Chapter 2: Meetings, Realizations and New Expectations

I awoke to a soft knocking at my door. Yawning, I stood up, and opened the door. It was Arisu, holding a tray of food.

"Here you are miss Gina." She smiled. I happily took the food, giving a soft reply.

"Please, call me Hanako." I bowed and closed the door after giving her a small tip. Setting the food off to the side I walked up to the closet, retrieving my clothes.

I got dressed quickly and ate the food Arisu had brought; it was pretty good, not the best but eh.

I grabbed my weapons, hid them, checked myself and headed out, leaving the door unlocked for the maids.

Things continued on like that for a while, and soon the preliminary finals were started. The city was empty then, it seemed everyone had placed a bid or something on a contestant or another.

"Keh, the fights of Chunnin don't interest me…" I mumbled to myself, walking along a small street. There were still a few people out, closing their shops and getting ready for the fight.

"Chunnin? Oh no, these are the Genin fights… didn't you hear?" a passerby asked me. I quickly assembled my mask and replied.

"Oh, did you hear me? I'm sorry, no, I'm just a traveler." I smiled.

"Oh, well I hope they find that Uchiha kid, I placed a pretty good bet on him. His fights today you know." They said. I nodded and walked away, shaking my head.

"Only Genin? This village is pathetic." I muttered under my breath. A small smirk pulled its way at my lips. Genin eh? I could well make due for an assassination expert, maybe the next big criminal. I could just waltz into the arena and murderer everyone. I had almost surpassed my father, the Raikage.

I stopped walking for a moment, and looked up to see I was in front of the said building. There was a loud cheering noise from the building.

"looks like someone showed up after all." I smirked. I could sense the Uchiha's chakra, it wasn't hard to detect, and besides, I had met him before. Long, long ago…

"Hmm, everyone's at the battle…so then, lets see if they have it…" I whispered, walking towards the Hokage's building. I checked around to see if there were any guards nearby, and of course, no.

I quietly snuck into the Hokage's office, snooped around a bit, found what I was after, and left.

I carried the small scrolls with me, scaling buildings and streets with each passing minute. I pulled myself into my room, setting some of my things down. Pulling open the scrolls, I sat on the bed, reading them over carefully and memorizing every word. I couldn't forget them.

Lord Hokage,

It is in all our good interest that a marriage proposal would be able to quell the strain of our countries. My proposal is to wed the strongest children in our villages to each other, in hopes that we will be able to work together. The other head villages have already agreed. Please send forth a replying message

Raikage

My lips pulled together in a small grimace. So it was his idea. My father had told me that it was a different village's plan to wed the children.

I scowled, throwing the scroll out the window, and then sending several kunai at it, furious. I made a few more hand signs and waved my fingers at the scroll, now having several needles fly at it before burning it with venom.

I bustled into my regular clothes and grabbed my weapons, the urge to murder something thick in my blood. There was a large crash some distance away, and me curious and edged, set off to find it.

It was a massive three-headed snake like thing, and several jounin already attempting to tame the beast. A smirk pulled to my lips, but before I launched my massive and brutal assault, I hesitated. I didn't want to draw attention to myself, which would be bad. But the blood in my veins and the pounding in my ears beckoned me on.

I didn't have to choose anyway.

The snake thing then spotted me, and shifted its direction my way. It hissed at me, bearing all three sets of teeth, and quietly, I hissed back.

I drew my senbon and flung them at the reptile, them exploding after a while. I roared in anger and attempted eating me. Missing me by a few inches, I pulled off on top of the massive creature.

"Thanks for being my bitch!" I shouted angrily. I had my Neko-te on, dipped in my own venomous blood. I slashed the creature across the eyes on the middle head, then buried my hand in its flesh/scales to hold on while it shook violently. I slashed the others quickly; them getting their cracks at me also. I had a few cuts along my arms and a few on my legs. There was also a large gash across my back; coating myself in the thing's blood and venom. I didn't notice.

After several minutes of brutal mindless violence later the thing collapsed dead. There was a shrill ringing in the air, like a sudden burst of chakra or something; it was coming from the arena.

I darted towards said area, keeping my eyes out for anything and everything. I saw it.

At the top of the main box in the arena, there was this large purple barrier type thing, and several bodies underneath it.

"Oh my god, they tried going through the barrier?? Idiots!!!! Alls you would have to do is kill the ones who are holding the barrier up before they finish the jutsu! GOD! Must I do Everything!?" I shouted furiously. I flung my weapons at the people holding the frame and watched them run, looks like I had accidentally let loose my full power…

There was a tall pale man standing over a dead body, long black hair and…is that Make Up!? I sighed and looked over at him glaring.

"Ah, my dear little flower, how nice of you to join me…" He said softly in a deep voice. An involuntary shiver crept up my spine. He smiled, pulling out the kunai from the body and licking it clean…Eww. He winked at me and disappeared.

Shaking my head free of disturbing thoughts, I leapt over to the corpse. I squinted, trying to remember the familiar face. I looked off to the side to see the sculpted face mountain thing. I looked back at the body next to me in realization.

It was the Third Hokage…

My eyes widened as I heard voice shouting. I looked over my shoulder to see several Jounin and a few Chunnin running towards me.

"Shi-" I quickly murmured, disappearing in a small puff of smoke.

I reappeared several blocks away, leveled myself and looking around. I was a few lanes away from my hotel, which was good.

After running a while I returned to my room, jumping to the balcony. I slipped inside and sighed, pulling off my clothes as I walked to the bathroom. Letting the water run over me I sighed in quick huffs. My skin burned where the poison at touched me, and my wounds didn't help either.

After I was done with the shower, I got out and pulled a towel around myself and looked at myself in the mirror. I had three slashes along my left arm, and two on my right; two slashes on my right leg and one on my left, near my ankle. Standing up and turning around, I let my towel drop so I could see the damage of the gash on my back. It was long, but not deep.

I sighed and pulled my towel back up, stepping into the main room.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" a smooth deep voice hissed. My eyes shot up, only to see two people standing in my room, one looking out the window and the other sitting on the bed, smirking at me. They where both in long black and red robes, with small little swirl-ly marks on them. One of them had what looked like scars on his face and red eyes, while the other had well…blue skin. The blue one was the one who had spoken, seeing as the other one looked at me just now.

I pulled my towel tighter and glared at them.

This wasn't going to be easy.