Disclaimer: I dont own Naruto
5 years later, Arakan age 10
"Remember, the most important thing about this is impressing the audience. If you lose, go out with a bang, if you win, make sure it's showy. The more you impress the audience, the better off you will be." Ashinas words echoed in my mind as I stood in a large circle of people, about to fight a free for all arena match.
"Hajime!" A voice called out, signaling the start of the fight.
I jumped back as everyone started attacking each other. Two shadow clones appeared in a puff of smoke and immediately started going through a series of hand seals while I gathered large amounts of chakra in each hand.
Make it showy he said. Go out with a bang he said. Let's show them what i'm capable of.
"Fire style:Grand Fireball jutsu! Wind style:Roaring winds!" My clones said in unison after performing the necessary hand seals. The massive fireball amped up by the wind jutsu smack right into the middle of the arena where most of the competitors were. The explosion caused from it sent me skidding back a bit and singed my arms. I ignored the resulted chaos and continued to gather chakra. Once I had enough chakra built up in my hands and forearms, I started to channel chakra to the rest of my body to amp up my speed.
Lightning style: Amp
As the smoke cleared I heard the survivors coughing and wondering who had cause the explosion. I didn't let them wonder long as I changed the chakra in my hands to lightning nature.
Lightning style: Lightning hands.
My hands now crackled and glowed with lightning as I took off sprinting for the nearest opponent. He was too slow to dodge my lightning powered knife hand to his throat, the explosion of gore painted the wall and ground. He was dead before he even hit the ground and so were the rest. I went around taking out any survivors with the brutal efficiency that drove me from my last life powered by my flashy chakra move. I used far more chakra than I needed too so it would look cooler and it allowed me to cut through any resistance the survivors put up even easier. I had no kind of defence but I didn't need to defend if my enemies were dead. Unfortunately there were quite a few attacks that did end up landing because I didn't bother dodging, instead favoring to taking out my opponents faster.
Before I knew it I was panting in the middle of the scorched blood stained arena, the only one left standing. The brutal takedown of my competition was my plan to hopefully show that I was not someone to mess with. Without looking up I limped my way over the the exit exhaustion clawing at me, ready to get out of this arena. As I walked I heard the gradual crescendo of clapping from the audience and by the time I reached the exit gate the hoots and cheers were near deafening.
"Who are you kid?" A booming voice asked from amongst the crowd.
I paused for a moment as the gate rose, turning my head with a smirk making itself known on my face. There was some blood dripping down my face from a kunai I didn't bother to avoid causing my smirk to turn bloody.
"I am legend." I stated arrogantly and then continued on into the tunnel leaving the bloody arena behind me.
I grimaced. God damn did I sound stupid. That sounded way better in my head. Probably should have never left my thoughts too.
I only barely made it a step into the courtyard before the exhaustion I had been pushing through finally caught up to me as I fell face first into the soft ground. I had never used so much chakra and powerful techniques back to back in short succession. I wasn't close to being out of chakra but the physical and mental strain of using the techniques was extreme. The deep burning nerve pain I felt primarily in my hands told me that I still had much to work on. I felt ashina's presence as unconsciousness took me.
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I woke up some time later in the infirmary, my hands wrapped, and feeling sore all over.
"I see what we really need to work on now." I heard Ashina say.
"I have the chakra for all the ninjutsu I could ever want but my body cant take the strain of using it." I stated, voicing my thought on the subject.
"Indeed that is correct, which is exactly what we will be working on from now on." He paused for a moment, taking a sip from his tea before continuing," For now just do some stretching and then we will work on practicing your medical ninjutsu."
I nodded my head to acknowledge his orders and got up to start stretching. After half an hour of wonderful stretching, I followed him to the courtyard where I went from person to person, healing the bruises, scratches, and cuts they had to practice my medical ninjutsu in the best way possible, by using it.
A few hours later I had finished and was feeling the strain. It didn't take a whole lot of chakra but the control and concentration it took was pushing the limits of my abilities. I sat down and started meditating to calm myself down and get more intune with my own chakra. I did this everyday to get a better grasp on my chakra and try and get a feel for the nature chakra that was flowing from my seal and into my coils. It has taken me years just to be able to distinguish the natural energy from my own chakra before it was absorbed by my coils. I wasn't able to do anything other than that but it was a start.
Ashina had just finished his own exercises by the time I finished meditating.
"Have you made any progress with natural energy?" He asked.
"Not much, I can tell natural energy from my chakra but that's about it. It's damn near impossible to be able to control or use." I stated.
"That's alright, it will come with time. For now just make some clones to practice while we spar." Ashina stated. I made ten clones to practice my chakra control, nature transformation, and work with natural energy. With that done I made my way over to where Ashina was to start the spar, ready for the beatdown that was soon to occur.
The first hour was spent on technique and finesse, making sure my movements did not waste energy and were as precise as they could possibly be. From there I took a break and meditated for half an hour then went into strength training. An hour of punching a tree, kicking said tree, and doing various other exercises to strengthen my body had me exhausted. Ashina let me take another half hour break to rest before we started on some chakra theory and then onto seals. I was rather limited in the amount of time I could physically train if I wanted to actually benefit from it so a good portion of my day was spent on seals and other general knowledge. I ended the day with endurance training, arguably the most important part for me because it didn't matter if I had all this chakra if I didn't have the stamina to use it.
By the time we finished it was dinner time so I quickly ate with Ashina then went to bed. I was so exhausted the moment my head hit my pillow I was asleep.
The following morning Ashina decided it was time for more seals to be drawn onto my body. This time he was adding some 'basic' healing seals. It would help my muscles heal faster so I could continuously train but also could do more like help me from bleeding out if I had a major wound and keep me alive long enough to get proper medical attention. It was nowhere near naruto's unnaturally fast healing rate but it was a boost nevertheless.
"So why are you only now putting these seals on me?" I asked him.
"Because I had to figure out how to get them to work properly so you wouldn't get random horrible mutations or tumors growing throughout your entire body along with getting it to work in conjunction with the seal you already have. The seal itself is already incredibly complex but having it work with your sage seal and neither affecting each other makes it infinitely more complex." He stated knowingly.
"So you didn't think of it until recently and didn't want to tell me about it till it was done." I stated flatly with a small lift in my tone to signify a partial question to my statement.
"I have no idea what your talking about." He said dismissively. An hour later and he was done making the seals.
"These seals work off the natural energy that the sage seal draws in except it won't activate until it senses your body has sustained damage and is trying to fix itself. I limited the rate at which it could heal due to the risks of amping it up more than it is." He informed me as we made our way to eat breakfast.
"What kinds of risks are we talking about." I asked curiously.
"Well the big ones I can think of are, suddenly turning to stone, mutations, tumors, random deformities, and the biggest one being sudden death." He finished casually.
"Fair enough, is there anything else I should worry about?" I asked casually.
"Not that I can think of. So eat up and let's get started, it's time I upped your training and hone in that talent you got." he said.
Breakfast was a quick affair and soon enough I found myself in the courtyard doing my stretches before I went to work. I made my ten clones to train then started off with a simple warm up that had me doing sets of pullups, push ups, and various other exercises. Three sets of these later and it was time for a quick spar with Ashina.
We stood across from each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. I learned that waiting for him to make the first move was best. As always Ashina decided he was bored of waiting and made the first move by sending a punch towards my face.
I ducked and sent out a punch of my own that was intercepted by his other hand. He grabbed onto my hand and threw me over my head. I went with the motion and ended up behind him so I sent out a kick that he turned and blocked. Before I could react he grabbed my leg and lifted me into the air where he was about to throw me again but I used my other leg to kick off his body and break his hold. I flipped back and immediately had to dodge and block a series of kicks and punches, the end of which sent me flying back from a hit right to my sternum.
Ashina didn't let up as I was left gasping for air and within a moment I was flat on my back with his fist above my face.
"Your getting better, you lasted more than a few seconds this time." He said now holding his hand out for me to grab. I took it and he hoisted me up to my feet.
"As always, thanks for the beatdown." I said half cheerfully half sarcastic.
"Anytime, maybe one day you might even last thirty seconds when im half trying." He said smugly.
"One day i'll defeat you, or at least get you to try." I replied.
"Well until that day comes, you better train harder." He stated.
I had nothing to respond with so I said nothing. I took a moment to loosen myself up and then got into a ready stance. It was time to train my reaction time, reflexes, and sensing abilities.
Ashina stood across from me, holding a few red rubber balls. And without warning he started to throw them at me. I had to either block, dodge, or reflect them back at him. Sense we were in the corner of the room he was able to bounce them off the walls and have them come at my blind side thus making me work on predicting and being able to sense the danger coming. It was painful to say the least.
After that was done I did some stretching then spent the next hour meditating. When I was done I loosened myself up and walked over to where Ashina was.
"How do you feel? Do you feel the effects of the seals?" He asked.
I didn't respond right away, instead focusing on myself and how I felt. It took me a few minutes to realised the difference from before.
"I don't feel sore or achy from the day before and the bruises from our spar are already started to heal." I stated at last.
"Sounds like the seals are working as expected then." He replied.
"So anything you want to work on specifically in the coming months?" Ashina asked.
"Yeah, I would like to start training with weapons." I said.
"Well then let's head over to the armory and find something you like." Ashina said as he headed off towards the exit. I followed him and a few short minutes later we found ourselves in the armory. It was then that a thought had just occurred to me.
"Why doesn't anyone try to break free? They have access to all kinds of weapons and all we do here is train to fight and then actually fight." I asked him as we walked the rows of weapons.
"Because those strong enough feel like freedom isn't worth being hunted for the rest of their lives and the ones who try aren't strong enough to succeed." Ashina informed me.
I mused over what ashina said while browsing the weapons. I stopped walking to look at a polearm that was resting on a rack. It was simple yet elegant in design. It had a crescent blade on each side with a spear tip in the center. I grasped the shaft and lifted it off the rack, getting a feel for it's heft before I let the wooden shaft thump against the wooden floor.
"There are no chains that will hold me back. I will escape from here." I stated firmly.
"Those are dangerous words to say around here kid." A deep gravelly voice stated from behind me.
I turned around to see a large old man with a forging apron on put some swords on a rack.
"I was born a free man and I will die a free man." I replied definitively.
"No one has ever escaped for a reason." He said in response.
"Then I'll be the legend that was the exception." I answered.
"I'll believe it when I see it." He huffed.
"Then don't die too soon old man, I'll give you something to see." I smirked at him.
He answered by laughing. "You better keep your word kid because i'd hate to see your potential go to waste." With those words said he left, going back over to where the forge was.
"Come, let's get you started on some kata's for your polearm." Ashina said walking out of the armory.
I hefted my weapon onto my shoulder and followed him out. The rest of the day was spent with me learning the few basic katas Ashina knew along with getting used to the weight and feel of my weapon.
The next few weeks that followed had me doing vastly more training training during the day. I could now handle more physical training with the seals healing me and with ashina teaching me how to draw on my chakra for energy. It was on one such afternoon that I was sparing with ashina that we were interrupted by a guard.
"You fight tomorrow kid, one on one match." He said quickly then left.
Ashina and I walked over to a nearby tree and sat down instead of continuing the spar. It was already late in the afternoon and with an upcoming match I needed all my strength and chakra. Even though I recovered fast I still wanted to take the evening easy. I spent the rest of the afternoon meditating after a short cooldown. We ate dinner silently and then went to bed right away. It was going to be a big day tomorrow and I was already incredibly nervous.
The following morning I woke to butterflies in my stomach.
My second fight will be happening soon and I have no idea what to expect. This could be my last fight and all my hard work would have gone to waste.
Ashina seemed to notice my nervousness and spoke up.
"It will be alright. This isn't a death match, there is much less chance you will die. Just show them your best and please the crowd." He said smoothly.
His words helped some but the nervous feeling I had didn't back down much. The butterflies in my stomach calmed and so did the shaking but it was still present, just like it was last time.
I suppose i'll have to learn to deal with it. I was able to calm down right before my last fight started so I know I can do it again.
Breakfast went by fast and afterwords I spent the morning meditating and doing some light exercises to prepare myself for my fight.
It wasn't long until I found myself standing across from my opponent in the arena. A calmness spread through my body that I was all too familiar with from my last life.
It's do or die time now and there ain't no time for mistakes.
My opponent was a kid a few years older than me, in his early teens if I had to guess. Just from the way he carried himself and the arrogant smirk on his face I could tell he was good, or at least experienced in winning. But I didn't let that throw me off and instead I just raised an eyebrow in a nonverbal reply.
"Hey motherfucker, you ready to dance because I'm about to throw your bitchass around this arena like it's going outta style." I taunted arrogantly. His face went from arrogant confidence to pure rage instantly. I saw his mouth open to respond but was interrupted by a guard starting the match.
He launched himself at me instantly, forcing me on the defensive right off the bat. I ducked under a flying roundhouse kick then dodged back from his follow up kick. With both feet now planted on the floor he used his fists to try and beat my face in. I dodged or blocked his attacks at the last moment, getting grazed more than I would like due to his superior speed and clear advantage in skill. Ashinas agility training was the only reason I wasn't taking direct hits.
Unfortunately for him I could clearly tell he didn't have near the stamina and raw power that I was graced with. I stepped to the side and ducked back from a kick to my face, then enhanced my chest with chakra and took his follow up kick right to my side. The hit hurt but I used that moment where he couldn't escape to throw a chakra enhanced punch right in his armpit. The blow landed and sent him reeling forcing him to rapidly back away from me to recover.
It was time to use my vastly superior chakra reserves to my advantage.
"Firestyle: Grand fireball jutsu:" I yelled out after going through the necessary hand seals. A massive fireball blew from my mouth right at my opponent.
"Water style: Water wall!" I heard him shout out just before my fireball hit him.
The collision of both jutsu caused an explosion of steam to cloud my vision. I created three two shadow clones who each used a wind jutsu to clear the steam before dispelling themselves.
My opponent was standing across from me, going through a series of hand seals. I immediately started on my own and finished just as he finished his.
"Water style: water bullets!" He called out, multiple water bullets leaving his mouth aimed right for me.
"Lightning style: Lightning strike!" I yelled out, throwing a small ball of lightning at him.
My jutsu collided with the first water bullet then proceed to jump to the others before going right to him. At the last moment he dodge and then ran at me.
Lightning style: Amp!
I charged lightning through my body, ready for another round of taijutsu. He came at me with his fist aimed for my face. Instead of dodging I sent my fist out to meet his, the lightning burning through my body giving me the boost I needed to match his strength.
Out fists met with a thump that I felt all through my body and could immediately tell my hand was broken but there was nothing I could do about it now.
The regret for this poor decision is immense.
The expression on his face gave away that he must have also gotten hurt and he seemed to be holding back with his right arm which was the one I had hit before. I drew my fist back and threw a punch aimed for his head but he simply ducked and countered with a punch that hit me right in the chest. The breath was knocked out of me and he used my moment of weakness to kick me in the head, sending me to the floor.
I laid motionless for a moment on the floor, trying to gather my bearing when my senses started to scream at myself to move. I rolled to the side just in time to avoid an axe kick that cracked the ground slightly. I jumped up off the floor and went through some hand seals again while I backpedaled to give myself some room.
"Lightning style: Lightning bolt!" I yelled out as a bolt of chakra laced lightning was thrown from my hand. He was too close to dodge, hitting him right in the chest causing him to freeze up. I used that moment to chanel as much lightning chakra through my body as I possibly could, the pain of it becoming a very real distraction.
Lightning hand!
I shot forward, my hand encased in lightning and aimed right for his throat. He watched as I came in for the kill, his eyes wide with fear as he stood there unable to move. I looked him dead in the eyes as I stopped with my hand merely touching his throat and giving him another shock.
"Dead." I stated simply, panting from exhaustion. This fight was hard. I stopped channeling my lightning chakra and the difference was almost immediate. The pain was near debilitating, but I held myself together long enough for them to declare me the victor.
With the last of my willpower I channeled some chakra through my body to numb the pain and walked out through the gate I had entered. I could feel the healing seals actively working to numb the pain and fix what they could but it was all I could do to keep on walking. By the time I made it to the courtyard I was dead on my feet. Ashina was waiting for me and picked me up before I even had a chance to collapse.
"Rest kid, you deserve it." He said softly. I closed my eyes and was asleep instantly.
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I slowly woke up, quickly realizing I was in the infirmary. My eyes slowly opened themselves but closed due to the bright lights. It took a few more minutes until my eyes adjusted enough to do a visual inspection of myself and my surroundings.
I had a cast on my right hand with my other hand being wrapped but the rest of me seemed normal. I felt some pain from my hands and my body ached a bit but overall I was feeling pretty good.
"I see you're awake now." I heard Ashina say as he made his way over to me.
"It would appear that I am." I replied. He smiled at my smartass response.
"Congratulations on your win, two wins in a row is a good place to be for your first two fights." He said.
"Yeah well I still have the issue of how taxing and painful channeling my lightning chakra is. The costs realistically out way it's benefits. I was just lucky that it worked out for me. I can't fight for very long if my techniques hurt me as much as they help." I said slightly angry and annoyed.
"We can work on that in due time. But for now it is building your pain tolerance so just toughen up a bit. It's unlikely that your life will be on the line in any of your next few matches so you got some time to train." He informed me smoothly.
It seemed a bit cold of him but at the same time it put things into perspective for me. He's been through all this before so he knows the likelihood of anything happening. I've never been through something like this; it was time for me to toughen up and push through or I would die.
"Thank you Ashina for everything." I said after a few moments of silence.
"Don't thank me yet kid. First let's figure out how to properly channel your chakra nature through your body and then you can thank me. Considering this is even harder than what tsunade senju does with her super strength I would say we are a long time away from being able to celebrate anything." He stated flatly.
"Then there is no use sitting around, let's get started." I replied with a smirk on my face.
"Eager to get started are we?" Ashina questioned chuckling.
"More like eager to die but who's keeping track of things like that." I said sarcastically. Ashina let out a small worried chuckle
I made my way out of the bed and did a few stretches to get a feel for my condition. My muscles felt a bit tight but overall it wasn't too bad. We made our way out of the infirmary and back to our room which meant that it must have been late in the evening.
I sat down on my sleeping mat and started to meditate. There wasn't much to do besides sleep and meditation always made me feel better. It wasn't long before I opened my eyes and realised I had fallen asleep and it was already morning.
I stood up and stretched, yawning the sleep from my mind.
"How does it feel to sleep when you meditate?" Ashina asked suddenly, breaking the silence. It wasn't the first time I had fallen asleep while meditating but it was the longest I had been asleep before. Usually I woke up, at most, a few hours later feeling well rested but this time it was all through the night.
"It doesn't really feel like anything. The longer i've practiced meditation and working in using natural energy, the more intune I become with myself and the world around me. It's like a peaceful song that only I can ever hear. It's something I can't quite describe with words, something you really have to experience to understand." I said thinking back on all the time I've spent meditating. It was definitely something I enjoyed to do the more I did it and I didn't understand why until just now.
It's weird how explaining it opened my eyes to why I liked to meditate when it was something I couldn't bring myself to do in my last life.
"Interesting." Was all Ashina said.
The next week went by slow, my training was toned down to give time for my hand to heal. I may have been about to heal faster with my new seals and boosts from the small bits of natural energy I get but it still took time to heal broken bones. By the end of the week I was back full force, training myself to exhaustion and beyond. Ashina started to increase the difficulty of my training by the day, forcing me to get better through the continuous beatdowns he gave me in spars and focusing on fine tuning my fighting style with my polearm while also increasing my endurace as much as possible. Through all my physical training I had my clones training with my chakra, focusing on perfecting each and every technique I had available to me while also working on my chakra control. It was exhausting and I never made it to my sleeping matt before I passed out but each day I felt stronger than the last. Over time I realised that the longer I was there, the more I forgot about who I used to be. It was a scary thing to wake up one day and you can't even remember where you came from. I always had this self sense of pride that I knew who I was and stuck by my words. I lived by a code and it's a scary thought to wake up one day and not remember it.
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1 year later
I was in the area once again, having gone an entire year since my last fight. It was a rare occurrence but clearly whoever was dictating things wanted me to get in lots of training before I fought again. My opponent this time was a guy in his mid teens, somewhere around sixteen or seventeen if I had to guess.
My hands shook as we silently stood across from each other. The nervousness that I had before my last fights hadn't gone away yet. If I was to win this fight I had to calm down.
My hand gripped my polearm tightly as I lifted it from my shoulder and slammed the but end on the ground. The familiar thump of it hitting the ground set me just a tad more at ease. I let my eyes close and tried to still my body, so I could go into a standing meditative stance and bring in a small bit of natural energy. At first I couldn't stop snaking from fear and nervousness but after a minutes or so I managed to stop moving.
Within a moment I could feel my opponent more clearly than I could see him. His chakra was controlled, calm, and powerful. Confidence poured from his being without being accompanied by arrogance. This made my nerves act up more but I pushed aside those feelings. I purged all stray thoughts from my mind to solely focus on this fight. If I didn't give my all I would die. There was no backing down, no second chances if I failed.
This is where I will rise up in victory or fall down in defeat. It's do or die with nothing to lose and everything to gain.
My eyes snapped open when I heard the crowd quite down. My right foot shifted back, left arm out, right hand firmly grasping my weapon with the shaft resting against the back of my shoulder and the blade pointed towards the floor. I was in my ready stance just as the match was started.
"Lets dance mother fucker." I taunted.
My opponent came at me instantly with a sword about three feet long. It came down in an overhead slash that I stepped back to avoid while bringing my blade to bear with an upward slash. He quickly sidestepped my slash and came at me again. I used the momentum of my weapon to twirl it around and parry his slash.
The most important part of my style is to be able to redirect my opponents weapons and quickly counter. It was of similar style to my taijutsu, primarily reactionary like say the uchihas interpreter fist but better and didn't require their dojutsu.
Each slash or stab that came my way was redirected but it quickly became evident he was more skilled than me. I had multiple cuts already from many parrys that came to late or being too slow to fully dodge.
I took a step back and brought the shaft down to parry a slash then followed up by bringing my weapon down on his arm. Unfortunately my gripped slipped slightly making me overreach. That mistake was quickly taken advantage of and before I realised it I was unarmed and sent flying into the arena walls. The impact knocked the breath from my lungs and had my head spinning. It took me a moment to get my bearing and breath back but when I did I noticed a lethal wave of water heading right for me.
Just before it hit I brought my hands up and a barrier of pure chakra spring to life. The impact jarred my arms, cracked the barrier, and had me straining to keep it up but it didn't break. When the water stopped coming I took a moment to survey my surroundings and catch my breath. Apparently my opponent wasn't expecting me to have survived his attack because his face showed all kinds of surprise.
"That all you got? I've seen trees more threatening than you!" I shouted out with a smile on my face, a small trail of blood dripping from the corner of my mouth.
I really should stop taking enjoyment from my horrible insults.
I took a few steps from the wall and waited for him to come to me. I did enjoy using my polearm but I didn't have quite the talent I had when in hand to hand combat. This time when he came at me I was more prepared and much more skilled in my movements.
I drew two small knives from the small of my back and held them in an ice pick grip. He came at me with a slash to my midsection that I parried. Before I could counter his sword was coming back for a slash to my legs that I jumped over then ducked under the follow up slash to my head.
He came at me relentlessly, not giving me any opportunity to attack. But that's ok because my style was more reactionary than anything.
It was a few minutes after he first started to attack me that I started to set up a plan. I side stepped a thrust, used the knife in my right hand to push his weapon wide, and then countered with a slash to his side in the same motion.
This move left my side open which he tried to take advantage of but I was already moving. I put up a flimsy block with my left hand that sent my knife flying high into the air but stopped the attack. I pushed off the ground the used the wall to my back to launch a kick at my opponent that connected squarely with his chest and forced him back.
He recovered quickly and tried to slash down at me but my foot connected with his wrist and forced him to let go of his weapon. As it fell I used my momentum to lunch it at him with a kick. He dodged to the side then did a leg sweep that I flipped over and as I was coming down I channeled lightning chakra to the heel of my foot that transferred to my airborne knife and sent it flying right for him. It was so fast he had little time to dodge and ended up with a nasty cut across the side of his ribs. As I landed I was already channeling lightning chakra to my other knife and launched it just as my feet hit the floor.
He was caught off guard and was once again unable to fully dodge my attack which gave him another nasty gash on his face.
After that move I had to take a moment to catch my breath. The amount of chakra and control I had put into the mast few moves along with making a barrier or chakra earlier was extremely taxing. I was panting hard, trying to get my breathing in control to continue this fight.
"You know kid, your pretty good, I clearly underestimated you. But I think now it's time I take this fight seriously. Don't take it personally, but you won't be leaving here alive."
Well this is going to hurt.
He launched himself at me with renewed vigor, his speed easily doubled what it was before. I ducked his initial kick to my head but had to block his follow up. Even with enhancing my limbs with chakra i was barely able to hold up.
His strength quickly outmatched mine, forcing me to use chakra to block and dodge his attacks. A quick combo of punches and kicks sent me flying back and i was forced to hastily put up a chakra barrier to try and block his water jutsu. My barrier merely slowed down his attack which sent me right into the wall with near bone crushing force.
My head was spinning and it was a fight to stay conscious. Vaguely I could hear the soft pattering of my opponent's feet as he walked over to my downed form. I knew I wasn't going to live so it was time for one last move, if I wasn't going to live, neither was he.
"You were a worthy opponent, but unfortunately for you, your life ends here. Such a shame really, you hold so much potential." He stated, looking down on my with pity in his eyes.
"Any last words?" He asked me, his sword read to end my life.
"Yeah, see you in hell." I spit out.
He raised an eyebrow before he felt the amount of chakra I started to release. His sword went through my chest but it was already too late.
"Check mate." I muttered with a bloody smile.
There was a flash of pain as I released all my chakra in a violent explosion. Then nothing…
A/N: So for those of you who have reached this far, thanks for reading, I hope you have enjoyed the story so far. Im sorry its taken so long to post another chapter but I couldnt decide how I wantes this one to end and then life caught up with me for a while. But anyways I do have some plans for this story and it will be very lengthy. If you have any ideas or suggestions feel free to leave a comment or pm me directly, im open to ideas and criticism.
Hope yall all have a good one my friends, Wilson out.