Chapter no.8 Rock Lee

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Naruto frowned. What did he have other than the Kage Bunshin? That was his trump card, his best technique, the strongest thing he had. He could have kept making them for as long as he wanted, but she would have just kept killing them off, and he didn't like his own chances of getting close to her the way his replicas had been put out of commission.

No. A win was a win and he would be damned if he was just going to lay down and let this girl beat him without at least trying to triumph. Naruto channeled his chakra and formed his hand-seal again, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu)!"

Okay, seeing a rookie that hadn't even had a day on the job make solid clones was an eye-opener for Tenten, but this was ridiculous. She was surrounded on all sides by Naruto's clones that were giving her a wide berth to avoid the staff, but it was only a matter of time before he sent them in, she knew this, it was only logical.

Tenten quickly pulled out two scrolls and set them on the ground while making a short set of hand-seals.

"Go!" Naruto shouted, ordering his Kage Bunshin to put Tenten down hard.

"Soushouryuu (Twin Rising Dragons)!" Tenten's scrolls unraveled upwards in a swirling pattern of smoke as she jumped between them and began unsealing weapons from the scrolls surrounding her. She then proceeded to mercilessly bombard Naruto's hoard of copies with every single weapon she had amassed inside of her scrolls. Not just the standard fare of kunai and shuriken, Tenten pelted the poor clones with fuuma shuriken, a mace, sickles, senbon, katanas, she even threw out a few broadswords… and everything she threw hit. Nothing she flung at the Kage Bunshin missed its mark.

All of them forgot about attacking and simply focused on surviving, but there was nowhere to go. They were in the middle of a clearing, the closest cover was sixty yards away and Tenten wasn't taking prisoners. In a matter of moments Tenten had cleared the field of every single image of Naruto she had been aiming at. She landed back on the ground and her scrolls went slackas the field was covered in the leftover smoke from all of the clones.

Tenten grimaced at her handiwork. She knew she hadn't missed a single one, they were far too slow for her to miss on her worst day. She looked around for the real Naruto, she hoped she hadn't injured him too badly with all of that, she might have gone a little overboard, "Kid are you still alive? Say something!" She began walking and looking about the field that was hazy from all of the Kage Bunshin smoke that was steadily dispersing.

The area finally cleared up and Tenten couldn't see Naruto anywhere, there was no blood or anything either, signifying if he ran away or not. A poof sound directed her attention behind her where all she saw upon turning was a flash of yellow and orange before a fist closed in on her face.

"Dynamic Entry!"

A green blur came from out of nowhere and plowed a flying kick into the side of Naruto's face, sending him flying off from his surprise attack on Tenten and sending him sliding through the amassed weapons from Tenten's jutsu.

The blur turned out to be a boy their age in a green bodysuit, orange leg-warmers, bandaged hands, and a red headband around his waist as a belt. He had a black bowl-cut hairstyle and large eyebrows over round black eyes. He stood protectively in front of Tenten in a fighting stance, "I cannot allow you to harm my teammate. Such an underhanded attack on my youthful female comrade."

"Lee?" Tenten said questioningly as she saw Naruto struggling and failing to pick himself up off of the ground. Her mood turned from confusion to annoyance, "Lee that was what he was supposed to do! We were sparring, he was supposed to try and hit me!"

The boy now identified as Lee stood up out of his stance and looked at Tenten in a puzzled manner before his face turned apologetic, "Ah, I am sorry Tenten. I simply saw him appear and attack you from behind and I just acted. I apologize."

Tenten shook her head, "Whatever. I'm not the one you need to apologize to. I'm not the one that got blindsided and knocked senseless." She turned her head towards Naruto who had finally pulled himself into a sitting position.

Naruto sat on the ground rubbing his face and clearing the mass amounts of weapons around him so that he didn't get cut or stabbed by anything. What the hell hit him? One second he was so close to nailing that Tenten chick right on the chin he could see the fear in her eyes and then he was over here forty feet away and feeling like chewing would be a pipe-dream in the near future. He stopped thinking when he saw the object of his last attack kneel down in front of him with an apologetic look on her face, "I'm sorry about that. My hot-headed teammate jumped the shark and interrupted the fight."

Naruto looked at her eyes exuding remorse for his appearance. He dabbed at his face with his hand and pulled it away. When he was hit his face must have dragged across the ground quite a bit from the blood he saw when he touched it. He must have cut it up on any of Tenten's myriad of weaponry, "Are you alright?"

A smirk crossed Naruto's face suddenly, "I told you I'd last more than 3 minutes." Naruto then noticed how concerned she sounded and gave her a reassuring grin, "Sure I'll be fine. This will all heal up by tomorrow!" He said loudly before clutching his jaw, he had opened it too far to talk. He looked over and saw a strange guy in green, ah, he must have been the douche that hit him… he probably fractured his jaw.

"I am terribly sorry for kicking you." The green guy said frantically, "It's just I was not aware that it was a spar, I thought you were trying to harm my teammate and I just jumped right in, and-."

"Lee!" Tenten cut him off from speaking any further, "I think he gets it. You're sorry."

Lee stopped moving around and spazzing out, "Yes, Tenten is correct. I apologize for harming you." The boy bowed to him before straightening out and giving him a smile, "I am Konoha's Beautiful Green Beast, Rock Lee!" Did his teeth just sparkle?

Naruto figured he must have been concussed or something and shook it off, "Well then I'm Uzumaki Naruto, the next Hokage, dattebayo!"

"What a youthful goal!" Lee shouted to the skies, "I myself have high dreams as does our dear Tenten. I wish to be a world-famous ninja known only for my taijutsu, and Tenten wishes to be a ninja on par both strength and reputation-wise with Tsunade!"

Naruto just nodded once he heard Tenten's dream, he had no idea who that was. He rubbed his jaw again once Lee's goal registered with him, "Well you're off to a good start… both of you actually." Naruto looked at the weapons surrounding him, "You didn't miss once!"

Tenten smiled at him before it fell, "Wait, I missed you."

Naruto shook his head, "No, you never threw anything at me. You just destroyed all of my clones. After you cut down a few I hid in the smoke and henged into one of the weapons that you threw. That was really scary though."

Tenten held out a hand and helped Naruto to his feet, "You almost got me. If Lee hadn't kicked you I would probably be face up looking at the clouds right now wondering what happened."

Naruto grinned at her widely, "Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Jutsu) is super useful. I was never going to get close enough to do anything to you the way you were fighting."

Rubbing the back of her head sheepishly she laughed a little, "What can I say? I like weapons." She then let out a sigh, "But now I have to pick up and reseal all of these."

Lee gave her a rigid salute, "I will help you retrieve all of your ninja tools Tenten." With that he ran off around the entire clearing, picking up the weaponry.