"This is going to be easy," Naruto said out loud as he walked with Sakura and Hinata to the first stage of the chūnin exams. They already knew there would be a crowd on the second floor due to a genjutsu so they took the long way round to avoid the crowd. The detour had only taken a few minutes longer but they were now entering the testing room. They were immediately greeted by the cold glares from most of the other participants but they ignored them and walked into the room.

"I'm surprised to see you here, billboard-brow," a certain Yamanaka heiress said as she walked towards Team 7.

"I could say the same to you Ino-pig," Sakura countered.

"Whatever, did you see Sasuke-kun on your way here?" Ino asked.

"No, but why would you be interested in that jerk?" the pinkette asked surprising the female blonde.

"Did something happen between you and Sasuke-kun?"

"No, I just lost interest with someone who ignores me and treats me coldly," Sakura explained. "Besides I've got a boyfriend now."

"Who?" Ino asked.

"Naruto-kun of course," she said before pecking Naruto on the lips to prove it, the jinchūriki blushed bright red.

"How could you!" the Yamanaka demanded rather than asked; she was clearly angry.

"What are you talking about, pig?" Sakura asked

"You know Hinata has feeling for Naruto and you just stole Naruto from her," she accused.

"Actually me and Sakura-san are sharing Naruto-kun," Hinata stated while her face lit up like a Christmas tree. Ino's mind immediately started going through different scenarios and she started staring off into space with a flushed face and blood leaking from her nose.

"She didn't mean like that you idiot!" Sakura shouted snapping Ino out of her dirty thoughts. "We're both going out with him but were not having sex."

"Hang on, I can understand Hinata going out with Naruto but why you Sakura?"

"Well I knew I wouldn't get to see Sasuke because we're on different teams so I thought I'd give Naruto a chance," she lied smoothly. "Kakashi-sensei explained that Naruto-kun was likely going to be placed under the C.R.A and he'd need a minimum of four wives. Hinata was already going out with Naruto-kun at the time but when he asked me I said yes. It turned out to be the best decision I ever made because Naruto-kun is stronger than Sasuke but unlike him Naruto-kun actually loves me and cares for me and..."

"I get it, now you're starting to sound like a romance novel," Ino said cutting her rival off. "No offence Naruto but how could you get stronger than Sasuke-kun in little over a month?"

"Sorry Ino but I can't tell you that in front of the competition," Naruto said while gesturing to the other genin. At that moment Team 8 walked through the door and into the room. Ino was tempted to throw herself at Sasuke but one thing stopped her and that was...Kiba's smell.

"Hey looks like we all made it to the chūnin exams," Kiba stated as he walked towards them with his teammates following and Shikamaru and Chōji walked over as well.

"I was wondering where you two were," Naruto said while gesturing to the male members of Team 10.

"We thought Ino and Sakura were going to start arguing so we were trying to stay away," Shikamaru explained while Chōji opened a bag of potato chips and started munching away.

"Hey you guys should keep it down," a silver haired ninja said as approached the rookies. "Hi my name's Kabuto Yakushi."

'That bastard!' Naruto shouted in his mind upon seeing the man who defiled the dead bodies of his fellow jinchūriki and countless others. 'I'll have to wait until the Forest of Death or the invasion and then he's a dead man.'

"You got any intel on the other participants?" Sasuke asked, in his musings Naruto had missed Kabuto's introduction.

"Yes right here," the silver haired boy said while presenting a stack of orange cards.

"I want info on Rock Lee and Naruto Uzumaki," the last loyal Uchiha said.

"You know their name that's no fun," the glasses wearing ninja whined. In a matter of seconds he had two cards with the information present. "Let's see; Rock Lee has..."

"Hang on," Sakura suddenly said, stopping Kabuto. "You shouldn't be spreading info about ninja from your own village so carelessly. If you talk about it here than the other participants will know their skills and use it against them during the exam."

"She's right," Shikamaru agreed. "Kabuto I think you should put those cards away."

"If you insist," he said before pocketing the cards. At that moment Naruto noticed the amount of glares they were receiving from the other genin.

"Hey! What the hell are you looking at!" he shouted at them, most of them turned their glares to Naruto but one team took a more direct approach to show their dislike of the blonde. The only three ninja from Oto jumped out of the crowd and prepared to attack the jinchūriki. The leader extended his right hand forward to punch Naruto who noted he was the one with the melody arm. However the fist stopped centimetres in front of his face because Gaara had used his sand to quickly subdue them.

"If you value your lives you won't attack my friend again," Gaara threatened coldly while making his sand constrict around the genin to prove a point.

"Hey you Sound and Sand ninja better stop fighting or you'll fail the first stage before it even begins," a rough voice stated as a large man entered the room followed by two dozen chūnin.

"I'm sorry I just got a little excited," Dosu said as the sand returned to Gaara.

"Just make sure it doesn't happen again," the large man said menacingly. "I'm Ibiki Morino, your worst nightmare."

Somewhere someone screamed but it was probably an old Toad Sage that decided to take a quick peek in a hot spring but got caught and beaten worse than Naruto had as a child.

An hour later

Team 7 had passed the first exam easily having already experienced it once. They were now waiting for Ibiki to finish his explanation of what is expected from chūnin when a blob crashed through a window. The 'blob' quickly unfolded itself to make a banner and revealing Anko Mitarashi.

"Alright you maggots I'm Anko Mitarashi and I'll be your proctor for the second stage of the chūnin exams!" she shouted in a very Naruto-like fashion.

"You're early," Ibiki stated causing Anko to face fault. As she recovered she scanned the watching genin and decided to try to get payback.

"How many are there? I can't believe you would let all these guys pass, you must be going soft."

"Or it could be a stronger crop of candidates this year," the integrator replied.

"It doesn't matter by the end of my test less than half will be eliminated," she said sinisterly. "This is going to be fun. Alright maggots meet me at Training Ground 44 in one hour!"

An hour later and all the teams were waiting in a large clearing just outside Training Ground 44, most of the genin stared at the forest beyond the electrical gate in fear where as others had a glint in their eyes but only one was different.

"This is Training Ground 44," Anko announced. "It's also known as...the Forest of Death."

"It doesn't look so bad," Naruto said having experienced worse in his childhood. A kunai flew past him and grazed his cheek, a small drop of blood trickled down his cheek.

"Its punks like you that are usually the first to die," Anko stated as she appeared behind the jinchūriki with a kunai to his neck. She seductively licked the drop of blood from his cheek causing most of the males in the vicinity to glare with jealousy or stare in fear. "You're blood is among the best I've ever tried. I hope you don't die in there, blood tastes better when it's fresh."

"What are you, crazy?" Naruto practically screamed at her.

"Just a little," she replied with a bloodthirsty grin. Without looking Anko pulled out a kunai and prepared to stab the Kusa-nin that appeared behind the snake summoner with her tongue wrapped around a kunai.

"I was just returning your kunai," the grass-nin said, still with her freakishly long tongue sticking out.

"Thanks but don't sneak up on me again unless you have a death wish," Anko said cheerfully freaking out most of the genin. She took the kunai from the foreign ninja who stepped back immediately. The ex-pupil of Orochimaru then returned her attention to the blonde jinchūriki. "You have something to say?"

"Yeah, when can we start the second stage?" Naruto asked, not intimidated.

"Well since you asked so nicely," Anko said, she took the kunai away from his neck and returned it to her weapons pouch before starting her explanation of the second stage. After she was finished waivers were handed out amongst the genin that they had to sign in order to take the exam. The teams then exchanged the waivers for a Heaven/Earth scroll and told which gate to go to. At exactly 3pm the gates opened at the teams entered the Forest of Death eager to start the second stage.

END

A/N: Surprisingly I finished this chapter in under an hour today so I managed to get it out sooner and I'm sorry if it seems like I rushed the end but I really didn't feel like writing Anko's explanation of the Second Stage or the events between getting the scroll and the exam starting. Also the poll is closed now so check out the results on my profile but again it was just to see who was popular, it doesn't decide who gets in or not.

Review replies:

linkfx: Sorry I made him seem like a push over but I didn't really think it through.

Rixxell Stryfe: I was originally planning on having Yagura killed but you've given me an idea so thanks.

Deathmvp: I don't think the CRA would work on one woman either that's why I stated that there had to be five or less clan members.

Everyone else: Thanks for the reviews and I will take all of your suggestions/criticism into consideration. I would also like to say thanks to the people who criticized me for actually stating reasons for your criticism rather than just flaming me.

Next time: The second stage of the chūnin exams.