There were quite a few fights that passed by, but Kaiya had yet to go.

'I still can't believe I lost so easily to her!' Tenten puffed her cheeks. 'My weapons didn't get even close to her.'

She had just returned from her fight against a girl from the sand Village, but lost very quickly, without being able to put up a fight. Kaiya sighed.

'Well, whatever happened has happened. You can't change that.' Kaiya shrugged.

'You sound a bit like Neji right now.' Tenten laughed.

'Cut it off.' Neji said, bored, as Kaiya snorted in amusement.

The two pannels changed as two different names appeared. Kiba Inuzuka vs. Naruto Uzumaki. Kaiya's eyes widened a bit in interes as she leaned over a bit.

'This will be... interesting.' She mumbled much to herself.

'I'm curious about how Naruto evolved.' Tenten said. 'Last time I saw him, he was much of the same idiot as always.'

'Naruto?' Kaiya furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

'Yeah, the blonde boy in Sakura's team. You must've saw him before, for sure.'

It didn't take much for Kaiya to think. She remembered seeing him around a couple of times, but he was never really an outstanding presence. Not for what she saw, anyway. But she couldn't really care less for who he was. At the moment, something else caught her attention.

'The seventh battle. Naruto Uzumaki versus Kiba Inuzuka.' The proctor announced.

'I'm sick of waiting! It's finally my time to shine! Believe it.' Naruto exclaimed, obviously eager for the battle.

The other boy, Kiba, prepared for the upcoming attack as his puppy jumped next to him, ready for defense.

'Hey, don't bring your puppy!' Naruto said. 'He'll get into the way!'

'Akamaru will fight alongside me.' Kiba announced.

As if to agree with his owner, Akamaru barked. Akamaru, huh?, Kaiya thought, raising an eyebrow. What an an ironic name.

'There's no problem with it.' The Proctor said, calm. 'Ninkens are allowed.'

'It's fine, I got this.' Kiba said, as he turned to Akamaru. 'Akamaru, don't put your paw in this, ok?'

Akamaru wasn't really keen of this idea and gave a small whine with it in order to show it.

'Well then, please begin.' The proctor said.

The fight went quite interesting and Kaiya didn't take her eyes off the two opponents one second. Well, three if you counted Akamaru as well. In the end, Naruto was the winner. He had some luck with Kiba as his opponent, Kaiya thought., His win owes the fact that Kiba's senses are more sensible.

The names on the panels shuffled again, this time to show Neji's name on it. Neji Hyuuga vs. Hinata Hyuuga. Something clicked in Kaiya's brain. How comes she didn't know Neji had a sister?

'Oh! Is she your-' Kaiya said, dumbfounded.

'My cousin.' He cut her off quickly, before leaving.

'Oh. I see.' Kaiya said with a frown.

'Please don't take it personal, Kaiya.' Guy said, kindly. 'Neji has an rather... jumpy relationship with his cousin, that he didn't ask for. It's hard to explain.'

'I think I know the feeling.' Kaiya laughed, lightly. 'I have a cousin like that, too.'

'Really?' Guy asked in interest.

'Yeah.' Kaiya nodded, watching how Neji appeared on the floor, alongside a girl with similar features to him. They really look alike, Kaiya thought. If nobody would've told me, I could've sworn they were brother and sister.

This fight was interminably long, and horrifying to watch. Kaiya's fingers tightened around the balustrade so hard she was sure that marks of her fingers will remain there.

'Kaiya-san, are you alright?' Lee asked concerned, noticing how tense Kaiya sat.

Kaiya shook her head. 'I'm alright.'

The fight eventually ended and Kaiya had to bite her tongue as hard as she could in order not to say anything to Neji. He was just too cruel!, her mind yelled. He nearly killed her!

The names shuffeled again and this time, much to her horror, Kaiya's name appeared too. Kaiya Takahashi vs Kiba Inuzuka.

For a second, Kaiya pursed her lips. Someone knew and played some games on her, didn't they?

'Is that your last name?' Tenten asked, surprised.

Kaiya shook her head disapprovingly. 'No. They probably added a random last name so it wouldn't seem suspicious.'

In truth, it really wasn't. There was no point in lying and confusing the people. She let go of the balustrade and took her tachi down from her back.

'Will you guys look after it while I'm down there?'she asked.

'Sure but... You're not taking it with you?' Lee asked.

'The sword is kinda heavy and since I didn't train much with it lately, I'm kinda rusty with it. It's going to bother me more rather than to help me?

She slowly made her way down the stairs to the floor. As she did so, the Hokage bend down a little from his seat, in curiosity. If the DNA results from the hospital were correct, this would definitely would be interesting...

She eventually arrived on the main floor and faced the brown-haired boy who still carried his dog on the top of his head.

'We finally get to fight again, eh, Kaiya?' Kiba greeted, with a grin.

'Seems like it.' Kaiya answered, coldly.

'Alright. Any objections?' The proctor asked the usual question.

'Not in the slightest.' Kaiya asked, as her hand reached slowly for her weapon bag.

'Not at all.' Kiba said.

'Then you may begin.' The proctor backed away.

As soon as his words escaped his mouth, the two jumped into action without hesitation.

'I wonder,' Kiba began, as he ran up to Kaiya to attack her. 'why they didn't put your real last name there!'

'Shut up!' Kaiya answered as she jumped a meter or two in the air, before throwing a kunai at him. 'I wonder why you lost against a fart! Last time I remembered, you were better than this.'

The kunai landed on the ground, very close to Kiba.

'Says the girl who ran away from home!' He snapped back. 'Akamaru, on her!'

Akamaru hurried and stuck on her leg, but he soon let go, as Kaiya shook him to an level higher than he could resist. The dog slipped through the room with an yelp, before eventually hitting an wall and loosing conciousness.

'He's out!' Kiba yelled.

'Not now, Kiba.' She hissed, her voice trembling. 'Not now.'

One thing was clear; Kiba exhausted his most powerful move in his last fight, so he was now stuck on figthing her with taijutsu. He took out an kunai and aimed it at her, only to be repelled back by an silvery kunai owned by Kaiya.

'Where'd you get that kunai? It's a limited edition version!' Kiba exclaimed.

'Really? I thought it looked too pretty...'Kaiya muttered to herself, befote turning her attention back to Kiba. 'I got it from a friend.'

'Really? It must be a special friend of some sort. That kunai costs a small fortune.'

For a second, Kaiya lost focus, which allowed Kiba to shot another distance attack that gave Kaiya a long scratch on her cheek. He then took out two dark-coloured balls and threw them at her. As soon as they landed at her feet, a cloud of purple smoke rised around her. Just like in his last fight!, Kaiya remembered.

She took a deep breath. She could do this. She was not much different than him; after all, they had the same roots. She already memorised his scent and if she could sense it in that could of smoke that would've been great. The only existing problem was how, along with the smoke, a quite bothering smell came along, crippling upon her nostrils.

She coughed a few times, before holding her breath and focusing on her other senses. If I can't use my nose, I'll have to use my ears!, she thought.

A second of silence moved along. Nothing. Two seconds of silence passed. Nothing. Three seconds of silence passed...

Found him.

Kaiya hurried to grab the other kunai from the ground and, just as she turned around, Kiba was approaching for his attack. She jumped in the air and dodged it with her feet, before serving him a kick that would make him loose balance for a second.

As the smoke cleared, she threw Kiba's kunai in the air, along with a couple of her own, that eventually all landed in multiple places along the zone where they were. She landed above Kiba who was still on the ground and pressed her kunai lightly on his neck.

'You've improved, but-' Kiba said, before pushing Kaiya off him and creating some distance between them with a high jump.

'Bingo.' Kaiya whispered.

She hurred to an nearby kunai and pressed her kunai upon what seemed like thin air. While still in the air, Kiba squinted his eyes a bit, before realising his mistake. Kaiya didn't cut thin air, but a very thin thread.

Just as gravity began doing its job, many threads began surrounding Kiba's body and eventually tightening around him, making him unable to do anything. He eventually hit the ground with a grunt and, after a few moments of trying to break free, he realised the helpless situation he was in.

'Free me, goddamit!' He yelled.

The proctor sighed.

'This match ends here.' He said, raising an hand. 'The winner is Kaiya Takahashi.'

Kaiya smirked as an round of applause and cheering came from somehwere in the room, most likely coming from her team. She took her kunai back, before walking over to Kiba.

'Sorry, cousin.' She said on a positive tone as she knelt down and cut the strings around his body. 'This match ends here. Perhaps we'd have one again some other time.'

With that being said, she stood up and walked away quietly, still holding a smile on her face. She walked up the stairs and rejoined her team at the balustrade and it was then that she noticed how everyone in the room looked at her. She shook her head, trying to brush off the weird feeling she got from all the stares.

It didn't take longer than a few moments, as people slowly began looking away and continuing various conversations. While they did that, the Hokage watched how Kaiya talked to her teammates, before eventually looking away, in thought. If he added up how Kaiya called the Inuzuka boy during the fight- cousin, as he recalled- and the blood and DNA tests that she had, then, could it be that, by any chance, the two were related? He should probably look into that as soon as possible. He turned to one of the shinobi standing next to him.

'Akira, could you please send word to the hospital to take Kiba Inuzuka and Kaiya Takahashi's Blood and DNA data and compare them to eachother? Tell them that, when they finish, they should send it to me in as fast as possible.'

'Yes, lord Hokage.' The shinobi said with an bow, before leaving.

'Wow. You... you won, Kaiya!' Tenten said, surprised.

'Did you expect any less?' Kaiya retored.

'Oh, no- not at all!' Tenten laughed, raising her hands and waving apologetically. 'It's just that you really seemed to know Kiba.'

'Oh, yeah, I noticed that too!' Lee stated.

'Well, suprisingly or not, I do. Only too well, actually.' Kaiya laughed. 'I may have not seen him in a long time so it took a bit of refreshening of memory, but he's still my cousin, after all.'

At this point, the entire group fell silent.

'Kiba's your cousin?' Neji asked, frowning.

'Yeah.' Kaiya said, rubbing the back of her neck akwardly.

'Wait. Kaiya, when you said that yoy had an cousin that you didn't get along...' Guy began, narrowing his eyebrows.

'Oh!' Kaiya exclaimed. 'It's not Kiba, I was talking about another cousin of mine. I have plenty of cousins, you see...'

'Alright.' Guy nodded, understandably.

'You never talk about your family, though. Even when we specifically asked you to.' Tenten pointed out. 'How comes you're mentioning something like that just now and so relaxingly?'

'Oh well,' Kaiya laughed awkwardly. 'Kiba is my cousin and he's here, in the same room as me. There's no point in hiding it, really. With this match, the word would've eventually gotten out since Kiba would've probaby told his parents about it.'

Tenten frowned, thinkingly, before eventually nodding acceptingly. Just as she did that, the names shuffled yet again on the boards. Rock Lee vs. Gaara of the Sand.

Kaiya looked around the room and noticed how, along Lee, an red-haired boy carrying an giant vase on his back walked away, in order to reach the main floor. Oh boy, she thought. This doesn't look good.

A/N

Wassup, everyone! Surprise, surprise, guess who posted super early the next chapter?

This is seriously a record on how fast I post, really. I ussually post only after a week, to the very least.

Anyhow, here it is! Chapter 17. What do you guys think of what just got revealed? Did you expect any of it? Let me know!

To be honest, this chapter would've been much longer, but I decided not to write the fights before Kaiya since I assume that everyone has already seen them, so I decided not to make a chapter super long, writing over things everybody knows already. Well, let's see how I manage next chapter, since I'll have to look a bit on what happened after the fight.

In how much time do you guys think that I'll manage to write the next chapter?

See y'all in the next chapter!

-Avery