Yay! I finally managed to sit down to it and write this down. It didn't even took me as long I feared it will… sorry for a long wait, but I', still pretty busy these days and so my time is limited.
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And now, without further to do:
Chapter #32: The Second Exam – Team Ten
Title Page: the forest: Isseki and Homura are having a sparing match, Choumura is eating potato chips nearby and Shikamaru is laying under a tree
"Seriously, I had no idea what that freak was talking about…" Urusai assured his teammates, who kept on pushing him to reveal his bloodline limit. "If I could activate it, that is if I really have any, I'd have used it on that bastard!"
"I suppose you're right…" Ayame finally admitted as she walked away slightly. "But assuming that you have one, why would that guy want it so much? I mean, attacking a team of gennin from one of the most powerful villages, risking being discovered and killed… or worse… why would your bloodline limit be so special?"
"I'd surely like to know…" replied the blonde. "Or at least learn what it is…"
"Well, right now there's no point is talking about it…" Jun cut in calmly. "It's not like we'll find out anything by making speculations and that won't pass us this exam… we need to get two scrolls right now, so it's double the trouble… teams that'll learn we don't have any scroll will avoid the fight with us and also we'll have to fight twice us many fights as others in order to get the complete now…"
"Jun's right…" Urusai agreed. "Once we get through all this, we can ask Naruto-sensei about it and…" but at this point Ayame interrupted him: "We can't…" and before any of the boys managed to ask 'why' she continued: "Remember what that blonde said? If we tell anyone, something bad might happen and not just to us, but to the entire Konoha…"
"I still don't see how this relates…" announced the loud mouth.
"Think at least a little…" responded the young Hanayaka. "What Ayame is trying to say that once you'll ask Naruto-sensei about your bloodline limit, he'll want to know how you obtain information that you have one. What'd you say? My older brother, most likely a missing-nin, a guy who pretends to be a Mist shinobi to enter this exam, told me?"
Urusai didn't reply. He just lowered his sight. "Let's just go…" said Ayame and took off with her teammates close behind.
---That time, elsewhere---
Shikamaru was laying on a branch and observed the clouds going slowly through the sky when a certain, chubby ninja landed nearby. He had spiky, brown hair and was wearing mostly red outfit with protectors all over it. He was a man in his early thirties and wore a hitae-ate with the Leaf symbol on his forehead.
"Yo, Chouji…" the lazy jounin greeted the arrival calmly, without moving an inch. "What brings you here? I thought we were meeting Ino and Asuma in the evening… this time I really didn't intended to show up late…"
"It's not that…" responded the chubby ninja as he walked closer to his friend. "I wanted to talk to you about things that… I suppose you know what this is all about… Ino is worried too. After all, you're the one who taught our son…"
"You're worried about Choumura…" Shikamaru more stated then asked and the large jounin only nodded. "Don't be…" responded the lazy bump. "I know that he may not look like much, but I assure you that he's better prepared then we were at his age… and besides, Isseki and Homura are with him… there's no way those three can lose…"
"I'm still worried…" announced Chouji. "Being a father can be a pain in the…"
"You're worrying too much…" stated the lazy jounin. "As a father, you should believe in your son. I don't have a slightest doubt that my subordinates will make it out of the forest in time with the scrolls they need… that much I'm certain off…"
---Back to the Forest of Death---
The last of the three rain-nins collapsed to the ground as Isseki got out of his fighting stance. He deactivated his Byakugan and turned to his teammates, holding out the Earth scroll: "This was relatively easy…" he announced a little bored. "I was hoping to get a nice workout during this exam…"
"Don't get so excited…" responded Choumura as he finished another apple. His tenth this hour. "We have a complete of scroll so we can go to that freaking tower and get something normal to eat…"
"Could you stop thinking about your stomach at least for once?" asked Homura annoyed. "We can't go to the tower… at least not yet…" and as she said so, the white-eyed boy slightly nodded while scanning the area that surrounded them with his Byakugan, which he activated in a flash.
"Whose turn is it?" Isseki asked calmly as he looked first at the kunoichi and then at the chubby boy. The young Uchiha only let out a sigh as she took a quick glare at Choumura and announced: "I'll go… just give me a moment…" and with that she was gone.
In the next moment the leader of the waterfall-nins that were observing the trio, a guy with messy, brown hair and green eyes, wearing a grey t-shirt and white pants, found himself blocking a kick that came from above his head with his hands. His eyes widen as he realized that the one attacking him was the black-haired girl he just saw.
"This hag's fast…" he thought to himself as he threw the kunoichi away, making her land on a nearby tree branch as the Bakufu shinobi stood on his. Right next to him, on the same tree, two other waterfall-nins already got prepared to fight.
The first one was a girl with long, black hair, clipped in a ponytail and blue eyes, wearing a red, sleeveless outfit and a mini-skirt. She wore her hitae-ate on her left arm and had two daggers in her hands. The second one was a boy with a long chain, ended with some sort of a wrecking ball. He was tall, had bowl-like, short, black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a mostly black, typical shinobi outfit and had his headband on his forehead.
"How did you spot us?" asked the girl calmly, yet she narrowed her eyes and bended her knees slightly, prepared to jump forward at the young Uchiha. Homura only smirked as she replied: "Are you kidding me? A blind guy would notice you guys…"
And the moment she said so, the tall boy threw his wrecking ball forward, controlled by anger. However that was exactly what the leaf-nin wanted. As she jumped to her left, the ball went right pass her and without a moment waste, she grabbed the chain and pulled the Bakufu shinobi towards her with all her might.
Completely surprised, the tall waterfall-nin didn't put up any resistance and was quickly send flying towards the Leaf kunoichi, who was already performing a set of hand seals: "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" she called out and in a flash a powerful ball of fire shoot from her mouth, burning the Bakufu shinobi and making him yell in pain.
But a second later Homura found herself backing away, dodging the attacks of the dagger-using girl, who furiously charged straight at her. Finally after bending back and thus avoiding the swing of the knife that was aimed at her head, the leaf-nin decided to counter attack and grabbed the hand that Bakufu shinobi used on the last assault.
In a flash she threw the Waterfall kunoichi over her shoulder at the tree behind her, but the dagger user managed to flip in mid-air and used her feet to bounce of the tree right back at the young Uchiha. In an instant Homura reached to her hostel, but at that time the last of the Bakufu three appeared behind her with a kunai in his hand.
As he swung his knife at the girl's head, Isseki suddenly appeared behind her back and blocked the assault with his own hand: "You're getting to careless, Homura…" she stated calmly as white veins began to appear around his eyes.
"That guy's a Hyuuga!" the Waterfall team leader's eyes widen at the realization as he received a powerful blow in the stomach from Isseki's opened palm and was send back flying.
In the meantime Homura picked out strong, metal string from her hostel and used them to form a wall from them into which the Waterfall kunoichi flew. Once her head found itself tied in the strings, the young Uchiha manipulated them in a way that they'd immobilize the girl, making her harmless.
"Two down…" announced the Leaf kunoichi calmly as she observed the waterfall-nin hitting the ground bellow hard and losing consciousness. "One to go…" and with that she turned around to look in the direction Isseki had his eyes set.
"Damn brats…" cursed the Bakufu team leader. "You're under estimating us!"
"Actually, I believe the ones who were underestimated…" began the white-eyed boy calmly as he turned off his bloodline limit. "Were us…" and the moment he said so a huge ball of meat run straight at the waterfall-nin, making him cough out blood.
"Nikudan Sensha!" Choumura called out as his opponent was send flying against another tree and crushed hard against it. In an instant Homura found herself close to him and searched the boy to located the scroll they were carrying.
"An extra, Heaven Scroll won't hurt…" she stated with a wide smile as she hid it in her hostel. "Now each of us carries one… shall we go to the tower now or look from some, more fun a little more?"
"I wanna eat!" yelled Choumura as his stomach 'burked'.
"Whatever…" responded Isseki and with that the trio headed to the tower.
---to be continued---
And this chapter ends. Thanks for reading and do leave a review once you're done.
No jutsu this time around (at least none you shouldn't know by now), so I'll just go to the next character profile:
Name: Naifu Ibuki
Name origins: her first name, 'ibuki' is taken from the word 'buki' which means weapon, but you might wanna know that Ibuki means 'mighty blow'. As for her clan's name, 'naifu' can be translated as 'knife'
Age: currently 14 years old
Birth Date: 19th of March
Blood Type: B
Height: 147,6 cm
Weight: 49,8 kg
Favored style of fighting: weapons
Current rank: gennin
Village: Konoha (Hidden Leaf)
Team: cell led by Rock Lee; her teammates are Sakudo Kei and Mekkoa Gaki
Family: none of her clan members is extraordinary. At this point Ibuki has both parents and one, older sister
Bloodline limit: none
Techniques: none yet
First appearance: 25th chapter
And that's really that. Now, before I'll go, I just wanted to wish you all HAPPY TRICK OR TREATING! Good luck in getting sweats. Until next time!
Cya.