I woke up late in the morning alone by the pond I trained by. I thought that last night was a dream until I looked down at my wrist and the sand bracelet was still there. I guess I did make a friend of Gaara after all, I mean he still might kill me and I'm going to have to kick his ass during the invasion, but a friend nonetheless. I got my bearings, realizing I slept outside, I busted my ass to get home knowing my overprotective dad was going to kick my ass for not coming hime, or at least sending notice I wouldn't be home.

I made it home and tried to sneak into my room, but by the close laughing I could hear from Hanabi, I was fucked. I heard the annoyed tap of a foot and slow turned to see my dad, standing tall and intimidating, sending me a pissed glare. I chuckled sheepishly and turned to run, but he caught me by the back of my shirt and basically dragged me to the training grounds as punishment.

He made me do my least favorite training, its basically me running laps until I drop, thats basically past the point of puking, then I have to spar him while he goes full force. I don't like running, and I have a high stamina so I feel like I'm running forever. Once it took almost a whole day for me to drop. I never get out of this training without being bedridden for a day, so I know he's pissed. Dad glared and I jumped up and ran, every few laps he would add resistance to my weights for me to run. It feels like death, honestly being chidori'd hurt less than this does.

I finally dropped to the floor, my legs basically jelly, after hours and hours of running. Dad gave me 5 minutes of rest and a water bottle to finish, before I was dragged up to spar him. We were sparring for a bit, I was moving sluggish, so I was too slow to dodge one of his attacks that should have shut off the chakra to my hand, but instead of being struck, the sand bracelet Gaara put on me wrapped around my hand in a protective gauntlet, blocking the attack from my father.

Once the attack was blocked, it morphed back into a bracelet, locking tightly around my wrist. My dad and I both stopped, staring right at the sand bracelet, me in awe and my dad in pure rage. He grabbed my wrist tightly and brought it up to inspect it closer with his Byakugan. He scowled and locked eyes with mine. I wanted to flinch away at the angry look in his eyes, it gave me flashback of when we were younger. He saw my fear and softened his eyes a bit, guilt crossing his features.

"Do you know what this is?" He asked through gritted teeth. I was confused at his anger of me having a bracelet. I mean it's definitely not in my control, but I really don't get his anger. I grinned at him, trying to gage his reactions and why they were happening. He looked even more annoyed. If I wasn't worried, I would have laughed at his distraught emotions.

"It's a friendship bracelet... I think. Its pretty freaking dope anyways, like my own protective gauntlet." Dad's eyes narrowed at my response. He tried to add his own chakra into the sand, but it lashed out at him. Weird, but cool.

"That is no friendship bracelet. It's sand infused with chakra, that melds with yours as a type of claim, and also a tracker. Whoever gave you this does not think of you as friends, he is either marking you as his next victim of hopeful spouse." My eyes widened in realization, I've basically been marked and since the sand is under Gaara's control, I cant make it do what I want. It protects me so when Gaara decides, he can be the one to kill me or be my spouse. I'm thinking he's definitely more on the murder me route.

"Oh fuck." I breathed out, before realizing who I said it in front of. To my surprise, instead of getting hit, dad stayed silent, his face morphed into a morbid one. If my stoic dad is this stressed out, maybe talking to Gaara without the power of Naruto's therapy jutsu fucked me over big time. I might have to fight a tailed beast, and I don't know if I can take him.

"Who put this on you?" Dad asked, his voice shaking in fury, not at me though.

"This kid Gaara from the sand village, after I told him we were friends. He's a jinchuriki like Naruto and looked really sad so I told him I'd be there for him so he's not alone anymore. He tried to strangle me a few times, but stopped and put this on me instead." All emotion fell from my dad's face and as much as the bracelet, and now who gave it to me, worried him, I could tell he wanted nothing more than to face palm at how I told him I was almost killed a few times by the person I basically am forcing to be my friend, even if he is seeming to be more Yandere, or just murderous, by the moment.

Like as cute as Gaara is, if he actually claimed me in the relationship sense, that is like a massive no no. I get that he doesn't know how love and stuff works, I don't get it either, I was an orphan and like a pretty fucked up life of training to kill people, but I don't want him claiming me, just like I didn't allow myself to just be married off to one of the Uchiha. I don;t know how to go about this though, because I could be walking into my death either way, and I could hurt fragile psycho Gaara if I just like make him take it off. I'm just going to pretend it's a super cool, protective, mind of its own, tracker friendship bracelet and not whatever else it is.

"Training is over, go find Kakashi and Zabuza and tell them about this, see if he can do anything. I'm going to figure some things out. Stay away from the sand boy." I nodded, bowed, gave dad a dorky smile, and ran off to find my Sensei, Senpai, and teammates to let them know I've been marked or whatever.

So telling them about my Gaara experience, leaving out little details only, I was bombarded with a flurry of reactions. Kakashi was worried about my safety and went into serious Kakashi mode, studying the sand closely, trying to determine whether it's use is for my demise or as a claim. Zabuza was not stressed, trusting in my skills and abilities to change people, loosely based on how I changed him and Haku. He did promise to gut Gaara in an instant need-be, the big softy. Sasuke was beyond pissed, both at me and Gaara.

He had that possessive and protective look in his eyes, I know he now want's to fight Gaara, even if they never met this time. Naruto was just confused about the whole thing, but just like me, he thought it was awesome how the sand would block attacks to my right arm, from the elbow down. It's like in Ben 10 when Kevin can harden his hands to a metal or rock he absorbs, but with sand that I have no control over.

From testing, I figured out the sand is weak to lightning and large surges of chakra. When I use lightning or a chakra surge, forcing it into the sand, it freaks out and either tightens harshly on my wrist making me stop, or it moves around, avoiding the 'attack'. I think I can get off the sand tag and found out the slight weakness to Gaara's kick ass impenetrable defense, but I'm not going to remove the bracelet yet, I want to have it be a symbol to him that I stand by what I said, and we are friends.

I also figured out what to do with Orochimaru, it's a absolutely terrible idea, but it's so terrible, it just might work. Right now, Snake Man is a freaky, Sharingan obsessed, mad scientist with a large cult following, so I have no hope of changing his mind on anything, all I can do is fight him to the best of my abilities. Plus it's not like I have to worry about killing him, he's some kind of ageless bastard that never dies, even when he does die. I just need to hold out in a fight to hopefully keep his hickey of doom from happening, preventing the forced corruption of Sasuke's mind.

You know thats just me, deciding to go head to head with the prodigy Sanin, and one who takes fatal blows and just sheds his skin to survive. If cats have nine lives, snakes have ten. Also, overall as a team we are way stronger than the first go round with Snake man, that might be a bad thing, but also is a great thing, especially for when the sound assholes come. With Zabuza's sadistic means, Orochimaru hopefully won't seem as scary to Sasuke.

Today is the last day before the Chunin exams and I spent it resting. I know training would be a great idea because shits about to hit the fan, but me resting the entire day like a lazy ass helped me fully recharge my chakra, my muscles were looser than ever, and my mind was as calm as my mile-a-minute thoughts could be. I woke up at Noon, which was a blessing, oh the luxury I missed of sleeping in so late.

I had a super tasty breakfast made by one of my maid/servant people, her names Sari and she is a fantastic cook, the pancakes I had were fluffy and just so good. I went to the hot springs for a bit too, Zabuza came along to enjoy the relaxing fun. I hung out with Shisui, just telling random stories to one another while he played with my hair, tangling it into a freaking mess. Finally, I went home watched a movie, read a part of a book, and went to sleep. It was the laziest and most calming day ever, perfect timing for my last day of serenity.

I woke up a bundle of nerves, yet I couldn't control the excitement I was also feeling. This is it, my time to announce to the world who I am, to showcase how hard I've worked everyday of my life to become strong. It's also Naruto's time to shine, he's been playing the fool for so long, when he wipes the floor with the others, as much as I love everyone, he deserves all the praise in the world.

I get to protect Sasuke and see if me meddling in his life changed enough for him to not fall into the curse of hatred. I'm also pumped to see my friends again, watch them battle, and see what the hell is going on with Gaara. Jumping out of my bed, I almost put a hole in the floor of how much force I used, damn, I'm really freaking out good and bad. I put on my ninja attire and decided, since it's only a written test, to make myself look more innocent then usual as a way to hide my actual strength.

It doesn't really matter much, whenever people see me they always say I'm too pretty or whatever to be a strong ninja. I did my hair, it gliding down to my lower back in glossy curls. I still cant bring myself to be too girly, so I put on my normal sharp eyeliner and my eyes looked pretty and deadly. I have my perfect mix of a sweet princess and a deadly warrior. Dad gave me a short "make me proud," and I ran to meet up with my teammates. I can't believe it's finally time.

I ran up to the front of the Academy, Naruto and Sasuke were standing super close glaring at one another, lightning passing between them. I began to laugh because it looked like they were going to kiss again. They snapped their heads towards me at neck breaking speeds and Naruto glomped me, whining about the 'teme being such a teme.' After our greetings with one another, wide smirks plastered on our faces, we linked arms and walked up to the second floor. I could feel the genjutsu, so could Sasuke. We locked eyes and had unspoken understanding that is's time to be assholes. Kotestu, in a shitty transformation jutsu punched down Tenten, Izumo doing the same to Lee. I stepped forward with a shit eating grin on my face.

"Wow Izumo and Kotetsu, I didn't know that for you to really feel like grown men, you have to parade around as Genin, beating up on people younger than you. You limp dicks have really fragile egos." Naruto busted out laughing at my statement. Sasuke stood next to me, his giant arrogant asshole smirk on his face. I could hear the girls swooning already.

"And while you're at it, release the lame transformation. We want to go to the third floor." Murmurs of what Sasuke and I said were spread throughout the room. IZumo and Kotetsu turned red in anger.

"Agh you little brats, didn't anyone ever teach you how a lady should talk?" Kotetsu said, aiming a kick at me. I blocked it easily.

"Yeah but does it seem like I care." He growled and walked off, pulling Izumo, who Rock Lee blocked from kicking Sasuke. All eyes were officially on us. Neji and Tenten walked over to where lee was, our teams facing off.

"Hinata-hime, it is wonderful to see a beautiful youthful lotus like yourself in these exams." I smiled brightly at the weirdly adorable, blushing Lee. He's so Kawaii for such a badass fighter. I allowed Lee to glomp me, and returned his hug before pushing him off.

"Lee, I missed you! Oh my Kami you dress so much like Gai now." I said, flinching a bit at the bright and skintight outfit of lee, I had to keep my eyes away from any unwanted areas. I turned to Neji and gave him a hug, him returning it barely. "Niisan, Tenten, I missed you guys. We better make it to the end together."

"Of course, its our destiny to meet Hime, the rest of these Genin are weak fools." I rolled my eyes at him and let Neji and Sasuke have their little stare down. Finally, done with the testosterone battles between them and the moping of Naruto and Lee, I grabbed my team and not so nicely yanked them to the stairwell to head up to the third floor. We were passing an empty sparring classroom when a voice loud enough to rival Naruto called out.

"Hey you with the arrogant look." We all stopped and turned around to see the green beast Rock Lee, a determined look etched across his features. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, keeping his emotionless look on his face. "My name is Rock Lee, top Genin of my year. You said to give your name before asking for another's isn't that correct. Sasuke Uchiha. I would like to fight you, test my skills against someone from the infamous Uchiha clan." Sasuke looked annoyed, but I could see the glint of excitement for a fight against the boy who stopped his kick with his bare hands, and didn't even flinch.

"Hn. So you already know who I am."

"No shit sherlock, you wear your clan symbol boldly across your back." Sasuke sent me a glare before turning his attention back on Lee. Lee gave Sasuke a fierce look and walked into the classroom, we all followed. Lee turned to me and gave me a blinding smile, his teeth actually sparkled. What ever kind of non-chakra genjutsu he uses, I want it. He gave me the dorky thumbs up and I had to smile back at it. He's such a dork.

"Hinata-hime, I did as promised, I kept up my training to be a Taijutsu master, all thanks to your kind words and belief in me. One day I ill measure up and be enough to protect you, but for now my win in this battle is for you." My eyes widened then began to water at the sweetness of his words. I didn't do anything special, I just believed in him because I knew he could be amazing, but for that to have made him get the confidence to continue. I sent him a glassy eyed smile, full of happiness.

"Lee, I already know you are strong, keep up your work. I'm happy that you appreciate the belief I have in you, I will never stop believing in you. Show my arrogant Uchiha what the green beast can do." Sasuke looked to me in annoyance at the thought that Lee could even slightly show him up. Honestly, Lee is amazing and in a league of his own, but Sasuke is so strong, so I don't know how the fight will end. What I missed was the flutter of Sasuke's heart, and the pride he felt when I called him my Uchiha.

Sasuke and Lee squared off, before Naruto could run in and interfere, I whispered to him about keeping his skills secret until we have to fight, make it even more of a surprise. He backed down and watched the fight intently, to gather more information on the two opponents. Sasuke shot forward at Lee, attempting to land a blow, but Lee with his superior speed moved out of the way and broke through Sasuke's defense, giving him a hard kick to the cheek. Sasuke stumbled back, shocked at the hit, then he smirked.

Taking Lee fully serious now. They went back to fighting, moving in blurs to the untrained eye. Every attack Sasuke threw, Lee dodged and vice versa. Sasuke was holding up well in the Taijutsu battle, but soon Lee sped up more and his attacks were overwhelming, and Lee finally landed an uppercut sending Sasuke into the aid, sprawled out like a starfish. Lee appeared under Sasuke, his bandages unravelled and flowing with him. When he was about to do the forbidden technique, paper pinwheels shot out of nowhere and pinned Lee to a wall, hanging him by his bandages.

It looked similar to the crucifixion, in a less Holy way. Sasuke was falling to the floor, but Naruto caught him. Sasuke looked disgruntled, Naruto looked ready to kick some ass, and Lee was pale and sweating nervously.

"Y-You were watching the whole time?" Lee asked to the giant tortoise that suddenly appeared.

"Yes, that technique was forbidden, I taught it to you for extreme circumstances only." Naruto dropped Sasuke in shock and pointed at the tortoise, his eyes comically wide.

"Hinata-chan that turtle is talking, can turtles be sensei's too?" Sasuke looked over to me and I knew he was wondering the same thing. I began to giggle which turned into full blown laughter.

"Kami no, first it's a tortoise and it's a summoning animal. His sensei is way weirder than that." They gave me weird looks until the tortoise disappeared and in its place, clad in the horrific green outfit, Might Gai, taijutsu master. Lee's eyes basically glowed at the sight of his Sensei, mine were sparking in amusement for seeing the oddness of Gai, and the boys eyes were filled with pure horror at the sight of him.

"Gai-sensei. I am so sorry!" Lee said with large tears falling out of his eyes. I held in my snickers at the sight.

"This guy is an even bigger freak, his brows are eve larger than Lee's, they look alive." Naruto shouted in my ear. Sasuke nodded in agreement, looking butt hurt about losing to such a weird kid. They stopped and stared quietly when Gai punched the shit out of Lee, sending him flying. Then the forgave one another and began crying puddles together.

"Gai-sensei"

"Lee"

"Gai-sensei"

"Lee"

"Gai-sensei"

"Lee" They shouted to one anther, an odd sort of love glowing in their eyes. Then they tightly hugged another, spandex to spandex, crying even more, a genjutsu sunset appearing behind the duo. Sasuke watched appalled at the freak show, I laughed at the odd yet sweet bond between the Sensei and student, and Naruto was crying too since he thought it was a sweet sight. Finally Gai noticed us again, and did his nice guy pose.

"Nice to see you full of youth Hinata. I know you were all shocked by my youthful and handsome face. I am Might Gai! You are Kakashi's students."

"Bushier brows, you know Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked dumbfounded that our too cool for school sensei would even talk to someone like Gai.

"Yous! Kakashi is my eternal rival." Gai then appeared behind us, showcasing his speed. "My record is 50 wins and 49 losses over Kakashi. Face it, I am stronger and faster than him." Sasuke lost his mask of indifference and looked openly shocked at Gai's display of speed, and the fact that our super awesome Sensei is weaker than the weirdo. Naruto's mind was reeling with the information, trying to process how Kakashi would lose to a bushy brows sensei.

"Gai, I'd love to stay and talk about your rivalry, but we all have to leave for the exams." Gai's eyes flickered with understanding and he flashed away, saying his goodbyes and good lucks. Lee followed right after, leaving us alone.

"Teme, you couldn't have beat him. Did you see his hands? The only person we've met who seems to train to that extent is Hinata-chan." Naruto said, as a sort of consolation for Sasuke. Even though he did slightly rub it in earlier about Sasuke's loss. Sasuke finally understood, flashing a glimpse to me. He knows that I train more than anyone, including him and Naruto who train more than most.

To meet somebody who does a s much as me shocked Sasuke to the core, also lighting a fire inside of him for all of the strong opponents he gets to face. He grabbed my hand and we walked up the stairs to room 301 where Kakashi was waiting for us.

Kakashi gave us a smile as we handed in our paperwork.

"Maa Maa, I'm glad you all made it, all I have to say is I'm proud to be your sensei. You have proved over and over how talented and hardworking each of you are, I expect you all to make Chunin. Show the elemental nations what Team 7 is made of." With Kakashi's wonderful speech, we all felt more confident, I could feel it overflowing between the 4 of us. I gave Kakashi a hug.

"Thank you for being my sensei, even if you are a lazy ass perv, I wouldn't have made it this far without you." Kakashi patted my head affectionally and sent us off. I was standing in between Naruto and Sasuke, we exchanged glances, all plastered on smirks and I slammed open the doors in the most dramatic fashion possible. My smirk grew wider when all eyes turned to us, when they saw who it was, the rookie brats, almost all of the other Genin glared and began to release their weak KI to scare us. My smirk, along with Naruto's turned into full blown smiles, mine deceptively sweet and Naruto's foxy.

"Oh how cute, the other Genin are trying to scare us, I heard that when scared, weak people try to use KI to make the opponent back off. Naru, Sasuke wanna show them what real Killer Intent feels like?" I felt the air around us become more tense, the usual warmth radiating from my blonde sun changed into the swirling dangerous one. Sasuke and I can release a pretty scary KI thanks to Zabuza, but nobody in this world can match up to Naruto and Kuruma's KI.

We all released the KI and directed it at the crowd, many flinching or quivering in fear, I'm pretty sure a few even cried. Stopping the KI, I began to laugh at the shock of the fellow Genin, that is until I could feel my bracelet humming in a mix of pleasure and deadly excitement. I'm guessing he can project his feelings into the sand, and since my chakra has merged, I can feel it too.

I had my lavender eyes roam over the room until I saw the familiar red hair, a blank mask on his face, his eyes ruining the mask of nothingness. They were swirling with murderous excitement directed at Naruto, not surprising because of Kuruma and Shukaku's rivalry.

They also had emotions I couldn't quite identify directed towards me. I studied Gaara for a bit, but still was unsure of what he was feeling, so I just gave him a smile, flashed myself by him, patting him on the head in a way that pleased him since his lips quirked up in the slightest, then returning to my teammates. I could feel the stares of Kankuro and Temari, since his sand defense didn't react to me at all. Sasuke and Naruto exchanged glances at my actions with the Sand team, but decided to not say anything.

"SASUKE-KUNNN" Two obnoxiously loud and squeaky voices called out. In a movement faster than I've ever seen them move, pink and purple were soon holding on to the arms of Sasuke.

"I've missed those devilishly brooding good looks of yours. I'm sorry we've been apart my love." Ino cooed out, pushing herself against Sasuke trying to put his arm between her small chest.

"It's been too long, I'm sure you've been miserable with the blonde idiot and the failure of a girl on your team. Don't worry, a real woman is here now." Sakura said batting her eyelashes in a failed attempt to be sultry. Damn, I so want to blow them out of the water with my seduction skills, but maybe now's not the time to let my freak flag fly. It wouldn't work on Sasuke anyways, the asexual bastard. Sasuke grumbled in annoyance and shoved the girls off of him harshly. I could feel the anger radiating off of him as the fangirls kept trying to rub their nonexistent bodies against Sasuke, not taking him pushing them off as a sign to quit.

WTF they are horny already at the age of 13. They proceeded to have an argument calling each other names and arguing who Sasuke likes better. I began to laugh at the misfortune of Sasuke, I may not like fangirls, but seeing Sasuke annoyed has always pleased me in a sadistic kind of way. Finally the rest of Ino's team made their way over.

"Oh its you guys. Nice show earlier with the Ki, it was actually pretty intimidating." Shikamaru stated blandly, stifling a yawn. He walked over, Choji in tow, and threw an arm around my shoulder, laying his head on mine as a way to sleep standing up. I flashed Choji a smile, giving him a side hug.

"So, the three stooges are here huh?" Naruto yelled, grinning at his supposed awesome nickname for Team 10. Shikamaru opened one eye, annoyance flowing from his lazy ass.

"Hey, you know what you pipsqueak." He said, raising his voice a bit, then slumping back over me in defeat. "Ah forget it, it's a waste of time." Naruto just laughed it off, not being mad at his sort of friend.

"What do you know, looks like the whole gang is back together again!" Kiba's loud, confident voice overpowering the room. He had his signature feral grin on his face, walking up with Shino to stand by Sakura who huffed in annoyance at him.

"Man everyone is here for this troublesome thing, this is going to be a drag." Shikamaru whispered to me, letting out a large sigh. I giggled and poked him in the ribs, sending a shock of Chakra to piss him off a bit. He retaliated with shoving his chin harder onto the top of my head.

"Here we are, all 9 rookies. This is going to be fun, at least for the ones good enough to make the cut, right Hinata?" He asked, a taunting smirk on his face. I wanted to punch it off, but I also couldn't help but smile at him.

"Yeah yeah, whatever dog boy. You haven't been able to beat me yet, what makes you think there will be a difference now." I pushed Shika off and walked up to Kiba, taking Akamaru off his head and cooing at his cuteness. He responded with a happy yip and licked my cheek.

"While you've been putting on doll dresses, we've been training like crazy. And what the hell, you say hi to Akamaru but not me?" I smirked up at him, patting him condescendingly on the arm. He pulled me into a headlock, ruffling up my hair and we laughed, Kiba ignoring Naruto's declaration of kicking Kiba's ass. I greeted Shino, asking him about the newest insect in his collection. We were all chatting animatedly, when an annoying and fake sweet voice called out to us.

"Hey you guys." We all turned to see a guy around 18, with grey hair in a low ponytail and round Harry Potter glasses walking over to us. I stopped talking and my face set in a glare, any of the people watching were shocked at my change. Those who know me know I don't have issues with people, and if I do, I don't let it be evident, so my apparent dislike for Kabuto put them on edge. I must have alerted Gaara too because the bracelet tightened in an almost comforting manner. "You might want to try keeping it down a little. No offense, but you are the 9 rookies right? Fresh out of the academy."

He finished as he stood in front of us all. I moved closer to Sasuke, him taking the hint and pushing his shoulder against mine, then grabbing my hand tightly. He knew I was uncomfortable by this dude, and I watched as Kabuto's eyes wandered over us, stopping to stare at my glare, then at Sasuke longer than necessary. Sasuke noticed too, even Naruto picked up the tension between us. "I wouldn't go making a spectacle out of yourselves, even with the Impressive KI you managed to pull off, everyone here doesn't take rookies nicely."

"Thanks Kabuto, but you can take that fake concern and shove it up your ass." I growled out. Everyone around me shot their eyes to me, wondering how I knew him. Kabuto on the other hand, I saw his eyes fill with dark interest at my knowing who he was and he tried to hide the smirk that was forming.

"Oh and how do you know who I am Hinata-san, I am nobody special." He asked with the fake kind voice again. I tightened my grip on Sasuke's hand, trying to control myself, but failing. Him and Orochimaru right now are my enemies and want to basically destroy Sasuke, my precious person.

"I know lots of things Kabuto, maybe even more than you and your special cards. Why don't you show the others." Kabuto's eyes flashed with dangerous intent, before becoming more intrigued and watching my figure closely. Damn it, I need to shut up. I don't want or need him to know anything about me, but I can't help but word vomit and say things he didn't need to know I know. He smiled a sweet smile, eyes never leaving mine. It was unnerving and I wanted to look away, but couldn't bring myself to. Kabuto dug in his pocket, pulling out a deck of cards.

"Ah yes, let me show you all my ninja info cards. They are chakra encoded and have everything I've learned about in the last 4 years."

"Kabuto, that's your name right? You seem to know so much, is this not your first time taking the exams?" Sakura asked him.

"Nope it's my 7th. This would be my 4th year taking them." He said sheepishly.

"This really is going to be a drag then." Shika moaned.

"Wow, you must really be an expert then! You can help us and give us inside tips." Sakura stated enthusiastically.

"Sakura, he's not an expert if he's never passed, it means he's an idiotic dipshit or is taking them for his amusement." I said deadpanning at her, my voice still lining with an edge. Kabuto looked even more intrigued by my statement, a threatening look behind his glasses. Fuck fuck fuck fuck, I need to learn to shut up sometimes. I'm worse than Naruto at this point. Kabuto laughed and kneeled down, laying his cards on the floor.

"Yeah well hopefully I pass this time, even if I'm not that strong. Anyways..." Kabuto inserted his chakra into the cards, turning them into a world mad. He talked about the hidden villages and balance of power stuff. Finally he revealed the final trick to his spy cards, information on other people. Sasuke perked up at this.

"These cards have information on over 250 people, for example," he pulled out a card with my face on it fucking creep. "Hinata Hyuuga, 362 D-ranks and 1 A-rank mission. She is the top rookie Genin and not many know that she is a Prodigy akin to the likes of the greatest ninja's of all time."

I stiffened, even he shouldn't know about that. How he got that information is beyond me, but that's concerning if his spy skills are that good. He just announced my skills to all of the Genin there, fuck. my. life. Sakura and Ino humphed at me, saying I was more beast than woman and Kiba shouted annoyed at the amount of D-ranks we've completed. Sasuke moved infront of me in protector mode, his eyes narrowing at Kabuto's information.

"Do you have anyone in mind Sasuke-kun." Kabuto asked, smirking slightly.

"Hn. Rock Lee and Gaara Subaku." Everyone learned about the two, and Kabuto tried to intimidate everyone indirectly by saying how all of the Genin were top ninjas like me. I was still in mild shock at Kabuto's knowledge and interest in me, but I was brought out of it by Naruto's yelling. He was standing right in front of all the potential Genin pointing at them, shoulders back, a confident foxy smile on his face.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, rookie extraordinaire, part of the legendary Team 7, and I'm going to kick all of your asses dattebayo!" The rest of the rookies looked pissed at Naruto for drawing more attention from the older, scarier Genin. Sasuke and I, on the other hand, were amused, and believed in what he said. Sasuke had a smirk on his face as he went to stand beside Naruto, I busted out laughing and followed, showing off the 'legendary Team 7' to everyone there.

There were a few hungry and intrigued looks sent towards us, some annoyed looks, and some fearful looks. Then, everyone went back to their business, until the sound trio decided to make their appearnace. I watched as they swiftly got out of their seats and went over to Kabuto, Zaku threw a knife at Kabuto, who dodged, and Dosu appeared right in front, aiming a punch straight at Kabuto's face. The rest of the sound made it, standing next to Dosu, ready for battle. Kabuto leaned back, avoiding the attack, but then his glasses cracked and he keeled over, puking his guts out. Kabuto wiped his face off and looked up, a nasty gleam in his eye.

"Oh so it was that kind of attack." He said, not being able to hide the amusement in his voice.

"What the hell was that, I saw him dodge." Naruto whispered between us rookies. Many of them nodded in agreement and confusion.

"There was some trick to the attack, making it land." Shikamaru stated, trying to analyze the situation and the intimidating sound trio, whose blood thirst was obvious.

"Sound waves, they are from sound. That metal gauntlet rekeased them, he didn't have to hit four eyes directly, just get close enough for the sound waves to attack his ears, messing up motor functions." The area around me went dead silent, even the sound trio was staring at me. Looks of awe, anger, and intrigue were directed at me.

"How annoying, this brat figured out my trick by one attack." Dosu stated annoyed, giving me a murderous glare.

"Hmm, impressive indeed." Kabuto said, watching me hungrily like a predator watches its prey. My friends all whispered about how I was able to figure out the attack and deduce it so easily. If only they knew. Finally, Ibiki in all of his scary ass glory poofed into existence. He was even more intimidating that I thought, he might be the most intimidating man I've ever seen in my life.

He was tall, so tall he towered over me and everyone else around him. His bandana did nothing to hide the massive scars across his face and with the glare he was sporting, I felt myself cower a bit at the master TI sadist. His eyes were sparking with amusement at the fear he evoked within the Genin when they didn't even know who he was. This guy is the real deal. He made us grab papers to take our seats, I ended up next to Naruto, but since we're teammates, I was moved seats and am now unfortunately sitting next to Kabuto. He gave me a smile when I sat down next to him, I just glared.

"Hinata-san I'm so glad we can sit next to each other and get acquainted. There's so much I want to know about you." His eyes were dancing with amusement at the twitch of my brow.

"I don't want to get acquainted with a petty snake servant like yourself." He smiled even brighter, this time I could see the dangerous and menacing glint behind it.

"Oh and what do you mean by that?" He asked sweetly, feigning innocence.

"Who are you a lap dog for right now, Sasori or Orochimaru?" I whispered in his ear, leaning with a smile equally as fake as his. My smile turned into a smirk as his eyes widened and his face turned into a hard glare. By his reaction, and the flicker of his eyes left and right, he looked nervous that someone was listening in. That means he's under Sasori right now and Orochimaru doesn't know. That's also why he tries to kill Sasuke later on, Sasori want's to keep Orochimaru form gaining the Sharingan, and would have killed Sasuke to do so.

Unexpected, Kabuto sent his chakra into my leg, severing the tendons like an asshole, I bit my lip to keep from screaming. I'm such an idiot, why the hell can't I keep my mouth shut. Somebody should mute me, I really did it this time, I could tell by the fierce look Kabuto had, he was going to do something bad. He leaned over to me a coy smile on his face, putting on the show that he was flirting. Brushing my hair behind my ear, he whispered to me, a deadly tone that made me shiver.

"Stay out of things that you don't belong in, you'll get your pretty self killed." He placed his hand back on my thigh and healed my leg as we started taking the test, leaving me with a warning that he wont be so kind next time. I was slightly shocked that he even thought to heal me, I guess maybe he isn't as much of a dick, or he just enjoys toying with people. Either way, I screwed myself by getting his attention earlier than I wanted.

The test in itself wasn't that difficult, the questions were analysis questions with math formulas, something I'm good at, but because I know actually answering the questions doesn't matter, I decided to write Ibiki a riddle for each of the questions, if he decided to solve the riddles, each answer would be a letter. Then putting the letters in the correct order, it would spell out "I'm so bored." After finishing my master piece of riddles, which Kabuto gave me strange looks for not answering the questions, and as he finished healing me up, I decided to take a little nap.

I woke up when Anko came flying through the window. I tired and failed to hide the grin on my face for finally getting to meet the one and only Anko, my favorite (alive) female Jounin in the leaf village. Anko is like if Zabuza, Orochimaru, and Naruto had a love child. She's just amazing, and she can use snakes, and she takes no shit from anyone, and she can scare the living hell out of anyone, and she can use snakes, and she's just an amazing person. I was so excited about finally seeing Anko, I missed the whole speech, which somehow Sauske knew, so when it was over, he came and told me what I missed. It's kind of freaky how well he knows me sometimes. I was so excited about passing the exams, even Kabuto's previous scare wasn't on my mind. As a team, we left the room where Kakashi and Zabuza were waiting for us.

They took us out to get ramen and we chatted throughout the dinner, Zabuza pissing off Sasuke, Naruto talking about himself and ramen, and I talked with Kakashi about the next stage of the exam, gathering as much information as he would give me about the forest of death, which was basically nothing. I could feel the smugness radiating off of Kakashi at his shitty answers he was giving me.

He was getting more and more amused as I grew more and more annoyed with him. If he wasn't so hot, I would have punched his lights out by now. Sasuke and I were both ready to flip, annoyed at our tormentors, only we can annoy eachother. We shared an unspoken agreement to team up and destroy the sensei's, but they figured out out plans and before we could attack, Zabuza subdued me, Kakashi doing the same to Sasuke. Naruto watched all of this, laughing his head off, especially at Sasuke's disgruntled look. Finally, we were released and made stops at each of our homes, our sensei's aiding us in packing for tomorrow.

(3d POV) Ibiki gathering up the exams

Ibiki was gathering the exams, checking over each one to see how the passing Genin fared. He stopped at one and let out a chuckle, he was amazed that he passed a Genin who didn't answer one of the questions. He continued looking through the tests, impressed with those who managed to cheat and answer them all. Ibiki came across another peculiar test, he read through the answers provided and realized each answer was a riddle seemingly to not pertain to the test. Wanting to know what the riddle was for, the TI sadist sat down and went through the riddles, each one becoming more difficult, just like the test.

He was thoroughly impressed with the mid of the Genin who designed the riddles. He finally solved them all and arranged the letters, following basic leaf coding and was highly amused that the riddle spelled out "I'm so bored." He looked at the name and was shocked to see the name Hinata Hyuuga. He was impressed to see a such an intelligent Genin, that isn't a Nara, let alone a Hyuuga without a stick up her ass. Hinata caught his attention, and Ibiki soon left to discuss with the Hokage, needing to know more about the Hyuuga girl who was able to outsmart his test.

A/N guys I was having serious writers block with this chapter, sorry if it's not great. I have everything ready for Orochimaru and the action to finally start. Who do you guys wanna see some fluff with during the exams? Who should the next person to fall for Hina-chan be?