Previously on NARUTO TCG…
"Shadow Clone jutsu!" Many copies of Naruto multiply inside the snake's belly. There were so many that the snake can't contain them all. And finally, a giant explosion ripen all of the shadow clones out of the snake he was finally free. "I'm the one who's going to be hokage someday! I can't be turned into snake chow now!"
'That's the spirit. Now let's go and find our friends.'
"Right!"
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NARUTO TCG: CHUNIN BATTLE TOURNAMENT DUELS-
COILS OF THE SNAKE
Chapter 8:
Affliction
Meanwhile at another place in the forest, Sasuke and the mysterious grass shinobi are ready to duel.
"Your move!" Sasuke calls.
The grass ninja draws. "(7) First I'll charge 3 cards (CZ: 3). Then I will deploy Shigure(2/1) onto the field." A shinobi with a rain hat and an umbrella appeared on the field. "Then I set 2 cards face-down and end my turn (1)." 2 giant cards project face-down.
"(7) I draw. I charge 4 of my cards (CZ: 4). Then I play Sasuke Uchiha (3/0). Next I use 3 fire chakras (CZ: 1) to play the Fireball Jutsu card to inflict 1 damage to one ninja on my opponent's side of the field." Sasuke's avatar charges all his chakra through his mouth creating a great ball of fire and hurled it at his opponent.
"That jutsu of yours has triggered mine." The grass shinobi flipped over one of her hidden cards. "I play the card known as Transformation Jutsu."
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Card info: When the Transformation Jutsu card is activated, the user can change its combat attribute.
Jutsu cards can be used by discarding their designated amount of cards from your chakra zone. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
"And by using 1 wind chakra (CZ: 2) I can give Shigure a flame attribute, which means your fireball is rendered useless." Shigure create a shield of flames which absorbed Sasuke's fireball.
"In case you're forgetting, your transformation card also switches your ninja's combat and support powers (Shigure: 0/0). And with his power at 0 Sasuke will attack." Sasuke's avatar attacks but the outcome became a draw. "Huh, what happened?"
"My Stone bullet Jutsu card happened. By using 1 earth chakra (CZ: 1), I can switch your ninja's combat and support powers (Sasuke: 0/0). And with both a 0, both are damaged."
"I set 1 card face down and end my turn (1)."
"(2) Good. I play Baiu (2/1) onto the field. Next I use 1 chakra to play the Tree Climbing Training jutsu card. That lets me send 2 cards from the top of my deck to my chakra zone. And now Shigure will attack Sasuke Uchiha." Baiu throws his umbrella into the air which releases dozens of needles, deleting his opponent. "And now that you don't have any shinobi to defend you, Shigure will attack you directly." Shigure attacks the same way, taking Sasuke's battle reward. "And with that I'm just 2 more away to winning. That ends my turn (0)"
"My draw (2). I charge 1 chakra (CZ: 2) to play the mission card Revive, Sharingan!"
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Card info: Revive,Sharingan is a jutsu card that allows you to add 1 ninja card with a 'Sharingan Eye' to your hand from your deck.
Mission cards can be played by charging their designated amount of cards to you chakra zone. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
"And by adding Sasuke Uchiha to my hand, I can deploy him straight to the field. Attack Shigure." His avatar attacks and deletes his opponent. "That ends my turn (0)."
The grass kunoichi draws. "(1) I think I will pass."
"(1) I'll discard my 2 fire chakra (CZ: 0) to play the jutsu card, Fire Style: Phoenix Flower jutsu!" Sasukes ninja once more channels his chakra through his throat. "Phoenix Flower is a special jutsu. When it's activated, I get to toss a coin and if it comes up heads, it inflicts 1damage to one opposing ninja." Sasuke flips his coin and it comes up heads. His avatar releases a flurry of small fireballs and damaged Baiu (1/0). "Now I send Sasuke to the battlefield and destroy Baiu." Sasuke Uchiha attacks and deletes Baiu. "I end my turn."
When the grass shinobi draws and looks at her card, her smile spreads across here face becoming more sinister. "This duel is over. With my turn counter a 3, I can play the combo I needed to win. I play the ninja card Orochimaru!"
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Card info: Orochimaru is a turn 3 male sanin sound ninja. In healthy state, he has 6 combat points and 4 support points. In his injured state, it has both 3 combat and support points.
Most ninja cards require a hand cost. The higher your turn counter, the more cards you have to charge to your chakra zone. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Orochimaru slowly move into each other, forming into one being. "Next I use one earth and one water chakra to play the card Curse Mark Jutsu!" Making a hand sign, he extends his snake-like head to within Sasuke's reach and biting him, planting a seal on his neck. He then lets go. "The Curse Mark Jutsu allows me to take one ninja on your side of the field and claim it as my battle reward. I win the duel."Sasuke falls to the ground.
Orichimaru holds a bunch of kunai knives in his fingers. "Now I will take my prize. If you don't mind, I prefer to take it by force. This is a winner-take-all." But before he could move in for the kill, he is attacked by a few shuriken. Dodging the stars, Orochimaru looks up in a tree and saw his attacker on a branch. It's Naruto Uzumaki. "And by the way. What was that password again?" He says with a smile on his face.
"Naruto!" Sasuke writhers in pain. "Stop playing the hero! This person is on a class on his own!"
"Hmph. Looks like you successfully defeated that giant snake...Naruto." Orochimaru says.
Naruto takes a good look at his opponent. "Well, he kinda looks like a snake." 'Naruto, she must be the one behind the snake incident. I bet she's the one behind this.' The fox sage says in Naruto's mind.
'With him coming along to save us,' Sasuke thought, 'it's not like the situation will get any better. What am I gonna do?'
"Okay, Okay, I don't know what's going on here," Naruto shouts, "but you've been picking on my friends and I don't like that. So you just better slither on back to your hole, snake-lady, before I make a pair of shoes out of ya!"
'This is bad. All three of us are going to be killed. I guess I have no choice.' Sasuke takes the scroll card from his deck and holds it up. "You can have it. The Earth Scroll card, right? That's what you want? All right then...take it, and leave us in peace."
Naruto couldn't believe his ears. "gonna just hand over our card to the enemy? No way! What's wrong with you?"
"Shut up, and stay out of it!"
"What?!"
Orochimaru kind of liked the offer. 'I see. That's a very smart move. The only way to escape a predator is to give the predator a different meal.'
Sasuke tosses the card to Orochimaru, but Naruto catches it in mid air before the Grass ninja can catch it. Naruto then punches Sasuke angrily. "What was that about?!"
"I may not know the password, but I know who I am. You're the one I'm not so sure about. How can we be sure you are who you say you are?"
"Have you lost it?! I'm the real Sasuke!"
"Liar! The real Sasuke that I know is not a coward!" Naruto yells. "Surrendering? Giving up? When did Sasuke become a coward? You keep saying I don't understand what's going on, but I do. You choked, that's what it is!"
Hearing the conversation, Orochimaru smiled and licked his lips. "You are absolutely correct." He pulls up his sleeve to show a snake tattoo. "I can just kill you and take the Earth Scroll card!" he drew his blood onto it and shouts "Summoning Jutsu: Giant Snake!" out of a gust of wind a huge serpent appeared below him. With a swipe of its tail it sends the raging Naruto crashing into a tree. Waiting for his decent, it widens its mouth to swallow him whole. Just a few feet between the snake and its prey, Naruto's pendant begins to glow as he bellows from the top of his lungs…
"KYUBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"
With explosive force Naruto punched the serpent in the nose enough to slam its mouth shut.
'Look at him...he's gone nuts!' Sakura thought. 'Whoa, where did he get that kind of power all of a sudden?'
Naruto descends safely to the ground. His whisker marks appear on his face. His hair has orange highlights which glistens in the sunlight, as well as the glowing orange highlight in his now slanted eyes, filled with anger.
'That fire in his eyes,' Orochimaru thought, 'there is no mistaking it.'
'Woah, is that Naruto?' Sasuke thought.
Naruto shouts in his deep-and-heroic voice, "If you want to go after my friends you have to go through me! I'm challenging you to a duel and if I win you'll leave them alone!" he takes out his shield and converts to duel mode.
Orochimaru lands to the ground and readies his shield as well. 'Oh! Things have gotten very interesting...'
With no intermissions, Sasuke and Sakura watch their teammate get ready to go through a whole new game.
"It's time to duel!"
Outside the Forest of Death, three sentinels from the first exam find three dead bodies. "Already we have a problem. Alert Anko immediately." "Yes, sir."
Meanwhile, at the forest gate, Anko was just having a little lunch, dango and juice. "O.K., now that I'm finished I'll just head to the tower…" she throws a serving stick into a tree trunk with all the others to make a symbol of the village leaf. "Leaf symbol, completed."
"Pardon ma'am, there's a problem!"
"Hmm? What sort of problem?"
"Come on. I'm trying to eat here."
"I think you'll want to see them. There is something strange about them."
"Besides being dead?"
Meanwhile, "After examining their papers and personal belongings, they seem to be hidden grass shinobi who entered this tournament, but… they have no faces, as if they were completely melted off."
After looking at the bodies, Anko feels something suspicious. 'That jutsu… there's no mistaking it. That jutsu must be his. What's he doing here? Why is he in this tournament?' she immediately asks for the pictures of the applicants. Once she sees their true faces, she recognizes the one of them that handed her back her kunai right before the Forest of Death phase began. "This is bad. You guys report this to Lord Hokage! Send some Anbu Black-Ops to the forest of death! I'm going after them right now!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
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Tune in for the next chapter of NARUTO TCG.
Next time: Venom
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