Author's notes My bad, this is the chapter where Naruto uses rasengan, also, my bad, I should have put up another chapter by now.

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Chapter 21 Breather from the Exam

Zev nodded, and picked Leta up. Leta held on to him. He saw out of the corner of his eye Osona moving down along with Utsuha, Sashii, and Saken. Niku had yet to fight and couldn't come with. Zev looked at Emiko. He saw Jada walking down the stairs. Emiko turned and said something to him. From his face, Zev figured he was pissed off. Emiko turned and continued walking.

Zev got Leta to the medical room. Zev set her down on the bed, he looked around. No one was there. It was quiet. Osona walked in and he walked out. He looked in the other rooms. No one was there. Saken asked Zev, "What is it?"

"Something is… not… right…." Zev said walking down checking more rooms, he looked at the floor. Blood went into one of the rooms. He opened that door and found Suoh. He wasn't looking good. His shirt was covered in blood.

"Help me…." He pleaded.

Zev brought chakra to his finger tips and activated his eye, "What the hell is going on?" He asked as he patched up some of the minor things that he could handle.

"I don't know, there was a loud explosion and all the doctors had to leave."

"Saken, get in here now!" Zev shouted and he went back to Suoh, "Sorry my medic skills are awful compared to what you need, do you know anything else?"

Suoh shook his head, "I just remember hearing something like a snake slithering on by."

"Which way to Jin's room?" Zev asked as Saken came in, saw Suoh and ran back to Osona.

"Keeping going down the hall, take a right and turn down the next hall to the right and go to the end. I heard them mention a patient there and there's a map on the wall there." Suoh nodded in the direction of the map. Osona came back in and took over. Zev ran to Jin's room. When he approached he heard a snake hissing.

He kicked open the door. Jin was scared, but paralyzed. A giant snake was planning on eating her. Zev cut it down. The snake opened up and a medic core ninja was in it. He stood up covered in snake gut. Zev ran out and used Relatzer no Jutsu to look for more snakes. He found two more near by. Both had eaten a ninja. Fortunately for everyone, they hadn't been fully digested yet. Zev used up all his Relatzer no jutsus and had to search the rest of the building on his own speed. He was surprised to find quite a few other people there. Some were patients but most of the people he saw were the doctors, ones who weren't qualified to help in the exam. He wondered how they couldn't notice a few giant snakes.

Zev cut down three more snakes. He found them near the area he had started from. One didn't have a ninja inside, but the others did. One of the ninja had suffocated inside. Zev paused and took a closer look. The others had survived, why didn't this one. He looked very closely. The neck had three sets of two pair punctures. "Duck!"

Zev obeyed the wolf without question. Three snakes whipped over head.Zev turned and saw that man he'd fought in the desert before. "Who the hell are you?"

"The name's Orochimaru. What's yours?"

"I don't feel like telling you." Zev said as he drew his swords, and created a whirlwind in the hall. The guts from the snake shot into Orochimaru's face. He wiped his face clean. Zev was already gone.

"I do enjoy a good hunt…." He said and started after Zev. Zev had gone down the hall and jumped into the ceiling. There was a hallow space in between the upper level and the ceiling. "Come out, come out…." The man said laughing. Zev dropped down and tried to slit Orochimaru's throat. He was stopped by a sword flying at his face. Orochimaru turned. Zev felt a pulse in his shoulder. He fell on his knees. Orochimaru got a glimpse of the seal. "You sealed it yourself? Maybe you will be useful…" He turned, "I think I'll let you live." He looked back over his shoulder, "You never know when you need another pawn…" He walked off laughing. Zev reached down and threw a black senbon into his shoulder. Orochimaru turned with an angry glare, "For that you'll die!"

Zev heard a man shout, "Rasengan!" Orochimaru managed to dodge the attack from the Hokage. The jutsu blew through more rooms and walls then Zev thought possible. Zev did a double take when he saw the damage to the surrounding rooms.

"I should have killed you all those years ago." He said as he disappeared.

Naruto was about to chase after him when Zev said, "Leave him, he's poisoned." Zev stood up gripping his shoulder. He let go of his shoulder when The Hokage turned, "What are you doing here?" Zev asked.

"I came to see how my daughter is doing."

"She's in one of the rooms. I'll show you." Zev said straightening. The pain had subsided. Suddenly another burst of pain shot out, Zev?

"Okay, I'll stop, when it activated during the fight I decided to try to continue changing it."

Do it some other time, okay? Zev led the Hokage to the room with his daughter in it.

"Leta!" The Hokage shouted. Everyone in the room turned, Osona, Utsuha, Sashii, Saken, and Niku were in there.

Zev heard someone in the corner say, "Hey!" quietly. He looked over and it was Jada. Zev walked over, "I've seen a few more medics, so did you find out what happened?"

"Something to do with an Orochimaru…."

"Orochimaru!"

"I don't remember ever talking about him."

Jada pulled out a small booklet, "Here, remember this?"

"My bingo book!" He flipped though, "Oh… Shit…."

"Yeah, oh shit is right. He's a class S security risk. There are only the Kages who are also S class risks, but at least they're inside the law."

As much as you can be when you do assassinations for a living, Zev thought

"Tengin, that's not good. You didn't fight him did you?"

Zev nodded, "Twice."

"Damn. How'd you survive?"

"I don't know he said he might have a use for me."

"That sucks for him. You won't be easily toyed with. Especially since you know he's trying to."

"Tengin… can you come… over here?" Leta asked from behind the others. Zev walked over, "Was… was Zev watching?"

Zev nodded, "You can tell her." the wolf said.

"He said he's really proud of you."

"Really?"

"At least something a long those lines," Zev said smiling and shrugged. Then he looked at Niku, "You had to yet to fight who won?"

Niku sighed, "Kaida did. You know where I can find some food around here?" Osona laughed. Niku looked at the map on the wall.

The Hokage spoke up, "I suppose we should tell the Kazekage about the security risk… I'll be back, believe it!"

He walked out, Niku followed right after he found the cafeteria. Saken turned to Sashii, "Let's go watch the last of the fights." Sashii nodded and followed Saken out.

"Hey wait! I'll go with you!" Utsuha shouted chasing after. The only ones left were Jada, Osona, and Leta.

"Tengin, do you know where Zev is?" Osona asked. He nodded, "Why haven't I seen him?"

"He's disguised." Zev couldn't help but chuckle inwardly, you couldn't figure that out?

"Is he still in it?"

"He is," Jada said for Zev.

"And who are you?" Osona asked pointing at Jada.

"I am, was, Zev's sensei. Those swords he has were made by me."

"He's trust worthy." Zev added, "Me and Zev are good friends. We spent a lot of time with Jada."

Leta activated her byakugan, she turned beet red. "I… uh… I… uh, uh… believe them…." She said stuttering.

"If you were Zev's old sensei, can we talk for a bit?" They walked out of the room.

"You're Zev." Leta said. Zev turned, "I can see your aura…, you aura's different… compared to anyone."

"Well, you're caught…," The wolf said tauntingly.

Shut up! Zev rubbed the back of his head, "So you caught me… don't tell anyone okay?" Leta nodded, "So, now that you know it's me, want to tell me something?" He asked laughing.

Leta turned even redder, "Ah… ah… ah…." She couldn't get it out.

"It's okay," Zev started when a medic ninja came in.

"Sorry for the wait, there was an explosion and a lot of injures." He continued making excuses for a long time.

"It's okay, just shut up and check on her!" Zev shouted at him after about five minutes of explanation.

"Sorry, it's just that…."

Zev cut him off, "Do your job!"

"Right…." Zev stayed in the room with Leta. He saw several ninja run to the arena. "This is strange…," the medic said aloud.

"What's strange?"

"Well, it looks like she should be dead, like everything died, but even stranger is that everything's repairing at a faster rate than normal." He handed a chart to Zev. Zev looked at it.

"I never was good at all this medical mumbo jumbo…."

"Look here, that's where her vital signs were," he said pointing at the start of a line on the chart, "That red line above it is where most people begin to die." Leta's starting point was well below. The ninja traced the line, "That's the fastest recovery I've seen." He reached for another chart. "I'm so going to get yelled at for this, but here." It was another chart of someone else, "That's what normally happens." The line on this chart didn't get to Leta's point till five pages later, "Actually that's one of the fast recoveries." He held up another chart it was very thick almost like a book, "This is a chart from someone who was close to that red line."

"So is this a good thing?" Zev asked, he guessed it was.

"Yes she could go right now. I'm not needed here and others need my attention."

"How are Suoh and Jin? I went by they're rooms earlier and no one was helping them."

"They're healing already. From what I under stand you healed Suoh a little correct?" Zev nodded, "You really should study being a medical ninja, your techniques seemed to stay in the body and continue healing for a while even after you've been gone." The ninja walked off.

Was that you Zev?

"Yes it was, I added a little of my own chakra into yours."

Leta stood up and Zev looked at her. She didn't look happy. She walked over to Zev, "Zev… do… you… you know…." She pleaded in her mind, please say yes, please!

Zev put an arm over her shoulder and pulled her close, "Yes, I do," Leta smiled and hugged him, but to him, the words seemed to carry no meaning. He could feel her heartbeat. He noticed that his wasn't beating like hers. Zev, how do I restore that connection to my emotions?

"Just ask…," then Zev felt a rush. His heat started beating rapidly. He looked at Leta and it was like his view of her was magnified a hundred fold. He held on to her tightly. He heard the foot falls of the medic ninja.

"Leta, I still need to keep disguised. If somehow someone makes a connection that I'm Zev and I'm related to the leaf village…." He trailed off. He didn't need to say what could happen.

"You're… you're right…." Let said taking a step back, "I'm sorry…."

"Don't be." Zev said and grabbed her hand as he did so. He looked out the door and saw one of the Ninja on Yukio's team go by on a stretcher. "Maybe we should go back now." Leta nodded and went out.

"Uh… which way?" She asked.

"This way," Zev said walking down the hall. Leta followed him.