Well, here it is, a new chapter of "Going Back Doesn't Sound So Bad!" sequel.
I just hope this will be somehow enjoyable.
Contrary to what I said, Naruto will actually "join" the Golden Trio for a VERY special reason...
I am already working on the sequel of this story (XD), I can't tell you much because it will all be a surprise, but I will close the "series" of misadventure for our trio of "World Jumpers" with the next Sequel named: "Twice is not a Coincidence, it's a Bloody Pattern!" I hope you will like the third "Episode" as well. ^ ^.
A last thing then I will let you enjoy the chapter, I am working on a new Series that will start as soon as one of the Stories I have on-going is over, it's called "Tremor's OP Corner: (-insert here title of the story-)".
As the name implies it will be about OP characters done ON PURPOSE and so not for people that HATE the concept of OP characters, sorry.
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" Alohomora" – spells/Parseltongue
"Let's finish this" - dialogue
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/ Creatures/ thoughts/Legilimency
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, Naruto or any other part of the franchise...otherwise the last two books would have been TOTALLY different nor I get money for this.
Chapter 3: The Exam, where Anko will learn how different her Team is. Part 1
Konoha – Training Ground – a month before the Exam -
Things had been quiet and peaceful for Harry and the others, especially with the help of their 'inside man' Naruto that had helped them correct the few flaws in their comportment that had the Hokage suspicious about the appearance of the Trio in the Village, Anko's own reports about their interactions and work had also helped in calming things about the Golden Trio living in Konoha.
Of course not everything had been sunshines and gummy-bears since they incredibly managed to find a new Nemesis each between the other kids of their class; Kiba for Harry, Sakura for Hermione, and most surprisingly, Choji Akimichi for Ron...that shocked even the boy's teammate Shikamaru that never thought his friend could even "think" about having someone as a rival, being the all-around good guy he was, even by Akimichi standards.
Flash-back – Ichiraku Ramen Stand -
"YOU CAN'T EAT MORE THAN ME! I AM AN AKIMICHI! OUR STOMACH IS LEGENDARY!" Choji said with a furious yell, glaring in hate at Ron and at the pile of empty plates near him, the red-haired boy's pile was indeed several plates higher than the one of the Akimichi boy.
"Wanna bet that I can instead, oh poor-eating skinny princess?" The boy answered with a devious smirk.
"This means war!" the other hissed angrily.
"Another bowl, please!" Ron said.
"TEN!" Chouji answered with a roar.
End of the Flash-back -
It pretty much went down-hill from there towards all-out rivalry between the two, thing that Harry never stopped finding hilarious.
And now, there they were, the former students of Hogwarts turned to shinobi under the "Almost-Normal" Leadership of Anko Mitarashi that had actually explained them how the Shinobi World really worked the second day since they were named Team 11, gaining a first-row view of how Veterans acted thanks to a 'pretty' visit to the "Torture & Interrogation" department of the Village.
The things they saw would have been deemed horrifying even by Voldemort himself, they were completely sure of that, and yet, learning that they saw only the "Nicest parts" of what usually happened in there had opened their eyes with the strength of a sledgehammer, the TRUE Shinobi World was unforgiving, cruel and sadistic in ways the Death Eaters couldn't even imagine nor stomach, and now they had been cast knees-deep in it until they found a way to return to their world.
Hopefully with at least a shred of sanity and human mercy still intact.
"The truth burns, that is true, but is a necessary evil to keep Konoha safe, our shinobi forces are just a third of the total population of the Village, there is a lot to lose in failing," Naruto said after watching Ron grow pale for an instant, probably remembering some of the interrogators' tricks to gain answers.
"The fact that they openly accept Torture as a way to gain information is disturbing," Hermione said, gladly accepting the bottle of water the blond gave her.
"It's just a dirtier way to do this than using Veritaserum, since we don't have infallible Truth Serums we had to get creative," Naruto answered with a shrug.
"You people are Bloody creative, that's for sure!" Ron said with a grimace.
"After a while, growing-up with this way of living makes you numb at the idea, your Sensei is one of the few people that gave me shelter before the Old Man Third decided to give me an apartment so I pretty much owe her a lot, and since she needed someone to talk to to relieve herself from the weight of what she does, I gladly offered myself, I am 'Innocent' enough to not judge Anko, or Ibiki even, for what they do for a living; they may seem to enjoy it, but deep inside they know how gruesome their work is, the Members of the T&I Department have reserved spots for Therapy Sessions for this reason alone, it's an heavy job," the blond answered.
"Will you work there one day?" Harry asked.
"I dunno actually, I would love to be Hokage and protect everyone, but Jiji's way is pretty much all about protecting the Village politically, through alliances and such, I am more action-oriented as a person," he answered.
"HI THERE! Here to spy? I heard Scarecrow added Team 7 to the Chuunin Exam, shouldn't you be training with the other two brats?" Anko said, joining the Training Ground with a wide smirk on her face.
"If you call Team-bounding exercises and tree-walking as training..." Naruto answered with a sigh.
"We talked about this already, he his terrorized to see his Team fail and get each-other killed, he just wants to be sure you three will work well together," Anko answered.
"Yes, but then the only training he really gets is when he join our sessions, you can't deny that," Hermione said with a frown.
"Not to be insulting, but you yourself said that tree-walking for him would be useless, and that even water-walking was barely enough, you even told Kakashi and he has yet to try even that one, he knows about the Kyuubi and the ludicrous Chakra it gives him, where is his 'Specialized Training' that he needs as much as we others need air?" Harry added.
"Tch! Not enough budget for that...that is their excuse, can you believe it?" Anko answered.
"Not enough budget for a single guy that should spend some hours in Private Tutoring? Are we so poor? I mean, damn!" Ron said with a surprised expression.
"Welcome to the magnificent world of the Pariahs, where we get sub-par treatment as if we were second-class citizens, I am as experienced as Kurenai and Asuma, and yet I had to beg on my knees to get a Team, do the math." Anko answered with a fake enthusiastic tone and a bitter laugh.
"Whatever, I'll let you train. I want to see if Kakashi will snap that book closed for once and try to AT LEAST know our Elemental Affinities, I can tell him that I am a Wind and Fire user, but like that it would be too easy for him," Naruto said with a sad shake of his head.
"Naah! Stay here! At least you'll get some results!" Ron said while grabbing the blond's arm.
"Technically this is not his Team so we can't force him," Anko said while shaking her head.
"I'll meet you guys later if you want, now I need to return to my 'Avenger-wannabe' teammate, my 'Fangirl' teammate and my 'This Team remembers me my time as a Genin so I have to work extra-hard to make sure the new version of myself (Sasuke) does not do something stupid enough to kill the rest of the Team like I probably did, so I will try to shove Teamwork down their throat by force and ease my pain' sensei...see you around," Naruto said before jogging back to his own Team.
"That must be the longest nickname ever..." Harry muttered.
"He had always been a guy with a lot of imagination," the Snake Mistress answered nodding.
"How about the jumpsuit you were preparing?" Ron asked.
"Almost done, few other protections against deterioration and other ways for it to get ruined and it will be completed," Hermione answered absent-minded.
"It had been a nice challenge, isn't it?" Harry asked with a smirk.
"Tche! Nothing I couldn't do!" she answered with clear smugness.
"Why I have the impression that I don't want to know what you three are talking about?...meh! Who cares! CHOP! CHOP! Three hundred laps around the Village, we have some last adjustments we need to do before the Exam, NOW RUN!" Anko said while igniting the first explosive tag in her hands.
"RUUUUUUUUN!" Harry yelled as the crazy woman started giving chase.
Day of the Exam – Academy -
"Here we are, everything ready?" Hermione asked.
"Pretty much, the first part will be a Written Test, that much we could gather from spying around," Harry answered with a sigh.
"Until we learn how a Yamanaka's Mind-walking Technique works we can't risk using too much Legilimency, we are still unsure if to them we leave behind traces of our reading," Ron added.
"If only we could ask to one of them to help us..." the bushy-haired girl said.
While the three were marching towards appointed class in the Academy, all of them with an hidden holster for their wands on their arms, they managed to steal a glance at a grimacing blond Jinchuuriki watching in dismay as his teammate demonstrated to the ones already there that the classroom door had been a fake, in fact triplicating the number of people reaching the real one.
"Yuck! It must be a lot of fun having those two as teammates," Harry said.
"The duck-ass-headed boy kind of remembers me of Malfoy, same attitude," Ron wondered.
"Yep, plenty of Pansy in Sakura as well, so maybe you are right, we may really be in an Alternative Dimension after all," Hermione said, the three casting a rapid Notice-me-not charm on themselves to reach Naruto so to give him a sealing scroll, making the unaware blond look at the thing in surprise and then at them in utter happiness and gratitude.
"Kurama?" Harry asked.
"Probably, that thing is literally 'cut-off' from the world and spiritually aware, so maybe it can just sense our overall presence and general direction, just like with those 'Sensor Shinobi' that we tested the spells and the Fidelius with," Hermione answered with a nod.
"It is always funny to watch those ones pass in front of the door without seeing the whole house and mutter about us being somewhere they could not see," Ron added with a smirk.
Some Time later – Classroom -
The Written Exam had nothing on both OWL and NEWT, that still managed to have the Golden Trio to sweat bullets in fear of failing no matter how many times they took them, and yet as usual Harry and Ron were in the deep-end of their anxiety while Hermione was writing at blinding speed, and as usual adding more details than needed.
Chuckling at her undying old habits, Harry decided to take the "To hell with this" route and cheat, unknowingly grasping fully the exact meaning of that part of the Chuunin Exam.
With a discreet movement of his hand he had the Elder Wand slither in his palm while under the desk before pointing it against the boy from Kumo sitting in front of him, an almost-mute muttering of Imperio and the boy from Kumo shifted into a blissful expression.
To Omoi the Exam had been nerve-wrecking, he had barely managed to copy from one of the other students when a strange sense of calmness invaded his mind making him gain a dumb smile and a serene expression, so relieved he was at having finished that he thought about sharing his success with the guy sitting behind him, after all, he had already finished so he didn't need that piece of paper anymore.
After gladly accepting Harry's empty paper he resumed looking out of the window until the Imperious Curse went lifted, making him blink several times in confusion until he saw the now empty Test, thing that had him swear. Loudly.
"THIRD DESK, FIRST ROW! This is you first and last warning! Another one and you are out!" Ibiki roared with a feral smile.
He had seen the boy act strangely and simply handle his test to the Harui boy, he was about to call the thing out when he saw the smirk the glasses-wearing kid had before the Kumo brat went ballistic, making the Proctor smile knowingly.
"So you somehow forced him to handle over the answers without even noticing? Interesting Jutsu, I wonder what Imperio means though, apparently I couldn't read your lips fast enough to catch the rest," the man thought, shaking his head at the trick.
Ron had been a little more subtle, technically; he had just kicked the shin of the guy sitting near him and when the boy with the Forehead-Protector of Grass Village moved to glare at him, the Weasley boy rapidly dived in the other's mind to copy the answers before shrugging in apology.
"Let's see if Bushy-head has the answers, I was going for Sakura, but she seems to have written better ones!" Ino thought with a devious smile while preparing her Clan Technique to enter Hermione's mind, diving-in at max speed in self-declared superiority.
The whole class was immediately rewarded by a loud CLANG! Noise as Ino's mind got squished against Hermione's Occlumency defences at high speed, the backlash strong enough to make Ino do a somersault while flying off her seat, landing on the floor already unconscious while drooling.
"What the?" Hermione said while looking behind her in surprise, both from the noise and the small 'tickling' on the back of her head coming from the failed assault.
"Someone please revive that girl before I kick her out," Ibiki said in annoyance.
"At least I now know that Occlumency works on a beginner, there is hope it will keep a Master at bay long enough for a counter," Hermione muttered.
Meanwhile – Teachers Lounge -
The assembled Sensei of the various Teams were watching in apprehension as the number of participants kept getting reduced at each passing minute.
"Incredible, that girl managed to screw-up her own Technique and affected herself!" Anko said between fits of laughter.
"Ino...what did I do wrong?" Asuma muttered in despair while face-palming.
"Aaaw! Look! Hinata is trying to have Naruto copy from her!" Kurenai said with a wide smile while cooing at the scene.
"You think they would make a good couple?" Gai asked.
"Absolutely!" Kurenai answered.
"Nah! I know the blond brat, if he likes her it will be more on the brotherly side, especially with Neji acting like an ass-hole," Anko said.
"And since when you gained this insight in Love matters?" Gai asked, slightly offended for the jab at his student.
"Woman's sixth sense, eyebrows!" the Snake Mistress answered smirking.
"And my student is not that unyouthful," the Taijutsu fanatic added with a whisper.
"If he isn't then Kakashi is not a smut-obsessed pervert, Kurenai is not an overly prude old lady and Asuma is not a chain-smoker," Anko answered.
"HOY!" three screams echoed in the room as the three mentioned Jounin gained tick-marks at her words.
Back to the Classroom -
"Very well, over half of you remained...you sure you want to hear the tenth question?" Ibiki asked a last time with narrowed eyes.
"Blond brat? Trio of poor bastards trapped as Anko's Team?" he added with a smirk.
"MOVE ON! I AM HUNGRY!" Naruto yelled.
"ME TOO!" Ron said with a nod.
"A pity, really a pity...I am losing my touch, apparently. You all present here passed, there wasn't a tenth question," Ibiki answered with a dramatic sigh, enjoying the screams of outrage of the brats in the class and relishing in their hate of him.
Just in that moment a black ball crashed through the window before unfolding into nothing.
"Where is she?" Ibiki asked.
"BOO!" a female voice yelled from behind him, almost making the poor man jump out of his skin.
"DAMN IT, ANKO!" he yelled in rage.
"Quit being so serious! Enjoy life a little, you scarred old prune!" she answered with a wink.
"YOU ARE ONLY FIVE YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME!" Ibiki screamed.
"Really? You look like her grand-father!" Kiba said in surprise.
"AAAAAARGH!"
"Ignore the drama-queen, congratulations for the ones that remained, the others...well, they sucked anyway so they are not important, the next Part will be held inside the Forest of Death, so hurry-up and move towards Training Ground 44 and be fast, we are on a tight schedule so whoever won't be there in the next...five minutes will be counted as eliminated, NOW MOVE!" the woman said while exiting from the window in a mad run, soon followed by the more daring Gennin that opted for the same shortcut.
Walking calmly out of the classroom, Team 11 gave a through check if anyone was looking before using Apparition to reach the new area, if asked, they would just tell it was their own version of the shunshin and leave it at that.
Training Ground 44 – entrance gate Number 5 -
The former Golden Trio of Hogwarts was looking with a tiny bit of apprehension the entrance of the Forest of Death while trying to ignore the various calls of evidently dangerous animals, especially when said calls seemed to have a more 'monstrous' connotation.
"Gringotts all over again?" Ron asked with a whisper of dismay.
"Maybe yes, or maybe even worst, that time we had only a single dragon to worry about, Merlin knows what kind of monstrosities they have stuck in there," Harry answered with a gulp.
"Now I see why we all had to sign a paper dismissing Konoha's fault in case of death, they know that in there is Hell on Earth...and they willingly send kids in there to Test their survival instinct...screw ninja techniques, I'll use Stunners on everything that moves, plants too!" Hermione added with a shiver.
"Stunners? I was going for Bombarda Spells and Killing Curses, just to be sure," Harry answered.
"That is not a bad idea either, Life or Death Situation, even back home killing was accepted in those cases," Ron said with a nod.
"We'll have to manage our Magic, if we fall down unconscious from exhaustion we would be easy prey. Who will keep the scroll?" Hermione asked.
"Salazar, I'll remove the size-reducing charm on him, have him swallow it and then return him to small sizes, I wanna see them try anything with a bloody Basilisk with killing eyes!" Harry answered.
"All for the OP Snake?" Ron asked with a raised hand, watching with a nod as the others too raised theirs.
"We have a plan then," Hermione said, sounding in a small part relieved.
"OKAY, BRATS! The second Part of this Exam starts...NOW!" Anko's voice came from various speakers as the various gates flung open at the same time.
"Let's go!" Harry yelled as he and his friends entered with rapid steps, trying to not be trampled by the other Gennin present.
"Guess who liked our present?" Ron said with a smirk, pointing at a blond Biju Vessel wearing a black-and-orange jumpsuit with a wide smile on his face.
"At least he won't be able to say that it doesn't have orange in it," Hermione commented grinning.
Some Time later – Forest of Death -
Team 3 of Grass Village was moving rapidly through the immense trees of the forest while scanning for possible Teams to attack for their scroll.
"Nothing, Isshin?" the girl, and Leader, of the Team asked.
"Nothing at all, Mio! We are alone!" Isshin answered.
"This place is bigger inside than outside, how the fuck they do this?" the third boy said with a growl.
"Bigger on the inside than outside? We are in a forest, not in a bloody Tardis!" a voice said in annoyance.
"WHO'S THERE?! Show yourself!" Mio ordered with narrowed eyes.
"Why you had to talk, they weren't noticing us!" a second male voice said with a sigh.
"Seriously, Roh! What good is a Disillusionement Charm for if you talk so loudly?" a female voice said, accompanying it with a Smack! Sound.
"Hoy! My neck is sensitive, thank you! Stop slapping it!" the first voice said.
"G-Ghosts! T-there are ghosts here!" Isshin yelled in fright.
"Ghosts do not exist, Isshin! It's just some brats trying to scare us by staying hidden, man-up!" Mio barked-out in anger.
"For one, ghosts do exists and they like to be the center of attention," Hermione said with a lecturing tone.
"And more importantly...I am right behind you," she then added from an inch of Mio's ear.
"WHAT?!" the Girl from Grass shrieked while jumping forward.
"STUPEFY!" the three members of Team 11 yelled at the same time, hitting the Grass Team with three well-placed Stunners that instantly knocked them out.
"Don't you think that we are cheating by using Magic like this?" Ron asked as he and the others returned visible.
"We are in an Exam against a guy with eyes that can copy everything and 'learn' techniques and fighting style with a glance, two members of a Clan with eyes that can see through bodies and can shut-down organs and the path-ways of people's life energy with a simple poke; and let's not forget the boy with absolute control over insects, the one with powers over shadows, a girl that can ideally shut-down your mind and a blond boy with nigh-infinite Chakra among other things...this only for the Konoha Side of this Exam, mind you; there are other big and minor Villages that are also competing that may have sent even worse enemies for us to face...I will use the Magic that I had to study for seven years and refined through repetitions of said years! Whoever wants to say something against this can very well go splince him or herself for all I care!" Harry answered with narrowed eyes.
"Okay! Okay! I was just saying! Shees, mate...calm down," Ron said while raising his hands in a non-threatening manner.
"Sorry. Sorry. I am just tired to play by the rules and risk my life," the Potter boy answered with a sigh.
"Those ones had an Heaven Scroll just like us, we'll need to try our Luck with another Team," Hermione said after emptying the pockets of the three Grass Shinobi.
"Wonderful...any idea where to start looking?" Ron asked with a tired expression.
"Let's look for the Tower first, from there we will then branch-out to look for a Team to attack," Harry proposed.
"Sounds good to me...Point Me: Forest's Tower." Hermione answered with a nod, pronouncing the spell while keeping her wand flat over the palm of her hand and watching the thing move to point to the East from their position.
"That way then? They better have built some kind of Cafeteria in that blasted Tower or heads will roll!" the Weasley boy said groaning.
"For once I am with you, I am getting bored of eating berries," the girl of the Trio said.
"Almost as bad as the Horcrux Hunt, at least here is not cold and we have an idea of where to look," Harry said sighing.
"What did we say about The-year-that-never-happened?"
"Sorry, guys! My mistake!"
Few Hours later – Clearing -
Three figures were creeping towards the small camp where the exhausted Golden Trio decided to build-up to rest a little and wait for the night, the three of them safely hidden in a near cave from where the Team from Sound Village was hidden.
"So, Zaku? What do you think?" a bandaged boy asked.
"Seems like a good place, let's just remove that trio of brats and we will be able to set-up camp." Zaku answered.
"Orochimaru-sama will soon intercept the Uchiha boy, we will need to be ready, he wants him tested to see if he is worthy of joining Oto, we can't fail," the girl of the Team said.
"No need to remember me, Kin!" Dosu said while waving her off.
Unseen by those guys, three animals where watching from a tree-branch above, all of them looking at the Sound Team with narrowed eyes before unanimously deciding to take matters in their hands.
"Hoy! I hear an hissing sound...is a snake near?" the bandaged boy asked in the same instant Salazar sprang-out of one of the bushes to bite him on the neck, making him fall down.
"DOSU! Fucking Sna-YARGH! Something gave me...a bite..." Zaku said before dropping down the floor, foam already forming on his mouth while paling rapidly, the reduced Acromantula Gogg staying proudly on the head of the soon dead Oto Gennin as an hunter above its prey.
"G-guys?!" Kin said scared, startled at feeling a weight land on her shoulder followed by a pleasant warmth.
"What are you doi..." she had the time to say before Fawkes wing covered her face, in a flash of super-hot flames her head went reduced to ashes, all happening too fast for her to even notice.
Once silence once again fell in that particular area of the Forest of Death, a brief exchange of song-like chirping, hissing noises and clacking of small fangs followed as the three animals talked to each other.
"Didn't know Phoenixes could kill," Salazar hissed amused.
"The girl's soul was tainted, beyond recovery; even if it pains me doing this, I can at least take solace in the fact that it had been a death fast enough to be painless andshe will have a chance at Redemption in her Next Great Adventure. If there is a thing I learned from Albus is that not always one can be saved, and that pretending to save everyone will just bring further grief to oneself, I can live with the weight of what I did, only because I know that there was no way she could have been saved from the Darkness in her heart," Fawkes answered, his voice gaining a sad tone to underline his suffered decision.
"Meh! Always thought ya Phoenixes were too good for yer own good! It's not like they would have shown mercy! bunch of crazy bastard would have probably tried usin' yer girl for some dirty things...I could smell the rot in this one from up there!" Gogg replied while pointing at the now dead Zaku with one of his legs.
"Be as you say, I won't go around killing everyone, this was a one-time deal," the Phoenix replied.
"Whatever, let's look for that scroll, may as well see if we find one for Master and his friends...we'll just tell them we stole it, no need to make them worry," the small Basilisk said while slithering in one of Dosu's pockets.
Sky above the Forest of Death -
A certain snow-white Owl was slowly flying above the Forest to keep her young Master under close watch, covered as she was in charms and the like, the already silent huntress Hedwig was literally invisible as she soared through the trees while patrolling for near threats she would then report to the other three animals with the Golden Trio.
The red-haired boy with the huge bottle on his back seemed the most dangerous at the moment, and tailing him showed that her instinct had proven rightonce saw the cold-blooded way he had killed another boy with the use of sand, gaining a place at the top of the Owl's Danger-list as she moved back towards the three students of Hogwarts.
"We are being spied," the boy with the sand said with a snarl while sending the animated grains whipping everywhere around himself in hope to find the target.
"Stupid human that one," Hedwig thought with a sneer-like snapping of her beck.
The probable rant the animal was about to start went interrupted abruptly when the woman that the Owl recognized as being the 'Teacher' of her Master came running from the opposite direction with a sneer on her face bordering on the madness, blood-lust oozing from her being on par with pure Hatred.
"Orochimaru...I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" the owl heard the woman scream at every step.
"Why any human I meet is either stupid, mad or a combination of the two? Is my Harry the only good one? Unbeliavable," Hedwig thought with a defeated bark, hurrying-up to intercept Team 11 so to alert them.
Meanwhile – With Anko -
A lone man with very pale skin, long black hair and snake-like eyes was standing on a huge branch of one of the trees, his expression the poster-picture of calm as he seemingly waited for someone to arrive or for something to happed.
"I am worried...it took you this much time to understand that the death of that man was my doing? Before being forced to leave Konoha I trained you well, I thought that I had managed to teach you how to be a decent kunoichi, Anko...were you slacking-off in all those years I have been gone? At least I hope you had stopped eating all those dangos, they had always been a good bribe to have you train," the man, Orochimaru, said with a soft chuckle without even turning to look behind his back.
"Y-YOU! Sen'eijashu! (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!)" Anko yelled in blind rage while thrusting her hand forward in a punching motion, the Jutsu launching from her sleeve a dozen of poisonous snakes converging on the Sannin with bared fangs.
"Ufufufu! So feisty already, my old Apprentice?" the man said while his body dissolved into mud.
"But, you see...while I taught you everything you know, I paid attention to not teach you everything I know!" Orochimaru said from the branch directly above the woman.
"DAMN IT!" Anko yelled as she barely avoided the snake coming out of Orochimaru's mouth, the lone animal also spitting-out a thin blade from its mouth that easily pierced the wood .
"At least your reflexes are still acceptable," the man said, calmly walking down towards the young woman.
"You ruined my life! Because of you I had to watch my back everyday ever since you left Konoha!" Anko said while assaulting her old Sensei.
"Is this more about me abandoning Konoha...or me abandoning you after breaking your poor, young and innocent heart?" the Sannin asked with a mocking tone and a fake sob.
"I have stopped to fell any kind of attraction towards you the same day you left! The day you gave me that sickening Mark of yours that forever 'corrupted me' for everyone in the Village!" Anko replied, bristling in pain when her punch got caught in Orochimaru's hand.
"And what about that young man you always talk about? Isn't he someone precious to you?" he asked back while tightening his hold on her hand.
"D-Don't you dare!" she answered, kicking the man's stomach to get free.
"Maybe I should pay him a visit as well, nothing much, just to have a little talk with him," Orochimaru said.
"OVER MY DEAD BODY! "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu ( Fire element: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)" the young woman yelled before launching an huge barrage of small fireballs towards the Snake Sannin.
"Would you look at that, that was my plan from the very beginning!" Orochimaru said with a wide, sickening smile as he dodged the attack and moved closer to Anko.
"And what a better way to remove my last remaining failure than using the very Cursed Mark you so much despise?" he then said with a chuckle while 'activating' the woman's seal on her neck.
"AAAAAAAAARGH!" in barely an instant Anko's whole body exploded in nerve-roasting pain, making her fall on her knees and scream as hard as she could in agony.
"Ufufufufu! My dear, sweet Anko...In all this chaos coming from our little argument here I forgot to congratulate you! Really, I am deeply sorry, I was told that you finally have a Team to teach, congratulations! Where are those poor brats? I need to tell them that they will soon need a new sensei since their old one will soon disappear," Orochimaru said with a low laugh.
"Don't...touch them...bastard! They are innocent!" Anko hissed in pain with an hand clutching her Cursed Seal, the small marking still burning like on fire but not stopping her from glaring at him.
"Don't be like that now! They were just unlucky, Anko-chan! they were paired with a Sensei with a death sentence hanging over her head after all, is nothing you can actually blame on them...or me for that matter," the Snake Sannin answered with a smirk.
"F-FUCK YOU!" she yelled while spitting at Orochimaru's feet.
"Now that is offensive, that language is not befitting of a lady!" the Sannin said with a lecturing tone before kicking her chin to force her down face-up on the tree branch.
"Tell you what? Since I am in a relatively good mouth, once killed you and branded the Uchiha boy I may even be so gentle as to let your Team go, Heaven's forbid they lose their chance at becoming Gennin because of me, it may be devastating for them," Orochimaru said with a smirk.
"I swear...I will...tear off that head of yours...and then shove it up your ass!" Anko answered between clenched teeth.
"Enough using that potty-mouth of yours, don't force me to spank you, young girl!" he said while pressing down her head with his feet with enough strength to crack the thick wood of the tree.
"I won't continue this if I were you," Harry said with a calm voice, he and the other two members of Team 11 joining the scene with their wands drawn.
"Really? And what should I fear from a trio of Gennin? A pillow fight? Hurt-full words?" Orochimaru asked, his tone dripping in amusement.
"Damn, who is he? Voldy's long lost cousin?" Ron whispered to Hermione.
"Kind of similar on a lot of things, that's true, but at least this one still has a nose," she whispered back with a nod.
"Let's make a bet, I'll hit you with a little trick of mine, if it doesn't work we will surrender but if it does you will leave us and our sensei live...what do you say?" Harry asked while twirling the Elder Wand.
"A trick with a stick? Ufufufufu! Oh, my! I am pretty curious now, what would you possibly do, I wonder?" Orochimaru said with a little laugh.
"I wouldn't underestimate us if I were you...Tarantallegra!" Harry said, shooting the spell and nailing the Sannin on the chest.
"Gack!...And? You really think that a little light will...WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE!?" the man said with a mocking tone, before turning to surprise as his legs started to dance a fast-paced, happy Irish jig by themselves.
"I CAN'T STOP! STOP THIS! THIS IS HUMILIATING!" Orochimaru ordered as he kept dancing and jumping on the spot.
"HAHAHAHA! Oh, God! That's amazing!" Anko said between fits of laughter, any pain from the Cursed Seal already forgotten.
"Even by changing body it doesn't stop! What is this jutsu!? HOW DID YOU DO THIS!?" the Snake Sannin asked as even after spitting-out a new body he couldn't stop dancing.
"As I said it's just a little trick, Herumi? Roh? Anything to add?" Harry asked.
"No, mate! I'll just watch the show, thank you." Ron answered with a wide smirk.
"If you don't mind, I have an idea instead, Explosivo Castrado!" Hermione yelled, launching a bullet of yellowish energy at Orochimaru's crotch.
With a deafening Bang! The Snake Sannin found himself with his nuts detonating like a grenade.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Oh, God! Oh,God! Oh,God! Someone please kill me!" Orochimaru wailed in pain, incredibly managing to run away while dancing and with a bleeding crotch.
"Don't be so melodramatic! We women lose blood from there once a month and we have never made a scene about it!" Hermione yelled in answer with narrowed eyes.
"Teach me that, girl! I don't care what it takes or what you want in exchange, but I want to be able to have his balls explode whenever I want!" Anko yelled, grabbing Hermione and shaking her wildly.
"Hurray...now the Horror will spread even more..." Ron said with a sigh.
"If we are lucky, she won't be able to reproduce it using chakra, otherwise, we will just pay attention when around her," Harry said with a similar sigh.
"Yeah, I like my bits where they are, thank you," the other boy said with a nod.
"By the way, thank you...it was stupid to face someone like him, but...I appreciated it, you stupid brats!" Anko said with a small smile while crushing the three Gennin in a single hug.
"We would never leave a freak like him hurt our friends, sensei," Harry said.
"Yeah, you are awesome, like Hell we will let someone kill you," Ron added.
"He was your Teacher, but this doesn't mean that he has anything to say about you living or dying, we will help you, Anko-sensei," Hermione said with a smile.
"Okay, now keep moving towards the Tower before I ruin my image by starting to cry! I am not into this mushy stuff usually and I won't start now!" Anko answered with a smirk, playfully kicking Ron's ass to have the three kids move faster.
"HAI, SENSEI!" the Gennin of Team 11 said with a mock salute before sprinting away.
"BRATS!...but, dear Lord if I like those three pests, strangest Team I have ever seen." the woman answered with a glare, turning her face into a wide smile once the three were disappeared between the trees.
"Now that I think about it...what those sticks have to do with those two Jutsu? I have not seen hand-seals...eh! Whatever, the most important thing is that I watched Orochimaru get neutered with a bang! Hahahaha!" she muttered with a shrug before leaving the Forest with a shunshin, her laugh echoing a last time in the area before she disappeared.
Forest of Death – Central Tower – the next day -
"NARUTO! Finally you are here!" Hermione yelled in relief at watching their blond friend enter the Tower with his Team, all of them were covered in scratches and bruises.
"What happened, mate?" Harry asked.
"A giant snake and a gust of wind for me...I don't know about the other two," Naruto answered with a groan.
"A Team from Grass Village, they were there to 'Ambushus', as you can imagine they have lost," Sasuke answered with a smug grin as he and Sakura moved towards the Tower's infirmary to get checked.
"I heard from Lee that his Team helped those two along with Shika and the others, so the 'Mighty Uchiha' has not exactly fought alone," the blond Jinchuuriki said groaning.
"Your Team must be a blast to be with," Ron commented sarcastically.
"Oh, yes! A laugh after another...thank you for the jumpsuit by the way, never had it easier to control my chakra! This thing is like an armour, got swallowed whole by an huge snake and not even the smallest problem!" theother answered with a smirk.
"Thank you, I take pride in my Enchanting...oh yes, Harry and Ron helped a little as well," Hermione said while sticking her nose up in the air.
"How modest of you to include us as well, your Majesty!" Harry said with a deep bow.
"Let me guess...prat?" Naruto said while pointing at Harry and laughing.
"Exactly! I see that you are learning, keep this up and maybe you will be saved from being another clueless male!" the girl replied with a proud expression.
"Eh! We introduced an English term in a different world, we are definitely cool!" Ron said with a grin.
"Whatever...What's this thing about exploding Orochi-teme's balls and forcing him to dance? We had meet him yesterday while he was...'dancing away' I think is the term, muttering curses about you three and his inability to 'brand' Sasuke-teme all the while dodging a squad of ANBU, whatever that means, what happened?" Naruto asked.
"That's easy, you see, since he was threatening our sensei, we decided to..." Hermione said with a wide smile while telling to their friend the whole encounter with the Snake Sannin.
The blond boy's laugh continued for probably one or two hours, scaring almost every one in the Tower.
Two days later – Central Tower – Preliminary Fights for the Finals -
Once every remaining Team had reached the Tower, the assembled 'survivors' were soon restored at the best of the present Healer's abilities so to give everyone as much chances they could to continue, the base floor that was occupied in its entirety by a wide arena-like room was filled by both Chunin-wannabees, their Senseis and the various proctors there to judge the next Part of the Exam.
Once the old Hokage stepped forward the whole room fell into complete silence, all of the present giving to Hiruzen their utmost attention as he addressed them about the upcoming challenge.
"I see that a lot of people are still here and determined to continue, Perfect! Now, I am saddened to say that even though several Teams had been eliminated by both the Written Test and the Forest Hunt itself, there are still too many of you here; due to this over-abundance of presences we will be forced to enact a set of preliminary fights right here and now, that will hopefully reduce your numbers enough for Konoha to have 'proper' Finals. So I am going to ask this now and only once before leaving everything else to the current proctor; any of you wish to retire? You will still be able to try again next time without penalties," Hiruzen said with a gentle smile.
"If there are no penalties, then I wish to retire, I fear that even now I have not rested enough to take part to this, I am sorry." A boy with glasses named Kabuto said with a sheepish smile.
"There is not problem in that, no-one will force you to compete, anyone else?" Hiruzen asked, watching the glasses-wearing boy and some other left the arena limping and/or helped by the senseis.
"No-one else then? Good, now I will leave the spot-light to Gekko Hayate, the proctor of this part. I wish you all good luck, fight with honor and do your best," Hiruzen said before stepping back.
"Thank you, Hokage-sama!" the presents said bowing.
"Be strong, guys! The hard part starts now!" Hermione whispered.
"Yep, this is gonna suck," Ron answered as an heavily coughing man stepped forward.
"Okay Cough! Rules are few and simple! Every time Cough! I call you names you step down here and Cough! Fight. The names will Cough! Be chosen randomly and displayed on that screen up there Cough! The fights will go on until one or both participants Cough! Are unable to fight, yield or die Cough! If I say stop it means Stop and the fight Cough! Will be considered over no matter what you are doing, in that case the judges will say who Cough! Is the winner and who loses," the sickly-looking man said with a glare.
"Uhm! Persistent coughing fit? Maybe a small dose of Coughing Potion will be sufficient...It's worth a try," Harry muttered while looking at the proctor.
"I would go for a Lung-cleansing Solution instead, it's less invasive," Hermione answered with a calculative glaze.
"Do you two have to give a check-up to whoever we meet? It's kind of creepy!" Ron said with a sigh.
"We were just having some small chatting, nothing to fuss about," the girl replied.
"Yeah, mate! Just a little thing to pass the time," Harry added.
"Bah! Whatever, I think he just needs to quit smoking," the Weasley boy said with a shrug.
"That is also true,"
The Trio had to cut their discussion short once the huge screen lighted-up and started circling through names until it stopped on the first two names of the preliminary set of fights.
"Eh! Potter-Luck strikes again," Harry said with a sigh of resignation as his name and Choji's appeared on the screen accompanied by their pictures.
"At least you will be able to relax for the rest of the thing," Ron said with a shrug.
"I hoped to fight the carrot-top...I'll have to wait to have my revenge apparently," Chouji said with a growl as he and Harry remained in the arena while the others moved in the elevated stands to watch.
Match: Harui Vs Choji Akimichi -
"Come on, Harui! After this we'll have some BBQ to celebrate your kicking his ass!" Ron said with a wide smirk.
"You have no idea about how much I am loathing your friend at the moment," the Akimichi said with a low growl.
"He is not a bad guy, I think the two of you would be wonderful friends should you two give each other the occasion," Harry answered.
"He dared to put my stomach in ridicule," Chouji answered.
"At least you have the 'excuse' of your Clan's abilities...Roh is just a bottom-less hole," the other answered smirking.
"HOY!" Ron yelled from the stands while frowning.
"That is also true, at least one of you has some common sense, Harui...I like ya," Chouji said with a grin.
"DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE, EH!" the Weasley boy yelled, his ears crimson in childish anger.
"He is joking, you know that," Hermione said while slapping the back of the red-haired boy's head.
"I know that! But it still stings!" the boy replied whining.
"ENOUGH! COUGH! Stop chatting and get ready!" Hayate yelled.
"Sorry!" both fighters said with a sheepish expression.
"Just shut up and fight...HAJIME!" The proctor said before moving back away to leave the arena to the two.
"I won't hold back! Baika no Jutsu! (Multi-size technique)" Choji said making his body inflate like a balloon and taking a round appearance.
"Nice trick! But you will need more to scare me!" Harry asked smiling.
"More? As you wish! Nikudan sensha! (Human Bullet Tank)" plunging in his arms and legs inside his inflated body, the Akimichi boy used his chakra to propel himself forward in an high-speed roll.
"DAMN IT!" Harry yelled while dodging to the side barely on time to evade the attack.
With a thundering crash the inflated Genin impacted with the wall leaving a spherical imprint before calmly rolling back to aim at the other boy.
"Okay, focus...I am an Earth Element to their standards, thing that will be completely useless since he almost teared-down a concrete wall, how the Bloody Hell one from outside a Clan would be able to face that I don't down...I hope the people watching won't resent me if I play dirty, but shinobi-wise I am not exactly advantaged," Harry thought in dismay as Chouji started spinning in place before shooting himself forward.
"STAY THERE, I AM COMING!" the rotund boy yelled as he sprinted even faster.
"I am waiting!" Harry answered while rapidly moving an hand in his pocket to retrieve four small spheres.
"Good thinking! When in doubt, play dirty!" Anko said with a proud smirk.
Back to the fight -
Acting rapidly, the young wizard threw the spheres at his feet so to cover his body in a dense smoke, unseen by the others he immediately draw his wand and started silently cast several spell on the floor.
"He is planning something..." Hayate muttered with narrowed eyes at the feeble flashes of light he could see through the smoke.
"No smoke can stop me!" Chouji said as he entered the smoke-screen in a great hurry.
"But the traps in it will!" Harry chirped as a long shriek echoed in the wide room.
Once the smoke cleared everyone could see Chouji back to normal as he had hastily dropped his Jutsu so to have a better chance at not drowning in the floor that was acting more like quick-sands than an hard surface covered in tiles.
"WHOA!" The proctor said while watching in wonder the wildly flaying Akimichi.
"I call it Nise Shitchi No Jutsu...do you like?" Harry asked with an innocent expression. (False-swamp Technique).
"I am not defeated-Bleagh! yet..." Chouji said while incredibly spitting-out mouthfuls of floor.
"Even if I do this?" the Potter boy asked as the floor solidified back to normal while trapping the Akimichi underground up to his neck.
"I'll show you! Baika no Jutsu! (Multi-size technique)" the boy yelled while using the immediate change in dimensions to break free.
"You are good, resisting a sleeping gas like that means you have a great force of Will," Harry said impressed.
"Sleeping...Gas?" Chouji asked before deflating once again and falling face-down on the floor, snoring loudly and with a thin line of droll already leaving his mouth.
"Ah! I see, that was not a simple smoke-bomb then!" Hayate said in realization.
"Yup! I just held my breath in until the whole thing dissipated, no-one expects you to throw one of those at your own feet!" Harry answered grinning.
"I can accept that, Winner of the Fight: Harui!" the Proctor yelled to the cheering of the others watching.
Once back with his Team Anko grabbed his head under her arm to give his hair a wild ruffling.
"For an instant I thought you were toasted, Brat! Good job in winning, at least I know I have not wasted time with you!" the woman said with a proud smile.
"Thanks, sensei!" Harry said, he and the others watching as a new set of names appeared on the screen.
Match: Naruto Vs Temari -
"That's gonna suck, she is wind user just like him, but that huge fan and her better training is making me nervous," Anko said with a worried expression.
"Have faith in him, he likes to be unpredictable and screw with people's mind, he'll be fine," Hermione said while patting the woman's back.
"I'm a wind element too if you are interested, got any tips for an eager boy?" Naruto asked with an huge grin.
"Tips? Survive this little fight and I may start considering it," Temari answered with a similar smirk while opening her battle fan a little.
"And that red circle?" he asked
"That's the first moon, when all the moons are out, you will lose," she answered.
"And this is my thumb, it shows that I don't give a damn!" the blond boy said while pointing at himself with his thumb.
"Tch!"
"Quit taunting each-other...HAJIME!" yelled Hayate
"Take this!" Temari yelled as with a wide wave of her fan several miniaturized tornado came to life before moving towards the blond boy.
"WHOA! I DON'T LIKE THAT!" the boy yelled while dodging the attack by mere inches managed before dashing forward to try a close-range attack with a kunai.
"You aren't that bad! Just do not count only on your guts to win, you'll need talent as well!" Temari said while his weapon kept clashing with her fan in a shower of sparks.
"You are not bad either, but I need to pass in a way or another...so please, forgive me," Naruto answered with a sorry expression while trying to push her back.
"Sorry for what?" she asked back, confused.
"For this!" he answered while dropping down, making the girl fall forward and using her momentum to throw her behind him.
"Oh, by the way...black-laced panties? Aren't those too uncomfortable for a fight?" the blond boy asked curious.
"Black-laced...YOU BASTARD!" Temari said before growing red-faced both in anger and embarrassment.
"Fuuton: Vacuum blade!" She yelled while moving her fan in a wide arc and creating a thick blade of wind she launched against him.
"You mad? You flashed me, is not actually my fault!" the boy taunted while dropping down to let the jutsu sail above his head and destroy the wall behind him, lifting an huge cloud of dust.
"STAY STILL SO I CAN KILL YOU!" she yelled while resuming her attack.
"What about no? Taiju Kage Bushin no Jutsu! (Massive Shadow Clone Technique)" the blond boy answered while moving his fingers in a cross hand-seal, surrounding himself in hundreds of clones in an instant.
"Since when he has that much control over his chakra?" Kakashi asked in surprise.
"You ask me? He is your student, you should keep tracks of his results," Anko answered with a vindictive smile and a shrug.
"Grrrrrr!" the masked Jonin simply settled for grumbling in annoyance at the woman's antics.
Back to the fight -
This won't stop me from mauling you! Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" with a new scream of fury Temari created a veritable storm in the middle of the arena, catching a great deal of clones in the middle of it before launching every one of them against the walls and the ceiling with bone-breaking power dispelling them.
"Nonono! You need to catch the real one!" one of the blonds said smirking.
"Which is?" Temari asked with a growl before swatting the talking clone on the head with her fan.
"UP HERE!" the real Naruto yelled as a long 'chain' of clones holding each other by the legs and the real one on the end of it went swung down towards the young woman, the scream coinciding with the real blond's fist reaching an inch away from Temari's head.
"DAMN IT!" she shrieked while trying to jump back and growing wide-eyed as other clones jumped her to keep her still.
With a loud TWACK! Naruto's fist managed to hit Temari's forehead with enough strength to launch her down on the floor, and just to be sure to win, a new wave of clones went made so to 'dogpile' her under a small army of black-dressed blonds with the real one sitting on the top of the small mountain with a proud smile.
"HOY! I got her fan!" a clone yelled in triumph as said weapon went tossed out from the pile of clones.
"So? Did I win?" Naruto asked eagerly.
"I can't say...has she forfeit? Can she still fight?" Hayate asked with a confused expression.
"Just get me out of here! I am suffocating!" Temari's voice came out from under the various clones in a muffled, strained tone.
"So do you forfeit?" the Proctor asked uncertain.
"YES, DAMN IT! JUST CALL THOSE IDIOTS BACK BEFORE THEY TOUCH ANYTHING IMPROPER!" The girl yelled in answer.
"I'll have you know that I am not a pervert, thank you!" Naruto answered with a frown before dispelling the other copies and landing near her.
"...Thank you," Temari said while begrudgingly accepting his hand to get up and the restitution of her fan.
"Think nothing of it, I was serious about the tips since there aren't many Wind Users here...and sorry for the panties thing, I needed you to get angry enough to lose focus, it was the fastest way," the blond boy answered.
"Unfortunately it worked, at least you won fair and square instead than out of luck," Temari answered with a sigh.
"Like what? With a fart?" he asked.
"Yuck! As if that would be possible, I prefer the pile of clones, thanks!" she answered with a shiver of disgust.
"Well, you both did a good job. Winner of the Fight: Naruto!" Hayate yelled to the rest of the audience.
"Thank you for the fight," the blond said while presenting his hand.
"Nothing, if we fight again though, I want to see some other jutsu other than clone-spamming," Temari answered while shaking the offered hand.
"As soon as I learn some, I don't have a lot of people teaching me those," he answered with a grin.
"Tch! I have lost against someone with only a cloning technique...sorry but now I'll go hide under a rock to digest the shame," the girl muttered with a chuckle while shaking her head.
"Sucks to be you!" he answered with a grin, pleased to hear her laugh at that.
"Good...could have been worse, at least he won," Anko said with a sigh.
"He needs to train more," Kakashi said.
"Sigh! I wonder why I still bother talk to you, you are far too hopeless," the woman replied sighing.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing, Kakashi. Just watch the cute Genin boys and girls fight, everything is well in the World," she answered while waving him off.
"I guess it's my turn now?" Ron asked while pointing at the screen.
"Yup! So it seems, remember what we know about the Inuzuka Clan and show them how good we are," Hermione answered.
"Just in case use a smoke bomb to cover your...Jutsus," Harry said.
"Yeah, better not have people see them," Ron answered with a nod, catching the boy's usage of Jutsu instead of Spell.
"I don't need to copy your Techniques," Sasuke said as if offended.
"One day you will put your foot so deep in your mouth that you will choke, you better start paying attention before that happen," Hermione answered with a sigh.
Match: Roh Vs Kiba Inuzuka -
"Let's go Akamaru! It's time to show everyone how a real man fight!" Kiba said with a superior smirk while jumping down the railing.
"Of all the people I could have to fight. Any preference about how to beat him, Harui?"Ron asked with a sigh.
"Just do what you think is right, the show is yours, mate!" Harry answered with a shrug.
"Just don't embarrass yourself!" Hermione added smirking.
"Don't exaggerate with the cheers, woman! Heaven forbid it goes over my head!" the Weasley boy said with a frown while descending the stairs towards the proctor.
"Let's cut this short, are you two ready?" asked Hayate.
"OF COURSE!" yelled Kiba
"I'm ready, let's get this over with." said Ron
"Very well...HAJIME!" yelled the proctor
"Heads-up! Gatsuga!" determined to show-off from the beginning Kiba and Akamaru jumped high in the air and started spinning on themselves creating two small, drill-like tornado that immediately pointed towards the former Hogwarts student.
"Not so fast dog-snogging prat!" Ron yelled while launching a smoke bomb in the hope of confusing him.
"That won't work with me!" Kiba said without stopping and actually dodging the thrown spheres by twisting in mid-air a little.
"Good thing then that it's not smoking gas!" the other said while diving in the small white cloud his bomb created.
"Come back here! Gatsuga!" Kiba yelled as he landed before re-enacting his Clan's Jutsu, this time only him moving in a straight line as a small twister.
"Wanna bet? I say you won't touch me!" Ron yelled in answer.
"AS IF I WILL-CLANG!" the Inuzuka boy screamed as he dived in the smoke, with a loud impact noise he went flung out with a battered face.
"Ah! The Shielding Charm works with jutsu as well, awesome!" Ron thought while walking out the smoke with a smirk.
"ready to admit defeat?" he asked.
"Never! You won't defeat me...sic' him, Akamaru!" Kiba answered with a strained voice before giving a red pill to his dog, making the animal's fur turn red.
"Grrrr!" the dog growled as the combat drug took its effect.
"What's that for?"
"FOR THIS! HUMAN-BEAST CLONE TECHNIQUE!" Kiba yelled as the small dog jumped on his back, both getting enveloped in a small burst of smoke that then showed two Kiba snarling at the Weasley boy.
"Yuck! Now that is something disturbing!" Ron muttered with a grimace.
"But it makes jutsu more powerful, Gatsuga!" Kiba answered as a new, and this time bigger once the two converged into one, tornado moved towards the other.
"You are a one-trick pony, you know?" the Weasley boy answered, shrieking in surprise when he barely managed to dodge.
"He can't aim...he is trying to use his nose to understand where to hit!" Ron thought while watching the attack bounce randomly before zeroing again on him.
"Okay...think, Ronald! You can plan three moves ahead when playing chess, this is no different..." he muttered with an hiss of pain when a new dodging produced a small bruise on his left arm.
"THIS IS THE END!" Kiba yelled in triumph as he moved close.
"I just hope this will work..." Ron muttered moving through a roll to evade the attack, his hand discreetly palming his still-holstered wand while focusing as much as he could on a spell.
If he had to listen to Harry, one could use a spell even when not directly holding one's wand in their hand as long as the wand itself was close enough, the boy had in fact used a lumos when he couldn't find it so to see where the small object had went, he had also added that it took him a great deal of power to achieve it and that in that moment he was also quiet desperate.
Ronald Weasley had desperation in spades while dodging and so he poured as much as he could into the Confundus Charm he launched on the tile of the floor, part of him rejoicing at seeing the two Kiba 'bounce' on that tile the same instant the spell left the wand and so intercepting it fully with their body.
"I GOT YOU!" the Inuzuka boy yelled as he kept bouncing everywhere, in his eyes the clear image of himself striking Ron.
"Good...this should give me the opening I need. As soon as he stops spamming that attack of course," Ron muttered between pants of fatigue but now with an easier time dodging the erratic attacks.
On the stands -
"What happened?" Kurenai asked in surprise.
"Somehow Kiba thinks to be hitting Roh-san while instead missing him by a wide margin...this is most strange," Shino Aburame answered.
"Something messed with Kiba-kun's sense of direction, Shino-kun?" Hinata Hyuuga asked.
"Probably using that Jutsu so many times took its toll on him," the boy answered uncertain.
Back to the fight -
"HOW'S THIS?!" Kiba yelled with a strained voice as the jutsu started slowing-down.
"There!" Ron said in triumph while running towards the most likely place of Kiba's next bounce.
"Fuuton: Great Breakthrough!" the Weasley boy yelled before producing a strong blast of wind.
To Kiba's shock the resulting air moving in the reverse direction of his spinning caused the Jutsu to slow-down enough for the other boy to use as an opening for the successive Wind Jutsu to nail him on the chest and launch the Inuzuka boy on the floor.
"A Wind Bullet Jutsu, that was enough, I bet you are surprised!" Ron said with a wide smile.
"How come you canceled the Gatsuga?" Kiba asked while stumbling on his feet while still under the effect of the Confundus Charm.
"You are a Genin, no matter if from a Clan or not, you are still learning; that and you kept using only that Technique the whole time, I knew that sooner or later you would have exhausted your reserves, I just waited for the right opening to strike," the Weasley boy answered with a shrug.
"I am not still defeated yet! Akamaru!" Kiba yelled with tired defiance.
"RUUUUF!" the small dog said while missing completely the target and latching to Kiba's leg with his mouth.
"ARGH! Not me! The idiot!" Kiba screamed in pain while trying to shove off his companion.
"He is obeying, he is biting down an idiot, OPEN WIDE!" Ron yelled while throwing a fierce upper-cut that caught the Inuzuka boy with his mouth open, slamming it closed with enough force to send few teeth flying off and slightly lift the boy from the floor.
"NOW THE NOSE!" the Weasley added by punching Kiba right on the nose with a right hook soon followed by a left jab to the kidney and then another one to the chin.
"ANOTHER ONE!" the red-haired boy said while concluding his attack with a new upper-cut that launched the Inuzuka boy down the floor.
"Augh!" Kiba moaned in pain while clutching his side in pain.
"Give-up!" Ron ordered while pointing a kunai at the other's throat.
"A-A-Akamaru!" the Inuzuka wheezed with his damaged mouth.
"He is still too much confused," the Weasley boy commented with a smirk while pointing at the small dog running in circles while chasing his tail.
"D-Damn you!" Kiba hissed angrily while trying a last, desperate attack.
"At least I tried to be gentle," Ron muttered before hitting the boy's head with the back of the kunai, knocking him unconscious.
"Unable to fight, the Winner is Roh!" Hayate said after checking on Kiba.
With Harry and Hermione -
"That was playing dirty," Hermione muttered while she and Harry discreetely removed the Confundus Charm from both boy and dog.
"That may be, but we have not a Clan teachning us," Harry answered.
"Sorry about that, guys! There is only so much I could teach you, and that is still on a lesser level than a 'specialized' training a Clan can offer, that's why I am really proud to see two of you win and advance," Anko answered with an apologetic tone.
"It's not your fault, sensei, you are just doing your best in teaching us," the young girl replied with a smile.
"That's my bushy-head! Always there to cheer me up!" Anko said grinning, ruffling her hair and enjoying her protests.
"What about me?" Harry asked with a pout.
"I like ya too, four-eyes! Your sensei won't forget about you others either," she answered.
"Good to hear that, I was fearing to see some favouritism here!" Ron said while re-joining the group.
"Great match! All that boxing is paying-off!" Harry said with a proud smile.
"What can I say, my fists are just invincible," the Weasley boy replied nonchalantly.
"Stop posturing, prat! Your ego is big enough in itself without you adding to it!" Hermione answered while playfully slapping the back of his head.
"Yeah, she is right! Be a little more humble!" the smirking Potter boy said while giving a slap himself.
"Let me try?..hey! It feels great! It's terapeutic!" Anko said grinning while slapping Ron's head herself.
"HOY STOP THAT! It's annoying!" Ron said with a whine while dodging the various playful slaps his Team and sensei tried to give him, the thing soon evolving in a small hunt with the three laughing Genin running away from a grinning Anko.
"At least she is having fun, I am glad," Kurenai said while watching the scene with a small smile.
"...Akamaru seems fine, you probably overdid with the Getsuga," Kiba's mother, Tsume, said after checking the small dog a little.
"I firstly checked for Genjutsus, but I could not find traces of any so I had to ask your help, sorry if I disturbed you," the boy's sensei said with a small bow.
"No problem, both seems fine, probably all that spinning confused them...although this is the first time I see this happen," Tsume answered with a confused expression.
"Maybe I screw-up the Jutsu?" Kiba asked in embarrassment.
"Once done here and back home we will review it just to be sure, it may be nothing, but being cautious never hurts," the woman answered.
"Okay, mum," the boy answered with a nod.
"Good, I'll be on my way then, Kurenai-san," Tsume said before leaving.
"Tsume-san," Kurenai replied nodding.
"Sakura-san needs to train more, she is having an hard time against that boy from Grass," Hinata said.
"His ability to elongate his arms is not helping either," Shino added.
"Poor girl," Kurenai said with a sigh as the pink-haired girl in the arena had been sent flying from an over-head throw of the Grass Genin.
With Anko and Team 11 -
"Poor performances, poor chakra capacity and zero Will...what the Hell is that girl doing here?" the woman asked in disbelief while watching Sakura get transported away on a stretcher.
"Probably in Team 7 so to have both Naruto and Sasuke look good in comparison...that and for the sake of Sexual Equality and have at least a girl in every Team," Hermione answered with a sigh.
"We better pray that some damn good shinobi will see something salvageable in her enough to take her as an Apprentice, otherwise she will be doomed," Ron said with a sad tone.
"Well, at least the next Match should be able to give back some importance to Kunoichi, look at the screen," Harry said with a feral smirk.
"What do you...OOOH! You have to be kidding me!" Hermione said before growling in annoyance.
"Eh! Poor Ino, Fate must hate her!" Anko said chuckling.
"Can I have another enemy? A good one? I want to show-off!" the girl of Team 11 moaned in annoyance.
"Nope! You'll just have to win this and hope to be paired against someone good later in the Finals," Harry answered while giving her a comforting hug.
"But that's not fair!" the girl whined before moving down the stairs with a defeated expression.
"Poor girl," Anko said sighing.
Match: Herumi Vs Ino Yamanaka -
Both girls were standing glaring at each other from the opposite sides of the arena, the Yamanaka girl breaking into a grin and taking a ready stance with an air of superiority flashing across her face.
"Ready to lose, Know-it-all?" Ino asked.
"I am so gonna hurt you for that!" the other answered.
"While there is nothing against ripping each-other throats off, I kindly remember you that if I say Stop you two must stop, am I clear?" Hayate asked.
"Perfectly clear," both girls answered without stopping glaring at the other.
"Then...HAJIME!" the proctor yelled before jumping back.
"HERE I COME!" Ino yelled while charging forward with he fist cocked back.
We will now see how in those few seconds needed for the blond to reach Hermione, the Hogwarts student managed to plan her counter-attack thanks to that priceless brain she usually keep hidden under that pretty cranium, please pay attention and be amazed.
"First: Distract target..." Hermione thought, imagining herselfspitting in Ino's left eye.
"Then block her blind jab..." she then added as the 'Mental-Ino' blindly punched forward with the attack getting swatted away.
"Counter with cross to left cheek," once the punch went blocked, her own fist impacted knuckles-first on the blond's cheek near the temple.
"Discombobulate..." Hermione added as both her hands slapped Ino on the ears making the Yamanaka girl close her eyes tight in agony.
"Dazed: She'll attempt wild haymaker...employ elbow block...And body shot" she thought as the confused Ino tried an hit in blind rage, only for the attack getting blocked by a raised elbow leaving the blond open for a strong punch to the side of the body.
"Block feral left...weaken right jaw," once the first punch went blocked and countered, a new one from the Yamanaka girl followed, that too moved aside with a twisting of Hermione's body to give the Granger girl the opening to hit the blond's jaw with her elbow with a dull Crack! Sound.
"Now fracture...break cracked ribs and traumatize solar plexus," she then added with a fast jab breaking the already weakened side of Ino's jaw before punching her torso with two strong punches.
As the staggered and confused 'Imaginary' Yamanaka stumbled back, Hermione dashed forward towards her, now moving into attacking instead of countering.
"Dislocate jaw entirely and heel kick to diaphragm!" Hermione concluded by punching a last time Ino's jaw completely dislocating her jaw before moving through a small jump to hit the blond's stomach with a strong kick, launching her against the wall with enough power to leave cracks.
"End Summary: Ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken, diaphragm hemorrhaging...Physical recovery: six weeks...Full Psychological recovery: Six Months...Capacity to be an insufferable bitch: Neutralized." she thought in triumph as the world returned to move at normal speed.
"TAKE THIS!" the real Ino yelled once close enough and ready to hit.
To the Audience all started with Hermione spitting in Ino's eye and then finished ten seconds later with the Yamanaka girl hitting the wall with a bleeding mouth before slumping down with empty eyes, unconscious.
Utter silence fell in the room at seeing the short, one-sided fight with the bushy-haired girl smirking in satisfaction and muttering a "Just as planned," under her breath.
"Wow...nice job, Winner of the fight: Herumi!" Hayate yelled with a surprised expression.
Back in the stands -
"That was a fast one," Anko said with an appreciative whistle.
"Herumi likes to plan ahead, knowing her she must have played the whole fight in her head before it even started," Harry said while shaking his head in amusement.
"And yet she sucks at chess, I can't understand how's possible," Ron said.
"That's because I don't find that game challenging enough," the girl answered with a shrug as she returned to the Team.
"Power to the girls, good job!" Anko said with a wide smile and a thumbs-up.
"She had been lucky, Ino is not exactly a super kunoichi," Kakashi muttered.
"Want to repeat that, scarecrow?" Asuma said with narrowed eyes.
"Whenever you are ready, Smokey!" Kakashi answered with a growl.
"You will play 'who's got it longer' later, now focus!" Kurenai hissed.
"Fine!" both men said at the same time with a last glare before focusing back on the fights.
"Ignore those two, what's important is that you three passed, let's grab something to eat while the other brats beat themselves to death, we will return once done to see who remained," Anko said with an uninterested tone.
"Gladly, I was getting hungry," Harry said nodding.
"Me too, you coming, Roh?" Hermione said with a sigh.
"May as well," the other answered shrugging while following the other two kids and their Sensei towards the Cafeteria.
"You should remain and watch," Kakashi said.
"Bite me!" Anko replied smirking.
"I'll give a look for you, don't worry," Naruto said snorting.
"Thank you!" the woman answered.
Omake – Never Challenge the "Talk No Jutsu" -
"I'll say it again, my secret technique can't be stopped, it's invincible," Naruto said with a frown.
"And I already told you, there is no Invincible Technique, especially one where you just talk to people," Hermione answered.
"The Talk No Jutsu is unstoppable, woman! Do not challenge me!" the blond boy hissed in anger.
"Calm down guys! There is no need to get angry!" Ron said while Harry moved the two away from each other.
"Then show me! If you think to be so invincible then prove it!" Hermione said with narrowed eyes.
"Fine! But then do not come crying to me!" Naruto answered.
"Why I feel like a catastrophe is crashing on us?" Harry muttered.
"Well then...have you ever thought about..." a feral-looking Naruto started saying with his most convincing tone that immediately moved the three Hogwarts Students to High Alert.
Several hours later – Hokage Office -
"RUNNING NAKED THROUGH THE VILLAGE! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU THREE!?" Hiruzen was screaming at the top of his lungs in a bestial rage.
"Well...we were..." Ron tried saying.
"YOU WERE NOT THINKING, THAT'S WHAT!" the old man yelled back.
"We actually thought..." Harry muttered before flinching under the Hokage's glare.
"SILENCE! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR EXCUSES! OUT OF MY OFFICE AND BE THANKFUL THAT I DO NOT IMPRISON YOU FOR THAT!" Hiruzen yelled, foam starting to form on the sides of his mouth.
"But we..." Hermione whimpered.
"OUT I SAID!" the old man roared while throwing the three blankets-covered nude teens outside his office.
"Good job, Hermi! 'there is no Invincible Technique' you said! 'It's impossible' you said! Look at us!" Ron growled in embarrassment.
"HOW COULD I KNOW THAT HE COULD DO THAT!?" the girl yelled back, kicking Ron's shin in anger.
"You sure he had not used a Compulsion Charm? I can't accept that we did this just because he talked us into streaking through Konoha," Harry asked with a pleading tone.
"...Nope...it was all him, no Magic used..." Ron answered ashamed.
"Oh...Bugger!" Hermione muttered while looking down, the three of them walking back home with red faces as whoever saw them couldn't help but point at them and laugh.
Another Chapter is done! Guess from where I took Hermione's fight XD.
Never liked to write about the Chuunin Exam, so sorry if this was a let-down, I'll try to write better chapters after this, promise ^ ^.
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