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Warnings: Language
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I stared him straight in the eyes. His evil, snake-like eyes, stared back at me. I wasn't scared. I knew what he was thinking. 'Those eyes. Those precious, precious eyes. I must have them.' I was already preparing an escape plan though. Use crystal withdrawal to shish kabob all the guards. Then use a crystal to pick all of the locks that held the chains that bound them to the stone wall. Of course I would have to wait for him to leave before doing this.
"Well, you really are something special aren't you? I can smell it." He said.
"I thought you were a snake, not a dog." Hira jeered defiantly.
"At least I have pupils." He retorted stupidly.
"You say to the person who's pupil-less eyes you want. Pfft."
"Well, you sure do know how to piss someone off." He hissed.
"Yeah, why don't you piss off a little further?" Hira kept the comments coming, not a speck of fear in her voice as she bought me the time I needed, slowly extracting crystals from the air around us.
"Only on your face, little bi-!" His eyes widened as the crystals punctured his heart, liver and kidney.
"HEY!" The guards yelled in surprise as crystals shot up from below them, impaling them all. Meanwhile, Hira had a crystal floating around, picking the locks of Hanabi and Hiashi's locks, both of which were still asleep. They both fell lightly onto beds of crystal as they're locks fell to the ground. I picked my own lock, landing on my feet, looking around.
"Release!" The illusion poofed away. This all had been another test to show their skills. The fake bodies of Hanabi and Hiashi poofed away with the rest of it.
"God dammit Hiashi is it ever enough that we pass the academy's tests, and not yours?"
"Just preparing you for anything yet to come. Luckily you passed with record time."
"Well yeah that was probably the easiest test you have come up with yet."
"Actually, it wasn't the test, it was you. You have massively improved from the last test, which was much easier than this one, I might add."
"Yeah, and all done while massively pissing off a canny replica of Orochimaru." Hira supplied.
"Not to mention the maximum capacity of crystal you two can conjure up has more than doubled."
"So do we still have time to train before our mission?"
"Sorry but no, we have to be to Lady Tsunade in twenty minutes, but I suppose we could get some speed training in on our way, so lets go." Hiashi told us. After a long string of complaints about not being able to train, we jumped into the trees, leaping towards the village at top speed.
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We arrived at Lady Tsunade's office in a mere five minutes.
"Record time." Hanabi huffed as we arrived.
"Sweet, maybe we really are improving after all." Hira replied. We all walked down the hall of the building and entered Lady Tsunade's office.
"Team Hiashi," Lady Tsunade sounded surprised, "You're early."
"We tested our speed on our way." Hanabi offered. When aren't you testing your physical ability? I heard her think.
"I see." She said, contradicting her thoughts hugely.
"So, what's our first mission?" Hiashi Sensei asked her.
"Well, seeing as you are the village's most talented squad, I thought I would see your abilities for myself. That way I can give you missions that are more appropriate for your abilities, instead of starting you with pointless missions that would be pointless for this particular squad."
"Great. Three tests in two days." Hira complained.
"You already tested them once?" Tsunade asked Hiashi.
"Yes we were attacked by a canny Orochimaru that seemed to want our byakugan." I answered for him.
"I see and how did that work out?" She asked, now speaking to me.
"Not well… until I speared them all, that is." I used heavy sarcasm when I spoke, letting her know I was not pleased with what our sensei had pulled on us.
"Actually, it was just Hira and Hizashi, and they did incredibly. Hizashi picked up what was happening from the start and the both of them carried out a carefully orchestrated plan in order to defeat their opponent." Hiashi defended his reasoning well.
"Well, in any case I still want to see what you can do for myself. C'mon." She was taking us to the training field (which didn't happen to have any new recruits on it) to have us battle kumite-style, one by one, seeing how far we could get without passing out. Basically they were making us fight until we passed out, and wasn't particularly in the mood to fight for three hours straight.
"Hanabi, you go first." Tsunade instructed her.
"Okay." Hanabi replied, sounding confident.
"Multi-shadow clone jutsu!" Lady Tsunade used the hand signs to conjure up several thousand clones of her.
"Lady Tsunade, I don't feel comfortable fighting you." Hanabi called up to the trees where Lady Tsunade, Hira, Hiashi Sensei and I all were perched up on a giant tree branch.
"Alright then!" Lady Tsunade called back, "Transformation jutsu!" All of the Tsunade replicas that were out in the trees and on the field were suddenly transformed into mysterious, masked ninja.
"That's better!" Hanabi thanked Lady Tsunade.
"Okay Hanabi, on your marks, get set, GO!" At once all the clones that were near her pounced on her, showing no mercy. Just as they were about to hit Hanabi however they were repelled by a large blue swirling vortex of chakra that destroyed them, filling the area with smoke.
"Rotation!" They heard Hanabi yell as she perfectly utilized the jutsu in all its glory. This left a large circle of space between her and the ever present circle of clones that surrounded her. Immediately, she dashed forward through the smoke leftover from the rotation, at the clones, her hands glowing blue. She rapidly cut her way through the clones, hitting each one in the chest, causing it to disappear with a poof.
Hanabi's strategy seemed to work, going on for about an hour and a half before the clones finally got smart and jumped out of the way. At this point Hanabi was forced to activate her byakugan, which had been dormant the rest of the battle. This allowed her to read their moves, ever from a distance. When she began getting more powerful, the clones began attacking long distance, throwing shuriken and kunai forty or fifty at a time. Each time they did this, Hanabi was forced to use rotation, rapidly depleting her chakra stores.
"Rotation!"
"Rotation!"
"Rotation!"
At this point I was concerned about her chakra levels, so I used my byakugan to peek at what she still had left. I was shocked to see she hadn't even used half her chakra yet, considering the fact she had used rotation at least ten times. We sat there for another hour, I was watching Hanabi's chakra levels slowly go down. Finally, she had about two tenths of her total chakra left. I began wondering what she would do with it. Ten minutes later I got my answer. Hanabi was exhausted, her attack rate lowering. She knew her test was about over. I could tell.
"Eight trigrams sixty-four palms!" Hanabi screamed, as one by one she annihilated all the clones in her range, jabbing each one in the stomach, doing this to sixty-four of them. Finally, as she finished, her chakra completely diminished, she collapsed. I stood up and leapt down to her, knocking away a shuriken that had been thrown.
"Good job, kupo." I whispered in her ear as I walked her away from the field, taking her to the tree I had been sitting at, and propped her up against the trunk.
"I must say, that was one of the best shows of ability I have ever seen. I was counting how many clones she defeated and she made 2, 458 kills in three hours and forty-two minutes. I had no idea she was capable of using those jutsu, especially the eight trigrams sixty-four palms." Lady Tsunade told to us after Hanabi regained consciousness several minutes later murmuring 'how'd I do?'
"Hanabi, I am simply amazed at how much your chakra capacity has expanded, I thought you were almost out when you hadn't even used half!"
"Really?" She asked me, still half asleep.
"Yeah." I said, flashing a bright smile at her. She smiled back at me as she quietly fell asleep.
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