It'd been two days since Ed got his headband and started working on filling scrolls, and so far all he's managed to get done was 2 verry large scrolls (think the toad summoning contract size). 'Man, this is going to take forever! So far I've only covered the bare basics...the kid stuff! I need to take a break.' Getting up and stretching, he headed out the door to get a couple more scrolls to finish off the basics so he could finaly start on the more intermidiate and advanced stuff.
As he was walking down the hallway he bumped into none other than an extremely bored Naruto.
"Hey Ed, heard you passed your lil test, how was it? How'd they rank ya?"
"Eh, she made me a chunin, apearently I put on one hell of a show" he said with a small grin. Apearently that was the wrong answer to give the obnoxious, hyper blonde.
"What! That's so not fair! I've been learning to be a ninja since I was 6! And they make you a Chunin while I'm still a Genin and can kick your ass?"
"Heh, not my fault. I didn't make the rules around here" was his response to his extremely anoyed friend.
"Well at least tell me what happend, the suspense is killing me damn it!" whined Naruto.
"Sheesh, fine, alright" and then he went about telling him about the 'test'.
- Flash back -
A guy with a realy bad cough came out into the stadium. "Would both partisapants please come to the middle of the arena."
The person that Ed now realized that he'd be fighting apeared in a puff of smoke on the other side of the proctor. He was wearing a brown sleeveless trenchcoat with a long sleeve black mesh shirt underneath, slightly darker brown pants with black splotches here and there with black combat boots.
"Ok, the rules are simple, you fight untill your opponent is either knocked out, dead, or gives up. Also, I may step in if I feel that the match is over. Any question? No? good!" With that said, the proctor jumped out of the way and yelled for the match to begin.
Both people got into their respective stances and waited for the other to initiate the battle. Ed started to get anoyed with the slow circling they were doing to keep each other at a distance, so finaly he started it off. He clapped his hands together and grinned, causing the other man to look at him like he was nuts. Ed then slammed his hands on the ground causing cement spikes to rise from the ground.
The tan trench coat wearing man jumped out of the way of the wave of spikes, taking off at Ed as he landed off to the side of the spikes. Going through a series of handseals as he closed in on him, he sent a giant firball at Ed. Ed jumped out of the way and threw a kunai at the man.
"You realy think you can beat me shorty?" asked the man in the tan coat as he went through a couple seals before sending a series of fireballs at Ed. "Screw you" he replied and then dodged the fireballs, claped his hands together and ran his hand over his metal arm creating a blade out of part of the matal that is his auto-mail arm. He then charged at the tan coat wearing man and swung his arm like a sword, leaving a small gash in the mans chest as he tried to jump out of the way. Ed then jumped and sent a kick twords the mans head only to have him duck and punch him in the chest, sending him back a few feet.
Ed jumped out of the way just as the mans foot was about to connect with his head and threw several shuriken at the man. He then made a couple seals and yelled "Chigatana: karakurenai desu yaiba" as he slashed at the man, sending a crimson cresent shaped blade at the man. The trench coat wearing man jumped to avoid the attack, only to get nailed in the chest with several kunai. He then exploded, revealing a small log in his place.
Several kunai came from the direction of the trees, exploding as they hit the ground about a half meter from Ed, creating a dust cloud and effectively knocking him on his ass. 'Fuck, that hurt...now whare is that prick?' Ed thaught as he rolled backwards onto his feet, back flipping away as shuriken flew twords the spot he was previously in. As he back flipped he threw a couple kunai in the direction the shuriken came from.
'man, whare is this guy? this is nothing like any of the fights from back home!'Ed thaught as he slowly spun around searching the area. "come out you coward, fight me like a man!"
And so the man did just that, apearing beside him, with his fist in ed's stomach which efectivly knocked the wind out of him and sent him flying backwards into a nearby tree. As ed fell from the impact he claped his hands together. He hit the ground hands first, sending yet another wave of spikes tword the tan coat wearing man. The man tried to move but quickly found that not only was there spikes coming at him, he was also knee deep in the floor and the floor was solid. The spikes peirced his elbows and shoulders when he blocked them, another stoped just barely peircing the skin of his jaw.
"Heh, I'd have to say that I won, wouldn't you?" Ed said as more of a statement then a question.
"I supose so, being as im imobolized" was all the man in the tan trench said.
"Winner, Edward Elric" the proctor called out. Ed then removed the spikes from the man, saying that it was a good match, to which the other man agreed as he was being looked over by a mednin.
-end flash back-
"wow, thats awesome!" Naruto said as he clasped his hand on Eds shoulder. "I wonder, think ya could teach me that whole clap your hands and make spikes thing? I mean, it's awesome and it'd make one hell of a surprise attack!"
"Maybe, but it would take a while to learn, and besides, you'd have to learn about transmutation circles and how to use them. Now the part about doing it with out a circle though, I won't teach you...sorry."
"What? Why not?" Naruto asked some what confused.
"Forbiden. The only way to learn to do it with out a circle is...well, its the reason that it's forbiden. Thats all I'm going to say about it too. So don't ask. Well, at any rate I still need to grab a couple more scrolls and finish writing stuff down for the archive. Apearently alot of what I know would be usefull some how."
"Oh, well, see ya later then Ed!" Naruto yelled as he ran off to go work on one of the new jutsus hed came up with while on his last mission.
"Yea, yea. Later Naruto." Ed then continued off to find a couple more large scrolls so he could finish up for the day. 'I wonder what Lee is up to? Hehe I bet hes training as usual...I suppose I'll find out later.'
Several hours later Ed finaly decided to call it a day, finaly getting a quarter of the way through the third scroll. After a few minutes of putting things away he left the building and started his walk twords the tower to report on his progress.
Getting to the tower he headed up the stairs to Tsunades office, knocking on her door when he got there. After being beconed in Ed walked over to Tsunade and placed two rather large scrolls on her desk before sitting in a chair opposite of her.
"Well Ed, whats in the scrolls? I take it your your finished already?" Tsunade asked.
"Partialy Madam Hokage. The first scroll covers, in great detail, the laws of Alchemy. It also covers in verry minor detail Transmutation Circles...basicly a bare basics itroduction to them. The second covers Transmutation Circles in greater detail, including diferent types and their purposes. I'm currently working on another scroll."
"Edward, how many scrolls could you fill?" the Hokage asked.
"To be honest ma'am, I think I could fill three or four more that size. Why?"
Tsunade paled but quickly regained her composure and said "Well, I want you to work with my old team mate Jiraiya, have him look over what you've writen and see if he understands it. He's a seal expert, a pervert, but if anybody other than you can understand it, it'd be him."
"When am I to meet with him ma'am?"
She laced her fingers together in front of her with her elbows on the desk "He's most likely at the bath house right now...I want you to go there and have him come to my office. You are to go retrive him imidiately, now go."
"Yes ma'am!" and with that Ed set off to find the pervert. Ten minutes later Ed arived at the bath house, not quite sure whare this mysterious pervert Jiraiya would be. That was until he heard giggling coming from a seperation fence somewhare near by. He silently walked over to whare he heard the giggling coming from.
"Hey, pervert! You're Jiraiya right?" Ed loudly asked while cupping his hands to his mouth to make his voice a bit louder. To his pleasure, and the white haired mans displeasure, the women on the other side of the fence started shrieking. He chuckled to himself as the other man seemed to be startled and anoyed, whether it was because he let his gaurd down or because he'd drove off all the cute women, he didnt know.
Turning around, Jiraiya placed his notebook that he was writing in in one of his pockets and glared at Ed. "Brat" he started "whyd you have to go and ruin my research like that? that was realy rude you know."
Ed arched his eyebrow and said "and peeping on women isnt? By the way, I was sent to come get you by Tsunade. Something about her wanting you to look at a couple scrolls. oh, and also, im supposed to work with you on the subject pertaining to the scrolls."
"Ah, so your that brat she told me about" Jiraiya said. "Well come on, that woman has a horible temper so we better not keep her waiting too long."
list of jutsu
Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)
Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique)
chigatana: karakurenai desu yaiba (bloody sword: crimson death blade)mine
Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique)
