AN.

I WAS GOING TO POST THIS YESTERDAY I SWEAR BUT FAT-BITCHION WOULDNT LET ME EDIT THIS IN DOC MANAGER. I AM NOT LYING BECAUSE:

1.) I ASKED MY SIS IF SHE CAN UPLOAD A DOCX HERE AND SHE CAN'T AND

2.) I HAVE THE MYSTICAL MAGICAL RESOURCE OF SCREENSHOTS

Therefore, it is not my fault :')

I had a party on Monday so I couldn't post batshit and this chapter was absolutely fun to write therefore I do not deserve your pitchforks!

But like y'all are nice in the holidays. Probably still drunk on wine and Christmas ham but whatever. Enjoy the pt. 2 of this double post.

WARNING...HOLIDAY SPIRIT

ALSO THE LOVELY COVERART WITH COLOR WAS MADE BY MY BEST FRIEND(ANDSNAKE) Lynquine

The test was nothing noteworthy. Well, aside from the distinct smell of sweat, nervousness and fear. Unlike in the anime, the test was an actual test which meant that you really do have to study and solve. We still had to cheat to get the answer, though but it was nice that my studying wasn't in vain. For the questions I couldn't answer, some random butterfly seemed to come through the window and rest its body against some of the smarter ones (Kakashi, for example) and another smaller butterfly would hide behind my ear.

Nobody expects the butterfly.

But of course, Kakashi did since I didn't trust anyone's answers except the prodigy himself. Since I was one of the first ones to leave, Kakashi being the actual first, it was pretty easy to confront me and accuse me of cheating. The thing was, though, he didn't confront me about cheating. He just gave me a distasteful sideways glance before walking down the hallway with his hands in his pocket. I shrugged it off since it was a natural reaction for someone that wanted to be professional to a person that they disliked with a passion. He probably wasn't over the whole "hey, you wanna see your dead daddy?" thing in the genin exams. That was fair. I didn't need him as a friend even though he was one of my favorite characters.

It was that day I realized that my favorite characters aren't that likable. Like, at all.

What I was more concerned with was the lacking of foreign ninja and teams. I knew the chunin exams should have had both and I thought being in the declining side of the war wouldn't change that as they would promote teamwork and stuff to make future cells to go in teams. This should have been the way Konoha promoted themselves to the other villages that aren't Iwagakure and maybe even Kirigakure.

It seems it didn't.

I could respect the Hokage's decision to do what he did and played safe, just in case the two villages decided to team up and kill the poor genin travelling across their country. I think that we could have had a chunin exam in Suna but with Kirigakure openly announcing that they declared war on Konoha probably made the Hokage shake in his slippers. It seems that the Yuki Clan was more of a trouble than they were worth. Kiri didn't even do the whole "here is our terms for peace" shit despite it being a mandatory formality in war. The papers said that the new Mizukage was all about killing traitors and he wanted the Yuki to die with Konoha.

Now that Kiri actually wanted to kill the Yuki (and probably killed the other Yuki Clan members that were left behind), my mom told me that their probation was devoid now and most of the members entered the academy.

Good for them.

The next part of the chunin exams wasn't all about teamwork unlike the anime. Konoha probably didn't have enough candidates and might even result in conscripting for civilians to become ninja but that wasn't my problem. It was all about individuality and if we can go to the mission independently, even without a given cell.

They gave us twenty two people who didn't chicken out individual scrolls with different colors. The proctor then informed us that these scrolls represent important documents, the scroll of Heaven and Earth. We need to get the scroll with the same band as ours. These two scrolls would therefore symbolize our competency in retrieving real life documents from the enemy and stealing said papers. It was a smart test but a test is still a test, and tests are a big headache if my two lives didn't stress those enough. It was obvious that it would be best if we got them without our opponents knowing, but if they do then we had to open the scroll at the same time so a proctor would ensure that we don't compromise each other for life because we still needed to have a fair fight.

I still didn't get the whole "ninja honor" thing. Aren't we supposed to be killers for hire? What's up with the "respect your opponent" and "give your opponent a fighting chance"?

When I asked that to Obito, I got a lengthy sermon from him of all people. That told me that I shouldn't ask those questions to anybody.

I sat down in the waiting field, my red scroll of Earth in my hand. I covered my eyes, as if rubbing them, but in reality, I activated my Byakugan. I scanned the field to find the red scroll of Heaven's owner. He was a fourteen year old dude, short, blonde which was tied into a really small ponytail with an affinity for fire. I deactivated my eyes and sighed deeply. I checked my pouches and bag for everything I needed before running into the Forest of Death when it was time.

I began my strategizing as I ran around the dark and damp trees. Not really strategizing, more like making a simple flowchart. All of this depends on various dependent variables so I need this to be really adjustable. Okay, first of all, locate target. If sensor, wait till he sleeps, if not, trap him in a subtle genjutsu and steal his scroll. If found, quickly incapacitate with a chakra induced jab to the heart. Finish quickly and efficiently and make way for the tower in the middle. Watch out for pests and be on my merry way. My Byakugan specialized in seeing in dimly lit places and my general flexibility and X-ray vision made things all easier.

My snake contract also made me into a bona fide snake whisperer. And it didn't even use chakra! The Forest of Death had a lot of those giant serpents and whenever they approached me, I literally became Harry Potter and told them to leave me alone. They complied easily and their gigantic bodies slithered around the tree and left.

I probably could ride them if I wanted to but I needed to be subtle if I didn't want a "fair fight".

It was easy to fail the chunin exams and it could have been a viable option for me if it wasn't for both Hyūga Hiashi and Hyūga Hitachi (the former Clan leader) appearing in my compound when I was playing with my baby brother and told me that if I passed the chunin exams this early, they will think about sponsoring Tokuma's whole ninja career. I was happy about that and I didn't want to fail but they were so mean and pressuring about it with the speech being "You are a Hyūga and you must bring this family honor, so you must pass even if it kills you."

Meanwhile, Seto training me was as much as a Hyūga fanatic as those two combined. At the last day, the fucker crammed so much techniques and strategies that I could have sworn my fingers became numb after the spar. "Prove to those Main Family that the Branch Family can and will surpass them! In the name of Hyūga!" He shouted after slamming the center of my chakra after he successfully did all 32 palms while I could barely do 16 palms.

But Akinosuke, the angel, gave me all the niceties that those white eyed monsters didn't give me. He told me this after I successfully summoned two large snakes and a Labyrinth genjutsu without getting a headache that lasted for five minutes.

"Just survive and I'll be happy."

Yes.

The encouragement I needed.

I activated my Byakugan once more before going into the tedious processes of locating the blonde kid's chakra signature, a very distinct slow burning ember. The tracking bit of the exam was the difficulty one for me instead of the surviving in unknown territory. I had X-ray vision to see where to go and what to do after I go there. I didn't need a light thanks to the magical goggles that the cats gave me (the only good thing about the trip) and the butterfly seal on my fingertips that sped me up if there was a gargantuan tiger in the forest floor. It took two hours (counting the twenty five minute breaks I gave myself and my eyes) for me to find him loitering in one big tree with traps strewn around.

Well, camping is one way to do it. My stalking tendencies for chicken in Sora-ku helped me on this one when I needed to find an opening to get the scroll in jacket's inner pocket.

His back was against a tree and the scroll was in his jacket's inner pocket. He was tense and ready for anything.

Dammit, this might be harder than I thought.

The problem was his chakra actually told me that he was ready for anything by the way it was quiet and still, like a snake about to spring. The fact that the scroll was in his jacket's inner pocket wasn't a good thing, either since that only left the options to either poison him (which he might be prepared for), incanpacitate him with snakes (which he probably was used to countering with all the giant species even I wasn't familiar with) and genjutsu (the safest option).

I positioned myself so I could still see him, one of Akinosuke's butterflies being one with nature and resting on the bark above his head. He didn't even detect the slightly larger than average chakra signature the butterfly was giving. "It should be safe", I thought before I deactivated my Byakugan as another butterfly perched on my right shoulder.

"I will inform you when he sleeps. For now, take a break." He recommended which I gladly complied after hours and hours of running and climbing and tracking. Despite my exhaustion, the exam really wasn't so hard despite how much the anime and manga keeps telling us, just avoid the tigers, bigass snakes (Orochimaru is that you?!) and other monstrosities like plants with a butt-load of chakra that looked suspiciously poisonous and you'll be fine. Well, that was coming from a girl with X-Ray eyes and was friendly with snakes, so...

Eh, let bygones be bygones.

The teen didn't stand a chance at Akinsouke's Mangyekō Illusions: Restless Sleep. He'd probably stay there till he realizes it's a loop, approximately three to five minutes if one day was equivalent to thirty seconds real time. When he told me that this was the genjutsu that the old man trapped me with, I went headfirst into wanting to learn it. The butterfly king told me that it wasn't really a combat genjutsu that I couldn't use willy-nilly and that it required a steady amount of concentration and a lot of chakra (which I have but didn't have access to like a shitty 32-bit computer) so we just focused on strengthening my Labyrinth genjutsu. I hastily disabled all the traps revealed with my birthright and stole his red Scroll of Heaven. I avoided the monstrosities and made a beeline for the tower without many problems afterwards.

Oh, Kakashi was the first one there, predictably.

"He smells like dogs..." The twins whispered that was small enough to wrap around my neck whispered since I summoned them to make sure that he wasn't tailing me. I tried to avert his attention even though that might be hard for my attention grabbing eyes and live shoelaces with a mutation wrapped around my neck.

"So…horrible?" I whispered,

"Yes, very repulsive. Dogs have a distinct scent of dirt, parasites, and excrement. Blood usually masks the smell effectively." Hisa hissed lowly, using her tongue to taste the air before doing a snake equivalent of a gag. "We should mask it, it has a horrible taste" she offered, being the more blood thirsty one. There wasn't any word to describe it, but it was just so anime that the calm and collected one was more blood thirsty than the loud and vulgar one. The undertone was obvious that my personal summons wanted to kill him because of his repulsive scent that I couldn't pick up on.

Not unless he kills me first.

He snorted rudely at me when I body flickered with butterflies to enter the tower, directly next to the prodigy in front of the desk. I tilted my head at the silver haired, masked brat. He said nothing, not even commenting on my beautiful necklace, before walking away, continuing whatever he was doing before. I walked to the proctor and handed the two scrolls to him with a pleasant smile. He stared dumbfounded at the little girl of six, bright eyed with little or to dirt, tears or scars, handing him the a pair of scrolls with a cheeky yet polite smile.

"H-how?!" He asked urgently. I turned with a smile while my snakes coiled around my neck did the snake equivalent of a giggle which sounded really weird but they had their own habits. "Byakugan and knock-out genjutsu." I answered with an honest shrug. Oh, Byakugan, I'm so sorry for ever doubting you. You really are the best dōjutsu in Naruto. Well, no that was a lie. The Sharingan had the potential to slice mountains in half with ease and the Rinnegan can summon black holes like their nothing. It's fine, though. I got over having the inferior dōjutsu after multiple instances where having no X-ray vision could have killed me.

Heard a strange sound? If not, Byakugan, if you did, Byakugan. Sniffed a weird smell? If not, Byakugan, if you did, Byakuga. Feel weird? If not, pray to God that it wasn't a tape worm and if you did then your fucked because you probably stepped on the killer moss. That's how you deal with forest of death. Oh, and cat reflexes. Lots and lots of cat reflexes. Saved me from a lot of poisonous that I didn't see.

I walked to the infirmary to check if I had any diseases. The nurse was surprised before shaking her head and muttering a low "Kids these days." which made the Tada-twins snort before returning to Ryūchi Cave since the job was done. Those two were my personal "eyes-on-the-back-of-my-head no jutsu" since they were too small to do anything. While the nurse was checking for anything I might have gotten in that death hole of a forest, I couldn't help about the teen I stole from.

The poor kid though, waking up from whatever he was doing to find out that his scroll was gone at the last minute. I deserved a few underhanded victories, right?

We waited for two days, the twenty two arriving. Some smug, some heartbroken, some tired, some bloody but they all wouldn't receive special treatment if they came literally on the last day. One day break for resupplying then proceed with the part I will probably not succeed in.

The tournament,

"Hyūga Tokina and Yamada Taro, please come to the arena." The proctor called to us as the two other contestants were strolled away in stretchers. It was a pretty intense match with involving burning swords and piercing kunais. Like a shounen anime. I bit my lip in nervousness since the literally Hokage and other important figures were gazing down on us. I prepared my wits and body for this therefore I should be fine! If I follow my plan correctly then it wouldn't matter who fought against me, I should win.

Poor viewers who are potentially watching my life in some fucked up OVA of Naruto or something. Using genjutsu, psychology and sneakiness to win is probably the most boring fight you guys will ever see. You know, like a ninja and not some budget Saiyan. I'm looking at you, Jinchūrikis.

I jumped down on the arena, feeling curious eyes boring on my back because, surprise, six year old girlie trapped with probably fourteen year old muscular dude that could probably break me with one hit of that giant fist of his that was raising a speculative eyebrow before sneering.

"Are you really going to do this, girl? You can wait a few years." He arrogantly chided with some strange sexual innuendo hanging in the air. The proctor nodded and he waited for my response of banter instead of just starting the damn thing. My nerves were killing me despite my face being cold yet ever smiling so even if I did open my mouth a strange splutter in an unknown language would come out.

I continued to smile at him. He snorted and rolled his eyes before readying is stance as the proctor raised his hand. The whole crowd tensed in anticipation. Hidden away from their eyes, I readied three senbons that were masked in my oversized sleeves from my arm holster. So I play dirty? Sue me. The proctor eyed us carefully before lowering his hand. No snakes. I want to save that till I run out of cards.

"Begin."

I activated my Byakugan and threw the three senbon after half a second of deciding where to strike. They were for assessment, not for the killing blow because let's face it—ninja tools are honestly useless in the late game. I aimed for both of his eyes and the heart, the two primary targets when trying to kill someone with ninja tools. I need to see if I can incapacitate him quickly enough. If he can dodge this then I may need to speed things up a bit. A Mangyekō Illusion then just jab my fingers were it hurts should easily do the trick even if he was fifty percent muscle.

He narrowly escaped the volley, his exposed shoulder bleeding slightly from the graze. He was slow for a ninja. He looked unfazed, though. We could conclude that he was durable and slow, like a tank. Taro did look like a tank though. He ran to me with a promise of a punch. I ducked under it and slid under his arm and threw more of the needles. The way his chakra was gathering in his feet made me assume that he was going to try and kick me.

I was right.

Thank you, mom, for teaching me how to read chakra.

I sidestepped his kick and delivered a Jyūken jab to his bicep. He all but smiled when it hit.

"So that's the famed Jyūken of the Hyūga? You really should have just forfeited, girl." He snarked before giving me a nice punch to the cheek which sent me flying,

Fuck, please tell me that I didn't lose any teeth.

I want a boyfriend before the age of thirty.

I maneuvered in the air to prevent myself from landing butt first in the cold cement. I whipped the blood off with my sleeve and glared at the laughing teen. He underestimates me, so that's a plus. If I abuse my speed training from the cats and the Hyūga then I could end this with a jab from the heart, not even needing my snakes which only had only a few moments of field experience. But if he breaks my hand by catching them mid-air it'll be all over. Incapacitating him with genjutsu would be difficult and a battle of endurance was definitely out of the picture. His chakra control sucked, though, by how sporadic it was and how much he was wasting it by passively channeling his chakra into his fist. But maybe...

Well, that would probably work. Just make him underestimate me even more and purposely reveal myself.

He stepped forward and charged for a punch, his foot creating a small crater.

Strong,

Very strong,

Didn't end me in one punch, though, so that's something I was thankful for. He could've if he hit me in the chin, square in my face or stomach but that was his loss.

Step one: Make him believe he was the boss.

I ran to him, senbons in my right and a palm in my left. He dodged the volley of needles and endured the Jyūken barrage I sent to his left arm. Even if he tanked it, enough sealed chakra points would have made him lose his feeling in this left arm all together. He seemed to realize what the hell Jyūken was so he sidestepped the final jab that could have cut the chakra flow from his upper arm to his forearm, making his hand useless. He channeled a lot of chakra into his fist and he smirked as he felt his fist collide with my stomach. Or so he thought, the clone turned into a kaleidoscope of multi-colored butterflies that were harmless. He flailed the butterflies away violently in irritation.

Step two: Get him on guard.

"What the hell?!" His epitome a misogynistic male voice shot through in alarm. I revealed myself, in a fair distance, making a show of preparing my Mangyekō Illusion: World of Butterflies, him letting me stand still while I do that. He seemed to regain his senses and surprisingly did a jutsu of his own that was quicker than my own hand seals since, to be fair, I was doing a dramatic twelve hand seal jutsu.

"Earth Release: Mud Wave!"

The ground shook and did motions unnatural in my world. It was too smooth for an earthquake. I rolled my eyes and ran to the wall of the arena and ran around, continuing my seals as he threw kunai in my trail. Wall walking should be a topic in the academy. Thank god for Orochimaru being a good teacher at least even if he was bloodthirsty. He seemed to realize that he was wasting his chakra by continuing his Earth Release jutsu and so he stopped. He threw more kunai at me, trying to stop my slow and dramatic jutsu.

The ground stopped shaking as I took to the floor again, about to finish my genjutsu while butterflies speedily fluttered out of my sleeves and surrounded the whole building like it was a forest. He kept his eyes on me while I ran to him, shouting. "My ultimate genjutsu, Mangyekō Illusions: World of Butterflies!" I screamed, hyped as I landed directly in front of his wide eyes. The butterflies spun around the stage and made a multitude of colors, promising nothing but death and a loss.

He flinched.

I smirked.

"Sucker," I muttered as I jabbed my chakra infused index and middle hard on his heart, enough to stop it for a few seconds for his blood to stop pumping for a while. It wasn't the heart stopping that made him unconscious but the sudden shock of the overload of chakra in the point near the actual organ. The muscular man gasped as my fingers connected and spit out blood despite me just gently jabbing him. He clenched his heart and fell before me. The butterflies stopped being so dramatic and flew back into my sleeves.

I tried my best not to snicker at the man's unconscious drooling face of shock and disbelief.

There was a collective and shocked silence because, surprise, nobody taught of making someone think of you making a super cool jutsu before stabbing them in their chest?

It's called a feint people. Stop expecting a ninja to make a laser that would kill them instantly.

The proctor snorted at the cheek and waited five seconds for the guy to get up. "Hyūga Tokina wins." He announced as I deactivated my Byakugan.

Please, do continue to underestimate me. I'm serious, that was a dangerous factor to my plan. It was an obvious dependent variable that probably wouldn't be the next opponents mistake.

AN.

This isn't a cliff hanger right? My friend keeps telling me that I end my chapters in cliffhangers when I really don't mean too. Besides, I'm going to post another one this Sunday anyway.

Literally just checked my calendar after writing the above, realizes Sunday is actually new years.

wELL,

Thank you for all the kind reviews! Really made my holiday better after the shit I've been through in this goddamn December. If y'all don't mind I wouldn't mind having...more. Enjoy life. :)

ANIME RECCOMENDATIONS PLEASE (Specifically the serious kind,)

I've literally been watching joke anime like Tsure x dure children and Net-juu no susume and Kiss him, not me. I know, I know, but Debby you like romantic comedies

I WANNA WATCH REAL SHIT. I tried Bakemonogatari or more like trying since it's such a headache to watch. Currently in Ep. 6 and I feel like I wanna drop it. I'm an avid fan of Madoka Magica and know these kinds of anime takes time but hory shitu it is literally a headache to watch. It's that intense.

SO PM ME SERIOUS ANIME.