A/N - NEW STORY! NEW STORY! If some of you already don't know, I have a new Naruto story that's based off that Rock Lee side series called: Light In You SD 😂 I'm unoriginal af Ik and I'm sorry lol
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Chapter 17: Reverse The Genjutsu —Sakura and Lee Attack
"All right, Sakura," Naruto cracked his fists and readied himself into position. "I don't wanna do this, but if it's to protect Nia, then I've got no choice but to fight you. Imma get you out of that damn genjutsu and get you back to your senses."
"As if you can lay your hands on me, Naruto," The girl scoffed and rested her hands on her hips. "We all know you don't got the heart to do it. Besides... even if you did, let's not forget that I make you tremble in fear."
"No offense, Sakura, but when it comes to dire situations like this, I'm not afraid of anyone, ya know! I gotta protect this village no matter what and everyone in it! Not even you will stop me from doing that! I'm gonna make you turn back the way you were in no time so don't worry."
Behind him, Nia curled her fist up and rested it on her heart. In the end, she just couldn't argue any further after the blonde's passionate plea for her not to get herself involved with the shuffle. Though she wanted to fight, she ultimately understood the genin's concerns. However, as she stood there, she felt deeply that she had something to prove again just mere moments later.
Her mind raced about what truly was her decision. She knew she didn't want him to worry about her, but at the same time, she wanted to show that she was capable of standing her ground. She didn't want to be this damsel in distress all the time. Sure, back when she first met him, she was just a complete amateur who couldn't possibly understand ninjutsu too well and had to rely on taijutsu and one simple genjutsu. She was in need of having Jiraiya and Naruto around to make sure she was safe as she was still learning to improve her techniques and channeling her chakra.
By no means was she as powerful as most of the ninja in the Leaf, but she had improved greatly over the past year and a half. Combined with her quick thinking and rather resourceful use of the environment around her, she believed she could just possibly win despite not being the powerhouse that was Sakura Haruno.
Finally, Sakura lunged toward Naruto with superb speed. When she did, Nia's mind was made up as she apologetically shoved the genin to the side, dropped into a crouch directly beneath Sakura's first punch and then tried to deliver an uppercut in retaliation, but Sakura had already lurched backwards on an impossibly flexible spine. Her leg came up and tried to slam down on Nia who dodged it at the last second. Sakura's blow still landed on the ground, however, and Nia and Naruto was caught up in the flying debris that erupted from the shattered dirt.
With this, the pink-haired girl decided to focus on her fellow kunoichi for an intense battle.
Despite the unsteady quaking ground beneath her feet, Nia shifted her momentum to drive a counterattack to Sakura's torso while Naruto quickly moved out of the way and landed to safer ground as Nia's nimble, pink haired opponent bent backwards to evade the girl's fist and slammed her foot into Nia's exposed chest, sending her flying through a large tree.
A shower of splinters and dirt started as soon as the girl had impacted it.
"DAMN IT! NIA!" Naruto's eyes widened as he processed what had happened and attempted to aid the kunoichi only for Sakura to pour chakra in her fists and begin delivering short powerful jabs at him.
Each jab was followed by a swifter attack until her fists began to blur under the speed that her taijutsu style enabled her to perform. Naruto seemed to stumble over the broken ground beneath their feet as Sakura wound up to deliver a full powered hammer blow to his torso.
"You're mine now, Naruto!" She declared triumphantly when Naruto's forearms rose to form an impromptu shield between her attack and his vulnerable body. Her fist connected solidly and watching their battle, some of his clones had to brace themselves against the waves of destructive chakra that had swept across the area from the force of Sakura's blow. The whipping winds from the shockwave thus nearly caused them to miss Naruto's counter attack.
Instead of falling away with pulverized bones, he had somehow escaped unharmed and in a perfect position to dive under Sakura's arm. It was soon revealed that he had been saved by Nia's water whip jutsu that wrapped itself around his foot just in time to move him out of the way.
Sakura's mouth then opened involuntarily as the wind was pounded from her lungs by a rapid succession of chakra enhanced blows to her exposed torso by none other than a few of Naruto's clones themselves.
"Nia!" The original glared intensely at the girl with immense disapproval to her recent actions when she returned to him lopsidedly and holding her head as it throbbed. "What the hell are you doing?! I thought you said you were done arguing with me?!"
With blood having run down the side of her face, Nia only replied, "I am done arguing with you... I choose to fight this time around and prove to you and myself that I can defend myself just fine these days!"
"I ALREADY TOLD YOU IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT!" Naruto gritted his teeth. "STAY OUT OF DANGER!"
Having had already leapt back up, Sakura eyed the two closely while she healed the damage they had inflicted.
"Oh, quit complaining and let Nia fight already, you idiot," Sakura chided. "I'll take on the both of you! Bring it on!"
With smoke having been brought in the air due to Shikamaru's battle with Chouji not too far, Naruto softly smiled with confidence as he raised two fingers up.
It looked like he wanted to summon some clones to aid him, but Sakura wasn't having it though.
With that, she bent her legs and jumped horizontally toward Naruto's position, her arms whipping slightly as she began to execute a hidden medical technique. Naruto slapped her open palm away, confused, but then wary when a few of her rapid thrusts began to slip through his defenses.
He bounded away, his arms hanging loosely at his side. He had felt this kind of beneath the surface damage before when he had been on the mission to recruit Tsunade all those years ago.
Naruto grimaced as Sakura flitted away with a burst of speed and closed in on Nia's position instead. Nia waited until the last second before delivering a kick aimed at Sakura's side to which her opponent predictably knocked it away which had the effect of causing Nia to spin on the heel of the foot that had remained on the ground.
The kick that actually landed on Sakura was therefore charged up with the momentum of her own fearsome strength. The dull thud of impact reverberated across the village as she was sent flying, but there was no follow up sound of a crash. Sakura adjusted her trajectory in midair and sprang toward another attack just as Nia's fist came up to oppose hers.
Meanwhile, in another part of the village, Shikamaru had his hands full as he was forced to go up against his own teammates along with Sai. Despite his efforts and sharp mind, he wasn't fairing too well against them even with Iruka at his side to help even the odds.
Over where Jiraiya was, he was in the midst of a brawl between Neji, Hinata, and TenTen. Though each very skilled ninja in their own right, they wasn't exactly on par with the power of a legendary sannin. The real threat to him... was Tsunade, though the Hyuuga's byakugan proved as a major challenge also.
Jiraiya's hair lengthened and hardened into a cocoon around his body as his ninja intuition saved him from a surprise attack from behind by Tenten. The explosive tags attached to the kunais she placed on it still sent Jiraiya flying though, even as his technique saved him from injury. He couldn't help it now. If he wanted this to end in his favor, he was absolutely going to have to get serious.
His opponents all glanced around, surprised that Tenten's tags hadn't managed to do more than they had against Jiraiya's defense. Now the perverted Sannin was nowhere in sight and they were all beginning to get apprehensive that some kind of innovative attack was being prepared for him.
Using their eyes, Neji and Hinata scanned the area for him, but as they pinpointed his location, the earth shattered beneath their feet as Jiraiya sprung out of the ground in a mess of swirling white hair. The strands were razor sharp and even as quickly as the two responded, they could still feel some warm wet liquid dripping down their faces from a scalp injury.
Jiraiya immediately flipped around and thrusted forward with two chakra charged fingers at Tsunade, only for her to twist away at the last moment and throw up a hasty defensive screen of taijutsu moves.
"Hmph, I expected nothing less from out of you, Tsunade," The sannin breathed as he redoubled his onslaught. "Just don't go thinking I can't put up a decent fight with you though, sweetheart."
The slug princess quickly delivered a chakra enhanced blow to her aged opponent's ribs before performing another set of jabs to Jiraiya's midriff when suddenly a ripple in her perceptions caught her up short. Leaving herself vulnerable to attack, she spun to the right and thrusted her fist into midair where it ran up against something solid. Before she could correct her stance, Jiraiya delivered a stout blow to her side and then melted into dark ooze.
It was apparent that he had caught them all in his own personal genjutsu. When he did, he took a moment to create a chakra surge and have it disrupt each person's chakra flow one by one. With each person freed from it, they'd collapse to the ground unconscious.
"So then... simple as that, huh?" The man dusted his hands before hopping over to aid Shikamaru and Iruka.
With their opponents having had the upper hand, Shikamaru braved himself as Chouji enlarged his hand, raised it up high and aggressively aimed to smash the guy right to the ground.
However, before that could happen, a powerful gust of wind broke out and sent Chouji and the others flying off their feet. With a swing of her enormous fan, a certain blonde-haired woman stood her ground as she pulled her weapon right back toward her.
"So... how many times am I going to keep having to save your ass?" She straightened her posture as Shikamaru chuckled then sighed.
"Why am I not surprised to see you here... Temari?"
"You're from the Sand, aren't you?" Iruka questioned as the young woman glanced back at him.
"Yes... I came here cause apparently your Hokage has some business to discuss. It was very strange though... when I first got here, there seemed to be some barrier around your village but it went away not too long ago and I entered only to find everyone was practically frozen in place and you all were in some trouble. What's been going on?"
"It's a long story and would be a drag to explain it all from the beginning," Shikamaru staggered back up to his feet. "Anyway... thanks for saving us. We owe you one."
"We are very grateful for your assistance," Iruka nodded.
"Y-Yeah... no problem. Glad you all are safe."
Just then, Jiraiya appeared alongside the trip before focusing his attention on the reviving enemies and using that chance to perform the same exact move he used on his own personal opponents on their opponents too, successfully getting them to be released from the genjutsu.
"Master Jiraiya..." Iruka was a bit stunned to see him so soon.
"I've found a way to free them from the genjutsu," The sannin stated as he walked toward the group. "Do me a favor though, drag these guys out of harms way while I go around releasing everyone else out of this genjutsu. The strength of it seemed to have lowered immensely. I wonder why?"
"It's probably cause Kakashi-sensei killed the one who started this. I'm assuming the effects just took a long while to weaken after the user became deceased," Shikamaru gave his two cents in.
"Thanks for the information," Jiraiya then disappeared in a white smoke as he headed off to his next location.
Back where Naruto and Nia were, Sakura staggered backwards a few steps after having had an elbow driven against her gut by Nia. Jumping over Nia's head, Naruto brought his foot up and kicked right under his teammate's chin, quickly apologizing as he watched Sakura fall to her back.
With that, he turned to the girl next to him and placed a hand on her shoulder while wiping some blood off from the corner of his lip.
"Nia... you all right?"
Though she was banged up quite a bit and had some bruising in her face, the kunoichi nodded and gave a reassuring smile.
"I'm hurting a bit, but I'll be alright thanks to you," She hugged the blonde. "It's cause my hero was by my side that I'm not worse off."
"You... wouldn't be hurt at all if you'd just hide and let me protect you though..." Naruto wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Baby..." This made Nia sigh and sweatdrop.
However, someone even more formidable appeared behind them. He was standing straight with his left arm behind his back and his right arm pointing to the enemy with a straight palm.
"I will be your opponent now," They spoke as the familiar voice prompted Naruto and Nia to turn around.
"Bushy Brows!" Naruto's eyes widened when he took notice of the red glow coming from his friend's eyes.
"My name is Rock Lee and I shall put an end to you both! I may not know ninjutsu but I can make up for that with my powerful taijutsu and unyielding determination! Fight me now!"
"Damn... this isn't good," The genin gritted his teeth as he then extended his arm in front of Nia and glanced back at her. "Thanks for the help with Sakura, but I NEED you to let me handle this one by myself. Lee is not one to mess with or even try engaging with in terms of taijutsu. He's truly a master at it, ya know."
"What? But are you sure? Wouldn't it be better for us to try and take him down together?"
Naruto shook his head as some of his clones returned to his side.
"No, take a unrestrained hit from him and your life could be over in a split second. Nia, please... give yourself a break for now okay? Try moving Sakura to a safer place so she won't be at risk of getting caught up with not only this upcoming battle, but also the other fights around us."
"A-All right," The girl kissed him on the cheek before heading toward the unconscious kunoichi. "Please be careful, Naruto! Good luck!"
"Thanks and I will! You be safe too, okay?"
"Of course!" Nia yelled back as she then picked Sakura up and headed elsewhere.
With her gone and out of the way, the blonde focused all of his attention to the stretching boy across from him.
The two locked eyes.
Suddenly, as his opponent came in, Naruto shifted his head to the left, feeling the air move past him as he dodged Lee's fist, he ducked under another punch before launching an elbow into the chuunin's stomach. Lee grunted and moved back a bit, but did not do much more then that before he was on Naruto again.
The genin cursed as he ducked under a punch, and attempted to launch an elbow into Lee's ribs. However, Lee merely caught the elbow in between his arms, before kicking Naruto in the stomach.
The blonde merely grunted as he launched a devastating kick to the black-haired boy's stomach, chest and then his face. Lee was sent flying back and skidded along the ground. Kipping back up on his feet, the bowl-cut haired boy would spin around with an axe kick, only for Naruto to block it then throw a roundhouse kick to which Lee would duck under and grab his leg. With a grunt, he spun in a circle and tossed Naruto, sending him flying through the air before he landed on the side of a building and stuck to it using chakra.
It would be during this time that his clones would jump in but would only get vaporized by their opponent like they were nothing.
Man... Lee's one tough opponent! He never fails to amaze me with his fighting! I need to step my game up if I'm gonna win this!
Rather than waste time on pointless taijutsu when he knew he might not win that way, he began forming his hand seals.
"Wind Style: Divine Wind!" Naruto sent a fist shaped blast of wind towards his opponent who was currently running towards him, however, Lee continued his charge and smashed the wind fists away with a well-placed kick.
Unfortunately for Lee though, that attack had slowed him down and Naruto was able to close the distance between them striking out with fists and elbows, making the green clad chuunin stumble back. Naruto managed to get in several more good hits before Lee recovered and began to block them and make his own assault.
There was a thunderous crash and the rubble around Naruto seemed to vaporize itself in a flash of brilliant heat. He channeled chakra throughout his body to enable him to survive the intense pressure that the destructive wave caused as it carved out an enormous crater around his position.
"Bushy Brows, you gotta snap out of it! You're under genjutsu," The genin protested as Lee just plowed through the smoke that was choking off visibility almost entirely and proceeded to deliver a barrage of powerful blows.
"I have no idea what you're talking about! I am simply doing my best to end you!" Lee was oblivious to Naruto's protests.
"Bushy Brows!" The blonde pleaded as he slipped a punch through that sent his opponent staggering back a few steps.
The fight began to get even more furious as the two literally smashed into each other.
Naruto blocked a punch from the left, and then from the right, however he missed the kick that smashed into his stomach and sent him flying back. Flipping around, the blond hit the ground, and looked up to see Lee charging him.
When the enemy came in with a high kick, Naruto ducked under it, grabbed the extended leg, lifted the green clad chuunin up and then threw him into the ground. There was a loud crash as Lee's body created a decent sized crater. The blonde shinobi then jumped into the air and attempted to smash an axe kick on Lee, but he just rolled out of the way, making Naruto's foot smash into the ground, creating another smaller crater. Before he could get back up, Lee smashed a heel in the blonde's face, sending him sailing again.
As Naruto skidded across the ground he flipped through several hand seals, "Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullet!"
He smashed a fist on his stomach, blasting out a compressed ball of air. It went sailing towards Lee who tried to hit it away, however the attack was much stronger than his other jutsu, and it smashed into Lee and tossed him away, sending him sailing into a building, which he crashed right through.
Naruto used that moment to catch a breather and be grateful to all the techniques he had since learned over the course of the last year or so thanks to his pervy but reliable master. He looked around to see a lot of craters from their battle and scolded himself for having made such a mess within the village and for having had made his friend crash right into a structure. He hoped no one got caught up in the moment.
He waited about a minute for his opponent, but he never came. Lee was strong. He wouldn't stay down so easily. That's when he heard it — a high pitched scream coming not too far from him. It was obvious to him who it was coming from and in that instant, he sprung forward, his arms hanging loosely behind him as he sprinted onward.
Where Lee was, he had landed an unexpected blow to Nia's cheek while she had been distracted focusing on Sakura and was sent skidding on her back until it smacked against the side of a building.
Wincing, she grabbed at her injury as Lee charged at her, ready to deliver the finishing blow. At the last second, she managed to roll out of the way as his fist stopped right at the wall. Quickly drawing out a kunai, she used it to puncture it into his thigh causing the boy to groan and fall onto a knee. Taking it right back out and using the chance she had, she stood back up, stepped onto his thigh with one foot and used her other leg to drive her knee under his chin, sending him flying back a few yards away.
However, as he done so, he threw a few kunai himself just as Naruto finally made it to the scene and felt his heart dropped upon witnessing the speed at which the weapons were thrown.
"NIAAA!"
Having no time to react, the girl could do nothing fast enough as she just closed her eyes and mentally prepared to be severely injured or even killed. However, a random blur jumped down in front of her and when she felt nothing pierce her, she slowly opened her eyes to see what appeared to be a young man with red hair standing in front of.
She watched as sand made a barrier around them and little bits of it hit the ground while from the other side, Naruto gasped upon seeing one of his old good friends having saved the kunoichi.
"G-GAARA?!"
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A/N - FINALLY! Our kazekage has made his debut in this fanfic! I've waited years to do this lmaooo and it's finally here! This is a wrap! lol I am shook that I am writing action still cause the next chapter contains some more too I believe. I HOPE I DID A GOOD JOB WITH THIS CAUSE THIS TOOK A LOT OF THINKING LMAOO! Y'all have no idea!
Anyway, like I said above, I have a new Naruto story if you'd like to read: Light In You SD
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