'CRASH' 'CRASH' 'CRASH'
With a single spiraling blue ball, Jiraiya effortlessly obliterated three boulders. Naruto and I stood there with eyes wide and gaping jaws at the sight of it. Just thinking about how much of a beast Naruto will become with his Shadow Clones and that technique, it makes me pity whoever has to fight this blonde powerhouse.
"THAT'S SO COOL!!!" Naruto exclaimed with stars in his eyes. "You didn't even use a hand seal, how is that possible!?"
Jiraiya smirked and created another Rasengan in his hand. "This ain't gonna be easy brat. It took me a while to figure out how your father came up with this thing." He replied simply.
Then, the Hokage stepped forward and took a closer look at the spiraling sphere. "Hmm... Quite interesting... It reminds me of the Kaiten Technique of the Hyuga clan." He said in slight amazement. Then he looked at Naruto and smiled at him. "Well then, how about we learn this technique together Naruto kun?"
A huge smile grew on Naruto's face. "Me, training with the Hokage?!" He pumped his fist to the air and starts jumping around in excitement. "HECK YEAH!" Then he realized that the Hokage is still looking at him. "I mean, uhh... Yeah! Let's train together old man, believe it!"
Hiruzen just chuckled a little at his excitement. He made a hand seal and three clones of him appeared out of thin air. "Only three clones?" He commented after seeing his clones standing around him. "I am getting very rusty in my age."
"Shadow Clone!?" Naruto exclaimed in disbelief. "You can use it too?" Then he thought about what he just said and face palmed. "Nevermind... Of course you can use that too. But what are using it for old man?"
"For practice." Hiruzen replied simply. "What makes Shadow Clone so powerful isn't it's destructive capabilities, it is the fact that Shadow Clone Technique is one of the most useful and versatile technique of all time."
Naruto nodded a little. "I get it old man, using the shadow clone I can distract my enemy, turn into anything, and create an army whenever I want." He replied as if answering a basic academy question. Then he noticed that the Hokage is still holding up two fingers. "What?"
The Hokage smirked a little. "Naruto kun... Do you honestly never realize the true power of shadow clones? There are still two main things that you can use with your clones." He replied with that age old look on his face.
"Eh? What is it old man?" Naruto asked.
"Let's play a game Naruto kun." The Hokage gave each clone a piece of paper. "The game is simple, I am going to hide these papers in the woods around us and you just have to see what's written on it." The clones flickered away from existence the second he said that."
Naruto grinned confidently after hearing that. "Leave it to me old man!!" He exclaimed. "I'm gonna find those papers in no time!" Four clones appeared around him to prove his point.
The old man nodded in agreement. "I have no doubt that you will Naruto kun, but can you do it with Jiraiya and Haios getting in your way?"
I smirked a little after hearing that. Beside me, Jiraiya is already cracking his knuckles. "Not so confident now, are you Naruto?"
The boy made a cross sign and the whole clearing exploded with smoke. When it dies down, hundreds of clones surrounded us from all sides. "BRING IT ON!!" The clones all yelled out in sync followed by the Uzumaki war cry.
"Oh, and you cannot replenish your clones nor you can go find those papers yourself." The Hokage added. "Stay here and hope that the one hundred and four copies of yourself is enough to win this game." He explained.
With that, the game begins. I wasted no time gripping Jiraiya and send us both soaring up into the sky. Below us, Naruto is already throwing a reverse rain of shuriken straight at us. "Okay oh great Toad Sage, what's the plan?" I asked him while deflecting all the projectiles coming our way.
Jiraiya shrugged a little after hearing. "Welp, we have no chance of winning anyway so let's give this all that we got." He was about to make a hand seal but stopped midway. "Hmm... Haios, turn your back towards me."
I did what he asked and felt a powerful palm striking my back. "Ow! What are you doing!?" No sooner after I said that, something huge suddenly appeared on my back. I quickly moved away and turned around.
A green toad, the size of a freaking building appeared out of thin air. It let out a croak before slowly falling down towards the clearing below it like a meteor. All the shurikens and kunai the Army of Clones could throw at it were deflected by a thin layer of air and...
'BOOM'
Like a meteor crashing to the earth, the gigantic toad obliterated almost, if not all Clones in the clearing. It then disappeared in a puff of smoke, revealing a very obliterated clearing and single mud dome standing in the middle of it. I'm assuming that's where the Hokage and the original Naruto hide.
Then I looked back at Jiraiya. He has that grin on his face that's basically telegraphing me to compliment him. "So..." He spoke in sly and prideful tone. "How was that for some Perverted Sage?"
I sighed a little before rolling my eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I get it, you're awesome and all that. Whatever." Then I looked at the forest where the papers are hidden. "So, now what?"
"Now we find those intel before a clone can get their hands on it." Jiraiya replied while pointing at the trees nearby. "Brat, I need you to launch me to those trees over there and destroy any clone you can find. I'm gonna try and find those papers before a clone can get to it." Jiraiya said.
I looked at the woods in front of me and nodded. "Okay, here goes something!!!" With a spin, I throw Jiraiya away to the woods. He soared higher before diving down towards the woods. Then he starts running deeper into the forest and disappeared from my radar.
With that, I followed Jiraiya deeper into the woods. I took out some shuriken out of my pocket and make them spin in a blinding speed. I made them all follow me from behind in a random fashion so that some stray clones might just get hit by it.
After getting closer into the woods I started to sense lots of movements around me. I used my flying shuriken to quickly dispatch all the nearby clones while swiftly dodging any projectiles and trees coming my way.
"Oi! Gaki! Over here!" a familiar voice called out from behind. I turned around and saw Jiraiya holding a piece of paper in his hand. "I got one!"
I stopped in my tracks and floated towards. "Well, guess you're not that..." A devilish grin that I know all too well slowly spread across his face. "Well, fu..."
'BOOM'
The fake Jiraiya exploded right in front of my face and blew me off to a tree nearby. My back hits the trunk in an odd angle and I am convinced that I have at least nine broken bones from that alone. "Ouch..." I fell down to the ground and slumped down on top of it to catch my breath. "Owie..."
After a few minutes I slowly regained my senses and floated up from the ground. I decided to keep a force field around my body at all times while traveling through this forest.
Then, while mindlessly floating in the forest, I saw a Shadow Clone of the Third Hokage sitting near a tree trunk. I threw a Shuriken at him without thinking and he just caught it with his pinky. "Yep, you're the real deal alright." I muttered while floating down closer towards him. "So, what's the deal here old man?"
The clone took out a piece of paper and showed it to me. "You'd have to dispel me to take it away from me Haios san..." He said with a calm look on his face. "You're the fifth one here, after the four clones I've dispelled."
Fighting the Hokage? Well, that's just Tuesday.
"There's no way you can win when I do this!" I grabbed hold of his body and tried to bind him with my powers. Keyword: tried, because he disappeared into thin air before I can take hold of him. "Okay, should've seen that..."
A powerful trust from behind broke through my force field and struck my back. I felt myself plummeting down to the ground only to get a very painful kick right in the abdomen mere seconds before I landed. "Gyah!" I spat out some blood before dropping down motionless on to the ground.
The Hokage's Clone loomed above me with that thousand years gaze. "Don't underestimate your opponents Haios san. It might just save your life someday."
"My spleen..."
"A true ninja doesn't underestimate their opponent but make their opponent underestimate them instead."
"My spine..."
"I hope that you've learned something from this encounter."
"My kidney..."
The Hokage then turned around and start walking away from me. The second he did that, something jumped out of my pocket and a very familiar fox eared teen stabbed the shadow clone from behind with a crimson red blade. "A good shinobi doesn't face away their downed opponent. Dumbass." The Kyubi muttered before picking up the piece of paper. "Can you fly?"
I nodded a little and slowly floated up from my position. The Kyubi shrunk back into a miniature fox and jumped into my pocket. "Thanks for the backup Kyubi." I muttered while trying to mend my broken bones with the force. "That old man hits hard..."
As I float half dead through the forest, I felt something following from behind. I automatically throw a shuriken at him only to have it being caught by chakra enhanced palm. "Jiraiya?" I said without turning around.
"Sup brat, got a paper." He replied.
I turned around and saw Jiraiya jumping from trees to trees with a very exhausted look on his face. Cuts and bruises covered his whole body and his hair seemed to have lost half of its mass. "Wow, you looked like you just went through hell." I muttered in slight amusement.
"You should look at yourself brat. You look like hell..." Jiraiya replied. "Sensei might be old but he's definitely not rusty in his old age." He cringed a little and rubbed the side of his body. "Damn it, he wasn't holding anything back."
Theree were three papers right? You think Naruto got one?" I asked him.
Jiraiya shook his head. "I really doubt it kiddo. He'll need more than just luck to defeat sensei."
Soon enough, we made it back to the clearing. There, we can see Naruto and Hokage talking together beside a huge dome. They seemed to be talking about the contents of the paper.
Oh yeah, I forgot to see what's inside of it. "Hey Jiraiya, what do you think is inside this paper?" I asked him.
Jiraiya showed me his paper. "Mine's one half of a summoning scroll." He replied. "This seems to be targeted to our world though so..." He looked at mine and nodded understandingly. "Well, guess Sensei already planned on kicking our asses."
"Huh?"
The two of us landed on the clearing near Naruto and Hokage. Jiraiya put down the seal on to the ground. "Put yours beside mine." I put my piece of paper beside his and a small explosion of smoke appeared from inside it.
When it dies down, a very familiar pink haired doctor stood on top of it. "Okay, phew! Much better now..." Sakura noticed the two of us and smiled a little. "Hi Haios! What now? Broken ribs? Internal Bleeding? Snapped spine?" She asked while pointing me with her OP flashlight.
"I think I broke my everything again." I replied simply.
"No surprises there." Sakura replied in amusement while slowly healing me with her gloves. She glanced at Jiraiya sitting beside me while reconstructing my crushed spleen. "You're... Jiraiya of the Sannin aren't you?"
Jiraiya looked at Sakura, or more specifically, her flashlight. "And you must be the seal master the Hokage told me about?"
Sakura smiled and nodded at him. "Yes, and I have something for you, just a moment." She quickened her glove's movement and I can feel my healing quickens. No longer than two seconds later, I felt myself feeling refreshed good as new.
"Thanks Sakura." I said while standing up from my position.
With that, I decided to left the nerds together and see what Naruto and the old fossil is up to. "Hi Naruto!"
Naruto looked at me and grinned a little. "Haios chan! The Hokage just taught me something awesome!" He exclaimed in excitement. "Did you know that I get to know everything my shadow clone knows?"
I raised an eyebrow after hearing that. "Really? I didn't know that. So you know everything that happened in that forest?"
Naruto nodded after hearing that. "Yep! And I know that the Hokage kicked your ass and it was only thanks to the Kyubi you got the paper." He replied with a mischievous smirk on his face. "I mean, how hard was it to defeat old man? I just used the Sexy Jutsu and have a clone stab him from behind!"
The Hokage cleared his throat. "Naruto kun, let's not talk about that." He said in slight embarrassment. Then he looked at me for a moment and tilted his head. "Are you all better now Haios?"
That sentence roughly translates to: "I am going to severely injure you now, get ready."
What happens next, I can't quite explain. One second I saw the hokage dashing towards me with a spiraling blue sphere in his hand. The next I found myself standing at the opposite side of the training ground.
A copy of me is currently facing the hokage and he doesn't seem to notice it. I was just about to make a clever remark about this situation when I felt a soft furred hand covering my mouth.
"It's not gonna hold him for long, let's go." I heard the Kyubi whisper to my ears. That's all the reason I need and I wasted no time launching up to the sky away from that cursed training ground.
[LINE BREAK]
"I am wearing their father's skin! How the fuck am I supposed to stay calm!?" Anko exclaimed through the telepathic link between her and Kabuto. "What do I do? Dear lord, what do I do!?"
Kabuto, disguised as one of The Kazekage's body guard watched pensively. Anko, disguised as Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage stood in front of three genins. All of them has a stone cold face and aura denser than steel.
Right now Anko's job is simple, address them about their performance in the chunin exam. "Be cold, dismiss their performance as nothing more but job well done." Kabuto explained. "Don't worry about their feelings, none of them has any love for their father."
Anko mentally took a deep breath before looking back at the three genins in front of her. "You've done as I expected. You're all dismissed." She said in a masculine voice belonging to the Fourth Kazekage. For a second, Anko swore she could see a look of disappointment flashes across their face. But they simply left without another word.
"So Kabuto, what drove the sand village to create an alliance with sound anyway?" Anko asked as she walked back to the Kazekage chamber.
"Economy." Kabuto replied simply. "The daimyo cut off the funding for Suna and Rasa has to take some desperate measures to save the village."
Anko didn't comment on that one, but maybe, just maybe. She can do something that Rasa has failed to do. For both Suna and his children.