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The next morning, in a training ground near the Uchiha compound:
Shwing x10
Whoosh x10
Clang x10
Sounds of metal hitting metal, along with the unique sound of something or someone moving very fast, hit Miyako's ears as she neared the training ground where Shisui would be.
Her younger brother had left their home early in the morning, before the sun was up, to come here, while she stayed home. And now, a couple of hours later, here she is, accepting Shisui's invite from yesterday.
As she cleared through the trees and into the training grounds, she saw Itachi sitting beneath the shade of a tree near the edge of the training ground, single tomoe sharingan active, trying to keep his eyes locked on the two figures that blurred through and across the training ground, but Miyako knew he couldn't.
The exchange, while only done with Taijutsu and bukijutsu, was done at high jonin speed through high-speed movement and body flickers.
While she could see who it was, she needed the assistance of her Sharingan to see the details of the exchange.
The exchange seemed to go on for a few more seconds after she appeared at the edge of the training ground before it seemed to pause with Shisui appearing near her and Naruto standing near Itachi.
"Nee-san. You actually came." Shisui said with happiness and surprise in his voice.
"I had nothing better to do," Miyako said in a blank tone as she looked between Shisui and Naruto, noting that Shisui was a bit more roughed up than Naruto, who seemed to be in nearly perfect condition aside from the few nicks and rough patches on what he was wearing.
"Well, at least you came," Shisui replied with a chuckle
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Nearby:
Naruto stood near Itachi as both watched Shisui talk with his elder sister. Both were quite surprised by her coming here, although neither minded.
Naruto meeting Shisui and Itachi for training and sparing wasn't something new. It just started early today, more than usual, when Naruto met them in the training ground after bidding goodbye and safe travels to his mother and Shizune at the village gates.
"Naruto, Itachi," Shisui called as he and Miyako approached
"Miyako will be joining us for the sparring today. I hope you don't mind." Shisui said with an apologetic smile. He had invited Miyako to join them yesterday without giving Naruto or Shisui a heads-up.
"It's no problem," Naruto replied simply
"Glad you get to join us, Miyako-san," Itachi said, to which Miyako gave a small nod to the Uchiha heir.
"Great. How about you spar with her first, Itachi?" Shisui said with a smile on his face, which increased slightly when Itachi nodded.
This was expected, as Naruto, Shisui, and Itachi are usually the ones training together. And since Miyako just joined them, she would spar with the two she hadn't trained or sparred with before.
Starting with Itachi.
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About half an hour later:
"You are quite the genin, Itachi. I am certain that becoming a chunin would be an easy task for you." Miyako complimented, looking at the Uchiha heir who was sitting on the ground while taking in heavy breaths.
"Thank you," Itachi said between breaths as Shisui and Naruto approached them.
"As expected of you, Itachi," Shisui said with a smile as he ruffled the hair of the sitting boy.
Itachi really did well in taijutsu, bukijutsu, ninjutsu, speed, situational awareness, and tactics, to the point where no genin or even most chunin could be his opponent.
But at the end, he was sparring against a jonin Uchiha kunoichi who didn't underestimate him or look down on him from the very beginning.
While he performed impeccably, Itachi's opponent was just too much for his current level.
But the spar against such an opponent gave him a lot of useful experience, like that he gained from sparring against Naruto or Shisui.
"You want to rest before the next spar?" Shisui asked, looking at Miyako, who shook her head.
"No, I am fine," Miayko said
While the spar against Itachi was intense, it was a spar at the end, not a fight to the death. To someone of Miyako's level, it was a good warm-up for her body, with her chakra capacity near full, as she barely needed to use any chakra.
Hearing Miyako's reply, Naruto walked to the other side of the training ground and faced Miyako.
Seeing this, Shisui and Itachi walked to the edge of the training ground before sitting down in the shade of a tree and watching as the other two eyed each other.
The two sides wore similar types of clothing, with Shisui wearing something similar. They wore dark clothing, either dark blue, dark gray, or, in Naruto's case, black. The clothing you usually see under a Jonin's flak jacket. The difference was that Miyako had a tanto on her back, similar to Shisui, while Naruto carried his katana on his back.
"Rules?" Miyako said with an even voice as she took out multiple shuriken from one of her pouches.
"No aiming to maim or kill. Also, keep it to a minimum; there's no need to destroy the training ground." Naruto said, making Miyako raise an eyebrow.
"Ninjutsu?" Miyako asked
"Keep it up to C-rank Ninjutsu. No need to let the whole village know that we are sparring." Naruto said, to which Miyako gave a single nod.
The two stayed in their places, eyeing each other, waiting to see who would make the first move.
Screech
The sound of a hawk high up in the sky was all they needed as Miyako threw three shuriken with a single hand swing towards Naruto.
In the blink of an eye, the shuriken were upon Naruto's position.
Clang
Naruto side-stepped to dodge two of the incoming shuriken while stopping the third with a kunai that he took out before throwing the same kunai at Miyako.
Clang
Miyako intercepted the thrown kunai with one of her own before taking out another one and rushing towards Naruto, who did the same.
Claaang
The sharp sound of metal was heard in the clearing as small sparks flew between Naruto and Miyako where their kunai clashed.
Both jumped back a small distance, ending the clash before rushing back at each other.
Thud x50
clang x10
A fast and heavy exchange of Taijutsu and armed combat was going on between the two.
Kicks were met with knee blocks
Knee strikes were met with palm blocks
Kunai strikes were blocked
punches were redirected
balance disturbed and regained
It was a deadly yet controlled dance of flesh and metal.
Seeing that they were at a standstill, Naruto threw the kunai he was holding at Miyako, which she blocked, before increasing the speed and intensity of his strikes, incorporating Senju and Hummingbird Taijutsu styles.
That seemed to do the trick, as he was able to overwhelm Miyako for a moment, going through her defense and delivering multiple strikes to her face, neck, and chest, ending with a heavy palm strike to her abdomen that was strong enough to make her slide backwards a few feet.
Miyako blinked multiple times to recover from the sudden backstep that happened to her.
Naruto's attack speed increase meant he wasn't giving his all from the beginning. His strikes, which would have incapacitated her or been lethal if he had put his full strength into them.
At the edge of the training ground, Itachi looked a bit lost as everything was like a blur to him before Miyako was pushed back. Shisui, on the other hand, expected this to happen. He was on the receiving end of Naruto's absurdly fast strikes before and had struggled against them, pushing him to use his Sharingan when going CQC with Naruto.
Back in the spar, Miyako looked at Naruto only to see him in a taijutsu stance with the back of his right hand facing her, doing a 'come on' gesture.
Miyako didn't feel insulted; as a matter of fact, she had a small grin on her face as her three-tomoe Sharingan appeared before she rushed Naruto once more.
As they clashed once more, the intensity and speed of the clash increased to an absurd degree, maintaining the speed of a high jonin, with some strikes slightly exceeding that.
The exchange even intensified when both sides pulled out their blades and added Kenjutsu to the already deadly mix of Taijutsu and Bukijutsu.
After a heavy clash between the two, Miyako jumped back, giving herself a bit of distance, while her hand blurred through hand seals before taking in a deep breath.
Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu)
Miyako breathed out a stream of red, orange, and yellow fire that formed a massive orb of roaring flames, four to five meters in diameter, that rushed towards Naruto while scorching the ground it traveled above.
Naruto looked at the approaching sphere of roaring flame, which looked like a miniature sun, with a blank look while taking out a paper tag the size of a paper bomb before throwing it a couple of feet in front of him, a safe distance away from him, in the way of the fast-approaching fireball.
As the fireball approached the tag, Naruto formed a ram hand seal and released chakra, activating the paper tag as the fireball was about to pass over it.
Fuinutsu: Fūka Hōin (Sealing arts: Fire Sealing Method)
The tag lit up before, and an invisible siphoning effect started to affect the giant fireball, drawing the entire thing inside the paper tag, swallowing the entire fire jutsu in a couple of moments.
The training ground was now silent, with the sound of fire absent. The Uchihas present looked with shock at the small piece of paper that Naruto now picked up.
The Uchiha prided themselves on their mastery of Fire Release, so to see one of the prized jutsu swallowed by a piece of paper was startling.
Miyako looked with shock at the piece of paper in Naruto's hand. She has seen the entire thing. Since her Sharingan was still active, three tomoe spinning in each eye, she had seen the chakra coming out of the sealing tag and siphoning her fire jutsu into it.
Don't get her wrong; she knows what Fuinjutsu is, but she hasn't seen it being implemented in a battle or spar before. The Uchiha are known for many things, but Fuinjutsu isn't one of them. She had seen and used storage scrolls, paper bombs, and flash tags before, but nothing like this.
Her thoughts were interrupted when Naruto rushed her again, and they re-engaged in a kenjutsu clash.
But Miyako once again disengaged and started to use body flicker in quick succession to the point where she was forming afterimages all around Naruto that stabilized into five speed-formed mirages that closed onto Naruto's position.
A method of using the body flicker that she learned after her brother used it against her in a spar, and the main reason he was dubbed the name Shisui of the body flicker.
"You are fast," Naruto said with genuine appreciation as he eyed the five mirages approaching him.
This method of using the body flicker is so effective that most jonin are helpless against it.
"But that isn't enough," Naruto said before he moved suddenly and blurred towards the mirage on his left side.
Claaaaang.
Miyako's tanto and Naruto's katana met with a loud, sharp sound as Miyako's technique was disturbed by Naruto's sudden attack, making her mirages disappear.
"How?" Miyako mutters with surprise as her Sharingan bores into Naruto, trying to figure him out.
"Figure it out," Naruto said with a small smile.
"Shisui had tried this with me before, but it also didn't work," Naruto said with a slight chuckle while Miyako gave a glance to the side of the training ground, only to see Shisui scratching the back of his head while laughing.
When she first learned about Naruto from Shisui, he talked about Naruto as a person and a friend, but not about how he is as a shinobi.
But she did read his entry in the bingo book, as it isn't every day Konoha gets an S-ranked shinobi.
"You sensed me," Miyako said, looking back at Naruto, whose smile widened slightly.
"You might deceive my eyes with your very fast movement and position swaps. But in the end, they are mirages with only you having a chakra signature." Naruto said before he and Miyako disengaged, jumping away from each other.
She kept her eyes locked on him with her three tomoe spinning slowly in each eye. It has been doing that for the better part of half the spar, with her Sharingan glowing slightly every now and then.
It was a known fact in the ninja world that you don't fight a Uchiha alone, especially those with fully mature Sharingans. Another rule was not to look them in the eyes.
Those established facts didn't seem to apply to Naruto, as she has been trying to put him in genjutsu for as long as her Sharingan has been active without success. She figures it's because he is a Jinchuriki or another reason, but that doesn't mean she can't try.
Her hand tightened around her tanto as she saw Naruto form a single tiger hand seal.
She readied herself for a jutsu, only for her world to go dark.
Genjutsu: Kokuangyo no Jutsu (Illusion Technique: Bringer-of-Darkness Technique)
She blinked multiple times, but nothing changed. Her hands subconsciously formed a ram hand seal.
'Kai'
She knew for sure that this was a genjutsu. But the blindness didn't disappear even with the burst of chakra she let out.
Panic started to get to her heart as she reached for her other senses for assistance, but it was too late as she felt something behind her and something cold and sharp on her throat.
"Yield?" Miyako heard Naruto's voice as her vision returned.
She blinked before glancing down, only to see Naruto's katana gleaming in the sun with its dull side on her throat.
"I yield," Miyako said with a sigh, her Sharingan deactivating.
"I am sorry to have ended this so quickly, but I have something to attend to," Naruto said as she turned to look at him while he sheathed his katana.
"Even though these eyes are amazing, you shouldn't depend solely on them," Naruto said with a small smile.
Miyako blinked at the compliment and the advice. Her Sharingan isn't active, so one would think he was complimenting her eyes. But looking at him, she knew it wasn't his intention or on his mind, though his wording was nice, and she appreciated it.
"I will consider that," Miyako replied
"We should spar again if you like. I have no problem if you join us again." Naruto said as Shsui and Itachi approached.
"Then don't mind if I do," Miyako replied with a small smile forming on her face.
To be continued.
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Outtake:
Naruto's hand formed a single tiger hand seal while looking directly at Miyako with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"Ryōiki Tenkai (Domain Expansion)," Naruto muttered with a chilling voice and a wide, malicious grin.
A black barrier formed in the middle of the training ground. Separating Naruto and Miyako from the outside world.
"Mugen Mizushi (Infinite Shrine)" The name and the tone send chills down the spines of those wh...
The rational part of the author's brain: "Oyyy, oyyy, oyyy. Stop that. Wrong technique, power source, timeline, and universe. Why did you make Naruto seem unhinged? And... did you mix two domains? It sounded cool, but you aren't touching the keyboard again."
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My imagination went wild for a moment. XD
Just did it for fun.
Sorry if I gave any of you a scare.
Outtake End
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