"Team 4, The Wave Country is in mid-crisis and isn't trading anything with us anymore, and we had a report that Momochi Zabuza was sighted near our borders with Kawa no Kuni. I want Tamako and a group of Jonin to...fix our trading problem and detain Zabuza." Rasa sipped his tea and stared us down.
"Kazekage-sama, Tamako is only a genin, how could she help detaining an S-rank Missing-nin?" Kaito-sensei asked.
"Her detain abilities might grow to be the best in the village, you saw it yourself. She could capture him alive without any shinobi fighting against it. This mission would be ranked A-rank, and if things escalate, S-rank. This would be on your official profile. Do you accept?"
'So this was the feature the System was telling me about. I understand...'
"Hai!"
"We have got permission by Konohagakure no Sato and Kawa no Kuni to hunt in their lands, Nami no Kuni is your destination."
"You leave at noon." I bowed and flickered away with my team.
"Tamako! An A-Rank mission! How lucky!" Raidon elbowed me and smiled.
"Raidon, this is serious, Tamako could potentially die if this doesn't go well. Don't screw up kid." Sensei said. He bid me good luck and poofed away.
"I gotta pack, I'll see you guys in a couple of weeks." I waved goodbye.
"Momochi Zabuza...I'll let him live and detain Gato. I just have to deal with the jonin..." I packed quickly and stuffed some food into my inventory and flickered to the entrance to Suna. There was four jonin.
"Yo kid. We'll do our part, and you detain. Got that?" I looked at the male, who was the captain and lazily saluted.
'Observe'
Kubota Udo
Level: 420
Age: 28
Class: High Jonin
HP: 22,000
CP: 21,005
A Suna Jonin who is the captain of this mission. Although, it seems he has other motives than just the mission.
He specializes in fuuton and taijutsu.
[?]
Kira Kameko
Level: 390
Age: 24
Class: Tokubetsu Jonin
HP: 19,550
CP: 22,505
A Suna Jonin who specializes in Medical Ninjutsu and is also a Sensor, although something is off about her. She seems to be on the same side as Udo.
[?]
Nazeke Eitoku
Level: 387
Age: 29
Class: Jonin
HP: 19,350
CP: 29,850
A Suna Jonin who specializes in Ninjutsu, something is off about him. He's on the same side as Kameko and Udo
Sakoda Saki
Level: 437
Age: 23
Class: High Jonin (Former ANBU)
HP: 28,640
CP: 39,750
A Suna Jonin who was a former ANBU. She seems to be suspicious of the other three Jonin. She specializes in Ninjutsu, Kenjutsu, and Taijutsu.
She seems to have a soft-spot of younger kids.
'I think they're spies for either Orochimaru or Sasori. Maybe it's better off sending them off to their death.'
"Alright, we are going to get to Nami no Kuni as fast as we can. Can you catch up to us, Genin?" I rolled my eyes and responded,
"I'll try my best, Taicho." He nodded and starting to sprint off, with soon everyone else following him.
. . .
"There are two large chakra and five other small ones. It seems like the two large chakra's are battling each other." Kameko said, opening her eyes.
"Alright, lead us." She nodded and flickered away a couple feet from us. We followed her until there was an opening with a small village and an uncompleted bridge.
'This is where Kakashi and Zabuza are trying to kill each other, hopefully, Haku hasn't sacrificed himself yet.' Taicho made a couple signals and the other three jonin nodded before flickering away. He then signaled to me to stay close.
We slowly got closer until we could see what was going on. Taicho raised his hand. One jonin flickered between Kakashi's Chidori and redirected onto the ground, causing a large crater.
"Kakashi of Konoha, stand down. We have orders to detain Zabuza." Kakashi nodded and backflipped away into a safe distance before checking on his half-dead students.
"You think I'm going to allow you to take me?!" Zabuza laughed crazily and swung Kubikiribocho at the former ANBU and sliced her body in half. Haku jumped out of the way.
'Wow...'
Taicho frantically singled everyone else to attack. Zabuza smiled and attacked. All was left was shredded bodies.
"You stay here and attack from afar, I'll try to get rid of his sword, then you try to crystallize him, okay?" I nodded, he flickered in front of Zabuza and make a couple hand signs.
"Fuuton: Vacuum Sphere!" Six bullets spilled out of his mouth and aimed at Zabuza. He looked at them and dodge them by jumping erratically before throwing his Kubikiribocho onto Taicho, decapitating him.
'Everyone is dead except me. Uh, a victory? I'm a terrible person.'
"Look what we have here. Zabuza! You took out those weak Suna Shinobi, now kill the rest of them! Wait sorry, you were too expensive, so I replaced you." Behind Gato was masses of thugs, they were all weak and only had numbers.
"Kakashi...we aren't enemies anymore, the deal is off." I flickered next to Kakashi.
"Yo!" His eyes widened.
"You!" Both Sakura and Kakashi exclaimed.
"Sorry, I'm busy. On a mission with those dead Shinobi." I raised my hands, the sky filled with crystal senbon that took a good chunk of my reserves.
"Shouton: Crystal Senbon!" I aimed at the thugs' neck, keeping them at death's door. Senbon rained down onto the thugs'and only left Gato. Gato was pale and was already throwing prices for not killing him.
"I thought your mission was to detain Zabuza?" Kakashi noted as he stared at the corpse of the Suna Shinobi.
"No, it was to detain the person stopping our trading with Nami no Kuni." I flickered behind Gato and coated him in my chakra before crystallizing him. "I'm done here. The thugs are still alive, do whatever you want with the-" I was interrupted by Naruto who was venting at Zabuza.
Naruto was using his famous Talk no Jutsu, and it worked.
'How does this even work...'
"Kid, I gotta thank you. Your, er, dead teammates saved mine and Haku's life. I don't like owing anybody, so name your price."
[Quest Completed]
[Role Model...]
+ 10,000 ryo
+ 300 EXP
+ 2 Favor
"First, Haku, if you don't mind. Can you research this disease? And send me a couple herbs that can slow down it?" I handed him all the info I have gotten about hemoptysis.
"This...there are so little cases on this that nobody has the cure for it. I'll need a blood sample of the victim or the relatives of the victim. And how did you know I specialize in herbs?"
'There's a bleeding Sasuke, so this should be easy'
"From afar, I could smell some herbs on you and Zabuza. Ugh, I don't have it on me right now, can I give you the relatives blood tomorrow?" Haku nodded.
"Wait, Gaki. You still didn't say anything about me, and I don't like owing people."
"I'll keep it as a favor." He nodded. "Oh, I don't know about you but, I think there is a dead kid lying near the broken ice..." I trailed off. Team 7 snapped their head towards and looked down.
"S-sasuke-kun!" Sakura ran over to his body and started sobbing. I walked over to him and saw his body filled with senbon. All in his pressure points.
"Uh, forehead right?" Sakura glared at me with red eyes.
"It's Sakura..."
"Yeah, he's alive. Just in a death-like state." I gently took her hand off of Sasuke and pulled out the senbon. "In fact, when he gets up, he's going to feel great. Hitting most pressure points can relieve stress." While pulling out the senbon, I wiped out the blood into a tube that I kept in case I needed to sample.
I glanced at Sakura to make sure she didn't see any of this. She was too busy staring at Sasuke's senbon.
. . .
"Well, it was quite nice meeting a missing-nin and all, but I gotta report back and bring that thing with me" I pointed at the crystallized Gato and sealed his body into a scroll.
"Ja ne!" I flickered away and ran to the direction of Suna.
'The fact that I have my shredded teammates in a scroll makes me feel as if I killed them...oh technically I did...fuck'
It took a week and a half to finally arrive back in Suna and reported back.
"Kazekage-sama, I have successfully detained the cause of the lack of trading, however the four Jonin on my team were killed in the attempt to detain Momochi Zabuza." I handed him the remains of the Jonin. Then handed him the scroll with Gato.
"The cause was Gato of the Shipping Magnet who took over Nami no Kuni, his crystallized form is in this. To release him, smash the crystal." Rasa took both scrolls and stamped a couple documents.
"You are dismissed."
"Hai!" I flickered out of the room. I walked to a nearby dango shop.
"Tamako!" Raidon was running towards me while causing a scene. "How was your A-Rank Mission?"
"It turned into S-Rank. Everyone died, however, I completed it." I ate my dango while Raiden's face morphed into horror.
"That's uh unfortunate" I shrugged. "The Chunin Exams are coming up in three months, we going to participate? We didn't go last year."
"Yeah, we should practice, sensei is on a mission, right?" Raidon nodded,
"We should find Aneko, I think she at the training grounds," Raidon said, plucking a dango stick out of my hand and throwing it. I placed the money on my table and left.
. . .
"Team Suna no Sankyōdai and Team 4, you both play an important role in our invasion against Konohagakure no Sato." Rasa sipped his tea before continuing,
"You both need to make it into the last rounds, that's where everything starts. Gaara will be causing the most damage in the heart of Konoha. The rest of Team Sankyodai and 4 will help with the invasion. Tamako would stop anyone harming Gaara. Is that understood?"
"Hai!"
"Both teams will arrive in Konoha earlier than the others teams, I already sent Konoha a note. You will leave at noon. Dismissed." Everyone flickered away outside before discussing. Gaara already left, leaving only my teammates, Temari and Kankuro.
"Konoha has been taking in requests sent by our Daimyo, Konoha had it coming," Kankuro growled.
"It's not their fault, it's our own Daimyo fault," Temari said bluntly before asking me,
"Did you see this?"
"Yeah, I saw it coming, only the destruction part, I wasn't too sure what was being destroyed or what was happening," I replied. "We should go pack, we don't want Kaito-sensei and Baki-sensei waiting for us." Everyone agreed and flickered away into their respected houses.
I packed clothes, food, water and medical supplies in one scroll for the Forest of Death and threw that into my inventory. After finishing up, I met up with the teams.
"Alright, everyone is ready to go," Baki-sensei said, walking towards the exit, everyone followed after him.
Not even a meter from the Village, Raidon, and Aneko gotten into a heated argument that even Kankuro and Temari joined in.
'This is going to be a long trip...'
. . .
3rd POV
"Both teams, stay together and don't wander too far, okay?" Baki-sensei looked mentally tired from the relentless argument, Tamako could say the same. She almost threatened to kill everyone if they didn't shut up. They only stayed quiet for just six minutes.
"Let's survey the area, we gotta know our way if we're going to attack" Kankuro and Temari took the lead in walking. Gaara already disappeared to who knows where. Raidon and Aneko soon followed the other duo.
Tamako sighed and followed them with a frown for a couple minutes until she stopping at the sound of a screech.
'I can't even get a 20-minute break without dealing with bullshit.' Tamako thought, focused her ears where the commotion was. Kankuro bullying a couple kids.
'Oh, Konohamaru...' Tamako stayed silent where she was in deep thought.
"Do you need something?" Kankuro has his hands in his pocket, looking at the kid on the floor. Behind him was Temari frowning.
"Huh?" Both Naruto and Sakura said with confusion. Kankuro picked up Konohamaru by the scarf and lifted him up.
"Konohamaru!" Naruto shouted
"So, does this hurt now?" Kankuro lifted the boy higher.
"Put him down Kankuro, you know you're going to pay for it later." Temari glanced around before setting her eyes on Team 7.
"Hey, I'm sorry, the whole thing was my fault," Sakura asked before thinking,
'Who are they? What are they?'
Naruto fumed and shouted, "You better get your hands off of him right now!" Kankuro looked at his forehead and smirked.
'So these are the Konoha Genin...'
"We got a few minutes before he gets here, let's enjoy."
"Whatever, don't get me involved." Temari rubbed her head in annoyance. Tamako, who was still unseen by the Konoha Genin, flickered next to Temari.
"Kankuro put the kid down. Don't you remember the whole point we're here? Besides, right now, you're bullying the Sandaime Hokage's grandson." I looked at him with a glare.
"Tamako! Didn't know you were still here! Come'on, let's have some fun." Kankuro tightens his hold on the kid.
"Agh! Let go of me you jerk!" Konohamaru kicked Kankuro chest, he ignored it and tighten his hold again.
Naruto growled, "Put him down!" Naruto ran forward, not for long, as he tripped over. Kankuro used his Chakra Strings.
'Might as well join in the fun. There won't be a next time. They become too OP.' Tamako thought before saying, "Huh, you're Konoha Genin? Not much to see. You even tripped over your own feet. Konoha must be real soft to let someone like you to even graduate!" Kankuro smirked before replying.
"Ha, so now you're joining on the fun"
'They're outsiders from somewhere...and the girl taunting Naruto seems familar...what are they doing here?' Sakura thought, holding her hands nervously.
"Konohamaru!" Both Moeji, Udon, and Naruto said at once. Kankuro ignored them and lifted Konohamaru even higher than before.
"That's it! Drop him now or I'll tear you apart! You got that, baka!?" Naruto pointed his hand at Kankuro. Sakura went behind Naruto and put him in a headlock before saying,
"You're the baka! Making threats isn't going to help, Naruto!" Kankuro looked at Duo,
"You're annoying. All of you. I don't like runts or any other scrawny weaklings. So when wimps start shooting off of his mouth, I just want to break them in half." Naruto and Sakura's faces morphed into peer horror, both Moeji and Udon were bawling out their eyes.
"Look, fine. I'm not involved in any of this" Temari closed her eyes and turned away.
'What's this guys' problem? This isn't getting to pretty...' Sakura looked at Kankuro
"First, I'll take care of this squirt." Kankuro raised his hand into a fist, "Then I'll take care of the rest." Naruto starting running to stop Kankuro, however, something else drew blood.
Konohamaru was dropped onto the ground painfully, Kankuro grasped his hand in pain. Kankuro looked at the projectile, a rock.
'Duck-ass has come to play' Tamako thought while she looked up into the tree. Sasuke was throwing the rock up and down.
"You're a long way from home, and you're way out of your league." Sasuke sat on the tree and glared at Kankuro.
'That girl...she has no chakra signature...' Sasuke thought, glaring at the foreign shinobi.
"Oh? Another Konoha Genin has come to play. Are you guys ganging up on Kankuro because you can't take him down? How weak." Tamako taunt was directed at Naruto.
"Besides, when you were in the Nami no Kuni, you were way out your league. Laying on death's door with a bunch of Senbon sticking out of ya." Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Tamako before crushing a rock.
"How did you know that?"
"You're that girl! The Shouton user!" Sakura shouted, pointing at Tamako. The girl merely laughed before mock bowing. "I'm surprised you remember me, I'm the only known Shouton User in the whole world. Nice ta' meet cha'"
"You know them?" Temari asked before blushing at Sasuke
"Yeah, the boy on the tree was dying, the girl was bawling her eyes out and the other one...well he wasn't important." Team 7 growled. Kankuro gritted his teeth before clutching his puppet that was on his back, wrapped in bandages.
"What!? You're going to use Crow on this!?" Both Temari and Tamako went into defense.
"Kankuro...back off" A raspy voice called out. Sasuke snapped his neck towards the voice and widening his eyes.
'I didn't even sense the girl before, now this boy?'
Gaara was hanging off a tree branch, he then opened his mouth,
"Kankuro...you're an embarrassment to Sunagakure no Sato" Naruto and Sakura gasped at the new information, however, Temari and Kankuro flinched.
"This is getting good..." Raidon said he was still a couple feet away from the commotion with Aneko.
"Shut up, Raidon."
"Uh, hey Gaara" Kankuro said nervously.
"You're an embarrassment to our village, Kankuro. Tamako, I thought you would better. You are our Prodigy. Have you forgotten the reason we came to this Village and came all the way here?"
"Uh, yeah I know. I-i-i mean, they started this whole fight!" Kankuro stammered.
"Kankuro shut up and apologize," Tamako said, then added something only Kankuro could hear, "You don't wanna die, right?" Kankuro paled something that Sasuke took note of.
"R-right. Look, kids, I'm sorry about this whole thing, just forget it happened, oka-"
"Shut up, or I'll kill you," Gaara said, narrowing his eyes at Kankuro.
"Right, I was totally out of line, I'm sorry Gaara," Kankuro responded. Gaara turned his head towards Sasuke before apologizing,
"I'm sorry for any trouble Kankuro caused."
'This guy...something is off about him. The evil in his eyes...' Sasuke thought
'He stopped Kankuro with a pebble...and made it look easy. He's someone to keep an eye on.' Gaara thought before dispersing into sand and forming back onto the ground.
"Let's go, we didn't come here to play games, Tamako, go out with your team. I need to talk to mine." Kankuro and Temari paled.
"Right." Tamako nodded back to him
"Hold on. HEY!" Sakura screamed.
"What?" Temari answered.
"I can tell from your headband that you come from Sunagakure no Sato. Of course Hi no Kuni and Kaze no Kuni are Allies, but no Shinobi can enter another village without permission! So state your purpose!"
"Did you sensei never tell you? Or didn't even bother telling you because you aren't strong enough? We're here for the Chunin Exams" Tamako responded fluently, causing Sakura to blush in embarrassment
Temari took out documents that allowed her to enter the Village.
"Huh? What are Chunin Exams? Well, I never heard of this Chunin Exams, believe it!"
"Yeah, I totally believe it. That you're clueless." Temari once again spoke with bluntness.
"Hey boss, those are the exams that every genin gotta take in order to graduate to be a full-on chunin!"
"Ohh, then why didn't you say so?! I am so there!"
"Hmf" The Suna no Sankyōdai started to walk away. Sasuke jumped down the tree before saying,
"Hey, you! Identify yourself!" Temari turned around and blushed
"Hm? You mean me?"
"No, the guy with the gourd on his back"
"My name is Suna no Gaara. I'm curious about you too. Who are you?"
"Uchiha Sasuke" Both stared each other down until Naruto interrupted.
"Hi, there! Wanna know my name?!"
"I couldn't care less." Gaara and his team walked away, leaving Tamako alone on the street.
"And you?" Sasuke asked Tamako.
"Suna no Tamako."
. . .
Tamako POV
"Suna no Tamako. I know a lot of things about you, that even you don't even know about yourself." I smiled
'Game plan, convince Team 7 I'm psychic.'
"What do you mean?"
"I could see everything. I could see your past, I even foresaw our meeting today." I smirked.
"Like that one time on Graduation day. Didn't you kiss that blond idiot?" I laughed at Naruto and Sasuke's face. "I could tell you everything. Your parents." Naruto flinched. "Your revenge" Sasuke glared. "And even your husband." I winked at Sakura.
"Ja ne!" I got ready to jump away until Sasuke held my arm.
"Wait. You tell me. My revenge. Tell me everything." I looked at him and frowned.
"That's not something I can just do." Sasuke glared at me. "I need your tea reading or your hand."
'Haha, I'm messing with him.'
Sasuke gave me his hand. I held it in my palm before running my hand against his wrist.
"You do in fact get your revenge, however, you seem distraught. You have great power, almost rivaling a kage in three years of time." Sasuke swiped his hand out of me before saying,
"That's all I need to know. Thanks." Sasuke walked back to his team. I smirked then prepared myself to jump away until someone else grabbed my arm.
"Hey! Let go!" I yelled.
"Wait, just, please. My parents!" Naruto begged.
"I don't want to," I said bluntly. Naruto gripped my arm tightly before shouting in my ears,
"I won't let go until you tell me!"
"I could easily get rid of you right now with a flick. Let go. Or else" Naruto was thinning my patience.
"Not until you tell me!" I sighed, I gathered chakra into my other hand and flicked his forehead. He was knocked back. It wasn't as much as Tsunade, just enough so I can escape his grasp. I looked at him one last time before flickering away.
"I see that you got a fanboy" Teased Raidon.
"Shut up, Raidon"
. . .
"Are you sure this is the right building?" Aneko asked.
"Yeah."
"Then why are they're a horde of people on the second floor?"
"That's because there is a Genjutsu."
"Ohh."
Raidon lead us to the third floor and opened the door quietly. There weren't too many people, as we came early. I spotted the siblings and guided us there.
"Yo. Ready to destroy everyone?" Kankuro used.
"The first round is always using your brain, I think today will be a test, however, the test questions are too hard, so we need to cheat. Like information gathering." Both of my teammates nodded while Temari and Kankuro smirked.
It wasn't until a couple minutes later that Konoha Rookie starting making a lot of noises.
"Sasuke! Where have you been!? Boy, you have no idea how much I was hoping you would show up here. I miss those brooding good looks of yours." I gagged.
'Since when was brooding attractive? Although you have to admit, Sasuke is fine lookin.'
"Hey you porker, back off! He's mine!" Sakura shouted
"Hey, is pinkie that stupid? Still? Causing a scene here?" Aneko whispered, referring to their get together last year.
"Miss Forehead, how did they let you in? Still got those frown lines on your billboard brow I see."
'Sakura's forehead looks pretty normal to me. Or maybe I'm bias.'
"Leave my forehead out of it!" Ino stuck out her tongue
'Yep. Definitely bias...'
"Tch, it's you guys? I knew this is going to be a drag, but I didn't know it was going to be this lame." Shikamaru said.
"So all three stooges are here," Naruto said back.
"Hey, you know what pipsqueak? Ah, forget, you're a waste of time."
"Well well, what you know. It looks like the whole gang is together again." Kiba said as he walked towards the rather large and colorful group.
"Oh, hey Naruto" Hinata said softly.
'Ship it. Wait, this ship technically doesn't make any sense...'
"Hm?" Hinata looked away and blushed.
"You guys here too huh? Man everyone here for this stupid thing." Shikamaru yawned
"Yep, here we all are. The nine rookies."
"More the like the nine bakas," Raidon remarked, earning a small laugh from me.
"Haha! This is going to be fun. At least for the ones who make the cut, right Sasuke?" Kiba taunted.
"Kiba, careful you don't get overconfident," Sasuke said back.
"Just wait, we're going to blow you guys away. We have been training like crazy"
"What do you think we've been doing? Sitting around picking daisies?" Naruto yelled, pointing at Kiba, "You don't know what training means!"
"Uh, don't mind Kiba, I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it," Hinata said, twiddling her hands.
"Huh?" Kiba looked back at Hinata. Then, Choji started to walk towards Kiba and Akamaru. However, was stopped my Shino.
"What do you want?" Shino looked down, "What's wrong?" There, stood a tiny beetle that was about to get crushed if Choji kept walking towards Kiba.
"Thought maybe you haven't seen it. Didn't want you stepping on it."
"Why? You saving it for lunch?"
Finally, Kabuto walked forward and started talking,
"Hey, you guys. You might want to keep it down a little. I mean, no offense, but you're the nine rookies right? Fresh out of the Academy?"
"I wouldn't make a skeptical of yourself, just cool it. This isn't a class field trip." Ino narrowed her eyes at Kabuto before speaking,
"Well, who asked you!? Who are you?"
"I'm Yakushi Kabuto, but really, look around you." The rookies took a second to look around themselves and paled. Every genin stared at them. "You made quite an impression."
"See those guys? They're from Amegakure, very touchy. They all are. This exam makes everyone tense." Kabuto shrugged before continuing, "You can't help it, I mean, how could you know how things worked? You remind me of myself a while back."
"Kabuto, this isn't the first time you've taken the exam?" Sakura asked
"No, it's...my seventh. They're held twice a year, so this makes it my fourth year.
"Wow, a veteran! You must be an expert now!"
"Yeah, an expert at failing" Raidon commented, also earning another laugh from me.
"So I guess the rumors of the exam being tough are true. Mendokusai"
"Now don't lose hope. I can help you with my Shinobi Info Cards." Kabuto took out the cards and displayed them.
"What are they?" Sakura inquired
"It's hard to explain, but these cards have been chakra encoded with everything I learned over the past years." he bent down and placed the cards in a neat stack. "I've got over 200 of them. So I haven't been wasting my time. They might not look too much in the naked eye," He flipped the top card off, revealing to be blank, "You don't want just anyone seeing this stuff." He twirled the card.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked.
"I'm inserting chakra into the card to reveal its secrets. Like this for an example." The card poofed into a small cloud of smoke and quickly revealed a map with the number of teams from each village.
"Hmf, do those cards of yours on the other candidates invidiously?"
"Tamako...this isn't looking good," Raidon whispered at me.
"I might, you have anyone special in mind?" Sasuke eyes narrowed.
"I might"
"Well, I can't promise you my information is all perfect, but I got something on almost everyone." Kabuto gathered his cards and shuffled a bit. "Including you guys, of course."
"Just tell me everything you know about them, a description of them, their village or whatever. Anything at all."
"He's Suna no Gaara, Suna no Tamako, and Konoha no Rock Lee while you're at it."
"Aah, that's no fun if you know their names." Kabuto picked up his cards and pushed chakra into them. He picked three cards and held them out. "Here they are."
"Show them to me"
"Okay, first is Rock Lee. It looks like he's a year older than you guys. His experience is 11 C-Rank and 20 D-Rank. His sensei is Gai, while his teammates are Hyuuga Neji and Tenten. In the last few months, his Taijutsu has considerably gone up, but the rest are pretty shaky. Last year, he got a lot of attention at a genin, for some reason, he chose not to participate last year's Chunin Exams. This will be his first time as a candidate."
"Hyuuga?" Naruto looked up and thought for a bit.
"Next up is Suna no Gaara. Mission experience is 8 C-Ranks...and get this. 1 B-Rank. There's not a lot of information on this guy. He's a rookie from another land originally, but there is this. He came back from all missions without a scratch."
"The dudes got a B-Rank as a genin, and didn't get even one injury!" Shikamaru remarked.
"What's the deal with this guy!" Naruto said.
"Lastly, Suna no Tamako. She's the same age as you but graduated a year earlier. For some reason, she chose not to participate in the Chunin Exams last year. This is her first time as a candidate. Her mission experience is 24 D-rank, 14 C-rank and...she got 1 A-Rank mission that turned into an S-Rank when all of the Jonin on her team died. She completed the mission single handily without the Jonin."
"What!?"
"Her taijutsu could rival Rock Lee, it seems she has a vast knowledge and ninjutsu, however, she can't cast genjutsu, but could notice them right away. She is also the only known person to possess the Shouton Kekkei Genkai."
"Tamako...you've been exposed..."
"Shut up Raidon"
"There...there is no way we can compete against that..." Ino said
"It seems Sunagakure has been training their genin well," Kabuto stated, he then took out another card, revealing another map
"Out of all the Villages, Konoha has the most genin, which isn't a surprise. We are the hosting village. The least amount would be one team from the Sound. A relatively small country.
"You ready?"
"Let's do it..." Three genin sprinted, the human eye couldn't possibly track, they quickly passed the other genin. Zaku threw two kunai at Kabuto, who dodged. Then Dosu flickered in front of Kabuto and tried to hit him with his fist. Kabuto dodged and smirked before his glasses shattered and he was left on the ground and throwing up.
Naruto and Sakura rushed to his aid.
"Hey, Kabuto! You okay?"
"I-i'm fine" He looked up and met eyes with the Sound Genin.
"What a sight to see" Raidon commented.
"Shut up Raidon"
"Alright gakis! You sound genin! No fighting! Unless you want to be disqualified."
"Sorry, it's our first exams, so we got a little jumpy.
"Alright then, I'm Morino Ibiki, your first Proctor."
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Everyone around me was cheating, in so many ways. Sasuke with his Sharingan, Hinata, and Neji with their Byakugan, Shino with bugs, even Kankuro with his puppet. I created a crystal mirror above me and another in my hand and moved it around until I was the reflection of a paper on my mirror in my hand.
Soon enough, I had all the questions filled out, except number ten. I quickly located Raidon, who was patiently waiting for me. I rolled my eyes and formed an exact copy of my paper in crystal right in front of him. He looked at the paper and quickly copied it down and shattered all the evidence.
Next was Aneko. It was harder for her to cheat due to the fact she sat all away in the front, right next to a chunin. I formed the answer sheet into a miniature size and stuck it on her wrist, which was hidden under her sleeves. She felt the cold crystal and glanced at it before copying it down and destroying it by leaning on her wrist against the table.
Gaara already made his move and blinded a genin and formed his 3rd Eye. Kankuro already blended his puppet in the masses of Chunin, however, the puppet didn't admit any Chakra.
'He could at least coat some chakra on it or something, it's too obvious.'
I glanced at the Rookies, Ino already took over Sakura and trying to memorize, Sasuke was already done, Naruto...he's a lost cause. Hinata offered, but someone behind Naruto was caught cheating too much, that a Chunin threw a Kunai, that Naruto thought it was for him.
'Now that I think about it, none of the canon ships make sense, except ShikaTem. Naruto and Hinata don't make sense because Naruto just started to notice her in The Last, but besides that, there was no chemistry between them...'
I glanced at the clock, a couple minutes until the tenth question. I flipped over my test and laid my head against the table. It wasn't even three minutes passed until Ibiki started to announced his tenth question.
"Alright, the tenth question, I'll like to go over some rules, however. Rule number one, each of you is free to choose to be not given the final question, it's your decision.
"So what's the catch? Let's say we don't wanna do it, what happens then?" Temari shouted.
"If you choose not to take the tenth question, then regardless of your answers of the other nine, you'll get a zero. In other words, you fail, and that means you and your teammates fail." The genin muttered and discussed.
"Not so fast, you didn't let me finish...if you do accept the question and answered incorrectly, you will not only fail, you will be banned from taking the Chunin Exams ever again!" Ibiki yelled, his voicing echoing around the room. The genin shouted displeasure.
"Hey! That bull! What about the others who took the test more than once?" Kiba shouted in anger. Ibiki laughed before replying,
"I guess that your just...unlucky. I wasn't making the rules before, but now I am. But of course, if you don't want to take it, you don't have to. If you're not feeling confident, then all means skip it. You can come back and try it next year" Ibiki continued to laugh like the sadistic he is.
"Now, the final question, those who don't want to take it, raise your hand."
"I'm out. That's it, I'm out." The genin who raised his hand sat up, beside him was Naruto. "I just can't to it, I'm sorry!"
"Number 50! Fail! Number 130, 110, that means you are out too." Izumo said, reading off his checklist. Then, if everything was a domino, everyone else started quitting. Numbers were shouted, and apologies were said.
'How can people be this dumb? A village would never allow genin not to promote just because of a stupid Proctor.' I looked at my other teammates, both staring at Ibiki with cold glares. 'At least they aren't stupid.'
Naruto slowly raised his hand before slamming it down, his eyes filled with courage.
"Don't underestimate me! I don't quit and I don't run! You guys can act tough all you want, but you're not going to scare me! No way! I don't care if I'll be stuck as a Genin for the rest of my life, I'll still become Hokage someday!" Naruto sat down, crossed his arm and grunted.
'Wow, this sounded so much better and dramatic than in the anime...'
"This decision could change your life if for any reason you would rather quit, now's your last chance."
"No way, I never go back on my word. That's the way of Shinobi." Everyone in the room was moved my Naruto speech, that everyone decided to stay.
'That technically isn't good, more competition...'
"Well then, I admire your determination, for those of you remaining, there is only one thing left to do. And that's for me to tell you...that you all pass the first exam."
"Hold on, what do you mean we passed? Where's the tenth question?" Sakura asked, standing up. Ibiki merely laughed.
"There was never was one, not a written one at least. Actually, your decision to stay was the answer to the tenth question."
"Wait a second. So the other nine questions you gave us was just a waste of time? Is that what you're saying?" Temari shouted back.
'Tema-chan...we discussed this before. Info gathering!'
"No, not at all! Quite the opposite, the first nine questions had an important purpose, to test your ability to gather information without being caught."
"Let me explain-"
'There is no way I'm paying attention to this old guy talking and explaining things I already know' I looked around myself, everyone attention was on Ibiki. I took that chance to lay my head on the table and closed my eyes. I sent Raidon a message on waking me up after this...
. . .
"Heads up, boys and girls, this is no time to be celebrating. I'll be your next Proctor, Mitarashi Anko! Ready for the second test? Good! Then let's go, follow me!"
"You're early. Again." Anko blushed in embarrassment.
"How many are there? Ibiki, you let all of them pass? You must be getting soft."
"Or it could be that there is a stronger crop of candidates."
"Hm, they sure don't look it. Trust me, when I'm done with them, more than half will be eliminated."
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Character Status
Name: Tamako
Class: The Gamer
Age: 12 Years Old
Title: Momma's Little Gem
Status: Happy. Normal
Level: 85
HP: 4,505- HP Regen: 3 per 5 seconds
CP: 4,855- CP Regen: 3 per 5 seconds
Strength: 99
Vitality: 101
Wisdom: 98
Intelligence: 97
Dexterity: 105
Agility: 102
Luck: 86
Fame/Infamy: +100
Sunagakure no Sato knows you
Konohagakure Genin hears about you
Money: 73,290 ryo (7,329 USD)
Unspent Points: 120
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Author Note
I Messed up on the [Unspent Points]
I'll fix it once I finish up a very special chappie
*Cough* Movie *Cough*
i said too much...
i spoil my readers too much ;)
Moo-moo gets to live, and so does Haku!
yay!
I'm trying my best to save Itachi realistically, so i did a lot of reading on his disease.
one of the theory was having the Mangeokyo Sharingan will always cause some kind of pain to the user.
the pain for Itachi was his disease.
But, if removed, the disease should go away, unless the damage is too much.
herbs to slow down the process, and future pills
i said too much about future chaps 0.0
;D
November 7, 2017
6,410 words