Pov: Gaara
"Any heavy damage?" Kankuro asks and Temari shakes her head.
"Good- can't have you out yet" He says and stretches.
"You are up next" Temari says.
"Haven't heard any signal yet... mind if I forfeit?" Kankuro says and Temari nods.
Kankuro walks to the railings and away from our corner... he leans on it and yells out to the referee.
"Gaara, do you remember to wait for the signal?" Temari asks with an awkward tone.
"Yes" I reply and grip my knuckles.
...
"Hinata Hyuga wins! We will move to our next match! Gaara of the sand versus the st Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha!" The examiner yells out to the crowd.
"Hey! How come he gets a cool entrance!" Naruto Uzumaki yells out.
"Calm down Naruto, just beat him ter- you refilled on your items yet?" Shikamaru Nara asks.
"Yeah, Yeah I got it" Naruto nods and waves him off.
I walk down the hallway to the arena.
"Hey! Stop- we have a lot of money on you losing, listen- hey!" I ignore the two people talking to me and my sand protects me as I walk forward without care.
...
Without care.
...
I stand opposing my target Sasuke Uchiha- he just arrived it seems and his sensei is being lectured by the examiner.
...
I take a breath and unseal my gourd, letting all my sand flow out and around my skin... I flow more around me and form my walls.
"Sasuke Uchiha versus Gaara of the sand! Begin!" The examiner gives us the clear and the Uchiha smirks before cracking his knuckles.
*Boof!* Sand flies as he kicks into my side, my protective jutsu keeping me entirely safe.
...
*Sm!* *Pow!*
He is strong... fast.
*CRASH!* *BAM!*
He darts around me and I have my sand protect me from all sides.
*Boof* *boom!* *pow* *sm* *crash!*
The hits speed up and so does my sand, I ensure I am in control and calm Mothers voice within me... I take a breath and start a counter attack against the Uchiha.
I can take away a bit of my sand... but can't do much without compromising my defence- I use an armful of sand to rush at the Uchiha who flickers out of the way and behind me to hit my sand wall again.
*Rush!*
My sand barely keeps up but prevents him from stacking up enough damage to break through- seeing this he slides backwards and flickers to the edge of the arena... he performs some hand signs and dips his arm low.
*Cackle*
The lightning makes my eyes flicker for a moment... but seeing as it is not Orange I calm down and focus... I need a defence- I do not want to be that close to death again.
He starts sprinting forward and carving a line in the ground with his chirping lightning.
I start forming a dense shield of sand in front of me- compact- strong, withstanding.
I focus my gaze on him and watch as the lightning meets my unfinished shield, I was not quick enough and he burst through it.
A light scratch grazes my cheek and I touch the blood... the warmth.
This is...
This is my blood?
My blood?
Blood.
Blood.
Blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. Blood- "RAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
A loud monstrous roar cuts my thoughts in two I look into the distance as birds fly away and two ninja flicker to the kage.
Haaa- blood... haaa- what's happening!?
Mother...?
Feathers start to fall.
The signal.
...
"ORRRRRAAHAAAAAAAAA!!!" The distant roars get louder and closer.
The kage flicker away to the roof and time slows down as sand and leaf act at the same time... to protect and one to attack.
I focus on the Uchiha in front of me.
*Boom!*
The wall of the stadium crashes open and both me and the Uchiha turn to see the man I killed- Kenzo the monster... I see why they call him that now.
Thrice the height of me... gaunt and pale, long bck tongue with sharp and needle like teeth, pitch bck eyes and veins... three arms two on one side with dangerous bck cws... plus a long tail that swings a give.
"Genin Kenzo- help us secure the-" A Konoha Jonin approaches him and immediately his give tail flickers and punctures the jonin through the stomach.
"Graagaaaaahhhhhh" A long dry breath from the twitching thing as it drops the Jonin and gets on all of its limbs to crawl up the stadium wall and immediately attack everything and everyone.
Sasuke Uchiha ignores me and sprints after the innocent sughtering Kenzo and I step back when Temari and Kankuro surround me.
"What the fuck..." Temari swears.
"Ignore that- Gaara now is the time" Baki states and I nod.
I gnce to my blood ridden hand and scowl as I look back at Sasuke and the monster.
They should be dead.
They should be DEAD!
THEY SHOULD BE DEAD! PROVE MY WORTH! DIE! BLEED! BLOOD!!!!
---
Pov: Naruto
"Kenzo!? Kenzo! Stop what are you doing!!??" I shout and try to get his attention.
"Its clear he isn't in his right mind now!" Shikamaru pushes me out of the way as Kenzo sshes down with one of his arms.
"Team 10 escort away the- *Grunt* the innocents!" Asuma-sensei commands his team as he deflects sand ninja attacks.
"Team 8! Wake up as many ninja as you can from the Genjutsu!" Kurenai-sensei commands.
"Team 7! Your orders are to handle Kenzo... and Gaara" Kakashi-sensei commands and I watch as sand bsts forward and surrounds Kenzo as he sshes and moves away from it.
"Tenten- Lee, find Neji and help Team 7!" Gai-sensei shouts.
I focus on my orders and my mouth shuts as I stare at Kenzo... I have to knock some sense into him before he kills anyone else.
I didn't refill my tools... damnit Shikamaru was right- and I just used the fox's chakra so he won't be as willing just yet.
I rush forward as Sakura chucks me two Kunai and some wire, I jump and pnt a kunai in Kenzo's chest as the sand distracts him while tying ninja wire to it.
I run around his body and dodge the sudden tail swipe- I slide down his back and onto his thick tail.
*woosh!* *bst!* *pow!*
Attacks fly everywhere as my team and team Gai helps beat Kenzo- I focus on pnting a kunai at the base of his tail and tying the wire tight.
I jump off and watch as he struggles to swing his tail as moving it causes the other kunai to dig and cut him.
I watch Sasuke flicker and kick Kenzo's chin up- Lee flickers above Kenzo and kicks him in the cheek to the side.
Neji spins and deflects some sand bsts as he enters the scene again... Tenten is behind him and throws many Kunai and shuriken at the sand orb in hopes to get him by surprise.
Sakura chucks me more kunai and wires acquired from the unconscious ninja and defeated sand.
I tie the kunai and wire together before taking a moment... I watch as Lee and Sasuke beat Kenzo back and wait for the perfect moment to attack.
*Woosh!*
I jump through the sand and meet Kenzo's flesh again- I stab and run, slide and stab and wrap and stab.
Wire's wrap Kenzo tighter and tighter- I crawl around his body as Gaara fights him and attacks Sasuke, Sasuke dodges the sand attack and steps back, Lee flickers away from Kenzo's bite.
One st stab at his ankle and I leap away from the chaos.
*Slide*
I slide across the benches and nd beside Lee- *Snap!* *Pop!* *Crack!*
I turn around and see my hindering wire's snap off quickly and with little effort- Kenzo is free but this time he focuses on me rather than Gaara's sand that gest closer and closer to trapping him.
*Crash!* *Ssh!*
His arms rip apart the benches and the people thrown are quickly caught by Choji who with Sakura and Ino start to drag them away from Kenzo.
Shikamaru grabs Kenzo's shadow and struggles to keep him still as Lee rushes in and starts throwing people away into Choji's enrged hands.
Sasuke leaps to attack Gaara with surprising speed to stop the sand from engulfing the innocents around us and I rush up to Kenzo.
"Kenzo! Kenzo! Listen to me! Calm down please!" As he struggles against sand and shadow I plead for him to listen.
"No..." A guttural noise escapes his throat and I freeze.
Is he... conscious?
*Woosh*
He breaks from the shadow and smiles- my eyes widen in surprise as the tail lunges forward and the bck bone give stops right in front of my eyes.
...
"Sorry for being te... bad knee- *Cough*" I hear an awkward voice and my eyes focus on the hand gripping the bone give and keeping it from moving.
Lightning- Orange lightning wraps his hands and holds the tail.
"Naruto... right? Umm, move please- you as well" The man asks kindly and me and Lee jump back as the masked man grabs the tail with both hands and- *WOOSH!*
Starts swinging Kenzo around by the tail.
*Sm!*
And throws him at Gaara which his sand defence blocks.
"Oo~ free wire" I hear the man mumble as he picks up my wire scraps and pours orange lightning through it.
The metal straightens out and my eyes shine as he throws the wire at Kenzo.
*Zzzztt!* *Wrap!* *Woosh!*
The wire spins around Kenzo and ties together his body, third arm wrapped tight against his body.
*Zzzt-*
Ankles tied.
*zzzzzZzzzzzZzzz!*
More and more wire wraps around him accurately as the sand pushes Kenzo off and throws him into the dirt.
*Flicker*
The orange caped man flickers right down near Gaara... but ignores him and walks to Kenzo with a limp.
"You! YOU! DON'T IGNORE ME!!!" Gaara yells and I witness his arm submerge in huge amounts of sand before unching at the caped ninja.
*Flicker* *Bam!*
The caped man flickers away still ignoring gaara and kicks Kenzo in the ribs- sending him crashing into the wall opposite the arena.
Four sand ninja rush to interfere with the caped man but he bursts forward with intense speed and shrouded in orange lightning that runs across his skin like waves.
*Flicker* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*
My hands tighten as I watch the masked man punch Kenzo through the stadium gates and into the streets, taking the fight away- the sand ninja are occupied by our sensei who seem to be handling most the ninja in the arena...
*Woosh!*
Lee pushes me out of the way of a sand kunai and I wake back into the chaos around me.
"Gaara!" Temari of the sand yells as Gaara stares silently at the gate.
"He is not responding!" Kankuro yells.
"Call the mission off- its a disaster! Take Gaara and get out of here!" The sand trio's teacher calls and the two siblings grab their third and rush him away.
"Naruto, Sakura, Lee, Neji, Tenten and Shikamaru- lets get him!" Sasuke says and I turn to the gate.
"He is right Naruto- let Ryū handle Kenzo" Kakashi-sensei says from afar and I grit my teeth and follow them over the wall.
---
-About fifty minutes ago, first match end-
Pov: Kenzo
I turn back and sigh as I hear the stadium cheer from here... we are going to one of the warehouses... I hate the warehouses, nothing ever goes right for me there.
...
Should I send a message out to someone? I should right?
Jun is busy and my messanger bird is gone... but the pce is secluded enough for me to get ambushed and have no one be any wiser.
...
I tap the roof as I pass two Konoha ninja and give them a genjutsu message... that will kick in when I need it to be sent- just in case, you never know.
I follow the ink bug as it reaches inside the warehouse and I stop as I reach the centre of this pce... just above root base 13, that is one of the bs right?
"Hello? You called via bug?" I call out.
*woosh*
Danzo, the infamous ink menace, two other root ninja flicker in front of me.
"Kenzo" Danzo states.
"My least favourite old man" I greet.
"May I ask why you bother me... again? And again... and again. You know this is getting old like you right? This doesn't make much sense at all" I insult him and feel two more stares behind me.
"I do what I have to for Konoha... I bring you a final offer to serve me or face the consequences" He says and smirks.
"...? You're kidding right?" I scowl.
...
"No? Than I suppose I shall show you what will happen now..." Danzo chuckles and sms hid walking stick into the floor.
*Bam*
The stone shakes on the warehouse floor and I feel twenty stares on my body... a rge seal reveals the mighty hatch as it opens on the floor and out rises twenty root agents... twenty one actually, one is not looking at me but rather drooling at the floor.
"...twenty ish ninja? That's the threat?" I mock.
*Bzzz* *bzzzzz* *bzzzzt*
The twenty in front light with dull blue lightning... that is much more impure than what I gift to people.
"Raiki and Satsumi have been very helpful in my tests to gain your watchers power... although weaker I have replicated it" He says with a smile.
"That bzing ball of blue? That is not close to anything Ryū can produce" I reply and watch them coldly.
"Oh we will learn that ter- though... sorry about our learning speed boss..." Raiki steps out from behind me and bows to Danzo alongside Satsumi.
Knew I couldn't trust them.
"And that's not all, while they deal with you- I will have you publicly ruined and executed" Danzo mocks and stands next to the drooling mess of a ninja.
He rips off a seal and one of the two root ninja next to him inject the drooling mess with a syringe.
The blood coloured liquid seeps into the veins of the human and he starts to twitch and bleed from many orifices- eyes start to turn grey- veins bulge and a few hairs stand on his head as they turn grey as well.
"Now Oorochimaru only managed to get this from you when transformed so apologies for the ck of quality- this will do for now while we harvest your body of new samples to test with" Danzo says as the mess screams, grabbing at his head.
Hairs turn white... pale skin... darker- no, darkest eyes imaginable and a long bck tongue roll out of his mouth.
"You..." I grumble out.
The root ninja holds the mess of a human in a hold and makes sure to use a jutsu on it... from the signs and ck of effects its either yin based or a sensing jutsu.
"Fū, Sai- escort 'Kenzo' to the arena to cause a scene... Torune you can handle things here right?" Danzo commands and the two ninja flicker away with my messed up infected lookalike as the lightning ninja surround me.
...
This- this little- I just want to rip out- haaaaaaa!
"YOU SNIVELING LITTLE SHIT!!" I sm my foot down and stare hard at Danzo, cracks form and the warehouse shakes under my nine points of strength.
Danzo and the ninja between him and me flicker backwards in fright- Danzo unsheathes his hand and stops himself from unsealing the metal rings on his 'injured arm'.
...
"I thought you were used to my stare..." I mumble.
"What?" Danzo asks.
"You... oh it makes so much sense now" I chuckle and grit my teeth.
"Always leaving after I stare at you... the constant training blindfolded when you always want to focus on my 'gifts'... hahaha- oh my god its so obvious... your a gaslighting little shit who made me think my stare was weak" I ugh loudly as the ninja surround me and Danzo hides his arm.
"You- ahahaha- you are scared of my stare? Oh- is that it?" I suddenly jolt with an idea.
"Your scared of me... is that why your obsessed? Because I terrify you? Because my mere gaze scares you? Because your this dark scary ninja that is afraid of a little man?" I ugh louder.
"That's it isn't it!?" He scowls but tries to avoid my gaze... it is that.
"You aren't trying to get rid of me for science or Konoha... your just a cowardly bitch who is terrified of my growth... of what I could do to you when I am older... trying to cut me down desperately" I stare into his skull with all my might.
Why didn't I notice before? The cold sweat dripping down his face and the scowl as he tries to find a way out.
"Torune- handle this, I will be forming an Alibi for myself before this Kenzo chaos starts in the stadium" Danzo says and flickers away.
A devilish smirk litters my face and I nearly burst out in ughter.
Torune... twenty dull battle sages and my two dumbass assistants.
No one will miss them.
No one will know about my secret strength.
Raiki and Satsumi light up with lightning and approach me alongside the twenty other ninja, Torune takes off his gloves and I witness his skin turn purple.
"If anyone wants to leave now is the chance" I state.
"Why is that little assistant?" Satsumi asks with her dumb tone.
I let go of my transformation and form into the massive masculine physique I hold... a tail grows from my body and my cws sharpen as my teeth follow.
"No questions, yes or no" I reply.
"Kill him" Torune orders.
"No it is" my smile widens to inhumane proportions and I light up with orange crackling lightning.
I won't have to worry about wasting energy when the room is full of live batteries.
Thanks for reading :)
