I can say arigato to my friend here for kind of editing my chapter… before we all went to play my worst skill… DDR! Anyways… thank you! It sorta… helped…
OK! Japanese word lesson! (I'm getting better-smirk-) Tomotachi-means... FRIEND! alright? ok...i think you guys got it.
Kishomi's thoughts made her idle to the second chief officer's directions and explanations. "Crap… "She thought. "This isn't good at all… there's a creepy snake guy that's bloodthirsty and a proctor who's gone insane!" Kishomi watched Anko's cat-like eyes intently. "She's just dying for us to get wiped out…" she said with a dangerous tone of voice.
Mitarashi Anko whipped out a stack of consent forms, and passed them around. Kishomi took hers and quickly jotted the needed information down, using a borrowed pencil from Sakura.
As Kishomi watched the Kusanin Grass Trio stand with their arms crossed, she noticed peculiar tags hanging from their rice-picker hats had writing on them. She stepped closer for a better look.
"Hanzai…aku…batsu- that's crime, evil, and punishment!" she gasped, eyes still fixed on the three mysterious ninjas. Kishomi retracted a step as the middle ninja tilted his head up. Although the hat still shielded his face from being seen, Kishomi had a feeling that he was looking straight at her.
"Kishomi! Let's get in line! They're distributing the scrolls now!" Sakura called, pulling Kishomi from the distracting glance of the other two ninjas. They had been watching her disturbingly with narrowed eyes. She joined her team in line, looking at the curtain concealing the identity of each scroll given out.
As Team 7 went behind the curtain, they were given a "ten" scroll, meaning heaven. Kishomi eyed the scroll with a fixed look.
"That creep Anko for us all to fight to the death, doesn't she? This is so not good." She thought, musing to herself what she would do if any enemy were to come in her way.
Kishomi stood at her respective gate, along with her other team members, awaiting the release of the fenced door to send them into the depths of the dark mori.
A smirk from Anko's cocky face signaled all the ninjas into their ready positions. One glance was all they needed to get this exam heated up. Anko stepped forward and announced, "Part two of the Chuunin exams start… (Kishomi bent forward with her eyes set on an opening into the forest.) NOW!" The wrought-iron gate swung open, but the four rookies had already darted into the dim shadows, leaving their dust and the rusty iron door creaking. The thirst for action already sent them into the forest.
Kishomi shot past Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke and hid behind a tree. Thinking her team members were nearby, she jumped out, only to find that she was all alone. "Damn! I lost them when I ran too fast!" Kishomi cursed. She drew out her kunai knife and used her paranoid senses to detect any sign of a presence nearby.
However, her sense of hearing was no match for another elite team. Something or someone had crept up behind Kishomi without a hint of sound. With no hesitation, it kicked Kishomi's back, sending her skidding across the bumpy dirt. "Heh," Kishomi said, and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. It was only a mere illusion of a shadow doppelganger.
The real Kishomi stepped out from behind a tree trunk. She balanced on a thin limb, only to find that it wasn't strong enough to withstand her weight. But before the limb had even made a cracking sound, Kishomi had already jumped to the ground. She snatched out shurikens and another kunai knife.
"Show yourself, you coward!" Kishomi yelled, hands retracted back, ready to assault her enemy. She heard snickers, multiple snickers all around her. Different voices circled her mind and water filled her mouth, muting her sound and caused her to hallucinate her past.
: Flashback :
"Kishomi-chan! Now that you are already four, it's time Okasan and Otosan let you carry on our family's custom! You must go out there independently and train only by yourself, just like your siblings!" Okasan said, smiling warmly.
"We are all self-taught ninjas of the Sakada clan that are on their own by the time they are old enough to walk and talk, as well as the other needs people have! We ninjas only get as good as we make of ourselves! That is our code of formality in our esteemed clan, Kishomi-chan! Now, don't play with your shurikens and kunai just yet! Learn to use them and master the art of throwing them at your enemies!" Kishomi's mother said. Under the shiny dark brown mass of hair, Kishomi looked up and her light grey eyes stared up at her mother. She nodded.
"Right Okasan! I'll be the best self-taught ninja and beat out my brother and sister!" Kishomi stated boldly. Her eyes shone and seemed to smile, despite her serious look.
:End Flashback:
"AUGGH! Is… this… genjutsu?" Kishomi thought with horror, but before she could say another work, three kunai knives stabbed into her pained back, but vanished. Her life flashed before her as she sawhell and heaven part in a split second.It was genjutsu, the skill of hallucination. Kishomi's back throbbed, although no sign of cuts or blood were seen.
"Crap…blortch" Kishomi threw up to erase the pain. Her forehead formed beads of sweat that trickled down her hot face. A waterfall genin and his comrades jumped out of the trees. Genin from Taki no Kuni, Hidden Village of the Waterfall.
"Looks like bait here…" the genin scoffed. The boy adjacent to him spat and sneered at Kishomi.
"Konoha's genin are seriously only this strong? Feh- how pathetic." The boy insulted, but Kishomi rose quickly and chucked her shurikens at her enemies. The taki genin only snickered more and jumped out of the way.
"You shut up! I've lived in your own pitiful village for two years!" She screamed and formed her hands in the sign of the ox. Fwup, fwup, fwup… multiple katas were performed.
"This is my last resort! My specialty…Nekkyo Ustu Koto- Berserk Strike!" Kishomi shouted, and seemed to disappear as fast her words. The waterfall genin looked up, down, behind, below. Kishomi was nowhere to be seen.
"Where the hell did she go?" the boy thought. "Could she have escaped, thinking we were too strong for her?" He did his own katas and turned into water doppelgangers, which then searched the vast area for any sign of his fixed opponent.
"She better not have run, we've got an incomplete mission on our hands if that brat escaped!" the girl genin said. A lash of strong wind caught the taki genin back on their guard.
"I'm right here you baka!" Kishomi spat out, and shurikens along with kunai knives sprung out everywhere in a flurry of pure speed. The path of the shuriken seemed to leave an after-trail of quick light. The genin didn't seem to notice the shurikens fast enough and got completely ripped up.
"AUGGH!" they yelled, clutching their heads to shield their faces, as more and more blades danced throughout the air and snatched at them. Blood spurted and dripped heavily after Kishomi had decided they had enough.
"What the… she's so fast!" one of the waterfall genin said, while wincing in terrible pain. His body was covered in gashes that bled uncontrollably, as well as his bloodied comrades. Crimson blood soaked the once damp, green grass. Kishomi smirked and stepped up to them.
"I guess genin from waterfall aren't up to much speed, hmm?" she said scornfully and stared at the three genin. The girl shook with coldness and extended a scathed arm. It stayed up only for a split second, then dropped limp to the ground.
"Spare us… we beg of you… you can take our scroll… just… spare us…" the girl forced out, through heavy breathing. She coughed up blood. Her other wounded team members nodded sheepishly in agreement. Kishomi scoffed.
"Why would I want your scroll?" she remarked rudely. The girl wavered, then reached behind her back pocket and produced a heaven scroll.
"Here…" she whispered, and threw the scroll. The team's prized possession rolled absentmindedly until it lightly touched Kishomi's zori. Kishomi saw that these taki genin wanted her mercy. But the problem was, her team had already gotten a heaven scroll.
"It's of no use, you know. My team already carries the heaven scroll- so that worthless wad of paper means nothing." Kishomi said crudely, and kicked the scroll aside.
"Heh…seems you've fallen for our plan…" someone said behind Kishomi. She gasped and jumped up into the air. One of the waterfall genin had revived himself using his chakra!
"Damn it! How could I fall for such an obvious trap… but wait… how did they know I already had a heaven scroll and why would the other two ninjas risk getting hurt?" Kishomi thought. But before she knew it, the genin was right above her in midair. He flipped and slammed his leg down on Kishomi's head forcefully. The blow was made even worse with chakra generated into that body part.
"AUGHH!" Kishomi was sent straight down. One of the other taki genin used the last of his strength to summon a full blow of leg power. He jerked his right leg into Kishomi's stomach, sending her sideways before she skidded across the ground.
Kishomi gasped out blood. "Argh… you… you lowlife! Both of your other comrades risked their life to construct this idiot plan so I could get hurt, but yet you just heal yourself with chakra and take your own hit at me!" she yelled at the waterfall genin.
He looked at his teammates in disdain. "I'd do anything to get people… especially rivals out of my way…like you!" he said, changing his glance on Kishomi.
Her eyes filled with hatred. "Don't even try to insult my clan… we self-taught ninjas make you a freak compared to our skills!" she shot back with a firm tone. Kishomi wiped away blood trickling from her mouth.
"Hmph. The Sakada clan, eh? I know you better than you'd ever know me!" the waterfall genin said with sheer confidence. His fixed stare turned back onto his comrades once more with no regrets, despite the fact that one was already unconscious and lying in a pool of fresh blood and one was shaking with utter cold. Kishomi gritted her teeth as she watched the other two taki genin suffer.
"Well bastard… aren't you going to help your teammates?" Kishomi said lowly as she painfully got up. She brushed off dirt and grime from her soiled clothes. Blood trickled from her forehead. The boy shrugged and turned away from his allies.
"This whole thing… was part of the plan… only I wouldn't get hurt… don't you understand? We all came from separate clans… and my clan of the Kyoretsu has nothing to do with… them…" he said, disgusted by the state of his comrades. Kishomi's eyes radiated with anger.
"Your clan… a rival to mine? What… is that why you came here in the first place? To destroy me and my clan?" She said, looking him squarely in the eye. Her glittering grey eyes seemed to pierce him. The waterfall genin retracted a step.
"That glance… it glows with the dying rage of the Sakada… I recognize you! Your branch in the Sakada clan is one of the most elite! The family with wolf-like eyes, like my parents used to say!" the boy said.
Kishomi hated the boy's remark about her disturbing glance. She recalled more memories of her past.
:Flashback:
Thock! Kishomi threw her first shuriken, which barely made it to the straw kakashi hung on a tree in the forest. She retrieved the shuriken and repeated the steps, starting from her holster. Shift out, spin smoothly, then… THROW! The whizzing ninja star made its way to the straw man. THOCK! It wedged itself into the deep yellow straw.
"Hmm… something isn't quite right…" little six-year old Kishomi remarked. "I keep aiming for the center, but the shurikens only headed for other parts of the body!"
:End Flashback:
Kishomi's stomach was in pain, and her forehead throbbed. Thick blood still poured from the wound the taki genin had made. It was now dark, but yet Kishomi had a strong desire to keep going in deep-darkness of this mori.
Kishomi tried hard not to fall asleep as one eyelid slipped down. She shook herself and shifted her position. She stood up again, but staggered. In her hand rested a kunai knife, in case any other ninja were to attack. She knew she couldn't stay here, especially when it was already nightfall and her life was at its peak of danger. The forest remained still as before, but the sense of a hazardous enemy nearby chewed on Kishomi's mind.
"You're only a waste of time- I don't have time for big talk right now! I've lost my comrades and it's already sundown!" Kishomi snapped at the remaining waterfall genin. She held up her kunai knife in her palm and hastily snatched out three more kunai knives with a light ching and twirled the blades endlessly. The metal clinked together like trinkets, gleaming in the dim moonlight.
The taki genin laughed. He got serious when Kishomi held up her hand to strike and whisked out shurikens of his own. Kishomi backed a step, but gripped her weapons tightly. The waterfall genin had already thrown a shuriken at her, but Kishomi hoped out of the way. She retracted her hand and forcefully released one of her kunai knives.
The sharp dagger cut through the air and headed for her opponent at full speed. The genin smirked and caught the blade with two extended fingers. The kunai knife seemed like it hadn't done any damage to him at first, but after a split second, the sharpness of the points cut into his hand and tore his skin open. Blood trickled down his arm, darkened by the dim light.
"Fool…you think some meager strength like that is seriously going to kill me?" the taki genin said derisively. Kishomi lowered her head and stepped back. She couldn't really do anything to hurt this genin. Her weapons were almost out and her chakra was running pretty low.
"Crap…" Kishomi muttered. She was practically out of everything. She'd be finished if she didn't do something fast. Kishomi jumped up and into a tree. The genin flung more shuriken at her, but Kishomi dodged them again and again with her agility. More and more ninja stars cut through the tree leaves, demolishing greenery as Kishomi rushed past each one.
Kishomi's strength was decreasing, and she felt dizzy from evading all the blades the taki genin had tossed at her. "You…I'll finish you even if it costs me my life!" she vowed as she gasped frantically for air. The waterfall genin smiled.
"I'd like to see you try… Kishomi!" he said. Kishomi froze. What did that creep just say? He knew… her name?
"Say…what?" Kishomi said, astonished at the genin's emotion. Her eyes were burning with interest in what his next reaction would be. The waterfall genin took a step back, but grinned.
"Don't think your prestigious clan is a total mystery to me…alas, you have fallen for another one of my set traps." He stated with a vengeful glare. Now Kishomi pulled back a step. She couldn't believe it.
R&R!
PREVIEW OF NEXT CHAPTER…
Kishomi and this mysterious waterfall genin are in danger; it's already getting dark! And worst of all, this guy knows her name… what can he be up to now? Kishomi is faced with a tough situation here; can she get through the forest with this freak?
