Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto's Life ❯ Explanations... ( Chapter 6 )

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A/N: Hi this is dskwolf/bikou.. author of this part of Naruto's Life.... and i would just like to say sorry for the long wait... I had to study for finals... The chapters should becoming more regularly now that its summer... again Sorry...

 

Chapter 6

Explanations

 

Naruto and his team which consisted of: Shikamaru, Shino, Chouji, Neji, and himself, had slowly made there way toward there destination and objective: The Valley of the End and the man that was in it: Uchiha Sasuke ex-ninja of the leaf. Both, Shika and Neji, had become the unofficial scouts of the group and they had report that they had sensed some of their old comrade's chakra signature within the valley. Naruto, who had become quieter the closer they got to there destination, merely nodded and returned to his thoughts as he sat by the camp fire. With heavy sigh, the teams leader, got up and headed toward the near by spring to find a place to think and meditate.

 

Chouji, who had always thought of Naruto as a loud-mouthed but friendly idiot, immediately saw the difference in the leaders demeanor and tried to figure out just what could have cause such a drastic change in Naruto's usual behavior. Deciding to get the answers straight from the source, Chouji followed the young shinobi toward the spring in hopes of getting a good answer without all the other team members around.

 

“Hey Naruto... You alright?”, he asked the blonde shinobi praying that Naruto would open up for once in his life.

 

“Yea.. I'm fine Chouji. Go back to the camp and get some rest. We have a big day tomorrow.”, with that said Naruto disappeared from view and even with his now enhanced vision Chouji couldn't see where the young ANBU captain had gone. With a shake of his head, he took Naruto's advice and returned to camp for the rest he knew that he would need.

 

Naruto had used one of the jutsus that he had invented while he and his step-father had been gone on their 3 year training session. It allowed the user to move between two points almost instantly. Jiraiya had said that it had greatly resembled the Hiriashin jutsu, but with out the kunai that the former jutsu needed to be activated. He had smiled at the thought of himself creating a jutsu that so closely resembled his now dead father's. Now using that technique, it caused him to weep with the knowledge of what he would have to do the next day. He would have to kill or maim the man he now considered his brother. Even though both Naruto and Sasuke had appeared to hate each other, they both seemed to grow on one another and eventually accept each other as teammates and maybe even as brothers...

 

FLASHBACK

Naruto and Sasuke were sparring and both seemed to be wearing down at the same rate. Sasuke, who was impressed that Naruto had kept up this long with out outside help, noticed that Naruto seemed to be holding back something. With a smirk, Sasuke back-flipped away from their latest clash and landed on a nearby tree branch.

 

“It seems to me that you are withholding something Naruto. Didn't I say that I wanted you to go all out? By not doing so, you can assume that you still haven't learned to obey orders.”, Sasuke said with a slight bit of sarcasm in his voice.

 

His expression not changing, Naruto allowed the barrier the he had erected around the better part of his chakra pool to fall away. With a grin he watched Sasuke's jaw slacked and fall open before shutting quickly.

 

Amazed that a genin and of all the genin, Naruto the dead last, could have all the power, Sasuke began to wonder just what he had asked Naruto to do.

 

With the foxy smile of his plastered on his face, Naruto again began to run straight for Sasuke. Reaching out with his left hand, he caught the young Uchiha by the ankle just before the other boy could get away... Using the kunai that he held in his right hand, Naruto stabbed toward his captives navel. Hitting it with a fleshy sound, Naruto yelped in surprise as the body that he had just been holding disappeared in a puff of ninja smoke. Shaking his head at his own gullibility, Naruto jumped back to avoid being impaled on the end of a fire blacked and sharpened log that had been catapulted at him. He avoid the attack... mostly. He received a gash along the length of his arm for his trouble. With an inward sigh, the young blonde watched the wound heal right before his eyes.

 

Sasuke, who was watching the whole time to see the effectiveness of his trap, was amazed at the sight of Naruto healing so quickly. Thinking about it, Sasuke knew that no normal human could heal that quickly naturally, so thinking along those lines Sasuke realized that the dobe had used a jutsu that Sasuke hadn't seen. Pushing the those thoughts from his mind, the young avenger looked back toward where Naruto stood and realized that the blonde had vanished. With a sigh, Sasuke climbed higher into the tree in hopes of getting a clearer view of the surrounding area. Just as he reached for the top most branch, the whole tree shook violently and threw him off of it. Trying to regain his balance, Sasuke got it just he went into a tree. Landing on the tree trunk, he looked around and saw the young fox boy coming at him with weapons bared. Using the trunk as a jump off point the heir launched himself at Naruto and slammed a fist in the blonde's right cheek. With a poof the Naruto vanished and Sasuke felt a piece of cold metal touch the base of his neck. Feeling the warmth of breath on the back of his neck, Sasuke dropped his weapon and raised his hands.

 

“It looks like I won teme.”, Naruto said cheerfully if a little weary pasting a huge grin on his features.

 

With a look of annoyance, Sasuke stalked off without acknowledging the other boys words. Inside the young heir was fuming, he had been beaten by the dead last of his graduating class, with a realization the your avenger knew that he now considered Naruto a worthy opponent. Slamming a fist into a nearby tree the Uchiha walked back to the village completely unaware that a pair of blues eyes had been watching him.

 

END FLASHBACK

 

Wiping his eyes on his sleeve, Naruto knew that he had been gone to long and that he needed to return to camp and maybe take the advice that he had given Chouji. With a sigh, Naruto made it back to the camp and fell into an unrestful sleep, dreaming about who knew what.

 

The Next Morning...

 

Naruto awaken to find that all of his teammates, except Shika, were gone. Trying to get up without waking Shika, Naruto moved toward the said ninja's bedroll only to find that the other man was wide awake and looking at the passing clouds.

 

“They told me to stay here and wait for you to wake up, and when you did to tell you that they were out scouting.” the lazy ANBU said with an air of indifference about him. “And now that that troublesome business is out of the way I can concentrate on my cloud watching.”

 

With a chuckle, Naruto nodded his head and made his way to the stream that he had been at yesterday and did the necessary things that are required in the morning. Finishing up, Naruto tried to sense the other members of his team. Reaching out his his chakra, Naruto found the signatures of his friends and noted where they were. What cause him the now present worry that was gracing his features was the fact that there were 5 other signatures that weren't part of his teams and one of those signatures seemed to be eerily familiar.

 

Hurrying back to camp, Naruto explained everything to Shika who immediately left to gather the other members of their ANBU squad. Still reaching out with his mind, Naruto watched all the signatures as they converged on one area: right were he was standing. Leaping away and into a tree, Naruto barely escaped being impaled by rock-like missiles shot at him by none other the Jiroubou of the sound 4. Landing a few meters away from the other ninja, Naruto watched as the first of his team arrived.

 

Chouji, who had felt the other signatures as they began to move was already heading back to the camp when he saw Jiroubou nearly kill Naruto with an earth dragon cannon jutsu. Remembering the last meeting between Jiroubou and himself, Chouji smirked at the twist of fate that would allow him to get his revenge on the man that had nearly killed him and his sensei.

 

Turning toward the sound Nin, Chouji smiled and bowed: “I hope you remember me Jiroubou, for I remember you. I want to thank you for showing me the way to get stronger and be able to protect my loved ones.” he said with a serious face.

 

Jiroubou, who was at a loss about who this man was that stood before him, continued to stare at him.

 

“It seems that you don't remember me... Or you do but the change in my appearance has caused your tiny brain to draw a blank. Let me help you: I am Chouji Akimichi and we met not to long ago.”, the once fat nin said chuckling at the other ninja's still obviously confused expression.

 

With the suddenness of a lightning bolt, the sound nin remembered the teen-aged boy before him. His mouth grew to form a mutated grin that seemed to only make his ugly mug look even more like a monkey's backside. Chouji, who his opponents new expression, resisted the urge to puke and dropped into a battle stance. “Naruto... Go after the objective. This baka is mine to deal with.”, he said in a calm yet forceful voice leaving Naruto no room to argue.

With one last glance, Naruto jumped into a tree and speed off toward the whole point of the mission: Sasuke.

With Naruto....

 

All of Naruto's other teammates were much in the same situation... They were all facing off against the same sound nins that they had previously fought on the last mission to retrieve Sasuke, the one that Naruto had been gone for...

 

Naruto, after checking on all of the other battles, knew that it was time to do what they had come here for... get Sasuke back or eliminate any threat that he will pose in the future.

Chouji vs.: Jirobo....

Chouji was rushing at the sound Nin using the speed he had gained from his new training regimen to surprise his opponent. Throwing a set of kunai at Jirobo, Chouji ran in to deliver a devastating roundhouse kick to the side of the other nin's head, when all of a sudden he was sucker punched right in the kidney.

 

Feeling the satisfying feeling of his fist connecting with his opponent's body, Jirobo gasped in surprise when the body disappeared in chakra generated smoke. Realizing that the person that he had just punched was a clone, he dropped into a defensive crouch and prepared to guard against any attack. Only thing wrong with the stance that he had used was that it left one giant opening. With a rumble, Chouji appeared from under the sound nin's feet and grabbed his ankles before attempting to throw the now upside-down man into a tree.

 

Quickly pulling a kunai, Jirobo shoved it into Chouji's stomach and smiled when he felt warm liquid flow across his hand. Looking down, his smile instantly vanished. The warm liquid that he had left was nothing more then water. Looking up at the body's face, he saw a large smile plastered on its features. With a violent yank, he pulled the dagger out of the body and watched as it disappeared in a splash of water. Again in the same stance that he had used earlier, he heard and saw two stars coming right for him. Grinning, he dodged both and prepared to block the next attack. Hearing a puffing sound from behind him, he realized his mistake but was to late to do anything about it. Turning his head, he took a straight armed right jab to his left cheek and was thrown back into a stand of trees.

 

Chouji, who smirked at the ease in which he had just decked his opponent, rushed in and tried to give the finishing blow but before he could, he was made to jump and flip to the side to dodge the incoming Earth dragon that Jiroubou had used while he was rushing at him. Landing on the ground, Chouji decided that maybe he should take a page out of Naruto's book. “Kage Bunshin No Jutsu” (if you need to translate this move then I seriously think that you are watching the wrong anime =D). Suddenly there seemed to be dozens of Chouji's in the middle of the clearing. Chouji, who was taken aback at the sudden appearance of many more him smiled, now he knew why Naruto loved this technique so much. With a cry, he ran forward at top speed at battered his way past Jirobo's defenses along with his clones. Pummeling the sound nin, each clone eventually disappeared as Jiroubou managed to hit one every time they came again.

 

Jiroubou, realizing that how useless it was to continue to fight at this level, turned his level one curse seal to the max. With an evil leer, he bolted forward with inhuman speed and rammed his fist straight into the leaf nin's gut. Pulling away, he watched as Chouji coughed up some blood, with an even more evil smile he came out him again and just before he got into kicking distance, he was thrown bodily into a tree. Getting up with a grunt of annoyance, he turned to the still bent over ninja and growled in even more annoyance as he saw the leaf nin puff away and leave a unhurt Chouji in its place. Now openly gaping at the well built youth before him, Jiroubou couldn't help but acknowledge the obvious training that this man had undergone. With that thought in his mind, the sound Nin decided to pull out all stops. Stepping into the left side of the clearing, he activated his level two curse seal.

 

Chouji, who was standing and watching his slightly heaving opponent, check himself over mentally. He was down to half of his entire normal chakra and he was tiring fast, especially now that the sound Nin had obviously activated the second level of the cursed seal. He could tell that the man had used it because of the sudden increase in the other man's chakra levels, not to mention the fact that he was nearly covered in the marks on the seal and the purple haze that symbolized the seal. Deciding that it was time to finish this fight once and for all, Chouji used his own trump card.

 

“Gachan no Koudo Tenshu No Jutsu (Crash of the Earth God Technique)”, he yelled with a ever deepening voice. Suddenly his body seemed to be encased in stone, but it was extremely flexible. With a yank Chouji pulled out his war hammer, who's runes were glowing madly with an eerie light. With a cry, he sped forward, right for his opponent.

 

Jirobo, who was amazed at the sudden change in his opponents appearance, barely dodged the large hammer as it came to cave his head in. Putting some chakra into his fist, Jirobo punched Chouji and was rewarded with a chunk of the stone, which fell off, but for his bravery his hand seemed to shatter into a million pieces. Jumping back while holding his useless hand, Jirobo knew that if he didn't do something fast that this could very well be the end for him. He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he missed the fist that slammed itself into his midsection and made him cough up a large amount of blood. Crumpling to the floor, the sound Nin knew that it was the end. As he lay on the ground, his life flashed before his eyes. He saw every good and bad thing that he had ever done. He knew where he was headed and for the first time in his life, he wished that he could go back and change his life.

 

Chouji, who knew exactly what was happening thanks to his elemental, thought to give this obviously deprived man a small token of forgiveness.

 

“DOTON: SEKI FUCHI NO JUSTU ( EARTH RELEASE: GATE OF THE ABYSS) “, he whispered as he made the right hand seals.

 

Jiroubou was surrounded by four walls of pure stone. He heard a rumbling sound from below him and then he was suddenly falling down into a pitch black hole. As he fell, he noticed that it became harder to think and do anything else. With a gasp of realization, his last action of his life was to smile in thanks to the young man that had shown him the first bit of kindness in many years.

 

Chouji, released his bloodline and allowed it to fade away. With a groaning rumble, the ground resealed itself and settled back into its original position. Thinking about he had just done, Chouji knew what he had done was right.(A/N: The gate of the abyss jutsu sends a person to a eternal place were the mind will remain silent forever. The person will not be tortured in the fires of the nine hells or see the splendor of the 4 gates of heaven.) With a groan, he got up from where he had fallen, from the chakra usage of that particular technique and quickly took a soldier pill and a energy pill. Jumping into the tree's Chouji went to go and help his other teammates.

Naruto Point-of-View...

 

He had arrived at the end of the Valley were the two statues of the First and Second Hokage's sat in all their glorified beauty. Dropping to the ground, he walked toward the waterfall the fell in between the 2 monoliths and gazed up in wonder at the majestic beauty that nature had carved. (A/N: Japanese people back in the day loved nature in all its aspects... so I thought that I might put that in the story too.)

 

“So.... It seems that you did come.” a cold and harsh voice said from behind Naruto.

 

Twisting around sharply, Naruto came face to face with his old teammate and friend. 'Wow.. He has changed. He seems even more twisted now then he was back then, Although that just might be the cursed seal that is affecting him.' Putting his emotionally unreadable mask on his face, he turned to one of the last Uchiha clan members and stared him right in the eye. “Yes... I did come. I came to complete the promise I made and stop you from making one of the biggest mistakes of your life.”, he replied coolly, all the while looking for signs of other people in the clearing.

“Stop looking around dobe... Its just you and me here.” Sasuke replied to the other mans searching gaze.

 

With a silent sigh of relief, Naruto returned his eye's to the others man and they entered into a sort of staring contest, except if you blinked you were either severely injured (in Naruto's case) or dead.

Other ANBU team members...

 

Chouji, who had met up with Shino first, distracted his comrade's foe while the bug user sent some of his more lethal destruction bugs at Tayugya. Just before the woman died, Shino sent one of his other bugs that injected a venom that stopped body functions but kept the body healthy. Shino and realized the value of the woman and the information that she could provide them. With a sigh they moved on to find their other teammates.

 

After a while they had fought and defeated the sound 4 in one way, shape, or form. Each sound nin, had expressed grief over their actions and the ANBU members despite their training did their best to end the suffering for their enemies.

 

Now that all the secondary objectives had been achieved they decided to find the main one and try to help Naruto accomplish the best of the two objectives.

With Sasuke and Naruto...

 

“Hmm... You came with help? Really Naruto... I'm surprised the great Uzumaki Naruto needs help with little o' me.”, Sasuke sneered as he started making hand signs.

 

Naruto, who noticed his opponents hand movements, dropped into a defensive stance and waited to try to deflect whatever the Uchiha might throw at him.

 

Sasuke, saw the change in his old friends leg positions and couldn't help but smile maliciously. Don't worry... I'm not attacking you.. yet.”, he said and with that he clapped his hands together forcefully and called out: “Baria-oto No Jutsu (Barrier of sound technique)”, and with that the area surrounding the two ex teammates suddenly became deathly quiet. “That should keep out any of those pests.” he said with no little amount of satisfaction.

 

Naruto, still standing in the same spot, silently watched Sasuke, and hoped that he could drive some sense into the other man...

With ANBU...

 

Neji, who was leading the team with his bloodline active, saw the bubble of chakra and felt the large chakra signatures that were within it. Landing on a tree next to the bubble, he slowly reached out his a hand and tried to touch it. With a jolt of pain and energy, Neji was blasted backwards and was only saved from being impaled on a tree branch was the fact the Shika was with behind him and had caught him. “It seems that we arrived to late.” he said with a deadpanned voice, clearing trying to figure out a way to get under the barrier.

With Sasuke...

 

“It seems that your friends tried to come through my wall, and it seems that it worked perfectly. So I think that this will be a good time as any to start don't you?”, he said plainly. Rushing Naruto, Sasuke threw kunai and stars at the container and tried to stab him his kunai that he held in the standard fashion: point down along the underside of the arm.

Twisting away from the incoming projectiles, Naruto pulled one of his own daggers and blocked Sasuke's strike with ease. Using his barely superior strength, he pushed the other boy away and crouched into the his clan taught stance...

 

 

 

(A/N: More cliffhangers... Again sorry for the long wait for the update.. I had to study for finals... So Sorry.... Please read and review... AND I MEAN POST A REVIEW SO WE CAN READ THEM.... P.s. Thanks to all the people that stuck with us dispite the long wait... and if you didn't well expect a fire-breathing dragon to be sitting on your doorstep waiting for its meal to walk out the door. (meal = ppl that didn't stick with us... XP!) THX.)