Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto series, and I'm never going to imply that I do. But I do enjoy writing a few stories now and then based on the series to try to impress old men I sleep with. And partly because I'm waiting for the next episodes to come out, lol. Every chapter having Nichiren as main character is written by Outbreak.
And, umm...:
... Actually I don't have to explain, there's a certain someone I'm thinking of, one that moved from town... If you are reading this, then surely you'll figure. Just read on. (doubt you'll find the time but if you do, maybe you'll like it this time...)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Lore from the past...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Konoha

The Earth was shaken to it's core when the incidents regarding Akatsuki and the various tailed Chakra-demons laid siege upon the world. It was then the legendary Hokage Uzumaki Naruto, a titan amongst shinobi's put an end to everything that was evil.

Akatsuki was destroyed, the Chakra demons were banished away for eternity, peace and hope returned to everyone`s hearts again. Uzumaki Naruto had brought peace and justice to a war-infested world so it could be rebuilt in the memory of those who gave their life for what everybody wanted; a chance to live their life in peace and prosperity.

The world

Now, 400 years later: peace and prosperity is at it's peak. But that doesn't mean the hidden villages doesn't need ninjas. Ninjas have been used for countless generations and such a tradition were to be carried on.

Not much has happened in these 400 years when it comes to traditions and technology. shinobi are as they have always been; a tool of both war and peace. Thus, the Chuunin exam is coming up.

Rohniki & Nichiren

- Chapter 1; Rohniki's Chuunin exams pt.1 -

What always needs to be foretold

Meet Rohniki Katsuro, a leaf genin level ninja! While walking in his father's footsteps, he too wanted to become Hokage and avenge his loss. He grew up alone, but not without friends. His mental image of his father and mother never seemed to wither, despite the years gone by.

Because of losing his father he was once consumed by hatred, striving to become strong and fight evil without mercy and eventually track down the ones responsible. But, even if he had a darker past than most children he eventually discovered peace, sparks realization that too much time passed for him to investigate his father's death.

His goals changed to simply improve his abilities to protect the weak, and to conquer a beautiful woman's heart, a certain someone in his class that had yet to be able to talk to him, aside from looking while hiding in the shades.

Rohniki was a pretty cool fellow. Rohniki had long shoulder length brown hair, was naturally strong muscle-wise and at medium height and weight, having plenty of stamina. Smart, too, like his father. He had his own careless kinda style: no one could argue with black themes and funny t-shirts. He was on the top of his class with his grades.

Aisu...
Aisu; he would be Rohniki's opponent in the exam. During the academy he was a burden to everyone, he was especially known of bullying a little kid from the neighborhood, living across the street. He seemed to dislike Rohniki a lot too, maybe because of his golden heart? He bullied, stole money, stole from stores and the kid, cursed and yelled at adults for nothing, always causing trouble wherever he went.

Rohniki and Aisu both nailed the first two parts of the Chuunin Exam. The real fighting remained, which everyone were eager to witness at the stadium!

Rohniki's golden heart allowed him to respect every fellow citizen, but when it came to Aisu's horrible behavior Rohniki never let him drag him down. No, he could go fuck himself. Rohniki had been training his ass off for this moment.

- stadium, present time -

Aisu felt confident in his own abilities (as usual if I may add). After all, he had many strong abilities in his arsenal, and he was itching to reveal them.

Rohniki was studying his opponent, it looked like Aisu was impatient judging by his facial expression.

Rohniki was prepared, he had to win. He couldn't let this arrogant rival of his to win. The audience went wild when Rohniki and Aisu first entered the stadium, but now as they waited there were utter silence. Everyone was so excited to watch this clash of two small titans.

Even the Hokage was shaking anxiously, staring wild at the two young warriors. He clutched his chair as if anger lit fire in his eyes. People in the crowds talked to one another, making bets on who's going to win.

A girl sitting in the second row looked sad staring at Rohniki. She was praying for him not to take too much injury from his fight.

And by that the examiner was done explaining the rules, and he immediately declared the fight as... Begun!

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Aisu started as predicted by everyone: he threw two spinning shuriken.
Rohniki replied with complete honesty: ... That's just weak!

Rohniki, much to Aisu's surprise, just smacked away the first shuriken with his bare hand, as if he wasn't impressed at all, followed by quickly dropping to a crouching position to dodge the second one.

Rohniki's hand immediately started to bleed of the encounter with the sharp edged shuriken, but he was purposely cut: because after he dodged the second shuriken Rohniki slammed his bleeding hand to the ground, stating;

- Kuchiose no jutsu -

From inside a poof of smoke, a bird came speeding out towards a certain someone.

The Hokage: What? Summoning at such a young age?

Aisu Kinetsuwo pulled an invisible wire that he had previously attached to one of those shuriken before sending them off, causing it to hastily return, chasing the bird from behind.

The shuriken he withdrew sliced open a long line of streaming blood at the bird's left wing, altering it's direction to miss Aisu by inches as it fell.

The bird automatically disappeared using a reverse summoning, thus leaving behind a relatively big cloud of Chakra smoke.

Then suddenly, a Fuuma shuriken came speeding towards Aisu. It appeared from somewhere inside the bird's shadow using the Kage shuriken no jutsu; this was arranged in Rohniki's smoke screen when he summoned his bird, and this caught Aisu slightly off guard.

But possessing well trained reflexes, Aisu simply jumped over the Fuuma shuriken that Rohniki placed his bets on. Until...

**POOF**

The Fuuma shuriken transformed into a spinning Rohniki Kage Bunshin!
The audience yelled out a synchronized "woaaaaah", and many where thinking to themselves: a good twist to one of Uzumaki Naruto's legendary moves.

The clone immediately launched a kunai Aisu's way, with an explosive tag attached to it for good measure.

Aisu got hit by the kunai in his back, he didn't have time to be anything other than target practice. The explosive note were still burning, a stressful situation! Aisu's eyes widened in shock, he couldn't comprehend how this was possible. Now everyone waited for the explosive tag to go off!

But this was to no avail; that stubborn Kinetsuwo clan member named Aisu was apparently just a water clone sending Rohniki half a smirk before transforming to water, canceling out the lit tag explosive by soaking it in the process. The real Aisu was nowhere to be seen.

One could hear the loud noise of disappointment coming from thousands watching, except for a girl hitting both knees at once in anger with her fists clenched; "damn it!".

Rohniki's Kage Bunshin was pondering where Aisu was located, as was the real Rohniki.

Aisu suddenly appeared silently behind Rohniki, who had now been standing there for quite a number of moments. Materializing from his water form, he picked up a kunai and swung it, aiming for one of Rohniki's vital organs with the intention to end this match quickly.

To the Hokage's shock Rohniki got hit, but he poofed away; this was a Kage Bunshin of his. Pure luck!

Aisu's mind: Well of course, that's why he was just standing there for so long! He's very cautious, probably scared shitless that frightened girly bitch. I thought the other one over there was the clone but that's the REAL one, that's proven now.

Before Aisu could even think of attacking the Rohniki that previously role-played a Fuuma shuriken, Rohniki had just finished a short number of complex hand seals, telling the executing words of his spell;

Binding Technique – Come Judgment.

My body... I-I can't... Rohniki cutting him off: ...Move? In that case this paralysis technique works as planned.

Black haired Kinetsuwo Aisu yelling back: Let me go you fucking coward! Afraid of me beating you? You can't win in an honorable way, is that how it works in your Katsuro clan of pussies?

Katsuro Rohniki goes on, ignoring Aisu's words: You are as strong as you are arrogant Aisu. You're using a complex fighting style. First off, you threw two shuriken lessening the odds of me thinking one could be wired. Then, when I was blinded by the summoning smoke screen, you created and swapped places with a water clone, hiding yourself underground. You even handed the wire over to your clone which proves your speed. Or am I wrong?

Aisu responding: Your analysis isn't wrong... It seems I underestimated you by a fraction but I won't make that mistake twice. Let's get serious!

Rohniki: Don't forget you're in a binding jutsu keeping your body locked to your current position. What you gonna do in a situation like this?

The power-obsessed Aisu's thoughts: He knows I use the Water style... But I don't know what kind of affinity he is using so I can't really formulate any good plan. He has so far not engaged in taijutsu and I don't even know why...

Rohniki's thoughts: Okay... He knows I can use shadow clones, and then there's that summoning I did. He uses the Water style... We haven't engaged in close combat yet... I wonder which one is strongest?

Aisu's thoughts reaches a conclusion: I could always try mindless water techniques to see what he does to counter-attack. I have a feeling I'm much better than him in ninjutsu, unless he's holding it as a trump card. Taijutsu is just a gamble. Yes, it is decided! And if all should fail, I can always use... It...

Rohniki's thoughts reaches a conclusion as well: Don't go decide hastily, he will be the one to make his move. Just react quickly!

And suddenly;
Aisu bent down in a defensive stance and started to exercise handseals at a very high speed... He had no intention of getting stopped!

Rohniki: What the... How can you move?
Aisu: None of your business fuckface!

Meanwhile, Rohniki slipped into a fighting stance with a serious face. The moment Aisu was done he jumped high up in the air to launch it:

Water master technique – Rising water dragon

Water swirled around Aisu's body, swiftly increasing it's volume. Rohniki's facial expression was still serious, but his mouth opened up just a little bit. The audience was silent, watching in awe.

The amount of water continued to increase drastically. He had a sphere of water surrounding him that was bigger than the Hokage's stone face in the leaf mountain.

Rohniki: Okay! It might be hard countering that one.

Finally the dragon took it's form and a giant watery dragon head hurled itself towards Rohniki, who was still in his fighting stance. Aisu landed on the ground and commenced a fighting stance of his own as well, before he started running towards Rohniki.

Rohniki threw two kunais with explosive tags on them before he set off sprinting leaving behind a long trail of dust whirling up, heading towards Aisu who was approaching to greet him midway.

The dragon slowly shifted it's course to Rohniki's new location, and it got hit by the explosions. Water instead of flames went in all directions. It was as if it had started raining, and inside the rain Rohniki could be seen running, throwing one expo-tag after another every now and then to try to keep the water dragon at bay.

Rohniki jumped into a roundhouse kick but could only hit air as Aisu could be found sliding along the ground under him with the intention of taking away Rohniki's balance, aiming for his feet where they once was.

They bypassed without touching each other, ending up back to back. After a second Rohniki turned around having Aisu up and close once more. "Crap how should I stop that troublesome dragon... It's huge! And Aisu is trying to stress me!"

Aisu forced the sparring match to continue, both dealing out blows without really connecting. That is, until the power of survival instinct kicked in:

With all the strength he could muster, Rohniki rammed his fist straight through Aisu's blocking hands and hit him spot on. Aisu was forcefully sent backwards, skidding at first but he lost his balance after a few meters. As Aisu landed on the wet dirty ground, the water dragon crashed with mouth wide open into the ground just where Rohniki was standing.

It lost it's transformation upon contact and dead water flooded in every direction.
The force and heavy pressure of the impact lowered the ground a little, making a crater with a huge radius. Waves crashed into the stadium walls. After about half a minute, the water slowly faded, getting sucked into the ground. Rohniki was lying in the center of the impact area, a bit bruised and battered by the force of the water.

Aisu rose up coming to view, soaked all over. He shook his head to get rid of some water and started walking towards where Rohniki was located. When he was close enough to be heard by his enemy, he spoke:

- Damn nice hit! Don't dare underestimate my Water-based techniques. I've been raised by the best teacher and have trained my ass off to reach perfection. I'm going to become the next Hokage, and my Water jutsu will surpass the Second's. Noticed I didn't care if I got hit? That was because I have the ability to merge with water, like I did earlier when I took off your clone from behind, or even when you did that binding jutsu! Seeing I can merge with water means basically I can control my body at the molecular level, as most of the human body is made up of water. I simply shook off your binding jutsu by moving myself a bit at the molecular level, I had plenty of time doing it while we were just standing around back there..

Rohniki responded after wiping blood from his mouth:

- I see... And if you refer to me punching your stomach back there, then yes, a nice hit indeed. I can see your torso got tore up from that one. Or if you were referring to that pansy water dragon of yours I didn't get a single fracture. I'll admit it hurts a bit though. I'll beat you and have you get what you deserve for being such a nuisance to everyone around you, no wonder you can't make friends to settle down with. You gotta change your attitude! No one's ever done you anything!

Aisu: Shut the fuck up! What do YOU know?

Aisu readied himself, which Rohniki noticed. He decided to be the faster one so he got up, quickly folding his hands together. He decided to cast a genjutsu on Aisu, showing him a wall of flowers heading his way.

This took effect immediately. Aisu smirked at this, before saying out loud:
"That's funny! Running out of ideas, huh? As if canceling out a genjutsu is a problem. But instead I'll do it with this little jutsu of mine... Lightning element – killer current!"

Current ran through his arm coming visible. He punched the ground. Current streamed along the ground through the water ramming an invisible Rohniki. (Invisible for Aisu, he was still in the genjutsu).

But now he came into view. Aisu watched Rohniki lying on the ground shaking, electricity sparked all over his body.

Rohniki: Bastard, I didn't see that one coming... You had an ace up your sleeve huh? Hiding Lightning as your element while using Water in advance... Having this whole area covered wet all over, there's no avoiding that lightning current unless I jumped. That's why you could hit the ground so calmly – you would hit your target no matter where I was located. Because of the pain I would cancel out the genjutsu right away.

Aisu: Correct. Up until now I didn't want to use it. But you disappoint me, I thought this fight would be harder! Give me some fun, Rohniki... You're stronger than this! There's just no way for one to be as good a rival as you, and not have mastered a single element: I don't see you using any. I have mastered two already, being the only genin in Konoha to have achieved this! Or are you saving your element as a trump card for the next match, if you should manage to beat me?

Rohniki replied with a hint of sarcasm: What are you talking about, just having some difficulty finding my Chakra profanity doesn't mean I'm going to lose. I've been faring well so far, don't you agree?

Aisu: ...Yeah?

Aisu punched the ground once more; this time Rohniki dodged the lightning jutsu with the replacement technique just barely in time, replacing himself with a wooden log produced from a nearby tree.

"Fucking monkey boy!"

By molding Chakra and spitting water bullets, Aisu crushed one tree after another but Rohniki was hard to hit, his speed was impressive. Even after having electric current fry his body he still could jump around like this.

But suddenly Rohniki was about to land on one of the tree logs; his body went right through it.
He tripped on the ground, ashes whirled up in the air where the log once was. "Wait... Ashes?"
Rohniki looked around him to see one tree after another instantly being transformed to trees of ashes before collapsing, as if they were instantly ignited by some invisible force.

Rohniki turned to look at Aisu to see if it was his doing. He was now staring at the devil's eye.

- Aisu's eye.

It was different, and creepy. Aisu stood there holding a weird seal with his hands and index finger extended.

Aisu: "This is my greatest strength! I'm bored of your monkey moves and this whole match altogether, it's just a waste of my time."
Rohniki: "What the..."
Aisu: "This is the Right Eye of the legendary Yamatz Kentogan!

Aisu shouted that last part in anger, while Rohniki raised his left eyebrow. His right eye had half a blood-red line extending from the middle of his eyeball going to his right. His iris was colored icy blue. His whole eye was glowing. One could tell he was serious!

Rohniki thought to himself: showing me your trump card already? You sure are impatient and short-tempered. But what about those trees back there? Only thing I figure is if he can instantly ignite whatever he put his eyes on, without even touching it. That sounds like an ocular jutsu on par with the legendary Amaterasu...

Aisu: don't you know how to proceed, huh? Basic attacks, what a joke! Don't you know anything else?
Rohniki: joke yeah, sure I know how to proceed! By using even more basic attacks of course, which you claim to be so weak! Here goes - Kage bunshin no jutsu!

From a poof of smoke, a clone appeared. First thing it did: flung a kunai at Aisu.
Straight after throwing it, an explosion made the clone vanish. It left behind Chakra smoke in the mystery, and another mini-explosion that appeared midair close to Aisu deflected the soaring kunai just before it hit him; the kunai fell dead to the ground.

Aisu: It's no use.

Rohniki: what, how am I... What's with the ashes and explosions? And midair? How he deflected my kunai without touching it... The heck...

Aisu stood there, keeping his hands folded. All calm and laid back.

"Mortifying, eh? This eye of mine... It makes me able to control the molecular activity even at range, meaning I can raise and drop temperatures freely. For instance, I took care of your clones just now by instantly colliding high and low temperature, causing a very rapid expansion you may call an explosion. And those trees, I simply ignited them, turning them to ashes. Imagine how easy it is for me to kill you in a flash! ... You beginning to get a picture? Now give up, or lose your life – I don't care!"

Rohniki's left hand froze to ice at Aisu's mental command. By reaction he fell to one knee holding his arm, trying to ease the pain: his arm was completely covered in ice.

Aisu: I said GIVE UP!

This time Rohniki's right foot caught fire, flames appeared from nowhere crawling and burning it's way through his clothes. He fell on his back rolling on the ground desperately trying to both put out the flames and to hold in his screams of pain...

Aisu: Hey! Examiner, he's done for! GIVE UP ROHNIKI!

Rohniki slowly stood up after successfully killing the fire. He slammed his hand to the ground crushing the ice that was keeping his hand captive - now he could move it.

Rohniki replied his terror: Never!

With that single word yelled out, Rohniki stood up, quickly forming seals with his hands ignoring the immense pain.

"I'll show you my ultimate secret Aisu, cuz it seems I can't get past you without using it... You remember remarking that I haven't mastered my natural profanity yet, right? An element of nature?"

Aisu: Of course I remember saying that, so what about it?

"That's because I can't master one! ... I don't have any. When they took the paper test on me, nothing happened. There is a clan in the Leaf controlling shadows upon their free will. This is, well, the opposite. ...I'll show you!"

Light element – divine bullet!

Suddenly, a blinding light flashed once from Rohniki's location. Aisu was confused. He looked at Rohniki. Rohniki stood in a new stance of his.

Aisu was smiling – finally he made him become serious. But his smile quickly faded when signals entered his brain, telling him something was wrong. He looked down to see blood was pouring out from a hole in his chest, and out from the exit wound at his back.

After those slowly passing seconds, Aisu let out a low grunt before dropping to his knees coughing out blood.

"Seems to me like you're done for. Give it up, my Light-elemental Chakra abilities is invincible. I just shot a hole in your chest with concentrated light, puncturing both your lounges. You're dying... But you fought well, Aisu. I thank you for the fight."

"What the hell... Why am I lying here? He is the one that should have been... Lying here. He's the one that should have been killed off... By me!... But he defeated me so fast I... Didn't even... Comprehend..."

Rohniki called for the examiner to arrive, waving his hand at him. He quickly approached the scene.

(Aisu's mind is still able to process thought): ... Wait! I should have already been dead by now if he really punctured... W-wha... Is this just a genjutsu! I can feel life returning to me... Rohniki, for FUCKS SAKE now you've really done it!

Examiner closed his eyes for a few seconds. He opened them again:
"Aisu Kinetsuwo is unable to fight. The winner of this match is; Rohn..."
The examiner suddenly retreated after seeing something in the corner of his eye...

Aisu got up, screaming in anger!

Rohniki: Damn it Aisu, I was SO close! I thought you would be dumb enough to use half a second more before you realized it. Christ where did my luck go!

"Rohniki, is this funny to you? Friggin comedy show? ... No more warnings, I'll turn you to ashes right now! DIE!"

Aisu quickly made his seals again, opening his right eye to kill with, widening it while staring intensely at Rohniki.

"Secret jutsu... Yamatz Kentogan!"

Everyone covered their eyes to not see the tragedy that was coming.

The few that watched, could confirm Rohniki's figure got instantly transformed into ashes.

A girl in between the audience didn't see this, as she had her face buried in her hands. She didn't breath now.
But the ashes peeled itself off, revealing an unharmed Rohniki, as if the ashes just put on a thin layer around his body for the wind and gravity to take off the moment later.

Aisu: ...The hell?

Rohniki started walking with a smirk towards Aisu, seeming unusually confident. Aisu did it once more with his eye consuming a lot of his Chakra in the process, but the same thing happened again. Ashes produced from nowhere blew off of Rohniki's body as he walked against his enemy.

He was coming closer and closer, walking faster and faster. Aisu decided to freeze Rohniki instead: this worked. But only for a second or two as Rohniki crushed the ice all with his own might, only to keep on walking.

"Aisu, you can't stop me, nor can you kill me. Your ability don't have a single effect on me. Remember I have the Light affinity, I can kill you whenever I want. You are the one that should give up!"

Aisu screaming: SHUT UP!

Aisu was getting stressed, he spat a huge water bullet and froze it to ice before impact. Rohniki crushed this flying boulder of ice with his bare fist. Aisu lost his balance of the mental stress.

"Damn it, I only have about 4% of my Chakra left, what's with this guy? WHY CAN'T HE JUST DIE?"

He felt as if he faced the very demon itself, and he didn't stride no more; he was jogging now! Time was running out! As a last resort he placed his hope on his lightning jutsu, streaming current along the watery ground.

When he did this, Rohniki jumped up in avoidance. While bringing his arms up in a protective X-shaped stance for the incoming attack, Aisu's panicking mind thought of three simple words as his eyes widened in shock: "... It can't be!"

"Too late!", yelled a flying Rohniki out right before he landed.

He had his heavy feet planted in the ground along with a downward punch, forcing it through Aisu's blocking hands once more, knocking him unconscious in the hit.

It ended, with Aisu lying on the ground not moving.

Inside Rohniki Katsuro's mind: That went just fine. Not too much beating up as I wanted but a lot of "showing off abilities"-kinda match. I hope the elders liked this match though, I want to become a Chuunin... And I can still feel about 25% Chakra left inside me. All good!

This time the examiner was granted another chance to complete his announcement:

- - - - Winner of the first match... Rohniki Katsuro! - - - -

Cheers erupted from every dark corner of the stadium where there were people watching. Rohniki was hailed for his victory, and the Hokage shared a smile of approval. The elders where nodding in agreement. A girl was also smiling with a tear falling down her cheek in joy and relief. Rohniki held up his hand and waved at the audience keeping it cool and affecting the crowd to roar even louder. With a happy face he felt he had come a long way in his adventure, chasing the title of Chuunin.

To be continued...