Making A Difference chapter twelve
Hello everybody I'm back, after a long time of not making any new chapters. Blame it on a hectic schedule, but I don't want to bore you with the details though so enjoy this hopefully decent chapter.
Disclaimer: Screw lawyers because I already know I don't own Naruto or anything else for that matter.
Naruto woke up with a start, only to shield his eyes from the brightness of the sun coming through his bedroom window. He yawned and got up from his bed while scratching his head. 'What was I supposed to do today...the exam!' Naruto thought as he quickly went to his wardrobe. once he had his usual clothing on, he leaped out of his bedroom window and jumped from building to building to try and reach the stadium in time.
The blonde kept jumping across until he spotted his friend down on the streets, casually walking in the same direction Naruto was heading. dropping down, Naruto spoke to him. "Nick! Hey uh, I was going to tell you something yesterday but you know what happened. Naruto was explaining, but Nick interrupted.
"Sure, you can tell me when we get to the stadium okay?" Nick said. Naruto looked like he was having trouble forming words so he only nodded. 'Wonder what's got him like this...heh, it can wait' Nick thought to himself as they continued walking.
They reached the stadium in a matter of minutes, a line of civilians and ninja alike going inside to see the future chunnin battle it out. Naruto and Nick walked in together receiving mixed looks. While Naruto received most of the hateful glares from the crowd, Nick got a fair share of them. The two ignored them as they entered. They quickly took their places by the other genin and stood to attention. A jounin stood in front of them with a senbon in his mouth. "Alright that's everyone then, then let's get started. Everyone except Neji Hyuuga and Nick Greene go to the stands." Genma said, making Nick whip his head forward in confusion.
"I'm fighting Neji? What the hell!" Nick yelled, only for Naruto to turn to him. "That's what I was trying to tell should've listened." Naruto explained to Nick, who sweat dropped at this. He turned around to face Neji who settled himself into his family's fighting style.
"You should give up while you still can, fate decreed that I..." "Was one dumb bastard for believing that fate crap." Nick interrupted, receiving an angry glare from the other boy. "What you know it's true, but you don't want to admit it. So let me help you by knocking some sense into you." Nick stated as he crouched down into his fighting style.
" You're a little too cocky for your own good peasant, let me teach you a lesson in humility." Neji said as he activated his Byakugan. Genma stared at both boys for a second then shrugged. " If that's all, then I only have one thing to say...begin!" Genma announced as he jumped away from the war zone.
Eager to beat his opponent, Neji sent a lethal palm strike towards Nick's chest. Nick, knowing what would happen if he got hit, sidestepped to the left to avoid the attack entirely and countered with a flying roundhouse kick. Neji went airborne because of the move but quickly landed back on his feet and rolled to the side to avoid a hail of shuriken sent at him.
(In the stands)
Naruto loudly cheered his teammate on as the others commented on the match in a quieter tone than the blonde. "Wow, those two are pretty strong." Choji stated as he watch the boys duke it out with Sasuke sitting right next to him.
"Please, this is just the beginning. The real fight hasn't even started yet and when it does, you can bet all your money that Nick will win." Sasuke replied, keeping his eyes on the match as he did so.
"I hope you didn't bet too much on your friend, because he's going to lose." A girl wearing a pink Chinese shirt said as she took a seat next to the other genin. "Oh and what makes you say that?" Sasuke asked out of curiousity. The girl smirked as she relaxed in her seat.
"Neji is a prodigy of the Hyuuga clan, he's even surpassed some of his elders. Sorry to break it to you, but your teammate doesn't stand a chance." She said proudly, only to hear the raven haired boy chuckle. "What's so funny?" the girl questioned with a frown. Sasuke laughed for a few more seconds until he stopped.
"You'll see as soon as Nick actually gets serious. Plus I'm not his teammate, that dope is." Sasuke explained while pointing towards Naruto. Said person was about to argue until what sounded like chirping birds echoed across the stadium. Looking down, everyone saw Nick holding a ball of lightning in his hands.
(In the fighting area)
"Chidori!" Nick exclaimed as he rushed towards his white eyed opponent. 'If I'm hit with that I'm finished!' Neji thought in horror. The Hyuuga prodigy quickly started to spin around, forming a barrier made of chakra in the process.
"Rotation!" Neji yelled as Nick's Chidori clashed with Neji's technique. The power struggle lasted for awhile until the chakra for the Chidori started to die down. Nick hurriedly back flipped away to think of another strategy.
"Face it, with my Byakugan I can see any attack you try to use so there is no way to surprise me. This match was over before it even started." Neji declared arrogantly. Unfortunately for him though, his declaration gave Nick an idea.
"I have to admit, your Byakugan is pretty useful. But what would happen if you couldn't use it? Without it, your fighting style wouldn't work the way it's supposed to. And with my new move, your Byakugan will be useless." Nick explained, receiving curious looks from people all over the stadium.
(In the stands)
"A move that can render the Byakugan useless, I've never heard of such a thing. How about you Kakashi?" Asuma asked as he watched over the battlefield. "I've heard of people flaring their chakra enough that the Byakugan can be blinded, but I've never heard of a technique that can replicate the effects." Kakashi replied watched attached his student carefully.
(With the fight)
"Why bother saying things like that when...what the!" Neji was trying to say before Nick simply vanished. The Hyuuga prodigy looked around for his slippery foe until, to his horror, Nick appeared right in front of him with a blue sphere in his hands.
"Chakra Flash!" Nick cried out, making the sphere explode right in front of Neji's face. The effect was instantaneous, making the Hyuuga reel back holding his hands against his eyes in pain giving Nick the perfect opportunity to attack. First he made twenty clones and told them to jump high into the air with chakra, ensuring that they wouldn't be coming down soon. Then he ran towards the stunned Hyuuga and sent him flying with a bone-jarring right hook.
Before Neji could land though, Nick appeared below him and backflip kicked him further into the air. Then Nick quickly came up with Neji and thrust a rasengan into his chest, causing Neji to fall back down to the ground with a resounding thud that could be heard across the stadium.
(In the stands with the genin)
The rookie nine, or eight seeing as Lee wasn't there yet, had their jaws on the ground. "I knew he was strong, but I didn't know he was that strong!" Kiba managed to say after he got out of his stupor.
"Indeed, it seems that Nick is far more powerful than any of us thought." Shino said aloud to the group while Shikamaru just groaned in displeasure.
'Great, so whether I win or lose my match I'm screwed. Then again I'd rather face Nick than my mom.' Shikamaru thought as he imagined just that his mother would do to him if he lost. The boy could suddenly feel shivers down his spine.
Sakura couldn't believe that someone their age was so powerful, it simply didn't make sense. "Now I see why Ino thinks he's amazing." The pink-haired girl whispered to herself.
(With the jounin)
"Something so simple to use but extremely effective, didn't know that your student had it in him Kakashi. Judging by his academic record he was only slightly above average, but this match is telling a different story." Kurenai acknowledged with a hint of curiosity.
"Well he is 'Konoha's Golden Boy', what did you expect?" Kakashi replied to his now intrigued comrade.
"I thought that was just some silly rumor Kakashi, some faceless genin seen in the bingo books. Hardly sounds like the kind of thing that could happen." The red-eyed woman said.
"Well...Nick has a way of surprising people, but the fight I really want to see is the third one. Now that is going to be interesting." Kakashi said in a cheerful tone. "Indeed." both Asuma and Kurenai said as they patiently waited for the third match.
(The fight)
Neji was in spread-eagled position after he landed, spidery cracks appearing from the ground where he made impact. Across from the downed genin was Nick, an obvious smirk on his face as he pretended to check his shoes for dirt.
"Strange really, usually when they do something like that in Dragon Ball Z there's a huge crater afterwards. At least it got the job down though." Nick said in an annoying manner. Neji almost lost his cool right then and there, but he quickly stopped himself and sacked a question that Nick actually didn't expect.
"What makes you tick?" Neji asked, a part of Jim actually wanting an answer. "Eh what?" Nick asked in confusion, not really sure how to react.
"What is your motivation for becoming a ninja, I've never met anyone quite like you? You are very powerful, yet you still address others as if you are inferior to them." Neji asked.
"Well I guess I had to give you a dramatic speech sooner or later. Well for starters I don't like that kind of fanfiction where the protagonist is god-like yet they like to think their the shit, even though they technically are. But just because he's a badass doesn't mean that he has to shove it in people's faces, i hate reading that kind of shit." Nick ranted until he remembered where he was. Judging by the wtf expressions on every person at the stadium, he was having one of his episodes.
"Right, sorry about that. Anyway...what made me want to be a ninja was the thought of helping people." Nick said with pride.
"Helping...people?" Neji asked, almost forgetting about what he was about to do. " I love to help anyone I can in any way possible, excluding yaoi related activities." Nick joked before he face-palmed at the bewildered look on Neji's face.
"What made me want to help people was this one girl I knew in an orphanage. By the way your gaping like a fish now tells me that you didn't know I was an orphan. That's right, the guy who just kicked your ass was not even in a clan. At least not yet that is." Nick said before he looked over to the stands and waved towards Ino, who was being assaulted by cat-calls and sex jokes. To say it was disturbing would be an understatement.
"Back to that girl though, I remember what she did for me like it was yesterday. It was a snowy Christmas day, most of the other children had gotten toys and gifts from some of the adults who took care of us. Me, I got the best present a kid could ever want; a good, solid beating for 'shirking my duties' and permission to stay locked up in my room." Nick said sarcastically.
"I wasn't allowed to eat the last five days because I 'deserved' it, I couldn't imagine why they hated me so much out of everyone else in the place. What kind of sick bastard does that to a child? I didn't deserve that bullshit!" Nick roared in anger, chakra oozing out of his body at an alarming speed. Strange tattoo-like symbols appeared on his arms without him knowing, and a faint blue light could be seen underneath Nick's jacket. Before anything else could happen though, he calmed down. By doing so, the weird tattoos disappeared and the blue glow faded out of existence.
"But I digress, the girl's name was Anne. She was the only person at that shit hole who cared about me. She gave me food so that I wouldn't starve to death, something I'm very happy for to this day. When I asked her why she helped, she told me something that would shape me into who I am today; "Because, I like helping people." Nick finished, his head hung low in remembrance of the girl who he'd probably never see again.
"Touching, I'm sorry but your sob story isn't going to save you. You're within range of my divination." Neji said as he ran forward and started his assault. Nick couldn't react in time and got hit by the onslaught of palm strikes that steadily weakened Nick until he was on his knees.
"Now I know how Naruto felt." Nick muttered to himself before coughing up some of his blood. Neji stood over Nick ready to strike the final blow, confident that the match was finally over.
" It's over, you won't be able to access your chakra for six hours. You have been a good opponent and as such, I will finish you quickly. Any last words?" Neji asked calmly.
"Actually I have something to say. One, what is up with bad guys giving the good guy the chance to say their last words. And two, have you seen the weather lately?" Nick commented while pointing his head towards the sky. *Neji accepted the gesture and looked upwards as well, only to see twenty clones of Nick falling from the sky with rasengans in they're hands.
Nick took the initiative and punched Neji in the nuts, causing the Hyuuga to bend over. Nick, deciding to be the jackass he is sometimes said "You don't need chakra for everything!" before he shunshinned away*. What followed was the equivalent of a bomb going off. The first clone caused enough damage, but was immediately joined by the others. By the end of the barrage there was a huge crater, containing an unconscious genin by the name of Neji.
"Now that's the crater size I was looking for, definitely going to be recording this in the record books!" Nick said enthusiastically, followed by a loud roar of approval from the stadium. Everyone, even some of the people that didn't like Nick cheered for him. Of course he let it get to his head, as he started bowing dramatically to the crowd. Fortunately Ino got him and tugged him back into the stands by his ear.
(With the jounin)
" You know, that kid ain't half bad. That last attack was priceless." Anko said truthfully as she, along with the other jounin, finished laughing."
"That little stunt of his was very inappropriate Anko, he shouldn't have done it. Then again, it was pretty funny." Kurenai tried to reason, until she started to giggle again. Kakashi and Asuma were in the same boat, exept for the complete lack of control.
"That kid is something else Kakashi, first his match against the sand nin and now this." Asuma joked to his friend Who seemed to be deep in thought. 'I'll have to talk to him about his past, hopefully it's not killing him right now.' Kakashi thought as he watched his student interact with the Yamanaka girl.
" What do you mean you're more interested in the third match than mine?" Ino yelled, causing Nick to sweat in nervousness. " Ino I'm going to watch your match, but I need to get ready for that third match." Nick said before making a hasty retreat "I hope he doesn't keep me waiting." Ino said to herself. She sighed as she waited for the third match to come around.
"I don't want to fight a friend of mine." Naruto said bluntly to a now frustrated Kiba. They were seated far away from the others. "Seriously, look I know you've known the guy furor quite some time but come on! You two need to fight, it's the talk of the village. So you better make it interesting." Kiba encouraged, Akamaru barking in agreement.
"I don't know, after what i saw of Nick's match I don't think I could..." "Look, you can do this. Think of it as a friendly competition between you and a friend. You want to surpass him, you have to beat him. You can't just follow in his footsteps all the time, you have to become your own person." Kiba interrupted.
"You know what, your right Kiba. I can't just follow him around anymore, I need to show him that I can be just as powerful as him! Thanks for the pep talk Kiba." Naruto said as he walked off to prepare for the third match.
Omake:
Kankuro started sweating bullets as his brother arrived on the limb of a nearby tree. "Hey uh...Gaara how's it..." "Shut up or I'll kill you." Gaara said calmly to his brother. Usually a discussion like this would end with Kankuro opening and closing his mouth without words coming out, but Kankuro finally snapped.
"Shut up you fucking pussy! I will beat the living shit out of you you ugly son of a bitch. I mean seriously, who the fuck do you think you are. Oh you can use sand I'm sooooo scared, bitch please! I have puppets that can shoot fucking poison darts. Can you shoot poison darts? No, so shut the fuck up. Now if we're done here, I need to go get a harem or two." Kankuro finished as Anko and Tsunade appeared at his feet and hugging his legs as he flew off into the distance with Temari following close behind, screaming for him to sleep with her while wearing a bathing suit. "Kankuro, Kankuro!" she screamed.
"Kankuro!" Temari yelled, finally waking up her brother. Said boy woke up with a start while looking for his harem of women, sadly enough he found out it was just a dream.
"What?" he asked his sister. "Your match is up, it's that...Nick Greene guy." Temari said almost dreamily. "Well, at least I get to beat that loser." Kankuro said with glee. With that he almost skipped down the stairs, unaware of the fact that he was going to grow a fear of men being behind him.
And cut people, how did I do. *If anyone can guess where that idea came from, you get a...oh sorry just found out I ran out of cookies. How about a nice celery stick instead?* Could you guys imagine what would happen if Kankuro was actually badass? Me, not really. Just can't see the image in my head. And what about that third match thing hm. Hopefully it puzzles you long enough until I write the next chapter, but I doubt that. People are just too smart for that to work. See you next time guys and gals.
