HIATUS

"Damn, that was brutal", Bucky said after he saw what Ethan's disciple did in an instant. The explosion caused a huge cloud of smoke to be dissipated in the air.

Seeing the effect of the first exchange the Ancient One immediately teleported all the people in the mirror dimension.

"Just encased if they went overboard", the Ancient One said.

"I pretty sure they will go overboard, but too bad. They will be moving in insane speed soon", Bucky said, saddened at the prospect of not being able to see a wonderful fight.

"Oh, don't worry about that", the Ancient One said. Bucky did not know what she meant by that.

On the battlefield Ethan's three disciples were on high alert, no way did they believe that their teacher would be beaten so easily. Suddenly in the huge smoke out came three Ethans, one for each of his disciples. Each Ethan engaged each disciple in close quarters combat, every single Ethan wasn't playing around, his attacks were aiming at the vulnerable spots of the body.

"Clones…Wait, How can I see this fight…It's like it's in slow motion", Bucky said, confused at how he is able to keep up with the fight that was happening in front of him. He looks beside him and stares at the Ancient One with a questioning gaze.

"Did you do this?", Bucky asked.

"Yes. In reality, they're still moving at an insane speed, but I have made a dimensional view in which I have slowed their movements down, allowing for us to see their fight", the Ancient One replied.

"That's handy", Bucky said as he looks back at the fight.

Somehow during the short conversation, Bucky had with the Ancient One, the clones were already destroyed.

"Nice taijutsu, but let's see what you will do with this, Eternal Darkness Jutsu", a voice in the black smoke said.

All of Ethan's disciples lost their eyesight due to the genjutsu placed on them. All they could see was pure darkness.

"Shit!", Ava responded.

Erik Stevens was undeterred, he made multiple hand signs and his eyes began to change into a reptilian-like shape, and if you look closely in the bridge of his nose you could see that there were two small holes in them.

With this he was able to see Ethan, he quickly took a kunai with an exploded tag tied on it and threw it at him, before it hit Ethan, Erik made multiple hand signs, which causes the kunai to multiply. The multiple kunai once again resulted in an explosion.

"BOOM!"

After the explosion happened, Erik with kunai in hand quickly engaged Ethan in close-quarters combat. Ethan took his sword out from its seal and he parried Erik's kunai, the resulting combat resulted in the dispelling of the Eternal darkness Technique.

"I see, you modified your body to be like that of a snake, huh. You have implanted a pit organ in the bridge of your nose, this allows you to see in total darkness. You have been busy, Erik. Call me impressed, my dear student" Ethan said as he parried an attack aimed at his kidney.

"Roose is actually a quite genius snake. If you want your body to be like a snake, you can ask him", Erik said. Erik's fighting style was unique for a man of his stature, It was mostly composed of moves that required a high amount of flexibility.

'Damn, he modified his body more than I thought', Ethan thought. Somehow, unbeknownst to Ethan, Erik had modified his body to be extremely flexible, even more so than an average shinobi in the naruto world.

Erik seeing that his attack wasn't going to get pass Ethan's defenses decided to take out a smoke bomb and exploded it.

Ethan was shocked when Erik did this, he backs off from Erik to maintain distance and focus his attention on his surroundings. From out of nowhere Ava came into view, using her phasing powers to get near Ethan as she tried to land an enhanced punch to the face of her teacher.

At the last moment, Ethan dodged her punch and he immediately swings his sword to cut Ava in half. Ava who did not have enough time to move used her phasing powers to make the blade phase right through her. She proceeded to keep using this tactic at Ethan. She would try to punch Ethan, and Ethan would either dodge her or block her attack, but every time he would counter Ava, Ava would phase right through his sword.

At the beginning of Ava's training, Ethan wanted her to be the healer of the three, just like Tsunade but Ava did not want that. After learning the ability that enhances her strength, she forwent Ethan's wish to be the healer of the team. Ava fell in love with close-quarters combat. She would always rely on this strategy, she would attack her opponent without any care for her defenses, this tactic was incredibly suitable for her, 'punch now if things get out of hand phase out', that was Ava's motto.

'She's too reliant in her Phasing ability, she still believes that I can't cut her', Ethan thought. Due to Ava's ability to phase, Ethan made a seal that enables him to cut not just Ava but anyone he encounters that has phasing ability, the seal was already written on his blade. He just needed to activate the seal but decided to use it later, he didn't want the exam to end quickly after all.

"Nice, tactic Ava", Ethan said as he dodged a kick aimed at his head.

"I learned from the best", Ava said with a smirk.

Suddenly up above came a torrent of bone shard aimed at Ava and him. Ava smiled and used her phasing powers to make the bones pass right through her.

Seeing this Ethan made a couple of one-handed hand signs with his free hand, he made a justu that enclose him in a solid dome of earth, with him in its center. He continued channeling chakra on the earth dome to strengthen it.

"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"

"Their teamwork is good", Ethan said to himself.

After the bone bombardment was done, Ethan canceled his earth dome jutsu which cause it to fall to the ground. What he saw was insane, the entire terrain now contained a huge amount of bones impaled in the ground, one move, and Grant Ward change the battlefield.

"That must have caused a lot of chakra, huh", Ethan said as he looks at the highest bone shard, no bone pillar. On top of it was Grant Ward, beside him were Ava Starr and Erik Stevens.

"It was indeed, Teacher. But I'm not done yet", Grant Ward said.

Slowly bones were coming out of Ward's body and the bones were becoming his armor. Every part of his body was encased with bone, all you could see was the slit used for his eyes. To make Ward's look more menacing he took out his spine to use as a sword.

"Damn, that's scary, to be honest", Ethan said.

Grant did not respond and he sprinted at him with incredible speed, he cocked his sword and release it at him. Ethan blocked with his blade which resulted in him getting push a couple of meters from his initial position.

'To think that he can still move with such insane speed with the armor his wearing...If he keeps this up then he'll lose a lot of chakra', Ethan thought as he parried multiple slashes from Grant.