Chapter 2: The Bell Challenge

"Hello you three. Time for your nightmare to begin."

Their Sensei had messy brown hair, and had his headband on his forehead. He has pale blue eyes and his Jounin vest was unzipped, showing his black shirt with an X on it. He had on black pants and his ninja sandals.

Itauke looked calm as always when his new Sensei said that. He never showed much emotion. He mostly said "hn" and ended the conversation. He looked at his teammates, Aya and Shinji, and their expressions were almost funny. Aya looked like she would scream any moment. Shinji's expression wasn't any different from Itauke's, but his bugs above his head formed a sad face. I don't know if Shinji noticed this, but if he did, Itauke guessed this was how he showed his feelings.

Their Sensei looked at them. "My name is Nao Imetu, but you call be Nao-Sensei."

The three Genin looked at each other, and then back at Nao. "Hello Nao-Sensei."

Nao-Sensei waved the three to follow him, so they did. They followed him out the door, across Konoha, and ended up in the training area. Nao-Sensei told them to sit on the ground. They did. The Genin's sensei sat on the wooden pole and stared at his students, then asked, "Alright. First say your name, and then say what you like to do."

Aya started first, of course. "My name is Aya Suzuki. I like to talk with my friends, and go for short runs. I always wanted to make the biggest pie ever!"

Nao-Sensei, Itauke, and Shinji starred at her when she said the 'pie' part. Then Shinji sat up and started to introduce himself. "I am Shinji Aburame. I don't like to socialize very much. My favorite colour is green, and blue. I like to train sometimes and I can say a lot in one breath if I want to."

Itauke looked at him. He was in specifics, wasn't he? Itauke thought. But then he realized his team was waiting for him to say something, and sighed. "My name is Itauke Hyuga. I like to train a lot and my dream is to become one of the strongest in my clan, and to remove this seal."

Itauke didn't say much after that, so the rest of Squad 6 decided he was finished. Nao-Sensei sighed and held up 3 bells. "Alright, the rules are simple. All you have to do is take away one of the three bells in my hand. Individually of course. If each of you doesn't have one of these bells, the one without the bell fails, and will be sent back to the academy."

The Genin gasped. Sent back to the academy? They just graduated! Why does that mean they have to be sent back? Nao-Sensei yelled START! The Genin left and hid in the bushes. Alright, let me think. If we are sent back to the Academy if we don't bet a bell, and aren't sent back if we do, there has to be a catch. Itauke's mind raced. He couldn't figure out what and why.

"BYAKUGAN"

Itauke's Byakugan held a great chance of defeating his sensei. He located Nao by the river, and dashed there. He hid in a tree when he saw his sensei sitting. Sitting! He wasn't even close to ready to fight! Well, Itauke thought, better go in now. He was about to jump in and start a fight, when someone else did.

Aya.

She was standing feet behind her sensei. She took out a kunai knife and walked carefully to Nao-Sensei. She threw it at him, and it hit. It hit! Was it that easy? Nao-Sensei changed into a cloud of smoke. A shadow clone! Of course. Nao had appeared right behind Aya, with that very same kunai that she threw to her neck. "Don't let your opponent behind you. Especially when you are alone."

Itauke threw a few shuriken at Nao-Sensei and he moved, allowing the shuriken to impale the ground. Itauke jumped out of the tree and walked to his sensei, which fell on the ground when he dodged. Nao looked at his students and smiled. "Nice teamwork. But—" He poofed into smoke, again.

"Ugh" Itauke grumbled. They let him get away.

Aya looked at Itauke, and smiled. "Thanks."

Itauke looked at her, with curious eyes and said "We should get moving. We can't let him get away."

Shinji appeared out of the forest. "Did I miss anything?" he wondered.

"I figured out," Itauke started, "That if we work together we can get the bells faster."

The 3 nodded and made a strategy. Aya goes right. Shinji is middle. Itauke is left. Shinji will be a kind of decoy. Aya will then go in from the right, once Shinji has Nao-Sensei in a bug trap. Once Aya has Nao there, he will most likely try and escape. This is when Itauke will dash in at the last moment and use 8 Trigrams 64 Palms, so Nao can't do his jutsu. They will grab the bells, cut off by Aya with a kunai knife, and will win.

They got into position. Shinji walked right up to his sensei and said hi. Then they broke into a fight. Nao hit Shinji, which was a Bug Substitution. The bugs grabbed hold of Nao's legs and started to eat his chakra. Aya ran in next, threw 4 kunai knifes and 2 shuriken. They impaled him but he didn't vanish, so they knew it was the real Nao-Sensei. Aya threw one more kunai that missed. It hit the string that held the bells instead of hitting their sensei. Itauke rushed in before Nao-Sensei could grab for the bells, and yelled, "Hakke Rokujuuyonshou no Jutsu! Two Palms! Four Palms! Eight Palms! Sixteen Palms! Thirty-Two Palms! Sixty-Four Palms!"

Itauke hit all his sensei's chakra points, and Nao-Sensei slumped to the floor. Aya threw Shinji and Itauke a bell each. The game was won.