"You—you know this makes you a rapist don't you?" The young Uchiha held his breath for as long as he could. His back was pinned to the soft fabrics and mattress of a bedroom he was unfamiliar with. The shadings of shuriken were layered proportionately upon the quilt, and his head rested on a puffy pillow. The shadow of a shelf hovering behind his head, two glimmering frames, some books and the glow of the moon through the chestnut framed windows. A sharp gasp of air entered his lungs as a small amount of his pale, fragile flesh was bitten off along his collarbone. A pierce of cold air entered his blood stream.
"Sasuke-kun… don't pretend you don't want this… you know full well that I can never possibly rape you my love…" the older Jounin curved his lips around the wound and sharply suckled the crimson away.
The ebony-haired teenager gasped and turned his head to the side. "Don't… touch… me" he weakly whispered, feeling the hot breath disappear. The boy glared at his shadowed 'lover' as he drew nearer. Without warning his clothing had vanished from his body, and his lips were sealed to contain the secrets of the events of what were destined to happen. This pedophile bit onto his lover's lower lip, enough for it to bleed. Sasuke unwillingly let out a cry, opening his mouth. This was the opportunity for the man to slip his tongue through. His eyes shut tight as hands came down his waistline. He couldn't move; he couldn't breath… all he could do was whisper and cower. "Don't… touch me… don't… touch… me…" his eyes burned with the threat to release its tears that had already formed. "DON'T TOUCH ME!"
Every last drop fell.
Every last cry was heard.
Chapter 3 Dreams... Nightmares? Start!
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Sasuke's eyes flew open as he felt a hand on his shoulder. His reaction was his hand flying backwards and was caught by the extremely baffled shinobi.
The only sound heard for the duration of the minute was Sasuke panting heavily.
"Sasuke…Kun?" Two hands cupped over the smaller much paler one for only a split second until it was struggled away.
"AH! DON'T TOUCH ME! GET AWAY!" The boy was panic stricken, and the Jounin was just surprised. Sasuke fell off of the bed headfirst and just lay still, face on the ground, knees to his chest, eyes focused on the ground… trembling… whimpering "Don't touch me… don't touch me…" As he continued chanting, he brought his hands to his shoulder… where he figured the wound would be. He felt a stinging sensation as he touched it and twitched violently. "You…so it wasn't a dream…" He slowly tried his best to crawl away. However, to no avail.
"Sasuke… you were having a nightmare… whatever or wherever you think you got that wound from, you just hit the corner of the nightstand while you were tossing and turning." The Jounin smiled as comforting a smile as possible. The smile faded away as he saw Sasuke's deadly expression. "Sasuke-kun… what did I do to you?" He slowly reached a hand to the boy's soft cheek, wiping a remaining tear from the boy's face, knowing more were soon to come.
"I-if it was a dream… then… then…" he was acting stubborn and childish. "Then WHY is my lip bleeding!" He screamed aloud.
"Sasuke-kun… your lip was bleeding because earlier your lips were chapped and dry. When you screamed your mouth opened wide and that shredded your lip. That made you scream further… thank god for sound proof walls." There was a long silence aside Sasuke's heavy breathing, as Kakashi didn't dare make another move. Sasuke would have to be the one to make the motion. Chaos was not the current option.
"I…" Sasuke whimpered out… "…Had this dream… where…" His hand shook as his hands reached his lips. They were dry and they were chapped all right. The room was dark and he could barely see, but he knew he was at home… so it had to have been a dream… His hand reached the nightstand… it was moist… most likely from blood. "I don't understand… I know you wouldn't do that to me… then why did I…?" More tears that threatened to fall fell and spread within the fabric of his clothing. His hands folded against his chest as he began to tremble, freely letting these tears run down his cheek. Kakashi slowly edged toward the younger ninja, and pulled him into a tight embrace. "It—it was so real… it was so fucking real…"
"Sasuke… what did I do?" The boy's cold sobs vibrated through the silver-haired shinobi's chest that from time to time expanded. "Sasuke…" He gently shoved Sasuke off of him and looked the boy in his flushed face and red eyes from crying. "What… did…I…Do?" He repeated. The boy sniffled once or twice and let out cries that only Akamaru times twenty could hear. "Come on speak up—"
"I said you almost RAPED me! Are you happy now! You almost… you… YOU RAPED ME!" With that, Sasuke turned around and stormed off into the washroom with a heart-stopping SLAM to the door. Pieces of the wooden block you'd call a door fell right off.
"Uh… The fixing of the door will go on my tab!" He tried to mention through the door. It was official… Sasuke wasn't as strong as he led everyone to believe.
The Jounin got off the blood-sprinkled mattress and leaned by the rickety door.
"Sasuke… you don't seem too well… maybe we shouldn't go to Konoha's Race…if you're scared of what I may do even though I won't… You don't have to go…" Kakashi would feel bad either way. For Sasuke not to trust Kakashi like that wouldn't get them anywhere. He heard the strained back sobs of the little Uchiha, "Sasuke-kun… why don't you trust me?" There was a slam on the door, most likely Sasuke's fist.
"That's not fair! Of course I trust you!"
"Then why won't you let me in?"
"Because… Because… I… My dream… of course I couldn't…"
"If you'd trusted me, you never would have ran in there… in fact you never would have had that dream of yours in the first place…"
"…" The door slowly creaked open, Sasuke lying on the ground, looking half-conscious. He was wide-awake though… His hands were between the cold washroom floor and his tear-stained face. Kakashi walked up to the solid form that lay in front of him. He kneeled close to it and picked up this fragile vessel, putting it in a sitting position. The Jounin's hands wrung around that of this paranoid person's. These hands went to the sides of the owner's face, a few inches from it. Sasuke's eyes widened as they looked at the older Jounin's left eye, and then right eye. It was nearly like meeting a new dog. "Sasuke-kun… You have nothing to fear from me. I will never lay a hand on you if you don't want me to…" Sasuke's eyes trembled. "Okay?" There was a slow nod. "Now… may I?" Sasuke nodded again. The Jounin's left hand slowly crept up to the pale complexion, brushing some of the hair that stuck to the younger shinobi's face away. He slowly drew nearer to the cowering figure. Mild whimpers came from a weak voice, as they were inches apart from each other.
"Sasuke… I love you too much you hurt you…" he continued to edge forward as Sasuke's trembling slowly coming to a halt, and his breathing became normal sighs. The final tear fell as he closed his eyes, letting his body move forwards. He didn't think, he didn't wonder. This… he just let it happen.
Tenderhearted and calming, that feeling emitted as the two met. Kakashi didn't move further, his tongue didn't play, he didn't force Sasuke to open his mouth. Kakashi only kneeled in front of Sasuke, one hand stroking the boy's hair. Sasuke sat on the cold floor, knees bent, and his feet to his sides and pressured on by his hands, fingers slightly twitching.
The depart was slow and peaceful. No heavy breathing, no panting, no screaming, no crying. Nothing but a gentle sigh passing through Sasuke's chapped lips. His eyes slid open to meet those of his Jounin lover. A light blush blanketed over his face. His index and middle finger grazed over his trembling lips. "W-wow… I never… you never did that before… it was… What was that for?"
"I don't know… I guess for every time I acted like a pedophile." Came a graceful smilein Kakashi's name. He then pulled Sasuke into his arms and held him tightly. There was a strange stillness to it. Sasuke's hands wrung n the Jounin's arms. They meekly trembled toward Kakashi's shoulders and around his neck. He closed his eyes and held his breath, letting his eyes burn under the pressure.
"Wow… I'm stupid…" He cracked, taking a deep rugged breath as he spoke "I was scared over nothing… about nothing… about you… I'm too paranoid." He smiled bitterly, a salty liquid spreading through the brim of his eyelids.
"I'm not surprised. I guess with what I read it'd make you pretty edgy" The silence was extended as Sasuke's every breath quivered and jumped every second, soon fading as Kakashi stroked the boy's back in a comforting gesture. "Sasuke… if I ever bug you, you have to tell me. Okay?" There was a full silence, as Sasuke didn't respond. "Sasuke? Koi?" His head tilted to catch Sasuke's gentle breath down his shoulder. It was steady, relaxed and calming.
The night had still blanketed the earth with its glow of night, millions of holes poked through the fabric, shining light through. Kakashi took a deep breath and exhaled slowly as he bridal-style carried Sasuke to his bed. He landed with a gentle thud against the mattress, springs gently creaking against his weight. The silver-haired Jounin kissed the boy's forehead gently and smiled. "Sasuke-kun… you brat… Oyasumi nasaii…"
Morning
"BAH! 'Early' he says!" The ebony-haired Jounin hollered, storming at the edge of the Konoha Forestry Training area. "And—and 'I won't be late' He says! Absolutely believable but ridiculous! I'll beat him senseless!" Close to tripping, Sasuke fell backwards to a maroon brown tree that seemed to go up forever with a thud. His hands grazed fallen dead leaves with a crackle vibrating its way to his ear as he placed the hands on his lap. Darkness shades his entire body with only so much light peering through the dark green leaves that clouded the sun's gaze to this figure. The boy sighed as the cool air blew slowly, marking every part of his body with cold. His legs spread apart and his back firmly pressed to the tree, making creases in his Uchiha Clan mark. He slightly shuddered at the feeling of cold morning dew tipped dark grass lingering around his exposed legs. Wearing shorts was a good thing and a bad thing. There were come and go sounds of birds and squirrels tapping and chirping on the god knows how high trees. Sasuke stared blankly through the layers of these thick wooden masses to the group of people beyond forestry. Naruto appeared to have lost every little bit of sense he had. He grinned to discover a strong breeze flowing through his hair, pulling bang after bang over his face. It did more than that, the wind was blowing away one of those "Roll up the Rim to win" cups and Naruto was chasing it around as it went higher, and higher, and higher…
Onto the problem at hand, Kakashi and Sasuke agreed to meet early prior the three a.m. incident so they could actually not be late, because if Kakashi were didn't matter now that he was late; Sasuke wouldn't possibly have the time. The competition would begin in six minutes and God knew how long it would be until—
"Oi! Sorry I'm late! I forgot to set my alarm—" The very late shinobi was pulled right off of the tree he sideways stood on, grabbed by the collar, pinned to a tree and was met with an enraged mantle. Very nice face to meet don't you say? "Hi, Koi! How goes it!" Their faces were inches away from one another's.
"Damn it! Can't you be punctual at least ONCE?" The younger ninja's face was dark and twitching madly. "One day, being late will get someone killed!" Without another word, Sasuke swiftly and spontaneously hugged Kakashi in this hug of death. A scratching sound was made against the tree, and a brush of grass. Until Sasuke released, he wouldn't notice. He wasn't about to release any time today if it weren't for the competition, so with that, Sasuke withdrew. "Wuh-what was that?"
"Th-that would be my backpack sliding to the ground…" The Jounin sparkled, too joyful of a face to imagine. In fact it was a stupid grin. "You knocked it off of me." The boy looked down at the ground, and gawked at the colossal mass of pack that had been on Kakashi's back. It looked to have been about Sasuke's weight, which I'm not about to tell you! Sasuke bent down, face returning to its normal pasty color, he unzipped the largest part of the backpack.
"What the hell do you have in here?" He stared at the contents of the bag… Nothing. It appeared to be abysmal, but when he put his hands in it was jolted back. Something had taken a shock at him. "Hey! What was that?" The boy rubbed his hand protectively; looking at the silver locked ANBU. The man shrugged. "Well that's a definite lie…" He mumbled.
"Hmm… just safety precautions." An eyebrow was raised, and it wasn't Kakashi's. "It's just my clothes…"
"And…?" The boy urged on. The older Jounin heaved a heavy sigh. And muttered something monotonous which sounded like 'Fine…'
The man kneeled down, put his hands together "Kai…" he said apparently very sadly. In a puff of smoke the darkness deteriorated and blue, orange, black, purple, gray, red and magenta books came into Sasuke's vision. He pulled one out and looked at the cover. He twitched madly.
"Icha… Icha… Interc…." The boy couldn't possibly finish that title. He glowered at the Jounin that now had his mask on. "I'd HURT you but right now if we don't get over there we won't be in the competition. L-lets get going." He pried his own dainty fingers off of the book, letting it drop in with a gentle thud. "I'm hoping your clothes are actually in there Kakashi… or I'm going to have to hurt you…" he snarled, pulling himself up and walking to the site of all the noisy people that awaited Tsunade's explanation. Kakashi self-consciously followed along. Luckily, Sasuke could keep a straight face. He found Kakashi's weakness! Finding it was enough to send his head to heaven and back!
Making it to the crash s—I mean training facility, they met many familiar faces. Including the complaining Naruto. Apparently the cup was a winner…
To clear it up, these are the contestants!
Hyuuga Neji and TenTen
Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino (And I quote from Kiba-kun "We're just friends! Seriously!")
Uchiha Sasuke and Hatake Kakashi
Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata (And I quote from Hinata-chan "Maybe I should have taken up Neji-nii-san's offer…")
Haruno Sakura and Rock Lee
Yamanaka Ino and Nara Shikamaru (And I quote from both of them "You say we're cute together ONE MORE TIME and you die!") Teammates
Umino Iruka and Ebisu (God knows what his last name is… Anyway both of them sob "Fuu fuu… There was no one left!") Absolutely no relation! (Iruka is much too great to be paired like that! Nasty!)
Uland Zeul and Atori Kuseki (My OC! I'm running out of characters here!) Engaged! Awe!
Shizune and Izuro Zeblin (Zeb is another one… I'm sorry! I hate OC too but I'm out of options here!) Friends?
Asuma and Kurenai just coworkers.
"Ah… so few contestants it's sad…" Tsunade sighed to herself. Waiting for the camera guy to call her to start. She tapped her foot once or twice… waited…. And waited… and waited… "How the &$ long does it take to turn the bloody thing on! What? What are you writing? 'I… signaled… you… by… hand… we're… live…'. What's that supposed to me—oh…? OH! We're… Hello! I'm your host Tsunade! Also known as the Fifth Hokage! I'm here live at the starting point of Konoha's Amazing Race! Konoha, these contestant's very home. This place they know by the back of their hands. However, this competition will show what the people of Konoha have to manage with! We have twenty contestants and ten couples!" Tsunade shot her fake smile right at the camera… The camera-guy shuddered.
"WE'RE NOT A COUPLE!" Multiple contestants screamed from a distance.
"Ah… Teams, friends, couples…." Tsunade twitched, and muttered under her breath, "You stinking brats." The camera-man sent her another written message. "What? 'The microphone is clipped to your collar…' Yeah so? 'They can hear EVERYTHING you say…' Ah… crap… Moving on! These are our contestants!" Tsunade rolled the tape of their recent interviews. She heaved a relentless sigh. "Wow… I was about to swear some more… make sure you cut out the interview with Rook Lee and Sakura okay? I'll do that one live." She shuddered at the memory, as she massaged her temples in frustration.
"Rock Lee! ROCK Lee!" Lee snapped in frustration.
"Rook Lee Rock Lee, whatever!" She flailed her hand in equal frustration. She walked up to the aligned contestants. "Okay, thanks to the other day's cruel eyesore, the rest of you… stand over there…" she waved her hand in a non-specific area that they none-the-less followed.
Light conversation went on as the cameraman was counting the seconds to when the thing was done.
Any minute now.
! Any minute now later!
The rules had been explained and the interview was done. Only Sakura had say in it seeing as when the interview began, she had no choice but to put duct tape over Lee's mouth. Smiling wasn't a habit….
It was a terrible reflex.
"Alright… your cameramen are right behind you. Don't try to shake them off 'cause that'll get you in trouble. Now, the first place you have to make it to is the entrance to Konoha. Once you're there you'll see a crimson box with our village mark on it. Open it and that's your clue. Read it well or you're in shit. Everyone got that?" Everyone nodded.
At last the first race had begun, and tension was fierce. Kiba was twitching; Naruto was ranting about the avenging of his lost cup. Sakura was trying to keep Lee's duct tape on his face.
"Alright… My last piece of advice; don't let Naruto steal your ramen!"
"Hey! That's not—"
"And GO!" Tsunade stomped her foot on the ground, sending a wave of rocks right in front of the teams, with that they ran like hell.
The run was quick and easy. Easy if you define it as running through masses of crowds that are cheering you on, trying to keep sight of your cameraman and running to beat your opponents to the point you need to get to while keeping track of your partner… Then yeah it was a breeze.
Large sums of the girls were screaming for Sasuke, "YAY SASUKE!" "DON'T LOSE SASUKE!" or "I LOVE YOU SASUKE!" He gritted his teeth, trying not to throw up. Those women were so terrifying and annoying.
"Can't you women get jobs!" He scowled. The girls squealed, now quarrelling over whom he had gotten mad at.
"Ha! Popular aren't we Sasuke?" Kiba shot from behind him. Damn! They were so close to each other.
"Urusai, Kiba!" Sasuke snapped, not daring to turn around to confirm. It was too risky that what with the speed he was going at that he'd start tumbling. A moment later there was a light high pitch sound coming from behind, they didn't know what it was. Soon they began to hear it coming louder and louder. Then, it came right at them. "Kakashi! Move!" The two swung to opposite sides of the street. Sasuke hit the pavement hard as Kakashi landed on his feet. Kiba jumped up as Shino ducked. Every team behind them had been stiff and surprised. The cameramen were hiding somewhere… it was creepy. A cloud of dust belonging to Rock Lee and Sakura had swept right by them, but Sakura wasn't running though. The ever so speedy Lee had been carrying her, trying to drone out her high pitched screams no doubt. Sasuke lay there, flabbergasted.
"Hey, Sasuke-kun! Let's go! We don't want them in first place now do we?" Kakashi pulled Sasuke up, waist in one hand, left hand in the other. The boy was still shocked but started to run holding Kakashi's hand. The other teams followed suit. They were all side by side, trying their best to get ahead.
Ino was scolding Shikamaru per-breath about how slow they were going. They began to fall behind. Talking apparently wears people out. Naruto had come up with this kind of sling shot idea where he'd throw Hinata forward and grab Naruto's hand and fling him forward, and Naruto would grab Hinata's hand and throw her forward…. It didn't work. Zeul and Kuseki had come up with the idea of kicking their (own) asses as they ran. All that they could confirm was their asses would be broken by the end of this race. Iruka and Ebisu were arguing like hell over how the hell they decided to be a team, mentioning something about being drunk. TenTen was leaning forward to see if it picked up speed… it would have worked if she didn't do it so quickly. She head-butted Neji who had been right in front of her, and that caused Neji to fall forward and TenTen to ram right into his back. They hit the ground and got back up. After that, Neji activated his Byakugan just for future reference. Shizune and Zeblin were stepping on each other's toes as they ran. Kurenai was trying to take the cigarette out of Asuma's mouth without touching the ash and whatnot. Kakashi had begun to pull Sasuke along with him a little more gently than Lee pulled Sakura. Obviously he must've drank something 1- alcohol or something. To that end, Kiba and Shino somehow got in front of everyone else aside Lee and Sakura.
"Damn! How did they get ahead of us?" Naruto ranted, at last giving up that stupid idea of slingshot mode.
"Anou… Naruto-kun… I think it's okay! We're in fourth place… fourth, fourth place!" Hinata stammered. Embarrassed at her repeating stupidly.
"Fourth place isn't good, Hinata! We're screwed if we don't catch up to them! Screwed I tell you! Screwed!" Naruto heaved, "Son of a -----! This is ---- up!" obviously by the end of the race, most of what Naruto would say would be censored, and Naruto would sound like a rap sequence on a kids channel.
"G-gomen nasaii, Naruto-kun… Demo… I just thought… that would make you feel better…" Hinata said too softly for Naruto to hear. 'Oh… Naruto-kun must hate me now…' She sighed.
In a matter of minutes Konoha's contestants were distances from each other. This was quite the long run. The cameramen had no problems with lagging behind however. They apparently had excellent stamina.
Camera 1: Hyuuga Neji and TenTen, Couple/Friends/Teammates
TenTen: Neji, this is bad, we're lagging behind all the groups!
Neji: Yeah, be more careful next time. That bump to the head really killed some time.
TenTen: Mou… That was mean! (HMPH)
Neji: Calm down, we start going at each other's throats on the first leg of the race then we're immediate goners.
TenTen: But it WAS mean!
Neji: Fine! I'm sorry… you can be so unreasonable some times.
Camera 2: Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino, Friends (Cough) Lies (Cough)
Kiba: What the hell? What does that say under our names? LIES? You people don't give up do you!
Shino: Kiba, ignore that, we need to focus on the race.
Kiba: Fine… geese, sometimes I can't stand that calm thing you have that you call a face!
Shino: Look, there's the clue box.
Kiba: Great… it sounds just like Blue's Clues now… (Groan)
Their feet come to a stop. Kiba opens the clue box after shoving Shino out of the way rudely.
Shino: Huh. You're so impatient.
Kiba: Urusai! I intend to win!
Shino: (Shrugs) Alright then, no one's stopping you.
Kiba quickly opens the envelope that he had just taken out, scans it and sighs.
Shino: … You're supposed to read it.
Kiba: Yeah sure… "Who likes bugs?" You do… "Follow the trail out of Konoha and you will meet some of villagers, there you must go into the forest with a cart that the villagers will give you and search for Giant Golden beetles. These beetles leave greasy trails of liquid. You are to pick up ten-liters of that trail with ten one-liter containers you will be given, go back to the villagers after you have collected all of the liquid. One person does this first task. There will be a pot over dried leaves and wood, you have to set it on fire on your own. Only on that task are you aloud to use Ninjutsu. This task will be done by the other teammate. You pour these liquids into the pot and let it boil for five minutes. After boiling it, the liquids will be free of smaller insects and bacteria. You put the liquid back into the containers and give this to a specific person that you have to call sempai. When you find him, he will take it, exchange it for a medicine made from this perspiration of these Giant Golden beetles. After that, he will give you the next clue. Both of you will do this task. (Carry it in the cart!)" Great! So are you going to do this or do I have to?
Shino: I suppose. Very well, I'll do it.
Camera 3: Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Sasuke, Couple
Sasuke: Here we are! (Sigh) (Opens the Clue box and takes out a clue and rips it up and reads it with Kakashi)
Kakashi: Alrighty… I don't 'Hate' bugs but I don't like them… How about you?
Sasuke: I don't like'em either, but I'll do it.
Kakashi: Ah, Sasuke… There's a problem with that,
Sasuke: Uh?
Kakashi: For the fire… Couldn't you use your Gokakyu no jutsu?
Sasuke: Awe… but I…. Humph… Ah, hai, hai… You do it then….
Kakashi: Alrighty then! (Sets down his bag)
Sasuke: I'll be waiting. Ten liters of that stuff is going to be a lot though. I doubt Golden bugs perspire by the liter.
Kakashi is handed the crate and containers with the crate and takes off.
Kakashi: Eh… Well I'm off. Be back in a little bit…
Sasuke: Phhpht… More like a year from now.
Kakashi: Mou…
Camera 4: Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata couple!
Naruto: Okay… we're fifth, I'm… we're not going to lose just yet still!
Hinata: Demo, Naruto-kun… I thought you were just complaining… I mean talking about how we would be in trouble if we were to be in even fourth place.
Naruto: Well, I don't know… I wasn't thinking straight…?
Hinata:… That's an excuse I bet… (Sighs heavily)
Naruto: Hmm? What was an excuse? For what?
Hinata: Ah! A-a-Anou… na-n… (Too quiet for the camera recorder to catch)
Naruto: Okay… Oh! Oh! Oh! Mite! Over there! Mite kure! The box! The box clue!
Hinata: Clue box…
Naruto: whatever! (Opens the box and… well you know) Hinata, I'll get the bug guts!
Hinata: Giant Golden beetle perspiration…
Naruto: Okay, okay! Bug sweat, got it.
Hinata: (Giggles) 'Naruto-kun, you have so much energy.' I'll… I'll start the fire; you better get started then…
Naruto: Ah, hai, hai… Let's go!
Camera 5: Haruno Sakura, Rock Lee, couple
Sakura: Come on Lee! You can do it! (She's screaming into the forest from which Lee is in right now)
Lee: Suke… Sakura-san's voice can carry quite far… (Heh… destruction of eyes from teeth and ears from voice… a perfect match nah?)
Site one Camera
Sakura: Hmm… I better get started on the fire… (Kneels by the pot) Tsunade said that if I focus my chakra enough I could create movement in the very atoms of whatever I focus it on. (This is where my study of the kinetic molecular theory comes in handy. Prays Thank you Mr. Lam!)
Sakura placed her hands together, fingers crosshatching upon one another. Muttering to herself, "Kado na, zenshin suru, kogeki wo kuwaeru, tachisaru!" With that she placed her hatched hands upon that of some of the dead leaves underneath the pot. Focusing hard upon the apparent task at hand. (Before I forget, a friend taught the Nihongo that I just wrote. I may have made a mistake on usage though) There was a dead silence, as her eyes shut tight and she pursed her lips and held her breath hard. Sweat dripped down her forehead as a small amount of the brown deep green leaves rustled over the dark brown wood. "Focus…" She strained to say to herself. "Focus…" She repeated. Now the leaves did more that rustle; it moved as if it were a person with a seizure, it twisted through itself and stretched and bent and looked as if it were about to melt. Then, she sneered. "Thermal energy makes the world go round…" and scoffed. "And sets it on fire…" With that, there was a spark of light… and another… and another… The leaves lit up in an exploding yellow-orange. (Of course I'm going WAY exaggerated when it comes to using thermal energy to make fire THIS quick and with just something like this but shush! To the kids they've got no clue!) Soon the fire spread like wild water onto the rest of the leaves and wood.
Sakura: Whew… Now it's up to Lee to get things done.
Kiba: However, Shino'll get things done even faster.
Sakura: Whoa! Kiba-kun! When did you get here?
Kiba: Some time ago… nice skill you got there. Maybe one day I'll learn it too…
Sakura: Heh! I hate to brag but it takes one heck of a lot of chakra control that doesn't come in everyone!
Kiba: I'm insulted! Of course I've got great control! Possibly better than you!
Sakura: don't say that so soon there… (Inner Sakura: OI! URUSAI KIBA! I'll beat you up! Hell yeah!)
Sasuke somewhere at a distance: Mi, hitsuji, saru, I, uma, tora! Katon! Gokakyu no jutsu! (Ball of flame! WHEEEE! Um… that's not what it's called though)
Sakura: Uh? (Turns around) Sasuke…Kun?
Sasuke: Nani?
Sakura: Ah… (Looks at the fire Sasuke set) Ah! Sasuke-kun… Kimi wa sugoi!
Sasuke: Eh… I don't know what's so great about Gokakyu no Jutsu.
Sakura: Ah-ah what did I just say? (Turns back to the pot)
Kakashi: Oh, hello Sakura-chan! Lee's already started I take it?
Sasuke: K-Kakashi! You-you finished?
Kakashi: Eh… no I just cam here because I thought I got lost. I have four containers left to fill. Heh… sorry Sasuke. Lee may well be still ahead of us. (Goes back into the forestry)
Kiba: Heh! I bet any money that Shino's already on his way back right now! He's the bug expert here!
Sakura: No way! No matter how much of an expert he is, there is NO way he could beat Lee!
Neji: Safe… Naruto and Hinata-sama are on their way… we better get started then.
TenTen: I call buggies!
Neji: very well… May destiny of no screwing up be on your side.
TenTen: Okay! (Grabs cart and takes off)
Kiba: Oi! Neji! You're slow!
Neji: I'd keep that mouth shut if I were you.
Sakura: Both of you should calm down! Don't get so heated up over nothing!
Neji: I'm calm.
Kiba: I'm calm! Why say that I'm not calm! He's the one that's temper mental!
Sakura: (Stares in disbelieve)
Neji:…
Kiba: See how silent he is? Trying to hold in that rage.
Sakura: Eventually that's gonna get the best of you, Kiba…
Kiba: Humph!
Ino, Naruto and Kuseki: GOAL!
Sakura: You guys are slow aren't you?
Ino: Humph! For your information Forehead Girl, Shikamaru already got the cart and took off!
Kuseki: Shut up Ino-pig! Zeul-kun started way earlier!
All stare at Naruto
Naruto: What?
Hinata: Anou… Naruto-kun… the carts are over there… you have to go back…
Naruto: What? OH NO! (Runs to the carts)
Sasuke: Humph… Baka-dobe.
Sakura: So, we have three teams left behind. Shizune-san and that Zeblin guy, Iruka-sensei and Ebisu what's his face, Asuma-san and Kurenai-san.
Kurenai: Subract two if you please.
Sakura: Ah! Kurenai-san! Is Asuma doing the cart?
Kurenai: yeah, we kind of argued way over the board about that. He takes out the cigarette, he gets to do he first task.
Sakura: (Mutters under breath) I figured that the guy would be dead by now.
Kurenai: To no avail… sorry if it's a disappointment.
Sakura: Err… No it's not! I was just figuring was all…
Kurenai: Yeah…
Loud scream from a distance…
Neji: Na-Nani? That sounded like Lee!
Camera 1 TenTen In the forest
TenTen: Whoa! Dare? Was that Lee?
TenTen rushes to the voice, shoving her cart ahead of her. Wow… she only has eight jars to go. Swiftly running to the scene of the scream, TenTen finds herself by a lake, so pretty and shiny and… the floor was squishy.
TenTen: Lee! Lee where are you! Lee!
Lee: TenTen… Omoi…
TenTen: (looks down) OH! So YOU'RE the squishy thing I'm stepping on. What was that scream? Daijobu? Any broken bones?
Lee: We'll figure that out once you get off me.
TenTen: Ah! Hai, hai! Of course! (She gets off) Now what happened? Why are your eyes closed?
Lee: (Points at the water) I think I looked at the water and smiled…
TenTen: Huh… He can't even stand his own smile… JEEZE! If you can't stand your own teeth just break them off! I highly doubt that anyone will miss them!
Lee: But… I spent three years using crest white strips for these beautiful teeth. (Smiles)
TenTen: HEY! YOU'LL KILL THE CAMERA GUYS! (Shuts eyes and looks away)
Cameraman 1: AAAGH! STRIPS NO JUTSU! MY EYES!
TenTen: Shut that mouth of yours Lee! Or I'll kill you!
Lee: (Shuts his mouth)
TenTen: (Opens her eyes) Oh now look at what you did! You killed our camera guy! BAKA! (Sighs)
Lee: Gomen nasaii TenTen-chan… I cannot argue with you on that…
TenTen: Now stand up and follow my voice… I have to carry the camera guy to the crash site… or whatever you call it.
Lee: Yes ma'am…
Sakura: (Screaming into the forest) LEEEE! DID YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE WATER!
AGAIN!
Chapter 3 End
Oh my god… I'm so sorry that it took so long! I had to write this over and over! I didn't like how the first match was going. So I wrote it over and over and over and over and over and over and over…
YES THIS CHAPTER WAS ANGSTY AT THE BEGINNING! BITE ME!
I couldn't make this one very long because my sister was complaining about how much of a slow update person that I am… Just that now I have to many projects due next week that I've been crazing over, we're starting a new subject in science, math, soon French, new book in English and after our teacher comes back PE… Well… Before I start ranting (Which I already have) read and review. Give me some ideas.
I FEEL A BLOCK COMING ON!