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-x- Day One -x-

They were running in to the forest for good 20 minutes before they settled down in some high bushes.

"We should set some traps" Nana said as she pulled out some wire from here back pouch.

They were sitting in a circle deciding among themselves where to set up some traps. They decided after five minutes of bickering between Hibachi and Nana that they will set up traps near the river that ran through the training field not far away from the tower. Before her teammates could properly stand up Nana stopped them as she pulled them back down with a fierce grip around their wrist.

"What the…" Hibachi couldn't finish as Nana threw her hand over his mouth successfully shutting him up and signalling for them to be quiet.

Just a second after a team from the Village hidden in the Rain landed a few inches from the bushes that Team 9 hid in. The three rain ninjas looked around conversing between themselves were they could be hiding.

'No sensor ninja, that's good' Nana thought to herself as she looked over the three ninjas.

The guy in the middle, who looked like the shot caller had short spiky brown hair with a strip of gauze covering his forehead and his mouth partly stitched on the right side. He also had two scars running up his cheek, one of which had apparently blinded his right eye, since it was closed. He carried an oxygen tank and a sheath with his umbrellas on his back.

Next to him on his right was a small, fair skinned guy. He wore a pin striped light grey jumpsuit with a dark black side going down in the centre, an oxygen tank carried on the right side. He wore an altered kasa hat with the Amegakure symbol on the front of it, and carried four black on his back.

On the left side of the shot caller looking guy stood the second tallest of the three who also had, fair skin, some type of dark black glasses or markings with separate dark blue lenses. He wore a pin striped light grey jumpsuit with a dark black side going down in the centre, an oxygen tank carried on the right side of his foreleg. He too wore the same altered kasa hat that had the Amegakure symbol on the front of it, and had carried a dark black sheath on his back to carry his four umbrellas on his back.

Before Nana could say something she saw Hibachi grin as his eyes narrowing as his hand went in to his back pouch. Both Nobuo and Nana's eyes went wide the second they realized what he was intending to do. Nana quickly grabbed his sleeve trying to stop him.

"It's gonna be alright. I'm the strongest in our team. You two stand back and come out only if I'll need you." He said turning to them grinning like a madman.

'Overconfidence will be his downfall' Nana thought to herself as her grip on his sleeve tightened 'He's not thinking of us as a team' before she could tell him to stop being overconfident she froze and let her hand fall on to her lap.

'That chakra…Three more people are coming our way' Her eyes narrowed as her head shot to the direction she sensed them.

Not thinking about Hibachi she sent a bit of her chakra out to pin point the location of the oncoming team. They couldn't handle two teams at once. The Amegakure team will be hard to handle as it is, but the team incoming had a bloodthirsty chakra that made Nana's skin shiver.

She wanted to retreat but it was too late for that now. As soon as she released Hibachi's sleeve he used his chance and jumped out with Nobuo behind him, leaving her alone in the bush. Things could not be any worse right now, not only did those two jump out of their hiding spots, the other team caught up to them. Two teams and a half were standing in the clearing now facing each other.

"Sand Village kids coming to challenge us forthright. We'll deal with you two Konoha scums later on." The shot caller guy from the Rain Village exclaimed and the two behind him agreed. It seemed that the whole Rain team was confident in their skill, or at least their leaders skill.

Nana could feel the bloodthirsty chakra again as she looked at the person who emitted the strong waves of hatred. Her eyes grew big for the second time now, she saw the red headed boy she sat next to in the exam. His eyes were cold as he looked from Hibachi now to the three Rain Village team captain. Nana froze up, she spaced out for a second.

Screaming, so much screaming, it was getting really annoying.

'What is happening' She thought to herself as she realized what was going on.

Gaara was manipulating sand that was now wrapped around the leader of the Rain village.

"I can cover your loud mouth and kill you." Gaara said as he opened the umbrella from the Rain village guy and held it over his head with his hand ready to clench itself in to a fist.

"But that's too pathetic." He added and outstretched his hand to the side, making the Rain village team's leader float in to the air still wrapped in to the sand like cocoon.

"Sand Burial!" He yelled as his hand formed a fist. The cocoon of sand pressed itself together and a loud bone cracking sound was heard as the guys bones were crushed under pressure.

Nana's eyes went wide again she shook in fear where she sat in the bushes. The guy that was crushed didn't even have time to scream.

'Hibachi and Nobuo are still out there' She thought to herself hoping they will run away and not try to fight them.

"There's no pan. I knocked him even harder than was necessary. The bloody tears of a corpse merge with vast sinking sand and provide more power to the demon of war." Gaara said to them looking at the remaining four ninjas.

The two rain villagers offered them their scroll to let them go, while Hibachi and Nobuo turned around. Nana saw Gaara toss the umbrella to the side, as she realized he will not let them go she wanted to jump out to Nobuo and Hibachi, but her legs wouldn't move.

'Dammit, dammit! Move! Move, dattebane!' She screamed in her head glaring at her trembling legs.

The sand wrapped around the two rain ninjas, while some of the sand rooted Hibachi and Nobuo, who tried to struggle out of it. In that one second she saw her teammates being wrapped with sand her mind went in to overdrive.

'Thunder god….. thunder god! Seal…NO….No….No….I can't, it doesn't work' Was the only thing that went through her head. She heard the screams of the two rain villagers and the following bone crushing sounds not soon after. Her hands started forming seals at a fast pace, that kept picking up on speed. Finishing the hand seals, she marked two of her kunai knives with the thunder god seals. The seal was shaped in swirled patterns, around the kunai knives handles. She threw one of the knives in to a tree a few feet away from the bushes and the clearing. She gripped the second kunai closer to her chest and readied herself. Her legs didn't obey her and she screamed at her legs in her head. Not having time for anything else she swung the kunai in to her upper tight stabbing herself and throwing the kunai in front of the sand cocoons. Pleading and praying to anyone that was willing to listen she released the technique. She felt a pull and could feel the kunai knife that was lodged far away in the tree and the knife that was flying in the air towards the two cocoons. She extended her arm grabbing the flying kunai, wrapping her fingers around the handle. In less than a second her location changed and she saw the two cocoons. Swinging the kunai knife around her finger she tossed it in to her back pouch as she jumped at Hibachi and Nobuo with her arms extended. The second her palms smashed to their faces she felt sand wrap around her leg. She pulled herself toward the other knife with Hibachi and Nobuo, successfully pulling them with her out of the sand. They landed on the grass before the tree and Nana left out a terrifying scream as she rolled around the ground clutching her lower leg. Her right ankle was bleeding.

Nobuo and Hibachi both looked in shock not knowing what was going on.

"Nana!" Nobuo yelled as he started checking her ankle.

His hands were covered by the familiar green healing chakra. Looking at Nobuo she could see his concerned face and muttering something to Hibachi, who soon after disappeared.

Nana blacked out from the pain not soon after.

-x- Day 2 –x-

Pain. Pain was the only thing she felt right now. Nana shot up from the make shift bed looking around herself and spotting both of her teammates unharmed.

"Ohh look who's awake." Hibachi said with a smile as he went up to her handing her a dango.

Not thinking twice about it she took it and ate it as fast as possible, demanding a second one.

"Sorry Nana, this was the last one." He said as he sweat dropped.

She let out a sigh and looked down at her leg.

"It'll need time to heal, I did what I could." Nobuo said as he looked at her from his sitting spot looking down at something.

Nana tried to stand up but failed miserably, her ankle hurt like hell. She felt herself being pulled up and tossed over someone's back. Hibachi carried her over to Nobuo, who showed her two scrolls with a big grin.

"We got the second scroll yesterday from an idiot who tried to open it by the riverbank." Hibachi explained as he waited for Nobuo to clean up the camp they made.

They were running through the forest jumping from branch to branch, trying to get to the tower as fast as possible.

"Sorry." She heard Hibachi mutter.

"About?" She asked softly back.

"The things I said to you. You're not weak. You…. You saved both of us. Thanks." He told her as he kept on running behind Nobuo.

"It's okay. That's what teammates do." She whispered as she let her hands wrap around him tighter and letting her head rest on his shoulder.

They travelled for good 10 minutes when Nana stopped them, telling them there were other ninjas around. They could see the tower, it was not that far away, just a few steps more. She told Nobuo to get the scrolls ready as she threw her kunai through the tower's doors. Some of the ninjas sensed them and went in to attack them. She saw the enemy ninja swing at them, and before they could do any damage to them Nana grabbed Nobuo's shirt collar and pulled them towards the knife that was lying before the tower doors.

Hibachi pushed the door open, and when they stepped in both Nobuo and Nana opened the scrolls and threw them on to the floor. Smoke came from both of the scrolls and a small puff could be heard. Nana looked over Hibachi's shoulder and saw a konoha chunin stand in front of them.

"Everyone, congratulations on passing the Second Chunin Exam." The guy standing in front of them said before he started explaining about the writing on the wall behind him.

-x-

"First of all, congratualtions on passing the second exam." Anko said as they were all gathered in a big training hall.

Looking around Nana could feel someone staring at her. Turning around she locked her eyes with Gaara and smiled at him. Hibachi who was helping her stand, saw who she was waving too and glared at his direction not daring to make eye contact with him. Having enough of her smiling and waving at their almost murderer Hibachi pulled her around himself forcing her to look away from the red head.

"We will now have an explanation of the Third Exam from Hokage-sama. Everyone listen well." Anko introduced.

"The Third Exam will begin. But before the explanation, there's one thing I want to make clear to all of you. It's about the true purpose of this exam." The Hokage started his explanation on why the countries do a joint exam with their allied nations.

After he was done explaining another ninja popped up, dressed in standard ninja clothing with the Konoha vest on. He had a dark blue bandana wrapped on his head, with the Konoha symbol on it in front. Nana noticed he coughed a lot during his explanation of the preliminary exam.

'He looks too sick to even referee this preliminary exam' Nana thought to herself as she sweat dropped during his explanation.

"May I assume there are no more people who wish to retire?" The guy asked after Kabuto stepped down, he coughed in to his hand again.

They listened to his further instructions learning that the matches will begin, and that the fight will be one on one and that unnecessary deaths will be stopped.

An electric bulletin board was revealed and the names started to shuffle themselves. The first ones to fight were Akadou Yoroi and Uchiha Sasuke. Both of them stayed on the ground, while everyone else retreated to the upper watching area.

The Third exams preliminary matches began as soon as the coughing guy whose name Nana already forgot told them to start the fight.

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