"Maybe your bee's honey is of low quality," Torune mocked Retsudo, which riled him up.
"You dare look down on my bees? You are not better than the rest," Retsudo roared. He gritted his teeth, watching his honey web disintegrate. He swiftly changed tactics, summoning more bees, this time directing them to form a living shield around him.
"Bee Armor Technique!"
"Hasn't this person learned too many techniques? He will lose chakra fast," Kakashi said as he looked at Retsudo. At the genin level, it was very rare for someone to have huge levels of chakra. The way this man was throwing away chakra, it might not last long for him. And the insect clan members were never known to have chakra of huge capacity.
Torune made some hand signs and two revolving rotating mandalas were conjured, but the Tao mandalas were spiky in nature. The spikes were pointed a bit slanted, and then Torune proceeded to rotate them at high speed. And before anybody could understand what kind of jutsu it was, he threw both of them towards the shield that had enveloped Retsudo.
The Tao Mandalas cut through the armor like it was made of butter, and the armor crumbled down fast. It revealed Retsudo who was now watching the whole armor burst out with nothing but anger and hatred. He remembered how, as a child, he was ostracized because his clan was not what it used to be.
He was bullied and made fun of. Nobody supported him, and the high officials didn't look at him with kindness. There was only his blind grandma who had spoken of how his clan was once a great clan, but the clashes with the Aburame clan were what brought their clan to this situation.
Though his grandma had said not to hate them, growing up being bullied wasn't a very good feeling, and he wanted revenge. He learned these techniques just so that he could excel in this exam. Seeing that there were two genins from the Aburame clan made him all the more determined to bring them down.
"You can't hide from me under the shell," Torune said as his exposed hand slowly started to turn purple. These were the small poisonous insects he had been carrying all along, and he could only use them in his hands and not the full body yet.
Torune ran towards Retsudo, who was trying to understand what had happened, and before he could dodge, he was smacked a bit by Torune in his hand. Retsudo's hands started turning purple, and he uttered a scream that could be heard even from outside the arena. The sensei of Retsudo almost made a move to save him, but was stopped by Aoto.
"Don't move, he hasn't accepted defeat yet."
"What the fuck are you talking about? He will die from that bastard's poisons. Who will be responsible if he dies?" the jonin from Iwagakure said.
"He won't die nor will he have any kind of trauma. I can assure you that. And that goes for all genin students. You can rest assured. If anything wrong happens, I will take full responsibility," Aoto said.
"Fuck." The jonin didn't seem like he had a good mouth at all.
"Accept defeat or you will suffer more," Torune threatened.
"Never. I will never bow down to an Aburame clan," Retsudo was crying due to pain at this point, but he wasn't ready to just let it go.
"You will die," Torune said.
"Then let me die with you," Retsudo said.
"What?" Torune was confused. It was then that he saw a paper bomb stuck to his clothes and also multiple paper bombs on the body of Retsudo.
"Oh my god."
"Is he mad?"
"He's committing suicide."
Everyone around panicked and almost scrambled to get away or to save the two. But none of that was required as out of nowhere Kisuke appeared between them.
"Yare, yare, children shouldn't play with dangerous tools."
Around Retsudo, golden three stripes appeared that clung to his throat, making him immobile. Two streaks of light that came out of Kisuke's fingers attacked the paper bombs and they didn't go off at all.
"Kamizuru Retsudo used unjust means to sabotage an arena battle. He is disqualified," Kisuke said, and Shikuro was already there to take away the poisonous beetles from the body of Retsudo. The jonin of Iwagakure was furious and embarrassed.
Embarrassed because he didn't expect the situation to crumble down in this way and furious because this was one of the worst ways to accept defeat. If Retsudo was defeated in an upright manner, he would be able to justify it. But this student of his actually thought of committing suicide. This was telling the opponents that the only way he could bring them down was by suicide.
This was a humiliation like no other.
Kisuke let go of the kido on Retsudo's body after the paper bombs were taken out and he was safe. After that, Retsudo seemed to be exhausted and just fainted. Maybe the exhaustion of chakra was too much and his body wasn't able to take it. Shikuro made sure that his body didn't have any side effects from the poisonous beetles.
The audience, who had looked at everything from afar, were shaken up a bit. Everyone here was young and had an ambition in their minds, but none of them had revenge run so deep in their veins that they would be ready to commit suicide just so he or she could take down the opponent.
Aoto didn't give them more time to think as there was no point. This was the chunin exams and the world was cruel. After this fight, the next was between Kankuro and another Iwagakure ninja.
This fight wasn't as easy as Kankuro hoped it to be, as this person was well-versed in proper control of chakra and knew of a rock bullet technique. But in the end, Kankuro was able to win.
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