Okay, sorry for the hold up, it took forever write all of the stuff down and covering as much as I could, so enjoy the chapter!!!
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It was hours till the Key Blade master somehow escaped the vortex, only to land in a very dense forest and still be unconscious and still gripping his Key Blade tightly. The forest where he landed was very humid, trees were everywhere and were so tall that it almost blocked out the sun from reaching the ground floor. The root of each tree was so over grown that it began to procure from the ground as an annoying obstacle. Kenji slowly began to regain consciousness. He slowly opened his eyes only to see his vision though slowly coming into focus, is a blur. His head felt that it was stepped on by dozens of heavy elephants and was throbbing with pain. As soon as his vision started to get clear, he began to examine his surroundings, trying to analyze where he was.
"Where am I?" Kenji mumbled as he rubbed his head in an attempt to relieve himself of the throbbing headache he's having.
Then, out of nowhere, several sharp, rotating objects came out racing from just beyond the trees. Kenji raised his Key Blade to deflect every one of them. Once he deflected the last one, he knew he wasn't alone.
"Not bad kid, you're able to deflect our shuriken with that piece of crap."
Then, 3 figures dropped from the trees, all had thick, protective over alls, and they had rather peculiar head bands with 3 vertical lines carved into them. They seemed to be no older than Kenji himself. All 3 had their hands in their nap sacks, taking out more of their shuriken and knives.
"Look, I'm not looking for trouble so please leave me alone." Kenji requested.
"Yeah right, and miss out on the scroll you have? No way!" the middle one retorted.
"Hey Bane, this may sound weird, but this guy doesn't have a head band." The one to the left shouted.
"Well what if he's just using a Gen-Jutsu to hide it? What then? Think clearly would you, Arc?" the one to the right pointed out.
"Arc! Rai! Shut up! We're in a fight here!" Bane shouted.
"Uh… What scroll are you talking about? And what is Gen-Jutsu?" Kenji said as though he was clueless about what they were talking about (in fact he was). His head was filled with sweat drops coming from not only his not having an idea on what's going on and anxiety in anticipating their next attack.
"Stop playing stupid!" Rai shouted furiously. "This is the Chunin exams, and were supposed to take your scroll!"
This only confused Kenji even more… Chunin Exam? Gen-Jutsu? Scrolls? What in the world were these people talking about?
"I think you made a mistake, I'm not here for the Chunin Exams or whatever you call it." Kenji said trying to persuade them not to attack. "I don't even know what in the world a Chunin is!"
"Enough! Let's do this! Ready your kunai knives!" Arch shouted raising his shuriken and kunai knives.
Kenji gave a long sigh. "Oh well…"
Kenji raised his Key Blade up into the air.
"Thunder!" but nothing but the wind came as a result for the bewildered Key Blade master. "Fire! Blizzard?! Oh crap…."
There was nothing but more wind coming and nothing coming from the Key Blade. What in the world just happened to his spells?! There was no way that he could've forgotten those after he spent years perfecting those spells, and yet this happened…
"Hahahah!" all 3 burst out laughing at the failed attempt to cast his spells.
"If that was your Nin-Jutsu, then you're a lot more of a novice that I thought!" Rai howled in laughter.
"This is Nin-Jutsu!" Bane then hurled a shuriken and crossed his index and middle fingers. "Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Then in an instant, the single shuriken became many more. Kenji leaped into the air to evade the deadly spray of shuriken. Then Arc hurled a kunai knife with a strange tag attached. Taking no chances, he parried away the tagged knife, and luckily he did because when the kunai knife attached itself to a nearby tree, it exploded, leaving nothing but debris and splinters, remains of the once great tree.
"Holy crap what the hell was that?!" Kenji shouted narrowing his eyes in horror of what would have become of him had that kunai knife made contact or even came close enough to him.
Even as he landed, he was given no breathing room, Bane came rushing at him with blinding speed with a Kunai Knife held in his hand. Kenji arched his Key Blade down wards, striking Bane's wrist, leaving him open to an attack. Taking the chance, he arched his right leg side ways, slamming his instep into the boy's face and sent him flying the other way. With thoughts of avenging Bane's defeat, Arc hurled several shuriken and readied a kunai knife Rai also followed suite and readied his own kunai knife. Kenji deflected every shuriken that came his way and as Arc came within range, the Key Blade master leaped only high enough to evade the Arc's slash, and arched his Key Blade downwards, striking Rai in the shoulder bone and rendered him as unconscious as Bane was. As he landed, he wasted no time and rushed the unguarded Arc and slammed his Key Blade through his abdomen and left him paralyzed.
"Those guys meant serious business…" Kenji said catching his breath after his battle.
"Not bad, and not even using your Nin-Jutsu or Gen-Jutsu… You must be one heck of a shinobi, better than a lot of us…" Arc mumbled taking out a pair of scrolls from his sack and handed them to Kenji. Both had different markings in the middle. "Here just take them and leave us alone, we're sorry that we collected more than we needed. Now leave us alone!"
"Okay…" Kenji said even more bewildered than before, and pocketing his newly acquired scrolls.
Then, respecting their request, he left them be, besides, he had a lot more to worry about. It was hard traversing through the forest, Kenji ended up hacking one vine after another with his Key Blade just to get through, and yet those were the least of his worries. Where was he? How can he get out and what happened to Iris and the others? And what exactly did Veil do? Several explosions were rushing through his mind like an erupting volcano and lava just waiting to rush out after being kept underground for so long.
After what seemed to be took what seemed like forever, Kenji finally arrived at a clearing, there was a huge tower at the center of the clearing, finally, there was hope on getting some information. However, the light of hope was shadowed by darkness as he spotted several heartless, they were attacking a group of 3 shinobi, one had jet black hair and had a blue shirt with a strange symbol consisting of red and white at the back, another was a girl with pink hair and had a red overall, and one blonde with strange whisker marks across his cheek and wore an orange jacket and pants. The boy with jet black hair was breathing hard, his energy seemed almost depleted.
"Damn it Sasuke, don't you have any energy left?!" the blonde growled.
"Shut up Naruto!" Sasuke said with his eyes wincing and his hand grasping his chest where his heart was supposed to be.
"Sakura, can you still fight?" Naruto said.
"Yeah, but I'm worried that Sasuke can't." Sakura replied keeping an eye on all the creeping heartless. "What are these things?!"
"I don't know, and I don't like it…" Sasuke replied as he too with a raised Kunai Knife on the ready.
Suddenly, one of them jumped straight for Naruto, and he retaliated by hurling several shuriken. Though the heartless vanished and faded back into darkness, this provoked the other heartless, they all leaped to strike against Sasuke, but Kenji rushed in and slammed his Key Blade against the incoming heartless.
"What are you doing?! Get up!" Kenji shouted at Sasuke who quickly forced himself back up.
"I didn't need you to save me!" Sasuke spat which only fell on deaf ears.
"Sasuke, now's not the time for this!" Naruto growled at his team mate.
Several heartless rushed the group, in an attempt of taking them down and stealing their hearts. Kenji swung his Key Blade in rapid succession, vanquishing every single heartless that dared to try to attack him. Naruto swung his kunai knife and hurled shuriken from his pouch to banish the heartless from a distance. And no matter how many were vanquished, there still appeared more.
"That the last straw!" Naruto shouted furiously as he crossed his index and middle fingers and focused his energy. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
And in a puff of smoke, so many living replicas of Naruto appeared seemingly from nowhere. All had a grin as they took out a kunai knife, and readied themselves for battle.
"Heh, how do you like me now!" all the Naruto said confidently.
It was the wildest and messiest thing that Kenji ever witnessed. All the replicas of Naruto rushed and trampled the overwhelming crowds of heartless. It was chaos, but nonetheless it was working, the numbers of heartless were decreasing fast as each replica slashed with their kunai, hurled shuriken or slam either fists or feet into an unsuspecting heartless.
'He has the right idea.' Kenji thought as he followed suit and rushed the hordes of heartless and slashed his Key Blade as fast as his arms could swing.
"I think I have enough chakra for this." Sasuke mumbled as he formed several hand signs to focus his chakra. "Fire Ball Jutsu!"
The jet-black haired shinobi then breathed fire from his lips and incinerated several heartless that stood in his way.
"Sasuke don't do it! You've used up too much chakra from our last fight!" Sakura pleaded as she tried to tend to his wounds.
As the fire subsided, Sasuke held the left side of his shoulder and whimpered in pain. It seemed so intense that it was made him twitch uncontrollably. To make matters worst, several more heartless rushed the two and their numbers wouldn't decrease nor would any of them let up. Sakura held on to Sasuke and closed her eyes tightly, expecting the pain to come, instead, there was a huge whirring sound, Kenji hurled his Key Blade in time to save the two. Taking this opening the heartless leaped into the air to ready an assault against the unarmed Key Blade master… Or was he?
"Watch out!" Naruto shouted at the disarmed Key Blade master, but Kenji couldn't help but to grin.
Kenji leaped out of the way, and in a flash of light, he called back his Key Blade and arched his Key Blade horizontally and vanquished his would be assassins. Suddenly, as if there was some sort of cue, they all ceased and faded back down into darkness. He couldn't complain or anything, but he couldn't help but to still be curious as to why on earth had they disappeared. For the heartless to attack just them was still a mystery and even more mysterious was why they came and went like they did.
'I have a bad feeling about this…' Kenji thought as even more questions popped into his mind firing like machine guns and exploding like rockets.
"Hey thanks, you saved our necks back there. The name's Naruto, and there are my team mates Sasuke and Sakura." Naruto introducing his team mates.
"My name is Kenji." The Key Blade master said grinning at the prospect of meeting a friend.
"Hey, where are your team mates?" Naruto wondered as Sasuke and Sakura noticed that too. "Are you taking the chunin exams alone this year?"
"Yeah…" Kenji said scratching the back of his head, starting to feel really uneasy with not only with the questions, but the thought of meddling with the world too much and how on earth would he be able to blend in. On top of that, he was concerned about the Heartless, who was behind them all, will they attack again?
"Hey, if you came here, you must already have your scrolls, right?" Sasuke said suddenly. "That must be why you're here."
"Uh… Do you mean these?" Kenji then took out the scrolls with two different markings that those other ninja gave him.
"Whoa, how did you get both of them on your own?" Naruto said looking at the scrolls in awe.
"I got lucky I guess." Kenji said trying his best not to reveal the details as to how he acquired the coveted scrolls as vague as he possibly could. "Where am I supposed to go now?"
"Well, come with us we're supposed to go to the tower when we do get these scrolls." Sakura explained as she helped Sasuke by carrying one of his arms across her shoulders.
Kenji followed the trio into the tower; there the structure looked rather plain, and much to his surprise the whole thing was actually clean. Inside, was a he saw a shinobi seemingly in his twenties, with a scar running right across his upper nose, with black suit, a green vest with so many pockets sewed on across it, and a peculiar head band with the same symbol as the one with Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura's. He had a brown clip board on one hand and a pencil with the other, writing things and going through the other documents clipped on the clip board. When he saw the trio, he gave a broad grin, as if happy to see the three in one piece.
"Iruka-Sensei!" Naruto shouted, rushing to his former sensei and giving him a long hug after what seemed to be like a long time. "It's been ages!"
"Heh! I had a feeling the three of you would make it!" Iruka said with a mixture of pride and joy from seeing them. "Well, looks like you three have grown since you graduated from the academy!"
"Yeah, believe it!" Naruto shouted proudly with his grin still as broad as ever.
"Well, I assume you three managed to get your scrolls?" Iruka said expecting a favorable answer from them.
"Yeah…" Sasuke said coolly, reaching into his pouch and pulled out scrolls similar to the ones that Kenji acquired and handed them to Iruka.
"And your scrolls and name?" Iruka said turning to Kenji.
"Oh yeah, here…" Kenji said as he too took out the scrolls which he'd rather not say how he acquired and handed them to Iruka as well. "And my name is Kenji."
'Strange, this one doesn't seem to have any sort of equipment with him, yet he somehow acquired scrolls?' Iruka thought examining Kenji down to the last strand of hair if he had any hidden weapons on him. 'No weapons… Even though he did get a few injuries on him, it must have been hard to go through even a day alone… I should report this to Anko.'
"Well this is surprising, this is the first solo-team I've seen that actually passed the exams this far." Iruka said surprised as he checked the authenticity of all scrolls to which his surprise were all not forged. "Alright you guys go on through the door, everyone else who passed this exam should be waiting inside."
Doing as they were told, the 4 moved through the double doors and found a large open space with only a pair of stair cases on parallel sides to connect them to the upper levels elevated and supported by a series of pillars. There they found at the very end, an elevated stage, designed so that they could get a clear view of what goes on around the wide open space, and on top of that there stood many figures, all of them shinobi because they all had headbands on and as well as the other shinobi examinees. Behind the standing figures, there was a pair of hands, forming some sort of hand sign, similar to what was used to perform the Nin-Jutsu that Kenji had seen earlier. Most of them weren't any older than they were, yet they somehow managed to get through that jungle? What was most peculiar was the short and seemingly old man dressed in robes of red and white as well as a red hat, this man also had a brown blow pipe which he was smoking. Right next to him was a man drenched with a black trench coat. To the old man's left was a woman in her twenties or so with purple hair, her overall body was covered with a thin layer of protective chains and a light brown trench coat, then next to her was a light purple haired man also in his twenties had an out-fit similar to Iruka's, he had a mask that covered his entire mouth, his headband covered the left side of his eye, and he was holding up a rather peculiar book that made him giggle uncontrollably. There was also a woman with long jet-black hair wearing a red long sleeve beneath a white vest, and next to her was a man who had a black hair with a bowl hair cut and had a long green overall that would make some puke out the food that they ate. Then there was another with raised black hair, and had a long beared around his chin, as well as wearing an outfit similar to Iruka's as well.
"Hmm… This is interesting there seems to be a lot of Genin that passed the exam." The elder man in robes said.
"Lord Hokage, I have something to report." It was Iruka. "It's just something peculiar, this boy who just passed the second exam on his own."
"Oh? Are you sure that his scroll wasn't a forgery?" the purple haired woman teased.
"It's genuine, Anko, but what was peculiar was that he had no weapons of any sort." Iruka stated which made the Hokage rub his chin, and Anko want to send the trainer back to the academy. "He's the kid next your team Kakashi."
"Oh? Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke passed did they?" Kakashi said rather lazily as if he anticipated it all to happen. "Well, looks like I win, the bet Gai…"
"Oh well, I suppose they're a lot more skilled than I thought…" conceded the man with the green overall and a bowl cut. "Looks not only did my team make it, but so did Asuma's and Kurenai's as well."
"Well, looks like you trained your team rather well, Asuma." Kakashi commented as he continued to read his book.
"Well, even if Shikamaru is a tad lazy, he can get the job done." The bearded shinobi said, surveying the teams who passed the exam. "And I heard that Kurenai's team made it faster than any of ours."
"Faster than any of ours for sure, because I trained them in tracking so they could figure out whom in the exam has the scrolls they needed." The long haired kunoichi said.
"Well, they weren't the fastest to be sure." Anko said, flipping through her papers. "Those sand ninja finished it under a day."
"Wait what?!" Asuma said in disbelief staring the 3 genin.
One was shorter than the others, and had crimson hair, he also had an unusually large gourd for who knows what, but the most peculiar thing was his eyes; not only did he have baggy eyes, although nobody couldn't point out what it was, it gave off a bad vibe. Next was drenched in a black overall and had purple face paint. He was carrying something strange, bandaged. Then there was a blonde with 4 pig tails at the back of her hair and had a peculiarly large fan at her back.
"The one with the gourd is Garaa, the one in black is Kankuro, and the girl's name is Temari." Anko read from her information sheet. "And the strangest thing about them was when they came, that Garaa came in without a scratch…"
Gai, Kakashi, Kurenai, Iruka and Asuma gasped at the revalation. There were indeed talented candidates amongst the crowd of who passed the second exam.
"Please, that Kenji could be a liability to the security of the Chunin Exams! He wasn't even registered to take the Exams!" Iruka said explaining his thoughts of the case. "He could be one of Orochimaru's hidden agents."
"Now that you said it, I don't recall seeing him before the second exams…" Anko said, recalling the events in her mind.
"Not likely… Orochimaru knows how the system of the Hidden Leaf works so he would have made a false document of some sort to hide him." the Hokage explained. "Orochimaru isn't sloppy. But nevertheless that still can't clear him of any suspicion."
"Lord Hokage, shall I interrogate him? I can force him to tell us." suggested the man clad with a jet black trench coat.
"No, that isn't a good idea, Ibiki. If he is one of Orochimaru's agents, then this may provoke him to do something rather drastic. Keep an eye on this boy for now." The Hokage explained.
"This doesn't look good Lord Hokage, I say post-pone the exams temporarily." Anko suggested to the elder shinobi.
"Hm… I'm inclined to agree to that… Perhaps a short and temporary one…" The Hokage said.
There was a buzz around not only amongst the figures up there, but also amongst the candidates. There was a great deal of confusion amongst them as to why there was a hold up on the long due continuation of their examinations. There was anxiety in the air as they continued chattering about things.
'I don't like the looks of these things…' Kenji thought.
"Surviving candidates of the Chunin Exams, I congratulate you for making it this far. I can only imagine that all of you are anxious to continue, but I regret to inform you that due to a security breach, we'll have to temporarily post-pone the exams." The Hokage announced through a speaker that blasted the bad news through out the tower.
There was a wide-spread of groans across the open room from the examinees. Some were disappointed, and some were relieved that they gave them all some sort of relief, a moment of reprieve to get their strength back. Though some were disappointed and some were relieved, Kenji couldn't help but to get a bad feeling about things, it seems as if he's getting a sharp tingling down his spine, telling him that something bad is about to happen.
Suddenly, an unfamiliar and ominous voice echoed through the room. "We told you not to stop the exams for any reason. Now that you have, I believe that some punishment is in order."
Then, out of nowhere a cloaked figure emerged from the darkness at the second level of the room. All attention turned to the mysterious figure. The cloaked figure's hood was on in such a way that it completely hid his face in its darkness.
"For this, you'll experience a small taste of the power of darkness…" the cloaked figure declared.
Then, out of the shadows, the cloaked figure drew a jet black Key Blade with a blade like hilt and blade, it's handle was as jet black as the rest of it's design, and it's tip was shaped with a blade of that of an axe. It was at that moment that Kenji realized what he was, and an image of what was really going on. The cloaked figure then leaped down onto the ground floor and as he raised his Key Blade into the air, heartless similar to the ones that attacked Naruto and his friends earlier appeared.
"These things again?!" Naruto shouted as he and his team mates drew kunai knives and readied themselves for battle. "Kenji, are you ready? Kenji?!"
But Kenji had already drawn his Key Blade and leaped into the air, straight towards the cloaked figure. Sensing Kenji, the cloaked figure raised his Key Blade the same time Kenji arched down his, creating a violent clash between the two blades.
"You're Kenji! It seems you survived your encounter with Master Veil." The cloaked figure said realizing who he was as the two pushed against each other for supremacy. "I don't know how you survived, but I'll make sure you don't get out alive, kid!"
"Bring it!" Kenji shouted.
The two leaped back a few ways and took their stances. The dark figure then rushed Kenji with blinding speed and arched his Key Blade horizontally across, but Kenji had other plans, he leaped back just enough to dodge the attack and went forward and swung his Key Blade diagonally upwards from the left. The cloaked figure barely dodges the lethal counter attack and arches his Key Blade downwards as Kenji raised his to block the incoming down strike. The Key Blade master then tilted his blade diagonally, causing the cloaked figure to lose his balance and tripped forward. Taking this chance, Kenji plunged his foot into the side of his abdomen, causing him to fall back hard. Then, the enraged Key Blade master rushed Kenji once more but this time with a lot more rage within himself. As he came within range, Kenji leaped into the air, just enough and slammed his Key Blade into the cloaked figure's collar bone. He slumped hard, feeling the damage taking it's toll on him, but he wasn't finished yet, he quickly turned and arched his Key Blade down, but Kenji not only raised his to block the incomming attack, but he also parried it aside, leaving his foe open. Kenji took that instance and slammed his Key Blade across his abdomen. The Dark Key Blade master clutched the area where he was only recently attacked and started no only breath hard, but whimper in pain. It was at that time when everyone managed to defeat all of the heartless, and by then, they all turned their attention on the duel between the two Key Blade users.
"Heh, you got me good, kid." The cloaked foe said slumping and clutching his abdomen, trying to soothe his pain, even just a little.
"Tell me, who are you and where is Veil?!" Kenji demanded pointing his Key Blade threateningly toward his opponent.
"The whereabouts of my master, well I don't feel like telling you that." The cloaked figure said, finally removing his hood, revealing a man with crimson red hair and pale skin. "As for my name, well, you can call me Veyn, one of Lord Veil's apprentices..."
"I'll ask one more time, where is Veil?!" Kenji demanded.
"Feh, wouldn't you like to know?" Veyn sneered as he bit his thumb and formed a series of hand signs, similar to what Naruto did before and slammed his palm into the ground. "Summoning Jutsu! I'll see you later if you manage to beat this!"
Then, Veyn disappeared into the darkness, but was replaced by a 5 story humanoid-shaped heartless, it's chest carved with a heart shape right through it. The heartless eyes glowed, and had small miniscule wings and it's hair was all over the place and disordered. Everyone stood in awe as they stared at their new opponent, and was scared beyond belief. The giant stared down to what seemed to be insignificant beings, little people whose life means nothing to him.
'Damn it! I don't have time to deal with this!' Kenji thought, but he was left with no choice as he took a stance and stared the heartless down from eye to eye.
The humanoid heartless raised his gigantic fist and slammed it into the ground, causing not only a massive tremor, but also a hole of darkness to emerge from the ground. Numerous heartless clad in silver armor, and wielding an arm-mounted sword rose, and rushed down not only Kenji, but also the other examinees as well as the figures that stood upon the platform. The whole room was once more thrown into panic and chaos as each shinobi fought off their bladed assailants. The dark giant swung his bulky arms straight for Kenji, hoping to take the Key Blade master down in one hit. Kenji raised his Key Blade vertically to block the arm from getting to him any further than it already has. Though the impact was reduced, Kenji was flung several ways back, and his back was slammed into the wall behind the stage the resulting impact not only caused an imprint of the Key Blade master into the wall, but it also knocked the wind out of him.
'That was careless…' the Key Blade master thought as he forced himself out of the hole that he made. 'I've got to take care of this thing fast or else…'
"Hey kid, you alright?" it was Kakashi, wearing his neutral face, not showing any emotions in either his face or tone. "That was one heck of a blow you just took."
"There's so many of them!" Naruto shouted as he parried an incoming attack and slammed his heels into the armored heartless.
The dark giant swept his muscular arms and swept another team of Genin, one was a girl wearing a thick gray sweater, blue hair and her eyes as pale as her skin, another was wearing a thick sweater, similar to the girls, and had a dog under it, and another had brown pants with a gray sweater, though not as thick as his other two team mates. The one with the dog and the girl with the blue hair seemed unconscious, leaving the one with sunglasses left to defend his other team mates. Then, several insects, came from not only from inside his jacket, but also his ears and perhaps anywhere there was a hole within his body.
"Hinata! Kiba! Shino get out of there!" Kurenai shouted ordering her platoon to get out.
The dark giant raised his fist once more, readying an attack as did the bug user started to take a stance, readying to defend not only himself, but also his other team mates. And as the heartless was about to pound the bug user, Kenji hurled his Key Blade to intercept the attack, and indeed it worked but it also caught the attention of the giant.
"Oh boy…" Kenji said under his breath, sensing trouble.
The core of the giant then began to glow a purple ominous aura and unleashed a barrage of jet black energy shots. In a flash of light, Kenji called back his Key Blade in time to deflect the incoming energy shots and rebounded each of them back to the giant, knocking it back though only a little bit.
Asuma leaped down from the stage to another team consisting of a blonde kunoichi wearing purple short-sleeve shirt and skirt, another had a spiky pony tail at the back of his hair, and was wearing a gray jacket and a thin chain mail similar to Anko's, and there was another one that was rather chubby, and had a thin green jacket and brown shorts.
"Shikamaru, what's the status? How do you think we can beat these things?" Asuma said drawing out a pair of black brass knuckles with blades attached at the end and vanquished another armored heartless.
"Well, these little ones are easy enough to deal with." The boy with the spiky pony tail stated as he plunged his kunai knife into another armored heartless. "But that big one is going to be a pain in the ass, because I've never seen anything like that thing."
"Choji, how are you holding up?" Asuma asked as he slammed his foot into another armored heartless.
"I'm mad that these guys are interrupting my lunch time!" Choji said angrily as he slammed a heartless with his fist, then smashed them with his knee.
"Is food all you think about?!" the skinny girl screeched as she kicked off a heartless.
"Calm down, Ino, at least he's enthusiastic." Shikamaru said lazily as he continued to give the giant heartless a calculating stare in hopes of finding a weak spot. "Ah! Asuma-sensei! Watch out!"
Then as Asuma disposed of a heartless, another leaped into the air and raised his arm-mounted blade, ready for an attack. Once more, Kenji hurled his Key Blade an vanquished the incarnation of darkness, and as he leaped down from the stage, he called back his Key Blade in a flash of light.
"Are you okay?!" Kenji asked the shinobi.
"Yeah! Thanks for the save kid!" Asuma said.
Several heartless rushed Kenji, then as they got within range they raised their arm-mounted sword, but the Key Blade master raised his blade to not only deflect the incoming blow, but parry it away to leave his foe off-guard, and took his chance to deliver a lethal blow through the abdomen. Not resting at all, Kenji arched his Key Blade down faster than the heartless could raise his sword to defend himself. He then continued his assault against the armored heartless and slashed diagonally upwards where their blade wasn't there to defend the incoming attack.
"That's it!" Chouji shouted angrily as he formed a hand seal. "Expansion Jutsu!"
And expand he did, as when the smoke cleared, his body became round and circular, (hence his name). Choji tucked his arms, legs and even his head inside and began to spin uncontrollably fast.
"Holy…" Kenji said in awe as he couldn't help to say because of what he just saw.
"Human Boulder Jutsu!" then, the ball that rolled uncontrollably launched itself against the mob of heartless, flattening any of them that dared to get in the way.
"Yeah! Go Choji!" Ino squealed, cheering for her team mate.
After flattening so many so mercilessly in such a short amount of time, the spinning ball of death made its way to the dark giant. But the heartless simply kicked it like a soccer ball, and was launched into the base of one of the pillars and forced it down like how a wrecking ball did. As the smoke cleared, Choji was knocked unconscious but was lucky none the less because neither the whole second floor nor the pillar collapsed on him.
"Wait a minute…" Shikamaru said suddenly. "If we can take that thing's legs down, then we might just stand a chance!"
As those words came into the Key Blade master's ear, his mind began to formulate a way to literally bring the giant down on his knees. Kenji grinned, he then lumped his Key Blade onto his shoulders and ran off out of sight.
"Aaah!" Sakura was then struck by one of the blades of the heartless and fell on the floor.
Ino came rushing to the pink haired girl, only to get slashed by the arm by the heartless herself. Then, the shinobi with the green overall rushed in and slammed his foot into the heartless as revenge for harming Sakura.
"Lee! Thanks, you saved me again." Sakura said clutching her wound to the ninja with a ridiculously large eye brow.
"Like I said before Sakura, I'll protect you!" Lee said with a grin as he took a stance, goading the heartless to come and attack him.
Then as the heartless rushed in, several kunai knives were hurled and plunged into their armor, vanquishing them right before everyone's eyes. And a young woman with a pink shirt and a pair of buns on her head came rushing in.
"Thank you, Ten Ten!" Lee said brightly.
"Just don't get careless!" the girl shouted, turning her attention to another boy with a long, straight hair, and having the same eyes as Hinata's. "Neji! Watch out!"
"Hmph, I think you should tell these cretins that instead of me…" the boy with the long hair said as his body began to emit a lot of chakra. "Rotation!"
Then, Neji spun around, creating a massive barrier of chakra that not only defended himself, but also took down so many heartless, but not before they were hurled so many feet back and landing painfully on the ground.
"Sakura!" it was the blonde, rushing to his team mate's aid. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just a scratch." She said whimpering in pain that the heartless caused her. "Where's Sasuke?"
"He's fine, he's with Kakashi-sensei." Naruto recalled. "I'm more worried about Kenji."
Kenji found himself behind the dark giant, taking in deep breaths, and readying himself for the stunt that he was about to do.
"This had better work…" Kenji said under his breath drawing his Key Blade once more.
The Key Blade master then rushed between the legs of the dark giant, and slammed his Key Blade into its tendons. When he got through, the heartless giant fell on his knees, and spotted Kenji. It swung its left arms, but Kenji leaped just high enough to get on the hand, and once it's fist reached the ground, Kenji plunged his Key Blade down now only into the hand of the giant, but also the concrete. Then, Kenji rushed up through the giants arm while dragging his Key Blade painfully through as he ran through, and when he reached the shoulder, he pulled up his Key Blade and arched it downwards into the massive head of the heartless. Then, it started shaking violently, trying to get the Key Blade master off its shoulders. Kenji leaped down, but not before he hurled his Key Blade into the giant's face. The Key Blade went through it, forcing it to go down even lower with only its right arm supporting it. Kenji arched his Key Blade horizontally and slammed it across the giant's remaining arm, and brought it down even more. Then, the Key Blade master leaped into the air with his blade poised down to deliver the final blow. He plunged his Key Blade at the back of the giant's head, and then at last, the creature slowly dissipated and faded from the eyes of others. As the giant vanished the rest of the armored heartless faded as well as if it was their cue.
"Kenji!" Naruto shouted rushing to the Key Blade master who was down on his knee out of exhaustion and only had his blade to hold himself up. "Man that was sweet! You took that thing down!"
"Yeah…" Kenji said taking in as much air as he could and trying to regain his stamina. "Well, at least it won't bother us any more."
"Not bad! You brought that heartless down just like that… No wonder Master Veil wants you dead." A familiar voice echoed through the hall.
"Veyn!" Kenji shouted, searching for the Dark Key Blade master.
All heads turned to the statue of the pair of hands forming a hand seal, as out of the darkness, Veyn appeared at the finger tips of the statue. He gave Kenji a malicious grin as well as the rest of the examinees.
"This battle made me realize something : eversince you were plunged back to this time, you've lost all of your other powers, didn't you?!" Veyn said sadistically.
"Back to this time? What are you talking about?!" Kenji demanding an explaination.
"Oops, I said too much." Veyn sneered. "Until next time brat!"
"Wait!" Kenji shouted as he tried to run up to the disciple of Veil, but it was useless, not only was Kenji too exhausted to chase after him, Veyn had already faded back into darkness. "Damn it!"
"Who was that?" Naruto said helping up the Key Blade master.
"He was the one who summoned that huge thing to attack us." Kenji said gasping for more air. "He'll be back…"
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