Naruto: Mind over matter

Pov: Riku

I can hear and see and smell and oooooohhh~ brother I can feel pain!

Oh gods, my veins hurt. And my head. And my everything.

Why do I always end up dead somehow?

Eh who cares? Ill try not to die next time.

Looking around the room, I see Ace standing next to my bed. Still. Pointing double birds to the sky... huh he stayed in that pose when I left..

Anko-sensei and Yamato-sensei hugging her shoulder, Anko has watery red eyes and looks pissed, Yamato is the same.

At me or? Who am I kidding its me and the two Bi teammates of mine, who decided to play honeytrap.

I look to the clock, huh... its been another hour.

In the bed next to me is Hinata, she looks pretty bad but I decide to stick my tongue out at her.

She responds the same and giggles.

I turn to the other side and a... boy who would make Naruto's sense of style seem sane, two thick eyebrows and a bowl haircut, green jumpsuit... yikes.

I wink at him and he gives me the shakiest thumbs up known to man.

I look back at the Double-sensei's and decide passing out is better then hearing a lecture right now.

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-1 hour ago-

Pov: Neji Hyuga

I watch Riku's fight with interest.

A kid who the instructor said had the best chances at winning this exam.

He may be Fated to win, I asked Gai-sensei
And he said that Riku had a kekkai genkai.

Is it stronger then my Byakugan? Stronger than my fate?

I watch as his disguise dispels and I grip the railing in horror.

What the hell happened for him to look like that, all the strong teams were in the tower when I got here and last I saw him...?

I look at his teammates and see guilt dripping from there faces.

No....

If he didn't fight any strong enemies and the last I saw of him was...

But...?

Did he... did they...?

Did he... fuck so hard that he nearly died!?

How do you even...?

I mean...?

What!?

...

He is fated.

He's on deaths door and he won his match easily.

I will face him in the tournament.

I will get him next time.

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Pov: Hokage

I stare in horror at young Riku's state, what happened?

Last I saw of him I won the betting pool on him getting it on with both his team mates...

I look at his condition and my mind accelerates into action.

Bulging veins.

Stretched skin.

Pale.

Sweaty.

Blushing.

Two amateur seductresses.

An over dose of aphrodisiacs it seems...

Shit. I should have given the clans a bit more time to process the prospective Riku.
They had to pick two genin from there family and attempt to train them in seduction 2 weeks before the exam.

They should not of sent inexperienced and unsupervised genin who obviously didn't fit the seduction side of shinobi life- yes but with the recent clan massacre and steady decline Konoha has been going through we have all been looking for jumps in power, prospective genin especially.

I should of personally picked some genin instead of letting the Konoha council decide his teammates. Instead of letting them choose and place his teammates in without thinking.

I failed a child by being too overzealous with him...

What would Tobirama-sensei think? Hashirama-sensei? Why do I always catch my regrets late.

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Pov: Hinata Hyuga

I watch the Jonin around me sweat...

The genin are in shock and Anko-san and Yamato-san rush towards Riku...

His not-puppet won his preliminary match for him and he passes.

It was a bad match up for the grass ninja as he made two big risks in order to end the bout quickly for he looked exhausted.

Firstly he layered multiple genjutsu on the battlefield, everyone thought that Riku didn't care what he was doing, that he was being a show off.

Just standing perfectly still... watching the enemy nin hide himself in the illusions around him.

It made the grass nin angry and frustrated, he was cursing at Riku and charged at him.

Riku got stabbed but thankfully it was just his puppet, I do not like that Riku wouldn't of cared about being stabbed even if he was the one that took it. I didn't like how no one knew the puppet wasn't him even when he was acting so inhuman...

I don't like how careless Riku can be and how being inhuman is a normal for him, the amount of times Naruto-kun had gotten into fights with others in the academy because they called him freaku.

Hopefully he will live...

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Pov: Kankuro

Kids freaky.

Though how is he piloting his not-puppet?

When we crush this place ill ask to have his not-puppet to do an in depth examination on it...

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Pov: Sasuke.

Hn. It looks like Riku has grown stronger. That puppet looks powerful and can function without the users input.

I wonder how good it is against fire?

My match is coming up soon...

If Riku can win while dying I can win with only Taijutsu. I will not fail.

The matches pass and it is my turn.

Only Taijutsu... can I do it? No.

I must do it for my hate. If I fail where Riku has succeeded... am I even...

I slap myself and get onto the arena floor.

My opponent and me fight.

Thirty seconds in and I realise that this is a bad match up for me.. my opponent can leech at my chakra.

Fuck it. WHY HOLD BACK!? WHY SHOULD I LET ME LIMIT MYSELF!? THIS CURSE MARK IS POWER! USE IT!

I activate my sharingan and my curse threatens to break.

It takes me one second to turn it off again.

I used that second and glanced back at the place where Riku was.

I must win without my chakra. For if I lose with it I am nothing. And if I win without it I prove that I am the best, that I deserve these eyes...

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Smallest of chapters. forgot to place this on the end of the last one. thanks for reading :)