Return To The Grind 6

It took a a good decent little before, before Sasuke's arms twitched and he slowly forced himself onto his hands and knees and struggled to his feet from there.

Despite the damage he'd taken, so much so his legs shook, he was panting deeply and clutching his lower stomach, yet his eyes were locked solidly on Daiki, determination burning in his crimson red orbs.

With his other hand, he reached for his shinobi pouch, but just before he could, a hand grasped him by the shoulder.

Daiki blinked. Suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, an older, vest wearing shinobi with gravity defying white hair stood behind Sasuke.

"I think that's enough for a mere spar, Sasuke, don't you?" Kakashi Hatake hummed, his eyes not even looking at Sasuke and istead, on the book he was holding in his other hand, idly reading from it.

'Holy shit.' Daiki gaped. He hadn't even seen a thing, no a displacement of air, not a shadow, not a blur, nothing. One moment he wasn't there, the next he just…was.

"Kakashi, don't get in my way," Sasuke spat, glaring over his shoulder at his sensei, "I can take him!"

"Maybe," Kakshi shrugged, "But if he wanted to, he could have broken your leg the second he got his hand on your foot. As far as this spar goes, he wins, just accept it."

Sasuke glared him for a moment, before realisation seemed to ping through him, "…That wind jutsu.." he trailed off, before whipping around to look at Daiki, "You didn't use any hand seals, and used it so quickly!"

"Exactly." Kakashi nodded once.

"Keh," Sasuke grunted, spitting to the side, before nodding tersely, "Fine, it's my loss, won't happen again though now that I know your little trick."

"If you say so." Daiki shrugged, he doubted it though. Considering how little practice he'd had with it and couldn't even use it properly right now.

His arms were fucking killing him from the kickback of it.

He did learn something interesting from this though.

…It could augment his taijutsu quite nicely. Sudden explosive on the spot momentum, for enhancing attacks or changing directions or even trajectories of his attacks.

And best of all, was how little chakra it used.

"Just don't forget you owe me a jutsu now." he pointed out.

"Yeah, yeah," Sasuke huffed, "I'll write down the instructions and get them to you by tomorrow, I'm not hanging around to teach you it personally."

"Fine with me." Daiki rolled his eyes, "You'll be able to find me in training ground 69 for the most part when you do."

"Whatever." Sasuke shrugged, jerking his shoulder out of Kakashi's grip and making his way over to a nearby tree to sit down and frown.

Brooding thoughtfully?

"Sasuke-kun, are you okay?" Sakura's attention was full on Sasuke now, rushing over to him, she barely even glanced at Daiki.

Ouch.

"Heh, looks like you beat the bastard," Naruto sniggered, making his way over, "Don't think it means you can beat me though, I've already totally saw through all your moves, your jutsu is cool, but mine is way better!"

"Doubt it," Daiki snorted, crossing his arms, "Do you even know any jutsu beyond the Academy ones? You've always had a habbit of bragging about shit you can't back up."

The goading, was intentional.

Naruto growled, "I sure can back it up, check this out!" and like a moth to a flame, the blonde Jinchuuriki fell for it hook, line and sinker, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he called out, crossing his fingers together.

There was a puff of smoke at his side, and another Naruto appeared, grinning cockily just like the original, "Heh, well what do you think of this!"

"A physical clone jutsu?" Daiki made a show of raising his eyebrow, "Neat." he shrugged.

Naruto staggered back as if struck, "…Neat…That's it…?" he whispered to himself, almost distraught.

Daiki blinked, '…What?' he was totally confused.

"Well, you sure put the boots to my team, huh kid?" Kakashi's voice floated into his ears, and Daiki looked over his shoulder, to find the man suddenly within arms reach, without ever having made a sound.

…Fuck he really had a massive way to go didn't he?

"Wasn't that hard," he calmed his racing heart and replied flippantly, "I could have ended that at any time with my Force Palm Jutsu."

"You could have indeed," Kakashi nodded in agreement, "Though, bit of advice kid, don't get too cocky, that spar was brief, but it was blatant that Sasuke was quite a bit faster than you, and more skilled in taijutsu."

"Faster, sure, more skilled, debateable," Daiki replied, "He had an easier time countering me because of his bloodline, I'd like to see how well he'd react to my taijutsu without them."

"Maybe bring that up when he challenges you to another spar to make up for this loss?" Kakashi suggested with a shrug.

Oh, so he knew Sasuke well enough already to know he'd be seeking Daiki out wipe that loss off the board?

Daiki was already expecting it, he knew what Sasuke was all about, and his driving force.

"Well, next time, maybe you can pay his loss for him," Daiki laughed, "Fire Jutsu is nice, but I'd prefer much lightning, since it's my affinity, or even a water jutsu to use in tandem with my lightning jutsu, you're bound to have a few extra of those kicking around, right?"

"Hmm, who knows?" Kakashi mused, "Though, you seem to be well informed, my students had no idea who I was until our last mission."

"No…it's kind of obvious, you're pretty high profile in the bingo book," Daiki deadpanned.

Literally, any shinobi could request a bingo book. Kakashi was one of the first mentions in the Konoha part of the book, with Iwa specifically offering two hundred million ryo for his head.

It was kind of common sense to be clued in on the big names, wasn't it? They were the type of dudes you should know by face so you could run the other way the second you caught sight of them.

"Maybe." Kakashi shrugged again.

"Right, well, riveting as this conversation is, I've got training to do." Daiki bid the man goodbye, and walked away.

He could feel the mans gaze on his back as he vacated the training ground, and Sasuke was completely ignored Sakura fussing over him, his eyes holding Daiki's own until he dipped out of training ground seven completely.

'Well, I think that was an absolute win for me.' Daiki grinned. He had a rough idea of where he stood now, he got to test out his new jutsu in combat, he was getting a free jutsu out of merking Sasuke's ass and he had a full on excuse from Naruto to go about learning the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

"Winning, it's what I do." he sniggered proudly.