Ino fell to her knees, panting loudly...crossing her hands into a butterfly and holding her chest, which heaved out and in roughly.

SHE was tired...her blond blocks fell out of her high ponytail and she moved towards a tree, resting her head for a second.

"Guys..." she breathed out again, biting her lip.

"We traveled from sundown and now the sun is about to come up," she pressed her hands into the snow and she could see the cathedral.

Sakura glared at Ino. "OH COME ON! JUST SHUT UP YOU IDI--" she was stopped short by Chouji stuffing an apple into her mouth.

Right now, with Sakura and Ino's constant bickering, he had picked up a leadership role with this. Sakura's screaming was...loud, and it could give away their location.

They had already lost a scroll as is. His eyes darted towards Sakura.

"Okay, you can stop glaring at me. I didn't mean to throw the SCROLL at Ino and lose it in the snow," she said in a monotone hushed whisper, turning her head in a prude fashion and her longer pink hair waved in the air.

"I STILL THINK...that we should at least try something new," she waved her hands off at them and dug into her sack and took out one of those large edible twigs and took a bite, muttering.

Ino finally thought that they could take a break and she went behind the tree into a more shaded and secluded area and started brushing her hair.

While Chouji sat on a branch, kicking his legs, trying to keep his sanity together in order to succeed in the fucking exams.

He knew with Naruto long gone, and Sasuke away, Sakura was in a deep thing. So they gladly took her into a team, since Shikamaru was at an absence for already being a chuunin.

Chouji continued to think...this was the only team in the whole exams that had two girls and a single guy...so he took it upon himself to protect them...even if he did like Ino, though that wasn't the point of this was it ?

He heard steps churning in the icy-like snow and he immediately got into position and warned Sakura, who pulled on her gloves and got ready.

Ino, in a complete rush, threw her long blond hair up into a sloppy bun and accidentally missed some hair and a long bang framed down her left eye.

They saw three ninjas zooming through the air...well, they didn't see them they were more like blurs zooming through the air around them.

Before they knew it, they were trapped in a triangle like figure. How did they know?

The spiraling winds that you could obviously see stretched out into a triangle...it looked like they were in the midist of a tornado.

But then...there was singing. "YOUR DEATH..." was screeched out in a beautiful soft and high soprano tone,

"WILL BE GRACEFUL," followed by a nice alto voice. "SO SURRENDER YOUR SCROLLS...AND YOUR SOUL!"

and lastly, a deep and soothing baritone voice made out "OR DIIIIIIIIIIIIE!"

They all looked around and at each section of the triangle was a person. There was a girl, she was tall, skinny with long legs.

She had porcelain pale skin with a single scar across her left cheek...it was barely noticable unless you looked close.

She wore black tights that went past her knees, a red skirt and a tight black corset top with strings that made it's way down her arms. She had long black hair and a sound village headband across her neck.

The deep baritone guy made out his next voice.

"We're the singing vampire soul ninja...Here to feed on your blood!" He was stout..short and plump.

He had red hair curled on the top, some khaki pants that seemed very loose and a dark red upturned collar shirt.

The last guy just smirked...he had emerald green hair and pink eyes. Sakura screamed out at him.

"HEY BITCH! YOU JUST TOOK MY HAIR and EYES AND JUST REVERSED IT!" he yelled back the same thing and the two got into a glaring match.

Ino took this as a challenge and guess who she leaped for? The soprano girl who did a backflip and made Ino charged into the tree.

"So...blondie, you want to take on Makila of the Sound?" She almost completed her statement when Ino threw two twirling kunais which she easily caught. "

You're just jealous because you don't have abilities," she shrieked an earsplitting High C note.

Ino went to her knees and held her ears and she felt something warm on them. She pulled her hands away and looked at them....blood was there.

She checked her ears...and surely, blood was oozing out of it surely but slowly. The shrieking stopped and Ino was there, her ears bled and she couldn't dodge that kick that Makila took to her temple.

Ino fell backwards from the tree and flew through the air on her back, like she was freefalling.

She landed on the ground like that and Makila grinned and threw four kunai which Chouji jumped in, caught and threw back at her.

Chouji slid onto the ground, dust sliding upwards as he got into position. That barritone guy jumped at him with sharp claw-like weapons and he ducked.

Makila screeched as the claws touched at her chest and scarred her once perfect skin, she hit the High C against and even Sakura...who was busy biting the alto guy's arm, had to cover her ear.

It ripped through her shirt then past her skin, burning through her flesh as blood spewed out. He swept him in a large motion so that he couldn't even stop.

He pulled out his silver claws...but it was too slow and Makila fell to the ground, head limb and face pale.

That guy gasped from what happened and he just went blank...he had killed his own teammate!

Chouji smiled at him and he just blinked. As soon as his eyes opened up...he saw a fist coming towards him.

Within a split second, he felt his eyes go the back of his head and he probably felt like he was flying...because that he was.

BAM! He hit his head right into a tree and plopped down into a sitting position. Then Sakura rammed the other guy right into him.

They searched all of them and found out that they have a Love Scroll...typical. Everybody was looking for a hate scroll now, since there were 17 of these.

(A/n: UPDATE. Might seem confusing but Chouji and Sakura found a HATE scroll..but lost it again. So now they have a LOVE scroll and they need a Hate scroll.

Team Gai has two Love scrolls atm. ALSO O.o I want to show you guys what Hong Mei Ling has to offer.)

Hinata smacked her hands together and activated her Byukugan, scanning the area. "Shino-kun, Kiba-kun...The only teams I sense are together...and the chakra is moving all over the place.

They're battling...let's watch." They all leaped ahead and stopped in the snow covered leaves, all at different areas just watching what was going on.

Hong Mei Ling was in the dead center of her team, two steps ahead of them. Her black hair and fine leather gloves matching accordingly.

She placed a hand on her hip, as her other teammate, the one with the snow white hair an the leopard jacket took out his jacket and was waving it in the snow.

The other guy drew three cards. "Aah...Yuki Squad 001. A completely male squad...all of you just use snow techniques? Pity."

The guys did handseals and all formed multiple snowballs, which Hinata noted had chakra full of them, and launched them at the squad.

Kai, who had the snow white hair, summoned his leopard and had it leap and attack one guy wildly.

It charged at rapid speeds, all the Yuki ninja could do was back up until he could form a wall with his sand, which the leopard easily broke through without a trace, he cursed and dodged his way out.

The guy with the black jacket and the cards just nodded and threw a simple kunai. Nobody saw it as a threat until it vanished.

Everybody looked around and then it appeared...but only triple this time in a guy's arm!

He screamed and pulled the out and the guy simply took more kunai from his jacket and just launched as many as he could...just covering the guy as if he was a porcupine.

Now...Hong Mei Ling looked weak. The guy, who was about 19, brute and built up and pretty big, had his arms around her shoulders, leaning into her with his lips puckered.

She just grinned and tickled his chin lightly. He smirked, but then he backed off, obviously scared. "YOU...WITCH...THING!" he screamed at her, only causing her to grin.

She took a chain with a blade at the end, which extended about six feet and with a single snap, she had it wrapped around his neck.

"Mommy told you not to hit girls," she said in a sing-song sweet voice as she put a finger to her temple and with her free hand, she pulled the chain.

A satisfying crack noise was heard and simply, as if she did this a thousand times before, and his head slowly came from his body onto the floor...and his body to the ground in one motion.

Hong smiled as her teammates were fighting the other guys and she calmly walked over, set her chain back into a small chain bracelet.

"It transforms!" snapped Hinata, who had her mouth covered by Shino. She searched him and took out a hate scroll and she didn't look pleased and just held it with a stink face.

Just then the snow leopard guy, Kai, and apparently his twin brother with pitch black hair, Kyo had just defeated their opponents and Kyo found a love scroll.

"Meh, we already have a pair? You want to collect Mei Mei?" Kiba gagged at the name they called her...they treated her like a fucking princess?"

Mei grabbed both scrolls and threw them...right in the direction of Kiba, Hinata and Shino. Shino caught them just as Hong Mei Ling spoke.

"Let the Konaha team have it, I doubt they found any by now." Even Shino blinked under his glasses as Hong Mei Ling snapped and her team took off.

Kiba nad Hinata followed Shino onto the snow clearing, observing the scrolls.

"They're real," commented Shino who put them in his up-turned collar jacket, nodding. Kiba grinned...he was happy about this! But Hinata looked red..and scared.

"Guys...if they could just give up two scrolls like that...I think they are a threat," she breathed out lightly.

Kiba took Hinata's hand in his and she lighted up...she felt confident for a second and Shino stood up, looking at the foot prints.

"Well, it seems like we are near the center because I sense a lot of foot prints.

I also sent my bugs out to track and the nearest team to us is Chouji, Sakura and Ino...and they're just moving around like idiots, trying to find the Cathedral.

The Cathedral is thataway! He pointed to wear Hong Mei Ling and her team left.

Hinata used her Byukugan as Kiba and Shino took off. She spotted a large chakra amount and a building.

"I know where it is...but people are camping out there wanting for an ambush. There is a door by the back...if we move to the left and circle around, we can get in safely...

but that would take us by morning if we rest. If you want a shorter ride..we'll encounter two to three teams,"

They decided to follow the plan that Hinata gave them...it would make it WAYY easier for them to follow, right? It was just a matter of time.

(kk O.o Sand Siblings Now)

The Sand Siblings were sitting in a circle, with a camp fire in the middle, enjoying some fruit. Yeah...alot of teams were scared of them, except Hong Mei Ling and The Pussycats.

They hadn't encountered a team and the so far had found two Love scrolls.

One was hidden in that little circle on a tree ad one was attached to the back of a bird. Temari was shining her fan when she noticed something. "Guys..I think we should head to the cathedral, it's day four."

Gaara looked up and in his stoic, monotone voice he said. "We want to draw teams to us instead...I don't want too much attention from these losers," (A/N: Remember...this in the middle of the timeskip. So Gaara's not all to nice yet.)

He looked up at the sky and just folded his arms...it was starting to get to night and the next morning will be the day they would have to report.

"But Gaara...more teams will be there and we can just hijack some scrolls," he said while shaking off his brown hair. He had no hood on now...it was too hot for those kind of things.

They figured it was best to travel in the night..instand of letting Gaara stand watch 24/7 since he was insomniac.

They just walked right on through the paths, scouting for some camping teams when they came across...none other then another team from the Sand Village, they were rookies.

All of them twelve years old, just looked up at the sand siblings and gulped. They held out their hands which had a love scroll in it.

Gaara didn't want to hurt fellow villages, nor did Kankuro. Temari just walked up and grabbed the scroll and pocketed it. They just backed up and handed them a map.

"G-gaara, this is a m-map of the forest. W-we took it from a Yuki team," thats when Kankuro grabbed a kid and hauled him up, causing the kid to kick his legs.

"Then you must have another scroll don't ya?" He gulped, and nodded and let Kankuro searched him and he found...A HATE SCROLL?

Kankuro pushed him back and took the single hate scroll. BAD MOVE! The other two kids charged at Gaara and Temari.

Gaara, acting on impulse, just stood there as the sand whipped out and tripped the guy onto his face.

Temari used her fan and jumped backwards, and with a small flick of the wrist, some whirlwinds pushed the guy into the tree. The extra winds and impact cut the tree and it fell...forward?

Smack onto his back, basically just smashing him. Gaara already had the other kid tied up at both ankles and he was ready to hurl him across the forest.

He screamed for mercy but the sands threw him and he spun and spun until he was just a glitter in the air...like Team Rocket!

With their scrolls in place...Temari grabbed her brothers and grinned. "Are you guys ready to become chuunin?" the eldest sister chanted and they ran towards the Cathedral.

XXX

(now O.o since I haven't updated in foreve,r I'm giving you some NejiTen fluffyy)

The cathderal looked like a nice church...but it was kinda huge, and shaped in a square. Two stories high and the top was flat, with a large golden cross on it.

Neji, Lee and TenTen were now in the top floor of the cathedral where it was like a really large bunker with bunk beds all around the edges.

They had recently cleaned up with a nice shower and they were just all relaxing and waiting.

Neji and Lee were playing a game of cards, and TenTen was brushing her hair and watching. Lee and Neji were playing a best out of 5 game, where Neji won the first two easily. '

Lee saw his strategy and beat him in the third game. In the fourth game, Neji was a single move away, but Lee got lucky enough to win. Now here, it towards the end of the game and even.

"GO FISH!" screamed Neji as Lee picked up a card from the deck. Neji grinned at Lee...he had only a card left. "Got any 7s?"

Lee mumbled something about youth not shining off of me and handed Neji the 7 and Neji jumped up and walked off. "

"You were playing Go Fish?" asked TenTen, her hair out and still being combed as she sat next to Neji on his bunk.

Her hair out looked amazing, it was curled and went right past her shoulders. Though it was completely tangled and nappy, but it was starting to get soft.

"Yeah," he said while taking out a ninja anatomy book and flipped to the middle of the book and layed down.

TenTen laid down next to him while Lee went outside to train for the battles that was taking place. It was the night of Day 4, around 11:00 as she took Neji's hand in hers.

Neji smiled up a bit from this and he felt like he belonged there. TenTen felt warm and pulled into Neji's chest while she fell asleep right there.

Neji continued reading for an hour before he fell asleep.