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Authors Note: I started this story when Ashura was still called Asura, so I wrote everything as Asura up till now. But I decided to change it for accuracy sake... and that was a massive mistake. I was rushing the change, and ended up completely deleting a few chapters by replacing them with another chapter—hence the repeat chapters. I've deleted those, but around 25k worth of story is gone, including the biggest chapter I ever wrote... the 16kish Wave arc. Some of those other chapters aren't necessary—even I forgot about Naruto beating up Mizuki when he was seven. I need to remake the Wave arc, which will be a bitch to do, and a few others, which will also suck.
Oh, and Naruto's injury won't make him stupid.
'I don't think fighting Fu will be as bad as you think.'
Because the flying girl with super strength was good against a brain damaged close quarter fighter.
'I healed your brain fantastically,' Kyuubi rebutted. 'If you lose it is because you are trash... and you better not lose. I do not care if Chomei annihilates you, but not in front of Shukaku, that asshole will bring it up every waking moment.'
Fu was literally the anti-Naruto. She was stronger than him by far, having the strength of a beetle, and could fly to avoid things like his chakra arm. Hell, since Chomei was the only Tailed Beast that could fly, she probably has a wind affinity.
'She does.'
And there goes his elemental advantage. He could use Ashura's chakra to form other elements (since Ashura chakra had all natures), but he was the best at wind by far. And since Fu was from Taki, it was safe to say she had control over water style as well.
'You have a better technique.'
His strategy involved taking blows to get close and dish out heavy hits. He couldn't take advantage of the Kyuubi's healing factor if one good hit to the head knocked him out, especially with his brain damage.
'Be faster,' Ashura suggested. 'She doesn't have much room to fly, and she didn't use any Ninjutsu when fighting Suien. Just tire her out using Shadow Shurikens and dodge her when she gets close. You can tire her out, make it so she can't fly, and use your speed to take her out.'
That sounded great... on paper. Plans usually didn't survive combat since they couldn't fully take into account the thought process of the enemy. Fu wasn't stupid, and she had Seven Tails to guide her as well. Chomei was just as old as Kurama, and it seemed like she was a lot more cooperative than the fox as well.
Chomei probably battled hundreds of people that fought with the same—if not better—style.
It seemed hopeless since Fu had every advantage... on paper.
He was Naruto Uzumaki, after all, and breaking expectations was what he prided himself on.
"Well... this is gonna be the best battle no one will see."
Fu laughed and gave him a confident smile. "It's no excuse to not go hard," she said.
"Of course it's not!"
"Let's see what you got, number nine!"
And like an explosion she erupted from her spot.
Naruto ducked underneath a fist, feeling the air being distorted by her punch. He jumped to the side to avoid being hit by a knee and created ten Shadow clones that ran in all directions.
The clones all rushed Fu. She weaved through them, avoiding the hits and dishing out devastating punched that eradicated the clones at first impact.
It took less than a minute for her to destroy all the clones, so he thew a shuriken at her and activated the Shadow Shuriken. Fu narrowed her eyes and smashed her fist into the ground, making rubble fly into the air and block the shurken.
She punched a bigger hunk of rubble, making it shatter into smaller pieces that flew towards him. Naruto created a chakra arm and blocked them, but when he dispelled it Fu was right in front of him.
His eyes widened as she reared her fist back.
He exploded into wind right before she could hit him. Fu was sent flying back and landed on her feet.
Fu brought her hands into the Tiger seal. "Hidden Scale Powder!" she cried as a luminous powder flew from her mouth. Naruto's blue eyes widened as the powder 'ignited' into a massive flash of light.
He cried out as he grabbed his eyes.
'Move!'
He dove to the side, feeling the ground he once stood on explode as Fu hit it. He scrambled as far away as he could without his eyesight.
Fu's leg drove into his side and made a sickening cracking noise as he was sent flying into a wall. The wall gave away by the sheer force of the hit and groaned underneath all of the rubble. He could feel the Kyuubi's chakra tear the bone out of his lungs and reform it back to his ribs. He flared his chakra into a mini explosion and blew the debris off him.
Naruto's vision was finally returning, and he could faintly see green rushing his way.
He ducked underneath a punch and drove his elbow deep into Fu's side. She took a step back in shock that he used to uppercut her in the chin and send her into the air. He fired a Gale Palm and sent her higher into the air before using his chakra arm to spike her into the ground.
She entered the ground and formed a crater, but he didn't let up. He channeled Asura's omnipotent chakra and used it to form Fire Release.
"Grand Fireball!" He fired a massive fireball towards the crater, firing another gale palm to turn the orange flames white hot. It exploded as it impacted Fu's crater, sending embers flying everywhere.
Naruto gasped a a thick Chakra Thread grabbed him by the shirt, pulling him towards the crater he just attacked.
All the smoke and dust blew away, revealing Fu with her wings wrapped around her. She flew into the air, pulling Naruto with her, and released him high into the air.
"Taki Whirlwind!" She stopped her flight above him and span as she fell to build momentum, all Naruto could do was raise his arms to block as her fist rocketed into him.
He skidded across the ground and laid there for a moment, before slowly rising. His arms were completely broken, but they healed instantly as he channeled some of the Kyuubi's chakra.
Fu smirked as she saw his arms snap into place and back to normal.
"You're pretty good, niner," she said as red chakra started to swirl around her. "But let's see if you can handle Chomei."
"Kurama!" he yelled back.
'Do NOT say my name... but I understand.'
Red chakra erupted from him as well, taking the form of one demonic tale. He clenched his fists, feeling his elongated fingernails dig into his palm.
He rushed forwards. Fu met his punch head on, her eyes widening as he didn't waver. Naruto used his single tail to wrap around her ankles and drag her to the ground, where he drove her fist down into her stomach.
Fu growled and kicked his ankle, shattering it. Naruto collapsed to the ground for only a second before his ankle healed and he rolled away from what would have been a devastating hit.
Naruto channeled chakra into his hands, making his skin start to melt. He traded blows with Fu, an explosion of chakra happening every time he hit her. Whenever he was hit, however, it shattered his bones.
Then Fu got him in the head.
'Oh no.'
The first thing Naruto noticed was that his hearing and pain was gone—like a switch was flicked. He stumbled back, landing on a single knee.
Fu said something, but he could only see her mouth moving.
'Keep going!' Ashura's voice sounded unnaturally loud in his head, but luckily he could still hear it. He grabbed Fu's wrist before she could punch him and kneed her him the stomach, making her double over.
Fu's wings extended again before he could attack any more, firing wind that sent him tumbling back.
They needed fire.
'Got it.'
Naruto channeled Ashura's chakra, to which the Sage molded into fire chakra. Using the Kyuubi's knowledge as a blueprint, they made a Fire Dragon that only grew as it flew through the wind.
His hearing suddenly came back—Naruto winced as sounds flooded him. He could faintly hear Fu cry out in pain as his dragon hit her.
Pain suddenly hit him as well, making him gasp. He groaned as he clutched his aching sides, his head was killing as well.
Fu erupted from the smoke and flew towards him. Naruto gritted his teeth and pulled out a kunai with a paper bomb attached to it. He threw it a Fu, who caught it mid air and threw it back.
Naruto caught it as well, and threw it back towards her. It exploded half way between them, however, creating a smoke screen that blocked their vision.
He could sense Chomei's chakra, and he was sure she could sense the Kyuubi's.
'I have lightening.'
Naruto outstretched his hands and had Ashura channel lightening chakra into them. Lightening erupted from his hands uncontrollably, and he traced Fu's chakra, firing throughout the smoke in order to hit her.
Fu fired a blast of wind at him, making his lightening waver and blowing the smoke away. The elemental advantage took affect, and his lightning vanished. He quickly used Asura's chakra to create an earth wall to block Fu before she could ram him.
She went straight through the earth wall and shoulder charged him. His ribs cracked, but he grabbed hold of her and kept kneeing her in the torso as she carried him towards a statue at the front of the room.
He had hit her stomach multiple times in the fight. If he could feel his chest aching from her hits with the Kyuubi's healing, than she must really feel the sting in her stomach.
She smashed him into the statue, making it collapse all around them. He grabbed her by the hair and kept her close to him as he punched her stomach over and over. She tried to punch him back, but his chakra arm and single tail grabbed both her wrists.
'—I can't fight back, Chomei!' He was close enough that he could hear Fu communicating with her beast.
'We have wings, not arms! We can't grapple like he can!'
Wait...
Didn't Ashura fight that one crazy Yamanaka inside of the mindscape?
He could here both Ashura and the Kyuubi laughing.
'Good idea, Naruto.'
Naruto grabbed Fu's head with both of his hands and placed his forehead against hers. The statue fully collapsed onto them, but they didn't even notice.
Naruto was sent flying face first into water.
He slowly got up.
"Huh?"
"Get up!" He felt a hand grab his shoulder and pull him up, he looked at the assailant.
"Ashura?"
Ashura smiled. "We got a fight to finish, don't sleep now."
Naruto looked around the sewer of his mindscape, confused.
"Where's Fu?" he asked.
"Turn around."
Naruto did, and his eyes widened.
Both his mindscape and Fu's were connected—half was his and half was hers. Instead of a dingy sewer like his, Fu's mindscape was a giant tree house extending hundreds of meters into the air. He could barely see the silhouettes of buildings through the clouds as he looked up.
"Chomei is the only one that can fly," Ashura said. "The love for heights is kinda obvious..."
He could see a giant figure flapping it's wings all the way at the top of the trees.
"Chomei!" a massive voice yelled behind him. Naruto stiffened and whipped around, only to see the Kyuubi standing there in all it's glory.
"W-what the hell are you doing here!? You're sealed!"
The Kyuubi smirked. "Over the years more around ten percent of my chakra has leaked through the seal, that is how you can use one tail. Plus you did just release twenty percent of my chakra. I have around thirty percent of my power to fight my sibling..."
"And not eat me?"
"I can wait to eat you... I want to beat the shit out of my sibling right now."
"Kurama!" he could hear Chomei's voice echo from above. "Nice to see you!"
"Shut up Chomei! We're fighting!"
Naruto looked at the fox a bit nervously. "Are... are you sure you can beat Chomei with only thirty percent."
Ashura smiled at him. "He's got me."
"Oh shit!" Chomei yelled. "Ashura!? How you doing!?"
"Good!"
"Let's fight!" Kyuubi roared as he jumped high into the trees.
"Oh shit!" Naruto cried as he was almost shoved off the tree house. He fired his chakra arm and grabbed a tree branch, swinging away before Fu could hit him again.
He swung onto a thick branch probably two hundred meters off the ground, he looked down and swallowed the lump in his throat.
Fu hovered across from him, smirking.
"Quite the imagination we have, isn't it?"
He smirked back, pooling chakra around his fists.
"Yeah, it is."
He lunged at her, creating Shadow Clones and jumping off them before he could fall to his doom. He bounced off them towards her, throwing shuriken and kunai as he did.
Fu weaved around his projectiles, flying with perfect grace. She fired blasts of wind at him, but Naruto countered with his own blasts as he approached her.
He grabbed a kunai with an explosive note, throwing it and activating the Shadow Kunai, Fu's eyes widened as even the fake kunai started to explode.
She hastily flew away, and Naruto was close enough that he grabbed her with his chakra arm and dragged her out of the sky and into the tree house. They crashed into a hut, making it collapse all around them.
In an explosion of chakra they were up. Naruto suddenly had a Shakujo in his hand, and was swiping at her using the increased reach to keep her away. Fu grabbed the staff and ripped it out of his hands, tossing it off the tree house and to the ground below.
"Wait," she suddenly smirked, "if this is our minds... then we can do whatever we want."
Well... there goes his advantage.
"Within limits," he said. "The laws of physics are still ingrained into our minds."
The wood of the trees started to wrap around his ankles. Naruto looked up at Fu with wide eyes as she rose her hands and formed water above her.
"Shit," was all he could say.
"Bjuudama!" Ashura grabbed Chomei's Tailed Beast Ball with his battle form and threw it back towards his sibling. The Nanabi flew around it and charged at him, but Kurama smashed into his sibling.
Kurama, not at full power, was thrown off his sibling. The Bijuudama exploded in the background, illuminating the sky as the giants fought. Ashura used his six armed battle avatar and threw multiple jabs at the beetle, who was taking them with surprising grit.
Chomei channeled chakra and fired a giant blast of wind that sent Ashura stumbling. Kurama used it's tail to stop Ashura from falling over, but proved to be too weak, the monolithic avatar fell onto its back.
Nine tails convened together as a spear of orange energy formed at the tip of Kurama's tails. He fired a concentrated laser beam that made Chomei roar in pain as it burned it's tough armor.
Ashura controlled the water from Naruto's mindscape and willed it to crash into Chomei, it wrapped around the massive beast. Chomei struggled against it's bonds, but had issues breaking it.
A tailed beast ball formed in Kurama's mouth, the fox took it's sweet time charging it as he smiled menacingly at his sibling.
"Take this Chomei! Bijuudama!"
The explosion threw Naruto off his feet. He rolled to the edge of the tree's and barely managed to stop himself before he flew off the side.
Fu rushed towards him at breakneck speeds. He willed it to start raining and had multiple lightening bolts fall from the sky towards her—she wasn't prepared and got struck, stopping her advance.
Naruto rose onto his feet and clap his hands together, his body glowed with chakra as the temperature around him started to increase.
He had learned this technique in the Forbidden Scroll, but he never had the control to practice it without blowing himself up. But this was his mindscape... he wasn't physically doing anything.
"Katon!" he roared. "Kaseiken!"
His fist lit up with scorching hot flames, he ignored his hand melting and punched towards Fu. The entire sky around them glowed as a monstrous asteroid of fire erupted from his hands.
But half way between him and Fu the continuity failed and it exploded.
Naruto was sent flying out of the tree house. He fired his chakra arm and grabbed onto a branch, swinging off it before it turned into ash. He created a clone and jumped off it, taking a second in the air to survey what he had done.
Even with the rain the entire tree line was burning. If it was in the real world he, and half of Training Ground 44, would be nothing but ash. He managed to land on part of the tree house farthest away from his blast, but he could notice the flames approaching rapidly.
He took a deep breath, feeling the unfamiliar drain of having most of his chakra gone. Chakra was never an issue since he had the Kyuubi and Ashura, but with them fighting he had to use his own reserves... and that technique took too much out of him.
His instincts flared.
Somehow he managed to grab Fu's fist before she hit him. He struggled as they tried to overpower each other, the fire burning all around them.
The floor of the tree house gave out, making them topple towards the ground below. They traded blows as they fell, weak punches as gravity took them towards the ground.
Naruto created Shadow Clones all around him that grabbed Fu by her limbs. She tried to shake them off, but they glowed as he activated the Great Clone Explosion. The force of the clones exploding blew him into the air, defeating gravity for only a moment.
His eyes widened as Fu grabbed his ankles with a chakra thread. Unprepared, he could do nothing as she pulled him towards her and punched him across the jaw. She rotated him so she was on top of him and his back was facing the ground.
She was going to use him as a pillow!
A flaming piece of tree house flew past them, making embers fill his vision. Fu's eyes were exactly like the flames, orange and smoldering, as she forced him towards the ground.
He needed an idea... just the thought of an impact like that could mentally knock him out.
Could he hit her with something? There were a shit ton of falling logs... maybe he could steer her into—
...wait.
He smirked.
Naruto channeled a little bit of chakra and used Kawarimi with a falling log...
Fu's eyes widened as she was suddenly holding a burning log—she instinctively tore her hand away from the fire. The distraction was enough for Naruto to grab a big piece of what used to be a tree house with his chakra arm and chuck it towards the girl.
It slammed into her back and took her into the ground with it.
Naruto fired a double Gale Palm with whatever chakra he had left to try and slow his descent.
... but it did little as he still slammed into the ground.
Naruto gasped as he woke up. His entire body ached with phantom pains as he looked around.
He could feel Fu on top of him, she was still not awake. He noticed that they were trapped underneath a whole pile of rubble, no doubt the statue that collapsed onto them before they entered the mindscape.
His chakra was dangerous low, but he managed to reinforce his arms enough to push away a giant bolder trapping them.
He crawled out, holding Fu shakily. He somehow managed to stumbled out of the dust cloud and in front of the proctor. He dropped Fu on the ground next to Hayate and fell to his knees panting.
Gekkou Hayate smirked.
"Winner by knockout... Naruto Uzumaki."
Medics started to run towards them. He waved a medic who grabbed him off and stood up—Kakashi was a few feet away waiting to Shushin him back to the stands.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed his tattered sleeve.
"Wait," Fu croaked out. "Naruto... you crazy fucker."
He smirked. "That was... different... wasn't it?"
She laughed weakly. "You're really something else, you know that?" She smiled. "Chomei really liked that, we should do that again sometime..."
'Chomei's happy despite the fact I kicked the shit out of—'
'I? What do you mean 'I'? WE kicked the shit out of...'
Naruto tuned out the argument and nodded at Fu.
"We enjoyed it as well... we're up to do this again anytime."
"Good," she said as the medics dragged her away. Her Jonin instructor walked alongside the stretcher, talking to her as they took her to the med bay.
"You alright?" Kakashi asked as he placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"My chest aches... but other than that I'm only mentally scarred." He snorted at his own joke, which Kakashi obviously didn't get.
Kakashi had to use both hands to stabilize Naruto once he used Shushin to take the both of them back to the balcony. Naruto shakily stood up, breathing heavily as he placed a hand against the wall to try and regain some balance.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled as she rushed towards him. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah!" Kiba yelled. "She knocked the shit out of—"
Kurenai shoved her student. "What Kiba is trying to say is 'good job.'"
Naruto smiled at the Jonin. "Don't worry, I know Akamaru is the intelligent one." The dog yipped something in response, but he had no clue what it meant.
"What was that?" Sasuke suddenly asked. "That red chakra..."
Naruto noticed Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma and Gai all lock eyes.
"It's... I think my bloodline," he said without a pause. "Kakashi has been helping me with it during that break we got."
Kakakshi, without missing a beat, nodded. "I use to know a person who had it, so I tried to give Naruto some tips." He gave a thumbs up to the blonde. "I'm glad you learnt how to use it in battle now."
"Bloodline?" Ino asked more to herself than anything. "I didn't realize you had one."
Naruto shrugged. "Well... since the day I was born I had this ability—that sounds pretty bloodline to me. It's like a secondary pool of chakra that I have that seeps into my main reserves. That's why I have so much chakra. I've been trying to tap into it for years, it's more potent than my usual chakra since it's only for combat—hence the red color."
The Genin seemed to accept the answer, making Naruto look towards Kakashi, who nodded slightly.
"I think I'm gonna take a nap," he decided as he sat down. "Fu broke my ribs like five times..."
"Are sure you don't want to go to the medic?" Sakura asked.
Naruto snored in response.
"Well that was... interesting to say the least."
Ashura chuckled. "It was nice to have some bonding time with out sibling, roughhousing with Chomei was enjoyable."
"You godly beings really take roughhousing to a new level," Naruto said blandly. "Those explosions were massive!"
"Eh," Ashura shrugged. "We use to have giant wrestling sessions when we were young... now those were crazy."
"Chomei is one of our better siblings. Not crazy, but not an asshole or antisocial."
"Honestly," Ashura started, "Chomei and Mata are only ones that fits those criteria. I'd like to say I fit as well, but that would sound arrogant."
"Speaking of crazy, I could feel Shukaku freak out."
Naruto rose an eyebrow. "Shukaku? The one tail?"
"Yes. He could obviously see you two fighting in the real world, and he could even sense the mind battle."
"His sensei placed a suppression seal on his host," Asura said. "The main seal is weak enough where they can't stop Shukaku, but it managed to stop him from attacking us."
"Even at thirty percent I would destroy Shukaku... that weakling is all talk."
Ashura closed his eyes for a moment. "He's fighting right now."
"Really? Can we watch?"
"No, you need rest."
"But most of the fight was in my mi—"
"Do not take for granted the mind," Asura said as he shook his head. "While yes, the wounds you sustained in your mind does not transfer over physically—your mind still registered taking the hits. You were using chakra to do those things—that is why you couldn't do anything too unorthodox."
Naruto nodded. "Yeah, I tried to make one of the trees a giant monster but it wouldn't work." He noticed the Kyuubi stiffen a little... what was wrong with trees turning into monsters?
"There is a reason that people, including the Yamanaka, do not know about combat within the mind. The only reason we could do it is because your mind is shared as a medium between the three of us—which is the same for all Jinchuriki. Inside the mind, you guys can simulate, to a certain degree, Ying-Yang Release—the bending of reality."
"Is it possible in real life?"
Ashura nodded. "All of my Father's children have the potential to do Ying-Yang Release, but I am the only one who can currently do it. Jinchuriki could theoretically do it, but the host needs to be compatible along with a fully cooperative Bijuu."
"Fu's pretty good friends with Chomei, it seems. Could she do it?"
"Fu's lineage is not a direct line of my father, so no. Nothing short of a child of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha could obtain the Yin-Yang Release through regular means."
"And means that are not regular?" Naruto asked.
Ashura smiled slightly. "You, Naruto, can obtain Yin-Yang Release. Me being part of you is definitely not a normal circumstance. You can already use my chakra to use different chakra natures, withing time you will be able to mix the elements to make things like ice—and eventually you will able to combine all the elements to start onto the Sage's path."
"How much time are you talking about?" he asked excitedly.
"Who knows? I couple years, at minimum. You will need to be fully grown to have enough physical energy to start learning Sage Techniques."
Naruto groaned.
"It can never be simple, can it?"
Naruto groaned as he sat up.
"That's what chakra exhaustion feels like," Kakashi said as he groggily woke up. "Welcome to the life of a normal ninja, where chakra isn't near infinite."
"I don't like it," he decided, stretching his arms out. "I'm never being normal ever again."
The Jonin chuckled. "I don't doubt you one bit... you're as strange as it gets."
"Hey!"
"What? Am I wrong?"
Naruto looked around the room he was in.
"How the hell did you get into my house?"
Kakashi shrugged. "You left the door open."
"Really?"
"Well... it was the window... but close enough."
"That's illegal."
"I'm a master ninja, I've destroyed all the evidence."
"You're a master pervert and that's it."
"And yet you chose to be my student..."
"I didn't choose the teams!"
"But you chose to pass the exams, therefore putting yourself on my team."
Naruto glared and opened his mouth, but failed to find a better response other than an agitated sigh.
"So what's the deal with the exam?" he asked.
"The final is being held in one month. If you want the exact date and time there are posters all over the village."
"So what's happening in the final?"
Kakashi gave him a deadpan look. "You're fighting, obviously."
"Yeah, but who?"
"How should I know?"
"Your my teacher!"
"Not for this month." Kakashi noticed Naruto's perplexed expression—it was tough not to. "Sasuke bribed me fifteen shuriken in order to train him for the next month."
Naruto let out a breath. "Damn... that's one hell of a bargain... how about twenty shuriken."
"But Sasuke did promise to buy me dinner—miso soup is my favorite."
"How about two kunai, twenty shuriken and I'll burn Gai's jumpsuit."
Kakashi groaned. "Oh my! How can I decide!?"
There was silence for a few moments before the two of them started to chuckle.
"First come fist serve," Naruto admitted. "Nobody else can train Sasuke in the Sharingan anyways."
"Thanks Naruto, I appreciate how understanding you are."
"Really?"
"No."
Naruto glared. "Well then, oh wonderful Sensei, what do you have for me? Or are you going to just abandon your favorite student without a single word?"
"Is it that simple?"
"Of course not! I want a fucking badass ninja or the Scroll of Seals—those are the only two options!"
Kakashi laughed nervously. "Oh... ah... how about this?" He threw an envelope at Naruto.
Naruto rose an eyebrow and opened it.
"A ticket to the best hot springs in town? This is la—" Naruto sighed as he realized he was talking to air.
Kakashi had left when he was opening the envelope... how did he not expect that?
"Expires at 7 tonight," Naruto read, his tone thoughtful.
He did beat Fu... maybe he earned a little relaxation.
Authors note: The fire technique, the Kaseiken (or something) was the result of me just looking up 'fire release' and clicking one of the first sites. It was filled with fire jutsu. I'm not sure if the technique is canon or not, but it seemed pretty cool to me. If I use that site again I will link it so anybody interested can check it out—it had a shit tone of techniques.
Who should Naruto fight in the final? I haven't decided yet, so I'm open for input.
Also, should Fu be at the finals? I could have one of her teammates pass, and she can be there to watch. As we all know, shit will happen, and another Jinchuriki could drastically change how the next few chapters will play out.