Naruto & Gohan: Legends Will Rise

Chapter 12: Free Weekend part 3: Gohan and Hansho, Clash of Titans!

Gohan walked away from the training grounds, he had said that he was going to see his sensei, but that was a lie, truthfully he didn't meet with Owl until the next day, he wanted to check something out. Throughout his entire session with Kakashi and the others, he had felt a strange ki, it wasn't evil, nor was it very large so he hadn't worried, until he felt it grow to nearly Goten's level, then shrink down again.

Gohan walked away from his teammates on a straight path until he was confident that they wouldn't see him, then he took off towards the ki as fast as he possibly could, hoping no one saw him.

It only took him about fifteen minutes to get to the source of the ki, it was a kid about his age -physically at least- with black hair that was messy and unkempt, he had one blue and one red eye, with a black scarf around his neck and a large black cloak. The cloak was very plain except for a single marking by the heart, it was a pale green horseshoe with a skull on the highest part of the arc and a bone and scythe crossed over it.

"Gohan, I've been waiting." The boy said, pulling his cloak's hood up so it covered his face, Gohan noticed his gloved hands, on the back of each glove was the same symbol as his chest.

"Who are you?" Gohan asked, wary of his surroundings, though it was a plain, there was a group of trees close by and if this guy had any friends, the distance wouldn't mean much.

"I apologise, my name is Hansho, the current embodiment of the horseman of Death, and I was sent to fetch you for my master." Gohan could see Hansho smile through the hood as he flung his arms out and a scythe appeared in both of his hands, the scythes were smaller than normal ones, but they glowed with a pale green aura. The handles were made from bones and the blades from a black metal that Gohan didn't recognise.

"Can you tell him I'm busy?" Gohan asked with a smirk.

"My apologies, but I cannot comply with your final wish." Hansho said, kicking off the ground and rushing towards Gohan with an amazing burst of speed, shocking the demi-Saiyan, who barely moved out of the way of the blades as they came down in an X by his chest, Gohan jumped back and landed in a fighting stance that focused on defense.

'I can't take my chances with those weapons.' Gohan thought, he had no clue if they were poisonous or not, the demi-Saiyan charged at his cloaked enemy and threw a roundhouse kick at his chest, Hansho raised a scythe and blocked it with the bone handle, Gohan brought his leg down and sent a powerful punch at the enemy, hitting Hansho in the ribs and sending him flying.

"A valiant effort." Hansho stood up, dusting his cloak, "But unfortunately for you, you will need to utilise your Super Saiyan form to defeat me."

'How does he know about that?' Gohan asked himself, "I won't need it to beat you." Gohan appeared in front of Hansho with a burst of speed, planting his fist into the reaper's stomach and then delivering a powerful roundhouse kick to his head, sending Hansho careening into a tree on the other side of the meadow they were in. Gohan then raised his hands over his head and formed a yellow ball of ki, "Masenko..." He chanted, waiting for Hansho to get up.

Hansho stood up and ripped his cloak off, revealing a black sleeveless top and a pair of tan slacks, his right shoulder had a tattoo of the symbol that appeared on his cloak and gloves, he also had a strange tattoo of a pentagram with runes around it on his left wrist. Hansho looked towards Gohan to see him charging a Masenko, the reaper raised his scythes in an X and they glowed green, "Jigoku ni wa, kurosu kama!" (Hellscythe Cross) He shouted, slashing a green burst of ki forwards in an X shape.

"HAAA!" Gohan released his attack as he saw Hansho's, the yellow ball turning into a beam that came from his now outstretched arms, the attacks met and Gohan's pushed through, shattering Hansho's attack and flying into the trees, leaving a trail of destruction in it's wake before Gohan stopped it.