TenTen swung an immediate kick and Rock Lee ducked then caught her heel and threw her. She landed on both arms and did a cartwheel away from Lee. Lee smirked and jumped into the air and speed towards her. She knew that he wasn't that good at changing directions so she threw a bunch of kunai where he was going and immediately he stopped where he was hit.

"I always hit my mark!" TenTen says this while shaking her forehead protector gently and smirked again while she took out a flurry of boomerangs with exploding tags. She slid backwards and jumped and threw the four boomerangs around Lee as it exploded fully and Lee was bounded into the air as he fell to his knees, blood trickling from his mouth.

Lee got up and took out the kunai and wiped the blood from his mouth and looked at TenTen. "GREAT MY YOUTHFUL TEAMMATE! WE WILL USE THE POWER OF THE YOUTH WITH YOUTFUL WEAPONS!" Lee screamed while embracing TenTen in a hug and running around with her. Neji looked along and smirked as he leaned back against a tree. "Hn."

TenTen pushed off Lee and went towards the shade of a tree, right next to Neji as she sat with her legs crossed. She looked up at Neji and smiled at him, and he was looking the other way. TenTen had feelings for her teammate, but she didn't show them, at least she didn't think that she did. She sighed and looked around towards Lee who was running around with Gai.

She fidgeted nervously and decided to start some conversation with Neji and chuckled. She looked up towards Neji. "Hey, whats up lately?" Neji looked down on her, rolled his eyes and turned back to what he was focusing at. "Hn." He said this and focused on the squirrel that was climbing up the tree and he looked back at TenTen with his Byukugan, sighing.

He really did like her, the way she threw a kunai, the way she ran. The way that she used her weapons was all beautiful. She was one great kunoichi, but his pride wouldn't let him admit the fact that he liked her. He was always watching her with his Byukugan, that didn't make him a stalker did it? GAH! He was acting more and more like Hinata every day.

Eventually, this awkward silence went on more for twenty minutes until Gai and Lee eventually came towards them and Lee jumped up and ran up the tree and sat on the branch as Gai gave his good guy pose. The rest of the team chuckled as Gai stopped. He put both hands on his hips and looked at his team. "As you know, it's been a year since the last Chuunin Exams. We all know that Neji got the final rounds, and lost to Naruto. Lee and TenTen, you lost in the preliminaries to the Sand ninja respectively."

They all remembered the chuunin exams greatly, and TenTen vowed that she will beat that Temari as she has been focusing on a bunch of new moves and weapons weren't her only jutsu now. She smirked and Neji just nodded, knowing that Naruto was gone and this was definitely going to pass the chuunin exams if that was what he was implying. Rock Lee jumped up and down and landed on the ground. "I'm ready!"

Gai looked on at his students. "Well, this Chuunin Exams are being held in the Land of Snow and we have decided to give in only TEN teams from the Hidden Leaf Village. Since Sasuke and Naruto are gone, Sakura is entering in with Chouji and Ino, since Shikamaru got chuunin already.."

They all nodded and were excited and ready for the exams. "Effectively, you guys were chosen as one of the teams and we are sure to get all of you Chuunin. You all know that the sand ninja are going to be there again so prepare. I know all of you have some new techniques, especially the youthful flower TenTen!" TenTen blushed to a deep red state at this comment as all of her blood rushed to her cheeks from embarrassment.

"The Land of Snow possesses an unusually advanced level of technology when compared to other countries in the Ninja world. Things such as railroads, airships, power generators, and volley guns are commonplace here, though the latter fired salvos of kunai instead of bullets. Additionally, their ninja wear special chakra armor that makes them virtually immune to ninjutsu and genjutsu."

Gai went on with his history rambling. "Well, before you knew it, the snow melted and it was changed to the Land of Spring, but effectively, a jutsu was cast and recently the snow was changed back and everything was the same. Although they are small, they do have this Mountain Range in the outer part of the country that they are willing to sacrifice for the exams. Their version of the Forest of Death is some snow forest."

They all nodded and knew that the chuunin exams were in some time and they all had to do this. Gai made a last comment. "It's an island remember, so we have to leave in two weeks, because it's in a month and it's a six day travel and I want you guys to get used to the conditions as well." They all nodded and Gai was off.

Neji, the team captain looked at everybody else. "Okay, I know this is not usual for us to go to foreign lands. We never went to the Snow Country, but we will be going to the Hakueri Mountain Range. The Hyuuga Head warned me and Hinata about this and if I face Hinata, I have to immediately give up to protect her. Also, you guys need to train some new techniques.

They all nodded and looked at each other, knowing that this was a big thing to do. They had to go to the Snow Country and be able to become Chuunin or possibly not pass at all. This was all a test for them.

xXx

TenTen stood in the training grounds, it was the day before they left and she needed to perfect the jutsu. She had nobody waiting at home because she was an orphan, and nobody knew who her parents and she was left in the village and decided to become a shinobi. She sighed and she had to perfect this the best way she can.

She had this perfect idea with weapons and her element that she was trying to create, and it was lightning infused. She sighed and sat down and opened her scroll, she really needed to train this lightning technique for the chuunin exams. She needed to master it and learn it for the battle rounds and her new secret technique. She took a deep breath and read.

Lightning Release techniques are jutsu that convert the user's chakra into electricity. Because of this, they require great deal of chakra to be performed. Lightning Release techniques are fast-moving, easily able to pierce matter, and tend to numb the target. They weren't common in Konahagakure ninja and she wanted Sasuke to teach her Chidori sometime, but it wouldn't work.

When used in conjunction with metal based weapons, the power becomes amplified. Lightning is good for middle to long-range attacks. She really needed to convert this into a jutsu. Using metal wires to control boomerangs, she channeled lightning chakra through the wires and the boomerangs became infused with lightning and almost like a lightning bolt themselves. This was with the use of Lightning Chakra channel.

She channeled the lightning chakra to her hand as it filled her palm and she decided to create this into an even newer technique as she began to push her palm forward with the lightning chakra over and over again as she eventually formed a defensive wall and she thrusted her palm forward as the lightning chakra rapidly pushed forward towards a tree.

The tree was hit by the lightning and immediately crumbled into the wood particles and again it continued, but weakened in powers as it hit another two trees that turned into a bunch of wood particles. She smiled at this technique, although she didn't develop a true weapon combination, she still had this to feed back on, although it did train a lot of her chakra. She fell to her knees and coughed.

She got up again and pulled out some scrolls and looked at the markings for the weapon that she needed and pressed the markings and in a cloud of smoke created two eight meter chains and she held them at one end as the other ends had kunai tied to them. The kunai blades were connected into the tree bark.

She quickly channeled some chakra through the chains as an electrical discharge was shown for a second but then it rapidly channeled through the chains and the tree had a sudden surge of electrical chakra through it and it immediately turned to crumbling wood as she controlled the chains without being hurt by the electrical discharge now.

The chains were rapidly flying around at all the trees as they all surged around and formed too many pieces of wood. Eventually, the electrical discharge was stopped and the chains were like regular chains and TenTen fell to her knees, panting. Those two jutsu alone took a lot of chakra out of her. She released her buns and continued to pant.

She eventually fell back and looked at the stars and smiled. She was going to own in the chains.

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XO Don't own Naruto.