I looked in the direction from which the blade had been thrown. My clone stood there with a sick smile. She charged at me again. This time with more force. She pushed me back against the tree. I cried out, damn, that hurt. I fell on the ground. She's more powerful than she should be. I stood and charged at her, I aimed for her stomach. She easily dodged and I used it to hit her in the head. She stumbled back, disoriented and I kicked her in the stomach, I knocked her over. I quickly pinned her down and held a kunai to her neck, "We're done."

I closed my eyes and when I opened them my clone was nowhere to be seen… I stood and looked around I saw a boy standing to the side instead of my clone, he smiled.

He walked closer to me, "I'm going to assume you're Seiray?"

I stood up straight, help my chin high, showing him I wasn't afraid of him, "Who wants to know?"

He awkwardly scratched the back of his head, "Oh, right, sorry, I'm Minori, I'm your partner!"

I relaxed a bit, "Minori, beautiful harbor, huh?" I looked at his features, he has blue silver hair, his eyes are a bright shade of aquamarine they hold happiness, he's slimmer and doesn't look like he has much muscle but he's still kinda cute…

He blushed and nodded, "Yeah I know, I didn't pick it. So, you completely skipped genin? You know you're gonna be a legend, right?"

I shrugged, "I know what I did; you don't have to tell me."

He shot me a confused look, "Don't tell me you're one of those cocky kunoichi. This is exactly why I put in a request for a DUDE… I hate dealing with kunoichi!"

I glared at him, "Would you stop talking? Geez, you have a big mouth. I'm not cocky, I actually don't care about what I did. I would've rather become a genin. I don't want to be a chunin."

He calmed down and stared at me, "Wait, what? Why?"

I sighed and took his blade out of the tree, "Who, in their right mind, would skip out on that necessary training? The academy teaches you some of the fundamentals, becoming a genin shows you the rest and helps you to put some of them to real world situations, then chunin, chunin is when shit gets real."

He blinked, a blank expression came across his face, "Wow, that's a nice way of putting it. Personally, I would've loved to skip my genin days. Too much happened back then, and the chunin exams, those were brutal."

I walked over and handed him his blade, "Speaking of tests, what's my last test?"

He gave me a shocked look, like he had forgotten that part, "Oh! Right! Haha! The clone you fought, that was mine. You passed."

I was confused, "You switched out my clone? And made me fight?"

He nodded, "I wanted to see how you did and you were fantastic. Loads of talent."

I nodded, "Okay, so, what does that mean for me?"

He shrugged and started walking, "What do you want it to me? Do you want to be a chunin? Or do you want to go home?"

I shook my head, "You really don't want to give me that option… In would MUCH rather go home and take a nap than stand here and do absolutely nothing."

He frowned, "We're supposed to get to know each other, that's what the rest of the teams are doing."

I shrugged, "Well, there's nothing special to know about me." My family made sure of that.

His frown deepened, "You're a bit of a sourpuss, aren't you? You're a downer."

I glared, how dare he, "And you talk too much… what's your point?"

He stuck his tongue out, "That's okay; I do enough talking for the both of us! At least if I talk for you it won't be so depressing."

I smirked, this guy is actually entertaining, I sighed, "So, we have to work with teams to perfect their teamwork?"

He nodded, "Yep," He crossed his arms over his chest, "We start with our first team tomorrow, they've been genin for a year, Might Guys' team. Rock Lee, Neji Hyuga, and TenTen."

My jaw dropped, "Neji? The number one rookie of last year? You want me… to train him?"

He thought for a second and nodded, "Pretty much."

My head fell, "You've got to be kidding me! I am literally fresh out of the academy! He will kill me!"

Minori laughed… he laughed, "Oh, calm down, we're helping with their teamwork… that's it. He won't kill you… if you play nice too that is. Anyway, I think that's enough for today. Tomorrow, we'll meet with the Hokage, then the team, assess their work, then create a plan from there. Got it?"

I nodded as I hung my head… yeah I got it… tomorrow is my first official day as a chunin… and my last.