They arrived at the tower twelve hours later; Soma was exhausted, using the excuse that she used to much chakra. "I'll be right back," she told Katara and Troah, trying not to show that she was in pain. She was really pale now as she walked as normally as she could away from them. Katara looked at Troah, "you noticed too huh?" she asked. "That she hasn't been looking like herself… yeah," he replied.
"Superstar… we have to open the scrolls!" Troah called. "I'll be right there," Soma called back. She walked over wiping her mouth, "what were you doing?" Katara asked. "Nothing," Soma said, "let's just open the scrolls." "Alright… here Troah take the Earth scroll," Katara said, handing the scroll to Troah. "On the count of three," Katara said. "One… Two… Three," all three of them said as they opened the scrolls.
"Uh…" Soma said, looking up at Kakashi… just standing there over the crossed scrolls, reading his book. "You pass… go through that door," he said, with a wave of his hand, not looking up from his book. "Okay…" Katara said, leading Troah and Soma away. "He's weird," Soma whispered, which caused Katara and Troah to snigger. "Uh… what's going on?" Katara asked, turning back to Kakashi. "Oh yeah… you have to do a…." he began to explain.
"This is odd," Soma muttered to Troah, aside from them a team from the Sand Village was there. "So… we just wait here until the other teams come?" Katara asked, "this is boring." "I know what will pass the time," Troah said, with a sly, yet evil smile to Soma. Soma returned the smile and chuckled, taking a deep breath she opened her mouth. Katara put her hand over Soma's mouth, "don't you dare!" she said, her eyes narrowing. "You're no fun," Soma sighed.
"Never ever do that again," Katara said, darkly, "it is soo annoying when you sing!" "Sorry," Soma said, giggling slightly. The evil smile was still on Troah's face, he ran past Katara and tackled Soma, "take this Superstar!" he laughed. Soma giggled, "no Troah stop!" she exclaimed, laughing.
The Sand Village Genins looked at them oddly as Soma broke down into a giggling fit. Troah, trying to past the time had tackled Soma and begun to tickle her; Soma tried to fight back, but was doubled over as she laughed. "Oh my God!" Katara exclaimed, "get a friggen room!" "They passed the exams?" Kankuro said in disbelief.
Katara gave Gaara the iciest stare that Soma had ever seen… and she had seen her fair share of icy stares from Katara. Footsteps came from behind them and Troah stopped tickling Soma. "Hey bro," he called happily as Kiba walked in, followed by Hinata and Shino. Kiba didn't return the happy greeting; he looked warily over at Gaara. Soma could tell he was nervous, "Kiba… are you okay?" she asked.
"Oh… what? Yeah… Katara you suck...sure why not?" Kiba said, not really paying attention. "Uh… Kiba… I didn't ask you anything," Soma said, confused. "Leave him alone Soma," Katara, taking Kiba's side for once. Troah looked at his brother oddly. "You sure you're alright?" Troah pestered. "Yeah… yeah I'm fine," Kiba said, looking pale.
"Look just leave him alone, okay!" Katara snapped. Both Troah and Soma looked at her, wide-eyed. They weren't use to her snapping at them for bugging Kiba. "I wonder if they have any food in this joint… too bad Choji isn't here… I could use a snack," Katara muttered, "c'mon guys let's find some food." Troah and Soma followed Katara in there search for food, still wide-eyed.