Wow. It's a fierce battle to see which Akatsuki member will turn into a female! Will it be Deidara? or will it be Kisame! Only time will tell, folks!
I'm thinking of making another fanfic, just not sure completely. Ah well, we'll get to that later.
Some of you might be wondering why Naruto could beat Neji. Simply put, Naruto is already on his way to becoming one of the strongest entities in the world. That's all I'm saying, but I think the rest will be known during the Tsunade retrieval arch.
One more thing. I suggest that if you like a good KH(Kingdom Hearts) story with lots of humor, stupidity, and a shitful of other stuff, that you check out 'A Day At The Castle' by ForbidenKHfan216.
Lol, anyway let's get started!
I only own my OCs and my ten fingers to type this fic.
The part of the crowd that wasn't of Konoha's own villagers were cheering and applauding Naruto's performance and beginning to hold Konoha in higher regards. Hiruzen was grinning ear-to-ear and chuckling, Zabuza was smirking at the boy's skills, and the Kazekage had a glazed look on his face. 'Well now. It seems Naruto-kun has more power than... Sasuke-who? Bah, whatever! As soon as I find a way to remove that accursed Kyuubi from the boy, he will be mine.' thought the 'Kazekage'. Hiruzen and Zabuza gave a quizzical look when they noticed that the Kazekage was shivering, but decided to leave it be.
Naruto smiled from the balcony, happy with being acknowledged. Hinata was in her seat, also cheering for Naruto while he smiled and waved to her. She waved back with a smile, and he noticed she looked really beautiful when she did so. He made a mental note to make her smile alot more from now on.
Sakura calmly walked down into the arena, Shishi next to her as she gave a high-five to Naruto. Shishi gave him one as well, but used his tail instead. Though she didn't have the same control over shadows as Naruto did, Shishi always took care of that by manipulating what she couldn't. Meanwhile, on the balcony, Naruto was bombarded with questions from a bunch of his friends. He simply chuckled and answered as best as he could.
"So you're now in the CRA like Sasuke is." said SHikamaru, though it sounded more like a statement.
"Yeah, but unlike him I actually love my girls. And I still think he's gay." Naruto said. This got a bunch of the people thinking as Shikamaru spoke again.
"'Girls'? As if in, you already have more than one?" he asked. Naruto nodded with a grin on his face as Shikamaru sighed. "Troublesome blond." he mumbled. Naruto just chuckled more and waited for Sakura begin her match. Meanwhile, Akyo appeared next to him from a demon portal and cuddled into his side.
"Everything's ready, Naruto-kun. As soon as you summon the foxes, I ordered them to attack only the ones with musical notes and sand gourds on the headbands. (Are they gourds? I can't tell if they're that or a sand-clock.)" she explained, licking his cheek affectionately. He kissed her forehead lightly and whispered a good job before returning his attention to the fight below.
"Well lookee here. Why, aren't you the cutest little thing? Too bad you're gonna be nothing more than smear on the ground as soon as I'm done with you." said Chou with a somewhat maniac look in her eyes. Sakura just quirked an eyebrow and shrugged before getting into the Black-fist stance, ready for anything coming her way. Chou rolled her left sleeve up and bit her thumb before swiping it into a seal all long her forearm. In a puff of smoke, a gray chain appeared in Chou's hand, a hook on either end. Shishi grew to be alot bigger, nearly a sixth of the entire arena.
Seeing a large fox put all the spectators on edge, as many civilians were nervous the fox would attack them in any moment. Looking between the two, Genma brought his hand up before slicing it downward and saying, "Begin!"
Instantly, Shishi lunged forward and tried to chomp onto the girl, but she jumped to the side and threw the chain towards Shishi. It wrapped around his neck and Chou tried to pull him in, but she just pulled herself closer to him. Grinning, Shishi began channeling youki into the chain and causing it to become black, contrast to its once gray color. As soon as it was completely black, Chou felt her hands begin to burn from the youki. She quickly jumped over the fox and unwrapped the chain, cutting the stream of youki to the weapon.
Chou was about to attack again, but found herself tied by black strings coming out of her own shadow and wrapping around her until she was in a black cocoon, her neck and up being the only things exposed. "Shadow-style: Larva's Punishment jutsu." murmured Sakura as the cocoon began to squeeze Chou. The blue-haired woman screamed for a second, before she suddenly turned brown and melted. Sakura's eyes widened as she saw it was a mud-clone and instinctively jumped up while the earth beneath her crumbled and Chou's hand shot out. She managed to evade the hand from grabbing her ankle, but Chou wasn't finished yet.
"Fire-style: Fire-stream jutsu!" called out the Oto-nin, before she opened her mouth and breathed in, then blew out a two-inch thick line of fire towards Sakura. Said girl quickly jumped backwards and hit the wall. Well, it looked like she would, but instead she went right through her shadow. Chou frowned, but soon felt an immense amount of pain on her shoulder as it was slightly bleeding. She looked behind her to see two Sakuras, both holding a sixth of Shishi's sword-form while the other two pieces were floating on either side of her.
Chou jumped back to get some distance as Sakura returned to the Black-fist stance, Shishi held limply in her left hand. The Oto-nin charged forward while sending her chain to wrap around Sakura, while said girl dodged the chain and waited for Chou to get closer before making a quick slash towards the girl.
Chou jumped back, seeing a small cut on her stomach. It wasn't fatal, but it still hurt. "My, aren't you a feisty one. I guess I'll have more fun than I anticipated." She then threw multiple kunai and shouting, "Kunai Shadow-clone jutsu!" the seven kunai then multiplied into more, nearly three times as much as there was. Sakura just crossed her arms and stabbed Shishi into the ground in front of her. Instantly, Shishi returned to being a fox before his tails expanded and wrapped around Sakura. The kunai bounced off the tail, before it retracted from Sakura.
"Is that all you have?" taunted Sakura.
From behind Chou, the shadow-clone suddenly made hand signs and called out, "Water-style: Water-prison jutsu." Chou couldn't move as she was suddenly surrounded by a sphere of water.
"Then it seems I'm going to have to show you my power. The power my nii-san gave me." and with that, Sakura turned to Shishi. "Let's get started." Shishi nodded and wrapped hi tail around the sphere.
Up with the spectators, Isako was shocked by Sakura's behavior. When the girl went to her room with a bottle of black dye and a shopping bag, she didn't think much of it. But now, seeing her use the same powers that demon brat was using, she knew he did something to her little blossom. Glaring at the jinchuriki, her anger grew more when she saw him grinning at her. 'I'm gonna kill you, monster, for what you have done to my baby.' she hissed in her head. Those around her could see she was pissed, so they made no interaction with her whatsoever. Best to stay alive than be with a pissed woman.
Naruto meanwhile smirked at the woman. She was one of the many reasons why his life was a living hell. So he was simply gonna let her believe what she wanted before busting her bubble. Might be fun to see the woman sputter up a storm. 'Yeah, I did something. Though apparently it made Sakura stronger than what you would've allowed.' Naruto thought while smirking at the woman. They held their gazes for a moment before they heard a scream come from the arena.
Wrapping his tail around the sphere of water, Shishi began pushing more and more pure youki into the sphere, causing it to begin to bubble. If there was one thing he learned during his entire life, it was that pouring youki in its purest form into water caused the water to heat up quickly. So it wasn't much of a surprise when Chou began to scream while turning red as she tried to get away from the water. "Damn it!" she screamed when there was no way out.
"You give up?" asked Sakura while continuing the jutsu. Chou growled at her before she felt something on her shoulder pulse painfully. Sakura's eyes widened as she saw marks spread across Chou's skin. They looked alot like small teardrops chained together from front to tip, snaking around the left side of Chou's body. She suddenly felt the prison expand before it exploded outwards, forcing Sakura and Shishi to jump back from the girl. The slightly unstable girl was now reduced to nothing but a maniac as she began to froth at the mouth while grinning.
"Hehehehe, you're gonna die now!" she screamed as she ran towards Sakura while throwing the chain towards Sakura. Said pinkette frowned and sidestepped the chain, but didn't exactly expect Chou to send fire-chakra through the blade and pull, causing the blade to zip towards Sakura's face. She quickly leaned her head to the side as the hook left a small scar on her right cheek. "Get ready. Once I'm done with you, I'm gonna skin your damn fox and wear him as a trophy, bitch!" said Chou, still looking crazy.
Frowning again, Sakura calmly said, "Please give up now. It's obvious you're not exactly in a good mental state." Chou just glared harder while leaking out more KI. Sakura shuddered, but nothing else while a few civilians fainted from the force. "I ask you to stop. You might hurt yourself."
"I don't care! I want that fox, and your power. Once I have him, he will give me all that he's given you!" shouted Chou while pointing at Shishi. Said fox quirked an eyebrow at the crazed blue-head.
"I think she snapped." mumbled Shishi, Sakura nodding as she made a few hand signs. It was interrupted when Chou, in an incredible burst of speed, appeared in front of her and aimed to slice Sakura's neck open. Said pinkette had no time to dodge as the blade neared her throat. Suddenly, Chou was bitten on the shoulder while being tackled to the ground by Shishi. He began clawing and biting, trying to kill the kunoichi while pushing youki into her body. The dark chakra was fighting his own, but just barely. Even if it was a bastardized form of youki, chou's corrupted chakra was no match to the demon's own energy.
As the youki ate away the chakra, Sakura continued her hand signs and slammed her hands into the ground. "Shadow-style: Black Spike Graveyard jutsu!" shouted Sakura as her shadow was spread across the entire arena. Genma, thankfully, was smart enough to pay attention to the words 'Graveyard' and 'Spike', and knew he should probably get off the ground.
And as soon as he landed on the roof above, he saw Sakura summon an entire arena-full of black spikes that stabbed everything in the arena, excluding Sakura and Shishi. Chou, however, was not so lucky as spikes impaled her left lung, one of her legs, both arms, and her stomach. She was alive for a few seconds before dying, the marks on her body receding to her shoulder. Slowly, the spikes shrunk back towards the ground and into the black pool before draining into Sakura's shadow.
Sakura was sitting there for a second, looking at the horrible mess that was once Chou. She then turned around and threw up all her lunch, her body trembling as tears came from her eyes. Shishi ran towards her and wrapped his body around her, trying to comfort her. "It's okay Sakura-chan. You did what was necessary."
"I-I killed her."
"But she would've killed you. I'm sorry, but you must become accustomed to killing. That is the way of the shinobi. You must kill, even if it hurts." he then picked her up and carried her to the balcony as Genma declared Sakura the winner while there was a ten-minute brake to clean up the arena and to give the spectators some stretching time. Running over to his surrogate sister, Naruto placed a hand over hers.
"Good job Sakura, you did well." he murmured to her while smiling kindly. Sakura gave a weak smile and nodded her head, but stayed silent. "If it helps, you don't have to enjoy killing. You'll become use to it until you feel very little. As long as you can feel the pain, you'll remain human."
"T-thanks... nii-san." she rasped out, before letting sleep claim her. Naruto smiled at her and nodded before turning to the proctor. If Sasuke didn't get here before the time ended, then he would be disqualified.
Well, there we go. Chou kicked the bucket and Sakura did her first kill.
I hope you enjoyed it, 'cuz I did!
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Ja ne!