It had been a week since Orochimaru had brought Kazama and Jin to his hideout, since they had met Azuka and Kabuto. The two friends enjoyed making fun of Kabuto, bugging him at any possible opportunity. They had also discovered that he was in love with Azuka, tormenting him whenever she was around. Sadly for Kabuto, she had developed a liking for Jin who didn't return her feelings. Kazama would bug both his friend and Four Eyes about the love triangle.

Today, the newly established team was to train together for the first time. Orochimaru would have had them train sooner, but Jin was traumatized by his family's slaughter and told him he was unable to do anything but mourn and Kazama backed him up. They entered the training room to find that Orochimaru and Kabuto were already there, with four other ninjas that neither of them had seen before. They were greeted by a snake-like smile from their Sensei.

"Good morning, I would like you to meet your training partners. These are the Sound Four, Sakon, Kidomaru, Jirobo and Tayuya." hissed the Sannin.

The first, Sakon, had dark grey short hair with a bang over his right eye and another half over his left one. He wore green lipstick and a red pearl necklace. He also had something resembling a second head hanging behind his own. The second, Kidomaru, stood out the most for he had six arms. He was tanned and had dark-blue hair tied up in a spiky ponytail. The third, Jirobo, was large and tall. He had orange hair that was cut more or less like a mohican and had small eyes. The fourth, Tayuya, was the only girl of the group. She had long, untamed red hair and wore a black hat. She had big brown eyes and held a flute firmly. The four of them were taking in the new arrivals' appearances as well, Tayuya staring at Jin's exposed abs.

"Before you start though, I want to make it crystal clear that you four aren't to use your Curse Marks and that I don't want any deaths." warned Orochimaru, receiving a "Yes, my Lord!" from all of them. "Then begin!"

Kazama stared in wonder as Kidomaru started chewing quickly, then spitting a spider web at him. The axe wielder ducked and it ended up sticking to Azuka's hair and face, who was standing behind him. It took her a second to register what happened, another to realize what exactly was on her face and one last one to figure out who did it. She turned to Kidomaru and stared at him with a sadistic grin plastered onto her face. The six-armed man was expecting her to charge at him, what he wasn't expecting was for his female teammate to punch him in the jaw. Everyone froze, staring at Tayuya in shock. She looked like nothing had happened and was looking confused as to why one of her teammates was holding their face in agony, glaring daggers at her.

"What the hell was that for?" Kidomaru yelled. "Why in the world did you punch me?"

His words only confused her more.

"What are you on about? I didn't hit you!" she yelled back.

The only person who didn't seem affected by what had happened was Azuka, the grin on her face now victorious. Sakon noticed that and, him being the smartest of the group, came to his conclusion on what had happened.

"What did you do?" he asked her, gaining her and everyone's attention.

Kazama looked from Azuka to Sakon a few times before his hands flew up to hold his face.

"Wow! I'm confused!" he stated, eyes round and mouth hanging open.

Azuka ignored him and stared straight at Sakon.

"It's my Kekkei Genkai, a bloodline limit, called Kontororugan. It allows me to control anyone of my choosing, making them do whatever I want and that's not even the best part. They have no memories, no recollection of what happened while they were under my control. Tayuya had no idea what was going on when I made her hit Kidomaru." she added with a laugh.

At that comment, the two understood what had happened and charged at her. Kidomaru prepared to hit her full-force with all six of his arms and had an idea to avoid her Kekkei Genkai, to close his eyes. Azuka took that opportunity to control Tayuya, activating her Kontororugan. Her eyes turned from their usual pink to having a black lightning bolt form starting from her pupil and that carried on until it was hidden under her skin, and the part of the eye that is usually white was now brown. The red head, now under her control, ran to stand in the way of Kidomaru and got the full impact of the attack. She was sent flying and hit the wall, leaving a dent in it and fell unconscious on the ground. He was now standing next to Azuka, who had deactivated her Kontororugan, and he opened his eyes to admire his work but froze instantly when he realized who was lying on the floor, unconscious. Azuka whirled around and planted a kick in his gut, sending him crashing into the opposite wall. She crossed her arms over her chest and grinned victoriously.

When Azuka's opponents charged, Kazama took that as the signal to attack Jirobo. He swung his axe with great force, but the large ninja jumped back and missed but an inch. Jirobo pulled out two kunai and ran towards the Genin. With blinding speed, Kazama blocked the weapons with his axe and pushed his opponent away from him. While Jirobo was still thinking up a new attack, Kazama threw his axe in the air above him, made handsigns and yelled: "Blade Style: Steel Impersonation Jutsu!". The axe, that was now falling down towards its owner, suddenly slowed down as if it was moving in slow motion. When it reach its wielder, it morphed inside him. his arms and legs turned into blades and his body became as strong as steel.

Jirobo got over his shock quickly and, taking out more kunai and shuriken, charged his opponent once again, this time throwing his weapons. Kazama grinned and didn't even bother dodging them, knowing that they would bounce off his body, which they did. He ran with lightning speed and ended up behind Jirobo, both his arms pressed to the ninja's back.

"You're dead, I win!" Kazama stated proudly.

Jirobo grunted in annoyance and nodded before getting up and shaking Kazama's extended hand.

Unlike his teammates, Jin chose to remain where he stood and waited for Sakon to strike first. The two stayed staring at each other for about a minute before Jin realized that his opponent had chosen to use the same battle strategy. Jin tried to think of a way to get the battle over and done with as fast as possible, he wanted to use his family's Jutsu but he would need an opening for that. As if on cue, he felt Kidomaru flying towards them and he quickly ducked to avoid being hit, Sakon doing the same. He saw his chance and took it without hesitation. Taking a strand of his hair and wrapping it around his index, he made the all too familiar handsigns and shouted: "Secret Technique: Hair Thread Jutsu!". The strand around his index grew into a whip of hair. Wrapping it securely around his hand, with a flick of the wrist, it went straight for Sakon. He dodged it easily, an arrogant grin spreading on his face. Though it soon disappeared when he felt pain shoot up his back and side, he turned and saw that the whip had bent and had slashed him. He looked down to his wound and saw small but deep cuts around it, he made a move to step forward, but his knee got cut as well. He frowned, there wasn't anything there that could possibly cut him.

"Move again and you'll be cut to pieces, so don't say I didn't warn you. Not that dead people can talk or anything." said Jin.

"What just cut me?"

"Hair. Hair that extended out of the whip but that's too thin for the human eye to see." he explained.

"If you don't give up now, I'll have to chop you up and I really don't feel like it."

Sakon sighed in defeat, he didn't really have a choice. He joined his defeated comrades and the four of them walked out of the room. Jin, Kazama and Azuka stood to attention in from of their Sensei, awaiting his comments on their battle skills and techniques.

"Kabuto, what do you think?

"I think they're ready, my Lord."

"Good, so do I."

"Ready for what?" asked Kazama.

"The Chunin Exams, of course."

Their was a moment of silence as the information sunk into the three Genin, a silence that was broken by a very confused Jin.

"The what?"

"You're kidding, right?" gasped Azuka.

Both Jin and Kazama shook their heads, serious expressions on their faces that somehow didn't seem to belong there.

"You know that Chunin is the level over Genin, right?" she asked, and continued when they nodded. "Well, to get to that level, you have to pass the Chunin Exams."

"Makes sense…" mumbled Kazama.

"I've made you participate in the Exams and not only that, but I've made it so that you will participate in them at the Hidden Leaf village. It's about five days away and the Exams are in two weeks, so you'll be leaving in three days with Kabuto and his team." explained Orochimaru.

Kazama grinned one of his evil grins, eyeing Kabuto.

"Cool, Four-eyes is coming." he smirked and turned to high five Jin, who was wearing a similar expression.