"So Hinata, you going to watch the finals?" I asked in her room. It had been about day since she was released from the hospital. She didn't get her ass kicked as bad thanks to my awesome training! Yeah, totally me.
"Yes… Kiba said he'd go with me." I said.
"Ah…" I said.
'Kiba you sly dog… But Hinata won't hook up with you, I won't stand for it.' I thought.
"Well that's cool. I'm extra excited for this. I'll get promoted, and I'll be able to kick Mari's ass at the same time! It's amazing!" I said.
"Yeah, I'm sure you'll do very well!" Hinata said cheerfully.
"Yeah! Believe it! Oh my god I did NOT just say that." I said suddenly looking serious.
Hinata gave a big laugh that was followed by a wet hacking.
"Yeah, you like shit, are you sure you're okay to go watch exams? I don't want you passing out and missing my fight." I said, trying to hide the slight bit of worry I had for the Hyuga girl.
"I have to go! I can't miss your and Naruto's fights!" Hinata said.
"Okay… But if I have to stop in the middle of my fight to heal you I'm gonna be pissed!" I grumbled.
Hinata just kept the smile on her face.
"Hm… Well I better get going… Yeah, be sure to cheer me on!" I said walking out her door, waving.
"I will!" she said loudly.
I left the Hyuga compound, and walked towards the arena.
"Ume!" I heard a voice shout after me.
I turned around and saw Sakura, Mom, and Dad.
Sakura ran up to me.
"Are you excited!?" she said with a grin.
"Extremely so." I said with a small smirk.
"Oh two babies, on to fight in Chunin Exams! Oh I have to take a picture!" Mom exclaimed taking out the picture.
"Yay…" I said in a bored draw, standing with the small smirk still on my face next to a grinning Sakura.
"Oh girls! YOU TWO ARE JUST GONNA DO SO GREAT!" Dad said giving us a big hug.
"Put me down Dad! This is so embarrassing!" I growled not even hugging back.
"Seriously Dad!" Sakura agreed.
He let us go.
Our parents and us went our separate days, one group going to the stands, the other group going to the arena.
"So are you ready for the Haruno Twin's awesome pair promotion!?" Sakura said excitedly.
"Did you come with that one yourself?" I asked in a dead pan.
"You betcha!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Figures…" I grumbled.
"It has a nice ring to it, huh?"
"I don't know about you, but I know I'm getting promoted. And my fight is gonna be bitchin' unlike a boring Genjutsu fight. Man, that shit is just standing there staring at each other." I said.
"I bet I'll have a better fight than you." Sakura said.
"Ha! Better than a bitchin' wonder god's? Oh that's adorable. How about after this, and we're all healed up and shit. We should have a full on spar. See who wins that." I said.
"Obviously me." She said.
I rolled my eyes as we found ourselves at the big door that led to the arena.
"Let's go bust some balls!" I said opening the door.
"Hell yeah!" Sakura chanted.
I opened the door finding myself hearing yells of the large crowd. I saw Shikamaru, Naruto, Gaara, and Mari we're already out there.
She gave a cruel smirk obviously pointed at me. I gave her a smirk with a look of determination in my eyes.
Gaara's eyes floated towards her. The smirk and glare we're immediately gone and replaced with an innocent smile.
"Gaara-ki~ After this can we get some ice cream?" she said with a really, well, "kawaii desu" voice. Ick.
"Only if your good." Gaara said with a blank face. As I walked towards them, I noticed how Gaara didn't look like he wanted to kill someone. Maybe having that damn Mari around made him calm his shit or something. Who knows. And really, I didn't care. Just as long as I got a chance to kill Mari.
But it's not like I was the first fight. Sasuke was late as ever, and Naruto VS Neji was first. Joy… But it was basically the same as canon. So what point is there in telling what happened. Seriously? It's not like I taught Naruto some random OP jutsu or shit. Bitch, ain't nobody got time for that. But I guess we might as well go to Sakura and Makoto's fight, since they we're right after Naruto's generous ass kicking.
3rd POV
"Good luck, Makoto." Sakura said to the stoic blond boy. She really had nothing against the handsome boy, and he seemed pretty nice.
"Good luck to you too, Sakura." Makoto said in a very soft, slow, and dark tone..
"YEAH YOUR GONNA NEED IT!" a certain voice yelled.
Makoto recognized it as none other than Daiki's. Apparently Daiki was very much rooting for his teammates to make up for his extreme loss to Sasuke Uchiha.
"Okay, now that pissed me off!" Sakura growled, clenching her fists.
"Alright you two… Begin!" the proctor said, jumping back.
Sakura immediantly began her first jutsu with a tiger sign, before doing a sign that Makoto didn't recognize.
'Tiger sign. Mostly used with Fire Release. Umeko also uses fire release, so it's quite possible that Sakura also uses Fire Release. But the Tiger Sign is also used in some genjutsu. She's either trying to beat me with one of my weaknesses, or beat me at my own game, which she most likely thinks I will be overconfident with since it is well known within the Genin group that I happen to be good with Genjutsu. So, if she uses Fire release, I must use the one ninjutsu I know that happens to be water to counteract it. Since it is unlikely that she'll know that powerful of a ninjutsu, since it was made clear that she doesn't know that much jutsu during her fight with Ino. And in a short month, it's highly unlikely that she got a very advanced fire technique mastered. So whatever low level fire jutsu she uses, my water jutsu should be able to counter it. She could also be using genjutsu, which she learned from Kurenai, and genjutsu specialist. I believe that this will most likely one that will make me feel trapped than possibly blow up in my face or she'll hit me with the Plum Blossom Punch, or Cherry Blossom Punch thing… Either these two factors or she's simple feigning a jutsu, and is going to try to hit me with taijutsu, which if that we're to happen, I'd have to jump back and somehow keep her away from me. Maybe a Paralysis Jutsu? Hm… Many possibilities with this one simple attack.' Makoto thought, quickly in his head.
"Sakura Blossom Haze!" Sakura said. Makoto was suddenly surrounded in black, he looked down and saw he was standing in the middle of a pink sakura blossom.
"It is foolish to use genjutsu on me when that is my specialty." Makoto said, instantly stopping his chakra flow in order to get out of the genjutsu.
Once he was out he saw Sakura right in front of him about to hit him.
"Cherry Blossom Clash!" she yelled.
Makoto jumped back, dodging the chakra infused punch that was speeding towards him.
"Shadow Bear!" he said doing the tiger sign followed by a special hand seal. This genjutsu was of his own creation, and ever since he made it, he was quite fond of using it.
Suddenly, Sakura looked around her, and she saw large shadows shaped like bears running around in circles around her on the walls. Then, they all lunged off running towards her. Sakura was panicked.
"CHA! CHERRY BLOSSOM CLASH!" she yelled focusing the majority of her chakra in her fist, punching the wall resulting in a huge dent in the ground to be formed. A large wave of ground, springing up went all around her. The bears went right through the wave.
"It's useless, Sakura… You are beaten…" Makoto's voice said, seemingly from nowhere.
"SCREW YOU! KAI!" Sakura yelled.
She found herself, standing normally in the middle of the arena.
"I'm glad you found a way out of the genjutsu. But, I'm afraid I must end it here." Makoto said, doing another hand sign.
"No way! Your going down! This promotion is my first step towards changing!" Sakura yelled. She ran at a surprising quick pace towards him. She barraged him with punches and kicks, each leaving another bruise on his arms. Makoto was completely panicked having her actually touching him, especially since it was intended to hurt him.
'I won't panic and faint. I'll never hear the end of it if I faint while fighting Umeko's sister.' Makoto thought.
Makoto did a familiar Rat hand sign.
"Isn't that? Isn't that Nara clan's hidden jutsu! No one outside of the Nara clan knows their jutsu!" Sakura said, obviously surprised.
"You'd be surprised. It's not like it's a kekkei genkai. Now… Shadow Drop!" Makoto said.
'It's strange that she thinks I actually know their Shadow techniques... With genjutsu you can look like you have any kekkei genkai, and usually they won't know the difference. She should know that much, or does she?' Makoto thought.
Sakura then saw a shadow come towards her in an impossible speed.
"What!?" she exclaimed.
Suddenly, the ground under her crumbled leaving a whole. She fell endlessly, screaming the whole way down.
Then, she found herself down on the ground, the calm face of Makoto stood behind her with a kunai to her neck.
"Do you give up?" Makoto asked.
The world was literally spinning, Sakura was so confused.
"I-I give!" Sakura announced. Makoto calmly got up and put his kunai away.
Sakura was escorted away by the medic-nins.
"Oh my god, what a total bore…" I said. The fight was literally, standing there staring at each other, a bit of taijutsu, then Sakura fainting. Seriously, that sucked.
Yeah I'm sure the genjutsu that we're used were hellish and not fun, but that was just ridiculous. Seriously, genjutsu is bull shit.
"Alright, our next contestants are Umeko Haruno of Konoha versus Mari of the Sand!"
"I FORFEIT!" Mari's voice said from beside me.
"NO! NO! NO! YOU ARE NOT BACKING OUT NOW! YOU WERE THE ONE GOING ON ABOUT BIG BATTLE THIS, AND EPIC RIVAL THAT! NO WE ARE FIGHTING RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW!" I yelled.
Mari gave me a big smile as she got closer to me.
"Wouldn't you rather fight me in a no rules, fight to death match, and have no Chunin save either of our lives? It seems it would be more, interesting that way." Mari said in a dark voice.
"Don't you think, Umeki!?" she said loudly, now back in her "kawaii desu" voice.
"Ohohoh… Challenge accepted, Raggedy Ann." I said.
"Since Mari of the Sand forfeits… Shikamaru versus Kin Tsuchi!
Yeah I ain't telling that story. Long story short, Shikamaru won and done.
Then… It was Sasuke and Gaara time.
Then, everything changed when the Sound Village Attacked… Fun Fun Fun…
So before I go to the review thingy down below, I'd really like to say how thankful and happy I am for all the support. The reviews, the PM's, the constructive criticism, and the compliments. You guys are all great people and you guys sure as hell better not forget it! You guys got me to 200 reviews, and really it wasn't my doing. It was the dedicated readers and supporters that help me to procrastinate on my homework and sit down and write this. So without you guys, I wouldn't have gotten this far in here. So thanks! Tell 'em thank you, my OC's!
Umeko: Hmph. Don't tell me what to do! Nope. Not doin' it. Grrr... Fine! But I'm doing this for ME! God herself gives you her humble thaaaa-thaaaaaaAAA-THANKS for getting us so far in this Fanfiction. And thanks for tolerated BakaChan's constant yammering about lower beings like other characters and shit. And tolerating BakaChan's writing too. That shit is jank. Yeah, so yeah. You're all blessed with the very essence of Umeko! Now go! Pick up cars and shit with your new found strength! Remember, I'm god. I can do that shit if I wanna!
Makoto: "Hello there. I would like to thank each and everyone of you reading for accepting Umeko's, um, unique personality and story. I really hope that we will all get to know each other better in the future. You are all very kind and supporting. Please do take good care of yourselves, you all deserve it."
Daiki: So, uh, this is my first time doing this whole talking thing down here below the horizontal line. So, thanks I guess? Yeah, you guys... I don't really have anything say... Hmph. No wonder I don't do these things! I'm gonna go laugh at Neji for getting his ass kicked! YEAH!
Oh, and before I get the reviews, "BAKACHAN! YOUR PROCRASTINATING ON THE UMEKO VS MARI FIGHT AGAIN!? HKHGAKFADKAFJASFJDKLFADF VBGFN?! :("
It'll be next chapter, because there's no possible way for me to procrastinate any longer. So once that big genjutsu happens, the fight will start. Yeah...
And, also, the last chapter of The Makoto Chronicles, a side story for Renegade for Life, is now on . So go check it out, it also has a chapter that happens before Chunin Exams, so you should go check it out!
BaconOfDoom: Oh yeah... That's what happens when you listen to sad Naruto OST while writing a Fanfiction. Emotions get torn to pieces in a big abyss of feels and sadness.
Umeko: I was pretty bad ass though! Like, maaaan, I handed a clan ladies ass to her on a silver fuckin' platter. Yeah! Because I'm just bitchin' like that!
Legendz25: What ship? A ship is happening? Or is it sailing? Like a boat. I like boats. The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the north Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest passenger liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time)[a] on Sunday, 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, which made it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
Umeko: OH MY GOD NO ONE CARES! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND WATCH YOUR BIRDS!
Makoto: Acquiring birds...What is your name? Toriyama!? Your dinosaur does WHAT!?
Tough Chick: Thanks! I'm glad you liked it! I literally was crying as I wrote that chapter. I was just so sad. The flashback, and when Moriko and Anko were yelling at each other, I had to stop writing and cry. Because it got me just so emotional.
Umeko: Ahem... Yes, great god Umeko-hime-senpai-sama-kun-chan-senpai-kami-samaaaa~ Thank you for providing awesome commentary and over all bitchin'ness to the entire chapter... And handing vine ladies ass to her... Thank you~ Your welcome. Your very welcome!
NoIdea135: Oh, sorry for doubting your manliness, Mr. NoIdea135, uh, SIR! XD I just wasn't really thinking I guess! And, I'm no longer in Rhode Island... I'm sitting at the top of a mountain now. Meditating and fighting bears.
Makoto: What have you done to the bears?
Crap baskets...
milpld: Yeah, that's probably why I have a crush on him... I need to stop. And hi! I don't remember seeing you review before... So hi there! Welcome to the Umekoverse!
Umeko: Hi... How would you like to become one of my favorites? You can help me take over THE WORLD AS IT'S GOD! BWUHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Awesome Me Alix: I'm enjoying our fun roleplaying! XD
Umeko: Oh you wanna challenge me? ME!? I'M GOD! YOU KNOW!? COME AT! ME THROW THE FIRST PUNCH! AND YOUR STILL IN THE ACADEMY! SO I'LL JUST TEACH YOU A LESSON! of pain.
GuestStar: I know your probably mad at me for doing this, again. But hey, next chapter right? Since there is no possible way for me to procrastinate any farther...
Umeko: Oh her death will be worth the wait! BWUHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anon-chan: Please don't hate me! TT-TT
Kurama831: I'm glad you love it so far!
Umeko: I'm a god not an 'it.' Who are you talkin' about, Mari? She's the it.
Mari: Actually...
NO GET OUT OF MY COMMENT SECTION YOU DAMN MARY SUE C*NT!
BakaChan: You actually went there...
Mari: ...
BakaChan: ...
Umeko: ...
So part 2 of this will be out soon. Then, I'm planning on doing a Christmas Chapter.
Umeko: Oh great... Happy Christmas and Merry Humbug... Candy cane shit and Santa piss... That's all Christmas is to me...
Oh that'll interesting.