I adopted this from heavenhawk

Disclaminer: I do not own Naruto or Ruronin Kenshin

"Hey, who are..." Normal talking

Kasumi/kyubbi talking

Inner thoughts

Normal thoughts

Naruto woke up fresh in the morning and he reflected on his lunch with Hinata. It was really at Ichiraku and they both had eaten their fill. A lot of people gave them glares and were wondering what the demon boy was doing with the Hyuuga princess. Hinata was blissfully unaware of the glares but Naruto shot back his own glares to challenge anyone who would dare to separate them. Luckily, no major distractions came by and Naruto was able to drop Hinata off at the Hyuuga manor in the afternoon.

He armed himself for whatever could happen for the Chunnin Exams. He pulled on his mask and walked out the door off the Academy. "I will see you later, Kenshin." Kenshin was enjoying a cup of tea again when he whispered to himself. "You are going to be seeing me a lot earlier than you think, Naruto."

-At the Academy-

Naruto waited to see if Sakura and Sasuke would arrive and twirled around his flute as he waited for them. Soon enough, Sakura and Sasuke arrived and Naruto both said a good morning. Sakura responded with a cheery "hello" and Sasuke gave a small grunt. They all walked in and were soon met with a crowd surrounding a door, being forced away by two older looking genin. A student with a bowl haircut wearing a green spandex suit was asking for admission into the room.

Naruto looked behind him and asked his team. "You guys noticed that we only walked up two flights of stairs, instead of three?"

Sakura answered. "You're right. This says room 301 but we have only walked up two flights which means there is a something wrong with the sign to that room. I assume it a genjutsu." Sasuke and Sakura made to dispel the genjutsu when Naruto stopped them both. "The less people that know, the less people we will have deal with in the Exams."

Team 7 quietly walked by but not before the spandex wearing boy saw them and excused himself from the older "genins". They continued to walk before they were stopped by a voice above them. They looked at saw the spandex wearing boy and he stated. "I, Rock Lee, challenge you to a fight, Sasuke Uchiha."

They all looked at him and they all immediately stared at his eyebrows, which were really thick and looked like they were almost moving by themselves. Everyone shuddered as they looked at them and even Kyubbi was shivering at the sight. Lee gave Sakura a wink and she quickly ducked behind Naruto.

Sasuke being a typical arrogant Uchiha accepted. They went to an empty room and they both stood about 5 paces from each other. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and waited for any type of jutsu that Lee could possible do so he could copy it.

Lee dashed forward and jumped up, surprising Sasuke with his speed. "Konoha Senppu!" He lashed his leg out and Sasuke threw his arms up to block the kick and was knocked off his feet. "What was that? I didn't see you do any hand signs."

"That is correct, Sasuke. I didn't do anything with hand signs." He dashed forward and went under Sasuke's guard and kicked him square in the chin, launching Sasuke up into the air and jumped up after him. Lee had unraveled his bandages and they started to wrap around Sasuke when a shuriken caught one the bandages, effectively stopping Lee's momentum and making both of them land on their feet on the ground. A voice rang out and all heads turned to it, which was a turtle. "Lee, how many times have I told to not to use that move?" Team 7 all thought the same thing. Is the turtle his sensei?

"I'm sorry. I got caught up in the heat of battle and-" The turtle cut him off. "Gai-sensei is going to talk with you now." A plume of smoke erupted from the back of the turtle and a man that looked exactly the same as Lee, except for a jounin vest and perhaps even bushier eyebrows. He stood before Lee and asked, "What did I say about using that move, Lee?"

Lee looked down and said, "Only when I was protecting some I cared about."

"Right." Gai punched square in the jaw and Lee flew away about five feet. Lee got up clutching his cheek. "As punishment after the Exams, you will need to do 2000 punches on a log."

"And if I can not that, I will do 2000 kicks. And if I can't do that, I will run around the village on my hands 200 times, Gai-sense!!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-senpai!"

They grasped onto each into a very manly hug and Team 7 and Kyubbi, especially Sasuke who's Sharingan was still activated, could only watch in horror as they hugged and a sunset background appeared behind them. They walked out of the room with Lee and Gai still hugging and yelling each other names.

"That was one of the most disturbing I have ever seen in my life." Naruto uttered to himself.

"You're telling me that and I have seen some things that are disturbing in my entire lifetime." Kyubbi shuddered again. "I just hope we will never have to see that again."

"I agree with that, Kyubbi. Let's hope we won't have to see that again." Team 7 had arrived outside the room and was greeted by Kakashi. "Well, it seems that all three of you decided you guys were prepared to take the Exams. If one of you had decided not to show up, I would have had to force away the other two." He stepped aside and pointed at the door. "I'll see you all later, then."

Team 7 walked in the room and they were greeted with the sight with dozens of other teams that were milling around the tables.

A loud voice rang out. "Well, would look at that? All the rookies are here at the Exams." Team 7 turned and saw Kiba approaching with Shino, Hinata and the members of Team 10 following behind.

Shikamaru just yawned. "How troublesome. I don't even want to take this stupid exam."

"Well, TOO BAD! You're here and you are going to take it." Ino yelled in his ear. She turned over to Sasuke with hearts in her eyes. "Hi, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke only said. "Not interested." Ino cried tears of sorrow while Sakura was snickering behind Sasuke's back.

"Hey, Hinata." Kiba whirled around to see Naruto standing in front of Hinata and she was talking casually talking back to Naruto. He tried to rush over but was tripped by Shino and landed in an ungraceful heap.

"You guys should be a lot quieter, you know?" All rookies turned their head toward they voice and saw a young teen wearing glasses approaching them. "The name is Yakushi Kabuto."

"Who are you to tell us what to do?" asked Sasuke.

"That's because I have taken the test 6 times and this will be my seventh and I guess you can say I have a lot of information on teams here."

"Well, do you have information on Gaara of the Sand and Rock Lee of the Leaf?" Sasuke asked.

"Also, Uzumaki Naruto of the Leaf." Asked Kiba. All eyes turned on Kiba but no one said anything as they were all curious on what information there was on Naruto.

"Alright then. Garra of the Sand first." He pulled out a card and flipped it around. "Gaara, 0 D-rank, 10 C-rank, 2 B-rank and 1 A-rank." There were gasps and narrowed eyes as this. "But that even the surprising thing, it is said that he came back from every mission without a single scratch on him. Anyways, on to the next person."

Kabuto took out another card and read it out loud. "Rock Lee. 35 D-rank, 2 C-rank, no B or A rank. He is a taijutsu specialist and his teammates are Neji Hyuuga and Tenten. Now on to Naruto Uzumaki." All ears were open for this while Naruto could only glare and hope that not too much information was revealed.

"Uzumaki Naruto. 20 D-rank, 1 C-rank, and 1 A-rank. He is proficient in kenjutsu and a bow and arrow. Skills in ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu are unknown but is said to have skills in all three. He was adopted at the age of 4 and left the village traveling and returned to enroll in the Academy. That's all I have." Naruto breathed a sigh of relief, glad than not too much was revealed, especially about Kenshin.

The entire room was now glaring at the area where the Konoha rookies were standing and all sent a wave of killing intent, trying to intimidate the rookies into submission. Naruto who was at the back of the group sent an illusion and a wave of killing intent that dwarfed the weak killing intent the other ninja had sent over in their direction. Only three groups weren't affected which were the Sand team with Gaara, an odd team that had a music note on their headband and a Grass team.

A voice barked out. "SIT DOWN, MAGGOTS." Everyone rushed to their designated seats and waited for instructions. A scarred man leered down at them and spoke out in a booming voice. "My name is Morino Ibiki. I will be your proctor for the first part of your exam."

"This part of the exam will be a written exam. There will be ten questions. If you are caught cheating five times, he will be expelled from the exam and not allowed to come back." He passed out the exams to everyone in the room. "There are only nine questions on the exam. I will give the tenth questions 15 minutes before the end. I wish all good luck." He then muttered under his breath. "You're going to need it."

Naruto stared down at his test and looked over the questions. You know Kyubbi, these questions seem way harder than they should for a genin to answer. And what was up about if you are caught cheating twice you get cut from the exams. Naruto looked around the room and saw the many proctors sitting on the edges of the room, writing things down on a clipboard. And they seem to have way too many proctors watching us.

"I believe it's possible that you were meant to cheat on this test but not in an obvious manner. I could give you all the answers, but where would be the fun of thinking up of a way to cheat."

"Thanks a lot, Kyubbi. You were such a big help."

Naruto glanced around the room and saw various people already "cheating" with Sasuke and his Sharingan and Neji with his Byakugan. Naruto thought deeply for about 15 minutes trying to think up of a plan and he heard projectiles flying in his direction. He opened his eyes up and three senbons flew by his head and embedded themselves in the examiner's test behind. A female voice spoke up which Naruto had recognized to be Haku's. "Number 38, you are to get up and leave with your team."

The examiner spoke up in anger. "Are you kidding me? There is no way that you can be watching everyone in this room at once." Haku appeared in front of him and slammed him into a wall, and pinned him there with several senbons. All the examiners looked on while Haku walked up to the examiner. "Now let me get one thing straight, in this room, anything we say goes, so when one of say for you to leave, you are to follow it without questions, got it?" The examiner nodded his head and left the room with his teammates, clearly shaken. Haku walked back to her seat and gave a small wave to Naruto, who returned the wave. Naruto had gotten an answer off the person next to him while the entire class was distracted and he got an idea. He discreetly pulled out a charka smoke bomb out one of his bag and charged charka into it to have it explode in several minutes. He discreetly placed it on the floor and nudged it several seats over.

Ibiki had been watching Naruto the entire time and had expected something to happen when he saw the boy reach into his bag but nothing happened. A few minutes later though, a large explosion of smoke erupted from under an examiner's chair and utter chaos ensued. Naruto in under the smokescreen quickly made shadow clones and sent them under the cover of the smoke to copy answer from the tests. Once the clones had gotten an answer, they dispersed themselves and Naruto immediately had the answers and waited for the proctors to disperse the smoke to write down his answers. Ibiki kept a suspicious eye on Naruto but since he had made no outward signs of cheating, he couldn't do anything.

After 45 minutes had passed, Ibiki spoke up. "Alright, listen up maggots. Now for your tenth question. But, before I do that, I am going to pass this question over to someone else. And he should be here right about now." The door opened and everyone almost laughed as they saw Kenshin walk through the door. All the same thoughts ran through their heads "This guy is a wimp."

Kenshin spoke in a casual tone. "So I guess I'm here to administer the final question. Now, let me think…" The genin hopeful could only laugh inside at this person who was short skinny and not even qualified to be a ninja. Naruto could only stare apprehensively at what Kenshin nay do when he realized what he was going to do to the room. He focused his will and broke through Kenshin's intent when he turned forward and everyone felt their body under an intense pressure, though some were able to shrug off the effects to a lesser effect while it affected few at all like Naruto. "I decided to enforce a new rule this year. Anyone that doesn't want to take the tenth question, raise your hand so that you and your team can be removed from this exam."

Kiba along with many others were able to sort shrug off the effects to have a lesser effect asked, "Now why in the world we would not answer the tenth question?"

Kenshin answered in a deadly voice and a death glare. "Whoever fails to answer the question correctly will be banned from ever taking the Chunnin Exams again."

"What kind of garbage is this? There are people that have taken the test before and failed and are back here." Sasuke yelled out.

"Well, that's too bad. Our Chunnin Exams, our rules. Now choose." Kenshin lessened the pressure on the room and immediately several hands shot up and several teams left the room with heads down. Everyone else was wavering while Naruto looked coolly down at Kenshin. "So, Proctor-san, our entire ninja life banks on this question, correct?"

Kenshin gave Naruto the death stare and Naruto flinched under his gaze but quickly collected himself. "In a way, I suppose so."

Naruto stood up and slammed his hands against the desk. "Then so be it. I risk everything on this question. I may be stuck as a genin but that doesn't I can't outperform everyone I go against, even if the person is a Kage. So bring it on your stupid question."

Kenshin and Ibiki looked around the room and saw that they had a look of confidence on their face and were ready to face the question. Kenshin stepped back and Ibiki stepped forward again. "You all pass the first exam." Everyone only stared in shock at Ibiki as they processed the information.

"Wait a second. Why the hell did we do this test if we were going to pass in the end?" yelled Temari.

"Good question. Let me answer you with a scenario. You are given a mission to retrieve a scroll that will help you village greatly. The problem is there will be lethal traps and highly trained guards protecting this scroll. You are left with two choices: either move forward with your squad and retrieve the scroll but suffer causalities or turn back and return to your village scroll-less but with a full squad. As a shinobi and potential Chunnin, you become leaders of squads and you will be faced with scenarios like this. It is up to you to determine whether you can preserve and lead your squad to success. This first part of the exam was to test your skills in gathering information without being caught. Those who failed would have been captured and tortured in the real world, like this." Ibiki pulled off his headband and it revealed torture marks of all sorts. He grinned at the horrified and disgusted faces of the many genin.

A black ball suddenly burst through the window as he put back on his headband. It unraveled itself and two kunai stuck up onto the ceiling, revealing a trench coat wearing women with a large banner announcing herself as Mitarashi Anko, Proctor for the Second Exam. She stood in a pose that seemed to make herself look like the greatest and failed to notice the mood in the room.

"Wrong moment to enter, Anko." Ibiki muttered from behind the banner.

Anko looked at the genin in front of her. "What? Still 63 genin? You're slipping, Ibiki."

"Well, it seems this year's batch is much better than we thought." Ibiki casually responded.

"It doesn't matter. After my part of the exam, this number is going to be cut up by more than half." Anko motioned to the genin to follow her. "Let's go, maggots." She stooped again. "The Hokage sent me a message saying they would be a co-proctor for all parts of the Exams, so where's the person?"

Ibiki pointed at Kenshin and Anko's gaze followed his finger. She gave him one glance and immediately complained. "Oh, you have got to be kidding. There is no way this guy can be assisting us in these Exams. I mean, he doesn't even look fit enough to be a ninja, being so skinny."

Kenshin only looked at her. "So, are you going to defy the Hokage's orders, then?"

Anko started to say something but stopped and just made everyone follow her again, this muttering under her breath though.

-At Area 44, the Forest of Death-

"Welcome to the Forest of Death, maggots. This is where your next part of your exam will take place. You will spend five days inside the Forest of Death, trying to retrieve a Heaven and an Earth scroll. Each squad will be given one scroll and they will have to get the other one while in the forest. You are to bring both scrolls to the tower that is in the middle of this forest and instructions will be given then" She pulled out a wavier form. "Oh yea, you kids will have to sign this stating that Konoha is not responsible for any deaths or injuries while in there. Also, watch out for the animals in there that may be looking for a meal to eat." She looked at the faces and saw the fear of dying clear in many of their faces. She laughed inside at their fear but was quickly disappointed at Naruto's calm demeanor and lack of fear.

She smirked and threw a kunai at Naruto, who didn't bother moving or even flinch. The kunai grazed his cheek and blood started to drip out. Anko appeared behind him and hugged him in a very sensual manner. She brought her face to his cheek and licked the blood off very suggestively. "You know, it's the arrogant ones that die first you know?"

"Now, you ever said I was acting arrogantly and you might let go before you get stabbed." Anko looked and saw a kunai held in Naruto's hand, held at her gut.

Anko let and said, "It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, isn't it brat?" Anko quickly pulled out another kunai from her sleeve and put it on the throat of another genin from Grass. "I believe you dropped this." The genin's tongue was wrapped around the kunai and dropped into Anko's hand.

"Thanks, I guess." She wiped off the salvia and pocketed the kunai. "Each team will come up to the small booth over there where you will sing the waivers and receive a scroll. A guide will also direct you to gate and a whistle will sound and that will be the beginning of the exam. Understood?" All the genin nodded and one by one each team walked up to sign the waivers, given a Heaven scroll and were all guided to a gate. Team 7 waited at a gate and the when the whistle blew, they dashed inside and stopped in a clearing when Naruto said he needed to pee.

"Naruto, that's gross. Go somewhere else and do your business." Sakura berated.

Naruto looked at her suspiciously. "And if it was Sasuke that had said what I just did, would tell to do some place else, Sakura?" He walked out of the clearing to find a secluded place and quickly bit his finger and made hand sings to summon. He slammed his hand onto the ground and several small foxes came out of the plume of smoke. They all looked at him curiously.

Naruto kneeled down and clearly said, "Okay, I want you to go out and scout for us. Report back if you see anyone dangerous." All the foxes gave a short bow before darting off in different directions. Naruto stood up and pulled out his bow and arrows and tested the string. He suddenly nocked an arrow and shot it into a tree. There was a shout of pain and several branches were broken as the unknown spy fell from his perch.

The Mist ninja was on the ground, clutching a rib and trying to stop the wound on his shoulder when Naruto walked up to him. He tried to pull out a kunai to defend but Naruto shot an arrow and pinned the ninja's sleeve up against the trunk. Naruto stood over the ninja and knocked him out with a hard punch to the side of the face. He searched the ninja's pouch and found an Earth scroll. "What do you know?" He put the Earth scroll in his bag and tied the ninja up against the trunk of a tree.

He left the area and went back to the clearing they had stopped in. But when Naruto arrived at the spot, there was no one there but one of his foxes had come rushing back clearly distressed about something. He calmed it down and it pointed in the direction it had seen the danger before it poofed away. Naruto rushed off hoping the fox's direction led him to Sakura and Sasuke.

-What happened while Naruto was gone-

Sasuke and Sakura were waiting patiently for Naruto when a grass genin came out of the ground right near them. Sakura and Sasuke turned to face their unknown foe when they were caught under an intense pressure of killing intent and a genjutsu which made them see their own deaths. Sakura's legs gave out under her and Sasuke turned over and promptly puked out the contents of his stomach. They both looked fearfully at the grass genin who only laughed at their weakness. "So this is what the mighty Uchiha Sasuke can do? Pathetic." The grass genin released the killing intent again and both froze up again. The genin took out two kunai and pulled his and back to throw them.

Sasuke could only stare at his impending death as he gripped the kunai in his hand even tighter. Damn it, I won't let it end this way. The genin threw the kunai but Sasuke cut his leg with his kunai and quickly grabbed Sakura before dashing away from the genin.

The genin chuckled lightly as he stared at the spot where his two kunai were now stuck in the ground. "It seems that young Sasuke cut himself to break through my genjutsu." The genin licked his lips and gave chase to Sasuke. "Well, this makes the hunt so much better."

Sasuke was dashing through the trees with Sakura on his shoulders and didn't stop his breakneck speed until he was sure he had lost the powerful grass genin. He put Sakura gently on the ground and leaned against the tree to catch his breath.

A voice came from above them and they both looked up to see the grass genin above them. "Sasuke, did you really think that you would be able to escape from me?"

"What the hell do you want from me, freak?" Sasuke yelled out.

"Ku ku ku, wouldn't you like to know, Sasuke?" The genin dashed forward and threw a punch at Sasuke. He dodged it but was quickly grabbed with the other's genin hand and was thrown up into the branches of the trees. Sasuke flipped in the air and landed on a branch of a tree and saw the grass genin dash jumping after him. Goukakyuu no Jutsu!!Sasuke spit a large fireball right in the trajectory of the grass genin but the grass ninja was able to dodge out of the way. Sasuke quickly spit out more fireballs but they were all dodged by the elusive grass ninja. The grass ninja came forth and punched Sasuke square in the face and Sasuke fell back to a lower branch. Sasuke fell onto the branch and tried to get up but failed.

"So this is how the mighty Sasuke goes down, but you still have something I want and I intend to get it." The grass genin neck started to stretch and with his jaw open wide, moved his neck forward to bite down on Sasuke.

"Get away from him, bastard!" An arm stretched out before Sasuke and the grass ninja mouth's clamped down on Naruto's arm leaving an odd mark with three commas on his arm. Naruto immediately started to writhe in pain and screaming out loud. Naruto's pain broke Sasuke out of his pain and he rushed over to Naruto.

"Naruto, what's wrong?" Sasuke grabbed Naruto by his shoulder but Naruto could only scream in pain as he grasped his arm. Sasuke turned toward the grass genin. "What the hell did you do to Naruto?"

"I gave him a gift that will make him have powers beyond his wildest dreams." Naruto's continued screams spurred Sasuke to action and he activated his Sharingan, not knowing his third tomoe had been activated. He charged the grass genin and the grass ninja jumped back to avoid Sasuke's attacks.

Sasuke's eyes tracked him through every movement. I can see his every movement. The grass genin threw several kunai at him but Sasuke has seen it coming and twisted in the air, pulling out several windmill shruiken with wire attached and threw them at the grass genin. He used his hands and mouth to manipulate the wires to wrap around the grass genin and bind him to a tree. Ryuuka no Jutsu!! A wire that was in Sasuke's mouth caught flame and spread to all the other wires, acting as a guide as they traveled toward the grass genin at an alarming speed. The fire slammed into the genin and the genin screamed out in pain as the fire burned their skin. Sasuke fell to his knees and took several breaths to refill his lungs with air. He looked up and tried to find a burnt body tied to the tree but saw nothing and his wires cut. Sasuke tried to get up to fight again but he had used too much charka on the last attack and could only watch as he saw the grass appear in front of him.

A fake skin seemed to be peeling off his face but Sasuke couldn't do anything to defend himself. "Well, Sasuke. That attack was quite powerful but too bad it wasn't powerful enough." He the peeled the rest of the fake skin off and stretched his neck again to bite Sasuke. The mysterious genin bite down on Sasuke's neck and a three tomoe mark appeared on the back of Sasuke's shoulder and Sasuke started to scream while clutching his shoulder. The genin withdrew his neck and laughed. "In time, Sasuke, you and your friend will seek me out for power." He left the area, leaving behind his chilling laugh.

Sakura had been watching the entire time and could only stare at the writhing Naruto and screaming Sasuke and wondered what she could possibly do. Tears started to well up at her eyes as she started to fell useless and hopeless. "What am going to do, guys?"

-Meanwhile with Anko and Kenshin-

Anko was finishing a plate of danjo and threw the needle at a tree completing the Konoha symbol that she had been working on and Kenshin was silently meditating. "So where are you from, wimp?" Anko asked brashly.

"This one is now an ally and a shinobi of Konoha. That is all you need to know." Kenshin said without opening his eyes.

Anko walked over to him, bent over and said suggestively. "Are you sure you don't want to tell me anything?"

Kenshin opened his eyes and was greeted with an eyeful of Anko's assets and any other guy would have killed to be this close to Anko and see her up this close but Kenshin wasn't like other guys. "I told you everything I want you to know. There are some things in my past I rather not talk about." Those words struck Anko deep and she quickly stopped pestering Kenshin.

An Anbu appeared out of thin air and quickly delivered his message. "Anko-san, we have a situation."

-Few minutes later, in a front of a row of statutes-

Anko and Kenshin could only stare at the trio of victims that had their faces wiped clear off. Anko crouched down and looked at the damages and she muttered to herself. "This looks like the works of someone familiar." She looked more closely and her eyes widened in realization. "Orochimaru." She turned to the Anbu that had showed her the area. "Go report this to the Hokage and I will meet up with the Hokage after I have gathered more information on this event." The Anbu nodded his head and disappeared, while Anko dashed off into the forest. Kenshin had heard Anko say Orochimaru and knew something bad was happening and had decided to follow her to make sure nothing bad would happen.

-In the Forest-

Anko was currently jumping and flipping through the trees when she stopped and yelled out at a retreating figure's back. "OROCHIMARU!!"

The figure turned around and had a face of fake surprise. "Well, well, if isn't my old apprentice. How have you been holding up these past years?"

Anko spat out. "Fine, no thanks to you, snake."

Orochimaru put on a face of fake hurt, "Oh, your words wound me, Anko-chan. But I can assume we are not here to talk?"

Anko's face lit up in anger. "You're right. I'm here…TO KILL YOU!!" Anko pushed Orochimaru against the tree and stabbed her left hand together with his. "I'm going to need to borrow your hand here." She grabbed Orochimaru's right hand and started to perform seals.

"Oh, so you are planning to do that move?"

"Yes, I am and when we both die, I'll see you in hell."

"Too bad, I'm not real." The Orochimaru melted into mud and Anko ripped out the kunai out of the tree and threw it behind her. The real Orochimaru grabbed the kunai in between his fingers and snakes flew up to bind Anko's arms and legs together. He walked up and started to stroke her face. "My dear Anko, how does it feel to not be chosen? I have two new candidates in the forest right now and we shall see if they will survive if see another day. Oh, and don't tell Sartobi about my presence or I will bring about the destruction of this pathetic village." Orochimaru left the area and the snakes disappeared, leaving Anko alone and her curse seal started to act up. She grasped her shoulder and stood up in a hazy fog. She fell over and she felt herself caught by a strong pair of hands. She looked up and all she saw was an X-shaped scar on someone face before she completely passed out.