Summary: Recca, Kagero, and a SI are placed in the world of the Nine Tails
Crossover: Flame of Recca, Naruto, Hitman: Contracts
Disclaimer: I don't own what other people do. I do own me, though. The Thousand Fist Mountain and Sea belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sama, and the Naruto-verse belongs to Kishimoto Masashi.
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BandsThisWasWrittenTo: Karma To Burn
Pre-fic Comments:
animewatcher: Thanks for the comment. This is the first time I think I've read of Sasuke getting this kinda shock, scared straight so to speak.
ColdCypher: It wouldn't be very nice, rubbing Kakashi's face in it... as a ninja, he's superb. As a teacher, he sucks. Thanks for the comment.
lone wolf blade: Thanks! I'll try and at least finish it up to the end of the Exam.
"I'm doing you a favor
As I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry
But I don't even trust me
There's bad news creeping up
And you feel a sudden chill
How do you do? My name is Trouble
I'm coming in for the kill...
And you know I will."
Megadeth, "Train Of Consequences", Youthanasia
VS
KIRISAWA FUUKO
"You're going to lose, girl," Dosu said, staring at the short kunoichi with his unwrapped eye.
"Hah," Fuuko said. "You'd have to wait a thousand years to talk to one as beautiful as I!"
"GOOOOO FUUKO," Domon roared from the gallery.
"Match Two, begin," Genma said.
Dosu immediately swung his fist towards Fuuko, who leapt back several meters.
"Scared," Dosu asked, taunting her.
Fuuko's eyes narrowed. He'd meant to miss with that, which was why she had been wary of it. "Only of your body odour!"
"Fuuko's playing with him," Recca pronounced.
"H-How can you tell," Hinata asked.
"She hasn't finished him off yet, that's how," Chouji said. "She's fast, and he's as slow as me."
Recca nodded. "She'll pull out her senbon, soon."
"She's a medic-nin," Asuma Sarutobi asked.
"No," I answered. "She just... likes to play."
"Like a cat," Naruto added helpfully.
"So slow," Fuuko taunted. "So painfully slow."
"Say that after you've lost," Dosu roared, leaping towards her and pulling his right sleeve up to show that peculiar bracer he wore. With a swing of his arm, vibrations shook the air.
She ran behind him, laughing as she drew out a handful of senbon, licking the sharp tips. His mass blocked the area effect of the sound attack. "Boring, boring, boring."
As Dosu turned to face her, she struck. Flinging the senbon with precision, the long needles struck in a line down the near-centre of his back, temporarily paralysing the Sound-nin. One was at the base of his back, two were in the middle, and one was in the lower neck. Slowly, the sound-nin toppled and fell onto his face, twitching slightly.
"You can't move until they're taken out," Fuuko informed him helpfully. "And, since this is one on one, there's no one to take them out for you."
"Winner - Kirisawa Fuuko," Genma pronounced. "Loser - Dosu of the Sound."
Fuuko cheered, running up to meet us as the medic-nin picked up Dosu, laying him face down on the stretcher to avoid pushing in the senbon.
"Next match," Genma said, looking up at the electronic display on the wall, "is..."
VS
ZAKU
I grinned, as one of the bug-boy's team mates walked down to the arena. He was dressed in black shorts and a black t-shirt. Heavy iron manacles were around his arms and shins, runes engraved into them. A long sledgehammer was in a sling on his back, having a workmanlike appearance with nothing to beautify the cast iron head, or the long handle. It could have been used by one of Tazuna's workers, going by the look of it. His movements were... implacable, in a way, possessing more momentum than even Rock Lee. Raiha's speed, on the other hand, was truly pitiful.
"Third match, begin," Genma announced, moving backwards.
The Sound-nin ran towards Raiha, an arm sweeping around to bitch-slap him.
Raiha lifted his right arm in answer, Zaku's wrist stopping dead as it hit the hefty manacle. "Weak."
"Shut the hell up," Zaku said, backing up a step and pointing both of his palms towards Raiha. "Take this!"
"ZANKUUHA!"
Two blasts of compressed air hit Raiha, and once the dust settled we saw that he had been moved back a meter.
"Well," Raiha said. "Now it's my turn, eh?"
"He's in for it now," Kakashi said.
"What do you mean," I asked. "I don't know much about him."
"His clan originated from outside the allied countries," Asuma explained. "They might be slow, but the Lokison clansmen can dish it out like nobody's business."
Raiha crossed his forearms over his chest, manacles touching. The jagged runes, distinctly non-Japanese in appearance, flared red. "Releasing the seal by five, until the target has been defeated."
"What the hell," Zaku asked. "Eat this! Zankuuha!"
The blast hit the Leaf-nin, who ignored it completely. Roaring like an animal, he swung the heavy hammer towards the shorter ninja. Zaku dodged it barely, and a great cloud of dust billowed up from where the concrete slab they were on was shattered.
"Are you trying to fucking kill me," Zaku asked.
"A one trick pony," I snorted. "Pathetic."
"He didn't bank on someone as immovable as Raiha," Kagero-kaasan said. "If he had any kunai, or other bladed weapons, he could try and wear away Raiha, but blunt force like his air cannon attacks won't work."
"Why doesn't he focus the attack, then," Recca asked.
"If he hasn't so far, I doubt he's going to pull something like that out soon."
Zaku pulled out a kunai, one of the three he had, and ran at the Leaf-nin. He saw the hammer coming around to hit him, and tried to move out of it's path, finding that his momentum was too much to completely avoid the strike.
Everyone gasped as the long, oaken handle soundly struck the lank Zaku, compressing him against the ground as a great cloud of stone-dust rose from where the head struck the slab. Above the heavy crash of the hammer could be heard several snapping noises.
"Several ribs have just been broken," Raiha said, resting the hammer against his right shoulder. "If you move too fast, you'll puncture your lungs. Try and fight, and your heart is in serious danger."
"Winner, Lokison Raiha," Genma announced as the medic-nin came to take away the broken Zaku. The senbon was shifted to the other corner of his mouth. "The next match is..."
"Brutal," Ino gasped.
I whistled. "Wouldn't want him pissed off at me."
"Yes, the light of his youth shines brightly," Rock Lee said.
VS NARU SHIKAMARU
Strangely, Naru seemed to me to appear harried, flustered by some outward force. I voiced this opinion.
"He's mumbling to himself," Kakashi observed.
"I wonder what's up with him," Naruto asked.
Shikamaru scowled at the apparition. "I've played Go with you for four days straight now! You're so troublesome -- go trouble someone else for once!"
"Aw, just one more game of Go," Fujiwaruno Sai begged.
"Later," Shikamaru sighed.
"Yatta," the hyperactive ghost said, jumping around.
Everyone watched, as Naru quickly analysed Yoroi's special ability to absorb chakra.
I yawned as the lazy shadow-user used his Kagemane jutsu on the other Genin, knocking Yoroi out by making him strike his head against the wall of the arena.
"That was easy," Ino said. "Go, Shikamaru!"
I winced, as my head shook.
"Time to pay the price," a voice whispered.
"Why didn't you ask when I did it," I whispered, clutching my head as I sank to my knees.
"Uchiha-san has told me some interesting things of your bargain with him," the voice continued. "I've been... talking with him. The price this time is just energy."
"This time?"
"I am the Gatekeeper -- the Named have no price save their acceptance, but a toll must be paid for the passage of the mortal," the voice said. "Deny your debt, and it will increase tenfold."
"Do it," I whispered.
Blackness claimed me.
"...ra, Matora -- MATORA," I heard Kaasan screaming as I slowly regained consciousness.
Taking stock of my surroundings, I found myself at home in bed, okaasan holding me tightly to her. "'Kaasan?"
She looked at me. "You gave us all a shock, collapsing like that. What happened?"
I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. "I added another jutsu to the Mindrape I used on Uchiha-san -- the price was higher than I thought it would be."
She gave me a penetrating look. While the ninja native to Konoha would simply assume I meant energy or chakra, we were of the ancient Hokage ninja, steeped in magic.
"Just chakra, nothing more," I assured her.
"Good," she said, settling back on my bed. "Do you want to know what happened after you passed out?"
"Please," I asked.
"Naruto-kun won against the Yamazaki girl -- she was foolish enough to enter his mind, and was almost ripped up by the you-know-what. Recca-kun won against the Sound kunoichi using his flames. Domon-kun lost to the kunoichi of the Sand, Temari, a fan-user. Rock Lee won against Haruno Sakura. Aburame won against Inuzoku Kiba with swarms of insects, and Hokuro, Aburame's team mate, won against Misumi-leaf-nin using twin kodachi. Gaara of the Desert won against Tenten with sand tentacles, and Kankuro of the Sand defeated Chouji using puppets and chakra strings."
"You missed the Hyuuga, kaasan," I noted. "Nice speech, by the way."
"Hinata-chan," Kagero-kaasan trailed off. Her eyes hardened. "Hyuuga Neji ripped her apart, both physically and psychologically. Family should not attack family like that."
"I'll second that," I muttered. "What next?"
"Hokage-same announced that the Third Test would be in a month's time, and also announced the match-ups," Kagero said, getting up.
"And," I asked.
"Oh, you want to know who you're up against? Hyuuga Neji," Kagero-kaasan asked playfully. Her tone hardened. "Instruct him in what happens to those who turn their back on family, my son."
Post-fic Comments:
Yes, I'm being lazy. I don't really feel like writing out all those matches. Too troublesome, to steal a line from Naru-san and Alex Darkfire. As for Kage Houshi's attitude towards Neji... after searching for her children for hundreds of years, well. Think about it.