Chapter 3

Chakra Hound

Kenny and his class mates went out into the training area to meet the chakra hounds. They lined up next to the other class and waited for the chakra hounds to make their decisions. Kenny waited hesitantly to find out who he would face in the up coming exam.

Kenny to a quick glance at the possible competitors, there were another 3 students. They all looked pretty tough. It had been said that the favourites to be accepted as basic ninja and be assigned to a squad was Rose, Van and Emilia. Van was a great ninja, an amazing fighter and had great promise for being a shaman. Worst of all most of the girls in the village loved him because of his golden hair. Emilia was all about long distance jutsu which eliminated the need for hand to hand combat.

As the names of the students got called out they would step out and walk to the chakra hound and then would be put into pairs by the chakra hound.

Roses name got called out and she was placed with Jess, another girl from the opposing class. Abi got called up and was positioned with Emilia. Kenny and his new classmate were left with Van. The teachers were discussing if that Van should be allowed to verse two opponents but with the past records of Kenny's fights they decided that they would allow it. They had to convince Van that he wouldn't be allowed to fight both Kenny and Bella at the same time.

Since Kenny and Bella didn't need to be checked by the Chakra Hound Zeke thought it would be a good idea to have them checked anyway. Bella was equal to Van in the Chakra level. Kenny was next up. He approached the Chakra Hound slowly. Each step he took towards the Chakra Hound seemed to anger the Hound. When he was urged to get closer by Zeke the Hound started to growl and bark at Kenny and began to pull forward away from Kari. Kenny jumped back and it tried to follow. The Hound was determined to attack Kenny but no-one knew why. Zeke had an idea but it was going to take a lot of chakra and time.

"Kari I am planning on using the mind read jutsu to find out what is bothering it" Zeke said urgently looking for any advice.

"I'll try and keep it still" Kari instructed

Zeke made a hand sign and began to gather his chakra. The Hound was beginning to struggle against Kari's grip. Kenny began to notice this and grabbed his shuriken bag and the wire he found at the training area. He quickly assessed the situation and came up with a tactic. He grabbed a few shuriken and was prepared to use the tactic.

Kenny took a deep breath and drew back his arm. He quickly thought again about what he was going to do. "I'll throw them around the hound off the school building at round the lamp post behind Zeke"

Kenny took another deep breath when suddenly the hound became still. Kenny looked at Zeke whose eyes were blinking rapidly.

Zeke was like this for about 30 seconds and then his eyes suddenly flew open and locked on Kenny. "Kenny you may want to get to a safe distance away from here, I have an idea go to the training area in the woods"

Kenny nodded "Ok will you come meet me there later and let me know what is actually going on"

Zeke nodded and then waved to send Kenny away.