Chapter 9

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After Naruto's sound trouncing of the Ne, he went to sleep and prepared for the genin test with his new team of Shikamaru, Hinata, and Anko. They were already a team, but he still chuckled at their genin test.

(Flashback)

The day after Naruto slaughtered the Ne with his Asura Path, Team 7 appeared in Training Ground 7 at around 10:00 am, Anko waiting for them. She explained how their test was a simple spar between each of them against her. Shikamaru managed to outsmart her into falling for his Kagemane while her Sen'eijashu was extended, just barely not touching him, and Hinata held her own with her Juuken. Then came Naruto...

He brought out a single puppet, Tenshi, but there was something... off about the angelic puppet; its shadow was pitch-black and it radiated power, as well as a desire for all forms of energy and power. Anko shrugged at these features and readied herself to face Naruto's puppet before engaging him in a fight for his own skills.

Six wings flapped and Tenshi rocketed forward, a white tanto in both its hands as it spun in the air, intending on slicing Anko, who dodged to the side and breathed a fireball towards Naruto, only for the puppet to quickly appear in its path and block it with the bottom two wings, turning grey for a second and absorbing the chakra-made flames, eradicating it. Perturbed by this development, Anko brandished her twin elongated kunai and lunged forward, intending on skewering those troublesome wings.

Again, a pair of wings were raised in retaliation, but these were the middle two, as they turned pitch-black and her kunai sunk into them, her hands quickly following, the Tokubetsu Jounin jumping back from the sudden disturbing feeling of being pulled in, as well as her kunai sinking into the dark wings, which contorted and became like demonic bat wings, flapping forward and sending her own kunai back at her, forcing her to dodge, then changed back to the angelic feathers. Anko was so confused; since when could this puppet do these things? "Okay, gaki; spill. What's the deal with your puppet? These aren't very angelic things to do." She commented.

Naruto smirked and chuckled. "I guess you saw through me, Anko-sensei. I had an epiphany. With every angel, so light and warm, there is a shadow; so dark and cold and full of hate. And a desire... Power. 'I want everything!' it would scream! So I made them..." He explained, grinning somewhat insanely.

As his explanation continued, Tenshi lowered to the ground, the bottom four wings disappeared from it, and the dark shadow seemed to grow and stretch off the ground, forming another puppet; similar to Tenshi in many ways, but so different. Clad in all black, wings of demons, fingers fashioned into claws, and black hair covering its eyes. The final pair of wings manifested as a grey counterpart with wings made of grey chakra constantly flickering like flames.

"Meet Tenshi, Oni, and Kyokai. The light, the darkness, and the boundary in between. They are the Trinity. Light Release, Shadow Release, and Dark Release. The heavens light, hells shadow, and a power to engulf everything in sight." He finished the introduction of his puppet trio.

Anko was amazed at how far Naruto came; she never heard of a Light Release, and she mused this Shadow Release worked like the Nara's control over them, but possibly to a much more flexible and powerful scale. And she only ever heard of Dark Release in passing; raw chakra manipulation, specifically absorbing and redirecting the enemies chakra attacks and absorbing it for one's own reserves. Grinning ferally at this new prospect, Anko brandished another pair of kunai and jumped forward, engaging Oni in kenjutsu, as the puppet of a demon had blades on its fingers and used those to fight back, various blades of darkness just sprouting from its body to strike at her while she blocked its claws. Jumping back, its demonic wings turned into silhouettes and contorted into large claws, extending from its shoulder blades in many attempts to crush her, creating craters when they missed. Suddenly, Anko was attacked from behind, a palm strike to the small of her back, lifting her up a bit, an axe kick to her stomach reacquainting her with the ground. She saw Tenshi as the culprit, blinding orbs of light engulfing its hands. It raised its right arm, all fingers but the index and middle curled up, as the light condensed into a cross shape and the air around it seemed to shake. Quickly using a kawarimi to switch places with a fallen branch let Anko see the damage of that attack. The branch was no more, and the ground was scorched, a small crater at the point of impact. Looking to her left, she then saw Kyokai going through hand signs and slamming its palms on the ground, various chunks of rock just dispersing into pure chakra, only to be absorbed in its wings, which grew with the excess energy. Stretching far off its back, the chakra actually shot projectiles of the energy in various directions, small tremors accompanying the impacts. When the dust clouds cleared, only fires made of grey chakra remained, as high as some trees. Then something peculiar happened.

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