Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and not me.
A/N: Firstly... OMG MY COMPUTER SUCKS! I've been trying to upload this thing for over 2 hours now. It's 11.30 at night and I gotta get up at 5am! Anyway...
Once again, I took my time in this chapter... sorry. But you can't blame me this time because I had exams! I still have some more to go too, and this weekend I'm going to Brisbane, so the next chapter may take a little longer... hopefully not.
Oh, also I was working on some art this week. Why don't you surf on over to my deviantART account: RaineJoybringer , after this and take a look. You may find a little spoiler there. And if you look around in the scraps section you'll find some sketches of the characters.
Q- Did you actually base Kita's outfit after a Street Fighter character?
A- Uh, not really... just off of one of those dress-up dolls games you can find around the net. If you look in the scraps section of my dA account you'll see a sketch of Kita in it.
Questions for the characters!
Q- Shuuki: Why are you always blushing around Rindou? Are you really staring at her butt?
Shuuki- Uh..? Hey! I am not! I'm... er, um, well... I look up to her a lot I guess...
Q- Yanagi: What would you say to, hypothetically, Sora went through your clothes and saw your underwear, how would you react?
Yanagi- ... what? I'd burn him to the ground, of course... and what did you mean by "hypothetically"? Is this like one of those 'A friend of a friend of mine but it's secretly me' questions?
Q- Temari: Are you upset that you won't be able to have your rematch with Shikamaru, especially after he totally beat you last time?
Temari- I suppose it would have been fun... but that's in the past now, isn't it? No use dwelling on it.
Chapter 36: Light Show
Temari surveyed the area, taking it all in. Pretty much like last year, but with a lake- could be interesting. She looked across to the next door as it opened. A boy with sunglasses stepped out. He paused briefly as he saw Temari; however he covered it up by pushing his sunglasses up his nose and walking on. Temari smirked and walked out to the centre of the field.
The female examiner raised an eyebrow at both of the genin. "Match one! Temari of Suna versus Aburame Shino of Konoha! Begin!"
Shino raised an arm. A swarm of bugs erupted out of his sleeve and flew at Temari.
In a flash, Temari had her fan out. However, there was not enough time to open it. Using it like a bat, she swung, swatting the bugs away.
Opposite her, Shino raised both of his arms up into the air.
Temari finished off the rest of the bugs that flew around her head before catching sight of Shino. Her eyes followed upwards to the sky and widened- above the Konoha genin was a large meteor-sized cloud of bugs.
Shino placed his hands back into his pockets as the bug-meteor began to fall.
The first one was a distraction, thought Temari, looking down at Shino's pocketed hands. He knows he's no match, however he continues. Admirable I suppose...
"This is over," she said unfurling her fan. She arched her arms back. "Kamaitachi no jutsu!"
Kita jumped as the door rattled violently. A cold draught blew in through the cracks and swirled around the room, messing with everyone's hair. Something landed on Kita's cheek, making her whack at her face. On her palm was a squashed insect. Kita grimaced and wiped it off on her skirt.
A cheer roared throughout the crowd above the room making the walls rumble. A voice yelled something but it was lost in the overwhelming sound above.
Suddenly, the door opened.
"Mitsukai Kita, please."
Kita's head jerked up. Was it her turn already?
"Kita," Tansei put a hand on her shoulder before she left. "I hope I get to see you in the next round."
The silver-haired girl's mouth twitched into a smile. "You too..."
Clenching her fist, she walked out into the bright sunshine...
Kita blinked- the sun was intense after being in that dark room.
"Kita!" screamed a group of voices.
Her eyes slowly adjusted and she looked around, and up into the stands. Yanagi, Hana, Yume and Jieichou were sitting in the rows above. Yanagi waved wildly.
"Do your best, Kita!" she screamed.
Kita nodded.
"Hey, you!"
A boy with bright blonde hair caught her attention. The Kumo genin walked out from his doorway, glaring intensely.
"It's about time I get to face you," His black robe billowed behind him as they walked out to the centre of the field.
"What's the anticipation about? And who are you?" asked Kita, an eyebrow raised. She recognised him from before, but she'd never even given him more than a second look before, let alone talked to him.
"Damn it," he spat. "My name is Tsuiraku Uteki! My teacher was a jounin named Hasaki! Does that ring any bells to you?"
Kita's brow twitched. "Hasaki..."
The man gave a grin. "I see you brats are admiring my Ghost Head Sword."
Kita found herself talking. "Who are you?"
The man's grin widened. "I am Hasaki, missing-jounin of the Hidden Cloud."
"Well, does it!" demanded the blonde.
"How can I forget?" Kita retorted. "He tried to kill me and my friends!"
Uteki paused for a second before yelling again. "But he didn't, did he? In the end, you ended up killing him, right!"
"I killed him to protect my friends!" Kita's hand was clenched hard in a fist. "He was deranged!"
"He was not deranged!" screamed Uteki suddenly, his green and gold streaked eyes enraged. "You killed him! And because of it, I'll never know what happened to my sister and what took her away!" His fists trembled by his sides, like he was about to run in and punch her.
"Hey, punks, can it! Save it for when you're throwing punches at each other!" yelled the female examiner. She faced the crowd. "Match two! Mitsukai Kita of Iwa against Tsuiraku Uteki of Kumo! Begin!"
Immediately Uteki worked up a series of hand-seals. "Raiton; Tohibi no jutsu!" Streams of lightning erupted out of his fingers and leapt around the battlefield randomly.
The examiner leapt back to avoid a strike. She swore as it left a small burning hole in the grass just where her foot had been.
Kita smiled. She wouldn't be using any cat-like agility here. There was only one option in this form... She just hoped she could use it again like last time.
"Hiton; Enkou Shouheki!"
A bolt of Uteki's lighting crackled and sparked intensely as it hit a glowing object hovering before his opponent. Eventually the lightning from Uteki's hands all joined the object.
"What is that?" Uteki growled. He stared ahead at the thing before him.
It was a halo.
"Hikari no Shuujuku," replied Kita, folding her arms. "The pride of the Mitsukai bloodline... I haven't had much practise with it, but it should be enough to beat you. I took notes during the previous rounds when your friends were fighting- your electricity jutsu is made from chakra, and is attracted to it. My chakra automatically moulds light into a solid form, so as long as I keep this up as a barrier, you can't hurt me. The two will only cancel each other out." She smiled again.
"She looks so much like Gaara with that pose..." murmured Kankuro to Temari. The two had moved up into the stands after Temari's successful match.
"Sometimes I think more of our little brother rubbed off on Kita than the other way around," Temari gave a crooked smile as she leaned on the railing. She may not have had quite the influence that Uzumaki kid had on him... but she's been helping him... even if she hasn't noticed.
"Wow, how beautiful," whispered Hana in awe, looking down at the halo. "Kita's bloodline manifests itself as a halo!"
"Manifests?" asked Yanagi. "What do you mean by that?"
Hana turned and smiled. "Well, Hissori-san's bloodline manifests in the shape of hexagons."
"And how'd you find that out?" asked Yanagi, an eyebrow raised suspiciously.
"Um, well, I went looking through some of my father's scrolls and found a couple bits and pieces of information on the different ninja in the village..." She blushed as she saw everyone's accusing looks. "I know I wasn't supposed to...! But there was some information that I thought would be really helpful in my medical jutsu! Like with Sora's head before. If I hadn't had a look through some past medical files of his family, I wouldn't have known how to fix him up so quickly."
"Well, if it was for those sorts of things, then alright..." replied Yanagi. "I wouldn't have told your dad anyway."
Hana smiled again as her blush vanished. "I know..."
There was a scream down on the field. Hana and Yanagi stood up.
"Kita!"
"...you can't hurt me. The two will only cancel each other out." She smiled again.
Uteki ended the jutsu, leaving the halo to crackle by itself. He stood for a second, as Kita explained. His mouth suddenly twitched into a smile. "You're right... it's just that you didn't count on one thing." He held his hand out. "My bloodline! Shuurai!"
There was a loud crack and a flash. Kita screamed as something bright went through the middle of her halo jutsu and struck her in the chest. The force of the electricity shoved her onto the ground. The halo Kita had created faded out of existence.
Uteki shook his hand, dispelling the lighting from it. He pointed to his gold-flecked green eyes. "This is the most supreme bloodline in the whole of Kumo- the Raikougan. Because of it, I'm able to store true lightning in my body, not the cheap stuff like everyone else! And I don't even have to use hand-seals to use it!"
Kita's chest expanded as her eyes flew open and she gasped for breath. Her heart was hurting- like it was being pounded from the outside. Her hands twitched furiously as she gripped at the grass. She struggled to pull herself into a sitting position. Kita cringed. The battle had just gotten harder than what she first thought.
"Get up!" yelled Uteki. "You didn't give up so easily on my sensei! I'm not going to let you lay down until I say so!"
The girl slowly rose to her feet and breathed deeply. "I'll only give up when I say. It's not to you to decide." Her hands formed seals.
"Shuurai!" shouted Uteki in reply.
"Hiton; Boushi Enkou!"
A new halo appeared before Kita. It begun to spin furiously, seeming to make a solid sphere. Uteki's lightning struck it with another loud crack. It burst apart, turning into small bolts which flew off into the field.
I'm not giving up... I didn't stay on those mountains during those lightning storms for nothing!
There's got to be another way... I can't maintain the spinning forever!
Kita lifted her foot as one of the smaller bolts zapped near her, leaving a black scar and a small flame on the grass. She stepped back down on it and smothered it out. Last thing I need is to be careless and have my foot catching on fire... Her brow started to moisten with beads of sweats as she kept her focus on her jutsu.
Uteki's scowl tightened as sweat dripped off of him as well. The lightning continued to flow out of his hand and shatter against Kita's halo. He shook his hand, ending the lightning.
Kita panted as her halo slowed down to fade away into nothingness. Her hands still trembled from before. She glanced up at Uteki. "I don't get why you're acting like this over someone who abandoned you. You said it was because now you'll never know what happened to your sister, but from the way he was behaving when I met him I don't think you would have learnt anything from him."
"Don't say that!" Uteki yelled back at her suddenly. He wiped some sweat from his face swiftly. "He knew what happened! He said she was taken away by red clouds in a black sky! I needed to know what he meant by that! Even if he wasn't in his full mind, he still knew!"
"You're wrong... the only thing he knew was his name and how to kill." replied Kita sullenly. "He wasn't the same person you knew once before."
The blonde-haired boy didn't reply back. In a way it was true... But he never had given up hope before. He'd always hoped that somehow his sister was still out there. And he'd always hoped his teacher would come back the same man that had always been...
"Hey, are you punks going to stand around squabbling in front of the VIPs, or are you going to kick each other's asses?" demanded the examiner, cutting over the both of them. The woman's hands twitched irritably towards her leg pouch.
Uteki's eyebrow twitched in return. "Fine, lady, we'll finish this. Won't we?" He glanced at Kita with his gold-flecked eyes.
Kita gave a cat-like grin. "Alright, and we'll finish our little conversation later too."
The woman gave a 'humph' of annoyance and crossed her arms. "Get it over and done with before the sun sets, okay? We still got more brats like you to get through."
Kita breathed quietly, waiting. Sweat drenched her red shirt. I think I know how I can beat him now. Just because his electricity attacks aren't made of chakra, it doesn't mean they aren't made of energy. I need to time this right...
She can't have too much chakra left. Though I was surprised she was able to get up after that last attack. She should have been twitching on the ground longer than that. This time though, I'll make sure she does. Uteki raised both of his hands. "Tokkan Nibai!"
"Hiton; Enkou Shouheki!"
Both bolts of lightning seemed to explode before Kita's outstretched hands. Waves of heat and sound rippled out across the field, making the crowd cover their ears and flinch away.
Uteki covered his eyes as the heat seemed to make them dry out. There was a dampened shout inside Uteki's ringing ears.
"Rapid Spiral Strike!"
The boy coughed out a glob of blood as something walloped him in the gut over and over. Suddenly he flew backwards as a final blow struck him painfully.
Uteki landed with a splash in the lake and began to sink under the surface, a pained look on his face. There was a second splash and a hand grabbed onto his collar, dragging him back up and onto the shore, flipping him over onto his back. Uteki coughed again, a mix of water and blood splattering out. He opened his eyes and saw Kita dripping wet beside him.
The ringing in his ears subsided and he could hear Kita panting heavily.
"How... why'd you...?" he croaked.
Kita shook her head. "Can't hear you," she pointed to her ears. "But if you're wondering why your lightning attack didn't work, it's because I separated the light from it, dividing the energies. That's why there was that sound and all that heat." Kita's hands shook again, both from tiredness and from the large red burns on them she had received in the jutsu process.
A pair of feet appeared next to them. "So, are you done?" asked the examiner expectantly.
Uteki closed his eyes. "I'm done..." He opened them again and Kita noticed his eyes had turned almost entirely green. Uteki glanced at her. "I was nearly out of power anyway..." he admitted.
Though Kita couldn't hear him properly, she understood. "Thank you," she smiled.
"No... thank you..." Uteki stared up at the nearby trees and the light that dappled on him through the leaves. Hasaki-sensei... I won't make the memories I have of you become bitter because of what happened... Big sis Tenkyuu... I'll continue to hope... hope that maybe... maybe you're still out there...
"Winner, Mitsukai Kita!"
Clapping echoed throughout the stadium. Kita's hearing returned to normal and she smiled. She waved up at her team mates up in the crowd. Yanagi and Hana were cheering wildly. Eventually, Yume joined them as well, cheering enthusiastically, followed by Jieichou as he stood up and clapped respectfully.
Kita's hands dropped. I wish dad was here to see that... I know he'd be proud.
"Hey, you," The examiner nudged Kita. "Get off the field already. We still got a long way to go."
Running, Kita went past the medics which had placed Uteki on a stretcher. The boy had fallen asleep, induced by the medics. The silver-haired girl looked back for a second before going up the stairs.
"Broken a rib," muttered one of the medics to another after Kita had passed. "Quite a strong punch for such a young kid,"
"I bet Jouryoku-sama is having a field day with those cameras he had set up around the place to record footage," chuckled another one under his breath. "I heard that he's going to broadcast it all around the surrounding countries after he's gotten it edited, and then broadcast the final rounds live."
The first medic gave a low whistle. "But I thought that was illegal to do with all the censorship and secrecy between the villages?"
The other looked grim momentarily. "So did I... but apparently there aren't any official laws stating against such a thing. It's never been an issue, though assuredly it will be frowned upon by the other countries."
Sora looked up at the dark ceiling as the crowd above roared with cheering. Sora thought he could almost hear Yanagi in there, screaming.
It wouldn't surprise me if Kita won... he thought to himself quietly.
The door slid open again. Sora gulped, hoping his name wasn't next.
"Ouritsu Masakari, it's your turn." said the person at the door.
Masakari flipped her burgundy hair back. "About time, I was starting to think I'd been forgotten." She turned back to sneer at Sora and Gaara when she reached the door. "Think yourselves lucky you didn't have to tangle with me this time."
Sora's brow twitched as the door closed.
"Cow..." muttered Gaara under his breath.
A/N: Yeap... Masakari gets worse... but who will she face? Looks like you're gonna have to wait and find out! I hope you guys liked that chapter. It's a bit of closure on a few things if you think about it. And finally you get to see Kita's bloodline in action! Haha, 35 chapters and hardly a thing on it until now! Wow, talk about a cliffhanger...
Jutsu used:
Any not described here probably are official jutsu that you can find on Wikipedia or some other informative Naruto site, or ones I've described before. If there's anything more you would like to know, please ask. And any jutsu listed are available for you to use, as long as you seek permission from me first.
Raiton; Tohibi no jutsu (Lightning release; Flying Sparks)(Ninjutsu) (Lightning element) (C rank) An electrical attack that randomly sends small bolts of lightning across the ground through the fingertips. The user has very little control over the particular individual directions.
Shuurai (Lightning Attack)(Kekkei Genkai ability) (No rank) Unique to the abilities of the Tsuiraku clan, a lightning bolt of pure electricity is produced through the user's hand. The user has very little control over the strike.
Tokkan Nibai (Double Lightning Strike)(Kekkei Genkai ability) (No rank) Unique to the abilities of the Tsuiraku clan, two lightning bolts of pure electricity is produced through both of the user's hands. The user has very little control over the strikes.
Hiton; Enkou Shouheki (Light release; Halo Barrier)(Kekkei Genkai ability) (No rank) A light element jutsu unique to the Mitsukai clan, it allows the user's manifested chakra to create a barrier.
In Kita's case, the Enkou Shouheki is unique to her in name. If her father Hissori were to use the same jutsu, in theory he would name his the Rokkakkei Shouheki (Hexagon barrier). The name changes amongst users; however the usage is effectively the same. The Shouheki jutsu is one of the more basic Mitsukai bloodline jutsu, as the user only manifests their chakra, but adds no more commands after that.
Hiton; Boushi Enkou (Light release; Spinning Halo)(Kekkei Genkai ability) (No rank) A light element jutsu unique to the Mitsukai clan, it allows the user's manifested chakra to spin. In effect, a stronger version of the Shouheki, however, there have been instances of other use where it has been used as an attack.
Extra Info:
Raikougan (Lightning Eye)(Kekkei Genkai) The name of the Tsuiraku's bloodline, it allows a person to act as a storage facility for pure electricity.
The sign of the bloodline active in a member is through the eyes. The amount of gold in the person's eyes will indicate the amount of stored electricity in their body. The Tsuiraku bloodline does not make a person immune to electricity, however, unless they are in the process of absorbing or expelling the electricity from their bodies. It is also possible for a person to absorb so much, which will cause the body grievous harm. For that reason, the majority of the younger members of the clan are restricted to storing small amounts. It should be noted that the Tsuiraku clan prefer normal lightning jutsu over their bloodline, as their abilities are extremely hard to control given most circumstances.
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