TADAM! I'm back with another chapter of "Naruto: Next Generation"! Collage is still on my back and just won't get off, but I somehow managed to dig enough free time to finish this. However I still have a lot of things to do for collage, so the rule that I WON'T UPDATE UNLESS I GET REVIEWS stays, I'm afraid.
As usual I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed the previous chapter. It's good to know you guys are still enjoying the story and I hope you'll like what's coming. Since most questions for last time concerned Rei's ability and her call at the end of the previous chapter… well, all you have to do is read this and you'll basically know everything.
With that said, I believe the only thing left for me to do is to get on with it:
Chapter #61: Three Souls
Title Page: Rei is laying on the ground, propping her back on the gravestone and is staring to the sky, while souls in the form of small, white balloons, are flying around her
"Hijutsu: Hitokage Tougou!" Rei called out as she drew a straight line that came through the symbols on her left arm with her blood. "Aid me Hiashi!" and the second she said so, Hinata's eyes widen in surprise: "H… Hiashi?"
In the next moment the lazy girl went into her fighting style: she bended her knees slightly and leaned forward, extending her right hand out front, near the floor and her left hand behind her back. Hitomi instantly recognized the position she took: "But… that's impossible!" she thought to herself completely surprised as a single drop of sweat run down her face.
"This fighting stance…" Teela narrowed her eyes slightly as she set them onto her opponent. "I've heard about it… it's the Jyuken. But I thought the only people capable of using it were the Hyuuga… could she…" but at this Rei charged straight at her, interrupting her trail of thought.
In a flash the leaf-nin launched an attack with an opened palm, aimed at the blue-haired girl's chest. Before the attack connected however, Teela managed to make a quick motion and hitting Rei's wrist with the tip of her hand, she put it off track, thus making her opponent's assault miss its target.
Rei acted immediately however and attacked with her, other hand, this time from bellow, aiming at the moon-nin's chin this time, yet also this time Teela was quicker and after grabbing her opponent's hand by the wrist, she twisted it, making the Leaf shinobi eyes widen as her body moved on its own, in order to avoid getting her hand broken. Before she knew it, Rei was already flipping in the air and landed hard on her back.
Without wasting a second, the leaf-nin used her hands to bounce off the floor and instantly got back to her feet. In a fraction of a second she spun on her foot and launched both her hands at her opponent's back, in both cases with the extended middle and index finger. The first attack, with her left hand, was aimed at her adversary's head, while the assault with her right hand went straight at her spine.
However Teela felt her opponent perfectly and in a flash she reached with her right hand over her left shoulder, grabbing Rei's left hand by the wrist yet again and putting some effort into it, she pulled the leaf-nin forward. As the Konoha kunoichi lost her balance and uncontrollably took several steps forward, the Moon girl acted immediately and landed a powerful blow into her chest with an opened palm of her left hand.
As Rei was send flying back slightly, she gathered chakra in her right palm and throwing her right hand forward, she called out: "Hakke Kuushou!" and acting on instinct, Teela jumped back. As it turned out, she made the right choice as less then a moment after she did so, the floor in the place she stood went into pieces.
In a flash Teela pulled out two kunai and threw them straight at Rei, who was in mid-air. However as the knives came close to he, a strange, chakra sphere suddenly appeared around the leaf-nin. As the incoming weapons stopped on it, the kunoichi began spinning and as both knives suddenly got blown away, she just called out: "Hakke Shou Kaiten!"
"Go girl!" Kogane cheered from the platform as her teammate landed safely on her feet. She then turned towards Takaru, who stood right next to her: "I assure you, Takaru-kun, that I'll do even better!"
The son of Tsunade only glanced at her, keeping his arms crossed, sweat dropping. He then looked to his right at Kumiko in hope to get some help from her, but the young genius only smiled evilly and shrugged, showing him 'what can I do'. Before the scar-face even manage to throw her a death glare, Kogane wrapped his arm and began making big eyes to him. Kusari, who stood right behind the two, only exchange glances with Kai, before they both burst out laughing seeing Takaru's face, which seemed to say 'somebody kill me'.
"I must admit that I'm impressed…" stated Senkou, who made nothing of the whole fuss around Takaru and just kept on observing Rei bellow. Hanamaru only smiled as he placed more, potato chips in his mouth: "From the way she acts you'd never thought she's that good, would you?" he asked the masked boy. But as the son of Hokage glanced at him, the chubby gennin continued: "Rei has an inborn talent… people say that in the entire history of her clan no-one had so much potential… however, she is who she is… she's lazy and unmotivated… if she'd work a bit harder, that Moon girl would already be out cold…"
"So true…" Shikamaru only let out a sigh at hearing his subordinate's comment. And just then he noticed Naruto was staring at him with a wide smile. With a single drop of sweat, the lazy jounin just told him, turning back towards the fight bellow: "Not a word…"
"Most interesting…" stated Nobu with a smile as he once more turned towards his teammate. "I thought you said it takes a lot of time to master integration with a soul and yet that Leaf girl is only around twelve years old… this sure makes you look pathetic…"
"You know very little…" Tasuki shoot back calmly. "So she managed to make an alliance with two souls… it's not gonna give her much since she's only using one-fifth of the souls full power at best… she only knows the skills souls she possessed used, but she has no idea how to perform them with the highest efficiency…" Tenka didn't react to the conversation in any way. She just glanced at her teammates and then returned to observing the match bellow.
Rei charged at Teela once more and launched another attack with her opened palm at her opponent's face. Acting on instinct, the moon-nin bended to her right, thus making the Leaf kunoichi's attack go right next to her face, and launched the attack with an opened palm of her own.
In an instant Rei used her other hand to knock her opponent's assault of track by hitting Teela's hand with an opened palm in the wrist. However the moment her attack failed, the Moon kunoichi bended over and spun around, aiming to swipe the leaf-nin off her feet by attacking with her leg.
Acting on instinct, Rei jumped into the air, however that turned out to be a mistake as Teela kept on spinning and after turning the whole 360 degree, she simply raised the leg she tried to swipe the leaf-nin off her feet with and landed a powerful kick into the Konoha shinobi's stomach, sending her flying back once more.
Surprisingly for Teela however, Rei instantly flipped in mid-air and placed her hands on the floor. In a flash, she spun on her hands and aimed a kick into the moon-nin's face, yet the blue-haired girl managed to block the assault in time by using her left hand. Immediately the Tsuki kunoichi launched another attack with an opened palm into her opponent's back and as the attack connected, the Leaf shinobi was send flying away regardless.
Seeing no, other choice, Rei flipped in mid-air while she bite both her thumbs. As she did so, symbols Teela knew all too well appeared, this time on both her hands, and in a fraction of a second, the Leaf kunoichi repeated the same motion she did earlier: "Hijutsu: Hitokage Tougou! Aid me… Naraku!" and with that she came to a sliding stop and glared at the blue-haired girl. The Moon-nin only narrowed her eyes at the turn of events.
"She managed to form an alliance with three souls at her age…" Teela concluded in her mind, though her face stayed emotionless. "But didn't Tasuki said that it took around five years to master one soul integration?"
"What the hell?" asked Kai as he looked around. "Just how many souls can she use?" noticing the blonde's confusion, Kitsune only smiled under his nose before replying: "Three, so this one is basically the last one… however it's also the most powerful of the three… to be honest, I can't recall Rei using it until now… but since she did, that Moon girl can consider herself defeated…"
"So this is Rei's power… truly scary…" Kusari thought as he glanced at Konpaku's heiress. "Will you manage to win regardless, Teela-chan?" and with that the chain master set his eyes onto the blue-haired girl.
"Well, even with all this…" Toku thought to himself with worry in his eyes as he looked at his teammate that was in the middle of a fight. "At her current level Rei is capable of using just one soul at the time and it drains a lot of chakra from her… plus she's not able to use the techniques her souls used on the same level… this match may not be over yet…"
Suddenly Rei went through a set of hand seals and with the last symbols she took a deep breath before letting out air. Teela's eyes only widen as a powerful ball of fire came right at her, escaping her opponent's mouth: "Katon: Doragon no Kokyuu!"
Having no way to dodge, Teela acted on instinct and releasing chakra from her body, she began spinning. In a flash the air around her began spinning wildly as well, creating a small tornado. And then fire covered the moon-nin. As the flames burnt down, all the spectators saw the blue-haired girl standing as she was with few, small burns around her body and breathing slightly heavier then she was before.
"Such powerful technique…" Ibuki thought to herself as she glanced at the two kunoichi that were currently fighting. "Not only did Rei was able to unleash so much fire, but that Moon girl managed to created a strong enough wind current to blow the flames in every direction in such a short among of time… those two… are dangerous!"
"Oh, you actually managed to avoid serious damage…" noticed Rei with her usual, not carrying voice. "It's a bit troublesome, coz I was hoping this will be the final blow…"
"Sorry to disappoint you then…" Teela replied calmly, her face still emotionless. "But no harm done really… it's getting slightly tiresome for me as well… I suppose I should finish this soon… best prepare yourself, coz I won't be holding back…" and as she said so, she went through a series of hand seals.
"Well then, allow me to do the same…" Rei responded and began a chain of hand seals of her own. Both kunoichi finished at the same time and with the last symbol, the leaf-nin called out, letting out a huge among of fire from her mouth: "Katon: Kasai Tsunami no Jutsu!"
In the exact, same moment, huge among of water escaped Teela's mouth as the Tsuki girl called out: "Suiton: Mizu Hebi no Jutsu!"
---two powers collide… and the outcome is?---
And with that this chapter ends. Hope you enjoyed it.
Now, time for the usual, jutsu encyclopedia:
Katon: Doragon no Kokyuu (Fire Element: Dragon Breath) – jutsu originally used by Naraku, one of the souls Rei possessed. Basically you might say it another version of Uchiha's Grand Fireball Skill. The main difference is that this technique is weaker, however at the same time it also requires less chakra to perform.
Katon: Kasai Tsunami no Jutsu (Fire Element: Fire Tidal Wave Skill) – another technique originally used by Naraku, who's one of Rei's souls. Basically the user first gathers chakra in his mouth (like in the previous case) and then, by using the right hand seals, releases it in the form of fire. Once the flames escape the user's mouth, they form into a huge wave of fire, that charges straight at the target, burning everything in its way.
Suiton: Mizu Hebi no Jutsu (Water Element: Water Snake Skill) – technique used by Teela. In a way it's similar to Zabuza's Water Dragon Blast. The main difference is that to perform this jutsu the user don't need any nearby water source and the liquid he creates shapes itself like a snake in stead of a dragon. The technique however is weaker then the one performed by the swordsman.
Also, as usual, here's the list of the gennin that are still in the game (underlined are the characters that already won their battles and those who don't appear on the list were taken away by medics):
Konoha #7: Murasakki Kumiko, Tanken Ibuki, Gekido Takaru, Hagane Kusari, Haisha Kai
Konoha #3: Konpaku Rei, Rikoteki Kogane, Amagasa Toku, Debano Kitsune, Gusoku Hanamaru
Konoha #4: Igaku Mikka, Inuzuka Tsume, Benda Kokoro, Hatake Senkou, Kobushi Galu
Konoha: Hamano Taki, Hyuuga Hitomi, Manako Akira, Tanken Funbo, Horohoro
Suna #1: Aoru, Torune, Honemaru, Tarakudo, Takai
Suna #2: Sabaku no Sabure, Hari, Dekai, Horamaru, Karame
Kusa: Hokku Tobane, Kanraku Nezumi, Kuchibashi Taka, Kyohaku Tokame, Wanabi Hizoku
Ame: Kasano Youji, Nokogiri Karei, Eshaku Ryo, Furikuzu Tsuino, Hebereke Nazaa
Bakufu: Azarashi Kawa, Tora Miaka, Abura Tetsu, Makko Shita
Tsuki: Junsei Teela, Tenka, Chishio Nobu, Kihako Tasuki
Hane: Naginata, Ono Reiji, Sentou
Yuki: Nadare Aisu, Sarumaru Yari, Urufu Kato, Yamazaru
Kumori: Kyuu
And that's really it. Hope you enjoyed it and that you'll leave me a review before going.
Take care and until next time!