Sasuke: A hero, huh?
Sonic: (grins) Yeah, jealous?
Sasuke: (rolls eyes) As if. You being a hero just solves the mystery around how you can fight.
Sonic: (ruffles Sasuke's hair) It's ok if you are! Look, let me give you an autograph.
Sasuke: Can you stop doing that!? And you know you're going to fight today against us in teams, or did you forget?
Sonic: (mumble)
Sasuke: (smirks) What was that?
Sonic: (crosses arms) I said that I didn't forget!
Sasuke: One more thing, you're going to lose.
Sonic: You can't see into the future!
Sasuke: (activates sharingan) Can I?
Sonic: (shrinks back a little) Can you?
Sasuke: (walks away chuckling)
Sonic: Wait! Can you?!
Chaos
I start to get very nervous at Naruto's words. Who knew he could hold a grudge? Also, the glints in the other genin's are creeping me out, especially Sasuke's and Neji's. I shiver and put up my hands.
"Hey, isn't that a little unfair? What, three against one?" I look at Kakashi then Tsunade, hoping they have some compassion.
They glance at each other, at the younger ninjas, back to each other, and share a sinister smile. Ohh….I don't like that.
"You're right Sonic." Tsunade sing songs. "In real life here, you can have way more than three opponents!" She claps her hands together. "Alright! No more teams! Everyone against little blue here."
That went the total opposite to where I wanted it to go! I stand up and try to plead. "Wait! I take that back! You don't have t-" Sasuke stands up too and puts a hand on my shoulder.
"She's right you know." I turn to him with wide eyes. "You don't know how many enemies you'll face out there, and believe me," He pauses and shifts his eyes toward the others, grinning. "none of us are complaining."
Ugh! Some help he is! I can really see the similarities between him and Shads right now…
G.U.N. Base
"Ah, so you have come to report your findings about the robbery yesterday at the bank?" The GUN Commander asks Rouge and Shadow, who have just walked in.
"Yes we have commander." Rouge answers. She sets down a folder full of files on the desk. Shadow waits silently beside her. "In these files we have all potential persons that could be suspects-"
"ACHOOO!"
Rouge jumps and both she and the Commander look at Shadow, who is rubbing his nose. "Shadow? Are you-"
"ACHOOO!"
Rouge, more than a little irritated that she got cut off twice, glares at Shadow. The one at the receiving end of the glare sees this and pinches his nose to prevent from sneezing again. He makes a 'go on' motion with his unoccupied hand.
She snorts and slowly turns back to the Commander, still eyeing Shadow. Seeing no incoming interruption, she continues. "As I was saying, we have found multiple individuals for the crime. Now I recommend we-"
"ACHOOO!"
At Sasuke's house, mansion, thing
Looking at Sasuke then everyone else, I cross my arms. This idea is ridiculous, but I have no choice in the matter. With a defeated sigh, I mutter. "Fine…"
Lee jumps up and smiles brightly; I have to look away if I want to keep my eyesight.
"YOSH! Now we all agree, let's go!" I grasp my ears and wince. Seriously, what do I need to do?
Sakura, sensing my distress, pleads, "Lee! Calm down! You don't want two dislocated shoulders, do you?" Whoa, I wouldn't take it that far. But the threat must have worked because Lee deflates and stutters.
"N-No…"
"Good." Tenten says patting Lee on the back. "Now that all the explaining is done, can we please go on to beating, erm, training Sonic?"
I sigh while everyone else laugh. "If y'all are done planning your gang bang, I would like to get this over with."
Kakashi stands up and picks up his book. "Alright, let's go to the training field!"
While we are walking, I put my hands behind my head and soak in the warm sunlight. The ground's still damp from the downpour yesterday, but hey, it doesn't matter to me. These are the types of days I just like to run or just take a nap on some random roof.
I take my eyes off the landscape and turn to my opponents for today. The girls are all whispering to each other like when Cream, Amy, and Rouge when they get together. Naruto, Kiba, Choji, Lee, and Shikamaru are joking around not unlike when Tails, Knuckles, and I are together. Well, Shikamaru is more like adding a comment every now and again. Sasuke, Neji, and Shino are all in their own little worlds silently walking along like Shadow when I'm not interacting with him.
Sighing again, I kick a pebble, wondering how they're doing. I'm feeling a little homesick myself. I miss everyone, even Amy a bit. Wonder how long am I gonna be here…wait, why am I even here? They say they want to test me, but for what? Shaking my head slightly, I clear my thoughts and decide to get to that mystery later.
Looking to my left, I see Kakashi reading that book he always has on him. His giggling and blushing keeps me from asking what it is about. I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.
Eventually we make it back to the clearing again. I see a pond at the far edge of the field. Note to self: don't go near the water, ever. How did I miss that the first time?
I look around the clearing and feel an irresistible urge to run. I walk up to Tsunade, giving in to the feeling. "Hey, do you mind if I do a little warm up?"
She sends a puzzled look my way, then shrugs. "I don't see why not." Hell to the yes!
I grin and jog in place for about thirty seconds. Wouldn't want to pull a muscle, do we? When I finish, Kiba comes up to me. "Now that you're done warming up-"
"Wait, you thought that was my warm up?" I chuckle when Kiba nods. "Well, watch this."
I take off in front of the trees lining the clearing to get maximum running distance. I laugh feeling the wind whipping across my face. It feels so good to run and the sense of freedom. Finishing about five laps of the huge field in ten seconds, I stop in front of everyone.
Feeling the tailwind brush against my back, I stretch. "Oh, that felt wonderful!" I start to walk to the middle, but not hearing following footsteps, I look back to see the others standing still. I raise an eyebrow. "Well, are y'all coming or what?" That snaps everybody out of their stupor, and they follow me to the middle.
"Sorry, but we don't normally see supersonic blue blurs around here." Sasuke comments.
Grinning, I poke him in his chest. "You better get used to it! Oh, and on that subject," I turn to Tsunade. "why exactly am I here anyway?"
She puts her hand on her hip. "Well, there are two reasons. One:" She raises one finger." Is that we want to see that if we need any type of help later on, we could call you. And two:" She raises another one and smiles sheepishly. "We really don't know how to get you home. The seal we used to get you is gone and I really don't think we can just poof you home since you are from another world all together."
Ok, I was following her until the last part. "What? You have no idea how to get me back home!?" This is bad. Dammit, am I gonna be stuck here forever?
"Hey calm down! I'm pretty sure we will find a way sooner or later." Ino speaks up. "Just get to know our world in the meantime. It'll be fun!" If you put it like that…I guess this counts as a little vacation time.
"Ok. Staying here for a while isn't going to hurt anything."
"G-Great!" Hinata cheers with a soft smile. "Y-You won't h-have a bad time h-here."
Naruto taps his foot and crosses his arms. "Can we get to fighting now? I'm tired of conversation!"
"I agree with him!" Kiba, Ino, Tenten, Choji say at the same time.
Tsunade grins evilly. "Wait a minute, I just need to explain the 'rules'. There are none! Hinata and Sakura get in on this one also!" What? I understand Hinata, but Sakura's ability is just healing. How is she gonna help in a fight? I voice my question and Sakura answers.
"I can heal people, but I have pretty strong punches too, right Naruto?" She holds up a fist and Naruto flinches, rubbing the back of his head unconsciously.
"Yeah! She can hit really hard…" Alright, not gonna let her near me in this fight if I want to win.
"Old Hag, can we start now? We have been standing here for forever!" Naruto whines.
"Shut up, Dobe. We have been standing here for only five minutes." Sasuke says.
"No one asked you!"
Tsunade rubs her temples. "Be quiet brat! Ok Sonic, you stand in the center and everyone else surround him while Kakashi and I watch from the same place as yesterday." They are going to surround me too? Just perfect.
I stand still while Tsunade and Kakashi walk away and the others circle me with grins on their faces. Well, I can't tell with Shino, but I think he is still miffed about his bugs.
Kakashi yells. "Everyone ready?"
There is a mixture of yeahs, of courses, and grunts while I just sigh accepting my fate. Slipping into my fighting stance, I answer Kakashi, "Let's just get on with it…"
"Then," Tsunade looks way too excited over there. "Begin!"
The first three people to move are Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto. They shout "Sharingan!" "Byakugan!" and "Multi shadow clone jutsu!" all the same time. Silently cursing, they rush at me. I can handle Sasuke's and Neji's eyes, but Naruto actually got me with that clone trick.
Sasuke reaches me first so I dodge his punch, block his kick, and kick him myself in the side to send him sprawling. Next is Neji and he tries to aim for my chest like last time. Having learned my lesson, I dodge as he keeps aiming for the same spot. "Can't turn your back on me now, Sonic."
I glare at him waiting for an opening to strike…there! I punch him hard in the stomach, doubling him over, sending him to his knees. He is gonna be there for a while.
Then Naruto and his five clones come charging and I spin attack all of them, including the real one. The five clones poof while Naruto stands in front of me with a hand on his bleeding arm.
"Fang over fang!" Kiba's voice surprises me and I turn around 180 just in time to see Kiba and Akamaru coming straight at me. Waiting until the last second, I step to the side to let the two soar past and hit Naruto square in the chest. I look over my shoulder to see Naruto and Kiba tangled in each other and chuckle. I wish I had a camera right now.
I hear the buzzing almost too late. Looking to the left, I see not only bugs, but also weapons of every shape and size, courtesy of Tenten, flying towards me. I cannot get distracted here. Curling into a ball, I let loose another spin attack to get rid of the bugs while dodging all the weapons Tenten let fly. How many does she even have?
I uncurl just to hear a duel battle cry, so I glance around to see Sakura and Lee coming at me with their fists raised and ready. Letting them come, I dodge at the last minute only to get punched in my cheek and stomach at the same time. Why do I have a sense of déja vu here?
To answer my question, the Lee and Sakura that hit me poof in a puff of smoke. Shadow clones? When could they- I look up to see the real Sakura and Lee with Naruto smirking victoriously. Inwardly face palming, I rub my cheek and grin. They are in for something new today.
Taking off, I run fast circles around them. The wind picks up, and then eventually forms a small tornado to pick up the ninja. I hear them yelling as the tornado's winds scoop them up off the ground. Still running, I see Ino a ways away with Tenten and Shino helping Kiba and Akamaru, obviously they fared worse than Naruto. Grinning, I send the tornado their way and hear them yell too. It keeps going a little past the tree line and gives out, dumping the victims in the trees, dangling.
The ground starts to shake. Goddammit, what now? I turn around to see wrecking ball Choji rolling my way. I sweat drop, is this guy serious? He needs to get a new move or something! After simply sidestepping him, Sasuke's shout reaches my ears.
"Grand Fireball jutsu!" I glance from Choji to in front of me to see a huge hot fireball flying towards my position.
"Oh sugar honey iced tea!" It's way too late to jump to the side! I want to hit myself for how dumb I am; they used Choji as a distraction!
I fall to the ground just as the flame passes over. It is so close that I feel the heat on my back and am pretty sure that some quills got singed. I jump back up. That was a close one!
Before I sigh in relief, Neji is right in front of me. I kick him back after he hits my right arm with his palm. Now it's useless, ugh! Things turned ugly real quick.
Neji, apparently having done his job, steps back and let Sasuke, after regaining his breath, attack me. We go fist to fist, but he is taking full advantage of my disability by going for my right side mostly. I break into a sweat trying to keep up with him. He eventually lands a punch on my left cheek, the same one hit earlier, which throws me backwards.
I let out a pained grunt as I land hard on my back. I need to eat what they're eating if that means strength like that! Struggling to stand because of the swaying ground, it takes a while to get balanced. When I do, my left leg goes out and I fall back to the ground on my knees, not expecting the lack of support. What happened? Neji was nowhere near me! The cause of my non-responding leg then steps into view.
"Hinata?"
She smile sheepishly and giggles a little. "W-we have to fight like it's l-life or d-death, remember?"
I curse. To tell you the truth, I had completely forgotten about her. She was smart, biding her time for the right moment to strike. Shaking my head, I give her a cocky smile.
"It's not over yet!"
I try to stand back up to find that none of my muscles are responding. The smile is completely gone by now. My arms, head, legs, everything are all stuck. What the hell is going on?
"Why can't I move?" I mutter out loud. Thank God I can still move my eyes and mouth.
Looking up, I see that the tornado victims have finally rejoined us. Then everyone forms a semi-circle around me.
"That was an impressive fight." Shino says and all the others nod in agreement.
"Yeah!" Exclaims Sakura. "Who knew that you could create a tornado out of thin air?"
"And spin in a ball like that for attack and defense!" Tenten adds on. "Very impressive tactic for getting rid of Shino's bugs and dodging my weapons!"
"But," Neji starts, stepping forward, smirking. "We caught you." I am about to respond, but Sasuke steps up besides Neji.
"Ah, our plan worked perfectly." Plan? What plan? They didn't have any time for one! Sasuke smirks seeing my confusion. "We, Neji and I, thought of one when you first stopped paying attention to us. That was when Naruto attacked you with his clones. After we made it, we started to spread it to people you were not fighting at the time. Everyone eventually got it and the plan includes you eventually getting caught by Shikamaru's shadow." He glances at the tree line beside me and I follow his gaze to see a dark shadow connecting me to Shikamaru.
Dammit! Forgot about him too!
Eyes locking back onto him, Sasuke's smirk gets wider. "Now it's over."
What can I do now? I can't move anything!
"It's alright Sonic! You'll get us next time, maybe." Naruto brags, with a face splitting grin on his face. Ugh! I have to have something, some…where…
Wait, I have my Chaos emerald in my quills! I forgot about it. Which I don't know how, I should've felt it in the shower or something, but whatever. I have a chance!
Smirking back, my eyes show pure excitement. "Are you sure about that?" Everyone looks confused while I close my eyes and focus on the hidden light blue gem. It starts to radiate its energy and I hear Kiba whispering.
"Is it just me, or is the back of his head glowing?" Oh you don't know half of it Kiba. Time to steal my rival's signature move!
Chuckling, I open my eyes. I glance at all of them and finally settle on Sasuke. "It's time for…"
"Wait." Naruto looks confused. "What are you doing?"
My grin just got wider.
"CHAOS CONTROL!"