New Ninjas, New Challenges

Chapter 1: Who is she really?

"The Chunin exam preliminaries will be postponed until tomorrow."~Near midnight that night~Kiba out onto the balcony to clear his head. Then he noticed someone else farther on down the balcony. She looked like the girl form TenTen's preliminary match earlier that day.

"Hey. What are you doing out here so late?" Kiba asked the girl.

"I should be asking you the same thing, you know?" she asked flatly.

"Your name is Seika, right?"

"And your name is what exactly?" Seika threw the question right back at him.

"I'm Kiba. And you still haven't answered my questions I asked you."

"Yes, my name is Seika. And for the other question, probably what you're doing."

"Oh. I see. Keep to yourself, huh?"

"You always ask as many questions as this?" Seika sounded slightly annoyed.

"No."

"Then why tonight, with me?" Seika's patience was wearing thin.

"Well maybe I want to get to know you and become friends with you."

"I don't have friends. I can't have friends. And my past is what makes things like that." Her eyes were covered by shadows.

Kiba just looked at her. 'How can her past do that. No one's past is that horrible. Or is hers that bad?'

"How about…" He was cut off by her.

"No." Was her firm response.

"But I didn't even ask it yet."

"You were going to ask me to tell you about my past, right? Well, NO!!" she yelled.

"I don't know if this helps but 3 of my other friends, Sasuke, TenTen, Neji and Naruto, all lost their parents and family when they were little."

Seika looked up and turned to look at him. "W-What? Really?" She looked shocked at what Kiba just said.

"Yeah. Neji's father died protecting Hinata's father. He was so cold and ruthless. After that he nearly killed Hinata in the first preliminaries of the Chunin exams. But TenTen changed him."

"That's so sad." She was looking down now. Then she looked at him. "Isn't TenTen one of the others you mentioned?" Seika's voice was soft now, not harsh like it was before.

"Yeah. I'm not sure how it happened. You would have to ask her about the details."

"What about Sasuke? What happened with him?"

"It was terrible. His whole clan was destroyed. Only him and his brother survived."

"That's good."

"No. His brother was the one who killed all of them. His brother killed their parents right in front of him. Sasuke was traumatized and became hearted. He finally opened up once he got some friends. Were any of those, except for TenTen's, like yours?"

She looked down and spoke in a soft whisper, "Both. Both Sasuke and Neji's sound like mine."

"Will you please tell me about your past?"

She looked at his face. When she looked into his eyes, she felt like she was being swallowed up by them.