A/N: Heehee. Sorry. Forgot about this chapter.
Challenge: Escape Sarafu!
"The test is simple," Kyosuke-sensei explained. "All you need to do is find me."
"Huh?" we all said.
He chuckled and then suddenly, the world around us began to change. I couldn't see Tsunade-sama, or Kyosuke-sensei anymore, but I could see Hinako and Jin, but everything else was a world of white. Then, rows and rows of clothes appeared.
"Huh?" we said again. I walked forward and picked some of them up. They all looked like designer clothes. Some of these are actually good-looking, I thought. I wonder if I can have some?
"This is obviously an illusion," Hinako said.
"What? Illusion?" I exclaimed. "Then, that means that these aren't real?"
"No," Jin answered. "Can't you recognize an illusion when you see one? What kind of Chuunin are you?"
"An okay one..."
Jin sighed.
Suddenly, Kyosuke-sensei's voice began to say, "That's correct, but this isn't an ordinary illusion." I looked around. Where was he? The voice seemed to be coming from everywhere, and all these darn clothes were in the way. "Now, find me."
"Hmph!" Hinako smirked. She put her hands together and said, "Undo!" But nothing happened. "What's going on!" Hinako exclaimed. "I should be able to get out of so low a level of an illusion!"
Kyosuke-sensei's voice laughed, and a girly laugh at that. "I told you; this isn't an ordinary illusion. You can't escape. This is what I call the Permanent Illusion Technique." A bunch of Kyosuke-sensei's appeared and surrounded us. There seemed to be an infinite number of them. "Now, FIND ME!" They all said at once and then leaped off.
"I see," Hinako said. "So this is to test our tracking skills. Only one of them can be the right one. Everyone split up and search! And don't hold back. Attack like you were going to kill. This guy's obviously very strong."
We nodded and went our seperate ways. I lept through the infinite line of clothes and found one. I threw a kunai at him, and with a poof! of smoke he disappeared. Damn, a replication. I began to move away, but then something grabbed my leg. I looked down, and there was a shirt wrapped around my ankle. What! A pair of pants jumped at me and twisted around my arm. So this is what the clothes were for!
I heard Jin scream. So he got caught, too. I whipped out a kunai with my free arm and cut free. I jumped away, but clothes everywhere were shooting towards me. I dodged them. Looks like staying on the floor would be a problem. I formed the seals: Hare, serpent, horse, tiger, ox, bird. "Sky Element, Flying Technique!" Instantly, silver, webbed, wings popped out of my back. I flapped them once, and jumped into the air. Now, I was free from the clothes and I had a bird's eye view. I looked around. There had to be hundreds of Kyosuke-sensei's, and they all looked the same. I observed them. They were all running around. Not one stood out. Then I noticed something moving on the ground. It was Hinako. She was running really fast, dodging the clothes, and she past some Kyosuke-sensei's quite a couple of times.
What's she doing? Did she already find the real one? I decided to follow her and give her help from the air, but suddenly, a shuriken just barely hit my ear. I quickly turned around and saw a group of Kyosuke-sensei's attacking me. I flew left, right, and dodged them. One of them nicked my left wing. Crap! I wasn't used to having wings, and their extra length was holding me back. I wouldn't be able to dodge for long. And there was nowhere to hide. I formed the seals and said, "Fire Element, Balsam Fire Spread!" I shot fire out of my mouth and down towards the Kyosuke-sensei's. They all poofed into smoke and the clothes caught on fire.
Damn, they were all replications! I continued flying towards Hinako. She ran towards one of the Kyosuke-sensei's and put a kunai to his throat. "Found you," she said.
Everything seemed to stop. All the clothes stayed still along with all the Kyosuke-sensei's. Then, they all disappeared, along with the clothes. The white world wavered and suddenly we were back at the Academy. I landed on the ground and undid my jutsu. I looked over towards Hinako, who still had her kunai up to Kyosuke-sensei's throat. Her eyes were red. "Sharingan!" Kyosuke exclaimed. "I see. So that was how you knew so quickly. Although I don't like how you won, I pass you three." Hinako put her kunai away and her eyes returned to normal. He looked over at Jin and me. "Although you two didn't find me, you both fended off my replications well. And Sarafu, it was very clever to use that flying technique to get a better view and get out of the way of all my clothes."
"But, Kyosuke-sensei-"
"Please, Mr. Kyosuke."
"-Yeah, Mr. Kyo, why did you pick clothes?"
"That's the only thing I could think of at the moment."
Hinako stood in front of Jin, protectively, "Jin, stay away from this man! His head's not right!"
I laughed. "So, Mr. Kyo, what's it like being gay?"
He blushed. "I-I'm not g-gay! I'm just very beautiful! I like girls! See!" He proceeded to place his hands on Tsunade-sama's chest. She got very angry and punched him. He went flying. I put my hand over my eyes to protect me from the sun and looked up at the sky. "I think that's the last we'll see of him for today."
We all laughed, except for Tsunade-sama. Once she had cooled down, she handed me and Jin our fore-head protectors. "You two are now officaly Konoha ninja." Me and Jin high-fived and Hinako smiled.
"Oh, Sarafu, I gave you and Jin an apartment next to Hinako's. I'm sorry, but you'll have to share. There's nowhere else for him to go."
I was a little ill at ease, but there was nothing I could do about. At least he was only 8, but that didn't mean he wouldn't try anything sneaky.
"You're dissmissed for today. Meet your new leader at the Jonkun Bridge at 7 AM tomorrow. He'll instruct you from there."
"Hai, Tsunade-sama," we all said at once and then left.
...to be continued.