Chapter 30: Toguro Say What?
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The stadium had gone quiet. Toguro's sudden announcement had flabbergasted most and made all the others curious. A smug, yet very serious grin stretched across Toguro's face as he tossed away his shirt and sunglasses, ready to begin the fight. As stubborn as ever, both Koto and Juri remembered the exact print inside of the tournament's official rule book and they both broke the increasing silence cooperatively.
"Toguro, as stated in the rule book, you may not fight two other fighters at the same time," both Juri and Koto announced as if they had a telepathic link.
"Hm, who wrote that?" Toguro turned his attention to the duel announcers and began a slow walk in that direction.
"It is hand written and mass printed by the committee of the Dark Tournament," responded Juri, who had fallen backwards and was crawling away from Toguro feverishly.
Toguro smiled manically, flexing his muscles as he brought them upward. "The committee? Oh, they must've been the ones I murdered."
"No way," input Naruto on the other side of the stadium, feeling like a fly against the hippo that is Toguro.
As the crowd began to return to whispering, Toguro stopped as he was finally in front of Koto and Juri. "It seems you two are the last of the committee's minions. Goodbye."
Most watched while others turned away as Toguro picked up both Juri and Koto, throwing them into a far away wall, most likely killing them. With them out of the way, George Saotome took the reigns as head announcer and Toguro quickly entered the ring, Naruto and Yusuke doing the same. Finally the time for the match had come.
"Okay everybody; here it is, the grand finale, I hope, to the Dark Tournament. Fighters, you may begin now!" George bellowed into his microphone.
To start the match, Yusuke ran in, punching Toguro hard in the face, giving Naruto the okay to kick him into the air, which he pulled off. Both Naruto and Yusuke then leaped into the air, launching Toguro back into the ground. Intent on keeping Toguro grounded, Yusuke charged a Spirit Shotgun and launched it into the ground, hitting where Toguro had landed dead on. Following up was Naruto with a huge, precise blow of hurricane force wind courtesy of Kazemougi. Both Yusuke and Naruto landed, panting, waiting, watching for Toguro.
"Do you think he's dead?" Yusuke asked Naruto while looking at the capacious crater in the epicenter of the arena.
"Shut up, Yusuke. That's a huge cliché. For all we know, Toguro could pop out of the ground right now!" Naruto shouted, very nervous.
Suddenly, a cacophonous noise echoed around the entire arena, causing assorted whispers to accumulate around, most including questions about what was going on. Just as the noise had gone off, a figure blew through the ring's center, dropping in front of Yusuke and Naruto.
"I was only at thirty percent boys. Now I've pumped it up to seventy, can you keep up?" Toguro said, gripping Naruto by the hair, as well as Yusuke, and throwing the both of them across the ring.
First to get up, Yusuke charged a spirit gun that landed directly on Toguro, shattering the ring around him. Naruto tossed in three explosive tags, creating an even bigger explosion. Even though the explosion had been huge, Toguro still came out unscathed.
"If that's the best you've both got, then I might as well just kill the both of you," Toguro charged his muscles up to eighty percent muscle mass and stormed at his opponents. 'I'm going to kill the blond haired boy and unlock Yusuke's potential. I want a real fight.'
In a horribly fast split second, Toguro charged his right hand with spirit energy and uppercut Naruto in the chest, right where his seal had been placed twelve years ago. Abruptly, everything went black as Naruto fell to the ground. No sounds penetrated his mind as he lay vertically in the sewer water inside of Kyuubi's humble layer.
"I've done it now Kyuubi, eh? I can't fight this at all. I'm down for the count," Naruto chuckled, eyes closed while lying down.
"K-Kit, is t-that you. I'm l-losing my handle on my chakra. Toguro slightly inactivated part of the seal. It w-will change back to normal, bu-" Kyuubi was cut off as Naruto was consumed in a fiery orange and red chakra, instantly waking up.
As he stood, Naruto examined the fact that he had gone back to his spirit form, Yusuke had boosted in power greatly, and Toguro had increased in size even more. The fusion of Kyuubi's spirit powers and Naruto approached Yusuke to formulate a new strategy.
Up in the stands, Itachi, sharingan activated, kept Sasuke and Gaara shielded from the demon energy radiating off of Toguro. He, Gaara, and especially Sasuke were amazed at Naruto and his powers.
"Oh, it seems the blond haired kid woke up. I guess I'll kill you as well as Yusuke," Toguro chuckled while continuing to let his caliginous energy run rampant around the stadium, disintegrating weak demons abroad.
"Yusuke, I can get a hold on Toguro. If I do that, then you can kill Toguro. Just follow my lead," Naruto disappeared and reappeared behind Toguro. "Hey big man, get ready to have your ass handed to you."
Yusuke watched as Naruto used huge amounts of energy to hold Toguro In place. He charged a huge spirit wave in his hands and ran as fast as he could push himself, hurling his hand forward tearing through Toguro's stomach as Naruto leaped away. The strength of the blast was enough to engulf half of the stadium in a magnificent light. As the rays cleared, it could be seen that Toguro had been blown to smithereens, his incarcerated body lying on the ground. Standing by the corpse were Yusuke, Naruto, and Sakyo, who had stolen one of Naruto's kunai.
"It was a fair bet. Team Urameshi, you've all won and I congratulate you, though I have one last surprise," Sakyo finished by pushing a button hidden inside his coat and stabbing himself through the heart with Naruto's kunai, killing himself.
"He's hit a button connected to the stadium. This whole place is going to blow up," Kurama examined, telling everyone and leading to a hurried evacuation.
Hurriedly, as many living creatures as possible evacuated the explosive stadium. By the time Yusuke, Naruto and company reached the docks, the stadium exploded, torching the land around it.
"This island has an underground passage full of explosives. We've got three hours, most likely," Itachi spoke, telling of what he saw on a much earlier investigation.
Everyone entered the docked boat that seemed to be conveniently waiting for them. The captain pulled out and everyone scattered to talk.
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Three Days Later
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For the first time in a while, in Naruto's opinion, Team 0 walked through the gates to Konaha.
"Uh, finally," Naruto said. "Now I get a chance to lay down for a bit. Yep, life is good."
Little did Naruto know, the Head Medic had just been murdered, the recently recovered potion stolen.
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End of Chapter 30
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