Ninja Love

The Chunin Exams Part 1

Darkness.

It stretched on for eternity and swallowed all in its path.

"Make a wish...."

The air was cold and heavy. There was no escape.

"Make a wish...."

A light suddenly appeared. A small pink jewel shining in the abyss.

"Make a wish.... or someone else will!"

A pale hand snatched the jewel, plunging the world back into darkness.

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Blue eyes snapped, pupils blown wide as they stared into nothing. Kagome panted heavily as she tried to ease her racing heart. Warily, she touched the tiny jar that housed the Shikon around her neck. The glass felt cool to the touch but its content always burned in her mind. With all that had happened, she hadn't gotten a chance to discuss the accursed object with her father.

With a sigh, Kagome slid across her bed and walked towards her bathroom, completely ignoring the sword leaning against her bed.

Today was the day.

Today was the Chunin exams!

Kagome huffed in a resigned manner. She and her brothers had met their teammates and handed in their paperwork. Everything was going smoothly up until they reached the entrance to the exam.

Soun'g had decided that it wanted to stay with Kagome no matter what. She had left it in her room and had no intention of using it. At least, not until she learned to wield it. But nooooooo! Soun'g just had to come tag along. The sword came speeding around a corner and nearly decapitated Itachi. Inuyasha showed up seconds after with its sheath and handed it to her. With the sword still rejecting their father, she had no choice but to take it with exam into the exam.

Now here they were waiting for the written test to be passed out, the sword leaning innocently against her thigh.

"You just had to show up, didn't you?" She grumbled to it.

"But of course. You are my mistress." A voice purred in her head. "I'd hate for something to happen to you without my protection."

"I don't know if i want your kind of protection." She mused. "Father did keep you in your sheath for a reason."

"Hm? And you can't make judgment for yourself. Im truly hurt." The voice said.

Kagome decided to ignore it while she scanned the room. Her eyes stopped briefly on a head of white hair. Kagome watched as the boy, Kabuto, shuffled through his ninja cards before putting them away as his exam was placed before him. Kagome's observation was stopped when an exam was also placed before her. Kagome picked up her pencil and flipped over her exam, prepared to ace this thing and move on to the next part when she saw it. The worst possible thing that could possibly be on this exam. Only someone truly evil would create an exam solely comprised of these questions. This had to be torture. Kagome spared a glance at the proctor, Ibiki Morino. Definitely torture. The whole exams was...

MATH!

Kagome groaned in despair and frustration as the numbers seemed to swim across the page. Why was there calculus on this paper? Ninjas weren't taught anything harder than the basics of algebra and geometry in the academy. They were definitely going to fail this. Well, she was. She was royally screwed. Kagome let her her bang quietly on the desk in defeat.