Kiiroi Senkou

Chapter 5: The Green Beast of Battle

by DeathGodSlayer

'Even if it is a relatively small ship compared to those pirate ships back at the Uchiha Island, it's perfect for me…' Naruto smiled as he wondered through the ship for the first time properly. He saw just how large ships could become, and the Kage Bunshin was much smaller. The Crimson Tide Pirates had such large ships, but this one meant more than they ever could, as it was given to him by the old man Sarutobi back on his own island.

He had been so busy steering the ship that he hadn't had the chance to properly check through it, now that Sasuke was with him, he could properly view the tinted black mahogany ship whilst Sasuke directed the ship on the open sea.

He had passed the kitchen, Sarutobi had seemingly stocked it with supplies for him to last awhile, an act he was very grateful for. He found cabins, each one with six beds or hammocks. He even found a small lounge room and captains quarters, which he assumed would be his from now on.

Yet there was one room the confused him, even as he stood outside the door he wondered what could be behind it. When he had opened the door, the blond found that it was a small, empty room, filled with nothing but a desk and chair. He walked in the room, looking around, it was too small for any major use, but what could it be used for.

Then he saw something else. On the desk was a camera, a box of pins, a log book journal, pens and a key, just the one key. The only key he had found on the entire ship, other rooms like the bathroom and shower area could be locked from the inside.

He picked up the camera and the log book, and from the book a small envelope fell out. The blonde picked it up curiously, opening it to find a letter inside.

'My dear boy, Naruto…

I knew from the first moment you entered this world that you were destined for bigger things than our island, I knew you couldn't waste your life stuck on the island, nor did I expect you to, your built to crave adventure, it's in your blood.

I've been preparing for the day you would leave, and know that as you do, I will look on proudly. You became a grandson to me, a brother to Konohamaru. And it may be a long time until we see each other again.

I would ask a favour from you Naruto, you know how Konohamaru loves stories, I would ask you to record your adventures in this book, so the memories can always live with you. I know Konohamaru would love to see them one day, to go with you in spirit and revisit all the places you had been.

And take pictures of everywhere you go, otherwise Konohamaru might not believe you. That way, your memories will live on, and by simply looking at the photograph, you can return to them.

We will see each other again Naruto, that I am certain of, I know that when you left you were just a boy, and when you return, you will be a man. Strong, confident, and with many friends.

Your mother would be so proud of you, my boy.

Sarutobi.'

"Why did you underline some of the words Jiji?" Naruto laughed, ignoring the tears dripping from his face, staring once again at the words Hiruzen had cryptically emphasised in his letter, it made no sense to the blond.

He picked up a pin, sticking the letter to the wall above the desk, before picking up the camera, used the strap it was attached to to hang it around his neck. He walked further back, before snapping a picture of the room, once it had processed he stuck the photo of the small room next to the letter.

"I promise you Jiji, Konohamaru will the love the tales of the Utterly Gutsy Adventurer Naruto!" The blond beamed widely, closing the door and locking it, placing the key in a zipped pocket on his pants.

The blond walked back out into the open fresh air, seeing Sasuke stare at the horizon behind the helm. "You're a pretty good helmsman, Sasuke." He complimented as he approached him.

"We're going to need to find someone better nonetheless." Sasuke commented in return, his eyes fixed on the distant sea and sky connected, his raven hair swaying in the wind.

"True after all, helmsman isn't going to be your occupation." Naruto grinned in return. "You're my first mate!"

Sasuke smirked in response. "We're going to need to find many people to fit occupations, I studied how pirate crews operated whenever one of my brothers returned from collecting bounties. Ships usually have a Captain, First Mater, Swordsman, Musician, Doctor, Accountant, and Chef."

At the word chef the blonds stomach growled loudly, he clutched his stomach with a heavy sigh. "We need to find that one soon…" He exclaimed almost depressed at the prospect of having no proper cooks around. "But that's not enough, I want so many more than that for my ship."

Sasuke nodded quickly. "Karate Island is up ahead, we should be there soon." Together they both stared at the huge forested island, one that was even larger than Sasuke's home island, trees stood tens of metres high, if there was any civilisation on the island, it couldn't be seen from this distance.

Naruto grinned madly as they neared the island. "Let's go find this Green Beast of Battle!"

"This Karate Island is so isolated, we've been walking through it for a while and we haven't seen a single piece of civilisation." Naruto whined as they strolled through the large forest, spotting large beasts, that despite looking ferocious in appearance, seemed rather docile, tamed even.

"Unlikely though." Sasuke answered as he carefully clutched the sword strapped to his back, in case any of these animals attempted to attack them. "I can feel a massive power up ahead, whatever it is its way more power than either of us."

"It's got to be the Green Beast!" Naruto proclaimed excitedly, beginning to run ahead at a quicker rate, Sasuke was momentarily startled by the blonde's increase in speed but soon began to catch up to him.

The edge of the forest came closer, before they entered a large field of corn and grain. As far as the eye could seeing lengths of golden brown swayed leisurely in the wind. "The huge power is close, but now it feels different, like its split in two. One feels closer than the other." Sasuke muttered, squinting his eyes as he looked ahead. "There's something in the middle of the field…"

Naruto could only see a slightly higher speck compared to the rest of the field. He quickly grabbed hold of Sasuke, and within moments they stood in front of it.

"What an odd looking Scarecrow…" Naruto mumbled aloud as he gazed at what was in front of him. Strapped to a cross was a scarecrow with a fair-skinned design, with spiky, messy silver hair. Adorned in a black T-shirt with white stripes in the middle of the sleeves. On his arms he were black sleeves with metal arm protectors over them. He also has leather straps around his shoulders. This was matched by black pants that led into bandages around his ankles and black sandals to top it off. "This Scarecrow isn't very intimidating…"

"I'm not a Scarecrow." Naruto screamed in utter horror when it replied, looking up towards them as if he had just woken up from a nap. "The name's Kakashi."

"So… Scarecrow?" Sasuke rebutted back with a look of disinterest. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, and he's Naruto Uzumaki." Sasuke pointed his thumb behind his shoulder, where Naruto stood quivering behind his back.

"An Uchiha here? This is a rare surprise." Kakashi gave off a smile, or at least by the judgement on how his eyes were closed shut a smile was what he was performing, seeing as the lower half of his face was covered by a skin tight mask. "Could one of you do me a favour? Go in my front right pocket."

Naruto stepped forward looking curiously at the strange man. He reached into his pocket, his hand was stopped by an object, he pulled the item out. It was a small orange book. "Place it in my hand would you?" Kakashi asked further.

Naruto moved stretching upwards so the man could grasp it. "Ah, thank you." He gave another eye smile before flicking the book open and turning his head towards it.

Suddenly they went silent as the man began reading; it was as if he had already forgotten they were there. "So you gonna tell us why you're tied up like that?" Naruto finally spat the question out bluntly.

"Mah, call it training, call it focusing the mind. Personally, I do it to get some peace and quiet." The man responded, flicking his thumb to turn the page. "I assume you're here to see Guy?"

"Who is this Guy?" Sasuke asked with confusion.

"The Green Beast of Battle. He's known to some as Might Guy." Kakashi responded lazily, still not taking his eyes off the book.

"It's a human?" Naruto asked startled in utter disbelief, sure he had seem some crazy things recently, like a guy pulling an asteroid from outer space. But he had assumed that the beast was just that, a beast.

"Yes, but a beast is more of a correct way to describe him. He's slow-minded, dim-witted, but deadly and ferocious. So you are here to see him?" Kakashi asked again.

Both the teens nodded at the older man, who sighed heavily, mumbling something incoherently to himself. "He's up ahead, don't tell him I'm here though." Kakashi said as he waved them goodbye with his free hand.

Both Naruto and Sasuke stared at him curiously as they moved around him, carrying on along the field. "Oh, Naruto, Sasuke…" They turned when Kakashi called them. His eyes had shifted towards them from over his shoulder. "You two… look like a pair of idiots. That might come in handy."

The two boys eventually found their way to a large dojo, in front of it was riddle with craters. The ground underneath them suddenly back rumbling tremendously. "What's happening!?" Naruto yelled as he tried bracing himself during the tremors.

Then he saw in front of them was two fighters. He only saw them for a brief moment before they disappeared again, followed by another tremor of the Earth. "I can't see them." Naruto whispered in shock, looking to Sasuke who had squinted his eyes.

"Neither can I." Sasuke replied, trying to find the two combatants in front of him. His eyes just simply couldn't keep up with them. For brief momentary moments he spotted them, as if they stopped quickly before returning to fighting. Craters in the ground suddenly cracked and exploded into existence. 'What is this speed and power?' He could only muse in his own mind.

Suddenly both of the boys reappeared, looking towards Naruto and Sasuke. One was a boy with round eyes and extremely thick eyebrows, his shiny black hair was cut and styled into a bowl-cut style, and wore an attire consisting of a green jumpsuit, orange leg warmers, and a red piece of cloth worn as a belt. A set of bandages was wrapped and his hands and wrists.

The other boy hand long brown haired tied into loose pony tail near the end of his hair, with two long bangs framing his face, as well as a black piece of cloth covering his forehead. He had pale eyes with a slight lavender tint to them. He was dressed a white shirt with loose sleeves, closed on the right shoulder, with a fastener running down the right part of the chest, matching pants, with a dark navy grey apron tied around his waist and black sandals. This one had a very stern, harsh look as he gazed at them. "Who are you?" He grunted towards the both of them.

"Neji, it is impolite to ask for another's name without offering yours first." The green clad boy scolded the other one, Neji. Before walking towards Sasuke and Naruto, extending his hand towards them. "My name is Rock Lee, the Blossoming Green Beast of Battle."

"My name's Naruto Uzumaki, and this here is Sasuke Uchiha." Naruto beamed back in return, grabbing his hand and shaking it madly. "We're here to see Might Guy, we're hoping for some training."

"What a beautiful day this is then! That I might be blessed with two new beautiful students!" A man crashed down behind Lee. Dressed exactly the same as Lee, the only difference being a green flak jacket over his torso and a lack of bandages on his forearms. Even their appearances were alike, the same haircut, the same humongous eyebrows. "I am Might Guy, the Fully Bloomed Green Beast of Battle!" He gave them a thumbs up, accompanied by a large grin to make his teeth sparkle and a wink. "Tell me, what is your dream?"

"To become the greatest Adventurer the World has ever seen! And to make many friends along the way!" Naruto grinned as he spoke immediately.

"An excellent dream!" Guy beamed in return, giving the blonde yet another thumbs up. "I shall train you, and give you the tools to chase that dream to the fullest!"

"I want to prove that I'm stronger than my brothers, that I can beat them. For that I need power." Sasuke replied honestly.

Yet his look went to shock when Guy glared at him with scorn. "That is a selfish conviction. And I will not train you if power is all you seek." Guy turned his body, crossing his arms, unable to look at Sasuke.

"Please!" Sasuke dropped to his knees, bowing towards him. Shocking even Naruto, who stared at his raven haired friend as he was on the ground. "My brothers are the strongest people I have ever met. They look at me as weak and useless. I need to prove myself against them, yet I'm stuck with the inexperience of youth against them. Please train me, help me find the full power behind this youthful persona I'm stuck with!"

"Did you say… youth?" Guy looked over his shoulders with wide eyes towards Sasuke, who stared back at him with shock, power began radiating from Guy as he clenched his fist. "YOSH! We shall make the power of your youth explode like the bright of flames!" He screamed upwards to the heavens, looking at the both of them. "Come! Your training begins!"

"That guy truly is a monster…" Sasuke muttered out as he and Naruto sat around a small campfire in the forest outside the dojo's walls. Both were dirty, battered, bruised and bloody. "I've never experienced training like that before, he took things to a whole new extreme."

"I've never really experienced training before. So I can't make any comparisons, but that… that wasn't normal was it?" Naruto responded as he sprawled out over a log, his back arching over it to let his head hang loosely backwards. He spoke with stunted breaths, as if it was agony just to even speak.

"My family is strong because we have augmented our strength with Devil Fruit powers. It makes me wonder if Guy wields one as well?" Sasuke asked more to himself as he stared at the fire.

"No, Guy doesn't have any Devil Fruit powers." Naruto moved his head and Sasuke shifted his eyes towards Kakashi, who was walking towards them. "He's simply the personification of Power. You guys look terrible by the way." He gave them another eye smile as he sat on the other side of the campfire to them.

"YOSH!" Guy suddenly bounced in, grinning madly at them. "Come my two new students. You have rested plenty enough. Your training continues!" He gave the duo another thumbs up pose, before his eyes fixed on Kakashi, suddenly his eyes lit up in a new fire. "My eternal rival Kakashi! So this is where you have been hiding! Come its time for our next manly challenge."

"Did you say something, Guy?" Kakashi replied with effortless cool, causing Guy to boil with utter rage.

"You and your hipness, Kakashi!" Guy cursed as he clenched his fists together, before suddenly calming down. "Wait, Kakashi, are these two… your own students as well?"

"Well no, I've never really met the-"

"Then I propose a whole new manly challenge! We shall settle our next bout through our students! Your shining examples of hipness, against my exuberant examples of youth!" Guy interjected before Kakashi could finish trying to reply. "The Power of Youth, ASSEMBLE!"

"Yosh!" Lee immediately bounced in, delivering the same pose as Guy did earlier. The other one, Neji groan as he calmly walking behind them, pinching the bridge of his nose with a combination of frustration and embarrassment.

"That sounds like fun!" Naruto jumped up with new found energy, grinning towards them. "But how about a wager on top of the challenge?" He grinned towards them, Guy and Lee seemed intrigued by what he was about to say. "I need more people on my crew, and when I have to leave, I'd like to take your teachings with me. So if Sasuke and I win, Neji and Lee will join my crew!" He grinned even further, he had seen what both of them could do. It would be impossible for him to choose between the two of them. And if Neji and Lee win…" Naruto looked around, before seeing Kakashi had returned to reading his book, the blonde grinned mischievously. "Kakashi will undertake one full month of your most extreme, most youthful training."

"What?" Kakashi looked up, just hearing the last part of what was just said.

"YOSHHHH! I accept the terms of this manliest of manly challenges!" Guy beamed once again, a fire burning around his body. "The battle shall begin one week today, now it is time for your training. Come and adorn this symbol of your tutelage under the Green Beast of Battle!" Guy turned back to Naruto and Sasuke, holding two green spandex suit in each arm, gesturing them towards the two.

"There's no way I'm wearing that." Sasuke grumbled as he stared at the green spandex.

"I'll help with your training to." Kakashi spoke as he snapped the book shut whilst standing up. "There's no way I can lose this wager."

A/N: Hey there, DGS here! Well took me a while but I finally updated.

I've kinda lost interest in Fanfiction recently, but it's my duty as an author to keep my stories going for as long as I'm willingly able. So I updated. Not much really happened this chapter. But I'll expplain a few things

Neji and Lee. Yes both of them, and yes they will be joining Naruto's crew at the end of this Karate Island Arc.

This story is good for me because it has so many possibilities for me to improve as an author, action, drama, turmoil, family, love, friendship and comedy. Speaking of Comedy, I've got great ideas for Comic Relief for this story, and you will love it. It involves our favourite little Uchiha!

I've been asked about pairings, and although I'm open to try them out, I can't expect anything really to happen. I get PMs saying NarutoXNami, NarutoXJewellry, NarutoXEtc. Naruto is more in love with the idea of adventure, and finding a girl and love is simply an adventure he isn't ready to take yet. He wants to discover himself first before discovering someone else if that makes sense?

Anyway, gonna skip the training because this chapter was pretty boring, so a chapter about training would be even worse, so look out for the next chapter real soon!

D.G.S