Walking out into his backyard for morning training, Chiba saw Koizumi standing next to a purple haired girl who appeared to be multiple years older than her, and a few inches taller than even Chiba himself.
"Ah br-sensei, this is the girl I was training with!" Koizumi corrected herself, as she had promised to call Chiba 'sensei' whenever they are on a training ground or back yard.
Despite having been told her name an location by Chiba in order to spar with her, Koizumi understood that she shouldn't reveal that to Anko, especially since she secretly planned on hooking the two up!
Stepping forward, the purple haired girl bowed slightly.
"My name is Anko Mitarashi, it's a pleasure to meet you" Anko showed great respect towards Chiba, but her eyes were hollow and her voice sounded empty.
'She isnt acting anything like her anime counterpart, she's supposed to be a brash and lively tomboy but today shes so meek and reserved. It must be because of the Orochimaru incident, she was probably thoroughly interrogated to see if she knew about him and must feel incredible guilt.'
Chiba's observation haki could see her aura take the shade of guilt and sadness, her mind must've been searched and she was grilled relentlessly to see if theres any inconsistencies in her story.
There was also the fact that Chiba was a hero who saved thousands of Konoha villagers, including some of Anko's extended family members. Chiba was also her rivals sensei that taught her everything she knew so her being respectful and reserved might be natural.
"Its a pleasure meeting you as well, a friend of Koizumi is a friend of mine." Chiba said flashing a faint smile that caused Anko's hollow eyes to widen.
Chiba had worn a white piece of fabric around his eyes today and paired it with a grey Kemono, the outfit was thrown together haphazardly as Chiba didnt known or care about his appearance, but that only added to his casual charm!
After consuming the clones body Chiba's skin had become a lot clearer, his hair was silky smooth, and his body became toner!
''A-anyways, I'd like to request to spar with you Chiba-San" Anko said, using her ninja training to maintain a stoic face despite the faint blush.
"Uh...just call me Chiba, I am younger than you after all, and sure I'll spar with you." Chiba said akwardly, feeling the mixed emotions coming off of Anko.
'The stronger she is, the stronger she can make Koizumi!' walking inside, Chiba obtained a wooden sword before reappearing.
"Chiba... You don't mean to spar with that, are you..." Yugao was trying to hide her bubbling emotions at the clear disrespect towards her.
Hearing this, Chiba picked up a handful of leafs off if the ground before throwing them in the air.
"Just because this sword is wooden-" Chiba poured his chakra into the wooden blade and follow the White Fangs blade jutsu. Infront of both Yugao and Koizumi's awestruck eyes, every single leaf that was thrown had suddenly split in two from a single slash of Chiba's.
"-doesn't make it any less lethal in my hands." Chiba took a single step forward and Anko unconsciously stepped back.
Looking at the blind boy who was two years younger than her, Anko felt an invisible pressure that made her hairs stand on end.
Wordlessly pulling out her sword, Anko felt herself relaxing with a weapon in her hand as she stepped forward to meet his advance.
Chiba and Anko circled each other, looking for any weakness in the others stance before Anko suddenly dashed forward!
Her blade raced towards Chiba neck as she put all of her weight and strength behind the attack, an attack that was immediately deflected with a quick and powerful hit to the flat of her blade.
Chiba still didn't have his armament Haki and couldn't allow her sword to clash into his wooden one, so Chiba was forced to parry and dodge her attacks as outright blocking was impossible. This was the reason he was using a wooden blade instead of a real one, he had to handicap himself if he wanted to be challenged and grow during this spar.
With her off balance from the deflect, Chiba kicked her leg out from under her as she tripped forward before recovering with a roll and standing up, returning to her stance.
Anko was shocked, Chiba's movements were nearly identical to Koizumi's as she copied everything she knew, but Chiba moved moved so effortlessly that it felt like a completely different fighting style entirely!
Anko had barely seen Chiba move as he made zero wasted movements, deflecting her attack as efficiently as possible.
"You've just recently begun training your swordsmanship havent you. Strength without technique is meaningless, your sword is slow and predictable. You should use light and quickly attacks to figure out your opponents style, before cornering them and then use your strength to surprise them."
Hearing Chiba, who was younger than her, start giving advice to her mid spar as he fought using a wooden blade frustrated Anko.
Before meeting Koizumi Anko hadn't thought much of swordsmanship, she prefered Kunai and shuriken but she quickly learned just how powerful a sword was after sparing with Koizumi. She nearly lost to the much younger Koizumi in their first match, so Anko immediately asked Orochimaru for a sword technique.
Using quick attacks, Anko's sword turned into a blur as she unleashed a torrent of slashes towards Chiba, forcing the boy to dodge each attack, only moving when the sword was a hairs width away from making contact.
Anko swung her blade as fast as she could, never being able to hit the slippery Chiba who used his observation Haki to dodge every attack of hers until *Thwack!*
With a flick of his arm, the wooden sword slammed into her wrist as she barely held on through the throbbing pain.
"Good! A swordman shouldn't give up on their blade despite the pain! You've got the basics down!" Chiba said sincerely impressed that a relatively low level character was this skilled in a subject that was new to her.
"If that impressed you, just wait for this....." Anko suddenly moved her sword to the side and began stabbing so fast that her blade began to kick up dust and create afterimages!
As her blade moved quickly, Chiba noticed that it created a rhythmic gust of air that had chakra attached to it, she was using a Genjutsu!
"Dance of the Camellia!" Sensing a faint danger, Chiba decided to activated his future sight.
Chiba saw that Anko was too caught up in the moment and planned on slashing his chest, creating a deep wound before coming to her senses and stopping just before killing him.
Seeing that his life wasn't going to be in danger, Chiba internally smiled a devilish grin as he realized that he could use this as a major opportunity with Koizumi watching!
Dispelling the auditory Genjutsu with easy, Chiba slowly positioned himself to be facing Koizumi as he was slowly being "overwhelmed" by Anko's attacks.
As Anko had reached her max attack speed and turned her blade into a blur, she dashed forward at an incredibly speed with her flickering body jutsu as her blade broke through Chiba's wooden one and pierced into his chest!
The familiar searing pain coursed through Chiba as he grabbed her blade.
"...you were right, this was impressive..." Chiba groaned In pain.
Letting go of her blade in shocked, Anko collapsed to the floor in horror.
"I-Im so sorr-," "BROTHER!!" Koizumi began racing over to her brother who was falling face first into the ground, her crimson red Sharingan activated!
'Koizumi awoken her Sharingan to the first tomoe from a Genjutsu. The first tomoe instantly made her realize that Fugaku hadn't actually killed me and that she was in an illusion, preventing her from gaining her next tomoe but this is different!'
Using his gravity devil fruit to speed up his fall, Chiba slammed face first into the ground driving the blade deeper. The act of falling onto the blade had turned the deep wound into a lethal one, the blade had pierced through his heart!
Using his Life Return, Chiba quickly made his body go into shutdown mode akin to hibernation, he manually controlled the blood in his body to move and quickly made his body began to grow cold.
Wanting to sell his performance even more, Chiba had even control his body to destroy his tonsil as blood began to pour out of his open mouth.
All of this happened In just a few second as Koizumi stood over her brother in shock, a look of utter disbelief on her face as her.
"Brother....you-you can't be...." Kneeling down with tear stricken eyes, Koizumi turned Chiba over to reveal his blood soaked clothing that grew larger from the pouring blood.
With her superior eyes Koizumi saw that this was obviously not a Genjutsu or simple trick, her brother really had been stabbed in the heart! She watched as his breathing stopped and blood continued to pour out of him like a faucet.
"BROTHER!!!!!!" The chakra unique to the Uchiha had began to rise within Koizumi, breaking past the threshold for the second tomoe and reaching the third!
"I-I am so s-sorry Koizumi I-" "YOU DID THIS!" A powerful wave of killing intent poured out of Koizumi as she didn't waste a second.
Kunai in hand, she launched herself at Anko like a feral animal with full intent on killing her for what she had done, only to be slammed into the ground by an unseen force! This didn't deter the bloodlusted Koizumi who still desperately tried to crawl towards Anko, her three tomoe sharingan bleeding out tears.
"Jeez calm down Koizumi..."
Hearing the unmistakeably voice of her brother temporarily snapped Koizumi out of her insanity as she quickly turned around.
Slowly getting off of the ground, Infront of Koizumi's and Anko shocked expression, Chiba simply grabbed the handle of Ankos blade and pulled it out! Both Anko and Koizumi's watched in real time as the deep fatal injury began to close up and eventually dissappear completely without even a scar!
"..."
"..."
There was a long stretch of silence as both of their minds were trying to make sense of the situation, so Chiba tried to lighten the situation.
"Get pranked!"