47 Finals Part 1

Kibo had just finished his talk with the Hokage and left the room, he realized he only had two weeks until the start of the finals, taking flight he headed back to the training cave and continued his practice. Kibo was trying to master the first stance of the Soaring Phoenix Martial Art; it was mostly comprised of kicking techniques and involved many high speed attacks.

After a full week Kibo had barely managed to master the 1st stance, Soaring Phoenix Step. It used ultra high speed movements combined with fire natural energy to move like a rocket. It was much faster than his Wind Lord Step, but far lees maneuverable, the Soaring Phoenix Step was best for short straight forward burst of speed.

Other than the first Soaring Phoenix art, he also managed to manifest his first colored flame, it was a blue fire that felt cold as ice, using a target to test its capability Kibo saw as the fire spread over the dummy and froze into a bock of pointed flame shaped ice. Kibo barely touched it as it dissolved into ice flakes.

Only a week remained giving him just enough time to reach the first stage of his Soulfire Rebirth Cultivation Technique, this was the most useful technique he gained from absorbing Suzaku, it used the 7 colored flames to refine the soul overtime, the more colored flames he mastered the higher levels he could temper his soul.

Kibo sat in the lotus position as his body was covered light blue shroud made from his Ice-Fire, his soul was also covered in a thin layer of blue white ice, as it suddenly began to quake, the ice chipped out from his soul, and seeped through his body's pores while carrying a black, icky substance along with it. A breath of fresh air entered his body, Kibo felt the range of his 3rd eye stat to slowly expand as his mind grew clearer, the final change brought by improving his soul strength was that his Chakra felt almost twice as dense as it was before.

Kibo's eyes shined even brighter than before, it was as if a small galaxy could be seen swirling inside his pupils, he stood up and a loud cracking noise came from his body echoing throughout the training room, his bones and muscles snapped into place and exuded a hidden strength that was boiling underneath the surface of his skin.

Heading outside he began spreading his senses throughout the forest, he smiled as he flew over towards a certain location. With a puff of smoke two people came out of the mist, one was a Naruto who had his clothing torn to shreds; if it weren't for the Gravity suit's auto repair function he would practically be naked. The other was Jiraiya who now had an air of confidence surrounding him; it appeared Naruto wasn't the only one to benefit from going to Mount Kitsunegusa. Kibo smiled as he came down to greet the two.

"Nii Chan!" Naruto seemed to have sensed his presence; Kibo looked at his eyes and discovered that Naruto had mastered his new Sage form, unlike the toad pupils, a single white magatama had merged into his black pupil. "Whoa is this your new Sage form?" Kibo asked only seeing a black and white ring form around his eye's outline, and the white yang magatama that made his pupils look like a Yin-Yang.

Naruto then smiled as he held out his hand and forming a Rasengan with ease, no clones helping just his pure skill. Kibo clapped his hands before saying, "Great can you add any elements to it yet?" Naruto and Jiraiya looked at Kibo like he was insane, "That's not an easy thing to do; even Minato couldn't pull that off." Naruto smiled and nodded his head like he agreed with Jiraiya while saying, "I still can't believe dad managed to get it this far, to imitate the tailed beast bomb with such accuracy."

Suddenly Kibo summoned two clones and held out his hand to make a Rasengan. Then Kibo Clones gathered around him when he said "This is how you can train adding in an elemental transformation to the Rasengan. Remember that this just until you figure it out, the clones are only supposed to be a temporary crutch. They can assist you while you maintain control of the Rasengan. The clones' add in the additional elemental Chakra and the other regulate the speed and output." Suddenly the Rasengan turned into a lighting Shuriken shape, then a wind elemental, and fire, before he finally dispersed the technique.

Naruto had his jaw dropped, as Jiraiya was experiencing his own eureka moment he smiled with anticipation. Actually the reason he was doing this was to give Jiraiya more power, so he may be able to survive his encounter with Pain, as Naruto would have eventually learned this for himself it wasn't really necessary to show him now. After discussing the technique for a while; Jiraiya said he had to meet with the Hokage and make a few reports, so Kibo and Naruto parted ways with him and headed towards their house.

Kibo had entered his house and was greeted by his family, he smiled thinking back on what the Great Sage Toad said, he called out to Haku, and Zabuza. "Something big is going to happen during the finals, watch over my family and protect them with everything you have." Kibo handed over his two Chakra Armor prototypes to them and told them what is was capable of.

Zabuza seemed particularly happy because the suit augmented his physique's abilities by almost 3 fold. It was all blue and tight fitting so he could wear it under his clothing. Kibo also built in gravity control seals that he based off of his own system bought suit. Now the two could also keep up their training, Kibo also gave them scrolls based on techniques that suited them.

Zabuza obtained a complete scroll containing every skill of the previous Kubikiribōchō's owners. He called the scroll, The Complete Art of the Executioner. Haku was given a collection of Jutsus he copied down from the Yukikage hat piece. There were dozens of A and S Ranked Ice Jutsus for him to learn, along with every other Jutsu the previous Yukikage's knew as well, Kibo called this scroll Snow-Ice Jutsu Compilation.

Kibo looked to them and said, "I told you I treat my people well." Zabuza, and Haku thanked him as they received their rewards, Kibo then headed to bed, as he drifted off to sleep he thought of the battle to come, and began shaking with excitement. "I'm going to kill that snake. Even if Naruto could eventually forgive you and help you change your ways. I'm not as nice as him, and your sins are too great for me to forgive. Danzo will die as well tomorrow; I won't feel my family is safe unless I kill both of them." Kibo rolled over and thought of one last thing before falling asleep, "I can't wait to see the look on Naruto's face."

The next morning Kibo got out of bed and headed towards the Villages Grand Arena, the group arrived alongside the other contestants only Sasuke seemed to be missing, Kibo slapped his forehead as he realized Kakashi's nature never changes, the group was led into the open covered arena, there were a few trees here and there, and the outer section of the ring shaped field had some grass growing along it, the center was mostly barren dirt. It showed that the land had been worked on, and even replaced. Kibo figured the battles that occurred here in the past probably destroyed the center of the grounds multiple times, giving the arena its current appearance.

The seats were full of spectators, and loud cheers could be heard across the stadium, Hayate walked up to the group and told them of the changes that were happening because of Dosu's disappearance, Shikamaru sighed and said "Aw man what a drag, I'm fighting another girl?!" Kibo watched as the 'Kazekage' arrived and shook his head when he heard the announcement for the finals to begin.

"Kibo versus Sai!" The two walked up to each other and shook hands before jumping back into their fighting positions, Sai let loose a group of ink dogs from a scroll that began to charge at Kibo.

Kibo's hand glowed as he leashed the dogs in a star chakra wire, with a quick flip of his hand he tossed them back at Sai.

A 10 foot ink bird appeared from another scroll as he hopped on it to dodge, the ink constructs slammed into the wall, splattering across the stone surface like graffiti. Kibo spread his wings and flew up to meet him, Sai pulled out another scroll as a hail of ink shuriken came flying after him.

Star Chakra appeared around Kibo's hand as he swiped it out blasting away all the Shuriken with ease. Sai had summoned two other ink birds and began to avoid Kibo's blast attacks by jumping back and forth between them. Kibo then smiled as he made a giant spherical net and closed his hands together making it shrink around Sai. Sai knew he'd been caught but he'd felt that he'd shown off his skill set well enough. He bowed to Kibo and thanked him for going easy on him, Kibo responded in kind as crowd cheered wildly.

"The Hoshi Clan is indeed impressive; I don't suppose the Hokage would spare a few to Sunagakure by way of arranged marriage, now would you?" The Kazekage said laughing under his breath.

"I won't force the Hoshi Clan to do anything, if you can charm him with one of your Kunoichis, than you're more than welcome to try." Sarutobi laughed as he responded.

"Sakura versus Hinata!" The two came out onto the field and looked a bit bothered by the fact that they had to fight each other; Hinata then raised her hands up before saying "No hard feelings?" Sakura smiled and confirmed her question "No hard feelings!" The two began as Hinata moved in to close the gap between them; Sakura knew she didn't stand a chance in close quarters combat, so she kept the distance while spewing various B Rank Jutsus.

"Water bullet! Still Marsh!" The combo combined into flood of mud aimed at Hinata, Hinata jumped up and used a Great Fire Ball Jutsu to harden the mud, Sakura then began shooting multiple water bullets at Hinata who was in midair.

Hinata spun her body revealing her own version of her Clan's secret art "Gentle Fist Art, Flowing Waves, Revolving Heaven!" The water bullets slammed into the Chakra water bubble formed in the air, and shot off into the ground making small craters appear. Using a Water Chakra Jutsu and merging it with the Revolving Heaven Jutsu; Hinata had filled in the holes in the original technique that was directly above and below themselves; the Hyuga clan family that came to watch were all petrified by the changes she made, especially her father and uncle.

Both Negi and Hanabi were watching with excited looks on their face when they turned to their fathers and asked, "Dad! Can you teach us that technique too?" Hizashi and Hiashi both had a bit of sweat on their faces as they responded "We don't know this one, your sister/cousin made it up." The two spoke at the same time, they looked at each other and laughed as Neji pointed out the match was intensifying.

Just as Hinata landed the spinning motion continued to rotate faster as the water from it formed into dozens of Senbons that flew out at Sakura, in response our pink haired Kunoichi used a multi layered Earth Wall Jutsu to block the Senbon. Sakura jumped off of the wall and threw a pair of Kunai with wire strings attached to the ends of them. They hit Hinata's barrier and began wrapping around the dome of spinning Chakra, Sakura sent an electrical pulse down the line. A large blinding light shined scattering the water dome, and revealing that the one using the Palm Rotation technique was a clone.

Sakura looked around the battlefield but failed to find her, as Hinata came up through the ground and began her assault, "Sealing Eight Trigrams, Sixty-Four Palms." Sakura felt her chakra points being sealed as she fell to the ground. She smiled at Hinata and said, "Congratulations!"

Hinata removed the seals and Sakura healed their injuries with the mystic palm technique. The Hokage clapped his hands and smiled at the two, even though they were teammates they fought to their fullest potential, and they didn't hold any grudges or issues afterwards, "A fine example of the Will of Fire." Sarutobi said as he nodded his head.

"It seems the leaf have many promising buds this year." The Kazekage said with a smile under his cloth face mask, "The fight I'm especially interested in is the son of the Uchiha Clan Lord."