Chapter 7: Chapter no.7 Mysterious Girl
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Naruto turned in the exact direction he felt a living presence with a serious look, "Who's there? You might as well come out, I can find you no matter what!" Naruto sounded pretty tough, but that kunai came close to pinning him to a tree and the other night while playing with his new jutsu he had gotten used to sensing distance. He sensed the person that did that from about 500 feet away, that was scary aim even though they missed… and he hoped that they had missed on purpose.
After a few seconds a brown eyed girl with brown hair put up into buns came out, looking over Naruto warily, the favor being returned right back to her. She had on a sleeveless pink Chinese top and dark green pants. The thing Naruto noted was that she had on her own headband signifying her as a ninja of the village, and he had left his at home, only planning to wear it once orientation took place.
Naruto pulled at the kunai she had thrown into the tree trunk out with quite a bit of effort as he kept his eyes on her, 'How hard did she throw this thing?' Finally he managed to pull the kunai out and held it out in front of him suspiciously, "Why did you throw that at me?" He finally asked.
The girl spoke up with conviction in her voice, "For the last forty-five minutes all I hear from my spot training in the forest is a lot of yelling and shouting, and then a bunch of cursing and finally someone starts sounding like they're going to tear the forest apart. Let's just say I don't like leaving things unsolved and leave it at that. Now who are you?"
Naruto still didn't really drop his guard, Mizuki wasn't supposed to try and kill him either and that still happened, "Uzumaki Naruto. Future Hokage, dattebayo."
"You have to be a ninja first before you can try being Hokage kid."
Naruto got a tick mark on his head from how she was talking to him.
Naruto snapped at her, "I am a ninja! I'm no different than you!"
The girl didn't verbally respond she simply audibly tapped the metal of her headband, "You need one of these to distinguish yourself as a ninja of this village. So where's yours?"
Damn it, so most of this could have been avoided if he had just worn the headband. He wasn't leaving that thing home ever again, "I didn't bring it, I didn't know I would need to actually identify myself today… I don't even have orientation until next week."
The girl's distrustful look switched over to one of amusement as her seemingly hostile posture straightened up. She walked over to Naruto and ruffled his hair, "Aww, you're just a baby rookie huh?" She grinned as him as he shook her hand off of his head.
"Oi!" Naruto replied crossly, "You're treating me like a five year old! I'm a legal adult now, a fully-fledged ninja!"
"Of course you are…" The girl pinched Naruto's cheek, taking pride in the twitching eyebrow signifying his ire at the current predicament, "Such a big tough ninja that hasn't even put his headband on yet or even gone on a mission. So precious."
Naruto's voice came out distorted due to the girl's grabbing of his cheek, "You know you're not any older than me so you can't be that much farther advanced."
She raised an eyebrow, "I've been a genin for a little over a year. That's an eternity compared to a newbie like you. I'd squash you if we were ever to fight."
"Oh yeah?" Naruto felt insulted. Who did this girl think she was? Why did everyone think they could just walk all over him all of the time? Even when people don't know him at all it still happened, "How about you put your money where your mouth is?"
The girl once again looked sufficiently amused by his statement, "Alright then. You're lucky that my team broke off for the day so that we could all train on our own, so now I've got some time to play with you. Follow me." She finished by taking her kunai back out of Naruto's grasp.
Naruto flexed his fingers in anticipation as he followed this new girl into a clearing to fight. This was his first legitimate fight against a ninja since Mizuki and he was going to make her eat her words. The girl stood out in front of him with a confident look on her face, "I'll go easy on you and wrap this up in 3 minutes Naruto-chan." She taunted.
Naruto grit his teeth, she was seriously messing with him now, "Oh yeah? I don't know who you are, so I know damn well that you don't know me! I'll tell you this though, don't underestimate me!" Naruto broke out in a rush right at the kunoichi planning to just knock her block off and be done here so he could be productive again.
The girl's jaw almost dropped at how straightforward this guy was. The space between them was thirty yards, thirty yards that he had to cover before he could even think of taking a swing at her, and he wasn't even that fast. Hell, one of her teammates hopping towards her on one leg would probably be faster than this kid was moving. She had to refrain from shaking her head as she pulled out a set of shuriken, she really didn't want to hurt this kid.
Naruto ended up falling onto his face as sharp pains hit him in multiple places on his body. Naruto rolled over and looked at his legs to see multiple shuriken sticking out the front of them going down. He looked up in surprise at his female opponent who had a displeased look on her face, "If that's all you've got then go home. I could have killed you right there and been done with it if this were an actual battle."
Naruto's eyes widened. She was right. He barely even saw anything coming at him and she hit him flush. Ignoring this, Naruto pulled the shuriken out of his legs and stood back up, she hadn't hit him anywhere vital or even anywhere important. So she was using weapons was she? Naruto reached into his own supply pouch and let off a barrage of shuriken at the girl who simply smirked and threw more of her own, hitting each of Naruto's and knocking them out of the air.
She was looking too smug for him to just quit and leave. Not without hitting her once, not without just giving her one good one to prove he wasn't pathetic. Naruto lifted his hands and made a cross seal with his fingers, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)!"
The young girl's eyes widened as she saw one Naruto multiply into twelve. She was so surprised she almost missed his shout of 'Go!' that spurned all of them into action. The sight of so many Naruto's charging in at her and the realization that they weren't regular Bunshin and were real almost made her run away, but she got herself under control and focused. It didn't matter if there were twelve of him; twelve times zero was still zero.
Naruto planned on giving her the old Mizuki special, but he figured she was a genin and Mizuki was an elite, sending that many would be complete overkill so twelve was enough. He thought that right until a bo staff appeared in her hands in a puff of smoke and she began decimating his clones.
Seeing a girl his age masterfully handle a six-foot long staff so effectively, his clones weren't even getting close enough to mount an offense, was disheartening. What did he have? What? Was he going to just flood the field with clones like against Mizuki and beat her to a bloody pulp because she had skill that he didn't have? He didn't even think that teme Sasuke could beat this girl.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked once she finished mowing his Kage Bunshin down.
The girl set the head of her staff on the ground in her hand and wiped her brow, "It took you long enough to ask, how rude. My name is Tenten. So are we done?"
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