"Here is the last question. But first, if you do not answer this question correctly, I will kill you. Are you really ready to risk your lives?" the chuunin asked. A large amount of people got up quickly and left. "Anyone else?" he asked. Kagome's hand lifted, and Rin almost fell out of her chair in shock. "Do you really think I'll give up? I've died once already anyway. And if I become a Chuunin, I'll be constantly putting my life on the line." she said. Gaara glanced to her astonished at her speech. Rin got back in her chair with a relieved sigh, glad Kagome hadn't been stupid enough to give up. The freaky instructor grinned. "You all pass." he said. Rin and Kagome fell out of their seats. "WHAT!" Kagome exclaimed. "And here I was getting all excited!" she said. Rin shook her head, obviously she had been excited too. Bankotsu, Jakotsu and Suikotsu all sighed with relief, happy they actually passed. Then someone flew in the window, a tall woman with orange hair and silver eyes. "I am your instuctor for the next test. Ami Noru" she said monotonously. "Follow me." she said. The students stood and followed the woman to a huge desert. "Alright. The objective is to make it to the other side of this desert. Sounds easy, right? Well, you only have ten days, and in those ten days you also need to capture another team to bring in. You will not be allowed to bring anything but your clothes. That includes weapons and food and water. If you fail to bring in another team, or if someone on your team dies, or if the team you've captured sufferies casualties, then you fail. I'll need you to sign these forms giving your consent before we start. Then you can go get something to eat, then you are to report back immediatly and we will begin. Note that there will be scarce water, food or shelter, so I'd suggest you think this over very carefully." Ami said, dismissing the students.
"So, we're gonna do it right?" Kagome asked. Rin nodded and Kanna sighed, but then nodded as well. "Good. I'm excited. How about you?" Kagome asked. Rin and Kanna both nodded once more. "Alright, let's get something to eat, and fill out these damn forms!" Kagome said happily, throwing her right arm in the air and linking the other with Rin, who inturn grabbed Kanna as Kagome skipped off to the nearest food shop. "Kaaaaagooooomeeee!" Rin yelled fearfully as she barely managed to dodge a huge sign. The girl glanced back at the sign in the 'that thing almost killed me!' kinda way, and thought 'Note to self 1: If Kagome ever grabs your hand, fight back and run away like hells at your heels. Note 2: Destroy that goddamn sign.'
Finally they reached somewhere to eat. Kanna looked rather scared and Rin had a new found cut on her cheek. Not surprisingly, Konoha's #1 knuckle-headed ninja Naruto Uzumaki looked up and waved. "HEY! You guys are here for the chuunin's too aren't you?" he asked. Kagome nodded wary of his hyper mood. "Um...Hi." she said after a long pause. "I have one thing to tell you. I WON'T LOSE TO YOU!" he yelled right in her face. Kagome backed up a couple of inches, then grinned. "I'll hold you to that, Uzumaki." she said, sitting down and ordering ramen. Kanna watched the exchange in amusement and Rin was too annoyed and hungry to even bother.
"Where is Ami-san?" Kagome asked. She and Kanna were looking around for the teacher to give their consent forms too, but the woman was nowhere in sight. "Rin, help us find her." Kagome said. Rin grinned. "You asked for it." she said, forming a jutsu with her hands. Kagome and Kanna quickly covered their ears. "Microphone Jutsu" she called, then took a deep breath. "AMI!" she screamed and the earth shook slightly. The entire village went silent. Rin grinned sheepishly when Kagome glared at her, but Ami walked out of nowhere. "What the hell do you want?" she asked. "We have our consent forms." Kagome said. Ami smirked. "Good. Fork 'em over." she said. Kagome nodded curtly and passed over the papers, then turned and watched as other nin arrived. She already picked out the group she wanted to kidnap. All three were rather weak looking girls. One had black hair, another had green, and the last blue. "Hi!" Kagome said, walking over. "What do you want?" the blue haired one asked, obviously the leader. "Well, you guys are the only other all girl team! I would suspect there would be more, but there isn't? I find that weird." Kagome said. The green haired girl smiled. "Yeah, most girls are more interested in boys though, so I'm not all surprised." Kagome smiled slightly. The black haired one looked up. "I resent that comment Moriko." she said. The one with blue hair sighed. "Shad up Mai. You're a perv, plain and simple." she said. Mai huffed. "You shut up Yuri. No one asked you." she said pouting. Yuri grinned, flipping her off. Kagome couldn't help but think. 'I kinda like these girls. They remind me of Miroku, Sango and Shippo...' she thought, sighing. "Anyway, your scoping us out as the team you wanna capture, aren't you?" Yuri asked, and Moriko looked only mildly shocked while Mai just shrugged. "It ain't like we'll just let ourselves lose anyway." Mai said, looking up at Kagome. Moriko pouted. "Really, and I thought we'd actually make some friends..." she said, shaking her head. Yuri clapped her on the back. "Oh so sorry Mo...but we're not here to go frolicking in the flowers like idiots. We're here to become chuunin...but it's not really likely we will this year. We're not the toughest." she said, then stood. Kagome's eyes imediatly snapped to her weapon. It. Was. Huge. The thing stood a good 9 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and made from metal. It looked like two long curved swords attatched to eachother with a hilt in the middle and a chain attatched. (Ok, better explaination...Um...ok, it's shaped like a boomerang kinda, cause it curves back like one but it doesn't have a point in the front, it has a handle. The handle is about a foot long, making the blades 4 foot each. Then the chain is really long, over a hundred feet.) Kagome watched it warily. Maybe they weren't as weak as she first thought. Mai had a two sided naginata that was about as tall as her, 5 foot 6. Lastly Moriko didn't have any weapons. She just kinda stared at them. "Where are you going?" Kagome asked Yuri. "Turn in our weapons." she answered simply, going over to Ami and handing over the weapon. Kagome watched amused as Ami took the weapon the fell over with the weight. Yuri sweatdropped and lifted it off her. Kagome turned back to her own team. "They'll be our target. They look strong enough to survive the conditions, but too weak to face us." Kagome said, pointing to the girls. Rin looked sceptic. "They don't look weak to me..." she said. "Yeah, but we aren't weak either." Kagome said. Rin muttered something that sounded like 'she spent too much time around Inuyasha. Damn mutt made her cocky.'
"BEGIN!" Ami yelled. Teams scattered into the desert as fast as they could to avoid getting captured by stronger teams. Kagome noticed Yuri, Moriko, and Mai immediatly dash full speed into the sandy dunes, and she began to follow after. Yuri was the first to notice, and flashed a sign to her friends. They scattered. Rin chased Moriko and Kanna followed Mai leaving Yuri to Kagome. Kagome wasn't exactly excited to fight her, the girl looked pretty strong. Kagome sighed and gave chase. "Come on out and fight me!" Kagome called. She knew Yuri was close but hidden. Suddenly two hands shot out from the sand and grabbed her feet and Yuri emerged, her purple eyes gleaming. Kagome fell and the girl was on top of her grappling her. Kagome struggled but the girls arms were more powerful, so Kagome kicked out and hit the girl painfully in the stomach, then the face. Yuri got off her and threw her as far as she could, which was quite far. Yuri then followed up the throw with a light punch. Kagome saw it coming and swung her legs again, just missing the kick she aimed for, but caused Yuri to miss her punch and the girl spun from the force of her own punch, leaving her back exposed to Kagome, who took full advantage and kicked her hard in the back of the head. Yuri stumbled forward and fell to her knees clutching the back of her head. Kagome pounced, but Yuri rolled out of the way then dove on top of her. They wrestled again and Yuri was doing good. Obviously wrestling was her strong point in fighting. Yuri seemed to have an advantagem but Kagome had survived years of battles. Kicking Yuri vicously, she sent the girl flying off her. Lifting herself off the floor she charged after Yuri, who had managed to dig her heels into the sand. Grunting and spitting out blood, she dodged Kagome's oncoming charge and whirled around, hitting Kagome in the back and using her momentum against her. Kagome was sent sprawling, spitting up dirt. She looked up as Yuri walked over, then grinned cockily. "Your a good fighter." she complimented. Yuri smiled then held out her hand, helping Kagome up. "So are you." she said, then they both began to battle again. Kagome discreetly began to transfer miko ki into her hands while she battled Yuri, who seemed slightly tired, but determined. Dodging a powerful kick, she held her hands out and blasted Yuri with her miko ki, sending the girl crashing painfully through the dunes. She went straight through three dunes before the fourth finally stopped her. Kagome watched as she slid down, a trail of blood left behind. As she approached her enemy, she noticed Yuri had scrapes and cuts all along her back, and it appeared that her wrist was broken. Sitting herself up with her good hand, she smirked at Kagome, who was grinning cockily. "I'm not finished yet." she said, closing her eyes. Kagome then noticed something disturbing. The wind was picking up, and sand was being carried by it. Suddenly a strong blast hit Kagome, sand flying into her eyes. The onslaught continued on the confused girl as blast after blast sent her sprawling. Kagome finally gained some control over herself, and flung a blast of Ki toward Yuri, who couldn't escape it. Blood spattered the ground as she was flung a few feet. She stayed down this time, much to Kagome's relief. She only remained standing for a few more seconds before she too collapsed.
END!
I plan to get chapters of other stories out, but I'm grounded and suffering from writers block.