AN: Finally an update!! Sorry I'm late to update, you know I need some holyday. Enjoy the story, hope you like it.
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DISCLAIMER: Naruto only belonged to Kishimoto-sensei, I only own the OC.
Akai Kami Kunoichi no Densetsu (The Legend of Red Haired Kunoichi)
CHAPTER 6
Inside The Red Tower, in Rest Quarter
"Touka-chan, this is your room. You can rest here until the next exam, if you want to train you may use the Jounin training rooms." said Rin when they arrived in Touka's room.
"…is it okay to use Jounin training rooms?" asked Touka curiously.
"It's okay; you don't want to let anyone see you train, right? Hokage-sama also thinks the same, so he gave me this key. You can train freely without anyone disturb you in there" smiled Rin while she gave Touka a golden key.
"…Thank you, Rin-neesama" said Touka.
"Mou, Touka-chan. Don't call me so formally like that, you embarrass me!" replied Rin.
"I'm sorry, Rin-neesama, I didn't mean to embarrass you…" said Touka again.
"Mou, it's okay if you want to call me like that. Ah, Touka-chan, there is a hot spring behind this tower, if you want to refresh yourself, but, because that is the only hot spring in this forest, anyone can use it" said Rin. Touka face became red when she heard that.
"M---Mixed bath… I'm not interested!" replied Touka quickly.
"Kyaa! Kawaii! You are soo cute," squealed Rin when she noticed Touka's face and she enveloped Touka in a bone-crushing hug.
"…Neesama, I cannot breathe!" said Touka, Rin quickly released Touka.
"Hehehehe…. Gomen, gomen, I lost control for a while. Well, if you don't want to use the hot spring, get some rest, Touka-chan, you look like you need it. I have to get back to the Hokage's office, see you again" said Rin. She waved goodbye, and left.
Touka entered her room, which was quite small, but comfortable. She placed her long katana on a small table beside her bed along with her ninjatos. She remembered the sword that she had taken from Orochimaru. She took out her sealing scroll and unsealed the sword, but the swordwas engulfed with a thick purple chakra, so she concentrated her chakra in her hand to protected her petite hand from the corrupted chakra.
"Poor sword, don't worry, I will purify you from this cursed chakra," said Touka. Touka untied her head protector and her nine tails tattoo glowed. Her chakra slowly wrapped around the sword and made the evil chakra disappear. Suddenly Touka's long katana, Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi, also glowed and merged with Orochimaru's sword.
"What happened?" murmured Touka as she grabbed her long katana and unsheathed it. The katana's blade shone brightly and some ancient characters appeared in its blade. Suddenly she felt her head become heavier than usual and she fell unconscious.
Unknown Place
Touka found herself inside a beautiful cave with many beautiful stalactites and a small river in the middle of the cave [You can imagine Naruto's mindscape, but change the sewer into a cave].
"Where am I?" murmured Touka to herself as she examined the cave.
She explored the cave by following the cave wall. Not long after that, she found a big stone dome far inside the cave with a small house like a shrine. There were two people sitting near the shrine, one man and one woman. The man was a black haired man who wore a green kimono and the woman looked like the carbon copy of the man, but in woman body with a long black hair, and wore a yellow kimono.
"Ah, Touka-sama, finally you have found this dome" said the black haired woman in a childlike voice when she saw Touka entered the dome. She looked excited when she saw Touka.
"Just I expected from our mistress," said the black haired man with a calm voice and a wide smile in his face.
"…Who are you?" asked Touka.
"Arara… she didn't recognize us?" asked the black haired woman while she faced the man.
"Of course she didn't. She never saw us in this form" answered the black haired man and the man noticed Touka's confused face.
"Sorry to confuse you, Mistress. Let me introduce myself. I am Hikoboshi" introduced the black haired man.
"And my name is Orihime, nice to meet you, Mistress. We both wanted to say thanks to you for having purified us" smiled the woman.
"Orihime… Hikoboshi… Don't tell me you are" asked Touka, shocked.
"Yep, we both are your ninjato and you were the one who gave us the name," replied Hikoboshi.
"And… Where am I?"asked Touka.
"You are in your own mindscape. You called her because 'that guy' wanted to say something to you" said Orihime.
"Orihime, don't say like that…" corrected Hikoboshi, an anime-style sweatdrop appearing on his head.
"So, who is 'that guy'?" asked Touka.
"Oh, it isn't my place to tell you. You have found it by yourself; he is waiting for you inside that shrine. Good luck" smiled Hikoboshi while he pointed to the shrine in the middle of the stone dome.
Touka entered the shrine and she saw a long haired man wore a long red cape with the kanji for 'Storm' meditating in the middle of the shine, the man slowly opened his eyes. The man had a pair of beautiful golden colored eyes.
"I am glad you found this place, My Mistress" spoke the man.
"If I may ask… Who are you?" asked Touka.
"My apologies, My Mistress. My name is Susanoo, I am Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi or your katana's spirit. I wanted to say thanks to you for having restored the piece of my soul from the cursed sword, Kusanagi" said Susanoo.
"Piece of your soul?" Touka looked confused.
"Yes, My Mistress. Kusanagi no Tsurugi (translation: grass cutter sword) was originally made from my blade, Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi. Therefore, when you purified the cursed sword with your power, the sword merged back to me. In other word, you have restored my soul. That's why I want to say thanks to you for restoring my soul, My Mistress," said Susanoo while he bowed to Touka.
"You don't have to do that, Susanoo-san" said Touka, she tried to stop Susanoo. She finally could stop Susanoo from bowing to her.
"I will allow you to make a blood contract with me as a gift for you, so you can use me with my full potential," said Susanoo while he transformed himself in to Touka's long katana.
"Umm, Susanoo-san, what should I do?" asked Touka.
"Just drip a bit of your blood to the blade" Susanoo's voice echoed from Touka's katana. Touka did what Susanoo said, she cut her hand a little and she dripped her blood to katana's blade. Suddenly an ancient word shone on the blade, and the blade was engulfed with a red chakra. A symbol of a fox's head with nine tails suddenly engraved itself in the katana's blade.
"From now, you can use me with all my full potential and I will give you all knowledge about Mizunaru's technique that all of my previous masters have. Please use it for good and don't tell anyone about this," said Susanoo again. Touka felt a lot of knowledge filled her head and Susanoo sent her back to real world.
Back to Real World, Touka's Room
Touka slowly opened her eyes and she saw Jiraiya and Tsunade sitting beside her bed worriedly. Looks like they who found Touka felt unconscious in her room.
"Ah, you are awake, Touka-chan. You made me worried" cried Tsunade while she hugged Touka with motherly hug.
"Touka-chan, why did you fall unconscious like that? We thought someone attacked you," said Jiraiya. He looked worried.
"Sorry to make you worry, Obaasama, Ojiisama…" replied Touka.
"Touka-chan, you didn't answer my question," said Jiraiya mock-annoyedly.
"… I just used too much chakra for the previous exam," replied Touka, she lied because she remembered that Susanoo told her to keep her meeting with her sword soul as a secret. Jiraiya looked relieved when he heard Touka's answer, but he looked like still had a lot of questions for Touka.
"Jiraiya, let her rest, she is still tired. Touka-chan, we are in Sarutobi-sensei's office if you need us, just take a bit of sleep, okay?" said Tsunade while she pushed Jiraiya from Touka's room. Touka just gave her a little nod and she tried to rest a bit more before she tried her new knowledge that she received from Susanoo.
Several Days Later
All of the genin who survived from the second exam gathered in a large hall inside the tower. There were six teams from Konoha, including Touka, 1 team from Suna, and one more team from Oto. The Sandaime Hokage with all of the Jounin and the exam proctor entered the hall.
"First, congratulation to all of you who have finished the second exam. This second exam was to test your skill and experience as a team. Now we will begin the third path of this chuunin exam. First, we will hold a preliminaries exam, in which you all have to prove your individual skill, strength and experience as shinobi by fighting other genin. I will leave the explanation to the third exam proctor, Gekko Hayate. Good luck to you" announced the old Hokage. A sick looking jounin gave a nod to Sarutobi and he jumped to the arena.
"*Cough… Cough* Hello, my name is Gekko Hayate, your third exam proctor. *Cough… Cough* this third exam is mainly to see your skills as an individual not as a team like the previous test. Therefore, you will have to fight the other genin to choose who will take the actual third exam, which will hold in public. *Cough… Cough* the rules are simple: You can use weapons and all you need for this match, but you cannot kill your opponent. The match will stop if your opponent forfeits or is no longer in condition to fight. *Cough… Cough* the matches will be chosen at random and the names will be displayed on the screen" explained Gekko Hayate while he pointed to a big screen.
"Sensei, are you crazy? You still let a sick Jounin to do his duty as a shinobi. You tell him to come to me after this exam, I will fix him" whispered Tsunade to the Sandaime, she looked annoyed when she heard Hayate's cough.
"He was like that since he joined Konoha rank, but he always did his job perfectly. So I never mind his cough as a sickness," Sarutobi whispered back.
"But he is more like a dying man than a ninja" chimed in Jiraiya. Tsunade nodded her head, agreeing with him.
"Don't say that, he is one of my best jounin, and he is also a kenjutsu expert. Ah looks like the exam has begun," replied Sarutobi when he noticed that the screen had begun to flash.
The screen stopped on the names Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino.
"*Cough… Cough* Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino *Cough… Cough* please enter the arena" said Hayate and Ino and Sakura entered the arena.
"*Cough… Cough* First match begin!" announced Hayate, Sakura and Ino began their catfight (like in the anime) with a double K.O as the result.
The next matches were Uchiha Sasuke vs. Yoroi, Nara Shikamaru vs. Kin, Akamichi Chouji vs. Dozu, Sabaku no Kankuro vs. Misumi, and Aburame Shino vs. Zaku. The seventh match was Inuzuka Kiba vs. Morino Idate.
"*Cough… Cough* Inuzuka Kiba and Morino Idate *Cough… Cough* please enter the arena*Cough… Cough*" announced Hayate
"Woohooo! Finally our turn. Let do our best, right, Akamaru?" shouted Kiba while he jumped to the arena. Akamaru barked agreed with his master.
"Looks like I have a handicap" said Idate weakly while he walked to the stair.
"I---Idate-kun, g---good luck" said Hinata when Idate passed her. A heavy blush appeared in her face.
"Arigato, Hinata-chan" replied Idate with a wide smile in his face. When Hinata heard that Idate had called her name with the suffix –chan, her face became red and she fainted. Kurenai quickly grabbed her before she hit the floor.
"Hinata, wake up!" said Kurenai while she shook Hinata's body to wake her.
"Yo, let's have a nice fight, right?" smiled Kiba when he saw Idate come to the arena.
"Yeah, I won't lose to you" Idate smiled back while he took his fighting stance.
"*Cough… Cough* Seventh match begin! *Cough… Cough*" announced Hayate, Idate charged Kiba and flung at him a barrage of shuriken, Kiba used a same move and all of the shuriken hit each other while Idate and Kiba fought with pure taijutsu.
"Well, looks like they are equal" said Kakashi while he saw their fight from the balcony.
"No, I think Kiba is stronger than Idate, he wasn't used his teamwork with Akamaru yet" replied Kurenai.
"Nice fight, Idate. However, I have to serious now. Akamaru!" said Kiba and Akamaru barked back. Kiba threw a soldier pill to Akamaru and suddenly Akamaru's fur turned from white to red
"Jujin Bushin (Human Beast Clone)" shouted Kiba and he changed his look became more feral while Akamaru copied him. There were two Kibas on the arena.
"Gatsuuga!! (Double Piercing Fang)" shouted Kiba and Akamaru while they spun their body and made a twin spiral attack to Idate with a high speed.
"Whooaa I never heard about these attack!" complained Idate while he ran away from the twin spiral attack as fast as he could.
"Why did he just run away?" asked Kurenai to Kakashi.
"Don't underestimate his speed" replied Kakashi with calm voice. When Kurenai heard Kakashi's reply, she looked to Idate and found that Idate was not an ordinary genin. Kiba's attack could not reach him, because of Idate's running speed faster than Kiba's attack.
"What an incredible youthful running speed" murmured Gai when he saw Idate's youthful running.
"GAI-SENSEI, WE CANNOT LOSE TO THIS YOUTHFUL BEING," shouted Rock Lee.
"YOSH! LEE, IF WE CANNOT RUN LIKE HIM. WE HAVE TO DO 1000 SIT UPS AND PUSH UPS!!!" replied Gai with a burning eyes and he hugged Lee tightly. Suddenly a scene of a beach with many rocks and a blazing sunset appeared around them.
"GAI-SENSEI"
"LEE"
"GAI-SENSEI"
"LEE"
"GAI-SENSEI"
"LEE"
"GAI-SENSEI"
Everyone who saw that sweat dropped, but Touka who never saw that thought it was a genjutsu. She made a hand seal and tried to dispel the genjutsu, but she never could dispel it.
"Touka-chan, don't waste your chakra on this genjutsu. You never can dispel it, it is the only genjutsu that is stronger than Tsukiyomi, even an Uchiha with a Magekyou Sharingan cannot escape from this genjutsu" smiled Kurenai when she saw Touka trying so hard to dispel the genjutsu.
A slight blush appeared on Touka's cheeks and she lowered her head, so that her front hair covered her upper face to hide her blush.
"HEY, DON'T JUST RUN AWAY LIKE A LITLLE GIRL! COME ON, FACE ME!!!" shouted Kiba, stopping his attack.
"LIKE HELL I WANT TO BE HIT WITH ATTACK LIKE THAT!!" replied Idate, anger mark throbbing on his forehead.
"Tch, Akamaru, we have to corner him and attack him from both side!" said Kiba., Akamaru just nodded. They ran to different side and both of them threw a kunai with an explosive tag.
"Wha… An explosive tag!" shouted Idate when he noticed the kunai with explosive tag landed near his foot. Idate jumped to avoid the explosion, but Kiba smirked and attacked him while he was in the air.
"Got ya! Gatsuuga!! (Double Percing Fang)" shouted Kiba while he and Akamaru launched their attack again.
"Ow Kami, why do you hate me?!!!" shouted Idate when he saw the attack come. He quickly grabbed his kunai holster and threw it to the empty area. Right before the attack reached him he made a hand seal.
"Kawarimi no Jutsu! (Body Replacement Technique)" shouted Idate and he replaced himself with the kunai holster that he threw before. Kiba's attack ripped the kunai holster and many explosive tags were revealed.
"Fuuuh… That was close," said Idate while he inhaled a deep breath. The explosion hit Kiba and Akamaru, knocking them out instantly.
"Winner: Morino Idate! *Cough… Cough*" announced Hayate and the medic team entered the arena and took the unconscious Kiba and Akamaru to the infirmary.
"I didn't know that Idate could think a counter attack like that. Looks like I have underestimated your student, Kakashi" said Kurenai.
"Hmm… me either. I didn't know that he could think like that," replied Kakashi with a calm voice. Kurenai just sweat dropped when she heard Kakashi.
'Are you really his teacher?' though Kurenai. Idate came to the balcony, and Chouji and Shikamaru gave him congratulation while Hinata shyly gave him an ointment.
"*Cough… Cough* the next match *Cough… Cough* Hyuuga Hinata vs. Hyuuga Neji. *Cough… Cough* both genin please enter the arena" said Hayate. Hinata and Neji slowly entered the arena.
"*Cough… Cough* Eighth match begin!" announced Hayate.
Both Hinata and Neji took their family-fighting stance, Jyuuken (Gentle Fist). Both of the charged and hit each other with their family technique, but unfortunately for Hinata, Neji had took an initiative to close her tenketsu. Neji could easily land his palm to Hinata's chest and messed her chakra system around heart and lung, Hinata wasn't gave up easily thanks to Idate's cheer. However, her toughness made Neji blinded with anger and tried to kill Hinata.
All of the Jounin sensed Neji's killing intent and quickly tried to stop him, but suddenly Touka threw her long katana between Neji and Hinata. The surprise attack quickly made Neji jumped back in surprise and glared to a little girl with a hood covered her face who threw her weapon to him. Touka shunshined to the arena and she checked Hinata who threw up a lot of blood from her mouth.
"Why did you stop me?" asked Neji with hateful eyes.
"…" Touka ignored him; she turned back and quickly used her medic jutsu to stabilize Hinata condition.
"Don't ignore me!" shouted Neji while he activated his byakugan and charged Touka who busied treated Hinata.
"Mizunaru Ryuu, Genryuu Shugoheki (Mizunaru Style, Illusionary Dragon Protection Wall)" whispered Touka with a low voice; she made a single hand seal with her left hand while her right hand treated Hinata. Her chakra twisted madly around her and made a protection dome with a shape of dragon that completely covered her and Hinata and blocked Neji's attack.
"What is that? It looks like Hyuuga clan's Kaiten" shocked all Jounin who saw Touka's defense. Neji gritted his teeth and he attacked the barrier dome, but all Jounin grabbed him and stopped his movement.
"Enough, Neji! You were already won," said Gai while he grabbed Neji from behind.
"Touka-chan, it's enough, let the medic nin do their job" said Tsunade softly when she noticed that Hinata's condition became stabilized. Touka dispelled her technique and let the medic nin took Hinata to infirmary. All of them came back to the balcony.
"Hey, dobe, I had a feeling that I have met that chibi genin" said Sasuke to Idate.
"Well, it isn't my place to tell you. You'll find that out soon. And don't call me dobe, Sasuke-teme!!" replied Idate with mocking tone.
"Hnn…' replied Sasuke.
"*Cough… Cough* the next match *Cough… Cough* Sabaku no Gaara vs. Yakushi Kabuto. *Cough… Cough* both genin, please enter the arena" said Hayate. Gaara shunhined to the arena with his sand, but Kabuto raised his hand.
"I forfeit. My chakra wasn't fully restored yet from the previous exam," said Kabuto and he left the hall.
"*Cough… Cough* Winner Sabaku no Gaara!" announced Hayate. Gaara looked disappointed that he hadn't had a match. The next match was Sabaku no Temari vs. Tenten, in which Tenten lost spectacularly.
"*Cough… Cough* the last match *Cough… Cough* Rock Lee vs. Mizunaru Touka *Cough… Cough**Cough… Cough* both of the genin, please enter the arena" announced Hayate. Sasuke's eyes widened when he heard Touka's name.
'What the… why could she take the chuunin exam?' thought Sasuke in his mind. He wanted to ask Kakashi for the explanation, but Kakashi only said later as he raised his protector and revealed his sharingan. Sasuke knew what Kakashi would do; he also activated his sharingan with a hope that he would copy Touka's technique.
"*Cough… Cough* last match begin!!!*Cough… Cough**Cough… Cough*" announced Hayate with a heavy cough. Rock Lee dashed to Touka and gave her several punches and kicks, but Touka could easily evade all of his attacks.
"You're pretty fast, Mizunaru-san, but I haven't done yet," said Rock Lee and he gave Touka a barrage of punches and kicks, one of his attack nearly hit Touka face. That attack made her hood fall and revealed her face. Lee's jaw dropped to floor and stopped his attack when he saw Touka's face.
"Lee, what are you doing?" shouted Gai when he saw Lee stopped his attack.
"Gai-sensei, I cannot hit a girl, especially a little girl like her" replied Lee.
"I know your youthful feeling, but you're in the middle of the match. You have to fight like a youthful martial artist even if your opponent is a girl like her!" roared Gai with burning eyes.
"HAI, GAI-SENSEI!" shouted Lee. He took his fighting stance once again and charged Touka. Touka just evaded all of Lee's attacks.
"Ne, Kakashi-sensei, why is she just avoiding Lee's attacks?" asked Idate.
"Maybe she is too afraid to attack" interrupted Sasuke with a mocking tone.
"Teme…" growled Idate. He wanted to punch Sasuke's face, but he stopped by Kakashi.
"You're wrong, Sasuke. Look carefully…" said Kakashi, both of the genin examined Touka's movement.
"She can perfectly evade the attack… Don't tell me…" said Sasuke.
"Yes, you're right. She just examined Lee's movement while she evaded all of his attacks," said Kakashi. Sasuke just gritted his teeth.
"Lee, I allow you to release 'that'!" Gai suddenly shouted from the balcony. Lee stopped his attack when he heard his sensei shouted.
"But, Gai-sensei. You told me that I only could release 'that' to protect my precious person," protested Lee.
"This is a special case. I only allow you to release 'that' for now," replied Gai with a nice-guy pose.
"Gai, what do you mean 'that'? Don't tell me you…." Said Kurenai while Gai gave her back a nice-guy pose as a reply that made her sigh.
"HAI, GAI-SENSEI! Yosh, Mizunaru-chan, I will be serious from now" said Lee while he took off his legging and threw it to the floor. The floor crushed when it contacted with the legging. When Touka saw that, she also took of her long coat and threw it, which revealed her petite body with the ANBU-style suit.
"It can be…" said Azuma when he saw Touka's coat.
"What's matter, Azuma?" asked Kurenai. Gai and Kakashi looked confused why Azuma suddenly shocked like that.
"Look at her coat" said Azuma while he pointed to Touka's coat that lay in the arena floor. There were some seal with kanji 'gravity' revealed inside the coat.
"Gravity seal…" said Kakashi with shocked eyes.
"What is a gravity seal, Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sakura who just regained her conscious right before Lee took off his weight.
"Hmm… Nice question. Gravity seal is one of the fuuin jutsu or seal technique that can manipulate the gravitation for the object which the seal written. In short, if you place a gravity seal on some object, you can make a heavy object to become light or vice versa," explained Kakashi as he began his lecturer mode.
"In the other word, that girl's gravity seals are same like Lee's weight, but not like Lee's weight, if you add more chakra to the seal more weight that you receive. I wonder how much chakra that she added to the seal" cut in Gai.
'Don't interrupt me, you stupid crazy bowl cut hairstyle freak' thought Kakashi while he glared at Gai who disturbed his explanation.
Back to arena, Lee charged Touka with his full speed and gave her a roundhouse kick. Touka ducked and swept Lee's foot away. Both of them fought with a taijutsu in high speed, so anyone in that lobby only could saw a blur movement.
"What a high speed battle" said Kurenai.
"She can follow Lee with his full speed. I can't believe it," said Gai with shocked tone.
"You can't underestimate her. She was trained by two legendary sannin" said Kakashi while he closed his sharingan.
"Sensei, why you close your sharingan?" asked Sakura when she saw Kakashi closed his sharingan.
"Even with sharingan, I still could not follow their movement" replied Kakashi while he took his icha-icha from his pocket and began to read it.
"Tch" said Sasuke and he deactivated his sharingan. After that, a huge explosion formed in the middle of the arena, caused the lobby filled with smoke.
When the smoke cleared, all of them could saw Touka and Lee stood beside a huge crater in the middle of the arena. Lee breathed heavily while Touka just had several bruise, but her breath still stable. Lee looked to Gai and Gai gave him a nice-guy pose.
"I'm sorry, Mizunaru-chan, but I have to win this fight" said Lee while he took a stance.
"Celestial Gate Open!" shouted Lee and he charged Touka. This time his speed doubled, Touka could barely evade his attack, but she could deliver a blow to Lee and made him hit the wall.
"Life Gate Open!" shouted Lee again and all of his injuries regenerated for itself.
"Touka, you have to stop him before he open the other gate! That was a forbidden technique, he will die if he open more than five gates!" shouted Tsunade when she saw Lee opened the second gate.
Touka nodded and she unsheathed her long katana. She closed her eyes and began to concentrate her chakra. Suddenly her nine tails tattoo glowed brightly behind her head protector and some ancient word glowed on her katana. A vortex of wind formed around her katana and some leaves entered the lobby via the window. All of the leaves joined the wind vortex in Touka's katana.
"What is that?" asked the old Hokage.
"I don't know, sensei. I never saw this before" replied Tsunade.
"It's one of her clan technique, Mizunaru Ryuu Kenjutsu (Mizunaru Style Swordplay), just like she did to protect herself from Neji's attack, but this one is one of her offensive technique, not a defensive technique like before" said Jiraiya.
Lee used his full speed to charged Touka, he looked disappeared from the arena. Touka suddenly opened her eyes, which revealed a pair of bright crimson eyes with a yellow slit in the middle of her eyes and her eyes examined the arena like a predator who searched a prey. Lee suddenly attacked Touka from behind with a blur movement, but Touka suddenly disappeared from her current place when Lee reached her. Lee shocked that Touka could read his movement and scanned the arena to search her.
"Mizunaru Ryuu Kenjutsu, Hiden, Go no Kata, Ha no Arashi Sougekiha! (Mizunaru Style Swordplay Secret Technique, Fifth Form, Stormy Impact of Leaf)" shouted Touka who suddenly appeared in the air a few meter from Lee. She swung her katana vertically and the wind vortex released from her blade, which made a big size tornado attack with some leaf inside the tornado. (AN: You can imagine Inuyasha's Bakuryuha)
The attack hit Lee and made him hit the wall, creating another huge crater. Hayate was shocked when he saw Touka's attack but he quickly checked Lee's condition and announced that Lee was unconscious which made Touka the winner the match.
"What a powerful sword technique… is this her secret technique?" asked Gai.
"Indeed, but I never saw she used wind, we only saw her use water before when she fought Zabuza in Nami" replied Kurenai while she saw the medic team carried Lee to infirmary. Touka took her coat and she shunshined back to Tsunade and Jiraiya's side.
"Touka-chan, thanks for your good work" said Tsunade with a soft smile when Touka back to the balcony.
"Touka-chan, your eyes still…" said Shizune when she saw Touka's eyes still in feral mode.
"Ah, sorry" replied Touka, she closed her eyes and her eyes back to crimson colored eyes when she opened her eyes again.
"Jiraiya, mind to tell me what that is?" asked The Sandaime when he noticed Touka's eyes.
"You can call that is her bloodline, but actually it is her unique eyes; she named it Kyuubi's eyes, you know why she used that name, but we both disagreed with her and we named it Senkougan (Flash eye). With those eyes, she can see any object around her move slower than normal. That why she could saw Lee's movement when he had opened two gates and her speed increased ten times, but the problem was if she still couldn't handle a sudden change in speed, she can only used it 10 minutes in a day," said Jiraiya.
"That's why Jiraiya placed a gravity seal in Touka's coat and we trained her in speed, so she can follow her opponent who has a speed like Lee without using her Senkougan," continued Tsunade while she petted Touka's hair.
"A great skill always uses a great sacrifice as well…" murmured The Sandaime, he remembered that Minato used a great technique to seal Kyuubi, but his technique required his life as sacrifice.
"Hokage-sama, *Cough… Cough* it is time for you to announce the next exam *Cough… Cough*" said Hayate.
"Thanks for your great work, Hayate. Ah, Tsunade wanted to check your health, I think she can cure your… 'Cough' problem" said The Sandaime.
"Arigatou, Hokage-sama!!! *Cough… Cough**Cough… Cough*!" replied Hayate with happy voice, but at least his cough became worse. ANBU with a cat mask just petted his back to help him stop his cough. The Sandaime and the proctors shunshined to the arena.
"Congratulation for you who have won in this exam, and for you who have lost don't worry you still can take the exam next year. So train hard, you will be a chuunin in no time. Now, I will announce the next exam," announced the old Hokage and he gave a signal to the proctors. One of the proctors walked to the Hokage with a box in his hand.
"The next exam is a tournament which will be held next month. In that tournament all of the village's council and the head clan will see the tournament as well, so you have to give your best to prove that you are worthy to have a chuunin title. Now you have to take a paper inside this box to see whom your opponent is and prepare to fight him or her in next month," continued The Sandaime.
All genin took the paper inside the box and gave it to the other proctor who wrote their name on a white board. Here is the tournament list:
Match 1: Hyuuga Neji vs Uchiha Sasuke
Match 2: Dozu vs Morino Idate
Match 3: Sabaku no Temari vs Nara Shikamaru
Match 4: Sabaku no Kankuro vs Aburame Shino
Match 5: Mizunaru Touka vs Sabaku no Gaara
"This is the match for next month. All of you must train hard and give your best performance in the fourth exam next month. Now you can ask your Jounin instructor to train you. Good luck" announced The Sandaime, he and all of the proctors, included Jiraiya, Tsunade, Shizune and Touka left the lobby via shunshin.
TO BE CONTINUED…
AN: Phew, more chapters were down. I really want to say thank's to my beta, she really helped me a lot. But, my thank's not only for her, I also want to say thank's to you who gave me review, so, please don't forget to give me some review. Thank's.
