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Its been months since i last updated!
I know some of my readers are either irritated with me or maybe not reading this at all, soooooo
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Blinking the haze out of my eyes, I notice Naruto's clones ambushing the sound four. When I'm able to see, I stand up slowly. I feel like I got ran over by a semi-truck, but I walk forward anyways.
Naruto wasn't supposed to be awake. As the fight went on in front of me, I opened the book and flipped to the blank pages. New images began to show up in the manga. In the pictures Narutos clones were attacking the sound four along with Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji. Sasuke had the sound ninja that had thrown Sakura to the ground by the arms. His curse mark had spread black marks all over his body.
Suddenly, I thought back to the night before. When I sat under the moon and stars and could feel the power of the moon spirit in the necklace my mother had passed on to me. I wrapped my hand around the necklace and closed my eyes.
I could feel my body lifting of the ground and a warm energy wrapping around me. I opened my eyes and saw cerulean energy radiating from my body. Everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at me. Even Sasuke glanced in my direction. I held my hand out and rays on moonlit energy shot out from my hands. The sound four cringed and backed away. Unaffected by the light, Ino-Shika-Cho and team seven fought the sound four out of the clearing.
I hovered down to the ground and put my aching head in my hands. The air around me stopped buzzing with energy.
"Merisa!" Naruto was shaking me, making my headache worse no doubt.
"Stop shaking her, baka!" Ino yelled at him.
I felt like someone was taking a jack hammer to my head. I guess that was what the power of the moon spirit was supposed to feel like. I rubbed my eyes and looked around at everyone. Sakura was holding Sasuke, who was shaking and all the marks on his body gone. Her hair was cut short and was uneven and she looked pretty beaten up.
Where's Streaks anyways? I thought again. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a gray flash. The cat version of Streaks sauntered up to me like nothing happened. I glared daggers at him but he glared right back when I did.
"Where have you been?" I asked him, loudly. Several others in the clearing turned to look at me.
"I was patrolling the area to make sure you wouldn't get attacked," he said cooly.
I raised my eyebrows and gestured around the clearing to the wounded ninja.
"Did a great job," I said sarcastically.
"Well," he said, ignoring the sarcasm, "I ran into some trouble."
"What kind of trouble?" I asked interested.
"Merisa! We got both scrolls!" Naruto yelled across to me.
I tell you later, Streaks thought.
We had separated from team 10 and were on our way to the tower. Naruto kept trying to get me to tell him about how I scared off the sound four with my light. I told him I had no idea and that if he kept asking me I was going to choke him. After a while I guess he got bored because he took one of the scrolls and started to fool around with it.
"Naruto, don't open it," I warned.
"Whatever," he said as he began to peel the flap open.
In the blink of an eye, the scroll was snatched from his hands. Kabuto glared at him. I felt my face get warm.
Merisa, Streaks thought annoyed.
Stop reading my mind, I thought without taking my eyes off the silver haired boy.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," he said in a calm tone but kept his glare steady.
"And why not?" Naruto said.
"Teams who've opened their scrolls were rendered unconscious and probably will stay that way until the exam is over." He explained handing the scroll to me, "I saw it happen before I was separated from my team."
I looked him in the eye and felt light headed. He smiled just a little before turning away. I didn't notice I stopped breathing, until shadows started to dance across my eyes.
"Hey, Merisa, are you okay?" Naruto said loudly.
I nodded and held onto the scroll tighter.
I'll tag along with you guys the rest of the way," Kabuto explained, "maybe run into my teammates at the tower."
No one objected. I know I didn't. So we set off.
"I gotta warn you though, it's gonna get pretty intense here on out."
As we walked toward the tower, I glanced every now and then at Kabuto. Streaks stopped trying to get my attention away from him a long time before. I mindlessly thumbed the my necklace. There were so many things I could do with my powers; I just didn't know what they were yet.
Sakura's scream snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Ew!" she yelled pointing to a nearby tree.
I was going to roll my eyes until I actually saw what she was freaking out about then actually screamed myself.
"What IS that!" I said pointing at the giant centipede crawling up a nearby tree.
Naruto threw a kunai at it.
"Oh, it's just a centipede," Naruto said casually.
"Just a centipede! That thing's as big as a bus!" Sakura screeched, making me cover my ear. But I had to agree with her. A thirty foot long centipede was weird.
"And its just about to get weirder," Streaks thought to me, making me jump.
"I told you stop doing that!" I yelled.
Everyone turned to look at me. I gulped and closed my mouth.
"We should keep going, " Kabuto said, " the tower doesn't look to far."
Sure enough, the tower where the preliminaries would take place was seen over the trees. I got a slight headache as memories from the manga raced through my mind.
"Uh guys," I said slowly.
Sakura glanced back at me. "What is it?" she asked.
"We have a problem," I said warily. I felt my body tense up just as Streaks did.
"Not again!" Naruto said, obviously irritated, " Whenever you say that something goes wrong!"
Just then he tripped over a well hidden string. In the blink of an eye kunai shot out from the trees. Before any of them could hit Naruto, Kabuto put himself in the way. They covered him like a pin cushion.
I swear my stomach fell to my knees. It felt like he had been laying there for ages before his body disappeared and was replaced with a log. I sighed, relieved.
"Well you were right about a problem, " Kabuto said coming up behind me.
Just then, hundreds of clones appeared surrounding us.
"A big problem."
Its kinda short sorry but i have this story written for the next ten or so chaps, so no disappointment!
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