Ninja chase

"Hey Naruto can I stay here for a while?" Kenji asked at Naruto's door. She was holding a messenger field bag at her side.

"Eh? Why?" he asked.

"Plumbing issues." she answered.

5 minutes earlier. . .

Kenji was walking to her room, "Man, my key was gone too and the stupid building manager wouldn't give me another one!" she grumbled. She approached her door and it opened when she was one foot from it.

"What?" she stepped inside her room.

! There were trees growing all over her room. They had flowers that released pollen into the air. "What's with these plants!? They all have chakra flowing through them!" she thought seeing chakra running through the roots and in the pollen.

Then her mind starting drifting. She turned around and set her feet outside the door before slamming it shut. She fell down panting, "Chikusho!" she cursed.

"Plumbing issues, huh? Sure you can stay here." Naruto told her.

"Thanks," she said and put her bag in a corner. "I still can't believe it!" she exclaimed. "I lost a fight to that guy!" she growled.

"You really hate losing." Naruto said.

"He pisses me off! I wanna knock that rich boy's teeth out!" she thought.

Naruto remembered the her fight. "Hey, this might be a bad time to ask but what does your Rinnegan actually do?" he asked.

Kenji stopped for a minute, "It gives me powers that no one else has." she said. She faced him, "Like that." she pointed at Naruto's stomach. "But I can never let anyone else have them, they're too dangerous." she said. "I'm sure you can relate,"

"Huh?" Naruto asked.

"You can't just give your little spirit animal to anyone right? That's why it stays in your body, my eyes are just like that." she compared.

"Oh. Then are you going to do? You can't become a Chunin and to me it looks like a bunch of people have got some beef with you." Naruto said.

"You're right," she agreed. "I'm gonna go talk with the old geezer to try to tell him about Orochimaru. And then I'll start training again." she answered.

"I haven't given it much thought until now but I was wondering why you're on this squad. I mean we have 4 people and another has 2 so it's kind of odd. . ." he drifted off realizing that his statement could be connoted to saying he didn't like her on the squad.

But Kenji didn't look offended at all, "Well, he was bound to ask me this at some point." she thought. "Ok, don't tell Sasuke but Kurenai Sensei took this to the higher ups and removed me from her squad." she confessed. "She's one of those people that thinks I'm a threat to Konoha." she told him.

"A threat. . . Then why're you so persistent on being a ninja? Won't that just make things worse for you?"

"In a way, yeah. Maybe I'm just an idiot but, that won't stop me from being a ninja. Cause that's my dream, I don't want to be helpless ever again." she said.

"Mmm, I don't get it at all!" Naruto exclaimed and crossed his arms.

"Yeah, it's a total laugh isn't it?" she smiled.

In the Hokage's office, the 3rd set his hat down on his desk and clasped his hands. "I'm guessing that you're not here to talk about the Chunin exams." he said.

"Sandaime, the truth is I was manipulated by Orochimaru." she admitted to him.

"Orochimaru, huh. . ." he walked to his window with his pipe in hand. Teruko's brows furrowed.

"You're not very surprised are you?" she asked.

"It would've been a surprise if Anko hadn't reported him in the village already." he said.

"Then you already know the Leaf village is danger!" she raised her voice. "Maa ii, if you already know about that." she looked out the window. "Jiji, have you ever heard of the Akatsuki?" she asked him.

Then they heard the door opening, Teruko turned her head.

! The council members Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu were at the door. Teruko gritted her teeth, "It's them." she thought getting bad vibes.

"Congratulations on passing the Preliminaries in the Chunin exams." Homura said and the two stepped in the room.

"I came here to have a private conversation." Teruko said.

"About your betrayal?" Koharu asked her. "It's strange, you were relocated to be safe and your family happens to disappear on the very day we needed you. And now you tell us Orochimaru was manipulating you."

"For that you've been appropriately vilified. But there is a way you can clear your reputation." Homura said.

"Of course they blame me for the Nine Tails attack. Albeit if we hadn't been kidnapped the attack could've been prevented." Teruko thought.

"There is a girl, no. A monster."

"Koharu!" the 3rd Hokage caught what was going on.

"She just appeared in the village and she's a threat. For some reason she has something called the Rinnegan, with it she can destroy all of Konoha." Koharu explained. "To make things worse she's a Genin level shinobi, luckily we have time."

"If you kill her before she can bring destruction like that, you'll save the village." Homura said.

"Hai." Teruko responded.

Kenji freaked out, she was listening to them from outside the window. She jumped away and ran on the roof. "Chikusho!" she thought.

Later she was in the training grounds. She pulled out small black rods and held them in between her fingers. She swung her arm and opened her fingers letting the mini rods land in the trunk of a tree.

"Both Naruto and Sasuke made it to the third stage, even Aneki." she thought. "That only means I've got to hurry up and get stronger." she made the tiger, ram, monkey, boar, horse, tiger hand seals. A stream of fire blew from her mouth and there was an ashy crater in the ground.

"For now all I can do is hone my skills." she thought. "It would be nice if I could get some sort of teaching right now but Kakashi Sensei's too busy."

"Oi!" voice called and Kenji turned her head.

! Teruko was standing there. "Look, I didn't mean to do that at the Preliminaries." she said. "But now-"

All of the sudden Kenji threw three kunai knives in her direction. They had paper bombs attatched to them. Teruko's eyes widened and she took out three shurikens. She aimed them and threw off the trajectory of the knives.

They landed in the ground and the bombs exploded. "Tch!" Teruko said through her teeth. "She got away!"

Kenji was running away and she stopped panting with her hands on her knees. "I made it!" she breathed. "She'll surely kill me if she gets the chance. As much as I hate wimping out I have to keep avoiding her." she thought.

"She's gonna run from me from now on isn't she?" Teruko asked herself. "Man, she used to hurry to me all the time." she said. "I'll just have to chase her."