Writers block is gone already, Ill cover a little more with Anko, a bit with Shino Kiba and Tenten, and Shikamarus team will come into the picture. Thanks for more reviews and a guy I have fixing my errors from here on out. He told be to use Ananonymous31793, so without further Adiue, the chapter begins.
Chapter 14: The Green Beast Enters!
Sakura raised her arms to defend herself against the attack. She knew it wouldnt work, but couldnt go down without a fight. However someone had come to the rescue. Lee appeared in front of her and launched a powerful spinning kick into each Ninja, sending them flying off a good distance.
"Lee!" cried out Sakura, deeply grateful someone had come to her rescue, "We have to get out of here!"
" But we cant leave everyone else!" replied Lee.
"Lets just give them a scroll, there is no way you can take them all!" replied Sakura.
"Dont worry Sakura, I will protect you even if it means my life," replied Lee who mounted his assault. While fighting one was easy enough, three was a completely different story. He started off with a leaf spinning wind at the female, who chose to block since she couldn't dodge. She felt a great force and was sent into a tree, however Lee was left open to the Sound Nin with the wrappings around his head to attack. He struck out at Lee with his metal glove things and barely missed Lees face. Lee smiled thinking that now would be a perfect attack opportunity, but suddenly his brain started doing flips and his vision began to blur.
Lee staggered back, barely able to hold himself up, Dammit, I have to end this now He thought to himself. The guy that hit him with the gauntlets walked up and Lee took his attack. He struck at him starting the Initial Lotus. He jumped up after the Nins flying body and wrapped it with bandages.
"Crap, Dosu is in trouble," said the other male sound Nin who did some seals and put his hands on the ground. A surge of Chakra flowed under Lee as the Initial Lotus struck. As the dust cleared Lee panted. He was barely able to use that move against his enemy, and now he suffered for it. His head was twirling and he was on his hands and knees. He looked up as his vision cleared, but what he saw shocked him. Dosu was still there standing.
"Wow, you really saved me there Zaku," he smiled, "Even though you softened the ground Im still feeling it."
" Yeah, you Okay Kin?" asked Zaku.
"Yeah, but man my head hurts," she replied holding her head, "We should really take him out before that move he used on Dosu here again."
"You wont need to worry, I can defeat you without it," Lee replied now standing upright. He was still dizzy, but felt he could continue now.
"Please, even with all that power and speed of yours your no match for the sound Ninja!" yelled Kin, who quickly threw a Kunai. Lee caught it mid air and tossed it back at her. She ducked and smiled, "So you really are fast. But are you fast enough to handle all three of us?"
Then the Real assault began. Dosu started to attack with his Gauntlets again, but this time Lee stayed farther away to avoid the effect of it. Though when he went back he was forced to jump to avoid a few low thrown Kunai by Kin. While in the air is when Zaku let out his attack. He pointed his arm with his palm open at Lee. A blast of compressed air Shot out and struck Lee, "Air Slicing Blast!" and Lee went Flying. The three Nin quickly went in for the next assault.
If only I could take them off, but Gai made me promise not to take them off until he gave the Okay, but if I dont, Rock Lee shook the thought. He would not loose this fight and keep his promise to Gai. He needed to get rid of one of them before he could win, even if it was only for a moment, and it would seem Zaku would be the best to remove since he could almost neutralize the Lotus. As Dosu came close, Lee used the whirlwind Kick, Dosu only smiled staying barely out of reach so he could strike with his Gauntlet. However he felt himself forced back by the force of the kick. He flew back a short distance and regained balance.
"So, you know the whirlwind Kick? Doesn't matter though, we still have plenty more, and a evil look crossed Dosu's face. This time it was Kin who attacked first. She went in with a Kunai in each hand, Lee knew they had another strategy, but couldn't figure it out. He decided to attack her with leaf spinning wind. She barely managed to avoid and saw a second kick flying at her, but it was stopped by Dosu, who attacked Lee from behind. Lee managed to dodge, but since he was so close to Kin she managed to slice into his arm with a Kunai.
Sakura was starring into the fight with frightened Eyes. He cant beat all three of them But what can I... Even if I could only get one of them away from him It would be enough. Sakura then saw Zaku readying his air Cutter and decided to interfere. She threw a Kunai he avoided, but at least it stopped the air cutter. She charged in with a Kunai and he simply threw a kunai at her. She was struck, but a log appeared in her place. She struck him with a hard punch to the back of the head and jumped into a tree. When he turned around Sakura jumped at him, Kunai ready to strike. He threw a Kunai at her, thinking it was obviously another replacement Jutsu and looked around, Now where is the real one... but before he could finish he felt blood drop in his face. He looked up and saw Sakura with a Kunai in her hand, jamming the Kunai at him. It was jammed straight into his arm, so he tried punching Sakura with his other arm. But before he could Sakura bit down into his wrist.
Kin quickly grabbed Sakuras hair and pulled her off, "Clever arent you?" she smiled, "Looks like Ill just kill you here," and Kin reached for her Kunai. Sakura, however, cut her hair off with her Kunai and jumped into a tree for safety. While Sakura Had them distracted, Lee knew he couldn't get by without getting through Dosu first, so decided to finish him with his next move. Lee charged in and did a sweeping kick knocking Dosu off his feet, but before he actually hit the ground Lee grabbed his ankle and spun around slamming Dosu into a Tree. Lee quickly charged, but to no avail. Zaku had extended both arms and cried, "Ultimate air slicer!" and a huge wave of air pressure shot everywhere crushing Lee and Sakura.
"Damn it," Lee gasped. He couldn't keep fighting like this. Even if he took his weighs off now he would be to exhausted. He had failed, he couldnt protect Sakura. Just as he thought it couldnt get any worse, Dosu had gotten up.
"Nice little trick you got there, but did you really think It would stop me?" he said with a Sadistic tone. The tree sound Nin stood together looker at the battered frames of Lee and Sakura. It was then, however, help arrived.
The three sound Nins leapt in all directions as a giant ball came rolling through. Arms and legs popped out as the ball shrunk, revealing Choiji, "Hey guys," he said starting to dig into a bag of Chips.
"Youll pay for interfering!" yelled Kin who began to charge but her body wasnt moving. She started moving forward against her will as Shikamaru came out of the bushes moving the exact same way.
"You three had best be happy Ino convinced us to help you guys," As he said that the body of Ino fell limp from the bushes and Kin smiled.
"Yeah, I didnt want to waste my energy here, but you looked so helpless forehead girl," Kin said.
"Shut up Ino Pig," smiled Sakura, barely able to talk.
Ino just smiled through Kins body and said, "Well have this finished Soon," Ino turned Kins body towards Choiji and extended her arms out, "Just crush her already."
"All right, Meat Tank Jutsu!" yelled Choiji as he grew very large and rolled into a ball charging Kin. Zaku, however, jumped in front of Choiji and used his Air Slicer Jutsu, Choiji kept rolling in place until eventually the large ball of meat jumped into the air over Zaku and was about to crash land on Kin. However she avoided it, and Inos body got back up.
"Dammit Choiji you were to slow," Ino yelled.
"Well sorry you cant hold it longer," Choiji calmly said.
"Shut up Fatty!" yelled Ino.
"Dont call me Fat!" yelled Choiji back.
"Will you stop fighting each other you two and go after the sound Nins? How troublesome," sighed Shikamaru. Though they prepared to fight again, everyone stopped when they felt a powerful energy emitting from behind. Everyone stopped to look at what was now the awakened Sasuke.
His body was covered in black markings and a dark energy was emitting off his body, "Who did this too you Sakura? Who!" he said in an enraged voice. The sound Nins were quick to retreat as they saw this. Sakura put her arms around Sasukes Shoulders.
"Sasuke, please stop," she panted. As she did this the energy started to go down and the black marks receding until all that was left was the mark on his neck. He nearly collapsed into Sakuras arms. She was relieved that whatever this was had stopped.
"What the hell was that?" yelled Ino.
"I dont know," said Sasuke softly, "But we still dont have an earth scroll."
"Neither do we," said Shikamaru, "How troublesome."
"Actually," smiled Lee barely picking himself up off the ground, "I've got three. Each of you can have one for thanks."
" Really Lee?" said Sakura Cheerfully, "But why?"
"I promised I would protect you, but I failed. Sakura, I make you one more promise. During the final exams I will be a stronger man than I am now," said Lee with a stern look on his face.
Shikamaru looked at Lee and noticed something wrong, there were small bumps through his leg warmers, and then he looked at Lee and said, "Hey, can I talk to you for a moment?"
"Sure," Lee said struggling to walk over to Shikamaru, "What is it?"
"Why didnt you take of f your weights? You probably would have won, since those weights are usually only worn for extreme taijutsu training," Shikamaru said.
"I promised Gai-Sensei that I wouldnt take them off until he gave me the Okay," Lee smiled.
"SO you would risk you own life to keep such a troublesome promise?" Shikamaru said nodding his head as he started walking off, "Lets go guys, we should get to the middle tower as soon as possible," and with that Shikamarus team had taken off.
"Well Sakura, Ill catch up with you at the Exams," Lee said, "Ill rest here a while until they wake up."
"Goodbye Lee," she said as her and Sasuke picked up Neji and walked off. After a few hours Naruto got up and saw Lee there.
"Lee! What happened to that snake guy?" asked Naruto.
"Huh? I was helping fight off the Sound Ninja. What exactly happened while I was gone? Lee asked. Naruto explained the whole thing. By the time he was done Hinata arose.
"Naruto-kun? Lee?" she said.
"So were all up then?" Lee said getting up, "Good. I have gotten us an earth scroll, so lets get moving. We only have a few more hours until the second exam starts," Naruto and Hinata nodded as they left for the tower.
Anko had just gotten back and informed the Hokage of what happened. He had insisted the exams continue, and that Orichimaru would not try anything else yet. Not with all the Anbu in the area. Anko went to the observation room and to see how many people were left.
"Anko," said one of the people at a monitor, "Some one had finished the test in two hours!"
"Thats impossible, the record to this point has been fourteen! Show me the video!"
Kiba, Shino, and Tenten saw a team of stone Nins from the trees. They were planning to attack until they saw the sand team come in. They stood in the trees waiting for a victor to emerge so they could attack and take the scrolls from the winners since they would be warn out.
"I suggest you hand over the scroll now," smiled Kankurou.
"Ha, you cant beat us," replied one of them as he threw his three umbrellas into the air, they opened up and needles began to rain down on top of Gaara and a huge dust cloud formed. The Nin smiled thinking he had killed his enemy, but as the dust cleared all that was there was a shell of sand that had blocked all the needles.
"Desert Coffin," calmly said Gaara, and the sand swarmed over him encasing his body.
"I give up, Ill give you the scroll!" the Stone Nin screamed.
"Gaara simply walked over and picked up an umbrella and opened it up over his head. "No, you will die," Gaara said, "Desert Funeral"! and the sand imploded on the man, creating a bloody rain over the entire area. Temari lifted up the scroll and looked at it.
"Lucky, this is the scroll we needed. We can get out of here already," she smiled.
"No," replied Gaara.
"Why not?" asked Kankurou.
"Im not done killing yet," he replied simply.
"Gaara," said Temari, "please lets just get out of here," she was almost afraid he would attack her.
"Fine," Gaara said and walked off. Kankurou and Temari looked afraid for their lives as the followed after.
"What the hell is that guy?" asked Kiba after they left.
"Lets find another scroll," replied Shino, knowing fighting them would mean certain death.
"That was scary," Tenten said as a chill went down her spine, "I hope we wont have to fight him."
They all nodded and walked off.
After watching the video Anko got a very serious look across her face, "We had better keep a close eye on that one, somethings not right about him."
Naruto, Lee and Hinata arrived at the tower, and went inside. There they finally opened up their scrolls. A cloud of dust appeared and from the dust appeared Iruka.
"Hey Naruto, long time no see," he smiled.
"What are you doing here Iruka?" said Naruto happy to see his former sensei.
"Well a Chuunin is assigned to great each team and congratulated them on passing the second exam," he replied.
"Excuse me," Lee said, "Its nice to see you again Iruka."
"Lee, I see you made it to a team after all, congratulations," Iruka smiled.
"You guys know each other?" asked Naruto Confused.
"He used to be In my class before he dropped out. Looks like he turned into a fine Genin," Iruka smiled, "Its nice to see you here to Hinata."
"Thank you," she said Quietly.
"I want you all to look at the writing on the wall," Iruka said as they all looked at it. It read, Those who lack the power of heaven should seek to gain knowledge, and those who lack the power of earth should seek to obtain strength.
"Whats that suppose to mean?" asked Naruto.
"Um, I-I Think I know," said Hinata, "If you L-lack intelligence, you sh-should find a way to i-improve your mind. IF you l-lack strength t-train your body t-t-to obtain it."
"Thats right Hinata. I guess its time to go to the final room. Then well see who all made it this far," with that Iruka led them up the tower stairs until the reached the stadium. Thats it for this chapter. Next chapter the Preliminaries begin. Please R&R.