ch 5 - enemy pt.2

Naruto is currently standing under a tree on one of the empty training grounds that he found earlier. His hands were doing the cross hand seal of the shadow clone jutsu. It has been a few hours since he started training and he has already made a lot of progress.

"Let's try this again *kagebunshin no jutsu!* "he exclaimed and a puff of smoke appeared beside him.

He tried to take a good look but the smoke is completely blocking his view of his clone.

When the smoke dissipated a few seconds later, he got a good look at his clone and groaned.

"What? What's wrong with me? I feel fine." The clone spoke and Naruto just shook his head before answering.

"Just look at yourself and dispel yourself afterwards."

The clone looked at himself over the small pond and also groaned. " yeah boss you suck" his appearance was far from what Naruto looks like. His height was below Naruto. His face looks sunken as if he hasn't eaten in weeks and he's also Soo skinny. The clone sighed before dispelling himself.

He proceeds to repeat making clones tirelessly, his reserves are barely dented by his repeated use of the jutsu, showing just how much chakra he truly has. Each attempt at making shadow clones wastes a large amount of chakra. The failed clones don't give back all the chakra in them when they dispel, only the majority of it while parts of it just dissipate alongside them. They don't even give the memory feedback that would quicken his training.

Even after all the wasted chakra, Naruto still thinks that he could continue practicing this until midnight or until he could master it. He could feel it, he's close to figuring out what he's doing wrong.

He made the hand seal again but he felt something wrong in his surroundings. And the next second, it's as if a sixth sense in him opened and he tilted his head to the right.

His eyes widened when a kunai flew past his left ear, completely missing it, before being embedded onto the ground.

He quickly turned around and saw a.. man wearing a plain white mask with a slashed kumogakure symbol on its forehead.

' What's a komu Shinobi doing here?!' he asked in his thoughts, gritting his teeth.

He jumped back a few feets behind him and landed right beside the kunai that was hurled at him earlier.

Quickly grabbing it, he dashed into the treelines and the masked Shinobi quickly followed.

The dense forest on the training ground became so much more useful, as now he could constantly dash behind the trees to try and break the masked shinobi's line of sight.

But the Shinobi still manages to keep sight of him. No matter how much he tried, he just isn't fast enough.

Concluding that running through the treelines isn't cutting it, he decided to just run forward instead of wasting his energy on doing useless movements. A big mistake he'll find out, as he just made himself an easier target for the projectiles that the enemy Shinobi carries. It soon proved to be a blunder when he narrowly dodged another kunai that went above his head and got stuck on the trunk of the tree in the far front of him.

He dashed forward even faster, reaching the new kunai and yanking it from the tree.

'Shit! That almost got my head!' He thought as he quickly returned to running behind trees to avoid any more projectiles that the Shinobi might throw at him.

'Running won't do me any good! He's more skilled than me and he hasn't even used a single ninjutsu! What is his purpose here?! ' his grip on the kunai on both his hands tightened. One was held in a reverse grip while the other wasn't.

'And that scratched mask, I don't believe that he's a missing nin! He must be an ANBU from the kumo! Tasked to capture me to add another bijuu to their military. I might need to fight if I want to survive this. His goals may not be to kill me but capture me! I NEED to fight! ' he processed his current situation and stated the last part with strong conviction behind it.

' If I'm gonna fight him I need to be in a clearing of sorts because staying in an environment with a lot of ledges to jump through would be more favourable to him than me, as he's more skilled in moving through branches than me. I can jump through building rooftops but not through thin branches that have large gaps between each other.' he continued running while formulating a plan to at least slow the Shinobi down. He knows that he's not going to win, seeing as the masked Shinobi is more experienced but he's not going down without a fight.

'But even after I find the clearing that I need, it still brings up the question of how I'm going to catch him off guard. I can't do the surface sticking exercise so I'm not confident on jumping through tree branches, I'm mediocre at shuriken jutsu , I only have the two kunai that the Shinobi threw at me and lastly I still haven't mastered the shadow clones! The only way I'm going to be able to land a hit on him is if somehow another stroke of luck befalls me! But I can't rely on luck, I need a concrete way!' he almost tripped on an exposed tree branch but he thankfully caught himself. though it also slowed him enough to allow the Shinobi chasing him to get close to try and throw another kunai.

This Time though when he 'sensed' the Shinobi threw the kunai, he turned around and brought the two kunai that he's holding - up to block the projectile. He successfully defended and the kunai bounced when it hit. It created sparks before spinning midair and falling tip-first to the ground..

He prepared to grab it but stopped as he heard the whirling of multiple shuriken coming towards him, instead he just hid behind a tree to his left to gather his thoughts and to calm himself down as he was beginning to hyperventilate. He began taking deep breaths*breath in* *breath out* *breath in* *breath out*.

He's not sure why The Shinobi that is after him didn't take the opportunity to capture him when he was calming himself,weirdly enough. but he's still thankful for it as it gave him an opportunity to plan.

'it is clear that I wouldn't be able to outrun him, I have no way of subduing him. The only thing that I can do right now is stall for as much as possible and hope that the ANBU guarding me realizes that something is wrong. God dammit! They're always there when something unnecessary and useless happens but they're missing when an enemy literally infiltrates their walls. Talk about incompetent!'

He peeked but immediately whips his head back as four shuriken was hurled towards him again by the Shinobi. ' I'm cornered ' he thought, panicking slightly.

He heard the cracking of dried leaves on the dirt. The Shinobi is now walking slowly towards him and there's nothing he can do other than Run.

So he ran as fast as he could, channeling large amount of chakra to the soles of his feet. He got a lot faster but when he looked back, the Shinobi was still gaining on him. 'shit!' he cursed as tripped on another exposed tree root.

He landed face first into the dirt causing him to pop his upper lip and break his nose. He turned around and saw the Shinobi walking towards him holding a kunai in his right hand. And for the first time, the Shinobi spoke.

" It's over now, uzumaki Naruto. It has been fun but I need to capture you now."

' am I seriously gonna get captured! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!' he slowly backpedaled while a vicious snarl was on his face. 'No! Fuck No! There's no way I'm going to let myself get captured!'

He threw one of the kunai he was holding towards the Shinobi, prompting him to block it. It gave Naruto the time to stand up and begin running again.

He ran and ran, and ran without stopping or slowing down while channeling chakra to his feet. He didn't dare look back.

The chase continued for a few more minutes,he didn't know how he managed to keep distance from the Shinobi but he just didn't care. Finally Naruto saw what he thought was a clearing and he sped up even more, pushing ridiculous amounts of chakra as he did so.

A sharp pain came from his feet, from overloading his chakra coils no doubt, but he ignored it. The clearing is only a few meters ahead, he chose focus on getting there instead of the pain so he could enact the plan that he came up with to subdue the Shinobi.

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