-6 months later- after training and getting stronger and learning a new move

"Wake up Kiku! Today is the day! The Chūnin exams await!" lee stands at the foot of Kiku's bed jumping up and down like an excited puppy. She rubs the sleep out of her eyes and looks out the window. "Lee it's not even sun up yet... don't you ever sleep." "It's time to go right now or we'll miss the first part of the exams! Come on!" he said then sped out the door. "Alright I'm coming hold on!" she jumped out of bed packed her bag and ran after him Neko right behind her.

"Where did lee go?" she looked around. Down an ally she thought she saw lee so she ran but it was just a group of people standing around exchanging words. She saw Sasuke and Naruto and their team mate talking to some other people. "they don't look like they're from here i've never seen them before. that red head sure is cute though..." The other group walked away. "Don't worry about it Naruto let's just get to the exam or we'll be late." Sasuke told Naruto who was making faces at the other people. "I guess I might as well follow them because I have no idea where I'm going." she followed them.

"Welcome to part 1 of 3 the Chūnin exams this is the written part of the test anyone caught cheating is out! Go!" the man standing in the front of the room was very mean looking but Kiku was more worried about the questions. "Oh wow these are hard... how am I supposed to know this stuff... what Neko? Some people already had answers written on their papers? That doesn't make since..." Neko told Kiku the answers. "Well that wasn't too hard I guess... still I feel like I cheated because I didn't really know the answers myself." then she looked around and saw that most of the participants were cheating in their own way. "Maybe the point is to cheat but not get caught?"

By the time the test was over half the people had quit because they couldn't answer the questions or because they got caught cheating and were kicked out. "Alright everyone whose left in here passes." the man began to collect the papers while everyone filed out into the halls. "I see you passed good job! I would not have passed had Tenten not helped me..." lee said from behind her. "those were some of the toughest questions I've ever seen in my life." lee nodded "yeah tomorrow the fun test begins I don't know why it's at the forest of death entrance but I bet it'll be a blast." he smiled.

"Welcome to part 2 the survival challenge" Anko the master of the part says. "In this task each team will be given a scroll heaven or earth... your goal is to get both and then get to the marked location on your map before 3 days is up." she pointed at the booth. "Oh this is going to be challenging because we're the only ones on our team Neko... maybe we should quit now and just watch..." Neko agrees they walk over to the booth "we aren't going to be able to do this challenge because I entered by myself... but is it ok if I just watch the others... I'm on team Gai but we could only go in teams of 3..." the lady looks at Kiku surprised. "You want to retire? Well I don't see any harm in you watching just know that once you quit you won't be allowed to help them in any way." Kiku nods "ok as long as I can watch and make sure their ok I feel bad quitting but I can't do this by myself." Anko nods. "Very well then I could use some extra eyes in the field. How would you like a special job?" Kiku gets excited.

"Whatever I can do to help." Anko turns to the booth instructors "I'm heading in you know how this goes don't' open those gates till your supposed to and make sure that everyone makes it inside the gates before you close them and make sure you close them." they nod "alright come with me were heading for the tower." Kikumari waves to lee before then following Anko into the woods. "Now your job is going to be to sit in the tower and make sure nobody is cheating you're going to watch the screens and feed me over the radio if you see anything at all suspicious. I'm going to be out in the field watching making sure nothing goes wrong..." Kiku nods "I think I can handle that."

Once in the tower in the screen room they realize the games have already begun. "Look the people Naruto was talking to before... they don't seem very happy." Kiku looked at Anko. "Those are Genin from the hidden sand village... your right though they don't seem particularly happy... I'm going to head out now you keep an eye on these screens and radio me if anything happens." Kiku nods and Anko runs off back to the woods. Kiku looks at the screen and sees team Gai sitting by a stream. "looks like their having fun." she looks over at the other screen and see's Kiba and his group coming up on the sand ninjas then she sees the sand ninjas kill another group of Genin. "Anko the sand ninjas the red haired one just killed a whole team... and I think Kiba's team is going to be next..." then the sand ninja turned and went the other way. "Oh good they weren't seen..." Kiku took a deep breath. "Anko here I'll go check it out which sector was that?" Kiku looks at the screen "um... camera 3 I think I'm not sure which sector it's in."

"Alright I'll check on 3." she sits back in her chair looking from one screen to another suddenly in front of one camera something big passes. "What was that Neko?" then from out of the trees jumps Sasuke into the middle of the frame. "Look its Sasuke Neko" then a giant snake attacks him. "Um Anko is there big animals in the forest? Like giant snakes?" there's an unpleasant silence then the speaker buzzes. "No shouldn't be anything like that out here what do you see something?" Kiku looks back at the screen. "Camera 6 shows that Naruto's team is fighting a giant snake... it looks like they're not doing too well..." the snake turns towards the camera and she sees a human face. "OMG it has a human face!" "Alright I'll check on camera 6 then I sent a team to check on 3 and you were right but it looks like the sand team got the scroll they were after so they should be showing up there any minute. They look like the kind who don't like to wait... maybe you should keep an eye on them once they get there." Kiku nods looking at the screens.

"Excuse me Kikumari? I've come to give you a break from the screen Anko told me she had something else for you to do." Kiku nodded and handed over the radio and walked down the hall. "It was sure nice of her to let us help." she rounds the corner and bumps right into the sand ninjas. "Oh hello, I..." "Get out of the way." "Excuse me?" "You're in the way move." she steps aside to let them pass. But as they walk ahead she follows. "Excuse me... but I didn't happen to catch your names...?" the red head stops and turns around slowly. Staring at her with emotionless eyes. "Gaara of the sand this is Kankuro and Temari. Now if you don't mind we would like to move along." they started walking again. "What's the sand village like...? I've never been there..." they stop again. "It's full of sand" "I figured that much I..." suddenly sand comes from nowhere and pins her mouth shut. She pulls it off and stares angrily at Gaara. "You know you could show a little more respect to a lady." "Don't you know when to quit girl." Temari scoffs. "Hold on now Temari... I think the little girl has something she wants to say..." Gaara scoffs at Kiku raising sand from his back swirling it around him. "You bet I do! Here I am just trying to be nice and you cover my mouth with sand! Wait... you did that? That's so awesome!" momentarily side tracked from her anger.

A look of surprise washes over Gaara for a moment. "I've always been able to move sand to my will..." Kiku shook her head remembering she was upset. "I know this isn't your hidden sand village but do you really find it that hard to believe that someone would actually like to talk to you?" they all seem surprised for a moment. "We don't have time to talk just leave us alone we have things to do." they walked away leaving Kiku in the middle of the hall alone. "That's fine who cares about sand ninjas anyways... the less sand in my shoes the better." she pouted the rest of the way down the hall. "Nothing's going on with them except their bad attitude."

After the 2nd exam the sensei all gathered to watch the 3rd round however too many people passed the 2nd so they had to play an elimination game. Kiku was watching the matches. She watched as Kiba was defeated by Naruto. Then she looked at the board waiting for the next match. "I wonder when it'll be lee's turn..." then the names appeared on the board Rock lee vs Gaara. "Gai the boy from the sand village... he's up against lee... he's really strong..." they watched the beginning of the fight and it looked like lee had the upper hand until Gaara caught lee off guard with his sand. Lee was down after his leg and arm where crushed. "Lee!" Gaara stood victorious because the over seer of the matches called the match off due to Gai jumped into the middle of the fight. Kiku ran to lee's side while they got ready to take him to the emergency room. She looked back and scowled at Gaara. Then followed the medical ninja's to the hospital.