Chapter 8 - The Middle Of The End
Beyond Birthday took his new weapon in his hand, smiling over Aizen's dead body. "It's as if God designed me with this weapon in mind," thought Beyond Birthday. Beyond Birthday glanced at his designated weapon, the collar locater. Someone was coming towards him at a high speed.
Beyond Birthday watched as Ichigo Kurosaki flew overhead, a little out of reach of Beyond Birthday's vision. "Come closer!" yelled Beyond Birthday to the figure. Ichigo looked at the dead body of Aizen next to the strange new figure.
"This person killed Aizen?!" thought Ichigo astonished. "Did he kill Aizen because Aizen was evil or did he do it because he's playing the game?"
"Hey!" Yelled Beyond Birthday at Ichigo, "What's your name?"
"My name?" thought Ichigo for a second. "What's your name?" Ichigo returned the question.
"It's Ryuzaki, now what's yours?" yelled Beyond Birthday back at Ichigo.
"It's Ichigo," yelled Ichigo back at Beyond Birthday.
"Damn, I need his last name too," cursed Beyond Birthday as he wrote down Ichigo's first name in the notebook.
Ichigo was still skeptical of the new person he'd met. Someone who could kill Aizen wasn't someone to approach without caution. "Hey, how'd you kill Aizen?" yelled Ichigo down at Beyond Birthday.
Beyond Birthday's mind worked quickly. He needed to make up a power to have that could beat Aizen, but not hurt Ichigo.
"I counter any power used on me," lied Beyond Birthday. "This will guarantee he doesn't try to hurt me for fear of his attacks coming back at him." "You know, we could form a good team; I've been looking for some quick transport. I could be your shield."
"It makes sense that Aizen's body appears to be unharmed since his power has to do with illusions. If this Ryuzaki can reflect any attack, then Aizen was hit by his own hypnosis and died on the spot without a scratch," thought Ichigo.
Ichigo was sold. Perhaps Ichigo's greatest flaw was his unquestioning trust for everyone. As Ichigo lowered himself Beyond Birthday could see his last name, "Ichigo Kurosaki, you are dead," said Beyond Birthday as he finished writing his last name.
"W-what?" said Ichigo, suddenly flying up into a defensive position.
"I'm going to kill you," said Beyond Birthday looking up at Ichigo.
"He killed Aizen, I can't possibly stand up to him," thought Ichigo as he began flying backwards. Ichigo suddenly began making a full retreat using flash steps.
Beyond Birthday threw his head back and laughed. He couldn't run. The notebook didn't lie.
*****
Kenpachi faced Gaara and Gaara faced Kenpachi. Kenpachi was badly injured from his fight, but his smile remained. Gaara remained untouched.
Gaara opened the fight by hurling a sand spike up at Kenpachi. Kenpachi slashed it in two and proceeded to charge Gaara.
As Kenpachi's blade hit Gaara's side it sunk in. But instead of blood coming out, Gaara starting leaking sand. Eventually the entire form of Gaara collapsed into a pile of sand.
Gaara appeared behind Kenpachi and sent many sand spikes into Kenpachi's back. Kenpachi simply spun around, slicing the tips off the spikes and swinging his blade down on Gaara's sand shield.
"What?" said Kenpachi frusterated, "You're using sand as an offense and a defense? How cowardly!"
Gaara didn't answer and sent a stream of sand flying at Kenpachi. Kenpachi sidestepped and attempted to stab Gaara again. Again, Gaara's sand shield stopped Kenpachi's blade.
Kenpachi quickly switched to a Kendo style downward swing. Gaara's sand leapt up to protect him. However, Kenpachi's blade went right through Gaara's shield like a hammer through rice paper. The blade hit Gaara's shoulder and stopped.
Kenpachi noticed Gaara's arm crumbling. "He's wearing the sand like armor?" thought Kenpachi feeling as if he was being cheated out of a good fight.
Gaara held Kenpachi's sword down on his shoulder and made many hands of sand leap out at Kenpachi. "Sand Coffin," said Gaara outstretching his hand as Kenpachi rose into the air.
Kenpachi's last words were, "Heh heh, so you beat me, you coward."
The death was instantaneous.
*****
Another day passed, the new danger zones were announced, and the deaths as well. There were only 5 left according to Teacher who had absolutely no idea of L's plan. In reality, eight competitors still roamed the island.
*****
Yukari, Naruto, and Shikamaru hadn't actually expected to survive this long. They had managed to stay out of trouble by hiding in an old trailer. But now their area was announced as a danger zone.
"Let's move out!" yelled Yukari sounding a little too happy regarding the current situation.
"Remind me again why we're with this woman," whispered Shikamaru to Naruto.
Yukari rewarded Shikamaru with a punch across the head.
"Because she'll kill us if we try to leave,"whispered Naruto back. "Plus driving is a lot easier then walking and she has a car."
"But she's a terrible driver! I'm better off on my own then in a car with her driving!" said Shikamaru back, a little too loud.
Yukari gave him another punch across the head.
Shikamaru rubbed his head in pain, "Gah, either way, we need to get out of here now."
Shikamaru and Naruto jumped in the back seat of Yukari's car and braced themselves for the ride they were about to receive.
Yukari went from first to fifth gear in an ungodly amount of time.
"Watch out for that tree! There's a dead body! No! Don't run it over! You took that last jump too fast! We aren't aiming at animals!" Shikamaru kept backseat driving as he held on for dear life.
As the three exited the danger zone Naruto saw a man with shaggy black hair out of the window. He had a hunch in his back and stared blankly at the car as it drove by.
"We're almost to the next city," said Yukari as she swerved on a turn.
About a minute later after much high speed driving and taking risky turns a meteor came crashing down through the ceiling of the car, killing Yukari instantly. Her dead body slumped over the steering wheel and the car crashed into a boulder.
Naruto and Shikamaru could only watch in horror and brace for impact. Being ninjas, the two easily survived the crash and jumped out the sunroof.
They were met by the figure of Beyond Birthday at the top of a hill looking down on them. The sun was directly behind him and he was looking down on them hunched, smiling, and with his finger in his mouth.
In his other hand, Beyond Birthday held the Death Note. With which he caused Yukari's terribly unlucky and improbable death.
"Hey you!" yelled Naruto. "What exactly is your deal?!"
"Shut up Naruto, you don't know who your dealing with yet," said Shikamaru.
"My name is Ryuzaki," said the figure at the top of the hill. "I have witnessed your friend's unfortunate death and I am here to console you."
Naruto couldn't believe it, no; somehow this person caused her death.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" yelled Naruto as he created five separate copies of himself and directly charged at Beyond Birthday.
Beyond Birthday watched as the six different copies of them came closer, and into view of his shinigami eyes. "Naruto Uzumaki, huh? Goodbye." Beyond Birthday wrote his name down in the death note quickly.
"Now to brace for a beating," thought Beyond Birthday as he shut his eyes and held his notebook close. Naruto and the five clones attacked Beyond Birthday relentlessly for ten seconds before Shikamaru jumped in.
"Naruto! Wait! This person might not have anything to do with Yukari's death."
Beyond Birthday smiled, "Excellent," he thought as he bled on the ground. Beyond Birthday had taken his primary defensive stance as Naruto had come by rolling up into a ball and trying to take most of the punches away from his face, stomach, and valuables.
But now that Shikamaru had stopped him and come closer the game was over for them. Beyond Birthday opened his eyes to see Shikamaru and Naruto standing over him arguing.
"Shikamaru Nara, huh?" said Beyond Birthday opening the notebook.
At that moment Naruto suddenly had a heart attack and died.
Shikamaru's eyes opened in complete and utter shock. His face turned to see Beyond Birthday crouching over his notebook staring up owl-eyed at Shikamaru, a truly terrifying site to behold.
"You bastard!" yelled Shikamaru slapping his hands together and trapping Beyond Birthday in his shadow possession.
Beyond Birthday was forced to mimic exactly what Shikamaru did while the shadow possession was in affect.
"One coincidence could happen, but two in the presence of the same unknown person was far too unlikely," thought Shikamaru.
Shikamaru took his right hand and made a throwing motion towards Beyond Birthday. Beyond Birthday likewise made the same throwing motion, however, in Beyond Birthday's hands was the notebook.
Shikamaru caught the book and opened it up, scanning it quickly.
"You bastard, Naruto was right!" Shikamaru grabbed his designated weapon, a bag of broken glass, and threw it at Beyond Birthday's face.
Beyond Birthday made the same motions, but nothing was there to grab. He threw nothing and received a face full of glass.
"YAAAAAAHHHH!!!" yelled Beyond Birthday, still standing completely mimicking Shikamaru. Beyond Birthday's right eye took most of the glass and was bleeding down his shirt.
"Now you will die," said Shikamaru, "I've written your name down, Ryuzaki. This is for killing my friends you bastard."
Beyond Birthday began laughing. "Stupid! Do you think I'd really give you my real name? That name is a fake! And judging by the fact your possession spell has gotten weaker over time, I'd say you can't keep this up forever."
Shikamaru had considered this. Sadly, there was nothing at the time he could do. Somehow this person could see people's names without hearing them.
Shikamaru dropped the jutsu only to be greeted by Beyond Birthday wielding Misa's shotgun. He took aim at Shikamaru and fired off a shot. Shikamaru was hit.
However, in an explosion of smoke Shikamaru was gone, and left in his place was a log.
Beyond Birthday quickly looked at his collar locator. "It appears Shikamaru has somehow teleported away from me and is stealing my death note," thought Beyond Birthday to himself. "I'll just have to get it back then, won't I? God created me to use that weapon."
29 down, 6 to go
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No Ed, Al, and L this chapter, sorry... I'll get em in next chapter though, I promise.