Hey people, I'm not done with my assignment, but I can't actually find it, so, tough luck, I'll have to look for it. Any way, let's keep it going! NEXT CHAPTER!
The Fox, The Raven, and The Cat Raise Hell
Ch 17 – new move, Boushi Sanga Herushou
Woods where Rikou was training, 2 days after ch. 16
"hahahahahahahaha! Perfect! You've reached bankai! Ah hahahahaha!" Zansatsu said laughing insanely. Ari looked at him funny.
"you kinda need to get out more don't cha?" she asked, Zansatsu regaining his less insane composure.
"I'm a sword, I don't really care what you think." Zansatsu said, Rikou returning to his normal state.
"now I just need some practice. Let me guess, Naruto's Bankai is similar yet different from mine, and its name is Tensa Zangetsu?" Rikou asked, returning Zansatsu to his back.
"nice reasoning, you got it in one. But its very different from ours, his is exactly the same as my former host's, but ours is all our own!" Zansatsu shouted, laughing insanely while fading away.
"so, what're you gonna do now?" Rei asked as he put his sword onto his back.
"not sure, but, two days ago, you said something about an apocalypse, what did it have to do with anything?" Rikou asked, remembering that for seemingly no reason.
"oh, Keiji is the name of the sword on my back." Rei said as he walked towards Ari. "he's been my partner for longer than Ari's been my girlfriend. And in all of my life there's only ever been one person to beat me in a pure kenjutsu fight while I fought with Keiji."
"who? Kisame? Zabuza?" Rikou asked, Rei turning around with a smirk on his face.
"Naruto Uzumaki was the only one to ever put a scratch upon my body, let alone the fact he defeated me the second time we fought." Rei said, walking away hand in hand with Ari.
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4 days later, konoha stadium, midday
"okay then, I've arranged a technique that will allow me to be seen by the people of konoha. Even the normal people without enough spirit power to notice me. This will be a show of what Rikou's hard work can accomplish. Especially if those energy blasts I've been hearing all week were you." Minato said, his hands glowing blue. In a bright flash of blue light, he and Rikou stood across from each other, the sandaime between them. All but 12 people in the audience went wide-eyed when they saw the yondaime. The 12 who didn't were Naruto, Hinata, Itachi, Kisame, Rika, Zabuza, Akane, Reina, Kushina, Rei, Ari, and Rikou's first student whom shall remain nameless.
"as the message said, we are holding a surprise match today to test the skills of one Rikou Karasu. Seeing as how half of you felt it necessary to ignore my law, and the yondaime's wish, by discriminating against this boy and Naruto Uzumaki, we have decided to follow through with a contract that I decided upon. Rikou wins, he and the Konoha Special Kenjutsu Division are promoted to an elite ANBU squad. Yondaime wins, the Uchiha regain the sharingan. Along with the Raven summoning contract." This got roars of approval from most of the audience. There were only 2 people among Rikou's friends who weren't frightened at the possible outcomes. Rei and Ari. If all else failed, then Rikou would simply fall back on his Bankai. "okay, this is a shinobi battle, so anything except for non-shinobi skills are permitted. That means, none of that kidou that you were telling me about earlier. Now, I declare this match shall begin, NOW!" the sandaime jumped out of the way in an instant. Rikou had Zansatsu in a dead-lock with the yondaime's blue Zanbatou in an instant.
"so, tell me, what's the name of your sword? It certainly seems powerful." Rikou said, Minato smirking.
"Arashi."(storm) Minato said, allowing the electricity to flow towards Rikou. Rikou broke the dead-lock and countered with a weakened getsuga tenshou. He found that if he didn't say getsuga tenshou, it wouldn't be strong enough to barrel through everything in his way, just a strong blast that would blast towards his opponent with great force. Minato blocked the attack easily and sent more electricity towards Rikou. The attacks were surprising the hell out of the audience, and Rika was on the edge of her seat worrying about Rikou. Rikou moved out of the way of the lightning attacks and released a few more of his getsuga tenshous. The yondaime was being pushed to the edge of the limits placed on his powers while in the human world, and he was starting to have trouble keeping up with Rikou's blasts in shikai. So he decided to remove that problem.
"bankai, Rasen Arashi!"(spiraling storm) Minato shouted, the blade of his sword evaporating and forming a cloud above him. "this is the power of my bankai, to create a storm that spirals with electricity, chakra, and reiatsu. It will pour rain to the ground, and everywhere that a raindrop lands, the anchoring seal of the hiraishin no jutsu appears! Meaning, once you are caught in the rain-storm, I can move anywhere around you in an instant!"
Rain began to fall upon the battle-field as Rikou looked around, and sure enough, all over the place there were complex sealing formulas. "well, if you're gonna go all out, then I don't see why I shouldn't!" Rikou said as he stood up straight and jabbed Zansatsu into the ground. "ISSENTZUKI!" Rikou shouted, a massive pillar of red-white energy appearing. (A/N, instead of his getsuga tenshou and issentzuki being the normal white with blue outline, it's going to be white with red out line. Also, sanga herushou is going to be black with blue outline now.) the power was so immense and raw that it pushed Minato back a ways. Rikou ended the technique and prepared a horizontal strike with Zansatsu. "GETSUGA TENSHOU!" Rikou shouted, releasing the red-white blast of energy. It was much larger and stronger than it was before, surprising Minato. Once it got close to Minato the cloud all shot fierce bolts of blue lightning at it, merely slowing it down. Minato was retreating slightly to avoid the attack. He was very unsure if he could defeat Rikou's shikai at the 20 power that he had to stay at. Minato was sure that that was the strongest technique that he would have to face. "take this one! SANGA HERUSHOU!" the blue-black blast barreled towards Minato. This surprised him because sanga herushou was double the size and strength of getsuga tenshou when used by Zansatsu. Minato used the time he had to vanish in a yellow flash and appear behind Rikou. He flashed out again when he used the wordless sanga herushou, which was as large and powerful as the full-strength getsuga tenshou. Minato was being pushed to the limit, especially since he was now on the run since he was outclassed in raw power. He paled when he saw what happened next. Rikou tossed Zansatsu into the air and grabbed it by the cloth that hung off of the end, and he began spinning it at incredible speeds in a large white blur of a circle. "this is one of the techniques that I came up with to use in case I either didn't achieve or need bankai by this time! BOUSHI SANGA HERUSHOU!"(spinning sun fang stabs hell) Rikou shouted, sanga herushous being shot out every time Zansatsu slashed towards Minato in the large circling saw form. This resulted in sanga herushous being released at a rate of 120 blasts per minute, or 2 blasts per second. Minato was now running out of chakra from using Hiraishin so much. The massive blasts were hard enough to avoid the first time, but now with so many being launched he was having trouble with finding any spot that was safe. There was a barrier protecting the audience, one made from Akane and a few of her Raven guard specialists, which was holding Rikou's powers off from destroying the audience. Minato ran out of chakra just after Rikou stopped sending blasts. "so, do you give up? So far I've only exhausted 1/10th of Zansatsu's energy reserves, and now that I've achieved bankai, they're almost completely recovered already." Minato was amazed. All that and his zanpaku-to was just going to recover what it lost? On top of that, he had enough energy to use the strongest technique that he's revealed over and over again at an incredibly rapid rate, without exhausting more than 1/10th of the energy reserves that he had prepared. He had no choice. If he continued this battle, his only means of escaping the attacks gone, there was no way that he would win. Not without some very powerful kidou.
"heh, wow, I never thought that I would be beat while in my bankai. And you said you achieved bankai, so that just means if I wasn't restricted to 20 of my over all power that you would just use your bankai and beat me anyway. I've got no choice, nor do I have any chakra left. Old man, I'm afraid I must forfeit." Minato said, most of the audience going wide-eyed and slack-jawed.
"very well, I declare the winner of this match, Rikou Karasu. Rika Nanashi, Hinata Hyuuga, Naruto Uzumaki, and Rikou Karasu are now ANBU rank, under ANBU captain Kisame Hoshigake, Konoha Special Kenjutsu division." Sarutobi said, taking out a pipe and lighting it. Most of the audience began to shout obscenities at Rikou and the other 3, the council coming down to the battle-field from their seats high in the stadium.
"Lord Hokage, surely this is some sort of joke, if this was truly the yondaime then he should've been able to defeat this de- er, boy." Danzo said, almost breaking the law.
"actually, even if I were at full strength, this kid would've beaten me. He just would've had to kill me to do it. And there are two other people in this stadium, these people being able to take me down at my full power blindfolded. Isn't that right, Rikou, Ari." Minato said, looking at the two in question.
"I'm going by the name Rei here." Rei said, smiling at the deceased Hokage.
"calling yourself ghost?" Minato asked.
"I'm calling myself a lie." Rei said, making Minato laugh. "it is good to see you again Minato. Naruto-sama sends his best regards."
"you were sent here by someone with my name?" Naruto asked, Ari dropping to her knees in a bow.
"greetings Shikage-sama!" Ari said, turning all eyes to Naruto. Rei sweat dropped.
"Ari, that's not this world, that's the last one we were in, y'know, the one where I found you?" Rei asked.
"oh, right." She said, getting up. "well, anyway, congrats on your promotion!"