Chapter 37: A Swift Battle!
"Hello Konoha." Genma announced, "Today we have our final match of the chunin exams!" The crowd roared, "Son Gohan! Sasuke Uchiha! Naruto Uzumaki!" The crowd's roar grew even louder.
The three genin stood in a triangle mid-arena.
"I'll let you two battle it out for the first bit." Gohan said, "Once I feel you've shown off enough I'll step in."
"Or you come at us right from the start, if you don't use Super Saiyan together Sasuke and I could beat you." Naruto cracked his knuckles.
"Yea Gohan, too scared to fight us together?" Sasuke smirked and drew his blade.
Gohan unwrapped his bandages, revealing his gauntlets, "Bring it on." Gohan smiled, a white aura surrounding him.
Sasuke and Naruto stood together across from Gohan and both powered up as well.
"BEGIN!" genma shouted, jumping out of the way as Naruto shot a ki blast at Gohan, who slapped it away and charged at Sasuke. Sasuke swung his blade downwards at Gohan, who dodged and slammed a fist into Sasuke's stomach, sending him flying back.
Naruto chose that moment to shoot towards Gohan, his right arm cupped beside him, "Rasengan!" The blond formed a blue ball in his right hand and slammed it into Gohan, the orb grinding into the Saiyan's ribs and sending him flying back, where Sasuke had recovered and was prepared, kicking at Gohan's airborne form. The kick passed right through Gohan's body, the demi-Saiyan appearing behind his raven-haired teammate and sending him flying towards Naruto with a powerful kick.
"Let's take this up a notch Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, cupping his hands at his side.
"Let's." Sasuke grinned, mimicking Naruto's movements.
"KAA...MEE...HAA...MEE... " The two chanted, "HAA!" Each of them shot their hands forwards, releasing a blue wave of ki.
Gohan put both hands above his head, "MASENKO…" He shot his hands forwards, "HAA!" A yellow beam of energy flew from his hands and met Sasuke and Naruto's combined blue blast.
The yellow blast easily trumped the blue one and continuing onwards, Naruto and Sasuke rolled out of the way as the beam travelled through the arena wall before fizzling out.
"You guys really tried to use the Kamehameha against me?" Gohan looked surprised, "That's ballsy." He appeared between the two, "Try using ninjutsu, it'll be better for you."
"Rasengan!"
"Chidori!"
The two charged at Gohan from either side, Naruto holding the Rasengan and Sasuke with his Chidori. Gohan blocked each hit with his gauntlets before shouting and sending a shockwave from his body, sending Naruto and Sasuke tumbling back.
"Pinton: Chidori!" Sasuke shouted, seeming to disappear as he did.
"Vermillion Rasengan!" Naruto shouted, an orange aura covering his body and condensing into a ball in his right hand. He shot towards Gohan.
Gohan powered up, slamming a fist into Naruto's Rasengan as he kept an eye on Sasuke. As he overpowered Naruto he jumped over the blond, Sasuke leaving a trail of electricity going right through Gohan's previous position.
The demi-Saiyan was about to slam a fist into Naruto's back when one of the arena wall crashed down, a giant snake looking upon the audience.
Gohan looked around as the audience fell asleep, including some of the weaker genin such as Ino, Choji, and Kiba. The shinobi began breaking the genjutsu that had been cast while others began to try and draw the snake out.
Kakashi appeared next to his three students with Sakura in to, "You four go and help any civilians not in the arena evacuate to the shelters, if you find any enemy ninja eliminate them." The silver-haired jonin said turning away, "And be safe."
"You got it, sensei." The team said.
Team 7 then took off outside, they saw a woman on a large glass pillar.
"I'll go take her on." Gohan said, "She seems dangerous." Gohan measured her power above Vegeta's when he first arrived on Earth. The demi-Saiyan took off towards the woman.
"We'll leave that to Gohan, he'll handle it quickly, and he wouldn't have taken off if he didn't think someone else could handle it." Sakura said.
Sasuke felt a strange disturbance and saw a nearby chunin get sliced in half from seemingly nothing.
"Keep going." He ordered.
"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked.
"I said keep going, there's someone here who's faster than either of you." He said, activating his Sharingan, "And he's pretty strong too, probably equal to Sakura."
"We can help Sasuke." Sakura said.
"No arguments, we have a mission, you two can complete it." He said, "With your healing and Naruto's clones you should be able to find all the civilians."
"Sakura, he's right." Naruto said, "Plus he can handle it."
Sakura nodded and continued on with Naruto.
"Come out and fight me." Sasuke said as he stood around waiting. He suddenly jumped out of the way, a large crater appearing where he was, "I said come out." He growled as his opponent didn't show themselves.
"What if I don't want to?" A voice echoed out, "After all, you'll be much easier to kill if I'm hidden."
"You aren't hidden, you're using Pinton." Sasuke said, "And I can use it too, so come out or I'll just activate my own Shadowless Flight."
Suddenly a boy no older than Sasuke appeared directly in front of the Uchiha, "Here I am." The boy said, it was the same voice as before. The boy was wearing a hitai-ate with a music note on it and a white robe.
Sasuke grinned, "There you are." He slipped into a stance, "Let's go then."
The two figures disappeared in flashes of blue and white, slamming into each other with enough force to crack the ground whenever they clashed.
Sasuke quickly gained the upper hand as he roundhouse kicked the boy in the face, sending him flying away.
"Who are you anyways?" Sasuke asked as his opponent stood up.
"Akira Hitomu." The boy said, "Also known as The Swift Genius!" He roared as he appeared behind Sasuke and slammed a palm into his back, "Originally of Iwagakure, reanimated by Orochimaru to serve as a jonin of Otogakure." Akira said as he clapped his hands, sending a shockwave towards Sasuke, slamming him through a nearby house.
"Reanimated?" Sasuke asked as he charged at Akira, the two meeting in a large shockwave that destroyed the houses around them.
"I died in the third war." Akira said, "To that bastard Yondaime of yours!" He roared as he slammed a hard uppercut to Sasuke's gut, sending him flying back.
"The Yondaime killed you?" Sasuke laughed, "I'm a genin and I'm more than a match for you." He stood up and flared his aura, "Explain that!" Sasuke shouted as he began a barrage of punches and kicks on Akira's body.
Akira managed to block a punch with his knee and get space, "There's no way you're a genin, you must be at least jonin with the skill you've shown."
"You just interrupted the chunin exams, where I was in the final round." Sasuke said, "But that doesn't matter, what matters is that I beat you!" Sasuke disappeared, reappearing in front of Akira and shoving his sword through the boy's heart. When he pulled the blade out there was no blood and Akira was smiling.
"I told you, I've been reincarnated, I can't die." Akira laughed and raised his palm towards Sasuke "Onton: Drill!" Akira released a wave of sound that drilled into Sasuke's stomach, shooting him across the crater the two made and into the wall, burying him in the dirt.
"Fujin!" A new voice shouted, Teren landed near Sasuke, helping him up, "Need a hand?"
"It couldn't hurt." Sasuke took Teren's hand and stood up, "This guy can't die."
"Yes he can." Teren said, "My sensei told me that a reincarnated foe can be defeated with a power rooted in senjutsu."
"Senjutsu?" Sasuke asked, he hadn't heard of it before.
"An ancient type of jutsu that allows the user to call upon natural energy to fight." Teren said,"And Kazuma-sensei has a theory that your curse mark is related to senjutsu somehow."
"If only I could activate it." Sasuke grunted.
"Get mad." Teren said, "It reacts to negative emotions."
"Give me a few minutes." Sasuke said.
"I'll hold him off." Teren shot at Akira, forming a katana as he did. Teren slashed downwards towards Akira's head only for the small Oto-nin to appear behind him and slam a knee into his back and pummel his face into the dirt with a barrage of punches.
Suddenly Akira was sent flying as Sasuke appeared behind him, black tomoe littering his skin, chidori in hand.
Akira stood up, there was a hole in his stomach that wasn't closing, "Nice shot, but you won't hit me again."
"Fuuton: Wind Bullet!" Teren shot a dozen compressed balls of wind towards Akira, who seemingly phased through them.
"Not fast enough." The jonin laughed. He appeared beside Sasuke and slammed a fist into his gut, "React a little better, Uchiha." He reappeared in his original position.
Sasuke growled, "Pinton: Chidori!" The Uchiha seemingly disappeared.
Teren began weaving hand seals as quick as possible, "Fuuton: Tornado Wall!" He shouted, creating a wall of wind around the crater, "This should work." Teren then flew into the air and watched the two blurs slam into each other, "If only I could help more."
Sasuke had a Chidori in either hand, Akira meeting each Chidori with a fist with compressed sound vibrations on them. The vibrations cut through the lightning and sent Sasuke flying back each time, but the Uchiha relentlessly attacked his target. Sasuke got a lucky shot and managed to take one of Akira's arms off, leaving the jonin with just a single hand to deflect both Chidori.
Arthur chose that moment to fly in and begin creating daggers, the green blades flying towards Akira as he dodged Sasuke's movements and pushing him off balance ever so slightly so that Sasuke's lightning could take off his other arm. Sasuke roared as he released a large beam of ki from his mouth, taking Akira's head off and piercing Teren's wall of wind, going off into the distance with a large explosion.
Sasuke fell to his knees and Teren appeared at his side, helping him up.
"You okay?" He asked Sasuke.
"Yeah, just tired." Sasuke said as the tomoe receded into his curse mark, "We should go help Naruto and the others."
"My siblings are on that, we should get you some soldier pills." Teren said, helping Sasuke get to a medic-nin.
"No time, can't you feel that?" Sasuke looked in the direction of the Hokage monument, "That power?"
"Unfortunately I can. Let's go." Teren said, changing course.
Naruto and Sakura were running away as they felt the shockwaves from Sasuke's battle. Sakura turned around and stopped, "I have to go help!" She said.
"Sakura, we need to keep going!" Naruto shouted, "We need your healing abilities, Sasuke'll be fine." Naruto said.
"There's other people who can use medical jutsu, I'm stronger than nearly everybody in the village though, and I can help Sasuke." Sakura argued.
"Fine." Naruto conceded, "GO!" He ran off, creating three clones and they all split up, one going with Sakura towards Sasuke.
As Sakura and the clone ran they stopped as Tempest was thrown through a building.
"Guess we're stopping for a minute." Sakura slammed her knuckles together as she felt a large power facing them.
The Naruto clone helped Tempest stand up, "Thanks. This girl's really strong." Tempest said, forming a spear, "You guys mind giving me a hand? My brother's gone to help the Uchiha, if that's what you're worried about."
"Yea, we can lend a hand." Sakura said. She faced a woman with long brown hair and calm blue eyes. The woman's lithe form was hugged by a blue body suit.
"A newcomer to my show. How nice to meet you." The woman smiled, she raised her hand and Sakura jumped out of the way, a large hole opened right where she was standing moments ago.
"Who the hell are you?" Sakura said.
"Me, I'm surprised you don't know me." The woman put a hand over her heart, "I'm Asaka Taji, a missing-nin from Takigakure who has been adopted by Otogakure." She smirked, "And I'm also one of the best medic-nin in the world."
"I believe that Tsunade-sama holds that title." Sakura said with a smirk, "And she's much stronger than you." Suddenly Sakura was sent flying.
"I doubt it." Asaka said with an outstretched arm, Sakura was covered in dirt and being slowly pulled into the ground.
"SAKURA!" Naruto's clone shouted, slamming a powerful punch into the ground next to Sakura and shattering his teammate's prison, though it did cost him his life as a spear of earth pierced his head.
Tempest began attacking Asaka with her spear, quick jabs nearly hitting the brunette each time but her opponent was too fast. Asaka formed a whip of water and it wrapped around the God-Runner's throat.
Sakura appeared next to Tempest and slammed a powerful punch into Asaka's ribs, sending her flying and breaking the whip.
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Sakura slammed her fists together, "Now let's get her."
"Yeah." Tempest formed a small bear of water. The bear slammed into Asaka and sent her into the ground.
Sakura appeared under the girl with her fist glowing green, "HRA!" She slammed her fist into the Oto-nin's back, a green burst of ki flying out and piercing the girl's body, blood spurting out.
Tempest looked at Sakura, "You feel that?"
"Yea." Sakura nodded, "Let's go."
Naruto was running when he felt Sakura's ki flare, "Dammit, Sakura's fighting too." He also felt one extremely strong ki off in the opposite direction he was running, "I have to go check that out." He turned around and ran with renewed vigour.
"EXCALIBUR!" Naruto heard his wannabe-knight friend shout his attack name off to the side and saw a flash of gold.
'Arthur?' He felt another strong ki, not as strong as the ominous one but much closer, 'I'll have to help' He ran towards Arthur and saw the boy in golden armor fighting against someone in silver armor with a blade the same size as Arthur's.
"Need help?" Naruto asked as he landed and slammed a Rasengan into the man's chest and sending him flying.
"A knight cannot refuse help from a friend." Arthur said as he panted, "This warrior is quite exceptional and uses Koton" Arthur said, "His name is Houjou Himura and even though I've cut him he will not die."
"If he won't die I can freeze him, that might work." Naruto said, "I have a large scale Hyoton jutsu that might work, just hold him off for a bit."
Arthur nodded and prepared his blade for Houjou's attack.
The large man appeared from under ground, slamming a large metal fist into Arthur's chin, sending the knight flying into the air, "Koton: Steel Pillar!" Houjou slammed his fist into the ground, causing a large pillar of metal to erupt and slam into Arthur.
"Raiton: Current!" Arthur shouted, covering his body in electricity, which travelled through the metal and into Houjou's arm, sending the man into the air from the force. Arthur met Houjou mid air and turned his sword into a hammer, slamming it down onto Houjou's back as hard as he could. Shattering the man into many small pieces. As the pieces hit the ground they began to reform.
"Not good enough." Houjou shouted, raising his hands up, "Koton: Shrapnel Storm!" A flurry of steel flew towards Arthur.
Arthur made a shield out of his golden energy, stopping the shrapnel.
"Hyoton: Deep Freeze!" Naruto shouted from the side, sending a wave of frosty energy towards Houjou.
Houjou pulled his fists back and prepared to send out a jutsu but was frozen milliseconds before he shot his attack. As his body was flash frozen he began to crumble, falling into pieces that didn't reform.
"You feel that Arthur?" Naruto asked.
"I do my friend, and I fear we may be too late to stop it." The armor clad boy said.
"Let's go" Naruto nodded and the two ran off towards the source of the power.
Gohan arrived at the source of the energy he sensed and saw a large, dark skinned woman standing upon a large pillar of glass.
"Who are you?" Gohan yelled at the woman as she turned a house to glass.
She turned to him, "Me? I'm Chitose Dayu." She said, "Mistress of glass." She pointed at Gohan, "Haton: Glass Form." A slim white beam erupted out of her finger and flew at Gohan, who blocked it with his gauntlets.
"Fuuton: Great Breakthrough!" A feminine voice came from below, followed by a large gust that pushed Chitose off her pillar.
"Sand Coffin!" Gaara's voice rang out through the area, sand collapsing around the woman and crushing her, blood splattering everywhere.
"Well that was unexpected." Gohan said as he saw Gaara and Temari standing below. He landed and greeted them, "What are you guys up to?" He asked.
"We saw some of your friends run out towards the Hokage monument and we decided to follow so that we could help." Gaara said, "We stopped to help you."
"Thanks." Gohan said, turning towards the Hokage Monument, he felt a strong presence, stronger than even the woman Gaara had just killed, "We should head to the monument." He said, the two Suna-nin nodded and followed him towards the mountain.
And that's that. I hope you guys like it.
I realise that Gaara killing someone who's as powerful as Raditz was is quite hard to imagine, I'm not comparing Gaara to Raditz in power, but I am saying that if Gaara caught Raditz while the Saiyan couldn't think straight that Gaara could kill him. Chitose couldn't think straight as she was falling to her death (or at least a lot of pain and some broken bones) and Gaara took advantage of that to crush her when she wasn't expecting it. And to anyone who'd argue Temari couldn't push her with her wind, Chitose was standing on glass, a substance with little to no friction.
Also to any of you who are wondering I'll list the new chakra natures I used here and explain them a little.
Onton: Sound Release. Made of Wind and Yin. By applying Yin release's ability to create form you can assume that you could create sound waves from wind.
Koton: Metal Release. Made of Earth Fire and Lightning. You can assume that Earth Release can bring up metal ores, which are then purified by the lightning and fire. May be a bit of a stretch and could also be Earth and Yin as Yin can change form, but I like the fire and lightning better.
Haton: Glass Release. Made of Earth Lightning and Wind. Glass is formed when minerals are heated and then cooled, so lightning would heat it up and wind would cool it. This could also add to the fact that glass can be sharper than most blades and Lightning and Wind are both used to sharpen weapons in the Narutoverse.
Next chapter we'll see what the rest of the Konoha genin and the Hokage are up to. Then we'll see the strongest ninja that Orochimaru brought back at the end.
Thanks for Reading :D