Recap:

I turned and walked over to the intruders, and saw two freaks with caterpillar eyebrows, a girl with her hair in two panda buns, and a white eyed boy with long brown hair who was glaring at me.

"Who are you?" I asked them suspiciously.

"Eh, we are looking for a very youthful girl named Mina Mikura!" the bigger of the two eyebrow freaks said.

My eyes widened. "Oops, sorry," I apologized, and with a wave of my hand, the needles extricated themselves from the ground and the people's clothing. The thousands of needles formed into one large icicle, which melted into water, returning to the stream from which I took the liquid.

"Sorry," I apologized again. "My name is Mina Mikura."

"Hello!" the same eyebrow weirdo said, smiling brightly. "My name is Maito Gai, the youthful and beautiful Green Beast of Kohona!"

I sweatdropped. "Er… okay."

"I'm next!" the mini-me of Gai said, smiling a dazzling grin. "I am the ever youthful Rock Lee!"

I sweatdropped an even bigger… well, um…sweatdrop. 'Great…I have two morons who wear spandex on my team…just dandy,' I thought to myself. (Please note the sarcasm.)

"Hi!" the girl next to him said, smiling cutely. "My name is Tenten! It's nice to meet you!"

I smiled slightly. Finally, a sane person on my team! Unfortunately, she looked so much like a panda that I couldn't help raising an eyebrow.

I turned to the last person, the boy who was glaring at me earlier.

"Neji Hyuuga," he grunted.

'Just great,' I thought sarcastically. ' I have two spandex-wearing geeks, a stick-up-my-ass jerk, and a girl who looks like a panda. Just peachy. How can life get any better?' (PLEASE note the sarcasm!!!)

"Okay, Mina!" Gai said, interrupting my thoughts. "You need to take a test to see if you are really fit to become a genin! A spar shall be your challenge."

I nodded. "May I chose who I fight?"

Gai smiled at me. "Of course!"

I studied the three genin before me. "The Hyuuga," I said.

Tenten gasped. "Mina," Tenten said exasperatedly. "Are you out of your mind?! Neji is the best genin in Kohona! And you want to fight him?!"

I just looked at her. "I am no normal genin, Tenten-san."

"Whatever. It's her choice Tenten. If she wants to get beaten, then so be it," Neji said, smirking. 'This girl is interesting…' he thought.

I smirked back at him. "Don't look so sure of yourself, Hyuuga-san. You just might regret those words," I said.

"Hn… fine, but its your funeral."

AT GAI'S TEAM'S TRAINING AREA:

Neji and I stood across from each other, glaring.

"Before I start, I would like to say—" Neji began, but I cut him off.

"Just shut your mouth about your stupid fate and destiny crap. I came here to fight, not to get lectured," I interrupted him coldly. Neji's gaze hardened.

"Fine, but you asked for it," he replied, and went into battle stance, activating his Byakugen.

I laughed. "You really think the Byakugen can stand up against me?" I asked, chuckling. I activated my bloodline, the Tsukiki (1), and performed a short series of hand seals. When I finished, I closed my eyes and reopened them again a second later. Tenten, Lee, and Gai, who were standing on the sidelines, gaped at me.

My normal brown eyes were now a swirling mass of blue and ivory, with flashing gold and silver flecks in them. "Secret Ninja Art: Bloodline Copy Technique!" I said, concentrating and closing my eyes. "Byakugen! Sharingan!"

My eyes snapped open. Now, there were three comma-shaped marks in my eyes, and the veins around my eyes were jutting out of my face just slightly. There was a cold look in my eyes, which Tenten shivered at.

Neji looked surprised, but his expression changed into a scowl. I took the traditional Hyuuga stance as well, which astonished the four ninjas before me.

At the same time, Neji and I charged at each other, exchanging blows. This went on for 10 minutes until I leaped back, and stared forming a sequence of hand seals at an inhuman rate.

"Elemental Water Arts: Crystal Ice Mirror Jutsu (2)! Water Control Jutsu (3)!" I shouted, and slammed my fist into the ground.

What happened next shocked the hell out of Gai, Lee, Tenten, and Neji. When my fist hit the ground, the ground around me cracked, buckled, and broke into pieces in a wide, circular arc around me. Taking advantage of their shock, I quickly summoned the water from the ground, and soon, Neji was encased in a dome of ice mirrors. I ran over to the mirrors, and took a step into the mirror. To the four ninjas' surprise, I fused right into the mirror, and my figure was reflected in the other mirrors around me, casting an image that I was in every ice mirror.

The many reflections of myself raised a hand, and some water from the mirrors melted and were floating in bunches in the dome around Neji. The images of me tightened our hands into fists, and the groups of water became sharp star-shaped icicles, which looked like shurikens. With our other free hands, my reflections took out three senbon needles, and all at once, my mirror images threw the needles and the icicle shurikens hurtled toward Neji.

Neji panicked at first, but remembered his Kaiten (4). He smirked, and prepared to spin. To his shock, he found that he couldn't move his feet. Looking down, he saw his legs were encased in ice, which I had ordered to immobilize him while he was distracted. Using his arms to try to shield himself from the rain of ice and needles, he winced as each weapon made a new injury to his body.

When the downpour of ice and needles finally stopped, Neji was in really bad shape. His arms had needles and bits of sharp ice imbedded in them, causing his blood to stain the bandages. His torso had a large gash on his left side, from when an extraordinarily large icicle hit him. His jacket had many spots of blood on them, and it was very ripped up. Blood was dripping from his mouth and a cut on his right cheek, and Neji was panting heavily.

I released the ice that was encasing his legs, and he fell to the ground in a crumpled heap. The ice mirrors and makeshift shurikens melted into water again, and I made two more clones. The clones took out two kunais, while I took out a beautiful jewel-encrusted dagger. We walked up to Neji, and I pointed my dagger to his forehead, while my other two clones pointed their kunais to his heart and his neck.

"I win," I said, and Tenten, Lee, and Gai came running over to help Neji.

"Mina!" Tenten said angrily. "You shouldn't have hurt him this much!"

"He's losing a lot of blood," Gai stated, checking Neji. "Another 15 minutes and Neji could die from blood loss."

Tenten paled a considerable amount and turned to me, looking like she was about to explode. "Mina—"

"Tenten, he won't die. I'll heal him," I said shortly, and walked over to Neji. I knelt down and began to take off his hitai-ate. He grabbed my hand roughly, and glared at me.

"Don't touch me," he growled. Nevertheless, I just glared back at him and removed his headband. Placing a hand to his bandaged forehead, I closed my eyes and murmured a few inaudible words. My hand began to glow a sky blue color, mixed with swirls of sapphire blue. The calming bluish glow began to spread over Neji's body.

What happened next caused Tenten to gasp, and Lee and Gai to stare at me like I was a three-headed gecko. Neji's wounds began to heal, and his clothes began to mend themselves. The blood on his body evaporated, leaving Neji looking like he had never battled me at all. I removed my hand from his forehead, and retied his forehead protector on his forehead. I stood up and held out my hand to Neji. He ignored it and stood up, looking at his arms, which were healed.

'Rude, much!' I thought angrily, and frowned. "Well, you're welcome," I said, rolling my eyes. My hand dropped to my side and I turned around, walking away.

"How did you heal me?" Neji asked curiously. I felt his eyes on me, as well as Lee's, Gai's, and Tenten's eyes.

"It's called a healing jutsu, Hyuuga. I assume you would know what that is?" I stated coolly, looking over my shoulder slightly, so that a half of my face was looking at them.

Neji glared at me. "Thank you."

I nodded and turned back toward the four ninjas. "Is there anything else I need to do, or can I go now?"

"Well," Gai started. "Why don't you tell us about yourself. Your likes, dislikes, goals, any interesting facts, stuff like that."

I walked back toward them and started to talk. "My name is Mina Mikura. I am 12 years old, and I recently came to Kohona from Kira. My likes are training, drawing, and painting. My dislikes are snobbish girls, stick-up-my-ass boys, annoying people, and anything frilly and pink (5)." At this, Tenten sweatdropped.

"My goals are to avenge my parent's death, prove to my clan that I am worthy of being a part of the Mikura clan, rid myself of this horrid curse mark, and to become the best kunochi I can be. Facts about myself are that I am the container for the seven-tailed phoenix (6) and the water dragon demon. I am also the reincarnation of Ichigo, the moon and water goddess (7)."

I finished quickly, and looked at the four people in front of me. Tenten was staring at me with wide eyes, while Lee and Gai were gaping at me. Neji was looking at me analytically, as if he were trying to figure me out. I knew what he was looking for.

"Hyuuga, I believe you are looking for this," I said, and I rolled up my fishnet sleeve to reveal an odd, vertical wave-shaped line with a thin, slanted triangle on each side, with the point of the triangle aiming toward the crest of the wave-shaped mark. Around the symbol, were four characters—water, moon, star, and seal in kanji— in a diamond formation. It was a royal blue color, and was shimmering slightly with purple and blue colors.

"My bloodline allows a person to be the container for more than one demon, and he or she can sign contracts with more than one summoning. Since I am the reincarnation of the moon and water goddess, my powers come from the water during the day and the moon at night. The seven-tailed phoenix inside of me is a fire bjuu, and my other demon is a water bjuu, so although they don't always get along, Ichigo keeps them in check. My bloodline limit, the Tsukiki, is a bloodline that can copy a person's bloodline limit or family technique. Since I am considered to be the prodigy of the Mikura clan and I am the host for three powerful beings, the clan elders wanted to control me; to use me as a tool to kill. This is how they control me," I explained. "My father had a wind demon sealed inside of him, so he was branded with the seal as well. He and my mother died 4 years ago."

Neji looked at me with a mixture of curiosity and sympathy. My story was similar to his, and he could understand part of the pain of being a cursed ninja.

"Well, that's it. I'll be leaving now," I said.

"Um, well, okay, Mina. Just meet us here at 6 o' clock tomorrow morning, for training," Tenten said uncertainly.

I nodded. "Fine," I said without the slightest hint of emotion.

"Wow," Tenten commented dryly. "You're the first person who didn't complain about the time, or who didn't tell us that we were crazy to start training so early."

I looked at her oddly. "There's nothing early about 6 o' clock. I used to wake up at 4 o' clock in the morning to train," I said. "I'll see you all tomorrow." And with that, I disappeared in a swirl of water.