DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or the DMC series.
CHUNIN EXAMS START
It was now the day of Chunin Exams and Naruto and Sasuke were waiting outside for Sakura to come.
"Oi, Teme," Naruto said as he leaned against the wall, near the entrance of the school as he crossed his arms and had his eyes close. Sasuke looked from the corner and grunted a bit to let him know he had his attention," just to let you know, if anyone has Gaara," he then opened his eyes and gave a hard glare that made the Uchiha flinch," it's me," he said in a low dangerous tone.
Sasuke sweated a bit and nodded,' man, he's just oozing with killing intent, that Gaara must have really pissed him off,' Sasuke thought, as he felt glad that he was on his team rather than on someone else's. He sighed a bit after that,' man, I know this exams going to tough, I still don't have my Sharingan.'
Naruto looked at Sasuke for a bit and remembered one thing that had just now came across Sasuke's mind,' I bet he still doesn't have his Sharingan, that is going to a problem and I don't need something to complicate matters now,' he then got up and walked up to Sasuke," oi, Sasuke?"
"What is it this dobe?" Sasuke asked as he felt they had already talked enough to each other.
"I'm right to assume you still don't have your Sharingan, right?" he asked as stood over a bit the Genin. Sasuke got a bit of scowl, but nodded nonetheless," well, I think I can help you with that?"
This got the Uchiha's attention," you serious?" he asked in disbelief.
"Yeah," he answered and got close to his face. Sasuke was about to step away, but was now frozen in place by his stare.
'What the hell?' Sasuke thought as he felt that some unknown force froze his whole body.
"I'm going to force you're Sharingan to activate…NOW," Naruto then sent some of his demonic energy through his eyes into Sasuke's eye and started to build up his chakra into his eyes.
'This…is…hurting…me,' the dark avenger thought painfully as he felt eyes start to sting a bit. After a minute passed, the hold on his body was gone and he fell down on his knees. As he caught his breath, he lifted his head and growled at the demon slayer in front of him," what the hell?!"
Naruto simply looked down at him and knelt down. He then unsheathed his Yamato a bit and held it in front his eyes. Sasuke was about to ask him what the hell was wrong with him when he noticed something in the reflection and saw the blood red eyes that had two tomoe marks in them. He was about to ask if what he was seeing was true, but Naruto cut him off with his answer," yes, I sent some of my own Chakra in your eyes and activated your Sharingan," Naruto answered,' though, it was due to me using a portion of my demonic energy to help them activate, which is more concentrated then regular Chakra,' he mentally added.
Sasuke then looked closer and couldn't help but grin,' heh, the idiot, now I can copy his jutsu,' the Uchiha then thought darkly about how he could steal the jutsu Naruto had and how he could use them to get his revenge on his brother.
At that moment, Sakura and saw the two close to each other," what are you two doing?" she asked as it looked a bit suspicious for them to be like that.
"Just helping our teammate unlock his potential, that's all," Naruto answered as he turned and walked towards the entrance. When he noticed they weren't following, he stopped and looked over his shoulder," you two coming or not?" he asked as he knew they should hurry up before they were late. The two quickly took the message and quickly followed Naruto inside the school.
Once they made it to the second floor of the school, they looked to see a bunch of ninjas in a crowd in front of a door that had a sign above it saying '301'. Naruto just shook his head a bit at the pitiful Genjutsu and turned to his teammates," let's go on ahead, this must a be a test for those to look the underneath the underneath," the two of them looked between him and the event and nodded in understanding.
'I guess that's right, I probably would have just went in and busted the whole scam and ruined the test,' Sasuke thought as he smirked afterwards,' I guess it pays to have two prodigies on one team.'
'I wonder if any of them will figure out it is a test, like senpai said?' Sakura thought as they about to go up another set of stair to go on ahead, but stopped as she recognized a familiar young woman," senpai, isn't that Tenten?"
Naruto looked at her line of sight and indeed, there was Tenten, holding Rock Lee on the floor, who seemed to have been decked by one of the Henged Chunins. He saw her get up from helping Lee and was about to step up to the Chunin, but saw one of them motion to punch her,' not on my watch,' he thought angrily and Air Tricked over to them.
The Chunin that was about to punch Tenten, but he was stopped as he felt the cold feel of steel on his throat," now you weren't going to hurt my student now…" the Chunin turned his eyes a bit to the dark clad man who held the tip of his sword to his throat and saw piercing blood red eyes with slits in them and a emotionless face," were you?" he finished his question as he gave a cold tone to the Chunin.
"Senpai!" Tenten said happily,' he save me from being hurt, ha, take that Haku,' she thought proudly.
Back at Naruto's house, Haku sneezed,' hmm, someone must be talking about me,' she shrugged and went back to cooking the food she was preparing for Naruto.
Back at the school, Naruto saw the Chunin shake his head. He smirked a bit before taking the sword back and sheathing it back in. He then turned his head to his student," I'm kind of disappointed in you Tenten-chan, you should have seen that attack coming," he scolded as he crossed his arms in front of her.
She blushed and gave a happy look with her tongue sticking out a bit and rubbed the back of her neck nervously. She then went up to him and whispered," actually senpai, I did, but I was just waiting for the right moment to counter his attack," she then stepped away from him and gave a wink to him," but thanks for coming to my rescue, my knight in dark shining armor," she teased as she went back and picked Lee back up.
Naruto just chuckled a bit at her teasing and saw his teammates coming towards him," yo, dobe, I thought you said we should go on ahead?" Sasuke said as he came in his usual cool manner.
"Yeah, but I wasn't going to leave one my students behind and get assaulted," he replied as he walked passed them," let's go," he said simply as he continued ahead with the other two not far behind.
"Hold on my Eternal Rival," Naruto heard from behind him and knew it was Lee right behind him.
"Lee, not now," ever since he got back from his mission from the Wave country, Lee was always challenging him for a spar to show, as he put it, 'his burning flames of youth'," if you don't remember, we have an Exam to get to now."
"It is not that my Eternal Rival, it's just…" Lee then turned his head to Sakura, and blushed a bit as he walked up to her," my name is Rock Lee, you're Sakura-san, right?" he asked as he kept his posture straight.
"Huh? Uh, h-hai," she answered as she felt unsure if should've answered that question.
Lee then gave a good guy pose with his teeth shining and a blush still on his face," let's go out together! I will protect you until I die."
Sakura immediately said," now way," with a disgusted look on her face.
"Huh?" he asked with a sad look on his face.
"You're too 'unique' for my tastes," she answered with the same look on her face as she felt a bit ill. Naruto and Tenten just shook their heads as Lee lowered his head in rejection.
Just then, Neji came into view," Hyuuga," Naruto greeted.
"Uzumaki," Neji greeted back with respect, knowing that he did deserve it seeing as how he is just as skilled as him, if not more (Shit yeah, he's got more skill than him). He then looked at Sasuke," am I right to assume that teammate of yours right there is the 'Rookie of the Year', Uchiha Sasuke?" he asked as Sasuke turned his head from watching the rejection of Rock Lee to Naruto's conversation.
"Yes," he then started to walk ahead of them, towards the stairs the led to the next floor," we must be going now," he then shot Lee one last look," and don't even think of coming to challenge me or Sasuke, we don't have the time for it now," and with that, they all walked off.
Lee was about to not take his advice until he felt a pull on his ear and cried out in pain," now what did senpai just say," Tenten scolded as she held Lee's earlobe," he's right, we don't have time now, let's go!"
"You're becoming to involve with that man, you should cut your ties off from him if your going to fight him," Neji said out of the blue and made Tenten stop in her tracks.
"Please Neji, if anything," she then turned her head and gave a full blown smirk," I'm going to fight him with all that I have," with that said, she continued on ahead while pulling on Lee's earlobe.
"hn," Neji simply replied in his usual cool manner.
"Naruto-senpai," Sakura started as she got his attention when he looked over his shoulder," how do you know those three? I never got around to asking you that and it kind of confuses me how you know them."
Naruto turned his head back to the hall he was walking in," I met those three and their sensei when I came back to this village," he then gave a serious tone that meant they should listen," do not underestimate them, Neji is of the Hyuuga clan and is was known to be last year's 'Rookie of the Year', Lee is proficient in their sensei's style which can crush an opponents bones even though he can't use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, not to mention their sensei is up to Kakashi's level of skill, and Tenten is the weapon's specialist of the team and has been studying under me ever since I came back to this village," he finished as he turned his head slightly back at them," be on guard no matter what, that's all the advice I can give you, for now."
"I see, thank you senpai," Sakura replied in an unsure voice,' we will be able to fight such a team, I hope so.'
'Good, it would be boring if this exam was full of weaklings,' Sasuke thought as he got image of Neji, Lee, and Gaara flash through his mind,' this is going to be fun.'
Just as they finished their thoughts, they came around the corner to see the entrance of the exams with Kakashi leaning up against the wall with his head deep into reading one of his porn books. Seeing the three at the corner of his eye, Kakashi put away the book back into his pouch, not wanting to get struck in the head by one of Sakura punches,' I saw that punch she did on Naruto and I don't want to be on the receiving end of one of those,' he thought as he got up from leaning on the wall.
"What are you doing here, Kakashi-sensei?" Sasuke asked, as he was confused as to the appearance of the copycat ninja.
"Oh I'm just here to make sure you three came together, you see, you can't go in and officially register for the exam without a team of three," he explained with that usual eye smile of his.
"I see," Naruto said simply as he walked passed him and stopped in front of the door," well, thanks for the letting us know," he then looked over his should again and looked at his teammates," let's go you two," they nodded and walked pass their sensei as he waved at them goodbye and poofed away.
Just as they entered, Naruto smirked at what he saw," well, well, looks like we have some competition," he said as he looked at the room that was filled with foreign ninjas and ally ninjas alike. All of them just staring at them with a look of anger,' must be pissed at us for being rookies and thinking that we're just some hotshots,' he thought as he a looked through the crowd and tried to find a certain someone. (just let you know, Gaara of course)
"Sasuke-kun, you're late!" a voice said cheerfully before the said person was glomped by a platinum blond haired girl in a purpled outfit and revealed to be none other than Yamanaka Ino. She looked up and saw Naruto," hi Naruto-kun," she said sweetly.
In the crowd, Tenten couldn't help but grip her kunai a bit,' don't let her get you riled up Tenten, she's just saying hi to a fellow classmate, calm down, calm down,' she thought as she started to calm her breathing.
Sakura saw this and got angry," get away from Sasuke-kun, Ino-pig," she called out as she pointed at her with white eyes and a vein popping out.
Ino simply scoffed at her as she got off of Sasuke, but kept an arm around his neck," oh my, it's you Sakura. Your forehead is as wide and just as ugly, as usual," she insulted as she kept a smirk on her face.
"What did you say?" she asked in dangerously low tone.
Ino simply lowered her right eyelid and stuck a tongue at her, which served to piss Sakura off a bit more. But the event was stopped as a lazy voice caught their attention," what, are you three going to take this troublesome exam too?" which revealed to be none other than Nara Shikamara, along with Akimichi Chouji who was eating his bag of chips in a real hungry manner.
"Yeah, we are," Naruto answered simply.
"Yeah, I found you all," another voice said in a cocky tone and showed it to be Inuzuka Kiba with Aburame Shino, and Hyuuga Hinata," so I see that everyone is here."
"What? So you three made it too? Geez…" Shikamaru said as he now felt the odds were against him and his team.
"I see, so all nine Genin Rookies this year are going to take the exams," Kiba said as he held that cocky smirk on his face," how far do you think we can get, Sasuke-kun?" he asked as he taunted the Uchiha in front of him.
"You seem to be confident Kiba," Sasuke said as he scoffed at the dog boy in front of him, while Ino got pissed behind him at the disrespect Kiba was giving her crush.
"We trained like hell, we won't lose to you," Kiba said as he stood in front of his team as if he were the leader. But then he heard Naruto scoff at him," got a problem Naruto?" he asked as he felt the blond would step off.
But that was not what happened," you wouldn't know hell if it bit you in the ass mutt," Naruto said as he had his eyes close, arms crossed, and was leaning up against the wall.
"What did you say?" he asked angrily as he felt insulted by Naruto by using such a word.
"Hey you guys," everyone then turned their heads to a man in a purpled suit that had a white clothe around his waist, a white T-shirt that showed out of his sleeveless top, and purpled fingerless gloves that ran up all way to his elbows. He had silver hair like Kakashi and had a pair glasses with a leaf headband tied around his forehead," you should quiet down a little," the man then took a look at all of them," so, you're the rookies that just graduated from the academy, correct?" he just shook his head a bit," you're all fooling around with those cute faces…geez, this isn't a field trip," he scolded a bit as he looked at all them and rose an eyebrow at Naruto, who looked a bit older than the rest.
"Who the hell are you to tell us that?!" Ino asked as she was starting to get pissed off at this older man.
"I am Yakushi Kabuto, look around you," they all did with the exception of Naruto who was narrowing his eyes at the newcomer.
He sniffed the air around him and scowled a bit,' he smells of snake, and there's only one person who me and sensei have met in our travels that smells of snake,' he then started to sniff the air around the room to locate a specific person. Once he found it, he looked towards some grass-nin,' I've found you Orochimaru,' Naruto thought as he looked at the feminine person of the team. All the while, Kabuto was explaining who was who, but Naruto didn't listen cause he already knew how the people were from each Elemental Country.
But his attention was caught back at the conversation when Kabuto pulled out some cards," Nin info cards?" Sakura asked as she looked at the orange back of the cards that had kanjis on them.
"In simple terms, it's a card that has information burned into it using my Chakra," he explained as he put the cards back in a straight stack," I've collected information on this exam for the past four years. There's about two hundred cards total in my collection," he then took a card and showed it to be blank, which confused them," it looks white, but…" he then put his index finger in the middle of the card and started to spin in it on the ground while pumping Chakra into it," to get the information from this card, I have to pump my Chakra into the card in order to get the information I've acquired so far."
The card then puffed up into smoke and showed a map of the Elemental Counrtries. This map showed the Hidden Villages strength and number of shinobi in each country by a show of a holographic graph," wow, what information is this?" Sakura asked but Naruto tuned the conversation out as he narrowed his eyes again.
'He must be a spy for Orochimaru to have such information, he must also be here on a mission from that snake,' The Kyuubi said as he looked through Naruto's eyes.
'I know what you mean; he wouldn't be here just to take the exam. I can sense his level of power and skill is up there with Kakashi,' Naruto replied as he kept his eyes on the sound spy,' I'll have to keep a close eye on him.'
He was brought out of his thoughts once again when Sasuke asked a question," are there any cards that have detailed personal information?"
"Yes," Kabuto answered, but then smirked at the Uchiha," is there someone who interests you?"
"Yes," he simply answered.
Kabuto then picked up the card he had on the floor and put it back in his deck," the information of this exam's participants are not perfect, but I've burned and saved them. They include the information of the nine of you, as well," his smirk then grew a bit bigger at that moment," tell me whatever you know about the people you know that interest you. I'll look it up for you."
"Sabaku no Gaara and Sparda Uzumaki Naruto," he answered simply.
"Oh, you know their names, then it won't take too much time," he then quickly drew two cards and started to pump his Chakra into them," let's see Sabaku no Gaara first," the card poofed and showed stats on Gaara with his smirking face on a picture, on the corner of the card," his mission experience, eight C-rank missions and…this is amazing! He did a one B-rank, two A-ranks, and five S-rank missions as a Genin. He's a foreign shinobi and it is his first time taking the exams, so I don't have anymore information than that. From all of this, it seems as if he's returned from all of these missions unharmed," he said as he astounded those around him on the information on Gaara.
'Wouldn't expect nothing less from someone who was taught by a Sparda,' Naruto thought as he felt he was still holding back on his skills.
'If I'm able to beat this guy, I know that I'll be one step closer to beating my brother,' Sasuke thought as he smirked and thought of how exciting it would be to battle such an opponent.
'This guy, he was able to do all of that while he's still a Genin, this exam has a bunch of tough competitors,' Sakura thought as she started to feel a bit weak around her team.
"Now, Sparda Uzumaki Naruto," Kabuto said as he poofed another card. This too showed his stats with Naruto's calm and collected face on a picture on the corner of the card," his mission experience, thirty D-rank missions and…well, we've got another good one here, it seems he came back from a single A-rank mission unscathed as well. There is also some info here saying he took some tough assignment before he came to Konoha to become a Genin. It seems he took jobs in slaying demons in some of the demon territories that are not shown on our current maps. Anything else than that, there's nothing since this too is his first time taking the exams," this too made them look wide eye, with the exception of his teammates and Shino, at Naruto, wondering just who and what he is.
Kabuto took another card and poofed it show the first card he showed to them," Leaf, Sand, Rain, Grass, Waterfall, and Sound. This year, many talented Genins from these Hidden Villages have come here to take the exam," Kabuto said as he looked at all the shinobi in the room before returning his attention to the Rook Nine, or Eight should I say," the Hidden Village of Sound is a village of a small country that was just made recently, so I don't have much information on them," he said and put his card back in his deck as the team of sound looked in their direction," either way, all of them are powerful Hidden Villages."
"So what your saying is that everyone in this room are the elites chosen and nominated by their village to take these exams?" Naruto asked as he put on the illusion that he trusted the sound spy.
"Correct," he answered as he looked at the shinobi in the room.
The tension between everyone was starting to get to everyone. But they heard Naruto scoff at such a thing and they all look towards him," what are you all so afraid," he then opened his eyes and smirked at them," we're shinobi and we don't show fear to the enemy, right up into our dying breath, besides…" his smirk then grew a bit more," I know that I'll beat everyone here, they're all beneath my level," he said in an arrogant tone.
"Someone is sure full of themselves," Kiba commented as he scratched his nose a bit and smirked at Naruto's attitude.
Naruto was about to retort when he felt a group of nins closing in on them. He saw Sakura was about to take action, but Naruto stuck his hand out to stop her. She looked towards him and saw him shake his head. She was confused because she was going to help Kabuto out, who seemed to be the target, but she nodded and took the message from his eyes,' just watch what happens, huh?' she thought as she deciphered the message she got through his eyes.
Just as she finished that thought, one of the sound nins threw two kunais at Kabuto, who barely dodged the thrown projectiles. As Kabuto stopped, another sound nin that looked like he had a mummy head appeared in front of him. The bandaged nin lifted his right sleeve to show a gauntlet with holes in them. The nin then went in for a right hook, but missed Kabuto barely by the hair of his nose. Kabuto smirked a bit at the missed punch, but then went wide-eyed as his glassed broke and knelt down to vomit some blood out of his mouth.
'A sound attack,' Team 7 thought as they looked at the sound team, or more specifically, the sound nin the made the attack. The three made note that if they were to fight him, they would have to take him out quickly or fight him from a distance. Ino quickly went to Kabuto's side to see how he was doing.
The man that threw the kunai scoffed at Kabuto while the mummy head nin spoke," you're not as good as I thought for a veteran who took the exams four years running," he insulted with a creepy tone in his voice.
"Write this in one of your cards…" the other male of the sound team said as he had a cocky tone in his voice," the three from the Hidden Village of Sound will definitely become Chunins."
The female of the group took a quick look at Naruto and scowled,' I feel some demonic energy from him,' she then started to get angry with the blond,' what the hell is a demon doing here?' she thought angrily.
At that moment, a big puff of smoke appeared at the front of the room," QUIET DOWN YOU PUNKS," a voice called out to the room. When the smoke cleared, it showed none other than Morino Ibiki, along with a lot of Chunins in grey nin clothing" sorry to keep you all waiting, I am the examiner of the first test of the Chunin Exams, Morino Ibiki," he introduced himself as he held a sadistic smirk on his face. He then pointed towards the team of sound nins," you three from the Hidden Village of Sound, don't think you can do anything you want before the exams," he said in a loud commanding tone," do you want us to fail you already?"
The bandaged nin turned his attention to Ibiki and spoke in that creepy voice of his," I'm sorry, I was excited, since this is my first exam."
Ibiki simply smirked at the nin before turning his attention to the room of shinobi before him," this is a good chance to say this…you are not allowed to fight each other during the exam unless given permission by the examiners. Even if the permission is given, you are not allowed to kill each other," he then gave a look that promised pain to those who defy him," pigs who go against me will fail immediately, understood?"
The guy beside the bandage nin scoffed," this exam seems so soft and easy," he taunted as the Chunin behind Ibiki only chuckle at the boy.
"We will now begin the first exam of the Chunin Exams, turn in your applications," Ibiki then held up a piece of paper with a number on it," take one of these number tags and sit where the number tells you to. Then we will pass out the papers for the written exam."
The sound nins walked towards to get the number for their seats, but the sound female nin looked back to give Naruto a low growl,' what's her problem?' Naruto thought as he looked at her retreating form. Naruto just shrugged as everyone lined up to get their numbers. As Naruto got his number, he went to go take his seat, but not before passing Gaara, who had already sat down with him leaning back in his chair with his arms behind the back of his head and his feet kicked up on the table, looking like he was just sleeping,' when the time comes Gaara, we will have our battle, of that I can assure you,' Naruto thought before proceeding on to his assigned seat.
Gaara opened his eyes to look at Naruto's retreating form and smirked,' guy needs to lighten up. I know I want to fight him, but he should think of how much fun we'll have when we do fight,' he thought as he continued to wait for the exam to start,' but that aside,' Gaara face then changed to a serious one,' I'll show him that I don't need to use my demonic powers to beat him,' he vowed as he remembered the last time he used his demon side,' Yashamaru,' he thought sadly.
When Naruto go to the row of chairs that had his number, he saw the Hyuuga Heiress in the assigned seat next to his," you're Hyuuga Hinata right?" he asked as he sat down on his chair.
"H-hai," she answered in a low and unconfident voice.
'Just like when I saw back at the academy, she seems to have some low self-esteem,' Naruto observed as he looked her over,' hmm, she seems to be lacking in strength, but I know she doesn't need that since her family's style relies on quick and light hits that close the tenketsus on an opponent and take the enemy out, depending on where they hit,' he thought as he looked back at the paper in front of him," well, good luck, we rookies need to stick together," he then turned to her and gave her a arrogant smirk," right?"
"H-hai," she answered in a still stuttering, but louder voice,' I feel confident just being around him, why?' she wondered as she started to blush a bit.
'Oh no, not another,' he thought as he saw the blush on her face.
A little further back, Tenten saw Hinata and Naruto talking and saw Hinata blush,' you better not get any ideas Hinata,' she thought as she narrowed her eyes a bit at the Hyuuga Heiress.
Temari was looking from the corner of the room to see the two talking and saw the blue haired girl blush,' man, she's getting the upper hand on me, I wonder what I can do to get that hunk notice me,' she thought as she started to scheme on how to get our demon slayer's attention.
From another part of the room, the female sound nin known as Tsuchi Kin was glaring at Naruto,' if I see you another time, I am going to kill you demon,' she thought as she fingered her senbon. She felt another demonic energy, but couldn't place where it was, since it was covering its source,' if I find you, you'll join him,' she thought angrily.
From where Gaara was sitting, which was in the middle of the room, he could not help but notice a lot of the women were either looking at him or Naruto,' man, it pays to have a demonic side, it definitely gives you a whole bunch of notches in the looks department,' he thought as he continued to lean back on his chair in the way his uncle would.
Everyone's attention was then caught as they saw Ibiki tapping the chalkboard with a chalk," this first exam has a few important rules, I will not expect any questions, so listen carefully," he then turned and started to write on the board what those rules were, as he did, he explained what these rules were," first rule is that you are all given ten points at the start. The written exam consists of ten questions and each is worth one point. This test is a deduction-based test. If you get one problem wrong, you will get one point deducted," he said as he finished writing on the board, he then turned to them to give an example," if you get three questions wrong, your points will be reduced to seven."
'I have nothing to worry about,' Naruto thought, as he knew he would pass this test with ease.
"The second rule is the pass-fail decision will be determined by your teams total points," this got everyone's attention and made them wonder what he meant but they felt he must have a reason, he then continued," now that you know, let's move onto the next rule…if an examiner determines that you cheated or do something similar during the test…each action will cause you to lose two points," he said as he held a knowing smirk on his face," in other words, there will be people who will be forced to leave this place without their tests being graded."
'These guys are trying to take us out by a whole bunch means' Gaara thought as he looked to his side to see the one of the examiner smirking at him,' heh, like you'll catch me doing anything anyway,' he thought knowingly on how he's going to cheat.
"Those who try to cheat without thinking carefully will only hurt themselves," the smirk on Ibiki's face turned into a challenging one," you all are trying to become Chunin, if you are true shinobis, then act like first-rate ones. Also, if anyone in a team gets a zero, everyone on that team will fail."
'Well, seeing as how my team seems to have a lot intelligence, I know I don't have to worry, heh, take that Ino-pig, my team will blow yours away,' Sakura thought as she felt her team would get pass this exam no problem.
'CHA, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT GIRL,' Inner Sakura exclaimed with unrivaled confidence in her head.
"The last problem will be given in forty-five minutes after the exam begins. You have one hour for the exam," as he said that, he waited for the clock to begin a new minute, when he it did, he called out," BEGIN," and with that, everyone started to get to work.
As everyone turned their paper and started to look over the papers, Naruto quickly scanned through the question and noted one thing,' each one is harder than the last question, if that is so, then regular Genins can't answer these questions,' Naruto then started to think back on the rules and what he was missing. It then hit him what Ibiki meant by being first-rate Chunin ninjas,' I see, he's forcing us to cheat, yet putting us in a situation where we need to gather the information we want as a shinobi should, with speed and taking the information covertly. This part of the exam weeds out those who can't gather information properly,' Naruto thought as he shook his head,' but for those who have good intelligence, we don't need to do that when we already know the answers,' he then started to write what he thought were the correct answers.
As Naruto, along with Sakura, started to answer the question without cheating, everyone started to come to the realization he did. Sasuke, thanking Naruto, activated his Sharingan and copied the movements of Genin who was writing his answers, the Hyuugas used their Byakugan to copy off the answers the people around them had, Ino used her family jutsu to steal Sakura's body and look at her answers and give them to her teammates, Kiba used Akamaru as a scout, Shino used his bugs, Kankuro was using his puppet to scout anyone who had answers, the sound team was using their ears to see what people were writing, and Tenten used her own intelligence and helped Lee by using the mirrors that were on the ceiling of the room.
As Naruto finished his paper, he barely looked up to see a kunai whiz pass his head to the guy behind,' must have been cheating and been doing a poor job of it,' he thought as he wasn't startled in the least that the kunai was almost imbedded in his head.
"You, you screwed up five times, you fail," one of the examiner said as he smirked at the ninja who was shocked he got found out. The examiner then pointed at him," you and your teammates, get out of here, right now," he commanded calmly. The three looked downcast and did as he said. As time went by, other teams started to get disqualified for obtaining information poorly.
As all of this happened, Ibiki was looking at everyone individually and noted two that caught his eyes,' look at those two, cool as cucumbers,' he thought as he looked back and forth between Naruto and Gaara, who was smirking the whole time,' I think I'm already liking them, they seem to be true shinobi' though Gaara was just sitting there with his eyes closed, but if you looked closer, he had sand forming a small sphere that turned to look like an eye ball. He crushed it and the sand went everywhere without anyone noticing, with the exception of a few. Once the sand got the information he needed, he took his pencil and started to write down the answers.
'Third eye, you gotta love it,' Gaara thought as he stretched his arms a bit,' I wonder what the test was about anyway,' he wondered before he shrugged and leaned back to catch some Z's.
After it got to the point where Ibiki would give the tenth question, he looked at the current status of the room,' looks like we've already dropped the incompetent ones,' he thought as he looked at the empty chairs in the room,' it's time I give the question since forty-five minutes have passed,' he then rose his head a bit and spoke," okay, I will now give you the tenth question," he announced as he got everyone's attention.
'Finally,' thought Naruto and Gaara at the same time.
"Yes, but before that, there's one more thing to say…" he started as his serious face turned to his usual sadistic smirk," there will be one special rule for this last question. This next rule…is a hopeless rule," this rose a lot of eyebrow as to what he meant," first, you are all going to choose if you wish to take this tenth problem or not."
"Choose? So what happens if we don't take the tenth problem?" Temari asked as she was starting to get a bit worried.
"If you choose not to take it, your points will be reduced to zero," he answered simply until he smirked again (man, he likes to smirk a lot)," in other words, you will fail along with you teammates," after he said that, a bunch of the shinobi in the room started to complain about such a thing, but then Ibiki continued," and here is the other rule…if you choose to take it and get it wrong, you will…lose the privilege to take the Chunin Exam forever," if the last rule didn't outrage the shinobi in the room, this one sure did.
"What kind of stupid rule is that?!" Kiba asked in an outraged tone," there should be those here who have taken the Chunin Exam in the past!" he exclaimed as his dog, Akamaru, woofed in agreement.
Ibiki just chuckled and almost laughed out loud," you were unlucky, this year, I am the rule," he said with finality in his voice," that is why I gave you the option of quitting. Those who are not confident enough can choose not to take it, and take the exam next year, or the year after that," he chuckled once again in an almost evil manner," now then, let us begin, those who will not be taking this tenth question, raise your hands. After we confirm your numbers, we will have you leave."
After moment passed, the person next to Naruto quit. Soon after that, a lot of the shinobi in the room started quitting. As the room started to get empty, it was becoming clear to the Rookie Eight that this was a tough decision. Naruto though kept a cool head and knew he could answer the question,' I wish he would hurry up,' he thought simply as he leaned back against his chair with his arms crossed. He looked to the side to Hinata having a tough time thinking about what to do,' she better not quit, I see a lot of potential in her and it'd be waste if she quit now,' he was about to say something when he heard a something slam behind him.
He looked back to see Gaara have his foot tapping hard on his table with his smirk holding firmly on his face, while still leaning back in his chair and his arms around the back of his head," would ya hurry up with the question there old man? I don't care if ya make me a Genin for life, I'm going take that question because I have something dear to accomplish and trust me, you won't stand in my way," his smirk then widened a bit and made some of the girls in the room blush at his sexy smirk," you don't scare me one bit old man, I'll take whatever you throw at me."
Ibiki ignored Gaara's little outburst and looked at the shinobi in the room," I will ask one more time; this is the choice that will impact your life. If you want to quit, do so now."
"Like I said, I don't care, just give us the question and we'll be out of here in no time," Gaara said as he gave his reply in cocky and casual manner," besides, I'll follow my way of the shinobi and not you or anyone else is going to stop me from doing so, and that's that," with those words, Gaara seemed to inspire those who were thinking of quitting.
'Hn, that's to be expected of a Sparda, rallying any allies you can to your cause and put their morals in a good mood,' Naruto thought as he looked at Gaara from his seat and gave an arrogant smirk to him, which Gaara returned,' I'll still beat you Gaara.'
'That's our little brother,' Kankuro and Temari thought at the same time as they looked at Suna's demon slayer.
'Hn, interesting kid, he's wiped out everyone's uncertainties,' Ibiki then started to count those who were in the room,' seventy-eight candidates, eh? There's more left than I expected. Looks like there's no point in waiting any longer,' he then glanced over to the examiners and saw them nod and took that as a signal to give them the tenth question," nice determination, then for the first exam, everyone here…" he then gave a proud smirk to them all,"…passes!"
"Wait, hold on, we pass?! What about the tenth question?" Sakura asked, as she felt totally confused about the situation.
Ibiki just a gave a full blown smile, which looked kind of funny on a man who was supposed to be the Anbu's lead interrogation specialist," there was no such thing to begin with, or you can call the two-choice question the tenth question."
Naruto and Gaara just sighed and tuned the whole thing out, the whole thing was a waste of both of their times,' something has to happen now, or I'm going to go out of my mind here,' they both thought as they leaned back and took a brief nap. But their nap was cut short as they sensed something coming in fast through the window. As they looked, the window broke and a shadowed object entered the room.
The object then shot out six kunai that stuck to the ceiling and floor of the room, and the inside revealed that someone was inside it,' what the hell,' Naruto thought as he looked at the purpled haired woman in a tan trench coat that covered her mesh shirt, which also covered her well endowed chest, a short orange skirt that had mesh shorts that went down to her knees, and tan shin metal shin guards over her ninja sandals, with the object that revealed to be a banner that said 'SECOND EXAMINER, MITARASHI ANKO IS HERE'.
"Everybody, there's no time to be happy…I am the second examiner, Mitarashi Anko," she called out in a loud voice," let's go to the next exam, FOLLOW ME," she called out as she pumped her arm in the air.
"OOOOH, TAKE IT OFF GIRL," Gaara called out to her before he started to whistle like a player.
Anko heard him and got a vein popping out the side her head," excuse me, what did you say little boy?" she asked in sickeningly sweet tone as she put her hand back to get a kunai…or ten.
"You heard me, I'm willing to pay cash for the show," Gaara teased as he started to like what he saw, not even caring that she smelled of snake.
"You…little…brat," she said slowly before she threw a bunch of kunais at him, which only served to be caught by a wall of sand.
"Uh, uh, uuuh, now that isn't nice, but if you want play, I always could just give you my number," he said as he continued to smirk at Anko, who was still fuming.
Naruto just shook his head and sighed at the two of them,' baka,' he thought as he looked back and forth between Anko and Gaara.
"Whatever," she then took a look at the number of shinobi in the room, with a real hard death glare when her sight landed on Gaara, who just winked at her with the same smirk he had on," seventy-eight, Ibiki, you let twenty-six teams pass? The first exam must have been too soft."
"It looks like there are a lot of excellent candidates this time around," Ibiki replied to his colleague and tried to his best not to laugh at her for being hit on by a kid, who seemed to have won the fight, and that is something hardly any male shinobi accomplished when it came to Anko.
"Oh well, I'm going to make more than half of the teams fail in the next exam," this made a bunch of a bit more nervous than usual, with the exception of Naruto and Gaara of course," I'm getting excited, I will explain the details tomorrow. We will go somewhere else, so your ask Jounin teachers about the rally point and time…that is all, dismissed," she said as she gave serious tone in her voice in the end.
With that, everyone left to go get some rest for the next day. Before Naruto could get a step out the door of the school, he felt an arm latch onto his right side. He looked and saw it was Tenten," hey Tenten-chan, what are doing?" he asked as he felt a bit confused by her action.
"Just making sure you don't get away when I ask you something," she answered as she winked at him a bit," you want get something to eat senpai?" she asked as started to drag him towards town.
"Huh? But I should be, ahh," he couldn't finish as Tenten started to drag him.
"Now senpai, you shouldn't be training every second of your life," she scolded playfully,' I'll get the upper hand on you yet girls,' she thought as images of Haku, Hinata, and Temari passed through her mind.
Not too far behind, Gaara was about to follow and see what Naruto does around here, which was until he bumped into someone. They both fell down and landed on their butts," ooof," he heard, but it was more feminine than a tough sound of a male. Gaara then focused on the person in front of him and saw it was the female of the sound team," you should watch were you're going," she said angrily at him as she got up and dusted her clothes off.
"Sorry, I was trying to find out about someone when I ran into you," he replied as he got up and started to dust himself off as well. He looked in Naruto's direction and knew he already lost him. He looked at the young woman in front of him and mentally shrugged,' ah what the hell, it's a nice back-up plan,' he thought before going up to her," names Sparda no Gaara and who might you be my fine young lady," he said as he took her hand and kissed the back of her hand.
Kin just blushed and immediately took her hand back," T-Tsuchi K-Kin," she answered as she started to feel embarrassed by the crimson demon slayer.
"That's a beautiful name, will you do me the honor and let me take you out to dinner?" he asked as he gave a full-blown lady-killer smile.
"S-sure," she replied in a meek tone and let him take her hand towards the town.
With Naruto, he and Tenten had just arrived Ichiraku. Seeing it now, just made Naruto chuckle a bit, which made Tenten look at him in a confused manner," what's so funny senpai?"
"It's just before I left with Otousan, this was my safe haven from any of the violence that occurred to me in my childhood, and when I came back, Iruka-sensei brought me here to celebrate my return," he then got a true smile on my face," this place and the two people who work here were always considered to me a second home to come to."
Tenten, upon hearing this, smiled warmly at him," well, this isn't the only home you have now," she then hugged him from behind and laid her head on his strong back," your home is with me now, and dare I say it…with Haku. I'll always be here for you senpai," she then closed her eyes a bit and got a genuine smile on her face," always," she said in a low, caring tone. Naruto smiled at her and took her by her hand and walked over to the ramen stand.
Back with Kin and Gaara, they had been walking around for quite sometime until he came upon what he considered the best place on earth, a pizza restaurant," hey, come on, let's get a bite of some pizza."
"Pizza?" she asked in confusion.
That made Gaara stop and look at her confusedly," yeah, pizza," he then narrowed his eyes a bit at her when it finally hit him," don't tell me you never heard of pizza?" he asked as if it was the most craziest thing in the world. He was answered as she simply shook her head. That made him take her hand and made a dash for the pizza joint. Once inside, he called to the person at the counter," yo Kasumi, we've got a person who hasn't eaten pizza a day in her life, I need a pizza here stat!" he exclaimed to the woman at the counter.
"Oh my god, I'll hurry with an order," she then made rush for the back and told those who cooked the pizzas to get one ready on the double. Not a second later, a pizza came to their table with every pepperoni on one side and Canadian bacon on the other.
Gaara then took a piece of pepperoni and lifted it towards her face," now open up and say 'aaahhh'," he said as he gestured her to open her mouth. Giggling a bit at him, she could help but think the situation was cute, so she opened her mouth and let him feed her. As she started chewing, Gaara was on the edge of his seat to see her reaction. When she gulped the last piece of the food in her mouth, she got a thoughtful look on her face," weeeellll?" he asked as he waited for her answer with anticipation.
She then gave a big smiling face to him and answered," it was great, can I have another bite?" she asked as she opened her mouth for another feeding. Gaara just laughed, but nodded and gave her another bite.
Back at Naruto's house, Haku could only tap her foot in frustration,' where are you Naruto-kun? I know the first exam shouldn't take this long, so why would…' it then hit her as to why he was late, so she made a rush out the door with only one thing on her mind," I'M GOING TO KILL YOU TENTEN!"
A/N: well, that CH. 7 guys, hope you liked it. You know, I had totally forgotten that Sasuke received his Sharingan when he was on the bridge in Wave, so I made Naruto use his power for force the Sharingan to activate. As for Kin knowing how Naruto is a demon, not that she cares he's a half-demon, it will be explained in later chapters as to how she knows, don't worry. As for the ending, don't worry about that as well, it'll continue in the next chapter.
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