Hello there, this is my first fic, so be nice. My friend, Seadrance on here, is beta-ing for me, and she's also going to borrow one of the future scenes, seeing as she was the one who came up with the idea for it!

The pairings will be as follows:

NaruHina

SasuSaku

ShikaTema

NejiTen

GaaOC

OCOC

Ja ne!

Eden

"Let the first Chuunin Exam begin!" yelled Ibiki.

'An exam,' Kobee thought, not all that interested.

He scribbled down his name, and wrote the answer to the first question before allowing himself to look at the others who were participating. His green eyes flickered over a boy a few seats in front, and an interested look bloomed on his face. Sasuke Uchiha, if he had his facts straight.

'The Uchiha boy… the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan,' he thought to himself. 'Interesting… and hopefully a challenge.'

He sighed, his troublesome team mates, if they could be called that, after all, he'd only met them a few hours earlier, would need his answers. He wrote down the rest of the answers, and glanced at the clock; there was about ten minutes before the tenth question. Slowly and inconspicuously he slid his hands under the desk, forming rapid seals. Somewhere behind him he heard someone's knee hit the desk, and knew his genjutsu was starting to take effect.

'Come on, Keiko,' he thought, 'let your guard down for a minute.'

"W-what's going on?!"

He smirked as his team mate's panicked voice echoed through his head. It had worked.

'It's Kobee,' he thought quickly. 'Here's the answers, pass them on to Sora.'

Before the temporary connection broke he sent a full list of answers to the girl, who he could hear scribbling on her paper. Keiko was from Kirigakure, while he, Kobee, was from Sunagakure, and Sora was from Kumogakure.

Keiko was the raw power of the team, and worked mainly with water manipulation, as she couldn't use genjutsu or ninjutsu, and her taijutsu was average. Her blue eyes could be warm and laughing one second, and cold enough to freeze hell in another.

Sora used mainly ninjutsu, but his genjutsu wasn't half bad. His real shortcoming was in taijutsu, because he was rather weak physically. His power lay in long distance battles, and planning his moves.

Kobee himself was a weapons specialist, using genjutsus to hide his traps and manipulate people. While he used tactics, he was better off in a spontaneous battle, where adrenaline and split second decisions were dominant.

"Alright, pencils down!" Ibiki roared. "It's time for the tenth question."

There was a nervous murmur, somewhat quieter than the muttering when the exam began due to the many people who had been caught cheating too many times.

"But before I ask you the tenth question, you have a choice about whether you wish to take it or not," the proctor told them seriously. "If you choose not to, you and your team mates will leave the room, and can take the exam next time around-."

"What's the point in not taking the question if the result of getting it wrong and not taking it are the same?" a loud female voice asked.

"Shut up, maggot," Ibiki yelled at the blonde Suna girl, who glared but shut her mouth. "If you answer incorrectly, you will fail the exam… and you may never become a Chuunin."

Angry and worried conversations broke out throughout the room, and Kobee shifted a little, catching Sora's black gaze out of the corner of his eye.

"SHUT UP!"

Kobee winced, he was unaware that someone could actually yell that loud.

"Those who don't want to take the tenth question, raise your hand and you may leave, I'll give you a few minutes to think about it."

Kobee zoned out, there was no way he wasn't taking this chance, and he knew the others well enough to know that they too wouldn't chicken out. The others in the room, however, were slowly disappearing.

SLAM!

Kobee jumped, snapped out of his daydream-state by the sudden noise. A blonde Genin near the front of the room was standing, his hand on the desk, and shaking. Kobee cocked his head curiously, he didn't sense any fear from the kid, but if not, why was he shaking like that? Excitement? Surely not…

"WHAT THE HELL KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT!? GIVE UP ON BECOMING A CHUUNIN OR DROP OUT?!" the blonde yelled at the proctor, making Kobee blink in surprise. "WELL I'M NOT GONNA CHICKEN OUT! I'M GONNA BE HOKAGE NO MATTER WHAT, EVEN IF I FAIL I WONT GIVE UP!"

Kobee grinned, that kid had spirit.

The entire atmosphere of the room had changed, the confidence was almost tangible. Kobee was surprised that one kid, with a rather annoying speech, could change the attitude of nearly a hundred people. Even the examiner seemed mildly surprised, and he was even smiling!

"Well, are you sure you want to stay for this? Last chance."

No one moved.

"Very well…" his smile became more prominent. "You pass."

Kobee blinked in confusion like the rest of the group, before realizing that it had merely been a trick question, and there was no tenth question.

CRASH!

He winced, there seemed to be a lot of loud noises lately.

"Still so many left, Ibiki? The first exam must be softer than when I took it!" the woman who had destroyed the window laughed. "I'm Anko, and I'll be the proctor for the second part of the exams…"

Well? What do you think, review!

Eden