Starwatcher-shadow: You're like Kriss? What a surprise, becaus I'd say that I'm just like Kate. What a coincidence, don't you think? (Note the heavy sarcasm.) Wait... What did I just said? I've been too much around you! The sarcasm virus has me! Nooooooo!

iemanddieditverhaalsupervind: Leuk dat jij het ook gelezen hebt. En dat je het super vind, natuurlijk. Blij dat er weer een nieuw hoofdstuk is? Ik wed dat je gewoon meteen gaat vragen wanneer het volgende komt. Oh, en trouwens: Arwen zal nog een paar hoofdstukken moeten wachten.

Pfff... Do I really have to say this every time? Well, okay then. I do not own Naruto. Happy?

Well, here's the chapter, anyway.

Why? Why always me?

"Sure. No problem."

Hmm, Chouji? Why didn't he choose one of the strongest candidates? It's not logical…

But… He doesn't believe us. He probably wants to test us, but not to injure us badly, so he can interrogate us later.

That means we're in big trouble…

But I just smiled, hiding all my emotions carefully, like I often did.

"His weakness is food."

I began searching in my pocket. A magnet, a Swiss knife, a pencil, paper, a few stones, a throat pellet and some painkillers.

No cell phone…

Well, I had to admit that the last one wasn't really a surprise. I rarely had my cell phone or identity card with me.

But still… Normally I always have lucifers and sleep pills with me… (Don't ask me why, because I have no idea myself, but it's true.)

I looked up and met the Hokage's curious eyes. Chouji stood before me and Kriss was trying to get my attention in a way she apparently thought of as discretely.

She was staring at me with that look-at-me-now-you-idiot gaze that I already knew from her.

When she saw me looking at her, she forced a smile and walked over to me to give me a hand. "Good luck," she said, before brusquely turning and walking away.

"What-"

She stopped for a moment and turned to face me. "You didn't thought I was going to hide it in my room, did you? You'd have gone searching for it at night."

The faintest hint of a smile crossed my lips, for the first time since we'd arrived in this cursed world, and she turned again and walked over to the tribunes.

"Thanks…" I said, knowing she couldn't hear me anymore.

After all, she's helped me…

Because when she'd given me a hand, she'd slipped something to me that could make the difference between losing and winning this match…

Maybe, really maybe, she did have brains…

When the signal to start the fight was given, I was ready and had already figured out a plan A, B and C.

As to be expected, Chouji formed a weird sign with his hands, and, just as Kriss told me, he became bigger and bigger, until his arms, legs and head seemed to have disappeared in what looked like a giant football.

I mentally thanked myself for having learned to conceal my emotions, because if I hadn't, I would've been quivering in fear now. (Hey, don't laugh now, in this situation, you'd be too!)

The image of me, flat as a pancake in my grave, with on the gravestone: "Rolled over by giant football" suddenly came to my mind, and I swallowed again. Not a very honourable death…

I breathed in, slowly, trying to calm myself. As the giant football, that was in fact Chouji, began to roll, I opened my hand, revealing what was inside of it.

Holding the piece of chocolate Kriss gave me like a white flag, I didn't move an inch. "Now, you don't wanna crush the chocolate, do you?"

The giant football didn't slowed down and I frowned. There's something… Why doesn't he stop? He doesn't even hesitate! He doesn't…

Preserving my dignity and my life, I ran away as quickly as I could. He doesn't…hear me! Of course! With his head… He can't hear or see me. Well, it's good that he can't see or hear I ran away, I guess…

But still… How humiliating!

But in this situation, plan B would work. There would be one moment when he'd have to see where I was and it was at that moment that I'd talk to him.

He hit the wall with a sickening BAM, boring a hole in it, and I began walking in his direction again. Steady, steady… Ah! There it is!

Chouji's head became visible again and before he could locate me, I talked to him as quickly as I could.

"I suppose I'll have to repeat myself by saying: 'You don't want to end up crushing the chocolate, do you?'"

This time, he seemed to hesitate. It was rather funny to see how he couldn't take off his eyes of the chocolate.

"Well?"

I could see what he was thinking; Becoming a Chuunin or eating the chocolate?

As I predicted, he choose both. First eating the chocolate and then becoming a Chuunin.

At that moment, I took the throat pellet from my pocket and swallowed it right before his eyes, without giving him the time to see what it was.

"Now if you'd just come a little closer, I'll throw you the chocolate."

"No, wait. What did you just ate? And why are you giving me your chocolate if you don't even have a reason for it?"

"Er… I just don't like it?"

I tried to give my face the expression of someone who wanted to avoid a question.

Yes! I saw suspicion flicker in his eyes.

"Hey! I'm not going to eat something you want to give to me! There's probably something in it that will knock me out for hours!"

I wish there was, Chouji, I really wish there was.

"But no, really! It'd be a waste to just throw it away, and I'm allergic to chocolate!"

My sister couldn't hold her laughter anymore.

"Hahaha-I-Hmfr-I'm sorry but-hahahaha-really, you and-and chocolate-"

She couldn't finish her sentence because she suddenly began to laugh hysterically after the word chocolate.

I rolled my eyes, but didn't worry. This was all part of my plan.

Chouji became even more suspicious.

"No, thank you. But what was it you just ate?"

"Oh, that was just- nothing!" Really, I should get an Oscar for this acting!

"Give me one."

"Or what? You're gonna crush me?"

"Yes."

My eyes widened in false fear and I began searching in my pocket.

"N-no! J-just wait! I-I've got it…somewhere! Just please don't crush me!"

I wonder if I'm overdoing it. Probably.

"You can have all of them." I said, throwing him the package.

He caught it easily and immediately opened it to see what was inside. He carefully took one painkiller out. As it was still packed in aluminium, I watched how he threw the aluminium away.

He slowly took one of the painkillers and ate it.

I leaned forward to see his face.

Almost immediately after he'd laid it in his mouth, he began spitting, a disgusted look on his face.

I don't know if you know dafalgan, so for those who don't: it's horrible. Normally you have to drink it in a glass of water, so without water, it must really taste awful!

I didn't took the time to pity him, thought, but immediately ran as fast as I could in his direction, while taking my biggest stone out of my pocket.

He was distracted and only noticed me when I was about two feet away from him.

I traversed the remaining distance in no time and managed to hit him with the stone on the top of his head.

I ignored if he was unconscious or just had a terrible headache, but it was clear he wasn't able to fight anymore.

Then there was the long silence. It was a threatening silence that made me very uncomfortable, and I knew they knew now. They knew we'd lied to them.

The Hokage confirmed my thought by appearing next to me and saying with a calm voice: "Take this girl to an interrogation room. It must be clear by now that she's not a ninja."

Kriss leaned forward, shocked, and shot me an apologizing glance while two masked men dragged me out of the room.

I rolled with my eyes at her.

See? I said so. There'd have been no way to hide the fact that we're not ninja. Who came up with the stupid lie, after all?

Kriss raised her hands at me in a how-could-I-know-this-was-gonna-happen gesture.

I smiled sadly.

Bah… I guess it couldn't be helped. They were bound to find out anyway…

Really, sisterly telepathy could come on handy from time to time.

But… Why don't they take Kriss, too?

"Hey! Wait a minute! Why don't I have to come?"

Why does Kriss always need to be so loud?

"You still have to fight one of the candidates to confirm you're not a shinobi."

Kriss looked quickly from Gaara to Rock Lee.

"Eh… I guess I'll just admit that I'm not, then."

Well… At least it spares some time…

Two other masked ninja appeared to take Kriss with them.

Without a word, we followed them through a labyrinth of corridors, until we arrived at a room filled with torture items, where the masked ninja left us alone.

I swallowed once and heard Kriss gasp.

But they didn't have to think they were the only masked ones! I had a mask too. Even if it hadn't a physical form, it was efficient. I hid every emotion behind it and only showed a slightly bored face.

I wasn't going to be intimidated by only the sight of some torture weapons!

With a bit of chance, they didn't even planned on using them.

That was what I'd have done if I were them. They probably thought that, as we were only kids, we'd immediately tell the truth.

The Hokage entered the room and closed the door behind him.

I sat down on one of the chairs that were spread all over the room and took a bite of the chocolate that I was still holding.

It was probably rude to sit down before the Big Boss, but who cares?

"Well," the Hokage began. "Who are you and why did you lie to us? And I want the truth this time."

I looked down at the ground and closed my eyes, preparing myself to tell a big lie.

Well, that was the third chapter, then. (Is it really bad or is it just me?)

I have, again, a few annoucements to make:

1) Due to death treats of my sister, I won't be able to write KrissXGaara.

2) Hey, Starwatcher-shadow, how is it going, sister?

3) I'm so sorry Arwen (iemanddieditverhaalsupervind), but I'm so not going to update every day!

4) Just be patient a few more chapters, Arwen, your turn will come next.

5) I won't be able to update until the 19th, because of the exams, as I already said in the previous chapter.