Good day readers. Chapter seven of Sky Ninja is up and running.
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(Morning; Forest Tower, Hokage's Office)
The Hokage sat behind his desk as three figures walked into his office one at a time with Anko standing next to him. Asuma, Gai, and Kurenai now stood in a row in front of their Kage who had called them in for 'specific' reasons. Kakashi was also supposed to be here, but as they all knew he would be late for some stupid reason. Taking a puff of his pipe, the Hokage began to speak.
"You all know why I have summoned you three here." they all nodded, "Good. Now, had any of your teams come in contact with these, 'Sky Ninja'? If so, step forward." Once he finished, all three stepped forward each one a bit surprised that the others did the same. Sandaime was also taken aback by this predicament. "Alright. Since all three of your teams have met with these ninja, Asuma, you start first." Asuma gave a small nod and took out his cigarette to speak.
"My team had first spotted only one of the shinobi on the first day. The ninja had white hair and gauntlets placed on both arms. From what was told to me by Ino Yamanaka, the ninja had defeated them and then..." Asuma took a snuff from his cigarette before continuing, "He healed their wounds." Sandaime and Anko both raised an eyebrow in wonder.
"Did anything else happen Asuma?" the Kage asked.
"Yes, my team then decided to be foolish and attack the ninja when his guard was qoute unqoute down. What happened next was something that Ino was just exaggerating until her team mates supported it as well." he scratched his head trying to figure it out, "The ninja reversed their clan jutsus." now everyone was wide eyed in shock. No jounin, let alone a genin, was able to perform such a technique. Which lead to the recurring question: Just who were these Sky Ninja? Asuma stepped back into line showing that he had no more information to give.
"Next would be Kurenai. Please tell us what your team had to report." Kurenai nodded and stepped forward.
"My team did not encounter the entire Sky team, but instead met only one throughout the three days like Asuma's team. They described the ninja as having grey hair with kunai across his shoulder. They met him three times, each due to Kiba's dog, Akamaru, had ran off. And for unknown reasons, Akamaru ran straight to the Sky ninja everytime." Sandaime tooked the same reaction as before and quirked up an eyebrow. He then motioned his hand letting the red eyed jounin continue. "The first time was on the first day in the forest, they had stopped to watch a team from sand and rain fight against each other. Akamaru became so scraed from the fight that he ran away. When Kiba found him, he was being petted by the Sky ninja. The second encounter was only made by Hinata that following night, when Akamaru ran off again while she was on night duty." she paused, knowing what she was going to say was to be kept between the two of them, "She found Akamaru watching the ninja play some music on his kunai. And when she traveled back to her camp...she was attacked." everyones head shot up wondering what had happened to the Hyuuga heiress, "It was a group of Rain nin. They ambushed her and-and were going to do things to her." the rest looked on with concern, "But then, the Sky ninja appeared from the trees and and saved her life. She described the fight like he himself had the Byakugan." the Hokage placed his hand on his chin, rubbing it in confusion.
"These ninja appear to be on our side, but they have not yet showed true loyalty toward our village. Gai, maybe your information can aid us in this decision." Gai nodded to the Hokage and began.
"I am sorry sir, but I'm afraid that my team did not provide me with such an amount of information. Rock Lee didn't see much of them, Tenten either, and only Neji refused to report about the Sky Ninja. However, what Tenten and Lee did tell me was that they met up with two of the Sky Ninja, the white one that Asuma had mentioned before, and one with black hair and an enormous sword placed on his back. The white haired ninja was sleeping, but my team could not get near him as he placed traps all around him. As for the second ninja, Tenten saw Neji talking with him, but could not hear what they were saying until it was too late." Sandaime nodded understanding the situation, "But in my opinion, I believe that these shinobi are...are..." tears began forming underneath his eyes, here it comes, "ARE THE TRUE SYMBOL OF THE BURNING FLAMES OF YOUTH!!! I ONLY WISH THAT ROCK LEE COULD HAVE FOUND OUT MORE ABOUT THEM SO WE COULD TRULY KNOW HOW BRIGHT THEIR FLAMES ARE!!!" sweat drops fell everywhere. Including from a one eyed jounin hanging upside-down from outside the window.
"Still going about your flames of youth, aye Gai?" Gai looked over to see Kakashi reading his little orange book and chuckling a bit. "Sorry I'm late. I was-"
"That'll do Kakashi." Sandaime said interrupting. "Do you have any information concerning these Sky Ninja?"
"As a matter of fact, I do." dropping from where he was into the room, Kakashi put away his little book, "My team encountered the black haired ninja on day 2, when at the same time, they encountered a ninja from the grass." Kakashi's one eyed moved its gaze to Anko, "The ninja used snakes to fight my team." Anko became short of breathe at hearing this, she only knew one other person who used snake jutsus. "The Sky Ninja came just in time to save both Sakura and Naruto, but was too late to save Sasuke completely." he looked at the Kage who nodded in return.
"Very well then, the rest of you are dismissed." with a nod from each of the jounin teachers, they left the office. When they left, Kakashi continued.
"He has the curse mark on his neck." the Third leaned in worried what had happened to Sasuke, while Anko moved her right hand to her left shoulder, "But it's incomplete, only one is a tomoe while the other two are just circles."
"Then the mark is weak."
"I wouldn't say that sir, there are also three small dots surrounding the mark. Sasuke has shown amazing power in his previous fight, meaning the mark is still giving him plenty of strength."
"I see. We will deal with this after the prelims." Kakashi nodded and exited the room. Anko and the Hokage remained there silent for a few moments. Until the Hokage spoke, "Anko." she turned to look at him, "You know what this curse mark can do, and I know you have an uncomfortable past about this, but I need to to keep control of your emotions. We will be needing you if anything goes wrong." Anko nodded slightly, but still filled with fear and hate for who had returned.
(Main room)
All the ninjas who had passed the second part of the exam were standing on the bottom floor awaiting for the Exam officials to arrive. The teams that had passed were Team 7, 8, and 10, Team Gai, Team Kabuto, the Sand Siblings, and the Sky Ninjas. The sound team did not make it in time with their scrolls and were not allowed as they had only two team mates, alive. The teams began consulting with each other, except for the Sky Ninja, when a large puff of smoke appeared on the stage in front of the ram seal statue. Out of the smoke came forth all the jounin teachers, the Third Hokage, Ibiki, Gekko, and Anko. The ninja known as Gekko walked forth to present himself, but instead began coughing like he was going to hack oout a lung.
cough cough "Welcome to the forest tower. As you can see, cough cough there is a large number of you who have passed the second part of the exams. So, we have decided that the remaining teams will go through prelim matches before we continue to the third and final part of the exam. Those who win their matches shall continue on, the others will be sent home." coughing some more, "If there is anyone who does not want to continue, please say so now." Kabuto instantly raised his hand and was then taken away to the upper levels. Shikamaru was about to raise his arm too, but Ino and Chouji both tackled him before he could. Gekko turned to look at a screen appearing on the wall behind him, "This screen will show who are first two fighters will be. The names shall be selected at random." The screen began showing a bunch of names being changed every second until it finally stopped and said:
Uchiha Sasuke vs. Yoroi Akado
"Took them long enough." Sasuke said crossing his arms.
"Will the other shinobi please cough cough please move up to the higher level so that we may begin the match as soon as possible." and with that, everyone but the named ninjas went up. "Are you two ready?" Sasuke nodded with a smirk as Akado just gave a snort. "Alright, may the first match of the prelims, Begin!"
Without another moment wasted Akado leapt into action and took Sasuke by surprise. Tackling the Uchiha to the ground, Akado placed his hand on Sasuke's forehead. just then, Sasuke began feeling like the hand was sucking out all of his energy from him.
"What's happening?"
"You feel that? That's my jutsu right there. It's draining all your chakra and giving it to me. Soon you'll be completely drained and this match will be over quickly." Akado started laughing seeing his victory close at hand. But what he didn't count for was for Sasuke to get mad. Sasuke's curse began glowing as two more dots appeared around it.
"Get. Off. Of. Me!" Sasuke roared as purple chakra flowed out of his left arm. Seeing the fresh supply of chakra, Akado used his other hand to grab Sasuke's arm and began taking the chakra. But something was wrong, very very wrong. When Akado grasped the Uchiha's arm, he felt a burning pain throughout his hand. The purple chakra crawled up onto Yoroi's hand increasing the pain. He was going to let go, but his hand could not let go. It was as if he was glued onto the arm. The pain and the chakra were moving up his arm slowly as Sasuke spoke with a new voice, "What's the matter? I thought you wanted my chakra. Well, have some more!" the chakra bursted out of his arm and consumed his opponent completely making him feel seering pain all over his body. Akado was now rolling on the floor crying his lungs out until finally passing out from the pain.
All was silent as the purple chakra disappeared from the leaf ninja's body and made its way back into Sasuke's arm. After another minute of people staring at the outcome of the battle, Gekko finally broke the silence with a cough and spoke, "The winner is, Sasuke!" no applause was heard as everyone was still stunned. Three medics arrived on the arena floor as Sasuke went back up to the upper levels. As Akado was being taken away, Gekko announced the screen's next reading:
Nara Shikamaru vs. Aburame Shino
"Ah man. I have to fight now? So troublesome." Shikamaru latches onto his head as Shino quietly went down the stairs. He then felt a bump on the top of his head as her looked to see Ino in one of her tempers again.
"You will go down there and fight Shino, or I will knock you into next week!"
"Calm down. Sheesh." Ino turned her head behind her to see Chichi leaning forward on the rails just like Shikamaru.
"Yeah, you should listen to him Ino." Shikamaru agreeing with the sky ninja. Chichi turned to give him an evil glare. As he did, Shikamaru jumped back and started heading down the stairs. Chichi returned his gaze to the arena floor where Shikamaru and Shino were standing.
"Fighters ready?" Shikamaru nodded as he let out a long yawn. Shino also nodded. "The second match, Begin!" Gekko jumped out of the way. But when he landed, he saw that neither competitor had moved from their spots. They hadn't even moved a muscle. It continued that way for another three or four minutes. The spectators were slowly getting agitated as they wanted to see fighting, not standing.
Finally, Ino bursted out yelling. "Come on Shikamaru, move your lazy butt!"
"Did I not just tell you to calm down." rubbing his right ear from the instance of shouting. "And besides, they are fighting. Just not physically." how to confuse a blonde? This would be a perfect way to do it. She was by far understanding what Chichi had just said. With a sigh, the sky ninja tried to explain, "They are fighting mentally. Right now, they are going through each and every strategy they have in their artillery. This is the battle of the minds." squinting his eyes, Chichi is able to get a closer look at Shino's right hand as it gave the smallest twitch possible. "Now the real battle will begin soon." Once he finished talking, Shikamaru pulled out a kunai and threw it at Shino.
Shino reacted by stepping just to the left of the kunai's line of fire. This was what Shino was waiting for. He lifted his arm toward Shikamaru which then shot out from his sleeve a swarm of insects.
"Interesting. Just like Kisei." Chichi whispered to himself.
The insects were speeding towards their target. Shikamaru jumped out of the way just in time as the insects rammed into the wall behind him. "That was close." Shikamaru spoke too soon as the insects made a sharp turn and were heading straiight at the airbourne shinobi. "So troublesome." Once he landed, he spring boarded off the ground dodging the insects slam into the ground. As he was airbourne again, Shikamaru threw another kunai at Shino trying to distract him. Shino just moved over another step to dodge the kunai and continued with sending his bugs out to attack his opponent. Shikamaru had no other choice but to repeat his jumping away from the insects as they kept on coming after him. However, with each jump he threw a kunai or two to try to make contact with Shino, but Shino moved everytime making each kunai stick to the wall behind him.
"Genius." Chichi said. Ino turned from the fight to look at Chichi.
"What?"
"Shikamaru. He really is quite the genius."
"If you haven't noticed. He's not winning."
"That's what you think. Not what will happen." confused once again, Ino decided to ignore it this time and go back to the fight.
Shikamaru was down to his last kunai, and Shino had more than enough energy to continue like this for another few hours. Finally, Shino decided to give up on the chase and brought his insects back to him. This gave Shikamaru the opportunity to catch his breathe and possibly get the upper hand. He moved his hands into a rat seal, "Kagemane no Jutsu." his shadow shot out towards Shino, it was mere inches away when all of a sudden it stopped. "Huh?" that questioin was soon answered by Shino.
"Even insects have shadows." right in front of Shino's feet was one of his many insects laying on the ground.
Shikamaru snarled, 'With his bugs around him, I can't catch him in my jutsu.' he deactivated his jutsu as Shino shot out his insects again. Shikamaru jumped out of the way. When he landed though, he expected the bugs to come at him, but instead they stayed where they were behind him hovering in the air. Just then they began spreading across the room slowly making a semi-circle behind him. Shikamaru looked in front of him to see that Shino still held out his hand.
"This match is over." Shino shot out another barrage of insects from his sleeve. Shikamaru had no place to go now that his exits had been blocked by the remaining insects. Seeing his situation, Shikamaru smiled.
"You're right." Shino quircked an eyebrow, "It is over." Shikamaru lifted his hand, as he did a small glimmer appeared around his hand. Shino's head shot up showing that he was surprised.
The bugs stopped moving forward. No one knew for sure what had just happened. But once they saw Shino's shadow, they found out. Shikamaru had successfully performed his shadow jutsu and possessed Shino.
"Very good Shikamaru. I forfeit." and with that, Gekko pronounced Shikamaru the winner as he removed his jutsu.
"H-How?" Ino asked not really to anyone, but Chichi answered anyways. "Look at his hand." Ino looking closer, sees a shiny piece of thread wrapped around Shikamaru's hand and extending outward. "He has trip wire tied to his hand and to one of the many kunai that he threw at the wall. He didn't want to hit Shino, he wanted a straight path to his shadow. When Shino believed he was about to win, that was when he used his jutsu to go along the wire, go down the wall, and to Shino's shadow behind him." Ino's eyes widened, but then smirked.
"That's Shikamaru for you. Lazy but smart."
"Just imagine if he wasn't lazy. He'd probably be high chunin by now." Shikamaru was just arriving up the stairs as he was then tackled by both his team mates celebrating his victory.
"Please, get off of me. Losing. Air." Chichi smiled as he looked back up to the screen which had now been scrambling the next set of names:
Inuzuka Kiba vs. Brother Musuko
"Well, well. Musuko's up. Where is he anyway?" Chichi looked over to the wall across from him to see Seirei, but no Musuko. Then he turned to the wall adjacent to his right, and sure enough Musuko was there laying against the railing playing around with his gauntlets. He did not notice at all that his name was on the screen and continued with what he was doing.
Kiba on the other hand, was grinning from ear to ear. "Alright! Time to show these sky ninja how it's done. Come on Akamaru." with a yip, the dog jumped up onto Kiba's shoulder and the two set off to the arena floor.
"Kiba." said boy stopped and turned to see Hinata in her worried phase, "Be careful."
"Hinata's right, Kiba." Shino said now standing beside Hinata, "Remember the last time we saw a sky ninja. If I recall, he took on three genin without standing up."
"Heh, he took them by surprise and you know it. Besides, with Akamaru by my side, we'll win for sure." Kiba grin widened if that was even possible and jumped over the railing landing onto the arena floor. However, his opponent was nowhere to be found. Looking up, Kiba finds his opponent still leaning against the railing. "Hey! Get your butt down here so I can kick it back up there."
Musuko hearing this had shot his head straight up and turned to the cocky ninja. Without a word, Musuko leaned over the rail and flipped down to the floor. Landing on his feet, he stood up with a smile as large as Kiba's plastered onto his face. Kiba was a now irked and placed Akamaru down onto the floor next to him.
"Should your dog be down here? It could get dangerous." Musuko asked the canine ninja who responded with the utmost confidence, "Me and Akamaru always fight with each other, no matter what." still with his smile, Musuko readied himself by going into position. He squated down with his arms across, right over left. As he asumed his position, the Hokage crossed his arms as well sitting back into his chair.
'So. We will see just how these Sky Ninja are in battle.' he made sure was not to blink at all during this fight as one minor detail could reveal if they are for Konoha, against it, or even spot a weakness.
Gekko approached the two still coughing. "The two fighters ready?" Kiba moved into his stance then gave a nod. Musuko still in his stance gave his nod as well. "The third match will begin, now!"
Musuko raised his right arm which was being supported by his left, he pointed his gauntlet at Kiba. Just then a senbon needle shot out speeding its way to Kiba's chest. Kiba's eyes widened as he moved at the last second and flipped out of the needle's way. As he flipped in the air, the needle flew right along his back and shot straight through his weapon pouch, the needle continued its path until it sunk itself into the opposite wall. Kiba landed without a scrtach on him and stood up with a smile.
"I would suggest that you get that explosion tag out of your pouch now." Musuko said as he raised one of his hands into a sign.
Kiba looked down at his pouch. Out of the hole the senbon made there was smoke coming out, a tag had been lit and it was sitting in his pouch.
"Akamaru, watch out!" he reached for the lit note which was attched to one of his kunai. He then threw it off to the side of the room as quickly as possible. The tag exploded on impact with the sonic boom staggering Kiba's and Akamaru's landing. "How on earth?"
"Wondering why your tag went off?" Kiba looked over at Musuko who had lowered his arms, "Well first thing's first. I don't waste my shots. Second, I was the one who set off your tag. You see my needle aren't your regular needles. They are each laced with my chakra allowing me to do things that normally one couldn't do, like set off your explosion tag for one. When the needle went through your weapons pouch, some of my chakra remained behind, and so I activated the tag with the usual handsign." Kiba's eyes narrowed, he looed at his opponent in shock.
"That must of been how he messed up our jutsus." Shikamaru said looking from above. "When he shot us in the legs with those needles, he used his chakra to interfere with our jutsus." right after the explanation, Shikamaru heard a chuckle coming from beside him. Chichi was smiling while shaking his head back and forth.
"Excellent deduction my dear Shikamaru." he said with a funny accent, "But so wrong. It wasn't the needles that screwed your team up."
"Then what was it?" Chichi remained quiet forcing the genius ninja to go back to watching the fight.
"So. Would you like to continue, or forfiet now?" Musuko said bringing his arms back up in the shooting position.
"No way. Me and Akamaru fight till the end. Let's go!" and with that, Akamaru gave a small nod and jumped into the air. As he was in the air, Kiba got onto all fours with his arms crossing each other. Akamaru then landed on his master's back. "Shikyaku no Jutsu!" Kiba then grows claws on his hands and his canine teeth become even longer. Once the transformation was done, Akamaru bursted into smoke and reappeared as his master still standing on his back.
The two Kibas went there seperate ways surrounding Musuko from both sides. The two ran on all fours as they closed in on their prey. Musuko remained where he stood and lifted his arms in a crossed position with each gauntlet aiming at one of the Kibas. As they neared their destination, both Kibas leapt into the air. While in the air, the two began to spin faster and faster.
"GATSUUGA!" the two cried out as the Kiba on the left approached the Sky Ninja. Musuko shot out one of his needles thinking that it would stop the whirling ninja, but instead the needle was deflected away and the Kiba continued toward him.
"Oh crap." he jumped out of the way as the Kiba came crashing down to the ground. Just then, Musuko felt an intense pain in his back. The second Kiba had struck him from behind. Thinking this was the worst of the attack, Musuko did not see that the first Kiba had reflected off the floor and was heading straight for his front. The Kiba hit him directly making him the filling of a Gatsuuga sandwich. All he could do was yell in pain until the two stopped spinning and had kicked him into the wall. Musuko lied on the floor without motion as Akamaru trnasformed back into his dog form.
Gasps were heard from two specific females up in the higher level. Both Ino and Sakura, who were both on opposite sides of the room, had their hands covering their mouths as they saw the white haired genin get thrown into the wall. The two were then greeted by either Chichi or Seirei standing next to them.
"Don't worry." the two shinobi said to the two kunoichi, "He's had worst than that."
Kiba approached his defeated rival with his smile still on his face from the kick. "Looks like I showed the Sky Ninja who is better."
"Not exactly." Kiba was stunned as he heard Musuko speak. What stunned him even more was not that Musuko rose up without shaking or losing balance, but that there was no wound on his front or back just a hole in his shirt. Brushing the dust off his shoulders, Musuko continued, "I must admit. I did underestimate you." the sky ninja then closed his eyes and bowed his head, "But that is a mistake I will not make again." Seirei then bowed his head as well, followed by Chichi. After a few seconds, they all lifted their heads back up with eyes open and completely changed.
Their left eye had transformed. The iris chaged to a pure green color as the pupil had vanished completely leaving only a straight line going from the center of the eye to off into the head. All the lines were different for each of the ninja. Seirei had his line going straight up, Chichi had his going down and to the left, and Musuko had his line going down and to the right. Everyone around one of the three shinobi saw the eye and looked on in awe, including the Hokage.
"This is a dojutsu that I have not yet seen. Could it be a bloodline?"
"What is that?" Kiba asked pointing at the eye. All three Sky Ninja smiled and said together,
"Mitarigan!"
Instantly, Musuko shot forward going on the offence this time. Heading straight towards Kiba, he threw a fist at him, but Kiba jumped out of the way. Musuko didn't waste any time and went after the canine ninja. As he did, Kiba himself went offensive an the two began throwing punches missing each other by inches. The two appeared to be dancing around each other for awhile until finally Kiba used his claws to slash at Musuko's face while at the same time Akamaru came running behind his opponent in his Kiba form. The claw attack didn't hit as Musuko moved out of the way like all the other punches before. Akamaru jumped into the air and performed another Gatsuuga and headed straight at Musuko. Kiba and Musuko continued their fist face, neither of them noticing the spinning Kiba coming at them. Then Musuko ducked down and rolled off to the side as Akamaru came into Kiba's view as well as his claws going right into his master's chest. The attack wasn't as powerful as before as the dog cancelled the attack as soon as he could. The pain was bearing but still hurt alot.
"How did he dodge that?" Sakura asked. Seirei answered without moving his gaze, "It's the Mitarigan. It gives the holder the sight of others. Basically, what we see, he sees. And since we were able to see that dog coming from behind, so did he and he dodged the attack."
"Amazing. Is it a bloodline?"
"Yes. And no." this recieved a confused look from Sakura. Seeing she wasn't getting any more answers from the black haired ninja, she looked back at the match.
Musuko went after Kiba once again and rejoined his rival in another fist fight. This time, Akamaru (still in his Kiba form) went into the fist fight as well. With two against one in a match of taijutsu, Musuko would have surely lost, but since he had the Mitarigan, Musuko was able to dodge every punch and kick without even looking at them himself. A threesome dance was now in motion for another minute or so, until Musuko got tired.
"Time to end this." next, he jumped out of the melee of fists and landed on the side of the room. Performing handsigns, Musuko pointed his arms to the sky. "Jouro Senban: Raining Needles!" senbon needles shot out from the gauntlets one after another flying up into the air. The needles were scattered across the room when they reached the peak of the flight. Kiba was worried now than he ever was before. There was no way to escape the needles, absolutely no way.
"This doesn't look good Akamaru. Wait!" Kiba then realized something, earlier in the match. The needles had been deflected by his Gatsuuga. If he could use it again, it could just save his life. "You ready bud?" Akamaru nodded looking up at the now falling needles.
The needles came at them faster than they expected, but they still were ready. "Gatsuuga!" the two spun around as fast as they could. When the needles made contact, like before they were deflected and landed in the floor surrounding them. Once the raining needles had stopped, so did Kiba's and Akamaru's jutsu. All around them were needles sticking out from the ground, and not one of them had hit the two canine ninjas. And once again, Kiba had his famous dog smile on his face. Just then clapping was heard from Musuko.
"Well done. Well done indeed. But you forgot one thing." Kiba's smile quickly went away, "And what's that, Musuko?" Musuko knelt down as he placed his finger on the stone floor. He then struck his finger across the ground like a matchstick, but instead of fire, it was lightning at the tip of his finger.
"I don't waste a shot." he moved his electrified finger to a needle that had landed right next to him. Kiba didn't understand, that is until he looked around him. He was completely surrounded by the needles sticking out of the ground. He looked back at Musuko as it was too late to do anything, "Raikon: Raika Nobe!" (Lightning Style: Lightning Field) his finger touched the needle. Instantly, the electricity shot throughout the tips of the needles until the entire floor was covered in eletcric currents, and with Kiba in the middle of it all. A huge cry came from Kiba's mouth as lightning ran up and down his and Akamaru's bodies. When the electricity faded away, Kiba fell down not able to move, but still conscious. As he laid there, he heard footsteps getting louder and louder. In front of his field of vision lied Musuko's feet.
"So, you gonna finish what you started?" Musuko looked up to his brother Chichi, who shook his head no. He then looked over to Seirei who had been reading his book for awhile. He too shook his head no.
"No. I've learned first hand, not to mess with animals when my brother is around." and with that, he turned around and went up the stairs, claiming his victory as medics approached Kiba's body. Musuko's eye went back to its normal shape and color when he arrived at his previous spot. Extending out his arms, he pointed them to the arena floor. As he did, every last needle in the floor and walls popped out of their holes and flew right back into the gauntlets clearing the floor of any obstacles.
"That sky ninja was amazing. He used his weapons to create an electric field around Kiba. Truly a ninja of resources." Kurenai said as she watched her student being carried away. "Good job Kiba, you were beaten by a great ninja. There is no shame in that."
"Interesting." the Hokage said, "That ninja used a lightning jutsu and yet he is from the Sky village. The only shinobi I've seen do those kind of jutsus were from Kumo." he rubbed his chin pondering who these Sky Ninja could really be. While that was going on, Gekko reappeared to present the next two opponents.
Uzumaki Naruto vs. Akimichi Chouji
"Alright! It's my turn." the blonde ninja bursted out with his fox grin. He ran down as fast as he could as Chouji was busy munching on a bag of his favorite chips.
"Chouji, stop stuffing your face and get down there." reluctantly, Chouji put away his bag and went on his way down the stairs. The two fighters met each other on the arena floor with Gekko between them performing the same thing, "Fighters ready?" the two nodded as Gekko then backed up to stay out of the way. "The fourth battle. Begin!"
"Yeah! Let's go Fatty!" Ino yelled out. She knew fully well that her team mate didn't like to be made fun of his weight And everytime some one did, he'd get angry.
'She's going to get it after this! I'll make this quick, I already know Naruto. He was the lowest in the class so this shouldn't be a problem.' Putting his hands together, Chouji swelled up into his giant ball form causing Naruto to go wide eyed.
"This doesn't look good." the ball started spinning, gaining speed as Chouji came rolling right at the orange shinobi. Sasuke and Sakura watched as Naruto now was jumping out of the way of the green ball's path.
"Hmph, the dobe's not gonna last long if he keeps this up." Sasuke said with arms crossed.
Naruto continued to dodge Chouji's attacks as Chouji remained in his ball form still trying to run over Naruto. After a few more jumps from the blonde, Naruto was finally cornered by Chouji's massive form. The ball then stopped savoring the soon to be victory. Meanwhile, Naruto was looking frantically for a way out. Looking left, right, up, then down...wait. Up! Naruto had found a way out. He put his hands together to make the ram seal as Chouji decided to move in for the final blow. As the green ball was nearing Naruto, Naruto himself created a shaodw clone right next to him. The clone interlocked his hands to make a step as the original Naruto stepped onto it and did a chakra enhanced jump up into the air. And just in time, Chouji pummeled straight into the wall making the Naruto clone disperse. But the real Naruto was out of danger as he landed behind Chouji.
Chouji's ball body began shaking about trying to loosen itself from the crater it made. "I can't get out!" Chouji continued to release himself, but found no success in doing so. A few more tries and Chouji gave up, he returned to his original form standing in the middle of the crater. But once he did, it was a big mistake.
Now that he was out of the ball, Chouji could see, which he couldn't have been able to do while stuck in the wall. Since he couldn't see, Naruto had created many more clones which now surrounded him. The clones were now running right at him. Chouji pulled out a kunai and threw it, it connected with one of the clones as it puffed away, but that didn't stopped the rest of the clones as four of them slid down onto the ground and in unison kicked the chubby ninja into the air.
"Uz..." another clone jumped up and kicked Chouji even higher. "...um..." a second clone pops up to kick Chouji as well "...ak..." a third and final clone kicks Chouji as high as he could "...i..." Chouji looks to his left and sees his opponent raising up higher than himself. Naruto then perfomed a front flip with his foot following right behind, then it connected fully with Chouji's chest, "Naruto Rendan!" Chouji went plummeting down to the arena floor. And when he hit the ground, a second crater was made and Chouji was out cold.
Naruto landed down on the floor next to Chouji's body, "How do you like my new move? I call it, 'The Uzumaki Naruto Rendan'!" Gekko just smiled as he proclaimed the orange ninja the winner of the match. More medics came along and took Chouji away in a stretcher.
"Good job Naruto!" Sakura said as her team mate came up the stairs.
"What's the matter dobe? Why'd you take so long?" Naruto now had a vein popping out of his forehead as he flailed around his fists.
"You want to go, Sasuke? Come on, we can do it right here, right now!"
Meanwhile, the screen once again began rolling for the new names. Once they stopped, the screen read:
Yamanaka Ino vs. Haruno Sakura
"Well I'd love to stay and watch you two kill each other, but...I got a match to win." Sakura went walking down the stairs while her two team mates had each other by the throats.
"Yes! It's finally my turn. And who better to beat than little miss forehead!" She went down to the arena floor to meet up with her rival.
Gekko reappeared in the center of the floor. "Fighters, are you ready?" the two kunoichi nodded without moving their gazes at each other. Both girls were determined to defeat the other, no matter what. "The fifth match, Begin!"
The two grabbed for their kunai simultaneously and just as if they were mirrors of each other, they ran straight towards each other. With a clash of kunai, the fight between two long time rivals had started.
Well it's finally done, well this half of the exams. There's still the rest of the fights, not to mention the finals and the one month training, boy I can't wait to finish up this exam. I have so many more ideas for the Sky Ninja, but first things first. So give me reviews as I always will take them no matter how good or bad they are. And with that I bid you farewell until next chapter.