Getting Promoted
Sakura, Naruto and I had trained like mad for the past six months just for this moment. I had told them of my status as a time traveller and pushed them as hard as they could take, with an entire month on a special technique of my own devising that had nearly killed us to learn on multiple occasions. We somehow either managed to avoid notice or our training appeared sufficiently harmless that Kakashi had let us continue.
We planned on abusing our opponent's arrogance and the fact that they would underestimate us to kill them.
"You want our Earth Scroll, don't you?" The person speaking swallowed 'her' scroll, "Well, let's begin... the battle for the scrolls. Life or Death!"
I activated my three tomoe Sharingan and smirked at Orochimaru, who was currently wearing the skin of a grass genin, "It was gutless of you to come here, snake face."
He looked back at me, annoyed I'd apparently guessed who he is, "Oh, and why is that?"
My voice came from behind him as a cloned lightning-enhanced sword cleaved through his throat, "Because suicide is the coward's way out!"
I began molding chakra for the replacement technique as his body began to dissolve into mud. I released it as a hand shot out of the ground below me, and my perspective abruptly shifted.
"I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HIM!" came Sakura's cry as she tilted forward from where I had been standing, her arm cocked back for a haymaker. The hand vanished back into the ground as she threw her punch and turned the ground into a rising field of boulders. Several great trees fell towards the ground as their roots were obliterated.
Orochimaru's figure leapt out of one of the crevices that had formed... right into a pair of Narutos that were holding a sphere of chakra, "Take this! RASENGAN!"
He hit the body snatcher right in the side, and sent Orochimaru hurtling through several trees. A moment later, his face extended towards me alongside an enormous snake as he rushed back towards us. Naruto and Sakura prepared themselves while a pair of Naruto clones blasted the snake away with another Rasengan.
I merely stared at Orochimaru and activated my Mangekyo Sharingan. Orochimaru's eyes widened, and he hesistated.
"Amaterasu."
Orochimaru fled his burning body with his snakeskin shedding replacement technique and began to retreat, "Guh, impossible! Perhaps next time..."
Naruto jumped onto Sakura's outstretched fist and she launched him into the sky in the direction Orochimaru had begun to flee towards with an enhanced throw. A moment later it was filled with clouds of orange hurtling towards the ground, more spheres of chakra between them.
"You're not getting away! RASENGAN BARRAGE!"
As the expanding orbs of blue energy and small clouds from dispelled shadow clones cleared, we beheld Orochimaru's form stumbling away through the debris and stumps towards the tree line, missing an arm and with a crippled leg rapidly healing.
Sakura and I were breathing heavily, having gone all out for the short time our battle had taken place, but we weren't done yet. I shouted, "Now!" as we stepped into our ninjutsu formation.
"TEAM SEVEN ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE," Naruto shouted as he grasped my left hand and began to pour Kurama's chakra into me.
I focused my entire being on turning it all into Lightning-element chakra and funneling it into Sakura's back, "LIGHTNING STYLE:"
Sakura began the shape transformation, and an unbearably bright light began to form between her hands, "MASTER SPARK!"
Sakura thrust her hands forward, and we were all thrown from our feet by the backblast of the expanding beam of energy that roared across the world.
Gasping, blinded, deafened, and in incredible pain from chakra burns, we collapsed into an undignified pile of genin. We fought our way clear of each other, and ended up on our backs side by side, recovering.
What seemed like an eternity later, my sight began to return, and a ringing and pounding noise had replaced my deafness. I felt something shaking me and looked towards it, blinking to try and clear my vision more. As the blur I saw tended towards orange, I guessed it to be Naruto, probably worried about us.
A moment after that I felt hands on my chest and some energy flowing into me. Naruto grabbed my arm and helped me into a sitting position, then did the same with Sakura. We sat there for a few minutes while we caught our breath and recovered enough to make out each others' faces. Naruto was grinning like a maniac. I grinned back at him. Sakura mirrored us, and then we all fell back onto our backs laughing.
Eventually, after some basic medical techniques were applied, we could see and hear well enough to move, and we fumbled our way to our feet to look around and see the destruction our technique had caused.
A smoking crescent furrow had replaced the horizon and parts of the forest near it seemed to have been set ablaze. Small bursts of electricity were still arcing through the air, which tasted and smelled of cooked plant matter and lightning. In the middle of the trench, something stood out against the perfectly smooth surface.
Sakura gasped, "Wow..."
"I knew it would be strong, but..." I said.
"...It's incredible" Naruto finished after a moment, with a note of awe.
"Hehehe..."
"Heh. Hahaha!"
"Ahahaha."
Laughing, Naruto supported the two of us as we staggered and slipped together down into the newly formed path through the Forest of Death, and made our way to whatever was in the trench.
At least I know the paths the teams take well enough to know that nobody we care about was caught in the blast!
As we neared the object that was marring the perfect smoothness of the path of destruction, it made itself out to be a woman in a trench coat with her back to us, and what appeared to be a head in front of her on the ground.
"So, if we let you have this to stuff and mount, will we make chunin?" I barely managed to snark at her back.
Anko jumped to her feet and snapped around, then gaped at us just as the infusion of chakra that Naruto gave Sakura and I ran out and we succumbed to chakra exhaustion.
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A/N: How many Ninja does it take to copy a 2hu?
Sakura, Naruto and I had trained like mad for the past six months just for this moment. I had told them of my status as a time traveller and pushed them as hard as they could take, with an entire month on a special technique of my own devising that had nearly killed us to learn on multiple occasions. We somehow either managed to avoid notice or our training appeared sufficiently harmless that Kakashi had let us continue.
We planned on abusing our opponent's arrogance and the fact that they would underestimate us to kill them.
"You want our Earth Scroll, don't you?" The person speaking swallowed 'her' scroll, "Well, let's begin... the battle for the scrolls. Life or Death!"
I activated my three tomoe Sharingan and smirked at Orochimaru, who was currently wearing the skin of a grass genin, "It was gutless of you to come here, snake face."
He looked back at me, annoyed I'd apparently guessed who he is, "Oh, and why is that?"
My voice came from behind him as a cloned lightning-enhanced sword cleaved through his throat, "Because suicide is the coward's way out!"
I began molding chakra for the replacement technique as his body began to dissolve into mud. I released it as a hand shot out of the ground below me, and my perspective abruptly shifted.
"I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HIM!" came Sakura's cry as she tilted forward from where I had been standing, her arm cocked back for a haymaker. The hand vanished back into the ground as she threw her punch and turned the ground into a rising field of boulders. Several great trees fell towards the ground as their roots were obliterated.
Orochimaru's figure leapt out of one of the crevices that had formed... right into a pair of Narutos that were holding a sphere of chakra, "Take this! RASENGAN!"
He hit the body snatcher right in the side, and sent Orochimaru hurtling through several trees. A moment later, his face extended towards me alongside an enormous snake as he rushed back towards us. Naruto and Sakura prepared themselves while a pair of Naruto clones blasted the snake away with another Rasengan.
I merely stared at Orochimaru and activated my Mangekyo Sharingan. Orochimaru's eyes widened, and he hesistated.
"Amaterasu."
Orochimaru fled his burning body with his snakeskin shedding replacement technique and began to retreat, "Guh, impossible! Perhaps next time..."
Naruto jumped onto Sakura's outstretched fist and she launched him into the sky in the direction Orochimaru had begun to flee towards with an enhanced throw. A moment later it was filled with clouds of orange hurtling towards the ground, more spheres of chakra between them.
"You're not getting away! RASENGAN BARRAGE!"
As the expanding orbs of blue energy and small clouds from dispelled shadow clones cleared, we beheld Orochimaru's form stumbling away through the debris and stumps towards the tree line, missing an arm and with a crippled leg rapidly healing.
Sakura and I were breathing heavily, having gone all out for the short time our battle had taken place, but we weren't done yet. I shouted, "Now!" as we stepped into our ninjutsu formation.
"TEAM SEVEN ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE," Naruto shouted as he grasped my left hand and began to pour Kurama's chakra into me.
I focused my entire being on turning it all into Lightning-element chakra and funneling it into Sakura's back, "LIGHTNING STYLE:"
Sakura began the shape transformation, and an unbearably bright light began to form between her hands, "MASTER SPARK!"
Sakura thrust her hands forward, and we were all thrown from our feet by the backblast of the expanding beam of energy that roared across the world.
Gasping, blinded, deafened, and in incredible pain from chakra burns, we collapsed into an undignified pile of genin. We fought our way clear of each other, and ended up on our backs side by side, recovering.
What seemed like an eternity later, my sight began to return, and a ringing and pounding noise had replaced my deafness. I felt something shaking me and looked towards it, blinking to try and clear my vision more. As the blur I saw tended towards orange, I guessed it to be Naruto, probably worried about us.
A moment after that I felt hands on my chest and some energy flowing into me. Naruto grabbed my arm and helped me into a sitting position, then did the same with Sakura. We sat there for a few minutes while we caught our breath and recovered enough to make out each others' faces. Naruto was grinning like a maniac. I grinned back at him. Sakura mirrored us, and then we all fell back onto our backs laughing.
Eventually, after some basic medical techniques were applied, we could see and hear well enough to move, and we fumbled our way to our feet to look around and see the destruction our technique had caused.
A smoking crescent furrow had replaced the horizon and parts of the forest near it seemed to have been set ablaze. Small bursts of electricity were still arcing through the air, which tasted and smelled of cooked plant matter and lightning. In the middle of the trench, something stood out against the perfectly smooth surface.
Sakura gasped, "Wow..."
"I knew it would be strong, but..." I said.
"...It's incredible" Naruto finished after a moment, with a note of awe.
"Hehehe..."
"Heh. Hahaha!"
"Ahahaha."
Laughing, Naruto supported the two of us as we staggered and slipped together down into the newly formed path through the Forest of Death, and made our way to whatever was in the trench.
At least I know the paths the teams take well enough to know that nobody we care about was caught in the blast!
As we neared the object that was marring the perfect smoothness of the path of destruction, it made itself out to be a woman in a trench coat with her back to us, and what appeared to be a head in front of her on the ground.
"So, if we let you have this to stuff and mount, will we make chunin?" I barely managed to snark at her back.
Anko jumped to her feet and snapped around, then gaped at us just as the infusion of chakra that Naruto gave Sakura and I ran out and we succumbed to chakra exhaustion.
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A/N: How many Ninja does it take to copy a 2hu?
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