Chapter 17
Katsu stood in the field, watching Hakuchi Chijin. Katsu disappeared immediately after the proctor began the match, so we didn't really see him for long.
"Do you really think you can fool me as easily as my partner?" Chijiin said to the air.
Katsu rose again. Three Katsus, to be precise.
"C'mon! Do you really expect me to fall for a simple jutsu like that? I can easily defeat you," laughed his opponent.
Chijin ran at Katsu, and made two clones appear. Each punched a Katsu, and every Katsu fell to the ground, turning back into the soil it cam from.
Then they rose again, and each hit Chijin's two clones, including the real one, hurting him in the progress.
As he wiped off the blood dribbling down his chin, Chijin asked, "What? He wasn't one of them! Where's the real one?"
In response, a figure rose up again, behind Chijin, and preformed seals.
"The idiot," I muttered to Tsukiko, "Chijin doesn't even notice him. But that is the real Katsu."
"How do you know?"
"Soil clones can't perform seals. And, by the looks of it, that's Obutsuraion no Jutsu, his favorite, and most effective, jutsu."
Katsu stepped back slowly, then turned and ran halfway up the wall as the earth began to rise. Chijin spun, and his face turned looking like a freshly wiped whiteboard.
Right in front of him was a giant lion made solely of dirt. It roared at him, soil splattering the scared boy.
He screamed, and ran for it. Unluckily for him, there was nowhere to run to. We watched Katsu controlled the lion. It ran, and swallowed him.
There was a silence, and then,
"BURP."
Out flew Chijin from the lion's mouth. He banged against the wall right below Katsu, who caught him. He dropped Chijin, at the proctors feet, and to the cheers that I began, he was pronounced the winner.
When he got upstairs, Tsukiko looked at him,
"Okay, that was cool. It's gonna take a lot to finish as well as you."