A/N: Okay, so no reviews and a measly amount of hits for the last chapter. Fine, sure. I can just about deal with that; I wasn't expecting to get famous overnight or anything. I guess I'm more accustomed to reviews flooding through since I'm actually doing quite well in the hunger games fandom; but hey, I'm new here. No-one knows how generally fantastic I am. Please drop off a review once you're finished then, if anyone actually has bothered to read to this chapter then you might as well pop in a review, even if you don't have a fanfiction account... please? *puppy dog eyes*

One time too many, Oki sensei had let them down.

"What do you mean the chunin exams start tomorrow?" Kaida gasped at the notion, staring at her sensei's cherub face to find a lie. She found none.

"She means the chunin exams stat tomorrow. Tomorrow," Mareo sighed and shook his head in exasperation, trying to drown out the inevitable sinking feeling that seemed to flood through his stomach. So much for relaxing for the evening.

"Well, okay I admit, it's a bit short notice but I know how amazing you three can be!" squealed Oki, trying to cheer them up. From the look on their faces she wasn't exactly successful. "Time to try another tactic," Oki muttered and turned onto the three young genin, her face about as flustered as theirs, "pull yourself together, and you call yourself a shinobi? Weren't you boasting about how you were 'sooo going to ace' the chunin exam Kaida? And you Mareo... you seemed unusually upbeat about the whole idea. Even Chiko consented with barely a stammer, come on; you know you want to do this guys!"

"Oh... okay then," Chiko eventually mumbled into the stunned silence as Kaida and possibly even Mareo gawped at Oki, her pearly white teeth glistening in the rather pathetic looking sun and her thumb pointing upwards at the sky, upright in both posture and attitude. You would have had to guess really if Mareo was gawping, since the bandages masked almost every expression he made, only the rare glisten in his one showing eye would tell you whether we was contented or not. For often than not it was the former.

"Right... shall we fit in some last minute training then?" beamed an over enthusiastic Oki.

"What's the point," sighed Mareo, "Oh no, I forgot. This is sooo my life dream."

"Good attitude recover, I would have thought after the last time you said a pessimistic thing you would have learnt. Now I know you want to keep up your stamina and all, so what do you think about doing some mental training, preparing the mind and what-not?"

"How incredibly useful."

"Mareo," hissed Kaida, "we should sooo go for it, I mean..."

Her words cut off her tongue as the thought rushed through her brain, and however much she tried to mask the fact, it had still been there. We need all the help me can get.

"Are t-there, are there any other rookies this year?" Chiko said quietly, bending his head down to the floor even more, if that was possible.

"Nope, but who cares?" sighed Oki contently, leaning back on her hands slightly, "So then guys, lesson one – chakra types."

"C-chakra types?" Chiko stammered, briefly glancing up at Oki when he asked her.

"Yes, chakra types. Basically there's five main chakra types. Fire, earth, wind, water and lightning."

"But we already know all this sensei," Kaida whined.

"Well what you don't know is that when two or more chakra types are combined it can rise to create some definitely epic jutsu," Oki said, a smile playing across her lips.

"Err... yes we did," sighed Kaida, rolling her eyes for once instead of Mareo.

"Well what you really don't know is which chakra types my jutsu is."

"You mean your amazing rainbow jutsu?" sighed Mareo, a sneer creeping into his voice yet it remained undetected by the others.

"Think about it, well then you lot - what makes up a rainbow?" Oki smiled a bit too warmly maybe for any of the young genin's liking. Why was she being so nice to them all of a sudden?

"Err... water and h-heat?" Chiko piped up from his quiet hunched figure.

"Correct, and where do you get heat from?"

"The sun!" Kaida exclaimed happily, as if it was the greatest achievement she had ever made.

"Correct, and what is the sun in essence?"

"A giant fireball," grunted Mareo reluctantly.

"And what are fireballs made out of?" Prompted Oki.

"Fire; water and fire!" chirped Kaida suddenly, her face lighting up, "so your chakra type is water and fire?"

"Correct," Oki smiled, a faint glow of admiration in her deep blue eyes which seemed to be bottomless just like the ocean, the very thing she was named after.

"So... what kind of chakra type is ice styled jutsu then?" Kaida asked questionably.

"Aha! Glad you asked. Basically it's just water at the moment, nothing too lengthy. And you," Oki added, swivelling to Mareo, "your lightning jutsu is quite obviously lightning. No need for any stretched brains there."

"And- and me?" stuttered Chiko.

"Aha, now we come to you Chiko. Now I'm afraid, since you actually haven't shown much development to any certain style of jutsu that I simply don't know. I could get you to try out this test for it, but I think that perhaps it's best if you find out yourself in your own time."

"Oh," is all Chiko said, but it was clearly an 'oh' of slight disappointment.

"Hey sensei," Kaida suddenly butted in, "so if you have both water and fire chakra inside of you, why is it that all you can produce is lame rainbows?"

"They are not 'lame rainbows'!" Oki snapped defensively, "They are in fact a highly advanced form of genjutsu and even can stretch to ninjutsu with their ultimate destructive power, mesmerising the senses and convincing either the enemy or the beholder, depending on the jutsu cast, that they are in true peace and harmony, making them become one with the rainbow's ultimate power."

"Of course, the rainbow's ultimate power," parroted Mareo, clearly not impressed.

"But that doesn't answer my question sensei, how come you can only do lame rainbow gen and ninjutsu?"

"They are not lame rain... Oh never mind," Oki sighed reluctantly, giving in. "The fact of the matter is that I can't only do rainbow gen and ninjutsu, just that that's my area of expertise. You should know by now, what with me burning your hand when it reached a certain level near me, that I can combine both fire and water together."

"Both fire and water?" parroted Chiko in fascination and awe.

"Yes- oh, I'd wish you'd stop parroting me. Anyway, indeed; I can boil water just by willing it to do so with my chakra, not just making me a very good housewife but also an excellent ninja."

"An excellent ninja, right," sighed Mareo, unimpressed.

"Now I think that's just about it for this lesson. I have a very important... meeting... to attend to."

"You mean your date with Gai sensei? Which you're sooo looking forward to?" sneered Kaida cruelly, a mocking look on both her face and playing across her lips.

"It is not a date. Like I'd go out with a creep like that. No, we merely have to go over the details of our last mission before filing a report. I can't tell you how much I've been dreading this..."

"It's a date," whispered Kaida to Chiko under her breath in a melodious tone, giggling in her high pitched girly voice.

"Think what you want," Oki snapped in a frustrated manner while folding her arms defensively across her chest. "You have no idea the strain I have to go through to support the leaf village, going to meetings alone with... him."

"Ha ha sensei, you secretly fancy him, don't you?" Kaida winked playfully.

"Oh by the way Kaida, and this applies to all of you," Oki smiled sweetly, beckoning them all forward with a menacing finger, "don't keep on brushing me the wrong way or I think I'll withdraw my statement deeming you ready for the chunin exams. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes sir- ma'am... sensei!"

"O-oh, yes."

"Clear as a rainbow."