THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO ImagineBreaker7 AND Kira1993
ONWARD!
;;;FlashBack;;;
:::TWO DAYS AFTER TEAM SEVEN LEFT FOR THEIR FIRST REAL MISSION:::
Kagome knocked on the Hokage's office door. "Come in." Came the gruff voice of the Hokage. Kagome walked in. "Ah, Kagome. Is there something you need?" Kagome quietly walked closer to his desk, suddenly interested in looking at her feet. "Umm. Well... I have something to tell you." Came Kagome's shy and nervous voice. "Hm. And what would that be?" The Hokage asked curiously. Kagome shuffled her feet, not sure how to go about this. Kagome started mumbling something incoherent. The Hokage just rose an eyebrow.
"Ugh, maybe I should just show you instead of trying to explain it." Kagome reached up to her black choker necklace. She spent two days thinking about this moment. 'Will he banish me from Konoha?' Kagome thought as she slowly uncliped her necklace. 'Please, whatever Kamis are out there, let the Hokage trust me when I say I am not an enemy.' Kagome pulled the necklace off, showing her true self. Red hair in a thick braid reaching mid-calf, red fox ears on her head, a red tail the tip almost reaching the ground, long blue midnight colored nails and long fangs. Kagome smiled at the Hokage nervously. The Hokage sat there wide eyed.
Kagome let her head fall. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I thought you might kick me out of the village, and I still do." Kagome looked up. "Please let me stay in in Konoha. Trust me when I say that you can trust me. I am not an enemy, or a spy or anything like that." She let her head fall again. "This village is my new home. And I don't want to have to leave it." Kagome had started to cry a little. "Please. Let me stay." Since Kagome was looking down, she didn't see as the Hokage's eye softened and he smiled kindly at her.
In the end, the Hokage let her stay, and sent her on 3 B rank missions and 1 A rank mission, gaining his trust. Kagome became close with the Hokage, who she now refers to as grandpa or grandfather, because he had been kind to her when she trusted him enough to show him what she really was.
:::NOW:::
Kagome meant to burn the cards before he could read anything, but was shocked when Sasuke asked for info on her. Then when she heard about Lee and Gaara, she became too interested to burn them right away. Then she had started to panic when everyone looked at her like they were gonna ask questions after Kabuto said that he had no more info on her. She kept stumbling over herself in her mind trying to think of a Jutsu to burn the cards. When she did, it was actually pretty funny. Kagome silently giggled. Kabuto didn't move out of the way in time and some of his clothes are now burnt along with the ends of his hair and his glasses were a bit burnt, the edges of his glasses had turned a light black from being so close.
Kagome watched as Naruto panicked. 'If he doesn't remember anything I had him study I swear I'll kill him' Kagome thought as Sasuke and Sakura started glaring at Naruto. Sasuke sat in the other side of the class room at one of the desks behind Sakura. Sasuke was in-between unknown ninjas and Sakura sat at the end of her desk also sitting next to an unknown ninja a desk behind Naruto. Naruto had Hinata on his right and another unknown ninja on his left. Kagome sat with an unknown ninja on her on her left and Gaara on her right, Gaara sitting at the end of the desk.
Kagome looked at her paper. 'Question after question it gets harder.' Kagome remembered his 'Rules'. 'It was like he was spelling it out on a big sign above his head in bold letters: Cheat but Don't Get Caught.' Kagome sighed. It was no fun when you already knew the answer. Kagome quickly answered the questions. She stiffened when she sensed something above her shoulder, along with sand getting in her eye so she quickly grabbed it. She turned and looked at Gaara, while closing one of her eyes that has sand in it, his eyes were wide. 'No one else was able to sense it so why was she able to?' He thought, his eyes widening a little.
Kagome gave him a small smile as he release his jutsu. 'I already got all the answers, no need to wast anymore Chakra.' Kagome opened her hand when she felt the jutsu being released seeing sand slip through her fingers. She leaned back and closed her eyes, listening to every thing around her and also sensing what was happing around her. Sasuke was using his Sharingan(Sp?) Sakura using her knowledge and Naruto still panicking. Kagome scowled, just what is wrong with that boy? Did he seriously forget all the studying Kagome put him through?
Kagome did a 'Time Freeze' jutsu on everyone, everyone stilled, the dust in the air even stopped moving and the crumbs from Choji's shirt that had fallen stopped moving, she walked up to Naruto to remind him all the studying he did yesterday with a note. Kagome didn't really freeze time, she just made it so that she moved so fast it looked like she was still sitting in her seat to everyone else, and no one would be able to sense the Chakra build up because Kagome used her demonic energy to hid the build up of Chakra.. She quickly wrote a note for Naruto and sat back down in her chair, the same way as before, and released her jutsu.
:::Naruto's P.O.V:::
I went stiff when Kagome's hand writing suddenly appeared.
'Naruto, if you don't remember anything from your studying, I swear to the Kami's I will have you do 500 laps around Konoha while my clone and Sesshomaru's clone chase you and repeatedly attack you while you run. And then I will make you have a slow and painful death then I will bring you back to life using Sesshomaru's Tenseiga and then torture you till you get close to death's door and then heal you so I can repeat my actions.'
I looked behind me to see Kagome smirking… Weirdly enough, she looked happy… 'Oh man! SHE'S A SADIST!' Kagome's smirk turned into a smile, like she had read my thoughts.
:::End Naruto's P.O.V:::
Kagome didn't read his mind, but saw the look on his face and knew instantly what he was thinking. Her smirk turned into a smile and Naruto started sweating bullets as he turned around and started working on his paper, erasing Kagome's message first, cause it scared him shitless. Kagome leaned back in her seat once again, closed her eyes and listened to Naruto do his test.
'1.' Kagome thought, her ears trained on the sound of Naruto writing.
'2.'
Kagome wanted to hit her head repeatedly on her desk. He could only answer 2 questions. She looked over at Gaara, curious about him.
Looking closer at him she saw the 'kanji' sign for love on the left side of his forehead, no eyebrows, dark circles under his eyes indicating he doesn't sleep much, he has tanuki-like eye rings (probably having them from birth because of the Shukaku(Sp?)), blood red spiky hair (seeing it made Kagome's blood lust go up more), teal green eyes with no pupil and a gourd on his back, he wearing a full body suit with a t-shirt with short sleeves, tan pants stopping mid-calf and an open neck. With that he also is wearing a white cloth over his right shoulder and the left side of his hips. With a leather band, he carried around his gourd that contains his sand. And his forehead protector is wrapped over the band.
Gaara looked up slightly, if you weren't looking hard enough you wouldn't notice, and turned his head towards his left where Kagome sat. He noticed her look away, and decided to take a closer look at her. Long black hair that lightly shined blue in the light and reached mid-thigh in a thick braid, purple eyes out lined with silver, light tan skin (meaning she spends most of her time outside), her nails are also a little longer and sharper looking then normal humans, toned muscles on her arms and leg (if she was wearing a shirt that was cut off at her ribs, you would see a 4 pack coming on), and he could tell when she walked, ran or fought, she would look graceful doing so. (You know what she's wearing) And her Hitai-ate (forehead protector) is around her waist. He went back to his test.
Kagome looked up when she felt eyes on her person. She raised an eyebrow when she saw Ibiki staring at her, and sent a small wave towards him while smirking. Sasuke noticed movement from his left and looked over to see Kagome smirking at Ibiki. He was gonna go back to cheating on his test when he saw Kagome's eyes flashed red for a second. He almost fell out of his chair but regained his balance and looked back at Kagome to see her eyes back to their original purple.
He shook his head and went back to his task.
Kagome had been on high alert since entering the room, a lot of the other ninjas in the room have black like auras surrounding them, including Kabuto.
Kagome gained a tick mark on her forehead (like the animes) as she sighed, she's getting bored. Maybe she could see how easy she can cheat. Kagome saw a ninja in front of her that was writing to fast to even be a candidate… Kagome smirked. So that's how it is, how fun! Kagome put her chin on her folded hands and looked much closer at his arm that was writing the answers and her ears swiveled towards him and listened… She frowned when she realized she got one wrong. Quickly erasing it she wrote out the right answer. 'There! And it seems I got the rest of them right.'
She heard a quiet yip and looked in the direction of Kiba. 'Aww, how cute! Akamaru is so smart! And so cuddly looking!' She heard a fly and looked down to see a house fly… 'Must be Shino's, he kinda smells like bugs.' Kagome smiled, amused, and shooed the fly away. "N-Naruto…" Kagome's attention is brought to Naruto and Hinata. "Huh?" Kagome's brow ticked. 'Dumb reply Naruto.'
"If you want, I could let you see my test." Kagome blinked, and then smiled. She's pretty sure Naruto will- "Hey, Hinata, can I ask you something-" Hinata replays with a quiet 'hm'. "-Why would you want to show me your test?" Hinata takes a small intake of breathe, and blushes. "Why? W-why? Just because… Well… Y-you see… It's just…-" Kagome rolls her eyes. She loves the shy girl to death, but, she really needs to reply quicker. "-It's b-because I don't want you to h-have to l-leave." Kagome smiles, Hinata is so cute when she's shy. "W-well, umm, it'd be n-nice if we could a-all stick together." Naruto chuckles a little. "That makes sense I suppose. I thought you were trying to pull a fast one on me."
Kagome almost face-palmed, but relaxes, that's when she notices a proctor taking a kunai out of his pouch. Naruto suddenly yells when a kunai hits the desk behind him and the guys behind him yells out a little, startled. "Hey, what the hell was that for?" He yells out while standing up. Kagome sighs, the first team to be thrown out. "5 strikes and your out." Kagome looked towards him. 'Hey, it's the guys from earlier! The one with the dark blue spiky hair'
He continues. "You just failed the test." The guy standing up kinda leans his body back a little. "What?! It can't be!" Spiky hair points at him. "You and your teammates are to leave the room immediately." His teammates stand up and start walking out the door while he sits their repeatedly gasping. Kagome's tick mark comes back. "Candidate number 23, fail."
"Number 27 and 43, fail."
They get dragged out screaming. Another team, "No, no way! Who says I cheated 5 times?" Kagome's tick mark grows, can she knock them out and throw them out the window… Please?
Kagome grins when the guy is slammed into the wall. 'I saw that one coming!' The guy has the top half of his head wrapped in bandages. "Sorry pal. We were choses for this because we have sharp eyes to pick out the people who make mistakes like that."
They left the room, the guy that was slammed into the wall glared at all of them as he left.
Kagome lifted her head when she noticed Ino used her mind transfer jutsu on Sakura. Kagome did one handed hand signs and pushed Ino out.
Kagome looked up at the clock. 20 minutes to go.
:::Time skip:::
"We have 15 minutes to go. Time for the main event." Ibiki called to everyone, he looked everyone in the eye. "Alright-" He yelled this time. "-Listen up. Heres the tenth and final question. But… Before I give you the question. There are some more rules you need to know." Everyone lets out a 'Naanii?', except Kagome, she just smirkers at Ibiki. Kagome almost jumps out of her seat when Kankuro comes back… 'What the HELL, didn't he go to the bathroom a long time ago? Does a guy really need that long to… wait! That's not even a real proctor behind him!' Kagome stares at the 'proctor'. Her eyes widen a bit when she sees Chakra strings. 'It's a puppet. Must be the thing he took off his back when we first met.'
Kankuro walked back his seat. When he passed Terami, he dropped a piece of paper, the people sitting in the chairs along the wall didn't notice but Kagome did. She smirked, he did a good job not being noticed by the people with the clipboards. Kagome studied the 'proctor' behind him. 'Hmmm… I wonder what the real appearance is.' Kagome is pulled out of her musings by Ibiki's voice.
"-Listen carefully. And try not to let them frighten you." The wind blew eerily outside. Kagome looked around her to see a lot of the remaining ninja's shaking. 'Hm? Why are they so frightened? Sesshomaru is soooo much scarier… even in his smaller dog form.' Kagome smiled at the last thought. 'actually, he looks like a cuddly puppy!' (A.N, sorry, couldn't resist! XD)
"Very well then. Rule number one, each of you if free to chose whether or not to take the next question. It's your decision." Kagome raised a brow. 'Well. That's… Interesting'
"Whooa." Terami stands up from her seat. "So what's the catch? Let's say we don't wanna do it, what happens then?" Ibiki chuckle darkly and Kagome inwardly shudders. 'Torturer.' Is the first word that comes to Kagome's mind. "If you choose not to, you'll get a zero. In other word, you fail. And that means, of course, your teammates fail as well." Mummers went throughout the room.
"Not so fast." Ibiki said quietly. "You didn't let me finish. if you do accept the question but answer it incorrectly, you will not only fail… YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TAKE THE CHUUNIN EXAMS AGAIN." The whole class gasped. Kagome narrowed her eyes. 'WHAT THE HELL!?' Kagome clenched her fist hard enough to draw some blood, but it quickly healed when Kagome relaxed her hands. 'Breath Kagome, just breath.' Killing intent was rolling off her in waves. Gaara glanced at her, his interest in her growing, feeling the killing intent.
Kagome was so mad she could hear Kiba start yelling, but couldn't figure out what exactly was being said. Kagome went frigid when Ibiki started laughing… a dark and mocking laugh. "I guess your just unlucky I'm making the rules this time. Of course if you don't want to take it. You don't have to. If your not feeling confident, then by all means, skip it." Kagome's tick mark appeared again. 'And miss all the fighting? No way in hell.'
Sakura was stiff, Sasuke was glaring at Ibiki, tense, and Naruto was shaking. "Those who don't want to take it, raise your hand and your free to go." Several people started raising their hands. Kagome watched as a bunch of ninjas walked out. Kagome started mentally throwing kunai and shuriken at Naruto when he started shakily raise his hand. 'NARUTO! Don't you DARE!'
Naruto held his hand above his head and then suddenly slammed it on his desk, standing up. "DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME! I DON'T QUIT AND I DON'T RUN! YOU CAN ACT TOUGH ALL YOU WANT, YOU GUYS AREN'T GONNA SCARE ME! NO WAY! I DON'T CARE IF I DO GET STUCK AS A GENIN FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I'LL STILL BE HOKAGE ONE DAY."
Kagome smiled. 'Thank the Kamis.' She started breathing more calmly.
"This decision is one that could change your life. If for any reason you'd rather quit nows your last chance." Naruto glared at Ibiki, determination in his eyes. "No way, I never go back on my word. That's the way of the Ninja."
Everyone in the room became confident again, sitting up straighter. Kagome took a quick look around. 79 candidates left! Kagome watched closely as the proctor along the wall nodded towards Ibiki and Ibiki nodded back. "Well then, I admire you determination. Nothing else. For those of you remaining, theres only one thing to do. And that's for me to tell you… That you've all passed the first exam." Kagome's eyes widened a fraction of an inch… Ibiki's smiling!
Kagome's ear twitched when Naruto dropped his pencil on his desk. "Eh?" Kagome closed her eyes smirking while ignoring Sakura's voice. Then Kagome's eyes snapped open when she sensed someone out side. Said person was holding a sign, or something, while running along roofs toward the Academy. Ibiki started explaining something, but Kagome ignored him. Kagome heard everyone gasp and looked around to see their eyes pointed towards the front of the class.
'Whoa.' Kagome's eye widened. 'scars and puncture wounds. Even some burn marks.' Kagome's attention was drawn back out the window while Ibiki started explaining something about retrieving information without getting yourself and your teammates killed. The person was closer. And… 'CRASH'! A sign appeared and the person that came with it threw two kunai to hold up the sign up by two corners on the ceiling. Naruto let out a "AAH!"
"Heads up boys and girls." A voice said. Said voice belong to a light purple haired paled skinned and dark eyed woman. Kagome looked at the sign behind her.
'Here comes the second test's Proctor, Anko.
"I'll be your next proctor. Anko." (I forgot her last name.) "Ready for the next test. Good, then let's go!" She punch her hand up in the air. Kagome just raised a eyebrow. "FOLLOW ME!" Everyone stared, not sure how to respond to this. Ibik stepped out from behind the sign. "Your early. Again." Anko let out an 'eh heh' while lightly blushing. "How many are there? Ibiki-" Anko looked over at Ibiki scolding. "-You let all these guys pass?-" She tilted her head to the side. "-Your test was to easy. You must be losing your touch." Ibiki looked back at Anko. "Or it could be a group of stronger Genin." Anko 'hmm'ed and looked back at the crowd of Genin. "They sure don't look it. Trust me, before I'm done with them, more then half will be eliminated."
Everyone got frightened looks on there face, except a few. "Hmph, this is gonna be fun!" Kagome smirked, she like this 'Anko' person. Kagome's eyes cut towards her neck. 'What is… That?' Kagome narrowed her eyes at the dark aura coming from mostly her neck. "Alright." Kagome attention was brought away from Anko's neck to her face. "You maggots have had it easy so far. But things are going to be different starting first thing in the morning, I'll let your squad leaders know where to meet me tomorrow. Your dismissed."
:::LATER:::
With Ibiki…
Ibiki walked by all the desk picking up test papers. He stopped at the place Naruto sat and looked down and blinked… "Huh?" His hand tightened on the other papers in his hand. And he started to chuckle. "It seems he was only able to answer two. Naruto Uzimaki. He's a funny one alright."
With Kagome…
Kagome walked through town, looking for someone. She stopped when she felt eyes on her. She looked around before dismissing it. She sighed, irritated. "Where the hell are you… Kakashi?" She stopped when she saw him walking down the street. "Kakashi-sensei!" He stopped, looking up from his book. When he saw who it was he quickly put his book away making Kagome smirk. "Ah, Kagome, is there something you need?" Kagome walked over to Kakashi. "Yeah, I noticed Naruto could walk and run up walls. Could you help me?" Kakashi's eye made an upside down U, smiling. "Sure."
:::AT THE TRAINING GROUNDS:::
Kakashi had explained about the whole Chakra thing and showed her. Kagome pulled out a kunai and pushed Chakra to her feet. Kakashi had taken to leaning against a tree and reading.
'BOOM'
Kakashi nearly jumped 4 feet into the air. He lifted his head up toward Kagome to see her with her foot in the air to where the tree should have been but was knocked over. Kakashi's visible eye widened. Kagome just blinked several time, before trying again.
'BOOM'
Kagome just blinked before hearing Kakashi chuckling, she looked up. "What?!" Kakashi just shook his head, going back to reading. After several more tries and several more 'boom's. Kagome was walking around, running up, walking backwards and walking upside down on branches. Kagome jumped down, doing a flip before landing down on her feet. Kagome smiled at Kakashi. "Thank's Kakashi-sensei! I think I'll go try walking on water now!" Kakashi looked over his book at Kagome as she walked away. Kakashi went to walk away when he felt something in his hand disappearing. When he looked down at his hand… His precious orange Ich Icha Paradise book gone.
Kagome heard a 'AAAH! NOOOOO!' while walking towards a pond she had seen earlier and smirked, holding that same orange book in her hand. "Hehe."
Before Kagome could walk on water she found out she could make the water around her foot make an opening so her foot landed on muddy ground when she used to much Chakra in her foot. But soon Kagome was running flipping and dancing all around the pond.
"Hmmm." Kagome hummed, looking around the clearing. "I wonder…" Kagome lifted her right foot a few inched above the ground and pushed Chakra into it. "If I can walk on…" Kagome didn't finish her sentence when she felt like her foot is on something. When she took a closer look she noticed nothing there. Kagome lifted her left foot, putting more weight on her right foot. Kagome's face lit up with wonder and excitement. "I-I'm walk on air!" Kagome took a few steps… then fell back to the ground.
"This one may take more practice…" She rubbed her chin with her pointer finger and thumb. Kagome kept practicing till she could take ten steps without stumbling. She then tried jumping on her tenth step and landing higher up in the air. Kagome landed, she stumbled, then fell. Kagome flipped once and landed on her feet in a crouch. "Might take longer then I anticipated." She mumbled this while standing up. Kagome sighed and decided to go home for dinner and a good nights rest.
Kagome never noticed the wide black eyes watching her as she left.
:::THE NEXT MORNING AT THE FOREST OF DEATH:::
Kagome is wearing her hair in a low thick braid, black ninja shoes, fishnet shirt that stopped an inch above her bellybutton, a short sleeved black jacket with white outlining the bottom that reached her waist, fingerless gray gloves, black capries that stopped mid-calf with bandages wrapped around her knees. Her left arm is completely wrapped with bandages stopping at the bottom of her fingerless glove, and her daggers are strapped on each thigh with her weapon pouch strapped on her hip, in the back, so she would have to reach behind her back to get her kunai or shuriken. And Sesshomaru standing by her side.
"Whoa, nice place." Naruto said, sweating a little due to the 'scary forest' in front of them. "What is it?" There was a gate surrounding the whole forest. Like that was gonna help. "This is the location for the second part of the Chuunin exams." Kagome let an eyebrow raise. 'Oh no really? You don't say!' Kagome noticed Sasuke staring at her from the corner of her eye. Kagome crossed her arms over her developed chest.
"This is the forty fourth battle zone." Kagome looked back up at the forest. Why in hells name does it look so damn familiar? "But we call it, 'The Forest of Death'!" Everyones eyes were wide, except a few, as the wind blew eerily, again. "F-Forest of Death?" Kagome smirked at Naruto's scared voice. 'Yay! Fighting! I can't wait.' Kagome leaned closer to Naruto. "Naruto, are you scared?" Naruto turned and glared at her, but looked surprised when he saw her smiling at him kindly. 'Oh! I know what she means! She's telling me not to let my enemies know I'm scared.' Naruto hit his opened palm with his fist, like he discovered something.
Kagome covered her mouth and giggled. Kagome's ear twitched when she heard a familiar sound of cardboard box dragging on the ground. She turned around and spotted the squared box, smelling Konohamaru and his friends. She poked Naruto's shoulder and pointed to the box when he looked at her.
Naruto's right eyebrow started twitching. 'A fake rock? It must be Konohamaru.' He walked away a little while looking over his shoulder, and watched as it followed him. He stopped and bent down and pointed towards it. "That's the worst disguise ever, Konohamaru!" Kagome heard Konohamaru laugh quietly. "You saw through my disguise again, boss! Just what I'd expect from my greatest rival." The box started glowing and Kagome smelled gunpowder, the kind they use for the smoke bombs. Kagome quickly covered her nose, not wanting to have her nose out of commission for a few minutes like last time… Wait, last time she was closer, that time her nose was literally burning.
It exploded, making yellow and pink smoke, and then you could hear coughing. Kagome went over by Naruto's side to see Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon when the smoke was blown away by the wind. "Hey guys, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked as she bent down to be eye level with them. They looked up at her, since they were still sorta laying on the ground. "We're getting ready to do the second part of the Chuunin exams. So why would you be here?" They stood up and all three tackled her in a hug. Kagome fell back on her butt as she returned the hug.
"We're here to interview you guys!" Konohamaru answered as he, and his friends, let go and took a step to give her space to stand. "That's right!" Moegi agreed as Udon nodded his head saying, "uh huh" several times. "An interview, huh?" Naruto said curiously, as Kagome stood up. Konohamaru put his hand on his hip. "It's a featured story about the Chuunin exams!" Moegi's hands went up to her chin gently fisted up in excitement. "So that's why we decided to do an exclusive interview with you! Please tell us your gonna do it!" Moegi opened her eye up a little wider for an puppy dog eyes look. "It would mean a lot." Udon sniffed.
Kagome smiled at the innocents of the children, unknowingly making guys around her blush, except a few. "Yeah, but right now…" Naruto started lightly growling. "HEY! You over there." Anko's voice called out. "What are you doing? Your holding up the exams." Naruto 'uuh'ed before answering. "Sorry but Konohamaru is telling me something about an interview for the Academy newspaper." Anok gasped, like she remembered something, and rubbed the back of her head. "Oh yeah~, I forgot about it! Lord Hokage mentioned something about his grandson interviewing me." Kagome sweat dropped at her forgetfulness and Naruto sweat dropped at the part where she said something about HER getting interviewed.
"All right we're taking a ten minute break for those who are scheduled to be interviewed please be courteous to the Academy newspaper." Naruto went to speak but Kagome quickly covered his mouth whispering in his ear. "You aren't the only one taking the Chuunin exams, Naruto." Kagome then blushed at how close they were and quickly let go, glaring at Naruto. He nodded his head at her silent commanding glare. Naruto turned toward Konohamaru giving him a thumbs up. "I'll give you an interview that will make it clear to your readers why I'm the best Ninja ever!" Kagome sweat dropped a little at his exclamation.
Kagome laughed quietly while listening to Naruto's interview. She could hear him even though Sakura and Sasuke couldn't. Sasuke watched her as she tried to suppress her laughter, confused why she was laughing in the first place. 'Is it that she can hear them? … No, that's impossible… Or.. is it?'
(I'm gonna skip the interview… It's not too important. -Laughs while watching Naruto's interview on youtube-)
Kagome watched as a huge centipede crawled up a tree. She turned her attention to a bird that landed on a tree branch only to be eaten by a giant snake. 'Oh, cool! I wonder if I could get a pet snake.'
"This whole place just completely creeps me out." Sakura whined. Kagome giggled. "Really? 'Cause it looks like a fun place to explore!" Those who heard her looked at her like she grew a second head. She looked at them. "What?!"
Anko chuckled/giggled. "I like you." She looked at Kagome, then turned her attention to the whole crowd. "It should creep you out. It's called the Forest of Death, and soon your gonna find out why." Naruto, suddenly remembering what Kagome said earlier, blew air through his nose and put his fists on his hip. "They call it the Forest of Death." He repeated, trying to imitated Anko's voice, and failing miserably. "And soon your gonna find out wide." Did I mention he was wiggling his hips around while saying this? "Do your worst, your not gonna scare me away." He pointed towards Anko. "So~. Looks like we got ourselves a tough guy." She closed her eyes saying this. Kagome saw her get a kunai from her coat sleeve and watched as she threw it. It cut Naruto's cheek and landed by one of the Grass Ninja.
"You tough enough to hand-" Anko was cut off by Kagome appearing behind her with her daggers in hand, around Anko's neck. "I suggest you let my friend go." Kagome said darkly. Anko let go and stepped away, Kagome let her go and went by Naruto's side. She stiffened when she felt a very, very dark aura approach. Anko sensed him/her when he was right behind her. She spun around to stab him but stopped when a long purple tongue presented her kunai to her.
'Eww. Kinda cool. But still. EWW!' Kagome thought eyeing the Grass Ninja. Brown hair that reaches mid-back, pale heathly looking skin, and dark brown eyes. Male or female, Kagome is not so sure about.
"I was, just returning your knife." Well, a female voice came from it's mouth… I mean her mouth, her… Her? 'Damn… Which is it? Male or Female?!' Kagome watched as Anko thanked the Grass Ninja. "You know, I would only recommend standing this close behind me… If you wish for a premature death." Anko took her kunai back from… it's tongue. "My pardon, but with the sight of blood and your knife slicing through my hair, I became a little excited." You know what? Kagome's gonna call 'it' a 'she'. She, the Grass Ninja, giggled at the end of her sentence. "I meant you no harm." Kagome tried to hold back a smile, but only succeeded in smiling wider. 'Maybe I can kill 'her'!'
Somewhere in the crowd, Hinata whispered Naruto's name concerned for him. 'She' turned around and walked back to 'her' teammates. "Like wise." Anko said to her retreating form. Kagome kept a close eye on 'her', well, everyone did, 'she' is a little… weird. Naruto looked at 'her' in wonder. Then he suddenly started sticking his tongue out of his mouth. Kagome slapped him over his head, already knowing what he was trying to do. "Naruto, 'she' was probably using a jutsu." Even though Kagome told him that, she wasn't so sure herself.
Kagome heard Anko say something along the lines of "Everyone here seems quick tempered" or something, she was too busy watching 'Her'. Kagome's attention was drawn back to Anko when she started speaking louder so everyone could hear her.
"All right, before we begin, I have something to hand out to you all." She pulled some paper out of nowhere. "It's just a stander consent form. Before the test all of you are gonna have to read over this form. And sign it."
Kagome glared at Naruto shutting him up, and someone else asked the question on almost everyones mind. "What for?" When that question was asked, Anko looked a little happier. "Some of you may not come back for this test. And I have to get your consent for that risk. " She smiled. "Other wise it would be my responsibility." She started laughing. Everyone looked a little disturbed at this. Kagome just rolled her eyes, Sasuke remained emotionless, Gaara looked indifferent and Naruto looked like he wanted to shit his pants. Murmurs went through the crowd. "Now, I'll explain what you'll be doing in this test. Here, pass these out." Anko hand them to Naruto, Naruto took a paper and passed it to Kagome, Kagome took one too and handed it to Sakura and so on. Kagome immediately signed hers, no hesitations.
"The first thing you need to know is that this test will test everyone of your survival skill." At the words 'survival skill' Kagome thought of Sesshomaru, standing next to her. "First I'll give you a discretion of the terrain on the practice field."
(Everyone knows what she says, yes? -Reviewers nod- Okay then, skipping that explanation.)
'Forty four entrance gates and rivers. We need to get the second scroll.' Kagome pondered. 'And in the middle of the whole forest, is a big tower. Okay.' Kagome closed her eyes, thinking. 'And anything goes, eh? Cool, no holding back.' Kagome's shoulders slumped when she realized something. 'But I can't go all the way, I'll have to take off my choker. It holds my power back somewhat.' That was one of the few flaws with Kagome's black choker. One: It holds back about half her Chakra and Demonis Energy. Two: If she uses a certain amount of Demonic energy or Chakra then her eyes go to their original red color. and Three: Well she hasn't found a third one yet.
'And we have five days to get to the tower. Hehe, and some 'man-eating beast'!'
"Hmm, 'Just don't die', huh. Nice word of advice, but I think we already knew that." Kagome muttered. Kagome's brow twitched when she heard Ino and Sakura argue. Kagome heard the announcement for handing out scrolls.
"Listen up, all teams have received their scrolls. So everyone go to your gate and wait there. When the gates open, THE TEST IS ON!" Everyone started walking to their gates.
Gate 16
"YAHOO!" Kiba excitedly yelled. "We rock at survival, theres no way we can lose! Hinata,-" Hinata looked up when her name was called. "-you better be strong for this."
"R-right." Hinata replied.
Gate 27
"The test may cost us our lives, what a drag." Shikamaru said, yawning. "But since we have to do it, let's just go after Naruto first."
Choji was mumbling something about potato chips and other types of food while Ino rolled her eyes at him.
Gate 12
"Believe it! I dare you to bring it on Ninja!" Naruto said while punching the air in front of him. Kagome smiled at his enthusiasm. "I'll just send it right back twice as hard." Kagome looked at Sakura and saw her nod her head. Sasuke just looked towards the gate, like he was hoping his intent stare would open it forcefully.
Kagome sighed. "Naruto, calm down and save your energy." She suddenly started smiling like a sadist. "Unless, of course, you want me to put more weight on your ankles." Naruto stilled, and shook his head at Kagome, anime waterfall tears falling down his cheeks. Sasuke smirked and Sakura just looked puzzled.
at Gate 20 were the sound ninja.
"The time has come."
Gate 38 were Kabuto is.
Gate 6
'Not only do I have to deal with the punks on the other teams, I'll be with Gaara. And he might try to kill me.' Kankuro looked towards Gaara.
Gate 15 were the Grass Ninja.
Gate 41
Fire was burning in the 'Green Beasts' eyes… Almost literally.
Neji was smirking.
The people in front of all the gates unlocked the chains, but still stood in front of the gates. Kagome was nearly growling because of the suspense, her tail was twitching back and forth and her ears moving in every direction, picking up every sound around them.
Tick Tock.
Tick Tock.
Tick Tock.
"ALL RIGHT, HEADS UP YOU MAGGOTS. THE SECOND PART OF THE TEST HAS BEGUN!"
The gates swung open and all the Ninjas raced through. Exceeept for team seven, that walked in. Kagome growled. 'Shouldn't we get a move on it?'
As they walked, WALKED, more into the forest, they heard a scream. Kagome smiled. "Sounds like someone has already been taken down." Everyone shivered at her voice. "Ah, don't worry, it's gonna be a piece of cake." Naruto turned around, heading for a tree. "Excuse me a second, I really need to, um, you know." Sakura went to hit him. "Wh-" But Kagome grabbed her collar. "Sakura, shut up, I can't stand your banshee voice. Secondly, Naruto, go pee somewhere else, I don't need Sakura screaming at you, which, in turn, will make me bleed at the ears." Naruto nodded and went around the tree. Sakura sat sulking. And Sasuke smirked, thinking it actually funny when Kagome insulted Sakura like that.
'She just wants to steal Sasuke away from me! Well I won't let her, CHA!' Inner Sakura ranted.
Kagome knew immediately it wasn't Naruto when he came back from around the tree, Sesshomaru also noticed. The smell was completely different AND he was missing the cut Anko gave him with her kunai. Kagome quickly pulled some kunai out of her weapon pouch and pinned his arms and legs to the tree. The fake Naruto made an 'oof' when he hit the tree. "Hey, what the hell Kagome? Why did you do that? It's Naruto!" Sakura yelled. "This, 'Naruto', doesn't have the cut Anko gave him and his weapon pouch is on his left leg, Naruto is right handed." She walked closer to 'Naruto' and canceled out the Transformation Jutsu to reveal a brown shaggy haired Enemie ninja in a light yellow body suit. (A.N, I forgot what his hitai-ate sign was from… Can someone tell me?)
Sakura gasped. Sasuke narrowed his eyes.
"Are you alone? Did you think our team is actually that weak?" Kagome raised an eyebrow. "And one more question. Do you have the scroll?" he refused to answer. Kagome pulled out kunai and went to stab him. But he escaped the kunai holding him to the tree and went to jump away, a kunai falling on the ground. Before he could Sasuke spotted the fallen kunai on the ground, he focused his Chakra into his foot, the kunai stuck to his foot and he kicked his foot upwards making the kunai go start towards the Ninja. He dodged it, but he wasn't able to evade Sasuke when he jump towards him used a kunai to stab him in the chest.
"Sasuke are you okay." Kagome growled at Sakura. Both Sasuke and Kagome yelled at her. "What are you doing? He probably has his teammates around!" The Ninja Sasuke had stabbed pushed Sasuke away from him, clutching his chest. "I wish. I came alone as to not arouse suspicion. Big mistake." The Ninja flipped before he hit the ground, landing on his feet and jumped away.
:::A FEW MINUTES LATER:::
"We need a password." Kagome nodded her head, her eyes closed. "Okay, Sasuke. What is it?" Sakura asked.
"Listen closely 'cause I'm only gonna say this once. The question will be… When does a Ninja strike? And the answer will be. A Ninja waits till the time is right, when the enemie sleeps and drops his guard. when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a Ninja to strike." Sakura smiled and nodded her head. Naruto looked troubled. "Got it?" Sakura and Kagome nodded their heads. "I've got it." Sakura confirmed. "Umm, you got one shorter? I thought it was a password not a pass-speech." Kagome rolled her eyes but she knew why Sasuke made it that password. Or, in Naruto's case, a pass-speech.
"No, Naruto. That's it." Sasuke replied to Naruto question. "Oh, come on Naruto! I memorized it easily." Sakura screeched at him. Kagome's ears flatted against her head as she glared at Sakura. "I got it, I got it!" Kagome's ears perked up when she heard a loud wind blowing in the distance. Getting closer. Kagome payed it no mind, thinking it might be from an after attack from another team getting a scroll from an opposing team. "-orized it." Kagome inwardly giggled. 'Oh, you did, did yo-' Kagome's thought is cut of by Naruto exclaiming out an 'Ow' and reaching up to his cheek. "What was that?" Everyone looked in the direction that the little rock that had hit Naruto came from.
The wind was picking up. Kagome's eyes widened. 'Okay, maybe I was wrong.' Sesshomaru stood up by her side sniffing the air. But, like Kagome, he couldn't smell anything, except the trees, animals and bugs. The wind blasted them and team seven tried to stay in one spot.
'BLOOSH'
The 'bloosh' was the sound of wind blowing and some trees knocking into each other.
Sakura and Sasuke were in one spot. Kagome had jumped out of the way, but then saw Naruto and Sesshomaru being blown away, so she went after them. "Naruto? Sesshomaru?" Before Naruto had been blown away, he had latched onto Sesshomaru and Sesshomaru had gone with him. Kagome ran around looking for them when she felt a chill run down her spine. 'Oh no, something is wrong with Sasuke and Sakura… But, Naruto. Grr, I'm sure Naruto and Sesshomaru will survive together.
:::Skiping some… Gomen:::
Kagome was having a hard time finding Sasuke and Sakura. She came across a dead exploded snake, Naruto's and Sesshomaru's scent faintly there. She was having a hard time picking up the other's scent. 'Oh. My. God… IT SMELLS LIKE SNAKE EVERYWHERE!' Kagome mentally yelled. She suddenly smelled their scent. "There!" Kagome was NOT going to lose it now. And she was starting to get pissed. Her eyes flickering between purple and red. (Kagome's red eyes look like Naruto's when he uses Kyuubi's Chakra.) She raced towards them. Her nails growing longer and fangs getting longer. Flaw number Three with her choker necklace: When she gets angry, extremely angry, her nails and fangs grow to there real length.
She came in time to see Sasuke use a Fire element: Dragon flame Jutsu. 'What'd I miss.' Kagome thought. Then flatted her ears when a piercing scream went throughout the forest.
:::WHAT KAGOME MISSED:::
Naruto had his fight with Orochimaru and had been knocked unconscious when he used a Five pronged seal on him then thrown to a tree where Sakura pinned him. Sasuke stayed still, shocked.
"Sasuke's, what's wrong with you?" Saukura paused, thinking. "Okay… Say what you like about Naruto but at least he did something. At least he no coward." That seemed to strike a cord in Sasuke, his Sharigan blazing.
There was a bright flash, everyone cover their eyes with a hand, and a loud 'poof' leaving a cloud of smoke. Sasuke put a kunai in his mouth, he charged, the Grass Ninja did some type of wind jutsu (or something) and, from above the Grass Ninja, Sasuke flipped taking the kunai out of his mouth and throwing it and a few others towards… 'Her'.
Sasuke flipped again and kicked off a tree towards the Grass Ninja. They both traded punches and kicks. Sasuke watched the Grass Ninja as 'she' zipped around. Sasuke then blew a fire ball towards 'her'. The Grass Ninja then went into the tree branch and zoomed towards Sasuke and tried swiping at him legs, Sasuke evade by flipping backwards landing on his feet. They stared each other down.
:::WITH ANKO:::
"The suns going down. I gotta find him soon. My odds are bad enough as it is. It'll get worse when it gets dark. But why the devil is he here? No time to dwell on that now. It's time to end this."
:::BACK TO THE FIGHT:::
'She' sent a wind Justu towards Sasuke again. He dodged, jumping backwards and jumping to a different branch, upside down. He jumped towards Grass Ninja and grabbed her around the waist, bringing her head down onto a different branch below, slamming 'her' head into it. Sasuke relaxed when he thought 'she' was dead. 'Her' body started to convulse. But then 'her' body turned into mud. Sasuke's eyes widened "A Substitution." he dodged kunai and shuriken aimed towards him and he used wire to swing around the tree.
Sakura the whole time kept thinking about Sasuke being in danger and kept asking herself, 'Where the hell is Kagome?' The grass Ninja punched Sasuke in the face then hit him it the stomach, punch his face again and kneed him in the stomach, making the Uchiha lay fallen on the ground. "Sasuke!" Sakura yelled, concerned about her crush. The Grass ninja walked towards Sasuke. "Well, I'm disappointed in you, I thought you would've put up more of a fight. I should just kill you like the worm you are." What the Grass Ninja didn't know was that Sasuke had placed some mini bombs on her clothing. They lit up and then exploded, making the Grass ninja cry out.
Sasuke jumped up and threw kunai with string attached to them making them wrap around the tree and 'her' body. Sasuke made hand signs and held his hand up to his mouth and blew. A scream rang through the forest. Sakura ran over to Sasuke. "Sasuke! You did it!" Sasuke bent over, breathing hard. "Sasuke, you okay?"
:::KAGOME CAME IN AFTER THE FIRE JUTSU:::
Kagome jumped down next to them, making no sound. "He's fine, Sakura, he just used a lot of Chakra." Sakura looked up. "Kagome!" She went to go over to her but stopped. Kagome's eyes were red and had a cat slit pupil, she had long fangs, long nails and her hair looked a little wild looking. But most of all, she. Looked. Pissed.
"Is this the… Thing, that hurt Naruto and you guys?" Sakura flinched back from her voice. She sounded pissed and her voice sounded like a person who had killed many people and was ready to kill again. Sasuke looked up at Kagome and noticed her eyes are just like Naruto's were, His eyes widened. "Y-yes." Kagome let a predator like smile grace her lips. "Well then, I guess I get the job of disposing its body." They both looked at her shocked. "What are you gonna do?" Sakura asked Kagome. Kagome let a dry humorless laugh pass her lips. "You'll see."
Orochimaru was gonna put the last part of his plan into action when he heard an unfamiliar voice. "Is this the… Thing, that hurt Naruto and you guys?" It was a feminine voice, but her voice sounded like she was ready and willing to kill. He looked up only to be shocked. She has the same eyes as the Nine-tailed brat. "Well then, I guess I get the job of disposing its body." Their eyes met each other's, red clashing with one yellow eye. 'Well, well, well. What do we have here? This is interesting.' He heard her laugh. "You'll see." Orochimaru leaned forward, breaking the wires around him. "Hmm, it's seems you have another friend." His voice faded from the female voice to his male voice. Sending shivers down everyones spine.
Kagome glared, she went to charge but Orochimaru did some hand signs that stopped them all from moving. Kagome let a loud growl out, her growl literally shaking the trees. Orochimaru jumped over to their branch to get a closer look at the girl. Kagome's eyes started flickering to her red eyes to her Kekkei Genkai. Kagome found out only a couple of days ago that she had one. Her's is like a Sharingan but also different. Instead of red, they are an orange color that is close to being red and instead of three black tomoe she has four black teardrops. Her Kekkei Genkai helps her manipulate all of the Elements. Like Earth, Water, Wind, Fire and Lightning, she can also copy Jutsus like the Sharingan.
Orochimaru looked at her, interested, and he licked his lips. Kagome recoiled. 'That is my new definition to Creepy.' Orochimaru grabbed her chin with his hand and made her look up at him. He let his other hand caress her cheek and trail down to her neck. Kagome was able to jerk her head away when he got too close to her choker. Orochimaru looked like he was more interested in her. Kagome looked down at the ground and let her Kekkei Genkai come to her eyes, and she used it to knock the Grass Ninja away from her with a Nature element and hit him with a tree branch.
Kagome closed her eyes and then opened them, her Kekkei Genkai not there anymore, and she did one handed hand signs to release her and the others out of the Jutsu the Grass Ninja put them in. Kagome turned around to Sasuke and Sakura and grabbed them around the waist and ran. She had a feeling that they needed to stay away from, now to be revealed as a guy, him. Orochimaru landed on a branch below and saw as she raced away. 'Hmm. I wonder what she is. Maybe I could use her.' Kagome sneezed as she ran and almost fell over.
Kagome ran to where Naruto was first, she let go of Sasuke and Sakura, and told Sakura to grab him. While Sakura did that Kagome pulled her daggers outs. 'He's taking him time but he's close.'
"Sasuke, get ready 'cause that Grass non is coming." Sasuke stood up and pulled out some kunai. What Kagome wasn't paying attention to was his clone coming from behind them. Sasuke had walked up so he was in front of Kagome. She suddenly yelled out when she was grabbed from behind, pulled to a chest and she was held so tight she couldn't move. Damn, he's as strong as a half demon.' So the only thing she could do was watch as Orochimaru told them his name and then did some hand signs and bit Sasuke's neck.
Kagome's (A.N, I'm gonna call it 'Altered Sharingan' for now. Come up with names if you want!) Altered Sharingan came to her eyes when she heard Sasuke cry out in pain. 'I'm. Going. To. Kill. Him.' Kagome was gonna make him die a slow and painful death. Orochimaru walked over to her, his eye wide because of what her eyes looked like now. 'Interesting, she would be useful in my plans.' Orochimaru did more hand signs and his neck grew. He got closer to Kagome and she panicked. 'I'm getting a seriously evil vibe from him. And I have a feeling I shouldn't let him do whatever he is planning.' When Kagome was almost free from the clones grasp, she felt pain in her neck. She looked to see Orochimaru biting her. 'OH MY GOD! THAT'S WHAT DEMONS DO WHEN THEY MATE' was the first thing that came to her mind. All thoughts about getting a pet snake completely left her mind.
Kagome whimpered when he released her, her falling on her hands in knees. Kagome's mouth was open in a silent scream. The pain was unbearable, she started scratching at her neck, cutting herself with her claws, and let out a cry. "AAAH!" Kagome wished she could fall into the darkness of unconsciousness, but, alas, she couldn't. Orochimaru chuckled. "We will be seeing each other soon, that is if you finish this test with the best score of all and defeat the Sound ninja who serve me." And with that, he sank into the tree branch. Kagome whimpered again. "Sesshomaru… W-Where are… You."
:::WITH SESSHOMARU:::
Sesshomaru had been knocked unconscious because Naruto had slammed into him because of the wind attack. "Sesshomaru… W-Where are… You." Sesshomaru jumped up. 'Kagome!' He shook of all the dirt and snake remains off him, and raced to Kagome, picking up her scent. 'Hang on Kagome. I'm almost there.'
:::WITH ANKO:::
"Why are you here? Are you here to assassinate Lord Hokage?" Orochimaru chuckled. "No not yet. I don't have enough followers to attempt that." He paused. "But I've heard such good things about this village I want to make it mine." Anko groaned in pain, and fell to her knees. "Aw, it's the mark isn't it? I put that same curse mark on a young man and young lady just a little while ago. They both are very promising." Anko looked back up at Orochimaru's yellow snake eyes. "You haven't changed I see. They both will die before they serve you." Orochimaru chuckled. "Very possible. I'd say the odds are one in ten against them. But they may survive like you did."
Anko glared at Orochimaru. "Sounds like you want them both badly. Huh?" Orochimaru put his hand on her cheek. "Aw, are you jealous? Is that it? You can't forgive me can you? For using you and then tossing you aside."
Anko denied him. Orochimaru explained why he wanted them both, told her not to end the Chunin exams and then left after threatening to end the Leaf Village.
:::BACK WITH TEAM SEVEN:::
Sakura was in between both the boys replacing wet clothes on their foreheads. "Sakura." Sakura looked up at Kagome. Kagome looked normal again, but in pain. She is leaning against the tree sitting down with Sesshomaru by her side, asleep because he had to carry the two boys and Kagome. "Yeah Kagome?" Kagome looked her in the eye. "Get some rest, I'll wake you if anything happens." Sakura nodded her head, the look in Kagome's eyes meant there would be no arguing, and went to lay down on the other side of the cave of a tree. But Sakura could barely sleep. The thoughts of someone attacking kept her awake through the night. Sasuke would groan in his sleep every once in a while. Kagome too, but she wasn't asleep.
Morning
Kagome silently called Sakura's name when the sun was up. "Sakura, wake up." Sakura sat up. "Kagome? Is something wrong?" Kagome shook her head. "No, not that I can smell… I mean sense." Sakura let the 'smell' thing slide. "Okay, then why did you wake me?" Kagome let a weak smile grace her lips, she was slowly losing consciousness. "Y-You need to t-take care of the b-boys." Sakura nodded her head. "Okay." Kagome then whispered to Sakura about the traps she set up. Kagome's senses are all discombobulated. She could hardly tell left from right. 'Damn, I'm gonna lose consciousness soon. Nngh. My neck feels like hell.' Kagome saw as Sakura made one more trap, but was in too much pain to tell her it was easy to spot.
She heard the bush rustle but she couldn't do anything about it. She heard someone speak, but she could hardly move, the pain on her neck is intensifying. 'All I have to do is stay awake. Th-Then I can hel-help Sakura.'
The sound of a tree log being smashed came to Kagome's ears. 'Log? Oh yeah, the trap I almost set on my self. Ugh.' "LEAF HURRICANE." Startled, Kagome stood. She looked out to see what was going on. 'The Green Beast is here.'
Kagome walked out over to Sakura's side. 'I won't be able to do much. Not with this pain.'
She walked in front of Sakura when the mummy told the spiky blue haired guy to go after Sasuke. Lee pulled out a branch out of the ground. 'Wow, he's almost as strong as a half demon.' Lee started talking about the attack he attempted to do when to first part of the exam. "You will not be able to do that to me." Kagome almost rolled her eyes. 'He… sounds to confident.' Kagome fell to her knees and next thing she knew dust was flying everywhere. 'Oh no, I fell unconscious.' She heard a weird sound and then Lee crying out.
Kagome went to try and wake Sasuke and Naruto up. She could tell that Sasuke was already slowly waking up, she was just trying to wake him up sooner. Seeing as it wasn't working, Kagome went to stand at the entrance of the tree/cave. Kagome smelt blood. Lee's blood. Kagome looked closer to see Lee bleeding from his ear. "What is sound." The mummy ask. "Vibrations." Sakura answered. "Yes, give the girl a prize. Yes the vibration of molecules in the air creates a sound wave." (Skipping explanation of the whole ear thing. Hands are starting to hurt.) The spiky hair guy was saying something, but a jolt of pain went through Kagome from her neck and she couldn't hear that well. She pick up something about 'won't work against', 'last years' and something about 'manipulating ultra sonic waves and air pressure'. Spiky hair pulled his hands out of the ground and crossed them in front of his chest. He then made a hand sign and something like air or sound came out of his hands.
Kagome was trying to move now, since the pain in her neck went away, and walked over to Sakura's side stopping in front of her to protect her. The Sound nine just smirked. "Now then little girls, its your turn." The mummy started charging them. Lee yelled out now while Kagome pulled her daggers out. Lee jumped in front of him, efficiently surprising them all. Mummy dodged and went to attack again. "Not as good as before. But still impressive you can move at all." Kagome tensed. Mummy put his arm by Lee's ear, the thing on his arm letting out some kind of sound. "Lee, no." Sakura whispered. Kagome visibly cringed. Her sensitive hear not helping at all. "Kagome are you okay?" Sakura asked from behind her. Kagome fell to her knees dropping her daggers to cover her ears.
Sakura saw Lee tense in pain. "STOP IT!" Kagome's head bent farther down, her chin touching her chest. 'Sakura, I know your telling him to stop, but, don't yell.' Kagome thought, gaining her hearing back. Lee fell to the ground. "Time to end this." Mummy said. He brought his hand back. "That's what you think." Sakura threw some kunai. Mummy blocked using his… thing on his arm. "Ah, I almost forgot about you two." Kagome picked up her daggers, intent on protecting Sakura and the two boys.
Sakura threw some shuriken but spiky hair blasted them back at them. Kagome went in front of Sakura and hit all the oncoming shuriken with her daggers. The female ninja appeared behind Sakura and grabbed her hair, Kagome went to attack but stopped when she held a kunai to Sakura's neck. "My my, with soft shiny hair. Instead of trying so hard to make your hair like this, you should use that time to train." The female nin looked up. "Hey Zaku, I know what will be fun.-" Kagome looked between them, her guard up. "-Let's make beauty queen watch as her friends are killed." Kagome let a growl pass her pink lips."Why not, sounds like fun to me." Spiky, now known as Zaku, replied. Kagome went to attack again but the female nin put more pressure on her kunai against Sakura's neck. Kagome stilled.
Sakura dug her fingers into the ground, crying. Kagome's eyes flickered, her getting mad. "Okay let's do this." Zaku said walking over to their hide-out. Kagome went in front of him, lifting her dagger, she glanced at Sakura. 'Sakura, think. Think! How can you get out of the situation your in?'
Zaku laughed. "Oh, you think you can stop me?" Kagome just growled, her eyes flickering again. Kagome also felt a dangerous aura coming from Sasuke. "Stay away." Sakura pulled out a kunai as the female nin told her it wouldn't work on her. Sakura just smirked. "It's not meant for you." And she cut her hair. Everyone stopped movement, watching to see what would happen next. Everyone was wide eyed. 'Was not expecting that.' Everyone thought.
Sakura stood up, her Hitai-ate falling to the ground. Kagome was pissed, she actually liked Sakura with long hair. "Kin finish her" yelled Zaku. Kin pulled out some senbon needles and went to attack Sakura. Kagome turned to Zaku. "While my teammate deals with yours, I'm the one you fight if you want to get to Sasuke." Kagome lifted her black dagger with the red dragon. "Fire Element: Draco's rage." Kagome whispered pointing her dagger at Zaku. Fire burst from the end of her dagger towards Zaku. He dodged and then watched in horror as the fire formed into a dragon and charged him, sending fire towards him. Kagome turned towards Dosu. "Nature element: Poison Sakura petals." Kagome whispered, holding her white dagger up towards him.
A bunch of Sakura petals shot towards Dosu. He dodged, using his Chakra to stick to a tree he landed on, but almost fell because of the nausea he felt in his stomach. Zaku had been knocked unconscious by a fire ball. "Do you feel sick? Does your stomach feel like it's going to empty out your breakfast?" As if on cue with Kagome's question, he hurled. Zaku had started waking up and got attacked by Sakura. Who then got punched repeatedly by Zaku. Kagome's eyes widened. 'Sakura!' Kagome couldn't move because of the shock running through her blood. Her eyes widened even more when Zaku went for an attack but was interrupted By Ino, Shikamaru and Choji. She sighed in relief.
Since Kagome wasn't paying attention, Dosu, who had recovered, had jumped down from the tree to punch her in her face. She hit the tree the two boys are under. An 'oof' was heard. "Kagome!" Sakura yelled. Kagome waved her had at her, telling her she was alright. They all went back to Zaku. What no one noticed was Kagome rapidly healing. Kagome almost yelled out in pain when her neck started hurting again. 'Why?' Kagome bent down, her forehead touching the ground, and grabbing onto her neck.
Kagome could hear Sasuke's heart slowly speeding up, his breathing too. 'He's waking up.'
Kagome almost laughed, even though she's still in pain, when Zaku called Choji fatso. Everyone knows not to call him fat. "Did I just hear that right? What did that guy just say?" Zaku made a 'huh?' and Shikamaru's face showed panic. 'Uh oh. He just pushed Choji's button big time.'
"You wanna try saying that again?" Choji asked Zaku.
"I said your better get out while you still can. Fatty." Zaku answered in a annoyed voice. Having no idea what he just did.
Kagome giggled this time. Even with the pain, she didn't care, she wanted to see all these guys get their asses handed to them. Choji turned around all of a sudden. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING FAT? I AM JUST A LITTLE CHUBBY, OKAY?" Most of the people who didn't know what was wrong just blinked. Kagome laughed. "Okay this just got personal. We fight to the death between Leaf and Sound!" Choji had fire of determination in his eyes. 'Alright!' Ino thought. "Good job, thanks a lot, now we gotta live with it." Zaku just got even more confused. Kagome laughed a little harder.
"Don't worry it won't be for long." Zaku said to Shikamaru's 'Now we have to live with it'. Kagome slowly stood up to help Sakura over to Sasuke and Naruto. "My pleasure." Choji said as he started doing hand signs. Kagome suddenly fell to the ground. "Kagome you okay?" Kagome smiled weakly at her. "Yeah, just a little in pain." Sakura nodded her head as she help Kagome sit down.
"Transformation Jutsu." Choji yelled, his body forming a round… Ball. (A.N, XD sorry, couldn't think of anything else to describe it.)
Choji suddenly pulled his arms, legs and head in to his ball body, rolling towards Zaku. "You've gotta be kindling me." He countered Chojis move with his sound waves. Choji jumped up and went to land on Zaku. Dosu went to help Zaku. 'Oh no you don't Mummy man.' Shikamaru thought, doing his shadow possession jutsu, holding him still. Choji almost landed on Zaku while Dosu put his hands above his head like a ballerina. (A.N, I love the people who decided to put this into the anime! When I first saw it… I laughed my head! SHADOW POSSESSION JUTSU IS AWESOME!)
"What is it why are you just standing there?" Kin asked. She then noticed Shikamaru with his arms above his head too. "It's some kind of jutsu." Dosu replied. Ino then did her mind transfer jutsu. She tried threatening the Sound nin. But they didn't care about that, they told them they were only after Kagome and Sasuke. "Did you really think you could beat us? Face it you ninjas are a bunch of hacks." Zaku smirked. "From a seconded rate village." Dosu continued.
Kagome remembered something. 'Oh yeah, I made a jutsu, because of Sakura.' She giggled.
"Uh. That's pretty tough talk." everyone look up to a tree where Neji is. "I guess that make your village third rate." Kagome's eyes widened. 'I didn't sense him. That must mean I'm going to fall unconscious soon.' Kagome grabbed her head. 'I'm gonna have to do this jutsu soon.'
CLIFFY!
VOTING'S FOR PAIRINGS HAVE COME TO AN END! I will not tell you what they are. I have three different endings for my story. But I will not tell you why or what there are gonna be like.
But I will tell you that the pairings for Kagome are between Gaara and Naruto.
Next chapter coming soon.