The Red Flash Chapter 23 (Feeling of Death) (Patreon)

Naruto rushed at Ashara, his sword flied to her torso but she quickly blocked it with her sword, they looked at each other before swinging again, Asha blocked his swing and backed away, ten feet away, she put a smile on her face, Kenjutsu was her favorite way of fighting. She put her sword behind her hips and ran at Naruto with all her speed.

Her speed was easily Low Chunin, she lowered her whole body slightly, her blade almost touched the ground before swinging upwards towards Naruto, his hands moved quickly and blocked the swing, the sound of metal hitting metal was heard throughout the forest. Ashara quickly took a step back and rolled trying to him from behind, Naruto lowered his whole body before her sword made contact.

Naruto smiled impressed before swinging again, Asha blocked and add chakra to her sword making it more sharp and deadly. Naruto noticed it and added Wind in his swords, making the edge shine and look slightly like invisible flames dancing around the sword. Asha noticed and took three steps back. That sword like that could easily cut down trees.

She put her right hand slightly behind her body, her sword behind her, and her left hand slowly going to the pommel. Naruto nodded before they rushed and clashed their sword together, Asha could see Naruto was faster than her and had more strength, but his fighting skills in Kenjutsu was easy to predict.

She swinged and Naruto blocked and kicked her in the stomach, she made a hand sign and her weight seals in her arms and legs released. Fuu watched from afar impressed, since Asha had not once released her weights only increasing them as the time went on. She had not once released them with her, and to see her true speed was something she was looking forward to, but she was curious for her new friend too. She could tell Naruto had more to show, and she was looking forward to what else he could do.

Naruto understood she had released her weights and wondered if he should do the same, but then he shooked his head, he wanted to see his speed against her with his weights on.

Asha then ran at Naruto with Medium Chunin Speed, she swinged faster, and Naruto returned to offensive, she swinged, and he could keep up, swing after swing, Naruto blocked all of them since he wanted to test his own speed against her, but what the problem was is he didn't have any style to use in Kenjutsu, Asha on the other hand looked to know what she was doing. Naruto blocked another attack, and tried to attack but she blocked it and immediately moved again, her swing cut slightly his palm, Naruto backed away and looked at his hand. Blood started leaking.

Asha immediately stopped attacking and had a look of concern. Naruto just raised his hand telling her that it was fine, she then noticed that despite the small wound, Naruto didn't moan, or yell. He didn't even looked in pain and thet was a relief to her. She walked closer and softly touched his hand, Asha saw the wound slowly healing. After a minute, the cut was fully healed and Naruto looked up at Asha. She was thankful that the Kyuubi was healing Naruto, same how Chomei healed Fuu.

"Really good fight Ashara" he said to her impressed. She smiled back but she knew he had weight seals and that meant if he had released she wouldn't be able to win. "Thank You Naruto, but next time we fight, you will have to fight me without weights" she replied shyly. Naruto nodded in understanding and turned his head to Fuu who flew close to them.

"My turn now" she said and pulled out her short sword. Naruto grabbed his sword in his right hand, the palm didn't hurt anymore. He gripped the pommel of the sword tightly, wanting to see if it hurt, feeling no pain. His blue eyes looked at Fuu's orange ones.

Later

Fuu was breathing heavily, her hands on her knees, it had been six hours since Naruto had started sparring with them. And so far he had a tie with Asha, and two losses with her, and one win since he released his weights. Fuu had lost every time but both Asha and Naruto had said that she was good in Kenjutsu despite starting it only for seven months.

During the spar, Fuu had removed her weights in her arms and legs, she reached Low Chunin Speed without them. But she hadn't used her chakra cloak during the spar, Chomei had told her that she needed to better herself and not always depend on her chakra. Fuu fully agreed with it. But if she would use her chakra cloak, she could reach High Chunin Speed. She wondered if Naruto could use the cloak as well, but decided to ask some other day.

Right now she was resting her head against the grass. Asha had fallen asleep in the treehouse and Naruto was resting his head against the tree, his blue eyes still open. "Where's your sensei Naruto?" Fuu suddenly asked, breaking the silence. Her right eye slightly open and looking at Naruto. She wanted to know more about her new friend, but she wanted to meet Jiraiya The Sannin as well, she wondered how strong he was and if all three of them could actually do something against someone like him. He snorted and stretched his arms and legs.

"I don't really know, he was supposed to talk with Lord Shiboku, but I wonder what is taking him so long" Naruto replied annoyed that his sensei hadn't found him yet, he would usually always find him, mostly would take up to 30 minutes to be found by him, but now it had been seven hours since he had left the office.

Naruto decided to go back to the village and search for him when he felt his chakra coming towards their location. Naruto grinned and just decided to sit down again.

Fuu noticed his behavior and was about to ask, when a voice was suddenly heard. "I see you have made a friend Naruto" Fuu looked up at a branch in front of her, a man standing. She didn't need introducing to know who this one was. "Well, yes Fuu and Ashara are very good friends" Naruto replied smiling, his hands behind his head. Jiraiya raised an eyebrow at the unknown name, Lord Shibuki told him that Nanabi Jinchuuriki's name was Fuu.

"Who's this Ashara?" Jiraiya asked and landed in front of Naruto. "She's an Uzumaki like me Jiraiya-sensei" he said enthusiastically, his hands fist. Jiraiya looked surprised to hear that Taki had an Uzumaki.

Jiraiya could see how happy Naruto seemed to be because of it, he felt happy for his godson. "Well introduce me to her then" Jiraiya said and Naruto jumped at the treehouse and walked inside, Jiraiya crossed his arms and turned to see Fuu smiling and walking closer.

"Naruto talked a lot about you, you must be an awesome shinobi" Fuu said and wondered how strong Jiraiya of The Sannin was.

Jiraiya kept quiet and saw Naruto come out, close to him was a red head girl, just looking at her, Jiraiya knew this one was an Uzumaki. He wondered if she had the same chakra chains as Naruto.

Ashara jumped down with Naruto to see an old man with long white hair, two red lines trailing down his face. She could feel this one was strong, very strong. She bowed her head respectfully. "Is good to meet you Jiraiya-sama" She greeted him respectfully. Jiraiya felt nervous at her behavior.

"No need for that. . . Ashara was it, every friend of Naruto is a friend of mine" He stated. She smiled and raised her head. Jiraiya smiled back and Naruto told him more about Ashara and Fuu, he noticed him calling her 'Asha' but decided to ignore it for now. After a long talk, he heard how they trained in Kenjutsu, he noticed that Ashara was good at Fuinjutsu. But then Ashara suddenly asked something he really didn't need asking . . .

"I heard you're the author of a book called 'Icha Icha Paradise'" Ashara suddenly asked, her purple eyes looking at him. This caught Naruto's attention as well, since he had noticed that title in a few books of toad-jiji and wondered what the books was all about. He knew the book was famous, from the cities he had visited, he had seen the book in every single shop snd usually were only a few left, Naruto would usually try to buy it but he was training and had ignored it for now.

Jiraiya started sweating feeling the gaze of all three children in front of him. Rubbing his hand against his hair. "H . . . Ho . . . Have y-you read i-IT?" Jiraiya asked stuttering. He wondered how the likes of Tsunade would react, he hoped to god that she hadn't read it.

Asha shooked her head much to his relief. "No but I saw that sold very fast, but the seller told me I couldn't buy it, since I'm not old enough. Can I borrow it from you?" She asked kindly with puppy eyes.

Jiraiya started sweating even more, he could see Naruto was curious as well, but Kushina would kill him from beyond the grave and then torture his soul for eternity, if he dared to give him the book and second all three were still very young. Maybe when they become Genin.

"I- I can't give it, but you can read it once you become a genin" Jiraiya replied fast sighting in relief thinking that this was over. All three frowned at his reply. Naruto was about to ask again but Jiraiya-sensei raised his hand.

"How about I teach you in Fuinjutsu, Asha since Naruto mentioned you liked it" the mention of training in Fuinjutsu immediately brought a smile on her face.

"Yes, we can start now Databane" she shouted happily. Jiraiya couldn't help but feel a familiar feeling with what she said. He sighed pinching the bridge in his nose and followed her in the treehouse to train her in Fuinjutsu.

After they left Naruto turned to Fuu, and decided to help her in her Ninjutsu. "Fuu, since you have Chomei means, you can use Shadow Clones Jutsu to help your training" Naruto stated. Fuu raised an eyebrow not understanding where he was going with it.

Naruto then went on and explained how Shadow Clones worked and how she could train faster, Fuu beamed but then askes. "What about Asha-chan, she could use this as well" she quickly added.

"I'm not sure if Asha can use it, she might be able to use two to three but for a very short time, we have our friends to help us but she doesn't" Naruto explained already feeling bad that Asha couldn't use it. Fuu frowned but still thought that her friend would greatly improve from that jutsu.

"I will show her as well but tell her to use it only two clones max" Naruto suggested and Fuu nodded but still not liking it.

Naruto went on and explained how to do the jutsu and he himself made 100 clones to help in last Fire Elemental Manipulation training and 100 clones for Water, and Naruto was sure that would be easier with all the amount of water around Taki.

Yagura

He rushed at his former shinobi of Kiri. Juzo brought up Kubikiribōchō to block his claw that was almost like a sword itself. His giant sword swinged towards his head but he used his right hand to block it before punching him in the chest and threw him across a tree, he tried to rush at him again, when Itachi showed up in front of him with a Kunai, he blocked his claw with his kunai much to Jinchuuriki's surprise.

Yagura jumped away from him, before landing on his feet and started doing hand signs. Itachi understood what he was about to do and started doing hand signs.

Water Style: Wave Rush

Fire Style: Fireball

Yagura threw a huge amount of water from his mouth, Itachi threw a giant fireball. Both jutsus collided creating a big steam around, Itachi's fireball was able to keep up with his water jutsu much to the surprise of Yagura. Who was sure that his jutsu would be superior. Gritting his teeth, Yagura was starting to get annoyed.

"Time to end this" Yagura said with Isbobu's voice before coiling himself with his two tails around him. Yagura was enveloped in a blackish purple barrier that blocked Juzo's view of Yagura. A second later the barrier exploded with a roar and their eyes widened to what they saw.

It was The Mizukage however it wasn't the one they knew. Yagura was now completely enveloped in the Isobu's chakra as it became his own skin. His head a shell, to protect it and he had three tails in his back. This was his version 2 cloak and he looked like a miniature Isobu.

Juzo moved close to Itachi, who could see the new form of The Mizukage, he knew this was a problem and the only way to counter was with Mangekyo Sharingan. Steam moved away from the Jinchuuriki.

Juzo felt frozen from fear seeing what was in front of them, they both saw and felt the overwhelming chakra. Sweat roll down Juzo's forehead. His hands started shaking.

They didn't have time to think as Isobu was preparing his next attack. His tails were coiled around Isobu ending just above his head. Blue and red chakra was seen floating in the air. Suddenly all the chakra started compressing until it formed a perfect sphere still hovering mid air.

Itachi's eyes turned Mangekyo, which looked like a three blade shuriken. He knew what the Mangekyo would do to him, but he needed it now.

"Meet your End" Isobu yelled and threw the bomb towards them. The ground started shaking, the ground beneath the bomb split like paper, throwing debirs around the air.

Without knowing what else to do, Juzo used his big sword to block the attack, which exploded in contact. Itachi was thrown away from the force of the explosion, his black cloak had burned in a few places, and his hands were screaming from pain. He quickly stood up to see Juzo against a tree but his sword had pierced him in the stomach, blood coming from his mouth and his wound. He slowly turned his head to Itachi.

"I - Itachi ru. . . run" he warned him, Itachi turned to see the Mizukage preparing another bomb. Itachi focused his chakra on his right eye, blood slowly started rolling down his right eye like tears.

"Amaterasu" Itachi whispered and the Jinchuuriki was engulf in black flames, he started screaming in agony and shaking his head and body trying to remove the flames from him. Not knowing what else to do, Yagura ran away.

Itach released a sight of relief and turned to his comrade, his blood had spread all over the ground. Josu looked at him with a small smirk on his face. "Don't look at me like that, you don't need to be a medical shinobi to know my time has ended" He said struggling as his legs started feeling numb, his hands slowly loosing strength.

"Do you have any last words?" Itachi asked him. He smiled through his teeth. "I want my sword with m. . . Meeee. . . " his hand falled in the ground. His eyes stopped moving. Itachi said a small pray and put the handle of his sword in his hand.

Later

Yagura was panting, he had returned normal, his skin burned in several places, he started coughing. While he was running away, Isobu told him to turn his body in first form chakra cloak, after doing that, the black flames had moved away from his skin and started burning the chakra cloak instead, Yagura then slowly had made the part burning of his chakra fall in the ground. It took a lot of effort but he finally got rid of the damn thing but he had lost a lot of chakra, even Isobu told him to rest. And the pain around his body wasn't stopping.

His head resting against a tree, he decided to go back to his village when he felt a presence behind him. Despite the pain he stood up and turned around to see a man with a mask, same black cloak with red clouds, his mask covered his whole face, except his right eye. The mask looked orange with lines that collided in the right eye, almost like a spiral. Looking closer he saw that it was a Sharingan. Backing away, he grabbed his staff tightly.

"Who are you?" The young Mizukage demanded. His whole body was screaming from pain and he knew he couldn't do much right now. The man just stood there and chuckled at his question.

"Who am I doesn't matter, soon The Hidden Mist Village will pay for what they have done" he stated with a deep tone, his voice full of hatred. He pointed a finger at Mizukage, before Yagura could do anything, he felt everything go dark.

Isobu

He was resting in the floor, he had spend a lot of chakra in the fight, that's when he felt a presence other than Yagura inside the seal. Looking around he saw a man slowly walking out of the shadows, his eyes narrowed and clenched his teeth.

"Who are you Brat” Isobu asked furious that someone would come here. Only Yagura had that right and not this mortal.

The man laughed, his hand moved to his mask and moved his mask to his left side, showing his fully matured Sharingan. "I'm Uchiha Madara" the man stated before Isobu felt his whole body felt like in fire, in front of his vision was The Sharingan, he couldn't shake that vision away. He tried it, and yelled at the top of his lungs, his eyes turned Sharingan and everything went Dark.

Naruto - After Five Months

He stood in front of the waterfall, multi clones beside him, they all had their hands on the water, trying to split the waterfall. Naruto was still in Taki, Lord Shiboku had allowed him to stay here for as long as he wished, apparently Jiraiya-sensei knew him well. His bond with Ashara and Fuu had grown. Learning Shadow Clone Jutsu, Fuu had started training her Elemental Manipulation with the help of Jiraiya.

Ashara on the other hand, because of her Uzumaki Blood, she had large amount of chakra despite not being a Jinchuuriki. Toad-jiji had stated that she had High-Jonin level of Chakra. Because of that Ashara could use Shadow Clones to train but only one clone, Jiraiya had warned her that would be dangerous to use more than one. Asha had not complained, she had used the clone to start training her Elemental Manipulation.

Jiraiya had shown her what she needed to do, and both he and Naruto were surprised to see she had Fire and Water Affinity. The old Sannin then had told them that Fuu had High Wind Affinity, and Ashara had High Water Affinity.

One thing that had surprised Naruto was during a spar with Ashara.

' Naruto used his sword to swing at her chest, she took two steps away, the blade barely missing her. Jiraiya was keeping his eyes on them. His eyes like a hawk looking at every move they did. Close to him was Fuu, smiling at them.

Naruto suddenly used his red chakra chains to grab her sword, his chains tightened around her sword. Shock was written all over her face but before he could do anything, he saw Silver Chains flying towards him, and tightened around his sword. He looked to see the chains coming out of her left sleeve. Ashara was smirking at him.

Naruto smiled at her, and she smiled back at him, his chains returned to his chest. '

Naruto had been surprised to see that, but quickly understood that she was an Uzumaki too, he wondered if there was any other Uzumaki out there beside him and Asha. He hoped that there were. But he wondered if he would ever meet them even if they were out there.

Naruto kept trying but the damn waterfall wasn't splitting in half, he was panting. He had been here for four hours now. Jiraiya-sensei had changed his weights again, he now wore 250 pounds on his legs and 220 pounds on his arms. The same for Fuu and Ashara. He also warned them to not try to raise their weights too much immediately, that would cause damage to their bodies.

Naruto had completed his Water and Fire Training, now he only needed Wind and Earth. Since he had arrived here, Naruto had not once used Wood Style. Not that he didn't trust Asha and Fuu, but he wanted to wait until he got better at it.

With the help of Jiraiya-sensei, Asha had quickly reached Level V in Fuinjutsu, Fuu on the other hand wasn't really fond of Fuinjutsu, but she had completed Level I with the help of Jiraiya-sensei, since she wanted to know how to seal things to travel when in missions, or just traveling around the elemental nations.

"Naruto, you will soon return to the village, what is wrong?" Kurama suddenly asked him. He could feel the anxiety raising slowly in Naruto the more closer it got for him to return.

Naruto gritted his teeth tightly, after four months he would return in Hidden Leaf Village, and he wasn't really looking forward it. Despite having friends there, he didn't wanted to see their stairs again, their insults. And if anyone was dumb enough to try and hurt him. He would show them why Uzumaki Clan is Strong.

"I don't want to talk about it Kurama" Naruto replied and focusing on his training again. He had decided that his first Jutsu to learn after he completes his Elemental Manipulation would be Uzumaki Style:Phoenix, it was one of the jutsus that his mother had left him. He knew that it was a powerful one. Naruto had decided to tell Asha about the jutsu before he left. Grunting he returned back to his training.

Itachi

He looked at the clear water in front of him, his body resting at the edge of a dock, his right leg hanging, his foot close to touch the water. The wind flying around him, the seagulls flying high in the air. His Sharingan in his eyes as he heard footsteps behind him. Itachi didn't moved, he just kept staring at the Water.

"I will be teaming up with you starting today, my Name is Kisame Hoshigaki, former of the Hidden Mist, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, so please to make your Asquaintance" Kisame stated walked closer, a big sword resting on his shoulder. The sword was covered in bandages except the handle, that looked like made of bones.

"And You're Itachi Uchiha formerly of The Hidden Leaf. I've heard the rumors that you've slaughtered all of your fellow Uchiha Clansmen" Kisame stated with a grin on his face. His face pale, his eyes like of a shark,

with three small black marks going down from his eyes.

"I think that we are like You and I. That's the reason I wanted to be teamed with you in the Akatsuki"

"It's Really Indescribable isn't it killing your comrade is quite a sensation wouldn't you say so Itachi" Kisame taunted him.

Hearing those words Itachi rememberd his parents, visions of his parents dead by his hands, his little brother crying, and Izumi smiling at him, and telling him that she loved him.

"You Talk A Lot" Itachi interjected, his voice deep and filled with a hint of grief.

"You don't understand me. You don't even understand yourself. You were just a thug who got lost in the mist and ended up here. You can't even control where you're going. Am I Wrong?" Itachi asked.

Kisame gritted his teeth slightly and moved his sword close to Itachi's shoulder, but he didn't even flinch, he kept his gaze at the sea in front of him.

"Do you want to know something interesting. Most sharks are Ovoviviparous which means that the eggs hatch inside the female's body before the young are born. However with some kinds of sharks the number of eggs that hatch will differ from the number of young that emerge out of the mother's belly. Do you know why that is?" Kisame asked as a wave slammed against the dock.

"Because of Cannibalism right from the moment they hatch they start eating each other inside their mother's uterus. The fratricidal warfare begins as soon as they're born to each shark all the others are just food to be eaten starting today. You are in Akatsuki member and my companion so be Wary of Me" Kisame stated.

Itachi slowly evolved his Sharingan to Mangekyo Sharingan. "Same Goes For You" he said with a promise on his words.

Kisame chuckled at his words and moved away his sword. "Let's be friends and have some fun. All right. And hope that we will not end up as each other's final opponents"

"No one who dares to raise their hand against a comrade ever dies a decent death . . . Remember That" Itachi stated thinking of Izumi.

"Well that means our fates are sealed, seems you and I are depraved and worthless." Kisame said.

"Not True. We are both human. Not Fish." Itachi said and stood up and turned to look at Kisame and started walking away. "No matter who you are you do not truly know what kind of man you've become. Until you reach the very End"

Four Years of Training Arc Completed

Next is “Genin of Konoha Arc”