"Dosu, have you seen Mimi? Lord Orochimaru needs to speak with her about our mission." said a brown haired fourteen year-old boy as he passed his comrad.
"Yes Zaku. She is in her room." replied the fuzzy backed, black haired fourteen year-old boy known as Dosu. The boy known as Zaku nodded and proceeded down the long black hallway. He soon came upon a door with the name 'Mimi' on a black plate in gold letters on it. He knocked and crossed his arms, waiting for it to be answered. He jumped a little when the door was opened, since he heard no sound come from the room. A girl poked her head out. Her pale lavender eyes that were almost those of a Hyuuga burned a hole into Zaku's eyes as she raised an eyebrow. Her hood covered her entire head so only her face was showing. Oddly enough, Zaku, Dosu, and Kin were her team mates, yet they've never heard her speak a word. She only speaks to Orochimaru, since he is her master. Zaku looked at her and let his arms fall to his sides.
"Lord Orochimaru wants to talk to you." he said simply. The girl nodded and stepped out of her room, closing her door behind her gently. She passed Zaku and walked toward her master's room. She stepped up to the two large doors with no emotion on her face. She stared at the two large carving of snakes on each of the doors before knocking.
"Come in Mimi-chan." came her masters voice. The girl known as Mimi pushed one of the doors opened and walked in, closing it behind her. She bowed respectfully to her master. He chuckled. "Stand Mimi-chan. I only wish to speak to you about a mission." he said calmly. Mimi stood up straight and looked at him with interest.
"Yes? What is it master?" came her small, shy, yet feminine voice.
"You may just call me Orochimaru-sama Mimi-chan. And, please take your hood down. You look so much better when you show your face to me." he replied with a sly smile. The girl nodded and removed her hood, letting her black waist-length hair fall freely over her back. She returned her dull gaze back to her master, seeing him grinning. She blinked slowly.
"Please continue mas- Uhm, Orochimaru-sama." she corrected herself. Orochimaru leaned back in his chair and smirked with his eyes closed.
"This mission is very simple. You, Zaku, Kin, and Dosu are to enter this years Chuunin Exams." he said simply. Mimi raised an eyebrow.
"Is that all?" she asked. He shook his head as his smirk grew.
"There is a catch. You four must go after one target, and one target alone." he said.
"Who?" she asked.
"Uchiha Sasuke. I want you to kill him, and do whatever it takes to complete the mission. As in, you must protect your comrads with your life." he replied as his smirk grew into an evil smile.
"But, why must we kill him?" Mimi asked. He chuckled.
"It's a secret that you will find out soon enough, Mimi-chan." he said simply as he waved his hand to dismiss her. She nodded in reply and began to walk out.
"Oh, and one last thing." he called. Mimi stopped and turned her head. "Only use your kekkei genkai, when necessary." he said with a smirk. She stood there for a moment before the corner of her mouth formed into an evil smirk of her own.
"Yes Orochimaru-sama." she replied as she walked out.
"Sasuke-kun!" cried a pink haired girl with hearts in her eyes as she gazed upon the raven haired boy sitting in a tree. The boy tossed the pebble in his hand carelessly up and caught it once again a few times as he glared at the Sand genin in black below him. The Sand ninja glared back as he held his hand where it had been hit by a rock the raven haired boy threw.
"What business do have here in our village?" the raven haired boy asked coldly as he crushed the rock in his hand as if it were nothing.
"What's it to you?! You brat! I'll teach you to mess with a Sand nin!" the one in black said viciously as he pulled the bandaged puppet, which appeared to look like a mummy, from his back. The blonde haired girl beside him gasped lightly.
"Y-you're going to use Crow for this?!" she asked frantically. The boy in black smirked.
"Yeah. I'll only take two seconds to take this guy down." he replied as he began to unwrap the puppet. The girl sighed.
"Fine. But I'm not getting involved." she said as she turned away from him. His smirk grew slightly as the bandages began to slowly fall from the puppet.
"Kankuro, stop." came a cold voice from the tree the raven haired boy was sitting in. Each of them tensed, especially the blonde haired girl and boy in black. The pink haired girl, raven haired boy, and blonde spiky haired boy looked up into the tree with shock written all over their faces. They saw a boy with red hair and sea foam green eyes with the kanji sign for 'love' on the left side of his forehead hanging upside down from a branch in the tree. "You're a disgrace to our entire village." the boy said coldly while looking at the shaking boy in black.
"S-sorry G-Gaara. B-but these guys s-started it!" the boy defended while trying desperately to sound calm.
"Damaru, or I'll kill you." the boy now known as Gaara replied coldly. The boy known as Kankuro winced slightly. Gaara vanished in a whirl of sand and reappeared next to Kankuro. The blonde girl walked up beside them both. They turned around and began walking away.
"Hold on there! You're not from this village. You're from the Sand! I can tell by your headbands. What're you doing here?" asked the pink haired girl. The blonde Sand ninja sighed in annoyance.
"You Leaf Village ninja don't know anything, do you? We're here for the Chuunin Exams." she said. The pink haired girl blinked.
"Chunin, what?" she asked. The Sand nin growled lightly.
"You really don't know? God you Leaf ninja are so stupid. Junior ninja are sent from the Hidden Sand Village and the minor lands between our home and yours to compete against Konoha's own candidates." she said.
"But, why test us all together?" asked the blonde haired boy.
"Mainly to maintain the skill of all shinobi at the same high level of excellence. Also to foster friendship and understanding between ninja. And, of course, to maintain the balance of power between the lands themselves." the girl finished.
"Hey Konohamaru! Maybe I should enter the Chuunin Exams too, huh?!" asked the boy to a smaller boy, presumed to be Konohamaru. The girl got an anger vein.
"Listen you! When someone's talking to you it's common courtesy for you to listen!" she shouted. The boy with raven hair jumped down from the tree in front of the pink haired girl.
"Hey, you there. What's your name?" he asked. The girl with blonde hair looked at him with a small blush.
"Wh-who? Me?" she asked.
"No. I'm talking to the one with the gourd on his back." the boy replied as he pointed to Gaara. Gaara turned to look at the boy. There was a small pause before he broke the silence.
"Sabaku no Gaara. I am also interested in your name. Who are you?" he asked the raven haired boy. The boy smirked with a light chuckle.
"Uchiha Sasuke." he replied. A silence followed. The wind blew gently, ruffling everyone's hair lightly. The silence was interrupted by the blonde boy.
"HEY HEY! Don't you wanna know my name?!" he asked.
"I couldn't care less." Gaara replied coldly as he turned around. "Let's go." he commanded and vanished. The boy in black and the blonde girl vanished as well. The blonde boy became enraged.
'It's always about Sasuke!!!' he mentally yelled. As the blonde boy began to yell at Sasuke about how great he thinks he is, four Sound ninja stood in the tree that Gaara and Sasuke had previously been in. Dosu stared at them all with his beady black eyes.
"What do you think Dosu?" asked Zaku.
"They all seem very weak. Except that sand rat and the Uchiha boy. We must keep an eye on them." Dosu replied. Zaku nodded and looked to his right at Mimi.
"How 'bout you Mimi? What do you think?" he asked. Mimi said nothing but merely nodded, agreeing with what Dosu had said. The girl with long black hair glared at her.
"Why don't you ever talk? You mute freak. I know you can talk, don't pretend." she said angrily. Mimi ignored her and continued to stare down at the Leaf nin. She payed close attention to the pink haired girl and Uchiha boy.
'Those two runts, I feel like I've met them before...' she thought. The four vanished with the wind, not to be seen again until the Chuunin Selection Exams.