Discaimer: We do not own Naruto or any of the characters involved in this story the only characters we own so far is Yumi and Amy aka Yumiko and Ayame (and no not the girl from Ichiraku Ramen). Please can somebody comment because we're just beginners so we don't have all that much experience in writing stories. Also if we have a mistake somewhere please tell us because we might of forgotten to fix that in our editing. Thank You!- from the authors Jessica and Alexandria

The Preliminaries

I knew who the guy that attacked our group was, and I knew that Yumi wanted to know who it was, that's why I wouldn't tell anyone. I just wanted to know why Sasori wanted to take Sasuke, Yumi and I. Ino was walking around in circles, we had waited in the tower for three days now. Shikamaru, who was sitting next to me, was tired of Ino moving around so he used the shadow possession jutsu on her. I giggled as she struggled and complained at how annoying he was.

Writing on the wall appeared on the first day and we uncovered the code and met up with Iruka sensei. Now we were waiting in the main room separate from the other groups for safety reasons.

The door finally opened and we entered the arena noticing all of the groups. "SASUKE!" I yelled happily. I ran up to him and hugged him, like always, he hated my hugs and struggled free.

"What happened to you?" He asked examining my wounds.

"A crazy maniac tried to kidnap me!" I didn't realize Yumi was behind me.

"Wait!" She startled me half to death, "do you… happen to remember… who it was?" I looked at her and shook my head trying to not look guilty.

"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH. COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!" I turned my head letting go of Sasuke and looked at the coughing instructor.

"Okay, cough, now we will start the, cough, cough, preliminaries", He coughed three more times and said, "The computer will pair up who you battle." Shocker! He said a whole sentence without coughing! I giggled at my own joke. Yumi looked at me like, 'You are an idiot,' and I laughed and shook my head.

Like Mr. Cough said the computer paired off people two by two and quickly half of the group was being eliminated from the exams. After around 7 matches, I was paired with my sister. I looked at her shocked, and determined to win.

"You lose." I winked and licked my lips.

"Whatever you say Ms. In love with my brother"

"C'mon' drama queen, I deal with that EVERY day! Sasuke is the loved one of the world." I didn't even make sense to myself.

"BEGIN" The instructor coughed out but it was 100% understandable.

We dove forward to attack each other directly so it was a fist-to-fist attack but energy was being accumulated so quickly that there was a whirlwind of chakra and energy surrounding us. The energy changed colors from blue to purple to red and before we knew it everything around us exploded! We repelled each other around 20 yards away from each other like two magnets facing the same side towards each other. It was like an earthquake hit after everything cleared up. There was no longer a second floor and huge blocks of concrete were scattered around the area.

Now feathers floated from the sky, what, an attack at a time like this? You have GOT to be kidding me. When they reached me, I preformed the release jutsu; "RELEASE!" and the people with masks on, surrounded us. Gaara, who was injured from the explosion because the sand couldn't hold up the 100 ton pounds of concrete, yelled in pain. Yumi looked at him and tears began to trickle down from her eyes.

"Sensei?" Yumiko cried. So the sand people are behind this? There has to be a leader. I looked around trying to find a sign of a leader somewhere, but there was none in sight. I looked once more double-checking and this time I thought I saw Sasori again. Yumi faced her teacher crying and didn't notice Sasori standing in front of me. It has to be my imagination! I threw a Kunai at him but one of the masked ninjas blocked him.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" I yelled at him. I avoided saying his name because obviously Sasori had a relation with Yumi.

"What is it Amy?" She turned around slowly and Sasori managed to escape leaving the masked ninja in-between my sister and I. I noticed Yumi's teacher slip away taking Gaara with him. I ran past the ninja and pulled my sister with me until she ran with me.