A Ninja's Worst Nightmare!
Chapter 5: Adaption & Transformation
Summary: The month after the Preliminaries is used for training, which gives Shen a chance to add the knowledge to his arsenal of killing!
After the Hokage dismissed the genin, Shen and Nightmare headed back to their hotel. Shen however wasn't in the mood to lay around. He wanted to kill, but he knew he'd have to wait for a month.
So to keep his mind occupied, he decided to train and study the new fighting styles that he saw at the exams and adapt his own fighting style with them.
He told Nightmare that he'll be training for the next month and left the hotel and headed to the mountains. He took a scroll about the charka points and studied the scroll for hours. (This Shen wasn't really into reading scrolls because he didn't have the time, That's why he's slow)
After Shen memorized all of the charka points, he went into a meditative position and began his mind training.
Shen was in a black environment and in front of him stood himself! His other self then came at him and attacked with charka, thus attacking the insides.
In place allow Shen to train and everything that happens to him in here, happens in real life. Shen took the blows, but he still coughed up blood. After the clone had attacked him with basic attacks, it began attacking the charka points.
Shen fought back this time, but the clone had reversed all of his attacks and closed the charka points as he hit. As the clone closed the last charka point he nail Shen in the chest and Shen flew back!
The reason why Shen was allowing himself to being beaten, was to memorized the pain and become immune to it, like everything else that had a special way of inflicting damage on his body!
Shen rose to his feet and was now going to practice the same things that he'd endured, but his charka points was closed. Shen was not going to let closed charka points stop him from training, so he forced his charka through the points, in the process causing extreme pain.
Shen's body felt like it was going to exploded but the pain went away after he succeed in opening his charka points.
Shen's body was bad shape, but he still continued and hit the clone in all of the charka points then returned to the real world.
Shen instantly doubled over and coughed up blood and his body was in very bad shape, "Dammit, I cannot let this stop me! NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!" Shen mentally shouted and released his dark aura from Soul Edge and the aura scarred the surrounding area. (Similar to the time when Naruto thought that Sasuke died in the Land of Waves arc, only more destructive)
Shen was down on his knees and hands gasping for air, his arm had turned into an arm similar to Nightmare's. The right side of his face was mutated, his skin turned brown, his teeth was sharper, his eye was pure yellow and he had two little horns above his eye that when outward.
Shen's body had healed and he was radiating with an extremely powerful and evil aura that it reached Konoha frightening everyone!
Shen noticed his mistake and quickly re-tracked his dark power and he moved into a hiding spot that was close and watched to see if anyone came to investigate, and soon enough a squad of ANBU appeared and saw the wreckage that was left in Shen's wake.
The ANBUs was scared out of their minds when they saw the destruction, the rocks had clean cuts in them, and some was cut clean in two!
And in the middle of all the cuts was what seem to be a crater, "What monster caused this destruction?" asked one of the ANBU.
"Maybe the Nine Tailed Fox?" asked another.
"No, it was me." said a voice that came from behind, the ANBUs spun around and saw Shen and his body, "What the hell!? What are you?!?" asked a ANBU but he never got his answer, because Shen slashed his chest with his right claw!
After slashing the ANBU, Shen pulled out his sword with his left hand and sliced the ANBU who was foolish enough to stand in one place like an idiot!
The last two ANBU tried to make a run for it, but Shen stabbed his sword in the ground and made one hand sign with his left hand, "Infernal Tomb!" Shen shouted and two flames shot out of the ground and incased them!
The ANBUs let loose a blood crippling scream as the flames exploded along with them! Shen looked at the devastation that he cause and he was pleased. "Ha ha... This is suitable , if this is my power now...I can't wait to absorb the Nine Tailed Fox! Ah ha ha ha ha!" Shen said as he continued to laugh.
After a bit, Shen got over his laughter and returned to his normal form (His clothes did get destroyed when he transformed, it only disappeared)"I need to learn how to open those gates that I heard from that 'Mega-brows' man." Shen said to himself as he left to find another training ground. It would be hard to explain if they found him and the demolition that he made!
He found another mountain about mile away and got into another meditative position and found the first gate, The Gate of Opening.
Upon opening the gate, Shen felt a surge of power flow through his body! Shen tested the power of the gate and laid waste to the surrounding area. After Shen tested the first gate, he decided to find the next gate, but open it later. He didn't want to lose muscle cells before the Finals.
Shen found the second gate and decided to meditate and have a better control over his new body from his Soul Edge power.
Meanwhile back in Konoha...
Everyone was still unsettled about the sudden surge of dark energy, Nightmare sensed it too and was pleased, "So, Shen's body has finally accepted Soul Edge's power..." Nightmare thought and he smiled "Now all we need is that Nine Tailed Fox and I will merge with Shen and kill Siegfried!" Nightmare thought as he grind his teeth in anger.
Nightmare then left the hotel to take a walk around Konoha to blow off steam and walked around Konoha, but instead of calming down, the sight that Konoha had only anger him more!
"Damn this place! This place is too peaceful! It's disgusting!" Nightmare shouted in his head "That's it! I need to kill!" Nightmare finally snapped "But not here, I'll just kill elsewhere." Nightmare decided and left Konoha.
After Nightmare left Konoha, he'd come across a small village that was not too far from Konoha, but not too close either!
Nightmare let loose a wicked smile and released his genjutsu and charged into the unsuspecting village!
Nightmare spared no one as he cut down every single person that was in his sights! Shortly after Nightmare started his saluter, several Konoha ANBUs that was on patrol came to investigate, very bad idea!
Nightmare spun his head around to face the ANBUs and they was petrified with fear! "It's him! It's the Azure Knight!" Shouted one of the ANBUs, it seemed that Nightmare had made quite a big legacy as the other one he made in his own dimension.
"Azure Knight? Heh heh, I never thought I'd hear that name in this place." Nightmare thought as he remember the fear that he'd caused before.
The ANBUs on the other hand, was scared out of there minds, they heard of the stories of a warrior in Azure armor from across the land and also heard of his exploits of being a mass killer! They couldn't believe that the rumor were true and that the mass killer was in front of them!
"Are just going to stand there? Or are going to do something?" Nightmare asked and no response, "Fine then, I'll just kill you!" Nightmare shouted and charged the ANBUs with his Phantom.
The ANBUs snapped out of their fear and pulled out their swords and prepared for Nightmare's attack, but to no avail the swords couldn't stand up to Phantom and was destroyed along with their welders!
Nightmare stood in the middle of the dead bodies and was absorbing their souls and looked at the destruction that he made and smiled. "This view is much better." Nightmare thought as he looked at the flames danced on the houses.
Nightmare then headed out of the burning village and towards a very dense forest. As he got into a deep part of the forest, he remembered the genjutsu that Shen taught him and how to do it with one hand because of his other hand being mutated and all!
Nightmare made a hand sign and he'd returned to his 'ninja' form and headed back to Konoha. When he got to the gates, he passed Kakashi who was packed with supplies. As they passed each other, they exchanged glares with each other but they were short as Nightmare went into Konoha while Kakashi headed to the mountains.
As Nightmare walked through the village deep in thought,as he thought he walked aimlessly on the roads, as he walked he came across the hot springs!
"How the hell did I get here?" Nightmare asked himself as he heard perverted giggles coming from the women's bath house. Nightmare investigated the giggles and found a man with white hair and with a big scroll on his back.
Nightmare snuck up on the man and asked "What are you doing?" The man winched quickly "Shhhh!" the man said with his index finger over his mouth "Be quiet. You'll ruin my research." the man explained.
"You aren't doing what I think you're doing am I?" Nightmare asked and the man made a big smile.
"Yes I am! I am the great toad Sannin, Jiraya!" Jiraya said as he did a pose and Nightmare had a sweat drop behind his head.
"Who?" Nightmare asked questionably and Jiraya winched back in shock.
"WHAT?! You never heard of me?! Or my book?!" Jiraya said as he pulled out a copy of Make Out Paradise.
"Nope." Nightmare said shaking his head and Jiraya winched again in shock.
Nightmare had decided that if he hung around Jiraya, if would mean trouble for him, because hang around a pervert would mean that he'd get into problems with females.
Nightmare walked away from Jiraya as he'd returned to his 'research.' as Nightmare walked away he saw the boy with the Nine Tailed Fox going to the hot springs with a ninja with a bandana and black glasses.
"Soon brat, soon Shen will take your soul along with that Fox." Nightmare thought as he smiled while Naruto and the other ninja was behind him.
Meanwhile back at the Mountains...
Shen was still in his meditative position, he didn't move at all as his power flowed through out his body to the point where dark purple electricity was surging through his body and was visibly on the outside.
Shen had to focus so that his body wouldn't transform into his 'Nightmare' state. Shen enjoyed the power that he had while in that state and wished that the month was over so he could be in that stage more often.
While meditating, Shen remembered his Kekkei Genkai and decided to train on his recently remembered bloodline.
Three weeks later...
Shen had got to his second stage of his Kekkei Genkai, and his body felt weird as his right arm began to throb. Shen grabbed his right wrist and his arm began to transform into his Nightmare form!
Shen looked at his arm and felt the power that was in his right arm, he then got an idea and went into his Psycho-Link! He now had prefect control over his Psycho Link because of Soul Edge's power, he felt his entire body flowing with Soul Edge's power and his body began to morph!
Shen's left arm transformed just like his right arm, his legs became more thicker and his feet now had three toes, two in the front and one in back. (Use your imagination, think demon-like)
His body had taken the form of a demon/dragon hybrid as his body color turned to brown and his face also changed, it was now full demon-like as the side of his face stretched out. (Just like G Gundam's Master Gundam's head, but the face more demon-like) He sprouted wings and a tail of a dragon, his left eye was also pure yellow, his teeth was more sharper and he had no hair.
Shen's transformation had released an enormous amount of power and destroyed the surrounding area and released an in-human roar that echoed throughout the mountains!
Sasuke and Kakashi who was training in the mountains heard the roar and the aura that was somewhere in the mountains and was frightened. "Wh-What could that possibly be?" Sasuke asked scarcely.
Kakashi was just as scared, "I don't know, but whatever that thing is, it's bad news." Kakashi responded "I hope that thing doesn't come here. I don't think I can stop it!" Kakashi prayed as he continued to train Sasuke.
Shen felt the power of his new form and it was incredible! Shen felt power beyond anything that he, and he imaged how powerful he would become when he absorb the Nine Tailed Fox, he'd would become most powerful being on the planet!
Shen bathed in the power that he now has and reverted back to his normal form.(Again his clothes did get destroyed) He stood in one place, then looked at the direction of Konoha and disappeared in a flash.
In Konoha...
Shen had appeared in front of the hotel that he was staying in and headed for Nightmare's room and entered.
Nightmare had turned to Shen as he bowed down as usual, and saw his power and was impressed on how much Shen have improved over three weeks. "Very good Shen. I didn't think that you'd increase in power this much." Nightmare praised.
"Thank you Master." Shen thanked as he bowed, "I'll be in the village if you need me." Shen said as he got up and left the room.
Shen walked into the village and came across a weapons shop and he decided to browse around. When he walked in he saw the various types of weapons that the shop had. Shen walked up to the counter and the owner greeted him.
"Hello what can I get ya?" The owner asked.
Shen thought about what weapon was good to inspected, "Swords." Shen replied and the owner pointed him out to the sword section.
Shen walked to the section and found a lot of swords, as he looked a katana caught his eye. The kanata was middle length and average size, and it's sheath was black and it had a red dragon on it. Shen picked up the sword and it felt balanced, then Shen un-sheath the sword and saw the craftsmanship that made the sword, and it was impressive!
The blade was shining and the blade was sharp, and the tip of the sword looked like it could pierce the toughest metal! Shen sheathed the sword and took it to the counter and asked the owner how much the Katana cost.
"200,000 ryou, that's a really good sword!" The owner answered.
Shen grabbed the amount of money and placed it and the counter and left with his new sword strapped to his wrist.
Shen moved to the forest and took out his new sword. He the practiced by cutting the leaves that was falling down perfectly in two. After that little practice Shen molded his charka into his sword and made it more powerful and more durable than before!
But before he could make any more modifications on his sword he sensed a spike in power in the distance!
Shen snapped his head in the direction of the power and knew what was caused it "The Nine Tails. So he finally is able to use it's charka. Time to harvest." Shen said as he disappeared.
However, there was bad news and good news, the bad was that the spike in charka had disappeared, the good news was there was a giant toad with Naruto on it!
"A summoning jutsu? That toad pretty big, I wonder how much charka he used to summon him?" Shen was thinking in amazement until he saw the toad thrashing around to get Naruto off.
"You got to be kidding me." Shen said in disappointment, "This is no good to me, especially with that toad thrashing around." Shen said as he left the scene.
Few days passed...
Shen was practicing a new sword stance with his new katana, he stood in front of a wooden target with his sword his sheath and he slowly grabbed the handle and he vanished! Then there was three flashes of steel and Shen appeared behind with his sword drawn the target and the target fell apart to six pieces!
Shen was training with his sword and reached to the level of lightning speed and devastating damage! He combined the art of silent killing and the power that he received from Soul Edge and achieved incredible results!
The wooden target that was now in six pieces was cut perfectly clean! Shen then sheathed his sword and left the training ground. As he walked, he'd past the hospital and sensed Naruto in there.
"He's in there?! That it! He's no longer of use to me!" Shen shouted in his head angrily as he entered the hospital.
As Shen entered he saw a sign that said out to lunch, Shen ignored it and followed Naruto's charka to his room!
Shen entered the room and saw Naruto sleeping soundly, he walked up to Naruto's bed and drew his katana! (If you didn't know, Shen can take soul even if he didn't kill them with his Soul Edge sword) He lifted his katana over his head with his right hand upside down, his target: Naruto's heart!
A/N: Ha! How do ya like this Cliffhanger? Anyway I was going to reveal Shen dragon/demon hybrid form later, but I got excited and threw it into the mix! And also I change the title, this was about Shen's learning how to use the info he learn and his transformations. So anyways the next chapter is the Finals and Shen will observe all of the match and fight Dosu, and if you didn't read the earilier chapters, Dosu doesn't die! (by Gaara anyway)
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