'Well, we made it to the tower. Now what? ' Kiba swung his head from side to side, looking around at the seemingly empty tower. 'Wait, are we the first ones here? Yeah! Team 8 is so awesome! '

'Not quite on either account, ' a feminine voice came from the shadows. Kiba spun around with his teammates to see three of the genin from Suna standing on an elevated walkway a floor above them, the girl leaning over the railing to smirk tauntingly down at the new arrivals. Her brother leaned over next to her and laughed.

'Yeah, you guys are neither first nor awesome. We 've been here for hours already. '

Instantly irritated, Kiba made a fist and shook it up at the three foreign shinobi. ' 'Well you guys must have cheated to have gotten here so fast! '