Chapter 9,
Second test!

Sakon woke up in an empty room. She was in the hospital. She remembered everything. But the room's aura was full of sadness. She sat up, looked around. Not even ANBUS where here. She sighed, and raised from the bed. She walked to the door and took a deep breath. She opened the door and walked out from the room. How long has she been here? She come to some stairs and heard voices. She smiled. Atleast she wasn't alone. She walked down the stairs and hide in the shadows. All the teams was standing in infront of the hokage and all the teachers. She sighed and sat down on the stairs. Listened.

"To be in the second task, your team need to be complete."
"That's cheating! Our teammate is in the hospital!" Naruto shouted.
"Naruto, calm down..." Sakura said.

"Naruto is right..." Sasuke sighed.
"I'm sorry, but the rules can't changes." The hokage sighed.

"But it's wrong!" Naruto shouted.
"I'm sorry Naruto but..."
"...But we are a full team." Sakon walked down the stairs and walked over to her team.
She looked at the hokage.
"Sakon-chan!" Naruto shouted with a happy voice and attacked her with a hug.
"I see you are well. Oh well, now we can continue."
Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto smiled and gave each other a high five. Sakon looked on the rest of the teams. The others rookie looked happy that Sakon came back and her team could be in the second test. The Sand team also looked happy. The others from sound and mist didn't look very happy.
"The second test is going to be an tournament..."
The most of the students was cheering. Like it was going to be easy.

"... But it's a team tournament. It's all about your teamwork."
The student's stopped cheering and looked at the hokage.

"But not everyone has the same attacks?" Someone asked.

"Well... That's means you need teamwork." Sakon filled in and sighed.

"How do you win?" Sasuke asked.
The hokage smiled.

"Using teamwork. You are not suppose to kill the opposite team. And even if you win over the other team, you maybe don't win anyway. It's all about teamwork."

"So if you lose, you can still win if you used teamwork?"
The hokage nod. "Everyone understand?"
"What happens if you kills someone?"
"Then you are out of this exam."
The students swallowed.

"You have ten minutes to get ready. I will tell which teams who go out first."
Sakon walked to a corner with her team and sat down.
"So how should we work?" Sakura asked.
They sat in a circle and looked around at the other's team.

"Well... if we, for example, meet someone with illusions. I and Sakura will try to get the illusions away while Sasuke and Naruto tries to stop the other team. That's teamwork in illusion."
"If we meet Kibas team?" Naruto asked.
"A dog, bugs and byakugan?" Sakon looked to their team.

"That can be tricky, yes. But... I and Sasuke can use our sharingan. Then we can see their moves. Sakura tries to do an illusion to help us out and Naruto will do his clones."
"But if nothing works?" Sasuke asked.

"Then we have to improvise." Sakon smiled.
"Okay everyone! The two first teams who will go out is..."

Every team in the room looked at the hokage. They almost forgot to breath.
"Team 7, with Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sakon."
They looked at each other, before they walked to the arena.

"And Team Sand, with Gaara, Temari and Kankuro."
Sakon gasped and looked at Team Sand when they showed up infront of them.

"I can't fight you..." She whispered to Gaara who sighed.

"Do your best." He smiled.
"But..."
He took her hand, kissed it and smiled.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes!" Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Temari and Kankuro said.

"No.." Sakon whispered at the same time.

Gaara stood quiet with a sad smile and backed with his team. Sakon sighed, blinked to get a tear away and backed to her team.

"Ready...!" The hokage said and looked on both team.
Kakashi hold an eye on Team 7 while Baki hold an eye on Sand.

Temari jumped up to the air, at the same time Kankuro took of his doll on his back. Gaara stood in the middle with his hands infront of him.

Naruto closed his eye and made ten clones of him. Sasuke and Sakon stood with sharingan and looked at them three. Sakura stood behind and tried her best to do illusions.

"Go!"
Kankuro's puppet stood behind Sakon, who sat fast in Gaaras sand.
Temari attacked Sakura to break her illusions, but Narutos clone took her attack instead.
Sasuke ran fast against Kankuro and started to fight with him.
Naruto attacked Temari while she was in Sakuras illusion.
Sakon just stood there. Stare at Gaara who stared at her. She got a smile on her face and she melt down infront of Gaara, in his sand. She showed up behind him and his sand couldn't protect him. They where fighting fist to fist. Foot to foot. Both was fast, but Gaara wasn't used to this. The only time he was fighting fist to fist, foot to foot, was with Sakon and they didn't fight a lot. Gaara moaned when Sakon kicked him in the face. He attacked her and they started to fight with kunais. Sakon saw how Kankuro's puppet started to move against Sakura.

"No!" She shouted and jumped down and attacked the puppet while sand where moving against her.

She dodged them while she was trying to fight against a puppet and Gaara. She breathed heavily and felt hard sand push her over into the wall. She gasped and turned around. She took a deep breath before she blow out fireballs against the puppet and Gaara. Gaara dodged them with the sand while the puppet burned up. The both team reacted when someone screamed in the public. They looked up before they saw people jumped in, pushed down everyone who came against them and jumped down to Team 7 and Team Sand. Sasuke and Kankuro stopped fighting. They stood against the enemy instead. Sakon and Gaara stood beside each other and Naruto, Temari and Sakura did the same.

"So, which one are Sakon?"
"I am." Sakon took a step forwards and looked at the enemies.
Sound headband. She looked to her right and saw Orochimaru stand there. He smiled. Like he was tempted to jump in. Sakon swallowed and looked at the enemy leader who was a centimetre away to hit her face. She dodged and throw a kunai at his throat.

"I really had few bad days. Don't make it worse!" She warned.

The enemies laughed. They attacked, but they got surprised when the teams behind her attacked the enemies. They worked together. Attacked and helped.
"Sakon watch out!" Temari shouted when she saw something fast ran against her.
Sakon stopped in her attacks and looked to the left.

"Orochimaru..."

She saw Gaara jumping infront of her.

"Gaara no!" She shouted and ran against him.

Gaara smiled. Not an very pleasure smile. More scary. She heard a laugh. Two different laughs. She looked back at Naruto. His chakra was all red. She turned to look at Gaara. His chakra was all yellow. She looked at them both, then to Kakashi who was fighting his own enemies. She closed her eyes.

"Nibi..." Sakon looked at a blue cat, who sat in a corner and leaned it's head to the wall.
"Yes, my dear?"
His voice was hoarse and scary, but she was used to his voice.

"I need your help... Orochimaru..."
The cat hissed and looked at Sakon. He crawled to her, looked at her with his blue and yellow eye. "What is it with that snake?"
"He's been mean again. He tried to kill Sasuke. And now Gaara."
The cat looked at her like she was insane before he sighed. "He is going to regret everything."

Sakon opened up her eyes and hers eyes was blue and yellow exactly like the cats. Her hair was blue as always, but some of her hair was black. She looked around, looked after Orochimaru. She saw him trying to flee. She laughed. More horrible laugh than Gaaras and Narutos together. She ran towards against him and pushed him up into the wall. Orochimaru smiled.

"Hello Nibi."
Sakon hissed and pushed him harder against the wall.

"Why are you here? What do you want?"
Orochimaru laughed and transformed to a snake. He hissed and looked at Sakon. She looked around. Everyone was gone. She stood alone. Even Nibi was gone. She stared at the snake, swallowed and closed her eyes.
"I greet death as a friend..." She whispered for herself, just waited to be killed.

Sakon gasped and stared into the wall. She breathed heavily and looked around. ANBUS stood beside the windows and infront of the door. Her team sat in a sofa, talked to each other about the second test. Eagerly. Gaara sat on a chair beside the bed and looked worried at Sakon.

"Sakon?"
She looked at him and smiled. " Bad dream." She hugged him hard and closed her eyes.
She could breath.
"Sakon!" Naruto shouted and jumped up on her bed and hugged her from behind.

She laughed and turned to him, wrestled with him. Sasuke and Sakura laughed from the sofa.

"You are getting kicked by a girl!" Sakura teased.

"But not any girl." Someone said.
Kiba, he walked in with a big smile. "Are we going to fight Naruto together?"
Sakon started to laugh. "I think I can take you two alone, while you two fight against me."
"Bring it!" Both Naruto and Kiba said and they started to wrestled.
Sasuke and Sakura laughed.

"Okay, okay! We give up!" Naruto and Kiba said laughing.
She hugged them and then leaned back to the pillows again, took a deep breath and smiled. For all these, she could sacrifice her life, just to let them live. She would do anything for them.