Chapter 25: Gohan Shows off, Tempest and Kin's showdown!
"Rock Lee!" The proctor announced, the black haired Genin jumping to the arena, "Son Gohan!" Gohan jumped as well.
"I hope we have a good fight Lee." Gohan said with a smile.
"Yea, me too Gohan, you seem like a worthy opponent." Lee smiled back.
"BEGIN!" The proctor announced and Lee shot forwards, attempting to defeat Gohan with speed.
"HYAA!" Lee yelled, kicking at where Gohan was, a few seconds ago.
'I don't need Lupus mode right now.' Gohan thought to himself, he had shown up on the opposite job of the arena from where he was a moment ago, accidentally using ki when he dodged Lee's kick. "Raiton: Thunder Bullets!" Gohan yelled, shooting a few bullets of lightning at Lee, who dodged them all.
"I will finish this now Gohan!" Lee said, running at full speed towards Gohan, who merely stayed put until Lee was right in front of him.
"Bye bye." Gohan waved as Lee swung his fist, Lee's insanely powerful attack hit Gohan right in the jaw, but seemed to go right through him.
"You hit my after image." Gohan said, he was right behind Lee! "Roaring Dragon Fist!" Gohan yelled, his hand covered with golden lightning as he delivered a powerful uppercut to Lee's chin, sending the Taijutsu prodigy flying upwards, smashing into the roof and falling down, Gohan jumped up and caught his unconscious form.
"Son Gohan is the winner." The proctor yelled, the crowd was quiet for a moment, until it erupted with applause, Gohan had won quicker than even Sasuke, and he wasn't from a clan. Gohan was truly a prodigy.
"No, I am not done yet." Lee said weakly, "Please allow me to continue, I have yet to be unconscious, and I am still able to fight."
Gohan helped Lee to stand, "Alright Lee, let's continue."
"Give me a moment to remove my weights." Lee said, taking off his orange weights strapped to his legs and arms, when he dropped them he caused a large cloud of dust from the weights impacting with the ground. "Let us continue." Lee smirked.
"Let's." Gohan smiled back at Lee and both ran at the other, meeting in the middle with a flurry of punches and kicks to the other, Gohan's were harder, but with him purposely suppressing his ki, it was the same speed as Lee's, still an amazing feet though.
"I apologize Gohan, but I will use my strongest skill now." Lee said, jumping away. "Kaimon! OPEN!" Lee yelled, his skin taking on a slightly red tone, Lee ran at Gohan, disappearing and then reappearing directly in front of him, kicking him into the air, "Front Lotus!" Lee followed Gohan in the air and wrapped him up in the bandages that Lee had on his arms, turning both of their heads towards the ground, Lee began spinning at violent speeds, flying directly to the ground, a moment before impact Lee let go of Gohan, rolling out of the way as Gohan went head first into the ground, causing a large dust cloud.
"Nice attack Lee." Gohan said, standing up at, his shadow was the only thing visible from inside the cloud, "But unfortunately it wasn't strong enough." Gohan's shadow disappeared, and Lee was sent flying by an invisible force, then it happened again, sending Lee flying upwards this time. Gohan reappeared in the middle of the arena.
"Winner Son Gohan, again." The proctor said, this time Lee was definitely unconscious, there was no way he would be awake after that.
"Lee, you were an amazing opponent, I had to go all out against you." Gohan smiled at his opponent, who was just stirring.
"Thank you Gohan, but next time I will be the victor, I promise." Lee said with a smile, his arm outstretched and one thumb up.
"I look forwards to it." Gohan smiled, he knew that if Lee could do that Kaimon thing better it could match his own Super Saiyan transformation, and Lee with that kind of speed and power would be hard to fight, even for him.
Gohan and Lee were walking back to the arena when an ANBU member stopped them, allowing Lee to pass but escorting Gohan away from the stands.
"Where are you bringing me?" Gohan asked, he wanted to go sit and watch the next fight.
"Lord Hokage has requested your presence." The ANBU said, not even bothering to look at Gohan. He led the young demi-Saiyan to the private box of the Hokage and ushered him through the door.
"Lord Hokage, you have requested my presence?" Gohan asked with a bow.
"I have Gohan, please sit." Hiruzen pointed to the chair in between himself and the Kazekage.
"Lord Kazekage, I apologize I did not notice you there." Gohan said to the man politely, there was something wrong with this though, his energy felt similar.
"Think nothing of it, I would like to compliment you on a match well done though, you are truly a strong shinobi." The Kazekage said.
"Thank you for the compliment Lord Kazekage." Gohan bowed before taking his seat.
"Gohan, I too would like to congratulate you on your match, but that is not why I called you here. I would like to give you an early promotion." Hiruzen said.
"I will take it gladly, but could I ask the reason sir, the exam is not finished yet." Gohan asked, he was getting a little suspicious, one match that had lasted only three minutes should not have earned him a promotion.
"I need to send you on a mission, solo. And I can already tell that you will win the tournament, only Naruto and Sasuke could hope to defeat you, but I doubt they would." Hiruzen smiled at Gohan.
"I understand Lord Hokage, what is this mission, if I may ask."
The Hokage handed Gohan a scroll, "The details are in here, you have three minutes to be at the main gate and a timeline of only one week, I wish you luck." The Hokage said, and Gohan stood up.
"I will complete my mission within the given time, thank you Lord Hokage." Gohan said, "I bid you farewell, Lord Kazekage, Lord Hokage." Gohan bowed to each of the Kages and left, running to his apartment, reading the mission scroll.
Gohan, there was a client that asked for you by name. I know nothing about him but according to him the mission is a simple escort mission, but he has said that it will be an A-rank, that is why I have promoted you to Chunin. He will lead the way but you must ensure his safety reaching his destination.
Gohan quickly grabbed his things and left a note for Goten and Trunks. Rushing towards the main gate, when Gohan arrived he found an old man wearing a white cloak that had black stripes on it, kinda like a tiger. The man's face was hidden by the hood of the cloak, which had large fangs on it. "You are Gohan I presume?" The man asked, he had an extremely deep voice that did not suit his seemingly thin frame.
"I am, may I ask your name? Sir" Gohan asked as politely as possible.
"I have many names, but my true name, and the one you may address me by, is Puralis." The newly named Puralis said, turning towards the gate and beginning to walk, "We can go now, we only have a week after all."
Gohan quickly followed, scanning for any danger.
"Next match, Kin Tsuchi and Tempest Yamikaze!" The proctor announced, and both kunoichi made their way to the arena, getting into their ready positions. "BEGIN!"
Tempest ran at Kin as soon as the match began, going through hand seals like there was no tomorrow, "Suiton: Raging Water Blades!" Tempest yelled, blades of water appearing around her and flying towards Kin, cutting up the black haired Oto nin. Not letting up, Tempest continued her run towards Kin, jumping and dropkicking her opponent, sending her flying. "Suiton: Water Dragon Jutsu!" Tempest yelled, making a dragon of water that flew at Kin, biting her and plowing her into the ground, "I'm not done yet, Suiton: Barracuda Storm!" Tempest unleashed a third jutsu, making four barracudas of water that began smashing into Kin at high speeds. "And for my grand finale, Fuuton: Falcon V Formation!" Tempest screamed, throwing nine balls of wind into the air in a V shape, each ball taking the form of a falcon, "DROP!" The falcons flew downwards towards Kin, who was being pushed upwards by the Barracudas, the fish and the birds all hit Kin at the same time, water pushing her into the sharp blades of wind that the falcons had made on impact, causing Kin to be cut up, deep gashes all over her skin.
"Winner, Tempest Yamikaze!" The proctor announced, Tempest had used only A-ranked jutsu to win that battle, and in a timeframe of just three minutes. The crowd applauded, but there was no roars, except from Arthur, who was actually booing his sister.
"No knight should shame an opponent like that!" He screamed at Tempest, "How dare you call yourself a knight!"
"I DON'T CALL MYSELF A KNIGHT YOU DAMN IDIOT!" She screamed at him.
"Oh, right." Arthur said, "Then good job sis!" He yelled, his personality doing a complete 180 shift.
"We will now have a thirty minute break, and then the next match will begin." The proctor said, causing the crowd to leave.
"I wonder where Gohan went, I wanted to tell him how good he did." Videl said, walking with her friends.
"I didn't know he was that strong." Sasuke said, 'How did he improve so much within a single month?' Sasuke thought to himself.
"My dad trained him, he trained us too but Gohan is waay stronger." Trunks said.
"Yea, Vegeta is barely stronger than Gohan now." Goten added.
Naruto walked up close to Sasuke, "So, Sasuke how's your curse mark?" He asked his raven haired friend, he had yet to see it act up but if it did, it could prove to be fatal for him.
"Nothing out of the ordinary, I'm not sure why but when my Sharingan is active it seems to activate less frequently." Sasuke responded, Naruto was the only one out of his friends who knew about what the mark actually did, and he was fine with it, Naruto was, as much as he hated to admit it, his closest friend.
"Strange." Naruto said, moving away from Sasuke a little and taking a small book and quill out of his storage seal. While with Jiraiya Naruto had learned more about Fuuinjutsu, and he was very interested Orochimaru's curse sealed. Naruto quickly wrote what Sasuke had said down in his book along with all the other data on the curse seal. "So, Sakura wanna come get lunch with me?" Naruto asked.
"Not hungry." Sakura shut him down.
"I'll come Naruto." Choji said, Ino, Shikamaru, Tenten, Lee, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Gote, Trunks, and Videl all agreed as well.
"You coming Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"Sure." The Uchiha said, he was quite hungry.
"Count me in." Sakura said.
"I thought you weren't hungry?" Ino said, her voice rising at the end as she taunted her friend.
Sakura blushed, "I… I didn't realise that I actually was." She stammered, causing everyone else to laugh.
"Hey! Arthur, Teren, Tempest, you guys coming to get ramen?" Naruto yelled out.
"A knight never refuses a feast." Arthur said, somehow appearing next to Naruto.
"I guess so." Teren walked up with Tempest next to him.
"Sure, thanks Naruto." Tempest said with a smile.
And that is the end of the chapter. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions then feel free to leave a review or PM me. Thanks for reading.