Team Suna waited outside their gate. Ura was more than pleased to be on a team, especially with her friends from Suna. The problem…was Gaara. He was still angry that Ura was on his team and coming back to his village. He didn't look at her or say anything to her. When Gaara wanted to say something, he would drag his siblings away from her in order to say it. Ura didn't show it, but it hurt her each time he did that. Isolating her was his best weapon in luring her away from the others. Ura couldn't let him get to her that easily, not when she was so close to going back to her home. Of course she wasn't going to let Gaara scare her from returning to the Sunagakure. He could threaten to kill, try to kill her, and probably crush all her bones, but he wouldn't scare her. Ura waited patiently as Gaara dragged his siblings away. As much as it tore at her heart, Ura held a defiant smirk as she waited for the announcements of the beginning of the survival exam. Curiosity rang through her as she looked a ways away to find Naruto. She hadn't seen him since before the first exam and wondered how he was prepared for this one.

She might find him inside the forest, Ura shrugged it off as Temari and Kankurou approached her, "So, how is he going to kill me?"

"Just don't die," Kankurou warned as he passed to the gate.

"Follow us from a distance," Temari also warned as she followed her middle brother.

So, Gaara was trying to get her killed instead of killing her himself. A good way to make it look like that, but she knew Gaara wouldn't let her die that easily. Once the gates opened, Ura ran behind Temari and Kankurou for a few moments before a strong force shoved her to the ground below. When she slammed into the ground, Ura saw that a pile of sand was the object that stopped her from continuing. Gaara passed her in the branches as the sand followed him to his gourd. So that's how Gaara wanted to play as well? Ura wiped the remaining sand off of her and followed from a distance. What type of scroll did her team have? Right, an Earth scroll, so she needed a Heaven scroll in order to pass. She continued running for a few more hours in hopes of reaching the others, but it was no use. Gaara's chakra was too far for her to find and was unable to locate her new team.

With the light starting to fade Ura didn't have the choice but to move on and keep going. No one else was watching her back, so why stop? Ura came to a point where she needed water, and Temari had the only cantine. She found one of the rivers, but it was out in an open area. What if someone was waiting for a stray like her? She didn't want to tempt fate so she remained in the shadows as she brought out one umbrella. This exam was going to be harder than she expected, especially with Gaara trying to get her to die out there. Ura sat down as she wondered her next move. If she kept running, there was a possibility she could run into a stronger team. Remaining in that one spot was also dangerous because if someone found her, she was dead. Going off to that stream is risky because it's way too spacious and didn't want to run the risk of fighting someone.

Screams echoed through the forest as the sun began to get lower and lower. Ura couldn't wait anymore, she had to find her team or else she would be killed. Heaven scroll or no, she had to find her team no matter what! Strapping her umbrella back on her back, Ura leaped to the branches and went as fast as she could go. There was nothing that could stop her as she went faster and faster, pushing herself to her fastest limits. It took her about an hour to finally pick up on Kankurou's familiar chakra and stopped at a branch high above the battle scene. She had to catch her breath and examine what was going on below. Her blood red eyes slowly turned back to a light brown as she began to calm down. From what the battle offered below, Gaara was the only one fighting the battle by choice. Temari and Kankurou were on the sidelines just watching. The opponents were using umbrellas as well. Ura could tell their moves before they even did them.

Catching her breath, Ura opened one umbrella and threw it in the air. The other, she used to glide down with and spin to deflect the hari that the opponent spewed to aim at Gaara. Her hari deflected their own as Ura let go of the umbrella and threw a kunai at the highest umbrella in the sky, she wanted it to go through the cork and into the blood. Ura landed in front of Gaara and glared at the opponents, "Don't you DARE try and attack him!"

She could hear Gaara growl angrily at her intrusion, but she looked back at him with her blood red eyes. The difference in his own surprise was quite noticeable that she caught his attention with her secret kekkei-genkai. She turned her attention back at the opponents her just laughed at her, "Do you think that's all you have to do to scare us? You foolish girl.."

"No, but this will," Ura pulled out another hari and threw it at the main one.

It didn't go through him, but it left a bloody cut on his face. He merely laughed and was about to say something, but Ura reached out her hand and his blood formed a string-like gooey substance to her hand. She yanked on string of blood to where he was on his knees. He was shaking quite badly as Ura could feel every ounce of his blood in his body began to pump faster from the worry going through his head. Ura yanked harder and harder as more blood came out, "This is my Rope of Blood Jutsu, where your blood is just a rope in my hands. Each time I pull, I'm pulling out more and more of your blood. But I'm trying to be impressive here, so let's have some more fun!"

She used her hand sign of 'blood' with her free hand and raised it towards the highest umbrella, "Rain of Hari: Blood Jutsu!"

Ura used a slicing motion with her jutsu hand down to the ground. In a matter of seconds, the entire team was stabbed by millions of hari from high above. Instead of the hari just going through their bodies, the hari remained inside, soaking up all their blood. Ura smirked when she saw the fear go through their faces as they waited for her next move. She raised her jutsu hand back up in the air, forcing all of the hari that entered their body to go back into the air. Their blood was attached to the hari, forming a thin string as they all felt another tug at their life. Ura tugged harder on the rope of blood from the main opponent, he coughed up some more blood and trembled even more. This was torture for them, feeling as if they could die at any moment because of Ura's jutsu.

"I'm not done yet!" Ura shouted as she released the main opponent's rope of blood and picked up a random hari at her feet, "This…this will be your final moment."

She cut her forearm in the same scar she left before and watched her blood drip down to the ground. Using her chakra control, she made her blood seep into their many holes from the hari and closed her eyes. Their hearts were slowing, but they were at a rhythm. Too close to death, but far enough to sustain life. Her blood surrounded their hearts and sunk into the beating muscle. The blood change was too much and rapidly the heart began to die on it's own. To live through that process was unbearable as their screams of mercy vibrated all around Ura. She watched as their hearts began to bleed from the change of blood type and then finally…stopped beating. Ura opened her eyes to see all of them suffocating from a lack of a heart beat. She crossed her arms, watching them suffer was something she had never seen an opponent do. This was her first kill, but it wouldn't be her last.

They died. All three of them did not survive her kekkei-genkai. Ura caught her umbrellas and began to pick up the hari. When she was finished, Temari and Kankurou were surprised at her abilities and her powers. But it wasn't their approval she was waiting for, it was Gaara's. His expression changed from hatred to curious. His eyes were non-emotional and his demeanor was somewhat calm. Ura could at least say she had made some impact on him. To her surprise, Gaara walked over to the corpses and picked up their scroll, it wasn't exactly what they wanted. He went to another corpse and found that they had two scrolls instead, so Gaara took the Heaven Scroll and eyed Ura.

"You should've said you could do this," was all he said before he turned away from her.

Instead of taking off like he had before, Gaara actually waited for Ura to run with his siblings. Ura was beaming on the inside, her first kill had impressed Gaara enough to wait and kill her. He saw her as an asset to the team then, right? Well, hopefully.

They reached the tower in no time, and Ura was still pretty psyched that she actually used her Blood Jutsu on someone. Ura then noticed she was covered in blood, mostly her own by the looks of it. She excused herself to the bathroom and began to wash some of it off. When she turned, Kankurou was at the doorway with his headgear removed, "This is the girl's room… Can't you read?"

"Whatever, look, that was really good out there," Kankurou started, then looked at her seriously, "Don't use that again."

"I'll do what I want," Ura stated, but he took her wrist when she tried to walk passed him, "Killing isn't going to get you far with Gaara. Take it from me, it'll just piss him off later on and then he'll come looking for your blood."

Ura smirked up at Kankurou, "You don't need to worry about me. What happened back there was just to get some approval. I got what I wanted and now I'm ready to be a bit more clean about my fights. How about that?"

"It's fine, for now," Kankurou shrugged.

Ura accidently hit the counter and her canteen fell out of her back pocket in her black mini shorts, "Whoops."

"You have the water? I thought Temari-"

"It's not water!" Ura quickly picked up the canteen, "It's…uh..soup."

"Soup?" Kankurou crossed his arms as he eyed her suspiciously, "C'mon, what's in it?"

"Nothing!" Ura was about to leave the bathroom but Kankurou pulled her back with his chakra string, "No fair!"

"Life's not fair," Kankurou snatched the canteen from her and smelled the top, "Are you serious! You're really drinking sake!"

"So?" Ura freed herself from his string and poked his shoulder, "You'd let me drink it if I promised you stuff."

A sly smirk came onto Kankurou's face as he placed the canteen in her back pocket, "You'll have to keep your promise if you drink that stuff around me."

"But, you never had a taste for it so I don't see the use of drinking around you," Ura acted as if it was nothing and turned around, "You wouldn't be able to handle a woman like me."

"A woman? You're only the same age as me!" Kankurou pointed out as he stomped over to her.

Ura flipped her hair over her shoulder and winked at him, "Maturity wise, I'm way passed you."

Kankurou was about to go off until Temari entered the bathroom, "Enough, Baki is here."

The two silenced quickly and followed Temari to where Baki and Gaara were. Ura was timid at first, she wasn't used to being on a team. Baki explained the scrolls to them and the importance of each. There was something else, something that made her wonder what was really going on. She was also thinking about her most recent kills on those other Genin that were trying to fight Gaara. The fact that Gaara did not stop her from fighting made Ura think even harder. If he let her fight, Gaara saw her kekkei-genkai and her strength as a kunoichi. She barely looked from the corner of her eye to see that he was staring at her instead of his usual glare of hatred. There was no way his feelings had changed; Gaara still hated her nonetheless. But, his hatred turned to intrigue most likely. From what she was guessing, as she turned her attention back to Baki, was that Gaara had decided to debate whether or not killing her was exciting or out of boredom. Apparently, Ura smirked slightly to herself, Gaara considered her a worthy opponent. Well, hopefully.

They were the first ones there and no one else had arrived just yet. Ura was wandering around the tower in hopes of finding a good place to build up her chakra. She finally found a small room in which she could light a few candles and build up her chakra in her blood stream. Lighting some candles she carried in her pack, she also brought out a scroll for her kekkei-genkai and bit her thumb pad to smear a small stain on the scroll to infuse her chakra with her blood. She sat on her knees, motionless as she murmured a soft incantation and began to feel her chakra and blood flow together as one. It was a painful process each time, and it only became more painful when she became stronger and stronger. Sweat beaded down her face as she tried to keep her concentration, the scent of blood wafting around her as the flame turned red from the scroll emitting blood red chakra.

Ura concentrated by visualizing her chakra becoming her blood, watching each organ take in the chakra as if it were blood and passing it along her vital systems. Her eyes were closed tight as she watched how her organs worked with her chakra. This process was enabling her to become more immune to attacks and helped her body take in the shock, or vibrations, of a direct hit. The only down-fall of that process was if she unintentionally received a cut or stab wound, she lost both chakra and blood. Thus the use of her umbrellas were both offensive and defensive while her hari were more for show and to accurately hit vital organs in her opponent's body. She could think of only one opponent that would be a harder target to hit and that was Gaara due to his sand.

Her body ached from the stress she had put her body through from training for hours for Baki. Then the killing of the Grass Genin for Gaara in order to make sure he was safe. Finally, the meditation process of combining her chakra and blood together was also taking a toll on her. Each breath she took was strained as some of her organs tried to naturally fight back the foreign body that was chakra. Forcing her organs to work under such a pressure to take in chakra with blood was risky, but necessary for her. As minutes passed by, Ura then began to feel more relaxed and stable as her body began to function under her conditions that she gave herself. That meant that her chakra was flowing throughout her body as well as the natural chakra points. Ura changed her infusion process to a calming meditation regimen as she put her hands together in a jutsu hand sign, but remained still as she calmed her breathing more. Her eyes were shut softly as she remained silent to the world, listening to the distant voices and calming her mind.

Footsteps were slowly approaching her from outside the room, where the door was her only blockade to the world. Ura's curiosity was peaking as she listened even closer as she heard the door open without the knob being touched. She slowly opened her eyes to see Hinata. It was definitely weird to see the Hyuuga girl in such an odd state, but she was sort of relieved. A soft smile formed on Ura's lips as she saw Hinata glancing at the red candles and the open scroll, "Don't be scared, this is just for my kekkei-genkai."

"O-oh…" Hinata nodded softly as she took a step towards Ura, "I-I am happy to see you are safe. We watched you…fight those Grass Genin…"

"Oh that?" Ura rolled up her scroll and put it back in her pack as she blew out the candles, "That was just to impress someone. I don't think I'll be using that on anyone from here though."

Ura left the room, but Hinata could see the difference in Ura's body with her own eyes. The Hyuuga girl seemed shyer and more timid now that she could see how strong Ura really was compared to most of the Leaf Genin. Hinata looked up at Ura with a worried gaze, "Is..is it true? You are free to leave Konoha?"

It was at that moment that Ura felt some guilt for wanting to leave Konoha so badly. Though she can easily say she didn't like Konoha, it didn't mean that she didn't make some friends along the way. Hinata was like a side-kick to her, always there when she was meditating or training or just hanging out. Ura saw Hinata as that girl who wanted attention and to be heard, so Ura played the part as the listening ear. She knew Hinata's story of being the oldest daughter and also as the one who was told she shouldn't be a kunoichi for Leaf. A common story for most ninja who needed a good push in the right direction once in a while. Ura glanced away as she leaned against the closed door, "Yeah… It's true. I'm apart of the Suna Team now and…win or lose, I'm going home with them."

Hinata turned her gaze to the ground. Ura didn't really consolidate that many people in her lifetime. She wasn't necessarily the hugging type, but she could be for some people. Reaching out her hand, she gently squeezed Hinata's arm in hopes that they could maintain their friendship. Hinata looked up at Ura with a soft smile, "As…long as you're happy… Then I am happy as well."

At least the Hyuuga girl was putting on a strong front, "Thanks, Hinata."

After a few moments of silence, Ura then asked, "So…where do we sleep if we're waiting another day and a half?"

"Oh… I... I think we sleep anywhere," Hinata shrugged as they began to walk down to where their teams were at.

Ura didn't want Hinata to be near the others on her team. While she knew Temari and Kankurou really weren't as bent on harm as Gaara, she didn't want to threaten Hinata's life. Ura instead walked Hinata back down to her own team and wished them luck on the next exam. Kiba wanted to talk to Ura a bit more, but it was getting dangerously late and she didn't want her team to get suspicious. Ura waved to them as she left and returned to the room where the Suna siblings waited. Kankurou was the first to eye her when she entered the room, "So…"

Temari must've noticed too, with Ura's chakra in two different areas of her body, she was basically a walking chakra unit. Even Gaara just gazed at her with no emotion in his eyes. She shrugged it off, it wasn't a powerful chakra, just a lot of it. Ura sat against the wall as she prepared her umbrellas for the next exam, whatever it was. They were in good condition still. She glanced up at Gaara and felt a blush run to her cheeks, it was the look in his eyes that made her heart race start to speed up.

Over the next day and a half, more Genin showed up. Ura was surprised by how little there were compared to when the second exam started. Her heart dropped when Team 7 walked in though. There was something different about all three of her old teammates. Sakura's hair was shorter, Naruto was angrier, while Sasuke looked stronger and distraught. Something had happened… And she didn't help Naruto. It was a sacrifice… Ura thought to herself as her eyes saddened at the sight of them, and sacrifices had to be made…right? A kick to the head made Ura come back to reality and glared at Temari, who kicked her. She received a sharp glare from Temari that reminded her where she came from and what team she was on. Ura nodded once and continued to polish her umbrella as they waited to be called to the main room.