Rhoan's POV

I reverted to my human form next to Shikamaru who held an unconscious Ino. My squad and I had come upon my sister's not long after dawn. When I saw my sister out cold next to Sasuke intense anger went through my veins. The sound ninja had already taken out Lee and Naruto while Sakura had done her best to keep her fellow team mates safe.

However even the pink haired kunoichi was powerless to bring down Dosu's team. It was then Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and I took on the three sound ninja squad. But Orochimaru's subordinates were still determined to fight. Shikamaru's shadow jutsu had just worn off of Dosu, Zaku had managed to exhaust me and Choji, and Ino was still trapped in Kin's body.

It was then I sensed my sister was waking up. I turned to see her slowly getting to her feet and what I saw not only scared me but angered both me and my dragon. Her body was surrounded by the same purple aura that was around Sasuke. The Uchiha was up on his feet too. The two of them came out from the tree that they had been resting in and entered the sunlight.

Half of Riley and Sasuke's faces were covered in the black cursed seal markings. The only difference was my sister's eyes were their golden dragon color with the black slits. Her fangs and claws were elongated while Sasuke had his Sharingan activated.

Riley walked forward and first approached Sakura. She eyed the pink haired kunoichi with concern, before her eyes went to the unconscious Naruto, and lastly landing on me. I felt her anger spike as she saw my injuries.

Orochimaru has marked her my dragon informed me.

I held back a swear as Riley demanded.

"Which one of you sound ninja has hurt my team mates and my brother?" her tone was dangerous and I shivered. Sasuke came upon Riley's side.

"That'd be me" came Zaku's voice. It was true Zaku did give me most of my injuries and Dosu would have also done so had Riley and Sasuke not woken up.

Riley turned to glare at Zaku and Sasuke did as well.

"Ino! Hurry up and get back in your body! You don't want to get involved in this!" Shikamaru shouted.

"Choji the same goes to you too!" I shouted.

Choji hurried over to us at the same time Ino undid her mind jutsu and she was shortly back in her body. I made all of us get out of the way just as Sasuke's mark spread more across his face. Zaku then held his hands up and unleashed his deadly sound attack. I covered my ears because the attack hurt my sensitive hearing. My squad mate's covered their ears too and the wind also blew hard matching Zaku's attack in perfect synchronization.

When the sound died away and everything was quiet did I look up. Sasuke suddenly appeared next to Zaku and punched him hard causing him to go flying through the air and landing on the ground hard in front of Dosu. While Zaku coughed Sasuke managed to get Sakura and Naruto out of harm's way and Riley chose that moment to leap into the air and she called to the water element within her.

Ice shards appeared around her just as she shouted.

"Diamond Storm!"

"I don't think so!" Zaku replied and unleashed another sound attack. But the ice shards easily went through the sound attack and they rained upon Zaku creating many cuts upon him. Using her speed Riley appeared behind Zaku and had her foot upon his back. Her claws buried deep into one of Zaku's arms while Sasuke appeared next to her.

Zaku screamed in pain as Riley dug her claws deeper into his skin making him scream.

"It hurts doesn't it?" my sister taunted Zaku.

Sasuke then smirked evilly as he grabbed Zaku's other arm and then pulled hard enough for bones to break. Zaku yelped and Riley released her hold on Zaku and let Sasuke kick him away.

"Don't think I'll spare you as well" Riley hissed turning to Dosu.

The sound ninja paled while Sasuke told my sister.

"I'll deal with him"

"Don't have all of the fun" Riley sneered as Sasuke walked towards Dosu. Not caring what happened to me I ran towards Riley at the same time Sakura ran towards Sasuke. Shikamaru protested as I wrapped my arms around my sister.

"Come back to me sis this isn't who you are" I begged her.

"Little brother" Riley muttered.

It was then I saw her cursed seal markings and they turned orange before starting to recede back to the Cursed Seal mark on her neck.

Riley's POV

When the Cursed Mark had taken over only anger and hatred fueled my actions. But it had been my brother's love that made me snap out of it. Nearby Sakura held Sasuke from behind and his marks were also gone.

"Damn it Rhoan" I said as a few tears slid down my face and I wrapped my arms around him. "I could have really hurt you"

"No you wouldn't" Rhoan reassured me.

It was then Dosu called out.

"You and Riley are strong, Sasuke"

I turned to Dosu and he looked scared shitless. Hell I didn't blame him after almost being killed. Dosu placed a scroll on the ground. He then scooped up the unconscious Kin and Zaku into his grasp before turning to leave.

"Wait!" Sakura shouted and Dosu stopped. "Who is this Orochimaru anyway? And what has he done to Sasuke and Riley?!"

"I don't know all I do no we were to target Sasuke, which we did"

Then Dosu walked away and I swore before collapsing to my knees.

Four Days Later

"The boys aren't watching are they?" I asked Sakura.

"No your good Riley" Sakura reassured me. After the whole fiasco with me and Sasuke almost killing those sound ninja I needed a stress reliever. And what better way to do that than to take a dip in the stream next to our temporary camp site. Not long after Naruto and Lee woke up did I say goodbye to my brother and our squads separated.

In the bags that were given to us there was fresh underwear for the kunoichi in this part of the exams. I was completely naked under in the water. The stream was deep enough that it covered my whole body. I scrubbed the hell out of myself determined to get rid of the smell of blood and dirt off of me.

After feeling I was clean enough I got out of the stream and got dressed just as Sasuke came over to us. He used his fire jutsu to make a fire so the fish Naruto and Sasuke caught could cook. I had hunted down a rabbit earlier and I was full. The others needed their strength, we only had twenty-four hours left to get a heaven scroll and get to the tower.

Sakura looked worried and I placed a hand on her shoulder. She looked to me while Sasuke stated.

"Looks like your still optimistic"

The Uchiha then smirked and I got annoyed.

"Wipe that smirk off you're face, Sasuke Uchiha, I'm seven years older than you for you to have a crush on me"

"Ha! She told you!" Naruto exclaimed before laughing his ass off.

Sasuke's smirk turned into a look of annoyance and this time I smirked at him.

"You should be paying more attention to the girls who starve for your affections"

I gave Sakura a wink and Sasuke simply huffed and turned his head. I then stood up and a banging sound later Sasuke rubbed the red welt on his head. He then stood up and went off to get water.

"Man you scare me sometimes Riley" Naruto said.

"Yeah me too" Sakura confessed.

I turned to the two of them and gave them a reassuring smile.

"Dragon shifters are born with tempers, believe it or not my mother's was worst than mine"

That was a given fact because Mom's temper had been damn scary when got pissed off. Rhoan and my father were more afraid of her wrath than I had been. I tuned out the conversation that Sakura and Naruto had about the earth scroll while my dragon spoke to me.

It should please you I sensed who is our true mate

What?! When did this happen?! I demanded.

While we were unconscious you'll be pleased to know it's that silver haired Jounin

I felt my face go blood red when she said that. I definitely wasn't expecting this news that's for sure. Suddenly Kabuto came out of nowhere and stopped Naruto from opening the earth scroll.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you"

For once I was glad to see Orochimaru's spy. If it weren't for him Naruto would have read the scroll and all of us would have been knocked out until the second exam was over. Sasuke also returned with the water and I had to calm the Uchiha down because he thought Kabuto was after one of our scrolls.

In fact Kabuto already had two of his own and as he was about to leave Sasuke being the idiot he was challenged Kabuto. Of course no fight happened because to be honest Sasuke didn't have the guts to attack Kabuto or else he would have by now.

Instead Kabuto would show us a path that we should follow. We got the hell out of dodge and followed Kabuto as we ran through the trees. I was ready for this damn exam to be over with.

I am as well my dragon agreed.

By the time night fell the tower was in sight but the hard part was yet to come. Sakura then mentioned she sensed something or someone which made Naruto throw a kunai towards whatever it was. Pinned to a nearby tree was huge centipede and my jaw dropped.

I didn't like bugs period end of story and the damn thing was f**king huge!

"That's f**ked up" I said with disgust and Sakura agreed with me. The five of us then separated and I made Naruto come with me so he wouldn't do something stupid. After an hour we regrouped with the others and we were getting closer to the tower.

We noticed a few traps and Naruto accidentally triggered one. Kabuto took the hit from the many knives that struck him. I pulled Naruto way and whispered to him.

"He's alright he used a substitution jutsu"

Naruto nodded and we continued on our way towards the tower. However when it appeared we were not getting any closer I swore when I realized we were in a Genjutsu. Then shapes began to take form all around us and it was one of the ninja from the Village of the Hidden Rain using us shadow clones.

"It's about time we got to kick some ass" I stated with a smirk.

"Damn straight!" Naruto agreed as all of us got into our fighting stances ready to end this second exam once and for all.

Just to clarify things, Sasuke respects Riley and doesn't have a crush on her. Their relationship is like a brother and sister would have if they were close.