Yeah, I know it took me long to update… sorry, but my cousin's wedding turned out to absorb more of my time then I first assumed and there's always the high temperature problem that seem to block my inspiration… but in the end I manage to finish this and so I'm uploading the newest chapter of "Next generation" finished just few minutes ago!
As usual thanks to everyone who reviewed the previous chapter and here are the answer to your questions:
Does Mikka like Kai: well, you'll find out for yourselves very soon, so maybe I'll leave this one without the answer…
Does one of Sakura's children has pink hair: yup… the older one, Gouka to be more exact… however Sasuke kids won't play a big part in this fic I'm afraid (they will have their five minutes though).
Can you give a summary of that girl with a tiger and that one with a dog: consider it done… in this chapter you'll find a profile of Tsume and next is Miaka (the one with the tiger)…
How many people will reach the final stage: I'd rather not to say anything in that matter for now as it may be quite a spoiler… unless someone REALLY feels like he/she needs it, then I can send him/her the answer to this one via e-mail, coz I'll surely not place the answer before the eliminations will be over, sorry.
Are Kitsune and his teammates weak, since they got scared so easily: well, I'd say it this way: it's not that Kitsune and the gang are weak, it's more that Saiken is just insanely strong (for a gennin)… that's all.
And with that I believe that all that's left to do is to get on with the show:
Chapter #43: Konoha's Youth – part II
Title Page: nothing complicated, just Kumiko picking up some flowers on a meadow
Kai and Takaru stood with their kunai ready. Now even Kumiko prepared her knife, sensing danger. But before either of them manage to react, someone suddenly appeared behind the two boys and placed his arms on their shoulders. Only Ibuki seemed able to follow as she turned the second her teammates felt something fall on their shoulders, yet the young assassin stopped in her tracks, noticing who 'attacked' them. "Oh, it's just you guys…" she stated, lowering her weapon.
The blonde turned around and saw Senkou standing right behind him and Takaru. "How in the world did he got behind us? I didn't even sensed someone coming from behind!" The son of Tsunade only smirked, putting away his kunai: "What, you came to take our scroll or something?" he asked simply.
"No need…" replied Senkou, backing away a little. "We already have a complete…" and with that he held out two scrolls. "But you guys seem nervous…" he noticed, smirking under his mask. "Don't tell me that the great Gekido Takaru failed to get the scroll…"
"Senkou-kun!" they suddenly heard Mikka's voice and as they turned towards the bushes, they saw the rest of Kakashi's son cell coming out. "It's nice not…" and with saying that she blushed, spotting Kai.
"What happened to Kusari?" asked Galu, looking at the chain user, he didn't seemed that interested in the answer however. "He certainly doesn't look so good…"
"It's nothing…" replied Ibuki. "Just a little quarrel with some metal-nins… he'll just require a day or two to recover, that's all…" as she said so, Mikka walked over to the chain user and kneeled next to Kumiko. She examined the boy and then turned toward his teammates:
"I think I could help…" she announced shyly.
"Mikka, don't forget they're our potential opponents…" Senkou reminded her coldly. "Even though they are from the same village, you shouldn't waste your energy on healing Kusari's wounds, coz you may end up exhausted later on… and besides…" with that he glared at the blonde. "What's the point in helping Dead Last?"
"It can't really hurt to help them, Senkou…" stated Kokoro calmly. "We're heading to the tower anyway, Mikka-chan will have plenty of time to recover since we still have three days before this exam ends…"
"Or is it that you're afraid that once she'll treat Kusari's wounds, we'll pass this exam and Kai will beat you in the next?" teased Takaru with a smirk, making the son of Hokage hold back his anger.
"You know what, do what you want!" yelled Senkou as he turned away from the shy kunoichi, who instantly gathered chakra in her hands and slowly send it towards the chain user's wounds, thus making them heal right before everyone's eyes.
"She's a medic-nin!" noticed Kumiko with widen eyes. "At her age?"
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Shikamaru yawned as he rolled over to the side. Then a familiar smell hit his nose and the moment he opened his eyes, he saw a weird face right in front of him. "Chouji, what are you doing here?" he asked a little bored as he sat up.
"I need to talk to you and I figured you'd be here, since this is the place we always came to watch the clouds…" replied the chubby jounin with a smile. "But where's Temari?"
"She said she had to talk to her brother…" responded the lazy ninja before yawning again. "I'm kinda glad she did, coz you can't get any sleep with that woman around… how troublesome… but I don't suppose you came here to talk about that…"
"No, I didn't…" nodded the head of the Akimichi clan. "Kakashi-sama wanted me to inform everyone who might get involved about the situation…" he began, but the pineapple head shinobi interrupted him:
"I believe I know most of it… Ino told me… but that is not the only problem… it'd seem that the team from Kumori is up to something as well… I'm not sure of what it is yet, but just a while ago another jounin from that village came to Konoha…"
"Yes, the guards informed Hokage-sama about it…" announced Chouji. "It seems that the long time of peace is about to end… well, I'm off… I still have few people to inform about the situation… the only thing we can do now, is hope that nothing will happen…" and so he was gone.
"Yeah…" the lazy ninja nodded. "Hope always dies last…"
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"I manage to heal your wounds…" announced Mikka quietly as Kusari slowly sat up. "You might still have few problems moving, but it shouldn't effect your health…" and once she said so, the chain master hugged her with a cheerful yell, making her blush slightly:
"Thanks, Mikka! I feel great! I knew someone cared!" and as he finished that phrase, he received a powerful punch in the face from Kumiko, whose vein pulsate on her forehead and lightings were shooting from her eyes: "Behave yourself, dumbass!" he called trying to say that in the calm voice, but failed miserably.
"I'm sorry, Kumiko-chan, you want a hug too?" asked Kusari with shining eyes as he ran over towards his teammate, only got receive another punch and a long beating from the genius girl.
Ibuki, who stood right next to the confused Mikka, only signed at the scene and smiling slightly, she calmed the other girl: "Well, since he acts like that, at least we can be sure he feels a lot better…"
"Yeah, thanks Mikka!" yelled Kai, giving the medic-nin a pat on the back, which surprisingly make her blush even more then the hug from the chain master. "You're a life-saver!"
"Great, now that the wimp is okay, can we get going?" asked Senkou with a bored tone.
"Who are you calling a wimp!" instantly Kusari was standing face to face with the son of the current Hokage with steam escaping his nose. Senkou didn't lose his composure however and replied simply:
"That okay part should give you a clue as to who was described as a wimp in my statement… lets get going, we wasted enough time already…" and with that he glared at Mikka, who kept throwing quick glances towards Kai standing next to her. Noticing his teammate's face getting redder and redder every second, he only sighed and grabbed her by the arm: "Off with go…" and with that the two disappeared in the tree tops.
"I guess we'll see you guys later…" announced Galu as he looked at Naruto's subordinates. "Good luck in getting that scroll you need…" and with that he was gone as well.
Uramaru sniffed the air and barked quietly to his owner. Tsume looked at her companion and used her nose as well. After a short moment, she announced to everyone, pointing west: "About hundred and fifty meters that way you'll find a team… they could be your chance…"
Kokoro just looked in that direction and narrowed his eyes slightly. He then turned to Kai and said in a calm voice: "They seem to have the scroll you need… I advice trying to get it…" and with that the two followed their teammates.
"I really hate when he does that…" announced the loud mouth with a sigh.
As they jumped from one tree branch onto another, Senkou threw a quick glare at Mikka who ran right after him. Seeing that the blush on her face haven't faded yet he let out a small sighed and looked toward, saying: "You can be really hopeless sometimes, Mikka…"
"I'm sorry, Senkou-kun…" replied the medic-nin quietly.
"For what are you apologizing?" asked the masked gennin, rising his eyebrow. "It's not like you're really at fault here… but you should try gathering some courage… coz you're starting to resemble Hinata-sensei too much…" and with that he smiled under his nose.
"Stop being so cheerful…" Tsume bashed her teammate. "Ambush ahead…"
"My turn, isn't it?" asked Galu with a bored tone.
---Back to Kai and his teammates---
Soon Naruto's students walked in the direction the dog kunoichi pointed, trying not to make a sound. Ibuki kept looking around a little nervously, feeling like they were being watched, but she couldn't spot anyone around.
Takaru on the other hand was troubled by something else. "He moved with me even noticing… there must be some trick to it and I'm gonna find out what it is… this Chuunin Selection Exam… just keeps getting more and more interesting…" and with that thought a small smirk appeared on his face.
Suddenly Ibuki turned around and grabbed her katana. In a fracture of a second her teammates notice a blur and heard the sound of metal clashing with another metal. As they took a closer look, the figure that was a blur just a moment ago turned into Hizoku and the young assassin was blocking his weapon with her swords.
"I see you have good reflex…" announced the grass-nin with a smile. "I knew I liked you guys… and now I ran into you… seems like my luck turned…" and with that he spun slightly on his foot, making Ibuki's grip on her katana loosen a bit.
In the next moment the redhead retreated his blade by few inches and attacked the young assassin's sword again, making it flew out of the weapon mistress's hand. As the blade of the katana sunk into a nearby tree, Hizoku placed his blade near Ibuki's throat.
"For you to fell for such an old trick… is a little disappointing…" he stated as his smile widen. "And in a shinobi world, such mistakes cost you your life…"
And another chapter is done! Hope you enjoyed it!
No jutsu encyclopedia this time I'm afraid, but there's always the character profile. Since one of the readers asked me to do this, here's the profile of Tsume and next time it'll be Miaka's turn:
Name: Inuzuka Tsume
Name origins: when it comes to her clan's name, 'inu' means 'dog' and that's probably the meaning behind that… her first name, Tsume means 'claw' (and in case you didn't know, Kiba's mother had the same name).
Age: currently 13 years old
Birth Date: 7th of July (if it wasn't the fact that it was me who choose that date, I'd say it's fate's sick joke ')
Blood type: 0
Height: 142,9 cm
Weight: 49,2 kg
Favorite food: meat of all sorts
Village: Hidden Leaf (Konoha)
Current rank: gennin
Team: team led by Hinata; her teammates are: Igaku Mikka, Benda Kokoro, Hatake Senkou and Kobushi Galu… and she also has a dog partner named Uramaru
Bloodline limit: none
Family: she's the oldest child of Kiba and it is known that she has three siblings: a brother Hanone (currently 10 years old) and two sisters: Toboe (8 years old) and Hige (3 years old). Her mother died at Hige birth.
Techniques (used so far): none
First Appearance: 29th chapter
URAMARU INFO:
Name origins: Uramaru is quite hard to figure, I guess… at first he was supposed to be named Urufu, which means 'wolf'… but I really didn't like that name, so I decided to make a variation… Urufumaru was lame and long, so I decided to shorten it to Urumaru… as I kept on inventing more characters I began saying Uramaru in stead of Urumaru and that's how Tsume's companion became Uramaru
Age: currently around 3 years
Birth date: 7th of July (this is not even close to my birth date, so don't accused me of something like that!)
Blood type: no information
Height: 30,3 cm
Weight: 6 kg
Favorite food: meat… especially ham
Village: take a guess…
Current rank: I have no idea if shinobi ranks can be used on dogs, but I believe I can write here that he's a nukenin (shinobi dog), meaning the same as Akamaru and Pakkun
Team: in a fight he's treated more as a weapon, but in a way he's a member of Hinata's team
Family: he's a pupil of the Inuzuka clan
Techniques (used so far): none
First Appearance: 29th chapter
And that's that… hope you enjoyed it.
Best wishes and until next time!