Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. All I own is my own original character Sonki Ekibyougami.
Naruto
Chapter 7: Exam Two We Succeed!
Saga: Death and Rebirth
"Don't even think about it," Sonki hissed out glaring over in Naruto's direction. They had all just finished discussing what their next plans were going to be, and more of the fact that there might not be any more Heaven Scrolls left. "Open that and it will be the last thing you ever do Naruto…"
"I wasn't gunna…" Naruto answered looking at her sheepishly. "Why'd you have to go off and think something like that?"
"Cause I know you, I know you to well Naruto," she stood up looking at Naruto and Sakura. Sasuke had gone off a while ago to find water. "Both of you… Just trust me on this, if you open that scroll now it'll be the end of this test here on out."
"You're acting as though you know what's going to happen Sonki," Sakura said crossing her arms over her legs that were pulled up to her chest. She then narrowed her eyes and continued. "I don't like it. I don't like the fact that you seem to know more than we do…" She turned to look at Sonki dead on. "And you never tell us any of it…"
Naruto looked up at her, the scroll still in his hands. "We should open it… Sakura made a good point. What if there aren't any more Heaven Scrolls left? I mean if we know what's inside then I can make a fake of the Heaven Scroll… right?"
"Don't," Sonki said, her attention snapping on him, glaring. "I'll never forgive you if you do!"
"I can live with that," Naruto said looking down at the scroll in his hands. His left hand edged towards it and grabbed the paper. He begun to pull and then let out a sudden gasp.
Kabuto stood in front of him, his hand tightly clasped over Naruto's. "You should listen to her more often Naruto. Did you forget the rules already?"
Sonki's whole body tensed up at the sight of him, her eyes now narrowed in his direction. "Kabuto… Right?"
"How is it exactly that you know my name when we were never exactly introduced?" Kabuto asked standing up to his full height. He looked at Sonki through his glasses.
"None of your business," Sonki snapped back at him. "What do you want?" He's here to help us… To guide us to the next scroll…
"Just passing through, "Kabuto answered shrugging his shoulders as he put his hands in his pockets.
"How long as he been here?" Sasuke asked steeping out from the forest. His face was twisted up in confusion and fear. Naruto's better not have let him take our scroll.
"Just arrived to find one of your teammates trying to open up your scroll," Kabuto answered turning to face him. "Nothing to worry about though. I'm not after yours. My team has all the scrolls we need."
"So then you decided it best to split up," Sonki asked raising her eyebrow at him. "Smart move… What would you do if I attacked you right here?"
"Don't," Sasuke answered looking at her. "I'll fight him…"
"Huh?" Kabuto said looking at him a little taken back. "Why is that? Are you afraid that you may not run into another Heaven Scroll?"
"Sasuke, if anyone is going to fight him, it will be me," Sonki hissed at him. "I've got my own personal reasons, and no offense or anything but I'm stronger than you in ways."
What the hell is she going on about now? Sasuke winced as he heard her call him weak. "Whatever… We just need that stupid scroll."
"Sonki! Sasuke!" Sakura shouted out at the two of them as she jumped to her feet angrily. "What are you talking about! Kabuto helped us! We can't do this to him!"
"She's right!" Naruto added glumly as he looked to his side nervously. "This isn't right…"
A small smile spread across Kabuto's face as his hands dug further into his pockets. "Since you're so keen on getting the scroll at any cost I'll show you a way to another one. So in turn I ask of you to let me keep mine. Four on one is not an even fight… Though I'm not complaining…"
"Thank you so much Kabuto!" Sakura squealed out happily. "It is very appreciated!"
Let him lead us there… "Fine…" Sonki answered frowning. "Lead us there…"
"Are there really any enemies left?" Sasuke asked dodging a tree in front of him as he followed behind Kabuto closely. His other two teammates were following behind him.
"Of course… You do know the smartest fighting tactic in a large area like this jungle…" He got no answer. "The goal is the tower right? So when there is one day left the easiest place to get scrolls is near the tower right?"
"Of course!" Naruto screamed out, sounding as though he had thought up the idea. "An ambush right!?"
"Ah! The tower! Finally!" Sakura said sounding relieved.
"Be quite Sakura," Sonki said jumping down behind a tree, the others followed suit. "Why exactly do you think Kabuto ran into us? Not just to stop Naruto from doing something stupid… He's scared." She turned to face him, a wicked smile on her face. "Aren't you? Scared that the other Ninja's just might attack you, right?"
"Of course," Kabuto said returning the smile. "You're a lot smarter than your team gives you credit for!"
"NARUTO! MOVE NOW!" Sonki shouted out shoving him out of the way. "Kisei No Jutsu!" A black flame came shooting out of her on stretched hand, engulfing the giant caterpillar that was centimeters away from Naruto's head.
It fell to the ground, burned as the flame went out.
"Be more careful, from here on out were not alone anymore," Sonki said, twisting her head around. "After all we've already fallen into a trap… Genjutsu…"
What!? How did she already figure this out?! Kabuto's face twisted up in frustration. Orochimaru never told me this about her… Is she really that skilled already? How could she be, after all she's not from this world…
Slowly thousands of Ninja appeared around them, clutching onto trees or standing on the ground around them. They were all surrounded now.
"So they've appeared," Sasuke said sighing a little as a small smile spread over his face.
"Bah, this is just perfect! Finally someone's ass I can kick!" Naruto screamed out.
"Clones…" Sonki muttered to herself.
A small laugh was uttered. "Trapped like rats!"
"Shut it," Sonki muttered throwing several kunai at the ninja in front of her. They stuck in him, causing half of his body to go askew.
The ninja laughed and then pulled the kunai out of him, his body forming back together.
A smile spread across Sonki's face, showing her teeth. "How long do you expect to keep this up!? Naruto! Use your Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"
"Don't Naruto! You'll use up your chakara!" Sasuke said looking at Sonki as though she had just snapped.
"Shut-up," Sonki muttered to him. "I have a plan…"
"Do it…" Sasuke shot back.
"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" Naruto shouted out, shadow clones appeared all around him.
Sonki looked at the one standing next to her and then back to the ninja's in front of him muttering her plan loud enough for the clone at her side to hear.
"Got it…" the clone answered charging at the ninja in front of him.
Sonki disappeared, grabbing Sakura and Sasuke by the collars of their shirts. Kabuto following. A second latter they were behind trees looking at the copies of themselves on the field in front of them.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Sasuke hissed at her, not taking his eyes off of the clone of him on the field.
"Watch and see," Sonki said reassuringly as a smile spread across her face. "You'll be mildly surprised…"
"You're all dead now!" one of the enemy ninja's shouted out laughing. He jumped down form the tree he was sitting in along with his other two teammates. They landed in front of Naruto and the three clones.
"Wrong, you're the ones trapped like rats," Sonki hissed out, the same wicked smile spreading across her face from before.
"Idiots!" Naruto shouted out. The clones at his side evaporated. "We finally got you by the tails, bastards!"
"You've used up a lot of your chakara Naruto," Sonki said noticing how hard it was for him to stand up. "I'll finish it from here…"
The three ninja's standing in front of them was sent flying into each other and then into a pile on the ground.
Naruto was seen standing above them heaving from exhaustion. "No way… I can finish the job just as well as you can… Even if… My-my chakara is drained…"
The ninja's got up from their pile on the ground. Fuming with anger.
"You're good! But not good enough! We're not going to be unlucky yet!" one of them shouted out getting in a stance to perform Ninjutsu.
Millions of mist clones appeared around them, each with a kunai in their hands.
"What the…" Naruto said looking around a little nervously. He then shook his head and smiled, looking as though he was sure of his next actions. "I guess I'll have to destroy each of them until I hit the real one!"
"Go for it…" Sonki muttered stepping back, away from all of the clones.
"What?" Sakura said looking at her confused. "But Naruto… He's… He can barely move Sonki! Look at the state he's in!"
"Shut-up…" Sonki said frowning at her. "I have my reasons. You'll see and thank my latter for saving your asses."
Naruto plowed through clone after clone, each time hitting nothing but and illusion. "Why is this taking so long!?" More clones appeared around them.
He fell to his knee's, gasping for breath.
"Humph," Sonki said, smiling to herself as she whipped out kunai and shuriken. Throwing them right at Naruto.
"Sonki!" Sasuke shouted out angrily as he started to run out to Naruto, as if trying to protect him. He was slammed into the ground a second latter, Sonki holding him down. "Get off me you traitor!"
"Shut-it," Sonki hissed at him, glaring.
A scream was heard and everyone's attention was at Naruto, he was standing up perfectly fine. Three ninja's pinned down around him, shuriken and kunai sticking in them all.
"See…" Sonki said releasing Sasuke so the both of them could stand up straight.
The clones all disappeared around them.
Naruto stood up, whipping the sweat off his brow. He looked around and watched as a scroll rolled along the ground. He smiled happily and walking over to it, stumbling a little. He picked it up and then turned back over to look at his teammates.
"Great job Naruto," Sonki said walking over to him. She lifted his arm over her shoulder and made her way back over to the group, Naruto at her side. "Well let's go then…"
Sakura nodded her heard, not very sure as to what had just taken place. "Yeah…"
"Kabuto!" his teammates shouted out waving at him as he arrived along with team seven. "What took you so long?!"
"Sorry," Kabuto answered walking over to his teammates. "We got stalled by enemies." He turned around and looked at team seven once more. They were all standing in front of the doors to the tower. "Good luck and thank you…"
"Sure," Sakura replied smiling at him happily.
A frown was placed upon Sonki's face as she looked at him.
"I'll see you guys inside then, good lucky," Kabuto said waving at them.
"Yeah…" Sasuke answered pushing the door open in front of him. He walked inside, followed by his three teammates.
"A parts missing," Sakura said looking at the scroll that lay in front of the four of them. "It must be telling us to open these two scrolls up, right?"
"Right," Sonki muttered, letting Naruto stand on his feet, the Heaven scroll still clutching tightly in his hands.
Sakura had the Earth Scroll in her own.
"Alright!" Sakura said.
They both flung the scrolls open, shocked looks on all of their faces besides Sonki who seemed to be waiting patently for something to appear.
"Sakura! Naruto! Let go of those scrolls!" Sasuke shouted out backing away. "It's summoning Jutsu!"
"Yep," Sonki said smiling at him.
The two of them threw the scrolls, a cloud of smoke arising from them as they hit the ground. A shadowed figure stood in there.
"Nice to see you again Iruka!" Sonki said giving him a victory sign and then bowing.
He looked at her a little taken back, his arms crossed over his chest. He took quick recovery and smiled at all his former students. "Long time so see right?"
"I'm surprised! It seems as though you had some trouble!" Iruka said taking the watch out of his pocket and checking it. "Made it just in time to! But honestly I would have thought with Sonki here on your team this would have been a breeze!"
"Sorry," Sonki said scratching the back of her head nervously. "We had some problems yes… Why is it that you are here?" Got to play along…
"Yeah! Why was Iruka Sensei summoned!?" Naruto asked looking at him confused.
"It was set up at the end of the second test for us Chuunins to meet up with the exam takers. And I was aloud to be the one to great you," Iruka said smiling at them.
"Great us?" Sakura asked looking as confused as Naruto.
"The second test," Iruka said smiling wider at them. "The four of you pass. Congratulations." He grinned more, especially over in Naruto's direction. "I would like to buy all of you a round of ramen as congratulations, but it seems-"
He was cut off by Naruto launching himself in mid air around Iruka's waist. Shouting out, 'We did it!'
"Naruto, wait!" Sonki said scratching the back of her head more. "I don't think the test is quit over yet…"
"Naruto! She's right!" Iruka said looking at her surprised. "Naruto!"
"We did it!" Naruto shouted out over and over again happily. "I'm so happy!" He detached himself from around Iruka and jumped around the room shouting out 'we did it' over and over again.
"He sure has energy," Sonki muttered sliding down so she was resting on her knee's yawning.
"Yeah," Sasuke replied leaning up against the wall behind him.
"Shut-up! Some of us have headaches!" Sakura shouted out trying to trip Naruto as he skipped by her.
"What would you have done if we would have opened up the scrolls in the middle of the test," Sasuke asked, his full attention of Iruka. Naruto had stopped jumping around at the sound of this.
"Sharp as always Sasuke," Iruka said looking at him mildly surprised. "As you may have figured out… This test's rules are set up to test your ability to perform missions correctly… So if you were to break these rules and open the scrolls…"
"What would happen?" Sakura asked in his pause.
"Those exam takers… Would be put in a condition of unconsciousness for the remaining of the test period. Those were my orders," Iruka replied finishing up.
"Good thing you guys didn't open it," Sasuke answered looking at the three of them, his eyes narrowed.
A nervous look spread across Naruto's face. Why didn't I listen to Sonki!? Thank you so much Kabuto! Thank you!
That was close… Sakura sighed and then whipped her brow, falling to a sitting position.
"There a word missing…" Sonki said speaking up. "We can't figure it out…"
"Who cares!? We passed!?" Naruto screamed at her happily.
"Quite Naruto!" Sakura screamed at him giving him a sharp smack across the head. "We passed okay! We all get it!"
"I… I am here to explain that…" Iruka said looking at Sakura and Naruto who still seemed to be going at it. "Read it… This is the motto of the Chuunin written by Hokage-sama."
"Motto?" Naruto asked looking at him confused.
"Yeah, the 'Heaven' in this paragraph refers to the human mind, and the 'Earth' refers to the human body," Iruka replied putting one of his hands on his hips as he starred up at the scroll tacked to the wall.
"Ahhh…" Naruto begun, but still had the look of utter confusion on his face.
"'If you lack Heaven, seek wisdom, be prepared.' That's basically…" Iruka said and then noticed the confused look still plastered on his face. "For example, if Naruto's weakness is his brain… 'Gain knowledge and prepare yourself for missions'."
Sakura giggled at the sudden look of anger and discomfort on Naruto's face.
"If you lack Earth. Run in the fields, seek advantages. So if Sakura's weakness is stamina, then it's saying to you must continue to train hard," Iruka said looking over in her direction as she stuck her tongue out at him nervously. "And if you have both Heaven and Earth… You can succeed in even the most dangerous mission. So basically all missions become safe and easy."
"Then the part with the missing word?" Sonki asked, her arms now crossed over her chest.
"So the words that represent a Chuunin. The 'person' word from the scrolls goes there the last sentence is 'these rules will guild a person's extremes'."
Sonki looked at him a little boldly, Sasuke seemed to be following suit, though paid close attention.
"These five days of survival were to test the exam taker's basic abilities needed to become a Chuunin… And you guys successfully pass that. Chuunin's are the rank of Military Captain; you have the responsibility of guiding a team…" he paused, looking at all their serious faces. "The knowledge, stamina, and inner wisdom all are needed for your duties. I want you guys to challenge the next step with the Chuunin motto in mind. That is… All that I have to pass on to you."
"Thank you, sir," Sonki said smiling at him. "Will keep this in my mind of course.
"But this third and final test… Don't push yourselves to hard…" Iruka concluded, sympathy was written all over his face as he starred at each of them.
"We are Ninja," Sonki said looking at him. "We'll be fine. Especially Naruto. The three of us are here to look after him if anything to serious happens. You can count on that…"
Iruka nodded his head and smiled at her. "Thank you." He then vanished in a wave of smoke.
Chapter seven end! Review! Next chapter coming soon!