Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 21 The heat is on part 4 ( Chapter 21 )

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Chapter 21: The heat is on part 4

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This chapter is going to be directly connected to Chapter 21 in ‘Naruto: The sands of time’.
And this seems like an honorable mention, both series are coming to an end in the next chapter or so. I promised myself that both stories wouldn’t go over 130 pages and I’m at 119 right now. Don’t worry, there’s going to be a sequel to both of them, and both of them are going to be better then the original!

I never guessed that the Team from Sands of time would end up staying in Water (minus Lee and Shikamaru and you’ll see why in this chapter) And I’m the author. Go figure.
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“Gaara?” Naruto jumped backwards through yet another thick forest, landing in front of Gaara who was still trying. “Getting anywhere?”

Gaara opened one clinched eye and nodded “I’m getting better at this.” He said, pointed to the sand floating above him. It shaped into a nearly perfect block the size of his body which he was trying to shape down. “This whole process is mental, if I can just…” Gaara clinched his eyes shut again, knowing he was taking a big risk by staying in one spot. He had no choice but to depend on everyone else to keep the Nine-tails away from him.

“Hurry!” Naruto said, finding he was already waist deep in to the ground. He moved away from Gaara so he wouldn’t draw attention to him, running to Kakashi who was facing the Kyubi head on. But he was a good 25 feet away from it and Iruka was behind the demon, far out of reach of it’s tails to avoid them. The key to this fight was to attack from different sides to keep the demon fox from getting to close to one person.

It was far from easy. But luckily the fox was easy to fool.

“Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” Naruto clasped his hands together, quickly performing the seals and creating 6 or so copies of himself. He used the jutsu at level to conserved Chakra, he’d need every bit of it he could get.

The copies sprang forward in front of Kakashi, tossing a line of Kunais and Shrunkens at the demon. The fox growled and turned around abruptly, whipping it’s tails and knocking them away in one single movement. Then it sprang forward at Naruto and Kakashi with it’s amazing speed.

“Retsu ha geki!” Iruka thrust his hands forward and sent a blast wind at the Nine-tails, it engulfed the Demon, swallowing it in an air current that tore at it’s body. Kyubi turned on it’s hind legs and rushed at Iruka, pouncing on his body and digging it’s claws into his torso and legs. With mouth open wide Kyubi went for his face.

Iruka smirked, his body going up in a cloud of smoke that revealed 3 explosive tags just as The nine tails bit into ‘Iruka’ only to have an explosion erupt in his mouth and the overwhelming smell of thick black smoke filled it’s nose and throat.

Kyuubi stumbled back with eyes watering and nose burning, the momentary distraction giving all of them time to regroup.

“Naruto!” Neji called, running over to the boy and his copies standing in front Gaara defensively. “Let me use two of your clones. “

“Huh? How?” Naruto asked confusedly.

“We don’t have much time, I’m going to use Henge to change them into copies of the Nine-Tails. You can use them to distract it.”

Naruto nodded and two of his clones stood in front of him, with his Byakugan still in effect Neji watched Kyuubi behind him while he preformed the Jutsu “Henge no Jutsu!” In a rush of air and smoke the two Naruto’s changed into two Nine-tails.

The two Naruto foxes dashed at the real Nine-Tails giving everyone else time to regroup. Iruka lifted Kiba in to his arms just as they sunk completely into the ground and out of that time period. This time they fell through a blue sky on to a field surrounding a huge city, one that looked as if it was from far in to the future.

“Come on.” Iruka said, spring forward as soon as he landed. Kiba didn’t complain being much too weak to move on his own.

Kyuubi whipped it’s tails at the first cloned fox, turning it in to a poof of smoke. Then it sprang on the other’s back and bit the copy on it’s neck, releasing the Justus. With fluid motions the fox went after the closest person to him, which was Iruka.

“Iruka-sensei! We have a problem!” Kiba said hastily, Iruka looked back to see the fox charging after him. With Kiba in his arms he couldn’t do any hand seals, there was no way in hell he’d drop Kiba to do so. Iruka grunted, his mind racing frantically to thing of something to throw off the gaining fox.

“Akamaru, ready?”

Iruka looked down at Kiba who was doing hand seals with Akamaru on his chest. “Kiba?”

“Iruka-Sensei, move.--Akamaru, Gijyu Ninpo.” Kiba said, Iruka dropped the two as Akamaru changed into a huge white wolf with long claws and dripping fangs. Kiba stumbled to his feet “Soutourou!” The two went up into a big cloud of smoke.

The smoke was sucked away revealing the same wolf only much bigger and with two heads. The beast was spinning in a dizzying blur, flying strait forward in to the surprised Kyuubi managing to catch it off guard and knock it to the ground.

Kyuubi roared fiercely at Kiba and Akamaru pressing it down and drilling in to it’s stomach. It rolled, smacking them away with it’s paws easily. “Ungh!” The Jutsu was released on impact, sending Kiba and Akamaru clinched tightly in his arms flying through the air at a high speed.

“Kiba!” Neji dashed after him with all the speed he could gather, diving backwards and catching him out of the air. Then landing hard on the ground and sliding to a stop a few feet later.

“Neji…Good catch.” Kiba said weakly, managing to smirk before all of the injuries became to much and he passed out. He didn’t even see that Kyuubi began ignoring Iruka completely and was coming for them. With his arms wrapped around Kiba’s waist, Neji lifted the boy off the ground and tried to get away.

It was no use, the Nine-Tails was way too fast. Iruka ran after the fox, “Full power Retsu ha geki!” With outward hands, Iruka sent an intense funnel of wind over the Nine-Tails, the tearing air ripped in to the fox drawing blood on numerous places on it’s body. Kyuubi wasn’t deterred by the attack, with a simple expelling of Chakra it broke through the Jutsu now only a few feet away from Neji and Kiba.

‘Damnit!’ Neji shouted to himself, so close he could feel the Demon’s breath on his body. Out of nowhere Kakashi rammed them out of the way and ended up with his body between the Fox’s jaws before his feet could touch the ground. But this only proved more that the Fox was easy to fool, which gave them some advantage.

‘Kakashi’ melted into a pool of water, only making the Kyuubi much more angry. Before it could retaliate a Chidori jutsu tore through the ground and struck the fox in the side of the head forcing it to stumble back a few steps. The source was Sasuke standing about 10 feet away with Konohamaru behind him. Apparently the demon had caught up with him while he was trying to get the boy some place safe.

Kyuubi was about to go after them when it felt a small poke in it’s back, the fox looked back to see the real Kakashi jumping back out of range of it’s tails. Leaving behind a kunai with an explosive tag attached to the handle. It abruptly detonated, knocking the fox forward and engulfing it in a cloud of flying dirt and smoke.

“I got it!”

Everyone looked back towards Gaara who had a perfect hourglass made of sand floating in front of it. The glass about the size of his body started to spin but quickly stopped after one rotation and fell in to dust.

They stopped falling through the ground and moving forward through time, along with the Kyuubi. With just of his Chakra gone from the hard trial and error processes and the mental strain, Gaara collapsed, falling to his knees. It was clear he wouldn’t be taking them through time again any time soon.

Naruto ran over to him “Are you alright?”

Gaara nodded, “I’m out of Chakra…I’m not going to be able to take the Nine-Tails back.”
Gaara and Naruto looked up when they no longer heard the Nine-Tails, it seemed the destructive demon had found something a little bit more interesting. Since it’s main mentally was to destroy, it was heading for the city. “Great! How are we going to stop it now?” Naruto said worriedly.

“We lure it away from the city.” Iruka told him, wasting no time going after the Fox. Kakashi solemnly went after him, though he didn’t know where he was or was this place worth the effort. Not like they were going anywhere soon anyway.

Neji lifted Kiba on to his shoulders as Konohamaru ran over to them. “What are we going to do now?” The boy asked, watching the Nine-Tails head for the city.

“You stay here.” Sasuke said, looking back at Gaara who wasn’t going to move anytime soon.

“Aww man.” Konohamaru sighed, letting his body fall back into a sitting position and resting his head in his head.

“Gaara.” Sasuke looked back at the boy who seemed to understand.

“Alright.” Gaara nodded and agreed to make sure Konohamaru didn’t leave, knowing his nature he’d run after Sasuke as soon as he wasn’t in eye sight.

“I’ll stay behind too.” Neji said, obviously staying to take care of an unconscious Kiba.

Sasuke nodded and leapt after Iruka and Kakashi.

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“It’s too fast!” Iruka shouted, trying to stay in distance of the egger demon but it was nearly impossible.

“Iruka…?”

Iruka stopped turned around to see Kakashi had stopped near a sign at what appeared to be the city limits. “What?”

“This is…Konoha…in the future…” Kakashi said in disbelief, looking past the sign at the amazingly large Metropolis that he hadn’t noticed how big it was until now.

Iruka took one last glimpse over the city 3 times larger then what it was in the past. “Look’s it came back stronger then ever.” Seemed like there was hope for the Leaf yet.

There attentions were brought back to the situation at hand when a loud explosion erupted from the Nine-Tail’s direction. A highway bridge had been completely demolished, including a Gasoline truck that sent a field under it up in a fuel fire. If it liked to destroy Konoha before it would have a ball now.

Kakashi and Iruka dashed through the field, jumping over the fire and to the severed overpass. Almost being hit by a red convertible in the process, the driver slammed on the breaks abruptly and turned to the right forcing the car to swerve sideway and slid to a stop a few feet away.

None other then Gai emerged followed by Lee and Shikamaru. “Iruka-Sensei? Kakashi-Sensei?” Lee asked questioningly, recoiling them as the ones from the past.

“Lee? Shikamaru? What are you doing here?” Iruka ran over to them abruptly, only to be knocked back by a Fire jutsu from the Nine-tails below. Severing the concrete bridge even more and stopping just short of Gai’s car. Kakashi jumped from the other side, catching the man out of the air and landing on the other side of the bridge.

“Is that the Nine-Tails?” Shikamaru asked fearfully, watching the orange fox run under the remaining part of the bridge and into a nearby store, which was abruptly turned to rubble

“Yeah, it’s the same one.” Kakashi told him.

“Wait, you two must be from the past also.” Gai said after standing idly for a few seconds “Well then what is that thing and how did a fox do this?” Gai looked down at bridge and then back at the approaching cars coming to a halt.

“It’s bad news for Konoha, if we don’t do something quickly it will destroy the whole city!” Lee said hastily, Gai looked down seeing that 2 blocks were already up in burning rubble, no survivors.

“Alright, come on.” Gai jumped into the drivers seat of his car while Lee pushed Iruka and Kakashi towards the back seat.

“What is this thing?” Iruka asked as he was abruptly pushed into the back seat while Shikamaru sat between him and Kakashi. Lee of course took the front seat next to Gai.

“I’ll explain on the way.” Shikamaru said, pulling the seat buckles over the confused two just as Gai pulled off getting a startled yell from Iruka. Gai drove over the edge being the only available exit and landing smoothly in to the burning field below and speeding through the inflamed streets fast enough to blow the flames out of their path.

Shikamaru started telling Iruka and Kakashi about what they would need to know at this moment while Gai pulled out his gun from the holster under his shirt. He pulled up next to the demon, firing a few shots that struck it in the jaw and in-between the eyes. “Huh? It didn’t work?”

“That’s not a normal fox, Move!” Lee shouted, causing Gai to drive forward again as Kyuubi swung it’s strong tails at them. But it missed and slammed them into the ground creating a small earthquake and causing the road to buckle up in front of them. Gai easily avoided the protruding concrete, going a little faster when he saw a wave of fire propagating outward from Kyuubi.

The sounds of sirens and helicopters could be heard approaching. “What’s that?” Kakashi asked

Shikamaru pointed upward, “Those are News Helicopters--” He pointed to and approaching police car and ambulance. “I’ll explain that later.”

Three or so Police cars stopped at the end of the street with the ambulance behind it. Gai drove past the line and stopped behind it also. Before he could even get out and warn the officers of the Demon’s true power Kyuubi had pounced on to the car in the center. With claws baring it slashed through the roof of the car with ease.

The officer inside drew his 9mm and started firing, having a clear shot at it’s head and torso the man fired rapidly but the bullets didn’t seem to have any effect. Kyubi roared and slammed it’s long tails in to the car, striking a few choice parts and causing it to explode.

“What is that thing?!” Gai asked fearfully, putting the car in reverse and backing up as the orange fox jumped out of the flames unsaved. With it’s tails wiping it swatted away the other two cars easily, sending them flying through the buildings next to them.

“Well, what do we do now?” Iruka asked, gripping anything he could in the foreign machine.

“I’m going to need a bigger weapon and some back up.” Gai said, pulling out a cell phone and hitting the first number on the speed dial. “Hello…It’s Gai…I’m sure your seeing this on the news so get down here now…No, regular guns wont work I’ve tried….Just hurry.” Gai put the phone back into his pocket and looked back. They weren’t being perused so that was good.

Gai stopped the car and looked back, “So you guys have anyway to stop this thing, I assume it came with you.”

“We have to bring it back with us. “ Kakashi said, “That’s not happening anytime soon.”


“You can’t be serous.”

The 5 of them looked back to see Kakashi, the future one knelling on the trunk of Gai’s car with a large assault rifle and his bomb squad suit on. It was a large green and black body suit that was made to protect the user from explosions and impact. And with it’s high and wide collar, nothing of Kakashi’s face could be seen except his eyes. Who knew what other weapons he had hidden in it.

“Kakashi?” Gai looked around to see if anyone had arrived yet, just him. “What are you doing here.”

“That thing blew up my house, who are you?” Kakashi asked to his other self.

“Take a guess.”

“I’d say me.”

The past Kakashi shrugged, “We have the same name, why not.”

The future Kakashi jumped off the car, and landed near the driver side next to Gai. “What’s with this fox?”

Gai got out of the car along with everyone else. “I don’t know but it’s not normal, standard issues don’t work.” Gai was referring to his gun.

There was a loud roar as Kyubi came right at Kakashi in an orange blur of speed, about to pounce when the man opened fire. Bullet after bullet from the high powered gun struck the beast with no effect, Kakashi realized it only when the demon was a few inches from him.

The past Kakashi jumped over the demon, careful of it’s tails as he tossed a kunai with an explosive tag around it into the demon’s back. The Future Kakashi fell to the ground and rolled out of the way just as the fox landed and stumbled forward a few steps away from the car before the tag detonated. Engulfing all of them in a cloud of smoke and raining concrete.

“Not bad.” The future Kakashi said. “Make’s me wonder how good you really are.

“Your about to get your chance to find out.” Iruka said. “Move, It’s not dead.”

Both Kakashi’s and Gai dived out of the way as Kyubi came barreling out of the smoke blindly. Narrowly missing all of them, some coming closer to it then others.

“Shadow Bind No Jutsu!” Shikamaru did the hand seals, sending his shadow shooting forward and connecting with the Nine-Tail’s. “Lee.” Lee nodded and wrapped his arms around Shikamaru’s waist. He never intended to hold the jutsu knowing it would be impossible, just to draw it’s attention.

The Jutsu was instantly broken and the Nine-Tails whipped it’s tails toward them. Lee jumped back with Shikamaru in his arms, watching the long tails rip through Gai’s car and cause it to explode.

Iruka and the past Kakashi jumped out of the way, Gai wasn’t in range and the future Kakashi emerged from the smoke with a grenade in his hand and the pin pulled. “My Car!” Gai shouted angrily as he ran out of the rang of a weapon considerably more powerful then an explosive tag.

Kyuubi growled, unable to keep up with everything happening around it. The demon snapped at the nearest person, turning towards Kakashi with bared fangs. Kakashi easily tossed the grenade into it’s mouth and jumped backwards, not able to jump as high or as far as the past Kakashi but it was effective.

The Grenade exploded, taking half the street with it.

“If it wasn’t dead before, it is now.” Gai sighed, just as a S.W.A.T team truck pulled up behind them.

“No way.” The future Kakashi said with widened eyes “It’s…still alive?!” He said with surprise as the demon emerged from the smoke extremely pissed off.

“Thing won’t go down easy.” Iruka said, thrusting his hands forward “Retsu ha geki!” A burst of razor shape wind surrounded the fox but with a roar it dispelled the winds.

The 5 of them looked back as a S.W.A.T team emerged from the truck, 6 or so of them armed with M41A riffles. Taking position in-between those of them already there, the men opened fire on Kyuubi. The fox roared again, wiping it’s tail at nothing in particular this time and sending a wall of wind at them.

All of them were caught up with in the wind’s wake, being tossed backwards and landing hard about 30 feet away. One way or another each of them scrambled to move as the fox tried to pounce on them. Gai, both Kakashis, Lee and Shikamaru all watched as the Team made the mistake of underestimating the demon and rushing it once.

Both Kakashi’s pulled Iruka toward the armored truck. “What about them?” Iruka asked as he was pushed in the back and Gai, the best driver, took the wheel.

“It’s too late for them, their dead.” Future Kakashi said, pulling a grenade from the uniform and tossing it back just as the other Kakashi tossed out a Kunai with two explosive tags attached. Future Kakashi used precision shooting to fire a single shot from his riffle into the grenade and closed the doors. Erupting the grenade and the tags and giving an adequate cover for them to get a safe distance away.
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