There was a sickening laugh filled with malice.
" I've heard there is a Genin whose growth is astronomical, yet I've never thought it is this shrimp," said Zabuza.
( A/n he just said the magic words,)
Naruto had a shadow downcast over his face as an aura appeared around him.
Naruto walked forward to face Zabuza, but Kakashi stopped him.
" This guy's out of your league. Let me handle him," said Kakashi.
Naruto was still pissed but he had learned to hold his anger and when to release it at any given moment.
As Kakashi faced Zabuza, they began a serious bout. Zabuza used a strike with his sword aimed at Kakashi's head, but Kakashi used the body flicker and appeared beside Zabuza, landing a sidekick aimed at Zabuza's head.
Zabuza fell back and made a hand seal as he summoned a large wave to his aid.
Kakashi moved out of the way and appeared beside Zabuza, attempting to strike him, but Zabuza caught him in a grapple and chuckled as he said.
" You should mind your footwork," said Zabuza as Kakashi's eyes widened, but it was too late. The copy-ninja was suddenly caught in a water prison.
Naruto then made it his personal responsibility to free Kakashi; however, Zabuza summoned six water clones.
" Sasuke, Hinata, cover your ears," said Naruto.
The two genin's eyes widened before they did so and Naruto let out a sigh." dragons fear."
Naruto let out a loud roar that blew back the water and destroyed the clones while causing Zabuza to drop to one knee.
Haku, who was watching this, felt lightheaded and found himself falling to the ground.
Naruto, in the meantime, closed in, rushing at Zabuza and attempting a flying kick to Zabuza's chest.
Zabuza caught the boy but Naruto executed a somersault kick that nearly decapitated Zabuza at that moment zabuza's grip loosened on the water prison and Naruto smirked as he decided to use one of his 'original' techniques he span around dragging his heel through the water setting it on fire and then executed a rising heel kick that caught fire as Naruto called out " Ryuu-po: En-ryuu-kyaku." ( Dragon method: Blaze Dragon Kick) The kick hit Zabuza square in the chin with such force he was sent into the sky.
Naruto landed, grounded his stance, and did a little shuffle of his shoulders.
Naruto shifted back and waited as Zabuza lost his temper.
' if I hadn't pulled my head back at the last moment, that kick would've killed me. This kid isn't playing 'round,' thought Zabuza in panic.
Kakashi then came from behind and stabbed Zabuza in the back.
" Tch damnit," said zabuza.
Haku had recovered fast enough to help Zabuza with his senbon,
Naruto attacked Zabuza with a combination of two blows to the gut, two hooks to the jaw, and then a huge sweeping Uppercut.
Just then, two senbon hit Zabuza in the neck.
And a boy appeared in an anbu mask.
Naruto could sense this boy wasn't an anbu but decided to let him go as he knew that if he ended this battle here Sasuke and Hinata wouldn't get the chance to grow stronger.
" I'll allow you to take Zabuza off my hands," he said before he added in a barely audible tone so only Haku could hear.
" You best be ready because we'll come back for your head as well you two-faced liar," thought Naruto.
After that, Haku retreated. He knew he had to eliminate this person, but he couldn't blow his cover.
Naruto and his team finally arrived at the bridge builder's house, and then Kakashi had each of them do training.
Since he was focused on having Sasuke get stronger since he already knew he needed to catch up, he had Sasuke begin with tree walking. Naruto and Hinata joined too, and they both showed progress.
After the first day, Naruto summoned his system and found his status.
{ Name: Naruto Uzumaki}
{ Status: Player}
{ Rank: rookie}
{ Title: Genin}
{ Level 6}
{ Strength: 26}
{ Speed: 24}
{ Stamina: 25}
{ Agility: 28}
{ Accuracy: 29}
{ Intelligence: 27}
{ Passives: will to recover; user can not sustain any physical damage, longevity; player can not be affected by any ailment}
{ Active skills: Dragon's Fear; user releases a mighty shout that can cause anyone weaker than him to be rendered unconscious,}
{ Player has ten skill points available,}
Naruto decided to invest his skill points into his strength, speed, and accuracy since he figured he would need them. He also added some to his agility to give him more flexible movements.
After this, he began to practice his taijutsu with his shadow clones. He then turned to Kakashi, who was watching him.
" Don't you dare think of copying my techniques," Naruto said with a menacing glare.
Kakashi's sweat dropped.
" I won't, Naruto. If I do, I'll be revoked of my license as a jounin." Said.
Naruto decided to check if his system had anything that could help him.
Naruto found out his system had a shop feature in which he could buy weapons and armor and a bunch of other stuff. He decided to buy himself a sword since he thought having one would be useful. His system also seemed to have a scroll on an ancient kenjutsu style called Hiten-Mitsurugi-Ryu the Flying Heaven Sovereign sword-style.
Naruto decided to purchase both.
After this Naruto began practicing this sword style and techniques using shadow clones and eventually had it down by the end of the day.
As the week progressed, the group grew stronger, with Sasuke learning some Taijutsu from Kakashi that helped him develop further.
Naruto would often spar with Sasuke and Hinata both of whom would do their best to try and touch him.
Naruto had them build up their speed by making them play a game of tag. Although Sasuke found it useless, he soon discovered that he was getting faster the more he played.
Naruto eventually had them spar with him.
Sasuke came at Naruto with a backspin kick but Naruto dodged it with a simple step back before Hinata came at him with a sweep Naruto again stepped back dodging them both of them came at him with their hand strikes,
Naruto shifted his weight and countered with a backspin fist that caught fire,
" Crap!" Shouted sasuke.
" Oh no!" Said Hinata.
The two put up their guards before Naruto went on the offensive. He moved fast using shifting footwork. He landed a left straight to Sasuke's chin, followed by a double hook kick to Hinata's knees before using a split to duck under it as Naruto came back and landed a seiken to Sasuke's junk.
" Ngh!" Cried Sasuke as he felt as if his pelvis was completely shattered.
Naruto did a kip up and assumed his front horse stance, drew his arms in a circle, and shuffled his shoulders.
" Again faster this time!" Said Naruto.
They continued this again and again until finally, Sasuke and Hinata both landed a hit, with Sasuke landing a reversed elbow to Naruto's and Hinata landing a palm strike to Naruto's back.
" Good!" Said Naruto but then he came at Hinata with a series of hand strikes causing her to defend herself this time however Hinata wasn't using traditional jūken she was flowing more fluidly and striking more rapidly her arms moved in a circular motion and she countered his strikes with relaxed hands she eventually stepped over his footwork back fisting him in the liver and trapping his arm pulling it into a lock before releasing him while landing a palm strike to his center sending him flying.
Naruto then turned to Sasuke throwing a combination of straights and hooks aimed at
Sasuke's head and chest.
Sasuke weaved left and right before Naruto threw a roundhouse kick, to which Sasuke executed a sweeper kick into a backspin kick followed by an axe kick.
Naruto, however, dodged the last kick by vanishing, leaving an afterimage, and appeared on a tree branch above Sasuke.
Sasuke's sweat dropped.
'seriously how fast is this guy,' thought the last Uchiha.
Naruto watches the two spar; Hinata would occasionally use mix-ups in her style, she would use spinning sweeps and back turn strikes, as well as ankle traps and wrist locks so she could land powerful double palms or leg sweeps.
Naruto would also help with the construction using at least 300 shadow clones to help with the progress.
As a result, Naruto got 12 points. He put two into each stat, and he felt himself growing stronger.
It was during one day that Naruto was approached by a person wearing a dress.
Naruto saw the person but he could tell this was actually a guy.
Naruto sighed, knowing this was indeed the boy who rescued Zabuza.
" Listen, I don't want to be your enemy. If you would like, you could come to Konoha with me, and you could become a ninja again," Naruto said.
Haku felt sorry. He knew this boy was trying his best to help, but he was indebted to Zabuza.
" I'm sorry, Naruto-san, but Zabuza is my reason for living," said Haku.
Naruto sighed. There was no point in fighting Haku. He was a good kid.
" I don't want to be your enemy, but if that is your choice, then I will have to fight you. However, I won't fight an enemy who isn't ready for combat. It's against my nin-do," said Naruto.
" You are a kind individual Naruto-San," said Haku.
After which the two parted ways from that point.
Naruto returned home, and he approached Kakashi.
"Kakashi-sensei, is it normal to not want to kill your enemy?" asked Naruto.
Kakashi felt sorry for Naruto as he finally had to face one of the most difficult troubles of a Shinobi.
" Yes, Naruto, it is normal to not want to kill someone who is your enemy," said Kakashi with a sad expression.
Naruto nodded.
To be continued.