God I'm having a really hard time focusing on one story, seriously I've got like five chapters half done right now.
"So is this as easy as you thought it'd be?" Deidara called out as the four girl from team NDGO struggled to either dodge or counter the several dozen little clay monsters jumping at them from all directions. It had started out with only the first to large one which stumbled around clumsily, when they cut one in half however two quickly took it's place. Two became four, then eight, and five minutes later there were upwards of thirty of the things and the four were beginning to sweat.
Their leader Nebula who was now breathing heavily glared at the blonde. "This is a waste of time!" She shouted angrily before bisecting another of the creatures. "These things are never gonna hurt us, now stop playing around and fight!" She demanded.
Deidara's smile grew even wider as he stared at the purple haired girl. "Never gonna hurt you hn? Let's see about that." Before any of the girls could react every one of the clay monsters attack at once. The leader and spear wielder barely managed to cut down the sculptures that had jumped at them, their two teammates however were not so lucky as the clay latched onto them and began encasing them completely all while horrified looks grew on the face and the faces of their teammates. The remaining sculptures the other two cut down quickly joined them. "Here we go." Deidara smiled widely as he brought his hands together.
"They'll suffocate!" The girl in green shouted as she ran over to her teammates, Nebula however had noticed the look on Deidara's face.
"DEW WAIT!" She screamed realizing something was wrong.
"Boom." In an instant the entire bamboo forest was swallowed by a massive fiery explosion the sent smoke bellowing into the sky.
"And a devastating blast rocks the entire stadium and swallows up half the arena! And judging by the aura boards it took a massive toll on the fighters as well!" Oobleck shouted into his mic as the crowd went wild.
"Indeed Bart. It would seem the all but NDGO's leader have been knocked out of the match with their aura's falling into the red. Miss Nebula herself only barely still in the game with twenty seven percent still left while mister Iwa seems to have avoided almost any damage at all with over ninety percent of his aura left." Port added.
The three other ninja who were still play cards never bothered looking up, instead Kisame created a small water wall to block the blast as they played their game. "Honestly I'm surprised that idiot managed to remember to hold back and not kill them." Sasori sighed as he set down another card. He knew from experience that if he had truly wanted to he could have easily turned those four girl to ash with that attack but had decided to weaken it just enough to prevent permanent harm but also providing large blast.
After nearly a minute the smoke began to settle to reveal a hysterically laughing Deidara as well as three unconscious Shade students. "DO YOU ALL SEE THE BEAUTY OF MY ART?!" Deidara screamed as he pulled another clay sculpture from his coat and focused his chakra into it causing it to burst into smoke and a large tiger looking creature began stalking towards the kneeling leader of team NDGO. By this point the entirety of the bamboo forest had been blown away exposing them to the audience and cameras. "NOW FEEL IT WORLD! FEEL MY ART!" Then his world went black.
Later
"Did you really need to hit me like that Sasori? Now my neck is all stiff." Deidara complained as he and his three teammates walked through the many stands and stall of the festival grounds.
"You dumbass, that bomb might not have hurt the leader but her teammates were far to close and had depleted aura. The blast could've killed them." Sasori scolded the blonde bomber without looking at him.
"Okay but did you have to hit me? I mean a simple 'hey Deidara, chill out man' would've been fine." He groaned as he rubbed his neck.
Kisame couldn't help but laugh. "We all know that wouldn't work, not after you enter your 'art mode'." The blue ninja nudged the blonde with his elbow.
"Hey guys over here!" The four all looked to the familiar voice of Ruby who was sitting at a food stand with the rest of her team and team JNPR.
Sasori stopped and turned to the others. "I'll take my leave here, Penny is probably itching to explore." The red head said before turning to leave.
"Velvet's team is actually about to have their match and I told her I'd watch so I'm out to." Kisame spoke up as well with a wide smile before disappearing in a blur.
Deidara and Itachi looked at each other for several seconds before nodding to each other. The two teen had both come to the same understanding, they hated the idea of being alone together even for a little while and began walking towards the stand the two teams were sitting at. "What's up, where did those two go?" Yang asked as she slurped up some noodles from the bowl in front of her.
"They both had prior engagements to meet." Itachi answered as he moved over to Weiss and took to leaning against the stand next to her. "Congratulations on winning your match, the enemy team was skilled." He smiled lightly at the heiress.
"And congrats to you guys!" Nora shouted from the other side of the stand, Deidara was standing behind her and resting his chin on her shoulder.
"What do you mean you 'guys'?" Deidara laughed. "I'm the one who did all the fighting. You asshats just sat around playing cards."
"You didn't seem to mind when you were laughing like an idiot." Itachi countered.
"Yeah, you looked like you were having a... blast." Yang smiled very widely at her own joke as everyone else glared. "What? My jokes are an art." She crossed her arms pouting.
"No, my explosions are art, what you just did was the opposite of art. It was unart. You should be ashamed of yourself." Deidara glared at her like she'd just insulted his grand mother at her funeral. "But anyway, when's your match hn?" The bomber looked back to his girlfriends team.
"It's in about ten minutes, I'm SUPER excited!" Nora bounced in her seat.
"As am I, it'll be nice to have a fight with actual guidelines and not well... murders." Pyrrha shrugged as she said this.
"Real battles have no guidelines." Itachi spoke up gaining the groups attention. "Do not look at your battles with regret, every fight you survive is experience you will need as a hunter." As he said this he looked the champion in the eyes. "That's a large reason why I hate tournaments like these, a battle for anything other than education or survival is completely pointless. There is nothing to be learned in a fight where your opponent is only there to entertain others."
"Would team JNPR please report to the arena." Port's voice came over the loud speaker.
"That's us!" Nora shouted happily jumping to her feet followed by her team.
"I'll give you guys a ride." Deidara offered as he reached into his pouch and pulled out a small glob out clay and unzipped his glove revealing the mouth on his palm, almost immediately everyone but Nora and Itachi recoiled in either surprise or disgust.
"Holy crap, what is that?!" Yang leaned in to get a closer look.
"Is that a mouth?!" Jaune asked looking grossed out.
"You guys know it's rude to stare right?" Deidara deadpanned as him fed the clay to his hand.
"Yeah, I think it's neato!" Nora giggled at their responses.
After a few moments the hand spit out a small bird which he then poured chakra into causing it to burst into smoke and change into a much large bird that both he and Nora climbed onto. "Hop on." He looked to the remaining members of JNPR who all stare at the bird skeptically.
"I... I think we'll take the shuttle." Jaune pointed behind them.
Deidara shrugged before making the bird begin to take off while on lookers marvel at the sight. "Suit yourselves." He shouted before taking off.
Itachi could only shake his head. "Show off."
Arena Tunnel
"Are you sure this thing will hold?" Izuna asked looking at the piece of paper with an intricate seal scrawled across it.
"I made it myself, with it your transformation jutsu will remain in place until it is removed. You won't need to worry about losing concentration and the jutsu failing. It's a trick I picked up during my tenure as Orochimaru's follower." Kimimaro nodded. "It's based off a jutsu he has to change his face, with it not even the Sharingan will be able to see through your illusion."
After several seconds of staring at the paper Izuna shrugged and pressed it to his face before forming the proper seal and was quickly envelope in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared a teen with white hair wearing a blue ukata top and a set of black pants. "This should do fine."
"Tobirama Senju, the second Hokage. An odd choice." The bone user commented.
"Just as Hashirama was my brothers rival, Tobirama was mine, though I always hated him unlike Madara. In the end he bested me in battle and despite my hatred I have to respect his skill." Izuna responded before cracking his neck.
"Is everything prepared?" A new voice asked causing Kimimaro to bow in it's direction.
"Yes my lord." He said respectfully.
The speaker stepped up to the two wearing a white hoodie with the hood raised and a set of white pants. Wrapped around his face was a white scarf the covered all but his eyes. "Good, because our match is about to start." He spoke with clear amusement in his voice, Tetsu followed behind him as he made his towards the mouth of the tunnel.
"This next match will most definitely have everyone on the edges of their seats! Representing Beacon academy will be team JNPR, a team which boasts a crowd favorite Pyrrha Nikos!" Oobleck spoke over the loud speakers earning a thunder of applause from both the Mistral and Vale fans.
"I wouldn't count their opposition out just yet. Hailing from Mistral's own Haven academy is team ATTK, a rather unknown team lead by one Ardin Shiro, but one who has shown impressive skill in hand to hand combat during class. I look forward to seeing their skill sets further fleshed out in this fight." Port added as Izuna followed his three teammates out into the ring.
Upon making it to the center of the ring the four met up with the members of JNPR. Kimimaro smiled and bowed towards Jaune. "It's good to see you Jaune, I hope you've been practicing since our last match." He spoke kindly earning a chuckle from the blonde.
"Oh yeah, I've been wearing myself out trying to improve my sword skill. Thanks for the advice about parrying by the way." He nodded.
"Think nothing of it, I look forward to a good match." As he said this the terrains were decided and half the stage became dominated by a small mountain while the remaining side was covered in forest of large trees.
"All combatants ready? BEGIN!"
I think we can call it here for this chapter, sorry for the blue balls. I always say I rarely plan shit out when writing and it's true, however I do have a series of vague ideas and plans I think up in my head that I have been building up to and let me tell you something. A LOT of shit is going to be going down when the battle of Beacon begins. Leave me a review and tell me what you all think. Until next time.