Yui: So... you're feeling better now?
Steve: (No longer with bandages) Yup! As good as new!
Pen-pen: War ark waark wark waar war? (And the drugs have worn off?)
Steve: For the last time, yes! The Painkillers have worn off, ok!
Everyone: (Breathes a sigh of relief)
Steve: Oh come on! It couldn't have been THAT bad.
Everyone: You have no idea...
Steve: Whatever. Hinata? Pen-pen? Please do the disclaimer.
Pen-Pen: (Wark Wa WAAK arrk waark)
Hinata: Translation is "The author doesn't own Harry Potter or Naruto". He just owns this story, the plot and his insane plot-bunnies.
Why me?Shinigami/Demon/Inner-Sakura
'Who?' Thoughts
-YO!- Animal speech
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Having gotten breakfast, Harry and Sal join the others as the Sandaime makes his announcement. "Welcome to all those who have managed to make it to this part of the Chunin Exam. Now, please allow this old man to explain about this exam. Before I can go any farther, I wish to tell you one thing: These exams are a sign of friendship between the various villages…" As he continues farther, Harry nods his head.
'What he's saying is right, and it makes sense too.' Kuro nods in agreement.
'It does at that. I had enough war in my original lifetime to last me… well, a lifetime.' He shakes his head while chuckling. 'I only wish that someone had come up with this when I was alive. It would have made life so much easier.' Harry just shrugs.
'True… Hey! There's Hayate!' Harry waves to him and he waves back. Finally they start to walk up to the balcony where they will be awaiting their matches. As the screen lands on Sasuke's name as well as someone from Kabuto's team, Harry watches the match. Feeling a presence behind him, he smiles. "Hey Neko-chan. What's up?" She giggles a bit before pointing at Hayate.
"I decided to watch as Hayate-kun proctors this part of the exam." She glares as Sasuke uses a move he copied from Lee to lunch his opponent into the air before she tenses as for a moment the cursed seal partially actives before retreating as he finishes his attack and wins the match. She raises an eyebrow as the next match is between Haku and a member of another Grass team that had made it. She snickers as Haku comes over with a smile.
"Hello Harry-kun, want to wish me luck?" Harry looks at her with a grin before he plants one on her making her eyes widen before she leans into it. Still waiting, Hayate sighs.
"WILL MOMOCHI HAKU PLEASE STOP KISSING HER BOYFRIEND AND COME DOWN FOR HER MATCH? TODAY IF POSSIBLE?" Jerking away, Haku blushes as Harry grins and tells her good luck. Behind them, Zabuza holds his face in his hands. Walking down, Haku looks towards her opponent who's name is Kenashi (six foot tall, brown haired with blue eyes) as he sneers at her. Haku just raises an eyebrow at him. "Yes? You got a problem?" Kenashi snorts at her with his sneer becoming more pronounced.
"Yeah… why do I haveto fight a weak woman. I deserve a strong opponent." Ignoring the KI coming from various Kunoichi, he looks her up and down before his sneer transforms into a leer. "Oh well, at least the eye candy looks good." His eyes widen as the temperature drops and his breath starts misting. Haku just looks at Hayate, who shivers at the look in her eyes.
"I believe that we have a match to start?" Nodding, he starts the match and takes off. Haku turns back at the shinobi she gets even more pissed at how he's still leering at her.
"It's a real shame that you have a boyfriend… Then again, maybe your just not worth it if he's not defending you." His attention is drawn as Harry snorts at him.
"I'm not defending her because there's no need to. All your doing is digging yourself a deeper grave baka. Haku-chan is one of the strongest Kunoichi I know. Kick his ass for me Haku-chan!" Haku nods at him before turning back to her opponent.
"Now, I believe I need to beat some sense into you." He simply smiles before charging in with a punch… which Haku grabs before using his momentum to flip him. "And am I still weak?" The boy under grunts for a bit before smirking.
"In a word, yes." Haku just raises an eyebrow before he uses a Kawarimi to switch himself with a tile. "As I said, weak." Haku just turns around in time to see him pull out a ninjato. "It's a shame that I have to cut that skin of yours, but you kunoichi shouldn't be doing man's work." Haku glares before pulling out her own blade. "Oooo! Pretty blade you got there… too bad it won't last!" Haku just snorts.
"You right, it is pretty. But like us Kunoichi, it's beauty hides it's deadliness." And without farther ado, she vanishes and reappears above him. Still smirking, he brings up his blade only to go into shock as Haku's sword not only doesn't break, but also cuts into his slightly. Jumping away, she grins as she pumps in some of her chakra making the blade glow slightly. She then charges him as she uses her speed and agility to her advantage. A few minutes later finds him slouched and covered in various cuts and gasping while Haku isn't even breathing hard making her smile. 'Heh, guess all that training with Harry-kun really did pay off after all.' Her opponent, however, isn't as happy.
'What the hell is going on here?! I should be beating her…' Snarling, he throws several kunai at her as he charges in before he swings his sword at her. Haku of course narrows her eyes as she swings… and shatters his blade causing several shards to dig into his arm making him scream right before she sucker punches him. Getting up, he starts laughing making Haku raise an eyebrow and ask what's so funny. "You! Now it's time to put you into your place! Kuchiyose no jutsu!" He then slams his hand down into the arena floor creating a explosion of smoke from which a large lizard emerges. "Heh… Get her!" Nodding, it charges Haku who dodges.
'Hmm… interesting, very interesting." Striking with her sword, her eyes widen as it bounces off it's scaly hide. Kenashi just smirks at her as he holds his injured arm.
"Your done for now girly. My lizard summons are immune to fire and physical damage… you just don't have any chance!" Haku snarls as she dodges strike after strike. Finally putting some distance between them, she pulls back her sword.
"Time to show why I named my blade Kurisutaru Arashi (crystal storm)…" As she she's speaking particles of ice begin flying around the blade before sharp ice crystals form all the way along it. "Buriza-do rendan (Blizzard barrage)!" Swinging it forwards, everyone watches in amazement as the crystals fly off the blade as sharp shards of ice before they imbed themselves into the lizard, killing it before it dispels. He's so shocked he doesn't notice Haku pulling a bottle out of her Kimono and releasing the large amount of water within (Harry had enchanted it for her to be larger inside in order for it to hold more water). Nor does he notice her making handsigns until mirrors of ice rise around him, entrapping him. Looking around, he gulps.
"Wha… what is this!?" At that point Haku walks into a mirror and all of the mirrors gain her reflection.
"What is this? It's your end…" A few moments later screams echo from within the dome making several people (except for most of the Kunoichi, Harry and Naruto) wince. Finally, Haku walks out of a mirror as the dome collapses behind her revealing the broken, battered, and lacerated body of her opponent. She doesn't even bother to stop as Hayate calls the match in her favour as she walks up the stairs while behind her, medic-nin gather him up and rush him out of there. Reaching Harry, she grins as he conjures a plush chair for her to sit in raising several eyebrows. She chuckles before pushing Harry into it and sitting on his lap. "There. Much better." Harry just rolls his eyes at her.
"Comfy?" She grins as she wiggles making him groan before he wraps his arms around her petite waist. "Well, that answers that question I guess." He then kisses the back of her neck as he squeezes her waist making her shudder. "Good job out there Haku-chan." She twists her head and smiles at him.
"It was barely even worth it." She turns her head as she watches Kankuro and the other team mate of Kabuto's face off. At it's end as Kankuro's walking away from opponent, she nods. "So he does use puppetry like you said. It's so rare now a days that almost no one outside of Suna knows anything about it." Harry just nods before pointing at the puppet.
"True, but all you have to do is aim at joints and you'd gum them up and make it less effective. Also, I'd probably attack the bundle on his back." Beside him, Naruto nods in his own chair with Hinata on his lap.
"Right. But then again we have an advantage against him since most puppetry users avoid close combat." Hinata nods before adding her own two cents worth.
"Also, since they use chakra strings, if you can attack them you could disable a puppet." Hearing this, Kankuro scowls as he walks by. The next match makes them all sweatdrop as it pit's the Demon Brothers against each other. Watching them, Harry sighs as he watches them attack and counter each other.
'This could take all day…' Suddenly a grin lights his face up. Still grinning, he turns to Haku. "Hey Haku-chan… want to make this more interesting?" Blinking, she leans down as Harry whispers into her ear. "Ok, here's what we're going to do Haku-chan…" Soon after a identical mischievous grin appears on her face before she starts nodding and snickering. "Got it?" She nods. Meanwhile, Gouzu and Meizu are fighting and neither can land a hit.
'I must win this fight… how else will I… wait what was that Haku just said?' Up above, Haku continues talking about how Meizu said that he was their mother's favourite making Gouzu glare at his twin. "That is a lie and you know it! I was her favourite!" Before Meizu can say anything, he hears Harry telling Haku how Gouzu had told him that he's the ladies man of the two and that he only gives his twin the leftovers.
"WHAT! GOUZU BEING A LADIES MAN! DON"T MAKE ME PUKE!" Growling, the two lunch themselves at each other and start beating the crap out of each other complete with pulling hair, groin shots, and punches to each other's face all the while cussing each other out. Up in the stands Zabuza sighs before glaring at a pop corn eating Haku and Harry, both of whom are laughing their heads off.
"I bet you two think that this is REAL funny, huh?" They look at each other before nodding. "I hate you two so much." Haku just smiles at him.
"And I love you too Zabuza-sama." She winces however as the two brothers knock each other out with a single punch leading to a tie. Shrugging, she looks at Harry before swiping another hand full of pop corn. "At least it was somewhat interesting I guess." Harry just shrugs before stealing a kernel that she had thrown up in the air and eating it.
"I suppose… Still could have been better… Oh, shit…" His grin widens as Sakura's and Ino's names come up on the board. "Oh, this'll be good. I can guarantee it." Sakura just ignores him as she walks down before facing Ino.
'This is it. I finally get to prove that I'm no longer a burden to my team… as well as leaving my past behind.' Seeing Ino get into a ready stance, Sakura reaches up and unties her Hitai-ate before retying it on her forehead. Ino just blinks at her.
"What are you doing forehead-girl?" Sakura just continues to look at her making her shiver.
"I'm going to face you Ino as a proud Kunoichi of Konoha… are you going to give me the same respect?" Ino Stares at her before remembering what happened in the forest and nods before doing the same thing her rival did. Hayate just looks at one and then the other before starting the match. Up in the stands, Kurenai nods at what the two young girls are doing before turning to Kakashi and Asuma.
"So any idea what's going to happen? Like who's going to win?" Kakashi looks at her before pulling out a Icha Icha Paradise book making her eyebrow twitch.
"I thought that who's going to win would be obvious? It's going to be my student after all." Asuma just snorts.
"Unlikely. I saw her file from the Academy and despite being the top Kunoichi, she's only really good in book work. Ino, however, has her family jutsu to fall back on. Sakura doesn't." Kakashi just snorts at this before chuckling.
"That might have been, but no longer. Not after Harry and Naruto started training her… reminded me of basic ANBU training actually. And ever since Wave she's been growing by leaps and bounds." Seeing the icluderous stares, he sighs and closes the book. "How about we make a bet on how many of our students will make it through." At that moment Gai butts in.
"What a youthful idea my eternal rival! I am in!" Kakashi just looks at him with a bored look.
"I'm sorry Gai… did you say something?" Now crying, Gai falls to his knees.
"Curse you and you so very cool and hip attitude Kakashi!" Beside him, Kurenai nods.
"Sure, I'm in." Asuma nods as well as Kakashi starts rubbing his hands in enjoyment. Meanwhile down in the arena, Sakura's listening to the Jounin and sweatdropping.
'They're actually betting on us… temes…' Shaking her head, she dodges a punch from Ino and taps her on the forehead making her entire head snap back. "Sorry piggy, too slow." Enraged, Ino throws another punch only for Sakura to grab her fist and shake a finger before she twists and uses the momentum to flip Ino. Backing away from her opponent, Sakura shakes her head while tutting. "You should be more careful with where you punch Ino-pig… That might have actually hurt me... if I was asleep that is." Sakura blinks as an enraged Ino reaches up and cuts off a good portion of her ponytail before throwing it at her.
"You bitch! Now look at what you've done!" Sakura just sweatdrops at this proclamation as does most of the audience.
'What's she talking about? She did it to herself. Shit, she's about to do the Shintenshin no jutsu!' Preparing for the coming attack, she watches as Ino's body crumples to the floor after a few seconds of nothing happening, she relaxes some only to be surprised as Ino's hair wraps around her, binding her in place. "SHIT!" Ino then gets up laughing.
"You actually fell for it… Just as I knew you would… Oh, and here!" She throws a kunai with a strange tag on it which explodes with a bang into a massive flash of light making Sakura screech as she's blinded and deafened. Ino just smirks. "I found out through the grape vine that you had enhanced senses. Now, Shintenshin no jutsu!" And with those words she enters Sakura's mind, passing though the various protections now that Sakura's distracted before she opens Sakura's eyes. And starts speaking through her mouth. "Proctor? I wish to give up." The proctor just looks at her before coughing a little bit.
"Are you sure about that?" Ino/Sakura starts to nod and is about to say something when it all goes black for Ino. Opening her eyes, she notices that she's back inside Sakura's mindscape. When a voice speaks up behind her.
"Did you really think that I would make it so easy for you Ino-pig? 'Cause if you did then I'm sorry to disappoint." Gulping, Ino turns to see a surprise: Two amethyst eyed Sakuras. Blinking, she rubs her eyes and is about to say something when one Sakura continues. "That was a dirty trick Ino-pig… Time for a little payback." And before she can react, Sakura has her fist buried in Ino's stomach making her gasp in pain. Dodging the hit from the other Sakura, Ino starts running before she opens a door and jumps in. Hearing something, she turns and her jaw drops as she watches Sakura make out with Naruto.
"Wha… Forehead and Naruto…" Hearing the door behind her open she ducks as a snarling Sakura nearly grabs her.
"Ino-pig you bitch! How dare you go through my personal memories!" Ino just gulps as she runs down the hallway opening the various doors on the way and experiencing each memory. She sees how Sasuke dismissed her… how derisive of her he was as well as when Sakura got bit in Wave… Finally she escapes. Groaning, she gets up only to be faced with an enraged Sakura who kicks her in the chest and sends her flying. Grabbing some shuriken, she throws them at her, only for her to ignore them as they hit her. Gulping, she realizes that maybe it might not have been such a good idea to do what she did as she sees Sakura going through hand seals.
"Kawara (Tile) Shuriken no jutsu!" Dodging the tiles flung at her, Ino nonetheless gets several cuts from near misses. Unfortunately, Sakura whips out her sword and swings down at the ground in her direction. "Chakra Nami!" A bright white light bursts from her sword and rushes along the ground tearing it up as it heads towards Ino. Luckily, she manages to get out of the way in time. As she's staring in shock at the destruction caused, Sakura appears and upper cuts her into the air before following. "Ya know… Sasuke has his own version and so do I… Haruno Ame Renge(Spring Rain Combo)!" She starts striking out with her fingers, hitting various pressure points before twisting in mid-air and landing a punishing kick to Ino's stomach, sending her into the ground. Landing, Sakura looks at Ino in shock as Hayate calls it. It nonetheless takes a few seconds to make the connection and once she does, she's leaping all around the place in joy. "WHOOHOO! I DID IT! I DID IT! WHOOOOHOOOOO!" Kakashi just watches her before turning to Asuma with a eye smile.
"You were saying?" Asuma's only reply is for the cigarette in his mouth to drop out of it making Kurenai to burst out laughing. Trudging up the stairs, Sakura smiles at the proud look given to her by Naruto and Harry. Naruto nods at her with a soft smile.
"Good job Sakura-chan. Very good job." She blushes a little as they watch Tenten and Temari walk down. "For a second there I actually thought that you had lost control of yourself." Sakura just sheepishly shrugs.
"So did I." She looks down at the battle taking place below (AN: Same as canon) as a far off look enters her eyes as she thinks over her battle. "I have to train even more so that doesn't happen again." Naruto just nod and are about to say something when he notices Tenten about to land on the fan.
"Hold that thought… Wingardium Leviosa!" Tenten stops falling before Naruto waves his hand in the direction of the medics with Tenten's body following before it drifts safely down. Shrugging, he looks at Sakura who's staring at him with a shocked look as are others. "What?" Baki opens his mouth a few times before just looking away towards the stunned Temari.
'How can he not know how incredible that was. He just prevented a body from falling… only master Fuuton users can do that, yet he did it without any chakra, just by waving his hand! What the hell kind of ability do they have!?" Temari on the other hand is looking at Naruto in a considering fashion.
'Interesting… that feat would take a lot out of me yet it looked like he wasn't even affected by it. More then that, he was able to control where she descended. Uzumaki-Potter Naruto… you just caught my eye…' Naruto suddenly shivers as a feeling of doom comes over him making him look around as he gulps making Sakura raise an eyebrow.
"Problem Naruto?" He just continues to look around while shaking his head as they almost finish cleaning up the floor just in time for Kin to have her match with Shikamaru followed by his match with Kiba. Looking at the board, he shrugs as he leaps over the railing and softly drifts down making Kiba snort.
"Show off." Naruto just shrugs before he chuckles.
"And your point is what exactly?" Kiba just shrugs before grinning and shaking his hand.
"Let the best nin win… which will be me of course dobe." Naruto just shakes his head and tells Kiba to keep dreaming as he gets into his ready stance as does Kiba. As the Proctors hand comes down, Kiba shouts out his attack before launching forwards. "Shikyaku no jutsu!" Smashing Naruto into the wall, he looks at him before chuckling. "Come on Naruto… who do you think you're fooling? Sasuke? I know for a fact that you can take a better pounding then that." Chuckling, Naruto climbs from the hole as he shakes his head.
"No fooling you, eh Kiba? Oh well, my turn! Kage Bushin no jutsu!" As ten bushin come into existence, more then a few people are impressed. Naruto then gets into a stance that most of the people don't recognize though Kiba gulps seeing it. Confused, Lee turns to Gai as Naruto charges Kiba and starts attacking him.
"Gai-sensei, what is that style? I've never seen it before." Gai just rubs his chin and is about to answer when Neji does.
"It's the style they created for their family." Seeing the looks, he shrugs. "It's called the 'Yami Ryuu no Ten' and despite not being as great as Jyuuken (insert various people eye rolling here), it's nonetheless a deadly style." Lee looks on as Naruto lands a punishing blow to Kiba's side knocking him away before dodging the now transformed Akamaru.
"How is it deadly? I know that Gouken breaks bones and that Jyuuken attacks the interior organs, but what does this style do?" This time Sakura answers.
"This style is odd in that it can cause both." Noticing the attention on her, she shrugs. "A good part of it is focusing on certain 'Sure Kill' places. Like the ribs, spine, throat, and skull. By hitting certain spots there you could break a rib I such a way that it plunges inwards and punctures a vital organ. Or break the nose in such way that it juts up into the brain. Hell, one of the strikes they use can cut off blood circulation to the brain, killing the person in a matter of minutes… Of course a strike in the same spot within that time period would restore circulation, hence why it can be used in interrogation." They continue to nod as down below, Naruto and Kiba keep at it. Shaking his head, Naruto considers his next move.
'Ok… the major problem I have is that it's two on one and I can't use my full power here since that could badly injure Kiba or Akamaru and Tsume-chan would kill me if I did… Wait a second… that just might work!' Grinning, Naruto disappears with a pop. Looking around, Kiba starts scowling.
'Where the hell are you? I mean, why would Kaa-san be interested in you if your just going to run away?' Hearing Akamaru whine and following his sight, his jaw drops as he sees Naruto hanging down from the ceiling. "What the hell are… you…" Too late, he notices the small object held in Naruto's hand. "Shit! Dung bomb!" At that, various people pale as they realize exactly what Naruto's about to do. Harry looks at Sakura with a pale face.
"He wouldn't…" Sakura gulps as she looks at a stony faced Iruka.
"He couldn't…" Iruka sighs with a disgusted look on his face as he looks at the Hokage.
"He would…" The Hokage just pulls his hat down over his eyes as Naruto chuckles a little.
"He is…" Naruto just grins before pulling a pin and letting it drop to where Kiba is down below.
"BOMBS AWAY! LOOK OUT BELOW!" It hit's the ground not even five feet from where Kiba is while Hayate ducks behind the statue in a futile attempt to get away from what's going to happen as shown a few seconds later when it detonates and spreads it's contents all over the place. Another few seconds pass before…
"OH KAMI! GAH!"
"IT BURNS! IT BURNS!"
"MY EYES! MY EYES!" Throughout this chaos, Harry just sits as various people (Harry, Haku, Hinata, Sakura, Sarutobi, Iruka, Yugao, and the familiars) have the bubble headed charm on them. Harry just looks up at his brother while shaking his head before looking down at Kiba and Akamaru who are convulsing on the ground below. He looks over all the people who are just trying to get away from the smell only to do a double take at Gaara who's got a orb made of sand covering his whole head while an eye made of the same stuff floats around. Naruto just laughs as he's above the smell before he drops a smoke bomb on top of Kiba enveloping the area in smoke as he drops down. Once the smoke clears (as well as the smell) everyone looks to see staggering Kiba looking at a downed Akamaru right before a bushin knocks him into the air as they call out their attack.
"U! ZU! MA! KI! POT! TER! NARUTO RENDAN!" Once Kiba hit's the floor, he just lies there half conscious before he starts reaching up to grab Naruto… Only for Naruto to fart which finishes him. Blinking down at the swirly eyed Kiba, Naruto grins before leaping up and down. "YES! I WO-ITAI!" Unfortunately for the fox boy, people start chucking various objects at him… With Kankuro's body (having been thrown by Temari) hitting him in the head. Hayate looks at him with a glare.
"I have (Cough!) half a mind (Hack!) to just gi(Cough! Cough!)ve Kiba the match(Wheeze)… but rules are rules(Cough!) so you won… (Cough! Cough! Cough!)but try that again and I swear (Cough! Hack! Wheeze!)that I'll kill you slowly." Naruto gulps before nodding. "Good! Now (Cough!) get out of here!(Hack!)" Like a flash, Naruto vanishes and reappears on the balcony and hides behind Hinata. Shaking her head, she looks at the board and pales at the names on it: Hyuuga Hinata vs. Hyuuga Neji. Glancing at her cousin, she gulps at the look of utter loathing on his face. Seeing this, Naruto looks at Hinata.
"You can do it Hinata… I know that you can." She looks at him and nods before she makes her way down (Most of the fight goes the way it does in canon except with Hinata doing more damage and Harry cheering for her.). Watching as he charges her because she had said that he was hurting too, Hinata just stands there.
'I guess this is as far as I can go… there's nothing left I can… Actually…' Waiting until he's close, she kicks out her feet as he strikes at her chest. Releasing the chakra in her foot just as it hits his stomach, he flies off from the first ever Jyuuken kick. Hinata didn't get out of it scott free though as he had connected with her shoulder instead of her chest, but that hit was enough to knock her down. Laying on the ground groaning, she smiles as Naruto appears in her line of vision she smiles at him before she exhaustively closes her eyes. Seeing this, Hayete looks at Neji who's gasping and coughing up some blood and nods.
"As much as it pains me, I hereby declare Hyuuga Neji the winner." Neji glares at the proctor before getting to his feet shakily. Walking away, he looks back as his name is called.
"Hey asshole!" Seeing Naruto there, he sneers and asks him what he wants. Naruto just snorts. "You just tried to kill one of my precious people… So I'm just giving you a warning that you better not meet me in the finals… or else I'll give you a beat down you won't ever forget." Neji just sneers at him before coughing up a little more blood.
"Like a dobe like you has any ability to do so…" Naruto doesn't even glare at him… because a glacier doesn't glare. When Naruto speaks, his words just echo as he reaches down and dips his hands in Hinata's blood.
"I swear that I'll kick your ass if we meet, so mote it be." A glow surrounds him before a cracking sound is heard. Nodding, Naruto picks Hinata up. Seeing this, Kakashi walks over.
"Give her to the medics Naruto, they'll take care of her." Naruto looks at him before shaking his head.
"Sorry Kakashi-sensei, but I got to get Hinata-chan to the hospital as soon as possible. The longer that Jyuuken strikes go untreated properly, the longer it takes to heal. I'll leave a Kage Bushin here just in case though." Shaking his head, Kakashi sighs.
"Very well Naruto. But will she be able to last the trip?" Smirking, Naruto pulls out a vial of a oily liquid before he pops the cap and pours it down Hinata's throat. Almost immediately she starts breathing better.
"She will now. I just poured several phoenix tears down her throat. So she should be ok for the trip." Making the Kage Bushin, he disappears with a crack. Sighing to himself, Kakashi walks back up the staircase and finds a worried Kurenai looking him in the face.
"Is… Is she going to be okay Kakashi? It's still a good five minutes by Shunshin." Kakashi just gives her an eye smile.
"She's going to be just fine Kurenai. And that wasn't the Shunshin. It was a magical technique called Apparition…" And then he explains it and once he finishes, he's met by various wide-eyed stares. Gai for once is completely serious as he watches Kakashi.
"Are you sure about all that? It still seems a bit fantastical." The Sandaime starts chuckling from where he is behind him.
"Actually, he's correct in what it does… but not in the limit of the distance it can cover." He raises a hand as Kakashi's about to say something. "Let me finish. The three hundred mile radius is what's available to the average wizard/witch. The more powerful you are the farther you can go. I wouldn't be too surprised if Harry or Naruto could reach Suna in a matter of seconds with it." The most of the gathered Suna-nin gulp at that. Just at that point the panel falls on the next one. ( the fights go on the way they did in canon except for when Gai's explaining the Eight Hachimon, but I'll do that in a flashback). Gaara's about to crush Lee when Gai rescues him. Undeterred, Gaara's about to continue his attack when Harry gets between them. As the sand reaches for him, he points his finger at it.
"FiendFyre!" As the flames shoot out, they devour the sand but stop short of attacking Gaara who stares at the flames that take the shape of various mythical creatures in front of him before he glares at Harry and walks away. Sighing in relief, Harry watches as his name appears on the board: Uzumaki-Potter Harry Vs. Haruka no Kusa. Harry cancels the flames as a fifteen year old Kunoichi with what appears to be a growth of flowered vines growing out of her back walks into the arena (She has the basic body type of Rei, except with white hair and lavender eyes). "Hello." She gives him a nod with an intrigued look on her face.
"It shall be an… honour to fight you." Harry nods at her.
"As it will be with you." Once the fight begins, the two watch the other to see any form of weakness. 'Hmm. With that plant on her back, I got assume that she might deal in plant jutsu. So I shou- What the!' Harry goes wide-eyed as she sinks into the ground. "Shit! Where the hell is she!?" Feeling a sting in his ankle, he looks down in time to see his opponents hand pull away from his ankle before a vine-like growth spouts and grows over and around his body. Blinking, he watches as she reappears by walking from a wall. "Well, that's interesting. What does it do? And why is it glowing?" And sure enough the vine IS glowing. She nods before smiling.
"It's a very interesting plant. Like your villages Aburame clan, my clan implants an organism into a new born child. In my case it's a special type of Chakra eating vine. It feeds off my own normally, but I can implant a seed from it into anyone. Once implanted, it then grows and devours their chakra as well as preventing them from using it before consuming the body. I would advise you to give up as it's almost done with your chakra and will soon start on your body and I do not wish to see anyone die in such a manner." Harry just starts to chuckle causing her to cock her head to the side. "What is so funny? I would assume that you wouldn't want that?" Still chuckling, Harry looks at her with his head shaking from side to side.
"Even if it does drain my chakra, that won't effect me much. You see, as you no doubt know, I'm a wizard." She nods and Harry raises a finger. "So you know that I have magic. Well here's the kicker. As long as I have some magic in my system, I can't die of Chakra exhaustion. As to it eating my body… Let's just say that I have something that'll help with that." Various people look on in shock as Harry let's that cat out of the bag. "So therefore I can still fight you." She looks at him before she grins.
"Good. I haven't had a good match for a while." Making several hand seals, she slams her hands down. "Tsuchi Bushin no jutsu!" As fifteen of them come up, she looks at Harry with a raised eyebrow. "I hope that you have a way around this?" Harry shakes his head from side to side as he pulls three scrolls from his vest.
"Oh… I have my ways." Throwing them down, they open to reveal that they contain summoning arrays before they disappear in puffs of smoke. From within Harry's voice comes along with a reddish glow. "I really hope you don't mind, but I decided to test my latest golems here." When the smoke blows away, they reveal three things that looks like they've been dragged up from a person's nightmares. The first (and most normal) is what looks like a animated cast iron statue of a western dragon, except molten metal is dribbling from it's mouth which is lit up with a hellish glow. Pointing at it, Harry introduces it. "Meet Ignatus. And over there is Hades." He points to the next one which makes more then just the Genin nervous as it looks like a humanoid covered in bone armour with a tail (Imagine Monster X from Godzilla: Final Wars) with green flames in the various eye sockets and a massive serrated sword (think a great sword). The various runes marking it's body glow a almost purplish black. "And last, but not least, meet Lovecraft." The final one looks like the G-tyrant's second stage from the RE: Degenesis but with a spiked, armoured back and tentacles coming from it's ribs. It also appears to be made from some shiny black material. Looking at the three golems, Kakashi looks at Harry with a deadpan look.
"Are you sure that you aren't in need of therapy?" Harry just looks at him with a grin.
"Aren't we all though?" His sensei just shrugs. Turning to his creations, he points at the suddenly nervous Bushin army. "Attack." And with that the three rush in and engage their opponents, some being torn apart, others cut in half and some just get melted as their sprayed with molten metal. Finally their all gone with the three barely even damaged. Looking around for his opponent, he looks up and finds her hanging from the ceiling. Grinning, he looks at the vines which have started to turn brown making her eyebrow rise. "As I said, I got something to prevent myself from being attacked. You see when I was a baby a spell was cast on me. Now before this the spell was considered to be a hundred percent fatal." Several eye brows raise at this. "However, just before it was cast on me, my Okaa-san sacrificed herself to activate a spell of her own which protected me from it." Haruka cocks her head to the side as the vines are now totally brown and have started falling off.
"If you would excuse me, how does this add into what's happening to the vines?" Harry starts chuckling at her.
"I was getting to that. You see, rements of the spell remained in my system. Eventually they became a type of a super immune system that kills whatever enters my body. So as long as those vines stayed on the outside of my skin, they were alright. But once they entered my body the rements attacked them and killed them." Haruka nods at this. "Unfortunately, I got to finish this fight." Harry runs to the wall and runs up it a distance while his golems do the same. Half way up he looks at Hayate. "Oy! Hayate! Move out of the way would you?" Nodding, Hayate jumps up onto the railing above him. Grinning, Harry points his finger at the mostly ruined floor and chants something before a orange beam shoots at his hand and hit's the floor. Almost immediately, everyone starts sweating as the temperature rises. Looking around, they try to find the source only for Haku to draw their attention to the floor.
"Kami! Look at that!" They all look and their jaws drop as lava starts leaking through the cracks in the floor before the various tiles crack as and sink into the newly formed lava pool. Looking down, Kakashi sweatdrops before looking at a grinning Harry.
"Overkill much?" Harry just shrugs at him.
"A shinobi must use his environment to his advantage… A wizard will change his environment to his advantage." Watching the nervous Haruka, his grin widens. "That's right. You can only use the walls and ceiling now and with the fact that each time you do that you use chakra… eventually you'll run out and fall into the magma below." And with that he rushes in and engages her in Taijutsu. Eventually having enough, she throws a kunai with a exploding note at where Harry, Ignatus and Lovecraft are. It then detonates sending the three into the lava. Wincing at what he believes to be Harry's death, Hayate is about to call it when the lava starts bubbling where he fell in. And then before everyone's stunned eyes, Harry slowly rises from the molten rock with a grin until he's standing on it. "Well then… thank Merlin for Flame Freezing charms eh? Combined with the fire resistance from Row, It allows me if I want to actually SWIM in lava." Behind him, the two golems start climbing out of the lava as well and start making their way up the wall. Seeing this, Haruka gulps.
'This… this is insane! It's not a genjutsu since I've already tried to dispel it and my vines can't feel any foreign chakra in my system… Wait! What the hell!' This sentiment is echoed as Harry starts to levitate above the lava and slowly rises into the air with a grin. Still grinning, he points his two fingers at the roof.
"Reducto! Reducto!" As the roof explodes around her, Haruka doesn't have time to scream before the part she's on gives way and she plummets to her death. Watching as the molten rock gets closer and closer, she closes her eyes and waits for her death, only to be grabbed around the collar by something. Opening first one eye, and then the other, she looks up in amazement at the small doll with wings holding her in place in the air. She then looks at a smirking Harry. "Despite you sending me down to where I could die… I won't do the same with you if you just surrender." Haruka stares at him in shock.
"Yu…you can't be serious!" Harry gives a small nod to Kuromi who lets her jerk downwards a little bit making her gulp. Looking down, she sighs. "I give. You win." Harry nods with a soft smile on his face.
"Good." Below them, the Jounin start using Suiton jutsu to cool the lava making the arena fill with steam…
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The Hayate is watching the various finalists as they call out their numbers. Nodding, he places the matches as they will be in the finals.
Uzumaki-Potter Naruto Vs. Hyuuga Neji
Uzumaki-Potter Harry Vs. Kinuta Dosu
Uchiha Sasuke Vs. Subaku no Gaara
Haruno Sakura Vs. Momochi Haku
Subaku no Kankuro Vs. Aburame Shino
Nara Shikamaru Vs. Subaku no Temari
Clearing his throat, the Sandaime starts speaking. "Congratulations to all that made it this far. I must say that you have made your respective Villages proud. The next month is for you to prepare as we gather the various diplomats and clients to watch the finals. I would advise you to use it to gather Intel on your opponents and to train. That is all." As they prepare to leave, Harry notices Haruka walking towards the entrance. She sighs to herself as she's about to leave only to hear her named called. Turning, she's greeted to the sight of Harry running towards her. She just raises an eyebrow.
"Yes?" Seeing him slow down, she scowls at him. "What? Me losing to you isn't enough? You got to rub it in?" Harry shakes his head and holds out his hand.
"Nope! I really enjoyed our match and I want to do it again sometime." She looks him in the eye to see if he's kidding, only to see sincerity there. Nodding, she smiles and grabs his hand.
"I think that I would like that too…" Sarutobi who's watching this can't help but be reminded of the various cross-village rivalries he's seen over the years. He just grins a bit.
'This should be one for the ages…'
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Yui: Huh! That was interesting. So Harry now has a rival in Kusa?
Steve: Yup! It'll be a friendlier version of Chiyo's and Tsunade's rivalry.
Hinata: But did you have to have me lose?
Steve: Sorry Hinata, it was needed as you'll see in a few chapters.
Hinata: Huh?
Steve: Trust me on this. Besides, at least you got a major hit in. It actually sent him to the hospital.
Hinata: It did... he wasn't badly hurt, was he Steve-san?
Steve: He'll recover... unfortunately...
Hinata: STEVE-SAN!
Steve: What? At least I'm letting him live... Anyways, on to the next chapter!
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