Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 26
He was at a severe disadvantage at taijutsu since the man was a jounin, having the experience and advantage of strength over him.
The only thing keeping him alive was his agility and speed and that too was failing quickly as he was forced to dodge another swing of his dodge and the man was adapting to his style slowly yet surely.
...
That left only one choice.
He threw one of his kunais at the man who flicked it away with his sword and charged at him. Naruto's back met the bark of the tree making the man grin and bring his sword down in a vertical slash to cleave him in half. Naruto twisted himself around the tree and dodged it at the very last moment.
He hopped back a couple of steps with the jounin following him and now his sword had lightning coursing through it's blade to be done with the blonde even with a merely small glancing blow.
"If only I could make hand seals right now, this brat would be dead…" he thought and gave a round house kick for the blonde's arms who twirled around a tree and dodged it at the very last moment yet again.
This went on for four times until Naruto fell on one knee, sweat dripping from his face like rain drops while he panted for dear life. The man chuckled a humorous laugh seeing the downed boy in front of him.
"I must say boy, you were good to be able to hold yourself against a jounin for so long and still breath. But now…" he walked closer to the boy, bringing his sword up to end his life when the blonde let out a swipe to take his legs off from under him.
The jounin hopped over it and let it pass underneath him harmlessly, putting forth a kick in mid air that met the boy's chest and threw him back into a tree's bark with a crash. Naruto coughed violently and slid down, panting and wiping his lips of the blood from his busted lip.
The jounin shook his head with a laugh when Naruto started going through hand seals.
"You won't be able to do any ninjutsu that would be able to take me down with the chakra levels you have right now kid. This fight is…"
He trailed off when he saw the blonde's shadowed eyes glance up, now seemingly crimson with a single tomoe in each of them and ended the sequence on Tiger making his eyes widen in realization and horror.
"Fire Style : Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" he exclaimed, pumping out a volley of small fireballs that made the jounin hop back a couple of steps, right into the middle of the clearing.
"Just my luck, I get an Uchiha along with a Senju, you're going to be my compensation for wasting my time brat. But at least you will be a worthwhile present back home." the jounin chuckled, letting the boy make another sequence of hand seals to pump out whatever last ninjutsu he wanted to before he fell over unconscious due to chakra exhaustion himself.
Fire jutsus took a hell lot of chakra and it was only a matter of time before a little child like him…
"Uzumaki Sealing Style!-" Naruto's voice rang in the clearing and the man stopped laughing and looked around at the six tags slapped over the trees all around him glow in unison while the blonde went through strange hand seals he had never seen before. But he had heard of the reputation that the Uzumaki sealing skills held in the world.
His mind went back to the six last moment counters that brat had done just now and only now did he realize what he was doing. But still…
"Impossible, there's just no way an Uchiha like you could know seals…" he shouted and raised his sword to charge at the blonde when Naruto made the final seal with a tired smirk.
"Six Point Paralysis Seal : Fuin!"
He shouted when his remaining chakra reserves started getting depleted drastically and kanji sprout out from all over the tags and covered the man and Tsunade all over their bodies and halted his charge mid way while Naruto's eyes watched in slow motion as the tip of the blade came towards his right shoulder and stopped just a hair's length away from making contact with his body.
Naruto kept his palms on the ground, keeping the seals around him pumped up, and the man paralyzed with a smirk while a bead of sweat rolled down his forehead.
"You damned brat, how long do you think the seal will hold up? I can feel it wavering due to your depleted reserves right now. What do you think you'll achieve by stopping me for a little while before I cleave you?" he sneered at Naruto who shook his head in humor, further confusing the jounin.
"I'm not stupid enough to try and stop you…" he panted with half lidded eyes, making the man look at him dumbfounded and he merely continued, completely ignoring the man no.
"…I'm merely stalling you." he completed with a deep breath and his Sharingan wavered for a moment making the man smirk that the seal was about to fall along with the boy.
"For what?" he asked curiously before he slay down the boy and took him with himself and the boy's smirk widened ever so slightly, confusing him yet again.
"For them-" Naruto said before he fell down to the side and the seal disappeared to give him free movement. The man was confused when he felt a hand clasp the back of his neck in an iron grip while Tsunade was slid off his shoulders roughly.
His head was twisted around forcefully and his eyes widened in horror when he saw the two pairs of glaring eyes in front of him.
"You have some nerve to try and abduct my granddaughter in broad daylight…" Tobirama's cold voice rang through the clearing while Sasuke Sarutobi stood by his side and untied the little bonded girl from her bonds, his signature cigar donned on his lips as usual letting out small wisps of smoke in the air.
"Jiji how did you know I was here?" Tsunade asked in confusion, making Tobirama answer her without taking his eyes off the man who was struggling in his grip for air and squirming like a headless chicken.
"Because of Naruto…" he explained and the jounin's eyes widened at his words.
"H-How?" he rasped out, not being able to get how he was able to get a message to the Hokage so quickly. It just wasn't possible for him to do so.
"The boy took a shortcut by the cliff behind our village to follow you which was the only possible way for anyone to chase you on foot with the distance you had covered beforehand, just as he crossed the river where our village's borders end, he let out a huge pulse of chakra on purpose to alert our barrier team."
Sasuke spoke and the jounin glanced at the unconscious boy with incredulous eyes before his eyes rolled due to lack of oxygen and he fell unconscious when Tobirama hit his pressure point on his neck and let the body fall down like a sack of potatoes.
"To think Mito even taught him about the intricacies of our village's barrier defense system. She isn't letting up on training him eh Tobirama?" Sasuke spoke up, making him turn his glance to him and nod.
It was ingenious of the boy, to chase as well as alert him of danger at the same time. Only when he contacted the barrier team that he came to know that his granddaughter had left the village too, had he known what was up and used the Hiraishin marker placed on Tsunade's necklace to track her down.
The man had planned it through by placing a suppressing marker on the girl but the Hiraishin was still acting like a tracking beacon for him even if he could not flash to her. The man was much too confident in his plans to be cautious of him.
"Naru?" their thoughts were broken by the soft and concerned voice of Tsunade who had his head clasped in her arms for dear life. Her hazelnut eyes looked at him with all the concern in the world.
"Hey wake up…" she whispered, patting his cheek when his eyes blinked unfocused for a moment. His blurry eyes focused for a moment to see Tobirama's wide eyes along with some strange brown haired man's cigar dropping from his mouth in shock. The last thing he heard was the soft voice of his friend before he blacked out completely.
"Naru, your eyes…" he heard and Tsunade saw him fall limp and tears welled up in the corner of her eyes while she hugged him to death. She felt a hand clasp her shoulder and looked back to see her granduncle's stoic face holding a small smile on his lips for reassurance.
"He's fine…" he spoke to calm the girl down and got on one knee when a tear rolled down her puffy cheek.
"But-" she retorted with a soft sniffle when he placed his fingers of her lips to shush up her mumbles.
"He's just exhausted, the boy ran three hours straight and jumped off a cliff to chase after you besides taking a jounin head on. He'll be out like a light for a week before he's up and about again…" he explained the girl who started wailing for her life while clutching her friend for dear life.
"That idiot… what the hell was he thinking… jumping off a cliff? I'll send him straight into a coma when he wakes up…" she sobbed out making Sasuke chuckle and Tobirama slapped his palm over his face with a soft chuckle, maybe he shouldn't have mentioned that.
Even he couldn't stop from laughing now that the rush was finally over and his granddaughter was fine and dandy thanks to a certain Uchiha.
But he did remember those crimson eyes he saw before the boy had fallen unconscious and glanced at Sasuke seriously who nodded and disappeared with the now prisoner jounin slung over his shoulder like a rag doll and disappeared in a swirl of flames.
Tobirama himself flashed back into the village to get the boy some medical aid and get him checked up for all possible injuries along with his crying granddaughter.
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