Chapter 24: The Battle Over Ramen

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It was an average day within the village. (Y/n) walked through the village looking for Kakashi to learn some more moves. It had been a day since his fight with Lee and (Y/n) knew how fast a month could fly by.

"Hey, Sakura!" (Y/n) called out. His pink-haired teammate walked over to (Y/n) with flowers in her hand.

"What are you doing here, (Y/n)?" Sakura asked. 

"I was looking for Kakashi-sensei." (Y/n) said. 

"I haven't seen him all day. Well, not since yesterday."

'Eh, I'll just find Naruto. Anyways, why do you have a basket full of flowers?" (Y/n) pointed out. Sakura had a small blush on her face.

"I was giving these to Sasuke. He just made a recovery." Sakura then lost her blush and gained a new determined look. "Then, I'm going to begin my training.

(Y/n)'s eyes widened.  "Wow, you're really taking this seriously," he said. 

"Of course I am! I'm not some academy girl anymore. I'm going to be a powerful ninja one day." Sakura said a bit offended at what (Y/n) said. "I'll see you later." (Y/n), after his brief talk with Sakura began his walk through the Leaf.

Ichiraku Ramen... might as well make a stop here.

(Y/n) thought taking a seat at the best Ramen Shop. Next to him was a fairly tall man wearing an all-black cloak. The two paid no mind to each other only focusing on their meals. The man in the cloak noticed (Y/n) already on his second bowl just as he finished the first. (Y/n) meanwhile, noticed the man picking up the pace.

Bowl after bowl the two had a food race. A seemingly meaningless competition between two strangers. One of which was a teenage boy.

"One--more bowl!" the two said in unison. Teuchi looked at the two with shock.

"I'm sorry, (Y/n), but you two have eaten more food than we can cook. So, you two can wait for now." Teuchi said disappointed.

"You see what you did you old bastard!" (Y/n) yelled at the man.

"ME? This is your fau..." the man stopped taking notice of (Y/n)'s headband. "Say, are you a ninja of this village?"

"Yeah. I wonder how you could tell." (Y/n) responded sarcastically.

"How about we settle this in a different way." the man said with a mischievous laugh which went noticed.

"What do you have in mind?"

"Meet me at the training field." the man then disappeared in a flash.

What was that? A jutsu? No, cause there was a gust of wind when he moved.

(Y/n) thought while making his way to the training field. Upon arrival, the man stood there looking at (Y/n) with a menacing presence coming off him. (Y/n) gulped.

"I can assume you already know what's going to happen. So, ..." the man took off his hood revealing his long flowy gray hair, an equally long beard, and piercing black eyes. Even though he was pretty old his face still looked young, unlike the Hokage.

(Y/n) pulled out his blade Yama and held it in front of him. The old man smirked and reached under his cloak pulling out a similar blade.

"You know how about we spice this up a bit." the man said. He grabbed his sword and threw it into the air as high as he could. "If you can get a scratch on me before that sword lands you win. And, if you can't you lose." the man paused and smiled creepily. "Or if you die you lose."

(Y/n) tried his best not to freak out since the old guy's sword went soaring past the clouds when he threw it. (Y/n) rushed at the old man who remained in the same position. Just as (Y/n) got close the old man lifted his leg kicking (Y/n) in the gut sending him flying backward and coughing up a mix of blood and saliva.

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