Chapter 87 : Chunin Exam Finals 5

The atmosphere in the Chunin Exam finals was tense. The crowd was filled with anticipation as both Shika and Gaara were covered in the mist, and its been some time without any outcome.

Shika knew that Gaara was dangerous, especially with the Shukaku, inside him. The sand armour that always surrounded Gaara was impenetrable to most attacks and Shika knew that well, that why he trained hard and perfected the techniques that would give him an advantage.

Water Convergence. It was a technique he had spent months perfecting, a sharp, piercing stream of water capable of breaking through even the toughest defences.

With precision and speed, Shika launched the attack. The water converged into a thin, needle-like shape and shot forward, cutting through Gaara's sand shield like paper. The sharp scream pierced through Gaara's defence and struck him directly in the chest.

Gaara's eyes widened in shock, but before he could react, Shika was already moving forward. The barrier he erected didn't only stop any chakra from leaking out but also sounds so that Gaara wouldn't scream and make both his siblings make their way down here to save him.

He knew he didn't have much time. Using the sealing technique he had learned from Jiraiya, he pressed his hands against Gaara's body when he was down and his sand was held back by Shika's water and activated the seal. The complex symbols glowed as they locked onto the Biju's chakra inside Gaara, sealing it off and preventing Shukaku from awakening.

The crowd still couldn't see anything through the thick mist. It wasn't until Shika deactivated his Hidden Mist Technique that the arena came back into view. Gaara was kneeling on the ground, clutching his chest, clearly weakened, and Shika stood before him so victorious that they realised that the fight was already over.

"That's…" Kakashi Guy and Lee who saw this can't help but question what they were seeing, even Lee failed against Gaara after opening 5 of the inner gates, but here was Shika who not only won against Gaara but even wounded him. They all could see the blood pouring out of Gaara's shoulder.

Lee can't help but clench his fist at this.

"Lee…" Guy grabs Lee's shoulder trying to say something but no words come to his mouth right now.

Lee wasn't the only one surprised, there were others, like the Sand team. Who saw this and frowned, already rushing towards Gaara. But maybe no more than Orochimaru who was sitting beside Hiruzen and after seeing that Gaara wasn't transforming into his Biju nor he was healing, he was both stunned and angry.

He quickly made a handsign and Kabuto and his other men waiting started their plan.

White feathers fell from the sky and a large area of Genjutsu was activated, making the majority of the people fall to sleep.

The stands filled with snoring rather than screaming, making Shika smile, the irony was really there, as enemy shinobi from the Hidden Sound and Hidden Sand villages appeared. Shuriken and kunai flew through the air, and smoke bombs filled the arena. Konoha's forces rushed to defend the village, but the surprise attack caught many off guard.

This wasn't just happening in the Chunin exam stand, the entire village was under attack by Orochmiaru's forces by now. And Shika also notice that Orochimaru also erected a barrier with his sound four to kill Hiruzen Sarutobi.

'Hope that everything goes like the cannon, as long as Hiruzen is dead, it's okay.' Shika hoped, though he knew that his being here would change things, he honestly didn't care but about the changes but Hiruzen should die, and that why he put a clone inside that's barrier even before this all started, to make sure things goes on like the cannon.

Shika immediately snapped into action. He didn't have time to rest after his fight with Gaara. The village was under attack, and he needed to help. As he glanced at Gaara, he saw him struggling to stand, but the sealing technique was still holding back the full power of the Shukaku.

Up in the stands, Shika spotted familiar faces. The other Genin from Konoha were already moving to assist in the battle. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were all engaged with enemy shinobi, while Kakashi and the other Jonin were fighting Orochimaru's elite forces.

'Now let's finally get that spy bastard.' Shika had a smirk on his face. He of course was talking about Kabuto right now.

Orochimaru and Kabuto are the only people who know how to use Edo Tensei, right now he has no way to kill Orochimaru but he can get that bastard Kabuto.

Hell, he in fact might be able to get Orochimaru as well, but that depends on his clone.

After all, if there was one time when Orochimaru has ever come close enough to dying then it was when Hiruzen used the ripper death seal on him.

'Hope clone can find a way to take both of them out.' he can't help but hope. And then he was gone, ready to find Kabuto and stop the zombie army from ever marching the elemental nation.

Shika's divine dogs already knew Kabuto's scent, so finding him wasn't hard.

"Summoning Jutsu..." Shika said, more like acted and sneakily took out a smoke bomb while bitting his finger to draw blood, and slam his hand on the ground to act like he use the summoning jutsu to summon his divine dogs.

A buff of smoke happen in the area and two dogs, one black and one white came forward.

"Find him..." Shika only said this and the next second they bolted out to find Kabuto.

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At this time, the clone, who was hiding in the shadows up on the rooftop, inside the barrier erected by barrier four, was hiding in his shadows and watching both teacher and student tearing each other part.

They didn't fight too much, only a little to see how strong they were before Orochimaru used the Edo Tensei to bring both of the Senju Brothers.

Clone just remained back, he knew that he couldn't stop anyone with his powers inside this barrier, though he was surprised how Hiruzen Sarutobi looked surprised seeing how the Kazekage turned out to be Orochimaru. This means that he was expecting an attack from Orochimaru after Shika found the real plan of Sand by saving Hayate.

Clone can't help was ponder what Hiruzen was thinking.

'Probably that there will be two kage-level shinobi in the fight, Orochimaru and Kazekage, so even if he wanted to take some help from Jiraiya, he couldn't. At best he must have thought that he had to fight Kazekage who was of course weaker than Orochimaru while Jiraiya would handle the snake. That's why Jiraiya is not here beside Hiruzen, he must have been look for Orochimaru to fight.

Tsk, tsk, tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk....' Clone snickered.

This was good for him, this means that the final outcome might not change ultimately.

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