Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 29

"And I trusted you enough to agree instantly to it and I still do…" a soft yet firm voice spoke from behind her, a pair of arms wrapping around her shoulders to feel herself being pulled in a hug from behind.

She smiled softly, rubbing the cheek now laid over her shoulder and placed a peck over it, her fears now washing away instantly.

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Tobirama couldn't help but smile a little smile when he saw his sister in law nuzzle her cheek with her adoptive grandson in a tender manner.

The bond he shared with her was a special one indeed, that much even he could see and as much as loathed to be proven wrong, he had to agree it had been the right decision on her part.

Maybe thrusting him into the shinobi life so early might have been the wrong decision on his part, he had vouched for his promotion personally after all.

But he had tried to bring out the diamond that still lay in the rough a little earlier, but alas it was a moot point for now.

"Naruto…" he called, making the two blink at him in unison and break away from the hush whispered conversation they were having out of his earshot.

"A spar if you would, that is if you are not tired enough?" he asked blankly, not bothering for an answer and got up to go in the middle of the clearing. Naruto smirked, picking his blade up and Mito sighed softly seeing the tired boy still going for it.

"Men…" she whispered to herself tiredly but kept her gaze on the two males who were about to have it out now.

Tobirama's right hand slid down to his waist, clasping a small hilt and taking it out making Naruto raise an eyebrow before his eyes widened realizing what it truly was.

Tobirama channeled his chakra through his palm, the hilt's top studded with three claw like protrusions suddenly coming to life when a seemingly glowing chakra blade grew out of it.

"The Raijin no Ken... the legendary sword of the thunder god." Naruto whispered in amazement at seeing it truly being wielded for the first time. Tobirama smirked seeing his star struck eyes, swinging his faithful blade to his side, Naruto's baby blue eyes following it's each and every movement.

"You give my sword such a stare while wielding the Kuroikazuchi yourself?" Tobirama asked making Naruto break out of his stupor and glance at his own gleaming black blade and clenched his fist tightly over it's dark hilt.

[Kuroikazuchi : Black Lightning]

His eyes turned back to Tobirama and he let his muscles drop lose. Tobirama stood on guard when he saw the boy stand simply as if just holding a sword simply by his side. But his trained eyes could see the twitch in his wrists showing he was getting ready to go on the offense. He decided to humor the…

CLANG…

On instincts alone did he bring his blade up to block the slash that would have cleaved his head in half. His eyes narrowed on the boy's focused ones, as he saw his blonde hair flailing in the wind while he forced down more pressure onto him from above in his jump.

The Raijin was flicked to the side, shifting his body weight a little away to throw his opponent off balance that worked like a charm.

He brought his foot up on the disoriented boy's chest, the sole making contact with it before he was launched back like a rag doll.

Naruto tumbled back, rolling on the ground before stopping himself and skidding back on his knee, using his sword to halt his skid while still going for a couple of meters and looked at the trail he had left in amazement.

"Amazing, he didn't even let out a chakra burst. That was just pure strength…" he looked on at the man a bit in admiration and winced. He thanked the man that hadn't put any chakra into his kick, it still felt like he had been slugged like a sledge hammer as it is.

"Using a Shunshin to enhance your first preemptive strike on an opponent you know is stronger than you.

Smart, but if your opponent has the experience like I myself do, he can read the small gap that it opens up along the way as well…" Tobirama spoke wisely, as if a sensei himself scolding a child for a wrong move and Naruto stood up, wiping his cheek off the dust speck.

"My Sharingan negates the tunnel vision that comes with the Shunshin…" he retorted making Tobirama narrow his eyes. To be able to counter a point at him, admirable, but he hadn't been a Kage for so long only to pick on paperwork at his desk.

"It also leaves you disoriented for a moment, that cannot be negated by you no matter how you see it.

It leaves a small gap, a much too small one, albeit one that can be countered as I showed you just now." he countered back and Naruto relented while clenching his fist on the blade.

He had been tinkering with the small teleportation trick for a while now to have it meld in with combat, but this was a point he knew he hadn't roughed out yet.

"It's not possible." Tobirama stated, as if reading his mind and his eyes widened in shock. He saw Tobirama smirk knowingly and the blonde looked down with a saddened gaze.

"Naruto…" he called out, once more activating his blade to life while the blonde looked up. "…don't blink." he said and Naruto wanted to blink at his strange words but said nothing when the man vanished in front of his eyes into thin air.

His own eyes widened when his hair coming onto his eyes flew back and a small cut appeared on his cheek out of thin air, a trickle of blood trailing down his cheek.

He wiped it off with his palm, still feeling the small electricity that coursed within his face at contact, no doubt from the Raijin's blade. His eyes looked back to see Tobirama's back facing him, his blade now held by his side when the yellow blade disappeared into it's hilt.

"You used the Shunshin-" he wanted to say but was cut off by Tobirama.

"Activate your Sharingan." he stated in a demanding tone making Naruto a little peeved, but he nodded when the man turned around with a stern look on his face. Mito watched on from the side, her chin on her fist with a fond smile on her face.

Now maybe her apprentice could see what she had been drilling into his head for weeks, that he was doing something that couldn't be done.

Naruto did as he was asked to, his eyes changing their color from an adorable blue to the deadly crimson in a flicker of a second while three tomoes spun in his eyes in a slow predatory way.

Once more Tobirama disappeared right in front of his very eyes, another nick appearing on his opposite cheek to leave a small trickle of blood trail down his cheek. He wiped it off and looked at his bloodied palm in disbelief.

"It's impossible, there's just no way. I've seen all Shunshin's, even elemental ones. None of them is so fast as to evade the Sharingan…" he whispered to himself in a lost voice, trying to make sense when Tobirama cut his thoughts in half.

"It isn't a Shunshin child, this is the Hiraishin. What you're trying to attempt, is the same thing I attempted myself when I was young. To try and incorporate the simple Body Flicker into seem-less combat.

It maybe used for a single use but the limitations I showed you just now were enough to render it completely useless…" he explained but Naruto could see that there was no disorientation on the man's slightly wrinkled face.

The teleportation was almost instantaneous too, as if he really was moving at speeds even his eyes couldn't follow.

"The Hiraishin no jutsu…" Mito's voice voice rang through the clearing calmly, her palms now on her lap while she looked at him with a calm smile. "…devised by Tobirama himself is what you're after Naruto.

It's isn't a simple D-rank technique that is used to go here and there, that is instantaneous teleportation through the means of a Space-Time seal that allows said user to teleport near the beacon in a split second…" she explained with a snap of her fingers making his eyes widen in surprise and realization.

This was the branch he wanted to specialize his Fuinjutsu in, after Mito had told him to pick one to pursue further onto the advanced sealing techniques like she had done for barrier and restraining seals herself. But still…

"You said to a seal, but there is no seal he used. How did he do it just now then?" Naruto asked the point bugging him and Mito giggled in her hand while Tobirama smirked, pointing to his shoulder. Naruto looked onto it and sure enough a small sealing formula was over it. But when…

He remembered him patting his shoulder when he had asked him to spar in the first place and he realized when he had placed it and pumped the side of his fist in his palm with a sage like nod.

"You can mark anything you touch?" he asked curiously making Tobirama quite surprised at his acute deduction and nodded his affirmative at the boy.

His deduction skills were quite impressive he noted and glanced at Mito who had a fond smile on her lips and now he knew why he had been called here today by her so suddenly for a meeting.

"I see…" he sighed getting a sly smile from the Uzumaki heiress and he knew he was defeated now. Naruto glanced between the two with a lost look before Mito waved her hand dismissively.

"Now now let's continue the spar ne, I want to judge my apprentice's growth. So get on it…" she admonished the two playfully with a clap and both got into it.

Their blades met in sparks in a moment, slashing at each other with the precision of true swordsmen. It went on for a while before Naruto was seemingly outwitted each time and tossed around like a rag doll by the ever stoic Kage.

"Alright I think that's enough." he said finally, taking a deep breath after their hour long session and looked on at the blonde sprawled on the ground like a bedsheet with a smirk.

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