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Seventh Chapter! Enjoy!

The week passed by slowly but surely. The group was already almost up the mountain, all driven by their own personal ambitions.

“Were almost there! I cans see the top!” there was a wave a relief at Saruka’s announcement.

“Thank the heavens” Haruki breathed, he stayed close to Suzume ever since the incident with the bear, she was still kinda freaked out and always checking over her shoulder

“Haruki…?”

“Yeah Suzume?”

“I have a bad feeling… I feel that something is going to happen to us…”

“Don’t worry, no matter what happens, we’ll be here”

He smiled at her, which made her feel a whole lot better, but she was still uneasy. Suddenly a yell was heard.

“Hey! Get off!” a ninja had caught Shin’s ankle, at the top of the chain, Saruka yelped at the site “Shin!”

Shin was able to kick him off and scramble to a nearby cliff, they all followed.

“Who was that!?” this was SO NOT good for Suzume’s nerves, suddenly three ninja popped onto the cliff along with them, the fight wasn’t even a fight, all Jinmu had to do was knock them off the cliff and they went falling, hitting rocks as they fell, but it did prove that it would get more dangerous from there.

They group kept climbing up and finally, I repeat, FINALLY they got to the top of the mountain. They all had on their oxygen masks already since they were so high up.

“It should be a whole lot easier to climb down than up, but equally dangerous and easier to fall, so be careful, I repeat BE CAREFUL” Saruka looked at them, making sure they were all there.

Meanwhile…

“So this is it?”

Two people stood before a gravestone

“Yup, let’s get digging”

After a while the two figures had finished digging, a woman stepped out after they used some type of really powerful jutsu.

“I’m going to make this simple; we need you to work for our mistress”

“What’s in it for me?”

“All the blood to satisfy that little black heart of yours”

The woman grinned sinisterly “Then I’m in”

The two people looked at each other with satisfied looks “Good, our mistress will be pleased, nice to have you on board…”

The woman dusted herself off as she stood out of the hole, her lean body, her blonde hair and… almost inhumanely glowing black eyes.

“…Hikaru Torakiba”

The chunin wannabes started to climb down the mountain with much more ease than it was to climb up the mountain, but by now, they were all tired, cold, hungry and desperate for to pass this test soon, very soon.

“Hello, hello, hello…” the group looked behind them, the same three ninja that they had encountered before were there. How the hell did they survive that fall?

“Not now” Katsuro was getting pretty pissed off now; he just wanted to get to the end so that they could submerge out of this cold. The Iwa symbol was on their headbands.

The ninja on the right threw a series of shuriken while the one on the left threw some explosive kunai all of them backed away, but they weren’t going to be able to escape the avalanche.

“Kazuki! Sheild!” Asuka cried as the avalanche came rumbling down, immediately Kazuki started to make hand signs and a shield came around them all. After a few minutes everything went black, all that could be heard was the rumbling of the avalanche, you could hear them yelling and rolling around in the shield. It was amazing Kazuki could keep the shield up with Asuka hanging on to him like the plague.

Later…

A hand popped out of the snow and started to scrape against the snow, eventually succeeding in digging its owner out of the hole it made. Jinmu lifted himself out of the snow, Kimi right coming after him; one by one they came out Katsuro being the last.

Katsuro lifted himself out and landed on the snow with a thud, he growled “I’m sore everywhere from rolling in the shield”

“Can you hang on? Were almost there” Kimi looked down at him while pointing behind her where the end of their journey was in view.

“Definitely, if were that close”

Saruka nodded at him “Jinmu, can you please help up Katsuro?”

“Sure” The large boy hoisted Katsuro onto his shoulder, much to Katsuro’s dismay, an anime vain popped onto his head “I said I could hang on! I never said I couldn’t walk!” The Torakiba boy cried hotly.

“Just deal with it Katsuro…” Asuka sighed, following her brother in suit.

“We actually made it! That was almost as hard as the Suna chunin exams!” Haruki collapsed on the hospital bed with his legs crossed. He sighed with a satisfying smile across his bright features.

“Hey Suzume?”

“Hm?”

“You okay now?”

“Oh yeah, I feel fine! And Haruki...”

“Yeah?”

“Thanks for being there for me”

“No problem… that what best friends are fo--gah!”

Suzume giggled when he sat up with boastful pride and his body retaliated against his actions.

Somebody knocked on the door and opened it, Haruki blinked at who it was

“M-mom…dad?…. and … oh god………….. Hamono too!?”

Tenten smiled at her son, his father had a proud and amused face on his features while Hamono stared at her little brother with a smirk and a quirked eyebrow.

“So…. you and Suzume… in the same room… alone…” Hamono walked over to her brother’s bed and sat on it. Haruki blushed at her words.

“W-where are you going with this?” the boy squinted at his sister; she just crossed her arms as she looked down at him with the same expression “I think you know very well where this is going”

Suzume came to realization “I-it’s not like that, I mean—”

“I know, relax, I’m just kidding” it was Haruki’s turn to quirk an eyebrow.

“Your unusually pleasant………… what did Ichiro do to make you so happy?”

Hamono uncharacteristically flushed while Tenten sweat dropped and an anime vein appeared on Neji’s head. There was silence for a moment until….

“OW! Hamono!”

“Serves you right” she grumbled under her breath while Haruki nursed the newly acquired bump on his head.

“They just got here and they’re already arguing…” Neji sighed, Tenten patting him on the back.

“Mmmmmmmmm” Hanami broke away from Katsuro, he had his arms around her waist, and her arms were around his neck loosely “I missed you so much”

“I missed you too” he touched his forehead with hers “god… how I missed you” he smiled warmly at her then he smirked at her, she returned her eyes half lidded.

Later, back at the room…

“So… what do you think?” Hanami had her chocolate hair down and out of their buns, she sported a hip short black night gown, one of the straps fell down to her shoulder.

Katsuro made a low chuckle in his throat “This is going to be fun” he pounced on her when she sat next to him which made her giggle “Your mine” he whispered in her ear.

I hope you like it! I’m back with the Hanami and Katsuro romance! REVIEW PLEASE! I think the ending was a bit much, but I really don't have time to change it now, so there it is.