Here is another chapter! Happy to have been able to post it today. Woot!

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Chapter 7

Eleven years have passed since the day the Nara and Aburame clans were banished, and a lot has happened. Nine years ago a new village, or city as it was called, appeared. It was very technologically advanced, and appeared days after the Rain village disappeared into darkness, right in the exact spot where the village had stood. It was reported that none were harmed from this phenomenon, but none of the people could say what exactly had happened. It had stopped constantly raining in the area, only having rain once a week compared to having rain almost every day.

The city was known as Shade City, and it quickly became popular in the fact that all missions sent there were excepted and finished in a fraction of the time that was normally used to complete the missions. A mission that would have normally taken any other village's ninja days to complete would be done in a matter of hours by the ninja located in Shade City. Other villages quickly lost missions because of Shade City's success rate. Shade City became a threat to the other villages, and they had tried sending in spies into the city, only to have the spies killed within moments of stepping through the gates.

During the years Konaha had suffered another harsh blow. The Uchiha clan had practically been wiped out, the only survivors being a boy named Sasuke, and his older brother Itatchi, whom was the one that had killed the rest of the clan before fleeing the village. This left Konaha with only three major ninja clans, one which had its numbers reduced years ago due to the assassin incident. The Hyuuga clan became nothing more than wealthy civilians, as any hope to regain the Byakugan within the clan was not only lost with the disappearance of Neji, but then one of the survivors bore a child. A child that was born without eyes. All of their children would never have eyes.

During the reconstruction of Shade City during those years, the Nara clan stumbled upon the equipment of an old assassins order, the one that Corvo had fought against all those years ago. Deciding to learn the skills of old order, the clan dawned the clothes and learned the skills granted by the Outsider of old. Though they were rather slow about it... It was the Nara clan after all. The Aburame clan made a discovery of their own. During reconstruction they stumbled upon a sample of the plague, and studied it extensively. They were able to inject it into their kikaichū, allowing the bugs to be able to utilize the disease in the same ways the fleas had once did, by injecting into their victims through a bite.

The Aburame even went a few steps further, strengthening the disease to where it not only killed the infected within a few hours, but also to a point where it was near impossible for medics to cure. Only those on par with the legendary Tsunade could cure such a thing, and even then they would have a hard time. Of course they also made it to where it would not spread to others, and also for the disease to destroy itself once it was either drawn from the body for tests or when the host died. The Aburame, of course, were immune to the vile disease.

Shino kept training under Inugami, while Shikamaru continued to learn the ways of nature with the help of Dumond. Neji became as crazy as Old Granny Rags, whom had become like a real grandmother to him. Like the Nara's, he too learned some of the skills given by the old Outsider, but unlike he Nara's whom took a stealthier approach with using the skills, Neji took a more loud and violent approach. For example, where a Nara would silently kill someone and turn the body to ash, Neji would summon rats, or the 'little birdies', and have them devour the target alive while the person screamed in agony.

Naruto, though he hasn't completely mastered them, as learn how to better control the power of the Outsider and that of the Darkness. He is actually the ruler of Shade City, and it is because he opens portals to exact locations that missions are completed so quickly. He is known as the Shade, as he is not seen by anyone other than those that have known him for a long time. Ultimately, the city prospered and flurished faster than any other village ever did. Many villages sent messengers to try and forge an alliance, but all messengers were sent back as soon as they reached the gate.

When the city adopted a symbol, it was the mark of the Outsider, which became engraved on all of the headbands. Right now our story takes place in Konaha, where a team of genin were being told about the Chunin Exam by their sensei. It was a team placed under Kakashi Hatake, aka The Copycat Nin. The team consisted of three fifteen-year-olds. The first was a boy whose hair was black and shaped much like the behind of a chicken.

The boy wore a blue shirt with a high collar that went to his chin, on the back of the shirt was the symbol of the Uchiha clan. He wore white shorts that went to his knees and white arm warmers (A/N: I actually have no idea what their called.), and finally the standard shinobi sandals. The boy's name was Sasuke Uchiha, last of the Uchiha clan. Next was a girl with long, pink hair and green eyes. She wore a red, tight battle dress (A/N: That's what I'm calling it.) with the symbol of the Haruno family on her back.

The dress stopped mid-thigh and split at the sides, showing the short, black bycicle shorts underneath. (A/N: Bicycle shorts are uncomfortable. I should know.) She too wore the standard shinobi sandals. Her name was Sakura Haruno, and she was not only a poor konoichi, but also a Sasuke fangirl. If Sakura actually applied herself to her training as she does to trying to get Sasuke's attention, she would have been one of the best ninja there was, but sadly that is not how life went.

The third member was a boy with brown hair and red triangles on his cheeks. He wore a jacket that had fur around the hood, and sticking out of his jacket, right underneath his chin, was his dog, Akamaru. The boy's name was Kiba Inuzuka, and he was loud and brash. Then there was Kakashi himself. He kept all of his face covered, save for his right eye, was never on time, gave awful excuses, read porn at all hours of the day, and turned in horribly written mission reports. To sum it up, he was uncaring bum. Yep, that's about right.

They were told what building to be at the next day and that it was a decision each would have to make on their own to join. With that, Kakashi poofed away. (A/N: I know it's called shushin or something, but it just sounds weird. I like saying poof anyway.) The team then split up, Sasuke heading towards the Uchiha compound while Kiba and Sakura walked next to each other, seeing as their homes were located in the same direction. As the two walked, they heard yelling and went to investigate.

They came upon the scene of two Suna nin yelling at three genin from Shade City. The three Shade genin were non other than Shikamaru, Shino, and Neji. Shikamaru had his hair in the same style he always had, but his clothes were different. On his shoulders was a knit tallit, with red, blue, white and black yarn in zig-zag and lined patterns. He wore a sleeveless black shirt and tan short that went to and covered his knees. He wore no shoes, but on each ankle was a bracelet made of red and black rope. His nails on his feet and hands were painted black, his ears were pierced with simple, silver rings, and in his right hand, resting against his shoulder was his Shadow Rod.

Shino wore a zipped-up, cotton vest that had a hood tha was down, and was black with green outlines of small wasps in random patterns. He still wore his shades, and grey, cargo capri-pants. (A/N: They do exist! I've seen them!) He wore black shinobi sandals, and his hands and fore-arms were wrapped up in white bandages. The sword he had gotten on those years ago was on his lower back, the strap holding it hung loosely around his left shoulder. (A/N: Basically he carries his sword like Rin from Tenchu: Fatal Shadows.)

Neji had his hair in the same style, but it was two inches shorter than what it usually was. His eyes held a crazed look to them, though only in a way that people knew he wasn't quite right in the head. He wore a red shirt and a black and white striped, long-sleeved shirt underneath it. He wore black jeans and black shinobi sandals. His weapon was strand, a long, metal pole with a four foot chain attached to it, and on the end of that chain was a large, serrated hook, making it look like some sort of hellish fishing rod.

(A/N: Hi, I know you're sick of me, but I would like to point out that they are all wearing their ninja headbands in the same places that they did in the series. Just letting you know.)

The Suna genin that was yelling wore purple face paint, some sort of cat-eared, hooded janitor suit, and he had a wrapped bundle on his back. The other that was trying to get him to stop had a large fan on her back, blond hair in four pig-tails, and clothes that would be considered normal to keep oneself cool out in the desert. The boy, once he had noticed the three's headbands, started to yell at them about random crap.

Hooded-Boy: Your stupid town is taking away what little missions we can get! Your causing all of the other shinobi villages to go bankrupt!

Shino: Forgive me, but I fail to see how any of this has to do with us. We're just here for the exams. With that said, we shall now take our leave and continue our walk to the hotel we will be staying at. Good day to you.

They walked away while the boy kept shouting, the girl trying to calm him down.

Girl: Kankuro, that's enough! Do you really think that yelling at a bunch of genin is going to change anything?

Kankuro: I don't care, Temari! They need to be yelled at!

Temari: Kankuro, please! You're causing a scene, and if Gaara finds out.

The mentioning of the one named Gaara caused Kankuro to calm down and become visibly nervous. The two exchanged a few more words before walking away. Kiba and Sakura, whom had just witnessed the entire event, turned to look at one another.

Sakura: I can't believe it. The heirs of the two clans that left the village and the missing Hyuuga, a team, and one from Shade City!

Kiba: I can't believe they were let in! Just being this close to them makes me uneasy!

Sakura: Kiba, even though they left the village, because they joined another one and because it is the chunin exams, by rights they are allowed to be here without being harassed by the council or the Hokage as long as they don't break any laws.

Kiba: I still don't have to like it.

Akamaru whimpered in agreement. The darkness inside of them caused Akamaru to feel ill when they were that close.

Kiba: Hey, we should go home and get ready for tomorrow. Later!

Sakura: Yeah, bye.

Kiba ran ahead while Sakura walked slowly to her home, her mind swirling with thoughts.

The Next Day at the Exam building

Shino, Shikamaru, and Neji made their way up to the third floor, passing by the group of people on the second floor trying to get into the room that had a genjutsu placed on it. They entered the waiting room for those who were to take the exams, and were greeted with the sight of many other teams waiting for the exams to begin. They went to a vacant spot and stood, well, Shikamaru sat indian-style on the floor (A/N: It's what I always called it. Not sure if it's right or not.).

It was long until Kakashi's team walked through the door, Sasuke looking a little worse for wear. They were greeted by Ino Yamanaka, whom flung herself onto Sasuke, Choji Akamichi, and a pale, black haired boy whose name was Sai. They talked for a while, but then a boy with white hair up in a pony-tail and wearing glasses walked over to them, telling them to keep it down. The boy's name turned out to be Kabuto.

Kabuto said that tensions were high, and that they shouldn't be bringing attention on themselves. He said a few more things, about the exam and himself, before mentioning he had info cards on almost everyone there.

Sasuke: Do you have any info on someone named Lee Rock?

Kiba: Or anything on Shikamaru Nara, Shino Aburame, and Neji Hyuuga?

Kabuto: You know their names? Now it's just too easy.

Kabuto went through his cards and found Lee's first and read it off to them. After that he found Shino's.

Kabuto: Shino Aburame. Skills: Unknown. Jutsu Stats: Unknown. Missions Info: Unknown. Very little is known of Shino Aburame, only that he has a special bread of insects inside of him, and that he fights with a sword. He apparently received these insects after an assassin hired by the Inuzuka clan killed him instead of Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto apparently revived Shino by placing these insects into his body.

Kiba: Yeah, I already knew that stuff. What about the other two?

Kabuto: Let's see, aha! Shikamaru Nara. Skills: Unknown. Jutsu Stats: Unknown. Missions Info: Unknown. Shikamaru has about as much information as Shino. The only thing that is known is that he uses a staff and shadows. It is noted that he became in possession of the staff shortly after Naruto Uzumaki came to stay with the Nara family.

Kiba: I already knew that too! What about Neji?

Kabuto: Neji Hyuuga. Skills: Unknown. Jutsu Stats: Unknown. Missions Info: Unknown. Neji Hyuuga was the only one spared when the Hyuuga clan was cursed and nearly wiped out. Neji vanished the very next day without a trace; he even had ANBU posted in front of his room and he still disappeared. He seems to wield a weapon that resembles a fishing rod.

Kiba: What?! That's it?! Your info sucks!

Kabuto: Kiba, they are ninja of Shade City, a place that no one enters or leaves with the intent to gather information on anything that goes on in the city. Merchants that go in and trade write down what they did during their stay, and I guess someone looks over what they've written and looks through their things to make sure they haven't written down anything else, before they wipe all memories of their visit out of their minds and send them off.

Ino: Wipe their memories clean? That sounds bad.

Sakura: Yeah, they sure go the extra step to make sure everything stays a secret. I wonder what they're hiding?

Sasuke: Who cares? They'll just be another stepping stone for me to gain power.

Kiba: Yeah! We'll beat 'em easily!

Just then, a large man with a scar across his face and Konaha bandana on his head walked in and told all of the waiting genin to shut up. The man introduced himself as Ibiki, the overseer of the first part of the exam. The young ninja were then moved into a room and given assigned seats. Ibiki explained the rules, before telling them to begin. Shikamaru got his answers by using the shadows around the room to 'see' what was written on the tests papers of the others in the room.

Shino got his answers by sending a few of his insects to look at some of the other test papers. Neji got his answers by sending one of his 'little birdies' to go spy on the other genin from the rafters. It wasn't long before Ibiki told them to stop writing, and then told them about the tenth question. After Ibiki finished explaining what would happen if they chose to take the tenth question and failed, he gave them a chance to back out. There were many teams that left, but also many that stayed.

Ibiki: I'll ask you one final time. Does anyone else want to leave?... No? Then congratulations. You all passed the first exam.

A loud chorus of "What?!" and an explanation later, a black mass broke through the window and landed in the middle of the room. The mass unfolded to reveal a banner with random crap written on it and a woman with purple hair standing in front of it. The woman introduced herself as Anko, the overseer of the second part of the exam. Ibiki and Anko talked for a moment about how Anko was early again and about how many genin passed.

After they talked for a moment, Anko lead them to the Forest of Death, and had the other chunin there start handing out wavers to be signed. The genin read over and signed the papers while Anko spoke more about the Forest of Death. One idiot among them decided to voice his opinion. Three guesses who that was.

Kiba: Forest of Death? Ha! This place doesn't scare me! Looks more like a petting zoo than a trial!

Yep, that's Kiba! For his stupidy and his smart mouth, Kiba was rewarded with a kunai grazing his cheek and Anko's tongue licking the blood.(shudder)

Anko: It's always the hot-blooded ones that end up dyeing first. Their blood is so tasty!

Anko suddenly found her kunai next to her face, held out by a long tongue. A female ninja with a Grass village headband had her tongue wrapped around the kunai and outstretched in order to return it.

Grass Nin: I believe you dropped this.

Anko turned her head to look at the ninja with the abnormally long tongue.

Anko: Er, thanks?

Grass Nin: Do try to be careful from now on. I hate it when my hair is damaged.

Sure enough, if one looked close enough, they would see a bit of hair that was drastically shorter than the rest. When Anko had thrown her kunai, she had ended up cutting the ninja's hair. Anko took her kunai and walked away, much to Kiba's relief. She explained a few more things about the second half of the exam before making the teams line up outside of a small tent.

One by one the teams sent in their leaders, whom were given a scroll that they hid on their person before leaving the tent. Once all the teams had been given a scroll, they were placed at different gates. Once Anko gave the signal, the gates were opened, and all the teams began racing towards the tower. Shikamaru, Shino, and Neji came across a group of Iwa genin after a few moments.

Neji: It would just be too funny if they had the earth scroll we need, seeing as they are from Iwa, after all.

Shikamaru: So, who wants to bring an end to their life and add it to the cycle?

Shino: I will. My insects haven't been feed yet today. They're bit peck-ish.

Neji: Fine, but the next group we come across is mine! The little birdies are famished!

Shikamaru: Alright. Shino you go ahead and take care of them while Neji and I go on ahead and see if we can't find someone to add to the never ending cycle of life and death. We'll all meet up at the tower tomorrow morning.

Shikamaru left with Neji, leaving the Iwa genin to their death. Shino slowly sent bug after bug to surround the unaware team that was still trying to form a strategy. A wasted effort on their part. One by one, the bugs began to circle the Iwa team unnoticed. Once Shino was sure each and every last one of his insects were in position, he gave them the signal. The genin had their shinobi career abrubtly ended.

They screamed in agony as hundreds of small mouths filled with sharp teeth gouged on their flesh. In ten seconds, the bugs went back into their living hive, the only thing remaining were the bones. Not even a drop of blood clung to the bare, lifeless bones. Once all of his insects were inside of his body, Shino went and grabbed the only other thing spared besides the bones and shreds of clothing, the scroll the team had been carrying.

Shino: Well, looks like Neji will be getting a good laugh. They had an earth scroll.

Meanwhile with Neji

Neji was having the 'little birdies' feast on a group of screaming Rain genin, when he heard something slithering. Something like... moving sand. Neji jumped out of the way before the sand could wrap around him. When Neji landed, he looked to see a red head with the two Suna nin from before. Neji grinned his crazed grin and bowed in an almost mocking way.

Neji: Greetings and salutations! Such a fine day to die, is it not?

The red head gave a crazed grin of his own, but his was far more sinister.

Red-Head: You will feed mother, and further my existence!

Neji shook his head and wagged his finger.

Neji: No-no-no! I haven't the time to feed your mother! I barely have time to feed the birdies!

The red-head didn't seem to care for what Neji said as he sent a blast of sand at Neji. Neji, in return, began to dance ballet as he skillfully dodged each and every attack that the boy sent his way. The other two Suna nin, Temari and Kankuro, were standing back, too afraid of what would happen if they got in the boy's way. Suddenly, all fun and games came to an end when Neji heard a squeak of distress.

Neji whipped his head in the direction of the sound to see one the birdies (rats) caught in the sands grasp. Before Neji could do anything, the birdie (rat) was crushed under the pressured force of the sand. Small bones and limbs dotted the small explosion of blood as Neji's vision went red. Everything went dark around them, the Suna nin couldn't even see the trees anymore. They definitely couldn't see Neji.

Neji: That, was a sin, I could never, forgive! You will pay the price! A soul for a soul!

The hook of Neji's weapon shot out of the shadows and into the red-heads chest, but no blood or tearing flesh was seen. In fact, the hook had turned spectral, and as Neji pulled it out, something bright and gold was being torn out. The boy screamed in agony as he found that neither he or his sand could move anymore.

Temari and Kankuro found that they too could not move, and when they looked to their hands and feet they could see why. On their arms and legs were a type of spectral, zombified rats that weighed down their souls, preventing them from moving. (A/N: Their the ghost rats from Zelda: Twilight Princess. If you want to get a better idea of what they look like there are pictures on google it.)

With one final jerk, the golden light was tugged from the red-head's body, causing the boy to collapse.

Temari: Gaara!

Neji: Good thing he had a spare, or else he would have been tonight's dinner! Goodbye, and have a nice day!

The darkness was lifted, with Neji nowhere in sight. Kankuro and Temari felt the weight leave them and they rushed over to the now named Gaara. They each took one of his arms and placed it around their shoulders.

Temari: Kankuro, grab the scroll! We don't want to risk having to find another one when we don't know what he did to Gaara!

Kankuro: Right! Definitely wouldn't want to risk running into anymore Shade genin!

Kankuro let go of Gaara to go grab the scroll. Once it was well secured onto his person, he slung Gaara's arm back over his shoulder, and all three quickly started heading towards the tower.

While this was happening...

Shikamaru knew the moment that he broke away from Neji that he would cause trouble. Shikamaru also knew trouble would find him as well, and find him it did. He didn't know how it happened, but now he was defending a team of genin from Orochimaru, who had been disguised as a Grass genin.

Shikamaru: ...You Konaha shinobi are troublesome.

Kiba: If we're so d*** troublesome, why are you helping?!

Shikamaru: Because this particular soul has caused some major rapids in the natural flow of life. So, tell me Orochimaru, how many bodies have you stolen for youself?

Orochimaru: Kukuku, aren't you the observant one? How ever did you know I've been taking the bodies of others to use as my own?

Shikamaru: I can see the wave-length of your soul, and doesn't mach the one that was given to that particular body. So either you were born that way, which is very doubtful, or you stole another's body. Simple as that.

Orochimaru: A very interesting ability, but it will do you no good in this situation!

Orochimaru shot out his tongue, which was wrapped firmly around his Grass Cutter sword.(A/N: I think that's what it's called.) Shikamaru stood perfectly still, and right when the sword was about cleave through his skull, Shikamaru turned into a shadow, and the sword harmlessly passed through him.

Orochimaru brought his sword and tongue closer to himself, intrigued at what he had just witnessed. Kiba and Sasuke took that moment to strike, Kiba aiming a punch to his gut and Sasuke readying a fireball jutsu. The Snake Sannin was not impressed, and grabbed the oncoming fist before flinging kiba right into the fireball, dsipelling the jutsu and badly burning Kiba, causing him to pass out from the pain.

While Orochimaru was distracted, Shikamaru consentrated on Orochimaru's shadow. The shadow seemed to pull away from the tree and take solid form as it continued to rise up. Soon it was standing up on its own, completely un-attacthed from Orochimaru. It was an exact, black copy of the sinister man, complete with glowing, yellow eyes.

Orochimaru felt a presence behind himself and turned to see the doppleganger.

Orochimaru: Hello, what do we have here?

The shadow attacked Orochimaru, using the exact same jutsu that he could. While Orochimaru had his hands full with the shadow, Shikamaru went to gather Kiba and told Sasuke to grab Sakura.

Sasuke: What?! I am an Uchiha! Uchiha don't run away!

Shikamaru: You're an idiot, and you're gonna die one in about five minutes. That's how long my shadow animation lasts. So unless you wanna stick around for pedo-tongue to turn his full attention to you, I suggest we start busting a** and get to the tower.

Grumbling, Sasuke picked up Sakura and they made a break for it, the shadow keeping Orochimaru busy. As they were running Shikamaru looked to Sasuke.

Shikamaru: So, why was she knocked out when I first arrived?

Sasuke: Tch, she wasn't knocked out, she fainted as soon as the guy licked her face.

Shikamaru: ...Why is it most women are more troublesome than what they're worth? Why can't the women out in the rest of the world be like the ones we have in Shade City?

As they got a good ways away from Orochimaru, someone else was coming towards him. It was Anko, and not too far behind her, about eight minutes away, was a group of Anbu. Anko came upon Orochimaru fighting his own shadow. Three minutes had already elapsed, leaving only two minutes for Anko to come up with a plan and six minutes for her to try and stall him long enough for the ANBU to arrive.

Anko: (I'm not sure who or what made that copy of Orochimaru, but it's really wearing him down. The real question is: How much longer will it last?)

Anko waited and observed, taking in Orochimaru's fighting style and trying to come up with a suitable strategy. Two minutes later, and the shadow stopped moving. The shadow began to slowly melt as if it were made of wax. Once it was completely dissolved into a puddle, it slowly reconnected to the bottom of Orochimaru's feet, and reformed to the way it was supposed to look.

Orochimaru: Well, well, that was interesting. Wouldn't you say, Anko?

The Next Morning (Aren't I cruel?)

Shino, Shikamaru, and Neji stood in front of their superior, whom appeared out of the scrolls when both were opened at the same time. This person, was none other than Shikaku Nara, though no one else could tell. Shikaku was wearing the clothing of the old assassins like the rest of the Nara clan, minus Shikamaru. None of the Konaha shinobi regonized him, but it was better this way. Less likely to start an uproar or something.

Shikaku: Good, you all made it. Would've troublesome if ya hadn't. Not only would you have tarnished the name of Shade City, but I would of had to go and drag your bodies all the way back to the city. Troublesome.

Shikamaru: Glad to know my death will be such an inconvenience for you.

Shikaku: Yeah, yeah. I'm sure you three already figured out the meaning of the words on the wall?

Neji: Of course! Only idiots wouldn't be able to understand it! I'm insane, not stupid!

Shikaku: Good, cause it would have been too troublesome to explain anyway. Go on through the doors while I go report to the Shade.

Shikaku vanished, leaving the trio to do whatever while they waited for the rest of the teams to arrive.

Chapter 7

End

There we go! Next chapter will start the third part of the exam. Also, Naruto will be making an appearance, as well as a little twist in the story. Bet you're excited now! I hope everything was spelled right, I hate the spell check!