Generation of Fire Chapter 3: KISSING, Part 1, a naruto fanfic

Ok so now we come to the first of the multi chapter parts. I'm probably going to make this two chapters (maybe three but I doubt it), just because the thing that this section of the story deals with will be very long (namely the Chuunin exam, after all it did span 50 episodes in the anime, which is a long time for one part of a story).

Too bad no one got a cookie.

Anyway, after a long wait, here is…

Chapter 3: K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Part 1

"Dang it, I did NOT train into utter exhaustion, for six months, just to die in the freaking desert!!!!

Nadeshiko was pissed. Again. It had been a long time since she was pissed. Precisely 3 months ago, an atrocity happened that made her pissed. It truly took a lot to get her pissed. And it just so happened that what happened just those 3 months before was the worst.

A small group of boys, who she henceforth had named "The Pervert Squad", had gone on a panty raid…in her room. Nade never really liked going commando, especially when that certain time was coming around. All that really needs to be said is for a period of about 3 days, no one, not even the great Rokudai…wait no, he was probably more scared of PMSing girls than most…ah, here we go, that not even the sweet and innocent Yuri, Nadeshiko's little sister, would come out of her room. After that event, a blonde haired boy with black highlights, a platinum blonde haired boy, a silver haired boy, and two pink haired boys had the fear of (female) Kami put into them, especially since the aforementioned panties turned up dyed orange. And in the middle of town.

Anyway, the reason for Nade being pissed today was that she was not enjoying being overheated, especially since she didn't seem to have any clothing other than her usual dark colors. So here she was, sweating out the wazoo, and staining some of her favorite clothes.

The same thing could be said for many of the other genin of the Konoha caravan. 72 genin, plus the 23 jounin-sensei, and 2 more ninja of high importance were making their way across the desert towards Sunagakure for the biannual Chuunin exams. And only the most important two and a few of the jounin were allowed on the supply wagons. Well, Nade had to consider herself lucky, she was the only member on her team that didn't have one of their parents along.

"Temari-saaaan, when are we going to get there?" A tall man with a nice, big, shady hat, sitting on the wagon no less, was whining to his companion in one of the most recognized voices of Konoha.

"Naruto, stop whining. If you weren't the Hokage, I would be hitting you upside the head with my fan right now."

The three kids walking beside the head wagon snickered.

"Besides, there it is right there."

Several genin within earshot heard this, and immediately fell prostrate in the sand, praising Kami, until they realized that they were looking at what seemed to be a sheer cliff face. At that they stopped praising.

And then they soon resumed praising once they realized that there were sentries at one of the cracks in the cliff. Sentries with Suna uniforms that is.

The Konohan caravan was escorted into the villiage center of Suna, where they were to receive their official welcome. Of course, if one knows Naruto, it didn't really go as planned.

"Hey Gaara-nii-san! Long time no see!"

"…Naruto-nii-san…welcome to Suna." As Gaara spoke, a large group of girls near where the two Kages were meeting sighed and squealed.

"Hey, what's with the fan club?" Naruto whispered.

Gaara, rather expressively compared to his younger self, rolled his eyes and drooped his head, and finally buried his face in his hand. Kankuro, Gaara's official aid, answered for him.

"It's his unofficial fangirl posse, which started sometime after he became Kazekage, but some refer to it as his unofficial harem." Gaara, surprisingly, started to blush at this statement. Especially after a cry of "Gaara I love you! Marry me!" came from the most hyperactive of the group of girls.

"Kami, why does Amaya have to follow me everywhere?" Gaara mumbled as he hid his face in his hand, as the long haired girl with a raccoon on her head continued yelling.

Pretty soon another girl was shouting professions of love, albeit somewhat shyly. "And why does Matsuri have to emulate her?"

After much consoling and greeting the entirety of the Konoha convoy was accepted into the town of Suna. The Chuunin exams were about to begin.

Unfortunately, it seems that not all of the Konoha caravan had arrived.

"Come students! To get there on time you must have the fire of YOUTH!"

"Oh, Kami, not again! How did dad ever put up with this?!?"

Team 9 seems to not have stayed with the caravan. A team of 3 genin and a very…interestingly dressed sensei were still in the middle of the desert. The silver haired boy of the group looked very downcast in between his fellow teammates.

"Of all the people to get stuck with for sensei, why oh why did I get stuck with the clone of my father's obnoxious rival?"

"There, there" said a girl with a strange scar-like birth mark across her nose, "At least you have us Ankashi!"

"True, Kujira, true…" Ankashi quickly hid a devious and slightly lecherous look in his eye.

"I saw that you hentai!" yelled a short red-eyed girl, who, for some strange reason, resembled a monkey.

Ankashi sighed again, before seeing a large cliff in the distance. "A least it'll be over soon." The two girls returned inquisitive looks, not seeing what he saw. Ankashi at this point grabbed both their heads and turned them to the cliff.

"Oh…." Both girls looked up with brightened faces. That was until the scarred girl, who happened to be named Kujira Umino, started having a crestfallen look. "Oh well, looks like I won't be able to share the ramen I cooked up in my mom's place with my teammates." Ankashi and the other girl, by the name of Kemuri Sarutobi, cringed, both thinking the exact same thing. One does get sick from eating the same thing constantly (at least normal people), and having the daughter of the current owner of Ichiraku Ramen on one's team, one did eat a lot more ramen than usual.

Next thing Kujira knew, a silver-haired blur and a red-eyed blur flew past her, grabbed the man in a bright green leotard, and sped off to the cliff, all while the green man sputtered "Excellent my students!" while the two abductors yelled "Shut up, Lee-sensei!"

"Aww! Come on guys! It's not as bad as my last experiment!" And with that Kujira promptly ran after them.

Several days later, a very large group of ninjas, ranging in age from the young 10 of Ankashi to the venerably old of Norman the 97-year-old genin (To see more of Norman look for the incredibly old man in the test taking portion of the original series' chuunin exams.) were lounging around in a large room somewhere in the village of Suna. In various states of rest in one corner were what had been termed the 'Rookies' of the current Konoha generation. Team 9, Team 13 and what was known as Team Kiba (since they had lost their number somewhere) were all waiting to go into the little door at the end of the big room, where apparently the chuunin exam was given to each team one at a time.

"Dang it! When do we get to go?" whined a white-eyed, blonde haired ninja in their midst. The eight other ninja in the group groaned, and two phrases of "how troublesome," were uttered.

Shikami looked over at her little brother, "You know, he's on your team, why don't you do something about it?"

"I've tried, nothing works…and everything else is too troublesome." Raimaru paused for a second. "Well, maybe there's one way…" Without so much as a blink, Raimaru's shadow started to extend, passing under Yue. Shikami looked confused for a second until she saw the shadow starting to extend on the other side of Yue towards the other team member of Team 13.

"OWW!!!" (Smack). (Crack). Yue slumped forward in unconsciousness, revealing a large indention in the stone wall behind his head. Nadeshiko stomped away, slightly blushing, muttering something about getting a drink of water.

"Ah, the indirect approach…smart move…"

"And you wonder why I beat you at shogi all the time."

Soft clapping was heard behind the four black braids. "Dang, you brother just got you good."

"Shut up, Inoki…and Chosuke, stop looking at my bum," responded Shikami without even turning around. A rather rotund boy nervously turned his head while quickly stuffing potato chips into his mouth. Shikami then turned and walked to one of her and Rai's cousins, going past Chosuke. Raimaru was sure he heard something to the effect of "you'll get a better view later," which he believed was confirmed by Chosuke choking on his potato chips immediately afterward. Raimaru tucked that little piece of information away in the more sadistic part of his mind, to be used at a later date.

By this point Nadeshiko had returned from her seeking of water. Forcefully yet carefully she proded Yue awake. Once the blonde boy sat up clutching his head, Nade finally spoke, "We're going in soon, get ready."

After walking down a fairly dark hallway after they entered the door, the three members of Team 13 found themselves in a rather large room. The room was decorated with pillars and strange paintings and markings all along the walls. The entirety of the room was made up of sandy colored rectangular stones. A doorway stood at the end of the room.

"Alright, the guys at the door said all we needed to do was to go down the passage to the exam proctor," said a very skeptical Nadeshiko.

"Sweet! Piece of cake!" Yue proceeded to run towards the doorway, and he might have made it if not ten feet from where he started, he tripped on a stone that sunk beneath his feet. Thankfully, had he not tripped, he would have been impaled by a 6 foot high spike that came out right in front of his nose.

"…so that's why…" a rather amused looking Rai said. "We have to avoid all the traps they placed in the way to get to the proctor." A rumble was heard. A slab started to fall down on the doorway very slowly, and dust fell from a slowly sinking ceiling. "And we have a time limit…"

"And again I say, piece of cake! Byakugan!" The blonde started walking forward very erratically. "Come on guys, follow my steps." The three Genin made it to the doorway at the opposite end with half the door to spare. They continued walking down the dark hallway, with Yue scanning with his Byakugan.

"Ok…this is weird. The floor ceiling and walls just changed into…some sort of metal plating…but I don't see any traps within the radius of my vision." As soon as all three stepped on the new floor an audible click was heard. "So maybe I was wrong…but there still isn't anything."

The genin walked forward until they started to hear sounds of metal sliding against metal.

(shink, shink-shink, shink) "Ok, yeah, now I'm seeing something. Lots of metal blades swinging in are path." No sooner had he said this than Nade and Rai saw what he was talking about. Large blades the size of hallway itself were seen slicing the hallway about every foot for a long stretch. "Crap, how are we supposed to get through this?!"

Raimaru, silently watched the blades, but soon slumped his shoulders muttering, "what a drag." Seeing the reactions of her teammates, Nadeshiko giggled.

"You guys really can't get by this can you?" With that, Nade walked up towards the blades and paused. And with a startled cry from Yue, she started walking, and walking, and still she walked, until she reached the end of the blade section. Smirking, she turned back to her teammates, red-eyes full of mirth staring back at them. "Piece of cake."

Yue promptly responded by sticking out his tongue.

Nade rolled her now regular emerald green eyes, pulled out a kunai, and slammed it into the wall. All the blades stopped. As Yue was picking his jaw up off the floor Rai and Nade started down the rest of the hallway.

"Hey! Get back here…how did you know that the main gears were there? You don't have the Byakugan so how could you know?" gasped Yue as he caught up.

"I have ears, baka." And so Yue sulked until they got to the next room.

This room did not look normal like the last one did. The room was filled in a maze like structure, with various obvious motion detection devices attached to moving pillars. Evidently, the room was supposed to resemble a heavily guarded building. Yue looked around for the door to continue. "Ooo! Ooo! There it is!"

Too easy. Raimaru looked around anxiously, knowing that there had to be a trick to this room. And there it was, at one end of the room there, on a pedestal, was a key. At the end opposite the key, was an identical pedestal, but no key. Hmmm….

As luck would have it, the question that Raimaru was going to voice was answered before he even asked. Nadeshiko, tired of Yue's antics, pushed him down into the maze, right in front of one of the moving pillars. Immediately an alarm went off. Raimaru quickly looked up at the key, but it was not where he had seen it before. Narrowing his eyes, Rai looked at the opposite side of the room. Sure enough, on the opposite pedestal the key sat. Aaaahhh…

"When I give the signal, Nade, since you're the fastest, get the key. Yue you head for the door and wait for Nade to throw you the key."

"But…" the other two protested.

"Just do it."

Raimaru walked onto one of the wall of the maze, making sure to not trigger the motionless sensors on the tops of the walls, and started to rapidly make handsigns.

"Shadow Imitation Jutsu: Blackout!" Much like the Nara's regular shadow jutsu, Raimaru's shadow started to expand, but this time in all directions. The room went completely dark. "Now!"

Suddenly, as if a small light had turned on, Yue and Nade could see, if only barely. Nade raced over to the key, picked it up and threw it. Just as she threw it, she saw that the shadows were receding, and where the light had come from. Raimaru's eyes were glowing slightly blue before they slowly eased back into the dark blue of his regularly colored eyes. Something about the whole thing made Nadeshiko shudder as she watched the shadows recede, almost like tentacles, back under Rai's cloak.

"Hey, its open!"

The proctor looked down at his watch. 5:37. One of the fastest times so far, and they managed to bypass or disable all the traps. He looked back up to the three nervous kids standing in front of him.

"Well, you pass the first section of the exam."

"WooHOO!!!!! Oh yea—wait what? First section?"

"Yes you have two more sections of the exam to take…well, that is if you can pass them."

"Stop toying with us Uncle, and point us to where the next section is."

Kankuro chuckled. "Of course. Since you've been so nice as to keep my traps intact, I'll even give you some advice. Beware the second section's proctor." With that, Kankuro chuckled even more, pointing to a door to the side of his TV screen filled table.

This has got to be the most embarrassing moment of my entire preteen life.

Raimaru remembered some of the stories Ankashi had told about Anko, but he was pretty sure Ankashi's mom had never done anything like this.

Yes, Raimaru's mom, the second proctor, was currently cuddling him as if he had just come back from the brink of death. Speaking of death, Rai borrow his favorite uncle's patented death glare and swept the entire crowd. Yes, the entirety of the genin of the shinobi nations who passed the first exam stood watching the mother and son with a rainbow of emotions plastered on their faces. Raimaru's gaze fell upon one ninja in particular. How did Shikami not get attacked by Mom?

After several more moments of embarrassment and strangulation, Temari finally let go and proceeded to the front of the assembled genin.

"Ok my little sacrifi—I mean future chuunin! It is time for you to take the second portion of the chuunin exam! Where you'll be taking it is directly behind me..."

As she spoke an ominous noise came from one of the several cave mouths in the cliff face behind her. The noise could be interpreted as a blood curdling scream, a howl of some unknown creature, a moan from some supernatural phenomenon, or some combination of the three. Most of the genin cringed.

"Hehehe. Now that you got a taste of what's to come, I'll explain the rules for this part of the test." (At this point Temari goes into an explaination very similar to Anko's from the original story's chuunin exam, and seeing as how long and involved that whole explaination is, and how probably all of you that are currently reading this fic have already read it an know what it implies, I'll just skip it.)

"Umm…scary lady…has anyone died in there before?" some skittish boy from grass asked. Some snickering was heard from Raimaru and Shikami.

"Hmpf. Of course someone has." replied a heavily set bare-chested nin from the mist, with a huge sword strapped to his back. Right after he said this, two masked girls (at least from what Rai, Yue and Nade could tell) smacked him in the back of the head.

"Alright, now that the pointless questions are over, head into the tents one team at a time and get your scrolls and what cave entrance you'll be using."

The genin started shuffling towards the various tents. Nade and Yue decided now was the time to pick on Rai for being embarrassed in front of the entire group of ninja. However, before either one was able to open their mouths, they found them being forcefully kept closed by a sliver of shadow.

"Just keep walking."

It had been three days since they entered. They had been able to obtain their needed scroll easily from the team of the skittish grass nin who had stumbled upon team 13 while they were taking a break next to an underground river. So Nadeshiko, assuming leadership of the team decided that they would rest beside the river before they went in search of the crystal cave in the middle of the underground caverns (Rai and Yue deferred quickly as they had learned earlier that Nadeshiko had inherited her mother's extreme strength and could utilize it very well throughout her entire body. As such, they were very scared of what they termed "The Flick of DOOM."). Rai and Yue assumed that Nade wanted to clean herself after three days of no bathing and they especially did not want to anger the girl.

Rai and Yue had assumed correctly when they saw Nade grab some things out of her pack and walk towards a secluded spot of the river. Rai then happily got out his trusty magnetic chess board and challenged Yue to a game, which was promptly finished in fewer than 20 moves.

"Man, I can't believe we haven't come across any ninjas other than that grass team. I was pretty sure 30 teams were sent in here…You don't think a lot of them are dead do you?" Yue asked Rai, lying quietly against a rock in his sleeping bag.

"Well, seeing as three days have past since the second exam started, I'd say that half the teams that were able to finish have. Because this exam works the way it does, and since we had about 30 teams start, there is a maximum of 15 teams that are able to finish. Finally, since the caves are rather tricky to find someone in, I would think no more that 10 teams would make it to the crystal cave. So, about 5 teams have already finished."

"O….K…I'll take your word for it…you seem to be much better at math than me."

Rai rolled his midnight eyes.

"So I wonder what some of the other teams are doing…especially those who had their scrolls taken."

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" The very feminine shriek came from the direction of the river.

"Does that answer your question?"

"That sounded like Nade! We need to go help her!" Yue started to caterpillar his way towards the river in his sleeping bag. He traveled about 10 feet before he realized he was traveling much more slowly that normal.

"Can you be any more like your dad?"

Thankfully when they reached Nade, they found that she at least had the decency to wear her shorts and tank while she washed. What they weren't thankful for though was the ice that encased her hands and lower legs. And the two masked girls and the bare-chested boy standing over her. For some reason, Yue thought this was going to be a bad day.

"Hey get away from her!"

"And why would we do that?" said the large boy. The boy was promptly jabbed in the ribs by one of the girls (yes it was confirmed now) who had just taken off her mask.

"Same, we're supposed to bargain with them for one of their scrolls!" the jabber spoke in a very feminine voice.

"Yeah, and you're the leader, so get bargaining." Ok, so only one of the masked pair was a girl, but the guy sure as hell looked like a girl.

"Be quiet Hakami, and I know what I'm supposed to do Kukami. So, hand over your scroll and I'll give back the girl."

Yue didn't much like the bargain, so he charged. And then he stopped as the large blade that Same had was currently poised at Nade's neck. Dang, how did he move that huge thing that fast? Yue's thinking was cut short when the masked duo started to further encase Nade's legs in ice with some jutsu. The ice looked kind of funny, darker and more metallic looking that normal. The ground underneath Nade's legs cracked a bit from the weight.

"Fine." Yue looked incredulously over at Rai, who drew a scroll out from his cloak. "Here take it." He threw the scroll over to the large genin.

"Kukuku, and it's the right one too. Thanks kids!" Same started to walk away. "Oh and to just make sure that you don't follow us to get this back…" He took he large booted foot and kick Nadeshiko out over the river water, and then promptly disappeared with his two friends.

For Yue all time slowed as he watched Nade fall into the river, the heavy ice dragging her under. "HELP!"

"NADE!!!"

A/N: ooo, evil cliffy. So yeah, sorry that this took so long, I got hooked on some anime on youtube for a few weeks. To my other friends who read this…do not worry your cameo will come.

OK, so no one got a cookie the last opportunity (the correct answer to the final fantasy reference was Pierce, Biggs and Wedge). This means a new cookie opportunity shall commence. Who can name the inspiration that became the plot to this story (its fairly obvious if you have been paying attention) (and for those friends of mine who already know…you aren't eligible for the cookie)

And come on people, I know you read this fic…so Review dang it! I would like to know what others think of my writing.