TWS 10
Hello Internet and all who inhabit it. First off I would like to apologize for the long time it took for the last chapter. It was my longest chapter to date and I lost my main writing environment aka School. I will try to have the next chapters out sooner. Also I would like to put out there that plans have been made for a One Piece and Bleach story for Drake and I would love your support on it. That is all for now. Thank you to all those who have favorited and followed my story,this is all for you all who read this and a little bit for me. Also I do not own anything. If I did I probably wouldn't be writing fics because these are for us poor people. So without further adieu.
The next chapter...
TWS 10
"Alright students!" Announced Iruka as he stood in front of the class. "It's finally time. The day has come for you to take the graduation test."
Everyone in the class was excited by this announcement. We had all been ready to become shinobi and after these long years it was finally time. Naruto was hands down the most ecstatic about the opportunity to graduate. He saw this as the first step to becoming Hokage. All the rest of our group were raring to take the test too, all for their own reasons. Ino and Sakura were both hoping that they would be put on a team with their Sasuke-kun. Choji was looking forward to becoming a powerful ninja just like his father and many others of his clan. Shikamaru just wanted out of the troublesome academy, of course. Kiba and Akamaru were eager to go out and fight strong opponents. Hinata was hoping to become strong enough to help her family and to gain the attention of a certain hopeful blond Hokage to be. Shino never really voiced any big dreams other than collecting rare bugs, to become a strong shinobi, and lead his clean in the future. Sasuke only ever said he wanted to become strong enough to kill a certain someone. I knew that Itachi-sensei was the one he was illuding too, oh how little he knew. And finally there was me. My big dream I had for becoming a shinobi was simple. Get strong and go along for the ride. No one could figure out what I meant, but Shikamaru like that idea besides the troublesome get strong part. Lazy punk.
The first test that Iruka explained we would do was a simple bukijutsu test. (A.N. FYI to those who may not remember from chapter five, bukijutsu is the throwable weapon art.) They had us stand in front of a lot of targets that were set several meters apart from each other. Each target at their respected range had a certain amount of points assigned to it. The target at ten meters were ten point, the one at twenty meters were worth twenty points and so on and so forth to the fifty meter target. We were given twenty five shuriken and kunai which we could throw at any of the targets of our choice. Our max score we could receive was 1500 points; however, the lowest score we could get and still pass was a 900.
We started with an alphabetical order which Shino going first and with me being last. I was last because here I didn't have a last name. Shino stood at the throwing line, picked up his ammo, and took aim. He released his weapons in a set pattern throwing one shuriken and kunai one at a time in groups of five. His results were quite good hitting the majority of the targets. A few had killing blows dealt to them while others had marks that would no doubt incapacitate the enemy. (A.N. All the targets are human shaped as to show where to it on an actual enemy. Their ninja, death and killing are in the job description.) Shino's score came out to be a 1,230 which in traditional grading would come out to be an eighty two percent. (82%, B.) It wasn't the best grade because I knew Shino was better than that, but I was also aware that the Aburames liked to keep their strengths secret, which was a good thing in a job that deception was key.
The next of the people worth mentioning was Choji. He wasn't the best bukijutsu user but he had something that many of us didn't. Massive strength. The Akimichis may appear to be overweight but there was a lot of muscle under their skin. Them kind of reminded me of a villian in a comic book back home. He was bald and wore a white suit that fought a blind guy who was like a ninja too. Go figure, but back on topic. Choji threw all his sharp projectile and boy did that strength come in handy. His marks weren't the most accurate but they did damage. Only scoring 975, five percent above a passing grade, he had broken the targets that he had hit in half. Choji rubbed the back of his head being a little embarrassed. But all the other students looked shocked by this happening. Everyone except Shikamaru and me of course.
Sakura was next and she was pretty much the exact opposite of Choji. While he wasn't accurate but made up for it with incredible power, Sakura was accurate to a tee, but lacked the strength to compensate. She hit the first closest targets but the farther ones she couldn't reach. She did however score a passable 900 (60%) so she could move on. The following classmate was Hinata and we all knew she would do great. What can I say other than Byakugan. Her doujutsu was an ace in the hole at this test and several of the students who are not worth mentioning, because who cares about them, were saying that it was cheating or that it wasn't fair. I told them that if we became shinobi then we would fight other shinobi and that our enemies would not fight fair so we shouldn't either. This made them shut up and think about the danger they were about to be getting into. After I dealt with the hecklers Hinata took her aim and produced a great score of 1380. (92%.) Those eyes of hers really were effective. Kiba was the next up and he went with his cocky overconfidence that he'd developed over the years with the classic Inuzuka pack mentality. We had all hoped that his mother or sister would break him of it but regardless he stayed the same. He approached the throwing mark and set Akamaru on the ground. His throws were strong and true earning him a score of 1125 (75%). Kiba was okay with that even though it was still a C.
Shikamaru was next to throw. Is there really anything more to say other than that his throws were lazy getting him a score of 1050. (70%.) Nothing more to say. Moving on. Sasuke walked up while looking like the brooding emo we all knew he his mark Sasuke took all his weapons at once and chucked them all into the range. He was the genius that people called him that was sure. His marks gave him a good score of 1425 (95%) giving him the top position on the grading roster.
"Hm." was Sasuke's only response as he sauntered back to where he was brooding earlier.
Naruto rushed up to his position as he was eager to get going and complete the test. He stood at the ready literally bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet getting ready for the go ahead. Iruka sighed as he handed Naruto his weapons probably mentally preparing himself for what he thought would not be a good run for the blond. Oh yea of little faith Iruka. Naruto choice to start with kunai as he aimed and let the knife fly from his hand. He quickly launched all the rest of his kunai in the time span of about ten seconds. He swiftly grabbed the shuriken and sent them to their targets. In the end Naruto scored the grade of 1335 (89%), which shocked Iruka, Mizuki, and all the rest of the class as well. Naruto just gave them a thumbs up and his trademarked fox like smile.
Ino jumped and was ready for her turn. She gave a wave and blew a kiss at Sasuke which of course he cringed at the action. Iruka signal Ino for her to begin then stepped back. Ino choose to throw her shuriken first then her kunai. Her aim was decent and she had more power than Sakura earning her a score of 1050. Ino strutted confidentiality back to her previous position as she smirked at Sakura and then batting her eyelashes at her Sasuke-kun. (A.N. It hurts me everytime I write that.)
Finally, it was time. My turn was now and I was ready to show them what I could do. Kenjutsu and bukijutsu were my best attributes and I was going to show them exactly why. I took my stance which was me just standing in front of the targets with my arms crossed. My breath was slow and controlled in order to slow my heart rate. Iruka handed me my weapons as my heart rate was at the lowest I could make it and still feel rigid at the same time. I took all but one of my shuriken in one hand and a single kunai in the other. I launched the metal stars in one powerful throw with an audible grunt of effort. The stars were not going towards any of the foreseeable targets which caused some of the students to laugh at what they thought was a horrible try. I then threw the kunai straight at one of the shuriken in the back of the pack. The knife bounced off the deadly piece of metal with plenty of force to redirect its course as it sailed right into the target. The kunai continued to bounce of off the rest of the shuriken resulting in the same exact outcome as the first projectile. Finally the kunai penetrated the fifty foot target in the outer edge of the bullseye, the shuriken had found themselves embedded in the center of the bullseye with five in each with the exception of the fifty target with only four.
Before anyone could comment on what they had seen, I quickly scooped up my remaining weapons and chucked the rest of my kunai with the remaining shuriken following. The shuriken bounced off the kunai in a similar manner as its kunai predecessor finally puncturing the last target in place of the missing one in the shuriken circle. The rest of the kunai had ended up in their respective circles on all the other targets. Everyone was gawking at the results of my performance. Everyone except Naruto, who of course knew about my strict weapons training. And I had also so used techniques and teachings from Itachi-sensei when I trained under him, that was a major boon in my favor. I walked back to my friends as many of them didn't know about my abilities with almost anything that is sharp and deadly. After getting over the shock of that display of deadly accurate weapon skills Iruka quickly servaded the targets and came to a conclusive score. 1500 points, one hundred percent. That's what I was talking about. After the bukijutsu test we moved on to the taijutsu portion of the tests. We came to the open field and Iruka and Mizuki stood in front of us all to explain what would occur.
"Alright, now the taijutsu portion of the exam. Now all you have to do is last five minutes in the ring with Mizuki or me. You do not have to beat us as it will probably not happen. But this is still only a spar so there is to be no intentional harm caused to either of or you. However, in the less possible chance you do beat us the only ways you can are through knock out or making one of us tap out." Explained Iruka as we all gathered around the fight ring. We ask stood ready to begin fighting. I knew that everyone would have their own interesting fighting style. I also thought that we would be going in the same order as last time. I was wrong.
"I've decided that we will be going in reverse order from the last test. It is important for a ninja to be kept on their toes and to never be comfortable." Announced Iruka as many of the other students were left a little shocked. This meant that I would go first. This wasn't really a bad idea on Iruka's part, it was actually a good learning experience. In our soon to be line of work, we would be required to be able to adapt to new and unforeseen situations. Leave it to Iruka to have one final lesson for us as we're taking out last major test. "So first up will be Drake facing Mizuki."
I stepped into the ring and faced Mizuki. He wore a smug grin as he knew how Naruto and I were friends. Iruka signaled for us to be ready so I dropped into my ready stance of having my feet a tad bit wider than my shoulders with my arms hang loosely hanging at my sides. Mizuki just stood with his arms crossed across his chest with a confident grin that just had doubt written all over it. "Hajime!" Exclaimed Iruka meaning the match was to start.
I ran straight at Mizuki as I cocked back my fist ready to punch. Mizuki seemed to chuckle at the sight of me running at him. He leisurely got into a defensive stance and awaited my attack. As I ran toward my opponent I cracked a smirk at Mizuki's apparent overconfidence. I was now right on top of him as I went in for the punch. Mizuki anticipated the punch and was ready to counter the blow; however, the punch never came. My attack was a simple faint, my real plan was now in phase two. I had dropped my fist and slide around to Mizuki's back. I then wrapped my arms around his waist as I hoisted him into the air and bent backwards. With Mizuki being taller than me, he was a grown man in his mid twenties, he took the entire force of gravity mixed my own strength. His head connected with the ground with an audible thud followed by a choir of wincing ohs from the audience. Before Mizuki could recover I quickly grabbed his arm with his face and my back to the ground. With my right hand I latched on to Mizuki's left wrist and fished my left under his arm and grabbed my right wrist. With my hands in place I then applied pressure to his arm by forcing his arm further behind his back and raising his elbow toward my head. This was the Kimura Lock, a rather simple submission hold back home but none the less dangerous. Mizuki started to move about trying to get out of the hold this only made it easier to sink it in. I could feel the tension in his arm as the continual pressure would eventually dislocate his elbow or arm and could even break a couple of bones. After about fifteen seconds Mizuki couldn't take the pain anymore and tapped the ground rapidly. As much as I would like to snap his arm like a twig I knew that it would hurt my grade if I did. With a sigh I released Mizuki's arm and stood up to receive Iruka grade. Mizuki grabbed hold of his arm as he tried to nurse his wounded limb back to its working condition.
"Now Drake was it really necessary to nearly break Mizuki's arm with that hold? He is you teacher and he didn't deserve that.", said Iruka with a sigh.
"Sorry sensei." I said putting on a smile that wasn't genuine at all. "However I believe that for a shinobi, no matter what a ninja looks like we should never underestimate our opponents. From what I gathered from Mizuki-sensei expression as the bout began, he seemed to be too sure of himself. If anything it was Mizuki-sensei's mistake for not being more on guard. Also I'm the biggest and oldest of the group, he probably should have been even more prepared because of this fact.
Iruka took in all my information and nodded his head in agreement. Mizuki agreed with Iruka but I could tell he held some anger from the experience of both being beaten by an academy student and begin told that he made a huge mistake that if done on mission could result in his imminent demise. Iruka say this anger too and told Mizuki to get over it which resulted in the entire class laughing. After the class calmed down we continued with the exam. Ino was next being last in the normal roster. She lasted the required five minutes mainly dodging Iruka as his had to replace Mizuki as he nursed his arm. Ino did get in some good strikes but nothing too powerful.
Naruto, still the true brawler at heart, his plan was mostly constant attacking Iruka from random directions. With his near endless stamina and chakra Naruto lasted the full five minutes and still wanted to keep going. He was disappointed at Iruka saying that he needed to let the others finish the exam. Sasuke's bout wasn't any surprise as he was the Uchiha prodigy. He fought well and lasted the time frame.
Shikamaru muttered something about this all being troublesome as he made his way up to Mizuki who had finally recovered from his injury. Ha, sucker. Shikamaru's fight was mostly him dodging Mizuki's strikes with his style which we had all dubbed the "Nara Lazy Style"™. When he did attack he only hit in critical points, looking for the best places to strike. His strike did deal damage but he still lacked the strength and potential in his strikes. However he still lasted his five. Kiba on the other hand had a blast just like Naruto. He launched into the fight with Iruka, but he wasn't as effective as when he fought with Akamaru. Kiba's white puppy couldn't fight with him since this was an evaluation of his power not his and Akamaru's. He used his family's four legged fighting style and his natural ability. Kiba passed with Iruka having to nurse some small cuts on his arm thanks to the Inuzuka claw technique. After Kiba's turn, Hinata timidly walked up for her turn against Mizuki. She took a big gulp as she stepped into her Jūken stance and activated her Byakugan. Mizuki seemed to be a little nervous as well no doubt because of the pain that came from the Hyuga clan's deadly fighting style. In the end though the match actually ended a minute early because Mizuki couldn't take the pain that was now coursing through his shoulder from one of Hinata more confident palm strikes. She of course had started to apologize as soon as she had saw that her instructor was in pain. She pasted because she showed exceptional precision with her strikes although she still hesitated in her attacks.
Sakura was the last girl on list and she looked as though she wasn't sure of herself, but less than Hinata. Iruka had dealt with his cuts and was now ready to continue. Sakura didn't seem to be ready to fight as she was fussing over her hair. Ino happen to change this; little did she know, as she tried to flirt with Sasuke and trying ask him out on a date. Sakura saw this and went ballistic. She charged straight at Iruka with all her rage and threw punches left and right. Iruka went straight into avoiding Sakura's blind punches which wasn't hard to do. However, some punches landed weren't very strong. As the last seconds of the match came ticking down, Sakura loosed one last punch in a ditch effort to do something. Unfortunately, Sakura hadn't looked at were her foot was and she over extended her body. This caused her fist to travel further down from where she aimed. THUD!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Screamed Iruka as his voice started to raise rapidly in octaves. Every guy in the class instantly grabbed their crouch, winced in pain, and let out a painful ooohhh at the sight of where Sakura's fist connected. Sakura didn't even apologize because as soon as the timer rang she sped off to get in a yelling match with Ino. Choji then got up for his match with Mizuki who still hadn't fully recovered from his Jūken strikes but he said that Iruka was probably in far more pain him. As the match began it was obvious that Mizuki was faster than Choji but underneath all of Choji's faa-big bones was a lot of muscle. Choji was the second most physically strong student in the group. I was first only because I was older and bigger but it was a close second on Choji's part. The fight concluded with Choji being very tired and Mizuki dawning some new bruises. Finally Shino's turn came and the end of the taijutsu test. Now the Aburame's were not very pro proficient at taijutsu. But they weren't completely unable to do it. Shino showed that he had some decent skill in fighting by keeping his distance and moving in when the time was right. He also place one of his insects on Iruka and used it to detect where Iruka was in the fight. Finally we were done with the outside test and the start of the indoor test would begin.
Alright people there is chapter 10. It's not all of the tests I'm going to be splitting it into to so you'll have the next chapter to finish it out. As always leave a review and follow and/or favorite my fic. And I will see you next time.
Mors Draco out. Peace!