Chapter 11!! Wow! I never made it this far!! You should all congratulate me!! Nah, I'm jus' kidding, you all reading 'A genin life' is good enough for me. Thanks to all that reviewed, I'm really glad people acctually like this story because of the you know...marysue I added in. I just like adding my own creativity to my favorite anime. I don't see anything wrong with it. Anyway, enough of my blabbering and on with the story!

Kiba: Finally, I thought you'd never get to it...

Me: Keep pushing it Kiba, I can easily replace you.

Kiba: But you won't because you love me to much, remember?

Me: JUST GET ON WITH THE DISCLAIMER!!

Kiba: Fine, fine. fanofonepiece does not own Naruto or me for that matter.

Akamaru: Arf!

Me: (mumbles something about, can too replace you..it would just take some thrapy..)

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Today was the day. The day Sierra was supposed to hand in the chuunin exam paper. Too bad she held the blank piece of paper in her hands, not having any thoughts on filling it in.

She wasn't ready, and she knew it. But that wasn't the only thing that made her just stare at it. It was the fact that she was basically proving all the people that doubted her, right.

The paper fell out of her hands and she let out a long drawn out sigh, letting her head lightly fall on the kitchen table. She wasn't going to show up for practice today, so she wouldn't have to see Sakura's and Naruto's face when she declined the exam. She had no other choice. She definately wasn't ready to fight againstany of the other Genin. The fight outside of the village proved that. She nearly lost her life, not including Hikaru's and the princess', just because she couldn't protect someone. How was she supposed to be sure that she wouldn't slip up and ruin her chances of going far?

Hikaru looked up at the distressed genin from his spot on the floor and then glanced at the slip of paper near him. His eyes fell some at the failure smell emitnating off of his friend and whinied. He could tell just how much that paper was affecting Sierra, and he wanted her to do what was right. Something told him that the paper was important for her and possibly him.

Sierra raised from her seat, not wanting to remain in the house where Naruto or Sakura could find her, and walked towards the door, strapping her headplate on her knee, having removed it for comfortable purposes. She was in the process of strapping her kunai holder to her thigh, when Hikaru dipped down and grabbed the chuunin exam paper in his jaws, prancing towards where Sierra's fanny pack thing rested. He placed the paper in swiftly before Sierra noticed the bag missing and once that was done, the golden pup grabbed the bag in his jaws, dragging it with him to where Sierra stood, still strapping on her kunai holster.

Once Sierra had finished the kunai holster, she noticed Hikaru standing next to her with her pack and she thanked him, rubbing her hand on his head as she took the bag out of his mouth. "Good boy." She praised and clipped it on, opening the door and walking out of her apartment.

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Hikaru pranced a couple of feet away from where Sierra laid down in the meadow of grass that overlooked a calm flowing river, her hands behind her head. She was hiding in case anyone decided to look for her, at least just until the sun set and the chuunin exam thing was done. A brave cricket hopped onto the middle of her stomach and she found herself staring straight into it's huge black eyes, that just happened to stare right into hers. After a couple of seconds of more seconds, Sierra found the bug annoying and shifted some. The cricket jumped off to the side back into the grass and she sighed again, looking up at the drifting clouds. So she had to admit. She was bored beyond anything and just laying here waiting wasn't fun. It definately wasn't remotely fun.

Sierra glanced over to where Hikaru was sniffing around or occassionaly pouncing on the many crickets that hopped in front of him. Feeling her eyes on him, Hikaru raised his head to look up at her and she smiled, looking back up at the sky.

The chuunin exam ran through her mind once again and she caught herself thinking the worse of it. Seeing Hikaru injured by one of her comrades was the most powerful thought that she had. How would she be able to face any of them if they did hurt her companion? Knowing that they were the cause Hikaru was once in pain.

She closed her eyes and shook her head to shake the images out. She didn't open her eyes and decided that maybe she should get some sleep to pass the time away.

Suddenly, Hikaru let out a loud yip then a growl, making Sierra's eyes shoot open and instantly jumping to her feet. The growl always alerted her of someone Hikaru didn't like and most likely, she didn't like either. She was right. Standing only a couple of feet away from where Hikaru stood, was Kiba Inuzuka and his small dog Akamaru. She narrowed her eyes to hide the surprise he gave her and Kiba did the same.

This was where Kiba would hide from his sister when she wanted him to act like an assisstant vet on one of the clinics busy days. He definately wasn't expecting anyone to be here and of course was just as surprised when he saw that it was that Team seven girl. A growl escaped his throat and Akamaru jumped out of his jacket, landing in front of Sierra's pup, growling and baring his teeth.

Hikaru did the same and hunched over even more to look threatening.

Sierra noticed the hard hostility between the two dogs and frowned since she could definately feel hostility coming from the brunnette directed solely on her.

"Why are you here!" Kiba demanded and Sierra narrowed her eyes even more, until they were no more than slits. He had no right to ask that! She wasn't doing anything wrong.

"That's none of your business and I suggest you call off your dog before I'm unresponsible for what he does!"

That only seemed to make Kiba angrier and he growled, "Call off your mutt first!"

"First of all, Hikaru is not a mutt and he's doing nothing wrong!" Sierra yelled back and whipped out one of her kunai's from her pack on her hip. This was going to become a fight, both of the young genin knew it once Kiba stepped foot into the clearing. Both of them had a strong hate for each other for some reason, but Sierra blamed it on the way Kiba gave her an attitude when they first actually met. It didn't help with that time she landed on him that one time either. Apparently, it had made more hostility pass between them.

Kiba also whipped out a kunai and growled, " You better leave the meadow now, kid, or I won't take responsibility for my own actions."

Sierra pulled her right foot back some, and clutched the kunai tighter in her hand, now having the weapon in front of her in the defensive position. "I was here first." Sure, she sounded like a child, but it was true. She did find the meadow first before the obnoxious brunnette did.

"Let's go, Akamaru!" Kiba yelled, launching towards her. Akamaru took off after him, jumping into Hikaru who let out a loud menacing bark when they collided. Sierra glanced at the dog pair on instinct, forgetting Kiba for a minute as she worried about her companion. A swift sound of wind cutting in half just in front of her face brought her back to Kiba and she threw her hand with the kunai up just in time to avoid the weapon from plundging into her throat. He was coming at her to kill her!

Sierra grunted, holding onto the other kunai with hers and growled, "You'll regret that!"

A smug smirk appeared on Kiba's face, making Sierra become even angrier. She twisted to the side, going to slam her knee into Kiba's side, when he jumped back, avoiding it. He jumped into the air as soon as his feet touched to the ground and he yelled, "Double wolf fang!" Sierra's eyes widened as Akamaru tore himself from Hikaru jumping into the air with a growl. Two large air tornadoes started coming towards Sierra and her eyes could only remain wide. She wouldn't be able to avoid both of them at the same time.

Hikaru let out a loud bark, running towards her, just as everything seemed to go into slow motion. She could only watch as the tips of the tornado made their way towards her and was just about to reach her when suddenly, something collided into her side, lifting her off the ground.

The ground split up just as the two tornadoes hit the ground and a loud voice yelled, "Enough!"

Sierra looked up in surprise when she noticed that she was being held bridal style in someone's arms, but that wasn't the only thing that made her even more surprised. It was the fact that she was staring up at Hana nee-chan's face.

"Nee-chan?!" Apparently it was a surprise to Kiba too, who had just turned around from where he landed.

Hana let me down and narrowed her eyes at the brunnette. "I thought I'd find you here. What I didn't expect was that you of all people would attack your own comrade." Kiba turned around fully, only having moved to the side some earlier and growled, "She's no comrade of mine!"

That only caused Hana's narrowed eyes to narrow even more.

Hikaru bounded into Sierra's arm, sporting a couple of bite and claw marks from him and Akamaru's tussle, when she looked him over. Nothing to be worried about right away. But she did have to worry about what was happening in front of her.

"Like it or not Kiba, she is you're comrade and I expect you of all people to learn some self control!" Hana yelled and Sierra jumped at the fierceness in her voice. It was a little unnerving. She wished that she didn't have to get yelled at by Hana anytime soon.

Kiba's eyes narrowed and he snapped them onto Sierra. There was so much hate in his brown eyes, that it would've made a baby cry for more then an hour, but Sierra held it. She wasn't going to be frightened by some boy just for reasons that even she didn't know. Something about her being around the brunnette told her that he just plain hated her for being alive.

Hana caught the glare she was receiving and asked, "If you have something to say Kiba, then say it now instead of wasting any more of my time!"

Kiba looked surprised for a minute before he growled, storming away with a roar to Akamaru. Hana watched her brother retreat with a solemn look on her face. He never used to act like that. It hurt her some that their father's death really took a tole on Kiba and not so much her. She never really bothered with their father, but she did get along well with him during her Genin years. When Kiba was born, it was mostly him and Kiba, never so much him and her anymore. She didn't mind because she was to busy with training to become what she loved to do and just really didn't care all that much unless she was happy at what she was doing.

"Hana nee-chan?"

Hana looked down surprised for a minute, since she forgotten that the young short haired brunnette was still standing next to her. Sierra looked up at her and continued, " I know I don't know much about Kiba, but I was hoping maybe you could shed a little light on me as to why he seems to hate me so much." She watched Hana's eyes widen a little, but didn't remove her gaze. She really wanted to know. No one should hate someone unless there was a reason to. And maybe Kiba's older sister would know.

"That, " Hana looked back towards the direction Kiba retreated from, "you would have to ask him yourself. He hardly talks to me at all."

Sierra turned away to hide the disappointment in her eyes and looked down at Kiba. "Yeah, like that would ever happen." She mumbled and didn't notice that Hana caught every word.

"Do you hate my brother?"

Sierra looked back up at Hana taken aback.She wasn't expecting that and she had to think for a minute. Did she really hate the brunnette? It wasn't like she acctually hated him, disliked him, yes, but that was only because he showed hostility towards her. It was only natural not to like him, but hated was a real strong word. "No..." She said cautiously heavily, "I don't like him..but hate is a strong word."

Hana smirked, liking how well that sounded and gave a nod of approval to the girl. She liked her. The girl showed potential. Hana looked down at the pup in Sierra's arm and then up at the sky, smelling the scent of unfamiliar people walking in the village. The south gate wasn't that far from the river and the wind carried the scent pretty far to get to her nose. She remembered that today was the start of the chuunin exam. She looked back down at the short haired brunnette beside her and part of her wondered if the girl was taking it. She decided against asking her about it.

"Well then, since my assisstant just walked off, you'll be taking his place."

"What!?" Sierra blurted out and was about to protest when she looked at Hana's eyes, instantly nodding her head hysterically. Hana's eyes froze her in fear of the pain she would recieve if she didn't except the command. "Yes, ma'am!" She added in to stop the evil stare from glaring at her. So she was frightened, you would be too if you seen the fierciousity in Hana's eyes.

"Very good, follow me." Her eyes held approval and Sierra let out the breath that she was holding, not knowing she was doing it in the first place.

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Sierra laughed as Hikaru swatted at a smaller puppy, much younger than he was, trying to get the new little admirer away from him for the fifteenth time since we arrived at Hana-neesan's small clinic. The pup was white and just had it's eyes open only two days ago. The person who owned her( The pup being a girl) was worried when it wasn't nursing from it's mother and decided after a day that it was time to bring the pup to the vet.

"Be nice Hikaru. It's just a fan of you." Sierra laughed, trying to scold the golden pup, but found it to funny to make it authoritive. Hikaru snapped a yip and gave up trying to lose the wobbly pup, laying down. As soon as he did, the white pup climbed ontop of his head, pulling on his ear that was closer to her. The scene only caused her to laugh even more and Hana walked in, wondering what all the commotion was.

"What's going on in here? Did you feed the young pup?"

Sierra looked up at the veterinarian and nodded, motioning towards Hikaru, who was now looking at her with pleading eyes to stop the pup from pulling on his ears. "Hikaru is just making friends."

"Looks more like he's trying to beg you to take the pup off of him." Hana pointed out, but her voice held amusement, enough to let Sierra laugh some more, before grabbing the white pup off of Hikaru, being extra sensitive to removing the pup's sharp teeth off of Hikaru's ear. The white pup struggled in my grip, yipping and whining to get out and back to Hikaru. Hana took the struggling pup and suddenly held it in front of her face, her brown eyes locking with the pup's. The pup stopped struggling and Sierra's eyes widened in wonder. "What did you do?" She asked and Hana put the now calm pup in her arms.

"I told her to calm down."

"And she listened? Just by looking in her eyes?" Sierra looked at the older woman skeptically, not quite believing that Hana somehow communicated with the dog.

Hana gave a slight nod and Sierra raised an eyebrow. "You are kidding, right? How am I supposed to believe that you can talk to dogs?"

"You don't have to believe me. I know what I know."

Sierra stared at Hana for a minute, then at the white pup in her arms. There really was no way that she shouldn't believe the older woman, since the pup was quiet and no longer struggling, but it just didn't make sense on how she could though. She shrugged. "Whatever. It doesn't make sense, but I guess you can." Hana smirked and glanced up at the small clock on the wall. It was about time for Sierra to go meet with her team at the entrance of the chuunin exam.

"You've done enough help for me today, it's time for you and Hikaru to go meet with your team. The chuunin exam should be starting soon."

Sierra's face fell at the mention of the exam and she quickly asked, "You don't have anything else for me to do? I-I could still help!" Hana's eyes showed confusion at the way the young genin was trying to get out of meeting her team."There is no more work for you to do."She stated and Hikaru barked, getting her attention and noticed the pup jump out of Sierra's arms, running over to where Sierra left her fanny pack bag. He scratched at the flap, opening it and his head disappeared into the said bag, returning a second later with a orange paper in his mouth.

"Hey! Hikaru!" Sierra yelled, making a move to snatch the paper out of his mouth, but he dodged her hand, prancing over to Hana nee-chan. Her mouth dropped when the pup dodged her hands and watched as Hana bent down to take the paper. She wasn't completely sure about what the paper was, but something said that it was the paper that was for the chuunin exam.

"Hmm? What's this?" Hana murmured, but recognized it just by reading the title and noticed my name and other information missing. "You have not filled this out. Any reason?"

Sierra looked down guiltily and coughed to try and get the Inuzuka siblings eyes off of her. "Well, you see...it's complicated."

"Complicated?"

"Yes."

"Do tell."

'Why did she want to know? It's not like it's any of her business.' Sierra thought and glanced back up with a glare.Why of all time should someone otherthan herself want to care about her?

"Why." It wasn't a question, but a demand to know.

Hana was caught off guard for a moment and blinked. She really wasn't expecting that. Besides, why did she care? It was a mystery even to herself, but that still didn't mean she had to receive a bitter remark. The surprise quickly disappeared, replaced by that of her normal authority. "Excuse me for my question, what I meant to say it that you shouldn't be in a cell then."

Sierra's mouth hung open. Now it was her turn to look surprised. 'What the hell's that supposed to mean!?'

Hana smirked to herself at the reaction and confirmed what she thought. The brunnette has a short temper.

"What's that supposed to mean!" Sierra refrained from saying the hell word. She was still going to give respect, even if the Inuzuka wasn't. She still had manners.

"Exactly what it means," "How can you sa--" "Your team is expecting to meet you. You have no respect for them, or your sensai. You let them down."

Sierra's jaw hung even lower, to the point that it was insanely impossible. Anger bubbled in her to the point she was seeing red. 'Screw the damn manners!' "What the hell does that mean! I have all the respect for all of them! Their my friends!"

"It doesn't look like it, if your here and they're there." A smirk made it's way on the older siblings face and Sierra snatched the paper out of her smug little hands. She wanted respect, then she will get it. "Give me a pen."

If Hana's smile on the inside got any wider, her face would split. The only reason she saw fit to push this girl the wrong way, is because she sees something in her. That something, she is not sure yet. Just something that has to be shown to everyone else. She handed the brunnette a pen from the table next to her. Sierra snatched that too, and Hikaru exchanged a long look with the older Inuzuka sibling. He was thanking her, from the bottom of his heart.

It didn't take long for Sierra to fill out the paper and when she was done, she slammed the pen on the counter she was writing it on. "Let's go Hikaru!" Hikaru let out a loud yip and if it wasn't for Hana's trained eyes, she wouldn't have seen Sierra run past her, Hikaru exactly at the same speed. The young girls pressence was gone, and Hana's smile finally broke on her face. She turned to look at the direction Sierra's smell lingered and said outloud, "Her match should be one to watch."

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OMG!!! I'm soo sorry this is out so freakin late!!! FORGIVE ME!!! I just kinda forgot about what to write, and then there's school and all (Yes I have to blame school, because it's the perfect excuse for anyone who does have it, right?) Well do not worry!!As soon as I'm done here, I'm worring on chapter 11!!!

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