~mikku: 1 month ago~
im in the archives of the hokages office building, I've been coming here everyday for hours on end to try and find anything i can about the old mans identity, ive found a bunch of lab reports that have yellowed with age, i dont know what they mean but im reading through them anyways
"test subject 24, average power, test subject 43, average power" there arent any names or pictures to go along with these but its just pages and pages of notes about these 'test subjects' they dont have dates on them but based on the deteriorations of the pages i would guess theyre at least 50 years old.
"test subject 59, power level significantly higher than normal" what if the old man was an experiment? no he said that he made king, what if this is king? its the final set of notes here.
"test subject 59 appears to not be phased by today's experiment" i might finally be on to something, i flip the page but everything is crossed out in frantic scribbles, i cant make out any word on there apart from one
"king"
~jeiku: preliminary round 2, tuesday 12:36am~
im standing in one of the fighting rings, my second preliminary round is about to begin, i didn't pay attention to what my opponents name was, just some kid with a mist village headband.
~jeiku: hospital roof, monday 6:32pm~
im staring out into the sand village, it would be nice to look at if it weren't for the eye sore of an arena right on the edge of the village, its absolutely massive, i have no idea how they managed to make it in such a short amount of time, its about as big as the village itself if not bigger. ive been trying to figure out how to locate members of the 10 through my senses but i appear to be feeling someone or somethings chakra from miles and miles away, i dont know what lies beyond the villages if anything, i always assumed we were the only people but lately i haven't been so sure. i know that i can win this tournament, i will save the ninja world and if i have to, the rest of it as well.
~jeiku: preliminary round 2, tuesday 12:36am~
"FIGHT!" the ref shouts out, i stay in place and let my opponent make the first move, theyre fairly young so i imagine they'll charge right in. just as i had thought they ran right at me without even thinking about how to win, i suspect they dont even know what attack they'll open with. if a longer match didnt mean less points for me i would toy with my enemy. the more points i get the less my chance of being eliminated after preliminaries is. ill end this quickly, the kid slows down slightly and that hesitation was all i needed, as soon as i saw it i waited, the kid kept moving forwards, another hesitation as he raises his fist to strike me, i step out of the way with ease and with one swift chop to the hack of the neck i knock the kid out cold. its all too easy.
~fuya: preliminary round 2, tuesday 12:40am~
im in the ring face to face with my opponent, its a middle aged man from the cloud village, he looks tough but looks can be deceiving. i hope hes strong, fighting average civilians isnt any fun. but then again its probably good im not up against the best fighters just yet. I've always been able to keep up with my peers in terms of fighting ability but where i excel is in strategy, not like mikku, he could manipulate you into thinking youre a dog if he wanted, where i specialize is battle strategy, once i watch someone fight once i memorize their movement, timing, and fighting style, and then im able to make a strategy to counter everything they throw at me. if im able to watch all of the fights i have a decent chance at winning this thing. ill need to finish this fight fast to get extra points.
"FIGHT!" the man immediately drops into a defensive stance, hes waiting for me to attack, he probably thinks he controls the fight, all he has to do is run the clock out and hit me once before then. if his defense is good enough he'll be able to avoid taking damage until the time is up, i cant gauge exactly how good his defense is just yet but i recognize his stance as one from ancient martial arts that hasnt been used by anyone in more than 500 years. its an almost fool proof technique that focuses chakra into your arms amd legs, so much chakra in fact that it speeds your movements up almost 200 times its normal speed, its not used anymore due to how dangerous it is on the body, theres tales of shinobi using it and their arms and legs exploding from the strain on them. either this guy is a fool and doesn't know the risk of this technique or hes truly a master of it, i doubt the latter is true. the way to beat this technique isnt easy and ive only read about it, blinding your enemy wont have any effect since your arms and legs will react subconsciously, if youre able to get your enemy to shift the chakra flow out of even one limb your victory is basically guaranteed. i draw a kunai and throw it, aiming at his left shoulder, just as i expected he catches it with his right hand
"that wont work on me little girl" he says mockingly
"i know" i smirk, matching his cockiness. i draw another kunai and throw it again at his left shoulder, i only have two knives left but that should be all i need, he deflects the kunai with the one he caught already. he laughs as i draw my last two knives, i make sure to hold them in a way that one will be hidden under the other, i throw the knives but slightly delayed, its all one fluid motion but i release the kunai ok the bottom a millisecond after the one on top. they fly through the air and he blocks the first easily but appears startled at the second one, right now is my chance, the odds that his body subconsciously shifted chakra from his left arm into his left shoulder is incredibly high, that leaves his left arm defenseless for a brief window of time, i sprint at him as fast as i can and throw a jab at his right arm, he falls for the bait and goes to block it, at the last second i feint and go for his left arm, my fist makes contact and i can feel a crack as his arm breaks from the force of the punch, luckily i spot whats about to happen in time, i had expected the attack to catch him off guard and make him completely drop his defense and have the chakra in his limbs dissipate completely. what i hadn't considered was his body trying to protect the body part i hit by transferring all of his chakra into his left arm, the only reason i can tell is because his arm glows slightly, i have a split second to react and i dive out of the way as his arm explodes
"AAAHHHH YOU BITCH!" he yells out in pain, blood sprays from the wound and i guess he only has a few moments left before he dies of blood loss, no one even seems to have noticed what happened apart from the referee, but hes too shocked to help the man bleeding out on the ground.
"ILL KILL YOU!" he crawls towards me with one arm, his fingernails the only thing pulling him forward, i see the nails begin to peel off and hes right in front of me, i cant move a muscle. he coughs blood and i feel some of it splash my face, he raises his hand to attack me but it falls limp and hits the ground with a dull thud, i stare into his eyes that have no glazed over with death, they look just like maymuis eyes when she died and i see her lifeless body staring at me for a moment before i vomit all over myself.