A/N: As promised, I updated. This is the part where the plot actually begins. I'll probably be updating tomorrow. Please tell me how I'm doing! Oh and I know this Chapter's title is cheesy but I had a moment when that's all that came to mind and made me think "God! Why is my mind so odd?"
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Chapter 2
"This place is to green." Shuhan said.
"I like it." Replied Bitto.
"Not if you saw how green it is." Shuhan said again "I didn't mean it like that!!"
"Of course ya didn't." I said oh so nonchalantly to Shuhan.
"Sure gang up on the wolf girl here." Shuhan said with fake offense.
"Yep because that's our life's goal." I said.
"We're here so you can stop with the sarcasm." Said Bitto.
We stepped into the academy where the first stage was to be conducted. It was very quiet like the time before the storm. We finally found the right room and stepped into the chaos. I walked in to see the Hokage, Kazekage, and a few other random Shinobi including my mom and dad.
"Ah, here they are now," my dad said "Come here I want you to meet an old friend of mine. Naruto-sama, the one who made it possible for me to live in the Village Hidden in the Sand, and Sasuke-sama, Otokage of the Village Hidden in the Sound. We grew up together and went to the academy together."
"Is your daughter as lazy as you are Shikamaru?" Said Naruto-sama light-heartedly with a twinkle in his eye like he was thinking about when he grew up. My face flushed deep red.
"She's just like her father with the battle tactics and the carefree attitude but she has her mother's spunk." Gaara-sama said. Naruto-sama and Gaara-sama laughed and began to talk more about trivial things.
"So have you turned in your paper work and prepared for the first stage?" My father asked.
"Ya. Bitto took care of it because she said I wouldn't get up early enough." I responded.
"Must be exactly like you." Said Sasuke-sama.
"Ah, same old Uchiha outlook on life, I see." Said Naruto-sama.
"Ya, well my Clan isn't totally gone yet. My Kekkei Genkei must have mutated with my children and now they have that Kekkei-Genkei ability but it works quicker." He sneered.
"They won't stand a chance against my Sand Genin." Said Gaara-sama. He gave us a secretive wink and went back to talking to the Hokage. Otokage-sama just scowled at us as my father ushered us off to see some more Genin. We sat down. I pulled some sand out of my Hourglass and absentmindedly contorted into different shapes.
"That is sooooo cool!!" said a girl who could be no older then me. "How do you do that with Sand like that??" she asked as she walked up closely followed by her teammates it looked like.
"Demons are the love and scourge of us Jinchuuriki." I said so bored while Bitto stopped playing with her hair and Shuhan stopped polishing her twin chain scythe.
"You're a Jinchuuriki!!! Which one are you?" She persisted. She sounded very sincere and quite happy.
"Jakkaru the Demon Jackal, but you can call me Nadeshiko because I'm not just a host. I'm a person too. This is Shuhan with the Demon Wolf, Arufa, and Bitto with Mayonaka the Demon Raven." I continued with a flourish each time I introduced them.
"Whoa. All three of you are hosts!! I'd hate to get in your way when you unleash your demon. By the way I'm Yume. I'm a Leaf Kunoichi. It's my first year taking the test. How 'bout you?" Yume asked.
"I wouldn't mind getting in the way of Bitto if she didn't have a grudge against me. She has great control over her demon. She's kinda a freak among freaks. Ya. It's our first time here ever. It's really green but Bitto can't agree with me because she can't see." Shuhan said.
"It actually is pretty green but I love green so I don't mind it all." Yume said.
"Optimists are always the best!! Shuhan and Nadeshiko don't seem to get how such a great place the world is." Bitto finally piped in.
"I'm Shikamaru. I'll be your first stage proctor." My dad said standing at the front of the room with his hands up as a sign of silence.
"No," I said.
"Possible," Shuhan said.
"Way." Bitto finished.
"The first stage is a written exam in which you will have ten questions to complete in 1 hours time. The tenth question will be given after 45 minutes have elapsed. I will explain the rules and there will be no questions.
Pass and fail will be found after all of team's points are added up. You start off with a perfect score and will be deducted one point per wrong answer.
If you are caught cheating then you and your team will be deducted two points from each of you tests. If you or one of your teammates is caught cheating 5 times you and your team will automatically be disqualified.
If you or any of your teammates get all of the questions wrong then you and your team will fail.
Now I will give each of you a number and then you must find your seat." My dad finished. Moans rung out from all over the room.
"42." I muttered while I trudged off to find my seat.
"Nadeshiko right?? We're by each other!!" Yume said and enthusiastically plopping down right by me.
"Stupid dad!!! He couldn't think of a more exciting first stage?" I moaned.
"That was your dad?? Isn't he the great General who helps out with ANBUs in the Village Hidden in the Sand?" Yume questioned.
"That would be the lazy Aho Baka which is my dad. Everyone always says I'm exactly like him with my brains and my relaxing life style." I droned.
"I will now be passing out the tests." My dad said raising his voice so the whole room, that buzzed with nervous small talk, immediately quieted down. I got passed my test paper.
Ha. They don't change these things do they? Just like when my Dad and his friends took it, you have to cheat to pass. I just hope they have it. Just then I heard Bitto. It's a trick of hers; she'll speak in a frequency which only I can hear. She's also adapted to Shuhan and other people she's around regularly with.
"You figured out that you have to cheat?" she asked. Her voice sounded the perfect sound level and almost sounded sing song. I made my sand go and grab her pencil and wrote 'Ask Shuhan and get back to me. I'll get the answers for her.'
"Sounds good." Said that perfect voice again. Now my work started. Then it came to me, the technique that Gaara-sama had worked so hard to teach me last year. What was it called? I remembered Kazekage-sama was very fond of this technique because it helped him with that fight against the Akatsuki. Optical Third Eye Jutsu!! Yes, it would be perfect to spy over people's shoulders. Ah, that loser in the front of the room is already done. I unleashed the technique and got the information I needed. I quickly made my sand copy it down on Shuhan's paper and waited for Bitto to talk to me again. But before I made my sand come back to me I had it catch Kazekage's attention and he gave a little smirk as I made my sand spell out Optical Third Eye Jutsu. I couldn't wait for this boring test to get over. Bitto's voice came back to me. "Sorry I took so long. I had to listen to the pencil's vibration to hear exactly what the answers were. Shuhan has already got her answers. Good we're sure fire to pass." I nodded my head but then I remembered she couldn't see. I laughed a silent laugh to myself and looked over to see is Yume was done. She was and I wondered what her specialty was because my team, she, and one other person were the only ones done.
After what felt like forever the Tenth question was given out. It looked like the Hokage was smiling with a far off look on his face like he was stuck in a memory.
"The tenth question is even harder then all of the other questions. If you don't want to answer you don't have to but if you do decide to follow through and get it wrong you and your team will remain Genin forever." My dad said as he scanned the room for people who already had put there hands up. Several teams were gone quite quickly. After those teams left my dad proceeded.
"Alright, you all pass the first stage. If you all would please follow Miss Haruno here to your second stage." He said.
"Hi, I'm Sakura Haruno and I will conduct the next stage of this exam. First we need to sign some disclaimers." Sakura said while beginning to pass out the papers. "Feel free to get with you teams and discuss if this exam is worth dying over because you very well may die in this stage in the Forest of Death."
Bitto rushed over while Shuhan ambled.
"Same thing every exam?" I asked my dad when he was in earshot.
"I just conduct not pick the type of exam. What was that you used??" My dad asked.
"Optical Third Eye Jutsu. That's a very high end Jutsu that you put to good use. That's what I used to pass the test." Kazekage-sama answered.
"Hurry up remaining teams and sign your disclaimers." Sakura said again.
"You guys ready for this?" I asked as we walked up to the table and turned in our forms.
A/N: The next Chapter is the forest of death! Please tell me how I'm doing!