Chapter 10: Kakashi's Prowess!
Kakashi was taking a walk. He had left the hotel once Anko had brought booze to the room he and Gai were sharing, Asuma and Kurenai in tow, already looking tipsy. The masked jonin decided to leave before things went bad and slipped out the window, leaving a shadow clone in his place.
The streets of Kumo were quite nice at night. The hustle and bustle of the civilians was long since past and now the only annoyance were the Kumo ANBU who werenèt good enough to cover their presence from him.
As he was reading the newest book -straight from Jiraiya himself, not even on shelf yet- he felt a spike of killing intent. He slipped the book into a seal on his kunai pouch and kept walking, heading to one of the training grounds as to not disturb Kumo's peace.
One Kakashi stepped into the center he called out, "I know you're here, come out!" A whistling signaled for him to dodge, a senbon embedded itself in a rock on the other side of the field. He jumped as two hands grabbed at where his legs had been, "I said to come out!" He called, backpedaling as spines of earth ripped through the ground towards him.
Suddenly the spines stopped and he ducked, two arms grabbing the air where his torso had been moments before. He spun around and released a large fireball, burning his opponent to cinders before he raced off back to his hotel room.
It was probably Kiri sending an assassin to take me out so that we'd be handicapped tomorrow he burst through the door to see Gai and Asuma passed out on his bed, booze dripping from their held bottles onto the floor and Anko and Kurenai talking gibberish on the carpet while piling bottles on bottles.
"Oddly, I'm glad I got attacked." He muttered as he went to Gai's bed and layed down.
Kakashi's team faced off against the hunter-nins from Kiri, their sub missing So it was them He thought. Ei stood in the middle with the announcer -a Kumo jonin.
"Before we begin I will explain the rules. Each fight will be one-on-one. The first team that loses five members will lose. Killing is allowed, in fact I plan to see some deaths. Once you step in the ring, leaving it at all will mean a loss." He looked right at Kakashi, then to the Hunter-nin's leader, "The subs may compete but I suggest they do not, as their loss is most likely ensured." He laughed, "Announcer, I'll leave the rest to you."
The announcer nodded and Ei Shunshined back to his seat with the other Kage.
"Would Team Elite send their first member up!" He called out, using a ninjutsu to broadcast his voice.
"I'll go." Kakashi said, stepping onto the platform. The leader of the other team was still on the ground beneath, he had chosen someone else to face him.
"Begin!"
Kakashi dodged a flurry of senbon and ran forwards, flinging a kunai into either hand. He avoided a jet of water and covered one of his kunai in electricity, throwing it forwards. The hunter-nin dodged and as the kunai passed him suddenly Kakashi was there, his second kunai embedded in the man's shoulder. Kakashi followed up by jumping back and making a hand seal, causing an explosion.
"And Kakashi Hatake has taken the first win of the tournament, detonating an explosive tag in his opponent's shoulder!" The announcer called out.
"YOSH! Kakashi's hip-and-cool attitude will not allow him to lose!" Gai shouted, "He truly is youthful!"
Thanks Gai Kakashi thought as another hunter-nin came up, this time female. Doesn't matter who they send, I'm not a simple jonin, not anymore. He ran forwards as soon as the announcer began the round, rushing through hand seals before his opponent could react, "Raiton: False Darkness!" He fired off a spear of electricity, taking off one of the hunter-nin's legs.
The woman fell to the ground and slammed her palms down, "Doton: Stone Skin!" stones covered her skin, slowly rebuilding her leg. Kakashi just watched, spinning a kunai so fast that you couldn't see it, though you could tell that there was a seal on it from the yellow handle.
Once the woman stood up she growled and rushed him, speed unhindered from the stone leg. Once she reached him her stone leg split the air, pebbles fell onto Kakashi's chest as he leant backwards to dodge the move. He then used a substitution to avoid an ax-kick that would've broken a few ribs.
"You've gotta be faster than that." He said as he rushed forwards, still idly spinning a kunai. The woman growled and slammed her palms on the ground once more, he jumped right before the spires of earth would have turning him into a shishkebab. He threw the kunai, it landed and the woman saw the three prongs before Kakashi was there in a flash of white and had a hand through her chest.
"F… Flying Raijin…" She muttered before falling down, dead. Kakashi removed his hand and flicked the blood off.
Up in the Kage stands Onoki was fuming, "Minato was bad enough, now we have a Minato with the Sharingan! What next, that bastard has a son?"
Tsunade laughed, "He's on Team Sage actually, Naruto Uzumaki." She gloated.
Onoki began violently shaking with rage but said nothing else.
On the arena Kakashi was playing around with the third member of Mist-3. Either dodging or blocking everything that his opponent sent at him.
"Ya know, I thought that Hunter-nin were supposed to be Kiri's best…" He said, hoping to anger his opponent.
"SHUT IT HATAKE!" The man screamed, lunging with his tanto, Kakashi moved to the side and grabbed the man's chin and head, twisting and killing the man with a sickening CRACK!
"NEXT!" Kakashi called as he tossed the twitching body off the arena.
This time the team leader came up and cracked his neck. He rushed Kakashi before the announcer could say anything, twin tanto ripping the air where Kakashi was supposed to be. The illusion faded and the man saw red. His head hurt, it felt like it had been split open. IT WAS SPLIT OPEN! The man screamed until Kakashi slammed his face into the dirt below, a quick application of earth chakra to bury the head and stifle the scream.
The next hunter-nin was hesitant to fight. Kakashi had torn through his leader in mere seconds, as if the man was playing around.
He took a breath and steadied himself as he stepped onto the platform. The match started and Kakashi was in front of him. A kick to his face sent him sprawling on the floor. He then felt a sharp pain in his legs but it was gone in mere moments. In fact all feeling in his legs were gone. He turned his head and saw a tanto pinning him to the ground, going right through his spine.
"You… you're a monster." He told Kakashi, who just waved.
"Nah, I'm a demon." Kakashi said with his typical eye-smile as he flung a shuriken into the man's face, hitting him right between the eyes.
Mei was shocked, "He… he beat five of my hunter-nin easily. And his Sharingan is still covered! How strong is he Tsunade?"
"Stronger than me probably." The woman responded, it was the truth. Even though she was legendary even she couldn't have been a jonin before hitting puberty. Plus the training with Gohan and Piccolo couldn't have hurt either.
Onoki glared at her, "So why isn't he Hokage?"
"He doesn't like working." She responded, "I've tried to get him to take the mantle, trust me."
"Amazing! Kakashi Hatake from Konoha's Team Elite has defeated all five of Team Mist-3's members by himself! This'll be a team to watch out for!" The announcer said.
Kakashi left the field and joined his team. The six walked to the stands and sat down.
"Next up! Team Jolt and Team BOOM! Please come to the arena!"
The team led by the robed man appeared, followed by five black haired men who were wearing the standard Iwa jonin uniform. Team BOOM.
The other team was the one led by Kumo's blue hooded jonin Gar. His teammates weren't there.
"It appears Team Jolt is missing, only Gar has come to the arena, if the others aren't here in a minute Gar will fight alone."
"No need, I already told them not to bother getting up, " I wanna fight all six of them at once." Gar said, stepping onto the ring. Team BOOM complied and all stepped up.
"BEGIN!" The announcer shouted. Gar took off running, lightning coursing through his body as he tore through two members before they could blink, fountains of blood flew through the air as their torso was torn off just below the heart. Gar then shot both hands forwards, sending arcs of lightning out and killing two more members of BOOM.
The robed man flung his hands as if throwing shuriken and hundreds of clay birds flew out, flying towards Gar and exploding, taking out another member of Team BOOM who was unfortunate enough to get caught in the blast.
Gar escaped by substituting away, a large boulder taking the hit for him. He faced down the last two members and frowned, "I thought this would've been more fun." He then appeared in the air above the robed man, slamming his heel onto the man's head and caving his skull, all the while throwing a kunai into the final BOOM member's chest, piercing the heart.
I hope you all liked it. I really enjoyed writing this chapter especially. I know Gar seems a little overpowered but he's a little weaker than Kakashi right now (Like I've got a chart that I made when planning out the story that is basically a rough estimate of who's stronger than who and Gar is at 600 while Kakashi is 750) the members of Team BOOM were just weaker than Mist-3's members, and Gar is a showboat. Free imaginary cookie to whoever knows where Gar made his debut (Hint, it's not this story :P)
THANKS FOR READING XD