Hey there! I'm sooooo totally sorry for this long delay that lasted for like forever! So much stuff happened on my side here and after I got some spare time to write again, my computer bitched and deleted the spell checker of my words program! Annoying computer! Well, now I have a laptop and everything's fine. :D
Well, enough with those stupid excuses! I should finally shut up, ne? But before that I still have to mention something that could be somewhat interesting for you.
I plan on rewriting the previous chapters! Seems like my Minari turned out to be kind of Mary-Sue. She isn't though. She's lazy, always nagging and weak in strength. But that didn't come out well enough so I have to change it. Not to mention those horrible spelling mistakes! *shudders* Well, the rewriting won't take place till the timeskip, so I don't have to rush. I know, I'm pretty lazy myself but oh well...
And again one little thing: the space bar of my laptop is a bit hard to push so sometimes I just write words together without noticing. Just telling you.
So before this babbling of mine gets longer than the actual chapter I will just stop here and let you enjoy the almost forgotten *cough* next chapter!
Sins and Sunshine
Chapter 17: First exam
"So how many stairs did we take?" I asked confused.
"One." Nobu answered.
"So we're in the second floor?"
"Basically."
"So why's there a room 301?"
"Wrong numbered?"
"Genjutsu?" I asked Ayano expecting a serious answer. She nodded and and took the next flight of stairs leeding to the 3rd floor. We followed suit.
A preelemination? Witty.
Entering the real room 301 we singed up and then had still some time to waste till the exam starts, so I started to stroll around the room that was actually a auditorium and watched the team, that already arrived, looking for familiar faces. I found team 8 and 10, my former team 7 had still to arrive. Then I noticed the sand siblings midst the other genin teams and decided to go over and pay them a visit.
"Hello, Gaara." I greeted him friendly as I into there circle – or triangle, given the three persons standing there in a pretty equilateral triangle fashion. But since I just now destroyed the symmetry they slyly stepped aside to now form a perfect symmetrical square. How sly! (A/N: Since I'm watching too much Soul Eater lately: Kid would be proud!)
After creating room for me they finally noticed me with their eyes growing wide. So they unconsciously created this symmetry before even knowing who I was? I'm less important than their pretty fashion of standing around? Somehow that makes me a bit sad...
Well, Gaara's shocked expression didn't last very long and soon changed to a look of coldness and indifference. Seeing that hurt but I didn't let it get to me and kept smiling at him.
"Unfortunately our last meeting was a bit chaotic. But I never thought I'd meet you here!"
"Don't ignore us!" Kankuro started complaining like some spoiled child.
"Gaara's siblings." I greeted with a short nod in their direction, then continued to happily ignore those two and concentrated on the boy in front of me.
"You can't imagine just how much I miss you those past 8 years!" I said happily while glomping him, but since I felt his body tensing I moved a bit away and gave him a worried look, still holding his hands with mine.
"You okay?" I asked worriedly.
"..." Still just starring at me Gaara didn't say anything, so Kankuro decided to answer instead.
"We thought you were dead." he explained. Now I realized why they looking at me like I was some kind of zombie...
"Do I look dead to you?" I asked confused.
"Not really."
"So where's the problem?"
"What are you doing here?" Temari tried to change the topic.
"Chunin exam." I answered bluntly and mentally gave her a duh-expression. What did she think I was doing here in the academy, room 301, testing place for the first exam? Doing groceries?
So much for topic changing. But fortunately for her, she didn't have to think of another useless question, since suddenly an aura of killing intent was emitted from somewhere behind me. As I turned around I saw Sasuke standing there exchanging ultimate deathglares with Gaara. As I watched the dark aura emitting from now both males I heard someone shouting my name and got instantly tackled to the ground by a hug. Looking at Naruto cuddling into me I was so tempted to pat his head, but this stunt of his made the other two guys turning their glare at him, making him the victim of a doubled ultimate deathglare of doom. I wonder how long he could withstand without spontaneously cumbusting or petrifying. On the other hand, if that happened while he was still hugging me, I'd either get roasted or crushed. Better stop it before that happens...
Aww,lookslikeyoumadelotsoffriendhere,Minari-chan. Kumiho started cooing in my head. Like where weren't more urgent matters at hand than talking about friends.
Of course there aren't, since the possibility is really low that you'd get crushed by a petrified person.
Forgot you could read me thoughts... Well to me even watching some bug crawling up a tree is more interesting than talking to you!
Of course I can. Where do you think I'm locked up? And don't be so mean to 'lil ol' me, sweetheart. What did I ever do to you?
Whatyoudid?"You just destroyed my whole life!" I shouted in anger and was now confronted with shocked expressions.
Damn! I actually said that out loud?
There was chuckling in my head that slowly faded away, as I inwardly growled at her. Then I was pulled to the present again as the blond on top of me started sobbing and snot running down his nose. That better doesn't land on me!
"I'm so sorry!" he cried out, got off me and ran away in a dramatic manner.
"Wait, Naruto! That wasn't directed to you! I was just-" I shouted after him while getting off the ground, but stopped in the mid of the sentence. How should I explain this. Sasuke and the sand siblings gave me strange looks as if waiting for me to continue my explanation.
Great. Now how do I get out of this?
"Oi, Minari! You coming?" Nobu started shouting.
Andnotonesecondtoolate, I thought.
"Sorry, have to go now. My teammates are waiting." I said smiling apologetically and left with a short wave of my hand, now looking for my team. This time Nobu really saved me there!
Later on Naruto got into trouble with some other team and pissed of the whole rest. And in between this I got to make up with him, but without letting the other teams know that I'm acquainted with him of course. Saves trouble for later.
Then, as if to prevent the boy from creating more trouble, a whole lot of Konoha ninjas popped out of some smoke and the one with the scarred face explained that the first exam now starts, his name is Ibiki Morino and that he's the first examiner.
Yay, finally the interesting part starts!
"Why of all things a written exam?" Nobu whined after Ibiki had explained the rules for the first test. He was sitting two rows in front of me, Ayano wasn't in my field of vision (blame me being small and all the others being so tall). A few seats away to my left was Kiba, who didn't look troubled in the slightest.
"Oy, Kiba-kun. Will you really be able to make it through this? This you have to know things and all." I mocked him, perfectly ignoring the glares the ninjas sitting between us gave me. There tough luck for getting those seats.
Kiba gave me a self-confident smile and pointed at Akamaru, who sat an his head.
"I've learned since last time. With Akamaru I'll make it through this and to the next test with ease."
I giggled at this, then sensed someone watching me. Turning around I saw Gaara starring at me from three rows away. I waved at him with a smile then turned to the front again since Ibiki started explaining the rules. Buuh, rules!
After that they handed out the test papers and we could finally begin. I was pretty confident here. I may not be as smart as Pinky but still I'm not the stupidest thing in the world either. So after turning the paper around I began scanning the questions.
…..
…...
…...Okay...
…... I don't understand anything!
Tearing my hair, I really wanted to cry out now, but that would be awkward in a place like this. But seriously, aren't they exaggerating with the difficulty level of those questions?
I peeked around the room. At least I wasn't the only one who couldn't solve even one question. But what now? Handing back an empty sheet was out of question. Then the only option left was cheating! What were the rules again? Two points less for getting caught once. Not too deterrent to not to try it. And what did he say again? "The pathetic ones that get caught cheating will be destroying themselves". Just means I mustn't getcaught right?
A smug grin appeared on my face. This should be possible.
It seemed I wasn't the only one who came to this conclusion. It started to get busy in here. The sound of writing, the first ones getting thrown out, Akamaru's barking, Insects flying over the heads of the examinees... Timetogetstartedaswell, I thought with eyes closed and a constant grin on my face while hiding my hands under the desk to form some handseals.
Wind Release: Gaze of the preying Eagle!
As I opened my eyes they changed from their normal chocolate colour to a piercing yellow and the pupils narrowed to small dots. With this Jutsu my eyesight just got multiplied by the factor 200. I could see as much as the hair on the legs of that fly sitting on the wall in front of me about 10 meters away. But of course the hair of a fly won't help me here – except for being an answer of one of the questions but I strongly doubt that. The thing of this jutsu is that any even surface reflects its surroundings. For example the windows or even the forehead protectors of the test supervisors show the reflections of the room, including the test sheets. So basically, I can act as if looking out of the window but in truth reading the answers off the sheets of others.
That's the theory behind it. In praxis it was a bit more tricky, since the answers were mirror-inverted, so I actually had to think! Stupid me believing this would be easy...
So after this hard work for my brain I was so tired that I released the jutsu and quickly fell asleep. Yep, sleeping. One might think it's a bad idea to sleep while a test is going on and the tenth question is still open... Well, I'll surely wake up the right time, since this is important...
CLASH!
I startled up from my sleep by the sound of a bursting window.
"Which idiot comes jumping through windows on the 3rd floor?" I asked loud as I was still half asleep and not quite aware of the situation. I looked around. There weren't that many teams left. One window was broken. Across the front of the room was now some banner and in front of it stood a woman who was now glaring at me, making me sweatdrop. I could it be I pissed off the-
"Who are you calling an idiot, brat? My name's Mitarashi Anko and I'm your next examiner!" she shouted.
Yep, I really pissed off the examiner of the next test. Tough luck, I guess. On the other hand, that'd mean-
"Does that mean we passed this exam?" I asked being dumbfounded.
"Of course it does. Did you sleep the past hour, or what?"
"Like a dog." I answered with a grin.
"What mad dogs did you let pass this?" Anko asked Ibiki with her eyebrow twitching.
"Could we please get back to the topic?" I asked nervously since so many people were giving me strange looks. Scary...
"Alright, then. We'll meet up tomorrow at the practice area 44. Be on time!" she shouted and then vanished. Like a ninja.
"Minari-chaaaan! We passed, believe it!" Naruto shouted happily as we were leaving the academy and was about to glomp me again, but was stopped by a kick in the face.
"..." Ayano retreated her leg and watched the blonde flying backwards.
"Hey! What was that for?" he complained at the top of his voice while sitting on the ground and pointing his index finger at her. Pointing at others. Rude.
"..."
"Aren't you going to answer me?"
"It's okay. He's a friend of mine. He's always like this." I said to Ayano grinning then walked over to the boy and offered him a hand.
"She won't answer you." I explained "because she doesn't speak."
His mouthed formed an 'O' and he sheepishly scratched the back of his head laughing stupidly.
"Hey, Minari-chan! How did you actually find the time to sleep?" Kiba said with a broad smirk as he walked over to us.
"It was easy. Just cross your arms on the desk, lie your head down, close your eyes and sleep." I answered grinning the same way.
"But how come you passed this? Thought you wouldn't be able to answer a single question."
"Well, I wasn't. But Akamaru had an easy time reading the answers and telling them to me." he laughed and Akamaru barked proudly while wagging his tail.
"Aw, Akamaru can read? Then your actually smarter then your master, eh?" I cajoled the little doggy while patting his head. There Kiba finally realised what I was saying just now.
"Hey-!"
"Oi, what's going on here?" Nobu asked when joined up with us, then placed his hand on my shoulder while pointing with the other at Naruto and Kiba.
"Who are those blockheads?"
"Blockheads?" those two repeated indignantly with flames of anger in their eyes.
"Nobu-kun, these are Kiba-kun and Naruto-kun, friends of mine." I introduced.
Nobu then turned to them, put up a smug grin and pointed at Ayano and himself.
"I'm Nobu and this is Ayano. We're the teammates of Minari-chan. She's now mine so don't you touc-"
Whack!
"Who's yours?" I retorted irritated and rammed my elbow in his face.
"Well, I have to go home now to get ready for tomorrow. See you." I waved at them then walked away.
"Wait! I'm going, too!" Naruto shouted then ran after me.
"Then I'm going,too." Nobu proclaimed but got cut off by me.
"No."
"Why not? He's allowed to so why not me?" he pouted.
"Naruto's living in the same apartment as me so I don't care. But I'm afraid that you'll start stalking me, when you find out where I'm living." I explained dryly then started again to walk away.
"Just what did I do wrong?" Nobu whined falling on his knees.
"..." Head shaking Ayano eyes the crybaby sitting on the ground bawling his eyes out. And this is her teammate...
Yay, chapter finished! I know, it wasn't that long but 1. I have to stick to my script and 2. I'm dead tired!
Just noticed that I actually made a pun. Yay for my first pun! Though it wasn't planned at all... at a~~~~ll!
And I know in the manga and anime they don't wait till the next day to continue the exam but since I have some artistic freedom here it's no like that. Ha! Take that manga script!
And since it was such a long time since the last update I won't proofread this and just post it! If I (or you) find any irritating faults I'll fix it tomorrow... or so.
Oh and I try to get back to my biweekly updates, but I can't promise anything. Even though my friend keeps pestering me to write, it's for some other story... Well I hope this'll satisfy her too or I'll be minced meat... *shudders*
Well if I'm not writing just kick my ass, since for this year I don't have any excuses left. Next year I have my final exams so I don't know then but that's still some time...
So Gute Nacht I'll go to bed now...
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