Of Trees and Frost

By

Ragnorokrising

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Chapter Twelve: The Prelims, Part Four

The only thing showing Lee's disappearance was the bang of the cement caving in where his feet had been. Urusai struck his hand out before any one could see and caught the kick Lee sent. "Heat Wave Technique." Lee's skin started to bubble as the blood floor increased and the skin heated up. Urusai began to walk towards the stairs when the cement started to crack. Soon a long spider web seemed to cover the floor. Lee was letting out a war cry as chakra flared around him. "Gate of Opening: Open!" he disappeared again and wrapped his bandages around Urusai.

"What are you doing!?"

"Primary Lotus!" Lee pulled him up into the air and spun down into the ground. Urusai staggered out of the large crater and started to do hand signs at a fast rate as his head started to hum and in a puff of smoke flesh started to regenerate inside the eye sockets as the metal plates were forced back. Soon two eyeballs with purple squares with orange lines going through it appeared. Lee gazed into the eyes and felt himself falter.

"War Eyes!" the chakra pulse increased the power and Lee started to feel urges to attack the people in the area.

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The Tsuchikage smiled as the eyes activated. He knew what they did, since it was his family's technique. It forced the other person to attack and go on a rampage if used to long. The problem was it came at the cost of either going crazy, losing emotions, or having your senses lost. Urusai had his eyes ripped out by a set of hands made entirely of a white aura and his mouth had been sown together with ninja wire, extra strength version. It was the most horrible thing a father could watch happen to his son. It must have been hard to Akira to watch it happen to her cousin as it had for him to watch it happen to his son. "He's got it in the bag now."

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Akira marveled as her cousin regenerated his eyes and fought back. He wasn't holding back and she knew why. Urusai had to capture the soul of a living person to regain his eyes permanently. He must be trying to do it to Lee she figured "Come on little cousin, kick his ass." she whispered as the people around her gagged.

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Lee knew he had no choice and started to unwrap his bandages. They fell to the ground as he flared a new energy. "Fifth Gate: Open!" with a blast of power, Lee's skin turned reddish orange, debris floated around him and the bandages shot out at Urusai. He ducked under them but the went down and caught him. Lee tugged and the boy flew forward. In a flash of yellow, the fight went skyward. A yellow lotus appeared over the floor as Lee increased his speed. Then fire covered his hands as he sped up his fists. "Morning Peacocks!"

"Sounding of the War Horn!" screamed Urusai. Lee hit the ground and dashed at Naruto as a war horn echoed through his ears. He through his fist but the flames extinguished themselves and Naruto knocked the fist away. Then he kneed Lee in the stomach and slammed his head into his knee, cracking the nose and jaw. Lee fell to the ground and Sarutobi and Jiraiya planted multiple seals all of the body but they just soaked off.

"Leave him alone and let's see what happens to him." said Naruto and he reached for swords to 'deal' with any naysayer.

"Winner, Urusai of Iwa. Anko, roll the names." said Hayate.

"But we-"

"ROLL THE GOD DAMN NAMES!" Anko hit the button to activate the electronics. "Match Ten: Hinata Hyuuga VS Akado Yoroi." Kabuto's last teammate calmly faced Hinata. The girl had puffy eyes and a determined look on her face.

"Come one Hinata, kick his ass!"

"Shut up Sasuke so they can start!" yelled Naruto in Sasuke's ear. Hinata blushed at the comment but the match began and Akado rushed at her. She activated her Byakugan and dodged a fist of chakra. She skipped back and caught him in her Eight Trigrams and finished the match by blocking all his chakra points and kicking him in the balls.

"Woah, Hinata can be evil." Sasuke hit Naruto on the back of the head as Hinata came over.

"Hey Hinata, you wanna go out some time or maybe-" he never finished because she grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him into a kiss.

"I'll do any thing you want Sasuke." she whispered. Sasuke's heart rate started to speed up as Hinata walked away with some extra sway in her hips. Sasuke covered his nose a few drops of blood started to fall out of the holes.

"Match Eleven: Deidara VS Ronmaru. Will the contestants please come down here?" Urusai's final team mate who wore a large red cloak to cover him slowly slugged down the stairs. Deidara made six small birds and a spider.

"Ready to lose?" asked Ronmaru.

"I'd be careful Ronmaru. Your ego could blow up on you." Ronmaru laughed as a clay spider crawled up his cloak and under the cloth without him realizing.

"Begin the battle!" yelled Hayate. Ronmaru spread his cloak wide to show thousands of explosive tags and bulky bombs.

"Art is the bomb!" he yelled.

"I totally agree with you." Deidara sent one of the birds over for Ronmaru to inspect. He looked it up and down.

"Well, this is quite beautiful." the crowd started to sweat drop as the two started a conversation about art.

"Ronmaru, you have great taste in art and I don't want to kill you. Look on the four hundredth tag to the right." Ronmaru turned his orange colored hair and brown eyes on the thousands of tiny bomb spiders that had split from the larger one. "One command and they explode and activate the tags. Give up now and we can keep talking about art." the five birds flew at Ronmaru as he closed the cloak.

"Procter, I give up. I don't want to die."

"Winner of the Eleventh Match, Deidara!" yelled Hayate. The two Genin walked up the stairs, talking about different pieces of art.

"Anko, the names please."

"Can I choose them?" she asked, jumping like a little kid up and down in the air.

"Go ahead I guess."

"YEAH! Twelfth Match: Haku Momochi VS Dosu Kinuta!"