Sasuke and Hinata finally caught up to Vidina at a small bridge. He sat on the right rail of the wooden bridge looking at the creek. He was watching s few fish. Sasuke walked out onto the bridge. Hinata paused for a moment she could of sworn she heard a humming noise in the distance.

"Hello, can I help you with something?" Vidina turned to look at his pursuers. Sasuke approached the bridge. He was determined to find out what was going on.

"Where's Naruto?" Sasuke's eyes went wide and turned around to look at Hinata. Her innocent look was replaced with determination. She stood behind Sasuke waiting for Vidina to answer her. The tune that Hinata heard in the background stopped. Vidina turned and stared at her as well and then vanished. Sasuke quickly scanned the area using his Sharingan. They heard laughter from behind them. Vidina walked out from behind them, carrying a flute in his left hand. He was laughing.

"You are beautiful. I always thought he was exaggerating." He stopped laughing. "And you must be Uchiha Sasuke." He walked up to them. "The Sharingan is a dead give away."

"Vidina is it." Sasuke stated. "You seem to know our enemies and have proclaimed yourself our ally. Why?"

Vidina nodded his head, "One question at a time." He looked over at Hinata. "We all have our demons we have to deal with. He is preoccupied with his." He turned his attention to the other. "I know you were listening to our conversation back there and so did he."

"Roosta." Sasuke stated crossing his arms.

"Yes, Roosta." Vidina repeated. "What are you going to do about him? He is a powerful man."

"How do you know him?"

"We had the same teacher," Vidina smiled. "Well I'm off. I have to go train. I wasn't expecting this when I came." He turned and began to walk away. "Oh one more thing. Before you fight the coming battle you should know why. Look up the term 'kage' in your achieves, at least they should be." With that he left.

Area 44

Tapion, Saitou and Hikari stood under a large tree. It had been two days since they entered the exam. After the skirmish with the cloud ninjas, they have encountered no one other than a couple of pesky animals.

"Any ideas people." Tapion asked. "Do we go deeper into the forest or around it."

"There's a stupid question." Saitou moved around to the other side. He thought he heard something.

"We have to go deeper, the tower is the goal." Hikari said. "All the other teams will be heading there as well." Saitou held up his hand. The others got silent.

"Someone's here." He whispered to the others. They all walked out from the tree's shadow. He then looked Hikari and Tapion. "So we should split up and meet back here in 2 hours." Saitou said a little louder than usual. "Here I'll carry the scroll this time." Saitou stuck his hand out and Tapion handed him the scroll. Hikari took off, soon followed by Tapion. Saitou walked out a little and jumped up to the closest branch. He looked out. He then sensed someone behind him.

He turned around to see three Shinobi in cloaks surrounding him in a triangle formation. He noticed Stone symbols on their head protectors. "This is going to be interesting," he sadi to himself. "Hello there." He waved at the ninja in front of him. "You wouldn't happen to have an Earth scroll on you?"

The shinobi facing him smiled. "Why yes, but we only have one. But we would be gladly to take that Heaven scroll off your hands." He extended his hand. "Hand it over and you won't be harmed."

"I got a better idea how about you give me that one and you won't be harmed." Saitou answered. Tapion and Hikari each appeared behind the other two shinobi and struck at them. The two figures instantly vanished. Saitou saw this and quickly struck the one in front of him. He disappeared as well. "Great, so much for my plan." Tapion and Hikari looked at each other and then at Saitou. At that moment three large shuriken came at them from below. Team 6 easily dodged them and jumped down to see three more Shinobi looking exactly like the fake ones then struck.

"I'll handle this." Tapion did several hand seals in mid-fall and then accelerated.

Flashback

Tapion stood there looking at his two teammates smiling. "I guess I win huh." He walked over and offered a hand to Hikari. She hit it away and got up herself. Saitou approached the two.

"Tapion, what was that? I know you're fast but that was ridiculous. How'd you do that?" Asked Saitou. Hikari gave Tapion the same look wondering how he dodged all her attacks. Tapion smirked.

"A new technique I've been working at with Hinata-sensei. I was never that good with any one type of jutsu so I thought to myself why not combine several. I enhance my speed, disappear and at the same time project an image of my self a few feet in front or behind me. All the while I do my regular jutsu. I become a blur following my image."

End flashback

Tapion quickly halved the distance between him and three shinobi. He threw several kunai from multiple directions. The Stone ninjas did several seals and three walls made of mud came up from the ground blocking the daggers. Tapion hit the ground and dashed circling the three shinobi trying to get closer. The stone shinobi on the right shoot several mud bullets at him but they went through him.

Tapion notice something only two of the three shinobi were attacking. The third was just standing there. Then is occurred to him and he stopped. "Guys watch out there's still one more out there!" He yelled out to Hikari and Saitou who just landed. He turned back but it was too late. He got nailed in the chest with a ball of mud and fell to the ground. He rolled over onto his back.

"Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" A huge fireball hurled toward the stone shinobi only to be blocked by another mud wall. This bought enough time for Hikari to make her way to Tapion. Saitou then jumped over the wall nailing the left shinobi in the head with a swift kick and punched the center one dispersing the clone.

"Tapion you okay?" She knelt down next to him. He looked up at her and then at the sky.

"Yeah I'll be okay, I'm only stunned. Go help Saitou." He lay there trying to get his breath back. Hikari looked up to see Saitou holding his own against the two stone shinobi. Then she spotted a third one appear behind him. He jumped out of the bushes, his hand turned to stone sucker punched Saitou and grabbed the Heaven scroll.

"Crap!" Hikari ran at them doing several seals at that same moment she became incased in a box made of rock and mud. Tapion got his breath back and was on his feet again just in time to see the shinobi take off with their scroll. He looked over at Saitou slowly getting up off the ground. Then he looked over at the stone prison the Trapped Hikari. At that moment the rock cage exploded in a giant flare. Saitou looked over at them as he sat on the ground.

"Go after them I'll be right behind you!" He yelled. Hikari and Tapion nodded and pursued them. Hikari's eyes then began to glow a florescent white

"I can see them, if we go this way he can cut them off." Hikari took off with Tapion not far behind.

Hikari and Tapion came rushing down a steep hill. Tapion dug his kunai into the ground to help him slow down and land on his feet. They hit the underbrush and sprinted as fast as they could.

"Of all the stupid ideas," Tapion yelled out to Hikari. "Next time we're going with my plan!" Hikari and Tapion reached a ledge and without a second thought jumped. They hit a few small branches but nothing big enough to hurt them. Hikari got a few scratches but nothing serious. They landed on a dirt path. Both of them stopped to catch their breath. Three shinobi soon ran into them. "We finally caught up." Tapion said still regaining his breath.

"Give us back our scroll and we'll also take yours as well." Hikari stated to the three shinobi. All five of them got into battle stances. She rolled up her sleeve reveiling tattoos.

"Prism Flare no jutsu!" Her arm flared up blinding the three stone shinobi. She charged easily dodging their attacks. She struck the Shinobi that held their scroll with her glowing arm. She grabbed him instead of hitting him. With her free hand she made the tiger seal and her arm dimmed and returned to normal. Then the Stone shinobi's body lighted up like a light bulb. He let a scream and fell to the ground. She picks up the scroll marked Heaven and looked on as Tapion fought the other two.

The two stone shinobi could no hit him with anything they had because they were aiming for his image. Tapion was right, she thought, they're too busy fighting to realize they've been fooled. Tapion stopped and jumped up onto a tree branch. He stood still and watched his opponents stare in awe. At that moment Tapion appeared in between the two and hit the ground with his palm. "Inferno no jutsu!" Flame came up all around him spinning and engulfing them. They were caught completely off guard. When the flames finally went away, the two stone ninjas laid there unconscious while he stood in the center out of breath.

He then searched the two and picked up the Earth scroll. He looked over at Hikari and smiled. To his surprise she smiled back. Saitou appeared at that moment fully recovered. Tapion looked over at him. "We got them both now lets get out of here to the tower as quick as possible." He took a step and fell down to one knee, "perhaps after a minute."

They found a cave by a stream and decided to rest there for a couple of hours. They needed to gather what strength they had left before attempting to reach the tower. They had three days to get to the tower. Soon that couple of hours became a night. They now had two days to get to the tower.

"You can bet that there are going to be traps by the tower." Hikari stated as she exited the cave.

"Isn't that a duh." Tapion joined her. He looked back at Saitou. "How the head?" Saitou appeared with a big bruise on his right cheek.

"You get nailed with a rock and see how you feel the next morning." The three young ninjas took off toward the tower. The journey wasn't long they got near the base of the tower in a matter of hours.

"Well that wasn't so hard." Tapion said as they silently made there way to their destination. Hikari led the way using her bloodline to scout ahead. Team 6's attention was mostly focused on the front so they failed to detect some one following them until it was too late.

Out of the blue a tall shinobi jumped out from behind them. He landed directly in front of Hikari and smiled. "I'll be taking any scrolls you have." Saitou glanced at his pouch it bulged out enough to show that if had at three scrolls. He turned to Tapion who nodded.

"He's a scroll collector. He's trying to eliminate as many genin from this exam as possible so he and his team doesn't have to deal with them in the later parts." Saitou stated.

He then performed several hand seals and multiplied in number. Four clones on each side of him. Hikari, Tapion and Saitou got ready trying to spot the real ninja. One of clones went charging at each of them. What surprised them was that when all three attacked they all felt an impact. Saitou countered and nailed the clone forcing it to turn into water and splash on the ground. Tapion and Hikari did the same.

"Crap! These aren't your average clones." Tapion yelled. The ninja combed through his hair revealing his head protect. He was from the mist village. At that moment the fog covered the entire area. The clones came at them from all sides. Tapion would block one attack but immediately get hit from the other direction. He soon fell to the ground. Saitou managed to take down two of the clones but soon joined Tapion.

Hikari was able to somewhat see and defend herself accordingly. From what she could tell there were only three clones left and along with the real guy. Suddenly one of them appeared behind her and held a knife across her throat.

"Give up little girl. I don't want to kill you but I will if I have to." He said into her ear. Hikari struggled a little but couldn't budge. The mist began to fade revealing Tapion and Saitou each down on one knee. Only one clone remained. "Give me your scrolls and I'll let her live." He demanded. Hikari then elbowed him in the gut causing him to let go of her for a moment. Tapion and Saitou rushed at him. Tapion was closer and managed to nick him before he grabbed Hikari again and jumped back. "I will only repeat one more time. Give me your scrolls or she dies."

"Alright you give us no choice. Saitou give him our scrolls." Tapion uttered. Saitou was shocked to hear this.

"What are you saying? We should just give up?" Saitou asked.

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. There's no point in continuing this battle." Tapion stated louder. "Now give him the scrolls!"

"Fine," Saitou shrugged and gave him both scrolls.

He gladly took them and let Hikari go. "See that wasn't so hard. See you later suckers." He vanished. Hikari and Saitou looked at Tapion angry at what just happened. Then Tapion grinned and pulled out a Heaven and Earth scroll from his pouch.

"What? How?" Saitou asked.

"I wasn't trying to hit him because I knew I couldn't so I aimed for his pouch and grabbed two scrolls. I lucked out that I got one of each. Come on let's get inside before he realizes what I did." He started running toward the tower. Saitou and Hikari didn't argue and followed him. They soon entered the tower with a day to spare.

The room was empty with no one to greet them. The only thing in the room was some writing on the wall that didn't make sense.

"The writing doesn't make sense. Its just two incomplete statements." Tapion looked at the wall. Saitou looked at the wall and then at the scrolls.

"Two half statements you say." He held the two scrolls. "And here we have two scrolls. I say we open them."

"But they said not to open them." Hikari reminded them.

"No they said we couldn't open them till we reached the tower." Replied Saitou.

"Good point." Tapion thought for a second. "Go for it." Saitou then looked over at Hikari and she nodded for him to go ahead. Saitou opened both scrolls and then a cloud of smoke puffed out from them and a Shinobi stood where he opened the scrolls.

"Hello genins and welcome to the end of the second exam." He grinned. "I am one of the Chuunin Examiners and I'm here to explain to you what the writing on the wall means." He held up a hand and pointed at the wall. All three genins paid close attention. "The writing on the wall is a motto from the Hokage, the Heaven refers to the human mind and earth refers to the human body. It says 'if you lack heaven, seek wisdom be prepared, gain knowledge and prepare for the mission. If you lack Earth run in the fields and seek advantages. If you have both Heaven and Earth you can succeed in the most dangerous missions'.

Just outside Konoha

Roosta stood looking at the village. He turned to Gouda. "Our time table just moved up. Vidina's presence changes everything."

"But what about what you said earlier. We still lack power." Gouda asked.

"To hasten our attack, we'll have to call in outside help." Roosta began to walk away from the cliff side.

"Who? None of the other villages with intervene."

"Who said anything about asking other shinobi." Roosta stated. "Come we have much work ahead of us."

A/n: Well the second test is done and so is this chapter. I've finally figured out where I'm going with this aren't you all happy. Lol. I'll update as soon as I can. In the meantime tell me what you all think so far. Review! I want to know.