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Naruko, Elemental Nation's Traveling Mage


It wasn't until first light made its appearing that Naruko stirred, being a very light sleeper. She yawned and looked at her companions, smiling at them affectionately... before pinching their noses shut.

It wasn't long before the two kids were wide awake gasping for air, they glared at Naruko with murderous intent, it had not been the first time she had woken them up like that. They quickly go their things together, putting them back into the Naruko's special Re-quip Runes that she had engraved onto them with her magic power.

They started off, with Naruko in the lead, hoping to get closer to the tower today so they could wait for interesting teams to appear. Rose looked at the surrounding area in awe, still somewhat amazed that such a beautiful place could be as deadly as it was.

She looked at her leader and became slightly confused at the casual smile on her face. Rose had only seen that kind of smile when either Naruko or Bickslow began talking of their year together, forming a sibling bond that Rose slightly envied, but not much.

"Naruko, why do you look so familiar in this forest?" Rose asked, breaking the comfortable silence. Naruko turned her head at Rose, her mouth slightly agape with shock, before beginning her tale.

"This was where I found the knowledge of magic, it was my home for a very long, keeping me safe while I practiced my magic and body." She said with a slight wistful smile, causing Bickslow and Rose to smile as well, though Bickslow smiled a bit bigger, loving it when his sister talked like this.

At that moment though, the happy moment was ruined by a sharp scream of "THE POWER OF YOUTH!", accompanied with a quick-moving green object coming out of the surrounding fauna almost getting Naruko, who had quickly backed up slightly, in the face.

The blur went on to destroy a couple of trees before slowing down. The trio of Mages quickly got into ready positions, prepared to take on any foes that would dare attack them.

"Lee! You gave our position away!" the Mages glanced at the now revealed "Lee", who was wearing green tights, and the quite ticked off girl, wearing a Chinese cloths of some sort.

They were accompanied by a white eyed, stick-up-butt character that had some pretty long hair.

"Tenten, Neji, I am so sorry, I have failed and made you both disappointed! For this I will run 500 times around Konoha!" the now revealed Tenten and Neji both sighed, while the Mages slightly sweat-dropped at the what seemed to be a daily occurrence.

Tenten looked over to the Fairy Tail Ninjas, and said with a slight smirk, "I am terribly sorry, but we need your scroll." Naruko mused that she didn't really look sorry at all. Naruko looked at the far more arrogant Neji who had a smirk on his face and the Lee with his green tights, somehow looking serious in his get-up.

Naruko looked at her group, giving them one command, though to be honest the way she put it you would only need one, "Rose, Bickslow, get the arrogant one, I'll get Green tights and Mrs. Hair-Bun." Her team almost laughed at how serious she said this and the reaction of the opposing team.

They calmed their features and nodded once, though slightly hesitant at leaving their captain alone to fight two obviously well-trained ninja.

Naruko quickly let her shadows wrap around the ankles and making slowly traveling up the body of her targets, keeping them in place while Rose and Bickslow quickly attacked Neji. Team 10 was surprised at this method, Rock Lee and Tenten more when they realized they couldn't move.

Neji backed off dodging an attack from what seemed to be a weird doll that looked suspiciously soft and non-harmful. That was not the case when the doll kept going a slammed into the tree he was standing on, splitting it in half with almost no effort.

Neji back-spaced, turning around to get to a better location to deal with these two, completely confident that his teammates could beat one person together, he never knew how wrong he was.

With Naruko

Naruko jumped back into a ready position, releasing the two from her shadow tendril's grip. The two ninja quickly jump back as well, seeming to silently come up with a plan. Naruko watches them in amusement as they nod once to each other in final confirmation before carrying their plan out.

Rock Lee blurred, seeming to phase out of existence, before reappearing beside Naruko's head in the position for a very painful kick for Naruko when it happened. Later, Tenten might say that it was pure speed was what happened at that time, but Rock Lee would tell a much different story.

Right before the duos eyes the black-coated girl also blurred out of existence, quickly reappearing right above Rock Lee's head in an ax-kick, performing a sound hit on his noggin that Tenten could swear that her head hurt a but just from hearing it happen.

Tenten was about to start throwing her weapons at the Black coated figure when she started to blur in and out of existence, constantly hitting and damaging Rock Lee at different angles.

I was only a minute or two later that Rock Lee was finally kicked towards Tenten, totally K.O. With many bruises on his visible body parts.

Tenten tried to get to her teammate so she could get out of there when she felt the shadows from earlier come back. Tenten quickly, before the shadows could completely ensnare her, threw a few kunai at Naruko.

Naruko, surprised at the speed of the kunai, quickly tapped her shoe against the branch of the tree, making a shadow come up and grab some of the offending projectiles by their ring.

One kunai, however, made it by the shadow and got Naruko in the arm. She was mildly shocked about the hit and the force behind it before grinning.

The tendril of shadow threw the kunai back at the girl, who couldn't defend herself. Tenten shut her eyes, waiting for the inevitable, before hearing the slight snort of humor coming from her opponent.

Tenten reopened her eyes to see the group kunai swinging from the end of the tendril that had her ensnared.

Tenten looked over to her opponent who was smiling at her warmly, saying "You will go far with that potential." Then all she knew was blackness.

Naruko went over to Tenten and gathered her up in her arms, carrying her to the spot her teammate now rested. She could feel the potential in the bodies of these two and was really disappointed that they were Konoha Ninja. Maybe if they go AWOL, she could pick them up?

She let out a sigh as she picked her self up, dusted off her clean close and was dragged down by her shadow, before beginning the search for her companions.

With Rose and Bickslow

Rose and Bickslow could honestly agree that if they had taken on the white eyed boy alone, there was not a good chance of coming out the victor.

The boy was obviously someone who had precision control in his close range style, and was quite strong for his age, but this failed when he was facing two Ranged and Close up fighters.

Bickslow and Rose had both opted out of attacking him using physical means, Bickslow was only now getting the feeling back in his left arm.

Neji was shocked at the techniques the two Ronin used, and the different teamwork skills they displayed.

He knew that if he wasn't going to when against these guys together, and was slightly worried about his teammates who were going up against someone who was very confident in her skills.

If she was anything like these two, Neji would admit that he didn't think the confidence was misplaced. Neji dodged another one of the dolls that kept coming his way, along with the hair that he had once tried to grab, only succeeding in getting a slight burn on his hand.

Bickslow wasn't really trying to beat the guy, he and Rose had agreed to let her take the finishing shot all he had to do was allow here some time to prepare.

She wanted to try out one of her non-perfected technique on someone who had training, and it was taking time to get it to acceptable level of working.

Bickslow sent out his dolls once more at the boy, where he bounced them back with his style of fighting. From Bickslow's point of view however, he could see the rigid movements that the boy seemed to want to break out of, but didn't for some reason.

Bickslow did have to give that his attacks were powerful with how much his arm felt and the fact that he had to apply some magic to reinforce his dolls, if he didn't want them to get damaged.

He glanced over to Rose who had her eyes closed in concentration as her hair attacked the boy with no real order, just keeping him preoccupied. She opened her eyes in excitement, signaling that Bickslow needed to get the boy in place now.

He gathered his dolls and made a small circle around the boy who looked at the surrounding wall of dolls wearily. However he didn't notice the small tendril of hair sliding towards his ankles, waiting for the right time.

Neji whipped out his Byakugan when the dolls aligned themselves up in a circle. He planned on doing a Rotation when he suddenly felt a tendril of hair grasp one of his ankles.

Before he can do anything with it, he becomes filled with mild electricity, knocking him out after a brief scream of pain.

Rose gave a little victory dance up in the trees before jumping Bickslow with a hug. Bickslow hugged back in his excitement of winning against a strong opponent, when he realized who he was hugging.

Rose seemed to realize this too as she quickly jumped away, mirroring the blush that had appeared on Bickslow's face.

This is the situation that Naruko appeared at, looking slightly confused at the looked of Rose and Bickslow.

After she got their attention she asked "Did something happen?" after immediate replies of 'NO!' Naruko shrugged and jumped away, Rose and Bickslow following behind, still with their slight blushes on their cheeks.

A/N: Next chapter will be the final chapter for the Second part of the exam and will be the opening of the third. Also, Tenten's magic will be Sword Magic, but will be based on the three, two, one sword style the Roronoa Zoro uses. Please give any comments about this story and any suggestions you might have. Also, all those Digimon fans, please give my new story, Deal With It, a quick look. Thank You for reading.