Here be the 3rd Chapter of Sky Ninjas

Chapter 3 Redone

Disclaimer: Dont own Naruto, I just like making up stories for the blonde guy.

The second day of the Exams had arrived in the city of Konoha. This day would be when the shinobi would enter into the Forest of Death. Bum Bum BUUUUUMMM!

All the ninja that had passed on the first day were present and standing in front of a fenced area, which had large trees and a dark aura about it. All of the genin were looking on wondering what lied in store for them. Without warning, the pineapple jounin, Anko, had then appeared out of nowhere, getting a few gasps from the shinobi.

"Okay, you wimps! This is where the second part of the exams will be held." Anko went over the description of the forest as well as the rules of what was needed to be done.

The teams were then handed either a heaven scroll or an earth scroll and then assigned to a designated entrance to the forest. And after a small remark from the orange ninja as well as Anko getting a little too close with both a kunai and her own tongue, everyone left to their entrances to begin.

At Team 7's entrance Naruto and Sakura were eagerly awaiting entry to the forest. But Sasuke, he was still thinking over what happened yesterday after the test. Out of all his whole life, no one, absolutely no one, had read him like that, except for his brother, Itachi.

"Sasuke?" the raven haired ninja shook out of his thoughts and saw Sakura looking a bit concerned for him. "Are you still thinking about what happened the other day? Because if you are, I-"

"I'm fine. And if I wasn't, I wouldn't need help from you." Sasuke snapped back at the pink haired kunoichi. Sakura just turned away from the Uchiha in shame.

"Hey, she was just trying to help you out!" Naruto burst out in anger. "Why can't you just be nice to her for a change!" Sasuke merely looked away with a small huff. He had no need for someone who needed to show kindness, he needed someone who could help him kill Itachi.

The door opened up, which stopped the team's conversation, and sent the three of them running into the Forest of Death.

Elsewhere, the brothers, who were known as 'Sky Ninja', had huddled together to form a plan.

"So it's agreed. We will split up, find the heaven scroll, and signal each other when we either had found the scroll or need assistance." Seirei clarified the plan, and the other two nodded. And with that, the three jumped off into different directions, all three in search of the same thing.

After a few hours, Team 8 had been traveling around the forest, searching for their second scroll. Suddenly, Kiba's dog, Akamaru, began to shiver and whimper with fear.

"W-What's going on with Akamaru?" Hinata asked worrying about her team mate's pet.

"I don't know." Kiba said, also worried about how his dog was reacting, but Hinata's question was soon answered when they all sensed another ninja nearby.

Slowly they crept up to a bush, as to conceal themselves, and saw a ninja with red hair and a large gourd on his back along with two others, one a female with a huge fan and another boy with something wrapped in bandages on his back. The three were facing a group of Rain Ninja, who were ready for some blood.

Akamaru, now seeing the red haired ninja, shivered even more, and hid into Kiba's jacket.

"Something's wrong." Kiba whispered as to not be detected. "Akamaru can sense other's chakra levels, but it has never scared him like this before." Kiba was now petting his dog to comfort him as the rest looked on at the fight.

The three couldn't hear what they were saying, but they were able to see the fight. They saw how thousands upon thousands of needles shot out of the umbrellas the Rain Ninja held, and flew straight at the gourd holder. When the needles made impact, dust shot up everywhere, concealing the red haired shinobi, as he didn't move from where he stood.

As the dust was settling Akamaru shot his head out of Kiba's coat and began sniffing the air. And as if he had just found the land of extremely large dog biscuits, he jumped out smiling, and leapt up to the trees, disappearing from sight.

"What's wrong with him now?" Kiba jumped up, trying to follow his dog, leaving Shino and Hinata to watch the remainder of the battle.

The dust had finally settled, revealing all the needles had not hit the target, but actually it hit a shell of sand that had surrounded the redhead. The things that happened next all went so fast, that know one really thought it could have happened. The Rain Ninja ran after his opponent, but was then stopped by even more sand, which continued to enveloped around the rain ninja, and finally, crushed the life out of him. When the fight was over, the remaining Rain ran away in fear, followed by the three sand ninja, who had never moved from their spots during the battle.

A minute after sitting behind their bush, Hinata and Shino stood up, noticing that their third team mate had not returned from his search. The two went off to go search for their friend, while as for Kiba, he was just about to find his dog.

"Shoo, shoo. Dang it dog, you'll blow my cover." Chichi was squatting down on a high branch, trying to get rid of this dog that just came from nowhere. Akamaru however, didn't want to leave, as he went over to Chichi's side and rubbed his head against his leg, trying to look cute. "Dang you dogs and being so dang cute." the ninja picked up Akamaru and began petting him.

"Hey! What are you doing with Akamaru?" a yell was heard from below. Chichi looked down to see a shinobi who had large canines and slits for pupils.

"This your dog?" Chichi pointed to Akamaru, who was barking at Kiba, showing that he was alright. "Here you go." letting the dog go, Akamaru jumped into his masters hands yipping at Chichi in content.

"Who are you?" Kiba asked, relieved that he found his dog.

Chichi was about to respond, when he looked up into the distance sensing another presence coming. "Sorry, I gotta go." with that, he left the scene as Kiba's team mates had arrived a few seconds later.

"Is Akamaru alright, Kiba?" Hinata asked, a bit concerned.

"Yeah, he's all right. A ninja found him and gave him back."

"And they didn't attack you or try to take Akamaru hostage?" Shino, finally speaking with a raised eyebrow.

"No, he was...petting him, and Akamaru really didn't mind at all."

"I didn't know Akamaru took to strangers like that." Shino replied.

"I don't even know how Akamaru found that guy." A thought ran through Kiba's mind. "Unless, no that's not possible."

"What isn't possible?" Shino asked.

"Well it's possible that the guys chakra level was higher than that sand ninjas and it was comforting to Akamaru. But no one I have known has that high of a chakra level to reach that far."

All three looked in the direction that the ninja had fled, wondering what could be the cause of the dog's behavior.

Musuko was walking around through the tree tops, searching for the heaven scroll, but more importantly, food. He had forgotten to eat some breakfast, and tried to find something edible within the forest.

After searching for about three more hours, the sun was beginning to set on the day. Now jumping from tree to tree, Musuko was really hungry. But food instantly left his train of thought, when a kunai flew out from nowhere, putting into a fighting stance.

He dodged the flying blade just in time to see it hit a tree behind him. The white haired ninja looked around to see who had thrown it. No one was around, most likely hidden from sight.

"Who's there? Show yourself you coward!" just as he finished talking, three shuriken now shot out from different directions. Musuko jumped into the air to dodge one of the shuriken, and then used the mechanisms attached to his arms as shields to deflect the other two.

"Got anymore? From what I see, one of your team mates has to be lazy as crap!"

"Well, he's got that part right." a kunoichi said to herself.

"And the other is a girl no doubt."

This, of course, made the girl upset and, out of anger, she threw more shuriken at her target. Musuko dodged all of them easily. He then faced the area from where the projectiles came from.

"Gotcha!" Musuko ran straight towards his target.

The female was now scared for her life as the ninja came towards her. She quickly began making hand signs, but was too late as the boy had disappeared from sight. She looked around to see if her target was anywhere to be found, then she found him. Well actually, he found her, and with his arm device pointing straight at the back of her neck.

"Of course, only a blonde would act out in anger. That and a certain pinky. Come on, walk slowly into the opening." Musuko whispered while still being concealed from the Ino's sight. The two walked out of the leaves surrounding the area and onto the branch where Musuko was standing before. "Okay guys come out, I have a hostage!"

"What do we do now, Shikamaru?" a chubby, green-clad ninja asked his pineapple headed teammate.

"This is so troublesome." the lazy ninja then squatted down and put his finger tips together so he could think this through. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and moved his hands to his pouch. "I got it."

Back with Musuko and his hostage, Musuko was waiting impatiently for someone to come out.

"They're not gonna show unless they make a plan." the hostage spoke up.

"So, you guys have a strategist, aye? Well then." he moved his free arm towards a group of leaves, holding his arm up for awhile. "Do you know what these things actually do?" the girl shook her head no with as little movement as possible. "I'll show you."

Musuko then pointed his arm to another group of leaves right in front of him. Out from the device on his arm came out a senbon needle flying though the air at great speeds. The needle landed with a large 'Ouch!' in the leaves.

"Now show yourself!" the hit ninja finally complied and walked out, it was the ninja known as Shikamaru, rubbing his left arm where the needle at cut him.

"Shikamaru, how did he...no one's ever beaten your plans!" the girl shouted out, surprised beyond all belief.

"Don't worry, Ino. He hasn't."

A giant green ball came shooting out from behind the three and was hurtling towards Ino and Musuko.

Turning around just in time, Musuko could only do two things. Say, "Oh crap." and push his hostage out of the way as the ball made a direct hit sending him through the branch and into the ground.

The team of leaf ninja jumped down from their branches and landed around the miniature crater that Musuko had made.

"Told you he hadn't beaten us." Shikamaru said to Ino, as she was looking down at the fallen shinobi.

"Why did he push me out of the way?" Ino asked out loud, she couldn't figure out why he had spared her life and not his own. She suddenly felt an enormous pain on the insides of her knees. Ino screamed out in pain and collapsed onto the ground, holding her knees.

"Ino, are you alright?" Chouji cried out looking at his fallen team mate. Both males realized that the insides of her knees had been struck by needles. Shikmaru and Chouji suddenly felt pain in their knees as well and fell to the ground like Ino did before.

"Now then." Musuko walked out of the brush in front of the three as the Musuko on the ground turned into a log. "Who said that they beat me?" The three downed ninjas winced in pain, "Is no one going to answer." Ino and Chouji gave grimacing looks at the white haired boy, "Okay then, can you at least let me know what scroll you guys have."

"We have an earth scroll, now just take it and be gone!" Ino raged, trying to hold in the pain.

The victor sighed and sat down, crossing his legs. "If any one of you tries to take out the needles or attacks me, I will shoot two needles each into both of your kneecaps. And believe me, that hurts even more." He interlocked his pointer and middle fingers and touched his thumbs with each other to form a hand sign. Closing his eyes, he started to what appeared to be meditating.

Three minutes had passed and the pain was slowly subsiding from the needles, but it still hurt greatly. Not one of the three moved from their spots, for they did not want to be in more pain that they were in already. Musuko opened his eyes and stood up. He walked over behind Ino and knelt down.

"Okay, this is going to sting a bit." Directly after he said it, he pulled out the needle from one of her knees.

Ino shouted out in pain for a moment as Musuko sent his other hand covered in green chakra to the wound, healing her.

"What are you doing?"

"What does it look like? I'm healing you. Now hold still, there's going to be another sting." he pulled out the other needle and also healed that wound.

Standing up, he headed over to Shikamaru. "You're up, lazy." pulling out the two needles and healing the wounds like Ino's and then headed over to Chouji and did the same.

"Why did you do that?" Chouji asked, rubbing his legs.

"Because I knew you guys wouldn't hurt me." the white haired boy smiled, oblivious to the mistake he made.

The three looked at each other and gave each other an evil smirk. Shikamaru then said, "You just broke the first rule of being a ninja; never trust anyone." he then formed a hand sign, "Kagemane no Jutsu!(Shadow Possession Technique)" Shikamaru's shadow jutted out straight towards his target. But the strange thing was that Musuko saw the shadow, but didn't move from his spot, like that red haired ninja earlier.

The shadow reached three feet away from Musuko and instantly changed direction. Shikamaru narrowed his eyes seeing his shadow now going in random directions. After trying several more times to redirect the shadow back to its target, Shikamaru gave up, and his shadow receded.

"What's the matter? Having trouble with your shadow?" Musuko said with a smirk. "Would you like to try any other attacks, or would you like for me to leave you alone?"

"Well, I'll agree on that." Shikamaru said about to walk away, but he was then stopped by Ino grabbing him and dragging him back.

"We're not done yet." Ino shouted, "Chouji, flatten him!" Chouji nodded and began to perform his clan jutsu. Ino would not let this guy go, not after he captured her.

"Baika no Jutsu!(Multi-Size Technique)" Chouji turned once again into a large ball and began rolling in place to gain speed. As soon as he obtained the desired speed, he then shot forward with at an incredible rate directly at Musuko, who still remained where he stood.

Like what happened before with Shikamaru's jutsu, Chouji's ball form just reached three feet away from the target and instantly, POOF, Chouji changed back into his normal form, but this time he was half his original size.

Looking down, Musuko knelt down next to the half pint Chouji, "You're having problems too? Man, this is just a bad day for you and your team." He pointed his contraption at Chouji's head, which caused the small genin to run and hide behind Ino's leg. "Now, if you'd excuse me." pulling away the device, Musuko turned and walked away.

But Ino was not ready to give up just yet. Stepping forward she began forming a hand sign herself. "Shintenshin no-"

"Oh, come on! Did you not just see your two team mates other clan jutsus fail?" This startled the blonde kunoichi, "Now if you want to possess your own mind, be my guest, but if you don't, then just stand there, as I walk away." he turned again and left their sight, but just before that, "Oh, and my brother says that the shadow ninja needs to stop being lazy."

When the shinobi was gone, Chouji went over to his male team mate, "What did he do to our jutsus, Shikamaru?" he asked, glad that he was now back to his original size.

"I don't know." Shikamaru performed his shadow jutsu again and saw that it was now working perfectly. "But whatever he did, it's gone now."

"Who was that ninja?" Ino sounded just as confused as Chouji, as she started listing off the events. "He outsmarted Shikamaru, spares me from attacked by Chouji, healed us from his own attack, he screwed up your jutsus by just standing there, and then he leaves saying I would have possessed myself!?" Ino started pulling at her own hair, "What's going on here?!?"

"Ahh," Shikamaru sighed, while trying to recover from Ino's yelling, "This is so troublesome. Let's just go and find that scroll." still concerned as to what happened, the three leapt out of sight, hoping not to bump into him again.

Night had fallen upon the forest as Team 8 was setting up for camp. Kiba and Shino had gone to sleep while Hinata and Akamaru were on their shift, looking out for trouble. Since Hinata was the first to watch out, she had some problems sleeping as Akamaru was sitting on her lap in a deep snooze - talk about a loyal companion. Her eyes were about to shut, sending her to dreamland, but then Akamaru's ears shot up, followed by his head.

"Bark! Bark!" the dog jumped of her lap and ran into the bushes. Hinata was now fully awake as this was the second time Akamaru had run away so strangely. She followed close behind the canine, occasionally using her Byakugan when she had lost sight of him.

It didn't take her long to find Kiba's dog next to a tree looking in the opposite direction of her. Releaved that he had stopped, Hinata moved in quietly as not to startle him. "Akamaru, what are you doing?" she asked the pooch as she was about to pick up the dog, when she suddenly heard a sound off in the distance. It wasn't rustling in the bushes or anything like that, but instead it was, music?

Thanks to both Hinata's and Akamaru's curiosity, the two walked closer and closer to the source of the harmonic sound. After awhile, they had reached their destination which was on the edge of a small, open plain lit up by the moonlight. On the other side of the plain rested a male with gray hair and a large set of kunai strapped over his shoulder. But what was most interesting about the sight, was that the male had four of the kunai handles in his mouth and moving them up and down by the use of his fingers, making wonderful music coming out from the various holes.

The song slowly died out as he put away the kunai on his back and also began looking around, possibly sensing a pale eyed intruder. Hinata's eyes widened, thinking that she was now in trouble, she grabbed Akamaru and began to hurry back to her campsite as quickly and quietly as possible.

She was deep in the thicket and a good distance away from the plains. Hinata had thought she had left him behind, when she was then abruptly stopped by the music man himself, jumping out from a tree above and standing in her path to safety. Hinata became frozen in fear, not knowing what this shinobi would do.

"So." said Chichi, crossing his arms. Then he started to smile, "You liked the music?"

"U-um, y-yes, i-it was g-good." Hinata replied, stuttering so much from the fear of death.

Chichi looked down to see the female was holding the same dog he saw earlier with Kiba. "So you're on the dog's team." He put out a hand and petted the dog's head as it growled in pleasure. Hinata felt a sense of security now that she saw the shinobi in front of her not making any violent actions. Then, just as quickly as he arrived, he left; back up into the trees.

Hinata looked around to see no one anymore. Knowing that she was now out of danger, she walked to her campsite. Once again, she heard the music, but faintly in distance, she felt relaxed and secure as she listened to the minuet. However, that was all to change fairly quickly, as three unknown ninja dropped down from the trees.

"Well, well. Look what we have here." said one of them. It was too dark to see their faces, let alone what village they were from. "A cute little girl, walking her dog out in the woods at night. Don't you know that it's dangerous out here in the dark?" One of the ninja approached the girl from behind and pulled her arms back, rendering her useless. Akamaru was dropped to the ground and began barking at the three ninja, but was silenced by a ninja to the side, kicking him into a tree.

"Now then, let's have fun, shall we?" Hinata used all her strength to get out of the hold, but it was not enough as the ninja behind her was physically stronger. A ninja in front of her pulled out a kunai and began to stroke the blade along her cheek bone. It then went slowly down her neck, along her collar bone, and finally made its way to the opening in her jacket. Hinata turned her head away from the sight and started crying, now that she saw what was happening to her. "Aw, the little girl's crying." the three laughed at the sight, as the kunai began cutting into the clothing.

"No. Stop!" she shouted out, hoping someone would come.

"Heh heh he-Ugh!" a small shout from the side viewer ninja was heard as he fell face down on the ground. The two other ninja seized what they were doing and looked at their team mate. On his back was a kunai imbedded in his spine. He was dead. The ninja with the kunai got into a fighting stance awaiting the next attack, while the other pulled out his own kunai and placed it against Hinata's throat, using her as a hostage.

"You know," a voice said from above. The figure dropped down from the trees, revealing it was the same gray haired ninja from the plain. "It's not nice to be violating a lady. Especially one that is quite as lovely." Hinata was blushing at the comment but not enough to be seen by anyone, considering it was night time.

The free ninja then shot a kunai right at Chichi's face, which he had easily dodged by bending backwards, but when he was rising, the ninja threw another kunai so it would impale his face when he stood. However, Chichi quicly threw up an arm, without even thinking, and caught the flying kunai by the handle. With the same motion that he caught the kunai with, Chichi shot it into the face of the ninja holding Hinata. Now being free, she rushed over to aid Akamaru.

Meanwhile, Chichi walked over to the dead ninja with the kunai stuck in his back and pulled it out, washing the blood off of it. "Now, would you like to be next?" still wiping away the blood, while looking at the one remaining ninja.

The ninja backed slowly, tripping on a root sticking out of the ground and falling on his back. With fear instilled into him, he ran for his life into the woods, like a little child.

"I love it when they run. It means I don't have to kill them." Chichi placed the kunai he had been cleaning on his pack and turned towards the startled Hyuuga. "You alright, umm, I didn't catch your name from our last bump-in."

The Hyuuga, with doggy in hand, replied in a stutter, and still blushing, "H-Hyuuga H-Hinata."

"Hinata. Well, Hinata, are you okay?" she nodded silently with despair in her face. She then felt a hand placed on her shoulder. "It's okay, nothing too bad happened. You still have your clothes on and by the looks of it, your friend's dog is alright." Picking up the injured Akamaru from Hinata's hands, he began walking towards Hinata's camp. Stopping a few feet later, Chichi turned around, looking at Hinata, "Well, are you coming?" Hinata looked up, seeing her hero with a smile that almost looked like Naruto's foxy grin. She ran up next to Chichi and also walked to the camp.

After awhile, the two ninja saw a small fire, which meant that they were close to camp. "This is as far as I go, so here's the dog, and may your team make it to the tower in one piece." The gray haired shinobi placed Akamaru in her arms and left with a small salute.

Hinata walked into sight of the camp, seeing both Kiba and Shino were still asleep. Walking further, she stepped on a stick, awakening Kiba's canine hearing and shooting him out of his bed.

"Hinata. What are you doing over there?"

"A-Akamaru ran away. S-So I went and g-got him."

"Again? Well, thank you for getting him back." Kiba looked up into the night sky "I suppose it's now my shift. You have a nice sleep, okay?" Kiba got out of his bag and took watch on a nearby boulder as Hinata went into her own sleeping bag.

"Goodnight Kiba."

"Night, Hinata." Kiba went on his watch with his trusted companion sleeping on his lap.

So many things were now running through Hinata's mind as she tried to sleep. 'Did everything really just happen tonight? Who was that shinobi? Why did he save me? How did he save me? And why....why do I feel something strange inside of me?' All these thoughts were suddenly eased away when Hinata heard a faint but familiar sound ringing in her ears. It was the music that the ninja played before in the opening. Now feeling relaxed by the sonnets of the night, she went straight to sleep, and Akamaru slept with a doggy grin.

The first day of the Forest Of Death has past, what waits in store for our ninjas tomorrow. We'll just have to find out in the next chapter.

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