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'Thoughts'

"Talking"

'Someone Else Talking in a person's mind'

(----) Different point of view

-+-+ Scene change

-/-/-/ Flashback

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Chapter 13

(---Koichi---)

He walks out with the others. He could very easily see Gaara out the corner of his eye. They soon step into the light and are now out of the underground room. It's where Hunters wait for their own trials to get the Dor'Sharp rank. He knows that this chuunin rank meant nothing in Light, but it did mean something to Leaf and the rest of the ninja villages.

He had been stunned to learn that this whole thing had been in planning for a good three months. He wonders how many visitors from Leaf and other countries have found Light village. For the fighters families and friends arrived long before the Hokage released where the fight would take place to the leaders of the other countries.

He sighs and snaps out of his thoughts. He looks to where the examiner is. He look up and finds the holograms of the field are up and running. He hears sharp in takes of breath and turns to find the others also looking up in surprise.

Soon the jutsu for sound is active. The Hokage then does a short speech and then everyone but Terish and Yue walk to the tent to watch the match. The examiner then begins the match.

Terish and Yue then charge each other, they exchange punches and kicks. Each of them are also blocking or dodging the attacks as they also throw some. Few of the punches and kicks hit their marks. They then got bored doing this for a good eight minutes.

They retreated away from each other. Then Terish disappears and Yue closes his eyes and looks relaxed. He then sighs and knows that this was going to be a long battle. He just relaxes and waits for it.

Soon Terish appears and attacks from behind Yue. Yue quickly ducks and rolls to the left. Terish then throws kunai at Yue. Yue uses his wooden shield to block the attack. Then Yue takes out one of his swords and goes into a stance. Terish then also takes a stance. Soon Yue charges Terish with the sword to his right and swings at Terish. Terish moves forward and grabs Yue's left arm and swings Yue toward that ground. Yue rolls and uses his sword to block a kunai aim for the back of his head.

Yue gets up and then waits for Terish to attack. Terish then charges with kunai in both hands. They exchange blow and the sound of metal hitting metal ring out. Yue doesn't continue to back up, knowing that Terish could have a trap somewhere in this arena.

Now Terish is moving back but in a circular pattern. Yue then pauses and stands his ground. "Cleaver." Yue says and then waits. Terish just sighs and charges Yue. The kunai mean sword and once again the rings of metal are heard through out the arena.

Then Yue leaps into the air, letting go of his sword too. Nobody knows what he did as he flipped through the air, only that once Yue lands, roots began to come out of the ground. Terish cuts at the roots, but there's too many. Soon Terish is held in the air by the roots and Yue just retrieves his sword.

The examiner then declares Yue the winner and the crowd claps. Yue then waits for Terish to follow before entering the tent. "I should have guessed." Was all Terish would say as they entered. Soon Kin and Temari walk onto the field.

As soon as the match begins, Kin tries the bell trick, but Temari just uses her fan to send the bells back towards the Sound Nin. It didn't take long for Temari to knock Kin out with just using her fan.

Soon Lee and Ganmaru walk onto the field as Kin is taken off the field. Soon their match begins and Lee charges Ganmaru before Ganmaru has a chance to block the attack. Ganmaru then quickly as he could does a seal. Then it looks like Ganmaru is no longer there, but he could tell that Ganmaru just casted a genjutsu.

He knows that next time they see Ganmaru, it'll be when Ganmaru's ready. Lee just waits for Ganmaru to show himself. Soon clones of Ganmaru appear. Was it his imagination, or did it look like some kind of heat coming off the water clones…

Lee attacks and when he busts one of the clones, it looks like Lee got shocked. He wonders which were the ice shard clones for it would make scene to use both types of clones. The next few clone Lee destroyed were the ice shard ones and then an electrified one.

Then the real Ganmaru appears by grabbing Lee's ankles. Then Lee finds himself up to his head in dirt. Ganmaru's other clones then disappears and the real Ganmaru appears on top of the ground. Then Ganmaru puts a kunai by Lee's neck. Sighing, Lee says, "I surrender." The winner is Ganmaru. Ganmaru then helps Lee out of the ground and together they walk into the tent.

(----------------------------------Sasuke--------------------------------------------)

He watches as Gaara and Koichi walk on to the field. He turns and says, "How long until Koichi flattens this guy?" Sellen's eyes spark and she then answers, "I say with in thirty minutes. Gaara is a demon carrier, too you know." He just raises an eyebrow and says, "I say within fifteen minutes." Sellen just grins and says, "You're on. I win, you answer a question that I ask." "And if I win?" He asks, teasingly. "I'll teach you one of my family techniques?" Sellen says. He just grins at that and pretends to think it over. "Fine." He says.

They then turn to watch as Gaara's sand begins to come out of the gourd. The sand is also taking that shape of a shield around Gaara. Soon they couldn't see anything from within the shield of sand. Koichi look at the ball of sand and even walks around it a few times.

Then Koichi just sighs and does a seal for a fire jutsu. He wasn't the only one puzzled at this. He sees Sellen smirk at this and he just continues to watch it.

Koichi then finishes his seals and soon fire begins to circle the sand. Then the circle of fire grows until it engulfed the area where the ball of sand was. Then as they watch the sand begins to put out the fire. They watch as the ball of sand grows, but some edges of the sand look like they were seaming. Then what looks to be a hand reaches out for Koichi but stops short of Koichi. Then the sand ball opens and they all gasp in shock at what Gaara now looks like.

It looks like sand has merged with Gaara's body. For now Gaara has a tail made out of sand. The left side of Gaara's face looks like a fangs dripping out of the guy's mouth. The whole of Gaara's right arm is covered in sand.

Then something happens over where the Hokage and the council elders are sitting. The examiner just says calmly, "Nothing to worry about, just keep your eyes on the match." He looks over at Sellen and Sellen just shrugs. They return to watching Gaara and Koichi on the field below.

Koichi is dodging what looks to be daggers made out of sand. Now he begins to wonder if Koichi's just prolonging this match. He sighs and just continues to watch the sight of Koichi dodging the sand daggers. The more this match goes on, the more it looks like Gaara's transforming into a monster, or a demon made out of sand.

Then Koichi begins a series of seal, and a scream of pain erupts from where the elders and the Hokage are sitting. Whatever Koichi did, it didn't do anything to Gaara, but then, that might be the whole point. "I think I'm getting a headache." He says out loud. "Just relax, I looks like Koichi used a Soul Burner seal on someone. I think he's going to begin his real attacks on Gaara." Sellen tells him. He looks puzzled, "Soul Burner seal?" Sellen answers, "The seal not just attachés to the body, but the soul as well. The more chakra used to place the seal, the harder it is to seal it up or to escape the effects of it. I remember Koichi talking about it with Terish and Yue once." He sighs and chalks it up to something Koichi learnt from here.

He looks at Koichi and just stares at what happened around Koichi. It looks like red chakra is leaking out of Koichi and is taking the shape of a beast. As he watches nine tails of red chakra appear at the butt of the beast. Soon the red chakra takes the form of a fox demon with nine tails.

He turns to find a large sand creature standing where Gaara used to be. Then Gaara appears on the creature's forehead. Then the sand creature begins to talk. He wonders if the thing was ever sane, for the way it gives yells of joy, you'd it was playing a game instead of fighting.

The sand creature's attack pass through the red chakra fox, then the fox attacks, it's solid. All Koichi does is stand there, leaking red chakra. Then the sand creature grabs the fox's neck and tries to move the fox's head away from it. It might have worked, if the fox was a breathing creature, but the fox wasn't a breathing creature. Soon thing begins to happen at the spot that the fox is biting. The sand begins to drip off the creature made of sand. The sand creature begins to thrash about and this wakes up Gaara.

The sand creature breaks apart and the red chakra fox does too. Koichi then snaps out of whatever trance he was in and watches as Gaara falls to the ground. The examiner then declares Koichi the winner. He then looks at the time and finds that Sellen won the bet. He groans and wonders just what she wants to know.

(-----------------------------------Hinata-------------------------------------------)

She just watches as Koichi heads for the tent and people come to pick up Gaara. She did know that Koichi had a demon, but to see an image of a chakra red fox was just beyond anything she ever imagined.

Soon the match between Temari and Yue begins and both stand there, studying each other for a few minutes. Then Yue makes the first move, his body is covered in blue chakra and soon what stands in Yue's place as a tall, muscular being with white hair running down the back and on the arms. The being looks feral and has very well toned muscles.

"I heard about a Garou being born to the Fufu clan." Ko'Sil says. "A Garou?" She asks. "That's what Yue's bloodline limit is. It leases the person transform into what you see before you. The last two times, both of them had been females with that ability. It's very rare for a Garou to occur more then once every four generations." Ko'Sil says. She blinks and looks back to the fight between the two.

Temari looks stunned at seeing Yue transform. Then Temari recovers and opens her fan. Yue charges Temari and Temari blocks Yue's attack by using her fan. Then Yue reacts quickly and moves to his right and attacks Temari from that side. Temari is sent flying and Yue follows. Temari uses her fan and glides up into the air and out of reach of Yue.

Temari circles around and then begins to drop to the ground. Temari swings her fan and the wind cuts some of Yue's cloths. Yue then reaches into his pouch and throws three kunai at Temari. Temari uses her fan to stop the kunai, but Yue used the time to get behind Temari. Yue grabs Temari and then places a hand around her neck. Temari tries to escape the grasp, but it's no use, Yue has her.

After three minutes and the examiner declares Yue the winner of the match. Yue then lets go of Temari and they then walk into the tent together. Then before Koichi and Ganmaru walked on to the field, Koichi then says, "I forfeit. I'm not recovered from the last fight." Then the examiner declares Ganmaru the winner by default.

Yue then joins Ganmaru on the field. Yue hadn't transformed back, so he was still a Garou. They then wait for the examiner to begin the match. Soon both charge each other, with Yue being the first to reach Ganmaru. In no time, Yue began to his attack and Ganmaru could do nothing but block and dodge.

In time Yue seemed to calm down a bit and retreated from Ganmaru. She could tell from here that Yue was having some kind of problem. "What's wrong with him?" She asked. Hor'Ja answers, "Instincts, Yue is viewing Ganmaru as an intruder. Considering the fact that Yue didn't get a chance to rest after him match with Temari, it a wonder he's not roughing Ganmaru up more then he has." She looks over at Hor'Ja and then at Ko'Sil. Then she turns back to watching the match.

It looks like Ganmaru knew just what kind of line he's walking with Yue, for Ganmaru didn't make any sudden moves. Yue is taking long and deep breathes. Ganmaru moves slowly and places his hand on a pouch, not his kunai pouch though. Then slowly Ganmaru opens it and digs around for something. What Ganmaru takes out is a smoke bomb and he uses it by dropping it by his own feet. Yue charges at this but Ganmaru seems to have disappeared. Yue snarls at this and turns his head this way and that, in hopes of finding the place where Ganmaru might be hiding.

Then Yue leaps forward and has his right hand stretch out and rakes that spot as he lands. Ganmaru falls to the ground with light bleeding. Then Ganmaru just surrenders to Yue.

Yue then kind of turns and leaves the arena. Many didn't seem to think this hash of Yue, it seems that this whole thing has stirred up Yue's blood a little too much. The Hokage then says that there's to be a feast this night and that they enjoy themselves.

Soon everyone gets up and begins to leave. She is stopped by Ko'Sil and the female Fell'Tor$ then says, "You could come with us, we can visit some more. The meeting starts in an hour and a half, we have plenty of time to chat." She smiles weakly at Ko'Sil and then nods. "Thank you."