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Sorry it took long to update people! But if it justifies myself, I was planning on holding this out until next week.
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Sakura broke apart from Naruto and smiled, "I do as well Naruto, but we have to support Sasuke and perform our duties."
Naruto gave a pout, "but Sakura-chan, they wont mind if we're a little late."
"That sounds like something Kakashi would say."
"I guess you're right" he gave a defeated sigh and delicately laced his hand and hers together, "shall we?"
"We shall" she grinned back at Naruto and the two began walking towards the academy where the testing will take place.
Sasuke leaned against the corner with his arms folded over his chest. His raven locks were pulled back in a ponytail with a few smaller strands framing his handsome face. He looked around assessing everyone and their skill level and smirked. They were all weak compared to him.
He noticed a group of rain nin glaring at him and he nonchalantly spared them a glance before gazing elsewhere. He had no time to play their pitiful staring game, nor did he want to waste the energy even acknowledging anyone's presence, attachments in the Jounin exams are a double edged sword, alliances could be useful or deadly if you've come to rely on them too much. Plus he preferred a team he already knew well, like Sakura and Naruto, anyone else could go dig themselves a grave rather than rely on the mostly self-reliant Uchiha.
A gong sounded from nowhere and the 45 jounin hopefuls took their seats in the examination room, Sasuke was in the back sitting next to two sand Chuunin. He grunted in annoyance as the two whispered ways of cheating. If there's anything in this world he hated other than Orochimaru and Itatchi, it was cheaters who rode on the coat-tails of others.
Irked, he turned his head towards the front of the room and nearly gasped from surprise. There, dressed in a tight black Jounnin-issued shirt, black shorts and Jounnin vest was non-other than his pink-haired teammate, Sakura. Her uninterested jade orbs took in everyone in the room only stopping for a second to acknowledge Sasuke.
"I've never seen such a pathetic bunch of ingrates in my entire life." She stoically announced immediately grabbing everyone's attention. "All of you are here thinking you're good enough to be Jounin?" She let out a small, condescending chuckle before continuing, "well then, take a good look at the people around you and shake their hand because eventually that mutual acquaintance will either be the dead at your hands or you at their mercy."
Sasuke was nothing short of surprised to see the cherry blossom this cruel, but immediately shrugged her odd behavior, knowing this was all an act to intimidate everyone in the room. From the corner of his eyes, he observed the two sand nin chuckling, whispering some raunchy innuendos about Sakura and had to restrain himself from decapitating them with a kunai.
Speaking of kunai…
A sharp, metal weapon pierced one of the Sand nin in the arm, the crack of the bone breaking and tear of the flesh could be heard in the deafening silence, soon to be followed by a pained yell. Sasuke turned towards the person who threw it and gaped,
"Motarshi, Aburito I presume?" Sakura began to gradually walk towards the injured man; her boots were muted heavily on the wooden floor as the astounded class watched on in perplexed terror. She picked him up effortlessly by the collar and whispered loud enough for the silent class to hear, "I do not tolerate rudimentary remarks especially if they are of me. You are to show respect for your superior at all times, do I make myself clear?" To make her point more pronounced, she tightened her hold on his collar and he rapidly nodded,
"Yes ma'am."
"Good, now pack up your stuff and leave with your friend. Either of you are not mature enough to become Jounins if even the most basic female could distract you." She then turned to face the class, "anyone else who doesn't think they're quite ready to be a Jounin could leave before I decide to desecrate their pathetic excuse of manhood if I find it fit."
"You can't do that!" A foolish albeit brave man stood up.
"Can't I?" Sakura toyed with him, dangling the bait and to her satisfaction, he bit.
"No you can't!"
Within a second, her face was inches from him and her kunai pressing against his jugular, "hmm, do you not recall what I said earlier about respecting your superior?"
She could feel him gulp as she pressed the cold metal against him. Hoarsely he responded, "how can we respect what we fear?"
"Easy" she pocketed her kunai before pointing towards the door, "by shutting up and doing as I say. Now take your items and leave."
Sakura happily noted ten more people leaving as the rest shifted uncomfortably in their chair, "anyone else?" She questioned with a quirked eyebrow. As no one made a move for the door she clapped her hands together, "alright everyone take out a pen and piece of paper, your exam will begin shortly, but keep in mind if you're caught cheating you forfeit your life at my hands, and I could use a few more fresh cadavers to work on." Her voice was cheerful when she ended her speech and the whole room seemed uneasy about her mood swings, not quite sure about the sanity level of the kuniochi before them, but then again they didn't want to question her for fear of their life and manhood. A few men crossed their legs at the thought.
Naruto let out a foxy grin as he saw Sakura display powerful dominance over all of the hopefuls. Her jade orbs pierced his soul and sent currents down to his manhood and he bit back a groan.
She can handle herself
She sure can he agreed
A good quality for a mate.
Yes, a very good quality to have.
He snapped out of the kyuubi's musings when he noticed a familiar chakra enter the room, "Kakashi, what are you doing here?"
"Same reason as you are here" his response was muffled by his Icha Icha Paradise book and Naruto mentally shook his head,
"Seems like Sasuke will clean up. The competition this year is laughable."
"It seems as such, but I wouldn't get over confident because there maybe a few that could surprise you."
"Do you know something I don't?"
Kakashi shrugged his shoulders, "perhaps."
Naruto turned his gaze towards the window and frowned, "she's doing something different."
"Hm? Ah, yes Sakura went to the Hokage and proposed a new way of carrying out the written exam."
"And how will it be carried out?"
"Instead of testing one's ability to bluff and steal information, she would place them under a genjutsu, a strong one and if they're not able to discern it from reality by the given time then they fail. Simplistic yet complicated just the way she likes it ne Naruto?"
Naruto thought Kakashi was hinting at something and nearly let out an animalistic growl, but refrained from doing so, "that doesn't seem like much of a task."
"Indeed it doesn't" he agreed with the younger, "but this genjutsu is jounin-level and that's what they all want to become and if they are not strong enough to dispel it then what good will they be when on jounin classed missions?"
Naruto nodded in agreement, "I see your point." He looked on to see the hopefuls sitting still, their faces contorted between a mix of pain, confusion, and puzzlement while Sakura sat on the desk top flipping through a medical text book, only briefly looking up to check how the class was doing.
His eyes then traveled to where Sasuke sat and smirked to see him under the genjustu, "Sasuke so far doesn't know it's a genjutsu."
"It's to be expected Naruto. Give him a few more minutes…" Kakashi trailed off, apparently at a good part in the book.
Naruto returned his gaze to see that the last Uchiha was indeed out of the Genjutsu. Sakura put down her book and began talking to him, of what, Naruto didn't know. What he did know was that the Kyuubi was growling in possessiveness to see their female talking to another male. A good-looking and strong male at that! Naruto could feel the green-eyed monster possess him as well and fought to restrain his animalistic instinct to shred Sasuke to tiny, bloody pieces.
"Calm down Naruto." Kakashi apparently felt the sudden chakra spike and pocketed his book. "Let's go, time is almost up and we must prepare for the fighting part of the exams."
Reluctantly, Naruto complied with his ex-sensei and took off after him, bounding from tree limb to tree.
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A gong sounded and Sakura stood up, quickly performing some hand seals used in dispelling genjutsus, "alright everyone but Uchiha, Gonyou, Minamino, Suguri, Tenyo, Kuran, Suzuki, and Midou are out, better luck next time guys. As for you eight, follow me to your next exam." With a blink of an eye she disappeared and the seven men and one female swiftly followed after her.
Upon entering the fighting stadium Sasuke narrowed his eyes. This wasn't here yesterday he recalled as he scanned the arena. The arena was covered in foliage of all varieties and a heavy mist clung to the air. The heavy precipitation made him feel sticky and uncomfortable as he let out a slow breath taking in the unfamiliar air.
"This is where only four of you shall pass while the other half will fail miserably" Sakura stated, "your mission is to track down enemy nin and take their scrolls by whatever means necessary. This is a forty-eight hour mission the order by which you complete this will be the order from which you will be in the competing round afterwards. Any questions?"
"Do we get to know who these people are?" The female questioned.
"That would beat one of the main purposes of this course. Now begin!" Sakura disappeared while the eight hopefuls disappeared into their own direction.
"What are you doing here Shikamaru?" Naruto's usual greeting was lost in his perplexity.
"Ino signed me up for this round…troublesome" he sighed, lazily lighting a cigarette.
Naruto turned to the others, "Gai? Neji? Temari?"
"Our youthfulness brought us together to-"
"Sakura's already started" Kakashi cut him off, "I think it'll be best if we separate now"
"Your youthfulness is.."Gai's voice faded as he followed his rival into the dense forrest.
"So there's six of us?"
Temari nodded her head, "yeah also Shizune and Sakura are traveling around here just in case."
Naruto didn't need to hear more as he took off in search of Sakura, perhaps he could steal her away for a bit? A mischievous tint covered his eyes while he easily caught her scent,
"mmm Sakura you smell divine" he licked his lips, "I wonder if you'll feel just as good?"
Well it seems Naruto completely disregaurded his part in the Jounin Exams for something more...fruitful. Will something happen to him as he's looking for his delectible girlfriend? Or will he have some fun with her???
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