Chapter Five
Aniki woke up to the beautiful sunrise in Suna, she smiled and stretched. Today was the day of the Chunnin exams, she was pumped. Cyrus was waiting for her outside, over the course of half a year he had grown two full inches so she had to stand on her toes to kiss him. Cyrus smiled, he was wearing his jumpsuit so he didn't blush as much as usual. They walked to the classroom, hand-in-hand, smiling the whole time. Aniki's mother had agreed to teach them privately whenever they had off so their skills had improved considerably.
As they entered the hallway they saw a commotion, of these people was Siteim. Aniki looked at the sign, it said room 313. Aniki laughed and she and Cyrus continued to the next floor, Siteim followed, confused.
"Aniki! Room 313 is over there!" Aniki just laughed and continued to the next floor, Cyrus smiled, he realized what was going on. Siteim pouted and walked behind the two, still confused. They were on the third floor now and room 313 was right in front of them, Siteim gaped, she couldn't believe it.
"It was genjutsu." Cyrus explained, Siteim's mouth formed a small 'o' and Aniki laughed.
"Correct." Baki said, he had come outside the room in time to hear Cyrus's explanation. "Your smarter than I thought Cyrus."
"Actually Aniki took one look at the room and laughed." Cyrus said, "then she continued to the next floor, I didn't realize it until Aniki laughed when Siteim said that room 313 was down there." Baki smiled, Aniki blushed.
"I see, well congratulations on getting this far." Baki said, "Go ahead in."
What they saw inside was a mass of ninjas from the Mist, Leaf, and Sand Villages. Some older, some rookies, they all looked powerful. Siteim cringed, Aniki smiled and placed her gourd down, Cypher was in a 'cool guy' pose, leaning on the wall, one hand on his sword. Then someone teleported to the front of the room, it was Baki. After explaining some things about a written test, Siteim groaned, he directed them to their test rooms.
Aniki, Cyrus, and Siteim sat together, they had to, they were a team. Tests were placed on the desks, the questions looked hard, to Aniki this was a walk in the park. Cyrus was a bit confused by some of them, but he eventually figure them out. Siteim was clutching her head in confusion. Someone banged their head on their desk, twice, most of the class ignored it, some looked at the person, they were accused of cheating and they and their team were thrown out. Aniki finished early, Cyrus finished with everyone else, Siteim never finished.
The papers were received and Baki one last question, but before he said it he said
"This last question will serve as 95 of your grade." Cries of relief and outburst were heard, "Now there is one other thing I must say." Baki said, "Those of you who answer incorrectly will never be allowed to become Chuunin!" Moans, crying, and cries of hatred were heard until Baki settled them down.
"But there is a way to fail but still be able to take this test again next year." Baki told them, "It's simple, just quit. You and your team will be disqualified and able to take this test again. Raise your hand and we will mark you and your team here." He pointed to a piece of paper on the desk. "Now, who will be the first to go?" Three hands went up slowly, Baki nodded, surprisingly they were all from the same team.
When hands sopped going up Baki smiled at the remaining twelve teams. "Are you sure?" Siteim was about to raise her hand when Aniki held her wrists with her sand.
"Don't." Aniki said, Siteim glared at her.
"Why not?!"
"Because he's lying. The tenth question is nothing but a way to scare people!" Aniki shouted this last bit so everyone could hear. "You try to scare people into thinking that they will never take this test again so you make them quit! That's the tenth question, and the answer is to be brave enough to stay in the room!" Baki smiled, Aniki was absolutely right.
"I see you have inherited your mother's brains and your father's way of finding out the truth by just staring at him or her." Baki said, the class turned to stare at Aniki, she stuck out her tongue cutely, Cyrus had another urge to kiss her, he fought it, he almost lost.
"Well, seeing as you all know the truth, I must say one thing." Baki smiled, "You pass." Aniki squealed and kissed Cyrus's cheek, some of the class was giving him a look that said 'lucky'. Another Jonin came into the room, It was the second examiner for the second stage of the Chuunin exams. The entire class was staring at her, it was Sechi.
"Now then are you all ready to die!!" Sechi yelled, the class cringed, Aniki laughed Cyrus was unfazed. "Um. Sorry about that. I guess I got carried away..." Sechi said, Baki scratched his head. "What I meant to say is, Are you ready for phase two!!"
"Yeah!!" Aniki yelled back, the class laughed.
"Then lets GO!!" Sechi yelled and pointed out the window, Sechi jumped out the window, soon followed by Aniki, who was dragging Cyrus with her. Baki scratched his head again,
"I'd rather the rest of you take the stairs." The class laughed and exited.
Outside Sechi, Aniki, and Cyrus waited for the class to catch up, "Good job Aniki, you made them laugh easily." Sechi said.
"I couldn't have done it without you Sechi-sensei!" Aniki said back, Cyrus smiled. The rest of the class arrived and they went out of the city gates into the desert.
"Alright here is what you are going to have to accomplish." Sechi explained, "You have to cross the desert and reach that tower off in the distance." The class searched off in the distance and saw a tiny black dot. "Each team will be given a scroll in that tent over there, during the exam you will not open the scroll, if you do," Sechi smirked, "you will be punished. Severely."
After each team got their scrolls Sechi said, "Each of you has a different kind of scroll, Heaven and Earth." Aniki looked down at their scroll, it was marked heaven.
"Right where you came from." Cyrus whispered in her ear, Aniki giggled. Sechi smiled and sent them away at different times and locations. Aniki's group were the first sent out. When they passed a certain point they noticed the landscape changed dramatically. They were now surrounded by trees, shrubs, and green grass. Genjutsu. Aniki sighed and formed a hand sign,
"Kai!" she said. The forest melted away to reveal the desert, many others were stumbling through the 'forest' Aniki took this chance and jumped a team. They easily defeated them because of field advantage.
"Which scroll do you have?" Aniki asked.
"Earth." One of them gasped, Aniki smiled.
"Lucky us, Hand it over!" She ordered, the Genin cringed and gave it to her. Aniki squealed,
"Yay! Lets go guys!" Aniki marched on, grabbing Cyrus's hand and started running towards the tower, the person stared in disbelief as he watched the other team run through pointy brush and trees.
"Genjutsu. Should have known." he muttered and went unconscious. Aniki and the others ran through the desert, making sure to avoid the other teams. They reached the tower in record time and entered.
Inside the tower they found it to be completely deserted, duh they were the first ones there. with hardly a scratch on them they waited in another room. Soon enough another team came in to see Aniki and Cyrus kissing, Siteim was pouting, her back to them.
"Well look who decided to show up!" Aniki finally detached from Cyrus and was now looking at the other team.
"Yuri!" Siteim ran over and gave Yuri a hug.
"Get off of me woman!" Yuri pushed her to the floor, his team snickered, Siteim cried. Aniki frowned, the only one allowed to pick on her cousin was her, Aniki got angry and her sand shot out and grabbed Yuri, slowly crushing him.
"I am the only one allowed to pick on Siteim, GET IT?!" Aniki yelled, Siteim looked up at her cousin, eyes filled with tears.
"Got it." Yuri gasped, Aniki released her sand's hold on the boy.
"Good." Cyrus was frozen, he knew one thing, don't make Aniki angry. Aniki turned back to Cyrus, a smile on her face and she hugged him. He hugged back, Aniki squealed, Siteim ran back to her corner, still crying. Yuri sighed, he would never understand girls. Just then a Jonin came into the room.
"Now which one of you was here first?" Aniki waved.
"We were!" She squealed.
"Very well then, come with me." the Jonin said. He whipped out a book and started to read while waking.
Mario11445: Hehe, did you notice? Its Kakashi-sensei!! Woo-Hoo!!
"Ano.. sensei?" Siteim said, the Jonin looked back at her, "Why are you reading that?"
"To see what happens at the end, why else would you read a book?" the Jonin said, Aniki glared at him, the Jonin saw Aniki's pick hair and smiled under his mask, "You there, what's your name?" he asked.
"Aniki."
"Ah." the Jonin turned back to his book, Aniki stared at him.
"Why?" she asked, the Jonin stopped and turned around.
"Because I thought you looked like one of my students." he said
"Who was it?"
"Hanuro Sakura." he said, Aniki squealed.
"That's my mom!" The Jonin was taken aback, he never heard of Sakura having a child.
"Well, that's a surprise."
"What's your name?" Siteim asked, the Jonin turned to her.
"Hatage Kakashi. You will refer to me as sensei at all times." Kakashi said. Aniki smirked, Kakashi said the same thing as Baki, only he told them his full name.
"Kakashi!" Kakashi turned back around to see Baki in front of him, angry.
"Yes?" he said calmly, a little bit too calmly. Baki started to laugh,
"You're late."
"Well you see, I had to deal with their questions, and I didn't want to miss a good part of my book." Kakashi said.
"Again with the excuses. If your not going to take this seriously then I'll have you out of here before you can say flibber flabber." Kakashi grinned under his mask,
"Flibber flabber." Baki slapped his forehead, "Would you look at that, I'm still here! Now if you would excuse me I have to get these children to the arena." Kakashi and Aniki's team went around Baki and to the arena. The arena was large, large enough to be a battle ground, they went to the far end of the arena and were told to wait in a single file line. Kakashi and a few other Jonin came back with more teams that had made it through the 'forest', all of them stared at Aniki's team, they had no scratches or scars, or even looked tired. Aniki's team had used barely any of their chakra.
Now the teams that have passed were lined up, there were less then half, the other teams must have been killed by the Genjutsu. The other teams continued to stare at Aniki's team until she stuck out her tongue at them, causing them to laugh. The Kasekage appeared in front of them all, teleporting with his sand. Aniki waved to him, Gaara had his eyes closed, when he opened them he wasn't surprised to see Aniki's team in first. Finally,
"Congratulations, you have all passed the second round of the Chuunin exams." He said, Aniki squealed, "The third stage is where you will be judged by the feudal lords, the current Hokage, and myself." Gaara smiled and looked them all over before continuing, "Some of you will fail, some of you will pass. The way this stage is set up will be as such." He pulled out a piece of paper to reveal sections, different bouts, like a tournament.
"So wait, only one of us will become a Chuunin?" Yuri asked.
Gaara shook his head, "I said some of you may, its entirely up to the feudal lords and the Kages to determine if you become Chuunin. However, there is also a chance where none of you will." Just then Sechi walked in and raised her fist,
"Who's ready to fight!" She yelled, Gaara shook his head.
"You're early Sechi." Sechi lowered her fist in embarrassment, then Aniki yelled back,
"I'm ready!" Sechi smiled, her spirits lifted, Gaara slapped his forehead,
"I have no idea how you became my child." Aniki stuck out her tongue and laughed. "Alright, now Baki will come around and you will pick numbers from the case." Baki went around and gave everyone a slip of paper, Aniki unfolded hers and saw number ten, she looked over at Cyrus and he had number six, Siteim had number nine.
When everyone had a number Gaara asked, "Now, in order from left to right, tell me your number and Baki will write down your name on this paper."
It was Aniki who went first, "Ten." Cyrus and Siteim,
"Six. Nine" Baki nodded and wrote it down, the rest gave their numbers, it went up to twelve numbers and Baki finished writing.
"Now show them the paper, here is who you will be fighting in the third round." Gaara said, Baki showed them the paper, in their team the first battle was Cyrus against Yuri, and the second to last battle was Aniki fighting Siteim, Siteim groaned, she couldn't believe it.
Gaara smiled, when they were done looking at the order he dismissed them, the teams were talking to themselves about the exam. They had three weeks to train and new jutsu to master, Gaara told Aniki to stay where she was.
"Aniki," Aniki looked up at her father, Gaara smiled, "I will teach you something that I used to help a man named Lee."
"Really? What's it called?!" Aniki couldn't help her excitement.
"Ryuusa Backeru. (Quicksand Cataract)" He said, "To do this you need to memorize many hand signs, and to create sand from the ground." Aniki grinned.
Two weeks later Aniki finally managed to master the quicksand cataract, she squealed and hugged Gaara. Aniki could now break down even large boulders to nothing but sand and minerals, Gaara was impressed and decided to teach her the Suna Shigure (Rain of sand). Aniki mastered this as well, in three days. Aniki rested to recover her chakra the other days, she hadn't seen Cyrus the entire month, she started to fidget when someone approached her.
"Yo." Aniki turned around and gave Cyrus a hug, "How was your training?" Aniki kissed him instead of answering, "I see, I missed you too." Cyrus smiled, he was in his jumpsuit again, he had just finished training.
End of Chapter
Mario11445: Next time I will write about their fights. Hope you can wait!