Breaking Through...
Chapter 1
It was time for the chunin exams once again. Devon, lined up with the rest of his teammates, listened to the speech that the special jonin was giving about the rules of the preliminaries.
"Man, what a drag. I haven't seen this many genins pass the forest of death since the time I took the exam. This is gonna be troublesome. Anyway, let's start the preliminary rounds."
Devon lifted the hood to his jacket over his eyes. He looked at the screen as his name flashed across it for the first match. He was facing someone named Sumaia. He didn't have to look around for long because Sumaia jumped up with pride. "I'm going first! I'm going to make you proud Sensei!" Sumaia's sensei patted him on the back. "You'll beat whoever that loser is with no problem! Believe it!" Devon smirked at the idea.
Everyone got onto the walkway as the match was about to begin. Devon looked up at all the jonins on the catwalk above. A couple of kunoichi, one with blonde hair and one with pink, were screaming at each other over who's squad would pass.
"My entire squad is going to pass, 'Billboard Brow'! I taught them almost everything I know!"
"That's why your squad is going to fail. You didn't know much to begin with!"
Devon shut them out and tried to focus on the task at hand. He could feel his sensei's blank white eyes piercing through him as he remembered his words. "Control is your ultimate weapon. Those with control are destined to succeed, while those without it are destined to fail." He also knew he could not lose control for other reasons, unknown to anyone but his sensei. If he lost control, it was all over.
Sumaia was standing in the middle of the floor tapping his foot and glaring at the proctor. "Can we start already?! I wanna beat this guy already! I can't lose! Believe it!" The proctor rolled his eyes at Sumaia's enthusiasm and looked up at Sumaia's sensei. "This kid is a total pain! He almost as bad as you," he thought to himself. The proctor looked up at his wife for a moment. She glared back down at him. "What the **** are you waiting for?! Start the **** match already!" He cringed at the thought of that fan hitting him again.
He turned his attention to Devon and Sumaia. "You may begin." Sumaia took his fighting stance and prepared a kunai. Devon just kind of stood there, tracing his foot along the floor. Sumaia was baffled that Devon had not attacked yet! He was just standing there tracing the floor in front of him with his foot! Like he was bored or something! "He must be waiting for me to do something! Well, I've got news for him!" Sumaia thought to himself.
He put up the kunai and dynamically pointed his finger in Devon's direction. "Listen up! My name is Sumaia Reizan and I'm going to beat you all! Believe it!" The pink-haired kunoichi rolled her eyes and looked at his sensei. "Just as annoying!" she thought to herself. One kunoichi just stared at his sensei and blushed, twirling her fingers around.
Devon smirked. He made an invisible line with his foot in front of him, as if daring Sumaia to cross it. "Tell you what dimwit. Since you think you can beat me so easily, I'll help you out a little. Free shot," he said, leaning his cheek over the line. Almost every genins' mouth dropped as low as their senseis'! "No? Oh, I'm sorry. Let me help a little more." He turned his back and sat on the floor with his legs crossed. "That better?" The catwalk almost collapsed when everyone fell at the sight of this!
Sumaia couldn't believe it! He smiled and rushed to take his victory shot. No one, other than Devon's sensei knew what he was doing. They also didn't see him making hand signs while he had his back turned. He had finally built up enough chakra when Sumaia's toes hit the line. He put his hand to the floor and released the chakra into the ground. "Secret Art: Power Sealing Jutsu!" The ground under Sumaia's feet began to glow blue. Sumaia stopped just before a blue barrier rose between him and Devon. Suddenly, three more barriers rose from the ground, trapping Sumaia in a crystal-shaped prison.
Devon bit his thumb and placed his hand on the floor. The floor around the prison began to glow red, revealing several seals drawn on the floor! Devon marked the prison with his blood and the seals covered the prison, and then dissipated.
"You mean he's been making seals with his foot the whole time! No genin should be able to do anything like that!" Sumaia's sensei exclaimed. He glared furiously at Devon's sensei. "How did he master such a powerful technique?! Did you teach him that?! What's the deal?!"
Devon's sensei just smirked. "I didn't teach him that. Part of his bloodline's unique ability is the power to make seals and barriers by concentrating enough of their chakra into different parts of the body. He's been trained seal techniques since birth."
Sumaia's sensei cringed. "Well, what's the other part of their abilities?" Devon's sensei closed his eyes at the question. "Well?! What the **** is it?!" His sensei opened his eyes and stared at Devon. "You don't want to see that. You don't even want to know that. Just hope that your student won't have to find that out first hand."