This chapter, some of the scenes come from the anime, but I need it to show Tenten's character and personality, her determination to not blow her cover and her actual skill level.
Chapter 3
"The next match, Temari versus Tenten!" the referee announced. Both kunoichi stepped up and faced each other with an intimidating glare.
It turned out that this Temari girl was the arrogant, boasts-too-much-for-her-own-good type. Tenten could tell right away after she had began her attacks. Temari used her wind to dodge her first set of shuriken.
"This is the First Star. (A/N: Is it correct? What I mean to say is the purple dot things on Temari's fan) When you see all three Stars, I will defeat you." the blonde boasted with a smirk.
"Silly conceited idiot." Tenten muttered to herself after throwing her first arsenal of summoned weapons. She had met many of her kind on her missions before, missing-nins who thought of her as a little girl who didn't know her stuff. They had blabbed and boasted, but in the end met their fate with a punch, courtesy of one genius girl.
Truth be told, she wasn't very impressed with Konoha's ninjas either, not at all. The level they were at didn't seem very much to her like the one the "Strongest of the Kage-level Villages" should be.
Even if she wasn't your average genin, she still knew how good they were supposed to be. Normal Lightning ninja improved greatly after graduating, after all, the Jounin senseis gave them one hell of a training.
Perhaps it was because of the fact that Konoha had a higher ninja rate than any of the other Hidden Villages that they could afford their ninja being so…sub-par. Out of all the ninjas competing in the preliminary round, she could tell that only a few could actually be integrated into other villages' genin ranks.
One was the red-headed boy with the kanji for "love" on his forehead. He seemed quite good actually, Tenten acknowledged him as a worthy ninja. Another could be her own "teammate", Lee. She had watched enough of his training to know that this boy knew the importance of hard-work and determination, even if he was slightly…un-sane. That Naruto boy could also, if he worked harder.
In her opinion, the most pathetic of all were the two girls, Ino and Sakura. They were better off being civilian workers than ninjas. Kunoichi had to wok harder than the males, and it was harder for them to improve, she respected that. She herself hadexperienced it too. But surely, they had more to offer Konoha than those skills, didn't they? (A/N:Okay, I am NOT doing any character-bashing, just trying to point out Tenten's thoughts..I don't mean to offend anyone.)
"Soushoryuu!" Tenten screamed, as she performed hand-seals and leaped into the air after her twin scrolls. Summoning familiar weapons, she threw them all at her opponent.
Her weapons all getting deflected with the Two Star, she jumped up again and used chakra strings to have another go. "Ugh, she's going to deflect again. Wish I could use something else to attack. I HATE losing. It's so humiliating. If this was a real battle and I could go all-out, this one would have been a goner by now." Tenten thought to herself.
Truly enough, the Three Star sent her weapons away. Tenten knew she had no more to do, and fought the urge to release her favourite technique, one where a giant lightning bolt crashes on the enemy.
Giving out a false cry of anger, she then felt herself trapped inside a cyclone. "Damn, I SO want to put a chakra barrier around myself, but it seems that in these parts it's a chuunin-level skill. These cuts are so irritating." She cursed the Raikage in her head for puttting her in such an annoying mission.
Feeling the wind slowing down, she felt that it was time for a snooze. Rendering herself unconscious quickly with a self-invented jutsu, she fell onto Temari's fan motionless. Then her body got hurled towards Lee.
"Nice Catch." Temari said, with another smug smirk. This angered Lee and lead to another taunt from her. "Your moves are so sub-par, just like your looks. Now get that useless piece of crap out of here."
By then, Tenten had released the jutsu and could hear everything, even if she couldn't open her eyes. "How DARE such a weak and pitiful one like her insult me? Urgh, how I wish to give her a Katon straight down her throat!" she muttered angrily, though of course no one noticed.
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Lying in her bed in the hospital room alone, she opened her eyes and took out her anger on the wall. "Oh, that was just SO embarrassing, losing to such a puny ninja like that. Darn the Raikage, I want to go rampaging around Waterfall Country assasinating A-ranked criminals, not staying here fighting with dumb genin!" She screamed in frustration, banging her fist against the white-washed walls.
Calming down in moments, she sat on her bed cross-legged and cleansed her mind of all thoughts, meditating. She had adopted this particular habit from her teammate AKA Neji AKA target. It helped her to concentrate and focus better.
Coming out of the trance an hour later, she decided to try and get discharged. She got the doctor in to check (Of course, it was much easier just leaving, but she didn't want to be put on the hospital's black list and to be refused treatment when she REALLY needed it) on her. Getting the all-clear, she reckoned that the prelims had to be over any way and headed to the training grounds.
I'm finished with this chapter, hope it was slightly longer than last time. Anyway, I've got a question. I read on a website that Hidden Cloud is in Lightning Country and that its Kage is the Raikage. If this is true, then my Prologue isn't right. Can anyone help me?
