Author's note: Took me long enough, and it's a short chapter too! Anyway, this is a continuation of the story Chunin Trials that Lunesoldier20 and I, wallpaperotaku, are writing. Lucidia Featherflame is me, and Luma is Lunesoldier ^_^
Enjoy!
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Fai was humming to himself when his team stepped from their boat and came toward him. "So you are Lucidia Featherflame, Syaoran, and Sakura, correct? Sakura, you are the only ninja?
Sakura nodded. "That's right!"
Fai smiled at her exuberance. "But, team, never forget that this is a mission of combined efforts. As silly as I make this sound, we will only succeed in our goal if we work together. This team will be great, as long as we pool together all of our strengths and conquer our weaknesses! I expect you to start training today!"
"Of course!" Syaoran said with determination.
Lucidia smiled, thinking of their chances of survival. " Unlike some other teams I've seen, I don't think it will be hard for us to get along. If we train together every day and master our technique as a single force.... I bet we'll win this."
"That's the spirit!" Fai said with a twinkle in his eye.
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Kurogane jumped down from the tree to meet his own group. Better to just get this over with, Kurogane thought.
"Well it's nice to see you are all on time. There's no need to introduce yourselves, Luma, Rock Lee and Misty. Just tell me your purpose for taking the chunin exam. "
He raised an eyebrow when Misty, the only pirate of the three, spoke first. " Why, to become Chunins of course."
"You will call me Sensei," Kurogane said harshly.
Misty and Luma frowned, suddenly losing enthusiasm.
Instead, Rock Lee piped up. " Sensei! We are here to combine the power of youth and ninja skill to claim the Blood Bounty!"
"Yeah something like that, kid." Kurogane said. He pulled out three black blindfolds from his pocket. "You're first task is to each take 100 steps in opposite directions wearing one of these. If you can make it to where I will be, then you have passed my first test."
Misty was incredulous as the already blindfolded Rock Lee began tying one over Luma's eyes. "And where will you be, Sensei?"
Kurogane wrapped the cloth over Misty's eyes. "You'll know when you find me, right?"
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Another team nearby was having a similar uncomfortable meeting.
Snape's lip curled. "Well well, isn't this an unbalanced team? I don't think Dumbledore could have possibly given me a lamer, lazier, more troublesome group."
Ash Ketchum was offended. " Hey! We're all pirates here for the same reason right? Catch that Overlord's Ransom!"
Snape glared at him. " You will speak if I ask you a question. Ten laps around Kanoha. Now."
Ash would have protested, but decided this wasn't an instructor that he was ready to upset further.
"Does any one else have anything to say?" Snape asked the two other boys.
Naruto Uzumaki and Harry Potter were smart enough to sense the trick question, and remain silent.
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Kurama was twirling a rose from his hair, waiting for the team that had been late for over 15 seconds.
His ninja students, Sasuke and Paul, arrived first, followed by the pirate Dawn who was laughing as she followed after them.
Kurama smiled at the show of excitement, but tapped his whip upon the ground to command their attention.
" Our mission is to win the Chunin exam-- using the power of our minds. Knowledge is power, so I will expect you to learn a lot from me, concerning strategy and calm. Never lose sight of the treasure, but remember that iit is a reward for short term goals. You must all fight each battle as if it were your last."
Sasuke shrugged. Knowledge? "Don't make me laugh. If all I'm learning will be math equations, the only one I'll be able to defeat will be that Naruto."
Dawn watched the intensity develop between sensei and student.
"Kurama?" Paul asked when he saw the pirate instructor taking steps toward Sasuke.
"Confidence, you have, " Kurama acknowledged as he approached an unwavering
Sasuke. "Arrogance too. Tell me, do you think that your current training can surpass my own level?"
Sasuke was smug. " The more you twirl that rose around, the more I'm convinced of it. Do you challenge me, PIRATE?"He spat the word.
Dawn was unsure what to say, and Paul was just as lost for words. She didn't care what clan he was from. This Sasuke Uchiha was rude and out of line.
Paul nudged Sasuke in the side. " Hey. Show some respect, huh?"
Sasuke punched Paul square in the jaw, sending him flying into Dawn. "This is my fight!" Sasuke said.
Kurama was not pleased. "Then let us fight. If you win, then you will be free to do as you like. Should I win, then you will learn as I teach without objection."
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"You are all late! Unbelievable. Neji, you're a noble ninja. You of all people should have arrived sooner. And Brock? Ron Weasley? Do you pirates even fathom the importance of this international treasure. The Overlord's Ransom. Never foget why I'm training you." Their instructor, Lupin, looked disappointed as he spoke.
Brock sighed. What luck he had. Not only had he been late, but his instructor wasn't even a beautiful shinobi. Not to mention that none of his teammates were girls either!
Ron Weasley was pretty bummed too. Harry, his best mate wasn't on his team. How bad really was his luck?
Neji looked at the spaced-out expressions of his comrades angrily. It hadn't seemed as though they had heard one word of Lupin's lecture.
Ah well, Brock thought to himself, at least I'll gain more muscles when this training is over.
Ron had a look of hope as something occured to him. At least he wasn't going to have to endure the instruction of Snape!
Neji frowned and shook his head. It was his destiny to obtain the Overlord's Ransom. He knew that. But it was hard to believe that fate to be possible when he was stuck with a bunch of... losers.
"Well, answer the question!" Lupin said in irritation, breaking all three of them from their distracted thoughts.
"To be the best sir!" Neji automatically replied, hoping he was answering the correct question.
"To bring honor to us all!" Ron said, with a smile.
"To protect the world from devestation and unite all people with in our nation!" Brock said quickly.
Lupin shook his head. "You know what is ours. Now, we must simply claim it."
This is a collaborative fan fiction written by wallpaperotaku and lunesoldier20. It focuses on an alternate reality in which pirates and ninjas fight for supremacy. In the midst of the upcoming chunin exams, an ancient treasure has been discovered in Kanoha that will change the rules of the test. With title and wealth on the line, what will happen when the chunin exam is sabotaged by an unknown ninja/pirate team?
Chapter 2
Dumbledore entered the council room. The other ninja Kage rulers and pirate War Lords were waiting inside sitting around a round table, their guards sitting behind them in case of fowl play. Dumbledore, the Hokage of Konohagakure, sat in the empty seat, his guards following him.
“Sorry for my lateness,” he apologized, smiling and looking at the other Kages over his half moon spectacles. “I had to do something before I could leave.”
The Raikage was the first to speak up. “Now is not the time for ideal chatter, Dumbledore! Who is to get the treasure?”
“Of course the pirates,” answered a pirate War Lord.
“No, it is the shinobi’s treasure, scum!” barked another Kage. He rose suddenly, toppling his chair over.
“Please, sit,” Dumbledore said calmly. “For now the treasure is sealed away. We shall decide as a group who it should go to.”
“The sea ward people!” the War Lords exclaimed immediately.
“Not to you scurvy sea dogs!” several of the Kages shouted. “It is to the shinobis! Pirates began as shinobi, so it is to go to the original people, if you don’t remember, you-“
“Enough!!” shouted the only female pirate War Lord. “Can’t you see zat no matter how nous put it, nous will never decide?”
“She is right,” Dumbledore agreed camly. “I’m sure you have an idea.”
The woman smiled. “Of course,” she answered. “It shall go to the future, non, Dumbledore?”
Dumbledore nodded. “It shall go to the future chunins, both pirates and ninja,” he said, smiling calmly. “Why not doing it by the upcoming Chunin Exams? The winning teams would get it for their village, both pirates and shinobi.”
“It belongs to the ninja, not to those seadogs!” the Raikage said. But everyone else agreed with the terms of the Hokage and the female War Lord. The Raikage was forced to go along with it.
Of course, news flew of the treasure being the prize of the next Chunin exams, reaching as far as the mountains that were several hundred miles from the mountain village and to the islands several miles off the coasts of Konohagakure where Tsubasagakure stood. It even reached the ravine village.
“The Blood Bounty has been found!” cried a weary ninja to the crowd. The people of the lowly village cheered. The hustle and bustle was made as the village’s jonins readied their teams to compete in the next Chunin exams. The dark cloaked figure swept through the crowded streets to the huge manor.
The cloaked figure took off her hood, revealing long black hair. She scanned her whereabouts with her white eyes. Then she jumped away as a ninja landed where she was seconds ago.
“Neji,” she said. “It’s me. There’s no reason to attack me.”
The boy relaxed and came up to the woman. “What is it, mother?” he asked.
“Gather the rest of the clan, the Bloody Bounty has been found,” she informed him. The young ninja’s eyes widened. The great treasure had been found and was now ready for it to go into the right hands. Neji nodded and bowed before running off to find the rest of his kin.
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“You have all passed the graduation exam,” said the teacher of the school. “So now you will know your teams and team leaders.”
Luma stretched. “Hooray!!” she exclaimed. The blue haired girl looked around the room at who could be in her team. I hope Paul’s in my team, she thought with stars in her eyes.
Misty, a pirate that sat next to Luma, smiled as well. She began hoping for decent teammates as well. Her eyes fell on Ash and she bit her lip as he looked her way with a huge grin. Rock Lee, a dark haired boy with huge eye brows, face went red out of jealousy. Why does Misty not look my way? he thought.
Paul was farther down in the row. He felt all the girls' eyes fall on him and the boy sitting next to him, Uchiha Sasuke. The two didn’t really care who was on their team as long as they didn’t get in their way.
The sensei started going through the team names: “Team 4: Ino, Shikamaru, Choji. Team 6: Sasuke, Paul, and Dawn.” Several girls booed. Dawn’s head banged against the desk as she groaned.
“Team 8: Luma, Rock Lee, and Misty.” Luma and Misty grinned at each other and collapsed hands. Rock Lee silently celebrated and glared down at all the boys that were sulking, especially Ash.
“Team 10: Harry, Naruto, and Ash.” Ash looked at his teammates with a half frown. Naruto Uzumaki frowned and was mumbling something and Harry just shrugged.
The rest of the teams were read off. They then were assigned to go to certain places to meet their senseis. Luma, Misty, and a posing Rock Lee were assigned to go to a training ground near the boarder of the village. On the walk there, the two girls talked.
“I can’t believe that we were paired together as a team!” Misty said joyfully.
“I can’t believe it either!” Luma agreed. “Poor Dawn has to deal with Sasuke. It kinda sucks that I’m not with Paul though, or Naruto.” She frowned.
Misty nodded. “It would have been nice to be in a team with Ash, but who knows what could happen.”
“At least we’re paired together!” Rock Lee said, taking Misty’s hand. “Maybe a beautiful rose of youth will sprout between the three of us!” Misty swiped her hand from Rock Lee.
“I hope we don’t have Guy-sensei for our team master,” Luma whispered to Misty. “Just dealing with one is bad enough.”
“It could be worse,” Misty said. Luma nodded. Rock Lee looked hurtly at the two girls.
A stranger in the trees sighed. “How can these KIDS be my students?” he growled in a gruff voice. “Dumbledore has a horrible sense of humor.” He jumped to the meeting place to wait for his team.
Meanwhile, a boat docked in the bay near Konohagakure.
Whoowa!! Chapter 2 is finally done!! This chapter was written by lunesodlier20 (moi) and the last chapter was done by my partner for this story wallpaperotaku! Make sure to read chapter 1 before this chap.
This is a collaborative fan fiction written by wallpaperotaku and lunesoldier20. It focuses on an alternate reality in which pirates and ninjas fight for supremacy. In the midst of the upcoming chunin exams, an ancient treasure has been discovered in Kanoha that will change the rules of the test. With title and wealth on the line, what will happen when the chunin exam is sabotaged by an unknown ninja/pirate team?
Kanoha was a humble place that, like the other surrounding villages, welcomed both ninjas and pirates into its community. While some students would decide to which faction they belonged when they became teenagers, many were given the subtitle of "pirate" or "ninja" at birth by their proud clans. And, for the most part, the ninjas and pirates within the village limited their quarrels to maintain their good standing in society. The fourth Hokage, Albus Dumbledore, believed that Kanoha had indeed entered an unparalleled era of relative peace.
But that was before the dark discovery that would fall like the apple of discord into the midst of ninjas and pirates across the globe. The earth-shaking discovery of a map that would lead investigators to find the most sought after treasure of the ancient world at the pit of the Kanoha coral reef. Pirates called it the "Overlord's Ransom", and to ninjas it was known as the "Blood Bounty". By what ever name, this treasure was one that had been feuded over for centuries by pirates and ninjas alike, who both claimed their right to it.
It had begun as the treasury of the self proclaimed dictator, Ryouichi, whose rule came during the early renaissance. His territory stretched unfathomably across continents, and at one time, it seemed his control knew no bounds. Ryouichi ruled without mercy by enslaving those he could, killing anyone who seemed to defy him, and gathering tribute from the wealthy who valued their lives. When his life was plagued by and unknown illness, however, the people began to plan, plotting out their own ideals of what direction the kingdom should advance.
Naturally, the people were starving and angry. Those who hungered for freedom secretly built large ships to sail to friendlier lands. But they were only met by the other limbs of their own bleak world, the territories that Ryouichi had already managed to conquer. In desperation, these people fled to live in the peace of the ocean, but their own greed for a world they once knew drove them to ravage other ships and exult in the spoils of their attacks. Ryouichi remained calm in his sickness, and sent his strong navy to round up the water dwellers who had turned to violence to survive. Those who fell to his force were hung in the ports and beheaded in the streets as a tactical warning to the already terrified masses.
But not all of the pirates, as they were beginning to call themselves, backed down. The threat to their existence gave way to a greater number of rebels joining their cause. Pirates began a secret alliance within their ranks. If one pirate ship was deemed doomed, it would be their chunin trial, to defeat the enemies boarding their vessel. The more important members of the crew would abandon ship and swim till they found another. Then arrangements would be made to build another ship. If the younger pirates were successful in fighting off the intruders of their ship, then they would return as chunins, with as much treasure left over as they could swim to shore with.
The growing power of the pirates worried both Ryouichi and the people of his empire. Though Ryouichi was profiting from the treasure his army acquired from the fallen pirates, they were becoming less of a nuisance and more of a threat. His people feared that in his madness Ryouichi would turn on the innocents and begin killing indiscriminately to prove his power was uncontested. The pirates had already become their own people at this point, however, and everyone doubted they would come to their defense in the case of a massacre.
Thus, the people began to conspire once more, thinking of ways to protect
themselves and the freedom of their descendents. Rather than raising a direct army, many began to devote their time to learning the power of secrets, night, and martial arts. These mysterious groups hid by day and performed skillful assassinations that could not be tracked back to them. The ninjas made many of the people uneasy though, and after the assassination of the general taxes skyrocketed. The next day, a bounty was set up for the capture of the offending party. Every ninja was worth more than the average person made in a month, and a great hunt began among the peasants to find the heroes who had disrupted Ryouichi's rule. The ninja's, aghast at the betrayal, sunk deeper into hiding and vanished completely from the public eye. The citizens' efforts slowly began to take the form of a witch hunt, and people pointed fingers at each other, swearing the other was a shinobi. For a time, money was handed out to the people who won the debates and turned in the likely "ninjas." But after a month of ninja executions, the assassination’s persisted, and Ryouichi tired of the endless game.
Bedridden by his degenerative illness, Ryouichi was an easy target. He was awoken one night by a series of coughs, only to find a figure in black coming through his open window. Ryouichi quickly sounded the alarm, and the young ninja was cornered by a dozen guardsmen in seconds. This was the first time that Ryouichi was sure he had captured a true ninja, and in a fury he ordered the loss of reward money to be compensated by each of the ninja's family members. In exchange, the young ninja would be tortured, returned to his family, and his clan would be banished forever.
Shangjun, the identity of Ryouichi's assailant, was strong through the interrogation, and revealed no information about the other ninjas' whereabouts. Ryouichi was angered to hear this news, but realized that Shangjun was most likely being truthful and did not know anything further for his own protection.
Shangjun's family was eager to have him back, and had not been aware of his secret life. After all, Shangjun's father's family had ties to the pirate faction, not to the shinobi. Shangjun's uncle organized an attack on a royal vessel of the distant kingdom of Great Britain, and returned with riches to spare, satisfying the dictator's ultimatum. When Shangjun was led to his family by Ryouichi soldiers, his mother and father embraced him tightly and together, they fled the country.
Great Britain tracked the robbery back to Ryouichi's empire, and demanded that the treasure be returned. It was a threat of war, but the selfish, suffering, Ryouichi ignored the demands. "Great Britain?" He asked his messenger hoarsely. "Never heard of it. Send them away; they are only one measly fleet."
But with the permission of the King of England, reinforcements arrived, and upon seeing his army fall to the greater might of this foreign power, Ryouichi gathered what gold he could and fled the castle. His body was found in the forest, where he had died of a failing heart.
The people cheered at their dictator's fall, and gladly returned Great Britain's treasure to them. The foreign army saw no interest in the small village they left behind, and overlooked the secret corridor within the castle, that was overflowing with Ryouichi's wealth. When the treasure was found, the factions of ninjas and pirates fought over it, seeing it as the reward for their years of strife. The Blood Bounty was stolen by the shinobi who raided the castle. Then it fell into the influence of the pirates and was celebrated as the Overlords Ransom. The treasure traded hands again and again in a fight for absolute greatness, until the treasure was lost to time. What was once a historical truth became a rumored mystery. And what was once the seaside home of Ryouichi, was now Konoha village.
