Disclaimers: I don't own Naruto.
Author's notes: I'm very sorry for the late update. That's all I can say. I have a lot more stories to continue so I can't find enough time for all of my waiting fanfics.
Chapter 2:
Hyuuga Household…The two Hyuuga genins were roughly pushed out of the bed as they both fell on the floor. They glared at the person who pushed them, which was the one and only Hyuuga Yamaru, their cousin.
"Get up, you sleepy heads." He said.
Reika glared at him. "Yamaru-niisan, what time is it?" She asked.
Yamaru grinned. "5:30, dear cousins."
The two girls almost gagged at the tone of Yamaru's voice. It would seem that he had eaten something rotten this morning. But then, they remembered, that Yamaru NEVER eats anything in the morning. The two girls then got out of the bed and arranged their beddings as they stood up.
They both narrowed their eyes at the older Hyuuga in front of them. "Yamaru-san, why the heck did you push us off the bed!" Hro demanded.
"And at 5:30 in the freaking morning, nonetheless!" The other girl added.
Yamaru grinned before placing on his mask of seriousness once again. "The jounins are waiting for you. The other genins are already present as well. You two are the only ones missing so Neji-sama told me to get you." He said before leaving the room.
The two girls gritted their teeth as they did their daily morning rituals.
Later on…
Hyuuga Branch Living Room…
"Good morning, everyone." The two greeted.
The other genins stared at them…
And stared…
And stared…
Neji sighed as he glanced at the people that were there. Currently, the people present were:
Uzumaki Naruto's team, which consists of Uchiha Lan, Uchiha Keiki, and Hyuuga Reika.
Gaara of the Sand's Team, which consists of Ring-Rang (sorry Lazy Hyuuga-san! I like her name XD), Akabane Ame, and Mikaze Mika.
Nara Ino's Team, which consists of Inuzuka Ruchi and Nara Ayumi. Apparently, their team had slight… complications.
Rock Lee's genin, Ukino Tai, was also there. And so was Inuzuka Kiba's genin leader, Hyuuga Yamaru. Hyuuga Hro was also in the list, and so was Haruno Shinji.
Neji held his chin in silent contemplation. There would be twelve genins all in all. He glanced at Shikamaru who gave the almighty EHEM to acquire the genin's attention. "Listen up, genins. As you probably will know, you will be staying underground in the special training area of Konohagakure no Sato for two weeks. You don't need to worry about food and water for there is plenty there. I will not say anything else. Uzumaki Naruto will lead you all to the entrance." He stated as the genins all stood up and followed the blonde shinobi.
Among the genins…
"Ei, Lan. What do you think would be this training all about?" Keiki asked his older brother. Unlike his old attire, he was now wearing a blue shirt and white shorts with the Uchiha symbol on the back of his shirt – just like what his father had been wearing during his early genin years.
The older of the twins shook his head. "Truthfully, I have no idea. But I am thinking that it would be based on survival training since we were told to bring all of our shinobi equipments without food and water." He said. Just like his younger twin, his attire has also changed. Currently, he was wearing black sleeveless Chinese looking attire with black baggy pants and shoes. Unlike the others, he was the only one who wasn't wearing the traditional ninja sandals.
Hyuuga Hro and Ukino Tai were now talking to one another, giving out taijutsu techniques to be used against enemies. It would seem that they have already grasped the concept of this training… or so they thought.
"Ukino-san," Hro started. "Have you improved on your taijutsu style now?" She asked.
Tai nodded proudly. "Yes. I have. I just hope that I will now be able to stand against the Hyuugas and the Uchihas. I have developed my speed as well." He said. Hro patted his shoulder.
"Heh. Still can't get rid of the 'I want to defeat you noble clans' attitude?" She said in a matter of fact tone of voice.
Tai snickered. "I guess…"
Hyuuga Hro was wearing a brown turtleneck long sleeved shirt with the end of the shirt embedded in white animal fur (kind of like the fur on Hinata's jacket when she was a genin) and dark green pants with the traditional ninja sandals, except that the color is brown.
Ukino Tai was wearing a green sleeveless shirt that clung to his skin, showing off various muscles (authoress: abs… hek hek hek) and brown baggy pants with the traditional ninja sandals.
"Ei… Mikaze-san," Ame started. "Why did we agree to do this in the first place?" The sand-girl asked.
Mika shrugged. "Don't ask me. I'm just following orders." She said.
Nothing much changed between the two sand-girls. Both were still wearing the same clothing that they wore during the past war. Hmm… do they ever even clean or wash their clothes?
The Hyuuga branch heiress stopped her tracks for a while, which made her older cousin stop as well. "What's wrong, Reika?" He asked, his dark blue shirt wagging by the wind. Oh here goes his 'I'm superior than you' tone again. "What's bothering you now?"
The younger hyuuga glared at her cousin. "Shut up, Yamaru. I'm not in the mood to talk." She said, her dirty white colored shirt ruffling by her movements. She placed both of her hands inside the pockets of her black baggy pants in annoyance. Apparently, she's still mad for being waked up by pushing her off the bed.
Her older cousin shrugged.
The Tenten-lookalike and the Haruno boy walked side by side in silence. It would seem that nothing has still changed even by the past few months. However, this time, Shinji walked nearer as he held the other girl's hand, which made her blush upon contact.
Sigh… the wonders of youth…
Currently, the last pair of genins, the team of Yamanaka… uhh… I meant Nara Ino walked together along in silence. Both were silent as a sleeping beauty. Naruto glanced at the genins behind him and chuckled to himself.
'This will be a fun two weeks!'
Later on…
At the entrance…
Naruto clasped his hands as he glanced at the genins in front of him. Four of them were looking confused at the look that he was giving them: Ayumi, Ruchi, Keiki, and Ring, while the others were looking serious about the matters at hand: Yamaru, Lan, Tai, Mika, Reika, Hro, Ame, and Shinji.
"Alright kids," He started. "Are you prepared?" He asked.
The genins nodded, though some of them disapproved of being called as 'kids', and you probably know who they are. "Alright then. I'm going to explain to you the rules. This test will occur for two weeks. You will be applying everything that you learned in this survival training. Though be warned. This is not like the forest of death, for this is ten times worse. Oh. And before I forget. You are twelve all in all, right? Then at the first stage, you'll be separated into four groups, with three members each." He said.
"Naruto-sensei," The younger Uchiha whined. "We can do the math. Stop that." He said.
Naruto gave out the almighty ehem as he silenced the young Uchiha before giving out a grin. "Now all of you enter at the same time. See you!" At that, the genins enter all at the same time.
The place was pitch black. You cannot see or hear anything. The genins were slightly shocked.
Just then, it felt like the ground they were standing on suddenly opened and ate them alive. And the next thing they knew, it was black…
(a/n: I will be giving the three groups a chapter each. Oh… and before I forget. The people per group is totally RANDOM. So don't blame me if there are no pairings on the first parts.)
Group 1
"Ouch… my head."
"Hey! Someone's stepping on my hair!"
"Uhh… can you get off me please?"
"Uhh… where are you two?"
"I can feel the wall behind me."
"Yeah… me too."
"Is someone a Hyuuga here?"
"I am."
"Good. Uhh… can you pin point the location of the hallway?"
"Alright… byakugan! There."
"Umm… I hope you know that we can't see you."
"Oh yeah… sorry. It's… hey you!"
"Me/Are you calling me?"
"The female!"
"Yeah!"
"Move backwards. And the guy! Stay there! I'm going to move backwards as well."
"Okay/ Got it!"
"Is it okay now?"
"Yeah/ Yes."
"Katon: Gyoukyaku no Jutsu!"
At that, fire started to blaze. It was a good thing that there was a torch there, so it went ablaze when the fire hit it. When each of them gazed at each other…
"Reika-chan! Ring-san/ Keiki-kun! Ring-chan/ Keiki-san! Reika-chan!"
The female Hyuuga scratched the back of her head. "Geez… who was stepping on my hair?" She asked. The sand-girl pointed her thumb on the younger Uchiha twin who was fidgeting silently as he took the torch.
"Let's go now." He said.
The sand-girl crossed her arms. "Hey! Who said that you're the leader?" She asked. The Uchiha sweatdropped.
"Ring-chan, Keiki-kun, let's just go now." Reika said as she moved forward.
"Yoshi! Let's go!" Keiki exclaimed as he started to move forward.
"Wait a minute! Keiki! There may be…" She was cut off when Keiki suddenly stepped on a stone as spears suddenly sprang up from different areas of the stone room. They managed to evade, but their bodies were all positioned in weird (and funny) angles and positions.
Reika and Ring were glaring daggers at the Uchiha.
"…traps." Ring finished for her.
"Uchiha Keiki!"
A few minutes later…
Group one has experienced a lot of traps: from spears to falling floors. It was a miracle on why the torch wasn't blown off during all of those.
Reika sighed for what seemed the hundredth time this day as a nerve seem to pop out of her temple. So far, it was ALWAYS a certain Uchiha Keiki who was activating the traps inside the stone hallway.
"Keiki, one more trap and I'm going to kill you…" She warned.
"Umm… Reika-chan, why don't you just use your byakugan?" Ring asked. Reika shook her head.
"I would if I could. But I realized that every I use the byakugan, or use chakra for that matter, it feels like I'm being weakened in a fast rate." She said.
Keiki nodded. "It's the same thing for me. Every time I use a ninjutsu, I feel like I'm being weakened ten times more than usual. I'm starting to think that this place is preventing us to use chakra." He said.
"Now that you mentioned in, Keiki-san. I must agree. As we delve deeper and deeper here, I feel like it's becoming harder and harder to release chakra." Ring said.
"I'm starting to think that this place is only meant for taijutsu specialists." Keiki said.
Reika sighed. "Don't look at me. I may be a Hyuuga. But I'm not as good with the Hyuuga's Gentle Fist as you may think."
The Tenten-lookalike sweatdropped at her current groupmates. She heard Keiki chuckle nervously as he suddenly activated another trap. This time, kunais went flying in every direction. It was a good thing that they had their kunais ready as well as they managed to evade and deflect every kunai without a scratch.
This time, it would seem that a Hyuuga would be massacring someone.
"U-chi-ha Ke-i-ki…" She said in a warning tone, raising up a kunai.
Keiki sweatdropped. "Oh come on, Reika-chan! It's not like things are going to get…"
Click.
Sweatdrop.
"…worse?"
"What is that sound?" Reika asked, obviously irritated.
Ring's eyes widened as she pointed at the hallway, where they finally saw a huge boulder rolling towards them.
Reika: OO
Ring: OO
Keiki: TT
"GAH! AHH! SH-T!"
"Darn it! These things are getting annoying!"
"You can say that again!"
"Uchiha Keiki! I really am going to kill you!"
End Chapter
Author's notes: Uhh… I think that I'm getting worse at these things. Sorry if it's kind of crappy. I just don't know what to write by that time. Ehehehe… sorry. Well… what do you think? No flames please. I don't think I can handle any more of that. I'm sorry if it's short. I still have a lot of fanfics to update, and I'm loosing a lot of time already. I'm busy enough as it is. Sorry. Well… Reviews please!
