Genin Exam Arc 2 - Building To Battle! A boy and his blade!
After five more hours of brain pulsing work in the academy, the final bell of the day and the students exit the building. Some had their parents or other loved ones waiting for them. Ed, Double D, and Eddy walks at a steady pace away from the academy as the latter had a thinking expression.
"A penny for your thoughts, Eddy." Double D asks.
"I've been thinking of ways to beat Kevin in our upcoming with each idea I think of doesn't work." Eddy explained.
"That is true. Kevin's Fire Style will be A difficult thing to overcome as well as both of your Taijutsu skills are on equal and you both lack in Genjutsu.
So I believe your best option is to-" The Eds then found themselves outside of a weapon shop.
"I should get a weapon." Eddy decided. After a few seconds, Double D responded by trying to clean his ears with a swab he pulls from his back pocket.
"I'm sorry Eddy. I must've misheard you because I had a bit of stupidity in my ears." Double D insulted.
"Oh come on, what so bad about that?" Eddy argues.
"Eddy you're already known to be reckless, irresponsible, and impatient. Why in the world would you consider purchasing a weapon?" Double D questions.
"Come Double D give me a break. It's just to give me an upper hand against Kevin. He can use long-range fire jutsus while I can only do short to mid-range lighting jutsus." Eddy argued as he enters the shop. Inside they saw a girl with black short hair wearing a brown apron over a black button-up vest and pants at the counter who was talking to Nazz. The girl then notices the Eds walking in.
"Well look what the wind dragged in." She taunts.
Mell Haniko. Someone's who as sharp as her weapons and taijutsu skills are as deadly as her poisons.
"So what exactly do you three want?" Mell questions.
"I need the best sword you can give me." Eddy asked her. She lightly chuckles.
"Let me guess, for your fight with Kevin?" She asks hitting right on the nail.
"How did you know about that?" He asks.
"Nazz just got done telling me all about it." Mell told them.
"And let me guess, Shovel-chin ask you to start spreading the word across the village?" He asks a bit jealous.
"For your information. No, he did not. I just came along with someone and Mell and I started talking about the day." Nazz explained.
"Or really and who is this, someone?" Eddy asks doubtfully of Nazz's story. Just then a door behind them opens revealing a teenage girl with blond hair wearing a garment that extended to halfway down her thighs. Eddy and Ed's jaws dropped while Double D hid his blushing face under his hat as the girl noticed her.
"Oh hi, guys." The female calls out to them.
Kara van bartonschmeer. Nazz's older hot sister. She's also on the same squad as my brother. Lucky bastard.
"So what are you guys doing here?" Kara asks.
"I need something to help shut Kevin up so I came here looking for a weapon to use." Eddy explained to her.
"For the record, I am still opposed to this idea." Double D brought up again.
"All right so what exactly are you looking for?" Mell asks Eddy. Eddy then browses the selves until he spots a Kusanagi with the word "Kaze" edged into it.
"I'll take that one." Eddy said as he goes to pick it up.
"Really? That Kusanagi? Its been here for a decade. Besides, I doubt you have the money to buy it anyways." Mell scoffs
"Oh please, how much money can it be worth?" Eddy doubts as he picks the Kusanagi up
"800 Ryo." The boys yell in exclamation and then fell to the ground. "Are you out of your mind? I don't have that kind of cash on me." Eddy argued.
"But I do." Kara jumped in as Eddy turned his attention to her and threw himself at her feet.
"Tara if you give me the money, Ed and I will let you take a look under Double D's hat.
"I beg your pardon?" The sock hatted boy asked as he held his hat in protection.
"Take the offer." Both Nazz and Mell said in unison. Ever since the first day of class, the main question on every girl's mind was what was under Double D's hat. Kara hummed for a bit before answering.
"No thanks, but I'll give the 800 Ryo." Kara said as she gives Eddy the money.
"Ah, why?" Mell question obviously disappointed.
"Well if it's to help some reach their goal them it fine by me." Kara answered. She then hands Mell the 800 for the payment and Mell tosses the blade over to Eddy who catches it by the helm. He expects with a close eye and then does a few practice swings.
"Nice. Can't wait to show this off to shovel-chin." Eddy boasted gripping the blade with determination.
"Now that's a match I would love to see. When's it happening?" Kara asked.
"Hold on, Kara. Don't you have any missions coming up?" Nazz questions.
"Nah. The first Chunnin Exams of the year is coming up and our sensei is recommending our team to take it." She answered her sister. "I gotta get going, still got some training and supply runs I gotta go do." Kara said as she exits the shop.
"What's the Chunnin Exams?" Eddy questioned.
"Seriously you don't know what the Chunnin Exams are? Do you even pay attention in class?" Nazz asked shocked.
"So why don't one of you educate me?" Eddy said as the four looks towards Double D who sighs as he expected that to happen.
"The Chunnin Selection Exams, or Chunnin Exams, as everyone like to call it, are a two or more part exam that takes place over the course of one to two weeks held twice every year. If you manage to pass and prove your skills to the kages, then you'll be promoted to Chunnin rank." He explained.
"Way to go Double D." Ed cheered picking the sock hatted boy into a bone-crushing hug.
"Well, that is expected to come from the son of the Momonokage aide." Mell commented. Double D blushes from the compliment and rubs the back of his head.
"Well it's true my father is one of the aides of the Momonokage, he doesn't exactly tell me anything." Double D points out.
"Alright alright. That's enough waisting time. We got work to do." Eddy then pulls the two out and begins to head to Ed's house.
Meanwhile, Kevin was training at home as he had several shurikens in hand and staring down an Eddy dummy made from straw and wood. With a quick flash of speed, he throws all the shurikens at the dummy hitting several vital areas. He sighs as he then inhales deeply. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu" The large fireball destroyed the dummy as burning splinters fell from the air. "I can't wait till I get to destroy that dork." He said to himself. Just then the door opens to reveal a little girl with dark brunette hair wearing a white shirt and yellow pants. who goes and hugs Kevin by his waist.
"Big Brother, Mom said to come inside and take a break." The little girl informs the academy student.
Karen Benkei, Kevin's little sister. If only she could see how much of a jerk her brother really is.
"Yeah sure." He agreed as he takes his sister's hand and the two walks inside the home and inside was a woman with the same color as Karen but longer setting two bowls of riceballs on a small table.
"Here you two go. A small snack before dinner." Kevin's mother said as the two takes one and begins to eat. He didn't mind taking it easy once in a while in his training. "It's not like dorky's going to be a challenge to take down." He said to himself again.
Once the three were at Ed's house, Eddy slides open a pair of doors to a large arena filled with sand and many large boulders. "Ed, your father's training room is incredible." Eddy said.
"Sure am, Eddy." Ed answered.
"Now that we're here in Ed's training room, do you plan to tell us why you brought us here?" Double D questions.
"Yeah, I wanted to start testing how good this blade really is so we're going to have a bit of a sparing exercise. Ed, you going to chuck as many rocks as you can at me and Double D going to do the same with your water jutsu." Eddy explained to them.
"Yahoo. Training!" Ed cheered.
Double D sighs but gives his answer. "Very well I assist you in this physical exercise." Double D said and then Eddy stands at the furthest end of the training room. He pulls out the blade and readies himself. Double D begins doing hand signs while Ed clasps his hands together.
"Earth Style: Thousand Piller Justu!" In a mere second, dozens of pillars erupted from the ground and began to fly towards Eddy. Eddy channels his chakra into the blade and as if it came alive the blade was surrounded by its own wind. He carefully watches the closest pillar close in on him before holding the blade out and swings it forward. Like a hot knife through butter, the pillar was sliced evenly down the middle and it fell to the ground. He then jumps through the falling pillars slicing and dicing as many as he can before falling back to the ground.
"He cut through a total of 14 pillars." Double D noted. He then goes through a series of hand signs as the water was created from Eddy believed from Double D's chakra.
"Water Style: Raging Dragons Jutsu!" Four dragons made from water jumps forward as they charged towards Eddy. The three haired preteen charges towards the dragons blade in hand and the lighting from the Kusanagi comes in contact with the dragon and it dissipates as well as the next one. The remaining two dragons circle around and again takes aim towards Eddy who waits for the second before jumping upwards letting the two dragons collide into the other.
"Impressive..." Double D mentally noted down. The two Eds then shares a look and a nod before simultaneously began weaving hand signs.
"Earth Style: Thousand Piller Justu!"
"Water Style: Raging Dragons Jutsu!"
Before Eddy's eyes was a countless amount of stone pillars and water dragons. He tightens the grip on the blade which in turn made the wind swirled even stronger. "I will beat Shovel-chin!" He boasted himself as he slices pillars. "I will prove everyone including my brother wrong!" He then moves to the water dragons. "I will become a ninja and I'll surpass the Momonokage!" He then goes on a slicing rampage.
Earth Style: Thousand Piller Justu - The user raises countless pillars of earth from the surrounding area
Water Style: Raging Dragpm Jutsu - Summons Dragons equal to the amount of Charka the user's will.