Mental Exercise: Anger
Grandma called for everyone to meet her at the Ramen shop.
When everyone arrived, she emerged from the shop with a cup of tea.
"Okay everyone, today we shall all have a mental exercise."
"Are we gonna sit around meditating or something?" Neji asked.
Grandma just smiled, and slowly waved her hand.
Everyone felt an invisible wave slam into them, then nothing.
They all awoke in a sort of transparent castle, with pathways going...everywhere.
"Where are we?" Naruto yelled.
"In the Astral Plane." Grandma's voice said.
"In this mental exercise, you all must work together to get through those black voids in your soul."
"So...how will these problems present themselves?" Sakura asked.
"They will manifest themselves in the form of large beasts. The emotions that you all feel feed them, anger, hate, despair, sadness, all those emotions put together is what makes these apparitions so powerful. Know this...NONE of you can beat these things by yourselves. Feel free to try, but you will only be defeated. After you beat each one, they will drop a key, that you will need to open the final door and face all of your troubles put together. Now...begin!"
Their pathways were narrowed to one that led to a large room.
There were purple lights that spawned little imp demons.
As both parties met, the imps were knocked away.
When everyone (this is all the former 9 genin, including Bara, Sarah and Shawn) entered the large chamber, the doors on either side slammed shut. There was a pillar of light, followed by the small purple lights. From the pillar emerged a large Minotaur with fire around it.
"What is that supposed to be?" Rock Lee asked.
"I see fire, must be anger..."Sarah said,"or hate."
The imps attacked first, yet when defeated another one took their place.
The minotaur charged.
Everyone moved.
Neji and Hinata activated their byakugan, Bara and Sasuke, the sharingan, and Shawn did both.
"This is bad." Neji said.
"What?"
"It has no chakra points." Hinata said.
"This isn't a physical being...purely mental." Grandma's voice rang.
The minotaur roared and charged at them again.
"Wind Style: Dancing Blades!" Sarah yelled.
A whirlwind appeared around the minotaur as invisible blades sliced at it.
It roared in pain then turned its attention towards Sarah.
"Oh..crap..." she said.
It charged at her, and Shawn, left arm a giant spiked stick, stabbed at it, but was blasted back.
"What the-"
"Anger is impervious to physical attacks I guess." Sarah said dodging it.
"Then how did wind hurt it?" Naruto asked.
"Wind is a calm element...passive and soothing. It's like the opposite of fire almost." Shikamaru said.
"Okay, let's try using wind more then. Who else uses wind jutsu?"
"I do." Bara chimed.
"Okay...everyone try to keep it off them while they take it down."
The Minotaur, not paying attention, was staring at the wall (it's pretty stupid), until Neji, Kiba and Naruto rammed it.
Their clothes were ablaze for a moment.
"Okay...so we definetely can't touch it." Kiba deduced.
Bara and Shikamaru noticed how the flames were momentarily absent.
"Sarah," she said, "Let's get rid of those flames."
"Sure why not? I'm feeling alittle hot anyway."
"Wind Style: Hurricane Wave!" Sarah yelled.
"Wind Style: Cloud's Flight!" Bara yelled.
A burst of wind shook the chamber, knocking everyone off their feet and causing the minotaur to stagger.
The flames were off, the minotaur noticed this a bit too late.
"NOW!" Shikamaru yelled.
Naruto was first,"Rasengan!"
Sasuke next, "Chidori!"
Kiba, "Fang over Fang!"
Choji, "Mega Palm Thrust"
Neji, "Eight Trigams Air Palm"
Rock Lee, "Leaf Whirlwind!"
The minotaur flew back into a wall, and rose up, with minor injuries.
"What? After all that it's still able to stand!" Ino said with shock.
"You all have alot of anger...it'll take more than that do defeat this one." Grandma reminded them.
"The Hell! Ready guys?" Shawn said.
"Been." Sarah and Bara said with smiles.
"I'll go first, then you Sarah, and finally Bara."
"Okay."
"Gotcha."
The minotaur was rising from the rubble when Shawn yelled ,"Death Grip Jutsu!"
A giant black hand shot up from the ground and grabbed the Minotaur.
It struggled to get free, but that only made the hand squeeze tighter.
"Sarah!"
"Right! Asphyxiating breeze!"
"Hold your breaths!" Sarah yelled as a gust of suffocating wind roared past her.
When it hit the minotaur, whose mouth was wide open from the roaring, it was silent, now struggling to breath and get free.
"Okay Bara!"
Bara's hand began to glow with a yellow aura.
She sped past everyone leaving a fault in the floor.
She jumped and was about to hit the stuggling creature when she remembered something.
The aura disappeared and she landed right in front of it's face.
She hugged it's neck, and it vanished, leaving behind a red key.
Everyone was too stunned to speak.
"How do- what the-" Naruto babbled.
"I remember what Grandmama told me to stop my anger, hug something. It's so simple."
"It actually is when you think about it. I just never thought it would work against that." Shikamaru said.
"Ah...that is the fault of assumption." Grandma's voice rang.
"Okay, let's go get the other keys!" Naruto said.
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