Senjou: After having my laptop crash and the first version of this previously 14 page chapter deleted I finally got to retyping it. Don't bug me about it if the re-type of this stinks, because I wanted to type it quick just to get it over with. I changed some stuff, like adding a preliminary round to the third test... Here are the answers to the reviews.

Bevy-chan - If you want to see Urasai with an OC, you'll be glad that he will be. One of the Mist girls that appears in this chapter and becomes friends with Urasai before the finals for the third test begins.

Rouken-chan (Bevy Castell 2) - Like I said in Bevy-chan's review answer he's going to be with an OC he sorta meets in this chapter. And here's the update you wanted (even though it's a super long one...). Enjoy this chapter as much as you've enjoyed the others!

Shang - Don't worry about Kajou being really strong from when you reviewed (chapter 3), in the fights she's in for the third test her power level ends up about even with all of her opponents in the matches... I thought up the couples in about... five minutes... so some people are enjoying them and some people aren't. No matter how much I change it around there will be some people who disagree with it. I also understand why you don't like the KibaHina pairing, I don't like it too much either, but I had to have Kiba with someone, and the other option was with him ending up with Temari, and I don't think ANYBODY would like that. I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far, thanks for reviewing!

Now like I said earlier in my typing and stuff, the past version of this chapter was 14 pages long. But I"m going to make this one longer since I made all of you wait so long and you were patient. It's going to have the second test, and then some of the preliminaries of the third test.


It had been about half an hour since they'd entered the large training area when Team 5 met back at a large tree where they'd be making shelter.

"Okay, I got the hollow in the roots of the tree all cleared out so we have somewhere to sleep when we need to." Urasai said, pointing a thumb over his shoulder to the small shelter inside of the trunk and roots of the tree.

"I've found a food and water source." Komayaka said, and pointed to his left, "It's about one hundred meters that way, there's a small stream and a few fruit trees."

"I haven't done anything yet since my job is lookout... I'm going to find a team we can easily beat since we need a scroll... Byakugan!" Kajou, not stopping for her teammates to get a chance to speak, activated her Byakugan and started looking through the trees for any signs of another team. After about a minute of searching she found just the right match for them. "I've spotted Team 4; Chouto, Raishuu, and Hanatsu... About four hundred fifty meters away. Follow me."

With that said, Kajou jumped off, running towards their fellow rookies, and followed by both her teammates.

"You know, Kajou, it would help if you weren't so bossy all the time." Urasai said, he would've crossed his arms if he hadn't had to use them for keeping his balance as they were hopping from branch to branch. "KUSO! SHE ALWAYS ACTS SO BOSSY IT'S GETTING ON MY NERVES BIG TIME!" Inner Urasai shouted, throwing a fit.

"Yes, I'm sorry, but I have to agree with that..." Komayaka said, behind Urasai.

All they got for a reply was a quiet, "Like I care." from Kajou. She then spoke up a little louder. "Do you guys remember the plan? We're only going to fight two at a time, even if the odds would be against us. We always should have one person standing out and watching. First is Komayaka and I, and then Urasai and I will fight, and then it will be you two boys fighting."

"Hai." Both boys said, nodding, knowing that she could see them with her Byakugan still activated. Kajou stopped on the next branch and both the boys did too, below them they saw Team 4 working... Well, more like Raishuu working and the other two slacking off.

"Both of you are such idiots. I don't see how I got stuck on a team with a lazy-ass girl and a food obsessed guy." Raishuu said as he threw a kunai at some fruit in a large fruit tree that was in the clearing they were at.

"Hey, if I didn't eat so much I'd have no chakra and be useless." Chouto said, actually pacing his eating for once because of only having one bag of potato chips for five days.

Hanatsu just sighed and sat up from her laying position on the ground, where she'd been staring at the clouds through a gap in the tree branches. "Call me whatever you want, I don't want to argue, it's too troublesome. But if you annoy me so much that I actually have to stand up you're dead meat you egotistical social reject." Her two teammates just stared at her while she lay back down and proceeded to look up at the clouds.

This would be the perfect time to surprise them... Kajou thought, but when she tried to move tojump down onto the floor she couldn't move.

"We have some visitors, you two." Hanatsu said, waving one of her hands in the air idly, and Kajou was actually surprised when she found that her hand was moving too, against her will. Hanatsu stood up and took a step forward, perfectly knowing what would happen to the girl on Team 5 who had been hit by her Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Imitation).

Kajou started falling, not being able to do anything to stop herself because of the Kagemane no Jutsu. Being the nice boy that he was, Komayaka reacted on instinct and jumped down, caught Kajou bridal style, and landed on the ground and sat Kajou down so she was on her feet. By that time everybody on the other team was laughing and Hanatsu's jutsu had been released.

Blushing severely, Kajou tried to think of someway to defend herself from humiliation. "W-wh-wha-WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR! I COULD'VE STOPPED MYSELF FROM FALLING, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO CATCH ME LIKE THAT!" She yelled slapping him.

Komayaka blushed a little bit after that, adding to the red mark that was now on his cheek, and then got really mad. "I was just trying to help you!"

"Tell me when I should start caring!" Kajou yelled back, resisting the urge to start kicking him in the shins.

"Possibly after the fight, unless you want them taking our scroll." Urasai said, interrupting their fight. Both of his agitated teammates turned to glare at him and then turned to the other team.

I don't think we have very good chances against two really annoyed shinobi from famous clans... Hanatsu thought, taking in how angry both of her opponents looked. Maybe we should just give up this fight, it's only the first day, we could earn both scrolls by then. "Hey, you two. We should just give up this fight, we don't have very good chances of beating two ticked off genius shinobi from famous clans."

Chouto, through a mouth full of potato chips, said, "I"m fine with that idea. Raishuu, give them the scroll."

"I don't want to." Raishuu said, crossing his arms after at some point grabbing the scroll from his kunai pouch.

"Just give it to them alre–" Hanatsu said, being cut off by Urasai.

"We don't need that scroll, we have the heaven scroll also." He said, scratching the back of his head. "Sorry about my two teammates... We'll be going now. Kajou, Komayaka, come on..." He walked off and his two teammates followed, still glaring at each other.

The group of three reached their campsite, hoping for a little bit of rest after getting all worked up, well, at least Urasai wanted some rest from his bickering teammates.

"You really didn't have to catch me like that!" Kajou said, throwing a random piece of fruit at Komayaka, who caught it.

"You would've broke some bones if I hadn't caught you!" Komayaka said, setting down the piece of fruit. Kajou was about to yell back when another team jumped into their clearing.

A familiar voice, to Kajou at least, called out, "Hand over your scroll now unless you want to fight!"

"Hanone-sama, what are you doing here." Kajou said, redirecting her cold glare towards him.

"Oh, Kajou-san! Great, now we get to beat your team!" Hanone yelled, a wide grin across his face. "We don't really need the scrolls, we already have two earth scrolls and one heaven one!" He waved the scrolls in front of their faces and stuck his tongue out.

The eldest of the Uchiha triplets who was on that team, whacked him in the head and screamed right in his ear. "YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO SHOW THEM THE SCROLLS, DOBE!"

"I-it's not my fault, Enkou-chan... I j-just wanted to annoy my cousin because I'm b-better than her." Hanone said, actually looking a bit ashamed.

While they had been fighting with each other Komayaka had walked back a little bit since it wasn't his turn to fight, and Kajou and Urasai had taken out shuriken and kunai, ready to fight. "Are you two going to fight each other or fight us?" Kajou said, glaring at all of them.

Komayaka decided to speak up from behind his other two teammates. "Hey, Hanone, if you want to fight your cousin so bad maybe you should just give us one of your earth scrolls so both of our teams can make it to the third round which is one on one fighting. You'd get to fight her eventually if you won all your matches."

Hanone looked like he was thinking for a little bit and he tossed one of the earth scrolls at Urasai. "Okay, I've just got to kick butt in the fights until I can fight Kajou..." He said, mostly to himself. "I'll see you guys in the third test, you're all going down, I won't lose to weaklings like you!"

They heard a quiet complaint from Enkou that sounded something like, "I'm stuck with an idiot...", before Team 3 took off in the direction of the tower.

"Well, that was a little easier than I thought..." Komayaka said, grinning. "Maybe we should follow their example and head towards the tower."

"Yeah! We have to beat them and be the first team there!" Urasai yelled, running off not bothering giving one of the others the earth scroll. Kajou and Komayaka jumped off after him, catching up after a while and taking the scroll while he wasn't paying attention.

Talk about a one track mind... Kajou thought, stuffing the earth scroll into her kunai pouch while still jumping. It was just past five in the afternoon of the first day when Team 5 reached the tower and walked in, solving the riddle and everything else. (A/N: I'm not explaining it... It'd take too long.) They were lead to a room that had high platforms and looked like a fighting arena, and were instructed to wait there until the time was up and all the other teams were there.

Four days later the second test ended and all of the people who finished were standing in that room that Team 5 had been lead to earlier. Only five teams had ended up finishing, the new Rookie 9, the Sand Genin, and a rookie team from the Mist village.

The Rokudaime Hokage (6th Hokage) a.k.a Uzumaki Naruto stepped up in front of all the Jounin that were standing up on the small stage there and started speaking. "Okay everybody! Now that the second test is over, the third test will start! But first we have to do some preliminary matches to narrow down the competitors for the actual third test in front of an audience." He paused for a second before yelling, "HEY! AYAME, GET OVER HERE! YOU'RE GOING TO RUN THE PRELIMINARIES!"

With that a very cat-like looking sixteen year old jumped from apparently nowhere. "Akaneko Ayame, at your service, NYA! I'd be glad to!" (A/N: Ayame is based on my friend, I even used her nickname for the character's name, lol) The cat-girl turned and faced the Genin and started giving instructions. "The matches will be completely random, you'll fight one match, and the winner of each match will go to the third test finals. You are allowed to use any weapon that you have at your disposal. Get it, got it, GOOD! You can wait up on the balcony until your turn with your senseis. Please turn your attention to the screen up there for the first match..."

Before the screen started choosing, one of the Mist Genin raised his hand and said, "Excuse me, Akaneko-san, I'd like to drop out of this test..."

"If that is what you want, fine... You can leave through that door over there and find your way out of the forest, a path has been cleared for anybody who wants to drop out, so you won't be harmed." Ayame said, waving her hand towards the main door. Once the kid had left the room she turned her head to look at the screen for the first match, and all of the kids followed her example. Two names popped up onto the screen.

Nara Hanatsu

vs.

Sabaku no Nekki

"Now that we have our first two fighters, would everybody except for those two please jump or walk up onto the balcony." Everybody did as Ayame said, and the only people left on the fighting rink were Hanatsu, Nekki, Ayame, since the examiner had to be down there, and over in one corner, a few medic-nin's, just in case.

"How troublesome. I have to fight a boy. The Nara curse goes to work again, my father only fought girls, and I only fight boys." Hanatsu said, taking her hands out of her pockets and grabbing both of her fans. Nekki didn't have anything to retaliate with, so he just stood there.

"Okay, both of you are ready?" Ayame spotted both of them nodding. "'Kay then. Ready, FIGHT!" She jumped out of the way, expecting them to leap at each other or something of the like. But they just stood there, Hanatsu let out a yawn then put her hands behind her back, while Nekki just glared.

"Might as well get this started so I don't go blind by glaring at you any longer." Nekki said, he tried to reach his hand up to take the cork out of his sand gourd, but realized he couldn't.

"I thought I might actually have a challenge, but I was wrong. This is too troublesome." She walked the few steps so she'd be right in front of Nekki, it would've taken a few more had he not moved with her.

Being the daughter of Shikamaru, of course Hanatsu thought of all possibilities. She took her height disadvantage to her advantage, since she was about a foot shorter than Nekki, who was tall for his age. "Makeinu." She said as she raised her right arm up as high as she could and punched Nekki in the face, while he just punched thin air.

Hanatsu released the Kagemane no Jutsu and watched Nekki go flying across the room. I guess his sand is just a weapon, not a form of protection. She thought, walking towards her opponent who was still on the ground. "And I thought boys were supposed to not give up, how troublesome for me, not getting a good fight."

Unknown to Hanatsu, sand was swirling around her feet and snaking up around her legs. A faint, "You're wrong about not getting a good fight." came from Nekki while he was still laying on the ground as Hanatsu was lifted off of the ground and hung upside-down. Nekki stood back up, a half smirk, half evil grin on his face. He was thinking that she'd be very upset about being hung upside-down or at least embarrassed, but he got almost the exact opposite reaction... Hanatsu yawned and complained about how being upside-down was troublesome.

After getting a strange reaction to his plan, he started using the sand to shake Hanatsu back and forth, still upside-down. Still not getting the wanted reaction he started whining (A/N: I had to make at least one character a spoiled brat, Nekki's just got going to show it much ). "Why aren't you crying to be let down or giving up! That's what most girls do, isn't it?"

His sisters glared at him from up on the balcony, even though he didn't notice it.

(Long A/N: Okay, I haven't explained this yet but I'm going to tell how old Gaara's kids are and such...

Sabaku no Kaze - Age: 16, Short Description: She has long red hair tied in a side ponytail. A perfectionist if there ever was one.

Sabaku no Taiyou - Age: 10, Short Description: She graduated from the academy at the same year as her older brother. Considered the sand village's genius. Has short red boyish hair. Typically anti-social, during ((and after if she wins them)) fights and with her older siblings she can be really happy though.

Sabaku no Nekki - Age: 12, Short Description: Sort of a spoiled brat, he always got more attention that his sisters for some reason ((Will be told in a later chapter)). He's slow on some things, and he's the self-proclaimed leader of his siblings. Has hair exactly like his fathers.

Since Temari is Hanatsu's mother, Nekki and his siblings are cousins of Hanatsu... Just had to point that out for those who haven't realized it.

I just wanted to put that... Okay, time to start the story again, sorry for interrupting!)

"Okay, if your such a baby about it. But I don't think you should treat your cousin that way." Hanatsu said. She said in a REALLY high pitched scared sounding voice, "HEEELLP! He's killing me! AAAHHH! ... There, satisfied?"

"You're my cousin?" Everybody who knew who Nekki's father was and who Hanatsu's mother was had big sweat drops on the back of their heads.

"Idiot... It's because... Oh, nevermind. It's too troublesome to explain." Hanatsu reached into her kunai pouch and took out a kunai and an exploding tag, doing a mid-air sit up and jamming her kunai through the exploding tag so it would stick to the sand around her lower legs. "Five... Four... Three... Two... One..." The exploding tag exploded (duh) and Hanatsu fell out of the sand, landing on her feet well enough to make a cat jealous.

Hanatsu picked up her two fans (which she had dropped when she used the Kagemane no Jutsu) and prepared to attack. "I hope you enjoy this one, made it up myself... Nibai Senjou Gikou: Kage Kaze Gufuu! (Double Fan Technique: Shadow Wind Tornado!)" She attached her two fans together so that she had one super large fan, and started spinning rapidly, but instead of regular winds forming, they were pitch black and you couldn't see through them.

"Hey, what's happening!" Urasai shouted over the noise of the winds that were now whipping through the fighting arena.

"That Nara girl made up her own technique once again, combining both of her parents talents. A pretty good idea, maybe I should try..." Kajou shouted back, even though she was right next to him it would be hard for him to hear because she was shouting into the wind.

The dark colored winds were starting to clear, and once the lower field was visible it was apparent who the winner was. Hanatsu was leaning on her two fans which were still attached to each other, breathing heavily, while Nekki was hanging off of one of the rails of the balcony, unconscious.

"Winner of the first match, Nara Hanatsu!" Akaneko Ayame yelled, a few claps were heard, mainly from Chouto. Ayame walked over to Hanatsu and helped her limp over to where the medic-nins were, mostly to get her ankles checked from being hung upside down by the sand, and to get bandages on the cuts she got from her own wind attack. Other medic-nins retrieved Nekki and took him to the hospital since he had worse injuries. Ayame was back to her original position. "Now for match number two, NYA!"

Names started jumbling around on the screen, after about a second two names had popped up.

Yokoshima Kasumi

vs.

Uzumaki Urasai

Urasai's regular and inner self were screaming the same thing as he jumped down onto the field. "SHANNARO!" At the same time a girl about his height with knee length black hair tied in a low ponytail (like Itachi's) walked down the stairs, a Mist village forehead protector was worn around her waist.

"Good luck, Sumi!" A girl with chin-length dark blue hair called from up on the balcony. "You better win or I'm not taking you to eat ramen with me tonight!" The other girl didn't reply.

"Okay, looks like there isn't going to be any chatter here... Ready, START!" Ayame called out.

Urasai immediately started out with his (and his father's) signature move. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" There were now about twenty Urasai's standing on one side of the room, all of them glaring at Kasumi. With one nod of his head, all of the clones attacked, screaming various insults and threats. Only a few attacks hit though, because of a certain reason that a certain person called out.

"Yeah, that's the way the fastest genin in Mist village does it!" The blue haired girl called out again. "Go, Kasumi, go! Go, Kasumi, go!"

"Jeez, Chi! Can you shut up for one second?" Kasumi said, still dodging more Kage Bunshins that Urasai had created.

Perfect timing... The real Urasai thought, standing behind Kasumi. He jumped up and surprise attacked her, landing on her back and stabbing a kunai into one of her arms then flipping up and over her head to land with his remaining clones. "There's no way you're winning against me! The son of the Hokage!"

"You talk big, but can you back up your words?" Kasumi said, starting to make hand seals. "Yokoshima Tokutei Gikou: Koori Yari! (Yokoshima Special Technique: Ice Spears!)" Just like the name of the attack said, ice spears started forming in the air around Kasumi and were thrown at Urasai without the girl touching them.

Even though he was doing his best to dodge the ice weapons, Urasai still got hit several times. Once the assault had ended he had a deep cut in his right forearm and his left leg along with several smaller cuts. Sometimes it comes in handy to have a mother that's a medic-nin... Urasai thought as green chakra appeared on his left hand and he partially healed the bigger cuts.

"You better be ready for this one. My dad taught me this... Kitsune Kasai no Jutsu! (Fox Fire!)" Four foxes made out of fire started forming beside Urasai. They all started attacking his opponent, burning her skin as they scratched and bit her. After about a minute the foxes disappeared and Kasumi was left laying on the ground.

"Kasumi! Get up, there's no way you can be beaten that easily! Kare wa kono ikusa ni kateru to omotte iru! Kare wa kirenai! (He thinks he can win this fight! He can't!)" Once again the girl's teammate called out, trying to get her friend motivated.

"Tojikomeru, Chi. (Shut up, Chi.)" Kasumi said as she shakily got to her feet. (A/N: I just like putting japanese stuff in here )

"Looks like you're tougher than I thought... But you're already worn down, so I'll end this quickly unless you want to give up." Urasai said, glaring at his tired opponent.

"There's no way I'm backing down." Kasumi retorted, quickly taking out a kunai and slashing at Urasai. But she had slowed down because of the burns and just plain being fatigued, so Urasai easily dodged and counter attacked. Urasai finished the fight by kicking Kasumi in the stomach, sending her flying into a wall and knocking her unconscious.

After about thirty seconds Ayame stepped up and called out, "Second match winner, Uzumaki Urasai! If the matches continue like they have been, we're going to have quite an exciting day, huh?" Once again the electronic screen started shuffling around the remaining names. Urasai was in the balcony already when the names popped up, and when they did, nine gasps of surprise from the Hidden Leaf Village Genin.

Uchiha Enkou

vs.

Uchiha Komayaka

Everyone who had known about the Uchiha triplets knew this was going to be a big match. Enkou had always been the one to pick on Komayaka the most, but nobody knew for sure who was going to win, even though they had guesses.

"Hah! How the heck did I get such an easy match!" Enkou said, jumping down from the balcony onto the fighting field.

"Don't underestimate me." Komayaka said, also jumping down and glaring at his sibling. "Just because I'm the shortest triplet and you're the tallest doesn't mean you have an advantage."

"How did you know I was thinking that!" Enkou yelled.

"Apparently Lee-sensei was right when he ranked me as fourth in the class while you and Raishuu were lower ranks. It's called triplet telepathy. It works for twins too." Komayaka said, still looking calm while his sister was losing her temper. (I had to add that telepathy thing in, and I know it's true because I have friends who are quadruplets who sorta do that, and even though they're all in different classes they all plan to meet at a certain table at lunch at school and they all meet there...)

"Just shut up so we can start the match already!" Enkou once again yelled. Kuso... I've got to beat him badly to make sure that smart-ass knows his place.

"You're the one who's yelling." Komayaka said, a smirk on his face. She doesn't know the basic information a ninja always should. One of the most important rules, don't let your feelings get in the way.

"Okay, there is defiantly some MAJOR sibling rivalry here. Oh well, lets just get this match started... Begin!" Ayame said. She jumped out of the way like in the first fight, and this time it came in handy. Enkou had lept at Komayaka with a kunai in her hand immediately.

"Take this you egotistical, idiotic little brother!" Enkou screeched as she came closer. She jabbed her kunai at him only to have Komayaka dodge it.

"Don't call me little brother just because I'm twelve minutes younger than you." Komayaka said, dodging more strikes. I've just got to let her keep attacking me until she's worn out, then I can win this as easily as Kajou can beat up a three year old... Not that she has, it's just a comparison.

"Can't you hold still for one second!"

"No."

It had been about two minutes of continuous attacks and Enkou was starting to breathe heavily and slow down. Seeing his chance as Enkou was coming closer for a Taijutsu based fight, he started forming hand seals. "Katon: Housenka! (Fire Type: Mythical Fire Flower!)"

Since they were already so close, Enkou didn't have enough time to dodge and got hit with the full force of the multiple fireballs. Once the amount of smoke that had gathered around their battle after Komayaka's attack cleared, everyone who was watching saw Enkou laying on the ground, unconscious, with some flame still on her sleeves and pant legs.

"Winner of the third match, Uchiha Komayaka!" Ayame called out as Enkou was taken to the hospital to be treated for burns and Komayaka was checked by the medic-nins there for any serious injuries. Once he had been checked over he headed back up to the balcony. "We'll have a small break right now for lunch!" Ayame called out once he was up with his team.

"You did awesome, Komayaka! Not as awesome as me, but still awesome!" Urasai said putting his hand up for a high five, though Komayaka didn't give him one and just ignored him.

"Nice job, Komayka. That was an interesting fight." Kajou said, though she wasn't looking at him, but the electronic screen instead as if waiting for it to start picking the names though she knew it was going to be about another ten minutes.

My turn better be soon, I'm getting impatient. Kajou thought, still not taking her eyes off the screen. Someone walked up beside her, though she didn't bother activating her Byakugan to see who. Whoever it was put some already cooked cup ramen in her hand.

"Urasai made this, you have to eat. Who knows, your match could be next..." Kajou turned and saw Komayaka leaning on the railing beside her.

"I'm not hungry." Kajou said, setting the ramen down on the floor next to her. "Anyway, ramen isn't that good."

"You still need to eat."

"I don't care."

"You should eat, you know. And ramen is the best, how can you say it isn't good?" Urasai said behind her, his mouth stuffed full of ramen. Kajou just sighed and decided to ignore them for the last three minutes of the break. They seemed to pass quicker than usual, though it didn't bother her.

"Okay, everybody! I hope that you're all full and ready to fight, or recovered after your fight or whatever! Time for match number four, hopefully it'll be as interesting as the last three..." Ayame said, once again everybody there looked to see who was next. And the looks that people had when the results came up were mixes of surprised, excited, and just plain freaked out.

Sabaku no Kaze

vs.

Hyuuga Kajou

The number one rookies from two different years and two different villages, going one on one. "Looks like we're in store for a VERY exciting fight!" Ayame called out as the two jumped down from balconies on opposite sides of the fighting field.

"If I'm correct, you were the Sand village's number one rookie from four years ago." Kajou said, glaring at her opponent.

"Yes, and if I'm correct you were this villages number one rookie this year? Heh, I'm going to win this without even a scratch." Kaze said, smirking like there was no other time to do it than just then.

"Okay, are both the fighters ready?" Nods came from both of the girls. "Okay, BEGIN!"

Unlike her younger brother who had already fought, Kaze started the fight right away. "Sunaarashi no Jutsu! (Sandstorm!)" Wind suddenly came out of nowhere and sand came out of the gourd that Kaze also had on her back and got caught in the wind.

Like that's going to hurt... Kajou thought, but that was before the sand started shooting right past her causing small stinging cuts along her limbs, face, and sides.She also had to close her eyes so the sand wouldn't get into them. Now is one time I'm REALLY glad for being a Hyuuga... Byakugan! Kajou could now see through her eyelids and all around her.

Around Kaze was the only spot where there wasn't any sand flying around. She's probably getting worn down now, since she can't see she won't be able to find her way around. And the sand is giving her little cuts, but a lot, so she'll be going down any time now.

Crap... These small cuts are really starting to hurt a lot since they're layering up... I think I have an idea, but it's going to be hard. Kajou started gathering chakra at her tenketsu points, though she didn't start spinning, instead, she started letting out chakra so it made a bit of a barrier around her body. "Chakra Tate! (Chakra Shield!)"

Kaze was now sitting on the ground watching through her sand. She started hearing some kids yelling from the balcony. Even though they couldn't see down to where the fight was, they were still cheering for her.

"Come on, Kajou-chan! You can win!" She heard a boys voice call out over the wind that was blowing the sand around. Closely followed by another call from another boy. "Kajou, if you win I won't eat ramen or talk about it for a week!".

"Shut up you warugaki (brats)!"Kaze yelled, she then noticed a faint blue glowing from one area of the sand around her. What the hell is that? The small blow glow was slowly getting larger as if something was coming closer. She didn't realize what it was until it hit her.

Kajou had just given her a gentle fist style hit on the stomach. A small amount of blood shot out of Kaze's mouth as she was hit. Before she was hit again, though, she used her Chakra to move the sand that was now scattered on the ground to protect her.

When Kajou's hand hit the sand, it grabbed onto her arm and held it. With the sand up to a little past her elbow, she couldn't just try and yank her hand out without getting seriously hurt, and it wouldn't be too smart to hit with the other hand as it would get stuck too, so she did the next best thing. From somewhere Kajou grabbed a katana and started trying to stab through the sand, though it didn't help at all.

After watching a few of Kajou's failing attempts to free herself, Kaze decided it was time for a little bit of 'fun'. She clenched her right hand into a fist and a loud crack mixed with a scream as the sand let go after breaking Kajou's arm.

"Kajou-chan! Are you okay!" Komayaka called from up on the balcony, practically standing on top of the rail that was along the edge of the higher floor. Even her usually not-caring cousin looked a bit worried.

She ignored them all as she held her arm with the other hand, fighting to hold back her crying and also trying to plan what she could do without one arm.One tear slipped down her cheek as she opened her eyes back up and glared at Kaze who had a satisfied smirk across her face.

"Why the hell did you do that!" Kajou yelled out, still trying to think of what to do next.

"I could've done a lot worse, you should be happy." Kaze said, still smirking. "I could've just killed you, would you rather me do that?"

"Shut up, damn it!" Kajou yelled, running as fast as she could towards the older girl, one arm hanging limply and the other ready to hit Kaze with a gentle fist strike that would knock her out.

"I think she's lost it." Urasai said, never having heard Kajou yell like that before. Komayaka and their sensei who had kept quiet until then nodded.

"I just hope she'll be okay for the finals round." Yatsu-sensei said, glancing down at the fight from his position leaning against the wall on the balcony.

"If she even makes it." Komayaka said, looking worriedly as his friend kept going even though she could only use one arm.

"She will." Yatsu-sensei said once again, lifting his hands up and plugging his ears with two fingers for apparently no reason. Though the reason was found out soon after when another scream besides Kajou's echoed through the room.

Kajou had just kept advancing on Kaze until she was up against the wall and then had hit her with one final blow in the stomach just like the first one, that had knocked her out.

After waiting about half a minute to make sure that the second girl wasn't going to get up, Ayame called out, "Winner of the fourth match, Hyuuga Kajou!"

Medic-nin's came in quickly, knowing what the gentle fist style could do, to take Kaze to the hospital. Kajou had to come too because of the broken arm and the cuts from the Sunaarashi no Jutsu that could get infected, though she refused to be in a wheelchair like they had asked.

Before the fifth match started, Komayaka decided to ask something. "Um, Yatsu-sensei? Do you think that I could go visit Kajou-chan since I've already fought? I just want to make sure she's okay." He then looked down and to the side, trying to hide the small blush that was on his cheeks.

"Komayaka and Kajou, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Urasai sang right beside him, not being able to finish the song before being punched in the face.

"Sure, it's fine if you go and check on her." Yatsu-sensei said, nodding. Looks like somebody has a crush...

Komayaka took a door that was from the balcony straight to the outside, where he walked the path that had been made to lead out of the training area to the main road. Just over the bridge and a block away was the hospital.

He walked in the front door of the hospital, a few of the people in the reception area looking at him, still covered in some dirt from the second test and a few small scratches from his fight against Enkou. Komayaka asked the receptionist which room Kajou was in and headed down a hallway to his right.

Reaching the right room after walking for a while, Komayaka knocked on the door and that same familiar voice said, "Come in.".He walked in and saw Kajou sitting up in the bed, her ponytail was out and she was trying to brush her long hair with one hand. He noticed that her right arm was still not in a splint of any sort, probably because the medic-nins were too busy with their other patient, courtesy of Kajou.

"Are... Are you okay, Kajou-chan?" Komayaka said, stuttering a little bit because he didn't realize how cute she could be with her hair down.

"Yes." Kajou paused for a moment, trying to get a knot that was a little hard to reach. After giving up for the time she asked, "Why did you come?"

"Huh? Oh, just because I... I wanted to check if you were okay." Komayaka grabbed a chair that was in the corner of the room and after moving it a small bit closer to the bed Kajou was in he sat down.

"Well, if that's all, why are you staying?" She already had some idea from reading his body language, but just wanted to make sure.

"Oh... Um... Uh..." Komayaka said, before Kajou cut him off.

"Never mind. As long as you're staying here, make yourself useful and help me get this knot that I can't reach." Kajou said, doing her best to point to a knot out of the reach of her non-broken arm.

"Oh... O-okay." Komayaka blushed a bit as he walked over and grabbed the brush. He started to brush her hair as gently as he could while still getting the knots out. He had just finished helping her put her hair back in a ponytail and sat down again when one medic-nin finally came in.

Once her arm was in a splint and the larger of her small cuts had bandages on them Kajou was free to go and both of them walked back to the competition, having already missed the fifth fight.


Senjou: There, I FINALLY finished the retype of that chapter. It ended up having fifteen whole pages counting the small notes I put in at the top and bottom. I think you people have noticed that Komayaka and Kajou are starting to be more comfortable around each other.

Inner Senjou: Kajou and Komayaka, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N...

Kajou and Komayaka are there, both kicking Inner Senjou and sending her flying-

Senjou: Hey, you guys!

Komayaka: Konnichiwa, author-sama.

Kajou: Konnichiwa.

Senjou: I'd chat with you guys more, but I have to end this so I can watch some Naruto episodes I downloaded... Just to warn all of you reviewers. After I finish the Chuunin exam (which will NOT be interrupted, but will have some VERY plot-moving fights) I will have the story on pause for about two weeks to a month and hopefully work on Chicken Soup for the Naruto Fan's Soul and Shinobi Diaries along with an idea I have for another chaptered story. Sayonara!