Chapter 3, gees I did't think I would have time to ever finish it but I did (yay me!)

Well enjoy

Oh! I don't own Naruto, never have, never will, so there really is no point in this (oh well, must make the lawyers happy).

Tsunade had prepared a room for Cerise to stay in. She would have to prove herself tomorrow in a test of skill, she wasn't worried, she knew the skills that the village possessed. It was just the thought of staying at this village that bothered her.

"Oh Biou, what am I going to do. He'll be here soon if I stay too long. This place isn't like Rice Village, and if he comes here, I don't know what to do," she sighed.

It had been a little over seven years since she saw her father. The last time he saw her, he had sworn to take her and bring her back into the family line. The thought sent a shiver down her spine. Biou's skills weren't the only ones she knew, her own family had its share of secret skills, like the curse that was put on her eye. And like with Biou, she was the only other person who knew how the skills worked. She stayed away from these skills, for they were forbidden centuries ago by the torture they could inflict, she had first hand experience with the torture they could cause. Her curse constantly brought up dreams, making her relive the darkest parts of her life every night. Sleep was a curse for her, night brought nightmares, the dark meant she would be alone to suffer with them. Too much had happened to her in the dark, her family, her mother escaping with her, her father finding her, her mothers death, all were cast into the shadow of the night. The worst part of it all was the curse; it served as a reminder of the control her family's name had over her.

"Leggera," she sighed smiling at the hypocrisy of the name.

"Hey little cherry," Mitzuki said sweetly to the young girl, "Ikechi says it's time for lights out. But…" he said while walking over to her bed and sitting down, "you look like you need someone to talk to."

Cerise smiled sweetly at her teacher's worry, "I'm fine."

"Right I know better than to trust when you say you're 'fine'," he joked. She smiled even more sweetly.

"I guess you're right."

"Don't worry about tomorrow; I'm sure if Biou could see you now he would be so proud of you. Besides Tsunade said if you don't do to well—which is doubtful—that she would still see about your eye. She thinks that Rin maybe able to help you out. Well I better go now, Ikechi will kill me if I keep you up any later, night," he said kissing her forehead before leaving. He treated her as an older brother would, it didn't bother her but sometimes she felt as though she wasn't doing all she could do to make the happy.

"Well night approaches," she sighed as she fell into a restless sleep.

The next morning Ikechi found Cerise reviewing some of the scrolls that they had taught her out of in their earlier training.

"A review?" he asked.

"Yep," she answered.

"Let me guess, looking for flaws. I wouldn't try. More than likely they've changed up a lot of things; I doubt anyone is even learning those old scrolls. Besides you'll be fine. A few test, nothing to it."

Cerise looked at her older teacher, she could tell when he was lying—he did something strange with his eye—but she simply smiled.

"Well I guess we should go now," she sighed. Her first day of rest was ruined by a test, but her teachers thought they were doing her well, how little they knew.

The two met up with Mitzuki and sat down for a quick breakfast. Some of the other ninjas in the room just starred at her teachers. They looked in utter disgust as the traitors were let back into the village. Some had some very wicked thoughts about what they would do to the two traitors if they found them alone. Cerise noticed this ad sighed. She couldn't stand the thought of her two teachers being looked down upon for something they hadn't really done. It was thanks to them that she was even alive right now, or at least not with her father. She had just walked in from her early morning rituals and was about to sit in and eat with them. The ninja's eyes immediately turned from the traitors, to Cerise. Jaws dropped, her long hair, violet eyes and body caught their attention and held it. She blushed.

"Well I think they like me," she said sitting down with Mitzuki and Ikechi.

The two looked up to see the ninja's in the room starring at her, they glared and went back to eating, they weren't exactly morning people. Cerise smiled at her teachers' actions, they were always like this. Their breakfast went undisturbed and they soon were out to the field where many younger ninjas trained. Cerise looked on in surprise at how many there were.

"Wow," she said in awe.

"It's pretty amazing huh," Mitzuki smiled.

She just shook her head in agreement. Tsunade had finally come and Ikechi was talking to her. Another person accompanied her; she looked rather worried and a bit flustered. Cerise didn't see her from before.

"Let's begin!" Tsunade shouted as Cerise reached her spot.

The young ninja took off with lightning speed. 'Amazing, he's so fast,' Cerise thought while channeling her charka into her right index finger. 'This should be enough.'

The boy was just feet from her, getting ready to strike her with a short blade. Cerise ducked as the boy thrust forward, her powered hand grabbed the boy's wrist, causing it to go limp. The blade dropped from his hand as she let go of it. Cerise dropped back wanting to see the boy's reaction. He shook his hand furiously trying to bring life back into it.

"You shouldn't do that," she whispered in his ear. The boy looked startled; he didn't even sense her moving towards him. She grabbed his other wrist causing it to go limp.

The boy looked at her in sheer shock, he wasn't ready for this. He bowed to her in surrender. Tsunade looked up in approval towards Cerise; she didn't expect anything less from a student of Biou.

"Don't move," she told the young ninja while grabbing his hands. She gently rubbed them removing the charka that she had put into them. The boy reflexed his hands, while starring at her in awe.

"Wow."

Cerise smiled giving the boy a little pat on the head before he left to join his friends.

Tsunade smiled as she sent Iruka into the arena. Cerise recognized Iruka as the guy who wasn't too fond of having her teachers back. However she wasn't going to let that interfere with her fight. She began to focus her charka into her hands, "Palla di acqua" she whispered. The charka that focused in her hands began to draw in moisture from the air around her. Iruka watched intently as the young girl prepared her attack. 'She's performing a drawn out technique with no cover, not exactly the smartest thing to do,' he thought.

Cerise's breathing became more shallow and slow as the ball of water began to freeze over. Iruka noticed this just before she let the ball of ice go after Iruka. He easily dodged but was knocked in the back of the head. He landed on his chest, knocking his breath out in the process. He looked up to see what him, he hadn't sensed anything, and Cerise was still in a meditative state. He looked around, there was nothing, then he looked up and gasped. Just above him were hundreds of ice balls like the one she sent at him. 'No way,' he thought. He didn't sense any charka being used to create them, then it struck him. The ball she was making was a distraction so she could create the others.

"Amazing," Tsunade muttered. "Biou didn't teach her that." Tsunade knew that the earlier technique that Cerise used was from Biou, but this, this was from someone else.

"Yeah, she told us her mother taught her how to use the technique," Ikechi told her.

"Keep watching though what's coming up next is awesome," Mitzuki said clinging to his seat; this was his most favorite technique of hers.

Iruka jumped up, and began to look for some way to dodge the soon to be coming barrage. Seeing no escape he thought to attack Cerise before her attack was called. She was in some sort of meditative state and an attack would be easy.

Cerise was out of it. Her attention no longer focused on the battle. Her scarred eye began to pulse; the curse was trying to escape out again. She had to stay in her meditation in order to keep the curse at bay. Something was causing it to try to break through the seals she and her mother had placed on it. "Il sangue, l'acqua, l'aria, la terra," she muttered over and over again to keep her focus. She didn't sense the shurikin Iruka sent flying at her, but it didn't matter. The shuriken came flying at her at a dangerous speed but before it came within a few feet of her a wall of water engulfed it. Iruka's jaw dropped in amazement; he was all ready preparing another shuriken when the water engulfed it. Cerise looked up when her water barrier came up. Her scared was all ready showing signs of the seals coming forth. True they usually showed up when she placed the Maledire Specchio to her eye, but when the curse began to break from her eye the seals began to show. This fight needed to end before she lost complete control.

"Eruttare!" she shouted.

The balls of ice thrust downward giving Iruka enough time to time to just barely throw his hands over his head. Tsunade as well as Mitzuki and Ikechi were startled at the abrupt attack. Iruka was lying on the ground a bit battered and covered in ice. He got up slowly, bitting his lip at the pain. Cerise was still in meditation, but heaving very badly. Iruka limped back over towards the group.

"Just what the hell was that?" he asked Ikechi.

"…I, I really don't know…" he shrugged.

Tsunade looked over them, "What do you mean you don't know?"

"Well I've never seen her end that attack that way. I mean she usually finishes it off by summoning a water dragon," Mitzuki explained.

"Very interesting, what's going on here?" came a deep voice.

Ikechi and Mitzuki looked back, recognizing the voice of the master's former team mate.

"Jiraiya, why are you here?" Tsunade asked rather ticked off.

"Because of me!" Naruto proclaimed from behind Jiraiya.

"Yes, and I wanted to see this student of Biou," Jiraiya said in a way that made it seem he did not believe the tale.

"Well, watch then. I'm sending Kakashi as her last test," Tsunade smiled, "Wanna place a wager?" she asked, her infamous gambling taking over.

"Are you sure, I mean as the Legendary Sucker, you might just be cursing the poor girl," Jiraiya laughed upsetting Tsunade. "Well Kakashi, ready to take on your opponent?"

Kakashi simply looked up his revealed eye giving little hint about what he had in mind.

Cerise had her mind focused on other things. The seals were all ready showing on most of her face, the seals closest to her face were beginning to melt away into pools of ink and fresh blood all running down her face. She sensed Kakashi's charka and knew this wouldn't be an easy fight. Kakashi watched her closely, mesmerized by her. He could feel something was wrong, but it wasn't his concern. He brought out a kunai, getting it ready for an attack, he would have to use close range combat in order to get around her water wall. He walked forward towards the girl, then shot off. Cerise lost his charka but kept her head downwards, even if she did look around it wouldn't matter; her eyes had lost their sight with the pain that shot through her head. She tried to listen for any sounds but by the time she heard the kunai come after her, it had shot around her arms, binding them tight to each other. Kakashi wasn't wasting any time; he shot a quick kick at her. She dodged but was thrown to the dirt by Kakashi pulling on the kunai. Cerise moaned at the pain, the seal not spread to her chest, it wouldn't be five minutes before the seals had reached their last power source in her left knee. She got up slowly, but was sent back down to the ground while trying to dodge another kunai. She pulled hard against the kunai around arms, knocking Kakashi off balance. She shot forward head butting Kakashi in the stomach. He stumbled back, more out of surprise than pain. Cerise used the moment to release her arms from the kunai and grab her own shuriken and attempt to throw it. But she was brought down to her knees by a sudden explosion of pain in her eye. The curse broke through the first two defenses; she no longer had control over her body. The power of her ancestors flowed through her, her body shook violently as the charka increased. She grabbed her shoulders in pain, the ink and blood running fresh all over her body, she gave a sharp scream causing Kakashi to grab his ears in pain. Mitzuki and Ikechi jumped up to help their student, but Jiraiya knocked them down.

"She has no control over her power right now," he said calmly.

"Is it that curse?" Tsunade asked.

"I don't know, I've never seen this happen to her," Mitzuki said concerned.

"You had her fight without knowing what the hell that curse was. I would have thought that you would have more sense Tsunade," Jiraiya sighed.

Tsunade looked over at the young girl. She was grabbing at her eye and beating the ground with her fist. That's when it happened.

FYI

Leggera-Cerise's family name, it means light

Palla di acqua-one of Cerise's main attacks, it means 'water ball'

Il sangue-blood, L'acqua-water, L'aria-air, la terra-earth Cerise says this as a focusing technique to control her charka

eruttare-the signal used to release Palla di acque, it means erupt