the tail from under the helicopter and opened fire. It burst into flames after a second of firing, immediately losing speed and dropping a few feet to the ground. “See ya around!” Naruto said, his smirk growing wider as he watched the furious expression on Ebisu’s face when he emerged from the cockpit.

Sasuke slowed to a stop, allowing Naruto to put the gun back, close the trunk and jump back into the front seat. “See, I’m good.” Naruto said cockily.

“That was luck Dead-Last.” Sasuke said, turning on the first road he saw. It’d be too easy to follow them if they kept going strait.

“Whatever!” Naruto said, handing him back his handgun.
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