Chapter 13 Chunin Finals
I had a very busy schedule for the next month of training. First I took care of my personal side, after Naruto gained his new team, which was surprisingly the same team seven with Sasuke and Sakura. Guess the Hokage really wanted Naruto to be in that team regardless of the fact that Kiba was now technically the deadlast.
I helped NAruto train for a while before he started going on missions. I had to listen to him complain a lot, but it was a nice dinner conversation.
Then came my editor and his whole drama of trying to publish a children's story, he didn't like it, but I kept having to force it on him, convincing him it was a good idea. Soon it was announced that Stan Lee was creating a new line of story books for kids and everyone was excited.
And then after that all was finally taken care off, I could move onto the most important part, my training.
I used ten clones to farm up EXP and loot items from the dungeons. From the level 7 dungeon I gained a few electric proof fur items that I fashioned into a new leather armour for myself. The boss of the dungeon was a Primeape, which was honestly a pain to fight, but I managed to win.
Then I unlocked the level 8 dungeon and in there were Machamp, Machoke and Dugtrio as the spawns and a Nidoking as the boss. King had a nice time beating the shit out of him.
I did however gain a very particular item drop from the dungeon;
Power belt, B class
The eare of this belt gains +5 STR.
It came from a Machoke, and it was totally worth the bonus stats I gained. And along with that I also gained a few vials of steroid, which I'm never going to use and a very nice poisoned horn from the boss Nidoking.
Overall my pokemon leveled up amazingly;
1. Flamer, Arcanine
Lv- 42
REP- 91
2. Blaze, Growlithe,
Lv- 39
REP- 76
3. Cuter, Scyther
Lv- 41
REP- 72
4. King, Nidoking
Lv- 47
REP- 85
5. Basher, Onix
Lv- 42
REP- 62
I managed to get all of them over 40, which was my goal in the first place. And with them, I also leveled up;
Yami, Little Professor
Level- 42 (200/49,900)
HP- 8,100/8,100 (+20)
SP- 4,025/4,025
CP- 4,750/4,750
CONTROL- 100%
FIRE- 100% WIND- 100% LIGHTNING- 100%
SCORCH- 100% SWIFT- 100%
Allegiance- Konoha Civilian
STR- 50 (+5)
VIT- 60
DEX- 60
INT- 40 (+2)
CHA- 80
CC- 150
LUC- 27 (+5)
Points- 0
And the moment I leveled up my control for Swift release to 100, I gained the option for more releases:
Ping!
Conditions have been meet: Fire 100% control, Lightning 100% control. Would you like to unlock a keki genkai!
FIRE + LIGHTNING = PLASMA
Conditions have been meet: Fire 100% control, Lightning 100% control, Wind 100%. Would you like to unlock a kekkei tota!
FIRE + LIGHTNING + WIND = POWER
Or unlock another element?
Earth
Water
This time, I selected Power release, for one very simple reason, I finally figured how to make my own jutsu style. The book the Hokage gave me was really useful. Using that I able to create an arsenal of scorch based jutsus, and now that I gained a new affinity, I could work on that as well
I also leveled up a few skills, like my medical knowledge and medical ninjutsu;
Medical knowledge, Lv- 12 (73%)
Your knowledge about the human body.
Chance of success- 44%
Medical ninjutsu, Lv- 8 (2%)
Your ability to heal wounds using chakra.
Success rate- 20% + chance of success from medical knowledge
Limit- C rank Poisons, bleeding, C rank level injuries.
And I also focused on searching for power ups throughout the village, intent on finally getting all 30 golden leaves hidden around the village.
My first stop was the Hokage monument. Honestly, I should have figured this out a long time ago. Four giant heads, obviously there was a high probability of finding a golden leaf on each one.
I found a golden leaf on the first Hokage's head band, one on the second mouth, another behind the Third's right ear and one on top of the Fourth's head.
The first gave me a new headband, bigger than my old one with a sta bonus;
Konoha headband, A rank item
Shows that you a loyal shinobi of the leaf
+40 REP
I think it must have belonged to the First Hokage himself, so obviously I wore it. I have to admit, a black headband is much cooler than normal.
From the second hokage I got a +10 skill scroll! I first tried to use it on my medical ninjutsu, but I fould that I can't level it up higher than whatever level my medical knowledge is, which makes sense considering they're both interrelated.
So I used it to level up my chakra enhanced strength instead;
Chakra enhanced strength, Lv- 15 (0%)
Channel chakra into different parts of your body and unleash it with pinpoint accuracy to cause a large amount of damage.
CP cost- 80 per minute
DMG: 15 X STR
From the Third I got a perk, which was amazing!
Fire breather- +20% more damage when using jutsus which has fire chakra
Hell yeah! Sarutobi for the win! This included my scorch release as that used fire chakra as well. So double bonus so me!
And then finally came the Fourth's head, which probably gave me the greatest prize of all;
Konoha battle cloak, A rank item
A battle cloak worn by shinobi of great repute, whose skills outweigh their stature
Durability- 300/300
+10 REP for all who see you wearing this cloak
It was long, reaching my knees with arms cut short till my elbow. It was coloured black with red flames licking the bottom. And on the back were the words 'Yami', written in kanji. When I wore it it felt like a second skin, perfect in everyway.
I tried it one once at home and looked at the reflection. My hair was longer, reached down till my shoulders and was spiky. With this on I looked like an Uchiha version of the Fourth, even my facial structure was similarly shaped, honestly, it felt a little odd seeing myself look like a mini version of Naruto's dad.
And the more I looked at it, the more I realised just how much of myself I modeled after that man. He was my favorite character in this entire story, no questions asked. Even Naruto came off as a little annoying at times, but Minato? He was my hero.
He lived the life of a hero, a true hero. His skills were amazing and more than that he was a great Hokage, probably the best that would ever live...in my opinion.
And so yeah, I liked him, a lot. And it would seem the game was pushing me into the position where I could revive the legacy of the Flash into Konoha, become it's protector...like he was.
So I decided, if I was going to go this, I might as well go all out. So for the last week of my month in training I began a special kind of jutsu practise. The kind that involved water balloons, rubber balls and air balloons.
The day of departure:
I arrived late for the day of departure. I ran to the gates as fast as I could and found Zumo, China and Gai waiting for me.
I dropped down before them, "sorry I'm late! I was just finishing up some business."
"Yosh! It's fine!" Gai cheered.
"Yami...where did you get that cloak?" China asked as she and Zumo approached.
"I got it made," I smiled as they looked at my new uniform. I had the black cloak over my normal leather uniform. I had my hood and face mask up as well, basically I had my entire body covered.
"Looks cool!" Zumo said with a smile. He also got a makeover, now wearing a red full sleeves top and full black pants with sandals. His staff was battered, it looked like it was highly used. Even Zumo's level had jumped to 37.
I whistled, "damn Zumo, you've gotten powerful. What type of training did you do?"
The Sarutobi winked, "the secret kind. Now come on! We're burning daylight over here!"
I nodded as we all turned to Gai, who was acting as the jonin in charge for this mission. Asuma just go assigned his new team so he couldn't make it, and since Ko still couldn't come into Kumo territory he was out as well. Luckly Gai offered to help, and after getting Ko to take his place for a few days, we were all ready to set out.
It took us three days this time to reach Kumo, China had gotten a lot faster. We went through the same process as before, arriving in the Raikage's office to register, only this time, we weren't alone.
As we walked into the office I saw a Kumo team before me, specifically, Samui's team, with B as it's sensei.
"Heya B! How's it been?!" I cheered out.
B turned around and smiled, "Ya Dark! It's been a while! You're looking hella fly!"
I winced, "need to work on that beat B. It's starting to sound mellow and weak."
"Would you stop encouraging him?!" Kaur cried out, "it's bad enough we have to deal with it, but now you too?! Gah?! Why doesn't anyone understand our plight?"
Omoi snickered while Samui just rolled her eyes. Immediately my eyes land on the blonde bombshell. I walked up to her and winked, "haven't forgotten our deal have you?"
She looked down, damn I hate being short, "I have not. You have my chakra ore?"
I nodded, "yup. I'm a man of my word. Hey tell me, do you like ramen? Because I know this great ramen place in Konoha, we can go there for some."
Samui raised an eyebrow, "I don't think you're overconfidence is warranted. You will lose our match, that I can guarantee."
I shrugged, "we'll see about that beautiful," I winked as I moved aside, letting them walk away.
Ping!
A skill has leveled up!
Flirting, Lv- 12 (4%)
Your ability to charm your target to drop their gaurd, confuse them or getting them to like you.
30% chance of it working
+5 REP bonus if works
Damn, I'm getting better, but not fast enough!
"Yami! You shouldn't flirt with your opponent's!" China cried out.
I sighed, "yeah, but she's so hot China! I can't help it!" I looked over to see a small smirk of a smile form on Samui's mouth as she and her team left the building.
"Argh! You're impossible!" China cried out as we registered Zumo and myself into the final round. We were escorted into a hotel for the night and the next day I was up bright and early.
Our KUBO guide took out to the stadium where the final stage of the exam was to be held. It was outside the city, in another valley, this one was towards the East and the stadium was built into a large flat top mountain with the sindice carved out.
It was an amazing sight to behold, truly it was. At the entrance Gai and China had to leave us to find seats in the spectator section while Zumo and I were taken out back through the contestant entrance.
We walked into a private booth that overlooked the area with a set of stairs on either side going down to the pit. There weren't any chairs or seating arrangements, we had to stand, which wasn't that bad.
We entered and found Samui, Kuro and E inside already, the Kumo ninjas off in one corner while Kuro leaned up against a wall with a book open before her.
"Well isn't this fun," I called out, alerting them to my presence.
Samui looked over for a moment before turning back to E. Kurotsuchi on the other hand looked up from her book and smiled, "well, aren't you looking stylish. You know a different costume won't make any difference right?"
I smiled, "thanks Kuro, you look hot too," I looked up at her level, 45, "and I see you grew stronger, impressive. Mid chunin right?"
She rolled her pink eyes, "right," I approached her, with Zumo following behind me, "so any new tricks up your sleeve?"
I smirked, "one or two. It's going to be fun fighting you."
"How are you so sure you're the one going to be fighting her in the finals?" Zumo raised an eyebrow, "it could be me you know."
I smirked, "I know. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't plan ahead."
"Hey! What makes you both think she'll beat me?!" E asked grinding his teeth. Zumo, Kurotsuchi and I looked at each other before breaking out into laughter. "Hey! Stop laughing!" E growled, prompting us to laugh harder.
He was about to say something else when Samui stopped him by putting her hand on his shoulder, "stop, they're just riling you up. Ignore them."
"Awh, Samui! You're no fun!" I snickered.
"Besides, hood boy won't make it past the first round with me," she added.
I smiled, "oh please Samui, if it's you, I can go many rounds...many, many rounds," I sent her a wink.
"Ack! You're such a perv Yami," Zumo said faking a gag.
"Hey! I'm not a perv! Just an admirer of beautiful things!" I argued back.
"You're a perv," Kurotsuchi said with a snort, "there's no argument on that."
"You're just jealous because Samui's hotter than you," I huffed.
Kurotsuchi rolled her eyes, "oh please, as if."
"Admit it, you're just pissed off because I asked Samui out on a date and not you," I winked at her, "it's fine, if you want after this we can hang out too."
"In your wildest dreams tree hugger," Kurotsuchi snorted.
"You're such a horn dog," Zumo grumbled face palming himself.
"You say that like it's a bad thing," I smirked.
Zumo and I talked for a while, letting Kurotsuchi read in peace. We spoke about what we did with our month apart, avoiding things like training and the like. Ten minutes later Sidra came, only he didn't greet any of us, choosing instead to stand alone in one corner of the room.
Samui and E ignored him, but Zumo was curious at his behaviour.
"Geez, what's his problem," Zumo said looking at the sound nin.
"He feels….different," Kurotsuchi spoke up.
I gulped, "y-you have no idea." The reason for my stutter was simple, it was because of the name over Sidra's head, only it wasn't Sidra.
Orochimaru, Snake Sanin
Lv- 91
REP- -50
Fuck. Fuck! FUCK! What was he doing here?! Why was he in disguise?! Why?! What is going on?! Oh no...Zumo''s going to fight him in the first round! I have to do something!
I ran out of the room, "hey Yami! Where are you going?!" Zumo called out behind him.
"I-I have to talk to the Hokage!" I told him, running to the door, only for a Kumo nin to block the way.
"You aren't allowed to leave," he grumbled out, "no exceptions."
"P-please, I just need to talk to my kage for a second!" I told him.
"No, get back in there," he pointed.
I growled as I walked back inside before looking out into the area, might as well go the long way around. I made a shadow clone, much to everyone's surprise. I used only 100 CP to make him, so not much of a stretch on my reserve.
He nodded at me and jumped out before running along the outer walls of the area, making his way to the Kage box.
I sighed as I walked back to the others who looked surprised by what just happened. Zumo blinked, "dude, since when can clones do that?!"
I sighed, "it's...it's a long story Zumo. Trust me."
"Why did you need to talk to your kage so badly?" Saui asked.
I blinked, "ah...sorry, village secret," I noticed Sidra-I mean Orochimaru-perk up at that. He looked interested but said nothing.
And then the clone dispelled and I gained it's memories.
Clone's memories:
I ran till the kage box which was filled with royalty and of course, the Kages from three villages. So of course it was filled with guard.
I didn't even get halfway there when I was stopped by KUBO guards, "halt! Go back to your waiting room contestant Yami. You aren't allowed to be here."
"I have a major matter to speak to my Hokage about, so sorry about this," I charged at them and managed to slip past them with my superior speed, entering the box with them following behind.
"Yami?" the Hokage called out from his seat, turning around to see me, "what are you doing here?"
"Yeah kid, aren't you supposed to be in your little box?" the Raikage, A, asked.
A, Raikage
Lv- 87
REP- -20
I bowed, "lord Hokage, I need to speak with you, it's urgent."
The man nodded and turned to the KUBO behind me, "stand down, he is a ninja of my village, he has the right to speak to me whenever he wishes."
The KUBO looked unsure, they didn't move until A called out, "it's fine. Let them be."
"Thank you Raikage," Sarutobi smiled before approaching me and dragging me away. When we were in one corner of the room he looked at me with a serious face, "what's this about?"
"Orochimaru has replaced one of the contests, the sound nin Sidra," I spoke quickly, "he's disguising himself."
Sarutobi's eyes winded, "how do you know this?"
"Sidra was in my team during the second task, I memorized his chakra. And the one who looks like Sidra with the others...he isn't Sidra, his chakra is Kage level and he..he smells like snakes. I know that's not a very accurate description, but that's the feeling I'm getting."
Lie successful!
"Are you sure about this?" Hiruzen asked, sounding desperate.
I nodded, "yes, I'm sure. It's him, I know it."
The Hokage looked enrage, "that monster...Zumo...he's to fight Sidra yes?"
I nodded, "yes."
"Then why...why is he doing this? He knows if he shows off too much he would stand out," the man stayed silent for a moment before speaking, "listen closely Yami, I want you to use that on Zumo and keep an eye on him. If it looks like Orochimaru is about to kill hi or something similar take him out of there. Do you understand?"
I nodded, "yes sir. And if I have to face Orochimaru, do I have your permission to use that during combat?"
The Hokage sighed, "I hoped you would only use that during the last match but...yes, if Orochimaru becomes too much to handle, I give you permission to use that to win."
I nodded, "understood….Lord Hokage, why do you think he's here? What do you think he wants?"
"If I know my old student he's here because something interests him."
I blinked, "something?"
"Someone," he corrected with a frown, "maybe one of the contestants interests him and he wishes to test them."
I felt fear for my original self, ""d-did he somehow come to find out about me and my ability?
The Hokage grew worried, "possibly….maybe. If that's the case then you're in danger Yami...if you feel you aren't us to this, then I suggest-"
"-No," I stopped him, "I'll do it. If I just give up then...I meant what I said lord Hokage, about being an explame for Konoha's power. How can I be that if I run away?"
"Good luck Yami...you shall need it," he said in a soft tone.
I sighed, "yeah, Yami will need it," and with that I dispelled.
Back with the original:
I cursed, I really wished my clone hasn't made that choice for me. Oh what am I saying, I would have said the same thing!
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Survive the fight against Orochimaru!
Rewards:
+20, 000 EXP
+5 skill scroll
Failure:
Death
Do you accept?
Y/N?
I sighed and pressed yes. "What happened?" Kurotsuchi asked, "talked to your Hokage?"
I nodded, "yeah," I looked over at Orochimaru, he looked at me, and for a moment, we maintained eye contact. Under the disguise of Sidra, I swear I think he smiled. Fucking bastard.
I turned to Zumo and extended my arm, "Zumo, good luck out there."
The Sarutobi looked confused, "ah...okay?" he extended his hand and we shook, and unknown to him I created a hand seal with my left hand, a half ram seal, that allowed me to leave a seal on the palm of Zumo's hand. The Flying Thunder God seal.
If things got too bad, I could use it, after all Hiruzen did give me permission to do so.
We spoke a little when finally the tournament began. Fireworks sudden light up the sky as a jonin listed as R walked out of the Kage box and leaped down into the middle of the area.
"Listen up people! Welcome to the start of the chunin exams! You all excited for this?!" R cried out!
"Yeah!" the people cheered.
"I'm going to be the referee here! And your announcer!" R called out, gaining everyone's approval.
I smiled, "okay, I hate to admit this, but you're jonin's got some style."
"Hell yeah he does!" E cheered, joining with the crowd. Everyone was in on it, it seemed only Samui chose to remain silent.
"Are you ready?!" R cried out.
"Yeah!" the people cheered on.
"I can't hear you!" R yelled so loud the entire area's chatter was drowned out.
"YEAH!" the people yelled.
"That's what I'm talking about!" R cried out, "today is the chunin exams! The fight of the year! Happening in our very own village! So let's show these foreigners how we do it in Kumo! Can I get a hell yeah?!"
"HELL YEAH!" everyone cheered, even E.
"KUMO! KUMO! KUMO! KUMO!" they began to chant, stamping their feet causing the entire stadium to start to shake.
I blinked, "woah...you guys really like your spectacles huh?"
"Why do you think pro-wrestling's a national pastime over here?" Kurotsuchi asked with a snort.
"Alright people listen up!" R yelled cutting off the chant, "today we are going to see six amazing ninja fighting each other! Two of our own is in it too! So can I get some love for them?!"
"YEAH!" people cheered loudly.
"Alright that's good!" R smirked, "here are the finalist!" he pointed at a jumbotron that light up with the tournament brackets, displaying everyone's names on it, "the first match is between a ninja from the sound! And a ninja from Konoha, from the Sarutobi clan! So make some noise! Sidra! Zumo! Get your white asses down here now!"
"Wish me luck," Zumo turned to me and smiled.
"Good luck," I smiled, Zumo was about to leap away when I stopped in and pulled him closer, "don't give him any time to breath, hit hard, his fast and for the love of god don't toy with him. He's incredibly dangerous Zumo, trust me."
The Sarutobi nodded, "right, I got it," and with that he left.
Sidra came up to the balcony slowly, swaying his legs lazily, he stopped at the edge and looked at me, "you're right little Yami, I am dangerous," he then jumped away. I gulped, that power...it's monstrous.
Zumo landed on the area, followed by Orochimaru. "Alright! Here are the rules!" R cried out as he leaped back, landing on the edge of the arena pit, "no killing if you can help it! Anything else is allowed! Oh, and no endangering the civilians! That's a big no-no! Do you understand?!"
Zumo gave him a thumbs up while Orochimaru just nodded. They then faced each other, Zumo taking his bo-staff out while Orochimaru didn't even bother reaching for Sidra's musical weapon, I'm guessing he's abandoned all pretences of acting like the genjutsu user.
"Something's wrong," Kurotsuchi with narrowed eyes, "that's not Sidra's fighting stance. He's more...afraid. He's not that confident."
I nodded, "yeah...I know."
Kurotsuchi eyes widened, "an imposter?"
I turned to her and nodded, "yeah….that's what it looks like." I turned to the match, I hope he's not here for me...although if Sidra mentioned even half of what he saw me do then maybe Orochimaru did gain interest in me, maybe that's why he's here.
"Alright! Are you both ready?!" R smirked, "begin!"
Zumo launched himself forward, swinging his bo staff and catching Orochimaru in the face, smacking him across the air. 'Sidra' flew across the arena, into the wall, creating a spider web like creature.
Zumo stopped and blinked, "that was easy."
"Don't stop!" I yelled out, "he's still alive!"
And like a zombie rising from the grave, 'Sidra's' hands rose from the wall. He stepped out and cracked his neck, the snapp audible round the stadium. He looked up, his face bandages torn apart revealing a plan face with a busted lip. Orochimaru looked at Zumo and smiled.
He took off like a bullet. Zumo couldn't even see him come at began to wail on him, beating Zumo into the ground over and over again. Inally he punched her over the head, sending him flying away.
"No!" I cried out, ready to move when I saw Zumo's body suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke, replaced by a log.
I felt him appear behind Orochimaru, going through hand seals faster than the normal eye could follow, finally ending on the tiger seal and taking a deep breath. He was about to pour it out on 'Sidra' when the sound nin disappeared.
"Over here!" Sidra reappeared next to Zumo, kicking him in the gut so hard he went flying away, the air pushed out of his body as a burst of fire came flying out as Zumo flew backwards.
The Sarutobi took control midair however, flipping head over heels and landing on his feet, skidding to a halt. He stopped and looked up, panting as his mouth spat out blood.
He raised his bo staff and smashed it down on the ground. Orochimaru looked curious as he waited back, watching as Zumo twisted the metal cap off his staff, revealing a nozzle of some kind.
"Ninja art! Scattering rain!" Zumo called out as he pointed the nozzle at Orochimaru and threw his staff like a javelin.
The sound nin rolled his eyes and leaped away, charging at the now unarmed Zumo. But just then Zumo smiled as he made three hand seals and spat out a wad of fire on the ground.
Suddenly a wall of fire erupted before him. I looked down, the fire moved towards his staff, the nozzle! It must have had some kind of oil! And Orochimaru jumped right into it!
"Clever," came a serious voice as 'Sidra walked out of the flames, "I almost didn't notice the oil spill out of the staff when you threw it," Sidra clothes were burnt away revealing his bandaged body underneath, guy looked like a freakin mummy, "but no matter," he flew through hand seals ending with a bird symbol.
Zuko's eyes widened, he knew that jutsu, I used that jutsu. Orochimaru belched out, "wind release: Great Breakthrough!"
Zumo leaped away just in time, running to his staff and picked it up. Orochimaru leaped at him once again and the two began to fight.
Zumo used his staff to block Orochimaru's fists, each blow bent the staff inwards just a little bit. Until the tenth hit, shattered it in half, reaching forward. It was inches away from Zumo's face when he substituted himself with another log, allowing Orochimaru's fist to shatter that into pieces inside of his face.
I breathed a sigh of relief and watched the Sarutobi leap away, reach into his back pocket and take out three kunai, throwing them at Sidra.
The sage disguised as a genin ducked and swerved away from it's attack and moved forward, but just then Zumo pulled on ninja wire that was attached to the kunai, making the weapons curved around Orochimaru's body and catching him.
The trick was obvious, Orochimaru allowed himself to be captured. But Zumo didn't think that. Instead he smiled as he put the wire in his mouth and began going through the hand seals for the dragon fire jutsu.
He finished with a tiger seal, causing the wire in his mouth to light up in flames and burn Orochimaru alive.
"ARGH! IT BURNS! IT BURNS! Just kidding!" 'Sidra' flexed, allowing him to break out of the wires. He then rushed forward so fast Zumo couldn't even move. He took out his shamisen and struck a cord, causing Zumo's eyes to suddenly gloss over.
I was impressed, but then again this was Orochimaru, the man who set out to learn every ninjutsu in existence. Immediately Zumo became paralyzed, unable to move.
Sidra chuckled as he took out a kunai, "it's my victory," he placed the kunai on Zumo's neck and pressed drawing blood, "goodbye monkey boy."
ZOOM!
"That's enough," I grabbed the kunai the moment I appeared before them in a flash of blue.
Orochimaru blinked as he leaped away, "how did you..." he narrowed his eyes.
"Yo! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" R called out.
I turned to him, "this match is over, clearly Sidra is the winner, he won the moment Zumo was caught under his genjutsu. You said no killing, I'm just keeping to your rules."
R smirked, "alright tree hugger, you make a good point! Winner! Sidra of the sound!" The people cheered loudly, happy that a leaf ninja was defeated. "Now get his sorry ass out of there!"
I nodded and turned ot Zumo, who slowly came out of his stupor. He blinked, "I-I lost?"
I sighed, "dude, just be happy you were alive, go wait in the participants lounge, it's my turn," I told him gently.
He nodded, "ri-right...thank you Yami," he looked to 'Sidra', the man looked at us, or more specifically, me. I moved too fast, people weren't paying attention to me to notice, everyone was looking at the attempted murder, so they didn't know my secret. But Orochimaru...I wouldn't put anything past him.
Zumo took off and slowly following him was 'Sidra', who kept staring at me.
With the Kages:
A raised an eyebrow, "that's one of yours isn't it Hokage?"
Sarutobi nodded, "yes, his name is Yami."
"Oh? No last name?" the fire Daimyo sitting near the back asked.
"No," Sarutobi shook his head, "he's an orphan lord Daimyo."
"He's certainly come a long way hasn't he?" the fire lord said, "I didn't even notice him arrive."
"Yeah, his speed is...impressive," A narrowed his eyes at Yami's form before turning ot the old man sitting next to him, "what do you think lord Tsuchikage?"
Sitting with the two kages was a third, the leader of the village hidden in stone. The old man groaned, "his presence...it seems familiar….very familiar."
The Hokage smirked, 'it should. It's the will of fire you see before you Onoki. And the last you faced it, it came in the form of Minato...ironic to think the next time would be in someone similar.'
With Yami:
"Alright! The first round was dope," R called out, "but now we have our very own Samui coming up in the second round! So give her some love people! I know you guys want too!" he laughed as people cheered loudly, watching Samui leap down into the arena.
"We love you Samui!" people cheered.
"Marry me!" another cried out, a guy by the looks of it.
Samui walked up to me, a thirty feet distance between us. I looked around, the people were really loud this time around.
Samui, Genin of Kumo
Lv- 39
REP- 0
HP: 7,800/7,800
"And facing our fine kouichi is this dark clothes emo looking mother fucker! Yami from the leaf! The guy who saw it fit to interfere in his friend's match!" R spat.
"Boo!" as loud as they were in supporting Samui, they were louder in booing me.
Samui raised an eyebrow, "nothing clever to say."
I smirked, "good luck Samui," I made the seal of confrontation, making her curious.
"What is that?" she asked.
"It's the seal of confrontation, you do that when you fight an alley to show that you respect them and consider them an equal," I smiled.
"You consider me an equal?" she asked.
"Well...you're here aren't you?" I smiled. I saw her REP go up to 10. Ah, so she wants to be treated with respect, not as a piece of meat. "When I first met you I was excited as hell to fight you. I could feel your strength, you were the strongest Kumo genin I met, so obviously I was curious what you could do."
"And the flirting?" Samui raised an eyebrow.
I smirked, "you're also the most beautiful kumo ninja I met, can you blame me?"
"Are you ready?!" R asked, "begin!"
I moved first. I was in no mood for games or dragging this out. I had a sannin to fight. I came down on her with a kunai, Samui drew her tanto and blocked it.
I flicked my wrist and brought out a dagger swiping upwards at her. The blonde moved back and I kicked into the air, leaping behind her.
I swung both weapons at her head, she blocked with her tanto, which is what I expected. I let go of both weapons, ducked down and drew two dagger out from my se
