~Okay. But never let that happen again. Please. Never again. It hurt so much!~
"I won't." I promise as black threads pour out of my elbow and form into a black hand. It's like I'm wearing the world's creepiest glove.
...
I take in my surroundings. Lee is still down where I left him, staring at me in equal parts confusion and fear. Neji is in his self made crater struggling to remain conscious because his stunt forced him into chakra exhaustion. Kiba and Akamaru are in a heap of tangled limbs while snoozing peacefully. Hinata is still fighting to take even the smallest of breaths while crying over her accidentally explosive actions.
But what confuses me is everyone else.
Choji and Ino have barely moved since the beginning of our fight. Ino I understand, she knows things here that no one else does. She knows that out of everyone here I am the person who is most loyal to Konoha. She knows that everything I've said is a lie.
But Choji? He should be trying to pulverize Sasuke and I. But he hasn't done anything at all, simply standing next to Ino and Shino the entire time. It doesn't make sense.
And Tenten is constantly hurling sharp pointy objects at Sasuke but something is off about it. I know for a fact that she can throw way more kunai than she is right now. It's just enough to keep Sasuke moving, to keep him busy. To keep him distracted.
Shino is waiting patently. He's completely calm and collected even though Sasuke and I have taken apart the rest of his team. He's observing us coolly, just watching. He hasn't even sent any of his...
"Oh Shino you bastard. You've got us both bugged don't you?" Sure enough my chakra levels are lower than they should be.
"How unfortunate." Shino calmly says. "I was hoping my actions would go unnoticed until you both collapsed."
"I just thought it was the Jiongu taking my chakra to keep my arm attached." Sasuke grumbles as he swats down even more kunai from Tenten. "How many freaking kunai do you have girl!"
"Plenty." She grins deviously at him.
"Fire Release: Grand Fire-"
"Sasuke you idiot!" I swat his hands to force him to stop the jutsu. "You're being drained of chakra and you want to use a jutsu? Moron."
"Then you do something!" He smacks me back. "You've been useless since Hinata touched you!"
"Fuck you I put your damn arm back, took out Lee who is probably the most dangerous one here -next to us of course- sent out five elemental dragons that Neji barely managed to stop and you say I've done nothing!"
"Be useful!" He swats down even more kunai. "Like making her stop throwing stuff at me!"
"Fine!" I fly through hand signs and a bead of blood manifests on my thumb. "Summoning Jutsu: Keji!"
A thick could of smoke that extends five meters off the ground bursts onto the battlefield. A stiff wind quickly blows it away to reveal a spider, a very unique and recognizable spider. It has a tiny body, it's only the size of Shirokumo if I'm being generous. But what really stands out about this spider is it's legs. Each of it's sixteen legs is the color of cast iron and they're the reason the cloud of smoke was so tall. It's a cellar spider, a daddy long leg spider, and it's standing five meters tall.
"Yay!" Keji shouts in pure joy. His voice is scruffy and undignified like he's a troublemaker. "I'm out of that damn place! See ya suckers! FREEDOM!"
The tall spider gallops away on his lengthy limbs right over me and disappears into the trees, never to be seen again.
"Dude." Sasuke and everyone else is staring at me with a baffled expression. "Was he supposed to run away?"
"Just forget that happened." I sigh. "I'm still experimenting with my contract. Sometimes you get a bad one. It happens."
"That was sad." Tenten says while spinning a kunai on her finger.
"Yep." I agree wholeheartedly. "That means I'll have to stop you myself."
"Oh." A tinge of fear gleams in Tenten's wide eyes. "Shit."
A sinister grin worms it's way onto my face. "Since you enjoy throwing a fuck ton of kunai, let's see how you handle dodging a fuck ton of fists! Earth Release: Ten Thousand Fists!"
An uncountable number of stone fists burst out of the ground and swarm towards all of the Konoha gennin. Only Sasuke, me, and everyone who has already been defeated don't have at least twenty fists going after them.
Tenten manages to dodge the first three, but fails to dodge the rest. Tens upon tens of stone fists slam into her, each leaving behind a large bruise. Over and over they connect, eventually they're simply too much for her to bear and one of them clocks her in the temple. She's rewarded with unconsciousness.
Shino fared much better than Tenten, he only took two hits before collapsing. Unlike Tenten though it wasn't due to my jutsu that he collapsed. Instead it was Sasuke who managed to defeat him. Sasuke used my flashy jutsu as a distraction to easily trap Shino into his own personal genjutsu.
Ino and Choji are the only two left standing after that attack. It wasn't that Ino and Choji are exceptional at dodging but that Choji is built like a brick house. He shoved Ino behind him and endured the full brunt of the fists I sent his way. He took each and every one of them without so much as a grunt or wince of pain. It was a battle of stone vs flesh and flesh won.
Except they're still defeated. I know each and every person here. I know exactly what they are capable of and how they will react to certain situations. I was planning on Choji choosing to protect his teammate and who wouldn't in his situation? By shoving Ino right behind him he placed each of them very close together. It's exactly what I need for my trap to work.
Sixteen loud earth breaking thuds shake the ground.
"Alvarcus-sama, I apologize for my unbecoming conduct. I assure you I am quite the dapper gentleman, but I needed to sell the idea that I was an insignificant threat." Keji says in a smooth and regal voice, it's the exact opposite of how he spoke before. "Please do not let that stain our interactions."
Keji is a very unique spider. He's not like the weavers that can make anything with their silks. He's not able to go anywhere and find any spider like Shirokumo. He's not as threatening as Arachne. Keji was born with a mutation. He has double the legs of other spiders, usually that would make him an outcast. It would cause him to be shunned and be seen as a weakness.
Keji made it into his greatest strength. That's because Keji is a trapper. His exoskeleton is harder than any metal and he uses that to his advantage by turning himself into a cage. That is how he catches his prey, he traps them with his own nearly unbreakable body and waits until they've exhausted themselves trying to escape.
And he's caught both Ino and Choji.
"Of course of course!" I assure my summon. "No need to worry I know that your actions will always be in my best interests. Even if I don't quite understand them at the time. And there's no need for the sama suffix. I welcome you to call me by name."
"Then I insist that you do the sa-"
"Partial Expansion Jutsu!" Choji shouts and punches at his prison with his full strength.
THUD
"OWOWOWOW! What the hell are you made of?" Choji rubs his red fist.
One of the sixteen bars, Keji's legs, yanks out of the ground and smacks Choji across the face before spearing back into place. It wasn't a hard hit, merely a disciplining slap.
"It is unbecoming of one to interrupt a conversation." Keji reprimands his captive. "Do not do it again or I will use more extreme force."
"Okay!" Choji squeaks out. Huh, I never knew such a big guy could make a noise that high pitched.
"Now what was I saying? Oh yes yes I remember! I insist that you do the same Alvarcus."
"You have the weirdest summons I've ever seen." Sasuke says from off to my left.
"I know!" I grin childishly but no one can see it. I really should take off this mask now that everyone knows who I am. "They're perfect!"
"Oh please there is no need to be so generous!" Keji bashfully says. "I know that I am far from perfection."
"And that's that." I dust off my hands. "Us 1, everyone else 0. Now just to make sure those two can't actually do anything."
"How are you going to do that? You've already got them trapped." Sasuke asks.
"Just watch." I reach into my black and green coat and pull out a small scroll. I quickly unfurl it and pump chakra into it to spit out its contents. In a small puff of smoke my sash of Dokuso's teeth daggers appears.
"Really?" Sasuke drones out in disappointment. "You put those in a seal? Why didn't you wear the damn things?"
"Oh shut up." I sass him as I pull out the blue handle, the paralytic. "I got these to deal with Hiro. They don't really serve another purpose. At best they're going to be reserve weapons, I'll only pull them out when I need them. I really doubt I'll even use all of them, I mean it'd have to be a very specific scenario to make me want to use them. I'm more of the 'spit large amounts of fire at you' kind of guy."
"I know I've said this before but it bears repeating. You've got to get over your fire obsession."
"That's never going to happen. Now then, down to business."
I walk over to the closest person first, Hinata.
"Alva -wheeze- rcus. Don't." She pleads to me. Her eyes are full of hope. She wants me to drop the dagger and go back with everyone to live happily ever after. I can't.
I lightly cut her on the back of her hand. "Don't worry, it's just a paralytic. It's the same thing I used against Hiro. Non-lethal. You'll be fine in a few hours, less if Tsunade survives Orochimaru."
I move onto the next person, in this case it's a pair. Kiba and Akamaru. "Uh Sasuke how long is the genjutsu going to last?"
"Until someone pulls them out of it. You can skip them. Same with Shino." He explains to me while scanning the treeline for other threats.
"Moving on then." That makes Neji next.
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