I emerge from the shadows with a grin as the third hokage begins his speech to the others. Week of fucking and cuddles. Best week ever! I smirk as we all head up stairs as the names are called. James Kaguya vs Rock lee. James hops down and Lee does the same. They bow to each other before the fight begins.
The boys rush each other and exchange a flurry of blows. Lee is using strong precise hits and avoiding the damage as James grows bones to cover himself and tank the damage. Damm. James lands a good right hook and Lee is sent skidding back as James grows more bone. Looks kinda like a hedgehog with how spikey the guy is. Lee starts to use hit and run tactics. A kick here, a punch there, then running away quickly. James roars and bones lance out to skewer lee. The shorter male ducks and seems to dance as he avoids the white spires of death. James spins and Lee gets slammed into a wall as the bones spin with their originator. James retracts the bones and rushes Lee before slamming him with a barrage of punches. Lee screams and an aura of power explodes out of him as he opens the gates.
The gates are eight spots in the body that limit you. Opening the first one grants you one hundred percent of your strength, no limiters like you usually operate under. The others boost you to the point of godhood. Supposedly the final gate kills you but you are stronger than a kage for the duration of the final gate.
Lee screams again and opens another gate. Two gates? Lee must be getting serious. Lee vanishes in a cloud of dust as James starts to get bounced around the arena. Holy shit! James roars and bones grow out of him. He grows bones and forms a second body wrapping around him, he stands at ten feet tall now, the white giant slams a fist into the ground and Lee appears with red skin. Lee breaks through the arm of the giant and bone fills the gap before the other arm grabs lee. The giant rears back and lets loose a barrage of punches. The white fists batter Lee into the wall and Lee screams as a new burst of power pushes the giant back. Lee is surrounded by a white haze as he launches more punches at the giant. James emerges from the back of it and grows a new set of armor around him as Lee finishes destroying his giant. The men resume their fight and I watch as blood flows from them both. James cuts into Lee with a sharpened bone on his knuckles as Lee tears James open with brute force. Damn these guys are tanks! Both rear back and scream. Lee opens another gate as James surrounds his arm in a mass of bone that looks like the white arm of a giant. The men slam their fists together and there is a wave of force that sends them both flying back.
James staggers to his feet and Lee is unconscious. James is declared the winner. My friend staggers to the stairs and I quickly rush down to start healing him as the arena is cleaned while medics cart off lee.
"I think I speak for everyone when I ask. How the fuck did you make a bone mech!" Jake asks before shouting.
"I read a comic book. This girl could use energy to make armor that she could make bigger. It gave me an idea." James replies as I continue healing him.
"I'm declaring that move banned unless it's an emergency. You ended up removing most of your skeletal structure and depleting the majority of your chakra. I know you're able to grow lots of bones, but that amount puts way too much strain on your body. No more using it until you're able to lessen that strain." I informed my friend. How many muscles did he tear doing that?! I'm in the high dozens now!
James nods and we watch as kiba fights shino. Bugs vs dog. Huh. kiba is using tag team moves with his dog as shino just swarms the pair with bugs. Ugh. all those bugs are inside him? Gross. Never gonna get used to that image. Kiba ends up pulling out a win since he just rushes through the swarm and holds a kunai to shino's throat.
Next fight is sasuke vs sakura and sakura forfeits. I groan as I see my name come up.
Naruto walks down and I sigh. Great. I'm not even gonna get a good fight. Naruto forms a rasengan and my shadow stands up. The boy rushes and my shadows block the attack before slapping him away. Red chakra flows from his body and repairs him as naruto rushes me again. Really? This didn't work last time. Charge, block, slap. Did Not work this time. More red chakra flows out to fix his body as Naruto continues to rush me. God this is boring.
The pattern continues for a while and I've started reading a book as I wait for the idiot to tire himself out. A roar pulls me out of my book though. What? I glance over to see that Naruto is wrapped in red chakra and looks feral. Oh. well then. Naruto roars again and charges. My shadows don't block his attack and I sidestep his rasengan. The feral boy doesn't get a chance to react as I quickly slap his chest with a glowing hand. He coughs blood and drops to the ground as the red chakra flows to his chest and glows like a sun. there. All done.
Naruto groans and sits up as the red chakra dissipates. He is covered in small burns that are slowly healing before my eyes. Of course the dumbass gets a fucking fox that grants him infinite chakra and a healing factor. The boy groans as the match is called in my favor since he is clearly not getting up. I turn to walk back to my team before I hear my name called. It's the hokage.
"William. What did you do? Naruto usually needs a seal to calm him from a rage." The hokage is curious.
"I severed the veins leading to his heart." I replied before I resumed my walk.
"You tried to kill him?!" the hokage thunders.
"No dumbass. When you're drawing on tailed beast chakra, you're constantly healing. By causing a fatal injury I caused the beast to withdraw his chakra and focus on healing his container. Thus winning the fight." I will explain.
Honestly it's pretty dumb. Let your container die and you're free. Guess I'm smarter than a centuries old mass of sentient chakra. Naruto is escorted to his team and I lean against the wall while hugging neji. Shadow abduction, success. A few more fights and I watch one that makes me laugh. Neji vs hinata.
The pair of hyuuga walk forward and slip into their stances. The gentle fist, a fighting style revolving around shutting down the chakra network of their opponents by striking pressure points that block chakra flow. They exchange words and hinata stands. No. she forms a hand seal. That bitch! She channels chakra and neji laughs before rushing her. He capitalizes on her shock to swiftly win. Hinata is carted to her team and neji walks to me. The hokage is whispered to by the hyuuga clan head and he speaks.
"Neji hyuuga. How were you unaffected by the caged bird seal?" the hokage questioned.
"My mate removed it with his own mark." neji replies by pulling down his shirt to show a mark of a pair of crocodile fangs about to snap down on a turtle's head.
"Orochimaru has corrupted this boy! Anbu take him!" the hokage thunders. My shadows wrap around neji.
"Not orochimaru. Me. The cursed seal isn't a curse or a seal. It's a mate mark. By channeling demonic energy into your fangs and biting your lover you can mark them. This binds you two together and allows you to become stronger, thus ensuring you both survive and can produce strong young. Granted we are both male so the second part doesn't count." I will explain.
"Wait. So orochimaru marked me as his lover?!" the proctor from the first part asks.
"No. there are two kinds, well, two kinds mainly then there are several subtypes. The one I gave neji is a mate mark. You already know about it since I just told you all. The other kind is the concubine mark. It marks you as his property and while you will grow stronger so you can serve your master. You can't get stronger than him and you will be punished for trying to rebel against him.'' I replied.
The woman blinks and the hokage speaks up as she turns green.
"So why did your mark remove the caged bird seal?" the hokage asks me.
"A mate mark will heal the mate. Anything that harms the mate at the time of the mark is removed. The caged bird seal hurts neji so my mark removed it. Simple." I replied before hugging neji and leaning against the wall again.
The fights resume and are pretty boring although I see Jake fight and he is scary.
Jake fights gaara and i watch as jake spins a fuck ton of illusions before he vanishes. There's about twenty minutes of gaara looking around and sending sand in random directions before Jake appears behind him and a seal forms on the floor. Gaara screams and I watch as power flows out of him and into a dildo on the floor. He actually did that!? Jake snickers as gaara falls unconscious and he picks up the dildo before walking up to us. Great. Now my mentally unstable friend has a dildo with a mentally unstable sand spirit. That's not gonna cause any nightmares. Jake cackles and swings the dildo as the fights resume.