Chapter 3: Massacre at the Exams.
Summary: The Exams start, and Shen heads to the Exam's first stage. And at the second stage, Shen reveals his Bloodlust!
Shen waited for a few days for the Exams to begin, and today it starts. Before Shen, left he went to Nightmare to find out his objective. "Now Shen, I've learned the structure of the Exams. The first stage is a test of information gathering, the last question is a ruse; it's just to fool the weak minded. It has nothing to do with combat, so I don't care how you pass, just do it!" Nightmare explained.
"The next stage is a survival test, this is when you weed out the weak ones." Nightmare continued and Shen looked at him with confusion, "The 'weak ones'? Why not just all?" Shen asked.
"Because, the third stage is a tournament. I know how you like to watch things unfold." Nightmare explained as he saw a smile appear on Shen's face, "With more candidates, it will provide a better play with more actors." Nightmare said with excitement.
Shen nodded in agreement, "And if there is more than nine candidates, there will be a preliminary tournament, just so you know." Nightmare added and Shen nodded again.
"I will leave then. I'll see you later Master." Shen said and left for the Exams.
At the first Exam site...
Shen walked in with the other ninjas and went to room 301. When he reached the second floor he saw a group of ninjas trying to get in a room that had a genjutsu on it, it was really room 201.
"Imbeciles, this is not worth my time." Shen thought and headed to the next floor and went inside of room 301 to see a lot of ninjas, but hardly any of them were worthy.
Shen moved to a bench and took a seat, after that he looked through out the room and noticed Gaara and his siblings in the crowd, and he saw Gaara staring at him.
"Hmph, I wonder how Gaara would react when he saw my transformed state? Heh heh, I know how everyone else will react." Shen thought as he smiled sadistically.
After a while more ninja entered the room, Shen saw that most was the ninjas he observed several days ago. And after that Team 7 entered the room and Team's 6 & 8 moved towards them.
From the looks of them, Shen decided that they were friends or something close. After a while Naruto screamed that he was going to beat every single ninja that was in the room.
Of course, everyone looked at him, some with confused looks and most with anger, Shen was one of them. Shen wasn't pleased that someone said he could beat him, although Naruto didn't pacifically say he could beat Shen, but that was going to be confirmed soon enough.
After Naruto's confirmation of winning, and new ninja walked up to them. Shen was curious so he decided to listen in with his assassin trained ears.
Shen blocked out all other noises and tuned into there conversation, they were talking about the exams and how hard it was. Then the new ninja: Kabuto, said he had things called info cards and he had info on everyone in the exams. Sasuke then asked "Can you find three ninjas?" Kabuto looked at him, "Of course, just describe them, and tell me what village they come from" Kabuto explained.
"One is called Rock Lee of the Leaf, another Gaara of the Sand, and the last one is a Mist ninja with a gauntlet on his left arm, azure armor under a black coat, and azure greaves."(I have Shen's attire on my profile, if you are wondering what he wears go to my profile)
"That's no fun, you now two of their names. Oh well." Kabuto said as he pulled three card out of his deck. The first card he showed was Lee's, and he explained his stats. The next one was Gaara's and he explained again.
Finally Kabuto came to the last card, "Okay, now it's time for the Mist ninja." Kabuto said as he focused his charka into the card and Shen's picture appeared along with his stats.
"That's him. Who is he?" Sasuke asked, "His name is Shen Hashigane, he has taken a quite few A-rank missions despite his genin rank. His Taijutsu skill are off the chart. And his Ninjutsu and Genjutsu skill's are unknown. This guy a mystery, this is all I know about him." Kabuto explained.
Sasuke looked at the card and so did Naruto "Eh, I can beat him no problem!" Naruto said with his hands behind his head. "Care to prove that?" a voice said holding a sword right to Naruto's throat!
Everyone was shocked by the voice, they turned to see the same Shen that they was studying! "What the?! Where did he come from?!" Sasuke asked in his mind, "Damn, this guy fast! I saw him across the room!" Kabuto thought as he backed off from Shen.
There was three types of people that Shen hated, arrogant, persistent, and stupid people. And what do you know, Naruto fell into all three categories! Not to mention Shen was already pissed off at the comment that Naruto could beat him!
Naruto didn't move, he was still surprised that Shen moved at great speeds! "I thought so, you should shut your pathetic mouth before slit your throat." Shen said as he removed his sword from Naruto's throat and back on his back and walked away.
After Shen left, Sakura nailed Naruto on the head, "See you idiot! See what happens went you open your mouth?!" Sakura asked and Naruto grabbed his head in pain.
(Time Skip, after sound ninja attack)
Shen saw the attack happen, but didn't care about it. Then a group showed up and the leader scolded the attacking ninja, and lead the ninjas into a classroom for the first exam.
Everyone moved to the seat that they got assigned to, Shen was place in the back.
Ikibi explained the rules of the written exam and the test began. Shen started by answering his questions, then got an idea, he used his Soul Edge power that he had in his right arm to stretch out and into the minds of the ninjas who sat around him.
In their minds, Shen found answers and decided to have fun by sapping their confidence and making them nervous and scared, Shen had weakened them for the last question that his master warned him about.
Shen noticed the ninja around him lose focus and began to panic. Shen smirked and wrote down the question, he noticed the watchers that was positioned around the room look at his area after he used his power. They didn't know what was happening, but knew Shen was behind it, as he was smirking. But they didn't see him cheat, so they couldn't mark him down.
After an hour...
The numbers was reduced as ninjas was caught cheating and left with their teammates, and now it was time for the last question. Ikibi drop the bombshell about either taking the question and miss it, or loss the change to become Chunin...forever.
Shen wasn't fazed by the surprising question, but soon some people started to argue at Ikibi at the last question.
After a while more ninjas gave up and left with their teams, Shen sat like a statue with his hands in front of his face. (He was sitting like Sasuke in the first few episodes) His eyes were watching the pathetic ninjas that was leaving because of their fear and lack of courage. They were worthless to Shen, because they didn't offer a decent soul offering.
(Time Skip after Naruto gave his speech and declare he'd stay and Anko's arrival.)
Anko had lead the remaining ninja teams to training area #44 a.k.a the Forest of Death.
Shen was intrigued by the name and couldn't wait for the exams to begin! Shen shifted his attention to Naruto, who again made a big scene.
"That idiot. I can't wait to kill him." Shen said with a mix of anger and anticipation. Then Anko shut him up, and explained the rules of the second Exams. She showed two scrolls and said every team had to get both scrolls and head to the tower in the middle of the forest in five days.
Shen went to the booth and got an Heaven scroll, he left the booth after he placed the scroll inside his coat and placed it in a pocket on the inside. Shen was bored, so he headed to his designated gate and awaited for the signal to start.
Several minutes later the signal came and the gates opened. Shen immediately dashed into the forest and headed for anyone he could find that was worthless so he could eliminate them!
After about ten minutes...
Shen had locked onto a near team and was heading to them with great speeds, he was so excited he let his suppressed evil power slip out!
The team of Rock genin was unaware of the danger and the evil power that was heading towards them!
"So what's the plan? How will we collect the other scroll?" asked Rock ninja 1
"Well, I think we should set up an ambush at the tower. That way we are guarantee victory!" answered Rock Ninja 2
"Shut the hell up! Do wanted everyone to know we're here?!" asked Rock ninja 1, but then..."Too late." Shen said as he jumped from a branch of a tree surprising the Rock ninjas.
"Coming alone? Where are you're teammates?" asked Rock ninja 2
"I'm a one maned team." Shen answered as he drew his sword, "Your really weak to allow me to get this close to you."
"How did you find us so quick?" asked Rock ninja 3 but Rock ninja 2 scoffed, "It doesn't matter! We'll just take this sucker out and take his scroll!" Rock ninja 2 shouted and charged Shen!
His teammates tried to stop him, but were too late. Rock ninja 2 jumped at Shen and Shen simply smirked and swung his sword at incredible speed cutting the foolish ninja!
The ninja flew back after the hit and fell in front of his teammates, who were nonetheless scared out of their minds! Well, Rock ninja3 was scared, but 1 was mad!
"You...you bastard!" Rock ninja 1 yelled and charged Shen with a kunai but it was ineffective against a sword like Shen's! Shen killed him as well without any problem as he simply infused his Soul Edge power into his sword slashed his chest and killed him easily.
Rock ninja 3 looked on with fear, "You're...You're not human!" he shouted and fled into the forest. Shen looked at the spot where the ninja jumped into and smirked "The first seed is planted. Now it's time for some fun." Shen thought as he jumped into the deeper parts of the forest.
Shen found another team of left ninjas and surprised them by landing in front of them, Shen looked in their eyes and drew his sword and disappeared in a blur! The ninjas were confused but was instantly slain shortly after with one slash across the chest of each of them. The ninjas stood there for a few seconds before fall to the ground, dead.
Shen appeared in the middle of the bodies with his sword glowing from underneath it's warps and the blood that stained the sword's wraps was getting soaked in is warps, but then the blood disappeared. Shen smirked and picked up the Earth scroll that they and left the bodies to rot, to find more victims to 'weed out'.
After Shen left the battered bodies...
Team 8 was jumping from tree to tree when Kiba stopped when he and Akamaru smelt blood. "Hold up guys!" Kiba shouted to his teammates.
"Wh-what is it Kiba?" Hinata asked.
Kiba sniffed a few more times "I smell blood, Hinata can you check around this area?" Kiba asked.
Hinata nodded and activated her Byakugan and saw bodies in a clearing and relayed it to her teammates.
"Really now? Let's check it out." Kiba declared shocking his two teammates. "What? Why?" Shino asked.
"Because we can learn about who kill those three suckers and find out more about him." Kiba answered and since nether Hinata or Shino found a problem about that and went to the bodies.
When they got there, they saw the three leaf ninjas in what seemed a triangle formation. "Judging by the way they were slain, I think that the killer was extremely fast." Shino concluded.
"That not all, I can sense an evil presence. It's faint, but I'll guess it's coming from whoever did this." Kiba added as he tried to sniff out any scents but was blocked by the smell of blood. "Damn, I can't smell anything but blood!" Kiba shouted and left Team 8 wondering.
Meanwhile at another part of the forest...
Shen had just killed another team of worthless genin and drained their souls and his sword absorbed the blood that was on it's wraps. After the recent kill, Shen got tired so he impaled his sword in the ground and fell asleep kneeling on one knee while still holding on to his sword.
The next day...
A team of rain genin was jumping tree to tree when they spotted Shen sleeping and thought he was an easy kill so they landed in front of him and threw shuriken and kunais at Shen and they found their marks!
"Prefect! Now let's see what scroll he has." Rain ninja 1 said as he walked to Shen.
Shen awoke from the intrusion of his sleep and he shot his eyes open and killed the Rain ninja that was heading towards him with an upward slash!
"Who dares disturb my slumber?" Shen asked as the remaining rain ninja looked on in shock and amazement. But before they could say anything Shen killed them in an instant!
Shen absorbed their souls and then surged his power throughout his body and shot off all of the kunais and shurikens out of his body! "Pathetic..." Shen whispered under his breath and looked at the sky (which he had a good view at) and saw that it was between morning and noon.
Shen moved his gaze to the forest and noticed a battle not too far off in the distance, and there a dark power, but it was nowhere near his.
Meanwhile with Team's Gai, 6, & 7...
Sasuke had just finished defeating the Sound ninjas and everyone was just...standing around while Neji was in a tree. While Neji await for his teammates he sensed a person with great power heading for them!
"Everyone! Conceal yourselves!" Neji order and his teammates moved but no one else did. "Why should we?!" Naruto asked then Shikamaru sensed the aura as well.
"No, he's right into the bushes!" Shikamaru said and everyone was still hesitant but listened and Teams 6 & 7 dove into different bushes.
Soon after, Shen walked into the scene. He looked at three teams hiding places immediately know where they were!
"Shoot! Does he know where we are?!" Shikamaru asked in his head. Shen shifted his gaze to Team 7, but mostly Naruto. Naruto knew Shen was staring at him and was about to confront Shen when a Mist genin jumped from the forest!
"You! I've been searching for you!" The Mist ninja shouted and his teammates soon followed.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Shen asked in a monotone voice.
"You killed my brother years ago! And now I'm going to avenge him!" The Mist ninja shouted and charged Shen despite of his teammates warnings.
The ninja charged Shen, but when he threw a punch at Shen, Shen vanished! "Hm hm hm. I took your brother away...what's makes you think that I can't take your teammates?!" Shen's voice echoed from the clearing.
Suddenly he appeared in front of the other Mist ninjas, Zabuza style! The Mist 'avenger' ran back to save his teammates but they were slashed by Shen, and as he neared Shen he as cut several times in the chest!
After Shen finished slashing the last Mist ninja, he then twirled his sword in his right hand, then moved the sword to the left hand, "Souls...Blood...Come on to me!" Shen shouted then stabbed his sword into the ground. (If you played Soul Calibur II or III and saw Nightmare won and does a taunt that match the description I just said while saying "I shall show you...the greatest Nightmare!" that's the same way I want Shen to do, with an stab to the ground at the end)
The teams saw Shen saluter the ninjas without any hesitation and were frighten.
"Man, I hope I don't have to fight this guy." Shikamaru thought in his head while everyone else thought along the same lines.
After standing in place for awhile, Shen's sword began to glow but the glow died down after a bit. Then Shen pulled his sword out of the ground and placed it on his back. "Second seed planted, now it's time for...eh?" Shen was thinking but then Naruto jumped out of his hiding place!
"Hey you! I have to pay you back for that threat you gave me sooner!" Naruto shouted and Shen just stared at him blankly. "You saw me kill these worthless ninjas, and you still want to fight me?" Shen asked.
"Believe it! I made a blood oath to never run from a fight!" Naruto explained and Shen laughed right after Naruto finished.
"Ha ha ha ha! I was planning on sparing you, which was rare for me to do. But I rather kill you now!" Shen shouted and attack Naruto!
Shen dashed his way to Naruto and Naruto pulled out a kunai and pushed his charka into and charged Shen! Shen smirked and clashed his sword against Naruto's charka infused kunai!
Naruto held his ground, but noticed his charka fading from his kunai! "Wh-what's going on?!" Naruto asked, "Surprised? My sword can drain charka at my will. And soon I will have your soul!" Shen shouted surprising everyone.
"What do you mean?!" Naruto asked, "Huh, it seems that you do have control over that. Then you are no use to me now at your current state." Shen said as he released his lock with Naruto's kunai. "I will meet you in the near future, stay strong I'll take pleasure in fighting you." Shen said as he vanished in thin air.
Naruto and of course everyone was confused by Shen's actions. "What is that guy's deal?! First he tries to kill me, then he leaves!" Naruto yelled in confusion. Everyone else was just as confused.
Meanwhile, Shen was standing in the trees way above everyone, "Third seed planted. Now it's back to weeding." Shen thought as he headed to the deeper parts of the forest.
The fifth day had arrive. Shen had been killing a few teams a day and now that the final day had arrive he headed to the tower at the first crack of dawn.
Shen's travel to the tower had no encounters when he got to the tower, he entered the tower and saw the sign with the words about 'mind & body' and stuff like that. (Don't blame me! I can't remember everything that happens or is said!)
After reading the board, Shen opened both his scrolls and realized that it was an summoning jutsu and threw the scrolls in front of him, the smoke that came out of the scroll began bigger and revealed a chunin.
The chunin explained the meaning of the third exam and show Shen to a room in another part of the tower and explained that Shen could rest there until the deadline was done.
Shen moved to a chair and sat down on it while placing his sword upward in front of him and fell asleep.
A/N This is the latest chapter, if you have any thoughts or question about my story, just leave them in reviews and I will answer any questions ASAP!
The next chapter: Reveal the power of Soul Edge!