Chapter 10

The day finally came. Beka, Watari and Morio waited at their usual meeting place until Uzukai finally showed up with some slips of paper.

"I have some good news for you," Uzukai announced. Beka snorted. He looked at her with a blank expression.

"I've nominated all of you to compete in the Chūnin exams," he said and smiled at everyone except Beka. Recently, Beka and Uzukai had had a falling out. Shiroyami, who had gone on a mission with them, had to break up their most recent fight by having to knock out Beka. The fight started when Beka argued with Uzukai when he told her that she couldn't go on their first B-Rank mission. He had told her that she wasn't ready for the mission and Beka had challenged him. Watari hadn't been there at the time, so Shiroyami had had to complete his job.

Uzukai handed all three a piece of paper.

"It's up to you if you go or not but if you don't go, the others won't hold it against you," He said. Beka sighed. He would always do that; make them feel guilty without trying.

"Whaddya say guys?" Beka asked and jumped off the bridge railing. The river underneath them was a making a small trickling sound, almost unnoticeable.

"I'm in," Watari said. Morio nodded and punched the air. They all put their hands in and shouted Team 13.

"Well, Sign the papers and go to room 301 tomorrow at 4pm to hand them in," Uzukai said and smiled, then disappeared.

You know, I hate him…" Beka groaned. "Why couldn't we have had Kakashi? Is it too late to return him?"

"Yes, Beka, It's too late to return Uzukai-sensei," Watari said and snickered, patting Beka's shoulder. They all parted ways and Beka went to her special place.

Along the way she saw Naruto and Konohamaru with his team. After a brutal beating from Sakura, Konohamaru accidentally ran into another ninja. He grabbed him by the scarf and was about to his him when Beka grabbed his hand.

"Please don't hit him," she said sleepily. "If you want to hit someone, hit me."

A blond girl behind him looked at him with a frightened look on her face.

"Kankuro, please, stop!" She begged as if something might devour them both if he did something stupid. Kankuro snarled at Konohamaru and dropped him. In his place, he picked up Beka by her shirt collar. She found it difficult to breathe but she managed. Kankuro went to hit her when instead a rock hit him. Sasuke sat in the tree above them and threw a rock up and down in his palm.

"Why you-!" Kankuro growled.

"That's enough!" Someone called out. A red haired boy stood on a tree branch upside down with a gourd on his back. Kankuro dropped Beka and she hit the ground. The boy disappeared from the tree branch and reappeared in between Kankuro and the blond haired girl. Sasuke jumped down from the tree he was sitting in.

"Who're you? The one with the gourd on his back," he called out. The red haired boy stopped and turned to answer Sasuke's question.

"My name is Gaara," He said. Beka didn't know exactly what was going on but she sure as hell knew there was something evil about Gaara and that she couldn't wait to face him.

At 4pm the next day, Beka arrived at room 301. Nobody was there. She decided to go down a floor and she found another 301 with everyone crowding around it. Two boys stood at the front of the door. A bowl headed boy was thrown back. He had a green jumpsuit on.

"Lee!" A girl yelled. She had her hair in two buns. Before she could help him up, Beka got there before her. She helped him up and looked at his bruises.

"Oh, dear! These are some nasty bruises," She said, sympathetically. Lee looked at her for a bit. She was a complete stranger yet, she was tending to his wounds. She licked her thumb and wiped some dirt off his face.

"Much better," she said and smiled. Lee smiled at her with a big grin.

Then came team 7. Sasuke immediately noticed that the room was actually 201. Everyone left knowing that. She went up to the boys at the door.

"So, you're the examiners for the Chūnin exams huh?" Beka asked. "Well, just to let you know, there are some extremely interesting kids here today. It should be fun to watch them be crushed under the weight of loosing."

She smiled at them both. Then left to find her team mates.

Instead of finding Watari and Morio she stumbled upon Lee fighting Sasuke. She was tired from walking around so she took up a seat on the floor and leaned against a pillar. She watched as Sasuke got the crap beaten out of him. Naruto only lasted 3 seconds with Lee. She was beginning to like him but if Lee killed Sasuke she wouldn't be able to get her revenge with him. Beka dashed towards the battle and kicked Sasuke away from Lee. Sakura caught Sasuke and Beka handled Lee.

"What do you think you are doing?" He asked. He didn't seem at all happy.

"Well, I just assumed that you were going to kill him so I stopped you. As simple as that," she said and smiled at him. He stared at her again.

"Oh, but if you want to fight, I'll be more than happy to take Sasuke's place," Beka said and crossed her arms. Lee shook his head.

"All I want to do is fight Uchiha," He said. Beka suddenly appeared behind him.

"You have no idea of what I'm capable of," She whispered in his ear. The bandages began to unravel on Lee's arms. Suddenly, a kunai hit the end of it and pinned it to the wall. An older version of Lee appeared on the back of a talking red tortoise. Lee and the older Lee, named Might Gai, cried and a random sunset appeared. Beka sighed.

"You know, walking around just isn't my thing. I guess this is why, Shikamaru doesn't do anything," Beka groaned. She was totally creeped out by the whole Lee and Gai sensei love. She headed for room 301 where she found Morio and Watari waiting.

"Where were you?" Morio asked.

"You have no idea what I just saw," she moaned.

-Authors Crib-

Bleh, Late update…-/.\-

Anyways, I have good news!

Pre-Shippuden won't last long! Oh, are you guys sad?

Happy Thursday, Fanfictionists! 3