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Chapter 11: Now that that's settled…
"WAIT!!!!!" Zakuro cried while dragging Arata through the door. "I wanna see this!" She yelled taking one of Naruto's famous faces. "And you Arata?" Daiki asked, annoyed. "She just decided to take me with her. You know how over-protective Hayate-sama is of her- I think I just saved us an earful by coming along." Arata claimed while straitening himself up. "Plus, I like my apartment. Hayate-sama's nice and all, but Naruto lives here." Zakuro said.
Naruto smiled while everyone else stared blankly at the water manipulator. "Oh, and don't be surprised if people start walking in to see your fight. I posted a sign outside of the building." Zakuro smiled. Everyone sweatdropped. "Zakuro…" Arata began. "Get a life." Her other teammate finished.
"You heard about the chunin exams too?" A boy with green spandex asked. "Of course I did! And they said that the Kakashi has a team this year!" A girl responded. She had two buns in her hair and wore pink Asian inspired cloths- as did her teammates. "The Kakashi? That's unheard of." A boy with glazy, pupil-less eyes began. "Well, either way, it all sounds very sad."
Spandex boy turned to the pupil-less one. "But, Neji! Haruno Sakura's on that team! And…and…and SASUKE'S HAVING A BATTLE WITH ONE OF HAYATE-SENSEI'S PRODIGIES!!!" He shouted. That practically grabbed his teammates' attention. Neji glanced at the sign, then at the building. "Hn.(1) This is going to be interesting." Neji said while walking into the apartment building. "Come on Lee." The girl of the group said. "Ok Tenten!" Lee cried while running after the two.
"To make this more interesting, there should be rules." Sakura said. She glared at Zakuro every once in a while, but didn't want anyone to expect anything was going on between them. "Sure. (munch, munch) What do you suggest?" Choji asked while chomping on a baby-back rib. "Um…how about we all sit on opposite sides of the arena? Whoever wants Sasuke to win will sit on the blue side, and whoever wants Daiki to win will sit on the red side. Daiki turned to Sakura. "But if you don't know me, why would you want to sit on the same side as me?" He asked arrogantly.
"It doesn't matter what side I sit on as long as Daiki looses." Zakuro concluded while closing her eyes. She continued to drag Arata over to the bench. More sweatdrops as the blue haired girl dragged her brother figure to a bench. "AND I DON'T WANT EITHER ONE TO WIN!!!!!!" Naruto yelled. "Sasuke's a chicken and Daiku's mean!!!" Arata and Zakuro laughed. "His name is Daiki (Ha-ha) not Daiku.!" Zakuro said through laughter.
"OK…" Ino began. "…New rules." "Sure." Shikamaru said. "Don't kill anyone, ok?" Shikamaru said. Ino sighed and Choji almost chocked on his rib.
That's what happens when you try to do two things at once. (2)
"Stick to eating Choji." Kiba said laughing while Shino's bugs helped scare the bone Choji had caught in his throat out. "DON'T DO THAT!!!" Choji hollered running towards the exit. Everyone laughed. Kiba and Hinata were sitting next to eachother, but he kept noticing her looking in Naruto's direction. Being the clueless boy he is, he shrugged it off-even though he could smell her affection. (3)
"Ooh! Ooh! I have a rule!" Naruto yelled childishly. "Yes?" Zakuro asked while giggling. 'Yep. I'm definitely not hangin' out with Naurto.' She thought sighing to herself. "WE SHOULD-
Just then, Neji, Lee, and Tenten walked in. When Lee saw Sakura, he blushed wildly and got a bump in the head from TenTen. "Stop it!" She whispered. He nodded. "Remember; we come in, and when it's over, we leave. Don't give out names until the chunin exams." Neji stated. "Ok." Tenten responded.
"How did you get here?" Sasuke asked glaring at the three new faces in the room. Everyone else stared at them. Zakuro recognized them, but didn't know them by name. "After I signed in, we came up here. I live here." Lee said while beaming. Everyone looked at him. He got strange and hideous faces. "What's up with the bushy brows?" Naruto asked while looking creeped out. It was true that Lee's eyebrows were big, but Gai's are bigger. 'He looks familiar…' Sakura and Sasuke thought trying to remember where they saw those eyebrows. And that outfit. Green spandex isn't common in Japan.
"So, um, anyways…" Zakuro began. "Let's just start the fight, okay?" "Sure." Both Sasuke and Daiki responded, getting into fighting positions. Sasuke noticed how strange Daiki looked in his position. 'What kind of stance is that?' Sasuke thought. Daiki snickered when Sasuke didn't make the first move and charged ahead throwing a punch. His opponent quickly dodged doing a backflip in hopes of kicking Daiki in the face. Unfortunately for the Uchiha, Daiki entered his guard again after parrying.
Both boys jumped back. This time it was Sasuke who attacked first throwing about 30punches to Daiki's ribcage. He only dodged half of the kicks Daiki threw as he was slowly being pushed back inch by inch due to the Uchiha's constant punches. Both continued to strike as if trying to test eachother's strength before actually sparring. They seemed to be toying around with eachother.
"Now," Sasuke began slowly while catching his breath. It's hard to breath after being kicked in the face about 50 times. "Let's begin." Daiki said, smiling. Gaara watched in interest. He had heard of Daiki's Kekkai Genkai, but he had never seen it.
Daiki charged forward like the devil was on his trail. Beginning a roundhouse kick, the boy jumped up in the air almost like a bird trying to fly. Once above Sasuke's guard, Daiki threw both fists down on Sasuke's shoulders eventually opening his hands to grab the boy. 'Oh…my…god…he wouldn't!!!' Both Zakuro and Arata thought as they watched their teammate practice on Sasuke. The Uchiha prodigy looked confused and tried to move away, but Daiki's grip was so tight, he couldn't. 'First off, how did he get in my guard, and secondly, what the hell is he doing?!' He was surprised at how his opponent had gotten into his guard, but he never expected this; Daiki was doing a hand stand, and all of his weight was on Sasuke! 'A very strange position…' Sakura thought. Well, everyone thought that. "DAIKISTOPRIGHTNOW YOU COULD KILL HIM!!! YOUDON'TEVENKNOWWHATTHEHECKYOU'REDOING!!!" Zakuro yelled from her seat. How she was able to say that in one breath however…
Instead of listening to his teammate, Daiki shouted "Spinning flames!!!" Flames were visible and made his legs appear to be spinning rapidly. His whole body had began to be covered in flames as Sasuke tried to squirm away, but there was no way out; The flames on Daiki's hands began to melt the part of Sasuke's shirt that he had trapped in his grip. Sasuke began screaming- not some girly, retarded scream, but a scream none the less. When Zakuro saw the gasoline (chakra) leaking out of Daiki's body onto Sasuke's shirt, she quickly threw bombs made of water at Daiki. He would have burned Sasuke's entire body with that single attack.
Arata jumped out of his seat and ran down to the arena's center where the spar had taken place. He threw kunai at Daiki bringing his whole body to a wall that he created purely out of chakra. Everyone watched in amazement as the team fussed with eachother occasionally throwing elemental balls at one another. Arata and Daiki started-being the boys of the group. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?!" "I WASN'T GOING TO KILL HIM!!!" "YES YOU WERE!!!"
Zakuro went over to aid Sasuke. He was burned badly and needed medical attention. When Sakura saw her crush in anguish and pain like that, she decided then and there that she wanted to be a medic nin. Nothing would stop her. She was determined to be able to save his life. That was all she needed. She would never be weak in his eyes again. Ever.
"This is interesting…" Neji commented while beginning to walk away from his teammates. "It's the flames of youth." Lee said. "Oh really." Tenten said sarcastically. "Yes. When two or more shinobi's flames clash, their youthful chakra will begin to take control and BOOM!!! The flames of youth are born!!!" Lee cried. By this time, more ninja came in to see the fight the three comrades had started.
"Looks like they're not gonna last!" Kankuro shouted, thinking that he had one less team to worry about during the exams. Gaara just stared at them- more like Zakuro. "There's something about the girl…" He began. "Oh? Gaara got a crush?" His older brother asked obnoxiously. When Gaara glared at him, he got really quiet. "I think he means there's something about her chakra." Temari says, trying to be a piece maker. Her nervous smile indicated to Gaara that it was time to leave- before he killed his own teammates.
"alright Kakashi, I'll see ya'." Asuma said. "Goodbye Kakashi-sama." Kurenai said. Both began walking in the same direction before disappearing in thin air. Kakashi shrugged. "I still don't understand you Kakashi. I completely agree with Iruka. That's why I gave my kids a year to mature even though they're the best." Gai said while coming up behind the ninja. "Your kids are know-it-all, wannabe Chinese ninja that don't know anything about surprises-unlike my clan. I've seen all of the clans spar at one point in time and mark my words Gai, your clan will eat team7's dust." Kakashi countered walking towards the door. He suddenly stopped, turned back, and smiled.
"Now Gai? I've gotta go do something important. You go do whatever you want with your ant crew and meet me at the chunin side entrance at 3:45." "Sure thing…" Gai grumbled walking away.
"Gee, what's goin' on?" Naruto asked. He was slightly confused once other ninja came to the arena to help Arata and Zakuro. Everyone had begun to fight eachother. Then, out of nowhere, "STOP! THIS IS TOO TROUBLESOME." Shikamaru's father said. Everyone stopped and looked at the man. He didn't have to yell to get the attention of the many ninja in the room-he had such a booming voice, why would he? Immediately, everyone one-besides Shikamaru- lined up and bowed to the older Nara. "Well, at least you know when to give honor where honor is due. Come on Shika, Ino, Choji." The three left, but not before Ino blew Sasuke a kiss-which he rejected.
"Now what?" Naruto asked Zakuro. She and Arata were dragging an unconscious Daiki up the stairs. "Well…we all need to rest because our chakra is exhausted, but we'll swing over to Shika's place later I guess." When Zakuro didn't look Naruto in the eyes he instantly knew something was up. 'Zakuro?' He thought, racing down the steps to join the other teams.
"So, you all met Maito Gai's team." Team9's sensei asked his students. "Well," Arata began. "Not exactly…" Zakuro finished off. "Well you need to know them. I heard that they were all very skilled- especially Hyuga Neji." 'Hyuga??' Zakuro urgently thought. "Do you have a picture or document with him-or them- on there?" She asked, sounding excited, but not happy. "Yeah, why?" Hayate questioned. "I know a Hyuga, but it's a girl. I want to see if they resemble eachother." The girl answered. Her sensei sighed and pulled out the documents he had on the team. Arata looked worried when Zakuro's eyes widened after seeing Neji's picture.
'He…Dark…look alike??!!??!! I-I--I never noticed! I always saw the back of his head…never the front of his face. Had I known…that this…would happen…so many memories…' "…zakuro…" She faintly heard. "…Zakuro…" And again, she heard it; she heard someone calling her name. But who? Who could reach into her mind and pull her back into the real world? "…ZAKURO…" Zakuro suddenly snapped out of her daze and drifted back into the room with her sensei and teammate.
"What's wrong? You look sick. Pale. What's so scary about Neji that you-of all people- would turn as white as a sheet? Huh?" Arata, her only native hidden leaf teammate asked. She shook her head like Arata would understand that-and in her mind, she probably thought he could. "I don't get it, Zakuro. Why would he make you sick?!" Arata demanded.
'Because…he looks like my love.
The boy from above
My only love
Because… he shouldn't be here.
Not as some reincarnation
He should disappear
Because I can't stand the pain.
The heartache I suffered
In the rain
Because I am Zakuro of the rain.
And I constantly fight my past
As the bloody dame'
Zakuro staggered up the stairs of her Sensei's house, going to her bed away from home. Arata wanted to help her, but Hayate gave him a look meaning 'let her walk'.
"Sasuke should be fine after a little rest and rubbing alcohol." Kakashi told his crew while the crowd slowly diminished in size before only apart of rookie13 remained; teams7 and 8. "That's great!!!" Sakura cheered, running up to Kakashi and hugging him. "Sasuke got his butt kicked!" Naruto exclaimed and Hinata giggled in the background. "So Blondie, you on for tonight?" Kiba asked Naruto. They were going to spar outside of Shikamaru's house later on today. "YEAH!!!" Naruto screamed. "Just remember to be as swift as a centipede running for its life, Naruto. Kiba's fast." Shino commented. "Oh, whatever! WHEN I BEAT KIBA, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE THAT I WILL BE THE NEXT HOKAGE!!!" Naruto exclaimed. He was so excited that he didn't notice the three students watching him in the doorway…
"Sure you are…when my sister has a PIG for a baby!!!" Kiba yelled back. Naruto fit in more with team8 than any other team-excluding Zakuro's. "yeah, yeah, you madman. I'll show you!" Naruto yelled. After patching Sasuke up and waving goodbye to everyone, the two teams went on their way.
'The bloody dame who fights the war that was never supposed to be fought.
She thinks she doesn't exist.
She's delusional and insane on many more crescendos than most.
She's an eyesore stuck in the midst.
The battle…Neji…and Dark…my love…I…am so…confused…'
Zakuro slowly drifted away from these thoughts into a dream. Her dream was peaceful and quiet. At least that's what she thought…
1)Not sure wat the one is 4, but Neji says 'Hn' according 2 other writrs
2)Choji tried 2 laugh
3)Kiba can smell but was 2 stupid 2 get the hint- he's not dumb just clueless
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