CHAPTER 2

Previously on

"Our first task is too see where your skills lie. We will go outside in the forest and hold a contest between the three of you to see who is the strongest, quickest, and stealthy." He walks out the door, and they followed, waiting for the adventure ahead of them.

Onok took them to the forest at the other end of the village.

"From now on you will refer to me as Onok Sensei." All three of the students nodded. Onok pointed to a clear space surrounded by trees. "That is where we will hold the match between everyone. There is no team work allowed for this task. It is every man--" Onok looks at Hana "and woman for themselves. Now go to the field and find a comfortable place to start out, you may begin fighting when I blow my whistle." They hurried to find a spot to start, and each yelled to one another.

"You're going down first Kaza" Koyu yelled.

"No you're going down Koyu! I have to get you back for scaring me back in the classroom!" Hana screamed

"You're both wrong, your both going down first." Kaza continued walking to the other side of the field.

"Quit talking and get to your part of the field!" Onok Sensei shouted.

Everyone stood their ground and waited for him to give the signal.

"This battle will begin on the count of 3. One. Two. Three!" Onok blew his whistle and stood by to make sure the battle did not get out of hand.

Kaza quickly took out a shuriken and ran towards Koyu. If I can take out Koyu first this battle should be a piece of cake. Kaza thought to himself. Kaza threw his shuriken and as soon as it hit Koyu, Koyu turned into a piece of wood. "What?" He shouted as he looked around. How is that possible!

Substitution Jutsu…so they know some jutsus Onok thought to himself.

Koyu reappeared right behind Kaza with a shuriken at hand. "Gotcha!"

"No you don't!" Koyu threw his shuriken at Kaza, but Kaza turned into a piece of wood.

"Two can play at this game." They continued to fight as the day dragged on. But Onok caught Hana in the same spot but doing hand seals.

"Doppelganger Technique!" She shouted to them. Suddenly, three of her appeared where there used to be one.

Kaza and Koyu were too busy fighting too notice the commotion that Hana had made on the opposite side of the field. Kaza got Koyu with a shuriken in the side, and began to bleed. Onok jumped in to stop Kaza from hurting Koyu any more then he was. Koyu was out of the battle.

Suddenly three Hana's were upon Kaza at the same time. Kaza managed to put a few hand seals in before getting hit. The Kaza that was attacked turned into a piece of wood. Kaza took out three shuriken and threw them in the direction of the three Hana's.

Two of the shuriken hit their target but went right through. The two Hana's hit dissipated and all that was left was the original Hana.

"That was a good trick Hana, but you should know the clones you created are easily defeated when they come into contact with a solid object!" He laughed.

"Halt Genin." Onok said. "You have all shown amazing skills. How did you know Substitution and Doppelganger Jutsu?" He asked all of them.

"Our elders told us of the ninjas from this village before." Hana answered. "We learned that they were hostile and eventually wiped out by enemy forces. We are the first Genin in over 200 years to come from this village, we are not hostile and our village has become peaceful with its neighbors." She looked at the village in the distance and smiled.

"Very well, now onto our next task." He turned around and began walking away.

"But Onok Sensei, why was I taken out when I had a little injury?" Koyu asked.

"Because I knew you would continue fighting even if you were almost dead." Onok replied. "Now our next task is to see how stealthy you are. You will have to try and catch 5 rabbits with out scaring them."

"Piece of cake!" Koyu said.

"I don't think it will be that easy." Hana replied, shaking her head.

"It depends on how stealthy you are and how you work as a team." Onok added.

"Yeah how me and Hana work with Koyu's competitiveness." Kaza laughed.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Koyu replied with anger in his voice.

"Nothing, this conversation has just ended." Onok said. Onok took them deeper into the woods. He pointed at a box of 5 rabbits. "These are the 5 rabbits you will have to catch. This test will not only test how good you are at hiding yourself but, it will also test your quickness. I will be timing you . You must catch these 5 rabbits and meet back here as a team in as quick as possible." Onok walked over to the box. He opened the box and 5 cute rabbits were released into the wild. "In 5 minutes this task will begin." He said.
" I will allow you to converse among yourselves on what you will do to catch these rabbits." He jumped into the trees and watched the Genin converse.

"I think we should use the Doppelganger technique, that way we can corner a rabbit with 9 people instead of 3." Hana said.

"You forgot that the Doppelgangers will disappear as soon as they come in contact with something." Kaza responded. Hana sighed and nodded in agreement. This is hard. But they don't get that it is easy.

"We could use our shuriken too corner the rabbits!" Koyu yelled. They all shook his heads.

"The thing is that the rabbits must be brought back alive." Onok said, "Now remember you have to catch the 5 rabbits as quickly as possible, while working as a team, and being as stealthy as you can be. Your 5 minutes are up."

The team of Genin set off in the woods as quickly and quietly as they could.

"I found a rabbit!" Hana whispered. The group stopped quickly and began to surround the rabbit.

"I will come up from behind it as quietly as possible." Kaza said. ."When I get close I will give you a signal that is when you must scared the rabbit so it will run into me and we will have it." They nodded. Kaza began to work.

Kaza snuck up on the rabbit. He moved his hand as to give a signal to Hana and Koyu. They both threw their shuriken which scared the rabbit right into Kaza's hand.

"One down four to go!" Said Koyu. The team repeated the process for the next 3 rabbits. They were so excited that it was becoming easy to catch the rabbits!

"One more to go!" Said Hana. The last rabbit was eating grass in a small open spot in the woods. The team decided to use Hana's Doppelganger Technique to corner the rabbit, then Hana will catch the last rabbit.

The three ninjas used hand seals and suddenly there was 9 ninjas. They surrounded the rabbit and Hana was able to pick it up with out a hassle.

"Its ok little guy!" Said Hana.

The team hurried to the spot where they started with all 5 rabbits in hand. Onok looked at them and smiled. "Welcome back Genin." Said Onok "I see you got all 5 rabbits in…" He looked at his watch. " in 15 Minutes and 12 Seconds, Congrats." He took the rabbits from the Genin and let them go. They walked back to the classroom.

"I have something important to tell you, I had to pick a leader out of the 3 of you. It was a very hard decision and after going over my facts many times, I have concluded that Kaza will be the leader of the group." All of their mouths gaped open, especially Koyu.

"WHAT?" Shouted Koyu. "But I am way better then he is!"

"I told you it was a hard decision, you are both equal except if you became leader, it would go straight to your head and that isn't good because you Genin are part of a team, and for a team to be good they have to be able to work together and stand each other." The room went silent. Koyu became furious and turned his back to his own Sensei.

"You don't know me!" Koyu yelled at the Sensei. Onok sighed and looked at Koyu.

"But it's true, isn't it?" Koyu turned around and ran up to Onok, ready to attack him in one swipe.