The Chunin Exams - 36

Daiki had forgotten how much it truly sucked to have chakra exhaustion. Even before he slurped up Isobu into his chest like a big wet tortoise flavoured noodle, he'd been very careful to train himself just to before the point of chakra exhaustion and never fall passed the line.

After all, if he had chakra exhaustion, he would be laid up recovering for ages and thus would lose precious time that could other be spent grinding for gains.

As it was, even with Isobu's chakra running through his veins, allowing him to move, he still felt light headed and his limbs heavier than the weights he wore.

Which were twenty thousand pounds by the way. Which was like ten tons or so.

His limbs literally felt heavier than that.

He practically had to drag himself in an army crawl over to Shisui's corpse.

Toka laughing all the way at him as she hopped up onto the bed he'd left out. She really did find a lot of amusement in bullying him.

That wasn't fair at all by the way.

'I'm not a nerd.' he whined mentally. He was big, tough and muscular, he could lift a grown man with a single pinky finger.

He was manly with a capital M.

As it was, he sealed Shisui's corpse into his Dimension Force Seal, before flopping onto his back and just laying there.

"…Can you help me up onto the bed?" Daiki asked his bully lizard.

"No," Toka snorted, "Think of this as a lesson to think things through more carefully you silly meathead buffoon."

Daiki pouted.

Well whatever, it wasn't like he couldn't really do it if he wanted do. He just couldn't be bothered.

Another unfortunate side effect of chakra exhaustion. Lethargy and lack of motivation.

It was truly the anti-thesis to the grind.

Only heretics to the grind like Kakashi fondly fornicated with chakra exhaustion. And that guy got chakra exhaustion a lot in the other timeline.

He'd recover faster of course if he could stop using his eyes. Sadly for him, unlike chakra exhaustion's personal gigolo Kakashi, just covering his eyes didn't exactly stop them from working.

Still, it wouldn't take him that long to recover. An hour or two at best thanks to not only Isobu, but the chakra being constantly fed into his coils by the Heavenly Star Seal.

He would just have to tough it out until then.

He apologised mentally to the grind.

No wait.

He took that back.

'This is an opportunity to grind resistance to chakra exhaustion.' Daiki realised. Now that he was exposed to it, if this ever somehow happened again, he would be more used to it!

"By the way, you have a visitor," Toka commented, "So I'll leave you to that and have a nap for now I believe, human beds aren't too bad." she said, and then faded out of view entirely.

Though he knew she was still there of course.

And just as she did, there was a knock on his door.

Huh.

She was right.

Damnit, he hadn't sensed anyone approaching at all. Sure, his senses were dulled right now, but still.

'I've got a long ass way to go before I catch up to her sensory abilities.' he grimaced.

Well, whatever. He'd just need to grind that out more later.

"Come in," Daiki called out, "It's open."

He'd get up and open it himself, but he was feeling rather lazy, what with that thirsty thot chakra exhaustion having her slutty claws dug deep into him right now.

The door swung open and Daiki blinked as he found himself looking at a familiar bun haired older girl.

Huh, they had finished the exam already?

Did that mean the Sound Trio had attacked Team Seven already? He wondered if they did better this time around.

"Sup?" Daiki greeted the girl, plastering a debonair smile across his face.

Tenten raised an eyebrow at him, "What are you doing?" she asked dryly.

"Just chillaxing like a baller." Daiki replied, and would have casually shrugged.

…If he currently had the motivation to do so.

Her other eyebrow rose up and joined the first, "Somehow, knowing you, I doubt that, do you even know the definition of chilling out? Or is this just some new way of training you've discovered?" the bun haired girl asked with a snort and crossed her arms.

"….I'm training to resist chakra exhaustion?" he tried.

Tenten stared blankly at him for a second before sighing and kicking the door shut behind her, "You mean you did something stupid and exhausted all your chakra and now can't move?" she sliced right through his bullshit, walking over and crouching next to his head.

"Why do you assume it was something stupid and not intentional?" Daiki dug his feet in.

Metaphorically.

Since you know…chakra exhaustion and all.

"Because we've hung out a decent little bit now, spent a decent amount of time together with that date we were on and all, and I've managed to get a decent grasp on you I think," Tenten smirked at him and poked his cheek, daring him to bat her hand away, he of course could, he just didn't do so…because he liked the feel of her finger, yeah, totally, "The first time we met at that restaurant I thought you were cool, but you're almost as big an idiot as Lee and Gai-sensei."

"Hey, now that's uncalled for!" Daiki protested, "I'm cool!"

"You look cool, there's a big difference," Tenten denied his protests, "You're actually a dork, and a pervy one at that."

….Pervy Dork?

Did someone else hear glass shattering?

No?

So it was just his pride then?

If he had the motivation for it right now, he would have slumped over in depression.

The illusion of his pride had been destroyed, completely shattered, as if some spiky haired delinquent had punched right through it.

His cool image, the badass front he put up to show his greatness…it was all for nothing?

'I've been telling you that for a while now you know.' Isobu huffed.

Yes, but he thought Isobu was just yanking his chain!

"So, what really happened?" Tenten asked, breaking him from his thoughts.