Morning
Liana woke up to the sun on her face, the sound of birds and the smell of lilies. She sat up to see there was a pot of fresh lilies on the desk in front of the sunlight for plenty of sun and the window was open.
"Who left these here," she said and walked over to the plant. She smelled the flowers and took in the familiar scent when she noticed there was a card on it but it was blank.
"Now who would send a pot of flowers but leave the card blank. Oh well," she said as she got ready for the day.
Liana got dressed for training while you were wondering what the big announcement was that Gai sensei was going to tell. She got dressed into her usual outfit of black pants, short blue skirt on top, white tank top with long sleeved fish net shirt underneath and blue fingerless gloves. She then fastened a white belt of ink bottles around her waist and another one around her neck like a choker. She left after grabbing an apple and put her shoes on. She ate the apple and threw the core away in a trash can when she saw Tenten was walking towards her.
"Hey, Tenten," Liana said and caught Tenten's attention.
"Liana," Tenten said as she waved and ran towards Liana.
"Come on, we better see what Gai sensei's big announcement is," she said and they walked to the veranda. They arrived to see the boys were already there including Gai sensei.
"Glad to see you two could join us," Gai said.
"You're welcome, so what is the big news," Liana asked as she sat on the end next to Tenten.
"Well, my news is, I have entered you four into the chunnin exams. You four are my best students and I entered Liana this year because of her experience to be able to get out of close situations," Gai said and Liana nodded.
"Here are your forms. Turn them in at the academy on your way to room 311. I will see you all later at the exams," he said and walked away after giving each of them the forms.
"This must be pretty important," Liana said.
"It is, Gai sensei held us back so we would have more training," Tenten said.
"Oh, Tenten you would not believe what I found in my room this morning," Liana said as she filled out the form.
"What is it," Tenten asked as she saw the boy's were wondering as well.
"I found a pot of Lilies on my desk with a card but the card was not signed," she said as she finished filling out the form.
"So, you have a secret admirer, I wonder who it is," Tenten said.
"Probably someone who knows your favorite flower is Lilies," Lee said.
"Someone who knows where your room is," Tenten said as they turned their heads toward Neji.
"Why are you all looking at me," he asked.
"Well, you know a lot about her," Lee said.
"Yes but I didn't put the pot of Lilies on her desk," Neji said.
"Then who did, you are the one other person who has been in my room," she said as Tenten and Lee looked at Neji.
"Not that way I was in her room. Sorry but I did not put any flowers on your desk. Come on, we better get to the academy," he said and they all nodded in agreement. They left the veranda to the academy for the exams. She walked with Tenten while Neji walked with Lee.
"So, who do you think gave you the flowers," Tenten asked.
"I have no idea to tell the truth, who other than Neji would give me flowers," Liana asked.
"I would because you are a nice and pretty girl who deserves flowers," Lee said as he turned and struck a pose with that smile.
"*giggle* Thanks Lee you are sweet but I don't think you would know my favorite flower until today and is the only flower I am not allergic to," she said as he stop his pose and continued his walk with Neji in a sulking mood.
"Enough about the flowers, we need to focus on the exams not some secret admirer," Neji said sternly.
"Hey, watch it Neji, you're just jealous because someone else gave her flowers before you could," Tenten said and his face got serious and was about to say something when Liana interrupted.
"It's alright, Tenten, we do need to focus on the exams not some admirer," Liana said and Neji's face softened.
They remained silent as they walked into the academy. They were walking up the steps when they saw a commotion on the second floor. They were all genin and there was a room marked 311 when it was only the second floor.
Genjutsu
They walked to where squad seven was confronting a couple of genin guarding the door.
They are Chunnin disguised as genin, how typical of chunnin to play a joke on the genin.
The Chunnin discontinued the jutsu when she heard squad seven confront about it being the second floor. The 311 on the door changed to 211 and she looked at Neji to see he was looking at Sasuke.
"Tell me, what is your name," Neji asked as he stepped forward.
"You want to know my name too," Naruto asked as he stepped in front of Sasuke.
"No, the one with the attitude," Neji said and Naruto just walked away and complained about nobody wanting to know his name.
"Why should I tell you my name, normally someone says their name before asking for others," Sasuke said.
"What did you say," Neji said as she saw he wanted to fight Sasuke.
"Neji, don't, this is not an official match," she said as she walked forward but they started to throw a punch or a kick at each other when Lee interfered and caught both their blows.
"Liana is right, this is not an official match," he said and let them go when he caught the sight of Sakura.
Oh no, not again...
"Hello, I am Rock Lee and if you will be my girlfriend I will protect you with my life," he said as he struck his pose while Sakura started freaking out.
"NO, your eyebrows are bushy and your haircut is ridiculous and don't get me started on the outfit," she said causing Lee to act the same way as Naruto and started to anger Liana too.
"Hey, no one talks like that about him except me," she said as she stepped in front of Sakura.
"Oh and who is going to make me," Sakura said as Liana wanted to strangle her but felt someone grab her wrist. She looked expecting to see Neji but saw it was Sasuke instead.
"You better let go of her/me," Neji and Liana said as Liana looked at him to see there was something in his eyes while Neji was looking at Sasuke.
"What if I don't want to, maybe I want to kiss her," Sasuke said as Liana's eyes widen as did Sakura and a few other girls who must be his fan girls.
"Why would I want to kiss you," Liana said but Sasuke just smirked while Neji had an annoyance look on his face. She was about to walk away from him but then felt Neji grab her other wrist, Sasuke let go and Neji took her with him.
"Let's go, Liana, I have had enough of this," Neji said as she nodded then Neji let go of her while Tenten and Lee followed the two of them.
"Hey wait up," Tenten said as they slowed down.
"Neji what was that all about," Lee asked.
"Nothing," Neji said.
"It sure didn't look like nothing," Liana said.
"I just didn't like the way he talked about you the way he did, that is all," Neji said.
"You sure there isn't more," she asked.
"Why would there be more. I just didn't like the way he was looking at you and wanting to kiss you," he said.
"I will join you guys later, I have something I must do," Lee said and walked away. Liana continued walking with Neji and Tenten to the room and walked inside with them to see squad seven was not there.
"I'll go see what is taking Lee so long," Liana said.
"Alright, go and check," Neji said and she left. She was walking down the hallway when she saw Lee walking with Gai sensei.
"Gai sensei, what are you doing here," she asked.
"Keeping him out of trouble, he got caught by me fighting the Uchiha," he said.
"Lee, you idiot," she said as she slapped him on the back of the head when she noticed Gai sensei was looking at her ink.
"What is it, Gai sensei," she asked.
"I thought I saw something in your ink," he said.
"Might just be a clot of ink, it tends to do that," she said and he nodded.
"Alright, now you two go in there and give it your all," he said and they nodded. They walked back to the room and sat with Neji and Tenten. They remained silent and looked up at the door as it opened to see squad seven enter the room.
"They are here," Liana said to the squad and they looked up to see Naruto standing and saying he will beat everyone in this room then Sakura beat him to a pulp.
"I'll go tell them to keep it down. All that bickering is annoying," Liana said as she got up and walked over to them. She saw a card information showing info on some kid with red hair, Lee, Neji and her.
"So, you guys think just by reading some card you know everything the person knows," you said as she sat on a desk while she felt her ink swishing around in their jars.
"Who are you," Ino asked.
"You should know Ino pig, we were in the same class," she said as she saw Ino was getting aggravated.
Liana looked over at the boy who had the cards to see it was Kabuto Yakushi.
"So, what is in those jars around your neck and waist," Choji asked and Liana looked at him ready to reply but then Sakura interrupted.
"It is probably her family's blood died black," Sakura said as Liana looked at her with anger burning in her gaze. Liana jumped, grabbed her by the neck and held her against the wall.
"If you ever say I would do something like that then I will kill personally kill you," she said.
"Getting a little dark since we last met, huh, Liana," Kabuto said as she looked over at him.
"Liana, put her down, she is not worth it," she heard Neji say as she felt his hand on her shoulder to put her down.
"Alright, your right, she is not worth the trouble," she said as she set Sakura down.
"Liana, why do you listen to this jerk let alone hang out with him," Naruto asked as something sparked inside her.
"Get this straight through your thick head dunce, Neji is the most caring person I have ever met and he cares about my survival so don't be making fun of who I decide to hang out with especially you," she said and he had that challenged look in his eyes.
"Is he your boyfriend or something," Naruto asked as she saw he was forming his hands into fists.
"No and I don't need to explain myself to a dunce," she said as she turned around. Naruto went in for an attack but Neji caught his wrist before he could do anything.
"If you touch her, I will make sure you won't touch anything again especially you Uchiha," Neji said as he let go of Naruto and looked at Sasuke. Liana was about to say something when a major headache just hit her. She gritted her teeth and dropped to her knees while holding her head.
"Liana," Neji said as he bent down next to her.
"I-I am fine, just a headache," she said as she looked over at Kabuto to see he was smirking.
You, how are you causing this...
Liana felt the headache slowly disappear but felt it was still there as she stood up with Neji's help.
"You okay," he asked.
"Yes, let's go," she said as they walked to where Tenten and Lee were.
"What happened over there," Tenten asked as she sat down.
"I just got a major headache like I just got hit by a shuriken," Liana said and a giant cloud of smoke appeared then a man walked out of it.
"I am Ibiki Morino and welcome to the first part of the exams," he said as she looked over at the sound ninja Kabuto was standing next to and saw they were smirking as well as looking at her.
What is going on and since when was a sound village formed...?