Kabuto chuckled, "Try to keep me away then Naruto-kun." Kabuto rushed back in and engaged Naruto close-up once more. Naruto ducked out of the way of Kabuto's attack, choosing to slip under and around his punches rather than block, lest his muscle tendons and other internal things in his arms be cut. He also had to watch it when he threw a punch or kick of his own to make sure that Kabuto didn't cut anything by simply blocking or parrying his moves.
Naruto dodged even more of Kabuto's potentially fatal strikes, grunting in effort, "You're really annoying to fight. You're really fast, even for a medic-nin."
Kabuto's confident smirk returned, "Like I said Naruto-kun, you're all talk. You're not on my level." Kabuto overextended on one of his attacks and allowed Naruto to spring out of close-range.
Naruto immediately began tossing out kunai at Kabuto who dodged deftly and chuckled, "Simple kunai Naruto-kun? That honestly can't be your best."
Naruto rolled his eyes, "There you go again, with that superiority thing of yours... Why are bad guys such douche bags?" Naruto rolled through a series of hand-signs, "Raiton: Denkai (Lightning Release: Electric Field)!"
Kabuto sat in place as he felt and saw nothing. Naruto simply stood in place, staring at Kabuto with cold blue eyes that seemed to analyze his every movement. Kabuto simply strolled forward, "You must not have that jutsu down quite yet Naruto-kun. Don't worry, I mean you are still just a genin after all."
Naruto's eyes showed no indication that he had even acknowledged Kabuto's words. Kabuto shrugged and strolled forward, reactivating his chakra scalpels once more, until a sharp jolt of electricity thrusted him backwards, "What is this?"
"Didn't you hear me call out the jutsu?" Naruto kept his gaze on Kabuto only this time he had a smirk on his face, "You didn't really think that I was that bad at using kunai did you?"
Kabuto turned to see a small spark of electricity coming from one of the kunai. He then noticed that the weapons Naruto had thrown were strewn about in a rough circle around him, "A barrier jutsu? I really have been underestimating you."
Naruto made more hand-signs, "I'm not done yet. From here I can branch off into tons of stuff, just watch. Raiton: Denki Meihemu (Lightning Release: Electric Mayhem)!"
Kabuto heard multiple snaps of electricity going off around him before a burning jolt hit his body. As he caught his breath from the sudden zap he could actually see random pulses of lightning rushing from kunai to kunai. Another shot hit him and dropped him to the ground while he was analyzing the jutsu. Kabuto was breathing raggedly as he turned his head towards Naruto whose hands were held out at the field surrounding Kabuto.
"Do you like it? This jutsu lets me just trap and torment you in there until you blackout or just die. The more chakra I pump into it the more frequent the bursts of electricity will come. The only thing is that I can't control the lightning coursing through the field, but it still has a great chance of hitting you as you've felt." Naruto channeled more chakra into his attack, forcing the snapping sounds of electricity to sound off more frequently. Kabuto shakily rose to his feet once more but was quickly struck back down. Before he could even try to rise again he was hit one more time. Kabuto growled to himself and sunk into the ground before another bolt could hit him.
Naruto simply stood in a position to move quickly and jumped aside as Kabuto's hands emerged from the ground to grab at his legs. Naruto landed and formed three Kage Bunshin who swarmed around Kabuto, launching attacks up close. Kabuto had somehow recovered enough from being electrocuted to fend off and dispel the Bunshin without too much trouble.
Kabuto looked at Naruto who was once more giving him a cold stare, "That was a pretty effective jutsu Naruto-kun. If I couldn't dig my way out I don't know how I would have escaped it." Kabuto's hands glowed green as he ran them over his torso to heal himself, "You're quite a troublesome opponent."
Naruto tapped his foot impatiently while Kabuto healed, "Well while you're doing that..." Naruto made more hand-signs and thrusted his fists out at Kabuto, "Fuuton: Fuujin Seiken: (Wind Release: Divine Fist of the Wind God)!"
A visible ripple of air flew at Kabuto and hit him like a high-speed cart, sending him flying back, rolling head over heels bonelessly until he came to a stop. Naruto smirked as he saw Kabuto cease his backwards movement, "You still alive over there?"
Kabuto stood up once more with blood trailing down his chin, "That was a solid hit there Naruto-kun. I was right, you are a troublesome opponent." Naruto scoffed at Kabuto's pseudo-praise, "Oh really? I thought I was just a genin that was out of his element. If all it took to get your praise was an ass-kicking then when I go back to Konoha I guess I'll have to start dealing them out en masse."
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Shizune had cleaned the blood from Tsunade's face quickly but found that she was still lacking response. She had taken to watching Naruto fight Kabuto seeing as how Jiraiya and Orochimaru were too far away to find and that she didn't know whether or not Naruto would require her back-up. Much to her surprise and delight however, Naruto was capable of handling Kabuto handily. Were it not for the fact that Kabuto was a medic-ninja she was sure that the accumulated damage of Naruto's attacks would have beaten him.
Tsunade's eyes had been affixed straight ahead ever since Kabuto had splattered her with blood, so she actually had been watching Naruto fight Kabuto the entire time. Watching him fight off the silver haired medic she realized that she had been extremely wrong in her first impressions of him. He shot his mouth off when they first met not because he was too confident in his own abilities, but because he found her pathetic, he truly did. Someone with such a famous name, such a famous lineage, and such talent and legend known around the Elemental Nations was so bitter and disenfranchised. So much so that she let her skills fade enough for someone like himself to get the better of her, that shouldn't have happened, no matter how dangerous he was.
When she had seen him train for the entire week she had been amazed. His attempt to use a range of high-level techniques was something she had never seen from a boy so young. After he was done with one he would move right on to the next one. If he couldn't get one to work he would attempt it until he could force it or until he dropped out of exhaustion. The spark she could see in his blue eyes while he trained was the antithesis of what could be found in them in battle.