Kagura's Story

Hayate grinned when he saw the handsigns. "I'm sure you've realised, Hana.." He shouted, rolling out of the way and already forming his own, almost matching the speed of Hana's. "But i can see right through you!"

He stoped his handsigns, and flipped backwards. "I hope you can dodge, Hana." He grinned, "Amaterasu!" He shouted, a wave of black fire appearing infront of him. Within a few short seconds, Hana would either be incinerated, or would have survived. Either way, he was determined to find out how strong she was.

Kagura

"Look, idiot. I don't want any trouble. Let me pass through, and i wont harm anyone." Kagura muttered, her expression still full of sorrow. The Leaf Shinobi was silent, but simply raised a blade to her. "So be it." She raised a rather strange explosive tags. "I just hope you don't resent me." She muttered, throwing it at him. In a brief moment, an explosion had scorched the land around him, and all that was left was a pile of ash.

"Shame, really.. You didn't have to die." She whispered, kneeling down and praying that he went to a decent afterlife before moving on.


(( How is her new personality? ))

Kagura straightened herself up, and sprinted towards a tree, running up it and leaping onto the top branch. From here she could see Konohagakure. She put Chakra into her feet, to speed herself up, and leaped from tree to tree. Ten minutes had passed, and she had finally made it to Konoha.

She silently landed on one of the walls, and instantly turned to scan the area for shinobi. She was taken aback at what she saw.

The Tsuchikage. The one person she couldn't bare to see, the only person she was terrified of. She had to hold back her tears, as they would create noise. She whispered his name, and the name of his assistant, who seemed to be moving through the gate.

"K-Kantar.. Lord Tsuchikage.. Oh, dear god." She whispered, panic coming over her. She was almost paralyzed with fear. After being banished from Iwagakure, she generally was quite scared of the Tsuchikage. She turned slightly, and saw the other Kage's. She couldn't tell if it was all of them, or some from a distance. She could see the Raikage for sure, though.

Shuro laughed at Genta's comment about taking his place. "Don't push your luck Genta. I've got my own tricks." Watched as Samehada started bouncing off in the direction the Jimaru said the Jimaru said purple-haired girl had left in. It seemed their may have been some truth to her jinchuriki status after all. It would bear further investigation. As they made their way to the gate, he saw one of his wolf summons off to the side in the woods looking at him. What was he doing here? "Hmm..." He muttered to himself. In a firm, business-like voice Shuro said, "Genta, please go ahead and make sure things are ready for our arrival. It appears Jimaru and I have some business to take care of." Then he flashed a humoring smile, "And please make sure your friend doesn't eat anyone, we are trying to avoid an incident today."

Shuro and Jimaru detached from Genta and went off the road to the wolf. "Report." The wolf replied, "There has been a development. Someone is near who you may be interested in talking to." Shuro arched an eyebrow. His summons, and scouts would never make contact with him so close to a foreign village unless it was something truly important. The wolf continued, "Kagura, the rogue Stone ninja is here. She has destroyed a Leaf shinobi, and it is not clear yet what she wants here. I have tracked her to here, she must be within the village now." Shuro thought to himself for a moment. "Very well, good work. Dismissed." Turning back towards the village he said, "Jimaru, I will go on to the tournament. You find Kagura, let her know I wish to meet with her. Peacefully. Tell her I have a proposal which could benefit the both of us." Jimaru nodded and moved off into the village on his own while the Mizukage proceeded to the tournament grounds.

"Uh. Wait your leaving me here surrounded by people who have publicly brutalized my kind?" Genta got suddenly nervous around all of the Leaf ninja. Please don't be scared Genta. Hey we are in Kurama's home town, we could go hang out with him and his Jinchuriki! Isobu asked Genta incessantly making Genta's stomach rumble. "Isobu I thought you and Kurama didn't leave on very good terms last time you two met." Genta wondered whilst smelling the delicious food that filled the town. Well maybe things have changed over time, I mean it has been around 50 years. Isobu became suddenly shy and reclusive. "Okay. Okay we will go look for his Junchuriki, but we have to go and get everything ready for Lord Mizukage at the tournament first." Genta conceded not wanting Isobu to sink into his shell and not come out until he was ready.

With that Genta set up the Mizukage's lunch, robes, books, and his chair that watched over the stadium when Samehada started to growl. "Samehada don't growl at the Kage's! That is so rude." Genta put his hand on the wrappings and felt Samehada jolt toward the other end of the stadium. "Grawh!" Samehada roared and kept on jolting until Genta saw what it had sensed. There was someone spying on the Kage's, but it wasn't just another villager. The person was actually in a zone where no civilian was allowed, they must have thought that they were camouflaged. "Okay Samehada, I understand. Kekkigan!" He activated his Kekkei Genkai which he used to make a barrier that stretched to the other end of the stadium like a bridge.

"Lord Kage's please stay here." He politely asked the Kage's and flashstepped over to the other end of the stadium to confront this person. "Hey you aren't allowed over here, people might think your going to assassinate a Kage. People don't generally like the idea of someone killing there leader." Genta spoke and released his Kekkigan while noticing that this wasn't some crazed rouge ninja but looked like a harmless girl that wouldn't hurt a fly, but this feeling fell away when she jumped off the roof and didn't even say hello. "Rude!" Genta yelled and noticed Jimaru talking with the girl. "Oh so you'll talk to him but not me." He said feeling like a loser. Genta she probably didn't notice you, it isn't your fault! Isobu comforted his host and suggested that they go find Kurama's host now.

Jimaru turned and nodded slightly to Kagura, glad that they were still on good terms. Once Genta had departed, and after making sure there was no one else around he faced the woman. "The one I represent would like to meet with you." He removed a special kunai from his tunic, one of the same variety used by the 4th Hokage. He was being cryptic, for the sake of deniability should someone overhear them, but he knew Kagura would know he was talking about the Mizukage. "It has to do with a certain proposition. To that end, we were wondering how you would feel about helping us get a gift for the Tsuchikage. He turned to look at the Leaf Village. What do you say? Would you be willing to help us out? I believe there is a certain clan here that has just the gift we are looking for... Maybe something in red?" Without saying it explicitly, he figured she would understand what he was talking about. Something red they could get for the blind kage.


Shuro made quietly made his way through the village alone. The hat of the Mizukage resting on his head. After a time he reached the rest of the kages as they were about to enter the arena. "Hello my fellow Lords and Lady." He said this with a pleasant smile and a slight bow to the group. "Sorry for my tardiness, I hope I didn't hold anything up."

Hayate smiled at Hana, and let his Mangekyo disappear into his normal eyes. As if sad, he walked over to Hana, a frown on his face. He put a hand on her shoulder.

"This wasn't just a battle for the hell of it, Cousin. Because my household have all died of old age or missions, i have a feeling i'm next.. And with my eyes in poor condition, and illnesses and the sort." He paused to cough a little. "You see... This is the last time we see eachother. Or atleast, i think. I've been sent on an S-Rank, alone. And me being me, probably won't make it back this time. Sorry." He smiled at Hana, and poofed into thin air.

He appeared behind the tree Kagura was next to. He grinned evily. He just spoke like that to Hana just to make her worry. Hayate, thinking he had the jump on her, ran around the corner to be greeted by something unfortunate.

Kagura heard him landing behind the tree she was near. "Hold that thought." She muttered, making a few handsigns. "Forbidden Jutsu: Reverse Sealing Technique." She grunted, her fingers covered in light blue flames of Chakra, her hands eventually followed. Hayate ran around the corner of the tree, and was hit square in the stomach with the jutsu. He didn't even have time to scream, as his Bijuu was sucked out of him and into one of Kagura's vials. Hayate simply gasped, and fell back.

"It's a shame, but you wanted to kill me." She whispered, kneeling down and praying for him. She saw his eyes, and then the Uchiha symbol on his Flak Jacket. "I've heard of this clan. Anyway, Rest in Peace. Uchiha. I pray that you journey to the afterlife safely."

She stood up and turned in the direction of Genta, her eyes flashing red. "Hmph. Spies." She muttered, turning to Jimaru. "What do you mean, something in red? The Nine- Oh. You [i]Did]/i] mean that, didn't you. I got it right here, thanks to that idiot back there. Truthfully, i've had my eye on him for a month now."

Jimaru smirked and shook his head some fools just wasted their lives in a head-long manner. "Not exactly what I had in mind. Your dear Tsuchikage would appreciate it though I'm sure." He looked down at the dead Uchiha. Perfect, and he even had a mangekyo sharingan to boot. "However, I thought maybe he would more appreciate the ability to gaze upon his subjects again. Wouldn't you agree? He has been without sight for a long while. Imagine how grateful he would be if you could restore his sight to him. I can think of no greater way to get back into his favor."

He removed two transportation scrolls from his tunic and unrolled them over the body of the young Uchiha in an X pattern. He wove a few quick handsigns and placed his palm where the two scrolls overlapped. The corpse vanished in a puff of smoke, straight to the Hidden Mist autopsy department. The scrolls' power was completely used up transporting the body and they crumpled to dust.

Jimaru rose from his crouch. "However, if you wanted to give away that vial," he nodded to the vial containing the ninetails, "I am sure the one I represent would be willing to come to a most agreeable arrangement with you as sadly I have come unprepared to negotiate for something so valuable."

As the group was on their way, Kantar enjoyed the warm weather. It was rather nice, he did enjoy this weather the temperate weather of the Leaf Village. However, he was pulled away from enjoying the weather as a he detected a familiar presence. He increased his sensory projection and sharpened the focus on the presence to be sure. There was no doubt, Kagura. Kantar did not stop walking, slow down, alter his gait, or even change facial expressions. To even the most astute interrogator, it appeared as though nothing had changed. But in his mind he was wondering what Kagura was doing here, now of all times. He hoped she wasn't here to stir up trouble, heaven knew they didn't need it now. She was in close proximity to a chakra signature he recognized as belonging to one of the Mizukage's men, his assistant. And then their was another, with the distinct, proud chakra of an Uchiha.

Kantar observed the short-lived battle as the Uchiha attacked, and had his...tailed beast? Sucked out by Kagura. Now there was a surprise. The Mist ninja made the body disappear. Kantar continued to walk along, seemingly oblivious to the tragedy he had just witnessed.

The Mizukage soon caught up with them, right as they were about to enter the arena and before he could answer Kankora's question. Kantar had detected him about the time he had expanded his senses to get a better bead on Kagura. "Hello my fellow Lords and Lady. Sorry for my tardiness, I hope I didn't hold anything up." Kantar faced the man and smiled, "Speak of the devil, we were just beginning to wonder if you wouldn't be able to make it!" He laughed, "But no, its perfectly alright, we all just arrived a short while ago ourselves." He decided that for the time being he would say nothing on the matter of Kagura, he was currently unsure of what exactly she was doing here, and didn't want to start trouble. Kantar could tell that Toyoka was using her special technique as well, no doubt she had picked up on Kagura. He wondered what the former Stone ninja could be up to, though he continued to act for all the world as though his only concern was to enjoy the tournament and the company of his fellow Kage.

"GRAWH!" Samehada screeched and jumped off Genta's back. "What. Oh my. Isobu did you feel that?" Genta asked feeling Kurama's chakra fading. Yes go back and see if Jimaru knows what happened. Isobu comanded and Genta followed Samehada back to the group. "That chakra! I can feel it surging! Its... Its the Nine Tail's!" Genta saw the surging red chakra in the vial and jumped down next to the seemingly harmless woman. "Excuse me, but I would very much like that vial of my fallen brothers Bijuu. Please I would like to make sure Kurama gets to a good host before he dies in that vial." Genta pleaded with the girl holding out his hand in the case that she showed some good faith to him and gave Kurama away to another Jinchuuriki.

Kagura froze for a moment. "I was going to give this to the Tsuchikage. To make sure it was kept under heavy guard.. But alright. To keep it alive." She whimpered, Raising the vial towards the man. She placed it in his hand and stepped back.

"Since you're a Mist Ninja, and you're well, Here. I'll assume you're the Mizukage's Guard, right? Well, tell the Tsuchikage i said Hello. And that i 'm sorry, yet again." She muttered, turning and walking towards the leaf village. Just before she entered the gate, Kagura ran up the walls, and walked along the side until she came to a halt at the stadium. With a quick handsign, she had appeared in a seat, and was ready to watch.

She smiled. It had been a while since she got to admire the leaf village in it's beauty.

"This is great. He will finally get to live a good life.... Oh I'm sorry I forgot where I was, I have to get this to his new host." Genta said and flashstepped out of the village and quickly made his way to the shore of the Fire nation. "Ginga? Ginga are you here?" Genta called out as he entered a small shack on the beach, inside was a young boy with the Kekkigan flashing in his eyes.

"Brother? What are you doing here?" The young boy asked lowering the barrier around him allowing his brother to enter. "I wont live much longer brother, but it was so nice of you to come and visit me on my death bed." Ginga smiled and looked at the vial in Genta's hands. "What is that? What have you done Genta?" He coughed a few times and gave a worried frown.

"Brother, this is the Nine Tailed Fox. I am going to seal it inside of you and let you be healed by it's chakra. It will not hurt, I swear." Genta made out a few hand seals and took the pure demon chakra out of the vial which he sealed into his younger brother. "Now give it time, you will feel better." Genta sat down next to the boy and stroked his hair.

Ginga had fallen to sleep when Genta stepped out of the room attempting to call the Mizukage and tell him what happened. Ginga didn't belong to any village but was a powerful ninja all the same. Genta had actually taught him in his youth and now that he was a host Genta could further his training.

Kagura smiled, and disappeared in a small puff of smoke. Alright, since the battle is in motion, they'll be concentrating on the Gennin. She thought, reappearing on the wall above where the Kages were sitting.

"Now, let's get this started. Explosion Release: Twin Clay Birds!" Kagura shouted, throwing clay into the air and making the handsign for Tiger. The clay turned into two giant Birds, and flew towards the Gennin. There was a large explosion, and the Gennin were thrown to each side of the arena. She made a third one, and flew on it, eventually floating in the centre. "So, then. It's about time we met face to face." Kagura laughed, directed to the Kages. "I assure you i won't do much harm to this village. Especially you Kages." She continued, making a handsign and an innocent Villager, a Teenage girl, appeared infront of her. She was about to jump off the bird and save herself when Kagura wrapped an arm around her neck.

"It's no fun if we don't have a hostage." She laughed. The bird suddenly opened it's beak, and fired out smaller birds before flying at the Kages. "It's time to play." She laughed again, the bird going faster. Eventually, it fired like a bullet at them. "Here i come!"

(( And so it begins. ))

Kankora had been directed to his seat and watched as two gennin stood in the middle of the stadium. They were met with cheers as they started the fight, and Kankora simply watched. His facial expression was always hidden behind his scarf, but he was actually smiling in a bemused way. He enjoyed watching two competitors attempt to win for their country, fighting with their true potential and never backing down. The one who worked the hardest would win, that was what Kankora always told his pupils and fellow ninjas. Skill comes with practise, and natural skill is an illusion.

Enough of that babbling, Kankora noticed that the Hokage still hadn't shown up for his own hosted chuunin exams. He wasn't sure if the Hokage was just being tardy, or very rude, either of the two being very disrespectful and highly annoying in Kankora's eye. He hated lateness, which was a form of laziness, and being rude was just that. Still, it was funny to see how intensely focused the Raikage Yoko was into the matches, even if he didn't care for them much himself. He was more interested in his own gennin, the female ninja from Sunagakure, that would be in the finals. While she had potential and was a very good worker, he was curious to see how she would fare against equally strong ninja.

But that was when it had to all go to hell, didn't it? Two clay birds blew up the middle of the arena, and a familiar looking ninja appeared on a clay bird flying above the stadium. Kankora couldn't see that well in the first place, but he could hear her just fine. "So, then. It's about time we met face to face. I assure you i won't do much harm to this village. Especially you Kages. Kankora raised his right eyebrow out of confusion. Where was this coming from? Some randomly annoying ninja that just happens to be able to use a dead technique? He looked sideways at Kantar, guessing that she was probably from his village, or formerly.

What was worse was that she even had to have a hostage. What kind of sick ninja needed a hostage to get what they wanted. He began to seethe in anger, stepping forward and iron dust slowly coming out of the gourd. The gourd actually contained a mixture of both iron dust and sand to make it easier on him so he didn't have to break down any other metals in the area, since that would require more chakra to control. As the iron dust came out it began to form an object which resembled an iron shield. What made it funnier was that he was activating his Magnet Release, which made most iron tools or weapons in the area around him useless as the magnetic field grew. He kept his voice dangerously low as he spoke to her, iron dust hovering in the area.

"Time to show you that ninjas that don't have shame die shamefully." He snarled, then spoke once more. "Iron Sand. Gathering Assault." He bit off the last word, and the massive iron shield formed in front of the Kages. He turned to them and hissed. "I believe it is time we acted." He was hoping they would take the hint and scatter before they collided with his metal shield.

The crowd was shocked at what was happening. A stranger was interfering with the battles. The examiner jumped into the field, followed by the Jounin sensei of the two gennin, who took their students to safety. Meanwhile, the examiner picked up the microphone, looking up at the crowd that looked in shock, though most of the people were generally composed, still absorbing what had just occurred. "Please, everyone, calm down!" The examiner pleaded in an attempt to squelch any crowd riots, but people were already starting to panic. It wasn't often that bombs were dropped on the village, but if the massive group fled the scene at once, injuries, and even fatalities, may come as a result.

When the young villager girl was taken from the crowd, the public descended into chaos, and the common villagers started to make a mad dash for the exits while the shinobi prepared their weapons and looked up to the Kage booth. The girl had a look of horror on her face when she appeared in front of Kagura, and after her failed attempt at escape, the girl attempted to mouth the words 'help me', though at a distance it would seem like the girl was simply just opening and closing her mouth.


When the girl attacked the gennin, Yoko shot up from her seat, slamming her fist into one of its arms and accidentally smashing the small thing to bits. "What is the meaning of this!?" Yoko shouted out, pure rage emanating from her voice as she shot Kagura a death glare. Not only was this stranger interrupting the exams, she made a direct attack at her own shinobi. Yoko would never let this one go until she was properly disposed of. When she turned to find the chair of the Hokage still empty, Yoko's anger boiled over, and she clenched both of her hands into fists. The air around her was slowly becoming dry and static. "This is unacceptable! When I get my hands on that man.. I swear.." She muttered before the Kazekage reacted. Yoko stepped back, though her heart was beginning to pump faster and her lust for battle slowly took over. If he failed to knock the girl out of the sky, Yoko would take advantage of the situation and take her out before the others.

Prior to the chaos, high in the stands, sat one of the previous year's promoted ninja. The boy watched the two genin competitors with intent, measuring those that would someday be his equals, if not his betters; with the way they were battling, however, neither seemed likely.

Michio Sora sat back in his seat, pushing shaggy hair from his eyes, and took a moment to briefly survey the crowd. Everyone was gathered to watch the event, it seemed, as the stands appeared to be filled. Here and there, a person stood watching, an act which showed just how important the exam was to the village. As his eyes wandered from face to face and body to body, they eventually came to rest on the position of the gathered Kages.

Four of the five powerful ninja were seated, gazing upon the two warring youths, but it was the lack of the fifth that seemed to stand out starkly.

Michio was not of the Village Hidden in the Leaves - his home was Soragakure, the Village Hidden in the Sky - but, from a young age, he had been a ward of Konoha, serving as a glorified hostage, representing his home in a foreign land. He was not bitter, however; the Hokage had always been kind to him, and, for that, had earned Michio's greatest respect. The fact that the man was now absent, when his presence was most called for, surprised the boy.

His thoughts were interrupted, though, by the appearance of two birds, which appeared to glide purposefully into the center of the arena, only to detonate upon arrival.

The explosion rocked the stadium, throwing Michio off to the side and out of his chair. He rose quickly, alert to even the subtlest of movements, anticipating danger. None came, though a woman, astride a great clay bird similar to the first two, proceeded to hover in the ring.

"So, then. It's about time we met face to face. I assure you I won't do much harm to this village. Especially you Kages."

Upon saying so, the woman promptly snatched a young girl from the stands, and attempted to escape the scene, firing explosives at the four present Kages from within the beast she stood atop. The hostage girl screamed, and that was all it took to kick Michio into action.

From within the black pouch at his lower back, the boy removed a pair of paper gliders with letters and glyphs scrawled on them; in actuality, the gliders were a pair of explosive tags, which Michio had delicately folded into the pseudo-aircraft. Stepping to the edge separating the spectators' stands from the arena itself, the boy launched the papers at Kagura, weaving hand signs as they soared. Small amounts of Wind chakra stirred the air around the explosives, increasing their flight speed and guiding their path. The boy just hoped it was a surprising enough attack to work.

Ginga woke up in his bed and looked around for his brother. "Genta? Genta where are you?" Ginga felt strangely good and instictivly jumped out of bed starting toward the bathroom. In the restroom he saw his older brother collapsed on the floor dead. "Genta!?" Ginga cried out and checked for a pulse in his brother. There was none and Ginga was devastated. "Genta, what did you do?" He asked himself and looked into the mirror to see that he had six stripes on his face.

The situation finally caught up to Ginga when he saw his brother's body once more and he felt more powerful. "AH!" Ginga screamed and a red aura grew around him with A red aura tail shooting out of his back side. "Who made him do this?! Why?!" He yelled and looked over toward Konoha when he heard an explosion.

Without warning Ginga was speeding toward the village at alarming rates knowing that the person that made Genta do what he did was there. When he arrived at the stadium where he saw a young woman being held hostage by a crazed ninja, Ginga could smell Genta's scent on her captor. "Let that girl go!" He boomed and shot directly up at the clay bird that the ninja was riding on. He could see dust particulates and a paper airplane going at the bird as well, he assumed the worst and knew that he had to get the hostage out first. "Ninja Art: Fang Wolf Fang!" Ginga started to spin violently and drilled right through the bottom of the bird and grabbed the hostage when he came out leaving the ninja alone on her bird.

Ginga landed on the roof and let the hostage go while entering his own mind. "What where am I?" He asked and saw a giant cell with huge eyes staring at him. "Welcome boy, you aren't like my last Jinchuuriki." It boomed and gave a wicked grin. "Jinchuuriki? Like my big brother?! Can you tell me what happened to him?" Ginga asked the voice pleading with him. The voice laughed and quickly told him that he was now his Jinchuuriki and he didn't know anything about the other Bijuu's hosts. "So what did you want boy?" The voice wondered and clawed at the cage. "Well I was wondering if I could get more power, that's what my brother asked his Bijuu." Ginga stated boldly and put his hands on the bars showing that he wasn't afraid and wanted a friendship with the demon. "Hmm your forward I'll give you that, alright I will give you more Chakra." The demon stated with the wicked grin growing to be warmer and more sincere.

After the little meeting in his head, Ginga felt another surge of power and another red tail shot out of him making two. His hair started turning from its natural snow white to a light brown color and the stripes on his face grew to be parted. "I'm going to tear you apart!" He boomed as loud as the demon was in his head. "Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!" Ginga spat out a large stream of liquid fire, unlike lava but more like flaming water.

Kagura smiled at the chaos. She made a handsign, under the cover of the girl. The real Kagura was sitting below the stands. She didn't want to play games, especially now that the Tsuchikage was watching. The clone cackled like a deranged maniac, and when the Paper Gliders hit the fake Kagura, she disappeared. The real one muttered to herself. "Hidden Jutsu: Laughter of Death." With this, the clone was behind the male, and aimed a kick at his head. "Out of my way!" She shouted, then reappearing on the bird.

"Nobody ever understands art, do they? Murder is an art form.." She shouted, then a look of insanity formed on her face. She pulled her robes off, revealing just a small two peice set of a Bra and Shorts. She had a strange mark on her chest. "Remember this, lord Tsuchikage?!" She shouted, the mark started to spread along her body, eventually turning her into a black version of herself. "I would recommend fleeing now, while you have the chance. It's like my grandfather said.."

"Tremble! Be Arfaid Recoil in Despair! Cower in awe, and cry your heart out! Because my art...."

The real kagura quickly dug herself underground, and sealed it with a small breathing hole.

"Is an EXPLOSION!" The fake one screamed, although her version of the technique was only 3 Kilometers, it still packed a punch. Corpses were hurled, people were obliterated, and blood flew. Kagura poked her head out of the ground in the centre of the stadium.

"Um... Hi... How are you still alive?" She muttered, pulling herself out. She scanned the stadium for damage, and admittedly, not much aside from civillian casualties. She looked up and saw Kurama's new host. "Oh god. Figures i'd die for this." Kagura muttered, standing up - Low on chakra. "Alright. Give me your best shot, idiots!" She shouted, popping a chakra pill into her mouth.

"You should get out of here. Sorry about all this." Ginga said warmly to the hostage and let her climb down from the roof. "Okay now I have to use my own power." He slowly released his Bijuu chakra and the aura dissipated. "Fire Release: Great Flame Spiraling Sphere! Prepare to be obliterated!" Ginga had created his own variation of the well know leaf jutsu Rasengan and turned it from being a basic style attack to a fire release elemental move. He launched at the woman in the stadium but when he got within striking distance of her a wind release sideswiped him.

"Ah!" Ginga cried out as he slammed into the walls of the arena and the flaming sphere slapped against his chest. Suddenly he was on fire and rolling around shouting,"Someone help me, I'm on fire!" The ground was burning around him just making things a lot worse then it should have been. Many people in the crowd were getting a kick out of what was happening.

The fire eventually went out and Ginga got up again with the burns on his body slowly healing up due to the facts that the kyuubi's chakra had a healing effect. "Well that's cool. Alright lets try a different element now." He quickly signed a few hand seals and opened his mouth wide to yell," Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Ginga expected a water dragon to shoot out of his mouth but felt something very different in the depths of his stomach. "Uh oh back fire. Ow that real-" He felt a surge of water growing in his stomach and going up his throat. He regurgitated it without choking to death and could just tell that the nine tails was shaking it's head in disgust.

"OW!" He moaned and looked up to see that it was all over and he missed the last attack that he had planned. "Hey if we are all signing up for villages, um Lady Raikage? Could I come to the Lightning Village and see if I could become more aquanted with my Bijuu?" Ginga asked shyly looking over to count only four Kage, where was the Hokage? It didn't really matter all Ginga wanted to think about was his status as a normal villager. But what good is having a Bijuu if you don't have friends and a village to protect.

Kavic was more than a little surprised when Kagura made her appearance. He watched on impassively for a brief time as she played her games, remaining unaffected by the genjutsu because he was far enough away, and Kagura was relatively far away. The Tsuchikage did not seem to be in immediate danger so he contented himself to watch. As he observed, he grew alarmed when she decided to blow herself up, but figured it must be a clone, she wouldn't just show up solely to blow herself to pieces. The rest of the kage were well protected by the Kazekage's wall, so Kavic saw to his own protection. Using hiding in a rock technique, he merged back into the concrete of the stadium, burying himself deep within the structure, while also using earth spear, better known as the iron skin technique for extra protection.

Kavic released the technique and slowly rose back up out of the rubble of the stadium after the blast subsided. There was a good deal of chaos. He watched as a few ninja did some damage to Kagura, then she floated up and spoke to the Tsuchikage, while two others talked to the Raikage as though some had not just blown up part of the stadium, the ninja responsible already forgotten to them. And that ninja, it made him sick to call her that, was standing before the Tsuchikage unchallenged. As if she had the right!

Rapidly weaving a few handsigns while Kagura was still distracted by talking to the Tsuchikage, her back to him, he used the Earth Style Rising Stone Spears, creating a number of spikes below and in front of her that shot up to impale her. However, as soon as the technique was cast, he silently launched himself at her from behind, using his surprising speed to his advantage. He used Iron Skin to give more force to his attack, aiming high, so that even if his ninjutsu attack missed he would still annihilate her with the high-powered taijutsu assault from behind.


Kantar observed the chaos, safe behind the Kazekage's shield. It made him sad to see his former subject do this. At the end of it all, Kagura approached him humbly, saying "If.. You would like... I could.. I could use a Ninjutsu to reverse it.. You continue with your exams.. I get to walk away scot-free, sound good? Oh, and if i were to revive these people, i want something from you. Lord Tsuchikage, i want to be a Shinobi from Iwagakure again. Not a missing-nin." As near as he could tell this was the real Kagura. The clone had blown itself up, and this was the one that had cast a genjutsu and buried itself. Clones sometimes, but not typically bothered to preserve themselves unless the jutsu caster had explicitly planned for them to before using the technique. Given that, it was likely this was the real Kagura.

A look of pained sadness passed over Kantar's features. "Kagura...how could you do th-" He was interrupted as Kavic begun his attack. The spike shot up abruptly from right in front of and below Kagura. He had realized the attack was coming, but did nothing to warn Kagura about it. Rising from his seat, he monitored Kavic's attack, careful to not give Kagura any advance warning. He was ready to back up Kavic should the need arise though. How could Kagura have done this?

Michio watched as the explosive gliders detonated, and allowed himself a undeserved moment of self-congratulations. He noticed the clone disappear, only to materialize beside him and deliver a hard kick to his face. The blow sent him sprawling backwards, skidding across the stone floor of the stadium. The clone vanished again, reappearing in her original spot atop the great terracotta bird.

The boy's vision swam; he had taken many blows from superiors before, but one doesn't ever become used to them. He could see her speaking to the seated Kages, offering what he could only assume were threats and curses.

"... Is an EXPLOSION!"

The woman began to expand, her body stretching to an extreme limit, until Michio was sure she would burst. It registered then what her intention was, and, quickly as he was able, the boy began working the hand signs required to activate his cushioning technique; he was not quite finished when Kagura's clone erupted in a massive ball of fire.

Michio was thrown from the floor into a wall just behind it, though only momentarily, as the wall gave way to the great force exerted. From there, he fell downward, and the ground rose up to meet him.