Anko Plus Gennin Equals: Pure Chaos! Chapter 13: Kiiro Gets A Clue, a naruto fanfic

"Lemme get this straight," Kiiro said. "We're in this giant, metal maze... which is cold and wet..." she looked at the high walls on either side of her and shivered.

Kuroppi nodded.

"For three days..." Kiiro continued, "So we can attack some random other team... and get a scroll?"

"Pretty much," Koneko said. "At least we're not doing this in Konoha. Then this part of the exams would be in the... Forest of Death." she shivered.

"What?" Kiiro whined. "No fair! I know that place like the back of my hand and I end up here?"

Koneko stared at Kiiro. "You spend that much time in that... place? How did you remain sane?"

"She wasn't sane to begin with," Kuroppi explained.

Kiiro pouted. "C'mon Kuro-chan, I'm not that bad, am I?"

Kuroppi smirked the way only an Uchiha can. "Yes, Kiiro, you are."

Kiiro stuck her tongue out at her teammate immaturely.

"You're being awfully loud," said a voice behind the three.

A foot stepped out from the corner behind them. It was Chigatana, followed by his gennin teammate and Haruno Sakura.

"I'm not Sasuke!" Kuroppi said quickly, backing away from Sakura.

Sakura smiled sadly. "I know," she said. "He isn't even at these exams... I wish he was though."

"Yeah, yeah," Chigatana growled. "Sasuke-kun this, Sasuke-kun that. Do you ever shut up?"

"That's a good question," laughed another voice. The boy who referred to himself as the Rokubi no Raijuu came around the other corner in the gennins' sight.

He smirked. "Is this some sort of party?" He asked. "Shame that the little fox-brat didn't invite me."

"I'M NOT NARUTO!" Kiiro yelled.

Sakura blinked. "What does Naruto have to do with foxes?"

Kiiro looked blankly at Sakura. "Isn't he your teammate? It should be obvious, particularly with those whisker marks on his face..."

"I think Raijuu-wannabe was referring to me here," Ussura said.

Kiiro blinked. "Ohhh... right. Hey, Raijuu-wannabe, aren't you supposed to be with your teammates?"

"My teammates have already secured a scroll of the other type." Smirking bestially, 'Raijuu' raised his arm. "I'm merely hunting. For you, Warai Kiiro."

"Hunting?" Kiiro asked. "For me?" She blinked. Then her eyes clouded over in what looked liked recognition.

"Sorry," Kiiro said, "I don't really know you that well. And I already have someone I like so..."

"That's not what I meant by hunting," 'Raijuu' growled. "I meant, I tracked you down, to do... this!"

Facing Chigatana, 'Raijuu' brought his arm down hard.

A lightning bolt came out of the (sunny) sky and struck Chigatana.

Chigatana's eyes opened wide and he screamed before falling over facedown onto the ground.

Sakura stared at Chigatana's fallen body, shaking. "How... How did you do that?" she asked 'Raijuu', staring at him. "You... you... freak!" she raised her first and smashed the ground so that it broke in 'Raiju's' direction. He jumped away, still grinning.

"That boy carries a steel sword," 'Raijuu' explained, chuckling. "That makes him a great deal more conductive than the rest of you. He wasn't my original target, Warai Kiiro is. But..." 'Raijuu' chuckled. "I always test out my lightning on someone else before going after the original target. Any last words, Warai Kiiro?"

Kiiro's eyes widened. Instead of running, however, she grinned and bit her thumb.

"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" she yelled, summoning Ussura's older brothers.

Kiiro turned to the others. "It's me he wants, so if you all leave now you have a higher chance of not dying. Saku-sempai, take Ussura-chan and Chigatana. Get on Anzentenkou-sama's back and get out of here!" The lighter, larger fox grabbed the three aforementioned... mammals (Ussura is not a person xD) in his teeth and sling them onto his back before running away.

Kiiro nodded at the other fox. "Tanshokutenkou-sama, please take Kuro-chan, Fuyu-san, and Neko-chan far away from here. Kuro-chan, I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME, JUST GO!"

"Have fun." Kuroppi smirked, waved, and nodded at Kiiro before getting on Tanshokutenkou's back, dragging Koneko behind her. Fuyu leaped onto Tanshokutenkou with canine grace and grinned at 'Raijuu.'

The darker fox took off in the opposite direction to that which his brother had taken.

Kiiro grinned. "You lose, Raijuu-wannabe," she said decidedly. "You shouldn't have asked if I had any more words."

'Raijuu' raised his arm and shook his head. "Warai Kiiro, I hunted you. Now, I will kill you!"

"Good luck with that." Kiiro chuckled. 'Raijuu' gritted his teeth and sent his lightning coming down.

It passed through Kiiro like nothing had happened.

His eyes widened. "How...?"

Kiiro grinned. "Because I'm not real!" she took her arm and passed it through her head-- again, nothing happened. "I'm only a bunshin. You've been duped, Raijuu-wannabe!"

Kiiro's bunshin faded into nothing, laughing its head off.

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"Kuro-chan, how could you smirk while leaving your teammate to die?!" Koneko yelled. "She was all 'go on without me'! And you were all 'have fun'!"

"I didn't leave Kii-chan to die," Kuroppi chuckled. "Actually, she started running away from the scene before this fox, Anzentenkou took off."

"I'm Tanshokutenkou," The fox growled. "Anzentenkou is my brother."

"But 'Anzen' means 'dark,' and you're darker in color," Koneko said, confused, "While 'Tanshoku' means 'light' and your brother is lighter on color! Why aren't you Anzentenkou and him Tanshokutenkou?"

Tanshokutenkou grinned. "Because my mom likes screwing with people's heads," he chuckled.

"Moms can be weird that way, I'm told," Kuroppi said. "When Kiiro came back form being dead, she was really pissed that her mom refused to tell her who her dad was, just to mess with her head."

"That's good," Tanshokutenkou said, "It means that if Kiiro becomes a mother herself, she'll be more likely to not keep secrets from her children."

"But..." Koneko blinked. "I still don't get it! What do you mean than Kiiro-chan had started running first?"

Kuroppi smirked. "The Kiiro that you saw was only a clone," she explained.

Tanshokutenkou nodded. "The real Kiiro ran off as soon as she told Kuroppi to go on without her, leaving behind that clone-- and hiding under Kuroppi-san's genjutsu!"

Kiiro was nearly out of breath. She'd been tired when started this part of the exams one day ago, she had spent more than a third of her chakra just summoning the twin foxes, and she'd now been running for about three hours straight. She didn't look back for fear of finding that the Raijuu wannabe had found her again.

Rounding a corner, she crashed right into someone. Both people toppled over onto the ground, but since Kiiro had been running and therefore had was more subjected to the property of inertia, she first sent the person to the floor with her over weight, then flipped over on her head and slid five feet.

"Ow..." Kiiro mumbled, getting up as quickly as she possibly could. "That hurt... and now my forehead's bleeding too..." she groaned. "I hope that guy doesn't have a Kiba-like sense of smell."

She started running again, but she was much, much slower this time.

The other person, who was, in fact, not almost completely exhausted, sprung up onto his feet. He reached for a water skin at his side and opened it. Water floated out of it, seemingly of his own accord. Taking one of his hands and forming hand seals with it, he muttered: "Hijutsu: Ma Kyou Hyou Shou!"

Kiiro saw something ahead on the path she was traveling on, not too far in the distance.

"The tower!" she whispered to herself. Maybe, once she was inside, she would be safe from the boy who called himself Raijuu. She and teammates (wherever they were) wouldn't pass the exams, but they were alive and that was what was most important to her. She picked up her pace slightly, panting. Soon, this would all be over.

Suddenly, a large mirror appeared right in front of her. Kiiro tried to stop before she would crash into it, but once again she ended up tripping over her own feet and went flying forward.

Kiiro winced and closed her eyes. Before she hit the mirror and caused herself seven years of bad luck, however, something grabbed her forearms to prevent her from colliding.

Slowly, shakingly, Kiiro opened her eyes. She looked right into the mirror and saw Haku inside of it. His arms protruded from the mirror, blocking Kiiro from running straight into him.

Kiiro grinned, "Haa-kun," she chuckled. "You gave me quite a scare there, you know. I'm being chased by this guy..."

Haku's eyes widened. "Chased? In what way?" Then, his eyes narrowed. "Kiiro-san, I swear if he tried anything, I'll--"

"Not that kind of chasing!" Kiiro said hurriedly. "He was trying to kill me!"

"Oh," said Haku. "Of course. ... I knew that."

Kiiro chuckled. "You're just as clueless as I am, Haa-kun!" she wheezed, still more than a little out of breath.

Haku blinked. "Me, clueless?"

Kiiro nodded, thought a bit, then shook her head. "Let's just say I'd been trying to hint at something to you."

"Huh?" Haku said. "You have?"

Kiiro nodded. "But I don't think I've been really hinting, since usually when I hint at something I hint too hard and pretty much just tell the person what I'm trying to tell them... and you haven't figured it out yet."

"I've had that problem," Haku laughed.

Kiiro grinned. "With people being clueless? Who?"

Haku looked away. "The girl I like," he said, blushing. "I keep trying to tell her, and I've been blaming her all this time, saying she's clueless."

"So just tell her!" Kiiro said.

Haku blushed harder now. 'If only you knew what you were saying, Kiiro-san...' he thought.

"It's not that simple," Haku said. "Whenever I try to tell her, I end up talking about something else entirely or just 'hinting' again."

"Really?" Kiiro laughed. "With me, I already know the person has someone they like, so I keep my out of it. I guess his being happy when his life has been so hard is way more important than me being more happy, when I'm already happy a good percentage of the time anyway." She gave Haku a thumbs up. "Besides, I'm already friends with the person so I get to spend time with him anyway! A win-win situation!"

"That's an interesting way of thinking," Haku laughed. "I didn't know you have someone you like..."

"Yup-pers!" Kiiro giggled. "Anyway, Haku-kun, what about you? You have someone you like, don'cha?" she winked. "I want you to be happy, Haku-kun. So I will help you!"

Haku blinked. "I don't think..."

"Oh, come on!" Kiiro whined. "Just-- just tell me who she is, and I'll put in a good word for you... wait, do I know her?"

Haku's face grew even redder (it was now about the same shade as Gaara's hair). "Umm... yeah, you know her..." Haku mumbled. "In fact... I think you know her... pretty well."

Kiiro blinked. "Ohhh!" She said. "It's Kuro-chan isn't it?" Then, Kiiro frowned. "They all go for Kuro-chan..."

"Don't worry, It isn't Kuroppi," Haku said. "I'm not one of those mindless fanboys who stalks her day and night."

Kiiro thought. "Is it... Aki-sama?" she guessed.

"It's not Aki," Haku said, looking away. "Whatever made you think that?"

"Well..." Kiiro giggled. "I don't know about now, but before, at least when I first met you, you were acting like you were her slave or something. Aki-san, is there a way I can help? Aki-san, I'll do it for you! Of course, Aki-san, I'd be happy to. Et-cetera."

"So..." Haku said, "In other words, you think I have an individual freedom problem?"

"No, that's not it!" Kiiro said quickly. "I just wish... you'd do more... for yourself. Or accept more favors from others. You should do at least one thing for yourself every day-- take an extra few minutes to sleep, let someone help you with something... you know. You're pretty selfless Haku, to the point where I sometimes worry."

Haku stepped out of the ice mirror, but he was still holding Kiiro's arms. "Do more... for.. myself?" he asked slowly.

Kiiro sighed. "Please tell me this isn't a foreign concept," she said exasperatedly. "I don't want to have to explain it."

"Hmm..." Haku said. "Well, I get the concept. But... one question." He leaned towards Kiiro and rested his forehead on hers.

"Would kissing the girl I like count as doing myself a favor, or her?"

Kiiro's entire face turned a very bright shade of pink.

"That-- that depends..." Kiiro said. "Who is the girl you like?"

Her eyes lighted up. "I KNOW! It's Neko-chan isn't it? She said she likes a handsome guy who wears a lot of green..."

"It's not Koneko-san," Haku said, a little impatiently. "Think... someone you know..."

Kiiro thought. "Huh... it's a long shot but... is it Kon-chan? She does have a certain cool quality about her... plus she's really smart. Yeah... I can see it now..."

Haku looked Kiiro in the eye.

"NO."

He took the advantage of the fact that his hands were on Kiiro's arms to pull her towards him and kiss her.

(hahah, you hate me for cutting it off there don't you :D)

"I wonder where the others are," Sakura sighed, still sitting on the large fox demon Anzentenkou.

"They're not that far," Anzentenkou said. "I can hear them-- Kiiro is with Haku."

"Haku?" Sakura asked. "I used to know someone with that name..."

"Maybe it's the same person," Anzentenkou said. "The shinobi world is a small one."

"I doubt that," Sakura laughed. "That Haku died protecting someone. I was there-- the person who killed him was Kakashi-sensei."

Anzentenkou started laughing. "Well, I don't know. You humans have awfully bizarre life cycles..." he skidded to a stop and turned back around. "At any rate, your teammate's not dead yet! I can feel his heart beat faintly against my back. We need to get to Kiiro..."

"Huh?" Sakura asked. "Kiiro's a medic-nin?"

"No," Anzentenkou said lightly. "But you don't have the right chakra nature for what I have in mind. And Kiiro does..."

"Mmph!" Kiiro said decidedly. Haku broke apart from her, bringing his hands to his lips.

"I'm sorry!" he gasped. "I don't know what came over me..." Haku blushed. "And... obviously, the girl I like is you."

"Yeah, well..." Kiiro giggled. "The guy I like is you, so that's okay. I didn't know you liked me though... since you're a quiet, refined, sweet person, I assumed you liked someone less... brutal." she scratched the back of her head embarassedly.

Haku blinked. "Brutal...? Kiiro-san, you're not brutal."

"I'm loud and I'm rude and I enjoy picking in people who are less of something than me! Isn't that, like, the definition of brutal?" Kiiro said.

Haku sweatdropped. "Maybe... but... that's not all there is to you. You see--"

He was interrupted by the voice of the Raijuu boy.

"Oh, did you think you'd gotten away from me?" 'Raijuu' chuckled. "Warai Kiiro, this is your end!"

He raised his arm. "But first, of course, I'll kill your little boyfriend here to test out my powe--"

"KATSU!" A massive explosion took place directly behind 'Raijuu', exactly far enough away to not kill him, but to still knock him out cold.

Two blacked-cloaked figures appeared in the smoke.

"Looks like we found the six-tails, un."

kiiro: wait no Neko-chan don't post it! It's not done yet!

koneko: aww come on, it's an awesome cliffhanger.

haku: ... o/o ... did I just do what I think I just did?

me: yes Haku, yes you did. congratulations.

sakura: what the hell did the fox mean right chakra nature? what does he have in mind?

kiiro: I'm not saving Chigatana's life unless you give me your scroll

me: STOP TALKING, YOU'RE GIVING IT ALL AWAY! I don't own Naruto (though I own haku every way but legally) and I don't own Bleach either, even though there's no one from Bleach in this fanfiction and I'm just mentioning it because I'm reading it on Onemanga right now. DAMN YOU AIZEN! Hinamori the li'l cutie with the bun works so hard for you and wuvs you soooooooooo much, and what does she get in return? A BIG HOLE THROUGH HER CHEST!

zabuza: That sounds like your Wave Arc Rant.

me: shut up, mr. oh-hey-i-guess-i-picked-up-something-useful. I don't own nuttin'. Review if you care!