Clang! Clang! Clang! Shinta hammered away at the new tanto she was making. She wiped the sweat off her brow and put the hot metal in the cool water. That is when Keiichi burst through the door. "Honey... are you sure you don't want a drink?" He was limp and holding a bottle of alcohol.
"For the last time Keiichi, I don't want any of that shit," Shinta said walking past him and onto the roof.
"Come on baby," Keiichi followed her, "Ever since sensei talked about Chuunin exams, you haven't dranken any..."
"That's because I was trying to train," Shinta said preparing some hawks for flight, "I need to prepare for the next exam by spying on my competition."
"Hey! Just... just because I was beaten by a... a BITCH," Keiichi shuddered, "Doesn't mean I'm not as good as you! You can take a swig ya know. Hell, Kioshi drank with me when we came back... and you KNOW how religious he is."
"Forgive me father, for I have sinned," Kioshi said in the middle of a forest in a full lotus position.
"Don't be sorry," said a raccoon coming out of the forest, "You should be proud that you are going to the third exam."
"I know father, but little Sukoshi got hurt," Kioshi replied, "I feel so ashamed that I let that happen to my brother."
"Don't feel bad for me," the little raccoon on Kioshi's head said, "I'm all better now, see?" The little raccoon rolled in Kioshi's hair.
"Now I need you to stop apologizing and start training Kioshi," the elder raccoon said, "You can't let the Araiguma clan look weak during the Chuunin exams."
Kioshi got up, "Thank you father Tanuki. You are the best Nature Father I could have."
"All right son! After much thinking, I think I figured it out!" Kei told his children.
"Figured out what dad?" Kou asked confused.
"I figured out how to keep using your twin jutsu even though Ko was knocked out of the Chuunin exam!" Kei exclaimed.
"It wasn't my fault!" Ko cried.
Kei got out a scroll. "What's that for?" Kou asked.
"Well you know about summoning jutsu, right?" Kei asked.
"Yeah, you use some of your blood to summon an animal that one has contracted with and it will fight for the summoner," Kou explained.
"Correct, but did you know that you can also summon people?" Kei taunted.
"People! Are you saying that I'll summon Ko?"
"Exactly," Kei smiled.
"All right!" the twins high-fived each other.
After a day of traveling together, Mamoru and Arisu stopped in an empty field. Mamoru took off his shirt to reveal a summoning circle on his chest. Mamoru took out a kunai, stabbed his hand, and then commenced with hand signs. When he was finished, he slammed his hand on his chest and a man appeared in front of the two. The man was clearly from the Hyuga clan, and wore a Leaf headband with the Leaf symbol crossed out on it. "Mamoru? What is it?"
"I've passed the second exam of the Chuunin exams and I wanted to train with your father," Mamoru replied.
"Who is she?" Mamoru's father asked.
"My teammate, Arisu. She wants to train with us as well."
Arisu bowed, "It would be a great honour if I were to train with you..." Arisu searched for words because she did not know Mamoru's father's name.
"You can call me Hitsogia," Mamoru's father's said, "But never call me Hyuga."
Yuu flipped through channels on the couch with a bag of potato chips. Boss Man flung open he door to the house. "Yuu, Yori, Guerrilla, I got a mission for us."
"Whaaaaat!" Yuu complained, "This is our month off, we should be resting, not going on missions."
"Get off your lazy ass Yuu," Boss Man commanded, "While you rest, everyone else is training. This mission is going to be your training."
"But..." Yuu started but Yori stopped him.
"Stop fighting with the man Yuu. There's no changing his mind. And besides," Yori got up and stretched. "This mission could be," Yori rolled his eyes, "Fun."
"Hey Masaki!" Takeo exclaimed in a hospital bed when Masaki entered the room.
"Hey Takeo," Masaki replied," I just thought I would take a break and come to visit."
"Thanks. So how are you preparing for the third exam?"
"I have to replace the puppets that were broken during the second exam," Masaki explained, "I'm making new ones so my opponents will have to keep guessing."
"You're not training with Satoru?" Takeo asked.
"No, he's off doing his own thing."
Satoru, wearing civilian cloths, entered a dojo. There were many monks there training their hand to hand combat with one man at the end of the building overseeing the training. "Hey, uhhh, is this where I challenge the dojo?" Satoru asked scratching the back of his head.
The overseer jumped all the way from one end of the building to Satoru. "I am the master of this dojo," he said, "Are you sure you want to challenge me? You looked scrawny." The members of the dojo laughed.
"Oh, I've been training real good like," Satoru said innocently, "I think I can do it!"
"You know if you lose, you have to spend the rest of your life in this dojo right?" the master warned.
"I'm aware," Satoru smiled.
"Then let's fight!" the master said as he punched at Satoru. Satoru dodged and the master quickly replied with a kick. Satoru blocked the kick but was punched in the face and flew backwards. The master stood over Satoru, "It looks like you have some training to do," the master laughed. Satoru's body then turned to sand. "What?"
Satoru dropped from the ceiling and did hand signs. "Earth Style: Earth Bind Trap." Four rock pillars trapped the master.
"This dojo is hand to hand combat only!" the master yelled, "No ninjutsu allowed!"
"Oh, I know," Satoru said doing hand signs, "Earth Style: Duel Trap." Four walls rose up around the two. "I was never after your dojo. I was after something much more precious."
The other members of the dojo surrounded the earth cube ready to attack Satoru when given the chance. "What are you doing?" the master commanded.
"You see, I lost a heart a couple days ago," Satoru replied, I'm just trying to replace it. And you looked like you had a strong one." Satoru smiled and took off his shirt revealing his rib cage and internal organs. Screams came from the dojo.
"Do you see our target?" Boss Man asked on top of a building.
"Yeah," replied Yori, "The one in the large hat. Curi the immortal. Apparently this guy has been in the bingo book ten different times yet he keeps coming back to life some how."
"We just need his head, right?" Yuu asked.
"That's all the mission says," Boss Man said. Guerrilla jumped from the building onto the busy road and slammed Curi into a wall with his spiked club.
The group jumped down into the crowd of screaming people to see the carnage. Curi's body was limp. "Well it looks like Guerrilla did the job," Yuu said getting out a kunai to take off the head of their target.
Hours later of screaming, the walls of Satoru's cube crumbled. The master's chest was ripped open and he was still trapped in the pillars. The monks started to attack Satoru and beat him up. Two monks grabbed their master and transported him away to medical care. Satoru's body, however, turned into their master's. The monks stopped and the body the monks were carrying spun around throwing kunai and killing the two monks. The body then turned into smiling Satoru and the monks started to run towards who they now knew was their enemy. Satoru did hand signs and pressed the ground, "Earth Style: Fissure Jutsu!" The ground opened up under many of the monks and they fell in. Satoru ran out of the dojo and the rest of the monks followed. The dojo exploded when Satoru ran out destroying the rest of the monks. Satoru rested and looked up to the sky to see a single hawk in the air.