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The Emperor Kage
Chapter 3: Royal comeback
Normal POV
In Konoha
"Wow… Katsu-kun is actually the crown prince!" Ino said
"No one knew he was missing…" Sakura added.
"Actually, all the hidden villages knew… the jounins were informed about it and told to keep a lookout." Kiba said, "That's what I heard from nee-san."
"Darn! I lost a ramen partner!" Naruto pouted
"No big deal! I lost a 'all the BBQ you can eat' partner." Chouji sighed.
"This is troublesome! He promised me a shogi game. Troublesome." Shikamaru muttered.
"But! He promised to come back and visit right? So I say we wait for him!" Naruto yelled.
"Yeah!" chorused the rest.
Cut to 4 years later, chuunin preliminary exams.
The rookie 9, team 9( neji's team), sand trio, Kabuto and his teammates, shinobis 3 rain shinobis and 2 konoha. One of the leaf shinobi is wearing a gray hooded coat which reached up to his ankles and he wore a dragon mask (try and use your imagination a little bit. Note that the mask is white like all anbu mask) while his female comrade has light blond hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a dark green shirt, black shorts with black elbow and knee guards. Her hair is about Sakura's length(after Sakura cut her hair).
After the hokage's explaination on the chuunin exam's purpose. Hayate teleported in, asked for any who are retiring which Kabuto and one rain nin did. Just as the electronic board was about to flash two random names for the first match, Hatake Kakashi interrupted by appearing behind the masked leaf shinobi with a kunai pointing at his neck.
"Who are you? You are not a leaf shinobi are you?" Kakashi asked.
Before Kakashi could move his kunai closer to the masked nin neck, 4 hooded figures came up from the ground(like orochimaru passing through the tree trunk, ground, etc) and pointed kunais around Kakashi.
"Oh? These are Hidden City's reptilian guards? Then you must be…?"
"Guys! Stand down and return back to Hidden City!" the masked nin commanded.
"But my lord! He tried to harm you." The reptilian guard replied.
"Don't worry about me, just stand down and return to Hidden City." The masked nin commanded again.
"Yes your highness…" replied the reptilian guards as the passed through the ground.
"Oi! Naruto! Remember me? Eh? What say you rookie nine?" the masked nin shouted.
"Ermm… Who are you?" Naruto asked the masked nin.
"Yeah… Did we even know you?" Ino asked.
"It's me! Remember? The exchange student?" the masked nin continued questioning.
"Exchange student? Er… sorry no memories!"
The masked nin and his female comrade started laughing.
"Hahahaha, it's me! Katsu, the crown prince! You guys forgot me after just 4 years?" With that Katsu then removed his mask and pushed his hood back revealing his black hair and brown eyes.
Exeryone gasped at what they heard.
"Katsu! No wonder Akamaru kept telling me about an old friend! Hahahaha!" Kiba laughed.
"Your highness, forgive me for what happen…" Kakashi said in a quiet voice.
"You're forgiven! But as you all know I already passed the chuunin exam so I just here to watch my omoto( younger sister),Akemi, pass her chuunin exam!"
"Oni-chan… you are an ANBU commander already…" Akemi giggled.
When everyone heard it they all went bugged-eyed. But Katsu argued, "True! But I passed the chuunin exam UNOFFICALLY. So I am here to be a chuunin OFFICALLY."
"Examiner, you may begin the preliminary matches!" Katsu said.
With that everyone watched the matches from above. Katsu paid special attention to the rookie nine matched especially Naruto's match.
'Hmmm naruto could have won easily but… something is preventing him from using chakra well…' Katsu thought.
Soon it was Akemi's turn and she was up against a rain nin. She stared at the rain nin and said, "I give you three choices, which of 3 do you not want me to use? Taijutsu? Ninjutsu? Or Genjutsu?"
"Akemi-hime, I do not need any handicaps… I heard that the royal family is powerful but how powerful are they?"
As soon as Hayate said begin, Akemi started doing handseals slowly. The rain nin saw this and smirked, "Too slow!" With that he took an umbrella from his back and threw it towards Akemi. Akemi did the rat seal and smiled, "No.. you are the slow one." The umbrella stopped in mid-air turned 180 degrees such that it is pointing towards the rain nin and dashed straight at the rain nin. The rain nin was then pushed all the way back to the wall which created a crater on the wall.
"Winner! Her highness, Akemi-hime sama." Hayate announced.
"Nice! Akemi-chan!" Katsu cheered his sister.
"Wow…She is not just cute and pretty… she is also skillful." Kiba said with a drool. Shino stared at him and commented, "You know… for once I agreed with you… wonder what technique that was…"
Sakura turned and asked, "Akemi? What technique did you use?" Akemi smiled and said, "It is not a technique. The healseals I did was just to release my chakra out. When he threw the umbrella I used the chakra I released to 'hold' the umbrella and threw it back."
"In short, she manipulated her chakra to form strings around the umbrella." Shikamaru said.
"And for the final match would Katsu-sama and the one from rain come down? You guys are the last two competitors after all." Hayate said.
"Hayate-san please don't use the suffix 'sama' on me! I hate it!" Katsu yelled before jumping down into the arena.
"Your sister may have beaten me! But unlike my teammate I ain't going down that easily!" the rain nin yelled.
"Really? Then I give you three choice as did my sister. Which of the following do you not want me to use? Genjutsu? Taijutsu? Or Ninjutsu?"
"Heh! If I really had to choose I would choose ninjutsu!"
"Oh no! Without ninjutsu how will you fight?" Naruto asked.
Katsu looked up and said, "Naruto! Don't worry! Have you forgotten that I am an UNOFFICAL anbu commander?"
"Final match…Begin!"
"Remember your promise! No using of ninjutsu and that includes Kawarimi no jutsu!" the rain nin smirked as he pulled out 3 umbrellas.
"Right… Hayate-san please disqualify me if I use a single ninjutsu then." Katsu said.
The rain nin then threw the 3 umbrellas in the air. He laughed, "Your highness! You have really underestimated me! Ninja arts! Black needles rain technique!" With that black needles were released out of the umbrellas. The rain nin continued, "These needles aren't normal needles but dipped in the vemon of the black mamba! One of the most venomous snakes in the world! And remember! No ninjutsu allowed which includes Kawarimi no jutsu!"
Katsu looked and smirked. Suddenly the needles all landed at the spot where Katsu stood. Due to the impact, dust clouds covered the spot.
"Examiner! This match is over! Even if he ran, my chakra would guide the needles to their target!" The rain nin said haughtily.
"Is that so?" Katsu replied standing behind the rain nin.
"How did you run away? You must have used ninjutsu!" The rain nin yelled.
"Well… it's true that your chakra can guide the needles to it's target. But if I move so fast that you can't even keep up… won't you not know where I am to lead the needles to?"
With that Katsu struck a blow at the rain nin's neck sending him flying across the arena and crashing into the giant 'ram' handseal.
"Winner! His highness, crown prince Katsu!" Hayata announced.
"OI! I said enough with the formalities!" Katsu yelled annoyingly with everyone laughing at the background.
And here's the end of the chapter! Sorry if I skipped a little too much but don't worry I will explain more of Katsu's skills and power in the later chapters. And yes I will do my best to update soon! Thanks to all fanfic authors who have inspired me!