Chapter 8: Naruto : Chapter 8
Naruto returned with a new attack but was forced back by the stronger Asuma over the next minutes. Finally Asuma managed to disarm Naruto and crossed his blades close over his throat.
"My win." Asuma said and stepped back.
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Naruto nodded. He hadn't expected to be able to defeat an elite jonin in one of his strongest disciplines, but he had held out better than he thought he would.
"That was an impressive start. Next would be taijutsu." The Hokage said.
Asuma nodded and put his knives back in his hip pouch. He took his stance and saw that the boy was in a stance he didn't know and hadn't seen around the village before.
He couldn't know that Naruto was in the opening stance of the Namikaze style, the cheetah style. The style was based on speed and fast attacks to vital points. It wasn't made for long exchanges like the animal it was named after.
After Naruto had read all the anatomy scrolls in the secret room, he could utilize the style really well. And with his bastardised version of gentle fist and chakra scalpels mixed into the style it was deadly if Naruto wanted it to be.
This time Asuma attacked first, but Naruto dodged his kick and went around him in a split second and tried to attack the spine. Asuma though was too experienced and jumped to the side.
Naruto followed him and looked for openings in Asuma's guard. His smaller stature now was an advantage for him as he could use openings easier as a bigger opponent.
He brought in some painful hits to Asuma's biceps and upper thigh. Asuma was too good to let him hit vital spots after feeling what a hit did to his muscles.
Naruto didn't let Asuma rest and used his superior speed to disable more points, which got more difficult as Asuma tried to stay out of his reach. Finally Naruto managed to cut a whole muscle in Asuma's left leg, which made him fall to his knees.
Naruto came up and pointed his glowing hand to Asuma's spine.
"My win." He said and then stepped back.
The Hokage was impressed. That was an impressive show of taijutsu skill. And that speed reminded him a lot of Minato.
But Naruto seemed even better than his father at the same age. And how did he manage to get Asuma's muscles hurt? That looked like gentle fist, but Naruto couldn't know it. The Hyuga kept those secrets within their clan.
"Very good, Dark Phoenix. The next thing would be genjutsu." The Hokage said.
"Wouldn't it have been better to let Kurenai test him there? I am not much of a genjutsu user." Asuma said.
Arata had appeared at Asuma's side and began healing his injuries. When he walked to Naruto he shook his head.
"I'm okay." He said and the medic went to the side.
"I don't think we would need a genjutsu specialist. I don't want news about Dark Phoenix getting out too soon. Arata here is one of my personal medics and won't tell a thing. I only need to know how good he is at casting them and at dispelling a few lower level ones. I know you can do a B-rank genjutsu."
Asuma nodded. That B-rank genjutsu was his highest level genjutsu. It only worked if he got his opponent by surprise. But if his father only wanted to test if Dark Phoenix could break it, it would do. Naruto got ready.
"Okay, we will start with you starting to cast a genjutsu at Asuma, Dark Phoenix." The Hokage said.
Naruto nodded and went through handseals at a fast pace.
"Illusion art: Pervert's paradise." He said.
The Hokage waited for Asuma to get out of the genjutsu, but instead he saw that Asuma had started to drool and only looked strangely happy. Then he sported a huge nosebleed and fell back, knocked out.
"What kind of jutsu was that?" The Hokage asked Naruto, whom he swore was grinning brightly under his mask.
"The genjutsu shows him the woman he likes offering him to do whatever sexual fetish he has. It works on nearly everybody." Naruto said innocently.
"How the hell did you come up with that jutsu?" The Hokage asked baffled.
"Well, the same way I came up with that ninjutsu." Naruto said, stressing 'that ninjutsu'.
The Hokage knowing which one he meant had to suppress a nosebleed himself.
"It was meant to be a distraction in case I was running away from others. And it isn't limited to men. It works with the general preferences of the one I catch in it." Naruto explained.
"I am impressed. Can you please wake up Asuma again, so we can continue?" The Hokage asked Arata.
The medic nodded and pushed his chakra into Asuma's system to break him out of the genjutsu. Asuma opened his eyes and saw his father, Arata and Dark Phoenix looking at him amused.
"Damn, that jutsu is really dangerous. You simply don't want to get out of it." Asuma commented groaning.
Now he was glad that Kurenai wasn't here. She would never forgive him. Thankfully nobody knew what his illusion had been. That would be a definite death sentence for him.
"Okay, let's get this over with. Let's see if you are as good as escaping from a genjutsu." Asuma said and went through his handseals. "Illusion art: Prison of silence." Asuma said.
Naruto just stood there and wondered what the jutsu was supposed to do.
"Erm, when should the jutsu start to work, Asuma?" He asked.
"It should already do it, can you hear me?" Asuma asked.
"Yes, no problem. So I guess it should have messed up my hearing?" Naruto guessed.
"Yes, it should. That's strange. It should have worked. I cast it correctly, I'm sure." Asuma wondered.
"Try another one, Asuma." The Hokage said.
"Illusion art: Hell viewing technique." Asuma announced, but Naruto still stood there wondering why nothing happened.
"Nothing?" The Hokage asked.
"No. I know what the hell viewing technique should do as I also know that jutsu, but I don't feel anything. Strange, I didn't even feel any foreign chakra reaching me." Naruto said.
"You can feel foreign chakra?" Arata asked interested.
"Yes, I'm a sensor type." Naruto said.
"That could be a reason. Let me test something." Arata said and activated his mystical palm jutsu.
"I will come closer with my hands to that cut you got in the weapons fight with Asuma. If I am right, something should stop me." Arata said.
Naruto nodded and held out his arm. It was already healed by the Kyubi, but he wouldn't inform Arata of that fact.
In case he wondered he could make up a minor bloodline for healing. Arata pushed his hands over the cut in Naruto's shirt and was stopped an invisible layer of chakra.
"I thought so. Young sensors sometimes place a thin layer of chakra over all of their skin to have it easier to use their sensor skills. It' a subconscious thing.
That layer of chakra prevents foreign chakra like for genjutsus to enter the body. Therefore they are immune against lower level genjutsus.
I guess a genjutsu specialist would still manage to get through, but nobody else." Arata explained.
"I never heard of something like that." The Hokage said.
"It's not very common. Perhaps one in hundred sensor types does it. Mostly if they teach themselves some of their skills. If they have an experienced sensor to teach them it normally doesn't happen.
Tsunade Sama found this anomaly during the second shinobi world war because one on her team had that immunity to genjutsu and she wanted to know if it was possible to teach it to others." Arata said.
"Okay, this is good to know. Well, I guess we will have to postpone the genjutsu test as it is not possible for us right now to test if Dark Phoenix can break genjutsu.
Perhaps when it becomes more pressing I will let Kurenai test him. Just to satisfy my curiosity. What is your strongest genjutsu?" He asked Naruto.
"Illusion Art: Infinite Darkness." Naruto answered.
"Isn't that a jutsu of the Nidaime Hokage?" Arata asked.
"It is. We will have to talk about how you learned that jutsu, Dark Phoenix. For now, I think it is time to examine your ninjutsu.
I would like to have a presentation of five of your strongest jutsu to see what you can do and then you will fight against Asuma." The Hokage ordered.
"Can I have an oath that nobody talks about those ninjutsu? I trust you that you chose trustworthy people to watch this test, but two of my jutsus will tell them exactly just who I am." Naruto said.
The Hokage was surprised at that request. Could Naruto know his father's most prized techniques?
"Okay. Arata, Asuma, if I am right about which jutsus Dark Phoenix intends to show us, that oath will be necessary. I make it an S-rank secret to keep quiet about them until I give you permission to talk about them."
"Understood." Both said.
Naruto nodded and took out a tri-pronged kunai from his pouch on his back. He threw it at the training post and vanished in a flash of yellow, reappearing at the kunai and showing a blue spiralling orb into the training post.
"Rasengan." He said and showed the ball through the wood as if it was butter.
"The Yondaime's jutsus." Arata said shocked. "Flying Thundergod and Rasengan."
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