NARUTO:The sealed shinobi

Naruto ran in and grabbed Lee by his collar before dragging him off with everyone else following close behind. As they started to go back through the thick of the woods a spider tried to come from behind a tree to sneak attack them. Gai saw it coming and flipped at the massive thing with punches and kicks, "Dynamic Action!" Turning the spider into goo as they didn't break their stride, "Naruto-kun, what is the best course of action to escape?"

Naruto moved back, "Gai-sensei, watch the front, I'll keep them off of our backs. Neji, Tenten, and Lee, stay between us, Neji keep your Byakugan on, Tenten prepare some kunai with explosive notes. Take to the trees, it narrows down the angles that they can attack from."

Team Gai listened to their chunin tagalong and got themselves into position as they leapt into the branches of the forest. Naruto's knowledge of the terrain by now was second only to Anko. He knew where the majority of things of interest in the forest were and the current thing of interest was the closest exit that wouldn't take them straight into the nest of the spiders, "We need to get further south. If we head straight north or east from here we'll have to go straight through the nest to escape, that would be suicide even for me."

Gai nodded and lead the group further south. During their run, Naruto held his head in pain and fell down on a branch. Lee jumped back to help the boy to his feet, "Naruto-kun, what is wrong? Are you hurt?"

Naruto cursed to himself as he grimaced in pain, "A bunch of my clones actually fully lasted for their time limit and dispelled all at once… It's like the worst headache you've ever had hitting you all at once."

Thanking Lee as he stood back up they were distracted by Neji's shouts, "There are more coming!"

Naruto turned around to see five of the spiders jumping from branch to branch, getting ever closer. Naruto threw Lee off of his branch at his team, "Stay back! There's something I need to test out anyway…"

They all watched as Naruto let the spiders in close before making a set of hand-signs and crossing his arms in an 'x' motion while crouching, "Fuuton: Senpuu Kakusui (Wind Release: Whirlwind Pyramid)!" Standing up and stiffening all of his appendages straight out, a vicious crosswind surrounded the area around Naruto's body, catching the spiders within and sending them flying into the air, some of them cut into pieces, others missing legs, all of the survivors hissing in anger and pain.

The jutsu faded after a few seconds and he turned back to Team Gai, getting everyone moving again to stay ahead of the spiders attempting to prey on them. The genin were pretty stunned by the use of Naruto's new jutsu, but were too occupied with staying in one piece at the moment to ask anything.

After another half-hour of random spider attacks and running, they escaped the Forest of Death and collapsed a good distance away from the gates that cut it off from everything else in the village. Naruto laughed to himself as he looked up at the night sky, "Well that was fun… You guys alright?"

Gai looked back at the Forest of Death, "We're fine. Naruto-kun what was the inspiration for going so far into the Forest of Death, you know how dangerous that place is don't you?"

Naruto stood up and dusted himself off, "Of course I do. That's why I went in there, for a challenging fight. I'm training to kill my opponents Gai-sensei, not just defeat them. I need to be used to ending lives whenever I need to and since I'm pretty sure that absolutely nobody would miss any of those spiders being gone I go in there to fight them. It's amazingly good battle experience."

The genin all deadpanned, "We noticed." Naruto chuckled but then turned a suspicious eye on them, "Wait a minute. What were you all doing in there? The only person besides me that ever goes in there is Anko, and she doesn't even spend time there like I do, she'll just go in far enough to train in peace or find me to spar, not deep into the back end of the place."

Gai nodded, "We had a mission to head into the Forest of Death and find the source of all of the sounds coming from the place."

Naruto laughed slightly, "Well, mission complete because you're looking at him. I make tons of Kage Bunshin and have them work on lots of different stuff. Pretty cool huh? While I handle my physical stuff they can handle things like my chakra control and ninjutsu." Neji understood what he was saying, "So you get the accumulative memories of your Kage Bunshin and while they do memory related things you go in and develop things like strength, speed, and-." He stopped and looked back into the forest, "-Battle experience."

Naruto grinned and nodded. Lee ran up to Naruto and dropped into his stance, "You have inspired me Naruto-kun! I challenge you to a friendly spar!"

Naruto sweatdropped, "Lee, it's almost midnight, I've been spending the last twelve hours fighting a life or death battle against spiders from hell, you're all exhausted from looking for me and fighting spiders by my side, and lastly… how many spiders did you kill?"

Lee looked confused until his eyes widened and he hit the ground to begin his pushups, "You have bested me this time Naruto-kun! Next time I will win our challenge and show how splendid a ninja I am! I will complete these pushups or else I will run laps around Konoha on my hands until the sun comes up! And if I cannot do that I will-."

Naruto walked off with Tenten and Neji in tow as Gai stood over Lee shouting about his youthfulness. Naruto gave Neji a chuckling smile, "And that's how you handle that. I don't see what you and Kakashi were all bent out of shape about when it comes to those two. As far as having Lee as my 'eternal rival' it's easier than not having him as my eternal rival. I can just beat him once and not deal with him until he's through with all of his self-given punishments. He won't mess with me again until he's done with them all, and by then I can disappear." Neji's eyes widened. He had never thought to realize that the times that he defeated Lee in their spars, Lee would leave him alone until three days to a week later. When he ignored Lee he would get a challenge every hour on the hour until he accepted. Naruto and Tenten laughed at the look of comtemplation on his face, "On the flipside of that, you two have to see him tomorrow and deal with him talking about how he's going to beat me next time all day long. He has to track me down if he wants to do that to me. Yep… being Lee's rival actually spares me more of the creepy sunset genjutsus then not being Lee's rival."

Tenten realized that Naruto was right, he'd only seen it twice. Once when they first met before the chunin exams, and once before they all went to get his sword; any other time when he was around them he would usually accept Lee's challenge, win or lose, and then bid everyone a swift goodbye. Compared to the people that are around when Lee and Gai have their little moments in town and not even trying to tally up all of the times that it had happened around Neji and Tenten since the team had been formed, she realized that Naruto had to have the pretty much lowest victimization rate of being subjected to the 'sunset of youth'.

Naruto grinned at the faces that both of them were making, "I can see that you both have something to say, so go ahead and say it." Before Naruto could notice, the tenketsu in his legs had been sealed off and Tenten and Neji had used his momentary incapacitation to start dragging him back to Lee and Gai.

Tenten threw him at Gai's feet, disrupting Lee's pushups, "Gai-sensei. Naruto was just telling me and Neji that he thought he needed more youth after all of the youth that he exuded during his last mission and during his training today." Neji nodded in agreement.

Naruto looked at the girl with a strange look, "Really? That was the best you've got? That was the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say about anything, ever. There's no way they're going to fall for that."

He noticed that his words didn't deter the evil grins on the faces of the 'normal' members of Team Gai who pointed behind him. Tenten waved to him, "I'll see you when my team meets up tomorrow Naruto-kun."

Before he could say anything, Gai and Lee had placed their hands on Naruto's shoulders and had hoisted him to his feet with tears pouring from their eyes, "Do not worry Naruto-kun. Lee and I always have time for a comrade in youth!" Lee nodded vigorously, "If need be, Gai-sensei and I will stay up all night with you, making sure that your fires of youth are fully replenished!"

Naruto resigned to his fate and turned back to the still smiling Neji and Tenten with a dark look, "I hope you enjoy this. Because you both know that you're getting fucked for this right?"

He never got their response as Lee and Gai had dragged him off to their usual training ground, "Naruto-kun in order to build your flames back up I want 1000 punches with each arm and 1000 kicks with each leg! After that we'll go for an invigorating run around Konoha… on our hands! 10 times!"

Naruto's cries of protest could be heard throughout the night. A few particularly familiar screams of genjutsu induced horror may have woken the majority of the village's citizens, but in the case of one bun-haired girl and one young Branch Hyuuga, it was just what they needed to lull themselves to sleep.

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