Chapter 93: CH 93
Choji paused in his eating for a minute before shrugging off that mental image and continuing to chow down. Ino continued her description of Naruto's memories, "That was just the first one, and I couldn't turn it off. I was in his body while this strange silent man in a mask just beat him while he was tied to a chair, he never spoke, he just kept hitting him and hitting him for hours until all I could see through his view was blood. All of the memories I saw were just like that, I finally had enough and cancelled the jutsu."
Shikamaru just stared at the girl, "Wow, that's kind of hardcore. You felt everything happen as if you were there? That means that it wasn't a trick or anything, you really were in Naruto's memories doesn't it?"
Ino shook her head, "Naruto couldn't have been any older than seven or eight years old when any of the things I saw happened. If it wasn't a trick then I sure as hell can't believe that those things were his actual memories. Those were things that dad told me the Anbu did on a regular basis. There's no conceivable way that while we were preparing for the academy, Naruto was taking on Anbu level missions. That just doesn't make sense." Shikamaru stayed silent and pondered Ino's words, 'The things that Naruto did when he fought everyone, those techniques, that fighting style, the way he carried himself. All of those things didn't just come out of nowhere...'
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(Forest of Death)
With game faces on, Team Gai headed into the restricted area of the Forest of Death where the level of peril went up. The forest grew darker, and it wasn't just because the sun was setting, the canopy was beginning to completely block out the sunlight above. Faint sounds of inhuman screeching rang out in the distance and was growing ever closer. The tense waiting was broken when the blonde that they were looking for flew past them into a tree, followed by the biggest spider that any of the genin had ever seen before, it was easily the size of a full-grown adult male and had launched itself at Naruto, fangs dripping venom.
Naruto pulled up his ninjato and drove it right through the spider's face, sending the blood of the arachnid spraying all over the place. Swinging his blade upwards with a burst of wind chakra to bolster it he cut straight through the deadly creature.
Spitting on the corpse of the spider he turned to Team Gai, "Oh sweet Kami, what are you all doing here? Do you know where you are?"
Lee ran up to Naruto, "We've come to protect you Naruto-kun! We'll get you out of here in one piece, it's a promise!" Gai walked up to the two, "It's as Lee said, we've come to get you out of here before the sun goes down. Come on Naruto-kun, let's escape."
Naruto looked at Neji and Tenten who were both serious, but otherwise fully calm. He shook his head, "Gai-sensei is this the first time that you've ever come this far inside of the Forest of Death?" Gai nodded and Naruto sighed, "You guys have no idea what you're getting into. Neji activate your Byakugan and tell me what you see."
Neji did as instructed and gasped as he shakily spoke up, "I see at least a dozen of the spiders that Naruto just fought surrounding the area, watching us."