Haroki: Yo Yo yo! So Sorry for the wait, I totally had so much on my plate these past.... weeks.
Kiba: Youre a dunce -_-
Haroki: SHUT UP! Being 14 and in Algebra two and the Health Science Academy sucks, okay!
Gaara: She owns nothing except .. well You know.
Haroki: On with the story! :)

The Story of a Lost Soul, Chapter 10

Kairi groaned in her head and pounded on her thigh once, her fist balled tigthtly. 'Damnit to hell and back!' She thought, practically screaming in her mind. She winced at her own loudness. She'd answered more then she thought she would've, six of the 9 that were on paper. She figured that even if she got the tenth one wrong, and if the test was graded according to an even point ratio, she'd have a sixty, if she couldnt answer the rest. But she thought that the tenth question might be worth fifty, if so, she was screwed if she got it wrong. She half-groaned, half whined in her mind as she watched the boy next to her, Shei-in's pencil scurry up and down the paper adding all the answers like it was any other old test you'd have in the academy. Kairi bit her lip as she watched the paper mock her.

"Twenty Minutes." The proctor called. Kairi now nawed on her lip, she was so worried. She went to pick up her pen again and sand wrapped around her wrist. She stared at the sand, dumbfounded for a moment before sensing danger. She tried to grab the sand that wrapped around both her wrist and pen, but this did nothing. An eye ball appeared infront of her, it looked like it was made of sand, she was slightly mesmorized by the green color. It was a shade of green, almost seafoam green, but completely different at the same time. She'd only ever seen that color once before in her life and in her dreams, it was her favorite color. In her trance she slowly began to lift a hand to touch the eyeball, sand began to coil up towards her, it then shot at her eyes, and before she could even manage to blink a red tendril that she was oh too familiar with, sheilded the almost matching red orbs. She bit her tongue to hold back a shocked gasp while she snapped out of the self-induced trance. Mentally she cursedd herself for getting mesmorized by a color.

'What do you think you are doing, Shukaku! This is MY host, you dare to harm it, you arrogant Raccon dog!' The voice of the TsukiOni hissed at nothing Kairi could tell. Kairi glanced around nervously with her eyes to make sure she was the only one that heard the voice. After, she rolled her eyes at the thought that someone might possibly hear it.

'Im doin' what mah shell told meh ta' do, Tsuki, so let meh do what I have ta' do, got it?' The other voice replied, assuming it was the Shukaku TsukiOni mentioned. Kairi liked the weird dialect. It was differet from any voice she'd ever heard, but what she was stuck on was the voices name.

'Shukaku' She thought, not thinking that TsukiOni and Shukaku could hear the thought.

'Yeah, brat, Shukaku. He's the annoying demon in your little friend.' TsukiOni replied. Kairi glanced around the huge room again and saw the red head that she wanted oh so desperately to talk to. He was clenching his fist and a light mist of sand swirled around his body. The sand started to retreat but she grabbedd some of it before it could slip of her desk completely, this slightly startled him, she held it to her mouth.

"Dont leave me, please...Gaa...ra" She whispered into it. She noticed the red head shoot up straight from where he was sitting. She let the sand go, expecting it to go back to its owner, but to her surprise, it wrapped around her wrist as a bracelett. Kairi ran her finger around the bracelett, the front had a small rose bud on it, and slowly it opened. She remembered the rose she'd given him and smiled. Once again, she picked her pen up and began to write again, attempting to figure out problem number three with her new founc confidence. She still had three-the one she was working on-, five, six, and nine to finish.

'Times up. Put your pencils down and turn over your test." The Proctor, Ibiki, Called. Kairi winced, wishing for only five more minutes. Ibiki talked to all the genins, Kairi nervously fiddled with her pen, and looked slightly to her left, the boy sitting next to, Shei-in, was sitting calmly, twirling his pen around his fingers. After a few moments of Ibiki-san speaking to the class, mulitple people rose their hands and left. One boy who apologized deeply to his teammates and sounded veryupset. Kairi held back watery eyes as she thought about Zakoshi and Koru. What would they do if she rose her hand and they were forever unable to be a chunin team? Kairi shook off the thought and opened her mental link 'Kokoro' so she could speak with the boys, this time, the special jutsu worked. Before she could even say anything to her friends her eyes flashed over to the orange covered arm rising into the air. Kairi followed the arm down and saw the blonde hair that she desperately was hoping she wouldnt see. She didnt want Naruto to quit, he was so strong. He slammed his hand down, startling Kairi, and preached his speech about never quiting.

'He's awesome!' Kairi shouted through the bond, forgetting that she was connectedd to the boys.

'Cool down, Kairi, you fallin' in love?' It was Koru, Kairi sneered in her mind and he chuckled.

'Kairi, do you need something?' Zakoshi asked almost worried. He knew that unless Kairi really needed something she wouldnt use Zakoshi's and Koru's chakara. The user lost chakara, but the two receiving the link lost slightly more, for whatever reason. Kairi believes Maru did that so that when a team is together, the weakest of the chakara users can lose the least amount of chakara, but this wasnt much of a problem for the three.

'She's probably just checking up on us Shi.' Koru chuckled 'Shouldnt it be the other way around? I mean, youre makin us look bad, Hime!'

'Oh shut up, Koru. How many did you guys answer?' She asked pretending to pay attention to the purple haired woman whoo had entered the room in a loud and obnoxious way.

'I finish all nine.' Kairi felt slight pride reminating from her friend.

'And you, Koru?'

'...uhh... you first' Kairi giggled from the avoidence of the question.

'Hm, I had just finished the first part of three when he called time. So I finished six and about a quarter. Now, how many?' She returneed to the previous question.

'Uh...four...' Koru murmured. Kairi giggled but reassured him that theyd be okay.

Once dismissed Kairi released the bond, and the three rejoined each other and filed out to the small opening by a fence. A sign above it read 'Forest of Death'.Kairi let out a shudder at the name and the ominous feeling the entire forest gave off.

"So, we get the form, read said form, sigh said form, turn in the form, get a scroll, and we're done?" Koru said it more as a relay of the directions, not a reassurance or command. Kairi wasnt really paying much attention. The brunette was lagging behind her teammates when she saw a flash or red splattered white, She chased it into a small area surrounded by some bushes. She chased the small creature before she finally got close enough to pounce on the thing. It let out a muffled meow of both fear and pain. She pulled her self up to her knees while keeping the mammal close to her chest.

"Shhh, its okay, dont be afraid little one, no reason to be afraid." She cooed trying to calm it as best as she could. It writhed in her arms and she felt a sharp pain dig through her thumb. A yelp tried to leave her light pinkish lips but she held them together tight to not frighten the little kit. "See, its okay, little guy, its okay." She whispered. The little mammal was very cat-like. It looked like a little fox-kit, but white with a bblack striped tail which at the end looked like it had been dipped in black paint. It licked her thumb cautsiously and she smiled down at it.

"May I call you Ashita? It means tomorrow, as in 'There's always a tomorrow'. Nice huh?" She asked smiling, The little creature mewed and licked her hand again. Thats when Kairi remembered the red splatter, she removed her other hand saw blood on it. She gently turned the little kit to see the other side of it. Blood covered his snowy velvet fur. She held two fingers to the little kits side she knew enough of healing that with a little pressure, and the right chakara she might be able to heal the small wound. She pulled out her canteen after healing it and spread the water over it, rubbing lightly so she could remove any dried blood. "Better, baby?" She whispered. It let out a happy sheerful chirping-meow. Kairi stepped up to stand and looked around herself, she'd become lost in her surroundings and no doubt her friends were looking for her. So oshe took the intiative, and used an anchient menouver. She kicked off her shoe and it flew in one direction, foreward and slightly to the left. And she followed it.

"So, did you sign yet, Temari?" Kairi jumped at the voice, she looked over a bush and saw three sitting there. A red head, a blonde, and a brunette sat in a circle.

"Yeah, Kankuro, I just did." she replied sneering at her brother. Kairi was holding onto a high limb of a tree so she could see them more clearly. She turned around to hearing a crack and saw Koru. When she turned back she noticed to three were gone and she tumbled out of the tree.

"Damnit Koru! I was so close!!" She shouted. He gave her a confused look and she shrugged it off.

"Okay, sigh it." He shoved the paper to her as they walked to the area where Zakoshi sat with a few of their belongings. Kairi did so and handed them to Zakoshi who she trusted more with paperwork. Koru decided it was him that was going to get the scroll so the three went up, Anko Mitarashi checked the paperwork signatures and another jonin gave them a scroll.

"Its a Heaven scrool, so we need an Earth scroll." Kairi said, taking the scroll from Koru once she was standing in the middle. THey headed to their gate, and waited for the signal to enter.

Haroki: Well, theres Chapter 10. Hope you enjoyed:)
Kairi: Reveiw Or I will kill off Gaara!!
Haroki: KAIRI! Im sorry, she didnt take her medicine today.
Gaara: Bye.