The Elementalist Swordsman
By: Darksider82
Beta: Winged Seer Wolf
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"Chat and spells"
Thoughts
Tailed beasts speaking
Jutsus
(Speaking is parsletongue)
(Tailed beast thoughts)
(Summons speaking)
XIV
"Fighters ready? Hajime!" Harry commanded and he vanished to his perch. He did not want to be in the middle of this powder keg match consisting of a Jinchuriki and a sharingan wielder.
Yes he knew what he was talking about when it came to jinchuriki's as he had helped make one. Almost immediately the sand shot out of the gourd and Sasuke jumped backwards. This is the sand I've been warned about. Sasuke thought.
As Sasuke watched his opponent almost suddenly the red head lost control of the sand and his body hunched as he grabbed his forehead. "Please, I'm begging you...Don't get so mad at me." Sasuke heard the boy groan which was then replaced with a dark chuckle.
"Mother..." Gaara rasped out causing Sasuke to gasp slightly Who is he talking to? He wondered nervously. "I know doesn't his blood smell so sweet mother." Gaara continued to whisper as the sand began to crawl out of the gourd.
"I'm sorry, this time it will taste a thousand times better...Just be patient mother." Sasuke watched as the sand began to surround Gaara.
Meanwhile in the stands Kankuro turned to his sister "This is dangerous, the conversation has already started!" Kankuro protested.
"I know, this is the first time I've seen Gaara get like this before fighting." Temari whispered grabbing her battle fan for comfort. "That must be because of how powerful Sasuke is. Let's watch."
The elder Sabaku siblings watched as the sand thickened into what resembled a claw. Suddenly Gaara shook and the sand fell to the ground as a result Gaara was panting heavier than normal.
Thank kami, he has finally calmed down. Baki thought from his position in the crowd. Meanwhile deep inside the stadium Shikamaru and Naruto sat on the steps talking about their confrontation with Gaara.
(Flash back jutsu)
Shikamaru and Naruto along with Gai watched the red head slouch out of Lee's room. "All the same I WILL kill you."
Naruto and Shikamaru could only shiver at the amount of KI the sociopathic redhead was emitting. "Not before I beat you into a paste datteboyo! That you better believe it." Naruto shouted after him.
(Flash back jutsu release)
"We need to warn Kaka-sensei!" Naruto shouted before scrabbling up the stairs with Shikamaru running frantically behind him.
Sasuke snapped under the staring contest "Here goes." He called and unleashed two shuriken at Gaara only for them to be blocked by a sand bunshin. This immediately launched the shuriken back along with a blast of sand forcing Sasuke to go airborne.
Sasuke launched five more shuriken followed by a butterfly kick disarming the sand bunshin literally, before spinning into a handstand to land a series of kicks to be finished with a backhanded chop into the clone's neck causing it to take on an appearance of shock.
The clone smirked before trapping Sasuke's arm but before anything could happen to Sasuke, he obliterated the clone with a chakra enhanced hand thrust to the face and charged forwards.
Sasuke launched another punch only for it to connect with a column of sand. Sasuke smirked and clicked his heels and vanished in a blur of speed to reappear behind Gaara. He's fast! Just like the other-one. Gaara thought.
His opponents speed reminded him of the green genin he had almost tried to kill earlier. This distraction cost him dearly as Sasuke's straight left hand jab cracked his sand armour and propelled him backwards with his sand following helplessly.
"So that's your sand armour? Come on!" Sasuke goaded.
"He's as fast as Lee's normal speed!" Gai murmured.
His taijutsu style resembles mine! Lee thought.
However towards the back of the stands Akamaru was growling up a storm at a cloaked Yakushi Kabuto who was hiding under the garb of an ANBU black op. Kabuto looked at the young Inuzuka and his hand glowed green with medical chakra "This is what he was talking about." With that he launched a quick non-lethal hand strike causing Kiba to pass out.
Back in the arena Sasuke rushed Gaara who had just got to his feet and replicating Lee's impressive speed followed by a rising roundhouse kick to the temple elevated Gaara across the arena floor. "What's the matter Gaara? Is this all you've got?" Mocked Sasuke.
"I'm going to rip off ALL of your armour!" Sasuke declared before vanishing again and rushed across the arena floor. The sand lifted up and began to circle Gaara as did Sasuke circling the sand and Gaara. Then like a lightning bolt Sasuke was inside Gaara's circle of stand.
Knee strike to the chest drove the air out of Gaara. Followed by Sasuke grabbing Gaara by the shoulders and throwing both of his knees into the redheads chest and back flipped away panting before Gaara could use his patented sand burial and sand coffin.
"What's Gaara going to do now? His sand armour is leeching his chakra out of him." Kankuro asked worriedly. Temari gripped the railing and carried on watching her youngest brother take a beating at the hands of the Uchiha.
Temari said nothing except looked to the kage booth where the Hokage and Kazekage sat watching the event.
Kakashi and Gai were talking about Sasuke's training and how his taijutsu and speed managed to almost compare to Lee's within a month compared to the year and a bit training Lee had.
Gaara smirked and clasped his hands in the tiger sign and suddenly the sand rose up around him and covered him in a protective cocoon. At that moment Naruto and Shikamaru emerged at the top of the stadium seats and charged down to Kakashi and Gai.
"Kakashi-sensei, you need Sasuke to forfeit...Gaara WILL KILL him...!" Naruto exclaimed over his heavy breathing. Kakashi laughed and waved off Naruto's concern.
"I know that, I've trained Sasuke enough this month and have given him the tools to beat Gaara." Kakashi explained hoping to placate the blonde.
"Gaara is like ME." Naruto hissed. That caught Kakashi's attention.
"You mean like the fox." Kakashi said dropping to Naruto's level. His face paled as Naruto nodded.
"Count your blessings Gaara is only number one compared to me being nine." Kakashi nodded frantically.
Sasuke charged forward trying to punch his way into the sand cocoon only for sand spears to shoot out almost turn Sasuke into Uchiha-kabob. Sasuke gasped as several cuts appeared on his body after his near collision with the cocoon.
"Mi Saru Ne Saru Tori Saru Tatsu Saru Ne Saru: Daisan No Me!" Gaara rasped from the centre of the cocoon and his patent third eye materialised outside watching Sasuke.
Sasuke saw the gathering of sand and watched as an eye appeared above the cocoon and gasped his sharingan eyes active as the sand eye emerged. 'No doubt about it. It's THAT jutsu!' Gasped Temari mentally from the participants stand.
Kankuro and Temari grabbed the railings 'This is bad. This is very bad. Gaara isn't even thinking about the plan.'
Meanwhile in the stands Naruto and Shikamaru were still protesting about Sasuke's state.
Sasuke on the other hand jumped backwards slightly from the cocoon.
Deep inside, Gaara smirked.
"Gaara..." Temari gasped as the eye materialised fully. Sasuke seeing they charged forward and unleashed several kunai whilst trying to crack it open with his bare fists but it didn't work. The kunai bounced off the cocoon like spells of dragon hide Harry thought.
"But spikes don't just project themselves off dragons unlike this thing." Harry thought tensely as he prepared his chakra for something bigger.
"Mi Saru Ne Saru Tori Saru Tatsu Saru Ne Saru Mi Saru Ne Saru Tori Saru Tatsu Saru Ne Saru Mi Saru Ne Saru Tori Saru Tatsu Saru Ne Saru Mi Saru Ne Saru Tori Saru Tatsu Saru Ne Saru Mi Saru Ne Saru Tori Saru Tatsu Saru Ne Saru!" Gaara began to chant monotonously and repetitively speeding up with every repetition.
The cocoon immediately started to send spikes of sand at the duck haired Uchiha every time he got to close. But the boy was too fast and evaded every attack just about more or less.
The smirk that had graced Sasuke's face earlier was getting wider and wider than most people thought possible. "If you're going to stay in their all day that's fine... It's going to give me plenty of time to prepare for what I have in store for you." Sasuke thought as he raised his bandaged arm and bit on the button strap and released it.
Outside the city gates ANBU streaked around as little more than black blurs. One dressed in a bat mask stopped in the middle of a clearing and looked around. "Well what was it?" The boar masked ANBU asked as he waited with Cat, Dog and Ram.
"Nothing, I must have imagined it." Bat replied and ran upto them before Ram ordered them to get moving. No-one noticed the randomly swaying bush as behind it were two Oto-nin jonins. One of which raised his hand with elbow at head height.
Out of the cover of complex henges revealed the entirety of the Suna-Oto invasion force. The hand turned 45degrees and the invaders vanished.
Kakashi stiffened "Sensei, you had a reason for being late what was it?" Sakura asked curiously.
"Keep your eyes on Sasuke and shut up." Kakashi commanded and just in time as Sasuke had hand sprung backwards and up the wall of the arena and attached himself to the wall.
Once in position his hands blazed through some seals and his left hand grabbed his right hand wrist.
"Fool! The signal could come at any moment. What does Gaara think he's doing?" Baki mentally growled at the impertinence of his genin.
"I'm going to rip him open and spill it all out. Ripping him open is the only way you can get it all out. Are you ready mother? I'm such a good boy aren't I mother? I'm ready." Gaara muttered to himself as he meditated with himself.
"Gaara is losing control of the plan. He's no good to us like that." Temari whispered eyeing the cocoon and completely not noticing Shino who was quietly listening in.
"I think we should cut our losses and get the hell out." Kankuro fretted as his war paint began to smudge.
Just outside the gates several dozen Suna ninja sat around three massive summoning circles transcribing a set of seals onto individual circular bits of chakra paper.
"What is your stance? I want everyone ready to move at a moments notice." A rather thickset Oto-nin ordered and a Suna-nin bowed.
"Understood." With that the Oto-nins vanished and the Suna-nin turned to the summoning circle and formed the ram sign as the summoners did the same.
The summoning circle began to glow electric blue.
It wasn't the only thing that began to glow. Sasuke's right hand began to spark and suddenly thousands of birds were heard as the lightning manifested around his hand.
"Kakashi! You didn't teach him THAT!" Gai said astonished and Kakashi eye smiled.
"Sasuke is exactly like me." He replied. As he replied Sasuke began to charge down the side of the arena gaining more and more momentum and started carving massive gauges out of the wall.
"It's a jab...But a jab like no other and the only jutsu Kakashi didn't copy." Gai said astounding the surrounding genin. "When focus and high speed are combined with chakra the chakra becomes visible and makes the unmistakable cheep cheep. It is an A-rank assassination jutsu. CHIDORI! One thousand birds." Gai explained as Sasuke plunged his hand into the cocoon.
"No way! I don't believe this. No-one has ever been able to penetrate his defences!" Gasped Kankuro.
"Me either." Commented Temari similarly shocked.
"I wouldn't think it possible unless I saw it." Baki said under his breath.
"Excellent!" Breathed the Kazekage.
"It's not a technique to be taught lightly." Gai commented causing Kakashi to snort.
"Kakashi shouldn't have taught him that." The Sarutobi murmured.
"You're the one to talk Gai, you taught Lee how to open the eight gates." Kakashi responded before dropping to Lee's height "Am I correct Lee?"
Lee didn't listen he just watched on in amazement.
"That was awesome though!" Sakura exclaimed. Even though Ino thought Sakura was bad for Sasuke she had to admit that the Chidori was pretty awesome.
Lee was deep in thought. He had been ever since Gai had escorted/carried him to the arena. "I wouldn't have done that. Sasuke you are most interesting indeed."
The Suna-nin had finished their preparations and were now waiting at the base of the walls ready for the signal.
"It's almost time." Kabuto whispered to himself.
"What is this mother? What is this?" Gaara said as he saw Sasuke's arm penetrate his defence.
He felt his hand get wet and he looked down. "BLOOD! IT'S MY BLOOD!" Gaara shouted and a scream ripped through the air and reverberated around the arena.
"What's happening?" Kankuro whispered furiously causing Temari to shrug and shiver.
With a squelch Sasuke wrenched his arm out of the dome and just in time as a massive claw shot out of the whole and almost punched a hole through his chest.
"I sense something bad is happening. I KNOW it involves the Shukaku. Be careful Ototuo." Harry thought as he watched the cocoon.
"That arm! Gaara's cracked." The Sabaku siblings and Baki said together in horror.
"The shell broke before the change could be completed." Temari gasped as the shell dissolved revealing a bloody and incensed Gaara.
Kabuto put his hands together in the ram sign and the genjutsu fell upon the arena. The invasion had begun.