Youkou: Okay, you all FINALLY get the 7th chapter of Shourai... Since it took so long to update I'll try and make it good, though you guys won't get to see the first fight of the finals until next chapter (each fight in the finals will have one chapter...). Even if you don't usually read it, you should check out the 4th chapter of Shinobi Diaries... The special characters for the diaries in that are Kajou, Komayaka, and Urusai! Also, if you haven't already, check out the pictures in the Random Links section on my userpage... There are some awesome drawings from Marise-Faia of the original characters here (not all of them yet...), and while I was neglecting my stories I made a little doll of Kajou and turned it into an info card thing... Here are the answers to the reviews.

heh - I'm glad you enjoy the story so far... Hmm... I hadn't noticed that, let me check in my brand new English to Japanese dictionary (haha, got it the day before I was typing this) to find out... is typing straight from dictionary chotto - adv. For a moment; a little bit. Thank goodness for reviewers who want to point things out and dictionaries, XD.

SephirothVI6Six - Well, 'urasai' means 'Shut up.'... 'urusai' means 'loud'... Strange thing really, two almost opposite things only having a one letter difference in romanization...

Shang - I'm glad you liked that fight ... It took the longest for me to type out of the four in that chapter. And from personal experience -cough-little brother-cough-, spoiled brats are beaten pretty easily... Don't worry, the rest of the preliminary fights will be in this chapter. I hope you're still reading even after my neglective-ness because of lazy-ness...

FireDragonBL - Yeah, cliffhangers aren't fun to read, but so fun to type. Lol, funny scenario there (seriously, people need to read your review for some laughs)... Kajou will get to face Hanone sometime in the finals, don't worry about that, and it'll be quite a large, destructive fight, lol... Hinata is still the head of the family, and maybe, just maybe, before she gives the position to somebody else there might have been a change in the clan... If people are reading this and even have half a brain they're getting some major spoilers :P... Kajou switches back and forth a lot, when fighting she's more like Tenten, but when she's not she's more like Neji. Oh, and just in case anybody's wondering, her older brother will show up again... sometime...

kryuzei - I'm glad you think it's interesting... And don't worry, the fights will get longer in the finals, just not in the preliminaries...

l-laze - Don't worry, you'll all get to see Urusai's almost never-showing smart side... He'll need it in the finals.

TO ALL PEOPLE READING THIS! - Thanks for reading this even after my lazy-streak... Hopefully that won't happen again. Now to start the long awaited chapter 7 of Shourai!


Komayaka and Kajou had walked back to where the fights were being held quietly, neither of them wanting to talk, both of them thinking about different things.

I wonder whether Kajou-chan knows that I like her... She's probably noticed by now that I blush sorta often around her. She probably knows that I like her and just doesn't say anything, right? I just wish she would say something about it so I at least knew what she thought... Komayaka glanced over in her direction and when she looked over to find him looking at her, Komayaka looked away quickly. You know, I don't even think her parents would let her go on a date... I've heard that even her older brother isn't allowed to go on dates. Darn it.

Why in the world was Komayaka staring at me? Well, I guess it's mostly because he has a crush on me, that much is obvious. I wonder why he hasn't said anything, it's not like he's shy or anything... Well, okay, I guess he is. He should still try and be brave like when he was fighting his older sister and say something about it. She turned her head just to find him looking at her again, and he turned his head away again blushing. Damn it Komayaka! Just say something already! You're worse than Hinata-sama!

They had reached the building and walked in to stand by where Urusai and Yatsu-sensei were. They were just starting the sixth fight out of seven. Down in the fighting area were Hanone and the last team member from the Sand, Taiyou.

"Hah, this match is going to be all too easy! I bet you're even weaker than Kajou up there!" Hanone yelled out, taunting the youngest of the three sand siblings.

Kajou just sighed from her spot up in the balcony, Why is he calling me weak when he's never beaten me in a fight?

"Just shut up, you idiot. I want to start the fight." Taiyou replied with her arms crossed, glaring at Hanone.

"You shut up!" Hanone yelled back.

"You're the one who's doing all the talking."

Ayame stepped up after the two had been silent for about fifteen seconds. "Okay, ready to start now? Sixth fight - Inuzuka Hanone VS. Sabaku no Taiyou! Begin!" She jumped back after she said begin, and for a good reason. Hanone had instantly launched himself at the ten year old doing handseals in the air for two different moves...

"Quadraped no Jutsu!" He yelled quickly after one set, quickly followed by, "Byakugan!". His dog leaped out of the hood of his tan version of his dad's jacket and was running along beside him to attack.

Taiyou just stood there forming handseals of her own. "Tenpi Giragira! (Sun Glare!)" There was a huge flash of light which caused everybody to cover their eyes. After blinking a bit everybody looked back to the fighting area where Hanone was sitting on the ground rubbing his eyes.

"Damn it! I can't see!" His dog was laying on the ground beside him whining.

"Yeah, and you won't for about fifteen minutes, more than long enough for me to beat you!" Taiyou yelled, laughing afterwards.

"If you haven't forgotten, I'm INUZUKA Hanone... I just don't have good eyes from my mom's side of the family, but I also have the hearing and sense of smell of a dog from my dad. I can still win." He got back on his hands and feet, the Quadraped no Jutsu still activated, and started doing even more handseals. "Juujin Bunshin no Jutsu!" There was a poof of white smoke and when it cleared there appeared to be two Hanones.

Both of the Hanones looked like they were concentrating a lot. While Taiyou was watching them she took a step to move and one of the two yelled. "Found you!" Both ran straight towards where Taiyou was, and no matter where she turned they kept heading straight for her.

Right before ramming into her they turned and went on either side of her, "Gatsuuga!". Both jumped at Taiyou and started spinning. Before she even realized they were coming at her, she was attacked on both sides. A large cloud of dust came up as Taiyou was ran into the ground by both of the Hanone's.

When the dust had mostly cleared everybody could see the Hanones jumping back and Taiyou laying in an almost three foot-deep hole in the floor. Ayame walked up closer and looked in the hole, judging on whether she should end the fight yet. "Well, it looks like this match is over... The winner of match six is —"

"N-not yet..." Taiyou shakily stood up, cuts and gashes all over her. "I'm not f-finished yet... I can s-still fight."

"Well... I guess." Ayame said and moved out of the way again.

"You know, I told you I could still beat you without my sight. And I'm starting to be able to see shadows now!" Hanone yelled out. He then got into the Jyuuken stance and ran at Taiyou. She was able to block but was still hit back and knocked out because of already being beaten up quite a bit.

"Okay, now it's over... Winner of the sixth match, Inuzuka Hanone!" Ayame called out. "Even though you won you should go see those medic-nins about your eyes, there could be some permanent damage if you don't get them checked immediately."

Hanone walked off towards the medic-nins that had been staying at the fighting area grumbling quietly. "My eyes will be fine. I just better go just to be sure..."

"Okay, just one more fight left in these preliminaries here! After that all of you winners, or losers who weren't seriously hurt, can go home to rest and heal! Okay, only two people are left to fight, and that would be Aozora Chi and Uchiha Raishuu! Come on down so we can get this done with!"

"FINALLY! I had to wait this whole freaking time. I just HAD to be the last fight. This better had be an easy fight, I want to catch up on my two daily bowls of beef ramen!" The second girl from the Hidden Mist Village jumped over the rail on the balcony and landed easily on two feet on the lower level. She had dark blue hair and was wearing a knee length trench coat unbuttoned (imagine sorta like Anko's) which showed her wearing a light blue sleeveless shirt over an orange short sleeved one. She wore black pants that went down to the middle of her shins.

Raishuu jumped down also, though being quite a bit quieter. Chi once again decided to be loud. "Hey, don't you even have a comeback, scaredy-cat?" She had her hands on her hips and was leaning forward sticking her tongue out while she talked. He was quiet again. "Yeah, you are just a huge chicken... Whatever, lets just get this started."

"Well, at least ONE person is as excited as I am about this next match!" Ayame called out, grinning. "Now it's time to begin our final match, Aozora Chi vs. Uchiha Raishuu. Begin!"

Chi began making handseals immediately, though hadn't realized that Raishuu had his Sharingan activated and was paying close attention while making handseals of his own. Both yelled out their attacks at the same time.

"Koori: Hishou Koori Kire! (Ice Element: Flying Ice Shards!)"

"Katon: Housenka! (Fire Element: Pheonix Fire!)"

As the ice shards started flying from Chi's side of the room Raishuu was spitting out multiple fireballs with precise aim to melt the ice shards before they even hit him. He just ended up getting splashed by a few drops of water from some that had gotten a bit close.

"Damn it! I just HAD to get one of the people who does freaking FIRE moves!" Chi yelled out, stamping her foot on the ground. Raishuu still locked indifferent. Chi smirked, and without even making handseals called out, "Hijutsu: Koori Katana no Mai! (Dance of the Ice Swords!)"

Swords made of ice (obviously) formed right in her hands, and she started spinning really quickly and moving really fast towards Raishuu, who said a quick comment while forming even more handseals. "When will she learn that ice moves won't work?" He finished on the Tiger handseal. "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu! (Fire Element: Grand Fireball!)"

The fire attack met Chi head-on, though she quickly spun herself out of it, looking like one of the spinning flower fireworks. When she finally stopped there were burn marks on her hands where the ice swords had melted and boiled really quickly, the tips of her hair were singed as long as the edges of her clothes which also had some parts still burning.

There were considerable amounts of water on the floor now, Chi noticed, looking down. Perfect, now for my ultimate attack. After this, this egotistical jerk'll be down and out! She started making a whole lot of handseals a lot quicker than she had before. "After this, you're a goner!" She yelled, finishing her few last handseals. "Suiton: Mizu no Akumu! Tsunami Youshiki! (Water Element: Nightmare of Water! Tidal Wave Style!)"

All of the water started gathering under her and lifting her up until her head was almost touching the ceiling. "There's no way you're wimpy fire moves will stop this! Ike! (Go!)" All of the water started crashing down on top of Raishuu, Chi still standing on top of it.

After about ten seconds of torrents of water crashing down and getting everyone at least a little wet, all of the excess water cleared and everybody could see Chi standing up laughing just to the right of the unconscious form of Raishuu laying on the ground. "That sure was fun! I can't wait until finals!"

Ayame walked up just as the medic-nin's were getting Raishuu onto a stretcher. "Okay, everybody! Come on down here so we can all go home." The people who were still there all started jumping down onto the lower level of the room. "Before I dismiss all of you, will all of the people who won their matches come on over here?"

The seven people who had won their preliminary matches walked up. Hanatsu, Urusai, Komayaka, Kajou, Konchuu, Hanone, and Chi all walked up, only leaving one kid with all of the group's senseis (the loser of the fifth match, which Konchuu had won, Chouto). "Okay! Congratulations to all of you for winning your matches and successfully sending six people to the hospital!" She clapped on her own for about three seconds. "You can all go stand back by your sensei's now..."

Everybody walked back to where they originally were. A few whispers went from person to person with messages like "That sure was useless..." and others that were about the same.

"Okay, now I'll explain what we've been planning for the finals. The Hokage has talked with all the other leaders of the hidden villages and decided on a day exactly two weeks from now for the finals to take place. Unlike these matches, several hundred people and possible clients for missions from all countries will be watching. You need to fight as hard as you can to try and win, though if you do lose, even if it's the first match you fight in finals, it doesn't affect whether you become a Chuunin or not. You all may go home now and rest or train or whatever you plan to do to get ready for the finals. Sayonara!"

Everybody started talking once she had finished, and some of the sensei's were grouping together talking about random training strategies that they 'wouldn't' use. Meanwhile, Naruto walked over to talk to Urusai and the rest of his teammates.

"Hey you guys! All of the matches were awesome, don't you think?" Naruto said, looking around the room at all of the other people.

"Well, I wouldn't know about the fifth match since I had went to the hospital to check on Kajou..." Komayaka said, glancing over to his right.

"I saw it, I think it was sorta boring since it was the longest and all..." Urusai said. "And neither of them got hurt much at all! Chouto is the only loser who wasn't sent to the hospital! Whoever ends up fighting Konchuu to start with is going to have an EASY fight."

"Whatever..." Kajou said. She was thinking about the matches in the finals rounds. Knowing Hanone-sama's determination he'll end up going far in the tournament, and I'll probably end up being the one who ends his winning streak. And since both of my teammates made it into finals, odds are that I'll have to fight both of them. Damn it, I just wish finals would start now so we can get them over with. Though I really hope my arm is at least a little healed by then so I can use regular bandages instead of a splint.

It was just then that their sensei decided to walk over. "Okay, are you three ready to go?"

Since they were all used to doing so, they replied at the exact same time with, "Hai.". Urusai added another few words to his father. "See you tonight, Dad!".

So all of team five left the tower in the middle of the forest. When they weren't even in view of the tower anymore Yatsu-sensei decided to start talking about the plans for the extra two weeks. "You're all beaten up after those preliminaries, so we're going to take the day off of morning training tomorrow."

"Wait a sec, we always only do training in the morning... Why are you specifically calling it 'morning training'?" Komayaka said, not caring that he'd interrupted.

"There's going to be two training sessions for you guys each day. One in the morning, and one in the evening. As I was saying, you all get tomorrow morning off and then we'll start our training at 7PM sharp tomorrow. You guys will be getting quite a workout each day for these next two weeks, though I will give one training session off each week."

"Damn it! I was going to enter the ramen eating contest at Ichiraku tomorrow, and it starts at 6:30! No fair!" A comment that was obviously said by Urusai echoed off the trees that were around them. His two other teammates sweatdropped.

"Too bad." The short reply came as they continued running along the cleared path. They ran the rest of the distance in almost-silence, the quiet which was broken every once and a while by Urusai grumbling about something completely irrelevant.

Once they were outside of the fences that surrounded the area, Yatsu-sensei said, "See you all tomorrow at 7PM sharp... I don't think you want to know what'll happen if you're late. Ja ne!" With that he disappeared in a cloud of smoke leaving the three teammates alone.

"So... um... See you two tomorrow then?" Komayaka said, breaking the awkward thirty second silence.

"Yep." Urusai said, giving a grin that could almost beat his father's in width and amount of teeth showing.

"Sure, whatever." Kajou said, she walked off at the same time the others did, though they didn't really have to say goodbye just then since they all took the same path back to the village. Though eventually they split up and took their own paths back to their houses.

By the time Kajou reached her house near the back of the Hyuuga compound the sun was already starting to set. She walked in to find her mom sitting at the table and fiddling with her fingers, obviously waiting for her.

"Finally your back! Seemed a lot longer than five days... How'd you do? Are you going to finals?" Tenten had ran up and hugged her daughter. (A/N: Lol... Tenten sure is an overprotective mother :P) It was then that she noticed the splint on Kajou's arm. "What in the world happened to your arm? Are you okay? Are you still going to be able to fight?"

"I did fine. Yes. My arm got squashed by one of the Kazekage's kid's sand. I'm fine. And I can still fight." Kajou answered all of the questions really quickly, trying to get away to go to her room before the 'idiotic one' decided to come out.

"THAT's what happened to your arm? Oh my gosh... That's exactly what happened to my old teammate, you know, Lee? And they thought he wouldn't be able to be a ninja anymore. But then again, his arm AND leg got trapped by the sand and crushed... It's really good that you made it to finals, good job!" She had taken another deep breath to continue when a voice came from behind the door to the hallway.

"Hey, I hear you ranting Mom... So Spiral is home?"

JUST what I was trying to avoid. "DON'T CALL ME THAT!"

Yakkai walked into the room smirking. "So by that broken arm I'm guessing you lost in the preliminaries?"

"You wish... I won my match and am going to finals in two weeks!"

"Oh..." Yakkai said, trailing off. Apparently the thing he had already planned to say next was teasing Kajou about not even making it past preliminaries. "Well... You'll do worse than I did in finals!"

"No I won't, you lost in the very first match you fought. You only got promoted because of your 'great strategies' when all that really happened was that your opponent was so dumb it made you look smart."

"Oh yeah?" Yakkai said, sticking his tongue out.

Kajou replied by kicking him in the stomach so quick that he didn't even realize that she had moved. She walked towards the door, opened it, and just before leaving, turned around and said, "Yeah.". As she walked down the hall she could hear Tenten talking to Yakkai once again about random things.

"You know you shouldn't egg your sister on. How many times have I told you that?" The voice of her mother carried down the hallway.

Just as she was opening the door to her room a thought popped into her head after hearing her mother scold Yakkai. Apparently not enough. The rest of the night was spent normally, Kajou sitting in her room reading, Yakkai bugging everybody who wasn't in a room with a locked door, Tenten telling Yakkai to be quiet and doing other random mom things, and Neji reading something and being quiet in his and Tenten's room.


The Uchiha House

Komayaka arrived home and walked in quietly, wondering whether either of his two siblings were home. The answer came rather quickly... "Hey! Who is that? Whoever that is, get me some of the soup that's on the stove!"

It just HAD to be Enkou that got back already... "Why should I?" He called back, getting himself a glass of water.

"Just get your sister some soup, she's not able to get it and you are!" Sasuke called from down another hall, probably reading a book or just sitting around doing nothing.

Komayaka started grumbling, "She is perfectly able to get her own soup, it's only a few burns... Nobody did anything for me when Enkou and Raishuu would use me as a moving target for their fire moves." He got Enkou some soup and brought it to her, fake smiling as he walked into her room and handed it to her. "Here's your soup."

"Could you have been any slower?" Enkou said as he walked out of the room. Once he was back out in the kitchen Ino was there eating a salad.

"Hi, Mom!" Komayaka said, acting happy again. "I know you've probably already heard this from Enkou, but I made it into finals! And she probably didn't tell you that Urusai and Kajou made it also! We're the only team where EVERYONE made it to the finals round!"

"That's good, Komayaka! It's too bad Enkou and Raishuu didn't make it though."

"Has Raishuu come home yet? That girl he fought against WAS pretty strong. She practically drowned him."

"He hasn't come back yet, only because he's still having trouble breathing though." Ino sighed then continued talking, "Your father is pretty disappointed that only one of you three made it though."

"Yeah, and I bet he was thinking that I would be the only one who WOULDN'T make it?" Komayaka said, getting a little mad knowing that the answer would be that he was right.

"Well..." Ino was cut off before even getting to finish her sentence.

"Whatever... I know I'm right. I'll be in my room." He walked off and walked into his room to read a book that just happened to be titled, Dealing With Your Siblings and Parents When They Think You're Weak.


The Uzumaki House

Urusai reached his house and walked it, all of the lights were off. Jeez, it sure is boring to have a dad that's the Hokage and mom that's the head medic-nin in the whole village... I bet Kajou and Komayaka are at their houses being taken care of by their families... I don't really care about all this fame and stuff because of that, it's annoying.

Reaching into the cabinet he took out about three packages of cup ramen, and after taking the usual preparations for making it, put all three in the microwave at the same time. Three minutes of sitting and waiting.

Eventually he was able to take the ramen out of the microwave and start eating. Since eating ramen isn't that interesting to talk about, we'll all just skip to when he was finished (though that isn't too interesting either... What would you expect when there isn't siblings to fight or parents to talk to). He just walked to his room to go to sleep. Mom and Dad will wake me up when they get home anyway.


The Next Morning, Hyuuga House

A rather annoying, loud voice rang through Kajou's ears. "SPIRAL! WAKE UP!" Now she did what any person would do at that point, pick up an extra pillow and shove it in the annoyer's face. Though the annoying person didn't stop and now getting whacked by the used pillow was added to the annoying voice. Five seconds... Ten seconds... Twenty seconds of whacking and annoying voices yelling.

"Damn it, Yakkai! Get the hell OUT of my room and leave me alone!" Kajou yelled, still half asleep and with her long, un-ponytailed hair in knots. (A/N: Hahaha, seems a lot like what happened to me this morning, except for it was a little brother instead of older brother)

"Well, after that I WOULD leave you alone if you didn't HAVE to get up!" He said, stopping the assault and putting his fists on his hips. "There's a clan meeting!"

At the last sentence Kajou was fully awake, shoving Yakkai out of her room so she could change out of her pajamas into some regular clothes and put the usual branch house robe over it. She then brushed her hair as well as she could and pulled it into a ponytail and put her forehead protector on. It had only taken about a minute and a half to do all of that, despite a broken arm, and she ran out of her room to the living room to where Neji and Tenten were waiting with Yakkai following quickly after her whispering mostly to himself, "I still don't see how girls can do that..."

While they were leaving Kajou whispered back, "It comes naturally, unlike some boys who take five minutes just to get their shirt on. Anyways, Hinata-sama is nice, despite how mean Hanone-sama is sometimes." All she got in response was a small 'Hn.' which made her smirk just because she loved outsmarting him and making HIM annoyed instead of the other way around.

They reached the building where the meetings always took place pretty quickly and walked inside, taking their usual places around the long table for the branch house members. Everybody talked for about five minutes before Hinata stood up at the head table where the elders, Hanabi, and herself were sitting and everybody was quiet. (A/N: Hinata has power :P. I still can't really imagine that. Hanabi is there... for some reason...)

"The reason that you've all been called here is because there are several important announcements that the elders and I will make that the whole clan should hear and some information about the Chuunin exam that two of our clan members have taken part in so far."

The boring announcements started and Kajou just zoned them out, wondering how long it was going to take this time. Most of the recent meetings had taken well over an hour so she wasn't expecting to get a break anytime soon.

You know, these would probably be a LITTLE more popular if the kids didn't have to come... Well, only more popular with all of us but the adults might appreciate bored to death kids not sitting there just being bored... Hmmm... Lets see... Blah blah blah blahdee-blah blah... Damn it! What I wouldn't give for our morning training session NOW. My arm is really killing me too... Some ice would help, but I can't interupt... I bet Komayaka and Urusai are still sleeping their heads off right now, sometimes I wish I wasn't in such a huge clan.

Random thoughts that everybody gets when they're being bored to death continued for about thirty more minutes, then Hinata stood up again and started talking about the Chuunin exams. "Thirteen days from now at about this time the finals of the third round of the Chuunin Exams will begin. Both of the clan members who had originally been entered in the exam have made it to that level and will be fighting. I'm going to have them stand up and be introduced so we know who to look for once the end of the tournament starts..."

Well, at least I'll get some recognition, though people will be more excited about Hanone making it since he's in the main house, and I'm in the branch house... Oh whatever... "First off is my son, Hanone." He stood up and there were a few people applauding from the main house and branch house. "And then there's my cousin's daughter, Kajou." She stood up and there was about the same amount of applause. They both sat down and Hinata continued. "You can come to finals if you'd like to, we have enough seats reserved that everybody could come. Now unless anybody has something to say you can all leave."

Nobody stood up to speak, and Hinata waved them out. The main house members left first, then the branch house members. When they were nearing their house, Yakkai once again whispered partially to himself, "That was BORING... At least it's over." Kajou smirked at what he had said. Sure, she felt the same way, but she wouldn't say it aloud. (A/N: Okay, that should be the end of the boring stuff, I promise!)

The rest of the morning (and part of the afternoon) went on normally, except for the fact that Kajou was sleeping through most of it. She woke up about 6PM and got ready for training. After saying good-bye to her parents and making sure to avoid Yakkai so he wouldn't realize she'd left and start following her, left and headed for the usual training area.

Once she got to the town's main street Kajou actually met up with Urusai. "Hi Kajou! How was your time off?"

"Boring..." She replied, not wanting to go into details.

"Yeah, same here... I was stuck by myself since Dad had some important business and Mom had to stay at the hospital to help with something. Oh well, I got ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!" Urusai started laughing his head off and some of the people they walked past gave strange looks.

After about half a minute of laughing Kajou decided to get him to stop, just to save her reputation. "Hey, you can shut up now."

He just laughed a little quieter and said, "Oh, okay..." Ending it with a huge grin.

They had reached the entrance to the training area and went inside to find Komayaka and Yatsu-sensei already there. "Are we late or something?" Kajou said, wondering why they were both already there when it probably wasn't even when they were supposed to be there yet.

"No, but Komayaka had asked for some extra training in speed since he isn't exactly too good with that." Yatsu-sensei said. Komayaka looked a little embarrassed because of him saying that but got over with it quickly. "Now that all three of you are here, we can start. For one thing, in these two weeks I'll be teaching each of you a new Jutsu and helping you in whatever category of fighting you're not too good at."

"So we're all going to be working on different things and not training together?" Komayaka asked, sort of hoping he wasn't right since he enjoyed training with the other two even though it sort of annoyed him sometimes how Kajou was overly-quiet and Urusai was overly-loud.

"Exactly. It's only because each of you generally needs to work on different things. Though Kajou needs a little help with her speed also, but also has some other things she needs to work on that are more important, same in Urusai's case. Now, each of you split apart a little bit and I'll come to each of you in turn. Until I come over work on anything you'd like to."

All three of them split up and their sensei walked over to where Urusai was first. "Okay, I'll work with you first. We're not going to start working on the new Jutsu until later this week. The main thing we're going to work on for your fighting is using your brains. Your mother is one of the best medic-nins in all of Konoha and is extremely smart, so you should've at least inherited some of those smarts."

"Jeez, how many times have I heard t hat one?" Urusai said, crossing his arms.

"Well, this might make you a little more excited. Your mother is going to try and get some extra time off to try and teach you some simple medical Jutsus along with the training we do here. But you have to cooperate for all the work we do here to, so I wouldn't complain."

Now Urusai was literally jumping up and down in excitement. "I'll do whatever I have to do, learning medical jutsus would be AWESOME!"

"Okay then." Yatsu-sensei handed Urusai a sheet of paper. "Answer as many of those as you can before I come back."

Urusai had closed his eyes, "Please don't tell me this is what I think it is..." He opened his eyes and realized it was a test that had to do with strategies for fights. "NOOOOOO!"


Komayaka had just finished practicing one of the fire moves when he heard Urusai scream. Hmm... I bet he has to do something with answering questions. As he finished the thought Yatsu-sensei walked over. "That sure was quick, what is Urusai working on?" Komayaka said giving a questioning look to his sensei.

"You don't have to know about that just yet." Yatsu-sensei said. "Since I've already worked on speed with you today you can start learning the jutsu. This will most likely help for some close range fights. You saw something sort of like it in the sixth fight of the preliminaries. I believe the one that girl did was called 'Tenpi Giragira' (Sun Glare). The one that I'll teach you is a little stronger than that and can actually burn the skin along with damaging the eyes. It's another fire element move that isn't mainly used by the Uchiha clan. I'll demonstrate, but make sure to stand about three feet behind me so you make sure not to get hit." Komayaka took a few steps backwards and watched, activating his Sharingan.

After making sure Komayaka was out of the way Yatsu-sensei started doing handseals and after doing several said, "Katon: Kanetsu Senkou!" The there was a bright flash of light and when Komayaka looked again the tree that had been in front of Yatsu-sensei was burnt to a crisp on the side that was facing him.

"Whoa! Awesome!" Komayaka said, grinning. "I'm going to try!" He went to the unburnt side of the tree and started doing the handseals. (A/N: Look at a handseal guide on a fansite to know what these are! A really good one with clear pictures is on narutofan(dot)com) Dragon-Snake-Rat-Monkey-Dragon-Tiger. "Katon: Kanetsu Senkou!" After the flash that his trying the attack had made there was only slight char marks on the side of the tree.

"Heh, just keep trying Komayaka. I was also just wanting to ask, do you know any moves from your mom's side of the family?"

"No, not really... And neither do Raishuu or Enkou." Komayaka said, thinking to all of the training sessions they'd had together.

"Well, I'll have to talk to your mom about trying to teach you some of those. They might come in handy... Well, keep practicing that move." Yatsu-sensei said as he started walking away to where Kajou was waiting.


Kajou saw a flash of light coming from the direction where she guessed Komayaka was. The Jutsu he's learning must have something to do with light... It was about another minute after that when she spotted her sensei walking over. Finally... I must be the last out of us three...

"Hey Kajou. Okay, there are a few things you need to work on, one that'll help in a tournament, and another that'll help with missions whether you get promoted to Chuunin or not. For the tournament, it's controlling your temper so you don't go completely crazy in the middle of the fight, going crazy with the attacking is fine, but nobody wants to listen to a long speech of your complaints. You can work on that any time... For missions and such it's teamwork. As I've been watching most of all of the missions our team has gone on you seem to have been a 'stand-alone' fighter, as in wanting to work by yourself and only by yourself." Yatsu-sensei eventually finished talking about what she had to work on.

"So when do I get to learn a new Jutsu?" Kajou said, appearing as if she hadn't listened to a word he said (even though she was listening). And since when do I have times controlling my temper! I'm the most stoic person on this whole team, and even with Urusai here, he STILL says I'M the one with temper problems. I bet somebody has talked him into not having me work on anything important just so Hanone can beat me. Yeah, that's defiantly it. I know it wasn't Hinata-sama, so it must have been that idiot that Hanone calls a father. Pft, he's still not beating me.

"...Are you even listening to me, Kajou?" Yatsu-sensei interrupted her thoughts of how she would beat Hanone despite what anybody tried. "You were just having a huge speech in your head to yourself about how you would beat Hanone and how you don't have anger problems, right?"

"How are you always reading our minds like that! Lots of times when we train one of us'll think something and you'll start talking about it the next moment!" Kajou started yelling about random things while Yatsu-sensei just stood by and sighed, waiting for the temper tantrum to be over.

Three minutes and several curses later... "Are you done screaming your head off?" Yatsu-sensei said once Kajou had stopped yelling either from lack of breath or just running out of things to yell about, or both. All he received in reply was a death glare. "You know, the reason you have all that anger building up inside of you is because you don't let it out when it actually happens. If you had been doing that from the beginning and not ruining everybody else's fun you'd probably have had a much better time by now."

Kajou just crossed her arms and scowled, looking down at the ground and away. "Okay, come on. We're going to do something a little fun to work on the three of you's speed." He walked off towards the middle of the training area and called both of the boys to come there.

Before deciding to walk over, Kajou kicked a nearby tree leaving a good-sized chip in the bark and part of the inside of the tree. Well, he DID say let out my anger when it happens.


Once all three of them were back in the middle of the training area they found markers set up all around within about a one hundred meter area around them, along with obstacles between the markers (which were marked by numbers in a specific order). "Okay, you three. We're going to work on your speed and actually have fun doing it. I've set up an obstacle course that you'll race around, trying to see who wins. And think of it this way, the sooner one of you can do it in under one minute the sooner you can leave training. We'll stay all night if we have to."

All three of the kids groaned. "Okay, you three. Line up at that red mark on the ground. That's the start and finish line." Each of them lined up and got in a running stance. "Take your marks... GO!"

All three of them took off at the same time, Urusai in the lead (probably from running after sneaking out a window in class back in the academy), Kajou after him, and Komayaka in the back. Compared to people who weren't ninja's they were extremely fast, though compared to a lot of ninja's their own age they were pretty slow.

Urusai reached the first marker, past which there was an obstacle to get to the next marker, large hurdles that were about twice as tall as Komayaka (the shortest one on the team). It was here that Kajou and Komayaka caught up with him and were ahead of him before they all reached the second marker, and the second obstacle.

They each had to crawl under a barbed-wire net that was hung about a foot off the ground. Once again Urusai pulled ahead, though not by as much as when they were running. They got out from under it and ran to the third marker, turning towards the finish line to which they had to run about 200 meters to.

They reached the finish line in the same order they had been in when they reached the first marker, Urusai, then Kajou, then Komayaka. Yatsu-sensei showed them a stop watch, which read...

"A minute and fifteen seconds! You started it early!" Urusai yelled, pointing at their sensei accusingly.

"No I didn't. Line up at the starting line again, hopefully you'll go a little faster this time." Yatsu-sensei said, pointing to the red line on the ground. It would be sort of boring saying the same thing over and over again for the obstacle course, so we'll just say by the time they made it home it was past midnight and their parents were a bit worried.

The rest of their two weeks were practically the same, nothing significantly important happened that would even be mildly non-boring to read. And as soon as they all knew it they were entering the large stadium where the finals of the third round of the Chuunin Exam's would take place.


Youkou: Almost FOUR DAYS of typing constantly (or sitting around eating pretending I was typing) and I'm finally done. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I know I enjoyed typing it (especially the short clip of Kajou's temper tantrum, lol. Seems like she isn't as perfect as she acts.). First thing after I upload this (which I've already done if you're reading this) I'm going to start typing the next chapter so I'll hopefully update within less than a week. Ja ne, and sorry about not updating for so long, minna!