Dynamic Updatto! Surprise! Never thought I'll be able to pull something like that off again, but here I am! Just like the previous time, I'm able to update ALL my "Naruto" fic at the same time! Also this time around it's more of a celebration! Tomorrow I'm turning 21 (boy, am I old or what) and to make it special not only for me but for you guys also, I've decided to sit down to it and wrote new chapters of all my fics. Hope you'll enjoy them!
As always I wanted to thank everyone who reviewed the previous chapter (by the way, I'm a little sad that the number of reviews for it is a little low compared to other chapters). It really means a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed the surprise I prepared with Hari. I hope that you'll enjoy this chapter at least as much and please leave me a review once you're done (maybe as a present?). It'd really make my day.
This chapter is another one of my favorites from the eliminations, though not sure if that's any recommendation. At any point, without further to do, here's the newest chapter of "Naruto: Next Generation":
Chapter #56: Ultimate Weapon
Title Page: tiding up: Kumiko is washing clothes in a big tub, Kai is carrying a huge mountain of dirty clothes towards her, Ibuki is dusting the furniture, Kusari is swiping the floor and Takaru is taking out the trash
"Winner: Tenka!" Lee announced loudly as the redhead kunoichi let go of Raina, allowing the shadow-nin's body to fall motionless to the floor. The Tsuki shinobi walked towards the stairs, leading back to the platform, without even taking another look at her opponent.
"And I thought that Sand kunoichi was a freaky chick…" Kitsune let out a sigh as Tenka walked up the stairs. "I'm sure glad I didn't had to face her…" but while he was saying that, another leaf-nin was observing the redhead Moon shinobi.
"Worried?" Funbo asked Taki with a tiny smirk, noticing a single drop of sweat falling down his teammate's face. The boomerang user only glanced at the young assassin and turning back to look at the screen a little sad, she replied: "Please, don't pretend that you care, Funbo-kun… both you and me know too well that worrying about others is one thing you could never do…"
Tenka finally reached the rest of her cell and received a slight nod from Teela. Nobu officially congratulated her, Tasuki on the other hand seemed completely unaware that she even returned to the platform. It didn't bothered her anyway. She merely settled down near the wall and waited for the eliminations to continue.
"It's not like Raina was very strong…" began Bakara as he stood propped against the rail. "But getting defeated so easily… what is that Moon girl?" he asked his teammate, but Kyuu didn't reply. He only stared at the wall, where the screen was.
Names once more began changing on the screen and everyone raised their eyes to find out who'll go next. Kai's body shivered with both excitement and fear, yet it was not him that got chosen. However, the next pair interested Kusari: FUTATSU versus TARAKUDO.
"Finally, my turn…" noticed Takai's bandaged teammate as he jumped down to the ring. The scythe user only narrowed his eyes as he followed his companion with them. Honemaru didn't seem to care much at all, but Torune knew him too well to be fooled by that: "Just don't go too far, Tarakudo…" she asked her teammate in her mind.
"It's one of the sand-nins…" Reiji announced to his teammate. "I suggest using extreme caution…" but Futatsu didn't seem to make much of that advice: "Don't worry… I'll finish this quickly…" and with that he joined his opponent bellow. Sentou only shook his head at his companion's behavior.
Yamazaru suddenly became a little nervous. As Aisu turned towards him and Yari, who tried to call their teammate down, the Snow team's leader threw the spearman a questioning glare, before asking: "What's his problem?" and with that she pointed at the helmet ninja with her head.
"I'm not sure…" admitted Yari as he gave the big shinobi a worried look. "But it'd seem he feels something about… one of the two guys that just entered the arena…" and with that he looked bellow at the two contestants with Aisu doing the same soon after, now curious.
"Match six: Futatsu from Kane against Tarakudo from Suna!" Lee announced loudly. "BEGIN!" and as usual, he instantly moved out of the way, noticing that the metal-nin immediately drew both his katana out.
"I'll tell you right now…" announced Futatsu as he pointed the tip of one of his swords at Tarakudo. "I have absolutely no interest in you. What I want is to get that guy…" and with that he pointed at Kusari with his other katana. "But since you're in the way, I don't have much choice but to fight you… I suggest surrendering now, coz later I might not give you a chance to…"
"Damn, what did you do to that sword guy that he hates you so much?" Kumiko asked her teammate, but the chain master only threw a quick glance and then, for the first time, he replied to her without any emotions: "Long story…" Naruto, who stood right behind them, only settled his eyes on Kusari for a moment, but said nothing. Ibuki, who noticed that, gave her sensei a surprised look, but figure it'd be better to keep quiet… at least for now.
"I love when weaklings talk big…" Tarakudo shoot back calmly, thus making his opponent slightly pissed. In a flash the metal-nin charged forward and when he found himself close enough, he brought his right katana down, aiming at the bandaged ninja's head.
Tarakudo however easily dodged the assault by jumping to his right, which itself wasn't strange, but the way he did it made several people in the room surprised: he did that after he hunched a little and allowed his hands to hang freely bellow him. The moment he dodged, it seemed like he didn't had any power over his arms.
Futatsu acted immediately and swung his other katana at him while Tarakudo was still in mid-air, this time making the blade go parallel to the floor and aiming to cut his opponent in half. But to his surprise the sand-nin's hand suddenly seemed to stretched slightly and as they touched the ground, the bandaged ninja pulled himself towards it and crouched flat to it, making the swordsman attack go right above his head.
In an instant, Tarakudo stood up on his hand, his back turned towards the metal-nin, and launched his legs back, aiming two kicks into his opponent's face. Completely surprised by that Futatsu only jumped back, thus avoiding the attack, but it was then that the bandaged ninja moved towards him at an incredible speed, while spinning around, still using his hands to stand.
Before his feet even touched the ground, Futatsu found Tarakudo standing on his hands right next to him and received a powerful kick in the stomach from the sand-nin as he spun on his hands. The impact send the metal-nin flying back even more, but surprisingly for him and everyone gathered in the room, the bandaged ninja bounced off the floor and somersaulting, flew over the swordsman.
Without his feet touching the ground like before, Futatsu realized that Tarakudo was now behind him, falling head first towards the floor. With his back turned towards the metal-nin's back, the bandaged ninja threw his left arm back in an inhuman way and landed a punch into the swordsman spine, making him fall to the floor.
The moment he did so, he flipped and even though he was falling head first and was merely inches before the floor, with that one flip he somehow managed to land safely on his feet, performing a half spin. "This is unreal…" realized Lee as he observed the sand-nin. "This isn't a drunken fist… with such movement several of his bones should break by now… including his spine!"
Hinata, who had her Byakugan activated for awhile now, only widen her eyes: "That chakra circulating system… his movement… no human could perform something like that, even that guy from the time I took this exam for the first time!" Hitomi, who just noticed the older Hyuuga's reaction, also activated her bloodline limit and looked at the bandaged ninja. And once her eyes set on Tarakudo, she was at the lost of words of what he saw.
"What the hell are you?" demanded Futatsu as he slowly got back to his feet and looked at his opponent, who stood few meters away from him with his head bended to the right a little more then his human body should allow it to. The bandaged ninja only smirked (A/N: though no-one could see that) before he replied: "I'm special…"
The metal-nin's eyes narrowed as he heard that. He once more charged at his opponent, furiously trying to cut him with one of his katana, yet the bandaged ninja managed to avoid every, single attack.
Finally Futatsu pushed one of his swords forward, aiming to pierce through his opponent's heart, but to his surprise the sand-nin only jumped up and landed safely on the blunt side of the metal-nin's katana that was now extended. Before the swordsman managed to react to it in any way, the Suna shinobi launched a kick, but to Futatsu's surprise, it went right next to his head.
Only a second later did he found out what was Tarakudo's objective as the sand-nin bended his leg in his knee and kicked the swordsman in the back of his head with the leg he just threw next to his face. As the metal-nin lost his balance and made several steps forward to remain on his feet, the bandaged ninja jumped up and somersaulting, once more flew over his opponent and landed safely on his feet.
Futatsu pressed his foot against the floor to stop and in a flash turned around, charging at his opponent yet again. As he brought his katana down again and again, Tarakudo kept on dodging with ease and finally, when the metal-nin decided to change his tactic and cut from his right, once more driving his blade parallel to the floor, the bandaged ninja bended back until his back was located parallel to the ground as well.
"He dodged my attack the same way!" Taki realized as she saw the sand-nin's pose and in a fraction of a second the Tarakudo flipped back, using his legs to kick one of the katana out of Futatsu's hands.
As the sword went flying up, the metal-nin reached for a scroll, but to his surprise, his opponent moved at an incredible speed and before he knew it, it was the bandaged ninja that held the scroll in his hand with Futatsu's disappeared. "He managed to act that quickly?" a thought hit the swordsman as he picked up the katana that was kicked out of his hand.
"Tarakudo, you're not the only one who wants to fight…" Takai reminded his teammate patiently with his arms crossed and as the bandaged ninja looked up to the platform, the scythe user continued: "Finish this already…"
Temari only threw her black-haired subordinate a quick glance before returning to watching the fight bellow. Tarakudo let out a sigh and then set his eyes onto Futatsu, who was once more charging straight at him. Without rush, the sand-nin threw away the scroll he just stole and spun on his foot, thus avoiding the first attack that was aimed to pierce through him.
In a flash he grabbed the blade of the katana that his opponent just used to attack him between the fingers on his left hand and now stood with his back turned towards the metal-nin. Without a moment of hesitation, the swordsman brought his other weapon down, aiming to chop the bandaged ninja's right hand off, but surprisingly for him, his opponent managed to grab the blade of that katana between his fingers as well, this time using his right hand.
Having immobilized both Futatsu's swords and standing with his back turned towards his opponent, Tarakudo made a motion that seemed like he tripped and began falling on his back. Yet, having the metal-nin on his way, the bandaged ninja's back rammed the swordsman and made him fall down as well.
Instantly Futatsu landed on the floor with Tarakudo dropping down right at him. After a short moment the sand-nin got off his opponent and as Lee walked over to check on the swordsman, he threw the bandaged boy a little suspicious look, before announcing: "Winner: Tarakudo!"
"Why even bother having this fight?" asked Aoru, slightly bored as she observed Futatsu being taken by the medics out of the room. "The result was obvious from the very beginning…" and as she said so, Tarakudo jumped up and landed right next to his teammates.
Hari just looked at the winner with her eyes narrowed before Karame interrupted her thoughts: "You seemed surprised…" but the blonde girl only shook her head: "No, Tarakudo's victory wasn't a surprise at all… after all, how could he lose while being… well, what he is…" and as she said so, the sand in Sabure's gourd began moving so rapidly it was heard from the outside on the gourd.
"Most interesting…" stated Tokame calmly. "Those Sand shinobi… they surely won't be easy to defeat…" and with that he looked at Nezumi, whose rat began running all over her body. The hooded boy knew all too well what it meant: Hamaru was scared. And he wasn't the type of rat that got scared easily. Behind his mask, Taka smiled: "Indeed… interesting…"
"Boy, that Suna guy is good…" stated Tsume impressed. Takaru only narrowed his eyes as he responded, without facing the dog kunoichi: "Something's not right… his movement… they just weren't natural… I don't suppose any human could move the way he did… there must be some trick to it… and that fact… actually scares me…"
"I must admit that it was somewhat disturbing…" Senkou agreed. "There must be something behind it all…"Kai only shivered again, but this time not with fear. It was only excitement: "So many, strong people… I won't lose to any of them!"
"Well, lets move on!" purposed Lee as he pointed at the screen, where names started to appear and disappear. The atmosphere gotten a little heavy as everyone waited patiently to find out who was fighting next. Toku's eyes narrowed as the next, two names appeared on the screen: BAKARA versus MANAKO AKIRA.
And in a flash the boy with the skull mask, the teammate of both Fuma and Raina, jumped down to the arena. Horohoro only elbowed his companion and gaining Akira's attention, he announced: "Your turn…"
With a simple 'thanks' the other boy jumped down, his eyes still closed, and landed safely on his feet. As the tow participants walked towards one another, Lee stepped between them and threw each a quick glance. The seventh match of the eliminations was about to begin.
---terrifying foes and mysterious enemies… what awaits Akira?---
And that's that for this chapter. Hope you enjoyed reading it at least as much as I enjoyed writing it and that you'll leave me a review once you're done. It'd really mean a lot and make my birthday even happier.
No jutsu this time around, so basically the only thing left for me to say is that I hope you'll have a great day and that you'll come by again.
Take care!