The day of the Chunin Exams had arrived and my team and I were sitting in the room of the first test where many others had already arrived too. My eyes were fixed on the entrance doors, waiting for Team Baki and Naruto to come in. We'd been here for an hour already and I'd noticed that real Leaf Genin had come in. In the hour than had passed, quite a few guys had eyed me and that just made me go red and uncomfortable. I'd even scooted closer to Kabuto, who was sitting on the same desk as I was. He and Yoroi had thought it was hilarious, I, on the other hand, had completely freaked out.

Since I was starring at the doors, I hadn't noticed one of the Leaf Genin guys had come up to me until he cleared his throat. I looked at him, mentally preparing myself to be flirted with by an idiot and probably a pervert too.

"Yes, can I help you?" I asked, trying to be polite.

"I was wondering if you were new, because I would have noticed a beauty like you walking the streets." he winked at me.

I crossed my arms over my chest and looked down with a blush slowly appearing on my cheeks.

"Yeah, I'm new." I muttered, embarrassed.

He chuckled victoriously when he realized I was blushing.

"What's your name?" he asked.

I was about to answer, but before I could Kabuto was standing between us and he didn't look very happy.

"Get lost, four eyes!" spat the Leaf Genin.

Kabuto stayed perfectly calm.

"Kabuto, what are you doing?" I whispered, but everyone heard.

"Concentrate on the exams, stop flirting." he said.

I wasn't sure whether he was talking to me or the Leaf kid. The Genin sighed, turned his heels and went back to his teammates.

"Don't give your name. They might be listening." he whispered.

My reaction was to look around like a scared and worried dummy. While looking around, I noticed the Sand siblings starring at me in shock. I was about to run and give them a group hug, but Kabuto grabbed my arm.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Kabuto, he's arrived. You're up." said Yoroi.

Kabuto looked at the entrance, let me go and walked away, but not before he told Yoroi to make sure I didn't do anything stupid. I sighed in irritation. Why me? Yoroi didn't take his eyes off me for the full five minutes of silence that filled the room, the same silence that was broken by an outburst from where Kabuto had went. I turned to see who was shouting and I saw him.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm gonna beat everyone of you! Believe it!"

He had blonde, spiky hair and blue eyes identical to mine. He was wearing an orange jacket with blue on the upper shoulders as well as up and down the front, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a big white collar, orange pants, blue sandals and a blue Leaf forehead protector. He was grinning at everyone in a "thumbs up" position. We had the same smile. I started to get off the desk but was stopped by Yoroi.

"Where do you think you're going?" he asked, fully aware of the fact that the blonde boy was my brother.

Yoroi let go of my arm and I walked over to where Kabuto was, to where Naruto was. When I got there, a pink haired girl hit Naruto on the head.

"I didn't quite catch that. Could you say it a little louder?" mocked a boy with a cute white dog sitting on his head.

Kabuto noticed me starring at them.

"April? Where's Yoroi?" he asked.

All twelve rookies looked at me. I ignored them, addressing Kabuto.

"He's where he was for the past hour. I was bored and decided to stretch my legs." I answered innocently.

Kabuto frowned. I turned to the twelve rookies still starring at me. I raised an eyebrow.

"You know it's rude to stare."

"Excuse her, she's not good with people." laughed Kabuto. "This is Aaliyah."

I looked at him in confusion, but remembered what he said about not revealing my real name and looked back at the rookies.

"Hi. Who are you?" I smiled.

I couldn't help but notice one of the boys with a spiky ponytail look at me, then at Naruto and at me again. He was about to say something but the blonde girl next to him walked forward with a smile on her face.

"Hello, I'm Ino Yamanaka and these are my teammates." she said pointing to the ponytail boy and a chubby boy. "Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi."

I smiled at the three of them and the pink girl came up to me too.

"I'm Sakura Haruno and this is Sasuke Uchiha." she said, pointing to a blue hair boy. "That one over there is Naruto Uzumaki." she added in rather annoyed voice.

I gave one quick and uninterested glance at Sasuke and a huge friendly smile to Naruto. This time, a boy with a green suit on and bushy eyebrows walked over.

"Greetings to you, youthful Aaliyah." he winked. "I am Rock Lee and this is Tenten and Neji Hyuga." he said, pointing to a brunette with two Chinese-style chignon on ether side of her head and to a boy with long brown hair and Hyuga eyes.

I starred in amazement at his eyes until Tenten cleared her throat. I gave her an apologetic smile which she returned. The owner of the puppy came towards me.

"Hi, I'm Kiba Inuzuka. Those are my friends, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuga." he grinned.

"And who's this?" I asked reaching to the dog, who willingly jumped into my arms.

"That's Akamaru." he said. "That's weird, he doesn't usually like anyone but me."

I started making cooing noises and cuddling Akamaru.

"Um… Aaliyah, let the puppy breath." said Ino.

I sighed and handed Akamaru back to Kiba. Ino, Sakura and Lee started a conversation with me for a bit before there was a poofing sound and the room went silent. We all turned to where the noise had come from to see a man with a scared face and Leaf forehead protector covering his head and a group of other ninjas behind him.

"Alright you baby faced degenerates, pipe down and listen up!" he shouted. "It's time to begin. I'm Ibiki Morino, your proctor, and from this moment your worst enemy. I'll say this once, so listen up. There will be no combat between candidates, no attacking each other without the permission of your proctor and even then the use of fatal force is strictly prohibited. Anyone who even thinks of messing with me will be disqualified immediately, got it?"

One of the Sound Genin snorted.

"No fatal force? That's no fun."

"Now if we're ready, we'll proceed to the first stage of the Chunin Exam." carried on Ibiki, ignoring the kid's comment. "Hand over you paperwork, in return you'll be each given a number. This number determines where you will sit. We'll start the written test once you're all seated."

"The what?" asked Naruto, more to himself than anyone else. "Did he say written?"

One of the ninjas in the group held out a pile of papers.

"No! Not a written test, no way!" Naruto and I cried at the same time.