Everyone was tense after the five day's and in that time 28 Genin's had passed the test.
Now the genin were all ready for the Hokage to give his announcement.
Naruto was ready to bounce off the walls with built up excitement. He couldn't believe he was finally going to be a chunin. One step closer to obtaining the seat of the Hokage.
Sasuke had a small smirk on his face, glad that he was gaining more power.
The thought caused his smirk to disappear as he started to think about it. "Power isn't everything… Daniel told me it's more of how it is used… almost as if… no… focus on the here and now. His past is his own business and as long as it does not affect the team then it isn't a problem."
Danny on the other hand, though excited about making it to the third exam, couldn't shake the feeling of dread coming towards him. It was as if 'Murphy's Law' has decided to take a full swing at him or something. All thoughts though were suddenly cut off as the Hokage spoke.
"First, before I tell you what the third exam is entails. I want explain something about the test itself, listen closely."
A few people seemingly straighten up upon hearing this. "I'm going to explain to you all the true purpose of these exams. Why do you suppose our country hold these exams in conjunction with our allies?"
By now, all eye's fell on the Hokage who began speaking. "To raise the ability levels of the shinobi and increase relations between allied nations. But it's important that you all understand it's true meaning, the exams are so to speak… they are a representation a battle between nations whether they be allied neutral or enemies."
"Now, if we look at our history, all the countries that we are currently allied, were once neighboring nations that continuously fought with each other for power. In order to avoid destroying each others military strength meaninglessly, those nations picked champions to do battle on behalf of their countries at a mutually selected location. That was how the Chunin selection exams originally began."
Everyone started paying attention now as Danny narrowed his eyes. He felt there was something more to this.
"Part of the point of these exams involve selecting shinobi that are of becoming Chunin, that's just not the whole story. These exams also allow for a place where shinobi can carry the pride of their nation on their backs."
Slow murmurs went threw the crowd at this point before quieting down as the Hokage continued to speak.
"Many leaders and people of prominence from various countries are invited to this exam as guests and also possibly seek shinobi to work for them. This exam could determine the course of your ninja work from here on out, and more importantly those people will watch your battles and take note of the strength of each ninja that each nation is developing. If there's a gap in power between the countries, the strong nations are inundated with job requests for their ninja and conversely the requests of countries that are deemed as weak decline. Therefore the stronger our nation is better our position when it comes to negotiating with neighboring countries, so it's important to show how much military strength our village has."
Everyone looked around and saw no nobles or leaders in the vicinity. Maybe they would come later.
By now Danny let his mind wonder, if it was a nation that is, how strong the Ghost Zone would really be.
After a few seconds he came to the conclusion that it would probably be able to wipe the floor with any of the elemental countries unless they all joined together to stop the ghosts. But then again how can you stop beings that can walk through walls, disappear, fly, and a whole slew of other abilities such as elemental manipulation, time control, and the ability to warp reality to your liking?
He had to snort, not going to happen anytime soon. Like the entire Ghost Zone could even work together at the moment as it is. They would tear each other apart.
"The countries strength is the village's strength, the village's strength is the shinobi's strength, and the true strength of the shinobi is only achieved when it's pushed to it's limits, such as in a life or death battle. This exam is a chance for each nation to display its strength of its shinobi and hence the strength of the nation as well. It's because this is an exam where your life is on the line, that it has meaning, and it's for this very reason and for the strength of the nation, that your forerunners have fought in this exam. It's truly a dream worth striving for."
Yep, Danny could never see the Ghost Zone, as it were at the moment, actually being able to do this without causing massive chaos amongst itself. If that wasn't enough then maybe the fact that it would take an hour maybe half in each others presence and the ghosts would start fighting amongst themselves.
"But you've only remembered half of what I've said, you also mustn't have the wrong idea of the exams meaning. This is a custom in which balance is preserved by fighting and dying, in the world of the shinobi that is friendship. The third exam is a fight for life with the pride of your village and your own dreams at stake."
A sickly looking man appeared before the third Hokage. "Lord Hokage, if I may? Allow me to explain the details of the third exam." Hiruzen paused as he considered the details. "Of course Hayate."
The man known as Hayate glanced at the genin in front of him and spoke. "As you are aware there are a rather large number of genin who made it this far. So rather than start on the third exams we are going to have a preliminary round to decide who stays and who goes."
This got some rather annoyed remarks from those who had barely made it through the forest in time to even get to the tower. "You see we were under the impression that the forest would have been enough to reduce the numbers by more than half as you can see it was too easy. Therefore we have decided to have a preliminary round to determine who participates. As you are aware the exams will have honored guests and nobles who will be watching the exams to determine which village will be sending out the best shinobi for their missions to be completed. As you can guess we do not want to waste their time with those who are weak. So the preliminary exams will begin immediately. If you feel you are not well enough to continue with this exam then please drop out now. If one person does drop out, it doesn't mean the entire team follows as well."
There were only two people who had decided to quit that time: the first was an iwagakure participant who had broken his leg in the forest of death and he felt he couldn't continue in another fight for a while. The other was a takigakure kunoichi who was exhausted and on the verge of collapse from lack of sleep. She looked like she wouldn't even make it to the stairs.
By now Danny was frowning as he realized that something was wrong and surly enough it was revealed that there had to be a preliminary before the start of the exam. This came as a shock to everyone as he crossed his arms keeping a schooled look.
Probably from spending too much time at Clockwork's place and around said time master. He was able to school his face to not react to anything, but internally he was freaking out at having to fight others.
The main reason was, he knew more lost jutsu then any new one's, and a quarter of them maybe less were insanely destructive. He could remember one that accidentally tore a hole right threw the time masters home, which was made of something that he already forgot the name of.
Soon enough the first fight was up and everyone moved up to the walkways to be clear of the fighting. No one dropped out apparently and out of the corner of his eye Danny caught sight of Kabuto Yakushi smirking for some reason.
Danny said nothing, but upon walking past Sasuke whispered in a voice just low enough for the last Uchiha to hear. "Best not use anything too revealing Sasuke but, … 500 ryo says you can't beat this guy without your Sharingan or jutsu."
Without missing a beat Danny continued to walk away while Sasuke glanced at him from the corner of his eye. The black haired boy only smirked slightly at the challenge presented to him before turning to face his opponent.
Up in the stands Danny made sure to stand away from the two green spandex clad people and Kabuto. Kakashi though only glanced down at the arena before turning to look at his two students.
Naruto had his signature fox like grin on his face while Danny was only frowning and glancing out of the corner of his eye towards the silver haired genin. Following the boy's gaze the Jonin saw said genin as well before realizing the reason that the boy was doing so. "Seems like someone is overly interested in this fight… best keep an eye on him as well."
At the end of the fight Sasuke managed to win not using his Sharingan or any of his Jutsus. Danny also discreetly smirked as he handed the last Uchiha's winnings over to him, hoping that he had learned something from this little endeavor.
The next of the matches was shown on screen: Zaku Abumi and Shino Aburame
By the looks of it, the sound genin had an accident in the forest of death as his arm was in a sling.
Danny glanced at the kid. 'So this is one of the genin from the hidden sound village. I know that it means that their attacks may be related to sound but the only person who has any attacks from our team that uses fire is sasuke. Guess I am going to have to find out.'
"The next fight of the Preliminaries will now begin: Zaku Abumi against Shino Aburame. Hajime."
Zaku began the match by attacking Shino with an air decapitating wave. "ZANKAHUHA" The wave of air created a large dustcloud on impacting Shino and his bugs. "Alright idiot was that enough for you?"
The dust cleared showing that the attack barely left a dent. "Are you sure that was efficient? There was hardly any power in that attack."
Danny had to agree. Despite it being a wind based attack this one was very weak.
Zaku couldn't believe his eyes. 'What… What is this guy, he's a living freakshow. Bugs coming out of his body like a human hive.' Hearing something, the sound genin looked around to determine what he was hearing. When he saw what he was hearing his heart began racing.
Shino pressed on. "You should know that in order for one person to have a better chance at victory, they need an ace in the hole. If you try and attack me, my friends can deplete you dry. Should you choose to attack them, I will attack you from your blind spot. Let me warn you though, the way they will finish you will not be pretty."
"Grrr…" Zaku then smirked. Bringing his arm out of his sling. "You talk about an ace in the hole. How's this? ZANKAHUHA!" He shouted as he aimed both arms at the bugs and the Aburame.
That was when he felt a pain in his arms as he felt the tubes inside his arms break apart from the inside out. "GAAAHHHHH" he shouted as his arms dangled uselessly at his sides.
"When you have an ace in the hole you need to think two steps ahead and not just one. While I was distracting you with stating your options, I had some parasitic beetles climb into the tubes in your arms and plug them up. The way it looks, your days as a shinobi are over."
"Winner: Shino Aburame."
Following Shino's Match came Sabaku no Kankuro vs Misumi Tsurugi
Hayate looked at the two. "The next match between Sabaku no Kankuro and Misumi Tsurugi will now begin.
"Why don't you let me do you a favor and end this fight quickly." Kankuro taunted his opponent.
"Only if I don't do so beforehand." Tsurugi countered as they ran at each other. Misumi was the first to use his jutsu as he bent his limbs like coils of a snake around his victim baffling everyone. "Heh. I had dislocated all my joints and manipulated my limbs through chakra alone."
Danny gaped at this guy. Who was this guy, a freaking plastic man?
"The more you struggle the tighter I can become." Misume warned him.
It sounded like Kankuro's neck broke. Shocking everyone including Danny. But what really broke the suspense was the cracking of the face revealing it to be a wooden puppet. "You idiot. Now its my turn."
The puppet wrapped its wooden limbs around Tsurugi cutting off his air supply. "I I… I surrender."
The puppet user let go of the participant and was declared the winner.
Next up on the screen came: Nii Yugito and Ino Yamanaka.
Danny winced at this while some of the leaf nin were actually starting to cheer Ino. Mainly her teammate Choji and Gai's Lee.
His hearing higher than normal, he caught her saying: "Now I can prove myself to Sasuke and even one up Forehead."
He shook his head knowing he had to do something.
The next words out of his mouth were the last thing anyone had expected.
"HEY YUGITO…."
This definitely caught their attention. Even the Hokage and Yugito and her team.
"I KNOW THIS DOESN'T SEEM FAIR COMING FROM ME AND IN ASKING YOU THIS BUT WOULD YOU MIND GOING EASY ON THIS GIRL?"
This definitely got Ino enraged at him. Not to mention surprise from the other teams. A fellow leaf Shinobi doubting even her? Publicly?
"Hmm.. Not exactly encouraging Daniel." His sensei admonished him. Danny turned to his team.
"Kakashi-sensei, from what I know of both opponents and my past few seconds of observations sensei, to call this a one sided battle before my request was stated would be the most severe understatement of the century."
Kakashi glanced at him. "What do you mean by that?"
Danny looked at his sensei. Speaking in whisper. "Let's just say, she is like Naruto and Ino is still a fangirl only armed with minimal taijutsu and her mind swap technique."
Kakashi's face began paling at the implications his student was giving him.
This…. was not going to be pretty for Ino…. Considering her opponent is a serious kunoichi and not a fangirl like Ino herself.
Hayate coughed before speaking. "The battle between Nii Yugito and Ino Yamanaka will now begin."
Yugito began the battle by tossing two shuriken at the green kunoichi. The blonde Yamanaka heiress barely evaded them. Despite having experience at the academy and with her sensei, this opponent of hers was not fooling around.
Ino decided to end this quickly. Taking a kunai, she slashed the hair off her head shocking everyone even Danny to figure out what she was going to do with that.
She threw the kunai at her opponent hoping to get her distracted. All Yugito had to do was grab the kunai out of the air. But that was all Ino needed time to do. Quickly channeling her chakra into her hair, she was able to halt Yugito's movements.
The next thing was just what Danny had predicted. She used her mind transfer on Yugito. For a rookie Yamanaka to use their mind transfer technique against someone like Naruto, Yugito, or Gaara was just asking for trouble.
By the time their match was over, Ino was looking traumatized; shaking on the ground. "You need help getting up? Or do you need the medics?" Seeing the girl not answering Hayate called out for the medics to come and help. The medics gave Ino a sedative to knock her out. Even still they could see phantom twitches.
Next Match: Omoi vs Daisuke Hagiwara
Omoi stood facing the shinobi from Takigakure. Daisuke was a shinobi who carried himself with little patience.
"The next round between Omoi and Daisuke will now begin."
Daisuke looked at the Kumo ninja. Omoi was just standing there sucking on his lollipop. 'Sigh'. "Why did I have to get one of the impatient idiots as my opponent? By the looks of it, this guy doesn't even know the meaning of the word."
"Grrrrr…" Daisuke gritted his teeth at the remark. "Why you little. Takigakure secret technique, Water Sword." A blade of flowing water emerged from his pouch as flew towards the Kumo nin.
"This guy doesn't even know how to wield a sword let alone an elemental version of one." Omoi murmered out loud. "It almost seems pointless to draw my own blade. Oh Well."
Turning his sword from the blade to the flat piece, he turned his opponent's blade downward into the ground therefore destroying the genin's blade and splattering water everywhere, making Daisuke's eyes widen.
"You don't really do your research do you. You know where I come from so you know what we specialize in. Right?"
Going through some handsigns he yelled out: "Lightning style: Electrical Power Surge." He shouted as the electricity began to conduct itself towards the Taki nin in electrocuting him making him fall to the floor in shock.
Hayate looked at the kid thinking it could have gone better. "Winner: Omoi."
The kumo Shinobi walked out wishing it could have been more exciting.
The next batch of combatants were revealed on the screen. Temari vs Tenten.
"Alright everyone the next participants for the preliminary exams are Sabaku no Temari vs Tenten. Will the two fighters please come down?"
The two kunoichi stared each other down trying to intimidate the other.
Despite her face showing calm expressions, inside she was hyped up about being able to fight one of the shinobi from the Sand village. 'Those last few matches have gotten my blood pumping. Now I can see what she is capable of.' Even her teammates were cheering her on to a degree.
"Alright, begin!"
The two continued staring each other till Tenten leapt back upon seeing her opponent smirk while at the same time determining what would be the best approach.
"Did either of you two hear me? I had already started the match." Hayate questioned the two.
Temari smirked at the girl believing that she was only going to wait for her to make the first move. She probably had no experience in fighting someone who actually did the same thing. "Come on girl, show me what you got."
Tenten started off by throwing several shuriken at her opponent. Naruto may have been itching for some action but he saw the hesitation in Tenten's face when it looked like they had phased right through Temari. He looked at his foster brother who shook his head in denial as if to say it wasn't the same thing.
"Looks like the sand village wins this match yet again." Naruto glanced towards his classmate Nara Shikamaru.
"Hey don't belittle Tenten like that, we have trained with her for at least a year. She never misses her mark in target practice no matter what weapon she uses." Her sensei admonished them trying to defend his student.
"This time she did." Her other teammate Neji confirmed it.
Next thing people saw was Tenten pulling out a scroll and unsealing it releasing a multitude of Kunai, shuriken and other weapons she had gotten her hands on. Tenten launched the weapons at Temari which she surprised many as she had just blown away from her.
Every person in the room saw her fan partially opened up. "You see this fan? On it I have three moons painted with each one detailing the strength of the gust. The moment it gets to the third, this match should be over."
Danny looked at her sensei, "Gai, Lee, please tell me that this is not all that Tenten specializes in, right?" He asked his tone displaying hints of desperation, disappointment, and knowing.
Gai looked at the genin next to him. "What are you talking about? Tenten has more than enough weapons in her arsenal to take down any number of people."
Danny shook his head at the display. "If this is the way that Tenten likes to attack, and continues, then she will be completely at the mercy of that sand kunoichi, whether she wants to believe it or not. That wind jutsu of hers is even stronger than Zaku Abumi's; and as she said before that was just the first moon."
Naruto and Sasuke looked at their comrade. "Ni-san what exactly do mean by that? Can you explain it to me please?"
'sigh'. "Even without my Kekkei Genkai, I can see different ways that this can play out, and the probable method to counter it. You are all aware of what the ability of wind can do to physical objects right?"
"Yes, it tends to either blow it away or to make it stronger, in my case, my fire jutsu." Sasuke answered.
Danny nodded but continued his explanation. "It may not look it, but the battle is in the sand kunoichi's favor and what is worse, she doesn't realize it, but Tenten is actually helping her win."
This caught a lot of people by surprise. Kakashi was starting to catch onto what his student was saying and wasn't liking where this was going but decided to let him explain the situation in his own words.
"You are aware how fast Temari-san moved the first part of the match. Tenten first released a few shuriken which she easily dodged. So fast it almost made her look transparent. Then immediately she began releasing a multitude of sharp weapons to combat her by simply launching them all towards her. Even if she has more weapons than people even think she has, there is a limit to how much she can carry and how much she can release. Judging by her behavior, she is launching everything she has out of sheer desperation hoping it will hit her target. If Temari keeps dodging and she keeps throwing she will eventually run out. I'd say she has about two more of those scrolls.
Once that happens not only will the strength of the wind be able to carry even Tenten, but also that wind Temari will launch from her fan will carry all the weapons she has ever thrown into the air back at Tenten. Basically, she is just giving Temari ammo.
Since she is as you say a weapons mistress, she will be subjected to the pain of all of her weapons being thrown at her. Think of it as a piece of meat being assaulted by flying shards of broken glass."
Shock was plastered over Lee and Gai's faces. This couldn't be happening right. Sure they had faith in Tenten but he just listed the easiest way to defeat her without much effort.
"Just out of curiosity how would Tenten, need to win, if you say that there would be a logical way? Humor me." Neji Hyuga, their teammate asked them.
Danny looked at them. "I won't spoil one of my secrets but I would say this much. In terms of artillery, she doesn't have much left nor does she have much of what she needs. What I mean is that she lacks any weapons that wouldn't be used in attacking her back if it was glass like for example, Tonfa or a Bo staff. Those could be adequate in constant motion. Bigger blades, not much use either as even with the tonfa or staff, she would need them more for close combat as that would be her best option."
Gai looked at his student disheartened. He hated it when people criticized his work but even he couldn't deny that and the logic he stated.
Tenten opened up her two dragon scrolls, and released everything at once. Once that occurred Temari released the third moon and lifted Tenten into the air surrounded by few of her weapons. Tenten fell to the floor where Temari caused her to hit her back on the fan rather painfully. This shocked even Danny at the girls brutality. To his defense, Gai also saw how much he was scared. She almost let Tenten fall onto her own weapons except Lee snatched her out of the air.
"Hmph. Nice catch." Temari remarked.
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? YOU ALREADY WON THE MATCH."
"Get real, she wasn't even tough to make me sweat."
Lee screamed as he began to attack Temari before he was stopped by Gai. Gai reminded him that he will have his chance to prove himself in front of them.
"Winner: Temari, You didn't have to go that far."
"Tch.. Whatever."
The next match came up which showed Kin Tsuchi vs Shikamaru Nara
"Sigh, I have to fight a girl… troublesome." Shikamaru muttered as he made his way down to the arena.
Kin looked at the genin she was made to fight against. Going by what she knew of people in Konoha like that she believed him to be a Nara shinobi. So their specialty lied in shadow possession. But he didn't know what she could do.
"Alright the next match between Kin Tsuchi and Shikamaru Nara will now begin."
Shikamaru began his assault on her by starting out with the shadow possession jutsu which she easily evaded. Then she threw senbon at the nara with two of the senbon holding bells. These bells emitted a sound that penetrated the inner ear and the outer ear to produce hallucinations. Basically an almost inescapable genjutsu.
Danny admitted to himself that while his own sound based attack was powerful, he didn't realize that someone could do that with just soft bell noises.
Kin was about to throw senbon at Shikamaru to finish the match till she found herself paralyzed. "What the…?"
Shikamaru smirked "You should realize that there was the possibility of that thread casting a shadow of its own right?"
"So now what we just mimicked each other's movements." Shikamaru made her and himself throw a shuriken at each other. Which he evaded but what he was aiming for was getting her to knock her head on a wall rendering her unconscious.
Naruto heard a whistle from his brother. "Talk about using your head. Even I didn't expect that."
The next fight of the preliminaries really geared Naruto up. "Kiba Inuzuka vs Naruto Uzumaki."
"ALRIGHT NOW ITS MY TIME TO FIGHT! FINALLY I CAN SHOW EVERYONE WHAT I'VE GOT."
Danny chuckled at Naruto's enthusiasm. "Go get em Naruto."
"EXCELLENT LOOKS LIKE WE HIT THE JACKPOT AKAMARU!" Kiba assured his partner.
Hinata was pained. On one hand, she wanted to cheer for Naruto since he gave her confidence. On the other, Kiba was her teammate.
Naruto and Kiba made their way down to the arena floor.
"Alright the next battle of the preliminaries: Naruto Uzumaki against Kiba Inuzuka will now begin."
Kiba allowed chakra to flow towards his hands and feet. Causing his fingers to shape into claws. "Let's go Akamaru. Beast Mimicry." There was a puff of smoke and everyone saw a second feral looking Kiba on top of another feral Kiba. "Tunneling Fang."
Kiba and Akamaru went wild over hitting Naruto or rather tried to. Kiba then threw a rather large smoke bomb at Naruto causing the blonde's vision to be impaired. Kiba then took advantage of Naruto's situation as he and his dog assaulted him at an inhuman speed. "How can he find me if he can't see me?" He pondered out loud.
"Don't you get it dead last? Inuzuka pride themselves on enhanced senses including sense of smell. Even if I can't see you I can still smell you. Same as Akamaru. By the way. Get him Akamaru. End this boy."
Akamaru bolted into the smoke electing a yelp from Naruto. When the smoke cleared everyone saw Naruto lying on the ground facing away from Kiba. Akamaru in his true form running towards his master. "Alright Akamaru good boy that's a good boy." Hayate was about to call the match when Akamaru bit his master's arm. "What? Akamaru, what has gotten into you?"
"HAHAHAHA. Gotcha." Allowing a transformation jutsu to be dispelled. Everyone looked surprised even Danny that Naruto actually managed to one up Kiba. Seeing as how he was biting down on Kiba's arm like a dog.
This caused the team Kakashi to laugh even the team from kumo. "What the? Get off of me that's disgusting." He flung his arm causing Naruto to let go.
"Pttt. Blech. You taste even worse than that dog of yours and that's saying something."
"Where. Where's Akamaru."
"Right here dog breath." The second Naruto answered him as he lifted Akamaru up by the forepaws.
"Now that was pretty interesting. I didn't know that Naruto could use both the transformation and the shadow clone jutsu at once." Danny admitted to his team. His brother really came a long way.
"Looks like knowledge trumps brute force yet again." Danny chuckled.
Kiba chuckled as he looked at the blonde causing Naruto to look at him in question. "Naruto, I'd put Akamaru down if I were you."
"Huh?" Kiba responded by throwing something towards his dog. "Akamaru eat up." To which Akamaru swallowed the pill. Causing his fur to change to a rusty red color and making him kick at the clone dispelling him.
"Hey Kakashi sensei." Danny asked him. "Is that even legal here in the chunin exams?"
This caught his attention as this is the first time his own student asked him a question in regards to the exams. Along with Kurunai. "You actually asked about these exams? I was under the impression that you knew everything regarding the rules of the exams."
Danny shook his head. "Its not that I don't know the rules of the exams. I do and I know what soldier pills are. Its just, back home, we had a rule when it came to physical competition with other teams from different countries. If it was discovered that you were intentionally using a physical strengthening stimulant like an oral steroid or even a soldier pill to win a competition, you were immediately disqualified."
This got some looks as there was more about his country than even they knew. To be honest even if it were a civilian based country it did indeed sound fair.
Kakashi answered for him. "Normally you would be right but there are different types of soldier pills that were allowed to be used here. There are ones that the Akamichi use in dire situations but they take a heavy toll on your body. Those are the ones that are not allowed. Any weaker ones are allowed in the chunin exams. Though I never heard of an oral steroid. Can you explain?" He asked as he observed the two genin fight it out. With Kiba and his hound attacking Naruto more ferociously.
Danny nodded as he explained. "From what I remember. Oral steroids were used to increase the strength and performance of a person's muscles for a period of time. One of the well-known side effects of them was that they put strain on a person's heart no matter how athletic they were. That's why they weren't allowed."
Kakashi could see where he was coming from.
Down on the field, Kiba and Akamaru were having a tough time trying to deal with Naruto. No matter what they did, he just wouldn't go down. "Geez what are you some sort of stamina beast?"
This got a few chuckles out of Naruto. "Get real Kiba. My dream is to be the Hokage. If me and my team could go up against a rather large group of fifty mist nin then what makes you think that this is going to stop me? We work as a team trying to get stronger. No matter what."
Despite Naruto's words of encouragement, Danny slapped his forehead in annoyance. Naruto may be a bit of a stamina beast but he has a loud mouth too. This caused many to glance in the direction of Kakashi and his team. The sand and lighting team especially were interested now.
"What are you talking about there is no way that is true." He denied.
"Believe it." Naruto shot back. He made an army of shadow clones who charged at Kiba launching him into the air and then performing his own Uzumaki barrage at winning the match.
"Winner: Naruto Uzumaki."
"ALRIGHT. I WON."
Danny took his brother by strongarming him. "That's great Naruto I knew you could win. But…"
He lowered his voice. "You may have caused us some rather unwanted attention at the end of your match with that info. Other than that you did good ni-san."
Kakashi sweat dropped at the scene.
The next combatants were the surprise of the match: Dan Fenton vs. Yakushi Kabuto
"So I'm going up against the ever mysterious foster brother of the blonde, eh?" Kabuto hid a smirk before frowning as everyone from team seven seemed to of held back slightly.
As for Danny he kept a calm face as he planned to finish this battle quickly.
"So now we get to see Daniel in combat. Wonder what he has up his sleeves this time?" Kakashi looked down as he watched his student and the silver haired Genin stand in position.
Danny stood in the middle of the arena with his arms at his sides as Kabuto got into his fighting stance. Everyone including the proctor raised an eyebrow but said nothing. "Ready… begin!"
Kabuto launched himself at the halfa who continued to stand still despite the approaching threat. It all stopped upon the silver haired genin somehow falling directly through his opponent as if he was nothing but air.
Kabuto looked confused at the events. He was sure that the kid was the real deal. Even the jonin and Orochimaru in disguise.
Naruto had wide eyes as he recognized this as the same tactic his brother used to protect their client on the wave mission.
Kakashi and Sasuke were gawking at the effects of the technique, while the Hokage had to blink and make sure he had just seen it happen. "WHAT! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? 'That didn't look like an afterimage nor did it look like the bunshin technique'."
Kabuto shouted as he launched himself at Danny again, only to end up going right through his opponent once more.
Now interested in what was happening the Hyuga's activated their Byakugan and Sasuke alongside Kakashi revealed their Sharigan eyes. "I don't understand… the Byakugan isn't registering any flow of chakra within him… in fact… all it can see is some sort of green energy."
Neji spoke as he continued to study the pre-teen with his activated Kekkei Genkai, unaware of his cousin doing the same. "The energy around him is fluctuating… almost like chakra but yet… It's also moving in a reverse direction as it covers up his chakra network. I'm scared to say it but this might bring the ability to use the gentle fist on him into question."
Hinata's team looked at him in shock upon hearing this before they glanced back in the arena as Kabuto kept trying to do something to hit Danny and fail miserably at it.
"Interesting… the Sharigan is unable to copy this move… it can't even register the fact that Danny is even there."
Kakashi spoke as he continued to try and study his third student, as for Sasuke he continued to watch the fight for a bit before speaking as well. "It's almost as if the boy is just nothing more but light… this has got to be an ability of this ectoplasm he uses."
Back on the floor, Kabuto thought that this would be an excellent time to use his skills to gather information. Activating his chakra scalpels, he cautiously made his way to the boy.
Danny shook his head thinking that while Kabuto may have taken some precaution he was still too naïve. Taking an idea from a horror movie he saw back at home Danny began whistling a tune from the movie Jeepers Creepers. Confusion ran across everyone's face as he began whistling a tune of sorts and mixed in some of his haunting aura.
The silver haired genin was freaking out, it got even worse as Danny let out more of his haunting aura, showing Kabuto that he was not someone to just play around with as he deactivated his chakra scalpals once he found himself pressed against a wall.
The corners of Danny's mouth curved upwards as he got closer to Kabuto, and when he was a few inches away from his face spoke. "Kabuto, if I wanted I could threaten you into wanting to forfeit or continue to fight in only your undergarments. If you can't handle this then quit now."
Kabuto broke himself from the effects of the haunting aura as he forced his opponent away with a kunai in hand. "Not able to handle it then what do you call this?"
Danny laughed at the remark Kabuto gave him. Then he focused some of his powers into the floor causing it to become intangible and letting Kabuto fall through to where only his head and shoulders were above ground.
Anko was grabbing her sides at the sight, trying to hold her laughter in. The kid kept entertaining her to no end.
The halfa gave the spy a chilling smile as he walked over to Kabuto holding a kunai of his own to his neck. "Let me give you a little heads up Kabuto. This is just the tip of the iceberg in comparison to what I am really capable of. Unless you want to push your luck any further in researching my abilities, then I suggest you back out now."
"Proctor, I forfeit!" Kabuto shouted as he started to go pale; not wanting to know what other powers the pre-teen possessed at the moment. Danny pulled his opponent out of the ground and set Kaubuto down. In Kabuto's mind, Orochimaru could forget the mission as the silver haired genin spy fled the arena and the halfa who smirked at the sight. After all, it was rare that Danny used intangibility on the offense as it was just a pure defense move to spook or escape his opponents.
The halfa walked up to his team again after being announced the winner by the still slightly freaked out proctor. Even the Hokage found himself shivering slightly upon seeing this. Reading about the abilities is one thing, but seeing them in person? Soon everyone pulled themselves together and continued on with the match.
Whispers could be heard as everyone didn't feel any KI coming from the halfa which caused Kakashi the rest of team seven to have anime sweat drops, they so did not want to have to deal with the sky-haired pre-teens KI ever again.
The next match came up on the board. Neji Hyuga vs. Hinata Hyuga.
Hinata had a worried look on her face as she made her way to the steps. "Kick his ass Hinata. Pound him into next week." Naruto yelled at her as a form of encouragement. She smiled at the blonde haired ninja's enthusiasm.
"Hinata." She took a look at the blonde's foster brother, who gave her a gentle smile in return. "Do your best. That's all anyone can ask of you. Fear is only natural but don't let it control you."
This lifted her spirits a little bit. More than one person who wasn't from her team actually encouraging her. For the first time in a while, she actually held a sense of confidence.
Both of the Hyuga clan made their way down to arena floor. Neji faced Hinata. His face was a mixture of emotions. Disappointment, anger, and boredom. "Tell me something Hinata. Are you here on your own or are you here because of a requirement? Your teammates want to be here, but your face shows reluctance."
Hinata panicked at her cousins declarations. She recalled the times when her own father belittled her. Now focusing on the present, it felt way too similar to how things were playing out on the arena with Neji taking the place of her own father.
"You are a failure Hinata and you always will be. A person like you cannot change. Just as fate had declared that my father and I belong in the branch house; now, fate has decided for the main and branch house to fight here. You however are nowhere near as strong as I am. Fate had already decided that you will lose here.
Hinata trembled at the tone her cousin was using.
Naruto growled at her cousin. "DON'T LISTEN TO HIM HINATA." Neji turned his head.
"Hmm. The idiot speaks."
But then she remembered that Naruto cheered her on. "YOU GREW STRONG IN YOUR OWN WAY HINATA. NOW YOU CAN PROVE IT BY FIGHTING BACK.
Shaking her head she turned to face Neji and spoke to him. "Neji Ni-san, I have come far here on my own with my teammates. This time, I will not back down!" She proclaimed as she activated her own byakugan.
Regardless of the match, Neji still triumphed over Hinata. Hinata attempted to stand up. She said that she was sorry about his anger regarding the houses of the hyuga clan. Neji's eyes flared alarming Danny who noticed his stance shift to a more aggressive stance. "NARUTO!"
Neji charged at Hinata attempting to end her. Only to find himself thrown off balance by one of team seven's members while Naruto grabbed Hinata.
"IDIOT! SHE ALREADY LOST THE MATCH. DO YOU INTEND TO KILL YOUR OWN FAMILY?" Danny yelled at him. Hinata was already drifting into unconsciousness.
"Winner due to interference. Neji Hyuga."
"SCREW THIS GET THE MEDICS HERE NOW SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE IS ABOUT TO GO INTO CARDIAC ARREST." Danny all but shouted at him. Taking the Jonin by surprise.
"N..Naruto Kun?" Her eyes closed as the medics arrived on scene. Neji's Byakugan flared causing Naruto to proclaim that if they ever fought he would make him pay.
Danny wasn't much farther off. His own eyes glowing an eerie neon green. "Don't even try attacking Neji. You don't want to fight me right now. Return to your team."
Next on the roster: Sabaku no Garra vs Genba Sasayama
Both combatants made their way to the arena floor. Genba Sasayama was an Iwa Shinobi looking about thirteen years of age and had two large sledge hammers strapped to his waist.
Gaara was looking bored at this. It didn't look like he was going to satisfy his lust.
"Alright, the next match featuring Sabaku no Gaara against Genba Sasayama. Begin."
"I don't care if you are a sand ninja, I will end any enemies of my nation no matter who they are."
The cork in Gaara's gourd began to rattle as it removed itself allowing sand to flow freely.
"Mother…wants….blood." The sand flew towards the shinobi as he leapt onto the wall erecting a shield of earth around himself. Sadly this did not deter the attack as Gaara's sand broke down the shield.
The match was over in less than 1 minute when Gaara crushed the shinobi with his sand. Scaring many. Though alive, he would not be able to continue his career as a shinobi.
"Winner Sabaku no Gaara." Hayate announced as Gaara shunsined up to his siblings.
The next combatants didn't take long to come up.
Nii Samui vs Tatsuke Higarashi
Tatsuke Higarashi was the other Kunoicihi from the hidden waterfall village, while Samui was a fellow kunoicihi from Kumo. The two made their way down to the arena.
Higarashi launched a volley of water shuriken towards her opponent to start out. When they got close, she was able to evade the majority of the shuriken.
Once on the ground they continued their fight in a mini taijutsu fight where they used any weapon they had to gain the advantage.
Samui displayed above average usage of taijutsu even with a tanto. Once Tatsuke used a water whip to grab Samui, the cloud ninja cast an electric jutsu of her own on the water whip, allowing the electricity to travel towards her opponent and knocking her out from the shock.
"Cough ….Cough. Winner: Nii Samui."
Rock Lee vs Shura Mizuguchi
"Alright the next battle of the preliminaries will be Rock Lee vs Shura Mizuguchi. Begin."
This battle didn't last long despite lee being an expert in taijutsu, he felt cheated in being robbed of a worthy opponent.
"Winner: Rock Lee"
Kinatu Dosu vs. Choji Akimichi:
Danny looked at the combatants. This was the final match of the day and the last of the sound Shinobi he had seen. The girl was less powerful than the first sound team member yet smarter as a whole. This last one, he didn't know what he could do.
"Asuma sensei, I'm nervous." The heavy genin pouted.
The jonin smiled at him. "Don't worry Choji, if you win, we can always go out for BBQ."
Fire started burning in his eyes to his team's sweat drop.
"YOU GOT THAT RIGHT SENSEI, I WILL WIN FOR THE BBQ!".
"Alright the final match of the preliminary rounds: Kinatu Dosu vs Choji Akimichi. Begin."
Choji began his own clan jutsu:"BODY EXPANSION." The genin's body became completely spherical then he sucked his limbs and head into the suit and started to roll around like a self-driven wrecking ball.
Dosu kept leaping around the broken arena as he evaded the large bowling ball. Choji was having trouble turning and wouldn't be able to keep it up for long.
The sound genin tricked Choji into running into the wall keeping his head wedged in there.
"HEH I MIGHT BE STUCK BUT YOUR SOUND WAVES WON'T BE ABLE TO REACH MY EARS."
Sasuke and I shook our heads in denial. Even if he had his head covered, there were still other things he could do. But what?
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Dosu calmly replied as he set his melody arm on the rather large Akimichi and allowed his melody arm to let loose a long high pitched sound wave that had rendered his own opponent on the very edge of consciousness. "Sixty percent of the human body is water and as sound travels through water faster than air, your whole body is like one giant ear."
Hayate shook his head. "Winner Kinatu Dosu. And that concludes the matches of the preliminary round.
The Hokage and the other jonin rounded up the evening by informing them that they will have one week to prepare for the tournament. As they drew lots the jonin matching the names to the allotted numbers showed the new tournament.
Finals :
Naruto vs Neji
Gaara vs. Dosu
Kankuro vs. Shino
Temari vs Shikamaru
Sasuke vs Omoi
Daniel vs Yugito
Rock Lee vs Samui
By some stroke of luck Yugito and Danny ended up having to fight each other in the first round, much to the Jinchūriki's carnegie. But she was determined to win and no amount of spooky powers would stop her, even if she couldn't hit the boy she would still find a way.
With that they all got a month to prepare to face each other, before Danny left though he had to cringe. Yugito as his opponent? This was going to be trouble, he might have gotten one of the strongest opponents in the exams. He wouldn't have minded Lee if only to see how good their taijutsu was against each other. If going by how good her teammates were and she didn't show much, that first match would be tougher than he thought.
-|:-:|- Time Skip - Next Day -|:-:|-
Kakashi had offered to find someone to help train him, but Danny ended up refusing as he pulled out his special sealing scroll. "Thanks but no thanks Kakashi-sensei… I have some family scrolls that I have yet to look thru and now would be a good time to learn them."
The silver haired Jōnin raised an eyebrow upon hearing this and was about to ask how before his student gave him the answer. (Shadow Clone Jutsu) Suddenly three different Danny's appeared around the original as Kakashi remembered his student knew that jutsu. "So you figured out the secret of the Shadow Clones and how to use them to train as well… out of professional curiosity how much can you actually make?"
Kakashi watched as the real Danny quickly summoned two black scrolls with a white trim and the iconic symbol of his clan on them before speaking. "Truthfully… I have no flippin clue… the time that I saw Mizuki about to kill my brother I only made a small number… I don't remember what it was but it was less than Naruto's. Other then that I never actually bothered to learn how many I can make… it's probably still a lesser amount than Naruto. Besides, you said you wouldn't teach me anything else till I could master water walking on my own and not get my teammates involved in unnecessary fights."
With that the four Danny's left the shocked Kakashi behind who was definitely trying to figure out who was more powerful between his two students. "Alright… if by some stroke of luck the two ended up fighting each other in the arena then I'm going to make sure to be there on time."
-|:-:|- Scene Shift -|:-:|-
Once he got back he made out a schedule to see if he could improve a good bit before he started on his training it had been a long day and he really wanted to sleep.
The next morning he made breakfast for himself and Naruto. The kid may have been sleeping in but he couldn't exactly blame him. He would need to find a way to balance his time in training himself and Naruto.
Once they had eaten they went to find their sensei who had stated to Naruto that he was going to be training Sasuke. Though he had gotten Naruto another sensei, he had learned that Naruto had already met him and was not impressed. Danny had agreed to attempt to train Naruto whenever he had the time if he would find himself another jonin to train him.
Going back to the apartment he grabbed his schedule and made three clones of himself.
He had sent one of the copies to the library to learn more about walking on water since it was a good time to work on it some more. The other two themselves went to work on actually walking on water, one acting as spotter in case any animals tried to attack him, or any fan girls showed up during his training. Once he got to his room he noticed a rather large scroll with a seal on it.
He didn't recognize it but Danny figured it was meant to keep others but himself out of it.
With this out of the way Danny bit his left thumb, he found it easier to use his left hand for this type of thing for some reason, and put some of his blood on the bloodseal used to keep the scroll closed. As such the white on the first scroll flashed green and started to roll open with a letter in the beginning of the scroll addressed to him.
The halfa opened to letter and began to read what was in the scroll now and his mouth dropped open in surprise before he ended up shouting. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF PARIAH! WHY DIDN'T CLOCKWORK TELL ME ABOUT THIS SOONER?"
Looking at the other scroll which was slightly larger than the other though Danny repeated the process. This time as the white on the scroll flashed green, said scroll itself just grew in size much to the halfa's confusion.
Danny then proceeded to open it on the ground with a raised eyebrow before spotting another letter inside. He grabbed it before closing said scroll up, which shrunk down to it's original size, before opening it up and reading it.
'To whom it may concern,'
'If you are reading this then I have passed on and the time master has decided that you are worthy of using this summoning contract.'
Danny blinked as he read the familiar name written in his own language, confusion swam on his face as he read more about this summoning contract he had gained.
'Now I know this may seem strange but you must know that only my interdimensional self's descendant, or a current incarnation could open this contract. For it is actually a summoning contract for one of the Four Beasts of the cardinal directions.'
Danny's draw dropped upon reading this and he looked at the scroll that was on the ground in front of him. It was possibly one of the most powerful, if not the most, summoning contracts that was ever made by none other than the Sage of the Six Paths, and he was the only known user of it to.
'Jian Bang the White Tiger of the Tiger clans the lightning in the west and her underlings are your allies now with this contract.'
Looking down wearily at the summoning contract now, Danny felt his hands tremble out of fear of having such power. The scroll itself looked innocent but would no doubt be an SSS-rank contract and there would no doubt be wars over it, if it was discovered.
'Please know Daniel that you are not going to turn into that thing you have tried so much to prevent.'
Danny felt his heart stop momentarily as he re-read the letter and more specifically that part of it. The Sage of the Six Paths knew his name, the creator of the ninja world knew what his name was and he was his interdimensional counterpart! The kid felt faint as the information finally registered, but right now he was in training mode so he wouldn't.
'Moving on, you are worth of having this scroll Daniel and I trust that you will do everything to do what is right. Just know you do not have to sign the scroll if you don't want to, but even if you think you can't you still can. The time master specifically altered the paper to work with chakra infused, and ectoplasmic enhanced blood.'
The pre-teen raised an eyebrow for it seemed that this scroll was specifically made for him for some reason like the other one was.
'All you need to do is write down your name, in the natural language of this world, before also pressing your fingerprints onto the bottom. After this just follow the steps inside and you should be able to summon Jian Bang and the tigers of her clan.'
Danny let out a sigh as one of his shadow clones exploded from improperly mixing ectoplasmic energy and chakra. Another one arrived to take it's place though thankfully, and it was a good thing they were well away from anyone else, they would probably be killed by the explosions. He continued to read the letter with more interest as to what the Sage of the Six Paths had to say.
'You will need to tell her the truth and nothing but the whole truth and she will decide if you are worthy.'
Eternal luck, Sage of the Six Paths
He took a few deep breaths to calm down his nerves before looking at the contract in his hands and letting out a sigh. "This is so going to come back and bite me in the ass one of these days I just know it… but I might as well get this over with. Who know's, I may just get lucky… as if that ever happens I'm the unluckiest person in three worlds I've ever seen."
With a sigh Danny moved into the small crater before opening up the scroll again and quickly reading the instructions on it. He then signed his name in the open slot next to the Sage of the Six Paths name, and reread the instructions again.
After that he put the scroll away like the other one, into his special sealing scroll, before breaking a few of his chakra caps.
Danny frowned as he sent out a small pulse of chakra to see if anyone was in the area. Luck was on his side strangely as no one was near and he couldn't sense the life force of anything more but a few animals.
"Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram! (Summoning Jutsu)!" Danny shouted as he slammed his left hand into the ground after doing the summoning jutsu before being enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
The halfa held his breath, which was ridiculously easy for him, as he waited for the smoke to clear. He was resisting the urge to pant as well for he had used a lot more chakra than expected, at least a Kage worths of chakra.
When it cleared a giant white tiger at least fifteen times his size and was looking down at him with a slight frown. Then the tiger started to shrink until she was the size of a regular one, she was a chakra beast after all so he should of been surprised by that, before speaking. "So I have a new summoner… tell me who you are boy before I decide to just eat you here and now. I don't quite believe if you are his incarnation as I will need to administer a test to see if you are worthy."
-|:-:|- Time Skip - Five Hours -|:-:|-
Five hours later Danny was finishing up with his life story nervously, all the way from his birth, to the accident, to his alternate bad future, and now. "I then finally signed your contract and summoned you here where I proceeded to tell you my life story."
The halfa rubbed the back of his neck quietly as the summon looked at him in shock before she spoke. "You have true power to face all of that and still continue to find happiness… I'm all in for having you sign the contract.".
With that Danny face planted into the ground, groaned, and got up to face her again, he could swear he heard someone laughing somewhere though, before speaking. "So… is there anything else I should know about or should I just let you be… after all It has been some time since you saw this world and I'm sure you want to explore it before heading back."
The summon just looked at him for a moment and smiled before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
-|:-:|- Scene Shift -|:-:|-
Vlad let out a breath of frustration soon as the shinobi in front of him ended up groaning in pain. Those being Itachi, Sasori, Deidara, and Kakuzu (Who just got back from bounty hunting).
He took a look at a person in a corner wearing an orange mask with a swirl on it. "I have faced everyone here and managed to win… and I still have enough strength to face you head on."
The orange masked man was quiet as he looked at the halfa in front of him. "My name is Madara Uchiha and you Vlad, have piqued my interest with your unique Kekkei Genkai… tell me, how did you come by it?"
Vlad raised an eyebrow in front of the man who wasn't attacking him at the moment before speaking in a schooled term. "I have no clue what a Kekkei Genkai is for I come from another dimension… but I will say I got this power from an accident and have had these abilities for quite some time.
Madara frowned as he looked at the man in front of him before seeing a black ring appear around the mans chest. The ring split and Vlad's hair turned grey, his eyes turned midnight blue, and his white suit turned into a black business suit of some kind before the man spoke again. "In my current condition I go by the name Vlad Masters and before I was interrupted and my tracker smashed I was in the middle of looking for someone."
Madara raised an eyebrow as he glanced at the advanced machine on the ground with interest as Vlad continued. "I managed to track him to this world and I finally managed to get my hands on the child that I have been searching for. Now thanks to you, I'm going to be set back by months, possibly even years… unless you would be interested in a temporary alliance, hm?"
Vlad looked at Madara with a calculating eye as the man looked through his own options.
On one hand there was the possibility of him taking a chance to end this either by sending him to another dimension using Kamui or get Pein's help in dealing with this nuisance. Of course he managed to take on four Akatsuki members all on his own so he didn't know how that would turn out no matter how strong he was.
On the other hand, should he try to help this guy, he could gain more information on how to defeat him himself, the child he searches for may complicate their plans if they ever found him years from now if he was as strong as this man was. There was also the saying that if you help someone with their problems your own may be solved or partially solved in return. But if he took the second option, he would need to keep his cards to his chest in order to plan this out better.
Gathering his courage he spoke his decision. "My group, Akatsuki, is out looking for what we called the nine tailed beasts of this world or bijuu. If you supply us with your… technology then I'm sure that we can also look for this… little child of yours."
The two men looked at each other for a small moment as they contemplated the benefits of an agreement with each other. "Then it appears we have an agreement Mr. Uchiha… but I'm going to need some information about this world and how it works before we begin."
Madara smirked up hearing this for he had a feeling that this was someone he could get along with quite fine. "If that is all then just follow me Mr. Masters and when I begin to tell you about this world I want to know about your world as well. After all, information does not come free anywhere and knowledge should be exchanged for knowledge."
-|:-:|- Scene Shift -|:-:|-
Danny shivered slightly as he approached the apartment building that he and Naruto lived in and glanced over his shoulder as he absentmindedly messed with his keys. The feeling he got at the end of the second exam had just returned and it was intensified.
He was fairly certain that Vlad was somehow involved in this which was even more worrying. Though how he found him now was a mystery. "I swear if Vlad somehow managed to come here then I would need to help my team and myself to get stronger if we are to have a chance in winning."
'Though, I know that I will need to tell my team the full truth sometime. If Vlad is here, I would rather them learn the truth from me than an outside source that intended to hurt them.'
The halfa went inside to make some supper. About an hour later Naruto grudgingly opened the door and was about to slam it shut, but it was stopped by a tall man with waist-length, spiky white hair usually tied back into a ponytail, with two shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil' on it.
He also had a noticeable wart on the left side of his nose. The man wore a green short shirt kimono and matching pants; under which he wore mesh armour that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit. His outfit was completed with hand guards, a simple black belt, traditional wooden sandals, a red haori with two simple yellow circles on each side, and a scroll on his back.
Right away, Danny dropped the wooden spoon he was holding.
"NARUTO WHY IS A SANNIN FOLLOWING YOU WHEN WE HAD TO DEAL WITH OROCHIMARU NOT TO LONG AGO?"
Naruto and the man froze in place upon hearing this and the blonde let out a single groan as the man smiled but for different reasons. "I'm glad you asked for I am the Jiraiya the Toad Sage and I'm going to be training this blond gaki to become a toad hermit and a super pervert like myself!" Danny had a blank look on his face as an anime sweat drop appeared, all while Jiraiya did some sort of dance and struck a poze.
"Naruto what did I say about bringing weird perverts back to the apartment?"
"That I should just kick them in the nuts and leave them behind, I tried but it doesn't work with this guy, he's too quick on his feet." Naruto spoke as Jiraiya face planted into the ground upon hearing this little conversation in front of him.
'Maybe I should lend him a hand in dealing with this.'
Omake #6: Danny's paradoxal KI
Team seven was in the middle of training intensly as they got ready for the Chunin exams, KI was coming out to such an extent it wasn't even funny. At least it was coming from two of the team members whlie the other let out his Haunting Aura much to the confusion of their sensei.
Kakashi looked up from his book with a lazy eye as he stared at his most confusing student with strange hair coloration. Though the pre-teen wasn't really doing anything wrong, Danny's KI was the most confusing thing he had ever felt as the team sparred against each other.
"Alright, thats enough! I've been patient so far but now I must know Daniel, why aren't you using the regular KI of the ninja?" Sasuke, Naruto, and Danny stopped sparing as the former two turned their heads towards the barely sweating teammate.
The halfa though was at the moment mumbling under his breath about what he thought was going to happen before speaking. "Sorry sensei, but the regular KI... doesn't really work for me no matter how hard I try to use it. Besides the Haunting Aura that I project is more advanced as it can only be felt by my enemies and them only."
The three nodded with Sasuke and Naruto shivering from the effects of the Haunting Aura sense they were on the receiving end this time while Kakashi spoke. "Well then... you shouldn't rely on your Haunting Aura so much Daniel-san so I want you to let out the most KI you can against me, don't worry after going through what I went through I think I can handel anything you throw at me."
The Jōnin gave his students an eye smile as Danny crossed his arms while really wishing he didn't have to do such a thing. The next second Kakashi was looking at his most level headed student as he let out the amount of KI a new born would.
The result was three members of team seven rolling on the ground laughing at what had to be the most pathetic amount of KI they had ever felt in their entire lives. Danny though had a tic in his right eye before everyone suddenly felt a heavy weight crash onto them, sucking out their breaths as a result.
Danny's KI didn't change so it was still the same pathetic amount it was before, but now it was so potent they couldn't even begin to describe what they were feeling. Inside of Naruto's mind he could hear the Kyuubi practically screaming out of fear to make it stop, which in turn made it even scarier for him as they were all letting out their KI to try and counteract it.
Danny raised an eyebrow as he felt KI rise to try and meat his own, and it got even more powerful as he felt Kuruma's join the gang, but it had no effect. Everyone was still frozen as his KI rained down upon them and a random bird fell from the sky, paralized out of fear somehow.
With a sigh the halfa reigned in his paradoxal KI which caused everyone to collapse onto the ground panting heavily before hearing Kakashi speak. "Daniel... (pant) I hereby... (pant, pant) ban you from... (pant) ever using your Ki... (pant) ever again."
Finally the Jōnin ended up fainting alongside his other student's while Danny looked at all of them with a raised eyebrow. At least training was done for the day, so with that the pre-teen turned around and walked away from his unconsious teen.
Omake 7: Danny and Jiraiya:
Danny made his way back to the apartment when he came across what looked like a lecherous peeping tom glancing through a telescope into the woman's section of the bath house.
Trying to think of a way to make sure this man learned a lesson in peeping on women he looked up and only saw a metal pipe about two inches thick four feet long and a tree with a thick branch over hanging the female section. There wasn't much he could do to him that wouldn't entertain them. One of them sounded like that examiner from the Chunin exams.
After all how do you entertain kunoichi in a bathhouse with a peeping tom if all they are going to do is just beat and bruise them. Shinobi use everything at their disposal even their senses….
That was when he got a rather devious idea on how to handle the situation.
The next thing the women heard was a rather loud scuffle between a kid and an elder man. "Hey ladies, I came across this idiot behind the walls." Danny threw a secured sannin over the big branch as he hung from the branch feet down.
Two of the woman… Anko and Kurunai glared at the lecherous toad sannin who began to quiver from their gaze at being caught. The others were not that far off.
"Since this little pervert thinks it's so entertaining in peeping on woman in the bathhouse, would you like an idea of my own for entertainment. If you are behind this, you could always use it in T & I Anko."
The snake summoner was a little perturbed at how he knew who she was and that she was behind the wall. But wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
"Well kid speak up. We are all ears."
Danny smiled as he stared at the quivering form of the suspended Sannin. "There is a game children play at parties where I come from. It involves hitting something called a Piñata which is basically a decorated casing that looks like an animal. If a person hits the stuffed animal in the right way with a stick, sweets came out. Would you like to play something like that with the peeping tom here being the stuffed animal?"
Anko had a gleam in her eye which greatly unnerved the toad sannin, who began whimpering at the suggestion.
The women talked it over as they hopped out and wanted to have a go but wondered what they could use to hit him with. Danny responded by throwing the metal pipe over the wall. By now Jiraiya was starting to beg.
"Oh Anko… Something else I forgot to mention about this game and its more of a reprieve for the peeper here." The second in command of the T&I looked disappointed as did Kurunai.
Jiraiya relaxed as his captor said he was getting a reprieve albeit it wasn't to be for long.
"To keep it fair and entertaining for all. The one with the stick only gets three swings and of course that they have to be blindfolded." Anko and Kurunai looked excited at the challenge. Considering who this was.
Kurunai spoke up. "Sounds good to me but what are we going to get as our prize?"
"Hmm… How about those notes of his and that spyglass of his as well?"
"NO NO NO NONONNONONNONO. Please don't take away my notes please!"
The first on the line was a chunin level kunoichi. Each of them took turns till it got to Kurunai. Jiraiya kept twisting and swinging to avoid the bar but the pervert always got hit.
While they had their way with the pervert, an ANBU with a cat mask leapt down from a building after hearing the screams of pain.
"Oh hello there ANBU-san." Danny casually responded to her.
"Hello there. May I inquire what is going on here?" She looked towards his hands holding a rope connected to something in the bath house.
Danny thought of what he could say to her. "Well I caught this peeper here and I thought that he shouldn't exactly get away with what he was doing. So I introduced him and the lovely women in there to a little game from home. I can't exactly be disrespectful and look over the fence now can I? After all it is the women's side you know."
Uzuki Yugao looked over the fence seeing who it was that Danny apprehended. Surprised at it being the toad sannin, she was tempted to just leave it be. Even if it was Jiraiya, she remembered him peeping in on her on one of her own trips to the bath house.
"Hey ANBU-san. I am guessing that you had some experience with this guy before. Would you like a go at him? The ladies on the other side can explain the rules to you." This definitely got Yugao's attention as she greatly accepted the request and joined them.
By the end of the game, Jiraiya was beaten black and blue. He lost all his notes thus far and had to start over.
Yugao was sentenced to reduced pay for the next month for not helping end the violence. Same with the other kunoichi. But in their minds, it had been totally worth it. They had been entirely supportive in not allowing the genin to receive any punishment for making Jiraiya learn a lesson.
