Chapter 4: The Chunin Exams
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Previously on The Chronicles of Heaven
When Ryouske had opened his eyes everyone expected the usual mismatched blue and green, but what was seen was hardly anything they could have expected. Ryouske's left eye had become red with 3 black tomoe circling the iris, the famed eye of the Uchiha clan: the Sharingan. What was strange was Ryouske's right eye, instead of the red of the Sharingan, his right eye was black with 3 RED tomoe circling the iris.
With a smirk at the surprised looks of the people around him Ryouske raised his katana flashing his fanged grin at the leader, his new eyes flashing with determination as he exclaimed to the leader, "now…things get interesting."
The bandit leader eventually shook off his surprise and rushed at Ryouske forming more hand signs. "Don't think a pair of new eyes will save you brat" he warned as more earth spikes shot at Ryouske whose grin merely grew wider as he jumped to the left to avoid the spikes and swung his left leg round with the back of it hitting the leader in the chest sending him back. Just as the leader had recovered from the attack Ryouske appeared in front of him after running at him and grabbed the guys collar launching a his right fist at the guys face, followed by a knee to the stomach and ending with a vicious head butt to the guys forehead.
Anko and the other looked on in surprise as they watched Ryouske pound on the guy, his sharingan making him able to see the guys movements and react to them quickly. Namito soon regained his composure and smiled at Ryouske and shook his head at his blood brother. "Well, who knew he had that stored away, but where did it come from?" he puzzled as Anko's look of surprised soon turned to one of thought as she watched Ryouske fight, "where did he get that from? He definitely isn't an Uchiha, so how? Unless….better inform Lord Hokage about this."
While the others pondered their thoughts, Ryouske continued to pummel into the leader, sending him flying back with another kick while ignoring the pain in his leg from its wound. Deciding to end this, Ryouske rushed close to the leader and started forming hand signs and thrust his hands "Sky style: Gale Force jutsu" at the thrust of his hands a powerful wind blew towards the leader propelling him back, while lightning surged from Ryouskes hands to strike at the target shocking him as he smacked into a tree and, after the winds had died down, slumped down to the ground unconscious.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Namito stepped forward patting Ryouske on his back for a job well done, "well…surprising events aside mission complete bro" he said with a wide grin only to receive a shaky smile from an exhausted Ryouske. "Y….yeah. Mission...com…plete…" he trailed off as he fell backwards onto his back unconscious from chakra exhaustion, at which Namito smiled once again shaking his head as he hefted Ryouske onto his back in a piggy back style so as to carry him home, while Anko and Lukyo laughed and smiled, both proud of their tired comrade.
When they got back to the village they were met with cheers and celebration from the villagers, who were happy to finally be free of those bandits. The ninja decided to stay a couple days more in the village so that Ryouske could rest up to the point where he could at least walk on his own. On the day that they were to leave the village, the elder and the villagers were at the gates waiting for them with smiles on their faces and as they stopped to greet their send-off committee, the elder stepped forward with pride and gratitude evident on his face. "Our friends from the Hidden Leaf, thank you for saving this village and its people from those thugs. You have our eternal gratitude and you shall always be welcome here in this village." He proclaimed bowing low to the ninja with the villagers following suit, at this Ryouske smiled and put his hand on the elders head, making the elder raise his head, "no thanks are needed, we helped those who needed help. The happiness of this village is all we need. We have set up traps around the village and told villagers how to reset them, so if those bandits ever come back, or more show, than you will be ready." At this Ryouske grinned and held up his fist, to which the elder looked at it with a raised eyebrow but bumped his fist against Ryouske's, his grin matching that of the youths.
As the ninja were walking back to the forest to head home, the elder smiled looking at his fist and then turned to his villagers, "I just realised, this village has always been just a small, unremarkable village. I think this village needs a name, a name that symbolises the strength that this village has now obtained. This village will henceforth be known as…..Tenno Village." At this the villagers cheered their agreement as the elder looked back at the ninja who were now black dots on the horizon of the forest path, "thank you for what you have done….Ryouske Tenno."
Upon their return to the village both Namito and Ryouske groaned in relief after finishing the walk back that had made them tired, Ryouske more so, and looked at Anko. "Alright guys, I'll report back to the Hokage so you are dismissed but YOU Ryouske", she said rounding on the injured youth, "you are to take it easy for the next day or so until that leg is healed got it?!" she told the youth who merely crossed his arms behind his head and grinned nodding his affirmation. They then parted ways with Ryouske, Namito and Lukyo heading to Ichiraku for some well-deserved ramen, while Anko headed to the Hokage office to report on the mission and the peculiar events that had transpired.
Nodded his head softly at her report, which had been now changed to a B-rank mission due to an enemy ninja being involved, Hiruzen held his pipe and blew a bit of smoke from his mouth as he looked at the Jounin, deep in thought. "So…Ryouske has the sharingan? This is rather peculiar indeed, I have my theories of course, but the explanation to why he has them escapes me" he said, putting his thoughts out there for Anko to hear. With a frown Anko looked at Hiruzen, worry etched onto her face, "you don't think it might have been from….HIS experiments do you? Could that be why Ryouske has it?" she wondered, offering her own theory to the conversation, making Hiruzen take another inhale on his pipe and once again blew out the smoke as he turned to look out of the window, primarily in the direction of Ichiraku Ramen. "He could be a survivor of that incident. In any case though, I will have Kakashi train him to use the Sharingan, that would be good for the boy" he reassured Anko who nodded and left the office, closing the door behind her, only for her to stop and hold the left side of her neck, deep in thought. "Could it really be….him? How many lives does that monster need to destroy?"
Later at Ichiraku Ramen, the three youngsters were enjoying a well-deserved treat of ramen with Ryouske and Namito, once again, wolfing down bowl after bowl after bowl, and leaving Lukyo shaking his head at his gluttonous team mates. The owner of the ramen stand, Teuchi Ichiraku, merely laughed at such appreciation of his ramen and gave the boys each an extra bowl of ramen each as congratulations to the youngsters for a job well done on their mission. Unlike most of the village, Teuchi liked Ryouske, Namito and Naruto and saw that the boys all possessed kind hearts, especially Naruto who people thought and saw as the nine tails.
It was then that the blonde in question walked into the stand giving his friends the thumbs up and sat next to Ryouske, ordering his own ramen. "So how did the mission go? Bet it was awesome right?!" he asked excitedly making Ryouske shrug and grin at him, "it was just some simple bandits and their leader, the leader was tough but nothing I couldn't handle." At this Namito just laughed and patted Ryouskes back, "yea right, I bet it was much easier with that Sharingan of yours" he speculated grinning making Naruto's eyes widen, "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! YOU HAVE THE SHARINGAN TOO?!" he yelled at Ryouske in surprise who quickly covered his mouth to shut him up. "Shhh not so loud you idiot. I don't people to know just yet, it could be suspicious. And what do you mean too?" Naruto just pushed Ryouskes hand away and started eating his ramen as he explained about his mission to wave and how Sasuke had also unlocked his Sharingan.
The flap of the stand lifted once more, this time it was Anko accompanied by Kakashi who looked at the youngsters with his usual eye smile. "Guys meet me at training ground 13, there is something we need to discuss" Anko ordered getting a nod from her students who paid for their food and soon headed on their way to the training ground.
At the training ground, Lukyo and Namito were sitting against a tree as they were, with Ryouske lying on a branch of the tree doing his usual relaxing pose. Anko handed each of them a piece of paper, "alright guys, in a week a big event is taking place: The Chunin Exams. As the name implies these exams will determine whether or not you are ready to be promoted to the next rank of Chunin." Getting nods from her students Anko continued on, "the exam will be taken by squads of 3 ninja so if you guys want to participate then you will ALL need to be in agreement to do so. Any questions?" They each shook their heads making Anko nod and was about to dismiss them when she stopped to look at Ryouske, "you stay here, Kakashi will be here to train you with that Sharingan." At Ryouskes nod she disappeared.
In typical behaviour Namito jumped a mile in the air cheering and looked at his team mates, "what do you think guys? Should we do it?" he asked in his usual hyperactive way. Lukyo pushed his glasses up his nose and nodded, "I think we should go for it, even if we don't make Chunin it could be a great way to evaluate our skills and see where we need to improve." Ryouske nodded in agreement, his grin upon his face once more. "Yea let's go for it" at that they all signed their forms, with Ryouske handing his to Namito to take in for him while he waited for Kakashi to appear.
After 2 hours of waiting, however, Ryouske was getting rather impatient of waiting and had decided to do a bit of training by punching and kicking at an invisible enemy. It wasn't until an hour later that Kakashi had actually arrived, causing a vein to grow in Ryouskes head, "sorry that I'm late. I'm afraid a black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way here" kakashi poorly explained causing Ryouske's vein to grow even larger. "BULLSHIT! You are late because you were too busy perving on your book, ya damn scarecrow!" Ryouske yelled out only for Kakashi to shrug.
"Anyway Ryouske, Lord Hokage wants me to train you to use your Sharingan properly and from what ANko told me, the first use left you exhausted. I can teach you so that it won't be so much of a drain on your chakra" Kakashi explained making Ryouske in understanding.
A week later, it was time for the exams. Ninja from various lands had already entered the leaf to partake in the exams. Ryouske, Namito and Lukyo soon entered the academy, where the first stage of the exams was to take place, only to come across a huge crowd of Genin filling up a hallway. With a groan of annoyance Lukyo pushed his glasses up his nose, looking over the crowd, "at this rate we will be late for the first exam" he speculated anxiously. Ryouske turned his head to respond but stopped when his attention was drawn to the sign that signalled the floor they were on, he couldn't place it but there was something strange about it. They managed to manoeuvre their way to the head of the crowd to see what was going on, stopping when they came across two Genin blocking the way. One was wearing the leaf headband backwards on his head in the form of a bandana that covered the top of his head and a ribbon around his head, pressing his nose down. The other had spiky black hair and an awfully large red nose.
It was then that they saw Naruto's squad and 3 other youths they did not know with one of the unknown youths on the floor holding a bruised cheek. The boy on the floor had black haired styled in a bowl shape, thick black eyebrows and black wide eyes. He was wearing a green spandex suit with orange leg warmers and bandages around his hands and around his waist was a red leaf headband. The other boy of the team had long dark hair in a small ponytail at the bottom of it, his leaf village headband around his head and lavender eyes. He was wearing a white shirt with straps going down the centre and black shorts with normal sandals. The girl of the team had brown hair that was done up in buns that were the shape of panda ears and had her headband around her forehead. She was wearing a pink Chinese style shirt and dark green leggings with the usual sandals.
It seems that the boy in the spandex, Rock Lee, had tried to get past the Genin blocking the door only to get knocked down. Naruto of course had an outburst but stopped when Ryouske patted his shoulder. The Genin with the bandana smirked at Naruto, "if you want to enter this exam room you have to beat us first" he cockily said making Naruto grind his teeth in anger only for Ryouske to shake his head at him and put his arms behind his head flashing his own smirk at the Genin. "Tempting, but we don't need to beat you to get into that room" he stated as the Genin looked at him with looks of confusion as he continued, "the exam room we have to go to is on the third floor", his smirked turned into a grin as he hiked his thumb at the floor sign, "this is only the second floor, pretty shit genjutsu if you ask me." At this the Genin looked at him, dumbfounded that they had been found out as they released the genjutsu showing that the sign indeed did say second floor.
As they opened their mouths to retort at Ryouske, the door behind them opened and two fists came out and landed hard onto the Genin's heads making them yell out in pain and turn to smoke. The owner of the fists came out and sighed at the two Genin, shaking her head. The woman had long white hair that stopped at the middle of her back, deep blue eyes and pale skin. Over her right eye there was a bandage hiding the eye underneath and on her left cheek was a set of scars that seemed to go down her neck and onto her body underneath her clothes. Her clothes consisted of a black form fitting shirt that was underneath the traditional leaf Jounin jacket, black trousers and the typical sandals that ninja wore.
"What do you guys think you are doing, trying to punk the rookies are ya? Obviously not well enough if you got caught" she questioned the Genin who had transformed back into Chunin versions of themselves, albeit with huge lumps on their heads anime style. She sighed and shook her head and glared at the two idiots, "you morons ACTUALLY thought you would get away with that lame trick? Which of these runts caught you out?" she asked as the Chunin pointed at Ryouske, their fingers shaking from fear at her anger, making the woman turn to him just as Anko came up the stairs.
The woman walked up to Ryouske and raised her eyebrow, "not bad kid, even though their plan was lame as hell you actually saw through it straight away, I'm impressed" she complimented which just made Ryouske smile and put his arms behind his head. "Thanks for the praise beautiful, it wasn't that hard a poor genjutsu like that would stand out a mile away" he stated as her cheeks reddened a bit from the unexpected compliment and she stared wide eyed at him, unsure as what to say about that one, even stuttering a few times, while the Chunin, izumo and Kotetsu, glared at Ryouske with evident jealousy.
Anko, however, appeared to be pissed as she walked up to the pair and stood next to Ryouske, glaring at the woman, "enough of the innocent virgin act Karina, let these maggots through" she demanded, clearly pissed and jealous at Ryouske calling her beautiful while she never got so much as even a simple compliment." The woman, Karina, simply glared at Anko and ground her teeth," more innocent than you snake whore!" she retorted making Anko glare at her until sparks seemed to fly from their eyes, making the spectators around them nervous.
Namito gulped and looked at Ryouske, fear evident in his eyes, "bro, we should get the fuck out of here before this turns even MORE ugly," he suggested making Ryouske nod and motion for Lukyo to follow, "yea, you got that right lets bounce before this turns to a full blown catfight." They then turned to head up the stairs but noticed squad 7 enter a room with Rock lee and decided to follow, interested in what was going on.
From their position on the balcony, they could see that Lee and Sasuke were about to fight making Ryouske smirk and activate his Sharingan, "this should be interesting" he thought as they began their fight. From what they could see, Lee clearly had the upper hand against Sasuke, both in speed and Taijutsu, managing to out manoeuvre Sasuke until Lee ended up getting stuck to the wall by a pinwheel. After watching the rather humorous scene with Lee and his sensei, Might Guy, Ryouske and the others headed for the exam room.
Upon entering the room, they were reunited with the rest of the rookie 9 from the academy and chatted away with them until a leaf Genin came over telling them to be quiet. His name was Kabuto and he had silver hair in a ponytail, a dark purple shirt with a white sash going diagonally down from his left should and dark purple trousers with sandals.
He told the Genin that he had info cards on just about every Genin taking the exam and asked if anyone had people in particular in mind. Sasuke stepped forward and narrowed his eyes, "Rock Lee, Ryouske Tenno and…Gaara of the Desert" he requested. When Ryouske heard his name he looked over at Sasuke, but when he heard the name Gaara his eyes widened and he held his head, flashes of memories spinning through his head as he remembered a young child called Gaara from his past and a head of red hair.
Not noticing Ryouske's turmoil right now, everyone looked at kabuto as he revealed three cards with information. "Rock lee, leaf ninja. Has no Ninjutsu or Genjutsu skills but is skilled in Taijutsu. Sensei is Might guy and his teammates are Neji Hyuuga and Tenten. He has completed 16 D-ranks 5 C-rank. Apparently he and his team waited a year to do the exam so as to be better prepared."
At Kabuto's explanation everyone looked confused but surprised at Lee, that is until Gaaras card was revealed showing a picture of a redhead with spiky hair, white eyes and black marks of insomnia around his eyes. He wore a black shirt with a white sash around it and black trousers and on his back was a brown gourd filled with goodness knows what. On the left side of his forehead was the kanji for LOVE.
Kabuto looked surprise at this ninja card and explained to his onlookers, "Gaara of the Desert. Not much to tell about this guy, his skills are unknown. Village is the Hidden Sand Village. Teammates are Temari and Kankuro. He has completed 20 D-ranks 10 C-ranks and even 1 A-rank. Get this though, on all of those missions he never even got so much as a scratch on him." Everyone's eyes widened at this information while Ryouske held his head once more at the mention of the Hidden Sand Village, images of a village in the desert swimming through his head.
Everyone then leaned in close as Kabuto revealed Ryouskes card. "Well, this is an interesting card," he commented, his eyes flashing to Ryouske then back to the card. "Ryouske Tenno, Hidden Leaf shinobi. User of his Kekkei Tota, Sky Style. His teammates are Namito and Lukyo Mooresaki. His Ninjutsu and Taijutsu are mid Chunin level while his Genjutsu is mid Genin. Plenty of stamina. Sensei is Anko Mitarashi. Past is unknown but he has completed 10 D-ranks 1 C-rank and 1 B-rank where it was rumoured that he had obtained the Sharingan."
At this information everyone looked at Ryouske for an explanation, Sasuke most of all as he narrowed his eyes at Ryouske. Ryouske for his part just shrugged not wanting to go into it but inside his thoughts were on this mysterious Kabuto, "how the FUCK does this guy know all this?! Only squad 13, Naruto, Anko sensei and the Old Man know about my Sharingan….who are you Kabuto?"
He was broken out of his thoughts however when smoke exploded by the blackboard of the room. When the smoke had cleared a leaf shinobi wearing a grey uniform under a black trench coat and wearing a leaf bandanna on his head was seen. He smirked at all the Genin and motioned for quiet, "pipe down you brats, I'm the proctor for the first exam, Ibiki Morino and right now your asses are mine!"
Everyone soon quieted down as they took the seats they had been as Ibiki explained about the exam. "Now, this part of the exam will be a written exam. You will be given ten questions and the usual exam rules apply here, however there are TWO rules of my own. The first rule is that you will be given 10 points to start with, if you get skip a question you will lose 1 point. Now you would have no doubt noticed the Chunin sitting along the walls of the room."
He motioned to people sat against the walls of the room on chairs who were holding clipboards and pencils, "these men and woman will be watching you and if they catch any signs of cheating they will deduct two points from your score. If you get caught 5 times that's it you are out the exam. The second rule is that the tenth question will not be given until 10 minutes left in the exam,"he explained to the now looking concerned Genin.
When Ryouske looked at the cheat inspectors, he noticed the white haired woman form before, Karina he believe her name was, and looked her over. It appeared that she had changed into the grey uniform of the exam proctors, except hers was misisng the sleeves revealing bandages all over her arms with more scars peeking through as they ran down her arms and she had swapped out her sandles for simple bandages on her feet. She met Ryouske's eye and blushed a lil when he gave her a wink then looked at Ibiki.
At Ibikis command, all the genin proceeded to turn their exam papers over and begin the exam. Ryouske looked at the questions as he pondered the exam itself, "ok these questions are definetly chunin level, but those rules...they seem kind odd...and only 2 points if we get caught? it is almos tlike they WANT us to cheat...ah well so be it." He then proceeded to answer the questions that he knew, but for the ones that he didn't he had his own wya of getting the answer and with a smirk he closed his eyes and when he opened them he was using his Sharingan on a person in front of him to copy their movements since they seemed to know what they were doing.
Namito, however, was not doing so well, he knew some of the questions but was stumped on most of them. Lukyo was, of course, breezing through the exam due to him being very knowladgeable. All around them people were doing what they could to cheat and not get caught. Halfway through the exam, Karina threw a kunai straight towards Ryouske but it hit the desk behind him as the owner of that paper freaked out, "i'm sorry, but you fail. I caught you too many times" she said with a grin as the cheater was escorted out.
Glaring at her for almost hitting his cheek, Ryouske grabbed the kunai and attached one of his own personal paper tags to it then through it at the woman. When she caught it, however, the paper tag exploded and she was surrounded by yellow smoke and when the smoke cleared she was painted yellow.
When there were only 10 minutes left in the exam, Ibiki told them to put down their pencils and prepare for the tenth question. before that, however, he warned everyone that they did not have to take the tenth question if they did not wish to and take the exam later, but if they took the tenth question and get it wrong, they would be barred from taking the exam ever again. This of course brought many uproars of confusion from the candidates, with some even leaving to take the exam next year.
There was silence for a while until with a loud SLAM, Naruto and Namito both slammed their hands down onto their desks and soon started yelling in uniosn, "WE ARE NEVER GONNA GIVE UP, IF IT MEANS WE HAVE TO BE GENIN FOR THE RESt OF OUR LIVES THEN SO BE IT. I'LL BE HOKAGE EVEN FROM A GENIN."
At their outburst, the room was silence except for Ibiki who then began to chuckle. "well well kids, with that outburst all i have to say is...you pass the first part of the exams," he announced much to the cheering of the room. The cheering was cut short however when a blakc bundle shot through the window and unfurled to show a black banner with writing on it, this bundle made Ryouske, Namito and Lukyo all facepalm or slam their heads on their desks. In front of the bundle was their eccentric sensei Anko Mitarashi and on the bundle it said "ANKO MITARASHI, THE PROCTOR FOR THE SECOND STAGE".
Anko looked at how candidates were left and licked her lips at them, "no worries about how many they are, after my test that number will be reduced by half."
aaaaaand chapter done. this was a rather long one and quite fun to write. As usual please keep your comments and reviews respectful.
The forest of death chapters will bring some enlightenment on Ryouske's past.
This is HaremKing666 signing off. Stay pervy eveyrone XD