Senju's Heir

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Senju's Heir

"Your speed keeps fluctuating!"

"Keep up, Sasuke!"

"I'm standing right next to you, loser!"

Kakashi raised both forearms and absorbed the blows of both his students.

'Not bad. However,' in a two second interval, his right fist crashed against Sasuke's esophagus, and his left struck Naruto's face, both while they were still in midair. Both teens collapsed and started hacking, their clothing drenched in blood. "Get up. We're nowhere near done..."

"This isn't fair...!" growled Naruto, flinging his scarf to one side to avoid getting it dirty. "Let us use Jutsu...! Then we'll totally pulverize your ass...!"

"Trying to defeat me is not the only purpose of this training," Kakashi reminded. "Your goals are to keep getting back up every time you fall. Your bodies are already very resilient, primarily Naruto's, but they need more. Trust me, I wish I'd known this when I was your age."

Sasuke did as the exercise entailed; he stood back up. "You're enjoying this, aren't you...?"

"Absolutely sir yes I am," Kakashi squinted as the boy's eyes stumbled upon a deep red. "Oi," he chopped the top of Sasuke's raven head. "No Sharingan. Naruto can't use any form of Mokuton, therefore you can't use your bloodline."

He turned on his heel, and launched a kick aimed for Sasuke's head. Surprisingly, Naruto stepped in and took the blow, sending them both skidding over the grass.

"Now get up," Kakashi ordered, his arms crossed. "We still have some time before Sakura brings you lunch." He raised an eyebrow seeing their sprawled figures. They weren't moving, which was odd, because they were in very compromising positions. "They lost consciousness again, huh...?"

Kakashi waltzed his way towards them and stopped just short of poking them with his toes. "Really wish I had a camera right about now..." Pulling out his canteen instead, he downed a good gulp of it down. And proceeded to shower their heads with the remains. They sputtered and kicked, disoriented and tipsy. "Ah, you're back I see."

"What the hell...?!" Naruto regained his bearings first. He looked around with his lilac eyes annoyed, and his face pulled into a scowl. He found the perpetrator of his sudden wetness. "Oh God, please tell me you didn't..."

"Relax," Kakashi quickly interrupted. "It was my canteen... this time anyways..." He dropped said item and took both youngsters by the throat -scarf be damned-, lifting them as they squirmed to try and gain freedom. "Free yourselves."

Naruto caught Sasuke's nod from his right, and he returned it. Both of them sent their legs away from each other, like a clock's pendulum, and brought them toward each other. Their sandals crashed and they were able to break the hold Kakashi held on their throats.

Kakashi watched them grind over the grass, their hands on their throat. Dropping into his stance, he smiled within the privacy of his mind. 'I keep underestimating just how powerful a connection you two have... Only complete trust could allow such synchronization.'

Naruto dashed forth with Sasuke to his side. "All out it is..."

"Agreed," Sasuke muttered back.

Kakashi's eye widened as Naruto drop kicked his arms, and Sasuke used him as a springboard with his own kick following suet. "What...?!" He bent his neck and was grazed by the tip of Sasuke's sandal.

If only it'd stopped there.

Sasuke used that same kick and clashed it against Naruto's crossed arms, using him yet again as a proxy surface to launch forth. In that short a distance, Kakashi had no means of escape without Jutsu. Sasuke planted his fist firmly across Kakashi's face, not a single shred of strength held and no mercy crossing his onyx eyes.