Rolling in with the Demonic Armored Monster

"Oh man, I knew this tournament was going to be hard, but this was more than I thought." Minori exclaimed as she and her team are taking a shower together in the locker room.

"Yeah, and I'm sorry that you had to be taken out so soon, Murakumo." Shiki apologized as she exits the shower.

"Don't worry about it, I had no regret in helping out one of my sisters." Murakumo stated, showering with her mask still on.

"I'm just glad we were able to win, those girls are strong as ever." Yozakura said.

"It felt like they were stronger than before." Minori believed.

"You maybe right about that. Kagura was also warning me about Fubuki, it feels like she is up to something much more than hosting this tournament." Yumi mentioned.

"More reason to keep our guards up around that woman and her minions." Yozakura said.

"Speaking of Fubuki, does that mean we'll see more of Neppe fighting Youmas next because I'm pretty sure that's what she said between every match." Shiki recalled that talk.

"Yes, and lucky for us there's a TV in the locker room." Yumi looked up at the TV.

"I hope Neppe isn't seriously hurt. Even with that strange healing factor we saw, he shouldn't be cocky or else he could end up really hurt." Yumi said in a scolding tone.

"I have to agree with you there. It's like he enjoys getting himself hurt just for the thrill of fighting. He needs to learn on how to be more cautious and prepare so he doesn't overuse that power of his." Yozakura stated.

"Yes, exactly as I was thinking." Yumi nodded.

"Wow, if I didn't know any better it's like you two are totally in love with Neppe right now." Shiki teased causing the two to blush like crazy.

"We are not!" Yumi and Yozakura yelled at the same time.

"Attention, Shinobi teams!" Fubuki called out through the broadcast getting everyone's attention.

"While you are resting for the next match of the Shinobi Masters match, let us turn our attention to Neppe to see how far he has gotten so far." Fubuki announced.

"I wonder if we're going to see what other things Neppe can do." Minori said.

"We'll have to watch and see for ourselves." Yozakura watched the TV carefully as it turns onto Neppe.

(Moments Ago, with Neppe)

Neppe is seen walking through the hallway leaving behind several dead bodies of small Youmans he just finishes fighting and they disappeared into mist.

"Okay, now which way should I go now?" Neppe asked as he stumble upon two separate hallways.

Neppe tries to decide on which way to go and thought about flipping a coin to decide which way to go, but he stops when he senses some demonic energy of a Youma and it's a big one coming from the left hallway almost like it's calling to him.

"Looks like I'll be going left then." Dante smirked as he put the coin back in his pocket and walk into the left hallway.

Neppe walk down the hallway sensing the Youma energy is getting stronger and stronger meaning he is definitely going in the right direction, and there's more fun down this hallway too.

Neppe stops when he comes face to face with a door that is about twenty feet tall with spikes on the outer frame, and red all over like it was painted with blood.

"Spooky, that means more fun should be here." Neppe pushed the door to open, but surprise to find that it would not budge.

"Seriously? How am I supposed to get in if the door won't open?" Neppe complained.

"That's because you need to open the lock first, sonny boy." A weirdly man voice said.

Neppe quickly turns around with his hand on the hilt of his sword to see who said that but couldn't find anything that is dangerous and moving in sight as he can sense dark energy close to him.

"I don't think this is the time to be playing I spy." A man said with his head upside-down and close to Neppe on the right.

Neppe instantly pull out his sword reacting on instinct to slice the creepy guy's head off and pointed his blade upward to the right, and the creepy guy has landed on his feet striking a pose like the ones an acrobat would do.

"Hey there, I was only here to greet the lucky devil boy who came to the fight a boss like a boss." The creepy guy laughed.

"Are you someone I'm supposed to be aware of?" Neppe asked with a deadpan expression.

"Hey now, that is just mean. Making old Jester's heart aches in pain as I came all this way to help you a little." The creepy man now reveals to be the name Jester fake cried.

This Jester guy appears to be a tall man wearing a purple dress. His hat has two extensions; one red and one blue, whose tips are orange skulls. His skin is white, has long red nails, and has a long nose. He also holds a staff with a green jewel at the end.

"Jester, huh?" Neppe said, thinking the name could have been better, but somethings can't be chosen in some people's case.

"So, do you know how to open this door?" Neppe asked tapping his sword on the door.

"I sure do!" Jester shouted of excitement, then blitz to Neppe's left.

"But first, I need to warn you of what's behind the door that you must go through in order to move on and up." Jester grinned.

"About a Youma? I already figured that part out when I came here." Neppe mentioned.

"Yes, but this Youma is much different than the ones you fought so far throughout this tower and it's fiercer like some you barely survived before this whole Shinobi Masters Tournament!" Jester stated.

"You need to be ready for whatever fate is going to give you when you open that door." Jester tapped the door with his staff.

"If I wasn't ready, then I would have been dead by the other monsters I fought." Neppe pointed out.

"Good point, but it wouldn't hurt to be cautious." Jester smirked with an eyebrow raised.

"Though I'm sorry to say that your little toothpick may not be up to the challenge." Jester trailed his finger on his sword.

"Back off my Akai Fubuki!" Neppe threw Jester off with a judo shoulder throw.

"HAHAHAHA! Wow, like to play rough." Jester laughed.

"Ew, I'm only into girls." Neppe grossed.

"Rude! I don't swing that way either." Jester said before jumping off the floor and landing next to large bump thing of the door.

"But I still don't think that sword can handle the job." Jester said pointing his staff at Neppe.

"Care to see how strong it is?" Neppe asked getting into his fighting stance with a glare.

"I thought you never ask!" Jester bowed laughing.

Neppe charged forward and swings down his sword to slice this crazy guy in two, but Jesper dodges it and allow the sword to hit the bump thing which causes it to turn red and the door opens.

"HAHAHA! Well done, boy! Well done, all it took was to use that sword of yours as a key!" Jester laughed of joy.

"You could have told me that like five seconds ago." Neppe said.

"Oh, and where's the fun in that? It's like taking a shortcut which everyone knows it's not so fun when you could miss something exciting!" Jester pointed out appearing all over Neppe.

"Now, I best be on my way. You have a big challenge ahead and I'm sure your lady fans are expecting you." Jester smirked chuckling.

Jester laughs on while dancing away from the scene and disappear from view as he jumps into the air with only the echo sound of his laughter remains for a moment.

"Damn, I usually like clowns, but I'm having mix feelings about this one." Neppe said.

Neppe walks through the opened door and now find himself inside a large wide room with carved rams around like he just entered an indoor skating part.

"Attention, Shinobi teams! While you are resting for the next match of the Shinobi Masters match, let us turn our attention to Neppe to see how far he has gotten so far." Fubuki announced.

"And I thought the older sibling gets all the attention." Neppe rolled his eyes.

Then he started sensing the huge demonic energy again from before and instantly turn around to see something big and fast coming at him, and he jumps out of the way to dodge what appears to be a big spiky ball of death as it jumps from one of the rams.

It unfolds itself revealing to be a giant monster version of a Pangolin with its armor hide color silver while the body is dark red and yellow as it roars at Neppe and holding its claws up.

"So, this one like to play ball." Neppe chuckled.

(Music: Indestructible, Disturbed)

"Come on, let see who's the better ball sports master!" Neppe taunted.

The giant Pangolin Youma roars in rage as it threw its claws at Neppe who jumps back to dodge them and it continues to attack forward, then Neppe charges forward under the claws and slash at the palm making a big cut and causing the Pangolin Youma to scream in pain.

"Oh, don't like that? Then how about some lead in your stomach!" Neppe took out his two red guns firing at the Youma.

The Pangolin Youma defend itself with its claws and armored arms for a little moment before jumping back to form into the ball form and rolling away, the Pangolin Youma rolls around Neppe and past some ram and jump from one.

Neppe quickly runs to the top of a tall ram for a higher view with his aim right on as he starts shooting at the rolling monster, but the bullets bounce off the armor and made flat dense on them too upon impact.

"Aw, playing hard to get?" Neppe joked.

Neppe starts jumping from one ram to another while shooting more bullets at the Pangolin Youma even though the bullets have no effect on the monster.

The Pangolin Youma turns around ramming right through the back of the ram Neppe was standing on and Neppe jumps away in time.

"Sorry, Scarlet and Crimson, looks like your shots aren't doing anything to that freak." Neppe said to his two guns and puts them away.

"Let see how you like to deal with this." Neppe pulled out his Akabi Fubuki.

Neppe jumps down to the ground seeing the rolling Youma charging at him as he runs toward the dangerous monster, he jumps to the left narrowly avoiding the sharp spikes and slash onto the armor creating little sparks though it didn't do anything to the armor as well.

"Damn, talk about eating your iron." Neppe surprised.

Neppe saw the Pangolin Youma turning around and rolling attack again to the half-Youma boy as he starts running fast, but the monster ball is catching up to him as Neppe tries to think of a plan to beat that thing, like getting past its armor.

Then Neppe saw one ram and decided to try something crazy hoping it just might work as he runs to the top and jumps as the rolling Pangolin rolls after him.

"Let see how you like this!" Neppe swinged around and clash his sword against the rolling armored ball of death.

Neppe manages to push it down back to the ground though the Youma is still rolling in its ball form as the Youma Hunter himself has suddenly landed on top forcing to run on the Youma.

"Okay, guess we're just rolling with it!" Neppe surprised to find himself like this.

(With Gessen Shinobis)

"Wow, look at him go!" Murakumo cheered.

"I bet he's going to try make that big Youma dizzy from all that rolling." Minori guessed exciting.

"I don't think that would work consider that Youma is build to become a rolling ball of death like that, not to mention its armor is very strong too." Yozakura pointed out.

"It's going to be, like, super tough for Neppe to deal some serious damage on the Youma." Shiki worried.

"I fear you are right. Neppe is going to have to come up with something to attack that monster." Yumi said as she silently prey for Neppe to be alright.

(With Fubuki and the Twins)

"It would appear my brother is actually having trouble with this Youma." Fubuki grinned.

"I'm more surprised that Arkham was able to find a Youma like that, must have been very hard for him to bring it here." Gekko commented.

Then Senko gets a call from her phone and picks it up seeing that it's coming from Arkham himself and answer.

"Yes. Really? Of course." Senko nodded and handed the phone to Fubuki.

"It's Arkham, he says it's important." Senko informed and Fubuki took the phone without taking her eyes off the screen.

"Yes?" Fubukin wondered what Arkham wants now.

"Forgive me for disturbing you, my lady, but I must inform you that we may have some unexpected guests in the building." Arkham informed.

"Really now, how many?" Fubuki asked.

"Six. Five of them could be Homura's Crimson Squad and the sixth could be a Jonin Shinobi that has not gone to the island as planned." Arkham believed.

"I see, they must be here to rescue the Hanzo girls which could be my brother's plan all along." Fubuki narrowed her eyes at Neppe on the screen.

"Should I send some Youmas to kill them?" Arkham asked.

"No, leave them be for now. We still have our big "guard" with the Hanzo girls." Fubuki smirked.

"Her. I understand." Arkham said before hanging up.

"Lady Fubuki, he's going something." Senko pointed at the screen of Neppe stabbing his sword on the armor.

(With Neppe)

"Come on! Come on!" Neppe tried again and again stabbing his sword onto the armor trying to see if he can hit the right spot.

Then suddenly one stab manages to get right into the line showing the tiny weak spot in the armor that is between the lines, one stab causes the Pangolin to roar in pain and bounces up and down fiercely as Neppe holds on to dear life.

"Okay, that worked." Neppe said.

The Pangolin managed to shake Neppe off from its back and unfold itself to glare at the Youma hunter with serious anger of wanting to kill this one right now, it roars at him louder this time.

"Now's my chance!" Neppe charged toward the Pangolin Youma.

The Pangolin Youma fold itself back into ball form and seem to have crushed Neppe into the ground hard.

(Mikagura Team)

"Oh no, he got crushed!" Hanabi gasped.

"Don't be foolish, he's not done." Naraku stated.

"She's right, what you saw may have looked like he got crush, but that is not the case." Kagura said.

Then they saw the Pangolin Youma bouncing around and twitching almost like it's in pain until it bounces high and unfold itself revealing Neppe stabbing his sword into its stomach.

(Hebijo Team)

"I see, so he jumped inside the moment that Youma was gonna become a ball again to attack it from the inside." Miyabi figured out.

"Wow! That is so daring!" Ryona admired Neppe's bravery as the others are impressed as well.

(With Neppe)

Neppe swung down his sword that also move the giant Pangolin monster to be thrown down to the ground causing cracks to appear around it.

"Time to put an end to this!" Neppe declared as his red katana glows.

"Secret Ninja Art: Blood Comet!" Neppe dived toward the Pangolin while it's still on its backside and stab in the stomach so hard, he popped the monster in two.

"B-Blood of the… T-Traitor!" The Pangolin Youma muttered before lying lifeless.

(Music End)

Neppe place his sword on his back and notice a ball of light appearing and floating toward him as he reaches out his hand, then suddenly he is now holding a silver spiky ball that is just like the Youma he just defeated though smaller.

Neppe smirks decided to give this a try as he starts bouncing the silver ball on his feet and doing some crazy kick tricks like a professional soccer player, he kicks it to a ram making a hole and it came back to him. He holds out his hand again as the spiky ball then forms into a spiky gauntlet with sharp claws as Neppe swings around his right arm slashing at the arm and slashes onto the ground leaving deep claw marks.

"Now this is awesome." Neppe excited as he got himself a new weapon to play with.


KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Neppe had a tough time dealing with a Youma that was tougher than himself except for the exposed parts that was not covered in armor, and it would appear Neppe has also gained himself a new weapon that he will use for his journey to the top.

Along the way, he will also meet up with a certain group of absent Shinobi team and one Shinobi teacher.

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