First time for everything...
Shikamaru was ready at 5 AM at the spot where Kakashi told them to meet. He yawned as he walked to the spot, which wasn't much of a change, he was tired all of the time. 'I wonder if I should have woken Chouji and Ino up' Shikamaru thought to himself as he reached the spot. 'Well at least I'll get to watch the sunrise, it makes the clouds beautiful colors' Shikamaru sat down and leaned up against a fence waiting for his team-mates. Shikamaru began to doze off when he felt a pebble hit him in the head, looking to his left he saw Ino and Chouji walking down the path towards him. 'Shikamaru!! Why didn't you come get us!?' Ino yelled at Shikamaru 'We're now two hours late!'
'You were too far away...it would've been way too much effort, besides the guy isn't here yet' Shikamaru answered.
'WE LIVE A BLOCK AWAY EACH!'
'And your point?' Ino dropped her head in defeat 'I shoulda known, you lazy bastard.'
'Look who's talking, you're the one who's late.'
'Shut-up, by the way what's wrong?' Shikamaru's face was staring at the clouds, 'I hadn't fallen asleep but somehow two hours have passed by. Did Asuma-sensei use that technique?'
'Maybe, but that takes a lot of chakra out of him...hehe...I'll bet Sasuke and his team are a bunch of pushovers. Asuma-sensei will make short work of them' Chouji said as he took out a bag of chips and began to munch. 'Ya know Chouji, you must have a special ninjutsu that allows that bag of yours to never run out of chips' Ino poked fun.
'Shut-up' Chouji responded blankly.
'Quiet Ino' Shikamaru agreed with Chouji. 'But at least its better then listening to her talk about Sasuke, then she'll never shut up' Shikamaru whispered and giggled to Chouji who joined him in the laughter.
'I heard that you piece of ...' Ino was stopped when Kakashi put his hand on her shoulder.
'Now now...no fighting or you'll never win' Kakashi scolded jokingly.
'Who cares if we win' Shikamaru asked and stated all at the same time.
'Well...this is your chuunin exam' Kakashi answered.
'What..?' the team asked with their mouths dropped to the ground.
'You heard me, if you can capture my bells by the end of the day...you'll become chuunins, that suit you?'
'OOOOOOO, this is my chance to show up Sakura and win Sasuke' Ino thought to herself clenching her entire body.
'Alls we gotta do is get the bells huh?' Chouji thought to himself.
'This better not make me break a sweat' Shikamaru said out loud.
'By the way...aren't you a bit late?' Ino asked knowing she backed him into a corner 'you can't be that good if you got here 2 hours late. This'll be a piece of cake.'
'heh...only stupid people wake up to get anywhere by 5 AM' Kakashi answered with an obvious smile and a closed eye. Shikamaru let out a sigh.
'You guys have to give me ten minutes to hide, think of it as a game of hide & seek' Kakashi continued to smile. Kakashi jumped off and hid, for twenty minutes nobody moved in Shikamaru's group. 'What're you doing? Shouldn't we get going?' Ino demanded
'I don't really want to move' Shikamaru said bluntly 'I don't care if I get chuunin.'
'WELL I DO SO LET'S GO!' Ino grabbed Shikamaru by his earrings with Chouji following not too far behind. 'I have an idea' Shikamaru slapped Ino's hand away after about 2 minutes of dragging.
'What is it?' Chouji asked. Shikamaru got on one knee and beckoned his team-mates to join him 'Here's what we do. The village is too large for us to search as a group' Shikamaru pulled out three kunis attached to exploding notes 'One for each of us, we split up and when we find him we throw it into the air and it will explode allowing our team-mates to find us' Shikamaru gave one to Ino and one to Chouji 'we can't beat this guy without working as a team, besides I don't want to expel too much energy' Shikamaru let out a little smile.
'Good think your here Shikamaru, I wouldn't have ever thought of that' Chouji said taking his kuni. The three of them tapped their kuni together and jumped off in different directions.
Kakashi was walking down a crowded street, he wanted to become inconspicuous. 'Heh, I might even have time to get some ramen before the find me.' Kakashi walked into a restaurant and passed by Chouji, Kakashi played it cool like he didn't even notice. Chouji was holding food in both hands eating it quickly. 'Wait a sec...aren't you?' Chouji looked behind him and didn't see anything. 'Huh...must be seeing things, I guess I'll keep looking' Chouji walked out completely missing Kakashi clinging onto the ceiling for dear life. Kakashi dropped down and walked out back into the crowd. Kakashi was walking around for about 2 hours when a little girl came up to him and asked him if he would play with her.
'I don't see why not' Kakashi smiled at the little girl 'What do you want to play?'
'Oh I don't know...' the little girl said. Suddenly she slapped him on the chest, Kakashi noticed her hand slide down and take one of his bells. 'Tag your it!' the little girl yelled and ran into the crowd.
'Awwww...shit I shoulda seen this coming' Kakashi scolded himself as he chased after the girl jumping from rooftop to rooftop. 'Looks like I'll have to use this' Kakashi did some hand seals and lifted his head protector off of his left eye. With his sharingan and the Jutsu he is able to see the line of chakra connecting the little girl to her controller. Kakashi saw the line leading about 10 blocks north and 4 blocks west 'Guess I'll have a little catching up to do.' Kakashi put his head protector back down over his sharingan eye and began roof-hopping to his target, Ino.
The little girl got to Ino and started walking toward her unconscious body. The little girl dropped the bell on the body and released her Shintenshin no Jutsu. When Ino opened her eyes, she realized she wasn't in the ally anymore. She was on a rooftop, a good look around and she was able to get her bearings. 'I'm on the roof of the ally, but I didn't cast my Jutsu from here...' Ino pondered. Suddenly Ino jumped on the roof opposite of her, Ino felt like she was looking at herself in the mirror. Then Ino noticed the other Ino had two bells on her belt and a puff of smoke showed the bell Ino for who she was...Kakashi! 'What...how did you!?' Ino almost fell off the roof in confusion.
'Well you see, I found where your body was, and moved you...' Kakashi sat on the roof.
'But I gave the bell to my body!'
'Nope, you gave the bell to me' Kakashi stood up, did some hand seals and a poof of smoke turned him into Ino. Kakashi turned back into himself and jumped away. Ino was standing there speechless thinking about what just happened. Then Ino's eyes got wide with horror, she remembered dropping the bell on her body. A closer examination of her memory in her mind's eye she noticed something awry....her body already had a bell on the belt!
'AHHHHHHHH!!!!!' Ino yelled as she jumped after Kakashi.
'Finally, all this spying is hard work' Shikamaru said to himself. He had spent the majority of the day following Kakashi waiting for the exact right moment to ambush him. 'It should be easy to get the bells with my Kagemane Ossan.' Kakashi was sitting on a rooftop looking around, not really paying much attention to anything. Below him was a crowded street, Shikamaru was watching him closely. Finally he saw Kakashi move, Kakashi jumped onto a roof close to Shikamaru and asked 'How long are you going to watch me before you do anything?'
'How did you see me?' Shikamaru knew this was the time. Kakashi would spend enough time explaining for Shikamaru's Kagemane Ossan to catch him. Kakashi tapped his head 'My secret' and jumped into the crowd. Kakashi was standing in the middle of the crowd smiling at Shikamaru. 'Damn he's good' Shikamaru thought to himself 'he's standing in a large enough crowd that I won't be able to capture him. My Kagemane Ossan can't use people's shadows for transport, it would take control of them instead. And I do not have enough chakra to take control of a street that crowded' Shikamaru decided on another tactic. If he can't take control of Kakashi alone, then he'll use his trump card. 'What's he doing?' Kakashi scratched his head after watching Shikamaru throw a kuni into the air. When it got above the rooftops it exploded, Ino and Chouji were well on their way to the site.
'Just stay there' Shikamaru kept saying to himself as he watched Kakashi motionless. Kakashi was watching Shikamaru closely, he knew the boy was a brilliant tactician so he shouldn't make any brash moves or else he'd be caught. Suddenly Kakashi noticed two kuni flying toward him, Kakashi threw two kuni and all the kuni fell harmlessly to the floor. Ino was standing on the rooftop above Shikamaru, Kakashi looked around for another ambush attempt and he noticed Chouji in the crowd throwing a kuni. The kuni missed completely and hit a wall harmlessly, 'I guess that boy's not very good at distance...I can use that.' Kakashi jumped onto the roof across the street from Shikamaru and Ino and jumped from rooftop to rooftop away from them.
'It's getting late, we need to end this soon' Ino told Shikamaru.
'I agree it's about 6'o clock and we only have about two more hours before sundown. I can use my shadow spell better at this time' Shikamaru responded.
'Think we'll be able to get him?'
'I don't care, I just want to end this soon so I can get some sleep' with that said Ino dropped her head in defeat. The three jumped after him the order was Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji. As they were chasing Shikamaru came up with a plan, 'Ok this will be a rooftop battle because he doesn't want to get any pedestrians involved. I will go first and try to catch him with my Kagemane Ossan, if I catch him we can avoid any useless fighting. If that doesn't work you two jump to his side, Ino you take his right and Chouji you take his left. I want you two to pummel him with Kuni, Chouji you can't use any of your Justus, if you use you your Baika no Jutsu you could crush a house and that would be disastrous. Ino you can use your Shintenshin no Jutsu and try to take control of his mind if you wish, just don't miss or you could hit Chouji. I will use kuni and try my shadow skills, hopefully we can overwhelm him and make him misstep. When he does BAM! We've got him and it's all over, got it?' Ino and Chouji nodded in acceptance.
The three noticed Kakashi had stopped and was standing about 10 roofs ahead of them waiting for them. Shikamaru let Chouji and Ino go on ahead, they flanked his left and right while Shikamaru threw a kuni and let his Kagemane Ossan fly forward. Kakashi did a back flip high in the air, dodged the kuni and continued to flip. Ino and Chouji noticed he was doing some hand seals, but the speed of his back-spin made it impossible for Shikamaru to see. Ino and Chouji just got into range of Kuni throwing when Kakashi finished his Jutsu. He put his hands over his eyes and pulled them down hard. Kakashi lit up like a light bulb, making all the shadows around him push back. He was in a blinding force-field; no shadows could get within 10 feet of him. Ino and Chouji were able to throw two kuni each before they were blinded by the light. Shikamaru tensed up when the light hit his eyes that he pushed the Kagemane Ossan too far to fast. Shikamaru noticed it hit the light shield and go around the side with the rest of the shadows. Then Shikamaru lost sight of his shadow, he decided he would keep it out there when the shield dissipated it would be easier to hit Kakashi unawares. Ino decided she would try her hand at mind control, she did her hand seals and shot out her Shintenshin no Jutsu. Kakashi was still moving and it missed completely, Ino could make out the silhouette of Chouji.
'Chouji get out of the way!' Ino screamed in horror.
'I can't move!' Chouji screamed back.
'My Jutsu! It's got Chouji stuck!' Shikamaru realized too late. Ino fell to the roof unconscious Kakashi noticed. 'Hmmmm...I wonder what she hit to knock herself out?' Kakashi wondered as he saw her fall. Because of the light everybody's vision was less then perfect, and Kakashi didn't notice the kuni flying strait for his head until it was too late. Kakashi's metal plate in his headband is what saved him from a Kuni in the brain. Kakashi noticed that Chouji had thrown the kuni, 'I see she hit him.' Kakashi did a quick hand seal but nobody could see what it did or what the seals were.
'He must be making another light shield' Shikamaru realized while throwing kuni at the center of the light. Kakashi continued to dodge the kuni thrown by Chouji while Ino was asleep. After a couple of minutes Chouji jumped at Kakashi in an attempt to grab the bells in the chaos of the light and flying kuni. Kakashi grabbed onto Chouji's shirt and threw him into a pile of trashcans. Ino finally got up after Chouji was in the cans, Ino was out of chakra but still had plenty of kuni. She flung all of them but Kakashi dodged them all with a single kuni. When she was out of kuni Kakashi flung about 7 kuni pinning her clothes to the roof. Ino was out of the picture, she couldn't move her arms or legs because they were pinned so tight. Finally the light went out and Shikamaru could see, but he had to pull his shadow back to conserve chakra. Shikamaru rubbed his eyes to get the spots out, when he took a better look he saw an army of Kakashi's. There must have been 100 of them, then Shikamaru realized what happened.
'When he did that quick hand seal after Chouji hit him with the kuni...that wasn't to continue his shield. It was to create shadow clones!' Shikamaru understood now. 'I give up, you've beaten us. It's too close to nightfall to continue this and I don't have enough chakra to take control of all your shadow clones to find the proper you. You win.' Shikamaru admitted defeat and turned around. Shikamaru heard a lot of tiny explosions and felt a hand on his shoulder. 'You've done very well, you'll make a great chuunin one day.' Kakashi and Shikamaru helped un-pin Ino and get Chouji out of that trashcan.
'Awwwwww...we failed the chuunin exam!' Ino kicked a can that was in her path.
'No you didn't' Kakashi corrected her.
'You mean we passed!?'
'No you didn't.'
'Well what then? We didn't pass and we didn't fail? Then what?'
'This wasn't a chuunin exam' Shikamaru jumped in before Kakashi could answer.
'You've got to be kidding me! We did all this for nothing!? I coulda broken a nail!' Ino complained.
'Yea well, you guys did well enough this time around. I think when the actual exam comes around you all will do wonderfully' Kakashi said while looking up at the starry night sky. 'Come on, I'll buy you dinner' Kakashi patted Chouji on the head.
'Yay!' Chouji let out a loud happy bellow.
'Sounds good' Shikamaru said looking at the ground smiling.
'You owe it to us...' Ino complained...
Shikamaru was ready at 5 AM at the spot where Kakashi told them to meet. He yawned as he walked to the spot, which wasn't much of a change, he was tired all of the time. 'I wonder if I should have woken Chouji and Ino up' Shikamaru thought to himself as he reached the spot. 'Well at least I'll get to watch the sunrise, it makes the clouds beautiful colors' Shikamaru sat down and leaned up against a fence waiting for his team-mates. Shikamaru began to doze off when he felt a pebble hit him in the head, looking to his left he saw Ino and Chouji walking down the path towards him. 'Shikamaru!! Why didn't you come get us!?' Ino yelled at Shikamaru 'We're now two hours late!'
'You were too far away...it would've been way too much effort, besides the guy isn't here yet' Shikamaru answered.
'WE LIVE A BLOCK AWAY EACH!'
'And your point?' Ino dropped her head in defeat 'I shoulda known, you lazy bastard.'
'Look who's talking, you're the one who's late.'
'Shut-up, by the way what's wrong?' Shikamaru's face was staring at the clouds, 'I hadn't fallen asleep but somehow two hours have passed by. Did Asuma-sensei use that technique?'
'Maybe, but that takes a lot of chakra out of him...hehe...I'll bet Sasuke and his team are a bunch of pushovers. Asuma-sensei will make short work of them' Chouji said as he took out a bag of chips and began to munch. 'Ya know Chouji, you must have a special ninjutsu that allows that bag of yours to never run out of chips' Ino poked fun.
'Shut-up' Chouji responded blankly.
'Quiet Ino' Shikamaru agreed with Chouji. 'But at least its better then listening to her talk about Sasuke, then she'll never shut up' Shikamaru whispered and giggled to Chouji who joined him in the laughter.
'I heard that you piece of ...' Ino was stopped when Kakashi put his hand on her shoulder.
'Now now...no fighting or you'll never win' Kakashi scolded jokingly.
'Who cares if we win' Shikamaru asked and stated all at the same time.
'Well...this is your chuunin exam' Kakashi answered.
'What..?' the team asked with their mouths dropped to the ground.
'You heard me, if you can capture my bells by the end of the day...you'll become chuunins, that suit you?'
'OOOOOOO, this is my chance to show up Sakura and win Sasuke' Ino thought to herself clenching her entire body.
'Alls we gotta do is get the bells huh?' Chouji thought to himself.
'This better not make me break a sweat' Shikamaru said out loud.
'By the way...aren't you a bit late?' Ino asked knowing she backed him into a corner 'you can't be that good if you got here 2 hours late. This'll be a piece of cake.'
'heh...only stupid people wake up to get anywhere by 5 AM' Kakashi answered with an obvious smile and a closed eye. Shikamaru let out a sigh.
'You guys have to give me ten minutes to hide, think of it as a game of hide & seek' Kakashi continued to smile. Kakashi jumped off and hid, for twenty minutes nobody moved in Shikamaru's group. 'What're you doing? Shouldn't we get going?' Ino demanded
'I don't really want to move' Shikamaru said bluntly 'I don't care if I get chuunin.'
'WELL I DO SO LET'S GO!' Ino grabbed Shikamaru by his earrings with Chouji following not too far behind. 'I have an idea' Shikamaru slapped Ino's hand away after about 2 minutes of dragging.
'What is it?' Chouji asked. Shikamaru got on one knee and beckoned his team-mates to join him 'Here's what we do. The village is too large for us to search as a group' Shikamaru pulled out three kunis attached to exploding notes 'One for each of us, we split up and when we find him we throw it into the air and it will explode allowing our team-mates to find us' Shikamaru gave one to Ino and one to Chouji 'we can't beat this guy without working as a team, besides I don't want to expel too much energy' Shikamaru let out a little smile.
'Good think your here Shikamaru, I wouldn't have ever thought of that' Chouji said taking his kuni. The three of them tapped their kuni together and jumped off in different directions.
Kakashi was walking down a crowded street, he wanted to become inconspicuous. 'Heh, I might even have time to get some ramen before the find me.' Kakashi walked into a restaurant and passed by Chouji, Kakashi played it cool like he didn't even notice. Chouji was holding food in both hands eating it quickly. 'Wait a sec...aren't you?' Chouji looked behind him and didn't see anything. 'Huh...must be seeing things, I guess I'll keep looking' Chouji walked out completely missing Kakashi clinging onto the ceiling for dear life. Kakashi dropped down and walked out back into the crowd. Kakashi was walking around for about 2 hours when a little girl came up to him and asked him if he would play with her.
'I don't see why not' Kakashi smiled at the little girl 'What do you want to play?'
'Oh I don't know...' the little girl said. Suddenly she slapped him on the chest, Kakashi noticed her hand slide down and take one of his bells. 'Tag your it!' the little girl yelled and ran into the crowd.
'Awwww...shit I shoulda seen this coming' Kakashi scolded himself as he chased after the girl jumping from rooftop to rooftop. 'Looks like I'll have to use this' Kakashi did some hand seals and lifted his head protector off of his left eye. With his sharingan and the Jutsu he is able to see the line of chakra connecting the little girl to her controller. Kakashi saw the line leading about 10 blocks north and 4 blocks west 'Guess I'll have a little catching up to do.' Kakashi put his head protector back down over his sharingan eye and began roof-hopping to his target, Ino.
The little girl got to Ino and started walking toward her unconscious body. The little girl dropped the bell on the body and released her Shintenshin no Jutsu. When Ino opened her eyes, she realized she wasn't in the ally anymore. She was on a rooftop, a good look around and she was able to get her bearings. 'I'm on the roof of the ally, but I didn't cast my Jutsu from here...' Ino pondered. Suddenly Ino jumped on the roof opposite of her, Ino felt like she was looking at herself in the mirror. Then Ino noticed the other Ino had two bells on her belt and a puff of smoke showed the bell Ino for who she was...Kakashi! 'What...how did you!?' Ino almost fell off the roof in confusion.
'Well you see, I found where your body was, and moved you...' Kakashi sat on the roof.
'But I gave the bell to my body!'
'Nope, you gave the bell to me' Kakashi stood up, did some hand seals and a poof of smoke turned him into Ino. Kakashi turned back into himself and jumped away. Ino was standing there speechless thinking about what just happened. Then Ino's eyes got wide with horror, she remembered dropping the bell on her body. A closer examination of her memory in her mind's eye she noticed something awry....her body already had a bell on the belt!
'AHHHHHHHH!!!!!' Ino yelled as she jumped after Kakashi.
'Finally, all this spying is hard work' Shikamaru said to himself. He had spent the majority of the day following Kakashi waiting for the exact right moment to ambush him. 'It should be easy to get the bells with my Kagemane Ossan.' Kakashi was sitting on a rooftop looking around, not really paying much attention to anything. Below him was a crowded street, Shikamaru was watching him closely. Finally he saw Kakashi move, Kakashi jumped onto a roof close to Shikamaru and asked 'How long are you going to watch me before you do anything?'
'How did you see me?' Shikamaru knew this was the time. Kakashi would spend enough time explaining for Shikamaru's Kagemane Ossan to catch him. Kakashi tapped his head 'My secret' and jumped into the crowd. Kakashi was standing in the middle of the crowd smiling at Shikamaru. 'Damn he's good' Shikamaru thought to himself 'he's standing in a large enough crowd that I won't be able to capture him. My Kagemane Ossan can't use people's shadows for transport, it would take control of them instead. And I do not have enough chakra to take control of a street that crowded' Shikamaru decided on another tactic. If he can't take control of Kakashi alone, then he'll use his trump card. 'What's he doing?' Kakashi scratched his head after watching Shikamaru throw a kuni into the air. When it got above the rooftops it exploded, Ino and Chouji were well on their way to the site.
'Just stay there' Shikamaru kept saying to himself as he watched Kakashi motionless. Kakashi was watching Shikamaru closely, he knew the boy was a brilliant tactician so he shouldn't make any brash moves or else he'd be caught. Suddenly Kakashi noticed two kuni flying toward him, Kakashi threw two kuni and all the kuni fell harmlessly to the floor. Ino was standing on the rooftop above Shikamaru, Kakashi looked around for another ambush attempt and he noticed Chouji in the crowd throwing a kuni. The kuni missed completely and hit a wall harmlessly, 'I guess that boy's not very good at distance...I can use that.' Kakashi jumped onto the roof across the street from Shikamaru and Ino and jumped from rooftop to rooftop away from them.
'It's getting late, we need to end this soon' Ino told Shikamaru.
'I agree it's about 6'o clock and we only have about two more hours before sundown. I can use my shadow spell better at this time' Shikamaru responded.
'Think we'll be able to get him?'
'I don't care, I just want to end this soon so I can get some sleep' with that said Ino dropped her head in defeat. The three jumped after him the order was Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji. As they were chasing Shikamaru came up with a plan, 'Ok this will be a rooftop battle because he doesn't want to get any pedestrians involved. I will go first and try to catch him with my Kagemane Ossan, if I catch him we can avoid any useless fighting. If that doesn't work you two jump to his side, Ino you take his right and Chouji you take his left. I want you two to pummel him with Kuni, Chouji you can't use any of your Justus, if you use you your Baika no Jutsu you could crush a house and that would be disastrous. Ino you can use your Shintenshin no Jutsu and try to take control of his mind if you wish, just don't miss or you could hit Chouji. I will use kuni and try my shadow skills, hopefully we can overwhelm him and make him misstep. When he does BAM! We've got him and it's all over, got it?' Ino and Chouji nodded in acceptance.
The three noticed Kakashi had stopped and was standing about 10 roofs ahead of them waiting for them. Shikamaru let Chouji and Ino go on ahead, they flanked his left and right while Shikamaru threw a kuni and let his Kagemane Ossan fly forward. Kakashi did a back flip high in the air, dodged the kuni and continued to flip. Ino and Chouji noticed he was doing some hand seals, but the speed of his back-spin made it impossible for Shikamaru to see. Ino and Chouji just got into range of Kuni throwing when Kakashi finished his Jutsu. He put his hands over his eyes and pulled them down hard. Kakashi lit up like a light bulb, making all the shadows around him push back. He was in a blinding force-field; no shadows could get within 10 feet of him. Ino and Chouji were able to throw two kuni each before they were blinded by the light. Shikamaru tensed up when the light hit his eyes that he pushed the Kagemane Ossan too far to fast. Shikamaru noticed it hit the light shield and go around the side with the rest of the shadows. Then Shikamaru lost sight of his shadow, he decided he would keep it out there when the shield dissipated it would be easier to hit Kakashi unawares. Ino decided she would try her hand at mind control, she did her hand seals and shot out her Shintenshin no Jutsu. Kakashi was still moving and it missed completely, Ino could make out the silhouette of Chouji.
'Chouji get out of the way!' Ino screamed in horror.
'I can't move!' Chouji screamed back.
'My Jutsu! It's got Chouji stuck!' Shikamaru realized too late. Ino fell to the roof unconscious Kakashi noticed. 'Hmmmm...I wonder what she hit to knock herself out?' Kakashi wondered as he saw her fall. Because of the light everybody's vision was less then perfect, and Kakashi didn't notice the kuni flying strait for his head until it was too late. Kakashi's metal plate in his headband is what saved him from a Kuni in the brain. Kakashi noticed that Chouji had thrown the kuni, 'I see she hit him.' Kakashi did a quick hand seal but nobody could see what it did or what the seals were.
'He must be making another light shield' Shikamaru realized while throwing kuni at the center of the light. Kakashi continued to dodge the kuni thrown by Chouji while Ino was asleep. After a couple of minutes Chouji jumped at Kakashi in an attempt to grab the bells in the chaos of the light and flying kuni. Kakashi grabbed onto Chouji's shirt and threw him into a pile of trashcans. Ino finally got up after Chouji was in the cans, Ino was out of chakra but still had plenty of kuni. She flung all of them but Kakashi dodged them all with a single kuni. When she was out of kuni Kakashi flung about 7 kuni pinning her clothes to the roof. Ino was out of the picture, she couldn't move her arms or legs because they were pinned so tight. Finally the light went out and Shikamaru could see, but he had to pull his shadow back to conserve chakra. Shikamaru rubbed his eyes to get the spots out, when he took a better look he saw an army of Kakashi's. There must have been 100 of them, then Shikamaru realized what happened.
'When he did that quick hand seal after Chouji hit him with the kuni...that wasn't to continue his shield. It was to create shadow clones!' Shikamaru understood now. 'I give up, you've beaten us. It's too close to nightfall to continue this and I don't have enough chakra to take control of all your shadow clones to find the proper you. You win.' Shikamaru admitted defeat and turned around. Shikamaru heard a lot of tiny explosions and felt a hand on his shoulder. 'You've done very well, you'll make a great chuunin one day.' Kakashi and Shikamaru helped un-pin Ino and get Chouji out of that trashcan.
'Awwwwww...we failed the chuunin exam!' Ino kicked a can that was in her path.
'No you didn't' Kakashi corrected her.
'You mean we passed!?'
'No you didn't.'
'Well what then? We didn't pass and we didn't fail? Then what?'
'This wasn't a chuunin exam' Shikamaru jumped in before Kakashi could answer.
'You've got to be kidding me! We did all this for nothing!? I coulda broken a nail!' Ino complained.
'Yea well, you guys did well enough this time around. I think when the actual exam comes around you all will do wonderfully' Kakashi said while looking up at the starry night sky. 'Come on, I'll buy you dinner' Kakashi patted Chouji on the head.
'Yay!' Chouji let out a loud happy bellow.
'Sounds good' Shikamaru said looking at the ground smiling.
'You owe it to us...' Ino complained...