AKT 11

The next match was announced as soon as the janitorial staff finished mopping up Misumi.

Sabaku no Temari vs. Tenten

"*cough* Well, since Tenten has already forfeited, *cough* the winner by default is *cough* Temari." Gekkou signaled for the match randomizer to cycle again.

Hyuuga Neji vs. Akadou Yoroi

As the two reached the floor, Neji smirked and made his declaration, "You are destined to lose this match. One cannot fight one's destiny; you should forfeit now and save yourself the embarrassment."

"All I have to do is touch you and it's over. Jyuuken is worthless without chakra." Yoroi replied.

"Humph."

"*cough* You heard the restrictions *cough* from the previous matches. Those *cough* still apply. *cough* Begin." Gekkou jumped away as Neji activated his Byakugan.

Neji slipped into the standard Gentle Fist stance and Yoroi went through a few hand seals, causing his hands to begin to glow blue.

"Come, face your fate." Neji taunted.

Yoroi charged, trying to grapple with the Hyuuga. He hadn't taken three steps when Neji smirked, bringing him up short. "What are you smiling about?" Yoroi asked.

"You are within my divination," Neji replied. His stance shifted, one hand in front of him one hand behind, bent forward at the waist and called out his jutsu, "Eight trigrams sixty four palms [Hakke Rokujuuyon Shou]." A series of rapid strikes bombarded Yoroi, and when it was over, he simply fell to his knees, and then fell on his face, unable to move.

"Well. *cough* That was anticlimactic. *cough* Winner: Neji Hyuuga."

XXX

[Meanwhile, back at the hall of justice… err… I mean with Kakashi and Naruko]

Kakashi led Naruko into an empty examination room. He directed her to sit on the bed, while he leaned against the wall facing her. That he was not reading a certain orange book should have clued Naruko in that this was not a casual conversation.

"…"

"What?" Naruko asked after a minute of silence.

"Are you going to tell me what just happened back there?"

Naruko sighed and said, "Listen, I'm having a really bad time right now, and I don't feel like talking about it. Besides, it's none of your business anyway."

"Let me tell you what I saw. I saw you acting erratically, probably due to emotional stress from some unknown source. After not even trying, you apparently gave up and somehow allowed the nine tails to take over your body temporarily. Am I correct?"

"… Yeah, basically."

Kakashi pushed off of the wall and assumed an 'instructor/sensei pose' and said, "Well, first of all, you are a member of my squad, which means that anything that could affect your combat readiness is automatically my business, and since this obviously does, it's my business. Secondly, if there is even the remote possibility of the nine tailed fox getting loose, that is the business of every ninja in this village higher than the rank of chuunin. Since you apparently let the Kyuubi take control of your body, that makes this my business, the Third's business, and the business of every leaf jounin, special jounin, ANBU, and elder in the village, so you are NOT getting out of this explanation."

Naruko just sat there for a few minutes, and Kakashi only refrained from saying more because he detected the slight shaking of her shoulders, indicating that she was sobbing silently.

Finally she spoke through tears, "Fine. You want to know what happened? Last night I went to Haku's apartment like I have been all week. When I got there, we made out for a while, but when he started to take my clothes off, I told him that I needed to rest for the third test today, and that I just wanted to go to sleep. *sob* He tried to force the issue, but I put my foot down and told him that no means no. *sniff* He said I was PMSing and called me a f-frigid b-bitch, *sob* then he tried to force himself on me anyway. *wail* Kakashi-sensei, he tried to rape me!"

At this point she broke down, unable to continue. Kakashi, not having any previous experience with hysterical teenage girls, didn't say anything. He just let her cry herself out until she collected herself and continued on her own.

"That's when I used my hiraishin to jump to my apartment. I barricaded the door and windows and tried to sleep. I couldn't sleep. *sniff* and on top of everything, my period is due this week, and I'm worried that it will be late."

At this point Kakashi unfroze, and showing a belated display of compassion, he handed her a box of tissues. [Kakashi's such a good father figure, isn't he?]

"Finally, *blow* I get here today, and that boy says that we're only good for s-sex! I just shut down. I couldn't handle it, so I just told the fox-teme to take over. I don't know what happened after that, I wasn't paying attention. What happened to that kiri-teme anyway? I didn't see him afterwards."

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head and replied, "Err, well the Kyuubi kind of ripped his arms off and stabbed him with them, and then he kind of backhanded him in the side of the head." 'I don't think I need to tell her right now that that backhand decapitated the boy.'

"Heh, heh heh, kukukukuku! I knew that fox could come through for me in this instance. Bitch got what he deserved." Naruko laughed. [By the way, 'kukuku' is the typical manga evil laugh. It's how Orochimaru laughs in the manga.]

"So. The Kitsune no Kyuubi is not, in fact, escaping? The seal is not weakening?" Kakashi asked.

"No. the seal is just fine. It transferred to his chest when I dissolved the cage, and I can put him back in the cage if I need to."

Kakashi gave one of his famous eye smiles and said, "Excellent. Well then, whenever you feel ready you may rejoin us in the examination hall. Or, rest here if you would like. Later!" He then proceeded to set a world record for fastest time to leave a distraught young girl alone by dashing out the door.

XXX

When Kakashi reentered the examination hall, he quickly walked over to where the Hokage was standing, and after giving him a quick recap of the conversation, walked over to stand with the other Jounin sensei.

The Hokage took a moment to process what he had just learned. Then he thought, 'He just left a distraught thirteen year old attempted rape victim alone with no one to talk to but a homicidal demon in her head? Note to self: sign Kakashi up for sensitivity training.'

Kakashi had returned just in time for the next match.

Akamichi Choji vs. Tsuchi Kin

As the two participants descended the stairs, Ino encouraged her teammate, "You can do it, Choji! Kick her ass!" Shikamaru stopped Choji for a moment, and whispered something in his ear. The rest of the Konoha rookies also gave their encouragement and wished him luck as he passed.

"*cough* Begin!"

The sound kunoichi drew a handful of senbon needles as Choji activated several hand seals and announced his jutsu, "Multi-size jutsu! [baika no jutsu]"

His opponent went wide-eyed at the sudden size increase of her opponent, but she decided that he still was not a true threat to her, and taunted, "So you can increase your size. You know what they say: the fatter they are, the harder they fall!"

Ino and Shikamaru paled, as Choji went red in the face before releasing his jutsu. He then reached into his weapons pouch, and withdrew a loop of steel wire with a long string of kunai attached. Draping the weapons over his shoulders, he re-activated his multi-size jutsu, the result being that he was now covered in kunai spikes. Retracting his head and arms, he called out his new jutsu, "Meat tank, spiky boulder!"

Kin tried to hit the now large target that was Choji with her senbon, but quickly gave up on that idea when all of them simply ricocheted randomly off of the rapidly rolling boy, one of them bouncing back at her forcing her to dodge.

Choji simply chased her around the room for a while, until he finally got her cornered. Hitting her head on, only her throwing up her arms protectively kept the kunai from completely shredding her. As it was, her arms and legs got heavily damaged, and seeing this, the proctor quickly ended the fight. "Winner: Choji Akimichi. *cough*"

The medics came in and carried Kin away as Choji resumed his usual size, and after putting away the strings of kunai, made his way back up to where his team was standing on the balcony.

"Good job Choji! You sure taught her!" cheered Ino. Shikamaru just gave his best friend a smile and a nod.

After the floor was given a quick cleaning, the next match was announced.

Rock Lee vs. Sabaku no Kankuro

"YOSH! My youthfulness finally gets its chance to shine! Watch me closely Gai Sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-Sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-Sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-Sensei!"

"Is this a genjutsu?"

"Byakugan! Gaah! My eyes! Why isn't it dispelling! Kai! Kai!"

*shivers* "Three hundred sixty degrees of this? I'd want to bleach my eyes out." Kakashi commented.

"That might explain why the Hyuuga all have white eyes." Asuma commented.

"Poor Neji. You would think he'd have learned by now." Kurenai said.

Lee ended up reaching the stage at the same time as Kankuro, because he jumped directly down rather than taking the stairs.

"I'm going to do the world a favor and kill you now so no one ever gets exposed to that shit again." Kankuro said.

"YOSH! That is unlikely! For it is I who will defeat you!" exclaimed Lee.

"Err, for everyone's sake, I will be forced to disqualify you if you use genjutsu unprovoked like that again. *cough*" Gekkou said.

"But proctor san, I am unable to use genjutsu at all! I am only capable of taijutsu!" Lee responded.

"It's true, Lee was born with absolutely no capacity for ninjutsu or genjutsu. He simply is not capable of shaping the chakra necessary for those techniques due to chakra coil damage from a birth defect. Lee's goal is to prove that you can be a great ninja without ninjutsu or genjutsu!" Gai elaborated.

"Birth defect? That would explain the googly eyes *shudder* and those weird lower eyelashes *shudder*, as well as the eyebrows." Kurenai mused.

Gekkou turned to Gai and said, "I stand by my ruling. *cough* If whatever you two just did happens again, he's disqualified."

Gekkou then turned back to the two genin, and began the match.

Lee assumed the opening stance for the iron fist taijutsu style he used, as Kankuro set the cloth wrapped bundle down. Once Kankuro had assumed a fighting stance, Lee charged.

Surprised at Lee's speed, Kankuro was unable to dodge or block. The impact was so powerful that it actually shattered Karasu's torso, dispelling the transformation jutsu as well.

As the limbs and head of Karasu fell to the ground, Lee exclaimed, "What trickery is this?"

A hand came out of the cloth wrapped bundle and tugged on one of the wrappings, causing them all to unravel, revealing the real Kankuro, who immediately dropped to his knees, tears in his eyes. "Karasu! Noooooooooooo!"

Lee took this opportunity to dash behind Kankuro and swiftly knock him unconscious.

"Winner: Rock Lee *cough*"

"YOSH! I did it Gai-Sensei!"

"I knew you could do it Lee!"

"Gai-Sensei!"

"L…"

"Hey! I told you I would disqualify him if you did that again! I wasn't joking!" surprisingly, Gekkou did not cough once when he said this.

Luckily, the next match was announced quickly.

Abume Zaku vs. Aburame Shino

Gekkou quickly began the next match.

"I only need one arm to defeat a weakling like you!" jeered Zaku. [When will he learn that anything or anyone named Zaku is destined for cannon fodder?]

"I find that unlikely," Shino replied in his usual expressionless manner.

Zaku charged, and sure enough, kept his right arm to his side. Shino easily blocked his strike, but Zaku simply smirked, and turned his palm toward Shino, revealing a hole in his palm. "Zankuuha! [decapitating airwaves]"

A great blast of air was emitted from the sound hole in Zaku's palm, blasting Shino far across the room. Shino stood up fairly quickly, and Zaku was startled to see insects crawling out of the wound that Zaku had just put on Shino's face.

"That technique will not work again." Shino stated.

"What's up with those bugs?" Zaku asked, creeped out.

"These are my Kikaichu beetles. They swarm my enemies and eat their chakra. Oh, and we have you surrounded."

Zaku turned to see that there was in fact a large amount of the bugs scattered all around him.

"Fool! It does not matter if you have me surrounded when I can simply blast you and your bugs at the same time!" he then held out both his arms, one towards the mass of insects, one toward Shino, and focused his chakra. "Zankuuh~aaaaaahhhh!" Zaku suddenly screamed as his right arm was literally blown off just below the elbow, and his left arm ruptured at the same point. Zaku fell to the ground, passed out from the pain.

"Winner: *cough* Shino Aburame."

When Shino returned, Kiba asked, "What happened? Why did his arms explode? Do you have a jutsu that makes your arms explode? I don't want 'splodey arms!"

"I blocked the holes." Was his characteristically terse reply.

After the room was cleaned up, during which time Kakashi helpfully filled in the Konoha genin on the basic facts of the Aburame clan, The next match was announced.

That's It for today. Yeah, Naruko had a really bad day. Congratulations to everyone who guessed that she was depressed because she and Haku broke up. Keep in mind that their relationship was not actually very healthy, as it was based almost exclusively on sex.

Not everyone finds their soul mate on the first try.

Review please!