The next morning Kakashi's apartment.-
"What's wrong can't you sleep?" Kakashi said behind Mari, he sighed slightly before sitting down beside her on the roof.
"No, I'm just nervous." She said softly, she shivered slightly suddenly feeling cold she had been sat on the roof for quite a while.
Kakashi put his arm around her again and stroked her arm to try and warm her up he smiled again as he moved to sit behind her his arms wrapped around her waist to keep her warm. She rested her head on his chest and sighed. I don't know whether I love him or not? She thought trying to work out her emotions.
"Come on Mari- Chan you need your sleep its 4'oclock in the morning you'll need some sleep before tomorrow." He said before getting to his feet and pulling her to her feet gently. He frowned as he led her back inside and sat down on the sofa. Mari sat down next to him her legs curled up beside her as she drifted off to sleep her head resting on the cushion he had placed on his lap.
3 hours later-
"Mari- Chan you need to wake up now." Kakashi said stroking her hair gently to wake her up. Mari moaned slightly and moved her head closer to him "five minutes." She moaned her eyes still shut. Kakashi chuckled before stroking her cheek gently. "You have your match in less than an hour surely you want to get dressed for it." he said Mari shot awake and blushed when she realised she was only wearing the shirt Kakashi had given her to change into after they'd climbed off the roof.
Mari jumped to her feet before running to the bathroom to have a shower. She wrapped herself in one of the large white towels before leaving the bathroom only to find Kakashi stood outside. She shrieked before running into his bedroom her face bright red.
15 minutes later Mari came out of the bedroom wearing a light blue skirt over grey shorts, she was also wearing a light blue fishnet style top beneath a darker blue jacket. She had plaited her hair again and wore it handing over her left shoulder.
She looked at Kakashi and smiled slightly before putting her katana on her back and fixing the shuriken and kunai pouches to her legs.
"I'm ready we better go." She said heading to the door, before she was suddenly stopped by kakashi's hand on her arm. She watched as he pulled his mask down before leaning forwards and kissing her gently on the mouth. "For luck." He said when he eventually pulled away from her. "Let's go." he added.
Kakashi grabbed her arm and they both vanished appearing in the arena. Mari gasped when she looked up and saw the amount of people waiting to watch her match. "Great, now I'm even more nervous." She muttered to Kakashi, who smiled and squeezed her arm before vanishing. Genma, kurenai, shikaku, might guy
Mari turned and looked at the four jonin beside her before looking away again.
When she looked back Genma smiled and nodded to her before continuing to chew the senbon in his mouth,
Kurenai smiled and nodded to her before looking up at where the hokage was sat. She looks so nervous. She thought looking at the younger kunoichi out of the corner of her eye.
Shikaku Nara nodded to the younger ninja before looking away. This is going to be interesting. He thought remembering the stories he'd heard from his son of her unusual power.
Might guy smiled at her and gave her the nice guy pose before looking away.
"You are all here today to watch the match that will determine whether Mari aikido will become the newest jonin in our village. I ask that you show your respect to everyone fighting today. The aim is three kunai strikes across the chest; once this is achieved the shinobi must leave the arena." The third said in a loud voice.
Mari moved away from the other four as she mentally prepared herself for the match. She closed her eyes for a moment focusing on the thoughts of the four people. So kurenai is a genjutsu specialist. She thought aiming to focus on her first.
She opened her eyes again, noticing the look she saw on their faces she smiled before looking at the hokage.
"If you're all ready let the match begin." The third said, As soon as he finished the sentence Mari disappeared in a cloud of smoke reappearing behind kurenai. "Got you." She muttered as she slashed her across the chest with the kunai in her hand, making her groan.
She's good. I didn't even see her use hand signs. Shikaku said as he prepared himself for her attack.
Mari jumped backwards as kurenai aimed a kunai at her quickly reflecting it with her own before moving to the side. Narrowly avoiding an attack from Genma that was aimed at her chest.
"You'll have to do better than that." She said smiling slightly before flicking her wrist and sending him flying backwards into kurenai. Disappearing again she reappeared above kurenai and quickly slashed her twice.
Kurenai held her hand up to show that she was out of the match before heading over to Asuma who was acting as proctor.
Mari gasped slightly as her whole body suddenly froze; she looked up to see shikaku watching her "Shadow possession jutsu a success." He said as he slowly walked towards her making her do the same thing. Mari laughed slightly before her eyes rested on something behind shikaku. "First lesson I learnt when learning the way of the sword, use your surroundings." She said softly as the kunai flew towards him slashing him across the chest twice moments before he released the jutsu and moved backwards.
"Well that's the first time that's happened in a long time." He said smiling slightly at the young kunoichi in front of him.
Mari jumped into the air quickly when she felt a presence behind her taking another kunai from the pouch at her side before going through a series of hand signs " kage bunshin no jutsu." She said softly 5 more copies of her appearing in the air beside her.
They are all going to be surprised by what I do next. Sorry I didn't tell you about it Kakashi. She thought before landing on the ground "kuchiyose no jutsu." She shouted after quickly going through the hand signs. "Sorry to call you so soon kitia but I need your help." She said as a large white wolf appeared beside her, she could hear people gasp around her and looked to see the disbelief in kakashi's eye.
Kitia growled before launching herself forwards and tackling shikaku giving Mari enough time to slash him across the chest a third time.
"You truly have talent. Glad to have you in the village." He said before walking towards Asuma.
"Kitia you can go now I can't keep you out much longer." She said almost falling to her knees when a blinding flash of pain went through her head.
"Call me when you need me my lady." Kitia growled before vanishing leaving Mari with Genma and might guy.
"What was that summons?" Genma said watching her closely as he got ready to fight her.
"Wolf summons. They came to me when I was training in the forests a week ago." She said shrugging slightly when she saw the look on his face. She winced slightly as pain went through her head again.
Mari watched as the clones she'd made earlier appeared beneath Genma one of them kicking him into the air. He flipped expertly landing on the clone before looking startled when he saw the triple slash marks across his chest. "Sorry about that. I wanted it over quick." She said stumbling slightly, she knew she was overdoing it but she had to finish this match and there was one person left.
"Good job, you really are quick, I hope to work with you sometime." He said bowing his head to her before going to stand beside shikaku his eyebrows raised.
"Leaf whirlwind." Might guy shouted as he aimed a kick at her head which she quickly countered using the sheath of her sword before being caught in the side by the low kick. She gasped her hand on her side as she rose to her feet looking at him from where she'd landed.
"Now that hurt." She murmured cringing slightly from the pain. She saw him coming at her again his speed increased. "Kage bunshin no jutsu." She murmured a clone appearing beside her. She rose her hands as he came towards her, before using her mind to lift him into the air stopping his attack immediately and making the audience gasp loudly. Just as the clone was about to slash him across the chest she collapsed to her knees letting out a cry of pain her hands on her head. She could feel the blood trickling from her nose as she held her head in her hands, before being violently sick.
"This match is over." Asuma said to the crowd as the jonin merged on their fallen comrade. Kakashi appeared next to her and rested hand on her shoulder as he knelt down. "You're going to be ok. Relax." He said softly.
"What's wrong with her?" kurenai said softly looking at the younger kunoichi.
"It's her ability. If she uses it to much it can cause this to happen to her she admitted to me once that she's been in a coma before for three weeks." Kakashi said softly getting out of the way as the medical core appeared.
"Although the match is over. I believe Mari aikido to have the abilities necessary to becoming a jonin." Hiruzen Sarutobi said to the crowd and the jonin as he watched Mari being taken away. "From this day forth let us acknowledge a new jonin to the ranks of shinobi." He was slightly surprised when a cheer went up from the crowd.
Mari smiled "so I managed it." she said softly before closing her eyes.
Half an hour later Konoha hospital-
The doctor left the room slowly and looked at the gathered jonin and hokage. "She's fine. After a few day's rest she should be able to leave the hospital. She should be careful about how much she uses her ability in the future." He said before looking at the hokage "She's awake but please can I ask that only two or three people visit at any one time."
He smiled at them all before walking down the corridor. "Kakashi, if you would come with me. I think we have something to discuss with her." Hiruzen said before entering the room Kakashi at his side.
Mari looked at them both as they entered before looking away a troubled look on her face.
"I think you have something to tell us." The third said his eyes resting on his newest jonin.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I was approached when I was training in the forests just under a week ago. I'm not sure why but they believed me worthy of being their summoner for the first time in hundreds of years." She said softly her voice weak. "Kitia, the wolf I summoned is the only one I am allowed to summon at this moment in time."
Kakashi and the third looked at each other "The wolves have agreed to be loyal to Konoha from now on. They have also agreed to stay loyal to the village for as long as their contract is around." She said softly closing her eyes for a moment.
"Why didn't you tell me about it?" Kakashi said softly as he sat down in the chair beside her.
"I was waiting until after the test. I didn't expect to need to use it during It." she murmured wincing again as her hand went to her head.
"It's ok." The third said smiling at her before resting a hand on her shoulder "well then it seems I have another reliable jonin then." He added smiling when she looked at him before leaving the room.
"How are you feeling?" kurenai said softly as she entered the room with Asuma.
"I feel as though someone's stabbing me in the head from the inside." Mari murmured closing her eyes again before smiling when she heard Asuma chuckle.
"You really should be careful with that ability of yours. We'd rather not see one of our comrades in a coma." He said resting his hand on her arm shoulder gently before smiling at her.
"You have some more visitors outside. Seems you have quite a few fans." He said chuckling again at the look on his face.
"Please say it's not guy. I don't think I could do with him right now." She murmured making all of them laugh.
"Don't worry Kakashi will keep him under control. See you when you get out." Both kurenai and Asuma said before leaving the room.
She looked up as two more people entered the room, slightly surprised to see genma walk in with shikaku walking beside him.
"It seems my son was right aobut you. You really are a troublesome women." shikaku said chuckling " it's been a long time since anyone beat me that quickly. I'm glad to have you as an ally rather than an enemy."
Genma nodded " you really surprised us when you used your summons, i never even knew there was a wolf summons." he said softly still chewing his senbon at the corner of his mouth.
" They approached me while i was training in the woods. I don't know how or why but they said they'd be loyal to both me and konoha until their contract has been destroyed." she said softly her eyes began to drift closed as she felt tiredness creep over her.
Shikaku and Genma exchanged glances before smiling at Mari. " we can see your tired. we'll leave you to rest now. i can tell guy that your not up to a visit if you want." Genma said smiling at her warmly, he had respect for the newest of the jonin, even while in pain she fought as hard as she could beating three of the four people she had been put up against.
Mari sighed her eyes still closed." thank you." she murmered as she slowly drifted off the sleep.
" she's fallen asleep." Genma said to might guy as he left the room " you should visit her tomorrow if you want to visit."
" i will visit her and my eternal rival tomorrow then." might guy said loudly before looking at his watch " i have to go train lee." he added before running away from them both.