Lord Hokage walked in. "Lord Hokage." I said surprised. He walked over to me.
"Congratulations." He said giving me a headband.
"What?" I asked taking it.
"You are the newest Chunin." Lord Hokage said. "You showed the most potential out of the entire graduating class, so you have been chosen to be Chunin."
"Thank you." I said in shock. "Wait, what about the Chunin exams?"
"You don't have to take them." Lord Hokage explained. "Every few years if a student has what it takes to become Chunin before he or she is Genin, that student will be graduated to Chunin."
"Cool." I said looking down at the headband. 'Wait till Naruto hears about his.' I thought with a smile. 'He's going to be so jealous.' Everyone walked out of the room but me.
"Wow, Chunin." Black Dragon said turning visible. "So aren't you going to put it on?" I pulled off my bandanna. My long hair fell around my shoulders. I quickly tied the headband. "Quick someone's coming." Black Dragon turned invisible again. I quickly used a transformation jutsu to make my hair short. Iruka walked in.
"Well that's a change." He said. "You don't have to come tomorrow."
"Hm?" I said. "I'm not going to be on a team?"
"No," he said smiling, "you'll go on missions with other teams. Say if like one member is sick you'll fill in for them or if they need a little extra help."
"Ok." I said turning towards the window. Iruka walled out again. I let go of the jutsu as Black Dragon pulled on my cloak. "What?" I asked looking at her.
"You don't seem happy." She said turning visible again. "Still worried about Naruto?"
"Nah," I said as a smile rolled across my face, "I just thinking on how he'll react when he finds out I'm Chunin."
"You've become really close friends with him in the past month." Black Dragon said.
"Yeah I have."
I walked out of the academy. Everyone was gone. I looked round. 'Where's Naruto?' I thought. 'He should be here bragging on how he's a Genin. Oh man, what if he didn't pass?' Something in my gut told me that Naruto was in trouble. 'I have to find him!'
I ran all over town. 'No sign of him.' I thought running into the ramen shop. "Hey have you seen Naruto?" I asked the man behind the counter.
"No, why?" he asked. I quickly ran out of there before I could answer him. I started to go to all of his normal places.
'Where is he?' I thought jumping onto a roof. I bit my thumb. 'If anyone can find him its Black Dragon.' I quickly summoned her. "Come on, we need to find Naruto." I said sliding on her back.
"Ok hold on." She said lifting of the ground. Black Dragon flew towards the forest. "Why do we need to find him?"
"I have a feeling that he's in trouble." I said throwing my hood up. I turned invisible and so did Black Dragon. "It's like he… well I don't know how to explain it. All I know is that he's in trouble."
"Ok were closing in on him." Black Dragon said lowering into the trees. We stopped about ten yards away from him. "See? Nothing to worry about." Black Dragon whispered.
"Nothing to worry about?! He's just looking at the forbidden scroll!" I whispered. 'Naruto,' I thought sneaking up behind him, 'you've gotten yourself in a lot of trouble and I might not be able to get you out.' I looked over his shoulder. He was studying the Shadow Clone Jutsu. 'What's he up to?' I studied it carefully, memorizing every word. Naruto put down the scroll and got up.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. Nothing happened. He did this over and over again until he finally got it. Through out this time I kept asking myself what's he up to. No answer came. I couldn't find one answer for why he was trying to lean this jutsu. Iruka popped in. I quickly snuck out of hearing range.
"Oh man." I whispered to Black Dragon. "Naruto's in really deep trouble." I realize that she wasn't there.
"Why didn't you stop him?" A little voice inside of my head asked.
"I was trying to figure out what he was up to." I whisper while pulling on my gloves. I quietly walked towards Naruto and Iruka. I was about to go into the clearing when I saw Iruka wounded with a huge shuriken.
"You are the Nine-Tailed Fox!" Mizuki yelled. Naruto ran off. Mizuki ran after him.
I quickly ran out into the opening. Something scratched my head. "Naruto!" I yelled as I began to chase after him. I tripped on a root.
"Who are you?" Iruka asked me.
"Huh?" I said looking at him. My hair fell in my face. "Oh." I pushed it out of my face. "Normally you know me with my hair up in a bandanna. I'm CJ."
"You have to after Naruto." Iruka said getting up. I tried to stand up. Pain flowed into my ankle. I dropped down to the ground.
"I can't. My ankle is twisted." I said crawling over to a branch were my bandanna hung. 'And what makes it even worst is that Black Dragon left.' I thought tying it around my head. Iruka got up and ran after Naruto. 'Ok. Think back. Last week I just learned some medical jutsus. What were the hand signs?' I thought for a moment. The hand signs came back to me. I quickly did a healing jutsu and hovered my hand over my ankle. Green chakra swarmed in to my ankle. It healed in no time. 'Now to find Naruto.'
I jumped from tree to tree looking for them. I stopped in a tree by a small clearing. There was Iruka badly hurt, Naruto and Mizuki about to fight. 'I have to stop this.' I thought as Naruto did the Shadow Clone jutsu. Clone appeared everywhere. 'Or Naruto has it covered. How many are there? There's hundreds, no maybe thousands.' They all attack Mizuki. After about ten minutes, Mizuki laid there out cold. I smiled. I didn't need to ask how Naruto did it. The shadow clone jutsu took up all of chakra
"Naruto come here." Iruka said. Naruto walked over to him.
"What, sensei?" Naruto asked.
"Close your eyes." Iruka said. Naruto closed his eyes. Iruka took off his headband, and took off Naruto's goggles. He tied his headband around Naruto's head. "You can open your eyes now. Congratulations."
I walked over to Mizuki. I squatted down beside him and pick up a stick. I poked him and few times and then pick him up by the collar and shook him. He didn't wake up. He was badly hurt. "Man Naruto," I said, "you really did a number on him." Naruto and Iruka laughed.
Mizuki started to wake up. He looked up at me. "What are you doing here?"
"For attacking two hidden leaf shinobi and trying to seal the Scroll of Sealing you are sentenced to death." I said lifting up a kunai. I quickly slit his throat.
"What cha doing?" a voice said to me. I looked over my shoulder only to see Black Dragon snaking up to me.
"Is that a talking lizard?" Iruka asked. Naruto busted out laughing.
"I am not a lizard!" Black Dragon spat as fire came out of her mouth. "I am a DRAGON!" She yelled the last part.
"Black Dragon," I said standing up, "take Mizuki to Lord Hokage." She nodded as she slipped under him and took off. "Iruka we better take you to the hospital." I quickly rapped his arm around my neck and help him stand up.
Naruto sat in the chair beside mine as we waited for the doctors to be done operating on Iruka. "Do you think he'll be fine?" Naruto asked his voice over flowing with concern.
I nodded "He's strong." I said. I looked at Naruto in the corner of my eye as a smirk fell on my lips. "Guess what."
"What?" Naruto said looking over at me.
"I'm Chunin." I said. I knew this was mean, but it was the only non-expensive way to get his mind off Iruka.
"What!" He yelled standing up.
"Yup." I said hang my arm over the back of the chair. "I even got my headband from Lord Hokage." Naruto grabbed my cloak forcing me to stand up/
"You better be kidding." He threaten.
"Nope" I said with a smile. My plan was working. I glanced over Naruto should. Iruka was walkout with a nurses help. "Take a chill pill, there's Iruka."
Iruka walked over to us. "Hey CJ, ya think you could do a favor for me?"
"Sure," I shrugged, "What is it?"
I stood in front of the class transformed into Iruka. I gazed over the list Lord Hokage gave me. 'Oh boy.' I thought, 'Naruto was going to hate this.'