Team nine was on a mission at a developing village called The Hidden Sound Village. Matsubi wanted to meet the kage of the village his name was Orochimaru. Matsubi knew that sasuke was trained by Orochimaru and Matsubi wanted to learn how to summon snakes and how to go into sage mode. Sohan on the other hand was not as happy as Matsubi because Sohan wanted to learn the puppet master jutsu from the sand village. Sohan was happy that they were leaving the same day though. By the end of the day matsubi had learned the summoning jutsu with ease, surprisingly Sohan did as well but only Sohan summoned hawks.
When team nine returned they were surprised to have see that the chunin exams would be starting soon. They trained for days taking few breaks when the chunin exams came they were fine. with the paper test Matsubi scored a 100/100 and with the combat test Matsubi's first opponent against a young leaf ninja named Shiro. Shiro was a prodigy who many people thought would be the eighth or ninth hokage. Matsubi only won because of one thing genjutsu. Shiro mastered all five nature transformations and wood style but left his guard open when he attacked. Matsubi won with ease though his final opponent was not going to be as easy.
Matsubi's final opponent was Sohan and they decided to go all out and not hold back. During the final match every thing Sohan did matsubi could do it as well. If Sohan summoned a hawk matsubi would summon a winged snake, if Sohan used a rasengan matsubi would use chidori. Matsubi had a sharing though but Sohan had a tailed beast. The match was finished with a chidori and a Johtatabi rasengan clash.
