Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. All I own is my own original character Sonki Ekibyougami.
Naruto
Chapter 2: Exam Time!
Saga: Death and Rebirth
Sitting on her bed patently she starred down at her hands, which were in her lap. This would be considerably the first day she would be living in this realm. Everything else she had experienced before were just mere memories, things that she did but never really had done in the first place.
The only reason she was living in this one story apartment was because of Kakashi and Iruka. Sure the rent here was nowhere near expensive, but they were the one's who did actually get her started in her life. Iruka prepared her for the Ninja world, she'd always paid extremely close attention when he was talking about something, or explaining what new technique they were going to learn that day. And Kakashi was the one who gave her a chance in his team. He took her as an extra student when none of the other Sensei's would even consider taking on a fourth student.
She smiled softly to herself but was then brought out of her thoughts a second latter by jumping up off her bed. Gaara was in her room and had just spoken.
"Well isn't this just normal," Gaara committed looking around from where he was standing. "Aren't you a Ninja? Why'd you have your guard down so low? And what was up with that goofy smile on your face…"
"What… Were you expecting the room to be painted blood red or something?" Sonki said looking at him a little angry. "And it's none of your business why I was smiling. What do you want? Are you here to kill me then?"
"Maybe… It all depends on what mood I'm in," Gaara replied now looking at her.
"Why did you come here?" Sonki asked. "I'd have thought you would have been to furious to talk to me from the way you sounded earlier. Or you just would have killed me on spot now…"
"Some of that was just an act," Gaara replied. "So people wouldn't think that we were that good of friends…"
"So then it was a bad thing that we were friends…" Sonki said sounding as if for a second a little hurt. "Cause if it is then I still don't understand why you are here…"
"I wanted to ask you…" Gaara began but paused as he picked up a small wooden cat from her table beside her bed. "Why it was that you left all of those years ago… Without even saying… Good-bye."
"I don't know," Sonki answered looking at the ground below her glumly.
"You're lying," Gaara said tensing up. His face was starting to get a little angry. "Why can't you just tell me that you were scared of me!? Like everyone else in that stupid place!? Why do you hide it!?"
"But… I really don't know how I left! I just ended up in front of this village when I was little!" Sonki shot back at him; she was starting to get a little angry now too. She really didn't know how she came to be here. When she had relived her life it was not shown, as though a piece of her life had just been cut out.
"Shut-up!" Gaara screamed at her. He was now facing her, his eyes a little blood shot and total anger on his face. "Just shut-up! I'm tired of hearing excuses from people! I'm tired of always being left behind when I'm not wanted anymore!"
"Gaara," Sonki said silently as she looked at him, not afraid. "Stop it… Something bad is going to happen if you don't control your temper…"
"SHUT-UP I SAID! JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!" Gaara screamed at her. Sand was now beginning to appear around him as he glared angrily at her. "I trusted you Sonki! And you betray me like this! You lie to me! Pretend to be my friend! I HATE YOU!"
Sonki was now slammed up against the wall behind her, Gaara's hand around her throat. Sand was being to slowly in close around the two of them. Her hands were slowly beginning to scratch into the wall she was pushed against as the room steadily became darker and darker.
"S-stop it…" Sonki choked out, tears now running down her face. "G-garra… I… I can't b-breath…"
"I… I don't care!" Gaara screamed back at her angrily. "You should die for what you've done to me!"
Sonki chocked, blood now coming out of her mouth. Slowly she reached up her hand and put it on the side of his face.
"This… This is gunna hurt you a lot more than it's hurting me," Sonki said as loudly as her voice would go, which was barely louder than a whisper. Her hand dropped from his face as her vision began to blur some more.
Gaara's eyes got huge as the words sunk in. He dropped her and then backed away as he watched her body fall to the floor. She was coughing up blood and her hands were in tight fists as she was hunched over on the ground trying to get air back into her lungs.
Gaara gulped and then begun backing up again until he ran into her bed and stopped dead. His hands hung limply at his sides as a hurt expression flowed over his face.
Slowly Sonki rose to her feet, whipping the blood off of her face. A small smile formed as she looked at him. "You're not as bad as you may think you are…"
Gaara winced as he face returned too normal along with his posture. "And you will never cense to amaze me… I'm surprised you haven't tried to kill me yet… After all I've done to you so far…"
"And you're still the same cute kid I met so long ago," Sonki replied, her smile growing a little. "I have no reason to lie to you Gaara…. So I don't understand why you won't believe me when I tell you that I don't remember how I came to end up in front of this village…"
"What ever…" Gaara answered turning his back to her, he was slightly blushing as to her remark about him being cute. "I'm leaving… I guess I'll see you tomorrow during the test… And just to let you know," his voice was dead serious now. "I'm not going to do easy on you if we end up fighting one another. It's all a free battle from then on…"
He then disappeared leaving on smoke behind in the empty room with Sonki standing in it. A smile still on her face.
"You too Gaara, I'm not going to go easy either…" Sonki said clearly. Her throat was starting to bruise.
Standing in front of the exam entrance Sonki looked over at a sleepy Naruto and an annoyed Sakura, as Sasuke paid no attention to her. Kakashi had still not shown up, he was the last person they were waiting for so they could enter the building.
"Damn Kakashi Sensei," Sonki said tapping her foot on the ground annoyed. Her hands were in the pockets of her jacket and her brows were furled holding her glasses to her eyes.
"Good to see you all here," Kakashi said appearing out of nowhere in front of the four of them. He was starring intently at Sakura out of everyone else that was there. "So you're going to go through with this?"
Sakura nodded her head and smiled at him. "Of course!"
"Alright… Follow me then," Kakashi said a little bored as he headed for the double doors in front of him, his students following closely behind him. As soon as the doors had closed he turned around and looked at them all a little happy. "The only way you were able to even compete in this exam to become a chunin was if all four of you had shown up. If even one of you wished not to compete none of you would have even made it through these doors…"
"Oh…" Naruto said looking over in Sakura's direction happily. "That wasn't so bad…"
"Course not you idiot," Sonki replied a little angry at his sudden burst of stupid ness. "I had no intention of backing out of this, and neither did you or Sasuke. But Sakura, she only did it so none of us would be mad at her for stopping out urge to get stronger, to become more than just mere Genin…"
Sakura scratched the back of her head a little nervous and then smiled at them all, with a nervous laugh.
"I'll see you all later then," Kakashi said giving them a short wave and then disappeared in a poof of smoke leaving Sonki and the others in a room full of ninja's.
Sighing Sonki removed the backpack on her back and then begun to rummage through it as she pulled out some of the items that had managed to come with her when she was reborn into this realm. It seemed as if Orochimaru had not let her forget what world she had truly come from.
Sonki looked around lazily as she put her huge headphones over hear ears, but made sure one of the speakers was behind her ear instead of over it. Putting the CD player in her pocket she pressed play and then turned to look at them all as she put her backpack back on.
Yawning she put her hands behind her head. Her new weapon, mostly concealed under her coat moved slightly. It was a five-foot long katana that was in a black sheath. She still had that lazy Kakashi look on her face as Rock Lee was slammed into the ground.
"Hah! You plan to take the Chunin exam with that!? You should quit now!" a boy with black hair called out to him annoyed. "You're just a little kid!"
"Yeah, yeah!" the other guy at his side piped in.
"Please let us through!" the girl said standing next to Lee, a concerned look was on her face. She was then hit, causing her to be sent to the floor beside Lee.
"Horrible," a voice said angrily.
"What did you say!?" the boy asked angrily. "Listen! This is our kindness! The Chunin exam isn't easy… Even we've failed it-" He was cut off by Sonki.
"Blah, blah, blah," Sonki said annoyed, as he was about to give everyone a sudden lecture. "I don't want a stupid lecture about how hard this test is or how many god damn times you've failed it…"
"What!? How dare you!" he shouted out at her angrily.
"Shut-up!" Sonki shot back at him, her opposite hand that was closest to the sword was started to paw the handle of it. "Just remove the damn Jutsu that's coving this room so I can get to the third floor!"
His partner looked a little surprised and then smiled at her a little happily. "So you've noticed?"
"Of course I have!" Sonki replied sounding insulted. Her hands were now in her pockets and she was starting to look at him angrily.
The room then begun to swirl and the number above the door on the plaque changed from 301 to 201.
Sonki turned and looked at Sakura. "You should have said something earlier… So I wouldn't have taken all of the credit for seeing through this stupid trick… I mean you can sense Jutsu fairly well… Can't you Sakura?"
Sakura nodded her head happily and then smiled. "Of course. Because this is the second floor after all…"
Sonki smiled at her and then sighed as the boy begun to talk again.
"Not bad! But all you did was see through it!" the boy shouted out swinging his leg in Sonki's direction.
Swinging her own leg in retaliation she waited for impact against his body. But then shortly remembered that she was basically pulling the same thing that Sasuke would have if she were not here fighting against this Genin…
Standing between the two of them was Lee holding both of their feet. Smiling at him Sonki lowered her foot and then yawned again. "Nice speed…"
"I thought you weren't gunna draw attention to yourself!" Neji shouted out at him.
"Well…" Lee said looking over around himself, but as soon as he spotted Sakura a serious look appeared on his face.
"Ugh…" Sonki said looking at Lee and then Sakura and back to Lee as he begun to approach her. "Here comes rejection…"
"Huh?" Naruto asked looking at her confused. "What are you talking about?"
"You'll see," Sonki answered shaking her head as she changed the song on her CD player to "Kill You", by KoRn.
"Hi!" Lee said cheerfully. "My names Rock Lee and yours is Sakura… Let's go out together! I'll protect you until you die!"
"No… Way! You're lame!" Sakura said looking at him disgusted as Naruto started to freak at Lee's sudden come on to Sakura.
Lee then dropped away in rejection as he went back over to his teammates.
"Hey… You two," Neji said looking over at Sonki and Sasuke. "What are your names?"
Damn it! Not Sasuke again! When's it ever gunna be me!? Naruto's hands now formed into fists as he starred at Neji angrily.
"When you want to learn someone's name you should give yours first…" Sasuke said looking at Neji a little annoyed.
"Ekibyougami Sonki," Sonki replied not even caring to listen to Sasuke's advice, since after all… She did already know his name.
"Naruto! Sasuke-kun! Sonki! Let's go already!" Sakura shouted out grabbing Naruto and Sasuke's hand as she begun to drag them off towards the next room, Sonki followed behind shaking her head the whole way.
"So… Those are Kakashi's and Gai's prized pupils…" the boy who had tried to attack Sonki before said, grinning a little happily. "They pass the first unofficial test… This exam is going to be fun…"
A cloud of smoke appeared around the two of them and then they transformed into their original forms. They were wearing the same things as before but just aged.
"For us examiners too… But that Sonki girl, we're going to have to keep an eye on her…" his partner said watching them leave the room followed by Lee.
"What are you doing Lee…" his only girl teammate asked looking at him confused.
"You guys go ahead… There's something I would like to test," Lee replied giving them both a quick glance before walking further away from them.
"Whatever…" Neji answered shaking his head at him a little annoyed.
"Hey you! Guy with the dark eyes!" Lee shouted at him annoyed.
"What?" Sasuke asked looking up at him, he was on the ground bellow the stairs and had finally managed to tear his hand away from Sakura's.
"You will… Fight me right here!" Lee said looking at him dead serious.
"A fight right now?" Sonki asked scratching the back of her head Kakashi like. She just wanted to get started on this stupid Chunin exam already, instead of waiting for Sasuke to get his ass kicked by Lee.
"My name is Rock Lee, I introduced myself first… So can I have your name?" Lee asked pointing at Sasuke, ignoring what Sonki had just said to him.
"Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke replied. "So you know…" Sasuke was looking at him now dead on serious.
"I want to fight you! I want to test my techniques against the offspring of a genius Ninja clan!" Lee begun getting into a fighting position. "Plus…" He winked over in Sakura's direction and then blew her a kiss.
Sakura looked at him totally mortified and then fell on the ground foaming at the mouth as though she were dieing.
God dammit! Always Sasuke!! Naruto's fists were going back to fists as Sonki shook her head at him.
"Challenging me… Knowing I am of the Uchiha clan… Frankly I think you are a fool…" Sasuke said waving his hand at him tauntingly. "You're about to learn what the name means thick brows!"
"Sure…" Lee said looking at Sasuke dead on.
"Wait!" Naruto screamed out angrily. "I'm tired of everything having to always resolve around that dumbass!" He charging at Lee fists blared by fell to his face before he even moved two steps.
Sonki had her foot out with her hands in her pockets, her full attention to her music now. "Stop it Naruto. Just let Sasuke get his ass kicked so we can get out of here…"
"What are you talking about!?" Sakura screamed out offended.
Sonki yawned and then pointed at Lee. "HE can't use any form of Ninjutsu. Only Genjutsu!"
"Uhh…" Lee said looking at Sonki a little scared. "How'd you know that?"
Sonki jumped at his sudden reply to her statement. There was really no way she could have known that unless she saw him in battle or had known him when he was a kid. And she had done neither. "I can just tell!"
"Who cares," Sasuke interjected broadly. "Let's just get this stupid match over so I can continue! Be prepared to lose!"
Lee just smiled at him and then waited for Sasuke to make his first attack. Sasuke charged at him and he vanished from his spot.
Sorry Gai-sensei… I'm going to have to break your rule… Lee thought this to himself and then prepared to attack Sasuke.
Sonki had now switched her music over to "Go", the fourth opening theme song to the series she was in. It was weird listening to the music when she was in the series, but then again she always did love the music.
A turtle now appeared forth, telling Lee to stop from performing his attack. Lee sighed and then flipped Sasuke over his back and looked at the turtle with a serious expression on his face.
"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted out catching him. "Sasuke?" He was shaking a bit in her arms; he hadn't protected himself from the fall.
"Enough Lee! That technique is forbidden!" the turtle yelled at him. Sonki just starred at the two lazily.
"I'm sorry…" Lee begun, he was now on his knees and was looking at the ground nervously. "But I didn't use the other one…"
Sonki just starred at the two, waiting for Gai to finally appear before them. Lee's sensei.
"Don't even think about saying anything stupid Naruto," Sonki said holing her hand out in front of him. "And the answer to your question is yes…"
"Uh…" Naruto said looking at her a little taken back. "How'd you know what I was thinking?"
"After being around you this long I've started to learn the way you three think, it's not that hard," Sonki replied sighing as she watched Gai appear on top of the turtles back.
Gai and Lee then went into their conversation about punishment. Lee was hit across the face, which caused everyone to stare at them extremely confused and scared. A second latter Lee was crying on the ground with happiness and the two of them were hugging.
I…I lost to this freak!? Sasuke had a horrified look on his face.
"You four… Must be Kakashi's students? So how is he these days?" Gai asked looking at the four of them, it seemed as though he and Lee and detached from each other.
"You know Kakashi?" Sasuke asked.
"Course I do… People refer to us as Eternal Rivals!" Gai shouted out looking satisfied with what he had said. "Fifty wins and forty-nine losses!" He gave them all a thumbs up and his toothy grin. "I'm more powerful than him too!"
"Gai sensei's so awesome!" Lee said looking up at him with pure joy.
Sonki looked at him with an even blanker look. In her opinion Gai was just an annoyed fool, Kakashi was a fool to but at least he had some style…
"You guys should head to the class room now," Gai said putting his hands on his hips. "Good luck Lee!" He then vanished in a poof of smoke, Kakashi style.
"Let's go then," Sonki said putting her hands back on her jacket, she didn't really want to hear Lee's closing statement before he left. All it was going to do was piss Sasuke off.
Lee looked at her a little disappointed as she started to make her way out of the room and towards the exam site. He then jumped out of view, a small frown on his face.
That girl's got something up her sleeve. She might be a fearsome opponent to face in this exam. Though I do have to say that it's getting interesting…
Sonki and the other's now stood in front of the exam entrance doors. She could feel Naruto's anticipation in the air. Sakura had a nervous look on her face and Sasuke was as calm as ever. As though this didn't really matter much to him. She sighed and then flipped to a new song. Wrecking Ball by Harvey Danger.
"What is that thing?" Sakura asked looking at it confused. "And what's it supposed to do?"
"Ummm, I wouldn't worry about it. It's not a threat to you so, yeah," Sonki replied scratching the back of her head nervously. Boy was it going to be a pain to explain what a CD player did and how it worked. After all it wasn't from this world. "How about we just take this stupid exam now?!"
"Let's go then!" Naruto screamed out. He was now shaking with excitement as the four of them finally entered the exam room.
Chapter end. Hope you liked it. Want opinions please!