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The Uzumaki Prodigy
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wicked Angiris
A/N: Here's an early upload to make up for last weeks cliff hanger, enjoy!
Yakumo walked to the arena holding her devil bringer arm nervously.
She knew the boy was a member of a cult of demon haters and she was a former demon host with a demonic appendage.
He would no doubt toy with her and pull no punches.
She would have to go all out or risk serious injury.
The boy walked into the arena sharpening a wicked looking silver dagger and tying up his long grey hair.
"Prepare yourself demon."
He spat the word with so much venom you would think it was a slur.
He gave her a wicked smirk his silver eyes gleaming in the harsh Iwa sun and she felt her stomach tighten.
Ciel looked at her empathetically but raised the scroll signaling the match to start.
Immediately he spun tossing an orb in her direction she raised her wrists to cover her eyes just in time as it shot out shards of silver shrapnel.
She uncovered her face just I time to see the heel of his sandal crash into the top of her head.
She felt her head spin with crushing pain as she was planted to the ground her nose meeting the hard dirt.
She climbed to her hands and knees blood flowing from her right nasal cavity.
She knew from what Naruto had told her what his follow up would be and spun around smacking him with her demonic arm.
She caught him his jaw crunching and he was sent crashing back and skidding along the ground.
Sure enough, his plan seemed to be to pin her down with his dagger and turn her chakra on her.
The low ground was her enemy and she couldn't afford to be toppled.
She went on the offensive.
"Fire Style: Grand Flame Flower!"
Making a handsign she shot a plume of flame from her mouth it spread out taking on the shape of a massive flower and shot towards the downed boy.
He growled rolling onto his back and channeling wind chakra into his dagger he cut through the flame kipping up to his feet and flipping away from the resulting blast.
"Nice try demon bitch but Sanctus guides my hand and his power is beyond yours!"
He made a handsign and a ray of sunlight surrounded him in a cone.
His teeth began to grow into fangs his silver eyes glowing green.
"DIEEE!"
He flashed forward in a burst of speed cutting her across the chest with his wind blade.
She coughed out blood falling back and clutching her chest as the warm blood filled her hand.
She raised her arm as he swiped down at her with his blade the wind chakra shredded the bandages off her arm revealing her demonic appendage.
"That's right girl show them what you really are!"
He smirked pulling a second dagger from his leg, it glew with white chakra and he stabbed her in the arm forming a handsign.
"Fuinjutsu: Demonic Reflection Barrier!"
She screamed in pain as her chakra turned to acid burning her.
"How does it feel your blonde teammate tasted it earlier but he didn't get to fully enjoy it before my work was interrupted.
He turned to glare at the spectacled earth boy in the audience.
"But this time there will be no interruptions!"
He increased his chakra output shoving the blade further into her arm and out the other side.
She screamed as the white chakra assaulted her cells burning her from the inside out.
Naruto ran to the railing to help his teammate but was held back by Kasai.
"No Naruto Ciel will step in if it goes too far if you interfere she'll lose the match."
Naruto gritted his teeth but nodded.
Yakumo fought through the pain yanking the blade from her arm and tossing it at the boy who slashed through it with his wind blade.
His pupils which were now white dilated rapidly as his glowing green eyes scanned the area.
"My reflexes and vision are being enhanced by the light of Sanctus you can't catch me by surprise."
He chuckled darkly.
"From my perspective, you might as well be moving in quicksand."
Her eyes widened as she got an idea.
'That's it quicksand!'
She smirked subtly and raised her hand.
He had already seen the flame wire from his peripheral vision and flipped away from it.
"Nice try but I saw your earlier match I know all your little tricks."
She shook her head.
"Not all of them, Earth Style: Blinding Dust Bath!"
She opened her mouth shooting out a wave of dust which blinded him as he screeched in rage.
She used the precious time to run across the arena while weaving seals.
Spitting out several wires of flame she surrounded herself in a complex maze of trick wires.
Then she held the ram seal and waited for him to attack.
He stared at her his eyes red from both the dust irritation and the murderous rage he was feeling.
"That's it you're dead!"
She expected him to charge, she expected him to ready his wind blade, what she didn't expect was for him to charge straight through her flame wires with a slice aimed straight for her neck.
In a moment his arms and legs were tangled in the wire but he continued charging as they burned and sliced through his wrists and ankles.
He slashed at her and the wind cut the wires causing an explosive reaction as the fire met the wind.
He was surprised by her amused reaction as the explosion simply caused her to dispel.
"A shadow clone!"
The explosion caused the ground to give way and he fell into a sticky sand-like substance.
He paled as he remembered the match previous.
'She covered the quicksand with a new layer of earth and lured me in to fall in!'
He struggled trying in vain to claw his way out but was swallowed by the ground.
Yakumo let out a sigh of relief and fell to her butt.
Ciel called the match and a rescue team arrived to pull the boy out before he suffocated.
To their bewilderment, he wasn't anywhere in the sand.
Yakumo paled as she felt an arm break through the ground and grab her ankle a sharp blade of wind slicing her throat.
Her eyes widened in horror a reaction mirrored by her team and Ciel.
The boy pulled himself out smirking sadistically and relishing in the moment as he watched the blood leak from her mouth.
He was knocked to the ground by a sudden force as he was restrained by guards and the medical ninja ran over to help the girl.
Naruto rushed down to check on her but was held back by Ciel.
'Stop Naruto you'll only get in their way.'
He growled but nodded.
They managed to seal the wound with medical ninjutsu and put her on a stretcher she had passed out from shock and loss of blood.
Ciel released Naruto and he went with his team to check on her.
Once they were gone Ciel raised the scroll announcing the next match.
'Shinji Tagame of The Earth vs Kujin Yamanaka of The Leaf.'
The brown haired spectacled boy hopped down his sandals hitting the ground with a resounding smack.
His white pants were marked from where his fingers had been gripping the fabric.
The blonde Yamanaka eyed the boy up cautiously.
'He'll be tough to beat.'
'Ready begin!'
Kujin started by tossing a series of needles at the boy he raised his hand and six clumps of dirt rose up smacking the needles away.
"If you think I'll let you pump your poison into my bloodstream think again."
Shinji gave him a cold glare.
"I saw what you did to your own kin I thought you leaf ninja had honor."
Kujin spit, his eyes apathetic.
"Honor is for the weak Momo had it now look where she is in the infirmary."
He chuckled to himself.
Shinji growled.
"You disgust me."
He made a handsign and stomped his foot a block of stone rising from the ground he slammed his fist out and it jetted out as a large jagged stone.
"Earth Style: Friction Impaler!"
Kujin ducked barely avoiding being lanced by the stone.
"That was close are you trying to kill me!"
Shinji didn't respond his cold indifference was all the answer he needed.
He made another series of handsigns.
"Earth Style: Showering Death Spikes!"
The stone shattered into a million shards each flying towards Kujin's eyes, nose, neck, and other vital areas.
He barely dodged blocking his essentials with a kunai in each hand.
He had just blocked the last of the stones when he saw Shinji charging him with a knee aimed for his jaw.
He stabbed out with his blades as a deterrent but Shinji took one in his leg and the other in his gut.
Cracking Kujin's jaw with a strong knee he sent him upward grabbing his legs in midair he spun him around tossing him into the ground where he landed hard his shoulder and neck popping and tearing.
"You say honor is for the weak, well in our village mercy is wasted on scum like you, so get up weakling or I'll kill you while you're down."
Kujin coughed out blood but smirked.
"Am I weak or just cunning?"
Shinji's vision began to blur as he saw a purple liquid leak from his wounds.
"You didn't think I only poisoned my needles did ya?"
Kujin chuckled.
"I gotcha."
Kujin climbed shakily to his feet as Shinji fell to his knees grabbing his head his eyes pulsing.
"No, it can't be!"
He groaned fighting against the serum.
Kujin walked forward at a brisk pace.
"Now that won't do I want to taste of your fear."
He made a handsign opening his mouth a green cloud shot out and surrounded Shinji for a few seconds before fading.
Shinji let out a terrified scream.
His teammate's eyes widened in horror they had never seen him once show a sign of discomfort or fear in his life.
He began to cry and scream shaking in the fetal position as he clutched his head.
"No father please I didn't mean it don't not again!"
Kujin chuckled.
"That old chestnut eh well can't hate the classics."
Kujin sighed.
"I have no reason to prolong your suffering you bore me so I'll end this."
He raised his hands One in a semi-circle the other a half triangle.
"Yamanaka Clan Kinjutsu: Mind Flay Jutsu!"
Ciel paled recognizing the name and kneed Shinji in the chest to knock him away from it.
'Kujin Yamanaka is disqualified the winner is Shinji Tagame!'
Kujin growled but turned to leave.
Ciel intercepted him.
'You're not going anywhere guards cease him!'
The Iwa police force came down and grabbed his arms one wrapping his neck in a headlock.
'Toss him in a cell with his friend and find the other two.'
They nodded.
Ciel turned to look at the downed Shinji who was flailing and pushing away the medic nins trying to inject him with a sedative.
'That jutsu I saved you from is a fate worse than death.'
Ciel groaned.
'Why did I have to be proctor this year.'
He shook his head raising the scroll to start the next match.
The red-haired boy appeared emotionless in a cloud of sand.
Naruto who had just returned from the infirmary hopped down to the arena.
'Naruto Vs Gaara Begin!'
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A/N: Next week Naruto joins the fray hope you're all as excited as I am. -Iceheart out