Son Goku

by wAvybone

An alien baby is sent to Earth for protection from an all out war and extermination of his race, but ends up on a planet that's equally dangerous. Will this baby end up shaking the balance in the great ninja nations, or end up dying like the rest of his race?

36. Gemstones

Gemstones ~ 36

The two genin disappeared in a blur and only trained eyes could see Vegeta and Lazuli exchanging blows about the arena. Vegeta threw a kick that Lazuli caught and twisted her body while in the air, tossing him across the ground. He recovered instantly and ran back in at the girl, but she skillfully avoided his advances, and swept him off his feet with a kick that made him fall to the ground. Lazuli placed her foot on the small of his back and tried to press down, but a tail suddenly shot out from his back and wrapped around her ankle.

Vegeta was able to roll back onto his feet and use the strength of his tail to throw Lazuli across the arena. Everyone in attendance was in awe after they saw Vegeta's tail swinging angrily, "Is that a kekkei genkai?" Lee turned to his sensei for answers.

"Not one that I've ever seen, Lee, but I must say our monkey-like friend is very talented!" Gai held a thumbs up to Vegeta.

"The girl is pretty fast too," Goku said in admiration. Before Vegeta grabbed onto her with his tail, which was wrapped around his waist; she was holding her own pretty well. Even now, she was getting up without a problem, "How does a girl get that strong?"

All of the kunoichi present turned and stared at Goku with a glare, "We're not all damsels in distress you idiot." Ten-ten had to fight back the urge to whack Goku on his head, but continued to watch the fight instead.

Lazuli looked unscathed, unbothered, and a tiny bit unimpressed. She strolled back toward Vegeta with a smirk on her face, "Is that all you've got?" The girl taunted as braced herself for another exchange. She brandished a kunai in anticipation, "You might be strong, but I'm stronger." Lazuli boasted and got an irritated growl from Vegeta.

"If you think a mere human girl can even come close to what I'm capable of, I must say, I would love to se—" A foot was planted in Vegeta's chest quicker than he could process and he was sent tumbling across the arena once more. His body stopped once it hit the wall and he felt pain all throughout his body. She was reinjuring all the things he spent days stitching back together and recovering. If he continued to play around with her, he could very well end up hurting himself more than she ever would.

Something was bothering him though, and he was trying to figure out how she was so damn fast. Even he wasn't that fast when he was moving without restraint. Vegeta groggily got up from the ground and narrowly avoided a kunai that stabbed into the ground right where he was standing. He leapt off to the side and watched as Lazuli speed towards him. Vegeta squinted his eyes and saw a light trail of electricity after her every movement.

She threw her fist forward, and in a split second Vegeta moved his head to the side to avoid being clobbered right in the face. Right now was a moment for analysis. He knew for a fact that no human girl was fast enough to keep up with him at full speed, or strong enough to match his blows, so something had to be going on. Vegeta ended up taking a kick to his side, but he wasn't shaken by it as he jumped away from her once more.

Whenever they made contact, it was like a shock was sent through his system. He linked that with the trails of electricity and actually started getting somewhere. Whatever lightning chakra she was using was augmenting her abilities. Just when he thought he had her figured out, she disappeared from his immediate line of vision and appeared behind him, hitting him in his back with an open palm strike that sent him rolling across the ground.

Lazuli had a smirk on her face the entire time, "You're the same kid that beat the Ichibi all by himself?" Whenever Vegeta was down, she'd try to hit him with a kunai, but he was always quick to recover. The boy took the air, deciding to use the higher ground for the moment. Obviously fighting Lazuli on the ground wouldn't end well for him, "You seem scared, Vegeta!"

"Me? Scared? Please," Vegeta's hands began to illuminate and he instantly started shooting out blasts of ki that she was quick to dodge. Lazuli was running at high speeds, but the trail of electricity she left behind every time she moved was giving away her location. As she moved in a zig-zag pattern, he predicted her movements and shot one big blast that sent her flying in the opposite direction. Before she could be completely blown away though, she threw another kunai knife that Vegeta easily dodged. "Where's all that bark at now, girl?"

Lazuli emerged from the smoke with a few scratches on her, but for the most part she looked fine. Vegeta had to hide his surprise, thinking he had blown her face off or something of the like. She had a lot of shuriken in both of her hands, and Vegeta simply laughed. Did she really think something as trivial as throwing stars would down him?

The blonde had to take to the defensive once more when Vegeta resumed his seemingly unlimited volley of ki blasts in her direction, rolling across the ground and then sticking to the wall. Vegeta didn't stop and a blast nearly sent her flying through the wall like 19 in his fight, running up the length and then leaping off trying to meet Vegeta in the air.

She threw her shuriken and Vegeta knocked a few out of the sky with his hand, and the others haphazardly stabbed into the roof, while she herself was left open to Vegeta's large ki blast that connected with her stomach and sent her crashing back to the ground.

The girl hit the ground with a thud and Vegeta finally saw the hurt facial expression on her instead of the cocky smirk she wore for the duration of their fight. Since she was downed he decided to follow up with another volley of blasts that started to cloud up the room, and once he felt it was overkill he let up. The smoke still hadn't settled, but he could see the proctor from where he floated, "Okay, call the match, she's done."

The proctor couldn't see through the smoke, and until then he couldn't make any official calls. Although from everyone's point of view, it did look like Vegeta just turned the poor girl into a smear on the Earth.

"Such power," Pepper's eyes broke away from the fight when he heard Konan say the first words she had said to them since the start of the matches. The blue haired woman was normally reserved, and she stayed true to that role, "To think these are only teenagers."

The freckle-faced boy crinkled his nose, "I'm a teenager and I could wipe the floor with a lot of shinobi around the world." He almost felt offended that Konan didn't acknowledge his abilities, but anything associated with Deidara probably had an asterisk next to it. "So you're finally talking?"

"No," Konan shut her eyes for a moment, "I'm only here to see our Akatsuki recruits up close. I was hoping to see you go against someone like Vegeta or his brother, maybe even Son Goku."

Pepper rolled his eyes and looked back to the arena, "I think these Otogakure kids are more interesting than anything." He remembered what he and his team had learned in Hoseki, "I know Kakuzu told you about the gemstones of Kaminari no Kuni, right?"

"I've heard of them," Konan said simply.

"There's one right there, they were actually just bio-engineered kids that were supposed to be super soldiers. Brain of a tactical genius and the cells donated from the strongest living shinobi in lightning country's history," Pepper deduced from what Hashi told him, as well as what Bali and Deidara had learned. "That's probably why she has such strong lightning affinity, and with the mind of genius, it's going to be easy to manipulate that chakra to fit her needs."

"Interesting," was all Konan said.

When Lazuli still hadn't gotten up off of the ground, Vegeta pointed at the girl, "This match is over!"

"Oh it's not over," Lazuli said with a smirk as she stood up off of the ground with ease, the only thing ruined was her clothing, and a few scars on her torso. She started to go through hand seals and Vegeta gnashed his teeth together, trying to fly right at her, but the moment he was about to crash into her and pummel her with strikes to her face; he was repelled by an invisible force.

He was sent flying back to the air and he twisted his body to regain composure, looking down on Lazuli with hateful eyes, "And what's this sad excuse for a technique called?"

Electricity started to crackle all around him, and he could see lightning chakra bouncing from all the projectiles and knives she threw to form a barrier around him, and she was safely outside of it. She wasn't throwing them with the intention to hit him, she had the damn thing planned out from the beginning. All of the weapons were scattered about to be used as mediums and trap him within the confines of the barrier, "Good job, you trapped me, but what now?"

Lazuli shrugged, "I don't know, maybe I'll end the match, or maybe I'll make you suffer?"

XxX

(Hi no Kuni)

"Why did we agree to this trip?"

"I don't know, dobe," Sasuke was currently holding a rubber ball in his hand, while Naruto was still trying to swish around water inside a water balloon and make it pop. Jiraiya would assign them with impossible tasks every couple of days while he went and scavenged the town looking for female friends. "Just hurry up and pop that balloon."

"Not everybody has copy cat eyes to see how things work," Naruto said with a frustrated expression on his face trying his hardest to pop the balloon. He had been at it for a few days, getting even more irritated when Sasuke had figured out the trick the first day and refused to tell him how to do it. He was at least slightly satisfied when it wasn't as easy to pop the rubber ball, and Sasuke claimed he was waiting on Naruto to catch up before he did it. "Just tell me how to do it, teme!"

"Where's the fun in that?" Sasuke asked with a smirk and refocused on popping the rubber ball with his chakra. As the two of them sat on the floor of the grassy lawn, there was a small wooden hut across from them, and inside was Jiraiya trying to court some unlucky woman he had picked up in the town the night before. His eyes narrowed on the ball, but immediately got distracted when a drunk lady came stumbling out of the hut.

"I na-norma-normally dontsa do this, Jeeraiya," She was wearing an extremely short skirt and an open blouse, barely being able to walk out of the hut. The white-haired sage came out after her with tears streaming from his eyes, "But someone needsta teach ya how to treat a lady, okay?" The drunk woman stopped before Sasuke and took the rubber ball out of his hand. She held it up to the sky, "And imma takin' tis wit me as a cons… conso… constellation prize, okay!?"

She started to storm off and Jiraiya was running out of the house with his pants around his ankles, "Wait, baby, come back!" He pouted, tears still streaming from his eyes and his grabby hands trying to pull her back. "I need you in my life; every great sage has a great woman behind him!"

"Oh really… whatsma name Joeraiya!?"

Jiraiya stared at her blankly, "Um…"

"Imma leaving!"

Just like that, the woman was gone and Naruto and Sasuke were stuck looking at their temporary sensei with his pants down, "Care to explain, ero-sennin?" Naruto asked with a raised brow. "Will it take longer for me to pop this balloon or Jiraiya to get laid, find out next time on d—" Jiraiya hit Naruto with a rubber ball. "Ow, what the hell was that for?"

"That's for Sasuke," Jiraiya pulled his pants up and sat down on the ground. He folded his arms and let the moment of him being rejected by another woman pass, "You need to catch up to the Uchiha, gaki, or you're gonna get left behind." Sasuke chuckled at the praise, "And Uchiha, you need to stop acting like a pansy and pop the damn ball before Naruto catches up with you and shows you how a real man does it."

Sasuke's scowl returned and now Naruto was smiling, and at that moment Naruto's balloon popped and water splattered everywhere, "Oh yeah!" Jiraiya hit Sasuke in the face with a rubber ball. "Time to stop pretending and get to work, Uchiha gaki, the knucklehead is on your ass officially. Last one to pop the ball gets to carry everyone's stuff to the next town." Both of the children were nursing newly minted bruises that came from being hit with a rubber ball. "Let's get started."

"At least give us a proper explanation on how to pop the ball, Jiraiya," Sasuke said with a frown. He had been staring at the rubber ball for an entire day.

"Eh, where's the fun in that?" Jiraiya said as he got up off of the ground and returned to the shack while scratching his ass. He had a long day ahead of him, "I'm going to head to town to find something for us to munch on, you kiddies stay put and focus on popping your little rubber friend."

"Please, you're going to look for more women," Naruto accused and Jiraiya turned around in the doorway.

"You know me too well, gaki," Jiraiya grinned and then went to find the rest of his clothes.

At least he was honest.

XxX

(Chuunin Exams)

Vegeta's eyebrows wrinkled while looking at Lazuli. She held her hands on the last seal and he didn't know what to anticipate. His eyes shifted around within the barrier and saw small crackles of electricity. 'Shit,' he could tell it was starting to build up. There was a lot of electricity within the barrier, and he already knew what she had planned. It was now a matter of how to avoid it. "Well, go on, we're all waiting for the grand finale," he provoked her, and smiled when nothing happened after a few seconds.

"Taunting me isn't going to make this any better for you," Her fingers still held on the last seal, she was still circulating chakra into her technique. Lazuli grinned, "Why don't you go ahead and try to move, Vegeta, I know you want to." Of course, the boy stayed still. At least he was smart, "Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way, Vegeta, which one do you choose?"

"Throw your worst, child."

ZAP.

Vegeta was thrown back by suddenly being shocked, and with every movement he was zapped repeatedly. He finally came to a stand still after being shocked multiple times and had to hold himself back from lunging right at her, because the entire barrier was an electric field that she had filled to the brim with lightning chakra. Any wrong move he would be electrocuted.

"Are you sure that's what you want?" Lazuli asked with the smirk still on her face, "If you surrender right now, I'll let the barrier down, and you'll leave without anymore injuries."

"And if I don't?"

ZAP.

Okay, point taken. Vegeta wasn't going to surrender though, that was for damn sure. He tried to move his hand to nurse the new burn wound on his arm, but he was shocked once more, "You'll regret this girl!" Another shock was sent through Vegeta's system and he was thrown back violently, smashing into the wall of the electric barrier, and got another violent shock for his troubles. He started to fall to the ground, but stopped himself just short of the floor, deciding to remain floating. "Is the best you can do?" Vegeta's voice was shaky and he had electric burns all over his body.

Lazuli shook her head as she flew through hand seals and finally finished the string, as the electricity started to attack him from all directions, and spectators couldn't even see through the chakra produced light show. Saiyan or not, Vegeta wouldn't be leaving that without heavy injury, and when the light cleared, the barrier fell, only to reveal a smoking Vegeta who looked like he had literally been struck by lightning.

The proctor knew he wouldn't be getting up from that, "Winner: Lazuli!"

There were a few surprised gasps, but it was mostly overshadowed by Lapis and Raditz laughing at Vegeta's misfortune. A team of medics came in and carried the unconscious boy off to the medical bay, while Lazuli strolled casually back into the stands, and tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear. She smiled at her brother, "I told him not to be cocky, but that's his fault."

"Hm," K looked at Lazuli and then back to Goku. "An outdated Kumogakure barrier technique, perhaps what that child said is true."

"What's true?" Goku asked with an arched brow.

"In the past, there were rumors of Kumogakure funding a project to make super soldiers, and some of our village's best donated blood samples among other things," K explained and Goku went wide eyed. "Don't be foolish, Goku, no shinobi is innocent."

All villages would do whatever they could to get a possible advantage, and theirs just happened to be putting money into the pockets of a mad scientist in hopes of creating a generation of unstoppable shinobi. To K, it was just another day in the life.

Dr. Gero could never show his face in Kumo again after he tried to bring Orochimaru into the picture, but that was another story for another time. Names started to flitter across the screen and the next match was already being announced.

Chi-Chi v. Pepper

Chi-Chi jumped up happily and went down to the arena, while Pepper was suddenly pulled back by N. The former Kumo native whispered something in his ear and he walked off afterward. Damn kid. He met Chi-Chi along with the proctor in the middle of the arena and he sized her up. He could tell by her stance that she was a melee fighter.

"Begin!"

This was one of the few matches that were decided by a split second. Chi-Chi ran in with her fist cocked back, while Pepper tried to grab onto her face. What he wasn't expecting was the girl to be as strong as she was. Her fist connected with his face, while he managed to seep some of his explosive chakra into her skin and they were both met with a painful reaction. Pepper was sent smashing into the wall, and something began to bubble under the surface of Chi-Chi's left cheek.

His intrusive chakra exploded and blood splattered all around her. Her cheek had been blown off and everyone present could see the inner workings of her face, as he jaw fell at nearly having her face destroyed. Her brain was rattled for a moment after having that kind of explosive chakra inside her body, and it felt weird being able to feel the inside of her face exposed to air.

Pepper felt like he was going to need facial reconstruction after the hit he just took from Chi-Chi and he was struggling to stand up after being hit with such a concussive force. How she packed that much energy into one punch was beyond him, and he only heard of that sort of strength with Tsunade Senju from Konoha, and that definitely wasn't her standing before him. It was a girl named Chi-Chi, "Hell no, I quit."

"Winner: Chi-Chi!"

The girl was shocked after getting her victory so easily, "What?"

If Pepper had learned anything during his time working under Deidara and Bali, more so Bali, was when to pick your battles. He knew when he was at a disadvantage, and this was one of those times. A regular melee fighter was no problem, but he saw her ability when she punched him. It was just like him and N's ability. She focused her chakra to one focal point and made it explode when it made contact with her target.

"I'm a killer not a fighter," Pepper said as he jogged happily back to the stands, and instantly sat down against the wall. He could see Chi-Chi was still confused, "Trust me, there's a difference. Just think about it, I could have blown your head off from the first move I made, but I'm not a fan of senseless bloodshed." There was no way for him to really fight her using his abilities without her losing something valuable, and N threatened him not to seriously injure her before the match started.

"Right.." Chi-Chi came back to the stands and more names appeared on the screen.

Uzumaki Karin v. Rock Lee

"FINALLY, IT IS TIME TO SHOW MY ABILITIES OFF TO THE WORLD!" Rock Lee front flipped from the stands and landed perfectly in the arena; while Karin nervously walked down to meet him in the center. He bowed respectfully once she entered the ring, "WHILE YOU ARE A MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, I MUST RESPECT YOUR ABILITIES AS A CAPABLE KUNOICHI AND TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY."

"Damn right, Lee!" Ten-Ten cheered.

Karin couldn't fight back her childish blush at being called beautiful, but she was supposed to getting into a fight soon, "Okay, I respect that." She actually wished he'd take it easy on her, since she was far from a fighter, and from the things he said; to the way he literally flipped into the arena she could tell he trained a lot. Karin looked her equipment over and nearly shrieked when the proctor yelled begin.

Lee charged in faster than she could even blink, and she had to plan of action to deal with someone as quick as him. The girl reached into her equipment pouch and threw a smoke bomb on the ground before he got a chance to punch her in the face, and rolled out of the way. Smoke started erupting from the bomb and filling the whole area. Karin took that as her chance to cut and run, but she could feel Lee weaving through the smoke with ease and trying to zero in on her location.

She reached for another pellet inside her pack and when he was in range once more, she threw the compressed ball of powder in his face and it smashed against his head. There was a small 'poof' and the purple-ish looking powder exploded in his face, and his vision was destroyed for a second, but he still managed to punch Karin in her chest and send her flying out the cloud of smoke, and now poison that was filling the area.

Since he was hit with it at point blank range, the powder that he inhaled was attacking his system faster than it normally would have. He suddenly felt groggy and if kept standing still he would pass out, "POISON!? HOW UNYOUTHFUL!" He exploded out of the plume of smoke and found Karin regaining her bearings and he flipped in the air, bringing his foot down and smashing it against her head. She went limp after the kick, and after overloading his system with adrenaline for a knockout; he had to support himself to stand against the wall.

"Winner: Rock Lee!"

The bowl-cut genin held a thumb up to his sensei and flashed a toothy grin, but instantly fell to the ground once the poison started fully working on his system.

Medics swarmed the floor and carried both of them out to the medical bay. With all of Gai's team having fought already, they left to see their teammates in the other part of the facility.

"Eh, she knew she was going to lose," N batted an eyelid at Karin's actions.

N v. Lapis

All of the Kumo natives, Otogakure faithful, and Akatsuki members present turned to look at N with a curious glance. He pulled on his drawstrings and walked out to the center. "I guess I can't hide any longer," He said as Lapis leapt down and landed perfectly. "I take it you're Lapis, you know, you're the reason I'm in this whole mess?"

"How unfortunate," Lapis said sarcastically while he stretched out.

"Begin!"

N caught Lapis off guard and shot a blast of explosive chakra that crashed into his chest and sent him tumbling across the ground. The blonde rolled his neck as he charged in, not wanting to test how durable these damn gemstones really were. He started forming his next blast between his hands, and tried to jump up and blast him deeper into the ground, but Lapis rolled out of the way. The same trail of electricity that Lazuli had when she moved was present with her brother.

The blonde Akatsuki recruit ended up creating a deep crater in the ground where Lapis once was and he was irritated to see that there was barely a scratch on his body. N was even more irritated when with a flash; Lapis appeared at his side and punted him across the room. Lightning sparked underneath Lapis' feet and he was literally riding a current of electricity through the air toward him.

These Oto-genin were really something else. N rolled to a stand and had to surprise the crowd just as much as Lapis did. He jumped into the air and created an explosive bubble under his foot that allowed him to jump higher and kept doing so until it looked like he was running on air. The two were circling each other, shooting explosive blasts/shots of lightning at each other that they were narrowly avoiding, "Oh yeah, this is fun!" Lapis yelled out in excitement and N furrowed his brow.

How the hell could anyone call this fun? Dodging lightning bolts that could fry your nerve system was no where near fun. N had to constantly keep moving or else he would fall to the floor, so he tried to gain the higher ground on his black haired enemy. N formed a cone shaped blast of explosive energy that shot the boy who was riding a bolt of lightning to the ground with a massive crash, and he let himself fall gracefully back to the floor of the arena.

His whole game plan was to get Lapis on the ground and keep him there. After seeing Vegeta fail at doing so, he started wondering just how possible that was. Every time Lapis tried to get up off of the ground, he would shoot him back down with a blast of explosive chakra, and the Otogakure boy was sent farther and farther away with each blast, "Dude, just stay down!"

Lapis looked terrible, but he still rolled out of the way once N's assault got tired, and came to a full stand. A maniac grin was plastered on his face and N growled lowly, "No can do, Akatsuki-kun! I'm having too much fun with you right no—" N formed enough of his explosive chakra that it was visible to at least Lapis, and it took the shape of a sharp tendril. With the quickness that he shot it, there was no way to avoid it and it tore through his arm as he tried to hold it up to guard.

The black haired boy was sent flying and his head smashed against the wall. He fell over unconscious, and since he ran his mouth more about having fun than actually defending himself; the proctor called the match.

"Winner: N!"

N was breathing heavily and looked at his hands, which were steaming after firing off so many attacks. His chakra was exhausted to say the least, and he too collapsed on the ground after being declared the winner.

The medical team brought two stretchers and carried them off into the other room. Konan looked at Karin expectantly and the red-head girl scurried off after N to use her brand of healing to make his recovery smoother.

Shikamaru sighed deeply, and then outstretched his arms after realizing what was going on, "Fuck." He said in a dead silent room and then all heads turned to the screen for the last match.

Son Goku v. Nara Shikamaru

"All right!" Goku punched his fist into his open palm and Shikamaru had a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face. The very person he hoped he didn't have to fight, he was fighting. Vegeta was menacing, but he was a brute, and he could probably defeat him in a few seconds with a simple tactic, and the same went for Raditz. The kids from Oto were the same to a certain degree, save for 19, and Goku… this was going to be annoying.

A lot of the noble's kids were privy to the super weapons Iwa and Kumo had acquired in recent years, and while Vegeta and Raditz specialized in straight up destroying things with their power; Goku had some finesse to him. He was an actual ninja with a great amount of strength. Shinobi that crossed paths with Vegeta and Raditz out in the field reported back to Shikaku, and that information trickled down to his son, but info on Son Goku was largely unknown.

Most people just assumed he was as strong as Vegeta and Raditz, since he was mentioned among most circles as the 'super weapon from Kumo.' How they got that strong, Shikamaru didn't know, but he just knew not to take them lightly.

Goku bowed respectfully to Shikamaru, which confused the black haired Nara much to his chagrin, "My name is Son Goku, nice to meet you."

"KICK HIS ASS SHIKAMARU, HE'S A FUCKING RUNT!"

Ino had recovered just in time for his fight.

"Don't be foolish, Goku."

K had commentary as well.

"Remember what I taught you, Goku!"

Oh, wait, Roshi had something to say too.

"Eh, Shikamaru," the Nara offered lazily and crouched down once the proctor approached. Goku got into his fighting stance as the man walked up, "Hey, try to take it easy, I'm not really trying to waste too much energy here."

Goku raised a brow, "What?"

"Begin!"

The moment the match begun, Goku leapt away from Shikamaru, and he was smart to do so because the boy's shadow was chasing after him the moment the proctor opened his lips. He flipped backwards and kept doing so until he eventually stuck to the wall and looked down to see that Shikamaru's shadow could only travel so far. Goku grinned, now gathering his chakra while he had an advantage and shot out for balls of fire in Shikamaru's direction.

"Fuckfuckfuckfuck," Shikamaru thought he was mumbling to himself, but he couldn't hold his thoughts inside his brain at the moment. He ran out of the way the fire balls and looked at the wall they crashed into, seeing that they left sizable burn marks, 'how much chakra does this kid have to waste?' Goku had made those appear like they were nothing and he didn't look exhausted at all. His reserves had to be crazy.

Now that Goku had seen his original plan of trapping him with his shadow, he had to come up with something else. He knew Goku would never stay still once he got near him, and the boy was way too fast to actually be caught while moving. Why couldn't he fight someone like Karin? The universe always liked throwing curve balls at him, "Stay still, why don't you?"

The moment it seemed like Shikamaru was trying to close in on him, Goku moved. Goku leapt from his position on the wall right toward Shikamaru with his fist extended. Not falling for something as simple as that, the Nara slid out of the way, but Goku kept his window of opportunities short and shot right back up at Shikamaru. A quick punch to the face stunned Shikamaru, but he was fast enough to regain his bearings to parry the series of punches and kicks that followed.

Shikamaru's defense was starting to wear down and a punch to the chest landed and sent him stumbling backwards. Goku ran in for a follow up, jumping into the air, and kicking Shikamaru to the ground with a flying kick. The Nara tumbled across the floor and he could already see Goku moving in for another attack. This kid just didn't give up did he? Direct combat wasn't exactly Shikamaru's specialty, and the good folks over at Team Asuma were actually quite well versed in the art of running away.

It was preferred actually. But with a big open space as your battle field, there was no where to really run away to like actual environments offered. Goku jumped into the air and laced his fingers together so he could smash his joined hands on Shikamaru's head, but the pony-tail wearing genin caught Goku's forearm before he could do so, but he was struggling to fight against Goku's strength, "Come on, Shikamaru, just let me hit you!"

"I can give you a million reasons why I don't want that to happen," Goku eventually overpowered him and shifted his hammer-like strike to a regular punch to the face that connected. With him being this close, his body being pinned under Goku's; there was no way to establish any connection between their shadows. Goku was annoyingly strong too and there was no way he could get him off, "Yo I-"

"Don't you quit on me, Shikamaru!" Ino yelled from the stands.

"Forfeit," Shikamaru had no problem saying and the proctor called the match.

"Winner: Son Goku!"

Goku got off Shikamaru and helped him off of the ground, "That was fun!"

"Sure, if that's what you call fun," Shikamaru waved it off and returned to the stands. Much like Pepper, he knew when to pick his battles. Goku knew how to outmaneuver his shadows and was flat out stronger and quicker than he was. There was no sense in him wasting energy on a lost cause. He didn't even want to be a Chuunin anyway, doing D-ranks all day and never leaving Konoha sounded way better than actually sticking his neck out for the village.

Goku was laughing as he was walking behind Shikamaru, "Ha! I made you say uncle! I'm your uncle Shikamaru!"

Why the hell did this kid like him so much?

XxX

Everyone was allowed to leave now that the final matches had been decided.

Son Goku v. 19

Raditz v. N

Ten-Ten v. Lazuli

Chi-Chi v. Rock Lee

Goku was stuck staring at the board, while his entire team were in the background waiting for him. He had to fight the weird kid who could break his back and still shake it off like it was nothing. His skin was crawling, but not in fear, but in excitement. He was straight up stronger than Shikamaru, but how would he deal with the fat kid from Otogakure? He had an entire month to figure it out.

K placed a hand on his shoulder, "Goku." The boy looked up to his teacher with a childish grin, "It's about time I gave you the proper training."

The saiyan's eyes lit up at the thought, "Oh what are you going to teach me!? The fire-fist thing, the wind-fist thing!?"

"Kaio-ken," K said simply and patted the boy on the head. "Let's go, we have much to do."

Oh yeah, this was going to be the best month of his life.

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The final arc of the Chuunin exam that I've been itching to write since I thought of this story is coming up next. I have a bunch of crazy shit in store, and you'll see why I do things the way I do. It'll all make sense soon my babies, so just stayed aboard for the ride.

PS: I decided to take a stroll through the DBZ & Naruto XOVER section and saw that someone was generous to steal my opening scene for Son Goku word for word, and that made me feel good. My story is good enough to steal, mom!