The ninth chapter. Amazing. One more chapter to edit and upload. I really like this series. reason? Kuro, the main character, is me :D.
After I told them my plans, and they agreed, I stood up. I turned back to Ueda and thought about what I can do. I have several techniques I practiced in secret. Techniques I found in the library, or thought up myself. However, the technique I wanted to try, was a bit of a secret. I don't want to use it here. I'd rather keep it for life or death situations. But if this will make us pass, I have no choice. I unzipped my jacket, and called out Ryu. Ryu slithered out of my sleeve, and settled on top of it, facing Ueda. Yanagi was to my left and Chiko was on my right. I grabbed three knives with my left hand and pointed all three at Ueda. I closed my eyes, picturing what to do. I moved all three to Ryu. Ryu stuck his tongue out at one of the knives, and used an even smaller flame attack on it. It was too small for Ueda to see, but he squinted his eyes to try to see what Ryu was doing. But before he could see what Ryu did, I threw all three knives at him. He dodged the first knife that was aimed at his head, but the second one was more difficult. I made sure he jumped to my right. He jumped to his left, my right. My first knife came back on its chakra thread, and striked him the back of the arm. He was surprised, but he had to face the third knife that was flying at him. He took out his kunai to block it, but my second knife hit his kunai from behind and he dropped it. My third knife almost hit his leg, but he managed to jump at out of the way. Yanagi ran towards where I told him to, which was where Ueda will be dropping in from. Like I predicted, Ueda fell out of the sky where Yanagi ran to. Yanagi then took out two kunai's and attacked him. Chiko ran to where she was supposed to be and I watched from a distance, pulling out two more knives. These two knives were special. I didn't use them when I was throwing them at Ueda. These two will decide the match. I threw the first one into the air, as high as I could. Then I waited.
As Yanagi fought Ueda, Chiko made it to where she was supposed to be. She did the handseals I told her to do, and it caused the response I wanted to see. I would've done it myself, but I needed to be far away for this to work. Not the part that Chiko did, but a different part. The first knife I threw, was still in his arm. I started erupting in fire, a small fire, but a fire nevertheless. This attack has no name, probably because I was so unimaginative in names, but it did its job. The knife was consumed in the fire, so I'll have to buy a new one, but the damage it did to Ueda was great. It only burnt him slightly, but it distracted him. Enought for Yanagi to punch him in the face. Chiko fell back. Her part was done. The knife I threw up in the air, came back down. Right infront of Ueda as he started moving forward. He suddenly stopped when the knife entered the ground infront of him. He looked at it in shock. He lost. I smiled as I threw my second knife. Ueda sensed it so he turned and faced me. When the knife was close to him, he threw a kunai at it and a kunai at Yanagi who was approaching from behind. But, he was already done.
The knife that fell from the sky and landed infront of him, had a genjutsu on it. When he looked at it, it confused his senses. It was because of Ryu that he was unable to detect the genjusts. Ryu bit the knife and blasted it in flame. The flame was a jutsu with no name, which was marked into the knife. When Ryu bit the knife, poison was placed on it. It wasn't deadly poison, but this poison was used to conceal genjutsu. And so when the knife pierced Ueda, the posion got into him. At that point I had to stall for time. I had Yanagi fight him for a bit, and I threw a knife into the air, that would land in a specific spot that I pointed out to Yanagi. Chiko had to distract him, so the mark that was made in the blade was used to distract him. It was a mark I made the other day. By using Ryu's fire on it, the mark "absorbed" it. Or that was what it was supposed to do. It was just a simple sealing technique. By using the right handseals, it released the fire that was sealed in it. Which burnt Ueda's arm, where the knife was still in him. I had another plan for if he took it out of his arm, but I'm glad he didn't. Yanagi managed to keep the fight in the area I told him about, and managed to push him into hte right place. I was glad again that the knife landed infront of him. It would have either landed in his head, or shoulders, or behind him. But it landed infront of him. From that point onward, he was in a genjutsu. So when I threw my knife, I wasn't aiming at him. I aimed at the bell. That was now in Yanagi's hand. I released the genjutsu and smiled at Ueda. I pointed at my waist, where the bell should be on Ueda. He checked it, and discovered it was gone. He looked behind him at a smiling Yanagi. Of course, he held most of his strength back, but atleast he didn't go full power on us. We would've lost easily. I mean, we were just three genin. Or, two genin and a genius genin.
During lunch, I explained to Ueda how we won. He was impressed.
"But how did you know where I was going to jump?"
"I like to manipulate people. If you didn't jump where you should've jumped, I was gonna blow up the battle field with hidden explosive seals I planted as I threw those knives at you."
"What?" shouted Yanagi. "I didn't know about that! How did you do that?"
"I don't want to explain everything to you. It's my fighting style to always be atleast ten steps ahead of everyone else. Atleast plan wise." I always have ten or more plans in my head for any situation. For a prolonged fight of eight hours, I would've worn down Uega by using explosives, knives, Ryu, and anything else I thought of.
"Another thing, how did you know what I could do? You specifically told me to use two kunai. Why?"
"Well, after I knew who was on my team, I used the rest of the day to research into the both of you. Of course, I wanted to research into our jonin instructor, but I was a bit lazy. Plus, I can't stay up "all" night reading about how you fight, techniques, and the rest of it. Yanagi, I learned that your good at close-up fights, but not too good at thinking. Or anything else. I read that you were especially good at using Kunai to fight, so I had you use two of them to fight Ueda. I figured that would have been better than one fist and one kunai. Am I right?"
"Yeah!"
"Chiko, I read that you thought too much about things, so when you fought, it was easy for the others to win, because you thought too deeply on a move, or too deeply on how you should attack. I also learned that you observe pretty much everything around you." Plus your a ditz. "I also know that your a chakra sensor. So I figured that you would have paid more attention to what Ueda does. If he used some jutsu, I was certain that you'd see it coming. And your eyes are pretty good, so I told you to watch him for any strange movement, or anything at all. It worked out in the end."
"Wow. Your so smart!"
"Thanks Chiko. But I'm not smart. I'm a genius." Everyone laughed at my words. Well, atleast we passed.
The next day, I first bought more knives. I added some more pockets in my jacket, so I could use more knives. I also added the pockets on all my jackets, instead of just the white one. Today I wore a black jacket that had a snake head on the hood. That one was my favorite. The head was just the eyes, and part of the neck, but it was still cool. Ryu curled up in the right sleeve like always. That silent predator. If anyone got too close, he could easily stike out at them. The first day Ryu went into my sleeve, Ino ran into me from that side. She almost got bitten by Ryu! It was so funny. Ino didn't find it funny.
After I bought the extra knives, I decided to get some tea. This time, I didn't go to the tea shop that Ino frequents. I entered the new tea shop, on the other side of town, and found a nice table to sit at. I sat down and took a look at the menu. Then the next moment someone was standing to my left. I thought it was the waitress, so I said, "Can you get me the, uh, green tea, please?" But, not hearing a response, I looked over to my left. And saw Ino. She must have a tracking device on me or something. I swear, she just appears. Almost like a ninja.
"Hi! Is this seat taken?"
"Actually yes. My friend Bob is sitting there."
Ino, looking surprised, looked around and then asked, "And where is Bob?"
I pointed to the seat across of me. "Bob is right there." Ino looked over to where I pointed. She opened her mouth to say something, but I interuppted her. "Yes. Bob is a ghost. Only I can see him." Ino, then ignored what I said and sat where Bob was sitting. Bob, of course, felt very unconfortable since someone was sitting inside him. But he is fake, so Bob's feelings doesn't matter.
When the waitress came over to take our order, I ordered green tea and Ino did the same. "So, what did you want?"
"Well, I just saw you outside the shop and I wanted some tea." Ino gave a small smile. When the tea got over here, she took a small sip from her cup. "Anyway. I've been wondering..."
"Yeah, what? That I'm a genius? Thanks. I highly deserve it."
"Not that. I heard that you managed to defeat your jonin instructor pretty easily. How did you manage that?"
I took a sip from my tea before I started. "Well. You see, I'm a genius. Are we perfectly clear on that?" Ino nodded, a bit annoyed. "Well. After I went one-on-one with him, I figured out how fast he could go. Of course, he could probably go faster, but against three genin, who would go all out? Well, I hatched an awesome plan, and put it to go use with my teammates. In the end, we won. It's that simple." I drained the rest of my tea. "Well, if you'll excuse me, I have some training to do. Gotta get better at what I do, or I'll never improve." I rised out of my chair and made my way out of the tea shop, followed by Ino.
"I'm gonna go home too. See ya later." Ino ran off in the direction of Yamanaka Flowers.
Later that day, I met with Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, and, yes, Naruto. "Hey guys." I said to them when I saw them.
"Yo." said Shikamaru.
"What took ya so long?" said Kiba.
"I'm hungry~" said Choji.
"Let's get going!" yelled Naruto.
"I'm not eating. Something else came up. Sorry." They stared at me for a second. Choji was the one who broke the silence.
"More food for me then!" He said licking his lips. I laughed a little.
"Just make sure you have enough money." I turned around and started walking to my first destination
My first destination, was my house. I had to pick up Ryu so we could go train. I want to test out a few techniques. When we made it to my secret, "not-so-secret" training grounds, I told Ryu to stand fifteen meters away from me. What I wanted was for Ryu to be able to differentiate between clones and the actual person. I know he can do it. I took one of my shuriken's and threw it at Ryu. I used the appropiate hand seals, and used shuriken shadow clone jutsu to change one shuriken, into ten. There are nine fakes, nine clones. I want to see if Ryu can dodge the clones and attack the real one. Eventually, he'll get the hang of it.
The ten shuriken's were halfway to Ryu, when he started moving. He slithered around, looking at each shuriken. When he thought he had the right one, he blasted it with fire. On his first try, he got it right. The other shuriken hit the ground, and all poofed out of existance. "Good job Ryu!" Ryu hissed in delight. I practiced this with Ryu for two hours, until he could find the real shuriken out of the clones. After that training, I set up some targets. These targets were the size of dart boards and they were custom-made. As in, I made them. I set them up in the trees aall around me. Standing in the middle, I unzipped my black jacket. I reached for three knives with each of my hands, and concentrated. After a few minutes, I started my training. I threw knives all around me, in jumps, spins, cartwheels, and anything else I could think of. When I ran out of knives, I checked where each of the went. None of them missed the dartboards, but only 7 out of 50 hit the bulls eye. I had set up 50 targets, for each of my 50 knives. I guess I have a long way to go. Three hours later, I managed to turn 7 out of 50, into 23 out of 50.
I decided to repeat this training everyday, since I started using my knives. Before the match with our Jonin instructor, I only managed to get 2 bullseye, but that was with 30 knives. Now I'm 23 out of 50. If I get a bigger jacket, I could add more knives, but the extra length of the sleeves will throw me off. After that, I returned home. I never noticed that Naruto was watching my intense practise. And even if I did, I never used my secret technique, so It doesn't matter.
In bed that night, I was restless. I had too much to do. Tomorrow, my team will be going on our first mission. I wonder what It will be? Ryu slithered around my right arm, and licked at it with his dry, rough tongue. I laughed a little. My life was just getting started.
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