*Editing* Dying From The Inside Out. (A Kiba Inuzuka Love Story)

Chapter 10: The Chuunin Exams! (Roku)

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"You got this!" Eriina yelled at her teammate, who took a stance only she knew well.

"She uses gen-jutsu," Kurenai said aloud, knowing that stance was an ancient gen-jutsu.

Kaira's left foot stood normally, whereas her right was folded behind her left leg. Both arms were crossed in front of her face, fingers straight.

The axe that remained in her opponents hand rose up high, and he jumped forward at Kaira.

She closed her eyes, and then screamed in her head; Ninja-Art: Dream of Pain! 

 ~Eriina's POV~

 The ninja guy dropped his axe the moment Kaira closed her eyes. "W-What? What is this?" He grunted, his limbs freezing and his eyes darting all over the place.

 There were a few seconds of silence, before he screamed wildly and began to shake relentlessly, falling to the ground and freeing himself from his frozen state.

 Slowly, Kaira crept forward. Still smiling, she had gotten about half way...and that's when it happened.

 My friend let out the most blood curdling screaming, falling to the ground and holding her chest. "Kaira!" Atori yelled out, trying to jump over the railing.

I pulled her back.

"Don't be stupid! She'll get disqualif-"

 She screamed again, and then Mindo stood up. I feared the worst, and looked to Mai-Sensei.

This has happened before...

We were only kids, and we had been playing in the playground. Obviously I knew Kaira, since we're cousins. Atori was just another kid in the playground.

The grass village isn't a very nice place though, the people were self centered, and scarred from their early life. A bad childhood was always common in our village.

Some were lucky, others were not.

I remember when I first saw the chakra in Kaira.

It was awful.

"W-What do we do?" I whispered, and she knew exactly what I was talking about.

The chakra ball. A black chakra that's circling Kaira's chakra network. It's the reason she's not good at nin-jutsu. Her Mother out it inside her. That's why she gets anxiety attacks.