Happy Little Girl: Hi everyone! My lord it's been forever I'm SO sorry I haven't been updating. I didn't forget you, but I was just focusing more on one single story than just distributing all of my attention between my 3 stories. SO here's the next chapter. Another thing was, in these past few months I've had a rough time with family deaths. But time heals all wounds, so enjoy your new chapter and don't forget to R&R!

"Talking"

"Thinking"

"Inner"

Sakura P.O.V.

I plopped ungracefully on the bed that our hotel came with. Over the three weeks while we were back in Ame, everyone in the organization seem hell bent on us working on 2 hours of sleep a day. I was almost glad to be back in Konoha. Shiki and Aiuno suddenly jumped on my back. Over 250 pounds were suffocating me, and my voice was muffled by the comforter.

"Sa-Ku-Ra-Chan! The third round is about to start. We need to go!" Shiki screamed. He was also now jumping on my back in a hump like motion. Aiuno rolled his eyes and pulled a book out of nowhere and began reading it.

"mfffmfffffmFFF!"

"What was that Sakura-chan?" I could feel his smirk.

"MFFFMFFFFFFFMFMF!" I began wiggling trying to get them off me. Aiuno finally jumped off after several minutes, but Shiki had me in a koala like hold. We rolled off the floor and began struggling for dominance. Unfortunately the hotels door was seven feet wide and we rolled through it. Down the stairs and landed smack onto the tile floors. Shiki finally let go of me in a groan of pain, I had landed on top of him so he broke my fall. Getting up off the floor I pulled Shiki up and called Aiuno down, we didn't want to be late.

My battle was fourth out of the 12 that would take place. Aiuno's was first, and Shiki's was 6th. I laid half over into the stadium as Aiuno fought the Uchiha. I closed my eyes and groaned in complete boredom, I wanted to get this damn thing over with. I could feel Shiki laughing at my lack of patience. I opened on eye and halfheartedly glared at him. The first match lasted about 20 minutes, that didn't include the damn half hour the Uchiha took to arrive with his perverted sensei. His dramatic entrance in his tight black leotard made half the audience do an extreme eye role. Even his teammate, the Kyuubi, was embarrassed for him.

Within the first five minutes the Uchiha was in a black orb of poisonous gas. But I had to admit, he was slightly impressive. Holding his breath for this long was quite a feat to accomplish. Aiuno gave up that technic so he pushed the orb into the wall that surround the arena and jumped into the small bunch of trees. Than began the game of cat and mouse, Uchiha would seek while Aiuno hid. This lasted for about 13 minutes before I screamed, "God dammit Aiuno finish this now so we can become chuunins and go back home!" Finally he round house kicked him in the face knocking the Uchiha out cold and winning the match. I screamed in joy and began waiting as the next match started. Well if you could call it a match… it was between bug boy and the guy that looks like a cat. Kitty gave up making bug boy a chuunin I guess. (Insert sweat drop) The next battle was between this lazy genius and this sand girl with a giant fan. L-O-R-D did this match last forever and half. It was like watching paint dry with these two. Back and forth they did nothing and it drove me CRAZY.

Finally it was my turn after the lazy guy quit. I whooped in joy and didn't even bother using the stairs to get into the arena. I jumped over the railing and scaled down the wall creating a trail of dust behind me. Sprinting to the proctor I impatiently waited for my opponent, who was getting a pep talk from his sensei. I gave the puppy dog eyes to the proctor who finally yelled at the Kyuubi and his perverted sensei. When it finally began I popped a few smoke balls from my pouch, threw them on the ground and disappeared. The Kyuubi was coughing by the time I was fully concealed under the ground. I burrowed deep beneath the dirt and began digging a channel away from the Kyuubi and the proctor. I stopped when I hit the south wall of the arena. Pulling myself out I gecko climbed up the wall and was glad that all eyes were on the Kyuubi who was showing off and trying to find me. Pulling out a small scroll from another pouch I released one of the seals and pulled out a bow and a small quiver of arrows. Pulling out a small vile of poison I began to set the plan in motion. Taking an arrow I dipped the tip into the vile and set the arrow.

Pulling the string back, I breathed in and steadied my hold. Breathing out I released the arrow, it sailed through the air and hit him in the shoulder. He fell down and began violently twitching on the floor. I heard a female scream and beg someone to help him. Sealing away my weapons I jumped down from the side of the wall and shun shinned over to the Kyuubi. I was pushed away by medics and hauled by ANBU. My hands were cuffed behind my back and my weapons taken away by the time I was standing in front of the Hokage. He glared at me harshly, "What in the name of Kami do you think you're doing, attack a genin like that at such a dangerous level. "

I stared at him blankly in response. "I wasn't aware that the rules applied to everyone except the Konoha genin. The rules state to win a match the opponent must be dead or unable to battle. I was merely trying to be a chuunin, and the fact that you're doing this to me violates my rights here and I'm sure the Kage of my village with see this as a threat. You have 1 of 2 options. You let me go, promote me to chuunin, and leave me alone to be with my team mates. Or you don't let me go which means Konoha will be in a war with Ame and can result in a Shinobi war. And it seems like you're still recovering from the last one."

He sighed and motioned the ANBU to return my weapons and let me go. Rubbing my wrist I looked over into the arena. The entire audience was staring at us. Sighing and shaking my head, I shun shinned from the Kage box and into the competitors box. The proctor finally moved on to the 5th match which meant my team was almost over and we can begin our plan. The 5th match was between the Hyuuga boy and some random ninja I had no interest in. The Hyuuga boy easily defeated him and Shiki's match was up. Slipping him the vile I nodded at him and began sneaking out of the arena. Slipping through security I sprinted towards the hospital. I used a Henge on myself to change into a 10 year old with green hair, I convinced the nurse to tell me where the Kyuubi's room was. Groaning when I saw that a nurse was already there, I pulled out a kunai and stalked towards her. After slitting her throat while muffling her mouth, I could finally get to the Kyuubi's bed.

I slowly unconnected the various tubes that were inserted into his body, when everything was unattached I slipped my arms underneath his neck and knees. Carrying him bridal style I jumped out the window of the hospital and began sprinting towards the forest. Half way there a gigantic snake blocked a math. "Mother fucker." I cursed underneath my breath. Groaning I switched Kyuubi to over my shoulder and pulled out a spider puppet. Opening the back, I stuffed his body into the cargo holder, closed it and began riding the spider out of the village. I could see Shiki and Aiuno in the distance, but unfortunately the one tailed wasn't in sight. I sped up the puppet but before I could reach the exit I was blocked by a toad sage.

He had long silver hair and red lines underneath his eyes. I did NOT want to deal with this right now. I hopped off the spider and pulled out a scroll and unsealed another puppet. This one had the size and weight of a full grown black bear. I controlled the bear to attack the sage at full speed. He called out a medium sized toad to block the attack but the puppet tore right through it. The toad laid bleeding leaving the sage vulnerable. I knew he had no room to summon one of the bigger toads and I could see he was worn out from fighting before. I thought I had him beat until I heard the smashing of my spider. I turned slowly and saw a dopple ganger of the sage pulling the Kyuubi out of the spider. "NO!" I screamed. Letting go of my control over the bear I ran towards the duplicate holding the Kyuubi. Pulling out fighting fans, I swiped at him. But he obviously out matched me and quickly defeated me. I was kicked back towards my team mates barely conscious.

I felt the chakra of the Kyuubi leave the area and I knew the mission had failed. I let my family down, and I failed to beat a high ranked ninja. Danna will be ashamed of me, and Leader will severely punish us for our failure. I felt Shiki pull me on to his back and we began our trek home. Our heads hung in shame, and our minds clouded with failure and the thought of the punishment that would soon come.

Happy Little Girl: I hope you liked it, I'm so sorry it was short but I was on limited access over my computer this spring break due to my family thinking I need some sun shine and exercise. Don't forget to review this chapter and I'll need 7 reviews till I start the next one. I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful day/night. Bye 3