Chapter 47
Watching Trunks walk towards the stairs, Orochimaru contemplated the match he just saw. Through out his life he has looked for away to learn every technique in the world so that he could learn who he really was. To this end he explored every possibly and started to gather DNA samples of everything that he found useful, from genetic mutations in humans that have are known as Keikei Genkai, to the mutations in animals that allow them to adjust to all sorts of environment.
Through out his long search, he had come concluded that the Uchiha clan with their sharingan and the further mutations of it(Magenkyo and Rinnengan)would be the ideal to learning everything. The fact that they had physically stronger bodies and a chakra pull that could rival the Uzumaki clan was a definite plus.
But watching, the boy who with his developing sharingan had managed to keep up with him get defeated so easily, even after activating said sharingan. Orochimaru couldn't help but wonder, what exactly made these two visitors tic.
'Well, I guess I just have to find out.' he thought as he turned to watch the medical team take away Sasuke with Kakashi following close behind after creating a clone to replace him.
"Neji what did you see?" Gai asked getting Orochimaru's attention, on him and the Hyuuga boy.
"It's strange." the boy commented with a shake of his head. "When I looked into Briefs and Kurosaki's bodies, I saw that their chakra network are under developed like a civilians." he explained with a frown.
"How is that possible?" Lee asked as he looked at his rival. "The way that Trunks-san moved during his fight with Sasuke is impossible to do by a civilian without any training in chakra control."
"That's the thing, while their chakra network's underdeveloped. Their core seems to surround their entire bodies."
"What?" Tenten asked confused at his words. "How is that even possible?"
"I don't know, but that's what I'm seeing." He answered with a shake of his head. "The first layer is like an armor of chakra that is constantly activated and, under the skin its like every inch of their bodies covered and radiating with chakra. Although," he trailed of as he watched the way the energy behaved. "The energy that's surrounding them is a lot more clear than chakra, instead of it being that mixture of light and dark blue that I usually see in everyone, its completely blue."
"Hmm." Gai commented as he rubbed his chin. "I'll report this to Hokage-sama, maybe he has a clue about what this means." he continued before walking towards said man.
'Only one color to their chakra, or are they even using chakra at all.' Orochimaru thought, his interest in his two guest becoming more profound.
At the other side of the arena Trunks walked up to Karin with smile.
"So how did I do?" he asked as he stopped beside her.
"You over did it a bit." She commented as she smiled at him in return.
"Really?" he asked, and he blinked down at her as his smile became a frown. "I thought I held myself back enough."
"Yeah, but you also decided to play around with him instead of finishing the fight quickly like you usually would." she replied as she poke him in the chest. "As tired as he was from his journey here he wouldn't have been able to attack so much if you just decided to attack from the beginning." she said as she crossed her arms. "So what's going on?"
"Can't get anything pass you huh?" he asked, when she shook her head he smiled and continued. "When you told me about the energy that had mixed in with Sasuke's I wanted to confirm it myself." he explained. "And from what I felt, if he doesn't get control over it soon it could consume him."
"Hmm," Karin agreed. "Do you know of anything that could help him?"
"No, but I'm hoping either they do." he gestured towards the ninja around the arena. "Or Urahara-san does."
"I guess that's the best we can do for now." she commented as she uncrossed her arms. "Now, since your done with your match why don't you go talk to Sasuke in hospital."
"What? Why?" he asked confused are her suggestions and thinking about how that won't exactly go well.
"I figured that a guy that obsessed with revenge could use some advice from a guy who probably knows how he feels!" she replied with a raised brow. "You know, the androids."
"Right." Trunks sigh and rubbed the back of him head. "Heh, were not even married yet and your already ware the pants in this," he stopped as he realized what he was saying. "Oh sorry, I wasn't-" he back tracked as he felt a blush rise on his face.
"I-it's alright!" Karin stuttered as she felt her face heat up. "Just get going already," she said as she pushed him back, causing him to stumble back. "and take a sensu with you!"
"R-right away!" Trunks stuttered as he turned quickly and headed for the doors.
Watching the girl who insist of infuriating him as she blushed and stuttered, made Gaara grimace. He just couldn't believe that such normal girl had managed to take out Kankuro so easily. 'She won't last long.' he thought as he turned away. 'She doesn't have what it takes to kill her opponents.'
The electronic bulletin on walls, lit up again as they ran through names at random before stopping on Zaku Abumi and Aburame Shino.
"Alright we'll now begin the next match." Hayate called as spread his hands and waved the two ninja forward.
Walking out the doors to the arena, Trunks saw that the medics had already moved upstairs. Moving towards them, he found the chakra signature of the gray-haired jonin who had accompanied Sasuke out of the arena along with the medics. Reaching into his pockets he pulled out the capsule with the medical supplies and pressed its button as he headed for the stairs.
Catching the box, he opened it before opening the compartment with the sensu's in it. Stopping in front of the stairs he pulled out a sensu for the bag inside and closed the compartment and the box, before putting it back in its capsule and putting it away. Making his way up the stairs, he followed his senses up to the floor above the arena and turned left making his way to the room he could feel the doctors begin to treat Sasuke.
"How long till your finish with his injuries?" he heard the jonin asked as he stopped in front of the door.
"We've already took precautions and gave him something for the pain, and were working on healing him as we speak." the head medic responded. "But were having some trouble with the paralysis, but we believe it's fading as we speak."
"Oh," Trunks heard the jonin comment in the same bored sounding voice. "Would it help if you had a clue on how it Works?" he asked putting an emphasis on the word and speaking it a louder voice.
"Yes of course it would, did you manage to copy the technique when the Kasugakure shinoni used it?" the head medic asked a bit of amazement in his voice.
"Unfortunately, no." the jonin replied with a sigh. "But Trunks-san wouldn't have come after us if he wasn't planning on telling us."
Taking that as his queue, Trunks pushed the door open and walked into the room.
"Yo." the jonin greeted his only visible eye closed and his hand raised in greeting.
"Hello," Trunks said back in greeting sounding a little nervous. "I know this may seem a little sudden, but I want to help." he continued and looked at the assembled ninja, wondering if they would refuse him for being an outsider.
"Of course." the head medic said as one of his hands stopped glowing in green light and he waved him over. "Any help that you can give its welcomed."
Nodding with a smile Trunks stepped forward and began to tell them about the technique. He explained to them that the technique was temporary, because it was just a precise blow to the head were the user concentrates their chakra in the tips of the fingers and strikes in the middle of the head, which causes the nervous system to become numb. So if they wanted to fix it they should work on the spinal cord or let it run its course.
Taking his advice, one of the medics began to work on Sasuke's spinal cord to start bringing feeling back to his body. The results were slow in coming but when Sasuke managed to move his fingers they knew that they were on the right track.
"Interesting." the gray-haired jonin commented as he as he stood beside Trunks. "I suppose you know this technique well huh?"
"Well enough." Trunks replied.
"Oh, do you know it well enough that you could have reversed the effects in the same way you placed them?"
"Well aren't you sharp." Trunks commented, looking at the bored sounding man with new eyes. "Yes I could reverse it with nothing but tap, but I didn't want to risk that Sasuke-san would go back into that state he was in when I placed him under it."
"Fair enough." the jonin answered. "I'm Hatake Kakashi by the way." he introduced himself.
While Trunks hadn't been in this world long, reading about Konoha's history in the last few days had given him some insight on the names of people who had contributed to its history in someway. The Hokage's, the Sannin and even a handful of jonin and chunin who had done something for the village and, Hatake Kakashi or the copy nin as he was known was one of the names that he had come to heard about.
"Trunks Briefs."
"I curious to know, is your family name Trunks?"
"Oh no," Trunks shook his head. "It's just my family has never been all that traditional, so we always introduce ourselves with our given names first."
"Hmm." Kakashi hummed, "I supposed that's a good enough answer. So why don't we get to the reason your here?" he asked his voice losing its bored tone and taking on a dangerous edge.
"I already told you." Trunks answered, "I'm here because I want to help."
"So that the fact that your partner was Orochimaru in disguise was just a coincidence?"
"Wait, Shiore was Orochimaru!" Trunks exclaimed surprised written all over his face. "Then the chakra that seal gives off belongs to Orochimaru."
Kakashi looked him in the eyes, searching for any falsehood in his face, but he couldn't detect anything. 'So either he's telling the truth and he didn't know or he's a pretty good liar.' he concluded and decided to confirm his statement, with a nod.
"Then how is able to hide himself from my senses?" Trunks asked, "When we were on our way here from Chukan village I picked up his chakra signature and made sure to remember it." he explained as he recalled the events of them arriving on this world. "But during the time that Shiore was with us he didn't feel like Orochimaru."
"Was there any time that you guys got separated?" Kakashi asked pumping him for information.
"Well Shiore had come to Konoha ahead of Karin and I, so we didn't meet him until we were about a day away."
"So Orochimaru must have attacked him before you met and took his identity." Kakashi stated as he put rubbed his chin. "Though if you're a sensory type, this means that Orochimaru has developed away to fool your senses." he continued and thought. 'Though I have never know a sensory type to be such a capable fighter.'
"Hmm." Trunks hummed as he looked towards Sasuke who had begun to move as he started to regain consciousness. "So until we can figure out away to detect him were going into this blind."
"Precisely."
Groaning as he felt his head clear, Sasuke forced his eyes to open when he heard voice. At first everything was blurry but when his vision cleared he saw the faces of Kakashi, three medical nin, and Trunks. He blinked once, then twice to make that what he was seeing was right, "Did you come gloat?" he asked as he glared at the man who had so easily defeated even after taking his newest move head.
"Actually, I came to help." Trunks responded and reached into his pocket pulling out what looked like a green bean and handed it to him. "Here you should eat this, it will help recover quickly."
"Please refrain from giving our patient weird medicines." the medic said as he looked at the sensu suspiciously.
"It's not poison or anything, It's a powerful medicine that was developed by one of masters." he replied as he kept holding it out to Sasuke. When the boy only gave him a glare and the medics didn't change their stand on the medicine Trunks decided to show them. "Alright, how about I eat half and you eat half that way you can be sure I'm not trying to poison you?" he asked as he reached forward with his other hand and snapped the sensu in half.
"Alright then, eat it." Sasuke responded deciding to call Trunks bluff. Without hesitation, Trunks brought half the bean to his mouth and ate it; chewing on it a couple of times before swallowing. He seemed to tense slightly which brought a smile to Sasuke's face, but when he relaxed and handed the other half to him; his smile dropped.
"I'm not eating that." he said deciding to stay stubborn to whatever gestured Trunks made.
"How long is he going to have to stay in bed for?" Trunks asked switching tactics as he closed his fist around the sensu.
"With the injuries that you caused him, he should have to take at least a week before he's ready for any kind of physical activity." one of the medics replied, having become genuinely interested in the effects of the medicine that the Kusagakure nin was offering.
"You hear that," Trunks said to Sasuke, with a raised brow. "You're gonna have to stay in bed for over week just to fully recover. But," he trailed off as he opened his hand. "If you eat the sensu you will be back on your feet by the time you swallow it and you'll get to see the other genin's fights."
Glaring, at the offending bean that Trunks was offering. Sasuke, was tempted just to slap the hand away but the offer to get allowed to see the rest of the tournament was just to tempting. So swallowing his pride he moved his sluggish left arm up and took the other half of the beam into his hands before moving it to his mouth.
"Stop that!" the head medic, said as he reached to stop him. But his hand's caught before he could by Kakashi, who from the conversation he had with Trunks had decided to trust the man until he did something to make him do otherwise.
Placing the beam in his mouth, Sasuke chewed it slowly and gasped in surprise, 'It taste like a tomato!' he thought as he chewed it with more gusto before swallowing. The effects of the sensu were instantaneous, as Sasuke felt his muscles tense before relaxing. The sluggishness that he had felt from the technique and the use of chakra completely leaving his body. As every one of his injuries disappeared and he felt his chakra be restored.
"How is this possible?" one of the medics said as they stopped healing Sasuke and began checking him for any ill effects. "His wounds are completely healed, paralysis caused by the technique is gone and his chakra's been restored."
"Hoo," Kakashi commented with a raised brow as he saw his student, sit up as though nothing had happened. "That certainly's a very power medicine this master of your developed." he said as he added another thing to add to the report he would have to hand in to the Hokage later. 'If this medicine's spread throughout all the Kasugakure shinobi, it could become a problem.' he thought.
"Let's just go watched the matches I want to see who's gonna get to advance to the finals." Sasuke said as he pushed the medic nins hands away from him and jumped of the bed.
"Hey, your still under observation." the head medic said as he stood to his feet. "We need to make sure that there are no side effects from taking that medicine."
Glaring at the man, Sasuke was about to replied when Kakashi cut in.
"Trunks-san, are there any negative side effects one must be made aware of?" he asked, even though he already expect the answer to be no.
"None what's so ever." Trunks replied with a shake of his head.
"I thought so." Kakashi concluded. "Now gentlemen, I'll be taking Sasuke off your hands."
"But Kakashi-san!" the head medic exclaimed wanting to know more about the medicine that was coursing through the Uchiha's body.
"Now, now." Kakashi began as he took Sasuke by the shoulder and led him to the door Trunks following close behind. "Everything you could have done has already been done, now we have to go take care of Sasuke's other problem before we go see the rest of the fights." he said in way of explanation as they reached the door and walked out.
"So you know about it already?" they heard Sasuke asked before the door closed behind them.
Following Kakashi and Sasuke to the bottom floor, Trunks decided that now would be a good time as any to ask.
"Sasuke-san?" he called out, getting the Uchiha's attention.
"What?" Sasuke sigh, not wanting to talk to what this overly friendly person. 'I bet he's looks for something from me.' he thought.
"When we were fighting, you said that if you could beat me you could defeat someone." he began as they reach the stairs. "But the way you said it made me think that your planning on killing that person."
Sasuke paused at the stairs and turned to glare at Trunks over his shoulder. "What of it?" he asked, his voice harsh.
"It's just that revenge is never the answer." Trunks answered his steady and his eyes serious.
Suddenly Sasuke turned and walked past Kakashi, grabbing Trunks by the front of his shirt. "What would you KNOW?" he yelled as he glared at the taller man. "Is revenge not the answer if your whole family's taken from you? If everything you ever cared for was suddenly gone, would you just forgive the person who did it?" he asked as he grind his teeth.
"No I wouldn't." Trunks answered as he grabbed Sasuke's hand and detached it from his shirt.
"You see!" Sasuke responded. "You would do the same as well, so don't go around trying to give me advice on revenge not being the answer."
"I'm not saying not to go after this person." Trunks answered as he dropped Sasuke's hand. "Just don't let revenge be the reason you do it. Because in the end revenge is gonna make you careless and you're gonna end up hurting a lot of people just so that you can get something that will leave you feeling empty after it's done."
"Tsk," Sasuke let out as he turned his head. "You obviously don't understand anything. Revenge is the only thing that keeps me going, without it I don't know what I would do with myself."
"Oh I understand." Trunks answered as he glared at him, his body becoming tense. "I know what it's like to want to kill someone simply for the satisfaction of killing them, to want to rip the skin off their bones with your bare hands, to feel as you take that person's life." he said his voice angry and hard. Taking and deep breath and letting out, Sasuke saw as he relaxed. "And I hate it, if I didn't have anybody who cared enough about me to show me that revenge wasn't the way, I would have done anything in my power to get it."
"Then that's the difference between you and me." Sasuke responded, seeing that the man before him really understood. "I don't have anybody to like that."
"What about Naruto and Sakura?" Kakashi asked breaking into the conversation.
"They're just my team-mates, they don't really," he stopped as he turned and saw the look Kakashi was giving him. "Alright, so they care about me, but they're not of any help to me."
"Having a rival and reason to fight for always increases your chances." Kakashi answered as he closed his eye and smiled. "They both always push you to get better or get left behind."
"Hn." Sasuke grunted with scowl.
"Your lucky." Trunks said as he walked past him and headed for the stairs. "You may have lost your biological family, but you still got the family that you chose." he said as started to walked down the stairs. "Just remember to seek advice from your elders, they can always teach you how to become stronger."
Seeing him go, Sasuke contemplated Trunks' words and turned to Kakashi with an expectant look.
"Alright, alright." Kakashi answered with a shake of his head and a sigh. "Well start a training regimen after the preliminaries with Sakura and Naruto. Now, let's go get that cursed seal sealed shall we?"
Entering the arena Trunks was just in time to see one of the sound ninja's arms explode outward with chakra and blood. 'What the hell?' he thought as medics ran by him towards the arena's center and he made is way up the stairs, making his way towards Karinuro.
"Why did that guy's arms explode?" he asked when he reached her side.
"The holes in his hands were blocked with bugs." Karin answered with shrug.
"What?" Trunks asked feeling more confused.
"I'll tell you later." She responded as she turned to him. "Soooo, How did it go with Sasuke?" she asked.
"I'm hoping well, but-"
"Will Kurosaki Karin and Kankuro come down here." Hayate called out getting their attention.
"Tell me after I beat this guy to the ground." Karin said as she pointed to Kankuro.
"Don't think you're going catch me off guard this time." Kankuro said as he stepped up beside her. "This time I'm going to pay you back the humiliation." he smirked thinking about how he was going to kill her.
"I think your embarrassing yourself enough with that make-up." Karin said as she placed her foot on the railing before jumping off into the middle of the ring. "Now hurry up!" she called to Kankuro. "I was in the middle of an important conversation."
"Grrrr!" Kankuro growled out, as he jumped after her. Landing at in the middle of the arena, he glared at her as he took his place in front of her, 'I'll make you pay in blood for your insults.' he thought as he unhooked his bandaged puppet and slammed it on the ground beside him.
"I'll finish this match quickly."
"That's my line." Karin said as she reached behind her quickly and swung her fan vertically. Having put her energy into the fan and with the speed and strength of her swing, Karin threw out a powerful blast of air that took Kankuro and his puppet of ground and sent them crashing into the wall. The people who had stood behind Kankuro, get forced to hold on to the railing as the blast of air took them off their feet.
Once the wind had faded, everyone landed back on the ground and Kankuro's body's embedded in the wall with his puppet on him.
Lifting her fan up and placing it on her shoulder, Karin glared at Kankuro.
"Tsk! managed to save your self." she said as the puppet fell to the ground and the bandages started to unravel, revealing Kankuro underneath.
Kankuro's pissed, he did not know that Karin could use that fan to create wind attacks like his sister. 'I need to kill her quickly if I want to win this.' he thought as he flexed his fingers and the puppet behind him stretched out its arms beside him. The hands separated from the body and launched balls of concentrated gas from them at Karin.
Seeing the way the balls were moving, Karin knew they would hit the ground before they hit her and took off on a run to her right. As she ran, she saw the puppet jump from the wall and the mask break as it opened it's mouth. Inside she could see what looked like a cannon that launched ten inch long needles.
Stopping just as the gas balls hit the ground, Karin turned and ran towards the needles while putting on a burst of speed; she cleared the needles before they made it halfway to her. When she was about to clear the puppet, it's arms all four of its arms separated and they launched towards her hidden knifes coming our of them. Bringing her fan in front of her she parried each arm aside before stabbing it forward; throwing the puppets back towards its master.
Turning quickly she swung the fan, the blast of wind that's created throwing the arms across the room. Before using the momentum of her speed to turn back and run up behind Kankuro as he jumped to the side to avoid the puppets body.
"Wha-" was all Kankuro let out before Karin's fist smashed into the back of his neck and he hit the ground, skipping across until he hit the wall.
Once she landed Karin looked at the judge expectantly.
"Right." Hayate said. "The winner Kurosaki Karin." he announced before calling out. "Medic!"
So when I was thinking about the difference between chakra and ki/spirit energy is that chakra is shown to usually be light blue but their are small specks of dark blue mixed into it. So my thinking is that the dark blue is the energy produced by the body, while the light blue is the energy produced by the spirit and, mixing them together creates chakra. Which brings me to the chakra network, I believe that it exist in all humans but it stays under developed in people who don't use chakra all the time like the ninja in the Naruto world.
