Hi everyone, thanks for reviewing and understanding my predicament ... and yes ... you guessed right ... I do live on the west coast ... specifically California ... yeah ... so anyways ... back to the story ... I know ... the cliffy stank ... but still ... got to keep up the suspense ... so where this chapter starts out ... all the other fights are already over ... yeah ... on with the story ...
Zatek vs. Sai
"All the same," a different ninja yelled. "How are we gonna fight at our best!
The anouncer put on a cruel smile. "You better be fighting your best no matter what or we'll fail you."
This quieted the whole crowd.
"Now," the anouncer cleared his throat, and began to take out a scroll of names. "This is the draw for the tournament. I will anounce a pair of opponents and you two should step aside from the rest of the group, and enter one of these rooms here after all the pairs are decided. Do you understand?" Everyone nodded.
"All right then, " the anouncer began to read. "First..."
The list went on until it was, "Sai ... and Zatek ..."
The whole room went quiet. Sai ... one of the forgotten 'root' division of the Konoha ANBU squad, had easily, literally, walked through the first round. Sai had just walked up to his opponent and flicked his finger to end the match. When asked on how he did it, Sai just said that he lets his reputation do the kill.
Zatek, one of the mysterious ninja from the Shadow Village, one of the rare villages to have no mark on their forehead protectors, had almsot as easily soared through the first round, defeating two of the villages strongest Chuunin in under three minutes. All the same, there had been rumors going around that some blonde kid had defeated Zatek soundly.
Unfortunately for them, none of them actually believed that this blonde "kid" was actually partaking in the Jounin Exams. Naruto walked up to the front of the crowd and stared at Zatek. Zatekfocused his attention to his opponent. and felt himself shiver at the glare, brieflly, until he remembered what his master had said the night of the fight ...
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"You did very well, Zatek," the shadow said, "I'm surprised you did so well with the Jinchuuriki boy. You have done exactly what I told you." His tone changed. "Your lucky that you did. Now, I know exactly how strong he is."
Zatek said, "Your wish is my command." (Wow ... never though I'd type that up.)
"All the same, you nearly matched him," the shadow began to walk away.
"Nearly, master?" Zatek asked. "If I nearly matched him now, how am I supposed to match him when he has the power of the hell demon at his side. He is bound to be far more careful next time. I doubt that I'd be able to pull the same trick on him twice."
"You can easily annhilate him, if you just," the shadow said simply, "use the Seal."
"THE SEAL!" Zatek shot up alarmed. "Are you serious!"
"Yes," the shadow said, impatiently. His apprentice was far slower then he thought.
Zatek realized what his master was saying, "The seal has approved of me? When did this happen?"
"Last night." the shadow answered quickly. "But be careful still. Us two are the only ones the seal has approved of. We are the only two "jinchuuriki" who do not suffer the curse of the hell demons."
"But what about the sacrifice," Zatek asked.
"Twenty humans, or one who is worthy of the seal," the shadow answered simply.
"How-" Zatek started when he was interupted.
"The seal's chakra will be far stronger then it will be without it. It will be red instead of the regular orange," the shadow said. "Be careful. If you use the seal and don't offer a sacrifice afterwards ... it'll take you."
"Yes ... master..." Zatek bowed down low as his master, Kabuto, walked out of the room, his cloaking scraping the ground.
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"So your the legendary 'Sai' everyone speaks of?" Zatek began to poke fun at Sai in hopes of receiving some emotion. Zatek was great at analyzing what his opponents next move based on his or her emotions.
Sai was just plain annoyed at him. "Shut up and fight." Sai looked up to see Danzou in the crowd nodding to him. Sai nodded back and said, "But I think it's time I pull of the facade."
Everyone gasped except Naruto, Sakura, and Yamato, who was going to judge the fight. All of a sudden, Naruto noticed something about Zatek at the same time. He's not even limping. How did he recover from that beating in a two days. NO ONE but me could do that ... A thought came to Naruto ... a Jinchuriki?
Zatek asked Sai, "What do you mean by a facade? You have a mask on, two face?"
Sai smiled and replied, "No, but I wouldn't insult someone who has a dick when you don't." Zatek's face went red with fury. Sai continued. "My name is ..."
Zatek charged at Sai. Sai stood there and yelled, "Kaito!"
"KAITO!" everyone yelled. Tsunade frowned. She turned to Danzou.
"You old geezer," a nerve popped in her head, "That's your son out there."
"No shit, granny," Danzou retorted. "And my son will kill everyone he faces. Once he becomes a Jounin, its over for you. I have more power in the village then you."
"O yeah!" Tsunade yelled. "WANT TO TAKE THIS OUTSIDE!"
"Exactly what I mean," Danzou chuckled evilly. "If I ask for Sai to become the next Hokage, he will be. All he has to do is pass the exams, and completely put you to shame."
Tsunade growled but she had to stay quiet. What could she do?
Zatek was inches away from Kaito's face when Kaito stepped to the side and using his fan, snapped at Zatek's hand to deflect the blow. Zatek's face showed surprise as he flew past Kaito and landed in the dirt as Kaito grabbed him and spun him around.
"AARGH!" Zatek yelled. Kaito just stepped back and stared at Zatek as if laughing.
"You better get up if you expect to give me a workout fighting you," Kaito said. "Your pitiful head on attacks won't work against me."
"Damn it," Zatek cursed. He thought to himself, 'what am I going to do! He just easily dodged that ... I don't want to use the seal but I might not have choice ...'
Kaito quickly took out his paintbrush and formed a seal. "Giant Beast Imitation!" He said as he drew great dog-like creatures in the air. They immediately came to life and began to attack Zatek.
Zatek cursed as he jumped back and began to go through his own set of seals. "FIRE ELEMENT SHADOW STREAM!" he yelled as a steady stream of black fireballs emanated from his hands and began to attack the great beasts attacking him.
To his surprise, the beast just kept on dodging them. He thought 'at this rate, he'll have me drained of chakra in less then fifteen minutes. DAMN IT!' Changing his tactics, he landed on the ground and braced himself for the blow of the beasts. It never came.
Zatek looked up to find the beasts just standing there. Kaito was standing on top of one of them and he raised his hand.
The beasts charged at him and they all combined to form one giant shadow dog, with Kaito standing on top. "What are you gonna do now, shadow ninja?" Kaito sneered at Zatek.
Zatek took a couple of step back, and cursed, "Shit! What am I gonna do?" Zatek looked at the great beast ahead of him and began to think, 'Is there anything I can do?' A realization came to him.
'Looks like I'm gonna have to use the seal right now.' He formed an odd hand seal, where his index fingers twisted behind his knuckles to form something resembling fire.
"FIRE SEAL!" Zatek yelled and as he yelled his hands began to glow a bright orange color and began to slowly envolope his body. Zatek's body started to change as his body became more toned out.
Naruto stared at Zatek. "He's changing! He's changing exactly like how Mizuki did when he took his medicine." Iruka nodded.
Iruka said, "But what kind of seal was that? It's something I've never heard of. An elemental seal?"
All of a sudden, Zatek stopped changing and the orange chakra glowed brightly until it changed to thecolor of red.
Kaito took a step back on his beast as he gazed at the chakra. "That's not normal chakra. It's like ... the Kyubi..."
Zatek growled, "DIE!" He jumped forward and punched the great beast. The beast let our a ferocious yell as it exploded. Kaito landed heavily into the dirt, and he got up brushing himself off.
"Looks like your one of the jinchuuriki, right?" Kaito said as he continued to brush himself off. Zatek just growled evilly.
"No. My power is far beyond anything like the biju of this world," Zatek's grin shifted to a feral roar. "My power is that of the Fire Seal, one of the four legendary elemental seals of hell and heaven."
"WHAT!" everyone in the stadium yelled. Zatek just ignored them.
"My power is the power that provides the power to the biju." Zatek growled. "My power is strong enough to destroy everything your shadows can muster."
Kaito just grinned and said, "We'll see about that." He formed his own seal and yelled," SHADOW SEAL!" And Kaito's own red chakra zoomed upwards.
"Hmph," Zatek growled. "Another elemental seal."
Danzou muttered, "Show-off."
Kaito yelled, "NOW THIS FIGHT REALLY BEGINS!"
Notes: Yeah I know ... this chapter is really short ... but I needed a cliffy ... this time will kind of be like the manga chapters ... lol ... Chapter 300 ROCKED! SASUKE'S BACK! YEAH ... lol ... anyways .. thanks for the reviews ... yeah ...