Anything, But Ordinary.
Chapter Seventeen: Kunoichi Rumble
"Yamanaka Ino, Haruno Sakura."
Sakura felt her stomach drop the second that the words left the proctors mouth. She gulped so unsure of herself. She glanced back nervously at her mother before her green eyes began to search the room for her father. If he was here than why couldn't she see him.
"You're gonna do great Sakura-chan!" she smiled hearing Naruto cheer her one. At least she had one supportive teammate. She closed her eyes and tried to calm her breathing with every step she took down the stairs. She opened her eyes when she found herself standing in front of the proctor, her green eyes clashed with Ino's blue.
Her eyes darted nervously back up at her mom once more. Her mom winked down at her, Sakura turned to look at the proctor. She gasped slightly seeing the purplish/blue rain drop eyes that belonged to her father, only for a split second before they were replaced by the dark brown. He coughed. It took all Sakura had not to move and hug the man.
"Rules are the same as the past fights have been," the two kunoichi moved into a fighting stance. "Begin," the man jumped a few feet away.
In a blink of an eye the two girls ran at each other. Sakura grasped Ino's fist in her hand while Ino held her hand as well. Sakura glared at her. "I don't want to hurt you pig, so why not just back out of the fight now," Sakura taunted.
"Yeah right! Like I'd ever lose to a billboard brow like you," the two Kunoichi pushed off of each other skidding backwards. Sakura reached into her weapon pouch and threw a few kunai in the direction of Ino only to have Ino block them all with her own kunai. Sakura sighed before standing.
"I'm only going to warn you one more time, pig." Ino rolled her eyes.
"Bring it," the blonde whispered before forming her hands into her family jutsu.
"She can't possibly think of using that here!" Shikamau said in desperation.
Sakura smirked as she watched the blonde. "Sorry pig…" she looked up her normal green eyes glowed slightly making Ino gasp. "Illusion of the Shikigami," Sakura whispered as she shut her eyes. Everyone watched in amazement as Sakura's body slowly began to form into thousands of pieces of white paper.
Ino looked around her as the paper started to stick to her body. She tried to rip the paper off of her as she became more and more covered.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked, looking up at his shocked sensei. "What's going on, why are they just standing there?" Naruto said, pointing at the two Kunoichi who stood unmoving in the center of the room.
"It's a genjutsu, Naruto…" Kakashi said. Naruto's eyes widened as a loud scream erupted from Ino's mouth.
Ino slumped forward completely out. Sakura opened her eyes the glow still remained for a moment before her eyes turned back into the normal green.
"Haruno Sakura is the winner." Sakura smiled triumphantly before looking one last time at the proctor who was really her father. He smiled at her almost as if saying 'that's my girl'.
"Shannaro!" Sakura cheered, she looked up at her mom who smiled down at her before looking up at her team. Naruto was cheering loudly. She smiled and skipped up to her team.
"That was awesome Sakura-chan! You've got to teach me how you did that!" Naruto exclaimed. Kakashi stared down at her.
There's no way she should be able to perform a jutsu like that…. He thought to himself, his eyes wondering over her. Sakura slumped down against the cold stone wall and tried to catch her breath. She closed her eyes as the announced the next battle.
"Nara Shikamaru, and Hidan," She wanted to open her eyes to see the fight but found that she was much too tired to even force them open. She opened them slightly when she felt someone sitting next to her, she looked up to be greeted by the warm blue eyes that belonged to Naruto.
"You can used my shoulder as a pillow if you want Sakura-chan," Naruto blushed slightly. Sakura just nodded before laying her head on his shoulder and slowly drifted off to sleep unaware of the two sets of sharingan eyes that glared at the blonde haired boy she laid on.
Sakura groaned as someone pushed her shoulder a few more times. "Five more minutes…" she mumbled drool falling from the side of her lip.
"Sakura-chan wake up the preliminaries are over," Naruto said pushing her slightly again. She sat up sucking in the drool that was on the corner of her mouth. She smacked her lips a few times before becoming fully aware of her surroundings.
"Who won?" she asked stupidly before the proctor's voice echoed through the room.
"Those of you who have passed the preliminaries will move on to the third part of the exam," Cough "That will take place in three months' time," cough "In this time we suggest that you train" cough "To accommodate who you will be fighting," cough "The following are: Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuga Neji."
Sakura now fully awake watched as Naruto's fist clinched. She supposed he was still pissed about what had happened earlier in the fight. "Gaara, Uchiha Sasuke," she looked to her teammate to see him slightly shaken up over who he was to fight. She watched as he glanced at Kakashi nervously.
"Nara Shikamaru, Temari." She frowned. So that meant that Hidan had thrown the match as well. "Kankuro and Itsuki," she smiled looking up at Itachi who was watching her from the other side of the room. "The winner of the last match I said will fight Haruno Sakura," Sakura gulped. She took in a deep breath. She really needed to get training.
Sakura's team stood still as the rest of the teams left the room. She stood there and stared at Kakashi as he started down at the three. "I'm proud of you three, making it this far into the exam on your first try. How about we all go out for ramen tonight to celebrate?" He grinned at them.
"Hell ya!" Naruto cheered. "Let go come on Sakura-chan!" he grabbed Sakura's hand and dragged her out of the room. She looked behind her to see Sasuke glaring at the hand that belonged to Naruto that was firmly grasped around her hand. She looked at Sasuke's face. When he noticed she was staring at him he looked away and stuffed his hands into his pockets.
Sakura couldn't help thinking: What's his problem?
A/N
Hello everyone! Sorry it's been taking me so long to update and what not. I've got a lot going on in my personal life right now In fact my husband and I are looking into adopting a child so I'm super duper excited! Anyway! Lol I hope you guys liked the chapter. I'd also like to promote a new fic that I started that's called Beginnings Aren't So Simple it's an KakaSaku fic so if you like that paring feel free to go read it ;) Thanks for all the awesome reviews!
One thing I wanted to point out was someone asked in Sakura would get the Rinnegan if you remember in the first chapter Sakura is found by Pein and Konan so no she won't have the rinnegan since that is a Kekkei Genkai. BUT! She will have her own awesome Kekkei Genkai cause if you remember her real mom and dad had a pretty sick jutsu. So just thought I'd remind you of that.
So that's all for now! Thanks for reading! And an extra thinks for those of you who review since were getting pretty close to 200!
-Sakura