The Talent Competition

The fifth Hokage was applauded as she walked towards the microphone stand in the middle of the stage. Tsunade cleared her throat for a moment before speaking into the device, "Thank you, everyone! This year we only have six contestants; five from Kohona and one from Suna. Let's welcome our competitors as they present themselves for the first part of the pagent; the talent competition! Our first ninja is Neji Hyuuga!"

The crowd of ninjas and spectators clapped their hands as Neji walked out onto the stage with a fancy violin in one hand and the bow in the other. He stood before the microphone, not even saying a word, and played the threads of the bow delicately upon the strings of the violin and began sawing a song.

After the Hyuuga's melody was completed, the audience was moved to tears. Not because of the song. Don't get me wrong, it was a beautiful song. But it resulted in a member of the crowd being wheeled away to the hospital.

Thirty seconds ago As the end of the song neared, Neji stroked the strings with his bow into the high notes. But the fourth string caught onto the tip of the bow as Neji drew it towards himself and accidentally released it, causing the same effect as a bow and arrow. The bow shot off into the audience and impaled some random person in the leg.

"AAHHHH! MY LEG!"

After the crowd settled back down, Naruto strolled out onto the stage.

"Hi everyone!" Naruto did his nice guy pose, "For my talent tonight, I will consume exactly one hundred bowls of ramen."

Let's just say that at bowl number sixty-four, it wasn't a pretty sight.

Now it was Kakashi's turn to present his talent. He stood before the audience with nothing in his hands and the spotlight shining upon him. He did something with his hands that you would never believe.

ten minutes later "And that is my reenactment of Romeo and Juliet with shadow puppets." Kakashi concluded.

The audience applauded cheerfully.

"Very nice, Kakashi," Tsunade announced, "and the next contestant is Shino Aburame."

All was silent as Shino walked noiselessly out onto the stage. No one made a sound, as if waiting for the seldom speaker to do something. But everyone started screaming when he pulled a chainsaw out of his oversized coat.

seven and a half minutes later The crowd erupted with applause as Shino, covered with bits of water and ice, stepped away from a beautiful ice sculpture of a unicorn. But once everything went quiet again…

A lone voice spoke out in the audience, "Unicorns suck!"

Shino gave an evil glare with an intensity so great, the icy unicorn statue exploded into hundreds of pieces. Huge, heavy chucks of ice flew into the air and rained down like armegeddon. The crowd ran about screaming and avoiding the meteorites of ice.

After a few traumas, ambulances, and my-life-flashed-before-my-eyes sequences, it was Kiba's turn to make a fool of himself. His talent: sing the Titanic Theme Song.

It was a good thing that Shino's death glare already broke that unicorn sculpture before Kiba's singing could.

"And last, but not least, Sabuka no Gaara." Tsunade cheered through the microphone.

Gaara appeared in a whirlwind of sand in front of the microphone once the hokage had cleared it. He held up a large cello by its long neck. As soon as he drew, the bow, everyone in the audience started screaming with terror again.

"Fine," he sighed gruffly.

He snapped his fingers and his sand slithered off and retrieved an amplifier from back stage. He picked up the cello, tilted it onto its side, and plugged it in. Then he ran his fingers skillfully over the strings of the cello and played the Naruto theme song. (Just the way it sounds in the opening)

The judges at the front of the stage whispered to one another after all the scores had been taken. Once all the stress had hit its boiling point, the spokesman of the judges handed a little pink piece of paper to Tsunade, whom was up on the stage.

She read the names aloud, "In third place with five award points, Neji Hyuuga! In second place with ten award points, Garra! And in first place with fifteen award points is, Naruto?"

The spokesman stood up, "He vomited a projectile distance of twenty four feet in every direction of his frontward 180 degrees. That takes talent!"

Well there you have it. The first task is done. Here are the current standings.

1st: Naruto -15 points

2nd: Gaara -10 points

3rd: Neji -5 points

4th: Shino -1 point

5th: Kakashi -1 point

6th: Kiba - 1 point

Bye Bye! Until the next chapter! I know this took me a while, but I'm one busy girl.