Chapter 5

"OH, ITS ON NOW OLD MAN!" Naruto and his clones roared. Many of them started to form the Rasengan. Kwai looked bored at them and stroked his beard.

"YOUR GOING DOWN!" The real Naruto roared.

"RASENGAN!!!!"

(Now)

"RASENGAN!!!!"

Four Naruto clones met their end and the original was blown backwards. Master Kwai stood there looking bored combing his fingers thru his long goatee, totally untouched.

"Pitiful."

Naruto got up and attacked with a flurry of punches and kicks, Master Kwai blocked them all with one hand. he stepped to the side avoiding a lunging Naruto, and after the blond staggered past he smacked him across the back of the head.

"I can't believe you are the container for the great Kyuubi." Kwai continued. "Your sloppy and weak. You have no control and your emotions rule your every action."

"I'LL SHOW YOU, YOU BASTARD!" Naruto roared and summoned up six new kage bunshins.

The first four went on the attack trying to strike Kwai from three different angles while Naruto used the last two clones to make his Rasengan. He then lunged and Kwai looked at him then shook his head before tilting to the side and striking Naruto in the stomach with an elbow.

When Naruto looked up again after catching his breath from the hard blow, he saw Kwai standing beneath the tree once more watching sakura blossoms falling.

Pulling a kunai he kicked up to his feet and charged. He swiped only to see it pass thru Kwai who had turned and smirked at him.

An after image…but how? Naruto thought as he spun.

"Oh, you want to play with kunai. Very well. Attack me with intent to kill me. Let's see how good you are. Try and land a blow."

Naruto didn't need another invitation and lunged with the kunai. Kwai moves aside with minimal twists of his torso or head.

Naruto's moves are filled with anger, effort and frustration, while Kwai moves with minimal effort.

"Come now boy, can't you hit an old man?" Kwai taunts and Naruto doubles his efforts.

"Your ability is rather poor." Kwai says as he strikes Naruto in the chest with an open palm strike that sends him flying back against the temple wall.

Naruto clutches his chest and coughs up a wad of blood. He spits it into the dirt and glares at the old man, who laughs and strokes his beard.

"Kukukukuku. I've fought corpses who posed more of a challenge than you. Now get up and fight me you damn demon spawn."

Naruto obliges and attacks with a fury of a wild animal.

"..on't .o it!"

Naruto shakes his head trying to rid the voice he's hearing in the back of his head as he continues to swing wildly with the kunai and adding kicks and punches with his free hand.

Kwai ducks and hops about dodging each attack, and then leaps straight in the air. He lands on the edge of the kunai and Naruto's eyes widen in shock, and at the kunai in his hand unable to believe what he is seeing.

Kwai smiles and looks down at Naruto. "From here, I would like to introduce you to my foot."

Kwai backflips off the kunai and kicks Naruto in the face during mid flip, sending him crashing into the nearby tree.

Naruto rises slower than before and looks on as Kwai holds the dropped kunai in his hand, twirling it with a ease that showed years of mastery.

He stops it and throws it into the dirt at Naruto's feet, burying the blade to the handle.

"Do you yield, or would you like to try again?" Kwai asks.

"Drop the attitude sensei."

Naruto turns to see Mica carrying a pair of buckets on a pole over his shoulder.

"Mind your place and fetch water. This is between me and the boy." Kwai said. Mica shook his head and made eye contact with Naruto.

The pair shared a long stare and Naruto understood. He slowed his breathing, slow steady breaths.

He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself.

"About damn time you calm down kit."

Kyuubi?

"No, I'm the viper, I'm here to vipe your vindows. Yes Kyuubi. Did the monk hit you in the head while I wasn't watching?"

No…no more than anyone else. What's up with him? Last night…

"This is a test kit. He's seeing what makes you tick." Kyuubi said.

But why does he need to say those things…why not just say…

"Would you go all out if you weren't mad?" Kyuubi asked. "I didn't think so. Now kit, we need to work on this. Keep calm, and use these moves."

Naruto blinked as the Kyuubi filled his mind with images.

How the hell…

"Later kit. I promise. Now lets show this bead wearing fossil what the vessel of the Kyuubi no Kitsune is capable of."

Naruto straightened and took the stance that had Kwai raise a wizened eyebrow. Naruto was standing with his left leg forward, his torso turned a bit. His right arm cocked back with his fist even with his hip. He brought his left hand up, palm facing Kwai.

"Bring it on old man." Naruto said.

Kwai studied him a moment longer and nodded as if listening to his own voice. He came at Naruto with several punches, Naruto managed to dodge a few, but more of them hit him then he was able to block.

"COME ON KIT! Like this!" The Kyuubi said and several more images slammed into his brain at the same time he was kicked in the face.

Naruto shook it off and caught Kwai's leg. "My turn." He said spinning and tossing the old monk aside.

Kwai landed on his feet and with a flurry of palm strikes sent Naruto crashing into the temple wall once more.

"I'm nearly a millennia old, and you haven't even caused me to sweat." He says and kicks the kunai off the ground and with a flick of his hand slaps it and it shatters.

"You're not going to make me mad again." Naruto tells him.

Kwai raises an eyebrow.

"Okay kit. Now try this." Kyuubi suggests and Naruto is in motion without realizing it and Kwai stepped back. He dodged the first six attacks, but the spinning back fist he avoided left him open for the leaping roundhouse kick.

Kwai went flying and just managed to flip and land with his feet on the wall then with a flip he landed on his feet.

Naruto was about to attack again, when Kwai held up a hand. "STOP!"

Naruto skidded to a halt and looked at the old man in surprise.

"What? Why?" Naruto asked.

Kwai motioned for him to sit and they once more sat under the tree and the old man once more had a cup of tea. Naruto blinked wondering where it has come from.

"I apologize for my harsh words Naruto-san. I did not mean to upset you, but I needed to gage you honestly." Kwai bowed his head.

"I-Its okay. K…Kyuubi told me…"

"Ah, yes. It was after I kicked you into the tree. I saw the change…does he speak with you often?" Kwai asked.

"Not really. Just in the last few days actually." Naruto admitted.

"I see." Kwai spoke.

"Naruto-san, while I can train you to be better…there is another path. One that the Kyuubi can show you. One that…ah, Mica sit and join us. Is my water been filled?"

"Yeah, yeah." Mica said dropping down next to Naruto with a grunt.

"How? That should have taken all day." Naruto said.

"Water jutsu." Mica said with a smirk. "I multiplied the water that I carried up and there you have it." Mica then looked at Master Kwai. "You know you do have plumbing."

"Ah, but the spring water at the bottom of the mountain tastes so much better." Kwai argued.

"That's a crock." Mica countered.

"Um…guys…" Naruto said trying to get them back on track, which freaked him out as he was the first to admit that he had zero attention span.

"Let them go kit." Kyuubi said in his mind. "We have much to discuss."

Okay…and what's this kit stuff?

"Stupid old man!"

"Perverted brat!"

"Sigh, perhaps we should find some place quiet."

Konoha…

Tsunade glared at Kakashi who had gathered the jonin and had come to her office.

"What is the meaning of this Kakashi?" she demanded.

"Its about you hiding Hinata's possession and allowing her to attack Sakura and Sauske." The one-eyed jonin said.

Tsunade's eyes glared at him, and he took an involuntary step back. "And by what right do you have spilling secrets. I thought I ordered you not to talk about it after our conversation leaving that room."

Kakashi backed up even more. The conversation had been brief and one sided.

(Flashback)

"What the hell happened to her?" Kakashi asked after Shizune had taken Hinata away leaving Tsuande to pick up Sakura and put her to bed.

"Hinata made a pact with a Vengeance Spirit. I have not yet found out what they bargained over, but I do know it has been working with her in punishing those who have done Naruto wrong."

Tsunade looked at Kakashi. "You wouldn't have done Naruto any wrongs now…would you have Hatake?"

She then looked at him hard. "You will not discuss this with anyone Kakashi. Hinata might be the one thing that brings Naruto back."

(End Flashback)

"Well Hatake?" Tsunade asked, her eyes narrowing.

"I thought the Jonin Instructors had a right to know what is happening. Hinata is…"

"Not your concern Hatake, unless you have something you don't want known?" Tsunade asked.

Kurenai stepped forward. "But Hinata is my concern Lady Tsunade. I was her guardian for many years. Her father…"

"Damn it to hell. She's a ninja of this village and she made a choice. One that could strengthen this village." Tsunade said.

"Or wipe us from the face of the earth." Kakashi said.

"Lady Tsunade, how could you let this happen?" Kurenai asked. "Hinata…"

"Hinata made the pact herself. She was in here and had broken into the vault looking for the contract. She made the pact before I could even think of stopping her. Its done with and we need to figure out how to get Naruto back. He is the reason, and I hope the key to solving Hinata's…affliction."

"You make it sound like she's caught a strange disease." Asuma said from where he stood.

"She's possessed." Kakashi said. "We must exorcise the spirit."

Tsunade laughed and stood up. She went to the shelf against the wall and her fingers danced over several old leather bound books. She pulled a thick one and flipped it open to a bookmarked page.

She dropped the book onto her desk and spun it so the gathered jonin could see.

Kurenai stepped forward, her red eyes scanning the page.

"The Spirit of Vengeance is a heavenly blessed spirit created by…by Lord Kami. It may only be used by a pure soul." Kurenai looked at the page a moment.

"A pact between the spirit of vengeance is bartered and once an accord is made, the spirit bonds with the summoner…until the end of the summoner's life…"

Kurenai looked at the Hokage. "There is no way?"

"Hinata's death, and trust me when I say that it will be harder to kill her now that she's bonded with the spirit."

Kurenai looked at the book. "So she falls under its control whenever…"

"No, she and the spirit work together. She is aware of everything, the spirit shares its experience and knowledge. And from what I've seen of its history, it has acquired some considerable knowledge."

Tsunade looked at Kakashi. "The last one to use the Spirit was Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze, wife of Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage…mother of Naruto Uzumaki." Her eyes hardened. "The Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune…exiled nin of Konohagakure."

She then smiled coldly. "Tell me Kakashi, do you have any sins against Naruto?

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