Preliminaries

It was morning and Squad 7 was together in the tower. The was a poem on the wall that showed relation to the scrolls.

"I don't get it." Kenji said with her arms crossed. Sakura got annoyed and furrowed her eyebrows.

"It's telling us to open the scrolls, aho." Sakura said with a hand on her hip. Kenji dropped her head and sulked.

Sakura had the Earth scroll and Kenji had the Heaven scroll. Sakura was looking intensely at her scroll. "Ok, let's o-"

"An incomplete summoning inscription." Kenji said looking at her open scroll.

"Wha!? Hey! You just went and opened it!?" Sakura yelled at her.

"Huh?" Kenji looked up from her scroll. "Teme (You) were the one who said to open it." she said. Sakura growled and yanked open her scroll. When they both had their scrolls open smoke seemed to come from.

"It is a summoning!" Sasuke thought. "Sakura, Kenji! Let go of the scrolls!" he told them. They tossed the scrolls away and a bunch of smoke blew straight up into the air from them.

"Y-you." Sasuke stammered.

"Yo. Long time no see." Iruka greeted.

"Sensei. . ." Kenji said.

"What's going on here?" Sakura asked.

"A chunin is allowed to speak to the test takers at the end of the exam. I just happened to be your messenger." Iruka answered.

"Messenger?" Sakura repeated.

Iruka checked the time. "Just on time. Everyone. Congratulations on surviving the second exam. As a reward I can treat you to Ichiraku ramen but-"

Naruto ran up and hugged him. "YATTA! Ramen! Ramen! Dattebayo!" he cheered. Sakura and Sasuke sat down for a rest.

"How much energy does this guy have?" Sasuke complained.

"Sasuga Naruto!" Kenji thought.

"Man, you still got that scatterbrained part of you." Iruka said.

"I see. Iruka Sensei, what would've you done if we looked at the scrolls during the exams?" Sasuke asked. Iruka explained he was supposed to knock them out if anyone looked.

The test takers who passed the second exam were held in one place.

"First off congratulations on passing the second exam." Anko announced up front. "For this next exam!. . ." Anko was announcing things that slowly became mute.

Everything was getting darker and darker while shaking. Kenji had her arms crossed and was watching behind Sasuke, her eyelids started closing. "I can't hear. . . Can't see. . ." her head dropped.

Kenji was on her knees, two corpses were beside her. Her dirty hands were on the floor in the space between her legs. The blood from the corpses shaped into a sentence. "It's your fault!"

A tear dripped from her face to the floor. Soon many more tears fell. . .

"Gomene. . . Gomene. . ."

"Gomene. . ." Kenji said in her sleep.

! ! Naruto and Sasuke turned their heads to face her. Her curse mark started covering her neck. Sakura panicked as she watched from behind. "Oi! What's happening?" Naruto whispered.

"I don't know!" Sasuke whispered back. "Kora!" Sasuke said snapped his fingers near her face. Her eyes shot open and she woke up. Her curse mark repelled, "What happened?" she asked.

"You dozed off!" Sasuke answered.

"Sasuke-kun! That bruise. . . It's dangerous!" Sakura said.

"What are you saying?" Sasuke asked.

"Sasuke, you attacked us earlier. Obviously you can't be safe as long as you have that." Kenji said. "You hurt me and you almost hurt Sakura. The curse mark is dangerous we have to tell the teachers!" Kenji whispered.

"If you can handle it I can." Sasuke said. "I've said this before. I'm an avenger. Becoming a Chunin doesn't matter to me. But the question I want to answer, "Am I strong?" By fighting those who are strong. And. . . They're here. That includes you, Kenji." he said to her.

"Revenge doesn't matter. . . Sasuke, why can't you just think? Feeling strong is fine but your vengeance is taking over your life. Your comrades are much more important than your revenge." she told him.

"Sasuke teme!" Naruto scolded him. "Sakura-chan's worried about you here and all you care about is-!"

"Naruto." Sasuke interrupted him. "I want to fight you too." he said.

Somewhere inside Naruto's heart happiness bursted in.

"Alright everyone's staying in the game. Let's do this!" Kenji smiled brightly showing her teeth. The kunoichi on Kabuto's team was staring at her. "Now all we gotta do is-CRAP!" Kenji looked in a different direction.

Her team turned to where she was facing. They saw one of Kabuto's teammate staring at them, her red pupil less eyes glared at them fiercely. "Who's that?" Sasuke whispered but Kenji didn't answer.

The third exam was expected to has a lot less people so they had to have preliminaries to get people out. Examinees were allowed to drop out at this moment. Kabuto raised his hand and withdrew from the exam.

The matches would be randomly selected on an electronic board, whichever two names were picked would fight in a match. The first match was Akado Yoroi vs Uchiha Sasuke.

"Hn, you'd think it'd be too soon." Sasuke thought.

Kenji crossed her arms. "Just remember Sasuke if you can't beat this guy you won't stand a chance against me!" she said with a grin.

"Uruse." he told her and she got depressed. Everyone except Sasuke and Yoroi went upstairs.

"The first match will be Akado Yoroi vs Uchiha Sasuke." Hayate announced. "Are there any objections?" he asked.

"No!" Sasuke and Yoroi said in unison. Sasuke's curse mark stabbed him with pain. "The pain won't go away. . ." Sasuke thought.

"Well, that's a great start. . ." Kenji thought. "If that curse mark goes off during the match it's over for him." she thought and she looked at Yoroi, his chakra network system. "This guy doesn't have much chakra left or maybe any at all." she thought.

"Begin." Hayate started the match.

"Let's go!" Yoroi said and made a hand seal.

! Kenji's expression changed from bored to serious. Yoroi put his hand in his ninja tool pouch and Sasuke took out a kunai knife.

Yoroi threw shurikens at him and Sasuke blocked them with his kunai. But his curse mark acted up and he stumbled down. He was about to get punched by Yoroi before he dodged and put him in an armlock.

"Yatta!" Naruto shouted.

"Matte!" Kenji said, her fists were clenching the rail and she was leaning over it like Naruto was. Yoroi grabbed onto Sasuke's shirt.

"My strength. . ." Sasuke said feeling weaker.

Kenji saw Sasuke's chakra flowing to Yoroi's hand and into his own chakra network system. Yoroi raised his fist and hit Sasuke freeing himself. He jumped back and Sasuke sat up twitching with little energy.

Yoroi ran to him and latched his hand onto Sasuke's forehead. Sasuke's arm fell limb beside him. Kakashi's eye widened and everyone watched Sasuke being drained of his strength.

"W-what's happening?!" Naruto asked.

"Sasuke's chakra is being taken from him." Kenji answered. "That guy can somehow absorb chakra. Any physical contact and he can completely steal someone's chakra. As he gets stronger Sasuke gets weaker." she explained.

"But can't Sasuke just use ninjutsu?" Naruto asked.

"Normally, yeah. But in that state he's in it's impossible, even the Sharingan." Kenji answered. "Which only leaves him to fight hand to hand." she concluded.

"Kono yaro!" Sasuke shouted and violently kicked Yoroi off. He was sent many meters away. "That was close!" Sasuke thought and sat up.

"Relax, I'll end this quickly." Yoroi said and got his palm ready for chakra suction. He came running towards Sasuke. Cue Bad situation.

Sasuke reacted to his attacks with sloppy dodging. "He wants close combat. . . What should I do!?" Sasuke thought. Naruto scolded him to try harder, Sasuke looked at Lee watching from the second floor.

! "Souka!" Sasuke got an idea. Yoroi ran at him again, this time Sasuke dodged him more smoothly. He quickly crouched down low making it look like he disappeared.

Kenji smiled, "Do it." she said and Sasuke kicked Yoroi into the air. Sasuke jumped up and appeared behind him. But in the air Sasuke's body went numb and his curse mark started to cover him. Everyone saw it especially Naruto.

"Ahh!" Kenji got punched in the jaw and fell on the ground. Her head started bleeding again. Sasuke put one hand beside her head and raised his fist next to him. He extended his fist down towards her face with dangerous strength.

Kenji caught his forearm an inch away from her. His arm was shaking while being squeezed by her hands.

Kenji was watching with her arms crossed. Then she was shocked to see that the curse mark was completely repelled.

Cue Strong and Strike. Sasuke started kicking Yoroi in midair and forced him downward. He landed a final blow to the ground, "Shishi rendan!" he beat Yoroi. Hayate declared Sasuke the winner of the first match.

Whaddup! I haven't updated in a couple months because of H-E double hockey stick. A.K.A school, I hate it. I hate it so much. My updates will be less frequent, gomen! I don't like to keep you guys waiting. This arc will explain Kenji's past if you're interested keep reading!