Naruto – The Series
Disclaimer: See previous chapters..
A/N: Ok, it will be all fights and flashbacks from here… I hope you'll enjoy. I don't know why, but I can't wait to write the Sasuke- Neji fight.. oh well… Enjoy!
There Where When is Now
Chapter 14
"So.. this is what it feels like, huh? It actually feels pretty good to be the Hokage here…" Tsunade said. She glanced sideways at several Jounins and ANBU. "Seems there's no other Hokage from another Village here.."
Beside her, Genma stood. "Hokage-sama, It seems in the Sand Village they still have to decide on the Kazekage ever since the death of the previous one. And uh, that man over there.. " Genma said, frowning. "Is the IshiKage.. The Hokage of the Stone Village."
Tsunade, slightly blushing, coughed. "I knew that!" Another cough followed. 'Heh, I quite enjoy the matches up until now. Let's see who's next..'
Chouji sighed as he took his place beside his teacher Asuma Sarutobi. 'Wow… that was a pretty hectic match.. I can't believe I won.. even though I used the pills..'
"Oy, Chouji! Nicely done!"
Chouji's eyes widened as he looked behind him and saw his best friend, Shikamaru, stand there. "Really, man, nice job, ok?"
Chouji smiled. "Thanks, Shikamaru!"
Asuma grinned as he watched his two students talk. He then glanced sideways, at his little nephew. 'Shigeru has grown a lot… I wonder how the kid fights.. Seems my brother trained him good, as he told, that is…'
"Up until now, only Leaf Genins have advanced, heh. What if all other Genins will already be beaten in the first round?" Gai asked. "That would be quite something, ey?"
Kakashi shook his head. "Not really, since most participants are Leaf Genins.. But the next match is between a Sand and a Stone Genin. So what you told won't be possible anyway." Kakashi smiled as he watched Naruto and Sasuke, who stood before him. 'I have a great team once this Chuunin Exam is over.. I don't think Naruto or Sasuke are ready to become Chuunin… But if they are.. I won't be their teacher anymore.. They will have so much more freedom then.. Best to ask the Hokage to give them lots of missions..' Kakashi thought, chuckling in his own thoughts.
"Would the two people, Kankurou and Dobei Heki, enter the battleground?"
"Finally, the next match!" Naruto cheered. 'Wait a minute, if Sasuke's here, he could be copying all kinds of jutsu's while watching the battle.' Naruto thought, but smiled as he remembered something Jiraiya told him once..
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"Oy, Naruto.. You know, there's another good thing about your red chakra.." Jiraiya said as they were seated against a tree. They were on the way to the Sand Village and Neji was currently training himself.
"What? What is it, then, Ero-Sennin?"
Jiraiya smiled. "Well.. once you use your red Chakra, which you should only use when your blue Chakra proves insufficient, then you acquire a lot of speed and strength."
Naruto frowned. "I know that already!"
Jiraiya put up a hand. "I wasn't finished. Once your red chakra is involved in your fighting style, a Sharingan won't be able to copy anything you're using.. and a pair of Byakugan eyes would be blinded because of the dark red chakra.. This is your specialty, Naruto.. use it wisely.."
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"Let the Match… Begin!!" Aoba yelled.
Kankurou checked his chakra strings as his opponent also seemed to check something before attacking. "Oy, what are you waiting for?" Kankurou asked.
Dobei suddenly grinned evilly as a brick was ripped from the wall next to Kankurou and was heading straight for Kankurou's head. Kankurou ducked and avoided the brick. The brick simply fell down on the ground. "Heh, I can control all kinds of stones with my Chakra. But that isn't my way of attacking, though." Dobei said as he performed several seals.
"Nijuu Ishi Tanken!!"
This certain Jutsu made two Stone daggers appear in both Dobei's hands. And then he made a clone.
"Ishi Bunshin no Jutsu!"
A Stone Clone. And the Clone was holding two daggers as well.
Kankurou frowned. 'Strange.. I guess I'll have to penetrate.. with Poison.' Kankurou thought, shrugging. "Kugutsu no Jutsu!"
Dobei and the clone tilted their heads, before also shrugging and attacking Kankurou and his puppet. Kankurou chuckled as his puppet shot off two arrows filled with poison. Unfortunately for Kankurou, both Dobei and the clone dodged the arrows simply by increasing their speed. Now they both were advancing fast towards Kankurou. 'Damn, he's a bit faster than I expected. Oh well…'
Kankurou smiled as his doll, Karasu, suddenly began spinning its head. Kankurou jumped back and left Karasu where it was standing. The real Dobei followed Kankurou, while the clone chose to destroy the dull. This was all happening in great speed. Karasu was still spinning its head and as soon as the clone came close, Karasu released a gust of poison gas around it through its mouth. The Clone, still being consisted out of human organs, reacted as any human would. He fainted and disappeared.
Dobei landed in front of Kankurou and chose for a simple chop to the head, but Kankurou ducked and rolled backwards. Dobei continued his assault by hanging back his fist, jumping towards Kankurou and hitting him. Kankurou blocked Dobei's strike with trouble. 'Jeez, this guy's really strong.' Kankurou said as he rolled backwards because of the blow. While he fell, Kankurou pulled one of his Chakra strings, making Karasu attack Dobei.
Dobei, sensing the movement behind him, chose to use the Stone daggers in his hands, which he didn't use against Kankurou. He suddenly turned around and threw both daggers right at Karasu. Kankurou, expecting as much, made Karasu jump and shoot a dozen of poison arrows straight at Dobei, but all arrow were approaching Dobei in a different speed.
'I see… so this guy can only attack with his dull.. I can easily avoid this attack..' Dobei's eyes widened as he noticed he was stuck to the ground and heard a snicker behind him.
Kankurou chuckled. "Heh. Got you.." The arrows were now hitting Dobei all over his body.
Kankurou chuckled again. "I used Suna Kanashibari on you. I'm disappointed, though, I didn't expect you to actually fall for it. Let me guess, you're the weakest in your team, huh?"
Dobei scowled right before the effects of the poison were kicking in.
Aoba frowned. 'That was rather…. boring..' He sighed as he watched up towards the crowd and the Hokage. "The Fourth Match is over!! Winner: Kankurou!"
Kankurou calmly walked up the stairs. 'My next match is against the fatty… I know all I need to know about him.. But I'm guessing poison won't work on him, since he uses all kinds of pills.. I'll have to think about this.. a fast way to win…'
"Ok.. the next match is Gaara versus Aburame Shino!" Aoba announced loudly. 'I hope this battle will be more entertaining..'
Shino and Gaara stood, facing each other and analyzing each other. Aoba smiled, as he knew both were very strong. "Well, Begin!"
Gaara put up all his defences, all three of them. He immediately thought of using Suna Otori, but chose to see what Shino could do before using it.
Shino, in the meantime, was preparing an attack by making the bugs in his body move to their positions. "Ekisu Konchuu!" Suddenly a huge pack of bugs went flying from Shino's body, towards Gaara's body.
'So.. his bugs can fly already? That's a pretty fast development.' Neji thought as he observed the battle. 'Hmm, this attack has the same pattern my Sanmai no Jutsu has..'
Gaara calmly looked at the fast approaching bugs. 'How stupid..' Gaara looked over at Shino and sighed. "Sabaku Kyuu!"
Shino jumped away and saw that the sand hand Gaara formed went straight through the bugs he sent. 'A small price to pay…. At least he was distracted..' Shino frowned however, since he saw an error in his plan. 'Of course, his Sand Shield…'
A great number of bugs had appeared behind Gaara and were now bouncing against Gaara's Shield of Sand. Gaara frowned as he didn't notice that Shino had put bugs behind him. But, it didn't matter. "Is that all you've got?"
Shino tiled his head to the side. "Overconfidence… is a flaw you have.. Konchuu Bakuhatsu!"
Weirdly enough, Gaara smiled.. and Shino noticed before the bugs that have gathered around Gaara exploded. The explosion was even bigger than the one Seki Tanjou's explosion in the Seki Vs. Chouji Fight. After the smoke cleared, Shino saw that Gaara didn't even have a speck of dust on him.. This made Shino worry a great deal. 'He has become even better.. Than I shall give him my all..'
"Taiyuu Konchuu!!"
Nothing happened after Shino performed the seal, to Gaara and to many others. But Neji saw what happened. 'That's a strange Chakra inside his body… what does it mean?'
Gaara frowned, since he was waiting for an attack. 'What a useless guy..' Gaara closed his eyes. "Suna Shuurajou!!"
Temari's and Kankurou's eyes widened. 'H-He's going to kill him!' Temari thought.
Out of Gaara's gourd, much sand was released all around Gaara and Shino. Shino watched on when he noticed the sand stopped spinning around and above him. And then, the sand hardened and from all corners, huge sand spikes went straight through Shino's body.
On onlooker would be wide-eyed and open-mouthed, as most were. But if you looked a little longer, you'd notice a strange thing. As Gaara withdrew the sand spikes from Shino's body he too noticed it. Shino was unscathed. Even his clothes weren't ripped apart. Gaara frowned. 'What kind of body has he?'
Shino's body had just been penetrated by dozens of hardened sand spikes. And he was perfectly fine. "I can tell you're confused.. as expected. Let me explain, I performed a seal but nothing happened. My Taiyuu Konchuu is my own advanced technique. To verify, I made my own bugs advanced. And now my entire body is consistent of a million bugs, and I really mean, my entire body. Which includes my clothes, by the way."
'Damn, it will be hard for him to find a girl…' Tsunade thought as she listened.
Gaara snorted and continued with an evil grin. "I see.."
Shino suddenly appeared beside Gaara and rammed hard through his Shield of Sand against his Sand Barrier. Gaara frowned. 'He's gained a lot of power..'
'So, this is why my Bug Explosion failed, he has another defence…' Shino thought. He continued ramming, through the Shield of Sand, against the Barrier of Sand. It seemed to be useless, since Gaara had another defence behind this Barrier as well. His Armor of Sand.
As Shino was attacking Gaara, in a similar way Lee was attacking Gaara in the previous Chuunin Exam, Gaara noticed the Shield of Sand was useless and used that amount of Sand to use another Jutsu. "Sabaku Sukasshu!!"
Shino noticed the sand was surrounding him from all sides, there was no escape. He couldn't use Kawarimi no Jutsu since there was nothing but sand. Perhaps he could attack the sand and penetrate it, since this sand was also used for the Shield of Sand and he proved he could penetrate that. With logic on his side, Shino attacked the sand and fell right through it, making Gaara getting more annoyed.
"Hmm.." Gaara mumbled. 'If he attacks, I can't attack him.. if I defend he can attack me, but that's useless. If I attack, my Suna no Sekisho is disabled. I guess I'll use..' Gaara chuckled. "Is this all you've got? There isn't enough… spark.. in this fight.."
"Suna Bakuhatsu!!"
From the sidelines, Kakashi frowned. 'It's all explosions, nowadays.. everyone has a Bakuhatsu attack…'
Shino's eyes widened. 'This will be a huge explosion, knowing his chakra… if it weren't for his own defences he'd probably die… What can I do?'
The explosion came with a very loud bang. The entire arena trembled from the blow. Gaara and Shino were both flailing opposite directions and landed on the ground.
As the dust cleared, Gaara had his hands folded and was simply… standing there.. While Shino was out cold… 'Hmm, this guy is pretty strong.. a normal person would have died..' Gaara thought.
'Whoa.. this arena won't live long if it goes on like this..' Aoba thought. "The Fifth Match has ended!! The winner is Gaara!
Members of the Konoha medical team sprinted towards the unconscious Shino and carried him away on a stretcher.
"Now, on to the next match!! Sarutobi Shigeru Versus Inuzuka Kiba!!"
'Sarutobi?' Tsunade thought. 'He's related to the Third? Man, I must learn to pay more attention from now on..'
'Well, let's see how good you are, then..' Asuma thought as he saw Shigeru jump down.
Naruto smiled as he saw Kiba and Shigeru jump down to the arena. "Shigeru!!! Kick his FREAKIN' ass!!"
'Jeez, and to think I rooted for that guy in the previous Chuunin Exam..' Kiba thought as he glared at Naruto. "Shut the hell up, Naruto!"
Shigeru smiled. 'My opponent is very similar to Naruto… in any case, this opponent doesn't think too much in a battle, so my Genjutsu is EXTRA effective.'
Aoba and Tsunade exchanged a glance and a nod. "Let the match begin!!"
Shigeru performed a single handed seal. "Genjutsu, Otori!"
Kiba narrowed his eyes, as he thought nothing had happened at all. That was, until his dog Akamaru softly barked. Kiba, as he heard the bark turned around and rammed Shigeru full in the face. "Idiot! You put Chakra all over my eyes, but you forgot Akamaru's eyes! You really are a total idiot!!"
Shigeru rubbed the sore spot on his cheek as he rose from the ground. "Heh, I guess I underestimated you… a bit."
"This time your Chakra won't touch me!" Kiba screamed as he began to run at Shigeru.
Shigeru smiled as he performed another Jutsu. "Fukyuu Hidari!!"
Kiba paused in his sprint to see Shigeru to his left, as he turned to his left to begin running at him again, he noticed Shigeru had again moved to his left. 'What? When did he become this fast?' Kiba thought and even Akamaru seemed confused at this.
"What's wrong? Can't attack me?"
Kiba narrowed his eyes at Shigeru, who was standing to his left, yet again. 'What's going on? He keeps appearing at my left, even when I turn..' Kiba suddenly turned right to attack Shigeru from the other side, but once again he saw Shigeru to his left.. 'What the hell!?'
On the sidelines, the Jounins all smiled and the more advanced Genins as well. 'Well, his opponent is rather thick-headed, but he won't win with that alone..' Asuma thought.
Kiba gritted his teeth in annoyance. "Oy, what the hell do you think you're doing?! I will rip you apart!!" Kiba yelled before again running as fast as he could towards Shigeru. But Shigeru kept appearing to Kiba's left, much to Kiba's frustration.
Suddenly, Akamaru and Kiba both stopped in their tracks. And both used their nose… And that's when Kiba chuckled. "I see.. You're… right there!!" He said as he suddenly threw several Kunai right at a, to Kiba, invisible Shigeru.
Shigeru ducked and barely dodged the Kunais and crouched on the ground. "How did you…?"
Kiba pointed towards his nose. "You can't deceive the nose, man! And neither his!" He said, aiming at Akamaru. "Let's continue!" Kiba suddenly grabbed two soldier pills, took one himself and fed Akamaru one. Akamaru turned red and then transformed into Kiba. "Well, let's begin again!"
Shigeru narrowed his eyes as he saw two very angry Kiba's. 'Hmm, I knew you'd pull something like this.. Now what to do?'
"Gatsuugaa!!" Shigeru heard the attack and already knew of it. He quickly used Kawarimi no Jutsu with a brick that Dobei had used in the previous battle. Kiba continued his attack with another Piercing Fang.
Shigeru used a seal that had an influence on the whole spinning move Kiba and Akamaru were using as they were approaching him. "10 Times faster!!" Shigeru screamed as he made Kiba and Akamaru feel like they were spinning ten times faster. To Shigeru's surprise Kiba and Akamaru didn't seem effected. Shigeru quickly leaped to the side, avoiding being hit by Kiba and Akamaru, who now dug a small hole in the ground and then bounced back.
"You underestimate me!" Kiba yelled as he pointed at Shigeru. 'Still, if he used that move when I would be moving at my top speed, I would be screwed. I have to pay attention with this guy, he's a sneaky one.. Well, time to go a little more out then..' Kiba thought as he grinned. "Kyouran Kougeki no Jutsu!" As Kiba made his own Chakra expand and surround his entire body, Shigeru's eyes widened.
'What? What's he up to? This way, it won't be able to reason with him…' Shigeru thought. 'But it's a perfect opportunity to test my Genjutsu..' Shigeru performed his seals, but as he was doing so, he was interrupted by Akamaru, who was still in his Kiba-shape. "Shit!" Shigeru jumped backwards, after getting hit in the face by Akamaru once.
Meanwhile, Kiba chose this time to rush forward towards Shigeru.
'Shit… they're fast when they're like this.. Guess I'll have to..' Kiba fazed right through Shigeru, but as he used his previous Jutsu, thereby losing most of his self-control he continued attacking the illusion Shigeru left behind. Akamaru, watching it, used his nose to find the real Shigeru and draw him out. He was confused when he smelled nothing.
'Interesting Genjutsu the kid has… Even a Jounin would be confused for a short time..' Kakashi thought.
'Hmm, Even though he's right there, right there in front of Kiba's dog.. they both can't seem to locate him..' Neji thought. 'Genjutsu will always be useless against a Hyuga.. But why can't they see him?'
'Shigeru's using Icchou Fukashi.. To think a Genin could use this high Genjutsu skill… I'm quite impressed.. and he joined it with Sukashie no Jutsu..' Aoba thought as he was staring straight at the invisible Shigeru, who was approaching Akamaru.
Kiba's eyes widened a great deal as he saw Akamaru being knocked down to the ground. Kiba also saw Shigeru appear and the one he was attacking was vanishing. Kiba, in a fit of full rage, turned towards the real Shigeru and appeared behind him in great speed. Shigeru blocked the fist but had to dodge the next attack, as Kiba opened his fists to reveal his claws.
Shigeru jumped back and performed several seals. Kiba calmed down slightly and watched Akamaru turn back to his real form, but still conscious.
"Endoresu Kenro!!"
Sasuke, on the sidelines, smiled as he recognised the attack and noticed as Kiba's body and Akamaru's body were enveloped with Shigeru's chakra with his Sharingan.
Kiba and Akamaru charged forward, or, so it seemed to Kiba and Akamaru. To the other people, they saw a boy and his dog run without moving forward an inch.
Shigeru appeared right in front of Kiba and landed a punch in his gut, grabbed Kiba by the sides of his head and moved his knee upwards, straight in Kiba's face. Kiba landed on his back. Shigeru then turned towards Akamaru, who stood there, barking and running unmoving. Shigeru smiled as he picked up the dog by the tail, swung him around and threw him at the walls of the arena. Akamaru was out cold.
"Sorry, Akamaru.."
Shigeru then turned back to Kiba, who was standing again, after shaking his head and recovering from the blow Shigeru just gave. Suddenly, Kiba looked up at Shigeru with narrowed eyes. Shigeru smiled and approached him slowly. Then, suddenly.. 'Wait.. he doesn't have distance attacks.. right?'
But Shigeru was already too late as Kiba jumped upwards and released a distance attack. "Sankontessou!!"
A yellow sharp blade like beam, like a slash, moved swiftly towards Shigeru's body. Shigeru was hit right on the right side of his body. Kiba smiled as his attack hit Shigeru. Sankontessou is an attack where Chakra is formed into a lethal razor-like attack, and looks like a yellow claw as it moves towards his opponent. Shigeru had several wounds on his body and blood was pouring down from some of them.
"Ugh… that hurt… didn't think you'd have an attack like that…"
Kiba shrugged and tried to move, but still saw it was helpless, he still didn't get closer to Shigeru. "Sankontessou!!"
Shigeru, now prepared, dodged the attack and watched it damage the walls as it roared past him. Kiba released another one and Shigeru barely dodged it. 'I don't have any distance attacks… I guess I'll have to approach him, and by doing so dodging his attacks.. Or…' Shigeru simply grabbed a few Kunais and threw them at Kiba.
"Sankontessou!!"
The Kunais were blown away by Kiba's attack. 'Ok… Guess I'll have to throw Kunais right after an attack..' Shigeru thought as he started running towards Kiba. As Shigeru jumped to avoid an attack, he made an error and realised he was more vulnerable in the air. Kiba noticed and immediately released a second one straight after the previous. "Sankontessou!!"
Now, Shigeru was hit in the left arm as he tried to block with his left arm, the attack dug deep in his skin. But he counter-attacked immediately with a dozen Kunais. Kiba was smiling as he hit Shigeru but his tirade was short-lived as he saw the Kunais approach him fast. He was too late for performing another Sankontessou.. And he was still frozen in place by Shigeru's Endoresu Kenro. 'Shit..' And then his body was embedded by a dozen Kunais.. Kiba screamed in pain, before Shigeru appeared right in front of him..
"S-Shit… You got me…"
"Well.. you got me pretty good.. too.." Shigeru said as he coughed up some blood. His left arm had huge slashes in it and his clothes on the right side were torn apart and wounds could be seen through it. Shigeru pulled back a fist and returned it hard in Kiba's face. Kiba fell back and was unconscious..
"This match is now Finished!! Winner: Sarutobi Shigeru!! Now this was a very entertaining match.."
Aoba smiled as he saw Shigeru being helped back up by a worried Naruto. And he saw Kiba being carried on a stretcher. 'In this battle a lot of blood was shed. Oh well, I have waited for the next battle… Let's see how good the genius Neji has become…' Aoba smiled as he faced the crowd. "And the next match!! The last match of the first round!! Rock Lee versus Hyuga Neji!!"
'Alright, Lee.. The time has come… time to prove a genius can lose from another who's not a genius…' Lee glanced over at Neji, who was calmly walking down the stairs. 'This will be a tough battle… but a lot has happened since we fought.. I've improved so much, I will show him..'
'Lee… I know all of your moves.. Including your capability of opening those gates.. but it won't matter, you still won't penetrate my defence.' Neji thought as he stood right before Aoba.
"Good luck, Lee!!" Gai yelled as he gave his student a thumbs up. "Show me your best!!"
Meanwhile, in the crowd…
"So what do you think so far?"
"Mediocrity… The only ones who can actually become talented are Naruto and Gaara.. I think that that Hyuga kid has great potential as well…"
"Hmm.. I don't know, he has a curse seal and can therefore easily be defeated.."
Itachi glanced sideways at the man who was in disguise, but was really Dareda Hyuga. "The Hyuga Curse seal.. can you activate that seal?"
Dareda nodded his head slowly. "Of course, I am from the Main Family.. But I was against that Curse seal.. And so far I haven't found a way to disable the seal.."
Itachi looked as Neji and Lee stood face to face in the arena. "Well… leave it to a genius to figure that out.."
Dareda smiled. "Indeed.. I will succeed.."
"Let the match begin!!" Aoba yelled..
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TBC..
A/N: Heh, you like the cliff-hanger? I'm actually nervous about writing the battle between Neji and Lee, since it's a very important battle. Sorry that I made Shigeru hurt Akamaru like that, sorry to all Akamaru-lovers. Anyways, I hope you've enjoyed yourself reading this chapter. In the next chapter I'll also write about the hunt of Jiraiya and Hiashi on Orochimaru… Itachi and Dareda have more conversations during the Chuunin Exam. Hehe, If you've followed the story, you know who\s up against who in the next round. Who do you want to win? Who do you want to lose? It won't matter that much, since I got it already planned out, but it would be great to know your opinions. Anyway, I'm signing off, I'm gonna watch Bruce Almighty, haven't seen that one yet… Buh-bye..
Uhmm, if you want explanations of the techniques in this chapter… I've literally translated English words into Japanese using a English-Japanese site., but I'll explain if you want me to, in the next chapter.
