A/N: Hey there guys, this is going to be my very first attempt at a Naruto story and I hope it turns out okay! This one is going to take place WAY back in the show, like before the start of the preliminaries for the Chunin exams. This story is going to turn into an AU after a while, and it'll have a few OC's and it'll introduce characters (like some you wouldn't even see until Shippuden) into the very beginning. This is pretty much me trying to show a take on what I think would happen if things hadn't unfolded the way it had. What if people didn't keep secrets, what if enemies became allies, and what would happen with a global threat? Anyways, that's what this is gonna answer. And with the parings, while I have no problems with really any of the pairings in this show, I'm going to be going with the following: Sasuke/Sakura, Naruto/Hinata, Lee/TenTen, Gaara/OC, Kiba/OC, Neji/OC, Kakashi/OC, and any other possible pairings, feel free to ask about or request.

Full Summary: Its graduation time at Konoha and all of the graduates are excitedly waiting the day they've been looking forward to for their lives at the academy. The Chunin Exams. It was the time where they get the chance to prove themselves. To show their power and prowess in the attempt to make it to the next level of their ninja training and become one step closer to becoming a jounin or even ANBU. But what happens when the some shady characters are sent to compete? Who are these three interesting ninja, and who is their odd mentor? Who are they working with? What is their goal? Naruto and the gang are going to have a lot ahead of them on the road to becoming Chunin!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, only my OC's.

Naruto: Alliance of the Ninjas

Chapter 1: Chunin Exams?

After several completed, yet complicated missions—thanks to Sasuke and Naruto's rivalry—Team 7 met back up with Kakashi to go over how the missions had gone. Unfortunately, that wasn't going quite well either. Kakashi and Sakura merely watched as Naruto and Sasuke stared down after the raven haired boy said that he was better and stronger than the blonde. Thankfully, before anything escalated, Sasuke snorted and turned to walk away.

"You're wasting my time."

Sakura noticed his retreat and ran to catch up. "Wait, Sasuke I'll go with you!" Sasuke paused in his walking and turned to give Sakura a look. The pink-haired girl blushed and started talking. "Hey, why don't we go do something more personal? You know, to work on our teamwork!"

Sasuke fought off the urge to roll his eyes. "I swear, you're just as bad as Naruto. Instead of flirting why don't you go work on your jutsu so that you can better the team. You know what? Let's face it, you're worse than Naruto."

Sakura's face fell as she let his words sink in, not bothering to call out to him when he walked away. He's right… I haven't done anything on these missions…

"Don't worry about him Sakura! You and I can work on our teamwork all day!" Naruto called out, as he sensed the emotions Sakura was feeling. Sakura merely cast a look over her shoulder, but remained silent as she thought about the last few missions and how people always had to come to her rescue. Sasuke, Kakashi, and even Naruto… all of them having to jump in front of her to protect her, and she couldn't do anything to help. "Sakura?"

Sakura looked up in confusion before she noticed Naruto's concerned look on his face. She realized then that he had been calling her for a while and that Kakashi was gone. Putting a smile on her face she shook her head. "Sorry, I couldn't hear you! I was just thinking of some training exercises we could do."

"Oh! Okay!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly.

Sakura sighed in relief that Naruto didn't question her further. But in truth, she was thinking of training exercises. She wasn't going to let the others pass her by while she just stood still. She would catch up and progress with them. She wouldn't be a hindrance anymore. She wouldn't allow it. She woul— was that a moving box? "Uh… Naruto?"

"Yeah?" Naruto asked in confusion as to why she looked so perplexed. She merely pointed over his shoulder. Naruto looked towards where she was pointing and face palmed. He didn't need to see who was inside of it to know it was Konohamaru and his two little friends. And lo and behold as soon as the box was removed, it was those three kids just waiting there.

"Hey boss!" Konohamaru called out.

Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Hey, so you need something?"

"You promised you'd play ninja with us today!" Moegi spoke up.

Sakura raised an eyebrow as she stared at Naruto. "A ninja playing ninja?" Sakura's confidence took a nose dive as she realized that her ninja skills weren't even on par with his and he played ninja.

"Hey, who is she?" Konohamaru asked. He stared between Sakura and Naruto before he grinned. "Oh I see! She's you're girlfriend!"

Naruto grinned. "You can tell she's crazy about me-" Naruto never got to finish his statement as his face got to meet Sakura's fist as she punched him clear through a fence out of sheer annoyance and frustration.

"WHAT KINDA GIRLFRIEND ARE YOU?!" Konohamaru called out as Moegi and Udon went to check on Naruto. "YOU'RE A WITCH AND YOU'RE UGLY TOO!"

And that was the straw that broke the camels' back. Sakura glared at the young boy as she cracked her knuckles and approached him slowly. Konohamaru paled as he too got to meet her fist. Sakura growled a bit and turned to start walking away, fully intent on going to get some training in, when Konohamaru sealed the doom of the four. "I don't even think she's human! Did you see how wide her forehead is?!"

Sakura turned around almost mechanically. The four target ninjas all just stared at her until she started charging towards them. Screaming, the four all ran away not wanting to face Sakura's wrath. Unfortunately, Konohamaru—the one furthest in front of the group—ran too far ahead and didn't look where he was going. He soon plowed into another ninja dressed in black with something tied on his back. He had purple markings on his face and a forehead protector that showed he was from the sand village. The ninja raised an eyebrow and looked down at him.

"You need something?"

When Konohamaru didn't respond the boy picked him up by the neck and held him over his head. "So, does this hurt punk?"

The blonde female he was with glared. "Put him down, Kankuro or you'll pay for it later."

"Hey, I'm sorry. The whole thing was my fault," Sakura defended Konohamaru taking step towards them. Who are they? Sakura thought to herself, her hand lingering just over where she had her kunai and shuriken holder secured to her thigh.

"Take your hands off of him right now!" Naruto demanded.

Kankuro grinned. "We have a few minutes until he gets here. Why don't we mess with these punks?"

"Let go of me you jerk!" Konohamaru shouted kicking Kankuro in the chest. It seemed to have no effect.

"You're feisty, but not for long."

Naruto growled and looked like he was ready to start throwing punches. Sakura, tried to take a diplomatic route. "Hey! I already told you that it wasn't his fault, it's mine. Put him down, he's got nothing to do with it, he's just a kid."

Kankuro shrugged. "I don't see how he doesn't, cutie. He's the one who plowed into me, not you. Though, I wouldn't have minded it all that much."

Sakura's face flared red from embarrassment and anger while Naruto settled for charging them. "Put him down!" He demanded. Kankuro merely smirked and started moving his fingers. As soon as he did that, Naruto slipped and fell on his butt, utterly shocked and confused. "What the... what was that!"

"You're village is full of wimps," Kankuro laughed.

"Put him down right now or I'll kick your ass!" Naruto shouted.

"Threats are not going to help anything, Naruto!" Sakura hissed in reply.

Kankuro narrowed his eyes at Naruto. "You're annoying. I don't like brats or wimps. So when a wimp like this starts shooting off his mouth," Kankuro jostled Konohamaru for emphasis, "I want to break him in half." Naruto and Sakura's eyes widened. Naruto tensed to charge again and Sakura pulled out a kunai, about to throw it at Kankuro, foreign ninja or not. The girl behind Kankuro didn't seem to care that Sakura had just pulled out a weapon.

"I'm not involved in any of this. You're on your own Kankuro," she informed him. Kankuro reeled his arm back to punch Konohamaru. Naruto started to charge and Sakura reeled back to throw the kunai, aiming for the hand that was moving forward. Neither she nor Naruto needed to do anything however, seeing as a rock flew out, hit Kankuro's wrist, and caused him to drop the boy.

"You're a long way from home and way out of your league."

The group all turned to see Sasuke tossing a rock in the air and catching in while sitting on a tree branch just near them. "Sasuke!" Sakura called out in surprise, putting her kunai away once more. Sasuke glanced at her briefly before turning back to the foreigners. Konohamaru quickly ran out of the way and hid behind Naruto, not wanting to get caught up in the fray again.

Kankuro snorted. "Oh great, another wimp to tick me off."

Sasuke didn't even flinch, her merely crushed the rock in his hand into dust and let it float into the wind, narrowing his eyes slightly. "Get lost."

"Hey, how come you're not cool like that?" Konohamaru asked Naruto.

Naruto pouted. "Hey, what are you talking about? I would've been able to take him out in two seconds flat!" Internally, he was frustrated beyond believe that it was Sasuke coming to the rescue again. He always was getting shown up by Sasuke and he was starting to get sick of it.

"Hey get down here," Kankuro demanded as he glared up at Sasuke, starting to pull the bandaged up item off of his back. "You're the kinda punk I hate the most. All attitude and nothing to back it up."

The unidentified girl looked shocked. "You're going to use the Crow for this?!"

"Kankuro, back off."

Immediately everyone froze. Even Sasuke froze as he heard the voice coming from just next to him. Turning his head—just as everyone else did—he saw a boy with a gourd on his back, red hair, and the kanji that read 'love' on the top left hand side of his forehead, using his chakra to hang upside down from the tree branch. "You're an embarrassment to our village."

Kankuro flinched. "Uh… hey Gaara…"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes a bit. How did he get there? Only a Jounin at Kakashi's level is that smooth.

Gaara jumped down from the tree branch and landed by his two friends, glaring at Kankuro causing said boy to flinch. "What are you guys doing here?" Sakura questioned.

"We're here for the Chunin exams," the blonde girl answered.

"The Chunin exams? I've never heard of those?" Naruto questioned, causing those in his team to want to face palm. Konohamaru tugged on his shirt.

"That's the exams every Genin has to take to become a Chunin."

Naruto beamed. "Oh, well then why didn't you say so? I'm so there!" The three foreigners, turned to start walking away.

Sasuke ignored Naruto's outburst and jumped down from the tree and glared at the back of the red-head. "You! Identify yourself."

The girl and Kankuro both paused with the blonde looking confused. "Me? My name's Temari."

"No, him. The guy with the gourd on his back."

He paused and turned around to stare at Sasuke. "My name is Gaara of the Desert. And I'm curious about you too. Who are you?"

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha."

Gaara and Sasuke both continued their stare down before Naruto, being Naruto, decided to bud in. "I bet you're dying to know my name right?" Gaara didn't miss a beat.

"I couldn't care less."

With that the group turned and walked away much to Naruto's annoyance. However no one noticed the three sound ninja up in a different tree observing the situation with malicious grins on their faces.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were all waiting on a small bridge for Kakashi to show up. And of course, he was hours late. Sakura, already lamenting over the day she had yesterday, was already at her wits end with waiting. "Why? Why is it always the same thing? He sets the time and then we end up having to wait hours for him!"

"I know! It's unfair!" Naruto immediately agreed.

"I mean I rushed out here so fast I didn't have time to fix my hair!" Sakura complained.

Naruto nodded in agreement. "Yeah! I didn't even have time to brush my teeth or change my underwear!"

"…that's just disgusting."

Kakashi appeared right on the pole above them and waved. "Hey, good morning everyone! Sorry I'm late, I got lost on the path of life."

"LIAR!" Both Naruto and Sakura chorused.

Kakashi ignored them and jumped down so he was standing directly in front of his three Genin. "I know this may be a bit sudden, but I've recommended the three of you for the Chunin exams. Here are the application forms," Kakashi said holding out three slips of paper.

"Application forms?" Sakura asked in confusion.

Kakashi smiled. "You're repeating me Sakura. This is all voluntary. If you don't feel you're ready you can just wait until next year."

"Kakashi-sensei, you're the best!" Naruto exclaimed jumping over to hug his teacher. Kakashi seemed very uncomfortable by the action and practically tried to throw the blonde off.

"Don't slobber on my vest. Now, whoever wants to take the exams, sign the forms then come to room 301 at the academy at 3 pm five days from now. That's it," Kakashi said hanging out a form to each of his pupils. "Oh, and no fighting with any of the foreigners before the exams. We don't want to have a conflict with any of our neighboring lands, got it?"

"Got it."

Alright, so what do you guys think so far? Feedback would be greatly appreciated, and OC's will be introduced next chapter. If after five chapters I feel like this story is blah, then I'll probably drop it. But I don't think I will, I really like this idea.