Chapter 1: A Falling Servant

YOU WILL ALL BE NO MORE!

As the orbs of darkness appear around the room and begin to become larger as they start to suck all other objects into them as the group tries to stop themselves from being sucked into the orbs

"Damnit, this isn't good." said a tall skinny man with blond hair and in his mouth a cigarette that he was holding on for dear life before it then gets sucked into an orb a few feet away from him

A large blue dinosaur man with a staff in one hand and a small child less than 7 years old in the other trying to keep them from getting sucked into a portal just a meter from them. As the dinosaur man tries to hold on to the child as tight as his left hand could he could feel them slipping from his grip. "Jackie, hold on." as he tries to get Jackie closer to them before they then slip out of his hand and is about to be sucked into the portal until they feel something grab onto them to then see a chinese style dragon wrapped around their waist as they are then thrown by the dragon into the arms of a pink haired person. "Got you." the pink haired person said as they grabbed onto Jackie.

"Thank you Rose" Jackie said still breathing heavily from the experience

"Hey Rex, maybe next time hold on to the kid instead of letting them slip." said the blonde that had a musket handle in his hand that has the rest of the dragon coming from what would be a musket barrel that was extended out to be able to grab Jackie that was over 20 feet away.

"Hey why don't you try to attack that guy with that thing instead of yelling at me!" said Rex as he yelled at the blonde.

"Yeah not too easy to do at the moment!" yelled the blonde as he was holding on to a bayonet that was stuck in the ground but was slowly being released from the ground. 'Damnit, not good.' thought the blonde man as he felt his bayonet slipping. He then thought of something as his dragon extended towards Rex. "Rex! Combo Move!" he cringed at himself for saying that.

Rex seeing the dragon gave a smile at this as he took his staff out of the ground as the dragon had grabbed both him and another dragon had grabbed an orange dragonborn as Rex's staff shrank to the size of a pin as he put it in a part of his mouth that had no tooth in it as it looked like the tooth that was originally there was punched out as his upper arm had lightning forming

around it as the dragonborn blew fire on Rex's arm as both the dragons got in close to a large dark knight that was sitting down on a large chair with a bored expression on its face.

As they got close to the knight the blonde pulled the trigger of the handle as the dragons burst out large blasts of energy from their mouths as Rex jumped at the knight as he yelled out "CHAMPIONS LIGHTNING LARIAT!!!" as he slammed into the knight and the knight screamed in pain as the orbs began to disappear, however due to the force of the attack, the bayonet dislodged as the blonde found himself falling into the orb. As he went through it the last thing he heard was Rex yell out his name. "Musket!"

"HUH!"

Musket awoke in the middle of a clearing with the sun beating down on his face as he got up to look at his surroundings.

As he looks around he feels that he is being watched but ignores it as he gets up to see if he could find anything like a path or any sign of civilization.

"Where the hell am I?" he thought to himself out loud as he began to walk into the forest.

As he walks through the forest he can still feel that someone was watching him and now he felt like they had ill intentions as he stopped and unclipped his holster that held a large pistol as he places his hand on it and then looks around.

The feeling of ill intent seemed to be getting worse as Musket began to wonder if this was the knights doing.

Musket looked around as he saw a slight glint that looked like metal reflecting light from the sun before a kunai came right at his face as he shot threw it, destroying it with his pistol.

Musket was now looking around to see where the attacker was as he then saw another glint of metal as he then shot his pistol at a masked figure that had fallen to the ground holding their shoulder with a bullet wound in it as more kunai and shuriken where thrown at Musket as he grabbed a small rod with 6 balls on it as he threw it in the air before shooting four shots that destroyed the weapons thrown at him before he then pressed a switch on his gun that had the barrel of the gun come off and hang as a rod came out of the barrel before the other rod came down to land in the barrel before he then flung the gun while still in his hand so the barrel would come back to become a part of the gun and then he pulled the trigger and shot two more times to destroy the last two weapons that had been thrown at him

The other masked ninja that were hiding looked at the sight in aw as they all had trouble looking at the amazingly fast attack that destroyed their weapons as the leader of the group realized something strange about the sight. There was no sound from the weapon in his hand when the shots were fired even though he could see smoke coming out of the strange weapon.

Musket without even taking a moment to breath shot to his right to then hear a scream as another masked ninja had fallen from the tree they were hiding on holding their arm in pain, before he then slammed his hand on the ground as a glyph suddenly appears on the ground before it then lights up and then Musket started to fly into the air as he began to fly towards one of the ninja before his left hand then becomes a shiny black before it fades as he then punches the ninja in the stomach before he lands on the ground as he holsters his gun.

Musket then grabs a cigarette out of his left pocket as he puts in in his mouth before lighting it with a lighter in his right hand as he smokes the cigarette before he then takes it out of his mouth and then flicks it with his right hand to his right before a fireball explodes and another masked ninja screams as they fly backwards

The leader of the ninja was watching his group falling to this unknown intruder as he thinks to himself. 'Who is this man, not only is he not using any hand signs but he doesn't seem to be using any chakra at all and he is taking on an entire ANBU squad on his own.' The Anbu captain then began to pulse his chakra in a certain way to call on any Anbu in the area as he then notices Musket disappear in an instant. 'What the hell!' The Anbu captain then looked around to see where Musket had gone before he then felt a strike to the back of his head before all he could see was darkness as he fell to the ground.

Musket then grabbed the Anbu as he slowly floated to the ground and placed the man on the ground as he looked at him and the rest of the Anbu that he had healed after they fell so they wouldn't die of their injuries as he did the same to the captain.

"Well this is interesting, some ninja's." Musket was looking at the Anbu before he then felt another person coming towards him as he was then able to just dodge out of the way of a three pronged kunai with weird looking writing on it as it dug into the ground a few feet behind him. Musket then looked up to see a blonde ninja in a green vest and a blue body suit as he then began to talk.

"Can I help you?" said Musket in a sarcastic way.

The newcomer laughed as he said in a surprised voice "Well I came to see what was going on cause I sensed a chakra signal that said someone was in trouble and then I saw you."

"And then you throw a knife at me, kind of rude."

"Well that was to get your attention, and well another reason."

Musket was confused when he said that as he didn't understand what he meant by having another reason for throwing his kunai before the man suddenly disappeared and he heard a voice from behind him as he saw a kunai at his throat.

"So what are you doing so close to Konoha, are you with Kumogakure, or maybe Iwagakure, or are you with one of the smaller villages? Either way I'm not going to let you just walk into my home and hurt those I care fo…"

The man was surprised as Musket suddenly disappears as he then begins to look around before he sees a bright light as he looks down to see a glyph at his feet as he then teleports away before an explosion goes off as Musket in a tree 20 feet away looks down at the scene that had just accrued. "So he can teleport, this will be harder than I thought." As the man then teleports behind Musket and slashes at his neck before the illusion disappears as the man looks at what had just happened in confusion.

"Wait, was that some kind of genjutsu?" the man thought as he then teleported out of the way of a blob of acid.

The man then teleports back to the kunai in the ground as he looks for Musket before hearing a voice above him as he looks up.

"Well I'm impressed, I didn't think I'd have to deal with someone who could teleport."

"I was going to say the exact same thing, but I haven't seen you use any chakra since i got here since i can't feel any in you when you use your abilities and you haven't used any hand signs or even seem to have any life energy that i can sense at all." the man said in a confused voice as red pigment was just below his eyes as he said this before it disappeared when he finished his sentence.

'Chakra, what is that?' Musket thought before he began to speak. "What's your name?"

"Minato, and you?

"Musket."

Both men looked at each other before Musket brought out a musket with a bayonet attached to it from thin air and Minato brought out one of his kunai as the both stared at each other before a leaf falls down to the middle of them as Minato charged at Musket who had began to shoot at Minato.

As Minato dodged the shots he noticed that despite the smoke coming out of the weapon there was no sound coming from it as he then threw his kunai at Musket who flew in the air as he reloaded before he then made another musket come out of thin air and then began to shot at

Minato as he dodged a shower of bullets before he then let go of his muskets that floated in the air and kept firing at Minato as he charged a ball of energy in his hands.

'This isn't good, I need to find a way to get to him' Minato thought before he gained an idea as he grabbed a few more of his kunai before throwing them into the air as his leg was grazed by a bullet. 'That won't be good.'

Musket saw the kunai come towards him as they then started to fall as he noticed Minato teleport to one of them before then grabbing the others and throwing them again before randomly teleporting to one as he used the kunai as a ladder to Musket dodging his shots by teleporting to another kunai as he got closer to Musket before he was within 10 feet of Musket as he then made an orange sphere of energy in his hand.

"Rasengan!" Minato yelled as he slammed the attack into Muskets stomach as he then felt the blast in his stomach as he fell to the ground

"Eldritch Blast!" Musket yelled as he was hit by the Rasengan as he was lifted further into the air before he then fell to the ground as well.

As both men fell to the ground they both thought only one thing before they blacked out 'That hurt."

Hours later~

Both men began to stir as they both put a hand on their stomachs as they both began to get up

"Man that sucked, I thought I was done there." Minato said in a bit of pain.

"Yeah, I'm surprised I'm even still alive." said Musket as he held his stomach.

"Same. I'm wondering why you didn't finish me with that last attack." Minato said, confused.

"Well I didn't want to just kill you. I mean you seemed to care about protecting that Konoha place and I didn't want to kill someone who was protecting their home."

Minato looked at Musket before they both began to laugh before both stopped to hold their stomachs as they still hurt.

Musket then got to his feet as he healed his wounds before he went over to Minato as he placed his hand on his shoulder. "Here let me help." as he then healed Minato of his wounds.

Minato looked at his body as his wounds healed and he felt his energy come back to him as he then looked at Musket in astonishment. "How did you do that?"

Musket laughed as he waved his hand as little sparks appeared around it. "Magic."

Minato began to laugh as he then saw a group surround them as four had katana and kunai to Musket as he put his hands in the air as one of the Anbu talked in a stern voice. "You have trespassed on Fire Country Territory and have attacked five Anbu officers and a shinobi of the leaf. As a result you will be detained and taken to Konoha's Torture & Interigation Department!"

Musket knowing that he was in no shape to try to stop from being detained and didn't want to provoke these ninja's any further he decided to allow them to take him as he was taken in a flash as Minato looked at what had happened before he then talked to the Anbu who were asking if he was alright.

Konoha's T department

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, was walking through the halls of the T department as he was thinking about what he had just learned.

Flashback

Hiruzen was at his desk as he was listening to the Anbu captain that had appeared in his office to tell him about the intruder and the events that had taken place outside of the village.

Hiruzen thought about the abilities this intruder had and the weapons he had on him when he was captured. 'I've never heard of someone not having any chakra before, and to have stalemated with Minato is an incredible task on its own.' "You said he is in the T department correct?"

"Yes Lord Third." said the Anbu

'Hmm. Maybe I should meet him myself.' "Ok. I will be meeting with this man myself. Please inform Ibiki that I will be coming."

"Yes sir." The Anbu disappeared in a flash as Hiruzen turned to look at the village from his office window. "This day has become full of surprises."

Flashback end

Hiruzen had made it to the door of the interrogation room that held Musket before looking at Ibiki. "Is this him?"

"Yes Lord Third. We have ten Anbu inside at all times to make sure he doesn't try anything."

"Hm. Understood. I will talk to him myself if you don't mind."

Ibiki looked at Hiruzen. "Are you sure Lord Third?"

Hiruzen smiled at Ibiki. "It's alright Ibiki I'll be fine." as he entered the room.

Musket looked up to see an older man of maybe his late forties as he sat in the chair across from him before he spoke.

"Hello. I've heard a few things about you." Hiruzen said as he put his hat on the table and looked at Musket.

Musket looked at the older man as he thought to himself 'he must be some kind of leader of this place as he doesn't seem to look like an interrogator with those fancy looking clothes and all the other guys in the room seemed to stand at more of an attention when he entered.'

"Did you now? I hope it wasn't anything bad." Musket said in a way to sound like he was just joking with the older man. "I'm guessing you're someone very important to this place as you look like some kind of noble or something."

Hiruzen was shocked at this for multiple reasons. First was that he didn't know who he was despite the fact that he was known throughout the lands as the God of Shinobi and most people

had known about the Third Hokage of the strongest hidden village. The second was the fact that he was able to figure out he was important from just his looks. "Why yes I am. I am the Third Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leafs."

Musket looked at the man with a confused expression wondering what a Hokage is. "So are you some kind of leader or something?"

Hiruzen looked at Musket with a surprised expression as he began to speak again. "Umm. Yes, I am the leader of this village and its protector."

Musket looked at the man as he asked. "What's your name?"

Hiruzen was surprised by this question as he then answered. "Hiruzen Sarutobi, I've heard your Name is Musket, am I correct?"

"Yes, that is my name. Nice to meet you Mr. Sarutobi. How may I help you today?"

Hiruzen smiled as he began to talk to Musket as he asked what he was and why he was so close to the village as Musket explained how he had got here.

Hiruzen was surprised about Muskets story and could barely believe what he had told him but Musket seemed to be completely truthful of his story and showed no sign of making up his story of how him and his group met the dark knight and how he went through a portal before waking up in the forest.

Hiruzen stroked his beard as he thought about the story. "Interesting. Around the time you would have woken up their was a sound of what was thought to have been thunder and since there wasn't any sign of a thunderstorm within range of the village for the noise to be as loud as it was it was thought that some sort of jutsu had gone off and so some ANBU where sent to investigate incase of it being an attack from another village until they met you. And while I may have thought your story was far fetched, the fact you have no chakra at all and your abilities are beyond that of many of our Jonin's tells me your at least not lying."

Musket smiled at the old man as he was happy that he was willing to at least listen to his story and didn't immediately dismiss it unlike the rest of his interrogators. "So I'm free to go then." He said in a joking fashion knowing it wasn't going to be that easy.

Hiruzen laughed at this, hearing the tone of Musket's voice. "Unfortunately not, I'm afraid. You are technically an unknown intruder into Fire Country and as we are in the middle of a war we can't just have you leaving of your own free will."

Musket shrugged at this. "Understandable. Although you said you were in the middle of a war?"

Hiruzen nodded as he explained the world affairs at the moment involving the Third Shinobi World War and the Five Elemental Countries as Musket listened closely to what this world was like at this current moment and wondered if he could help seeing he had no way home.

As Hiruzen ended his explanation of current world affairs he stared at Musket who was looking at the table as if contemplating something.

"What can I do?"

Hiruzen was shocked at what he just heard from the man. "What?"

"What can I do to help? It's the least I could do to prove I'm an ally. I don't want to wait here in a cell when people are suffering out there and troops are dying."

Hiruzen looked at the man as he saw a fire in his eyes that told him he was being completely truthful to what he was saying and would be willing to help in any way he could.

"Hmmmm. Well if you truly want to help then I'll do this, I'll let you out in three days where I'm going to have me and some of my best Shinobi test you to get an idea of your skills and abilities and if I am satisfied I will allow you to join our ranks. However, If I am not satisfied with your test I will have you be considered an enemy that had tried to infiltrate the village to attack and destroy it from the inside and you will be executed for it, understood?"

Musket gulped at the proposition and realized the old man was completely serious and realized that if he didn't agree he may be killed anyway. So with that he nodded as he realized he was going to have to pull out all the stops to survive.

Hiruzen smiled at seeing Musket nod as he bid him adieu as he left to continue his regular duties as Hokage.

3 days later

After three days Musket was released from his cell as he was escorted by five ANBU operatives to a training ground in the middle of the forest surrounding the village as he saw the old man with five other people around their early 20's. One of them being Minato who was smiling at him when he saw him coming out of the forest. The woman to his right had a similar outfit to him with the only exception being that of shorter sleeves for her shirt and brilliant red hair in a ponytail

with two strands coming to either side of her head just in front of her ears. The man next to Minato had a face that always seemed to be in the expression of a scowl with a similar outfit to the others but with a fan symbol on the arms instead of a red swirl. The woman next to him had an outfit like the others but in a gray color instead of the blues of the others and red marks on her cheeks and above her eyes, but what surprised Musket the most was her large one eyed dog next to her. And finally a man next to the red haired woman with a similar outfit to the red haired woman and 2 large scars across his face.

As Musket looked at the group and took in all of them he then heard Hiruzen clear his throat as he began to speak.

"Ok then, may I introduce you to my helpers for this test. The woman at the far right of you is Tsume Inuzuka and her partner Kuromaru."

"Hey." She said it with a smirk and wave

"The One next to her is Fugaku Uchiha."

Fugaku only looked at him, not letting go of his scowl.

"You have already met Minato Namikaze."

"Long time no see. Sorry about that hit from last time. My stomach still feels sore from your last move." Minato gave a smirk to Musket and the redhead next to him chuckled at what he said.

"The Woman next to Minato is Kushina Uzumaki."

"Hello, Minato told me about you and honestly would have expected a little more." She was looking him up and down as if she was expecting some sort of invincible monster rather than a blond in a white shirt and black pants and shoes with fingerless black gloves.

"Sorry to disappoint, I guess." Musket put a hand on the back of his head with a confused smile on his face.

"And finally the man to the very left of you is Shikaku Nara."

"Huh, troublesome." was all the Nara said to Musket who became very confused about the man's mannerisms

'He looks like he doesn't even want to be here' Musket thought to himself. "Um, well. Hello the names Musket, nice to meet you."

Tsume started laughing at the name the man had given them. "Musket, what kind of a name is that? Sounds more like an object than a name."

"Well actually it is." Musket smiled at the confusion the group had on their faces as he then decided to bring out one of his muskets and sit the butt of the gun on the ground with him resting his hands on the top of the barrel.

Everyone except for Minato was surprised at the man somehow just flicking his wrist and having a large weapon appear out of nowhere. "How did you do that?" Tsume asked in amazement.

Musket chuckled at seeing everyone looking at him in amazement. "Magic." he said while doing jazz hands for emphasis.

Everyone but Minato's face faulted while he and Musket were on the ground holding their stomachs in laughter.

As the two got up from their laughing fit Hiruzen cleared his throat again as he got the attention of the six adults as he began to explain what he had brought all of them here for. "Alright, now with introductions out of the way I would like to explain the test for today. Your test will consist of 3 parts. The first part will be that of your physical skills and abilities, along with your abilities with weapons and other equipment. The second part will be your mental skills and your intelligence. Usually I would have had a Yamanaka to help with a part of this test due to their skills with the mind but there are not any available at the moment so I will have to improvise a little but I think we'll be fine." Musket sweat dropped as he was wondering what sort of powers these Yamanaka people could do. "And your final test would be that of your unknown abilities that seem to emulate jutsu's, this test would have been that of your chakra abilities but that had to change since you don't have any chakra to test."

Everyone but Minato was surprised by this news and were wondering how that was even possible as Fugaku's eyes became a red color and what looked like three tome' appeared around the iris on what looked like a ring where the pupil would be as he looked at Musket for a second before then blinking as his eyes returned to normal. Musket, who had seen this out of the corner of his eye, was very confused and a little startled at the sight for only a moment before he then recomposed himself before nodding to the old man. "So when do we begin?"

Hiruzen smiled at this as he looked at Tsume and Kushina as they stepped up and he explained the first part. "Ok now then Tsume and Kushina have been ordered to use deadly force on you and they are allowed to use anything in their arsenals to kill you while you will only be allowed to use your bodies natural abilities and weapons. You will have to survive against them for one hour, or until neither of your opponents can continue, for the test to be passed." Musket thought about the rules before he thought he should explain some of his abilities to the man so he knows he won't be cheating. "Ok well i should probably then tell you that I have two different sets of abilities that I can use. My first ability is the one only I can do and only my body can perform while my second ability is able to be used by anyone that can use magical abilities so I'm going to use my first ability so that you don't think I am cheating and while it may seem like it's the second ability you will probably notice what separates them, as long as that's alright with you that is."

Hiruzen nodded at hearing this information. "Ok then thank you for the information and I will allow it. Now then let's begin the test." And with that him and the other three men disappeared into the forest as the two women looked at Musket with sadistic smiles on their faces.

"Well this should be interesting at least." Tsume said as she looked at her dog next to her

"Yeah, I haven't had much action in a while." Kushina said while unsheathing a katana from her hip.

Musket smiled at the two as he remembered the last time he had to fight a red head and remembered how hard that fight was even with two other people to help him and now he had to fight two women and a giant dog as he felt like this was some sort of karma for that time as he sighed and then got ready for the fight by unclipping his gun on his hip as his hand laid on the grip as he looked at his three opponents. As he waited for his opponents to make the first move he felt something at his feet as he looked down to see golden chains wrapped around his feet as he realized that Tsume and her dog had charged at him while Kushina seemed to have been staying in place and was most likely the one who was using the chains. Musket realized that he couldn't move away thanks to the chains keeping him in place as he then decided to slam his hands on the ground as bayonets came out of the ground in a wave towards his attackers as Tsume and Kuromaru dodged out of the way before Tsume realized that the attack wasn't aimed at them. "Kushina, look out!"

Kushina had just managed to jump out of the way as her chains were dispelled as when she landed Musket had slammed his hands on the ground once again as another wave of bayonets came towards her as she jumped into the air and threw some shuriken at the man as he dodged out of the way only to then be attacked by Tsume and Kuromaru came at him from both sides of him as in a split second a black shine came across his body as he was hit by both of his opponents as a loud klanging noise was heard around the forest as Tsume and Kuromaru were sent flying away as Musket was trying to catch his breath as Kushina came after him with her katana swinging at Muskets neck, but before his head could come off his neck shined black as another klang came from the blow as sparks were seen flying from the blade as Musket remembered the last time he had fought a katana user.

Flashback

Musket was panting as he looked at his team leader Katana, a pink feathered, female Aarakocra, that had two katanas in her hands as she gave him the Aarakocra equivalent of a smirk. "Tired already, and I thought you and Fu were the greatest on the team. Guess it's me and Fu now huh."

Musket smiled at his team leader as he looked down at the ground which made Katana look down as well as she saw the ground under her crack open as bayonets came out of the ground as she flew into the air to dodge the attack as she then looked at Musket who had brought out a musket with a design of a dragon on it as he was holding it out in front of him as she realized what he was about to do. "Oh so we're doing that now are we, ok." As she sheathed her swords and unsheathed a katana with the design of a multi headed hydra on its blade as she brought it out in front of her like Musket had as they both said the same word as their weapons started to shine a golden color that could outshine the sun.

"Activate!"

Present day

Musket looked at Kushina as he realized that he couldn't find Tsume or Kuromaru anywhere as he heard a shout from behind him as he saw two drills coming towards him as his body gained a black shine on it again as he crossed his arms over his chest to block the attack. "Fang Over Fang!" Tsume yelled as she and Kuromaru slammed into Musket as a large cloud of smoke filled the field as Kushina had started to weave hand seals. "Adamantine Grappling!" as the golden chains came out of her upper arms as they wrapped around Muskets legs as he was then sent flying into a tree as he was then brought towards Kushina who had her katana in her hands ready to slash at Musket as just before she slashed at him a bayonet came flying and blocked the slash as Musket punched her in the face as the chains dispelled once more.

"Sorry about that."

Kushina whipped the blood from her mouth as Tsume came to her side. "You're tougher than you look."

"Thanks, I'm not the easiest to kill so you're both going to have to try harder than that."

Tsume and Kushina looked at each other before nodding as all three of them ran towards him as Tsume and Kuromaru did another Fang Over Fang while Kushina started to do some hand

seals. "Wind Style: Gale Palm!" as she forces a powerful gust of wind at Musket who was sent flying as Tsume and Kuromaru drilled into Musket as he was sent into the ground with a loud thud as a large dust cloud enveloped the man.

Tame landed next to Kushina as they looked at the dust cloud wondering if that was enough to kill him until they had to dodge bayonets flying towards them as the weapons floated towards both of them almost like homing missiles as they had to continue to dodge the deadly blades.

As Tsume landed she saw that the bayonets had stopped following her as they went towards Kuromaru and Kushina as she became confused at the weapons seemingly ignoring her, but as she was wondering why they had ignored her she didn't realize that the bayonets around her had started to float into the air as their blades pointed towards her. Tsume had just realized that bayonets were floating around her as she began to dodge them as one after another started to fly towards her. Just before one would have striked her heart she was able to block it with a kunai as she ran through an opening in the dome of bayonets as she was followed by the bayonets.

Kushina was using her katana to block any bayonets that got too close as she ran too see Tsume and Kuromaru running away from the bayonets behind them as she then went to see that the dust cloud had faded and now she could see that Musket was waving his arms to resemble that of the way some bayonets would move as she then gained an idea as she sheathed her sword again and performed a few hand signs before she slammed her hands on the ground as a gust of wind flew around her as the bayonets around her and the others, who had come to her, were flown away from them in all directions. "Wind Style: Wind Dome Burst!" She then looked at her teammates and began to tell them her plan. The others agreed as they began their attack.

Musket saw the bayonets fly around the battlefield as he looked at his opponents rushing toward him as they began to try to strike at him with much weaker strikes then they used at the beginning of the fight. 'What's going on here.' as he dodged each of his opponents attacks and blocked some with his bayonets. As he looked at his attackers he realized they didn't seem to be all that tired to warrant their attacks being so slow and weak as he then felt a sharp pain in his upper left arm as he realized he couldn't feel it anymore as he then saw Tsume come in to attack him as in a panic he waved his right arm as the bayonets stabbed into her and Kuromaru as they suddenly puffed into smoke along with Kushina as he felt the pain again in his right arm now as he finally realized that two kunai were in his arms as he heard Kushina laugh at him a few meters away.

"Looks like it worked. And without your arms you won't be able to have those knives attack us anymore. So let's end this." as she started to weave hand signs and Tsume and Kuromaru ran towards him in larger drilling spirals as Tsume yelled out, "Tunnelling Fang!" as they both barreled toward him as Kushina finished her hand seals as golden chains came out of her back and were rushing towards him, "Adamantine Drilling Embrace!" as the chains became that of a golden drill.

Musket looked at the three drills of death coming towards him and for just a second a smile could be seen on his face as a wall of bayonets over three feet thick blocked the strikes as all three attacks were canceled out and all of the people watching what just happened gasped.

"H-How is that possible? I thought you needed to use your hands to do that." Kushina was allstruk that they're attack did nothing.

"No, actually that's not true at all. I don't need to even move any part of my body to do it. I just do it because it helps me concentrate more and gives my enemies the false idea you have just learned isn't true. Now. Let's finish this!" Musket had now used some of his bayonets to dislodge the kunai as he started to feel his arms once more, even if it was painful, as he then moved his right arm to his back as he brought out a musket with a dragon on its barrel as he then held it out in front of him and he yelled out.

"Activate!"

As the gun began to gain a golden glow that outshined the sun as all around had to block their eyes as to not blind them as the glow disappeared and now two dragons could be seen out of what would be the barrel of the gun as they looped around Musket as he looked at his three amazed opponents looked at the spectacle in front of them.

"Um. I don't like this." Tsume said as she looked at the dragons as they suddenly extended toward the group as in a split second later all three had been coiled by the dragons as the dragon's mouths had fire in them almost as if holding it back until given the order to fire at the prey in their coils.

"I suggest you should give up now because if you don't I won't be able to stop them from turning you into a barbeque."

Both women looked at each other before saying they give up as the group of four other ninja came back to stand in the field as he had the women let go, as the dragons came back to a be a around the size of a musket barrel as they both look at their master as he pet one of them on the neck as he had them float in the air next to him.

"Very Good." Hiruzen said, looking at Musket. "I'm very impressed with your skills."

Musket smiled as he brought out a red bottle from his pocket and drank it as most of his wounds faded away. "Thanks. Won't lie they had me there for a sec. If I had to move my arms to make my weapons float then I would have been done for."

Hiruzen smirked upon hearing this. "I noticed. But I do have one question. Why didn't you use the weapon on your hip or any of your larger weapons?" he said while looking at Muskets pistol.

Musket looked at the old man for a second before taking his pistol out of its holster and then firing at a tree to his right as three large bullet holes were seen throw the tree before the tree then fell down with a crash before Musket then holstered his gun again in an action that only took a second to complete.

The group looked at the tree that just fell as they looked at Musket again before Musket spoke up. "That is my weakest gun and it only took three shots to bring down a 50 foot tree. I don't think we need to imagine the damage done to a human and I'm pretty sure killing my procters would be a death sentence so I decided not to use any of them."

"I see." Hiruzen said, still looking at the tree. "Well then I believe it's time for the second part of your test." he looked at Shikaku who had walked over to musket as he laid down a game board on the ground as he sat waiting for Musket to sit.

Musket looked at the board with a confused face as he looked at the others who seemed to be waiting for him to sit. He looked back down at the board before sitting when Shikaku looked at him and asked "Do you know how to play shogi?"

Musket shook his head before Shikaku explained the rules before they began their game.

1 hour later

Musket was looking at the board as if he was trying to interrogate it while Shikaku looked at him with a smile on his face.

"Figure it out yet?"

"How did you do that?" musket looked up at the Nara very confused

"It's a secret." Shikaku looked at Musket with a smile

The others around the two looked in shook as they looked at Musket as if he was some sort of monster.

"H-How did you?" Kushina said in disbelief

"What?"

Hiruzen looked to the man to explain. "You survived more than ten moves against the best shogi player in possibly all the Elemental Nations. Most can't do that. Although there are a few including me and Minato who can go on for longer and we have both beaten him before but the fact you could do it at all at least states you are a very intelligent man indeed, and the fact you said this is your first time playing is even more impressive."

"Honestly I'm pretty sure a bit of it was good luck."

Shikaku looked at his shogi opponent before giving a slight smile before taking the board.

"Hey Shikaku if you want to go again I'm game. Well after the test that is."

Shikaku looked at Musket for a moment with a smirk. "I hope so. Haven't had a challenge in the game for a while."

Hiruzen smiled at both of them before then looking to Minato and Fugaku as they stepped forward. "Ok now time for the third part of your test. For this one you will have to use your jutsu like abilities while Minato and Fugaku will be allowed to use deadly force on you. The passing conditions are the same as the first part of the test."

"Understood." Musket looked at the old man before looking a little embarrassed before looking at the dragon next to him "Um, is it alright if you watched this one then for me."

Hiruzen looked a little confused at this request before smiling and nodding at the request as he and the others but Minato and Fugaku left the field before Musket got into a fighting pose while his opponents just stood still waiting for him to make the first move.

"Ok then. Let's begin."

END