Chapter 3: Chapter no.3 Naruto vs Mizuki
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Mizuki growled at being the one to take the first hit in this fight and threw the kunai in his hand at Iruka. Iruka simply used the kunai in his own hand to deflect it and came back in to press his new advantage; he was armed, Mizuki wasn't. Mizuki stepped back as he saw Iruka coming in to attack him and threw a handful of caltrops from his pockets right in his path to keep him from advancing any further.
Iruka was forced to stop in his tracks or have his feet impaled by the spikes, but he was forced to take his eyes off of Mizuki who immediately responded to Iruka's situation. He drew the large shuriken from his back and threw it. Iruka had ample time to prepare a Kawarimi to switch himself out for protection, but the shuriken sailed right past him, 'What did he throw at? He missed me by a mile!' The sound of the shuriken sailing off into the distance and cutting through things rang out, even something that sounded like a person… "Naruto!"
Mizuki chuckled, "Did you really think that brat could hide from me Iruka? It was either let me kill him or let the others kill him once they found him. I just did it faster than they would have. I'm not surprised he didn't see it coming, he was ranked dead-last for a reason after all." His gloating was cut off when Iruka's fist slammed right into his nose, spraying blood with the impact.
All Iruka wanted was to beat Mizuki to a bloody pulp at the moment. After all of the things that Naruto had to deal with and he was cut down by someone like Mizuki before he even had a chance to change the way he was seen by the villagers. One punch wasn't enough, he wanted to make Mizuki suffer for this. He never got to apologize to Naruto for being so hard on him all the time, he never got to tell him how alike they were and how much of himself he saw in the boy. But he could at least clear his name at Mizuki's expense if nothing else.
Mizuki was reeling after the first punch from Iruka, but after clearing the tears from his eyes that sprang from getting his nose broken he realized that Iruka had gotten sloppy. His punches stopped being crisp and started looping far more than before and he almost completely forgot about the kunai he had in his hand, well Mizuki remembered that it was still there.
Mizuki shot out a short punch as a counter to one of Iruka's emotional haymakers and hit the man right in the throat, delighting in watching his eyes bulge out. It was a pity though, a little harder and he could have watched him strangle to death and been done with it. Iruka dropped his kunai to clutch at his throat, trying to catch some air after nearly having his larynx smashed by Mizuki allowing the silver-haired man to pick up the discarded weapon and drive it into Iruka's shoulder to the hilt before he could aptly defend himself, he was only able to avert it from going into his heart.
Mizuki scoffed, "You're being irksome Iruka, just die already." He said, standing over the fallen instructor, "All of this simply to protect that useless monster, I bet you feel proud." He held his heel right on Iruka's throat, slowly descending it to crush it under his sandal.
Iruka choked out a cheeky response, "He's twice the shinobi you are for sure, but then again what's two times nothing?" Seeing Mizuki's face twist into that scowl almost made the fact that he was about to die slightly better.
"I'm good enough to kill you apparently." Mizuki said right before he planned on stomping right on Iruka's neck, planned because it never came to be. An orange blur came out of nowhere and plowed right into him, sending him flying back.
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Watching the battle between Mizuki and Iruka made Naruto feel completely out of his league, they weren't even using any jutsu. There was no way he was going to step into the midst of that, he'd get killed by accident, every move was fluent and flowed. Either one of them would thrash him before he could finish hand-seals for any of the jutsu he knew, except for the new one of course. He'd smash anybody with his new jutsu.
But then Naruto was stunned, Mizuki really was trying to kill him. Once he got out of sight so that Iruka and Mizuki could fight he started skulking around the battlefield, making use of his new jutsu to cut off any escape routes Mizuki might try to take once Iruka started kicking his ass. And then he felt his own death and heard Iruka shout his name getting him to look from his cover out at the battle between Mizuki and Iruka, talking about how he had just died and how Mizuki had been planning to kill him all along.
Seeing Iruka explode in rage after thinking that he died brought some happiness to Naruto, at least there was someone out there that would feel something if he just up and kicked the bucket one day, it was better than he thought it was at least. But when he saw Mizuki take the advantage over Iruka and move to finish him off he couldn't take it anymore and sprang to action. Luckily Mizuki figured he had killed him with that shuriken and never saw him coming when he slammed right into him, taking delight in the fact that he sent him flying with a glorified body check.
He stood in front of Iruka and glared out at Mizuki, "If you try to lay one more hand on Iruka-sensei I'll kill you." He threatened.
Mizuki stood up and dusted himself off before laughing at Naruto, "What exactly can you do? I just beat the only threat here? I'll kill you right out in one shot!"
"Come and try it then! I'll send it right back a thousand-fold!" Naruto roared at him, clinching his fists tightly. Mizuki must have taken that as a personal challenge because he came storming right in to take Naruto out. Naruto made a cross sign with his index and middle fingers on both hands as a large cloud of smoke engulfed the field, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)!"
When the smoke cleared, the entire area was filled to the brim with copies of Naruto. Every nook and cranny of the area was filled with them, even all over the branches of the trees, "What's the matter Mizuki-teme?" One of the Narutos shouted.
"Yeah, I thought you were going to kill us all with one shot?" Another quipped.
"Well since you're not coming to us, we're coming to you!" And with that, the countless number of clones descended upon Mizuki and began beating the daylights out of him, the numbers were simply too much for someone like him to handle alone.
Iruka was astonished. Less than 18 hours earlier Naruto couldn't make one regular Bunshin, but here he was able to fill an entire forest clearing with the most complex clone jutsu known to Konoha, and he had done it seemingly effortlessly. That had to take an ungodly amount of chakra, how could he-?
Oh, yeah that... duh.
In a matter of moments Mizuki had been beaten to a pulp by Naruto and his countless Kage Bunshin, leaving one remaining Naruto standing over his prone form grinning sheepishly, "I guess I went a little overboard huh?"
'Not really.' Iruka thought to himself, "Hey Naruto come here for a minute and close your eyes." The boy blinked but curiously did as he was asked, allowing the wounded Iruka to quickly swap out the boy's goggles for his own headband, "Now go ahead and open them. Naruto looked at Iruka strangely when he saw that he was no longer wearing a headband, "Congratulations, you graduate!"
Iruka wasn't sure if the sunshine hitting him in the face came from the sunrise or from the smile that spread across Naruto's face once his words had sunk in.
Weekly Power Status
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