Chapter 7: The Chunin Exams Have Arrived
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Chapter 7: The Chunin Exams Have Arrived
It's been a month now and Naruto was taking a nap under a tree in the training grounds, because his grandparents kept him up all night again. Don't get Naruto wrong, he loves his grandparents with all his heart, but they have been going at it every single freaking night. They sounded so loud that half of Konoha probably heard them, how Meiko and Mamoru can sleep through that like a pair of logs was beyond him. Every day since then Naruto arrived at the training grounds looking dead tired and as much he hated to do it, he told Sasuke why he looked so tired which made Sasuke laugh as expected. The reason why Naruto told Sasuke was so that he would keep Sakura from disturbing his recent daily naps and when Sasuke didn't comply, seeing as how it was not his problem, Naruto threatened to tell everyone including the Hyuuga clan that he took and kept a picture of Hinata half-naked at the hot springs.
(By the way that was the picture he had in my fifth chapter, sorry about not mentioning that, I forget how specific you gotta be with these things)
Seeing that he was cornered Sasuke agreed to help him with his new sleeping habit, a pissed off Hiashi was one thing, but a whole angry clan of Hyuugas was a definite death wish.
Sasuke, Sakura and Mamoru were waiting for Kakashi as usual while Naruto was snoring underneath a tree having a dream of Kami knows what, it's most likely perverted.
"Yo" greeted Kakashi coming out of no where
"YOU'RE LATE!" yelled Sakura
"What, what, what, I'm up" said Naruto who just woke up "Oh hey Kaka-sensei what's up?"
"Well actually I really do have a reason for being late this time" Kakashi then pulled out three pieces of paper "I've recommended you guys for the chunin exams"
"Seriously?!" exclaimed an excited Naruto
"That's right, all you have to do is take and fill out these forms and take them to the administration office in the academy by this afternoon" Kakashi explained giving his students the forms "They start tomorrow at 7am sharp, don't be late" and with that he shushined away with Naruto's special Fire Shushin
"HEY YOU COPYCAT BASTARD, YOU STOLE MY MOVE!"
"Calm down dobe, a jutsu is a jutsu, it's never owned by anybody"
"Whatever" grumbled Naruto and started filling out his form
Later
Team 7 filled out their forms and handed them in.
Sasuke went to go do what Sasukes do, go a brood like a total emo
While Naruto and Mamoru were walking down the streets of Konoha with Sakura enjoying the day, but Naruto and Mamoru suddenly stopped in their tracks which confused Sakura
"Alright Kono, you know you're not fooling anyone" Naruto said looking back at what looked like to be a rectangular box made to look like a rock
"Heh, I expected nothing less from you, boss" said a young voice underneath the obviously fake rock. Suddenly a plume smoke came from where the prop stood revealing three young children, two boys and a girl, who were wearing white headbands with the word peace on them and were coughing from the smoke "I think we used too much you guys" the three looked up to see Naruto standing there looking down at them with a sweat drop expression along with Mamoru and Sakura who had a confused look on her face, which meant it was time for their introduction.
"I'm Moegi, the sassiest girl in preschool" said the girl who had two large orange pigtails
"I like math, call me Udon" said the brunette boy with glasses and a small drip of snot coming out of his right nostril
"And I'm Konohamaru, strongest ninja in the village and we're…"
The three got in a form and exclaimed "The Team Konohamaru"
"Cute you three" commented Naruto making the three little kids face faulted
"It's not supposed to be cute" Konohamaru whined, and then he noticed the pink haired girl next to Naruto "Hey boss who's this?"
"This is Sakura, she's my teammate" Naruto introduced her
"Oh… so is she your… you know" said Konohamaru with his pinky extended
"Oh… well uh…" Naruto was blushing madly not knowing what to say along with Sakura who was on the same boat
"Truth be told nii-san, you could do better"
"What?" Naruto and Sakura replied with deadpanned expressions
"I mean come on nii-san look at her forehead, it's freakin' huge" Konohamaru said while pointing at Sakura's forehead
Before he could say anything, Naruto felt dangerous killing intent from the girl next to him "Kono run"
"What? Why?"
"Just Do It!" before Konohamaru could asked again he saw why he was told to run and started doing so with an enraged Sakura right on his tail
"Should we follow them nii-san?" asked Moegi concerned for her friend
"Well I wouldn't want to get in between Sakura and her ambitions" he said "but then again I don't want a dead Konohamaru on my conscience, so yeah we follow" and as the three made it to them they were greeted with a guy in a black suit and make up holding Konohamaru by the neck
"Please let him go, it was my entire fault" Sakura pleaded with worry evident in her eyes
"Shut it pinky, this brat's got it coming to him for not watching where he's going" the guy said
"Just let the brat go Kankuro" said a blonde with four ponytails, a giant fan and a slightly skimpy outfit that would've made Naruto's nose bleed from seeing her nice smooth legs
"Oh don't worry Temari, I'll let him go" said Kankuro raising his fist ready to punch "After This!" but he couldn't move his fist. As he turned around he saw a white haired kid with sunglasses holding his wrist, then he felt a cut on the back of his hand that was holding Konohamaru making him drop the boy who was caught by Naruto who then dispelled the shadow clone that was holding Kankuro's wrist "Who the hell are you?!" Kankuro yelled holding his bleeding hand, but was then scared stiff from feeling the killer intent coming from the white haired boy.
"Someone you don't want to piss off" he said menacingly while placing Konohamaru down "and tell your friend he can stop hiding in the tree"
Kankuro and Temari started to sweat as they saw a red headed boy with a gourd on his back who had no eye brows, markings around his eyes like those a Tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog, and the symbol for love on left side of his forehead.
The boy jumped down from the tree and stared down the white haired boy "Who are you?"
"Naruto Uzumaki, and you?"
"I am Gaara of the sand"
"Nice to meet you… sort of… anyway your friend here was harming my pupil, which would've probably cause your village some trouble from Konoha, especially since he's the grandson of the Third Hokage"
Now Kankuro was sweating bullets, not only did he give Gaara a reason to kill him, but he almost screwed over his whole village
"Kankuro…" said person was trembling in fear "You have brought disgrace to our village"
"Gaara listen I…"
"Silence or I'll kill you" Garra threatened while leaking killer intent frightening everyone except for Naruto and Mamoru who just kept staring at him "I hope to meet you again Uzumaki"
Naruto just stayed silent
"Temari, Kankuro" was all Gaara needed to say before they followed him
As they were away from hearing range Naruto looked up at the tree and said "You know you could've helped anytime"
"You looked like you had it covered" said Sasuke who was up in the tree. He jumped down to join the rest "You seemed a little cautious with that guy with the gourd"
"It's best to avoid him for now anyway" Naruto said with a serious look
"Coming from you, I'd heed that warning"
Naruto turned to Konohamaru to see if he was alright "You alright Kono?"
"Yeah" he said rubbing his throat "I could've taken him though, but thanks nii-san"
"No problem, let me treat you three to some ice cream and then take you" well that cheered them up as they got up and ran to the nearest ice cream shop while Konohamaru and Udon were dragging Naruto and Moegi taking Mamoru in her arms there with them
Sakura looked on as they ran off with a smile on her face 'He's really good with kids' "Shanaroo, he'll make a great dad for our kids" Inner Sakura cheered making Outer Sakura blush madly
"Hn, thinking of something 'extraordinary' like the dobe" Sasuke joked with a smirk
Catching onto what he meant by extraordinary, Sakura punched Sasuke upside the head
That was a first
While the whole event happened, three mysterious were up in a tree watching everything that transpired
"Keep an eye on the two with the gourd and shades" said one of them as they left the scene
The Next Day
Team 7 made it to the academy, the place where they had so many memories
"Ah the academy" Naruto was reminiscing "Remember the good times we had here?"
Team 7 just thought back and came up with nothing good about their academy days
"No"
"Not one dobe"
"Yeah you guys are right, those days sucked"
After they were done remembering their crappy experience Team 7 went inside, climbed up the stairs and saw a bunch of genin being held up by two other young shinobi
"You all should just leave" said one of the two shinobi who had black spiky hair and bandage strips on his cheeks and chin
"Yeah, you're all just gonna die if you take these exams" said a brunette with a konoha headband/bandana combo
"You guys see it too right?" asked Naruto seeing it was a trick
"Yeah, we better keep moving" suggested Sasuke
As Team 7 headed out Naruto heard a voice he hadn't heard in a long time
"Please, let us through, this is real important to us" said a female voice
Naruto turned around to see a brunette beauty with her hair tied up into two buns and she wore a pink Chinese sleeveless shirt, green shinobi pants and standard shinobi blue sandals "Tenten" he whispered seeing her again
Like Sakura and Ino, Tenten was one of Naruto's long time crushes and seeing her again made him drool 'Holy Kami, she beautiful!' Naruto was stuck in a trance seeing her that he couldn't hear his teammates calling him, although he managed to get out of it by seeing Tenten about to be smacked by the bandaged shinobi. As if on instinct Naruto managed to intercept the bandaged kids hand with blinding speed that he surprised the two shinobi, Tenten, the rest of the genin, including his own teammates who had never seen Naruto that fast, the only one who knew how fast Naruto was, was Mamoru and even he was surprised cause he didn't think he would show his true speed just to stop a random girl from getting slapped across the face. "Hasn't anyone ever taught you to never lay a hand on a woman before" Naruto said threateningly while leaking out killer intent
The spikey haired kid was freaked out, this white haired kid had had the speed of a Jonin, was leaking killer intent to the point of near suffocation and he was grasping his wrist so hard that he actually felt it was going to break at any minute "Hey let go you freak, you're hurting me"
The other kid tried to punch him but he somehow the white haired boy vanished and managed to switch himself with the spikey haired kid, who got punched by the brunette knocking him down
"Looking for me" said a voice behind the brunette who turned around, but was punched in the gut with an uppercut sending him crashing into the ceiling and then back to the floor where he was then surrounded by a plume of smoke revealing him to be an older man
Naruto then turned his shaded eyes towards the other one and grabbed him by the collar and said "I don't care if you're a chunin, but if I ever see you harm her" he pointed to Tenten "or any other female again, I will break your skull with my bare hands"
The disguised chunin was right now shitting his pants, figuratively of course
As Naruto released the chunin, he put his fingers together and said "KAI" revealing the room they were trying to get into which they thought was the third floor was really the second floor. After releasing the genjutsu Naruto started to walk back to his teammates, but not before greeting Tenten "Long time no see panda girl" he said as he walked off
Tenten was confused and miffed about the white hair boy calling her panda girl, until she remembered the only one who every called her that "Naruto?" she whispered wondering if that was really the boy she remembered she used to spend time with
Naruto walked passed his teammates and headed upstairs without passing a glance at them
"I knew he was strong, but I didn't know the dobe was that strong" said Sasuke as he and Sakura just stared at his back
"When you use intense emotions you can be surprised at what anyone could do" said Mamoru who looked at the two, but they just walked away, which confused Mamoru, until he realized why they didn't hear him "Oh that's right, unless they sign the fox summoning contract they can't hear me until I get older, man that sucks"
Teams 7 made it to the third floor and were heading towards the room they were supposed to be in, until they were interrupted by a voice
"Hold on"
Team 7 turned around turned around to see a boy with a bowl haircut, giant fuzzy eyebrows and wearing green spandex with orange leg warmers and blue sandals and was also wearing a leaf headband as a belt
Sakura and Mamoru looked at him with a weirdly confused expression, while Sasuke and Naruto looked at him with freaked out expressions with they're jaws hitting the floor
"Sasuke"
"Yeah dobe?"
"Is that a clone of the guy from a month ago or did he create a jutsu that reversed his age?"
"Honestly… I have no freakin' idea"
"You, the one with the white hair and sunglasses, who are you?" the green spandex boy asked
"Someone who really doesn't want to be here right now" Naruto answered bluntly
"Naruto-kun be nice" said Sakura gaining the green spandex boy's attention
Once he saw Sakura, he was entranced in her beauty "You are Sakura Haruno correct?" Sakura nodded in response "The stories of your beauty are true, you are the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen" he said making Sakura not know whether she should be flattered or freaked out
'Is he flirting with her' thought an irritated Naruto
"Please be my girlfriend, I will protect you forever" he announced blowing her kisses
Sakura avoided the first two, but when the third came a hand grabbed it and crushed it "Sorry, but she's not available" said Naruto who crushed the boy's blown kiss
"What?! Who is the one who has her hand?!" exclaimed the boy
Naruto moved next to Sakura, wrapped his armed around her waist to bring her closer to him and said with a smirk "Me"
Everyone was shocked at his answer
'Damn dobe, you really are braver than me when it comes to this' thought Sasuke
'Kid's got real balls' thought Mamoru at his best friend's bold actions
"Naruto-kun~" Sakura cooed with a blush "Shanaroo! He's ours, he's finally ours, strip him down and let's celebrate" Inner Sakura cheered with the biggest smile she had on her face
"Fine then" said the boy getting into a fighting stance "Then I, Rock Lee, challenge you to a fight for the hand of Sakura-san"
Naruto just stared at him with an annoyed expression "Did you just treat Sakura-chan like a trophy?" he asked menacingly
'Oh crap, this nut just dug his grave' thought Mamoru feeling sorry for the boy 'Naruto maybe a pervert, but he hates it when a woman is treated like a material object, especially when it's Sakura'
"You actually treat women like a material object?!" Naruto was officially pissed "Okay I am seriously going to kick your ass"
"That won't be necessary" said a voice behind Lee "As much as I want to see Lee toss you around like a ragdoll Uzumaki, I don't wish to be late for the exams"
Everyone turned to see Neji and Tenten
"Oh great the Hyuuga-teme" said Naruto not happy seeing Neji along with Sasuke who stared at him with an annoyed expression
"Lee I thought you were the one who suggested that we shouldn't show our true abilities" Tenten scowled
"Sorry Tenten, but I wished to face Naruto-kun for the hand of Sakura-san"
Tenten looked at the white haired boy 'So that really is Naruto-kun… and he has a girlfriend' she thought sadly. Tenten knew Naruto back when they were younger, she was one of the few kids who didn't treat him like crap and liked to hang out with him and the truth was she also used to have a bit of a crush on him.
"Lee enough of you pointless fights to win over some peasant whore" said Neji who was irritated by his teammate's stupidity that he blamed his sensei for putting on him
"WHORE!" Sakura screamed with murder in her eyes
"Okay that's it" Naruto was ready to kick both Lee's and Neji's asses until he was stopped by Sasuke
"Fighting will get us nowhere, we have to have as much strength as possible for these exams" said Sasuke
"Finally something we agree on, Uchiha" said Neji glaring at Sasuke
The two teams left in different directions
Team 7 walked to their destination when Sakura asked "You two know that white eyed jerk?"
"Yes, he's Neji Hyuuga" answered Sasuke "Prodigy of the Hyuuga clan, is a branch member and is Hinata-chan's first cousin"
"Really? I can't believe someone like Hinata is actually related to someone like that" she said until she realized something "Wait… HINATA-CHAN?!"
Sasuke blushed realizing what he said
"Oh yeah, Sasuke has had a crush on Hinata for like forever" answered Naruto casually
"DOBE!"
"Was That Why You Ignored Us in the Academy?!" yelled Sakura
"Yes, you fangirls could never beat Hinata-chan" Sasuke answered annoyed like
"That's Ex Fangirl to you" she corrected him
As they came closer to the door of the room they were assigned to, they saw Kakashi leaning on the wall leaning on the wall while reading an autographed Icha Icha Paradise book in his hand
"No way, grandpa signed that for you?!" asked Naruto
"Yeah, cool huh?" said Kakashi with an eye smile
"Wait, your grandfather wrote that piece of filth Naruto-kun?!" asked Sakura
"It's not filth Sakura-chan"
"YES IT IS!" she yelled scaring the men "I can't believe this day, first some weird kid with gigantic freaky eyebrows comes and says he wants to be my boyfriend, I learned that this whole time Sasuke always like Hinata and now it turns out my boyfriend's grandfather wrote the most disgusting book in history"
"Oh so you met Guy's protégé" said Kakashi until he realized what she said last "Wait did she just call you her boyfriend?" Kakashi asked Naruto
"Uh, hey we should really get inside, ya know?" Naruto tried to change the subject making everyone sweat drop
"Yeah you're right, anyway I wanted to wish you luck and say that I'm proud of you three" he said with an eye smile surprising the four
"Thanks Kaka-sensei" said Naruto with a smile with the rest of team 7 smiling as well
Kakashi shushined away and let his team walked to the door
As the three walked through the door they saw a room filled with shinobi who were all genin, and surprisingly there were some who were adults, glaring at them
'Hey Kurama, could you do me a little favor and leak out some killer intent from my body?' Naruto asked Kurama through their telepathic link
"I thought you'd never asked" said Kurama with a toothy grin
Suddenly just as he asked, Kurama leaked out killer intent out of Naruto's body freaking them out to the point where they either messed their pants or were put in a frozen state 'I think you got the message across, thanks Kurama'
"Anytime kit" Kurama replied
As the genin turned away from them or excused themselves from the room to change their pants, Naruto felt victorious thanks to the help of Kurama, until he was tackled into a hug
"Naruto-kun!" squealed a voice
"INO!" Sakura yelled seeing her arch-rival hugging her new boyfriend
"Oh hey forehead girl" greeted Ino sticking her tongue out
"Get Your Hands Off My Boyfriend!" Sakura yelled with a glare
"Oh please he's not your boyfriend" Ino glared back
"Yes He Is Pig!" she yelled
The two then started glaring and insulting eachother
"Did I just hear Sakura right?" asked Shikamaru arriving on the scene with his best friend Choji by his side eating chips in tow "Did she just say you were her boyfriend?"
"When did that happen?" asked Choji
"About five minutes ago" answered Sasuke bluntly
"Hey looks like the gang is all here" said a loud voice that they all knew too well
'Kiba' thought teams 7 and 10 annoyed
"I see the 'Dead Last' made it too along with his little rat" Kiba insulted
"Oh screw you Kiba, I'm ten times stronger than you dog breathe and Mamoru is not a rat, he's a thousand times cleaner than you" Naruto retorted
"That thing is not a thousand times cleaner than me" Kiba shot back
Mamoru yipped something making Naruto laugh out loud
"What did he say?!" exclaimed Kiba
"He said 'maybe so, but atleast he's a thousand times smarter than you'" Naruto translated
"You two think you're so tough, huh?! You guys are just copy cats of me and Akamaru!"
Mamoru yipped something else
"What the hell did he say now?!"
"He said it's pronounced 'Akamaru and I'" translated Naruto
"Wow, he really is smarter than Kiba" commented Ino
"Shut It Blondie!"
"Hey don't talk to her like that Dog Breathe!" yelled Naruto making Ino blush at the fact that he was defending her
"Why don't you make me Fox Shit!"
Naruto was ready to let him have it, until Mamoru spoke
"Don't Naruto, he's not worth it, besides we have to not show our true strength remember?"
Naruto started to calm down "You're right Mamoru"
"Please, you're just saying that, because you two are just cowards" insulted Akamaru
"Nice one Akamaru" said Kiba
"Who are you calling a coward, you dirty old mutt" said Mamoru
"You're the only dirty bastard here" retorted Akamaru
"Atleast I'm not old like you, I can see alittle turkey neck hanging there"
"Oh that's it!" barked Mamoru jumping down from Kiba's head "I'll kick your ass you bastard, women won't even get near you after I'll be done with you"
"Well atleast they'd rather deal with me than you considering you smell like toilet water!"
"That's It!"
Suddenly Mamoru and Akamaru started pouncing and attacking eachother, but they were stopped when Naruto and Kiba pulled them away from eachother
"Calm down Mamoru"
"Damn Akamaru chill"
(By the way just in case you don't know only Naruto understands Mamoru and vice versa, same with Kiba and Akamaru, but Mamoru and Akamaru can talk to or more like insult eachother)
"What was that all about?" asked Choji surprised along with the rest of his team, team 7 and team 8 by the fight the fox kit and pup just had
"It's just how foxes and dogs are" said Shikamaru "they constantly fighting eachother, it's been that way for a long time… troublesome"
"Well you're not as cool as you think Fox Shit, in fact a new girl in the village digs me" boasted Kiba
"Last time I checked Kiba she told you to get lost since you annoyed her and when you didn't leave she used an ice jutsu on you" said Shino
"Who's side are you on Shino?!" yelled Kiba
"Wait a minute, was the justu she used called A Thousand Needles of Death?" asked Naruto
"Yeah how'd you know?" asked Kiba
"HAHAHAHA, That Was Haku, Man I Love That Girl!" exclaimed Naruto laughing at what his favorite ice user had done to Kiba
"WAIT YOU KNOW HER?!"
"He not only knows her, she's also in his little harem" answered Sasuke making everyone's jaws drop
"Would You Quit It With The Whole Harem Thing!" Naruto yelled while Mamoru was snickering
"A HAREM?!" Naruto turned around to see that Lee kid teleport in front of him
'Oh no not him' Naruto thought
"You dare call yourself Sakura-san's boyfriend when you are creating a harem?! I will now fight you for her hand" said Lee getting in his stance while his teammates came over to make sure he didn't do anything that'll get them kicked out of the exams
Naruto took a deep breath and said "Alright listen, you look like a nice guy Lee, but I swear if you keep treating Sakura and other girls like trophies, I'LL SMASH YOUR SKULL IN!"
"Whoa, calm down dobe" said Sasuke holding Naruto back from attacking Lee
"Wow you guys really are loud" said a voice heading towards them
The teams turned to see a grey haired konoha-nin who wore glasses and had his hair in a short ponytail
"Who the hell are you?!" exclaimed Kiba
"Oops I almost forgot, my name is Kabuto Yakushi" Kabuto introduced himself "you seem like nice kids, but these exams are no joke, many have failed numerous times in these exams, myself included"
Naruto, Sasuke and Mamoru felt this guy was trouble
"How many times did you take these exams?" asked Sakura
"Seven times actually" Kabuto answered
"Man you really suck then" said Kiba
"I wouldn't say that, besides…" he took out a deck of cards "it has it's advantages"
"What are those?" asked Ino
"These are ninja info cards, name any one, add some chakra and these cards will tell all the stats of said shinobi, any of you want to know a little more about someone"
"Yes" said Lee "Please check Naruto Uzumaki"
'Oh this can't be good' Naruto thought
Kabuto shuffled the cards and took one out and added his chakra into it an soon enough a picture of Naruto and his status. "Let's see, Naruto Uzumaki, born on October 10th ninjutsu high jonin, taijutsu mid-chunin, genjutsu extremely low, and chakra capacity at high Kage level" everyone looked at Naruto surprised at how high his chakra capacity was "Wait what's this?" Everyone looked at him in anticipation at what he found "This is unbelievable" Kabuto said with shock. Everyone who eavesdropping wanted to her what he found as well since it sounded really important "You're the grandson of Jiraiya and Tsunade Senju of the Sannin" everyone turned to Naruto in incredible shock
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU KNOW THAT?!" exclaimed Naruto who was now glaring and leaking killer intent at Kabuto
"It's what's on the card" he replied quickly "and it also says you signed the fox summoning contract and you have… THE RINNEGAN?!"
Okay that was it
Naruto tackled Kabuto and slammed him into the wall "You have exactly five seconds to tell me how the hell you know all that and two already passed"
"It was on the card, don't blame me" Kabuto tried to convince Naruto, at first he saw him as no threat, but after reading the last part on his info card he knew not to get on Naruto's bad side right now
Suddenly a poof came from the front of the class revealing a scared man in a black trench coat and black bandana with several chunin behind him "Alright maggots that enough, violence will not be permitted unless permission is given, not cease and desist or you will be terminated from the exams"
Naruto released Kabuto and went back to his teammates "Keep an eye on that Kabuto guy, he's bad news"
"You don't have to tell us twice" said Sakura
"Alright listen up" exclaimed the bandana man getting the attention of everyone in the room "I am Ibiki Morino and welcome to the first part of the Chunin Exams" proclaimed Ibiki "Welcome to Hell"
Later
It's been fifty five minutes and everyone was going crazy over the first part of the exams, well mostly everyone there were still some who were calm. The first part of the exams was a written test. The rules were simple, everyone was assigned a seat, there were ten questions, nine on the sheet and the last one would be revealed at the end of the time limit, everyone had ten points at the beginning of the test, for every one question they got incorrect they'd lose a point, and for those who were caught cheating they would lose two points each time, if any one of them lost ten points not only would they fail the exams, but also their teammates as well.
The true point of the exams was actually to cheat, but they had to not get caught, the smarter shinobi had learned that and tried their best to cheat without getting caught. A good amount of teams were disqualified from the exams for getting caught cheating five times losing all ten points, but who cares about them, let's go see how our twelve favorite leaf-nin are doing.
Team Guy was doing fine.
Neji used his byakugan to see what the others were righting and wrote down the answers
Tenten used mirrors that she somehow manage to put in the room that work by strings she tied to her fingers to copy off of other genin's test and also helped Lee by letting him use the mirrors as well.
Team 8 was doing pretty good
Shino used his kikaichi bugs to help get the answers from other genin's tests
Kiba got answers from his best friend Akamaru who looked at the nearby tests from the surrounding genin and told Kiba the best answers he could get
Hinata at first was nervous and self-conscious about herself succeeding, but as she looked at Sasuke when the test started he gave her a smile and nodded at her, meaning he wished her good luck. Over the month Sasuke and Hinata managed to spend some time together, before Neji always rudely interrupted them and Sasuke help her build up her confidence and self-esteem a little, which made Hinata see Sasuke in a whole new light. Right now Sasuke believed in her and if he did then she guess she could believe in herself as well.
Team 7 was doing great
Sasuke used his sharingan to copy the answer from a genin who he clearly saw was actually a chunin in disguise writing down the correct answers
Sakura was using her brains and was breezing through the test
Naruto had three ways of going through the test, use his rinnegan that were hidden behind his sunglasses to see what people were writing, get his pal Mamoru to do exactly what Akamaru was doing for Kiba or do the best thing way to cheat get Kurama to give him the answers that he learned from his first two hosts, Naruto's great great grandmother Mito Uzumaki and his mother Kushina. Naruto settled for the third option and Kurama agreed to help because like Naruto he didn't like that Kabuto guy either and wanted to see Naruto tear his head off, in fact he smelled rather familiar, like a snake.
Team 10 was doing fine, well mostly the guys
Shikamaru went through the test like it was a piece of cake considering all Naras were incredibly intelligent and he helped his best friend Choji by letting him copy his answers while he put a genjutsu around him so it looked like all he did was eat chips the whole time
Ino just waited for Sakura to finish her test, which took her a while and then she used her clan's special jutsu, the Shintenshin no jutsu on Sakura to enter her mind and memorized all her answers to write them down on her test 'Thanks for your generous offer of giving me your answers Sakura'
Five minutes were left and suddenly the door opened to show the suna-nin who was bullying Konohamaru yesterday
"I see you are done playing with your dolls" said Ibiki smirking at Kankuro who eyes widened at the comment
As Kankuro passed by his blonde teammate he placed his a piece of paper on her table
Five minutes later
"Pencils down" exclaimed Ibiki "It's time for the final question, but this year I'm doing something a little different" all the genin looked at him with a confused expression "You can choose to take the question, but there's a catch, if you answer the question incorrectly you will not only be kicked out of the chunin exams, but you will never be allowed to take it again, which means you'll be stuck as genin forever" everyone's eyes widened at the risk
"Hey That's Bullshit!" yelled Kiba "There are people here who have taken these exams before, the rest of us don't know jack shit about this"
"True, but they never had me as a proctor before" Ibiki said with a mischievous smirk "There is also a second option, you can drop out from the exams this year and come back next year with another chance to become chunin"
As Ibiki finished a bunch of genin teams had left not wanting to take the chance
'Pathetic' thought Naruto, until he saw Hinata, who was sitting next to him, she looked like a wreck, she was shaking like a leaf, she doubted herself and started to slowly raise her hand. Naruto knew Sasuke wouldn't know what to do in this situation, so it looked like Naruto had to step in and save Sasuke's 'girlfriend'. Naruto quickly stood up from his seat gaining everyone's attention
"Number forty seven are you forfeiting?"
Naruto just stared at Ibiki with a determined eyes "No way, if I just gave up then I don't even deserve to be a ninja" he words were short, but they were enough for the rest of the genin in the room to understand what he meant
Hinata looked up at Naruto with eyes of admiration as she understood what he meant
"You do realize that if you fail to answer this question, you be a genin for the rest of your life" said Ibiki staring straight into Naruto's eyes
"I don't care, I never back down, that's the way of the ninja" Naruto said with a toothy grin
Ibiki looked all around the room to see everyone with determined eyes, just like Naruto 'With just a few simple words he inspired the whole room to not surrender' "So no one else will be forfeiting?" his response was all of the genin staring at him with the determination in their eyes never fading away "Well in that case… You all pass"
The room was silent for a moment "WHAT?!" they all exclaimed
"But what about the tenth question?" asked the suna kunoichi Temari
"There is no tenth question, unless you count choosing to either stay or forfeit being the tenth question" all the genin except for Naruto were stumped "Let me paint a picture for you, you and your team are sent on an infiltration mission to extract information from an enemy ninja base, there is a great possibility that you will die, do you run away or go through with the mission?" all the genin looked at him silently "A true ninja goes through with a mission, even when the stakes are high and the odds are against him, he still moves on with the mission for his village, that is the role of a chunin" Ibiki then took off his bandana and showed everyone the many scares and holes on his scalp which shocked everybody and made a few want to puke "A ninja must endure pain and torture for their village and never falter, that is the role of a chunin" he finished then put his bandana back on "I am proud to see that there are many shinobi with potential and so I'd like to say congratulations and I wish you all-" but before Ibiki could finish his sentence a metal ball went through the window landing in front of Ibiki and release smoke which revealed a banner that said 'Proctor of the 2nd exams, Anko Mitarashi' with said woman appearing in front of the banner.
'HER?!' thought Sakura and Ino with fury
'Oh no' thought Mamoru and Sasuke who looked at Naruto to see what they had already expected him have when he saw her again
'Score!' thought an excited Naruto with a perverted smile and nosebleed at seeing his favorite busty snake mistress
"Alright kiddies, no time for relaxing, come on, to the next part of the exams" she exclaimed with much energy, but sadly she only got a room filled with silence, atleast she got Naruto's attention if the perverted look on his face was anything to go with
"You're early again" said Ibiki bluntly
Anko counted all the fresh meat, I mean potential shinobi she had to break, I mean test "Damn Ibiki, this many passed, you're really getting soft" she teased her friend/partner
"Well it's not my fault, we have many potential shinobi this year, and besides it was all your boyfriend's doing" he mumbled that last part, but Anko heard him
"Whatever you say teddy bear" she teased Ibiki again, irritating him "alright you brats, meet me at training ground forty four in an hour and if you're late you fail the exams" Anko then shushined away and right after she did Naruto immediately used his trademark Fire Shushin to go home and get some things before going to the training grounds, surprising everyone including the chunin and Ibiki that he could perform such a shushin
'And so it begins' thought Mamoru doing the same shushin as Naruto surprising everyone, but the rest of team 7 again that even a fox can do the same thing
At the jonin sensei lounge
"I AM BEING SERIOUS KAKASHI, LEE WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT BOYFRIEND FOR A YOUNG LADY" exclaimed Guy defending his most 'youthful' student
"I'm sure he would Guy, but please tell him to stop harassing my student with his boyfriend requests" replied Kakashi without taking his eyes of his autographed Icha Icha Paradise
"HARRASSING?! ALL LEE IS DOING IS EXPRESSING HIS LOVE FOR YOUR YOUNG FEMALE BLOSSOM"
"Well either way she already has a boyfriend, so please tell Lee to leave her alone"
"WHO IS THIS BOY WHO HAS EARNED THE HAND OF YOUR FEMALE STUDENT?!"
"My other student Naruto"
"The one with the white hair and sunglasses?"
"That's him"
"So my grandson has a girlfriend huh?" said a voice
The four Jonin who consisted of Kakashi, Guy, Asuma and Kurenei turned to see Jiraiya standing on the window sill
"Jiraiya-sama" they all greeted and bowed, except for Kakashi who gave him a wave
"Wait a minute, Naruto is your grandson?" asked a shock Kurenei
"That's right" he said with a big proud smile
"That explains why he's such a pervert" she said finally piecing the puzzle together
"I know isn't he great" he said with a grin making Kurenei sweat drop with a scowl on her face 'Like grandfather like grandson I guess'
"Why are you here Jiraiya-sama" asked Asuma
"I came to inform you that your students finished the first part of the exams"
"How do you know?" asked Kurenei
"I just saw Naruto at home grabbing supplies like a lighter, hunting knife and food, all he kept saying was 'No time, Sakura-chan, Ino-chan, Tenten-chan, Hinata and other losers, passed, Forest of Death, must see sexy Anko and get action before loser genin come around' and then he shunshined away"
Asuma was laughing out loud and Kakashi chuckled at Naruto's antics while Kurenei sweat dropped and scowled again, and through this entire thing Guy was confused after the word sexy
"That Naruto, he always goes crazy whenever Anko is involved somehow" said Asuma still chuckling a bit
"Could someone please explain what this all has to do with Anko?" asked Guy who was generally confused
"Yeah, I'd like to know as well, I know that Anko Mitarashi is the proctor for the second part of the chunin exams, but what's the relationship between her and my grandson?"
"Allow me to explain Jiraiya-sama" volunteered Kakashi "You see for six years ago Naruto met Anko in the Forest of Death when he was hiding from the villagers and shinobi, for cause some pranks that they didn't find funny, since then for the next six years Naruto and Anko had this relationship"
"What kind of relationship?" asked Jiraiya truly wondering the relationship between his grandson and his old teammate's former apprentice
"Oh you know, games of cat and mouse where she tries to rip his pants off, they flirt with eachother, make out, do adult things, in fact if I recall Naruto told me he once saw her naked"
"WHAT?!" they all exclaimed
"How naked?" asked a drooling Jiraiya with a nosebleed
"4th base"
Jiraiya's jaw hit the floor after the response
"When did this happen?!" asked Kurenei who wanted to castrate Naruto
"About a year before he graduated from the academy, she let him see her fully naked and gave him his first kiss" Kakashi answered bluntly
"Where was this?" Asuma asked getting interested in Naruto lucky day
"The hot springs"
Everyone had different reactions to this
Asuma had his jaw to the floor with a nosebleed not believing how lucky Naruto was and he was only twelve
Guy was shocked at how 'unyouthful' Anko used Naruto for her sexual needs
Kurenei just wanted to kill Naruto and to scowl Anko like she was a kid, hell she was practically a kid in an adults body with a perverted mind that had the knowledge of adult activities
Jiraiya was crying
"Jiraiya-sama, are you okay?" asked Kakashi
"Yes" he sobbed "it's just… it's just… I'm so proud of my grandson" he exclaimed proudly with tears of joy
'Of course' thought all the jonin, except for Guy who could see why Jiraiya would be so proud of Naruto
"To think my own grandson got lucky at the age of twelve" Jiraiya said with a proud smile
"I never said he had sex with Anko" Kakashi said to make sure Jiraiya didn't get the wrong idea
"No, but the little brat almost did" said Kurenei
All the men looked at her in shock
"Excuse me" said Kakashi
"Before he left on that away mission your team had about a month and a half ago, he and Anko were planning on doing it, until I came and stopped them" all the guys were obviously very surprise that Naruto was so close to finally getting laid by Anko "but as long as I'm around he's not going to get near Anko with that damn 'thing' near her"
'Women, they always got to cock block men' thought Jiraiya wishing the best of luck to his grandson
"Come on Kurenei, let the kid live a little, besides when Tsunade hears about this she'll probably put a restraining order on Anko to keep her away from Naruto" said Kakashi
"Why would she do that?" asked Guy
"Because my hime is Naruto's grandmother" said Jiraiya
"WHAT?!" all the Jonin except Kakashi exclaimed
"It's true" said Kakashi "Boy she really know's how to keep men on their toes"
"You're just saying that because she's keeping an eye on you whenever you wanted to ask Shizune out for dinner" said Jiraiya with a cheeky grin making Kakashi actually blush
Asuma was laughing out loud, because he remembered how Kakashi always had a crush on Shizune back when they were young and always tried to ask her out for lunch "So you're trying to make up for lost time ay Kakashi?"
"YOSH! MY ETERNAL RIVAL IS IN LOVE WITH SHIZUNE-SAN, HOW COULD I HAVE NOT SEEN IT BEFORE?!" yelled Guy
"Shut up Guy" said Kakashi surprising everyone in the room, but then they all started to laugh at Kakashi who just went back to his book trying to ignore them
At training ground 44 'The Forest of Death'
Naruto Fire Shushined at the training grounds to see Anko sitting on a rock with her leg over her other while eating dango and drinking beer
"I see you made it before the others" she said with a smile
"I'd do anything to get some alone time with you sexy" Naruto said taking off his sunglasses and started walking towards Anko who had just finished her lunch and looked at him with a sexy grin and next thing you know the two started making out. Their hot passionate kiss escalated to a toungue war where neither of them were backing down from, Anko ran her fingers through Naruto's hair while Naruto slowly ran one of his hands down Anko's waist and slowly squeezed her butt cheek making her moan. Anko started to take off Naruto's jacket while he started taking off her trench coat and as they were about to take off the lower part of their clothing, the heard someone clear their throat, but to Anko it sounded like a series of yips. They both looked down to see Mamoru looking at them with a deadpanned look "Go away, I'm trying to get lucky here" Naruto said waving his best friend away and went back to making out with Anko
"You know the rest of your team is almost here" Mamoru told Naruto
"What?!" Naruto used his rinnegan to look far away to see his Sasuke and Sakura heading towards the training ground "Aw dammit can't anyone let me have any fun with most hottest woman in the world" Naruto whined as he released Anko to grab his jacket
Anko wasn't too happy either, all she wanted to do was deflower Naruto and officially add sex into their relationship, but sadly these idiots who believe in morality just keep butting in and stopping their fun. Seriously what was so bad about her finally fucking Naruto, he likes her and she likes him, who gives a crap about age? Not her and Naruto that's for sure.
"Sorry we couldn't finally get down to business Anko-chan" said Naruto feeling down, until he felt Anko grab him and brought his face to her breast
"Don't worry Foxy-chan, it'll happen just wait a little longer, cause when the time comes, I'm gonna-"
For you readers who are of the squeamish kind I will not write down the extreme detail Anko says, but I will write this
Mamoru's eyes widened like dinner plates and his jaw actually hit the floor at what he had just heard the snake mistress describe what she'd do to his best friend
Once Anko released the hold she had on Naruto she left to go do somethings before the rest of the little brats came to her playground, leaving Naruto who had a gigantic perverted toothy grin and a nosebleed that looked like he should go to the doctor to check it out and with his best friend who still had his completely shock expression.
Once Sakura and Sasuke made it to the training ground they found Naruto and Mamoru were already there as they expected
"Hi Naruto-kun" Sakura greeted her new boyfriend cheerfully, but then she notice the look he had on his face which completely spelled pervert on his face that made Sakura ticked because she knew he probably did something with that snake bitch so she punched him in the head and seeing Mamoru's incredibly shocked expression she scratched him behind his ear which helped him get out of his trance
As the two best friends got sent back to reality they both looked at Anko remembering what just happened a few moments ago
"That woman is sick" said Mamoru
"That Woman is Hot! And someday I wanna marry her" Naruto exclaimed which earned him another punch in the head by Sakura who mumbled 'Damn Horny Snake Bitch'
"By the way dobe" Sasuke started to say which got Naruto's attention "I wanted to thank you for doing that speech in the first part of the exams, I saw Hinata about to raise her hand to forfeit and you really came through by inspiring her"
"It was no problem teme, glad I could help two good friends" Naruto said with a smile that Sasuke also returned
"Naruto-kun!" Team 7 turned to see Ino running towards them with her two teammates far behind her "That was incredible speech you gave back there" she complimented much to Sakura's annoyance
"Uh Thanks Ino, it means a lot" Naruto replied
"Just wondering was forehead here" Ino pointed at Sakura who glared at her "telling the truth about you and her being boyfriend and girlfriend?" she asked hoping it was a lie
"Well you see that Lee guy from earlier was trying to make Sakura his girlfriend and I could tell he wasn't going to say no for an answer so I stepped in and told him I was Sakura's boyfriend" Naruto explained
"So technically you're not her boyfriend" she squealed and tackled him into a hug "So that means you're all mine Naruto-kun"
"GET AWAY FROM HER YOU SHALLOW BITCH!" Sakura yelled with fire in her eyes which surprised her team and team 10, never had she ever called Ino a shallow bitch, even that was a little much for their rivalry
"Jeez forehead what was that?" Ino asked never hearing her call her that before, she would just usually call her a pig, but this a new one
"I'm telling you to get away from my man before I break both your wrists and shove your head up an Inuzuka dog's ass!" she threatened her with a face that said play time was over
"Sakura what's wrong with you?" Ino asked actually worried about what was happening to her friend
"What's wrong with me?! You don't even like Naruto the way I do, you just want to date him because of his looks!" she yelled at Ino with a death glare
"Well… so do you!" Ino shot back
"No I don't, I love him!" Sakura confessed
Everyone looked at her with a shocked expression, including Team 8 who just arrived, well except for Shino, he isn't really known for showing his emotions.
"What do you mean by you love him?" Ino asked not fully able to wrap her head around that idea
Sakura seeing as she cornered herself thanks to that little outburst she decided to confess the feelings she's been having since team assignment day "Whenever I'm sad he makes me smile… whenever I'm scared I think of him and I'm not afraid anymore…he's always been there for me even when I was always a total bitch to him and he still stays by my side, and no matter what he always puts me in front of himself or anyone… and most importantly he compliment me on the feature I hated the most about myself and for doing that he actually made me feel like for once I was actually pretty… he's the man of my dreams and I don't want to see him taken away from me" as she confessed everything she had been crying, because she was afraid that she was going to lose after hearing how she felt about him, she didn't want to lose Naruto, and after she saw Ino let go of Naruto she jumped into his arms and held him tightly. Right now she felt she screwed up both their friendship and their future, but right now that didn't matter, she just wanted to hold him as long as possible.
All the rookie genin were shocked, even Shino, but he held his composure. They all knew Sakura had feelings for Naruto, she made that clear, but they didn't think she was actually head over heels in love with him, this is without a doubt the biggest shock they have ever seen.
"Well damn this day keeps getting weirder" said Kiba
This earned him a punch in the face from Ino
Naruto didn't know how to feel, all his life he always wanted Sakura's affections and now he had it, but he didn't know how to feel, no he did know how he felt, but he didn't want to say it here, he wanted his confession to be only between him and her, not in front of everyone like it was a free show. Naruto just started to pat her back trying to comfort her a bit while everyone looked at them.
Sasuke seeing that this was a deep moment, decided to let the two have their moment and said "Alright you guys go somewhere else these two need their space"
Deciding that Sasuke was right Team 8 and 10 left team 7 alone
Sasuke and Mamoru were looking anywhere else, but Naruto and Sakura feeling they should let them feel they were alone in a way
"Sakura-san!" yelled a voice
'Oh crap' thought Sasuke and Mamoru knowing who the owner of the voice was
"Sakura-san why are you crying?!" yelled Lee running towards them, but was knocked out from a punch by Naruto
Sasuke just grabbed Lee by the legs and dragged him towards his team and when given the look by Neji and Tenten all he said was "I didn't do it" and then he walked away
Sakura had managed to control herself a bit a leg go of Naruto
"Feel better?" he asked her and got a nod in response. Naruto grabbed Sakura's chin and lifted he face to his eye level and once doing so he took off his sunglasses. As her red puffy eyes looked into his sky blue rippled ones that held so much affection he started "Sakura… every time I see you, you make me smile… every time I'm away from you I keep feel like screaming for you to come back to me… every time I look into your eyes I get lost in your beauty… and every time I see that wide and charming forehead of yours it just always makes me want to kiss it… Sakura…" he leaned in closer "I love you too" and then he kissed her on her beautiful lips
It was Sakura's first real kiss and she felt that she was in heaven and even though this was Naruto's third kiss, this one was perfect
(Aw~ cute, if you guys don't like the fact that I put this here, then I don't really give a F #$)
Later the rest of the genin made it to the training ground which meant that it was time to begin
"Alright maggots welcome to training ground 44 or better known as 'The Forest of Death'" announced Anko "here the rules are simple you go in and make sure you don't die"
'Real simple Anko-chan' thought Naruto, he may love Sakura, but Anko still had a way of bringing him back
"For this part of the exams each team will get one of two scrolls, an Earth scroll or a Heaven scroll, your objective is to get both scrolls in order to do so, well I think that's pretty obvious, once you obtain both scrolls you must head to the center of the forest where there's a tower, that is your goal, but be warned if open your scrolls before getting the other or getting to the tower then you will be disqualified, you have only five days to complete this part of the exams"
"FIVE DAYS?!" exclaimed Ino
"What'll we do for food?" asked a nervous Choji hoping he'll still be able to eat
"Oh don't worry there's a bunch of berries in the forest, although there are a lot of poisonous ones in there, so you might wanna be careful" Anko answered nonchalantly freaking most of the genin out, especially poor Choji
"Oh and one more thing" she showed a sheet form "you have to sign these"
"Why?" asked a random genin
"Oh these are waivers that state if you die in the forest your villages won't hold me responsible for any of it" that freaked the genin out even more
Except for Naruto and he had a good reason too, to him the Forest of Death was like a walk in the park to him, he considers it his own personal playground, he knows the place like the back of his hand.
Everyone was given half an hour to get a scroll and sign their wavers
Sakura was just looking at the giant fence a little afraid of seeing what was over the other side
"Hey Sakura" Sakura looked to her left to see Ino
"Oh hey Ino" she greeted looking down at the floor
"How are you feeling?" Ino asked concerned for her best friend/ arch-rival
"I'm okay, thank you" Sakura said "Ino I'm sorry about earlier"
"Hey it's alright, you found someone you love and you didn't want to lose him, I understand" Ino assured "But you're wrong about me only liking Naruto-kun for his looks"
"Huh?"
"You see I realized that Naruto-kun was a good guy, when he was gone with you guys on your mission I looked back to when Naruto was still in the academy" she remembered "I mean sure he was annoying, but I guess we were all annoying in our own little way"
"Yeah that's true" Sakura agreed
"But I realized that if you looked passed what everyone said about Naruto-kun, then you come to realize he was actually a really nice guy"
"That's true"
"Plus you gotta admit, those whisker marks do make him look cuter" Ino blushed when saying that
"That's also true" Sakura admitted with a blush
"And now he's more mature and he's very considerate of everybody"
"Ino, where are you getting at?"
"Look Sakura, I really think Naruto-kun is the nicest guy I've ever met and I just wanted to let you know that I still like him and I want to get to know him more, because I feel that he might be the only guy I can actually be myself around"
"Ino… are you actually crushing on Naruto-kun?" asked Sakura with her eyes widen a bit
Ino looked at Sakura timidly with a blush and nodded
Sakura couldn't believe it, all this time she thought Ino was just trying to take Naruto just to spite her, but really she actually had a crush on him that was unexpected
"But I can't get near him because you won him fair and square" Ino admitted defeat
Sakura didn't like seeing her friend this way, technically Sakura and Naruto weren't even boyfriend and girlfriend, Naruto just said he was her boyfriend to get Lee off of her back and she had been abusing it hoping to get Ino and the other girls who were after Naruto out of her way, but they only went on one date, that was shortly interrupted, and going on one date doesn't make anyone boyfriend and girlfriend.
"Actually Ino I didn't win Naruto-kun over, he was telling the truth, he lied by saying he was my boyfriend so that Lee guy would leave me alone"
"I KNEW IT! Oops, sorry"
"It's alright, so you still have a shot"
"Hold on forehead, I thought you said you loved him about an hour ago?"
"I do love him and he loves me too, but who knows maybe he might love you more than me"
"Sakura are you hearing yourself?" Ino just couldn't believe what she was hearing "You're actually giving him up?"
"NO! I'm just saying that we shouldn't fight over Naruto-kun like this, it's stupid, I mean we've fought over Sasuke and look where that brought us" Ino couldn't disagree with that "All I'm saying is this time we should let Naruto-kun decide"
"But Sakura, Naruto-kun is too much of a nice guy to choose between us"
"I know, but I don't want you to be sad Ino, you want a chance with Naruto-kun and so do I, so we'll both go on a separate date with him and we'll make him choose, I mean he can't have two girlfriends, right?"
"Well… I don't think so"
"So we'll give it a shot?"
Ino thought about it for a second and came up with an answer "Alright" Sakura smiled at this "Besides he's too much of a pervert to resist an offer like that"
"Yeah, he sure is"
Then the two laughed and started to head towards their teams after saying goodbye
During this Naruto, Mamoru and Sasuke were hanging out until the half hour was over
"So Sakura is in love with you" started Sasuke
"Yeah… pretty unexpected huh?" Naruto replied
"Maybe for you, but I saw the signs"
"How did you see them?"
"Uchihas see all" Naruto just rolled his eyes "Besides you gotta admit she was showing some signs of romance even an idiot like you can notice"
Naruto just stared at him and said "I can't believe we're actually best friends"
"Same here"
Naruto looked to his right to see Tenten with Neji, but Lee was nowhere in sight "Say Sasuke, how about helping your best friend out get a little one on one time with that sexy brunette there" Naruto pointed towards Tenten
"You wanna talk to Neji?" Sasuke joked with a smirk "Jeez dobe I didn't take you for the bisexual type"
"Ha ha Sasuke you're hilarious" Naruto said sarcastically "I'm talking about Tenten"
"You know her name?"
"Me and her go way back to the academy, we used to hang out a lot back then, she was one of the only few who didn't treat me like crap" he remembered the good old days with her "But then I saw all the glares the villagers sent at her and her family and I knew that something bad was going to happened to her if she kept hanging out with me, so I stopped spending time with her just to protect her"
"That sounds pretty serious, but why would the villagers attack her just because she hung out with you?" Sasuke asked with genuine curiosity
Naruto looked down at Mamoru who just shrugged "It's a secret"
"You can tell me Naruto, you can even tell Sakura, we're your friends" Sasuke tried to convince him
Sasuke was right, if there was anything Naruto learned from his grandfather it's that life is short and that you should always take a shot in the dark, and to always trust friends.
"Alright, but I want to tell Sakura too, I don't want to leave her in the dark" Sasuke nodded understandingly "So will you help me?"
"Sure, but how?"
"Well with mister uptight asshole over there I can't get near her, so what I want you to do is go talk to Hinata, once Neji sees you getting chummy with his cousin again he'll go over to you two and try to kick your ass again, you in?"
"You had me at go talk to Hinata-chan" and like that Sasuke went straight to go talk to Hinata who was sitting down on the ground
Sasuke walked over to her and said "Hi Hinata-chan"
"Oh h-hello-o S-Sas-suke-k-kun, h-h-how are y-you?"
"I'm fine and you?"
"I-I'm actually a l-little n-nervous"
"Because of the forest?" Sasuke asked with genuine concern.
Hinata nodded in response "Y-yes, I-I almost g-gave up d-during t-the f-first p-p-part o-of t-the exams"
"I know, I saw" Hinata looked up at Sasuke a bit worried "If it wasn't for Naruto you wouldn't be here"
"You're disappointed in me are you?" Hinata assumed looking down with sadness
"No I'm not" he said with concern bending down and placing his hand on her shoulder "Hinata I'm just happy that Naruto inspired you again to keep moving"
"You are?" Hinata asked surprised he wasn't disappointed in her
"Of course, every time I look into your eyes I see a powerful kunoichi just waiting to be free and show the world how powerful she really is" said Sasuke making Hinata blush
"I don't see that when I look into the mirror" Hinata said looking down again, but Sasuke grabbed her by the chin and made her look into his eyes
"Well I do and I bet you can too if you start believing in yourself like I do" he said making Hinata glow neon red
"You better let her go or else" they both turned to see Neji
"N-Neji-ni-san!"
"I told you before, I don't take orders from anyone" Sasuke told Neji standing his ground until Neji tried attacking him with a kunai
"I'm going to skin you alive this time Uchiha!" exclaimed Neji running after Sasuke
Mamoru saw Neji took the bait and said "The hawk is hunting the cockatoo"
"I highly doubt hawks hunt cockatoos" Naruto replied
"It doesn't matter, this is your chance to talk to your 5th girlfriend, now go"
Naruto decided to go ahead and talk to Tenten for the first time in four years. As he was close to Tenten he decided now was a good time to say hi "Hey Tenten-chan"
Tenten looked to see Naruto headed towards her "Oh… hey"
"Still not happy to see me?" he asked her
"Well can you blame me, you just ended our friendship out of the blue, how do you expect me to react?!" Tenten exclaimed
"I was trying to protect you"
"All you did was hurt me and besides I could've taken care of myself, I'm a strong girl you know"
"I know that, but back then there were still many who were more advanced then you were back when we were still at the academy" Naruto tried to convince her "I was trying to protect you and your family"
"Protect us from who?!"
"…from the villagers"
"What?! Why would the people we sworn to protect try to harm me and my family?" Naruto stood silent "No answer huh? Neji was right, you are pathetic" as she started to walk away something came over him
"I'm the Kyuubi jinchuriki" he blurted out
Mamoru's jaw dropped at his best friend's action and Tenten turned to him and said "What?" Naruto just turn and ran away "Naruto Wait!" she tried to grab him, but he was too fast, as she looked on as he ran away all she whispered was his name "Naruto"
Mamoru looked at Tenten and noticed that she started crying, it seems that she genuinely cared for Naruto, maybe she had feeling for him
"I don't want to ever lose you" she said
Now it was clear, she has feelings for Naruto, Mamoru ran after his best friend leaving behind the brunette with tears in her eyes
At gate 47 in the area Team7 met up again
"So dobe how did it go?" Sasuke asked
"Huh? Oh it went alright" Naruto lied and Sasuke could tell, but he didn't go into it more "So I see Neji didn't skin you alive"
"Not even close" he said with a smug smirk
"What are you guys talking about?" asked Sakura
"Oh nothing" replied Sasuke
"Yeah, just guy stuff" Naruto added with a grin
"Whatever" she said rolling her eyes "So Naruto about earlier…"
"ALRIGHT KIDDIES" Anko's voice boomed through the speakers "TAKE YOUR PLACES, WE ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN! AND ONE MORE PIECE OF ADVICE, JUST DON'T DIE!"
"Looks like this'll have to wait Sakura" she nodded in response "Are we all ready?"
"Yes"
"Hn"
"Yip"
"Alright let's get ready" they all took their positions "Let's keep moving with confidence, Believe It!"
"3"
Naruto grabbed Sakura's hand surprising her and also making her blush
"2"
"I'll be by your side" Naruto said with a grin
"1"
"I know" she replied with a genuine smile
"GO"
End of chapter 7
That was pretty long, well hoped you liked it
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