Chapter Three
The Second Chunnin Exam
My team and I stood outside the gates of the 44th training ground, or more famously known as the Forest of Death. Everyone was assembled and ready to go, the instructor was blabbering on about the rules. She finally shut up so we could get our scrolls and we got a Heaven scroll.
"So who's going to hold onto this pretty little thing?" I asked holding the scroll with only my thumb and index finger.
"I will. You'll lose it if you have it," Akako said, snatching up the scroll and tucking it away in a secret pocket in her sleeve that was sealed with a very special seal.
"Nyah," I stuck my tongue out at her.
"Let's go, we'll start at gate 14," Hiroko said before walking out the tent like thing.
Quickly we made it to our gate and stood around for several minutes.
"So what's our plan?" I asked finally breaking the silence.
"When the exam starts use your kekkei genkai to see who has an earth scroll," Hiroko instructed.
"Okay, I guess you just want to get this over with," I stated.
There was no reply, it was like he was mad at me for something but I couldn't place what it was. The gate was opened and we stepped inside. Making the sign of the dragon my eyes turned to swirling blue and black, very much like how the Uchiha kekkei genkai looked like, but mine is much more powerful than those of the Uchiha clan. Within seconds I located a squad with an Earth scroll.
"There over there." I pointed to the left, "five meters away."
"Good," Hiroko commented.
We made our course to five meters west, stopping on branches above we saw one of the teams of sound.
"Do you want to take them on?" I whispered to Hiroko.
He just nodded his head and the three of us flipped out of the tree landing three feet in front of the sound team. They stopped and stared at us as if they were bored.
"Hand over the scroll and we won't have to hurt you," Hiroko said, breaking the silence.
"I don't think that you can," the tall boy said, he had brown hair and brown eyes with muscles, lots of muscles.
"Do think little of us by appearance," Akako said her foot move slightly and a tree branch smacked the guy in the face.
I smirk and tried to hold back a snicker at the boy's expression.
"Kenta, can you not feel their chakra or are you just that stupid," the other boy asked his companion, he had dark blue hair and deep blue eyes, he was small but had a lot of chakra.
"I say stupid," Akako said.
"We didn't ask you," snapped the girl of the sound team, her long brown hair tied up in a bun shaped hairstyle, she had fiery green eyes that glared at everyone.
"Don't talk to my sister like that," I warned my tone dropped low, dangerous almost.
"I'm not afraid of you, so what if you have a lot of chakra there's no way you could beat us specially Akihiko-sama," she said gazing at the small boy.
"Hiroko, can I please kill her?" I asked my anger growing.
"Not yet." Hiroko smirked knowing this sound team was going to be in a rude awaking.
"Aimi, be quiet," the one I think is Akihiko said.
"Okay," she answered hanging her head.
"You three are very confident that you can beat us huh?" Akihiko asked.
"No, not at all, we just thought we would take you on for no reason," I sarcastically answered rolling my eyes at his stupid question, "what do you think?!"
"Let's fight and whichever team wins gets the others scroll," he suggested.
"Fine," Hiroko answered.
The one known as Kenta lunged at Akako at full speed, Akako enveloped herself in a giant rose and tree roots reached out capturing Kenta in a death grip.
"You idiot," Aimi yelled running to help her teammate.
"Not so fast," I said.
Ice shot out of the ground wrapping first around her legs stopping her from running and then wrapped all the way up her body to her neck. I saw Akihiko shake his head before he advanced on us. Hiroko just pulled on one of the many chains he has and pulled out a weapon throwing it at Akihiko. The chain wrapped around one of Akihiko's legs. Pulling quickly he caused Akihiko to flip backwards away from helping his teammates. Quickly Hiroko preformed hand signs first throwing a fire justu down the chain then a wind justu to help intensive the fire justu. Once the smoke died down we saw that Akihiko was unscratched. Hiroko looked bored, but there was a glint of excitement in his eyes. No one has ever survived one of Hiroko's justus before. I thought that Hiroko was actually going to go all out on this one but then I saw the trap Hiroko had set up wire was stretched ready to release all the shiriken at its target. I saw Akihiko start to perform hand signs, but he didn't get very far when shiriken hit him full on.
"You win," Akihiko said, thinking it would be better to give up then get injured anymore.
He rolled the scroll to us and Akako and I released the other two. We walked away from the sound team and quickly headed to the tower.
Two days pasted and all those that would make it to the next stage were there waiting for what was to come next.
"There are too many of you we will have to have a preliminary round," the third explained.
