A Ninja's Worst Nightmare!
Chapter 4: Reveal the power of Soul Edge!
Summary: The second exams is over! Now it's time for the Preliminaries! Shen's power revealed!
Shen was in the position that he fell asleep in as a chunin came in after a few hours, "Hey, Hashigane. It's time." the chunin said and Shen slowly opened his eyes, "Finally." Shen thought as he followed the chunin to the arena.
Shen saw the Hokage and the jounin leaders of the teams, along with Nightmare and then moved to the rows. Shen stood on the side of everyone in rows, he saw Teams, 6, 7, 8, Gai's, Sand, Sound, and another leaf team and also the Rock genin that escaped from him on the first day. "So he survived? I didn't thought he'd get this far." Shen thought as he looked back to the Hokage.
The Rock genin saw Shen looked at him and was scared stiff! "No! Not him!" the Rock genin shouted in his mind.
(Time skip, after the announcement of the Preliminaries)
Shen didn't care about the Preliminaries, but some of the other ninjas started asking questions and the Hokage answered them.
After explaining some more a screen appeared on the wall to pick the first two fighters. The screen scrambled through the names until, it came to Shen and the Rock ninja.
"No..." The Rock ninja said and Shen smirked.
"Now then the two combatants stay down here while the others move to the balcony." Hayate said and everyone besides Shen and the Rock ninja did that.
Shen and the Rock ninja moved into position, Shen stood their with his arms crossed while the Rock ninja tried not to shake with fear.
"I want to quit, but I can't now that I'm here. Dammit!" The Rock ninja cursed in his mind.
"Okay then, are both of you ready?" Hayate asked and both of them nodded, then he started the match!
Shen drew his sword and stabbed it into the ground, "Three chances." Shen said as he folded his arms again.
"Wh-what? What do you mean?" the Rock ninja asked.
"Three chances to kill me, if you can't I'll end you pathetic life." Shen explained.
The Rock ninja then made hand signs, after he finished he slammed his hands on the ground, "Earth Style: Earth Wall Jutsu!" He shouted as a wall appeared in front of him. Then he slammed his fist into it and yelled "Earth Spike Barrage!" and then the wall shot into dozens of spikes and charged at Shen!
Everyone expected Shen to dodge, but he just stood there, then the spikes impaled Shen, but he stood there like nothing happen! Shen's body then began to emit a faint dark aura, then the spikes shot out of Shen's body and flew everywhere!
The spikes flew into the wall, but then dissipated into dust. "Strike one." Shen said as his wounds recovered, surprising everyone!
"H-How did you do that?!" The Rock ninja asked but no response.
"Fine! Earth Style: Earth Wall Jutsu!" The Rock ninja shouted and this time, the wall shot out from under Shen and pushed him up to the ceiling!
Everyone in looked on at the wall that touch the ceiling, but then cracks started to form at the base of the wall. As the cracks appeared, a dark purple light was shining out of the cracks, then the pillar exploded!
Shen was standing in the same place as he was, it appeared that he wasn't moved by the wall. "Strike two." Shen said as pieces of the pillar fell down and the aura got bigger.
"Such pathetic moves won't stop Shen. That Rock ninja is good as dead." Nightmare said out loud.
"Really? What exactly did you teach your student?" Kakashi asked.
"Just watch, if your lucky you'll be able to see his attack." Nightmare said after he chuckled.
"Last chance." Shen said as he continued to stand in one place.
The Rock ninja decided to resort to his final move, "Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bomb Jutsu!" The Rock ninja shouted as a dragon's head made of earth appeared in front of him and shot white bombs out of it's mouth!
The first blast nailed Shen in the chest as more shots came at Shen. The blast hit him and the surrounding area, after a while the dragon went back into the earth and the Rock ninja dropped to his knees and was gasping for air.
The Rock ninja looked up at the dust cloud that was left due to the results of his attack and was horrified to see that Shen was standing with no injures!
"Is that it? Pitiful." Shen said as he grabbed his sword, "Now it's time to end you." Shen said and grabbed the wraps on his sword.
Nightmare raised his eyebrow as he saw Shen reach for the wraps, "Ah, So he's finally ready to kill him." Nightmare said out load again and made everyone close to him look on in anticipation.(And just so you know, the people that was near him was, Teams 7 and Gai)
Shen pulled his wraps revealing his mutated sword that shocked everyone, "What the hell is that!?" Naruto asked but no one answered.
The Rock genin got to his feet and saw the sword, he looked at Shen's face to see that his eyes were closed.
"Now then..." Shen said as he shot open his eyes to reveal that his right eye was now pure yellow, "...it's time to die!!"
Shen got into a position and his dark aura exploded! "Dance of Destruction!" Shen shouted and vanished, then the Rock genin was receiving many slashes to the chest and Shen appeared in front of him and delivered a devastating upward slash that sent the Rock ninja flying back!
Hayate walked up to the Rock genin and saw that he was dead. "The winner of this match is Shen Hashigane." he announced.
Everyone was shocked at the speeds of Shen and as well as his dark aura, someone who was interested in Shen's aura was Orochimaru. "Kukuku. Impressive, I might place a curse mark on him. Heh heh heh heh." Orochimaru thought as he looked at Shen.
Shen's sword glowed light blue and then died down, then wraps came out of Shen's right sleeve and wrapped around Shen's sword like how it was before and his eye returned to it's original color.
Shen withdrew his sword and began to walk to the balcony. As he walk up the balcony he passed Naruto and glared at him as he passed to go to his master.
Naruto was a little shaken by the glare and the demonstration that was just shown, but he covered it with his usual face.
(I'm ain't going to write all of the matches, only the ones that Shen finds interesting)
The next match was Sasuke vs Yoroi. The match wasn't that long and was ended with Sasuke's new move, Lion's Barrage.
The next match was Shino vs Zaku. This match as well wasn't long and was ended when Zaku blew holes in his arms after trying to use his slicing sound wave but was blocked by Shino's bugs.
(Skip to Naruto's and Kiba's match)
Shen saw Naruto and Kiba got down to the arena and was interested in seeing how Naruto would fight.
The match started with Kiba elbowing Naruto in the gut and sent him flying backwards. Naruto took his time in getting up, and then Kiba sent Akamaru at Naruto and threw two smoke bombs.
Naruto moved out of the smoke and was bitten by Akamaru and fell back into the smoke. As the smoke cleared Akamaru was sitting while Naruto was laying on the ground.
Akamaru ran up to Kiba and Kiba opened his arms, but Akamaru bit his arm! Soon Akamaru turned out to be Naruto in a transformed state. After Naruto let go of Kiba and spitted a few times, "Yuck! You taste just like the dog!" Naruto said
On the balcony...
Shen looked on in disbelief and so did Nightmare, "He...He really bit him?" Shen asked, "Either that's brilliance, or stupidity." Nightmare answered.
The match continued after Kiba gave Akamaru a soldier pill and they began to pummel on Naruto with their best move.
Shen looked on at the match and was displeased to see that Naruto was getting his ass kicked. "Is this all? I expected more." Shen said catching the attention of Sakura, "Don't underestimate him. He'll beat Kiba." Sakura said and Shen turned his attention back to the fight.
As Naruto tried his best to dodge the attacks he got an idea and transformed in to Kiba while making a smokescreen, confusing Akamaru and Kiba. "Ah, there's something smart." said Shen and Sakura and Lee agreed.
It seemed that it was going to work but then Kiba said he can smell scents and nailed one of the clones in the face and the clone laid there then 'poof' and making a smoke cloud revealing Akamaru!
Kiba then turned and nailed the other clone and he too turned into Akamaru, confusing everyone! Then the other Akamaru that Kiba punched first got up and turned into Naruto as he came with a kick to the face!
Everyone was shocked by Naruto's performance, and then Naruto bragged about a new move that he was going to beat Kiba with.
"Idiot! You don't say that you're going to use a move on your opponent, and you don't waste time blabbing about!" Shen shouted in criticism.
But Naruto ignored and made a hand sign, but Kiba threw several shurikens and Naruto dodged all of them. Kiba's attack didn't let up, he kept attacking Naruto not giving him a chance to attack...until...Kiba got in the back of Naruto and he...fart in Kiba's face!
Kiba winched back as he grabbed his nose while Shikamaru, Ino, Sakura, Lee, and Shen made faces with white eyes and big mouths! (Watch the episode to find out how it looks like) While Nightmare's eye twitched, (He is still in disguise under a Genjutsu) then he looked at Shen.
"Are you sure that the guy you talked about?" Nightmare whispered so that only Shen could hear, Shen placed his hand on his face "I don't know anymore." Shen whispered back.
Naruto had took advantage of the situation and did his new move, The Naruto Uzumaki Barrage!
"That attack was very similar to Sasuke's Lion Barrage." Shen stated.
The next match was Hinata vs. Neji, Hinata wasn't up for the fight and she was very nervous.
Before the match began, Neji talked with an very confidence-breaking speech and it shook Hinata up a lot, up to a point where she was about to cry!
Naruto saw that and heard Neji's talk and was enraged and shout at Hinata to fight him and make him shut up about talking like that to her.
Hinata was inspired by Naruto's words and activated her Byakugan and got into her fighting stance and so did Neji and proceeded with there match!
In their fight they was using Gentle Fist which was only used by the Hyuga family and Lee explained how it was used, because Lee was explained to Sakura and Naruto Shen and Nightmare overheard seeing that close to them.
Shen heard every word and remembered them exactly because of his assassin training with Zabuza, "Using charka to attack the organs? Intriguing, I must brush up on my knowledge on the human analogy and with this I can cause more blood to pour out." Shen thought with a sadisticgrin.
Back at the match, Hinata and Neji was going for hits when they hit each other and stood there for a few seconds until Hinata spat out blood!
After that hit it was all down hill for Hinata as Neji continued to beat her with his attacks. Then it came to when Hinata was going to hit Neji in the chest but Neji moved his hand and did a hit to the chest of his own.
The procter was going to stop the match but Naruto yelled that she still can fight, and soon enough she got to her feet...correction, she staggered to her feet.
As she stood up Neji asked her why and she said something that pissed him off and he was going to kill her if not for the Jounins that stopped him. (Like my other fiction, I can't remember what Hinata said that pissed off Neji, so read the manga or watch the anime)
After the Jounins stopped Neji's attack, Hinata grabbed her chest and fell to her knees and coughed up blood! Naruto, Lee and Sakura jumped down as well and rushed to Hinata's side.
Naruto held Hinata in his arms as she coughed some more blood, then the medic ninjas came and took Hinata to the infirmary.
Neji then insulted hinata and Naruto tried to attack but was blocked by Lee, Naruto then made wiped his hand in Hinata's blood say that he'll beat Neji.
After everyone got back up to the balcony, it was time for the next match. Before the names came up, Gaara transported to the middle of the arena in a whirlwind of sand.
As the two names appeared, Choji screamed in relief and said he was safe. "Is everyone he a freak?" Shen asked himself and saw the Lee was fighting Gaara.
Lee was psyched for the fight and his sensei, Gai was telling him that Gaara's gourd was filled with sand and Lee wrote it on a notepad! "I hope Lee will be okay." Sakura thought while Shen had white eyes and his mouth hanging open.
"Notes? He's taking notes?!" Shen asked himself again and Nightmare put his hand on his head and shook his head, "How did I get myself into this?" Nightmare thought as Lee jumped down confronting Gaara.
As the match started Lee charged Gaara, but the sand from Gaara's gourd defended him. Lee continued to attack, but Gaara's sand continued to block. Sakura asked why Lee doesn't use Ninjutsu, and Gai explained how Lee isn't able to use charka and gave Lee permission to take off his weights.
Lee took off the weights from his legs and dropped them from the statue he was on and as the weights hit the ground it cause the ground to burst!
Since Lee removed his weights he had increase speed that made him move so fast that he was hard to follow with untrained eyes, but Nightmare and Shen was able to keep up with Lee's speeds.
Lee was fast enough to get past Gaara's sand and was able to land a hit on Gaara which left a scratch on his cheek. But then the skin around the scratch had cracks in it, Lee then decided to use his Primary Lotus and unraveled his wraps on his arms.
After getting ready, Lee vanished and appeared under Gaara and kicked him in the chin and followed after him and kicked him some more as they went higher.
Gai had put his hands together, closed his eyes and prayed that the attack will work and at the same time Lee closed because of the pain and that's when Shen narrowed his eyes and saw Gaara escape from his sand armor.
But Lee didn't notice that and continued with his attack as his wraps wrapped around Gaara and they spun down to the ground at great speeds making a crater in the ground!
Lee jumped back as Gaara laid in the crater, but then Gaara's skin began to crack and pieces fell off revealing a hollowed shell!
Gaara appeared behind Lee and a wave of sand charged at Lee! Lee was pushed back into the wall and the sand continued to attack, all Lee could do was block.
Sakura asked why Lee wasn't dodging like before and Gai explained that it was because of the 'charka gate' that Lee opened. Gai and Kakashi explained about the Inner Eight Gates that was in the charka network.
Shen listen in to the conversation and learned about the gates, "Does this village want people that is not from their village to find out about their secrets? Or do these people have a loose lip?" Shen asked as watch Lee, who is now dodging the sand and smiling
Lee then opened more gates as his body turned red and his hair stand up, he then dashed at Gaara, destroyed the arena in the process!
Lee then launched Gaara in the air and vanished again and Gaara began flying around the air like ping-pong ball, then Lee nailed Gaara in chest and his bandages on his right arm wrap on Gaara and Gaara flew back as Lee drove his left arm and leg into Gaara!
Gaara slammed into the ground and Lee slid back, but Gaara was still able to attack and crushed Lee's left arm and left leg with his Sand Burial!
Just before Gaara was about to finished Lee, Gai intervene and stop the attack. Gaara asked why Gai saved him and Gai said he was his precious student.
But to everyone's surprise, Lee stood up! Shen looked at Lee with a smirk "I'm impress with this guy, he'll be a great soul to add to Soul Edge." Shen thought as the match was stop.
The medic came and took Lee to the infirmary, and the next match was Choji vs. Dosu, Choji used his family's jutsu, The Human Boulder, which turns him into a giant bowling ball!
When Choji charged Dosu, Dosu dodged and Choji crashed in the wall and Dosu used his sound gauntlet to make his sound attack go through Choji's body via water and knock Choji out.
Then the remaining genin headed down to the arena where they had to pick numbers out of a box to determine how the finals matches will end up.
Everyone went up and the remaining number was for Sasuke, Naruto got 1, Neji 2, Sasuke 3, Gaara 4, Kankuro 5, Shino 6, Shikamaru 7, Temari 8, Dosu 9, and Shen 10.
A/N: How did you like the comedy part? Was it funning or nowhere near funning? Review and tell me. Also in this fiction Dosu doesn't die from Gaara, but he does die. And also sorry for the crappy story, This wasn't different from the series, the only thing that was different was Shen and Nightmare's actions. I don't think that the next chapter will be exciting but I promise that Finals will be entertaining!
Next time: Chapter 5, Adaptation.