(Lian's POV)
I grinned as I ran towards the weird looking lady, machine gun in hand.
I jumped into the air, off the branch and started to shoot bullets at her as fast as lightening.
"Lian!!! Look out!!" Sasuke called, running along the branch above me.
I looked down, realising that the snake was below me.
"Bring it on!!!" I battlecried spinning my gun around and firing the bullets into the snakes mouth, hitting off it's teeth and tongue, aiming it to go down it's throat.
Some bullets came out on the other side of the snake.
When I was a few feet above it, and getting closer, I opened my pouch , taking the wire out, threw it up into the air and snapping it around a branch.
Almost immediately after that, the force made me bounce right back up and I flipped landing on the certain branch.
I dropped the wire, not having any use for it and ran along the branch to find Sasuke and the snake lady.
When I jumped onto the next branch, I immediately jumped in front of Sasuke, blocking a kunia that the lady had thrown.
"What's wrong with you, duck-butt?" I asked, poking his shoulder.
He looked....distant...
"HO!!! YOU LISTENING TO MEH!!" I yelled.
"He can not hear you..." the lady stated. "You might want to concentrate on your oponent."
"Why?" I asked, turning to face her then sweatdropped seeing the snake I'd shot...who was still alive... "H-Hey, sorry?"
"Naiive little ninja, these Exams are not for the small and weak." the lady said.
I froze on the spot.
My eyes twitched a little.
I looked down, shaking.
"Oh, have I offended you?" she mused.
"Nobody...and I mean...nobody...calls me small..." I growled, looking up and glaring, "AND GET'S AWAY WITH IT!!!!"
I screamed with all the power I had in my lungs, forcing trees to be blown back and the snake strugglign to stay steady.
The lady's eyes widdened and gasped, using her arms to cover her eyes from the twigs and dust picking up.
I kept on screaming as I did handsigns for the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
My three clones ran out towards the lady as I continued to scream, giving them an extra boost.
My first clone, L ran behind the lady and kicked her back. She poofed off.
My second clone, I jumped on her chest, forcing her to fall back. She poofed off too.
My third clone, A jumped into the air and kicked the lady's side, causing her to lose balance and fall of the side of thethick branch. She poofed off as well.
I stopped screaming, my throat burning from the amount of time I kept that up. I coughed a sore cough, my throat begging for water.
"Sa-Sasuke..." I muttered, falling onto my knees as did Sasuke. "Wh-What h-ha-happened?"
"That-That lady...s-she sho-showed me...how...how I w-was going-ing to d-die..." Sasuke stuttered out. "Where is she?!" He pulled out a kunia knife, searching the trees and branches.
"I-I knocked her off the s-side.." I coughed. "W-water..."
"Here." Sasuke offered, handing me a bottle from his pouch.
I cough once more before drinking the cool substance.
After draining it all, I handed it back to Sasuke with a thankful smile, out of breath.
"Thanks." I nodded.
"No bother." he replied, "Let's not relax for long though. She still has Naruto, meaning she will come back."
"Sharp, aren't you?"
We both gasped, turning around and immediately freezing on the spot.
....
.....
....
....EWWWWW!!!!!
NO!!!!
NO!!!!!
SHE DID NOT SHOW US NAKED PICTURES OF GUY-SENSEI!!!!
EWWW!!!!!
EWWWW!!!!!
AHHH!!!! JUST!!!
JUST NO!!!!
IT'S NOT RIGHT ON SO MANY LEVELS!!!!
She somehow froze us on the spot, making us unable to move.
The freaky lady walked up to us and stopped, looking between us, watching the fear in our eyes.
"Now, I wonder which one has the scroll." the lady mused.
She took out a kunia and placed it to my throat, causing my eyes to widden.
"Let's see, do you have it?"
"QUACK QUACK!!!!!!"
"STEVE!!!!!" I cried, fire in my eyes.
I snapped out of everything and looked around, kicking the lady back in the process.
"Good job Lian!!" Sasuke smirked.
"Where's Steve?" I wondered, confused.
"I made that noise because I knew you'd go all...you." Sasuke explained.
I grinned, "Nice one."
"Ah, where have I heard that name before? Lian...Lian...Lian...Titen." the lady said, her eyes then glistening with curiousity.
"H-How do you know my name?" I asked.
Sasuke sweatdropped. "You yelled your name along with Naruto before Ibiki showed up. Remember?"
"Oh...yeah..." I said, "Whoops..."
"One of the surviving Titen siblings. I know someone who would pay a...great deal of money. To have that kind of power." the lady said, licking her lips.
"Eww, just...stop that!!!" I cried, "Stop licking your lips, I mean, jeez! It looks like you want to rape Sasuke for Steve's sake!!"
Sasuke shuddered as the woman sweatdropped.
"You're really a big problem." she mused.
"YES!!! I'M BIG!!! I'M TALL!!! I'M ALMIGHTY POWERFUL!!!!!" I cheered.
"That's enough.." Sasuke said, glaring at the lady. "If we give you our scroll, will you leave us alone?"
The lady raised an eyebrow. "I guess I would leave your little friend till the end of the chuunin exams."
"I'M NOT SMALL!!!!!!" I shouted, stomping my foot. I was about to jump at her but Sasuke grabbed me from behind as I tried to claw my way to the lady who keeps calling me small!!!
You'd think people would learn by now to stop calling me names to do with small!!!!!
I'm funsized!!!
Sasuke let me go and shoved me behind him, taking out the scroll.
"Here," he said, shoving up in the air, "Take it and leave."
He threw it and my eyes widdened at what Sasuke just did.
The Sasuke who never gave up.
Giving up.
What has the world come to?
The lady put her hand out, ready to catch the scroll but it got caught by a flash of yellow!!
"Naruto!!!" I cheered as he landed on a high branch, scroll in hand.
"Lian!!! What's Sasuke doing?!" he yelled, glaring at Sasuke.
"How should I know what goes through duck-butt's head?" I asked.
"Naruto!! Run!!! Give her the scroll and run!! You can't beat her!! She's too strong!!" Sasuke yelled, desperation in his voice.
Naruto jumped down from branch to branch and kicked Sasuke in the face, knocking him back!!!
"What're you doing?!" Sasuke growled, glaring up at Naruto.
"You're not the real Sasuke." Naruto glared.
"Naruto, he-" I staretd but he cut me off.
"No!!! Lian!! He's not!! Would the real Sasuke of our team just give up like that?!" Naruto yelled.
I looked down, glaring at my feet.
...sorry feet...
Sasuke's eyes widdened, realising I think what had happened, but he decided to just stand there.
"Ah, Naruto, so you escaped from my snake." the lady mused.
"Yeah, I didn't really feel like being snake food today." Naruto stated.
"What about tomorrow?" I asked.
"Sure...wait WHAT!?!?!?!" Naruto yelled.
"He'll be there for feeding tomorrow, here, same time lady!! Bring the snake!!" I cheered with a grin, causing EVERYONE to sweatdrop.
"SHUT UP LIAN!!!!" Naruto cried, anime crying.
"Okay dokey..."
The lady did fast handsigns and yelled, "summoning Jutsu!!"
Out of the poof, came a cry which was...
"OH MY GOSH WHERE'D YOU GET A SNAKE THAT BIG?!?!?!" I yelled, practically shitting it!!!!
The lady smirked from the snake's head, "Attack!!"
My eyes widdened as I jumped up onto higher branches.
I looked down, realising Sasuke wasn't moving.
I growled, jumping down and slinging his arm over my shoulder, about to jumped when suddenly the snake banged against the branch bellow, making me fall to my knees.
"Ahh!" I cried, my hand at the back of my leg, "Damnit!!! A cramp? The now? REALLY?!?!?!"
"Now, DIE!!!" the lady cried, the snake's head coming closer by the second.
My eyes closed, waiting for the impact.
After counting to five, I opened them, my eyes open in shock.
"Na-Naruto..." I managed to say. He was standing a foot in front of us, a kunia in the snake, arms and legs stretched keeping it still somehow.
"Hey..Sasuke!!" Naruto called, making Sasuke look at him, "What's wrong with you?" Naruto looked up, fear ripping through me at that moment, "Ya big scaredy cat!!!! you almost killed Lian as well as yourself!! Get yourself together before you kill us all!!!"
Naruto...he looked different...
His whisper marks stood out much more than they should, he had talons instead of fingernails and his eyes....
His once friendly eyes, as bright as the ocean blue, were a firey death red ad orange, merged into one.
It scared me...it really did.
That's one fo the first things I noticed about Naruto in the accademy...
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Then the last one stood up, his yellow hair stood out brightly but then his eyes opened, a bright blue that you couldn't miss.
You could tell that he cared, his eyes showed playfulness and saddness at the same time...
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, believe it!!" he cheered then suddenly started to wobble, making my eyebrows bush together in confusion.
I know he was standing on a table but...he couldn't lose balance so suddenly.
"WOAH!!" he cried, falling onto the floor, causing everyone to laugh, including me.
I looked at him, seeing his bright blue eyes sparkle in the light as he laughed as well.
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Tears brimmed up in my eyes as I saw the same boy...Naruto...he actually scared me..
I didn't know how Naruto could be so...terrifying...
A long what looked like tongue came down and rapped itself around Naruto, making him squirm and try to get free.
"Ahh!!! Let go!!! Let go!!!!" he shouted as the lady lifted his shirt up, making my eyes widdened.
"Leav him alone!!!" I yelled, throwing a kunia knife at her, which she just grabbed before it hit her.
"Man...I thought I was the only one that could do that..." I muttered.
"Ah, the nine tailed fox demon..." the lady muttered, looking at the tatoo Naruto had on his stomach.
Wait, when did he get a tatoo?? And why?? For what reason??
The lady's fingers lit up a dark purple like colour.
"What...what is that?" I wondered.
I could feel a great amount of chakra coming off her fingers.
She pulled her arm back, causing my eyes to widden.
I dropped Sasuke's arm and ran along a branch.
"NARUTO!!!!!" I screamed.
"AHHH!!!!"
My eyes widdened as I watched my best friend fall limp and the lady take the scroll.
"Hmm....you are of no use to me now..." she muttered, using her tongue to throw Naruto off to the side.
I ran quickly down a branch and jumped out, grabbing Naruto who was atleast an inch taller than me now, and landed on a branch.
I groaned, realising I just took the full blow and having a bigger person lying on top of you didn't help!!!
I rolled Naruto off me and lay him down on the thick branch we lay on.
Tears were threatening to come out, but I held them in.
Is he alive?
I grabbed his wrist and put my two fingers on it, trying to feel a heartbeat.
........nothing?
.....no.....
..............
....it can't be!!!
He can't die!!!
He hasn't become Hokage yet!!!
Wait!....there!!!
I grinned, hugging my best friend once more.
He was still alive!!
I suddenly hear an explosion, realising Sasuke must of gotten back into action......
....or he died....
....I'm hoping for the first option!!!
I lay Naruto down again with a small smile, wiped away and tears and got up, jumping off branches to go help my other team mate.
Sasuke better still be alive, and that lady.
Because, I'll need Sasuke's help.
To kill her!!!
When I got to the scene again, Naruto had wrapped a string of wire around the lady and a branch and was currently doing handsigns for a fire jutsu...either that or its a puddy jutsu..yip, I made that one up!!
I jumped down, as the flames engulfed the lady who screamed.
After a couple of seconds, the screams stopped and so did the flames.
Sasuke breathed heavily and I smiled, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Good job...duck-butt." I smiled when he sweatdropped at his nickname.
"You can never be truelly serious, can you?" Sasuke asked, shaking his head with a smirk.
"Nope!! But that's a good thing!!" I grinned.
There was movement at the corner of my eye so I got into a defensive stance, kunia knife in hand.
Where the burnt lady was, a person was getting up. I gasped quietly, taking a shaky step back.
We were both suddely frozen in place again.
I tried moving my arms but they wouldn't budge!!
"Don't try moving, it's a waste of energy." the person said.
It couldn't be the lady....this person sounded like a man...a man that resemblenced a snake..
My eyes widdened as I saw the tongue...the tongue that the lady had...
It was the same person....but....how?
"The Uchiha clan's power is great!!" the man said, now speaking to Sasuke, "I must have it!! You know....your eyes might even be keener than Itachi's."
"What do you know about Itachi?!" Sasuke yelled.
The man chuckled walking towards us.
"Sasuke, your not in any posstion to be asking questions." I snapped.
"The little red-head is right." the man said, his eyes meeting mine. They did resemble a snake. "Hm, it seems as if you kekkie genkai hasn't awakened yet..."
My eyes widdened, "I;m going to have a kekki genkai?"
The man chuckled darkly, "I know more about your clan than you do yourself...how sad. But, how would you know? They were all murdered."
My breath was caught in my throat. "Wh...what?"
The man started to laugh like it was the funniest thing in the world.
"You really know nothing, do you?" he said, laughing again, "The man that would pay anything for you, was the one that killed your parents!!!"
I choked there and then.
I couldn't breath.
"Lian!!" Sasuke cried as I fell, curling up into a ball as the cruel man in front of us kept on laughing.
"I'd love to stay and chat, but I'm afraid I must take my depart!!" the man said, "I'll be seeing you both very soon."
The man's neck stretched out, fangs sparkling in the light and werre suddenly sinking into Sasuke's neck.
He scramed bloody murder.
"Sasuke!!" I yelled, tears now streaming down my face as he contineud to scream. I turned my glare on to the laughing man, "Who the hell are you?!? What do you want?!"
"Oh my, what I want is rare. But for who I am, my name is Orochimaru, and I shall be seeing you and Sasuke very soon." he said, then disappeared into a tree behind him.
I took about ten deep breaths before I screamed as loud as I could.
"I HATE YOU!!!!"
I took the scroll from my hair and cut my finger with my kunia.
"Summoning Jutsu!!"
"Hi Lian...wait, what's wrong?!" Leon cried.
"Get Naruto and come back to get me and Sasuke." I ordered, tears still falling. "We need to recover from our recent fight."
"....yes mistress Titen." Leon bowed his head, flying off to get Naruto.
My lower lip quivered as I looked at the now sleeping Sasuke
I shook my head.
Forget my goal of becoming Naruto, the hokage, assistant and protector.
My new goal.
Kill the man that took my parents away from me!!