'Thoughts'
"Speaking"
(Author's Note)
★★★★ ★★★★
Ken and Itachi both move to stand face to face against the other.
"So how do you wanna fight, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu or an all out fight?"Ken asks.
"An all out fight" Itachi replies
'Ah, Finally the moment of truth, facing Itachi and testing my power against him will make me realise how much I have grown and will have to grow'.
Itachi stoically stares back at Ken while his face shows no sign of anything that can be read by the opponent.
Shisui watches both and finally says,
"If both of you are ready you may start right...NOW".
Itachi moves back the instant he recieves the green light to start the fight and throws out shurikens with pinpoint accuracy.
Ken takes out a kunai and meanwhile deflects most of them with a few breaking past his defense and tearing into his jacket.
Ken rushes forward and strikes at Itachi with the kunai in hand and Itachi parries and kicks ken on the chest making ken skid back.
"Katon:Gōkakyū no Jutsu",Itachi unleashes a massive fireball while using a single hand seal.
Ken counters with,
Suiton:Mizurappa, A water release jutsu where the user spews water from their mouth in a waterfall-like fashion to wash away the target.
The collision between the two jutsu cause steam to rise causing vision obstruction.
Itachi takes advantage of the moment to jump high in the air and activate his sharingan allowing him a clear vision through the steam.
He takes out another set of shurikens and starts to throw them at ken as a diatraction while completing handseals for fire release:phoenix sage flower jutsu.
A technique that creates a volley of small fireballs, which are sent flying in an unpredictable manner assaulting the enemy. In addition, the flames are controlled one by one with chakra, so avoiding them all is extremely difficult.
The kunais are dodged by Ken while he looks up by tracking the throwables trajectory and finds Itachi spewing out fireballs towards him.
Sensing danger he opens the Gate of Opening and sprints away from the fireballs and counters with a jutsu of his own.
Water release:Water formation Wall,creating a wall of water around the user to defend against the fireballs.
Attacking Itachi with wind release: Beast Tearing Palm,summoning chakra in his hand, and then swipes a chakra wave slicing towards him.
Itachi shunshins a considerable distance away avoiding the chakra wave.
A moment of respite is given to both the shinobi as they plan out their next step of their attack.
Ken having enough of playing tag decisively opens the Second gate;The Gate of healing and flashes forward with a axe kick.
Itachi anticipating an attack evades and so begins a taijutsu match between them.
Ken having the superiority in strength unleashes a relentless barrage of punches and kicks leaving Itachi with no time to counter back.
Itachi seemingly frustrated at in his inability to counter activates his sharingan.
A change takes in the fight between both as previously a struggling Itachi seemingly forsees every attack made by ken and evades with minimal effort.
He starts punching back while targetting ken's vital spots.
The spar goes on for a few minutes with neither holding the advantage.
Itachi failing to put ken under genjutsu due to his erratic chakra while opening the Gates and Ken's inability to incapacitate Itachi due to his precise evasion.
(A/N:To answer future questions yes Ken can be put under genjutsu by mangekyou unless he uses the 7th or eighth gate)
'If this goes on I'll run out steam and will have to close the gates to fight on'.
Thinking so ken decides to up his game and opens the fourth gate;The gate of Pain causing his skin to redden and his muscles start stretching to their limits and with some even tearing.
Ken blitzes forward and kicks Itachi with half his strength, Itachi being caught off by the unexpected powerup blocks the kick, the impact pushing him back until his back hits a tree.
'All right boys thats enough,Ken's the winner of this spar'.Shisui concludes the match with his verdict.
Itachi slowly gets up while ken approaches him.
"Hey,Sit down I'll heal you up". Ken offers
Itachi just nods and sits on the ground waiting for him to get healed.
Ken diagnoses Itachis condition and finds his arm used for blocking his kick filled with microfractures and two of his ribs broken.
"Allright, This will Itch a bit, So endure".
Ken's palms glow green and starts healing Itachi.
Shisui approaches Ken surprised; "Woah you know medical jutsu thats impressive".
"Meh, Helps me keep up with Gai sensei's training regime so I learned it"
Shrugs ken.
"There all healed up, You're now good to go a few more rounds".
"Thank You", Itachi replies.
"No problem, Contact me if you wanna
wanna spar sometime, I'll be at training ground three most of the time"
Ken then turns to Shisui and bows a little;"Thank you for accepting my request and I extend you the same offer Shisui-San"
"No problem, It was an eye-opener to find someone close to Itachi's age besting him".
Ken nods towards them both and leaves the training ground.
Meanwhile Shisui looks at Itachi to see the boy having a thoughtful expression.
"Hey,Are you sad you lost to
Ken-San?"Shisui curiously asks.
"No, I'm just surprised at finding someone as strong as him". replies Itachi while shaking his head.
"It looks like our genius here will have a rival from now on ",teases Shisui.
Itachi just lightly smiles jearing that.
"A rival huh,I'm looking forward to that".
Hiruzen Pov:
As usual Hiruzen sarutobi was on his daily routine of scouting konoha to find talented kids to spy on with his magic ball when he found the spar between the uchiha duo and Ken.
'Hoh,The kids come quite a long way.I can see that he's quite proficient in the fourth gate and held back at the last second for Itachi to come out with minor injuries, Gai's really not holding back on him".
'He also held out his own against shisui for some time'.
'I think it's time for me offer him to join the Anbu, kakashi's team has a spot open and ken will fit right in'.
He motions to one of the anbu hidden in his room and says,
Inform Soichiro ken and his sensei Might Gai to report in my office tommorow.
To be continued....