Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Villages ❯ Chapter 3: Its just a little ninja humor ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter 2: Its just ninja humor

Kage pushed the heavy double doors open as Hekey and Yoshiro headed through the archway. Hekey examined the room finding it bare save for a scroll on the wall. “If you do not possess heaven, gain knowledge and be prepared. If you do not possess earth, run through the field and seek strength. If you open heaven and earth scrolls, dangerous paths turn to safe paths. This is the secret of something… it should lead you on you way.” Hekey read to himself.

“What do we do now?” Kage said as he rubbed his arms and noticed how empty the room was.

“We open the scrolls.” Hekey turned to the other two. His face held its usual calm composure. Without hesitation Yoshiro handed Kage a scroll and they proceeded to open them. As they unraveled the scrolls a loud pop came from the front of the room. A large cloud of smoke quickly spread a cross the room and from it emerged one of the leaf proctors. He looked over the three poison shinobi slightly caught off guard by his sudden entrance.

“Congratulations you have just passed the second round of the Chunin exams. I ask that you follow me to the next staging area where you will receive further instructions.” He would raise his hands to his chest crossing his two index and middle fingers preparing a teleportation jutsu.

“Wait!” Kage exclaimed causing the proctor to look up quickly as if he were ready to attack. “Can you tell me which teams have already finished this round?” Kage said from behind his mask. The proctor relaxed and dropped his hands.

“Well, the first was a team from sand. The second was team Guy a team from leaf, and you are the third, and so far the last.” Kage clenched his fist tightly.

“You better make it.” Kage said to himself as he thought about the team they had met in the forest earlier. “I'm sorry, please proceed.” Kage said noticing the impatient look he was being given by the proctor.

“Alright her we go. Teleportation jutsu!” The proctor said as they all vanished in a puff of smoke.

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“What are you going to do with them?” Gaara asked as helped a medic nin lift the pink haired girl onto a stretcher.

“We are going to take them to an emergency room at the Shinobi hospital.” The medic nin looked kindly at the injured girl. “Thank you for helping them, if you hadn't, I don't think they would have lasted much longer. I just wish we could have saved their teammate.” The medic nin said looking at a stretcher with a body on it that was covered by a white sheet.

“Alright, now that these two have been taken care of its time I can get you to the staging area.” A leaf proctor said to Naota and his teammates who had been helping the medic nin prep the genin they had helped in the forest. The medic nin quickly vanished along with their patients. “Are you ready to go?” The proctor asked impatiently. Naota looked back at his teammates who were standing behind him. Gaara was starring at the ground the day's events still fresh in his mind. Naota's attention then turned to Goya who nodded quickly.

“Yeah, we're ready to go.” Naota said looking back to the proctor.

“Alright then let's go.” He crossed his fingers focusing his chakra as they vanished as well. They suddenly found themselves surrounded by smoke. It quickly dissipated revealing a room filled with several young shinobi standing in front of the Hokage. “Alright, now if you would please line up in front of the Hokage with the other Genin we can get started.” The proctor said as he directed them to the end of the line.

“I'll take them from here.” A Jonin from poison said as he approached.

“Tetsue Sensei!” Naota and Goya exclaimed in unison as the rushed over to see him.

“You won't believe the things we went through. First Gaara was chased by a giant spider and then.” Naota was interrupted by Tetsue's.

“You can tell me all about it later, for now you need to listen to the Hokage.” He said chuckling softly. He ran his hand through his short brown hair as his face hardened and his brow fell heavy on his dark grey eyes. “The next round is the most important one.”

“Alright Sensei.” Kage nodded. Tetsue lead them over to the end of the line where they stood next to the other students. All of them shared a common slime tone build save for the two girls at the center of the line and Goya who had a slightly famine build. Tetsue took his place behind his students like the other sensei stood behind their pupils. Caught up in all the excitement of seeing his beloved sensei Naota had not noticed Kage and the glare he was giving him. Naota smirked in response to the glare. On seeing this Kage could not help but smirk back in a strange sense of respect for his newly acquired rival.

“First I would like to congratulate you on making it this far.” The Hokage's voice echoed through the room with great presents. Naota was surprised that such an intimidating voice could come from a gray bearded old geezer like him. “Now on to more important matters. You are the only teams that have managed to pass through the forest of death. You will be given three weeks to rest and train before the next round. At the end of the three weeks you will report to leaf stadium where you will be paired off and fight.”

“But doesn't that mean that at best only half of us can become Chunin? A young shinobi with a chilly bowl hair cut and a green body suite on asked.

“No, winning is not important, just that you show your skills. That is why we are having you fight in this manner, so we can see your skills and decided who will move forward and who will remain behind. So if you think about it there is a possibility none of you will become Chunin.” The Hokage scanned over the group as he finished his sentence. Their faces had become pale at the thought of the possibility of none of them passing. “Well if you have no further questions you may leave.” He waited for a response and found only silence. “I will see you all in three weeks.” He said as he turned and began to walk away quickly followed by two Jonin form leaf.

“Wow that's depressing. “ Goya whispered to Gaara. Goya jumped as he felt Tetsue's hand on his shoulder.

“Have respect Goya.” Tatsue gripped his shoulder tightly. “Well what do you guys think, should we go get something to eat?” Tetsue said looking over his students.

“Yeah!” Both Goya and Gaara shouted. Naota looked around trying to find Kage but could see no sigh of him.

“Naota, what about you, aren't you hungry.” Goya wrapped his arms around Naota's shoulders as he quietly spoke in his ear. Naota pushed him off chuckling quietly.

“Yeah, I'm up for some food.”

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“A few Genin from my village have informed me that Mist nin were responsible for the death of the Uchiha child.” A tall man in the long white robs of a kage said to a shorter man who wore similar robes. They each had on a wide but almost flat hat that told the taller man was then Yamakage and the shorter was the Dokukage. They were moving quickly down a hall to a set of double doors.

“But how could they know that? The nin were stripped of their head bands.” The Dokukage looked over Yamakage with his bright green eyes, his slim pale face full of concern.

“Like you, Mist has all their nin where uniforms. Maybe leaf will send out Shinobi to recover their bodies. Then Leaf would have a reason to stand against mist.”

“That will never work; the forest will have devoured them by now.” The Dokukage said. The Yamakage sighed his hands rubbing his ears.

“The nin have also informed me that a few Genin from poison were trying to take a sample from the Uchiha.” The Yamakage's words had become filled with anger but his expression couldn't be seen due to all the wrappings that covered his face. From what could be seen it seemed that the wrappings covered his entire body. All that could be seen on his face were his eyes and a small slit so he could speak.

“You know how I am Masen when else would I get a chance to get a sample from a Uchiha. It's not like I could have just asked his brother. My people were going to be close so I just asked them to drop in and gather a small sample for my experiments and besides it's just a blood sample.”

“Oogi!” Do you want to start a war with leaf, if they find out that's exactly what is going to happen. There are already enough villages ready to strike at us; we don't need leaf to join them.” They stopped at the set of double doors.

“I'm sorry I guess I let my curiosity get the best of me.” Oogi jumped slightly as he remembered something. “Masen I have been meaning to ask you a question. How are things back at Mountain?” Masen let his broad shoulders drop as he relaxed.

“Despite the fact I have told them Mist may make a move soon, they have been talking of war with Poison. But I will tame them in time.”

“Ah yes I see, my people as well have been talking of war. They fear your village; Mountain may be conspiring to attack us. I am working to keep them in line. They will be surprised when they find they are allies.” Oogi said rubbing his slime pale hands together.

“Do you really think Mist can get the other villages to attack us as well? Even if we combine the strength of both our villages we couldn't hold them back, and that's if we get our Villages working together.” Masen's voice had grown quiet but still slightly agitated.

“I'm sure they won't all attack us. But let's talk of this no more, come we should not keep Saritobi waiting.” Oogi turned and pushed open the large double doors. Inside the room sat a man behind a large desk who also wore a Kage's robes.

“Hello gentlemen, come in, have a seat.” The Hokage said as he stood up and walked over to greet them. He shook their hands and the showed them to a set of chairs in front of his desk.

“I won't beat around the bush. I have called you here because I felt you should know that Mist has asked us to form an alliance with them to better protect ourselves against future threats. They believe that threat to be you. I have discussed it with the council and they agree that it seems like Mist has a privet agenda for this alliance, but at the same time your villages do concern us. Your villages sprang up out of no where and within a short time became very strong, great village status, although the other villages would never recognize this.” His brown eyes never left there faces as he spoke.

“But we have no Intention of invading anyone. We have taken in a lot of survivors of the Mist cleansing and converted the people who used to live in our areas into Shinobi. That is the only reason we have gained the strength we have.” Oogi pleaded with Saritobi.

“We have not made our decision yet we are still looking over all the facts.” Saritobi folded his sun darkened hands on his desk.

“Why would you even think about allying yourselves with those murderers?” Masen slammed his heavy hands against the table. After a few seconds of silence from all three parties Masen turned and walked out of the office. Oogi stood and took a quick bow.

“I'm sorry this is a hard subject for us. I will take my leave now.” Oogi said as he headed after Masen.

“As I said we have not made our decision.” Saritobi stood up as they left the room.

“Decide wisely.” Oogi said taking one last look at the Hokage before he continued down the hall.

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“Left, right, kick, block.” Tetsue stood on the edge of a field giving orders to Gaara who was struggling to spar with Naota. Gaara quickly attempted to block Naota's oncoming punch but fell short and Naota landed a solid hit. Gaara fell back onto his but a small bruise on his left cheek.

“Man Gaara, you're such a wimp. How do you expect to make it to the next round?” Naota shook his head as he helped Gaara up. Gaara just looked at the ground ashamed of his lack of skill.

“Don't worry Gaara we just need to push you a little harder.” Tetsue patted Gaara on the back for comfort. “Where did Goya get off to?” Tetsue looked around the field concerned by Goya's sudden disappearance. Suddenly three Kunai struck Tetsue in the back. He fell hard to the ground face first.

“Sensei!” Naota exclaimed as Tetsue dropped at his feet. Goya dropped from a tree and ran half way over to where he lay. Goya stopped and fell to his knees unable to continue. He hoped that what had just happened wasn't real. Naota ran over to Goya and wrapped his arms around Goya.

“I thought he would dodge like he always did before.” Goya said as he put his face in his hands.

“It's okay Goya it was an accident. He should have dodged, why didn't he dodge.” Naota said, his voice shaking. Gaara who was still out in the middle of the field began to laugh. “Why are you laughing? This isn't funny.” Naota felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked over his shoulder and found Tetsue's smiling face looking back. The body that lay in the field quickly vanished in a cloud of smoke and was replaced by a log that had the words Got'cha carved on it. Goya stood up; his face had turned red with anger. His took off his sunglasses revealing his bright blue eyes.

“Why would you do that to me, I thought I had killed my own sensei.”

“Hey you played a prank on me just thought I'd play back. He smiled while rubbing the back of his head. “Remember Goya nin aren't supposed to show emotion.” Goya sat down in the thick grass trying to catch his breath. Naota sat next to him and began looking at the log then back to his sensei. Suddenly Naota broke out in laughter.

“Good one sensei.” Naota held his stomach as he rolled around in the grass.

“Alright enough fun back to training. We've got a lot of work to do.” Tetsue said waving his students back to the middle of the field.

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“Come on Kage I at least need one of you to carry on my legacy and you're the only one with the skills to do so.” A Poison black beanie Jonin with a beanie on his head and a large sword on his back said to Kage as the walked down a street filled with market trolleys.

“No.” Kage said calmly his words devoid of emotion.

“But why, you're suppose to listen to me I'm your sensei.” The Jonin pleaded with Kage.

“Not by choice. Besides why would I need to fling around a flat piece of metal?” Kage turned looking at his sensei, at least it looked as though he were looking at him, one could not tell with his mask on.

“But there is grace and beauty in the art of the sword. I'm sure you would be a natural. He grabbed Kage's shoulders looking at the holes in his mask where his eyes should be. “Look into my green and tell me you don't have any interest in becoming a sword master.” His sensei shook him sharply as he spoke. Kage looked deeply into his sensei's eyes.

“Not interested what so ever.” He said as he walked away. “See you later Hoshi sensei.” Kage gave one last look back. Hoshi waved, big streams of tears running down either.

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“You can't go in there, it's not visiting hours!” A young woman in a with hospital uniform said as Naota rushed by her without a word. Naota headed down a long hall passing many doors with the words (Intensive care) on them. He reached a door at the end of the hall on the left side. He looked down and on a clip next to the door was a clip board with some patient information on it (Uzumaki) was all Naota read. He opened the door slowly and stepped inside.

“I said you can't go in there.” The nurse said as she came running down the hall after Naota. Naota passed a few chairs before heading around a medical curtain where his eyes fell upon the face of the boy he had found in the forest. The boy slept in a white bed with several restraints on him and variety of life monitoring machines around him as well. Naota bent down getting real close to his face and began to poke him.

“Hey…. Hey wake up kid.” No response came form the boy. Naota frowned irritated by his inability to wake the young shinobi.

“He hasn't woken up yet. He's has been like that since he arrived. Both of them have.” The nurse said as she appeared from behind the curtain. “With what he was hit with he should be dead. He had an extreme amount of chakra drain and massive tissue damage. I can't tell you anything other then that. If it weren't for the fact that you were the one that saved him I would have called Anbu to have you removed. Now if you would kindly leave.” She said in a slightly irritated tone. Naota looked at the nurse and nodded solemnly.

“Naota did you find out anything? Ya know, about the Mist nin we found in the forest.” Goya said as Naota open the front doors to the hospital heading out into the court yard. Goya had been waiting next to the door.

“No, the kid's still unconscious.”

“Well that was a bust. We should get back to the Hotel. The suns going down and we need to get a lot of sleep. The Chunin exams are tomorrow.