Yami: The Gamer Kage

"We need to hit someone, now," Kurotsuchi said looking up at the dark night sky.

I huffed, "do you have a dojutsu to see in the dark?"

She grumbled, "would you rather we wait here like sitting ducks and for them to kill us?"

"Or we go out and fall into one of their traps and then they kill us," I argued back.

She huffed and turned to the sound genin on our team, Sidra, "what do you think Sidra? Should we move out or stay here?"

The sound genin looked up from the small camp site he made, "I think the tree huggers right. Going out in the dark will leave us at a disadvantage, especially if we don't know how the others are going to attack."

Kurotsuchi threw her hands up in frustration, "I'm surrounded by cowards!"

"Cowards live, and more importantly, patient cowards win," I told her as we all sat around the samm camp fire.

The Iwa kunoichi sighed, "fine, then what's the plan oh fearless leader?"

"First thing's first, Sidra, the treasure item please," I asked. The sound nin tossed the bag we were given by B and I quickly took out the item inside. It was a wooden statue of a falcon, nothing too special.

"What are you going to do with it?" Kurotsuchi asked.

"I'm going to hide it," I opened the inventory and moved it behind me. I then slipped the statue into it and reveled my now empty hands, "ta-da!"

Kurotsuchi rolled her eyes, "it's obviously behind you," I turned around, hands still up, "what the...how?"

I turned to her and winked, "Konoha secret."

She blushed, "you...you didn't put it up…." he pointed upwards with her finger.

"What?! No! Why would I do that to myself!" I cried out.

Sidra laughed, "oh this is priceless! I knew you tree huggers loved wood, but this is too much!"

I grumbled, face planning myself as my two new teammates laughed at my expense. "If you must know I put it into a storage seal somewhere on my person. The only way anyone can access it now is if I give it to them. So even if we get beaten and are knocked unconscious, they won't get the statue."

Kurotsuchi nodded, "not a bad idea. Good job tree hugger."

"I hate that nickname," I sighed as I took out the map I had made of the valley before and rolled it out. I then took out a piece of paper which had all the new teams marked on it. "This is where we are," I said pointing on the map, "and these are the teams we have to face."

Kurotsuchi groaned, "that map you have is different from the one on the academy walls," she said taking out her own map.

"Same here," Sidra nodded taking out his own copy.

I smirked, "that's because I switched the maps. Before everyone realised they should copy down the maps I made a fake and then replaced that with the original. You all copied down the fake I made, this map here is the real one."

Kurotschi hissed, "fucking tree hugger. I should have known you would have tried something."

"That's...impressive," Sidra nodded, "I'm impressed, I didn't think you tree huggers had it in you to be this sneaky."

I shrugged, "you shouldn't make assumptions on stereotypes Sidra, they could get you killed. A konoha ninja can be ruthless, a Suna ninja can smile a Kumo ninja can have a normal personality and an Iwa ninja can actually have brains."

"Hey!" Kurotsuchi huffed. She rolled up her map and threw it into the fire, "anyway, this is useless. But I'm glad, at least we now have an advantage over everyone else. Who else knows you made the switch?"

"Everyone from Konoha," I replied.

"Hm, and they all have copies?" Sidra asked.

I shook my head, "no. I only made one copy and that' with Neji. Here, he's in team 4 with a sand genin and a kumo genin. I suggest we avoid him, he's a Hyuga, he'll see us coming a mile away, plus he has the real map."

Kurotsuchi nodded, "agreed. I also suggest we avoid team 3, Gozu is on that team, my large team mate with the small beard."

I nodded, "sounds good. I also suggest we avoid team 9, that's the one with Rock Lee in it, and believe me, he's someone you don't want to fuck around with. He does 10,000 push ups for training everyday and runs around the village a hundred times for stamina training. If he and Neji had a sapr I honestly can't tell you who would win."

Sidra's eyes winded, "woah...okay then, teams 9, 4 and 4 are off limits."

"What about your teams?" Kurotsuchi asked, "anyone to look out for?"

Sirdar sighed, "to be honest? No. They all aren't that dangerous."

I groaned, "no, they are. They are all at least a strong as you, one is even stronger."

Sidra snapped to me, "and how do you know that leaf boy?"

Oh, anger, I struck a nerve, "I'm a sensor, I can sense other people's chakra levels and to a certain degree their strength."

Kurotsuchi raised an impressed eyebrow, "really? Then tell me, who's the strongest out of us three?"

I turned to her, "you are."

Kurotsuchi smirked, "well, maybe you are a sensor after all."

"Wait, this chick is stronger than me?!" Sidra asked looking shocked.

I nodded, "yes, a lot stronger. But then again, she is the granddaughter of the third Tsuchikage and the great great granddaughter of the first Tsuchikage. So it would be stupid if she was weak."

Kurotsuchi's eyes narrowed as a kunai came by her side, "how did you know that?"

I looked at her, "you do realise if you kill me you get kicked out of the exams right?"

She moved, grabbing my neck and slamming me into a tree with her kunai pressed into my throat, "how! Did! You! Know?!"

I sighed, time to lie, "your eyes. Their a very rare colour. We know that the Tsuchikage belongs to a clan with something to do with bees. And one of their main traits is pink eyes...plus I overheard your goons talking about how they need to protect you. Wasn't that hard a leap."

Lie successfull!

Kurotsuchi clicked her teeth, "those damn morons."

"Now, are you going to keep threatening my life princess?"

Kurotsuchi huffed, moving away and sheathing her kunai, "don't tell anyone what you know," she told Sidra and me, "if you do I'll melt your fucking face off!"

I sighed, "why are the hot ones always so crazy?"

Kurotsuchi looked at me with a growl, "what did you say?"

"I called you hot," I shrugged, "oh, and crazy."

The Iwa kunoichi growled and walked away, "I'm going to bed, you two better not come anywhere near me or else I'll slit your throat!"

"You can't go to bed," Sidra called out, "we need to establish a night watch! Weren't you the one complaining about getting killed in your sleep?!"

Kurotsuchi stopped and turned around, "fine. You, tree hugger, you take first watch. Then comes bandages and then me. There, we established night watch, happy?"

"You can't sleep away from the team," I told her, "we stick together, even if you want to slit my throat. It would be kind of pathetic if you got kicked off the exam because you threw a hissy fit and ran away."

Kurotsuchi growled, "fine!" she kicked dirt into the fire killing it, "get to rest."

"Not yet," I told her taking out an empty scroll and began to write down a seal, "if someone is coming for us then they'll track the smoke the fire gives off. According to the map there's a small enclave right over that ridge," I pointed over my shoulder, "we'll sleep in there tonight."

"Fine," Kurotsuchi sighed, "anything else oh fearless leader?"

"Yes, get up, both of you," I motioned for them. Luckily the both obeyed without much resistance. I moved them away from the camp fire while I placed several seals in and around the fire, "there, perfect."

"What are they?" Sidra asked.

"Proximity sensors," I told him before covering the seals up with dried leaves, "anyone comes here will trigger it and alert me immediately. The sensor will then explode like a mine covering the targets in paralytic poison. So, while we rest, if someone is foolish enough to try and track us through the fire, they'll be sorry in the morning."

Kurotsuchi shrugged while Sidra looked intrigued by the seals. We all quickly went to the enclave, it was a small ditch underneath the tree that we could all fit into. Sidra went first, followed by Kurotsuchi and the myself.

Slowly the other two fell asleep, with ample warning from Kurotsuchi to Sidra and myself not to try anything while she slept. I waited and kept watch, and it was around 3 in the morning when I felt my proximity alarm go off.

Immediately I shook Kurotsuchi and Sidra awake. "W-what?" Kurotsuchi asked rubbing her eyes.

"We have movement, someone's come into our trap," I hissed at her as Sidra slowly came too as well.

"Right, let's get them," Kurotsuchi said as we sneaked out of the enclave and climbed up into the trees.

They followed my lead as we came upon our old campsite and found a sand nin, a kumo nin and a sound nin all gathered around the fire pit, pushing embers aside while the sand nin followed the tracks we left behind.

"Do it now," Kurotsuchi hissed into my ear.

"Right," I made the ram seal and the three enemy nins snapped upwards and spotted us.

"There!" the sound nin cried out, but before they could even move the seals I had placed exploded outwards, causing them all to be covered with yellow powder I had gained from my pokemon dungeon battles.

"W-what's happening?!" the sand nin cried out, "I can't move!"

"Someone help!" the kumo nin cried out.

I sighed and jumped down, followed closely by my teammates, "you guys are seriously lame. Did you really just fall for that? I mean come on! Did' you even think before you stepped into an enemy camp? Morons!"

"Yup," Kurotsuchi smirked, "but who cares. Their mistakes are our gains. Now," she cracked her knuckles, "who's face do I have to break to get the treasure from?"

"B-bite me bitch!" the sound nin cried out.

"Oh, so it's you," Kurotsuchi chuckled evilly as she approached him, but before she touched him I stopped her, "hey, what's gives?"

"Don't touch with your bare hands," I pointed at her naked palms, "they are covered with poison powder."

"Oh, right," she chuckled, "didn't see it there," she took out a pair of gloves and then grabbed the sound nin and dragged him behind a tree. And….

"ARGH! NO! Please no! NO! Don't hurt me! Please!" the man's screams were loud, oh so very loud.

Kurotsuchi came back smiling and in her hands was a wooden tiger statue, "we only need one more to go!"

"Right, now, to deal with the rest of you," I took our another seal and put it on them both, instantly they fell down like a bag of potatoes.

"You really are just full of surprises aren't you?" Sidra whistled.

"Kind of yes," I nodded, "now, we need to get a move on, I hope you guys got enough rest because that's the only sleep you'll get for sometime. Let's move," we ninja hopped onto tree branches and began moving around, running away from the campsite and the downed team.

"You know, we could ask you the same thing," Kurotsuchi said, "you were the one keeping watch, you're probably more tired than the both of us."

I sighed, "nope. Insomniac. I don't need to sleep for three days in a row before I lose focus and start getting drowsy. I'll be fine."

"That's good to hear, but if you're going to slow us down that's unacceptable," Sidra said in a warning tone.

I chuckled, "don't worry bandage boy, I won't slow us down. Now come on, one more statue and we can get of the forest and into a bed."

"Right," they agreed as we all ran around the forest, checking out clearing and other areas where we know people would set up camp.

Night slowly turned into day and around noon time we found them, team number 3. Gozu, the big Iwa dude, Kauri, the red haired kumo kunoichi and another kumo nin whose level was 25, so not worth remembering.

Kauir was crying out, "that's not what Kumo is about rock head!"

"Bite me cloud bitch," Gozu grolwed.

"H-hey' that's not very nice," number 25 said out stammering.

"Oh? You want to do something about that pip squeak?" Gozu asked.

"Shit," Kurotsuchi hissed as we observed them from far away, "we can't attack this team."

I sighed, "we have been searching all day. Are you sure?"

"Yes. Gozu is a member of the explosion corps, he's not someone to mess with. Plus if he sees it's me who's attacking….he would not even try."

"So what's the problem?" Sidra huffed, "if he wants to behave like a love sick puppy and roll over and die, who cares? All we want is the statue. I say we go down there, you order the gorilla to attack his team mates while we take care of the kumo nin. Then after we're done, order him to give you the statue, done and done."

"I will not abuse my grandfather's legacy just to pass a stupid test!" Kurotsuchi hissed, "I'm better than that, I don't deserve to be treated like a useless woman who can't even cut her nails without a big strong man helping her!"

"Sesh," Sidra rolled his eyes, "you have issues Kurotsuchi."

The Iwa kunoichi growled, "yeah, I know."

"Fine," I sighed, "no attacking...but let's just observe them. The way they are yelling someone else is bound to track them down as well. Let's move back, around 300 feet, that's the maximum range of my sensory abilities, that way I can keep an eye on them and they won't know we are even here."

Kurotsuchi and Sidra nodded, "good idea," Kurotsuchi said as well all moved back, following them from afar.

It was around sundown when things began to pick up again. I had pretended to 'sleep', upon Sidra's insistence that I needed to be wide awake for the task ahead, when I felt three chakra signatures approach team 3.

I immediately got up, startling Kurotsuchi and Sidra. "What's wrong?" Kurotsuchi asked.

"Someone else is attacking our prey," I told her as immediately we all ran, and the closer we came to them, the more I realised I recognized one of those chakra signatures. "Shit!"

We came upon team 3 being attacked by team 4, or rather, Neji's team. We hide in the shadows and watched as Gozu and Neji fought, the Iwa ninja ill prepared for the Hyuga's quick strikes that close his chakra points.

"So? What do we do now?" Sidra asked.

"We wait and see who wins and then attack the winner," Kurotsuchi suggested.

I nodded, "sounds like a plan. And since Neji will be weakened, we can take him," we all agreed and so we stood back and watched the two teams fight.

Neji took on Gozu, the Hyuga's fighting style going up against the larger boy's almost clumsy fighting style. Neji didn't give him a moment's rest, he just kept going and goin, striking hard and fast.

Kauri and the kumo ninja on her team were double downing on the sand and kumo ninja on Neji's team, but it seemed they weren't quite upto the mark as Karui's flawless swordsmanship and the teamwork put the attackers on the defence, forcing them back.

"Sidra," I turned to the silent sound shinobi. He nodded, listening, "start playing your shamisen, slowly mix your chakra into their system without them noticing, the moment one side wins, activate a genjutsu and trap them."

Sidra nodded as he took his three string guitar and began to strike it slowly, releasing a slow tune that seemed to mix in well with the noise of battle.

"Something's wrong!" Neji suddenly cried out as he disengaged from Gozu, he turned to us and narrowed his eyes, "Yami!"

"Shit!" I hissed, "I forgot about his eyes!"

Kurotsuchi hissed, "fucking moron! Fine, we attack! Shidra and I will take care of the weak ones, you take care of the Hyuga and Gozu!"

"Right," I leaped out of the trees along with my team mates. I saw Kurotsuchi and Sindra strike the unobservant members of Neji's team, taking them out of the battle immediately before engaging Karui and her kumo team mate.

"Great, two tree huggers!" Gozu hissed as I landed in their battle field. We faced each other with equal spacing in between, all three eyeing each other.

Neji and I moved as one, an unspoken agreement formed between each other. Gozu would be the first one to go down.

I threw a dagger at Gozu, he ducked, but just then Neji slipped into his defences and began hitting his gut several times over before suddenly Gozu vanished in a puff of smoke, releasing himself with a rock.

I used my chakra sensors and turned around to see Goz moving through hand seals for a jutsu. I quickly moved through hand seals of my own, we both finished with the tiger seals.

"Explosion style: Straight shot!" The ground began to explode in a straight line, coming right at me. I leaped to the side, avoiding the line of destruction before exhaling several fireballs from my mouth.

"You're gonna have to do better than that tree hugger!" Gozu laughed as he jumped away, but I had a plan. I used the fireballs special ability which allowed me to control them to a certain degree, allowing the balls to curve and hit Gozu in the back.

"Argh!" he cried out falling forward, before hitting the ground Neji slipped into his defence.

"I have you in my sights," Neji whispered as he began to spin like a top, using his palms to strike Gozu ten times over and throw the Iwa ninja over his head and away from us.

We then looked at each other, Gozu was down, we could see that. That just left the two of us. Neji slipped into his taijutsu stance and me into mine.

"I guess we can have that fight after all huh Neji?" I asked smirking.

The Hyuga nodded, "it will be...enjoyable."

I smirked underneath my mask, "only one problem. We aren't academy student's any more, and I'm not in the mood to show off, so" I charged chakra into my fist, Neji's eyes winded as he slipped into his defence position. He thought I was going to hit him, how wrong he was.

"Collapse!" I cried out, slamming my fist into the ground.

-100 CP!

The ground collapsed down as the entire field began to crack open. Boulders of broken stone flew into the air, and with them, Neji.

"Only problem with taijutsu," I said leaping into the air and launching a kick into Neji's gut, the force throwing him back into a tree. I landed and immediately took out a containment seal and slapped it on his forehead, "it's only as good as the ground you fight on."

I began to search through Neji's things someone as arrogant as him would dare give a mission item to anyone else. And a minute later I was proved right, finding a snake statue stitched inside his belt.

I put it away in my inventory and took off the status seal. He moaned but didn't wake up, one of the side effects of the seal. He'll be awake in an hours time, more than enough time for us to leave.

I turned to check Zumo's body, I'm sure he had another treasure on im, but when I turned, he was gone. I cursed, whatever, I ran to my teammates side to see how they were doing.

I came upon them standing over four unconscious ninjas, Kurotsuchi smirking in victory while Sidra tied up their unconscious foes.

They noticed me arrive, Kurotsuchi asked, "well? Did you win or what?"

"Neji's down and I got his statue giving us three, enough to pass," I told them the good news first.

Kurotsuchi raised an eyebrow, "and Gozu?"

I sighed, "he got away."

"Damn it," she hissed, "if we got his statue that would have meant only two teams would qualify instead of three! Can you sense him?"

I shock my head, "he must have used that traveling in the Earth jutsu you guys know."

"Damn!" Kurotsuchi growled.

"It's fine," Sidra spoke out, "we have three, we qualify, so let's get our asses to the tower on the double."

"Agreed," Kurotsuchi nodded as she got off her human stoll and winced in pain, holding her side.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Just a scratch," she hissed. I looked down and saw a trickle of blood moving down her hands, I could see a long gash on her side.

"That looks like more than just a scratch," I sighed.

"Can you move?" Sidra asked.

"Of course I can! I've been injured, I'm not a cripple!" Kurotsuchi yelled back.

"Here, let me see it," I said gently removing her hand from the wound. Kurotsuchi looked worried, but did remove her hand, "hm, not too deep, I can heal it."

"You know medical ninjutsu?" Kurotsuchi asked sounding surprised.

I nodded, "yup," I moved through the hand seals for the medical jutsu and activated the green healing palm, pressing it over her wounds gently, allowing my chakra to heal the cut and stop the blood lose.

When it was done I moved the hand away and sighed, "you should be fine now."

"T-thanks," Kurotsuchi stuttered looking at her now healed side.

"Here," I took out some bandages, "in case you reopen the wound." I saw her REP score go from -20 to 0. Progress I guess.

"Right," Kurotsuchi nodded as she took them and put it away, "we should get going," she said as she cut the tied up ninja loose.

"Why did you do that?" Sidra asked, "I just finished tying them up!"

Kurotsuchi shrugged, "they could wake up and have the idea of still qualifying by stealing some other team's treasure. Either way it's less people to worry about for us."

I hummed, "she's right...alright, that's enough chit chat, let's move," and with that we took off, heading towards the lake in the middle of the valley and the tower in the middle of the lake.

By night time we came upon the lake and jumped onto the lake, landing on the water and running forward. Luckily we all knew how to walk on water, or else boy would that have been an awkward piggy back ride.

Soon we arrived at the shore of the island the tower was on when I sensed something off…"hey Kurotsuchi!"

"What?" she asked we stepped onto dry land.

"You remember what I said about going out on a date after this?" I motioned with my hands, my teammates both noticed my signals, 'three ninja's, ambush.'

Kurotsuchi smirked, "dude, you can't handle me! You're too young!" 'How strong?'

"Hey! I'll have you know I've been told I'm a fantastic kisser!" 'mid genin.'

"So you two get to go on a date, but what about me?" Sidra sighed, 'we can take them'.

"Well….I'm not into guys if that's what you mean," I snorted, 'I'm ready.'

"And I don't like dating people whose faces I have never seen," Kurotsuchi chuckled, 'let's do this'. We walked upto the steps of the tower, I noticed people moving from one corner.

"Okay, so what I'm hearing is you'll go out with me me if I show you my face right?"

"Yup!" Kurotsuchi nodded, her left hand drawing a kunai.

"Hm, okay then, I'll do that. Where would you like to go first? Me? Personally, I like-," I dashed away to the side, the highest level, 31, came forward to block the strike, allowing his team mates to jump away.

I grinned, "hey Omoi, how's it hanging?"

"Shit," the white haired genin from Kumo growled as he disengaged and jumped back. He quickly began to go through hand seals before creating a sphere of lightning chakra in his left hand, sending it flying at me.

"Nice," I leaped away, I saw from the corner of my eye the lighting bolt turn and come at my back. I instantly used the substitution jutsu and switched with a stone, moving five feet away.

I can't engage with him directly, that sword of his makes him deadly in close combat and the lighting jutsu makes him a great mid-range fighter. But, I had just the thing to level the playing field.

I moved through hand seals, Omoi blinked, "what are you doing?"

I smirked, "hidden mist jutsu!" I cried out as my charka went out into the lake next to the shore we fought on and pulled out a heavy mist covering both Omoi and I. The others luckily we're far enough that they knew not to come into the mist, leaving just me and Omoi inside.

"I can't see," he hissed out as he swung his sword around, trying to push the mist back, but ultimately it was useless.

"Yeah, neither can I. But you see, there's a little trick I have up my sleeve," I closed my eyes and let my chakra sensory skill take over, allowing me to gauge his position. I smirked, he kept moving around, trying to find the exit. I pulled out ninja wire and prepared for a scorch style jutsu.

I snuck up closer to him, Omoi randomly swinging his blade to try and catch me. I ducked under a particular swing and tied the ninja wire to its sheath, channeling chakra to it to make sure the blade's sharp edge doesn't cut the wire.

I moved a few feet behind him now, sucked in a deep breath and ended the hand seal pattern a with half tiger and half bird seal, spewing out flames from my mouth, 'scorch release: Dragon's breath!'

"Shit!" Omoi leaped away, avoiding the flames narrowly from taking his legs.

The heat from the flames were so much it evaporated the mist around us in moments, revealing each other. Omoi landed away and smirked, "I have you now!" he charged, sword pulled back to strike.

"Not quite," I threw a kunai away from us into the lake, Omoi stopped in surprise, but because of that moment's hesitation, his sword slipped out of his hands and onto the ground. The ninja wire I tied around his sword and the handle of the kunai I just threw helped generate enough of a pull to do that.

Omoi moved to grab his weapon but I didn't give him the chance. I moved on him like a hound, a dagger on each hand, slipping into my Disturbance style.

A knee came for his face, which he blocked. I swung a dagger, he ducked under sending a kick. I leaped over him entirely, swinging the dagger at his shoulder, cutting him. He winced and moved back, but I didn't let him rest.

I attacked with everything I got and for a while he seemed to be able to keep up. It almost felt like he knew what I was going to do, that my style required the use of all my body parts, not just my fists and feet.

Even he looked a little surprise, he caught my fist with one hand and tried to move in with an elbow strike. I blocked it with ease, placing my left hand dagger under his throat, "don't move, or I'll slit your throat."

"This style, how did you learn it?" he asked.

I raised an eyebrow, "why do you want to know?"

"It resembles a style I'm familiar with," he explained.

I waited a moment before speaking, "I invented it. I created it from scratch because I needed a unique fighting style all of my own. What's the style you're familiar with called?"

"The Disturbance style," he answered.

I blinked, "woah...that's what I call my style as well. Ain't that something," I nicked his neck before jumping away.

"You bastard!" he hissed touching his throat.

"It's only a scratch," I replied sheathing my blades, "but then again my daggers are coated with a super acting paralytic powder which will immobilize you so..." he tried to jump for his blade and but half way he found himself unable to move, "so you won't be able to move for sometime. Sorry about that Omoi!"

I approached him and quickly searched his person for his team's treasure, finding it under vambracers. This time it was a bull, "sweet. Thank's for this," Omoi looked heartbroken, I sighed and patted his shoulder, "better luck next year man. Hey, if I remember correctly the next chunin exams will be in Konoha! You should come! I'll show you around and treat you to a nice meal! Anyway, I should be going now, oh Omoi, could you do me a favour and talk to Samui for me? I really like her...personality, I would love to see her again. Anyway, I have to be leaving, bye!"

And with that I left, but not before Omoi shot me an amused look. I found my teammates finishing up their own battles.

Sidra took care of a fellow sound ninja, one who seemed to be much weaker when it came to genjutsu as Sidra currently had him tie himself up with rope before hitting himself really hard on a rock.

Kurotsuchi on the other hand used the sand ninja she drafted as a stool and looked at Sidra humiliate his team mate with soft amusement on her face.

"Yo," I called about, alerting them to my princess.

"Hey, did he give you any trouble?" Kurotsuchi asked.

I shock my head, "no. No trouble. And you guys?"

Kurotsuchi snorted, "the sand are becoming a joke if this is the best they got," she kicked the genin's head, "honestly, I don't get why you tree huggers like them so much. Do they make you feel better about themselves?"

I snorted, "believe me Kuro, I know a few sand genin who are...monsters to say the least."

"Oh? That good?" she asked surprised.

I shuddered, "one of them is a literal monster. Here's a bit of free advice for you, if you ever encounter a kid named Gaara, red hair with a sand gourd on his back, run. Don't try to fight him, don't even think about it, just run. It'll probably save your life."

She rolled her eyes, "I'll take that under advisement."

Sidra finally approached, finally finished playing with his teammate, "shall we continue?"

Kurotsuchi and I nodded as we walked up the stairs leading to the tower and arrived at the door. Before us were three holes around the size of the animal treasures we got.

Without a word I removed the first three treasures we got and slid them into the slot causing the door to click and open up, revealing a dark room on the other side.

"Well, this isn't dark and ominous at all," I sighed, channeling fire chakra into the tip of my finger to create a small light to guide us as we walked inside.

The door closed behind us and suddenly the lights came on revealing the room to be a hotel lobby of sorts. Honestly it looked very nice and posh, had a few paintings up and even a nice couch off in the side.

"What? Who's there?" came a familiar voice as B came out from behind a door on the other side of the reception desk. He wore a set of white PJ's with octopi on them and yawned scratching his behind.

He looked at us and stopped, "oh, it's you, the disrespectful dude and his crew. It's been just a day, did you three really gain the three animals to pass through?"

I shrugged, "we're here aren't we B? What's wrong? Did your eyes get too old to see? We got a bird, tiger and a snake, plus a bull to boot. So what's say you tell us what to do?"

B grinned, "boy your rhymes are fly! Okay, since you finished early you get a treat! Pick any room in this place and go to sleep! Breakfast is at nine tomorrow, so get up early and get your piece! Peace out mofos!"

And his disappeared in a puff of smoke. I grinned, "that guy is so cool!"

Kurotsuchi snorted, "only you can think a rapping ninja is cool."

"Rapping and ninja, two incredibly amazing things combined into one! Why isn't everyone doing this?!" I cried out as we approached the desk and found ten room keys. I grabbed the one labeled '7', Kurotsuchi took 2 and Sidra took 5.

Ping!

Quest Completed!

Win the second round of the chunin exams!

Rewards:

5,000 EXP

Move onto the final round!

We wished each other a good night and went to bed. Since the second task was over, the small team we made was finished as well. It's sad really, I kind of liked those guys, professional and not lame. The kunoichi wasn't a fan girl and the other guy wasn't arrogant, true Zumo has changed a lot from before, but he still has a bo staff up his butt.

The next day:

I woke up bright and early the next day. Yes, I did actually sleep, spending two nights in the woods makes you long for a proper bed, plus the room was too nice not to sleep in. It was like a five star hotel room, soft beds, a TV, a tub and even hot water. God this is amazing!

I took a long soak in the tub, letting my sore body rest in the amazing waters. Then I got changed and went downstairs to the lobby where the dining hall was located. I walked in and found Kurotsuchi and Sidra already there and sitting on opposite ends of the same table. B however was nowhere to be found.

"Morning," I called out as I moved to the buffe. I didn't