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The Emperor Kage
Chapter 4: Shopping sprees Eating contest
Normal POVAfter the competitors drew the numbers from the box, the match were as follows:
Uzumaki Naruto .vs. Hyuuga Neji
Gaara .vs. Uchiha Sasuke
Kankuro .vs. Aburame Shino
Temari .vs Dosu Kinuta
Nara Shikamaru .vs. Akemi
Katsu will face winner of Nara Shikamaru match
"Hmmm seems like you are fighting sound boy…" Katsu said
"How troublesome, I got to fight a girl again…troublesome." Shikamaru muttered.
"Oh yeah! Oni-chan! You promised to bring me on a shopping spree after the second exam! Hope you brought enough cash 'cause I plan to invite some people along." Akemi said with a sly grin.
"Right…so who do you want to invite Akemi-chan?"
"I want to invite… Sakura, Ino, Temari, Kurenai-san and Anko-san," with every girl's name she mentioned, a grin was formed on their faces, "Though I wished I could invite Tenten and Hinata…"
"Can I decline?" Temari asked.
"Sure but you'll regret because Katsu oni-chan is paying…" Akemi said.
"If you put it that way then I have no choice…" Temari said with a small smile.
'Although we are here to invade Konoha, I guess it's no harm doing a little shopping… especially when it's the crown prince who is paying.' Temari thought
"Heh! No problem! I'll just heal 'em up and poof! You got yourself a shopping spree party!" Katsu said with a wide grin.
With that Katsu headed to the sickbay within the examination tower, where he healed Tenten's cuts and Hinata's internal injuries.
'Superb healing techniques! Just like Tsunade-sama…' thought Anko.
Before heading to mall, Katsu shouted to Naruto, "Hey Naruto! I'll you guys at Ichiraku Ramen! Or should we have BBQ?"
At the mention of BBQ, the KO-ed Chouji woke up and yell, "BBQ!" But naruto argued "Ramen!"
"BBQ!"
"RAMEN!"
"BBQ!"
"RAMEN!"
And the argument continues…
Scene change. Now at the biggest shopping mall in Konoha.
Katsu's POV
As soon as we entered the mall, the ever battle ready kunoichis suddenly changed into ladies with a penchant for clothes, shoes, accessories, etc ( I ain't a girl so I can't name all the things girls buy…). I swear they going to burn a hole in my wallet, no wait! Scratch out wallet and replace it with pants. Yep! They are gonna burn a hole in my pants!
But thank god! I carry gold and silver ingots which I must say always solves the problem in almost all monetary situations. After their 4 hour long shopping spree I used a total of…6 gold ingots each the size of my palm which I asked for them to keep the change. 4 hours of shopping can really kill one. My feet is hurting and burning like # and I wonder how the hell do they shop non stop while I am already about to drop dead?
"Thanks for everything onii-chan!" Akemi said with a smile.
"No problem… just pass the exam, be a chuunin and I'll bring you on another shopping spree!" I said with a grin. Me and my big fat stupid mouth… I just promise to bring on her on another shopping did I?
"Erm… Katsu-kun?" Sakura called me.
"Yes? Sakura?"
"How do you feel about being the next emperor?"
"Well… I was born into it and being the only son… I have no choice. Also I feel that once I am the emperor, the continent and it's people are well… how should I put it…"
"Your slaves?" Ino said jokingly.
"Shut up Ino-pig!" Sakura yelled.
"Same to you big forehead!" Ino yelled back causing everyone including to laugh.
"No no, not slaves but I rather think of the continent and the people are my children. Since the emperor rules over the land and people by passing out laws and ensuring it's carried out, checking for corruption and many others. It really does feel like looking after a bunch of kids. So I think I will feel like a father when I become the next emperor."
"Then I pray you become a good and kind emperor in the future." Kurenai said to me.
"Oni-chan will be the best Emperor Kage ever!" Akemi said.
I smiled and looked at my watch to check the time. Hmm time to meet Naruto and the guys… so is it ramen or BBQ?
"Okay! Bye girls! I have to meet Naruto and the rest!" with that sentence I cast a teleporting technique which brought me to Ichiraku. There I saw Naruto and Chouji still arguing over Ramen and BBQ. Apparently there was a BBQ restaurant across the street.
"Hey guys! How 'bout both of you settle this by snake-frog-slug?" Shikamaru asked after seeing me arriving.
Apparently lady luck smiled onto Naruto, where we had a 'eat ramen till you puke' eating competiton except Shikamaru who found it too troublesome to eat more than one bowl which was the poorest excuse I ever heard and Shino who refused to eat. In the end Naruto, Chouji and I were tied at 30 bowls which resulted in Chouji losing his dinner, then me 2 seconds later and Naruto an amazing 18 seconds later. And yes! I left a silver ingot as payment.
After everyone went home, I decided to have a chat with Naruto.
"Naruto, I noticed that you had some problems while fighting Kiba. Face it, you could have done Kage Buushin way earlier and defeated Kiba in a faster time."
Naruto looked at me and then said "Well during the exam this snake guy attacked my team and placed a seal on my stomach…"
"Don't worry Naruto… I know you are kyuubi's carrier."
Naruto had a shocked look on his face.
"Hey! You forgot that I am the crown prince so naturally I know these kind of things." I said giving him a reassuring smile.
"Lift up your shirt and mould a little chakra so that I can see where the seal was placed."
"Okay." With that Naruto lifted up his shirt and started moulding chakra. I then saw a spiral with two seals on the top and bottom. Each of the seal had 4 arrow-like points pointing outwards. Then a another seal appeared. This one had 5 spirals.
'5 elements seal? Snake guy? Must be Orochimaru.' I thought. 'Thank god Tsunade-sensei taught me seals too…'
Gather chakra to my fingers I slammed my hand into Naruto's belly yelling "5 elements unsealer!"
Naruto gave a yelp of pain while flying backwards. He then looked down and saw that the 5 elements seal was gone.
"Naruto, who is training you now that you have 1 month before the main matches?" I asked
"I don't know… maybe I'll look for Kakashi-sensei!" He said.
"Heh! I am sure you will improve a lot within one month…," I said, " Because now with that seal gone! You can mould chakra easily now! Try walking on water! Just release a constant amount of chakra and you can walk on it easily."
Naruto then walked up to the river, released some chakra and tried walking on water. "Wow! It worked! This is fun!" he said with a grin.
"Okay! I gotta go now! See you soon Naruto!" I said as I headed back to the hotel I was staying in. One month to improve eh? Heh! I'll rule the competition in that case!
And that all for this chapter! Read and review as I need a little help to decide. Should I focus on the training part or just jump to the finals of the chuunin exam? R&R!