Youkou: Okay everybody, I'm going on a Shourai-spree-thing. I'm going to keep typing chapters and try to update EVERY SINGLE DAY! Or twice a day if possible. Now to answer the few reviews...
Shang - Yeah, it may seem like Kajou has changed or something, but I just haven't been putting what she's really feeling... And the girl-stuff thing, well, trust me for this one. Most girls can get ready REALLY fast if they need to, me for example, one time I woke up three minutes before my bus would leave for school and I got ready and all of that in about a minute and a half and got on the bus in time without anybody noticing. And my friend was able to do with a leg cast on. It's a lot of years later, they'll do things differently. And the Hyuuga Meeting, you'll find out about later... Just a quick thing - the meaning of it will have something to do with Kajou not listening to a certain part of it.
Mimiru-sama - Thanks for the thumbs up! Enjoy this chapter too which'll have the first fight of the finals along with the pairs of who fights who in the first round.
"Welcome all of you to the finals of the Chuunin Exam!" Rock Lee exclaimed loud enough for everybody in the whole stadium to hear, his overly loud voice instantly quieted most of the crowd. "I will be the examiner for these finals where the youth of these seven fine young Genin's will explode and–" He was cut off by Naruto yelling from the Kage's sections of the stands.
"Cut it out, Lee! Just get it started!"
"Okay, Hokage-sama!" Lee saluted, facing towards where the voice had came from. He turned back towards the seven Genin and started explaining loud enough for everybody to hear. "You will all be fighting one on one, like in the preliminaries, except it's more like a tournament, like when you win you'll move to the next round. Everybody come up here and draw a number from the box without looking. There are numbers one through seven, and depending on what number you get will decide what fight you're in and who it is you're facing."
"Now will each of you come up in the order of the line you're in and grab a number, I'll call out to the stadium what fight you're in." Lee directed their attention to a box sitting on a small folding table. One by one they walked up.
"Aozora Chi!" Lee introduced as she reached her hand into the box and pulled out a... "Number Two!" Lee called out.
"Aburame Konchuu!" She drew out a number. "Number Four!"
"Nara Hanatsu!" Another number was drawn. "Number Seven!"
Lee got a call on the headset he was wearing as the next competitor walked up. "Hyuuga Hanone! Number One!"
All of the members on Team Five (Kajou, Komayaka, and Urusai) all had strange looks on their faces, as they were all thinking along the lines of the same thing. What? But his official name is Inuzuka Hanone! They kept the line moving though.
"Hyuuga Kajou! Number 8! Uchiha Komayaka! Number Five! And last but not least! Uzumaki Urusai! Number 3!"
The Kage's Balcony
"Dad, when is this going to end. I want another mission." A young girl that was about twelve years old stepped out of the shadows behind where the Kazekage a.k.a Gaara was sitting. Gaara turned around in his seat and faced the girl.
"Just because you're already a Chuunin doesn't mean you don't have to stay and watch. Taiyou, Kaze, and Nekki had to stay home because they're still injured and aren't in this round. Anyway, you were volunteered to be security up here on the balcony by one of our ambassadors who came to this country to set this up. And this IS considered an A-ranked mission. They still have high security after what happened when I was in the Chuunin Exam's here."
"I still don't see why they let a twelve year old be security."
"Kayato, you're one of the most reliable Chuunin's in the Hidden Sand Village and are going to be allowed to enter the Jounin Exams. And you know, you wouldn't be this high ranked if you hadn't inherited the Shukaku from me. Stop complaining and just watch, it'll get more interesting."
Naruto leaned over from the chair beside Gaara's. "So, is that your one son's twin you're always talking about?" He pointed with his thumb to Kayato who had stepped back.
"Yeah..."
"So she inherited the Shukaku from you? I'm glad Urusai didn't inherit the Kyuubi, it's horrible enough dealing with those issues yourself but with your kid? I don't even want to imagine."
Kayato was listening to her father's and the Hokage's conversation. Her chin-length, dirty blonde hair naturally frizzed out from her head slightly in all directions, and she had the dark circles around her eyes like her father had. She also had a gourd like her father did when he was younger and was dressed in a dark brown shirt and black knee-length shorts. She wore the usual ninja sandals and had bandages around her right arm and left leg. Her forehead protector was on her forehead.
After getting bored of listening to the adult's conversation she walked up to the rail and decided to watch. (A/N: I have a drawing of Kayato on computer paper I drew during class today, I'll scan it and put it up ASAP, though that won't be too soon because my scanner isn't hooked up yet. Also I need to ink and color it with colored pencils. Haha, she's based a bit off me. Also, I'll be putting little scenes up in the seats, and in the Kage balcony every once and a while.)
Back on the Field
"Now will those of you who got number's 1 through 5 please walk or jump up to the contestants balcony and wait for me to call your numbers for a fight." Rock Lee said, only to the kids on the fighting field. In about five seconds only Kajou and Hanatsu remained on the field.
Damn it, if I get in a close combat fight with her she could use her shadow moves easily. At least my mother was a weapons master, and I've learned that new jutsu from Yatsu-sensei. This cast will be a bit of a problem though, I can't form the correct handseals too quickly. At least it isn't a big bulky thing like it used to be right after the accident.
"First round, first match! Hyuuga Kajou vs. Nara Hanatsu! Begin!" Lee jumped back and up to a small platform that was built into the wall for him, though both fighters had somehow mentally decided to just to stare each other down.
"Scared, Kajou-kun?"
"I should be asking you that, shortie."
"Oh, I don't know. Neither of us really has a weak point in this fight, we'll just have to do our best. And with that cast of your's your chances of winning decrease quite an amount."
"You're starting to sound like Urusai when he actually decides to act smart."
"You're starting to sound like an excuse making idiot."
"Shortie."
"Tomboy."
"You're going down now!" Kajou yelled, she pulled two Fuuma Shuriken from apparently nowhere and started spinning them on her fingers. She fed Chakra into the shuriken and they started glowing a light blue color.
Both shuriken were tossed at the same time, each heading in a curve towards opposite sides of Hanatsu's body, they were easily dodged, though the two kunai coming from in front of her weren't. She was cut pretty deep on the outer side of her left leg and the other stuck in her left arm after using it to block.
"How troublesome..." She yanked the kunai out of her arm, wincing a bit as she watched the blood run down to her elbow, then start flowing towards her hand as she put her arm down by her side.
"Don't start complaining on me! You might be too busy to realize that your ass is getting kicked.!" She had taken a stance that was a bit like a Jyuuken one, but modified a bit. She had activated her Byakugan at some point and had a huge smirk plastered across her face.
Her hands started forming handseals, a bit slower than usual because of the cast, though still pretty fast. Hanatsu had also started setting up an attack, they finished at the same time...
"Jyuuken! Chakra Katana (Jyuuken! Chakra Swords!)"
"Katana no Kage! (Swords of Shadows!)"
Each started throwing katana made of, as you could say, their own element. Neither's got more than half way before colliding with one of their opponent's and dissipating. Both stopped at the same time.
"Like I said earlier, the cast gives you a disadvantage because your handseals were slow enough that I could read them and set up a perfect counter." Hanatsu had her eyes closed through her short speech and hadn't noticed Kajou setting up another move until she called out the actual attack.
"Hakke: Rokujuu Yonshou! (Everybody should know that one)"
In The Stands
Yakkai had his eyes closed and was facing away from the fight. "She's going to lose, I just know it."
"Don't talk that way about your sister, you should be cheering her on, I mean, even some people who don't even know those two are cheering." Tenten said, about three seconds after the end letting out a cheer of her own, "Come on, Kajou!"
Another yell came from close by, "Damn it, Hanatsu! USE. YOUR. FANS!" Temari was yelling at the top of her lungs, easily being heard over the cheering of the rest of the crowd. A quieter cheere was heard from beside Temari, though he was showing about five times the energy he usually showed, it was still pretty unenergetic. "Yay! Go Hanatsu!" Shikamaru yelled, or half yelled.
The Fight
Kajou had just been about to hit Hanatsu when she took one of her two fans from behind her and blocked Kajou's first strike, stopping the move all together. "Steel-hard fans do come in handy, you know." She said smirking at Kajou's furious face. Right when Kajou pulled her hand back, Hanatsu twirled her fan and seemed to have disappeared.
Turning her face upwards, Kajou called out, "You know, your mother pulled that same trick on mine in their Chuunin Exam. I have the Byakugan though, so I'll notice right away."
"Yeah, but you didn't take into account both of my parent's skills." It was just then that Kajou noticed that Hanatsu's hands were in a well known handseal, and she couldn't move.
"Damn it!" Kajou yelled, mostly to herself, and started to try and move. What to do... What to do... She could do anything right now, she could humiliate me! Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT! Chakra started flowing through her whole body, and a visible layer of it appeared on her skin and around her.
Her arms slowly and shakily raised out as she started to rotate, slowly at first but picking up a little bit of speed every second. "Hakkeshou: Kaiten! (Divine Whirl)". The shadow that Hanatsu had sent out retreated as her spinning got too fast to hold with the Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Bind).
Hanatsu was still circling the arena in the air, trying to decide what to do. She can break my Kagemane no Jutsu, I could use my fans but I doubt that would do any good. Why did I have to get paired up with her to start? What in the world is she doing? I know she can't get up here... Or can she? She had spotted something Kajou doing handseals again, crouching down.
The answer to her question came in about two seconds, when she heard a shout from below her. "Soushouryu! (Rising Twin Dragons)" She saw two scrolls with dragon-shaped smoke around them start to rise up in a spiral. They rose to the level where she was and Kajou jumped up, already holding a small scythe-like weapon in each hand.
"And you didn't take into account both of my parent's skills." Kajou said, smirking. She tossed both of the weapons towards Hanatsu, who just barely dodged because of not having enough room to move around on the fan. When she looked back towards Kajou more weapons were already being tossed at her.
She dodged more and more weapons, every time she dodged successfully just increased the amount of weapons that were coming at her at once. She eventually got hit by one of the scythe-like weapons, though not by the sharp side. The momentum of the weapon hitting her right in the stomach knocked her back so she fell backwards off of her first fan.
Hanatsu was still smirking as she was falling quickly headfirst towards the ground, reaching behind her back and grabbing her second fan. She spun around, having her fan out beside her, and ended up on top of the fan, and quickly changed the falling to gliding slowly towards the ground. She caught her other fan when it eventually reached the ground, Kajou landed on the ground on the opposite side of the arena as Hanatsu.
By what they could tell in the stands, a most of the crowd was really enjoying the fight. Temari could still be heard screaming instructions for Hanatsu, and Tenten was heard cheering for Kajou.
Kajou looked across the arena and saw Hanatsu walking up the wall, both of her fans attached together by the sides. Once she had reached about ten feet up, she turned to the side and started running around the arena on the walls, slowly at first, but picking up speed. A whirlwind effect had started in the arena.
"Kage Senpuu!" Just like her move in the preliminaries, the wind now being made by her fan was dark. It soon filled the whole lower ten feet of the arena, and Kajou couldn't see, even with her Byakugan. "This'll show you not to rely on your eyes!"
The shout had came from behind her, but when she turned around to look she was kicked in the back, then soon after punched in the face. Kajou decided to try and sense where Hanatsu was with her other senses. She disactivated her Byakugan and focused some of her Chakra into her ears.
Contestants Balcony
"Man, we can't see the fight anymore!" Urusai said, squinting his eyes and leaning over the rail trying to find a way to see the fight despite the dark air.
"Why do you want to see so bad?" Komayaka said, he was leaning against the back wall with his eyes closed, knowing that if it was him fighting Hanatsu he could use the new jutsu he'd learned in the two weeks to get rid of the darkness.
"If you didn't remember, it's our teammate down there. Despite the fact that she always treats us more like burdens than teammates, we still should be worried." Urusai snapped, facing back towards Komayaka and glaring quickly before turning back towards the fight.
They both heard a person walking up beside them, and turned to look. "Hey you guys!" It was the girl from the Hidden Mist Village. She glanced towards the fighting field before continuing, "You don't have to worry, your friend has figured out how to handle the dark."
That was when both of them looked down at the field and noticed that there was a small light blue glow coming from down on the field.
The Fight
Kajou had brought a lot of Chakra into her hands and was slowly releasing it so she had small lanterns. She had reactivated her Byakugan and could see at least ten feet around herself on every side. And that was how she spotted Hanatsu running up behind her to leave another assault of attacks. Right when she was almost hit, Kajou started spinning. "Hakkeshou: Kaiten!"
Hanatsu was flung away in some random direction, the dark air started dissipating because she had lost her concentration on holding it there with her Chakra. Once it was clear, Rock Lee was seen checking if Hanatsu was going to get up, and Kajou about five yards away from them, watching. After about a minute Rock Lee called out, "The winner of the first match of the first round: Hyuuga Kajou!"
There was cheering from the crowd, a lot of it coming from the Hyuuga's section of the seats, though plenty from other sections. Kajou jumped up to the contestant's balcony and waited for her next fight.
"Hey Kajou!" Urusai said, waving. "You're pretty beat up... I can probably do something for your arm too..." He grabbed her broken arm despite her protests and put the hand he wasn't using to hold her arm still close to where the break in her arm was. Green Chakra started glowing around his hand and after about a minute of Kajou glaring, Urusai concentrating, and Komayaka just looking confused Urusai took his hand away and said, "Go ahead and try taking those bandages off."
After taking a quick doubting glance at him she started unwrapping the bandages that were holding the splint on. Once she had it off she tried moving around her arm and even pushed on the area where the break had been to check that he'd actually healed it. "Well... Thanks." She sat there quietly for a little bit. "How the hell did you learn to do that?"
"My mom taught me, didn't you know that she's the best medic-nin in Konoha?" Urusai said, grinning.
"Yeah, but still... We wouldn't expect YOU of all people to be able to learn some good medic jutsu's in two weeks." Komayaka said, still looking doubtful.
"Just shut up, Lee-sensei is calling down the next fighters..." Urusai said, looking down to the field again.
"Will the two of you who got numbers 5 and 4 please come down here?" Lee called out.
"Thats me..." Komayaka said, jumping over the rail of the balcony, and he saw Konchuu jumping down also. Behind him he heard two people saying "Good luck." before landing on the ground of the arena and walking to the middle, where Lee would be starting them.
"Match two of round one! Uchiha Komayaka vs. Aburame Konchuu! Begin!" He jumped back onto his platform-thing in the wall as both of the fighters this time again stared each other down.
Youkou: It's shorter than usual, but still good in my opinion. Tell me if there's anything I could do better about the fights so I'll be able to improve the next few chapters. At the end of all these shorter chapters I'll have a little bonus story that has nothing to do with the current timeline. I'm not going to start that this time though. That'll be next chapter.
