TranslatingTheName: The jig is up! If you guys checked the newly updated profile you would see that this account is not mine, it is actually my friends and it took her a really long time to realize that she wanted to make it hers again. Well, I'm still going to update and stuff, although I am very sorry for making you guys wait but .. is still upset at me for like, not making the slightest move towards creating my own account. She's being a baby….but I love you people who review!

Lindsay (anonymous): ha! I did it because she's a real happy child! I mean, usually FemNaruto in fics act like Naruto from cannon or really cold or just calm and quiet and I always wondered what it would be like if she was like this but she is a little bit like Naruto from cannon, sometimes really dumb, caring, helpful to friends….Yah…um what else…OH! Um she was traumatized when she was little and she got a family and I have no idea how Naruto from cannon would act if that were to happen to him so I decided to have fun with it and make her like that but when she gets older, she probably won't act like that too much…

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

"Kyuubi"

'Kyuubi Thoughts'

"Dark & Light Kirei"

"Dark Kirei" (DK)

"Light Kirei" (LK)

CHAPTER 7: CHUNNIN EXAM: LEE! GAI!

FLASHBACK

It's really weird that Kirei enjoyed watching people train at the training grounds at four years old. She would stand behind the tree and watch who ever was there. She always imagined herself being a full fledge ninja or her small body moving the same way they did. One particular person caught her interest. He was very young, 10 years old, and he moved with such ease and confidence, his swordsmanship looked like he was dancing. He also had red eyes, with three coma dots in them forming a triangle. His skin was pale and his black hair was silky. He had two lines coming between his eyes and nose but in her opinion it added to his beauty. Kirei loved to watch him move, and fight, it was enchanting. At the moment, she was so entranced by this beauty; she stepped into the clearing and came closer to him as he practiced a few katas. The boy stood motionless for a few seconds before he suddenly appeared in front of her with the sword to her throat,

"What do you want?" he asked his gaze never leaving that of the young girl. Kirei was still in her trance when she whispered,

"Beautiful…" and blushed as the boy with the red eyes revealed his cold coal colored eyes. Kirei snapped out of her trance and backed away slowly, "s-sorry!" she stuttered and when she was far enough she ran away, Itachi sheathed his sword never leaving the area where the girl ran from. He continued back to his training marking this encounter as unimportant. Her eyes though, did look familiar…They were similar to the man who approached him about Akatsuki. Questions will be asked and answers given.

FLASHBACK END

Waking up realizing Sakura was missing set team 7 in a very quiet mood. They decided to search for her by using one of Kakashi-sensei's summons, Pakkun the nin dog. He sniffed her clothes and it leads him to a cliff and they slowly climbed down and found Sakura's mangled body. Her body was cold and her skin was turning into wrinkles before their eyes. Kakashi carefully placed her body in a bag and slung it over his shoulders,

"Whoever did this knows forbidden techniques," he said. Looking at the rest of his students faces, he didn't see any signs of pain or sadness and he wondered why,

"How do you know Kakai-sensei?" Kirei asked as they headed back to camp,

"I've read about a forbidden technique that renders the victims body a shell and the body ages until nothing is left but dust from the bones. The technique is to remove the victim's soul from their body by putting in a trance like state. During the ninja wars there was a group of people but not many, who could do this," he said calmly. Kirei bit her lip,

"What do they do with the souls?" she asked,

"They feed on it and give it to their weapon. But not just any weapon, a certain weapon. Your weapon can only absorb the souls if you have a fragment of the cursed weapon. Judging by how fast this body is aging, this person was missing three fragments," he said. Kirei and Sasuke remained quiet the whole journey back to camp. They packed their stuff and headed back to Konoha.

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The Hokage was very disturbed at what Team seven just brought in; Sakura's aging body. He had asked an ANBU member to bring her to do an autopsy but Kakashi already knew what happen. Not only that but the chunnin exam was fast approaching and team seven needed a third member on short notice. If team seven was not granted permission to enter, Sasuke might just get up and leave. He also had to find out who did this to Sakura and why and see if that person was a threat to Konohagakure. Not to mention Kirei's new looks. He looked over at her whispering something to Sasuke. Her hair was in a pony tail so you couldn't really see the blonde section. Her eyes were really creepy, when you looked at them; you thought she was looking directly into your soul. One eye was black and one eye was white and what was creepier was that she could actually see without a pupil, iris and cornea. It looked as if someone gauged out her eye. She turned to look at him and he repressed a shudder, her face was blank and it added to the creepy look her eyes gave,

"Team 7, there was only one person who failed but showed fantastic skills of becoming a genin but could not since all the teams' space was filled. He is waiting outside at the moment, Kakashi, if you please," Sarutobi replied taking a drag from his pipe. Kirei and Sasuke looked over at there new member and Kirei let out a large smile,

"Indigo Ichiro," Sasuke said glaring. Ichiro had the second highest scores and was second to be rookie of the year. Sasuke and him were rivals and so when Ichiro failed and Sasuke graduated, Sasuke felt like he accomplished something and was one step closer of beating Itachi. Ichiro turned his electric blue eyes to Sasuke and smirked,

"Uchiha, what surprise, to think I thought you were the one who died, shame really," he shook his head slowly in disappointment. Sasuke clenched his fist glared,

"Listen here Indigo," Sasuke spat out his last name, "You're just left overs," he said adding his own smirk. By this time they were both next to each other glaring with a bolt of electricity coming from their fore heads. Kirei looked between both guys and stood in between them,

"What were you saying about a chunnin exam Hokage-sama?" Kirei said tying to change the subject. Both boys stopped glaring and turned the other way,

"The chunnin exam is something that happens every four years where different hidden villages come to participate to see who moves up a rank. This year, the chunnin exams will be taking place here in one month and a half. I suggest the new team seven get better acquainted and work on teamwork. Kakashi, I need you to notify Sakura's parents," Sarutobi answered. Kakashi nodded and turned to his new team,

"I want you guys to train at ground 7, I will be there shortly," they nodded and left walking side by side.

Sarutobi sighed when team 7 and Kakashi left. He would have to notify the council about Kirei and other things. If he left all this information out, then they would surely use it as an excuse to get rid of him. Maybe it was time he told her about her parents and what really happened to her family.

While walking, people gave Kirei curious and fearful looks. There was a little boy who walked into her and she looked at him in the eye and he ran off screaming. Kirei made a sad smile and never let her face leave the ground. Indigo watch the scene sadly and put a comforting arm around her shoulders. Kirei smiled at the ground in thanks. Sasuke watched his new teammate questionably; it was obvious he had feelings for her but was Kirei too blinded to see?

"So what are we going to do before Kakashi-sensei gets here?" Ichiro asked flicking his bangs. Kirei still looked at the ground and Sasuke started straight ahead,

"We will discuss each others personal life and likes and dislikes," he answered. They finally reached the ground and sat down in a small triangle in front of the logs. Indigo stared at Kirei for a while and Kirei looked at him and blushed,

"Why do you keep staring at me?" she asked looking into his eyes. Ichiro took off the choker from around his neck and put it around Kirei,

"I was just wondering how you would look with this on, and you do look very good. Why don't you pull on the ankh?" he asked. Kirei complied and a log thin line of wire came out as she pulled the ankh. She let go of it and it went back to it's normal look. Kirei smiled,

"Thanks," she said feeling a bit better. Ichiro grinned,

"No problem, now go back to the flames of youth you've been yabbering about," he said nonchalantly. Sasuke noted that he was right, Kirei looked prettier with it on and her outfit complimented it. He sighed, is this what Kirei had to go through when Sakura flirted with him?

"Uchiha, what are your likes, dislikes hobbies and dreams for the future?" Ichiro asked with a glare,

"Should I really waste my breath on you?" he answered. Kirei gave him a look and he sighed,

"I have many dislikes and few likes. I have no hobbies if you can consider training a hobby, and I wouldn't call it a dream, more of a goal, to kill the murderer of my clan," he answered. Kirei visibly saddened and looked at the ground, "Kirei, your turn," Sasuke said,

"My dislikes are judgmental people my likes are my ever growing family my hobbies are singing and my dream is to fulfill all my promises before I loose myself,"

'To LK and DK,' she added as an after thought and tugged her hair. Ichiro grinned,

"Well, my likes are my family and friends, dislikes is the Uchiha bastard and my hobbies are…I guess training and my dream would have to be to bring my name far and wide," he grinned. Kakashi jumped down from the log reading his book,

"Good job on doing everything by your selves. Now let's train our team work by capturing Tora-chan and then we learn some jutsus!" Kakashi said smiling,

"You're going to train all of us!?" Kirei said enthusiastically,

"I am your sensei, aren't I?" he said smiling and turning a page. Kirei jumped and cheered doing a nice guy pose,

"Passion of youth!" and Sasuke grinned knowing old Kirei was back. It would be troublesome if Kirei was a mope all the time.

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Team 7 looked down at the Konohamaru Corps as they declared Kirei their boss. One month and a half flew by and tomorrow was the exam. Their teamwork increased and Kakashi taught them each a justu. Ichiro had a Water and Earth affinity, Sasuke had fire and lightening and Kirei had wind and water. He thought Kirei Wind Release: Wind Bullet and Water Release: Water Bullet. He Taught Sasuke Fire Release: Fire Dragon and Lightning Release: Lightning Strike and he taught Ichiro Water Release: Water Bullet and Earth Release: Decapitation. So here they were watching as Konohamaru challenged Kirei to a spar saying how she would acknowledge him.

"Are you ready?" asked Ichiro who said he would referee. The only reason Sasuke was there because they were going to practice multiple sparing versus Kirei's clones, "GO!" and Konohamaru made a few seals,

"Sexy Technique!" he called out and Kirei look on in interest. There was a poof of smoke and Konohamaru turned into an older version on Sasuke. Kirei squinted her eyes and mistook him for Itachi and fainted. Konohamaru canceled the technique and jumped around saying how he beat her. Moegi and Udon were cheering their leader on when they felt killing intent coming from Sasuke. Ichiro made a few seals and spat water from his mouth on Kirei's face. She shot up and blushed from embarrassment,

"I fainted, I did not faint from blood loss so I am not a pervert," she instantly declared. Ichiro laughed and pointed to Sasuke who was chasing Konohamaru down the road, "We better follow him, Kamura knows what Sasuke might be doing to him," Kirei added as they sprinted off after Sasuke. They stopped in their tracks as they watch Konohamaru being lifted of his feet in the air by some weird looking cat dude with what looked like a dead body on his back. Kirei stepped forward and glared at the cat man, "Cat man, Put him down now," she said,

"Or what?" Cat man asked Kirei clenched her fist. Kirei concentrated on the air around her and blinked and a gust of wind blew and hit the cat man on his arm. Cat Man let go of Konohamaru and Konohamaru ran towards Kirei. Kirei looked down at him,

"Leave now and I promise when I have free time I will play ninja with you okay?" she said. He nodded and ran down the road with Moegi and Udon by his side. Cat man looked back at Kirei,

"You little bitch, I don't know what you did but it hurt and I'll kill you for it," he pulled down the 'dead body' from his back onto the ground when the girl behind him snorted,

"I'm not part of this," and she turned her head the other way. Kirei felt something in the tree and she raised her arm in the air sharply and a wind blade appeared and cut the branch of the tree. Where the branch had fallen, there was a pile of sand that was slowly disappearing. Kirei looked around for where the sand could be going when she felt it rise from her feet going up to her waist,

"I can kill you right now," a deep voice answered behind her. Kirei smirked,

"Do it and my teammate will sever your head," she replied. He was right for Ichiro had a sickle out and the blade was inches away from the boy's neck. The boy smirked and the sand went back from wherever it came. Sasuke smirked,

"What's your name?" he asked. The boy turned to Ichiro who put away his blade and then turned back to Sasuke tilting his head,

"Gaara of the Desert, what are the names of the people beside me?" he asked,

"The girl is Uzairu Kirei and the boy is Indigo Ichiro and I am Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke flashed his sharingan for effect while Ichiro and Kirei rolled their eyes. Gaara had a crazed smile on his face as he walked away,

"We're team 7 and you better remember our flames of youth!" Kirei called after them raising a fist. Cat man and the sandy blond haired girl followed after Gaara,

"Kankuro, you are an embarrassment. Didn't Suna teach you not to be so hot headed?" he said coldly. Kankuro began shaking in his boots,

"Sorry Gaara," he answered. The girl looked sadly at her little brother,

'It's my fault, I could have saved him' she thought.

Team 7 watched them walk away,

"This year will be interesting," Ichiro said putting his sickle back on his back. Sasuke smirked,

"I agree,"

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Team seven met up in front of the registration building with an excited Kirei who kept jumping up and down. They entered the building and saw a green spandex wearing boy get knocked to the ground. Kirei looked sad as she hollered,

"OH NO! his flames of youth are dimming!" she had small tears form but then a boy wearing a beige colored shirt with black shorts stared at Kirei in disbelief,

"There's another one?" he mumbled blinking his white eyes tinged with pink in confusion. Sasuke walked up to the chunnin guard and spoke aloud,

"Excuse me, but we need to get to the third floor and this is clearly the second. So remove the genjutsu," there was several gasps heard and the chunnin on guard looked surprised,

"Well you have the smarts, lets see if you have the skills," the one with a spiky hair said rushing Sasuke with a kick. Sasuke countered with his own when suddenly they were both intercepted by the green spandex wearing boy,

"Save your strength for the exam," the boy said. A girl in baggy black pants with buns in her hair and a pink Chinese style shirt rolled her eyes,

"Didn't you say not to draw attention to ourselves?" she asked. The boy in the spandex rubbed the back of his head,

"Sorry, I just couldn't control myself," the boy replied looking sheepish. Kirei and Ichiro were looking over at Lee trying to seize him up. Sasuke brought down his foot and stared at Lee,

"Come on team let's go," he said not looking back. Kirei and Ichiro followed Sasuke all the while wondering when he became team leader. The boy with the pink tinged eyes stood in front of Sasuke,

"What is your name?" he asked. Everyone immediately dubbed him a Hyuuga. Sasuke snorted,

"When you ask for someone's name you give yours first," he brushed him off and continued to the third floor. They reached a small plateau where the steps were located on the far end. As they walked, they heard footsteps and turned to see the spandex dude in a ready stance,

"My name is Rock Lee and I would like to know your name," Lee jumped closer while Sasuke raised an eyebrow,

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke," he replied still little curious of this guy. Lee smiled,

"I challenge you, for a genius of hard work can really beat a genius," he replied. Ichiro recognized that stance as well as the outfit; it looked similar to a special jounin he heard of. Sasuke turned towards his team members. Kirei made a nice guy pose,

"USE THE YOUTH!" she called out while Ichiro shrugged his shoulders. Sasuke smirked while Lee's gaze never left his,

"It's a fight you want, it's a fight you get," he answered getting into a basic defense stance. Sasuke activated his sharingan thinking he could beat Lee with it. Lee ran forward and Sasuke saw that he was going to kick but couldn't dodge it since he wasn't fast enough. With a bam he went flying towards the wall. Lee continued his barrage and added for a final combo a, leaf whirlwind kick into Sasuke's chest. To make matters worse, Lee went underneath Sasuke and kicked him into the air and he appeared underneath him. His bandages were unwrapped and as he was about to wrap it around Sasuke, a large turtle shell crashed into Lee separating both fighters. Lee landed againts the wall and Kirei caught Sasuke who grunted in thanks. Sasuke shook his head and turned to Kirei in a hushed whisper, "I will ask you to get rid of my seal at the next fight," he spat blood on the ground and Kirei gave a sheepish laugh,

"LEE! How could you do such a thing, trying to perform a forbidden technique! You know what this means," Lee looked down at the ground, "here comes Gai-sensei," and there was a puff of smoke and an older version of Lee appeared on top of the turtle. He made a nice guy pose which caused Kirei to look on with hearts in her eyes,

"Lee, what have I told you about using that technique," he scolded still in a very disappointed voice. Lee mumbled something and Gai looked heart broken, "You know I have to punish you right?" Gai said and Lee nodded. Gai brought back his fist then punched Lee so hard; he went flying into the wall. He stood back up and walked over to Gai,

"Sorry sensei, but I had to prove that my flames of youth were larger and greater then that of a genius'. If I disobey you again, then I will do 300 laps around the village!" he said puffing out his chest. Gai looked fondly at Lee,

"If you can't complete that, I will do 300 laps around the village on my hands!" he started crying,

"And if you can't complete that sensei, I will do 300 laps on my pinky!" there was a sunset background as Lee and Gai ran towards each other in slow motion,

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!" and they hugged each other crying water fall tears. Kirei watched in amazement and began cheering,

"LEE-KUN! YOU ARE AMAZING! YOUR FLAMES BURN VIBRANTLY AND PASSIONATELY!" Kirei yelled giving a nice guy pose. Lee and Gai let go of each other and stared at Kirei fondly,

"Aren't you Kakashi's student?" Gai added a flashy smile. Kirei had hearts in her eyes as she blew hearts at both Lee and Gai,

"Lee!" she called, "I will cheer for you in the exams!" she blew another kiss that landed on his cheek and Lee began swaying side to side. Gai gave her a nice guy pose and a sun set back ground appeared,

"GAI, LEE!" she called running towards them. Lee and Gai ran towards her screaming,

"KAKASHI'S STUDENT!"

"LEE, GAI!"

"STUDENT OF KAKASHI!" and they made a gigantic group hug. There love stopped abruptly when Kakashi jumped down and kicked Gai in the head,

"Kirei, stay away from both of them," he said sternly watching as Lee helped Gai up,

"As expected from my rival," Gai made a pose the exact same time as Kirei and Lee which caused Kakashi to shudder,

"It seems they already converted you," Kakashi looked heartbroken but decided that he would try to separate them no matter what, "Come on, the exam is about to start," he said not even looking back at Gai and Lee as he dragged Kirei and Sasuke up the stairs knowing that Ichiro would follow. He opened the exam door and shot them in side and slammed the door behind them. I guess he was still a bit peeved that his eyes witnessed something so horrid. Kirei looked over at Sasuke and grinned,

"Are you going to grow a Mohawk and pierce your nipples now?" she asked kindly. Sasuke gaped at her and she began laughing. Suddenly he was glomped by someone with pale blonde hair,

"Sasuke-kun! Did you miss me?" she asked rubbing her cheek againts his chest. He pried the girl off and glared at her. Other members of the rookie nine followed after Ino,

"Che you guys joined as well, how troublesome," mumbled Shikamaru accompanied by Chouji who was eating chips. Kiba, Hinata and Shino followed after Ino and Kiba had a shit eating grin on his face,

"We trained our asses off," he looked over at Sasuke, "I'm so not going to loose to you," Sasuke had a smirk on his face as he seized Kiba up. Kirei looked over at Shino and jumped into his arms. Luckily, he was used to Kirei's antics so he caught her bridal style,

"Shino! I missed you! You won't believe all the pain I went through without you by my side!" said Kirei with small tears running down her cheeks being over dramatic. She began whispering everything that happened to her so far while the rest of the rookie nine sweat dropped. Ino glanced around,

"Where's forehead?" she asked looking behind Sasuke. Both Kirei and Sasuke grew somber, although they really didn't like Ino, Sakura and she were both friends for a period of time so it would be hard to say,

"She died on our C rank turned A rank mission," Sasuke answered. Everyone had horror struck faces as they recalled memories of Sakura, Ino laughed,

"Sasuke-kun, you don't have to joke like that! Be serious!" she playfully nudged him. Kirei got off of Shino and looked down at the ground as well,

"It's true Ino, she died when her soul was removed from her body. If you like, Ichiro, Sasuke and I can take you to se her body before her bones turn to dust," Kirei replied putting a hand on Ino's shoulder. Ino swallowed hard and blinked back tears. Shikamaru looked over Team 7 noticing Ichiro for the first time and gave him a small nod which he nodded back. He wondered what happened to Kirei's eyes but decided to ask later,

"Ino," Chouji called from beside Shika, "If you like, we can stop the exam and-"

"No," he was cut off by said girl, "Sakura wouldn't want me to quit she would want me to succeed in everything she couldn't and at least be happy. I'm sorry but I'm continuing with the exam for her sake," she folded her arms across her chest. Everyone from the rookie nine looked at Ino with a new light. Gone was the fan girl Ino. She then turned to Sasuke and gave him a hug causing everyone to sweat drop again. A boy with round glasses and silver hair wrapped into a ponytail approached the new rookie nine with a friendly smile,

"If I were you, I would keep quiet," he pushed his glasses back up, "There are people here who don't like to be disturbed," the rookie nine looked behind the man and saw a huge amount of killing intent directed at them. Kirei's eye brow twitched,

"LISTEN UP SHIT HEADS, IF IT'S A FIGHT YOU WANT, A FIGHTS WHAT YOU GET AND DON'T BE ALRAMED WHEN YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH BURN OUT!" she yelled pointing a finger at everyone in the room. The girl who stood beside Gaara before, stood up and pulled out her battle fan,

"Those are big words, but can you back them up?" she asked smirking. Kirei rolled up her fish net sleeves and spat on the ground, getting into her Wind Dance taijutsu stance,

"Bring it on old maid," she replied. Temari glared and opened it up to reveal a purple dot. She mumbled something and unleashed a barrage of wind blades much smaller then Kirei's own. Kirei smirked and kicked each blade with her foot who also unleashed a blade of wind that cancelled each other out. Temari and stared at Kirei who looked fired up, "Are you done already?" she asked. Temari snorted,

"Don't get cocky," and Kirei raised an eyebrow and dashed towards her. The girl had to think quickly, if she used her third or second star, she would hurt the others in the room. As Kirei's kick was a meter away, a wind blade came flying towards Temari. Suddenly a man stood in front of Temari and took the full force of the hit. There was a large slash on his chest and blood was seeping out,

"THERE WILL BE NO FIGHTING IN MY EXAMINATION ROOM!" he boomed which caused Kirei to pout. Through the whole fight, the genins who watch were shaking in anticipation and hoping they would be able to fight sooner or later. Kirei stood straight as she waved her hand in the air,

"Mou, you don't have to yell!" She folded her arms across her chest and walked over to Shino. The poor guys chest was still bleeding as he seated everyone in chairs; it seemed as if he acted as though the wound wasn't there, or the fact that he couldn't feel it. It freaked some genins out while others were turned on (cough Orochimaru). The man unleashed some killing intent and stared down at this new batch of chunnin hopefuls. He explained the rules of the exam as some of the blood from his chest fell to the floor. Some genins turned green. The test was passed around and Kirei gulped, she never listened to Talim when it came to written tests.

"You are given ten questions, answer one question wrong that is a mark off. If you are caught cheating that is two marks off. If you are caught cheating for a third time, you and you team mates fail. Fifteens minutes before the exam is over, the tenth question will be asked so sit tight and enjoy," the exam proctor made a smirk which caused some people to shudder. Half an hour has already gone by and Kirei was glancing around the room nervously, sweating like pig,

"A-ano, you can copy off my p-paper Kirei-chan," Hinata whispered beside her. Kirei glanced at her and smiled,

"It's okay Hina-chan, I'll think of something!" she smiled cheerily as Hinata gave a nod. Kirei looked around nervously and pulled on the ankh Ichiro gave her and began tugging it nervously. Suddenly, something hit her like a tone of bricks; she could hope to answer the tenth question! Feeling satisfied with herself; Kirei sat back with a gigantic smile on her face whistling a small tune. She was acting very care free and the people who had a clear view of her were wondering what the hell happened to her. 45 minutes passed and the examiner with the bleeding chest glared down at everyone,

"Times up! Time for the tenth question and I don't care if you don't understand," he boomed causing some genins to flinch. He smirked, "The tenth question is the hardest question out there and you can choose to take it or not but know this if you refuse, you will forever be a genin since you won't ever be able to enter the chunnin exams," he sated calmly. Some genins looked terrified,

"You can't do that!" Kiba hollered pointing a finger at him. The proctor looked at Kiba like a snake and its prey,

"Too bad this is my first time as a proctor," he folded his arms across his chest as genins practically flew out the door. Kirei had a very strange tingling feeling on the finger where Itachi had given her the ring as well as the tip of her nose for some strange reason. She slowly raised her hand and watched as the proctor nodded in her direction,

"I know you said no questions but I think I need a tissue," she said staring at him pleadingly, "And you might die of blood loss if you don't get that cleaned up," and after she said that, she dispelled the tense air in the room and stopped several gennins from quitting. If one could zoom in on Ibiki's face, one would see the corners of his mouth twitch upwards. He ignored the girl's comment and waited until he thought everyone who was going to leave, left. He took a deep breath,

"Those of you remaining, you all past!" he called out. Genins left and right had confusion all over their faces,

"What?" some of them even voice their thoughts,

"The tenth question was a mind game, a test to see if you could make a difficult decision during a mission, your village and team will be the only pressure you would have," he brought up his hands to his head and unwrapped his bandana, "I am the leader of the Torture and Interrogation Squad and these scars are from being on the receiving end, you runts can not be ninja if you are not willing to sacrifice yourself for the village." He paused letting his words sink in, "Would you rather spill secrets and spare one life then that of thousands? This is no game, it is a matter of life and death and those of you who can not accept the pressure left already so congratulations on passing," no sooner had he said that, a black cannon ball came flying through the window shattering it into many pieces. The black ball opened up to reveal a banner with the words 'Matarashi Anko, Second Proctor' and a woman in a beige trench coat and tight black skirt with purple hair and snake like eyes with a weird facial expression,

"WHOA! There are so many teams left Ibuki! You're getting rusty!" she scolded then walked to the center of the room. She glared at everyone sending off killer intent, "My name is Matarashi Anko and I am the second proctor for the exams! You brats follow me to training ground 44, the Forest of Death!" some people were curious to know why call it that name while others were wondering why the proctors aura screamed, CRAZY BLOOD THIRSTY PSYCO!

Kirei smiled; triumphant with the fact that she didn't really have to do anything yet she still passed she looked over at her team and noticed a victory smirk for the Uchiha and Indigo scratching the back of his neck nervously. Both male members met up with her considering the fact that she was closest to the door. Kirei gave Ichiro a questioning gaze,

"How did you do, you look worried," she said and Ichiro let out a sigh,

"I froze, I didn't know an answer to any question so I wrote the first thing that came to my mind…" he wondered off and began walking with his shoulders hunched over. Kirei tilted her head in confusion then decided to ask the boy with the fifty inch pole stuck up the ass,

"Sasuke? How do you think you did?" she asked and Sasuke 'hned' then walked right after them. Kirei rolled her eyes wondering why she bothered sometimes.

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"Hokage-sama…No, Sarutobi-san, I think Kirei is more then ready to learn the truth," Murmured a white haired man. The man was known as Jiraiya, one of the legendary three,

"I don't think so! Do you honestly think that she would need that now? During the time when she needs absolute focus on the chunnin exams? Her mind could be distracted and that could risk her getting her severely injured, not to mention her teammates. Jiraiya-san, I understand what you want to do, but she also has to watch out for the Soul Sucking sword. It wasn't even in our knowledge that we weren't the only family to be warped here," Talim said clearly not in a good mood. Sarutobi took a deep breath,

"You do realize the council must be alerted even if we don't tell her right away? They are starting to worry about everyone's safety ever since the mission with Sakura and her new looks not to mention Kyuubi," he opened his eyes, "She is at risk as is everyone she comes in contact with, the council will surely vote for banishment. We shall record our conversation and thoughts on the matter and present this information to Kirei at the end of the exams," the two other people nodded in agreement before parting ways.

Unbeknownst to them someone had been listening to their conversation. The man was standing on the ledge of the window. His eyes were a dead grey color as well as his hair. He wore a dirty brown cloak tattered and burned in areas in some areas and no shoes. The man's skin was black in some spots and he smirked, things were starting to get boring, he's seen the same thing happen with different people. Messing with dimensions was what he called amusement. His smile faded and he snapped his fingers revealing long black claws, 'Father would be very upset…' he thought as he become distorted and blurred out of vision.

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Kirei snorted as she sat down crossed legged, eyes closed. She was trying to meditate but it was proven to be difficult. She took a deep breath and pulled out the summoning scroll and summoned her large chakram and watched as it glowed white meaning it was enforced with a bit of LK's power. She frowned, wasn't she feeling mad, why would it do that…Unless, she wasn't mad and just frustrated. She smiled and gave a large nod; that has to be it. Suddenly a wave of green goop splashed down on her and she barely had enough time to roll away. The goop was able to graze her fishnet sleeve and it burned right off. Kirei groaned,

"Why am I always the target? Is it because I am a girl?" she asked no one in particular. This was the second time she was separated from her group. She grabbed Moon by the handle and breathed in, "I can slash my way through here!" she gave a battle cry and charged at the 'wall' of the snake. She made a downward slash and a deep cut revealed itself. She smirked but then the acid thingy oozed out and almost fell on her and she backed away. No sooner had she done that, the snake withered around in pain and thrashed around. Kirei was lurched around hitting the ground and tried to avoid the acid goop that seemed to be coming from no where. The movement stopped and she smiled thinking it would be better to slash multiple times. She summoned one hundred shadow clones each with their own Moon and she realized there wasn't enough room for all of them to fit and a second later, the snake exploded.

"AHHHHHHH!" she hollered as guts and other insides of a snake was sticking to her like a second skin. Good thing the clones took most of the acid goop. She sniffed the air and stuck her tongue out in disgust, she would rather take a bath now but her team might need her, besides, running through the forest at full speed could make some of the goop fly off.

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Ichiro glared at Sasuke as he was about to hand the stupid grass genin there scroll,

'Who new he would take the coward's way out,' he thought clenching his jaw. He began panting as he clutched his left arm trying to stop the blood flow, he had gone up againts the freaky ninja and his arm was slashed by his own weapon, this genin was very skilled, too skilled in fact. Suddenly, a black blur came rushing at Sasuke and delivered a punch to his face. He flew into the air and landed on a higher branch of the tree. Kirei was glaring at him so hard; it caused the creepy genin to smirk,

"Seems I underestimated you Kirei-kun," the snaky looking genin said. Kirei ignored his comment and picked up the scroll Sasuke dropped as he was hit,

"SASUKE! I THOUGHT YOU KNEW BETTER THEN THAT!" She yelled angrily. Kirei took a deep breath and calmed down, "How would you know if he wouldn't kill you right after, maybe he has a hidden agenda!" she continued. Sasuke spat out the blood from his mouth, he had bit his lip on impact. His eyes widened in realization. He stood up and looked over at the genin who looked amused. Kirei turned her gaze to him and tied the scroll to her waist and watched as he did a couple of seals and one snake, larger then before appeared and headed straight for Ichiro. Kirei turned to face him and looked at his position, one knee bent on the ground bleeding from the wound on his left arm, she debated if his legs would get up and run or not.

Sasuke swallowed, what's the matter with him? He could never beat Itachi by watching some girl save his ass. He ran down towards his team mate hoping to help them fight the stupid snake and continuing where he and the weird genin left off,

"Interesting…." The man with the rotting skin and dead grey eyes watched the battle crouched down to a tree, "I wonder if Father would enjoy this as much as I do?" he asked himself with the voice of a child. Kirei dashed towards Ichiro hoping to make it in time,

'Come on,' she thought, 'My weights are off, my seal needs to be removed as does Sasuke's,' she cursed under her breath remembering she never trained without the seal before therefore she might be too fast and end up hurting people around her not to mention herself. The snake was close, the only thing she could do would be to push Ichiro out of the way OR…THAT'S IT! This might work! She began to mold chakra hoping it was enough. She quickly did the seals for the Replacement Technique and opened her eyes noticing the head of the snake coming crashing down towards her at an immense speed. She put her hands in the air,

"AHHHHH!" she cried hoping her confidence would boost up with a war cry. There was a large cloud of smoke and Sasuke stopped moving and wondered what would happen next. The smoke cleared and viewed Kirei with a glowing red aura. Sasuke stared at her facial expression and notice her eyes were red with slits. She was using some strange red chakra to hold up the snake, "DON'T JUST STAND THERE! DO SOMETHING!" she yelled turning to him with an animalistic look. It shook Sasuke to the core and he thought of burning the thing alive. What if Kirei got hit in the cross fire?

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" he called then did he seals and called out, "Fire Release: Grand fireball Technique," and a large stream of fire hit the snake. Kirei looked at the stream of fire heading her way; she could use the wind teleportation technique she designed when she was ten. She disappeared and appeared next to Ichiro who looked at the battle in wonder. She smacked herself; she could have done that before! The snake lay, burnt and Kirei and Sasuke turned to the genin and smirked victoriously,

"Impressive Sasuke, I made the right choice in choosing you," he licked his lips with his freakishly long tongue and Sasuke dropped to his knee panting,

"Sasuke!" Kirei called watching him suffer from using up more chakra then he was used to. She directed her gaze to the genin and glared. She summoned her blade which was tinted black because of the anger and hatred she felt towards the freaky tongue snakey looking grass genin. She charged towards him, her body emitting the aura of Kyuubi and pumped (unknown to her) black hinted red chakra. She shot her blade as if it were a boomerang with her right hand and extra blades made of the chakra she pumped into it appeared and caused the blade to gain more width. The blade headed horizontally to the genin, tearing everything in its path with the added wind. Orochimaru raised an eye brow and quickly pulled out his Grass Cutter sword from his mouth and got ready to defend himself. The blade was directly in front of him when it separated and an exact duplicate appeared beside it. They separated leaving a space in the middle and passed the genin and tore off his arms, from above the elbow down. They came back from behind him morphing into one and Kirei easily caught it as it turned back into normal looking Moon,

"Nice technique, but children shouldn't be playing with weapons," a voice said from behind her. Kirei's smirk turned to a frown as she watched the blood pouring from his arms turn into mud. She felt something wet wrap around her neck and she knew the guy was right behind her. She brought her hands up causing Moon to poof out of existence and his grip on her neck tightened and she stopped moving her hands, "Kyuubi powered brat will prove to be a nuisance." And Kirei was suddenly staring into his yellow eyes. She watched as he began making seals and his right hands finger tips glowed blue. He lifted up her shirt watching as she began squirming. Kirei stopped moving and the genin looked at her in curiosity and that was his mistake, it was all it took for her to flick her wrist and call on a wind blade to try and cut off the guys head. He swiftly side stepped and smirked, "That would work on an inexperienced ninja unlike myself…Five pronged seal!" and he slammed his fingers onto her seal and she screamed in pain,

"You…You bastard!" she mumbled trying to sound stronger then she felt. Her eyes were half lidded and she was clinging onto a state of unconsciousness,

"Well, the Kyuubi brat changed her appearance but no matter, you still are a demon and always will be," she glared with all her might and spat onto his face. His smirk was gone instantly, "You shall pay for that Narumi," and she felt her self being flown into a tree and immense pain before she blacked out…

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"Damn! FUCK! Why do I always lose my kool? I CAN DO BETTER THEN THAT!" Kirei hollered into the darkness. She slammed her fist onto the wall she was leaning againts, "I train and train until my swordsmanship is better then a fucking jounin yet I can't beat a guy who looks like a cross between a drag queen and a snake! Where has all my training been for?" she slammed her fist into the wall and ignored the bricks that fell onto the ground making a loud splashing noise. Tears fell freely down her face, "I couldn't protect my team…not even the screaming banshee Sakura, I am worst then trash…." She muttered to herself,

"Kirei…" a voice murmured and Kirei's head instantly shot up and notice she was back in a sewer in ankle deep water. There were pipes that lead down a hallway and she immediately followed the echo. It lead her to a large brick wall with only one brick missing, she frowned,

"Aren't I in my mind? Where is the mansion?" she asked looking around frantically,

"Kit…Sorry…Sealed my powers…Can't speak…LK and Dk…" was all she heard her Nee-chan say before the hole slowly was filled by an appearing brick,

"Nee-chan!" she called into the darkness only hearing her voice echo off the walls. She dropped to the ground on her knees and hugged herself, "I'm alone again! Somebody! Help!" she said in a raspy voice while she tried to hold back tears. She sat there in dirty water remembering what the weird snake guy said. He called her Narumi and Kyuubi brat, did that mean he knew what was going on? "Narumi." The name rolled off her tongue and it sounded familiar but couldn't remember where she heard it from,

"Kirei-chan, why so lonely? DK and I are hear you know?" a cheerful echo hit her ears. She instantly perked up,

"Hikari, what's going on?" she asked as her head frantically turned side to side trying to find out where she was. Kirei looked back in front of her and saw the pale person that resembled her, "AH!" She said in surprise and jumped. LK smiled before wiping her tears,

"Don't worry! Everything is going to be better!" she said causing Kirei to smile,

"But only after things get worse," DK continued. Kirei turned to see her darker self stand up againts the wall and walk over to her,

"DK, do you always have to dampen the mood?" LK echoed out. DK ignored her comment and stared directly at Kirei,

"You're loosing all you're blonde hair by using our power uncontrollably, look at the changes to your face," she echoed and waved her hand and a mirror appeared in front of her host. Kirei looked at her face in awe, her emotional scars that were on her cheeks disappeared into thin lines, barely visible. Her eyes and hair were still half black and half white and her skin was pale. Her sharper then normal teeth turned back to normal. The mirror vanished,

"That was no ordinary genin," she half grunted. DK waved her hand and the mirror vanished,

"That was one of the legendary three Talim spoke to you about in the history lesson, Orochimaru, the snake sennin. He placed a seal on the seal that binds Kyuubi's soul to your body rendering usage of her powers impossible," Kirei frowned,

"So you're saying that he sealed Nee-chan's chakra up and removed everyone from the wonderful home I built?" she asked

"Yup!" LK echoed cheerfully. Kirei stared at DK in understanding, Nee-chan was off limits, "You have an exam to finish!" LK pulled her up and blinked.

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"Sasuke-teme, what's gotten into you?" hollered a familiar voice. Kirei tiredly sat up and stared at the scene before her, Shikamaru, Ino and Chouji looked worse for wear, panting even in their battle ready positions, Lee was bent on one knee panting heavily in front of her, the male Hyuuga and female bun haired girl were sitting in a tree while Sasuke was breaking some Sound Ninja's arms. The voice she heard was that of Ichiro,

"Sasuke?" she called out and he turned towards her. She gasped at the sight of him covered in black markings and surrounded by glowing purple chakra. The marks receded and the chakra slowly evaporated. One of the sound nins team member put down his heaven scroll and said something Kirei couldn't hear, she was too focused on Uchiha. How long did they stare at each other for?

"I think we should continue the rest of this exam," and they both nodded and averted each others gaze. Shikamaru stood up helping his team mates up then walked over to Kirei's figure on the floor. He watched as Kirei winced when she sat up. He offered his hand and she gratefully accepted. She stood up wobbly before she lost her balance. Shikamaru instantly caught her and she blushed in embarrassment,

"Thanks again…What happened?" she asked as he slowly put her to stand straight. He scratched the back of his neck,

"Ichiro was fighting off three sound genin with an injury when Lee came in to save you guys because he found someone with the same passion of youth or whatever…My team and I were watching in the bushes over there…" Kirei raised an eyebrow, "We were debating to help you or not but then Lee was injured as well as Ichiro and them we jumped out and I guess you know the rest…" he trailed off. She turned her direction to where the sound team was and in their place was a heaven scroll,

"Does anybody need a heaven scroll?" she offered and Shikamaru scratched the back of his neck again,

"Well…"

"It's yours, you can have it," she said walking over to it then handing it to them. He nodded and they went on their way rather reluctantly. Kirei made her way to Lee who looked worse for wear and smiled at him, "Thanks for the help, but I guess your team mates want you back," he nodded then dashed off with them. She let out a sigh then went to Ichiro who seemed to be bleeding from more then one place. Of course Kirei wasn't a medic but she did know some things about medical Justus, just how to stop bleeding. She ripped open his shirt and stared at the many cuts and bruises on his chest and back, "Sasuke, is it possible you could get me a wet cloth? I need one to wipe away the blood." He nodded then headed into the forest,

"Thanks Kirei but we still need an Earth scroll, where are we going to find one now?" he asked. Kirei thought about it,

"We could always attack whatever team comes first," she shrugged her shoulders and Ichiro rolled his eyes, what an idiot,

"Here," Sasuke said from behind her and she took it from him and wiped the blood. She then took out a white cream that smelt so bad, Ichiro sneezed,

"What the hell is that?" he asked

"This will sting," Kirei said ignoring his question and continued rubbing the healing cream on his wounds. Kirei felt an approaching person and tensed. There was a snapping noise and all three genin turned to see an embarrassed Kabuto,

"Sorry! I was trying to get your attention!" he said. Kirei had no idea who this guy was but the boys did. While Kirei was fighting with the sand girl, Kabuto introduced himself. Even with this explanation, Kirei didn't trust him. She stared at him warily,

"What are you doing here anyway?" she asked. Kabuto's smile dropped,

"My team mates decided to split up and gather scrolls then meet back at the tower but I kind of feel weak and I might need your assistance. What do you say?" he asked looking hopefully at each member. Kirei frowned,

"Well, we do need an earth scroll since we have a heaven scroll…" she thought aloud. There was a soft cough to her left and she saw Ichiro avoiding her gaze, "What happened?"

"I sort of think that I dropped it while dragging the both of you here…" Kirei's eyebrow twitched furiously and she took a deep breath,

"Excuse me for a moment," the boys shrugged their shoulders as she headed behind a tree. Minutes later, bird could be seen flying away from the area Kirei was in, not to mention trees and a large boar.

Kirei stared at the battered tree panting and collapsed to the ground,

"Come on Kirei, you know better then this!" she berated herself. A widely known fact about all girls, is the fact that they have a sixth sense when they are being peeped on, watched or just in danger. At the moment, Kirei's 'being watched' feeling was tingling ferociously, that she actually flung a kunai behind her, not even caring if she hit someone. There was a child like laughter and she jumped up, "Who's there?" she asked and a man, nasty block spots on his sickly pale skin, burned brown cloak and dead grey eyes and hair stepped out of the bushes where she threw her kunai, "Who are you?" she asked. The man smirked and took a step closer causing Kirei to raise her guard,

"I am what I am," he smirked noticing the frustrating look on her face,

"I don't have time for riddles!" she said angrily causing the man to chuckle like a little kid,

"I am the son of the beginning, of the dead," he waved his hand through the cloak allowing a view of his claws and her vision wavered for a minute, "I am what is left of father, the owner of the dead, and my mother, the owner of life," he said watching as Kirei thought over his words,

"The death God? Are you the son of the death God and God?" she asked and the man nodded then circled around her, "I never knew God was female," she frowned

"Tell me, does my presence bother you? Are you afraid that I can end your life in a second?" he asked amused that Kirei had a frown on her face,

"Wait…God is dead? As is the death God?" she asked putting her finger on her chin. The man stopped in front of her and she almost jumped,

"I lied. My mother is male. Being powerful deities doesn't mean they need to conceive. It surely doesn't mean they are in love. They did it to maintain balance for soon, their immortality will run it's course," Kirei stared at him,

"What the hell are you doing here?" she asked truly curious as to why the successor of almighty beings was standing in front of her,

"I was bored. Besides, in another world, you merely are simple entertainment," he laughed in her face and Kirei launched her fist at the guy which connected with his jaw,

"Quit playing and remove the illusion," she said snorting and the man glared at her. He raised his clawed hand and slowly began to close it into a fist. Kirei dropped to the floor choking as air began to be squeezed out of her,

"Do not think for a second that I will not crush you. Because of your stupidity and anger, I will make sure you loose someone precious to you. I was bored yet you made me angry, maybe it was wise that I showed up and knocked sense into you. It was I that brought Nightmare and the Uzairu clan here. It was I who brought Kilik here, without me you would have never been born. Not to mention the fact that your heritage isn't even in the slightest bit over, Narumi…" he vanished and her choking continued. There was rustling in the bushes and Kabuto, Sasuke and Ichiro jumped out,

"Kirei!" Ichiro shouted and her breathing slowly became even, "Are you alright?" he asked and she nodded while getting up on her feet,

"Well, I think we should head towards the tower, if you provide protection, then I will give you my extra earth and heaven scroll," Kabuto said and team seven nodded although Kirei was very reluctant to do so,

"Where to?" Sasuke asked and Kabuto pushed up his glasses then pointed to north,

"The moss on the tree is pointing north and I can guarantee that the tower is located at the center," they nodded and began jumping tree to tree towards his direction. After a while, they noticed they were at the tower and nothing and nobody attacked them which was slightly weird. Sasuke caught Kabuto cursing when Ichiro pointed that detail out loud. He wordlessly handed them the scrolls he promised then headed to meet his team.

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"You reek of death," said Sasuke as they waited fro the big screen to announce the names of the first fighters. The second exam had more genins that passed then expected thus deciding that they do a preliminary round to decide who will fight in the finals. Kirei scrunched up her nose then scratched her head,

"And how do you know what death smells like Sasuke?" she asked watching as he clenched the metal bar until his knuckles turned white. He angrily stormed off towards Kakashi's figure leaning againts the wall. That's when she remembered the massacre and she felt horrible,

"Kirei, I think you're ring wants to talk to you," Ichiro said from beside her. Kirei stared down at the ring and laughed,

"Why would you say that?" she asked and he smiled,

"It's been blinking like that for years,"

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The big screen flashed which caused her to smack her head in frustration,

"Fuck no, Sasuke is already angry and Ichiro still isn't fully healed," she muttered while the rivals glared at each other and headed into the ring. Most of the rookie nine new of the small feud both males had and looked on with interest. Both fighters stared at each other menacingly at each other even after Hayate, the sick proctor announced the beginning of the match,

"I will not loose to you Uchiha," Ichiro said but it sounded like he was implying something else. Sasuke flashed his Sharingan and yelped in pain as the curse seal pulsed unexpectedly. "I know you. You are alone like I am, like Kirei is, I know you are not only an avenger but somebody who is looking for a strong woman, a strong female who can hold her own," Ichiro pulled out both his scythe sickles and charged, "KIREI IS MINE! I WOULD RATHER DIE THEN SEE YOU USE HER FOR YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS!"

Translating the Name: Remember that this is a Soul Calibur crossover. You do notice that Kirei fights like Tira?