Naruto : A Second Chance

Chapter 8 - NASC CH 008 Raikage A

The Raikage didn't use the door again. For the others it took a bit longer to reach the upper floor.

"What is this about Akatsuki? You claim they are a threat to us?" The Raikage asked him.

"Akatsuki, red clouds, black cloaks. Mercenaries to gather money, but their actual goal are the Bijuu. I was personally informed of this by Third Hokage when I was leaving the village. This has been confirmed by a few spies of Konoha." Naruto answered him. "I don't know who their members might be, but all of them are supposed to be on par with the Kage. Maybe even comprising of people from our own villages."

"Hmph!" The Raikage wasn't impressed, and as far as Naruto heard, he wasn't much different the last time. He seems a bit calmer now that no war looms over them, but without Killer B being taken, he has no reason to care. Naruto didn't push his luck, he only came to warn him, whether he believed it or not was his choice.

"I don't really care if you believe me, or if you are taking the threat seriously," Naruto told him honestly, "but if your brother is taken, I know you will fight. And I don't need to tell you what the result will be if a Tailed beast is extracted from a Jinchuriki. I have only known one person to survive that, and that was my mother, that even barely. Don't lose your brother in front of your pride, that's all I will say." Naruto

"Killer B can take care of himself," A told him. "I thank you for the warning though I truly appreciate your sincerity towards other Jinchuriki even though we are from different villages. You are allowed to stay in the village for the meantime. The ANBU will watch you."

[Visited 2 of the 5 Great Villages!]

"You've been awful quiet, haven't you?" Raikage "Do you want to a place and partner to train with?"

Naruto nodded at that, The Raikage accepted that and dismissed him. "Heeey, someone take on Uzumaki. He wants to spar."

"I'll take you on!" Karui shouted, her eyes looking as if they were glowing.

"No ladle," Naruto honestly regretted giving that to them. "It's B's either way."

Before B could begin to rap, A grabbed his whole head with one hand and growled.

"Yoouuuu… fool!" B was thrown against a wall, to the disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e or Mabui who just made another note in a small book.

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"Don't you have to debrief or something?" Naruto asked Karui when they reached some empty training ground. "Damn that's a lot of rocks…"

"Nah, we are special a little bit. Being Killer B Sensei's students and all you know. And we are on a mountain, idiot. Of course there will be rocks" Karui told him. "We are lucky that we are high enough to avoid snow. Dunno how that works exactly. I had heard that higher up you are colder it should be. Well whatever, let's go!" Karui

[A challenger has appeared. Accept the duel?

Yes or No.]

"Yeah, sure, let's just fight. No Jutsu?" Naruto

"Screw this, I'm a ninja!" Karui

Karui of Kumogakure

2000 HP

900C

'She is, her Chakra is rather high…' Naruto

"Water Release: Large Projectile!" Naruto began, better to give her no chance to counter with her own Jutsu. Sadly, she was better than that and jumped to the side before stabbing the scabbard of her sword into the ground and using it to change her direction towards him. Killer B's student, he reminded himself.

"Kumo ¬Ryu: Front Beheading!" He heard her shout and her sword was far faster than any of Maron's techniques.

Pulling his own sword he blocked the strike barely and… wait, why did he only have 2000 HP?

[During a spar the HP are set equal to make sure no one is seriously hurt.]

Does that mean she usually has more HP? Is every person he meets some kind of monster!? Now he couldn't put the sword into its scabbard for an Iaido. She was too fast and…

"Lightning Release: Swallow!"

Her sword came from above, not thrown but kicked by her knee as she did a front flip, stopping on both of her hands and then spinning around, reaching for a kick. She wanted him to jump, he could see, if he stepped back he would get hit, if he jumped, the sword would pierce him, and if she managed to kick him he would be on the floor.

"Substitution!" Naruto got out in the last moment, but Karui wasn't finished and grabbed the sword mid-¬air. She was smart. Not close to Shikamaru, but she had tactics. And he did not.

"Rock Clone Jutsu!" Ten clones stood in front of her, all with their Earth weapons. They surrounded her before starting their assault. The three clones rushed at her, forcing her to block. Seven others released Earth Dragons, albeit smaller than Naruto would have released. Karui had to get busy, Dodging and defending those attacks.

Naruto himself smiled widely. Fun! Much more fun than Maron!

"Water Release: Large Projectile!" The distracted Karui was hit by Naruto's Jutsu, but his clones were taken with her and she was thrown against a wall, too wet to use any close range Lightning Release. Finally seeing a chance to end it he struck out Earth Style: Earth Dragon, Releasing an enormous Dragon which had the thickness of all the previous seven dragons combined.

"Alright, that's enough." The spar was broken up by a dense mass of lightning beams that pulverized the dragon. Both Karui and Naruto were startled by sudden twist.

"Wha--¬" Karui stood up and glared at the interruption, "Darui-¬san!"

"Darui?" Naruto asked. The guy with the cool black lightning and Storm Release? And what a cool sword! That reminded him of Zabuza!

"The Raikage's right hand man," Karui told him, "why did you interrupt our spar, Darui¬-san?"

"Naruto needs to see the place he stays for now, you can spar later on." Darui told them.

"You could've waited until the end!" Both Naruto and Karui shouted.

"I don't have all the time in the world and Naruto isn't someone you could just give to any ninja." Darui sighed.

"I feel like I'm some object…" Naruto muttered. "Did Omoi tell you something? You shouldn't listen to him, I'm good…"

Darui sighed again.

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"Niiiice!" Naruto ran through his new room. Which was a big room, no kitchen or something but a bed and a window and a fridge!

"There's a bathroom too, don't bother hiding something there, we would know." Darui

"That sounded really weird, Darui¬-san." Naruto said dryly.

"Yeah, whatever, enjoy your stay?" Darui left.

Now that Karui went to her team and he had his nice room Naruto pulled out the scroll he got from Maron. There were only 4 techniques in, even one Water Release and an Earth Release!

"Water Release Kenjutsu: Crushing Blade: Infusing the blade with water takes the cutting power, but increases crushing power to destroy weapons or handle

enemies with less lethal force. Ohhh, that's nice!"

[Water Release Kenjutsu: Crushing blade learned. (Lv.0)]

"Zigzag Snipe: Holding the blade close to the floor, use your other hand to change directions while pulling it up." Naruto read. "That sounds really easy, it

doesn't sound any faster than normal."

[Kenjutsu: Zigzag Snipe Learned. (Lv.0)]

"Earth Release: Sword Momentum, increase durability and weight when applied. Useful for Heavy strike at critical moments. Could be good when used in a Combo."

[Earth Release: Sword Momentum Learned. (Lv.0)]

"Okay, to the last… that's the technique he used, wasn't it? Counter Blade… that sounds boring. Hold blade on your eye level while pointing the tip at your

enemy and the hilt next to your head… yeah, that's the stance." Naruto muttered to himself. "Point the tip at the enemy's sword and cut along it's blade to hit

him… I don't get it!"

[Kenjutsu: Counter Blade learned. (Lv.0)]

"Now I need some place to practice them…"

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A few hours later he could use all three techniques more or less well. What confused him though was something else.

'After reaching Lv. 2 in Large Projectile and Iaido it became much harder levelling them… Maybe I should use Shadow Clone?'

[Greater men could train their whole lives and reach a pinnacle of skill that would be impossible to reach for the untalented.]

"Does that mean I'm not allowed to cheat?"

[Yes.]

"Asshole."

"Who are you talking to, kid?" That was… Nii Yugito, right?

"Ah, no one?" This better not be another event.