Hibiki felt the millions of chakras surging around him, some were stronger than others, pressing roughly against his own. He took a deep breath, pulling his chakra in so it only cover the battle portion of the stadium, trying to map out what everything was in his mind. Trees and grass as a more gentle chakra then the sement walls and ground.
Tsukifuyu's eyes glazed over the two boys, raising his hand in the air, commanding complete silence. "Begin!"
Neither moved, the breeze floating though their hair, making their cloths rise a bit. Kenpu kept his hands in his pockets, his fingers grazing over a kunai as he waited for the attack. This would be easy, the kid was blind after all. He knew that he should just give the Hibiki a chance to back down, but then stopped, after all he couldn't have made it this far if he couldn't hold his own.
"It must be hard, being blind and all." Kenpu began, bringing the kunai from his pocket. A flash of silver whizzed towards him, piercing the back of his hand and exiting his though his palm. Kenpu only smirked, pulling the senbon easily, it felt akward as it slid though his muscel and bones, making a slight popping noise when it was all the way out. The smallest trickle of blood flowed out of the wound.
"Don't start that." Hibiki sighed, holding three abnormally thick senbon between his fingers, their chilling texture giving him slight comfort. He figured that's how the battle would start, and didn't plan on listening to another idiot question his abilities.
Kenpu smirked, his green and blue eyes focusing entirely on Hibiki as he dropped the red senbon. Kenpu's hands came together, his body morphing in the wind, popping into an arrange of colors, fireworks. Hibiki felt his heart knock against his chest, it was obviously a Gen Jutsu, after a month of practicing with Itachi spotting simple Gen Jutsu came easy to him, it was breaking them that was the problem.
His senses became blury as he chakra began to shake. His skin felt cold, the air thin, and his feet became damp. He guessed he was in some kind of room, with a low ceiling due to the echos of the water, and a lack of exits that caused the thin air. Hibiki closed his unsighted eyes, putting his hands together as he concentrated. He heard water, sloshing around as a vile smell assaulted his nose, almost making him gag. It was obvious that he was targeting everything he could to keep Hibiki under his spell. The water rose, his entire lower body was submerged in the foul smelling liquid.
"Release!" Hibiki felt the water rise, only this time in small droplets as if it was evaporating. The air became normal again, the crowds roars ringing in his ears. Dropping to his knees Hibiki coughed violently, his entire body shaking as he tried to recover. The rocks dug into his knees making it unpleasant to sit, but he was to winded to stand.
Kenpu waited a moment, his green and blue eyes peaking cautiously under his bangs, not daring to move forward. "You should be honored; I created that Jutsu specifically for you." Kenpu commented, slowly walking forwards. Hibiki was still, listening to the light crunch of the gravel under the boy's sandles. "I know that you have to rely on you hearing, smelling, and touch to get around, so if I could stun those, it would throw you off. And it worked, look at you, on your kness and I haven't even used up half my chakra yet."
"You really think so," Hibiki weezed, tilting his head to the side and his eyes snapped open, their hazy grey reflecting the four three pointed senbon he had thrown at Kenpu.
Kenpu scoffed, simple side stepping the attack, frowing at his own stupidy. Hibiki was using his voice to tell where he was, fine then, he simply wouldn't talk. Kenpu fired three shuriken at Hibiki, mismatched eyes tracking him as Hibiki flung himself into the air, twisting beautifully before landing lightly on his feet.
"You really think that I get around with my senses alone?" Hibiki asked, quirking an eye brow as he pulled an average sized senbon from his pouch. Staying silent, Kenpu rushed forward, bringing his leg up towards Hibiki's neck. Turning his body to the side, Hibiki brought up his arm, blocking the kick and grabbed onto Kenpu's elbow, pulling him down as he kneed him in the stomach. Kenpu grunted, reaching behind him with his non dominate hand and pulling a kunai from his trench coat, slicing Hibiki's stomach. The brown fabric tore in a neat line, the blade dragging against his skin. Hibiki bit his lip, releasing Kenpu and staggering backwards, regained his footing and jumped until he was near the wall.
His stomach burned, placing a hand over the wound, Hibiki breathed in deeply, his hands glowing green. Kenpu straighted out his back, closed his eyes, rolling his neck before he performed a set of hand signs, eyes trained firmly on Hibiki.
"Water Clone Jutsu!" Water began to swirl in little balls in the sky, making the air dry and uncomfratable. A second Kenpu formed, three feet away and leaning forward, ready to attack. "So you're a medic nin too, huh?"
"No," Hibiki grunted, removing his hand. A thin pink scar emerged agrily from his skin, slightly higher than the surrounding area. "The Leaf trains their students to know enough of the basics to at least heal minor things such as a cut. I just actually paid attention during that lesson."
"Well then, it seems the Leaf isn't as stupid as it's Gennin, they should have taught you to run away the moment you saw the Mist symbol." Kenpu snapped.
Hibiki's eye brow twitched slightly and he pointed to his eyes, "I can't see anything, you twit. Not that I'd want to see you're pathetic village." Hibiki pulled a single senbon from his pouch and fired it at Kenpu's clone. The clone jumped, spinning to the side and running forward. Hibiki brought his arm up to block, then heard, what was to his ears, a loud sizzling, and cursed.
Itachi watched from above, Sharingan activated, as Hibiki went up in smoke.
"He just blew up his own water clone!" Junki grabbed onto Itachi, her pale eyes searching though the large smoke and dirt cloud that covered the western wall of the arena. When Itachi said nothing, she looked at him. "Oh come on Itachi! Did you just copy that?"
"No."
"You're the hottest lying Uchiha I've ever met."
"And you're the most flirtatious Hyuuga I've ever had the displease of associating with."
Kenpu waited, a small smirk evident on his face. Standing up straight her put his hands in his trench coat, tilting his head down as the plaster and earth rained down on his head. "It looks like I win. It's to bad, he was really tale…." Kenpu choked, and collapsed, his chest hurt as began coughing. He saw double as the world turned a mixture of yellows and greens.
Hibiki jumped down from the wall, calmly walking over to Kenpu and crouched down next to him. "Guess the blind kid wasn't so easy to beat now was he?" Hibiki whispered, twirling a senbon in his hand.
"Impossible….you should be dead." Kenpu struggled to talk, scrunching his eyes together.
"Yeah, well substations come in real handy with stuff like that. By the way, you should never take you're eyes off your enemy. The moment you closed your eyes right before creating the shadow clone, I used a substation to get away. You attached the explosive tag on the clones back, but tags have chakra, so it was easy for me to sense it, even before I knew what you were planning." Hibiki continued, standing up and taking a step back.
"I don't…understand, you can't see, how could you have known…."
"I'm a sensor, duh. My chakra are my eyes and it's far more efficient than yours." Hibiki folded his arms across his chest, watching as the medics crowded around Kenpu, carting him away quickly. Hibiki slipped a vile into the pocket of one of the medics, heading back to the waiting area as Tsukifuyu announced the winner.
"Winner, Hibiki Dozuko"
"Wait, Haruhi I don't get it what happened. He just dropped dead like that!" Choko was leaning dangerously far over the edge, but it didn't matter, she was a ninja after all. Haruhi had been wondering the same thing, her red hair falling over her shoulder again.
"Posion perhaps?" She mumbled, startled when a voice snuck up behind her.
"Yes, and one of his slower acting ones from the looks of it." Itachi answered, eyes now a coal black, they burned into her cool blue eyes.
"But when did he…" Haruhi trailed off, replaying the battle over and over in her mind, her eyes widening, "From the beginning, when the first senbon pierced Kenpu's hand."
Itachi nodded, simply turning around to walk back to Junki, who was now talking to a very excited Choko. "Yes."
"But why didn't he just take him out then? Why wait until the end of the battle?" Haruhi pressed, this time more to herself, Itachi shrugged, looking upwards.
"I belive he simply wanted to give Kenpu the chance to show the Kage what he was capable of."
"That's noble, in a stupid and confusing way." She commented, watching as the blind boy reentered the room, being tackled by Junki who laughed and roughed up his hair. Haruhi watched as Itachi pulled her off of Hibiki, separating the two by tossing them to separate sides of the room. If only she hadn't been so stupid, she may have been on that team instead of Junki.
Hi! Guess what, Hakuro, Natsumi, and Kenpu have all been posted and are on my profile, thank you ObeseOrange! So excited, also I want to thank everyone for helping me achive 100+ reviews, I never actually imagined I would get that many, and it's only what…the eighteenth chapter? I just feel amazing, and so a big round of applause to you all! Also if your characters haven't sent in a question, please do so soon, I want the next chapter up by Wensday morning latest.
Fun Fact: When Itachi watched Kenpu blow up his water clone he copied it, using it during his fight with Asuma, Kurenai, and Kakashi later in the series!
I have to admit I had a lot of fun with this chapter.