Ch 9

I slowly opened my eyes and look around. 'My room.' I thought I looked over to the clock '1:54pm'.

"Kuso, I'm late for the meeting!!" I yelled jumping out of the bed. I quickly got in the shower and got dressed. I was now running though Konoha at top speed weaving though the crowds of people on the streets. 'bam!'

"Gomen, I wasn't paying attention." I said apologizing to the person I just ran into. I look up at the person. 'Gaara' I felt my face heat up.

"Hn." Was his reply and he walked round me.

'Kami he's sexy' I thought " KUSO…!" I yelled remembering why I was running and took off unaware of a pair of eyes watching me.

"Finally!!" I said stopping in front of my team. "Oi Akira-baka, you're late." Sakura yelled I glared at her.

"Not today Haruno." I replied coldly she took a step back.

"Ohayo minna, I have some good news. I registered all of you for the Chuunin exams." Kakashi said handing each of us a slip.

"YATTA, Thank you Kakashi-sensei." Naruto yelled latching on to kakashi. Who in turn pulled him off.

"Turn those in tomorrow at 3:00pm at the academy. Ja na." He said disappeared.

'Great, the Chuunin exams. Now I have to deal with Orochimaru and his sound nin. Great just what I needed more on my too do list.' 'sigh'. I watched Naruto jump up and down in excitement and frowned ' I have to watch them. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura. I have to get stronger.' I thought "Hey Naruto, let's go train." I said motioning him to follow.

"Ha! In your face Sasuke! I'm gonna get stronger and beat you." Naruto bragged and turned to follow me.

"Now Naruto, during the chuunin exams I want you be extremely careful, ok?" I said seriously. He nodded. "Good. Now I'm giving you permission to use all the jutsu I taught you plus two new ones, got it?" again he nodded. "Here you go. The first one is FUUTON:ATUGAI and then FUUTON:REPPUSHO. Try to learn both of these by tonight. Use your shadow clones."

"Nee-san, why are you so nervous about the exams?" He asked.

"I'm not nervous, just taking precautions. That's all." I answered and left to a nearby training grounds. I sat down and mediated. If I was going to stop the invasion I needed a plan.

'What's this?' I thought for one minute I was at the training grounds and now I'm in a dark cave. I walked around trying to find a way out but just ended up back where I started. "What the hell!?" I yelled in frustration.

"Come child, come." A voice whispered.

"Who's there?!"

"Come, come." The voice repeated as I followed it to a large door. "Come, come." I pushed the door open. The room was beautiful. There was silk curtains that lined the walls: black and red. There was large bed in the middle of the room with silk pillows laid neatly on it.

I quickly brought my leg up and kicked towards my back. "I could have sworn someone was there…"

"Oh, but there is…" I jumped.

"Where are you!? Show yourself!!" I yelled turning on my Haragan as I tried looking for the source of the voice.

"I'm right in front of you my dear child." I look over to the bed there was a Woman on it.

Anger rose inside of me and I yelled, "Who are you!? What am I doing here!?"

She laughed. I growled lowly at her. "I'm Kuroryu. As of why you're here I summoned you." She answered plainly running his hand through her black, long, wavy hair. Her crimson red eyes never left mine.

"What for?"

She smirked. "To give you POWER!" she yelled and charged at me. She was fast and I didn't have enough time to guard myself with a weapon, so I put my arm in her line of fire.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" I screamed as black flames circled around my body. The black flames tore into my right arm and left a mark of a black dragon laced around it.

When I finally snapped out of my meditation, the ground around me was burned to a crisp. I was panting trying to get my breath back. "AHHHHH!!" I screamed again as pain shot up my arm again. I bit my bottom lip trying to muffle my screams of pain. Finally, when the pain stopped, I was on my side curled up in a ball panting and sweating. My lip was also bleeding. 'Need help… I can't move and my body hurts so much…' I thought before I passed out.

_____________________________________________________________________________

GARRA p.o.v

I followed the girl that bumped into me. What was her name…? Yagami Akira. She intrigues me. My wall of sand did not stop her from bumping into me. There also wasn't a voice in my head to kill her. It was silenced. I followed her to her team meeting. It appears that her team and she were joining the chuunin exams. After that, I followed her and the blonde hair boy into a training field. I watched her hand the boy a scroll and walk off into a nearby clearing and mediated.

'I could kill her now…' I thought to myself as I summoned sand. All of a sudden there was a wall of black fire that surrounded her. I heard her scream in agony as I watched the flames die down there was a black dragon tattoo of her arm. She curled herself in a ball still shaking. I jumped down from my tree a slowly walked over to her. She was clutching her right arm where the tattoo was. She was panting and sweating profoundly.

'Take her.' my demon said. I was surprised, he was quiet all day. Obeying it, I scooped her up into my arms and headed back to my teams hotel room. When I arrived Temari looked shocked.

"Temari, heal her now." I commanded and went to the roof.

My p.o.v

I opened eyes only to see a pair of eyes stare back at me. "Ahhh!" I yelled startled. My screams caused the person to jump back. I quickly got up and stared at the person. "You! What the hell!?" I yelled pointing at Temari.

"I healed you and that the thanks I get!?" She scolded. I could tell she was ticked but I didn't care at the moment. Just as I was about to yell again, the door opened revealing Iwaji, Baki and Kankuro. My eyes widened. 'kuso' I made a dash to the door. I almost made it until a wall of sand blocked it. 'For the love of Kami…'

"Gaara, explain, now." Baki ordered.

Gaara glared at him. "I need not to explain myself to you." He said coldly. I looked back and forth between the two. I slowly inched my way to the door.

'Almost…' Gaara sand latched around my leg. "Come on, let me go!" I yelled freezing the ice and shattered it. "Look, I have no idea why I am, here so I'm leaving." I said narrowing my eyes.

"Gaara brought you and you looked pretty beat up." Temari said still glaring at me. I quickly look down at my arm she had bandaged it for me.

I felt a little guilty "Gomen" I said softly. I walked over to Gaara and stared at him. I felt the room tense up. I smiled and leaned over giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Arigoto Gaara. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm leaving." I said and walked out of the apartment, leaving a stunned sand team.

"What was that?" Gaara asked his team look at each other.

"It's called a kiss, Gaara" Temari said.

He thought about it before answering. "I think I like kisses." he said and went back to the roof.

I was currently running though the streets of Konoha. I seem I'm doing that more often now. I sighed again. I was late to meet my team again, another thing I've been doing often, but the up side to this I have a plan to keep ERO-HEBI (pervert snake) away from my team. I ran through the academy door and up the stairs to the second floor. I found my team. Sasuke was talking to Neji who looked pissed Ten-Ten was trying to calm him down. I decided to make my presence known.

"Geez you guy I'm late by a minute and you're already causing trouble" I said shaking my head.

"Aki-nee!! What took you so long?" Naruto asked pouting.

"Well you see, a black cat passed by and I had to take the long way to get here." I said nonchalantly waving my hand in a dismissive posture.

He smiled "Oh, nee-san this is Ten-Ten, Rock Lee, and…"

"Hyuga Neji, long time no see, eh?" I said cutting Naruto off.

"Yagami Akira…" We stared at each other for awhile.

I smirked and turned away. "Let's hope you got stronger Hyuga, or you'll be eating dirt again. Let's go." I said as my team followed me down the stairs. We reached the doors to the exam rooms to find our sensei standing in front of the door.

"I'm glad you all made it. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Akira. From here on out I cannot help you must work together as a team." He moved from in front of the door. "Good luck Team 7." He said. We opened the doors. There were a lot of ninjas here.

"Sasuke-kun!" Ino yelled as she jumped on his back. "Did you miss me? Sasuke-kun it must have been horrible having to be on the same team as forehead."

"OI, get off of Sasuke-kun you pig." Sakura yelled.

"Yahoo! I found you." Kiba said. Akamaru barked. "So Sasuke, are you ready for this?!" He asked.

Sasuke smirked. "As cocky as ever… eh Kiba?"

Naruto pouted. "Hey, I got twice as strong!" He boasted puffing out his chest.

"Yeah right, dead-last!" Kiba laughed. Naruto growled.

"Naruto-kun, I'm sure Kiba-kun didn't mean that." Hinata said, pushing her index fingers together.

"Hey Hina-hime." Naruto said smiling. Hinata blushed at her nickname.

I shook my head. "Hi Shino-kun."

He nodded. "Hello Akira-san."

"You guys must be rookies, eh? This isn't a field trip just look around you." The stranger said. I look over at the crowd of people that were staring at us. I glared back releasing my KI.

"It's impolite to stare you assholes" I said coldly they all shook with fear and turned around. Stopping my KI, I turned to the shocked stranger and the rookies. "What the hell do you want?"

He smiled. "I'm Kabuto and I'm offering some information for my cute underclassmen" He said and pull out some nin info cards. "I have info on every ninja here." He smirked.

"I want information on Hyuga Neji, Rock Lee, and Shabaku no Gaara." Sasuke said naming them.

"Aww, that's no fun. You know their names. Here they are." Kabuto said.

"Show me." Sasuke commanded.

"Hyuga Neji. Team 9. His team consists of Ten-Ten and Rock Lee. Jonin sensei Maito Gai. He's the Hyuga prodigy. Then there is Rock Lee. He's very proficient in Taijutsu he not able to use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. And finally Shabaku Gaara, let's see… Oh my, he went on three b rank missions and on each one come back unscratched." He said.

"That's impossible. Unscratched?!" Kiba said.

"There's also the sound team. I don't have much on them. They're a new village." Kabuto finished, putting his cards away.

I turned to Miyu and the other and said. "You guys wanna see something extremely funny," They nodded and I smirked. "3…2…1" I summoned a wall of ice the sound nins ran right in to it. They were cracking and up even Sasuke was trying to hide his chuckles.

"You bitch, I'll kill you!" The boy said.

"Umm, I'm sorry, did you say something?" I smirked. He growled and charged towards me. Just then there was a loud explosion in the front of the room.

"Alright you maggots, take a seat." The Jonin said. All the ninjas in the room where given paper with number on them. Can you guess who I was sitting by…. I'll give you a hint… he likes boys. If you pick Orochimaru you are correct!! Of all these lovely people in the room I was next to Ero-Hebi. Kami hates me I know it. He was in his disguise as the man/woman whose face he stole.

"Well well, if isn't the kawaii Koori girl. Would you mind telling how you did it?" The snake asked.

I smirked at him "How about I show from the inside of an ice cube?" I replied.

His grin widen 'creepy' I turn my attention back to….what was his name…ah Ibiki anyway I was now listening to him explain the rules of the test…..ah kuso I hell do I cheat if Mr. Chi Mo (child molester) is sitting next to me. I slammed my head onto my desk. Kami why!!! I turned and looked at Orochimaru who was still grinning at me. Christ, this is almost as bad as those hobos on the corner that constantly pestered me for my number back in my world. 'sigh' I stole a glance at Miyu sending her a pleading look, 'For the love of Jesus, save me' look. She gave me a concerning smile. I looked down at my test. There was no way I could cheat with Chi Mo next to. I sighed and sat back until the test ended.

"All right, now for the tenth question." There was a pause. "Will you take the test or not?" The class of ninja was in an uproar. Which, by the way, woke me up. I glanced around the room and looked at the people who were left.

"What up!? What kind of question is that?!" Kiba yelled. I watched Sakura raise her hand 'Kuso' my eyes widened. Something's wrong. I quickly brought my hand up and slammed it down on the table.

"Of course I'll take your retarded question. As a ninja you have to make difficult decisions whether it is for the good of mission or your comrades. In this life as a ninja, you'll all ways make decisions and sometimes they will be hard, but as a ninja I will never back down! That's my ninja way!" I said proudly Ibiki smirked

"Ok, everyone here… Passes." He said I slouched in my chair breathing a sigh of relive.

"Quit the interesting speech, kooriko(child of ice)." Orochimaru said.

"Please keep your pet names to yourself, chi mo." I smirked,

"Chi Mo?"

I grinned and replied. "Child Molester" and laughed. I swear if looks could kill I would be rolling in hell. Suddenly a black ball smashed though the window.

"All right you pieces of shit, I'm Anko! Meet me at training grounds 44 in an hour! MOVE IT!" She yelled and disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

I sweat dropped 'Geez. Great, now I have to deal with a psycho.' I sighed and followed my team to training ground 44.