Chapitre 41: Day of the Tournament

[Hey!]

"Huh? What?"

[How long are you going to keep ignoring me?]

"I don't know what you're talking about."

[Well, now that I have your attention, I'll repeat what I said. Host has learned the skill Dual Cultivation.

Dual Cultivation (Novice | 8/100): By exchanging bits and pieces of source yin and yang during intercourse, the user and their partner may improve a bit of their power as well as their potential. The more… experience the user has practicing this skill the more power and potential he and his partner may dig out.]

Chojusen thought 'And they call me broken and overpowered… This is by far the most insane skill I have had the pleasure of learning.'

The next day, when Karin and Ino came out to practice, they had ruddy red glows about them and their dispositions had changed slightly. Today was the last day of the training marathon, so Chojusen wanted to evaluate their strength.

After a taijutsu only spar, Chojusen determined that both girls were definately in the SSS Rank, but they weren't close to the peak; unless they opened one or two more gates or entered Sage Mode.

In a real fight, where Chojusen told them to use all of their skills, they just barely managed to force him into using 50% if his physical body's prowess. Of course, if Chojusen decided to use his Void Cloak or the second Stage of his Fiendgod eyes, they would be completely unable to even touch him. But this was an evaluation, so Chojusen only relied on his physical body's speed and strength to dodge and cancel out their attacks.

Needless to say, with a combined strength of around 50 billion, Ino and Karin were very powerful. But, this power came with a price. The girls would have to open their seventh gates and use Elemental Sage Mode to achieve this ridiculous power; if they didn't, they would at most be around the single billion digit mark. In any case, Ino would probably do well in the finals.

…

Now that Chojusen had broken through to become an Immortal, he could resume improving his body. Thus, began the constant application of 175 times gravity on himself. Using Gravity and his Body Refining Cycles made his physical power increase at a disturbingly fast pace.

Since his main body now prioritized improving his body, Chojusen could train while going about his daily activities. That being the case, the final exam of the Chunin Exams were right around the corner, so Chojusen put that aside and took Karin and Ino out of personal dimension; the three of them used Transformation to look "normal."

The girls were hesitant to separate from Chojusen, even if it was only for another day. However, the thought of sleeping again in their houses cured their moods. Chojusen took this time to check on the snake-man.

When he dispelled the clone that he had ordered to keep a close eye on Orochimaru, Chojusen was relieved to know that the snake-man had done nothing in this month; literally, like he never moved. Next, Chojusen used his Origin Detection to check on the Heaven Seals that were spread around the world.

There was no abnormal activity with the Heaven Seals, however, Chojusen did find it a bit troubling that ninjas from the Land of Lightning, Earth, and Water were making their way to the Hidden Leaf Village, with great speed. After mastering the law principle of duality, which comes from the laws of yin and yang, Chojusen could detect the elements that made up chakra signatures of those within his sensing range. Even if he didn't have this ability, he could tell where the ninjas were coming from, based on their travelling routes and their appearances.

Chojusen went to Minato once again to warn him of these threats. Knowing ahead of time was great, as Minato could prepare accordingly and perhaps save more civilians if an invasion were to occur. Still, Minato was a bit worried. He knew he had quite the ridiculous team of powerhouses on his side. But, their enemies might be the combined powerhouses of three great nations!

Minato started to gather people to make sure that evacuations could be done at a moments notice. Before letting Chojusen go, he said "If we really are pressured, you have to promise me that you'll use all your powers to save the village."

"Does that even have to be said? Don't worry, all my friends and family are in the village too, you know? Any idiot that thinks they can threaten the lives of people I love will surely have a bad time."

Chojusen left Minato's office and went back to his house. He then kept watching the approaching army ninjas as he waited for the next day to come. Chojusen could wipe these armies at a moment's notice, so he kindly gave them some time to reconsider their options. If they truly came to his village and started a war he would erase them immediately.

…

The next day, Chojusen got up from his bed and walked to the arena where the finals would be held. Since it didn't matter whether he trained in his house or in the arena, he was one of the first people that arrived at the arena.

As time passed, more people entered the arena and not just the participants; this event would have a spectator audience. When Ino and Karin arrived, they sat ultra close to Chojusen; an action that made most of the other guys jealous beyond reason. Behind Ino and Karin were their parents, who did nothing to hide the emotions on their faces.

As Chojusen saw Ino's mother give him a deadly glare while retaining her cheerful smile, he felt like something tragic would happen. Ino's father also had a complicated face, but he didn't direct any killing intent at Chojusen. Karin's mother was the most understanding and flashed him a quick thumbs-up.

Karin and Ino didn't go share news of their time with Chojusen to their parents, but the warm red glowing coming off their bodies would not fool any experienced adult. They saw through Chojusen's actions towards their daughters on sight. And because, neither Ino nor Karin explained that they had spent five years training in Chojusen's dimension, the parents had no clue that their daughters were actually seventeen.

Chojusen had no idea why Karin's mom was so accepting of the situation, but for Ino's parents, he was sure that they would be more understanding if they knew Ino's real age.

...

Eventually, the announcer for the event announced that the final exam would start with a fight between Kimimaro and Tenten.

Tenten and Kimimaro met in the center of the arena and began their fight. Tenten's strategy of spamming projectiles at her opponents did not work on Kimimaro. All he had to do was deflect Tenten's throwing weapons with bone bullets, he shot from his fingertips; that, or he could just let the attacks hit his bone armor.

Tenten stopped throwing weapons at Kimimaro and used her trump card. She had steel threads tied to all the weapons she had thrown so far, so all she did now was manipulate the weapons to hack and slash Kimimaro from all sorts of undodgeable angles. Kimirao grew horn-shaped bone armor on his torso and spun like the Hyugas when they used their Revolving Heaven technique to deflect all the attacks that came his way.

He created a bone spear and went on the offensive. Tenten was no pushover with regards to taijutsu and spearmanship. She countered Kimimaro's spear attacks until he began to expand the bone horns on his torso to cut her. At that point, Kimimaro had pierced both of Tenten's shoulders and thighs to completely incapacitate her. He was deemed the winner and promptly left the arena with Tenten on his back.

On the Kage balcony, Rasa and Minato discussed the contestants performances to see if either examinee had what it takes to be a Chunin. Minato said "I think both Kimimaro and Tenten are a cut above regular Chunin. Especially that girl, she is so young yet she already applies spacetime principles to her weapon scrolls."

Rasa said "You are definitely right. But lets not forget Kimimaro's impressive bloodline limit and his applications for it. He calmly fought against a wielder of spacetime ninjutsu and came out on top. I agree that both should be promoted to Chunin."

Sakura healed Tenten and the next fight was between Chojusen and Lee. Lee had fought with Chojusen countless times in the past, so he knew that he was no match if Chojusen acted seriously. But, he still took the fight extra seriously to secure a promotion to the Chunin Rank.

On the arena, Chojusen waved his hands at Lee, saying "Whenever you're ready."

Lee didn't waste another moment. He directly opened six of the hidden gates. The ground collapsed, and a terrible wind pressure came as the result of Lee leaking chakra uncontrollably. What followed next could only be seen by Jonin level ninja or above. Lee burst with peak-tier S Rank speed and hit Chojusen with punches and kicks that individually sounded off sonic booms.

Chojusen, rather calmly, blocked all of Lee's attacks. He went the extra mile by actually hitting Lee wherever he detected a flaw in Lee's form or attacks. The uncontrollable blasts of wind pressure generated from Lee's attacks were so melodramatic, they uprooted some of the trees in the arena.

After five minutes, Lee had to close his gates, or he might cause some serious internal damage to his body. However, even though he was beyond tired from fighting with six gates opened, he keep attacking Chojusen, until the latter knocked him out with a chop to the neck.

The arena was dead quiet; no one could believe this was a fight between "twelve-year-old Genins." After one person started clapping, the whole arena burst into cheers and applause for both Chojusen and Lee's performance. The first fight did receive some cheers and applause, but this was way above that level.

In the Kage balcony, Minato looked at Rasa hoping to find some semblance of surprise in his face. But the latter, didn't even flinch; it was almost like he expected this outcome. Minato said "They are both above Jonin level at their max power. I vote for their promotion." Rasa agreed and the next fight would begin shortly.