The Little Senju (Little Senju Series Book One): A Naruto Fanfiction

The Little Senju and the Final Exam

???'s POV

I walked onto the arena slowly for a dramatic affect staring at my midnight blue-haired opponent. Her eyes widened slightly as I entered her field of vision and I smirked slipping my hands into my pockets. She knew the truth.

"I thought someone like you would be better at a transformation jutsu...!" Izumi teased as she placed her hands on her hips, "Are you trying to make me laugh? No matter it'll all end the same way anyhow..."

"Don't be so confident!" I remarked copying her sassy pose, "I've been training too!"

"Are you two ready yet?" the proctor mumbled taking a slight step backwards, "Let the match between Hayato Yoshida and Izumi Senju begin!" he announced clearly and there was some cheering heard from the stands.

I took a single step backwards carefully measuring the distance between Izumi and I, About ten meters... I thought glancing up at her sparkling silver eyes, "Are you waiting for me to make the first move?" I smirked slinking my hand into my weapons pouch and pulling out a shiny kunai that glinted in the bright sunlight, "Didn't I tell you not to be so confident?!?"

Izumi's POV

I gasped as the metallic blade was suddenly pressed against my throat causing a shiver to run down my spin. How had he gotten behind me so quickly? With a gentle, swift motion I flicked his wrist away from me and bent down aiming my foot directly for his ankles, but he dodged easily appearing on the other side of the field. This was going to be harder than I thought...

"I thought you were tougher than this..." the boy teased tossing the kunai in my direction, which I snatched out the air and flung into the ground, "What's wrong...? You can't take a joke?"

"Shut up!" I muttered quickly making a hand sign as a katana appeared in my hands, "You're just not funny, Idiot!" a smile broke out across my face as I sped towards him and my wooden blade collided with a wave of water that he sent towards me in an attempt to defend himself, but I managed to niche his arm slightly and thin a thin line of red leaked down onto the hard soil.

"Okay..." he placed a hand over his wound, "That's better... (Please don't kill me...)" he leaned over and placed a hand to the ground while closing his eyes, "I guess I'll have to get serious now."

I gulped focusing all of my energy on the attack that was sure to come. There was a loud crack from beneath my heat and scalding water started to leak upward. I grit my teeth as I thrust my sword into the ground and leapt onto its hilt in order to avoid the water. With a glance upward at my foe I could see him making a hand sign and as he did so the clear liquid swirled up my blade. My feet skidded into the dry earth and a cloud of dust was left in my wake and my blade had also turned to a thick, brown dust.

Naruto's POV

I watched the fight between Izumi and Hayato in awe as my mouth hung open a bit. They were both so cool... Even during our training she had never seemed this talented. Certainly if any of us was to become a chunin it would be her... My hands gripped the railing as I watched the intensity of the match.

Izumi rose to her feet and brushed the dust from her pants, "Not bad..." she smirked forming a shuriken in her hand and flinging the bladed star at her opponent whom blocked it with an expertly timed kunai, "You're not going to make this easy for me, huh?" her voice was teasing as though she already knew the person rather well and something about his presence did feel slightly familiar to me... "Don't you think this has been going on long enough?"

???'s POV

"What you're not having fun?" I smiled taking another kunai from my pouch, "I'll end this quickly if you let me!" I dashed forwards holding the blade in front of me prepared for her to block my attack when the sharp tip connected with the palm of her hand causing her to gasp out in pain, Why didn't she avoid it?!? My eyes widened and in my panic I dragged out the blade too quickly causing further injury.

"Ha..." she chuckled taking a step back, "Don't look so surprised!" her eyes focused on the thick, red fluid that dripped from her hand and she jumped several feet backward before shakily making a complicated hand seal and sent many kunai into the hard earth creating a large cloud of dust into the air making it impossible to see, "Summoning jutsu!" I heard Izumi shout over the baffled cries from the crowd, "Go my winged minions!!!"

"What the hell...?!?" I muttered as a massive cluster of overly large dragonflies collected on my face, "Where did all these bugs come from?!?" my voice grew high-pitched as the insects crawled around on my beautiful face. The vision of the sparkling green creatures suddenly faded as something connected with the back of my head.

. . .

"The winner of this match is Izumi Senju!" my eyes fluttered open only to see the midnight blue-haired girl looking very flustered as the crowd cheered for her. I slowly rose to my feet and placed a hand on her shoulder causing her to jump, "Do you want to go to the infirmary?" the proctor asked me to which I shook my head and dragged the shaky Senju back to the stands.

Izumi's POV

"Geez... You're so annoying!" I complained placing my hands on my hips, "Were you even allowed to participate in the finals since you did lose to me during the preliminaries, Rin Nishimura!"