Chapter 24

Kankuro, Hayate and Karma remained in the arena, while everyone else retreated to the spectator area above.

"I can't sleep after, how sad." Karma pouted.

"You seem pretty relaxed." Kankuro smirked.

"Now, then, please begin." Hayate said, starting the match and cutting off their conversation.

Karma just stood there, activating his Ketsuryugan behind his sunglasses. Hardly anyone noticed, but Sasuke who activated his Sharingan. Sasuke didn't want to miss any of Karma's moves. Like this he noticed chakra being concentrated on Karma's eyes.

"Kakashi-sensei," he asked, "does the Nekotsume Clan have a dojutsu?"

"Eh? No. They don't have a dojutsu, Sasuke. Why do you ask?" Kakashi replied. Kakashi and everyone else who heard looked at Sasuke strangely.

"He's concentrating chakra in his eyes. And it doesn't look normal." Sasuke explained.

Kakashi's eye opened wide and he lifted his headband to check. Likewise, Hinata and Neji activated their Byakugan.

"Yes. He has a dojutsu..." Kakashi said. Hinata and Neji nodded. Then Neji described how Karma's eyes looked.

"Yoruichi, what is that?" Kakashi asked, everyone in the room turning to look at her.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Yoruichi replied. Looking away. Kushina, Himari and Ailane did the same.

On the arena, Kankuro suddenly collapsed as he had begun to move his fingers, controlling his puppet.

"I win!" Karma smiled.

"Kakashi-sensei! What just happened?!" Naruto exclaimed.

"He used a very strong genjutsu." Kurenai answered.

"Karma Nekotsume wins." Hayate announced. Temari came down to pick up Kankuro and noticed he was shivering a little. 'What did he do?!' Temari thought.

When Karma arrived at the spectator arena, he noticed everyone was looking at him. Particularly Sasuke with his Sharingan still open. 'Damn.' He thought.

Before they asked Karma spoke, "Sasuke you ruined my surprise. I awoke the Sharingan!"

"We already know it's not the Sharingan!" Kiba yelled. "Did you forget we have people with the Byakugan?"

Karma looked at Hinata like she was a traitor. In response she shook her head and pointed at Neji. Karma sighed and looked at everyone. "You really want to know what it is?" He asked. They nodded. "Too bad. I don't have to tell you. You'll be my opponents in the finals, why should I tell you?"

Everyone stared blankly at Karma. There was nothing they could do, though. They turned to the signboard instead which now displayed Sasuke Uchiha vs Kabuto Yakushi. This match was quickly ended since Kabuto admitted defeat as soon as it started.

Next was Ibaraki vs Kushina.

"Kushina, admit defeat." Karma said.

"Why?" Kushina asked.

"Ibaraki is a monster. You won't have a chance once she starts, so it's best to just give up rather than embarrass yourself." Karma said.

"Yeah, you should just give up." Ailane advised.

"Would you guys give up if you had to fight her?"

""Nope."" They replied.

"Then I won't." Kushina said resolutely before jumping down.

"Naruto, she's dead." Ailane sighed.

"You guys have no faith in her!" Naruto yelled. "Kushina can do it! Believe it!"

"No, she can't." Sai said as he walked up with a light smile.

"How would you know?" Naruto responded angrily.

"Why do you all-" Sasuke started.

BOOOOOM!! Kushina crashed into the wall on the other side of the arena.

"Oh." He realized.

In the arena, Ibaraki stood in the center holding her sword, still sheathed. She used shunpo as soon as the match started to close the distance and simply swung her Nodachi, sending Kushina flying before she could even react. "So you're Ka-chan's teammate?" Ibaraki taunted. "Not stron enou-"

Chakra chains surrounded Ibaraki and tangled themselves around her limbs and sword, holding her in place. "You were saying?" Kushina smirked as she rose from the ground.

"Ahahaha!" Ibaraki started laughing. "That's pretty good! Too bad, you're not strong enough." Ibaraki simply moved forward with the chains, eventually breaking them by simply stretching them taunt while walking. "You still need more practice, but good try."

Ibaraki then appeared in front of Kushina and tapped her chest, once again sending her into the wall. This time, Kushina surrendered before passing out. Karma arrived as Ibaraki's victory was being announced to pick up his teammate. "I warned you, Kushina." Karma sighed. "Ibaraki, I'm going to have to thoroughly beat you in the finals."

"I'm looking forward to it! We haven't fought in 3 years now!" Ibaraki smiled.

"She has some insane strength." Sasuke noted at the spectator area.

"No way..." Naruto said.

The next match was Naruto versus Kiba. It occurred exactly the same as the original story. "I might lose to Naruto because of pure luck..." Karma joked when the match ended. After that match was Ailane vs Yoroi, one of the fodder characters.

He acted cocky before getting smashed into the ground by Ailane's guitar. Just like that, the fodder was done. Kushina awoke at this point, but decided to pretend she was still asleep since, to the jealousy of all the girls there, Karma was currently giving her a lap pillow.

Karma did notice, and said, "It's fine if you want to stay, but I know you're awake. Watch the other matches like this as a reward for your determination and efforts." Kushina did open her eyes and smiled as they waited for the next match to begin.

Everyone else at this point was simply thinking, 'these cats are no joke!' Yoruichi was smugly looking at everyone as the next match was revealed to be Gaara vs Rock Lee.