The fighting commenced almost immediately. Kakashi opened the jar, then sat down on the ground and began executing hand signs for the sealing jutsu. "Wood Style: Great Forest Jutsu!" Yamato yelled. Yamato outstretched his arm and several pillars of wood shot foward to impale the Two-Tailed Beast. The attack didn't even come close, as when the wood came within 10 feet of the beast, they burned to ash. "Twin Rising Dragons!" Tenten exclaimed. Tenten opened two small scrolls and jumped into the air, spiraling upward with the scrolls. Out of the scrolls came a barrage of shinobi weapons. The Two-Tails received pain from the attack, but was far from subdued. It roared again, this time igniting Tenten's scrolls. "Human Boulder!" Choji declared. Choji charged at the beast at the size of a large boulder, but was merely swatted away by the cat. The beast fired an enormous fireball at Kakashi, as if it were aware of his intentions. "Wood Style: Wood Locking Wall!" Yamato said as he jumped in front of Kakashi. Several strong pillars of wood locked together to protect Yamato and Kakashi. The fireball hit the shield and burned it into nothing. "Those flames are similar to Amaterasu." Kakashi thought as he continued the hand signs. "This is useless. Kakashi is nearly finished with the hand signs for the jutsu. We need to get the beast into a weakened state. Everyone attack at once." Sai commanded. "Manipulated Tools: Heavenly Chain of Destruction!" Tenten yelled. "Spiky Human Boulder!" Choji yelled. "Protective Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!" Hinata yelled. "Ninja Art: Super Beasts Scroll!" Sai said. "Water Style: Water Wave Palm!" Yamato exclaimed. All the jutsu were executed at the same time, taking away the beast's chance to counter the attacks. When the attacks stopped the beast seemed to be very exhausted and the temperature in the area began to fall. Kakashi then finished the hand signs and the sealing began. The beast struggled, but was unable to resist the sealing power. In two short minutes, the beast and all it's chakra was sealed in the jar and Kakashi closed the jar. "Mission complete. Let's head home." Kakashi said as he lowered his headband to hide his eye again. They then left with all of them having burns somewhere on their bodies.
The third day in the Desert Basin, Team Ebisu was lost. "Oh man!" Konohamaru exclaimed. "What is it?" Udon asked. "We've been here before." Konohamaru replied. "How do you know?" Moegi asked. Konohamaru pointed at a cactus with a slash in it. "Earlier this morning, I marked this cactus out of boredom." Konohamaru said matter-of-factly. "This means we've been walking in a huge circle." Udon said. "Well, come on guys we can't just sit here." Konohamaru insisted. Konohamaru began walking in a random direction and the rest of the team followed. They walked for miles over the sand dunes, but to no avail. There was still no temple or water in sight. They eventually came to a cliff. Udon scooted to the edge and looked down. "It seems like it never ends." Udon said. "I'll throw this rock and when it hits the bottom we can estimate how far down it is." Udon continued. Udon chucked a rather good size rock off the cliff and all of them listened for the sound of it hitting the bottom. They sat there for two minutes and thirty seconds and the rock still hadn't hit the bottom. "I'm guessing it wouldn't be a good idea to go that way then." Konohamaru said. They began to get up and walk away, but Udon took his time. "Come on, Udon. Let's go!" Konohamaru insisted. Udon started walking, but he started to hear a crackling noise. "What is that?" Udon asked. His question was never answered because a portion of the cliff broke off and fell down the huge hole with Udon on it. "No! Udon!" Konohamaru screamed as he almost jumped off. Moegi grabbed him by his scarf and pulled him back up. "Konohamaru, he's gone. Udon wouldn't want you to throw your life away though." Moegi said, suddenly sounding older. Konohamaru cried, but no tears came out because he was dehydrated. Konohamaru had never said it out loud, but Udon was his best friend. They both stayed there crying with no tears.
The next day, a sandstorm started up. Konohamaru and Moegi sat in their little shelter watching the storm from inside. "Maybe we should wait it out. What do you think Konohamaru?" Moegi asked. Konohamaru didn't say anything, he just stared out at the storm. Then he started feeling around in his pocket. He pulled out some green goggles and put them on over his eyes. He wrapped his scarf around his nose and mouth and he went out into the sandstorm. Moegi quickly put on her goggles and followed him. "Konohamaru! How do you know this is the right way?" Moegi shouted over the storm. "We can't go against the storm, or we won't last past noon. We need to walk with the wind at our backs." Konohamaru said. Moegi was suprised by what Konohamaru said. She followed without argument. Even though they had their goggles on, they still couldn't see more than ten feet beyond their face. But despite this fact, Konohamaru never stopped. They even walked through the night and the storm never let up. They walked until the morning when the storm began to clear up. When it cleared up, Konohamaru and Moegi saw another team of genin. Apparently the genin saw them too, because they stood up and began to walk toward them. "Look what we got here!" One of them said. He was very scary looking with blue hair, green eyes and a crazed look on their face. "Who are you guys?" Moegi asked. "We're Cloud Village ninja." Another one of them answering. He was also very intimidating, because he was tall and wore a metal suit as opposed to normal clothing and always wore sunglasses. "What the hell do you guys want?" Konohamaru asked, becoming impatient. "We're going to kill you. To insure that there will be hardly any other competition for the last portion of the exam." The only girl out of their group calmly replied. "So, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. Which is it gonna be?" The tall one asked. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Konohamaru replied. "Apparently, we're doing this the hard way." The tall one said as he prepared to fight. "Ooooh, I like the hard way. The hard way is fun!" The crazy one replied.