Rin: Hello again. Rin here, typing this up at…12 30 in the morning. Yes, July 7 was Kiba's birthday, so happy birthday to him. Anyways, a big thanks to my FOUR reviewers. I appreciate the feedback, so I can see what my stories lack and what my stories have. Sorry that this took so long, I've been busy. Plus, I had trouble loading this on. My dad figured it out. The site doesn't like something in the .doc file.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto. Own OC's. (Ugh, Rin want cookies.)

Kaien was the first to awake. He was used to getting up early, since his adoptive mother was always sleeping in. Kaien had figured out that the smell of fried grease always made Kikyo arise from her slumber. Getting dressed in his usual fashion, Kaien had forgotten that he had to window open. He pulled on his shoes and went to the window. A light breeze blew by, ruffling his honey tinted hair. Kaien sighed, followed by him tying his headband/bandana.

Kaien clambered out the window, not wanting to stir the 'sleeping beauties' in the other rooms. He then slapped himself mentally for use of well, he didn't want to think those words ever again. Kaien hopped from the window and landed on the streets below, just missing a girl with an indigo bobbed haircut.

"W-W-Who are you?" she stammered. Kaien looked at the girl. Her eyes were pale lavender. Kaien estimated that he was three inches taller than the girl. Then, Kaien noticed the headband that hung around her neck. It bore the Leaf symbol. She wore a light gray jacket.

"Ah, so sorry," Kaien smiled, "I guess I just wasn't watching where I was jumping." "She asked you a question, stranger," an eerily monotone voice said. A boy, with a Konoha headband, who was wearing sunglasses, was now standing beside the girl. His grey jacket covered most of his face. Kaien felt shivers run up his spine. Kaien reached back for his pouch and then recalled that he was in Konoha for the Chuunin exams, not to fight unnecessarily.

"Shino, Hinata, good morning," A voice yelled. Another Konoha shinobi appeared, this one having a little dog riding on his head. Kaien gaped at the dog, which caught his stare and began to growl. He had a hooded jacket with dark fur around the cuffs and the rim of the hood.

"What's wrong Akamaru?" the boy asked. He sniffed at the air and began to glare at Kaien. Kaien furrowed his brows and glimpsed away.

"Who are you?" the girl repeated.

"Miyagi Kaien, of Kumogakure," he sighed, pointing to his headband, "and obviously you guys are from Konoha."

"Inuzuka Kiba," the boy with the dog said, "and this is Akamaru."

"Aburame Shino," the creepy boy said.

"Hyuuga Hinata," the girl muttered.

"Are you all genin?" Kaien asked. They nodded their heads simultaneously. Kaien personally wanted to get away from them as soon as he could, but unfortunately for him, that doesn't happen.

"Why are you in Konoha?" Kiba snapped.

"Chuunin Exams," Kaien said simply, turning and marching away. If they yelled something at Kaien, he didn't hear them. He turned his eyes to the morning sky, some clouds floating by. There then was a wall of little insects in front of him. Kaien scowled and promptly threw a kunai at them. The insects moved out of the path of the kunai and subsequently, back into place. Kaien whirled on the spot to face the Konoha genin.

"Why are you really in Konoha?" Kiba snapped, Akamaru growling.

"I told you," Kaien sighed, "I'm here with my team mates, who are still sleeping, for the Chuunin Exams. Do you really think that I would be blatantly wearing my headband if I were here otherwise?" Kiba stopped, obviously dumbfounded by Kaien's reasoning.

"You never know," Shino muttered.

Above their heads, two kunoichi were waking up. Aiki threw her windows open and gazed down to seem what the commotion was. Isuzu was getting dressed when Kiba was yelling. She was not as mad as Aiki, who was still sleeping at that point.

"Kaien, were you going to leave without us?" Aiki yelled down to them. Kaien turned his head up to her and nodded. Isuzu had her window open all night as well and she clicked her tongue. She finished tying her headband around her neck and leapt out of the window. She landed gracefully beside Kaien.

"Nekoshi Isuzu, of Kumogakure," Isuzu said quickly, not wanting any of them to ask her for her name. She had been eavesdropping long enough to hear their names. Aiki, on the other hand, was still up in her room, getting dressed. She already had her fishnet shirt on, so she leaned out the now opened window.

"Don't leave without me," she yelled at her partners.

"Like I would leave without my twin sister," Isuzu muttered under her breath. Kaien quickly elbowed her and she reacted melodramatically. They received puzzled looks from the Konoha genin, which made them instantly plaster fake smiles on their faces. Back in her room, Aiki was pulling her hair into the side ponytail and pinning her bangs aside. Whilst doing this, her mind was wandering. She yawned, which reminded her of how little sleep she had and of her encounter with the Sand genin. The corner of Aiki's lips curled.

"Aiki, you'd better get down here soon, or we'll leave without you," her sister called. Aiki quickly pulled on her kimono (or whatever you would call it) and tied her headband to hold it in place. She almost literally dove out of the window, but as she and Isuzu was from a Cat clan, she landed on her feet. Aiki was congratulated with a glare from Isuzu. Kaien nodded toward the three genin, who were equally freaked out, except for Shino, who probably doesn't get freaked out considering that her lets bugs live inside him…

Anyways, Aiki looked over at them and smiled.

"I'm Nekoshi Aiki," she smiled, throwing her arms over Isuzu's shoulder, "and this is my twin sibling, Isuzu." There was no response from Kiba, Hinata, nor Shino, but who would really expect Shino to answer. Kaien, whose attention span was a little lacking at that moment, sighed while turning to walk away.

"See you in the Chuunin exams," Isuzu muttered, chasing after Kaien. Aiki frowned and apologized to the Konoha shinobi before running after her friends.

Once they were out of ear shot, Aiki lightly hit both Kaien and Isuzu on the back of the head.

"What was that for?" Kaien snapped.

"For being rude and just walking away, both of you," Aiki scolded.

"It doesn't matter," Isuzu sighed, "besides, we have a free day today, to do whatever we want!" She ran out in front of the pack and threw her arms up toward the sky. She spun a little, before getting a glare from her twin. Aiki yawned again, this time, her mouth opening wide.

"Not enough sleep?" Kaien asked, though he kind of already knew the answer.

"I guess, but it doesn't help either when you have a recurring dream," Aiki groaned. She scratched the back of her head and then yawned again. Isuzu felt a little better now, though she was still half asleep, but she couldn't help but feel as though they were being watched. Isuzu caught a glimpse of some movement within the trees. She stopped in her tracks and closed her eyes to listen for a clue as to what the movement was. There was no noise except for the footsteps and whispers of her team mates.

"She stopped," Kaien muttered. "Do you know what she's doing?"

"Truthfully, I have no clue what she's doing," Aiki whispered. The two walked up behind Isuzu, who was still in listening mode.

"Izu, what are you doing?" Aiki said loudly.

"I'm listening," Isuzu answered calmly, "so that if someone is thinking of ambushing us, they won't get to hurt you."

"Isuzu, I'm not a child, I'm only seven minutes younger than you," Aiki sighed, rolling her eyes. "Plus, you're the medic-nin of our group." Kaien stepped in between the siblings before unwarranted bickering could ensue.

"Stop it you two," Kaien said calmly. "We should decide on choices of what to do before we start the bickering."

"Kaien is right, surprisingly enough," Aiki gasped.

"I say that we train," Isuzu chimed.

"I say that we explore the village, and train," Aiki smiled.

"I say that we just take it easy," Kaien sighed.

"How about we do everything?" said a nauseatingly eager voice. None of our little Cloud genin was particularly wide awake, but they all could recognize the voice. The figure that Isuzu had sensed was Kikyo, who was lurking in the trees for the right time to make an entrance. Kikyo jumped from the tree and onto the ground in front of them.

"I thought that you said that we had a free day?" asked Aiki.

"Well, I was thinking of training a little bit too," Kikyo laughed, scratching the back of her neck. The truth was that she was worried about what her students would do that entire day, not to mention that Aiki was marked by Gaara. Kaien sensed the weird vibe coming off of his adoptive mother.

It's like she's hiding something from us, he thought. Kaien shrugged it off, not really caring what it was. A loud yawn broke the silence.

"I believe that Isuzu and Aiki wanted to train, so we'll do that last," Kikyo chuckled. There was a groan from both Isuzu and Aiki and a small smile from Kaien. Kikyo saw her students were not amused, but she would make sure that they would get through the day safe and sound.

"We will explore the village, considering it is your first time here," Kikyo added under her breath, "and probably not your last."

"Did you say something Kikyo-sensei?" Isuzu snapped.

"Nope, nothing at all," Kikyo smiled. Isuzu raised an eyebrow, but Kikyo kept her face lit up.

"Where should we go first?" Aiki asked.

"I heard that there was a good ramen place in Konoha," Kaien muttered.

"Let's go for it," Kikyo bellowed. Her voice rang out and a few of the passer-bys' heads turned. Kikyo simply smiled while the kids were felling embarrassed.

"Mom, you are utterly embarrassing," Kaien said bluntly.

"It's what I do," she smiled. She ushered then to walk ahead of her, though she knew where she was going. The genin walked ahead, not exchanging any words. They continued on in silence, as the awkwardness grew. Aiki gradually stopped yawning and Isuzu began to feel totally awake. Kaien was, well, just himself. They took multiple turns and even dashed through narrow alleyways. They found themselves, in the Konoha Tea Avenue.

"Let's just face it," Kaien muttered, "we're lost."

"Nah," Isuzu said, "I think that we're just taking a detour."

"A very long detour," Aiki muttered. They stopped in the middle of the road and glanced around. There were people scurrying along, buying all varieties of tea and roasted chestnuts.

"I'm going to buy some chestnuts," Aiki said, heading toward a stand, pulling out some money.

"I guess we'll wait for you then," Isuzu said, rolling her eyes a little. Aiki paid for two servings and went back with her team mates. She immediately opened one package and shoved the other one into her pouch. She reached into the bag and pulled out some chestnuts. Aiki popped a few into her mouth and chewed.

"Oh my god," she said with her mouth full. Isuzu and Kaien looked from her to each other, since all they heard was some muffled ramblings. Aiki held out the bag to them. She swallowed what she had in her mouth.

"Try some," she offered, shaking the bag a little. Isuzu and Kaien reached in and took a few. They chewed and the delectable flavours were spread all over their tongues.

"Mm," Isuzu and Kaien hummed. They happily ate their chestnuts and suddenly realized that Kikyo had disappeared.

"Where did she go?" Isuzu groaned.

"Who really knows," Kaien sighed. "She's always disappearing on me whenever we go shopping down at the market, not after slipping me some money and a shopping list."

"Poor Kaien," Aiki said sarcastically. The trio laughed, their slight hunger sated by the chestnuts. Aiki crumpled the empty bag and tossed it into the nearest container.

The genin headed down the avenue, checking out each little stand and sampling different teas. They came to a shop called Amaguriama. Three people, who were probably about their age were sitting front and eating. One was quite plump with sandy brown and a weird shaped headband. He had the largest portion and was stuffing it in his face. The middle one was a girl with straw tinted hair and purple clothing. She was quite thin, and her headband hung just below her hips. The last one had jet black hair pulled back into a little tuft. His ears were pierced and his headband was pinned to his small shirt. They ate happily.

"Shikamaru, will you buy me some more food?" the plump one whined.

"Choji, you practically ate out the whole store," the girl shouted.

"Just because you worry about your figure, Ino," the last one muttered.

"Well, excuse me Shikamaru," the girl groaned. Our little genin were intrigued by this scene so they moved closer, though warily.

"We have onlookers," the last one said, pointing to the gang. When the diners turned their heads, the group flinched a little.

"Who are you?" the girl snapped.

"We're from Kumogakure," Kaien stated.

"We can see that," the last one said.

"That's Nekoshi Aiki and Miyagi Kaien," Isuzu pointed out, "and I'm Nekoshi Isuzu."

"Yamanaka Ino," the girl said.

"Akimichi Choji," the plump boy chirped with his mouth full of whatever he was eating.

"Nara Shikamaru," the last one said quite lazily.

"Why are ninja from Kumogakure here?" asked Ino.

"It's called the Chuunin exams," Isuzu said rolling her eyes.

"No need to be rude about it, Izu," Aiki whispered in an angry tone.

"Shush," Kaien said. "Is the food any good here?"

"I love it," Choji cheered.

"Choji you love any type of food," Ino snapped.

"Just because I actually like food, Ino," Choji griped.

"Girls like skinny boys and vice versa," Ino scolded.

"Is that true?" Aiki whispered to Isuzu.

"Not really," Isuzu muttered back.

"Come on, you two," Shikamaru said, standing up and moving in front of the arguing shinobi. "He asked a simple question."

"It doesn't matter any more," Kaien sighed, "I think I lost my appetite."

"Besides, we just ate a bunch of chestnuts earlier," Aiki smiled.

"See you guys in the Chuunin exams, I guess," Isuzu said, seizing Aiki and Kaien's wrists and dragging them away.

"See you later," Aiki called.

They then headed off into an alleyway, just to try a short cut. They walked through it and noticed that there was a group of three people.

The first boy that they noticed had blond hair and wore a bright orange and blue jumpsuit. The only girl had long pink hair and wore a red dress. The other boy wore a blue shirt and beige shorts, and his navy hair was spiked up in the back. Each one of them had a headband that had the Leaf symbol on it. Our little Kumo-genin approached them with caution, in case they tried to attack.

"Hey, more foreign ninja," the one clad in orange shouted.

"Can't you keep still for one second, Naruto?" the pink-haired one asked.

"Hn," the last one grunted. Before they knew it, the orange one, whom they assumed was named Naruto, had run over to the Cloud genin.

(A/N: This is probably right after the encounter with The Sand Siblings…It'll probably come up.)

"There is even Cloud Genin coming for the Chuunin exams," Naruto chuckled. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Dattebayo!"

"No comment," Isuzu said. Aiki elbowed her twin in the side.

"That was rude," she muttered, pulling her aside.

"I really didn't have any comment," Isuzu retorted.

"That still was rude, we don't even know them," Aiki muttered.

"Miyagi Kaien," Kaien simply stated, glancing at the twins. They rushed back over. Aiki had a smile on her face and Isuzu had a scowl.

"Haruno Sakura," the pink-haired one said. The last one didn't say anything, just simply stood there.

"I'm Nekoshi Aiki, and this is my twin, Isuzu," Aiki introduced, Isuzu raising her hand when her name was mentioned.

"Uchiha Sasuke," the other boy finally said, in an aloof kind of way.

"Sasuke, you are so cool," Sakura muttered out loud. Then, Naruto looked at Sasuke with a look of absolute jealousy.

"I don't think that he's that great," Isuzu said.

"Me neither," Aiki agreed, "but he does have that, 'I'm silent, but elite and all the girls fall for me' look-slash-attitude going for him."

"Are you here for the Chuunin exams?" Naruto asked suddenly.

"How did you know?" Kaien gasped.

"We just came by some freaks from Suna," Sakura said.

"One had red and carried a gourd," Sasuke muttered.

"Gaara," Aiki said almost breathlessly.

"How did you know?" Sasuke inquired.

"You don't want to know," Aiki said.

"He's a freak that's for sure," Isuzu muttered. Aiki then began to feel a little uneasy. She wondered what he was doing, wandering around.

"He had two other people with him," Naruto chipped in.

"Probably his team mates," Sakura commented.

"The other guy was named Kankuro, but I don't think we learned the girl's name," Naruto said.

"True enough, true enough, but do you guys have your passes? We can't let you go without showing them to us," Sakura said.

"I think my mother gave it to me," Kaien sighed, reaching into his pouch and pulling out a small little card with a stamp on it.

"Oh okay," Sakura said.

"See you at the Chuunin exams then," Aiki smiled.

"Dattebayo," Naruto hollered. The teams went their separate ways, but it was not the end of the day yet. It's called night time.

Rin: Once again, I'm sorry that this took so long, but I found out that I'm going to England in the middle of August. YAY! I am so excited. Anyways, I hope that you liked this new installment of this story. I must say, that I practically rewrote the ENTIRE chapter I had for this. I APOLOGIZE TO THE WORLD!! lmao. Okami-san is funny.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW, or else I'll think that you readers hate my writing and I may never ever write again…