Inheritance

CHAPTER 17

"Fuuton: Daitoppa!" This time Naruto would admit his technique wasn't perfect, it was the most recent one he had managed to learn, and by far the most difficult of the two Fuuton jutsu he knew. Regardless, the technique did it's job. The blonde had reduced the overall area of the wind infused chakra he expelled, but as a result had increased the density and ferocity of the attack; the two Bunshin's jutsu tearing into the statues torso, grinding it down, almost entirely into granules of sand.

Just as the two Bunshin landed, a pair of the stone statues upon them, bringing their fearsome swords to bear upon the copies of the blonde. One of the Bunshin didn't react as quickly as required and was destroyed by the solid stone sword aimed a it's skull. The second was more successful, bringing it's sansetsukon above his head, just barely having the strength to use a horizontal block to defend against the attack.

Several of Naruto's Bunshin dashed towards the fray, releasing a volley of 'Fuuton: Goukuuhou no Jutsu', pushing back the pair of statues with several crushing blows to the torso, knocking them back into the ground.

The feeling of accomplishment at having disabled the trio of statues, was however, short lived.

An alien, ghoulish green haze surrounded the area where the remains of the first statue lay; and Naruto couldn't help stare in wonder as at first, disintegrated sandstone moved towards a central point grain by grain. Within seconds, the movement of sand was so significant it was almost as if the ground itself was shifting and transforming, possessed by some maniacal demon of infinite power

Then, a peculiar symbol made itself clear on one of the larger pieces of rubble. A strange, blood red marking on the stone, glowing as though imbued with the chakra of the Kyuubi itself. And it was towards this piece of rubble that the sand gravitated, the stone growing and mutating, until the statue itself had been reborn anew, as if not a thing had happened. It stood, towering above the blonde, who had frozen stock still, flabbergasted at the turn of events; not even noticing that the same thing had happened to the two other statues he had 'destroyed'.

Transfixed and paralysed by the combination of horror and shock at what he had just seen, Naruto simply stood whilst the re-made statue once again raised it's sword preparing to strike the blonde down in a single clean blow, crushing him under stone.

Ducking and weaving through another series of attacks from the onslaught of Hitoshi, who's strikes and lunges never seemed to let up or give way, Kakashi grimaced as he saw the statues Naruto had just destroyed rebuilding themselves. Admittedly, it was a very impressive jutsu, and even though Kakashi had his sharingan eye active, he couldn't figure out how it worked, even though he suspected fuuinjutsu. What had made him grimace however, was the fact that it was essentially two totally green Genin facing the jutsu. Talented, they may be, but almost every shinobi with experience knew that it was the key to staying alive in a decidedly deadly profession.

Blocking a lunge at his throat from the kunai wielding missing nin with his own kunai, he levelled a kick at the man's ribcage, landing his blow with a sickening crunch, sending Hitoshi skidding away from him on his back. Using the leg still on the floor to leap, Kakashi jumped backwards, avoiding the slash of a kunai from the earth aimed at his legs. Not even a moment later, the protruding arm had been engulfed in flames from a Katon jutsu from the Sharingan wielding jutsu.

Shooting a glance at the recovering Hitoshi, Kakashi attempted to seize the initiative as the situation his Genin were in took a turn for worse, with Naruto directly in the firing line. Pumping chakra into his legs he made to sprint to the aid of the blonde.

"Doton: Doroku Gaeshi!"

The Jonin skidded to a halt, leaping back from the wall defensive wall that erupted in front, giving him time to use his kunai to help deflect and dodge the hail of stone bullets that had erupted from it.