Author's Note: Thus round 2.5 of the exams come to an end, onto the training chapters! Read, Review and Enjoy!
"Masunu what are you doing here!?" Atsuko asked in a growling voice with her hands on her hips and a angry face that, despite all efforts, still looked too cute for her own good.
The boy in question that she was so angry with was none other than her cousin Masunu.
"Atsuko I told you that I'm fine." Masunu stated, his body wrapped in bandages and sitting down in a chair thus giving the general impression of being far from fine.
"Have you not looked in a mirror lately!?" Atsuko shouted rapidly pointing all over Masunu's body in a comical fashion.
"Looks like he was right." Tarou turned to Takishi with a confused look on his face as she continued to explain. "Atsuko becomes a completely different person when her loved ones get involved. It's so romantic!" Takishi stated as she swooned.
"Hey back off you gay nutter you ain't even Atsuko's type!" Tarou growled angrily, prompting a point blank staring contest between the two.
"Oh really and how would you know dog lover!?" Takishi asked while she darkly looked into Tarou's eyes.
Suddenly both individuals were smacked around and laid flat out on the ground by Momo, whom simply sat down on the ground wagging her stumpy little tail.
"Momo but why!?" As if answering Tarou's confusion Momo flipped up into the air and snatched a treat out of the air before landing perfectly on the ground, the one who had thrown that treat without even looking was Masunu, who had his thumb in the air. "Masunu! You've trained my dog better than me!" Tarou quietly whispered to himself as tears flowed from his eyes.
While that was going on the randomizer announced the final match up: Choza Akimichi vs Miyako Terumi.
"Talk about the mismatch of the century!" Shiro commented, prompting Kong and Xuelan behind him to nod their heads.
"Hey what's that suppose to mean!?" An enraged Choza asked while he accusingly pointed at Shiro.
"Isn't it obvious!?" At that statement Choza turned to face Miyako, who was rubbing her temples in annoyance.
"Look I'm not happy about being paired up with a ugly meat witted tub of lard like you, go down easy and I promise not to kill you." Miyako stated in a condescending tone of voice while she shook her head in disappointment.
"Let me at her!" Suddenly Choza tried to leap forward and attack Miyako, however he was immediately held back by Inoue and Atsuko who had grabbed him by both of his arms. "LET ME AT HER!"
"Inoue, I'm confused, aren't we suppose to be letting him at her?" Atsuko asked, as she only barely held Choza back, feeling her feet slipping under the influence of Choza's incredible brute strength.
"Well that boy seems pretty eager. So we might as well just get this party started!" The Judge stated while she smiled boldly at the gathered crowd. "Begin!"
Suddenly Inoue released Choza turning him loose on Miyako. So hasty was Choza in his rush attack that he ended up throwing Atsuko off of him and across the ruined arena and landed face first in the dirt. Choza inflated both of his arms to gargantuan proportions and clapped both of them together on Miyako. Miyako easily blocked both of the blows with her hands, coating them in lava for extra punch and deflecting power and bouncing both of his arms away from her, she followed up by forming a tube with his hands and firing a highly concentrated blast of steam at Choza. Choza's torso suddenly inflated to equally gargantuan measures to the point where he now resembled a boulder, the steam, which it should be noted now hit Choza at point blank range, rippled and bounced off of his flesh unharmed.
"He's so fat everything I throw at him just bounces off!" Miyako stated, sounding thoroughly disgusted with the realization.
"If you...!" Suddenly Choza started to emit a dark aura, that made the hair on the necks of many of the competitors stand on end. "Call me fat one more time. I. Will. Kill. You!" Choza stated, glaring at Miyako with a deep seated killing intent.
"And how do you plan on doing that exactly!? Sit on me!?" Miyako stated letting out a amused chuckle.
Suddenly Choza's limbs and head retreated into his inflated form and began spewing out large portions of chakra through his sleeves pant legs and hole where his head was. Choza's new found ball form began revving up on the spot before launching at full speed at Miyako, whom simply punched forward at full strength, the combine force of her punch and his speed sent a large ripple through his body and lifted him into the air. Suddenly Choza's began rotating around his side, propelled by the chakra jets, followed up by increasing the size of his arm again and smacked Miyako away at terminal speeds and sent her flying off into the forest, skipping on the ground a few times before a well place tree stopped her, and was reduced to splinters by the impact.
"Oh I'm gonna make you pay for that!" Miyako growled while she adjusted her jaw with a audible crack.
Suddenly both Miyako and Choza grabbed chunks of the Earth at the same time before slamming them back into the ground infused with chakra, sending waves of dirt rock and other forms of earth at each other, creating what resembled a small mountain range in the process.
"What kind of training have you guys been doing all this time!" A shocked Atsuko loudly exclaimed.
"Chakra increasing exercises mostly, though I will admit I didn't know he could do that." Shikai stated while she joined Atsuko in staring open jawed at Choza, legitimately shocked at the combination of their training and Choza's rage.
Choza increased the size of his arm even further and used it to vault over the unstable terrain all the way to the top. At the same time Miyako looked at the ground and fired a huge stream of fire downwards and shot into the air like a rocket and coating her arm in lava as she landed up top with Choza. Choza slammed his arm into the cliff side wrapping it in stone in the process before he launched his new stony limb at Miyako with full force. The collision covered Choza's stony limb in lava, which quickly began the process of eating through the makeshift armor.
"Looks like your offense is pretty good, but you're lacking in defense!" Choza stated, before he flicked Miyako with one of his stone fingers covered in her lava, before Choza shrunk his arm out of it's stone armor and ditched the melting weapon before it could do him any harm.
"Smart, he used her own attack against her and ditched it before it could do him any serious harm." Shikai noted with a smirk of pride on her face.
"Oh wow I never knew that he was that smart." Atsuko stated not quite as surprised as before.
"STEAM CANNON!"
Miyako fired a steam blast from her mouth at Choza, the potency of the attack like a jet of pressurized steam, burning and tearing at Choza's flesh. Miyako once again coated both of her forearms in molten metal and slammed back down into the mist nearly crushing Choza in the process. Instead Choza dived into the mountain and once Miyako landed pulled her under by her foot. A series of explosions followed suit as lava and steam tore through various nooks and crannies as the make shift mountain range instead turned into a makeshift volcano, the feat of earth chakra reduced to little more than a pile of molten slag.
"Shouldn't we be stopping them!?" A concerned Atsuko asked while she stared in horror at the raging battle field.
"It is that kind of test, but I'm sure that they won't kill each other." Masunu stated as if this should be normal.
From the top of that mountain one final explosion rocked the landscape as both a significantly slimmed down Choza, both from excessive chakra consumption and from massive dehydration thanks to Miyako's constant fire attacks, and Miyako, who was currently covered head to toe in something that suspiciously looked like grease, were sent flying out of the top, still grappling with one another, Choza eventually maneuvered Miyako underneath him and landed on her, her head firmly planted in his over sized butt cheeks.
"I believe you were saying something about me 'sitting on you' earlier." While Choza had his moment of victory the sound of ominous sizzling filled the battlefield. "Hey does anyone else smell bacon frying?" As Choza asked that, he saw the smoke coming from below him, and realized that his pants were literally on fire. "GYYAAAHHH!" Choza jumped off of Miyako and landed firmly against the ground grinding his rear against the ground in a desperate effort to put himself out. "HOT HOT HOT HOT!"
"Never..." In the meantime Miyako was laying down motionless on the ground emitting a dark spine tingling, hair stand on end aura.
"Ah Miyako, are you feeling okay?" Biwa asked, the look on his face one of someone who is witnessing something truly horrifying.
"Never. Ever. EVER!" Suddenly Miyako leaped to her feet with burning hate filled rage consumed eyes. "I AM NEVER GOING TO FORGIVE YOU FOR THAT!"
"Yep, Miyako has lost her mind." Gengetsu stated as he started to slowly back away.
"I'M GONNA MELT YOU INTO LARD!" On that note Miyako inhaled another breath of air and fired through her hands a focused jet of steam at Choza.
Choza recognized his greasy sweat for what it was, his body's fat melting down from Miyako's constant fire attacks and dousing him with a highly flammable liquid in the process. He decided it was best to put a end to that as fast as he could. Thus using his oversized arm he catapulted himself into the air once more above Miyako. As she tried to redirect her steam attack to the appropriate direction, before Choza immediately increased the size of his arm again and used it to block Miyako's attack and grab her entire head in the palm of his hand. As if seeing that she was defeated, Miyako let her finger on fire and held it a single centimeter from Choza's arm.
"So, you're gonna set my grease covered self on fire, of course in this position, and you being covered in grease too, that will kill you too yah know. So that raises the question, is this really worth dying for?" Choza re positioned his fingers so that he could see into Miyako's eyes. "I surrender." Choza returned his arm to normal and let go of Miyako, her hair stuck in several different directions by Choza's overly greasy palm and looking awfully miffed about it at that. "This isn't worth dying over."
"Alright then!" The judge stepped forward as Choza walked away, laughing to herself when she saw him trying to hold up what was left of his pants. "The resignation of Choza Akimichi has been accepted! Miyako Terumi is the winner!"
The trip back to shore was a interesting one to say the least, it had a rocky start after Zed refused to step foot on the boat, as he demonstrated by a comical scene of tying himself to a stone pillar.
"I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT ON THAT WOODEN DEATH TRAP!"
"Well, time for the baggage tram." Karai stated while she got a wooden bat ready.
"There's already been enough of that for one day." Masunu walked up to Zed, placed his hand on his chest, and then sunk Zed into the stone until on his head was sticking out thanks to the use of Earth Chakra, leaving Zed helplessly mortified. "Tarou, would you deal with this for us?"
Once Zed was chipped down to a manageable size everyone was loaded onto the boat. Choza and Miyako took advantage of the ship's on board shower to clean the excessive amount of grease off of them. The next morning the group was already back at Kirigakure's hotel where after breakfast the remaining seven competitor's from Konoha were all brought into the Hotel lobby, all sitting around a table, for breakfast, where they were expecting to meet someone from their village.
"So who is this guy we're suppose to be meeting with anyway?" Tarou asked while he cut into a omlet.
"Apparently he's part of the village's R&D department." Shikai stated while she bit off a bite of bacon on her plate.
"The R&D department?" Takishi asked a bit curious about hearing about the group that she's never heard of before.
"Research and Development: which means that they 'Research and Develop' Advance Techniques, Training Regimens, Weapons, Medications, Creatures etc." Masunu explained while he drank from a glass of orange juice.
"Wow, sounds pretty serious, so they're sending someone like that over here to us?" Atsuko asked a bit nervously.
Suddenly the sound of a door being kicked in echoed through the lobby, walking through the front door was someone who was carrying a large contraption in a suit case that fully occupied both of his hands and hid the entirety of his upper body. Carelessly dropping the important looking thing on the floor the man who carried it walked out from around it, revealing that he had dark colored eyes, black hair and fair skin. He was also wearing a white robe, secured in place via a purple sash.
"Good Morning. I'm Sasuke Uchia. For the next month I will be over seeing your training." Sasuke explained to the slack jawed competitors.
"Well that was interesting, to say the least." A dark skinned man with scars on his face stated, before his features morphed into a blemish less man with perfectly white skin and green hair.
"About time too, I thought we'd never get rid of those kids!" The blonde haired Judge stated as she removed her wig revealing white hair underneath.
The two were lounging about on the beach watching clear colored eggs float to the surface of the water.
"Nothing left to do now but watch the sparks fly!" The woman stated, picking up and examining one of the eggs as red colored mist began to swirl inside of it.
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Guest: Thank you very much! I pride myself on concocting elaborate fight scenes that effectively knock the sense out of all the involved parties. Unfortunately with the focus on training, IE plot for the next little while we're not going to be seeing much of it.