POV

"Itsuko!" Lord third caught up to me. He told me to not go after Orochimaru. He said that he would handle Orochimaru himself.

Pissed, I headed off without saying a word. Fine. If he's so desperate to die, so be it. If that was what he wanted, I'd just let him be. He better be satisfied now.

Beside Orochimaru, there wasn't much I could do now but to head back to the forest. The exam is almost over, I think I'll just let them pass this time.

And so, I wandered off around konoha again. I received stares, glares and frowns as usual. I'm not exactly welcomed but I don't exactly care either.

About a few hours later, I went back to the stadium to find that prelims were being held. Great opportunity for me to test some of them.

By the time I reached, Sasuke's match was over and the second was starting. That was when I caught from the corner of my eye, Kakashi was leaving with Sasuke. I wonder what he's up to now. What was he thinking?

Curious, I caught up to them when they stopped at a cave. It seems that Kakashi was trying to seal the cursed mark off.

I didn't went in to speak with them. They didn't know I was there either. I didn't interrupt Kakashi with what he was doing and just headed back.

After awhile, Kakashi returned back to the stadium. Sakura immediately left my side and rushed over to ask if Sasuke was doing fine. She certainly didn't stop worrying about him, not even for a second, you could tell fr her face. She definitely loves him a lot.

Kakashi calmly told Sakura that Sasuke will be fine giving her a comforting smile. I shot him a look, slightly doubting his words. Sakura may not have realized but that seal was placed by Orochimaru. There was absolutely no way Sasuke was going to be fine. Orochimaru definitely has plans behind his back.

The next match was Gaara and Rock Lee. It was an interesting match.

I've heard that Rock Lee was a shinobi who couldn't use ninjutsu but he never gave up. Instead he focused on training his taijutsu and was very good at it.

Gaara on the other hand was from the sand. His usage of his sand was just amazing. He was absolutely wonderful considering his level.

Lee was heavily injured while Gaara didn't even get a scratch. His sand was like an ultimate defence but at the same time was also his attacking weapon. His sand reminds me of the one-tailed jinchuriki.

"Because that is him." Kurama suddenly said, his chin gently laying on his arm as he layed on the floor.

It's funny how he's awake at this time. He's always sleeping. That lazy fox.

I giggled at the thought.

"What's so funny?" Sakura asked, looking over, causing several people to glance over.

I ignored Sakura, not even sparing her a glance. I placed my hands on the railing, jumping over it before landing on the ground. I caught many looking at me as if I was insane. It was only about 2 levels tall.

But really, that wasn't really that tall, it didn't stop me from getting down. I wasn't going to take the staircase, it was too much trouble.

"What's this?" Gaara said, narrowing his eyes.

"This, is your second opponent." I replied calmly, my posture seemingly lazy.

He looked over at the referee, as if questioning my challenge. The referee could only reply him with a sigh, he couldn't do anything. I had the authority to eliminate those I want gone and thus I'm allowed to fight them.

"Is she insane or insane?! That rock lee guy nearly got himself killed and this lady wants to fight Gaara?!" I heard one of his teammates yelling. He had tattos all over his face and his costume made him look like a cat.

I didn't bother. I was on a whole lot other level compared to Rock Lee. They just didn't understand, no one ever understands.

"Oh, and you might want to go full out on me. Or you'll undoubtedly be injured. Not killed. So be prepared..." I said, going full speed beside him.

It would seem like I teleported but I actually just walked at a really fast speed. At my full speed.

"Don't underestimate me, one tailed jinchuriki..." I whispered in his ears, disappearing.

After Captain whispered something into Gaara's ears, she just disappeared. I glanced all over, but she was no where to be found.

The crowd were all shocked, not knowing of what was happening. Gaara looked like something extremely shocking just happened. He panicked and turning his head, looking for where Captain was. However, she was no where in sight.

Suddenly, a few anbus who were observing from the side came in screaming. Their job was to guard the place in case there were any intrusions.

"Captain! Don't do this! You won't make it out alive!" They screamed. The looks in their faces clearly shows that they were worried for her and didn't wanted to risk it. But I think it may have been better if they stayed at their duties. They just crossed the line...

Captain appeared suddenly, with a strong gust of wind, sending them flying towards the exit right were they came from. Her face was more emotionless than ever.

"Do not interfere. You should know well enough." She said, her voice as sharp as sword, looking as if she was going to kill them any second now.

Gaara stood in the middle of the stadium, turned over, stunned. His eyes were so widely open, they could've dropped out.

"Kakashi sensei... Weren't those anbu training under her? Why does it seem as of she doesn't care at all about them. The way she sent them flying and that look..." Sakura asked, looking slightly frightened. She definitely didn't believe what she just did. They haven't seen captain's true side.

"You're right. Those are her best trained anbus." I replied secretly swallowing a gulp down my throat as a sweat dropped down my face.

"Then why is she treating them so coldly? That look... It's as if she won't hesitate to just kill them." Sakura said, not taking her eyes of the scene. They haven't learnt anything about the real world. It's just cruel.

"That heart of hers froze years ago. She doesn't care of any one of us here. She killed millions of innocents without hesitation. I never told you all this, but when you're with her, your life is constantly at risk. No matter who you are." Well at least that's who she was now... She used to be so much more... No. That's all in the past now.

The only person she would care for is probably Itachi Uchiha and Minato sensei.

The anbus layed at the side, they were hit pretty hard despite only being hit by a gust of wind.

A smirk crawled up Itsuko's face as she sent kicks at Gaara. Only having Gaara's sand defending him.

As she sent another kick, her hand reached for her sword and took it out.

She lowered her body, reaching out with one of her legs, she slid it across the floor all of a sudden, catching Gaara off balance. The next second, her katana was at his stomach, ready to cut him.

It all happened so fast, even Gaara's sand couldn't predict what she was going to do, they couldn't even catch up with her speed. Her aim was at the front of his stomach so the sand naturally followed along and defended the front. Little did it know, it was all a trap.

Just as the sand was about to reach, blocking the attack, she teleported a few meter behind and threw her sword at him, it wasn't close distance yet it was still too fast for the sand to catch up so cut Gaara slightly. For the first time, Gaara felt pain, smelt and felt his own blood. For the first time, he knew what pain was.

"Tell me honestly, are you going to transform?" Itsuko said. She was getting impatient. She didn't want to get it out of him, it would be easier to get him to just transform.

"D-Did she j-just b-break t-through Gaara's ultimate defence?!" Kankuro screamed, he didn't believe it, it was unbelievable. No one had ever done it.

Temari's eyes we're so wide open, they could fall out. She could barely think starightly. All that came in mind was that the lady was insane. "Is she trying to get Gaara to kill her?!"

Gaara started transforming, started with just his arm.

"Lets bring this to the forest shall we, this will be exciting." Itsuko said, the smirk still stuck on her face. She took a step behind, vanishing.

Gaara seemed like a wild beast, lost of consciousness. He crawled, jumped and ran outside. His claw from his transformed hand left a few holes on the floor inside the Stadium.

Everyone starred blankly. It was complete silence, they were all so shocked, they could barely speak. Then suddenly, the door slammed shut behind Gaara and a boy appeared in front of them. He was standing in front of the door.

"Master demands for the matches to go on. If you don't bide by the command I'm allowed to kill you." He said, giving a sweet smile, ironically which made it creepy.

Looking at Kozaki oddly, the referee felt the tension in that simple sentence. Without further silence, he got the matched to continue.

Meanwhile, Itsuko led the wild beast towards a more empty area as their fight went on. She stopped as they arrived at a forest, not very far away from the stadium. Itsuko looked at gaara, her eyes showed much pity.

It didn't soften for long. It immediately turned back to the stone, emotionless face as she forced gaara to use his full one-tailed form. She made sure she knocked him out, because in order to awaken the one-tails it's jinchuriki has to be asleep.

"Shukaku." Itsuko greeted, dragging her katana on the floor before placing it back into its cover.

"Kurama? She's not bad at all. All that didn't even land a scratch despite her not using much energy! She didn't even use your chakra." Shukaku said in it's high pitched voice.

"The brat's probably as good as old man six paths." Kurama complimented, not lifting his head from the warmth of his arms wrapped at his chin.

"Listen. You two can have a good talk later, I dragged you out so I could discuss something with you. The organisation my brother joined, The Akatsuki, just doesn't seem right. Either ways, I want you to work with Gaara. It shouldn't be long before we have competition and we'll have advantage if we help each other out. I mean if he dies you don't survive either so let's help each other out or I'll just kill him right now." She said, her look was dead serious. She wasn't questioning, she was more of demanding Shukaku to at the same time, threatening it.

Shukaku went into deep thought for awhile. Itsuko didn't interrupt, she allowed the tail beast to have his own thoughts. Shukaku nodded in agreement, waking Gaara up and went back to it's seal.

"Mission complete." Itsuko said, stretching her hands before reaching up to Gaara who was sitting on the ground. She helped Gaara up, he was still weak from the injuries.

"Work together with Shukaku, the thing inside you or I promised I would kill you." She warned him before turning around heading back to the stadium.

As she entered, she could see several eyes landing on her, giving her 'the look'. She didn't bother to glare or even look at them. She headed over to her anbus who were still on the ground from her previous attack she shot at them. They were still too weak to move.

"C-Captain... A-Are you okay?" One managed to choke out.

Itsuko held out her hand, reaching out for theirs. Well at least they thought. Instead of reaching out for their hands, she reached for their neck. Holding them up high, she glared at them before deciding to drop them back on the ground.

"Keep your noses out of my business. Also, get up before I decide you're too weak to be in the anbu." Itsuko shot them a glare before walking up to where Kakashi and the rest were.

"Kozaki, your work is done." She whispered, turning him back into a jewel receiving stares.

She was use to it, use to the stares she always receive no matter what she did. It was always like that.

Sakura took a few steps back as Itsuko approached the empty spaces to stand beside Sakura. Having courage, Sakura clenched her fist as she took a step foward, greeting Itsuko. It didn't even take Itsuko a second to understand the situation.

"You don't have to act." Itsuko shot at her calmly, not even looking at Sakura.

"What do you mean sensei?" Sakura replied giving an innocent look as if she heard nothing at all from Kakashi. But her face was like an open book, showing all her fears and dislikes.

"I'm heartless, cold and I could kill you just because I feel like it. I nearly killed my best trained anbu. You know that, you know so stop acting nice and friendly just be natural like everyone else, not that it makes a difference anyways. The glares and all are just part of daily life." Itsuko said, not looking at Sakura, eyes focused at the fight going on the whole time.

Before Sakura could react to that, a man came, grabbing a hold of Itsuko's shoulder, turning her around.

Itsuko glared at him so intensely it could probably kill someone by just one look. At the same time she shoved her shoulder, making his hand fall off.

"What do you want. You're stepping over your boundaries and I'm not in the best mood to deal with you." She said, really pissed and annoyed. Ibiki was the last person she wanted to deal with right now.

'Oh no, is it my fault?' Sakura stood beside Itsuko, thinking as she clenched her fist tighter, looking at the ground, feeling guilty.

"Those anbus were the best we had." He said glaring back at Itsuko. His tone was as stiff as stone.

"I am well aware. They are my anbus." Itsuko replied, not breaking eye contact. It was getting intense and the tension was building up.

Ibiki rolled his eyes as he sighed, walking away immediately. A little more and a fight would have undoubtedly broke out. They never get along, not once, not ever.

Silence fell as everyone continued watching the fight. Sakura broke the silence, informing Itsuko about the presence of the anbus. They were waiting for Itsuko at the side.

Itsuko didn't reply to her, neither did she look over to the anbus.

She knew that they liked her. However she never cared. Countless of anbu, rogue, villagers, shinobi fell for her. She was well aware that many liked her beauty. However not one stood a chance no matter how handsome, how nice, how wonderful they were.