Chapter 7: Nia Attacks!

No one made a move. Naruto and Nia just stared at one another while Jiraiya waited patiently for their battle to begin.

Though she didn't want to admit it, Nia felt shaken up. Her confidence in her abilities wasn't very high; She was unsure of herself. To her, if she couldn't master ninjutsu, that means the opponent automatically wins the match if they are able to skillfully use it themselves.

'Man... Can I really do this? This guy is already Jiraiya-sensei's student. What makes me think I can beat him? I barely know how to walk on water and trees for goodness sake!' She thought nervously to herself.

"If you're not gonna make the first move then I will!" Naruto made a clone sign, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Five replicas of himself spawned beside him. At once, they all charged. Nia felt surprised but knew that shadow clones can usually be taken out with one hit.

One threw a hook; Nia swifted left then swung back around with a strong kick. It landed a hit and that clone proofed into smoke. Another appeared from behind with a kick. Nia grabbed it's foot, spun it around and threw it towards the last couple clones. They all vanished.

Jiraiya watched it all.

Alright. Not bad, but shadow clones are usually easy to defeat yet they're usually used to distract the opponent from the real attacker.

"Hya!" Naruto came speeding downwards from the sky with a balled fist.

Nia heard his grunt and successfully managed to backflip out of the way. Naruto stopped his fist from hitting the ground and looked at Nia a bit dumbstruck.

"How did you know I was attacking from upwards?"

Nia knew the answer to his question but didn't want him to avoid doing what he did. Maybe he would keep doing that.

"Hey, are you even listening to me!?!" Naruto yelled.

"She was able to dodge you so easily cause you grunted loudly before you attacked. If you hadn't done that, you would've got her." Jiraiya corrected Naruto of his mistake.

Nia furrowed her eyebrows.

Damn, why did he have to go and tell him that? Ugh... What do I do now? This sucks so bad.

Naruto chuckled, "I see... Thanks, Pervy Sage."

He then stood with confidence.

This is gonna be quick! I'll just use rasengan and bam! It'll be all over for her.

Naruto looked at his opponent and noticed something strange. Nia's hand were slightly trembling along with her knees. Her stance wasn't exactly straight like his own and her eyes seemed to have no reassurance.

Is she-

"Curly Brow! Are-"

"It's Nia!" Nia growled.

"Nia." Naruto corrected himself, "You sure you wanna continue this match? You don't seem so confident in yourself."

Nia scoffed, "Of course. I'm not afraid to fight you."

Naruto stared at the kunoichi then nodded, "Alright... If that's what you say."

Nia had no choice but to try her best and defeat the blonde with her taijutsu. This was the only thing she felt was her greatest strength. Her speed was remarkable but clearly not as great as the Raikage's.

At once, Nia pushed her feet off the ground. Naruto's eyes widened when he realized Nia's movements became a blur. She connected a fist to Naruto's cheek. It was so powerful, the genin flew several yards back all while slamming through a few trees before roughly tumbling to a stop on the ground.

'What the hell?!' Jiraiya uncrossed his arms after witnessing the strength of Nia, 'That looked like a punch Tsunade would throw...'

He narrowed his eyes at the girl in suspicion.

Who is this girl? Her last name is the same as Iruka's but his clan isn't known for incredible strength.

Nia stood straighter once she saw the destruction of trees in front of her and her opponent laying faced down on the ground. It brought her a sense if reassurance.

Dang... Did I overdo it on that punch? I don't think I killed him or anything... He should be able to recover from it.

Naruto clutched the dirt.

"WOAH! What the hell was that?! It feels like Sakura just knocked me out."

The ninja slowly climbed to his feet and brushed the dirt off his clothing and face. He noticed Nia gawking at him.

"What's with that look, huh?! Don't think you won just from that one punch! It'll take an infinite amount of them to take me down!" Naruto hollered while placing his thumb to his chest.

Nia nodded. Naruto returned to his stance.

Still... He thought, That attack came out of nowhere! I barely had enough time to dodge it! If I keep getting hit like that, I'll end up with bandages all over me in no time. So how then? How can I creep up on her- wait I'll just have to use my shadow clones again!

Again Naruto makes a sign and this time, more than fifty of his clones were spawned. Nia's eyes nearly came out of
Its sockets.

How the heck did he do that?! I've never seen so many of them!

"Surprised?" All the clones ask at once, "Not to brag or anything, but I can make over a thousand of me, ya know!"

"What?! No one can make that many clones! Not even a kage!" Nia responded with utter awe.

Jiraya laughed, "It's true; Naruto really can produce tons of clones without much difficulty. He really does have an enormous amount of chakra."

"But how is that possible...?"

WAIT!

Nia bit her lip.

That's right. He's a jinchuuriki like Bee. No wonder he can do that. But that's still strange... I've never seen Uncle Bee do that before.

"You're producing those shadow clones with your own chakra, aren't you?!"

"Of course I am!" The shadow clones responded.

They all then charged at once like last time, "HAAAAAA!"

'Here they come. I'll meet them halfway!' Nia sprinted towards the clones with her arms behind her.

Nearing close range, Nia dug through her weapon pouch and took out several kunai and shuriken and aimed it at all the Narutos'. Many vanished but over half of them were still approaching.

Confident about dwindling the number of clones further after feeling a certain item in her pouch, Nia jumped high into the air over the clones, performed a front flip, then threw a smoke bomb below her.

Jiraiya was impressed by this move and made a comment that Nia is quite smart for catching Naruto off guard like she did.

Meanwhile, the real Naruto got caught in the smoke along with his clones.

'Damn! She's using the smoke to blur my vision. I'll just have to jump out of here!

Just then, a lightbulb lit up over the genin' s head. He had an idea.

"Hey you!" Naruto grabs a clone's arm. He pulled him closer and whispered something in his ear.

"Of course! That's it. Good plan!" The clone agreed to what his real self told him.

Nia stood on top of a tree branch waiting for a certain someone. Before she even stood there, she spent some time making only one clone but with difficulty. It was perhaps the only form of ninjutsu she could do. Her clone joined in the battle with Naruto's and did work.

Suddenly, Nia spots Naruto bounce out the smoke. She smiled and dashed right towards him and smacked him in the face.

"Got him!" She grins widely.

Poof!

Naruto disappeared. Nia's eyes looked as if she had seen a ghost.

N-No way! T-That wasn't-

A sound resembling wind spiraling entered the girl's ears.

"RASENGAN!" Naruto screamed as he approached from behind.

Nia looked back in shock.

NOOO! Damn it! Why didn't I see that coming?!

Immediately an idea came to her as well. The two were in midair but Nia was falling while Naruto seemed to be getting higher to her. If it wasn't for this advantage, the sixteen-year-old would've been done for. All she had to do was make a simple move.

She jabbed a small kick to Naruto's right arm that held his powerful move. The sudden pain the blue-eyed male felt dispersed his rasengan. Nia sighed in relief when she dropped to the ground.

"I can't believe my taijutsu and quick thinking is actually helping me right now! Unbelievable."

Jiraiya placed a hand on his hand.

Impressive... She used the gravity to her advantage and kicked Naruto's arm to keep him from using the rasengan against her.

Naruto groaned once landing. Two of his clones appeared to his side.

Man, her one clone took out most of mine? Geez... And she made me lose my rasengan...

He rubbed his arm then placed it back to his side.

"This is embarrassing... Pervy Sage is watching me, but I'm here losing..."

Naruto then noted on something.

That's right... Every time I impact her in hand-to-hand combat, she always keeps beating me. However, every time I use ninjutsu, she seems startled and worried. Could taijutsu be her strength while ninjutsu isn't?

Naruto cracked his knuckles.

I guess there's one way to find out! I'll have to attack her head on and test her taijutsu then back away and test her ninjutsu. After that, I'll know how to properly attack her and win this fight. Okay! Here goes nothing.

Naruto sprinted forward and took out a kunai while his shadow clones followed him. Nia stood where she was and also took a kunai out after seeing her opponent with one. This was going to be a close range battle. One that she specializes in.

Naruto made the first move and clashed his weapon against Nia's. His two clones appeared from her side and aimed a fist to her head. Nia dropped low and allowed the clones to eliminate eachother. She then twirled her leg around and slid it behind the original's foot causing him to trip. He caught his balance by backflipping.

The Konoha ninja wasted no time in slamming his foot up against his opponents chin. Nia flew upwards with Naruto gave chase. He flipped and rammed his feet against Nia's stomach. She crashed to the ground as debris scattered about.

Naruto floated downwards.

He saw Nia stand up with an angry expression.

"Uh oh, was that too much?"

"I'm not gonna lose my chance at becoming Jiraiya-sensei's pupil no matter what!" Nia then pointed her finger at Naruto, "I'm going to beat you or Atleast get close to beating you up so I won't have to go back to my village!"

With a new found determination, Nia ran to her opponent and the two engage in hand-to-hand combat. She threw a punch but Naruto grabbed her wrist. He then used his other arm to hit her face, but Nia dodged it. They break away from one another then fight once more; Each jabbing punches and kicks from all angles and blocking and dodging each one. It wasn't until Naruto made an error on his movement that Nia found his stomach to be wide open.

With enough strength, she blows a punch and Naruto is once more tumbling backwards. However, it wasn't as much as the first time.

He quickly recovered.

So, she is very skilled in taijutsu... Now! Let's see if you're any good in ninjutsu!

Naruto begins to run but then stops...

Hold on...

He thought of the way Sakura and most of the kunoichi dreamily stare at very handsome men.

Yeah... That might work even better than my other idea.

Naruto forms a hand seal.

"Sexy jutsu!"

Clouds form around a very beautiful woman with long blonde hair and nice curves. Jiraiya sees Naruto's transformation and blood shoots out his nose.

Nia's shoulders lowered as she saw the disturbing sight in front of her.

"What... The hell?!"

Naruto snickered.

'It's working! She's totally drooling.'

"Come to Papa, Sweet thing!" Naruto suddenly sees Jiraiya running towards him with the most perverted look he's ever seen.

Jiraiya hugs the female Naruto and rubs his cheek against hers.

"P-Pervy Sage?! Get off me, you're not into men!" Naruto struggles to push his master off him; Not realizing he turned into a female instead of a male.

"You are about the cutest thing I've ever seen! Why don't we head to my place and-"

"GYAH!" Naruto got creeped out and slammed his fist into Jiraiya's stomach, causing the man to double over.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" The young male reverts to his original form.

"You were so beautiful. Turn back to that girl right now!" Jiraiya responded.

"Girl?!"

"Don't ever do that again! YUCK!" Naruto heard Nia's voice from a distance.

He laughed, "Oh! I must've used sexy jutsu by accident. Sorry bout hitting you Pervy Sage. I didn't know that."

Nia irritated, impatiently dashed towards her opponent.

"I'm tired of waiting around watching you do dumb things! Let's finish this!"

Naruto smirked, "That's fine by me."

He then used the proper hand sign then said, "Sexy reverse harem jutsu!"

A cloud of smoke appeared as a very handsome brown-haired man with brown eyes came out from it with only a towel around his waist. His muscles were big but not too big and he was cleanly shaven. Nia made a complete stop and was paralyzed by the presence of the man.

Naruto smiled and cupped her chin then stroked her cheek.

All right! Looks like I got Curly Brow in a daze! Women are almost as easy to fool than men are.

Nia's pupils constricted. Naruto noticed this.

Huh! What's that look she's giving me?

Like earlier, Nia's hands and knees trembled but this time she also bit her lip and tears seemed to form in her eyes. She looked too scared to move.

Seconds later, her tears fell from her eyes and Naruto immediately reverted to his original form.

"Cur- I mean Nia, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"

"S-Stay away from me!" She fell to her knees and grabbed her head.

"Huh? I don't get it. What did I-"

"Leave me alone!" She sobbed then covered her ears with her hands as best as she could. "I don't  wanna hear your insults anymore!"

"Insults?!" Naruto repeated, "I didn't say anything like that to you."

Jiraiya, who regained his composure, accompanied his student.

"What's going on here?" He asked.

"I- I don't know... She saw my sexy reverse harem jutsu and totally went bonkers." Naruto answered truthfully, "Maybe the guy wasn't her type...?"

"No that's not it. She probably got worked up because of the fact that she saw a... Handsome man. It made her extremely insecure most likely."

"What? What do you mean?"

Jiraiya groaned, "Naruto, she's ridiculed for her looks, remember? It must've been very good-looking men who shunned her the most perhaps. Men can be like that you know. It happens all the time. We can't help but be nice to the pretty ones and cruel to the... Not so good-looking ones."

"I get that but why be so cruel? She didn't do anything to them?!"

Jiraya sighed, "Perhaps you're too kind to do that but still... If a woman isn't pretty, men won't go after her even if she's kind-hearted. Looks are first then maybe personality. Although that doesn't really matter to some men."

Naruto watched Nia sobbing. She then got weak and was falling down but Naruto caught her. She closed her eyes and seemingly lost consciousness.

"Naruto... You say you like Sakura cause you think she's pretty, right?" Jiraya spoked.

Naruto realized the meaning in his words but nodded in honesty, "Yeah but we both want acknowledgement from Sasuke also! I like that about Sakura too."

"But what about her personality?"

"Personality?"

Jiraiya nodded.

"Uh well... She's uh... She gets angry easily and doesn't hesitate to punch me... Um she can be nice sometimes but usually I get scolded by her. She's very loving towards Sasuke. Eh..."

"Stop! That's all I need to hear." Jiraya said.

It's pretty obvious Sakura is just someone he's infatuated with. He said once that he likes her yet can't come up with reasons besides saying she's cute, and something that has to do with his own other teammate. Oh brother... Even I can come up with better reasons as to why I like Tsunade besides her bustiness and good looks.

"Naruto... Put your luggage on and carry Nia in your arms. I've decided to let her be my pupil."

"Whaaat?! Why, Pervy Sage?! You promised to teach me a awesome jutsu and I don't want anyone getting in the way of that!" Naruto threw a fit.

"You idiot! Was you blind to your own battle moments ago?" Jiraya frowned, "This girl has a clear talent for taijutsu but has a problem with ninjutsu. Her punches from the looks of it, could rival maybe even Tsunade's! She would make a great training partner for you and help you get better with you average taijutsu."

Naruto looked pensive. A training partner would be good for him. One that fights like Sakura but uses great strategies similar to Shikamaru.

"Fine." The genin places his heavy luggage on himself then lifts Nia in his arms.

Naruto wobbled a little.

"Ugh, I forgot how heavy this luggage is! Now I gotta carry a human being too!"

"Stop complaining and let's get going." Jiraiya moved forward.

Naruto looked down at Nia but then refocused on the road ahead of him.

I wonder if she'll really be a great sparring partner like Pervy Sage says... Maybe she will.

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A/N- Chapter finished! Love it! It was awesome writing the action. I had to listen to some Naruto battle music to get into the fighting mood like emergence of talents and shippuden mostly. They're soooo awesome! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter too! Please comment and vote before you go! Thanks