*I don't own any of the Kingdom Hearts characters or Naruto characters. They belong to Square Enix and Masashi Kishimoto.
AUTHORS NOTE: Sorry for not updating for a while...writers block SUCKS! DX
*Sorry if there is OOC going on. I am trying my hardest to keep all characters into character
*When you see, for example, "Hello." That is the voice inside Katie's head. Normal thinking is, for example, 'Hello.'
*For people who don't watch/read "Naruto" you may look the characters up on Google or Bing or whatever the heck you use if you like. I'm too lazy to go into describing fully what they look like. xD
The trio followed Naruto to a large school. "We're here!" said Naruto. He turned around to face them, "You guys go on inside. I have to go and meet with my team."
Katie waved him off. "You gotta do what'cha gotta do." She told him with a smirk. She watched Naruto leave and turned to Riku and Repliku. "Just for a heads up, the first stage is a test."
"A test?! But we don't know anything about this world!" exclaimed Repliku.
"We'll manage. It's simple." Katie told him shortly.
Riku sighed, "Easy for you to say, Katie. You already know about this world."
"That may be, but I'm telling you; we'll pass with flying colors. All we need to do is make it to the second stage…" Katie mumbled.
"Why?" asked Repliku.
Katie's face turned red. "W-well…uh…you see….um…how can I put this…? Um...there's this forest…and…Heartless might be there! Yeah, that's it!" Katie stuttered. Repliku and Riku raised an eyebrow; not quite sure to believe her. Katie opened the school's large doors and stepped inside. "Let's just get this over with…" she grumbled.
"Katie, this forest. Is there a chance there would be an opening to the Dark Realm?" Riku asked after a long, uncomfortable silence.
Katie shrugged. "I dunno. It's called 'Forest of Death' so…maybe. I highly doubt it though. I'm more worried about what is going to enter the forest."
Riku grabbed Katie's arm, making her stop in her tracks. "I can tell you're hiding something, Katie. We're your friends, you can tell us anything. Do you know what's going to happen?" he asked. Katie looked at the ground, avoiding eye contact. "Do you know what's going to happen?" Riku repeated.
Katie looked up at him. "…Yes…"
"So, tell us." Said Repliku.
"I'd rather not."
"Katie…"
Katie groaned. "Fine. It's got something to do with Snake Boy, happy?"
" 'Snake Boy'?" asked Repliku.
Repliku would feel Katie roll her eyes under her blindfold, "Orochimaru, Repliku."
Riku catch on to what Katie was meaning. "If you want to change what happens, don't even think about it."
"But-!"
"No buts, Katie. We can't mess with another world's affairs." Riku told her with hard eyes. "Especially changing its history."
Katie made a pouty-face. "Okay…" Katie reached for the door's handle until she heard foots steps from behind.
"HEY, IT'S KATIE-SAN!" yelled a very familiar eager voice.
Katie heard a solid "thwack!". "Naruto!" yelled a female voice.
Katie and her "team" turn around to see, of course, Naruto and his team. "Oh, hi Naruto." Katie greeted him dully, still somewhat angry.
Naruto gave her a big, eager grin. "These are my teammates, Sakura and Sasuke."
"We've crossed paths before…" Sasuke huffed.
"Really?! When?!" Naruto practically shouted.
"He was running away from a giant crowd of girls." Answered Repliku with a smirk.
Sakura glared at Katie. "So YOU'RE the girl Sasuke-kun was talking about earlier…" she growled.
Katie shrugged. "Meh. I guess. So, you guys ready for the first stage?" she asked, hoping to brighten up the mood.
Naruto punched the air. "You bet! I'm going to win! Hands down!" Naruto told Katie with a grin.
"Someone's a little enthusiastic." Said Riku. He liked Naruto, he reminded him of Sora.
Katie went back to the door and grabbed its handle. "Then let's go." She opened the door, revealing a large classroom full of ninja's with many different logos on their head bands. All of their heads shot towards the door, staring coldly at the newcomers.
Repliku returned all of the ninja's stares. 'So many people…dangerous people…' He stepped closer to Katie. "Stay close to me." He told Katie bluntly.
Katie looked down at Repliku with her teeth clenched from frustration. "AGAIN with the overprotectiveness! I can take care of myself, for the one hundredth time, Repliku…" Katie growled. Repliku just shrugged his shoulders as an answer, only making Katie angrier. "Listen you, I—"
Repliku grabbed her arm and pulled her to the side; it took a second for her to realize she almost got plowed over by a girl wearing purple and had her long blond hair in a high pony tail. The girl ran right into Sasuke and squeezed him. "Sasuke! Where've you been, cutie?!" the girl asked him obnoxiously. Sasuke looked annoyed as the girl continued to talk, "I could hardly wait! It's so exciting, seeing you again after all this time!"
"Ino, you pig! Get your dirty hooves off of Sasuke!" yelled Sakura.
'Man…do I hate fangirls. How can he tolerate them all day?!' Katie thought as the two girls bickered. After a while, she snapped. "Okay, that's enough!" Katie walked over to Ino and Sasuke and practically ripped Ino off of Sasuke.
"Hey! Put me down bi—!" Ino looked up to Katie and gulped in fear. Katie gave her a disapproving scowl and Ino could feel Katie's eyes under her pitch-black blindfold pierce hers.
"What was that?" Katie asked Ino bitterly.
Ino laughed nervously. "N-nothing! Ha-ha, n-nothing at all."
Katie huffed and dropped Ino to the floor. 'Damn fangirls…' She looked over to Sasuke who looked at her in astonishment. She gave him "you can thank me later" look. Katie looked at the other teams gather around her and the gang. As they all introduced themselves, Riku had an odd feeling they were being watched. He looked over his shoulder to see three ninja's with an eight-note symbol on their headbands. They looked coldly at Katie and the older teen with the silver hair; Kabuto. In a blink of an eye, one of the ninja's rushed at Kabuto and jumped into the air. He threw two kunais at Kabuto; which landed inches away from his feet. The same ninja threw a shuriken at Katie's head and to Riku's surprise; she caught it by one of its points before it pierced her skull. Her head shot into the direction that the shuriken came from and growled, as if she recognized the ninja. Katie dropped the ninja star to the ground and held out her hand, ready to summon one of her Keyblades. Before she had a chance to, Kabuto stepped in front of her as another ninja that looked like had straw coming out of his back showed up suddenly. The ninja aimed a blow at Kabuto's head, but missed. Riku thought Kabuto had completely dodged the blow but Kabuto's right glasses-lens shattered as if the ninja did hit him. Before Riku knew it, Kabuto lost his lunch.
"Hey, you alright?" Riku asked Kabuto as he and Katie helped him up.
"Yeah…I'm fine..." Kabuto answered while wiping his lip. Riku looked over to Katie, asking for an explanation. She mouthed, "I'll tell you later." He looked at the three ninjas that attacked, "What was that for?" Riku asked them angrily.
The three ninja's laughed. The one with the straw-covered back sneered at Kabuto, "You're a pushover, aren't you? Pretty sad for someone who's been an applicant for four years now to become a Chunin."
"Real pushovers are the ones that push others around…" Katie snickered under her breath.
"What was that, Blindfold?" asked the girl ninja angrily.
Katie rolled her eyes, "I said-"
"WOULD EVERYBODY PLEASE JUST SHUT UP?!" the booming voice made everyone in the room jump and looked up at the front of the classroom to see many adult ninja all with the same symbol on their headbands. A man in a black coat and black cap stepped forward from the group of adult ninja. "Sorry to have kept you waiting." He said. "My name is Morino Ibiki. I'm the proctor and Chief Examiner for the first part of the Exam." Ibiki pointed at the three ninja that were about to start a fight with Katie. "You…the kids from Hidden-In-Sound! You can't carry on in any way you please when the Exam's about to start!...Or do you want to be disqualified?" he added.
The Sound ninja with straw coming out of his back turned his head to look at Ibiki. "Sorry, Sir…" he said slyly. "It's our first Exam, and we got a little carried away."
'Got carried away my ass…' Katie thought.
"Is that so?" asked Ibiki, as if he didn't believe the Sound ninja. "Then it's high time someone laid down a few ground rules: from this point forward, there will be no be no more fighting without the express permission of the Examining Officer…and even if that permission is granted, anything that endangers another applicant's life is strictly forbidden. Any of you kids who break that rule are out. Disqualified. No second chances. Do I make myself clear?" All the student ninja nodded. "Good. Now, the first part of the selection exam is about commence. Turn in your written applications, take one of these seating assignment cards and report directly to the seat indicated. From there, you will be handed the written part of the test as soon as everyone has been seated." Ibiki explained. Riku, Repliku, and Katie looked at each other then nodded. Katie sat in the middle column of desks near the back beside one of the Sand Siblings. Riku was in the first row to the right by Shino, and Repliku was in the middle on the left near Naruto and Hinata. Katie fiddled with her fingers as Ibiki explained the rules, bored out of her mind for already knowing the rules. She looked at Riku then at Repliku, hoping they won't freak out during the test. Katie was snapped back into reality when Ibiki said, "You have an hour…starting…NOW!"
Katie flipped over her test and stared at it. 'Frick on a stick with a brick! It's in freaking Japanese! I DON'T KNOW JAPANESE!' she looked at all of the characters for the first question. 'Come on, Katelynn. You've watched enough anime that you should know at LEAST a few characters…' Katie drummed her fingertips silently so she wouldn't disturb the rest of the quiz takers. '…Man, I got nothin'…when was the last time I took a test? What? Maybe six, seven months ago? Damn, I'm screwed.' She looked over to Riku and Repliku. 'I hope they are doing okay…'
Repliku looked at the first question after writing his name. He studied the question carefully and tapped his eraser while thinking of an answer. 'A crypto-graph, huh? Piece of cake.' He scribbled down his answer and continued to the next question with ease. 'Katie told me she graduated from high school early, if I think it's easy it'll be simple for her…'
Riku was already on the second question and laughed to himself. 'Holy cow, this is easy. Just logic questions! And I thought it was going to be hard…' To the corner of his eye, he saw Katie in the back of the room freaking out. 'What's wrong with her? This test is easy, so why is she freaking out?' Riku looked at the test again, and then it clicked. 'She doesn't know Japanese…that's not good. From what Ibiki said, all of the team members must do well to move on. If Katie wants to get to the second stage, she better pull it together and try her best.' He looked back at the test and continued to answer the questions with ease.
Katie twirled her hair on her finger. 'Gr! Stupid test! I should've known it was in freaking Japanese! I can't even put down my name correctly! This SUCKS eggs!' She looked at the clock. 'ONLY FIVE MINTUES HAVE PAST?! Oh my Lord, I'm going to be sitting here for a century…' Katie complained in her head.
"The first answer is easy…I can't believe you haven't filled it in yet. And you said you graduated early. Pathetic." A dark, male voice echoed in her head.
Katie almost jerked back from surprise. 'What the heck…?'
"Don't tell me you forgot already…I'm the one that helped you beat that silver-haired chump." The voice huffed.
'Oh, you, okay. What, you know Japanese? I could use some help here…' Katie told the voice mentally.
The voice laughed coldly, "I can see that. For the heck of it, I'll help you…" The voice didn't sound happy about it.
'Sorry for being rude, but how?'
"This." Katie's dominate right hand started to scribble down Japanese characters without her even thinking and against her will. It quickly wrote what looked like a paragraph until it went the next question.
'But, isn't this cheating?' Katie asked mentally. She despised cheating…unless it's a video game, then she'd let it pass.
"I don't know. Just shut up and let me work here." The voice shot back at her. Katie looked at her right hand scribble down foreign symbols. She shrugged, whatever gets her to pass she'll play along with her mind-buddy's scheme.
Riku got to the fifth question and looked at the clock, he raised an eyebrow. 'Only been fifteen minutes? Wow, this test is so easy! I bet Sora wouldn't even have a problem with it!' Riku looked back at Katie, surprised to see her write faster than lightning. 'That's weird, she was freaking out only a few minutes ago…' He wondered how Katie could answer the questions all of the sudden but shrugged it off and continued the quiz.
Katie was surprised and also frightened for how many kids got caught cheating after writing for over a half hour. She was cheating. She looked back at her hand with a mind of its own. 'Um…Battle Buddy? Can I call you that?'
"What? I'm busy and please don't call me that..." the voice growled.
'Then what the heck am I supposed to call you?' Katie retorted.
The voice didn't answer for a couple seconds and Katie's hand stopped writing. "…V. Call me V." V answered. "Now what do you want? I'm almost done with the seventh question…"
'A lot of kids are getting caught cheating and—'
"We'll be fine. These Exam coordinators are dumber than a bag of cats. Now stop interrupting me and let me finish the damn test for you!" V interrupted. Katie's right hand flipped her pencil over and started erasing. "Great, I forgot what I was writing because of you. I'll have to start over with this question now…" He, Katie assumed it was a he because of his low voice, growled.
Katie softly giggled. 'Sorry, V…'
"You should be."
Katie rolled her eyes and continued to "answer" the questions.
Repliku got to the final question and stared at it. 'Wait till time's up for final question to be given? That's odd.' He looked at the clock, fifteen minutes to spare. He shrugged and sighed. 'Fifteen minutes of totally boredom starting now.' Repliku half-joked to himself.
As soon as Katie put down her pencil, Ibiki stood up. "Time's up." He said bluntly.
"There. All you have to do is wait for him to give you the final question." Katie could hear the smirk in V's voice.
'Thanks, V…'
"No problem."
"First…you must choose…whether to accept this tenth question!" said Ibiki.
The girl that was sitting next to Katie that had four pig-tails shouted, "Ch-choose?! What happens if someone doesn't accept the question?!"
Ibiki chuckled at the girl's question. "If you reject the question and don't even answer it, all your points will be taken away immediately…and fail! And both of your teammates will fail right along with you." He answered. Many protests and questions filled the air. "…If you try to answer the question…and you get it wrong…" Katie could feel tension in the air when Ibiki paused and she bet that you can cut the tension with a Keyblade. "…You will never be permitted to apply for the Ninja Exams again." Ibiki continued.
The kid that was sitting behind Riku with a white pup on his head jumped out of his seat and pointed at Ibiki. "You can't be serious! That's not fair! There are ninja's here that took the Exams last year!" he yelled.
"Well that's too bad. I wasn't making the rules last year…I am now, however." Ibiki sneered. "Now, the final question. Are you ready?" The ninja remaining in the classroom nodded. "Alright…but first off, let's get rid of the people who do not intend to accept the next question. If this is you, raise your hand." Riku was surprised how many teams rejected the final question. The room was half empty after all the forfeiting teams left.
Katie jumped from her bored daze when she heard a hand slam on a desk. She looked up to see Naruto standing up to his feet. 'I feel a speech coming on…' Katie joked.
"NEVER underestimate me! I don't quit, and I won't run!" Naruto yelled.
'Yup. Speech.' Katie confirmed.
"I'll accept your stupid question! Even if I risk ending up being a rookie for the rest of my life….I'll still become Kohona's future Hokage, even if I can make it out of pure stubbornness. I don't care! I'm not afraid of you!" Naruto continued.
'Wow. He sounds just like Sora. I bet he could wield a Keyblade if he really wanted to…he has a good heart.' Riku thought after Naruto was done with his speech.
Ibiki turned his attention to Naruto. "I'll ask you one last time. Do you accept the question?" He asked Naruto.
Naruto gave Ibiki a sharp and short nod. "I never go back on my word."
Ibiki nodded then looked at the Exam coordinators, who have him a short nod. He turned his attention back to Naruto and remaining ninja. "Good call. So, everyone who is still in here…you have just passed the first Exam!" The ninja looked at him, surprised.
"But, what do ya mean 'passed'? We haven't even gotten the final question." Repliku spoke up.
"There was no final question." Ibiki answered with a mischievous grin.
"So we just wasted our time with all the other questions?!" yelled the girl that was sitting next to Katie.
Ibiki laughed. "It wasn't a total waste of time…I was just testing your spying skills! You were supposed to cheat, just the ones who cheated in an obvious way failed." He reached up to his cap and pulled it off, revealing long slash marks, burns, and where screws were screwed into his head. "There are many circumstances where being caught will most likely cost your life." He quickly put his cap back on. "…Learn that and learn it well. I will now pass you on to the next stage—"
The windows crashed and a giant black blob jumped into the room. It was an adult woman with black hair in a spikey pony tail. "I am the second Chief Examination Officer…Mitarashi Anko! Time's a-wastin', people. Let's go! Follow me!" With that she ran out of the room, leaving the rookie ninja's in the dust.
Katie looked at Riku and Repliku then said in the startled silence. "Hyper-active much?" This earned burst of laugher from the rookie ninja. They followed Anko out of the school.
Oh, and by the way...HAPPY HALLOWEEN! O3O