Chapter 25: Naruto vs. Imajin and Gao
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Yu Yu Hakusho.
A/N: In this chapter, Naruto will be fighting the two characters that never got to fight for Team Rokuyokai in the series, Imajin and Gao. Their abilities will be completely custom made. Concerning Sasuke and Gaara, they've been able to put a huge focus on their training and their motivation solely being that Naruto could be getting stronger than them and better. Both Sasuke and Gaara have gotten a lot better, but they wont be fighting for a little while. About the masked fighter, this person is the teams alternate that met up with Naruto and Yusuke on their hike to the boat pick up area.
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Yusuke felt like there was an earthquake around him as he was shaken over an over. He opened his eyes to find Kuwabara shouting and Naruto rubbing his eyes. When he decided to tune in Kuwabara's annoyingly loud voice, he heard two words, late and tournament. This gave him the motivation to go ahead and get up.
"Hiei, Kurama, and that Masked Fighter are probably already there, Yusuke. Let's get there as fast as possible. Want to race?" Naruto ended up challenging Yusuke.
"I'm up for anything, Naruto. Ready, set, go!" Yusuke took off with Naruto, leaving Kuwabara by himself.
"Guys? Guys! Wait up!" Kuwabara yelled while hustling out of the room.
Quickly, Naruto and Yusuke sped through the halls and down the flights of stairs they found accessible. They rocketed through the lobby and continued foot racing outside all the way to the stadium while Kuwabara kept up somewhat farther behind, yelling. With one final burst per racer, they made it to the stadium main gates at the same time, thus resulting in a tie. The both of them snuck past the security and walked into the stadium, only to meet up with the rest of their team. Kuwabara entered shortly after.
"They're asking for our team. I suggest we go now," Hiei told the team before they each leaped over the railing and onto the turf around the ring on the other side, away from Team Rokuyokai.
The announcer gave her usual introduction speech before speaking of blood and gore to get the demon crowd going. Her speech eventually led into a short background behind both teams and she then told each team to pick whoever was to go first.
"I'll start. If lucky, I'll obliterate the entire team, saving us some trouble," Hiei half bragged and half suggested.
"No, I'll start, that Zeru guy's been keeping his eye on you this entire time. You should save your energy and fight him," Naruto turned away and stepped onto the ring.
"Don't worry Naruto, if you die, I'll be here to take your place!" Yusuke yelled to Naruto, laughing.
Naruto laughed right back and held back the rest of it when he approached the center of the ring. The crowd around him began laughing at Naruto being just a pint size kid, but he blocked it out. Sitting not too far away from Naruto were Itachi, Sasuke, and Gaara, who were all astounded to see Naruto standing in the ring.
"Okay, it seems Team Rokuyokai has sent in Imajin and Team Urameshi has sent in Naruto. Let the match begin!" the announcer called before watching the fight intently.
"Like, man, I'm going to kill you with my hair, because it's my, like, power, man," Imajin, the junkie-like person, said.
"This is going to suck," Naruto whispered under his breath before disappearing.
"Like, dude, I can, like, totally see you," Imajin stated, pushing his demonic energy to his hair.
While Naruto tried to find an opportunity to attack, Imajin bent over and his hair extended and turned into a needle-like form and launched at Naruto. Naruto unsheathed Kazemougi from it's sheath on his back and prepared to slice the hair in two, but, instead, his sword was knocked from his hand by the apparently indestructible hair.
'If Naruto keeps this up, he'll be murdered in a few minutes,' Sasuke observed while watching the fight.
"Like, dude, I think I'll totally kill you now, man," Imajin said before transforming into his actual demon appearance, which was just a change of skin color and a boost in his energy.
"Great, I'm going to have to try twice as hard if I'm going to beat him," Naruto continued to talk to himself. "But I don't think I need to take my Spirit Ring off. With strategy, I've got him."
"Now, man, take this. Demon Hair Super Strike!" Imajin screamed in a now demonically charged voice.
The now very sharp hair spun around while being launched towards Naruto and successfully impaled Naruto through his right side and kept going, nailing Naruto against the outer wall. Though, Naruto suddenly disappeared in a poof of smoke, confusing the crowd. While Imajin looked around frantically to find his opponent, the real Naruto reappeared behind him and punched him as hard as possible in the back, sending him out of the ring.
"It looks like Imajin is down and out of the ring, so, I'll start the count. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, ei-" the announcer was stopped when Imajin stood up and went back into the ring.
"Whoa, man, that was sweet, but I've still got something left."
'He acts like he's unfazed by my last attack. I guess that means I need to try a lot harder than I am.'
"Like, dude, when I was on that ground, I planned my, like, next attack. Look down," Imajin told Naruto, arms crossed.
"It seems like Imajin has planned a move that will bring a gruesome death to Naruto," the announcer announce, garnering a loud, cheering, response from the crowd, excluding Itachi, Sasuke, and Gaara.
In a flash, in many different spots on the ring, very sharp hair launched through the ground and into the air, hitting Naruto and nailing him, sending him flying onto the ground. The announcer began counting, but Naruto stood up, bleeding slightly and entered the ring before she reached ten. He did the proper hand signs and yelled.
"Multi Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto shouted before multiplying by ten and spreading out around the whole ring. "Eat this, Imajin! Demon Gun!"
Over ten medium sized balls of demon and spirit energy launched at Imajin, all hitting him and wiping him out. A sizzling Imajin lay unconscious outside of the ring, thus cueing the announcer to start counting. When she reached ten, she announced the match over and Team Urameshi the winner. Naruto sat down, happy the match was over and then picked himself up to walk back over to his teammates, but he was stopped when an oversized member of Team Rokuyokai stepped into the ring and called Naruto over.
"Puny boy, I want to fight you to avenge Imajin," Gao said in an even more moronic tone than Kuwabara.
"If you insist," Naruto coolly responded.
"Oh come on, he gets to fight twice? That's unfair," Kuwabara spat while stomping his feet.
"Oh shut up, Kuwabara. That demon is just all muscle and nothing to back it up. It'd be a waste fighting him," Yusuke kicked Kuwabara while explaining the situation.
"Yusuke is telling the truth, Kuwabara. That demon must've just been picked up at a pick up some to fill an empty spot on the team," Kurama examined.
The announcer told both fighters to start and Gao immediately began to run at Naruto, intent on kicking him and breaking his spine in the process, but Naruto easily dodged and ran over to the part of the ring where his sword was lying and picked it up. Gao jogged right back over to Naruto and charged a punch that he then threw when Naruto came into sight, but Naruto crouched down and stabbed his sword forward, impaling Gao through the stomach. Just as the demon crowd began to boo and Team Urameshi began to slightly celebrate, Gao sent a right hook at Naruto, hitting him and knocking him hard into the concrete ring.
"Stabbing me is useless unless you hit me in my only weak place," Gao laughed while punching Naruto senseless in the stomach.
"Hey, ref, stop the match. He's going to die," Yusuke attempted to get the announcers attention but she ignored him.
While on the verge of loosing consciousness, Naruto used his right middle finger to slip off his Spirit Ring on his right index finger, resulting in Naruto spirit energy to rise. He secretly charged a large quantity of spirit energy in his right index finger and pointed it at Gao.
"Demon Cannon…" Naruto quietly whispered before going white in the eyes.
"Huh, what's this?" Gao wondered as Naruto mumbled until a huge shot of demon and spirit energy went right through his chest, shattering all of his ribs and exploding all of his vitals, including his weak point, his appendix.
Yusuke hopped onto the arena and told the announcer to hurry up and call the match over, which she did when she noticed Gao had a huge hole in his stomach. Kuwabara and Yusuke lifted Naruto up and set him down away from the ring, allowing him time to rest, because he needed it.
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Narrator: With two Rokuyokai members down for the count, can Team Urameshi pull through and win? And what is Sasuke doing with a charged Chidori? Find out on the next chapter of The Venture of Four.
End of Chapter 25