Chapter Two: An Average Nothing Special Day Merry Christmas to Kairai and all my readers!
Kaji's POV
"Why is it so boring?" I asked with a sigh.
"Because we're not on a mission," Haku said. I sighed again. "Let's do something fun!"
"Sure, do you have any suggestions?"
"Let's go into the village!"
"Whatever," I murmured. We tied cape type things around us and left.
Haku and I walked through the village carelessly. That is until we spotted a poster on a shop. It read 'Attention All Shinobi! Contest to be held! Shinobi are to report to the village centre on the 21st of May.' Haku and I smiled at each other. The date was May 21st.
"This could be interesting." We walked to the village center. There was a small man on a platform standing in the middle of a good sized crowd with a mixture of shinobi and civilians.
"All ninja, welcome!" he shouted. "Let me explain, we are holding a contest. All ninja will split into teams of two to five. Then, each team will battle until only one is left! The winning team will get this!" he yelled holding a pouch filled with money. Most of the crowd cheered. This was obviously entertainment for other village civilians. The shinobi crowd walked forward.
After a few minutes, the teams had been made. "All teams please form a line!" he boomed. Haku and I stepped into line. When we finally got to the front the man asked us our names and if we had a preference on who to fight first.
"Kaji and Haku. I don't really care who we fight first."
"Thank you; please wait for your names to be called." We stepped aside waiting for our names to be called.
After about five minutes he yelled, "The first fight will be, Kaji and Haku versus Toyo, Reiko, Yonto, and Kwuin." People began placing bets, mostly against Haku and me. We were to be fighting a group of guys. The people really looked somewhat pathetic. One of them snickered.
"Looks like we're fighting a couple. This should be easy."
"Okay lets be clear on this the battle will last until a team is knocked unconscious or gives up. Understood?"
"Sure."
"Yeah."
"Then let the fight begin!" The blond on the right jumped behind Haku and grabbed his wrists. Two of them lunged at me and the other stood back, forming a hand sign. Both the boys near me threw punches and kicks but landed none of their attacks. I kept dodging almost just to mock them. Haku stood and did nothing. One of them landed a blow on me. I was almost stunned. Almost no one could keep up with me, sometimes not even Haku! It was time to get serious.
"Kirigakure no Jutsu!" I shouted quickly forming a hand sign. The guy lunged at me even with the thick mist surrounding us. I swung my leg upward and axe kicked him. I could feel the impact when my foot hit his jaw. The mist disappeared. I really hadn't bothered putting much chakra into it. Haku pulled his hands away punched behind him. He had hit that stupid blondie in the nose. His nose was bleeding and bent out if shape, probably broken.
"Okay, okay we give up!" I couldn't help but laugh. Four male shinobi were beaten by a girl and a gender confused teen. Pathetic!
After four more battles and four more wins, we were the last team standing. Non-shinobi applauded and Haku was handed the bag of money. We walked off. One of the guys who
had given up in the first round, the one who's jaw was broken thanks to me, ran up to us.
"Hi there!" he said addressing Haku.
"Hi."
"My name's Reiko, so I was wondering, would you like to go out with me?"
"Before you even get an answer here's a question for you: are you gay?"
"Of coarse not!
"Then just walk away." He stood there as we kept on walking.
"Kaji! He was kind of cute."
"Shut up, Haku." He frowned.
When we got back, Zabuza was there and it was nearly sundown. We sat down on the couch and untied the capes. Zabuza looked at us. "So where were you two?"
"In the village," Haku said tossing the bag of money on the table.
"How'd you get the money?"
"Nothin'." He didn't care that we didn't answer. "So where have you been? You look like you were on a mission."
"I was."
"You went on a mission without us?"
"Yeah, yeah you'll get over it. So what did you guys do all day while I was gone?"
"Well, it was just an average nothing special day."