News flash… guess how I feel this week?
You probably got it right, this week I'm tired as hell!
And the more annoying part is that when I finally feel refreshed and good, it's in a day I have to go to bed early, for example: at Tuesday I felt like shit, but since I school started on 10 this Wednesday, I went to the gym, and did almost nothing cuz I was too tired. And on the next day, I felt real pumped up, but I couldn't go to the gym cuz at Thursday I start early…
That was one useless ranting… but what's even worse, I'm getting my report cards today (after I go to sleep and wake up, about 6 hours), which is a real bitch…
Oh, and I noticed that Chibi@Dragon has vanished from the reviwers list… so if you're reading this, make me know you're alive, I feel like only 4 people read this story…
Chapter 7: House of the Dead
"welcome to the Chunin exam" the woman said, she was from the sand village, she had sand-like hair and held a fan in her hand, "My name is Temari, your jounins have already prepared you to this test, so I'll make it short: this is a survival test, each one of you genins has one scroll, identical to that of his teammates, there are 4 types of scrolls, and to advance to the next test you must hold the four of them. Luckily for you, there are other ways to get the scrolls other than fighting other shinobies, those ways are varied and you'll have to find them yourselves.
One last thing, the scrolls emit a special odder, which demons find highly attractive, your first mission right now is to survive the following 2 days. You can quit the test anytime you want by signaling your jounin instructor with the flash bomb which was customized for you, that's about it".
"Karen, want to go check out the place we're born in? I'll show you my old house!" Hob suggested to his teammate, he wondered how she could look so calm, Ealla said that most of the time the chunin test was taken in teams and only the ending round was a personal exam, but this time the exam was taken on a personal basis from the start.
Hob sniffed the air, he could smell over 500 different people, and he knew that it meant that there were over 50 Special Forces members "are they expecting us to get into that much trouble?" he asked himself.
"Maybe later, I want to check some things on my own, I'll meet you around in about three hours, you can show Doro if you want" Karen replied coldly, she looked at the ruined village, plants were growing from most of it, like a civilization lost in the jungle for centuries.
Karen started to walk, on her way she saw other ninjas scouting around the wrecked village, there was a strange atmosphere in the air, none of the shinobies has started to fight yet, "it's because of the demons around" Karen decided, she could feel each the demonic chackra around her, she instantly knew where were the demons nesting places.
"Searching for your past home?" a voice interrupted her thoughts, it was another one of the ex-leafs genins, he had a light blond pony-tail hair and was a year older than her.
"Yes, I thought it'll be nice to see where I was born, what about you, Gray?" she asked back, "the same, just checked out the Uchiha compound and my mother's old place, the Uchiha place was next to the Hyuga and my mom's place was near the ninja administration, it's a mess all around, but most of the files were in a readable condition" she could tell he was exited, Gray wasn't a real part of the leaf, coming to the village gave him a feeling that he can recreate his past into something honorable that would fit his Uchiha name.
"oh, cool!" she usually faked her declaration of excitement, but this time it was her true feeling, he gave her quite the information that she wanted to know, her main reason for taking part in the exam was because it gave her an opportunity to learn about her parents old life. "Where are we going to start this tour?" the Kyubi tried to hide his own curiosity about what happened to the leaf, but he failed miserably, "we start with the offices, and I'll decide about the rest after I'll take every piece of information they kept about them" she calmed the anxious demon.
"They have a respectable amounts of paper on him, don't they?" The kyubi taunted Karen, "yep, a lot of them from Iruka and some by Kakashi, but all they all stop when he was fifteen…" she said, the reports contained quite a lot pranks and misdeeds that her father committed in his younger days, but all those stopped when he become a genin, from that point there was raising amount of reports of strange behavior, "what's this nine-tails power they keep referring to?" she asked.
"well, I was sealed into your father, so our power's were separated, he could sometimes tap into my strength and use it, it started with uncontrollable bursts of power when his emotions heighten, but eventually he learned to control it. With you it's different; you were born with me as a part of your genetic material, so your chackra IS my chackra, and vice versa" the fox explained.
"it's too long to read at once, there are too many questions, like why did my father have a crush on Tack's mom and how do they know about it?" Karen complained, it really didn't interest her, but she needed to start questioning him, and decided it was best to start from non important ones.
AN::\\ Q&A style! I just hate to write "she asked\he answered" over and over, so for this part, Karen is regular font and the Kyubi is Italics .
"he had a crush on Sakura because he was too much of an idiot to notice your mother, and they know about it because it's a chunin regular job to spy on an academy student and to hand a report about him once a while. Your father's chunin spy was switched around a couple of times, since most of them hated his guts"
"Reasonable enough, why did he got stuck with Uchiha in the same team?"
"Naruto wasn't always the asskicker type of guy, he was the worst of the genins when he started, and Sasuke was the top rookie, so they balanced the team and stuck them both together"
"Then why was Naruto transferred between all the teams afterwards? Was it because their team got too strong?"
"No, teams aren't changed unless something BIG happens, in your father's case it was the fact the Sasuke deflected to the sound village and joined Orochimaru's Special Forces"
"I really don't give a damn about that old fart's life story, I'm not even sure why I asked, how come all the reports from Iruka stop suddenly after this B-mission my father was in?"
"hard story, Naruto and Iruka were assigned to this mission together, Naruto decided not to kill one of the enemy nins, but that ninja called for reinforcement and they caught Naruto and Iruka on surprise and managed to kill Iruka before they could drive them off"
"What kind of guy was this Kakashi person? And what happened with this chunin exam that blanks off at the third test?"
"Kakashi-sensi was an annoying pervert with a stolen Sharingan eye, he wasn't mch of a jounin instructor for Naruto, he didn't appear on the survivor list at the sound library so I guess he died somewhere along the way. The third test was interrupted because the sound and the sand attacked, otherwise your father would have probably get to be a chunin"
"Why do the reports stop? Where do they continue? Why aren't there any documents about my mother?"
"they stop cause you grandmother and friends kidnapped Naruto for some reason, if I remember correctly you can find the rest under "Akatuski" and "missing-nins". What comes after is with all of Hinata's recordings at the Hyuga compound, take everything you want from here and lets go to see where everything happened!"
"Chill down, stupid fox rant, I think I wanna stop at my father's old apartment, just to check it out. How can I get there?"
An::\\ normal storytelling mode!
"Fighting? It already began? I was sure it'll be at least five hours before it starts.." Karen thought to herself, she rushed to the battlefield, she was amazed from the situation that her teammates were in; more than 15 demons surrounded them, only five were demonic beasts, the rest were clones created with chackra.
"Damn it! Hob, we can't hold them back, let alone get a clean hit, it's a freck'ing madness! What kind of ninjutsu is it?" Doro cursed, his special sound attacks didn't affect the enemy, sound did get to their ears but didn't have any affect.
"who the heck can have enough chackra to create this kind of army?!? Each one of them is special and attacks in a different style!" Hob replied as he blocked another fang attack made by the demonic dog.
"Stupid idiots, they don't even realize these are demons and not ninjutsu" Karen whispered, "go help'em, the team is more important than keeping *that* jutsu a secret" the Kyubi said, her emotionless behavior amazed him, she actually thought about leaving her two friends to die!
"demonic earth strike no jutsu!" a feminine voice shouted from a distance, the ground began to shake under the two sound genins, spikes suddenly erupted from the solid ground, "what the hell!" Hob screamed, the spikes cut through the army that attacked them but he also noticed the spikes formed a circle around a large rock that also suddenly appeared from the floor.
"Look out, Hob, it can be another team that's after our scroll", fear took over Doro with each new turn of events, he considered himself to be a strong shinobi, talented in all types of jutsus and intelligent enough to know how to utilize his skills to their top, but the chunin exam made him realize he was merely a child with an superiority complex. The large rock started to crack down, reveling a girlish figure with an evil grin, "watch how it is done, I won't always be here to save your asses!" she said.
Karen looked at her enemies, she could recognize one of them, it was a copy of a mist missing nin that her father once met, he held a large sword and he was the commander of the demon squad. She flashed out five shurikans, they were meant for the dogs, the kyubi taught her exactly how to deal with each type of demon, the dogs were the weakest type, they were considered trash by any kind of demon, they didn't even know they were alive, they were puppets.
Her shurikans met the dogs forehead, causing blood to splash out from their bodies as they fell to the ground motionless, she looked at the other demons, searching to the next target, or better yet, victim.
Two demons decided to use the chance to attack her, "idiots" she thought to herself, they were also copies of mist shinobies, but weren't anywhere close to the leader's strength, she could almost feel sorry for them as she appeared between them and made a gentle contact with her hands on their backs, a small wave of chackra passed from her body into theirs, tearing them apart in the process.
"Karen…?" Hob was too confused to speak straight, his beautiful teammate came out of a rocky cocoon and easily defeated all of their enemies in one strike, his eyes followed the trail of blood that came from the two shinobies she somehow disposed off, he realized that even their shared chain was vanishing into vapor.
"no way…" Doro could only shake with awe from Karen's display of power, less than fifty seconds passed since he first heard the shout and Karen was already facing only four enemies: a man with a gigantic sword, some kid who looked like Tack only with black hair, a man with a sand head protector and a 3 meter's long slug.
"crap, they are all too strong to get rid of with chackra, I might need to ask the two idiots for help" Karen complained to herself, under the nine-tails tutoring she learned that her special chackra was the perfect weapon against most demons, they would sense the power and vaporize from fear, but the four in front of her were different, they had a high amount of chackra inside them that enabled them to act as if they were alive, it was almost like they actually had a soul of their own.
"Doro, Hob! These demons are all copies of top-shinobies, don't get hit by any of them! Keep two of them off my back until I can tell you what to do!" she shouted to them.
Hob breathed in relief, at least his sweetheart didn't lose herself in whatever state she was in, he looked to his right and chose his target, it was the sand guy, half of his face were hidden beneath a cloth from the head protector, Hob preformed the seals and shouted "swirling fang" the first tilt of chackra inside his body sent him to the air, the second tilt changed his course to his target. He was about to hit the enemy but a sharp stab on his back stopped him, he looked at his shoulder, a black mark now covered it, and his enemy was five meters behind him, holding his hand like a large katana.
"My chance!" Doro hissed when the slug tackled him, he begun to deploy the sound waves from outside his hands but then the slug separated into thousands of small slugs that crawled behind him and reappeared as a whole slug. Doro tried to turn to his enemy but then he felt a hard pulling from the front, he looked and then saw that the slug has merged itself around him, and he was a soon-to-be meal of the slug.
********chapter 7 – house of the dead – end*******
well, it's the chunin exam again! Nuff said, you already can tell this exam never goes as planned…
well, Karen's kicking asses, demons kick asses, and Temari's just being there… not much more to say, but here's a challenge for you, every demon which will appear in the story, is based on another character, some from the original manga, and some from the previous story, try fishing their real identities out!
And here are some shout outs (!):
Synaptix:
Well, I'm tried from the start to show how Karen isn't Naruto, so I have to make her a bit selfish and weird… and I think you got the answer for Karen's nin development (btw: the jutsu she used appeared before in my previous fic, go fish who was the first to use it!).
Hattuteline:
I think of it more as a "get a character out of the story" chapter than a build up chapter, Kishimonto should do it sometimes too, It's getting too hard to remember all the names, especially when there's nothing to go on with them (think about the four sound gates, they're just plain boring). And things will accelerate from now on…
Eikou:
- I think I'll give up on SK fics for now, seeing a song-fic about how fox ruined the show was bad for my health…
- YGO isn't marketed, IT IS the merchandise… the card game came before the show, nuff said. Case one: yami bakura is just a child version of Griffith, but just without the cool ambition, which leaves him GAY. Case two: Kaiba has the most potenitial to be the cool guy in the show, he's evil and has style. Too bad he's a fucking idiot ("hey! I know sold my brother to the long haired gay guy, but I'll still go into the V.R machine you already told me you've messed with! I'm just to much of an idiot!"). Case three: I have no idea who you're talking about, but whenever I think about the cards I get to the following paradox: yugi's grandfather and his friend Arthur played the card game not only before the gay long haired guy was born, but while they were uncovering the text about the cards, it's enough to keep my laughing, no matter what sort of weird spelled card is up. To conclude, most of the YGO cast is gay, and I'm not about to watch 180 eps just to be proved right, Narutaru isn't that violent, it's just dark, it sets chills up your spin without showing a drop of blood.
- I'm pretty sure I'm going to turn into an even more depressed guy in the army, but for now, I can take comfort in the fact I wasn't drafted yet…
- Ghost can scare people on a date, god knows I get the creeps every time I see manta…
RuByMoOn17:
Yes, I got rid of shally, due to the fact I started to use her too much, at least she died nicely, with some demon history, and not like junk… did you notice that the demons were a pig (ino) and deer (shika) and a butterfly (chou), it's because the three make a combination in a Japanese card game, like a royal flash in poker, besides! It's your first review to this story, it's great to see that some new people read the story, and if you're wondering, I have two months left of ready story, which means weakly updates!
Well, cya all next week, same place, same time, same messed up author who has purpose in his life…