No excuses. I've been lazy.
However, guess what? I got more hate mail! Yay! I don't know if you guys remember the last time I got it, way back at chapter twelve. But just as before, I am mortified that people are upset. And on the INTERNET of all places! My god! What am I to do?
Wait! I've got it! I have put forth the effort, gone the extra mile to make this possibly the most horrible, most awful, most gruesome piece of literature that I have ever written.
I am totally sincere when I say that I hope that the unfortunate hate mail senders are able to be at peace once again.
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Renegade Ch. 25
The three of them had decided to take it easy after the last battle. They had gotten the scroll they needed off of the one Sakura killed. It was by pure luck that it wasn't on the one that Naruto incinerated.
The incendiary arrows that Naruto invented with help were considered a success, not a huge one as they still needed some work, but they were clearly effective.
Sasuke's new sharingan was by far the biggest breakthrough. Now having two tome in each eye, he now had the ability to cast low to mid level genjutsu. Kakashi was right; it didn't take Sasuke all that long to activate the second level of his doujutsu, though he had to admit that it was going to be a while before he was able to unlock the third.
While Sasuke's performance in the last fight was impressive, he was the first to confess that he had a long road ahead of him before he mastered the second tome. The second level was purely the activation of genjutsu abilities. His other abilities to read opponents did slightly increase, but it was nothing substantial. He was able to read opponents slightly better, though it was only a small boost so to speak. It was nothing Sasuke couldn't have obtained with a little bit of practice on his part.
Sakura was proud of herself. She held off and defeated an opponent that was clearly out classing her. Granted she had Naruto to thank for the distraction, even still, she was going to be proud of herself anyway. And besides, she had to admit, even though they were ambushed, that was a lot of fun.
Naruto was well, Naruto. He had a blast, and told them all about he spent pretty much the whole time playing hide and seek with the girl he incinerated. It was the most fun he had had in a while. And while they were all on edge as they had been taken completely by surprise, they all agreed that they had a good time of it.
Even still, it was time they cut their losses. Naruto made it no secret that he wanted to hunt that Gaara kid down, but he was convinced to just let it go for now. They were in hostile territory, there was a good likelihood that there were people who were actively hunting them down at this very moment. (Due to Naruto and Sasuke's conversation.)
With that, came the opportunity to kill whoever found them, if they did anyway. Even still, Naruto would not 'let' anyone find them on purpose. He would do what he could to keep them hidden.
And, to top it all off, Sakura was wounded. It wasn't serious, but it would definitely slow her down. That was really the deciding factor though, neither of the two boys thought it was a good idea to needlessly endanger Sakura just to have fun. They had the scroll, mission accomplished.
Now they were just going to focus on staying alive and unhurt for the next few days while they waited. It wouldn't be fun, it was and wasn't in any of their nature, but it was the right thing to do given the circumstances.
Sakura wanted to prove herself not only to the boy, not the man she loved, but to the monster who had become her friend. She was smart; she could see what he was and what he was becoming. She didn't understand it; she didn't even know any of the specifics. But if he continued like he was, he could become a monster, or whatever he was, and a good man. That is if he lived that long. But most of all, for the moment, she wanted to prove herself to herself.
Sasuke wanted to fight. Killing to him was fun, but it was more like it was incidental, collateral damage. That was fine, he accepted that. But that didn't mean that Naruto hadn't rubbed off on him some. Through unspoken words, Naruto had shown him that the only true fights, was when one was engaged in mortal combat. Sasuke now believed him.
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Orochimaru was both furious, and at the same time, a little terrified. Furious at himself, at the blond monstrosity, and angry at his future body. Though the last was becoming a distant maybe by the second. The damage was already done.
He had watched them, for days. Watched them kill, watched how they did it, and despite himself, he was impressed.
He knew that the blond was the Kyubi brat from the instant he saw him. But it wasn't until later that he realized how truly dangerous he was. Not now, not for a great many years, but the danger was still very real.
It wasn't until they had been ambushed that he had realized that all three of them were actually gifted. Such a thing was exceedingly rare, especially since they were all on the same team. But then he studied them all further, trying to figure out the best way to approach Sasuke. Trying to figure out the way that he would be most attracted to the very real power he could offer. But it was too late for that now.
He figured it out as he watched the brat play his version of hide and seek. That is, he realized just who he was. At first he refused to believe it, but it was undeniable. He looked the same, and even acted the same; he was his father's son. And then it clicked even more. This was not only a boy who was born to end lives, he was his son, he had the gift like his father had, and he had the Kyubi at his disposal. He would shake the world; he could save it or condemn it. But Orochimaru already knew what he would do. He would throw all that away, for his family, for a woman. Orochimaru, despite his genius, never could understand that. The Yondaime could have literally ruled the world, but for whatever reason, these born killers never seemed interested in that.
These born killers were so rare, that they might as well not even exist. He once tried to harness that power, tried to steal this person's body. It didn't work, it almost killed him actually. They couldn't be broken, their bodies, their minds simply didn't know how to. They were truly different on a molecular level, at least that's what Orochimaru thought. The fact that their very soul was also different had never even occurred to him. Psychopaths, while they had advantages, there were things they could never grasp.
Orochimaru had done a lot of research into it actually. As soon as he saw firsthand what one of these people could do, he devoted much time into trying to recreate the effects. Of course, this would require actually finding others. That in itself proved to be almost impossible. In his whole life, he had only encountered five. He had heard of others now long dead, but he studied them anyway.
They didn't break; they had almost none of the weaknesses that others did. They would not lose their reason if a loved one died in front of them. Hell, they didn't even morn the same way. They were the kind of people that did what they thought was right, regardless of the consequences. Of course, they weren't perfect. Obviously their sense of 'right' could be wrong and deranged. After all, evil was only a point of view. That being said, it was one of their strengths. They didn't play political games, didn't care for anything but them and theirs actually. While somewhat primitive in a way, it did work for them.
Even with that, there was something that he did understand though. Born killers were sought after by everyone that knew of them, for various reasons. They were truly the ultimate breed, the perfect warriors. However, one of them with a gift was not even thought of. Such a person was and could not exist. Those that did occasionally think of it simply thought it was a fantasy. A dream that couldn't be fulfilled, a near god. That is, until the Kiroii Senkou appeared. He had both, and he was all but invincible. Compared to him, even Orochimaru's power was like nothing.
And now, his son had both, and the Kyubi. Such a person could become truly invincible. Though it didn't actually appeal to him, Orochimaru thought it amusing that he would actually do the world a favor by killing him. Who knew how screwed up the boy was. But he couldn't just do that, not anymore. They weren't brothers yet, but they would be. That was the effect that these people had on others that were close to them. So, he couldn't just kill Naruto. No, he needed to figure this out. Sasuke would never leave Naruto's side willingly, not ever. He could not break Naruto, but he could arrange something else.
Sasuke would likely not seek out Itachi as passionately as he would before. But if Itachi killed Sasuke's new family, then Sasuke would break, and seek him out. Sasuke was not Naruto; Sasuke could be broken, even if he did have the gift.
With that, Orochimaru knew what he needed to do now. He could not make himself known to Sasuke, not yet anyway. If he did, they would turn Sasuke against him, and even if Sasuke did seek him out later, he would be much more wary and cautious. That could not be allowed. So, he would just give Sasuke the seal now, without revealing himself.
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The attack came fast, sudden, and unexpected. Just like the last ambush, but this one was different. It started with a huge snake. Bigger than any Naruto had ever seen. Naruto managed to throw a kunai at it; it just bounced harmlessly off of its scales.
The snake swallowed Naruto, and then its head exploded in a wonderful display of blood, pieces of jaw bone and skull, and brain matter. Naruto was nowhere in sight. That was fine though, Sasuke and Sakura knew that he was just hiding somewhere to try to take whoever this was by surprise.
Then, that weird Grass nin from earlier appeared, and attacked them. Or rather, annihilated them. Sasuke tried to stun it with his shock jutsu, but it just bounced off of him. Sakura tried to stab him, but he grabbed the kunai with his bare and slapped her away like a fly. Sending her flying like a lightning bolt into a nearby tree.
Naruto let loose the Kyuubi inside of him. He didn't let a tail loose, he had next to no practice going that far and now wasn't the time to experiment. Naruto attacked the nin with everything he had, clones, jutsus, and his Ulaks. It didn't even slow the Grass nin down. He either somehow canceled them out, or countered them with another more powerful jutsu.
However, it did reveal one thing, the amount of chakra that the nin had. It was as much as Naruto had in his Kyubi state. Even Kakashi didn't have that much. Perhaps the Hokage, but even still, this was just insane. He was far stronger than Naruto, and eventually, swatted him like a fly as well; Naruto didn't get back up, after going through a giant tree branch.
Sasuke threw some kunai, and attacked. It may have been futile, and stupid. But he would not even try to abandon his teammates. Though even if he ran he knew he couldn't escape, but he would not die running away or on his knees either.
Sasuke attacked, and was quickly subdued. Then the Grass nins neck extended and he bit Sasuke on his neck. There was a poof and an explosion. Mud sprayed everywhere.
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"My god, that was just an earth clone?" Sakura whispered when she was filled in.
They were all resting in a high tree, risking running into the spiders again. While it was very dangerous, they figured that it would be the last place whatever that was would look for them.
They were all beaten up. Even with Naruto's regenerative abilities he didn't wake up for almost eight hours. It was midnight by the time Sasuke had revived both of them. Thankfully, none of them had any crippling injuries. Sakura had what she thought was a cracked rib, but remarkably, that was almost it.
"I know, right? I don't think it was even taking us seriously either." Sasuke said with a somewhat look of awe.
"Well, there's only like a day left, we can make it." Naruto said with iron in his voice. His teammates believed him. Other than the fact that Naruto had said it, they didn't have much of a choice.
"Any idea where the tower is Naruto?" Sakura asked him, wondering if it was a good idea to just start moving in that direction right now.
"I don't know exactly where it is, but I do know where it's not." Naruto said, understanding the logic in her question. "I'm sure that it's nowhere near the edges, and I've been in most of the deeper sections of the forest.
"There isn't an exact center to the forest, but I do have a rough idea of where it should be." Naruto said, bringing out a scroll and started sketching out a rough drawing.
It was too bad they didn't have time to prepare for this. In Naruto's tree house he actually had a custom map that was probably the most accurate map of the forest in existence. Other than Anko, Naruto probably knew the forest better than anyone. He had been exploring and mapping it out for years.
Sasuke and Sakura helped him out with the drawing process as they had both seen Naruto's map at least once. Sasuke vowed to himself to look at it later with his sharingan active. And with that, they narrowed it down to an area of about five square kilometers. While that was a lot of ground, they hoped that the tower might be tall enough that they would be able to see it from some distance away.
After some debating they decided to head to the tower now. Even if they weren't trying to be careful, and weren't injured, they were at least half a day from the area they had decided upon. But other teams would be waiting to ambush other teams, probably them in particular. However, they knew if they ran into that Grass nin again, they were dead. In other words, they didn't have a choice.
Naruto briefly entertained the idea of a distraction involving luring the spiders to the tower in hopes that they would kill off the remaining teams, but that was quickly dismissed. There were too many variables. Naruto knew how to attract them, but it wasn't like he could control them. Not only that, but they could get Hinata, and that was unacceptable.
So, deeming it worth the risk, they were just going to gun it towards the tower, and hope that they could take whatever was already there. If they got there early, they would just have to deal with it and kill whoever got in their way.
Of course, that couldn't be the whole plan. Naruto would leave clones and such all over the place. They needed as much information on the tower and any enemy teams around. The more they knew, the better chance they had of making it without incident. In fact, Sakura had come up with a plan that was so bold that it could actually get them through without having to confront anyone, even if they did run into them.
She had come up with the idea that they should just henge into ANBU agents. Maybe it would work, and maybe it wouldn't. Either way, it couldn't hurt to try. However they didn't know the exact protocols of ANBU. On that note, they didn't even know what the proper amount of team members they had. For all they knew, ANBU didn't operate with fewer members than a platoon.
They figured that they would add one more clone to their group and just hope for the best. Though, they had made sure to drive the point home to Naruto. At one point Naruto actually just smiled at Sakura's warning saying, 'Of course not Sakura, I would NEVER expose us just to kill someone.' Naruto replied with a wicked grin, though it was not the one that used to haunt Sakura's nightmares.
Sakura was pissed. She was hurt, Sasuke was hurt, and even Naruto was hurt, sort of. They didn't have Naruto's regeneration abilities; he was healing even faster than before. Undoubtedly it was due to the Kyuubi going to the 'next stage.' It was also determined that before Wave Naruto may simply have had faster healing abilities, but after it was clear that that was no longer the case, he was now what Sakura and Kakashi had dubbed, a regenerator. Sasuke and Naruto both thought that was 'fucking awesome.'
Sakura couldn't risk it. Naruto had gotten better, but he was still a risk. They were all good, but even at full strength, there was still the risk that they could run into someone better. But they were all injured; neither she nor Sasuke could take the risk. Both of them pinned Naruto down and forced his cooperation. It wasn't easy, but they had his hands pinned, he couldn't make seals, and Sakura was stronger than him now. It took them all of five minutes, but they did drive their point home.
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The plan worked perfectly. When they were almost at the tower, they were actually confronted by a team from Kumo. Team seven didn't even stop to acknowledge them. They simply ran right by them, ignoring any and all challenges. Though, Naruto admitted that he was a little disappointed, even he agreed though that it was the best way to handle things. While Naruto was healing very well, even he wasn't up to a real fight, not yet anyway.
After Iruka had explained what was going on, they were left with almost three days to recover, and do pretty much nothing.
"I'm already bored." Naruto declared dryly. Sasuke though, got a vicious grin on his face. Eyes opening wide in a mocking way.
"I know! Naruto, let's have a SPELLING CONTEST!" Sakura started laughing and Naruto actually got a bit embarrassed and angry. It was now common knowledge among the people that knew him that Naruto sucked at reading and writing. That is, Sasuke told everyone about Naruto's 'asvault' into Gato's mansion.
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They were all excited and not just team seven. While there was a fair amount of nervousness from many who were excited, Naruto couldn't be happier. More people had made it through than originally expected, this however meant that many people would be required to fight more than once, or even twice in a preliminary tournament.
When the Hokage explained all this, it was a strange sort of speech. While he expressed his supposed regret that many would have to fight more than others, and that this would be a little unfair, he also more or less told everyone that this was just the way things were and that they had to deal with it. While there was some complaining, no one really made all that much of a fuss. And no one made a scene. This wasn't just a tournament, and no one wanted to appear weak to the other villages' shinobi.
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Naruto was already in a bad mood, it had been a full day and so far he hadn't been able to fight. For that matter, no one from Konoha had fought either. The fights that did go on were for the most part just pathetic. While there were a few that were interesting, for the most part the fights lasted almost twenty minutes each. That was just ridiculous, and embarrassing.
True fights, when it's literally mortal combat, rarely last more than a few minutes, even when both combatants are professionals. The key to combat, no matter what kind of fighter you are, is speed. Any true warrior knows that the secret to surviving and winning is inflicting the most possible damage as quickly as possible. Apparently, that was a secret that either was never taught, or had to be learned by oneself.
"Are these people for real? I mean seriously, is this whole thing an act?" Naruto asked in bewilderment, honestly confused.
They had just watched another long and boring fight between a girl and a guy, and neither knew what the fuck they were doing. Sure, they had potential, even Naruto could see that, but they were either stupid, or hopelessly naive. They had fought on and off for almost twenty-five minutes, Twenty-Five! Naruto could understand feeling out your opponent if the need arose. That is, if fighting strait up didn't seem like it would work, taking some time was a sensible strategy to figure out a way around whatever special ability your enemy had.
However, neither had much of anything as far as that went. There was no need to feel out each other for this fight. If they had just realized this, the fight could have been over in less than five minutes. While they weren't from a large village, in fact Naruto didn't even recognize the symbol on either of their headbands; it should still be common sense that this was a very good strategy if you wanted to get yourself killed. More or less, they had no killer instinct. Nothing to tell them to go in for the kill. Even if they didn't want to kill their opponent, which Naruto couldn't really understand, they still should have that urge and the aggressiveness to finish it. Naruto had seen it plenty of times in normal civilians that didn't even like to fight.
Kakashi just sighed, "I know what you're thinking Naruto. And the answer is that they have been taught that by their instructors. The thing is, is that most lessons need to be learned by themselves. You see, there is a big difference between knowledge, and wisdom." Sakura looked a little confused, but Sasuke seemed to understand.
After that, Naruto seemed to somewhat understand. He talked to his teammates, and after explaining everything to Sakura, he asked about the parts that he didn't understand. Sasuke told him that the 'killer instinct' that everyone can learn comes to him naturally. That everyone else does need to wise up. Naruto seemed to understand that.
After another hour of boring fights, Naruto's name finally came up. Naruto jumped up and cheered, happy to finally kill someone. On his way down, Hinata, much to Kiba's horror, came up and wished Naruto luck by giving him a quick hug. It was so fast that Naruto didn't have any time to react, so he just ended up smiling and going down to the arena a little dazed. Though Kakashi and Sakura kind of thought it was a little cute.
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"Finally, someone that looks up to a real fight!" said a somewhat young female Iwa nin. Naruto had seen her fight, two times already. She thought she was good, but in reality she was just arrogant because her opponents were just weak.
Naruto smirked, "I'm sorry, I'm not exactly glad to fight a weakling like you. And even sadder, I don't think that I'm going to enjoy killing you nearly as much as I would have killing your teammates." Naruto said with a shrug. While he spoke in honesty, it was also said to rile her up some. She may have been weak to him, but this was still mortal combat, at least for him. And as such, it was a sound strategy to piss off your enemy in order to get them to make mistakes.
She bristled. "Fuck you! You are as blond, stupid, and arrogant as your beloved Yellow Faggot Flash!" she yelled at Naruto, a little bit of hate evident in her tone. Every Konoha jounin in the indoor stadium had to control themselves from flinching and tensing up, including the Hokage.
Naruto visibly flinched though, that was the wrong thing to say to him. However, she just took it as a sign of victory and grinned viciously at him. However, that grin soon faded into a frown of worry, and confusion.
Naruto simply adopted a calm look, and responded. "Honey, I'm going to tear your heart out, and before you die, you're going to watch me eat it." Naruto said in a pleasant tone. This time, no ninja from Konoha was able to stop themselves from either paling, or flinching. It was common knowledge, whatever else he was, Naruto was not a liar.
Little did they know that this day, this tournament would become one of the most, if not the single most infamous Chunin exam in history. Naruto was right, while some of the hopeful shinobi there did have some special skill that made them worthy of taking the exam; the vast majority were just above average for Genin, surviving because of a better teammate. They were the ones that didn't, or rather hadn't developed that killer instinct that told them when to end a fight. If they had that, then they would have had a much better chance.
Naruto's actions would spark something that would shake the great nations. Unintentionally sending a message to make sure that their genin truly were ready for the exams, Drove the fact home that for genin, they needed the experience, needed to see the dying first hand before they even started to consider taking them. For lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten. The fight started fast, and ended even faster. Naruto acted like a true warrior should and didn't waste time. He remembered his lessons from his time surviving on the streets. Don't get caught up with the idea of wanting your enemy to know they were going to die. Granted, that was exactly what Naruto ended up doing, but it was purely coincidental. He would have made good on his promise even if he had already killed her, it just so happened that she happened to be alive at the time.
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Naruto was holding a badly beaten and cut up Iwa kunichi by her throat, actually holding her in the air. One of her eyes was swelled shut, she was missing a few teeth, and both of her knees were blown out backwards, one of them bone was actually visible through the tactical pants she was wearing.
Naruto didn't hesitate; he pulled back his right arm, and thrust it into her chest cavity, easily burring his hand inside her. Her one functioning eye bulged with the shock of it. Naruto then viciously ripped her heart out, pulling it straight out, making a gaping hole in her chest, her ribs now looking like something had exploded inside her.
Before she could pass out, Naruto brought the heart to her face so she could see it, and took a bite out of it. Naruto sunk his very sharp teeth in deep, but not all the way through. Then, he just tore the heart away with his hand, letting it just tear a chunk out. With a look of pure terror on her face, she died. Naruto took a moment to consider it, and then spit the chunk out in her face, dropping her corpse right after.
There was utter silence for almost a full ten seconds while the dozens of shinobi tried to come to terms with the pure brutality of it all. Then, one of her teammates screamed. Not wasting any time, Naruto beamed the kid in the face with what was left of the heart. The kid then started screaming even louder, though now with a touch of insanity in it. Naruto made a mocking scream, and then started to laugh, really hard. He looked absolutely horrifying. His hysterical laugh, nightmare of a grin, and blood soaked cloths, blood coating the lower half of his face.
After he was done, he looked around triumphantly. "HA! I dare someone to do better than that!" he yelled, pointing at the corpse.
The next few fights were desperate attempts at survival. It just went to show how green most of them really were. If they had any sense at all, most of them would and should have just withdrawn. It was even worse that for whatever reason the jounin that were there didn't tell their students too. They all knew how truly out classed they were, and that made them panic. They lost their heads and fought with pure animal instinct. All the professionalism theory that they had been taught went right out the window. All any of them were thinking of was surviving, and that meant killing. Naruto had successfully eliminated the option of leaving your opponent alive. Because at this point, if you didn't kill them, they were going to kill you.
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Hinata kept her cool, and had her poker face on. She hadn't come this far to wimp out now. Her team was watching her, her friends, Naruto. Her opponent was from a village that she didn't recognize, but it didn't matter. He had the same look of panic that most of the others did. After the proctor gave the signal, he charged forward with a scream and aimed a punch at her face.
Hinata quickly drew a kunai, and simply held it out, letting the boy impale his right fist on it. The blade went all the way through, pushing all the bones to the sides. He was in shock at first, and then blood started gushing out of the wound. With another yell, he tried to punch her with his left fist. Hinata ducked under it, and got close on his right side, lifting his right arm as she did.
Hinata had another kunai in her right hand, and used to slash his ribs when she got close. She then stabbed him in the side once, and then putting it in his armpit. That started bleeding heavily even though she left that kunai in there. She then twisted behind him, and used the end of the kunai that had impaled his hand, to pin his hand to his leg.
Then, finally using her family technique, she put a jyuuken strike to the base of his skull. It cut his screaming off instantly.
Like after every other fight, all was silent, at least for a moment. Then, Naruto started cheering for her, calling out how badass she was. Hinata smiled, it felt so good to be complimented by Naruto. Not only that, but both Sakura and Sasuke were also cheering, apparently put in the mood of it by Naruto.
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Gaara was for the first time in his life, truly excited. He did not know why, truly couldn't even understand what he was feeling to begin with. All he knew was that he got to kill people, and he wasn't the only one having a good time with it, and that he was actually 'playing' with other kids his age for the first time.
As soon as the blonde killer had started all of this, things started to change. He could feel it, almost taste it in the air. Gaara wasn't quite as psychotic as everyone thought he was, almost anyway. While it was quickly becoming his true self, for a long time he acted the way he did because he got the response that he wanted. FEAR. And right now, he was experiencing more of that than he had ever been around, and that was truly saying something. Somehow, the blonde monster had killed someone, granted it was in a very brutal fasion, but that was not something that was unheard of in a tournament. Then, he spoke one sentence, just one, and turned the thing into a bloodbath. Gaara had never had so much fun in his life.
It was finally Gaara's turn to fight, his opponent was scared, but not of him. Just another pathetic kid playing at being a ninja, he would never become one. The moment the proctor gave the signal, the kid predictably charged him. It took all of two seconds for Gaara's sand to trap him in place, and lift him in the air upside down.
Inspired by Naruto's challenge and creativeness, Gaara commanded his sand to only encase the boy's legs, arms, and after watching in amusement the look of terror, his head. More or less, he was hanging upside down in a crucified position. With a smirk, Gaara closed his fist and relished in the audible crunch of flesh and bone. Gaara could literally feel the boy's blood soak into his sand, and it was very satisfying to see the sand take a darker shade as well.
It only took a moment, but after a second the dismembered and decapitated torso fell to the ground bleeding profusely. Bleeding almost as much as when Naruto ripped the girl's heart out. There was so much, that Gaara seriously doubted that they would ever be able to remove the dark stains on the stone floor. And indeed, there would be a great many stains after this was all over.
After a moment of shocked silence, Naruto called out. "WHOA! HOW FUCKING AWESOME WAS THAT?" Naruto yelled out, giving Gaara a genuine smile of approval.
Gaara smiled back, and for the first time in many years, it was a true smile. No one had ever congratulated him before; he actually felt proud of himself, not that he knew what that truly was.
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Sakura had a plan, and she was actually proud that she came up with it on her own. While she admitted to herself that she did get a little inspiration from a movie, she was almost positive no one had ever tried this before.
Her opponent was girl from Kumo. She was perhaps a few years older than her; she still didn't look all that intimidating. She did though, look slightly more prepared than most of the other combatants she had seen. While she could tell that she was a little nervous, it was a far cry from the practically frantic state most of the others were in. Sakura took a few deep breaths, and hardened herself. She was finally getting what Naruto had instructed her about using her anger. She controlled her fury, and got mean.
It started with the girl throwing a couple shuriken at Sakura who just blocked them with a kunai. The girl then tried to hit Sakura with a flying knee. Following Hinata's example from earlier, Sakura just let the knee cap drive itself into her kunai. The girl instantly collapsed, now screaming in agony, clutching at the kunai that was now stuck in her knee. Sakura wasn't done yet though, she needed to finish this fast.
Before anyone could interfere, Sakura jumped on the girl. She grabbed her right arm and positioned her right foot on the girl's ribs for leverage. Then, Sakura started pulling as hard as she could. It only took a moment for the arm to dislocate itself, causing the girl to scream even louder, now finally trying feebly to fight back. But it was already too late.
After a few seconds loud popping and tearing noises were heard, followed by some strange crunching sounds. Then it was obvious that Sakura was going to succeed. Drawing on more strength than she usually was able to call upon, Sakura heaved with everything she had. With a loud wet ripping sound, Sakura tore the screaming girls arm off.
For a moment she was in shock, then she was just plain hysterical. Sakura didn't want the proctor to call the fight yet though, so as fast as she could, she started beating the girl with her own severed limb.
After a few blows to the face, it was already becoming obvious that the girl was no longer in her right mind. Now all she was doing was a strange kind of wailing moan. After a few more strikes, Sakura smashed her face in, collapsing it in upon itself. Sakura stopped and just stared in mild fascination.
Everything from the upper lip to the forehead was crushed, however everything below that was almost untouched. Sakura couldn't help but watch as the body, including the tongue thrashed around for a moment before finally going still.
After a few moments, Sasuke and Naruto started cheering and whistling. While Sakura did feel a little sick, she still managed to smile never the less. Even that creepy red head kid with that sand was giving her an approving look.
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Sasuke tried to keep the smirk off of his face as he observed his opponent. He was looking a little cocky, perhaps too cocky. Sasuke had seen him fight, and he had indeed killed his opponent, brutally. However, while he had managed to finally decapitate him, it took far too long to do so. While better than most around here, he still wasn't all that great.
Sasuke let him charge, not even bothering to activate his sharingan. He side stepped a swipe with a kunai, and jumped in the air. The kid threw the kunai at Sasuke while going through some hand seals. Sasuke blocked the kunai, and let him almost be caught in the quicksand type earth jutsu that the boy used.
Before the ground was completely turned, Sasuke jumped again, performing a somersault over the boy. The kid managed to use a kunai to block the swing that Sasuke had aimed at his neck, but that was exactly what Sasuke wanted him to do.
Sasuke had been working on a new type of jutsu. Not so much inventing a new one, but simply altering and modifying another one. It actually took less seals that the original, though it did require slightly more chakra. The jutsu was basically a single stream of fire. Or rather, every bit of power that his grand fireball technique had, this had as well. The only difference was that it was concentrated in one single intense stream of fire. When it was tested out, Sasuke finally succeeded in glassing the sand on the beach he was practicing on. It was epic; he was even able to almost kill Naruto with it.
Sasuke was still upside down when he finished the seals. Doing the seals in mid air did leave him open though. During this time the other boy jumped at Sasuke attempting to stab him. Had Sasuke finished two seconds later, the boy probably would have succeeded too.
As it was though, just as Sasuke had planned, Sasuke was able to hit him at point blank range. Not that it mattered at that range, but Sasuke aimed for center mass. It was beautiful; the fire hit him right where Sasuke wanted it too. Sasuke only held the jutsu as long as he was still in the air that was only for a second or two. After he finished, the kid's entire torso was already falling apart before he hit the ground. When he did, it pretty much turned into dust, leaving just the charred limbs and head to hit the ground.
Just as with all the others, his teammates cheered and whistled for him. Sasuke let out a genuine smile
Beta Comments: Still wondering about a few things this guy is saying, I correct where I know and I do a few additions, nothing heavy, just my own little touches. Interesting usage of a concentrated Goukakyou no jutsu. I have no clue what Speeeling is, but I think he meant spelling, then again I could be wrong.
Anyway thanks for reading and PEACE OFF. (Yes, I kind of misspelled spelling, ironic I know.)
Kiroii Senkou - Yellow Flash, as everyone should know at this point in time, Namikaze Minato, Naruto's father. Gained this name through his signature technique that allows him to teleport from point to point wherever a specific seal is placed.