Yup, I'm back! Shang gave me an overall outlook as to what he did. I hope he did a good job and that you're still interested in "what happens next". I sit down to it and wrote the next chapter on my own, so those who disliked Shang's way of writing will probably be happy.

Also, please review, coz it saddens me a bit that the last chapter got so few reviews (and thanks to all those who sacrificed their time to review). With that, I guess the only thing left for me to do is to get on with the show:

Chapter #29: Battle for the Scrolls

Title Page: Urusai is holding a small frog on his hand, smiling

The three Sound gennin made their way through the forest, jumping from one branch to the other before Toge raised his hand in order stop them.

"What is it?" asked Fushi. Her teammate didn't answer.

"Wooku…" he turned to their other teammate after a moment. "… you sense their chakra, right? Who are they?"

"Well, for one thing they're not very strong…" announced the one wearing green. "Their ninjutsu specialty is… wind… so they're sand-nins… With their chakra level and the ability to control it I don't think we'll have many problems with taking their scroll…"

"Give me five minutes…" asked Toge and then he was gone.

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The three rookies came to a stop on a small glade, right between the roots of a gigantic tree.

"Everyone's heading to the tower…" announced Hisaki. "The safest way to get the scrolls is to make an ambush somewhere near it then… What do you think, Kumo?"

"Not a bad plan…" replied Kumo and then turn his head to a bee that just flew next to him. He then lower his head so that his teammates could see his eyes and with his pupils he pointed to his right.

Hisaki, noticing that action, turned to Hinako who was standing right to the Aburame heir. "What do you think, pretty?" he asked her, observing the tree tops and once he spotted the enemy which Kumo noticed he froze his sight on them.

"Well…" began Hinako, reaching out for a shuriken from her hostel and judging the direction from Hisaki's sight. "… I'd say that… we can get a scroll before that!" and with those words she turned around, tossing a shuriken into the tree tops where Hisaki was looking.

As the shinobi star was getting closer to the enemy's hideout, Hinako perform a chain of hand seals and called out: "Shuriken Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"

Before anyone knew it, the shuriken she tossed split into tens of shinobi stars. Having no way to dodge, the mysterious shinobies jumped down from their hiding spot to the ground. Unfortunately for them, it was just what Hinako's teammates needed.

In a fracture of a second Hisaki elbowed the first one of them. The other got overrun by Kumo's bugs and the third got cut by Aburame heir's sword.

Hisaki brought his kunai closer to the throat of the one he knocked out and said: "We'll let you live if you give us your scroll. Now hand it over…"

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"Survival test is just something we need, eh Urufudo?" asked Hige as she and her teammates were running through the forest, jumping from one tree branch on another. "This exam is going to be fun!"

"Quiet down, Hige!" ordered Kyoudai. "Don't forget that the forest is crowded with enemies. Staying unspotted will be the easiest way to get the scroll we need…"

"Yeah, but it's no fun that way!" replied the Inuzuka heir.

"But Hige-chan, Kyoudai-kun is right…" Dajaku supported his teammate. "We should minimize the danger if we want to last five days…"

"We'll get the scroll faster then that…" interrupted Kyoudai. "I just want to avoid fighting weaklings… if we want to take someone's scroll and get them out of the exam, it should be a team that presents a threat… we can easily defeat weaklings in the next test…"

Suddenly Hige stopped and began sniffing around along with Urufudo.

"What is it?" asked the black haired boy. "An enemy shinobi?"

"Looks like it..." replied Hige, still sniffing around. "They're near…"

Dajaku began looking around a bit nervous before Kyoudai finally stopped him from doing so, saying: "Relax, will you? They won't attack now, since they know that we noticed they're following us. Hige, just give me the direction and let's get this over with…"

"Give me a minute…" asked the dog-girl and as she sniffed all around them, she finally whispered to her teammates: "A little to the south… that big oak… two are at its top, one is located a little lower…"

"Gotcha…" replied Kyoudai and with that he was gone.

Just a moment later screams could be heard from the direction Hige talked about. After another, few moments, three figures fell down hard on the ground and Kyoudai landed safely next to them.

"Just a bunch of losers…" announced the black hair, searching through the mist-nins stuff. "But at least they have the right scroll…" and with a smile he took a black scroll with a kanji 'earth' on it.

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Choumura manage to swallow another sausage before Homura took their supplies away from him: "What part of 'conserve our food' did you not understand?" she asked with a vein appearing on her forehead. "If you wanna eat, earn your share!"

"It doesn't matter…" announced Isseki calmly. "It's not like getting food in this place will be much trouble… what I want to know now is if we're sticking to the plan?"

"Of course…" responded the young Uchiha. "That's why I made that plan! You weren't listening again, have you?" as with that she pointed her finger at him.

"What?" asked the white-eyed boy, as he turned towards her.

"I'm gonna kill you!" yelled the kunoichi and tried to jump at her teammate, only to be held back by Choumura: "Homura-chan, calm down… you're the one who said he should be quiet so that we won't uncover ourselves before the enemy…"

"Chou's right…" nodded Isseki. "Now, let's look for some water source…"

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"What was that?" asked Ayame, a bit nervous. "Was that a human scream?"

"Chill, Ayame-chan…" repeated Urusai, not knowing which time in a row. "There's seriously nothing to worry about… after all, me and Jun are here…"

"And you think that'll save you?" they suddenly heard a voice and before they knew it a huge tsunami was heading right at them.

As they were hit by the wave, they couldn't fight the flu and were send right at the trees behind them. Urusai hit a giant oak with incredible impact, but Ayame was taken a little to the right and as she hit the same oak as her teammate, she dislocated her left shoulder. Jun was the only one that manage to avoid the hit by using his feet as a break and thus his legs took the whole impact. He turned his face in the direction the wave came.

"That dark hair is pretty good…" thought a blonde mist-nin as he observed the action from a nearby tree. "He minimize the damage… he'll have problems in keeping his balance for a while… and with the dislocated shoulder the girl won't be able to perform any seals… this will be as easy as taking the candy from a baby…"

As Jun looked around to spot the enemy, he noticed a blonde shinobi, dressing red with a plaster on his left cheek. "So there you are?" and with that thought he perform a quick chain of hand seals, yelling: "Katon: Ryuu Kisoku no Jutsu!" and with those words a powerful fire breath left his mouth and headed right at the mist-nin.

The blonde only smirked and held out his hand. Suddenly Jun's fire attack got covered by something that seemed like a shadow and disappeared.

"What the…?" was all Jun could say before the blonde mist-nin appeared before him and gave him a powerful punch in the face.

"That was my bloodline limit…" replied the blonde as he turned to his right where Urusai was charging at him with kunai in his hand. "If you're the one I'm looking for, use your abilities… just by charging at me you won't do much…" and before the blonde leaf-nin knew it, he was send into the air by a hit in the chin.

"Urusai!" yelled Ayame at the sight, but her words froze in her throat as she felt metal near her neck. She raised her head and spotted a white-haired mist-nin, wearing violet, that was holding a sword next to her throat.

"Please, don't disturb the fighters…" he asked. "… theoretically Kigahen is doing this for that brat's own good…"

"That's your point of view, Kenbu-kun" noticed a black-haired kunoichi with Kirigakure headband.

"What do we do?" asked Urusai as Jun helped him get back on his feet.

"I don't know" replied his teammate. "That guy is strong… and his teammates have Ayame… winning this fight will be pretty difficult…"

"You gotta be kidding me…" announced the blonde. "Are you guys really serious? The two of you can't defeat me? If so, then why did you even decided to participate in the Chuunin Exam in the first place!" and with that he charged at them at an incredible speed.

Before they could react to that in any way they both felt a powerful punch landing on their stomach that send them flying right at the tree behind them.

"This is pathetic…" admitted the mist-nin. "Hanayaka Jun, a member of one of Konoha's strongest clans, tops of the fire users… the daughter of the current Hokage… and most disappointing: Kodawari Urusai, a prodigy of probably the most powerful clan in Konoha…"

"Huh?" Urusai's eyes widen. "You know something about my clan?"

"Right, we were never introduced…" the blonde said to himself. "Allow me: the one with the sword is Ketsueki Kenbu, the girl is Ago Fuka and I… am your older brother: Kodawari Kigahen…"

"Say what?"

---to be continued---

And so this chapter ends. Hope you liked it.

Sorry for no jutsu encyclopedia this time, but I'm a bit of a hurry right now. I'll post it in the next chapter (along with character profiles, which Shang began). Thanks for reading and until next time.

Cya.