A/N: Ok, these things are releasing faster than we thought and actually we need a break. So for our hiatus here's a long-ish chapter.

Announcement: So there's two things Stephen and James(that is to say me) are dying to know what you think about our fic. The first is, who's do you like better Psyke(James) or Melo(Stephen)? The second is, do you guys want to be able to make requests?

DISCLAIMER: We don't own Naruto. The rest is ours. Fuwahahahah. -gets smacked by Stephen-

Thursday (10:34:23am)

"You put the ARE in Retarded." Psyke snapped. Naruto bristled.

"You..." He growled. Psyke rolled her eyes and flipped her hair out of her face dismissively.

"Anyways, Tsunade," Everyone's attention snapped to her. She rolled her eyes. How was she supposed to explain the fact that she knew their names because of a tv show, much less the nuances of said tv show? "You can take the cuffs off me now because I really can't do much, and I'm sure," she sneered, "that such capable ninjas as yourself can restrain a single skinny girl." All of the ninjas in the room grimaced and looked toward each other sheepishly. She rolled her eyes again. "Right?"

"First, tell us your name single skinny girl stranger." Tsunade interrupted before her snide remarks turned into a fully fledged rant.

"I'm Psyke." Psyke finally relinquished control of the conversation to the busty lady.

"Saiki?" Interjected Sai, surprised. Saiki blinked.

"Close enough." She said, voice strangled with laughter.

"...You will take the Chunin exam and you'll have to work for us for say...six months afterward. From now until the end of your indenture you will be wearing this." Tsunade walked toward the newly anointed Saiki, small cylindrical item in hand. She pressed it against her wrist and Saiki winced in pain."What do you want your working alias to be?"

"L." Tsunade glanced at her, shrugged and pressed a finger to the tube. She walked back to her desk, retrieved a chain and pushed it through a loop on the top of the cylinder.

"Kakashi, you can untie her." Tsunade placed the now-necklace on her desk. "Take this when you leave. Naruto take her to... the Uchiha compound. After we talk. Jiraya, Naruto, Sai, come with me." And the aforementioned four left the room.

"Why L?" Kakashi asked as he pushed the key into the handcuff's.

"Because it's three letters away from the first letter of my name." She winced and massaged her sore wrists, thin rings of red surrounding each one.

"Doesn't your name start with an S?" She nearly snorted in laughter.

"...No." Saiki walked to the desk and retrieved the necklace. The metal cylindrical object (which was no larger around than her pinky and about half as long) now had an embellished romanized L on its front. She examined the bottom, swishing it around and saw that there was blood in it. She looked at her left wrist. It now had a twin symbol of the one now etched into the cylinder, though it was camouflaged by the red irritated skin made by the chafing cuffs. Kakashi hefted her bag and the sound of the bottom scraping on the floor caught her attention.

"You don't have much do you?" He remarked. She pursed her lips and rolled her eyes.

"Pfft. Its not like I planned this." She sighed. "Anyways, what's this Chunin thing?" Not that she didn't already know, but whatever. There was always the chance it'd be different. He straightened, pulling the strap of her MonoKoBuu bag onto his shoulder.

"Well, its different every year. I guess there is a certain structure to it though. There is the written examination, a practical examination and a tournament. A few years ago it was cut off, but only one was going to pass anyways. That was the year Naruto took his, but the last time and the time before that he didn't take it again because he was training with Jiraya. Again."

"You'll be taking your Chunin exam in tandem with Naruto because he has yet to do so, he's still a genin and despite the fact that you are not, we are testing you. We'll make an exception for you because we don't particularly care for your welfare." Tsunade said over Kakashi as the ninjas that had left the room now entered, minus Sai.

"Gee thanks, that's a nice way of saying you want me to die." She muttered. "You're still a gay-nin?" She asked Naruto. "I can believe it."

"Believe it!" He shouted, not understanding her sarcasm.

"I'm going to smack the shit out of you." she growled.

"But at least I'm better than all the other genin. What I can't understand is why they're allowing you to take it." He babbled on, apparently not hearing what she said, or else he was simply in denial. She was betting on the latter.

"I'm sure there are many things you don't understand." She snorted. Tsunade shooed the two teens out of the room, relieving Kakashi of the doubtlessly heavy burden of Saiki's bag. Saiki grabbed it anxiously.

Thursday (12:14:39pm)

Naruto set out excitedly, blabbering on about something or other involving ramen. His arms swung wildly as he described the differences in the soup bases and how miso bases generally held the heat for longer than the soy sauce based and blah blah blah... Saiki was ignoring him when a group of people came up behind them. Naruto remained unaware, but Saiki gripped her bag tighter, fully intending to utilize the extra 12 kg of weight to injure, possibly kill or at least seriously maim whoever dared attack. She glanced back and was surprised at who was there. Naruto finally noticed that she had stopped walking and turned.

"Oh!" He shouted. "Hey guys! This is Saiki, she just came to the village and--" Apparently he had conveniently forgotten the fact that he was the one that had dragged her here. She glared at him and then turned to the group of eight.

"Let me guess... Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, Sakura, Neji, Shino, and Gaara," she said offhandedly, cutting him off, and smirked at their reactions of surprise. TenTen opened her mouth to say that she'd forgotten to mention her--

"How'd you know?!" Exclaimed Ino, Sakura and Naruto at once. (--but was cut off by the other characters being dumb asses because TenTen is unimportant.)

"You do realize," Saiki drawled, "that you never told me your name... Right, Na-ru-to?" He blinked, apparently he hadn't. Everyone laughed, the chance to make fun of Naruto dispelling all unease, and onward they went. Saiki was now accepted as one of the group. Only Shikamaru remained dubious, but he wasn't one to make remarks of things.

Thursday (01:56:51pm)

"Ugh! What the hell is that?!" Saiki grimaced and pulled what appeared to be crap (Who said anything about dog crap?) and massive amounts of dust bunnies from the floor of a child's room. That's almost as bad as having forty-four (FORT-FOUR!) pictures of Itachi in your room Sasuke... Uchiha perfection indeed. She threw it out into the "burn pile" outside, sighed with relief, washed her hands and steeled herself to enter Itachi's room.

She slowly pushed the door open...

And was assaulted by seventeen 24"x45" sized posters of Sasuke on his walls (And ceiling). And several hundred(!) smaller pictures in frames. She gagged harder than when she found the shit in Sauske's room.

"Oh gods!!"

Thursday (11:11:11pm)

Saiki collapsed in exhaustion, not caring that Naruto was coming tomorrow (likely bright and early in the morning, just to torture her.) She curled into a ball, head resting on her bag, then realized something. She crawled over to the outlet in the empty room and pushed the AC plug in, also connecting the other end to her laptop. She fell asleep like that, laptop cradled in her arms, finger wrapped around the hilt of her meticulously cleaned 8.5" gut ripper. And she slept like a baby.