Naruto Fanfiction

chapter 20

chapter20-Caught Again

(3rd p.o.v)

Ryuu cracked an eye open and found himself in the center of a massive arena, hands tied to two wooden posts above him, and his feet chained to the ground. In front of him was a mirror, to his left a stone wall, to his right a pile of weapons, and behind him he could hear a fire.

"Good morning subject," a voice said from somewhere above him, though he couldn't see anything outside the arena from the lights set up around the edge of it.

"There are five stations in this room: your restraints, the mirror, the weapons, the stone, and the bonfire behind you. You are tasked with escaping your restraints and defeating each trap before you are killed. I suggest you use your Sharingan to do so. Otherwise, you will die."

The voice stopped and movement in the mirror caught Ryuu's attention. He heard a change in the sound of the fire behind him burning, heard the weapons shifting, heard stones hitting against each other, but the mirror commanded his attention.

His reflection was walking forward, drawing a pair of kunai as it did. It reached the surface of the mirror and stepped out of it, the mirror stretching before releasing the image, sinking back to its original shape but without Ryuu's reflection.

"This has got to be a Genjutsu," Ryuu muttered tugging at his arm restraints. "Course they're not loose."

He formed a Flame Sword, cutting himself free then leapt into the air as two things passed below him. One was a massive stone creature with its right arm a massive stone cleaver blade and the left a massive stone hammer.

The other thing was an equally massive humanoid thing made out of the weapons all bundled together by the chains of countless flails and kusarigama.

The fingers of the weapon humanoid were blades of an assortment of types of sword and it had a massive spiked ball for a head.

The two constructs smashed the ground where Ryuu had been just as the copy of him appeared over him, spinning and kicking him sideways into the ground beside the fire.

The fire itself seemed to be fine except for a massive flaming man inside it. His upper body was all that had formed but it was still as tall as Ryuu.

One hand held a flaming bow, the other hand holding a flaming arrow. But it also had another set of hands below the first. One held a flaming scimitar and the other a lance.

You've got to be kidding me," Ryuu growled raising his Flame Sword and blocking the scimitar, the force nearly breaking his sword and blasting a crater into the ground below him."

Ryuu shoved the blade upward as much as he could, barely moving it, then rolled sideways, the blade crashing down where he had been.

He pushed himself up, leaping sideways as the copy of him crashed down, slashing at him. He spun, slashing at the copy with his Flame Sword but the stone construct landed between them, blocking the slash with the sword blade then swung the hammer at Ryuu.

Ryuu leapt skyward, spinning and fired a barrage of Air Bullets at the weapon construct as it leapt at him. It was blasted into pieces, scattering to the ground below before Ryuu heard something behind him whistling.

Shit! Ryuu swore, spinning and slashing the oncoming fire arrow with his Flame Sword.

The arrow still tore through his shoulder, lighting his arm on fire but when Ryuu landed, he began to role, putting the fire out. Then, he stood, blocking the copy's knives with his Flame Sword, leveling an unimpressed look at it, Sharingan active.

"You want my Sharingan?" Ryuu growled. "You got them. These things lose."

Ryuu shoved the copy's knives away then spun, kicking it into the bonfire then ducked under the stone construct's sword, stepping forward and bisecting it, the stone around the cut melting. Then, he leapt back as the weapon construct's hand crashed down where he had been.

"I thought you were still kicking," Ryuu growled letting the Flame Sword fade and making hand seals. "Fire Style, Dragon Flame Bomb!"

The massive flaming dragon slammed its jaws closed on the weapon construct, melting them together and forming a single solid creation.

It staggered backward then began forward again. Ryuu leaned back, inhaling then forward, exhaling a series of wind disks at the construct, shredding it before ducking under a flaming spear.

He jumped back as the sword crashed down and his copy staggered forward, head bowed and body badly burned, patches of hair missing. Ryuu reformed his Flame Sword but waited.

The copy's head snapped up, Sharingan glowing in its eyes as it drew a tanto, creating a Vacuum Blade on it and charging.

"Thought so," Ryuu snorted. "Come on."

He sprinted forward, dodging past a flaming arrow then blocked the copy's sword and slashing at its stomach. It leapt back then stepped forward, slashing at him.

He ducked under it and spin, mule kicking it away then leapt into the air over an arrow and spear, the Flame Sword fading as he made several hand seals.

"Water Style, Water Wall!" Ryuu shouted before releasing a massive flood of water from his mouth.

The water flooded the area, putting out the bonfire instantly but the flame creature leapt out at the last second, standing on the ceiling as a full body, now just over double Ryuu's size.

The water slammed Ryuu's copy into the wall, however, before slamming all of the weapon construct's pieces into him.

Ryuu landed on the water, grinning up at the flaming man above him and formed several hand seals before lightning formed in the palm of his hand.

"Chidori!" Ryuu shouted crouching. "Good thing it requires Sharingan anyway."

He sprinted forward, a trail appearing on the water behind him. The flame creature leapt at him, the heat from its body evaporating the water as it approached.

Ryuu leapt at it, gritting his teeth as his body began to turn red. He held his hand out, blasting his way through the creature's chest then spun, firing another Water Wall at it, this time hitting it directly, the water splashing back and cooling his body.

When the water had settled, Ryuu landed on it just as the metal chunks against the wall shifted and the copy dragged itself out, pushing itself up and straightened up, Sharingan still active.

"Having some bad luck huh?" Ryuu smirked. "Fire Style, Dragon Flame Caterwaul!"

He fired the dragon shaped blasts at the copy who began making hand seals.

"Fire Style, Searing Migraine!" the copy shouted.

"Wind Style, Air Bullets," Ryuu shouted, the spheres hovering around him. "Fire Style, Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"

The spheres of wind all lit up with flames and launched at the copy as Ryuu leapt over the wave of fire that finally reached him.

The copy dove to the side, the spheres following and all exploded around it. The air heated, much more than when he did it against Yugao.

The copy shrieked in pain, sprinting at Ryuu and Ryuu formed his Flame Sword, holding his arm out and extending it at the copy until it stabbed the copy through its heart, igniting the thing instantly. Then, Ryuu retracted the blade and extinguished it.

"Impressive," the voice commended. "We did not anticipate you knowing such high level jutsus and techniques. You have earned a rest. We will examine your eyes when you awaken. We will not be cutting them out of you. Nor will we be removing their usefulness."

Suddenly, Ryuu coughed, noticing a nearly imperceptible fog filling the room.

Damn! Ryuu thought as his vision blurred. That's not...fair.

Then, he collapsed.

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