Brothers in heart
Dark: Here's the next chapter for Brothers in heart.
Syryus: Okay. Now Aizura has been replaced by Rain again as you might have noticed.
Dark: And you might have noticed some changes in the other chapters like added words and such. But the story is still the same.
Syryus: Anyways we don't own Naruto.
Dark: If we did Naruto and Hinata would already be together among other things.
Dark and Syryus: Enjoy the chapter.
"..." talking
'...' Thinking
"..." Kyuubi
"..." Spirits
(...) Creators note
RECAP START
"Good and it was nothing," Dark said patting Rains shoulder and giving her a gentle smile which made Rain turn bright red. Dark then walked back to his teammates. "Rain? Are you okay?" Yaz asked as she placed her hand on Rains shoulder. But when she did Rain fainted with a smile on her face. "Oh boy. We have to wake her up," Hinata said. Just then a big cloud of smoke appeared in front of the room. "The corpses teammates are to get the hell out of here. No full team. No exam," came a voice from the smoke. Akudou Yoroi and Tsurugi Misumi got their stuff and walked out of the room. "Now then…" came a voice from the front of the room. When they turned to look they saw twenty some chuunin and a big man in a black trench coat standing there. "I'm your first examiner. Morino Ibiki," Ibiki said pointing at himself.
RECAP END
Chapter 4
In the room 301
"I'm your first examiner. Morino Ibiki," Ibiki said pointing at himself.
The room suddenly became silent as everyone looked at the chuunin and Ibiki.
"Make a single file line to turn in your application and to take a number and then sit on the seat with the same number," Ibiki instructed.
'Ready Shadow?' Dark said in his mind.
"Yeah," came a reply from Darks mind.
"Here we go Chibis," Naruto whispered to the cub on top of his head.
"Okay boss," the cub replied with a low voice.
'Maxwell,' Scayth said in his mind.
"Understood," came Maxwell's reply.
'Here goes nothing,' Nabushi thought to himself.
Everyone started to take their seats. Dark got seated next to Rain, Naruto was next to Hinata, Nabushi was on the seat Kiba sat in the anime and Scayth was seated next to Yaz. Team 8 was blushing because of this. Everyone else was seated to the places where they were in the anime.
"I will now explain few important rules for this test," Ibiki started turning towards the blackboard behind him.
'Rules?' Sakura thought to herself.
"First. All of you are given ten points at the start. One point for each question. This is a deduction exam. You lose points from each empty spot or wrong answer," Ibiki explained.
'Doesn't seem that hard,' thought few of the exam takers.
"Next. Whenever you pass or fail depends on your teams total points," Ibiki said.
At that all the exam takers looked extremely shocked.
"W-W-Wait a sec!? Teams total points?!" Sakura yelled.
"Be quiet. There's a reason for it," Ibiki said calmly.
'Reason?' Sakura thought to herself.
"Now for the third rule. The examiners on the sides will be judging if you are cheating or doing something similar during the test. If that happens you lose two points," Ibiki said.
There were few gasps in the room.
"In other words some of you are forced to leave before the exam ends without getting your tests graded," Ibiki explained.
Everyone was listening carefully for the instructions.
"And now comes the most important rule," Ibiki said and everyone looked at him.
"If anyone in the team gets zero points the entire team will fail," he said with a serious voice.
Everyone looked shocked to say the least.
"You will receive the final question after 45 minutes from the tests start. You have one hour. BEGIN!" Ibiki said and everyone flipped their papers over.
Naruto and his team went through the questions one by one and then started to look around the room.
"Found the target yet Chibis?" Naruto whispered with a really low voice to the fox on top of his head.
"Seat 11. And I can see the answers clearly," Chibis whispered back with equally low voice.
Dark had found the right guy and had connected his hands shadows with the guys shadow and and his hand moved with the guys.
'This is pretty easy,' he thought to himself.
Scayth got his answers from Maxwell and Nabushi was writing the answers into the paper.
'Good thing I read a lot about chuunin stuff. Otherwise I would be in trouble with this test,' Nabushi thought to himself.
Hinata and her team were occasionally glancing at Naruto's and his teams papers and copying the answers. They of course were aware of this but didn't say anything since they didn't want them to be disqualified. The others got their answers the same way as in the anime.
"Alright pens down everyone," Ibiki commanded after 45 minutes had past.
"It's time for the tenth question," he said.
'It's here. The final question,' was the thought in everyones mind.
"But before we start there's something I must say first," Ibiki said getting everyones attention. "There's one special rule for this question," he said with serious tone in his voice.
Just then Kankuro returned from the bathroom where he had went about 10 minutes earlier with disguised Karasu. Ibiki smirked a bit.
"You got lucky, it seems that your puppet show didn't go to waste," he said.
'He know about Karasu?' Kankuro thought to himself with slight panic.
"Take your seat," Ibiki said and Kankuro started to walk back to his seat.
As he past Temari he dropped the answers to the questions on her desk.
"I will now explain. This is..." Ibiki began. "A hopeless rule," he finished few seconds later.
'Hopeless rule?' was the only question in everyones mind and few of them gulped.
"First, you can choose if you take this exam or not," Ibiki said.
"What if we don't take it," Temari asked.
"If you don't take it your teams points are reduced to zero and you fail the exam," Ibiki answered with a calm voice.
"Of course we're going to take it," said a random ninja.
"And there's another rule to this," Ibiki said with his eyes closed.
'More rules? What's the point?' Sakura thought to herself.
"If you take it and answer wrong you'll be stuck as genin forever," Ibiki said shocking everyone.
"That's not fair. Some of us are here for the first time," some random ninja yelled standing up.
"You guys were unlucky. This year I'm the rule," Ibiki said with a dangerous tone in his voice. "That's why I'm giving you the choice to take this question. If you aren't confident to take it you can give up and try again next time," he continued.
Everyone in the room was nervous and judging their chances on the question.
"Now then, those who don't want to take the question raise your hand. Once your number is confirmed you and your team will be forced to leave," he finished and started to wait for the quitters.
Everyone kept weighting their chances. And soon hands started to rise. After about fifteen minutes no more hand rose. Ibiki looked around the room and the at the examiners.
"Now then for the teams that are still here," Ibiki started and everyone tensed up.
'The tenth question,' was the only thought in their head.
"You all... PASS!" Ibiki finished with a smile and everyone looked dumbstruck.
"W-W-What do you mean we pass? What about the tenth question?" Temari asked confused.
"There wasn't any to begin with or you could treat the choosing as the tenth question," Ibiki said laughing slightly.
Everyone just looked at him confused and stunned.
"What about the other questions? Were they just a waste of time?" Ino asked.
"Nope. They already served their purpose," Ibiki said.
Everyone except Naruto's team and Nabushi looked confused since they had already figured out the reason for the first nine questions.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
Ibiki was about to answer but Dark and his team beat him to it.
"The ten questions were to test our individual information gathering skills," Dark started.
"There was at least three chuunin in this room along with the examiners," Naruto continued.
"If you cheated like a fool and got caught you obviously don't deserve to be a chuunin," Scayth finished.
"Very good you three. You saw the point of this test," Ibiki said smiling.
'Umikagures only team, eh. Interesting bunch,' he thought to himself.
He the removed his headband revealing several scars, burn marks and screw holes on his head.
'Signs of torture,' Nabushi thought to himself.
"False information can greatly hurt your team and village," Ibiki said while putting his headband back on.
Ibiki then explained what a chuunin is. When he finished a big ball of cloth came crashing through the window and two kunai flew out of it embleming themselves into the roof revealing a big banner. A woman stood in front of the banner.
"Alright you maggots. I'm the second instructor, Mitarashi Anko. Follow me to the next exam!" Anko yelled thrusting her hand into the air.
Everyone in the room sweat dropped at this.
'What a loony,' Scayth and his team thought to themselves.
Ibiki looked from behind the banner.
"Grasp the atmosphere and your early... like always," he said and Anko's cheeks gained a slight blush.
She looked around the room.
"63? Ibiki, you let 21 teams pass? I think the test was a bit too easy," she said while looking at Ibiki.
"Or maybe. We have better teams this year," Ibiki responded.
"Oh well. Once I'm done with them about half of them have been eliminated," Anko said smirking and some of the exam takers gulped.
"Listen up. The next exam starts first thing tomorrow morning. Ask your senseis for the location. Dismissed," she said and disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Dark and his team stood up and started to walk away with the other teams. Hinata and her team soon let out a breath they didn't know they were holding.
Next morning
As Umikagures team 9 was getting dressed Dark placed the several small boxes on his backpack and two to his belt. He now had a storage seal on the backs of his hands. After he had packed he pulled black fingerless training gloves in his hands to hide the seals. Naruto placed two ring weapons to a hook he had on his belt and Scayth placed a sword to his belt.
"You two ready?" Dark asked as he looked at his two teammates.
Both of them nodded.
"As ready as I'll ever be," Naruto said with one of his fox grins.
"Yeah. I'm ready," Scayth replied tightening his headband.
They then walked out the hotel they were staying.
Few minutes later at the 44th training area
All the teams that passed the first exam were standing outside of a forest.
"What is this place?" Naruto asked in awe.
"This it the 44th training area. But we call it... The Forest of Death," Anko said smiling slightly.
"Forest of... Death?" asked Rain with a low voice.
"Listen up. This is your second test. You'll be spending five days in the forest. During that time you have to get two scrolls. An earth scroll and a heaven scroll," Anko said holding up one white and one black scroll.
"Before we begin the exam you have to sign this form," she continue holding up a stack of papers.
"What are those for?" Yaz asked.
"These are so that me or Konoha won't be hold responsible from your deaths. In this exam people will die," Anko said while handing out the forms.
"You will get a scroll against three forms," she added.
Dark looked towards the booth and noticed that curtain was pulled in front of it.
"So, we won't know which team has which scroll," he said to his teammates.
"So, what's the plan?" Scayth asked while signing his form.
"Simple. We take out as many teams as possible," Naruto said.
"But no Konoha teams," Dark added.
"Yeah. And let's help the girl team out. What do you guys think?" Naruto asked.
"Why not. They are kinda cute," Scayth said smiling.
"Then that's the plan," Dark said placing his hand in the middle of their circle.
"Team 9," Naruto said placing his hand over Darks.
"Mission," Scayth said placing his on the top of the pile.
"Commence," they said in unison when they broke apart.
Naruto then suddenly sniffed the air.
"Do you two smell a snake?" he asked his team.
Scayth and Dark sniffed the air.
"Yeah. We better be on a look for it," Dark said with a serious tone in his voice.
Meanwhile Yaz and her team was having their own conversation.
"D-D-Do you think w-w-we're up f-f-for this?" Hinata asked her two teammates.
"Y-Yeah. Even though there are a lot of strong teams," Rain said.
"You know. For some reason I'm getting a good feeling from the Umikagures team," Yaz said looking towards Scayth and his team.
Hinata suddenly noticed something.
"Hey. Noticed anything new about them?" she asked her team.
Yaz and Rain looked at them.
"Yeah. That Scayth guy now has a sword with him," Yaz said while blushing a bit.
"And Dark has black training gloves and two some kind of boxes on his belt," Rain said and blushes a bit.
"And his brother Naruto seems to have two ring weapons with him instead those metal claws," Hinata said blushing bright red.
"Speaking of that Dark doesn't have his twin swords with him. Or any other weapon," Rain noticed.
"Your right. I wonder why," Yaz said curiously.
"L-L-Looks like they decided to take the test," Hinata said shyly as she noticed that Naruto and his team headed towards the booth.
Hinata then signed her paper as did Yaz and Rain. They then started to head towards the booth. Dark, Scayth and Naruto were heading towards their assigned gate.
"So, we have the earth scroll. That means we need to find a team with the heaven scroll," Naruto said.
"Looks like it," Dark said.
"If you ask me I would say that this will be fun," Scayth said with a smile.
"So, what gate did we have?" Dark asked.
Naruto took out a piece of paper.
"Gate number 36," he replied and put the paper away.
When they arrived there Dark turned to his team.
"You know I saw one of the jonins wear a face mask so I got a little idea from it," Dark said.
"What kind of idea?" Naruto asked curious.
"This," Dark said as he removed his headband and placed it into his pocket.
He then removed the bandana that was over his eye and fold it open revealing that it was tube-like. He then put it back on only this time it cover his eye and the lower part of his face. He then placed the headband back on.
"So, what do you think?" Dark asked his teammates.
Both gave him a thumb up and did the same with their own bandanas.
"Now we look kick ass," Naruto said while smiling under his mask.
"Man, I can't wait to see the girls reaction when they see us," Scayth snickered under his own mask.
Dark was also smiling.
"I bet you both ten bowls of ramen that at least one of them faints," Naruto said.
"Your on," Dark and Scayth said in unison.
"I'm putting my bowls on the dark blue haired girl," Naruto said.
"I'm betting on the light purple haired one," Dark said smiling.
"Mines on the pink haired one with cat-like ears," Scayth said.
They then started to talk about other things.
"The second part of the chuunin exams starts now!" Anko yelled at 11 A.M and all the gates were opened and all participating teams ran into the woods.
Dark: Well that's it for this chapter.
Syryus: It had to be cut here since the next chapter will have the second exam and the preliminaries in it.
Dark: That's right. So look forward to it.
Syryus: Please leave comments to it and tell me how you like it.
Dark: Hey! Your the co-writer and I'm the main write so the comments come to me.
Syryus: Are you an idiot! I'm your inner half so it's basically the same as to say that your me and I'm you.
Dark: I know that, baka! (Attacks Syryus)
Nabushi: (Walks into the room with Rain, Scayth and Yaz) Dark? Is the chapter ready?
Scayth: Looks like he's busy. (Points at me and Syryus)
Yaz: Maybe you should finish the fanfic Rain.
Rain: Why me?
Scayth: Do you even have to ask?
Rain: Fine. I'll do it. (Moves to the computer and starts to type) Look forward to the next chapter of Brother in heart. Matane!