so, welcome to 'the other side of the coin' chapter two, i have a neat idea for this one. as for the jutsus for all the characters i'm going to keep them for the most part the same, except of course for Naruto and Gaara, i have come up with many new moves for them (you already read about leaf urn). their moves won't change themewise, but aproche wise you will notice changes. so without further adue.

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the chuunin exams, the trial of heat and sand.

Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto were waiting with the other students at the designated area in the sand village, Naruto was very hot in his black outfit and he was even grumpier than usual. Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro were standing a distance away scanning the crowd.

"Hey Kankuro," Gaara inquired, "what chance do you think we have of passing, we're real tough and all, but some of these others realy look like they know what their doing."

"Don't worry so much," Temari answered for him, "we've got the best sibling team in all of the wind village, and uncle Yoshi taught you how to controle that demon of yours realy well, we should have no trouble."

"What she said." Kankuro snorted.

All of the genin were coraled into a room with many desks, they were seated and given many sheets of paper. An older man walked in, he introduced himself as Ikazuchi and adressed the class.

"Today you all will be taking the written part of the chuunin exams, i don't waist time so we will get down to business, if any of you fail you will have to wait 2 years to take it again, if you cheat at all you will be forever barred from taking the test, ever. you must get an outstanding grade that will be curved to the highest score." he rambled on for a short while as all the genin shuddered at the strict requirments, Gaara was feeling worried, but kankuro had crow put a hand on his shoulder, which made him feel a lot better. Naruto was barely paying attention, as his teammantes steeled themselves for the worse. "Now, your assignment is to write a 500 word exactly, in detail essay on your nindo, your ninja way, you have 4 hours, BEGIN!"

Kakashi was watching from the shadows outside, he had been assigned to keep an eye on team 7. His mask grew hot even in the shade, it was much too hot that day, even for the sand village, something wasn't right.he watched as Naruto scribbled a few things on his paper and layed his head down, Sasuke was scanning the room with his sharingan, Kakashi could tell he was searching for inspiration for he had never given his nindo much thaught. He could not see Sakura but knew she was blazing through the peper with ease.

Pakun poped up near Kakashi andlooked up, "Well, all nine tails has on his paper is 'kill my enemy', a bit corny if you ask me, pink hair is scrawling on about doing her best and protecting her loved ones, hmph, just as corny. But red eye has me baffled, he wants to get back at the assassin who killed his parents and everything else he is writing is a conglomerate of pieces of things everyone else is writing."

"Ha ha ha, thats exactly what his brother did, and he passed, this Ikazuchi is a bit senile, this year more than ever, I can't believe he is still a teacher let alone a ninja."

"Ya, well, i just hope nine tailsdoesn't snap, and its a good thing Sakura and Sasuke are doing well, the teacher told me he would pass the whole squad if at least two of them do well, I'm gonna disguise myself as an ordinator agaiun and scan the other units."

Pakun vanished again and reapeared in the room as a sandnin and took a seat. Kakashi adjusted his mask and resumed watching over the team.

Rock Lee was blazing through his essay faster then Sakura, Shikamaru was sitting in front of him scratching his head, "Huh, only 500 words, this was so easy it was troublesome, i hate essays."

Gaara was having trouble putting what he was thinking into words on the paper, he saw how many others had given up, he wouldn't though, he vowed to his mother he would become a shinobi and get revenge against his father. Ikazuchi sensai was sleeping at his desk, and had been the whole time, only Sasuke and Kakashi knew he was realy using genjutsu to scan the room and read the students minds, he wasn't realy testing their writing skills, he was testing their inner strength, he was reading their true thaughts, what their ninja way realy was.

Ikazuchi sensai stood up quite groggy, the genin thaught he was a decrepid old man, but he was realy just drained from using his mind reading jutsu. "ALL RIGHT, TIMES UP. Turn in your papers."

He gatherd all the papersand put them in a nice stack, then ste them ablaze and burnt them to ashes, the genin were in outrage.

"Quiet you rascals, i'm not that senile, i was reading your thaughts while you were writing, i'v already decided who will pass..."

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there, chapter 2, it was better than what i had planned (my stories always turn out that way, kinda). who will pass, what is the next part of the test, and why am i skipping the large chunk of the show and fast forwarding to the chuunin exams. you'll have to wait till the next chapter to find out, well i can answer the last one, its because that is when Gaara was introduced, thats all. until next time, sir brinkley of eastlake signing out.