Starting over

#48 Tower Shenanigans

Naruto POV

We went onto the second floor and examined the rooms. We evidently were the first team to arrive at the tower so we had a free choice. The rooms were almost all fitted with three beds and a bath. Only two rooms were fitted with a single queen sized bed each. Gaara looked at us grinning and pointed at exactly these two rooms. Temari just rolled her eyes and dragged me into one of them. Gaara laughed a little going into the other one. I noticed that there was a seal at the door that, if activated, locked the room from anyone but the occupants who could add their chakra signature via a simple chakra storage seal that was placed next to a note that explained the whole thing.

Temari and I each pushed a bit of chakra into the seal causing it to glow shortly. The door also began to glow a little. On the inside nothing happened but I was sure that the door would now show on the outside that this room is occupied. I put my storage scrolls into one of the cabinets and waited while Temari sorted out which scrolls she wanted to take with her and which she thought that she could leave in our room. After five minutes she was ready, smiling apologetically at me. Gaara was nowhere to be seen so we just went through the tower looking around until we came to the training room. "What do you think, wanna spar a little?", I asked my fellow blonde teammate. "Nah, I want to relax while we're here.", Temari said smiling before going on to the next room which seemed to have a small pool in it. "Wanna take a bath?", she asked with a smirk on her lips. I shook my head. "Not when there could be people coming in.", I said. "Well, I'm going to take a bath, you do what you want.", Temari said disappearing into the room. I was taken aback by the tone she had used, since it didn't really seem all too kind. I couldn't figure out why she would have been so upset, since she normally knew that I didn't like to take bath when there was a possibility that w were being watched and that there could someone just barge into the pool since it wasn't a private pool like the one in the Namikaze-Spa. I shook my head in confusion and went out of the tower to clear my head. I was so deep in thought that I didn't realize how far I had been going until I heard something snap a twig behind me. I immediately whirled around and laid a hand on my katana. I hear a second twig snap on my right and slowly shifted into a defensive stance unsheathing my katana. Then there was movement behind me. I took a quick glance in that direction before going through one-handed hand seals. Once I was done a wave of chakra exploded out of me and expanded in a circle around me. This jutsu allowed me to sense the position of my enemies. I smirked, throwing three kunai with explosive tags in their directions. When they exploded, I saw three shadows fly through the air. I turned around and looked at the trio that now stood in front of me. They apparently had discarded their headbands since I couldn't see them on their bodies. I looked at each of them with a challenging look in my eyes. They all were around four years older than me and at least a head taller. "If it isn't that confident Suna kid.", the boy in the middle said, chuckling. "Where is your team? Did they get killed? Or have they left you here so they could go on without being dragged down by you?", the other two boys laughed at the insults. I just looked at them with my sword in one hand and the other in my pocket. "I remember, you were in a team with that blonde haired bitch and the redhead. Hm, I really liked the girl, maybe I'll go and play with her once I find her. The redhead won't be a problem to kill.", the leader of the team failed to notice my building rage. "I wouldn't insult my girlfriend and her brother, if you know what is good for you.", I said in a shaking voice. The trio obviously misjudged the shakiness of my voice as fear and laughed again. "Oh, she is you girlfriend, I wonder what she will say once I show her what a real man looks like.", the boy on the right said earning two loud laughs from his teammates. I stood there, my hands shaking with rage, trying to control my emotions as to not alert the authorities, since they would certainly step in once they detected Kurama's chakra. "Oh, is the little baby shaking? Do you want to go back to your whore of a mother? Or rather to your bitch girlfriend? I bet she is hooking up with that redhead right now.", the third boy said laughing in between his words.

That was the last straw, I took a deep breath and shifted my gaze to the ground. I let my sword slip from my hands. The sword dropping attracted the attention of the still laughing team. The boy in the middle already was beginning to say something when I flashed through a series of handsigns and looked them in their eyes. And just like that they were each trapped in a genjutsu.

The leader looked around noticing that he was in an empty space, tied to a tree. I stood in front of him with a grin on my face. "So, my team has abandoned me?", I asked. The black haired boy looked at me with fear in his eyes. I took out a kunai, calmly taking steps towards the tree and the boy. "So you want to 'play' with my girlfriend?", I asked him slowly cutting his skin with my katana. He began to scream, struggling against the restraints that kept him tied to the tree. "You think Temari is a whore?", I screamed at him, pushing my sword through his shoulder and into the tree. Slowly the screams died down and I saw that the boy started to lose consciousness. I pulled my sword out of his shoulder and opened the restraints, letting his body fall to the ground. Then I cancelled the genjutsu.

The boy that had stood on the left hung suddenly found himself hanging upside down from a tree, his feet tangled in vines. "It's no use. You won't escape.", I stated once he tried to free himself, wiggling like a worm. The boy stopped struggling and looked at me with wide eyes. "Please don't kill me.", he said with a shaking voice. "So my mother is a whore and my girlfriend is a bitch?", I asked him with a smile on my face. "No, no, no I didn't mean it like that. Please don't kill me.", he begged with tears in her eyes. I just smiled and pushed my sword into his stomach. He screamed and began to struggle again. Sighing, I pulled my sword out of his stomach and let his blood spill on the floor. When he lost his consciousness I cancelled the genjutsu.

The last of the three boys stood next to his friends when suddenly his teammates collapsed right next to him. He looked at me with wide eyes. "What did you do?", he asked with shaky voice. "I just knocked them out. Nothing to worry about.", I said grinning. I raised my katana and looked at the genin with challenging eyes. The boy cried out and charged at me with a raised kunai. I blocked his slash and disarmed him with a simple punch to his underarm,causing him to drop his weapon. He looked at me with fear in his eyes and opened his mouth to speak but I didn't want to listen and just knocked him out with a chakra infused punch to the temple.