"alright let the battle…BEGIN!" Hayate yelled. Kin immediately threw some needles at Kimi. Kimi dodged to the side avoiding the sharp needles `okay totally forgot she had those. I'll try out my element powers` she thought to herself

"well you gonna come and fight or what" Kin sneered. She pulled on the little string she held making little bells on the needles ring. The sound started to make poor Kimi dizzy. "oh great…wait hold on!" she pulled out two little buds from her pocket and quickly put them in her ears while Kin wasn't looking. She charged to the sound ninja and punched her in the gut

"what! Impossible the sound should've made you unable to fight" Kin gasped out. Kimi smirked "eh? What's that?" she moved her hair away from her ears and showed the buds "can't hear you"

Kin pushed her back knocking her to the ground `she's smart doing that` Kin thought. She threw another bunch of needles then the strangest thing happened, they turned into blue glowing arrows and they barely missed Kimi.

"err what just happened?" Sakura asked Kakashi. He placed a hand on his chin "I'm not very certain Sakura" he answered. Kin threw some more and they multiplied into more arrows heading towards everyone "everyone duck!" Kimi yelled.

They did so and the arrows were embedded into the walls. When Kimi looked up she gasped. In between her and Kin was a blue girl who was glowing and she had a bow in her hands. She gave Kimi an evil look and fired some more arrows. Kimi ducked with a yelp "Kakashi! Find Scarlet! We got a Clow card here!" she yelled

"right! See if you can keep it busy!" he yelled as he dashed off to find the Card captor. Kimi was shaking. She didn't know what to even do to distract it `I don't know if my powers will work yet! I have lei's sword and talismans…I have to try!` She took a breath and decided to give it a shot. She pulled out a black bell and held it up with her eyes closed, she began to chant the spell of release.

"Key of Syaoran.

Force know my light

Release the light!"

The bell turned into a magnificent sword in her hands surprising the candidates, Jonin and the Hokage. Kimi gulped and ran at the spirit. "Take this bitch!"She swung at the arrow spirit but it just plainly dodged and struck an arrow in the girls arm. Kimi gasped in pain and stumbled back "aw man we gotta help her" Naruto yelled. Kimi chuckled "I'll be fine! I got an idea she yelled as she pulled a talisman from her pocket "I don't think a bomb will help!" Ino yelled out not knowing it was a magic ignored her and flung it up "element wind!" she pushed the sword to it "come to my aim!"

The wind created a tornado trapping the spirit "nice one Kimi" Scarlet said from behind. Kimi frowned at her "about time you got here Scarlet, seal this thing before it gets out!" Scarlet nodded and started to chant her staff spell

Key of Clow.

Power of magic.

Power of light. Surrender the wand.

The force ignite

REALEASE!

Her key transformed into the staff, she grabbed it and twirled it "return to you power confined! Arrow!"

The Arrow turned into a blue cloud and transformed into a card, Scarlet smiled "hell yeah! We got it Kimi!" she yelled. Kimi smiled and hugged her friend."yupz we got it alright. Next time though will it kill ya to be around when there's a card instead of leaving me to fight it!" she scolded while hitting her on the head, she stopped and looked at Hayate "oh by the way I win" she said with a grin on her raised an eye brow "how so?" he asked confusingly. Both girls pointed towards an unconscious Kin. Hayate coughed "well since Kin is unable to continue our substitute Kimi wins this match."

The Hokage stepped forward "then let us continue. All the winners please step forward…you as well Kimi"

Kimi cocked her head to the side "uh 3rd I'm not actually in this exam. I just stepped in since their was no other candidates" she explained. The Hokage smirked "I realise that Kimi but I believe you should continue with us and step in if a candidate doesn't show up to the finals" he explained. Kimi replaced her confusion with a grin "coolie"

Scarlet rolled her eyes `same old Kimi, she'll take any chance`

Yue and Kero were suddenly next to her "are you alright Scarlet?" Yue asked. Scarlet smiled "never better…after this we got a lot of planning to do, right guys" she said cheerfully. The nodded and smiled with her. They had a month to plan a back up attack for the sand and sound invasion and time to practise with the cards and the newly arrived Syaoran warrior.

A/N- Selected members of our heroes have been selected for the final rounds of the Chunin exams. But since, me and Keyblade really can't be bothered doing a chapter on their training, we'll see them all in a series of shortened clips, which would be, if this was on T.V, played with 'I am a fighter'. That's right, we're referring to a... MONTAGE! - It'll be like Rocky with ninjas!)

Jiriya observed as Naruto ran on the lake water in front of him and then as he was approaching land, the knuckle headed ninja, jumped and made a summoning Jutsu. A puff of smoke produced a tiny normal frog! The blond idiot jumped for joy, as his sensei shook his head, in defeat, knowing Naruto was never going to master the summoning Jutsu, to his level at least.

Sasuke ran as fast as his new found speed allowed, fire escaped his mouth and, after running a few circles, a huge tornado of flames had been created. While inside, the boy with a million and one fan girls, created his chidori and let the energy scatter within the tornado of flames, creating a beautiful effect that left the watching Scarlet awestruck.

Shikamaru was sleeping. Despite his own sensei looking for him, not for him to train though, Asuma wanted to challenge the lazy boy, with cloud envy to another Shogi game.

Shino was out in the forest, sitting on a tree, signalling all the bugs in the area, then the boy with sunglasses stood up and then the boy focused on an out of the way tree. It became engulfed with insects and then when they dispersed, the tree was more of a stump.

Neji demonstrated an eight trigrams sixty-four palms technique on Ten-ten. Then when the girl and recovered them practised Rotation!

Kimi released all of her five talismans, wildly, lighting up the night sky, with colourful energy. The fighter chick then jump and made kicks and punches gestures, in and out of the lines of energy, majestically. With her trainer Kero watching her.

Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were all cleaning their weapons, Gaara and Kankuro were polishing their gourd and puppets. Whilst, Temari was dusting her fan. Suddenly Gaara got up and broke the montage music by saying, "I have a blood lust!" He went out of the siblings' apartment and the other two sand ninjas went to their cleaning. Dosu was getting killed. A giant arm of san was continuing to punch him and clog up his lungs with sand particles. His choked up screams were heard in between hits.

(A/N- Okay, montage over.)

"I'm sorry; I knew he was one of your own." Baki apologised to Kabuto, who was looking unaffected by the death, he had just witnessed.

"Yes, well it got me a chance to analyse Gaara's true power. Besides, this means that the Gaara and Sasuke fight will be so much closer, as long as that little brat Scarlet doesn't get in the way."

Kabuto was still troubled by how the girl knew that he was going to kill Sasuke. He suspected that she must have some sort of 'mind reading Clow card'. Still, it sickened him that she was able to do that... or could she? Out of the corner of his eye, he could make out a crouching Hayate, Kabuto was impressed. He didn't think that man could go two minutes without coughing.

"Do you want to take care of our little spy, or shall I?" The sound ninja asked his partner in crime." "Let me." Baki answered. "To show the hidden sound, where our loyalties lie." Baki and Hayate took off, Kabuto knew that Hayate would be dead soon. He knew the cat and mouse's strength and Jutsu, well enough to know the outcome. Sure enough, Baki returned within minutes and the two men smiled, evilly. This was going to be the start of a beautiful evil relationship.

"Wow!" Scarlet exclaimed. She, Kimi and Sasuke were looking at a poster that read, 'Come one, come all! The pre-Chunin Exam festival begins tomorrow!'

"We should go!" Scarlet looked at Sasuke, even though she had meant to include Kimi, who said, disappointedly. "I can't. Kero is making me train tonight. Besides, I'm not that into parties." "But Shikamaru will be there." Scarlet protested. "Yeah, babysitting his drunken father- not my idea of a fun first date. `Darn! Scarlet thought. Leave it to Kimi, to remember every Shikamaru detail. "I'll see you later." And with that, Kimi left, leaving Scarlet and Sasuke alone.

"Well, Sasuke?" Scarlet asked, trying not to blush. "...I can't..." Sasuke said, trying even harder not to blush. "For the same reasons." "No!" Scarlet screamed the word and many passing bystanders looked at her, thinking that Sasuke must have just divorced her.

"Please, talk Kakashi out of it!" Scarlet pleaded. "I've already tried." Sasuke admitted. "I saw the poster, earlier and Kakashi and Yue don't want me out there, with you." Scarlet scowled. "Urg... Yue sometimes! He just get's so annoying, I don't know why he does that…I really wanted to go with you"

Sasuke smiled, pleased to see that she wanted to spend the night with him, more than Yue. "Maybe, we can figure something out. You saved the Shield card before coming here, right?" Sasuke asked, the gears in his mind working away. Scarlet nodded and held up her card. "ok here's what we do…" he started

( a couple of minutes later)

"Then we can just get our teachers in a room and make the shield card block them in." Scarlet's face lit up, into a beautiful smile. "Sasuke, you're a genius!" she sang. Sasuke smiled a bit too. She was the only one who could actually make him smile.

"It's a date then" Sasuke's eyes widened, his heart rate quickened and his breathing became heavy. The same was happening with Scarlet. The realisation of Sasuke's word were washing over them. They were going out on their first date!

Oh ho their first date eh? Find out how it goes later