Naruto: Legacy Undone

The Uchiha heiress drolled out a flat response. As she unclasped the heavier shirt, leaving her clad only in a skin tight garment he wouldn't be surprised to find Gai wearing if it had been green. She reached down, tightening the bandages on her ankles to keep her pants from flaring out and rustling. Stealth then. "Giving away my secrets Naruto-kun?"

"Just a few." He smiled. "You know some of mine so its only fair."

She didn't answer.

"What're you thinkin?" Ryoko threw to the side soft enough so the Uchiha couldn't hear. "All go in at once, or two while number three hangs back and waits for an opening.

Kyofu shook her head, one hand on her chin, thinking. "No...Naruto goes in alone."

The blond pouted. "Mou...why am I getting the tough job?"

"Because you know the most about her." She answered. "You'll push her to reveal more than the preliminary tactics she'd use on us if we tried to charge in head first."

Naruto shrugged. Made sense.

"Remember." Kyofu warned. "We have three minutes on the clock from the first attack. Best two out of three wins." She put her hands on her watch.

He grinned, forming a familiar hand shaped cross "Kage-Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Two versions of the Jinchuuriki were suddenly in his place and both rushed forward.

The Uchiha stood placidly, the caw of a crow sounding off from somewhere directly behind her, and Naruto recognized it as one of her many Genjutsu triggers, fluctuating the chakra violently through his body in order to dispel the illusion before it even formed. She jumped into the air and he dispelled the single clone, the sudden influx of chakra and brief memories enough to disrupt the second, and third illusion placed over him.

He stopped, turned on his heel, pivoting fast before he launched three wind powered shuriken into the trees, the blades rapidly extending to blanket a whole swathe of greenery.

She fell out of the trees, one foot latching onto the trunk to hold herself aloft over the mulched ground that was jut hoping she'd land in it to sink.

She formed her own handseals, fire bellowing out of her mouth to catch the three shuriken overhead, infusing the flames with the wind, the whole forest canopy quickly became a blanket of fire.

Naruto cursed, sheer heat making his eyes water as he saw her bleed back into the smoke to hide.

"Damnit looks like our jobs just got a lot harder." He heard Kyofu curse.

She didn't know the half of it though. Itachi's skill with Genjutsu, even without the use of the sharingan was something he was understandably leery of. She could literally use anything as a trigger mechanism to trap you into an illusion. A sound, a sensation, a scent. If she was able to slither her way through the consciousness' defenses into the subconscious, masking it as just so much "backround noise" the brain processed every minute of the day, she could grab you. With the heat and the smoke and the smell and the flames the brain literally had a buffet line of new input for her to mask her illusions with.

Luckilly he came prepared.

Pulling a scroll from his kunai pouch the blond unrolled it with a grin.

What exploded out of the thing was water.

And water...

And water...

A literal lake poured out of the scroll and into the air, drenching everything and dousing the better part of the flames.

"Jeeze Louise! What the fuck!" Ryoko protested, thoroughly drenched now and standing in waterlogged mud.

Naruto shrugged. "I might have a water affinity, but I'm no Nidaime that can just pull moisture out the air! So Scrolls!" He pointed at the unrolled piece of gear by way of answer. "I love Fuuninjutsu!"

"That just leaves one issue." Kyofu deadpanned. "Where is she?"

Naruto looked back into the drenched forest, other than the last few flames and some scorched tree tops, it was pretty much unchecked.

He stepped forward, sloshing in the water, eyes narrowed.

Ryoko looked down at her feet. "Anyone else wondering why its taking this last inch of water so long to get sucked up by the dirt?"

Her two teammates paused, then, all three jumped straight up into the trees as the water at their feet flash boiled. The three ninja were in the charred tree tops, with Naruto quickly forming a handseal, gathering the water in a crude torrent and sending it hurdling off to boil somewhere else.

"Underground!" Kyofu shouted.

"On it!" His silver haired teammate sprang into action, that custom double volgue, now far more adequate in terms of size, charged with wind chakra as she drove one blade down into the ground to the base.

Naruto's eyes widened a bit as he saw the wind that had been coating the weapon simply spear itself down, deep into the earth before the ground around the chuunin exploded upwards, like an explosion going off below.

Itachi's form was visible within the debris then, hovering above

"Got her!" A cloud of smoke obscured Kyofu and Naruto caught four blurs shooting out from it, it took his eyes a moment to figure out they were summons.

Bird summons.

But..wasn't Kyofu a lizard summoner.

One shot towards the raven haired beauty faster than the others, hurdling towards her like an arrow before Itachi's body dispersed into the ravens she was beginning to truly favor, the birds were like black smoke, dispersing and reforming when touched, flying off in different directions before they once again adopted their human shape outside the boundaries of Ryoko's little doughnut crater.

"Interesting technique." She drawled, brushing off her shoulders and shirt. "I've never seen it."

Ryoko grinned. "Like it? Developed it to get sensei. He loves his Doton techniques and escapes. Drive the wind chakra into the ground, split in in four directions, and expand it rapidly. Gets em every time."

"Could you incorporate blades into it?" She asked.

Ryoko grinned. "Not perfected. But working on it. This is still a friendly match though so I didn't want to kill ya.

The Uchiha nodded, If she could incorporate wind blades, then the match would have been theirs
Kyofu's birds suddenly smacked headfirst into trees, vanishing moments later in puffs of smoke.

"What the-" She caught on, eyes widening. "You placed my summons in an illusion?"

"Impossible to do on normal animals. But summon beasts are intelligent." She explained. "Their brain functions and processing of information are far more similar to our own especially the eyes."

Her gobsmacked expression was priceless.

That was a weakness she'd never faced yet. Not even Orochimaru had been able to succeed in bringing her summons under an illusion.

Kyofu's watch alarm went off.

Ryoko cursed. "Three minute matches suck."

"Often times battles are decided in less." Itachi shrugged. "Besides its sparring, not an exercise in needlessly risking injury."

"Ok so this round is-"

"Your win." Itachi interrupted. That wind technique actually hit me, if it had been the lethal version, needless to say I'd be dead." She shrugged. "I promise though...you wont get the last win you need." She smirked.

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Meanwhile, Sarutobi was back in his office, doing what he and every other village leader disliked most of all.

Paperwork of course.

The stack was fairly mild today; though that was likely to change in a handful of months.

He raised his eyes over the file's edge as he looked up at his guest, staring expectantly.

"Its done." The man drawled. "I've sent off two of my best to keep an eye on Iwagakure and gather intelligence. If they're planning anything against our Daimyo or his family, after they recover their princess they'll report back to us."

"And we'll be able to make preparations." The older man drawled, he reached up, scratching at his bald, liver spotted scalp. "Have you considered my offer?"

The Anbu nodded. "I have. The answer is no."

The older man took a breath and slowly let it out. "Its sad to hear. You should pass on your skills before its too late Kakashi-kun."

"My place is in the Anbu Hokage-sama. I don't wish to leave."

"A shame." He said, though his heart wasn't truly in it. Kakashi was his best agent. A front runner to replace him next to Tsunade and Orochimaru. Probably even more favored due to his relative youth in comparison. To still have him on the front, running missions and assignments rather than in the rear teaching students wasn't exactly a loss that was going to keep him awake at night. "You still have three months before this graduation if you choose to change your mind Kakashi."

"I'll keep it in mind sir."

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