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Chapter 2: The Tournament Begins
The first match of the tournament begins with Sheena of the Hidden Mist village facing off against Hidden Clouds Yukina. Sheena starts by jumping backwards away from the center of the ring while throwing a flurry of shuriken at Yukina. Yukina blocks the shuriken away with her Kunai and starts her charge toward Sheena. With a kunai in each hand, Yukina begins to swipe at Sheena in a flurry of stabs and slices. Sheena manages to all of the attacks and gets some distance between Yukina and herself.
Meanwhile, the audience is in an uproar. It's been a long time since the Wave Country had live entertainment of such magnitude. Tenge and Sakamo are looking on in disbelief as the former laughing stock of their class is now moving faster and more fluently then half of the shinobi in the village.
"Whoa!" Exclaims Sakamo. "I have never seen Yukina move that fast. She was always slow and sluggish whenever it came to taijutsu, but now it looks as if it's the main thing she has focused on."
"Weird!" Tenge says as he nods in agreement with a look of disbelief on his face.
The shinobi continue to trade kunai attacks, each countering one another's moves precisely. Sheena manages to knock Yukina back with a kick to the stomach. Sheena moves quickly to the pool at the back of the ring. She then starts a jutsu. The focus turns to the 1st balcony and the Mizukage.
"Hmm. Sheena is already trying to bring out her trump card. She had better hope that she can hit this technique and end it or she will not have much chakra to make a recovery."
Sheena closes her eyes and concentrates as she begins the appropriate hand seals for the jutsu
"Dog, Boar, Rat, Tiger, Horse, Dragon, Rat, Ox, Monkey, Tiger. SUITON: SUIRYUUDAN NO JUTSU (Water Dragon Blast)"
The water behind Sheena begins to churn and a large dragon made of water arises from the pool and lunges out at Yukina. Yukina tries to outrun the water dragon but it becomes evident to her that trying to outrun the dragon will not succeed.
"There is no use!" Sheena hollers to her opponent with a confident smile across her face. "You're trapped in my favorite technique. When this technique connects, this match will be mine."
Yukina stops in her tracks and turns toward the water dragon. As the dragon comes barreling down toward her, she begins to crack a smile, and starts her own jutsu. She places her hands in the seal of the dog. (One hand flat out over a clenched fist).
"Ninpo: Chakra Body Shock No Jutsu" (Translation?)
Yukina then places both her hands out toward the dragon, and the dragon connects with Yukina. The dragon then explodes sending water everywhere around the ring and into the audience. The examiner blocks his face and tries to maintain a visual on both competitors, but he can only see Sheena. Yukina is nowhere to be found. Sheena begins to ask herself what just happened, and whether or not her technique was successful. With her kunai at the ready and her hand reaching for her shuriken pouch, she frantically looks around to see if she can get a view of Yukina's position. All of the water has made a thick mist that is making visibility very limited. Before she can react, she feels Yukina behind her. She spins around quickly and Yukina places her left hand on Sheena's chest.
"CLEAR!" Yukina shouts as a large amount of chakra travels at lightning speed through Yukina's arm and directly into Chest.
Sheena then convulses as if hit with a sledgehammer in the chest. She flies back a few feet and falls to the ground. Her breathing is heavily labored and it is evident that she is in a lot of pain. She remains conscious but raises her hand. Telling the examiner that she has given up and has lost the match. As a medical team rushes to the field to check on the fallen competitor, Sheena regains some of her composure and is able to leave the ring under her own power but her breathing remains very labored. Yukina watches as Sheena is helped from the ring and then smiles at the thought of her easy victory.
The examiner looks at both competitors and then raise's Yukina's hand, "Winner of the 1st Match: Yukina!"
The crowd cheers at the entertaining spectacle already shown to them in only the first match. The crowd then begins to talk amongst one another as to whether or not the next match will be as good as the one before.
Yukina returns to the fighters area and rejoins her comrades. "So much for subtlety," says Kumo. "You shouldn't have revealed a signature technique in this tournament. Now if we are called into conflict, our enemies know what you are capable of."
"Give it a rest Kumo," Yukina snaps as she turns her back to her teammate. "That bitch went for broke and she paid for it. No one gets over confident when they fight me, NOBODY!"
Yamu interjects, "That is what you have to realize. You are NOT you right now. You are in the guise of that fat ass, so from now on, you will act like it. Unless of coarse, you want to deal with "brother" later on."
Yukina grimaces and begins to sweat a little. The mere mention of Yamu's brother has scared Yukina. Her attention however is diverted to two other Mist Shinobi making there way toward the three Cloud Ninjas.
"Your teammate lost fair and square, all fights stay in the tournament. No fighting here," Yamu says as he steps up to the two approaching shinobi.
"Hey don't worry, we just had to come over and say hello to this lovely lady." Says the taller of the two men. He is a fairly handsome boy with a bright smile and dirty blond hair. As he begins to move closer to Yukina, she becomes visibly angered. "Hi there, my name is Agi. This is my teammate Dome." Agi moves his face close, almost right up next to Yukina's fat rosy red cheeks. "You were quite incredible out there. I think maybe after this tournament you and I should go out for a bite to eat." Yukina huffs and turns her back to Agi. Agi puts his hand on Yukina's shoulder and says, "Oh c'mon darling don't play hard to get. A tall handsome young man like me and a cute chubby girl like you, it's a perfect match."
Then, something in Yukina begins to snap. Her blatant hatred for the form she has been forced to take begins to overflow after the friendly Mist ninja's unwanted advances. Yukina grabs Agi's hand tightly and keeps her eyes focused away from the two Mist ninjas.
"If I were you," Yukina says in a maniacal chuckle. "I would get a doctor to look at that hand."
Yukina then releases the boy's hand and she begins to walk away. The two mist ninjas just look at one another confused.
"What are you talking about? My hand is fine. . . AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" The horrified boy screams out in panic as he looked down to see his hand limp and severely deformed. "What the hell did you do to me you fat bitch?! How dare you!"
As Yukina walks away laughing to herself, her teammates look at one another and let out a sigh. They then begin to jog to catch up to Yukina as the two mist shinobi are left to try and figure out what to do now, seeing as they are set to face each other in only a few minutes' time.
Yamu grabs Yukina's arm and spins her around, "What the hell did you just do to that kids hand?"
Yukina shuts her eyes as she continues laughing to herself. "I simply used one of my medical techniques to separate all of his knuckles and break up most of the cartilage in his hand. I assure you, he felt no pain and won't feel any pain. . . Until a medic has to set all the bones back in."
Yamu and Kumo look at one another and begin to laugh. Yukina joins in with a laugh of her own.
"Don't worry it was a simple technique, no permanent damage, and nothing that brings us too much attention. Besides, he will have to forfeit his match and that works out better in our favor does it not? "
Before Yamu or Kumo can respond the crowd ignites with an ovation as the examiner has called for the next two competitors to meet in the ring. The next fight is Hyuuga Neji vs. the mist village's Shinji Gabon. Both of the competitors have already met in the ring and have shaken hands. Shinji Gabon is an enormous shinobi. He stands at least a foot taller then Neji and must outweigh him by more than a hundred pounds. His outfit is torn and his bare muscles are bulging out of numerous rips and tears. Both competitors take a few steps back away from one another, and the examiner raises her left arm.
"Let the 2nd Match, Leaf Villages, Hyuuga Neji vs. The Mist Villages Shinji Gabon," The examiner then throws her arm down in front of her as she says, "BEGIN!"
Neji is the first to make a move, demonstrating his obvious speed advantage, Neji jumps upward and throws two shuriken and a kunai directly at Gabon. Neji's goal is obvious not to end the match right away, but to test how fast the big man moves. As the throwing weapons speed closer and closer to Gabon, he closes his eyes and begins to focus. A confident smirk takes over his face as he continues to stand his ground. Neji looks on in horror as all three weapons connect and hit Gabon directly in the chest.
The crowd gasps in astonishment as this giant of a shinobi just stood his ground and was hit with three direct hits. However they are even more astonished when Gabon begins laughing. Gabon then flexes only a little and all three weapons fall to the ground. Neji remains awestruck as his notices that none of the weapons even pierced Gabon's skin.
"What is this? How could he simply just block all three attacks with only his muscles?" As Neji ponders to himself, his opponent picks up all three weapons and throws them behind him. "This is not right. Whatever this is, it will not elude me. BYAKUGAN!"
Neji's x-ray eyes begin to scan his opponent. He notices that most of Gabon's chakrahas been diverted to just under his skin and it's thickly concentrated throughout his muscles.
"I see now. He has used his own chakra to strengthen his epidermal layers making them harder to pierce." As Neji deducts the nature of his opponent's strange ability, Gabon addresses Neji.
"So I imagine you are wondering why your weapons didn't pierce my body. My clan has mastered the Juko-Kai (Iron Shirt) taijutsu style." Gabon says, as he flexes his muscles and looks over his ripped figure. "I can concentrate my bodies chakra to my own muscles and strengthen them to the density of steel. So throw all the weapons you want at me. I can tell by your stance that you are a taijutsu user, so be my guest, punch me as hard as you can and you will still never be able to make a scratch on my perfect figure." Gabon then flexes his muscles some more and then begins to charge at Neji. "Another advantage to this fighting style is that my fists can also be reinforced with chakra making them as powerful as sledgehammer."
The musclebound behemoth charges at Neji revealing that he indeed did have a tremendous amount of speed to back up his muscle. As the shinobi charges at Neji, Neji closes his eyes and reopens them with his trademark confident smile. The gigantic Mist shinobi throws a fast and heavy punch with his left hand and directly at Neji's head. Neji calmly avoids the punch and strikes Gabon in the stomach.
"Heh heh heh, I told you it was useless you little punk," Gabon says as eyes being to roll back in his head. "You can't . . hurt. . . me. . ."
The muscular giant falls to the ground face first and shows no signs of moving at all. The referee runs over to the fallen shinobi and does a quick check of his vitals. After concluding the boy is alive but unconscious she stands up and raises Neji's hand.
"The winner of the 2nd Match: Hyuuga Neji!!"
Neji looks at the body of the vain mist shinobi and shakes his head. "If you faced any other opponent, you might have one. You can train your muscles and bones all you want. Make your body as thick and as impenetrable as the strongest shield. However if you cannot manage to train your internal organs in the process. . . then you're no threat to me."
As the crowd begins to applaud the focus turns to the first balcony, where Shin has been analyzing the fight with great interest. Shin stares at the falling member of the Shinji clan.
"That's not exactly correct kid. An experienced juko kai user creates a wall of chakra around all of their muscles protecting their organs with an extremely dense shield that even a jyuuken user would have trouble bypassing. Either Gabon was just incompetent and inexperienced at using his family's coup de gras, or this Hyuuga kid surely is the prodigy of that great clan." Shin looks at Neji while he walks to the stairwell leading to the fighters area, and says to himself, "Hyuuga Neji eh? We will have to make sure that this kid is out of the way, if our plan is to go through smoothly."
The crowd erupts and begins to chant Neji's name. Standing and cheering at the fight that ended in less then two minutes. Neji makes his way back to the fighters area where he is met by Shino.
"You didn't hurt him too badly did you? " Asked Shino
"Not at all. I simply struck him firmly in the stomach. He may not be very hungry when he wakes up and may have some indigestion, but he will be fine." Replied Neji. "But you have more important things to worry about"
The examiner raises her hand and waits for the crowd to become silent. "Attention: Kui and Aburame Shino to the ring please."
"Good Luck." Neji offers his teammate encouragement as Shino makes his way to the ring.
When both fighters meet in the ring, Shino begins to visually examine his opponent. Kui, a shinobi of the Hidden Mist is a young, short and skinny shinobi. After the first initial glance Shino realizes that this shinobi is shaking heavily. As the two come to the center of the ring and shake hands, Shino notices that the young boy is also sweating gratuitously from him palms. The boy is afraid, and visibly nervous.
As the examiner raises her hand, ready to start the fight, Kui fumbles with his kunai and his trembling becomes very obvious to everyone that is watching.
"Oh man. Why did I have to get picked for this tournament?" The panicking boy asked himself. "I only went to the academy because my parents made me. I only graduated from the academy because my teachers felt sorry for me. Oh man, there are so many people here. Everyone is looking at me. What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"
"Let the Third match of the tournament BEGIN!" The examiner swipes her hand downward and backs away from the two fighters.
Kui is now trembling more then ever. His legs freeze and won't move. Sweat runs down his face as he tries to will himself to move and attack. Shino sigh's to himself and removes his hands from his pockets and raises his arms out in front of himself and slightly to his sides. His bugs begin to leave his body in a dark black swarm. The petrified Mist nin finally finds himself able to move, and in a quick burst he begins to run away from Shino.
Shino looking confused decides that he wants to at least have somewhat of a fight and sends his swarm of bugs in pursuit of the cowardly mist ninja. Kui looks behind him to see the black swarm getting closer and closer. His diverted attention prevents him from noticing the stone in his path, and he trips and falls directly into the water pond at the back of the ring. His kunai flies to the back of and deepest end of the pond, and Shino senses that the match will be over soon.
As the bugs are about to swarm on top of Kui, now prone waist deep in water, The examiner places her hand on Shino's shoulder. The bugs stop dead in their tracks just inches away from the cowering shinobi.
"The match is over." The examiner says as Shino lowers his arms. "The kid is no match for you and is obviously not ready to be a shinobi. Let alone compete at this level."
"Oh thank god!" Kui shouts cowering with his hands shielding his head.
Shino places his hands back in his pockets and begins to walk slowly over to the pond as all of his bugs begin to return to their nest in Shino's body. Kui notices Shino moving towards him and cowers further into the pond.
"Th-the lady said th-that the match was o-over. . ." The boy says
As Shino reaches the pond his hand reaches out Kui. Kui see's only the shadow of Shino's hand and he begins to whimper. Shino places his hand on the boys shoulder.
"Let me help you up." The silent leaf genin says.
The boy looks up, and for the first time since he arrived at the arena, Kui stopped trembling. He takes Shino's hand and Shino helps him to his feet. Shino then makes his way back to the fighters area. Kui on the other hand begins to run past the stairway to the fighters area and directly out of the arena.
"Thanks for the hand bug man, but I am going home!" Kui shouts as he waves to Shino without even looking back.
Kui's actions bring about the first chorus of boos from the crowd. The loudest of the disappointed spectators is the Mizukage on the first balcony. He shakes his head and wonders how that boy even made it past the entry exam.
"The winner of the 3rd match: Aburame Shino." The examiner pauses as she receives a letter from one of the tournament committee members. The examiner reads the letter in detail and silence. With a concerned and confused look on her face she then draws the crowd's attention. "If I could have your attention please. I have just received news that the Mist Villages, Agi, who was set to compete against his teammate Dome in the next match, has come down with an injury and will be unable to compete in the next match. Therefore, the winner of the 4th match by forfeit is Dome"
The crowd begins to boo even louder then before and it becomes evident that they are becoming agitated at the two ruined matches. On the 1st balcony Shin is grinding his teeth in anger at the unwanted attention that Yukina has brought to their team. He looks down to see Yukina smirking in the fighters area as the announcement is made.
"So we will be moving ahead with the next match on the criteria." The examiner then checks the tournament brackets as they are being updated and calls the next two fighters to the ring. "Would Yamu and Tenge please report to the ring."
After receiving some encouragement from both Yukina and Kumo, Yamu makes his way to the ring. Tenge hops right from the fighters area to the ring, making his desire to fight more evident.
Meanwhile on the 1st balcony, Shin watches as the two fighters shake hands and get ready to fight. "Make this fight entertaining but quick, brother. Or this crowd may become too hostile for us to deal with . . . and don't over do it. If having Sukio fight and hurt another competitor wasn't enough, it would be most unpleasant if you were to show any of your techniques, and get recognized by anyone, especially in front of this idiot Raikage." Shin thinks to himself as he glares at the proud Raikage. When the Raikage makes eye contact with Shin, Shin simply raises a thumb and smiles.
"BEGIN!" Shouts the examiner, signifying that the commencing of the 5th fight.
The two shinobi hop back from one another and take their respective stances. Tenge displays the standard taijutsu stance, one fist forward in a striking position, and the other in a defensive just beside the right side of his face, ready to strike. To the contrary, Yamu takes a more peculiar stance. He begins to extend his left arm slowly with his thumb and first finger connected and a slight bend in his elbow. The other three fingers take a strategic position, his pinky finger pointed straight at Tenge's right arm. His ring finger bent down and to the left, and his middle finger pointed directly at Tenge's right leg. His left hand then curled in a half clam position and lined alongside his hip.
Shin thinks to himself, "Idiot. I haven't taught you the finer details to that style. If you use the Open Fist style against Tenge, you will almost certainly give us away to him and Sakamo. Tenge knows Yamu, and knows that he could never lose to him. If you do this be smart about it brother. Or we're finished."
"What is that stance? " Tenge asks himself. "Yamu was a genjutsu specialist. So why would he have adopted some strange taijutsu stance. Is he planning to try and match me? Hmpf Yamu, you are a fool if you think you can win this fight with your fists."
With that though Tenge lunges as Yamu with explosive speed. He pushes off with his right leg and runs at high speed toward an unfazed Yamu. Yamu maintains his stance and awaits Tenge's attack. As Tenge gets in range he turns slightly and shifts his weight to his left side and sends an uprising hook punch with his right hand directly at Yamu's face. With a smile on his face Yamu moves with Tenge's punch, remaining only and inch away from his fist. As Tenge then loses his balance from missing the connection, Yamu follows through with a well-placed kick to the back of Tenge's head. As Tenge hits the ground hard, he quickly rolls and recovers with a shocked look upon his face.
"Well Yamu I guess you learned a new trick or two." Tenge checks the severity of the kick and realizes that is was just a glancing blow. "I don't know how you were able to see through my speed and know where I was attacking from but I assure you that it won't happen again."
Having said that, Tenge launches at Yamu even faster and more determined then before. Yamu remains silent with a look of confidence strewn across his face. As he prepares to make his defense against Tenge's second attack, the look on Shin's face catches his attention. His teeth posed in an angry glare in unison with the fire in his eyes. Shin looks directly into Yamu's eyes and then begins to calm down. He closes his eyes and shakes his head in a subtle manner as to not draw too much attention. Yamu nods in acknowledgment and returns his attention back to his opponent, who is now only a few feet away. Yamu switches to a traditional stance and is hit dead on with a heavy left hook from Tenge, sending him tumbling to the ground.
"So I see." Tenge says as he begins to stalk his fallen opponent. "You just got lucky. Stick to what you're good at Yamu, then this will be an interesting fight, otherwise you are just going to embarrass yourself."
"Well then, now that I have your permission, I guess we can let the match begin." Yamu responds as he rises to one knee and makes a hand seal similar to the one used to produce shadow clones. (This seal consists of the same fingers used for Kage Bunshin, crossed and interlocked making an "X" in front of his chest)
Hidden Cloud Style: Rai Bunshin no jutsu! (Lightning Clone)
As Yamu executes the technique, three Lightning clones appear and surround him. Their appearance is almost identical to that of Yamu's, the only decipherableattribute is a brief surge of electricity that surges through the clone every second or so.
"Well then,"Yamu says as he rises to his feet, "Lets get this match started."