I'm only saying this once. I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS AND I WON'T EVER! I ONLY OWN KAIYA! 

I went out for some dango, surprised to find TenTen there. I haven’t seen anyone in the last two years really.

“TenTen!” I called out to her and she looked up. She stared at me a few seconds before it obviously clicked, seeing as she jumped up with a smile.

“Kaiya!” She yelled, running over to me and engulfing me in a hug. We stayed that way for a while before letting go and examining me. Tears were at the brick of falling down her cheeks. But before I could say something, her hand connected with me cheek. Well…I guess I should’ve expected this after all.

“Baka! You can’t just leave the team like that! And especially not when I’m stuck for two years with Gai-sensei and Lee!” I chuckled and shook my head.

“Sorry… But I’m coming back now! Naruto’s back, well so am I!” She smiled and nodded. “I just need to go talk to Lady Tsunade, so see you later?” She nodded and I disappeared in a puff of smokes, appearing in front of Lady Tsunade’s door. I knocked on the door and after a “Come in!” I entered, only to see Sakura, Naruto, Shikamaru and Temari all in the same room, their own eyes now on me. Naruto pointed to me but looked to Lady Tsunade.

“Is she the one I’m going to fight?” I raised an eyebrow and Lady Tsunade shook her head.

“Who are you anyway?” Sakura asked me, serious and I raised an eyebrow. I pointed at myself.

“You don’t recognize me? Well that’s…just sad.” I said shaking my head, making Naruto and Sakura get a nervous sweat drop. But then it must’ve clicked in Sakura’s head as she examined over me.

“K-Kaiya?!” She exclaimed at me and Naruto just stared in awe. I nodded.

“Well Naruto, no one in this room is your opponent. That’s because they’re out there.” Lady Tsunade said, pointing to the window. Naruto went to it and looked out.

“K-kakashi-sensei?! Wait I have a present for you!” I rolled my eyes before strolling over to Lady Tsunade’s side and whispering to her.

“Now that Naruto’s back, don’t forget I’m officially on Team Gai again.” She nodded and I left, not wanting to deal with all Naruto’s reunions. My mind wondered to the thoughts of what the rest of my team is doing. Gai? Training. Lee? Training. Neji? Hm…he might be training as well, or wondering around, or at the Hyuga compound. Then I smiled to myself. Neji’s  jonin now. I only found out a little while ago, which was surprising considering the fact that I always thought he would stay a chunin like the rest of them. Oh! And how we all got chunin in the first place I should tell you. It’s obvious that there are two exams each year; we just took the next one. But each exam is different, so that it’s not always predicted and can be prepared for, and in the biggest way it differed from the other exam (which I missed anyway) was that you don’t work on teams of 3, but of two. Duos. So in a three man team you had to pick one partner and the other one was left with any other comrades from other teams and the odd one out. But it’s not entirely unfair. See that helps them with experience. Experience that in the mist of battle you need an ally who you don’t know so well to quickly learn his weaknesses and what not. I obviously choose TenTen, which Neji wasn’t too happy about because he was stuck with Lee… It’s his fault for saying the ladies should pick first. He must’ve though I’d pick him. Na uh! That chunin exam was almost only weeks after Naruto left and that’s the last time I saw them for two years, until I saw TenTen a while ago of course. And the next chunin exams are very close. I know because that’s why Temari has been running between our villages with Shikamaru as her escort, who also happens to be the one who plans the exams. Lady Tsunade wanted me to be a proctor but I denied. Of course it would be fun freaking out the minds of young genins but I guess that’s going a little too far. I decided to go to stock up on weapons, for missions of course.

“Hello Gramps!”  I called as I stepped inside. I’ve been here so much that I know the owner.

“Ah, Kiaya-chan! You here to stock up?” I nodded and went to get me a large stock of kunais, shuriken, paper bombs and smoke bombs. I don’t really use other weapons, except my Chi-Ken. (Blood Sword, Side-Pic) Chi-Ken is awesome! It perfectly works with my odd ability! (You’ll find out later :P) After I got weapons I went to train for a little while at the Zeroth Training Ground. (Where Naruto, Shino and Lee had to recapture that ostrich and also the place where in the sixth episode, Team 7 did D-rank missions and walked a dog, where Naruto got blown up :P) This training ground is known for being a wildlife preserve for rare and unusual animals. I train there sometime because the beasts that reside there are vicious and ready to kill. This makes it easy to practice taijutsu and increase speed, seeing as it wants to kill you… As I stepped inside the training ground I immediately heard a roar. I turned to see that at the gate was the one beast I had most fun with, staring at me with bloodlust. I crouched down and signalled for it to attack. Its eyes grew wide and it started to growl at me. It hated being teased. So it did the most obvious thing. It attacked…