Chapter 11
We were extremely lucky that we didn't meet anyone during our trip to the tower. I mean, we had a run-in with some bugs, but nothing else.
We stood in front of the tall building, as if afraid what was going to happen if we walked inside, then,
"Well, what are we waiting for?' asked Aika, "Let's go in!"
And she strutted toward the entrance. Inside, we saw this large poem-like thing framed, and put on the wall. Hikara looked at me.
"Should we open the scrolls, then?" she asked. I nodded.
Slowly, I pulled out the heaven scroll, and Hikara pulled out the earth scroll. Amaya copied us, since she was holding both. Slowly, we peeled open the scroll, and looked at it.
"Its, it's a summoning scroll," said Ryota.
And indeed it was. A few moments later, there was a pop, and two men appeared out of thin air. One was Nemseri-sensei, and apparently Amaya's sensei.
"Well done you six," said Nemseri. He blew his hair out of his blue eyes, only for it to fall back again.
"Wait, why are you here?" I asked.
"The spell was designed so that chuunins could greet you at the end of the test," said Aika's sensei, "Congratulations, you've all passed the test."
"Yay!" said Hikara, accidentally letting go of me.
It was apparent that my legs still weren't strong enough to stand on. "Yaaaah!" I shouted, as I fell to the ground.
Nemseri-sensei laughed. "How much lightning have you used today, Tsukiko?"
I looked at him, raising my eyebrows, "Just enough to make me like this, right, Amaya?"
I looked for her, and saw her walking away with Aika, Katsu and their sensei.
"Okay, never mind for that plan. But seriously, not that much."
Nemseri laughed again, a laugh that made half of the girls in Kumo squeal. Nemseri was the youngest chuunin in Kumo, and a lot of girls had a crush on him. He had long brown hair that covered his eyes, making him a target for most of the boys and me. But he was a good sensei, so I got over all the girls being mad at me for no apparent reason.
Nemseri-sensei pulled me up, and leaned me against him, all the while talking to Hikara.
"So I see you got the 'helper-scroll," he said.
Hikara looked at him, confused. "What?" she asked.
Nemseri snorted, "Of course, they didn't tell you. Beforehand, jonin from Konoha buried four scrolls. If you saw the scrolls, then you'd know that Anko lied when saying that there were 13 sets of scrolls. Actually, there were only 11. They buried them to decrease even more, and to see how well your tracking skills were."
Hikara grinned, "I sat on it."
I grunted, "We can't waste time here, let's go inside." Nemseri shuffled me to the door, but I stooped him, and tried to stand on my own.
"Hm, a little wobbly, but I really don't need to be seen being almost carried through a door."
And, slowly, we went through the door that would take us to the next level.
