AKT10
Here's the long awaited chapter ten of AKT! Sorry it took so long, but I hit a bit of a writer's block with figuring out what the match pairings were going to be. This chapter took an unanticipated turn, so I hope you enjoy!
While Naruko spent her time going back and forth from the tower to her boyfriend's apartment, Jiraya and Kakashi were busy going over options for what to do about the heaven's seal on Sasuke's neck.
"Well, since we can't actually remove it, this looks like our best option," Kakashi said.
"Are you kidding? This option is actually better than removing it! Let's go get the kid and apply the counterseal." Jiraya replied.
The Elite ninja and the Toad Sage left the room they had set up for the sealing, and quickly made their way to the room that had been given to Kakashi's genin team. Knocking on the door, Kakashi called to those inside, "Hey, it's me. We need Sasuke-kun for a little while."
The two older ninjas expected the genin to be asleep, since it was four in the morning on day five of the exam. What they didn't expect to hear was some muffled swearing, a thump, the rustling of fabric, and to see Sasuke open the door to a room containing only himself and Sakura. The two genin looked very ruffled and as if they had hastily donned their clothing, and they were both flushed.
Jiraya immediately pulled out his 'research' notepad, and started taking notes. He let out a perverted giggle when he noticed Sakura unconsciously rubbing her thighs together.
"Did we… interrupt anything?" Kakashi queried, wearing an eye smile that somehow looked perverted.
Sasuke ignored the question and asked, "What do you need, sensei?"
Jiraya answered for him, "We have prepared the counterseal for that little hickey my former teammate left you. We're here to fix at least one of the hickeys you have acquired."
Sasuke blushed and followed the two sealing experts.
"By the way, where is Naruko? She should be staying in the same room as the rest of her team." Jiraya asked.
Sasuke paused for a moment, and then admitted, "She's been spending nights in the village, then coming back here during the day."
Jiraya raised an eyebrow at that. "She's running back and forth through the forest of death twice a day?"
"No, she just jumps from the kunai in the room here to the kunai in Haku-san's apartment."
Both older men burst out in simultaneous, identical, perverted giggles, as Jiraya fervently took notes.
Sasuke face-palmed as he realized that he had said more than he should have.
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As Kakashi applied the remainder of the seals to Sasuke's skin, connecting the strings of glyphs to the seal array that was written on the floor and ran up the walls and onto part of the ceiling, Jiraya explained what they were about to do.
"Basically, since we are not able to remove the seal at this time, we have opted to apply a counterseal that will effectively reverse the polarity of the seal Orochimaru-teme gave you. The seal contains some dark chakra, and apparently has a second and possibly a third stage to it, and is triggered by anger and chakra use. The counterseal will realign the dark chakra as positive chakra, remove the subliminal messages embedded into the seal, unlock the second stage which will also be realigned as positive chakra, and reset the seal's trigger to be based on a mental command that you have control over. Luckily, you never activated the curse mark; otherwise this would not have been possible. And that's basically turning a frown upside down!" [I'm sorry; I had to include the blade trinity reference. Ryan Reynolds character is epic and possibly the single redeeming feature of that movie]
"Done," Kakashi informed them as he finished the last glyph.
"I'm ready, let's do this." Sasuke said.
Jiraya and Kakashi both took up positions behind Sasuke, and began running through a massive amount of hand seals. They were each doing different, but complimentary seals, lending to a stronger result. As they reached the last seals, they each put one hand over the seal on Sasuke's neck and said, "Sealing jutsu: Chi reversal seal!"
The massive amount of ink on the floor, walls, ceiling, and Sasuke himself began to glow with a white light, and Kakashi and Jiraya jumped back as the seals lifted off the surfaces they were written on and began to flow into the three tomoe seal given by Orochimaru. It took a full thirty seconds for all of the seals to reach Sasuke's neck, and when they did, there was a bright glow, which faded to reveal a changed seal. The tomoe's were now white with black outlines.
Sasuke slumped to the floor, and that's when the screaming began. Altered curse markings, white with black outlines, flowed like water from the seal, first covering half Sasuke's body, then after a pause, flowed to cover his entire body. It stayed that way for a few minutes and there was a lull in the pain, before the marks suddenly merged, completely covering every inch of his skin. The black boarders faded as the curse marks flowed into his eyes, altering the Sharingan that he had unconsciously activated. Finally, after a full twenty minutes of this state, Kakashi and Jiraya were astounded to see large, pristinely white feathered wings burst from Sasuke's back. They flared briefly, then folded themselves, as the boy continued to convulse in pain.
After an hour, the pain lessened, and then ended. The end result was that Sasuke laid there, wings folded, with pearly white skin from head to toe, his hair had been turned platinum blonde, and when he opened his eyes to look at the two men standing over him, they noticed that his eyes were white with three red tomoe's. [Imagine three Sharingan tomoe's overlaid onto the Byakugan, except the tomoe's are red instead of black. It's just the tomoe's, not the iris, or the little ring that the tomoe's spin on]
Sasuke then passed out, his form reverting first to the first stage state with the black outlined white markings all over, then to his usual appearance, with the altered seal on his neck. Kakashi gathered the boy's clothes, and then picked him up, and with a nod of thanks to Jiraya, carried Sasuke back to the room for Sakura to look over him as he rested. With a few quick assurances to the pinkette that the sealing had apparently gone smoothly and had achieved the best possible results, he left.
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The next day, the remaining genin teams were gathered in a large hall with an equally large statue of a pair of arms with the hands in a hand seal at one end. In front of the statue, the fourth hokage, and later the proctor for the third exam, were rambling about the rules and reasons behind the chuunin exams while the genin stood in three rows listening.
For the most part, they were grouped by team, but Naruko had thrown off the pattern by not standing with her teammates. She was acting somewhat uncharacteristically, as she had her shoulders slumped and her head down, instead of standing in her usual pose which screamed of confidence.
When the examiner asked if anyone wanted to quit, most of the genin were surprised to see one person raise his hand. Kabuto Yakushi gave an excuse about having injuries from the second stage, and not being able to continue, then was allowed to bow out.
With that done, a panel on the wall retracted to reveal a screen, with the names for the competitors for the first match displayed.
Match 1: Konchuu Kumo Vs. Naruko Uzumaki
Everyone but the downcast blond kunoichi and a black haired Kiri genin wearing a black jumpsuit with his headband on his forehead left for the catwalks to watch the first match.
"*cough cough* Alright, this match will go until someone dies *cough*, surrenders, or I end it. *cough* No one is to interfere with the match except the jounin instructors *cough* of the competitors, who are permitted to forfeit *cough* on behalf of their students at any time. *cough* Begin!"
The proctor, who happened to be the same jounin that Naruko had seen practicing Kage Bunshin no jutsu years before, Gekkou Hayate, jumped aside as he started the match.
As the match began, Naruko looked up at her opponent, and drew a kunai in preparation. Her opponent however, charged in at a high speed, which Naruko was not able to match while still wearing the training weights she had on. This allowed him to get the first blow in, savagely kneeing her in the stomach.
Naruko dropped to her knees to catch her breath after she jumped back to gain some distance from her opponent. He took that opportunity to taunt her, "Is that all you've got? Apparently the rumors are true, Leaf kunoichi are only good for one thing," he lewdly grabbed his crotch and continued, "a good fuck!"
At this, Naruko's face went completely blank, and although she got to her feet, the blank stare she had made Gekkou consider calling the match.
Luckily he did not, because Naruko was currently in her mindscape, standing in front of the Kyuubi's cage. "I can't do this right now. Kyuubi, it's your turn to drive."
The demon stared at her in confusion "What?"
"I don't feel like fighting today, but I need to win this fight. I'm temporarily giving you control of my body and chakra. Don't use too many signature moves, I want to keep some of those in reserve for the finals." With that, the cage faded, the seal suddenly floating in midair, which then floated over to the Kyuubi, and attached itself to his chest.
"Heh heh, are you sure you want this kit?"
"Make it painful." And with that last sentence, Kyuubi found himself looking at hands, hands that he had control of.
"Heh. Heh heh. Hahahaha. Muahahahaha! Oh, this is excellent indeed! After all these years, I finally get to get my hands dirty! Oh, child, you truly picked the wrong day to taunt this girl!"
Everyone was taken aback by the sudden switch in personality displayed by the blonde. A moment later, everyone in the room was blasted by an intense KI, so intense that a couple of the genin's hearts actually stopped for a few moments, and everyone in the room below high jounin level dropped to their knees, save Naruko.
"What is this? I haven't felt a KI this strong since…" Kurenai Yuuhi said from her kneeling position.
"Don't finish that sentence Kurenai, we know." Asuma answered.
Before her opponent had a chance to adapt to the intense level of KI, Kyuubi dashed at him, and hit him with a rising uppercut that was so powerful that it lifted his body nine feet in the air. It was a miracle that his jaw didn't shatter.
Konchuu used the pain of the blow to overcome the Killing Intent that still blanketed the room so thickly that it was palpable, at least enough to be able to move again. He shakily came to his feet, and pulled a sealing scroll out of his weapons pouch. "I don't know what the hell you are, but I refuse to lose to a leaf cunt!" he said as he quickly bit his thumb and used it to summon a large glass container of water the size of a person.
He quickly punched the container, shattering it, then went through a few hand signs, and used the water for his jutsu, "Kirigakure no jutsu! [Hidden mist jutsu]"
The room quickly filled with a dense fog, but it did not seem to faze the blonde. "Stupid child! You really think that a bit of fog can save your pitiful life? Behold a power that you will never overcome!"
With that, Kyuubi tapped in to the chakra that had been separated from him. The initial pulse of highly potent chakra blasted the room clear, revealing the blonde standing there shrouded in white chakra resembling flames. Faster than anyone could react, two chakra claws shot out, grabbed the hapless Kiri genin by the arms, tore them from his body, then used the protruding splintered bones to impale the boy through the chest, puncturing his lungs. It now looked like his arms were growing out of his pectoral muscles. With a final flick of one chakra claw, Kyuubi backhanded Konchuu so hard that it decapitated him.
As the crushed head stopped rolling at his feet and the dead genin's corpse fell to the ground, Gekkou called the match. "The winner by death is Naruko Uzumaki, who will be advancing to the finals."
Kyuubi released the demon chakra and jumped to the balcony. "Hahahaha! I have not had that much fun in over twelve years!" he looked around at all the people gathered, who were all staring with looks of awe, fear, confusion, and one look of excitement. "You all be good, and I won't have to come out again." He turned to look at Gaara, "And if you pull anything Shukaku, I will personally kick your ass. Till next time. Muahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" As the demonic quality of Naruko's voice faded, her features retook the blank quality they had had before, and she quickly sat down on the floor, drew her knees up to her chin, and wrapped her arms around her legs, putting her head down on her knees.
Nobody moved for a full minute, everyone being wrapped up in their own thoughts.
'Did Naruko just let the Kyuubi out for the fight? I will have to speak with her about this in depth later,' thought Sarutobi, the Third Hokage.
'What brought this about, Naruko?' thought Kakashi.
'What the fuck was that!' thought a panicked Sasuke and Sakura.
'Oh, that was wonderful, wasn't it mother?' thought Gaara.
'Oh god, there's another one! Is it too late to forfeit?' thought Kankuro.
'I will have to forfeit if I face her in the finals,' thought Temari.
'This could complicate things,' Baki thought.
The rest of the assembled ninja's thoughts were some combination of fear, awe, or confusion.
Finally, Gekkou called in the medic Nin to clean up the corpse and all the blood. "*cough* While the floor is being cleaned, *cough* anyone who needs to *cough* change their pants can use the *cough* restrooms down the hall. *cough**cough*"
Ino was the only one to take the proctor up on that, but everyone shifted uncomfortably.
Finally, the second match was announced.
Sabaku no Gaara Vs. Misumi Tsurugi
Gaara and the black garbed teammate of Kabuto descended the stairs as Kakashi coaxed Naruko into coming with him to the medical wing.
"Once I've got a hold of you, It's all over, so just give up so I don't have to kill you." Sneered Misumi.
"Mother thirsts for your blood. Mother will be pleased." Gaara's monotonous declaration of insanity actually managed to unsettle Misumi, if only because of the preceding matches' brutality, and the fact that the blonde had directly addressed his opponent as 'Shukaku', which Misumi knew was the name of the one tailed beast that the sand village controlled. 'Am I facing the one tailed Jinchuuriki?' he wondered.
Shaking off his misgivings, Misumi charged Gaara when the match began, swiftly wrapping himself around Gaara, since Gaara did not even bother to move. "Hah! Game over kid, give up so I don't have to snap your neck."
Everyone's attention was drawn to the top of the statue, as Gaara answered, "No." Gaara was standing on the tip of the fingers of the statue. As everyone turned back to the center of the ring to see what had happened, Gaara's sand clone dissolved, the sand immediately enveloping Misumi.
Gaara slowly held up his right arm, and called out, "Sand waterfall funeral! [sabaku sousou]" as he clenched his fist. The sand that was completely covering Misumi suddenly imploded, causing a fountain of blood to spray everywhere. The now bloodier sand slowly withdrew, reforming the gourd on Gaara's back, and also revealed the liquefied remains of Misumi.
The sight of this brutal kill on top of the vicious slaughter that was the previous match, caused several of the genin to empty their stomachs.
As they wiped the vomit from their lips, Tenten and Hinata simultaneously raised their hands, catching the attention of the proctor. "Yes, what is it?" Gekkou asked.
Tenten answered for the both of them after a quick glance at her fellow kunoichi. "Are we still allowed to withdraw?"
"Yes, if that is what you want. Do you both wish to withdraw from the exams?"
Both girls nodded their assent. "Alright, you may leave then."
The two girls quickly wished their teammates luck, then filed out of the room.
Well, that's it for this chapter, because I'm frikkin tired as shit.
Interesting fact, I had originally intended for Tenten to fight Temari, and for Hinata to face Shikamaru, but I picked the match order at random, except for naruko's match. I did not originally intend for the parade of brutal deaths that ended up happening, but when random dot org gave me gaara's match immediately following Naruko's match, I felt that the brutality was so much that It would cause one or two of the genin to withdraw.
Naruko's actions will be explained soon, just not this chapter. And no, she wasn't and isn't pregnant.
Read and review, I'm starting to rely on reader's messages to help me come up with ideas for my story, so even though I am not holding my story hostage for reviews, the reviews will help inspire me to write more.
Till next time.