I DO NOT OWN NARUTO IF I DID ITACHI WOULD BE WALKING AROUND IN SKIN TIGHT CLOTHS AND HE WOUND BE MINE. (Since you can see he is not )
Chapter 10: Chunin Exams here we come
After Lily dropped her bag off at their house and put the flesh eating bugs in her room, she headed of to the training grounds. She saw that only Loekie, Venna, Tara, the dogs, and Tori were there. They seemed to be deep in training, so she didn't bother them.
The rest of the week seemed to go by fast for Lily and the girls. Venna and Loekie were training with Kitaru and Hitaru. Tara was working on a new shadow possession Jutsu that she was creating, and Lily was training with Tori so that they knew they were in top shape for the exams.
As Lily was lying in bed that night, looking up at her ceiling, she couldn't help but think back on what she had done those last two years. She had been so set on revenge that she hadn't seen what it had done to the ones around her. She didn't see what it was doing to her. When she had killed the remaining men, she thought that she would feel good that she had done it. But the truth was she felt worse, she had let her feeling cloud her judgment, and she knew that Mikaa and Sukan would be ashamed.
Her last thoughts befor going to bed that night was that she would help this village out as much as possible. She was going to make a difference here. She was going to take over the Uchiha name when the chunin exams where over and she was going to show them what a true Uchiha is. Not an emo boy or a clan murdered.
(Next morning)
Monday morning, Lily threw on a pair of baggy black cargo capris and a black long sleeved shirt. She wore her black ninja sandals with her legs bound up to her knees. She and the girls ate a quick breakfast and threw on their black cloaks. With that, they headed of to the Hokage building for the meeting.
When Lily, the girls, Hitaru, Kitaru, and Tori walked in the room, they saw about thirty people dressed in Jounin gear, Sarutobi and what looked like the counsel of elders were sitting at the front of the room. When the girls walked in, he looked up from the papers he was looking at.
"Dragon, Fox, Rabbit, Doe, Tori so nice for you to join us, now all we are waiting on is Hatake and then we can start. Why don't you come up her and stand by this wall until he gets here?" Sarutobi said.
"Well, you won't have to wait long. I am right here," a voice came from the back of the room as they stood by the wall. A loud hush went through the room.
"He's actually on time. Is the world ending?" a man with a cigarette said from in the crowd.
"Okay, today we are here to discuss the chunin exams. Could I please have the three Jounin of the rookie teams' step forward?" the Hokage asked. With that, the man that had black hair beard and the cigarette in his mouth, a women with clothes that looked like a bunch of wraps, and the man that they had bumped into out side Konaha on they way to Suna came out. Lily ignored the people as they fought over whether or whether not the rookies should get to participate in the exams. In the end, they decided that they should be given a chance.
"Okay, the next matter we have to deal with is if these four young ladies should be allowed to enter as a four man unit. Now before you decide, could each of you come forwards and grab on of these papers and take a look at what there status is?" With that, everyone came forward and grabbed a paper and the elders were each handed one. Lily watched the look on there faces change from frowns to shocked, wide eyed looks.
"How is this possible I have never heard of these girls?" one of the men in the crowd called out. With that, Lily turned to face every one in the room.
"Well, that is because we where trained by two Nin out side of the village. Now I just have one thing to say. I was born here, so naturally this is the place that I would come to obtain my ninja status, but if I am not allowed to take this exam with my team, then I will go somewhere else. We have worked together since before we were genin and I will not leave anyone of them behind," Lily stated calmly. "Now, I don't see what the problem is? Did you or did you not just let three teams of rookies' in? Why not us? We could be of good help to your village."
"Well, I don't see why they shouldn't be let in. We wouldn't want four ninja of this status slipping from our grasps," said the head elder after a moment of whispers between them. It was true and that is what the girls were hoping to point out to them. They did not want them as there enemy.
"I just have one question. Which one of you is Dragon?" come a shout from the crowd.
"That would be me," Lily answered.
"How did you come so far in such a short time?"
"Lots of hard work, hours of training, lots of blood, sweat, and lots of pain," Lily responded. Everyone looked at the cloaked figure, surprised by her response.
"Well, since we have that all cleared up, you girls may go. I will see you later, Dragon." With that said, the four girls exited the room and then the building.
"I should have known that the only reason they would let us do this is so that we wouldn't got to one of there enemy villages," Tara said as they walked down the street towards there training grounds.
"I think that was the main reason the Hokage let everyone of the Jounin see our status. He wanted to put pressure on the elders. That is also the reason I made it clear that if they didn't, we would go to a different village," Lily said.
"So you basically rubbed our power in there face and they couldn't handle seeing us leave the village?" Loekie said with a laugh.
"Okay, I'm going to head to the Hokage's office and wait for him. I don't care what you do, but remember that we have the chunin exams on Monday and that is only seven days away," Lily said as she and Tori walked back into the Hokage building. When she arrived there, the Hokage was just opening his door and just walking in.
"So, what was it that you needed to talk to me about, Dragon?" he asked. Then, he saw the serious look on Lily's face.
"I want the truth and nothing but the truth when I ask you this Sarutobi. Is or isn't Naruto a Jinchuuriki, a demon container?" she asked as she sat down in front of him. To say that Sarutobi was surprised was an understatement.
"Who told you about that, Lily?"
"I have my ways of figuring out my information, but I am going to say that I don't think that it is such a good thing to have him in the exams this year," Lily said looking him in the eye.
"And why is that? I thought that you of all people would understand that he is not the demon that is sealed inside of him," the Hokage said with a disappointed look in his face.
"That is not what I meant. I know that he is not the demon, but you remember me telling you that the Kazekage's children are coming to participate in the exams too, right?" Lily asked and the Hokage shook his head yes. "Well his son, the red headed one, is also a Jinchuuriki. He has the sand demon sealed in side of him, but his seal was messed up so he dose not have full control of the demon," Lily stated was a grave face. "And the only person that can fix it is Legendary Gama Sannin Jiraiya, your former student."
"So you think that he might find out that Naruto is a Jinchuuriki and go after him?" Sarutobi asked.
"I don't know what he will do, but I know that you have to get into contact with Jiraiya and tell him to get here as soon as possible because all we need is a rampaging demon in Konaha," Lily said. "For now, I think that it is best just to leave things alone, but when the exams start, keep a close eye on him."
"I think that is for the best. Okay Dragon, do you have anything else you need to talk about?"
"What demon is sealed in him and what time do we meet for the exams?"
"Monday morning at 6:00 AM, and Naruto has Kyuubi nine, the tailed fox"
"Okay, I will see you around." With that, Lily left the Hokage's office. She was surprised to hear a gasp in the back of her mind when Kyuubi was mentioned.
'What was that all about Reidou. Do you know who Kyuubi is?' Lily thought.
'I can not tell you at the moment Flower, but soon I promise'
((That night))
Lily had on all black. She didn't want anyone seeing her as she made her way to the Hokage tower. As she slipped into one of the windows to the building, she pulled a map out of her bag.
'If this building is still set up the same, they should keep the chunin exam information in this room,' she thought to Reidou.
'I'm guessing it should be the same. Remember we do not want to be caught, so if it comes down to it, use you sharingan Flower,' Reidou warned.
Lily slipped through the halls unnoticed and made it to her destination. It looked like it was unguarded, but just to be sure, she activated her Byakugon just to be safe and scouted the area.
'You would think that this information would be better guarded. This is ridiculous.'
'Well maybe when the exams are over, you should talk to the Hokage about this.' With that, Lily copied all of the information on the exam participants and headed home to review it before she went to bed.
(((Monday morning, 4 o'clock)))
That week, Lily had trained with the girls as much as possible. But she trained with Hinata even more since they only had so much time before the exams to get her in to tip top shape. Lily got up and did her normal morning routine. But today, she took out the outfit that the girls had insisted that she get just for the exams.
(Here is the outfit the only difference is that her wrappings are dark green, her skirt is black and her forehead protector is tied around her neck) (i153./albums/s223/superfingar1/naruto/ninjahinata.jpg)
Then, she walked over to her scroll with all her weapons in it and unsealed her twin swords. Both of them had a dragon carved on its sheath, and on its handle, it had her name engraved in neat calligraphy. The blades themselves were only an arms length long, but they had an Emerald green tint to them too. She strapped them on to her back and grabbed her boots. The boots themselves went up to mid calve; they had buckles on the outside and built in blade holders on the insides of the boots. The holders had twin knifes in them, they where not fancy, just there as backups. The blade handles where black, just like the leather of her boots and the blades where about a foot long. Her hair was up in its usual pony tail and she had two spare hair ties just in case she had to put it in a bun.
When she was done strapping on her Kunai and weapons pouches, she headed out into the living room with Tori to wait for the girls. The first to come out was Loekie with Kitaru and was wearing a special outfit. Lily looked it over as she sat on the couch.
(The only Difference is she doesn't have the chains hanging off of it. And she has her weapons and Kunai pouches on, with her forehead protector around her left thigh above her Kunai pouch)
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The next person to come out was Venna and Hitaru. She too had a unique outfit and again Lily looked it over wile she sat next to her sister.
(Differences: the leggings are connected to the skin tight under shirt making it a full body suet; the colors are Black and red not Green and Blue. She still has the head band on wile her forehead protector is tied around her waste)
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Like always, Tara was the last to join them and all three girls looked over her outfits and she stood in front of them.
(Differences: instead of a fish net under shirt it is a sleeveless blue skin tight body suit that goes down into shorts that end right before her boots start. Other wise every thing else is the same with the outfit)
The girls all went and ate a small breakfast. They grabbed their black cloaks with the silhouettes on them and put them on. (Lily's had a hole for the top of her swords to stick out)
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All the girls had all they needed sealed in scroll that was in their weapons pouch. This varied from clothes, to weapons, to first aid, to food. When they where sure that they had all that they would need, they all walked out the door. Lily could tell that the other girls were nervous, no matter how well they thought they hide it, she could see it.
Ten minutes later found the girls and their companions standing in front of the exam building. Lily turned to the girls and smiled before she put her hood up. The girls followed her example. While the girls were on there way up to the third floor, they noticed some commotion on the second floor.
"They trying to weed out the weak ones," Loekie said as they continued up to the third floor. When the got to the door that they where to take the exam in, Lily turned to them.
"Don't show any of your true potential before the final exams, okay?" With that, the girls nodded to her and she opened the door. When they looked in, they saw a varity of Nin from different villages. Some from grass, rock, waterfall, rain, and there was the sand siblings and their lot.
When they opened the door, the occupants of the room had turned and looked at them. But because they had their hood up, all that they could see were four people, two dogs, and one Black Panther. Lily entered the room all the way and stood off to the side of the door by the window. Tori walked over and jumped up and laid down on the window sill. Not long after, the girls and the dogs joined to.
After a few minutes of the girls having all the attention on them, the door opened up again. This time Hinata's team and the Nara's team entered the room. They seemed to have enough brains not to make a big scene and moved off into a corner. Later, the door opened for the second time since they had arrived. This time, Neji's team entered the room. Lily could see that Neji had his byakugan activated and was looking around the room. When his eyes hit her corner, a sneer sprang up on his face. Neji stuck his nose in the air and walked in the other direction.
Right as Neji and his group where taking a seat, the door banged open, catching the attention of everyone in the room. Lily watched as the Uchiha's group walked in the door. Them entering seemed to get the other rookies out of there hiding place. Lily watched as they argued for a few minutes, not really interested. But what did catch her interest was the sudden whiff of snake, and then a genin with silver hair appeared and started to talk to the group.
Lily knew she had smelt that snaky smell before and she didn't like it at all. She looked over at Tori to see she too had jumped down from the window sill. Lily signaled for the girls to stay where they were and she inched towards the group. When she was right next to the door, she stopped.
"These cards can tell you anything about anyone in this room," the silver haired teen said.
"I want to know about Rock Lee from the leaf, Gaara of the desert, Fox, Rabbit, Doe, and most importantly, Dragon. They are all from Leaf as well," she heard Sasuke tell him. The silver haired genin shuffled his carded and then pulled one out. Lily listened to the information he gave them on Lee and Gaara. She raised her eyebrow in interest when it cam to her groups turn.
"I though you where joking when you gave me those last four names, but I guess they do exist. Okay Fox, she is 12. Her sensei is deceased," he started, and then his eyes bugged out a little. "Wow, okay it says here that she has been on 5A, 10 B, 24 C, 50 D, and 3 S ranked missions. One of the C ranked ones was a solo. Not only that, but her Tai, Gin, and Nin Jutsu are all upper or lower Jounin level." At this point in time, the whole room was paying attention.
He pulled out another card and turned it over. "For Rabbit, it is exactly the same with the age, missions, and her skill level." He again pulled a card out of the deck. "Yes, just as I expected. The same goes for Doe, except that she has a Kekkei Genkai, but it doesn't say what it's called. If my guessing is right, the same will go for Dragon?"
"I w-wouldn't say t-that," a quiet stutter came from Hinata. The silver haired teen looked at her, and then drew out a card. He flipped it over and looked at it. After a few seconds, it looked like his face had lightened a few shades.
"This can't be! It say here that her sensei is deceased, she had been on 9A, 17B, 32 C, 50 D, 8 S. Out of those, 4 A, 7 B, 8 C, and 5 S where solo missions. Her Tai, Gin, And Nin Jutsu levels are all Lower ANBU. She had mastered at least an ANBU level in medical Nin-jutsu. Not only is she a poison expert, but she specializes in eyes and eye healing techniques," (She in specializes more. You will find out later.) he said looking around the room. "She also has two Kekkei Genkais and has mastered her Dojutsu."
It was completely silent in the room. Everyone was looking around trying to find out who there four girls were, or where these four girls were. Lily listened as the silver genin talked to the rookie teams about some of the groups. He must have said something wrong because the next second, Lily was standing in front of him, holding the hand of a sound genin while her other hand held a kunai to his throat. She had her Byakugan activated, (she still had her hood up) so she could see that Loekie to had a kunai to a female genin, while Tara had one to another on males throat, and Venna had pushed the silver haired Genin back a few feet away from Lily.
"How did you do that? Who are you?" the sound Genin in front of her asked. Everyone in the room watched the cloaked figure.
"Do you know what I think of you? You a coward, attacking someone when their back is turned," Lily started and she could see his eyes widen a little. "Do you also know that if you were to have hit him physically or with your sound waves, you would have been disqualified even before the exams started?" Again, his eyes widened a little more
"And you big mouth, did you know that those cards are illegal and that too could get you disqualified?" Lily directed that at the silver haired Genin. After she said that, she removed her kunai and stepped back. The girls had all started heading back towards the window. Lily turned and walked over to Hinata's group, pulling something out of her pocket along the way. She stopped in front of the boy with the glasses.
"You are a Shino Aburame right?" she asked him.
"Yes."
"Here, I think that you could find some use of these guys," Lily said handing him the jar with the flesh eating bugs "I thought that you could send your bugs in first, and then these to finish them off. I do suppose you know what they are?"
Lily watched as Shino unscrewed the lid of the jar and the bugs all flew out. They hovered in the air in front of him for a few minutes before flying up the sleeves of his jacket. Then, he looked up at Lily.
"Where did you fine them? They are rare and mostly live in the desert."
"I was on my way back from a mission a week ago. I found them in the woods a little ways outside of Konaha. Was I correct at guessing that you could find use of them?" Lily asked the Aburame.
"Yes, thank you."
"What are those?" yelled Naruto from behind her.
"You will have to wait to see, now won't you, Naruto?" Lily asked. "Oh and sound guy, to answer you question, who I am is no concern to you…. yet!" Everybody's eyes were on Lily. But a second later, there was a puff of smoke and all the proctors for the first exams showed up.
"Thanks for waiting. I am Morino Ibiki, the examiner for the chunin exams first test," said a man with a scar on his face. "Hidden sound guys, stop doing as you please before the exams. Do you want to fail already?"
"I apologize. This is our first time. We got a little carried away," the leader of the sound group replied.
"And you should know better," Ibiki directed this at Lily.
"If I am not mistakened, I didn't do anything, I was just merely stopping loud mouth with the silver hair from getting attacked," Lily replied looking Ibiki in the eye before she walked back to her group.
"Here's a good opportunity to say this. There will be no fighting without permission from the examiner. Even if permission is granted, killing your opponent is not permitted," Ibiki started to explain. "Those pigs that disobey me will be failed immediately. Do I make myself clear?" With that said, everyone in the room went silent.
"We will now start the first test in the chunin exams. Instead of your current seating arrangements," he held up a tile with the number one on it., "You will pick one of these tiles and sit in the seat assigned to you." With that, everyone's face fell. One of the other proctors started to shuffle some papers.
"WHAT!? A paper test?" This of course came from Naruto who didn't seem to like this at all.
Lily ended up sitting in the very front of the room. She didn't mind, but she would have liked to have sat in the back. She could feel everyone's eyes on her and she didn't like it. When Ibiki started to speak, Lily started to pay attention.
"Do not turn you papers over. Listen closely to what I am about to say," he went around the room to see if anyone was not listening. "There are many important rules to this first test. I will write it on the board while I explain, but questions will not be allowed, so listen closely."
"First rule, you guys will all start off with 10 points" he started to write what he was saying on the board. "The test is made up of 10 questions, but the test uses a subtraction system. Basically, if you answer all 10 questions correctly, you will get 10 points. If you miss three questions, you will lose three points, and you will be left with seven points."
"The second rule is that this is a team test. Whether you pass or not will be determined by the combined score of you teammates." With that, everyone got a little bit paler. Then all hell broke lose, everyone was asking questions at the same time. The only people that where not yell were Lily, the girls, and Gaara. When they finally got everyone quiet, Ibiki continued.
"Okay, and now the most important rule is the third rule. It is that during the exams, anyone caught by the test officers doing anything sneaky, mainly cheating, will have two points subtracted for every offence, and some will be asked to leave." Again, everyone's mouth dropped open. But a smile lit up on Lily's face for two reasons. One, she knew exactly what this test was about and what they wanted them to do. Two, they didn't know about her byakugan and even if they where watching they wouldn't catch her.
"We'll have our eyes on you guy,s" one of the proctor officers said from the side of the room.
"The exam will last one hour. BEGIN!" After Ibiki said that, everyone flipped over their test and started to work. Lily looked down at her test and laughed at how easily it was. She was not worried. She knew that she and the girls could do this with their eyes closed. She flew through the questions, and then pushed her paper to the front of her desk. She wanted to give the people a chance who might copy off of her. Before she put her head down, she looked up at Ibiki to see him eyeing her paper. She knew that he know what she was doing. After a while with her head down, Lily heard Ibiki signaling that the test was over.
Lily looked up to see that about half of the people where already gone. She could see Loekie looking at her and she smiled. She knew that they had all passed. She also knew what Ibiki was going to try next, and he wasn't the head of torture and interrogation for nothing.
"Okay, well, now start question 10," he stated and it seemed like everyone in the room was sweating. This made Lily laugh in her head. It was so obvious what he was doing and they didn't know.
"Okay, before we get to it, I'd like to go over the added rule for this question," Ibiki looked around. He was obviously trying to scare them. "I'll explain now these are the rules of desperation."
"First, the tenth question, you must decide if you going to take it or not." From all the rustling coming from the people behind her, it seemed like they were all nerves as to why he said that.
"Choose? What happens if we choose not to?!" Lily knew who that came from without having to look around. Looks like Tamari didn't know that meaning of no questions.
"If you choose not to, your points will be reduced to zero. You fail along with you teammates," Ibiki answered, but it was more directed to the whole group, not just Tamari. "And now the other rule. If you choose to take it and answer incorrectly, the person will lose the right to ever take the chunin exams again."
With that, the room broke out in chaos. Everyone was yelling at once and asking questions. It looked like Ibiki's plan was going to work; people were going to start dropping out like flies. This is what Lily found really amusing. None of them knew that it was a lie and he was just playing them.
"Now, let's begin the tenth question. Those who wish not to take it, raise you hand. Once you number is confirmed, leave," and just like Lily predicted people started to raise their hands, and then they left the room. But what Lily didn't expect was for someone to give them all a confidence boost.
Lily heard something slam against a desk and then, "Don't underestimate me. I will not run!!" Naruto yelled in the silent room catching every ones attention. Lily looked back to see a determined looking on his face that she hadn't seen on a face in a long time.
"I'll take it!! I will become Hokage anyway so I don't care!! I am not afraid!!" With that, people seemed to settle down a little.
'That kid is one of a kind, Flower, I like him' Reidou's voice sounded in her head.
'Yeah, me too. He reminds me of Sukan some times, so wild and care free. I know that is all just a mask though,' Lily began. ' I can't imagine how hard it is for him to have Kyuubi sealed inside of him, and the people of this village treat him like shit"
"I'll ask you again. Your life is riding on this decision. This is your last chance to quit," Ibiki repeated the question.
"I follow my unbending words, that's my ninja way." With this said, Naruto erased all of the doubt on anyone's face. Lily turned around with a smile on her face to see that Ibiki was staring at her.
"I guess you know what I was doing all along now, didn't you?" Ibiki asked her.
"It was kind of obvious from the beginning. I'm pretty sure all the girls in her group got it too," Tori said walking to the front of the room to sit by Lily.
"Well now to the ones still remaining, I congratulate you on passing the first test," Ibiki said with a sadistic smile.
At that moment, everyone in the room started to yell and ask questions again. But this time, Lily didn't listen; she felt a chakra signature heading towards one of the windows. She jumped up and pulled out a Kunai and so did the other three while Tori stood in attack position. Everyone got quiet and they were looking at Lily and the girls like they where crazy.
A second later, a few Kunai flew through the window, pinning up a banner and standing in the middle of the banner was a lady. But Lily didn't relax like Loekie, Tara, and Venna did. She could smell snake on her and Lily didn't like snakes at all.
"Wow, you sensed me coming, didn't you girls?" the woman asked and then turned to look at Lily. "You can put that kunai away kid. I'm your next exam proctor"
Lily looked at her up and down. "I will decide if I put my kunai away or not. You shouldn't do something like that again, you never know? I might have deemed you a threat and attacked"
"Well I'm glad the four of you where good enough to sense me coming," the woman said looking at Lily and the girls. "You must be the group of four that is participating this year, I heard a lot about you. I'm glad some of it is true. Okay everyone, my name is Mitarashi Anko"
"Now, let's go. Follow me." With that, Anko walked out the door. Lily and the girls waited a few seconds.
"Ibiki, that test sure was smart. You had them all fooled. If it wasn't for Naruto, a lot more would have dropped out." With that, Lily left the room and followed everyone from a safe distance. She looked at every group that had passed and paired them up with there information she had stolen from the Hokage's office.
There were a few that she didn't know much about, but she knew she could handle what ever they threw her way. Then, she activated her byakugan and looked at everyone again. That's when she saw two things that she didn't like.
First was that one of the genin was under a henge. With that information, she activated her sharingan and looked at him again. He was someone to keep an eye on.
Second was the seal she saw on Anko's neck. She had seen that seal before, long ago, she knew what it could do, what it was for, and who it was from. With that little information, everything fell into place. Why she and the other boy smelled like snake and most likely why that genin had a henge on him.
'Reidou, we have to keep an eye on Kabuto and that other genin. I have a feeling that there up to something'
With that, Lily deactivated her Dojutsus and followed everyone, keeping her eye on her marked targets.
A/N: Hi all, I hope you liked the first exams. I wanted to make it as much like the original as possible. There is a lot that you still do not know about the girls. Remember they did not even want the Hokage to know their true potential yet.
I still need some ideas on parings so please R&R.
I all ready have who Lily and Venna are going to be paired with so just the others.
Sorry, it was so short but I got a great new beta.
Thank you again my lovely readers and remember I love reviews and ideas.
Yours truly, Secret World