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Hinata opened her eyes slowly as she awoke. Riax wasn't next to her and she remembered that Kai left awhile. She sat up and looked around trying to find where her most violent friend was. The pair stayed in Otafuku Gai relaxing, having fun, eating, sleeping (not in that way), and doing everything together. It seemed more like they were living together than going on a one-month vacation.
"Hinata, wake up. We should head back to Konoha now. There's only a week left until the exam and I should get in some major training." Riax said pulling up his coat walking out of the bathroom. Riax looked over at Hinata and noticed her bad mood. He knew exactly why she was like this. "If you ever want to go on vacations just tell me. We'll run away together."
Hinata giggled and blushed at the same time. She learned that Riax never thought about how other people took the way he said things. He would say the most romantic phrase or violent threat to a person and not realize how they might take it. She watched as Riax walked out of the room realizing she wasn't dressed and smiled as he rushed to get out.
Riax walked out of the bedroom and leaned next to the door waiting. Another resident of the hotel walked down the hall and looked at Riax. She stopped in front of him and smiled as if she just saw a famous celebrity. The black haired girl gasped and Riax prepared for a fan-girl scream.
"Are you Riax Tsoni, you're the shinobi that every body is talking about. Every where I go I here about the shinobi in black that defeated the imposter, killed a summoned demon, and dating a hyuuga." She said quickly. Riax looked up surprised by her information. He looked around as other people in the hotel peeked their heads from their door and looked around. Riax and Hinata usually went outside during the night because they choose to; they didn't realize they were avoiding the paparazzi also.
"Don't you people have anything better to do than follow me around all day." Riax said irritated. The woman didn't even realize the hint of anger in his voice. She decided to continue with how famous he was.
"In the 'Leaf Shinobi Celebrity' magazine you two make the front page every day. Where is your Hyuuga girlfriend, I got a fifty percent on her personality quiz." Hinata opened the door just to see the awkward moment of Riax growing angry at some random person standing at the door. "Are you run-away Hyuuga that hooked up with Riax, after he saved you from his imposter trying to rape you." The fan girl said excitedly.
"R..Run-away H..Hyuuga, r..rape?" Hinata stuttered. Riax wished the girl harassing them were a man so he could punch them in the face. As violent and lawless as he was he still didn't hit girls unless they were a major threat.
"Yeah, it says that you were about to leave to a party with your other boyfriend when the imposter tried to rape you. Riax came over and saved you before he did anything." Both of the genin were left in shock. People changed the truth so far that it leads to Hinata being raped and Riax saving her.
"Let's go." Riax said holding his head and leaving. Hinata just followed behind silently not sure on what she should say. Riax looked outside and wondered how people came up with such crazy stories. They walked outside of Otafuku Gai and Riax pulled out one of the scrolls and summoned his bike. He sat on top and twisted the handle causing it to roar.
"Hop on, it's going to be a long ride so you might as well go back to sleep on the way." Riax said looking back at the Hyuuga girl. She sat behind him and held him close; Riax just simply took off leaving Otafuku Gai behind.
The entire time the only thing Riax thought about was his home. The Land of Shadows was in a cold civil war, neither of the two villages inside attack each other yet they refuse to ally with the other. Riax understood perfectly how long they've hated each other but he has forgotten why. He looked at the clouds imagining the day his clan, family, friends, and life burned for something sealed within him.
"Y..You haven't told me everything about where y..your from." Hinata said in his ear. Riax looked back at the dirt road and guessed she's been watching him. He thought about it and knew that the entire village is going to figure out sooner or later. He decided to tell the person he could trust the most so he started with the topic on his mind.
"My clan was divided into three sections, the hebi house was the one I was from it's the same as your main house. Then there's the branch house and the support house." Riax said explaining the caste system of his home. Hinata listened closely wondering how Neji would take being in the lowest house if there were three. Riax sighed and continued his life story.
"As a Hebi house member and the clan prodigy it was my duty to keep the Tsoni clan's power alive, I trained, signed the dragon, snake, hollow, and 12 guardians contract, studied countless jutsu and learned how to defeat different bloodlines." Riax continued revealing everything to her. She was amazed on how much he learned and did before he came to Konoha. She felt inferior, the most she did was train with Kiba and Shino.
"Jiax was never around, he was always out on secret clan missions. It was painful but I could've survived. One day I awoke inside of a temple and ran home, I was seven when I saw my home burning along with my clan." Riax said without changing his tone. Hinata realized how casually he talked about it and wondered if he even cared any more. She saw the gates to Konoha in the distance.
"A group of shinobi appeared behind me and I killed two of them. Jiax killed the other three and we escaped by leaving the country. I swore for revenge and went around the world becoming as strong as possible. Years later we heard about the chunin exam in the rain village and we came." Riax said giving her the short summary of his life before Konoha. Hinata imagined how hard it must have been living alone with only your brother and with people chasing you.
"I..I'm sorry, I..I shouldn't have asked." Hinata said apologizing for barging in his past. Riax looked back and smiled.
"It's alright you were most likely going to figure out anyway." Riax said calming his companion. Hinata thought about how Kurenai would greet her. She left a note on her door stating that she was in Otafuku Gai with friends and will be back before the exams. Riax reached inside his coat and pulled out a magazine and handed it back to Hinata. "Do you mind looking through that and seeing what they put in there about us."
Hinata looked through the magazine hating the fact that they picked her of all people to write about. One page had pictures of them talking at a restaurant and another had pictures of Riax fighting the hollow. She flipped to the next page and was shocked by the portrait of their child that the artist drew. She bundled up the magazine and put it in her coat pocket with a smile remembering how Riax reacted when he saw the portrait.
"Hinata, we're here. So what are you going to do now?" Riax asked while slowing down. They pulled up to the green village gates and Riax stopped the bike completely letting Hinata off first. Afterwards he got up and placed his personal transportation in a scroll and put that in his coat.
"K..Kurenai will want m..me and Kiba to help Shino with his training." Hinata said hiding the disappointment that her vacation was over. Riax knew that he should get in some training also. Kai's probably going to have them working on higher-level techniques to make up for the time they missed.
"Well I'll see you later, bye." Riax said before using the body flicker technique to disappear under the cover of fire. She flinched when Riax was covered in flames and was gone when the flames went away. She walked towards the village and thought about what the exam is going to be like.
Hours later Riax, Daisuke, and the now chunin Jiax were being forced to develop trio-jutsu. They were huddled together in a group discussing who uses what, when, and why.
"If we use a water, fire, and lightning based jutsu what would we get out of it?" Daisuke asked developing plans in his mind. Jiax was too busy wondering why he's forced to do this when the other two are doing the exam.
"The fire and water jutsu could be use to create a mist and the lightning could turn the entire cloud into a electric trap." Riax said. Daisuke looked up and thought out the entire process. It made perfect sense with no flaws. They decided that's what they were going to do and chose the jutsu. Kai watched as all three of his students stood up and faced the same direction ready to perform a combination jutsu.
"Water Release: Waterfall Basin Jutsu." Daisuke said after forming handseals. A large amount of water rose out of the ground and created a miniature lake in front of them. Jiax followed up with one of the few fire jutsu he knows.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu." Jiax said before exhaling a giant fireball. The fire and water created a thick cloud of steam that was at least eighty degrees inside. Riax formed handseals afterwards using a lightning jutsu he recently created.
Lightning Release: Static Air Current." Riax said thrusting one hand out. There was a strong breeze and electricity flowed out of Riax's hand into the water cloud. Kai watched as the fog turned into a lightning storm on the inside. He knew that anyone that walked in would become the direct target for all electricity in the fog.
"Good, but there are minor flaws. Because of the jutsu's range and the electric current in the jutsu. The more people caught inside the less damage each person feels." Kai said studying how the jutsu was executed. He evaluated what type of jutsu it was. "It seems like an escape, trap, attack-like jutsu to me."
The two genin were proud that they successfully developed a multi-purpose jutsu. Kai was sitting in his tree writing down the jutsu they used to develop the one just made in a scroll. He kept records of his student's progress, he wrote down all of their jutsu and classified them in their separate scrolls and he had another scroll for co-op jutsu.
After a little while of waiting eventually the lightning cloud disappeared. Kai decided to let his students go for the day and let them take the rest of the day to themselves. He looked up and saw Asuma standing on the branch above him.
"Kakashi puts his students through serious tests but you have your students working directly on jutsu themselves. They're lucky to have you." Asuma said to Kai. Both of them were laid back with the only exception being Kai was laid back and suicidal. Asuma heard the casual noise of Kai breaking kunai on a random vital point.
"You have it rough Asuma, you're teaching the children of one of Konoha's greatest teams." Kai said dropping his last kunai he watched as Riax and Daisuke made fun of Jiax because of his new patrol duty.
"My father, the Hokage told me a secret about you. Is it true?" Asuma said knowing Kai knew what he was talking about. The psycho jonin looked up at Asuma and responded revealing a confusing.
"Yes, I trained your father. Because of me he has learned to summon a friend of mine, the Monkey King Enma." Kai said admitting he taught the third Hokage. Asuma looked down at this person that made the leader of the village what he is today. "I'm training this team the same way I trained the Hokage." Kai added.
"These students are getting training that the village kage endured. Doesn't that give them an unfair advantage." Asuma said wondering what his friend would say to this. He didn't realize Kai was as smart as he really was.
"The unfair advantage is that you are the Hokage's son and you could convince your father to train your students." Asuma realized that it was impossible to when an argument with Kai. He always had something to use against you.
"Kai, I need another hint on your age." Asuma said. To him guessing Kai's age became a personal challenge. Kai took a second to think about how the next tip should be and he thought of something difficult.
"Wood, water, fire. Then earth, water, fire, I taught them all." Kai said confusing Asuma. He looked down at Kai and wondered what kind of clue was that. Kai looked up and opened the co-op scroll with the jutsu they made allowing Asuma to figure it out.
'Jiax uses earth, Daisuke's water, and Riax is fire. It's in order by age so that means… Kai taught someone with the Mokuton bloodline, another water master, and another fire master'. Asuma looked up and thought harder. He wasn't sure whether Kai had another team or it was some one specific. It hit him when he looked at the Hokage faces.
"You were the teacher of the first Hokage, he had the Mokuton bloodline. You also taught the second and third Hokage, the water and fire masters." Asuma realized that makes Kai older than the leaf village itself. He felt slightly honored being next to some one that has survived so long.
"Correct but you still haven't come to my exact age. For all you know I could have been the first Hokage's brother and taught him some of the techniques. Leave no possibility out." Kai said teaching Asuma a new lesson. He simply meant to say is that you should recognize all possibilities no matter how absurd they may sound. Asuma always felt like such a student around Kai.
"I have a question for you Kai, Riax's natural element is fire correct." Kai nodded knowing he already did the test to figure that out, "Why is he able to use every element so easily." Asuma said trying to stump his friend. Apparently he didn't, Kai went into a long-winded explanation.
"You could say it's the Tsoni clan bloodline but in a way you can't. The Tsoni family has always had an unusual chakra system, it flows like a river through the body constantly moving so jutsu can be performed easier." Kai explained. Asuma remembered hearing a story about a doujutsu that had similar effects. "They also are linked with every element so they can master them all."
"That sounds like a bloodline to me." Asuma said while pulling out another cigarette. He lit it and leaned back letting the conversation continue.
"Not exactly, Jiax's is linked with only earth jutsu but his body connects his chakra to his muscles giving him inhuman speed and strength without training. Riax's chakra is linked to all elements and can be directly focused outside of his body." Asuma remembered the chakra blasts Riax was able to throw during his fight with Sasuke. He also knew that being able to focus chakra outside of your body was something anyone can do; only few are skilled enough to do it.
"Strangely Riax can still mold the chakra once its outside of him so it can be used for anything. So they don't have a bloodline ability, their blood just impoves the average abilities." Kai finished telling Asuma all he knew about the Tsoni clan. The jonin of Ino-Shika-Cho brought up another topic after he realized that Kai has all the answers and know is the time to be paying full attention.
"I've heard of another clan like the Tsoni that was removed. They were called the Kyuketsuki clan." Asuma said. He was referring to the rivals of the Tsoni clan.
"You mean the Xeno clan, their kekkei genkai was called Kyuketsuki, or blood manipulation. By drinking another persons blood they steal their chakra, memories, jutsu, and bloodline if they had one." Kai said in his usual monotone voice. How he knew all of this was a mystery to Asuma but he never questioned a good thing.
"Phoenix preist jutsu." Daisuke said clapping his hands together. Him and Riax were training against each other for the last time so they decided to fight full-force. A pair of wings made of pure golden chakra appeared behind Daisuke and lifted him into the air. Riax threw shuriken at Daisuke and formed a handseal when they got close.
"Weapon Multiplication Jutsu" Riax said as the shuriken multiplied into hundreds more. Dice used his wings to descen towards the ground at high speeds. While diving he looked up and saw Riax making more handeals. "Gravity Field Jutsu" Riax said increasing the gravity above his partner.
Daisuke spun around and looked up to see the hundreds of shuriken falling towards him. He knew that the gravity would make avoiding them almost impossible so he quickly thought of a way to escape. He struggled to put both hands together and focused his chakra. Riax watch the shuriken stab his partner before he exploded into water.
"Maybe this is how the chunin exam is going to turn out." Daisuke said with his katana on his partners neck. Riax opened his mouth and Daisuke watched a snake like tongue wrap around his sword. Smoke blocked his vision and he felt something like a thick rope wrap around him and constict squeezing him. There was a sharp pain on his arm and he felt weak and dizzy.
When the smoke cleared Daisuke realized a dark red snake that bit him on his left arm wrapped him up. He saw Riax drop out of a tree with a smile. Daisuke looked down at the snake surprised.
"I never knew you could summon snakes." Daisuke said. He knew of only one person that could summon snakes. And that person wasn't exactly the best of all the people in the world.
"The snake's bite seals all chakra for a short time, by the way. I'm going to kick your ass at the exams." Riax said releasing the snake. Daisuke stood up instantly feeling his chakra coming back to him. He realized how skilled his friend was when it came to nin and taijutsu but Daisuke knew that he has yet to show his true ace. Daisuke was a genjutsu master and his skills were second only to Itachi. He knew to keep the genjutsu a secret until the exams.
"I'm leaving now, it's getting late and I have to meet someone at Ichiraku's early in the morning." Riax said after cancelling the jutsu on the shuriken. He left without saying a word leaving Daisuke to wonder who someone is.
"So sweet, Riax's growing into a real man by taking pretty eyes out on a date." Riax turned around and tackled Daisuke suddenly. Luckily for Daisuke Jiax dropped out of a tree next to them before he choked and died.
"You just can't wait to kill each other can you." Jiax said leaning back against the tree. Riax stood up after kicking Dice in the stomach and responded to his partner.
"Where the fuck have you been. I kind of needed your help in Otafuku Gai when we were attacked by a soldier hollow." Riax said. Jiax rolled his eyes and smirked. Daisuke figured out that this happened around the time Kai and Asuma told him to wait in the hotel.
"You're still alive so I really don't see a problem and besides, I'm a chunin now and I'm doing over-time so I can see the exams." Jiax said pulling out his leaf headband. In a sense, none of team Kai came from a separate village. They were more like a mercenary team that came to take the exams. They'd only be considered leaf-nin after they became chunin.
"So Jiax how much are you getting paid." Daisuke asked jumping up to his feet. He had an evil grin on his face hoping he gets a good answer from Jiax.
"No, I'm not paying for your weekly visits to strip clubs." Jiax said crushing Daisuke's hopes. The team sat down and discussed what happened because Jiax rarely had any free time. After the training he had to file a report to the Hokage about the mysterious movements in the sand village. Daisuke constantly brought up Riax and Hinata, which led to Riax tackling him and Jiax wondering why he's the only normal person on the team.
"Lord Fuma, the Orochi's seal is almost complete just a few more days until the seal is restored. But we still have a little while until the Orochi regains it's power." A fuma-nin said. Kotaro Fuma smiled while looking at a giant black box. The box was slightly bigger than the average sized person and had a lock on the front. Fuma grabbed the lock and ripped it off throwing it to the floor. "What is that."
"It's a weapon of the Tsoni ancients. The Tsoni puppet, Gun." Fuma said using chakra strings to attach to the puppet. He pulled it out showing that everything below the head was covered in a silk cloth. The head had eight eyes each one glowing green. Fuma moved his middle finger to see what the puppet could do.
Gun opened its mouth and shot out a barrage of needles. Each of the poisoned needles hit Fuma's followers numbing his entire body. As he fell to the ground he felt an intense burning inside his body. Blood began pouring out of his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose as his insides melted away. Eventually he died a slow and painful death.
"They'll return for revenge and Orochi will be complete. Then those fools that disowned me will see the how strong I can be. Clean this mess up." Fuma said walking out of the dark room he was in with Gun following behind. The puppet was hidden in the basement until some one with the skill could use it. Two trained hunter-nin of Fuma's appeared next to the bloody body and began to dispose of it by sealing the body into the scroll and burning it.
Fuma walked through the building examing the walls that were made of stone. He walked past a giant door that was chained, sealed, and locked. Multiple seals of the highest level were placed to keep the demon inside of the room from getting out. But Fuma wanted the power of the demon inside so he had his follower's weaken the seal giving the demon more energy.
"Lord Fuma, we have found a way to bring the brothers to us, or at least the one we need to further your power." A shinobi said running up behind Fuma. He turned around and looked at the pair of tracker-nin he sent. The one that spoke first realized he was waiting to hear how. "There is a person, a girl that he has taken interest into. If we bring her here he will follow quickly."
"I will send my son, Inawa. To 'retrieve' her, when he does I want all shinobi and soldiers on high-alert. If what you say is true he will come using every ounce of power in his body." Fuma said. His son Inawa appeared next to him. The shinobi watched as Inawa Fuma kneeled down next to his father.
Inawa was dressed in a thick, padded black flak jacket. His pants were also made of a special impossible to cut material that was also black. His customized kunai launchers hung off of his hips. Each one was a handgun with a scroll in the barrel so everytime he pulls the trigger the gun opens the scroll and absorbs some of his chakra shooting a kunai. His black hair was in dreads and hung down to his shoulders. Like his father his skin was strangely pale.
"Will I be able to kill them if I find them." Inawa said in a deep voice.
"Don't kill them, one of them has something that I want." Fuma answered. His son looked towards the tracker-nin and took the picture of his target out of his hand. He looked at the picture of Hinata closely and recognized she was a Hyuuga.
"She's from a powerful clan, I'll wait until the chunin exams to strike." Inawa said before using the Body Flicker Jutsu to disappear inside the soldier barracks. He told a few soldiers and shinobi to follow him to the leaf village and they left to complete their mission.