Impervious
Conqueror
I arrived early at the training ground to prepare myself for the simple test. I can deduce this isn't just a test for them, but I believe the Leaf are going to try and see my true skills, which annoys me furthermore. I'm not a fan of the Godaime Hokage right now, and if this blackmail continues to my dislike I may just put Konoha underwater if I'm in a rotten enough mood…
I see my first opponent Sakura arrive 5 minutes before the designated time and she has a weird look on her face.
" Is there something the matter?" I ask curiously and she simply waives me off and replies, " No not at all, it's just your early. That's all." I disregard her social awkwardness as I see Sasuke and Naruto walking to the field, and Sasuke seems quite focused as he's muting out the loud Uzumaki.
Everyone now is finally infront of me, but I do sense I'm being watched from afar as I expected. They sure are persistent I must hand them that.
" Listen up. This test will last until there is a winner. Your goal is to capture me, as I will try to knock you all out. Any mistakes may cost you you're life, are we clear?" I explain and they all shout back, "Hai!"
" Good. Test starts when you take your first step." I declare and they all three of them focus in on me with fierce intensity.
" I got this!" Naruto shouts as he charges at me and goes to make a hand sign. Both his teammate look very frustrated with him as I run toward him with extreme speed and deliver a sharp kick to his ribs knocking him back to where his teammates are standing before he even called in his jutsu. He'll learn very quick not to do that again, especially at the speed he runs at.
" Naruto, Sakura, listen. I sparred against this guy a few years ago during the chunin exams. He uses water style, genjutsu and just as we saw is very fast." Sasuke explains as Sakura looks at Naruto with pity as he stands back up.
" So, how do we fight him?" Naruto asks back to Sasuke who sighs.
" We need a distraction for sure, you moron. So run back out against him so Sakura and I can surprise him." Sasuke explains to Naruto and Sakura nods in agreement.
" Alright, here I go!" Naruto shouts as he does his jutsu earlier, and about 10 copies of him appear and charge me. Haven't seen the shadow clone jutsu used in quite awhile, and to use the simplified hand sign is also impressive.
" You'll have to do better than that." I mock as I form my own hand signs and whip up my Wind Style: Razor Wind Blades Jutsu that sends sharp gusts of wind that tear through Naruto's clones and knock him back. Out of the corner of him eye I spot a shadow on the ground and I look up to see Sasuke coming down fast with a lightning jutsu.
" Chidori!" Sasuke roars as he collides with me, but luckily I had enough time for my substitution jutsu as I observe the crater and dust plume from about 15 meters away. I look behind me and at point blank range I see Sakura looking to punch me and I take the hit.
" I got hi- wha?" Sakura exclaims as her punch connects as my body turns into water as I utilize the Hozuki clan technique to convert my body into water.
As Sakura passes through my left side and my body reforms I remark, " You can't expect me to fall for such an attack. You'll need to step it up if you have any hopes of pinning me down.
Sasuke emerges from the crater and launches another lightning style attack at me, in the form of senbon. I run east to avoid the electric projectiles and out of the ground I see Naruto pop up infront of me with a strange looking jutsu in his hand. I'm already running full speed so I can't dodge this easily, so I'll have to improvise.
" Rasengan!" Naruto shouts as he lunges toward me with the weird sphere in his hand, and in the blink of an eye I lean back into a squat and deliver a very quick heel kick to his ribs, similar to earlier before his jutsu touches me.
With my momentum and kicking force I knock Naruto back several meters to where he lands on his back and grunts in pain. I'm just getting warmed up too, what a pity if this is all they can do against me.
Team 7 regroups with each other looking slightly dirty and a bit confused. I jump back to distance myself and to plan my next trap before I go on the offensive.
" Hey…weren't all our attacks on time?" Naruto asks as he holds his sore ribs with his left hand.
" Yeah, and he managed to avoid getting touched every single time." Sasuke retorts in a very unpleased tone.
" Hmmm, maybe we need a new strategy?" Sakura suggests and Naruto asks, " What did you have in mind?"
" Well, from what I've seen he is physically faster than us so we can't get a hit on him, and if we do get a chance I assume he'll just turn his body into water like he did against me. Taijutsu is out of the question so we have to hit him with either genjutsu or ninjutsu."
" A chidori or rasengan could injure him enough for us to capture him, but that requires us to get close enough which would require a very good diversion." Sasuke reasons and Naruto replies, " Alright! I'll make enough clones for this to work! Leave it to me!"
I watch Naruto create about 20 clones or so, which is amazing in it's own right since clones require a great deal of chakra in mass amounts, but it looks like their going to attack me again. I see the clones are forming that rasengan jutsu I saw earlier in mass amounts. It seems the jutsu is comprised of pure chakra concentrated into a sphere. Quite a nice combination, but I doubt he can hit me with it if it's a close combat jutsu.
Half of the clones have the rasengan jutsu as they charge me, and it seems Sasuke and Sakura are in the back of the group hiding in the masses. Clever, but not enough to fool an old veteran like me.
" You're going down this time!" All the Naruto's shout in unison as they close in on me and I reply, " Don't be so full of yourself. Water Style: Great Tidal Wave Jutsu." I send a huge torrent of water from my mouth flooding the ground, which the clones are running on causing them to jump to avoid my jutsu. Perfect.
" Now you're done for." I say to the group of Naruto's and I hear a voice behind me whisper, " Don't underestimate us." It seems like Sasuke managed to get behind me most likely using genjutsu to fool my eyes when mixed in with the clones. He's clever I give him that, but there is a reason why I was the Shodaime Mizukage.
With not enough time to use the Hozuki water conversion jutsu Sasuke rams his chidori technique through my abdomen, which causes blood to flow out slowly. They actually managed to hit me, but they'll need more than that to bring me down.
As Sasuke's chidori goes out, I take my left hand and grab his arm, which is still inside my stomach, and I trap him in my water prison jutsu. I look into his sharingan and I see a very shocked face and I tell him, " I too have a kekkei genkai, and you should not underestimate me."
With only my right hand free I hastily turn around to see the herd of Naruto's charging my location and using my one handed hand signs I use my Wind Style: Vicious Hurricane technique which I spew from my mouth lifting all the Naruto clones of the ground into the huge tornado I've created.
I finally pull Sasuke's arm out of my stomach while maintaining my water prison jutsu and as my tornado dies down I see Naruto and Sakura shocked to see Sasuke trapped, but even more so that I have a hole in my stomach and I haven't even flinched.
" How are you not down?!" Naruto shouts at me across the field as I smirk and reply, " I'm just made out of tougher stuff than most people. I already have one of you trapped, so I would watch out because now I'm on the offensive!" I use my free hand to use another special jutsu, Water Style: Clone Split Jutsu.
A water form escapes my body next to me, which seems to form into a clone of myself without a hole, but instead it's the reverse. The jutsu I used uses the main body to become the clone as I extract myself, also healing any injuries that I may have encountered.
As I look back to my clone holding Sasuke prisoner with my injured, now clone, I look back over to Naruto and Sakura and say, " I'm going to end this right now." I form a single hand sign to gather my chakra and I disappear from view.
" Where did he go off t-" Sakura mutters before getting cut off as I appear behind her thanks to my body flicker jutsu and trap her inside my water prison jutsu. Naruto's eyes widen as he jumps away trying to create more clones, but I appear behind him and deliver an axe kick to his left shoulder knocking him straight on his face. During the time I used the body flicker I managed to create one water clone to capture Sakura then hide out of sight to catch Naruto off guard.
Naruto tries to pick himself up as fast as he can but my hand comes crashing down on his neck slamming his head back into the hard ground and I order, " Don't move or it will be your last." As I tower above him.
" Ugh…." Is all Naruto can mumble before I cast a short-range genjutsu to put him asleep. The jutsu worked easily as I guess he doesn't have a very strong genjutsu defense. Maybe I should have led with that kind of attack once I captured Sasuke since it would have been easier without using all that chakra for the body flicker water clone combo, but I guess it's all over now.
I stand straight up and walk away from Naruto and I release both Sasuke and Sakura from my water prison techniques and they gasp for air once the water and clones around them fall to the ground as harmless water.
" The test is over and you failed to capture me. I don't have anything to say about it really, so unless you have questions I'll be going." I announce and Sasuke asks me after a coughing up some water, " … Did you ever take us seriously?"
Without batting an eye I admit, " Not really. It would be unfair for someone of my caliber to go all out on children, although I did step it up a little to capture Sakura and Naruto quickly." Sasuke looks down at the ground probably disappointed in himself and probably a little pissed for whatever reason, as I look over to Sakura and she asks me, " Where did you learn all that?"
" A long time ago. If that's it I suggest you take care of Naruto when he wakes up. See ya." I say to them as I body flicker off the battlefield leaving a defeated team7 with an unconscious Naruto for them to deal with when he wakes up.
(Normal P.O.V)
In the trees over looking the field and the aftermath of the battle is Tsunade, Shizune, Kakashi and Jiraiya observing team 7 as they carry Naruto back to town.
" Looks like your student still has some improving to do, Jiraiya." Tsunade coyly says to the toad hermit who just shrugs off the backhanded comment as he thinks deeply to himself.
" Lady Tsunade, I did some research on that Yushin Jourou fellow, and his history is a little deeper than being the former founder of the Hidden Mist." Jiraiya says in a serious tone, which catches everyone's attention.
" What do you mean by that?" Kakashi casually muses and Jiraiya continues, " It's not a surprise team 7 didn't have a chance to beat him, and by the looks of it he hardly took them seriously. That blow from Sasuke chidori would have crippled just about any opponent, but he didn't look in pain when he got hit."
" In noticed that too, why is that? Does it relate with his kekkei genkai?" Shizune asks the old toad sage who nods.
" Yes it does. In my research I also dug up some more facts, and they just got stranger as the list went on. During the First Great Shinobi war Kiri was allied with Konoha against Suna and Iwa while Kumo remained neutral until Konoha pulled out when Kiri declared war on Kumo. During this time due to him living through many fatal wounds he earned the name of " The Impervious Man". It's also attributed to why he's even alive as he has extended life as well and other physical attributes making him already a sub par shinobi without much training." Jiraiya lectures as he takes a pause for everyone to absorb the information.
" I see, so how does this equate to now, and why is he showing his face around again?" Tsunade inquires and Jiraiya takes a seat on a near by rock.
" Yushin Jourou was the man to instigate the First Great Shinobi war shortly after forming an alliance with Hashirama Senju, your great uncle, Tsunade, he declared war against Steam country, Frost country, Wind country and Earth country. Kiri and Konoha both possessed very skilled shinobi during this time and it seemed evenly matched as Kumo sat on the sidelines. A year into the war Yushin Jourou invaded Suna by himself, fought the Shodaime Kazekage, and took his head back to Kiri in triumph. 5 months later he declared war on Kumo." Jiraiya elaborates and the other three look quite shocked.
" That man, over so many years ago invaded Suna by himself and killed the Kazekage?!" Tsunade exclaims with a serious look of shock.
" I see, we are indeed dealing with a very dangerous shinobi. What should we do in the meantime?" Kakashi states as he looks to Jiraiya.
" Be nice to him I suppose and keep a very close eye on him. Remember, he did almost unite the shinobi world before his supposed death to the Nidaime Raikage's ultimate technique. I guess he went into hiding for many years after that which his death spelled the end of the First Great Shinobi war. I sense he's planning something after all these years. People who seek peace like that usually don't give up, so be on you're toes Tsunade. He is not a man to trifle with without reason." Jiraiya explains and ends with a warning as he gets up and walks off and remarks, " I'll be doing more research on him in the meantime, but I have to go catch up on my more important research now." And Jiraiya disappears into the woods.
Tsunade sits there in silence thinking to her what she has gotten herself into, as Shizune looks worried and also in deep thought. Kakashi then faces the two women and states, " Well, I'm going to go comfort my team, so see ya." And Kakashi waives to them as he disappears by body flicker leaving the Hokage and her assistant alone.
Shizune turns to Tsunade and asks her, " Lady Tsunade? What shall we do?"
Tsunade snaps out of her daze and replies, " Let's go back to the Hokage tower. I have much to consider and think over." Tsunade then turns around to look at the slightly torn up training ground 4 before heading back to Konoha with Shizune at her side…