The Shadow And The Dog (COMPLETE)

Chapter 31

'Just stay neutral and blank in the face, if your enemy sees your fear the battles already over. Once this is over I get to go eat cookies with the team and I better have extra just cause, man what a pain'

"Begin!" The proctor yelled

  Once he threw up his saluted hand, I gave us some space to see if he'll make the first move or not. I reached in my ninja pouch for a kunai gripping it with my right hand readying myself for anything he got and Dosu wasn't doing anything, just staring at me like I was a piece of meat.

From the fight we had earlier, he's good at long range combat, sadly I didn't get to know what happened at the end of my black out only Achime and Choniko know; I should've asked for some pointers about him.

'Akarui! Left back shoulder! Kunai coming now!'

Doing as instructed, I maneuvered out the way of the incoming blade that wheezed past my eye sight.

'FOCUS!'

I know Kiba is telling at me to get my head in the game leading myself unknowingly wide open for attacks. I didn't even see him pocket out his weapon so fast and long range fighter I'm dealing with; a smart ninja always have to scan any appealing things about the opponent even the smallest thing is big. So bandages from head to toe, from the Hidden Sound, won't show his body much. Maybe he's part puppet. This is mostly onii-chan's thing.

Why do I keep thinking about him. Shikamaru, my own brother that basically disowned me in front of everyone, even strangers. I just can't, I can't forgive him. So I need to get over it NOW!

I pulled out 5 shurikens and threw each one in different directions readying my chance to attack. Dosu blocked them off with ease without flinching, either way I still ran to him. My feet ran in a big circle around him and decided to go to the side, with kunai in hand I went after him knowing that he'll block my attack but still.

I heard his metal bang on my metal with so much force on both sides; then he laughed.

"You think that you can win this, your fat ass of a friend wasn't even a  competition" referring to Choji.

It was a known pet peeve of mine when people insult about my friend repeating his words on my skull. Pushing back from him, I made my quick hand signs concentrating on my stretched out chakra seeing the faded black shadow follow toward my rival. Yet he insisted on moving around.

"You gotta be quicker than that" he deeply chuckled skidding to one place to another causing me to grinned my teeth together.

"Well then stay still so I can strangle you, your such a pain "I mumbled back

My shadow was at its limit and all he's doing is playing around with me. I released the jutsu and had another thought in mind, my left hand traveled to the back to my pouch feeling over the many small weapons and pulled out five more shurikens aiming head on at him with result of no luck making them all scatter to the ground like nothing.

Three kunai's find there way between my fingers on time,  Dosu fled towards me letting his arms sling back and watched me throw more weapons; he deflected it completely with no pain in his face. I pulled out a kunai clinging our tools together getting me a couple licks as I barely got any on him. I was too concentrated on our weapons to not see his fist aiming at me leading my back drag in the dirt painfully. I watched as he walked over to me towering me completely.

The sound ninja sneered, "What's the last words you wanna say once I kill ya'"

"That you... underestimated me" I said

He looked at me in disbelief with a snotty humor with it. His weapon shot at my head using mine as a protector feeling the weight differ now. He raised his hand that he wasn't using at first and upper cutting my jaw flying a couple feet away feeling the pain on my back then my front side scrapping the floor once again.

For my plan to work I had to do it. Weaving in a couple jutsu signs my shadow shot from under me at the speed of lightning to the kunai's we left on the ground connecting to one another  because of their own shadows they developed and next were the ninja stars; scribbles of light onyx lines covered me and Dosu in a good range and the shadows filled in the empty spaces in the trap catching my pray in the act hearing his gasp and frozen hunched body acknowledged my success.

"Kage Kubi Shibari no Jutsu" (Shadow Neck Bind Technique) I huffed out getting off the ground.

"Hmm, never thought that a puny kid like you could be strong to use this kind of jutsu"Dosu spoke freely

I watched the shadow of a hand sliver around his body slowly mustering up more chakra feeling it drain out of me rapidly; the air was quiet and the people stood at the end of their seats watching carefully.

Sweat dripped down the side of my face and my vision was blurring up and couldn't stop my hands from tingling. I can't give up yet my shadow was close around his neck ready to end it already; yet Dosu didn't seemed phased like I predicted he would be. My mind swirled with too many questions to count with both hands; Does he want to die?

Is he just playing with me again?

Is my jutsu strong enough to complete?

Why isn't he trying to break out?

Am I too weak?

The shadow crept around his neck tightening it's grip every second seeing now his eyes slightly turning wide, with my sensitive hearing I heard a dark chuckle connection to a bad feeling was coursing through my bones.

His last sentence threw my body in shut down mode.

     

                       "Your brother was right, your a stupid little shadow that's not even a ninja if they can't kill"