OK. I hope you all liked the last chapter. Now a couple of notes.
The nuts joke was basically the lie the millionaire tried to use when talking to Monica in Friends but I changed it slightly.
In case anyone asks, I've based the characters all from different times. Sasuke is supposed to be more like he was in Part 1 because that's just more fun to write with (Though the sadist idea does appeal.). Naruto is supposed to be thicker than usual but a little less vocal. I'm gunning for the shy version of Hinata since, for now, that works and it leaves room for development in the future. Sakura is just going to be more like Tsunade, so violent and such, but with a lack of being social so I'm going to see how that works.
About the continent thing, that's just to make the world larger so that I can throw in anything if I need to.
Now, to the reviewers.
Angelic101: OK, ok, hold your horses. Your not going to die of suspense (...yet.). I'm glad you like how I'm doing thinks with the scenery and a couple of convos. Thanks =].
Horrificried: First off, I like the name. I'm glad you like the story so far. I plan on keeping the suspense for most of the story but I may dumb it down just to go along with some parts. Though I can tell you, this story isn't going to be short.
Chappie time :)
Chapter 3: Knocking on Death's Door
Sasuke's POV
I heard the cheering of the crowd. The door opened in front of me and I opened my eyes to see the arena.
"Ladies and Gentlemen." The spokesperson looked ridiculous. His dark glasses and combed back hair wasn't going to fall me. It was the driver. I'll have to ask him for his name later, calling him driver just seems pretty crap.
"We have a guest here today who dared challenge one of our champions, Sakura, to a one-on-one fight. Will he win and earn his own right to enter the tournament or die a bloody death? We-" 'This guy is so annoying. I wonder what they did with Naruto, saying he was going to fix the match in the middle of everybody. They probably killed him.' "now for the challenger, Sasuke!"
Flashback
Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata entered the room. It was simple; white walls, three beds, a light and a bathroom. They put all put their cases and bags into the room.
"You will stay here until tomorrow. You may roam around the practice arena and here but if you dare leave the building or go anywhere else then you get ten minutes with me." Naruto looked at her with a perverted grin plastered on his face.
"Though doesn't ten minutes seem a bit short? You must-" Sasuke and Sakura punched Naruto in the face, sending him across the room into a wall.
"If you don't watch what you say dobe then someone will kill you." Sasuke warned.
"That's not what I meant!" Sakura said. After a couple of minutes, Naruto didn't respond. He fell onto the floor, his face bruised and drooling slightly.
"N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata went over to see if he was still alive.
"Hmph! Well I leave you lot her." Sakura turned to leave.
"You know you two would make a good couple." Naurto said still face down. Sakura stopped. She lifted her hand to her face, feeling embarrassed. Sasuke noticed this and looked at her.
"You blushing?" He asked.
"I..." Sakura lifted her hand and punched Sasuke in the gut. "am not!" Sasuke lay against the wall, coughing to try and breath again. She looked down at him, face filled with rage. "We'll finish this tomorrow." After her little outburst, she left.
"Hey teme, she would be so hot if she didn't have anger problems." Sasuke looked at the door and thought for a moment.
"Maybe."
"Um, um N-Naruto-kun a-are you O-OK?" Hinata's face was red. There was no other way to put it. Naruto looked at her and sat up. He put his hand on Hinata's forehead.
"You alright Hinata? You look like you may have caught a cold." Hinata blushed even more before losing it. She shook her head wildly and then flung her arms out. She hit Naruto forcing his head upwards.
"N-Naruto-kun." She asked as she and Sasuke looked on. His eyes rolled back and he fell on the floor, unconcious.
"Great, now we can have some peace and quiet." Sasuke said as Hinata looked Naruto over, worried, to see if he was alright. Sasuke stood up. Hinata turned to look at him as he headed for the door. "I'm going to get some practice. I'll leave you two alone"
"Ah, w-wait S-" Sasuke closed the door before she could finish. He wanted to dig up the dirt on Sakura so that he would have a chance. As he neared the end of the dimly-lit corridor, he heard groans of pain, grunts, curses and saw a pig fly over and go through an open door.
"Wow, pigs can fly." As Sasuke reached the end of the corridor and entered the practice arena he saw everybody smashed against walls and knocked out. In the middle stood Sakura who hadn't even broken a sweat. Yet, she seemed annoyed and flustered. "This how you deal with things?" Sakura looked at him, changing her expression back to that of anger. She put her hands on her hip and spoke.
"Maybe, what's it got to do with you?" Sasuke smirked.
"I've been like Naruto's mentor in life since we were in kinder-garden. I know when someone's got a problem." Sakura's eye twitched.
"'Got a problem.'?" She knelled slightly. "I'll give you a problem." She dashed over to Sasuke about to punch. Hurriedly, Sasuke jumped to the side and moved away.
'If I let her get too close then she'll kill me. I need to figure out how to get about her punches.' Sakura moved her arms close to protect her body. 'Boxing?' She leapt towards him. In a second she was a foot away from him. 'She's fast.' She swung her arm at his face. Sasuke X-blocked and his arms hit his face before he skid back a few feet. He kept his eyes open. He couldn't let her out of his sight. He saw her swing her other arm low to get his unprotected gut. He released his block and jumped to the side.
'His reactions are fast and he keeps an eye on everything. Clever.' Sakura swung her arm low to his gut. 'but I've had more experience.' He jumped to the side. 'What?' He was about to bring his fist thundering down onto her back. 'Concentrate girl.' She turned slightly and did an uppercut. It caught Sasuke in the chin and he fell backwards. She was about to punch him when she saw a smile on his face. 'What?' She lost her concentration and Sasuke bent down and thrust a leg upwards. She blocked but was still thrown off the ground. She kept her sights on Sasuke as he ran and jumped under her. He swung his arm on one side and his leg the other. 'I don't think so.' She blocked the double-sided assault with her arms.
"Your good." Sasuke then thrust his free arm into her back. She gaged forwards. She then looked around to see his face calm. She released his leg and brought her fist down into Sasuke's gut. They both fell to the floor, side by side, exhausted and panting.
"You seem to have calmed down." Sakura looked up at Sasuke as he got up and started to walk away. She kept staring at his back as he put his hands in his pockets and he walked into the corridor.
"See something you like?" Sakura looked to see Tsunade standing in a doorway with a small smile on her face.
"N-no, not at all." Tsunade chuckled.
"I've never heard you stutter before. It's cute." Tsunade flicked her gaze towards Sakura.
"What?!" She said a blush forming on her face. Tsunade chuckled.
"Don't let it get in the way of any of your fights and it'll be OK, but try not to stay infatuated. Come now Sakura, you need to get yourself cleaned up."
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Sasuke walked back to the room. He felt proud of himself for having survived and nearly kept up with her. As he entered the room, saw Naruto running around back and forth trying to revive a fainted Hinata.
"Oh so the acts have changed." Sasuke said as he watched his friend acting crazy, running about like a maniac.
"Help me teme, Hinata's fainted, I think she may have caught something." Sasuke walked over and looked at her.
"Yeah, she's caught something alright." Naruto knelt and held onto Sasuke's t-shirt.
"Tell me teme, I want to help." Sasuke looked down at Naruto with a menacing look in his eye. He smirked
"Call me your lord." Naruto looked up at him.
"Please tell me lord." Sasuke's smile turned into an insane grin.
"Bow down to me." Naruto bowed up and down at Sasuke's feet.
"Tell me lord Sasuke-sama." Sasuke's grin widened even more. He was enjoying this. He bent down to whisper into her ear."
"OK. She has..." Naruto nodded.
"Yes, yes."
"Naruto phobia." Naruto fell silent as Sasuke stood up straight and looked down at him. Finally he said.
"Well how the hell do you cure that?!" Sasuke burst out laughing at Naruto's reaction.
"Maybe I'll tell you someday dobe, but not today. She'll be fine, she's just tired."
"Oh right."
Flashback
The presenter waved his left arm over to me and I walked into the light. I winced. Being in that dark room wasn't good for me. I looked about. I was in a sort of circular cage with a gate on one side. I hear people shouting their bets at the bookies, and I think hear some girls and boys screaming like fans. F***ing fans. I looked into the crowd and saw Naruto chained to a seat looking like a mummy.
"Halloween's not for another six months." Naruto looked over at me and shouted.
"You think I'm wearing this because I want to?!" I smirked and contionued looking about. I saw Hinata sitting next to Naruto looking very jumpy as she heard everybody shouting and screaming for blood about her, and I saw Sakura on the other side of the cage. She was tightening her gloves and she looks pissed.
'She is going to kill me.'
"Begin!" I heard a bell sound and cheering start. I looked at Sakura. Then she vainshed. I scanned with my eyes, left, right, down. My eyes widened as I saw a shadow appear over my. I looked up and saw her, fist about to rain down judgement. I was stunned. She punched my head and I fell face first into the ground. I felt my nose bleeding but I couldn't hold it. I rolled to the side and avoided another punch that crushed the ground and sent cracks across the stadium.
"There is Sakura's monsterous strength! The newcommer is lucky he escaped with a broken nose!" That guy was so annoying. No, I must concentrate. I rolled to the end of the stadium and got up. I lifted my arms to defend me. She got up slowly and then vanished again. 'How does she do that?'.I had no time to think as she appeared in front of me about to punch. I lifted my arm and bashed her hand away towards the fence. I heard something break and screams of horror and and cheers and chants of 'Kill'. I didn't look and used my other arm to try hitting for her gut. She jumped back and punched again. I ducked and heard something break once again. I kicked at her legs. She jumped. I tried to kick her into the air, she dodged to the side. I leapt at her and she appeared behind me, punching my back and sending me into the floor. Feeling dazed, I lifted my head and coughed blood. 'That can't be good.' I looked up to see her foot and then looked even further up to see a silhouette of her, lights blinding me. Then I saw something. It came closer and I couldn't figure out what it was. Then it hit me and I was sent flying into the fence. My neck did not feel good.
"Kicking her opponent when he's down! Sakura is showing no mercy to today's opponent! You have to wonder what he did to her to piss her off." Laughter came from the crowd. I hung my head as I sat against the fence. My eyes closed and I heard Naruto shouting at me to get up. Then I remembered. "10, 9, 8," What I said to Naruto yesterday.
Flashback
Sasuke was flung against the wall in the corridor outside the small room.
"What do you think your doing teme?!" Naruto held Sasuke against the wall. "She'll fucking kill you!" Sasuke looked at Naruto.
"I figured out how she fights." Naruto bashed Sasuke against the wall again.
"Your still going to die! I don't want to lose the only friend I have had in a long time!" Sasuke looked down at Naruto as he started to cry slightly. Tears rolling down his face. He sighed.
"I'm not going to die Naruto. I have a plan." Naruto looked up at him.
"What are you going to do?" Sasuke smirked.
"That's a secret." Naruto blinked twice and then dropped Sasuke to the floor, before standing tall with a great grin on his face.
"I've got a plan!" He then ran down the corridor into the training arena. "Hey everybody, I'm going to fix the match so that my friend wins tomorrow! Whose got a dart gun?" Sasuke heard screams of pain and the throwing of spanners and tools as he saw the shadow of Naruto being thrown about.
"Hn. Dobe."
Flashback
"4," 'That's right.' "3," 'My plan. "2," Time to move. "1- He's up! He's up ladies and gentlemen! Let's get back to the fight." I looked at Sakura.
"Start getting serious." She looked surprised. "I'm not holding back any more." Then she looked pissed and started to run at me. I bent low and ran at her. When she was about the throw a punch I ducked and tried to kick her into the air again. I missed as she hopped to the side, but I was in the air and I brought my foot down. She blocked with both her hands.
"Is that it?" She said. Then she looked down to see me holding her ankles. I pulled and she was tripped over. I fell on top of her.
"Amazing, this is the first time someone has tripped Sakura in over three years! Gamblers, you may want to replace your bets, this fight is far from over!" I rolled off of her and looked at her. She seemed like she hit her head against the floor, but other than that she was fine. She got up and looked at me. There was an entirely different glint in her eyes.
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From up in a box, Tsunade smirked.
"She's more energetic than usual. Shizune!" A young woman with short black hair came in.
"Yes Tsunade-sama?"
"Tell Savage to change the arena. I want this to be fun."
"Hai, Tsunade-sama." The woman ran out the door and around to arena seats until she reached the presenter. The smile on Tsunade's face widened.
"Now have fun Sakura. We may have found someone fitting for my little plan." She felt like letting out a maniacal laugh, but decided against it as she stroked her pet pig.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I've just heard word from the boss that we are raising the level of this fight." I looked up at the presenter at the same time that Sakura did. He held up a remote control with a big red button. Seriously, why is it always a red button, it's so clich`e, black or white could do fine to represent the 'button of death'. He pressed it and I felt the floor moved. I bent down, unsure of what was going on as I heard the screams from about. "We are raising to the platform by one hundred metres!" I felt the platform stop and looked about. Sakura was being careful to keep her footing – and I could see why. There was no longer a fence around the arena. I looked over the edge and saw to drop down. I didn't feel like having my skeleton fly out of me as I hit the floor.
"Due to professional criticism, we have removed the swinging pendulums of death and the poison darts." I heard the crowd groan. "I know, I know, I miss them too. However, to make up for them we have included a spinning and pivoting feature to it!" The crowd cheered. They must really be a bunch of sadists. "Yes you boy, ask away!" The presenter shouted.
"Is there any way for them to get down?" The presenter held his smile.
"Of course there is! There is the one and only falling! HAHAHA!" The crowd laughed and screamed. "Now let round 2, commence." The commenter pressed a button.
I felt the floor start to slowly move about, picking up speed as it went. I then saw Sakura go higher.
"Eh?" I looked behind me to see the floor and me sliding down. "Whoa." I grabed onto the edge of the spinning disk and flew about. The crowd laughed.
"Careful there newbie, otherwise you will fall!" One shout.
I tried to pull myself up but I found it harder and harder with each passing second. I then kicked my legs backwards and flipped over. The wind created by the spinning repeling by decent. I fought back and landed on the disk. I stood opposite Sakura. And we stood face to face as the disk wobbled wildly. Now the fight would begin.
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So what did you think? I was going to put the final fight in here but I didn't want to rush it. Sorry for the flashbacks but I think they just worked here so I put them in.
Thanks for all the reviews and support I'm getting. Tune in next time for:
Chapter 4: How to climb.