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In the afternoon, at the Peak of Mount Taka;
Naruto sped through the snow-covered surroundings as the outpost came into view. Beside him, Anko tried to keep up, but her shivering body made it difficult. She already had layers of light clothing on, but the cold was too much for her.
She looked at Naruto ahead of her, envy practically spilling out of her eyes. A bit earlier, as she took out the extra clothes to wear to keep herself warm, she even had a coat on, while Naruto still wore the same clothing he had on from the foot of the mountain. He didn't look cold, didn't even shiver, and when she asked about his secret, he said that he was never bothered by the cold.
Anko is sure that Naruto isn't fully truthful with her, and she wants to call him out on it, but she has no proof and doesn't want to embarrass herself.
As Naruto reached the outpost, he couldn't help but mentally smirk at the look and emotions he received from Anko. Being the Jinchuuriki of Kurumi seemed to have the advantage of being warm no matter how cold the weather gets. Kurumi told him it is thanks to her almost infinite amount of chakra and her strong affinity to fire.
That is not all; Naruto also used fuinjutsu to create a temperature regulator in the inner layer of his clothes. This helps him stay cool in the hottest deserts in the Wind Country or warm in the coldest regions. All he has to do in those places is maintain a steady supply of very small amounts of chakra to the seals inside his clothes.
He isn't sure why nobody has made a seal like that yet. But he is sure Shinobi would fight each other to get a similar seal from him.
He could easily make the seal for Anko, but that would mean she needs to take off all her clothes so that she could wear the clothes with the applied seal underneath. That would be troublesome because of their current freezing location.
And there is also a slight amusement that Naruto gets from seeing Anko suffer, and he doesn't know where that feeling is coming from. He had told her before the start of the second phase to wear something warm, but she brushed him off and wore her usual light and skin-revealing clothing.
'I said it before, Kit. You have some sadistic tendencies.' Kurumi said from his mindscape with amusement in her tone. Naruto chuckled mentally but didn't answer.
"Let's get in and get the scroll quickly so we can return." Naruto said as he pushed the door of the outpost open. Anko just followed him, nodding her head repeatedly in agreement, while trying to keep herself warm.
A couple of hours later;
"This is so much better." Anko said with no small amount of relief in her voice as she took the extra clothes off her. The weather around them has a slight chill to it, but not as near as the freezing cold at the peak of the mountain.
Naruto and Anko are now a quarter of the way down the mountain. They got the required scroll from the slightly surprised Kumo Chunin at the outpost and quickly started their journey back down the mountain. The group of Chunin at the outpost were surprised because they didn't think any team would reach the peak until the end of the second day due to the unforgiving nature of the mountain.
"You should take my advice seriously next time." Naruto said with a smirk as he kept moving with Anko right beside him
"Ok, I get it, Mr. I know it all. Give me a break." Anko huffed with irritation.
"Our journey down the mountain should be easier than the journey up. If nothing unexpected happens, we should reach the foot of the mountain by nightfall." Naruto said
"Yesssss. That means I can have my sweet Dango." Anko celebrated with a tone full of yearning and anticipation.
"Just make sure not to eat too much." Naruto said
"Sheesh. What are you? My dad." Anko complained
"No. I am the team's medic. You should always listen to your doctor. And if I were your dad, I would have spanked you for eating too much sugar." Naruto said with a teasing smirk.
"Watch it, pretty boy." Anko warned with a light blush of embarrassment on her face, making Naruto laugh.
Naruto suddenly cut his laughter and focused on the way ahead with narrowed eyes.
"What is it?" Anko asked, seeing Naruto's rapid change in behaviour.
"There are three chakra signatures ahead and approaching fast. Stay focused." Naruto said in a serious tone, alerting Anko.
A few moments later, Naruto and Anko clashed with the incoming team. After a quick exchange of Taijutsu and Kunai, the two teams separated, making a bit of distance between each other on the ground.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Konoha's team." Said a genin on the other team in a mocking tone
"Aren't you the fools that followed the clones?" Naruto said with a mocking smirk that infuriated the Kumo genin team.
They appeared to be a bit old genin team between 17 and 18 years of age. All of them are carrying a standard-issue Kumo katana.
"You just got lucky that we weren't paying attention. You won't slip from our grasp again." Said the tan-skinned genin with an aggressive tone as he unsheathed his katana.
"You seem to be coming from the peak. I am sure you have the scroll. How about you hand it over?" Said the dark skinned genin with dark hair slicked to the back. He said that with a look and a smirk full of malice and greed, as he also unsheathed his katana
"Yeah. You do that, and we will let you go." Said the last genin sarcastically as he took out his katana. Like the previous genin, he is dark skinned but has short blond hair.
"Why don't you come take it yourself?" Anko said with a provocative smile.
"Then we will take it from your cold, dead bodies." Said the tan-skinned genin, and he rushed Anko with his sword raised.
The other two genin also joined the fight and rushed to Naruto.
The two genin took turns fighting Naruto for some time, and then pushed Naruto together to wear him out quicker.
This continued for a while as Naruto weaved, dodged, and sometimes blocked the incoming slashes with a Kunai. But the constant and persistent attacks tired and wore him out. Much to the delight of his two opponents.
Naruto faltered for a second, which his opponents took advantage of.
"You should have given us the scroll. Now, you will die regretting your decision." The dark-haired genin said with a vicious smirk, which was mirrored by his blond teammate.
Each of the two rushed to Naruto's side and sank their swords into his body with victorious smiles as their swords crossed paths inside Naruto's body.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING?" came a shout filled with shock and horror coming from their teammate.
The shout was heard by the two victorious genin as a feeling of unbearable pain shot through their bodies.
"What?" The blond one exclaimed in pain before spitting out a mouthful of blood, which was mirrored by his teammate.
The body of the stabbed Naruto between them seemed to disappear like a mirage, with Naruto appearing nearby. He is completely fine with no signs of sweat, blood, or fatigue on him.
The two genin looked at Naruto with complete confusion before looking at each other. Their eyes widened with shock, horror, and despair as they found their own Katanas were driven into each other's chests by their own hands.
"W..why?" The dark-haired genin choked out, looking at his teammate with confusion and betrayal, as he spat out more blood with the wound in his chest bleeding heavily.
"H..how?" the blond one wheezed out, looking at Naruto, with his blood seeping out of his mouth and chest wound. He was desperate to find an explanation for their current situation.
The question was left unanswered as the two genin breathed out their last breaths. Their knees fell to the ground as their bodies leaned against each other, with their arms falling to their sides. Their faces fell on each other's shoulders before sliding off along with their bodies and falling on the ground.
The surroundings were still and silent as the two lay dead on the ground, their faces filled with disbelief, confusion, horror, and despair.
"What the hell did you do?" The silence was broken by the question from the last surviving Kumo genin.
He looked at Naruto with no small amount of fear and confusion as he took half a step back.
He was trading blows with the purple-haired Konoha genin when, out of nowhere, he witnessed his teammates stab each other with a smile on their faces and then die in confusion.
He retreated to a distance away from the Konoha kunoichi, trying to make sense of what the hell just happened.
He knew one thing for sure: The red-haired genin was the cause. But what terrified him was that he had no idea how it was done.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Naruto said as he walked towards the last genin.
The fear and confusion that the Kumo genin was feeling right now made him do one thing.
He turned around and took off running.
Naruto was about to follow him, but was stopped by Anko.
"Hey, he is mine. You already had your fun. Even though I don't know how you did it." Anko said with a bit of wonder in her voice.
She then bit her thumb, drawing out blood, and then weaved some hand seals.
'Kuchiyose no Jutsu (summoning jutsu)'
There was a large puff of smoke, and a huge brown snake came out of it. The snake is at least 15 meters long and 1.5 meters wide.
"Is this necessary?" Naruto asked with a blank tone as Anko stood over the snake's head
"I am having my fun. Nothing beats a thrilling chase." Anko said with an excited smile as the snake started speeding down the mountain after the fleeing genin.
"Come back, Kumo genin. Mr snake just joined. He wants to play," Anko shouted with an excited childish voice as she disappeared out of view, making Naruto sweat drop.
Naruto shook his head as he followed after Anko. Under his lenses, the Sharingan deactivated, and his eyes returned to normal.
'Demonic illusion, false visuals' is the genjutsu he used against the two Kumo genin with the help of his hidden Sharingan. It is an illusion that affects what the victim sees, making them see what the caster wants.
Even though it is a fairly simple genjutsu, detecting it is very difficult even for veteran and experienced shinobi. Especially if the caster visualizes what the victim wants to see.
It was Naruto's first successful implementation of Genjutsu in battle. Previously, he had attempted to use Genjutsu against his father, mother, and older sister, Kushina, during spars; however, it did not work at all, even with his Sharingan fully displayed (against his father and mother, Kushina was unaware of his eyes).
Genjutsu didn't work against his mother and Kushina in particular. Tsunade, due to her exceptional control over her chakra, can detect any foreign chakra entering her chakra network. As for Kushina, being the former Jinchūriki of Kurumi gives her a high resistance to genjutsu.
As Naruto reached where Anko is, the scene that met him left him speechless as he stood on a tree branch.
On the ground, Naruto saw a pair of human legs disappear into the large snake's mouth before it closed its mouth.
"Really, Anko?" Naruto asked with his right hand massaging the bridge of his nose as he felt a headache coming.
"What? I am giving my snake a well-deserved treat." Anko said as if what she was doing was fine. She stood beside the snake while scratching underneath its chin.
Naruto was left speechless as he heard the snake let out what he assumed was a satisfied hiss from Anko's scratches.
Naruto's eyes fell on the bulge that moved deeper into the snake before the snake disappeared in a large puff of smoke.
"You know that you just feed your summon one of your kind, right?" Naruto said, trying to get his head around what just happened
"And what about it? I was going to kill him anyway. Feeding him to my summon was just being resourceful." Said Anko, not seeing the problem, making Naruto sigh as he gave up.
He just turned to the way down the mountain before starting to move among the trees again, with Anko getting up from the ground and moving right beside him.
'Something is wrong with her head. Definitely something she picked up from her former mentor.' Naruto thought to himself
'Agreed.' Came an agreement from Kurumi.
In her long life, she has never witnessed a human feeding their pet or summoning another human being.
In the end, there is a first time for everything.
End the Chapter.
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