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Chapter 8

Neji strikes at me again, I step in 45 degrees, hit his hand away from me, grab him by his shoulders, pulled his upper body down and raised my knee to his face. He falls backwards holding his face as blood rubs from his nose he tries to get back up but I'm already on him, I'm punching and kicking him from all over, he falls over again laying flat on the ground he's breathing heavily, he tries getting up but fails, he's cursing himself for being weak and unable to get back up.

"hey I wouldn't call you weak in fact you're pretty strong you were able to beat my shadow clone pretty quickly and I put a lot of chakra into all of them" I say to him.

"Yeah but you also have chakra restraint seals on you and yet you still beat me with the small amount of chakra you have left." Neji says in breaths

"You just can't take a compliment can you?" I question but don't hear a reply as some of my shadow clones disperse making me again feel dizzy with all the memories coming at me at once.

In a moment of weakness Sasuke punches me in the face, hard enough for me to stagger backwards and for me to taste blood in my mouth.

"Well finally a hit" I yell, wiping the blood from my mouth, not at least bit upset that I got hit.

"Yeah I figured it out from when the last time we beat your clones, you had a look of discomfort on your face. That's when I figured out that you gain memories from your clones, I remember reading about shadow clones in a scroll, only jonin level can safely use it, that's why in the academy we are only taught the basic illusion clone. I would much rather learn the one you and Kakashi can use but it's now forbidden from the leaf village" Sasuke says

"What really the shadow clone jutsu is forbidden now?" I question aloud.

"Yes if you ain't strong enough it can ruin your chakra reserves, that's why it's forbidden now." Kakashi says back.

"I guess I understand that, I was born with large reserves so I never had a problem with that jutsu, as well it's only a B-rank jutsu." I say back. While I was talking to Kakashi, Sasuke comes punching at me, I grab his hand and swing it back behind him, he was now leaning over in pain as I keep pulling  his arm further up.

"Nice attacking me while I'm off guard. I would say it's rude to attack when the adults are talking but we were in a battle so really I'm the rude one for talking first." I let go of his arm and kick him from behind, he rolls over onto his back when I punch him hard in the gut, he withers in pain.

"2 down 4 to go" I say as Sasuke groans in pain.

"HEY HOW DARE YOU HURT SASUKE" Sakura shouts, charging at me.

"It is a fight ya know, pain is apart of it" I say back. I really want to knock her unconscious but I need more Intel on her, from what I got from my shadow clone was that she is a close combat fighter, seems to have good chakra control but lacks any jutsu, even her taijutsu is bad, just randomly throwing punches and seems to use the substitution jutsu a lot.

Back to the fight with Sakura, I cringe every time she's tries to throw a punch or kick at me. With 5 or so minutes of dodging her attacks I finally go on the offensive and attack her, even her defence is weak, I want to know what the academy is doing? I mean in my village we are taught very young to fight, the elders never took it easy on us, didn't want weakness in their village. Well turns out they made a monster that ended up blowing up their village, with everyone in it. Not that i meant to blow it up but they had it coming I suppose.

I was cut out of my thoughts when I hit Sakura in the face, there was a POOF and in her place was a log. About time she did something but is this her signature move or something? I used my senses to find her, she was above me with having enough Intel on her I grab her by the throat as she was coming down and smash her to the ground. She passed out.

Before I had time to even get my hand of off her throat  a big ball comes at me. I back kick the ball, turns out it was Choji, he spins back and comes at me again, as I was getting ready for the attack, Kiba comes at me.

"FANG WOLF FANG" yells Kiba. He comes at me with such speed I can't see where he will go next but with Choji still charging at me it isn't good for the both of them. Just to get at me he's willing to put his team member in danger.

"You really are an idiot aren't you Kiba" they are both heading for each other and with both going a fast speed it won't be good for them cause they could seriously hurt each other coming at each other with that speed.

"Raiton no shushin" (lightning release body flicker) I shout and lightning surrounds my body. I disappear not a second later and appear right in front of Kiba and Choji before they clash.

"Mokuton wood release" I shout. Wood comes out of the ground, stopping both Kiba and Choji in their tracks.

"HEY LET ME OUT" Kiba yells from the wood cage I made to stop them both. The wood slowly draining their chakra.

"You're really an idiot aren't ya, do you know what could have happened if I didn't intervene? You could have seriously hurt your teammate"

"I-I-I was just" I cut Kiba off

"Trying to beat me? Yeah I understand that but when fighting together with your team you have to be aware of your surroundings, not just for your teammates but for civilians and the people you are suppose to protect for your missions" not that I should talk, in my village you work alone and could easily get portrayed by your so called people.

"Ah if you don't mind the interruption... it was a very good pep talk but—" Kakashi was cut of by Gai.

"YOSH THAT WAS AMAZING, I WILL GLADLY HAND OVER TEACHING MY PUPIL TO YOU... WITH MY HELP OF COURSE, CAN'T BE GIVING YOU MY TEAM"

"GAI" "LEE" both kept yelling their names at each other.

"Not that we don't have a choice giving away our teams" Asuma says.

"Look I ain't taking your team's away I'm helping you. And this goes against everything I was taught but we are working together to a some what similar goal... stopping this war. Now Kakashi what were you going to say before you were so rudely interrupted?" I ask looking from Asuma to Kakashi.

"Right. I was curious as to how you learnt the wood style jutsu? for what we know it was only used by Hashirama Senju the first hokage" asks Kakashi.

"Huh really? About 2 people in my village knew how to do it and that's not including me, but to the question as to how I learnt it, it was from my sensei, I didn't question how he knew it I just did what I was told and didn't complain on what I was learning as he was making me stronger, don't know if you know this but in my village the weak die so we are trained since young to survive. Now back to where we were... Hinata why didn't you attack me? I'm sure I had plenty of openings so why?" I ask getting to the point, I need to finish this soon, I'm feeling my chakra getting way low after using those two jutsu. I'm starting to feel a burning sensation from the seal on my chest. Lucky Kiba and Choji are out as I sucked their chakra out with the wood style jutsu. I could just use taijutsu with her without chakra, if she's like her cousin she is close range attacker.

"I-I saw no openings e-e-even when you were just talking I-I-I tried to go for an attack once but when I made a move you looked at me for a brief second, t-the look you gave me was if I attacked I would be d-dead a-a-at least that's what I felt" Hinata finally manage to get out.

"Ah I see... I didn't even realise. You have good instincts.... Well let's continue, I want to get this done." I say and turn my attention all to Hinata, my last opponent.

To be continued.

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So sorry for yet again updating late even when I said I would update soon. I hope you forgive me. 😭 and I hope you liked it, I know the story hasn't really progressed that far yet but hopefully it'll get there and hey we learnt a bit about naruto's village.

Thanks for reading.