"Hacchooo," a snot hangs down as I practice my water walking on the pond in training ground 7.
My hair is sticking to my face, and some of them are inside my ear.
Despite the distraction, I am maintaining my control.
"Spat!!!!" And a curse.
Naruto has fallen again for the 18th time.
With a "hump," He gets back to shore and starts over again, not needing my command. The guy has just now broken a record of water walking for 15 seconds.
I control my posture while I try to wipe the snot off my face.
Before I could do that, my leg wobbles and my foot threatens to sink.
I can't break the RAT hand sign. The moment I break it, I will fall.
I am a 6-year-old, and I don't have a lot of chakras, to begin with. So it's almost 50 % of my chakra pushed downwards and maintained under absolute control to keep me afloat. I am draining, but steady. Despite that, I channel my chakra to the snot. It wobbles and extends the side, slowly approaching Naruto. It reaches and swirls around his hands. The kid shrikes and falls again.
He gets up, curses me, and starts over.
The challenge is to stay above water for 30 minutes straight.
For the sake of Naruto's inexperience, he gets 500 tries while I get 50. It's not like I'm that experienced myself, my highest record is 5 minutes. I'm down to my last 10 tries.
How did we come to do this?
2 hours ago, as we brothers walked down the street for some R&R after a long day of doing nothing, we decided to go to our favorite stall in the village.
I see a paper that looks like a coupon floating in the air.
With my Sharingan eyes, I could see "10 bowls for free ICHIRAKU LIMITED EDITION" written on it.
It is as if my plea was answered by the gods, it falls right in front of me.
Well, better snag it. I thank the heavens. I wonder if Google gods exist in this world.
So, I attempt to step on it to hide it under my shoes, and I wouldn't want the bastard to see it.
I look away and step on it. Let's not be obvious.
Another leg clashes with me.
I see Naruto looking the other way and stepping on it as well. how did he....!?
"Oi theme? Mind taking your stinky foot away?", He hisses.
"Make me", I glare.
After a while of cursing it turns into browling, any of us refusing to take the foot off.
A guy in green spandex comes and separates us like 2 dogs barking at each other.
He patiently waits for us to calm down as we dangle from his hands like we weigh nothing.
I settled down with a huff and my arms crossed.
"The bushiest eyebrows I've ever seen" is the expression that I would like to have.
But a shinobi never expresses his emotions.
"Oh! What youthful spirits. The village has never seen such vigorous youth since ages.", he says.
He puts us down. Puts a finger between us.
"To see such rivalry soiled by acts like sportsman-like conduct, it is unyuthful.
Why don't you settle this with a challenge? I, Might Guy, jounin of Konoha shall witness ."
Naruto has narrow eyes.
He looks at me. Yeah, I know, unyuthfull isn't a word. And this guy doesn't give the strong people vibe. what do I know? I'm just a 6-year-old.
he is the Beast of Konoha. not One of the, but the strongest jounin in the village.
At first, we ran around the village. Naruto has unlimited stamina, but I have enough chakra control to circulate my muscles. Using them to jump around instead of just running. I was able to keep up, by circulating chakra around the heart to keep the blood pump steady, so I don't run outta breath. Despite that, It was impossible to outrun Naruto on the ground, since he had been doing quite a bit of running around with me....and running away from Anbu after giving the Hokage monuments mustaches.
So, it ended up in a draw.
Then, we did pushups., draw.
Handstand as long as possible., draw.
Both of us were on the ground, yapping our mouths for air.
[Is 10 bowls of free ramen worth the trouble? I ask myself.
''Yes, It is!'' ,Says my other half...
I really should go see that Yamanaka guy. Didn't have the time of the day though]
Then Naruto jumps up and screams at Guy,
"You are a jounin? Right? ", he asks.
"Oh..yes I am. Your friendly neighborhood taijutsu specialist. At your service .", his teeth shoot beams at a nearby Bush. It bursts into flame.
"What kinda jutsu was that,", naruto asks in awe.
"It was not", was the only explanation I could give.
Naruto then switched mood again.
"Okay, back to it. The boring challenges you are giving us aren't gonna cut it. Teach us something cool, if one of us learns it first, wins." Naruto says with a grin.
For the last few months, naruto has made a kind of academic comeback.
The guy may be an ideat, but sure he can learn fast. I may or may not have a hand in it, but I was not jerk enough to not give him his well-deserved compliments, of which I wouldn't go into details. If anything he doesn't appreciate me complimenting him, but it never stops him from feeling smug about it.
But challenging a Uchiha to a learning competition is sure stupid.
Even Guy thinks that was stupid.
So we ended up with something that can't be learned by simply using a sharingan.
Which is water walking.
As the sun almost kisses the horizon,
Naruto gets up to the shore and attempts for the 498th time.
I'm on my 50th try. But for the love of god, I can't stand straight for 30 goddamn minutes.
I'm doing something wrong here.
Even the bastard is almost 27 minutes in.
How is he doing that with his massive chakra, wrestling with kuyubi chakra?
Should I risk it?
Use the last bit of chakra that I have to get ramen, or use Sharingan to see what's going on with Naruto.
[ "It's a hard choice"
"Yeah, it's a hard one"][ both of them fucking agree?! ]
Even if Naruto doesn't win and I get ramen, he will tell me if I ask him.
But.....that .....feels wrong.
["What about the ramen!!!, and it isn't Any ramen, it's free ramen."
"But if the boss wins, he won't be able to ask what did Naruto do. It will hurt his pride. His saiye....uhm ....uchiha pride]
Shut the fuck up!!!!!!
Okay, I will activate the fucking, sharingan.
I will let this bastard have one on me.
God I hate myself. It's better to be worth it.
I turn it on. I feel my legs sink in.
For a split second, I see the red chakra just circling his main tonkatsu point at the abdomen. Not letting any access red chakra go to his feet.
It's.....not under any genjutsu...or not even blocked. Also, a little bit of red chakra has leaked, but it's cupping the chakra under his foot so that it wouldn't spill out like....making an air bubble. Which is keeping him afloat.
It's all kuyubi. The dumb baster is doing nothing but pumping chakra to his feet. Kuyubi is the one keeping it steady.
WHAT IS THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON? When did Kuyubi start helping Naruto?
Does Naruto know? If he doesn't, that's bad news.
Then there was a slight flicker and as I fell into the water, some of the red chakra created immense pressure and shot out a string of blue chakra at me. I saw it coming.
Should I dodge? I can....but...
["Oh no....oh no you don't boss. "
"Boss has that crazy look in his eyes."]
Oh yes. Kurama set me up. Looks like he made contingency plans after being fingered in the ass by Uchihas 2 times in a row. last time I remember, put Naruto's tonkatsu point in Genjuts. Must have put him on his guard. So he used this incident to perk up my curiosity and use Sharingan on him. Kurama's chakra can't leave Naruto's body without the host's consent, so he uses Naruto's chakra instead. Like how jinurikis can never be put in a genjutsu cause, the bijue can rattle your chakra enough to break it.
If I don't dodge it, it will directly connect to my brain with Naruto's prison realm, or kill me.
Worse, some kinda mind jutsu that can leave me brain-dead. Huh...?.!!! What could that be? , for some reason, I feel like I will be okay.
I let it hit me. My eyes rolls back to my head.
Let's see what our 9-tailed red furball has to say.