Chapter Three:
Recap:
"What level would you say they are?" Tsunade asked, curious.
"ANBU at least. Sannin at most." Tsunade's eyes widened dramatically and her jaw hit the floor. Next to her, Kakashi had fallen over on the floor immobilized from shock.
End Recap
Kagome gave them cool looks, raising an eyebrow. "Is it really so surprising? These kunoichi have shown more promise than anyone I have ever taught in many, many years."
Sakura, Ino, Tenten and Hinata seemed to draw themselves up in pride as she spoke these words, looking pleased that she was complimenting them. Tsunade quickly recovered from her shock, and grinned down at the four kunoichi in pride. Then an evil smirk made its way onto her face when she got a pleasantly EVIL idea to make the boys see the four kunoichis' real strength.
"Girls…I think it's time you showed Konoha and those idiotic councilmen that you aren't merely dead weight." She stated with a malicious smirk. Kakashi and Kagome shivered when the four girls just smirked back.
Slowly, they inched back when Tsunade and the four girls started to cackle.
The training grounds…
Sasuke, Naruto, Neji, Lee, Shino, Kiba, Shikamaru, Chouji, Asuma, Kurenai and finally Gai were standing at the training grounds, waiting impatiently for the Hokage to arrive.
"Neh Sasuke, why did the Hokage call us here?" Naruto whined, earning him a hit from his teammate.
"How the hell should I know? Dobe." Suddenly, seven figures appeared in a swirl of leaves, making every shinobi tense.
"Calm down, it's only me." Tsunade called, trying to keep a smirk off her face when the others glanced distrustfully at the other five figures in cloaked in black robes, keeping their faces hidden. Kakashi put up his hand in the familiar greeting to his team and walked over to join them.
"Uchiha! Uzumaki! Front and center!" Tsunade barked, delighted when the two hurried over, not wanting to risk her wrath. "These are five new kunoichi that want to join our village. They are not spies and you are to test their level."
Sasuke smirked superiorly. "Which one first?" He was taken aback when Tsunade let out a laugh.
"You two are not fighting all of them. You and Uzumaki both are fighting one of them." Sasuke and Naruto started to protest but froze at the sight of Tsunade's icy glare. Up stepped one of the kunoichi, and Sasuke and Naruto observed her at a fair distance, deciding that due to her small frame this would be an easy fight.
Sakura had been the one to step forward and her eyes gleamed in anticipation for the match to start. Tsunade yelled for them to go and immediately, Sakura shot forward, invisible to the naked eye due to her amazing speed. Kakashi had already unveiled his Sharingan, wanting to see if there were any special techniques that he could copy. He could just barely see the after-images Sakura left as she ran.
Sasuke and Naruto stood there, stunned for a moment because of her unexpected speed. Sakura appeared behind them, and did a sweeping kick, knocking them flat on their asses. Sasuke and Naruto recovered quickly, jumping up and going back to back, in order to protect themselves from all directions. Naruto performed the hand-seals for Rasengan while Sasuke already had a Chidori in his hand.
"Too slow." Sakura whispered into their ears, and they looked around wildly only to find that there was two Sakuras, one in front of each of them. Running forward, she punched both of them with inhuman strength, making them fly back only for them to poof away, a log appearing in their place.
"Damn! Substitution jutsu." She growled, looking left, right, behind and up to try in find them. When they weren't in all these places, she punched the ground, making it split open, revealing the two ninjas. Naruto sprang into action, creating fifty or more shadow clones of himself while Sasuke drew his short katana (yes he has it, but he didn't get it from Orochimaru) and powered it up with a Chidori.
They leapt at her while Tsunade gestured for Shikamaru and Chouji to step forward onto the training grounds next to the one they were standing in and fight Ino. She did the same for Tenten and Hinata also, Tenten fighting Neji and Lee while Hinata fought Kiba and Shino. The last cloaked figure, Kagome simply made Kage Bunshins of herself so she could watch all four matches at once.
Ino…
Ino grinned underneath her cloak at Shikamaru and Chouji, who were looking at her with suspicion.
"I don't know what Hokage-sama is thinking, but I sure as hell don't trust you." Shikamaru said, narrowing his eyes when her shoulders shook with laughter. Asuma yelled for them to go and Ino used her modified Mind transfer justu to peer into Shikamaru's mind, to see what he would do. This jutsu was one that she had made up herself, able to peer into her opponent's mind without actually transferring her mind into theirs.
Shikamaru already had thirteen different plans thought out and Ino sighed. There were too many options that he could choose from and she pulled her concentration from his mind just in time to duck from a huge hand that came flying her way. Chouji then drew his spiky hair up around himself and it turned razor-sharp, making Chouji a rapidly spinning ball of mass-destruction. Ino sighed and simply put up a chakra-enhanced finger to stop him.
She nearly gasped when she found she couldn't move and looked down to see shadow hands binding her legs and climbing up to choke her. Abruptly, she let out a strong wave of chakra, which dispelled Shikamaru's jutsu and she jumped just in time to avoid the spiky ball of death that was Chouji, flipping a couple times in the air before landing lightly on her feet.
"I guess it's time to get serious." Ino muttered, smirking.
Tenten…
Tenten wasted no time on words, and simply ran forwards with equal speed as Sakura, flinging many weapons. Neji used his Kaiten to block all of them, smirking. Lee simply avoided them. They looked at Tenten smugly.
Boy were they surprised when she started to form one-handed seals. Finishing, she slammed her hands on the ground and yelled, "Earth element: Holy Cross!"
Neji and Lee were about to jump out of the way of a large, sharp cross made out of pure earth which was heading straight for them, but found themselves to be immobilized. They looked down at their stuck feet and saw that there were chakra strings attached to their feet, leading from Tenten's thrown weapons. Then they followed an impossibly thin chakra string to her fingers. The cross slammed into them and started to cover them in an earthy coffin.
Hinata…
Hinata bowed before starting her fight. "I hope we have a good match." She said softly. Kiba and Shino looked hesitant, but they bowed back. Then Kurenai shouted for them to go and Hinata started to circle them, only after-images of her being seen. Kagome, however, thought differently.
"Mouse! Your right side is unprotected! Keep your guard up at all times!" Hinata nodded.
"Hai, sensei." Then she went back to circling them. Kiba and Akamaru leapt for her, but they were too slow and only caught her after-image. Shino had his bugs out, circling him so he was protected from all sides. Or what he thought was all sides.
Seeing the opening, Hinata slipped underground and fired a fireball at Shino from under him, succeeding in singing him before he jumped away, his bugs surrounding him so he would be protected. Shino and Kiba attacked Hinata at the same time, Kiba using his Gatsuuga and letting Shino stay back while he let his bugs surround Kiba and Akamaru's attack.
Hinata simply used a transportation jutsu to move to the other side of the training field, letting Gatsuuga attack empty space and repeating the process over and over. Shino quickly ran forward to attack her in taijutsu, but unfortunately for him, she excelled in it and quickly had a kunai to his throat. For Kiba, she had successfully tied him and Akamaru up with chakra ropes.
Sakura…
Sakura was just finishing up when Hinata, carrying Shino and Kiba, walked into her training grounds where she was currently fighting with Sasuke and Naruto. Giving her a grin, she finished by punching Naruto straight in the face and knocking him out, and for Sasuke she simply put him in a genjutsu.
It wouldn't have been anything that he couldn't take if it wasn't for the blinding pink everywhere and frills and lace binding him and slowly choking him to death…while singing the Barney song.
"Kill me. Kill me now." Sasuke muttered, passing out from shock. Sakura giggled and went over to stand next to Tsunade and the real Kagome. Now they were just waiting for Tenten and Ino, who both showed up a minute later, dragging their ex-teammates behind them.
Sakura got to work, reviving the unconscious people, and soon they were faced with the big question, "Who the hell are you people?!"
Sakura, Ino, Tenten and Hinata looked to Kagome for reassurance and gave her shaky smiles when she nodded. In unison, they reached up and pulled back their hoods, eliciting gasps from everyone except Kagome, Kakashi and Tsunade.
"INO?!"
"TENTEN?!"
"HINATA?!"
"SAKURA?!"
