Chapter 17: Winners and Losers

ROOOAARRR!!! 

The once chaotic battlefield filled with explosions, screams, and spark filled clashes now felt as quiet as an empty classroom. It's here where a man is left alone with a beast.

"GGGRRRRRRR!!!" Jaden snarls getting on all fours while staring at the man.

"What in the name of Kami are you?" 'He can feel the chakra level of the boy, with his chakra rising past his own at an alarming rate.' Yanagikage thinks.

Then he disappears. Yanagikage looks around franticly but can only see the after images of the boy. Then Jaden pounces at him moving as fast as rock lee when he entered his first gate against Gaara.

*Yanagikage POV*

''The boy just disappeared all over me, making me change the defensive position of my body multiple times. ' Yanagikage thinks.

"AHHHHHH!!!!!" Yanagikage screams, leaving his arms out wide as he was unable to react fast enough to properly defend himself with a kunai. 

'Then I felt it red hot blood and searing pain over my face.' Yanagikage thinks. 

*Splat* *Splat* 

' It's like I could overhear my own blood hit the mud over the rain. Blood, a good deal of blood coming from the top of my head where my is hair. All the way down to my left abdomen. That's not a b-boy t-that's a m-mo n-n ster.' Yanagikage thinks.

"W-What the hell are you! YOU MONSTER" Yanagikage shouts.

"NOO DON'T TELL ME YOUR ONE OF THOSE MONSTERS THEY TOLD ME TO LOOKOUT FOR!!!?" As Yanagikage is panicking.

Yanagikage remembers the stories the Jonin would mention in pass at camp. 'When I asked around at the mess hall I heard it. Apparently, there are living monster that each village holds specifically for war.

'Apparently, this is something that Konoha loses in as we only have one. Iwa has 2, Kumo also has 2, even the fucking fish fuckers have two of these monsters. We have the same amount as the damn village that has sand stuck in their balls. ' Yanagikage thinks.

'Wait we're in Ame. Why is one here? Did Iwa join sides with Ame, not good. Or did Ame catch up and make their own monster?' Yanagikage is trying to search for an answer that makes sense.

'The monster growls then I felt it' Yanagikage's eyes look like a saucers the size of dinner plates as he's punched in the gut by the tiny demon. His body tumbles like a rag doll across the mud. But the monster didn't give him long to recover as he's attacking again with those claws. Yanagikage thinks.

"NO! NOT AGAIN!" Yanagikage manages to recover by pushing off the palm of his hands to get on his feet. Which he did right in time as the monster punched at his feet forming a large size crater with spider cracks, the size of a ninja standard personal tent. Yanagikage pulls out a kunai and goes to impale the monster's sight, remembering what he did a minute again.

Yanagikage smiles as he's centimeters from blinding the creature once and for all. As he believes he's succeeded as he felt flesh. But his smile is wiped off his face as its blocked with the monster's shoulder. Yanagikage steps back activating the kunai with an explosive tag attack.

*SIZZLE * BOOM*

"GGGGRRRRRROWWWLL!"

'I smile hearing the monster scream, this gives me confidence as it reminds me that this thing can still be hurt despite its dark black appearance.' Yanagikage thinks.

Yanagikage gets up confident he can kill this demon.

On the side of this battle laid an Ame kunoichi battered and tied up with ninja wire unable to free herself. But what could she do she was currently out of chakra, with her slowly trying to recover enough to get back to whatever remained of her team.

'But who was she kidding their most likely all going to die soon. That's why she was watching this battle so intently as the winner will decide her fate. If the Konoha chunin captures her then a fate worst, then death awaits her as a kunoichi. As a seasoned kunoichi she's heard the horror stories and seen the lost looks of some of those girls.' Thinks the Ame Kunoichi.

'She can already feel herself hyperventilating just thinking of the man's sick voice. She'd honestly thought about just taking the suicide pill we keep in a broken tooth. But luckily the boy arrived. At first she thought the boy was just another unfortunate orphan that lost his parents to this war. Then she saw his movements, he's fast. Much faster than her even though she feels rather embarrassed to admit that she, a chunin was surpassed physically by a child.' Thinks the Ame Kunoichi.

'The boy was losing until she felt it. As a sensor she's more sensitive to the presence of strong individuals. Our body reacts differently depending on the level of chakra we feel. Similar to how a hamster could die by being frightened, it's not uncommon for a sensor to be greatly injured by sensing powerful chakra.' Thinks the Ame Kunoichi.

So, I can feel it! "The boy's overwhelming chakra is rapidly changing. I can tell its different from normal chakra. And its darker. I wonder what he has planned for me if he wins." The Ame Kunoichi says.

*Fuyō Pov Ame Kunoichi.*

 Before the war started Fuyo was like everyone else in The Land of Rain., as a child her and her family lived in poverty. Her parents always found a way to make money and put food on the table for her. Even if some days they went going hungry. They thought I wouldn't be able to tell because she was a child but children that live up in harsh conditions naturally are forced to grow up quicker. Her father had barely enough chakra to become a ninja, but he took it without any hesitation once he was approved. Why? Simple, food. Shinobi were given more resources as their needed to protect the country. The food wasn't much, barely getting by two a bowls of rice and fish for the majority of meals. With a side of watermelon when we felt like celebrating. Not much but noticeable better than being a civilian with no skills. But of course, she wasn't meant to be happy, her father died after six years of service. How? First Shinobi World War. That's how. After the conclusion of the Frist Great War each of the great nations were under peace treaties not to attack for six years. But to shinobi that's just a piece of paper. So they used small nations like Ame, kusa, Frost and Taki.

Our shinobi would be hired to complete assassination attempts on important people of interest of these nations. Keeping this all confidential. With my father being one of the few to make it out the war the Amegakure entrusted him with a heavy responsibility to complete these missions as our country can't afford losing the revenue they provide. But his injuries of the war eventually caught up to him and he died to Konoha ninjas.

My poor mother cried herself into a deep depression state. We were struggling but still needed money, so I signed up to be a ninja at the age of 9. Things calmed down and I could see the smile on my mother's face return eventually. 13 years later, things are finally looking up, people are coming outside their house, we have merchants happily advertising their products and the children ignore the problems of the past as they skip around and play in the mud. Under Leader Hanzo-sama's rule. An just like everyone else I was shocked and frightened when I heard the news.