KO 25: The Prelims
At the end of the first day the Trio turned their scrolls in and relaxed at the Center Tower for the rest of the examination period. When the second test was over they were called to an enormous room with a statue of hands in the center of the back and a balcony on either side of it. The Sandaime Hokage explained the purpose behind the exams. Then he explained the third exam and how it was based on individual efforts, not the team anymore.
The third exam proctor, Hayate Gekkou, explains that there is a need for a preliminary round before the official third exam. First up were Sasuke Uchiha and Yoroi Akado. During the fight Kuro pulls Kiyo and Kaido aside, "Guys when I suppressed Shiro my chakra changed to black chakra, which is one of the two chakra types Masato's have. My dad had white chakra, and when white and black chakra is mixed tempest jutsu are strengthened...But it allowed Shiro, who has white chakra to appear the way he did and to be as strong as he is compared to me. And now I'm free from that chakra, but both Tempest Blades and Tempest Blast have changed, and Shiro won't get stronger as I do."
Kiyo patted Kuro on the shoulder, "That's cause for celebration." She smiled.
"Well after we pass the prelims we will." Kuro smiled back.
"You rookies shouldn't be so cocky; you'll get the shit beat out of ya." Senku chuckled as he butted in their conversation.
"We aren't cocky, we're just certain we'll beat fossils like you." Kaido retorted.
"Kiyo-nee-sama~!" Misaki glomped her. "Wow you look so pretty with your hair down!" she exclaimed.
Kiyo blushed. "Aww…n-no I don't…"
"Of course you do~, guys don't you think Kiyo looks cute~?" Misaki asked the four.
"Can't say." Kuro said.
"Oh right, cause of Rosu…" Kiyo said.
"Oh hey look that Sasuke won." Kaido pointed out.
"I guess he did." Kuro said.
The next fight was between a Bug handler, Shino Aburame, and an Oto-nin, Zaku Abumi. Shino won by ordering his bugs to crawl up Zaku's air pressure tubes that were inserted into his arms. Kiyo started to shake with delight, she smelled the Oto-nin's blood and her heart started to beat throughout her body. "I want it…"
Misaki held Kiyo's hand, "Calm down you don't wanna cause a scene…"
"I-I know but…it smells so good-ttebanya."
"Will you be fine?" Kuro said.
"Yea…" Kiyo's other hand gripped the balcony's rail.
The next fight was Kankurou from Suna versus Misumi Tsurugi from Konoha. Misumi quickly wrapped himself around the Suna-nin explaining that with his precise chakra control he can dislocate every joint in his body and then manipulate it. He then proceeds to snap Kankurou's neck. "Kankurou!" Kiyo shouts. Suddenly his face breaks down and it turns into a puppet. "Yeah! Get him Kurou-chan! Beat his ass!" she cheered him on.
The next fight between Sakura and Ino ended in a draw. The fight after was also between two kunoichi, this time Temari from Suna and Tenten from Konoha were against each other. Temari defeated the younger girl with Wind style ninjutsu.
Then it was Shikamaru's turn to fight with the girl from Otogakure. "Ya know he matches you in laziness, I can tell." Kiyo stated to Kaido. "I wonder if he'll beat her." The fight began and it seemed the girl had him with her bell genjutsu, which also had an effect on Kiyo and Misaki's sensitive hearing. They're seeing double, triple, quadruple of things. Then Shikamaru used his Shadow Possession jutsu and knocked her out.
The next fight was Kuro versus Dosu. 'I'll show you Orochimaru, I'm no pawn.' Dosu thought. Kuro wasting no time and began the match by throwing a good amount of chakra cards at Dosu only for them to be deflected by what seems to be a gauntlet that emits a high pitched chirp that can deflect attacks. "Like my gadget, Blondie, not only can I it deflect your attacks, but I would be careful to keep this fight going on if I were you." Dosu said.
'Well this is surprising, that gadget could pose a huge problem. I have to take care of it quickly.' Kuro grabbed even more chakra cards than before and just like last time they were knocked about the room.
Dosu smirked, "Kami are you just going to keep trying that? If so you'll have no hope of winn-" Dosu was interrupted by being jerked to the ground by a black string that, just out of nowhere wrapped around his left arm. 'What the fuck? Chakra threads how did he use this to wrap around me?' Dosu thought just before he had to dodge a punch by Kuro, who after pulling Dosu down grabbed another string and used it to sling shot himself towards the Oto-nin.
'What are those? Chakra threads? But…how come they're black?' The puppeteer thought.
Dosu, thinking quickly, grabbed Kuro's leg from his gauntlet. He emitted a damaging sound wave "Like my melody arm Blondie? While your chakra threads trick shocked me, with this gadget I can damage you just by being near you." Dosu said.
Kuro, having lost his grip from the sonic attack from the Oto-nin's arm, got up albeit with a wobble and said, "Chakra threads, I'm sorry I'm not a puppet master. These are Chakra Strings, the difference being these strings are like extremely sharp metal wire, sharper than a fine katana." Kuro said as he rushed at the Oto-nin, bracing for the sonic attack that barely affected him. Since he was prepared for it, he connected with a hard straight punch into Dosu's face who used his arm to cushion the blow, but had to admit that hit hurt bad.
"How the hell can you handle my melody arm? That amount of chakra usually yields a stunning effect against my foes." Dosu yelled.
Kuro simply laughed, "Masato's have extra tough bodies in all ways, now let's see how many hits you can take." Kuro connected a string from a card that was imbedded in the ceiling of the room and pulled himself up and on a downward trajectory he aimed a powerful punch at the Oto-nin who in a panic charged his Melody arm with double the usual chakra this time push Kuro back and causing him to almost lose his lunch.
"Got you that time Blondie now that I got the amount of chakra to stun you look there is no chance for you." Dosu said.
"C'mon Kuro-kun you can beat him!" Kiyo cheered.
Kuro starts trying to grab a hold of Dosu with his strings and even after throwing more cards around the room he is unable to grab a hold of the Oto-nin. 'What the hell? I have to get him without getting close or else the sonic attack will mess up anything I try!' Kuro thought and before he could throw another card at Dosu he heard a voice from inside his head.
'What are you doing Kuro? You are a Masato these sonic attacks should be child's play to endure, just smash his face and worry about the damage later.'
'But Katsuo how can I stop the sound waves?'Kuro thought.
'Well those sound waves would have a hard time hurting a larger bodied Masato right and he can't be that tough without it.' Katsuo said hearing this Kuro smirked catching his drift.
"What's wrong Blondie, afraid of my Melody arm?" Dosu laughed.
"Nah I just had to get some time to think without having to smell that stench coming off you. Kami you ever change those bandages hedgehog boy?" Kuro said with a smirk.
"Hedgehog boy? You've got a lot of nerve, Blondie!" Dosu emitted sound waves once again.
Kuro placed his thumb on his collar which then dropped his vest to open up in a way the let it drop and hang around his waist. "DAMMIT KURO PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" Kiyo scream at him.
"What's that?" Misaki asked.
"What?"
"On his back, some kind of markings?" she pointed out.
"Sorry but I don't want to ruin it when I do this." Kuro formed a seal of confrontation causing his black chakra to flare and the Celtic knots symbol to glow blue just before the familiar runic markings to appear on his body.
'Another curse mark? Just how far is Orochimaru willing to go for power?' Anko sneered at the thought of the rouge Senin.
Then Kuro's muscle mass to double. "You seem to be very fond of that gauntlet, so let's see how you fight," with a powerful jump foreword that busted a crater in the ground, Kuro seemed to just appear in front of Dosu and before said Oto-nin could react Kuro crouched down and slammed his left forearm into Dosu pinning him to the wall and grabbed a hold of Dosu's Melody arm, "Without it!" Kuro said as he pulled on the gauntlet and with a small amount of effort ripped it right off of Dosu's arm. Kuro then placed his hand on one of his shoulder blades activating a storage seal for one of his sword, he jumped back and with a single swing he utterly destroyed the Oto-nin's signature tool.
While in the air Kuro pulled out a chakra card and charged it with a large amount of his Tempest Chakra causing it to basically glow black. Then Kuro swung his sword downward spinning him around giving him enough momentum to cause his newest jutsu to be extra destructive, "Titan style: Piercing Tempest!" Kuro, using the momentum from swinging his sword threw his powered up chakra card at such a high speed Kakashi couldn't track it. The card sailed right into Dosu's arm destroying his shoulder then it continued on sailing through the walls of the building and a nearby tree causing the ANBU in it to fall down.
Only one phrase could be heard after the jutsu was heard. "SON OF A BITCH!"
Hayate coughed, "I'm stopping this match before it goes any further. The winner is Kurinto."
"Kami that throw hurt my arm," Kuro's arm that he used to throw his card hangs loose out of its socket, "Oh that's bad…" Kuro rejoined the group.
"Kiyo you know how fix that right?" Misaki asked Kiyo who was in trance-like state.
"Huh? Oh yeah….Kuro come here." Kiyo said.
"Nah I got this." Kuro promptly pops his shoulder back into place and rolls his shoulder. "There that's much better." Kuro said.
"Wow…just wow…really?" Kiyo deadpanned.
"What the hell man?" Kaido yelled.
"What?" Kuro asked having no clue what the issue was.
"You just popped your arm back in place. What the hell?" Kiyo retorted.
"Is there something wrong with that?" Kuro asked.
"You shouldn't do something like that on your own, you asshole. You could've fucked up your shoulder." Kiyo said.
"I've dislocated my arm before; I always just pop it back into place." Kuro said.
The next three fights took place. Naruto, Neji and Gaara were victors.
After the three, Kiyo was shaking with anticipation. Her vampiric instincts in full swing, it took all her will not attack anyone right then and there. "Kiyo are you ok?" Misaki asked but Kiyo didn't respond.
"Kiyo you there? Lights on and no one's home I guess." Kaido laughed.
Kiyo's hand goes to Kaido's throat. "What is wrong with you? He's your teammate!" Sakura yelled at her.
"Stop it you two." Kuro said pulling them apart.
Kaido rubbed his neck. "You got an iron grip there blood breath."
"Shut it ass wipe." She retorted. "I'm tired of your annoying-ass comments."
The screen read Kyoko Tsukizawa vs. Senku. "Will the two competitors please come down?" Hayate coughed.
Kiyo jumped off the railing and landed in the arena.
"Hopefully this will calm her down." Kuro said 'I guess that why her stepdad called her Kyo, I'll have to ask her about it later.' he thought.