The next chapter of this fic at last. Well I finally updated.

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DEMON – demonic voice, summons, etc though it wont be needed much in this fic

FLASHBACK – letters, flashbacks

THOUGHTS – thoughts (example:hahahaha)

JUTSU'S obviously jutsu's (example : KAGE MANE NO JUTSU)

YELL – obvious as well

Normal – this as well


DISCLAIMER – I own this fic but not the real story, the manga, the series and the movies.

SUMMARY – SUMMARY: Uzumaki Naruto has been adopted by Kakashi, apparently he's discovered his God Daughter is still alive.


CH6 – CHUUNIN EXAMS

YAWN

Two lazy guards of the west gate lifted their heads from their previously resting (more like sleeping) position; or as they call it 'short break'.

YAWN

"Izumo" Kotetsu yawned sheepishly "Do you think this would be OK. I mean, Hokage-sama would kill us if he knew; thats why I told we should have taken shifts, I hate this damned guard duty"

"Well, we've been working his non-stop for 4 days and nothing has happened. No harm done" Izumo commented, though worried if something had happened while they were asleep.

SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS

Izumo and Kotetsu dashed from their seats to the front of the guard post, looking at the horizon outside the Konoha walls which they assume to be where the sound came from. Six figures slowly closed at a steady pace towards the entrance; there were four recognizable nins namely, the famous Hatake Kakashi and his three genin students along with two new faces: The first is a barely clothed tall man, only wearing a cargo pants, medical tape masking his lower face covering his mouth and a large Zanbatou strapped on his back - he is about Jounin rank wearing a slashed hidden mist hitai-ate while the second person is at first thought as a female around 13 but then, his Adam's apple is visible and no sign of the usual pair of assets. Both were obviously from the mist if you put two and two together about the rumors of the misinformed mission in wave.

The group arrived at the gates and was greeted by two ANBU members which they assumed was an ambush since the Rat masked ANBU behind was most likely from ROOT since Konoha ANBU mask were Konoha forest animals by design while ROOT was Konoha hidden critter masked.

"Hatake-taichou, what brought you to bring these two missing nins to the village." The bear masked ANBU pointed at the two nins behind him. (Bear is Yamato… Yamato and Tenzo is the same person)

Kakashi pulled out their mission scrolls, tossing it to the leaf ANBU as the said ANBU quickly caught the scroll and scanned the mission details. After reading through the mission details, there was only one thing that could describe it: this was probably the most troublesome mission the copy cat ninja had as the sign of chakra exhaustion was still visible and aside from that: the mission scrolls seemed to have been mostly altered once or maybe twice and they would have went through the whole problem on a war for bringing another village's Kekke Genkai but luckily, the land of wave is REAL short on shinobi and wont be able to retaliate. It did not state anything more or added any other information to why would two missing ninja's have to follow the team all the way. Yamato raised his left hand, gesturing some kind of 'Go' sign.

Two new ANBU member's appeared beside the two missing nins as the party passed through the Konoha shopping district, getting glares and stares from the civilians for the fact that they could not go on jumping from roof to roof since it is standard procedure to keep a watchful eye and defensive posture which would require on sticking to the ground to decrease opportunity for the captives to escape and having a Demon container and another well knows entitled Demon Shinobi with them.

(HOKAGE TOWER)

Sandaime Hokage was stressfully smoking his pipe as he stared at all Kage's worst enemy. The seemingly rapid growing mountains of paperwork stacked on his desk. He had been sulking for the last few hours since he woke up and went to work, no matter how strong he was or any of the Kage, they seem to be unstoppable as he only knew one person who was able to finish the work with ease; the Yondaime Hokage.

Sigh

"Minato, How the heck do you do this job and why did I even take it back" the Kage turned around, deep in thought as he stared at the blue skies.

Knock… Knock… Knock…

"Finally, something that could keep me from these wretched papers" Sandaime inwardly cheered with a small smile on his face. It was good to have visitors or anything that could make him busy, he could easily escape the evil's of paperwork as it was and still is more of a demon to him than any of the nine Bijuu's.

Sarutobi silently hid his papers on his now FULL cabinet as he fixed his posture.

"Enter" Sandaime called, now comfortable sited on his chair.

Six nins entered the Hokage's office as the two ANBU retreated to their post. Two of them are obviously not from Konoha, they were still armed, and they entered with 4 Konoha nins which is very uncommon since the said nins are only genins except for Kakashi. To be short, this would make his life more problematic – the council would most likely not like this unless it would somehow serve their purpose.

"Why me, I thought I was done with my torture years ago and now I'll have to leave for this one… Hopefully, someone could take away the title" Sarutobi was ready to give it to anyone, even Danzou, just to get rid of his nemesis. He puffed out smoke as he keenly observed the two nins on Kakashi's tail.

"Kakashi… … … care to explain why you brought highly dangerous missing nins to my office." Sandaime faked a threatening tone

"Well…"

" "

"Uh…"

" "

"You… know…"

" "

"This…"

" "

"Uh…"

"Becuz…"

" "

"HE DID IT" Kakashi quickly pushed Naruto in front of him.

Sandaime was old but he did not claim and successfully obtain the title Hokage twice for no reason and being threatened by one is going to be the worst possible situation he could be in as of now. He did not know that the Kage was only faking as the old man is experienced enough in hiding, lying, diplomacy, and whatever he needed to suit his style on the job.

Naruto huffed as he quickly turned around to facinig Kakashi, giving him sending off a deadly glare glare.

"Nii-san you said you'd back me up you double-crosser." Naruto again turned his back at his sensei, now facing the Hokage with his arms crossed around his chest.

The other's as well except for Kakashi, Haku and Zabuza did not know why the two were brought here. They were waiting for their blond teammate's answer but got something else; coincidentally, beside Naruto were the Hokage remembrance portraits as Naruto was perfectly positioned directly in front the Yondaime's. The others quickly took notice of this and slanted their bodies sidewards for another view, the resemblance is definitely there as their looks are almost perfect or perfect if not for the whisker marks. He is in short, blending into the picture like a splitting image.

"Jackpot" inner Hinata victoriously cheered. The Yondaime was a looker (A.K.A. heartthrob) in his time and up until now, he is also the most popular person due to his performance with the Kyuubi - gaining himself his own fan club which was more like most of the female population of Konoha.

The others were staring at him wide eyed. Their jaw practically dropped. Haku is the only one who identified the full probability of his relation with the former Kage, he's a medic nin by nature: he did not see any alterations on him such as make up, plastic surgery or the like.

Sasuke activated his sharingan, pumping more chakra than usual to his eyes even enough to forcibly evolve it to its second stage. He could now see Genjutsu better; staring at Naruto, he did not see any sign of henge jutsu since he is not enveloped by his chakra nor he is draining his chakra stores but instead he sensed nothing more than a weird red aura. The last Uchiha for a teammate would have been able to detect it if the fox had not offered to hold on to the henge for him.

Hokage noticed their growing curiosity as well as their reaction and decided to step in before they do anything drastic via shifting the topic back to their previous mission.

Hatake Kakashi complied as he pulled out another scroll, he did not need it since it was previously a simple mission at first but the mission seemed to get harder, longer, and confusing so he decided to list up everything.

"Mission Report: 30 minutes prior – west gate; we were ambushed by two missing mist nins particularly the Demon Brothers, I noticed this earlier and decided to hold back and find out who they are after; this is where I found out the two demon brothers were only after Tazuna… Mission was shifter from 'C' rank to 'B' rank.

We pushed through on our own to finish the mission. Upon arriving at hidden mist village, we had out second encounter with former hidden mist Shinobi Swordsman and number 81 in the Bingo Book, Momochi Zabuza, was hired to assassinate the bridge builder. I was forced into combat and was caught off guard therefore I was imprisoned in his Water Prison Jutsu by then but my team started to take action and did well on their own and successfully defeated Zabuza, free me and bring Tazuna to safety.

I got the probability that Zabuza is still alive, after the two day's that I was out. I then trained my team through the chakra control exercise.

Last encounter: 1 week before the bridge finishing, we last had our battle with the mist nins. Sasuke went after Haku, but was doing badly and constantly getting worst after the enemy ninja pulled out his trump the 'crystal ice mirrors'. It was very hopeless as Sasuke got severely wounded and knocked unconscious, I then sent Naruto to aid him as I had my own battle with Zabuza. In our battle, before I made my finishing more, Naruto suddenly appeared and took the blow; That was then when I realized this was all part of the plan as we fought side by side to eliminate Gatoh and his thugs.

Apparently, his 'companion' also gave him the Mangekyou Sharingan; Zabuza and Haku here decide to join leaf Shinobi ranks; the bridge was named after him and we would receive full payment after they recover." Kakashi said panting and he given his speech-like report.

"Mangekyou Sharingan?" Sandaime glanced at Naruto, it took him long enough that his eyes were red since he did not turn it of at anytime except when meeting his other friends.

Chuckling "Haku here got the same reaction as well" Naruto pointed out to Haku whose face glowed red.

"Well, since Naruto had always been picky on who to trust; might as well do so myself" Sandaime puffed out smoke, he knew that not many get his trust since that 'incident' in the village, continuing his speech "What rank had you been in your previous village if you don't want me to send you to a genin team."

The image of them in a genin team terrify them,

"Jounin" Zabuza answered proudly and at the same time blankly, he will not be sent to a couple of brats.

"I was not an official Shinobi but I think I would be around Chuunin" Haku smiled, he is still a kid and did not mind but the thought of Zabuza with 2 brats and a Jounin instructing him is in a word 'amusing'.

"But Hokage-sama, i would want to be enlisted as medic nin" Haku added

"Very well" Sandaime pulled and handed over two leaf hitai-ate, promptly dismissing them.

(OUTSIDE THE TOWER)

Zabuza, Naruto and Haku were walking on the marketing district of Konoha as they were receiving glares from the villagers. A mob started to form, sorrounded them

"Well, the brat brainwashed two more innocent minds. I suggest you stay away from it"

Zabuza grabbed onto the hilt of his sword and appeared behind the said villager, his blade near his neck.

"Naruto, why the heck do these fools look at you like that" Zabuza released the frightened villagers and let them run away for their lives.

It would be a burden of his shoulders to have them help him if he could tell the truth though he is still unsure to himself if he would trust the two after meeting for no more than two days.

"Tou-san" Naruto said low enough only for the three of them to hear.

"You mean Yondaime? I thought they loved him" Haku curiously asked, he had his suspicion after canceling out all the possiblilities through his brain.

"Kyuubi" was the only answer.

"So, your it's kid. That explains the weird chakra you used before" Zabuza placed his hands on the boy's shoulders.

Naruto visibly stiffened at the sudden contact.

"Aren't you going to run away? Hate me?" sadness and loneliness filled expression came out of Naruto's voice, he expected everyone to run away and hate him but there seems to be a reason why he was able to tell them even though they only knew the two people beside him for about two days; as if like they was something encouraging him – they are the same, passed through the same past and the tortures though not in the same extent.

"No way kiddo, you got some powerful assets there" Zabuza encouraged and in a weirds way, he was comforting the Naruto as he kept the other's from charging forward.

Haku got very sentimental and somehow nostalgic… He was also hated in his home village, not because of demons but bloodline that they consider to be demonic. He pulled Naruto into a hug earning them dirty looks from the villages as it was not public knowledge that 'she' is actually a 'he'.

"Arigato" Naruto managed weak thanks and returned the tight embrace. Well, it was not that he did not like it but it's getting quite late and he was actually tired; Naruto pulled away from the embrace and pulled and handed out his fully stuffed frog wallet to the two nins.

"You should take it; I won't need it anytime soon. Get yourselves new clothes and an apartment until you find somewhere to stay. If you feel to be in debt, you can just pay me later on" Naruto's hand was still held forward, waiting for Zabuza to grab the money.

Zabuza on the other hand did not get any second thoughts as they did not have anything: money, clothes, food, house… nothing. He embarrassedly grabbed the green wallet, stacked with 500 ryo paper bills and some coins.

(2 WEEKS OF BORING 'D' RANKS AND SO CALLED TRAINING LATER – HOKAGE TOWER)

The semi-annual Jounin meeting had been held earlier than usual since there seems to be new hidden villages rising recently and more and more highly influential people would be invited to the exams, which would require them to have extra preparations.

POOF!

"Yo!" Kakashi greeted with his nose still dug on our favorite orange book.

"Kakashi! Just in time, now we could begin... does any of you wish to involve your students in the Chuunin Exams?" Sandaime eyed the three Jounins.

Asuma was first to step forward, forming a half ram seal. "I Asuma Sarutobi, Jounin instructor of team 10, wish to nominate Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino and Akamichi Chogi to the Chuunin Exams."

Kurenai was next to give out her decision. She as well stepped forward forming a half ram seal, "I Yuuhi Kurenai, Jounin instructor of team 8, wish to nominate Haruno Sakura, Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino to the Chuunin Exams."

Now that two teams of the rookie nine were nominated, it is rather highly possible that all of them would get involved. Iruka was becoming tense as the last team is his favorite student's team even though he did not indulge himself into favoritism, it was more of a family thing; he was becoming as over protective as a father would be.

Kakashi was the last one who would announce his decision, seeing the former sensei's tensed figure, he stepped for ward forming the usual have ram seal. "I Hatake Kakashi, Jounin instructor of team 7. Specializing on ASSASSINATION, INFILTRATION and RECON. Wish to nominate Hyuuga Hinata, Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke to the Chuunin Exams." Kakashi emphasized.

It was rare for a squad of genin to finish an 'A' mission mostly on their own. He still had to admit even though it was embarrassing for Kakashi's reputation to be outclassed for once by three genins and gain Konoha two promising Shinobi's. Kakashi's speech worked like a charm, there was no objections as this batch is quite talented: all of them are heir to the clans and advance in inborn skills. In all of that team 7 showed most potential.

The Hokage can only nod in agreement.

"Since there are no longer any objections, this meeting has come to an end" Sandaime finalized and hastily dismissing everyone. Once alone, Sandaime pulled out an orange book from his desk cabinet.

(TEAM 7 TRAINING FROUNDS – BRIDGE)

The whole team had already arrived at the bridge, only waiting for their sensei. Their meeting have been set at 6 AM, so they were expecting their sensei to arrive at 9 AM but was not there when they arrived. Another 3 hours passed now 12 noon.

POOF!

Their sensei arrived 6 hours late.

"Y…" Kakashi was pinned to a nearby tree by three very angry students. An evil grin plastered on their faces as they plotted for their sensei's execution.

"wait"

"Wait"

"WAIT" Kakashi's plead became louder

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………. A loud scream can be heard all the way to Suna.

OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo

A heavily battered Kakashi stood in front of team 7: his body fully wrapped in bandages, several well placed splints on his left arm and feet and a black and bloody lower face.

"Now, sensei... you know what happens when leaving us. 3 hours is already enough but 6 hours" Sasuke threatened and pulling out another kunai from his sleeves, throwing them to the tree embedding it beside their sensei's neck.

Kakashi instantly paled quickly raising his remarkably untouched right arm, showing them the three slips of paper.

"Sensei, you can't stop us with paper." Sasuke flared his Sharingan and threw another kunai to his other side of the neck.

"Now… Now… Sasuke, I was late because Hokage-sama called us on a meeting" Kakashi handed them the forms reading "Chuunin application forms".

"You should have told us sensei, too late for that now"

"Uhhh… what the heck did I put myself into…. Hokage I want my imouto , Hokage I want the Uchiha, Hokage I want the Hyuuga – why cant I keep my mouth shut myself up… I should have just taken on an apprentice like Jiraiya instead but instead i took on three brats." The copy nin brooded in a Sasuke-like manner.

"Now, Sasuke you can let me down now"

"Hn"

"You're a Jounin, you can get out of it yourself" Sasuke arrogantly said but pulled out the kunai. He knew that Kakashi would not get out of that: his bones were fractured, his body heavily battered for a mock-fight related injury.

Kakashi wiped of dirt fro his shirt by his free arm, still trying to ask cool in front of his students. He was actually wincing from pain; he picked up his orange book that he dropped a little while back, hiding the pained look on his face.

"I nominated you three for the Chuunin Exams next month. Bring these forms with you to the Academy room 301, 10 AM. Don't be late"

"It's not our fault someone can't wait." Naruto said even though he was quite happy for someone to do something he has not been able to achieve, teach Kakashi a lesson for being late; Sasuke on the other hand would have taken a better timing since this would have been the first time he was late for a valid reason since they became a team.

Naruto placed his hand on his sensei's shoulder, Flame Shunshin away towards their home since most of the injuries were treated; with only two fractured bones and scratch marks, their sensei would still need time to heal.

(2 WEEKS)

(Sasuke POV)

"397"

"…"

"398"

"…"

"…"

"399"

Sasuke was now wobbling on his feet from his new severe training regime; increasing his quota everyday by 100 kicks until he reaches 1000 before he moves on to training his other Taijutsu.

Easy to say that he was pissed as it was already his last strike for today and he could not finish his stupid quota that he set for himself; he applied chakra to his legs, too frustrated to mind on how much he added.

"400" Sasuke forcibly launched his feet to its limits, shattering the training post.

"Kukuku… very good Sasuke-kun, you'd be a great vessel indeed" A shadow on the sidelines licked its lips, silently leaving the tired Uchiha.

(Naruto POV)

Knock… Knock… Knock…

A petite blonde figure groaned as she put on her mask and went her way towards the door.

Knock… Knock… Knock…

"Coming" She slowly opened the door

"Now who would bother me at this hour" She mildly yelled to the person in front of her.

Her visitor wore a green Chuunin vest, leaf hitai-ate on his right arm, black ninja sandals, aqua blue pants, wrist guard with a personalized leaf and mist insignia engraved on it, his hair just neatly placed behind his shoulders… Only one guy she knew had hair that long, Haku.

"Is this Naruto-kun's home?" Haku said at the small figure in front of him; she looked like Naruto: the hair, eyes except for her height and taste of clothing that is not so obsessive with orange so he assumed it could be his sister.

"The hell, he still looks girly in male clothing… Well, this could be fun" She only stared at the black haired chuunin.

"Haku-kun!" She launched herself at Haku, making the chuunin lose balance and landed on his butt

She looked at the black haired chuunin face to face, "Naruto nii-san is out today"

"Have I met you? Naruto did not mention anything about having a sister." Haku politely asked

"Nii-san told me about a girly looking boy this past week, and he said his name is Haku… coz you don't have" She playfully pressed her fingers to his chest making him blush.

"Oh! Anyways, we usually meet at the training grounds since his sensei is still out so I just came here to say the team got this day off." Haku slowly stood up and helped the blonde on her feet only to get another tackle, though he was prepared enough not to fall this time.

"Haku-kun, you – me date" she asked, more like ordered.

"How does Naruto keep up with her, she's even more childish" Haku sweat-dropped at her antics

"Sure, why not." He approved as he did not have anything to do now that the team is currently on a break. He lowered himself to enough for the blonde's feet to touch the ground

"Yey! Wait for me here" she cheered, immediately letting go of the boy and went to her room to change.

Unlike most, it only took her less than 5 minutes to get dressed. She was now wearing red tank top (similar to Sakura and Sai), her blue mask was replaced by a red one, red jacket tied on her waist, a similar leaf hitai-ate on her neck, her waist length hair was rested on her shoulders and red casual short pants.

"Now, I got a red obsessed one" Haku was getting fond of his 'newly met' 'acquaintance'.

"So where are we going…" Haku intently stopped

"Natsumi, Natsu-chan, Nats, Natsu, Hime, Oyabun whatever you want… Now where to go" she childishly went on a thinking pose. "Burning leaf Restaurant– Have no money, dancing leaf – No money as well, Hokage Monument?"

"The Monument?" Haku asked, it was not much of a date there for this case. 'they were not prepared for a picnic as it was impromptu so called date.'

"To the Monument it is" She considered the question as an approval and pulled Haku out with her.

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They were jumping from roof to roof heading their way towards the Hokage Monuments. They heard loud cries for help, it was too loud to be heard that far; both decided to head to the direction of the noise.

They landed on top of the next building, observing the scene unfold.

(Normal POV)

"Put me down you paint faced freak" Konohamaru demanded as he tried to land a punch at the sand genin, (keyword is tried) though was unsuccessful due to his short hands.

"Brat, you should know when to pick a fight." The sand nin clenched his hands to a fist, ready to strike the boy.

"I'd stop if I were you, that's the Hokage's grandson" Shikamaru said as he appeared from behind the fence.

"I don't care, what are you going to do to stop me"

"Well, this is troublesome but I could try; if not, I could hold on till ANBU arrives" Shikamaru lazily stated.

The said sand nin pulled out a coffin like structure wrapped on his back.

"Kankouro, you're not using that now are you… Let's just let them, or we'd be dead if 'he' arrives" a female sand nin behind him voiced out.

"Temari, he deserves a lesson… besides, what 'he' doesn't know wont hurt me" Kankouro unwrapped the bundle revealing a wooden puppet.

"Karasu, g…… What, I can't move" Kankouro's hand suddenly stopped moving, so was his whole body.

"Kage Mane… Success" Shikamaru said as both of them went back on a standing position.

"How?" Kankouro looked below him like Shikamaru did. His eyes widened at what he saw… their shadows were connected.

Shikamaru walked closer to the sand nin while the nin mimicked his movements, walking closer to the pineapple headed genin.

"I suppose you use puppets, which means…" Shikamaru looked at the Shinobi's clothing, there was something missing…

A kunai holster.

A puppet user uses his puppets in any fight, which is common knowledge that they do not have any weapon armed.

Shikamaru pulled out a kunai of his own, as Kankouro copied them perfectly but unlucky for him – there was nothing he could have grabbed. Both raised their hands to their neck level as the sand nin felt cold steel.

"It's over Kankouro, told you that you'd lose with that head of yours… Just say sorry and let's go" the blond sand kuniochi complained.

"S-So..r-r.. e-e" Kankouro stuttered, he was already severely sweating.

Shikamaru immediately released his jutsu as he sees no more threat. Kankouro on the other hand smirked as his puppet charged back at the leaf genin, just before hitting it target. Two female figures kick the wooden weapon as one its arm shattered to pieces.

"Kankouro stop this at once. You're an embarrassment to our village" A red-head boy hanging upside down in a tree said in a stoic voice.

"Gaara" Temari

"Gaara, its not like that. They started it/" Kankouro visibly stiffened

"Shut up or I'll kill you" Gaara expounded releasing out a murderous intent towards his teammates.

He turned to the leaf nins. "Sorry, for my brother's behavior, we were just heading to the academy to apply for the exams"

"My name is Sabaku no Gaara, I am curious; who are you?" the red-head introdu೭

"Nara, Shikamaru"

"Hatake, Natsumi"

"Wait, Hatake. So your Kakashi's relative? Do you know Naruto?" Shikamaru eyed the short blonde Kuniochi.

"Naruto nii-san and Kakashi nii-san? Of course" Natsumi proudly answered, still clinging back to Haku's arms.

"I'm looking forward to fighting you in the exams" Gaara Sand Shunshined beside his siblings.

"Gaara-san, I won't actually be joining the exams." Natsumi sadly answered as Gaara looked back at her. She noticed those eyes, it was all too familiar, it was the same as her eyes before; it was those same lonely eyes, the eyes of a vessel.

Gaara shifter his glance to the boy, "I will still be looking forward to fighting you" he slowly turned to leave.

"Great, I got myself a fan, TROUBLESOME"

(ACADEMY – 2 WEEKS – EXAMS)

Team 7 walked into a crowd of genins, in the middle of the crown are 4 genins: two of which are guarding the door, the female Kunoichi was helping out his other beaten up teammate.

"Step away, if you're trying to stop us from getting into the exams then you're doing a very bad job; you're guarding the wrong door… There are only about 100 rooms per floor and the next room is room 201 so this is the second floor comfort room" Sasuke pointed out to the number '3' in 301.

"So, you seen through our Genjutsu, let's see if you can stop this" the 'genins' guarding the door charged at Sasuke.

Sasuke tried to counter with his own knee… He only saw a green blur, as both three attacks were blocked.

"Fast! He blocked my kick, that's some chakra on his arm"

"Hn" Sasuke turned back and was about to join his team to the third floor.

"You, who are you?" An older male version of Hinata showed up

"I'm in no obligation to answer… It is common courtesy to introduce yourself before you ask for someone else's name" With this, Sasuke turned his back and continued

The White eyed Hyuuga clenched his fist and gestured his female teammate to follow.

(A/N since Sakura is in another team, Rock lee already headed first with his flower. Though still rejectí)

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At last, they reached their destination. At the room entrance, they were greeted by team 8's instructor, Yuuhi Kurenai.

"Kakashi was not able to arrive due to an 'incident' so he asked me this favor" The red eyed Kuniochi actually liked the way Sasuke beat up Kakashi since she had still not gotten payback from what they did to Asuma and her that gotten them hooked up; the result was the only thing she liked but the copy nin did not have to be so extreme: 5 centimeter handcuff to keep them together (literally), locked and sealed on a SMALL apartment to prevent escape, placing ecstasy pills on their drink, and taping EVERYTHING which was lucky since she got the chance to burn the tape before he could even play or copy it.

"Good for the three of you to come or I could not have allowed you to enter"

"What do you mean Kurenai sensei?" the lavender eyed Hyuuga asked curiously

"Well, for example: if Hinata or any of you did not come then I could not allow any of you to enter." She gently placed her hand in acknowledgement to the Hyuuga. She was no longer the shy, timid and weak girl she met before.

She gave the three genins an angelic smile before stepping aside, gesturing them to enter, and Shunshined away to the Jounin's lounge.

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"SASUKE-KUN"

The raven haired Uchiha (actually, all Uchiha's have raven black hairs) was embraced possessively by two severely loud Banshees.

"I was hoping we were the only rookie joining" Sasuke muttered t himself. Keeping his cool, Sasuke simply shrugged off the two wannabe Kuniochi's off his shoulders.

"Hey, seems the whole gang is here" Kiba greeted the newcomers.

"Hn"

"Who said we were chickening out, unlike someone who just wanted to showoff no talent dropout" Sasuke smirked as he directed the insult to the dog-boy (Kiba)

"Why you" Kiba was not stupid enough not to notice, his nails grew longer with intent to strangle and cut open the Uchiha.

A hand landed on Kiba's left shoulder as a force pulled him back. The new genin caught the eyes of all the other rookies. It was a silver haired genin of Konoha from the looks of the hitai-ate.

The silver haired genin tapped his glasses back in place a he neared the nine rookies.

"I won't do that if I were you, you don't want to attract attention" He pointed around the room. It was a fact that it was very frightening as every representative of each village were now glaring at them.

"Well, that was a SURPRIZE" Sakura said sarcastically as she cracked her knuckled and hit her stupid teammate hard on the head.

"Hey, what was that for" Kiba rubbed his aching head.

Chuckling

"Seems to me that it's your first time joining this Exam, let me help you with that" The silver haired genin pulled out a stack of card, holding it on front of the nine genins.

"So, this is not your first time?" Hinata asked.

"No, actually, this is my seventh time. Seeing that the exam is held twice a year, so this would be my fourth year."

"So you must me quite experienced then… uh" Hinata was cut off as she still did not know the name. How could she have not known, it was the basics to know everything you encounter as a Shinobi.

"If he failed the last sic times, he couldn't be such a know-it-all; I bet he's weak" Kiba muttered.

"Kabuto Yakushi; and yeah, you could say that I quite know everything there is to know in this exams, even the candidates"

Kabuto placed the cards flat on the floor, picking up only one of the cards as he whirled it on the floor.

"Kabuto-san, what are you doing?"

"I'm molding my chakra into the cards to show off the information. This way, only I would be able to use the cards" Kabuto explained as a 3D graph of the five Shinobi Nations.

"This graph shows the full detail of every hidden village: including strength and number of Shinobi's. Due to the battles taking place during previous years, they came up with the Exams; this way they could balance the power between Nations and prevent war's caused by temptations to attack a weaker village"

Kabuto placed the card back to his deck, his fingers ready to pick up a card.

"So, do you have anybody in mind?" Kabuto anxiously shuffled his deck.

"Uzumaki Naruto" Naruto stepped closer to Kabuto.

"What the hell would you need to check yourself out Dobe?" Sasuke eyed the blonde next to him.

"I want to see how well they detailed me, TEME"

"Well, if that's how you see it." Kabuto pulled out his card and molded chakra to it as he did earlier.

"Uzumaki Naruto…." Kabuto started off as the card was snatched of his hands.

Naruto just scanned through the info. "42 D rank, 1 A rank… blah… blah… blah… Teammate… Skill…"

"The heck" Naruto shouted

"Is something wrong with the cards?" Kabuto instantly responded

"Well… No! but close. I don't look this bad in the picture!" Naruto showed the card and pointed to the image of his posted and ripped the card to shreds.

Everyone else sweatdropped

"Good thing I have two copies of each. Now who else?" Kabuto continued

"Uchiha Sasuke, Sabaku noGaara, Hyuuga Neji and Rock Lee" Shikamaru, though lazily, decided to ask.

"That's no fun. You already know their names" Kabuto whined as he pulled out the four cards.

"let's start off with Hyuuga Neji."

Name: Hyuuga Neji

Skills: High Taijutsu, Average Genjutsu, Low to nil Ninjutsu

Teammates: Rock Lee and Tenten with their sensei as Maito Gai.

Mission status: 102 D ranks,16 C ranks and 2 B ranks

Added info: Pulled back by his sensei from the Exams for extra training, Rookie of the year from the batch before you and Member of Branch house, though considered as prodigy due to his knowledge of Main Branch High level Jutsu that he seems to have learned on his own.

"Since he's teammate is Rock Lee, let's move on to him next"

Name: Rock Lee

Skills: Jounin level Taijutsu but no ninjutsu or genjutsu.

Teammates: Hyuuga Neji and Tenten with their sensei Maito Gai

Mission status: 102 D ranks.16 C ranks and 2 B ranks

Added info: He seemed to have malformed tenketsu

"That explains why he did not have any ninjutsu or genjutsu skill. From the looks of it, this team is specialized for the frontlines as Taijutsu specialized assault squad"

"Next is" pulling out the next card

"Uchiha Sasuke"

Name: Uchiha Sasuke

Skills: Average to mid Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Taijutsu

Teammates: Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata with their sensei Hatake Kakashi

Mission status: 42 D ranks and 1 C rank turned A rank

Everyone gasped, while Sasuke just smirked as team 7 was the only one who finished an 'A' ranked mission.

Added info: last member of the Uchiha clan aside from the traitor Uchiha Itachi, whom both possessed the almost now extinct Dojutusu, The Sharingan

"Lastly"

"Sabaku no Gaara"

Name: Sabaku no Gaara

Skills: unknown

Teammates: his siblings Sabaku no Temari and Sabaku no Kankouro with their sensei Baki

"See this: It was a surprise that team 7 got an 'A' rank, but that was an accident. Gaara got 12 D ranks and 1 'B' rank on purpose and he always returned without a scratch or a hint of dirt on his clothing… He is also the youngest of the three Kazekage's children."

Shikamaru's eyes widened as big as a dinner plate

"Shit, this guy is trouble. What did I get myself into" Shikamaru banged his head on the 'LUCKILY' 'WOODEN WALL' in a very un Shikamaru like attitude. Everyone else did not know why though, except for the few whom saw what happened.

"Everyone here seems to have big talent, I think, except for the sound genins there. Sound had just started a few months back so it does not seem that they would be any trouble at all" Kabuto assured as the fully bandaged hunchback like genin punched him which Kabuto easily evaded as he slanted his body slightly backwards.

Just a few seconds. Kabuto's glasses cracked as he fell down on his knees and started to cough out blood.

"What the, I did not see them hit him. I'm sure that he evaded that sloppy shot of his" Sasuke clenched his fist then quickly loosened.

"The Chuunin Exams Huh… decent competition I got here" Sasuke's face instantly shifted to a smirked

BOOM!

Several Chuunins and a special unit dressed in a black trench coat appeared around the room.

"Shut up and take your seats, specially the team from sound if you don't want to be disqualified before the Exams even start… My name is Morino Ibiki, your Examiner for the first part of the test, or as of now… YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE"

"Well, we were just having some fun" The bandaged sound nin sadistically excused before complying.

"You can exchange your forms for your seat number"

Everyone handed out their forms as they drawn and went to their assigned seat number: Naruto was seated beside Sakura Sasuke was seated next to a female sound Kuniochi, while Hinata was seated next to Kiba.

"Everyone listen…. The first Exam is simple; you are to have a 10 number written test; you will answer the first 9 questions for the first 45 minutes before I hand you the tenth question" Ibiki smirked

"But, there are rules" His smirk got a little wider as he loved torturing; after all, it's his specialty.

"1. You all start with 10 points and with every mistake you make, you lose a point. So if you have 2 mistakes then your final score is 8… 2. If you are caught cheating, you will lose 2 points. The people around you are highly trained to spot the slightest and shortest move you try to cheat… 3. The system here is scored by teams, which means your points will need to be combined to pass"

"I'll just have to perfect this then" Thought the pride committee, I mean: Sasuke, Neji and (WHAT?) KIBA.

"Lastly, if one of your teammates gets a ZERO then you all would fail"

"Troublesome" the sleepy genin muttered in his sleep

"BEGIN!"

Everyone was reading and scanning their papers. They were just running their eyes at the paper, trying to keep themselves sane.

"1. A trap is set 50 feet from the enemy location, while you are at about 40 meters from the target: 4 meters of ninja wire, 11 shurikens and 2 kunais set in coordinate (5.4), (6,7), and (3,5)… the first trigger is set 10 degrees from the first set (5,4) with a speed of 20 feet per second, where would the shuriken possibly land. (CLUE: law of physics, law of gravity, law of acceleration and deceleration and, phytagorean theorem)"

(well just came up with that on the spot, I don't think I left out details: gravity is always approximately 10.1 meters per second, weight and mass of the weapons vary, the coordinates is set in a triangular angles which applies to the phytagorean, speed is for the acceleration and deceleration….. it doesn't matter if its wrong)

"Darn, this is questions are too hard for a genin to answer" Sasuke turned to look at the others. "The others seem to have problem as well, but why would they give us a test that we can't possibly answer… and why lose only two points every time we cheat, we should have instantly failed if we cheat - they seem more focused on catching us cheat than the test by putting those Chuunins here; this means that they expect us to cheat"

It took them several minutes to figure out the real meaning of the test. Neji and Hinata activated their Dojutsu (BYAKUGAN) and scanned the are for answers, Sasuke used his own Dojutsu (SHARINGAN) to copy the movement of the pencil in front of him, Kiba used Akamaru to look for answers, Shino used his bugs to transfer the answers to his paper, Shikamaru used his shadow to pass answers to Neji, Ino took and read the answers of the genin in front of her, The sound nins decoded the sounds of the pencils for the answers, Tenten and Rock Lee used mirrors on the ceiling to cheat off the surrounding genins, Kankouro had his puppet disguise as an observer Chuunin to keep him from getting spotted, while Gaara used his sand to create a third eye.

"Number 256 you're out… that means 451 and 453 you're out as well"

"Number 140 out…. You're teammates, out as well"

"150, 105, 014"

"115, 125, 001"

"111, 201, 035"

"165……….."

"154………."

"123……….."

"………."

It went through until only sand, 5 leaf, 3 grass, 2 sound, 10 rock and 5 rain country were left.

"Your 45 minutes are up, stop answering"

"Well, seems two of them got talent to answer the test without cheating" Ibiki glanced at Shikamaru and Naruto… If you consider asking 'tips' from millions of years old Demon not cheating; of course they did not know that.

"For the tenth and final question… but before that, I give you the option to take or not to take the question."

Slam

"What happens when we do choose not to take the question?" Temari questioned

Chuckling "If you do not take the tenth question, then you automatically fail."

"Then what's to choose, we would obviously take it" Temari immediately sat back down

"You did not let me finish. As I was saying, I would like to add more rules. 1. If you do take the question and fail it, then you and your teammates would be banned from the Chuunin Exams FOREVER or at least as long as I am here. 2. If you do not take the tenth question, then you fail but will allow you to take the Exams next year"

"What? There are others here that took the test before"

"I was not the Examiner before. Let's just say you are just unlucky"

Most of the genins were already trembling on their feet as there was too much tension in the room and their minds to handle. They could not just think about themselves since they are going to affect their team, they could not just quit either since it would mean that the whole team would have to wait another half a year.

"I can't take it anymore, I quit" The genin hastily stood up heading to the door quickly as to avoid his angry teammates.

"Ok 190 out, 146 out, 149 out"

"This is too much, I quit as well"

"Me as well"

"111, 252, 239 out"

"144, 166, 129 out"

"I can't handle it, I quit"

"Sorry but I quit"

"I'm out as well"

"002, 006, 086 out"

"018, 047, 088 out"

"222, 234, 277 out"

Their numbers were quickly draining as more and more of them kept quitting. Now there are only the Sand, 5 Leaf, Grass, Rock and Rain country left. They were more confident as their competition was quickly lessened.

"That seems to be all of them" Ibiki turned to the Chuunins who nodded in response.

"Now, for all of you who are left" He paused for suspense "You Pass"

"What?"

"A Ninja must know when to quit and not to quit in a situation. On this, it's a no win situation for you but those who stay for their teammates are to be considered Ninjas. For example" Ibiki unwrapped his covered head, revealing several scar and burn marks obviously from torture gaining gasps from most for the severity and number of damage taken.

"If you were assigned to a scroll retrieval mission. You have no idea on the number and skills on the enemies, same situation you were in; it's a no win situation. If you all retreat, then you will soon be followed and annihilated; if you leave for yourself, then your team will all be killed; if you all charge, then you will lose your life – but if you do anything with the right information, leadership and coordination; you will have higher chances to survive and succeed… remember this: Disinformation is worst than no information"

"Well, that makes sense." The blonde sand nin, Temari, retreated her verbal attacks.

WHIRLING SOUND

"Zabuza, what the heck was that for" Ibiki was now upside-down as he avoided the Former mist nins sword.

"Anko told and demonstrated to me how I should make an 'entrance' but she said I couldn't use it so I made one of my own." Zabuza looked at his soon to be examinees

"27 genins… only 9 teams left! You lost me a lot of play toys huh! Seems what they say on how good you are is true, but ill make sure to show how much I'm better… I'll cut them at LEAST in HALF before the second test ends."

"Zabuza-san, so you're the new examiner" Naruto inquired

"So you're here Gaki, so if I am. I'm still going to make this hell for you"

"Class, follow me at training grounds 44 in one week 7 AM sharp. I will tell you the briefings there; I don't tolerate being late so if you are, then I would automatically disqualify you. For those who doesn't know where it is, then follow me"


That seem to be there is to it.

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The next part is already in writing

The next chapter of my other story (Kuroii Senko Arashi: Legacy story is almost out)

I have planned ahead.

The pairings are also narrowed to my decision but will possibly increase if a lot of you recommend it.

1. Sasu Naru – Still highest

2. Naji Naru – votes are at least half so there is still chance

3. Haku Naru – Well, I kinda like it so I decided to put it up even though it have only little votes

4. Ita Naru – Same votes as Neji Naru


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