Capítulo 1308: 13
Hear My Existence
The clearing remained silent as the Nara waited for the attack to come. "Hey! What's going on?" The Sound leader exclaimed, looking in the direction of his comrades.
"Oh, you're talking to this guy?" A voice was heard throughout the clearing. The next moment, the body of a Sound nin fell to the ground with a kunai impaled into his neck. "Sorry, but the two of us got into a disagreement." Naruto said as he landed next to the body.
"Who are you?" One of the Oto shinobi asked, fear was starting to appear in his eyes.
The blond ignored the question as he walked towards the Nara. "Pretty decent performance, for a second there I was worried that you would throw the towel before I got here." The boy commented.
Shikamaru smirked. "I knew you wouldn't let me hear the end of it if I've done it, it would have been too troublesome having you criticize me everyday at my grave." The black haired boy simply said.
A smirk appeared in blonde's face as well. "That's true." He said as he turned to look at the group of Oto shinobi. "But you can let go of the jutsu now." The Sora Sharingan appeared on Naruto's eyes. "I have them in my sight…" The boy announced.
The Oto nins felt fear overcome them as they saw their reflection on the blonde's Sharingan eyes. One by one, the Sound shinobi dropped to the ground unconscious.
"What did you do to them?" Shikamaru asked astonished as he looked at the unmoving bodies all over the clearing.
Naruto rubbed his eyes due to the strain caused by his technique. "I sent them to hell…" The blond genin simply said. The genin walked towards the leader of the Oto group and searched his pouch. "Here" The boy threw a soldier pill towards Shikamaru.
The Nara caught the pill and ate it. "You said that you were worried that I might have given up." The black haired boy said. "For how long have you been here?" He asked, already preparing the glare.
The blond simply shrug. "For a couple of minutes." He stated as he took another soldier pill from the Sound nin's pouch and ate it. "Long enough to hear your 'It's Over' speech." A smirk appeared on his face. "Nice piece of work, if this whole shinobi deal doesn't work out, you could become a writer; I have some connections, I could get you a publisher." Naruto mocked his friends.
Shikamaru glared at Naruto, he had expected something like this already.
"Well, we should get going." The blond said as he started. "We're in the middle of a chase after all." He said as he jumped on a tree branch.
The black haired boy sighed before jumping on another branch and resuming his pursuit while muttering. "Troublesome"
Naruto turned around to follow the Nara, but looked back before starting on his run. The blonde's eyes regarded the Oto nins' bodies with utter contempt. "Amaterasu…" The boy said with a whisper right before black flames appeared on the clearing and consumed the Sound shinobi's bodies.
"We won't be ridiculed by a child!" One of the Oto nin exclaimed as he charged towards Neji with a kunai in his hand.
The young Hyuuga merely tilted his body forward, and with a fluid movement of his left arm, he deviated the attack away from him by simply pushing the Sound shinobi's forearm.
The Oto nin tried to regain his composure by doing a roundhouse kick, but his leg was easily caught by Neji, who delivered a swift juuken strike on the Oto nin's chest, sending him flying backwards.
Immediately, the third Sound shinobi appeared behind the black haired boy, a kunai traveling in direction of the Hyuuga's neck.
Right before the blade pierced the Konoha genin's skin, a chakra sphere formed around his body, repelling the Oto nin back. "Kiba, take Hinata-sama to the Hyuuga household." Neji said without turning around. "I'll hold them off…"
All Kiba could do was nod before making sure Hinata was secured on his back and turned around. Before the Inuzuka started off, the boy looked back to see the three Sound nin getting back on their feet and standing in front of the Hyuuga. "Good luck, Neji…"
"Damn it! He's still following us!" Kankuro complained as he jumped between branches with his younger brother's arm over his shoulder. The puppet user could clearly feel the Uchiha's chakra behind them.
Temari gave a concerned look to her black haired brother, if they didn't get out of this village soon enough, Gaara would…
Suddenly, Kankuro gasped in surprise as the redhead started to stir. A small and low laugh could be heard from the younger sibling. "He's coming too…" Gaara said softly, not completely conscious yet. "I can feel it, both the Uchiha and him, they're getting closer." Kankuro could feel his brother's demonic chakra leaking from the redhead's body.
"Him?" The puppet user asked as he looked confused at his sister.
The blond girl bit her lower lip. "He must be talking about the Uzumaki guy."
"Why him?" Kankuro asked.
She was pretty sure that she would soon draw blood from her lip. "Didn't you feel it?" Temari asked her brother. "That thing awoke during that guy's fight." She explained, her worry and fear was evident in her expression. "Something about that Uzumaki guy's chakra affected it"
Kankuro frowned. "What do you mean 'affected'?" The boy asked.
"Like it called out to it" Temari tried to explain. "Don't ask me how or why, but during his fight, Gaara was smiling, and you know what smile I'm talking about." The Sand kunoichi looked at her brother again.
The puppet user looked down at the boy he was carrying. He knew that smile pretty well, an expression that was closely related with the crimson color of blood.
The kunoichi sighed. "The two of them are similar; the look that guy had when he pushed the Hyuuga back during the preliminary was one full of hatred, just like Gaara's, and the killer intent he gives off is suffocating, just like…"
"Just like Gaara's…" The brown haired boy finished his sister's sentence, he stole another nervous glance at his brother.
Suddenly, Temari stopped on his track. The girl looked down at her feet as one of her hands clenched the fan on her back.
"What are you doing?" Kankuro exclaimed as he stopped as well.
Temari looked at her brother straight in the eye, determination dawning on her expression. "I'll hold back that Uzumaki guy." She simply stated. Immediately, a bewildered look appeared on Kankuro's face as he prepared to argue his older sister's statement. "Listen" She started again, preventing the brown haired boy from speaking. "The Uchiha we simply have to outrun, but that guy is affecting it directly, if he keeps getting closer that thing might just completely wake up." Terror appeared on Kankuro's face with the mere thought of that. "You can get Gaara out of here faster, meanwhile I'll prevent that guy from getting closer to him." The blond girl said as she turned around.
Kankuro brought his free hand forward. "But-…" He desperately wanted to say something, something that would change his sister's mind.
The kunoichi looked back at her brother. "Don't worry…" She assured him. "Just leave everything to Nee-san." Temari said giving her younger brother a broad smile before starting back the way they came.
The Sand genin could only stand there and watch his sister disappear among the trees, her smile engraved in his mind, he could not remember the last time they treated each other as siblings.
An Oto nin was thrown back with enough force to break the fence behind him. Neji stood panting in front of his opponent's unmoving body, the Hyuuga had little time to recover before he jumped into the air to dodge a barrage of kunai thrown at him. The two remaining Sound shinobi immediately appeared next to him, one on each side. "Fudou Kaiten" The boy as soon he saw their kunais traveling towards him.
The chakra barrier repelled the two attackers. "Damn…" Neji complained in is mind. "It's even harder in mid-air." The black-haired boy thought as he recalled how his defense had gone from a dome to a sphere due to his previously airborne status.
"He's getting tired!" One of the Sound shinobi eagerly announced.
The Hyuuga prodigy wished he was wrong, he wasn't a hundred percent from his battle with the blond genin and the successive us of Fudou Kaiten had taken a toll on his body and chakra supply.
The two Oto nins rushed forwards to attack. Neji was able to dodge their assault and deliver a couple of juuken strikes to their arms. The boy knew that no number of strikes to limbs would help since his opponents were only using taijutsu, cutting the chakra flow to their extremities would not hinder their physical strength much, the Leaf genin needed an opening to strike their vital organs, and he needed it fast.
In a gamble, Neji jumped over one of the Sound nins' shoulder, landing behind the shinobi, the Hyuuga immediately ducked, right before the Oto nin's hand swiped through where he had been with a kunai in hand.
Seeing his opening, the black haired boy gather chakra in his right palm before driving it into his opponent's chest as the man finished turning around. The juuken strike was strong enough to sent the Oto shinobi flying back as blood sputtered out of his mouth, Neji had made sure to add enough chakra in the strike to sent the Sound nin's heart into shock.
"Bastard!" The remaining Oto shinobi shouted as he tried to kick the boy.
Neji moved his body back to dodge the roundhouse kick that was directed his way. The Sound nin followed with a forward kick with his left leg, but missed as the black haired boy ducked under it.
Immediately, the Hyuuga rose slightly, capturing the Oto nin's leg with his arm and shoulder, and delivering a powerful juuken strike to the back of the man's leg before releasing it and moving back.
The Sound shinobi dropped to his knees as he grabbed his left leg in pain, the strike had severed several ligaments along the upper part of his leg, rendering him immobile. The man looked up, immediately his eyes were covered by fear as he found himself staring directly at the Leaf nin's Byakugan eyes.
"This…" Neji begun as he gathered chakra in his pointer and middle finger. "It's the end for you…" The boy declared before he drove a swift strike on his opponent's neck.
The Oto nin fell on his back as blood overflowed in his brains. The Hyuuga simply turned around, leaving his enemy to drown on his own blood.
Panting out of exhaustion, Neji looked towards the end of the street. "Kiba should have gotten to the Hyuuga household by now…" The black haired boy thought.
It was hard for him to think of something, he wanted nothing more than just drop to the ground and let sweet unconsciousness take him. Moving towards the fence, Neji let his back rest against the wood before looking up at the sky and sighing.
The boy clenched his chest, ever since his fight with Uzumaki, his pulse had been erratic, a sign that the side effects of the blonde's jutsu still hadn't worn out.
Suddenly, the Hyuuga's eyes widened. Looking towards the end of the street, he could see a group of five Sound shinobi rushing towards him.
Forcing his body away from the wall, Neji turned to face the incoming party. "Hinata-sama…I doubt that I will be able to apologize to you in person…" The boy thought, he could hardly keep his eyes opened now. "I-I was blinded…by my hatred for the Main House…" The Oto group was getting near now; even if his eyes were tired the black haired genin could clearly see the kunais in their hands. "I still hate the Main House, but now…I want to…" One of the Sound nins' kunais was traveling directly towards the Hyuuga, and the boy was too tired to do anything about it.
Suddenly it felt like a gust of wind went tunneling through the street. The Oto shinobi were all blown away by a powerful force before they reached him. "How dare you rise your weapons against my nephew?" Hiashi's voice thundered. Neji's eyes widened again as his uncle appeared in front of him, Byakugan blazing with cold fury. "You did an excellent job, Neji." The man said as he turned around, instead of using the Byakugan's ability, his voice was surprisingly calm, completely opposite to the killer intent he was giving off. "Just rest now, I'll take care of this vermin." Hiashi declared as he turned around to look at the terror-stricken face of the Sound nins.
Neji could only stare at his uncle's back as the man prepared to attack. Knowing that he was done with his part and the rest would be taken care of, the Hyuuga boy closed his eyes and let his body fall back. "Hinata-sama…" He couldn't hear the fighting anymore. "I want to find something beyond this hatred…" With the ghost of a smile on his face, Neji was finally able to rest.
"Hmm…that's strange…" Pakkun commented as he led the two genins.
"What happened?" Shino asked.
The small dog sniffed the air to make sure before answering. "One of the Sand nins changed directions." The canine informed.
"What?" Sakura exclaimed. "Which one?"
Pakkun sniffed the air again. "I believe it's the female…" The dog said. "But the weird part is that she's going around us." Pakkun concentrated his sense of smell into figuring out the reason why the Suna kunoichi would want to move behind them. "I see…" The canine thought as his nose caught a scent of something that was following them.
"Should we move to intercept?" Shino wondered, the insects inside of him were getting ready to move out.
The dog shook his head. "Our mission is not to engage the Sand, we're here to prevent the Uchiha from confronting them." Pakkun said with an air of authority, the two Konoha genins couldn't do anything besides nod.
They were still far away, Naruto realized as he and Shikamaru rushed through the tree branches. "I swear Shikamaru, I'll leave you behind if you don't hurry up!" Naruto shouted at his comrade that was trailing behind.
"Take a kunai and shove it! Not all of us have your monstrous amount of stamina!" The Nara shouted back, though he still willed his body to move faster.
Naruto prepared a retort when something caught his attention. "Look out!" The blond warned as he moved out of the way. Catching the warning, Shikamaru jumped to the side.
A second after, a powerful gust of wing swept through where they had been standing. "What was that?" The black haired genin asked as he hid behind a tree, just in case another attack might be directed their way.
"I think she might have a crush on you, Shikamaru." at Naruto's comments, the Nara stepped out of his hiding place, his eyes widening at the sight of the fan-wielding Temari. "I have to say, I'm a little jealous." The blond looked back at his friend, a small smirk playing on his face.
Shikamaru glared at the blond. "Shut up…" He simply said. The Nara's gaze fell on the new arrival, she had a serious expression on her face, a tight grip on her fan, and, Shikamaru could have sworn, she seemed to be shaking. Shaking his own head, the black haired genin addressed his comrade. "I'll stay behind while you go on." The boy said.
Naruto turned around and regarded the Nara for a couple of seconds. "Hell no!" Shikamaru was slightly taken back by the bond boy's responds. "I saw what you did during your match with her, you already blew your chance." The Sharingan-user said.
With a sigh, The Nara had no other option but to give up. "I knew he would hold that over my head." The black haired genin thought. "Just don't mess around, ok?" The boy said as he jumped back into a tree branch.
"Yeah, yeah, just go and get out of my sight" Naruto said as he turned around to look at Temari.
Shikamaru dashed passed the two blonds, he was surprise that the Suna kunoichi hadn't even acknowledged his presence. "So your target is Naruto…" The boy thought as left them behind.
The blond boy observed his opponent; he had taken notice of her state of nervousness. "So, what does a pretty girl like you want with me?" The Leaf nin asked. "Besides the obvious." He teased with a small smirk. "Damn, I've spent too much to with Ero-sensei…"
Without answering or even acknowledging the boy's questions, Temari raised her fan. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" She shouted as she beat her fan, causing another gust of wind to sweep through.
Naruto jumped out of the attack's way with ease. The boy's right hand immediately moved towards his tool pouch to take out a kunai.
"Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" The second attack came faster than the Leaf nin had expected. The bond boy had to jump behind a tree to prevent getting hit. "I have to keep him here…" Temari thought. "I can't let him get close to Gaara…"
The blond boy frowned behind the tree. "That fan could be a problem." Making the familiar hand signs, the Konoha genin created a pair of clones who rushed towards the kunoichi. Just as the boy had predicted, the girl's wind jutsu wiped his bushins out of existence.
Immediately, Naruto took out a kunai and moved to attack, but caught his miscalculation a little too late. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" The boy hadn't reach the mid point of his advance when the jutsu hit him, sending him flying back, only stopping when he hit a tree.
The Leaf shinobi had almost no time to get on his feet and jump out of the way as the blond girl rushed towards him and swung her closed fan. The weapon hit the tree with enough strength to snap its trunk. "That could have been me." Naruto sighed from another branch. With a quick glance at her opponent's new position, Temari opened her fan and swung it on the boy's direction with one fluent movement. The Konoha shinobi had not choice but to jump and get back into hiding. "I never expected her reaction time to be this good." The boy pondered.
Temari was beginning to feel the toll of her efforts. "Kankuro, you better make use of the time I'm giving you…" the girl thought. She had never released so many attacks in such rapid succession and now it was really draining her.
The signs of the kunoichi's exhaustion were not lost to the blond boy. "I could just keep attacking until she runs out of chakra." The Leaf shinobi wondered. "But who knows how long that would take, it totally defeats the purpose." Taking a deep breath, the boy created a bushin.
Both Leaf genins ran out of hiding, each one throwing a pair of kunais towards the kunoichi. Temari immediately beat her fan, releasing her wind jutsu.
Stepping on his clones shoulder, Naruto jumped out of the range of the attack, just as he expected, the blond girl shot another gust of wind towards him. The boy created another bushin and shielded himself behind his body. "Sorry…" The genin said to his look-alike. The clone merely gave him a smirk before disappearing into a cloud of smoke along with the fuuton jutsu.
Creating one more clone behind him in order to propel back down, Naruto shot himself towards the Sand kunoichi. Once again, the girl's maneuverability surprised the Leaf nin as his kunai was stopped by the girl's fan. Looking at his opponent's face, the boy received a smirk from the kunoichi. "Gotcha…" She said in a low voice before pushing the Konoha shinobi back. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" Temari released her jutsu, sending her fellow blond flying back at full force.
Naruto hit the ground hard and, once again, lacked the time to lament anything as he had to immediately jump out of the way to evade another gust of wind. "Damn, if I could just stop her for one second…!" The boy complained.
Suddenly, the genin could hear a familiar, not annoying, laughter inside his head. "Hahaha, it seems that she has more upper body strength than you, Kit." The fox's voice said with the usual mocking tone.
"Shut up, I don't have time for this…" The boy raged in his mind as he tried to catch his breath.
Kyuubi's laughter never quivered. "Well, it just so happens that I know a way out of this predicament you have gotten yourself into." At the boy's silence the bijuu's laughter grew stronger. "Aren't we interested?" The fox teased.
The boy's patience was running short. "Are you going to tell me or not?" He exclaimed in his head.
A chuckle escaped the fox before continuing. "You need to stop thinking about the situation strategically and start thinking logically" Kyuubi waited to savor the boy's confusion before proceeding. "Think about it Kit, for what we have seen of her, we can safely assume that she's a proud female warrior." The jinchuuriki nodded. "And there's one think that is almost guaranteed to stop a proud female…"
He could feel the smirk forming in the bijuu's face. "Which is…?" The boy asked, a part of him was slightly scared of what the answer might be.
The laughter returned to his head. "Hehehe, what you do is this…" The fox could barely control the glee in his voice.
Naruto was unable to control the blush that appeared in his face after hearing the bijuu's words. "What the hell? That's anything but logical!" The boy screamed in his mind.
By now, Kyuubi was roaring in laughter. "If you're man enough, you'll do it." The fox nudged. "Come on Kit, quick and painless, well for the most part."
"Easy for you to say…" The genin thought as he tried to gather his courage. "I just know I'm going to regret this in the morning." The blond thought with a sigh. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"
Three Naruto jumped from their hiding place towards the Suna kunoichi. Temari swung her fan, directing a gust of wind towards her attackers; she wasn't surprised when all three of them disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Immediately, five more blonds jumped from the tree top.
Without thinking twice, the girl beat her fan once again, wiping the group of bushin out of existence.
Before the cloud of the clones disappeared completely, the girl became aware of eight more Konoha nins falling from above. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" The powerful blast of wind shot upwards, taking out all eight attackers. Temari watched the cloud dissipate, suddenly her eyes widened as her gaze dropped down. Having taken advantage of the distraction caused by his clones, the Leaf genin had made a dash directly towards the girl. Acting on instinct, Temari blocked the incoming attack with her fan.
Naruto gulped, he could see the blond girl's body preparing to push him back again to launch another attack, it was now or never. Putting one hand on the kunoichi's fan, the blond brought it down, lowering the girls head in the process, and leaned the upper part of his body forward as he placed his other hand in her shoulder to direct her towards him, before Temari knew what had happened, her lips had been caught by his.
Time seemed to have stop, she was aware that her defenses were down, aware that her fan was blocked, and even aware about the boy in front of her, it was the point where they're bodies connected that she wasn't too sure of. Suddenly, the kunoichi felt the hand that had been placed on her shoulder pulled back and placed on the upper part of her abdomen.
Gathering chakra in his palm, Naruto pushed the girl in front of him back with a juuken-like strike, focusing more on the impact rather than damaging internal organs. The attack was strong enough to sent Temari back against a tree, hitting her head hard in the process.
The blond boy tried to catch his breath. "There," Kyuubi's voice sounded in his head. "That wasn't so bad now, was it?" The fox started laughing. "In fact, I'm willing to bet that you enjoyed it." The bijuu teased before continuing laughing.
Naruto gritted his teeth at the fox's comments, yet his hand had moved unconsciously towards his lips as he couldn't fight off the blush that had spread throughout his face or the thoughts of how soft her lips had been. "At least this was better than last time…" The blond admitted before jumping back on the branches and continuing on his way, not before stealing one last glance at the resting kunoichi he had stolen a kiss from.
A/N - Hehe...I couldn't help myself with the Naru/Tema moment, though I this fic still doesn't have an official paring. Once again, I don't know when the next chapter would be up, I'm debating whether I should split it in two or not, this chapter was suppose to run longer, but it would have taken me at least one more month. Thanks for reading.
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