Chapter 17th - The Rest?
As I got my rest the day before the finals I mainly had massive mental battles, only by the grace of Divinity was I able to survive and heal so thank God as always. As I sit and rest at the time, I realize it has passed too slowly. I don't want to waste any of it, but providing peace toward the ordinary people that Konoha does, all politics aside, comes from doing well in these exams. Ninja life is albeit brutally unfair and cutthroat and there are plenty of bandits and thieves and rapists in this world. Putting on a decent show, after seeing the little girls and their moms cry, make me realize just by trying the best I can be, can I change the lives of the those around.
And it's the non-talented, but specifically the sincere ones that I find myself wanting to serve in a way. So Kohona at least coming out not limping in the finals against their jinchuriki and even though Kumo's likely got this in the bag, especially since Kronos is still in it, is a symbolic sort of win as long as I don't flop.
The next fight:
Referee: Are you Ready?
Both of us stare at each other, although me looking slightly weakly, and nod our head.
Ref: Then GO.
Immediately, I pull shuriken for I've been mostly using kunai and start with standard Uchiha throwing techniques. With curved wire and a specific formation tp catch her off guard with zigs and zags after the claw movement, I get a few scratches and somewhat deep cut thanks to the sharigan.
But a jinchuriki can take hits like that and rushes forward instead of substituting. Like A Bull without a Care in the World, it moves with such precision in the straight line that it makes you think you're partially controlling it with a red cape, all for the veil to come crashing down when the shoe drops.
Yugito opens up her Jinchurki cloak and all the show and pizzaz and for the world, and everyone is hooked.
Yugito: I am coming to destroy you!
With the performance she's putting on, I realize she's trying to trick the audience into a performance.
Miho: why? Yugito: There is no Reason. Miho: Were you created to be this way? Yugito:(realizing I'm talking about her status, remains silent)
Miho: This feels like a fake battlefield of sorts, but we shall still battle on it,(I say quietly so only she can hear).
As we start Yugito pulls out twin tomahawks and throws them while grabbing her dual katanas to slash everywhere all at once.
All I attempt to do is dodge, but appeasing one's enemy only gives them room.
I try to set up a mini circle of electric kunai as an Environment, and so we'll both See how this goes.
With wire in my teeth I use small amounts of electric current around me and stand seemingly like a sitting duck only to drop flash tags as she runs towards me.
With a blinding flash, I use the time to flip Mikoto-style and twist, performatively in the air and drop a right hamer kick only for Yugito to deflect with her elbow, but really this was a diversion to get a left elbow into left ribs lightly and BITE her left arm.
While she left surprised I go for a few more bites and get chucked off after she realizes the absurdity what was done.
Now that I've got my token scratches and hits in, I can let go and just try to Live. Not Fight for performance but because I Can.
Time is of the essence.
I sprint forward with dual hip pop curled sets of kunais that pop on the floor next to Yugito and use it as a set of bungee cords to Launch myself forward.
I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing, but I've got electric wire running through my mouth and like a "suicide bomber" I had the same wire I used to Launch at and all Around her into the floor around her and get to the bear hug and electric shock the both of us, albeit her with coat.
With a flash, and us being the final 2 left, she can't help but look at me, although her scratches are healing with awe for the supposed "self-sacrificial" play I made.
Like I said, I'm not here to perform to anyone's "expectations" or "preferences". I'm just trying to get by and try some stuff. No strings "Attached" in this freeform esque spar.
Yugito, deciding to end this farce and not "perform" either seemingly SLAMS the ground forward with an attempt to end this quickly, but "Twileralla" decides to becomes as I throw my shoes at her face with have explosive seals that explode to not hurt much but to provide dust cover as I hide in the darkness, with a sharigan activated, waiting for her next move.
She seemingly gets annoyed by my lack of going with the "plan" and not having a clear "message" other than be an annoyance and decides to fire her blue-esque flame jutsu everywhere. It becomes a problem of Sight and quite literally almost all the spectators but the show is quite dazzling for the young civilian girls I inspired yesterday, and that's what keeps me moving Forward with "Strength" and put on a light "show" and have the remaining smoke seemingly seem like it's sparkling like a firework in all the smoke, but it's real "purpose" is too spread the paralyzing charge all around, which fails against Yugito's cloak, but makes her a split second wary for it would have done ordinary ninja in and gives me the time to use the dual hip thrust behind me with a bunch of kunai but instead of wire, I BOUGHT ROPE and so in the process launch myself like an actual bungee cord with a seat and PULL myself all the Way backwards, and with a cushion-like film around the lower back, and the smoke that cleared up, not that it mattered since I was on the edge of zone, I propelled myself like a bullet with the same kunai I used before to launch myself at Yugito, but only do so at 4 and a half times the speed.
Being so fast her eyes dart toward an object and is forced to substitute to the right side about 10 meters away with debris, but I "Anticipate" this by using the Sharigan to watch her eyes, drop the launching in my left hand and Curve instead of "Angle" toward her and force her to use her katana to block my kunai while I send another shock through both metals.
Again, a flash occurs, and she's all but had Enough.
She turns up her cloak to add a tail, and I gulp when I realize and See Fangs coming out and realizing I just pissed off a Jinchuriki for a Chunin Exam.
And so, like the oh so noble "warrior" I am, I used the "kunai thruster launcher" for I have no other name for this piece of makeshift, seemingly junk and run away while she gets on all 4 fours and chases me in circles.
At this point, this "show" isn't a show anymore, and the Uchiha look embarrassed that I'm Uchiha without any so called "ethics", but I'm Running In Circles away from the Beast, trying not to get hit.
Eventually Yugito, in a moment of Clarity cuts the strings that kept me Moving forward and then all but punches me one time in the left stomach when I essentially roll over like a fish looking like I'm Out of the Fight.
As the Ref is about to start making the call to End the fight, I drop some smoke bombs, and I can Tell Annoyance is the Order of the Day as people seem to willingly get bothered by this shitshow of a "circus". This is not for their Entertainment, simply my Surival for now and the future, and I need to get used to fighting tough opponents in this life Again.
An Opportunity? I don't Know. but I breath fire based phoenix flame jutsu throught the arena, to melt the electric Kunai on the ground which I specifaclly got a specific metal for and threw in a D-rank water based jutsu, water gun, to make a B-tech makeshift Hidden in the Mist jutsu that expands outwards and make Yugito stop her tracks for a second. With a another, heave, I launch the last of my chakra into electric kunai into the fog arouhd Yugito to See how things would Turn out, and the "Result" I receive is a shock based cloud that looks lighting based Pokémon attack but quite literally does Nothing.
But it feels like it has Potential, as I keep this "Knowledge" in the back of my Mind, I realize that I'm Lost in the smoke clouds and fog, just waiting to be Caught cause I don't know what to "Do".
Waiting seems pointless Rushing seems pointless Patience seems pointless Impatience seems reckless AND pointless And so I'm Left with Nowhere to Go.
Finally, with the smoke all cleared up, I ended up withdrawing.
(A/n: And so the chapters/and potentially the story ends so. Apologies for destruction via anticipation caused.)
