Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 18

Naruto, Sasuke: 12

Shisui: 21

Kakashi: 26

Shino was smart, and did the good moves to get his opponent down without getting a single scratch in return. It was...not surprising. I looked up to the other names with a bored look in my eyes and kept myself from yawning when Shikamaru's name was written, against someone named Kin. The kunoichi of the Sound jumped down whereas Shikamaru was taking his time walking down the stairs.

When the match started, Shikamaru tried to use his Shadow Imitation but Kin avoided it. Well, the Naras were not known for their powerful ninjutsu they were more on the brain side and strategic win over brute strengh. Kin threw two senbon with bells on it, Shikamaru ducked.

"Heh, that sure is a classic trick." Shikamaru said as he got up. "Next you're going to send two senbon with one bell and I won't see the other one. If I react to the sound, I'll dodge one and the other will hit me. Right?" I mused over it. What Shikamaru explained was a basic strategy, but she was from the Sound. There must be something that the sound of the bell would do. I sparred a glance at my genin, who seemed to be thinking the same. Haku even glanced at me and I read 'Genjutsu?' on his lips. Well, maybe.

"You talk too much!"

She charged at him and mimicked throwing senbon, but the bells behind Shikamaru moved. He turned and was hit by two senbon. She was still a genin after all, using ninja strings was common. Hopefully for him, Shikamaru avoided a critical hit. He removed the weapons from his arm and the bells rang again, making Shikamaru drop on his knees.

"Yep, good observation Haku," I whispered.

"Those who listen to the sound of the bells become like that. This vibration from the sound of this special bell works directly on the eardrum up to the brain." He plugged his ears with his hands. "Useless, you won't block the sound of my bells like that!" She kept speaking and I frowned at Shikamaru. He was a genius, possibly smarter than Itachi if he was really trying. He...even though he was a genin, he would know how to use his Shadow Imitation. Everything physical create shadows, and her strings...Ah, she stopped. Yep, the shadow of her string, as Shikamaru was explaining, was too thick to be natural. Shikamaru then took a shuriken and Kin followed, the latter not understanding what he was planning.

"She's the idiot." I heard Suigetsu muttered on my right. They threw the shuriken and, if Shikamaru dodged it easily, Kin knocked herself out by bumping her head against the wall. Ah, the win is for Shikamaru.

Kin was taken away by medics and Shikamaru went back to his team, where Ino was up. The screen displayed Tenten and Temari's names and I sighed. Right now, it was obvious Temari would win, she was excellent at Wind jutsu. Against Tenten's artillery...There was no surprise when Tenten fell on Temari's fan, unconscious after two minutes of fighting. She threw her as if she was nothing and Lee caught, an angry expression on his face. He went as far as trying to kick her, but she stopped him with her fan.

"Temari that's enough," Gaara's cold voice stopped her from our right. We were at the far left and Oto, or what was left of it, was between us. "Don't waste your time with these two ugly big brows persons." Aouch.

"What!?"

"Don't Lee," Gai-san told his student before casting a confident look at Gaara. "If I were you, I would be cautious of this kid. Maybe he doesn't look like it you, but he's way stronger than he looks like." Temari went back to her brothers and the floor was cleared from all the weapons used during the fights. I looked up at the screen once again and my mouth formed a 'o' at the names.

Kankuro versus Chōjūrō. From what they told me about how their fight happened, Kankuro didn't really participate and Chōjūrō didn't display more than swordsmanship, but getting to Temari was what exhausted him.

"Beat him," Suigetsu snorted at his teammate whereas Haku nodded to him with a small smile. Chōjūrō smiled back and raised his eyes to me. I tilted my head on my shoulder, an encouraging smile on my lips.

"He saw you fight, yes, analyze him, think about what you know about him and make links. You can win this." He pursed his lips at my words and nodded hesitantly. He had chuunin capacities. He had the potential to be Mizukage, because after all I couldn't know if he'd be the Rokudaime now. But still. Mangetsu wouldn't have taken him as an apprentice for his favorite sword if he didn't have talent. He went down to face Kankuro, who was smirking. Humph, overconfidence.

"And start!" Hayate said and jumped back. Hey, now I was thinking about it, there was Gaara, Naruto, Kakashi and Chōjūrō, plus the Hokage in the room. Three Hokage, one Mizukage and one Kazekage. Wow.

Chōjūrō took his storage scroll and summoned his katana, adopting the standard kenjutsu stance of Kirigakure. Like every fighting style in Kiri, be it taijutsu, ninjutsu, even genjutsu, and it was all aimed at killing good and fast. Effectiveness was one of the main thing in the Academy program. Even if I was under private teachers thanks to Yagura, I was taught that as well. Kiri kenjutsu was recognized in the whole world, our most famous group of shinobi was the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist after all. When we had a sword in our hands, strength and quickness but also accuracy were the most important. Against a puppeteer like Kankuro it would come in handy to cut his chakra strings.

Cutting chakra strings was no easy task after all. You had to spot them first and then use your own chakra to overbalance the opponent's.

"Hiding in Mist Technique." Mist was spat from my student's mouth and rose around us, making it impossible for us to see. I focused on Chōjūrō's chakra. It was everywhere in the mist and I sighed. I wasn't going to use my energy for this.

"Come on, we can't see anything!" Naruto hollered in front of us. I was sure Hinata and Neji had their Byakugan activated though.

"Argh!" The mist dissipated a little, enough for us to see Chōjūrō having his blade on Kankuro's throat, ready to draw blood. The mummified puppet he had on his back was further away on the floor. I shot a look at the Suna shinobi, and smirked at Temari's and their sensei's smirk. From the moment there is mist, Chōjūrō would be on the winning side.

"Give up before I draw blood," he said in an icy and threatening voice. Chōjūrō wasn't the most confident person, even if with being on the team he was getting better, but even he knew how to put up the Bloody Mist mask when he had too

"Giving...up?" Kankuro said and turned around suddenly to hug Chōjūrō. Pieces of himself started to fall and a puppet was revealed, its arms tightly secured around him. He made a face from the pain. I looked over at the mummy and saw Kankuro out of it, chakra strings visible between him and his puppet. Huh, it was an easy target now. "Aren't you too...huh?" It was just a blur, but his chakra thread were severed by Chōjūrō and he had a sword on his throat. Even if it was far away, I could see the redness of Kankuro's blood on the blade. Not enough to kill him, yet enough to make him understand he was done. "Wh..."

"I hope this puppet is not too expensive," Chōjūrō droned and from his free hand, made the tiger seal. The water clone the puppet was hugging, made from the mist around, started to glow and exploded, the puppet smashed to pieces. "Even if you get a piece of its weapons, I will be faster, Kankuro-san. Now give up the fight."

"How..."

"From the moment I created mist, you were losing. I found you and separated you from your puppet. I created a water clone from the mist and put an explosive tag on it, and I hid. It was obvious you would substitute yourself with your puppet when I had a sword at your throat, the puppeteers from the Sand aren't known for their taijutsu. I just had to wait until you exposed your tactic on your own," he explained stiffly, and I could see the teenager who had been training under Mangetsu for two years now. With Mangetsu dead in my past life, Chōjūrō's growth took more time. This Exam might have helped him more than I thought.

"I give up," Kankuro declared blandly, eyes full of anger. Chōjūrō looked up at Hayate, who declared him winner, and sealed his sword back. "How did you know I was using a puppet?"

"In the forest you stayed back when our teams met. Suna is famous for its puppets, and you had something big on your back at all time. It was obvious it was your weapon. And..." A shy smile appeared on his lips, "at the end of the First Exam, Morino-san said you used a puppet." There was a long silence and Naruto screamed.

"I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!"

"Pathetic," Gaara commented coldly.

"It's not because the First Exam is over that it's useless," I muttered as they went back, stealing a glance at Ibiki-san. He was smirking.

"No offense, but it was boring," Suigetsu welcomed him in a bored voice. They highfived anyway, and he made Haku do the same. Haku who blushed slightly at Suigetsu's initiative. "Come on, we've been a team for a while man."

"...yes..." came the barely audible answer and I chuckled to myself. In fights or training, he was okay, but when it came to more...human emotion, Haku sometimes still felt a little bit out of it. Talking about him, I grabbed his shoulders and turned him to the screen.

Haruno Sakura versus Haku. Now that was easy fight. It was clear Sakura was stronger than what old Sakura told me about her beginning in Team Seven, Haku also told me of her part in the fight against the Sound, but it was still young Sakura who had not been trained by Tsunade and Kakashi...not that he was a bad sensei, he just...I kinda thought for a moment he was seeing Rin in her, that he was seeing Team Minato in his own team and that he didn't want the same thing to happen to his female student.

Or it was just favoritism. Sakura had not been useful on the bridge. But who was I to judge?

Haku walked at the center of the fighting area calmly, in opposition to Sakura's nervous walk.

"And start!"

"I won't hold back Sakura-san," Haku warned her, already moving a foot backward to prepare his jump.

"Neither will I," she responded, taking a deep breath.

"Sakura-chan! Good luck!" Naruto encouraged her behing. Even if Haku had his back to us, I was sure there was at least the hint of a smile on his face.

He jumped back an threw two senbon at her. She deflected them with a kunai and threw a salve of shuriken to Haku, who dodged them with no problem. He landed on the wall and jumped to her, going fast to strike. Sakura barely stopped his senbon with her kunai and I saw her wince at his strength. Naruto was still encouraging her, and Sasuke was watching with attention. Haku started to use his speed and I could see Sakura having trouble blocking everything, and stepping back a little bit more with each blow.

Close to the wall, she dropped a small object and it looked like a smoke bomb. It barely touched the floor she jumped on the wall to then push herself above Haku and land near our balcony. The bomb exploded and smoke engulfed Haku. He jumped out of it fast, his arm on his nose.

"Soporific gas." I heard him say. Oh? She was cunning our little Sakura! She knew she wouldn't win in pure strength so she used her brain. Too bad Haku knew his stuff when it came to herbs and their proprieties, he must have recognized the smell. In a matter of second, Sakura had a senbon in each of her limbs and collapsed on the floor. Haku went to her and seemed to check if she was the real one. He looked up at the proctor. "I've paralyzed each of her limb, she won't be able to move or make hand seals until I remove the senbon."

Hayate checked on Sakura and declared Haku the winner. As my student was gently removing his needles from her, I couldn't help but admire Zabuza-san for teaching him the technique hunter-nin used. It was useful to know how your opponent fight to run away, thus why after my fifth attempt at fleeing Kiri, Mangetsu told me becoming a hunter-nin would make it easier to leave. It was logical, but I left earlier.

Oh how cute, Naruto and Sasuke went to pick up Sakura.

"The effects will clear up in a couple of minutes." I heard Haku say to the boys before he body-flickered next to us.

"Boring too," Suigetsu muttered, "but two wins out of two for now."

"Be sure to make it three out of three then," I teased him. He sent me a confident grin in return.

The following fight was between Hinata and Neji. I sadly already knew the outcome and clenched my fists in my pockets as Hinata just kept getting up, no matter how many tenketsu Neji was shutting down. Yeah, Naruto's encouragements were sweet and all, but there was a limit that should not be crossed just for an exam. Even if, I knew very well Hinata was trying to proving something to Neji, but first and foremost to herself. However, I couldn't read Neji. He tried to mentally break her at the beginning of the match by saying she shouldn't be a ninja to make her give up, yet these eyes full of hatred he had in my class were burned in my memory.

I grazed the confidentiality mark on my wrist, thin scars around it rough to the touch. I still had all of my researches on the Hyuuga curse mark sealed in my room at mom's. To be honest, I never understood the logic behind sealing the Byakugan of Branch members only. It meant the Main House members could have their eyes stolen if they died.

I mean, Ao-san had a Byakugan in his right eye.

"Hey Uzu..." Suigetsu trailed off as we watched Neji losing it and trying to strike his cousin one last time. Kakashi, Kurenai-san and Gai-san stopped him and Hinata was taken away, pain written on her face. Naruto started a speech too as Neji challenged him. "I would be vulnerable against that taijutsu, right?"

"I think so too. The Hyuuga clan and the Gentle Fist are tough to deal with, they hurt like hell." Even if Mangetsu helped him as much as he could with the Hydrification Technique, there were still times where he was taking a little bit too long. He stayed better at liquefying parts of his body rather than his entire body.

The screen showed Gaara and Dosu. It was fast, Gaara barely moving. He plugged the holes of the metal arm and crushed it with his sand after. It was painfully, yet ridiculously, fast and easy for Gaara. He went up in a body flicker of sand and shot a look at Kankuro, who had a thick bandage around his neck, and Dosu was taken away. Orochimaru, their sensei, left too.

Yeah right get out you old snake, your genin are fucking jokes anyway.

I tried to stretch my legs as discreetly as I could when I heard Naruto yelling in joy. I looked up at the screen. Uzumaki Naruto versus Inuzuka Kiba.

Oh boy.

"Man, I couldn't have had an easier fight!" Kiba bragged and walked down the stairs. Naruto followed him, claiming he was the one who would win.

Even if Naruto responded to Kiba's provocations, that kid would never change apparently, I noticed something in Naruto's behavior. I was pretty sure that when Kiba started his jutsu, Naruto peeked at us. Kiba's nails grew as he took a dog-like position and he charged at my cousin, cousin who didn't see that coming and was sent flying meters away. I frowned at how everyone said he was weak, even Suigetsu said it by my side.

"He's not," Haku retorted calmly, "maybe he looks like it, but you shouldn't let that fool you."

"Hum..." he mused and glanced at me. "Well, he is Uzu's relative so he must have more than one trick up his sleeve I guess."

"Naruto! Get up! Show him what Team Seven is made of!" a moving Sakura yelled from her spot next to Sasuke.

"Stop playing around you dumbass," Sasuke added with a smirk. I glanced at Itachi, who had a flicker of a smile on his lips. When I left, Naruto probably started passing even more time with Sasuke and followed him to his training sessions with Itachi. Knowing him, I was sure he taught Naruto some stuff too.

My cousin got up, blood running down his chin. He raised a determined gaze on Kiba. "Don't underestimate me."

Kiba threw smoke bombs at him and Akamaru and him attacked Naruto, not letting him leave the smoke screen. When it dissipated, Akamaru ran to his master and bit his arm, at everyone's surprise. The puppy turned into Naruto, who looked a little green when he let go of Kiba.

"You taste like a dog 'ttebayo!"

"Where's Akamaru?" A clone of Naruto appeared, holding Akamaru by his front paws. The puppy whined in defeat. "I'll beat you!" Kiba barked at the blond, who grinned in response.

"Yeah right! When I catch you you're done!"

Oh? Akamaru freed himself and went back to Kiba, who gave him a pill. The puppy turned red and the Inuzuka duo became more aggressive, Akamaru turning into an image Kiba. Naruto looked at them and as they ran to him, threw smoke bombs on the floor. The smoke rose in the air and I held my nose, like everyone, at the awful smell in the room. Haku did tell me Sakura seemed to have a lot of medical supplies on her, maybe she made stinky bombs in case, to erase their smells. It was smart of Naruto to think about using them to confuse Kiba.

"It stinks!" he screamed, holding his nose. Overdeveloped sense of smell, too bad for him.

Two clones left the smoke to attack Kiba and Akamaru, but from the corner of my eyes, I spotted an orange blur going for the enormous joined fingers behind the Hokage and other shinobi. A diversion of clones, using Kiba's ignorance of his love for the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

"Wha..." Kiba started as the two clones disappeared. "Where is he!?"

"Idiot!" Naruto yelled, jumping high in the air. He executed a series of hand seals and I almost gaped, before snickering at the Inuzuka. With a proud smirk, I watched my baby cousin finishing the seals by the Bird one. "Fuuton: High Winds Technique!" He mixed his chakra with the air on his sides and he hurled it at Kiba, who was gaping. Like many from Konoha's side. Kiba and Akamaru found themselves pressed against the floor, the wind cutting them enough to make them bleed like Tenten during Temari's match. Talking about her...

"That's at least a C-rank wind jutsu," she stated with a frown on her face, even though she was interested. "I wasn't expecting to find that in Konoha."

I saw Sasuke's, but also Itachi's smirks. Naruto did tell me he almost mastered it when I saw him at mom's, he must have had Itachi helped him even more before the Exams, and Sasuke probably helped too. Naruto started to go down as the smoke was slowly disappearing. I arched a brow when two clones jumped out of it, at everyone's surprise, and knelt at Kiba's and Akamaru's sides. With a toothy grin, they pulled a seal from each of their pouch and placed them on their target.

After some quick hand seals, the clones exclaimed: "Fuinjutsu: Immobility Seal!" Black fuin symbols covered their bodies and Naruto landed between them. He dispelled his clones and with his hands on his hips and a big winner grin, taunted his defeated opponent. "Told ya you'd be done once I catch you Kiba!"

"Inuzuka Kiba is unable to keep fighting. The winner is Uzumaki Naruto."

"YEAH!" Mom trained him in fuinjutsu then. It was beginner's work, and I don't think he would specialized in it, but knowing mom she made him learn the most useful ones, or tried to at least. The Immobility Seal, the one I used in fights myself, was one of her owns after all.

"Naruto-kun, could you remove the seal?" Hayate asked with a cough.

"Ah, I didn't learn that yet!" he admitted sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head. Sasuke jumped next to him and punched on the head. "Aouch! Sasuke!"

"You're an idiot," the Uchiha muttered and went to Kiba. He removed the seal easily, with his sharingan activated though, and did the same with Akamaru. "She told you to not use a seal if you can't remove it."

"I didn't know what to do!" I gazed softly at them as they jumped back on the balcony. Sakura scolded Naruto too. 'Show him what Team Seven is made of!" Sakura said huh...Naruto did just that, with that stinky bomb from Sakura, or my technique he mastered with Sasuke's help. Plus, spending so much time around Uchiha geniuses influenced his way of thinking. Itachi and Shisui definitely put their two cents in Naruto's fighting skills.

"He's grown." I heard oji-chan's moved voice in my head.

"Yeah. Don't you think he looks a lot like Aunty Kushina? She must be celebrating up there."

"She sure is. But he also looks like me you know." I could almost hear the pout in his voice. He was trying to cover up the emotion in his voice huh. "Akane."

"Hum?"

"Maybe it is selfish of me, but thank you for letting me see my son." I bit the inside of my cheek. He knew it was selfish, because him seeing his son meant I couldn't see mine, or my daughter. But...it was another life and...I barely remembered their faces. "I'm sorry, forg..."

"No," I interrupted him in my mind, the guilt lingering in his voice squeezing my heart, "I used a forbidden jutsu I learned to understand what happened to you and never looked into the possible side effects. I had a life and I died, theirs continued on. I...I'm kinda glad to see him at that age too. Even with how messy my life is now, theirs are...it's better, right? I helped avoiding bloodshed and mom's death."

"You did. It was brave of you."

"To be fair, I didn't really think about it. I just saw Shisui's face and told him he was going to die. I...I'm sorry for not helping you and Aun..."

"Don't, you didn't choose where your soul would go. Shisui's death symbolized your loss of hope in the shinobi system and our world in general."

Was it what it had been?

"Finally!" Suigetsu cried out next to me and I was back to reality. Haku was looking at me strangely and I waved him off. On the screen, Suigetsu was written against Lee. Oh boy, Suigetsu was gonna win hands down.

"Suigetsu, don't show off for nothing, keep some surprises for the Third Exam. Win and come back."

"Yeah, yeah I know."

"As the last fight is opposing Hozūki Suigetsu and Rock Lee, Akimichi Chouji will automatically participate in the Third Exam," Hayate announced as the two genin faced each other, Suigetsu taking one last gulp from his water canteen. "Start."

Lee started to move to Suigetsu, but he dodged and took two scrolls from his pouch. He opened the black one and summoned his katana and put the other one in his mouth to block Lee's Leaf Whirlwind. Hopefully, Suigetsu's skills in swordsmanship were almost as good as Lee's taijutsu, so he could block the blows.

"You're a fierce opponent! I can see the Springtime of Youth in you and your sword!"

"Wha..." Suigetsu caught the scroll falling from his mouth and jumped back. He opened the blue scroll and put a hand on the kanji for water in the middle. Water came out from it and covered the floor. Lee sparred it a look and adopted a defensive pose.

"You blocked all of my attacks with your sword, as expected from a shinobi from Kirigakure, your kenjutsu is unequaled. With water on the floor, you are at an advantage unlike me," Lee stated calmly, simply just analyzing the situation. He shot a quick glance at Gai-san, who nodded. But Suigetsu didn't want any of this and attacked, viciously, as he learned for all of these years. Lee used his speed to dodge and reached the same spot that Naruto earlier. He sat on it and took off the weights under his orange leg warmers. "Alright let's go!" His weights fell, and even if I already expected it, the damages it did to the floor made me open my eyes wide.

Those...crazy taijutsu freaks.

He went back down and Suigetsu barely avoided the blow. He was using the water on the floor to detect Lee's position, even with his speed, but he was having troubles. It wasn't as if Lee would do any damages, but Suigetsu was using this to his advantage. He wanted to know is Lee was really only using taijutsu. From Tenten's and Neji's fight, it was obvious Gai-san's team was specialized in close combat.

Lee managed to touch Suigetsu and by reflex and used his Hydrification Technique. He made it look like a simple water clone though. Just in time before someone realized it wasn't that.

"Where?" Lee looked all around him and I spotted a hand emerging from the water, forming the Water Pistol stand.

"Bushy Brows behind you!" Naruto yelled and Lee avoided a water bullet by a hair. It made a clean hole in the wall.

"If I am touched by that..." Lee said and Suigetsu emerged fully. Suigetsu didn't need an important source of water, he just needed water. However, I wonder how long he will last without drinking with the direction this fight is taking. Lee started to run in a circle around Suigetsu, who was taking the fight seriously from the focused look on his face. It was good he finally learned how to analyze his opponent's capacities before doing anything big, after the many time I scolded him in missions.

"He's fast," Haku whispered as Suigetsu was sent flying in the air. He managed to take many blows without using the Hydrification Technique. At least from outside, he must have had liquefied the inside of his body enough to get minor damages only. Lee wrapped his bandages around Suigetsu and started to spin as they were plunging to the floor. It broke it and Lee jumped back, watching the dust around the my student, exhaustion on his face.

"He's fine though," Chōjūrō stated, his left hand gripping tightly the railing, "when Lee-san was hitting him to get him in the air, there was a second where he stopped. Suigetsu..." As if they had staged this, the dust disappeared and the Suigetsu in the middle of the rubble turned into water and the real Suigetsu appeared behind Lee. He shot him in the shoulder with a threatening smirk on his lips. Lee clutched his bleeding shoulder and put distance between them. He widened his eyes at Suigetsu's state; there wasn't even a scratch on him, at least any new one.

"Hey, if you only use taijutsu then give up. It won't work on me."

"I won't give up! I never will! That's my dream, to show everyone..." He put his arms in front of him in an 'X' shape and rubble around him started floating. I frowned. Was it...

'And then Lee-sensei opened the fifth gate and beat all of them!' My son told me that once. But he could do it that young?

"Sensei, what is this?" Haku asked me, eyes wider than usual.

"The opening of some of the Eight Gates. They're special tenketsu which control the flow of chakra. They can be opened to surpass the body's limit, but against heavy damages to the body. If you were to open the Eighth Gate, you'll die." Old Gai-san was permanently disabled, but we didn't have a super Naruto around.

"...my way as a ninja!" Lee said as chakra was pouring out around him, his skin red. Suigetsu would be able to handle it, right?

Right?

Lee went up to the Fourth Gate and moved, the floor cracking at the pressure. Suigetsu barely raised his arms that he was kicked in the chin and sent flying. Lee was quickly in front of him and started punching him all over the room. I raised my hand to my cheek and realized my fingers were wet. A drop of water?

Huh, he wasn't hiding it anymore. He couldn't hide it anymore.

I saw Lee opening the Fifth Gate and Suigetsu raised his katana to try to block it, but Lee hit him. He was sent in the floor violently and his katana flew into pieces. I pushed Haku on Chōjūrō and moved on the opposite side to dodge the tip of the blade, which embedded itself in the wall behind us.

"What...oh no!" Lee yelled, his normal state back as he fell on the floor. His eyes were open wide, horror filling them. I followed his stare and noticed Suigetsu. Or more like the top half of Suigetsu, as the bottom was meters away. People started speaking in shock and I sighed.

"He did it anyway," Haku stated blandly as Chōjūrō rubbed his neck with a nervous chuckle.

"That's Suigetsu, if he finds someone interesting to play with in a fight..."

"He's not dead," Gaara rasped on his side, loud enough for everyone to hear.

"What a way to ruin the surprise," Suigetsu whined and Lee moved away from him. He was leaning on his elbow on his side, the bottom of his upper-half like melted. Very fast, the bottom-half of his body was back to its original place. "I was serious when I said you should give up if all you had was taijutsu. Physical attacks don't do shit to me. Too bad for you." He got up and glanced at us. "Sorry for the sword sensei!"

Fucking brat.

"Do you give up now you're in too much pain to fight or do I have to knock you out?" To prove his point, he shot a bullet of water an inch from Lee's foot. Psychological torture, we weren't expert in Kiri but we were taught enough to know when someone was in the mental state to...to be played with. It was exactly what he was doing. The Bloody Mist wasn't just physically violent, the mental was just as important. It was just that a lot of people liked the physical approach more.

"I...I..." Lee stuttered as he got back up on trembling legs. Suigetsu sighed and I frowned. It had been a while since he drank. I was pretty sure he would almost be out.

"Fine then." A water clone formed behind Lee. The clone liquefied his arm around Lee's head, whose first reflex was gasping for air. It was like that for very long seconds until he lost consciousness. The clone dispersed itself in water and Suigetsu looked at Hayate. He coughed.

"Hōzuki Suigetsu is the winner," he declared.

I opened my mouth a little when Lee stood up, once again, his face facing the floor. Suigetsu turned to him with irritated eyes. He started to run to him and Hayate barely had the time to tell him to stop that I was between my student and Lee, my Immobility Seal spreading in a circle from my feet. Suigetsu stopped, a foot in the air behind him, and Lee stopped trembling. I shot a quick look to the latter and frowned when I noticed he was unconscious.

"Suigetsu," I said coldly, the size of the room amplifying the volume of my voice, "the proctor said you won, that's enough. You do know the Mizukage expects me to report all of your actions from you three, no need for me to tell him you can't control yourself."

Suigetsu stared back at me, blood lust dancing in his eyes. He deadpanned at me when he finally got why I was showing one of my techniques. "No need to be so serious, Uzu-sensei." I fought the urge to roll my eyes at him.

"Hayate-san, will he be disqualified for attempting to continue the fight?"

"Well..."

"You stopped him before anything bad could happen, this shall not matter," the Hokage said, voice loud and clear.

"Thank you Hokage-sama," I thanked him and bowed. "I deeply apologize for his behavior."

I stopped the seal and Suigetsu fell forward.

One day, one day, that brat would be the death of me. I wanted to run away from all the stares I was given right now, even if Gai-san ended up going to Lee.

But, Second Exam truly, really over.

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nevvy: Thanks for the reviews, I'm happy you liked the ItachixAkane moments x) and Team Unagi is the name of Akane's team when he was and still is sometimes under Mei's command, with Mangetsu and Dai, Akane's genin don't have a name :)

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