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The Canalized River	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 944 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Lexjamandme:
Thanks for your thoughtful reviews! Indeed, writing Team Hebi was one
of my greatest pleasure with this story. Naruto was more difficult. I
tried to make him figure out step by step that something is wrong,
until he confronts Kakashi.

Thanks
for your compliments concerning Kakashi! I like him very much, and in
this situation I seem him as a teacher in conflict.

Chapter
Ten: Single-Handed Rasengan

Naruto
had given in and agreed to go to the Rain Country. What else could he
have done?

He
tried to shut away all thoughts of bitterness, he tried not to think
of his dream to find Sasuke, he tried to be his usual self, cheerful
and extrovert, and not to let anyone know how he felt disappointed
and betrayed.

I
was not betrayed, he told himself. They mean well. They have good
reasons for abandoning the search for Sasuke and instead going to
help Jiraya.

If
not the mere thought of giving up Sasuke would make his heart hurt
and make him feel all dark and empty inside.

It
was as if he was divided into two parts: One that talked to the
others and smiled and gave Hinata a hand when she was falling behind,
and another one that thought of Sasuke and tried to cope with the
fact that he had been lied to. And maybe there was even a third part,
watching the other two. It was just as with the Rasengan or the Futon
Shuriken which he created with the help of his kagebunshin, one
emitting the chakra, one doing the form manipulation, one doing the
chakra nature manipulation, only that this time he did not need to
create any actual bunshins.

Maybe
he would be able to learn to do his jutsu without kagebunshin as
well... now, that was a hopeful thought at last – only that he
had been forbidden to use his jutsu at all.

At
least his strategy of dividing into three parts seemed to work: None
of his teammates noticed any change. And he was lucky as well: Most
of the time they were travelling, and he did not have to talk much.

Only
once he missed a branch and fell.

„Are
you hurt?“ Sakura asked, dropping down beside him immediately.

„Not
much“, he answered. „Just some scratches.“

He
could already feel the kyuubi's chakra healing them, but he was
reluctant to tell her about it. He felt insecure about what people
might think if they heard that he was still using the demon fox's
power.

Something
else worried him far more than his fall from a few metres' height:
Again he had seen the raven with the Sharingan. In fact it had been
the raven, and not simple lack of concentration that had caused him
to miss a branch.

It
has found me, he realized.

„Everything
okay?“ Sakura asked helping him to get up. „I mean, it's
not normal for you to fall down when we are travelling like this.“

„Yeah,
don't you see, I'm strong and healthy as ever!“

He
smiled, but the smile was not reflected on her face. He could see her
concern.

„Why,
I dropped my concentration for one moment, that's all!“ he
said.

She
did not seem satisfied with this explanation, but she did not ask any
more questions.

Nothing
more happened during the day, but in the evening he saw the raven
again. This time he pointed it out to Sakura who was sitting next to
him.

„What's
the matter? It's a crow, so what? There are a lot of crows in this
area.“

„It's
too big for a crow! And look at its strong beak: It's a raven.“

„It
cannot be! We don't have any ravens here.“

„That's
what I mean.“

Sakura
did not seem to understand.

„It's
not a normal raven. It's got a Sharingan eye.“

Though
of course at that very moment it was not activated.

„I
don't see anything.“

„Not
now... but sometimes.“

„You
mean – Sasuke?“

„No
– Itachi.“

Again
her eyes said clearly that she did not understand.

„When
he caught me in his genjutsu – he did so twice, you know, once
when you and Chiyo had to rescue me, the other time was...“ He
could not tell, because it had happened when his kagebunshin had
spread out, looking for Sasuke and meeting Itachi. He did not want
Sakura to tell him that his senseis had been right and that it had
been too dangerous indeed.

„Never
mind. There have been ravens around when I got caught. They were the
creepiest thing of the whole genjutsu, attacking me from above. They
seem to belong to him. I wonder whether he can change his form.“

„Don't
be ridiculous! Ninjas cannot do that! There's never been a ninjutsu
like this!“

„I
can change my form. I can become the demon fox.“

„That's
not changing form. That's letting the kyuubi take over and allowing
him to transform you. Changing form would mean that you remain in
control. - It might be a ninja-raven, or a summon of his“, she
continued their original subject.

„Maybe.
But how would it get the Sharingan?“

„I
am still not convinced that it has it at all“, Sakura replied.
„It might still be a normal raven, or a crow.“

Naruto
resolved to remain on the lookout, but not talk about it any more.
Sakura joined the general conversation, while he kept silent,
following his own trail of thought. Later he withdrew physically as
well to attempt whether his idea about creating his jutsu without
kagebunshin would work. After some time Sakura came looking for him.

„Naruto!
What are you doing? Why are you alone! You know it's dangerous!“

„I
have been training! I wanted to try something!“

„Training?
What are you training? Why can't you train in the camp?“

He
showed her how he did the Rasengan with a single hand.

„That's
all? I have seen it a lot of times.“

„I
can do it without kagebunshin now. I can concentrate now on two
things at once.“

„Oh,
you finally got it. Sorry, I mean - „ she tried to smile. „I
mean, for you it's really a great achievement. You have really got
much better since the time when you were dead last.“

Yeah,
he remembered. Concentration and chakra-control had always come
easily to her.

„Come
back now“, she said. „You know now how to form the
Rasengan in one hand, so there's no need to stay here any longer. Or
did you want to try that other Jutsu of yours? You know that it's too
dangerous.“

Naruto
had not planned to attempt it, but Sakura's admonitions made him
angry.

„Don't
keep telling me! I can decide for myself!“

„You
cannot! You don't know what's happening to your body! Do you want to
lose your ability to gather chakra in your hands? Come back now, or I
will tell our senseis!“

He
lowered his head and followed her: The threat had worked. After some
time she turned her head and smiled.

„I
know you don't like it, taking care and everything. But you must
understand me: I don't want to lose you as well.“

She
reached out to touch his arm comfortingly. A week ago this display of
tenderness and concern would have made him happy beyond words and let
him stay awake all night. Now his heart remained cold, and he wished
that she had not touched him at all.
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