A/N: You guys know what happens in this part so I am just going to skip to when they are about to head into the Forest of Death.
Chapter 11: Exams and Friends
Lily, the girls, and their animals all stood ready to go in. When Anko announced that it was time, the girls calmly walked into the forest. They were about 20 feet in when Lily activated her Byakugon.
"Okay, there are three teams that have the scroll that we need close by. I want the other rookies to pass, so we won't go after them. That leaves us with one group to go after, so let's go," Lily said and her group followed. When they caught up to them, Loekie was the only one to come out in the open.
"You can give me the scroll, which would be saving yourself and your team, or I can kill you and take it off your dead body?" Loekie stated in a low growl.
"You really think that we would be stupid enough to do that. Why would we just give our scroll away?" The only girls in there group stated as she looked at the cloaked figure in front of there group. "There is only one of you and three of us."
"This is my last warning, give it to me or die." Lily and the others could hear the anger in Loekie's voice. They watched as the group looked at Loekie like she was crazy. "On the count of three, that scroll better be in my hand or your head will be on the ground."
"We will not."
"One…."
"You have got to be kidding me."
"Two…."
The three people looked at the members in there group not knowing what to think. Did this girl really think that she could take on all three of them by herself? If she did, she was committing suicide.
"Three…." True to her word, after she said three, Loekie sprang into action and within five minutes the group was laying on the ground dead. Lily and her group grabbed the scroll and headed for the tower in the center of the forest.
"Do you think that we should wait for a while before we go there? They do expect us to take five days in here?" Tara asked as they made the halfway point.
"No, there is no need to do that," Lily started. "I don't care what they think as long as we get there."
"Dragon, did you bring the letters from Mikaa and Sukan?" Venna asked. When the tower came into view. They all looked over at Lily after that question. Tori stepped closer to her.
"Yes, but we are not to open them until just before the next test, whatever that might be," Lily stated. After that, the girls traveled the rest of the walk in silence. Right before they got to the building, they all felt a great pulse of chakra.
"That chakra belonged to Naruto," Tori stated what Lily already knew. She could feel the demonic flow of it, and Reidou was going nuts. Then another wave hit them and Lily could feel it even stronger then ever. She knew that she didn't have to worry about Naruto, he could handle himself. He was not the Kyuubi container for nothing.
"Let's get moving, it's already starting to get dark," Tori suggested. They had reached the tower within 15 minutes and entered the building. Then, Lily looked at the hint up on the wall, after she read it she pulled out both scrolls. When the girls opened them, Sarutobi was standing in front of them.
"You know you have broken the record time in making it here. You still had four days out there," he stated.
"Yes, we are well aware of this," Tori growled out.
(In the monitoring room with the Jounin)
"Hey, everyone take a look at this. One of the teams has already made it to the tower," one of the men shouted. Uproar started at this news.
(Back with the girls)
"Lord Hokage, you should know that something caused Naruto to tap into the Kyuubi chakra," Lily said looking at the Hokage in the eye. She knew that he understood what she meant when his eyes widened in the blink of en eye he was gone. The girls made it up the stairs where they found rooms. When they had showered and changed they all sat down and ate.
"Okay, I am going to go to the hospital ward. When the time comes to help them heal the wounded, I want you girls to rest up. I know that you did not do anything big today, but it is all the same. Rest your dogs, and Tori, I want you to rest too." With that, Lily walked over to one of the beds with Tori on her trail.
Two days, Lily mad her way to the Hospital ward. She had felt fading chakra signatures being moved there. She walked into the ward and looked around. It looked like a group of Nin from grass was badly injured.
"What's the status?" she asked and the med Nin looked up at her.
"You shouldn't be in here. This is a hospital word and I'm busy," she said as she checked over one of the Nin.
Lily walked over to one of the Nin's team mates and started a diagnostic check. He had several broken ribs, internal bleeding and a concussion. Lily started the sequence of hand signs for her healing jutsu to stop the external and internal bleeding.
"What do you think your doing?" the med Nin asked. She was at an angle where she couldn't see that she was healing him and not hurting him. When she rushed over, she stopped in her tracks at what Lily was doing.
"He has internal bleeding. I am fixing that right now," Lily told her. Tori was sitting by the door taking a nap. "Then, I have to take care of the 4 broken ribs that he has. I would advise you to take care of his friend. He is going into shock."
She turned to see what Lily was talking about and just as Lily said, the Nin was convulsing. She rushed over to get to work. Lily had healed the Nin's two other teammates by the time she got him under control.
"I did not know that you were a med Nin," the lady stated as she covered her charge up.
"Yes, I have been training in the medical field for six years." Lily informed her as she did another check on the two grass Nin.
For the next two days, Lily was in the hospital ward on and off helping with the injured. But today she did not visit there because today was the end of the second task. When she and Tori headed to the meeting area, she noticed all the rookie teams had made it. Some were not in the best of shape, while others looked like they had been lucky. Lily made her way over to Hinata's team.
"Are you injured?" Lily asked her cousin.
"N-no I am not, but Kiba h-has a cut on his a-arm," (remember she's acting) she said looking at her teammate. Lily took a few steps towards him.
"You are of the Inazuka clan, am I right?" she asked him. With that, she received a nod. "Take off you jacket and let me have a look."
He didn't listen to her at first, but the look Hinata sent him told him to. He took off his jacket and showed her the long gash on his arm. Lily took a closer look at it.
"It has stopped bleeding. There is the beginning signs of infection, but it is an easy injury to heal." With that, Lily's hand began to glow green. Other people in the room were watching her now, but she didn't care about them. When she was done healing the cut on his arm, she turned and made her way over to the Nara's group.
"Did any of you get injured?" she asked them. She was informed that other then a little tired, they where okay. She left them with a smile and walked over to Naruto's group.
"Naruto, how are you?" she asked him as she approached.
"I am fine, tired but fine," he informed her. She could tell that he was a little on edge. She knew that he wasn't hurt and that's all she needed to know. At that point in time, she didn't care about his teammates. She turned and made her way over to her brother's group. She knew that this wasn't the best of ideas, but she still did it anyways.
"Did anyone in your group get hurt?" she asked the girl with the two buns in her hair.
"Yeah, Lee got a little bit hurt, but he should be fine." Lily ignored her statement and her brother's glared and looked at who she knew to be Lee.
"I am going to run a diagnostic scan on you, so there is no need to be alarmed."' With that, she again went through the familiar hand signs and put her hand that was glowing green on his forehead.
"She said that he would be fine," my brother's voice reached my ears.
"Well he shows sign of damage to his inner ear. His chakra coils are torn in some places. Though, that is an old injury probably from when he was little," she said as she kept on checking. "His knuckles have lasting injuries on them, and he has a small concussion."
"Now, some of these injuries, if provoked, could result in him getting disoriented during a fight," she finished. "Now I can heal the concussion, your hands, fix you ears and get started on you chakra coils now, if you'd like."
Lee's face lit up in a smile. "Does that mean that I might be able to use chakra?"
"Well, it would take some time for you chakra coils to heal and then for them to get used to chakra running through them," she started. "But in time, you should be able to use your chakra."
"Then, do whatever you have to do to fix me," he informed her.
Again Lily's hand began to glow green but a darker green this time. She placed her hands on his chest and watched as green chakra covered his body. What she was doing would only take about 10 minutes to do. When she was halfway through, the Jounin sensei's shows up. One of them that looked like an older copy of Lee started to talk to the girl with the buns. She watched as his face light up in a smile upon hearing the news that Lee would be able to us his chakra in the future.
"Okay, I am done so I will leave you to talk to your sensei," Lily walked over to her group. She didn't care that most, if not all Jounin sensei's, were looking at her. Some with curiosity, some with caution, and some with thanks.
"The Hokage will now explain the third task, so listen up," Anko yelled out to them. When they where sure that everyone was listening, he steeped forward.
"For the coming third exam, there is something that I would like you to know," he began. "Okay, why do we have all the alliance countries taking the exams together?"
After he asked this, most of the genin looked confused. "It's to promote friendship among the shinobi and to raise the level of shinobi. I do not want you to be confused by the true meaning of this exam…" he started to explain to them. "Is a replica for a war among the allied countries?"
With that, a murmur broke out across the room. To say that some where surprised was an understatement.
"If you go back in time, the current allies where enemies who fought each other over who would rule," Sarutobi's face was as serious as ever before. "In order to prevent wasteful fighting, the stage that these countries choose for battle….that is the origins of the chunin exams."
"Okay, I would now like to explain the third test but…" he began.
"Actually 'cough', I am sorry, Lord Hokage, but from now on, as the referee, will you please allow me, Gekkou Hayate?" a sickly looking man asked. Lily could tell that he was not as sick as he let on. Some if it was an act to fool his opponents.
"By all means," the Hokage answered.
"Hello everyone, I am Hayate," he began. "Umm, before the third test, there is something I would like you to do." With that, he caught everyone's attention. "Umm, it's a preliminary for the third test to decide who gets to participate in the main event."
A lot of questions rang out, but the loudest and most stupid one came from sakura, Naruto's teammate began, "Sensei, I don't understand this preliminary, but… why aren't all of us here allowed to participate in the next test?"
"Because, you idiot, there are too many people left," Lily began not even looking back at her. "I don't know if it was because the first two tests were too easy, or if it is because this years genin are better then before, but they have to narrow down the field some more."
"Hey, who asked you?" Sakura shouted out at her.
Lily, still not turning, continued, "Well, it is obvious what the meaning behind this test is. You see there are going to be a lot of important people at the third exam, and with all of us left, it would take to long. So like I said earlier, they have to narrow down the field some more." Lily then looked back at her. "And I would watch that big mouth of yours, a shinobi never loses their temper, or shows any emotions in a battle." With that, Lily turned around to face the front of the room again. She could see that everyone was looking at her but she just smiled. (Her hood is still up)
"Umm…. So anyway… those who are not felling well… those who feel like quitting after these explanations… please come forward now," he looked out over the crowd, "since we are starting the preliminaries immediately."
From the corner of her eye, Lily saw that Kabuto started to raise his hand. 'Oh no you don't, you bastard.' Lily's hand shot out and stopped him from raising his hand.
"Don't you even dare, I want to fight you," lily whispered to him so that no one else could hear. "If you drop out, I will expose you and your snake bastard of a master."
Slowly Kabuto's hand relaxed and he stayed where he was at. Lily then looked around at the other genin. When she looked at Naruto's group, she noticed that Sasuke was holding his shoulder.
'What the hell is wrong with him?' Lily though. But she didn't dwell on it too much.
"How is it fair that we have to start right away? Some of us are injured," some one called out. "And it's not fair that some of these guys got medical attention."
"What do you mean?" the Hokage asked. "No med in this facility would do such a thing."
"Actually, Lord Hokage, I did heal some of my fellow genin," Lily started. "But in the rules, it states that they are not allowed to get medical attention from one of your hired staff. Since I am a participant in this exam and not a hired staff member, I did not break the rules," Lily explained.
One of the proctors took out a rule book and looked up what Lily had just stated. After a second, he nodded at the Hokage signaling that what she had said was true.
"Well, it seems that it was not against the rules, and the exams will continue," he announced.
"Now, this is you last chance. Does anyone else want to quit?" Hayate asked. Lily heard commotion coming from Sakura and Sasuke, so she listened in. She heard everything they said and it only made her even more suspicious. Lily could tell that Anko and Sarutobi knew something was going on too. She was pissed off that she was not informed right away. She was the Uchiha clan head and if it had anything to do with Sasuke. They had to inform her.
"Umm… let's begin the preliminaries." Most of the genin had smiles on their faces. "This preliminary will consist of one on one fighting; you will basically fight as if you where in a real life confrontation."
"Since we have 28 people entering, we will conduct 14 matches and the winners will go on to the third exam," he continued. "There are basically no rules. The match will continue until one of you dies, is knocked out, or admits defeat."
"But if I decide that the winner has clearly been established, I will stop the match," he informed them. "We would like to reduce the number of corpses in the end."
"Now if you will look up at the screen, we will see who is fighting first," everyone looked up at the screen in front of them. After a while, Sakura gasped at the name that appeared.
SASUKE UCHIHA V.S YOROI AKADO
Everyone went up to the balcony. Lily and her group were as far away from the genin as possible. She didn't want to talk to them at this point, especially not that pink haired bitch. Lily watched as Kikashi said something to Sasuke that made him glare. Then, he made his way up to his team.
In the beginning, it looked as though Sasuke was going to lose, but what she saw as he was up in the air made her narrow her eyes. Now she was pissed off. That fucking snake was going to die, and she was going to have a word with the Hokage later for keeping this information from her. When the match ended, Lily transported herself next to Kikashi before he could make his way down to Sasuke.
"You will get Sasuke and bring him up by my group. I will be up there with the Hokage in a second," Lily said. Then, she teleported herself in front of the Hokage. She was aware of the eyes of almost everyone on her.
"Dragon, how are you doing?" he asked.
"Don't give me that shit," some of the Jounin around them gasped. "Why was I not informed that Sasuke had the curse seal mark put on him?"
The Hokage's eyes widened along with Anko's. "How did you know about that?"
"You and Anko meet me out side this room. I will get Hatake and Sasuke." With that, Lily teleported over to her group. "Hatake, move him out side this room please," and again she was gone.
When she got out there, the Hokage and Anko were all ready waiting. A few seconds later, the other two arrived.
"Now, will you explain why you know about the cursed seal mark?" Anko asked.
"I was not raised in this village. I grew up in a house a ways into the forest," Lily started to explain. "Now, a few years back, when I was coming back from a mission, I found a half dead man. I brought him back with me to my adoptive parents and my mother and I took a look at him. We noticed a seal on his neck and upon closer expectation, we found out that it was not only draining his chakra, but it was also eating away at his sanity," Lily said gravely.
"Now, when the man woke up, we found out that Orochimaru had put the mark on him, that he was to be his next body," Lily told them. "So me and my mom studied the seal, and four months later, we came up with a way to get rid of it all together." Everyone raised their eyes at this.
"So you can remove this thing off my neck?" Sasuke asked, not knowing what to think.
"Yours and Anko's, yes," Lily replied. "I am removing yours whether you like it or not, but Anko has a choice. I don't see why she wouldn't want it removed; sooner or later, it will drive her crazy."
"When did you find out that I had the mark on me too?" Anko asked.
"Since we exited the testing room. I tend to see things normal people don't," she said.
"What gives you the right to decide that you are removing my mark with out asking?" Sasuke snapped.
"Because I said so, you little brat," Lily said in a calm, vicious voice. "Whether you like it or not, I am removing that mark. I just need to know if I am removing hers too."
"Yes, I want you to remove mine too," Anko informed her.
"Then sit back to back with Sasuke and uncover you right shoulder," Lily told her. "Sasuke, take off you shirt." Kakashi raised his eyebrow.
"I need to be able to see his full shoulder and the only reason I didn't ask Anko to take off her shirt is because she's a girl." With that, Sasuke grudgingly took off his shirt.
Lily took one of her scrolls out of her pouch and unsealed a paint bole and a brush. She then slit her wrist and let the blood fill the small bowl. When it was filled, she healed the cut and dipped the paint brush in the bowl. She started to draw a very complex seal around the curse seal. Then, she had a chain of symbols going down their shoulder to their fingers.
"You are going to have to hold hands with me once I draw the master seal on my hands, okay?" she watched them nod. "Then, when I say so, you are going to have to push chakra into the seals."
Lily drew a chain of sealing symbols from the tips of her fingers to the back of her hand where she drew the master seal. She grabbed a hold of their hands and then channeled green healing chakra to the master seal. After about a minute, she nodded to them and they channeled chakra to their seals. Kikashi and Sarutobi watched as the seals glowed black, then red, and finely green befor they disappeared. Lily let go of their hands and stood up shakingly.
"Are you alright kid?" Anko asked when she saw the state Lily was in.
"Yes, I am going to go back to the balcony," Lily stated. "Hatake, will you take the Uchiha with you back there. Just let me seal my stuff back in the scroll and have a word with the Hokage." The two Jounin and one genin disappeared in a cloud of smoke after Sasuke put his shirt back on.
"So, I guess my girls and I have to let you reveal our last names today?" Lily knew the answer, she just didn't like it.
"Yes, they will also be displayed for the third exams if you make it. That and your information," he informed her. "Not the real information. We're just going to add on the information about your Sharingan and your Byakugan"
"You can't let anyone know that I have the Mangekyou Sharingan. Do you know how much danger this village would be in?" Lily asked him. Her voice was nothing but nice.
"I would not have put that on there anyways. I know what would have happened if that was known by the wrong people," he informed her. "I am going to head back. Good luck with your fight. I will be watching you, and I hope that getting rid of the seals did not take too much out of you."
"Do not worry. I do not need chakra to beat anyone in there, but I do have a favor to ask of you. I need to fight Kabuto in this round. No matter what, I need to fight him," Lily looked him in the eye. "This is very important and you need to trust me."
"Ok I will have it set up, but you will explain this to me later." With that, he was gone in a puff of smoke, Lily not long after him. When she appeared next to her group, she turned to them.
"What has happened so far?" she asked Venna.
Venna turned to her. "Well first, Shino killed that Zaku guy. He sent out his chakra sucking bugs and drained his chakra. Then, the flesh eating bugs devoured him within three minutes."
"Kankuro beat one of Kabuto's teammates. Soon, the next fight will start. I hope it's me," Loekie finished for her.
A few gasps were heard and Lily looked at the board. Next to her, the girls broke out in soft laughs, trying hard to suppress it. Lily watched as the Sakura and Ino walked down to the stairs. She hoped that these girls didn't give kinouchi a bad name.
At the end of the fight, Lily was disgusted. She didn't know how they got this far with out getting killed. The god up above must really love them for some reason. Lily looked at the board to see who would be fighting next; everyone went quiet at what they saw up on the board.
INUZUKA, RABBIT V.S (random person from a random team I added on so they could fight)
Venna removed her cloak, her long white hair falling down to her middle back. She silently walked past the other leaf Genin and down the stairs. She stopped right in front of the boy she was to be fighting.
(Just so you remember her outfit. Also remember the only difference from the picture is the leggings are connected to the skin tight under shirt making it a full body suit; the colors are Black and red not Green and Blue. She still has the head band on while her forehead protector is tied around her waist, and her hair's long and white.)
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"Okay, begin," Hayate said and backed up.
"Are you sure you want to continue? I don't want to hurt someone as cute as you," her opponent had said. Venna just put a smile on her face before vanishing into thin air. She was moving so fast, only those who where skilled shinobi could see her. Lily watched it all with a smile.
A few seconds later, the genin's head was cut clean off his shoulders. Then and only then, did Venna reappear with Lily's spare blade in her hand. She walked over to the body on the ground and wiped the blood off on his clothes. Then, she slowly made her way back up the stairs. When she got to the top, Kiba stood in her way.
"How could you be an Inuzuka? All but my mother, sister and me where killed during the Kyuubi attack," he growled out to her.
"I would advise you to leave my sister alone. It is none of you business at this point in time boy," Loekie said as she walked by. She had already taken her cloak off and her short black hair was showing.
(So you remember her outfit. The only difference is she doesn't have the chains hanging off of it. She has her weapons and Kunai pouches on, with her forehead protector around her left thigh above her Kunai pouch)
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Everyone looked up at the board, and there plain as day was….
INUZUKA, FOX V.S. (again random person)
"What the hell? There are two of them?" Kiba asked.
"That would be my twin sister, Fox," Venna said as she walked back to Lily and the others. She put the blade back in Lily's boot, where she had grabbed it during the fight. "Thanks for letting me use that," she whispered. The dogs sat looking down at the fighting area. But a few seconds later, they herd a bark. Lily watched Venna look down at a little puppy. Kitaru and Hitaru walked over and looked at the dog.
"Hey, what are you doing to Akamaru?" Kiba yelled once he noticed what was going on. This drew the attention of everyone.
"We were not doing anything to the flea bag. He came over here and we where looking at him," Tori drawled out.
"He is not that bad Tori…" Kitaru started.
"And I don't think he had fleas either," Hitaru finished.
Venna bent down and picked up Akamaru and walked over to Kiba. "Here you go." A bark rang out and she looked down at the dog that she had just handed over. "Nice to meet you too, Akamaru," she said and then walked back over to her group.
"Okay, now we can start the next match. Begin," he said because the floor had been clean up from the last match.
"I am not as stupid as my teammate; I will not let you win. You will lose." With that, Fox just stood there in a relaxed, bored stance.
"Well are you going to show me how you were going to beat me or not, kid?" Fox's growled out. When the boy did not move, Fox started a sequence of hand signs. "Blade of a thousand winds," she called out.
Every one watched as nothing happened at first, but a few seconds later, the boy fell to the ground in pieces.
"All bark and no bite," Fox started to say. "What you thought was a lame was a wolf in disguise." With that, she back flipped onto the wall and walked up it to her group.
"When were you going to tell us that those two could talk?" Tara asked.
"We thought that we would surprise you. Anyway, they could talk all along, they just didn't let us know right away," Venna informed them.
'Who are these girls? Where are they from?' Sasuke thought.
Everyone turned to the board to wait for the next match to be put up. It seemed that this time they where waiting for the floor to be clean up before they called the match.
"Hey Fox, did you have to cut him up into pieces?" Tara asked her cousin.
"Yeah, he pissed me off with all his bullshit talk," Fox answered. They again turned to the board because the floor was clean and they where going to call the next match.
TEMARI V.S. TEN TEN
Lily had watched this match and decided that these girls where one hundred times better then the other two. They where true kinouchi. In the end, Temari won the match, but Ten Ten put up a good fight.
But as soon as Lily thought that, Tamari did something that Lily thought was one of the worst things ever. She not only threw Ten Ten's unconscious body, but she started bragging about her win.
Everyone had to wait till all the weapons where cleaned of the floor before they announced the next match.
NARA, SHIKAMARU V.S. KIN TSUCHI
Lily was a little disappointed in the kinouchi that the Nara had fought. She did not pay attention to her spot on the battle field, and in the end, it was her down fall. When they had got her off the floor, they announced the next match. Again, everyone went silent except for one person.
"Troublesome," (guess who) on the board it read.
NARA, DOE V.S. (again some random person)
Doe took of her cloak and her red hair fell out and went down to her lower back.
(So you remember her outfit is 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, everything else is the same with the outfit)
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"Okay, next match begin."
The boy that Tara was fighting didn't say a word, not even to brag.
"I like this one. He's smart," Tara said looking back at her group. "But not as smart as he should be," she quickly went through a few hand signs and called out, "Beast of the Shadows."
Everyone watched as the shadows on the floor turned into different beasts. "You can back out now if you would like," Tara said nicely. But the boy only got into a defensive stance.
"Too bad." With that, all the animals charged forward and covered him from view. All that you could do is hear his screams and then suddenly, they stopped. Tara took her hands out of there final sign position and the shadows disappeared, revealing a bloody mangled body. "I did give him a chance to walk away. Why is it that they never listen?" she said as she made it back up the stairs.
'What is wrong with these girls? They don't seem fazed that they just killed someone,' a random Jounin thought.
'That was a cool jutsu,' Shikamaru thought.
When she got to the other genin, she stopped in front of Shikamaru. "Hi, I'm Doe. Just thought that I would let you know since we are in the same clan, which makes us family," she started. "And the twins with the black and white hair are my cousins. Our mothers were sisters."
"So, I'm related to them too?" he asked. When she smiled and nodded, he finished, "How troublesome."
"Well, nice to meet you Shikamaru." With that, Tara walked back to the group.
"At least you have nice person related to you, those twins are in my clan and they seem like there crazy," Kiba informed him.
"T-there not crazy, a-and Rabbit is n-nice if you don't g-get her mad," Hinata stood up for her friends.
"How do you know then Hinata?" Kiba asked.
"She went on a mission with them," Sakura said, getting into the conversation.
"I have b-been training w-with them K-Kiba, there m-my friends," Hinata said. They all dropped it at that when there sensei pointed to the board.
NARUTO, UZUMAKI V.S. KIBA, INUZUKA
"Now it's my turn to show you what a real Inuzuka can do," Kiba said as he jumped down.
In the end, Lily was impressed with how it turned out. The match was best described as a seesaw. At one point, it looked like Kiba would win, but the next it was Naruto. In the end, she was not surprised that Naruto came out victorious. She could see he acted dumber then he was.
As they were carrying Kiba away, the next match was posted on the board, and Lily mentally growled at what she saw.
HINATA, HYUGA V.S. NEJI, HYUGA
Lily made her way over to a shocked Hinata. When she got in front of her, Hinata snapped out of it and looked right at her.
"Dragon, what are you doing over here?" she asked Lily. Lily bent down to whisper in her ear so that no one else could hear.
"In the beginning, keep up the act. As soon as he's finished gloating, like I know he will, give him the surprise of his life, if you know what I mean. Your eyes are just as good as his now Hinata." With that, Lily backed up and Hinata smiled and nodded at her.
"Giving last minute advice won't help her," Neji said from down on the fighting floor.
"Stay out of it Hyuga," Tori roared out, "Before I bite of the only thing that makes you a male."
(On the other balcony)
"Damn, I was hoping to see Dragon fight next. I want to see what she's got," Kankuro wined a little bit.
(Back to normal)
Hinata made her way down as Lily walked back to her group. She knew that Hinata had improved greatly over the time she had spent training with them.
"I never thought that I would be facing you Hinata," Neji said as they faced each other.
"Nether d-did I c-cousin," Hinata stammered out. Lily listened to the people explain main house and branch house to the genin who didn't know. She knew this all ready, but it still pissed her off. They shouldn't be able to do that to them.
"Now, begin the match," Hayate called out.
"Before we begin the match, I would like to say something Hinata," Neji began. "You don't make a good shinobi, forfeit now!" Lily knew that Hinata was just laughing inside at that statement. She wasn't the same old Hinata.
"You are too kind… you wish for harmony and avoid conflict," he began. "You agree with others, never resisting." At this point, Fox and Tara where softly laughing.
"You have no confidence in yourself; I always feel your sense of inferiority… that's why… I thought it best you remain a genin." Lily could see that even though Hinata kept up the act of a shy, helpless girl, she was getting pissed off.
"But the chunin exams can only be taken with a group of three. You couldn't turn down you teammates request and willingly enter this reality, am I wrong?" Neji asked her.
Hinata looked up at Lily. Lily shook her head 'no'. She didn't want Hinata to drop the act just yet. So Hinata looked back at Neji with those scared eyes.
"N-no…I-I just wanted t-to change myself…. Do it my self," she responded. Lily could tell that Hinata's sensei did not like Neji's attitude.
"Just as I thought, you are a spoiled brat of the main house," he said. Hinata looked up in surprise. "People can not change themselves. Losers are losers. Their personality and strength will not change." Lily wanted to laugh at how stupid her older brother sounded. She looked down when she felt Naruto give of a little killer intent. She could tell that he was pissed of at her brother, and she couldn't blame him.
"Because people can not change, differences are born," he started again. "Expressions like elite and loser are created. Looks, brains, ability, size, and personality are all people judge in these values." Now Lily could see that even the Uchiha was getting mad.
"Based on these unchangeable factors, people discriminate and are discriminated against. They suffer within there own means." Neji seemed like he was on a role to Lily. "Just like the fact that I'm from the branch house and you from the main house cannot be changed."
"I have seen through many things with this byakugan… so I know that you are just acting strong, when deep inside you just want to run away from here." With that said, Hinata looked up and Lily nodded she had enough with his shit. Her brother needed to be taken down a notch or two.
"Is that true cousin?" Hinata growled out and to say people where surprised was the under statement of the year. "Well, you will find out that I am not that shy, helpless Hinata any more, that yes I have changed and I have become stronger."
"Now, can we please stop this useless talk and begin the fight?" With that, Hinata activated her byakugan without hand signs. She then lowered in the Hyuga fighting stance. Neji snapped out of it and did the same.
(Okay, the fight goes the same excepted for Hinata can go one on one with Neji in the beginning, but in the end, she loses and she is seriously hurt like before)
When Lily saw Neji about to attack Hinata again, she was in front of him with her twin swords at his neck. She wasn't the only one to step in, but she quickly abandoned her swords when she saw Hinata go down. She walked over to her while her hands were again going through hand signs for her diagnostic check. When she checked over her, she found out that she was about to go into cardiac arrest.
"Everyone gets back now." she said because she needed room. Her hands went through some more hand signs; this time for one of her more advanced healing jutsus. She put her dark green covered hands on Hinata's chest and began her work. She recalled hearing Naruto say something to her brother, but she was to busy helping Hinata to listen. By the time the med Nin showed up, she was done healing Hinata all the way.
"She is fine now. I have healed her and reopened her closed chakra points," Lily informed the Nin that was lifting the unconscious Hinata on a stretcher. "But she was seconds from going into cardiac arrest and minutes from dying; right now, all she needs is rest."
When she looked up, she could tell that everyone was shocked. Lily had expected Naruto to snap again, but she was wrong on the person who ended up snapping.
"WHAT the fuck is wrong with you?" Venna screamed the first part. "Your stupid ass could have killed her. You are lucky that it is me that is going to deal with you and not you little sister…." Venna snapped her hand over her mouth. Wide eyes looking at Lily, but she wasn't the only on with wide eyes. Neji looked from Lily to Venna and back.
Lily took off her cloak; her multicolored hair that was held up in its usual ponytail fell down to just below her butt. She looked up into Neji's eyes and pointed at the board. The whole room went silent and no one moved. The first one to do anything was Sasuke.
"There is not fucking way. I am the only one left," he yelled.
"Well I hate to burst you bubble Uchiha, but she lived a few miles outside this village. She was not here when HER clan was massacred," Fox snapped on him, emphasizing 'her'.
"And not only is she an Uchiha, she is the eldest and the clan head," the Hokage chose now to speak up.
"That is why earlier she was able to command that he do what she said," Kikashi pointed out.
"So there are two Uchiha's in Konaha now?" one of the Jounin asked.
"No, there's not," Lily said looking around. "I am positive that the name on the board says Hyuga-Uchiha. I am just as much a Hyuga as I am an Uchiha," she pointed out.
"And I am just as much a branch house member as I am clan head," she finished.
"How are you Neji's sister though? It seems like he didn't know by the look on his face," Tamari pointed out.
"I was born in Konaha, but like Fox said I was raised outside of Konaha by my adoptive parents," Lily began. "Our father and my mother had what you would call a drunken one night stand. One thing led to another and she found out that she was pregnant, but she saw me as a mistake and a monster. She didn't think that I would survive."
"Her mother was betrothed to someone. When she found out that she was pregnant, she tried to kill herself, but her 'would be adoptive mother' stopped her and convinced her to let her have the baby when it was born," the Hokage cut in. "Twenty minutes after she was born, her mother gave her away. She didn't even looking at her, only naming her."
"Well that last part didn't need to be added," lily said. "Now, can we get on with the fight? As much as I would love to have a family reunion, we do have an exam to finish." Neji and the other reluctantly made there way back up the balcony. Again Lily looked up to the listed names.
DRAGON, HYUGA-UCHIHA V.S. KABUTO
Lily had kept her eye on him all along. He had stayed sitting on the stairs waiting for his turn, not even looking up. Now he stood in front of her.
"Are you sure you wanted me here for that little information just not?" he said to her.
"Don't worry. You won't make it out of here to tell anyone. Anyways, it was going to be let out in the third exam anyway." Lily was not, then, on to boast or brag. She was the quiet one, but this guy helped fuck with her clan, and tried to get the Sharingan into Orochimaru's hands. She was pissed now.
"You shouldn't have done what you did. It's not pretty when I am pissed off." With that, Kabuto rushed forward. His hands formed into chakra scalpels. Lily activated her Byakugan and closed of his chakra points in his shoulders and arms.
"Not good enough." She let her eyes go back to normal and she took out her twin swords. She didn't give him time to think she quickly used one to decapitate him and the other one to stab him in the heart. She knew that he had some med training so she pushed chakra into her sword that was in his chest and blew his heart out the back of his body. She then let his body fall and wiped her swords on his clothes.
(Everything happens the same with the next matches, so now where at when they draw numbers; they already explained the third exams and everything)
"Ok when I call out a number you raise your hand if it is yours"
"1…" Naruto raised his hand.
"2…" Neji raised his hand.
"3…" Sasuke raised his hand.
"4…" Lily raised her hand.
"5…" Kankuro raised his hand.
"6…" Loekie raised her hand.
"7…" Tamari raised her hand.
"8…" Dosu raised his hand.
"9…" Shino raised his hand
"10…" Venna raised her hand.
"11…" Gaara raised his hand.
"12…" Tara raised her hand
"13… "Shikamaru raised his hand.
"Since we had a draw, Shikamaru will fight who ever wins out of the 4th match," Hayate informed them. "Here is the fighting schedule."
1. NARUTO V.S. NEJI
2. SASUKE V.S. DRAGON
3. KANKURO V.S. FOX
4. TAMARI V.S. DOSU
5. SHINO V.S. RABBIT
6. GARRA V.S. DOE
7. SHIKAMARU V.S. (winner of 4th match)
"Here is what the next round will look like," Hayate said.
1 V.S. 2
3 V.S. 7
4 V.S. 5
6 V.S (the winner if the first fight)
"I'm sure you get what I mean. Okay, now you have a month to train, now get out of here," Hayate said and they all turned to leave. But there was one thing that the girls had forgotten in all the excitement of the exams….. the letters.
A/N: Long chapter like I promised. Hoped you liked it.