OC: AIMI RYUU

Hair: Long brown hair, always tied up in a messy bun/pony.

Eyes: Dark brown/black eyes.

Age: 17

Body: Average frame, 5'8", busty, black tribal dragon tattoo of the Ryuu clan.

Outfit: Blue sandals, bandages and kunai pack on right thigh, black spankies, and long blue shirt that's tight on chest and arms but loose as it falls. She wears her headband (once she gets it) on her thigh.

Kekkei Genkai: The Kekkei Genkai of the Ryuu clan is the ability to change into a dragon. Aimi is the black (ying) dragon of the clan, spreading her Kekkei Genkai into Eyes that can sift through past memories/feelings

Clan: Ryuu clan, clan of dragons.

Personality: Aimi is quiet, sluggish and slightly resembles Shikamaru, always having a bored look on her face, making her look aggressive. She is very blunt and is usually offending people, having her brother apologize for her. She has a short temper, and can be emotional. She and her brother look identical even though he is a year older.

OC: TATSUO RYUU

Hair: Medium length brown hair, falls in front of his eyes a lot.

Eyes: Bright blue, white pupil

Age: 18

Body: Average frame, 6'0", toned, white tribal dragon tattoo of the Ryuu clan.

Outfit: Blue sandals, bandages and kunai pack on right thigh over black pants, green muscle shirt, bandages covering his tattoo on right arm. He wears his headband (once he gets it) on his thigh like his sister.

Kekkei Genkai: The Kekkei Genkai of the Ryuu clan is the ability to change into a dragon. Tatsuo is the white (yang) dragon of the clan, spreading his Kekkei Genkai into ears that can hear thoughts and blood flow.

Clan: Ryuu clan, clan of dragons.

Personality: Tatuso, unlike his sister, is loud and open. He seems hyper, always doing something or talking with someone. He is very quick on his feet and seems to always be smiling. He is very polite and courteous, always going out of his way to fix the problems his sister creates, and he never uses his Kekkei Genkai to read thoughts because of his personality. He doesn't anger easily, and is good at hiding his feelings or masking them with something else.

Alright, this is going to be a real story for once, with a plot and such, although there will at some point be lemon sections, although I'm not sure who I'm going to pair my OC's with. Maybe I'll ask you guys who I should pair them with later on. Please rate and review. :)

A cold chill made its way up my spine, my body turning frigid as I made my way through the forest. I had no idea where I was going, but I knew that I was going to die soon. The weather outside was beautiful, the sun shining down on dew drops clinging to the trees, and I knew that I should have been warm. I wasn't though; I was frozen, my fingers turning blue as I fell to the ground, the pain shooting up my leg in a sharp burst. The blood that was running in a stream down my leg should have been warm against my skin, but I couldn't feel it anymore. Forcing myself to my feet, I limped forward. I had to keep going.

"Hey, stop! Who are you?" A voice called out in aggression to me, and I obeyed, my eyes lazily scanning the area only to notice a giant wall with a large iron gate, two men standing watch with a teenager in orange. I opened my mouth to speak, but no words came out, the colors blurring together as I fell to the ground. The orange color swirled around me as the teenager got closer, yelling things that my mind couldn't understand in its state. I felt arms around me suddenly, holding tightly only my shoulders and legs as I was lift up bridal style, my head lolling back when my muscles refused to hold it up. I laughed internally as I thought about what they must; that I'm dead. My eyes were open; I just wasn't able to move, putting all my strength into fighting back the darkness tugging at the corner of my consciousness. It was out of the question to pass out, not with who I was, with what I was. It was too dangerous.

You should have bandaged you're tattoo, idiot. Words that I heard not long ago drifted through my head as I scoffed. He was always scolding me.

"Hey, are you alright?" A voice asked me as I blinked against the blur of colors. How long had I been so deep in thought? My environment had completely changed, and as the colors sharpened and returned to their original places, I found myself staring up at a white ceiling, white walls around me. There was a white blanket over me, although it was stained red in several places. A shiver wracked my body as the cold started to return, the numbness of death fading away, the pain coming back. The orange blur that had carried me here was a teenage boy, his blonde hair pushed back by a silver plate with something etched into it, his large blue eyes moving from my face to my wound frantically, a frown scratched on his face in concentration. There were marks on his cheeks that interested me, reminding me of a fox. A tingling feeling on my wound caught my attention as I looked down to see a woman with a beautiful face, a blue diamond on her forehead above where her eyebrows were knotted together in concentration. Her hands were above my wounds, a green light flowing around me as I felt my skin knotting together, several of my wounds healing themselves slowly, although painfully. Her bright brown eyes darted to the boy before they returned to my wounds.

"Honestly Naruto, you leave the village for a mere ten minutes and you already bring in more trouble!" She growled as the boy scratched his head. So his name was Naruto? I'd have to remember that, if I survived.

"I'm sorry, Granny." He mumbled as confusion washed over me. Did he just call her Granny? She looked no older then 20.

"Tell me what happened. Who is this?"

"I don't know. She was limping though the forest and she came up to the gate and fell over. I don't think she realized she was at the village, I think she was just running from something." I watched the woman's reaction as she knitted her brows together again, her hands retreating as she touched my right arm. I flinched, knowing that she was staring at my tattoo as I forced my body to pull away, tugging the blanket up to cover me.

"You're awake!" The boy yelled as he put his face close to mine, a smile on his face. I blinked in return.

"Naruto."

"WAH?! How'd you know my name?!"

"She had just said it."

"You were listening?" The woman asked softly as I nodded, the pain in my body minimal as I sat up, making sure to hide my tattoo.

"Can you explain better then Naruto did then?"

"I'm afraid not."

"What's your name?" Naruto asked as I looked at him, my lazy eyes empty. I guess I could tell him, I did owe him that.

"My name is Aimi."

"Nice to meet you Aimi! You already know, but my name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm going to be Hokage one day!" He yelled loudly. My eyebrows knit together as I thought about the word he just said.

"Hokage?" I repeated as he nodded. "Does that mean I'm in the Village Hidden in the Leaves?"

"Yeah! And this is the 5th Hokage, Granny Tsunade! She saved you with medical ninjutsu!" A flash of concern passed the woman's face as I looked at her before smiling softly.

"Thank you, I appreciate your help. I didn't mean to come to this village, I just…" The sound of a door slamming open cut me off as the two men from the gate earlier burst in, panting and pale.

"Lady Hokage! Something urgent has happened!" They screamed as they pointed behind them. "T-the gate! It's being attacked by a g-g-g-iant dragon!"

"A dragon?!" Tsunade and Naruto screamed as I paled.

"Please come help! It's yelling at us to return its belongings, but we don't know what it's talking about!"

"Dammit. Send squad ten and eight!" Tsunade paled as she stood up and went to run out of the room.

"Wait. Send back the phrase 'in the darkness you'll find light' as well, and take me with you."

"What?" Naruto questioned as Tsunade looked me over.

"Just do as she says, hurry." She yelled as the men vanished, and she turned to me again. "Can you walk?"

"No."

"I'll carry you." Naruto stuttered as he held out his hands towards me. Accepting, I put my hands in his as he smiled and turned around, lifting me easily onto his back before running out of the hospital. The streets weren't in chaos, the people moving about happily as Naruto bolted through everyone, quickly arriving at the gate that I had come in. When we made our way though the gate my heart stopped at what I saw. A large dragon with scales as pristine as snow was frozen, a boy kneeling in front of him with a strange hand sign that caused his shadow to connect to the dragons, holding him in place. Sweat beaded on the boys forehead as he tried to control the dragon, another boy behind him with a large white dog smirked, red marks on his cheeks standing out as he started to spin.

"No!" I screamed suddenly as the red cheeked boy and his dog began to spin faster, their figures no longer visible in the swirling chakra and wind.

"Fang over fang!"

"NO!" I screamed again as I ignored my bodies refusal to move. I lunged off Naruto's back, summoning chakra to my hands as I appeared in front of the two swirling masses, the sharp points of their attacks landing on my palms as I caught them, kicking the shadow boy in the chin as I landed, sending him back as the shadow was released, the dragon roaring at the freedom. The spinning in my hands stopped, the boy with the red marks on his cheeks and the dog landing in front of me, his hand on mine and the dog's nose in my palm, utter shock on their faces at being stopped. More of my blood ran down my arms from my shredded palms, but the boy had gripped my hands, preventing me from pulling them back.

"Shikamaru!" Naruto yelled as he ran to the boy I had kicked, who sat up and wiped blood from his mouth. The blue eyes shot a glare at me. "What the hell are you doing?!" Naruto growled.

"I'm sorry…please don't hurt him…" I whispered as I tried to pull my hand away from the boy in front of me, who squeezed my hand tighter, the pain shooting up my arm as I winced.

"Who?" The boy in front of me asked, his dark, sharp eyes glaring at me. My black eyes shifted to the white dragon behind me, who had calmed after being released. "Wait, Shikamaru, your shadow possession!"

"It got released when she kicked me, Kiba. The dragon just isn't attacking."

"Tatsuo, don't hurt anyone here. They saved me, they didn't abduct me." I whispered as I gave up trying resist against Kiba's grip. A bright light flashed as everyone closed their eyes against it. I felt Kiba pull on my hand, twisting my arm so I couldn't run away in the distraction.

"Understood. Although I do wish he would let you go." Tatsuo's voice said softly as the light faded and I sighed when my eyes landed on him, his blue eyes glancing over everyone.

"Where'd the dragon go?" Naruto asked.

"If you give her back without a scene, then we'll leave. I promise." Tatuso said as he bowed slightly, but Kiba's grip did nothing as he looked at Tsunade.

"She's still in critical condition, and Kiba's attack made her lose even more blood. She'll die if she doesn't rest."

"Thank you for informing me, we'll try and find a safe location to heal her wounds." Tatsuo smiled as he held out his hand to Kiba. "May you please release her?"

"Tsunade?" Kiba questioned as she nodded.

"Release her, but I have one request of you two."

"What's that?" Tatsuo asked as Kiba let go of my hand, blood pooling in my torn palms.

"You two stay in the village until she recovers."

"That's not a good idea." I replied as Tatsuo made his way to stand beside me.

"Please. I know. But I still want you to stay here." Tsunade smiled as Tatsuo and I gasped, the rest of the people looking at her in confusion.

"Very well." Tatsuo smiled as he bowed again to her before turning to me and smacking the back of my head. "I swear to god if you ever do that again, I will beat you to a pulp." He growled before picking me up and putting me on his back.

"Shikamaru, Kiba, you two were the only available ones of your teams that I called. Are you still available?"

"Yeah, I'm free." Kiba nodded as Shikamaru shook his head.

"No, I have something to do. It's such a drag, but I gotta do it."

"Fine. Kiba, Naruto, you two come with us, everyone else; go back to your duties."

"Yes, Lady Hokage." Everyone said at once as Tatsuo gasped.

"Hokage? But that means we're…"

"Yeah, and they want us to stay." I mumbled quietly in his ear as he frowned.

"Why?"

"I'm not sure. She saw my tattoo…" I said as he sighed, following the woman without saying anything. When we arrived back at the hospital, they put me back in the bed, and after a lot of arguing, she convinced Tatsuo to sit in the other bed beside me while they got someone to look at him as well. He had several minor injuries, but they were healed quickly with the help of the medical core, and he sat on the bed while they inspected me again.

"Her palms are pretty torn up but it seems she somehow held together her skin with chakra…surprisingly there isn't going to be any permanent damage, just a lot of stitches and healing time."

"Thank you." Tsunade smiled as they left. I looked down at my now stitched hands and sighed. Tatsuo was going to be really angry with me for doing that. A warm tongue on my arm startled me as I yelped and looked over to see the giant white dog sitting beside my bed, his head down as he whined softly. I put my hand on his head softly as I smiled at him

"It's alright big guy." I said to him as his tail moved slightly.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about your hands too." The guy with the red marks on his cheeks said awkwardly, scratching his brown hair. "My name is Kiba Inuzuka, this is Akamaru."

"My name is Aimi."

"And I'm Tatsuo."

"So, granny, what did you mean by you know?" Naruto questioned as I flinched, Tatsuo's eyes darkening as he looked at my arm. He always scolded me to cover up my mark, but I never did.

"It's nothing really." Tsunade smiled.

"Our clan name is Ryuu. You've probably never heard of them." Tatsuo spoke up as I looked at him in shock. Kiba and Naruto both shook their heads.

"The Ryuu clan is a clan of dragons, their power and skill is beyond belief. This caused a lot of the villages to abandon them, killing them on sight if they saw them." Tsunade explained as Naruto frowned.

"We were just attacked by someone saying he was from the Sound Village." I shivered as I remembered the creepy man. "He said he wanted us to join him, but when we refused…"

"He's been hunting us for a long time now." Tatsuo admitted as everyone in the room paled.

"The sound village…that's…"

"Orichimaru." Naruto growled in rage.

"Yes, that's him. You're village is in danger the longer we're here. Although you're the first village that hasn't tried to kill us knowing that we are from the Ryuu clan."

"So that dragon earlier, was you?" Kiba asked in amazement as Tatsuo nodded.

"Yes."

"The Ryuu clan are all born with the spirit of the dragon. There is several different dragon spirits, but every one hundred years the best woman and man are chosen to get together and have children. Nineteen years ago, that's when it happened."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked as Tatsuo frowned.

"Nobody knows who the two parents spirit dragon is until after they woman is pregnant, but this year the two strongest ninjas of the Ryuu clan were from the Black dragon and the White dragon."

"What? That's…" Tsunade stuttered as I nodded.

"That was our parents. When they came out to the world of who their spirit dragons were, everyone became scared. There has never been a mix of the white and black dragons, and they're both the strongest of the clan." I explained as I looked at my tattoo. "When they learned this, they decided that it was time to exterminate our family. Luckily, a handful of our clan were strong enough to put off the attacks until my brother was born."

"Somehow they survived long enough for my sister to be born as well, but when we were four and five one of our clan betrayed us. He was jealous of how strong we were at such a young age and killed the rest of the clan."

"But you're still alive." Naruto thought out loud as I laughed.

"Obviously. But he's still after us. It's been thirteen years."

"When my sister was born, our parents knew the clan was coming to an end, and to ensure that Aimi would never be killed, they took the black spirit dragon in my father out of him and gave it to her."

"What does that mean?" Naruto asked as he looked confused. "I thought you all had that?"

"We do. We all have spirit dragons, but she actually has the dragon."

"Like a jinchuriki?" Naruto asked softly as Tatsuo looked at him surprised.

"Yes, except the black dragon isn't a feral being like most of the demons inside most jinchuriki." Tsunade explained as Kiba ruffled his hair.

"I'm so confused." He sighed as Naruto nodded in agreement.

"It doesn't matter, that's not why I called you two here." Tsunade said as the boys looked at her. "Since someone is trying to kill them, it's dangerous for them to be alone, but Aimi can't leave the hospital yet. I want you two to stand guard at different intervals. Kiba, you will go first, Naruto, you'll go second. While Kiba is here, I want you, Naruto, to take Tatsuo to your house. When Aimi recovers, the both of them will be living there with you."

"Alright." They both nodded as I paled.

"Living there?"

"Yes. The leaf village isn't like most villages. You two don't have to, but if you are okay with it, I'd like you to live here and become shinobi for this village."

"But…" I stuttered in amazement as Tatsuo smacked me before bowing low.

"Thank you so much…" He said softly as he looked at me, then Kiba and Akamaru. "You better keep her safe." He said as Kiba nodded, a smirk crossing his face.

"Don't worry, I got it."

A strange feeling of loneliness overcame me when the door closed behind Tatsuo, leaving me alone with Kiba and Akamaru, who had jumped onto the bed to lick my bandages while he lay at my feet. The sun was starting to set, casting an orange glow into the room as we sat in an awkward silence.

"The Inuzuka clan, it's a clan of beast masters right?" I asked as I pet Akamaru's head gently.

"Yeah, why?"

"You're features are interesting, does it come from being so close with the dogs throughout the generations?" Kiba's face reflected confusion as he looked at me.

"Interesting? Well…I guess so? I never thought about it." I lazily moved my eyes over to him.

"I didn't mean interesting in a bad way, relax." Kiba cocked his head slightly to the side as I spoke before ruffling his hair again.

"Going with your logic, what can the dragon clan do?"

"It depends on the spirit dragon."

"Well, yours is the black one right? What does that do?"

"People with the black spirit dragon have an easier time with earth style and water style jutsu because of our connection with the moon. But I have a Kekkei Genkai ability that allows me to sift through people's memories and current feelings." Kiba visibly flinched from the corner of my eye at my words, his eyes widening as he stared at me.

"Memories and feelings?"

"Yes. Would you like me to test it on you?" He held up his hands in front of him quickly, shaking his head.

"N-no thanks."

"What about Akamaru?"

"We've always been together, so our memories probably aren't much different." Kiba smiled as he stared at the sleeping dog. "But there is one memory that's always troubled me. It pushed me to be a better ninja."

"Which one is that?" I asked as I subtly flickered out my chakra to scan the feelings coming from him. I was overcome with guilt and physical pain wrapped up in sadness as I stared at him.

"No, it's nothing."

"I see."

"If you can see everyone's memories and feelings, it must be easy to make friends huh?"

"Friends?" I asked as I blinked at him. "No village has ever accepted us, I've never had an opportunity to make friends…all I have is Tatsuo, and he scolds me for using my Kekkei Genkai because it's an 'invasion of privacy' as he says."

"I'm sorry." Kiba mumbled as he thought over what I said.

"It's alright. The only reason I asked to test it is because I haven't mastered the memory part of it. Tatsuo doesn't let me use it often, so I can't control it well. He never uses his either, yet he has somehow mastered it."

"What's his do?"

"He can hear thoughts if he concentrates hard enough. The black spirit dragon focuses on the eyes while the white dragon concentrates on the ears. He can hear anything, even the blood flowing through veins. It helps detect irregular health problems."

"He'd be a great medical ninja." Kiba concluded as I nodded.

"I'm sure he would be. Maybe he can be." Kiba smiled at me before jumping to his feet when there was a knock on the door.

"It's just me, relax." Naruto mumbled. "It's my turn." Kiba nodded, waking Akamaru before he left. Had we really talked that long?

The next few weeks during my recovery I had a lot of people watch over me. I had met several of the people in the village that were my age other then Kiba and Naruto. In total, I had met Choji, Ino, Hinata, Shino, Shikamaru, Neji, Tenten, Lee and Sakura. Tsunade was watching over me today, although I could sense from her feelings that it was mostly because she was avoiding doing paper work. She had told me that the people I had met were all exceptional shinobi, all, except for Naruto, at the rank of chunin already. A lot of the time when I was with Tsunade and Sakura, they explained the way of the village, and how everything worked as well as the rank of ninja and how different jutsus worked. Choji and Ino would come in together, but all he would do was eat while Ino's stomach would growl. Shino would sit in the corner and stare at me. It creeped me out but I would just stare back. He didn't seem aggressive, yet I didn't make a move to talk to him, his bugs scanning my feelings as I scanned his. I liked when Neji would come in because he would talk to me about chakra control, and he said that him and Hinata would teach me some of the gentle fist style that belonged to the Hyuga clan. I wasn't fond of Tenten, so she had stopped coming along with Neji, and Sakura seemed to come with Naruto a lot, occasionally accompanied by a boy named Sai who stared at everything with an empty gaze. He baffled me by how he had no feelings no matter how hard I inspected him, so I didn't like when he came in. Lee was the last to come in before Tsunade, and he insisted on getting me to do some physical training while talking to me about taijutsu.

"Have you figured out why I came myself this time?" Tsunade asked, snapping me out of my reflections. I shook my head.

"I thought it was to avoid paperwork." A vein appeared on her forehead as Tatsuo came inside and sighed at her facial expression.

"No, it's because you can finally be released from the hospital."

"Really?" Tatsuo smiled as she nodded.

"Yes, her injuries were very bad, and it's taken a long time to repair the internal organs but she's safe to go out now. She can even start training with you."

"With you? You started training already?" I asked as I got out of the hospital bed, eager to put on real clothes and go out into the sunlight.

"Yes. Kiba had reported to me what you had told him about the abilities of the white dragon, and I agreed that it would be a great asset for a medical ninja, so I took him under my wing personally to train him." My jaw dropped as Tatsuo rubbed the back of his head, smiling awkwardly.

"Yeah, it's been going pretty good."

"I can't believe the Hokage herself is training someone like you." I smiled as Tatsuo narrowed his blue eyes.

"What's that mean?" He growled as I smirked, crossing my arms and looking out the window.

"Aimi, while you've been in the hospital I've been putting together a team to help train you. Although we are low on ninja for missions, I've put three aside specifically to help train you." Tsunade smiled as she held out some papers to me.

"What's this?" I asked as I took them and looked at the profiles of three ninja. I had met all of them these past few weeks.

"I've compiled the team to best asset your training, and get you up to speed as quickly as possible." She explained as I looked over the papers.

"I helped her put the team together, based on your personality." Tatsuo agreed as he pointed to a paper with information on Hinata Hyuga. "For example, I picked Hinata instead of Neji because of the gender, even though Neji is stronger."

"Hinata is for my chakra control right?" I asked as Tatsuo nodded.

"Yeah, and I was told that her and Neji agreed to teach you some of the gentle fist style."

"They did…what about the other two?" I asked as I looked at a paper with Kiba Inuzuka's information and Rock Lee's information.

"Rock Lee is for your physical training." Tsunade explained as I remembered back to the boy. He had told me that he couldn't use anything except taijutsu…

"I put Kiba and Akamaru in there." Tatsuo smiled as I looked up to meet his blue eyes. There was a strange look in them as I raised my eyebrows.

"Why?"

"I was originally going to put Naruto in there to work on teamwork because he's…difficult to get along with." Tatsuo sighed as if remembering something. "But, we're going to be living with him so I tried to pick someone else that's hard to get along with."

"He didn't seem that difficult to get along with. Maybe you're just bad at making friends." I replied as he narrowed his eyes at me again.

"No. I can get along with him fine. I just know your personality is going to complicate getting along with him."

"Why's that?" I growled angrily as he laughed and flicked my forehead.

"You'll see. It'll be a surprise I guess. But I have to go; I'm doing more training with Sakura today." He said as he left the room with a smirk on his face.

"I have to go as well…before Shizune finds me and drags me back." Tsunade sighed. "Come on, I need to sign you out."

"Alright." I nodded as I got to my feet, changing quickly before following her out of the room. When I was finally signed out of the hospital I smiled, staring up at the sky as I looked at the clouds. It was nice to finally be outside again, I thought to myself as I sighed and looked around. Now I just had to find my way around town without getting lost.

It took me a while to finally make it out of the heart of the town and down to the green hills behind the buildings, making my way to the training field that I was told to meet my team at. I moved my black eyes over the large field to search for the three others, finally finding a girl sitting by herself on three wooden poles in the ground. As I made my way closer I recognized her. Hinata. Opening her white eyes from her concentration she looked over at me and smiled, jumping down to stand in front of me.

"Good morning…"

"Morning, Hinata."

"Good morning, Aimi Ryuu!" A loud voice yelled happily as I moved my eyes to see Rock Lee jogging up to us, a smile on his face. Snaking my chakra out I called upon my Kekkei Genkai to inspect the feelings of the two around me. A wave of insecurity washed over me from Hinata, confidence buried underneath several layers of doubt as she smiled at me, unknowing of the invasion of privacy. I frowned at her in confusion, ignoring it for the time being as I focused more on Lee, and was almost blown over by the confidence and happiness that emanated from him. Determination multiplying his feelings tenfold, I almost didn't notice a flicker of something else from behind us. I couldn't place what the feeling was, and I had to double check that it wasn't coming from the two beside me. Pulling out a kunai, I flicked my wrist to throw it at the approaching feeling, a spark of fear and annoyance replacing whatever the other feeling was as they dodged my attack.

"What the hell was that for?!" Kiba yelled angrily as Akamaru barked at me, agreeing with his master. Withdrawing my chakra I looked over at him.

"Sorry." I shrugged as he narrowed his canine like eyes at me.

"I've been assigned as team leader…" Hinata said softly beside us as the two boys nodded in agreement. I looked her over, wondering how she could be team leader after reading her emotions. It was weird that she would be the team leader, and it was weird that Tatsuo would put her on the team instead of Neji, who was more skilled at this then she was. I had seen through his lie quickly, because he knew fully well that I didn't get along well with other girls, having only grown up with him I didn't know how to interact properly with them. Maybe that's what he was training me to do? I wondered as I looked over at her. No, it was something else…

"So, Aimi, what would you like to do?" She asked me as I looked around, pulling myself out of my thoughts. What had she said?

"What do you mean?"

"I can train you in chakra control today if you want, or you can go with Lee and do some taijutsu." I thought about her question as an image of Tatsuo appeared in my head. Something about Hinata had caught his interest, and I was curious as to what it was.

"Chakra sounds good. But what's he here for if I only have two options?" I asked as I pointed to Kiba, who growled in response.

"He's here to spar with you. He's balanced in both chakra and physical fighting, so if we teach you, he's here for you to practice using what you learnt." Lee explained as he let himself fall to the ground. "Now, if I cannot do 1000 push ups, then it is 2000 leg kicks!"

"…What is he doing…?" I asked as Kiba laughed.

"He's training while we train you."

"Let's go more into the open…" Hinata smiled as I nodded, the three of us making our way to the middle of the field, Lee's 'one, two, one, two' barely audible anymore. "Alright…I think we're far enough. Uhm…why don't you two spar first so I can see where you are with chakra control?" Hinata asked softly as I shrugged.

"Sure, if you want."I mumbled. Kiba smirked, sharp incisors showing as he bent down into a fighting position that resembled a dog.

"Ready?" He asked me as I frowned. I didn't really feel like fighting right now. I didn't have time to contemplate getting ready or not as he lunged at me, his nails had grown longer to resemble claws as I ducked, barely dodging it. Was that chakra? When did he do that? Jumping out of the way of another attack I called chakra to my hands, throwing a quick punch at him, only to hit a piece of wood.

"Substitution…" I complained as I felt a hand hit the back of my head, sending me flying forward. Putting my hands out I bounced off the ground and stood back up, anger rising in me as the back of my head throbbed. "You're supposed to use chakra, not physical attacks." I growled at him, getting a laugh in return.

"I don't have to do anything; it's you that has to show us chakra. I can use whatever I want." I narrowed my eyes at him as I moved my hands quickly, forming several hand signs as his face twisted in confusion.

"Dragon blade, chakra sword."

"What the hell?" Kiba mumbled as black chakra leaked from the tattoo on my arm to pool in my hand, elongating into the form of a sword before hardening into a black dagger that was glowing with my own blue chakra around my hand.

"Ready for my chakra control then?" I smirked as Hinata's eyes hardened, veins appearing around them as she took in the attack, reading my body. Kiba frowned as I lunged at him, slicing at his arm as he tried to block with his hand, only to have the blade go through. He hissed and jumped back as Hinata jumped in between us and held up her hands.

"Stop."

"What the hell kind of attack was that?" Kiba asked as he looked at his hand, wiggling his fingers to make sure they still worked.

"A chakra blade, it's not physical. It uses the black dragon's chakra to form a blade, and my chakra encloses it. I made sure I didn't cut anything on you, it was only mental pain."

"Mental pain?" Hinata asked as she looked at Kiba's hand.

"Yeah. It only attacks the nerves, sending electrical surges through the body and confusing the brain into thinking that the muscles are cut when they aren't."

"It's not a good feeling." Kiba replied dryly.

"It's not supposed to be, but sorry. I'm not good at controlling my temper. What did you inspect of my chakra, Hinata?"

"Oh. Well, it seems like you use too much at one time to do something…"

"What do you mean?" I asked as I walked over to Kiba and grabbed his hand.

"Well, for example, you should have only used about 20% of chakra to do that attack, yet you used 50%."

"How do you know that?" I asked in amazement as I looked from Kiba's hand to Hinata's face, looking at her eyes. It seemed she had a special set of eyes too.

"Why do you have my hand?" Kiba asked softly as I looked back at him.

"Oh, right. Here." I said as I pushed a spot on his hand causing him to sigh. "Take the pain away?"

"Yeah…"

"Good." I smiled as I dropped his hand and turned to face Hinata. "So?"

"I think I know how to help you." She smiled softly. Hinata was about to say something when she froze, her and Kiba tensing up and moving to a fighting position.

"Someone's here…" Kiba growled low as Hinata nodded.

"Yeah…" A feeling of being watched crawled up my spine, making the hairs on my neck stand up as I looked around. I tried to call upon my chakra to try and get a feeling reading, but Hinata was right. I had used much more then I should have when I used the Dragon blade. Fear gripped me as the bushes beside us started to rustle.

"Someone's coming!" Hinata yelled as a figure lunged towards us from the shadows.