'Ello! I Don't own Naruto! (Damn it)

Raila looked up at the night sky reminiscing about the past week, see had train a lot with Lee and Gai she had also gone on several dates with Lee. Sighing she glanced over at the green clad ninja you was watching the sparse clouds float by. They had just finished dinner when he had suggested a stroll before bed, now they sat on the swings at the park near Gai's home. A bird was circled over head she watched it intently it seemed familiar some how, suddenly it swooped down headed straight towards them. As it came closer she realized that it was a messenger crow from her village, stretching out her arm the scavenger bird landed softly on it.

"A crow," Lee asked.

"Yeah, it's a messenger crow from my village, we use them since hawks and falcons are rare where I live." Raila removed the small scroll from its leg and the crow took off when she did. Opening it she read:

'We are expected to arrive the morning of the first of the month around nine o'clock be at the gate to meet us.

Hana-sensei'

"Lee-kun what day is it?"

"The last day of the month, why?"

"Because my team will be arriving tomorrow for the chunnin exams."

"That is great news Raila-kun so why do you look worried?"

"Because if the chunnin exams are coming up then we'll be enemies soon and facing each other in battle."

"Oh yeah," his face fell, "but…we still have tonight!"

"That's right," she smiled at him, "Though we'd better go back so I can look fresh for my team tomorrow."

"Yeah," the two teen ninja stood and holding hands headed back to Gai's apartment.

The warm shower water cascaded down your back and against your scars, you whished you could stay there forever but alas you couldn't for your team was arriving today. Grudgingly you shut the shower head off pulling back the curtain you grabbed one of the soft green towels and began to dry your long hair. You heard the handle turn and the door open but were too late to pull the towel across your exposed body.

Lee stood in the doorway frozen at the sight of you nakedness, blood rushed to his face (and a certain other part) and started to pour out of his nose.

You were standing frozen as well at the sight of Lee in only his boxers-pajamas his muscled chest and legs were covered with scars of battle and training; your blood rushed to your head and started to leak out of your nose. The clock in the next room tolled eight pulling you both back to reality, eep-ing you cover your private parts with the towel and Lee said a hurried sorry shutting the door quickly.

Both you and Lee didn't speak as you walked down to the gates of Konoha you were too embarrassed from that morning. It was a few minutes after nine when you arrived but your team was no where in sight.

About nine-thirty three figures appeared on the horizon one with flaming red hair, another with brown hair and her hitai-ate tied around her eyes, and the last one, a boy with short black hair walking almost lazily in front of them. They were stopped by the guards who checked their IDs then let them pass after they were validated.

"Hello Hana-sensei," you bowed to the one with red hair, "Kokokro-senpai, Hebi-senpai this is Rock Lee I've been living with him and his sensei during the duration of my stay, they were the ones who rescued me after I was attacked. Lee-kun this is my sensei, Hana, and my team-mates Kokoro-senpai," she pointed to the girl that had her hitai-ate over her eyes," and Hebi-senpai," she pointed to the blacked haired boy who seemed disinterested in the goings on.

"Hello it is nice to meet you!" Lee said bowing to them.

"Whatever," Kokoro said, "Lets just get to the hotel room I'm exhausted."

"Okay…," Raila took the small paper with the hotel that they were to stay at, "It's down the main street, right when you hit the Ichiraku Ramen Bar, then another few minutes walk, and it should be right in front of you."

"Thank you," Hana-sensei said curtly, "We'll expect you to be there by sundown." They left with Hebi in the lead suddenly tense and looking overly alert in the clam mass of civilians.

"I'm sorry for the way Kokoro-senpai acted Lee-kun."

"It is okay Raila-kun I understand they have just gotten over a long journey and are tired. But if you don't mind me asking aren't they a little…no, a lot older than you."

"Yeah but Kokoro-senpai is only twenty-two and Hebi-senpai is…well I actually don't know how old he is maybe around eighteen or nineteen..." Raila and Lee strolled in the direction of Gai's apartment to collect her belongings. The sun was shinning bright over Konoha a perfect day with a beautiful rainbow was sparkling to the west.

"You'd think that they would've increased security, don't you Orochimaru-sama?" A female in shadows asked.

"Quite but the leaf-ninja have always been fools they don't think that another attack could happen that I got what I wanted," the snake Sanin chuckled softly.

"To think that it would be this easy we just needed to use the same plan as last year to get in," the other female said trying not to laugh herself.

"Yes to think that all we're doing is using a transformation jutsu to appear as genin entering the chunnin exam," they all laughed evilly. Orochimaru peeked out of the shades to look down at the street below a beam of sun light fell upon one of the two women making her scarlet hair glimmer.

If you don't remember or don't know rainbows are supposed to resemble snakes and fortell the coming of evil.