"Hokage-sama you can't allow this!" Iruka yelled. All of the Jounin with rookie teams had entered them into the Chunnin Exam.

Kakashi gave Iruka an annoyed look "And why can't he?"

"These are my students and I know none of them are ready for this exam!"

Kakashi's eye(s?) narrowed "They aren't your students anymore. They're my soldiers and I think that they're ready."

Iruka gritted his teeth only for surprise to cover his face when Kakashi said "But if you feel that you need to test them, then go right ahead. If you really feel that my soldiers aren't up to snuff I'll withdraw them from the Chunnin Exams." Now it was Iruka who narrowed his eyes, he knew there must be some kind of trick. But he nodded his head anyway, this could be the one chance he got to make sure his students were going to live another year.

Kurenai, however, just looked at Kakashi in shock 'Is he really that confident. I better step up my student's training.' Asuma just shook his head, Kakashi does have a flair for the dramatic, or weirdness, or stupidity. It was hard to tell which.

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Naruto groaned 'Are they still following me?' He peeked over his shoulder at the square box trailing behind him 'Why did I even talk to that kid?"

Naruto made his way out of the Hokage's office just as a screaming child ran in "Today is the day you die OLD MAN!" It was all very dramatic. Then the helmet wearing boy ended up tripping over his own scarf and landed right on his face. He pulled himself to his feet and turned on Naruto, who was biting his lip in an attempt to stop laughing. "YOU TRIPPED ME!" He yelled.

Naruto just stood there, his pinky wriggling in his ear in an attempt to get his hearing back "I didn't do jack, now stop yelling."

The boy crossed his arms with a smug look on his face "It's not like you could hit me anyway; I am the Hokage's grandson, KONOHAMARU!"

The flat of the Ten Commandments embedded Konohamaru into the floor. Naruto turned to look at Sarutobi "When he walks up, tell him to get over himself."

Yet another man walked in as Naruto went out the door and Naruto heard "HONORABLE GRANDSON!"

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"What do you want kid?" Naruto looked at the poorly hiding Konohamaru.

He removed the cloth he had been hiding behind and stepped towards Naruto with a smug look on his face, like he had let Naruto catch him "So you actually noticed me, I made a good choice in following you."

"Not really that hard when you're sticking a foot off the wall."

"Anyway, teach me?" he said it like a command that he expected to be followed.

Naruto just looked at him in a mixture of annoyance and confusion "What now?"

Konohamaru pointed at Naruto "Everybody calls me honorable grandson. They only see me as the grandkid of the Hokage, but you didn't care about that. You can help me become Hokage and get me to me acknowledge as Konohamaru, not honorable grandson."

Naruto continued to glare at him with annoyance "I would be more impressed by your declaration if didn't go around TELLING EVERYBODY THAT YOU'RE THE HOKAGE'S GRANDSON!"

Konohamaru blinked before blushing in embarrassment "That's just so that nobody messes with me."

"Maybe you should actually start taking responsibility for your actions before telling everybody to notice you for you."

Konohamaru watched as Naruto walked away "So will you train me?"

He stopped briefly before turning back to Konohamaru "Nope. You want to get strong, then find something that works for you and develop in until it's perfect. Then make it even better."

Naruto face palmed 'The find something your good at speech was supposed to keep him so busy that he wouldn't bother me, not make him follow me.' "I know it's you Konohamaru, get out from under there."

An explosion of smoke came from under the square "rock" and three voices began arguing "You idiot, you put too much explosives in the smoke bomb."

"I put as much as you told me too."

"What? I defiantly didn't tell you to put that much in."

"Yes you did. I heard you tell him."

"Oh never mind, let's just do our entrance!"

A green jacket wearing Konohamaru leaped out of the smoke "Konohamaru, future Hokage!"

A boy sporting a blue jacket and a runny nose jumped out next "Udon, long division lover!"

Finally a girl wearing a yellow jacket hopped out "Omega, village beauty!"

The trio each did an enthusiastic pose and got a good look at Naruto's back as he continued down the road. They all chased after him "BOSS WAIT UP!"

Naruto sighed and let his head hang low before turning around to greet the munchkins "Hi Konohamaru and… others."

"Hey boss, check it out, we got jackets just like you" he said proudly gripping his green jacket with a wide smile.

"Yeah looks great on you, now what do you want?"

"We were wondering if you would play ninja with us?"

"A ninja playing ninja, that's ridiculous" Sakura said as she came around the corner.

Naruto glared at her "Actually it makes pretty good training. Not that you would know what that is, would you" he finished with a mocking tone and a toothy grin to match. Her fist went right past his speedy head and she stumbled over his feet.

Pulling herself up with an embarrassed look on her face, as Konohamaru looked her up and down. "Hey boss is she your" he raised up his pinky. Sakura blushed even brighter "WHAT?"
Naruto's answer was much more straight forward "She wishes."

Sakura rounded on Naruto "I wish! Yeah right, Sasuke-kun is the only man for me cha!"

Konohamaru disregarded her outburst "Good, I don't know why anyone would want to date a girl with a huge forehead and no figure." Naruto just stared at Konohamaru in horror 'Konohamaru you idiot, I can handle her, you can't.'

Sakura turned towards the boy slowly. He was terrified by the evil aura she was giving off. "Run you idiot" Naruto yelled. Konohamaru booked it the hell out of there turning around the corner and crashing into something in the alley.

Sakura, Naruto, and Konohamaru's two protégé came around the corner themselves and watched as Konohamaru was lifted by a man wearing cat pajamas "Watch where you're going you little brat."

The blonde girl behind him gave the boy an annoyed look "Kankuro we don't have time for this."

He looked back at her "Let me just beat up this little brat then we'll go." It felt like his arm was breaking when the massive blade slammed onto it. He nursed his hurt arm, while the girl behind him had her hands at the package on her back, ready to fight.

"Shouldn't you know better than to pick on little kids" the blonde haired swordsman said, Ten Commandments over his shoulder and Konohamaru under his arm. "Although you are wearing pajamas and make-up, so I can't really tell how much sense you have" Kankuro bristled with anger as the girl behind him giggled. The boy gripped the package on his back.

The girl gave him an annoyed look yet again "You're going to use Karasu."

He smirked "Don't worry I'll make it quick. Ow!" He suddenly pulled his hand back in pain. He looked up into the tree where a cocky looking Sasuke crouched in the branches, tossing rocks up with his hands. Kankuro glared at him, while hearts appeared in Sakura's eyes "He's so cool."

Sasuke jumped down while just stared at him "How long were you up there?"

"Long enough."

"Long enough? What the hell does that mean? Were you just hanging around up in that tree waiting for something to happen."

"Maybe."

"Just answer the damn question!"

"HEY! Stop ignoring me" Kankuro yelled. The kids standing across from him seemed to have lost interest and even Temari was watching the two boys back and forth, or at least the boys themselves 'They're both good looking, but the blonde one is much more rugged.'

A swirl of sand drew everyone's attention as red headed boy appeared in the middle of the alley. Kankuro and Temari looked horrified, while everyone else just looked at the boy in confusion. "Kankuro, Temari what is taking you so long?"

Kankuro shivered at the boy's cold voice "We were gonna be there in a minute, but these little brats got in our way."

The red head glared at him "Shut up, you're a disgrace to our village Kankuro." The pajama boy froze in fear, but relaxed slightly when Gaara walked past him "Now let's go."

"Hey what's your name" Sasuke said to the trio that was walking away. Naruto just face palmed 'Just let them go you idiot.'

The blonde girl blushed "Me?"

"No, him."

Gaara looked back "Gaara, and you?"

"Uchiha Sasuke" he said with his usual smirk.

Gaara simply nodded and continued on his way. "Wow congratulations you just got a bunch of people to chase after us in the test, good work."

Sasuke glared at him "What makes you think that?"

"You pretty much called him out, you idiot 'What's your name?' You might as well have said I wanna fight you at the exam!" Naruto groaned and just walked away, while Sasuke stayed back and kept yelling that that's what he meant to do.

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"BOSS HELP ME!" Konohamaru yelled. The rain ninja jumped away with Konohamaru under arm.

"OH COME ON!" Naruto yelled one thing after another, first pajama cat, then the red head and now some asshole running off with Konohamaru. Naruto leaped after him eventually arriving in a clearing where Konohamaru was tied to a log, the rain nin had a kunai to his throat.

"Hold it right there. Come any closer and I'll…" he didn't manage to finish his sentence as the he was placed a foot into the ground by the brutal attack from the flat off Naruto's sword.

Naruto was surprised as the ninja was covered in a cloud of smoke revealing an unconscious Iruka. He turned to the still tied up Konohamaru "Isn't that the teacher from the academy?"

He nodded rapidly making Naruto sigh. He cut the bonds holding the boy and picked up Iruka "Well I guess we better bring him to the Hokage's Office and find out what the hell is going on."

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Iruka groaned his head felt like it had taken a direct hit from that crazy guy with the bowl haircut and green jumpsuit. He managed to push himself up despite his spitting headache only to be greeted by an eye smiling Kakashi "I told you they could handle it."

Iruka tried to glare, but the bruising on his face prevented him from doing so. Instead he settled for voicing his displeasure despite his difficulty in speaking "Naruto…maybe…but…what about…Sasuke and…Sakura."

Kakashi waved away Iruka's worries "We both know that Sasuke can take care of himself." He sighed "As for Sakura, she is" he stopped briefly to find the word "intelligent enough to get through the exam, but I'm honestly hoping that the difficulty of the exam will wake her up as a ninja. And if worst comes to worst then Naruto and Sasuke are more than enough to protect on her."

Iruka wanted to argue, but he knew it would be pointless. Naruto had shown a more than satisfactory abilities and he was in no condition to test the others. Not to mention that Kakashi had already made up his mind "Alright, I guess I shouldn't worry."

"Yep, I wouldn't have withdrawn them anyway."

Kakashi disappeared in a shunshin leaving Iruka to fall back into bed and glare at the ceiling. He mumbled "Dick."

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Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura made their way into the building where the Chunnin Exam. Naruto's toothy grin was back and wider than ever before, Sasuke walked with a swagger and Sakura followed closely behind almost as if she was hiding behind them.

They eventually came upon a group of people all surrounding a doorway. Two guys in front of the examination door had knocked a third very strangely dressed boy to the ground. A girl with her hair put up in buns walked forward as the boy began to pick himself up "Please let us in" she asked, almost begged.

The two at the door each smirked "You don't seem to understand. Brats like you aren't ready for this."

Naruto began to walk towards the stairs completely disregarding the people at the door to the test room. After it all, it wasn't even the right room. 301 shouldn't be on the second floor and he knew they had only climbed one set of stairs. He turned around to make sure his teammates were following his lead only to groan and face palm as Sasuke made his way to the door. With the amount of ego he was giving off Sasuke could have break-danced towards the door and drawn less attention to himself.

"Get out of the way, we are going to the third floor" the other ninja began to mutter to themselves as the two in front of the door appeared to be both annoyed and smug at the same time. Naruto just groaned some more 'the stairway is over here you idiot. Why are you making a scene?' Naruto's hand slid down his face as Sasuke proclaimed about how Sakura must have noticed it and how easy it was to see through it, otherwise known as drawing even more goddamn attention to themselves.

One of the boys in front of the door gave Sasuke a dirty look "Well, just cause you saw through the illusion, doesn't mean you're gonna get through yet." The boy brought his leg around as did Sasuke each prepared to beat the crap out of each other. They were interrupted by a green blur; however, the same boy that was getting knocked around before had appeared between them and blocked each of their kicks easily.

Sakura looked at him in surprise 'He's fast… he saw and blocked both kicks at the same time.'

After Sasuke's stupidity Naruto had lost his grin, but now it was back and even larger 'Speedy bastard, but how is his strength.'

As the boy stood put between the two attempted fighters the bun haired girl and a long haired boy with lavender eyes came up behind him "What was that, it was your idea to appear weak." Bowl head blushed and walked over to Sakura "Your name is Sakura. I am Rock Lee." Lee struck a pose with his thumb up and his teeth shining "Let's go out. I'll protect you till I die."

Sakura stared at him "No, your lame."

The boy's head hung low as the long haired boy walked up to Sasuke "Hey, what's your name?" Sasuke didn't get a chance to answer as a hand gripped his collar began to pull him away "What the hell are you chatting for; we have an exam to go to."

Long hair glared at Naruto's back while the bun head ran up to the two who were walking away. Well one walked, and the other struggled as he was pulled away. Bun head eyes sparkled as she got in front of Naruto "That's an incredible sword, can I see it?"

Naruto walked right past her "No."

Now she was glaring at his back "Why not?"

He slowed down for a second before continuing at a brisk pace "Worry about your own weapons. At least until it's time for us to fight."

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"God dammit, you two keep managing to draw attention to us" Naruto said with annoyance.

He turned around as Sasuke and Sakura he suddenly stopped. Each had their hands in a seal and said simultaneously "Kai." They both look bewildered when nothing happened.

"What are you two doing?" Naruto said in a deadpan.

Sakura walked forward and poked him in the forehead, than Sasuke went and did the same thing. They each began jabbing him all over his body while Naruto desperately tried to defend from their barrage. "What the hell! Stop it! Grrr, KNOCK IT OFF!" He knocked away both their hands "What the hell are you guys doing!"

Sasuke stared at him in suspicion "There is no way you're Naruto. He would never turn down a chance to draw attention to himself." Sakura stood behind him nodding rapidly.

Naruto growled and grabbed both Sasuke and Sakura by the fronts of their shirts and lifted them up to his eyelevel (increased height a benefit of difficult training and a good diet) and gave them each his best evil stare "Entertaining yourself while on a boring mission or being excited to fight a missing nin is one thing. Drawing attention to yourself before a test where there are a hell of lot more ways to get taken out of the competition is another thing entirely. Got it!" He finished as each nodded in affirmation, terrified by his evil look. "Now let's go!"

"Hey guy with the dark eyes" each of them looked up "will you fight me right here?"

Sasuke hesitated to answer as he looked over at the still angry looking Naruto. He looked right back "FUCK IT! I DON'T EVEN CARE ANYMORE! GOOD AHEAD AND FIGHT HIM, I HOPE YOU GET YOUR ASS KICKED, I'M GOING AHEAD!" Naruto walked away angrily as everybody just watched him leave.

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"Where are the other two Kakashi asked Naruto. Naruto just arched his neck towards Kakashi with a creepy look on his face "I don't care!" Kakashi nodded in fear while Naruto just leaned his sword on the wall and sat down with his back on the wall.

A few minutes later Sakura walked in followed by an irritated looking Sasuke "Did you get your ass kicked?" The only response was a growl "I'll take that as a yes."

Kakashi eyed smiled "Well I'm glad to see you all here. If not you wouldn't be able to participate."

Sakura was confused "But you said we had to enter individually."

"Nope, I just said that so you all would chose to enter it by yourselves not because you felt forced."

"Oh" Sakura said simply as Sasuke stared on and Naruto whistled a nonchalant tune 'They probably would have forced me to do it.'

"But now you guys can continue on" Kakashi watched his genin walk through the doorway. The three genin came out into a large room filled with genin. They each paused at the large number of people 'This many are competing.'

"Sasuke-kun!" Ino came flying out of nowhere and latched herself onto the stoic Sasuke. Sakura was, of course, pissed and yelled at Ino. Naruto just stood there and snickered as his teammate was assaulted by one of his fan girls.

"So you guys are here too, troublesome" Shikamaru said lazily as Choji snacked on chips beside him. Ino had released Sasuke but continued to stand closely beside him much to Sakura's annoyance.

"Well well looks like we're all here" Kiba said with cocky smirk covered his face as Akamaru clung to his head. He was followed by the ever quiet Shino and mousy Hinata. "Even the mysterious Naruto" he said with a mocking emphasis on mysterious.

Naruto snorted "I don't know what's worse, that you smell like dog food or that your dog doesn't."

Kiba growled and stepped towards Naruto "You think you're pretty tough don't yah."

Naruto didn't get a chance to answer as a silver haired teen walked over to the rookies. He pushed his glasses up his face and looked over the assembled genin "For rookies you guys are being pretty loud. Drawing attention yourselves in this test is a bad idea" he said with a smirk.

"Sasuke already ruined that for us" Sasuke glared at Naruto.

Kiba looked at the silver haired boy "Who are you?"

"My name is Kabuto, but you guys should really be more worried about the people around you." Everybody turned around to see numerous shinobi from other countries all glared at them. Sakura began to get nervous and turned to Kabuto "Kabuto-san, you said that you've taken this test before right. This is your second time?"

He chuckled "Seventh actually." He reached into a pouch at his side and pulled out a stack of cards "Why don't I share some info with you guys." He laid the cards on the ground "These are my nin info cards. I've collected information over my four years in participating. Anybody you guys want info on."

Sasuke stepped forward "Gaara of the Sand and Rock Lee from Konoha."

Shikamaru looked over at Naruto "Uzumaki Naruto from Konoha." The other rookies looked at Shikamaru and Naruto just gave him an evil smile.

Kabuto drew three cards lightning quick and laid the first one down "Rock Lee, a year older than you guys, he's got 20 D-rank and 12 C-rank. Sensei is Gai and he has showed immense improvement in Taijutsu. Other than that he's nothing special."

He switched to another card "Next is Gaara of the Sand, 8 C-rank and 1 B-rank." He seemed unsurprised by the information "A B-rank as a genin that's surprising. He's a newcomer so other than that I've got no other information on him."

He pulled out the last card "Uzumaki Naruto 12 D-rank" his eyes widened "and an A-rank! Apparently he also fought Jounin level missing nin Momochi Zabuza" All of the rookies (except Sasuke and Sakura) and some of the other ninja that had been listening in stared at Naruto in shock. Kabuto continued on undeterred "The only thing I've got as far as skills is that he's a swordsman and has some very powerful seal less techniques." Kabuto looked at him with a reluctant smile "I guess it's guys like you that we got to worry about. Small villages can't do much compared to the elite of the big villages."

Out in the crowd Kankuro ground his teeth in worry 'That punk is actually pretty powerful and I pissed him off. At least we've got Gaara to fight him.'

Gaara was actually thinking along the same lines 'Perhaps I paid too much attention to the Uchiha. Uzumaki's blood would probably make mother much happier.'

"So small villages can't do much huh. Let's show him what a small village like Oto can do!" said a bandaged wrapped ninja in the back to his two companions. The each sped through the crowd towards the smirking Kabuto.

The spiky haired Oto nin leaped out of the crows and threw two kunai at Kabuto who leaped back, away from his attackers. It didn't do much good as the bandaged one was already next to him, his right arm barreling right towards Kabuto's face. He barely moved back from the fist. Then, suddenly, his glasses broke and he began to throw up.

Everybody looked at him in confusion. Sasuke thought 'What happened? Even if that attack grazed him why did he throw up?' Naruto recognized the symptoms 'Nausea, loss of balance, it's just like the first time I pushed Zephyr to full power. Which means that mummy boy uses sound.' Naruto smirked 'That also means I know how to negate his attack.'

The bandaged one stood between his teammates "Write this down on those cards of yours. The three from Oto will definitely become Chunnin!"

A massive cloud of smoke appeared at the front of the room "Sit down and shut up." The smoke cleared to reveal a large man with scars on his face and a group of Chunnin at his back "I'm Morino Ibiki and I am the proctor for this exam!"

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Longest chapter I've written yet. Next I'm probably going to start an original story before updating Naruto's Stand. Reviews and feedback are always appreciated.

-Bemmybean