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A/N: new version of chapter 10! b/c i didnt like my rough draft. It's mostly the same... fixed several typos, added more commentary for some battles; more explanation for Kyusho Dimmak.
ch 11 is partly written (on paper), so plz wait a little bit more. (plus i have 34 stories to catch up on...)
Seiiryu the destroyer - dark and distrubing... not yet...
Linus Van Pelt - ur right about the Sand-nins, my mistake. fixed in this version.
Heero2001 - dont worry im not going to abandon the story
OpposingForce - i forget things all the time (like the name of my own OC... bows head in shame).
sephynarutocloud - yes i do like "Downfall of the Light"
so many questions about hinata; chapter 11 answers them all.
Chapter 10 – Third Exam
Six days have now passed since the end of the second exam. Nazashi was contemplating deep in the forest, to prepare for the upcoming battle tomorrow.
'Damn it, I need to get the mission over with' thought Nazashi half angrily. 'The problem is that it has to be done in one hit… Get in, do the mission and get out of there and the village. But I really don't need to attract the extra attention of half the village, so it needs to be done stealthily, but I can't even approach the place, so I'm back to the beginning of forceful entry and way too much attention.'
Nazashi has just been wracking his head for several days like this since Itachi's brief appearance. 'I'm getting anxious… something's going to happen tomorrow… something favorable,' mused Nazashi. 'Maybe I should a bit more sleep… it is three in the morning…' and with that Nazashi headed back to his hotel room.
The next day Nazashi showed up to the stadium with as little time to spare as he could without being subject for disqualification. The rest of the ninjas were already there, standing in the middle patiently waiting to start the matches.
As Nazashi got closer he distinctly heard Shikamaru complaining, "Man it's so troublesome that my match is first…" Nazashi had to try very hard not to burst out laughing right there.
He then noticed Sasuke eyeing him suspiciously, 'Hey you're not late this time around!' Nazashi was inwardly amused. 'And is that a small hint of fear that I see in your eyes, Sasuke?' Nazashi kept his cold demeanor while smiling inwardly.
Nazashi looked up to see exactly who would be watching these matches. He, of course, saw the Godaime Hokage (old hag as Nazashi referred to her inwardly), Kakashi 'he's probably here for his prize student' scowled Nazashi, Gai, Kurenai, Sakura 'here for her precious Sasuke-kun,' Shino, Tenten, and several other jounin and chuunin.
'Where the hell is Lee?' wondered Nazashi, but decided to just shrug it off.
"We will now begin the third test of this Jounin Exam" exclaimed Asuma. "The first match is: Nara Shikamaru vs. Sumeto of the Mist. The rest of the fighters please wait up in the waiting room and not the stands."
Shikamaru and Sumeto walked to the opposite ends of the stadium, while the rest of the fighters slowly made their way to the waiting booth.
"Do you think Shikamaru will win?" asked Sakura.
"I know what you're thinking, but he knows when he needs to be serious even if he's lazy the rest of the time" replied Kakashi. "Thought I'm still worried about him, Mist-nin can be very tricky."
Once everyone, minus the current fighters, was up in the waiting room, Asuma yelled "BEGIN!"
The Mist-nin instantly performed a few seals and a thick fog spread out over the entire arena. Unlike Shikamaru, the Mist-nin knew exactly where his opponent was. The Mist-nin pulled out several shuriken and threw them at Shikamaru.
Shikamaru heard the shuriken flying through the air and managed to dodge them, although realizing that he was at a disadvantage. 'Shit if he stays long range like this I have no chance to win.'
The Mist-nin, took out a few more shuriken and while running around his opponent in a circle threw the shuriken at him. Shikamaru of course dodged the first few and instantly figured out what the Mist-nin was doing, hence could easily parry the other shuriken with his kunai.
'So, he's started to move,' thought Shikamaru, 'he'll probably be moving into close range combat soon… I must prepare.' Shikamaru extended his shadow all around him.
'Damn it not enough water around here to do any good water jutsus. I'll have to settle this in close combat,' deduced Sumeto. Again he started running in a circle around his opponent throwing shuriken at him, except this time once he got right behind Shikamaru he lunged straight at him with a kunai.
'He's doing the same trick with the shuriken again, unless he's really stupid he must realize that it doesn't work. So logically he's using this as a distraction to run in a semi-circle and get behind me.' Shikamaru then moved his shadow so that it covered the ground in back of him a lot more than in front.
The Mist-nin, absolutely unaware of the Nara family ability, kept running straight for his opponent with absolute stealth. Just as the Leaf-nin came into view and Sumeto was going to commence his plan, he realized that even though he was supposed to be running that Shikamaru wasn't getting any closer. 'What the hell? I was just running a second ago, could it be genjutsu?' wondered the Mist-nin.
Just as Sumeto was about to move his arms into the proper position to dispel the genjutsu, he found that his arms seemed to be bound by something.
"Gotcha" said Shikamaru in a flat tone, as he turned sideways so that he could see the Mist-nin and the Mist-nin could see him. Before Sumeto could even say anything Shikamaru continued, "Shadow Neck Bind no Jutsu." Sumeto saw the shadowy hand slowly crawl all the way up his body to his neck. The last thing the Mist-nin saw was the coldness of Shikamaru's eyes as his neck snapped.
The mist cleared to show Shikamaru standing over the lifeless body of the Mist-nin, in that same non-caring pose that he usually does.
"Winner: Nara Shikamaru!" yelled Asuma, proud of his student.
'He killed him,' thought Nazashi, 'didn't think Shikamaru had it in him… or maybe something motivated him…' the image of Ino's dead body flashed in Nazashi's head.
Sakura and Tenten gasped, was this really the same Shikamaru they knew. Their Shikamaru seemed to never be able to even win anything except Shougi and Go. But now this, he had killed his opponent mercilessly. 'Could Ino's death have affected him more than we thought?' wondered Tenten.
'Looks like Shikamaru grew up…' thought Gai, 'yet he didn't have to kill his opponent…'
When the arena was once again cleared, Asuma announced, "The next match: Hyuga Hinata vs. Hikoma of the Cloud!"
Both fighters jumped down to the floor of the stadium and stood apart from each other.
"BEGIN!" yelled Asuma.
Hinata instantly activated her Byakugan and went into the Gentle Fist fighting stance. The Cloud-nin remained standing in her loose fighting stance, but prepared herself to throw shuriken and kunai.
Hinata seeing that her opponent wasn't going to attack, decided to jump in and rushed straight for the Cloud-nin. Hikoma instantly threw 3 chakra-enhanced shuriken straight at Hinata and jumped to the side preparing to throw more. Hinata saw that the shuriken had chakra in them, so merely parried them with her chakra-enhanced kunai. However when her kunai connected with the shuriken she felt a slight pang of pain in hand, but decided to ignore it.
The Cloud-nin, meanwhile, noticed Hinata grimace a little when the shuriken connected with the kunai, but happily noted that her opponent didn't understand what had happened. 'Good, the less she knows about my chakra the better, especially since she has the Byakugan.'
Hinata noticed that her opponent seemed to want to stay away from her and would rather fight long range. 'Alright then, I'll just have to increase my speed a little bit more and catch up to her' mused Hinata as she transferred more chakra into her legs.
'So it's true,' thought the Cloud-nin, 'the Hyuga mostly only fight close range and don't really know any long range jutsus.' The Cloud-nin then performed several seals, "Raiton: Lightning Bolt no Jutsu" and from out of her right hand lightning shot forth heading straight for Hinata.
Hinata was forced to stop her assault and dodge to the lightning, which continued straight and eventually hit the wall behind her. Hikoma performed a longer list of seals, "Raiton: Lightning Bolt Strike." Five lightning bolts shots out from Hikoma's fingers.
'Her chakra is being heavily concentrated to her right hand only…' analyzed Hinata, 'I guess that is the only place she can shoot it out from.' Hinata being unable to dodge these simply waited for them to get closer and prepared herself. "Kaiten" she cried once the lightning bolts were close enough and spun around making her chakra form a sphere around her and completely deflecting the lightning.
'Those are pretty low-level lightning jutsus,' commented Nazashi, 'though she seems to have some sort of plan.'
"Kakashi-sensei, how does she shoot lightning out of her fingers like that?" asked Sakura.
"I'm surprised you don't know, Sakura, Could-nin are well known for being able to convert their chakra into electric energy and emit it from their fingers," explained Kakashi.
"Also because they have used lightning for so many centuries, they are naturally born with the ability to generate it," added Kurenai.
As soon as she came out of her Kaiten, Hinata made a rush at the Cloud-nin and managed a clean hit, while the Cloud-nin's shock hadn't worn yet. Hinata managed to hit the Cloud-nin in her right shoulder closing off an opening point, making in impossible to send chakra to the right hand.
'Good I knew she was going to press this one… now to play along with her,' thought Hikoma. She proceeded to make it look like she trying to channel chakra to her arm but failing miserably.
Hinata saw this as an opportunity to do her 64 Hands of the Hakke, and finish off the match. Hinata got into the appropriate stance, but just as she was about to begin her opponent started performing a long list of seals. The most horrifying thing, for Hinata, being that the Cloud-nin was able to channel chakra into her right arm, 'impossible I had just closed it.'
Before Hinata could react, Hikoma finished her seals, put her hands together such that the wrists were touching and fingers were out-stretched and yelled, "Raiton: Spiral no Jutsu."
A bolt of lightning shot out from every single finger and formed together into a spiral, which then shot out at an incredible speed straight into Hinata.
'Lighting Spiral, seen it done by Raiko-sensei… I wasn't able to learn it though. For some reason I can't combine the lightning from my left and right hand with stability,' commented Nazashi.
The Spiral hit Hinata in the middle of the chest, making the rest of her body shudder uncontrollably as the electricity caroused its way through Hinata's body. Considering that the impact came so close to the heart, Hinata had lost consciousness soon after.
"Winner: Hikoma of the Cloud!" said Asuma.
'Any more power or any closer to the heart, and Hinata would have been dead,' thought Nazashi, 'but she wasn't going for a kill.'
Sakura and Tenten were worried for their close friend; they had, not too long ago, lost Ino and they didn't want to lose Hinata too. The medical team rushed to the scene and quickly carried the Hyuga heiress away. Shino was just watching quietly, but internally was also worried for his former teammate.
'That attack seems like a likely candidate for what happened to Kiba and Akamaru. The latter dying instantly from it, but there's not doubt that Kiba took that attack and was killed by something else entirely.' Kakashi contemplated, still trying to figure out who had killed those five Leaf-nin during the first exam.
'Out of eleven we are down to two…' mused Gai, 'however Sasuke's fight is yet to be fought.' Gai grimaced at the thought of what could happen to the Uchiha.
Nazashi could already sense the tension that his and Sasuke's fight was creating, 'wait people, wait; you'll get to see your precious "last survivor of the Uchiha" fall from grace soon enough.' Inside Nazashi was boiling over with killer intent at the young Uchiha, hoping that the next match wouldn't take too long.
"The third match will now take place: Sato of the Sand vs. Kurono of the Snow!" yelled Asuma.
Both participants jumped down and waited for the match to start.
"BEGIN!" yelled Asuma.
Kurono instantly re-gathered the mist from the previous match, except this one was less thick and seemed to swirl around. Suddenly it got colder in the stadium and close to freezing down in the arena.
'Jeez, forcing me to use my chakra to keep warm,' complained Nazashi slightly. 'Well that's a Snow-nin for ya, they specialize in manipulating ice and snow. Sort of like Haku… his bloodline was a cross between a Mist bloodline and a Snow bloodline.'
Meanwhile the Sand-nin found himself shivering, since he wasn't used to cold weather. He tried to use a wind attack to scatter the mist, but only added to the cold. 'Go ahead, keep attacking me with your wind,' thought the Snow-nin, 'my attack is heavily based on wind and unless he figures that out he won't be able to counter. But I better not give the chance anyway.'
Kurono rushed at Sato while performing several seals, when she got close to him she said, "Yukiton: Ice Touch no Jutsu." (A/N: yuki means snow) Kurono began wildly attacking Sato with mostly punches, the one thing the Sand-nin didn't notice was that Kurono's hands changed to a slightly bluish color. After several minutes of a taijutsu fight the Snow-nin backed off from her opponent.
The Sand-nin now noticed that the wherever his opponent struck him with her hands it was slightly frostbitten. Considering that she had hit him all over his arms and upper torso, his movements were impaired quite a bit.
'Everyone seems to have liked my pressure point techniques and is modifying their own styles for a similar effect,' mused Nazashi a little annoyed that his style was being copied. 'They are SO far from the Kyusho Dimmak style, it's just funny.'
Kurono, meanwhile, had already starter performing a long list of seals. When she finished she put her fingers to her lips and whispered, "Yukiton: Ice Shards" and then shots out several dozen small, but deadly, shards of ice in the form of needles. These needles were shot out in a semi-circle that covered the entire half of the arena where the Sand-nin was.
The Sand-nin was already at a considerable disadvantage because of the frostbite and the unrelenting, cold bringing mist that kept swirling around him. He tried to dodge the shards that were flying at him, but was unable to get clear of all of them. He discovered that the place where the Ice Shard hit him became numb, 'Shit! More frostbitten places on my body. I guess I'll have to try it…'
Sato performed a list of hands seals as quickly as he could and yelled, "Fuuiton: Hurricane Winds no Jutsu." An enormous amount of wind hurled itself at the Snow-nin, who immediately tried to dodge. Even though she was able to avoid the bulk of the attack, she was still hit by the side winds and thrown toward the wall.
The Snow-nin managed to turn her body around in mid-air and land on the wall in a crouching position. Not wasting anytime and before more wind could hit her, she ran up the wall and stopped near the top. Looking back at her opponent she once again did a long list of seals and yelled, "Yukiton: Icy Whirlwind no Jutsu."
The water molecules in the rotating mist condensed to form Ice Shards and the wind speed increased. The Sand-nin was unable to dodge or parry all the Ice Shards that were rotating about him and gradually the spectators could see that the numerous Ice Shards were turning red. The Snow-nin, meanwhile, hadn't moved from her position was continuing her attack.
'She's going to kill him,' thought Asuma, 'this match is already decided, I should step in now.'
Asuma then appeared right next to Kurono and grabbed her hands telling her to stop the attack. Kurono looked up and seeing that it was the examiner, nodded slightly and released the attack.
As the wind died down and the Ice Shards fell to the ground, almost instantly melting in the sun, everyone could see the heavily cut-up body of the Sand-nin. He was down on his knees holding his arms over his head just trying to stay alive. As soon he registered that it was over he simply fell down to the ground unconscious.
"Winner: Kurono of the Snow!" yelled Asuma.
"Now the fourth and final match:" yelled Asuma. He could hear murmuring and rustling of the crowd above him, "Uchiha Sasuke vs. Nazashi of the Grass!"
While Sasuke jumped down to the arena, Nazashi decided to show-off and used a teleportation jutsu to get down; Sasuke scowled at the technique.
Up in the Stands
"You're looking rather confident," said Gai.
"Why shouldn't I be?" asked Kakashi, "Sasuke's a good shinobi."
'Sasuke's the BEST!' yelled inner-Sakura.
"You're not worried at all?" asked Gai.
"Why should I be?" said Kakashi flatly, "The way I remember it Sasuke could beat Lee."
"While using the sharingan," countered Gai.
"Yes, and he can use it right now… unlike your stupid rules" said Kakashi in an amused tone.
"My rules were very smart, why should people with bloodlines have advantages in taijutsu?" asked Gai and went on to blabber non-sense, which everyone ignored.
"You say something?" asked Kakashi when Gai finally quieted down.
"ARGH!" yelled Gai in frustration. "But never mind that it's not important right now…"
"You do know what style Nazashi was using in the previous exam, right?" asked Gai in a calculated tone already guessing that Kakashi had no idea.
"Not the style no, but it was something to do with pressure points, that's all I know. But it
shouldn't matter Sasuke's sharingan will be able to copy and counter it" replied Kakashi in an arrogant tone.
Gai sighed, "Then allow me to enlighten you, Nazashi was using the Kyusho Dimmak style."
Kakashi's eyes widened in shock, "NO WAY!"
"What is it Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sakura in a worried tone.
"But that art was lost hundreds of years ago?" questioned Kakashi of the taijutsu expert.
"Supposedly... but it seems someone," he motions down at Nazashi, "still knows it..."
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Kyusho Dimmak based on VERY high speed?" asked Kakashi.
"Yes, it is" replied Gai in a grave tone.
"Then he wasn't showing his full power at the taijutsu exam... was he?" Kakashi asked in a nervous voice.
"No, you're right the Kyusho Dimmak is based on incredible speed, but for a special reason. The Kyusho Dimmak uses combinations of pressure points. To the normal eye it would look like he's pressing one, but in reality he's pressing multiple points. To be able to do that in milliseconds his speed… well… it is most likely faster than even what I can do." Sakura's eyes widened in horror.
"Because it is based on combinations of pressure points, Sasuke would have to know where the pressure points are to be able to actually use it. The sharingan although probably able to copy the movements, wouldn't tell where the points are or the exact force to press them with," explained Gai in a serious tone.
"My god..." whispered Kakashi, "Sasuke can't fight close range with him then..."
"Exactly, but not only that, we don't know his ninjutsu capabilities either..." said Gai, "personally he strikes me as more of a ninjutsu person than taijutsu," said Gai looking over at Nazashi.
"Well Sasuke is very well versed in ninjutsu and genjutsu," said Kakashi somewhat nervously because of what he had just heard. "Plus he can copy that guy's ninjutsus."
'That's right! Sasuke-kun will definitely win!' thought Sakura.
'I wonder…' thought Gai.
Back to the Arena
Nazashi and Sasuke gazed at each other, each sizing up his opponent.
'He's too damn calm,' thought Sasuke, 'and that air of absolute confidence… it's too much like Itachi's.' Sasuke's frown deepened at the thought of his brother.
"BEGIN!" yelled Asuma and quickly jumped out of the way.
Sasuke quickly formed some seals, "Katon: Housenka" he whispered and five balls of flame sped their way towards Nazashi, who was doing his own seals. To Sasuke's surprise Nazashi did the exact same seals as Sasuke and launched his own 5 fireballs to counter Sasuke's.
Sasuke was even more surprised when the shuriken that he had planted in the fire, clattered down to the ground, deflected by Nazashi's shuriken, which he had also placed into his fireballs. 'Predictable Sasuke. But how about this…?'
Nazashi repeated his previous seals and sent 5 more fireballs with shuriken at Sasuke. Sasuke calmly prepared to counter attack the same way Nazashi had done, when something very unexpected happened. Half way to target the amount of fireballs increased, there were now at least 50 fireballs coming at Sasuke. 'What the hell? How can he do that?' thought Sasuke.
Sasuke had no choice, but to put up a wall 'I will temporarily loose sight of him, but there's no other way.' Doing several seals and slamming his palms on the ground Sasuke said, "Doton: Earth Wall no Jutsu" a massive wall rose out of the ground in front of Sasuke, blocking Nazashi's attack.
When the fireballs hit, all but 5 vanished into a puff of smoke.
"Kage Bushin?" asked Kakashi incredulously, unable to hide his amazement, "How can he do that to a fire jutsu?"
The rest of the jounin were equally shocked, 'Kage Bushin is a forbidden jutsu of this village, how could he know it?' wondered Gai.
As soon as Nazashi had seen Sasuke start putting up the wall he did a few seals, stomped his foot on the ground and whispered, "Doton: Earth Spikes." Everyone was once again shocked when the saw the Earth Spikes come out of the ground below Sasuke. 'Better to do it this was so that even if he sees me with his sharingan he won't be able to copy, since he doesn't know the secret to performing Doton jutsus without touching your hands to the ground. Thank you, Kyuubi, for telling me to take that scroll from that Stone-nin.'
"When did he have time to do that jutsu?" asked a shocked Sakura.
"We must have been completely distracted by the Housenka to notice…" replied Gai uncertainly.
'He didn't even touch his palms to the ground…' mused Kakashi a bit frightened, 'could that one be a clone?'
Sasuke had just blocked the fireballs and had now activated his sharingan, so he could see some chakra forming below him. But still he only had a half a second to jump away before the first spike came out, instantly followed by the next. The spikes seemed to know where he was jumping and followed him quite closely.
Nazashi noted that even though Sasuke was avoiding the spikes, he was still watching him intently with his sharingan. 'Fine then… we'll see how smart you really are…' thought Nazashi as he prepared to execute his plan.
Nazashi formed several seals a little slower than usual and placed his palms to the ground, "Doton: Land Bind no Jutsu." The ground then quickly crawled up Sasuke's legs and solidified, not letting him move.
Before Sasuke could react, Nazashi's foot had already connected with the right side of his face and sent him flying into the nearest wall. However right after Sasuke hit the wall, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
'So he knows Kage Bushin… the more interesting.' Nazashi smirked under his mask.
After his clone was destroyed, Sasuke came out of hiding and slammed his foot into Nazashi's stomach. He then followed up with an uppercut to the chin and finally took out his kunai and slammed it into Nazashi's chest.
The crowd gasped, Kakashi smirked and Sakura was overjoyed that Sasuke was able to turn the tables around like that. But their joy did not last long.
"Ouch…" said Nazashi, "that hurt…" and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"A Kage Bushin!?" screamed Sakura as her face twisted from a smile to a frown.
"All those jutsus were done by a clone…" muttered Kakashi unbelievingly.
Down below Sasuke was equally surprised, 'that's impossible a Kage Bushin is supposed to break as soon as it's hit.'
"How Kakashi-sensei? How?" yelled Sakura.
"A Charka Re-enforced Kage Bushin" said Kakashi, 'But if that's the case then where is the real one?'
Sasuke frantically looked around for his opponent and saw him leaning on tree not too far away. Sasuke made to run, but found that his legs were bound by something. Looking down he saw some sort of vines wrapped around his legs.
"You shouldn't assume that your opponent is dead just because you hit him in a critical area" said Nazashi. Sasuke just glared at him and tried to cut the vines with his kunai, but found that they were as hard as steel.
'What the hell?' wondered Sasuke, 'And why isn't he rushing at me like he did last time…? Oh I see… he needs a source for these vines, they must be acting as a supplement to the roots of the tree and he'll lose control of them if he breaks control with the tree.'
Sasuke then did several quick seals and simply said, "Katon: Goukakyuu" and shot a massive fireball straight at Nazashi. 'So he's figured it out… I could counter, but I'll make it look like I was taken unawares.'
Nazashi then jumped to the side right before the fireball hit him. Just as Sasuke had predicted the vines instantly let go and not losing a moments time Sasuke's did a few seals slammed his palms on the ground and said, "Doton: Land Bind no Jutsu." Nazashi expanded his eyes a little bit in an attempt to look shocked, 'I knew he was gonna copy me. Now will he do what I think he'll do?'
Sasuke did a few seals, put his right hand over his left elbow, yelled, "Chidori" and rushed at full speed towards Nazashi. 'Yes! Sasuke you are so predictable… a coping idiot just like your teacher' laughed Nazashi, but Sasuke couldn't hear his laughter because of the deafening sound of the Chidori.
'NO! He's too calm, Sasuke!' yelled Kakashi in his mind.
Just as the Chidori was about to contact, Nazashi grabbed Sasuke's wrist and held him there. Sasuke's eyes widened slightly as his Chidori slowly died. Nazashi then whispered so that only Sasuke could hear, "hey Sasuke, déjà vu."
With that he broke Sasuke's wrist and quickly kicked him into the wall on the other side of the arena. As soon as Sasuke impacted the wall, Nazashi was already there and punched him in the chest making Sasuke spit out blood. He then kneed Sasuke in the face and punched once again in the stomach slamming him into the wall, making even more blood come out.
Before Sasuke's body could fall to the ground, Nazashi grabbed him by the neck and slammed him into the wall once again. He then raised his left hand to his chest, closed his eyes and did several quick one-handed seals.
When Nazashi opened his eyes again they weren't blue anymore, they were blood red with a slit down the middle. Sasuke realized that he had seen those eyes before, but could place it. Nazashi then did a few more hand seals and gazed intently straight into Sasuke's eyes. Sasuke felt as if Nazashi was looking straight through him, all the way to his soul.
Nazashi whispered very quietly, "Hell: Level 2." (A/N: explanation at the bottom) Sasuke screamed out as the jutsu started taking effect and kept screaming as if he was being wounded, which he was. Nazashi held him like that for 30 seconds waiting for the jutsu to completely envelop him, after which time he simply let Sasuke's body drop to the ground and walked away, disabling his Demon's Eyes.
The spectators were shocked. One minute it looks like Sasuke's going to win no matter what and the next one of his strongest attacks has been countered and he's taking the beating of his life.
"One-handed seals…" mumbled Kakashi, he already had his sharingan out, but still could not make out what Nazashi was doing. 'He's transferring a lot of chakra to his eyes… it must be some sort of Doujutsu.'
Then when they heardSasuke scream out as if he was being tortured, everyone simply cringed. Sakura could not believe that this was happening, the jounin could not understand what Nazashi was doing to him. Tsunade leaned forward in her chair and watched in shock as Sasuke continued screaming even after his opponent had let him go and walked away.
"Winner: Nazashi of the Grass!" said Asuma in a dazed tone.
That one statement snapped everyone out of their daze and they instantly jumped down to aid Sasuke. Even the Hokage was down there, examining him.
'Good, he better get his wounds treated or they will kill him' thought Nazashi amused.
"We must get him to the hospital IMMEDIATELY!" yelled Tsunade. Kakashi picked him up and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "Now wrap up this test so that I can go treat him," instructed Tsunade.
"Will the winners please come down to the arena?" asked Asuma.
The winners did as they instructed, Asuma told to report back here tomorrow, and they were dismissed very soon after.
For some reason, Nazashi calmly walked out of the stadium and went to walk around the village. 'That damn Sasuke, getting special medical attention from the Hokage… I didn't see her do that for Hinata, or anyone else for that matter' mused Nazashi angrily.
He walked around for sometime and somehow found his way to the north gate. 'Huh… I remember this place…' Memories of his escape and liberation from the Leaf Village flashed in Nazashi's mind. 'That night, five years ago, was the start of something very, very great.'
He suddenly caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye. It was Hinata, walking towards him 'Oh shit, I better hide' thought Nazashi as he jumped up to the roof of the closest building and did a jutsu to eliminate his presence. 'Just please don't let her use the Byakugan, I can hide from that using this jutsu.'
But Hinata didn't even notice him, she just kept on walking straight towards the gate. That's when Nazashi noticed that she held a flower in her hands, 'could that be for Neji?' wondered Nazashi, 'no it couldn't be we left from the west gate… then why?' Nazashi decided to stay in his hiding place and observe her.
Hinata reached the gate, jumped up onto it and sat there looking out of the village for several minutes before speaking. "Naruto-kun…" she said in a low voice, but Nazashi could still hear her using his advanced hearing.
(A/N: I'm gonna call Naruto by his proper name again)
'What the hell? Did she figure out that it's me!?' panicked Naruto already considering several ways to keep her quiet.
"…Naruto-kun… it's been 5 and a half years…" continued Hinata, "since you left…"
'Yeah… she's right it has been that long,' agreed Naruto considering the seasons. 'She actually keeps track?' he wondered.
"Why did you leave? Why did you have to go?" Hinata said now in a strained voice.
"I know you weren't that well liked by the village, but… did you really have to go?" as she said this Naruto could hear quiet crying.
'She's crying… why?' Naruto was now confused.
"Naruto-kun… I should have told you, before you left… I-I-I-I was too scared, back then, but now… if only you would come back… I would tell you now… I would tell you that…" Hinata hesitated making sure that there was no one around. "I love you, Naruto-kun, I love you with all my heart…"
Naruto recoiled in shock, 'Sh-sh-she l-l-l-loves me???' Naruto's mind managed to stutter out. 'No way…' Naruto instantly composed himself again, 'she doesn't love the REAL me. She doesn't love the half-demon. She's living in ignorance and doesn't know about my past, she would HATE me just like the rest of those fucking bastards, if she knew,' concluded Naruto.
Hinata cried for a little while longer before wiping off her tears throwing the flower over the wall and walking away, whispering "please come back soon, Naruto-kun."
Naruto sat there for a few more minutes digesting everything he had heard.
'She would be perfect…all I would have to do is… yea I can pull that off… yes, yes, yes!!!' Naruto was ecstatic.
"Yes, she is prefect…" said Naruto in an evil tone with an evil smile and an evil chuckle.
Demon's Eye:
Natural Ability: Can see through the strongest genjutsus, sharingan can't copy techniques because the chakra that starts flowing through Naruto's body in half or more demonic so all of the jutsus are done a bit differently from how a human would do them, and increases the amount of killer intent given off. (A/N: HA, I actually have a theory why the sharingan doesn't work...)
Charka Enhanced: [some hand seals required]
Slow Motion - To you it looks like the world is moving in slow motion, but you are moving at regular speed.
Mind Power - You are able to resist Mangekyuo sharingan, Ino's mind-switch technique; any kind of mind technique
Hell: level (x) – [activated via several one handed seals] Combination of Mind Power and telepathy techniques; your opponent is thrown into the (x) level of hell. While there he experiences quite a bit of torture (varies), also any physical wounds that he experiences manifest themselves in reality. Based on Kyuubi's memories of hell, commonly lasts for 12 hours, during which time the victim is NOT killed but rather has a VERY near death experience and may die if wounds are not treated.