Naruto Fanfiction

chapter 7

Chapter 7-Lost

(3rd p.o.v)

Ryuu looked around and sighed. He had been waiting at the clearing where he and Yugao always trained for well over an hour now. He knew that the entire village knew he was back. Just about everyone had greeted him. Everyone except Yugao. Maybe it was supposed to be his day off.

"How long have you been here?" her voice suddenly rang out from behind him.

"An hour," Ryuu stated. "Maybe more."

"Well, since you just got back, I'm going to start training you for the Chunin exams," Yugao stated walking around in front of him and seeing his bloodshot eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Just...miss a friend," Ryuu stated. "Anyway, the exams are in a couple days right? Better get training."

"Yeah," Yugao nodded drawing her katana. "Shall we begin?"

Ryuu nodded drawing his tanto and created a Wind Blade. They both charged and slashed at each other, blocking each other's blade before spinning past each other and swinging again, blocking each other's blade again before Ryuu leapt back. 

He began making hand seals before exhaling a fireball at her and she leapt over then spun and slashed at him again. He blocked the blade then spun, throwing her at a tree before ducking under a shuriken then leapt to the side away from a slash.

"Impressive," Yugao nodded. "And your Sharingan's not even active. How were they so powerful?"

"They wear armor that weakens everyone else and absorbs jutsus," Ryuu stated.

"I see," Yugao nodded. "I don't have much more to teach you. Practice your jutsus without your Sharingan. You already signed up for the exams?"

"Yeah," Ryuu nodded.

Yugao nodded then turned toward the trees.

"I'm going to talk with the others," Yugao stated. "I'll see you soon. Good luck."

Ryuu nodded and Yugao left. Ryuu began to practice the jutsus he already knew without his Sharingan but soon began to try to use the Chameleon Jutsu and the Attack Prevention Technique without them. The Attack Prevention Technique he got relatively skilled at quickly but he still had trouble with the Chameleon Technique.

"That's a difficult jutsu," Hayate stated appearing over him. "I'll show you something similar if you want."

"Sure," Ryuu nodded.

Hayate nodded and dropped down to him to help him train for a day before he had to leave to prepare for the exams as well.

Ryuu waited patiently at the gate. It was the second exam. The first had been a written test. Ryuu had answered the questions by watching the three Chunin secretly added to the group using his Sharingan. 

He had kept it active as long as he could so no one thought anything of him having them active during the test. At the end of the test and after several people were failed for cheating then others were intimidated into quitting, the instructor had passed anyone left.

The second exam was slightly more straight forward. every team got either a Heaven or Earth scroll and had to acquire the opposite from another team in the woods by any means necessary, including murder. 

After both scrolls were in a team's possession, they had to go to the tower in the center of the training ground known as the Forest of Death, where the exam would be taking place, and give the scrolls to the jonin waiting there. 

They were not allowed to open the scrolls under any circumstance. Aside from that, it was all fair game.

Among the others competing were three from Sunagakure, almost everyone from Ryuu's academy class, Neji, Tenten, and Lee, and three Sound Village genin. The Sound Village genin had various abilities, one of them being able to disorient people and make their ears bleed and glasses break from throwing a punch thanks to a gauntlet one wore.