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The Kids of Glory

"No matter who you look like its still you you're pathetic...I'm not the kind to fall for images like that. PEOPLE ARE MADE OF HEART!"-Sanji-One Piece

"Don't call your shot its like yelling shark in a swimming pool nobody bites"-me

Chapter 23

Who's all here?

Shiro woke up and looked at the clock. "Damn! ANNA! WE GOTTA GO!" Shiro yelled only to see his sister in a white shirt and black pants waiting with her hair tied into a short ponytail by her headband.

"I know dipshit you shoulda got up a while ago" Anna replied

Shiro hopped out of bed and tossed on his dogi over his sleepwear and ran out the door. In the process of opening the door it smacked Kai in the face who was waiting outside in his usual black ninja attire with the hood down showing off his bowl cut red hair.

"Nice to see you to Shiro-san" Kai said holding his nose as he followed his two friends "Morning to you Anna-san"

Anna simply huffed and continued to run. "I can just feel the love" Shiro mocked as they reached the building with Naruto waiting outside leaning against the entrance door.

"morning team I can see you're early" Naruto said smirking

"Early? I thought you said to be here at seven?" Anna questioned and Naruto's smile widened

"Seven? Are you sure?" Naruto asked as if he didn't know

"YES!" Anna shouted

"I must have made a mistake the first test starts at eight" Naruto replied heading into the building. Despite being fifty minutes early the place was already packed with teams.

"Holy shit" Shiro spoke sticking his hands in the sleeves of his gi. "how many people do you think are here?"

"Beats me" Kai said scanning the area seeing all the genins from different villages. Suddenly he saw someone he loathed. Tora of the sand. "Hello Tora" Kai said coldly. He barely noticed the two others flanking him. The first on his right in a black outfit with a blue dragon going around the body. He had shaggy red hair and deep green eyes that seemed to consist the boys soul. The girl was shorter than the other two with long black hair pulled into a ponytail. She also had light blue eyes and a smiling face.

"Kai" Tora replied before turning to Anna. "Good to see you again Anna-Chan" Tora spoke and the girl blushed a light shade of red.

"Good to see you too Tora-kun" Anna replied. By this time Shiro's mind was going crazy. 'Tora-kun? What the fuck? She barely even calls me ni-chan. And she never called Kai that. Who the hell is this guy?' Shiro thought.

Tora already took a step ahead of him and stuck his hand out "The name is Tora, and you are?" the sand-nin asked.

"Shiro" the leaf gennin replied shaking Tora's hand cautiously "Tykiei Shiro"

"Oh your Anna's cousin?" Tora asked

"Her brother" Shiro replied quietly

"That's right she was talking about you! Are you as good as Naruto says you are?" Tora asked

"I don't know maybe we should find out" Shiro spoke clenching his fist. In all honesty Shiro had never felt so threatened in his entire life. He could not place it but there was something deep inside of Tora that was very strong and mysterious. He could also feel it could crush him if it put effort into the task. Tora quickly snapped his hand out in a jab but Shiro quickly dropped down low and tried to sweep Tora's legs but the sand-nin leaped at least twenty feet into the air and back. Chuckling. He was not worried at all of Shiro's attack.

"Tora knock it off" the girl with the black hair spoke "this is no time for games"

"Of course Ninpuu-Chan" Tora spoke before Tora stood next to her. "this is Ninpuu of the sand and Doragon of the sand" Tora said gesturing to the boy as the latter.

'Tiger, Dragon, and Hare?' Kai thought 'that's just creepy'. the three sand-nins began to turn away when they were suddenly confronted with three more leaf-nins. A girl with green eyes and pink hair. She smiled smugly while she had her arms folded. She was wearing a blue shirt with the Uchiha symbol on her back. The one next to her was a boy with short blue spiked hair, he was playing with a kunai in his hand, and he wore his headband sideways (like Zabuza). The other boy was in a green skintight suit with black bowl cut hair and brown pupils not to mention his headband was worn around his waist.

"Who would you three be?" Doragon asked.

The boy with the bowl cut hair spoke up "We? We are team 24, students of Nara Shikamaru, and we will pass this exam with our explosion of youth!" he spoke with flames in his eyes.

'He's really enthusiastic' Ninpuu thought to herself 'maybe I should smack some sense into this poor sap'.

"But my name is Rock Gai, the new beautiful green beast of the leaf" the boy spoke doing a nice guy pose "the beauty you see before you with pink hair is the lovely Uchiha Kaori" the girl snorted and lifted her nose to the air. "next to her is Hakori Tohapka, this one will take you out without a second thought and spare no one"

"Shut up Gai" Tohapka spoke looking at the three sand-nins "our teacher Shikamaru-sensei told us to watch out for you three but I cant see why"

Tora spoke up "Us? Why cant you tell that we are just three young gennins same as the rest of you all who are here?"

"Don't play dumb with us Tora-san" a voice rang from above and three more nins suddenly dropped. The Jin, Rio and Maya. Jin was smirking with his wolf like eyes glistening. Rio rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses but didn't move or say anything he just kept his arms crossed. Maya played with the black bracelet on her right hand while her teammates confronted the sand. "you're a hell of a lot stronger then you give yourself credit for" Jin continued

"You could say that" Tora responded coolly. "I could also say that you couldn't even touch me on your best day."

"We'll see about that Tora" Rio spoke "don't underestimate us" the sand nins pressed on past the older three leaf nins. Rio cracked out a smile "they sure are a bunch of cocky bastards"

"It's only cocky if you cant back it up" Maya said brushing her blue hair out of her face.

"We're just gonna have to see" Jin spoke turning along with his friends

"HEY! JIN ARENT YOU EVEN GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE US!" Shiro shouted at his brother.

Jin turned around and looked at Shiro "you're not even in our league Shiro, I don't have to acknowledge you at all" Jin said and continued on.

Rio leaned over to his teammate and whispered "Wasn't that a little harsh?"

"Nah Shiro and the other two are gonna try even harder now to prove themselves, this way they have a good chance of meeting the rest of us on the next test" Jin spoke smirking

Shiro was fuming. He was about to chase after his brother until he saw a flash of red in front of him. The boy standing in front of him was much larger and thicker. He was dressed in all red with a yellow headband with the Kanji 'Renegade' on it. He also had a large spear on his back and short black hair. They all recognized this guy, Toyo Rama of the Renegades. There was another behind him in all blue with a kendo stick strapped to his side and short blonde hair. Bekken Miko. Finally the one next to them had Green outfit to go with her green hair and a pair of metal Sais strapped to her front. That was Zinc Kiya.

"Good to see you guys again" Kiya spoke smiling.

"Yeah you too" Shiro responded

"What have you guys been up to?" Miko asked briefly looking over the three.

"Trainin, you know stuff like that" Kai replied "so what are you guys doin here in the leaf anyways?"

"We're here for the exam of course" Rama spoke up smirking smugly.

"What? How can you guys compete in the Chuunin exams?" Shiro asked

"Master Inari talked to Tsunade and she approved so when we decide to join a village we will have the rank of a Chuunin." Kiya said excited "we may even end up coming to the leaf"

"Doubt it" both Miko and Rama said at the same time. Anna realizes why fairly quickly. 'that's right Rama ran away from the fire country. Plus Miko isn't the type to let a grudge go like that.'.

"Come on lets go Kiya" Miko said turning with Rama as the two left.

"Well what do you say we get going too guys?" Anna asked and her two teammates followed. Although the three did not make it far before they saw two people blocking a doorway. The first one with shaggy blue hair and all black clothing. The other had light red hair sticking at all different odd ends he also had crystal clear blue eyes. "excuse me" the trio heard a voice up front speaking. They looked to see Uchiha Kaori speaking "would you please move already I'm trying to get to the third floor" the large group of people gasped.

"Well someone figured it out" The red haired boy spoke smiling

"Looks like it" the other one remarked

"Yeah next time you guys want to use a Genjutsu at least try to make it appear challenging" Kaori replied smugly

"Is it just me or are you a tad cocky" the red haired one spoke up still smiling.

"Wanna find out?" Kaori spoke barely above a whisper and suddenly the two were in motion for a high kick to the others head. Until rapidly a force appeared in between them holding both of their shins. The blur of green stopped to reveal Rock Gai. He looked at Kaori with a serious expression.

"Kaori I know your anxious to fight but not now" Gai spoke looking at Kaori with deep eyes Kaori's shoulders slumped defeated. The pink haired girl sighed and let her leg drop. Then Gai turned to the red haired boy "Do not underestimate us or we will destroy you" Gai spoke with dead serious tone "you will not forget the name of Rock Gai or Uchiha Kaori"

"A-HEM!" Tohapka coughed letting his partner know not to be left out

"Or Hakori Tohapka" Gai added sighing

"Thank you was that so hard Gai?" Tohapka asked as the three continued on past the three.

Everyone continued on through the doorway except for Shiro and his teammates. Those three looked at one another before Anna spoke "seems that Gai is a lot stronger than we gave him credit for earlier."

"That's an understatement" Kai said "did you guys even see him move?"

"I saw a blur but that was it" Shiro said before heading for the doorway "lets go" then suddenly he stopped and held his hand up and motioned them to the wall where they leaned their ears against it. Listening to the other side where the recognized the voices of the two that were guarding the doorway earlier. "Well Kiro remind me again why we were here watching this years group of examiners" the blue haired one asked

"Simple I volunteered us" the one called Kiro replied "sides Tsuki it was cool to see these young kids et all fired up like that"

"Yeah yeah whatever" Tsuki replied

"Don't you remember when you were like that?" Kiro asked

"Like what?"

"Hungry" Kiro spoke "when was the last time you were hungry for a challenge?"

"The first time I had a mission as a Chuunin" Tsuki said as the voices faded.

"Kids?" Kai spoke "they couldn't be that much older than us" The three looked on through the doorway to no longer see two boys but two men walking down the hall with blue and red hair.

"So it was a henge" Kai spoke to himself

"I think you were the last one to figure that one out Kai" Anna spoke insulting her teammate.

"Thanks for the support Anna" Kai replied

"Your welcome" Anna spoke sticking her tongue out at Kai. The three continued on until they reached the assigned classroom. Sitting behind the desk was a large man with long blonde hair. He was huge, even bigger than Toyo Rama. It didn't look like all of it was fat ether.

The man smiled and spread his arms "I am Chouji and this is your first test!".

End chapter 23

KP: there we go new chapter, sorry its so short

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KP: what do you mean our?

IPF: what I said our new chapter

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KP: maybe later, anyways we're working hard on the chapter 24 now but we have 2 questions that do not have to be connected at all

Question 1: who is your favorite OC in this series

Question 2: what is your favorite OC pairing

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