Finally I've managed to update. Sorry it took me so long, but I had a very busy, last two weeks. Actually today's the first day I had more time for myself. Also, it pains me to say this, but with the among of collage work that crushed down on me, updates may start appearing less often then usual (meaning once a week) for the next, two months. I'll try to keep the usual, upload paste, but I really can't promise anything.
On a more, positive note: although you had to wait two weeks for an update, I can at least once more give you two chapters at a time (mostly because 78 was halfway done before), so even though I didn't expected it, I'm giving you guys another DOUBLE UPDATE in hope that you'll enjoy it and hopefully will review both chapters.
As always I wanna thank everyone who reviewed (especially both chapters) and hope that you'll like this update as well! Everyone is welcomed to give their opinion!
And now, lets just move on to the newest N:NG chapters:
Chapter #77: Broken Arrow
Title Page: Kai is sitting, propping his back on a tiger that's lazily scratching its head and all around is a scattered picnic
As chakra gathered in his hand, a strange shape began to form itself in Ryo's palm. A second later some sort of a spectral spear rested in his hand, ended with a large blade. Tokame merely narrowed his eyes at this as he realized what just happened: "That weapon… it's made from your chakra…"
"Good guess" was the only thing the rain-nin said as he went to his fighting stance, ready to charge at his opponent. However Kai was much more curious then the Kusa shinobi bellow: "That spear is supposed to be made out of chakra? What the hell is that all about?"
"Chakra materialization" Rei replied calmly, without taking her eyes off Ryo. "It's a bloodline limit possessed by a certain clan in Amegakure. They're the only people who can release chakra from their bodies and make them take a specific form… however, in the entire, shinobi history, there was a small group of creatures that possessed the very same trait…"
"What group?" Kusari asked the lazy girl confused, yet the one to answer his question was Naruto: "The tailed beasts. In the past, nine demons attacked some of the hidden villages. Their power was incredible, but still humans managed to defeat them, by sealing them inside people bodies. Such people were called Jinchuuriki, human sacrifices. They had access to the beast's power, which made them perfect weapons. One of the powers Jinchuuriki received by using demon's strength, was the ability to materialize chakra…"
"How do you know so much about that, Naruto-sensei?" asked Kumiko curiously, yet the jounin didn't reply. Silence felt between the gennin for a short moment, until Senkou burst out: "Wait, so what you're saying is that Ryo guy carries a demon inside of him?"
"No" Tsuino cut in, gaining everyone's attention. "Ryo only possessed the ability to materialize chakra through his blood. Every member of his clan was capable of doing so, until they were wiped out by their own countrymen, who saw his family as demon reincarnations…" and at this point Ibuki wanted to ask him something, however at that instant Ryo charged forward, making her concentrate all her attention on the match.
The rain-nin launched his spear out front, aiming to pierce right through Tokame, yet the Kusa gennin managed to bend to his right in time, thus avoiding the assault. Ryo kept on attacking however, forcing his opponent to dodge a storm of attacks. Finally, noticing that the glasses-wearing boy slowed down a little bit, Tokame decided it was his time to act.
With Ryo's another swing of the spear, parallel to the floor, Tokame jumped up and flipped in the air, lading with his hands on top of his opponent's weapon. As they rested firm, the grass-nin spun on them, aiming a kick into the Ame shinobi's face, yet before the assault connected, he lost ground beneath his hands and started falling, completely loosing his balance.
In a flash Ryo hit him in the back, thus sending him flying a away. Still in mid-air, Tokame flipped and landed safely on his feet, yet the rain-nin was already charging at him, bringing his spear down. Without any, other way to dodge, the Grass gennin jumped back, making the blade dig into the floor, but to his surprise, the glasses wearing boy immediately swung it again at him, making it extend.
With a short distance between him and the weapon, the tip of the extended spear managed to cut Tokame shallowly, ripping his clothes slightly. The grass-nin narrowed his eyes, although it was hard to tell whether it was caused by annoyance or anger. As he came to a sliding stop, Ryo placed his spear this time perpendicular to the ground, and held it in his left hand, while grabbing what seemed to be air with his right hand behind it.
Suddenly the spear's shape changed a bit and its ends started to bend back as Ryo's right hand moved away from it and it was only then that Tobane noticed a thin, chakra string that went from top to the bottom of the spear: "That Rain guy shifted it into a bow!" she realized instantly, but before she could even warn her teammate, the Ame gennin released the string and in a flash a spike formed from chakra came at Tokame at an incredible speed.
His body reacted before his brain and immediately the grass-nin leaned to his right, making the 'arrow' miss his vital point, yet still cut his left arm deeply, making blood spray out of it. Tokame clenched his teeth in order to keep the cry of pain in his mouth as the wall behind him suddenly crack. The spike hit it, disappearing into thin air.
He settled his eyes back at Ryo, whose weapon once more became a spear, yet different from before: now the main blade was surrounded with tens of smaller ones that forced something like a circle beneath it. Also the blade itself seemed to be even bigger then before, while the handle certainly got longer.
"My weapon is made of chakra" Ryo reminded his opponent calmly, his face still as stone cold as it was before. The rain-nin adjust his glasses slowly, allowing Tokame to take a short break before he continued: "It doesn't have a solid form. I can change its shape at will as well as I can make it become ether according to my desire. You thought I'd allow you to use my spear as a ground when I could just rip it off its physical form?"
"I got carried away and forgot about it, that's all" was Tokame's only reply. He didn't seemed worried or anything even near that feeling, yet Taka managed to see a change in his posture. He knew his teammate lost a piece of his usual, laid back self, yet he could not tell what sort of emotion was taking the best of him. "But I will admit that your ability is troublesome to fight…"
"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet" Ryo assured him and in an instant charged at the grass-nin. He cut from above, parallel to the floor, making Tokame crawl down to dodge the attack. As the spear went over his head with a cutting sound, the Kusa gennin propped his hands on the ground and spinning on them, he aimed a kick at his opponent's face.
Immediately Ryo bended back, making the kick go right in front of his face, and pushed his weapon forward in an attempt to pierce right through his adversary. Seeing this Tokame came to a stop and resting his body on his right hand, he leaned to his right, making the assault go next to him.
Yet the attack was not over yet and Ryo simply held out his other hand, in which another spear formed itself and before Tokame could react, his left side got pierced by his enemy's weapon. As the blade sunk deeper into his body, the grass-nin bounced of the floor to his right, thus leaving the blade behind his body.
Tokame flipped in mid-air, landing safely on his feet and gazed at Ryo, who now held two, chakra spears, one in each hand. Pain struck his side as he narrowed his right eyes to stop himself from showing an unwanted expression. Nezumi's weak voice, calling out his name, reached his ears, but he completely ignored it.
His breath become heavier then before. "This is starting to look bad" he thought to himself as he glanced at the newly received wound. "It's not like I can block those attacks in any way. That is chakra after all and it doesn't have a shape. A solid defense won't do… and since that is the case, close combat is out of the question… so how should I resolve this?" he asked himself with a smile appearing on his face as he settled his eyes on Ryo again.
"I like that Rain guy" announced Funbo with a smirk, making Horohoro throw him a gaze. Hitomi only narrowed her eyes and not paying any attention to her teammates, she thought to herself with a single drop of sweat running down her face: "With such an ability, the only way to destroy those chakra weapons is my Jyuken... but even so, in order for that to work, I'd have to lay my hands on those spears… fighting something like that will be extremely difficult…"
Ryo once more charged forward, making both of his spears spin in his hands. As he reached Tokame, the rain-nin began attacking from every angle, forcing his opponent to keep dodging, incapable of fighting back. Having no opportunity to counter attack, the Kusa gennin jumped back, away from his adversary, yet to his surprise, chakra manipulator simply brought one of his weapons down and in a flash in extended and became loose.
"He switched it to a whip!" Tsume instantly realized as the scourge hit Tokame hard in the chest, once more making his blood spray the ground. Mikka covered her mouth as the grass-nin landed on the floor, immediately dropping to his knee and holding his chest with his hand, almost as if he was trying to hold the blood inside his body with it.
"Ryo seems to hik have the upper hand" noticed Nazaa cheerfully, yet Tsuino only narrowed his eyes as the reply. He had a weird feeling that this was still not the end.
"It'd appear your friend is in trouble" noticed Takaru as he gazed at Hizoku, however the redhead only smirked as he turned towards the younger gennin and with a calm voice, he replied: "Not to worry… that Ryo guy is strong, but Tokame still has one ace in his sleeve…"
"You know, in actuality, there were two reasons behind the annihilation of my clan" Ryo suddenly stated with an empty gaze and his face wiped from any emotions. "One was chakra materialization, the trait of the tailed beasts. But there's more to that. There's also the second reason, the real one. There really can be something to the thought that my clan grew up from those demons. The longer we use our bloodline limit, the more self-control we lose… using it non-stop for several minutes leaves to being taken over by rage… we go berserk and do not stop until our opponent is dead. I was able to restrain myself, however I won't manage to keep that up much longer. If possible, I'd prefer not to kill you, so please, give up while you still have the chance to do so…"
"Well, I'm grateful for your warning" stated Tokame simply, lowering his head as he covered his wound. "However there's a catch to that. You know, I don't like Taka too much… but the fact is that he decided to sacrifice his chance at becoming chuunin so that the rest of us could reach the final stage… if I'd give up just like that, I'd make that sacrifice useless and that I cannot do… I still have my ability to show off" and with that he performed a quick set of hand seals.
As he completed it, Toku's eyes widen is surprise, while Galu tightened his grip on the rail slightly. Kai on the other hand leaned over it, yelling completely shocked as his eyes stopped on the two ninja that stood on the arena… only two: "What the hell? That's impossible! That… that Grass guy… literally vanished!"
---a suspicious, disappearing act… see what happens next---
And this concludes this chapter, but don't go nowhere, coz right after the list of gennin, there's another chappie coming!
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
And off to the next!