since the exam began. He took out her comb and began to comb the slightly shaggy hair.
Sayuri's heart began to pound again. This time she was afraid it would explode.
Years ago, when Sayuri was seriously ill, Itachi had combed her hair once. She hadn't felt that way then.
On the contrary: at the time she had hated him for his snooty manner.
Over time that subsided and he became more and more of a friend. What if Sayuri ... She shook her head. Pah! Never in life!
"What is it?" He asked.
"N .. nothing ..." she stammered. He looked at her questioningly.
"How cute. Two lovers on cloud nine." Jokes Shisui.
Sayuri felt herself blush.
"Stop watching your soap operas," Itachi replied coldly. Nobody would get hold of someone like Itachi, not even her, who had known him for years.
What about her?
Something moved in the forest that startled her and Itachi.
Then something happened that made Sayuri black out ...

~ Day four - ninety-six hours and thirty minutes after the start of the second exam ~

When Shisui's gaze became clearer again, he realized that he was suddenly completely different. Where else was he in a clearing, now he was in the middle of trees.His body hurt as if trying to get up.
A black-haired man stood in front of him. One of the Sunanins?

With his kunai in one hand, Itachi stood in front of a little boy from Suna. They attacked the group and then split them up.
At that moment he didn't wonder where Sayuri and Shisui were and how the two children were.
the little boy had a strange aura, and that worried him more.

"Finally awake?" Said a girl's voice. Sayuri tried to get up again, but her body felt numb.
When her gaze became clearer, she saw the Sunanin girl.
What happened?
The Sunakunoichi brushed a strand from her hair.
A look to the right and left told Sayuri that they were both alone. The Kunoichi came closer, grabbed Sayuri by the collar and pulled her up.
"Come on, little one, I want to see what you've got."
Sayuri staggered a little, her legs wanted to give way. Her illness, which she was able to suppress for so long?
The Sunakunoichi punched her in the stomach,
so that Sayuri was pressed against a tree.
"Hm ... you don't seem to have more than a big mouth ..."
~ Day four - ninety-six hours and forty minutes after the start of the second test ~

"What do you want from us?" Asked Shisui. The big boy had a quiet story, he didn't seem to speak often "So you definitely don't want a cozy coffee party"
The great laughed softly, "We only want your scroll."
So mentioned that he wanted to kill her, didn't mention the size ...
The Sunanin took a step forward and suddenly seemed to be gone. Fortunately, Shisui noticed that the tall one was standing behind him and barely escaped an attack.
Two hands grabbed Shisui's hands, which they raised over his head. It wasn't his or the Sunanin's hands, they seemed to come from his back.
The big one hit him in the stomach and the Konohanin flew through several treetops until he came to a stop in front of a tree trunk."I fell for another genjutsu ..." he gasped.
He unwrapped the bandages on his arm.
"Even if I have to listen to Sayuri's Medicnin moral sermon for hours again ..."

The little one took out a doll and Itachi cocked her head.
He didn't seem to realize that Itachi was his enemy, or that he was even there. He was too calm.
Itachi closed his eyes mockingly and when he opened his Sharingan came to light. He thought of that time, at the training ground, where Sayuri went up to old Sensei without cover.
Neither he slept in class or Itachi had to be careful not to be attacked from behind.
The boy ran his little finger over the cheek of the doll, he looked like he was in a trance.
Itachi stopped himself from attacking, but before he got anywhere near the boy, he gave the doll a pat on the back of the head. Itachi involuntarily hit his head on the floor.
The little one lifted the doll and Itachi reluctantly rose.
The little one raised the doll's arms and Itachi raised his arms.
How could that be?
"Besides the spoiled kid of the Kazekagen, I am one of the strongest ninjas from Sunagakure."
"And why are you still Genin?"
"Ask the Kazekage ..."
Itachi tried to move, but couldn't.
"Like the bloodstream, the body is traversed by the chakra channels. These bring the chakra to the individual parts of the body and thus bring the strength that the body needs to move.
Through this little doll I can let the chakra of my opponent flow and so I can then the chakra
control my opponent and his body. "
Itachi was always good at reasoning, so he had a good grasp of jutsu.
"You don't have to get your hands dirty."
The boy's cold, callous look stung Itachi's heart. He began to breathe faster and shallower.It was as if fear seized him. Then he shook his head. A nija is not allowed to show his weaknesses. No, Itachi didn't have any ...
The little one came closer. "You think you are strong because you were born with your talent. But you are not and I will prove it to you, little one ..."

~ Day four - seventy hours after the start of the second exam ~

Sayuri recovered from the attack. Your view blurred. Nevertheless, she noticed how the Sunakunoichi was pulling something out of her kunai pocket on her leg. It wasn't a kunai, not a shuriken. It looked like a feather ...
The Kunoichi grabbed her shoulder and pressed her against the tree
“I had hoped for more from you.” When she stabbed with the end of the pen, she did not hit Sayuri, but a wooden pole.
"The swap jutsu. Maybe you can do something."
A little further away from the Sunanin, Sayuri leaned against a tree. Her heart raced like it hadn't for years.
Where were Shisi and Itachi?
She looked up when she saw a rustle and saw white feathers raining down on her from all sides. She was glad to have escaped in time.
The feathers turned as if by magic and raced towards them again. Through sharingan, she realized that these feathers were hanging on what seemed to be invisible threads.
With another swap jutsu she escaped the rain of feathers.
She grabbed a couple of the feathers and set them on fire with a ryuka no jutsu. The flames ran the thin thread endlessly. At the end there is a small tuft in the branches to burn. Since it wasn't damp, but rather warm because of the summer, the fire quickly grew bigger.
"You really seem better than I thought, little one"
The Sunakunoichi stood behind her, but Sayuri was no longer surprised.
"I'm better too," the Konohakunoichi said firmly.

~ Day four - seventy-one hours after the start of the exam ~

Shisui leaned chaste against a tree.The big one stuck his head in the ground and tried desperately to get out.
Itachi would have been a perfect time to attack
said, but Shisui muscles hurt too much to belong to him.
When he was about to sit down, he noticed how he was getting a small cut on his cheek and with horror he realized that he was in a net on thin threads.
Every little movement brought him another wound, and each more hurt.
When these threads started to burn ...

Sayuri was able to avoid violent attacks by diving jutsus and kagebushins. This Sunakunoichi was - to Sayuri's disadvantage - good for him Taijutsu and of course they took advantage of that.
Sayuri could have cursed her illness.
The Kunoichi seemed to have recognized her weakness, because she kept yelling at. Fortunately, Sayuri was skillful enough to anticipate the attacks and avoid them.
She palmed her hands lightly and felt her blue chakra gather in her hands.
Something moved above her. His black shadow came down and Sayuri couldn't help but avoid.
Her jutsu could not be disturbed by using her hands.
Behind her stood the Kunoichi, not a Bush girl, but the real one. Sayuri ducked as she drew back to strike.
"Usually," said Sayuri, "the Chakra no Mesu is not lethal."
The girl just looked at her blankly. "Please?"
"But if you hit the heart exactly and make sure that the heart fails, there can be problems, right?"
With these words she touched the Sunakunoichi at the place where her heart should be and she sang to the ground. She moved violently to and fro.
Sayuri had learned this jutsu with the medicnins when they had to help for a mission there for a few weeks.
For a moment she had doubts as she tormented herself about how the Sunanin was.
That makes me different from Itachi, she thought bitterly, I can't watch it ...~ Day four - seventy-two hours after the start of the second exam ~

How long? Itachi wondered, How long have I been stuck in this jutsu?
His body felt limp, he would like to fall on the floor, but it didn't work.
When he wasn't attacked or the little one was playing with the doll, he would watch Itachi try to get away from the jutsu. That alone stole a lot of strength from him.
"Boring," yelped the little one, "I expected more from a 'nater talent'."
He came up to Itachi, his eyes looking right through him.
He had a kunai in hand and Itachi was thinking about
Hakyo, whom he had killed with a kunai at the time.
Again the Konohaninja tried to get away, to run away, but it did not succeed.
With every step the little one took closer, Itachi felt a feeling that others called fear.
I'm not like them ... I'm not scared.
> Not even twins are completely alike. Then how do you think it's us? They had become genin at the same time, had received the Sharingan at the same time. A girl who was on par with him.
> You will never be as strong as your girlfriend ... <
Blind anger rose in him. He couldn't die now ...
Then he thought of Shisui. He would have been the only one who would have gullibly fallen for such a jutsu. but now it was Itachi.
Back when they were phoned by Hakyo, what he was weak, so weak that he let Shisui help him.
That couldn't happen.
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