After all the teams that won gathered in the main hall, the Hokage waited for them to organize themselves and explained rules for the next round.
Some of the people from these teams withdrew from the competition. The only one who withdrew unexpectedly was Gaara. Kisho looked at him with an expression, Whoever saw that expression couldn't know what that meant.
Soon the matches started and ended with the final battle between Kisho and Kabuto. Looks like kabuto got his orders from Orochimaru to join in the duels. Kisho can expect that Orochimaru likely want's to find the strength of other genins, who are friends with Kisho.
But fate played games with Orochimaru, as kabuto opponent is Kisho himself. Kisho fought with kabuto for a minute and made sure that kabuto is unable to walk out of his bed for at least one month, even if he was treated by Medical Ninjutsu.
Kabuto's teammate's princess carried kabuto out of the main hall. After they went away Hokage looked at the final ten winners.....Kisho, Sasuke, naruto, lee, Neji, Ino, Shikamaru, Temari, Kankuro and Shino Aburame.
All the fights of the genins, who are trained under Guy sensei are won their matches with crushing victory. Except for Tenten and Sakura-chan.
Kisho on the other side looked bored, as the Hokage started to give his speech. He already knows all the details, he will tell for the final round of this examination. After it takes for 20 minutes, Hokage completely explained rules and encouraged them to fight for the top position.
As they got a month to train, each genin who was qualified for the final round was asked to choose the Jonins for their special training in this one month. They can choose whenever they want, as such Hokage soon dismissed all of them.
After saying his farewell to friends, kisho didn't go home as expected by his friends. Instead, he directly took the road to the Hokage's office. Hiruzen sarutobi, who was puffing his smoke was surprised to see kisho and asked about his purpose of visit.
"Grandpa Hokage! I don't want to participate in the final round. As that will not only expose my strength to a lot of people and also... I am not interested in these silly games, which aren't a challenge for me at all."
Kisho didn't waste anytime and directly indicated his purpose of visit.
"You just want to confirm whether you can become chunin or not right?" Hokage also asked without any surprise on his face, as he expected this already. Anyone can withdraw from the competition without any indication. But kisho came to inform him about this, as such Hokage can easily expect what kisho want.
"Yes! If I won't participate in the final round, can I still become Chunin?" Kisho asked with an expectant look. As kisho also didn't want to beat around the bush.
Hokage looked like he was pondering over something serious. But Kisho face twitched, as he knows that Hokage was doing that to tease kisho. Hiruzen also finds out that kisho already knows he was teasing him, just from seeing Kisho's twitching face. Hokage looked satisfied and laughed out loud, before saying.
"You don't have to worry about that, I will ask someone else to send your Chunin level ninja certificate to your house directly. Go train to your heart's content and my only request is that you just have to consider your safety first, wherever you go." Hokage said as he has full confidence in kisho's future strength which will likely reach the level of Hashirama and Madara.
Kisho also happily nodded his head and bid his farewells to Hokage. He soon went to his home and informed his family members about this matter. Instead of scolding him, they all looked at kisho's decision with happy faces, as it was not good for kisho to attract a lot of attention.
From the next day, kisho started practicing on his body strength and also started to experiment on his shadows, which he got the feeling able to detach them.
As he started practicing, he broke the sixth seal placed on his body by the third day. He had already expected this from the start, as such he was not surprised by this. But he was happy as he has full confidence to fight with Guy on par, even if Guy opens his 7th gate. Of course, if Guy opens his eight gates that will become nigh impossible for kisho to even fight for 2 to 3 seconds.
"As for Kakashi san! I don't know whether I can win against him or not if he uses his Mangekyou Sharingan. But! It will is not an easy fight for either of us."
Kisho thought for some time after he broke his sixth seal. That's a huge broke through for him, as his chakra level officially entered the kage level. As such he wants to take rest for 10 days, before starting his bitter training again.
As soon as he decided on that and just want to go to the kitchen and help his mother, he suddenly got enlightenment on something that has been bothering him for the past days. He soon took out the manual of the shadow clones technique that was given by his dad. He soon started to analyze it slowly.
He didn't know how much time has passed. But he suddenly stood up from the bed and started to make hand seals of the shadow clone technique. Instead of processing any of the Chakra from his body to the seals, he made his shadow to replace with chakra. His shadow slowly started to sink into every pore of his feet and entered the chakra channels of his body.
As soon as his shadow entered his chakra channel, his chakra started to move away to the walls of his channels. As though, it has seen the worst possible enemy of its entire life.
On the side, Kisho started twitching with pain. As soon as he controlled his shadows to enter the pores of his body, he felt like every pore on his feet was ripping apart by his shadow. He soon fell on the ground and started to twitch a little!! still, he didn't let go of his seal made by his fingers and also controlled his shadow. He continued to process the shadow through his chakra channel.
Just when his shadow was about to reach the seal made by his fingers inside his body, he felt that everything around him froze. He also didn't feel any pain and at the same time, he felt like he couldn't even able to move. Only his mind is not frozen, even his heart is frozen completely. Just when he was about to start to panic, he heard a voice which relieved him from this tension.
"Do you know what you are doing?" God dharin asked with a questioning voice.
"Oh!! I am trying to detach a shadow from my body and using it separately without any attach will increase my prowess a lot more than I have now," Kisho responded with a Surprised and doubtful voice, as this is what he had thought. Surprised, because of the strength showed by dharin is absolutely horrible and at the same time, Dharin took the initiative to help Kisho at an important time.
"Yes! With this, you can be able to detach extra shadows from your body. But...You will never be able to merge with them. Plus you are using shadow clone technique from your world as a supplement for detaching your shadows means, they all will become your 'clones'. But at the same time, they are not clones." God dharin explained with a Mysterious voice.
"What do you mean by that?" Kisho asked with a puzzled expression.
"I meant, they are not like temporary clones of that technique that you used to detach shadows. Instead, they will be permanent clones of you...Unlike your clones from the shadow clone technique, Here it's like 'they are you and you are them'. What you saw they also can see what they can saw you also can see. It's like you are living in two lives at the same time. But if you die all of them will die, if you don't die they also will never die. Plus, it's not possible for you..." Dharin explained.
But he stopped explaining something in the midway. Kisho knew that dharin is keeping something important as a secret from him. He knew, that dharin will tell him when the time comes and didn't ask him about that.
"Do you want me to sever these shadows are not? Plus from what you said, unless I die these shadows will be eternal, right? Also why I have 3 shadows?" Kisho asked with a barrage of questions.
"If I were you, I will definitely be going to sever them. Because you will never understand the strength of these shadows will gain after they will get severed and also...Hrmm. As for your second question, yes!! They are shadow clones formed from your shadows, instead of chakra. Unlike normal shadow clones, which uses chakra, these clones will get physically stronger by consuming shadows as their food. Their enhancement is permanent and even if they cut in half or beheaded, they will still be able to attach back in a matter of seconds."
Dharin explained with a laughing voice.
Kisho eyes also glowed with joy, as he imagines the immortal level shadows of his roaming the world. He just has to choose a place, that no one can find and let his clones roam the world. Unless he dies of old age, he will become unkillable. But soon he released those thoughts, as he never considers himself to go hiding like that 'pain'.
"As for how you have 3 shadows is because those two extra shadows are formed from the two tails of your beast form. With enough practice, you can drag all of your tails shadows to the outer world and can make them as your clones. If you have any more doubts, only ask me after you try all possible experiments with your new clones."
Saying that dharin didn't waste any more time and cut off his link from the dumbfounded kisho. After kisho got out of his daze, he wanted to ask some more questions to dharin. Still restrained himself from calling dharin, as that will only disturb the other side. Still, he remembered the good intentions of god dharin in his heart.
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Authors Note:
It's like this!! Do you guys have any names for the new clones of Kisho?