Here is teh next Chapter to Blood Drops. Hope you enjoy!

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Chapter 2

The Chunin Exams

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It has been 5 years since that night that I ran away from my home village. The Village Hidden in the Leaf has taken me in on three conditions. 1, nobody, other than the Hokage and the council, must know about Ka Ryu. 2, I can't kill anyone. And 3, I have to enroll as a ninja at the Ninja Academe.

I agreed to the conditions happily, I knew that if someone, anyone, found out about Ka Ryu then it would end up like the Village Hidden in the Rain all over again. I didn't want to kill anyone, so that rule was easy to agree to. And I've always wanted to be a ninja, but nobody at the Village Hidden in the Rain would let me.

Soon after enrolling at the Ninja Academe I started to get some friends. One of them was a boy named Naruto, he is just like me. Everyone thinks he's a monster because of the Nine-tailed demon fox that is trapped inside of him. We meet one day at the play ground, I was playing with my friends, Sakura and Ino, when I saw him all alone at the swing sets. I stopped what I was doing and went over to the poor, sad, lonely boy.

"Hey," I said when I reached him. "Mind if I join you?"

"Aren't you afraid of me?" The blonde asked.

"No, why? Should I be?" I asked him.

"Everyone else is, why not you?"

"Because," I said smiling, "I'm not like everyone else. What's your name?"

"Naruto"

"Naruto, huh? Well that's a nice name. I like it" I said, smiling wider.

He just looked at me, confused. "Your weird, you know that?"

"I know," we both laughed for a while till I said "So why is everyone scared of you?"

That made him stop laughing, he looked at me, then at the ground. "Because everyone thinks I'm a monster."

"…Well I don't think you're a monster," I said, making him snap his head up to look at me. I smiled at him. "I think you're really nice."

"you do?"

"Yes, I think me and you are going to be great friends."

"Friends?"

"Friends," I said, smiling even wider, and he smiled back at me. I sat next to him by the tree while he sat on the swing. We talked some more about what we liked and what we wanted to be when we grow up. I said I wanted to be loved by everyone, while he said he wants to be Hokage. I told him that I would help him, in any way possible, to achieve is life's dream.

Soon after I started to make even more friends, like Sasuke, Rock Lee, Tenten, Neji, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata, Shino, Kiba, and Akamaru. We would all hang out sometimes and eat at the ramen shop or go somewhere and train.

I am now 14, I have long blonde hair that flow down to my lower back, which I like to keep it in a pony-tail so it will stay out of my face when I'm training, fighting, or sleeping. I like to wear a black jacket with the zipper left open and a dark red shirt underneath with a black 'Dragon' kanji on it, but nobody ever asked why. The jacket is long-sleeved, but the sleeves are always an inch too long so I cut a hole in them for my thumbs. If anyone ever saw me without my jacket on they would see a tattoo-like birthmark on my arm that is shaped like a dragon coiled around my bicep. I have black, short shorts on with a headband tied loosely around my neck.

Today is the day that we all graduate from the academe and everyone is excited. Iruka- sensei says that today he is going to tell us who our partners are. Of course I snuck in and helped Naruto out by partnering him up with Sakura, but I was surprised that Sasuke was in the group, didn't see that one coming. Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji were put into a group while Hinata, Shino, and Kiba are in another group. Iruka-sensei didn't know where to put me so for now I'm in Team 8 with Kurenai-sensei.

I don't need as much training as the rest, and even if I did I'm not going to let them know my moves. So during the day I help Hinata with her training and at night I do my training.

"Why don't you train with us today, Lynne?" asked Kurenai-sensei, one day on the training field.

"Well, I'm helping Hinata with her training."

"But you've been helping her with her training all week, why not work on your training?"

"Um…okay," I really didn't want to train in front of anyone, because I fear that they would notice that my jutsu's are not normal, so I decided to start with one of my most simplest jutsu.

Doing some hand signs the team had stopped their training and are now looking at me. When I finished the hand signs I lifted my hand out in front of me, palm held up, and said "Dragon Sword Jutsu," and a light flashed in my hand. When it died down a sword appeared in my now closed fist. The sword was very strong and had a shiny black color to it because it was mad out of Ka Ryu's scales. The hilt of the sword is also black, but was darker, and had a swirl-like design to it. At the butt of the sword, imbedded in the hilt is a blood red jewel that most would say is a ruby. Let them believe what they want to believe, because if they knew what it really was they would surly try, with all their might, to kill me.

With the Dragon Sword now in my hand I turn to the dummy in the middle of the battle field. I jumped forward, spin in the air, and sliced the dummy in half, and landed in front of it. I turned around and sliced the other dummies with ease, till only one stood. I threw the sword at the dummy and it cut the head right off. As soon as the sword landed in the tree, behind the dummy, it vanished in a beautiful show of dark light.

I tuned to face my team, they all had a look of surprise on their face. After what seemed like an eternity, but was only a few seconds, everyone started to walk towards me, except for Kurenai-sensei.

I knew it, they want to kill me now before I kill them. But I would never hurt them. I got into defense mode but they just kept walking towards me. When they reached me Kiba and Hinata hugged me while smiling, Shino just stood in front of me with his thumb held up.

"Who knew you had it in yah?" Kiba yelled in my ear.

"I knew she could do it," Hinata said shyly, still hugging me.

"I knew she had a lot of chakra," Shino said, lowering his hand back down.

"Um… Thanks you guys. Can you let go now, I can't breathe," they let go of me and stood back with Shino. Kurenai-sensei walked over to me and put her hand on my shoulder.

"See, Lynne, it's easy," said Kurenai-sensei. She then turned to the team, "come on class, we need to train some more. I have some good news, the Chunin Exams are coming up soon."

"What is the Chunin Exams?" asked Hinata.

"The Chunin Exams are a set of tasks that a Genin can complete to become a Chunin," I explained.

"Exactly! So, who's up to the task?" exclaimed Kurenai-sensei.

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