A/N: I enjoy updating so, here's chapter three :)

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"God Shikamaru, you are so bloody boring!" Layuki stated, frustrated as she sat beside her best friend, who had been on his back watching the clouds for the past hour, "I mean honestly, do you do anything other than watching clouds?"

"Of course," He replied, "I play shougi."

Layuki let out an exasperated sigh. It was a day before the chuunin exams and she couldn't find her teammates anywhere. Since she hadn't spent any time with Shikamaru lately, she thought she would stay with him. She began to regret her choice.

"Listen I need your advice," Layuki said, looking at Shikamaru. He looked over at her and raised an eyebrow.

"What do you think of those three Sunagakure ninja?" For the past couple days, she couldn't seem to get her mind off of the boy with the gourd. It was his eyes, the things that could usually tell Layuki everything she needed to know about a person, but his eyes were like hers, unreadable.

"Nothing really, I've barely even seen them," Shikamaru replied, propping himself tiredly up onto his elbows. "Why?"

"The boy with the kanji tattooed on his forehead, he…scares me."

"He scares you? You pretend to be someone who's scared of nothing, but this boy scares you? You're too troublesome," He said, lying back down on the grass hands behind his head.

"This is why I'm telling you this, baka. You're supposed to be some genius aren't you? Help me figure this out!" Layuki said, somewhat angry.

There was a pause, then, "Why does he scare you?" Shikamaru asked, surprisingly gently.

"Because, well, I don't know. It's kind of like his, oh what the word? Aura! His aura, like a feeling you get from him, you know? But he really does scare me. I don't usually look into peoples heads, that's out of respect, but I have no problem reading their minds, like when they're pissing me off and stuff, or if it's someone I don't know. But he was, different. When I thought of looking into his head I just kind of, froze up, I was scared of what I would see. I couldn't read his eyes but they made him just seem, really empty inside, almost dead, but not quite. Do you get what I'm saying?"

She looked over to Shikamaru, who was in his thinking position. She smiled, he really was her best friend, the big brother she never had, and she just didn't understand why other people couldn't get that through their heads.

"The exams are tomorrow. Look at his abilities and what he can do. I'm not sure how sand ninja fight, but usually a person's fighting style matches their personality." Shikamaru said, leaning backwards once more.

"Right." Layuki said.

Then after another 5 minutes of complete silence, she got up to leave. She was already bored out of her skull. Shikamaru was such a lazy bastard.

Layuki hadn't been in the forest for a while; she decided that since she was a leaf ninja she should train a while in the trees. So she started walking deep into the forest.

After a little while, a kunai suddenly hit a tree just inches in front her face. She was surprised. Usually she could sense someone's chakra from a distance away. Turning her head left, she spotted Hyuuga Neji, who was training with Tenten. Her surprised face immediately turned into a scowl, she despised Neji. Like seriously, nobody cares that he's not in the main branch, that kid is a freaking prodigy.

"Your stance is off, Hyuuga," She sneered as white eyes met hers "You should be ashamed actually, I thought that you of all people would know how to stand when they're fighting"

"Go away," Neji said, emotionlessly.

"Not that I want to be here," she sighed dramatically, "But it seems fate has brought me here," She said, putting an emphasis on the word 'fate'

"There's no such thing as fate,"

"Yes there is. You know why? Fate brought me here so I could kick your ass,"

Neji smirked. "As if you could,"

"Oh, I can," She said, and then suddenly she disappeared. Appearing again behind Neji,

"Try and keep up," She whispered into his ear, while standing on tiptoes.

Sending chakra to her feet she ran in a circle around Neji at an inhuman speed, Hirukagan activated. Neji, Byakugan activated, punched at the circle twice and the third time, he hit her. Before that, she threw a kunai at him, it missed, snatching a piece of his jacket and lodging into a tree.

Layuki jumped up into the tree and did several hand signs and bolts of lightning shot out of her palm and aimed towards Neji. Wherever the lightning hit, it left large scorch marks on the ground. While Neji dodged the last one, his back was turned toward her. Layuki took the chance and made to punch him in the side of his head with chakra focused into her fist. She swore as he dodged down and hit her in the stomach and grabbed her wrist.

For the next few minutes she continued to squirm and hit and kick, landing several on him, but in return he hit her in various placed where she knew were her chakra points.

With her free hand, she made some more hand signs and she bit into his arm that was holding her still. In his mind, she saw that he was going to make a hit to a vital chakra point on her back. She just bit harder and at the perfect time electric shocks came from her teeth and into his arm.

He quickly let go of her and grabbed onto his forearm in pain. Layuki hadn't realized this but when they were fighting they had backed up a fairly large distance, currently she was standing a foot in front a stream and Neji was in front of her. She swore under her breath. Electricity and water didn't mix.

The Fuyaku clan originated in Lightning country, Kumogakure to be exact, therefore the majority of Layuki's attacks were lightning or electric attacks.

While she was preoccupied about what she should do, she was tackled by Neji and one of her feet hit the water. Praying to Kami that she had enough chakra left, she focused on her feet and stepped backwards. To her surprise and apparently Neji's as well, she did not sink. Neji, after a spit second if hesitation followed her onto the water and grabbed a hold of her neck.

"One more hit, and you're chakra will be completely blocked," Neji said coldly, pulling his fist back.

"Just because I don't have any chakra doesn't mean I can't fight,"

His fist hit her stomach harder then she knew was necessary and she began to sink. Taking a deep breath, she grabbed on to Neji's collar and, to his surprise, dragged him down with her.

Under the water, she forced him down below her with all her strength and hoped that he would run out of air before she did. Neji struggled, landed a couple punches on her face and began to swim to the surface. Layuki swam to the bottom, dug her feet into the earth and grabbed into his foot, preventing him from getting air. After another twenty seconds and her lungs felt like they were going to burst.

To save herself she let go of Neji's foot to push to the surface, only to find that she was caught in seaweed.

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