Hello all! I decided to try a Naruto fic… My Sesshy one is on Hiatus for now…. Yeah. I do not Own ANYTHING, except for Kaze, Mizu, Yuki, Yurasu, Raikou, and Kasai.
A Special Thank You to: IEatChicken for reviewing! This one is dedicated to you!
ENJOY!!!
Also, due to the fact I am trying to make these as long as possible, expect some delays in the future
THIS IS REDONE!!!!!! Sorry About the whole BR thing, that was for Quizilla readers (HTML stuff), yeah, sorry.
Chapter 3
"K-Kasai?! You're here too?!" I said in disbelief. He still had his red hair and reddish gold eyes, although his outfit was a bit different. It was mainly red with some yellow tied in here and there.
"Well, Kaze, looks like you became a ninja too. Nice outfit, by the way. I had stuck to wearing a tight black top and black poofy pants, with ninja sandals.
"Looks like you're a ninja too, do you know if anyone else is here?" I asked
"Don't know. Do you know why we are here?"
"Yeah, come with me" I said as I grabbed his hand and flitted into the forest at high speed so we could have some privacy. "You know we have demons inside of us right?" I asked
"Yeah, I have a bobcat inside of me, fiery little devil he is too" he said, I laughed and shook my head.
"Well we were transported to a different dimension because of them and that's when they entered our bodies. We ended up at the orphanage. From what Angin says-"
"Who's Angin?" Kasai asked
"My demon is a silver fox with four tails; anyway, from what he says, we are here because something bad is going to happen to the countries from which we were born." I said.
"Ah, well, I'm hungry, want something to eat? My treat" He said smiling, I smiled to
"What do you have in mind?" I asked
"Something which is familiar to us from our dimension, ramen" He said and grabbed my hand and went to a little place called 'Ichiraku Ramen Bar.'
"Yes, I love this ramen!" I said as I sat in one of the stools and started to spin myself around "Weeee" I said smiling.
"Hey! You're the girl that had that ramen eating contest with me yesterday" A kid with blonde hair and blue eyes said. I stopped spinning to see he was pointing at me.
"Hey! You're the guy who lost when we had a ramen eating contest yesterday" I said cheerfully.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and I am going to become the next Hokage!" He said pointing to himself
"I'm Kaze, and I am going into the Chuunin exams soon" I said happily pointing to myself
"Aren't you a little old to be participating in the Chuunin exams?" He asked confused.
"Nope, 'cuz I am too" Kasai said
"Hi Kasai" Naruto said
"Hey Naruto" Kasai leant over to me and whispered in my ear "He is what has been keeping me sane the whole time I was here, he acts too much like you." He said I whispered back
"Who is your replacement Raikou then?" I asked and he pointed to a girl in pink
"Kasai where have you been?! I have been waiting for you for HOURS!!!!" She shrieked
"Hi to you too Sakura"
"Shut Up, the Hokage wants to see you" She said meanly before turning and walking away, with her nose in the air.
"Wow, I think she's worse then Raikou" I said
Soon when we were discussing our pasts Gaara came.
"Hi Gaara, this is my friend Kasai," I said
"Hn" He said. After finishing our meal we walked around the village before I noticed a familiar black head of hair.
"Raikou!" I yelled as I ran up to him, he caught me in his arms and swung me around in his arms
"How is my little death girl?" He asked
"Good, how are you lightning boy?" I asked, still in each other's embrace
"Good, better now that you are here though" I smiled
"Hey j.erk" Kasai said as he walked up to us and did the 'guy hug' thing. Gaara walked up to us.
"Who is this?" Gaara said calmly, yet he was glaring at Raikou
"My other friend Raikou" I said smiling, my smile faded though when I realized my mistake.
"Ah…" Gaara said before taking my hand and transporting us into his bedroom before pushing me into the wall. "You obviously remember now. Tell me everything" He said.
I proceeded to tell him everything I knew, leaving nothing out.
"The reason I didn't tell you before was because I didn't think you would believe me. I am sorry I lied." I said.
"Hn" He said before backing up. "So you have a demon inside you too?" He asked
"Yeah, his name is Angin" I said, as I sat down on his bed.
"What is he?"
"A silver fox with four tails" I said, laying down in a way where my feet were still touching the floor.
"That boy at the gate, does he mean anything to you?" He asked awkwardly. I sat myself up on my elbows.
"Raikou? Nah, he has just been my friend since I was four, he's practically my brother, same with Kasai. In fact, it's because of them that I never had a boyfriend, they would gang up on any guy that would come close to me and say 'If you even think about touching her I will make sure you ache for weeks possibly months' and since they have three different martial arts under their belt they would believe them." I said "Why do you ask?"
"No reason" he stated as he sat down beside me and looked at me "It's just you are the first person to not be afraid of me, so I want to make sure nothing is going to happen to you." I smiled at him and turned to my side.
"That's sweet" I light blush went to his face at my words. I giggled slightly at this. "Hey Gaara?" I asked
"What" I reached my hands to his face and my fingers brushed lightly against his skin as I traced the black around his eyes.
"How did you get these" I asked, still stroking the black skin
"Shukaku"
"Who?"
"The demon that was inside me?"
"Was?"
"Yeah, Akatsuki took him out of me not to long ago. I almost died." I looked on shocked "But basically it's from Insomnia, if I slept Shukaku would eat away at my personality"
"Oh, that's why you still do not sleep" He nodded. "Well, he is not in you now, so you can sleep"
"After 15 years of not sleeping it is not that easy, Kaze" He said
"What if I stay here like we did that first night?" I asked.
"Well, I did sleep that night" I smiled as I looked out the window to see how late it was. The sun was still up and blazing through the window. 'Just after noon' I thought. "Since it is not late enough to go to sleep just yet, how about we do some training?" I asked. Lately, Kankuro and Temari were the ones undergoing my training. I had never trained with Gaara. He nodded and we went out into the forest.
"The object of this training is to get close enough to touch me" Gaara said as he uncorked his gourd he had put on before we left. Sand started to flow out. "Come" He said. Sand started to flow towards me as I hopped backwards, touching the sand meant game over for me. I jumped onto a tree branch and the sand followed. I just observed its movements and barely noticed that three people were watching, but I was not interested in that. I jumped down and charged, dodging when sand flitted my way, I jumped up again and did some quick hand seals… bird, dragon, horse, ram, monkey, and then concentrated my chakra to my feet as I did the last seal, ram. Air hardened under my feet, so I could walk on it, I guess I could say, and I ran on it, and jumped up on another tree branch as a wave of sand came towards me. I jumped up higher until I could go no higher and jumped down before doing the same seals again, since the ground was covered in sand. I continued to charge him, before I had to jump over yet another wave of sand. I growled, I had gotten no where doing this. I needed speed. Speed I smirked to myself as I did more hand seals, dragon, horse, boar, dog, snake rat, ox, and lastly, rabbit. I felt two characters burn into my skin of my legs, on my left it said 'Air' on my right it said 'Speed'. I jumped on the ground and used my new-found speed to charge my opponent as he just stood there with his arms crossed. 'He hasn't moved an inch' I thought. I mentally growled, this was harder than I thought! I dodged a few blows he attempted to do with his sand before doing more seals to run on air, I was going so fast it didn't even look like I was running. Sand started to form around his body once he saw I was getting to close, forming a sphere of sand, I punched it and it turn I almost got stabbed, I jumped back and glared at the sphere. I hadn't even made a dent. I sighed as I paced thinking about my next move. It didn't take long until I came up with one though; I just hope it will work.
I search for the highest tree I could find before climbing that. I took out my hidden fans before focusing my chakra into the fans to make me go up higher, and to go directly over Gaara. After I felt I had gone up high enough I put my fans away before doing more seals, ox, rabbit, dog, horse, and ram. I yelled "Kaze Soushi: Shippou Tama (Wind Element: Silver Bullet) " Before causing me to spin at a high speed towards Gaara. I crossed my hands over my upper chest for more velocity. I crashed into Gaara's shield of sand and fell onto him. "He he, I guess I win Gaara-sama" I said thoroughly exhausted. He smiled, a very faint almost-nonexistent smile, but a smile nonetheless. I smiled up at him before he picked me up bridal style and transported us back into his room. He set me down gently on my feet and I went straight for his bed, getting under the covers with no complaints. "So, how did I do?"
"Very well, what was the name of the last jutsu you did?"
"Shippou Tama, or Silver Bullet, one of Angin's signature jutsus" I said as Gaara went under the covers as well.
"So you can use Angin's jutsus?"
"Yeah, just like I have full access to his chakra, which is why I am amazed that I am so exhausted right now" I said as I snuggled up to the stoic Kazekage.
"Hn, Angin lets you use everything freely?"
"Yes, it's part of the 'protect your country' thing." I said reminding him.
"Ah"
"Let's sleep ne?"
"Yeah, let's"
The Next Morning
"Kaze, wake up, Chuunin Exams are today." Gaara said gently, as he attempted to wake me up.
"Oh goody" I said sleepily as I sat up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. "Why am I doing his again?"
"So you can become a Chuunin and show to this world that the Wind country has amazing, powerful ninja" He said, I smiled for it was not hard to see that that whole sentence was a compliment, a very rare comment.
"And we are all led by an amazing Kazekage, who is more powerful than said ninja." I said, my grin growing larger for he was blushing once again. "Time for me to get up and find some clothes for this test, how long is this thing going to last, and what would you recommend I bring?" I asked my leader.
"An extra pair of clothes, some way to cheat without getting caught (I raised my eyebrow at this), enough food for around five days, and all your weapons" He said "Do not ask anything" He added. I rolled my eyes. I walked out of his room and went into mine before packing the things my Kage had advised I pack. I had on something similar to what I wore yesterday, only a short blue jacket adorned the said outfit. I brought food packets so I wouldn't have to carry a large amount of weight around and a couple flasks of water.
'What am I going to use to cheat without anyone noticing I am cheating?' I asked to myself. I thought for a while before looking down at my arms, where my arm warmer/ armor was, I smirked, that issue was taken care of. I went back to Gaara's room and asked that he would wish me luck. He said that I didn't need luck because I had enough talent to go around all the Genin ten-fold. I laughed at the second compliment given to me this morning and kissed his cheek before heading out to the academy. (AN: Since I am lazy and don't want to think of another test for them it is going to be the same as the Chuunin Exam that all the Genin took before. K?)
I walked inside the building where two people were guarding a door that said 301 above them. One had long black hair tied up near his ends in a very loose ponytail and a Konoha headband around his forehead; he had silver eyes, and was about the same age as Kankuro. The other had a green jumpsuit on and a Konoha hitai-ate around his middle acting like a belt. He had a bowl-shaped haircut and the biggest eyebrows that I have ever seen. It was around this time someone grabbed my arm and brought me up another flight of stairs I turned around quickly to see Raikou and Kasai.
"That was Genjutsu Kaze, that was door number 201, not 301" Raikou said, still dragging me up the stairs
"And we want to make sure our little Kaze makes it into the Chuunin Exams because I want to see how much you have improved since you have been here." Kasai said as he opened the door to that clearly said 301 on it. "Well, ladies first" Kasai said as Raikou pushed me through the open door. I sighed as I picked a seat and observed everyone. This was one of my talents; I could observe someone and pretty much tell you most of their stats and whether or not they were a threat. I rested my head on my hand and watched everyone talk. I stopped my observing once the door opened and three people walked in with different hitai-ates. They were for the snow, rock, and mist countries; I had to keep attention from drawing to me when I saw their faces.
'So Yurasu, Yuki, and Mizu are here as well, huh. Great, just great' I thought and went back to my observing, if I had any luck they wouldn't notice me.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? A little misfit and two losers" Yurasu said, I had to clench my teeth to keep from cussing.
'Of course, this is just my luck' I thought. I rested my head on the desk and waited for the exam to start. Around ten minutes later someone entered and called everyone up to get a number. 'Assigned seating…. Can my day get any worse?' I thought as I grabbed a number. 'Apparently it can' I thought as I realized I was in the back. I sat down and began to whack my head against the desk. Soon the teacher started explaining the rules. 'Okay, so every time someone is caught cheating two points are taken of…. Wait, what? Back at home, if you were caught cheating you automatically fail, so, they want us to cheat. Kay, no problem there' I thought as I waited for the exam to start. I flipped over my paper and wrote my name at the top of my paper and scanned the questions .I clenched my fist and my hidden fan sprung up as I sat that on my lap. I did various seals under the desk. Bird, dog, rabbit, horse snake ram, I then whispered Kaze Soushi: Hitoshirezu Ninoku No Jutsu (Wind Element: Hidden Answers Jutsu) I then opened up my fan and let the tips of my fingers touch the fan. I smirked as I saw characters go onto the fan and disappear. I then acted as if I was fanning my face, because it was getting hot inside the room, then I fanned my paper, one hand holding a corner so it wouldn't fly away. Writing appeared on my paper, and after I was satisfied seeing that every question was answered I closed my fan and put it back in its holder. I flipped my paper over so no one could read my answers and waited patiently for the test to end. Soon it was time for the tenth question, and for some reason I zoned out until I heard
"You all passed!" from the examiner. I looked on confused as he explained and a lady crashed through a window
"Dude! That was cool!" I whispered as I stared at her in awe. Her name was Anko, and she was the examiner for the next part of the exam going on later today. She told us to get our thing ready for we were all participating in a survival exam next. 'I like her already.' I thought, 'She has to be the coolest examiner yet!' I thought and she dismissed us and told us to meet a training ground at three. I exited the room and ran to Ichiraku. If I was going to be my best for the next time I had to have a content body. I shoveled around twenty bowls of various ramen in my mouth before paying and checking and re-checking what I had in my pack.
"So, what did you think of Anko, Kaze?" Raikou said as he wrapped an arm around my shoulders.
"She was SO cool!" I said as I gathered no-mess, no-prep food and bought it before heading to the weapon shop to buy more shuriken and kunai. "I can't wait for the next part! I wonder what we have to do." I said as I put a finger to my chin. We walked out of the weapon shop and went to find the training area. We sat on a stump and talked for a while before Anko came around. I tuned her out as I ate a bit more and then a paper was passed to me. I signed it with no hesitation and handed it in for a scroll. I put it on the side of my thigh before going to my assigned gate. Once the exam started I went into the trees to find a victim with the opposite scroll I had I seen to groups fighting and I smirked when I found the correct scroll. 'Heaven scroll you are mine!' I thought as I created chakra strings and tied them around the heaven scroll before silently taking the scroll and heading towards the tower. I got the in around an hour and 30 min. I opened both scrolls and a teacher came out. I tuned him out when he started talking about how the heaven and earth scrolls represented the body… and I found out that there were places to sleep. I went into a room before crashing on a bed. I made a web out of chakra sting on the floor that was connected to my hands so I wouldn't be surprised when someone came into the room. I took a nap for around 3 hours before waking up to noise. I sat up and made something to eat before roaming around to see who else made it. To my utter surprise, not, Yurasu, Mizu, and Yuki were not here yet, and neither were Raikou and Kasai. I found some Konoha Nin and some sand Nin, but no one I really knew. When I found the sand Nin I walked in to say hi, they didn't look so good. One probably had poison, and I quickly treated that and let them take some of my food, since they barely had any.
I created another web of chakra strings before falling back to sleep.
Four Days Later
The remaining contestants, which were around 20 something people, myself included, had been lined up and were waiting for the next instructions. I tuned out the examiner, a bad habit I seemed to pick up, and waited for my name to show up on the screen with Kankuro and Temari. I sat down bored out of my mind and slipped my legs through the bars and swung them as I observed everyone. It was finally my turn and I was up against some Sound Nin named Ashi, Rasen. I leapt down and waited for the examiner to say start. I backed off immediately and observed his movements. He charged and I dodged effortlessly. I waited until I used a spurt of power before flipping over him, kicking him in the back and straddling him and placing two kunai at his neck. The match was over. I had won.
I walked back up the stairs and sat down and dangled my legs over the side again.
"Showoff" Kankuro said, just loud enough for me to hear.
"Shove-it Cat-face…. Sensei" I added, smirking all the while. Raikou and Kasai had definitely improved the month or so we were here. I was even surprised by Yurasu's technique. Even Mizu and Yuki surprised me by their new found talent, and that secretly pissed me off. Yurasu was the quarter-back at our school and Mizu and Yuki were the cheerleaders, they already had everything a normal high-school student wanted, to be excepted and popular. The three of them made not only my life, but Kasai's and Raikou's life a living hell whenever we were at school. They shouldn't have been good enough to pass the first exam, let alone this one. It wasn't fair; yet, when was life ever fair?
I had gathered enough information to whip everyone's butt. I knew what their preference in style was. For instance, Kasai and Raikou still favored Taijutsu, basically because they have been doing it forever. Yurasu favored Ninjutsu, yet so did Mizu. Yuki, however, favored Genjutsu, and from what I seen today, she was a formidable opponent. D.amn it! Not fair…. It is all not fair.
We had a month before we participated in the finals. Twelve people had passed the last exam. My next opponent was some Konoha Nin by the name of Hyuuga Hinabi, she used some weird form of Taijutsu, and so I knew that I had to stay as far away as possible because she could only use her Taijutsu when she was close to her opponent. I walked to the hotel and told Gaara-sama everything that happened today. Gaara told me that the Hyuuga clan used chakra to plug up the said points in the body. He told me to stay at a safe distance at all times, and to never get in reaching distance, for it would be the end of the battle. I gulped
"But you can still do it" He stated after looking at my disheveled self. "I know you can. It will just be a challenge" He said. I smiled.
I had taken to walking in the woods to calm myself and felt familiar chakra. 'Where have I felt this before?' I asked myself. My mind brought up the match that I had with Gaara almost a week ago. I jumped on a tree branch and watched the people below. 'They did this to me, I shall do this to them as well' I thought and smirked. A girl with buns on the side of her head was fighting with my next opponent. I smirked as I got comfortable.
"It's not nice to spy" A voice whispered huskily in my ear
"Then you shouldn't have done so to me" I whispered back
"Touché, Hyuuga Neji"
"Kaze" I said turning around to shake his hand. I recognized him as the one who was holding people back at room 201.
"Sand Nin ne?" He said
"Yeah, and you're a Konoha Nin" I stated. I soon heard a load thump and a light earthquake formed right after. I jumped up "What the hell?!" I said before Neji and I went to the source of the noise.
"You aren't working hard enough" the Hokage said. I gawked at the sight. My friend, Kasai was breathing heavily and had multiple bruises on his body, all at the work of the Fifth Hokage, I presumed. I continued to look shocked until I had been found out. "Ah, Neji, Kaze, why don't you both gang up and fight Kasai" The Hokage said, wiping her face free of the accumulated sweat.
"Sure" I said and jumped down "Ready to go down Kasai?"
"You wish"
"You two know each other?"
"Yeah" We said in unison
"Hokage, start us off please" I said as I got into a comfortable fighting position, Neji and Kasai doing the same.
"Start" She said and I charged him, trying to do a quick Dim Mak move to end the battle quickly. He seen this and jumped out of my way, then jumped out of the way of Neji's attack. He growled and jumped up high into a tree. I growled in return and did a few hand seals: Horse, monkey, dog, rat, ram. I concentrated on the air around me and wiggled my fingers a bit. Something that looked like Naruto's Rasengan formed in my hand, the only difference was mine was silver, and required little to no chakra to create. I made a fist and struck it into the ground, making a large crack and headed for the exact tree Kasai was in. I heard him cuss, as he attempted to get out of the way and I formed another ball of condensed air. Neji looked on in awe as I used access chakra to speed up and chase my friend around the clearing, soon I caught up to him and let the condensed air fly from my hand and into his back, I stepped on him to show that I won. I grinned happily.
"That was fun" I said as I helped Kasai up. "Can't wait till I can do that in the finals" I added. Kasai rubbed the back of his head and smiled sheepishly.
"I can" He said, I pushed him playfully. "You have improved greatly. Remind me to never piss you off, ne?" He said
"Can't make any promises." I said cheekily in a sing-song voice as I turned and started to walk away.
"Wait up" I stopped and looked over my shoulder. Neji stopped in front of me as I turned fully. "I want to fight you" he said.
"What is in it for me?" I asked
"You get an early dosage on what you can expect for you first fight in the finals" he said
"So Hinabi and you have the same techniques?" I asked, he nodded "I would take you up on you offer, but I want to come up with ways on my own to beat Hinabi, it would feel like I am cheating if I come up with a strategy beforehand." I said and turned and walked again leaving a shocked Neji in the midst of my words.
The Next Day
"Put your back into it Kaze" An angered Temari said as she swung her fan again in my direction. I jumped once again and tried to keep away from the current she was making, and failing horribly every time. I crashed, once again, into a trunk of a tree and yelped in pain. I breathed heavily and wiped the sweat from my brow. My training sessions have grown much worse since I was entered into the finals. I am currently cursing myself for even passing the third part of the exam. "Again Kaze" My lunatic of a sensei said and I pushed myself up and balanced myself out with the use of the tree. I panted for more air to get into my body as I got ready for the next current of air to come my way. Temari swung her fan once more and I jumped once again, before taking my fans out and attempting to go higher before throwing kunai in her direction. Temari easily blocked my attack with her fan. I landed and cursed. The object of this practice was to stay as far away as possible, and try to make as much damage to your opponent as humanly possible. So far, Temari was winning. I took deep breaths and fell to my knees. I had wasted a lot of chakra. Which was not good, I had not even made a scratch on Temari, while my clothes were worn, ragged, and ripped in some places. "Once more" Temari said, and once again I attempted to stand up. I focused my remaining chakra to my feet and got ready for Temari's next strike. She swung, I jumped, I threw kunai and landed and on my ankle, a defining crack sounded through the air as I yelled in pain. I gingerly felt my ankle and realized I had broken it. Temari came to my side and winced, you could clearly see that I broke the bone, for the said bone was sticking out weirdly. Temari picked me up and used her fan to take me to the hospital.
I could hear Gaara yelling at Temari through the door. Even Kankuro was yelling at her. The expected time of healing was around three weeks, if I was lucky my ankle would be healed before the finals, if not, well, I don't want to think of that. I regained a little chakra since being in the hospital and was creating chakra strings with said chakra. I sighed, bored. I hated hospitals because they were so boring, and I hated being bored. I sighed once again as I looked out the window. I seen kids chasing each other below, and I envied them, I wanted to be that age again. I heard the door open and looked to see Kankuro walking into my hospital room.
"Let's train." He said. I nodded. Unlike Temari's physical training, Kankuro's training could be done sitting down, I just needed chakra. I focused on the puppet in front of me as I let my chakra strings connect to the correct spots and forcing the small puppet to do a little dance. Kankuro knew I was running low on chakra and therefore brought a small puppet to play with, which I was grateful for. Kankuro knew when to stop training, unlike Temari, and I in turn, was grateful for that aspect as well.
"That's enough, we will continue tomorrow. Right now you should rest Kaze" Kankuro said as he walked out of the room. Gaara walked in next
"How are you feeling?"
"Like a bus ran over me, and then decided once wasn't enough and ran over me again."
"Bus?"
"It's kind of like a carriage, only three times larger, made of metal, and horses don't pull it, yet it can go around one hundred times faster. A bus is usually used to transport kids to certain places, like school" I said. By the look he gave me, he didn't believe me.
"You should rest, I will check on you later" He said as he brushed some of the hair away from my eyes and kissed my forehead. I turned beat red at this simple action, and he pulled away blushing as well.
"See you later then. Gaara-sama"
"Call me Gaara, just Gaara." He said as I drifted asleep.