Collapsing to her knees in the center of a clearing, surrounded by a field of weapons she cried out into the darkness. "I cant do this, why am I so useless! I"ll never be as good as Tsunade like this," as the tears streamed from her eyes she heard the sound of someone approaching. "Guy-sensei," she said, wiping the tears from her face. "What are you doing here, I thought you would be with Lee at the hospital,"she said standing up and brushing herself off, holding back the shame and guilt she felt for being so weak.
"I could never stand idly by while one of my beautiful students was in pain," striking a pose. Turning serious for once since she met him he put a finger to his chin while he looked at her inquisitively. "Now why would one of my most youthful students be crying during training." Summoning up his most youthful smile he cried out," I MUST STOKE THE FLAMES OF YOUTH, THE FIRE IN YOUR HEART!"
"SENSEI!" taking a deep breath she sighed, "I… just feel like I'm being left behind, seeing Lee and Neji fighting so hard and using such advanced abilities. Sasuke, Naruto, even that lazy Nara kid has gotten better than me. All I can do is some basic fuuinjutsu, and throw a bunch of projectiles, I'm not even that good at kenjutsu." Turning away from him she unrolled her scrolls to start resealing her weapons, when she felt a hand grab her shoulder.
In one of his rare serious moments Guy turned her around to face him. "Tenten, I am a master of Taijutsu and it truly burdens my soul that I cannot train you in the arts that you pursue. I only have one technique that I can give you, It is extremely dangerous and I had hoped to wait until my students were chunnin before teaching it to them. But I feel that you can handle the trials that would await you to master it," Frowning down at her, he motioned for her to follow him back into the village. Walking next to her they made their way through the village to the hokage monument, pointing up at them he said. "The Hokages were great men chosen not only for their strength but also for their ability to lead and to face indomitable odds to forge a better future for the youth of this village and the World. They were all great men who held respect in this realm and the realm of the summons, and were gifted with powerful contracts to summon allies to their aid. I used the summoning jutsu and was gifted with the turtle contract." Tenten looked towards her sensei with a stunned look on her face, 'is he seriously about to teach me that'. "When you use the summoning jutsu without a contract, it pulls you to the most appropriate clan, but if you fail the trials that face you… you will never be able to return."
For a second she felt an incredible sense of terror, but then she thought of all the things that had happened with the invasion. The death and destruction all around her, and how Naruto even with all the pain had kept on smiling and moving on, she wanted to be that way, to be that strong to save everyone. She clenched her fists and looked up at Guy, "please Sensei teach me the summoning jutsu, I want to protect everyone the way they protected me!" tears flowing freely as she was filled with an indomitable determination to be strong enough, Guy looked at her with pride and nodded.
"These are the hand seals that are necessary, when you are ready channel as much of your chakra as you can into it and prepare yourself. There is no telling where you may be taken, or what you may face on your journey. TRIUMPH WITH YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH AND RETURN TO US MY BEAUTIFUL STUDENT!" Giving her his signature pose he started to turn away when he felt her arms wrap around him.
"I will make you proud sensei," releasing him she jumped to the nearest roof and rushed home to prepare for a journey, she put on her pack and went down to the forge where she was taught by her father. Running her hand across the handles of countless weapons she decided to perform the jutsu there surrounded by the scents of the place she felt most at home. Taking a breath she cut her thumb on one of the swords surrounding her, Summoning Jutsu! She felt the chakra pouring out of her as she was enveloped by darkness.
Opening her eyes slowly she pushed herself up onto her side and blinked to clear her mind. Looking around she was in a dusty field with countless weapons shoved into the dirt for as far as she could see, her eyes widened as she saw a break in the black clouds shining down on a single grassy hill with two people sitting at the top. Getting up and dusting herself off she began to climb towards them. The man had white hair and was extremely tan, he had on a red coat and black leather pants. The woman had beautiful blonde hair and was wearing armor with a blue skirt. Looking down at Tenten as she approached he turned towards the woman next to him, "it looks like we are needed again my love, but we are ill suited for peace after all." looking at him with a completely serious face she said,
"I have waited countless years to be by your side, and you have searched countless more. Let us listen to this girls plight, I sense a great strength within her and would like to see it flourish." Leaning in towards her and kissing her cheek,
"Thats why I fell in love with you so many years ago my king," he whispered into her ear as he stood up and waited for the girl to approach them.
Tenten saw the two figures bathed in light at the top and couldn't help but feel intimidated by them, the sheer power they were letting off was incredible. Walking up to them she dropped to her knees and bowed to them, "Please Great Lords I wish to face your trials to be accepted as the summoner or your clan." The two people in front of her looked confusedly at each other then back at her.
"I'm sorry did you say my clan, the only people in this realm are myself and Saber." he said gesturing to the woman next to him while pulling Tenten to her feet.
"Yes Shirou is correct the only things that exist in this realm are the weapons you see around us and, my husband and I," she said with a small frown. Tenten looked confused and upset as she looked back and forth between them.
"What… oh no i must have performed the jutsu wrong, I was suppose to be pulled to the realm of the summon that best matched my soul, I guess Guy sensei was wrong, I wasnt ready and now i'm going to die in a wasteland filled with the most… awesome.. weapons EVER!" as she was speaking her voice got higher and higher and started drooling when she caught sight of the amazing golden sword sticking out of the ground behind the pair standing before her. Noticing her eyes fixed on Excalibur the two of them smirked feeling that they had found a kindred spirit before them.
"The technique you used was not a failure and I feel that you have come to exactly where you are suppose to be," he said as he pulled a pair of black and white falchion from the air beside him. "Because you are standing in my Realm, I am Shirou Emiya the Master of Blades and my Wife is King Arthuria Pendragon the greatest swordsman to ever live." Spinning his blades in his hands he snapped them down to land an inch from her face, "and your trial will be a duel between us to determine if you are worthy of the title."
Stepping away from them her hands shook at the thought of fighting such powerful beings, but as she gripped her scrolls in her hands the fire in her eyes burned bright as she prepared herself. "I won't give up, I will gain the strength to protect everyone." Deciding to go all out immediately she flipped high into the air and unfurled two scrolls and released hundreds of kunai and shuriken at high speed towards Shirou, as they approached he lifted up the black blade and swung it down so swiftly that a wind current blew all of the weapons that would have hit him away. Leaping up into the air and swinging both his blades at her in a spiral tenten quickly pulled out a pair of kunai to block with as they both bounced back to the ground. Analyzing the new weapons that had been added to his realm he saw that everyone of them had been made by Tenten.
"Hah, to think that such a skilled maker would throw her weapons away in the heat of battle. But what do you do when you run out of weapons to throw around." he said while charging towards her, swinging countless strikes at her that she was barely able to keep up with. Clashing with her countless times until her chest was heaving and she was drenched in sweat and ready to collapse. Lifting her arms back to a ready stance she pulled a pair of kunai and prepared to defend herself again, when Arthuria pushed Shirou's blades down.
"I have seen enough, though you are wasteful with your weapons and your talent with a sword is abysmal your inner strength is great."throwing her hair back over her shoulder as she turned away, "besides that, you are just like he was when he was young." Looking at her in amazement that she approved of there new summoner and attempted to make a joke at the same time, he broke down in laughter.
"Well," he said with a toothy grin. "If your going to be the Summoner of the Hill of Swords, then we will have to make a contract and work out the terms."