Chapter 13-Test 2 finished, enter the Prelims
Accepting the surrender of the girl before them, neo team 7 and Kin, turned their attention to the tower behind them. Inside the tower, they saw a stone tablet on the wall, which held missing inscriptions and both Ino and Hinata deduced that they must now open the scrolls, so with Kin holding the earth scroll and Naruto holding the heaven scroll, they both open the scrolls to see that it held a partial sealing array on each side, the sealing array itself however looked as though they interlocked one another.
Seeing this and the smoke that started to pour out, both kin and Naruto threw there scrolls and then out popped: Umino Iruka. When Iruka appeared, he was immediately bowled over by: Naruto who shouted, "Iruka-sensei," which echoed of the rooms walls. 20 minutes later, Naruto was calm enough for Iruka to congratulate and greet the team, before turning a raised eyebrow at a now headbandless Oto kuniochi and asked, "Okay, do I want to know?" "Well if you can get the Hokage, then you can decide after that!" was his answer from Naruto.
'Asking for the Hokage,' thought Iruka in question, continuing, 'this must be bad,' before saying, "Okay then, I'll see if he is available," before directing the Naruto and the girls to following him, and then said, "But it my be a while before he can show up, so until then, lets get you setup in a room," while leading the 4 down a hall. Where they then stopped in front of the last door before the kitchen, which bore the plate of: [Konoha team 7] and gave Hinata the keys, with the parting word of another congrats, Iruka then left to talk to the Hokage.
In the room, Naruto went over to the lounge and check it to see if it was a Sofa Bed. After checking it was, Naruto took off the cushions and unfolded the bed and then turned his team and Kin to say, "Hinata-chan, Ino-chan, Kin-chan, (getting a blush from Kin) you 3 can take the bedrooms and I'll take the couch," knowing that arguing would be pointless, Hinata and Ino nodded and headed for the back of the apartment style room, dragging a protesting Kin behind them. Once in the bedrooms, the girls found that the room was an extremely large single barrack style room with collapsible sliding walls to separated the giant king-sized four poster beds and 3 standing wardrobes, made from beautiful ebony colored wood.
After taking a moment to tell Kin that arguing with Naruto is pointless, the girls then setup their beds, leaving the walls collapsed to maximize their space and bring the most amount of light in, from the panoramic windows behind the beds and noticed that had interlocking seals, which spelled out the word: 'Glue' meaning that bed could be merged into one and with the help of Naruto, the girls got the beds together and gave themselves more space, so Naruto could move into the bedroom with sofa bed. Once team 7 were setup, Naruto sent two clones next door to get some food, seeing as they were the only Genin here and when the clones returned, they were baring several plates of roasted pork and vegetables.
During lunch, Naruto noticed something on Kin wrist he hadn't noticed before, it was a bracelet, which bore the image of an oni and he whispered, "Henshin Kigen Onjō," thinking of the information he had received with from the Golden Lockseed, and since the meal had being quiet, they all heard what he said. At Naruto's whisper, Hinata and Ino looked at Kin and saw the bracelet, Kin on the other hand was puzzled, at why Naruto called her families bracelet: Henshin Kigen Onjō and asked, "What are you talking about Naruto-san? This is just a bracelet that's been in my families had for centuries," sadly from the reminder of how she lost her family.
Seeing the look of sadness, Naruto figured that Kin only got the bracelet after her family died and hadn't being told what it is. With that thought in mind, Naruto then said, "I'll explain later, once we fine a training area," the girls nodded and continued on with their meal. After their meal, team 7 and Kin went looking for a training room, finding one on the main floor, which was decorated with a large bust of a shinobi performing the ram seal and they entered the room. Entering the room, Naruto then turned to the girls and explained the bracelets function and powers of the Kamen Rider Hibiki clan.
Once Naruto had explained the bracelet, he then went on to show how it worked, Kin pulled back on the ring to reveal a set of 4 short guitar strings and with a strum of the string, Kin was then engulfed with an arc of lightning and when it dissipated she found herself wearing: a tight two piece red leotard, a white and cream armored breastplate and skirt combo, with a red helmet that bore the image of an oni face in gold, with several highlights of gold running threw out the outfit, in her hands she cradled a demonic harp.
After Kin had armored up, Naruto spoke, "Okay Kin-chan, (getting her to blush under her helmet) lets help you control your new powers," as he unsealed the Sengoku, and brought out his Golden Apple Lockseed, activating the lockseed, which said, "Golden," in a deep baritone, before Naruto locked it into his driver with a, "Lock on," from the lockseed and then he commanded, "Henshin," becoming Kamen Rider Yokai. Once Naruto had transformed, he summons his rider weapon and draws his sword, then got into a knights defensive pose.
Seeing Naruto bring his guard up, Kin's body had move on its own accord, as her hands position the harp in an optimum playing pose, while her legs were slightly parted and knees bent. Once ready, Kin still on instinct: plucked a string of her harp, at the unheard signal to start and caused an arrow of reddish-white lightning to dart at Naruto from her harp, this first attack was blocked by: Naruto's shield and he then made a sweeping slash with his sword, causing an arc of golden light to rush at kin. The attack was short lived, as Kin then plucked 4 strings and generated dome of lightning to protect her.
After the first attacks, the spa was on in earnest, as Naruto and Kin mixed in both: Long and short ranged combat as they traded blows, before the two were interrupted with by, "Cough, Genin Uzumaki, Genin Tsuchi the Hokage will see you now," from the entrance of the dojo. At the entrance were the Yondaime Hokage advisors: Uzumaki-Namikaze Kushina and Hiruzen Sarutobi, who both got a "Hiya, Kaa-chan Jiji-san," from Naruto, whom had closed his lockseed and removed it from his belt, while Kin body simply arced with lightning before revealing her human form.
Once they de-henshinned, Kushina and Sarutobi escorted team 7 and Kin to the make-shift office, Minato was using and when they arrived, Minato first said, "Congratulations Son, Hinata-chan, Ino-chan," to which he got a thank you team 7 and then he turned to the new girl of the group. The next hour was spent with; Kin going over the specifics of the invasion plan that she was a loud to know, which quiet a lot which included the starting signal: Gaara's third exam match, this meant that to stop or at least the start of the invasion, Gaara could not pass the second exam and it was to Naruto (who volunteered) to stop it him.
Another 2 hours later, the 7 were interrupted by a knock on the office and a call from the otherside, "Hokage-sama, more genin have arrived," from the ANBU guard, guarding the door. Minato answers with, "Thank you Ryu," knowing the which guard it was, before he wraps up the meeting.
5-Nichi-go:
It had taken 5 days, but many more genin had arrived and were exhausted, but there was no time to rest, due to the meeting in the main dojo. Standing before the gathered genin, was to the now hidden horror of a disguised Orochimaru and the Oto spy Kabuto, who of which had no idea that Minato was alive and knew he was going to get punished for not knowing, as well as the barely controlled fury of the Iwa ninja's not that they could do anything about it and risk the law of the Tsuchikage, begetting what happen in the war stays in the War and don't hold a grudge, though none really kept to the last part.
"Congrats Genin, on a job well done," started the Hokage, to the 20 teams that passed the second exam, "But given the shear amount of you, we must hold a second portion to the second exam," and he paused to allow for a large collection of groans of exhaustion, before continuing, "I know you'll tired, but we can not have our audience for the third exams board, by having too many contestants and discover one of them to be a strategist (cues sneezes from several people, most notably: Temari and Shikamaru) or stamina freak (cue another sneeze from a few other: Naruto and Lee included), so if there is any who wish to back out now is the time," as 3 people from 2 different teams gave up and took the forfeit, one of which was: Yakushi Kabuto.
Once they left, Anko by the side of the Hokage said, "Okay lower the screen," in a whisper to her microphone, as the Hokage then said, "This portion is going to be a mock one on one battle, the screen behind me will choose at random as to which genin is fight which," before the board lit up and cycled threw several names and photos. At the end of the cycle, the screen showed the name and picture of a Iwa ninja, versusing a ninja Ame.