'Hehe,' Naru-nii laughs. 'I have faith in you,' is all he answers before leaving and Naruto smiles. He didn't need more than that. No accurate fortune could possibly be better than feeling Naru-nii's faith in him.
The way Naru-nii just gets him, is patient, and always believes in him, fills him with confidence. There's no better inspiration and Naruto strives every day to get to that point faster to make Naru-nii proud.
After an immensely satisfying dinner with three people he cherishes, Naruto gets ready to meet Tenten-chan, her father and her sensei in Training Ground 3.
Though reeling from dispelling so many clones, some time to heal and food helped to reduce his head pain to a mild headache that's gradually going away.
"Here comes a worthy opponent, Tenten-chan!" Until that moment, Naruto had forgotten how weird her sensei was, but Naruto couldn't say he disliked the man. He just had too much positive energy not to like. "We haven't formally been introduced, Naruto-kun.
I am Konoha's Sublime Green Beast of Prey, Maito Gai!"
'Huge eyebrows!' Naruto mentally yells, before calling out his own, "my name is Uzumaki Naruto, the future and greatest Hokage there'll ever be!"
"Oh!" Guy calls with tight explosive fists as he shouts to the night sky, "let the power of our youthful lives explode!"
"Sensei" Tenten mumbles embarrassed and Kurenai mumbles an equally embarrassed, "Naruto, don't- don't encourage this."
Kurenai greets her fellow Jnin-sensei, laying out the rules of the challenge. "Should Genin Tenten win, Kubikiribch will be hers.
Should genin Naruto win, Tenten is to be his personal shopper covering seventy-five percent of all his market needs-" Kurenai puts her hand up, cutting Naruto off before he can assert how little he cares about that.
"However, rather than covering his market expenses, Naruto would prefer you never challenge him for Kubikiribch again. He's explained his reasons and I find them to be sound."
"What reasons!" Dny calls, eying Naruto with a curled lip of disgust.
Though Tenten seems mildly startled, she smiles and shrugs as if fine with the amendment while her father continues, "my apologies, Kurenai-san, but I find it incredibly unprofessional to change the wager after it was agreed upon. This is unacceptable and an affront to good business relations!"
"I see," Kurenai coldly states, taking a firm stance over the shorter weapons merchant. "Well, as Naruto doesn't even want this to happen, you are more than welcome to leave."
Tenten smiles as she dodges the large weapon while simultaneously decimating his clones, calling out, "you're going to have to do a lot better than that-" until she hears a pop behind her.
Rotating her head to the extent of her neck's range, she's surprised to see the Fma shuriken was a henge of another clone before it launches a non-lethal kunai strike right to her thigh.
It cries out, "gotcha!" making her smile confidently as she narrowly avoids a major injury. Though the kunai cuts into her leg a bit, it's not deep enough to hinder her attack and she pops that clone as well before returning her lethal focus to the original
Who she had no idea was thrown in the air by his remaining clones and coming down on her, fist cocked, just as her face turns to him. Naruto lands a powerful, gravity-assisted punch across her lovely cheek, spinning her whole body twice before she hits the grass floor face first.
Tenten-chan is knocked out with one, brain-rattling, punch before landing sprawled on the floor.
"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto," Guy-sensei calls.
"Fuck!" Dny yells. "He cheated! That damn demon cheated!"
"Dny-san, calm yourself," Kurenai orders him as Guy checks on his student.
"Why!" He yells, "he obviously can't be trusted! There's no way he could've won!"
"Regardless of your daughter's impressive mastery over weapons, Naruto located and exploited her weakness of multiple fronts of attack," Kurenai states. "He did not cheat."
"I agree," Guy states as he carries Tenten over to them with Naruto beside them.
"She's crazy accurate," Naruto proclaims, extending his arms to look at his torn jumpsuit.
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