Kami twirled around in her light blue dress, her face shining with adoring affection at the dress that covered her body. She smiled softly at her reflection before turning a warm gaze to her brother who stood a mere few inches away from here.
"What do you think Nii-san?" She asked as she twirled again and Yami laughed slightly to himself as he gripped the handle to his scythe tighter. "Quite breathtaking my dear sister, ass you always are" Kami smiled at him and clasped her hands in front of her while her eyes twinkled in happiness at his compliment "Thank you Nii-san"
Kami soothed her hands over her dress, marveling at the deep blue of its design before returning her gaze to the world below her. "You worry for him, do you not?" Yami asked at her side and she couldn't help but let the worry show on her face. "Being a mortal god puts a toll on ones soul, his eyes are powerful but with them I had changed everything."
Yami smiled fondly at his worrywart of a sister and he slung an arm around her shoulder, pulling her close to him as drew soothing circles into his arm. "You forget he was destined a god long before his birth, he will do fine" Yami said reassuringly and Kami slackened her shoulders and sighed in thanks to her brother.
"Maybe, but I can't help but worry" The Death god snorted as he mumbled "Not even married and already being the worried wife" He received one Kami's infamous PUNCH OF DOOM after that. Quite the gift to give after he soothed her from her problems.
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Ken was quietly and patiently waiting for the large contraption to call out the random names, his team had reached the tower with no further problems and to their surprise, so did the leaf team they saved.
Ken had spied four Leaf teams and one Lock team, with Ken's own team making six teams in total, eighteen contestants still gunning for chuunin. The proctor, a sickly looking man, had told them how a preliminary round was going to commence right after some speech the Hokage had made., the usual jazz of keeping the villages unity and what not.
The Light ninja was now staring intently at the random name picking device-thing with some level of excitement and he knew Nobu wasn't all that far off, though he kept it well hidden with his lazy persona, it was just something he did.
"The first match for the Preliminaries will be between Cho Sakaki and Sasuke Uchiha, please step forward to begin the match" Disappointment filled Kens gut but it was replaced with contentment when he felt Setsuna nudge him with her shoulder. The girl smiled kindly at him before sauntering up the steps, Nobu following behind her with mad eyes scanning every male in the room.
Ken made his way on top where he saw the genins sensei leave a few words to the leaf ninja before disappearing in a puff of smoke. 'Wonder what that was about' he wondered.
"Come on Ken, hurry your ass up!" Ken shot a pointed glare towards Nobu, his chakra flaring with his annoyance. "Shut it Bambi" Nobu didn't seem to like being called a bambi and was about to show it with a quick punch to Kens stomach but Setsuna put a firm end to that when she gripped the ninjas hand with enough grip to crush concrete.
"Behave!" The girl ordered, her foot stomping down onto Ken's own eliciting a yelp of pain.
As the two boys were cowering in fear, the two opponents were giving each other appraising looks, the proctor doing the same as he examined each of them. He laid down a swift set of ruled "No killing , No maiming and I am allowed to intervene should I see a proper victor of the match am I understood?" He got an affirmative from Cho but Sasuke grunted arrogantly at him, as if the proctors words weren't worth his time.
He passed glances between them before finally lifting his hand and sending it swiftly down. "Begin!" He leaped back and as far away from the fighting as possible which proved a good thing as Cho had immediately let out a steady stream of fire towards the Uchiha.
The Leaf nin dropped to the ground with a roll before adjusting himself to fire off a set of kunai towards the Lock nin. He blocked the deadly blades with his own kunai but stumbled back in shock when the Uchiha had closed the distance between them in an instant.
The Lock nin lifted his fists up and took the punches head on, all the while gritting his teeth through the pain. He wasn't in the best condition as that Light kunoichi had done a serious number on him. He wasn't at 100 percent nor was he in thirty but he still some chakra to help with him.
The Uchiha back up and formed a quick set of seals "Fire Release:Great Fireball Technique" the Lock nin blanched as he heard the technique and jumped high into the air on instinct, the ground beneath him getting charred and left to smouldering pieces.
Cho landed back on the ground, he surged chakra into his lungs as he performed his own set of seals "Water Release: Great Nile" A large stream of water was launched from his mouth, slamming into the Uchiha and sending him flying to the other side of the arena, leaving behind a cracks along the ground.
"GET HIM CHO!" The Lock nin smiled up at his teammate, Aiko was smiling down at him as she jumped up and down to support her teammate, Rintaro behind her giving the kunoichi a surprise look, the words "What the hell are you doing" inscribed in his eyes like a totem.
But he cried out in pain when a devastating punch locked onto his head, before a kick was sent into his gut sending him sprawling onto the ground.
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Kens eyes were narrowed in concentration as he watched the Uchiha "His form is sloppy and attacks out of anger however, if he was well diversed in his attacks then he would be more of a threat but he's just using straight forward punches and jabs" Ken was assessing the Uchiha, knowing full-well that he would probably be fighting him in the final rounds as the Lock nin was further pummeled.
"Poor guy if I was a little bit more lenient he might have won this match" Setsuna's guilty voice entered his ears and the Light genin felt a large sweatdrop behind him, Nobu doing the same next to him. 'Then why were you so smug about beating him'
Nobu put a hand atop Setsuna head to calm her while Ken averted his eyes from the strange 'lovey-dovey' moment. He returned his eyes back onto the arena to notice the Uchiha use a backflip to strike Cho on his chin.
The Lock nin cried out in pain as he was lifted into the air followed by the Uchiha disappearing and reappearing to strike the ninja higher into the air. When they reached the apex of their flight Sasuke had managed to appear underneath his opponent and prepared himself for one final hit.
But something happened, a brief moment of hesitation that didn't strike odd to the other ninjas but Ken immediately saw it. There was a brief flash of black that had spread around the boys neck, growing slightly before coiling around the Uchiha neck.
'The Curse Mark?' Ken wondered in apprehension, as far as he knew Orochimaru was suppose to be dead, he was killed by his kage and his companions during their brief visit to the village but that was indeed the curse mark famed by the use of the sannin. 'No' he finally realised 'Its a newer more intricate version'
He could see it now, the Tsukikage had thought him the basics of sealing but even he could see the level of power that was etched into that seal. It didn't belong in the same class as Orochimaru's curse marks, this one was far more volatile. The marks slithered around the Uchiha's skin like a snake but resembled a centipede in shape.
It spiraled it way into Sasukes sharingan eyes, the wavy patterns that formed the 'body' were writhing in excitement. The Uchiha's power spiked in response to the power it was being given and filling Kens body with dread and pain, sorrow itching around his heart.
"What the hell?" Ken muttered through gritted teeth, the mark was doing something to him, it was smothering him with its volatile chakra, its demonic presence churning within the Light genin.
"Ken protect your sister" His eyes snapped open, and his mouth stretched wide in horror and disbelief at what he was seeing. He was home, he was on the day the world spiralled down for him, he was back to a time he didn't want to be.
"Ken please take your sister and keep her safe" The boy shut his eyes tight,'No,no,no,no,no,NO!' Kens eyes were burying themselves into his eyes, making sure he couldn't see what had brought only nightmares to him. The curse mark was doing this, he knew it but why? Why him dammit and why the fuck using this of all things.
"Ken look at me!" The genin pressed his hands deeper onto his face, nearly gouging his eyes out as he tried to drown out his father's gurgled breathing. "You're not real, you're just a play, a sick play!" He can't be here, he didn't want to be here.
He sucked in a breath of air and disappeared off and into a corridor around the side of the house, leaving it without even a single glance behind him. "I can't go back there, I can't go back there" His breathing was rapid and he tried to forget about the faces of dead relatives that littered around his house
When he passed by a corner that led down to the shopping district, his ears flamed with dread and pain when he heard a strangled cry of "Nii-san!" He stopped and his heart stop, holy fuck, his sister he had forgotten his sister! "Aiko!" Immediately as he screamed the name out his sister came running around the corner...with kiri ninja behind her!
"NOOO!" Ken ran forward as fast as his legs could carry him, sprinting through the distance and reaching his hand out to grab his sister, who had was doing the same. "Just a little more dammit!" Ken sprang forward with a mighty leap, hoping to reach her in time as the kiri ninja had flung a flurry of kunai towards the young girls.
But before he could reach, before that last inch of space between them could be closed, he felt the world around him shift and churn, and revealed the arena again.
"Winner of the first round, Sasuke Uchiha!" Ken's heart leaped as the Leaf genin cheered for their teammate and Ken noticed that he was sweating, his hair was damp and his legs were shaking. Setsuna and Nobu seemed to have noticed his distress as they talked amicably to each other.
The genin stared down at his hand for awhile, and felt fear bubble in his chest. "What the hell was that" His fearful voice wavered and was close to cracking. He didn't want to go through that again, he didn't want to see that again, he didn't want to smell the rotting corpses, to hear the screams and most of all he didn't want to see his sister in that hell ever again.
His bleary eyes drifted towards the Uchiha who was calmly walking towards his teammates, his black markings gone and nowhere in sight. The Uchiha was far more a threat than Ken had originally realised, but most of all, the guy didn't even know how much of a monster he was.
"That seal feeds off the persons emotions, feeds off pain, it is bred from the sorrow of not only the user but whoever was nearby" The boy wasn't so sure but when he noticed the slight shake in the Uchihas walk and the sweat rolling down his forehead, he knew, absolutely, he had been through what Ken had just moments ago.
"What is going on"
Beep boop, all I can say is I hate this chapter, I hate it so much. But I had alot of stuff going on for this chapter, one thing was that HEY HEY Sasuke still has his curse mark but its different and who exactly pasted it on him? Kabuto maybe, or was it Danzo? OR PERHAPS ANOTHER FUCKING OC! Don't know, i'll let you bloats choose, another thing is Kens backstory which I think I played off as two easy going o nthe earlier chapter when he reminisced about it, anyways next chap is probably gonna be another fight with the next about Naruto and his bodyguards.