"Saburo, what are we going to do now?" Sakamea whispered to her teammate, while hiding behind a bush. "How should I know? What do you think, Meiji-kun?" Saburo whispered. "I think we should wait here till they leave. They aren't taking the exam, so why fighting against them?" Meiji whispered lazy. Saburo thought. "That's a nice idea. Why fighting when it's not needed, right?" he whispered with triumph. "But Saburo-kun, what about the timelimit? We're already at the end of the second night. We only have an few hours left to make it to the tower. What are we going to do if they decide to stay here for an while?" Sakamea asked. "Huh? Well,... Let's just wait an hour or two. If they don't leave then, then we go with an fight." He whispered a bit nervous. Sakamea nodded in agreement and Meiji just made it himself a bit more comfortable. Now it was just waiting till those three on the other side of the bush was going to leave.

"Well?" an woman with two pigtails asked "He has it back." an other woman in a yellow kimono answered."You're sure?" "Yes. He recieved it back already." "How is that possible?! Normally it takes about twenty till thirty years for them to recieve it back, why is it now only SIXTEEN years?!?!" "Maybe because of the circumstances." an young looking man said. "What do you mean brother?" yellow-kimono asked. "Well, we found him when he already made himself like this. Maybe that difference made the time shorten so much." the man explained. "Whatever! He is off no use for us now he has received it back again. Let's just do this and get back on schedule!" the pig-tails said bossy. "Hai" the other two answered in unison.

"What are they talking about? What did he recieve back? And what are they going to do now?" Sakamea asked whispering. "Sssh" Meiji motioned her. They looked at the three people on the other side of the bush. They saw the three people now standing infront of a man they didn't notice before. The man was tied down against an tree. His eyes were closed and his red hair hang over his face. His Torso was uncovered and something didn't seemed right. It looked like his arms were attached on the body with an mechanism. "Is that a man or an ninja doll?" Sakamea asked. "It looks like an doll. But what is that black THING in his chest?" Saburo whispered as response. Before they could think about it some more a bright light was coming from the figure.
The three people were standing around it and were helding their hands towards the figure. Somehow hundreds of lightorbs came from the red haired figure and he started to move. "AAAAAH!!!" the figure yelled. When the last of the lightorbs seemed to be sucked up by the three standing, the figure suddenly fell silent and a second later the figure turned into dust. "Okay, let's move. We need to get going with the plan. We're already fallen behind on the schedule so we need to hurry." The woman with pigtails said. "Hai, Onee-chan." the man said. The other woman just nodded. After the three had left, Saburo and his team were still dumbfounded behind the bush.

"They... They just... Just killed someone...Without any use of attack. How did they do that?" Sakamea asked. She was feeling sick of the sight. The scream of the figure just stayed stuck in her head, and the sight of the man turning to dust didn't left her eyes yet. "They didn't just killed that man... They destroyed him!"

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{at the tower}

"Welcome!" "AAAH!!!" Jyoanu jumped up and looked around. "Geez, Sasuke-saama. You scared me." he said. "Well, that's not good. As a ninja you can't get scared by your father's best friend saying 'Welcome'. That's a shame for the name NINJA" Sasuke said emotionless, what made Jyoanu just sigh. "Uchiha-saama, can we talk to hokage-saama? We found out something." Rozu asked polite. Sasuke tried to look through her but he didn't succeed. "Sure, I'll bring you." "Arigato."

In an other room there was also a convesation going on. "...and then we seperated from them to get here in the tower. So we need to report it to Hokage-saam too, don't you think Akane-saama?" Gure ended. "So you're sure it's the Fuschida siblings?" Akane asked. "Yes mother, we're sure." Teresa answered serious. "Okay, let's go then. Naruto-kun is here in the tower so we can tell him right away. But before that..." "What's wrong?" Bechi asked curiously. "Nothing is wrong. I just wanted to say.... You've all done great! You can be proud of yourself." Akane said with an polite smile. "Arigato mother." Teresa said. "Yeah, thanks Akane-saama." "Well, let's go then. We need to talk to the Hokage."

{A few hours later}

"Congratiolations, all of you!" Konohamaru said extremely happy. "You made it through the second exam, but...." he paused a bit "...For the thid exam, there has to be a little ruducing to be made" "Reducing?!" one of the participants asked. "Yes! Reducing." "Of what?!" Konohamaru started to chuckle at a mysterious way. "Reducing of.... PARTICIPANTS!!!" for a second it was quit, but as soon as everyone understood what he meant, they started to talk. "Why?" "huh? I don't understand..." "Reducing of.." At the sound of all that talking konohamaru sighed. >Geez, I can't even finish properly. hehe, I'll make them shut up, hehe.< He thought. Naruto saw the face of his friend and younger rival and he expected the worsed. "Konohamaru? What are you going to.." but before Naruto finished that sentence, Konohamaru already said it. "HAREM SEXY NO JUTSU!!!" The girls started to scream, some of the boys got a nodebleed or even fainted, and other just stood there stunned. There were only three people who weren't reacting; Danieru, Jyoanu and Teresa. They already had seen that technique several times before and they got bored of it...

After Hanabi succeeded to get her husband away, Hinata had scolded Naruto for teaching Konohamaru that technique and Sakura, Sasuke and some teachers from the participants had calmed down everyone, it was Anko who continued with the explanations. "So as Konohamaru already told you all, some participants have to go. We will hold some pre-exam fights right here, but you can always stop now. So you have the choice: Stay and need to fight individually right here and in just a few minutes, to get through to the last exam. OR give up, heal your wounds and try again next year... I'll give you 5 minutes."

"So, what are you two going to do?" Gure asked the girls. "Why? Scared to loose from your sister?" Bechi teased him. "NO!!! I just wanted to know..." "Well, I won't give up! Not now, at least." Bechi said proud. "What about you, Teresa? ....Teresa?!... TERESA?!?!?!" Bechi started to yell. "Huh? What? What's wrong?" she asked not looking to Bechi. Bechi followed her look and saw that Teresa was looking at Konoha's Team... No, at Danieru. "Ow, I get it!" she said with a smile. "You're not thinking about the exam, you're thinking about one of the participants, right?" "What are you talking about?" Teresa asked, now finally looking to Bechi. "hehe, I get it now. Al that staring... Yes, I'm sure..." Teresa just looked at her, not knowing what she meant. "What do you know?" Gure asked curious. "I won't tel you little bro. YOU just have to find out yourself. But you won't find out, because it's more for girls to see through the 'signs'..." Bechi walked to the front again, where Anko was motioning to everyone to come. Gure gave Teresa one last confused look and then follwed his sister. Teresa on the otherhand gave an worried look at Danieru >What's with his eye? Will he be alright?< she thought, as she finally joined her teammates.

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Almost every one had fought by now. Every one, except for two persons. Danieru had to go against Aki, a ninja from the Land Hidden In The Falls. "Danieru-kun!" Teresa yelled while running towards him. "Oh Teresa-san. Your fight was great. You really get the hang of it... The sand, I mean. You earn it to go to the next round." He said when she got to him. Teresa got a slight blush on her face. "Arigato, but..." she sighed " How is it going? With your eye I mean?" she asked worried. "Don't worry. I'll be fine." he said, not very convincing "But..." "Teresa, I told you! I'm fine! Just concentrate on your own fights! Leave me alone!" he Yelled annoyed at her. As he walked downwards to the fighting area, Teresa closed her eyes. She felt tears in them, but wasn't going to show them to anyone. "Please, don't push yourself too hard." she whispered into the air, before walking out the room. She couldn't see him fighting and possibly getting the pain in his eye again. Eventhough he said not to worry, she still did. She just couldn't help it.

As Teresa sat down against the wall in the corridor, she was joined by Akane. "I saw you walking out the room... Wanna talk about it?" she asked. "Not now." Teresa answered. "I understand." Akane said while wrapping her arms around her daughter. As soon as Teresa felt the embrace she started to cry. Not out loud, but the tears were now really coming out of her eyes. That way they sat for a while. "H-he *gasp* never yelled *gasp* a-at me..." Teresa tried to explain, while still crying. "I know... But sometimes people do that. There's no proper explanation for it. But as long as you're friends, it will be alright after a little talk." "You... You sure about that?" Teresa asked her. "Offcourse. I've been yelled at a lot of times." Akane joked, but it worked. Teresa had stopped crying and even let out a little chuckle. "Wanna see the rest of his fight?" Teresa asked her mom. "Sure."

But when they entered the room again, they both saw that the fight had ended already. Teresa gasped. "No..." she whispered, before started running towards the middle of the floor. "Danieru!!!! Please, say something!!!!!" she yelled when she arrived next to him. A hard working, crying Sakura was healing his wounds with everything she got. Aki, Danieru's compatetant, was standing a metre away, stunned and wide eyed. He was rambling "I...didn't... toughed... suddenly collapsed... His eye... Twitching." some medic-nins were trying to get him snap out of it but they didn't succeed. "Sakura-san, everything alright? Shall I take over for now?" Akane asked her. Sakura shook her head. "No that's alright. He now is only unconscious. His wounds are all healed and he isn't in danger." Sakura said with a weak smile. Sakura ordered some medic-nins to take both the boy's to the hospital, while she tried to get up. When didn't succeed at that, Naruto helped her. "Why don't you take a bit off? At least untill he has recovered." Naruto suggested. "O-okay" Sakura said exhoasted. "Naruto, I will bring her home. Why don't you just continue the rest, okay?" Akane suggested. "Hai. Hinata, would you mind encompaning Sakura and Akane?" He asked her. "Sure." Hinata said with a smile. She gave Naruto a kiss on the cheek, and together with Sakura and Akane, she left the room.

"Okay, if everyone wants to gather around me again!" Anko yelled. Everyone did and she continued. "Okay, congratulations for those who are going to the final exam. All seven, plus one who's now in the hospital, of you are getting a number and that will determine who you're going to fight next. It will be like an competition. That means that we start with 4 matches, and the winners of them will continue to the next. The winners of those two matches will enter the so called final." Anko explained. "But, does that mean that only one of us will get to be a Chuunin?" Shikamaru started to chuckle. "Hehe, no. We, Chuunin, as well Jounin, will look HOW you fight and that's what determines if you're getting the Rank of Chuunin." He answered. "Excactly!" Anko said happy. "So if everyone will just take a piece of paper from the box..." Teresa took one and looked at the number. "7" "Okay, now everyone has one, then we will show you against who you're going to fight." Anko held up a schedule. Teresa looked at it. >7 has to fight against 8, and 8 is....<

"Jyoanu?!"