Just an adorable fanart of fem!Naruto looking exactly like her dad. Thank you.
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Naruto smirked at her new sensei, which unsettled him. At this point, he was used to being respected, even feared sometimes, yet this girl had the nerve to smile at him as if he were nothing.
That was his mistake. He was distracted by the why and the how, ignoring the now. He didn't even seem to notice at first when she attacked, going for the frontal, easiest to block, spot on him. This made the other teammates wonder. Why would she go for such an obvious attack? Maybe it was a trap or a trick. That thought was crushed when Minato blocked the attack, sending her flying back and hitting a tree.
He immediately ran over to her to make sure she was alright, forgetting the fight. Any regular shinobi would be put out of a fight by that big a blow. His instincts must have kicked in at some point when she had attacked him.
As the smoke cleared, they looked at the tree to see no one there. The dent in the tree the shape of a small ten-year-old girl was clear as day, but she was nowhere to be found. Suddenly, Minato was pulled onto the air by his feet, a thin wire wrapped around them.
It had been a trap.
He just smirked as he cut the wire holding him up, flipping so he could land gracefully on his feet. He had underestimated the girl, and he had paid the price.
Deciding not to make that same mistake twice, he carefully scanned his surroundings. Nothing. After realizing he was safe to move around he walked the perimeter of the clearing. He couldn't sense her anywhere. HE decided to go all out and placed his hand on the ground. Minato felt a small pulse of chakra from the other side of the clearing, and ran over, jumping into the trees.
He realized just in time, it had also been a trap. Another wire went to wrap itself around his leg once again, but he had just enough time to jump out of the way.
"So, she's a trapper. Doesn't seem to like close combat. This could work to my advantage if I could find her." He thought as he jumped through the trees. For a girl wearing all bright colors, she was quite difficult to find.
After a while, he saw her. She was hanging upside-down in a tree, hooking her legs around the branch to keep her in place.
"So that's why I couldn't sense her. She's suppressing her chakra, not using it at all. Not even to fight." He realized as he attempted to sneak behind her.
Just as he was about to grab her, she jumped up into a fighting position. Maybe he had been wrong to assume she wasn't a close-range fighter. But before he could even make a move against her, she jumped up and seemed to disappear.
He quickly looked all around him, up, left, right, in front, behind, where could she have gone? Just as he thought of the only possibility a fist hit the bottom of his chin, sending him flying up into the air.
"I can't believe I didn't think to look down." He thought as he twisted to land gracefully on a branch. Judging by this, her fighting style was probably brute force. If that was the case she shouldn't have too much technique, which played right into his hands.
He quickly jumped over to where she had been, only to find her missing. He looked everywhere, including down, and did not see even a flash of yellow or orange. Then he felt it, a pulse of chakra coming from just a few meters away.
Remembering what had happened last time he went toward a pulse of chakra he had sensed, he made sure to be extra careful not to step into any traps. As he got closer he felt her chakra growing every second. How had she been able to suppress it for this long and not let any of it spill through the cracks?
She stood there, on one of the branches, the chakra she had suppressed rolling off of her, alleviating her from the pressure of holding it in. She was breathing heavily as she stood there. It must have taken quite the toll on her body to do that.
"For such a young student, you are quite gifted. Even I wouldn't have been able to suppress that much chakra for that long." He called to her, making her whole body flinch.
She quickly turned around, putting distance between them.
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"Kurama, I can't keep suppressing my chakra like this. It's hard enough to suppress yours all the time, but the rest of it too? No can do." She told him, allowing the walls holding in her chakra to be blown to bits as it flowed freely through her body.
"Alright, but he's coming now. He can tell exactly where you are. He will be here soon." He told her.
"What am I going to do? I can't just forfeit. I can't use either of my Rasengan techniques. I shouldn't use the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, either. We both know my taijutsu is unexceptional, even with the training from Mount Myōboku. I usually rely on my jutsu to get me through a battle, but right now I can't use any of my usual jutsu." She was almost whining at this point.
"For such a young student, you are quite gifted. Even I wouldn't have been able to suppress that much chakra for that long." She heard the easily recognizable voice behind her.
"I told you so." Kurama chided her as she jumped back to a branch further away, hoping he didn't notice her wince as he spoke.
"Now, if you are done running and hiding, I would like to judge your taijutsu and ninjutsu skills." He chuckled as he jumped closer to her, only for her to jump back once again.
"Isn't a ninja supposed to hold back their true power until the moment it is needed?" She argued weakly, still trying to figure out how to fight him and not completely look like a loser.
"That only applies to your enemies," He replied, looking worried for a second at the thought of her thinking they were her enemies. Realizing she was just trying to get out of fighting, he continued, "I need to know exactly what you are capable of so that I can successfully run this team without you all getting in each other's ways."
She looked back at her teacher.
"Eh, what the hell." She thought before jumping at him.
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I know this is very long and dragged out, but I'm really trying. Sorry and thank you.
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Time And True || A Naruto Fanfiction
Fanfiction"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not." - Stephen King --- Naruto Uzumaki had just about had it with the Fourth Shinobi War. She almost wanted to just give up at this point, but so many people had died, so many had given their lives that...
