Chapter 174: CH 174
Naruto shook his head, "It's not really sentient. It's more like loaded down with so many seals it would take me months of inspection to find everything on it. It has security for my blood, nobody else can use it but me. Sorry about that."
"It was my fault Naruto-kun, and they're just flesh wounds. I'm fine." She assured him, "But I still would like to see what you can do with that thing. Hopefully you can swing it around better than you could the last time we fought with swords because I'm way better now." "We'll have to see about that won't we?" Naruto said, the two getting closer and closer with challenging grins on their faces before Lee interjected himself between them, "Lee what the hell?"
"Naruto-kun! With all of this talk of competition I need to challenge you myself!" Lee said, with Tenten sweatdropping and mouthing sorry behind him.
Naruto stared at Lee blankly for a second, "Okay Lee, A new contest. This contest will be a grueling one, are you ready for it?" Lee nodded vigorously, "Okay then, this contest will be simple. Who can go longer without challenging the other one to another contest... that is all."
"Agreed!" Lee shouted, "I will win this competition and get one step closer to matching you and proving myself as a splendid shinobi! I'm off to get some advice from Gai-sensei! Yosh!" Lee then sped off to find his similar in appearance sensei. Naruto looked at Tenten and Neji who were staring with their jaws slacked in shock. Naruto chuckled and turned to head home, "And that's how you do that. Seriously Neji, you couldn't handle that yourself back when we were kids Mr. Genius?" He walked away, leaving the other two in the woods.
Neji simply stood still until Naruto got out of his range of sight before he activated his Byakugan to stare even more, "I think I hate him. I really, really do."
"Hmm." Tenten said mostly to herself, "I wonder, if I marry him would I be able to use that sword?"
Neji turned from staring at where Naruto once was to staring at Tenten, "A-Are you serious?"
Tenten shook her head and walked off, "Of course I'm not serious." She said, getting Neji to sigh in relief before speaking under her breath out of earshot, "I mean a cool, powerful sword would only be a bonus..." XxX