The stage was set for the chunin exam finale. A team of dancers using fans as props opened the ceremonies and performances. Then we were called for battle.
With 8 participants, the format is 4 quater finals, 2 semifinals and 1 finals. I Draw Hulk from sand village to fight. I'm excited by this fight.
In the past 2 months, I've fought many of village's jonin as part of my training and have lost every spar in my last 2 months. I'm excited to have an actual chance to win.
The fight is epic. The guy hulk , he is insane. He has this jutsu where he uses his own body as a puppet. He basically turns himself into a charachter he can control, he can choose how much pain he feels, how much he sees or hears.
In this form, his thinking brain and reacting body are completely detached, giving his brain complete control over his body.
I too am a taijutsu expert because of Guy Sensie. I'm able to keep up easily because of my reaction speed.
This guy uses earth chakra to turn his blows heavier. Thankfully, I can use my fuma shuriken as shield from time to time.
Every time he hits my shield( fuma shuriken) , i get a kick in as counter. Every time I target his kidneys.
I had already used level 3- raw marination of the survival style balmburn to disable his kidneys. Every other kick is water chakra infused.
I've developed this technique with Hinata's help. To a degree, it is based on hyuga's gentle first taijutsu. But instead of targeting chakra points, i target critical organs.
I can use any level of balmburn to inflict damage. But if i want to mitigate damage, i have to be proficient with atleast level 3, raw marination
I can only do this because I've practiced it to a degree that I don't need hand seals and can even channel it through my kicks. Hinata and i developed different strategies for different organs.
The kidney strategy is to turn off kidney and force excess water chakra into the target, effectively causing water poisoning, or overhydration. It climbs in severity very fast, from simple nausea, to coma, to death.
Hinata was the one to device this whole style just based on some inputs from me. What I'm doing to Hulk is probably the least dangerous variant of this fighting style.
Eventually, my oponent suddenly falls to his knees. As he faints, I approach to help him explaining to the ref that I've disabled his kidneys, we only have some time before he dies. The only reason Hulk fainted before figuring it out was because he had disabled his own pain for this fight.
After my first win, my next fight is with Lee. Lee is a speed demon. When our fight starts, I keep distance from him, throwing wind Jutsu's at him and evading him as he comes near me. When I can't dodge him, i intercept him with a kick of my own or one of my shields ( fuma shuriken).
The fight lasts for 4 hours, two bros brawling it out in a gladiator ring, trying to establish our dominance over other while trying to entertain the audience.
The deciding moment came when my shield couldn't take the hits anymore and broke into pieces as I used to to intercept one of lee's powerful kicks.
I grab the shattered splinters of my shuriken mid air, used wind chakra to empower it and slashed along lee's torso, while he was still mid air from the kick. I used his own momentum against him as I pushed the broken splinter straight across his torso, towards his neck.
The referee declares me winner of Semifinals. Lee's shirt cuts along the path i hovered over, showing my control and precision and establish the fact that I could have slashed him much harder.
I bow to him as recognition of our match and wait in the stands for my next match, the final round.
Turns out, my next match is against Tenten. Who would have thought that i would have to face both my teammates in this tournament. I've seen some of her matches. Kakashi had had a huge impact on her new techniques.
As the referee says start, Tenten performs some hand seals and a blurinsh aura forms around her. I'm actually very familiar with this aura, it if water type chakra. I didn't know it's functions yet.
I throw my wind enhanced fuma shuriken, she dodges It, as it boomarangs back. I charge at her, punching her square in the face.
Punching her felt weird. It was like i was hitting a sandbag. It's like the water chakra that is surrounding her body is actively absorbing and spreading the damage.
I shift focus and try to plunge a kunai into her stomach, enhancing the strike
with wind chakra. It hit her, but that water chakra armor she is wearing concentrates itself at the point of strike and diminishes almost all of it. But this strike clearly used up a lot more of her chakra.
She uses my distraction to slash at me with her katana. By now, my fuma shuriken has boomeranged back ,so is used it as a shield. The blunted (this is tournament) katana dented my fuma shuriken. I know Tenten is not supposed to be that strong.
I make some distance between us and I dodge her strikes and the kunai. I observe her. That katna strike had also absorbed some of her water armor chakra. That water armor jutsu is looking better and better as the fight goes on . It has insane defence and great enhancement effect.
It seems similar to lightning armor jutsu of raikage A. it's speed enhancement is much less by comparison, but it's defensive capabilities seem to surpass the lighting armor jutsu. It's like covering chakra to hitpoints. It even increases body flexibility, making dodging easier.
My best bet at winning now is to exhausted her. I could use my medical Jutsus with some offensive techniques to disrupt her armor, but I might end up hurting her too much. Instead, I fall back on throwing wind enhanced kunai and shuriken to try and drain her.
Seeing me become more passive, she charges at me, i dodge just in time as her sword slashes , hitting the ground instead. The ground literally splashed on her hit , as if she had hit the surface of a lake instead of solid ground. The ground she hit has become a muddy crater.
Her form is too good. I can't find a single opening to counter attack.With kakashi pointing out the flaws with constant sparing, She got a lot of pointers out of him. Pretty sure she has grinded her swordsmanship against Sharingan, which means she impressed Kakashi.
I really can't engage her in melee. One strike from her and my game is over. Thankfully, she doesn't have much more strikes left. She probably can go for another 2 such overcharged strikes or risk losing her water armor.
It seems she herself suits Kakashi's style of fighting much more than Guy Sensie's.
Tenten can at most do 5 of her finisher strikes before she runs out of chakra. Kakashi similarly relied on chakra intensive finishers like chidori .
I can stall her out till she runs out of chakra from her armor , while taryimg to bait more strikes to reduce that time, but that's not what i want to do.
The objective here is not to win, but to put on a show, like gladiators. This is basically marketing for our Village. I can't let them think we just let each other win because we are from the same village.
Already Lee had spared me . He could have opened the first gate to fight me, but that would have put him in bed for a week too. No point in revealing that trump card on an exhibition match. It's not like his honour is was on the line in a fight against me.
But with Tenten, she is much more competitive, and just as motivated. She charges at me again , I dodge and put some distance again. She didn't put any chakra behind this strike, teasing me. She has me scared of a single touch from her sword.
If i don't want to stall the fight, that that means I have to overpower her armor to make her run out of chakra that way.
I start charging my one remaining fuma shuriken with wind chakra and rotation. I hold its center on my center finger knuckle, using my chakra to keep it stuck there.
As Tenten charges at me, i premitivly keep distance. As she throws weapons at me, I try to kick or redirect anything I can't dodge.
It's very difficult to keep charging the fuma shuriken mid fight. But I wouldn't use it here if i couldn't do it in a fight. This is the result of my training with Asuma sensei and the Hokage himself. This jutsu is very slow to charge, but I can charge it up to the point that rotation and wind chakra don't rip apart the metal fuma shuriken.
The fuma shuriken is big and heavier than normal weapons. This makes it very slow and difficult to charge efficiently. I have extremely good chakra controll. That's the only reason I could charge it mid battle.
If this was my all or nothing shot, than i would have used a lot more of my chakra to instantly charge it to the level i want at the expense of cost of efficiency, but I want to be able to fight for long even if i miss this shot.
This technique is faster with normal, small shuriken anyway. But small shuriken can only take so much enhancement before breaking apart.
Once I feel that my shuriken is ready i throw it with my left hand, shouting for the audience -Wind style: Butterfly effect. I named it after it's inspiration. Just like a butterfly's wing beat in Brazil, may snowball and become a big tornado, this jutsu usess small frequent adjustments to keep increasing in power.
While I use my right hand to throw a small shuriken. The smaller shuriken has a chakra thread attached to it that only i can see.
I've decoded some of puppetry with hokage. I'm proficient enough that I can control a shuriken mid air, as if it were my own puppet.
While these two are still in the air, i perform some handseals to perform two Jutsus. The first jutsu is a Genjutsu: killing intent. It is applied on the smaller shuriken with chakra string. The genjutsu uses the smallest bit of sound that they make as medium.
Once the opponent hears the sound, they are susceptible. They will think that the smaller shuriken appear much more threatening. It creates an illusion that it is faster, sharper and louder.
It barely any affects in most fights, but It can usually be used to disrupt the opponents instincts. Making them misjudge the threat level and incoming speed and trajectory of my attacks.
Because genjutsu works by disrupting oponent's chakra with your own , i use this genjutsu to sneak in my chakra to my opponent to disrupt their chakra as well as find their location.
As my genjutsu takes effect, i use another hand seal, Shuriken shadow clone jutsu. My small shuriken multiplies, multiplying my genjutsu's effect, screaming at Tenten's instincts .
Just as my fuma shuriken was about to hit her, she used substitution jutsu to pull in a long of wood and try to run away. Because she is still under my sound based genjutsu, i can still feel her location as she is trying to run.
I use my own substitution jutsu with the many shuriken shadow clones. This so practically just me pulling on the chakra strings to pull me towards the average location of smaller shuriken while the shuriken come back towards my orignal position.
The avarage of all smaller shuriken just happened to be where fuma shuriken was. I appear there and take control of my fuma shuriken to throw it again at dodging tenten. She is already mid dodge. She can't dodge this.
She strikes the incoming fuma shuriken with a downward strike, trying to redirect the shuriken. I see as her sword breaks in two as she successfully redirects my fuma shuriken to the ground whole jumping over it using the recoil from redirection.
Even though her sword strike absorbed a lot of the incoming force, it was still overwhelming enough that it created a massive crater on the ground. Her broken sword also signifies her running out of chakra.
She had used all her chakra for Reinforcement and enhancement of the last strike. If she had any power remaining, her sword would still be unbroken.
When she looks towards me after looking at the damage, she finds that i have received the shuriken shadow clones that i used for substitution. Those shuriken are hovering around me like puppets, as I'm charging them slowly with wind chakra through chakra strings.
Tenten looks at my intimidating sight and Gives up. She is clearly out of chakra. I can go on for much longer. I praise her strength as well perform the seal of appreciation.
Ofcourse both of us held back a bit, we are fighting fellow leaf shinobi, and a teammate at that. This is no fight to the death. I'm still happy with the hard won victory.
I find Lee and Tenten, and we catch up. We all praise each other for our growth and great fight. They both congratulate me for winning the tournament. Eventually the topic of our trainings came up.
Lee said that he can now open the first gate now. Doing so will put him to bed after the fight, but training for it had already put him above me in terms of strength and speed. We used to be equals 2 months ago.
Tenten said that she is very good with water chakra now. She is still good with their many weapons, but she has perfected the sword, by grinding it against Kakashi's sharingan.
She told me that every day, they would she would spar with kakashi. After the spar he would give her pointers on her form. Kakashi himself is a library of jutsu, so whenever he came across a gap in her fighting that couldn't be filled by herself, he gave her jutsu based solutions to them.
He had tested her chakra nature and she has good compatibility with water and medium compatibility with earth. The first jutsu he taught her was the water clone jutsu for us versitality. She had used the concept of our Coiling link fighting style to fight with kakashi using water clone.
A Water clone has only 10% of users strength . She could create upto 10 water clones in a fight , if she used all her chakra.
She spent a lot of her rest time theorising and practicing variations on this water clone jutsu itself.
She created a version of water clone, where 2 clones can occupy the same space, merging into each other ( like power ranger robot), increasing their own size and strength. The 2 merged clones can even benefit further, by using teamwork style like the Coiling Link.
She then used the same concept of merging clones to merge the water clones with herself. She told me that kakashi and his sharingan were a huge help.
Kakashi could either use sharingan during spar to improve her sword form and general fighting style. Or he could use it during rest to help her modify the jutsu. But not both on the same day.
She thought that merging herself with a water clone has so much potential, that she pulled Hinata in to help her. She and hinata had become friends through me. She recognised that if Hinata can create a fighting style like coiling link, she can help her with her form.
Kakashi is still a jonin, even with one eye. Even sparing without sharingan is great learning. Hinata Studies their every movement with her byakugan and takes furious notes, implying muscle movement, chakra movement and much more.
Kakashi would spend most of his sharingan time with her trying to create this jutsu. Hinata actually ended up giving her the greatest suggestion, use water elemental chakra instead of water .There is a difference between water and water-chakra .
Unlike water, The water-chakra cannot exist outside it's host, it would quickly turn into nature chakra otherwise. But inside the host, it could be maintained as elemental chakra instead of the element itself.
She used this concept to create a water-chakra clone that coincides with herself. Although normally this clone would only give 10% boost. But because of coiling link style, this boost increases a bit further.
In the end, she had to remove 1 old, but add 10 new hand seals to turn the water clone into water chakra clone.
She then tried to optimise by creating more clones to share her space. Thats why when she hit me , it felt like a wave of hits instead of just one hit. It's like 10 of her were hitting at the same time.
I told them about my training. Most days were spent learning about wind chakra and it's uses from Asuma sensei. In the evening, a random jonin or chinnin from the village will take on the c rank mission of sparing me, sponsored by the hokage, my official teacher.
Once a week. The Hokage would show up at training ground to spar me himself and give me pointers. He was my own personal jutsu Library. I learnt a few wind and water Jutsus from him and he even taught me shuriken shadow clones jutsu.
Because I would usually fight experts of different fields, I got a wide range of experience in fighting . The hokage is true master of all traits. Sparing him leaves me contemplating my place in the universe compared to the scales and activities of stars.
In a way , both My and Tenten's signature moves were heavily influenced by our teachers.
Tenten developed her Water Style : Wave Armor mostly to find a way to survive chidori. She told us how frustrated she was that no matter how fast she tried to be, she couldn't even perceive it coming.
So she developed this jutsu to create a passive armor that can protect her from chidori. With the ammount of chakra she has, and general weakness of water against lighting, she can only survive one strike from chidori before she runs out of chakra. That's still a huge achivement.
My own Wind style : Butterfly effect is a jutsu meant to takes down overwhelming foe. It can even take down a kage if I hit.
But that only works If i have a shuriken/throwing weapon that is durable enough to take on that level of enhancement, and if I have the time or chakra to reach that level of enhancement.
My jutsu also uses concepts of Coiling Link, but instead of me empowering an ally, I empower the rotation of shuriken.
While an ally may loose the benefit of they don't use your empowerment at the same time you empower them . the shuriken will keep on rotating until interrupted. I can keep empowering it and wait for the right opportunity, letting reach empowerment stack.
Me and tenten recognise that both our signature Jutsus are inspired by the concepts of Coiling link. We both make a pact to get a gift for both Hinata and Bella for developing and teaching is that taijutsu.