A/N: Once again, I am writing a new chapter on the same. Day. Sheesh. This is not goddamn normal! –frantic face- (edit: took a break after writing that bit. XD )

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The trees didn't look that ominous in the first place, were it not for the high, locked, padlocked and sealed with sutra-ed fence that surrounded it. And, of course, the unearthly screams that came from within.

Team 9 looked positively delighted.

Kyoko was the only exception to that rule, looking a bit tired and disgruntled. They were standing right next to Team 7, of which one member was being exceedingly arrogant.

After Anko's physically exhausting speech, Team 9 signed the sheet and took a 'Heaven' scroll. It was decided that Kyoko should keep it in her summoning scroll, as this also summoned her more fiddly medical equipment. However, they did this after they were submitted into Gate 10. Naruto gave a fleeting wave to them, and Mira just noticed that there was something else marring his expressions. She returned the wave though and they both walked into their separate areas.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Kyoko placed the scroll in the large circle that contained her medical equipment. Kai! The things vanished. She stood up. "Kay, guys, what's the strategy?"

"…What strategy?" Minamo asked with a blank look on her face.

"…Didn't you guys see who was going into the gates near us?!" Kyoko said, irritation evident in her speech.

"Hey, I saw Gaara!" Mira said brightly, indicating the left side.

Not the best thing to do.

Minamo whipped around, sparkles alight in her very wide eyes. "p-p-…Panda-kun?!" she brought her hands together, crossing her chest. However, she was brought back to earth with a prompt 'thwack' by Kyoko.

"There is absolutely no way that we're going to get Gaara's scroll. Got it?" Kyoko said in a menacing tone.

"Yes, ma'am." Minamo squeaked.

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Shigure stopped for the umpteenth time. Although the leader of his team, the huge senbon umbrellas he carried on his back were hindering his movement. His teammates, Daisuke and Renji stopped also.

They had sensed something.

"No, look, Nyamo, although Neji, Lee, and Gaara are in this exam, you are NOT. GOING. TO MAKE ANY FORM OF COMMUNICATION TO THEM!"

"But Kyooochan…."

Kyoko stepped out of the trees noisily and saw the Ame team looking incredulously at her. Mira had kindly stopped Minamo. However, it was a lost cause for Kyoko, who was looking like a deer in the headlights.

"Well, well, well…first victim spotted, huh?" Shigure snarled, throwing up his senbon umbrella. It started releasing needles before Kyoko could process her thoughts.

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The needles lay in circles, some bent, some stuck in the ground. Kyoko's sudden force wave had repelled the needles in all directions. The complete, circle, all-round defence that was way more convenient and rather cooler was, however, an A-rank jutsu and Kyoko had not trained for it yet.

Minamo chose to come into the scene at this point, her kekkei genkai already activated. Because of this, she deflected more senbon needles with her kusari-gama. "Hi guys! Which scroll have you got?"

"…Earth."

"Hey, cool! First time lucky!" Minamo raised her kusari-gama and rested it across her shoulder while Kyoko carried out a tai chi stance.

"Let's rock."

Minamo lunged forward, whirling her sickle towards Shigure, who easily dodged. The sickle embedded in the ground, Minamo spun around it towards Daisuke from behind, but unfortunately his teammates' eyes were not trained and they screamed, "BEHIND YOU!" just as the sickle plunged into his back. Blood spurted out in the opposite direction as the carrier flumped forward. A little splashed on Minamo's fluffy miniskirt, right on the 'Evanescence' symbol. She disgustedly wiped it off with her spit, and sighed.

"My first kill, huh? Not much of a guy." She drawled, straightening her headband.

"Why you little---" Renji screamed. He could've screamed a lot more, but he had realised that the vines on the ground had hold of his legs, and were holding him down firmly.

"Nice to meet you!" Mira smirked cutely as the vines unintentionally injected their poison into Renji's legs. He was dead before he hit the floor.

"Woops."

Shigure wildly looked around him. "You're rookies! And you didn't go to the Academy! What's this bloodshed for when you didn't train for it?"

"We didn't need to, jerk." Kyoko muttered. Her left hand was around his neck and her right pulling his hand into a painful wristlock.

"I'm afraid you do, rookies." He snarled. He whipped his senbon umbrella in a circle around him, throwing the three kunoichi out of his way with various cries.

Mira increased the friction between her feet and the ground and sank into it.

Minamo and Shigure were engaged in a furious battle, one side hurling katon jutsus and the other trying to throw senbon in every direction, letting out the occasional earth jutsu.

"You really think you can get away with this?! I can't die here, wait until I show you my REAL power; one which you can't defeat---"

"More senbon needles?" A voice came from below the ground.

"Wha----" An excruciating pain numbed his body, first engulfing his legs and then tingling the tips of his fingers.

Mira had just unleashed the most obvious way to defeat a man.

"OH MY…owowowowowow…" the Ame-nin fell to the ground, clutching his legs together, sweating profusely. A few minutes later, he stopped moving altogether.

Kyoko looked on impassively. "So that was 'The Unbeatable Jutsu' that you were bragging about last week?"

Mira emerged from the ground, a few soil marks on her face. "Eh heh…"

Minamo dived into his pack to search for the scroll. "And…YEAH!" She pulled out the Earth scroll that they were searching for for all the world to see.

After they sealed it into the scroll. "Um, guys, to be honest, I didn't know it was going to be over that quickly, so can we explore a bit more?" Mira asked sheepishly.

"That's a great idea, Mira!" Minamo exclaimed, oblivious to everything obvious.

Kyoko put her hand to her forehead.

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Mira seemed to be actively leading the group in the forest more to the south side. However, Minamo took a rest, her sickle needing cleaning and they stopped at the river, where Mira and Minamo promptly fell asleep for Kyoko to do night watch. As the water fluidly ran across her blade, Kyoko put some of the water to her forehead. It turned out that the South side of the forest was the most humid.

A great slam was heard to the groups' left.

Minamo and Mira didn't stir at all, even after Kyoko poked them with the katana, so she decided to leave a note scratched in the ground.

'Heard something to our left. Will be back in half an hour.' Kyoko then slid her katana into her scabbard and blurred off.

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After running for a while, Kyoko leant on a tree and looked at the carnage behind her.

Naruto's Kyuubi powers were about to be sealed, Sasuke was doing nothing to help her, Sakura was crying and Orochimaru atop a snake was at the centre of it all. Kyoko thanked God if there was one that Mira wasn't here. She then very quietly sat in the grass, making no movement to change the situation.

If she did, she knew that the story had no hope afterwards.

So she just sat there watching, like she did on a computer screen before.

Fire hurtled through the air to meet Orochimaru as he was bound to the tree. However, he made no move to react to the fire as it burnt off his substitute skin.

Sasuke groaned. "Why…won't you die?!"

"That is not the point, Sasuke-kun." He raised his head. "I am Orochimaru, and I have a present to give you." His hands were already in a seal before he finished speaking.

Kyoko scratched her head. This was, after all, one of her hated bits in the story. A main characters' emo conversion hung in the balance.

She scrunched up her face in distaste. And she made her move.

A/N: Ooh. Cliff-hanger. Well, that was a pretty short chapter. And I still need quite a lot of PMs for the WVCD manga vote. So, if you please…