[Chapter 1: A New Chapter Begins: The Chunin Exam and Identify Yourself: Powerful New Rivals!]

Leaf Village!

Koori Ookami, Luna Hikari, and Souta Kasumi, a Genin team from the Village Hidden Under the Moon walked along the streets of the Village Hidden in the Leaves ignoring the looks they where getting from the villagers. The villagers noticed that their different colored forehead protectors had a crescent moon showing what village they are from. Koori has her dark brown almost black that's naturally highlight with gray slight shoulder length hair pulled up into a spiky ponytail by a blue ribbon with her bangs covering her forehead with a part on her right side while they frame her face beautifully as her porcelain colored skin shows that she doesn't get enough sunlight just as her onyx colored eyes shows that she was not one to mess with, however, she did have a slight hourglass figure that most of the Leaf Villagers thought belonged to a 14-year-old girl not one that's 12, but they were most shocked when they noticed that both of her ears were priced twice on the ear lop. Some village girls started to talk to each other about what the dark haired girl was wearing: wondering why she was wearing a black trench coat outlined in violet with the shadow of a wolf standing on a cliff with it's head throw back in a howl at a full moon on the back for when it was a hot day.

"This is boring," Koori sighed

"This isn't boring it's annoying Lady Koori," Souta growled.

Souta left eye twitch in annoyances as he stuck his hands in the pocket of his red jean jacket that has a pale blue dragon that was surrounded by a silvery mist crest on the back opened over a black t-shirt. The most of the girls squealed when they looked at him to see that Souta has black short messy hair with his bangs covering his forehead while his brilliant blue colored eyes cought the sunlight perfectly, but his skin tone was the same as the first girl's skin, a porcelain color that shows he doesn't get enough sunlight either, but they almost fainted at seeing his muscles.

"Come down Souta," Luna told him, "it'll get better when the Chunin Exams start."

Luna has white boystyle hair with bangs covering her forehead, but it was her sapphire blue eyes that got the most of the boys attention. Koori looked over at the young white haired girl before she once again let out a sigh.

"Luna do you know where Azriael went?" Koori asked.

"I'm afraid not Lady Koori," Luna answered making Koori once again for the fourth time that day let out a sigh before her head snapped up having had heard a young child yelled in fear. "Lady Koori?"

"Milady is everything alright?" Souta asked.

Without answering Koori took off towards the direction where she has heard the child's cry with her two companions yelling at her to wait or to stop or where she was going as they chased her.

Alleyway!

Koori, Luna, and Souta ran through an alleyway before they stop spotting a group of Genin, but it was the guy wearing a black cat suit and war make-up.

"So does this hurt punk?" the guy asked a young boy that he was holding up in the air.

Koori growled under her breath as she clinched her fists while her body shook with fury making Luna and Souta to back up from her.

"Put him down Kankuro or you know you'll pay for it later," a dirty blond haired girl told him.

"Well, well," Souta mumbled as he looked at the pink haired girl, "what a cutie."

Luna faked gagging while Koori just continued to shake in fury.

"YOU BETTER TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF HIM RIHGT NOW!" a bright blond haired boy ordered.

'So these's are the Leaf Villages Genin,' Kankuro thought as he noticed the forehead protector, "we got a few minutes before he gets here." He tighten his hold on the young boy. "Let's mess with this punks, huh?"

"Let me go you jerk," the kid ordered as he started kicking the guy.

"Your feisty, but not for long," Kankuro said.

"PUT HIM DOWN!" the blond haired boy ordered as he charged forward, but he ended up falling backwards instead. "What the?" He sat up a bit to look at the guy. "What was that?"

"You a Leaf Genin," Kankuro stated, "looks like your village is full of wimps."

'Their outsiders from somewhere, but what are they doing here?' the pink haired girl thought.

Kankuro tightened his grip on the young boy again.

"Konohamaru!" the blond yelled.

"Konohamaru!" two other young voices yelled out in fear.

"Hey!" Konohamaru yelled, "cut it out! It's hurt!"

"That's it!" the blond yelled as he stood up, "drop him now or I'll take you apart! You got that, you fool?"

"Your the fool!" pinky yelled at him as she put the boy in a head lock. "Making threats isn't going to help Naruto!"

"Your annoying," Kankuro told Naruto, "all of you. I don't like runts or any other scrawny weaklings so when a wimp like this starts shooting off his mouth I just want to break him half."

This made not only Luna, Souta, and Koori gasp, but also Naruto and the pink haired girl as well.

"Fine," the other girl said with a sigh, "but I'm not involved in any of this, ok?"

'What's this guys problem?' pinky thought, 'this is getting ugly.'

"First I'll take care of this squirt and then I'll waste the other one," Kankuro told his teammate as he raised his fist.

Luna and Souta gasp as Koori shot forward, but in her place was a black and gray fur wolf with onyx colored eyes.

"LADY KOORI!" Luna and Souta yelled.

This cought the attention of the others making them look, but they soon look back when they heard something hit Kankuro's hand and him crying out in pain as the wolf bit his leg making him drop the young boy. Once the young boy was free the wolf let go and moved back, but kept an eye on Kankuro as it started to change forms. Now in the place of the wolf was Koori who walked over to her team.

"Your a long way from home and way out of your league," Sasuke told them.

"Sasuke!" pinky shouted with joy.

'Well, well,' the blond haired girl thought, 'local hottie.'

"Naruto!" Konohamaru cried.

"Oh, more wimps to tick me off," the guy mumbled.

"Get lost," Sasuke ordered as he crushed the rock that he was throwing up and down in his hand.

"So cool," pinky cheered with a little girl.

"How come your not cool like that?" Konohamaru asked.

"Ah, what'd ya mean?" Naruto asked, "I could have tooken that guy out in two seconds flat." Konohamaru looked away not believing Naruto one bit. 'Sasuke, your always trying to make me look back in front of everyone.'

"Hey, puppet boy!" Koori called making everyone look at her, "I suggest you take boy's advice and get lost!"

"Hey, punk get over here!" the boy called up, "your the kind of pesky little snot I hate the most. All attitude and nothing to back it up."

The boy pulled his puppet off his back as he got ready to fight Sasuke who just sat in the tree glaring at him for his earlier comment.

"What?" the blond girl asked, "are you going to use the Crow for this?"

"Kankuro back off," a monotone voice said, "your an embarrassment to our village."

Koori froze up along with Sasuke before she looked over to see a boy with red massy hair, sea green eyes, and a tattoo of love in kanji over his forehead with a gourd on his back.

'What the hell?' Koori thought, 'how come I didn't sense him.'

Luna and Souta looked at Koori surprised that she froze and shock that she didn't sense him.

"Hey, Gaara," Kankuro greeted nervously.

'When did he get there?' Sasuke thought, 'he didn't even make a sound. Only Jonin at Kakashi's level are that smooth.'

'How could this guy catch Lady Koori by surprise?' Souta thought with shock.

Koori looked at Kankuro before looking back at Gaara finally sensing that some about him was off and that blood thirty eyes of his is what crept her out the most.

"Your an embarrassment to our village," Gaara told his teammate, "have you forgotten the reason we came all the way here."

"I know," Kankuro told him, "I-I mean they challenged us. They started the whole thing." Koori glared him though she was more focused on Gaara. "Here's what happened..."

"Shut up," Gaara ordered, "or I'll kill you."

'Dude is hard core,' Koori thought with a sweat dropped.

"Huh?" Kankuro asked, "right, I was totally out of line. I'm sorry Gaara. I was totally out of line."

Gaara looked over at Sasuke with those blood thirsty eyes.

"I'm sorry for the trouble he caused," Gaara told them.

'This guy has an evil look in his eyes,' Sasuke thought.

'He stopped Kankuro with a pebble and made it look easy while the girl,' Gaara thought as he looked at Koori, 'she knew that Kankuro was a puppet master so quickly plus she even bit him. This two are some one to keep an eye on.' Koori watched as Gaara vanished in a whirl of sand before he reappeared in front of his teammates. "Let's go. We didn't come here to play games."

"Alright," Kankuro agreed, "sure. I get it."

Koori let out a sigh as they started to walk away, but she soon felt the urge to face palm when the pinkette decided to be a banshee.

"Hold on!" pinky yelled, "hey!"

"What?" the girl asked.

"I can tell from your headband that you come from the Village Hidden in the Sand," pinky pointed, "of course the Land of Fir and the Land of Wind are allies, but no shinobi can enter another's village without permission. So state your propose and it better be good."

"Really?" the girl asked, "have you guys been living under a rock or what? You know what's going on do you?"

"They don't," Koori answered as she stepped in front of the Leaf Genin with her two teammates. "But we sure do." The Sand and Leaf shinobi looked at her before they took noticed the black Tsukigakure forehead protector. "Your here for the Chunin Exams aren't you?"

"Yes," the girl answered with a smile glad that some one know what was up as she held up a pass with her name on it.

'Temari, huh?' Koori thought as she read the name.

"We have permission," Temari stated, "of course you are correct we are Hidden Sand Genin, our home it the Land of the Wind. And as the Tsukigakure shinobi here pointed, we're here for the Chunin Exam. Get the picture?"

"The Chunin Exam?" Naruto asked confused, "what's that? Well, I've never heard of no Chunin Exam. Believe it."

"I believe it alright," Temari told him, "that your totally clueless."

Koori and Luna giggled, but they ended up tuning Konohamaru out and then tuning in when Sasuke jumped down to stand in front of them. She then noticed that they had started to walk away again.

"Hey, you,!" he called, "identify yourself!"

Temari stopped walking and looked at Sasuke with a smile.

"You mean me?" she asked.

"No him," Sasuke answered before he pointed at Gaara, "the guy with the gourd on his back."

"My is Gaara of the Desert," Gaara answered after he turned around, "I'm curious about you, too."

Who are you?"

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha."

Gaara looked at Koori who looked back at him.

"And you, girl?" he asked.

"Koori Ookami from the Moon Village."

The Leaf and two of the Sand Genin gasp as they looked at her, but Naruto decided to break the silence

"Hi there," Naruto greeted, "I bet your dying to know my name, right?"

"I couldn't careless," Gaara answered.

The Sand Shinobi turned around and then left quickly leaving the Leaf and Moon Shinobis standing there before Naruto started talking to Konohamaru.

'Things are getting interesting,' Sasuke thought.

"You not going to show me up, Sasuke!" Naruto yelled out of no where.

"Back off loser," Sasuke ordered.

The Moon Shinobis let out sighs of disbelief before they walked off heading for the tea house to meet up with their Sensei.