A.N: Wow I can't belive this fan fic has gone so far! More then 100 pages and 20 chapters. But this year is far from over! I swear that I'll only do one more chapter before I time skip to about late December so we can move along. Anyways I hope you enjoy this chap.

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Okay everyone who likes high school drama, humor, and yoai please read Stud Lee by my good friend Mellos-In-My-Closet. She's one of the people who helped make The Academy and she's also the person I base Loren from. Her fan fic Stud Lee is for Lee fans Gaara fans and Akatsuki fans! Okay? If your not a fan of Rock Lee still read it he is so hot in this fic you'll fall in love I swear to God. Anyways Mello-chan's profile can be found in my Favoret Authors and Stud Lee in my favoret stories.

Chapter Twenty: I Hope You All Studied! The Test Begins

The alarm clock went off making me squeak with surprise. Deidara had already jumped up in just his boxers running for the bathroom. He must get that I always steal the hot water. I sat up sleepily and groaned seeing that Sasori had set the clock to two hours before the exam. With a few tiered glances around I got up.

Sasori of course had been up already and was nearly finished coating his wing blades in poison. This test wasn't intended to be a fight to the death but I could tell that Sasori had put himself in the mind set that these exams were do or die. And maybe they were too. I'll just have to prepare.

"Sasori-kun are you as nervous as I am?" I asked leaning on the bathroom door waiting for Deidara to finish.

"No," he said simply and I cursed him for his bluntness. I felt a push behind me but wasn't quick enough to move out of the way and I fell flat on my face as Deidara pushed the door open.

"Ah Jen-chan sorry," he said and I groaned. As the blond helped me up I glanced over at Sasori, he did not look the lest bit fazed. Deidara and I hadn't talked much the past few days. It was beginning to annoy me because well I thought we were friends. Maybe he's just busy.

I quickly slid past him and into the bathroom and gave a long sigh. I shut the door behind me and locked it but pressed my ear on the door. For a few moments I could only hear the blurb of the TV and I sighed again leaning away from the door.

I climbed into the shower and was grateful that there was enough hot water for me to take a good ten-minute shower. I let the hot water vapors fill my lungs as I rubbed the soap over my shoulders and back then my chest and belly. I washed out my hair digging my fingers down to its roots.

After drying my hair with Deidara's hair dryer I braiding it tightly to my head. I looked myself in the face and squinted my eyes, and then after a moment of looking through the make-up my mother had sent me I found some purple eyeliner that would make the golden scales under my eyes pop. I quickly applied it around my eyes and tipping off the end of them.

Satisfied I stepped out of the bathroom and slumped down on the warn poop sofa, squishing in between the two artists already sitting there. Sasori had already gotten into his cloak and reeked of the sweet smelling poison. Deidara was in a different version of our usual uniform. It was a net T-shirt under a dark blue tang top that was cut at the mid drift, knee length black paints with long stirrup socks that went over his ninja shoes.

"What are you wearing?" I asked him raising a brow. He looked at me and cocked his head to the side.

"It's our exam uniform I left you one on the toilet set un," he said and I dashed back into the bathroom to change.

Afterwards the three of us decided to head for the Room of Dawns since we still had two hours before the exam. I was going to question why in his right mind Sasori had woken us up so damn early but I soon found out.

"Here you two lets draw or something," Sasori said handing me a sketchbook. I blinked seeing that Deidara was already at the table. I sat down beside the blond while Sasori sat across from us. "We haven't been hanging out much so I just thought…" Sasori trailed off and I just smiled.

"Thanks," I say quietly opening the drawing pad and taking a pencil and eraser from the center of the table.

"Yea thanks Danna this was a great idea un," Deidara said cheerfully.

I looked down at the paper and saw the image begin to take shape in my head. I smiled and put the penile to the paper and began with the first face. It was round like a child's face then I added it's half open eyes. I added a few other details to that drawing before moving to another spot on the paper to draw the second head, a bit longer then the first bit still had rounded cheeks then an angled cat-like eye and a block of hair covering half its face.

We drew silently for about twenty minutes before Deidara laid down his drawing pad. "Okay I want to see what you guys have done yeah," he said clasping his hands together and weaving the fingers together so his hand lips touched.

I looked down at my drawing and shrugged putting down the pad. Then Sasori did the same and we leaned in. to look at each drawing. Sasori seemed to have started a new puppet plan with perfect proportions and a few notes in the corner. Deidara had drawn some chibis of random people.

"Aw Dei-kun those are cute," I said pointing to the little chibi of him.

"Well look at yours Jen-chan you drew the whole Akatsuki," he replied "Is that Tobi under my foot un?"

After a few laughs and a few more doodling it was nearly time to go. I shrugged on my cloak made sure my weapons were secure to my thigh and that my scrolls her clipped to my belt. I could only activate the Wind Scroll but I wanted to show the others off.

"Come on Jen-chan we don't want to be late yeah!" Deidara called and we left. We walked together the hall wide enough for us to trot side by side. We soon found the others heading for the training ground were the testing was to take place.

My insides tied itself into a knot as I saw just how many people had come to watch. I twiddle my fingers nervously as the Akatsuki group up and make a line in the center of the coliseum. The crowd roars for us the best of the best, a mix of both Tower and Temple students. I can't see Loren but I do pick out Haku and Katie and tip my head up to them.

Soon Pein enters the field in front of us and the crowd just roars loudly and wildly, I'm not sure if they are cheering or booing us but I'd like to think there screams are positive. Pein glares up at the audience and slowly the sound begins to fade to silence and so the pre-exams begin.

"This year we have a very talented group of ninja," Pein said in a strong voice so everyone in the coliseum could hear him. "Our 6th years Kakuzu of Mongolia and Konan of China" the pair removed there hates and bowed. "Our 5th year students Hidan of France and Zetsu of South Africa," the next pair bowed neither wearing a jingle hat. "Our 4th years Itachi of Japan and Kisame of America. Our 3ed year Sasori of Egypt. Our 2ed years Deidara of South Korea and Tobi of Japan. And lastly but not lest out 1st year Jenny of America.

I quickly bowed taking off my hat and in unison every one straightened up. Pein soon spoke again.

"The Akatsuki has been divided into teams of two each having a partner they do not train much with or do not train with each other at all. The first to fight is Zetsu and Sasori vs. Itachi and Kakuzu." The crowed began to roar softly being about to see the secretive Akatsuki fight for the first time in a year. "The rest of you go down to the waiting area I will announce the next pair after this fight is over."

"Did you guys notice that the groups aren't even?" Tobi asked after a while of silently watching the fight going on outside on the old TV. "There are five teams and two doesn't go into five evenly."

"Wow Tobi you did math un," Deidara said sarcastically twitching slightly as Kakuzu began to unstitch his body on the screen.

"Pein will just make the last fight one on one with the last partner set," Hidan stated.

"Well how come it wasn't like that last year?" Tobi asked.

"Because last year there was two other people in the Akatsuki, that other first year who got kicked out and the other one who was killed?" Kisame asked but Tobi shook his head making the blue man sigh heavily. "Last year there was six groups instead of just five," Kisame tried again in simpler terminality.

On the TV Sasori had summoned his one hundred puppets and attacking Kakuzu with them while Zetsu was trying to tangle Itachi in vines blindly having shut his clam like plant appendage so he wouldn't get caught in Itachi's dangerous genjutsu. The plant man was not seceding in is quest and it looked as if Itachi was going to attempt the Uchiha fireball jutsu.

I couldn't watch any longer. I was beginning to feel sick. I didn't want to have to fight anyone and I didn't want anyone to get killed. Yes, perhaps I was being overly emotional but it was hard seeing friends try to kill each other. All for a grade…

"Hey are you alright Tueu?" Hidan asked looking over at me and I just nodded but he and the others could tell something was defiantly wrong.

"Ah Jenny-Chan what's the matter you look sick," Tobi said tilting his head to me.

"I'm okay…its just kind of scary is all," I said with a wary smile to the others.

"You'll be fine with that jutsu of yours un," Deidara said with a wide grin. I just nodded looking back up at the TV screen. The match was nearly over and Itachi and Kakuzu were wining by a landslide victory.

I could see that Sasori was tangled in a mess of threads that came from Kakuzu's body and Zetsu had gotten trapped in the Mangekyou Sharingan and I really felt bad because he looked very uncomfortable. Just end the match. I thought, but it went on and I watched Sasori finally be able to move enough so his blade wings could slash through Kakuzu's threads.

I saw Sasori's hands flex quickly bringing an abandon puppet to life. It had no weapons and its head had been smashed in but it didn't seem to matter to Sasori. His fingers danced as if strumming piano keys and the puppet quickly flew over and smashed Itachi over the head and breaking the genjutsu. I gasped lightly seeing my sempai slump to the ground and Zetsu sluggishly come back to life.

Kakuzu was now on the defense as he began to draw back from Sasori. With Itachi knocked out it seemed Kakuzu was going to need some luck to fight off the puppet and cannibal. (Yes, I have seen Zetsu eat it is not pleasant!)

Hidan's roommate however was smart as he quickly bounded away from the dangerous puppet and over to Zetsu still recovering from whatever Itachi had made him endure.

That's when an alarm buzzed off the end of the match. All movement on the battle area stopped, slowly getting back to reality Kakuzu picked up a limp Itachi and flopped the smaller boy over his shoulder. I'm sure if Itachi were awake he would be not to amused by this.

I leaned back a bit looking around the room. I bit my lip hard enough for it to become raw.

Pein did not announce who won; it didn't matter like it does for the Tower students. The only thing Pein cared about was to see how far along in their studies his students were. The rest didn't matter.

Once the crowd had stopped there cheering and or booing Pein opened his mouth.

"The next match will begin in a half an hour and will be Kisame and Konan vs.," he paused looking at the crowd for a few seconds "Hidan and Jenny."

My heart skipped a beat as I glanced over at my idol, Konan stood parallel with the wall behind her. She looked beautiful in the dim light her hair looking almost purple and her eyes were glazed with an icy stair. I was going to have to fight the 6th year I'd been looking up to this past month and a half.

"Good luck kiddo," I heard Kisame chuckle. I could feel Deidara give the fish man a cold glare.

A.N: Okay I know not alot of action but please bare with me. And all cridics out there do not complain about Itachi being defeted way to easyly. Remmber he's only a 4th year ninja meaning he's only been a ninja student for four years! I try to make the characters as in character as I can but I still have to be realistic on how they would fight being whatever year they are. Also thesame goes with Zetsu, yes he's a 5th year but in the manga he is really justa spy ninja and because we don't know his true powers I can only guess.