Chapter 61 - Escape
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Naruto who teleported away after being hit bore the pain and teleported again to Samehada, he put a seal in it when he touched it earlier. "This is what's wrong." Taking Samehada with him, he teleported away. Taking away Kisame's weapon.
Kisame, who was surprised by Samehada disappearing from his arms and appearing beside Naruto far away, had a mocking smile on his face "You think taking away my weapon would weaken me?"
He weaved hand seals and used a jutsu [Water Style: Water Shark Bomb!]
Naruto hoped that it'd weaken him but not really cared about it, he only wanted to get rid of this troublesome weapon, or else he wouldn't be able to use much jutsu. Although his sage chakra hurt the weapon, he'd much more prefer to preserve his chakra and not let the opponent touch the weapon instead.
He doesn't like inefficient fighting styles like consuming most of chakras to explode the weapon or something instead of directly stopping it instead.
The product was not worthy of the cost.
After throwing the troublesome weapon away and surrounding it with Wind Sage Chakra which he noticed the weapon didn't like, he responded to the jutsu of Kisame with [Wind Style: Wind Dragon!]
The wind dragon went from below to upwards obscuring both sides of their visions. As the wind pushed the water up. But… Naruto still has his sage senses so he knew where Kisame was.
In his hand, he focuses a wind chakra blade. It wasn't sharp enough so he condensed, condensed, and condensed until it was a sharpened blade that was at the level of a heavenly treasure in a cultivation world.
'Judging by the collision a while ago, I could have penetrated his skin if it was 10 times sharper. Let's try it now.' Naruto thought of teleporting in front of Kisame again with [Flying Thunder God Seal] in his stomach that he put on earlier.
Shing!
The wind chakra blade went through Kisame's stomach without resistance like a knife cutting through butter.
The blood didn't even notice the strike as it didn't splatter blood everywhere but Kisame coughed out blood.
"Blergh! Yoerf! B-sdfsdwt!" Kisame said barely audible from the blood he coughed out.
Naruto, equipped with the devil's smile, replied "Not so durable now, ey?"
Siu!
Naruto teleported away again before Kisame could even fight back, while Kisame was recovering, he flew into the skies and created another wind dragon. The dragon, made out of wind, was enhanced just like he did with the chakra blade. The wind dragon transformed into a lance as it was condensed.
He condensed and condensed and condensed and condensed! "AHAHHAHAH! TOUGH GUYYY! SURVIVE THIS!!!!!!" He yelled in excitement as he had never encountered an enemy who could lasted as much as this guy.
The wind dragon that was condensed into a needle rushed to Kisame's position.
Swishhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
'This is bad! I can't dodge! If that hits me in the head I'm dead for sure! My body isn't recovering nearly as fast!' Kisame thought as he felt the feeling of being at death's door for the first time in a long time.
Swish! A ninja from the side appeared and pulled Kisame out of the way as he said "Let's go, Kisame."
Kisame breathed a sigh of relief hearing Itachi's voice. And called out "Samehada!"
Samehada went in the direction of Kisame and wrapped around his arm lovingly.
Naruto, who was floating in the skies, merely watched over them. Itachi was an enemy at the same time a comrade. He can say that they will think that he had lost enough chakra making them let their guard down in case they hunt him down. It was better for him that way. He didn't ask Kurama for help as that would reveal another ace in his sleeves so he simply let them go.
Seeing the capabilities of those two ninjas from the akatsuki… looks like the place Itachi was sabotaging from inside is pretty good. He can't get their full attention yet.
He used about 2 jounin chakra in that encounter with just one of its members? If he encountered a few of them, he wouldn't last if he didn't have Kurama's help with chakra regeneration.
He plans to learn all elements of sage mode before he does. Plus he was feeling it again, that painful feeling of being cut apart from inside.
As it happened twice already, he knew there was something changing in his body… he knew the cause was sage chakra as it was the chakra that was foreign to his body, he didn't know if it was for the better but he planned on taking the gamble.
The pain would probably be more painful, as he combined more elements to his sage chakra… If he died trying then so be it.
Naruto, who was floating in the skies, disappeared.
Siu!
Appearing directly inside the hotel they were checked in and Sasuke who was pinned into the ground by Jiraiya so he asked in curiosity as to why it led to this situation "What's going on? Perverted Sage? Have you started liking little boys too? Disgusting."
Jiraiya's eyebrows twitched at Naruto's usual playful comments and scolded as he held Sasuke into the ground "This kid is destroying his fist in anger for being too weak when he encountered his brother by punching the ground so I pinned him down so I was making some sense into him to what that will amount to."
"I see… I thought you turned your interest to little boys."
"Of course not."
Sasuke who saw Naruto instantly subsided his anger and said calmly "Let me go."
Jiraiya skeptically looked at Sasuke, letting him go 'What's going on with this kid? His anger subsided as soon as he saw Naruto.'
Naruto crouched down to look at Sasuke and with a mocking smile "How dumb. I almost killed the other guy and you're here venting your anger on the floor?"
"You!" Sasuke was infuriated but knew Naruto's words made sense, so he asked after going into a sitting position breathing in and out heavily to calm himself down "What should I do to become stronger?"
Naruto was surprised, he didn't expect the prideful Sasuke to ask him for advice so he chuckled "I'm too busy getting stronger to coach you but I'll give you advice. Grow up, physically and increase your chakra output. Your chakra is not nearly enough to balance Natural Energy of Lightning. For now, you can only focus on your chakra control and jutsu usage."
"Jutsu usage?" Sasuke asked in confusion as he looked at Naruto seriously.
Naruto explained as he created a mini wind dragon while he pointed his right index finger forward. "Do you see this?"
Sasuke nodded.
Naruto created another one but then condensed it to look like a lance and reach maximum sharpness.
Sasuke and Jiraiya were dumbfounded at Naruto's level of chakra control. 'You can condense wind chakra nature to that degree?'
"What's the difference?"
Sasuke nodded as he realized and answered "The wind dragon's sharpness was all over the place, and the lance is focused on one point."
Naruto nodded and explained as he dispersed the wind jutsus he used as demonstration, "That was my creativity. You have yours, look for efficient ways to use your chakra nature. Mine is wind so of course, I'll focus on sharpness. But what about lightning? It's for you to think about and find your own path."
"Chakra control might be the basics but it's also the origin of all jutsu. It's best to master the basics to reach this level of mastery over jutsus."
Naruto said, on his way to his room before slamming the door shut, "Now, get the hell out of my face, as I have to get stronger too."
Bam!
Sasuke and Jiraiya looked at each other and went their separate ways. Sasuke went back to go look for Kakashi, and Jiraiya went to gather information in brothels.
Meanwhile… Naruto…
Sitting still, cross legged he sensed different types of elemental natural energy…
'Wind', 'Water', 'Earth', 'Fire', 'Lightning.'
Wind, Water, and Earth were abundant but Fire and Lightning was lesser than the 3.
He tried to absorb each and every one of them to have a feel for their composition. Water… Turbulent… Earth… As still as a rock… Fire… as hot as the sun… Lightning… as chaotic as the raging seas…
He didn't need to simulate… he first started with water… and 2 minutes later he succeeded… he deactivated it and continued with earth… then fire… then lightning…
The marking on his eyes was changing from light blue… dark blue… brown… red… and violet… just like Christmas lights. (A/N: What was I thinking while I wrote this? Lol!)
It was time for a simulation.
(Test - Fusing 2 elements, wind and water)
(Test 1… Failed…)
(Test 2… Failed)
(Test 14… Failed)
(Test 21… Failed)
(Test 31… Failed)
(Test 45… Failed)
(Test 61… Failed)
(Test 94… Failed)
After so many tests he still wasn't successful but his practice was put into halt by a voice "Naruto. Let's go. I've gathered the information."
It was Jiraiya, who expressed his worry "It's been a day, eat first before continuing."
Naruto nodded and replied "Alright, Let's go. I'll eat as we go."
Jiraiya simply smiled and nodded at Naruto's diligent attitude
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(A/N: Hm…)