Ninja Gamer

Chapter 29: Prelude to War

I kept my breath smooth and easy as I focused on my surroundings, the sun vanishing into the skyline as I kept perfectly still. I was in my final week of my time in the training ground, the Zetsu had been kicked into overdrive with their desire to kill me, and several of the 'special enemies' had actually come close to doing so.

One of the most dangerous had actually been Kai Leng, the Assassin of Cerberus. An experienced soldier, outfitted with Reaper cybernetics and high tech gear, yeah, it was a pain to beat him. He had the ability to go invisible AND summon force fields, not to mention the fact that his sword had been able to cleave through metal with ease thanks to the fact it was a goddamn monomolecular blade. Plus, it could electrify whoever it cut. A sword I now had stashed away in my inventory.

But seriously, he was tough, able to deploy a seriously strong field as he applied medi-gel to the wounds I inflicted on him and cloaked himself to try and get the drop on me. On the upside, I got proof that my enhanced [Sharingan] was able to pick up the minute shifting of space that stealth fields made.

But, I was still alive, and now I was about to attempt to finally put an end to the Predator that had been harassing me this entire time! The reptilian bastard had hunted and harassed me for weeks no matter how I modified my camping protection. I was starting to really hate balls of plasma...

Hell, when I camped out underground, he freaking blew up the area I was camping in!

No respect these days.

The sun vanished into the horizon as I waited for the Predator to show himself, my enhanced eyes twitching with every movement in the forest around me before I finally noticed something, space warping around in a peculiar manner.

I reacted immediately, throwing out a brace of kunai and applying a quick [Kage Kunai] jutsu to one of the kunai in the brace before triggering a quick teleport to another location, the forest I chose as my hunting ground being covered with Hiraishin kunais at this point.

My eyes were wide as I watched the forest for any sign of movement as my kunai tore through the trees, sounding almost like a heavy rainstorm before teleporting into a new location.

One thing I learned fighting the Predator, never stay in one spot for too long, it made you too predictable. It also didn't help if it came to respect you as prey...it meant that the damned thing didn't underestimate you.

Speaking of.

I leaned back as a ball of plasma passed through the space my head had been before teleporting to another kunai as an explosion rocked my previous position. I quickly began moving by foot as I spotted my own prey's silhouette.

The Predator reacted quickly, drawing out his collapsible staff/spear as I descended upon him with my kodachi. The sounds of metal clashing sang through the trees as I pressed against him with an unrelenting attack only for him to shock me as a mine detonated at my feet.

A cloud of smoke and debris clouded the Predator's vision as the mine went off, the alien taking some splash damage himself, even as he threw himself back, only to be immediately beset upon as I came hurtling out of the forest, flanked by another two 'mes'.

His shock was visible as three of my shadow clones clashed with him, even from my position, hidden in a tree, a cloak lined with temperature regulating seals and a number of other ones that would hide me from his vision as I continually attacked him with my shadow clones, waiting for him to be moved into position.

And honestly, the shadow clones were awesome, but seriously impractical unless you were both an Uzumaki and a Jinchuriki. It cut my chakra in half every time I used it, so making the seven clones I did dropped me to only hundreds of chakra points remaining, out of my tens of thousands.