Me: People of earth! That was a friggin record for me on time till 10 reviews had been hit!
Shiki: Shut it. Least I got introduced.
Raiden: And me.
Kattou: But not me!
Me: You come into play later.
Kattou: But I'm th-
Me: NOTHING HAPPENING HERE! Oh, and to my readers:
P5yCH0- I thank thee, but the 10 reviews thing keeps my ego burning. Plus, it makes people more likely to review, period. This allows more critique of my skills, to help me become a better author.
Baka Nii-san- A lot of people think I took the idea of this story from "sin of existence" or "the nine" or something. I honestly have never heard of it. Maybe someone could find a way for me to get a copy of the original? P.S, The reason Raiden seemed weak was because he had to hold back for fear of killing Lee. Dead Lees aren't much fun you know. And I do intend to add in an incarnation of Vamp.
Kingkakashi- Don't worry, Lee's gonna be fine. Trust me even if I wouldn't trust me.
That's all the reviewers I'm going to do, because I type my authors notes before the chapter, and this was done months ago.
P.S, Sorry this took so long. I've never been good at imagining fight scenes and Neji has such a difficult fighting style that this took forever. I tried everything to find inspiration, even creating a scarecrow replica of him and castrating it. Not good for ideas, but a great way to fix a problem called 'stress'!
P.P.S, I'm sorry if this chapter is a bit… droll. I'm not really good at this. Hell, I rather suck at fight scenes! Oh, and whoever guesses the true identity of Tsuku, Kaze, and Senkou first gets to ether A: become an actual character in the fic, B: chose which Division Hinata will be in, or C: get a cookie from Tobi!
Tobi: Yay! You people have to like cookies! Here, take the cookie. C'mon, take it. I said, take the cookie! TAKE IT OR MANDARA WILL EAT YOUR SOUL!!!
Me: Back in your box Tobi, back in your box. *pulls out a spike mace*
Disclaimer: Attention all lawyers: I do not own Naruto, MGS, Bleach, or whatever the Hell else I use elements of. Now get the Hell off my property!
ANT Arena, 10:48
To be cliché, the place looked like a war-zone. Huge craters in the wall and ground, strips of land missing and sharp pointy chunks of rock on the ground. Either there was a huge fight between power-houses, or Anko just failed a Genin team. Read the last chapter and you be the judge.
"Alright! The victor of the match is Rasen Raiden. The next challenge between Konohagakure no Sato and the Arashi no Tensei is between Sakura Whore-u… Sorry, HARuno. The task is to heal the loser of the last match, Rock Lee!" announced Kazoku Tsuku.
The two competitors warped to the arena. Sakura, in her stupid dress thing and… head gear… as always. On the other hand, Tanomoshii Daraku would cause heart attacks in small children. At 6'5, he was by far too tall to be normal. He was missing his left ear, right eye, 2 fingers on his right hand, and a large patch of skin on his face. Of course, no self respecting researcher would not find SOME way around his problems. In his case, he had his missing fingers replaced with puppet parts… made from his original fingers. His ear was replaced by some sort of black covering and his eye by some sort of Biomechanical scanner. As well, he had what looked to be steel teeth on one side of his mouth. Combined with a strange twist in his arm that should not be there, he would scare anyone not used to either him or Orochimaru. He was currently wearing a large dark-blue Haori and blue slacks.
"So this is my opponent? A freakish little girl?" he said his voice a sarcastic sharp tone.
"I was apprenticed to Tsunade-sama!" Sakura shouted, mad that this monstrosity would dare insult her. (Ignoring the fact that she's missing an important flap of skin called lips.)
"Keh, she's pathetic if you really look at her skills," Daraku said.
Deciding to, for the first time in her life, be the bigger person, she turned to the proctor and said, "What happens if Lee is healed by the first person?"
"A replacement charge with equal injuries will be brought in, and it will be a time trial contest," said the ever emotionless Tsuku.
"Then if the little girly is done, then bring us the subject," said Daraku.
And in was wheeled Lee, who looked like shit. The most obvious visible injuries were the missing strips of flesh, the gigantic bruises, and the fact that both his left arm and right leg were broken and his right arm was in the shape of an s. Sakura, seeing that her opponent wasn't going to start, ran in to start a diagnostic on her strange looking friend. But, upon looking, she found that this damage just wasn't human.
"What did that guy do to him? His right arm bones have been almost liquefied, his lungs have been struck with what looks like invisible shrapnel, and his internal organs have been re-arranged! But the worst part is the missing skin and muscle. Somehow, he's suffered sub-cellular rupturing, causing the local area to be poisoned and… there's something else, but I can't identify it. And for some reason, a ripple like pattern of cellular mitosis is happening. I don't think I can do much," Sakura said, before her hands started to glow green, mainly focusing on the bruises and making him comfortable. About 5 minutes later, he may have looked better than before, but he was, in the 'professional opinion' of the Uchiha-loving whore, a lost cause.
"I'm sorry, Lee-san, but this is all I can do," she said, seemingly detached.
But all was not lost, for Daraku happened to be truly competent in this type of injury. As he walked over there, he started forming hand seals, ending in a clap, before he spread his hands creating a keyboard with different colored dots for keys. As he tapped the 'keys', different chakra constructs started to appear and operate on Lee, all the while Daraku was muttering to himself.
"It seems that those idiots in R&D Weapons made a fine piece of work, this one. The cellular mitosis is caused by a genjutsu, embedded in the blade, to make the body kill itself by tricking the cells to think they need to commit suicide. The lung damage is caused by taking a breath while he broke the sound barrier. Any imbecile would know that at those speeds air acts like glass! The liquefied bone would be caused from him trying to use the Nidozaki Renge to smash Raiden-san's armor. I'm frankly surprised that those morons in the med squad kept him alive this long," ranted Daraku.
And thus about 5 minutes later, Lee is actually walking.
Arena Stands
"How the Hell did he manage to heal him?" shouted/asked Neji.
"It's because Daraku has the kind of skills needed to actually transplant a Demon's arm onto a human. You'll never find a better medic than him," said a man with slightly curved-spiked pyrite blond hair and ocean-green-with-grey-tints-eyes wearing a red duster with bright orange and blue flame markings on it, along with the symbol for the Arashi no Tensei, a set of 4 crosses set in an X, in black alongside a pair of metal flame pattern arm guards with the X-crosses engraved in them.
"And you are?" asked Shikamaru, getting the feeling he should know who this man is already.
"Hayai Senkou of the 9th," he said before walking off.
Arena Floor
"Hey! No fair! You must have cheated!" shouted suck-you Sakura.
"On what grounds? My medical ninjutsu is 2nd to none, made to improvise so that I don't have to rely on a hospital. And to tell you the truth, if the student of the legendary 'Perverts Folly' is this pathetic, then she never deserved her title as a Sannin," said Daraku, getting one very special person to gasp. Thus we find Anko Shunshin down to the arena and hold Daraku up by his haori before shouting at him.
"Who the Hell are you!?! The only man to ever call Tsunade-sama 'Pervert's Folly' was Orochimaru-teme!" she shouted, enraged at him.
"If you complete your challenge, I'll tell you," responded Daraku, before jabbing Anko right where the underside of the arm meets the body, triggering a nervous reaction forcing her to let go of him, before he walked away.
"Damn him!" shouted Anko before walking off herself.
ANT Arena, 11:23
"Alright! The test of interrogation is to begin! May Anko and Guardian please come to the arena!" shouted Tsuku. This time, Anko decided to walk in, highly determined to get info on the man who managed to know her 'sensei.' But Guardian decided to make a flashy entrance for once.
In a strange display of dancing lights of all colors, she appeared. She was 5'8", with bright green hair that was done up in a strange sort of reversing fashion with large, soulful garnet eyes, and alabaster-colored skin. She was wearing a pure white dress, form fitting at the top but going down it spread out with a small diamond of red between her… assets.
"So you are my opponent. You seem… troubled. Almost like a soul who has seen all their loved ones killed… but not. It is… strange," Guardian said in a musical voice, the total opposite of one who would normally be at work in T&I.
"Hey! Stop with the freaky mind games and let's get on to the prisoners!" shouted Anko.
"Very well. We are now going to bring in a pair of Oto Jonin we captured at a nearby town they were trying to raid. Your task will be to make them reveal the location of the base they originated from. Any other affects are extra credit. You each have an hour," Tsuku said. And thus two unknown peon guards brought in a pair of Oto ninja in standard uniform, tied to a chair each. "Begin!" Thus Anko and Guardian each walked over to one of the two prisoners.
With Anko
"Hello, little Oto-nin. Will you please tell little Anko-chan where you come from?" Anko said in a pouty voice, bending over so she was face to face with the Nin as she spoke, coincidently giving him quite the view.
"H-h-Hell no!" stuttered the Oto-nin.
"Then I'm going to take everything from you!" sang Anko. And thus the torture began. About 50 minutes later, the Oto-nin was missing his left leg, right kidney, genitals, both eyes, his fingers, a LOT of blood, and his cloths. (The Genin were taken out of the arena for that part, while all those with sensitivities left.) By this time, he used his last breath to tell her where he came from, before he died of blood loss. The words "Excessively brutal," and "Inhuman," and "Terrifying" were thrown around. So to were "Wicked!" and "I think I'm in love."
Arena Stands: Taichou Section
"Dear Kami-sama, that woman is bloody," said Sunaheki Kaze, a strong blue-haired woman who was wearing a bright green battle kimono, with her hair pulled back into a set of six pony tails.
"Oh, maybe she can help me place exploding tags on all the street-signs with the letter T on them!" shouted our favorite Witch-queen and necromancer, Shiki.
"Dude, maybe we should leave her alone. Or, better yet, like, put some poppy in her food to like, calm her down, man," said the ever-baked Yakuzai Shichishou, a black-haired man with empty brown eyes who was wearing a neon-red and neon-green kimono, not that he'd know. He'd been wearing the thing for the past 3 years, thinking it to be a 'wicked awesome sports jacket.'
"I'd rather live," said Shingami Genkaku, a sickly woman with deep purple hair and brilliant orange eyes who was wearing a Chinese shirt with a layer of chain mail under it and a pair of long pants.
"If what 'Leader' said is right, then she'd make a perfect addition into our ranks. After all, her connection to Daraku-san notwithstanding, she'd probably give her ability to taste dango to work with the man who killed Orochimaru-okama the first time," said Raiden in a calculated voice.
Arena Floor, Beginning of Hour, Guardian's side
The prisoner was freaking out. He'd heard of this woman before. Hell, everyone in the sound village had heard of her. The 'Traitors Asylum' they called her. All because everyone who was said to 'defect' (Read: join in order to spy.) to the ANT had to go through her. And none of the men ever returned. It was said that Orochimaru-sama would promote anyone who killed her to the automatic status of 'Oto-Sannin'. This point, though, was rather moot as you didn't actually get anything from the elevation, but it did sound cool.
"You are frightened… you fear me…" said Guardian.
"H-how do you know," asked the Oto-nin, seriously freaked out. 'I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!' He thought.
"I know because your thoughts, your emotions, your soul itself cries to me. You… fear Orochimaru… you don't want to work for him… but you fear for your family… he has them hostage… he told you and all your fellow nin that he'd use them for his experiments if you didn't comply… you only wish to find your family and leave," she said, her calm trusting voice working wonders on the man.
"But why do you care?" he spat, angered at the fact he almost gave in to the woman.
"Because we can find them. We have helped others. All you need to do is trust us," she said, her lyrical voice laced with some sort of calming power.
"What do I have to do?" he said slowly. About 45 minutes later, he not only told them about all the Oto-specific jutsu he knew, not only were his base was located, but even fucking Asked to Join the ANT! Needless to say, she won.
Arena Stands, Konoha Section
"What the Hell was that?" screeched Sakura no Keikoku.
"That, my mutilated friend, was the power of trust," said Senkou.
"Wait, but she said something earlier, about his emotions crying out to her. But the only jutsu in the world like that belongs exclusively to the Yamanaka clan, and even they can't make it do that," said Shikamaru.
"That's because it's not a jutsu. It's her Kekkei Genkai. It allows her all sorts of psychic abilities, the least of which is the feeling of others emotions. This makes her able to convince people to do almost anything. Hell, if she concentrates hard enough, she can read thoughts and force you to do things," said the character with one of the most obvious hints to his true identity in his name. (Read: Senkou.)
'Hmm… Danzou-sama will like to know about this' thought Sakura.
'And then he'll let us have Sasuke-kun's first child! Take that, Ino-buta! SHANNARO!' said her inner counterpart.
"Well Neji, you should prepare. You're next," said Senkou.
Arena Floor, 12:40
It was just over 15 minutes sense the completion of the previous challenge, and all the blood was cleared from the floor. Those poor, poor souls. Anyway, the match was about to begin.
"The next match will be a test of combat, with the goal being to show off the fewest jutsu possible. May the competitors please come forth," shouted Tsuku, his near totally apathetic face giving a tiny smile at the thought of the beating the arrogant Hyuuga prodigy would receive. Stupid Hyuuga.
At this, Neji just decided to Shunshin down, a small bit of smoke in his wake. But his opponent was far… flashier. A single oddly shaped kunai fell to the earth. This kunai looked like someone had taken the blades of 4 kunai and glued them together at one of the facets on a center kunai, leaving 4 separate points to bear with one in the ground. And then, with lightning flashing about the blade, a hole in space time dropped forth his opponent. It was…
"Senkou?" said Neji, stunned at his opponent. After all, how few of one's opponents know how to do a god damned space-time jutsu? (Yah, he's fucked. But, on the up side, it might dislodge that pole up his ass.)
"Bet'cha ass it's me," he said, his eyes dancing with fire. After all, it's not often one who attains Taichou rank can let loose. They might hurt someone.
"BEGIN!" shouted Tsuku, vanishing from the arena.
Arena Stands, Peon… I mean Konoha Section
"Cha! Even if he has some flashy jutsu like Yondaime-sama, that baka will never be able to beat Neji!" shouted Sakura.
'And when he's unconscious, we'll kidnap him and take him to the village where we'll learn all his jutsu and give them to Sasuke-kun! YEEE!' shouted inner Sakura. (Alternate Critic Me: Yeee? That's the best you could come up with?) (Quiet you or I'll sick Tobi on you.) (ACM: MEEP! *runs away*)
"Sakura, I'm not so sure of that. If his jutsu is anything like the Hiraishin no Jutsu then Neji is in for a beating," said Shikamaru.
"Go Neji! Show them your Flames of Youth! YOSH!" shouted Lee, who managed to pull out a pair of fans with the leaf-spiral on them out of nowhere. (I don't get it either.)
"Kill me…" said Anko, angered because she couldn't track down Daraku. (Till next chapter. Ugh, what's with all my (note) notes lately?)
Arena Floor
The fight started the moment a single leaf fell to the ground. Neji, knowing he would have serious problems if this went on too long, started off by jumping forward, hoping to finish this quickly. Now queue the fight music!!!
(This fight is set to the song Run Around. Not the version by Blues Traveler. To get to it, go on to Youtube and search Run Around + Digimon. I know, it sounds dorky, but come on! We're a bunch of people with nothing better in our lives to do than read and write Fan Fiction!)
As Neji dashed forward, he was nearly caught by the hail of mutant kunai that pelted the entire arena. They were everywhere!
"You think this can beat my Byakugan?" asked Neji.
"Don't need to. Can't beat what you can't catch! I'll beat you with just 3 jutsu I bet!" shouted Senkou.
"Let's go!" shouted Neji, dashing again.
Senkou didn't respond. Instead, he warped to a kunai right next to Neji and back-handed him in the face. Neji managed to skid into the wall of the arena, and damn, that hurt! He then saw the man envelope himself in charka, obviously prepping for a warp, so Neji did the only thing he could think of at the moment with his ANBU training. He quickly formed seals and, having shouted out the name of his jutsu, caused a dragon made of earth to be launched at Senkou, who turned and warped to a kunai attached to the wall of the arena.
"Keh, you're pretty good. Can you keep up though?" shouted the deep blond, who then started warping around the arena, tossing random sharp pointy implements of doom at Neji, who managed to catch them all.
The man then started warping to the many kunai next to Neji, performing sweeping and spinning moves, warping the moment he hit him, forcing Neji to use his Kaiten to obliterate the kunai and knock his opponent back several feet, before Senkou threw a kunai at him and prepared to warp. But he didn't count on two things: that Mr. I-Have-A-Pole-Shoved-Up-My-Ass-Without-Lube would have destroyed his sharp pointy weapon and that he was facing Neji directly, not at an angle, causing Neji to see something he should not have, just before he blocked the strike from the Hyuuga.
"That's not the Hiraishin! You don't even need the kunai! While impressive, all you're doing is compressing space-time in a direct line in front of yourself then moving forward in a cheap mockery of Yondaime-sama's jutsu!" shouted the Hyuuga.
"Very perceptive. Then this means I can stop this warm-up," said Senkou, causing the Konoha Nin in the stands to gasp.
Arena stands: Konoha Section
"What is this guy?" asked Shikamaru.
"To have such skill, he must train constantly! YOSH! I SHALL UP MY OWN TRAINING TO GROW MY FLAMES OF YOUTH TO THESE PEOPLE'S LEVEL! YOSH!!!" shouted the green monstrosity.
"So? Neji-san's going to kick his ass!" shouted Sakura the lipless.
"I doubt it. No one's been able to Senkou-Taichou with the exception of Raiden-Taichou and 'The Leader,'" said a random ANT Nin.
Arena Floor
"Then let's finish this! Hakke: Tenken!" shouted Neji, who dashed forward, his hands glowing as he attacked.
But it was not to be, for Senkou ducked under his fist and punched him in the gut, before warping to just behind the Hyuuga. Said Konoha Nin then tried to launch a retaliating attack, causing his dark blond opponent to block, before warping to Neji's left and launching an aerial crescent kick, which the man with girly hair blocked, barely. But the moment of impact, the 'flasher' warped and launched an axe kick to Neji's left shoulder. (ACM: Bad joke man.) (Oh Tobi!!!) (ACM: I'll be good!!!)
"How does this jutsu work?" asked Neji.
"I probably shouldn't say this, but fuck that! I made this jutsu just to stop those cheap doujutsu. I use the opponent's chakra to form a stabilizer field, allowing me to mimic the Hiraishin on a smaller scale without a tag," said Senkou, smirking.
"Then in that case," said Neji, repressing his chakra, "You can't use that jutsu of yours with my chakra field suppressed. This means, I'VE WON! Hakke: Rokujuuyonshou!" shouted Neji, unleashing the Hyuuga clans 5 most powerful technique… Only for Senkou to blur in tune with his moves.
"Senkou Houko," said Senkou, who then ran forward and struck with blinding speed, totally annihilating all sense of hope for his victory. At this moment, Tsuku stepped in.
"The match is over: With his 3 jutsu to his opponents 4, Senkou is the winner!"
The Konoha Nin never stood a chance.
Camp Exit, 10 Minutes Later
"Well, this will be troublesome to report," said Shikamaru.
"What's troublesome is I couldn't find that creepy guy who knew Orochimaru!" shouted Anko.
"Well, I trust this match was informative to your village?" asked Tsuku.
"Yeah, so we'll just send a hawk to you guys whenever we have a mission for you. But your men are strong," answered Shikamaru.
"YOSH!" shouted Lee.
"We choose to take this as a compliment," said Raiden, before they all walked their separate ways.
Meanwhile: Ichiraku Ramen
"That's the most ramen I've ever seen anyone eat sense Naruto-Nii-san left!" shouted a midsized slender woman with brown hair and eyes who was working the stand.
"Keep making ramen like that and I'll be back for more," said a mysterious figure who was wearing a rust orange trench coat emblazoned with the ANT X-crosses with a sword strapped to his waist. He then just tossed a single gold coin at the woman, before walking off.