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Chapter 4: Long live hell
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It was a quiet morning in the middle of the forest, the sun was just beginning to rise in the distance but a certain man with a maraca on his face held his weapon ready to attack with a smile on his face, in front of him a blond lay asleep, comfortably with some bandages tied around his arms, the warrior smiled even more when he threw his weapon.
The blade glistened in the morning rays before stabbing into the blond's shoulder... blood flew through the air, as the blond was incredibly lifted into the air by the chain that now wrapped around his neck almost to the point of breaking it, he was terrified, his blue eyes with slit pupils showed terror as the attacker stretched the chain against his neck.
-I told you to never let your guard down- he said seriously as the blond began to turn blue, from one moment to the next the blond smiled and exploded with force throwing him through the air until he crashed into a dry trunk.
-Heh, not bad, an explosive clone, it seems you finally understand-, the master muttered only for a bunch of shuriken to fly towards him right from the smoke.
A quick substitution with a rock solved the problem, as the smoke began to clear showing a blond right where the clone had been, a second the boy, his clothes were somewhat torn and seemed to have traces of dried blood on them, and looking closely a small reddish layer finished closing the minor wounds; small cuts and burns, looking closely it seemed to have been close to an explosion or rather under one.
-Who said I was an explosive clone? Rather, explosive seals work very well in a kague bunshin- answered the blue-eyed man with a confident smile on his face while looking at his teacher who was watching him somewhat bewildered.
- You're crazy, that could have killed you, how could you defeat me if you're dead? - the man asked, annoyed by such a suicidal maneuver.
-Oh come on, don't underestimate me, Kichigai sensei (insane teacher), also why don't you see your weapon- the warrior looked at his weapon, it looked normal for a second, there were several notes in the chain
- SON OF A B…- BBBOOOOOMMMMMM! (what sound effects, right?)
The explosion resounded throughout the forest, driving away animals and the few people who were in the vicinity. Every morning it was the same. The few inhabitants of a nearby village had already become accustomed to it. When the sun rose, the fight began and lasted almost until lunchtime. How those two managed to survive and have the energy for that every morning, only God knew.
Noon was approaching and in the distance the explosions and curses of both individuals resounded, they were a very peculiar case; suddenly everything calmed down and minutes later a battered and burned man dragged an unconscious blond man by one leg almost reluctantly behind him who was again unconscious and shirtless leaving his chest in full formation exposed and some wounds that would not finish healing. How he recovered so quickly nobody had any idea, well Hanzo knew.
The tavern in the small village was half full as always, its busiest moment was at dusk when tired men went in search of their beloved drink, the door of the bar opened and an annoyed Hanzo entered pulling the unconscious blond behind him who with all possible kindness and delicacy threw him into a chair, which by the way broke with the blow, the innkeeper sighed it was the sixth chair this month. The man took a seat at the bar and ordered a cold drink, seconds later and after giving some instructions to the bartender he left the place leaving the blond lying there without caring about the looks he received from the few customers.
Inside the blonde, he was once again in front of the beautiful redhead who looked amused at the annoyed blonde in front of her.
- I don't know what you find funny, Kyu-chan- he said seriously to the fox who was laughing at his misfortune
- Oh come on Naruto-kun you have to admit it's funny, look at that dodging fireballs, kunais, shuriken, a water dragon, a lightning bolt all several times just to be knocked unconscious after your chakra control failed and you slipped off that tree hehehe you have to admit it's funny- answered the smiling kitsune making a vague attempt to keep the laughter inside her mouth.
The blond glared at her and she couldn't take it anymore she fell to the ground laughing like crazy while the blond could only sigh it had been the same for almost a year every day he fought almost to the death with his master until before lunch then it was his endurance training or as Hanzo called it "run or die", which consisted of the blond running until he fainted for a little over 2 hours now this was not a problem for him, with his endurance he could do that and the problem was the 5 huge salamanders that were chasing him to try to eat him; the first time he wanted to face them, big mistake the animals were covered by a kind of paralyzer as soon as he touched one he remained motionless like a rock, immediately the animal swallowed it luckily it spit it out right in front of his master who looked at him furiously, he did not eat for 3 days and the worst thing was the smell of the salamander's intestinal juices did not leave his clothes, he had to throw them away.
After his beloved "run or die" Hanzo made him practice every jutsu he knew or had seen in action, he was easily doing more than 1000 jutsus a week, and the worst thing for the blond without kague bunshin, when he told his teacher about the benefits of the technique he forbade him to use it for training, he wanted him to gain the experience by himself after the first year he could finally use it but only creating 10 clones, while he ran for his life they trained and poor the blond if one ran out of chakra and vanished without permission.
The blond was upset by the situation and the redhead's laughter behind him was not helping at all, in fact, it was making his nerves tense.
-For heaven's sake, don't laugh anymore...- he couldn't finish the sentence with what he saw.
In fact, the redhead was dying of laughter so much that right now she was on the floor holding her stomach that was beginning to hurt from laughing so much, too bad she forgot that she was wearing a kimono with a rather long opening, there she was in front of the blonde, the long and smooth legs of the kitsune in all their glory revealed before him, letting him see up what Naruto could identify as... a small... very small piece of clothing... his mind disconnected and blood began to drip from his nose, he was so immersed in what he was looking at that he didn't notice when the vixen fell silent and looked at him amused.
- If you want to see so much, you can ask for it Naruto-kun- purred the melodious voice of the fox as she rolled up her kimono a little, revealing a little more to the blond who, unable to contain himself, fell to the ground unconscious with a massive nosebleed.
Back to training, the blond arrived at the clearing that the innkeeper had indicated to him. Shortly before leaving, the man wished the blond luck. That couldn't be a good sign. Naruto arrived and saw something quite strange. It was a kind of improvised crane that was holding a fairly large rock about 6 meters off the ground. He didn't know why, but he knew that it wasn't good at all.
-You finally appear- said Hanzo with his angry voice while calmly eating an apple… wait, calmly?
- And we are going to start with the kichigai sensei (insane master) resistance training - the blond asked somewhat nervously.
- No, I've noticed that you don't have good chakra control. Before that wasn't a problem, I attributed it to your lack of training, but today I realized that it's a serious problem and we're going to correct it. - He answered seriously as he approached the blond.
He was afraid to ask but the way his teacher looked at him meant he was waiting for him. "How?" he asked, extremely scared.
-Very simple, you see that rock, you are going to attach yourself to it like we have been practicing in the trees and you will stay there while I attack with everything I have and you are going to defend yourself without abandoning that rock, if you happen to fall my clone will simply cut the rope and the rock will crush you, do you see how simple?- a huge drop slid down the blond's neck as he wondered if God hated him.
Half an hour later, multiple kunai cuts, a couple of wounds from a suiton jutsu, and a sleeve burned by a fireball, the blond lay unconscious under the huge rock. In the last attack, he used a futon jutsu to deflect the shuriken but he concentrated so hard that he lost his balance and fell on his back and then saw how the huge rock crushed him. Sometimes like this, he wondered if it would have been better to let those anbu drag him back to the blade.
Night fell and after a quick dinner, the blond fell unconscious in the improvised camp in the middle of the forest, every night he changed places the reason was that every morning he tore the place apart when fighting with his master, everything was peace and quiet it was a beautiful moonless night... or no, it was a moonless night.
Suddenly, from between the trees emerged a dark figure with reptilian eyes about 10 meters long (not counting the tail) and about 5 tall that looked at the blonde with amusement in his eyes, this was Doku the son of Hiso leader of the salamander clan and current opponent of Naruto every new moon. The idea was in fact very simple, the only thing the blonde had to do was hit the salamander between the eyes without using any jutsu, a pretty simple thing if we don't count the paralyzing fluid that covered him or the fact that he was damn aggressive without counting fast, on several occasions Naruto had wondered how something so big was so fast.
-Um... hello Doku, how are you?- the blond asked timidly, getting as a response only a look from the animal in front of him who was watching him with amusement in his eyes.
Suddenly the great reptile took a breath as its torso slowly inflated and in one fell swoop it spat out, a large jet of a strange greenish substance flew through the air straight towards the blond who miraculously managed to replace himself with an old trunk, as soon as the blond turned around to his surprise the trunk he had replaced himself with began to melt along with the little grass and rocks on the site letting out a little steam until everything was reduced to a viscous greenish soup.
-ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU JUST SPIT ACID ON ME…- He couldn't even finish his complaint when he was already dodging another jet of acid from his opponent. This was going to be a long night.
In the distance between the mountains the sun was beginning to rise and in the place where the blond lay unconscious the traces of a great fight could be seen; fallen trees, shattered rocks, and an endless number of melted things lay scattered throughout the new clearing that had formed the night before, around 5,00 am he finally managed to hit the animal that with a smile and a promise to return for his revenge dissipated in a puff of smoke, shortly after that the blond fell unconscious.
The forest was so quiet and poor Naruto so tired that he didn't care about anything else at that moment but sleeping as if there was no tomorrow, too bad his master didn't have that same idea in mind, an explosion woke up the blond who managed to run to the forest escaping the rain of kunai that threatened to turn him into a pincushion, yes this would be another quiet morning in the forest for the blond.
Back in the village and in the tavern the scene was the same as always, an unconscious blond lying there while Hanzo drank a cold drink and then left him lying there, if everything was so common and so everyday that people simply no longer asked about the blond's health, rather they wondered about his sanity after all who could endure something like that and still continue with that sadistic master.
The blond walked back towards the clearing that the innkeeper had indicated to him, finding a scene even more disturbing than the previous time. There was a metal plate suspended horizontally in the air over what appeared to be a small pit no more than half a meter deep, from which many rather sharp stone stakes protruded from what the blond could see. This whole scene simply could not bode well for him.
-You're finally here. I was beginning to think you had died, brat- said a grumpy Hanzo at the blonde's delay.
-... this... what is that for? - the blond asked bluntly, pointing at the peculiar device in front of him.
- This is just another nice resource that we will use to improve your chakra control- he said with a grim smile on his face.
He didn't want to ask, he didn't want to know, but he had to because every second of silence seemed to irritate the blond's old master more, he didn't know why but he was sure that he wasn't going to like the answer in the least but in the end he gathered his courage and asked how they would use that improvised device which made the man smile even more, Naruto felt that chill run down his spine while in his head Kyuubi's voice said that it had been a pleasure to meet him.
- Very simple brat, you are going to hold on to that with your feet hanging upside down and I will repeat the rock exercise from yesterday, the difference is that when I tell you to, my clone over there will run a small electric current through the metal plate to make sure that nothing disturbs your concentration or your chakra control- he said seriously while more than one drop formed on the blond's neck.
-ehh... How much is a small current?- the poor blue-eyed man asked frightened, fearing the answer.
-Ah, nothing you can't handle, it'll only be 10,000 volts, nothing really- he answered calmly while the blond lost all color in his face -Okay, enough chatter, get on top of it already, we don't have all day, remember that if you fall, the plate will fall on top of you and I don't think you want to end up as a skewer- said Hanzo pointing to the rock stakes under the plate, and only one idea was going through the blond's mind.
Naruto slowly turned around, pale and a little blue in the face, towards the computer screen and addressed the reader of this story – this guy is going to kill me, right? -; resigned, the blond climbed onto the board praying to all the known deities to protect him from this lunatic. In the end, these were going to be some very long years ahead of him.
It was a quiet afternoon in the village and like every day the door of the tavern opened letting him out, he walked calmly leaving the quiet place as he entered the forest, he walked at a leisurely pace until he reached the clearing where he was already waiting; in front of him a small stone rose from the ground on it had the kanji for salamander engraved with small flowers growing around it, the figure of about 1.67m tall was dressed in black and purple with a red scarf in vivid purple, tied by a chain to his belt a katana at least a meter long with a black handle adorned with red lines that flowed from the base of the gold-colored handle to the top of a hexagonal shape also in gold, the sheath seemed to be adorned with an elongated red figure of what could be a wolf or perhaps a fox.
He took off his scarf, revealing his face free of grease and slightly deep marks on his cheeks resembling mustaches that curiously seemed to match his blue eyes with slanted pupils. It was none other than Naruto Ishura who had come to pay respects to his teacher.
-I'm finally done sensei, I've passed the test you told me to, it's time for me to start traveling and for the whole world to know me, don't worry, I'll make everyone know that you trained the most powerful Ninja in the world, you'll see, in the end everyone will know about me, see you soon master, I'll come visit you when I can, it's a promise that Kuro Shippu (Black Hurricane) makes you, hehe, by the way, thanks for the nickname-
Without further ado, the blond turned around and began to walk away from the site while the wind blew softly; he could even swear he heard Hanzo's voice whispering in his ear -you better be, brat...you better be- a smile adorned the blond's face as he looked for the last time at the place where that small monument to his sensei lay, a little over 2 years ago he had died, victim of the only enemy that he always knew would defeat him, time.
This is where it all begins and this is where the history of the world changes forever because this is where Naruto Ishura's journey begins.
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