As Naruto moved to the front of the room in order to attempt again the clone jutsu, Ramen watched from inside, ignoring the laughing of the Kyubi deep inside Naruto's soul. Or at least the entity was trying to. A great deal of her still wanted to show the Kyubi its love and how great its love was.
But the Kyubi was behind a wall and Ramen couldn't reach it.
Not even when it tried to slash her with its massive claws could she reach it because then she'd be pushed away from it.
But she was confident that she would reach it sometime and then she'd show it her love and then it would understand. For now, she had to deal it's rampant, annoying hate.
If only Naruto and Mother would let me love freely. Love and cut, love and cut. Cut to love. But Naruto is strong. Very strong. Too strong for my love to just rule. He has to be convinced. Has to. Have to show love. Have to cut.
"I have to concentrate," Naruto said.
Oh, sorry, Ramen said. Here! I'll help!
Naruto immediately closed his eyes as he felt Ramen pushing forward, knowing it would mean his eyes turning red and glowing.
Naruto rolled his eyes and took a deep breath. Every so often, the entity did something like that which creeped him out heavily. It wasn't all that often, mostly when she was stressed out...like now. But still, it was rather uncomfortable to be reminded of the yandere in his head.
She wasn't able to take over his body anymore, but when she started it instead of him, she didn't know where to stop and it became a distraction.
"Don't tell us, Naruto," Iruka said. "Just do it."
"Right, Iruka-sensei," Naruto responded, eyes still closed as he tried to gather his chakra through Ramen's attempt to help him with her own. "Bunshin!"
There was a puff of smoke and when it cleared a second figure was standing beside Naruto. It was short, red in color and staring forth with wide glowing eyes and broad smile.
"I helped!" it said creepily before melting into what looked like a pool of blood before vanishing into smoke again.
The normal laughter after one of his failed clones came weakly this time.
Hinata, watching, and Naruto exchanged nervous looks.
"The...exam was for a clone, Naruto," Iruka said hesitantly. "Not for a genjutsu to intimidate your opponent."
"Uh...sorry, Iruka-sensai," Naruto said in embarrassment.
"Go ahead and sit down please," Iruka said.
Hanging his head, Naruto walked to his normal seat, several eyes on him.
I helped? Ramen asked.
"Well, almost," he responded.
I feel not good. I'll sleep now.
"Almost what?" Kiba asked from in front of him. "Almost flipped your lid?"
"That...that wasn't..." Hinata stopped talking as she realized what she'd been about to say.
They'd done so well keeping everybody else from knowing about the Saika-born inside each of them, now wasn't the time to blow it.
"Yeah, Hinata, you're a paragon of sanity," Kiba said, rolling his eyes.
Naruto growled and started to edge forward in his seat when he noticed the Hyuga waving her hand back and forth to tell him to back off.
Tenten sighed in disappointment. Naruto hadn't passed according to Erma and Ramen, though apparently Ramen had tried to help. The weapon specialist couldn't help but wonder if that "help" was part of the problem.
"Okay, time for a little sleeping," she whispered under her breath.
She paused just long enough to pull the Weird-possessed-kama out into her hand and slash open a small cut as a way to thank Weird.
"Tenten, is everything fine?" Gai asked.
"Oh, fine, Gai-sensei," she said cheerfully, letting the kama vanish back into her body and trying to make it look like a sleight of hand.
"Naruto can still pass! Mizuki-sensei told him how!"
"Great! That's!"
"Tenten says that sounds fishy."
"Fishy? What is fishy?"
"It means a trick. Like the Kyuubi tricks! Tenten says tell Naruto."
"But he already was doing it when I woke up..."
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