A/N: A quick note of warning just thought I would say that this chapter of the fan fic gets quite dark, and the tale of the character it's centered around is not a happy one. But I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 14 Chuunin Exam Part 4: From the Past to the Present
It was a night like any other night, clear sky with the stars sparkling and the full moon out lighting the village of Shadow. But it was going to be a changing point for two people, a couple to be precise, those two being Kaiser Garyuu and Izumi. Garyuu who was a direct descendent of the Ryuu clan, the mark he bared was like any other typical clan member that of a Dragons Claw upon a part of his body, his was on his back left shoulder. He himself was a kind decent man who worked hard to gain trust in the people, to show he was not of the Ryuu clan that everyone believed them to be.
He stood tall and always so proud, despite other's views he always went on. Izumi is a typical women, who is very strong willed and if push comes to shove she will shove back. Other then that she is a bright woman who has a very uplifting and cheerful personality, on top of that very strong in chakra manipulation and knowledge of jutsu's and hand seals. She knew her great ability with chakra would surely pass down onto her child, who ever he or she may be. The two had been married now for a few years, and on this night they where going to give birth to a child into the dragon clan.
Garyuu felt even more proud then he ever had before, knowing that there home would be filled with the pitter patter of feet running about. But just how wrong he was, "Okay push Izumi!" instructed the doctor as he nearly had the boy.
Izumi gave a strong push there for relieving the child from her body, "Kaiser Garyuu and Izumi I am proud to present you with your baby boy....." The doctor suddenly trailed off for a moment.
The doctor looked at the boy and a sudden dark aura surrounded him, while the child typically cried, he looked to its left arm, "This mark.....it's.....odd....." and when he looked at it, it was that of a Dragon but the form was demonic compared to many dragons depicted.
The aura spread off the child while Garyuu's eyes grew cold seeing that of his son, and even the doctor looks upon this boy with coldness and great hatred. Even though this boy is just a mere infant a new born it sense's these emotions and his crying grows louder and the aura fluxes and in a scream of pain the dark aura pierces the doctor with blood flying into the air spilling out onto the baby while the doctor falls to the ground still holding the child. Izumi then cries out, "Give me my baby!" even though her child just took the life of the doctor to her it was still her first born son, and could do no real wrong, simply to love and cherish him.
Garyuu walked over and picked up his son and walked over handing him to his wife, in her arms the child finds comfort and calms from his crying. "Tsh...we have given birth to a curse....a god damn abomination...." He spat as he walked over to the wall and leaned against it.
Izumi gave her husband a glare of her own that made him quiet quickly and she cradled her son. "What should we call him?" she asked softly wiping the blood away from her boy.
Garyuu thought of it for a moment, "How about Amatsu?" he asked still in a cold voice.
She glared at him again, but softened actually liking it seeing it suited her child, "Yeah....Kaiser Amatsu." She said quietly kissing him on his forehead, "You will grow strong and show the power of the Ryuu clan, and revitalize what has been lost of your clan."
The father of this child couldn't understand how this was possible, his child to bare the mark, but his of course a cursed mark of the Dragon clan. That mark was generally found in full blooded members when he should be a half breed of the clan. None of it made sense and he knew that he like others would, will come to hate the child.
Six Years Later...
The sound of children playing could be heard in the area that they all waited in before class started. They where all still fresh in the academy training to become genin ranked Shinobi of Shadow. Everyone played, all but one, he was the dark dragon Kaiser Amatsu who sat off and away from them all, he knew that they all hated him, showed no remorse no kind words towards him. "Who is that boy over there?" Asked a student to their sensei, "That's Kaiser Amatsu of the Ryuu clan." He answered his student giving the young Kaiser a cold glare.
"He...looks so lonely over there...shouldn't we invite him over to play?" asked another student seeing Amatsu sit so far from everyone and all on his own.
"NO! You must never speak to that boy or be around him! He is nothing but a curse!" The sensei spoke very firm and strict to his students about Amatsu.
The young boy had his hair over his face while he sat alone as it covered his tear filled eyes, 'Why? Why is it that I am the curse?' he thought as his eyes grew wide thinking about this while still his long black hair covered his emotion from everyone else.
"Hey kid!" yelled a kid who walked up to Amatsu with a group that fallowed him.
Amatsu looked upwards towards the kid who called for him, "Www.....what is it?" he asked in a fearful tone.
"He doesn't seem THAT dangerous." One kid says. While Amatsu just looked at them with confusion and terror.
"Hmph! Let's get him!" said the kid who led the gang of kids.
They all proceeded to run up and began to beat up on Amatsu, and dragged him around the rough ground cutting up his shirt and scratched up his back. After their beating upon him the leader picked Amatsu up by his torn shirt, "We don't like curses in our village, you should just go off somewhere and DIE!" He lets Amatsu go falling to the ground.
A/N: below you will be reading my brother's version, but I will make small alterations but not much because I believe he has done a better job telling Amatsu's story.
The kids leave Amatsu lying there, and he stairs into the sky...... 'Why.....Am......I......Cursed?'
Later at Amatsu's house......
Amatsu put on bandages to cover the injuries, and puts on a long sleeved shirt to cover the bandages. 'Don't be weak Amatsu, you must deal with this yourself, otherwise you..... are.....weak' He told himself as the tears ran form his face.
"Amatsu, how was your day?" Amatsu's mother, Izumi, asks him. ".......Fine. Mom, why do people despise me?" "Well, you are unique, you are different. Plus, they hate you, because of what you have inside you." Izumi tells him. "In...inside me?" "Yes, a great power, but your power given to you is our clan's special power, but few of us actually have it." Amatsu looks to the floor, trying to grasp what he's been told. Izumi stands up and walks to the door. "Amatsu" Amatsu looks over. "Goodnight." Amatsu rolls over on his bed without a response, and she shuts the door.
"What did you tell that damn curse for a child?" Amatsu's father starts speaking to Izumi, and she glares at him. "I told him about his great power, its no curse!" Amatsu listening to his mother and father the whole time. "Great power huh? That child's nothing but a monster!" Amatsu's father walks away. Amatsu with a blank expression, turns to hate. 'Damn you father!'
The Next Morning........
Amatsu stands up, not having slept at all, and walks out of the room. "Amatsu.... Are you all right?" His father asks him. Amatsu looks over, and stares with wide dark eyes. "I'm fine, father. I'm off to study now." And he walks out the door, his father following him with his eyes while he walks out. 'That kid' He shutters. 'What were those eyes?' His father thinks to himself.
While walking to school, keeping his eyes on the ground, and he starts to see someone in front of him. "Hey you, still not dead yet, monster!" The kid yells out. Amatsu looks on with calm cold eyes. "Hmph, still not saying anything. Fine, prepare yourself for a beating!" Amatsu stays still as they rush him. 'Ha, what could I even do.......I.....am.....weak....' The gang of kids proceeds to pummel him more and more.
This continues.
Few days later........
After the daily beating, something happens.....
"Hey kid, why do you sit alone?" Amatsu turns with a deadly glare, but can see its someone he hasn't seen before. "What.... Do you care." Amatsu coldly responds. "Well, do you want to be my friend?" He asks Amatsu. "Ss...sure." Amatsu looks on surprised. 'Have I finally found peace? Will you accept me?' He thought to himself. But as they are walking the kid forms a sinister look.
Several month's later.........
'I can't believe he invited me over.' Amatsu thought, but unknown to him was his friend's reasons for having him over, and what he intended to do to him. "Bbb....but I cant do that." Amatsu tells him answering his friend's question. "Hey, I thought I was your friend and you were mine." He widens his eyes. 'I've been so alone.... No friends..... only pain.... I would do anything.......' Amatsu nod's agreeing to his friend, he then grins and closes the bedroom door behind him. 'Is this love, NO! I HATE IT! But.... I don't want to be alone anymore' this itself..... continues for some time, each time something more horrible happening."
A month afterwards........
Amatsu sits in the usual meeting place. 'Hmmmm, where is he?' He continues to sit for the whole day strait, skipping even class. "Hey kid!" Amatsu hears this and turns, hopefully, but frowns. "Uhhhhh, that kid you're always hanging around with told me to give this to you, here take it." He hands Amatsu an envelope and walks away, it reads...
Amatsu,
I regret to inform you, that..... I'm tired of you now, As of today I'm going away, and no you will never see me again. Heh, sorry, but your just to boring now.
Amatsu starts gripping his head, shaking an extreme amount. 'What.... WHAT!! WHAAAAAAATTT!' Amatsu starts to look into the sky and cry. "UGGGHHHHH!!!" He clenches his head again and hits the floor hard. 'Why? I was willing to do anything....WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE ME!!!!' "AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Amatsu screams into the sky, and he looks to his side.The same gang of kids from before approach. "Well, we haven't seen you for a while." The same leader speaks. "hahaaaahahaha! You.....heh you..... ahaha." The kid rushes over and punches him down to the ground, snapping Amatsu out of his trance. "You fucking freak, MONSTER!" as usual, the same beating is administered. From that day Amatsu was thrown deeper into his own personal, dark hell, littered with continuing attacks, and the memories of what happened to him, and the abandonment he suffered through. The pain and hate, being the only thing he could ever understand. Twisting him further.
Four Months Later.......
"Amatsu, have a good day. Good luck with the final part of your shinobi initiation. " Izumi tells her treasured son this, but he gives no response. 'Amatsu....... I've never been able to find out what happened to you.' Izumi thinks to herself "He does nothing but train." Izumi thinks aloud. "Hmph, maybe he won't be so useless and weak." Amatsu father adds, this putting a twitch in Amatsu's eye as he continues to leave.
"Hey kid! Ready!" Amatsu looks with an empty expression. "Fine!" they charge once again, and beat him once again, 'Hmmm, this burning feeling.' Amatsu thinks to himself feeling more and more weak and helpless as it continues.' Hey kid, don't just lay there!' 'huh' Amatsu widens his eyes hearing a voice 'remember the power, heheheh use it. KILL THEM.' The voice speaks in his head. 'YES! MY POWER HA......... I WILL K....I....L.....L T......H......E......M! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!' ' That right! Embrace the PAIN! EMBRACE...... THE....... HATE!' just as the voice says this Amatsu chest starts to burn, he grips the area were his heart is and his eyes become wide, filled with hate, and pain. ' I will kill YOU!' Amatsu calms down, and arrives. He performs the simple test given to him, the final part being a one on one fight with another student, the victor being excepted as a genin. As if fate was working for Amatsu, he fought 'him'
"Well kid, seems we are fighting." Amatsu stares at the kid with wide eyes. The instructor looks at both checking if they are ready. "Okay....... Begin" the sensei says to start the match. "I'll finish this now!" the kid yells, and jumps up in the air and throws and combination of four shurikens, and two kunai, but Amatsu stood in the same place. 'Heh, stupid kid you're going to be hit.' The weapons continue to fly. Everyone watching yell's "Hey kid move you're going to be hit!" Amatsu simply smiles. The shurikens hit him in the chest, and the kunai hit him in his head, and in his leg. "Ha, got'cha kid!" He lands and Amatsu, slouches over, and falls. "Well, that's it, winner is...." The sensei starts to announce the winner "Hmmmmm, AAAHAHAHAHAHA!" Amatsu maniacally laughs, and a dark aura starts to surround him.
"What, Im.... Impossible." Amatsu stands up, and looks strait into his opponent's eyes. He takes the shurikens out and one of the kunai, and grabs the other.
Suddenly "Ughhhh" The kid looks behind him, and saw Amatsu's eyes, holding the kunai in his back. "hhhhhHHHHHAAAAAAAGHHHHHhhhhh!" He lets out an excruciating yell, and falls to the ground face first. Amatsu then leans down and whispers to him. "You are weak. I WANTED MORE PAIN!" Amatsu then starts to repeatedly stab him, each time letting out a laugh at the kid's pain, and also from his screams.
Everyone else looked on in awe. "Stop Amatsu, you'll kill him." The instructor attempted to stop him, but Amatsu turned around, and with extreme force, punches him in the face. "Don't interfere!" Amatsu yelled. He then looks at the kid, and laughs, he then grabs the kunai out of him, and slits his throat. "Hmmmmmm, I love that gurgling noise of you chocking on your own blood, so soothing." Amatsu said in a low toned voice.
As the kid started to die of the blood loss, Amatsu walked over to the instructor, "This, is your reward for interfering...... ughhhh." Amatsu starts to breathe heavily. "Uhhhh..... HAAAAAAAAA!." Amatsu hits the floor and grips his head yelling. He stands up and starts ripping at himself, taking off his shirt, everyone looking on speechless. Scars start to form, as if right at that moment he's was being tortured. Blood covers his body, and forms to a shell like form, eyes then began to come out looking at everyone. A loud roar is heard from the mass of eyes and blood. Then the blood starts to fall off, revealing Amatsu in the same state as before, and he falls to the ground unconscious. The instructor wakes up and checks Amatsu. "Uh, get help!" He runs over to the other kid, and realizes he's dead. He looks over at Amatsu. "My god, what is this kid."
Medical Staff shinobi's ran to the boy now laying dead on the floor first, and then they proceeded to Amatsu, writhing painfully on the floor. They lifted him carefully onto the stretcher they had brought with them, and carried him off.
Everyone still shocked by what just happened. "Did you see that? He just killed that kid, and even tried to kill the instructor!" "Yeah I know." Two kids students speaking about the grisly scene. "Well, if you ask me, that kid got what was coming to him! Heh"
Another students states, but everyone just looks at him.
Meanwhile Amatsu's family receives the news. "Oh my god! Amatsu did what?" Izumi yells out in confusion. "See Izumi, that fucking kid is a cursed monster! We should've just killed him as soon as we saw the mark!" Amatsu's father yelling in pure hatred of his child. Izumi simply runs out the door and heads to the medical facility.
Amatsu continued to writhe in pain on the bed. He was covered in black, and red spots on certain placed on his body, what seemed to be somewhat of scales of some kind. The doctors tried to use healing jutsu's but it had no effect on him. "Ugh! What's the use, we should just let this cursed thing die." One doctor says in a general hate towards Amatsu, but as he said that Amatsu's eyes became wide, he reached up and grabbed the doctor. "For that you die!" And instantly blood flew all over, and covered the room. "Ughhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!" Amatsu fell to the ground yelling in pain. The other doctors ran out of the room to get help from more advanced ninja's.
At the same point of time, Izumi continued to run as fast as possible, worried about her child.
The jounins and one young chuunin arrived to aid the doctors and ran in. "At this point he's a danger to the village. We must kill him!" One jounin yelled out in rage, and they ran into the room, seeing it has been consumed with a dark aura. "Huh! What's this ?!" As the jounin said this a kunai flies out towards him. "Look out you fool!" The ninja yells at his comrade, but it was to late and it hit and went through his chest. As his body fell, a puff of smoke appeared revealing a chunk of wood. "Ha! Koremei no jutsu." But as they were so exited, something appeared below them. "Die!!!" Amatsu yelled swinging up his now claw like hand into the chest of one of the jounins. "Ughhh" He fell to the ground with a large amount of blood coming from him. Amatsu put his hand to his face and licked the blood away. One of the now nine jounins drew his katana and swung for Amatsu. "DIE MONSTER!" Amatsu stood there and smiled as it stabbed him through his heart. "Got'cha!" Amatsu looked upon with new red eyes, with a sharp dragon like pupils. Amatsu then started to walk into the blade, bringing himself closer to the ninja, another ninja threw several kunai's into Amatsu's back, but Amatsu continued without flinching. "No! get away from me!" The ninja tried to retract the sword, but Amatsu held onto it, cutting his hands. He then tried to let go but, looked down to see Amatsu had already grabbed him. Amatsu grabbed the kunai from his back, and proceeded to cut the shinobi in several different places lightning fast, at the end he had over one hundred cuts covering his body.
Amatsu pulled the blade out of him, and licked from the bottom to the top. "Blood! AHHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!" Amatsu let out a maniacal laugh. "Damn you monster!" The female shinobi screamed and jumped prepared to attack. But then suddenly a long dragon like claw reached from Amatsu's arm and stabbed threw the shinobi, but she simply fell into a puff of smoke. "Heh you can't get me that......." She was about to say confidently, when she felt a sharp pain in her back and legs.
She fell to the ground with three kunai's in her. One in the back, the other two on both her legs. She looked up at the young child seeing he had an evil smile, and was peering down on her. Chakra then began to flow from his body. "What I didn't even see his hand seals!" Every shinobi in the room said this in amazement. "You are about to see a glimpse of HELL! Summoning ,Demon Torture Ritual!" The remaining shinobi looked on and began to feel a tug at there feet, but before they could do anything, demon like creatures began to sprout from a dark liquid like substance that had formed around the floor, and began to drag seven of the shinobi down, the only thing remaining of there existence being there screams. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Amatsu looked down at the last remaining shinobi, a young chuunin.. "Having fun watching your comrades be dragged to their death's?" Amatsu kneeled down, and looked into her eyes. "That could be nothing more than a Genjutsu!" She yelled, with tears flowing from her eyes. "AAAHAHAHA! NO! It's no genjutsu; they will all be dead when my demons are through having fun with them!" Amatsu said calmly, not caring about what's happening to them. "No! You monster!" The last remaining letting her emotions getting the best of her. "It's so FUN! I will kill everyone in this village, HA!" Amatsu yelled in a sickeningly sick voice. "Now you know the feeling of helplessness! True PAIN!" He yelled! As began to cut her on several places. "UUghhhh!" The shinobi coughing up blood onto her chest. "Now I will Ki...l...l y....o....u" He reached the blade over to her throat but began to tremble. His eye's suddenly reverted to his original color and form. "AGGGGGHHHHHH!!" Amatsu fell to the ground gripping his head." GET AWAY FROM ME!!! NO! DON'T TOUCH ME!!!! GET AWAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!" Amatsu started to crawl in to a corner. The shinobi already applied a healing jutsu to her self, and began to walk towards him.
She grabbed the kunai he left in her, and looked at him. 'His eyes, there's no emotion in them..... What happened to this poor boy?' She thought to herself.
'It burns..... What is this.......MY HEART BURNS!!!!!' Amatsu yelling in his mind suddenly rose to his knees, gripping the right side of his chest with his left hand. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! IT BURNS!" He ripped of his shirt revealing a black mark forming on his chest. "Huh? What's that?" the young shinobi continues to watch this strange kid in pain. The mark becomes bigger and more recognizable. 'Its, a kanji for...... hate, how did this happen?' Amatsu leans against the wall and fall's to the ground. She looked at him trying to understand what's happened.
Amatsu now lay's on ground almost lifeless. A black spot on suddenly reformed on the floor, and demons began to walk out, but they carried the seven jounins with them, and set them on the floor, injured but still alive. 'This kid.... He spared them? Interesting'
Just then Amatsu's mother Izumi ran into the room. "What happened here!?" Her eyes wonder around the room, seeing blood spattered wall, and shinobi bodies laying on the floor. She then found the location of Amatsu and ran over to him. "Hey you! Young girl, what happened here? Who did this?" Izumi ran over kneeling at her son's side. "He almost killed everyone here." The young shinobi tolled Amatsu's mother as she picked him up. "He almost killed those, shinobi laying there but, for some reason he spared them" The chuunin said in bewildered state of mind.
She began to use a healing jutsu on him and handed him to his mother. "Well.... I must thank you for not killing my son." Izumi thanked the shinobi and began to walk out. "Wait! I was, uhhhh, wondering who the child is, no one really briefed us on who we were to eliminate." The shinobi asked Izumi. "His name his Amatsu, Kaiser Amatsu of the Ryu clan." Izumi told facing the shinobi. "What about you? I wouldn't mind telling my son who spared him." Izumi asked her." It's Ayame." Izumi turned around and walked home.......... 'Odd, but I'm somewhat interested in that kid.' Ayame then began to care for her fallen comrades.
Three days after ninja initiation, Amatsu heads to receive his sensei, and hitai-ate forehead protector.
Amatsu walks into the room were the announcements would be made, and as soon as he walks through the door, everyone's attention turns to him. He stops and takes a hard look around at everyone's hateful and fearful faces. Amatsu simply looks around for an empty seat and leans back in his chair closing his eyes.
The other possible shinobi go back to their conversations, but now with a new topic. "That's the kid who killed his opponent in his match up." One shinobi girl says in frightened tone. "Yeah, I think he also killed a jounin at the hospital, and even was able to defeat several others." Another adds. "Plus, he also caused the surviving ones horrible psychological damage. I also heard that he took on Ayame and beat her." Knowing the rumors of Ayame's background, she says this with amazement. "Yeah, she's only a chuunin but she is better than almost all the jounin!" The group looks over at Amatsu, and he opens one eye and stares back at them. They frightfully turn away, and Amatsu looks away and shuts his eye again.
"Now, we will announce the students who passed the initiation, and put them in teams of three, with a jounin acting as the leader, and teacher of the group." Amatsu looks around the room with calm eyes, not caring what happens. They announce the failures and they leave, but amazingly, Amatsu remained. They then put several team of three together and appointed them a jounin. "Last..... Is Kaiser Amatsu." The Sensei says this with out any following names with it. Amatsu stands up and stares down at the sensei with cold unmoving eyes. "Uhhhhh....'gulp' Amatsu, you will ahhhh be appointed to Azuma Rikimaru, over there." He points over to a man with a scar over his right eye, and short white hair, wearing a facemask, with chain mail underneath his black gi, Amatsu and Rikimaru look over at each over with similar eyes, and Amatsu proceeds over to him. They all stop and the shinobi official starts to hand out the fore head protectors. "Now everyone, technically, we are not official shinobi, these hitai-ate's are only a symbol of your success. The Hidden Village of Shadow has not officially been recognized, but regardless, wear these with the pride of our village, for one day our village will become official. Either way, you will still train, and participate in missions as if you are shinobi, also you will eventually participate in ranking exams such as the chuunin exam, which is occurring today here, but none of you are ready for that yet. Now follow your sensei, and make us proud." Rikimaru looks at Amatsu, turns around, and starts walking. "Follow me." And he begins to walk out.
"Wait a minute, why is he alone with his sensei?" A student asks his jounin sensei. "Well, it was a special request by his sensei, Rikimaru." Everyone watches them walk out.
They continue walking, and proceed to go into the forest outside the village. Amatsu keeps his eyes on Rikimaru, never trusting anyone, but he suddenly stops and turns to his new student, and soldier. "Amatsu, I know about you." Amatsu eyes continue to remain calm. "I now what you did to your opponent in the last initiation test. I also know what happened at the hospital...." Rikimaru talks more about Amatsu power. 'You don't know me, Rikimaru.' Amatsu thought to himself.
"I also know that you should not even be a genin right now." Amatsu simply stares at him. "Humph, by the look in your eyes, you don't care about what I said right now." Rikimaru analyzes his student. "I'm telling you this because, I know.... That you are meant for more than a genin, which is why I am entering you into the chuunin exam today." Rikimaru takes a serious look at Amatsu, but Amatsu still remains steady. "Hey kid, I like that a lot, your attitude that is, no fear in you anymore is there?" Rikimaru looks with somewhat excited eyes. "You are a perfect shinobi, your not afraid to die are you?" He continues to look at him. "You know you could talk if you like." Rikimaru reassures his student. "I'm not afraid to talk; you just didn't tell me if I could, either way I don't like to talk much anyways." Amatsu decides to become part of the conversation. "Well, that's even better; you're willing to follow orders." Rikimaru with a stern face. "No, it's not that. It's mainly that I like you, I can sense that you've killed many people." Amatsu eye's become wide. "That must've been fun!" His hair covers his face, blocking any expression someone might be able to see. He looks back up with his now calm face. "You..... Also seem worthy as my teacher. I can also tell that besides killing, you have much knowledge, I actually want to learn from you." Amatsu takes a respectful bow, at someone he respects. "Well, either way, what do you think of taking the chuunin entrance exam?" Rikimaru returns to his original subject. Amatsu leans his head to the side somewhat. "Do I get to kill?" He asks with a frightening intent to him. Rikimaru never letting his emotions control him is even surprised at this six year old child's eagerness to not only participate, but also..... To kill. "I don't know the rules, but 'I' don't want you to risk being expelled, I have no wish to participate in low level missions with you." "Well then, either way, I would like to participate." Amatsu answers his sensei. "Well then.... Lets go." The leave the forest and begin returning to the village. 'This kid..... Ayame was right.......... He might be worthy.'
In Shadow their chuunin exam was not nearly as official as Konoha's as it was a stepping stone before Hidden Shadow became recognized as another power and could compete among the rest of the village's showing off their own strength.
They reach the room where the first test of the chuunin exam is happening. Rikimaru leaves Amatsu. As he walks into the room, a group of older genin's walk to him. "Hey little kid, this exam is for people with talent, and I don't really think a kid would stand a chance against us big boy's." An older kid kneeling to face Amatsu starts to laugh. Amatsu stares back up at him, and the boy faces him again, but looks into his eyes. 'Demon Mind Torture!' Amatsu says in his mind. Just then the genin in front of him starts to grip his head. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" He sends a blood curdling scream through the room.
He falls to the ground gripping his head and drooling out the side if his mouth. Amatsu leans next to him. "Looks like you're not so big anymore...." Amatsu then straitens himself out and walks to a seat. Everyone else just stare at this strange kid. "He looks like he's only six or seven years old, yet he easily applied a genjustsu that totally ruined that other kids mind, who was at least ten years older than him, amazing." A man with light blue eyes, with veins protruding from the side of his eyes is staring at the kid analyzing him. Amatsu now can feel everyone's eyes looking at him.
"Well! Seems some of you students are a bit hasty!" A woman in the front yells out, getting everyone's attention. Amatsu looks up, and his eye twitches slightly. "Now! I am Ayame and I will be your instructor throughout the chuunin exam!" A familiar voice and face announces her self to the class.
Ayame starts to scan the room, and spots someone. 'Heh, looks like you agree with me on him Rikimaru' She stares over at Amatsu now leaning back in his chair, he leans forward somewhat and opens his eyes and notices Ayame. She then closes her eyes and sends him a friendly smile, Amatsu continues his leaning and closes his eyes again. She looks at him one last time. "Well.... Now we will get started." Several other chuunin officials hand out paper with questions on them. "You will take this test and then we will move on to next part of the exam, but beware not to get caught cheating otherwise you will be thrown out of the chuunin exam, and trust me, we will know if your cheating!" Ayame adds a final statement. "Now! Get started!" As she says that everyone in the room takes a seat and grabs the paper and a pencil.
Most people trying to get seated fast, so they don't have to be seated next to Amatsu, but one fellow shinobi sits next to him. "Hey you, what's your name?" The girl asks Amatsu, he leans forward opening his eyes and looks over at her. She had long black hair that ran down to her shoulders and somewhat in her face, she had black eyes somewhat like Amatsu's except still innocent, she wore a long sleeved black shirt, and simple black pants., and she seemed to be about ten years of age. ' Hm, what a pretty girl,' Amatsu thought to himself while he looked at her, with his always cold eyes. "Well? Are you just going to stare at me, or will actually tell me your name?" She said with somewhat of a shy tone. "My name? It's Amatsu" She looked at him with a smile, but he turned his attention to the test. "Hmph, don't you want to know my name?" She asked him somewhat frustrated. He looked over at her with half closed eyes. "Not really." Amatsu still looking at her with unmoving eyes. "That's not very nice!" She looked away from him, extremely aggravated. "Why......" She looks over as Amatsu says this. "Hm?" "Why did you sit next to me?" Amatsu asked her somewhat confused. "Why wouldn't I? She asked with some interest. "......... I guess you don't know who I am." Amatsu said with the same cold eyes. "No I don't know exactly who you are, but that's why I sat next to you, and asked for your name." She said looking at him with a smile. He looked back at her. "Once you find out, you'll hate me........... just like everyone else...." Amatsu said to her with a cold stare, and he redirected his attention to his paper.
'What a sad person......For some reason, he seems to be used to people hating him.....' She thought to herself with sad eyes. 'Just looking at him...... I feel like I could die.... Simply from his pain......' She looked away covering her face.
"Alright, everyone can now begin." Ayame announces to the room and everyone starts to write, answering questions about jutsu's, shinobi weapons, and other similar things, somewhat simple. But almost as soon as people started, Amatsu sets the test and his paper down and leans back and close his eyes, an examiner comes to check his paper, and then goes to speak with Ayame about something.
A while after Amatsu, everyone else finish's the test and the examiners look at them and grade the students, several of them having to leave, because of failure.
Amatsu still leans back in his chair, eyes closed. "Well, everyone still here, has passed, we will take a few minutes to prepare, so sit tight and wait a little bit." Ayame announced to the students, most of them stood up stretching. Amatsu remained seated.
"Hey Amatsu aren't you going to stand up?" The same girl next to him asked. "Why..... There's no point." Amatsu told her with his eyes remaining closed. She just looked at him.
Ayame walked back out to the front getting everyone's attention at the same time. "Now everyone, you are all going to be placed in teams of two, with people who are not originally in your team, this is to test your compatibility to work with people you might not know, but are on the same team as you." Everyone started to look around the room, in curiosity of who they will be placed with, Amatsu though simply didn't care.
"Now we will announce the teams, first is Azuma Akemi." the girl next to Amatsu stands up. "And, Kaiser Amatsu." Akemi looks over at Amatsu surprised. Amatsu opens his eyes and stands up. "Right, uh..... Next is....." Ayame names of ten more teams and instructs them to fallow her. They head out of the building and towards the exit of the village.
As they walk out most of the teammates have already struck up some conversations, but Amatsu continued to walk silently. "Hey Amatsu, we're teammates now, shouldn't we get to know each other better?" Akemi asked Amatsu, but Amatsu continued on. "You don't want to know me...... You might end up dead." He looks over at her with wide eyes. She looked down to the ground, while they continued to walk. 'He's so filled with hate...... What could have happened to him?'
"Now for the test." They arrived at the edge of the forest. "The test is simple, get to the other side of the forest without dying." Ayame giving the description of the next test. "But, there's one last part. You must collect two other forehead protectors, other than your own, which means you will have to fight at least one team too get them." Ayame finishes the description of the test. "One last thing, for a twenty minute period, you can't attack anyone, and we'll be watching!" And with that Ayame begins to look around with a smile. "Now get ready!" Everyone prepares for departure. "And...... GO!" Everyone rushes into the forest eager to achieve the rank of chuunin.
Amatsu looks around the outside of the forest, and Ayame looks over at him. "Well, hurry and GO!" Ayame yells to him. 'Heh, is he scared?' Amatsu looks over at her with half closed eyes. "You are Ayame, right?" She looks at him with wide eyes. "Yes..." She responds. "A while ago, we fought. I almost killed you." Amatsu still staring at her. "Yeah, but you spared me and most of my comrades." "Well...... you should have killed me....... Otherwise...... I might kill you...." Amatsu redirected his attention back at the forest and slowly walked in. 'Amatsu, you need to be saved.... Or is it to late.....'
"Hey! Amatsu, where were you? I thought you would be behind me!?" Akemi asked him looking somewhat concerned. "What do you care......? "Amatsu said coldly. "You're my team mate; we are supposed to look after each other." Akemi asked with a frustrated tone. "Just because were team mates it doesn't mean I will suddenly care for someone." Amatsu continued to walk on. "You're so cold Amatsu, why won't you be more accepting!" This seemed to hit Amatsu strangely, right after that he appeared right in front of her. "WHAT DO YOU KNOW!!" Amatsu was staring deeply into her eyes. "I will kill you!" Amatsu turned around and continued to walk. But, Akemi hit the floor, crying. Amatsu stopped and turned around." We are going now so get up." Akemi still on the ground. "I feel sorry for you Amatsu! Whatever happened to you must have been horrible!" Akemi with tears flowing down her eyes. "I can feel your hate, and pain even from here." Amatsu started walking towards her. "HAHAHA!" Amatsu started laughing maniacally. "I WILL..... KILL.....YOU!" Amatsu reached her, but started gripping his head. "UGGGHHHHHH!!!" Soon he fell to the ground. 'Huh what that. AN ATTACK!'
Amatsu still struggled on the ground, when Akemi came flying towards him, but suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her back, but she blocked an attack that was meant for Amatsu. They both fell to the ground, but Amatsu soon stood up.
He was gripping the right side of his head, and his eye we're wide. He looked down at her, confused. "Why would you try to save me?" Amatsu asked Akemi in amazement. "You may not 'cough' believe me, but I like you." Amatsu still looking confused. "I've seen you before, ugh, you always were sitting alone, you always looked hurt." Akemi begins to tell Amatsu this, when two shinobi appear in front of them. "You are the guy that messed with my comrade, that attack was meant to kill you, heh, not her!" The shinobi prepared for another attack. "You cant kill me. Hmhmhm...HAHAHAHAHA!" Amatsu grinned while black and red scales began to surround him, and his eyes changed to more of a red color, and his pupil became sharp.
Then he charges one and pierces him through the chest with his sharp claws. "Ughhh." The shinobi coughs blood, and hits the ground, and a pool of blood forms around him. "I wont be as easy." The first shinobi yell out and throws a massive amount of shurickens and kunai's. "Heh, you ready monster? Kage Buunshin!" The weapons he threw earlier soon multiplied double the amount. Amatsu stood there and took the attack head on, the blades sinking deep within him. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Amatsu screamed in pain and hit the ground. 'Amatsu! NO!' Akemi thought to herself.
Amatsu now had an extreme amount of blood, but something appeared in the blood around him. "What's that?" The shinobi looked at Amatsu carefully. Soon, eyes began to appear in the blood, and disappeared, but then the blood began covering Amatsu, and his mark of the dark dragon king began to grow over him. Amatsu stood up as the blood fell from him and smiled. "Form three complete!" The scales began to cover him fully, and wings began to sprout from his back. Amatsu flew over the shinobi, grabbed him and flew up, and all's that was to be heard was screams ringing throughout the forest, so loud that they even reached Ayame. Akemi's eyes grew wide, and then they closed.
After a period of time, Amatsu came from the treetops, and approached Akemi. But she had fell to unconsciousness after what Amatsu had done. Amatsu walked over to the other corpse and grabbed his fore head protector. Amatsu then walked to Akemi and proceeded to fly to the end of the forest, and landed exactly in front of Ayame. He carefully set Akemi down, and gave Ayame the head protectors. "Mission accomplished Amatsu, you are now a chuunin." Ayame said this to Amatsu but he didn't care. ' Akemi..... You saved me.... WHY!' Amatsu gripped his head, not being able to understand her kindness, being hated and abused his whole life, and he jumped into the air, and flew away. 'Could she acknowledge me? Could she save me from this hell?' These things swirled in his head, and he was still not able to exactly understand.
But that was the end of the day, and Amatsu fell unconscious out in seclusion for awhile.
It's been a year since Amatsu became a chuunin, and he and Rikimaru have already participated in a number of high ranked missions.
Amatsu has been visiting Akemi for everyday he gets a chance. For some reason she hasn't recovered from what happened to her and what she saw.
'I'm sorry Akemi, it's all my fault.' Amatsu had tears running down his face, because of the sadness over someone that acknowledged him, even if briefly.
Four days later.....
Amatsu was sitting in the darkness of his room... 'You are weak Amatsu......' 'You can't possibly think this woman could care for you! No one can ever love you!' "NO! IT'S NOT TRUE!!" Amatsu yelled at himself thinking. 'HAHAHAHA, no can ever love you, HATE! AND PAIN! Is all they can give you!' "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Amatsu screamed as he hit his head on the floor, repeatedly.
Amatsu soon stopped, with his head buried in his bed. He stood to his feet and got dressed.
Just then Izumi walked into his room after knocking. "Hey Amatsu, good news, that girl you've been visiting is better, you should go see her." Amatsu looked with surprise, and headed out.
He ran until he got to the hospital entrance were he saw Akemi being carried out on a wheel chair. He started to approach when Akemi caught site of him. "H... hey Akemi how are you?" Amatsu asked for once in his life feeling good.
She stared at him for a while, when suddenly her eyes became wide..... "NO!" Akemi screamed at Amatsu for some reason. "What's wrong Akemi? It's me, Amatsu..." He approached more. "NO! GET HIM AWAY FROM ME..... HE IS A MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!" Akemi said this in a terrified voice, looking away from Amatsu. "I'm sorry, she's extremely tired, were taking her home." Akemi's mother said this walking away from Amatsu. "Yeah, we wouldn't want a curse like you around her anyways!" The father walking away from Amatsu. Amatsu stood there staring at them as they walk away, and he began to shake...
Amatsu started gripping his head. Memories started to flow through Amatsu's mind, every time he felt a sharp pain in his head. Amatsu fell to the ground, and started hitting his head on the ground, blood started to flow from a gash on his head.
'I can't feel my body.............I'm shaking.........WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THIS WAY' Amatsu struggling to grasp what he is feeling. 'Everyone hates me, WHY! Everyone I trust betrays me!' Amatsu still on the ground in agonizing pain looks up to see everyone simply ignoring him, or walking around him, barely looking at him. 'Heheheheheh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!' Amatsu stood up and walked away from the public. He headed to the forest outside of the village, a place he frequented often, and sat against the tree.
'You were right, HA!' Amatsu looking up into the sky, with no feeling. 'No one..... No one...... No one can ever care for me, love me.... They all hate...and detest me...... I am alone....... I can never be saved..... What did you say? HMHMHMHM! I can hate them, make them feel pain.' Amatsu suddenly stood up, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
The moon now illuminates the sky. "UGHHHHUHHUHUH" Amatsu now stands outside of a house breathing heavily.
"Don't worry Akemi, you wont have to see that monster again." The women looks at Akemi. "AAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!" "What was that!?" Akemi's mother runs to investigate the hideous scream, runs down the stairs, and opens the doors.
"What happened!?" She looks in the room only seeing blood covering the walls. "Oh my god..." She continued to look around when suddenly something caught her by the neck. She looked down to see and arm reaching from darkness, and in the other hand was her husband's lifeless corpse, covered in cuts and deep gashes. The figure emerged from the darkness, and looked at her with eyes that seemed like a demons eyes. "You... are...Amatsu!" "HMHMHM! YES!" Amatsu still looking at her. He drops the mans body, and the body makes a loud thud. "You monster! What are you planning!?" "HEH!! I thought it was pretty obvious, after I'm done killing you, I'm going to kill Akemi, very strait forward!" Amatsu tightened his grip some, he then took a kunai from his pack and began cutting across her face. Then he stabbed her several time in the chest and stomach, purposely missing vital organs. "I'm going to have fun killing your daughter, AHAHHAHAHAHA!" Amatsu let out a maniacal laugh. Amatsu starts to head up the stair, still holding her.
He walks through the door, and throws the mother to the floor. "Now you will watch me kill her!" Amatsu started to walk over to Akemi. "No please, don't!" Her mother pleaded to Amatsu. "Hmhmhmhm... Tell me..... Since I'm such a monster, WHY WOULD I STOP!" Amatsu then began to lower the kunai, when something struck him in his mind. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!! NO! THERE'S NO TURNING BACK, HAHA........... I'M A........ MONSTER!!!!!!!" Then Amatsu grabbed Akemi by the hair and dragged her out of the bed. He lifted her in the air and faced her mother. "Don't worry, at least she will die in her sleep..." He raised the blade, and her mother looked down, Amatsu then lowered the blade, and she looked up. "You didn't kill her?" She asked confused. "No..... I have a better idea!" Amatsu throws her to her mother, and performs an hand seal, in which both of his hand connect and his two index and two pinkie fingers are up. "Summoning, Demon Ritual!" Amatsu calmly said this last part and as soon as he did, a black and red color liquid appeared from the ground, and soon became solid. "Now you will feel the pain, live in the same torturing hell I've in my whole life." Amatsu looked at her and began to walk away, back to his calm exterior. He reached the outside of the house and heard screams echo throughout the area, and he continued walking, with halfway closed eyes, and he notices a tear move down the right side of his face.
He wiped the tear away and laughs. 'I am alone..... Will live my life without love..... the only thing I can hold on to now.... Is hate....' Amatsu thinks this to himself and disappears into the shadows.
A/N: Hoped you enjoyed this part of things written by my brother, I think he was able to put it far better then I would, sense it's his character and knows him greater then I do. Now I shall take back over!
Slowly Amatsu opened his eyes looking over the forest area that he was still in. No longer that shamble of a past he was once in, he had a friend that stuck by him now, and his little brother that he believed was still alive. 'I just hope...that Ryuu will not hold to much against me...and not see me as everyone else has...'
His summon creation Demin approached him, "Master...are you okay? It seemed as though you where experiencing some nightmares."
The dark haired Dragon clan member rose to his feet, "I am fine Demin." He said firmly, "Listen kick Asura awake we should be on our way, and get to the tower so we don't have to bother our selves with it." He said as Demin bowed respectfully and walked over and kicked Asura several times.
"AAHH!! Okay, okay! I'm up, I'm up!" he yelled as he rubbed his eyes and let out a big yawn. "Geez could have woken me up a BIT nicer then that." Asura grumbled while he reached for his cigarettes pulling one out and lit up beginning to smoke.
"So, what's up, what are you doing today?" He asked as he stood from the ground looking over to Amatsu.
"Master has informed on us heading to the tower so we don't have to worry about falling behind or anything of the sorts." Demin explained to Asura for his Master Amatsu so he would not have to be bothered with such a task.
Meanwhile...
Ryuu sat all alone in the forest, gripping his head tightly, "How...how did you come to be inside my mind!?"
"Hm hm hm ha ha ha ha hA HA HA HAA!! It is the curse of you chosen Ryuu's to succeed the clans."
"SHUT UP!! NO YOU ARE NOT!" Ryuu yelled in defense as he slid down upon the ground a bit.
"Alright, maybe you are right little Kaiser, but I am the one you created, you know it has been awhile sense you have given me possession of your body so that I may stretch my wings a bit." Said Kageryuu as he wanted nothing more then to take the body that he as a guest to.
Ryuu growled as he fell to his knee's now, "FINE!!! In the preliminaries I will allow you.....some time...to fight....is that okay?"
Inside his mind Kageryuu grinned evilly, "Fine with me Ryuu."