Genin Test: Team 14

(Shiori's PoV) 

"Nee-chan, so we will continue getting targeted?"

"Yes. So, we need to become stronger."

I have explained everything to Karin, and surprisingly, she understood it well. Perhaps, her life in Kusa has caused her to be hyper aware that she will always get targeted.

At 7 am, Karin and me arrived at the training ground 14, and Sai was already there.

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

In our team, Karin is obviously the strongest, and is almost equal to Sasuke in taijutsu without his Sharingan. I am the second strongest, with taijutsu and fuinjutsu. I don't really know how good my swordsmanship is, and I have lost to Tenten every time in kenjutsu. While Sai is the average genin. He is in the top 10, but not that skilled since he isn't a ROOT member.

But he is a good mangaka. And works for my company. He is my employee.

Yugao arrived, on time. Naruto would be so jealous. Heh. 

She nodded at our greeting, and started telling us about the test. 

"Alright. Since you all are here on time, I will tell you what the test is. It's simple, really. You just have to fight me individually so that I can test your level." 

Isn't that kind of... lame? Not even a spar as a team? 

"First, Karin." 

"Best of luck, Karin." 

"Thanks, Nee-chan."

Speaking of Karin, she calls me 'nee-chan' and Naruto 'nii-chan', even though she is some months older than us. Not that I hate it. It's much better than her calling herself my nee-chan. I am the older one mentally. 

We sat as the spar between Karin and Yugao was going to start. 

(3rd PoV) 

Yugao was impressed by Karin. She definitely has the taijutsu level of a low Chunin. And as a sensor, she knew that her genin student had more chakra reserves than her.

Yugao is not jealous at all.

After a taijutsu bout, she noticed a shadow clone throwing kunais at her, which she dodged without looking back. 

'Just a genin and a B-rank ninjutsu already?'

Yugao then took out her katana to test how well Karin will do against pointy objects. For the first time, Yugao started attacking, even though she was holding back a lot.

As sword and kunais clashed, she dodged an attempt by Karin to slap a paper bomb on her. Yugao then tried sneaking up from behind using a shadow clone, but she was quickly detected.

'A good sensor, even capable of sensing an ANBU. She just might give the Hyugas a tough competition on this field.'

Then she sent a weak genjutsu, which Karin was able to break out of pretty easily. Nice. She will have to train Karin in genjutsu so that yesterday's event doesn't happen again.

Overall, she was satisfied with Karin. Her hits were very heavy for even a new chunin, which wasn't surprising since she trained with Naruto and Guy. She is capable of clearing the chunin exams right now. 

And her chains, well, she can only use two right now, are not really that coordinated. But they broke Yugao's kunais easily.

They really are as hard as adamantium. Though she doesn't know if they are as tough as Third Hokage's staff.

"Alright. Sai, you are up next."

She now knew Karin's skills enough. If she were to fight all day, it would just drag on a lot due to Karin's stamina.

Karin sighed and sat down with Shiori, and Sai came to spar.

Sai, one of the few former ROOT children who were returned to the mainstream of the village. At seven years of age, he had already carried out ten assassinations. While most of them were civilians, he actually had to assassinate an academy kid. 

She couldn't help but feel pity for the boy and obvious confusion on why those missions were given in the first place.

As Sai drew out his tanto, Yugao said, "Begin."

Her katana and his tanto clashed in high speed, and she was pleased that his skills were very good for a genin. Their fight was mainly kenjutsu, with the occasional taijutsu, academy three and kunais and shurikens. He was able to break out of the genjutsu as well. 

Overall, she was sure that he will pass the chunin exams in six months. 

"Alright. Shiori, you are up next."

Yugao was curious about the thing that was on her arm. She had specific orders to not take her team on too dangerous missions, and to keep them inside the village walls as much as possible. Shiori has brought many eyes on herself by building her palace in the Uchiha clan compound, and Karin was a pureblood Uzumaki. These two will be in danger of kidnappings. Moreover, Shiori is very rich.

"Alright, let's begin."

Shiori took out a katana from seal on her right gauntlet on her arm, and without licking it.

'Maybe she has installed a mechanism in it so that it doesn't require her blood or saliva to activate? Perhaps her blood is already stored in some sort of cartilage?'

And Yugao had a feeling, that this thing just might become something that the other villages will keep their eyes on, trying to obtain it. 

Their katanas clashed, and while Shiori's kenjutsu was rather unrefined, her arm strength was upto the mark for swinging it easily. Her taijutsu was pretty decent, still rough and not really synchronizing much with katana.

She was occassionally shooting paper bombs in the form of bullets. The speed wasn't that great, even slower than paper bombs at the end of kunais.

There is always room for improvement.

Then, she thought about trying genjutsu, but decided against it. Shiori can't use chakra, so coming out of genjutsu will be very hard. Most of the civilians in small villages don't even know how to use chakra, but they have tenkutsu so that they get trapped in genjutsu easily. But her tenkutsu were severely damaged, so it wouldn't be wise to try genjutsu on her. 

All things aside, Shiori didn't seem to have much battle IQ. Her taijutsu and kenjutsu didn't go well with each other.

Actually, if she didn't use a katana, from her reports, she will fare much better with taijutsu alone.

But her fuinjutsu is top-notch, even better than the normal jonins. Seei

She must have to prepare a lot beforehand. 

Well, it isn't really disappointing. Afterall, it is Yugao's duty to teach her now.

Suddenly, Shiori threw her katana at her, and for some reason, clapped.

...

Yugao easily dodged her katana coming at her, but she couldn't figure out why Shiori suddenly clapped.

Shiori was embarrassed, and suddenly, a Rasengan formed on her hand.

"Rasengan!"

'How!? She can't use chakra!'

Shiori tried to slam a Rasengan on Yugao, but she swiftly grabbed her hand and directed the Rasengan towards the nearby tree.

The tree was completely liberated, uprooting and flying while spinning.

That's an A-rank jutsu, and the famous signature jutsu of Lord Fourth!

"Alright. You all pass."

"Yay!"

Overall, the team is good. Two kenjutsu users, a sensor who can specialise in medical field, a fuinjutsu expert with good taijutsu and a katana, and a mysterious ninja tool which allows her to use jutsus, and another another kenjutsu user with good overall techniques.

Let's see where this team goes. 

"Your missions will start from tomorrow, Team 14."