Chapter 1: Konoha + Chunin Exams

"I have two rules: First, I'm never wrong. Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule." - L Lawliet

Sabaku no Ayano, a Genin from the Village Hidden in the Sand, was in her hotel room, laying on the bed. However, before she could even attempt to take a nap, the familiar feel of sand wrapping around her wrist and giving a little tug made her open her eyes and sigh. Then she got up and teleported to where she felt her twin's chakra signature up in a tree.

She looked down at the other kids on the ground and saw Kankuro about to take out Crow, and her eyes narrowed slightly. Gaara glanced at her for a moment before he also looked at Kankuro.

"Stop it, Kankuro."

The sound of their voices were enough to make Kankuro and Temari grow stiff with fear.

"A-Ayano!" Kankuro looked over to the tree, as did the other kids and genins present, and at Ayano, who was standing upright on the branch. Gaara was glaring at him as he stood on the underside of the same branch. "G-Gaara!"

The pink haired Leaf genin stared at Ayano with what seemed to be envy. Ayano had that body that any girl would kill to have, slender with curves in all the right places. Her straight, black, hime-cut hair reached her mid waist and had a red tinge to it, as if her black hair had just recently been dipped in blood. Her lips were a soft shade of pink. Her skin is a fair color, and her eyes were slightly slanted, giving her eyes an almost exotic look. Her eye color was an iridescent sapphire-blue color. Her Suna headband was around her neck. In other words, Ayano is the living definition of beautiful. She wore a black sports bra under a form fitting black mesh shirt, a white crop top with red accents over that with mid-thigh length black shorts. Under those shorts was fishnet leggings. She also wore red, high heeled ninja sandals.

"You're an embarrassment to our village," Ayano said as she stared at him. Then she looked at the raven haired boy with an unnoticeable look of concentration as she tried to get into his mind. Gaara and Temari both seemed to notice how confused she seemed to be when she couldn't enter the raven haired boy's mind, but was able to read it.

"Did you forget why we're here?" Gaara asked, sounding a tad annoyed.

"N-Not at all, Gaara! Y-You see, they're the ones that started it. H-here's what happened-" Kankuro began to explain, but was abruptly cut off when Ayano looked over at him again and spoke.

"Shut up..." Her eyes focused on him.

"Or we'll kill you." Gaara finished her sentence. Ayano looked to the boy on the other side of the tree they were on from the corner of her eye.

"We're sorry about that." Her tone of voice didn't sound apologetic at all. She turned into a blackish red mist while Gaara disintegrated into sand. The mist and sand floated down to the ground in front of Temari and Kankuro and the two twins reappeared in a crouching position between Kankuro and Temari.

"Let's go. We didn't come here to play around." Gaara said as he and Ayano straightened up and began walking past the other two, who turned to follow them.

"Wait!"

The four Suna nins stopped and without turning around, Temari asked, "What is it?"

The girl who had yelled for them to wait said, "Judging from your headbands, you guys are from the Suna village. The Land of Wind and the Land of Fire are allies, but traveling in between the villages is forbidden. State your purpose here and then we'll consider letting you guys go." the girl tried to sound confident, but her confidence quickly crumbled when Ayano looked over at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Konoha ninja must be living under rocks." Ayano remarked before her eyes went to the raven haired boy a tad curiously. Temari agreed, throwing an insult towards the pinkette, before showing her ID to her. Then the four Suna nin began to walk away again, only to be stopped by the raven haired boy.

"Hey, what's your names?" Temari turned, blushing as she asked if it was her he was talking about. "No. Him, the one with the gourd on his back and the girl next to him."

The two twins looked at each other before turning to look at the boy. "Sabaku no Gaara. This is my twin sister, Sabaku no Ayano." the two siblings shared a look, then Ayano spoke next.

"We're curious about you too. What's your name?"

"Uchiha, Sasuke." The three stared at each other for a few seconds, with the two boys seeing each other as rivals while Ayano obviously checked out Sasuke with an unnoticeable smirk while checking to make sure if she could really read his mind, which she could. Sasuke, who smirked slightly when he noticed her checking him out, decided to do the same to her. The pink haired genin seemed extremely jealous that an outsider had easily caught his attention. A beautiful outsider, at that. It wasn't long before a hyperactive blonde boy spoke.

"Hey, hey! I bet you're just dying to know my name!"

Ayano's eyes slid over to him and her upper lip curled a little. "Not interested." She turned around then, with her siblings, and begun walking away. A few seconds later, the four siblings ninja-jumped away, towards their hotel.

That night, Ayano and Gaara were on the roof of the hotel. She was looking at her hand, which was beginning to desiccate. She hadn't fed in a while and it was starting to show. A kunoichi appeared in front of them and threw someone at her.

"The Hokage told the jounins about your blood lust. He says that you have to feed every full moon." Ayano looked from the male shinobi at her feet to the kunoichi. "He has given you permission to feed on the night of a full moon and whenever the exam proctors allow it tomorrow." With that, the kunoichi disappeared.

Ayano's attention was locked onto the male shinobi in front of her before she looked up at the sky and at the moon. "It's a full moon, huh. So that's why my blood lust is so high."

"I hope you plan on sharing with Shukaku, sister." Gaara said as he looked at her. Ayano looked at him and smiled, her sharpened canines glinting in the moonlight.

"Of course." She said as she looked at the unnamed male shinobi once more before walking forward and harshly tore into his neck after taking control of his mind to keep him quiet. After a bit, she pulled away and let Gaara finish off the man.

After a few minutes, Gaara spoke. "Do you like the Uchiha?" he asked as he looked at her. Ayano looked at him and tilted her head.

"What do you mean, nii-san?" She asked, sounding confused.

Gaara went silent for a minute, then said, "You were staring at him earlier today." Ayano went silent, then her lips pulled up into a smirk as she put a hand on her curse mark on her neck. Gaara hadn't gotten angry when he first saw it three years ago, since she had told him that she had wanted the curse mark, as it gave her more power. She had activated her Second Stage a few months before, with the help of the Sound Four, of course.

"He intrigues me. I couldn't enter his mind, but I could read his thoughts. From the notes I read about my...you know...if I could read someone's thoughts but can't enter their mind to control them or access their memories, they are my supposed mate. The other Uchiha that I met...I couldn't read his mind at all, nor could I control him. So I suppose that Sasuke is the one meant for me. The look in his eyes is just like ours, Gaara. He was itching to fight one of us." She looked at him. "I want him, brother. And anyone who gets in my way of getting what I want...will end up dead." Gaara soon smirked as well as she continued, "Nothing will get in my way of being with the Uchiha and nothing will stop me from turning him into an Immortal like me. After all..."

"You always get what you want." Gaara said as he looked up at the moon.

"Exactly. Nothing and no one is getting in my way of getting what I want. If they do...zenbu koroshite ageru."
[Translation: I'll kill them all.]

On the day of the Chunin Exams, the Sand siblings were one of the first to arrive. When a couple of Chunins went to go test the rest of the genins, Ayano went after them, curious as to how many genin would be fooled. The two Chunins noticed her, but did nothing since she wasn't bothering them, only watching. And judging the few genins that were fooled by the genjutsu, if her expression was anything to go by.

Ayano watched as Sasuke and his teammates reveal that it was a genjutsu. She had her eyes on the chunin about to kick Sasuke and she just acted. Within the blink of an eye, she was holding the chunin's leg in a vise like grip, seemingly exerting no effort into holding his leg still. The boy dressed in green stopped Sasuke's leg. Everyone was shocked at Ayano's strength and speed, while a certain Hyuuga stared at her suspiciously, but his eyes widened at the sight of the curse mark right at the nape of her neck.

'A curse mark? Is she similar to me?' The Hyuuga's thought caught Ayano's attention, but she didn't visibly react to it.

She stared back at the Hyuuga with no expression on her face before looking at the chunin. Ayano glared at him for a second before hearing a familiar voice.

"Hey! You're that girl from a few days ago!" she looked over her shoulder and stared at the hyperactive boy for a second before her upper lip curled in distaste. Letting go of the Chunin's leg, she then disappeared in a swirl of blackish red mist.

When Sasuke and his team finally arrived, Sasuke's attention went to Ayano, who was standing next to her brother, Gaara. The two twins were staring at a few of the genin, but upon feeling his gaze, Ayano looked over at him.

Her eyes softened ever so slightly, but grew hard when she saw a blonde girl jump onto his back. Gaara glanced at her and grabbed her wrist, stopping her from going to possibly rip the blonde's head off in front of so many people. When she had calmed down, she looked at Gaara, who let her go, then began walking in the direction of the rookie nine.

The rookie nine looked up when they heard her approaching. The blonde girl, who had gotten off of Sasuke's back, stared at Ayano's face, body and clothes rather enviously. Ayano smirked at the jealous thoughts of the blonde girl before she looked at the others, but her attention was mainly on Sasuke.

"We all haven't officially met. I'm Ayano. Sabaku no Ayano." as she spoke, she smirked slightly as she noticed nearly all the boys, except for a boy who was eating chips, blush. She then noticed another face who wasn't blushing. "Oh. Kabuto-san. You're here." Said male only smiled at her as the rookies introduced themselves, except for Sasuke.

"I'm Uzumaki, Naruto and I'm going to be Hokage someday! Believe it!" The hyperactive blonde boy said.

"I'm Haruno, Sakura." said the pink haired girl.

"Nara, Shikamaru." said a boy who had hair that looked like a pineapple.

"Yamanake, Ino." The blonde girl said.

"Akimichi, Choji." The one eating ships said.

"Inuzuka, Kiba and this is my ninken, Akamaru." A boy with a fur lined hood said as he introduced himself and his dog.

"Hy-Hyuuga, H-Hinata." A shy Hyuuga girl said.

"Aburame, Shino." A boy with his jacket collar covering half his face said.

Kabuto then looked at Sasuke and the others before explaining about his ninja info cards. Sasuke wanted to see Sabaku no Gaara's card, along with Rock Lee of the Leaf Village.

"Do hers as well! Her name is Sabaku no Ayano." Sakura said, pointing at Ayano. Ayano just stared at her for a minute or two, then began to walk away as Kabuto read off Gaara's information along with Rock Lee's. Then he read off Ayano's.

"Sabaku no Ayano. Her teammates are Gaara, Kankuro and Temari. There isn't much information about her, but from what she told me when we met a year ago when I was out on a mission, she was kidnapped at the age of three and was experimented on for months." The rookie nine and every genin who was listening looked shocked. "She gained extraordinary powers because of it and trained with them before being trained by one of the three Sannins. The missions that she went on are..." Kabuto's voice trailed off as he stared at the card.

"What?" The pink haired genin asked. The rest of rookie nine were also curious.

"She had 6 C-rank missions, 17 B-rank missions, and over 30 A-rank missions. A special note: A few days before the exams, Ayano was taken advantage of when she was extremely weakened. This incident caused her twin to become extremely over protective of her. Her personality changed drastically after that incident." The rookie nine looked over at Ayano, all of them shocked once again. Sasuke, Shikamaru and elsewhere, Neji, understood the true meaning of the words, 'taken advantage of when she was weakened.' and the meaning of those words were enough to make the three Leaf genins' eyes narrow dangerously.

'Who would do that to a girl?' Neji thought as he looked at Ayano. Sasuke felt a fierce protectiveness over Ayano, but had no clue why he was feeling that.

Meanwhile, Ayano had closed her eyes as she stood next to Gaara, who would glare every time a boy would stare at her. The Rookie Nine took note of that and all made mental notes to stay far from them during the exam.

◇ ◇ Time Skip to The Start Of the Written Exam Cause I'm too Lazy To Write What Happens Next ◇ ◇

The proctor, Morino, Ibiki, had just let them start the written exams. Ayano was sitting nearest to the windows, next to a Grass ninja, whose thoughts were extremely well-guarded, which surprised Ayano, and who would stare at her as if she knew something about her, and behind a Chunin disguised as a Genin. That disguise didn't fool her, since she was able to read his thoughts. Feeling her curse mark burn a bit, she lifted a hand and put it over the mark, a movement that didn't go unnoticed by the Grass nin.

She smirked internally as she saw the Chunin write down the answers with ease. It was so easy to slip into his mind and get the correct answers. As soon as she was done, she saw Gaara's Third Eye appear in front of her, so she let him see her answers as she quite convincingly pretended to look over her test to make sure that the answers were correct. When his Third Eye disappeared, she flipped her test over and closed her eyes, seeming to fall asleep.

When she opened her eyes again, it was when she heard the glass shattering as a rock was thrown through it and someone jumped through. A glass shard cut her cheek while a sort of force field formed and blocked any more from hitting her. The genins close by stared at her, as did the proctors, as the blood was being sucked back into the cut as it healed before their very eyes. Ayano stared at the next proctor with an unidentified look in her turquoise eyes as the proctor introduced herself.

"I'm Mitarashi, Anko, your next proctor." After looking around the room, she said, "How many are there? Ibiki," She turned to look at him. "You let all these guys pass? Your test was too easy. You must be getting soft!"

"Or, it could be, a stronger crop of candidates this year."

"Hmm... they don't look it. Trust me, before I'm done with them, more than half will be eliminated."

Ayano didn't seem shocked at all, but Sakura seemed shocked. "Huh? More than half, really?"

"Are you deaf? She clearly said that, didn't she?" Ayano said with a smirk as she looked over at the pinkette.

"This is gonna be fun." Anko said with a smirk as she looked at Ayano for a second, then she continued speaking. "Alright, you maggots have had it easy so far, but things are gonna be different first thing in the morning! I'll let your squad leaders know where you're to meet me. Dismissed."

With that, Ayano stood up and walked over to Gaara, both of them seemingly unaware of Anko's stare on her when she saw a glimpse of Ayano's curse mark. The two twins walked out of the room with Kankuro and Temari following them.

They were going back to their hotel when Ayano saw the Grass nin from before watching her, licking her - his? - lips. Her curse mark began burning again, but she ignored it as she looked over at Gaara, who had that protective glint in his eyes again as he glared menacingly at any male who dared to look at Ayano, much to her unending amusement. Ayano then looked around the village and once in her hotel room, she made a few clones of herself and had them sent around the village. She was aiming to uncover this village's darkest secrets.

A dark smirk formed on Ayano's lips as she thought about the next part of the exams. She couldn't wait, having read Anko's mind earlier and knowing what to expect when they were to meet her again the next day. And she couldn't wait to expose all of Konoha's deepest and darkest secrets.