Another update today! Wow im on a roll :D anyway hope you've like the story so far, and will continue to like it. Im hoping to reach about...30 chapters on this story. Then a Sequel but we'll see how things go (: Its coming up to the summer holidays here, ive only got a few more days of school. Then I can write to my hearts content.
So this chapter we will be briefly going past the fights, focusing more on Sasuke's for obvious reasons. But I hate writing fight scene's so yeah -.-
Enjoy!
Also I do warn there is a little bit of swearing in this chapter :)
I remained still as the genin finally poured into the room, there were more then I expected that made it through. But I honestly didnt care at this stage, Not many would make it past this or even participate in the Final part in a months time.
"Well done for passing the second exam, We will now have an explanation of the third exam by Hokage-sama." Anko announced. The genin started to chat and were getting on my nerves.
"Everyone pay attention and listen." I said loudly. They all stopped talking and looked to the Hokage.
"Thank you. The third exam will begin but before the explanation theres one thing I want to make clear to all of you." He began, with his pipe resting between his lips.
"Its about the true purpose of this exam.. Why we do a joint examination with the allied nations. To maintain good relations with the allied nations and heighten the level of the ninja. Do not let those reasons deceive you. This exam is, so to speak, the epitome of a war between the allied nations." Most of the genin looked confused at the Hokages words but it was easy to understand after the previous wars.
He continued to explain the history of the wars and how the chuunin exam came to be but the genin didnt seem to understand the point in it.
"It is to select those worthy of the title of chuunin but on the other hand it is a place for ninja to fight and carry their nations dignity." I said jumping down and standing with the rest of the elder ninja. The Hokage turned and nodded at me with a smile then turned back to face the genin.
"In this third exam feudal lords and famous people from various other countries who may be potential clients are invited here as guests." He carried on "And feudal lords from countries with hidden villages and ninja leaders will see your battles. If theres a significant difference in power, the strong country will be flooded with jobs. If a country is seen as weak, their jobs will decrease." After continuing for another 5 - 10 minutes and several interruptions by the genin, Hayate appeared and began to do the explanation instead of Hokage-sama.
"In this case it must have been because the first and second exam were too easy I dont know but there are too many examinees left. According to Chuunin regulations we must decrease the number of participants for the third exam . We are on limited time so those who dont feel well-" He began another coughing fit. Poor Hayate.
"Excuse me. If anyone wants to quit after hearing the explanation please let me know." The genin looked amongst each other seeing if anyone would break. I noticed Sakura starting to cry to Sasuke, probably about the curse seal. He was clutching his shoulder tightly, a clear give away that its there. I walked over to Ibiki, Anko and Hokage-sama to catch their brief conversation about it.
"What should we do?" Ibiki asked staring down at my brother.
"We should take him out of the exam and isolate him with ANBU guards." Oh hell no. Just as I was about to bite Anko's head off Kakashi came up behind me and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"He's not the type to listen to you that easily. He is part of the famous Uchiha clan after all." He said calmly keeping his hand on my shoulder. Anko didnt seem to agree with this.
"Stop fooling around! Ill make him quit even if I have to use force. The curse seal reacts when he tries to mold chakra and it will try to extract power out of him." That was the last straw, I walked up and grabbed her by the fron of her shirt. Friend or not no one threatens Sasuke but me.
"You lay one finger on him Anko and Ill break all of yours." I said activating my sharingan. "I am just as aware of the seal as you are, dont forget that and he is my brother. If the occasion calls for it I will be the one to deal with him. Not you." I kept my hold on her shirt for a minute before releasing it and stepping back. My eyes never leaving hers so she knew I was serious.
"Hokage-sama.." Her voice strained. Did she not understand me before?
I looked on as Kabuto the silver haired guy with glasses disqualified himself and left before the fights even began. Now that didnt seem right, why get past the forest of death just to quit? I'll have to keep my eye on the guy... I sighed and watched as Sakura tried to plead with Sasuke to tell someone about his 'bruise' like we didnt know already baka. Then she started to cry and I just wanted to slap her, I dont mind her but she needs to man up if she is serious about becoming a chuunin.
Then again I wanted to slap Sasuke I could tell by his body language he was once again speaking his 'Im an avenger' speech. Blah blah blah stupid emo kid.
"Lets let Sasuke go on and just observe him for now." Hokage-sama said blowing out a puff of smoke, earning a wide eyed reaction from Anko. My patience was really starting to wear thin.
"However, if the curse seal opens up and his powers become uncontrollable, Riku you will be the one who has to stop him." I nodded in agreement, at least it would be me and not her. She wanted to argue but agreed as it was the Hokages orders.
"Then we will begin the preliminary matches. Each match will be one on one in other words it will be like real combat. Now that we have exactly 20 people, there will be 10 matches and the winners will advance to the third exam. There are no rules You will fight until the other person dies, gets knocked out or admits defeat. If you do not want to die, please leave immediately. However if I judge the match is over I may stop you to prevent any unnecessary deaths." He coughed out.
"This electric bulletin board will randomly display the names of two fighters for each match." Most of them looked pretty nervous incase they were in the first match, or if they would be facing their friends.
What stupid things to be worrying about, there are much bigger things they should worry about in life. In a way I hated how innocent they were, but I think that was because I was basically robbed of my innocence when I was a child due to my up bringing.
"We will now draw the first two opponents" He announced as the board began to flicker through different names of participants. Eventually it came to a stop and just my luck, my baby brother was starting.
"The first match is between Uchiha Sasuke and Akado Yoroi, step up." I kept my gaze on Sasuke until he got to Hayate. I quickly moved closer toward Kakashi and before he could say anything I interrupted him.
"We're sealing it after his match." I ordered without looking at him.
"Everyone apart from the fighters please move up onto the balconies." All of the younglings and their teachers headed up onto the balconies while me and Kakashi walked towards team 7. I gave them all a small smile before walking past and up to Kurenai and Asuma. I noticed Kakashi say something to Sasuke, probably about the curse seal. He walked up and stood beside me.
"He understands?" I asked not looking at him. He nodded and turned his attention to the match infront of us. We watched with absolute focus as the match started.
His opponent started by making hand seals causing Sasuke to go into a fighting stance. He was looking too confident for this situation. Yoroi's hands became covered in chakra, a move I recognise very well. Its a dirty technique, how would a genin know this? They both threw weapons at each other but as Sasuke tried to defend himself the curse seal caused him to lose focus and Yoroi disappeared. He tried to attack Sasuke but he manage to move out of the way in time for his fist to come crashing into the floor. He tripped him over and grabbed his arm only for Yoroi to activate his technique. He began to drain the Chakra from Sasuke weakening him further.
The beady eyed ninja as I named him jumped backwards leaving Sasuke gasping on the floor. It was almost painful to watch as he ran back towards him and grabbed his skull once again activating his technique. Ive never wanted to interfere so badly. He couldnt fight back as much as he wanted to incase the seal activated so he was struggling to keep up with Yoroi.
I tried to move down to interfere but was stopped by Kakashi grabbing my hand. I looked to him with pleading eyes but he just shook his head and continued to watch the match, never releasing my hand. Sakura seemed to notice and turn a slight tinge of pink but said nothing about the fact her sensei was holding my hand.
Every looked on with shocked expressions and he continued to drain Sasuke of what little chakra he had left.
'Come on Sasuke you're stronger then this! You have to get him off you! Please!'
I silently prayed to whatever god there was up there that Sasuke would get that fucker off him. And what do you know, it worked.
"Get off!" Sasuke shouted, giving him a strong kick to the chest. I did an imaginary happy dance as Sasuke got to his feet. The Yoroi guy started running at him again with a blue hand but he was more prepared this time. He dodged him a few times then tried to start working on an offensive strategy. He looked to the Guy look alike and something seemed to click in his head. Maybe a move he'd copied with the sharingan..
Yoroi started attacking again, but Sasuke managed to dodge every attack and started working on taking this guy down. He disappeared then reappeared below him giving a nice kick to the jaw sending him into the air. He jumped up behind him and started to initiate his attack but disaster struck. The curse seal began to flow on one side of his body. My face dropped and my grip on Kakashi's hand increased. He noticed it aswell and gave my hand a gentle squeeze. As I was about to release his hand and take Sasuke out, the curse seal began to withdraw. THATS MY BOY! Through sheer will power he didnt let it take over.
My faced exploded into a smile as I watched him continue with his attack on Yoroi. He did multiple aerial attacks before finishing him off with his new 'Lion Combo.' Both of them fell to the floor un moving. For a minute I paniced before Hayate inspected both of them and found Sasuke to be the winner. I looked to Kakashi and he nodded at me. Just as Sasuke was about to fall back onto the floor we appeared behind him and I caught him with my arms.
"Well done Sasuke." I said proudly giving him a pat on the shoulder. Where as Kakashi had to be the idiot in this situation.
"You did okay." -.- Really Kakashi...
Everyone looked on in either shock or amazement but there were the few who looked simply puzzled by it. But I didnt care he passed and was as alright as he could be. I heard that Ino girl squeel like a fan girl about how cool he was. I wanted to face palm. A medic came up and tried to treat Sasuke but we needed to seal the curse mark first.
"Its alright we'll take him we need to talk to him but thank you for offering your services." I said politely causing the medic to blush and walk off. Kakashi gave me a strange look while I just shrugged at him. I helped Sasuke up and we walked with him out of the arena. Maaaan I wanted to watch the other matches. Stupid little brother..
We set up the sealing ritual and place Sasuke in the center. While Kakashi marked the floor, I had to write the seals on Sasuke.
"Urgh I hate this, its always so messy!" I whined, as I finished writing on Sasuke's back. I stood up and looked to Kakashi where he nodded and walked over. Worry was etched all over my face and I didnt even try to hide it. There would be no point.
"Bear with this a little, it'll be over in no time." He said reassuringly. I dont know whether he was talking to me or Sasuke. Im hoping Sasuke... He nodded to Kakashi to begin and he started forming hand seals. I didnt want to watch but I couldnt tear my eyes away. One seal after another until.
"Fuuja Houin! (Evil Suppresor)" Kakashi said placing his hand on the curse seal. Sasuke screamed out in pain as a bright light filled the room and there was nothing I could do about it. I felt guilty that he had to go through this, he's just a child. He continued to wail in pain as the seal around the mark started to form. Soon Kakashi took his hand off and there the seal was around the mark. Sasuke keeled over in pain breathing heavily.
"If the curse mark tries to activate again, the power of the evil suppressor will hold it in." Kakashi said softly, I knew he didnt like seeing Sasuke in pain aswell. I crouched down beside him and rested my hand on his shoulder trying to relax him. But he just fainted onto the floor. I sighed and stood up and walked over to Kakashi.
"Why didnt I get to him in time? We wouldnt of had to do this..." I said very quietly, looking at my feet.
"Its not your fault Riku, it wasnt your shift you wouldnt of been allowed into the exam grounds even if you wanted to." He replied tilting my head up to face him.
"But he's marked for life like me. Why cant that bastard leave us alone?" I said, my eyes starting to sting. I would not cry infront of him, I cannot let him see me cry again.. Before Kakashi could give me any sort of comfort we sensed another presence in the room. I could already feel the bile rising in my stomach.
"So you can use sealing techniques now?" His voice purred as he came out from behind a pillar. "You've grown Kakashi."
We both turned to face him as he walked into the light.
"You're..." Kakashi began, he was in shock looking at him wide eyed.
"Orochimaru." I said looking at the snake with anger, my hand immediately went to my own neck. Had he come to rub it in that he had marked the two surviving Uchiha members? He looked to me then to Kakashi.
"Im sorry but I have no business with you Kakashi-kun." He said before turning he gaze to me. "However I have business with you Riku-chan and the boy behind you." I growled at him before stepping back infront of Sasuke.
"Why do you want them?" Kakashi asked keeping a firm tone of voice.
"You're lucky since you already got what you wanted. You didnt have that a long time ago." It clicked in my head then and there. He was after the Sharingan?
"That Sharingan in your left eye!" He said, his mouth twisting into a sick smirk. Kakashi's shoulders tensed and his face began to show his anger.
"I want it too." Orochimaru said looking directly at me. My stomach churned and my head felt light.
"And you wonder why we dont like you?" I murmured to myself, getting a small chuckle from the scaley bastard himself.
"Well Uchiha's powers that is."
"What is your purpose?" Kakashi asked making Orochimaru's gaze fall back on him.
"The recently made Hidden Village Of The Sound is mine. You understand if I just say that, right?" My face screwed up in disgust at him.
"What a fucking stupid ambition." I spat at him. He laughed and tilted his head at me.
"Oh my... That was blunt. And such awful language from such a beautiful lady. Didnt you parent teach you manners? Oh I forgot they were murdered by your brother." He said sweetly, I tried to go for him but Kakashi got a hold on my waist and held me tightly in place. My sharingan burning like fire in my eyes.
"Sasuke-kun and you Riku-chan are the pieces I need to achive my ambition. And the ones taking th exam right now are merely sacrifices." He said with grin on his face. Like he found pleasure and amusement out of this.
"You sick piece of shit!" I screamed once again trying to fight against Kakashi's iron grip. Orochimaru started taking steps towards us and I could feel my body start to shake in rage. But I couldnt let it take a hold of me, Id end up injurying Kakashi. Suddenly Kakashi appeared infront of me and got into the stance for his chidori. I jumped back and stood defensively infront of Sasuke.
"Dont you touch them!" He shouted at the snake before forming the chidori in his palm. Orochimaru's cool exterior faulted for a moment.
"Even if you are one of the legendary Sannin I will sacrifice my life to protect Riku and Sasuke." I swear it was the wrong moment but my heart did skip a beat. He would die for me? Orochimaru just started to laugh which only increased my anger.
"WHATS SO GOD DAMM FUNNY?" I shouted at him, he just looked up and smiled.
"What you say and do dont agree with each other." He said causing Kakashi's eyes to widen. "Theres no point in using that seal you know right? He has a heart that seeks power no matter how evil it is. He possesses that kind of disposition, he is an avenger.." I really did start to feel scared for Sasuke, despite wanting to ignore what Orochimaru was saying, that could happen to Sasuke. He was so focused on killing Itachi, to avenge our family he could take the wrong path to reach his goal.
"Eventually he will seek me out. Seek me out for power that is." He said before walking off into the dark. Kakashi just stood there while I fell to my knee's infront of Sasuke. I couldnt wrap my head around what was happening. FML.
We got Sasuke to the hospital to recover and headed back to the preliminary arena to watch the rest of the matches. I hoped Sasuke would recover well, he'll need it in the third exam. I could just feel he would be against the red hed from Suna. I had read up on each participant to see what I would have to do in the worst case scenario and I think id be screwed if he got out of control. His name is Sabaku No Gaara, the Jinchuriki of the one tailed shukaku and son of the fourth Kazekage. He and his siblings made up the team from Suna under the leadership of some guy called Baki. I feel sorry for who ever faces him in the preliminaries...
When we got back to the arena Sakura was the first to ask about Sasuke naturally...
"He's fine just at the hospital resting now." I said faking a smile, Kakashi nodded beside me and we walked over and leaned against the wall once again. I didnt want to be here watching pointless children fight. I'd rather be with Sasuke...Seeing as he has ANBU escorts with him. I dont see why family cant guard family. Argh damm you rules! I sighed and Lent my head against Kakashi's shoulder. He said nothing and carried on watching the current match. This was going to be a loooooong day...
Thank for reading! it took me longer then I wanted to write this but I watched the anime at the same time so for the important bits I could use actual quotes instead of making it up :) Ewwww Orochimaru gives me the major heebie jeebies... but he is a big part of the Naruto storyline so sadly I cant cut him out as much as I want to :( More special moments between Kakashi and Riku in this chapter, you can already see their relationship changing! Woo! anyways, im not going to be writing anymore on the preliminarys so next chapter Im going to skip to the month where people are training and do a filler chapter!
hope you enjoyed it and please review!
Hikari! xxx