Chapter 38: Rasa fight

"Lightning Release: Lightning Rat Tremor," said the Kumo ninja providing raiton chakra to his shuriken increasing the shuriken's penetrating ability, turning bright, and throwing them at Rasa.

Rasa dodged the shurikens and instantly saw Kumo's ninja quickly approaching him as he drew a sword imbued with chakra raiton.

The sword slashed but Rasa parried the quick strike by throwing several Kunai that collided with the sword managing to deflect the sword's trajectory and giving Rasa enough time to make distance again.

The Kumo ninja's eyes widened slightly as they looked at Rasa.

"Well, I never would have thought that a child would manage to give me so much trouble, it seems you are faster and more skilled than I expected," said the Kumo ninja.

"I guess it was to be expected from the Kazekage's apprentice..., although it's a pity, it seems it's true that in Suna they only know how to defend themselves" added the ninja mockingly.

Rasa knew he was trying to provoke him, after all, there were many rumors about the lack of offensive ninjas in Suna and it was worse with the Third Raikage having made fun of the Third Kazekage's defense openly.

Suddenly, the Kumo ninja narrowed his eyes as he turned around and threw several raiton-imbued kunai into the air easily destroying two large golden dust hands that came close to catching him off guard.

"Tch, what a nuisance, the famous Kekkei Genkai of the Iki clan. I admit it's quite troublesome and intriguing, especially when you seem to use gold" said the ninja.

'Okey... Surprise element lost' thought Rasa seeing that his plan didn't work as he expected.

"Well, yeah, what can I say, I like to attract attention" joked Rasa.

"I notice..." replied the Kumo ninja with his sword still in his hand.

"And seeing your aim and the speed with which you throw your Kunai, I have to admit I almost think you're an Uchiha" added the ninja jokingly again.

Even though it was true that Rasa's kunai skills seemed to be at an incredibly high level, but that was only thanks to the slight manipulation on the metal he was using.

This time Rasa didn't answer since if that idiot Kumo kept talking it might raise some doubts about what happened in the second test where he was the one who killed those Kiri ninjas and not the Iwa ninjas.

Of course, it was unlikely that anyone would suspect him when in this fight he used mostly ninjutsus, and besides, he wasn't showing anything so unusual in his handling of the Kunai, while against the Kiri ninja, he had used all kinds of metal weapons and with the help of his metal manipulation he had thrown them at unthinkable speed to even penetrate the water ninjutsus used by the Kiri ninja.

Still, Rasa decided it was time to win, even if that required him to use a technique he hadn't planned to reveal yet..., one he had been working on perfecting for the past four months.

The Kumo ninja started doing hand seals again and tried his "Lightning Rat Tremorretomo" technique again and several kunai with raiton were aimed at Rasa.

But he cast several substitution jutsu to get out of the way of the kunai while shaping his chakra.

"Ninja Art: Thunder Armour," said the Kumo ninja again using the characteristic Kumogakure technique and surrounding himself with electricity in the form of armor.

Rasa already knew that he had to be careful with this technique that increases the ninja's speed due to the intense electric field and also protects him by electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with him.

Although this was just a much weaker version of the third Raikage's Cloak of Lightning.

The Kumo ninja pushed chakra into his sword making it imbued with raiton again and took advantage of Rasa's chakra shaping to attack him quickly and when he was already in front of him, his sword pointed at Rasa's neck.

And this time Rasa didn't try to stop him or jump back, but he emitted a great flow of chakra from the palm of his hand and then rotated it in all directions at a high speed, making it compress into a sphere.

Everyone in the stands watched surprised at what Rasa had done as no one knew that technique and it was very peculiar as he had not used hand seals.

The Kumo ninja's eyes went wide when he saw this, but he was convinced that his sword would cut Rasa before he could hit him with that sphere...

And one could say that he was right..., but it was then that when the Kumo ninja's raiton sword was about to reach its target, Rasa shouted "Rasengan" and threw the sphere in his hand towards the stomach of his opponent who was a few centimeters away from him.

The rasengan reached its target before the sword and once the spinning ball of chakra hit the Thunder Armour and the ninja's chest, it released the highest level of compressed chakra, the incredible rotation and power of destruction synchronized and accelerated each other, creating a shockwave, which destroyed the Thunder Armour and threw the Kumo ninja into the air stopping his sword from reaching its target.

The rasengan took the ninja with it and advanced across the dueling field until it hit the walls surrounding the field, leaving the ninja stuck in the wall with a large wound in his stomach.

The entire audience watching the fight stood in shock for a few moments and remained silent watching what happened until the Kumo ninja vomited blood and finally fell off the wall completely unconscious.

"The winner, Iki Rasa!" the examiner announced the result immediately after seeing that the Kumo ninja could no longer continue.

The previously silent stadium immediately erupted in applause.

Everyone was completely amazed at the jutsu Rasa had used.

Including Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya even the Kages, and even Nomad and Rumia who also didn't know that Rasa had a jutsu like that.

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The 3rd Kazekage that sat on the high platform also didn't know about this new jutsu of Rasa's and he guessed that this must be his Ace, he only knew from his Anbu that his apprentice had been training in various strange ways since he returned from his first Anbu mission, now he guessed that that training resulted in this technique...

'To think that my apprentice would manage to create something so... impressive... and at this age' thought the Third Kazekage.

"Kazekage, tell me, your apprentice created by himself that new technique?" asked the Third Hokage looking deeply at the young Rasa.

Sarutobi was already aware of what Tsunade had agreed with the boy during the second examination and even though he was reluctant to the idea he accepted it since she had already given her word, besides even he had to admit that they didn't lose anything by letting Tsunade do what the young man asked, but it was still extremely strange that a ninja from Suna wanted to keep friendly negotiations with Konoha..., less being the apprentice of the Third Kazekage a man who hates Konoha too much.

'Maybe the boy hides a lot more than he allows to be seen... and I guess that's why he made it clear to Tsunade that their agreement should be something secret between him, her, his team, and me' thought Sarutobi who had agreed to respect Tsunade's wishes since she had given her word as Senju and he as his master as long as it didn't affect Konoha would agree to keep all this just between them.

"Uh-oh, well, yes..., but the truth is I didn't think he had already finished it, as far as I knew it was still in progress, but it seems my apprentice has also given me a ... surprise," the third Kazekage said with a smile not wanting to admit that he had no idea that Rasa had been creating a new technique, but making them believe that he already knew would leave a better image of him.

The other Kages nodded at this except for Sarutobi who had his doubts if the boy had mentioned anything to him, after all, he saw the expression the third Kazekage made when his apprentice demonstrated that technique he called Rasengan and could tell he was too surprised and perplexed for someone who already knew about the creation of such a technique...

Of course, his reaction may have also been just because he was surprised by the finalization of such a technique..., but Sarutobi had his suspicions that the young man named Rasa created the now-named Rasengan without the Kazekage knowing anything about it.

'Hmm, Rasa... just what other surprises are you going to show me young man' thought Sarutobi, as he listened to the third Tsuchikage congratulate the third Kazekage, even the third Raikage said a few words about the boy.

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Meanwhile, Rasa who finished his fight went back to the stands with Nomad and Rumia without going to get a medical checkup since he didn't want to miss the next fight... on the other hand, his opponent still unconscious was taken by two ninjas to receive treatment.

Rumia and Nomad asked him all kinds of questions that he answered calmly and lightly.

He had managed to recreate the rasengan he had seen in the anime after 4 months, at first Rasa thought that knowing how to train to create the technique would make it easy, but he was wrong, it took a lot of patience, concentration, and time.

Time that he didn't have because in Anbu he had the obligation to go to several missions, so he had to use every little minute he had free to train, even when he was on a mission he used the occasional time to train the technique.

Rasa knew that he was not some genius like Shisui, Itachi, Kakashi, or Minato, if it wasn't for his knowledge of this world and his more mature mind than most youngsters of his age, he probably wouldn't really excel in anything...

And as unpleasant as it felt for him to steal Minato's technique, it wasn't his biggest concern to think about whether something like that was right or not, as long as it was convenient for him he would do it.

Anyway, soon, the names of the ninjas who would face each other in the 15th match of this first round appeared on the electronic screen.