Chapter 74: Chapter no.73
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Yuki Haku vs. Tsuchi Kin vs. Kinuta Dosu
Haku stood at the center of the arena facing her two opponents. She cursed her bad luck at being the one selected to have the three-way match. What made it worse was that both of her opponents were from the same team and would use every advantage they had to take her out. This meant teamwork, they obviously knew each other's strengths and weaknesses and would cover them flawlessly.
This would be a problem for almost anyone, anyone but Haku. The reven-haired girl was strong, maybe even the strongest genin in Kiri. She wouldn't have much of a problem dealing with the two Oto-nin before her, but that didn't mean that she would underestimate them.
Haku was a beautiful fifteen year old girl with long black hair, pale skin, and large brown eyes. Her frame was quite slender and she was fairly short for her age. Haku also had a fairly developed C-cup bust. She wore the standard Kirigakure pinstriped outfit which stopped just below her knees. Over that she wore a green haori with white trimmings and a brown sash around her waist. It was the outfit that she usually wore when preforming her duties as a Kunoichi.
Haku carefully eyed her two opponents. It seemed that the one with bandages covering his face was the offensive type and the girl was a genjutsu type. Haku would need to be prepared for all areas of shinobi arts in this match.
The proctor stepped forward and looked at each of the genin in the arena, "Are all combatants ready for battle?" He received nods from the lone shinobi and two kunoichi. "Then you may begin!" The proctor jumped back to avoid getting in the way of those who would be fighting.
Haku quickly Shunshined away after Dosu had begun to charge her. She had seen what he had done to that Kabuto boy before the first stage of the chunin exams started. If she had to guess, she'd say it was a sound based ninjutsu that damaged the inner ear and would affect her motor skills and physical abilities. She would need to keep a distance from him and rely on Ninjutsu and Bukijutsu.
She glanced at the girl behind Dosu and saw that she had pulled out senbon with bells attached to it.
'Bells? Those aren't normal for a person using senbon...She's either going to use the Shadow Senbon, which is unlikely, or she's planning a sound based genjutsu. Judging from the name of her village and the skills of the rest of her team...it's most likely the latter.'
Haku pulled out a few of her own senbon needles and threw them, aiming for Kin's vital spots. The Oto kunoichi saw the Kiri-nin's senbon flying at her and was forced to block with her own, causing the bells to ring on her senbon.
'Two bells? There's my answer...those are for a sound based genjutsu.' Haku thought, confirming her theory.
Haku noticed all of the surrounding water from the Suiton jutsus that the Hokage's daughters had used in the previous matches. These were the perfect conditions for her. She noticed That Dosu had begun to charge her once again, she wouldn't deal with him yet. She would first need to take out the girl as it was obvious that she was the weaker of the two.
Haku moved at speeds far above the level of a genin to move around Dosu and rush at Kin. In the blink of an eye she had crossed halfway around the stadium and appeared behind Kin. The Oto kunoichi quickly turned around after she had sensed her enemy and brought up her senbon with the attempt to stab Haku. The Kiri kunoichi however, had drawn her own senbon and blocked the strike.
The Hyoton used slowly began making one handed seals, surprising everyone in the audience, "Sensatsu Suisho (Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death)." One thousand senbon made of water rose and formed from the surrounding water and completely surrounded the two kunoichi. A second after they were formed, they began to speed toward Haku and Kin from all directions, leaving no means of escape.
Haku quickly Shunshined out of the way of the water senbon while Kin could only stand their as her life flashed before her eyes. Haku looked back at the kunoichi she was fighting only a moment ago to see a corpse filled with hundreds of water senbon protruding from her dead body, blood flowing out all across the floor.
Many of the remaining genin on the observation platform above them gasped in horror as they saw the Oto kunoichi had been pierced by hundreds of senbons made of water and her blood fly everywhere in a shower of crimson. Very few of them had seen death before, let alone kill someone with their own hands. And yet, this girl only a few years older than them had done so without even showing a hint of remorse on her face.
"KIN!" She heard the other Oto-nin scream in horror as he saw the lifeless body of his teammate fall to the ground. Otogakure may not have preached about friendship and comrades, but their team had been together since they became genin. Zaku had already been crippled for life and now his other teammate was killed by the girl in front of him.
"Is this the first time you've lost someone precious to you? It's only when you're protecting someone precious to you that you become truly strong...You could not protect her...You are not strong...You are weak." Haku told Dosu emotionlessly, a hint of pity in her eyes. The may pity him, but she will not give him mercy.
"AARRGGHH!" At these words Dosu charged Haku in a blind rage, intent on ripping her limb from limb.
Haku did not respond visibly, she merely looked down and noticed that the blood from the girl she killed had mixed in with the water which spread it across the battlefield even further and produced more of it. Using her body as a medium, she slowly started o freeze the water around her and even extended the range to freeze even the bare arena floor.
She made a few hand seals and crouched down on one knee to place her middle and index finger onto the ice now covering the ground. "Hyoro no Jutsu (Ice Prison Jutsu)." Medium sized pillars of ice rose from all of the previous water sources and even spanned across the arena floor, erupting from every part of the ground as they continued to rise until they reached Dosu. The Oto-nin had a look of shock on his face before a pillar rose from the ground underneath him, freezing him in the process.
Haku looked up at her handiwork and locked her eyes onto Dosu's trapped form. She reached her hand out in front of her body in a manner not unlike Gaara's and squeezed her hand. "Hyoton: Ice Funeral." The ice surrounding Dosu became highly pressurized and crushed him, liquifying his entire body within a single moment causing blood to erupt from that particular ice pillar like a fountain.
At this sight most of the genin watching the match from above lost their lunches, even some of the Jonin looked a bit green. Gaara and Naruto were the only two to smile a bit at the sight.
After recovering from seeing a genin kill someone so efficiently, Genma stepped forward. "Winner by death, Yuki Haku!"
Haku walked back up towards her team as if nothing had happened. As soon as she was back on the platform on the other side of the room, all of the Konoha genin began whispering amongst themselves. They were probably as terrified of her as they were Gaara, maybe even more because she didn't seem insane and was in perfect control of her actions.
Naruto did not care for what the other genin thought of her actions. Naruto would have done the exact same thing had he not been matched up against a Konoha genin.
What Naruto was staring at was the now frozen wasteland that was the arena. It was beautiful, perhaps only second to the landscape that he had created in the forest. Exactly half of the arena was covered in a thick sheet of ice but was completely smooth and and untouched, while the other side was littered with fairly large pillars of ice. It reminded Naruto of what was once Yuki no Kuni.
Naruto inhaled the crisp, cold air that the arena had altered and smiled as he remembered the last time he felt this sensation. It brought a nostalgic feeling to his mind as he remembered the events revolving around Koyuki and Yuki no Kuni. He would always remember his very first mission outside of the village walls and the downward spiral of events that occurred not too long after it began.
Naruto was forced back into reality as he heard the proctor's voice. "Will Hyuga Neji and Portgas D. Naruto make your way down to the arena for the final match!"
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