Chapter 6: The First Meeting

Time Frame: 2 months after Naruto left to search for Sasuke with Jiraiya.

Location: Village Hidden in the Grass.

"Thanks for the meal." Ryuunosuke said as he paid for his food and left. it had been 2 months since he left home to try and figure out his Kekkai Genkai, yet so far he had turned up empty-handed.

Ryuunosuke headed out to a field in order to train. He took a deep breathe and closed both his eyes, then opened just his left eye to activate the First Release of his Kekkai Genkai, Kashi-ka. He wasn't practicing it's defensive quality, as he could only do that in battle, but rather it's scanning capabilities. This stage of his Kekkai Genkai could work much like the Byakugan, in which he could scan great lengths in all direction for chakra, but more than that he was able to read chakra. Using this stage he could tell how strong a ninja was in terms of Jutsu, and even what chakra natures they were capable of, allowing him to get a good clue about how to go about fighting them.

As he looked through the chakra's in the Hidden Grass Village, he saw a number of decent ninja, but it was actually a chakra outside of the village that caught his interest. The chakra was coming closer, and it was extremely powerful, quite a bit stronger than his own chakra even. After a few minutes, the man appeared on the field, and Ryuunosuke stopped the use of his Kekkai Genkai.

The man had black hair and red eyes, and was wearing a white robe tied with a black belt around his waist and was wearing a hidden cloud headband. "Might as well stay here for a while." He said to himself and walked toward the village.

"Hey," Ryuunosuke said and walked toward the man. "Who are you?"

"Who's asking?" The man asked.

"My name is Ryuunosuke. I've been traveling to find strong ninja to do battle with. You caught my eye just now." Ryuunosuke explained.

"I caught your eye you say? Well then you must have a good eye. My name is Takahiro, I am looking to get stronger as well, so I will accept your challenge."

Ryuunosuke and Takahiro got ready to fight. "I warn you, I'm not your average ninja, and I'm not going to go easy on you." Takahiro told Ryuunosuke.

"I already know all that, you caught my eye for a reason." Ryuunosuke noted, then close his eyes, and then opened his left eye. "Daburuai; First Release: Kashi-ka!"

What's that? Takahiro wondered as Ryuunosuke used the strange skill. His power seems to reside in his eyes, but I thought that was only with Sharingan and Byakugan. "This should be interesting." Takahiro said, then made hand signs. "Earth Style: Rock Wave Jutsu." He called, and then a wave of earth rose up to attack Ryuunosuke.

Impressive jutsu, with this kind of move, there's only one possible direction to dodge... Ryuunosuke thought, and made hand signs just as the earth wave crashed down on him.

"Hee, so were you all talk?" Takahiro called out.

"Of course I'm not." Takahiro heard Ryuunosuke's voice come from below him, and looked down to see Ryuunosuke's hand come out of the ground. "Earth Style: Head Hunter Jutsu." He called, and pulled down on Takahiro's leg.

"I don't think so!" Takahiro said, and used his strength to actually pull Ryuunosuke out of the ground and throw him to the side.

"Not bad, but I suppose it's only fair to warn you right now, I know you are using an Earth Style Defense to cover your body." Ryuunosuke stated.

"What, how could you/ You eye?" Takahiro was surprised.

"That's correct." Ryuunosuke replied.

"Well, knowing that doesn't do you much good unless you have Lightning Style."

"No, even if I did, it wouldn't help me against you, not with the Wind Style you have in reserve." Ryuunosuke replied, and left Takahiro speechless.

What kind of power does that eye of his hold? Takahiro wondered.

"In light of that knowledge, continuing the use of my first release won't help me much, my second release will be even more useless. Giving me one more option here..." Ryuunosuke said, and opened his right eye without closing his left like he would for Kogeki. "... Third Release: Kyanseru!" (Literally: Cancel) Once Ryuunosuke called out this third release, Takahiro got defensive instinctively, and then Ryuunosuke ran up to him, jumped and spin kicked at Takahiro's head.

Takahiro put up his hand to catch the kick. "Taijutsu is/" Takahiro started, but then when Ryuunosuke's leg got an inch away from his hand, his Rock Skin began to crumble off of his hand, as if it were trying to avoid being touched by Ryuunosuke, thought Takahiro still caught his leg. "Wh-what?" Takahiro was speechless to what just happened, so much so that his focused was so transfixed upon the leg he just caught he didn't even notice Ryuunosuke swing his fist at his face until a moment before it hit him, when the Earth Jutsu crumbled off his face, leaving him vulnerable to the punch, and knocking him back.

Takahiro stared with absolute shock on his face. "I can see you don't understand what just happened, so allow me to explain." Ryuunosuke said. "My Kekkai Genkai, Daburuai, has three releases. My third release is called Kyanseru, and it's power is to do just that, 'cancel' jutsu." Ryuunosuke told Takahiro. "What it does is set a special invisible shell around me using my own chakra that has a sort of reverse flow to it, so whenever it gets near something infused with chakra, that thing is automatically stripped clean of the chakra holding it up, which is why your rock skin crumbled as I neared it."

Takahiro stood shocked for another moment, but then grinned at this incredible challenge. "I see, well then I guess I'll have to do something I haven't done in a long time..." He said, and put his hand on his chest, and the rock skin he wore broke apart, leaving his real body unprotected. "... I'll have to disregard my armor. You really are something else Ryuunosuke, throughout all my battles, only two others have gotten past my Rock Skin Jutsu, so I will regard you as the second strongest person I've ever fought."

"Second strongest huh, so already you consider me stronger than one of those two others. I suppose I should feel honored, considering the fair difference in our real powers." Ryuunosuke said.

"Are you saying you think you are that much stronger than I am?" Takahiro asked, displeased by the arrogance.

"No, it's the exact opposite, you are that much stronger than I." Ryuunosuke corrected him. "If I thought I was stronger, I wouldn't have asked to fight you."

"I see, so you're humble, that a good quality to have in battle. But enough talk, time to get back to the battle." Takahiro said, making hand signs. "Wind Style: Wind sickle jutsu!" Takahiro called as the wind picked up and a large sickle of wind was sent toward Ryuunosuke, but Ryuunosuke held out his hands and when the sickle came near, it broke apart under Ryuunosuke's Kyanseru. "Not yet," Takahiro said, taking a vile and drinking what was in it, then making more hand signs. "Geyser Shot Jutsu!" He called, and shot out a ton of rushing water at Ryuunosuke, but the result was the same, and the water couldn't actually hit him, it just fell apart. But Takahiro made more hand signs. "Fissure Jutsu!" He said, then stomped down on the ground, making the ground all around begin to brake up and rise.

This time however, Ryuunosuke seemed to get more defensive. "First Release: Kashi-ka." He called, closing his right eye, and watched or a moment as the fissure came closer to him. Just before the fissure reached him, Ryuunosuke jumped up, and when the plate rose up, Ryuunosuke landed on it without any problem, then opened both his eyes again to go back into Kyanseru.

What, why did he dodge that one? It's just another Ninjutsu. Takahiro wondered, but stopped thinking about it as Ryuunosuke began to run up to him.

When Ryuunosuke got close, he made some hand signs. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" He called, and shot a large fireball strait for Takahiro.

"Water Style: Water Wall Jutsu!" Takahiro said as he made hand signs and a wall of water rose up to block the fire jutsu.

But then, just after the Jutsu's ended, Ryuunosuke punched at Takahiro, and he only had his right eye open now. "Second Release: Kogeki!" He said as he punched.

Takahiro tried to dodge by shifting to the side, but just as he did, Ryuunosuke's hand seemed to follow him, and still hit him in the face. And this time Ryuunosuke didn't stop at one punch this time, he continued to make jabs at Takahiro, and each time Takahiro tried to dodge, Ryuunosuke's fist just seemed to follow him as if they were magnetized to him.

Another punch came, and this time Takahiro kept his ground and took the punch full on, but then grabbed Ryuunosuke's arm before he could get away. "Take this!" Takahiro said, and flipped Ryuunosuke onto his back, then kicked him away.

Just as Ryuunosuke got back up, Takahiro was on top of him again. He's fast! Ryuunosuke thought as it only took a moment, but didn't hesitate to throw a punch at Takahiro as Takahiro threw a punch at him, both stopping just before the punches connected, and grinned at each other.

"You said there was a fair difference between our strength Ryuunosuke." Takahiro said. "But if you ask me, I think you make up for that difference in strength with an equal difference in skill." He told him, and the two of them clapped hands.

"As I recall, you said that you are also looking get stronger by fighting strong opponents, correct?" Ryuunosuke asked.

"That's right." Takahiro said, realizing the two of them had the same thought.

"So how would you feel about us traveling with me so we can look for strong opponents together. Maybe I'll even get to battle those two other you mark as the strongest people you've done battle with, and get to beat the one you think is weaker than me." Ryuunosuke said.

"That sounds like a plan to me." Takahiro said in agreement. With this guy with me, getting my revenge might become easier than I thought.

"Perfect!" Ryuunosuke exclaimed. This is it, after two months of searching, I think I'm finally starting to find the answer I'm looking for. The answer to my Kekkai Genkai.