I introduce to you all the eighth chapter of Sky Ninja.
If anyone was wondering why there was no battle with Kankuro or Naruto's version of Mr. Fantastic, well that's because their battle is the only one that is actually the same as the one in the series aside from Gaara and Lee's. So I skipped over their battles, sorry if anyone is disappointed but I'm toolazy to describe a fight that you guys should all know well enough.
Reviews will be continued to be asked until I own a pet panda with a samurai sword. But until then...
On with the fic.
The screen above said, "Ino vs. Sakura" as the two female rivals stood face to face on the arena floor ready to battle each other. The two had been arch rivals for years now, only able to do minor damage to each other. But now, now that there were no rules, anything went, nothing held back, this was to be the final battle between the two. To see who would get the ultimate prize that which had caused their rivalry to begin, Sasuke.
Gekko approached the center coughing out his lungs. Once stopped, "Fighters are you ready?" the two nodded without moving their gaze from each other. Raising his hand, "The fifth match, Begin!"
The two pulled out a kunai from their respective pouches and began charging at each other at full force. Like mirrors of each other, the two collided with their kunais and reflected away all simultaneously and charged at each other again. Another deflection with their kunai as they jumped away in opposite directions always colliding in the center of the arena. Another collision, and another, and another. It continued until they both stopped to catcha breathe, both back in the spot that they had started from.
"The two have been replecating each others movements." Chichi said to himself, "If they keep this up, there will be no winner." a smile slowly crawled onto his face. "Unless..."
"She's doing pretty well, but so is that blonde." Musuko spoke to himself, "There will be no end to this if they keep doing this." a smile slowly crawled onto his face. "Unless..."
Back with the girls, the two had caught their breathe and were about to start the second round. This time they pulled out a second kunai for better accuracy. They each tool a step forward, when they were both stopped.
"Ino!" the blonde kuniochi turned around to see Chichi.
"Sakura!" she tuned to her right where Musuko called out to her. Both at once then shouted out what they thought would aid their called on person...
"DON'T GET ANGRY!" It didn't give aide.
Both girls had a vein bursting out of their forehead as they did in fact, get angry. Their faces were as red as could be with their teeth gritting against each other. The only thing that could make them that angry would be someone that talked about their anger issue. They twirled their kunais in hand and redirected their rage towards the other female.
They rushed each other nowat higher speeds and possibly greater strength. As the two collided, the kunais didn't hit each other this time. Instead, Sakura ducked the shot and sent her own kunai right at Ino's stomach. Seeing the duck, Ino jumped up and flipped over Sakura before the kunai could reach her. As Ino landed, she swung herself around sending her foot into a round house kick at Sakura's head. At the last second, Sakura caught the leg with her right hand as she dropped one of her kunai onto the ground. Now that she had the leg, she put her other kunai in her pouch and grabbed Ino's leg with both hands and began spinning the blonde ninja around. Sakura then released Ino sending her body across the room. She didn't hesitate as the pink haired ninja hurried herself to Ino's landing area. As Ino did land on her feet, she saw her pink rival with a fist coming straight at her as well.Ino had no time to dodge the fist and so put up her arms to absorb the impact. As the fist hit the blonde's arms, Ino was sent the rst of the way to the wall behind her and landing on the ground.
Ino looked up, feeling the pain in her forearms and back, and saw Sakura standing in front of her weakened formed. Ino then saw the smile, the smile of victory on Sakura's face. Sakura knew that the match was over, she knew that Sasuke was watching, and she knew that he was all hers now. But Ino didn't know that. Ino only saw a cocky pink haired brat with an enormous forehead. She had motivation to continue on until she won, she would continue on until she won. Or until death. And with that last thought, the blonde kuniochi stood back up with both kunai still in hand.
All Sakura did was chuckle a bit as she cracked her knuckles for another smackdown. The next thing that happened was really a huge blur. But at the end of it, Ino was on the other side of Sakura while Sakura herself had an open wound on her right arm. As the blood dripped down, every looked down wondering what had happened. Sakura's eyes were wide open while Ino was taking in deep breathes. Neither one of them moved, but Ino then spoke.
"Didn't expect that did you, forehead?" She lifted her right hand to show the bloody kunai. Sakura turned around holding the cut to stop the bleeding. It wasn't too severe, but it still caught her off guard. Twirling her kunai, Ino continued to talk, "Ready for round three?" Sakura then untied her forehead protector and tied it around her arm to make a bandage for the wound. Sakura was angry now since she was the first to get cut, it made her look weak in front of Sasuke, and Ino would pay for that.
Sakura threw her a fist back and then charged at her blonde opponent. Ino still with her back turned to Sakura, the pink haired kuniochi threw the punch only to hit air. Ino had ducked down and went to her hands. Crunching up into a ball, Ino pushed back with her hands on the ground shooting her feet straight into Sakura's stomach, and this time it connected. The kick was twice as hard as Sakkura's punch and since Sakura had no way of protecting herself, she took the full blow of the kick. She was sent flying straight into the wall that Ino struck only harder and leaving cracks behind as she fell to the ground unable to get up.
The arena went quite. Ino walked to her rival as she layed there motionless. Kneeling down, she placed a hand on Sakura's head.
"The winner. Yamanaka Ino!" Gekko shouted out. Ino started moving Sakura's head back and forth.
"Hey, Forehead. You alright?" she continued to move her opponenet's head back and forth until Ino heard some groans coming from the pinky. "So, you're finally awake." Sakura looked up and around not knowing where she was.
"Is it over?" Sakura asked. Ino nodded, "Yeah. I hit you pretty hard too." Ino then lifted up Sakura to her feet. Helping Sakura by being a lean-on, Ino went with her friend/rival to where the rest of Team 7 was. Once she dropped Sakura off, Ino headed back to her team.
Sakura began rubbing her back as she layed against the wall trying to relax the pain, "Uh, I had her. What did I do wrong?"
"You got angry." Seirei said walking up to her. "I do believe my brother told you, not to get angry. Ino listened. Why didn't you?" the Sky Ninja was right, Sakura did attack out of anger throughout the entire match. And with it she almost won, but at the end she was lost to her rage and had lost. Ino on the other hand was not fighting out of anger, for the entire match, but instead had used something else to motivate herself and in the end win.
"What did she do to win?" Sakura asked.
"She kicked you in the gut." Sasuke said bluntly without going over to her and seeing if she was ok.
"No. I know what she did. I mean..." she turned to Seirei, "...What, did she do to win?"
"That, my friend, is something my brother had also told you." he then pointed over to Musuko, who looked over the railing right at Sakura with a smile on his face.
'Fight for those you care.' ran through Sakura's mind once more. She now understood what it meant. Ino fought for Sasuke, she fought to win his heart. I bit fangirlish, but none the less, it provided the motivation to let her succeed in the fight. Sakura, all she cared about in that fight was to get Ino for making her look like a fool in front of Sasuke. 'From now on, I will do as you have told me, Musuko. You weird white haired boy.'
Musuko was then met by his fellow team mate, Seirei,in a flash and standing right next to him. "You're getting to attached to this mission, Brother Musuko." and with that he left his white haired brother to return to his spot, leaving a shinobi with something to think about.
"And now for the next match." Gekko directed everyone's attention to the screen as it brought up the next two names.
Tenten vs. Brother Chichi
Chichi was right down there as soon as he saw his name up on the screen, as was his opponent Tenten.
"She's so dead." Musuko said out loud only to be rsponded by a familiar face, someone who interrupted his nap in the forest.
"What makes you so sure she's going to lose." Neji yelled at the white haired shinobi, still angry from their last encounter. Musuko turned around to talk to the Hyuuga face to face.
"Well, from what I've gathered, you're entire team is basically Taijutsu users. And my brother has been able to perfectly counter that jutsu."
"What? Have you not seen Neji's byakugan?" Rock Lee bursted out correcting Musuko.
"Yes. He uses chakra, but he only uses it to enhance his Taijutsu abilities. As does Tenten. And you, Lee." Musuko left the two genins speechless as he turned back to watch the fight start.
Gekko raised his hand, "The sixth match, Begin." Once he finished his sentence Tenten jumped back, making sure she had enough distance between her and her opponent.
"Please don't tell me your counting blocks, please." Tenten was surprised that Chichi knew what she was doing, but she didn't let the rude comment get to her.
She pulled out a kunai from her pouch and threw it right at Chichi's face. Chichi did not move as he simply caught the weapon in front of him. "Nice throw, but lacking in speed." he put the kunai down to his side still standing where he was.
Tenten jumped to the side pulling out another kunai and throwing right at Chichi's stomach. Once she landed, she threw another kunai at the exact same place. Chichi this time did move, but not out of the way. He threw Tenten's kunai that he had. Once released, he made a 180 degree turn while bending down with his left hand move to his back. The kunai he threw, did not hit Tenten, but that wasn't what Chichi aimed for. He aimed for Tenten's kunai. the kunai made direct contact with the other and the two fell to the ground useless. While as Tenten's second kunai was then caught by Chichi in his bent down position, leaving him unscaved by any of his opponent's attacks.
"Wonderful accuracy. But you still lack speed." Chichi said as he stood back up with yet another kunai of Tenten's in his hand. She cursed under her breathe as sh thought to herself.
'He has caught two of my kunai, and perfectly deflected my other one. He must be as skilled with kunai as I am, I should have guessed with that pack of kunai on his shoulder. If so, then that means that i need to use more of my artillery.'and with that, she pulled out a scroll and unravelled it. Inside was multiple signs written across the paper. Biting her thumb, she placed some of her blood onto the paper. A puff of smoke came from the scroll, out from it came a sickle attached to an iron bar by a chain. "Try this." she swung the sickle around above her head preparing to make a shot. Chichi responded by also swinging the kunai around his head.
"What? What is he doing?" Lee said, "He's doing exactly what Tenten is doing!"
"That Lee is how he counters. Brother Chichi is the only person who has perfectly mastered the Kagamiken (Mirror Fist). He is able to perform the same form of taijutsu as his oppoent and therefore perfectly countering it." Tenten throws her sickle as Chichi throws the kunai at the same time. The two weapons collide into each other rendering them useless. "She's not fighting against Chichi. She's fighting against herself." Lee look down at the lower floor, now worrying about his team mate.
Tenten pulled back her sickle now content that Chichi no longer had a weapon. Now all she had to do was use the sickle again and take him out. If he caught it again, she had secretly placed an explosion tag on the handle. Once the sickle stopped, the tag would ignite tyhen explode in the next five seconds. She smiled as she swung around the sickle over her head to throw once again. Chichi only stood where he had always been for the entire match waiting for the next attack. With a flick of her wrist, the sickle went across the room. Chichi merely caught the weapon in his hand in front of his chest.
"Once again, you lack-"
"Speed isn't always what matters." Tenten inteerrupted him. Chichi looked down only to see a bright flash of light.
Smoke surrounded the area where Chichi stood. The explosion tag was a success. Tenten pulled back her sickle with a smile of victory.
"Now she's dead." Musuko said ubruptly. Lee and Neji looked confused as they like everyone else saw the obvious outcome of the battle.
Gekko came walking out to the arena raising her hand, "The winner is-" a crashing sound came from the smoke covered area. Just then, a figure bursted through the cloud and landed right behind the weapon specialist. A fist appeared as Tenten then went flying to the other side of the room.
No one knew for sure what had happened. But when the smoke cleared from the explosion tag, they saw that a cracked floor was present but nothing else. Then they looked over to where Tenten had been previously standing. In her place was Chichi with an arm fully extended and a clenched fist at the end. Head bnowed down, his face was covered by the grey hair. But everyone could feel the killer intent coming from him, not too great, but enough to make one worried what he might do next. But as he lowered his hand, so did the intent and his face was visible again.
"So. You want to play it like that, do you?" Chichi said in his calm demeanor.
Tenten rose up and stunned to see that he survived being that close to an explosion tag. 'He's strong. Very strong.' she reached for another scroll, now holding two of them, 'I guess I have no other choice but to use this.' and with that she placed the two scrolls next to her on each side standing straight up. Performing handsigns, Tenten then cried out, "Soshoryu (Twin Rising Dragons)" two smoke pillars ascend from each one of the scrolls and eventually turned into the form of two dragon heads slowly spiralling around each other. Then the smoke dragons disappeared to show that they were the scrolls unravelled and spiralling around in mid-air. Tenten lept onto the midst of the scrolls and drew more blood from her hand. As she placed her hands on the scrolls, weapons started to pop out as she grabbed onto them and threw them straight at Chichi.
The weapons came hurtling towards Chichi's body like every other weapon before. He caught the first two that came at him, a kunai and a shuriken,but there were still weapons coming after him. He threw hiskunai and shurikenat two other oncoming weapons deflecting them. Without another moments notice, Chichi opened his hands to catch another two weapons while at the same time spinning around throwing the handheld weapons back at Tenten hitting another pair of weapons. Chichi spun around in circles staying where he stood as he caughthalf of theweapons that Tenten threw and throwing them at the other half to have them fall onto the floor.
Now everyone was on the railings watching in awe how the fight was going, especially Team Gai.
"Unbelievable!" Lee shouted out not blinking fearing that he would miss something important, "His aim is perfectly equal with Tenten's. He is throwing back everything that she sends at him."
"He actually is better than your partner down there. You see, not only is he throwing with perfect accuracy, he is also catching the weapons all at the same. And to add on, if you haven't notice the point of collision..." Musuko replied.
"It's closer to Tenten than it is to your brother." Neji finished his sentence, "That means he is throwing them at a higher speed."
Musuko, crossing his arms, "Like he's been saying, she lacked speed. And that's what's going to cost her."
The throwing of the thousand assortments of weapons continued until finally the floor was completely littered with all of Tenten's weapons. She descended down to the arena floor huffing for air, while as Chichi stood there not showing anysigns of exhaustion at all. In his hand he still held one kunai which he then threw straight at Tenten thinking that it was the perfect opportunity to attack. But Tenten was not going down so easily, she dodged the kunai asit went flying by her and cutting a few strands of her hair. She turned back around to see Chichi still didn't move from his place. All of a sudden, he took a few steps back and croching down into a position that looked like he was going to start a race.
"This ends now." Chichi said. This instantly gave Tenten the signal to stand her guard and et ready for the assualt. She was then struck and sent rolling onto the ground towards the crouched Chichi.
Now in the center of the room, Tenten rubbed her head as she stood up from the surprise attack. Looking over, she saw Chichi still in his crouching position, still hadn't moved. 'What hit me?' her question was answered when she looked to where she was recently standing. At first she thought she must of been seeing the same side, but she then noticed the crack in the wall the kunai had made that cut her hair. It appeared that Chichi had created a Kage Bushin of himselfthen used a henge to change it into a kunai. WHen the kunai had landed behind her, she ignored it as it turned back into a Bushin and knocked her into the center.
Once she figured out how it was done, like Chichi said, it was over. Chichi and his clone both ran straight at Tenten in complete sync as they both threw a fist mirrored by the other right into Tenten's chin and sending her straight up into the air. The double punch was hard enough to send her higher than the second floor platforms that surrounded the room. As she went up, Chichi and his clone moved back a couple of yards then ran straight back into the center, but instead of colliding, the two made a ninety degree ascension and were going straight up right under Tenten's body. How this was possible was that Chichi and the clone were running upwards by using the others feet as their wall. Using his chakra control, Chichi was able to use his clone's feet as a wall and vice versa, making them able to run up into the air. As they reached Tenten, the two Chichis pushed away slightly with both shouting, "Kagami Rendan (Mirror Combo)!" they then spun around with their leg fully extended and both did a roundhouse kick into Tenten's gut, sending her flying downward into the statue of the ram seal. Hitting the tip of the statue, Tenten lied their as Chichi landed on the arena floor and his clone dispersed. Chichi then went running over to the statue as he saw thatthe kuniochiwas slipping off and would crash onto the ground. With a final leap he was able to catch the KO'd ninja bridal style in his arms.
Gekko walked out for the second time and rose his hand, "The winner is, Brother Chichi."
Tenten reawoken from the attack and saw Chichi was carrying her up the stairs. "Hey." Chichi looked down to see the girl's eyes partially open, "Good match. I'm proud that...I lost to you and not someone else." Chichi gave a smile and replied, "Thanks. And you did great yourself. Just...you need to improve on your speed." the two both then laughed a bitas they arrived to Lee and Neji. Chichi let Tenten down as she could stand now. He then gave a small bow and went back to his regular spot on the platform. Just then the next two names came up onto the screen:
Hyuuga Hinata vs. Hyuuga Neji
A small gasp escaped from Hinata's mouth as she saw the names, "I...I have to go against, N-Neji?"
"Well this sucks." Kiba said under his breathe, "Hinata's no where near as strong as Neji is. I just hope he doesn't kill her, with his hate of the main branch, he's not going to hold back."
The two Hyuugas walked down in complete silence. As they approached each other on the arena floor, Hinata was literally shaking in her boots. Never had she thought that she would go up against her cousin, and now she was standing right in front of him waiting for the signal to start. She continued to shake which led to Neji's noticing. He smiled.
"Pathetic. Even before we start, I can see that you are going to lose. Not as if I needed to see that coming. You were always a loser your entire life and you will be one now. It is fate that made it so."
"N-No, I-I'm not a loser. No." Hinata's head was bowed down in shame as she tried to deny the truth that Neji said. A cry was then heard from the platform.
"Don't let him talk to you that way, Hinata!" they all turned to see that Naruto was leaning over the railing yelling at the top of his lungs, "Get in there and kick his sorry butt!"
"Yeah!" they now looked over seeing Chichi was now shouting, "Fate doesn't chose anything! Don't listen to that crap!"
Musuko snuffed as he heard Chichi shout out, "Looks like I'm not the only one too attached to the mission."
Gekko raised his arm once again, "Fighters ready? The seventh match of the exams, Begin!" Hinata got into a Jyuken stance as quickly as she could, but the stance was poorly executed and she continued to shake. All Neji did was stand there laughing at his cousin's useless effort.
"You're still gonna try to fight even thoug you know that you're going to lose? You're even more of a loser than I thought." the harsh insult hit the Hyuuga heiress hard and she lowered her stance and her head in shame. She knew she was no match against Neji, he was one of the best in the Jyuken style of fighting and he was in the branch house. And as for herself... she was a disgrace to her father. She didn't even complete her own Jyuken, and she was to go up against someone who exceeded everyone's expectations in it.
Just then a hand hit Hinata in the shoulder. Neji had attacked while Hinata's guard was down. "Just give up, Hinata. Fate has already decided the outcome of this match."
Hinata was holding her shoulder in pain, she could not feel anything in her left arm, Neji had cut the chakra circulation with his palm.
'This isn't good. If he hits me again, I will lose.' she looked up to see Naruto gripping the railing in front of him in anger, 'Naruto. You have always tried your best. No matter what happened, you always came through. And because of that you have always been my inspiration to become a ninja.' her eyes moved over to the gray haired ninja, Chichi, 'I've known you for three days, but it feels like I have known you for a much longer time. You saved me when didn't know me, you helped us pass the second part, you showed compassion and mercy to my entire team.' Feeling was coming back to her arm as well as something else. Neji sensed something also, not knowing what was going on, he moved back into his Jyuken stance. 'And for you two and your kindness, strength, and determination...' a blue aura surrounded her as she stood erect infront of her cousin, 'I will fight. I will fight Neji, until I can't anymore. I don't care if I lose, as long as I can prove to myself that I am truly a ninja. To my team, to my father, to Naruto, to Chichi.'
With that final thought, the blue aura completely surrounded her. Going into her Jyuken form, she rushed towards Neji with incredible speed. Neji did not expect Hinata to be that fast as he placed up his arms to block the Hyuuga heiress' hits. With each strike, Neji slid back more and more. One more shot at the arms from Hinata, and this time she used a chakra burst that sent Neji back another three feet. Hinata jumped back giving the branch Hyuuga at chance to breathe. Neji was standing there with his guard up taking deep breathes.
"Where did this chakra come from? She did 't have anything close to this when I struck her. It must be from that blue aura surrounding her. No matter." Neji went into a counter stance, "Fate has already proclaimed the victor."
"Amazing." Chichi said with a smile on his face as he watch what had just happened. "She's accomplished the first stage of the Tenyomon (Heaven Gates)."
Neji now made the move on Hinata by charging at her. Throwing in an open palm, Hinata moved to the side dodging the attack and shooting her own palm at her opponent which successfully struck him in the shoulder. Neji slid backwards for a second time now holding his shoulder in pain. Hinata returned to her fighting stance to continue the fight. Neji saw that Hinata was not going to quit anytime soon. Brushing his shoulder, Neji smiled and spoke to his cousin.
"Looks like I have under estimatimated you, Hinata. But that's all about to change." in the next second, Neji ahd activated his Byakugan and moved back into his Jyuken stance. Seeing the Byakugan activated, Hinata in return also activated hers.
The second the two activated their dojutsus, they charged each other as fast as they could. When they met up with each other, they began an intense flurry of hands and feet swinging around each other just missing each other by mere inches. With each strike, the two cousins got faster and faster with their moves and dodges making it almost impossible for any of the genin to see their movements clearly.
"Incredible." Kurenai said staring at her student. "How on earth did she get this fast?"
"She has changed alot during the forest part of the exam. She has found inspiration to fight." Shino said.
"You mean other than what she usually has as inspiration, heh." Kiba said chokingly knowing Hinata's crush.
"Something tells me that her inspiration is the one who we had met constantly in the forest." Shino exclaimed. Kiba looked confused at first, but with time he understood what his buggy team mate was talking about.
The Hyuugas were now just a big blur as they have now been moving faster than either had before. Just then, it all ended. Both stopped in their current positions. Hinata stood with her aura and her right hand just inches away from Neji's forehead. Why she was only inches away instead of fully touching his head, was because of where Neji was. He was crouching down making his head perfectly level with Hinata's arm. With his right arm extended, his hand reached out and had hit Hinata's chest, right where her heart was located. The blue aura slowly faded away while Neji stepped back to see his cousin fall to the ground on her face. She started coughing up loads of blood. Neji's final strike was chakra enduced and pierced through her heart and left lung, it was a miracle in itself that she was still breathing.
"I believe this match is over." Neji looked at Gekko for the verdict. Gekko nodded as he then raised his hand, "The winner is, Neji." without another thought, Naruto jumped down from the upper floor. He ran as fast as he could toward Hinata's motionless body. When he reached it, he started shaking her furiously.
"Hinata! Are you alright? Come on, answer me!" he finally got a moan from the heiress and then her eyes opening.
"N-Naruto?" she said very quietly. "C-Chichi?" Naruto turned around to see Chichi standing up on the 2nd floor with a concerned look on his face. Naruto turned back to Hinata who now had her eyes closed again but now had a faint smile on her face.
"Hinata? Hinata!" Naruto yelled. The medics rushed in to the kuniochi's aide carrying her away in a stretcher. When she was gone, Neji and Naruto were the ones left on the arena floor. "You. Why did you do that? She's your cousin for crying out loud!"
Neji maintained his calmness as he spoke, "Fate has decided that she is not worthy, now fate will decide if she is worthy to live."
"You and your fate. That's all you care about. Well mark my words." Naruto then dips his fingers in the blood that Hinata had cuoughed up. Clentching his fist, he now spoke with sincerity in his voice, "I will make you pay for this. Believe it."
"Hmph, I'm looking forward to seeing that. But fate has already deemed you to lose as well." he then turned around and went up the stairs to meet with his team and angered sensei, "Neji, I told you not to go against with anger of the families. And you go and almost kill her, if it wasn't for that blue aura she would have been." Neji just stood there quietly not taking in any of what his sensei was telling him.
Musuko stood where he was watching the Hyuuga girl be carried off, "She doesn't look like she's going to last long."
Chichi ran over to Seirei with his concern look still on him. Seirei knew what he was going to ask for. With his nose deep in his book, Seirei heard the foot steps of his brother. "Brother Seirei, please tell me we can." Seirei moved his eyes to see Chichi about to get on his knees and beg. Returning to his book, Seirei flipped the page and read some more. Finally, he gave his brother a nod which sent Chichi running to his white haired brother and whispering into his ear. Musuko was reluctant, but he went off with Chichi through the same door the medics went through. When they vanished from th fighting room, the screen lit up and showed to next two names:
Brother Seirei vs. Temari
With another flip of his page, Seirei closed his book with a huff and jumped down to the arena floor. Temari did the same and the two met at the center of the floor. Gekko approached once more, seeing the two ready, "The eighth match, Begin!"
Seirei walked away from where he stood slowly. Temari had her guard ready, wondering what her opponent was up to. Seirei stopped a few yards away from where he was and pulled out his enormous sword from his back. Now Temari had her hand on the giant metal bar on her back ready to fight. Seirei lowered the tip off his sword to the ground, and with a small tap, just a tap, he created a crater a foot deep. Once he made the crater, he walked back to where he previously stood.
"You don't mind if I do this first do you?" another tap on the ground, this the ball at the base of his sword slid down along the gap in the middle and landed on the ground. Placing the blade next to the ball, Seirei moved into...a golfer stance??
"Here is Brother Seirei on the eighteenth green of the Konoha Open, par 5. He is twenty feet away from the hole and needs to sink this putt not only to obtain an eagle, but to also win the highly coveted blue jacket. And here's the putt." Seirei pulls back his sword ever so slightly, then without warning, he pulls the sword all the way back and hits the ball with all his strength. The ball flew completely pass the hole that its master was aiming for. It instead strck the wall with intense force and ricochetted off to another wall, then hitting the ceilng, then the floor, then another wall, the ball bounced off every surface that it touched and didn't plan on stopping for anyone. Just then, the ball bounced off a wall and headed straight towards Temari at incredibly high speeds. Teamri had no time to dodge it and was struck by the blue ball, kind of. Temari had not felt the ball as it did not hit her but instead went straight through her entire body and went to the wall that it was directed at.
Temari turned around to see the ball had no effect on her. and that the ball finally landed on the ground and began to, you guessed it, the hole that Seirei was actually aiming for.
"Yes! Yes! Seirei did it, he has won the jacket and the title! The crowd is going wild for the miraculous shot!" Seirei is swinging his arms inthe air for the imaginary victory. Meanwhile, everyone else is just staring at him and thinking why on earth he is doing this. "Now then." he went over to his ball and placed it in the gap of his sword where it was before. "Shall we begin?" the black haired sky ninja now had on a serious face and was in a battle ready position. Temari also gave a faint smile as she grabbed onto her own weapon.
"Let's finish this quickly." Temari pulled out the jet black piece of metal from behind her and held it in both of her hands. And with that, Seirei came right at her with his giant blade.
He made full contact wih the metal object in Temari's hands and retreated to perform another lunge attack. The same outcome occured. After a few more tries from the left, right, and the back, Seirei stopped the assualt.
"I guess it's my turn now."
"By all means, ladies next." Seirei gives a gentleman's bow. And with that, Temari unflods her metal bar to reveal that it's a fan that rivaled the size of his own sword.
"With pleasure." she swung the fan across her body creating large gusts of winds that went right at Seirei. All Seirei did was smile and place his sword up so that the edge was facing the wind. As the winfd hit his sword, it split in twain and went around him leaving no injury.
When the winds died out, Temari was shocked to see that nothing had happened to her opponent.
"A little shocked are you?" Temari did not respond, she was still trying to figure out how he manuever her wind attack. No ordinary sword could have cut through the wind, only one that... "Still confused? Well let me explain then. The ball that went through you during my putting practice. It actually took some of your signature chakra, which would be your ability to manipulate the wind. Once the ball returned to my sword, I was able to manipulate wind as well. So if you excuse me." he then swung his sword just like Temari did with her and fan and this time the winds flew out at Temari.
The winds lifted her up, but she used her fan as a platform as to keep control of her position in the typhoon. As she stood on her fan she thought, 'So he can now use my wind jutsus. Still, he probably hasn't mastered that. Also, I think he left out one thing. He only has a limited anount of my chakra in that ball of his. So as long as I stay out of range from his sword, the chakra should wear of-' she heard a ripping noise coming from beneath her. When she looked down she saw Seirei's blade coming through the fan. Temari's eyes went wide as she then saw Seirei following behind his sword. Temari dodged the sword coming out of the fan, but Seirei was not aiming on attack then. But now that he was on the fan himself, he lashed out his sword at Temari.
Temari had nowhere to move lest she be taken away by the wind currents around her. She was only able to move to the side a bit so that the sword wouldn't hit vitals. The sword came down and cut off Temari's left arm right at the shoulder. She cried out in pain as the blood began poruing out of her side.
The winds died out and Temari was lying down unconscious on her torn fan with her arm on the other side of the room.
"You are so lucky, woman." Seirei said looking down at the body. She started twitching signalin that she was still alive.
(In the medical room)
"Come on men!" four doctors were surrounding a bed. A bed which held their worst patient yet to come into the infirmary. Hinata.
A nurse who was looking at a screen analyzing the Hyugga's heart shouted, "Her heart rate is decreasing fast!"
"Get the defibulators just in case nurse." she nodded and went to retreive said item, "Ok guys. Focus on her the area surrounding her heart." they all shouted out 'Hai' as green chakra surrounded their own hands, they then placed the hands on the heiress' chest and try to stop the bleeding from her heart. Just then...
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-beep--beep--beep--beep--beeeeeeeeeeeeee
"NURSE!" the nurse came rushing in with the defibulator and handed it to the doctor without question. They removed Hinata's shirt so that nothing was in there way when they revied her. Rubbing the defibs together, the doctor cried, "Clear!" Hinata's body gave a small jump from the shock.
beep--beep--beep--beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"Clear!" another shock to the heart.
beep--beep--beeeeeeeeeeeee
"One more time. Clear!" her body jumped once more.
beep--beep-beep--beeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The doctors all backed away from the motionless body of Hinata with heads bowed down. "We did all we could for her. TOD nurse?"
"Not today." the nurse say this, instead two boys bursted through the doors, one with white hair and the other with grey, "Please leave. We'll deal with this."
"Boys. I know how hard it is to lose someone. But there is nothing you can do, she is-"
"I said, please leave." killer intent spewes out of the grey haired boy. This was enough motivation for the doctors and nurses to flee the room. When the three were alone. Musuko turned to his brother.
"You ready?"
"Definetly." both of their left arms now had some sort of black substance crawling out of the palms of their hands and up their arms. Once it reached to their elbows, it began to glow a pure green with black markings on it.
(Back at the arena floor)
"The winner, Seirei." Gekko anounced. Once Gekoo went quiet, Seirei ran as fast as he could to Temari's arm. He grabbed it as the same black substance went up his arm like his brothers. The substance began to glow as he went towards Temari's still bleeding body.
Kankuro saw this and lept down to the floor in between his sister and Seirei. "You stay away from her." he stretched out his arms to become an obstacle. Seirei didn't stop as he swung his arm right into Kankuro's side sending him flying right across the floor rolling.
"You lucky lucky woman." Seirei said a bit aggrivated. He then placed the arm right next to the wind mistress.
"Tenton: Tenshite!(Heaven Style: Angel Hand)"
"Tenton: Tenshite!" Chichi and Musuko shouted at once as their hands slammed down onto Hinata's chest. A bright light illuminated the entire room making it impossible to see anything.
When the light disappeared from Temari and Seirei. Temari slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was her opponent stnading above her putting his sword back onto his back. Looking to her left, she then saw that her left arm was attached to her, the pool of blood that had been from her arm had disappeared, and the pain was gone. She looked back at Seirei who was now walking away to the stairs.
"Wait!" Temari shouted out to the black haired shinobi who in turn stopped to listen, "Why did you save me?"
A long pause fell between the two as Seirei tried to think of an answer, a sigh then came out of his mouth and he said, "It's not your time." and he continued going up the stairs leaving a confused kuniochi to pick up her KO'd brother off of the ground.
BEEP--BEEP--BEEP
That was the sound of Hinata's screen. The two sky brothers left the room informing the doctors not to enter the room until the prelims were over.
As the two walked down the hallway back to the main room, Musuko spoke.
"Well. Guess that's a bit more than you wanted to see from her huh?"
"Shut up. You know as well as I that Seirei said that we needed to do it."
"Yeah yeah, 'It wasn't her time' you just be lucky that it wasn't. Otherwise you'd be bummed out for the rest of this mission."
"Why do you say that, Brother?"
"It's really obvious that you care for her."
"And it's also obvious that you care for that pink haired kuniochi as well." a small pause between the two.
"So the only one who hasn't gotten attached to anyone would be mister Seirei."
"Bet you a months worth of lunch that he finds some one before the mission's over." Chichi wagered.
"Deal. But he has to kiss her. None of this holding hands crap."
"Oh you mean like that kiss you gave to Sakura that night?"
"You said you were back at the hotel!"
"I lied. Simple as that."
The two then entered back into the arena to see Seirei was still up where he was when they left. They returned to their usual spots. They were each greeted by either Ino, or Tenten. (of course, dang ladies men)
"Hey Chichi." said person turned to the blonde kuniochi, "Where did you go to? You missed your brothers fight."
"Let's just say that I needed to visit someone in the infirmary. You said that my brother fought. Who did he fight?" Chichi asked. Ino pointed to the wind mistress of Suna, "She doesn't have a scratch on her. How did my brother win?"
"He used her wind juts- HEY! How do you know that he won in the first place?!"
"Trust me, there was no doubt he would. So he used her jutsu you were saying."
Ino nodded and continued, "Well he flung winds at her, then he went into the curretn and cut her fan and then he cut off her entire left arm. Once the official declared hi the winner, he ran for the arm and reattached it to the girl's body with this weird glowing stuff on his arm." Chichi's eyes narrowed, he looked over to Seirei in shock, then with a smile, "Looks like I might lose that bet." tyhe grey haired brother said to himself.
And now to fast forward through this next fight. Why you all might ask, well because this is the battle between Lee and Gaara. Even though this is my most favorite battle in all the exams, I am not going to write the entire thing as all of you should also know what goes on. If anyone doesn't, stop your reading now and try to find the episode somewhere. Anyways, time to press the fast forward button. Here we go.
And so, now that everyone had finally fought, the prelims had came to an end. Gekko appeared for the last time, "Now that we are officially finished with the prelims, I am to announce that the finals for the third part of the chunin exams will be held in one month. So all finalists have thirty days to train and condition for their opponents. The opponents will be:
Uzumaki Naruto vs. Hyuuga Neji
Nara Shikamaru vs. Brother Seirei
Brother Chichi vs. Uchiha Sasuke
Brother Musuko vs. Gaara
Yamanaka Ino vs. Kankuro
"You now know who you will be going against in the first round. Remember, these will be the matches that will decide if you are to be a chunin or not. You are all dismissed. See you all in a month." and with that, Gekko disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving all the genins with their jounin teachers. They all rejoined with their senseis, all except for the Sky Ninja.
"Hey!" Naruto caught the attention of the three mystery ninja, "Where's your sensei, I'd like to see who taught you guys all that stuff."
"Yes, so would I." Sasuke approached from behind his orange suit team mate. "Me too." Neji came from the other direction followed by his other team mates. Eventually, the sky ninjas were suurounded by genin, and also a few jounin sensei. To stop more from coming, Chichi answered them.
"Sorry, but out sensei could not come to the exams. She's...busy."
"No teacher is too busy to see their students fight in such an exam. Right Gai-sensei!" Lee shouted out with a enormous grin. The Sky Ninjas stepped away from the green shinobi.
"Yeah," Neji said actually agreeing with his team mate, "your sensei must be a real weak-gwahk!" his insult was cut short as he was now being strangled by the hands of Seirei.
"One, you ever insult our sensei again, you will be breathing through a bamboo stick up your butt. Two, usually a kage has other things to than to just watch her students participate in this so called exam." he then drops the silver eyed shinobi and walked away without another word.
Neji recollected himself from the ground and started rubbing his neck. Everyone around him were left speechless for their own reasons. Some were surprised that the Sky Ninja's sensei was actually their villages Kage, others were shocked that one of them had the nerve to stand up to Neji, and others were just looking at them with that horrible look that most men fear; the dreaded fangirl stare.
Once the three ninja were completely out of sight, a familiar voice was heard from behind the group. "H-Hey guys. What are you looking at?" everyone turns around to see that Hinata was standing up perfectly and was looking better than ever.
"Hinata!" Kiba came right at her and embraced his fellow team mate, "You're alright. I thought for sure you were a goner!"
"She should be." Shino said, "Neji had a direct hit at her heart, she should be dead, no matter how many medics it took."
"Well it doesn't matter now!" Naruto bursted out with a grin, "She's fine and that's all that matters." both Kiba and Naruto now have Hinata in a headlock. Once Hinata realized that both she was being touched by Naruto and that the fact that the headlock was cutting oxygen to her head, she fainted. "Hinata? You all right? Hinata?"
"Not again." Kiba moaned.
With the three brothers. They were now back at there apartment discussing specific manners.
"So who were the best fighters in your opinions?"
"Shino. Even though he lost, he was a shinobi with decent fighting skills as well as strategy. He would have with anyone else if he didn't go up against Shikamaru."
"That ninja would be the better of them all. He may seem lazy to you Chichi. But as we can see, he is very capable. Give him motivation and he's good to go."
"What about you Chichi?" "Chichi?"
"Hmm. Sorry, I was just thinking."
"Was it about something in particular...or someone?"
"You know me too well brother. Yes, I was thinking of Hinata."
"Yes. She was a special case indeed. Most people who die usually are meant to."
"Not to mention she had managed to open the first of the gates. Only you have been able to do that out of the three of us, right Chichi?"
"Correct. That's why I was thinking."
"Thinking of what? Dare I ask."
"I think I could...train her."
"Are you sure that is safe? What about the mission?"
"The mission says nothing about us teaching. We are here until the mission is over. Might as well make the best of it."
"...Very well. You may teach her. But if things turn out for the worst, it'll be on your head."
"In that case."
"Yes Musuko."
"I'd like to help train one of the shinobi."
"Let me guess. The Jinchurikki."
"He has true potential. Given the right opportunities, he could be a very worthy ally to us."
"He's also a bit different from most Jinchurikki that I've seen. He's all happy, usually their kind are hated by others or feared by their unknown power."
"Then it's settled. You two will train with the Hyuuga and jinchurikki, while I train by myself. And possibly look for that grass ninja that gave Sasuke that mark."
"That thing can get out of hand if he doesn't take it under control."
"I fear it's something bigger than that."
Well Well. It seems some certain ninja are getting to be trained by these mysterioius Sky Ninja. Also, what are these new 'Gates'? And what about the brothers saying that it's something bigger. The only way to find out is by continuing to read the fic. But until then, I'm out like a light.