Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Crossing to the Other side ❯ TEST!!! AHHAHAH ( Chapter 8 )

Black night, midnight it was his favorite time in the cycle of 24 hours. It was the one time he felt at peace and no desire to move, just sit quietly absorbing the silence. Pale hands rested on his knees and the stead drip of liquid around him slowly brought his senses back. `You can run girl but I will find you.' He stood slowly the sleeves of the garment he wore falling gracefully over his hands hiding them completely, black eyes stared out into the encroaching morning.

“Come Kisame we have much to do.” Uchiha Itachi moved swiftly leaving his blue skinned companion mumbling about early mornings before catching up to the younger man.

“Itachi-sama, the Kyuubi vessel will not be so easy this time do you think it wise to act now?” there was only the slightest hesitation in his voice, there we not many things that he feared in reality he could list them on one hand. One being the Hokage of Konoha the other being Itachi.

“Naruto-kun will come willingly.” `As will my foolish brother.' The Uchiha allowed a smirk to grace his lips if what they had learned recently was any indication then both young men would act foolishly in pursuit of the girl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“DAMN IT!” Kat slammed her fist on the table she sat at in frustration. Tsunade-sama had given her the opportunity to take the written test for the leaf village to become one of the oldest graduates in the history of the village, that was her opinion anyway, and her mind was a blank! Sakura's scroll had helped some as did the tutoring the pink haired shinobi had given her but all the information she had acquired over the last 3 months flew out of her head or did a dance of confused jumbling where the information didn't make sense anymore.

“Katsuo-san, please try to refrain from such displays.” Iruka-sensei was standing in front of her hands on his hips. “You are distracting the others.” Kat sulked; nodding her head she turned her attention back to the test at hand.

`Alright Kat you know this you've studied it for 3 months and know the information inside and out now deep breath and…' She opened her eyes.

 

1.What is Shinobi saying 25?

 

Kat grinned she knew that one Sakura had started every lecture with that particular rule always stating it held a significant meaning for her. Jotting her answer down she moved on to the next a strategic placement one. It didn't take long thanks to Sasuke's grudgingly given help. And so the test went, she wasn't the first one finished but she wasn't the last in all the test took 4 hours for her and by the time she handed it in she was satisfied that she had answered each one to the best of her knowledge.

Iruka made the announcement that they had a 1-hour grace for lunch before the jutsu portion of the test so Kat made her way outside bento box in hand to eat her lunch and review quietly her jutsu's.

It still amazed her how easily everything was falling into place for her, she had never been so happy in her life. Not having to marry an ass she hated, no Bethany, no parents who hated her, she was well and truly free, she was immensely attracted to Naruto Uzumiki counted Harno Sakura a friend and well…she was still undecided about Sasuke. He tolerated her and she in turn tolerated him, he was cold but polite and she returned the favor. Deep in thought about the dark haired annoyance as she privately called him she didn't notice a certain blonde sneaking up on her.

“Whatca doing?” Kat shot up from her seat swearing, knocking her boxed lunch over.

“SHIT!” she glared down at the rice scattered on the ground then back up at the cause of her lost lunch. “I am sooooo putting a bell on you.” She growled, he grinned at her rubbing the back of his head.

“Gomen.” The sheepish tilt of his lips played havoc with her insides making her look away.

“Well…don't worry about it, my times almost up anyway.” She gestured to the academy as she spoke and he nodded his head.

“Want to go out to dinner later?!” Kat blinked, `Did he just ask me to dinner?' “Sakura-chan and Sasuke-teme will be there. Oh yeah and Kakashi-sensei, to celebrate you passing and all.” Swallowing disappointment she arched her eyebrows.

“You sure I'm going to pass? What if I fail?” the sarcasm wasn't lost on him and his grin got wider.

“Then we'll just celebrate a successful recon. Of the test information!” Kat laughed she couldn't help it he was forever finding a reason to be happy making a failure into a silver lining of some kind or another.

“Alright sounds fine to me.” She turned to head inside when he grabbed her hand a blush settling on both of their cheeks.

“Hai Naruto?” she asked him when he seemed to hesitate.

“Ah…Good luck Kat.” He let go of her hand to rub the back of his head.

“Arigto Naruto-kun.” Smiling she headed back inside. Once she was in the room she took the time to look at all the young children there with her. She knew some were very young around 12 or so and she was a little embarrassed to be taking this test with them but she shrugged it off and focused on the task at hand. By the time her name was called she was the last in the room, she had watched each student walk out head held high.

Of the 32 that had taken the written test 20 had passed it including herself, and judging from the crying or cheering she heard a few minutes after each student left the room she guessed that 9 had passed their jutsu's so far. She followed Iruka into the room next to stopping in front of the large desk.

“Katsuo-san you will Henge into Hokage-sama then a substitution jutsu of that desk and lastly make at lest 3 clones.”

“Hai sensei.” Focusing her chakra wasn't the hard part it was remembering the seals, a flash of Naruto painstakingly rehearsing the seals for her flashed in her mind, it helped that before he even spoke she was already mentally making the seals for each jutsu.

She transformed into the Blonde woman she had first meet the night of her arrival, the jounin behind the desk nodding the bandage over his nose shifting slightly as he gave his approval. Her next effort was the substitution it came off without any problems, as she made the seals for the shadow clones some where along the line the seals for Tajiu Kage Bushin no Jutsu slipped in and instead of shadows she produced 3 clones of herself with her chakra evenly distributed among them. She didn't even realize what she had done until the Jounin behind the desk stood up a hard glare on his face.

“Where did you learn that?” he demanded. Kat blinked several times she had only seen Naruto do it once but the seals stuck in her mind.

“I saw Naruto-kun use it once.” The abrupt way all emotion left his face made Kat wary and she took a step back. Iruka had stood as well picking up a forehead protector from the desk he spoke.

“You pass.” Kat arched both eyebrows at the man before her face spilt in a smile that was infectious, she completely forgot about the tension of moments ago in favor of excitement.

“YAY!” she jumped in the air pumping her fist and laughed. Iruka was walking towards her with a headband with the leaf symbol on it.

“Congratulations Katsuo-san you are now a genin.” He smiled at her a warm friendly smile and patted her shoulder. “Naruto is waiting outside you should go tell him but I bet he already knows.” The last was said to blank air as the young woman speed out the window.

“Iruka-senesi I will report this to Hokage-sama.” Iruka nodded his head at the other man who vanished in a poof of smoke reappearing in the Hokage tower. The chunnin stood for several seconds weighting the implications of Kat's words, `Two of them, this is going to be interesting.'