Gaara disappeared in a swirl of sand. "Hey aniki, Sasuke trained with Kakashi right?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah why?" Maiku said.
Naruto pretended to look at a watch. "Well, guess we'll be waiting for three hours." Naruto sighed and Gaara came back into the booth.
"They are going to postpone the match." Gaara walked back to his previous spot and leaned against the wall.
"Well then, your up." Maiku gripped Shikamaru's shoulder.
"Its to troublesome. I should just forfeit." Shikamaru felt Maiku's grip tighten, Naruto grabbed his other arm and Ino got him by the legs.
"Not this time." Ino said as the three of them tossed Shikamaru over the railing. "Alright!" Ino and Naruto yelled and high fived.
"Did we really have to do that?" Maiku said as he watched Shikamaru. "He's not moving. Oh wait never mind there he goes." The lazy nin slowly got up.
"Troublesome friends." Shikamaru muttered as he faced the proctor.
"Ready? Begin!"
Ino let out an annoyed sigh. "I'm going to kill him." She said.
"He's lucky Anko isn't his sensei." Naruto said. "She would do worse than kill us if we were to quit."
"If we are still waiting for the Uchiha, guess that means it's my turn." Maiku vaulted over the railing and landed. The ground cracked a bit under his weight. Toru landed next to him. They made their way to the center of the field. "Well I can honestly say this will be entertaining." Maiku unsheathed his sword.
"I hope so." Toru pulled a war hammer off his belt. "Release: Megaton!" Toru launched himself at Maiku, raising his hammer.
Maiku rolled to his right to avoid a potential skull flattening. Maiku began his attacks, a series of slashes and stabs that were easily dodged. Toru brought his hammer down again and Maiku stepped to the right. He put his foot on the head, keeping Toru from dislodging it from the ground and caught Toru's right fist with his left hand. Maiku elbowed Toru in the face.
Toru took a few steps back. Maiku charged him, knowing better than to try and use Megaton against Toru. Toru grabbed Maiku's arm, trying to get him to loosen his grip on the katana. It finally flew from his hands. Maiku just removed a scroll and tossed it into the air. It unraveled and a smoke cloud revealed ten spears."Ten Yaiba: Ketamashii Joukai!" (Ten blades piercing heaven) The spears aimed themselves at Toru before launching themselves at him. A dome of earth covered Toru and Maiku cursed as the spears harmlessly bounced off. The dome broke into several pieces and shot toward Maiku.
A pair of arms grabbed Maiku's ankles and pulled him underground. "Shit." Toru cursed and went to pick up Megaton. Before he was able to grab it, a chain shot up from underground. Toru flipped backward, but as soon as he landed a hand grabbed him and held him still. Maiku emerged from the ground, lightning in his palm inches from Toru's chest.
"Winner Maikeru Yaiba." The proctor called. The lightning faded from Maiku's hand. Toru picked up Megaton and Maiku's katana.
"You dropped this." Toru tossed the katana to his cousin. Maiku grinned. "Not a bad match I'd say."
"I enjoyed it." Maiku said. He went back to the booth.
"Yo aniki good job." Naruto congratulated. Maiku nodded.
"Hey I forfeit." Naruto found the person who said that with no problem. It was the kid with face paint he met at the tower, Kankuro.
"That means I'm next." Ino said.
"Good luck." Naruto said and gave her a quick kiss. Ino walked down to the field rather than jumping. So it was no surprise she was the last one down.
Dregan just starred at her blonde opponent. Dregan stood about 5'6''. She had black hair that went to her shoulders and black eyes. She wore a blue tank top, a pair of black pants and traditional shinobi sandals. "Ready?" Te proctor received two nods. "Begin!" Ino first threw four kunai. Dregan easily dodged them. Ino then launched a barrage of shuriken. Dregan just unsealed a large shield.
The shield was on her left arm. It was a piece of black metal with gold edges. A blood red star filled its center. The shuriken bounced of the shield. Ino rushed towards Dregan hoping to land a punch. But Dregan just swung her arm and swatted Ino away with her shield. Dregan ran to Ino and put the edge of her shield against Ino's neck. "Winner, Dregan!"
"Aw man." Naruto said.
"I honestly knew this was going to happen." Maiku began. "Ino never really had any good offense or defense, so soon or later she would have lost. It just happened sooner."
Gaara went down to the field again. The crowd became silent as they were all waiting for Sasuke to show up. Finally after ten minutes the old man got fed up. "Tell Genma to disqualify Sasuke." The Hokage told a chunin.
"Hai Hokage-sama." The disappeared in the usual cloud of smoke and reappeared next to the proctor and told him of the Hokage's decision.
"Sasuke Uchiha will not be participating. Naruto Uzamaki, come down here." Naruto laughed to himself as the shouts of protest came at him. "Begin!"
"I will have your blood." Gaara said calmly.
"You want it?" Naruto cut his cheek with a kunai. "Come and get it!" Naruto threw the kunai. Sand immediately blocked it. "Fuuton: Kaze Enko!" (Wind Arc) The current breeze shifted direction toward Gaara, but a wall of sand stopped it from cutting him. "Fuuton: Teikiatsu!" (Cyclone) The cyclone impacted with the sand wall and punched a hole in it.
Gaara had moved to the left to avoid the wind. Naruto punched the wall of sand and it collapsed. Gaara then shot tendrils of sand at Naruto, who drew his sword and slashed at them. Naruto covered his blade with wind chakra and swung horizontally at Gaara. "Fuuton: Kaze Enko Shotto!" (Wind Arc Shot)
Gaara brought up sand to block, but it only slowed the attack down. The wind hit Gaara and cut his shoulder. "You only got his shoulder kit."
'I know!' Naruto shouted at Kyuubi. Annoyed that it would state the obvious. Gaara seemed to be having a panic attack at the sight of his blood and covered himself in a dome. 'Oh great, he's going crazy.'
"We're not going to like whats gonna come out of that dome." said Kyuubi.
'Probably.' Then an strange deformed arm of sand shot out of the dome. Naruto jumped back and avoided it. 'What the hell?'
The dome then collapsed and revealed that half of Gaara was covered with sand. "Kit, you'll need my chakra." Kyuubi flooded Naruto's body with his chakra. His fingers took on the appearance of claws and his eyes became red an slitted. A red aura surrounded Naruto. It looked like a pair of fox ears and two tails.
'Bogu, you ready? Shit might go down.' Maiku asked his demon.
"Always ready."Bogu responded.
"I want your blood!" Shouted a insane Gaara.
"Like I said, try and take it." Spoke the Kyuubi influenced Naruto. The sand arm again shot towards Naruto, though this time he just raised a hand and pushed chakra out of it. The arm seemed to split down the middle creating an opening for Naruto. He charged Gaara while the sand tendrils hit him, though they healed in a matter of seconds thanks to the two tails he had activated. Naruto raised his right hand and formed wind around it. He ducked under Gaara's arm, which had reformed, and landed a punch in his gut and in his left he held a kunai to Gaara's throat.
Nobody heard the proctor call the match that claimed Naruto the winner. Nobody but Maiku. 'Bogu get down there.' A cloud of black smoke interrupted the already called match. Though Maiku couldn't blame the proctor for not stopping. The sand tendrils had pushed away the knife and were starting to cover the other half of Gaara. Bogu was about to punch Gaara when people around the arena started to sleep.
Sasuke then appeared in a swirl of leaves next to Maiku. "I'm here, where's my opponent?"
"You asshole, you were disqualified for being late!" Maiku shouted and inwardly laughed at the look of surprise on Sasuke's face. Maiku then pointed to Kakashi. "This is all your fault."
"Probably." Was all Kakashi said.
"Anyway we got bigger problems." Just then an explosion was heard and Suna and Oto shinobi filled the stadium. Just then Gaara cried out in pain. Bogu had stopped the sand form forming on Gaara's arm and tore a deep gash. Blood poured from his wound. "Bogu, get back up here." As Bogu disappeared Temari and Kankuro had grabbed Gaara and fled the stadium.
"Aniki!" Naruto pointed to the fleeing Gaara and his siblings.
"You go after them, I'll stay here and fight!" Naruto nodded and ran off. "Where the fuck is that useless Uchiha?" Sasuke had already ran off when he noticed Gaara was grabbed by his siblings. "Oh well, he wouldn't have been much help." Out of the corner of his eye Maiku noticed an advancing Oto nin. He drew his sword and blocked a kunai aimed for his neck. "I love this part of the job." Maiku let out a yell and charged.
"Sakura, wake Shikamaru and Sai and go after Sasuke." Kakashi had left Maiku to go find his other students. Kakashi then performed the summoning jutsu. "Pakun here will help you." Now they were jumping through the trees, just then they came upon scattered Oto bodies.
"These trees were burned from chakra. Naruto was here." Shikamaru said.
"Naruto did this?" Asked Sakura.
"And this surprises you?" Shikamaru could only imagine what Sai must have went through being a part of her team. "You guys go on ahead, I'll catch up." While he was saying this he was giving hand signs that meant something else. Sakura had caught on.
"Got it." Sakura, Sai and Pakun took off.
"What did those signs mean Sakura?" Asked the pale boy.
"We were being followed by more shinobi." Sai nodded at her statement. "I hope he'll be ok."
"No time to worry about that now." Pakun said. The others just nodded and followed silently.
Maiku was now running through the streets of Konoha, fighting any group of enemies he came across. He had taken a katana off someone he killed so he was currently fighting two jounin no problem. He ducked under a kick and stuck his left blade in the jounin's leg and slashed across his chest. He pulled out his other blade and held it in a reverse grip and blocked a kunai. Using his right blade he cut the jounin's arm off.
"Can I offer some assistance Maikeru-sama?" Came a voice behind Maiku.
"Cut the sama stuff. It annoys the shit out of me." Toru and Maiku now stood back to back as more enemies surrounded them.
"It's the hammer of Kiri." One of them muttered in fear.
"You really need to come up with a good name for yourself cousin." Toru drew his hammer.
"Got any ideas?" Maiku went into an offensive stance.
"What about the Da Vinci of the Blade?" Toru said.
"Absolutely ridiculous I don't paint." The two laughed. In a matter of seconds Maiku had killed nine opponents with his weapons, this went noticed by Toru.
"What about Konoha's Sword King?" Toru noticed the grin on Maiku's face.
"Now that one I like." The two laughed again and went to find more enemy shinobi, and to convince anyone they spare to spread the word of the 'Sword King.'
After running into Kankuro and the arrival of Shino, Sakura and Sai finally caught up to Sasuke. To their surprise they found him unable to move. "Sasuke!" Sakura screamed.
'Great, the banshee is here.' Gaara had thought the same thing and decided to silence the annoying pinkette. He shot a large amount of sand that pinned her to the wall.
"What is that?" Asked a nervous Sai.
"That sand will slowly crush her. You'll have to beat me to save her. Better hurry." Gaara began to laugh.
"I think I'll take my time." Naruto said as another tail emerged. Naruto vanished with blinding speed, the only thing the others noticed was that Gaara would, at random times, take steps backwards. Naruto then appeared infront of Gaara and punched him in the face. Once Gaara realized what happened he let out a yell.'How much does this guy yell?' Naruto thought. Gaara was then swarmed by sand. When it finally settled it took the form of a large racoon. "Fuck this, I quit." Naruto cursed.
"Naruto, you get over there and fight!" Came a girl's voice.
"Ino? When did you get here?" Naruto asked.
"I had left the hospital and saw you leave so I followed you. But I kinda got lost so here I am. Now get over there and kick that thing's ass!" Ino commanded.
"Yes ma'am." Naruto turned and faced the towering form. "Trouble some." He bit his thumb and did the required handsigns followed by a large cloud of smoke.
w00t! finally its the weekend. Damn school taking up more time because of upcoming exams at the end of january. though i only got one. i'll need atleast a 65 so i can audit the course. and that means no more math 402 and i graduate at the end of the year with a high school degree with advanced designations.
read and review please