'Thoughts' "Speaking" Author's Notes/ Bijuu Speaking "Telepathic Talking"

A/N: Ah... I just realised there actually isn't a Jonin Exam, you have to be promoted by the Hokage or something like that but this is a fanfic so... on with the story!

Also, you're still here? Wow. This still make sense to you?


=Chapter 8: Preliminaries Continued!=

"Preliminaries Match 4... Start!"

"Formation Three!" The Kumo-nin shuffled into position at their leader's command.

"Gale Style: Laser Circus!"

"Plasma Style: Lion's Roar!" Tiger jumped in front of the attack, surrounded with yellow chakra on his right, red chakra on his left. He brought his hands together, forming the chakra into a lion's head, taking on all of the attacks. "Feel the power of this attack! Ha! Ha!"

'He's truly insane.' The three Kumo-nin thought, before jumping backwards to the edge of arena, observing their opponents.

Konan's paper had formed wings around her, with more paper forming into shurikens and some gathering in a ring above her head.

"Paper Shower!" Sharp paper pieces shot out of her wings, heading towards the Kumo-nin. The silent one jumped in front and did a few seals before a chakra shield erupted in to the air, stopping the rain of paper.

"Plasma Style: Lion's Beam!" A large beam shot out of his hands, creating contact with the chakra, absorbing most of it.

"Paper Shuriken Barrage!" The shuriken hit the shield, denting it more. Paper still gathered above her head, forming a deadly spinning ring.


=Kage Lounge=

"Kazekage-dono, what are you feeding your ninja?" Ohnoki enquired, still fascinated by the immense power radiating off the Chunins.

"And that Plasma Style too? I assume a Kekkei Genkai or Touta?" Danzo finally spoke up from looking at the fights. 'Suna seems to be hiding something and they're more powerful than mentioned from my spies.'

"One, I'm not feeding them anything, they trained to get this good. Two, I don't know, he never told me so I don't know."

"Some strong shinobi indeed, Kazekage-dono."


=Arena Floor=

"Gale Style: Laser Circus!"

"Lightning Style: Thunderbolt!"

The attacks shot towards the team, who quickly dodged it.

"Hey Konan, you ready yet?"

"I need more time!"

"Chomei!"

"Scale Powder: Blast from the Sky!"

The arena darkened as clouds started forming, spraying glittering powder in the area.

"What is this stuff?" A few powder landed on the Kumo-nin, a little confused at its point.

"Hmm... Absorption, Explosion or Sharpening?" The tailed beast pondered at these choices. "That would end it too quickly so... Sharpening!"

"Yeouch!" The three of them cried out, shaking off the now sharp glitter on them.


=Spectators Arena=

'Plasma Style... that jutsu again... an Akatsuki member... they're just toying with them...' The lazy genius finally got up and looked at the battle. 'They could easily end this battle... I bet but why?' He looked down at the fights below and saw more paper being added to the ring, with the other two defending. 'Meh, it's too troublesome to think about.' He went back to cloud-gazing, through the small holes in the walls.

Samui, however, was getting increasingly worried for her team. 'These people are monsters! What's wrong with them?' She looked at her team, panting for breaths near the edge. She swore under breath, as she saw the paper ring spin even faster than before. 'Just surrender guys... you've lost no matter how strong you are.'

"Oi Shino, you never told us you had a cousin in Suna!"

"No I don't, why? Because no one ever went rogue from my family and I have no other relatives recorded."

"Troublesome people..."


=Arena Floor=

"Paper Chakram..." The air spun faster and faster around it as she reared her hand back.

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"Launch!"

"Scale Bugs..." Bugs rushed out of her arms. "Chakra Ejection!" The paper earned more speed and velocity.

"Plasma Style: Lion's Fist!" Yellow flames formed around Tiger's hands as he charged towards them.

"That's it!" The three Kumo-nin stood side by side once more.

"Lighting Style: Joint Three-Way Barrage!" Chakra exploded from them, forming bullets and shooting towards the attacks.

The contact from them, sent air flying across the arena.

'This power... I love it!' Tiger poured more chakra into his attack, overcoming the lightning bullets.

"No way, he can't overcome this! More chakra!" The air heated up from the friction of the attacks, yet the bullets eventually lost power.

The paper chakram hit the three Kumo-nin cutting them in all places and sending them flying backwards. They landed back against the wall, chakra exhausted.

"Winner, Sunagakure Team 3 by knockout." Kakashi flickered behind the three Kumo-nin and flickered out, as so they wouldn't get destroyed more.


=Spectators Area=

"No mercy huh. They're insane and must have mental disabilities, at least that crazy psycho has." Kiba stared at the rejoicing team, wide-eyed.

"I can't believe they got taken down like that!"

"I wonder if they'll ever recover from those injuries... I'll go help the-"

"Wait, I think you're next, look."

"May Konohagakure Team Guy and Takigakure Team 1 come down please."


=Orange Flames=

They met up with the rest of their group in the stands, waiting for the next match after that was over.

He whispered into the air those two joint words and he felt a pat on the back, only to see no one there. "Do you think he's proud of us?" asked Menma out of the blue as the group settled down.

"Who?"

"Ero-sennin. He always strived for peace except never managed to complete it, however..." Menma looked over to Konan who had her eyes shadowed slightly. "...I'm sure none of this could've happened without sacrifice."

"We're going the right way to peace. I'm sure he is. Damn that 'Tobi'," Konan said before settling down and wiping her eyes.

"Hey those people... they're my old teammates from Taki and- oh it's her as my replacement."

"And they're up against pinkie, eyebrows and weapons. Who's gonna win?"

"Don't know 'bout you guys but I have my money on the Konoha-nin, no offence."

"Ah, it's fine, I was never close to my old teammates."


=Arena Floor=

"Preliminaries Match 5... Start!"

"Gate of Shock: Open!"

"What on earth is wrong with that spandex person? That's pure chakra radiating off him and he's blue?"

"Be careful minna, an attack from that could kill you, if not cause major damage."

"Well that's helpful sis!"

"You will now last a bit longer than originally in this match..."

"Triple Rising Dragons: First, Second and Third Scroll!" A barrage of weapons came from the three scrolls Tenten threw in the air, which the Taki-nin had a tough time dodging.

"Morning Peacock!" Lee kept punching the air, producing fireballs from the extreme friction.

"Water Scythes!" Water formed two scythe heads on the lower parts of one of the Taki-nin's arms. She brought them up and started slashing at the incoming fireballs.

"Cha!" The arena floor cracked and rocks shot out of the ground, heading towards three nin.

"Water Style: Water Bullet Jutsu!" The bullets got overran by the earth spikes, still charging ahead.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" The final Taki-nin had a water dragon erupt from them, turning all of the rocks into smithereens and still heading towards the Konoha-nin.

"Cha!" Sakura punched the dragon in the head, cancelling the jutsu and sending shockwaves through the arena.

"Y'know, you should add more to your dictionary than just 'Cha!'. You'll never get anywhere in the real-"

"Morning Peacock!" More fireballs came from the air, causing the arena to heat up even more. The first Taki-nin, again, sliced through all of the fireballs but their chakra were running dangerously low. "Konoha..." They saw Lee kicking the air and charging towards them. "Hurricane!"

The Taki-nin were sent careening backwards into the arena wall.

"Konohagakure Team Guy wins by knockout."


=Orange Flames=

Menma felt a pull on his chakra and stood up.

"Oi Menma, where you going?" He bent down and whispered in Dragon's ear, receiving a nod before he flashed away.

"What's he gotta do?" Fuu leaned in closer to Dragon to hear his whispers.

"Something's up in Uzushio."

"Ah right."

"He suspects it's Konoha but- never mind talk later, this place isn't secure."


=An Island off the Land of Fire=

Eight masked ninja landed on a large island, deserted for decades. They landed on top of a hill and saw the remains of Uzushiogakure, destroyed in the Second Shinobi World War, from fear of its inhabitants sealing abilities.

The midday sun seemingly didn't light up the place, still silent and wind whispering through the area. One of the masked ninja noticed something. A little pattern going into a bush and out the other side. He pointed and the group tore away the bush, showing a slightly moving pattern across the landscape.

One of the masked ninja touched the pattern, only to be electrified and being sent a few metres back. Another brought out a tag with a seal on it and placed it on the pattern. Nothing happened for a few seconds until the pattern started glowing blue and the continuation of it started shining into the sky where they saw it.

It was similar to the barrier around Konoha, except this one was a masking barrier, showing false images.

The remaining masked nin walked over and tapped their shoulders, giving them pieces of paper to write on. They worked in silence and they gave their slips to him, writing on them. He did a half hand seal.

"Ninja Art: Super Beast Scroll." A large bird erupted from a scroll behind his back, which he handed the slips of paper to. The bird knew where to go and rushed back to Konoha, the masked ninja still continuing their journey.

They worked on disabling the seal patterns, watching every single step. An hour later and they had disabled the first seal, only to be greeted by another, which they sighed at. They walked to it and a twig snapped in the distance.

The eight masked nin got into a fighting position and looked around them. They all looked towards the ruined town of Uzushio and saw a hooded figure walking up the hill towards them. They started weaving their signs, only to be stopped by eight orange chains bursting out of the ground and wrapping around their entire bodies.

"State your business here." The voice cut through the silence and almost had a little playfulness to it. No response from the ninja. "Alright then." A black orb appeared out of nowhere, shaping into a staff. The staff had, what looked like, a crescent moon on one end a circle on the other, with three rings on the left and right sides dangling off of it. "Looks like I'll have to do this the hard way."

He walked up to the restrained nin and tapped the circle part, with the small rings now floating equal distances from each other in the staff. "So Danzo sent you, huh. Well, I'm going to leave him with a small gift." Seven of the nin collapsed to the ground. "Memory Release." Their mouths opened and their most recent memories of where they were came out in thin air, before the figure brought up his staff and tapped each one, erasing them.

"You." He looked at the last nin with the scroll on the back. "You will have the small gift." He tapped the last nin with the circle side of the staff. "Memory Release." His memories came out and once again were destroyed. "Memory Implant." The last nin got knocked out at this and he saw all eight lying on the ground. He released the chains and bit his thumb. "Summoning Jutsu."

"Whadd'ya need gaki?"

"Take them back to Konoha please 'kichi."

"Sure thing boss." The summoning carried the eight nin in his arms and jumped away to the Land of Fire, more specifically, Konoha.

"Problem resolved, now time to fix this seal." The figure clapped his hands in the Snake seal, the landscape regrowing slowly around him as he repaired the seal.


=Arena Floor=

"Please may Sunagakure Team 2 and Kumogakure Team 13 come down please."

Dragon and his team looked at each other, nodded and jumped down to the arena, swiftly followed by the Kumo-nin.

"Preliminaries Match 6... Start!"

"Fire Style: Pure Fire Dragon Jutsu!" A large Chinese dragon, made of fire, came from Dragon's mouth, heading to the Kumo-nin.

"Water Style: Raging Waves!"

"Gale Style: Laser Circus!"

"Lightning Style: Shockwave!"


=Kage Lounge=

"My, my Raikage-dono. That's a wide selection of ninja you've got there."

"It is indeed. Both you and Kazekage-dono have a promising set of Jonins there for sure."

'Forget that. Where'd that Menma go... More importantly, how are my ANBU doing?"

A chakra signature entered the lounge and the Kages got ready to fight. The ANBU whispered something in Danzo's ear before disappearing.

"Sorry, but my village has matters to attend to right now." The man of not-many-words walked out of the door, leaving the rest of the Kages to watch the fight.


=Arena Floor=

"Earth Style: Pure Earth Dragon Jutsu!" Another Chinese dragon, made up of earth and rocks came up behind the Kumo-nin.

"Lighting Style: Barrier!" The two dragons continued their charge and got absorbed by the barrier around them, the barrier caster grunting in pain from the intensity.

The attacks dispelled and one of the Kumo-nin charged at Bird, unsheathing his sword. He brought it down to cut him in half, only to be blocked by Bird unsealing his own pitch-black sword. He jumped back to channel chakra into his sword, setting it aflame. The Kumo-nin charged back into the battle, the two swords colliding.

Bird only sneered at him, the Kumo-nin's eyes widening in confusion and shock as the flames around his sword slowly disappeared. Bird's sword started glowing red for a bit before turning back to pitch-black. He resealed his sword to bring out a different one, the same colour but having a pattern down the broad centre of it. It was a bit thinner than the previous sword but shone a bit more than it.

Bird charged back, the two swords clashing once more. "You're quite skilled in kenjutsu but not skilled enough." He swung his sword down to the legs, the Kumo-nin jumping back up and channelling more chakra into his sword. Bird followed suite and the two clashed in the arena, sparks flying and cuts happening every now and then.

Dragon sent a look towards Hare which she blinked back at, meaning: 'Absolutely no Ice Style whatsoever'. Hare jumped into the battle, engaging in a taijutsu fight. She brought her hands down for an uppercut, to be blocked by a kick to them. She used her foot to try to knockout some but they jumped in the air, missing it.

"Wind Style: Breakthrough!" The Kumo-nin got hit by the blast of air heading towards them, sending them flying to the kenjutsu fight. Hare jumped towards them, bringing a kunai out making marks on their Chunin tops.

"Lightning Style: Pure Lightning Dragon Jutsu!" Hare jumped out of the way and Bird brought his sword out, tip facing the incoming attack from Dragon. The jutsu lost power, being absorbed by Bird's sword. The sword started glowing slightly with a blue-yellow colour down the centre pattern.

Bird charged at the Kumo kenjutsu user, the two swords colliding once more. The Kumo-nin jumped back once more, getting slightly shocked by the lightning-enhanced sword. The two charged back once more, swords aiming at each other. Bird flicked his sword up at the last second, throwing the Kumo-nin's sword into the air and it shattering into pieces. Bird kicked the nin backwards knocking him out, Kakashi taking him to the side so they wouldn't get hurt anymore.

"Gale Style: Laser Circus!"

"Wind Style: Breakthrough!" Hare jumped in front, the wind roaring and disrupting the attack. "Water Style: Water Senbon Barrage!" Water senbon formed out of the air rushing at the last two Kumo-nin.

"Lightning Style: Barrier!" The senbon rushed into it, cutting through the weakening barrier.

"Watch behind you." The two Kumo-nin barely managed to see Dragon and Bird behind them, the last things they saw before their visions went black.

"Winner, Sunagakure Team 2 by knockout."

The three Suna-nin looked at each other before jumping back into the stands.


=Orange Flames=

"Good battle guys!" Team 2 were greeted by the ecstatic rest of the group.

"Too easy," the three muttered, taking their seats. A black flash later, Menma appeared in the midst of them and went to his place. He sent a look to the rest of them which meant one thing.

Danzo.

He looked over to the Kage Lounge and sneered, knowing that one Kage was missing.

"Please can Kumogakure Team 24 and Kirigakure Team 18 come down please."

"Alright, it's us now! Wish us luck!" Snake, Ox and Boar jumped down to the arena, followed by the Kiri-nin.


=Arena Floor=

'My, my we have a lot of strong Chunins this year, especially from Suna. Shame we'll have to fight them in the war. I hope not anyways.' Kakashi looked around seeing the two teams ready. "Preliminaries Match 7... Start!"

The three Kumo-nin waited for the Kiri-nin to start, which they conveniently did.

"Hidden Mist Jutsu!"

'Perfect.' The three Kumo-nin started smiling in glee as the mist started covering the whole arena. Three figures darted around the arena and the Kiri-nin stopped and realised their mistake.

"S-snake Paralys-sis." One of the Kiri-nin slumped to the floor and tried to get up, but their muscles weren't listening. "One down."

"Water Style: Water Scythe!" A green flash darted around the two remaining and headed for the one with the scythes. The two clashed, revealing Boar surrounded by a green colour. The scythe dispelled, much to the Kiri-nin's dismay. One of them reached into their pocket and threw some senbon, only for Boar to be gone. He reappeared behind the Kiri-nin with the senbon, and with a quick chop to the kneck, he was out.

The last one stood there in fear and started weaving some signs. "Water Style: Flash Flood!" Water seeped out of the cracks in the arena, it filling up. "Water Style: Water Manipulation!" As the flood rose, a circle of air formed around the remaining Kiri-nin, protecting her knocked out team.

She saw something in the distant water, heading towards her. She couldn't make out what it was and started sweating. She couldn't attack and keep this air bubble up. "Release!" The flood drained and scythes reappeared on her arms.

"Rashomon Chains." Chains sprouted out from the mist, wrapping around her and her team. The last thing she saw were some senbon coming out of the air and hitting some of her pressure points.

The mist disappeared and the crowd saw the Kumo-nin standing in their original positions, like nothing had happened.

"Winner, Kumogakure Team 24 by knockout!" You could tell that Kakashi was getting scared from the three Kumo-nin, emotionless and extremely sadistic. The three leapt back into the crowd and he looked back at the board.


=Kage Hotel=

"I see. So the team had no memories from their encounter there spare Sai?"

"Hai, Danzo-sama."

"Send another team, but make it... my top 20 ANBU."

"Of course, Danzo-sama." He disappeared in a sunshin of leaves leaving Danzo to ponder.

'So from Sai's memories, oddly enough, he saw some chains sprout of the ground and remembered some seal patterns, quite a lot of them.' He called for a scroll regarding all of the expeditions to Uzushiogakure. 'According to all of my previous ANBU, they all saw the same thing but Sai, however had one memory the rest did not have. So why would these ones have all of their memories gone?' He called for another scroll and saw the message, signed with Inoichi's signature.

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The Uzumaki are back, and with it the Uzumaki symbol with nine black circles surrounding it.


So... How'd I do? Good? Bad? Awful? Trash? Amazing? Tell me!

If you have any suggestions, let me know and I'll incorporate them if I like them!

And that's all for now!

See you later: Ja ne!