High! Chap. 11 is up, with a new twist on the usual chunnin Exam, thanx to Naruto……. Asshole!
No, I don't own Sasuke, sadly, and thank god I don't own Naruto(the character, not the anime, I would love to own the anime)
Shinobi:The Next GenerationChapter 11: The Ultimate Torture, The Chunnin Exam Dance
Two days later, Sakura was released form the hospital and was almost immediately swept up and forced into shopping with Haru and Sakoia. As they expected, she was not pleased to hear about the dance… and even less pleased to find she had to wear a dress. She didn't even own a dress (Sakoia was shocked to hear this)!
Upon hearing this, this whole stupid trip got started. They wandered from shop to shop, running into their fellow genin, also trying to find kimonos, hakamas, dresses, haoris, etc. Asa and Ban purchased identical blue and yellow short kimonos, and Ara was trying on a dress the color of her violently purple eyes that clashed wonderously with her green hair. With each passing shop, Sakura became more and more pissed off, until..
"Okay! SCREW IT! It's this shop or nothing!" she sdreammed in exasperation. They entered the tiny clothes shop, crowding around qawping at all the colorful costumes. There, in the corner, was a navy blue yukata with strips of red and black slip slung across the waist, slightly dusty from having sat in the corner a while, ignored by the world. It fit her like a glove. Haru exclaimed, and showede her choice, a tan, full-length kimono with one shoulder and windblown blue sakura petals running the length of the skirt. Sakoia giggled, sporting a pink silk mandarin collar dress with slits so high up, they border on indecent, but showed off her trim legs.
'What ever. Let's just pay for these and get out of here." Haru said in unision with Sakura, growing tired of Sakoia's slightly whore-ish taste in clothes.
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Three hours later, Haru found herself sitting on the end of Sakura's bed as Ara did her makeup in the bathroom. Out of the blue, Sakoia walked nto the room and almost pushed her off the bed in her haste to annoy Sakura again.
"Sakura? Can I braid your hair?" she asked, as Haru attempted to rclaim her balance, but ended up falling off anyway.
"Yank it, and you're dead." Was all she said, and turned to help her friend back up. A few minutes later, they were staring at a crooked, loose braid with hair sticking out at every angle.
"Girlie, don't quit your day job. Your braiding is worse than a blind monkey's ."
She pulled it out and carefully tugged it back into shape, working slowly, and sprayed it with hairspray when it was done.
"Ready yet?" Ara stepped out of the bathroom, violently purple kimono in place, makeup done, and waited for the three of them to nod before heading out the door.
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Back at Sakura's house, the owner crawled out of her closet and released the bunshin. Laughing, she went to take off the yukata, but was caught mid-step by her sensei, and her "Best Friends".
Later, (Sakura gagged and tied, then DRAGGED to the dance) nothing was happening. The villages kept to themselves, and no one even mingled… Wonder why. Neko stood in a corner, wearing a long, asymetricly cut kimono tied with a gold cloth sash instead of her usual red one. Her mother's collar completed the outfit, a tiny pure gold chip dangling on a short, tarniched gold chain.
"Hay Neko! You want to-" Atsui atttempted to ask, but was cut off by a sharp,
"Leave my sight, now." And slowly backed away.
Finally, Naruto stood up, and bellowed. "If you all don't start dancing, none of you will pass. AT ALL!"
Suddenly the dance floor was full of couples whirling about, "dancing". Sakoia and Shio were atempting to slow dance to a very fast song, Sakoia wincing every other step, as Shio kept stepping on her foot.
"Hey Neko, You want to-", Atsui started again,
"Oh whatever!" They sped away, trampling some ninja from Waterfall, who didn't really care (they were too high to notice).
"Uh, hi! I was wondering… uhh.." The boy who had just walked up to Haru started to blush, and tumbled over his words.
"Sure, I'd love to." They left poor Sakura alone, too happy to be dancing with the Hyuuga to even notice when Neko and Atsui ran over his foot.
"Hi, my name is Kotaru, you're Sakura right? Would you like to dance?" he was trembling, but hopeful.
"Not particularly, but I think if I don't Ara will cut my head off." She replied, and they were off.
"Kotaru? Do you like snakes?" Sakura asked him innocently.
"Of course… why?" He asked carefully.
"Oh goody! Aoi! DON'T YOU DARE RUN AWAY!"
Aoi, who had been desprately trying to escape, was almost to the door when Sakura's voice hit his ears. Sakura's fan bit deep into the solid steel door just above his head, stopping him dead in his tracks.
"Kotaru, this is my snake, Aoi! Kotaru?" Sakura looked down to see her dance partner passed out cold at her feet. "Aoi, you cared him." She patted the snake's head, "Good Boy!" and promptly began to dance with the four-foot boa-constrictor, dissapointing the boys behind her (who had been the real reason Kotaru passed out).
"Okay, everyone, before we send you home, we'd like to announce to new chunnin!" Hinata announced, standing beside her graying husband. "Congratulations, Hyuuga Haru, nara Sakoia, Sabaku No Nekop and Uchiha Sakura!"
Almost immediately, Haru and Sakura were jumped by sakois, who was attempting to rearrange their internal organs in a "hug".
"Don't even think about it." Was all Neko had to say, and no one did….
Hooray! Chap. 11! Where are all my readers? Enjoy, much longer, ne? tell me what u think!