Re: Akimichi

-Chouji POV-

"..."

The silence was awkward...

I don't know how to describe this situation...

I and Shikamaru were deadpanned. Seeing us, Naruto was not able to explain his circ.u.mstance and was panicked.

"No No No, it's not what it's like! You've misunderstood! This is-"

"It's okay, Naruto. We won't judge you." I cut him mid his speech, we decided to left and forget things, we better pretend that we saw nothing than to be haunted by the ideas of our friend become a toyboy of an old man. "We didn't see anything, you can continue your thing..."

"As I said, IT'S A MISUNDERSTANDING!!!" Naruto desperately shouted as he trying to convince us.

"..." We refused to answer and quickens our steps. No, don't get us involved in your weird play!

As we walked out, Just then, the white-haired old man suddenly flickered in front of us. "Hold it, boys!" He stretched out his palm and showed his unhappy face to us.

Crap, what we got ourselves involved in?

We hastily jumped back and took defensive stances, we will fight back to protect our Chasity!

"What do you want, old man? Who are you?"

"I'm sorry, we're not into that kind of thing."

Hearing us, that old man creepily smirked. A frog suddenly appeared and that old man stood on top of it, he took a weird stance that looked like those kabuki actors often do.

"Haha, thanks for asking. I am the Mount Myoboku Holy Master Hermit, also known as Toad Sennin, I am Jiraiya-sama!!!"

As he has done did his weird performance, he crossed his arms in front of his c.h.e.s.t and proudly declared. "Yes, I am a pervert! No, a super pervert! But I'm only into woman, the fairies with jiggling mountains on their c.h.e.s.t!"

"..."

Okay, we're outta here.

At least that was the plan.

Before we're able to step out of the Onsen, that old man Jiraiya suddenly man-handled us and threw us into the Onsen. As receptive as we were, I did a somersault and landed on my feet while Shikamaru shifted his position while he landed on a crouching position. We both landed on the water and we used our water-walking technique to stand on top of it.

'He's strong...'

We both looked at each other, surprised by the old man Jiraiya's prowess. With just the prowess that he showed us, he regained a bit of our respect. He's really not one of the three legendary Sennin for nothing alright.

"Old ma- No, Jiraiya-sama, can we spar for a bit...?"

Everyone was a bit surprised by either my sudden change of attitude and/or me suddenly challenged the toad sennin for a spar.

You have to ask someone politely if you want to request something from him, am I right?

"Okay, since you already know who I am and yet you still asked for a spar, then I have no reason to refuse it! But, excuse me for a second..." Jiraiya-sama then turned around, he told Naruto to remove his clothes. As clueless as he is, Naruto just did what he was told. "Raise your hand up above your head."

Naruto wondered and showed a face full of questions, regardless, he obediently raised his hand. "Five-Part Unseal!" Jiraiya-sama hit Naruto on his stomach with the top of his five fingers. "Alright, kid! Try to walk on the water again!"

Naruto grudgingly stood and walked to the edge of the onsen, he carefully tried to regulate his chakra on the sole of his feet. Lo and behold! He finally managed to do something I was able to do when I was seven years old! Truly brilliant!

"Now kid, let's do our spar outside."

As we near the edge of the village, we went into the forest outside of the village. I and Jiraiya-sama stood ten feet apart, while Ino, Shikamaru, and Naruto watched from the side a bit far away.

"Okay, show me what you got!" Jiraiya-sama waved his hand, beckoning me to attack first. I did just that and threw a smoke bomb onto the ground, smokes started to fill the area and impede our vision. Quickly, I did several hand seals in succession and released my first attack.

'[Katon: Endan]!' I shoot several flame bullets at Jiraiya-sama's direction then immediately summoned a clone to rushed at him and engaged him in close combat. While I jumped high on the air to prepare my next attack.

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-Jiraiya POV-

I was told by Sarutobi-sensei that a kid was able to forcefully deactivated Orochimaru's cursed seal. He told me that Chouji was his name, an heir of the Akimichi clan. All of that snake's cursed seals were not a joke, I tried to decode it in the past only to meet with failure upon failure. I can only resort to layering it with more seal to enclose that cursed seal to stop its activation, yet a kid did what I was not able to do.

And now the said kid was standing in front of me, and we're about to spar. I'll guide him slowly in this spar, after that I will question him about what he did with the cursed seal.

"Okay, show me what you got!"

Just as I said that that kid threw a smoke bomb followed by flame bullets, meh, child play.

"[Hari Jizō]!" I channeled my chakra to harden my hair and shape it into spikes, in which each strand was as sharp and as hard as metallic weapons. I used my hardened hair as a shield and to discourage opponents from attacking me.

*Pa* *Pa* *Pa*

The flame bullets collided with my hair and dispersed after. Amidst the smoke, I saw a silhouette charged toward me.

Heh, opting to do a frontal assault?

The silhouette turned bigger then changed into a sphere ball-lie shape that rushed toward me.

Right!

He's an Akimichi!

"[Doton: Nidoryūheki]!" I quickly summoned two walls out of the earth to pin him in place, which it did. "[Hari Jigoku]!" Then I followed with a barrage of hair needle to attack him.

Even before I did my victory pose, that kid poofed into smoke. Clone?

Then where is he...

Nevermind.

As the smokes recede and I lifted my head, I saw that kid. Or I should say, Kids. I did a quick count and there were twelve of him. Those twelve him stood at fifteen feet each, AND not stopping at that, they all wrapped with fire! There were twelve FIRE GIANT around me...

Hah...

Now I remember, this is the terror of an Akimichi...

Imagine in a battlefield a horde of giants came and wrecked your armies, that was the thing that our enemies had the honor to experience in the past.

And now, it's my turn...

Well, shit.

"[Ten'en Kyojin]!"

Yes yes, 'Wrapping flame giant', a nice name.

But that techniques were ultimately just a clone wrapped in a fire!

"[Katon: Tajuu Karyū Endan]!"

Ha! Eat this!

I summoned twelve dragon-shaped flames to attack them all at once!

Forward!

Did you think that's the end?

"[Doton: Yomi Numa]!"

Well, no! I changed the ground beneath us into muds, which we could sink into. The mud was infused with my chakra to make it sticky, thus able to ensnare them and preventing them to escape!

*Boom*

It hit!

Now, how is it, kid?

Wait...

KID! Crap, I'm too entranced! His technique really made me relieved the wartime, I was too engrossed in it.

My eyes darting around, I was trying to spot him.

Crap! Crap! Crap!

Where is he? What's his name again?

Yes, Chouji!

"OI, CHOUJI!!! Are you okay?"

Just then, I felt a pair of hands grabbed my feet and that hands dragged me into the earth, leaving only my head above the surface. Damn.

"I am fine." That kid appeared in front of me with a goofy grin. I used a substitution technique and appeared behind him, kicked his knee, and smacked his head. "Damn you, prick!"

He clicked his tongue and looked annoyed. "Oi, kid. You're dozens of years too early if you want to defeat this great toad Sennin!" But, his endurance was really something else. I then flowed a part of my chakras into his body to check his condition. "Stay still."

Hmm...

What?! How could it be!

This-

This is a Senninka!

A body that permits the owner to garner natural energy passively! Did I just meet a heavenly genius? a hidden gem?

"Kid, be my disciple!"

"I refuse!"

Bah! How dare he!

"Why do you refuse? Let me tell you, you have a body that called Senninka, it's able to naturally gather the natural energy! I can make you a sage! A SAGE!" I unconsciously shouted historically, my breath quickened from excitement.

"A Senninka grants you a general increase in your physical capabilities, such as your strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, perception, and durability, along with improved power of your Jutsus! Plus, as you garner natural energy, it helps your body to optimize its growth!

"In other words, you can eat all you want, exercise all you want, train all you want, and natural energy will effectively convert your food into energy, help to slowly mend your wound, and passively improve your body! It's all a boon!"

I laughed out of excitement, after my 'little sermon' I was sure that he will beg me to be my disciple. Now one... two... three!

"..."

"..."

I lowered my gaze and saw that he silently gazed at the sky and I saw his eyes were 'dead'. Weird, did I say something wrong?

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"Oi oi, they called me a freak. And if I am a freak, then what are they?"

Naruto was agape, he can't believe his own eyes. That was escalated quickly and that was a fight of another level, it was so different and exceed all of his knowledge. Fire giants? Flame dragons?

Damn! It was so cool!

Would I be able to do that too?

Naruto's eyes sparkled, he was so entranced with their fight.

"They are monsters, don't compare yourself with him, you will only get depressed." Shikamaru sighed as he leaned on a tree, beside him, Ino took two tickets from her pocket, and she nervously held it on her hand.

"Does he always able to do that?"

"No, of course not." Shikamaru glanced at Naruto weirdly, "Since we're small, he was always the one who obsessed with training. Some peoples said that he was a training maniac, but I preferred to call him a genius of both talent and hard work."

"Then I will train as hard as him... No! Harder than him! I will be a Hokage, I can't be weaker than him!" Naruto clenched his fists, a fire was lit in his eyes.

Shikamaru just sighed, he shook his head and grumbled. "Suit yourself."

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In a hallway inside the Hokage's office, Asuma approached Kakashi with a smile on his face. "Yo, Kakashi! I finally found you, can I ask you for a favor? It's like this..."