So there's a new chapter!
I actually ended up struggling with making two chapters in a week, but well, I guess I at least had something to do. Anyways, I hope you enjoy today's chapter and on we go!
Disclaimer:
I do not own DB nor do I own Naruto, all the credits go to Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball) and Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto).
Neji had noticed the disappointment from his teacher, but he wasn't able to care less, seeing him as a loser even despite the fact that he was a Jounin. On his back, a furious Nobuyuki was staring at him, and even though the genius knew it, he ignored him. Yakumo grabbed her teammate by the shoulder, snapping him out of his anger. The genjutsu prodigy shook her head gesturing her disapproval of what he was doing, which got her a nod as a response. The half-Hyuga turned back to the arena, where Hayate was already announcing the next contenders. Now it was him who put his hand in her teammate's shoulder as her name was called.
"Yakumo Kurama and Rock Lee." Hayate called, making Lee celebrate the arrival of his turn in the matches.
The taijutsu expert jumped directly from the platform, landing in the arena and waving at Hayate, who just raised his eyebrow in response. Yakumo was way calmer than Lee, as she just went down through the stairs, keeping a slow pace as she was a bit nervous. Guy, just as with the rest of his students, was hiding the wish to cheer for them, as it had been ordered for them to be as neutral as they could be. Genma was feeling the exact same way, as he had just wanted to cheer for Shiho, he really hated this type of orders, but it was his duty as shinobi from the Leaf to obey any orders from the Hokage.
"Wouldn't it be amazing if Yakumo also went through the next phase?" Genma said as a smile decorated his face, gathering the attention of his students, who nodded back at him in response.
"It would." Shiho said as she turned back at the arena, where her teammate was already facing the one who would be her opponent. I'm guessing she won't let him make a single move without getting him, but we'll see...
Hayate checked both Genin with his eyes before making sure everything was fine. "Go!" Hayate yelled, taking some space between him and the Genin.
Alright... alright... remember Hishiro... Yakumo thought, trying to calm down, before making very gestures with her hand very quickly, which had apparently no effect on Lee, who just continued to get closer.
As soon as the kick met the kunoichi's head, her face turned to one of an ugly bat monster, scaring Lee and causing him to fail his kick, hitting the floor as he wasn't able to react before falling. Lee turned his head while he still was on the floor, checking on the monster he had just seen, figuring that it was just the same girl from before staring directly at him with a seemingly confused face. Lee stood up, thinking he had just hallucinated, finding that the monster was hiding behind the girl, giving him a wide and horrifying smile.
Guy raised one of his eyebrows as he saw the horror Lee had seemed to be in, but yet not being able to see what caused him such fear. Neji could only shake his head in utter disappointment for his teammate.
"Could it be a genjutsu?" Guy asked to himself.
Gohan noticed a sudden downgrade in the girl's energy as a demonic version of herself, which probably had been scaring Lee, materialized. Guy's student was quick to attack the thing out of fear, combining his powerful kicks and blows with his screams. However, the demonic version of the girl seemed to be strong enough to resist the taijutsu expert's blows. This gave Yakumo some confidence that she would normally lack at such important moments, deciding to prepare another genjutsu to support the one he had already created, noticing that her chakra reserves were already low.
Her hands made several gestures once again, not even being noticed by the horrified Lee, who was fighting with almost his full force against the demonic version of the girl. As time passed and the demon-like creature kept receiving blows from the erratic Genin, the creature was starting to go weaker and weaker, not being able to resist the blows anymore. Yakumo noticed this, and hurried with his current supporting genjutsu, which was taking more time to create as the lack of her paintings were causing her problems to give them a proper image.
In the hands of the Kurama clan member, a great and golden spear materialized in her hands, appearing to be quite light as the girl was perfectly able to hold and throw it without looking as strong as you'd need to be to carry such a weapon. Unfortunately for her, Lee grabbed the spear before her creation did and used it to destroy it. The taijutsu expert saw the exact same clothes and hair from the girl, not noticing that her head was still human, and went to attack her. The genjutsu prodigy made desperately made gestures with her hand, materializing a shield that blocked the spear that had been thrown at her, both tools vanshing as soon as they touched each other.
Yakumo, now having run out of chakra, covered herself with her thin and weak arms, hoping to survive the thrash she was about to receive. "I surrender!" she desperately yelled, snapping Lee out of his horrified state and taking some time to analyze the one who was in front of him, finding the girl from the start of the fight covering herself from him.
"Um, alright I guess." Hayate said, being sure that if the girl had been able to cause that many problems to her opponent, she would've perfectly been able to win. "The winner is Rock Lee!"
"Huh?" a confused Rock Lee raised one of his thick eyebrows trying to understand what just had happened, but leaving the arena horrified as he remembered the existance of the demonic creature.
Yakumo just stood up back straight and, disappointed in herself, went back with her team. She was received by a hug from Shiho and a palm in the back by Nobuyuki. Genma gave her a thumbs up in approval for her performance.
"We just need to work in those chakra reserves." the jounin said with a comforting voice.
The screen started to choose between random words, forming two names little by little, finally showing the next two contenders after a couple of minutes. Those names were the ones of Gaara of the Sand and Nobuyuki Hyuga, and although the Hyuga was quite confident in himself after the certain ability he had gained back in the Forest of Death, he didn't know who he was facing. As normal, his team encouraged, which he really appreciated, but when he was already down in the arena, the face of his opponent, emotionless, unsettled him.
"Fight!" Hayate yelled, marking the beginning of the match.
From the start, Nobuyuki imagined he was about to fight someone as talented as Neji or maybe even superior than the Hyuga genius, but at least he was ready for anything. Gaara remained still, staring with emotionless eyes directly at the half-Hyuga. Nobuyuki did not hesitate to take advantage from this lack of movement, dashing at his opponent with his gentle-fist ready, activating his Byakugan in the way. The facts that a Hyuga did not have white eyes and that the Byakugan could only activate in one of his eyes made him really interesting for Gaara, who got ready to block everything he had.
The first palm was instantly blocked from a long distance by a wall of sand that fell apart immediately after blocking his attack and going back to the redhead's pumpkin hanging in his back. The half-Hyuga kept attacking with quick palm hits, failing to land a single blow and earning Neji's laughs as a result. These laughs started to disappear as each palm Nobuyuki tried to deliver became faster than the last one, starting to result in the half-Hyuga's desperation. Gaara remained creepily emotionless during the entire match up until that point, as if the sand was making everything by itself.
Nobuyuki, now on his limit, started to change directions, surrounding a circle of sand that was constantly blocking his attacks, getting him further from Gaara each time he attacked. The farther he found himself from the redhead, the more frustrated he became and the more anger-driven the palms got. His chakra draining and energy goind down, he was finally done with the damn sand, and decided to fight with everything. He tried to emulate the way he activated the Byakugan in his right eye to activate the Sharingan in the other one, finding that something was wrong as he wasn't able to. At that moment, he noticed that the redhead had turned to look at him, also noticing the sand streams that aimed at him, dodging it thanks to his Byakugan.
Despite dodging the first attack, a second stream of sand was able to catch him, proving the disadvantages of possessing just one Byakugan. The sand covered his entire body in a matter of seconds, being followed by it starting to crush him. The now desperate Hyuga activated his sharingan, figuring it out and desperately thinking of a way out of that situation. At that moment, he remembered seeing Sasuke perform his fireball jutsu once, and having been taught about the abilities of the Sharingan in the academy, he decided to try and emulate said jutsu, not thinking about the possible burns he could get as he was trapped in the sand.
"Fire style: Great Fireball jutsu!" The half-Hyuga yelled, being heard from outside the sand and making Kakashi widen his only visible eye as a great fireball came out of the sand, destroying it and giving Nobuyuki the opportunity to escape.
Every Jounin and Genin present in the room, except for Gaara of course, was totally shocked as Nobuyuki emerged out of the sand with a Sharingan in his left eye. His took his burnt gray sweater and threw it away, now only wearing a sleeveless net shirt in the upper part of his body.
"This can't be..." Hayate said, his face still filled with utter shock.
"A Sharingan and a Byakugan...? Is this even possible?" a shocked Might Guy asked Kakashi, receiving a negative response.
Neji watched astonished as the half-Hyuga, the kid he had teased almost his entire life, became the favorite to get the rank of Chunin as he now possessed two Doujutsus. Lee, Naruto, Shikamaru and the rest of the Genin joined Neji in his absolute astonishment. Gohan, while not comprehending the Doujutsus at their full extent, knew both the importance they held in that world and how much it increased the capabilities of a shinobi.
"This ends now." Nobuyuki said as he made the gestures to perform another fire jutsu. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu."
The fire broke through the several walls of sand that raised as the half-Hyuga advanced, although he couldn't last long as his chakra drained too quickly. From there on, he'd have to rely solely in his speed, strength and abilities to dodge the attacks against him. Several walls raised in his way, but he just avoided them and continued his quick advance towards the redhead. Each wall was thicker and larger than the last one, which started to concern the half-Hyuga profoundly, as his way to victory got harder by the second.
Finally, the wall became too large to avoid, which Nobuyuki imagined to require more sand, which made them thinner. He figured that maybe breaking holes out of the walls with his palms could be affordable, which he did. Surprisingly for such a brute tactic, it worked, helping the Half-Hyuga get closer to the redhead, and after some more minutes of running and breaking holes out of the walls, he finally reached his opponent, who stared directly at him with now an angry expression. He got his palm ready, even extended it and he could swear he brushed his hair before being sent away.
He saw it coming, of course he did, he possessed both the Byakugan and the Sharingan, after all. The hit was so strong that it left him nailed in the wall, some bones broken along with his spirit, which had been obliterated more than his physical body after such a defeat. And if the ability of Nobuyuki of activating both the Sharigan and the Byakugan, the way Gaara defeated him like nothing made them even worse. Hayate had to intervene the fight and cut the stream of sand that was about to finish the double-doujutsu warrior.
"You win, but there's no need to continue." Hayate firmly said, giving a serious look to Gaara, who retreated his sand back to the pumpkin in his back. "The fight's already over."
The lizard expert called Genma as he grabbed the barely conscious and bloody genin and, as soon as Genma arrived, handed him over. Shiho and Yakumo followed their teacher to the nursery, not being stopped as they had already fought their matches, great concern painted in their expressions. Gohan could just stare at Gaara, who seemed to calm down again and went back to the platforms. The genin from the Sand were acting like nothing had happened, but the genin from the Leaf were just simply astonished, even fearful, at the way someone as seemingly powerful as Nobuyuki had been thrashed.
Hayate proceeded with the matches, ignoring what had happened. The screen showed the names of the next contenders, giving Hayate something to say after such an event. "Shikamaru Nara and Kin Tsuchi."
Both genin snapped out of their astonishment and went down to the arena, quickly finding themselves facing each other. The Nara had gotten too much time to think about an universal strategy, but he still had to see if it worked in the girl. Hayate gave the signal for the battle to begin. Kin was quick to throw several senbon at Shikamaru, who struggled to dodge them, getting some of them nailed. He grabbed two of his kunai and started dodging the senbon and blocking the ones that were impossible for him to avoid.
After several senbon, there was a moment in which the kunoichi stopped her attack, which Shikamaru used to execute his plan. He was once again interrupted by a senbon attack, now receiving all three of them in his left arm. He ignored the senbon and threw his own kunai, using that as a distraction to catch his signature jutsu.
"Ha! Nice try, rookie." Kin said, being followed by a playful and soft laugh from the Nara.
"Look at your shadow." the confident genin said, grinning as he spoke.
The kunoichi was just in front of the wall, which gave Shikamaru a funnier idea. He grabbed a shuriken from his pocket and threw it to the kunoichi, who followed his movements as the technique forced her to. Although as Shikamaru dodged the shuriken thrown by the kunoichi, she emulated the moves, hitting her head with the wall and falling unconscious.
Hayate resisted his laughter. "The winner is Shikamaru Nara."
Team 10 cheered for their teammate and laughed at how silly the defeat of Kin had been. Team Dosu just facepalmed or looked away from the embarrassing defeat their teammate had suffered.
"Seems we'll all go through, there's only you missing, Chouji." Ino said as the Akimichi nodded back in response.
"I hope I at least do well." Chouji said as he ate his chips.
So that was it for this week! I hope you enjoyed it.
Hope you have a nice day!