Naruto world jumping AU

by endario

this is not my work, this belongs to a friend who uses Wattpad, who i have been bouncing ideas off of. This friend has also been using the works of other people from Wattpad, so i must stress that i own NONE of the characters, or the plot, all of this belongs to the authors of Wattpad and my friend, Sukikmu.

4. Chapter 2

Chapter 2: What it Means to be a Ninja?!

Warning:- the story contain a lot of spoilers in the world of anime, stories and games.

Here you go the meaning of some words that you need to know though I'll try my best to stick to English, however there are some words that sound too weird for me in their direct translations like Kunai and Juts and etc. so:

Japanese people actually take politeness very seriously so you'll see a lot of them use honorifics after people's names, here are the main ones:

No honorific (indicates familiarity or closeness but when used around someone you're not close with then it means you're rude)

_-san (equivelant os Ms, Mrs, Mr etc, indicates politeness)

_-chan (Used between girlfriends or couples or girls in general, indicates closeness)

_-kun (Used mostly with guys but can be used with girls too. Indicates politeness or closeness depending on context)

_-sama (Used when talking to kings and queens or rulers, etc. Used to show utmost respect)

Other words:

- sensei= teacher.

- jutsu= ninja technique. there are three types of jutsu: ninjutu which is a normal ninja technique like the transformation and shadow clone jutsus, taijutsu which is related to phyical combat, genjutsu are jutsus that make illusions.

Tabouk let out a long yawn as he stared lazily at his surroundings. They were currently having physical education and gosh was it nothing else other than boring. He huffed as he sweated in the heat of what was left of summer after their vacation, wearing a sleeveless white shirt and grey pants for PE. Everybody was staying at least a mile away from him so he had no fun tools to play with and the teacher went somewhere leaving them all to laze around even though this class was supposed to be a 'Physical Education' class. As boredom laced his eyes, he subconsciously caught Chris going to the restroom from the corner of his eyes, giving him a wicked idea on whom to play with next.

"A hope item you say?" Reilla exclaimed, "Not really, but I told you about it last time didn't I? Polly gave each of us one of these accessories when we were feeling down and almost immediately we all felt better. What's even better, now every single time I have this cherry blossom pin around with me, I don't feel scared or worried anymore!" Bell said, excitement and happiness coloring her words and face. 'Heh~ Now isn't this interesting~' Tabouk thought as a dark smirk made way into his lips as he slowly approached the group of girls.

"Cool! But don't ya think that it's just something your mind made up?" "Could be, but for some reason I don't believe that that's the case and- Hey give it back!" Bell yelled as Tabouk snatched away her pin, walking a few paces back to take it out of her reach. "Heh~ So this is a hope item eh? Wonder what would happen if I pluck out each petal one by one-" "Don't!" Bell yelled again jumping towards him trying to take her pin back but Tabouk simply dodged her as if he was dealing with a little kid. "-I wonder~ Will the world end when I do that? Or will it be you who will be crushed when I do so?" Tabouk smirked wider at that as Bell looked more panicked than ever.

"Tabouk stop it-" Before Yuri could even finish, a cracking sound resounded as Bell shook and looked dismayed at the pin in Tabouk's hand and a severed petal in his other hand, "Talk or meddle again ***** and I'll make sure to break this dumb sh*t even more." Tabouk said still smirking. Yuri clenched her fists, ready to punch him right in the face as soon as she gets a chance, "You sicko!" She grumbled as Tabouk shifted his attention to Yuri, happy by her insult, "Aw~ Stop, I'll blush if you continue~" As he got distracted, Bell took that chance to get a hold of him, "Got it!" Bell yelled holding onto Tabouk's hand which had the pin in it, "Aw~ You actually think that you caught me by surprise~ Think again!" Tabouk yelled as he kicked Bell hard directly onto her gut, making her let go of his hand and skid through the floor until she came to a stop when her back hit the basketball pole.

Bell started to cough and gag, saliva splattered out of her mouth as she clutched her stomach hard trying to ease the pain. Bell opened her left eye slowly, since her right one was hidden behind an eye patch, and glared as hard as she could at Tabouk, not that it fazed him in any way. She then looked at her worried friends' way and smiled weakly before turning her gaze back at Tabouk and her pin that he was holding.

Tabouk looked disinterestedly at her and then at the petal shard that he removed and threw it away which got Bell into a state of rage exactly like he wanted, "Why you-!" Bell screamed as she tried to stand up through her intense pain in her stomach. Bell stumbled quite a few times before she could stand up properly, and even that was still very hard; her friends still looked worriedly and anxious at her as well as her classmates. However, the only thing that Tabouk did was smirk even more at Bell's pained state, "Man you really are a laugh! Doing all this just for some stupid pin!" Bell gritted her teeth at that.

"For you it might actually be stupid, but for me it's not! You haven't seen what I've seen, felt what I felt, or went through what I did and how that pin means just all that and more, so GIVE IT BACK!" Bell yelled as she finally had enough strength to run towards him and her pin again. Tabouk lazily moved away from her reach as he whispered in her ear with a tone full of malice, "You're right, I don't know, and I don't care, little girly." Bell's eye widened in shock at how he got beside her so fast and covered her ear, jumping away quickly from his reach, which then served to make her waver from too much movement as her stomach hasn't healed yet.

Tabouk chuckled as he shook his head, dismay written all over his face, "Come on, you're still staggering because of that injury? I didn't even hit you there all that hard~" He teased her as she gritted her teeth whilst her friends watched the scene in front of them with just as much anger.

"Oh come on, you keep on rambling about how I don't know what you've been through-" Bell grit her teeth even more, "-as if you've been through God knows what, like some dumb sh*tty tragic hero-" She started to bite her lip, "-but then you're still standing there, staggering just because of one little kick!-" She gripped her stomach even harder, "-you think you're all that, holding a dumb pin as some extraordinary trophie-" Bell closed her eyes as she shook, "-but really, you're nothing more but a pathetic little-" "ENOUGH!" Bell yelled as she glared at him, let go of her stomach and ran as fast as she could towards him, completely forgetting the pain for a moment as Tabouk stood there, a twisted content expression on his face as Bell did exactly what he wanted her to do.

Bell shifted her gaze towards her pin in his right hand and sprinted for it, stretching her own hand. Tabouk, noticing that, moved his hand closer so that it would be easier for her to catch it but Bell didn't notice that and as soon as her hand caught a bit of the first petal, Tabouk quickly pulled away his hand to make another resounding crack as another petal broke off. Bell's few moments of happiness were crushed as she looked shakily at the petal in her hand. However, Tabouk didn't let her off the hook with that as he grabbed her throat with his hand harshly, bumping her head hard on the floor before raising her up to the sky like nothing while she struggled to breath and free herself from his grasp.

"Bell!" Yuri yelled as Reilla covered her eyes not bearing to watch the scene in front of her while Akira grabbed onto Yuri's arm hard, not letting her do something stupid, using all of her mental fortitude to stop even herself from doing the same. Jack watched the open scene in front of him in disgust, not believing that that thing was supposed to be a human being like them.

Tabouk ignored their gazes, his smirk never leaving his face, focusing his attention on the struggling Bell in his grasp. After a few more minutes, Bell stopped struggling though still grabbing onto his hand making Tabouk stop smirking and look at her questionably, "Why'd you stop? Ran out of batteries so soon~" He said smirking again, but Bell did nothing but bite her lip in frustration, "What did I, what did we ever do to you? Leave us alone!" Bell yelled the last part making Tabouk raise his brows for a moment before pulling her closer to him, "You don't have to do anything, I just do what I do because I enjoy it~" He said simply making Bell's jaw quiver as she was about to give up-

"What in the world is going on in here?!"

Someone suddenly yelled serving Tabouk to look away for a second, Bell dispersed the dark cloud over her head as she heard the voice and then yelled as loud as she could in her tired state, "YOU GOD DAMNED SICKO!" Tabouk turned his head back at her again shocked as she kicked him as hard as she could on his jaw with her knee making his head snap backwards and loosen his grip for a second, but it wasn't enough to make him fall. So then Bell used him as a starting board as she put her feet on his chest and pushed him off, snatching away her pin as he let his guard down, flying away from him only to be caught by a pair of hands she knew so well.

"Woah! You a monkey or what?!" The voice asked as Bell chuckled bitterly, holding onto her pin shaking. Realizing that, the voice said, "Polly, look after Bell for a sec." "Okay." Polly said, holding onto Bell, as her friends came over worriedly. The voice, who had blazing orange hair and crystal blue eyes, looked over at Tabouk, who even after being kicked and pushed was still standing, with an unreadable expression. "Ouch, who knew that the ***** can actually pack a punch! Well kick, but whatever..." Tabouk said as he rubbed his jaw standing up straight again when he noticed the redheaded figure in front of him.

Tabouk looked at him from head to toe, trying to figure out who he was, "So who are you? The dumb sh*t's knight in shining armor or something?" The redhead scoffed at him as he ignored him, walking over to something. Tabouk felt irked about the fact that he was being ignored but continued to observe him, to see what he was going to do next. The redhead stopped in front of something that couldn't visibly be seen and then he crouched to pick it up, stood up again, wiped it clean with his shirt, and then threw it to Bell, who almost doesn't catch it. After looking at what it was, she smiled nodding as thanks.

The redhead smiled at her before turning back to Tabouk who looked bored from waiting for too long. "So are you going to answer or not?" Tabouk asked again only to be ignored again, much to his displease, "So you are the infamous Tabouk!" The redhead finally spoke surprising Tabouk a bit, "Wow, you talk! Thought that the cat got your tongue." The redhead smirked, "And since you know already, isn't it courteous of someone to introduce themselves first?" "What do you know of courtesy? But whatever, I guess that it's okay for you to know at least this much, I'm Naruda Renock, and that's my sister Polly." "I don't give a **** about your sister, I asked only about you." Naruda frowned at his usage of words but then scoffed at him again.

Tabouk frowned ticked, "What's so funny?" Naruda stopped chuckling and then looked at him, a mocking smile still on his face, "Nothing, it's just that you're exactly how I imagined you to be..." "Oh really? I'm flattered, and how's that?" Tabouk said smirking with same amount of mock in his tone. Naruda then turned serious making Tabouk curious, as he said, "You're nothing but an empty bin, filled with nothing but trash." Naruda said simply, his words making Tabouk's eyes widen slightly though barely visible.

At that, Naruda turned around, asking Yuri's help to carry Bell to the nurse's office. "Why are you here?" Bell asked, "We came to visit!" Polly enthusiastically said as Naruda added, "And don't worry, I know someone who can fix your pin." He smiled making Bell smile back, and with that, they continued on with their conversation, completely and utterly ignoring Tabouk.

Tabouk stood there, watching their backs clenching his fists as he started to ooze out a dark aura, but before he could do or say anything, Chris came out of the bathroom, wiping his hands on his pants with a content look on his face, "Hey guys! Did I miss anything?!" at that moment everyone looked at the poor guy as if they wanted to strangle him.

Tabouk slammed his fists onto the table, shocking everyone within the class including Master Iruka, "Hey! What's the big idea?!" Kiba yelled, irked because he woke him from his nap. However, Tabouk ignored him as he headed for the door, "Where do think you're going?" Master Iruka said with a reprimanding tone, "Restroom, or do you fancy me killing everyone in this class to cool off instead?" Master Iruka was shocked, but before he could even answer, Tabouk had already left. He leaned on the door gritting his teeth, 'Why did I remember that now?!' He thought as he angrily left towards the restroom.

The sound of water resounded through the seemingly empty washroom as Tabouk filled his palms with water and then splashed it on his face over and over again, trying to calm down a bit, but mostly forget what he just remembered. He looked at the mirror plainly as he ran his fingers through his hair, 'My hair is getting long...' which was true since his hair was now almost reaching his shoulders. He should probably cut it, but it's not getting in his way or anything so he just shrugged it off. As he was ready to leave, the door opened to reveal a pitch black haired guy in a blue top, known to him as Sasuke. Tabouk stared, more like glared, at the newcomer, and Sasuke realizing his presence, did the same. They stayed like that for a while until Tabouk broke it off as he smirked confidently and left the place, knowing full well that Sasuke was still staring at his back as he left.

Tabouk entered the classroom like nothing happened and realized that there was more noise than before, so he looked around to realize that Naruto was there on the floor tied up. He raised an eyebrow and looked at Master Iruka, who even though he was still angry at Tabouk for what he said back then, still answered his suspicions, "Naruto was caught again doing one of his misfits-" "-so now we're all forced to do a pop quiz on the transformation jutsu." Ino continue Master Iruka's sentence, avoiding eye contact with Tabouk.

"Hmm~" Tabouk hummed amused as he looked out of the window, and indeed the stone faces of the previous Hokages were filled with paint doodles. 'So this really is that episode, hm' Tabouk hummed thoughtfully as he looked back at Master Iruka, "So it's my turn now?" "Yes, everybody else other than Naruto already did their turns." Master Iruka said as Tabouk smirked, "Heh~ I see~" He said sending a shiver run down the other student's spines. 'Let's if I remember this right...' Tabouk thought, his smirk still plastered on his face.

'First comes the dog hand sign, then the boar then the ram...' He made a few hands signs, focused his chakra and then in a puff of smoke, his appearance changed to that of Master Iruka. 'Chakra, the life force of every human being. In Naruto they usually control it in a certain way along with hand signs to do all sorts of crazy sh*t. Heh, if that were possible back in our world, life might have actually been a bit more interesting.' He thought in his mind as everyone got awed by the fact that he did a perfect transformation jutsu even though it has been only a bit more than a week since he enrolled.

As he undid his jutsu, more smoke surrounded him again, but before it could completely envelope him, he noticed a cherry blossom tree outside of the window.

Tabouk sat down angrily in his seat on the bus as they were about to go to the camping site, unluckily for Bell though, she was assigned to sit next to him. He noticed how she hid her pin away from him. He scoffed in his head for this, 'Does she really think that she can protect her dumb pin with that?!' Although he thought that, Tabouk was pretty angry so he wasn't really feeling up to doing anything. Ever since that incident at the beginning of the year, the two of them never really came up face to face again, and now that they did again, Tabouk started to remember what he wanted to forget.

The whole ride was packed with an intense threatening atmosphere that made Bell super uncomfortable. Tabouk, though being the one who caused it, was way too pissed to even mess her up to cool himself off, which just shows how angry he was. When the bus finally stopped, Bell rushed outside as if heaven was just outside that door, which it was, for her at least. Tabouk, though, stayed inside for a while longer with his eyes closed, before he finally decided to go out.

What he met outside was a vast, but not really thick, forest, though it was still not the like that you would expect to see in this desert that they live in. At the center was some sort of big inn where they were probably going to stay at, all around it was tents and other stuff. 'What's the point of this camping trip if you have a giant inn right behind you? They're totally nailing the feeling of being in the wilderness.' Tabouk thought sarcastically in his head before he caught Bell going somewhere from the corner of his eyes, 'Now where is she going...?' He thought and then smirked when he got a devious idea as he started to follow her.

"Sh*t! I lost her!" Tabouk yelled as he searched around some bushes and trees, a lit bit deep and far from where the main campus was. His ears then twitched as he heard something. He cautiously looked sideways before slowly advancing forward. He wasn't a coward that's for sure, but that was his first time here, and who knows what lurks in here. As he got closer, he could make out the muffled sound of someone having their mouth covered, so he began to speed up, not because he was worried about the victim but because he was curious as to whom the perpetrator was.

After a few more minutes, he hid behind a tree quickly as he found a clearing, "Now now, don't struggle so much~ I promise that it will be quick and painless~" "You mean slow and painful right~" After that, he heard the two anonymous voices laugh as the sound of someone thrashing around resounded. 'Hm, how interesting~ I'm pretty sure that the one struggling is Bell, but who are the two others?' Tabouk wondered for a moment but then shrugged, 'It has nothing to do with me, so who cares!' He thought as he was about to turn around, he was quite disappointed that his little toy was confiscated from him but well Finders Keepers, and so he headed the opposite way from where he came from when he stepped on a fragile twig making it snap.

Tabouk twitched from its loud noise and cursed under his breath as he slowly turned around to make sure that the two anonymous figures haven't heard him. But just as he turned around, he was suddenly pierced by multiple black needles all over his body. Tabouk looked up at his attacker viciously, "Hey you, WHAT THE ****!" He yelled as the anonymous figure smirked, "Hey, hey, hey someone eavesdropped on us, what shall we do~?" "Kill 'em!" He heard the two voices say, but he was suddenly too tired to move an inch. After that, all he remembers was the figures approaching him, a glowing light came after that, and then someone yelled, and after that everything blacked out.

Tabouk's eyes twitched as they slowly opened up only to be met by wide black orbs, "Oh! You're finally awake! Come on! It's time for the team selections!" The owner of the voice said excitedly as she pulled onto his shirt. Tabouk blinked once, and then after getting his thoughts straight, snatched his arm away from her grasp, "Get the **** lost Shiko!" He yelled but the girl, now known as Shiko, remained unfazed as she continued to smile, waiting for him. Tabouk clicked his tongue as he groggily stood up from his lying position under the tree right outside of the Academy.

He looked, I mean glared, at Shiko again and then looked away standing up. She jumped up and down excitedly as she pointed at the Academy, "Come on! You're too slow! We'll miss it, you know?!" He really felt like yelling at her face, but he knew that he won't get the reaction he wants so he gave up on that idea and stretched.

Shiko was a girl in their class with ash black shoulder length black hair, blue hoodie, dark blue skirt and black shoes, wearing her shinobi headband on her forehead. She was a very optimistic and smiley person, who, even though most people by now learned to avoid him, she still sticks to him like glue. It's like the nerves responsible for her sense of fear are dead! And that is one of the rare few things that annoy the hell out of Tabouk. He could kill her, but that would mean having the whole village against him, as in equals pretty much to him being dead.

After finishing his stretching, he looked up to find that Shiko was still waiting for him patiently, 'Seriously, if she ends up being one of my teammates, I don't think I'll be able to hold back enough and end up killing this annoying nuisance!' He huffed as he went over to the Academy ahead of her while she just smiled and followed.

Tabouk looked up at the sky thoughtfully, 'That flashback...' He doesn't really remember what happened after he was stabbed with the needles but he was sure as hell of one thing, 'It's her fault, and once I find her, I'll make sure that she'll beg for her life to end.' A dark smirk made its way onto his lips as another devious plan appeared in his mind. Shiko looked worriedly at him but didn't show it as she kept on smiling and following him.

The door snapped open, and everyone jump in surprise as they looked over at the newcomer just in time to see the board's eraser drop on his head. Before anyone could exactly verify who the victim was to one of Naruto's infamous pranks, a kunai swished past and hit the wall across, less than a few millimeters from cutting off Naruto's throat. Naruto started to look pale for a second, "Hey! What's the big idea?!" He yelled angry, he couldn't even enjoy his little prank for a few seconds. Tabouk, now covered in chalk, glared at Naruto, "Next time, I won't miss..." "Why you-" "Also, before I forget, Congratulations on passing the exam dimwit." Tabouk said sarcastically as he headed up to his seat, ignoring Naruto's annoyed yells. But without anyone noticing, he spared a small single look at Naruto, staring intensely at the Leaf Village ninja headband resting proudly on his forehead...

Tabouk came out of the examination room yawning, bored when he suddenly smirked at the headband in his hand, 'Child's play~ That was easy.' He thought as he threw it up and down toying with it. He just passed the final exam and was now officially a genin, a lower rank ninja. He stopped playing with his headband when he noticed that the next examinee was Naruto. He smirked again. At the moment where both boys intersected paths, Tabouk slowly whispered in his ear, "Good luck, you'll need it..." His smirk widened as he disappeared in the crowd, leaving Naruto dumbfounded.

Tabouk could barely contain his excitement; he memorized the next scenes at heart and was eager to see it in real life with his own eyes. Tabouk's ears twitched as he heard a small explosion followed by a bit of a smokescreen, 'Eh, so this must be the part where he fails the exam because of the pathetic clone he made...' Tabouk chuckled darkly to himself as he turned around to see the work of art with his own eyes, but was shocked to see dozens of perfect Naruto clones spilling out of the exam room.

In fact, there were enough of them to crowd the whole building and not let a single person could move an inch! "WHAT THE ACTUAL ****!?" Tabouk yelled during the confusion, 'That dimwit wasn't supposed to learn this jutsu until later!' Tabouk thought not understanding at all what was happening. Later that day, Naruto finally dispersed his clones and when they asked him from where he learned this jutsu, he said that he heard about it from someone who heard about it from somebody else! Having no other explanation plus the fact that there was no reason for Naruto to lie, everyone had to believe the absurd explanation. And with that, Naruto passed the exam with flying colors. Yet the whole time, some weird feeling settled in Tabouk's gut, 'There must be something else into it...'

"You shouldn't have done that. While both of you are wearing the same headband, you're part of the same village, same team! You shouldn't fight!" Shiko said, snapping Tabouk out of his train of thought. He turned around to her gravely, his eyes void and his smirk taunting, "I know that dearie, that's why I didn't puncture his throat." He looked mockingly at her daring her to retort but instead she just continued to smiled and said, "I know, thought I'd say it just in case." Tabouk's smirk was wiped off his face as he went to his seat, huffed bored and looked away while Shiko took her seat beside him.

"Okay class, settle down and let's start with the team formations..." Master Iruka said as Tabouk looked on, bored, waiting for his name to appear. "On team 7 taught by Kakashi, are Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and finally Sasuke Uchiha-" "Wait a second! Why do I have to be on the same team as him!" "That's because we paired the worst student in the class, you Naruto, with the best, Sasuke." "But-" "No buts, if you have any problem with the formations then speak to Lord Hokage." After hearing that, Naruto had no choice but to concede, although very reluctantly while Sakura glared at him for causing a racket and Sasuke ignored them, not caring at all.

"Next on team 8 taught by Kurenai, are Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga, and Shino Aburame." Kiba grinned while Hinata fidgeted shyly and Shino, well, was being Shino, still as a rock. "On team 10 taught by Azuma, are Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi." "No! Why do I have to be on the same team as these two?!" "Why? Do you have a problem with us?" "Do you want a potato chips?" Ino while when Choji offered her some chips not fazed at all by her previous outburst as she slumped back into her seat.

Master Iruka sighed, tired of all the interruptions as he continued, "Then on in team 11 taught by Morakami, are Shiko Mokani,-" Shiko pouted as she muttered under her breath, "I wanted to be taught by Master Kakashi." Tabouk shifted his gaze to her for a second, questioning her statement, and then back at Master Iruka as he continued, "-Izu Manara, and Joey Riyoka." Shiko's eyes slightly twitched at the last name but no one noticed, well no one except for Tabouk, 'Ho ho, so even she has people she dislikes.' He thought as a sly smirk made its way into his lips.

"And that's all for today dism-" "Oi! Idiot-Iruka!" Tabouk called out shocking everyone by what he called their teacher, "If I want to, I can still confiscate your headband and make you repeat the school year, you know?" Master Iruka said threateningly but Tabouk just scoffed at him, "Yeah right whatever, you didn't put me in a team..." Master Iruka's eyes widened as he looked over the board he was holding, "Oh right, let's see...you're on team 11, got it? Then, class dismissed!" He said as the bell finally rang and everyone went to meet up with their respective team teachers.

Tabouk slumped back a bit on his seat, 'Oh sh*t, I'm on that smiley freak's team. Oh well, sooner or later, she will be the one to regret their decision and not me...' He smirked standing up, but as he was about to walk away, Shiko grabbed a hold of his arm again, "Wait! Where are you going? We have to meet up with Master Morakami and the others!" She cried and Tabouk rolled his eyes. Honestly, he was planning on skipping the whole boring meeting thing but since it wasn't likely that Shiko would leave him alone anytime soon and he still can't kill her, so he had no choice but to go to the dumb meeting.

Tabouk trudged slowly towards the park where they were supposed to meet up in when Shiko suddenly called out, "Ah! I forgot my pouch in the classroom! Please go on without me, I'll catch up with you later. Oh, and don't even think about ditching, I'll follow you to the ends of the world and drag you back! See ya!" She said as she left off in a hurry while leaving Tabouk behind. He sighed as he went on his way, not because of Shiko's warning, but because he just realized he doesn't recognize his teammates and teacher's names, 'Hmm, I've got to research this whole situation more.'

"I came back~!" Shiko yelled as she reached the park where they were supposed to meet up. There sitting on the sidewalk, bored, was Tabouk, beside him glaring suspiciously was a dark haired boy wearing a black and white uniform. Next to him was a hyper redhead, walking all over the place with a black eye patch over his right eye. "You're late!" Shiko flinched as she turned over to the source of the voice. It was a tall lean man with messy green hair, he was obviously their instructor, "Sorry, I forgot my pouch in the classroom." Shiko said bowing as the frown on Master Morakami's face turned to a smile, "It's fine, just don't do it again. Now take a seat."

As team 11 sat down expectedly on the sidewalk, Master Morakami started introducing himself, "Ok then, I'm Morakami Shioru, I'll be your instructor obviously and that's pretty much all you need to know. Well, I'm not really good with this kind of stuff so don't expect too much. Anyways, introduce yourselves." Tabouk laughed off silently about how idiotic looking their instructor is arrogantly while Shiko and Izu openly laughed at him. However, Joey stood there with his brows raised suspiciously at their teacher.

"Come on, if none of you will start then I'll choose in your stead...hm, how about you, the redheaded dude whose laughing off." "Eh me?" "Yes you." Master Morakami said and the redhead had no choice but to obey, "Ahem! Okay then, my name is Izu Manara. I was born in the sand village. I love spicy stuff and hate sweet things. My future goal is to beat a certain someone that I lost to in the past. That's all, thank you." Izu finished bowing down with an exact angle of 90 degrees before sitting back down high fiving Shiko.

"Glad to see you so enthusiastic about this. Okay then next is the dark haired dude who can't seem to know how to laugh." Izu and Shiko chuckled at that while Tabouk looked bored as the dark haired guy sighed standing up, "My name is Joey Riyoka. Everything else does not concern you, though I'll tell you that my future goal is to find somebody that I absolutely can't forgive. That's it." Joey said simply before sitting down. 'Great, we have another Sasuke...' Tabouk thought annoyed as the others looked at Joey confused as to who that person is.

"Well then, next is you Shiko." Master Morakami said nervously trying to lift the heavy atmosphere Joey created. "Okay then~ My name is Shiko Mokani from the Mokani clan a bit east of here-" Upon hearing that name, Joey's eyes widened as he looked at Shiko with an unreadable expression. 'Those two definitely have some weird connection.' "-I love sweet things and hate soury and bitter stuff. I don't have a particular goal for the future, but in the meantime, I wish to help out the Leaf Village as one of its shinobis as much as possible. And that's everything!" Shiko said cheerfully before sitting back down.

Master Morakami smiled at that, happy to see that he has at least to positive fellows on his team, and then turned towards Tabouk, ushering him to present himself. However, Tabouk just grinned with his eyes closed, mocking him, a gesture saying he wouldn't do as he was told. Master Morakami scratched his head, "We've got a stubborn one here..." He nervously said and then clapped his hands, startling the other team members before saying, "Okay, now that the introductions are done, let's get down to business, shall we?" At that, the four genins present unconsciously stood upright and listened closely to what he was about to say next.

"You guys know the jonin known as Kakashi Hatake, right? He's a very harsh instructor, and even though I'm not the same as him, hanging out around him for so long seemed to have rubbed some of his ways on me,-" "So?" Tabouk interrupted, bored of the long prologue, "-so here's what we're going to do: a test." The genins seemed shocked to hear that, "But we just finished the finale examination the other day." Izu whined and Master Morakami chuckled at that, "I know, but didn't you notice that it was way too easy-" 'Well he does have a point...' "So here I am going to give you another mini test. If you were being taught by Kakashi, then failing this mini test would make you repeat the school year."

The genins', well except for Tabouk, eyes widened, "EEEHHHHH?!" "Hahaha, don't worry, I'm not exactly like him, remember?" Shiko, Izu and even Joey sighed in relief, "I'm just going to use this mini test to evaluate your strong and weak points so that I can help you out better in the future. However, that does not mean that you should take this lightly. If you do, or score too badly in this, I'll seriously make you repeat the year, understand?"The genins felt a chill run down their spines as they slowly nodded their heads, Tabouk all the way looking as bored as ever.

Master Morakmi smiled much to the young ninjas relief, as he said, "Okay, now to explain the rules of this mini test: You should simply imagine that I'm some sort of terrorist here to spy or attack the Leaf Village, and you have to catch me by dawn or else. Also, tapping or slightly touching me won't do, you have to pin me down for a whole minute, got it?" Shiko and the others thought for a minute before nodding their heads. "Okay then~ Bye-bye." And with that, Master Morakami disappeared in a flash leaving his pupils dumbfound, "W-wait, that's cheating!"

Tabouk stood up, laughing at Izu's comment, "You think that terrorists will wait for you till you get ready? If you did, then you're pretty dumb." Izu felt pretty irked at his comment but let it slide when they heard Shiko's voice, "Hey guys, there's a paper over here where Master Morakami stood!" After hearing that, they all stood in a circle, looking down on the piece of paper:

[ I almost forgot! The one who catches me first gets to be the second in command during missions and stuff! Morakami~ ]

Without second thought and right after looking at the letter, Tabouk took off, 'As if I'll let one of these idiots boss me around as well. Plus, sounds pretty fun to take the lead for once.' He thought as he left his teammates behind grinning. "And he left..." Shiko stated as she looked at what was left of his after image, "So what do we do now?" Izu asked, "Don't ask me." Joey simply said before disappearing as well. Izu looked at Shiko, "Do you too want to be leader?" "Nah not really, you?" "Nope..." Silence befell them until Izu spoke again, "But this way it wouldn't be fun. Let's make it a challenge and find out who can find him first! Not for the leader title but for fun!" Shiko's eyes lit up, "Yes!" They laughed like idiots together before they fist bumped and left in pursuit of Master Morakami as well.

Hidden in a bush, a few meters away, were two certain adult jonins, "Humph, so I'm supposed to be harsh. Don't make me laugh Morakami, you're worse than me." A grey haired man said as the green haired smirked, "Well it's still your fault that I ended up this way, Kakashi." Master Kakashi shook his hand as he went on reading his book. "So how are your new pupils?" Master Morakami broke the silence.

The bells tied to Kakashi's side jingled, "Terrible, I've got a guy who knows nothing of teamwork, another one that acts before thinking, and a girl who thinks about nothing but the first guy. You?" Morakami chuckled, "Well not that bad, I think. I've got a hyper duo, a girl and a boy, a silent kid who doesn't seem to like interacting with others and finally that weird new kid who's rude and arrogant." Silence whisked past them.

"Well, I got to go. Staying in one place for too long is bad." Master Kakashi said as he stood up, "Sure, see you then. I'll treat you to some ramen noodles later." Kakashi thanked him and then left. A few moments passed where Master Morakami did nothing but enjoy the slight breeze, when he finally stood up, stretched and disappeared again.

"Ugh, where is he!" Izu yelled in frustration as he jumped from building to building, peeking through windows and keyholes, seeing stuff he wishes to forget, trespassing territories to search their bushes and stuff, and basically doing other dumb stuff. Shiko just walked slowly through the village, taking everything in with her eyes, searching every nook and cranny for any evidence that might point out towards Master Morakami's location. Joey searched the perimeter of the park where they held their meeting and all the surrounding areas on a 50 meter radius around it. While finally Tabouk sat atop the fourth Hoakge's head on the mountain, surveying the whole village for any signs of Master Morakami.

"Hey!" Tabouk turned his head slightly around to see Shiko who was being followed by Izu and then Joey. "What do you guys want?" Tabouk asked harshly, not even trying to be polite. "Well, we discussed it and thought-" "That Morakami wrote that letter only to make us fight between each other so that we won't work together to catch him? Took you long enough to realize." Shiko and the others were left speechless, "Y-yeah...but if you knew-" "Why didn't I tell you? Because I didn't want to work together with you buffoons." He interrupted her again smirking while Shiko looked dumbfounded at him and the other two irritated by his actions.

Shiko shook her head trying to clear her mind, "Anyways, we need to make a more concise plan or else we will never catch him and so fail, so..." Shiko trailed off as Tabouk kept on looking intensely at the horizon. Joey then finally snapped at him and yelled, "Are you even listening to us?!" "Shush!" "What did you-" Before Joey could continue, Shiko put her hand in his mouth as she put her other hand's index finger in her mouth indicating him to stay silent, pointing to the two boys to look at Tabouk and wait.

Tabouk's eyes trailed quickly from one house and building to the other, never resting, blinking only once in a while; his expression was unreadable but he was obviously looking for something, thinking hard. He put his left hand over his mouth, in a manner of thought as he squinted his eyes, closed them for a moment, and then opened them again, standing up abruptly surprising the other three.

He looked at them from the corner of his eyes as he dusted himself off, "Do any of you know how to make effective traps?" The trio looked at each other for a moment and then Izu raised his hand slowly, and with that Tabouk grinned widely, a dangerous gleam in his eyes, making the other three gulp. "This is bad Master Morakami, this test is just like hide-and-seek, and believe me, I never lose at this game. Come on guys, let's catch us a terrorist~" He said as he jumped off the statue, the other three following him almost reluctantly.

Master Morakami walked on, whistling merrily. He was a bit deep inside a forest not too far from their initial meeting place. The blue sky started to turn into a reddish hue. As he walked on he suddenly noticed something gleaming from the corner of his eyes and jumped just in time to avoid multiple kunais thrown his way, "Took them long enough." He mumbled as he easily dodged the ninja stars thrown at him, "But I must say their movements are pretty sloppy..." He said dodging more of them as he jumped away from a wire right beneath his feet. "Oof that was close, I'm not sure what that would've triggered but one can never be too careful."

"GOT YOU!" Master Morakami snapped his head upward where he was met by Izu and Joey holding a big net, dropping it off on him, though right before he could cut it or take it off, Shiko performed multiply hands signs as she breathed out ice that froze the net in place. Joey and Izu, too, in turn did their own hand signs and aimed whatever attack they were preparing at Master Morakami. He was stuck on three sides, no four, as he looked up only to find Tabouk sitting on a branch holding a bunch of ninja weapons ready to be thrown down on him, "Sensei~ I really think that you should give up now~" He said smirking just as whatever was left of the sun disappear.

Master Morakami grinned, "Don't get too cocky kids." And with that he disappeared in a puff of smoke, "He disappeared?!" "No! That was a shadow clone!" Shiko yelled when the quartet heard clapping behind them, as they turned around, they saw the real Master Morakami, "Congratulations kids, that really caught me off guard. I'm really happy that I actually made a clone of myself, hahaha." Team 11 looked at their instructor panting, not feeling as if they accomplished anything at all. "Don't feel bad guys, I'm higher ranked than you, so of course I wouldn't be trapped so easily, but you really did a good job, you really should be proud of yourselves!"

At his words, three of the quartets cheered up and started feeling pretty happy, "Does that mean..." "Yes! You pass with flying colors!" "Yatta!" The three of them yelled and cheered as Tabouk relaxed on the tree branch. Shiko suddenly stopped cheering and looked up at Tabouk, "But wait, how did you know where to find Master Morakami?" The other two stopped their cheering as well and looked at Tabouk for answers, but all he did was look towards Master Morakami and smirk.

Master Morakami looked pretty nervous as he chuckled, 'That guy...he couldn't have possibly decoded the signs I left behind right? I left those marks over the village mostly because I was bored but I never expected him to find them and figure out what they meant! I didn't have a student like that in a while. I have to admit, he truly is some genius.' He closed his eyes and nodded towards Tabouk, approving of him, and then turned towards the others.

"As you have already realized, the whole 'second in command' thing was just to distract you from working together as a team, so there will be none of that. However, if I ever cannot accompany you during a mission or training session or something, I'll either ask for someone I know to supervise you or appoint one of you as a temporary leader depending on the situation, am I clear?" "Yes!" "Good, you're all dismissed for today and see you tomorrow." And with that Master Morakami disappeared somewhere again.

Tabouk descended from the tree as the other three cleaned up their mess. 'Today was way more tiring than I thought, at first sight, our teacher seemed to be a dimwit, but he was pretty good. It took me longer than I thought to find all the hints and marks and decode them.' Tabouk thought when a sly grin appeared on his face, 'How interesting.' "Ah, wait!" Tabouk turned around to face Shiko, "I just wanted to say: Thanks! We were able to pass this test thanks to you."

He looked her over as she finished with an unreadable expression and then turned back to leave, "Ah, um, see you tomorrow!" Tabouk scoffed at that, his back still facing her, "You'll be considered lucky if you don't see me tomorrow." "Hey! Can't you simply say yes once in a while?!" Joey yelled as Tabouk faced them one last time with a mocking smile, "No~" He simply said walking away. Shiko smiled her usual smile, "Then it's settled, see you tomorrow at the same park as yesterday...Zen!" Tabouk flinched slightly at the mention of that name, though he didn't stop walking, 'Sh*t, I still can't get used to this name...'

Tabouk opened his eyes slowly to find himself in a completely white room, 'Huh? Wasn't my room's wallpaper turquoise?' He blinked a few times to get rid of any sleepiness he had before he started to stand up. Doing that, he realized just how sore he was, but he didn't care as he removed the covers from over him, now noticing that he wore a white hospital gown and was covered with bandages from head to toe, 'Oh right, these were caused by those accursed black needles, wait where did they come from? Ah, I forgot.' He thought as he looked with plain eyes at himself before deciding to stand up despite how numb he felt.

Walking slowly, he finally reached the window where he saw a sight he thought he had forgotten, 'Oh right, this is...' "Hey! Master Iruka the weird guy woke up!" "Naruto, you aren't supposed to call people things like that..." Tabouk slowly turned to the source of the voices and saw a tall man with brown hair and a scar across his nose alongside a shorter blonde boy with weird cat-like markings on either of his cheeks. He smirk again, 'That's right, I'm in the Naruto world as weird as it is. I forgot that those guys here don't look animated but like real people.'

"Master Iruka, he has that weird grin on his face again." "Naruto, what did I just tell you...Oh you're awake?" "That's what I just said!" As they continued their bickering, Tabouk moved on towards the closet and opened it, revealing a neatly tied scarf along with spare clothes. Tabouk narrowed his eyes, "Hey, where are my other clothes?" He asked and the duo looked at him weirdly, "Hey Master Iruka, what is he saying?" "I don't know, must be some other language from wherever he came from." Tabouk face palmed, 'Dimwits.' "I said, where the **** are my clothes?!" He repeated and Master Iruka looked disapprovingly at him, "Don't use that language with me, and most of your clothes were torn, so wear those spares for now until your original clothes get sewn back together again."

Tabouk rolled his eyes and took his top off, realizing that they were still there, he glared at them. Discovering what he was doing the duo left in a hurry with Naruto mumbling, "What a freak..." But that served to do nothing but make Tabouk smirk even more. After changing into a black top and shorts with a green sleeveless jacket over the top with his scarf wrapped tightly around his neck, Tabouk came out only to be met by Master Iruka and Naruto waiting patiently. He raised an eyebrow at them and Master Iruka smiled leading the way while Naruto followed behind and him as well reluctantly.

"I don't know who you are, but I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the guy who will become Hokage! Believe it!" Tabouk scoffed and rolled his eyes, irritating Naruto. For the rest of the day, Master Iruka kept on showing him around the Leaf village while Naruto kept on yelling random stuff on his ears. 'Hm, so they're trying to make me feel welcome before asking me questions? How typical...' As he thought that Master Iruka stopped walking, "Okay, so that's most of it, if you need any more help then don't be afraid to ask, understand? That's it for now, I'll come pick you up tomorrow at-"

"Hey?" "Yes?" Master Iruka felt pretty irked for being interrupted but let it slide, "Can I register in the Ninja Academy?" Tabouk asked bored but there was a gleam in his eyes showing that he was planning something. "Um, yeah sure. I'll see to it. Come Naruto, okay then, see you tomorrow." Master Iruka said before leaving, behind them Tabouk stood still, a devious grin on his face. 'Well then, let's see if I could find a comfortable tree to sleep on...'

"Okay class, settle down. We have a new student today, come in-" The door opened and in came Tabouk glaring dangerously at the class while taking in his new surroundings. "Hey isn't that?" "He's the one from the other day!" "Man, why are they letting someone so scary like that enter in?!" "He'd totally be my type if he didn't look like he could kill me immediately~" "Gosh, why is he glaring like that?!" The class kept on whispering in between themselves while Tabouk just stood there bored.

"Okay class, quiet down, this here is, um, I don't believe you told us your name..." The class erupted in laughter at that as Master Iruka embarrassingly scratched the back of his head. Even Tabouk had to admit that that was dumb. In the end he sighed as he was about to introduce himself, "My name is Ta-" "Ta?" The class chorused curiously, 'After some thought, it might be better to keep my identity a secret.' He closed his eyes for a second and then opened them again smirking his signature dark grin, "My name is Zen, Zen Rio Tabaki."

"Target is turning Corner B! Izu he's coming your way!" "Roger!" Izu jumped out from behind his hiding spot in a bush and made a weird face, frightening whatever was coming his way, "Target is moving towards your direction, Shiko. Just as planned!" "Roger and thanks." Shiko said as she came out from behind a corner and using her ice jutsu, made the floor slippery making the target slip and skid across the floor. "Zen! It's coming your way! Catch him!" Zen yawned bored when the Target was about to run away while he was distracted but Zen simply glared at him and he sat back, still as a rock and even peed on the floor from fear.

"Aw, you shouldn't have frightened the poor pup like that Zen!" Zen rolled his eyes as Shiko lift the puppy from the ground, hugging it tightly as it snuggled on her chest frightened. Izu and Joey later on caught up with them, "Mission successful, we caught Milord!" Izu said excited as he threw his fist to the sky, Joey and Shiko joining him while Zen just stared at them as if they were a bunch of idiots. "Great job guys, mission complete. Now send that pup to his rightful owner, and after reporting to Lord Hokage, I have an important announcement." Master Morakami's words caught the young ninja's interest, so they quickly went to do what they had to do and went to meet up in the usual place, the park near the forest.

As they reached the park, they waited for a few minutes for Master Morakami to arrive and as soon as he did, Shiko and Izu stood up, excited to hear the news. "Okay now, sit down. As you all know, we've been a team and doing all these minor missions for a few months now. SO let me ask you: Do you want to do higher level missions?" Zen perked up at that, he knew where this was going. The other three looked at each other shocked by the news and then yelled in unison, "Do you even need to ask!"

Master Morakami chuckled at their enthusiasm. "Okay, okay chill. Now hear this: The chunin exams are coming up in a week!" The young ninja's eyes widened and gleamed with glee as Zen's smirk widened, 'Heeh~ Sh*t's about to get real then. The chunin exams means for ninjas to go up another rank. Most ninja's are chunins and by being one, you get many priveliges like being able to lead your own squad or team and going to higher level missions and other stuff. But...' The thing that the citizens of the Leaf Village did not know is that during the finals of chunin exams, a large terrorist attack from another village was to take place, and Zen was sure as hell not going to tell them and miss the whole thing! Plus who would even believe him?

"Now, now, settle down. As you know the chunin exams are an international event, so there will be contestants from different villages participating too." The quartets' excitement was rising as Master Morakami was getting a bit nervous, "Now here's the thing: To enter, you have to be in groups of three and you guys are four so..." Shiko and the others realized what he meant and they weren't happy. They all wanted to participate so bad, but one of them had to drop out this year. Master Morakami suddenly perked up at the single hand that was raised up in the sky, "What? Zen, you'll drop out?!"

Everyone snapped their attention towards Zen, he was really the last person on their minds to actually drop out from something like this. 'As fun as it would be to participate, I know my own limitations and if by Lady Luck's blessing I end up fighting against someone like Gaara of the sand, I'll surely die, no questions asked. Although...' "On one condition though, I want to be able to watch the chunin exams." Master Morakami and his other teammates looked dumbfounded at him; they haven't really expected this at all. "Uh sure I guess, I mean it's only fair since you can't participate. I'll go and ask Lord Hokage. Also before I go, go to where this flier shows and register, okay? Then see you!" And with that their teacher left.

"Thanks Zen, thanks to you the three of us can participate." Shiko said but he simply ignored her and snatched the map from her grasp, leading the way, "I just know that this guy is planning something!" He heard Joey mumble from behind before they sprinted towards their destination. After a few minutes, they arrived to the building where they would register. "Pfft, it's a boring old building; I was expecting something much grander!" Izu whined while the two others chuckled at his behavior. Zen threw the map in the garbage can as he entered the building along with the others.

"Finally done!" "So now we can participate in the chunin exams right?" Shiko then Izu asked while Joey nodded stretching. "Hey Shiko, over here!" Someone called out and the quartet turned around to see that it was Sakura with her teammates, "Did you guys come here to register as well?" "Yup~!" As the girls chatted the guys too started to talk about their past adventures and missions, even Joey and Sasuke were socializing, as surprising as it might seem.

Although Zen just leaned back on a nearby wall when his eyes caught sight of flowing brown hair and his eyes widened slightly, but before he could say anything, Naruto yelled, "Ahh! Hiyoran, you're here too?!" The said girl, Hiyoran, ignored him and went on in her way. "Hey Hiyoran! HIYORAN!" Naruto yelled even louder and the girl flinched turning around, "You talking to me? Oooh, you ARE talking to me!" She said giggling embarrassed as she walked over to where Naruto and the others were.

"Guys, this is Hiyoran, my friend! She also tends to forget what her name is a lot!" Naruto exclaimed while his teammates and team 11 looked at her like she was the dumbest thing they ever saw in their entire life, 'What type of idiotic person forgets their own name!?' And with that Hiyoran joined the conversation as well, as Zen stared intensely at Hiyoran's back. She was wearing a white Chinese looking t-shirt and pants with red linings and flowers. She uses her headband to tie her hair up in a side ponytail. 'Don't tell me...'

"Oi! Hiyoran, where did you go?!" "Damn, that girl gets lost faster than any pet in those damn missions!" Two voices yelled interrupting the young ninja's conversation, "Ah, those are my teammates!" "Who?" "Ramco and Marco Ronomero! They're twins, and also very funny! Sorry, Naruto, guys, I have to go!" "Don't worry about it! See you in the chunin exams!" "Yes!" And with that she disappeared in the crowd. "Well we too have to leave to train. It was nice seeing you again!" "Yeah!" "See you!" And with that, they all dispersed to begin their vigorous training for the coming chunin exams!

"Woah! So many people!" Izu yelled as they entered the hall containing all of the examinees participating in the exam. The week passed pretty quickly, some even doubted that it existed at all, as they looked around at all of the new faces. "We will have to fight against all of them?" Ino said worriedly, "Yeah and maybe we will get special treatment even thanks to Naruto's dumb outburst!" Kiba said frowning while looking down at a beaten up Naruto lying on the ground. A few minutes ago, he actually yelled at all of the examinees saying that he wasn't afraid of them and will beat them all up or something between those lines, Zen shook his head, 'How does Sasuke and Sakura put up with that thing as a teammate?' He thought sighing as he observed each and every examinee trying to figure out what their abilities could be based on their appearance, build and manner of talk.

"Hey guys!" Someone yelled from within the crowd and then Hiyoran emerged followed by two identical guys one with black hair and brown eyes while the other had brown hair and seemingly black eyes. "These two are my teammates: The black haired one is Marco and the brown haired one is Ramco!" "Hey!" "Yo!" They greeted simultaneously. Naruto scrunched up his nose as he stared at the twins until he was hit in the head by Sakura for being all weird, "Woah, they really are alike!" Naruto said shocked rubbing his head where he was hit, "Of course you idiot! That's why they're called twins!" Sakura yelled face palming as the group started to laugh at his antics as well as the twins. The twins then started showing them a bit of their twincy moves trying to lift up the heavy atmosphere caused by the exam as everyone laughed again. As they continued to talk, Zen continued to watch from the sidelines, after all he was nothing but a spectator from the very beginning.

He watched silently as well when Kabuto joined their little group and told them a little about some of their strongest adversaries' strengths and origin, 'What a liar, though it's still impressive seeing his acting skills in real life.' Zen thought before he was interrupted by a loud, "Wa'cha doing Zen?!" Izu asked trying to start a conversation with the unapproachable man. Zen took a sideways glance at him and then continued his observation.

Irritated at being ignored, Izu kept on nagging him over and over again asking him the same question until Zen finally gave in and said, "I'm observing the contestants to figure out their strengths and weaknesses. For example that guy over there looks kind of gruff, he obviously went through a lot of physical training so fighting him on a one on one fist fight probably won't end in your favor. He's also heavily armed, and his pockets seem full, so he's a weapon expert. Jutsu wise, since he's from the village hidden in the mist, he's probable good with ninjutsu that initiate trickery or stuff like that and from the look on his face, I can tell that he likes it but is also quite dumb so you don't have to worry about him when it comes to a battle of wits. While that other guy, he's sort of lean so he looks like he could have a high stat in agility, from the way his eyes are moving and his calm aura, it's obvious that he's more of a thinking type who won't initiate something unless he's sure that it would succeed. He also doesn't seem very trustworthy and would probably feed his teammates to the dogs if that would mean that he won't get embarrassed or something. The other guy over there..."

Zen trailed off as he noticed all of the astonished expressions of his former classmates and teammates, even Kabuto and Hiyoran couldn't exactly hide their amazement, "Well, I'd say, you're not bad! May I know who you are?" Zen looked at Kabuto smirking, "The name's Zen, and what I said was but obvious information you can get in one look." Kabuto smiled at that, "Wow, aren't you modest-" "No, you guys are just dumb sh*ts." At that, Naruto and most of the other guys were right about ready to strangle him if the bell, signaling that the first part of the exam was going to start, didn't ring.

The guys, and even girls except for Shiko, glared at Zen as they took out their attention from him to put it into that of the first exam proctor who just entered the room, which was a tall gruff man filled with scars, his ninja head band hiding his head. 'Wow, never thought that Ibiki Morino could actually look more intimidating in real life than he already was. This will definitely be something interesting to watch.' He thought smirking although unbeknownst to him, someone was silently watching him, knowing exactly what he had in store for the challenges to come.

"Hey, are you Zen Rio Tabaki?" Zen looked up at the gruff first examiner, still full of scars. "Hmph, I don't know what the Hokage is thinking by letting you watch but whatever, listen here: since you aren't participating you aren't allowed to say a single word or signal anyone, let alone breathe! You're only here to watch, got it? If you were caught doing anything suspicious enough, you'll be kicked out along with whoever was even a little bit related to whatever you were doing, understand?" He said and Zen smirked, "Sure~ sure~ I'm not THAT terrible of a guy, am I?" Ibiki quirked a small smile before leaving, "Then I'll take that as a yes." And with that, the first exam started.

The first exam was basically a written test about what they learned in the academy and such, and that was Naruto's worst Nightmare, they also have an hour to finish it and every single member of the three man team has to be able to finish the exam to pass or else they fail and have to try again next year. The same thing will happen if even one of them was caught cheating, and there are multiple higher rank ninja all around the classroom to make sure to catch even the slightest attempt to cheat! And with that the exam started, as well as Naruto's longest hell hour.

Zen smirked as he sat near Ibiki. To make sure that he won't signal anyone, they made Zen sit beside the strictest ninja in the room, though Zen really didn't mind at all. He then stared intensely at the seemingly normal test session. 'Heh, come on, we're ninjas, it's obvious that if they tell us not to cheat then it means that they're rooting for us to cheat instead. This exam is all about trying to see how we'd be able to work under pressure and if we can share information without being caught or sacrificing our teammates. Though Naruto and other dumb sh*ts are probably too idiotic to realize that and are now grinding their heads to answer the exam seriously.' Zen's smirk widened as Ibiki cautiously looked at him, 'This guy, according to the reports about him, he mysteriously appeared in front of the academy badly injured and is almost rivaling the Uchiha kid in terms of academics and physical combat and even initiating jutsus. So why did he drop out of this exam? That kid just bodes of danger.'

Zen kept on observing the class and their colorful ways of cheating. Tenten, another examinee, used hidden mirrors to see the answers of other students and send them to her teammate Rock Lee, while their third teammate, Neji Hyuga, used his Byakugan to see the answers, which was a special jutsu that runs in the bloodline of his clan, which can see things from miles away and even through object. 'The all seeing eye, huh? I'm pretty excited to see him use that in a fight.'

The sand siblings, Gaara, Kankuro and Temari, from the village hidden in the sand also had their own creative cheating methods. Gaara used some weird sand jutsu to create an eyeball which he used to cheat. While Kankuro faked going to the bathroom so that he could right the exam answers in a paper and hand them to Temari discreetly on his way back. Shino, from team 8, used his bugs, yeah he uses bugs to fight and can also communicate with them, to look into other peoples' test papers and cheat for him. Kiba used his hyper dog-like senses to figure out what the others wrote on their tests depending on the sounds they made on paper, while Hinata used her Byakugan as well.

Zen chuckled a bit but with an inaudible sound as he witnessed all of the secret cheating methods. The only reason why he could see them do it, was because he already knew what they were going to do, plus some of them were pretty obvious compared to others so even if he didn't know them then he would have been able to figure it out. Zen looked up again at the students just in time to see Ino do her clan's special jutsu on Sakura, which enables her to possess someone while her body becomes unconscious. With this ability she studied all of Sakura's answers, because she's smart, and then using the same jutsu, send them to her teammates as well by possessing them. Sasuke was copying the answers from others using his Sharingan eye, another special jutsu passed on by bloodline in his clan, while Naruto frantically tried to find a way to answer the goddamn sheet from hell.

Zen smirked at that and then perked when he remembered something-, "Examinee number 307 is out along with number 306 and 308!" One of the higher ranked ninjas yelled as three examinees stood up angrily cursing with one of them even crying! 'Heh, that's the eleventh team already and we still haven't hit the halfway mark, which reminds me, I wonder how my supposed teammates are faring...' Zen thought as he searched with his eyes for his teammates.

As soon as he caught sight of Shiko, he smirked, 'That girl, might not be the studious goody two shoes that I thought her to be...' he thought as he saw her cheating manner. What she did was basically use the others' cheating facilities to her advantage and she did it so calmly and without batting an eyelash that it almost seemed impossible to accuse her of cheating. Her method was pretty smart because she wasn't the one using the mirrors or bugs to cheat but the others so if she made a mistake then the one using that certain cheating facility would be the one to fail and not her which would then enable her team to have less competition to deal with. Joey was closing his eyes and Zen noticed how his ears were twitching slightly, 'Hmm, so he's using a similar cheating method as that Inuzuka guy. Cheating with sound...'

Zen looked barely impressed as he started to look for Izu only to be disappointed to see him with the same look on his face as Naruto, 'Idiots...' He thought as he face-palmed, when he caught sight of brown hair from the corner of his eyes, 'It's that Hiyoran girl...' Hiyoran was, was...he actually for once wasn't sure what she was doing. She totally didn't pass him off as the genius type that Sakura is, so she must be cheating one way or another. And that's when he saw it, something gleaming in the light, it was a very thin wire and it was connected to her fingers, he wasn't sure how but he was a hundred percent sure that Hiyoran was using that to cheat her and her teammates. 'Hmph, turns out that she wasn't that boring of a girl after all...'

"Okay then, we've reached the final five minutes. I'm sure that you've all seen the last and tenth question and that you're not supposed to answer it until the last few minutes, right? Well then that question is going to decide everything, so before I ask it, let me tell you a few new rules about it: If you don't answer this question then you and your teammates fail without question, and if you answer it but incorrectly then you'll be stuck as a genin forever, got it?! So if anyone wants to pass this out then this is your last chance..." Most of the remainder of examinees looked pretty nervous at that, a few even protested saying that it was an impossible choice like Kiba, though Ibiki remained unthawed, "Well just consider yourself unlucky since I'm one of this year's examiners." 'Heh, no wonder that this guy is a pro interrogator and torturer, he sure knows his way around peoples' minds.' Zen thought when suddenly many hands perked up ready to drop out, 'Pathetic cowards...'

Zen looked at Sakura and Sasuke, they both knew that this was too much for Naruto and the looks on their faces were accepting if ever Naruto decided to drop out of it. He then looked at Izu who had a strange look of determination, 'Strange, I thought he'd be at least a bit nervous about this...' "Anybody else? This is that last time I'm asking this!" Naruto nervously raised up his hand and Sakura and Sasuke's expressions was a mixture of shock and acceptance, when Naruto suddenly slammed it down on the table surprising everybody present, "Don't underestimate me! I will not run! I'll take it! Even if I'm a genin forever! I'll will myself to become Hokage, so I don't care! I am not afraid!" He yelled out, Zen blocking his ears all the way, shocking all other genins present with his act. Shiko giggled, the looks on Sasuke's and Sakura's faces were of that that said 'Typical Naruto...' Hinata who was sitting beside him smiled happy for him, while Hiyoran put her hands in her mouth trying not to burst out laughing.

"I'll ask you again. Your life is riding on this decision, this is your last chance to quit." Ibiki said unfazed again with Naruto's outburst, "I follow my unbending words...That's my Ninja way..." Ibiki quirked a small smile at that, 'Interesting kid, he blasted away everyone's worries. Hm, 87 left...more than I expected. It seems that stretching this any longer won't make any difference.' Ibiki smirked a bit wider and so did Zen, knowing full well how this would end, "Good descisions, now to everyone still remaining, I congratulate you on passing the first test!" "Huh?!"

"Man~ I really didn't expect the exam to end that way!" Shiko said stretching as they moved on to the next examination site, "Yeah, who'd thought that It would be a written test, and that you didn't even need to answer anything and you'll pass!" Izu exclaimed as Joey nodded, "Yeah, though as easy as it sounds, it still made most of the examinees leave packing." Zen followed them silently closely behind, "Still, it was spot on, the first nine questions to see our ability to gather intelligence and the tenth question, the take it or not, to see if we have the guts to fight through all odds!" Shiko said cheerily, summarizing the first test.

"It still is pretty crazy what happened to our first examiner. His head was covered with even more scars and screw holes! He must've been tortured pretty bad! I'll never make fun of knowledge ever again!" And on they went with their talk. Their second examiner, Anko, was a very hyper and energetic woman saying that their second exam was to survive going through The Forest of Death once Training Area No.44.

"Okay then, don't expect my test to be as easy as Morino's, okay. Each team will be given a scroll, either that of Heaven or Earth, by no means under any circumstances should you read any of the two before reaching the finish line, or else a terrible thing shall be fall you. To reach the end line, you have to go through this forest and all that's within it , though even before that, you have to take position of the second type of scroll before you go to the final line; you have one week, got it?! If so, get your scrolls and get in there!" As soon as she finished, every team went in line to get a scroll, "Ah right!" Everyone stopped dead in their tracks, "You, yes you, Zen was it, you're nothing but a spectator, right? Sorry but I can't let you go through, because it's too dangerous and you might help your teammates in secret. So you'll come with us, 'kay?" Zen shrugged, he expected that much. Sadly, he won't be able to watch the live fight between team 7 and Orochimaru.

Realizing that it had nothing to do with them, the other teams went on with their business. "Wish us luck, Zen!" Shiko said excitedly, "Okay, break a leg." He said smirking darkly, by that phrase he didn't mean to wish them good luck but to actually and literally break a leg or two! Shiko waved goodbye to Zen and dragged Joey and Izu away before they could strangle him. "Okay, come along boy." Anko said dragging him off, but from the corner of his eyes, he could see Orochimaru disguised as one of the examinees, Shiore. He smirked even wider, 'Orochimaru is one of the Legendary Sanin but then he went rogue due to his inhuman experiments on immortality and is now trying to destroy the Leaf Village by using the Village hidden in the sand. Heh, and so now, the second test begins...'

Zen entered a wide room with one big screen surround by other smaller ones in the middle. The room had a couch and desk but other than that it was relatively empty. "Beautiful room isn't it?" Anko asked him sarcastically while he rolled his eyes, "You may sit over there..." She said pointing towards a couch, having no other option; Zen did as he was told. As soon as he sat down, a weird disturbing feeling settled into his gut, giving off a sense of forebode as if something bad was going to happen during the exam, something other than the terrorist attack.

Zen took in a deep breath and then exhaled slowly, 'This is getting way too exciting to bear, I can't wait for this week to end. This would be also around the time where the Hokage realizes that Orochimaru infiltrated the place, but can't cancel the exams due to how deep in them we are already.' He thought to himself as he chuckled lowly and darkly earning a subtle side look from Anko.

"Zeeen~" Zen made a side step just in time for Shiko to fall face first into the ground when trying to hug him, "How mean~ Where's our welcome back?" "Did you break a leg?" Shiko shook her head, "Then you're getting none." 'As if I'd say such a dumb thing even if you broke every single bone in your body!' Shiko laughed off Zen's insult while Izu laughed along with Joey glaring at Zen, "If you weren't kind enough to let us register into the chunin exams, I'd have already given you a hard sock in the face." "Oh really~ Why don't you try?" Zen said darkly smirking while Joey glared back, just about ready to accept the challenge when he was hit in the head by none other than Master Morakami, "What are you guys doing, the third test is about to start?"

"Master Morakami?! Where did you come from?!" Joey and Shiko chorused without Zen, because he well already knew from where if that's any of a surprise. Master Morakami chuckled as he pointed at Izu who opened both scrolls. The poor looks on Joey's and Shiko's faces could make anyone cry, "IZUUUU! HOW COULD YOU?! AND WE WERE SO CLOSE TO ACTUALLY PASS!" "Sorry, curiosity got the better of me, plus we already reached the finish line!" Izu said innocently, you could actually almost see the white fluffy innocent bunny ears popping out of his head while Shiko and Joey had that of hungry black wolves that are ready to kill.

However before the duo could attack the sweet little bunny, Master Morakami held both of them back, "Don't worry, don't worry, you guys already passed with flying colors!" The two wolves turned into puppies as they looked at Master Morakami with teary eyes, "Really?" "Uh-huh, so don't go off killing your teammate, okay?" The two puppies, and bunny, sniffed as they pounced on their teacher, "We love you!" They yelled as Master Morakami patted their backs, "Okay then, let's go to the hall and wait for the last few teams, ok?" "Yes!" All this time, Zen was watching the dramatical show from the sidelines, contemplating the fact that he is indeed a part of this idiotic group.

"Okay then congratulations to all the *cough* teams that passed. The previous test was to measure your *cough* capability to deliver an important package even through *cough* tough adversaries and without letting your curiosity *cough* get the better of you..." 'What terrible health...' Most of the passing students thought at the same time nervously as the third examiner, Hayate explained in front of them, in the middle of a big hall, all around it was single high up stand for spectators, with a big statue of two hands doing the Ram hand sign, far off in front of them stuck on a wall.

"Okay then, I'll now *cough* explain what's about to happen. Since there were more of you than we *cough* anticipated then we will have to divide this test into two parts. *cough* Both exams will be one on one fights with names picked randomly and shown in this large screen above-" Many examinees at hearing that, perked up happily as they've waited for something like that to happen. "-Okay then, the loser will be the one who *cough* gives up first or is no longer able to fight, and so with that *cough* if you think that you're no longer able to fight, then please *cough* give in now while you still have the chance *cough*"

The hall was quiet until a single hand perked up, "What?! Kabuto?! But you were just fine!" Naruto yelled as Kabuto chuckled, "I thought so too, but it seems my injury from the previous fight was much graver than I thought, sorry." Kabuto said leaving as Naruto looked depressed and unsatisfied. "Well then, *cough* anybody else? None, then please take your places up in the *cough* stands as we select the first pair of names."

And with that, everyone along with their teachers made their way to the stairs, Shiko skipping happily along the way, "Hey,hey you know? Most of our classmates made it to this stage! Although Hiyoran's team doesn't look so good, see?" She said pointing at the brunette as the others looked where she was pointing, even Zen, and definitely, her team did seem quite shaky. For one, Hiyoran looked sort of down and holding her upper right arm, while the twins kept a distance away and glared back at her. "Weird, they seemed to be getting along very well in the beginning..." Zen looked away, seeming no longer interested, but he still kept a single eye on the lookout for them.

After that, the first part of the third test of the chunin exams finally began! The first pair of names that appeared on the screen were that of Sasuke and someone named Yoroi who was on Kabuto's team. It was pretty much an easy win for the young Uchiha when using his infamous Sharingan, maybe even too much of an easy win as Zen frowned looking hard at Sasuke and the beaten up Yoroi, 'Wasn't he supposed to not be able to use his Sharingan thanks to the heaven seal curse on his shoulder given to him by Orochimaru on his previous fight with him during the second test? Then why is he using it so indifferently? Did something change...' He thought on as he unconsciously looked at the teacher of a team from the village hidden in the sound, which was actually Orochimaru in disguise.

Orochimaru caught on to the fact of him being watched and looked at Zen, though he didn't look away, instead he looked on for a bit longer before rolling his eyes and shaking his head, 'There's no way, even Orochimaru doesn't look surprised by that fact. What happened in The Forest of Death?' "..en...n...ZEN!" Zen snapped out of his train of thoughts as he looked at Izu, "You're missing the whole second fight, look!" He said pointing at the fight happening below between Shino and the Zaku guy from Orochimaru's team and thus making Zen even more shocked.

'Wait, wasn't Zaku supposed to have his arms broken by Sasuke? Why do they look fine?' Zen brushed his hair back with his hand, confusion lacing his face when his eyes suddenly slightly widened, 'Could it be...' Zen began to smirk; the situation was getting more interesting by the minute. In the end, Shino still won even though this time both of Zaku's arms were okay this time. Zaku's jutsu allows him to build up chakra in his arms and then shoot them forcefully from tubes in his hands, while Shino had the ability to manipulate bugs to his will or more like the bugs were helping him because they had something in return which was the fact that they could nest inside Shino's body and feed on his chakra, this was a special skill of the Aburame clan.

Whether be in the actual story or right now, Shino still won using the same method, which was to block the tubes in Zaku's hands with bugs, causing the buildup chakra in his arms to explode and so render him unconscious. Shino was and still is way out of Zaku's league. As Zen kept on contemplating what just happened in the past two fights, the third set of names showed up in the screen which was that of Kankuro of the sand and Misumi of Kabuto's team. Same thing as before, the results didn't really change from what happened in the story.

Misumi used a jutsu that enabled him to become like elastic and so wrapped himself around Kankuro quickly saying that he'd break his neck if he doesn't give up, but then it turns out that the Kankuro he was holding was nothing but a doll and the real Kankuro was disguised, wrapped in white bandages behind the doll's back. Using threads made of chakra, Kankuro manipulated the doll and got it to crush Misumi's bones, securing his victory. Zen yawned bored, nothing new was happening. He thought that after the first two fights more exciting things would happen but he was quite disappointed at how wrong he was. Well, at least, that was before he read the next two names that showed up on the screen: Shiko Mokani vs Kokugin Ryutai.

Well now, that was a new name, 'Kokugin as in Black Silver, who's that?!' "Okay Kokugin! Go there and break a leg! But not literally..." Zen turned to the source of the voice to see a tall jonin with flaming red hair, which reminded him of someone, hitting another kid on the back who had middle length black hair and eyes who let off an aura that was all about not being good with interacting with people. "What are you looking at Zen? Oh, that's Master Sinichi's team! Anyways, are you not going to wish me luck?" Zen turned around, annoyed, at Shiko. Getting the message, Shiko left off with a smile on her face. "Okay then you three, I'd like you to watch this match closely, got it?" Master Morakami said earning Zen's interest.

As soon as Hayate signaled the fight to begin, Shiko yelled, "Wait a second!" Causing everyone in the arena to look at her, "Kokugin was it? Would you like a piece of candy? See its not poisonous or anything!" She said cheerfully as she popped a round light blue thing onto her mouth, and stretched her hand offering one to Kokugin who looked at her dumbfounded and then nervously took one and ate it. Everyone at the moment was so, so speechless and irritated by what just happened that no one could even muster the strength to yell at any of the two. "Now can we fight?" Kokugin asked as Shiko slyly smiled, "Oh, but didn't you hear? The fight has already started..." At that Kokugin was about to jump out of the way when he suddenly felt very heavy and cold, looking down, he saw himself in horror turning into solid ice.

Shiko walked away leisurely and happily, exhaling slowly to show everyone a stream of icy breath coming out of her mouth. She then turned around to face him and sat down on the floor comfortably, "You see, what you just swallowed wasn't candy but a ball formed from my concentrated chakra. You know, my clan is special in which where your ninja jutsus and abilities depend on the season you were born in. I was born in winter, so my chakra is as cold as ice and I'm the only one, along with other people in my clan born in the winter season, who's able to tolerate it. If I ate the chakra ball then I have the ability to release icy breath from my mouth while if someone else eats it, they turn into solid statues of ice from the cold and they die of suffocation within fifteen minutes. You're pretty naïve Kokugin, that's bad, you shouldn't eat candy from your enemy, and that's why you're~going~to~lose~right~now~~~" She finished with a wink.

Kokugin looked worriedly at his body which was slowly turning into ice and then at his worried teammates, he then looked at his teacher who nodded his way to which Kokugin regretfully said, "I give up..." "Wise choice~!" Shiko said as she marched on his way, performing multiple hand signs and then placing her palms in front of him. After that the ice slowly decomposed and went into her hands, turning into a ball again after which Kokugin collapsed from exhaustion. Hayate blinked, "Ah yes, *cough* the winner of this match is Shiko Mokani!" "Yay~" Shiko yelled as she skipped back towards her team, looking back once to her foe, "Don't feel bad okay? I sort of used a dirty trick myself." Kokugin, hearing those words, felt nothing but ashamed as he went back to his team.

"Man, you're pretty dangerous yourself, huh." Izu said astonished as Shiko smiled at him, "Aw, don't say that, I'll start to blush~" And with that the hyper duo continued acting like the couple of idiots they are. Zen scoffed, that was a pretty weird and interesting fight at the same time. "Oh sh*t!" "What's wrong Joey?" Shiko asked at her teammate's outburst. To which he answered her by pointing at the screen, "I feel sorry for that girl..." Joey continued as everyone looked at the next pair of fighters: Hiyoran Berumi vs Marco Ronomero.

Zen looked at the said girl who gripped her arm tighter and gulped the lump in her throat down as she slowly went down the stairs, Marco passing her and bumping onto her purposely along the way. The two teammates looked at each other, one fiercely and the other tiredly, as Hayate announced the beginning of the fifth fight. Marco moved quickly as soon as the signal was given as he ran as fast as he could towards Hiyoran who was panting heavily already, and punched her directly in the face and then kicked her into the wall. Naruto looked alert and angry as he gripped into the metal bars tightly, "What's wrong with you, Hiyo?" He said worriedly at his friend's weird actions.

Sakura too looked sort of pained, "Was it because of what happened back in The Forest of Death? She looks so pained and tired as if all the fighting spirit in her has been extinguished..." Those words caught Master Kakashi's interest, "What did happen in The Forest of Death?" He asked to which his team looked down at their feet not willing to speak. Master Kakashi, understanding the gist of it, let it slide and focused even more than before on the fight.

Hiyoran barely stood up, still panting heavily maybe even more so now, as she gripped her arm looking at Marco, "What's wrong? Why are you giving me that look? Did you expect me to hold back because we're teammates? Well tough chance, but hey, you could actually hope to beat me if you show everyone here your other side that you showed us in The Forest of Death, no? Answer me!" He yelled as he ran again towards Hiyoran, this time a kunai in hand. But before he could, Hiyoran suddenly let out a hurtful yelp as she clutched her heart making Marco hesitate for a moment, which was all that was needed for the next events to take place.

Hiyoran collapsed on floor, and rolled around the floor clutching her chest, trying to ease a pain that the others couldn't get. Master Shinzu, Hiyoran's and the twins' instructor, was right about ready to jump in when black bars spurted out from the ground and trapped him along with the other jonins and examinees. Even the examiner, Hayate was trapped, along with all other means of escape. Hiyoran by now, was trying her best not to yell in pain as she clutched her chest harder. Marco, all signs of hostility from him completely gone, had no idea what to do as he watched his teammate suffer. "Ma..r...co..." Marco flinched as he looked at her, genuinely worried, "..." "What?" Marco questioned at her whisper, "I said...RUN!" She yelled surprising Marco and everybody else, but it was far too late by then.

Everyone, teachers and students, were frozen in place at the sequence of events that took place afterwards. Everyone stared wide eyed as blood gushed out in streams out of Marco's stomach as it fell on the ground rapidly forming a deep scarlet puddle. A giant black blade sticking out of Marco's back, belonging to none other than Hiyoran, or the one controlling her at least, who had a hysteric smile glued to her face which half of it was filled with black markings.

"What in the- Who are you?! Stop this at once or else harsher measures shall be taken against you!" Hayate, the first to recover from the shock, yelled out. Hiyoran slowly turned around to look at him, not smiling anymore as she threw away Marco's body aside, "Ohoho, please don't do that to this poor little girl, it's not her fault that I'm securing her body currently, you see?" Hayate and the others looked confusedly at Hiyoran, if it even really was her. "You, you speak English?!" Zen said shocked beyond words to which upon hearing that, Hiyoran turned around and smiled, "Of course I do! I come from your world after all!" Zen suddenly frowned and was about to say something when, "Although I really have no idea how I got here! All I know is that me and my buddies were bullying this young lady here, and then poof! The devil knows where this is!"

Zen cursed earning the person's interest, "Oh! Were you hoping that I knew a way back? Why so?" The person smirked. Zen grit his teeth as the others looked at him, "You understand what he's saying!" Naruto yelled out while Zen ignored him glaring at whoever it is really under Hiyoran's face.

*CLANK* *CRASH*

Zen irritated, looked at the other ninjas whom were doing so much noise, trying to break the black bars as Hiyoran smirked wider in amusement. "It's pointless~ These bars won't break so easily~ At least not with such techniques~ Hm~ You have an interesting expression~" She said as she curiously looked up at one of the jonins in the stands who wasn't helping in the efforts of breaking the bars at all, and to top it off, he was smirking a bit. He had white spiky hair with sharp eyes and seemed to let off a cool aura. Hiyoran frowned, displeased at being ignored but before she could shrug it off he said, "I'm smiling because I can already see you losing this match for underestimating my students." Hiyoran glowered and looked away gripping her fists, when she noticed Marco's hand twitching on the ground, making her smirk come back.

"Oh really then~ Let's see how they could possible beat me when they're already DEAD!" She yelled as she prepared her bladed hand again and swung it down towards Marco's limp body. His twin, and the other examinees watching and yelling in horror, while the albino jonin, Master Shinzu, did nothing but watch calmly as the blade stopped an inch away from stabbing Marco again, confusing Hiyoran. Master Shinzu smiled content, closing his eyes, confusing the others even more. Hiyoran grits her teeth and tries to push her bladed arm further in, it shakes, showing that she's really doing an effort, but it won't budge an inch. She clicks her tongue.

"She's still goddamn resisting..." She mutters under her breath as she stands upright again only to find a kunai pointed at her throat by none other than herself! "What's happening?! I don't get it! Hey Master Kakashi! Tell me what's going on here!" Naruto yelled about as Sakura and Sasuke shushed him, both trying to comprehend what's happening. Shiko planted her face on the black bars, trying to see as much of the fight as she could, Izu behind her with Joey standing aside nervously with Master Morakami, Zen, standing beside the two idiots, his expression darkening further with each second. "This basically means Naruto, that your friend Hiyoran there, is still resisting whatever it is that's possessing her..." "And what's that?!" Naruto yelled again worried, but Master Kakashi stayed silent as he too didn't exactly know what it was.

Hiyoran's frown turned into an amused smiled as she chuckled, "Hey girly, don't tell me that you forgot that us shadows can't be hurt with normal weapons, eh?"

"Then why do you sound so nervous?"

Everyone stared in shock at the sudden voice. The left side of Hiyoran's face, which was filled with black markings, had its eye wide in shock while her right clean side had a cool gaze in its eye and staring at the other eye. The first half frowning while the second was smiling confidently. Her left hand holding the kunai to her throat while the left one, after turning back into a hand from its bladed form, was holding the first hand back. The possessed side laughed, "Whatever do you mean girly?" The other side chuckled and replied to the first side's question,

"Haha, aren't you funny. Normally, yes, this weapon would not have even the slightest effect on you but currently, we both share the same body, so whether you like it or not, when I stab myself with this kunai, you'll be hurt as well."

"Don't be ridiculous girly, isn't that a bit too much of a gamble?"

"Yes, yes it is, but if it means getting rid of you, I wouldn't mind taking it."

"You're bluffing!"

The shadow yelled as Hiyoran's hands moved against his will and aimed for the heart. "You're not going to do it!" He yelled again, "Hiyo-" Naruto stopped midway through his yell as he saw the serene expression on Hiyoran's face and clutched his hands. Her hands stopped shaking as she got better control over her hands, gripping the kunai tightly. Master Shinzu kept his eyes closed as he breathed evenly; Ramco on the other hand was scared out of his mind for what was going to happen, "Aren't you going to do anything?" Master Kurenai yelled at him but he simply ignored her muttering, "And what can I possibly do in this situation?" At that sadly, Master Kurenai couldn't possibly retort. It was true after all, they couldn't do a single thing.

Strangely enough, the sand siblings and Orochimaru's team did nothing but watch interestedly from the sidelines. Hiyoran smiled confidently as she quickly plunged the kunai into her, holding up everyones' breaths. Sakura covered her eyes with her hands, "It's okay Sakura, you can see now..." Weirdly enough it was Shiko who reassured Sakura as she smiled down at the scene under them.

Blood trickled down Hiyoran's mouth, although it wasn't a vibrant red but a murky black, and she was smirking victoriously as she looked at the weird black blob in front of her which then took the appearance of a person's silhouette and then finally, much to Hiyoran's shock, took in and appeared in full colors like a real person. He, the shadow, stood up and dusted himself off, holding onto his side. His bloody red eyes pierced her soft brown ones as he pushed back his hair, of equal shade to that of his eyes, out of the way. He wore a pitch black uniform that gleamed in the light. There were a few black splotches trickling down his cheek that he licked off, a black bat shaped microphone floating around him. And then he smiled, "Hello there~ My name is Mao Louk..."

Hiyoran was beyond shocked as she held onto her bleeding side. At the last moment she changed trajectory and stabbed her side instead of her heart, securing her life and getting rid of what was possessing her at the same time. The markings on her face disappeared and she regained complete control over her body. Everyone in the stands still held their breath as to what was about to happen next when Hiyoran smiled, "Coming out of a woman's mouth, how disturbing." Mao did nothing but smirk at that.

"I knew you were bluffing-" "And yet, you still got out. But let me correct you, I wasn't bluffing, I was really ready to end my life if you didn't show any signs of getting out." "Brave girl~ Oh and please don't let my 'colors' bother you, you see, this is how we really look like. Those black silhouettes from one year ago were but our incomplete forms from breathing in your dirty atmosphere." Hiyoran looked bewildered at him, "Heh, I can understand why you'd be confused, after all aren't shadows supposed to be nothing but human silhouettes? Sadly, that's all you need to know for NOW!"

Mao yelled the last part as he suddenly appeared in front of Hiyoran, "Wha-" though before she could continue, she was punched in her gut and then on her chest and then over and over again in different parts of her body until she was about to collapse when he kicked her in the face, sending her straight through a wall. "HIYORAN!" Naruto yelled out as most of the other examinees and jonins looked alarmed, Shiko though, instead looked at Zen who seemed eerily calm. Hiyoran coughed and gagged as black mixed with red blood oozed out of her side. She stared at it intensely almost as if in a trance, "Hm~ You dead already~?" Mao said as he poked her with his finger.

Suddenly, Hiyoran grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her stabbing his shoulder with her strangely inflamed kunai. Mao cursed in pain as he harshly pulled out his hand from her grasp, slapping her off, jumping back a few steps holding out his shoulder. He then slowly looked down at his side which was still bleeding. He clicked his tongue and then perked up at the sight of Hiyoran standing up. Her flaming kunai in hand, cooled off by now to leave behind radiant golden light emanating from the ninja knife. "A glowing weapon? How?" It was Hiyoran's turn to smirk, "Hi~mi~tsu~ It's a secret! Although, I bet you can see them...you too could see my friends..." Mao's eyes widened and then he let out a tired laugh, "You're an interesting one alright, sadly, I have to kill or else this-" he clutched his chest, the area of his heart, "-this will never be satisfied!" He finished, a hysteric look back on his face.

Hiyoran sighed as she raised her hand to her face, touching her right eyeball with her finger, taking out an eye contact to reveal a silver white eye. The examinees looked interestedly at it while Ramco and Master Shinzu perked up, a slight hint of a smile on their faces. Mao moved his head to one side curiously, "What are you going to do with that?" Hiyoran gave him a closed eye smile and then sprinted towards him full speed, with her glowing kunai in hand. Mao took a step back and leaned out in a defensive pose as he whispered something in an inaudible voice that caused his Bat Mic. to turn into a sword which he used to defend against Hiyoran's blows.

Hiyoran then took a step back and clutched her hand into a fist, aiming for his face which he blocked and caught using his free hand to switch into a kick to the side. Leaning back, Hiyoran evaded that, taking her hand off of his hold, she then readied herself to throw a kick of her own which he dodged by jumping back. Being too far away for physical attacks, she threw three kunais his way, or were they? "Hey, hey now, don't tell me you're already exhausted, the fight has just begun and yet your attacks are already totally off!" Mao yelled grinning, this time out of disappointment since he was really enjoying the fight. Though Hiyoran's smile never left her face, "You're absolutely right! The really has just begun..."

At that, Mao quickly turned around just in time to see the three kunais bouncing off in different directions as they made contact with different objects and fly right his way, stabbing his lower and upper back and left leg. Faintly he could see barely visible wires attached to the kunais and tied to Hiyoran's fingers. "What the bloody heck?!" Hiyoran kept on smiling, "You refused to tell me as to why you're so colorful when you're a shadow so I'm sad to say that I can't really explain to you anything on how I did that either..." She said as she lunged herself at him again, her attacks now much more accurate or maybe Mao thought so due to his many injuries. Thankfully though, those three kunais weren't glowing weapons, so his wounds would start to heal as soon as he takes the kunais off, but he sadly had no time for that while evading and blocking Hiyoran's attacks.

"Have you gotten more accurate girly, or is it just me?" Hiyoran continued to smile as she bombarded him with attacks when Mao suddenly grinned mischievously throwing Hiyoran slightly off beat, "However, you've gotten much slower TOO!" He yelled as he punched her hard in the gut, making her skid slightly across the floor, barely holding her balance. Mao waved off his hand to loosen it up, "I'm not sure exactly why your attacks suddenly became better-ngh!" He said as he forcefully removed the kunais from his leg and back, "But I do know that it's somehow related to that right eye of yours girly. How do I know? Well, you see, it's obvious that you're straining it in some way when it starts bleeding like that!" He said pointing at her bleeding right eye.

As Hiyoran stood upright again, she closed the lid on her silver white eye, her smile almost disappearing completely, "You got me..." She said chuckling nervously, holding out her bleeding side, entering in and out of consciousness. "Losing too much blood, aren't we, girly?" Mao said, approaching Hiyoran slowly. Swinging his Bat Sword around, readying himself to deal the final blow. "Oi you redheaded freak! Don't you dare march one step further! Hey!" Mao chuckled shrugged off Naruto's cries. "Do you know how they say goodby in English? I do, but it's just not that suiting for this moment, don't you think? So let me say it in Italian if I may: Arrivederci~"

And so he said ready to plunge his sword onto her head when he was suddenly immobilized. Looking back he saw a bloody kid with black hair and brown eyes, "You-" "Marco!" Ramco yelled, tears of joy in his eyes at seeing his twin well, at least well enough to move around. "Now Hiyo!" Marco yelled as Hiyoran smiled wider, grabbing tightly onto her glowing kunai and stabbed it hard onto Mao's left eye causing him to shriek in pain as he moved frantically around trying to remove both Marco and Hiyoran off him. When he finally succeeded, he grasped onto his eye tightly trying to ease the pain in any way as black blood poured out from in between his fingers.

Hiyoran fell on her back from the force of being pushed away to which then Marco helped her up after landing on his feet somehow with difficulty due to his injuries. Mao cursed out loud several times and then looked at Hiyoran with scornful eyes, laughing like a maniac, "Ha! You think you won?! Yeah right! But hear me, even if you don't die due to these injuries you received or thanks to us, then rest assured, because you'll still die from a lack of us! You hear me, girly? Mark my words, got it?!" He finally yelled as he vanished in a cloud of black smoke, leaving nothing but a puddle of black blood behind, proving to everyone present that he really did exist.

Hiyoran shook as Marco held her tightly; both frightened, an eerie silence filled the room as Hiyoran soon started to fall into unconsciousness scaring Marco, "Wait, you're not going to die right? I still have to apolo-" Hiyoran chuckled, handing him the glowing kunai as she softly said, "Since he's gone, the bars must have gotten a bit weaker. Use this to break them if you still can't using your jutsus. And don't worry, I'm not going to..die...I'm not...ever..going..to...see..those expressions...from..th...em..ever..ag...ain..." She barely mumbled the last part before completely losig her consciousness.

Hiyoran woke up, finding herself in a white room, 'Ah! I must be in the infirmary near the hall where the fights took place.' She thought as she stood up hardly, noticing that her side and right eye were bandaged although she still had her clothes on. Hardly, she stood up and limped towards the door, out of the room, into a long hallway that finally lead to a large hall filled with the remaining examinees and jonins as the names 'Naruto Uzumaki vs Kiba Inuzuka' appeared on a big screen, 'I missed Ino vs Sakura's fight and Tenten vs Temari...' She thought as someone yelled, "Hiyoran! Are you feeling better now?" She turned around to look at Naruto as she smiled and nodded, collapsing on the floor, realizing how barely she was holding her own weight. Honestly, she was surprised that she survived what happened at all!

"But seriously, your fight was so cool! It was like-" Naruto stopped midway as he felt a shiver run down his spine. As he looked back, he saw Zen releasing a terrifyingly dark aura all around him as he glared at her. The rest of the jonins and examinees were watching close behind. Hiyoran looked at him for a second and then back at her feet, shifting nervously. She then took out a cherry blossom hairpin from her pocket and stared at it, gripping it tightly, feeling a bit better.

"What do I do now Naruda?" She mumbled to herself, sounding like she could cry, nobody hearing her but Zen causing him to get more irked by the mention of that name. Closing her eyes, she found some of her expended courage, she opened them again and looked at Zen although he still looked as terrifyingly as before if not more. This wasn't going to end well.

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