Chapter 33: You are Welcome.

Seeing that Zokuto already turned into a sculpture, both Izumi and Kimimaro got excited. "Did we defeat him?"

They then looked at the golden screen to check whether they already won or not. However, there is no new information about Zokuto got beaten.

"Maybe he is still not fully frozen in the inside." Kimimaro then used his finger bullet to shoot bones toward Zokuto's sculpture. Seeing this, Izumi followed along, and throw a barrage of shuriken.

The barrage of shuriken and the bones bullet reached the sculpture, but did not destroy it.

"Hei Izumi, is your ice too hard to be broken?" asked Kimimaro in confusion.

"That, I have not checked whether the ice is fragile or hard." answered Izumi, also feel confused.

Suddenly, the outer layer of the ice sculpture cracked and crumbled into pieces of ice shard. Behind the crumbled ice layer, there is Zokuto, who is in a Sage Mode! In that short amount of time when he was turned into ice sculpture, he meditated and entered Sage Mode.

Seeing that Zokuto is not harmed at all, Izumi once again activated his right eye ability. However, this time a layer of avatar shielded Zokuto.

"Susanoo!"

"Sage Style: Susanoo Magatama!"

The Susanoo ignored the freezing effect. It created two big blue tomoe-like shuriken and threw it toward Izumi and Kimimaro. The two was surprised and used the hands of their Susanoos to block the shuriken. However, the shuriken cut through the hand of their Susanoo as if a blade cutting a flesh, and still moved toward Kimimaro and Izumi. The two expression changed and hurriedly ducked to evade the shuriken. The shuriken cut through their avatar and directly embedded on the platform wall. A moment later, the Susanoo's shuriken disappeared into a blue light chakra.

"Ah, that was really cold. You too sure have some overpowered ability there." said Zokuto, deactivating his Susanoo that almost freezing.

'As we thought, he manged to overcome his shortcoming. But how? and what with that overpowered shuriken? Even our Susanoo is nothing infront of it.' thought Kimimaro. Zokuto should not be able to see both him and Izumi. However, he was able to identify their direction. As if answering his question, Zokuto smiled and spoke to Kimimaro "My Mangekyou Sharingan can see both of you. So, this white space is not effective against me."

In Zokuto's heart however, saying he is a sensor nin is not completely true. The truth is that, when everything turned white in this area, he is still able to see the panel above Kimimaro's and Izumi's head. With that, he will be able to guess the rough location of Kimimaro and Izumi. As for that collapsed layer of ice, it was his Susanoo that he used to shield his whole body from getting frozen by Izumi's dojutsu ability. With that he was able to overcome his situation.

Now, both Kimimaro and Izumi already deactivated their Mangekyou ability. Their eyes felt shore, as if they are turning blind. Seeing them this, Zokuto also deactivated his Mangekyou Sharingan.

"You two should not use your Mangekyou Ability too much. As long as you both don't have the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, you won't be able to use these dojutsu ability limitlessly, and you two will become blind when using this ability too many times." said Zokuto.

"So that is why my eyes is hurt so much after using Mangekyou ability." said Izumi. She then asked "How do you know this, Zokuto? Although you have Mangekyou Sharingan, you used to not have it, and you are not from Uchiha. Even I am from Uchiha, I still don't know much about Mangekyou Sharingan."

"My Mangekyou is an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, remember? As long as you have it, you will know the difference between EMS and MS." answered Zokuto. "Let's forget about that. Let's finish our fight."

"Then, here goes my attack. Hellboros!"

Izumi suddenly activated her Mangekyou and tries to drag Zokuto into her genjutsu, Hellboros. Zokuto was stunned and petrified in that moment. Seeing this Kimimaro instantly shoot a barrage of bones toward Zokuto. The bones shot through the petrified Zokuto, and that petrified Zokuto turned into a wisp of smoke.

"Hiraishin no Jutsu!"

Suddenly, Zokuto appeared behind Izumi and chopped on her neck. She did not manage to react in time and got knocked down, fainted on the ground. The golden screen then transported her out of the arena.

"Now. Its between you and me." said Zokuto, smiling at Kimimaro.

Kimimaro face changed. If even the tag team between him and Izumi are not able to defeat Zokuto, it is even harder to say that he could win this alone. 'It seems like it is not possible yet to defeat this monster.' thought Kimimaro. "I forfeit this match."

The golden screen then send them out.

# Winner of the top three:

First place:Uzumaki Zokuto

Second place: Kaguya Kimimaro

Third place: Uchiha Izumi

After that, the platform restored back to it's former state.

- The [New Chuunin Fighter] rank and reward list will be announced now.

#Rank 16: Hyuuga Hinata

#Rank 15: Himura Kubo

#Rank 14: Deidara

#Rank 13: Hakuju Kara

#Rank 12: Uchiha Natsu

#Rank 11: Hoozuki Suigetsu

- Top 11 to 16 will be rewarded with 500GL.

Seeing the ranking and reward, some showed a happy expression, some become frustration, and some felt dejected. Deidara and Natsu was frustrated, and Suigetsu was dejected.

"Wow, nice! I can now have a sharingan like sensei!" said Kubo excitedly.

"Huhuhu...what's the point? sensei is no longer care for human girl...huhu." Kara was still sore about the fact that Zokuto have a bijuu kid.

"Uh...you should get over it." said Kubo, trying to comfort Kara.

"What are you guys talking about?" said Zokuto.

"Sensei! How could you do that with a bijuu?"

"Do what?"

"Are you trying to deny it? That bijuu is your kid right?" asked Kara pointing at Chiro.

"My kid? Are you nut?"

"Huh?"

Zokuto rubbed his brows. "Look, I am just seven years old this year. You should be able to figure the rest out."

Ah!

His brother and friend were suddenly enlightened.

"We got fooled!"

"I knew it! I knew sensei will not do such a thing with a bijuu. You, you lied to me." said Kara, pointing at Saya.

"Ceh, he will not do it for now. But, I'm not sure In the future. Right Zokuto-kun?" said Saya, smiling at Zokuto.

"Let's forget about this." said Zokuto sweating. He then directly ignored them.

- Top ten fighters will be rewarded individually.

#Rank 10: Sabaku Gaara, Reward: 1,000GL

#Rank 9: Sabaku Kroku, Reward: 2,000GL

"Nii-san, we managed to enter top 10. With that much of Gold Light, we can exchange for those dojutsu or and bloodline." said Gaara with smile.

"True. But it really frustrate me. If I fought other contestant, I should be able to rank higher." sighed Kroku, looking at Zokuto in defeat. "Whatever. We can still use those Gold Light. Let's surprise father after this. Ah ah ah ah." laughed Kroku.

#Rank 8: Yuki Haku, Reward: 3,000GL

#Rank 7: Uzumaki Naruto, Reward: 4,000GL

This time, even Naruto felt a bit sad as he is only ranked seven. However, he did not complain as he got defeated by Neji.

#Rank 6: Kamizuru Kurotsuchi, Reward: 5,000GL.

"6 huh. Well, the rewards is quite good. I could exchange for some sharingan, no byakugan also good. Or, lets just exchange as much as I can...muahaha. Grandpa, wait and see my surprise." Kurotsuchi giggled when he thought of seeing her grandfather's surprised face.

#Rank 5: Chojuro, Reward: 7,000GL

Chojuro only nodded when he saw his rank.

"Congrates Chojuro." said Suigetsu. He then sighed again when he saw his rank.

"There will be next time. You still have your chance in the future." comforted Chojuro. Suigetsu only nodded.

#Rank 4: Hyuuga Neji, Reward: 10,000GL.

'10,000GL. Should I exchange for Mangekyou?' thought Neji. Although he did not show it on the outside, he felt a bit jealous for those Mangekyou ability user. Just by using Susanoo, they will be able to punch him to death. Therefore, he made his mind to exchange for this ability if he got enough Gold Light.

#Rank 3: Uchiha Izumi, Reward: 20,000GL

Izumi was disappointed when she saw her reward is not enough to exchange for those EMS. 'Will the golden screen organise another even with Gold Light as a reward? If there is no longer such even, am I not going to find a way to stop turning blind?' she subconsciously looked at Zokuto. 'Does he have a way to change the blindness?'

#Rank 2: Kaguya Kimimaro, Reward: 50,000GL.

Seeing this, Kimimaro showed a small smile. He will definitely use this rewards to exchange for EMS.

#Rank 1: Uzumaki Zokuto, Reward: 100,000GL

- The [New Chuunin Fighter] rank and reward has been announced completely. Next year is the announcement of the [Most Powerful Shinobi] rank and rewards. Reminder: the winning contestant for the [New Chuunin Fighter] have half an hour to exchange your Gold Light. After that, you will be transported back to the place where you signed in.

Seeing the announcement, everyone hurriedly go and exchange their Gold Light.

"Double of Kimimaro's reward? This is a lot." murmured Zokuto, and pondered something for a bit.

'System, can I give to others the items that I exchanged from the Totem Vendor?'

[Yes host. While you cannot give your Gold Light directly, you can use it to exchange and give the items to others] explained the system.

'Okay. Thanks.'

He then exchanged for two EMS, leaving him a remaining left amount of 45,429GL. He then used up the rest of the Gold Light for some bloodline and dojutsu. After that he walked toward Izumi.

"Here, take this before we are going on to our own way." said Zokuto, giving one of the EMS that he exchanged to Izumi.

Izumi stared at Zokuto in shock. That is literally a 50,000GL!

"Are you crazy? That is half of your winning prize. Why would you give it to me?" asked Izumi.

"Just take it. I just don't want to see you become blind." said Zokuto, shoving the EMS in Izumi's hand. He then left her standing there, petrified. 'Is he worried about me?' thought Izumi, blushing for a moment.

"I will remember this. I owe you one." said Izumi, bowing toward Zokuto.

Zokuto just waved his hand. He then approached Naruto.

"This is for you." He gave the other EMS to Naruto. Naruto looked at Zokuto for a moment, and smiled.

"Thanks, Zokuto."

"You are welcome."