1A Ninja's Worst Nightmare!
Chapter 6: The Exams: Final Destination
Summary: Shen has his sword on dead aim for Naruto's Heart! Who will stop him, or will Naruto's dream of being Hokage end?
The tip of Shen's katana shined off the light as he held the sword over his head and was about to stabbed Naruto when he heard the door begin to open!
Shen immediately sheath his sword and jumped out the window and used his charka to stick on the wall to see who interrupted his kill.
Shen used his mind's eye to look in the room without detection and saw Shikamaru, "That bastard. Looks like I won't kill him this early." Shen said in disappointment and disappeared.
Shen landed in the forest and was irrate that Shikamaru got in his way, but he got into a meditative stance to vent of anger.
Hours later...
Shen had lost track of time during his meditation and it was nighttime, "Tomorrow, tomorrow is the day. The day I get the Nine Tailed Fox." Shen mentally said with sadistic grin and stayed in the same spot and fell asleep.
The next day, the streets was filled with villagers as the Hokage was going to the stadium in his carrier thing.
Shen awoke from his meditative state and headed to the stadium through the forest. He got to the stadium and he was the first one there and awaited for the others in the center of the arena.
As time pass the others had arrive and also moved to the center of the arena, the only ones that wasn't there was Naruto and Sasuke.
"Where is that moron!? He better not cower out of this, or I'll lay waste to this pathetic village to the ground!" Shen said in his mind as he waited for the exams to start.
Just before the exams were about to start, Naruto came crashing through the gates! "About time." Shen said as Naruto walked up to the line, he could really care less about Sasuke Uchiha. He didn't see anything special about him even with that weird markings that he had at the prelims.
The Sharingan was just a trick, nothing more, nothing less. All it did was copy moves from others, not learning them by training which made him weak to Shen eyes.
"Did that weakling decide that this is too much for him?" Shen thought as the Hokage began talking about how it was honor about them fighting in front of everyone and yadda yadda yadda.
After the Hokage was done talking, everyone besides Naruto and Neji moved to the waiting balcony.
(Match skip to the part where Neji use 64 palms)
Naruto was struggling to get up and he formed a hand seal, then after focusing Naruto was surrounded by red charka!
Everyone was shocked by the sudden burst of charka, but Shen was smiling as he watch Naruto become more powerful. "Oh, he really does have control over the Fox. Ah ha, I can wait to kill him." Shen thought as he continued to watch.
Meanwhile in the stands, Nightmare was watching and he too was smiling at the red charka. "Perfect, now all Shen needs to do is to kill him and take the Fox and he'll be the perfect body for Soul Edge!" Nightmare thought as Naruto jumped around the arena.
Naruto then jumped to the ground of the arena and charge Neji, in response Neji used his rotation with a kunai and Naruto used a kunai too as they clashed and creating an explosion!
The two ninjas flew back and crashed into craters across the field! Seconds later a hand shot up from one of the craters, it was Neji. Neji then walked over to Naruto at the other crater.
Then Naruto bust out of the ground and delivered a knockout blow to Neji! Naruto was declared the winner and he jumped around like an idiot.
"I really can't wait to kill him." Shen said annoyed and pissed at Naruto's behavior.
The next match was suppose to be Sasuke vs. Gaara, but Sasuke wasn't there so they went to the next match because of special treatment for the Uchiha.
But that match was won by default because Kankuro dropped out and the crowd was getting really mad.
Shikamaru wasn't happy with the move up in matches and Temari was already down there waiting for him to get down, but Shikamaru was thinking of forfeiting but Naruto slaped his back and he fell into the arena.
(Match skip)
Temari had won because Shikamaru had forfeit after capturing Temari in his Shadow Possession Jutsu. Naruto wasn't pleased with Shikamaru's choice and jumped down into the arena.
The crowd was confused by his decision, but Shen wasn't fazed as he was getting prepared for his match with Dosu.
After a while the proctor called for Dosu and Shen and both of them headed down to the arena.
Both combatants got into position and the proctor gave the signal and Dosu came with his melody arm, when he got close he swung his arm and Shen blocked it with his left arm.
"Bad move." Dosu said as he made a hand sign and a sound wave went straight to Shen's ears, but Shen was unaffected by it! He didn't even care that blood was coming out of his ear!
"Is that it?" Shen asked with no signs of pain.
"H-h-how?" Dosu manage to get out before Shen delivered a powerful punch to the chest!
Dosu flew back because of the force but landed with the wind knocked out of him. Shen wiped the blood of the side of his head with his hand, "I'm not as merciful as I was before." Shen said as he drew his Soul Edge sword with his right hand.
Dosu saw what Shen did to the sorry ninja in the preliminaries and he wasn't going to let that happen to him!
"Not this time!" Dosu said as he charged Shen with his melody arm but Shen grabbed Dosu's melody arm with his free hand and began to crush it with his strength!
"Pathetic." Shen said as he destroyed Dosu's sound gauntlet! (A.K.A. Melody arm) Dosu yelled in pain and Shen didn't let go as his right arm began to glow with a dark aura!
"Now..." Shen said as he tossed Dosu into the middle of the arena, "...It's time to DIE!" Shen shouted as he charged Dosu with his sword aimed for Dosu's chest!
And in a instant, Shen's Soul Edge sword was in Dosu and sticking out in of his back! The bandages on Shen's sword was soaked in blood, as Dosu started to cough up blood and it stained Dosu's bandages over his mouth.
"Ugh...N...No...Ugh!" Dosu managed to get out as Shen still had his sword in his chest, "Just...what...are you? No...one...can...move...like that...Argh..."
Shen didn't answer as he pulled out his sword and slashed Dosu with an upward diagonal slash, then he slashed in the opposite direction and that finished Dosu as he turned took a few steps and he finally fell.
The proctor didn't even check on Dosu, NO one can survive an attack like that. "The winner is Shen Hashigane." he simply said and he left the arena, he didn't go to the waiting area because he sense the chaos coming.
Nightmare saw his servant leave and he followed him out of the stadium. When Shen left the stadium and was away from any person, he was ambushed by Mist ANBUs!
"It's about time you showed up." Shen said as the ANBUs got ready.
"So, you've known that we would show up." said one ANBU.
"Of course, I entered under your village. I knew that sooner or later that an ANBU squad would show up to kill me." Shen explained.
"It's amazing that a kid your age is an S-rank criminal." said another ANBU.
Shen smirked and pulled out his Soul Edge sword, "It been awhile since I killed ninjas from Mist." Shen said as he vanished!
The ANBUs looked around for Shen, but one was killed as Shen came from the sky with an downward slash that went straight down the ANBU's body!
The ANBU fell to the ground and Shen smirk turned sadistic! "None of you are leaving alive!" Shen shouted as he vanished once again and the ANBUs were sliced and diced as Shen reappeared behind all of them!
Shen's sword glowed blue before the ANBUs fell to the ground with many cuts over their bodies! "Just like last time. Just like three years ago." Shen said as he thought back on the day he tried to help Zabuza kill the Mizukage.
Shen sheathed his sword and Nightmare walked out of the shadows, "Having fun, Shen?" Nightmare asked.
"It was brief, but satisfying." Shen answered as he savored the moment.
"Hm...You feel the coming chaos?" Nightmare asked and Shen nodded.
"Soon...Soon will have all these souls..." Shen said, "And I will be worthy to become the next wielder for Soul Edge!" Shen said in his mind, Nightmare told him that when the time comes, he'll be the next wielder of the True Soul Edge, and he wanted the power that the sword had!
And not too long after, there was an explosion by the wall of the village and two words was in the heads of Shen and Nightmare, "It's begun." they both thought and they headed in the direction of the explosion.
When Shen and Nightmare got there, they saw the battle at hand and that got their blood flowing with excitement!
Nightmare then finally charged into the battle as his genjutsu was dispelled and a crowd of ninjas was instantly killed with on slash!
The ninjas around him was immediately cast into fear when they saw the one called the Azure Knight was now on the battlefield, they have heard of his massacres across the land and they imaged their deaths a fast and gruesome one!
Some of the ninjas ran, while others stood in fear, and the stupid ones that did hear of Nightmare, charged him.
"Heh, imbeciles." Nightmare thought, "Your souls will be mine!" Nightmare shouted as he killed the foolish ones!
Shen however, didn't go into a frenzy. He was looking for a certain idiot with a super powered fox in his stomach. He made his way back to the stadium to see him, Sakura, Shikamaru, and a dog jump out of a hole in the wall.
"You won't escape from me." Shen said as he followed the group. Not to far behind him, was three squads of Sound ninjas.
As Shen followed the group, he noticed the squads of Sound ninjas and stopped to confront them. "Back off. Their mine to kill." Shen said to the squads.
The Sound ninjas stopped to face Shen with smirks under their masks. "You think you can kill of us?" asked one ninja, but Shen wasn't playing around.
Shen wanted to get the Nine Tailed Fox, so he went into his First Stage of his transformation (Right arm and right side of his face is transformed) and it shocked the Sound ninjas!
"Wh-what the heck are YOU?!!?" they screamed, and they was answered when Shen drew his sword with his left hand and the wraps came off by themselves!
"You will regret, getting in my way!" Shen shouted and he charged the squads with blinding speeds!
Meanwhile with Naruto's group...
Pukkun, the dog that was with the genins had alerted them of the squads of Sound ninjas that was following them, and noticed that they stopped.
"Hm? Hey you guys, the Sound ninjas that was chasing us has stopped!" Pukkun said as he jumped from tree to tree.
"What? What do you mean they stopped?" Shikamaru asked.
"Who cares?! As long as they don't get in our way!" Naruto shouted.
"...As I was saying, what do you mean they stopped?" Shikamaru said after looking at Narutoo with an annoyed look.
"They just stopped." Pukkun said, "But I smell a more powerful person with them."
"Who is it?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know." Pukkun said as he sniffed some more, "But I smell blood, and lots of it back there!" Pukkun said and shocked the rest of the group.
Meanwhile back with Shen...
Shen had hacked off the first of his victims out of the Sound ninjas, as the ninja's head off and the blood flowed on the ground when the body hit the ground. Shen then turned his attention to the rest of the ninjas and lifted his sword over his head, "Dance of Devastation!" Shen shouted as several afterimage of him shot out of his body and slashed the ninjasas they passed and disappeared. The last of Sound ninjas was dead and Shen immediately turn around and resumed his chase.
"You won't get far. I will get that Fox!" Shen shouted as he jumped into the trees.
Meanwhile with the Naruto group...
"Oh no..." Pukkun said, "We've got trouble!"
"What is it this time?!" Naruto shouted.
"That person with the powerful aura is heading this way, and now his aura is more powerful." Pukkun said with a pale face. "And the aura is radiating of evil."
That last statement shocked everyone else, "What?!?" all of them shouted.
"There's no time! We got to hurry! He's gaining on us!" Pukkun said as he quicken his pace.
After a while of jumping across trees, the rest of the team could now feel the evil that Pukkun spoke of, "Just who in the world is that?" Sakura said as they continued.
"Damn, this isn't good. That aura behind us is no doubt powerful, if we continue like this that guy will catch up kill us with no problem." Shikamaru thought, "Then that leaves me one choice."
Shikamaru stopped on a branch and turned around, waiting for something.
"Shikamaru! What are you doing?!" Naruto shouted.
"I'm saying back, if we continue to run we'll just get caught. But one of us says and buys the rest of the team time, they might be able to get to Sasuke." Shikamaru explained.
"Are you crazy!? If you stay you'll die!" Naruto shouted.
"It's better than all of us getting killed at the same time!" Shikamaru countered and the group went silent, "Look we don't have time for this, every second counts, he's getting closer. Just go." Shikamaru said as the team began to leave.
"Don't die on us Shikamaru!" Naruto shouted as Shikamaru waved his hand.
With Shen...
Shen was jumping across the tree in a effort to get to Naruto, still in his first stage Shen was going at an alarming rate.
He then jumped into view of Shikamaru. Shikamaru, unlike everyone else, wasn't shocked by Shen's appearance.
"I should have known." Shikamaru said as Shen walked on the branched.
"How long have you known my power?" Shen asked as he knew that Shikamaru wasn't an normal brain genin.
"At the preliminaries. That power is the same as now, but more powerful." Shikamaru answered.
"At least someone found out." Shen said as he scoffed but then his face turned serious, "Now get out of my way."
"No can do." Shikamaru said as he pulled a trip wire that made the branch Shen was standing on collapse!
Shen landed on the ground and Shikamaru followed him to the ground. "You are so troublesome." Shen said as he let his sword stay on his left side in his left hand.
"That my word." Shikamaru as he got ready for the battle of his life!