True Potential | A Naruto Fanfic

First round of the finals over

As Yoshito stood up in front of his opponent, Gekko looked at the Taki Genin with shock, before regaining his composure not even a second later.

"He's mastered Sage Mode in a month?! Is Jiraiya-sama's training that good?" Gekko thought in surprise, now finally believing why it was sich a privilege to train under one of the Sannin.

"Ok. 3...2...1...HAJIME!" Gekko leapt back and allowed the two Genin to begin fighting, and boy was it bad for the Iwa Student.

The lad punched, Yoshito dodged. He kicked. The Taki Genius blocked. And it felt like with every block of Yoshito...clown got hurt even more than the other times. He couldn't keep this up much longer, so he decided to use a jutsu to help with that.

"Doton: Domu!" (Earth Style: Iron Skin) He'd say after weaving some handsigns in rapid succession, as his whole skin turned darker and became much harder. The toughness of the skin depends on the user and their chakra control, so for now the Iwa Genin was stick at Iron hardness.

"Good grief. He's using an Earth Style jutsu to harden his skin. I don't know what his chakra control is, but that won't matter. If I use frog kumite it'll beat him immediately, and I don't want that. I only needed Sage Mode for the defensive part anyways. I could lace that jutsu with Nature Energy no make it more powerful...yeah, that's what I'm gonna do...wait a sec...I've seen that move somewhere...it can't be! That thief! How dare he steal one of Taki's techniques!" Yoshito would think, an even bigger desire to beat his opponent now.

"I'm not going to inquire on how you're using one of the jutsu in Takigakure's stolen Scroll of Seals and how that jutsu was thought to only be known by Kakuzu the renegade, but all I know is that I'm gonna kick your ass for it."

Yoshito disappeared in a great display of speed, the civilians not even able to see more than a blur as the Taki Genin appeared behind clown, grabbed his collar and said calmly:

"Chidori Nagashi." (Chidori Stream) Suddenly a stream of electricity bursted from him in the radius of 5 meters, electrocuting the Iwa Genin and taking off his iron skin armor, before throwing him away.

"Get up." Yoshito ordered, and as the Iwa Genin did, he was met by a knee to the gut from the same person who not even a second ago was 10 meters away. Clown doubled over in pain, before hearing the words:

"This is the might of Iwa? I bet just me and my two teammates could beat everyone there except the Tsuchikage, Han and Rōshi. And yet you two kept on bragging about how Kumo and Taki stand no chance against Iwa Shinobi. Get your ass up before I force you on your feet"

With much difficulty, the Iwa Genin stumbled to his feet, attempting to perform a jutsu but was surprised when he saw Yoshito's outstretched fingers touching his chest.

"Big mistake not finishing that jutsu." And immediately, Yoshito hit him with a half inch punch, cracking a rib and his clavicle just from the sheer force. By the way, his orange markings were gone the moment he used Chidori Stream.

The Iwa Genin got up in pain and tried weaving handsigns, before exclaiming:

"Yōton: Sekkaigyō no Jutsu!" (Lava Style: Quicklime jutsu) The boy spat out a tone of quicklime towards Yoshito, who looked at it curiously before sighing.

"You're too far away to hit me." And he just walked away from where the quicklime was headed.

"Waste of a jutsu."

Kage box.

With a sigh, Hiruzen kept watching before speaking up: "Yoshito is clearly playing. I'm not sure if you people saw, but in the very start of the fight he could have ended it with a single punch."