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Chapter 2
Two weeks passed by and Ashton and Beth were getting used to life in Konoha. Today was the day of their first mission. It was low ranked mission. They were supposed to supervise the chunin exams with the other jounins. They woke up that morning and got ready, not wanting to go, but they needed the money. They slipped on their vests and set out to the exam center. "Okay. Where the hell are we going, anyway?" Ashton asked. "I dunno. Let's just follow-Hinata!" Beth practically yelled as she saw their friend. "Hey! You headed to the chunin exams?" Ashton asked as she walked up the pearly-eyed girl. "Y-yes. Do you know where it is?" She asked, still shy. "Nope. Can we follow you?" Ashton asked, starting to follow the girl anyways. "sure. By the way, this is Kiba and Shino. My teammates. " She added quickly, gesturing to a boy in a jacket with a fur rim and a dog on his head, and a boy in an overcoat with a collar covering up half his face and dark glasses. Ashton and Beth paused for a moment, surveying them. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Ashton, this is Beth" Ashton said soon after the casual introduction
After a few minutes of walking, they had gotten there surprisingly quick. "So…you know where Naruto's team is? I'm dying to meet these idiots." Ashton said, surveying all the people and trying to pick out the blonde, most annoying one. "Y-yeah…he's over there." Hinata pointed out a blond wearing a bright orange jumpsuit, an emo kid, and Sakura.
Ashton started to walk over to Naruto and his group, but Beth stoppped her. "And what are you going to say to them, exactly?" Beth asked, an uneasy look in her eye. "Oh, I was just going to say hi." Ashton replied casually. Then, when she started walking again, she was actually dragging Beth behind her. "Hey, Sakura." Ashton said before stopping in front of their group. "Oh! Hey! These are those jounin girls I mentioned earlier." Sakura explained to the emo kid and blond kid. "How's it goin? My name's Ashton and this is Beth." Ashton said, trying to be friendly, but failing. "This is Sasuke, and this is Naruto!" Sakura explained, gesturing the guys standing beside her. "Yeah, I kinda figured. You guys are pretty popular, where we came from." Ashton said absentmindedly, earning her a glare from Beth. The three genin just looked at them curiously and kept walking. A few moments later, they were in a room surrounded by other unknown ninja with two of them blocking a door.
"tch." Ashton gave a look to the other ninja that seemed to be staring at the two blocking the door. "These guys wanna fight or something? Cuz I've been dying to." Ashton said, a tone of annoyance in her voice. "That wouldn't be a very wise choice, Ashton." Beth instructed in a motherly tone. It wasn't long until they ran into another, rather odd, little group that was currently speaking to the two ninja. There was a girl with brown hair, in Chinese buns, a boy with long dark hair, and the same eyes as Hinata, and one more, a boy dressed in green spandex, clashing orange leg warmers, with a bowl cut and white tape around his forearms that had been knocked to the ground by the ninja in front of the doorway. Sasuke walked up to the ninja rather boldly and simply stated "let me through. And reverse the genjutsu. We can see through it anyway. We have to go to the third floor." After saying that, the other ninja around them started to become confused. Ashton and Beth were simply standing there the whole time, doing their job, simply supervising the genin. They knew about the genjutsu and everything, but if they gave it away, they would get in trouble. So they simply followed around Naruto's little group. "Sakura, you must have noticed this long before anyone else did." Sasuke stated, as though he was sure she had seen it. "Huh? I…must have? W-well sure! I spotted it right away! This is only the second floor." Suddenly the room started to distort back to normal. "hmph. So you saw through an illusion." One of the ninja said as he went to kick Sasuke and Sasuke went to attack as well. Almost instantly the boy in the green jumpsuit had gotten between them and blocked both their attacks. "Hey. What happened to our plan?" the long-haired boy asked the green-clad ninja, who was now just standing there. "I thought you were the one that wanted to keep a low profile." The long-haired boy added. Ashton thought to herself "a low profile? With an outfit like that?" her thought process was cut off when the conversation continued. "I know, but…" the boy in green trailed off, looking at Sakura. He walked up to their little group and introduced himself. "My name is Rock Lee. You are Sakura, right?" he asked the pink-haired girl. "Huh?" was all she could say before he flashed a thumbs-up and a wink while blushing and said "Please be my girlfriend! I will protect you with my life!" and with finishing that last sentence, a sparkle flashed on his smile. All that Beth was thinking was "is this guy okay?" and Ashton was thinking the same thing. "No way…" Sakura answered, looking a bit weirded out. And Lee, looking extremely let down asked "but why?" "Because you're weird." Sakura answered rather bluntly. After answering like that, Ashton pulled her aside and whispered "you know you didn't have to be that blunt. At least he was being nice! You could have been a tad bit more polite!" while the long-haired boy walked up to Sasuke and said "Hey you! What's your name?" "It's common courtesy to give your own name before asking someone else's." Sasuke replied uncaringly. "You're a rookie. How old are you?" the light-eyed boy asked. "I'm not obliged to answer that." He replied cooly. "What's that?" the boy replied angrily to Sasuke's calm demeanor. Sasuke turned to leave as he passed a sulking Naruto and Lee. "Weird?" Lee thought aloud to himself. "nobody ever wants to know who I am…" Naruto said sulkily. "Hey! Come on, let's go!" Sakura urged the two boys to continue onward. They turned to leave for the stairs while Ashton and Beth followed them. "I gotta say…that bowl-cut kid…was pretty amusing. In fact…I'll be happy if we run into him again. I wanna see the sensei that has to put up with him." Ashton stated aloud, following the group. "Yes. Very amusing." Beth agreed, following.
A few minutes later they were standing in front of the entrance to check in when suddenly a voice called from behind "Hey, you. With the attitude. Hold on." It was Lee. He was standing above them on the ledge. "What do you want?" Sasuke asked, slightly annoyed. "I want to fight. Here and now." Lee challenged. "You wanna fight me?" Sasuke repeated. "Yes." Lee answered as he jumped down from the ledge. At this point, Ashton was actually heading up toward the ledge, with Beth following. She wanted to see this battle from a good angle. I would perhaps be entertaining, she thought. She reached the ledge rather quickly and looked over so she could see what was happening. "This…just might be interesting." She thought aloud, her friend agreeing with her. "My name is Rock Lee. You said it was common courtesy for a challenger to give his own name first. Isn't that right?…Sasuke Uchiha." Lee said, with a challenging tone in his voice. "…I could get along with this kid." Ashton thought aloud, earning a look from Beth. "So you know me." Sasuke replied. "I challenge you." Lee said once again. "Everyone is always saying how the Uchiha clan is so amazing. I want to see if it is true. I figured you will be a good test for me." Lee explained, still keeping the challenging tone. "And also…" he looked over to Sakura, earning a questioning look from her. "Oh, Sakura…I love you!" Lee exclaimed, blushing. "AHHH! You can't be serious! Nooo! You hairstyle is horrible! And you have big eyebrows! You're so weird!" Sakura blurted out. "You are an angel!" Lee said as he blew a kiss to her. She let out a scream before dodging the little heart floating through the air. "Let us see you dodge this!" Lee exclaimed before blowing several kisses toward the pink-haired girl. She started dodging like her life depended on it and dodged the last one by falling backwards and hitting her head on the ground. When she got up, she yelled "hey! Keep your creepy little valentines to yourself!" "…you do not have to be so negative, Sakura." Lee said, a little sad. All the while, Ashton and Beth were watching when Ashton called down "Hey! Lee or whatever! You don't think that come-on was a tad much?" "Who are you? Why are you at the chunin exams anyway?" He asked, noticing the vests, but not sure whether they were chunin or not. "It's a mission. We're supposed to help the other jounin keep an eye on the genin." Ashton explained. "So…you are Jounin?" Lee asked, looking a bit surprised. "Yeah. Go ahead and fight, we're not stopping you until this gets out of hand." Ashton stated, with Beth silently agreeing. "grr…he wants to fight Sasuke? Why is it always Sasuke?" Naruto thought to himself angrily. "…you heard of the Uchiha clan, yet you want to fight me? You must be more stupid than you look. You wanna know more about my clan? Then I'll teach you the hard way." Sasuke said with a challenging tone of voice. "Bring it on." Lee replied, getting into a fighting stance. "I will force him to reveal his techniques and use that against him! And then I will have finally proven myself to you, Gai-sensei!" Lee thought to himself. "Hold it! Naruto interrupted. "I get him first. This freak is mine." Naruto said, stepping up. "No. Right now, the only one I want to fight is the Uchiha." Lee stated, still holding his stance. "Well, I've got news for you! Sasuke can't compare to me, believe it!" Naruto exclaimed, running straight for Lee. On the ledge, Ashton and Beth were still observing what was happening. "…did he really just say 'believe it'?" Ashton asked, with an amused look on her face. "Yep." Beth answered quckly. Naruto was still charging straight for Lee. Naruto extended a fist and Lee simply extended his hand and pushed him aside, Naruto landed in a hand-stand position and attempted to kick Lee, but he moved aside and did a type of sweep-kick that knocked Naruto into a wall and knocked him out. "wow…this kid isn't something to mess with." Ashton thought to herself, impressed with the genin's skills. "…you see, out of all the top leaf genin, I am the best! Fight me, and I will prove it to you!" Lee challenged, once again. "Hm. This'll be fun. Let's do it." Sasuke agreed, as he stepped up to the green-clad ninja. Sakura looked at the clock. They only had half an hour to sign in, so they shouldn't waste any time. "We don't have time. We have to sign in by three o'clock. That's less than half an hour." Sakura reminded them all. "don't worry. This is going to be over in five seconds." Sasuke said while charging at lee. Sasuke extended a punch straight at Lee, but the green ninja disappeared, leaving Sasuke momentarily confused, Lee appeared in the air behind him and did a spin kick aiming for Sasuke's head, and a sweep kick directed to knock him down. It was obvious that the Uchiha was not moving fast enough. Soon after the last attack from Lee, he kicked again and this time landed a direct hit on Sasuke's face. He flew through the air and landed on the ground, unable to get up. "What is he using? A ninjutsu or a genjutsu?" Sasuke internally asked himself, standing up. "as I expected…he won't give up." Lee thought to himself, observing the Uchiha's actions. "…I've been waiting to try this out." Sasuke said, mostly to himself, as his eyes became Sharingan. "Ninjutsu or genjutsu…I'll be able to see through it now!" Sasuke stated internally as he rushed toward the green-clad ninja. Lee extended his leg and kicked Sasuke square in the face, sending him flying through the air. "He got around my guard. But how?" Sasuke internally asked himself. "You see…my technique is not ninjustsu or genjutsu." Lee said as he ran toward Sasuke. At this point, Naruto was beginning to come to. "…this guy…" Ashton muttered under breath. Beth simply stood there, expressionless. Sasuke had gotten up and they were attacking each other, Lee landed an elbow straight in Sasuke's ribs, knocking the breath out of him and sending him stumbling backwards. "You see, I am using taijutsu. No tricks." Lee said as he quickly appeared behind Sasuke. "it's just martial arts. Nothing more." Lee stated as Sasuke was coming around to elbow him. Lee jumped out of the way and landed a little farther from the Uchiha. "I can see through your technique. That sharingan gives you the ability to see through an opponent's jutsu. You can decipher their hand sings and read their chakra. It's almost as if you know what an opponent will do before he even knows himself." Lee explained. "The problem is, taijustu is different. I do not hide or disguise my moves. Even if you see them, you are to slow to block them." Lee said. Sasuke threw two kicks at him, but Lee simpoly dodged them both. Lee then lunged at him to attack, and kicked him in the jaw, sending him into the air. Lee jumped up behind him. "…dancing leaf shadow." Sasuke said, as he observed the green-clad ninja's plans. Lee then unraveled the tape around his arms. "I will prove to you that hard work beats out natural talent!" Lee exclaimed, ready to attack. Suddenly a pinwheel flew through the air and pinned the end of the white band around Lee's arm to the wall. Suddenly, everyone's attention was directed to what threw the pinwheel. A turtle. "…okay, how did a turtle throw a pinwheel?" Ashton asked, mostly to herself. "Does it matter?" was Beth's only answer, earning her a look from Ashton. "Alright, that's enough! Lee!" the turtle shouted. Lee immediately jumped down, landing in front of the turtle. "you…you were watching us the whole time?" Lee asked. "How did they not notice a giant red turtle?" Ashton asked. "Maybe they're just stupid." Beth answered. "…rhetorical, Beth. It was rhetorical." Ashton replied, directing her focus once again, to what was going on below them. "That last technique is forbidden, and you know that!" the turtle scolded Lee. "I am sorry. I did not mean to…" Lee trailed off. The turtle glared at Lee, and he started freaking out. "I-I was not planning on using that jutsu! It was just- I was in the middle of the fight! A-and you understand!" Lee started trying to explain apologetically. "You're a disgrace!" the turtle yelled, and Lee flinched. "you think you'll get away with stupid excuses like that? You should never reveal your techniques unless it's absolutely necessary!" he scolded. "Please forgive me." Lee apologized. "Are you prepared to take the punishment for your actions?" the turtle asked, or more like ordered Lee. "yes…" Lee answered. "Alright then, please come out! Gai-sensei!" the turtle commanded. Immediately, a man in a green spandex outfit, orange leg warmers, with a bowl cut, and a vest like Ashton and Beth wore appeared on the back of the turtle in a very odd pose. "Hey everybody!" he practically yelled. Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, Beth and Ashton all had a 'what the hell?' look on their face. "Hi, Lee." The man, or 'Gai-sensei' said as he flashed a thumbs-up and a smile with the same weird sparkle that Lee's had. Gai pulled his hand back and punched Lee, square in the jaw, sending him flying through the air. Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto all had horrified expressions. Ashton Laughed. Beth just stood there thinking "…I must be in hell…" and questioning her sanity. Gai walked over to his student and kneeled down. "I'm sorry. It was for your own good." Gai said, with tears in his eyes. "S-sensei. I'm sorry!" Lee apologized, with tears in his eyes as well. Oddly enough, there was a sunset backdrop that came from nowhere. And then Lee and Gai hugged. There was one word that everyone else besides them was thinking at the moment. "gay." Is what everyone thought at that exact moment. "…actually, it's kind of sweet how they're hugging and stuff." Naruto stated. No! they are both completely insane!" Sakura yelled in reply. "…well…this really is amusing, though." Ashton said, with a sly smirk on her face. "Ashton…just what are you thinking?" Beth asked, hoping it was nothing to bad. "Let us go, Lee." Gai suggested, walking off. "What about the chunin exams?" Sakura reminded. :huh? Oh, right. I forgot about that. Lee, not only did you disobey, but you interrupted the chunin exams. I believe that needs a slightly more severe punishment." Gai said in a cheerful tone. "yes sir." Lee agreed. "Let's say five hundred laps!" Gai shouted, doing another weird pose. "Outstanding!" Lee agreed, once again. "Hmm…this must be Kakashi's team." Gai thought to himself. Up on the ledge, Ashton and Beth were enjoying the laughs they were getting out of the situation. "Heh. That guy…he's very…interesting. Or, maybe a better word is…amusing…I like him." Ashton said only loud enough for Beth to hear, and earning a strange look from her. "Agh! He's looking at us!" Sakura yelled as Gai inspected them. "Tell me…how is Kakashi?" Gai asked. "…do you know him?" Sasuke asked in response. "do I know Kakashi?...some might say we are eternal rivals." Gai answered. Sasuke stared for a moment, trying to make sense of this guy, when he disappeared almost instantly and reappeared behind them. "my record is fifty wins, and forty-nine losses. One better than his, by the way." Gai stated proudly, while the three of them turned around in surprise. "I'm sorry for all the trouble Lee caused. Please accept my sincere apology. Lee, you should accompany these fine young ninja to the exams." He ordered as he threw a kunai, knocking the pinwheel off the band pinned to the wall and letting it free. "Lee, farewell." Gai said, and disappeared, as well as the turtle. "Sasuke, I have not been totally honest. The truth is, you were not the one I wanted to fight. There is someone on my own team, and that is who I was hoping to go against. But now…you are a target. I will crush you." Lee promised as he jumped back onto the ledge and disappeared. "…I hope we see Gai again. He's entertaining." Ashton said aloud, a little excited. "…if I didn't know better, I'd say you have a crush on him." Beth said, giving Ashton a funny look. Ashton jokingly punched her in the arm. "…let's just keep following those guys." Ashton said, pointing to Naruto and his team. "Alright." Beth agreed, wondering what Ashton was planning.
Be honest...should i continue? please tell me!