Chapter 13: Chunin Finals!

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."

Asuma's eyes winded, "how old was he?"

The Hokage smiled, "eight. I then asked him what he thought being a ninja meant...and his answer.it was unique. He said 'ninjas are killers and thieves. But, that was not the kind of ninja he wanted to be. For him, a ninja is someone with the power to change the world, be it with a murder or with an idea. A ninja can be a hero to one person and the devil to another. But the kind of ninja he wanted to be is someone who can make this world less horrible, the kind who can protect the people he cares about and make the world a peaceful place."

Asuma raised an eyebrow, "that's awfully optimistic."

"But everything he has done from the point onwards makes me think otherwise," Hiruzen huffed his pipe, "his first C rank mission he saved a woman without thinking twice about the consequences, in his second he captured three enemy ninjas without hurting them, not because he couldn't but because he didn't want to. I see the ideas of Minato and Jiraya in that boy...the dream to one day break the cycle of hatred...and...I believe if I don't at least give anyone who wants to try and make this world a better place, I wouldn't be part of the solution, but the problem.

"And that is why I believe in Yami...because he just might be the kind of ninja we need."

Asuma was silent as they made their way back to the tower, he contemplated the words his father shared and inside he began to wonder, 'can I do the same?'

Present:

I promised him I would be a force to be scared off. Someone people could look up to or be afraid off. Adn right now, Orochimaru was standing in the middle of that promise.

"Are you both ready?!" R asked, "begin!"

He charged at me, I channeled chakra into my fist activating my enhanced chakra strength. 'Activate Giant's Strength,' I thought to myself;

Ping!

You have gained +20 STR for the next half an hour!

He was right in front of me when my fist came towards his face. He smirked as held up a hand to catch it. I smirked back and his smile dropped.

"FUCK YOU!" I roared as the punch tore through his hands, he wasn't expecting my strength to be that great.

It tore apart his hand, flesh flying everywhere as it ploughed through, finally crushing into his face, breaking it apart into tiny pieces of bone and flesh.

His body was sent flying back into the arena wall.

Ping!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Orochimaru: 244,375/ 250,000

He's not dead, nowhere near dead. I moved backwards, he would come at me fast, my hands moved through a new jutsu I invented. A blur of movement bust out of the wall as a white blur came rushing towards me.

"I'll kill you!" he cried out.

"Swift release: Speed up times 1,000!" the Swift release chakra went through my whole body, activating my entire body's nervous system slowing down the perception of time for just fast enough for the world to slowly crawl to a stop.

Orochimaru's head was extended form his body, the nose was still a mess, his jaws were unhinged, his fangs popped out. It looked like he was aiming to bite down on my shoulder, trying to give me a curse seal heh? Bastard.

The Swift release style was very particular, it didn't have any sort of special jutsu involved with it, it just used pure speed.

The jutsus I invented allowed me to move faster. I knew I could use with it was activating the slower perception of time jutsu that allowed me to see everything slower, similar to the perk I gained not too long back, Slower.

But now, the Swift realised allowed me to move fast, not just think fast. There were different ranks of course. There was 5 times faster, 10 times faster and even a hundred times faster. This was the highest, and I needed to be faster to stay alive.

There was a limit of how long I could use this as it took a high toll on my chakra, a thousand CP every ten seconds.

But, my chakra regeneration rate of 56% every 30 seconds gave me around 850 CP every ten seconds, giving me around 50 seconds to act.

I moved, ducking under his fangs and away from his elongated neck. I took out several daggers and began stabbing into his neck, over and over, fighting 35 daggers into the neck alone.

Ping!

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

Number of daggers X 4 = 140

140 X 5 = 700 DMG!

Ping!

Disturbance style user-184 + 75 + 60 = 319 DMG!

Total DMG= 1,019 DMG

I then moved to his body, stabbing it over with the rest of the daggers I had on hand, around fifteen of them in total.

Ping!

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

Number of daggers X 4 = 60

60X 5 = 300 DMG!

Ping!

Disturbance style user-184 + 75 + 60 = 319 DMG!

Total DMG= 619 DMG!

And now for the final pieces, several super power punches. I threw several punches across his body. Each on landing in a critical area, his throat, his chest, his groin, over his heart, his groin, his kidneys, his groin, his groin.

Ping!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Chakra strength- 15 X 75 = 1,125

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

1,125 X 5 = 5,625 DMG!

Total DMG: 50,623

My time was up, my chakra was reduced to only 700 CP. I need the last bit of that chakra, just in case. So I dropped the Swift release jutsu, allowing time to move back again for me. I now stood on the other end of the area, far away from Orochimaru and his body.

Total HP lost: 52,263 HP

Orochimaru: 192,112/ 250,000

All that power, all that energy collapsed into his body. I watched as his body exploded into blood and flesh. The world came alive again as people all gasped in shock at the exploding body. They began to whisper in hushed tones, I could hear a few;

"He's a monster!"

"He moved so fast! Did you see that?!"

"How did he do that?!"

I ignored them all. They all thought he was dead, but he was not, I knew it. But I can't do anything, not until my chakra came back to full. Which it could in one minute. God I love this broken game's stat system.

"Ah...I guess, Yami of Konoha is-"

"-He's not dead," I called out as I opened my inventory and took out a large scroll the size of my body. This was my show stopper, the thing I would use to impress everyone, and now I needed to use it against him.

"What do you mean?! You just turned him into paste!" a civilian cried out.

I looked at the words that floated over his head, it slowly began to move, I could feel his chakra burrowing underground. He was coming right to me.

"He's alive," I spat out as I opened the scroll, "a snake can't die that easily." He was coming closer, the chakra signature felt like he was going to do something nasty, maybe as revenge for the pain I caused him.

I opened the scroll and unrolled it onto the ground. I placed my palm on it and channeled chakra into it causing a bright light come out and a large puff of smoke.

TING!

The singing of steel took the air as projectiles flew all over the area grounds, covering it with fanged daggers and kunai, all with one thing in similar, a seal on their handle.

BOOM! The ground suddenly exploded outwards as a blast of wind came up, destroying the area ground upon where I stood. Stood being the keyword.

I immediately flashed over to the daggers sticking out of Orochimaru's disposed of body.

-100 CP!

I cursed, my CP was only up to 1,000 points and I already used 100. I need to distract him for a moment, just one moment. And I had just the thing.

As the ruble feel down, a lone figure stood in the middle, he had pasty white skin, yellow snake eyes and a wicked looking smile on his face. And above all, he didn't have a single scratch on his body. I looked at his HP and cursed:

Orochimaru HP: 250,000/250,000

He got it fully restored. I used nearly every drop of chakra I had left to get him down to half, and he just goes and regenerates it all?! Fuck that!

"Who is that?" someone from the audience asked.

"Wait, white skin? Is he a vampire?"

"He looks stupid."

"A gay vampire?"

"You're such a cheater," I smirked, "this match is for genins! What is a sanin doing here? Don't tell me you got demoted for being a bad boy!"

"Ku ku ku, I have to admit Yami boy, for a moment there, you had me on the run," he curled a strand of hair behind his ear, "I didn't expect you to be this...amazing," his grossly long tongue came out licking his lips, "when little Sidra came to me and told me about you I was skeptical, I'll admit, but now...I'm glad I came."

"Orochimaru!" Sarutobi came out of the Kage box and stood looking down in fury. He jumped over the ledge and came down, landing between me and him protectively. His robes flew away revealing battle armour underneath and a giant bo staff by his side.

"Ah sensei, I didn't expect you to come dressed for war," Orochimaru snickered, "growing paranoid in your old days aren't you?"

"Why are you here Orochimaru?!" Sarutobi roared questioning, soon Gai from the stand and A, the Raikage, joined us down in the pit as well.

"Well, it's honestly because of that amazing boy that you are protecting behind you," he looked at me and winked, creepy dude. 1,500 CP and climbing, come on! I need 2,000 to make this work!

"He's a ninja of the leaf! He's not going anywhere!" Sarutobi said with narrowed eyes.

"WHo the hell do you think you are Orochimaru?" A asked, "this is my village! You think you can just drop in like it's nothing and expect people to roll over?! Konoha might be like that, but we sure as hell aren't!"

"Yeah! You tell him A!" R cried out, cheered on by the people in the stands. I noticed slowly more and more Kumo ninja began taking up the front row while the civilians were being evacuated outside. I even noticed Zumo being taken away by Samui and Kuro.

"Oh please, spare me your theatrics," Orochimaru huffed rolling his eyes, "I didn't come here to listen to you muscle head, I came to see if what the little sound ninja I captured was true or not. And ku, ku, ku, I'm so glad I decided to drop by. I haven't been punched like that since Tsunade! Tell me old monkey, did you teach him that trick? Is he your new protege?"

"He is my responsibility!" Sarutobi called out, "he is my ninja! He is a proud member of the leaf village and I will defend him and anyone else till my last breath! So try what you wish Orochimaru! But I will not rest until I correct the mistakes of my past and end you!"

Yes! The Hokage's speech gave me enough time to reach 2,000 CP again! First things first, a shadow clone with 200 CP.

Poof, he appeared next to me. I extended my hand and held it out. I began focusing my chakra into my hand, the shape control and chakra control coming to me easily while the clone infused it with nature chakra.

"Oh please, I have no intention of killing him, why, if I did, how will I ever convince him to come over to my side?" Orochimaru's voice chuckled, "why, I'm sure with a little persuasion, I can...make him.do...what?" his voice slowed down to a hault as he looked at me.

They all turned back. I held my hand up and in it was an orb of blue fire, rotating like the sun. The ground became parched, the clone itself looked like it was being effect. The ball of fire drew everyone's attention to me, every single person in the arena turned not to the S rank threat or the Raikage and Hokage, but to me.

This is what I spent the last week working on personally. Through the use of clones it took me three days to get the Rasengan down and another three to fuse a nature affinity with it. And thus, I gained two new jutsus.

Rasengan, A rank

A spiralling ball of chakra kept in a perfectly circular form.

CP cost- 2,000 CP

DMG- 10,000

Scorch Release: Rasen Nova Blast, S rank

A spiraling ball of scorch release chakra that can cause an explosion strong enough to physically push the ground away.

CP cost- 9,000 CP

DMG- 20,000 CP

Normally that CP cost would be impossible for me. But, thanks to the boos I gain because of 100% control of Scorch release, the cost was reduced by 90%

-900 CP!

Jack pot! "Y-Yami, what are you doing?" the Hokage asked.

"If I'm not mistaken! My match isn't over!" I charged forward with my clone right next to me. It grabbed three daggers and threw it at Orochimaru. They flew over the Hokage's and the Raikage's head and flew right at the snake sannin.

The sannin took a kunai out and deflected all three. But that was never my intention. During the second he was looking away from me, the clone took the orb of fire into his hands and vanished into a blur of blue lightning, appearing right before Orochimaru, thanks to one of the many daggers I had scattered around the ground.

The clone trusted the orb forward, Orochimaru dodged, grabbed the clone's arm and twisting it around, forcing his head into the ground. "Impressive jutsu, too bad it's useless if it can't touch me."

The clone smirked, "that's not true at all snake butt," the clone used his free hand and grabbed onto Orochimaru's neck. He then closed his fists, and the orb began to collapse on itself like a dying star.

"Scorch release: Rasen Nova Blast!" I cried out, creating a ram seal.

Orochimaru's eyes winded as the orb exploded outwards with an unimaginable amount of heat and energy.

BOOM!

The explosion grew and grew until it covered 20 square feet of ground. The ground flew off, rocks and boulders flying into the air. The heat the blast gave off was enough to turn the ground into slag and the very center into molten magma.

"Holy shit," A gasped as he looked around at all the destruction around the arena. He turned to me and blinked, "and you're a genin?"

"It's not over," I turned around towards Orochimaru's chakra signature hidden up above us. And there he was, standing perpendicularly to the wall, smirking at us.

"I must say, I'm glad I escaped that little attack," he whistled, "if I hadn't, you might have actually killed me."

I did the math in my head. 20,000 DMG, that's 40 thousand with the scorch release 100% damage boost. That into 5 for critical damage and it would come to 200 thousand, just 50K less than what it would take to kill him.

"I'm not sure that it would have," I made another 200 CP clone, we began the process all over again, "but we can sure as hell try again."

"Yami no! You're chakra levels are already low, it could kill you!" Gai called out.

"I'll be fine!" I smiled, "I so want a new snake skin belt!"

Orochimaru snickered, "while I admired your talent, you certainly are an ambushes fellow. Even Minato didn't think he could kill me, and he was better that the Flying Thunder God jutsu then you will ever be."

"What?!" A cried out, "the flying Thunder God jutsu?! This kid can use it?! How?!"

"Yes, how indeed," the snake smiled, "care to enlighten us?"

"Yeah, simple, I'm smart," I smirked.

"Ah, yes, there's the snarky attitude I remember Konoha famous for," the pale man rolled his eyes.

-900 CP!

A second Nova ball was ready, it spun in my hand, just begging to be released.

"Now tell me little Flash," the sannin chuckled at his own little joke, "how exactly are you going to get that, all the way from there, to here? You don't have a tagged dagger anywhere near here, and I don't think you can use that...Swift release of yours again."

I smirked, "you're half right."

"About what?"

"I don't have a tagged dagger anywhere near you," I jumped upwards at him. The snake sannin easily moved away, far far from my reach. I began to fall back down, I threw my hands down, aiming the Nova ball at the ground.

"Get back! He's going to blow us all!" A cried out as he moved away.

But moment before it hit the ground, I vanished in a burst of blue lightning. And I appeared behind Orochimaru's back. The Nova Ball smashing into his back, plummeting him into the ground.

Ping!

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

40,000 X 5 = 200,00 DMG

And it flew straight down into the ground as I flashed away towards another dagger near the Hokage and Gai sensei.

"YOSH! That was amazing!How did you do that?!" Gai asked.

"The first clone, when Orochimaru grabbed it, it placed it's hand on his neck leaving a seal that he didn't notice, too focused on trying to escape the exploding ball of chakra before him." I smirked.

"That...was brilliant," A looked impressed, "you were thinking that far ahead?"

Before I could say anything Orochimaru flew out of the cloud of dust as fast as he could. He landed before us, his back scarred and broken, his skin burnt off. He looked like a dead man come to life.

"Gai!" the Hokage ordered.

"Right!" the man vanished in a burst of speed colliding into Orochimaru at break neck speeds even I couldn't follow. They began fighting and soon the sannin realised he was out matched, so he turned to his last resort, summoning.

He managed to use the body flicker jutsu and escape Gai for a second, and a second was all he needed. He created the seals and slammed down his hand on the arena wall.

There was a massive explosion of smoke as a giant three headed white snake appeared before us, using it's tail to smash in the area stadium. People screamed as they flew down. I cursed, I can't let them die!

I had only 500 CP left, I used the shadow clone jutsu and created a hundred clones, each with 5 CP. And the moment I did, I felt exhausted. I fell to my knees and watched as the clones saved civilians from falling to their deaths while the Hokage and Raikage used their combine efforts to push the snake into the middle of the arena.

"Yami!" Orochimaru cried out from ontop the snake, his hair burnt, his pale skin blanked and his robes torn to shreds, "you have made a grave and powerful enemy today! I will never forget this insult! I will kill you!"

I was so tired, I honestly didn't care. "Kiss my ass snake bitch!"

He growled, "I declare you my sworn enemy Yami! I will kill you! I grant to you the title of the damned! Beware my revenge!"

I zoned out, I honestly didn't care. I watched as the clones saved as many as they could, moving from one to the next to the next. I laid down on my back, allowing my chakra to regenerate, though it would take a minute.

I watched as A and Sarutobi managed to defeat the snake while Orochimaru blinded Gai with a smoke jutsu and managed to get away. I sighed, after all that, he still managed to run away, slippery snake.

Ping!

Quest completed!

Survive the fight against Orochimaru!

Rewards:

+20, 000 EXP

+5 skill scroll

Soon Sarutobi approached me, looking down at me with a soft smile, "are you strong enough to walk Yami?"

I looked at my CP and SP, they were both back at max. I smiled, "yup," I got on my feet and looked around. My clones were still helping people out by escorting them out or to the medics. But they were all quickly being overwhelmed. I needed to help.

I needed 200 CP to make any difference, so I created 20 clones who immediately went out to do their jobs. I began to feel wobbly again, but luckily Gai sensei was right there behind me to catch me.

"You shouldn't overwork that jutsu," Gai said, "what are you thinking? You just got back to full health and you're already using a jutsu that can kill you?!"

"Gai, look," Sarutobi pointed at the clones who were now healing the injured people.

I smirked, "I can't just let the people suffer when I can help now can I? With great power comes great responsibility after all."

Sarutobi frowned, "Yami, as kind as your intentions where, you shouldn't have done that."

"Why not?" I asked.

"Who the hell gave you permission to operate on my people?!" A cried out as he came charging towards us, behind him were two bodyguards, Samui and Zumo and surprisingly, Kurotsuchi. But it wasn't her preakness that was the surprise, it was the short old man behind her with the hunched back wearing green robes and a long beard.

Onoki, Third Tsuchikage

Lv- ?

REP- 60

"Well?!" A roared, "who the hell gave you the right to operate on my people?"

"You incompetent ninja did the moment Orochimaru arrived in this place without your notice," Sarutobi snapped stepping between me and a pissed off A.

"He's your village's missing nin!" A called out.

"And your people are the ones who didn't notice a kage level threat posing a genin!" Sarutobi roared, "he could have killed someone!"

"He could have killed me!" Zumo suddenly realised.

"What kind of ninja are you boy?" Onoki snorted, "death comes with the trade! Get used to it!"

"You can't blame that shit on us! It's because of him that snake bastard even came here!" A pointed at me.

I sighed, "why am I being dragged into this?"

"Because you're the eye of this entire shit storm," Onoki said turning to me. He looked around, spotting a dagger imbedded into the ground. He turned to me with narrowed eyes, "another Flash is born today. Tell me, are you going to be as ruthless as the previous one?"

I held up a finger, "hold that thought," my chakra had filled up again. I created another 20 clones and sent them off.

"What the hell are you doing?!" A cried out, "I told you to stop that!"

"You get enough medics in here for everyone and I will," I sighed and turned to the old man, "I'm not a blood thirsty person, I don't kill if I can avoid it. That being said...are you going to try and kill me?"

"If I must to prevent a monster like the Yellow flash," Onoki growled.

"Take care how you speak Onoki," Sarutobi called out, flashing his killing invent, strong enough to make the Tsuchikage sweat for a bit, "he's my ninja," he turned to A, "and he's helping your villagers out of the goodness of his heart because that's the kind of man he is."

"A fool," Onoki snorted.

"No, a kind man," the Hokage narrowed his eyes.

"Like I said, a fool," the old man threw his head back and laughed.

"If it's being a fool to believe the past can be the past then yes, I'm a fool. If I'm a fool for believing that you should provide healing for people, even if they aren't your people, then yes, I'm a fool. But you know what, fools end up living better lives, so...I guess my point is, it's better to be a fool."

I saw the REP increase for everyone around me by 10 points. Which still meant Onoki's REP was -50.

"That still means you're a fool," the old man snorted.

"So ah, not to drive the conversation away, but...is the tournament still on?" Zumo asked.

A scoffed, "I guess technically it still is. And since Orochimaru ran away, Yami is the winner. Meaning the final round of the Yami brat and Kurotsuchi."

"Oh no way in hell I'm going up against that!" Kurotsuchi cried out, "are you crazy?! He nearly took on a sannin! And won! Neh ha! No way man!"

A grumbled, "fine. Then I guess Yami of Konoha wins by surrender. Congrats kid, you just put a target on yourself the size of a mountain."

I smiled, "I'm used to people stalking me..although it's usually for the wrong reasons."

Ping!

Quest Completed!

Show off and draw attention to yourself in the third round of the chunin exams!

Rewards:

A page in the bingo book!

+50,000 EXP

Ping!

You have leveled up!

Yami, Little Professor

Level- 43 (21,300/57,900)

HP- 8,450/8,450 (+20)

SP- 4,200/4,200

CP- 4,975/4,975

CONTROL- 100%

FIRE- 100% WIND- 100% LIGHTNING- 100%

SCORCH- 100% SWIFT- 100%

POWER- 28%

Allegiance- Konoha Civilian

STR- 50 (+5)

VIT- 60

DEX- 60

INT- 40 (+2)

CHA- 80

CC- 150

LUC- 27 (+5)

Points- 6

I sighed, "yay! I won!...Do I get like a cash prize or something?"

Onoki snorted, "yes. You get 20 million Ryo in the bingo books. Have fun getting hunted boy. Come Kurotsuchi, we have to get back home, now."

I watched Kurotsuchi shot me a regretful look as she walked away with her grandfather. I smiled, maybe I made a small difference after all. Maybe peace...isn't that far off.