(Un) explained circumstances chapter 7

"It's a good thing your legs run as fast as your mouth!" SMASH!

Naruto dodged backwards barely missing Isamu's Latest assault. He back flipped gaining some distance.

You're good at evading my attacks, but you won't accomplish anything staying on the defensive.

'He's right this time I'll bring the fight to him!' He rushed at his sensei throwing a punch. Isamu simply sidestepped him allow Naruto to fly past him before grabbing his arm using his momentum to throw him around and send him rolling across the floor, much to everyone's amusement.

The jinchuriki picked himself up and turned back towards his opponent.

'Dammit. Why can't I hit him'?!

Meanwhile Goku found himself being escorted by Akari for questioning.

"So Akari, you said this place was called the village hidden in the light right"?

Yeah that's right, ain. My grandfather named it. He's also the leader of this village.

"Isn't that you know kind of ironic"?

The medic was about to answer but was interrupted.

"Hey Akari!"

A young man came running up to the couple.

"Oh, Akiko nii-san, how you doing"

Yeah I'm good. It's been a while since we last, woah
"Well I never, look who's finally been able to pull himself away from the Dorad". (Department of research and development) "What's with the outfit?

"Uhh do I... know you"? The confused Saiyan asked

'Well you're in a good mood today," the guy smirked, "you're actually talking. I'm only your assistant, you know, the guy who makes sure you don't accidentally kill yourself in your crazy experiments."

"Hold on"...

"Your scars, they're gone?! What did you do?!"

"Okay seriously I don't know what you're talking about". "You must have me confused for someone else"

"Uhh... Yeah sure cause there's loads of people with hairstyles like yours. Akiko deadpanned. Although you do look paler than usual, are you feeling alright?

Just then two hidden light Anbu black ops suddenly appeared as if out of nowhere.

"Akira hime. One of then bowed. We have orders from the Rasho sama to escort this man to the interrogation department."

"What! I told him I would bring him myself".

"I'm sorry but orders are orders" he bowed again then turned to the saiyan

"You are required to where these" he said producing what looked like thick handcuffs. If you resist, you will be seen as an enemy and we will take action.

What no way! Look I don't have time for this! I-

"Goku". The saiyan turned his head to Akira, who was touching his arm lightly "please"

"Go with them. I know you have no ill intentions. We're a rather secretive village, and you are the first outsider to have found this place. Think about it from our point of view".

..."Fine, I'll meet your leader".

For the sixth time Naruto found himself on the ground. He looked at his fellow classmates to see with everyone laughing at him, well almost everyone. He saw Hinata looking more concerned for him while Shino wore that ever unreadable expression.

Sasuke on the other hand was hardly watching. He looked to be preoccupied deep in thought.

"What are you doing? Three years in the academy and this is all you're capable of? I'm supposed to be assessing taijutsu. But all I'm getting is you flailing around miserably. I'm done, get up and join the rest."

"What?! No way!" "Not yet, I'm not done yet!" The orange clad ninja in training picked himself up 'I've still got one more trick up my sleeve'

He turned to face his sensei, he smirked then launched at him with full speed. Quickly closing the distance between them he formed a hand sign then jumped at Isamu who was preparing to react.

Isamu's eyes widened as Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke, and was replaced with a girl with long blonde hair flying at him whose modesty was barely covered by (in)conveniently placed smoke

"Oh sensei please, catch me sensei"
'She' yelled diving head first right at him.

Even though he knew it was just a transformation jutsu, his subconscious mind couldn't bring him to voluntarily move however he was still a well-seasoned ninja who was able to dodge on a reflex. He began to move to the side.

The jinchurriki however anticipated that from watching him fight Sasuke

'Now's my chance'!

Naruto flipped over as to land on his feet then twisted his body so that his side was parallel to the ground as he flew past him before kicking backwards to land a hard foot on Isamu's exposed back. What he did not expect however was for his foot to hit what felt like steel. The man didn't budge an inch. Because of that the orange clad boy had no way to balance himself and ended up crashing into the ground dispelling his transformation.

'Uhh that hurt. But I hit him I actually hit him'

"Yataa! I hit him I hit him I told you guys I could" the blond boy gloated only to receive silence from his classmates whose jaws still hung open from what they just witnessed.
Some of the girls seemed rather upset to say the least while the guys were more dumbstruck.

Isamu was the first to recover; somehow Naruto's kick seemed to knock some sense back into him.

Naruto still celebrating failed to see the shadow looming over him. It wasn't until he noticed the lack of light did he turn around to look up at Isamu standing right over him. He looked... impassive.

"What is your name boy"?
"N-Naruto Uzumaki sir"

"Sensei" Isamu breathed

"Uh right, sensei" Naruto corrected himself.

'Riiiiing' the lunch bell sounded off cutting the tension.

"You will see me after school today"

We will continue the assessment after lunch, Class dismissed!

With the adrenaline calming down Naruto started feeling a pain down his leg and foot. He sat down on a bench to examine it but when he rose up the ankles around his trousers he was shocked to find it was severely bruised. He touched the bruise mark.

"Aaaahhhhhhh"!

The jinchuriki cried out in pain. 'Come to think of it. When I hit him, he hardly moved at all. He should have been knocked out by that or at least knocked down. I guess he isn't all talk after all, but what is he made of stone"?!

"Umm ano", Naruto heard a voice barely above a whisper. "Hmm who's" He turn his head to a girl by the corner of the wall. She had wide pale eyes and dark blue hair

"Oh Hinata" Naruto realised quickly pulling his trousers ankles back down. "What are you doing here"? The girl's eyes widened "Me, oh well I, I thought I heard someone screaming around here so, I just came over, are you okay?"

"Yeah yeah I'm fine" he got up quickly; completely forgetting about his condition. The searing pain to his leg instantly resurfaced causing the strength in his leg to be lost. "Seeahhh" the boy tried not to vocalise his pain but wasn't completely successful. He buckled and started to braced himself for impact.

Goku found himself being interrogated by a specialist hidden light Anbu black op in a holding cell. The village leader and his granddaughter Akari on the other side looking through the one way glass. As soon as the leader saw the saiyan, he smiled inwardly but was absolutely certain not to let anyone notice.

"State your name"

"My name is Son Goku, seriously, what is all this about"?

"Silence! I am the only one who will ask the questions here".

"From the report, you claim to have no recollection of how you came to be here is that correct?"

"Yeah that's right'.

"Explain yourself".

"I was training for the upcoming world martial arts championship tournament. (Although it looks like I won't be able to make it this year)

The old man raised an eyebrow. "Championship you say" interest evident in his voice" I have never heard of it before, will this be your first time participating? "

No sir, I actually won the last time the saiyan replied with a half nervous half bashful laugh while scratching the back of his head 'although I that was a long time ago'

The village leader decided to intervene.

"So are you claiming to be the world greatest martial artist"?

"I'd say I'm pretty strong"

The village leader was quite for a while, as if he was contemplating something.

"You're still hiding part of your story"
He sighed. "Very well then." Follow me.

Laaaaaadieeeees and Mentlegen. (Well you'd have to be mentle to participate in this) are you ready for the 11th annual Armstrong Tournament! The crowd erupted into cheering in response to the announcer on the mic.

"So let's meet this year's victims"

Oops sorry, I mean contestants. Introducing from absolutely nowhere in particular, Vegeta! He's a first time contestants so be nice to him will ya, Ah ha ha ha ha.

Flashback

Vegeta dropped the man who promptly ran away. "Armstrong expedition huh, wonder what that's about. It must be pretty interesting if it's got everybody excited like this"

"It's a tournament son". A voice answered from behind him. Vegeta turned around to the see who the voice belonged to. A middle aged man wearing a dark cream trench coat with a matching hat and toothpick in mouth.

"I take it you'll be entering"?

The prince grimaced. "I would ask who you are but I don't really I care. What's it to you".

The man chuckled lowly "You're not from around here are you? I know.

I've actually been watching you ever since you stepped foot in this town. I'm what you could call sort of... an observer, a scout if you will. I have a knack for spotting talent. So I ask again, do you plan on entering"?

Hmph "I have no intention on humouring you or anyone else. Besides I'm not going to waste my time and energy on people who won't even be able to entertain me".

"Not even for 100,000 Ryo?"

"Come again."

"You think people come to participate for fun?" The man grinned slightly then tipped the front of his hat forward just enough to shadow his eyes.

'Ryo? Is that what they call their zeni here, their currency?'

"The entrance fee is pretty hefty and there's quite the number of people this year. However I'm pretty sure I could get you in, I'll even sponsor you if need be For a share in the winnings of course. I have pretty good instincts and I can tell there's a lot more to you than meets the eye so.

"And if I were to drop out"?

"Well then I'll just have to cut my loses".

Vegeta's eyes narrowed "You're no scout. You're just a gambler who's trying to get lucky. Why should I trust you? I don't even know your name"

The man turned around and called to a nearby vendor "Hey, I'll take two cinnamon buns with sugar dusting".

Hmm, funny a few moments ago you said you didn't care about who I was. But for the sake of argument I am known as Hideki and no I'd say I'm more of an investor than a gambler. besides you've got nothing to lose and I'll even take care of the kid while your out there So how about it; do we have a deal?

End flashback

Goku followed the village leader into what looked like a domed arena.

"Okay Son Goku I want to see something, so we're going to conduct an experiment."

He turned to one of his bodyguards. "Take off his restrains and then leave us, that goes for all of you.

No that's okay the saiyan interrupted. He pulled his arms apart easily breaking the chakra restraining arms cuffs. The guards were stunned "that's impossible, what is he"? The elder just smiled "Hmph, I wouldn't expect anything less. he is just like you."

"The ruuuule is simple. Survive".

"Huh"? The saiyan had no time to question as the leader was already upon him.

"Woah" the orange warrior quickly rolled out under to the side dodging a heavy stomp which caused the ground to crack around the impact.

"Hey what's your deal"?!

"I told you, I want to confirm something".

Immediately he was up under Goku again with a rising uppercut. The punch connected launching him into the air.

The saiyan quickly stabilized himself mid-air
" Wow this guy is fast! Well if it's a fight he wants"

"HIEEYAAA" Goku flared his aura and dashed at his opponent using the high speed technique.

"So he can fly huh" He made a few hand signs. "Hidden light style: Repulsion burst"! Chakra rapidly gathered from his core to his hands which he held out in front of him. Goku instantly appeared in front of him with a right hook.

As the name suggests the energy discharged from his hands in the form of a blinding white light at point blank range.

The angle of the attack shot the saiyan into the battle dome ceiling; he smashed his back on the roof before falling to the ground.

"You like that one. It repels physical attacks at the same speed they come in, on top of that, I can control how far you get repulsed by varying the amount of chakra I use, as you just experienced"

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"Get up, that would have killed anyone else, but I know you're still alive".

Proving what he said to be true Goku slowly rose up out of the mini crater his impact caused.

"Incredible I've never seen a technique like that before".

"Hmph of course not, IIIIIII developed it. Now you're still not taking this seriously, I'm beginning to feeeel like you're disrespecting my power.

Back down on his feet Goku dusted himself off. "Is that right? Very well then. Let me I will show you just what I'm made of"

Naruto slowly opened his eyes when he didn't feel his face greeting the ground. Instead he found Hinata under him holding him up. She gently placed him back on the bench. "Wow thanks Hinata you really saved me, but how did you move so fast"?

"I-I don't know, I just saw you trip and"… she looked away slightly but he could still see her cheeks starting to redden "I just couldn't let you fall".

Naruto stared at her for a while, he was about to respond when she cut him off "What happened to your leg"? She noticed some of bruising from when he fell. "Did that happen during your fight with sensei"?

The blonde boy didn't respond, he just hung his head. "d- d –do you mind if I- if I take a look at it.?"

"Huh?" he slowly raised his head back up. "I guess". The Hyuga heiress carefully lifted up his trouser leg again revealing the evidence of his injured leg. Hinata got down to take a closer look. "Hmm, it seems like it was just impact damage, it doesn't look like any bones are broken but you may want to check with the nurse to be sure" she smiled at him. "I've got something to help with the swelling." The she went into her bag and took out a small tub. "It's a cream that I've been working on, it's not perfect yet but it should help a little. It has a soothing balm to help ease the pain." Hinata softly applied the cream to the inflicted areas making sure to completely rub it in without hurting Naruto.

Within seconds the effects were visible. "Hey it's starting to go down, wow Hinata that cream is something else! You're amazing!" Instantly Hinata went as red as a ripe tomato. "Hinata! Are you okay, you're red!" Naruto put her hand on her forehead.

"I-I'm fine I- I just forgot there's uh something I forgot to do, yeah that's it. I'm glad i could help, see you later." With that Hinata quickly ran off.

"Hey wait… you forgot your bag"

Okay this doesn't make any sense; my watch says this is West city but…

It looks more like West Country to me there's nothing here but fields and small towns.

Gohan hovered over what he believed to be the Capsule Corp Capital West City.

'This is all so weird. I should probably go check out the lookout, maybe the others all already there waiting.'

"It's no good! You reaching anyone Dende"? The young Namekian strained in concentration.

'Goku...Gohan...Vegeta...Goten...Trunks...Anyone...'

The earth's guardian gasped, releasing the breath he didn't realise he was holding.

"No sorry, I can't get through to any of them either".

"This doesn't make any sense. When the boys were in there I could speak to them just fine. So why can't I now"?

"Because last time you had a door"

Mr Popo?

The genie

With the door to the other dimension gone you can't reach them in there just like they wouldn't be able to get out.

"What?!"

Oh by the way your little maggot friends aren't even in there so I don't know what you're doing.

What?! There not in there?

I believe that's what I just said

Then where are they?!

Why would I care?

'There's the lookout'. Gohan thought as he neared his destination with a quick ascend to the top. 'Even if they're not here, should still be able to sense them wherever they are from up here.

And with that thought purposed in him he reached the top.

"Hey Piccolo! Dende!" He called out landing by the center point of the lookout. "Anyone home?" The young Saiyan was just about to step when a strong burst of pressure blasted him backwards. He easily recovered with a somersault. "Who are you, and why are you here"?!

That voice... I don't recognize it.

I will ask you once more. Why have you come here? A Namekian steeped out of the shadow of the house revealing himself. 'Wait i remember dad talking about a old namekian who used to be here ' "Are you."

"Kami"?