And here's the promised second part if the double update! What needed to be said was said in the previous intro, so I guess I can just shut up and let you guys read the newest chapter of N:NG! Hope you'll enjoy it:
Chapter #76: Swords and Umbrellas
Title Page: Takaru is sitting on a beat up, large snake, which wrapped itself around a small, bird's nest
"Here I come!" Dekai announced as he charged forward, dragging his katana behind. Unfazed by this, Youji simply swung her umbrella and suddenly the top of it flew spinning at the sand-nin, attached to the handle with a long, steel chain.
Dekai acted immediately however and hit the incoming 'saw' with the flat side of his katana, thus throwing it off course and making the umbrella go right next to him while kept on charging forward. Once he reached the kunoichi, he swung his sword at her, parallel to the ground, yet the girl simply jumped over it, making a split in mid-air.
Suddenly the chain that held the umbrella's top fall off, leaving a hole in the handle. As Youji's feet touched the floor, tens of small knives shoot out of it. Because of the small distance, Dekai didn't even had enough time to swing his katana and barely managed to place his sword before him so that it'd cover his head and most of his torso.
As some of the blades got deflected by the flat side of the katana and some cut the sand-nin's hands and legs shallowly, Youji jumped back. In a flash the hole on her umbrella handle got covered again, this time with a huge blade that resembled a spear's one. Upon coming to a sliding stop, she charged at her opponent with a loud battle cry, making Dekai merely lower his sword to see what was going on.
"Eat this!" she yelled. Aiming the tip of her blade at the boy's heart, but as Dekai prepared himself to block, the kunoichi suddenly lowered her weapon and before he could react, the spear dug into the floor. In a flash Youji blasted up and somersaulting flew above the boy, landing safely behind him with her spear still in her hand.
Realizing this, Dekai pointed the tip of his katana at the ground, placing his hand on the bottom of its handle. With a quick motion he made his sword spin beneath his palm, thus creating a small tornado that threw him high into the sky, making the attack Youji launch cut nothing but air.
"Come on, Dekai-kun, kick her butt!" Sabure yelled cheerfully, which surprised Torune to no end, yet Karame merely glanced at his teammate worried with sweat appearing beneath his bandages: "Dammit, she's really losing herself. At this rate Touba will completely take over… at the worst, possible time!"
"This is getting tiresome" the swordsman stated simply while he was still in mid-air. "Lets put an end to this" and with that he swung his katana, creating a powerful wind behind him that launched his straight at the surprised kunoichi at a top speed.
As he came at her, he once more made his katana spin in his hand, this time while he had the handle between the fingers of his right hand. Instant a small tornado surrounded the blade. Seeing this Youji jumped back, trying to avoid the hit. The moment she did so, Dekai's blade dug into the floor, lifting up dust and small stones.
The girl's feet didn't even touched the ground when the sand-nin aimed the tip of his katana behind his back and once more spun it in his hand, creating a tornado that blasted him straight at her. Incapable of dodging in mid-air, Youji only managed to let out a surprised yelp as the handle of Dekai's sword smashed hard against her face and send her crushing to the floor.
"I could've cut you in half that instant, but that would be pointless" the swordsman announced calmly as he reattached his katana to his back. "I still win however" and without even waiting for Lee to come for the check-up he headed back to the platform. It did not take long for the Leaf's Green Beast to announce the obvious: "Winner: Dekai from the Suna!"
"With that hit just now, that Sand gennin might've broke the girl's jaw" Kakashi calculated as he observed Youji being taken away by medics. "And this fight didn't really cast him that much… the Suna teams this year are even stronger then those from Gaara-dono's generation!" and with that thought he gazed at Naruto, who simply smiled.
"I already like that sword guy" stated Funbo with a smirk as he glanced over to Dekai, who just joined his team. Ibuki merely narrowed her eyes upon settling them on the sand-nin as well: "That katana isn't an ordinary one and his skills at wielding it are something to be scared off… he won't be easy to defeat…"
"It's a pity that you didn't cut her" Horamaru said to his teammate, once he got back. "It's boring if no-one dies" but the moment he said so, Hari send him a death glare. The blonde boy didn't seem to made nothing of it and just ignored the kunoichi. "But I'll try to fix that when my time comes…"
"To think Youji lost hik" Nazaa began with a little hard to understand voice. "That makes two already… this is getting bad" but as he said so, Tsuino interrupted him by stating simply: "Do not worry. We'll avenge them… after all, you, me and Ryo are the strongest in our team…"
"Yeah, easy for you hik to say, since you're the village leader's son hik" the redhead shoot back. "It's true that with your skills advancing shouldn't be a problem hik. Heck, even Ryo will certainly hik get through, but when it comes to me…" and at this point he lowered his head, staring at the floor bellow his feet.
"One weirder then the other" whined Kai as he propped his cheek on his hand and then gazed at Kumiko, who stood right next to him, as she spoken: "These Chuunin Exams gather many, extraordinary people… and I have a feeling that there are still some surprises in stored…"
"Yeah, whatever" the loud mouth replied annoyed. "Just pick me already! This is getting on my nerves that everyone got to show off and I have to sit here and wait! Choose me, dammit!" he yelled, pointing at the screen. It was then that Senkou cut in, with his arms crossed: "Sorry, Dead Last, but I'm gonna go next…"
"No, I will!" the blonde shoot back, but the masked boy instantly responded: "No, I will!" and as the two kept on going, Takaru only sweat dropped before interrupting: "Maybe you both get chosen and we won't have to listen to your whining anymore?" he purposed annoyed. Tsume only smirked at the comment, while both Kai and Senkou turned away from each other.
"Let us move on to the next match!" announced Lee as the name lottery began again, gaining most of the people gathered attention. As the choice was made, Nezumi only cheered, patting her hooded teammate on the back, before he jumped down, followed by another of the ran-nins: ESHAKU RYO versus KYOHAKU TOKAME.
"It's one of those grass-nins" noticed Kusari as he narrowed his eyes and then settled them upon Taka, recalling his recent match. "The last one at that… this should be something to look forward too…"
Apparently Shikamaru had the same thoughts as he observed Tokame closely while he waited for his fight to begin: "Those Kusa ninja are troublesome… why did they come here? Where is their jounin instructor? And now that I think about it, where did that woman who led the Tsuki team gone off to?" he wondered as his gaze stopped at the three, remaining moon-nins, who stood alone with their teacher nowhere in sight. "This is really worrying…"
Hitomi narrowed her eyes slightly as veins appeared around them. Seeing this, Horohoro turned towards her and asked what was going on. The kunoichi did not reply at first and then, without even looking at him, she slowly responded: "That Rain guy… the chakra flow in his body… it seems… different then normal…"
"Different?" the blue-haired boy repeated and the glanced at Ryo as well suspiciously. A second later Rei suddenly stood up and walked over to the rail, grabbing it tight as she stopped her gaze at the Ame shinobi as well.
"What is it?" Galu asked her, slightly surprised, but the lazy girl did not answer. The only thing the green-haired gennin learned was that sweat began appearing on his companions face. "That Rain guy… there must be something wrong with him…" he concluded in his mind and turned towards Kokoro, hoping to get some answers, but the blonde did gave him any either.
"Twenty first match: Eshaku Ryo from Ame against Kyohaku Tokame from Kusa!" Lee announced as both boys stood in front of each other. "Ready and… EXPLODE!" and instantly he jumped back, which proven to be the right decision as the rain-nin immediately raised his hand and aimed an opened palm at his opponent.
In a flash Tokame found himself tilting his head to his left as a weird sound drilled his right ear. Before he knew it something cut his right cheek and blown off the hood from his head, thus finally revealing his face: his hair was black, long and spiky as his fall all around his head, while his eyes were green. A large, cross-like scar was located on his left cheek and now also a small cut, from which blood dripped, appeared on his right one.
"Just now… what was that?" he asked himself as he settled his eyes on Ryo, who simply adjust his glasses and announced with a stone face: "So this is how you look like? To be honest I've expected something much more gruesome, considering you kept hiding your face. Oh well, I guess that doesn't matter. Now that you had a taste of my strength, I'll give you this one chance to surrender… I'll tell you right now that you defeating me… will never happen…"
"We shall see" was all the grass-nin said, his face still emotionless. Ryo merely narrowed his eyes at this and held out his right hand. A second later chakra began gathering in it and strangely enough some sort of shape started forming in the glasses wearing gennin's palm.
At that time sweat began appearing on Akira's face as he took a single step back. Seeing this Taki turned to her teammate with a worried expression on her face as she asked him if everything was alright. The blind boy only shook his head slowly in negation as he replied: "No, it's not. That Rain guy… his clan was supposed to be wiped out!"
"What do you mean?" Hizoku joined in, not worried about his companion as he gazed at the leaf-nin. Akira merely lowered his head as sweat still run down his face: "That Rain guy's bloodline limit… if your teammate won't surrender… he may really die!"
---mysterious men… what's Ryo ability?---
And this concludes the second chapter of the double update, I'm afraid. Hope you enjoyed it and that you'll leave a review or two once you're done. As I said I'll do my best to update next week, but I really can't promise anything.
No jutsu this chapter, but at least I can still give you the gennin list:
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 (in progress), Wanabi Hizoku
Ame: Eshaku Ryo (in progress), Furikuzu Tsuino, Hebereke Nazaa
Bakufu: Azarashi Kawa, Abura Tetsu, Makko Shita
Tsuki: Junsei Teela, Tenka, Kihako Tasuki
Hane: Ono Reiji, Sentou
Kumori: Kyuu
Thanks for reading and until next time!
Love, Peace and Kage Bushin!